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Fresh honors for Qld. girl

Los Angeles: Miss Carmel Montgomery has been appointed an Associate of the Zoology Department of the University of Southern California, at Los Angeles.

Carmel, who came to the University two years ago on a fellowship granted because of outstanding work in Australia, has had a brilliant scholastic career in California.

At a ceremony at which 7000 students were graduated, she received her M.Sc. degree. Of the 60 graduates in the Zoology Department, only Carmel and one other, a Chinese, obtained the Master’s degree.

Her fellowship at the University has now been extended and she has been accepted as one of the few women candidates for the degree of Ph.D.

Carmel is the youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Montgomery, of Atherton, North Queensland. Two of her sisters are also students at U.S.C., one studying radio and the other piano. Mr. Montgomery is a

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Fine Display By High School Girls

Parents viewing the outstanding display in arts and home science yesterday at the State High School, had reason to be proud of the children, and thankful to the teachers in charge.
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The 6th Grade girls showed a variety of skirts and blouses in printed cottons. The 7th Grade display included simple house coats, pyjamas, gymnasium pinnafores, and bloomers. The higher grade showed more elaborate styles in frocks, winter suits, ballarina frocks, and lovely overcoats, besides a variety of beach wear.

Country girls who travel in on Fridays had made sweet styles in frocks, beach wear, skirts and blouses.

Mrs. Hoyle gave the girls great credit for their application to the work and their enthusiastic hard work. Every grade had worked very hard, she said.

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Maryborough Chronicle, 7 October 1950

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Zoology or animal biology is the branch of biology that studies the animal kingdom, including the structure, embryology, evolution, classification, habits, and distribution of all animals, both living and extinct, and how they interact with their ecosystems.

Although the concept of zoology as a single coherent field arose much later, the zoological science emerged from natural history reaching back to the works of Aristotle and Galen in the ancient Greco-Roman world.

Over the 18th and 18th centuries, zoology became an increasingly professional scientific discipline. Explorer-naturalists such as Alexander von Humboldt investigated the interaction between organisms and their environment, and the ways this relationship depends on geography, laying the foundations for biogeography, ecology and ethology.

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Expansion Of Manual Training In State Schools

Brisbane, May 13 – The expansion of manual subjects training in Queensland schools is planned for next year.

To meet the need for new teachers the public instruction department will appoint 20 additional teachers of manual training subjects.

The Minister for Public Instruction said today that students would be invited to apply for the positions by advertisements in newspapers.

Appointees, he said, would be obliged to undergo a training course in Brisbane during the period from August 23 to December 17 this year.

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Queensland Times, 14 May 1954

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Science as farm help

Teachers should encourage students to take up agricultural science as a career, Mr. A. F. Bell said yesterday.

Mr. Bell, Agricultural Department Under-Secretary, was addressing Queensland secondary school science teachers inspecting the department’s chemistry laboratory, during the last session of their three-day Brisbane conference.

One of Australia’s greatest needs, Mr. Bell said, was an adequate number of well-trained agricultural scientists to help farmers increase production.

Dr. A. L Reimann, Queensland University physics research professor, told the conference that teaching of physics in secondary schools should be broadened beyond the rigid subject matter of the secondary school syllabus.

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The Courier-Mail, 9 August 1952

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Science Necessary in Farming

Brisbane: A scientific approach to farming was essential for men on the land today, the Education Minister (Mr. Devries) said yesterday.

He was speaking at the Gatton Agricultural College. At the college 194 youths, aged 15 to 17, from many parts of Queensland, are taking short summer courses in agriculture.

“This course will enable you to go back to your farms and utilise and spread the methods you are learning here,” Mr. Devries told 60 young farmers after watching them receive special instruction on soil conservation methods.

Queensland Junior Farmers’ Clubs were playing an important role in ensuring the future agricultural development of the State, he added.

The 60 youths in the soil conservation course will complete their practical field instruction on January 22.

Other students include 74 youths from Mackay sugar growing areas who are attending a week’s school in tractor maintenance.

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Nambour Rural School.

Blacksmithing Class.

The blacksmithing shop at the Rural School is nearing completion. On Monday “our plumbers” put on the roof, under Mr. Stewart’s supervision. The building is situated under the camphor laurels, at the back of the workshops; no “spreading chestnut tree” was available. Nearly all the equipment for teaching blacksmithing is on the premises, and soon you will hear the rural boys “swing the heavy sledge with measured beat and slow”. The classes will be in charge of Mr. Donald; and lads who work with a will may be sure of receiving careful instruction in this old and honourable art.

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Chronicle and North Coast Advertiser, 31 October 1919

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Toogoolawah School Appointment Urged

The Esk Shire Council yesterday decided to urge the Education Director-General to appoint a leatherwork instructor at the Toogoolawah State Rural School to replace the late Mr. Blunt.

Submitting the motion, Cr. G. Launder stated that the Toogoolawah School Committee had been advised that no successor to Mr. blunt would be appointed. He added that there had been a leatherwork class at the school for 25 years, and he considered the subject one of the most important taught at the rural school. Children from all parts of the district attended the classes.

Cr. Launder contended that councillors were appointed to look after the interests of the people, and this was a cause where it could help.

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Queensland Times, 14 September 1950

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The A.B.C. Of Dresscutting and Drafting

Home dressmakers will be delighted with the release of “Commonsense Dressmaking and Drafting for Adults”, the third of a series by Miss Muriel Staehli, which male dressmaking for beginners and others as simple as A.B.C.

The name of Miss Staehli is synonymous with domestic science throughout Queensland. Hundreds of teachers have been trained in her dressmaking and drafting methods at the Teachers’ Training College Domestic Science School, Gregory Terrace, and home dressmakers have found her books invaluable.

Book I deals with dressmaking and drafting. It is written with the object of teaching garment cutting, so that no matter how fashions change drafting can be adapted to suit the style of the moment.

Book II is entitled “Kiddies’ Clothes” and takes the pupil through every phase of this important subject. The third and latest book makes the drafting of women’s patterns as simple as

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Woodwork extended

Because accommodation for woodworking classes at the Central Technical College cannot meet the demand classes are to be established at three metropolitan schools. The Minister for Education (Mr. Devries) announced this today.

He said that the classes at the Central Technical College, which had been conducted for a number of years, had always been reasonably well filled, but this year the number of applicants for enrolment had greatly exceeded the number that could be accommodated.

However, as such classes, which provided training in a useful hobby, were held in most manual training centres throughout the country, to meet the unexpected demand in Brisbane he had approved that classes be established at three of the main metropolitan manual training centre – East Brisbane, Sherwood and Breakfast Creek.

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Brisbane Telegraph, 25 March 1953

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