Unidad documental compuesta f40 - Hogg, Marion Bell

File consists of a recording of Marion Hogg. Topics of the conversation include subject as Queen's correspondence-summer school graduate, general science programme, 1928. Queen's pleasant campus, tennis courts; residence in Ban Righ during opening year. Fellow teachers at summer school; Jean Royce. Removal to Queen's from Bruce County, 300 miles distant. Impression of equal numbers of men, women on campus. Enjoyment of final-year Phys. Ed. summer course. Dances, tennis; scarcity of cars; wandering about Kingston on foot. Summer school gaiety: boat trips, e.g. to Lake of the Mountain. Interval between end of summer school, summer exams. Women's educational pattern of dropping out after 3rd form, upon qualification for Teachers' College, Normal School; Grades 12, 13 (required for entrance to Queen's) picked up as Dept. of Education summer courses by a small percentage later. Enjoyment of 45-year teaching career; pleasure of promotion from public school to high school teaching following graduation, Queen's Faculty of Ed. Limited career opportunities for women; happier situation now. Subject's retention in England during WWI visit to ailing brother, nursing studies while trapped by submarine warfare. Subject's high valuation of Queen's correspondence courses, summer school. Single status; parents' ill-health; teaching near Walkerton to be near them. Teaching in Hanover, Coppercliff; removal to Kingston upon retirement, 1960. Co-habitation with sister; happy experience with successive student boarders: 'I treasure the memory of the years they were with us.' Charter membership (based on $100 yearly donation) in Queen's alumni branch, Cha Gheill. Family feeling among Queen's alumni; branches in Sudbury, New York. Correspondence programme as deciding factor in student choice of Queen's University. Male boarder's reaction to food at Leonard Hall, Ban Righ. Appreciativeness, self-sufficiency, usefulness of specific male boarders.