AUDIO
Interview with Sister Mary Kostka
- Date
- 20 Dec 2000
- By
- Hill, Mary, 1915-
- Reference
- OHInt-0601/05
- Description
Mary Hill (Sister Kostka) born Karaka Bay, Wellington 1915. Outlines family background - father, Geoffrey Vincent Hill killed in France 1918 - mother trained as a midwife after father's death and family moved to Christchurch. Recalls education at St Mary's Christchurch, Teschmakers as a boarder until aged 12 years and secondary at Villa Maria College, Christchurch run by Sisters of Mercy. Backgrounds decision to become a nun with the Little Company of Mary, commencing 1931, travelling on the `Maori' to Australia to the Novitiate. Outlines training as a nun and as a nurse, spending time in Hobart and Adelaide hospitals before completing nursing training 1934 and final vows as a nun in 1937. Recalls doing child care training in Hobart for four months before going to Buenos Aires. Describes small hospital in Buenos Aires and mentions the shock on seeing the architecture. Notes the Little Company of Mary had been in Argentina in San Antonio from 1913 or 1914. Talks about problems with Peron and Evita and Evita's attempt to commandeer the hospital. Discusses the political situation. Describes atmosphere when revolution succeeded. Recalls return to Wellington in 1960 and experience as Bursar in Wellington and Hawera and term in Tonga and year in Samoa in 1982.
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Interviewer(s) - Ann Trotter
Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-009395-009396
Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 2 Hours Duration. 3 Electronic document(s).
Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3041.
- Additional description
Original recordings not available for playback. Surrogate copies will be provided.
- Use/Reproduction
- No publication without prior written permission of interviewee until 2025 Copyright: Held by Little Company of Mary and Ann Trotter
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted material
- Part of
- Little Company of Mary Oral History Project
- Format
- 2 C60 cassette(s), 1 printed abstract(s), 2 Hours Duration, 3 Electronic document(s), Oral histories
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Interview with Sister Mary Kostka, printed abstract
Date: 20 Dec 2000
From: Little Company of Mary Oral History Project
Reference: OHA-3041
Description: Interviewer(s) - Ann Trotter Quantity: 1 printed abstract(s). 2 Hours Duration.
Interview with Sister Mary Kostka, digital form
Date: 20 December 2000
From: Little Company of Mary Oral History Project
Reference: OHDL-003108
Description: Quantity: 1 Electronic document(s). Search dates: 2000
Interview with Sister Mary Kostka, digital abstract
Date: 20 December 2000
From: Little Company of Mary Oral History Project
Reference: OHDL-003120
Description: Digital abstract and brief chronology Quantity: 1 Electronic document(s). Search dates: 2000
Interview with Sister Mary Kostka, tape two
Date: 20 Dec 2000
From: Little Company of Mary Oral History Project
Reference: OHC-009396
Description: Interviewer(s) - Ann Trotter Arrangement: Tape sequence - tape 2 of 2 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete.
Interview with Sister Mary Kostka, tape one
Date: 20 Dec 2000
From: Little Company of Mary Oral History Project
Reference: OHC-009395
Description: Interviewer(s) - Ann Trotter Arrangement: Tape sequence - tape 1 of 2 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete.