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Interview with Pip Desmond

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Date

1 Dec 1999 - 01 Dec 1999

By

Desmond, Phillipa Mary, 1955-; Priestley, Dinah, 1938-

Reference

OHInt-0479-04

Description

Interview with Pip (Phillipa) Desmond, born in Dunedin in 1955. Describes her strong Catholic upbringing and her relationshp with her father during her childhood and teenage years. Refers to spending three years at Victoria University, then going to Dunedin where she worked for the South Dunedin Youth Club. Talks about becoming involved with the Aroha Trust and Wellington Black Power. Recalls helping set up the Trust; her work, friends and leisure activities while she was a trust member; and her experiences as a woman in a gang scene. Covers briefly what she has done since leaving Aroha Trust, the effect the Trust has had on her life and her vision for the future.

Interviewer(s) - Dinah Priestley

Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-009832 - OHC-009833

Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 2 Hours Duration.

Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3296.

Prints (A4) of: scanned B&W photograph of Pip Desmond during her involvement with the Aroha Trust (undated); colour photograph of Pip Desmond with two of her children (1999?)

Search dates: 1955 - 1999

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Public use requires the written permission of the donor Copyright: Held by Pip Desmond

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Aroha Trust oral history project

Format

2 C60 cassette(s), 1 printed abstract(s), 1 interview(s), 2 Hours Duration, Oral histories, Illustration: Prints (A4) of: scanned B&W photograph of Pip Desmond during her involvement with the Aroha Trust (undated); colour photograph of Pip Desmond with two of her children (1999?)

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Interview with Pip Desmond, printed abstract

Date: 1 Dec 1999

From: Aroha Trust oral history project

Reference: OHA-3296

Description: Interviewer(s) - Dinah Priestley Quantity: 1 printed abstract(s). Prints (A4) of: scanned B&W photograph of Pip Desmond during her involvement with the Aroha Trust (undated); colour photograph of Pip Desmond with two of her children (1999?)