The Mayor's Residence
September 1958

Classic!

(Courtesy: Lyn Donald)

September 1958

Teacher: Mrs Donald

Teaching grades 5 and 6 in the former ballroom
of the Mayor's residence, Georgetown.

"We started off with Queensland Correspondence in 1958 and then became students
of the Interim School, staffed by mothers. Our Mum was one of the original staff,
teaching a composite class of Grades 5 and 6. (She had to put up with both her daughters in her class!)

Our time in Penang was exotic and unusual and so different from the lives we had led in Australia.
My sister and I would roam the local area out of school hours and made many and varied acquaintances: the workers at the race course who'd eat the apples we'd taken for the horses; Larry at the reservoir who'd let us into the back offices; the monks at the Ayer Itam temple who liked it when we fed the tortoises; the Malaysian kids we'd meet at the creek and climb over the huge rocks with. And fortunately there are lots of photos to remember this time by."

Lyn Rushby (nee Donald)

Years attended school: 1958-1960
Grades: 5, 6 and Form 1