(Page Updated: 22 Sep 2008)
Currently the History Unit is located in a classroom at Dandenong High School and is co-ordinated by Dawn Harris, the Association’s Historian.
The Unit has a small storeroom adjacent to the classroom, 8 lockable cabinets along one wall, 2 map drawers (Shown in the pictures below) and a filing cabinet.
These facilities house the Association’s collection of records and artefacts collected and donated by the School and ex students.
Monthly working bees are held to:
- Catalogue and index the collection.
- Research is carried out to supply responses to the steady stream of enquiries.
- Prepare regular displays in the classroom, a decade at a time (1950’s shown below) or to cover events in the School or Country’s history, e.g. Anzac Day.
- 85 years since formation was celebrated with a full display of photographs and artefacts in 2 adjacent classrooms, covering the School’s history by decade.
The collection includes, School photographs, uniforms, a comprehensive, but not complete, set of the School’s annual magazine, ‘The Gate’, School concert posters, programme and photographs.
The History Unit is always pleased to receive material covering the School’s history, it has a list of “missing items” and in particular the following editions of ‘The Gate’: 1948, 1949, 1952 &1971
Please contact Dawn Harris on 97875136 If you can help.
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President Greta Jungwirth and Historian Dawn checking the uniform collection. |
The 1950’s Display. |
Volunteers to help with the cataloguing and conservation of the collection are always welcome
Contact Dawn Harris on 97875136.