Abstract SHONA JOYCE FORDYCEInterviewer: Rebecca AmundsenAbstractor: Robyn PowleyInterview: 14 June 2014TRACK 100:25 Interview introduction – identification SHONA JOYCE FORDYCE – born 8 March 1944 – Recording agreement01:09 Parents – JOHN and HENRIETTA PRINGLE (sp) from COLAC BAY – SHONA born in RIVERTON - lived at COLAC BAY – youngest of a ‘big family’ – two brothers and two sisters still living – SHONA – has always lived in...

Overview This interview is part of the "Discovering Glengarry’s Community Spirit" project. In this interview Shona discusses and details family history, growing up in Colac Bay, and her father’s occupation. She recalls Maori culture and Takutai O Te Marae in Colac Bay. She discusses her nursing career, marriage, house plans and the Glengarry community.

Overview Norma recalls her education and employment at a Thornbury farm, leisure activities e.g. fly fishing, dances, growing vegetables, learning to drive and doing the drivers licence test. At the age of 12 Norma decided she wanted to be a nurse and put her name down to become a nurse at Kew Hospital aged 20/21. She goes on to give an account of a fire at Kew Hospital in August 1939, the evacuation of patients and the repurposing of Lorne Hospital for patients. In 1950 she travelled to London to work...