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PROJECT RESEARCHERS WARREN NEWMAN
Warren Newman was born at Alstonville in Northern New South Wales and attended Lismore High School where he completed his Leaving Certificate in 1954. He trained as a primary school teacher at Armidale Teachers' College and then spent ten years with the New South Wales Department of Education, most of it as a teacher at the Armidale Demonstration School. During this time, he took his first degrees from the University of New England in History and English and then undertook graduate studies in Education in Canada. In 1970, he returned to Australia and was appointed to the staff of Armidale Teachers' College as a lecturer in History and Education. He served Armidale College in a number of leadership positions; as Director of Teaching Practice from 1972-1977; as Head of Education Studies from 1978-1988; and as Assistant to the Principal in 1989. When the College became part of the University of New England in July 1989, he was appointed as Associate Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Education, Nursing and Professional Studies. In May 1990, he left the university to become a Regional Director of Programs with the NSW Department of Education, based in Tamworth. He took early retirement from this position at the beginning of 1992 and has since lived in retirement in Tamworth. Warren Newman is thoroughly familiar with the area of the study, having lived and worked in it all this professional life. He spent ten years, from 1985 to 1995, as a member of different New England and North-West Regional Development groups. For a number of years, he was a member of the governing council of Calrossy, an independent Girls' School in Tamworth. He was also actively involved in the establishment of Tamworth's William Cowper Anglican School, serving for a time as its Council Chairman. In 1993, he was commissioned to write the history of Calrossy School and this was published in the following year. The book subsequently received a Heritage Award from the Tamworth City Council. In 1997, he completed a pictorial history of Tamworth, commissioned by the City Council and prepared in collaboration with Lyall Green. Six years of additional work with Lyall Green led to the publication in 2004 of the four volume Chronological History of Tamworth. He has prepared several other local history publications and is frequently invited to talk to interested groups about the history of Tamworth. He was made a Life member of the Tamworth Historical Society in 2003.
BARRIE BRENNAN
Having grown up in Sydney, Barrie Brennan trained for secondary school teaching in English and History and after a year in Sydney, moved to Grenfell and then Gilgandra . He has worked west of the ranges all his professional life. After external/part-time study and becoming an English/History Master, he followed a new interest in adult education and joined the University of New England's Department of University Extension as Regional Director of the Namoi Office in 1973. From developing a regional program in adult education from Broken Hill and Moree to Coolah and Moree, he also became involved in the teaching of Adult (Continuing) Education as a university qualification. This started as a Graduate Diploma and developed into a full range of awards from Diploma to Doctorate. It involved a change in work location to Armidale in 1984 where he became a full-time teaching, researching, consulting academic. He was Acting Director of the Department of Continuing Education when amalgamation with Armidale College of Advanced Education resulted in him joining a fully academic teaching department. Several department/school name changes later, in 2000 he retired. He retains a link with UNE as an Honorary Fellow. His interest in Mechanics' Institutes started in the 1960s when he wondered why the largest building in Mendooran (on the way to Sydney from Gilgandra) was called the Mechanics' Institute? When he came to work in Tamworth the UNE Office was housed in the Mechanics' Institute. In 2004 he is a Board Member and volunteer for the Australian Country Music Foundation which has its museum in that same building. His interest in Mechanics' Institutes grew from Mendooran and Tamworth to other parts of NSW, interstate (especially Victoria) and overseas in the UK and New Zealand. A major project on retirement was to have published the research on the local region's Mechanics' Institutes as hopefully the first stage of research to cover all the Mechanics' Institutes of the state. Although not primarily a professional or academic historian, he has had an ongoing interest in history originating in his historical studies at Sydney University and his teaching of history in schools. He has written on the history of the national adult education orgnisation, the Australian Association of Adult Education (now Adult Learning Australia) and of the history of the teaching of credit courses in Adult/Continuing Education at the UNE from its inception in the 1970s to the 1990s. |
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