Kindergarten people
These people have created a legacy of essential memorabilia ranging from conference speeches, correspondence, photo albums through to editorial news releases and publications.
Lynnette Barlow
- Christchurch Kindergarten Teacher Training College Orientation - booklet 1973 (pdf 6.3MB)
- Lynnette Barlow (nee Harris) Kindergarten teacher 1972 - present (pdf 2.6MB)
Joyce Barns
- Joyce Barns 1994 - interview (pdf 152KB)
- Joyce Barns 1916 - 1997 (pdf 831KB)
- Joyce Barns 1939 kindergarten programme - selected pages (pdf 1.7MB)
Margaret Bennett
- Interview with Margaret Bennett 1994 (pdf 180KB)
- Margaret Bennett 1989 - photo (doc 166KB)
Isobel Dorothy Catley
- Isabel Dorothy Catley - biography (pdf 737B)
Isabel Christison
- Almost half a life time, Speech to NZFKU, Christison, I. J. (1979) (pdf 1.4MB)
- Isobel Christison - general information (pdf 53KB)
- Isobel Christison - interview (pdf 155KB)
- Isobel Christison and Elizabeth Hamilton c. early 1960's (pdf 838KB)
Speeches to NZFKU conferences
- 1964 conference - Isobel Christison (pdfPDF 130KB)
- 1965 conference - Isobel Christison (pdf 1.2MB)
- 1967 conference - Isobel Christison (pdf 1.4MB)
- 1972 conference - Isobel Christison (pdf 877KB)
- Report on speech by Isobel Christison, 1967 Conference (pdf 919KB)
Marjorie Connell
- Kindergarten centenary celebrated (pdf 166KB)
- Marjorie Connell (nee Seed) - interview 1994 (pdf 1.2MB)
- Margory Connell (Seed) - memories from 1925, 1979 (pdf 1.5MB)
Constance Colegrove
- Photo album - Garden of memories (pdf 11.8MB)
- Talk 1947 (pdf 1.1MB)
- Retirement notice (jpeg 730kb)
- Reminiscence by Richard Colegrove (pdf 54kb)
- Presentation (pdf 1.2MB)
Learmonth Dalrymple
Elizabeth Cicely Davies
- Elizabeth Cicely Davies - biography (pdf 515KB)
Helen Downer
- Helen Downer President, 1960 (pdf 564KB)
- Helen Downer at 1962 NZFKU AGM Wanganui (pdf 1.1MB)
- Helen Downer Gisborne Gisborne Photo News 1984 (jpg 135KB)
- Helen Downer President, 1962 (pdf 2.0MB)
- Helen Downer President's opening remarks, 1963 (pdf 2.8MB)
- Helen Downer President's opening remarks, 1964 (pdf 2.5MB)
- Helen Downer, Rotorua Post, 3 October 1963 (pdf 998KB)
- Kindergarten consolidation, Ch Ch Press, 4 October 1961 (pdf 427KB)
- Mrs Helen Downer - biography (pdf 49KB)
- Plea to keep Nz Kindergarten's free, NZFKU conference 1962 Wanganui (pdf 1.1MB)
- Retirement of Helen Downer (pdf 465KB)
Janet Finlayson
- Janet Finlayson - obituary, 1961 (pdf 99KB)
Dorothy Fitch
- Biography - Froebel Travelling Teachers Project (pdf 392kb)
Moira Gallagher
- Moria Gallagher - interview 1990 (pdf 299KB)
- Moira Gallagher at NZFKU conference 1961 (pdf 596KB)
- Moira Gallagher address, 1962 Conference (pdf 1.7MB)
- Moria Gallagher and Helen Downer, 1962 (pdf 833KB)
- Moria Gallagher - attending NZFKU conference (pdf 697KB)
- Moria Gallagher - information (pdf 347KB)
Elizabeth Stewart Hamilton
- "Account of her travels abroad 1937" (pdf 162kb)
