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Weekly Bulletin – Monday, June 2, 2003

• Mark the calendar

By Monash University - 30th May 2003 - Back to News

Approximately 140 Year 10 students from Kurnai College will be visiting their future education precinct campus on Thursday, June 5. The two hour visit to Monash University Gippsland Campus will involve interactive workshops, a tour of the campus and a discussion about the Gippsland Education Precinct. Year 11 and 12 Kurnai students are expected to move to the Precinct in 2004.

Monash Gippsland Social Welfare and Gippsland Regional Information Service (GRIS) staff have developed an evaluation proposal for the implementation of a regional common assessment and referral project to evaluate the Gippsland Family Violence Service Co-ordination Project. The pilot project, funded by The Department of Human Services (Community Programs and the Gippsland Region), began on June 1^st and will run for three months incorporating the Traralgon, Wonthaggi and Bairnsdale Police Stations. It is hoped that the above project will assist in the integration of family violence response in Victoria.

• Making the Grade

Ms Margaret Simmons was presented with the eleventh annual Peter Kerr Scholarship on Thursday, May 22. The Gippsland based scholarship is awarded annually to a student in recognition of their academic excellence.

Ms Simmons, a student in the Honours Program at the School of Humanities, Communications and Social Science, intends to build upon her undergraduate research focusing on the artistic expression of pre-Civil War African American slave women. In particular she intends to undertake a special study of the quilts the slave women created. Guests at the award ceremony included Ms Lorraine Elliott, Chair of the Trustees of the Peter Kerr Foundation, former Premier, Jeffrey Kennett, Monash University Dean of Arts, Professor Homer Le Grand, and last years recipient, Mr Ian Weir.

• Open subject

Keith Wilson, Deputy Head, School of Humanities, Communications and Social Sciences at the Gippsland Campus, has recently accepted a book contract from the University Press of Florida to edit the Civil War memoir of Lt Freeman S Bowley, 30^th United States Colored Troops. Freeman Bowley, a seventeen-year-old solider commanded a company of African American soldiers in mid 1864 and was captured, imprisoned and finally paroled. Freeman Bowley wrote his memoir in 1899 and challenges the 1890’s mythologies associated with Northern and Southern reconciliation.

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