What colleges have you attended?

During my lifetime I have attended three different colleges. All those colleges and some similarities and differences as well.

I’m not including Primary or high schools or designated universities in this response.

Western Australia Missionary College (WAMC)

I was a student at this college for my academic years 10 to 12. I attended from 1961 to 1963 inclusive.

The West Australian Missionary

College was operated by the Seventh Day Adventist Church. It was for students both young and old for those undertaking academic studies along with vocational training.

The church believed that Students should also work and that work was good for the soul. To this end, regardless of who you were and what your course of studies, it was compulsory to work a number of hours each week to go towards offsetting the cost of fees.

There were four student categories;

Category A student who had to work for nine hours a week.

Category The students who had to work for 14 hours a week.

Category See students who had to work for 18 hours a week.

category The students who had to work for 24 hours a week.

The cost of fees other than work or adjusted to reflect the number of hours being worked.

It was possible to work for eight hours on Sunday and for four hours each afternoon from Monday to Thursday. There was no work on camp Friday because, in the afternoon, students had to get ready For Saturday’s “Sabbath”. From sundown on Friday until sundown on Saturday, there was no work, with the time being devoted to church and religious activities.

It was a place of difference.

My second college was Graylands Teachers College housed in army huts built in Perth during World War Two. That was my place of learning in 1968 and 1969.

My third College. Mount Lawley

College of Advanced Education as an external student, from 1974 and 1975.

I have many stories I could tell about my times in these three places, all of which played an important part in my life.