File f39 - Healey, Kathleen

File consists of a recording of Kathleen Healey. Topics of the conversation include position in three-person Extramural Dept., 1924; Queen's extramural programmes, summer school. Subject as examination clerk, personally hounding students to submit assignments. Concentrated extramural workload, identical with winter session; hard work convincing professors to lecture summer school, accept correspondence students as regular attenders' equals. Typing up professors' books in guise of course outlines. Large correspondence enrolment during WWII: Armed Forces participants, prisoners-of-war. Small number of universities offering correspondence courses, far reach of Queen's programmes; isolated constable on Ellesmere Island, particularly grateful student in India. Advertising of extension programmes via 5000 calendars. Queen's programmes as sole opportunity for correspondence-summer school students in Saskatchewan. Requirement that correspondence students also attend Queen's summer school. Queen's summer school in Bermuda. Queen's correspondence upgrading courses (Grades 12, 13) to help students meet admission requirements. Free correspondence courses for prisoners; prisoner attendance at summer school on day-parole basis, granted by prison authorities after Queen's representations on prisoners' behalf (success with women parole students offered as precedent) . Success of Queen's ex-prisoner graduates; subject's almost familial relations with some of these. Strong interest in advanced education among male prisoners, virtual absence of interest among female prisoners; female prisoners as 'pretty hardened people' by the time they reached Kingston. Discriminatory shorter prison sentences for female offenders; court leniency in women's favour. Taking films to prisons; development of Queen's film library into Kingston Film Council. Organising the Kingston Elizabeth Fry Society with group of university women led by Jan Hughes. Queen's Extension Dept. public lecture series, concert series, summer School of English for French-speaking Canadians. Territorial boundaries established by universities to prevent extension­ lecture competition. Close similarity of many university course outlines to Queen's outlines. Lack of citizen interest in prisons; important effort made by Queen's instructors to lecture in prisons, despite personal inconvenience. Inflexibility of Queen's former admission requirements: long drawn-out fight to admit mature students. Disgust with senior citizens who think they are owed respect, comfort. Prison reform work as key member of Elizabeth Fry Society. / /University courses held in prison; prisoner visits to Kingston family homes; EFS house for women on parole; EFS attendance in court to ensure proper trial of women. Changed format of EFS since time of subject's active involvement. Canadian Association of Adult Education activities. Subject's assessment of former Queen's principals Drs. Fyfe, Wallace, Deutsch, Mackintosh, Corry, in relation to Dept. of Extension. High school United Nations assemblies organised by Dept. of Extension. Subject's memberships in Zonta, Social Planning Council. Details of Women's Auxiliary volunteer work in Kingston hospital, male and female student participants.