List of Old Collegians of PLC Melbourne
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This is a List of Old Collegians of PLC Melbourne – known as "PLC Old Collegians" – of the Presbyterian Church school, Presbyterian Ladies' College, Melbourne in Burwood, Victoria, Australia.
In 2001, The Sun-Herald named Presbyterian Ladies' College, Melbourne the best girls' school in Australia based on the number of its alumni mentioned in Who's Who in Australia.[1]
Academic
- Maureen Brunt – Emeritus Professor of Economics, Monash University[2]
- Maud Martha Cameron – Headmistress of Firbank Girls' Grammar School (1911–54) and president of the Victorian Association of Headmistresses (1936–37)[3]
- Dymphna Clark (née Lodewyckx) – Language scholar and wife of historian Manning Clark
- Nina Alison Crone OAM – Teacher; Former Headmistress of Melbourne Girls Grammar School; Historian; Linguist; Journalist[4]
- Mary (Isabel) Flinn – Prominent school teacher and university lecturer[5]
- Julia Teresa Flynn – Educationist; First female school inspector; Namesake of 'Julia Flynn Avenue' in Isaacs, Australian Capital Territory[6]
- Nancy Jobson – Educator; Former headmistress of Southland Girls' High School (Invercargill, New Zealand), Queen Margaret College (Wellington, New Zealand), Fairholme Presbyterian Girls' College (Toowoomba, Queensland), and Pymble Ladies' College (Pymble, New South Wales)[7]
- Dame Leonie Judith Kramer – Former Chancellor of the University of Sydney[8]
- Elizabeth Inglis Lothian – Teacher of Classics; Councillor of the Classical Association of Victoria[9]
- Isabel McBryde AO – Professor Emerita, Australian National University; School Fellow, School of Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts; Independent Researcher[10]
- Joan Montgomery AM. OBE – Educator; former principal of Clyde School, Woodend and Presbyterian Ladies' College, Melbourne[11]
- Helen Gwynneth Palmer – Educationist, Socialist and Writer[12]
- Rosemary Teele – Rhodes Scholar[13]
- Marjorie Jean Tipping MBE – Freelance Author, Art Historian, Consultant and Lecturer on Early Victorian and Tasmanian History and Oriental and Colonial Art History[14]
Business
- Fiona Balfour – Chief Information Officer of Telstra (2006–07), and Qantas (2001–06)[15]
- Dur-e Najaf Dara OAM – Restaurateur; Owner and Operator of EQ Cafebar (Melbourne); Partner/Menu Design of Nudel Bar (Melbourne); Partner of the Tea Corporation; Recipient of the Centenary Medal 2003 (also attended Methodist Girls' School, Singapore)[16]
- Jane Harvey – Director of Medibank Private; Director of IOOF Holdings[17]
- Rosemary Jessamyn Howell – Proprietor, Strategic Action Pty Ltd (formerly Rosemary Howell Business Services); Director National Board of Directors, Quality in Law Inc.[18]
- Patricia Kailis AM, OBE – Governing Director and Co-Founder of the M G Kailis Group of Companies[19]
- Kerrie Kelly – Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Insurance Council of Australia (also attended Walford Anglican School for Girls)[20]
Community
- Annie Cohen – Charity worker[21]
- Gladys Maeva Cumpston – Community worker, prize winning gardener and Braille transcriber[22]
- Henrietta Jessie Shaw Daley – Community worker; Founder of the ACT branch of the National Council of Women[23]
- Dame Phyllis Frost – Welfare worker and philanthropist, known for her commitment to unpopular causes.[13]
- Jessie McLaren – Australian missionary in Korea, book collector, teacher and translator[24]
- Florence Mitchell - Girl Guide leader
- Lady Eliza Fraser Morrison – Charity worker; Chairman of the Victorian Red Cross home hospitals committee; Assistant commissioner of the Australian Red Cross Society in England; Appointed C.B.E. and Edward K.C.M.G[25]
- Eleanor Harriett (Nell) Rivett – Missionary and principal of the Women's Christian College, Chennai, India[26]
- Philadelphia Nina Robertson – Red Cross administrator[27]
- Helen Macpherson Schutt – Philanthropist[28]
- Lady Alice Maud Sewell – First woman to win the Wyselaskie scholarship in classical and comparative philology and logic; Founder of the Lyceum Club, Melbourne; Awarded the Coronation medal[29]
- Hilda Stevenson DBE – philanthropist and community worker[30]
- Jean Marion Tom AO – Community worker; Recipient Centenary Medal 2003, ANZAC of the Year Award RSL 1999[31]
- Rita May Wilson – Community worker[32]
Entertainment, media and the arts
