More Memories from the 60s
Raising the Funds...
My late father, Reverend Graham Skerman (1913-1975) was a member of the original Darling Downs University Establishment Association (DDUEA) which was formed following a public meeting of interested community members in December 1960. Two hundred people attended this meeting... Read more
Mary Young
Outreach Services, DeC
My first contact with USQ was in 1969 and I’m reminded of quite a coincidence. I came up from QAC, Lawes, to attend a conference. Afterwards, I was driving down the front driveway in the drizzling rain and spied this guy walking by the side of the roadway. I stopped to offer him a lift. To my surprise, I recognised Ian Scott! Ian had come up from the University of Tasmania. I had known Ian at UNE in Armidale in the 1950s, where I think he majored in Chemistry. Years later, Ian and I worked together in the School/Faculty of Education, he in Educational Philosophy and I in Science Education and Educational Psychology.
Bill McCann
Kumbari/Ngurpai Lag
Can you believe that when USQ began in 1967 as the Queensland Institute of Technology, Darling Downs, the only provision for a library was a standard-size class-room at the western end of the ground floor in what is now C Block? The collection consisted of a few cartons of books, mostly prescribed texts and references.
Acquiring books was a slow process involving orders being placed through the then Queensland State Stores Board. Months might pass before books ordered for urgent use would turn up.
After a year or so the class-room was needed for teaching and the library was relocated to a demountable building. With metal external walls the building was very hot in summer and freezing in winter. Its inadequacy was quickly recognised and when D Block was constructed the whole lower ground floor was set up as a library and associated media facility.
There the Library remained until the first stage of the present Library was completed in 1973.