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Author Gamblen, Frank, 1913-1996, interviewee.
Title Interview with Frank Gamblen / interviewed by Anne Reid.
Published/Produced 1984.
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Details

Call Number OH1199
Physical description 1 online resource (2 audio files (1 hr., 8 min., 14 sec.)) : digital, WAV + 1 transcript (typescript, 13 leaves)
Series University of Western Australia Archives oral history project
University of Western Australia Archives oral history project
Notes OHrecon.
Title devised by cataloguer.
This sound recording has been preserved and made available by the University of Western Australia.
Digital preservation in WAV format.
Access advisory Access open.
Date/time and place of an event This interview with Associate Professor Frank Gamblen took place at his residence in Como on Friday, 16 March 1984.
Additional formats Audio cassette tapes available at the University of Western Australia Archives.
Original version Original version: 4 audio cassettes University of Western Australia Archives OH37.
Access advisory Access open.
Rights advisory Copyright or other restrictions may apply. For public use, contact the State Library of Western Australia.
Summary Frank Gamblen, an associate professor of the Department of Mathematics and the first sub-dean of the Faculty of Arts at University of Western Australia, talks about his early life, education and career at University of Western Australia. He also shares his memory of the construction of the Crawley campus and his study leave to visit various United States universities and was the Visiting Professor at Kansas for a semester in 1957. At the end of the final semester in 1963, Prof. Gamblen also spent his long vacation lecturing at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok. In 1967 he went on another study leave to Drexel University to spend a semester there. In 1961, he was appointed to the senate and he shares his experience of being in tghe Buildings Committee during the period when the new Arts Building was built. He reminisces how he used to go to Prof. Edwards' home in the evening when he was living at St George's College to read the male parts of the plays.
Subjects Gamblen, Frank 1913-1996 -- Interviews.
Mathematics -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- Western Australia.
University of Western Australia -- Faculty -- Interviews.
College teachers -- Western Australia -- Interviews.
Related names Reid, Anne, interviewer.