Class Lecture After a Recent Visit by Judith Wright

Abstract

Thursday was a hectic day for me. I started with two hours of tutorials followed by a lecture with Judith Wright, afternoon tea with Judith Wright, a one hour lecture to First Year, a tutorial straight after and a two hour address by Judith Wright a quarter of an hour after that. As well as this there was considerable organizing to be done in association with the visit, particularly as most of the original arrangements came unstuck. Judith Wright herself must have been exhausted. She had travelled down by train from Newcastle that morning, missed her breakfast, missed the Wollongong train, rushed down by car an hour and a half late, been whisked off to lunch, back to lecture and interviews with the press, afternoon tea, T.V. interview, etc. etc., the University day concluding for her with her two hour Convocation address. I was spent at the end of the day, anyway, even if she wasn't.