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The Hughes family, Sadleir

Shirley & the late Frank Baartz, Busby. Shirley was Secretary of St. Therese Primary School Sadleir from 1970-1997.

Shirley & the late Frank Baartz, Busby. Shirley was Secretary of St. Therese Primary School Sadleir from 1970-1997.

Shirley Austin was a prominent contributor to fundraising through cake making in the parish of St Therese Sadleir. Her children attended St Therese Primary School from 1967. Photographed here on the day of an oral history interview with Therese Sweeney, in her housing commission flat in Glebe.

George and Evelyn Jarrett who now reside at a retirement village in Prestons. Their children attended St Therese Primary School from 1967 and both were prominent participants in their community.

Sister Joy Belt walks around the Kerever Park property prior to it being sold in 2011. Joy was a teacher at St Therese Primary School Sadleir (the public housing estate known as Green Valley) from 1973-1986. She participated in an oral history interview with Therese Sweeney whilst stationed at Kerever Park. Joy lived and worked at this Spirituality Centre, Sacred Heart Order until 2011. Joy now resides in Canberra.

Therese Sweeney and Jenny Baartz (left to right), started Kindergarten together at St Therese Primary School, Sadleir in 1967. Photographed at the Baartz family home in Busby.

George Jarrett was a pioneering resident of Sadleir, one suburb of six that made up the public housing estate known as Green Valley. He wears the sash he won as jittergbug champion in 1955. He and his family attended St Therese parish.

Husband and wife Hugh (Michael) and Bernadette Sweeney (Nee: Toohey). Photographed here on the day of oral history interview with Therese Sweeney, their daughter, one of seven siblings.

Bernadette Sweeney was Secretary of the original committee established in the mid 1960s, to build St Therese Primary School, Sadleir. Married to Hugh Sweeney and residing in Busby, mother of seven children, including Therese Sweeney. Photographed here on the day of an oral history interview with Therese Sweeney at their retirement village.