Strong Verbs Are Just Better

There are several new and exciting aspects to research which my little modern project has suddenly made available to me. Like primary documents, within arm's reach! The knowledge that there are lots of sources, both easy and difficult to access, if I only look in the right places. There will be dead ends, but... *glees*

For example, this afternoon I walked down the corridor and looked at the official college photos. Evelyn 'Dick' Dickson does not appear once in said photos, in the twenty odd years she lived here. I wouldn't expect her in the years she was only Louisa's guest, but when the Council insisted she enrol in University (who paid her fees, I wonder??), it seems she did not become a student of Women's College. (I'll have to check the Roll, though. See above point about LOTS OF SOURCES), and nor does she appear in photographs in the years she was Honorary Physician. (The latter doesn't seem to be odd- at that early stage no tutors or staff appear in the photographs aside from Louisa.)

Louisa's sister-in-law appears in one photograph as Principal, in one of the years in which Louisa was overseas visiting the aging Eleanor Grove. On some occaisions Evelyn acted as Principal in Louisa's stead (she normally acted as Louisa's secretary), but interestingly, no photographs feature Evelyn as stand-in Principal.

Maybe the year in question was the only year in which Louisa's absence was long enough to warrant a stand-in in a photo. Maybe the photo was taken for press purposes.

There are a lot of gaps in the early photo wall, however... I wonder what factors meant they took no photos?