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ARCHIVES
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MR PAUL MISHURA
SCHOOL ARCHIVIST
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1. 1876 TIMETABLE
2. SCHOOL RULES ON
THE TIMETABLE COVER
3. SCOTCH BELT OF ONE
OF DUNCAN’S SONS
4. ONLY KNOWN IMAGE
OF DUNCAN
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THE McDONELL
FAMILY TREASURE TROVE
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A VERY WELCOME DONATION OF 19TH
CENTURY SCOTCH MEMORABILIA
The 1870s are the years that are – apart from the 1850s – the least
documented in Scotch’s records. There are no accounts records for
the period to establish when boys stopped attending the School,
and prospectuses stopped including lists of staff, whose names
are therefore largely unknown.
It was therefore a very welcome donation that was made by
Old Geelong Collegian Duncan McDonell of his family’s Scotch
memorabilia on 19 September 2019. His grandfather, Duncan
McDonell (born 7 August 1858, died 27 August 1936), entered Scotch
from 'Glengarry', Darraweit Guim on 28 July 1876.
McDonell was a hoarder of the type an archivist loves. His collection
gives us an unprecedented look into the world of a Scotchie in the
1870s. His undated Scotch timetable (English, English Literature,
Geography, Science, Bookkeeping, Chemistry, Mathematics, French,
Drawing, and Bible) not only shows that Scotch had a very modern
curriculum, but the number 367, written on it and most of his books,
shows that Scotch numbers were being used as early as 1876.
Duncan’s textbooks include Introductory Text-Book of Physical
Geography (1874), New Grammar of French Grammars – Grammaire
Des Grammaires (1875), Arithmetic Designed to the use of Schools: to
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