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An
affinity for the ocean has influenced many of librarian Kate Boyle's life decisions,
including spending 25 years at Peninsula campus.
Coming from a large family in Tasmania, Kate joined the Navy at 18, where she worked in telecommunications. She left after three-and-a-half years to start a family, raising three boys.
After a variety of jobs and interstate moves, Kate came to Peninsula campus in the mid-1970s. She now spends half of her time as a reference staff member, assisting students with their information needs. The rest of the time she maintains the databank, which serves the Peninsula community, and has become something of a local historian.
She has also created some local history herself, such as the time she chained herself to an old lemon-scented gum to save it from being chopped down during building renovations.
After her children had grown up, Kate started travelling extensively and has since seen much of the world. A highlight was a summer semester unit she undertook five years ago at a Cape Cod Maritime School in the US, where she spent six weeks on board a schooner and another six weeks ashore studying. She fondly recalls "whales, dolphins, and making crème de menthe ice cream from 1000-year-old glacier ice".
- Lisa Pawlick
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