| Ref No | UNI/SU/AD/1/1/1/21 |
| Alt Ref No | C0001/21 |
| Acc No | 2017/3 |
| Title | Christine Ryland interviewed by Dr Sam Blaxland |
| Description | Track 1 [00:58:43] [Session One: 9/5/2017] Christine Ryland [CR] Born in 1940 in Cheshire. CR refers to her primary and Secondary school education and then to her attending Bangor University to read Music. CR describes meeting her husband playing hockey. [0:01:50] CR describes being married in 1962 and the birth of her child 1964. CR then describes her husband taking up a teaching position in the zoology department in 1965. [00:03:52] CR refers to teaching at a nursery school and primary school. [00:05:25] CR discusses becoming qualified through HMI’s not through any formal teaching qualification. [00:06:33] CR comments on her husband’s position at Swansea University and his experiences there. [00:08:09] CR describes being part of the Singleton Womens Club (SWC). [00:12:52] CR compares the Swansea university women’s club to the university women’s club in Fiji which she joined when her husband was on sabbatical. [00:13:48] CR discusses some of the outings they went on including Stratford, Cardiff. [00:17:05] CR describes Christmas parties organised by the university for the children of university staff. [00:18:51] CR talks about going to the house of Elieen Llewelyn Jones and her role of the SWC [00:20:55] CR then talks about the wide age range of the singleton women club and talks about the number of members. [00:22:02] CR describes the balls which the singleton women’s club organised and the preparation that went into them. [00:24:11] CR comment on the lack of working members in the society. [00:26:47] CR talks about hockey [00:29:16} CR returns to the topic of the various roles she inhabited in the Singleton women’s club and the process of being elected. [00:32:41] CR discusses the various speakers that spoke at the meetings. [00:35:00] CR talks about starting a part time job at Swansea Museum and the various other typing positions in various departments of the university. This then progressed to an administration post in student accommodation. [00:40:52] CR discusses the changes at the university [00:44:54] CR then discusses her travels with her husband including Australia, Chile, and Fiji. CR then talks about the various meals she has had across the world. [00:46:59] CR discusses changes to the Singleton’s Women’s Club [00:50:51] CR discusses the Club helping to form a university crèche. [00:55:24] CR discusses the materialistic nature of modern society. |
| Date | 9 May 2017 |
| Format | audio file WAV 16 bit 44.1 kHz 2-channel |
| Extent | 1wav file. 58 min |
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