More memories from Merle Stevens:
About
the teachers – there was Beryl Waters
and Beryl Crosby. The former (herself enrolled in 1914)
taught Mum (Merle Stevens) piano,
but I’m not sure whether she was a school teacher or not. The latter was one of Mum’s school
teachers and in singing lessons, taught Mum and Lizzie Mucken to sing duets.
She was possibly not much older than her pupils and so may have been
still teaching (and single) when you and Simon were at school. Mum’s sister Daph (who wasn’t keen on dentists) says there were sisters, Bell (Beryl?) and Kitty Crosby. I couldn’t find their names in the
Buderim M.S.S. centenary book but they may have moved there after the girls had
finished school. Vince Crosby was enrolled 1918.
When
I was school age we drove over Buderim from Glenview to visit Mum’s parents at
Mooloolaba. Vince Crosby lived halfway up the side of Buderim that was referred
to as Crosby Hill. Aunty Daph also remembers that J.J. Simpson bought the coffee mill
from Boards. He had a little girl, Marion, who Aunty
Daph accompanied to school.
Aunty Daph is 8 years younger than
Mum. Mum went to live with
relatives at Mooloolah so that she could attend high school (Nambour Rural
School) by train and after that, she only went back to Buderim for
holidays. Her cousin who does the
family tree sent me a sketchy photocopy of the high rail bridge between Telco
& Glenmount and it certainly does look high!
From Beris Staveley – 20th February 2012
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