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A&DHS HIGHLIGHTS OF 2006-2007

SPEAKERS
Guest speakers have included Carina Clement, Jim McCann, Bernard Hore, Graham Murray and Dirk Spennemann.  Society members who gave presentations were Helen Pithie, Bruce Pennay, Ray Gear, Roma Freeman, Jan Hunter, Carole Whitbourn, June Shanahan, Helen Livsey and Doug Hunter.

PROJECTS
Projects completed during the year were Bruce Pennay’s work on the Albury Railway Yard interpretive brochure; the recording of the slide presentations by Gerry Curtis; and the scanning of a complete set of our Society Bulletins onto CD.  Catherine Browne carried out this last project which means our Bulletins are preserved in a digital format and are much easier to search.  John Craig’s project to provide biographical details to accompany two sets of photographs of the committee of the Albury & Border Pastoral, Agricultural and Horticultural Society is progressing.
A project to catalogue archives at the Albury Base Hospital has been slow to arrange, however work is about to begin.

PUBLICATIONS
The Bulletin continues to be our regular medium to publish local history. Other relevant publications involving our members were: Three Shires & Their Councils by Bruce Pennay; and a family history, The Harpleys in Australia, by Harry Leggatt.  Bruce has also produced brochures on Connecting two railway systems at Albury, and Food at Bonegilla.  Publications in preparation in 2006-2007 included: 150 Not Out- A History of Cricket in Albury by Joe Wooding; a History of Central North Albury 1920-1950 by Jan Hunter; and The Albury Battery: Albury’s citizen soldiers 1903-1940 by Doug Hunter.
(Note: These Publications are now available for purchase)

COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
The Society has maintained a close interest in the lead up to the relocation of the Regional Museum and the Albury Library to the new building. Members of the Society were involved in four activities fostered by Albury City.  The first was a ‘Found Day’ where items of archeological interest found at the site of the new Library Museum were displayed.

Members contributed to memories of Albury in the 1940s as part of the 60th anniversary celebrations of Albury as a city.  Joe Wooding was one of the ‘living books’ in the Albury Library program of that name.  Members also participated in the ‘Youth Front’ project where a series of impressions of young people in wartime were recorded on film.