Teachers College. I have again emailed the journalist who wrote the article in the Armidale Express, which has been the catalyst for all the conjecture over these past months with regard to where Marion studied.
Marion was born in 1945.
https://7news.com.au/original-fyi/t...line-of-marion-barters-disappearance-c-200848
In 1960, to qualify as a teacher in NSW, you needed to study for two years at a teachers college, which was run by the Department of Education. I believe you had to be 15 to commence study, but for the sake of argument, I have gone back to when Marion would have been 13. If she left school, and did two years at teachers college, she would have graduated in 1960. In 1968 (the year after Marion was married, which is implied happened after graduation), there was a change in the requirements, and a student had to study for three years, instead of two, to qualify as a teacher.
https://education.nsw.gov.au/about-...ols/media/documents/teachers_education_AA.pdf As a result, there is not a graduating class in 1969. Students enrolling in 1967 knew about this- they enrolled in the three year course. Again, for the sake of argument, I have included up to 1970, just in case, when Marion would have been 25 and already married and divorced. Feel free to double check (please!!), but I cannot find a Marion Wilson, Marion Warren, Marion Brown or Marion Barter in any of the Wagga Wagga teachers college graduation programmes. I guess she could have been accidently left out- which would be a huge coincidence, years later, when there is conjecture about where she studied.
Wagga Wagga Teachers College Graduation Programmes
1960
https://csuregarch.intersect.org.au/files/original/7e015bbbf7d8ee87188b4e49be23f744.pdf
1961
https://csuregarch.intersect.org.au/files/original/db6175044f750192c04f1fa9f21c7550.pdf
1962
https://csuregarch.intersect.org.au/files/original/9cd942be988e57b6754bb6805cd75053.pdf
1963
https://csuregarch.intersect.org.au/files/original/f3b428aa45c5ee2ef5521f0d29ba54b1.pdf
1964
https://csuregarch.intersect.org.au/files/original/9fe6c75897272ceb19d0618456737446.pdf
1965
https://csuregarch.intersect.org.au/files/original/da9527df3e35038a55934f781cef6c2e.pdf
1966
https://csuregarch.intersect.org.au/files/original/a353d8b78d266d9ed4c6b859ad137bd6.pdf
1967
https://csuregarch.intersect.org.au/files/original/029e9f57e027ade53ee77c33d9299820.pdf
1968
https://csuregarch.intersect.org.au/files/original/3075506d71a22cc668a033e35afa65e1.pdf
1970
https://csuregarch.intersect.org.au/files/original/89053699e4246bfe30811aa67f41ebcf.pdf
I am not suggesting that Marion did not train as a teacher, but there is something here not adding up.