Garvin, Kathleen (Sister St.Gabriel) and Teaffe, Sister Lillian - Side One
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Garvin, Kathleen (Sister St.Gabriel) and Teaffe, Sister Lillian - Side One
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Side One
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Queen's University Archives
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File consists of a recording of Kathleen Garvin. Topics of the conversation include rewarding study and work, Queen's Faculty of Education. Instructing continuation school classes; Sydenham High School principal as model. Contact with religious sisters; teaching with sisters of Notre Dame; entering Montreal novitiate. Enrolment at Queen's. Customary restriction to summer study: community's need of teaching income. Converting school of autocratic sisters to specialized, departmental system. Subject's voluntary organization (in three weeks' time, from scratch) of Notre Dame school, Toronto. Extreme attachment to Queen's; extramural summer study of English, French, History. Subject's teaching specializations, determined by sisters' weak areas. Discovery of own talents, particularly regrettably not cultivated while at Queen's. National Archives' Canadian History course, Prof. McArthur; importance, beyond mere facts, of philosophy of history. Continued relations with Queen's; decades' service recommending students in capacity as teacher, principal. Today's women seen as undedicated, undutiful. Philosophy of education; proper teaching as character training, not just imparting of knowledge. Lack of stimulus to think in current examinations. Art of teaching connected with discipline to think, student independence. Subject's principalship of five Notre Dame high schools. Work since 'retiring': Assistant Superior, book-keeping, missionary work and relief teaching in north-west Alberta. Work as joy. Recollections of Sisters Goodwin, Cleary. Side Two is a recording of Sister Lillian Teaffe.
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F1988-S1-SS1-f25
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Interviewee (ive): Garvin, Sister Kathleen
Interviewer (ivr): Button, Jodi
Interviewee (ive): Teaffe, Sister Lillian Anthony
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North America
Canada
Ontario
County of Frontenac
Kingston
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1 audio cassette (45 min.) : 1 7/8 ips, 2 audio reels : mylar-polyester
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Queen's University Archives
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Garvin, Kathleen (Sister St.Gabriel) and Teaffe, Sister Lillian - Side One
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