What was life like at William Booth Memorial College in 1991-96?
Major David Sterling: Very ordered and structured. The then Lieut-Colonel Norman Howe was a strong principal and in many ways well ahead of his time. Life then was quite different, with uniform much more apparent round and about the college. I am not sure exactly how it happened, but at some stage cadets started calling staff by their first names. This wasn’t because there was an edict from on high – it just sort of happened. I think this was a reflection of the changes in society at large. Gradually structures, uniforms and procedures seemed to take a lower priority. You used to have separate dining rooms for males and females? No, but we did have a separate dining room for staff. I found it stuffy and institutional: staff and cadets ate in separate places and met in separate places. So the architecture of the college still managed to impose its own legacy. Was the college trying still to be distinctive? I think most things were done just because they had always been done that way. I
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