People -
Kindergarten people

• Christchurch Kindergarten Teacher Training College Orientation – booklet 1973 (pdf 6.3MB)
• Lynnette Barlow (nee Harris) Kindergarten teacher 1972 – present (pdf 2.6MB)

• Joyce Barns 1994 – interview (pdf 152KB)
• Joyce Barns 1916 – 1997 (pdf 831KB)
• Joyce Barns 1939 kindergarten programme – selected pages (pdf 1.7MB)

• Interview with Margaret Bennett 1994 (pdf 180KB)
• Margaret Bennett 1989 – photo (doc 166KB)

• Isabel Dorothy Catley – biography (pdf 737B)

• Almost half a life time, Speech to NZFKU, Christison, I. J. (1979) (pdf 1.4MB)
• Isobel Christison – general information (pdf 53KB)
• Isobel Christison – interview (pdf 155KB)
• Isobel Christison and Elizabeth Hamilton c. early 1960’s (pdf 838KB)

Speeches to NZFKU conferences

• 1964 conference – Isobel Christison (pdfPDF 130KB)
• 1965 conference – Isobel Christison (pdf 1.2MB)
• 1967 conference – Isobel Christison (pdf 1.4MB)
• 1972 conference – Isobel Christison (pdf 877KB)
• Report on speech by Isobel Christison, 1967 Conference (pdf 919KB)

• Kindergarten centenary celebrated (pdf 166KB)
• Marjorie Connell (nee Seed) – interview 1994 (pdf 1.2MB)
• Margory Connell (Seed) – memories from 1925, 1979 (pdf 1.5MB)

• Photo album – Garden of memories  (pdf 11.8MB)
• Talk 1947 (pdf 1.1MB)
• Retirement notice (jpeg 730kb)
• Reminiscence by Richard Colegrove  (pdf 54kb)
• Presentation (pdf 1.2MB)

• The Kindergarten being a Brief Sketch of Froebel’s System of Infant Education (pdf 1.1MB)

• Elizabeth Cicely Davies – biography (pdf 515KB)

• Helen Downer  President, 1960 (pdf 564KB)
• Helen Downer at 1962 NZFKU AGM Wanganui (pdf 1.1MB)
• Helen Downer Gisborne  Gisborne Photo News 1984 (jpg 135KB)
• Helen Downer President, 1962 (pdf 2.0MB)
• Helen Downer President’s opening remarks, 1963 (pdf 2.8MB)
• Helen Downer President’s opening remarks, 1964 (pdf 2.5MB)
• Helen Downer, Rotorua Post, 3 October 1963 (pdf 998KB)
• Kindergarten consolidation, Ch Ch Press, 4 October 1961 (pdf 427KB)
• Mrs Helen Downer – biography (pdf 49KB)
• Plea to keep Nz Kindergarten’s free, NZFKU conference 1962 Wanganui (pdf 1.1MB)
• Retirement of Helen Downer (pdf 465KB)

• Janet Finlayson – obituary, 1961 (pdf 99KB)

• Biography – Froebel Travelling Teachers Project (pdf 392kb)

• Moria Gallagher – interview 1990 (pdf 299KB)
• Moira Gallagher at NZFKU conference 1961 (pdf 596KB)
• Moira Gallagher address, 1962 Conference (pdf 1.7MB)
• Moria Gallagher and Helen Downer, 1962 (pdf 833KB)
• Moria Gallagher – attending NZFKU conference (pdf 697KB)
• Moria Gallagher – information (pdf 347KB)

• “Account of her travels abroad 1937” (pdf 162kb)
• Kindergarten College Principal to retire news clippings (pdf 1.5MB)
• A Day in a Kindergarten, 1931 (pdf 327kb)
• Biography and scrapbook (pdf 1.7MB)
• Life member of KTC, – c late 1960s (pdf 123kb)
• Kindergarten Training Methods Explained, scrapbook (pdf 1.2MB)

