Wendy Jeans - 1960s

Wendy and her brother with the then new Union sculpture

Wendy Jeans, Finance Officer in the School of Engineering and University employee for 25 years, grew up playing at the St Lucia campus.

While for most people UQ is a place of learning, for small children in the 1960s, it was a magical playground. I lived nearby at Boomerang Road West.  At the Vet School, I patted horses and met dogs wearing Elizabethan collars (to prevent scratching).  I climbed trees, fed the ducks, and dared my brother Geoffrey to swim the lake to the island.  He did: I chickened out. Outside the Union complex there is a modernist Len Shillam sculpture, appropriately named Union.  It was beside a fountain, and great to climb. Years later, my daughter Rachel would play in university fountains.

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