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Our Mothers

Our Mothers

As we remember them

Judy Macpherson Kent, Anne Cramond Sutcliffe, Andrew Collett, Bryan Charlton

Who were our mothers, how were they shaped by the society they lived in, and what impact did they have on us, their children?

In this sequel to the popular book Our Fathers, twenty-five sons and daughters who shared a classroom fifty years ago relate their mothers' stories. Some mothers performed war service before retiring to the kitchen. Others had professional careers and juggled work with family duties. A few had miraculous escapes from war-torn Europe, then struggled with a new language and society.

Everyone remembers their mothers' cooking skills (or lack of them). Recipes typical of the times are scattered through the book.

Mothers were at the heart of family life in the 1950s. Our Mothers tells some of their stories and reflects on their powerful influence on the next generation.

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Judy Macpherson Kent studied Honours Arts at Flinders, became a teacher, moved to Melbourne and taught for a year before becoming involved in academic research when she lived in Darwin immediately after Cyclone Tracy. She now consults to organisations through Melbourne Business School, having attained her Masters and Doctorate in Organisation Dynamics in the past few years. She has been married for 40 years to Wayne and has two wonderful sons, Simon and Nathan, both in the advertising/media industry, who constantly remind her not to take herself too seriously.

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Anne Cramond Sutcliffe was born in Aberdeen, Scotland, and emigrated with her family to Adelaide, Australia, in 1961. After attending Linden Park Primary School and Presbyterian Girls' College, she obtained a BSc and BPharm. Most of her work was in hospital pharmacies and she is now an editor in a small publishing company involved in providing information about drugs to health care professionals. This satisfactorily brings together her love of science and of English. She has been divorced and has since remarried.

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Andrew Collett AM studied Arts/Law at Adelaide University during the Vietnam War. Consequently he looked for something that combined the practice of law with political activism and established a practice in Aboriginal legal rights, which still keeps him off the streets.

He has lived in the Adelaide square mile since 1975 and carried on his Linden Park sporting pursuits of lacrosse and cricket to university and beyond as well as running some slow marathons far from home. However, his sporting highlight was catching up with his old Linden Park pals Don Cranwell and Phil Higgins to play cricket for Kensington and football for Sturt.

In the 1990s he established a small shiraz vineyard in McLaren Vale, which produces a palatable antidote to the rigours of the law.

In 2014 Andrew was awarded an AM for significant service to the law, as a supporter of Indigenous legal rights, and through contributions to professional organisations. He is married with two sons.

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Bryan Charlton was born on 8 October 1950 at Rose Park, the only child of Dawn and Leon Charlton.

He attended Linden Park Primary and Adelaide Technical High (now Glenunga High) schools. On leaving school he began a 40-year career as a press photographer, firstly with the Advertiser and later with the Age as the Adelaide bureau photographer with Fairfax Publications. Bryan also spent time in the early 1970s as a sports photographer in London covering major sporting events in the UK and Europe. He has won many awards, including Rothmans Press Photographer of the Year in 1980, Australian Sports Photographer of the Year in 1981, and, in 2004, South Australian Press Photographer of the Year. He currently works as a freelance photographer with clients in the mining and construction industries, government departments and the corporate world.

Bryan has enjoyed building and renovation of his homes, fishing and travelling extensively in Australia and overseas.

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ISBN   9781743053737
CATEGORY   
IMAGES   16 pp greyscale photographs
PAGE COUNT   288
DIMENSIONS   210 x 135 mm