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Tag: nostalgia

Halcyon Days

Posted on 4 November, 20164 November, 2016 by Hannah Towers

I commenced at UQ in 1974, having taken a gap year to travel through India and the UK. There was never any question I would go to UQ.  My father taught there in the Education Faculty, five of my older siblings had preceded me and one more was to come.   University was not so much[…]

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