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Community School (Fremantle)
The Community School (Fremantle) was an alternative secondary school 1973-1983. The first premises were St Mary's Church and its hall in North Fremantle. In 1974 the School moved to Dalkeith House at 160 High Street, and then to the North Fremantle Town Hall 1980-83.
The School was founded in 1972, with others, by Gary Burke, who retired in 1975. Co-ordinators were Jim Thompson (1976-77), Jane Figgis (1978-79), Jim Matan & Dave Fry (1980), Lance Holt (1982), and Diana Downes-Stoney (1983).
References and Links
Burke, Gary 1990, Long Live the Jojoba Bean! The Story of the The Community School (Fremantle), Production Function, Balcatta.
This page incorporates material from Garry Gillard's Freotopia website, that he started in 2014 and the contents of which he donated to Wikimedia Australia in 2024. The content was originally created on 26 November, 2015 and hosted at freotopia.org/schools/community.html (it was last updated on 6 December, 2023). The donated data is also preserved in the Internet Archive's collection.