Just putting up some snippets from Episode 3, pretty interesting really, from Janice White,
sounds like a lovely lady and good friend of Marion. I wonder if a school in South Australia
had been picked out, where it was.
Episode 3 (30.10) - Teaching and Turmoil at TSS
"When Marion lived on the Gold Coast she also rekindled her friendship with her old teaching friend Janice White who lived in Sydney. The pair would visit each other and stay at each other's homes, but in the early months of 1997 Janice noticed a change in Marion's behaviour."
"She was more settled but she was getting restless again in - just in the time before she went overseas. She was actually thinking of applying for a job in a school in South Australia, so yes, it was quite obvious that she was getting restless again" …
"Janice wasn't at all surprised when Marion suddenly quit her job, but she was disturbed by the shift in her personality. 'One thing Sally has mentioned is the possibility of something having happened at her old school or anything like that. Was there anything like that, that she mentioned to you?'"
" …… and she was getting on well, but she had had - there was some staff that she wasn't getting on with. She was unhappy because she'd had a falling out with some of the staff. And again I'm not really aware of what the details of that were, you know, what - what caused that. That - yeah, I guess there was some disillusionment on her part around some of the - some of the people that she worked with."
"Did she talk about why she quit, when she did quit?"
"Yeah, she was - she was stressed. She was stressed. And she was short-tempered I guess. Yeah, she - her generosity of spirit was rather dented, I guess. Yeah, she wasn't as welcoming, she wasn't as outgoing, so yes, she was obviously under - under pressure, because she was unhappy."
"Can you give me an example of what you mean in that relation?
"Well, I know - a friend and I went to the Gold Coast to visit Marion and to visit our other friend and - and Marion was always so welcoming. And she was very short with us. And we'd often go out for lunch and we'd go and look around lovely shops and that sort of thing, um, and she didn't really - she really wasn't interested in doing anything like that. She really, um, - I guess she made us feel that, you know, we weren't welcome. And - and which was surprising for her because she was - you know she was very social, always very friendly, a wonderful hostess. So yes, so I think it was possibly my last visit, the last time I saw her before she went overseas. And - and she just wasn't the same. She certainly had things on her mind. She did have a long conversation with me about moving to South Australia and working in a school there, but she was - yeah, she obviously had things on her mind, she just wasn't the same happy light hearted generous person that - that she had been."