• Laura Ingram (L) NZFKU Conference Christchurch 1975 (jpg 44KB)
• Laura Ingram President, 1972 (pdf 613KB)
• Laura Ingram President’s address, 1967 (pdf 540KB)
• Laura Ingram President’s opening remarks, 1966 (pdf 1.6KB)
• Laura Ingram Presient’s opening remarks, 1970 (pdf 571KB)
• Miss Laura Ingram –  biography (pdf 58KB)
• Retirement Laura Ingram (pdf 299KB)

• Loma Jones memories 1940s kindergarten teaching (pdf 3.7MB)
• Loma Jones memories 1940s kindergarten teaching (pdf 2.3MB)
• Loma Jones photo (jpg 185KB)
• Loma Jones photo (jpg 29KB)
• Loma Jones Kindergarten at Home EP (jpg 62KB)

• Lavinia Kelsey 1931 painting by Robert Field (jpg 725KB)
• Miss Lavinia Jane Kelsey  1856 – 1948 (pdf 151KB)
• ‘Our Kindergartens’ Otago Witness, L Kelsey, 1895 (pdf 630KB)

• Bernice Lindegren – biography (pdf 135KB)

• Miss Isabel Little 1876 – 1937 (pdf 1.2MB)

• Winifred Jessi Gray Maitland – FFT Project (pdf 1.2MB)

Mrs Edie Martin – Putting children first (pdf 555KB)

• Geraldine McDonald – Celebration of Women in Early Childhood (pdf 4.2MB)
• Geraldine McDonald  (pdf 63KB)
• Geraldine MDonald (png 59KB)

• Biography (pdf 875kb)
• Supplementary images (pdf 7.5MB)

• Bay woman Joan Padman to celelbrate a century article, Hawkes Bay Today November 2017

• Rachel Reynolds (Mrs W.H. Reynolds) (pdf 700KB)
• Reynolds, Rachel Selina by Dorothy Page, Te Ara (pdf 1.4MB)
• ‘The First President Mrs Rachel Reynolds’, written by P Varcoe, N.Z.F.K.T.A. – newsletter, 1990 (jpg 1.5MB)
• ‘The late Mrs Reynolds, 24 August 1928, ODT (pdf 1.7MB)

• Patricia Ridding memoir of a kindergarten career, 2009 (pdf 1.1 MB)

• Miss Nettie Birkenhead Riley Lower Hutt Kindergarten Association, By Kerry Bethell (pdf 2.9 MB)

• An Early Wellington Kindergarten – booklet 1975 (pdf 3.1MB)

Tribute to Anne Smith – Helen May, May 2016 (pdf 79KB)

• Nellie Stevenson, QSM, who brought NZ kindergartens to life dies, aged 105 – article Hawkes Bay, Today November 2018

• 1954 NZFKTA iangural meeting. P. Varcoe (c) elected president (jpg 461KB)
• Brief biography (pdf 52KB)
• Miss Varcoe’s speech on ECE teachers 1989 (pdf 72KB)
• P. M. Varcoe interview 2010 (pdf 166KB)
• A tribute to a long term kindergartener, Helen May, August 2017 (pdf 185KB)

• Brief biography (pdf 105KB)
• Enid Wilson, Kindergarten Principal, Gardener and Friend to many (pdf 4.4MB)
• Newspaper report on 1931-32 travels to Australia – Enid Wilson (pdf 1.5MB)
• The Play Life of the Child, in ‘Let us Live with our Children’ , Wilson. Enid, p22-29 (pdf 1.9MB)

• Mary Purdy 1974 Student Executive. Wellington Kindergarten College (pdf 206KB)
• Mary Purdy 1994 Interview with Mary Purdy (pdf 334KB)
• Mary Purdy 2022 Tributes for Mary Purdy from ECE colleagues (pdf 256KB)
• Mary Purdy 2022 Mary Purdy Tribute by Helen May (pdf 322KB)