Item F328 - Address to Gympie High School speech night, [1970?]

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F328

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Address to Gympie High School speech night, [1970?]

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  • [1970?] (Creation)

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6 l.; 26 cm.

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(1911-1972)

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Eunice Hanger was born on 8 March 1911 in Mount Chalmers, Queensland. She was educated at the University of Queensland, earning a Bachelor of Arts with Honours in English (1932) and a Master of Arts (1939). She joined the staff of the University of Queensland in 1955, and was a lecturer in the Department of English until her death in 1972. She edited several anthologies of Australian plays, and wrote numerous articles on Australian drama. She also acted in, produced and wrote many plays. She was active in the Twelfth Night Theatre. She also assembled a collection of unpublished Australian playscripts, now known as the Hanger Collection of Australian Playscripts.

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(1916-2009)

Biographical history

Poet, opera critic, and academic Valentine (Val) Thomas Vallis was born on 1 August 1916 in Gladstone, Queensland. He attended school in Gladstone, then continued his secondary education in Rockhampton. He worked in the Gladstone Town Council offices before joining the army in 1940. In New Guinea, he served as a major in the Army Education Service under Tom Inglis Moore. After the war he attended the University of Queensland, graduating with first class honours in philosophy in 1950. While an undergraduate he published his first volume of poetry, Songs of the east coast (1947), and made the acquaintance of Judith Wright, with whom he would maintain a lifelong friendship. He worked at the University of Queensland as an assistant lecturer in philosophy while completing his bachelor degree and his Master of Arts (1953). After completing a PhD (1955) in philosophy at the University of London, he returned to UQ to lecture in philosophy from 1956. His second volume of poetry, Dark wind blowing, was published in 1961. That same year, he became a Senior Lecturer, then transferred to the English Department in 1965, where he retired as a Reader in 1981. Val was passionate about music, specifically opera. After his retirement from UQ, he lectured on the history of opera at the Queensland Conservatorium of Music. Over the years he contributed criticism and articles to various publications, including The bulletin and The Australian. He also reported in Brisbane for London magazine Opera. He was a member of the Queensland working party of the Australian Dictionary of Biography for a decade. He died on 14 January 2009.

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Accompanied by a note about the talk by Val Vallis (1 l.; handwritten).

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  • English

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Typescript with ms annotations.

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991008167949703131

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Migrated from LMS: April 2019, P.A.

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