- Kindergarten College Principal to retire news clippings (pdf 1.5MB)
- A Day in a Kindergarten, 1931 (pdf 327kb)
- Biography and scrapbook (pdf 1.7MB)
- Life member of KTC, - c late 1960s (pdf 123kb)
- Kindergarten Training Methods Explained, scrapbook (pdf 1.2MB)
Laura Ingram
- Laura Ingram (L) NZFKU Conference Christchurch 1975 (jpg 44KB)
- Laura Ingram President, 1972 (pdf 613KB)
- Laura Ingram President's address, 1967 (pdf 540KB)
- Laura Ingram President's opening remarks, 1966 (pdf 1.6KB)
- Laura Ingram Presient's opening remarks, 1970 (pdf 571KB)
- Miss Laura Ingram - biography (pdf 58KB)
- Retirement Laura Ingram (pdf 299KB)
Loma Jones
- Loma Jones memories 1940s kindergarten teaching (pdf 3.7MB)
- Loma Jones memories 1940s kindergarten teaching (pdf 2.3MB)
- Loma Jones photo (jpg 185KB)
- Loma Jones photo (jpg 29KB)
- Loma Jones Kindergarten at Home EP (jpg 62KB)
Lavinia Kelsey
- Lavinia Kelsey 1931 painting by Robert Field (jpg 725KB)
- Miss Lavinia Jane Kelsey 1856 – 1948 (pdf 151KB)
- 'Our Kindergartens' Otago Witness, L Kelsey, 1895 (pdf 630KB)
Bernice Lindegren
- Bernice Lindegren - biography (pdf 135KB)
Isabel Little
- Miss Isabel Little 1876 - 1937 (pdf 1.2MB)
Winifred Jessie Gray Maitland
- Winifred Jessi Gray Maitland - FFT Project (pdf 1.2MB)
Geraldine McDonald
- Geraldine McDonald - Celebration of Women in Early Childhood (pdf 4.2MB)
- Geraldine McDonald (pdf 63KB)
- Geraldine MDonald (png 59KB)
Audrey Grace Newton
- Biography (pdf 875kb)
- Supplementary images (pdf 7.5MB)
Joan Padman
- Bay woman Joan Padman to celelbrate a century article, Hawkes Bay Today November 2017
Rachel Reynolds
- Rachel Reynolds (Mrs W.H. Reynolds) (pdf 700KB)
- Reynolds, Rachel Selina by Dorothy Page, Te Ara (pdf 1.4MB)
- 'The First President Mrs Rachel Reynolds', written by P Varcoe, N.Z.F.K.T.A. - newsletter, 1990 (jpg 1.5MB)
- 'The late Mrs Reynolds, 24 August 1928, ODT (pdf 1.7MB)
Patricia Ridding
- Patricia Ridding memoir of a kindergarten career, 2009 (pdf 1.1 MB)
Edna (Ted) Scott
- An Early Wellington Kindergarten - booklet 1975 (pdf 3.1MB)
Edna Scott and Miss Enid Wilson at home
Anne Smith
- Tribute to Anne Smith - Helen May, May 2016 (pdf 79KB)
Nellie Stevenson
- Nellie Stevenson, QSM, who brought NZ kindergartens to life dies, aged 105 - article Hawkes Bay, Today November 2018
Phyllis Varcoe
- 1954 NZFKTA iangural meeting. P. Varcoe (c) elected president (jpg 461KB)
- Brief biography (pdf 52KB)
- Miss Varcoe's speech on ECE teachers 1989 (pdf 72KB)
- P. M. Varcoe interview 2010 (pdf 166KB)
- A tribute to a long term kindergartener, Helen May, August 2017 (pdf 185KB)
Enid Thelma Wilson
- Brief biography (pdf 105KB)
- Enid Wilson, Kindergarten Principal, Gardener and Friend to many (pdf 4.4MB)
- Newspaper report on 1931-32 travels to Australia - Enid Wilson (pdf 1.5MB)
- The Play Life of the Child, in 'Let us Live with our Children' , Wilson. Enid, p22-29 (pdf 1.9MB)
Edna Scott and Enid Wilson at home