Jack Clancy at his beloved football club.
In the mid-1960s, when an Australian cinema was only a page in our pre-WW II history, Jack Clancy was teaching English to engineers, fitters and turners and boilermakers at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, now RMIT University.
Teaching humanities to the trade students was, he said, to broaden the post-secondary education experience of the students, to let them see a life beyond the lathe. In a similar way, Professor Hunter at the University of Sydney was packing his chemical engineering students off to the English Department for a couple of hours a week.
