• Title
  Item 4: Val Forbes, Denise Leask, Betty Miller, Lola O'Doherty and Beryl Frost interview by Sue Andersen and Laila Ellmoos, 27 March 2010
• Call number
  MLOH 877/6-7
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  27 March 2010
• Type of material
  Nonmusical Sound Recordings, Oral Histories
• Reference code
  9639340
• Issue Copy
  Sound Recording : Available online with transcript
  
• Physical Description
  2 sound discs (2 hrs, 5 min.) - digital - + 1 printed transcript
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Val Forbes worked at the Stockton Centre from 1965, initially as a wardsmaid, before qualifying as a nurse, and finally as a welfare officer helping to transition residents into the community. Denise Leask, Betty Miller, Lola O'Doherty and Beryl Frost are former long-term residents of the Stockton Centre who made successful moves into the local community.
  
  Reference:
  Compiled from the collection
• Collection history
  Recorded at Mayfield, New South Wales, on 27 March 2010
• Scope and Content
  Oral history interview with former staff and residents, conducted by Sue Andersen and Laila Ellmoos and transcribed by Susie Nelson-Smith. Val Forbes, a former nurse at the Stockton Centre, and Denise Leask, Betty Miller, Lola O'Doherty and Beryl Frost, former residents, talk about: their experiences at the Stockton Centre and in the time since they left; the residents' work in the sewing room and looking after the younger children; moving into the community; Betty's engagement; Beryl learning to write; getting the pension; and going to the dentist.
  
  In the final part of the session, Val Forbes is interviewed separately and talks about: starting work at the Stockton Centre as a wardsmaid; training as a nurse; preparing residents for life in the community; acquiring community housing; workshops for the residents; the use of restraints; and her work as a welfare officer.
• Copying Conditions
  Copyright status:: In copyright - Life of creator plus 70 years
  Rights and Restrictions Information:: Download available for research, personal use and public use
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy copyright holder
• General note
  
  For preservation and access, oral history CD masters converted to WAV files and transcript converted to PDF file
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Ellmoos, Laila
  Forbes, Val
  Leask, Denise
  Miller, Betty
  O'Doherty, Lola
  Frost, Beryl
  Nelson-Smith, Susie
  
• Subject
  Nurses--New South Wales--Interviews.
  People with disabilities--Interviews.
  People with mental disabilities--Interviews.
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE15834569

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