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50 years of arts and crafts in Leongatha

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A PUBLIC meeting was advertised to call a meeting at the Leongatha High School in August 1972, for an idea hatched by Mrs. Dorothy Court (now deceased). 

Thirty people came to that first meeting which was chaired by Vic Rowlands, the new art teacher at the school. 

The majority moved that an Arts and Craft Group be formed, and so the Leongatha Arts and Craft Society was born. 

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