- Christine Dorothy Brunton – Actress[33]
- Felicity Cockram – Executive Producer, Producer, Business and Script Consultant; former CEO Australian Film Institute[34]
- Enid Derham – Poet[35]
- Lauris Margaret Elms – Opera Singer[36]
- Louise Berta Mosson Hanson Dyer – Patron of the arts and music publisher[37]
- Helen Mitchell – Soprano, who would be known as Dame Nellie Melba[38]
- Helen Morse – Australian actress and costume designer[13]
- Ida Rentoul Outhwaite – Artist[39]
- Janet Gertrude (Nettie) Palmer – Writer and critic[40]
- Ada May Plante – Artist[41]
- Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson – Author, published as Henry Handel Richardson[42]
- Irene Frances Taylor – Journalist and feminist[43]
- Violet Helen Evangeline Teague – Artist[44]
- Tamsin West – Actress best known for her role as Linda in Round the Twist[45]
- Grace Brown – Olympic Gold Medalist [46]
Medicine and science
- Lilian Helen Alexander – Pioneering medical practitioner[47]
- Constance Ellis – First Victorian woman to become a doctor of medicine[48]
- Ethel Godfrey – Victoria's first female dentist[49]
- Ethel Gray – Nursing sister and army matron[50]
- Robyn Guymer – Associate Professor, Department of Ophthalmology, University of Melbourne; Head, Macular Research Unit, Centre for Eye Research Australia; Consultant, Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital[51]
- Ida Gertrude Margaret Halley – Medical officer and Feminist; One of the first female medical students at the University of Melbourne[52]
- Dr Margaret Hilda Harper – Pioneering paediatrician, daughter of former PLC principal Rev. Dr Andrew Harper[53]
- Mary Jermyn Heseltine – One of the first Australian doctors to study exfoliative cytology; Established the first gynaecological cytology unit in Australia at King George V Hospital[54]
- Kate Mackay – Physician and public servant[55]
- Dame Annie Jean Macnamara – Medical scientist[56]
- Winifred Barbara Meredith – Pioneering medical practitioner specialising in child and infant care[3]
- Joan Janet Brown Refshauge – Pioneering medical practitioner and medical administrator[57]
- Alice Ross-King – Civilian and Army nurse[58]
- Anna "Nan" Schofield – One of the first Australian Army nurses to serve in the Middle East during World War II; Author[59]
- Dr Eleanor Margrethe (Rita) Stang – Pioneering medical practitioner[60]
- Elizabeth Kathleen Turner AO – Paediatrician who was a Medical Superintendent of the Children's Hospital Melbourne (1943-1946) and was the first doctor in Australia to administer penicillin.[61]
- Rose Ethel Janet White-Haney – Botanist[62]
Politics, public service and the law
- Sally Capp – Lord Mayor of Melbourne
- Catherine Deakin – Sister of Alfred Deakin[49]
- Joan Rose Dwyer OAM – Former Chairman Equal Opportunity Board (Vic); Member, Mental Health Review Tribunal (Vic)[63]
- Elizabeth Moulton Eggleston – Academic lawyer and activist[64]
- Vida Goldstein – Suffragette and first woman to stand for election to the Federal Parliament of Australia[65]
- Flos Greig – First woman admitted to the Victorian Bar[66]
- Rosemary Claire Hunter – Professor of Law at the University of Kent; formerly Professor of Law at Griffith University, Dean of the Faculty of Law, Director of the Socio-Legal Research Centre[67]
- Fiona Krautil – Director of the Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Agency[68]
- Eleanor May Moore – Pacifist[69]
- Alice Frances Mabel Moss – Campaigner for women's rights[70]
- Hon. Justice Marcia Ann Neave AO- Judge, Court of Appeal, Supreme Court of Victoria;[71] Chairwoman of the Victorian Law Reform Commission[72]
- Senator Jocelyn Newman – Former Senator for Tasmania[13]
- Kelly O'Dwyer – Federal member for the seat of Higgins.[73]
- Marion Phillips – Politician, first Australian woman to win a seat in a national parliament[74]
- Kim Rubenstein – Professor and Co-Director, 50/50 by 2030 Foundation, University of Canberra[75]
- Judge Meryl Elizabeth Sexton – Judge, County Court of Victoria[76]
- Jillian Skinner – Politician, elected as a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly; Former Deputy Leader of the Opposition, Shadow Minister for Health, Shadow Minister for Science and Medical Research, and Shadow Minister for Arts[77]
- Christian Brynhild Ochiltree Jollie Smith – Solicitor, second woman to be admitted as a solicitor in New South Wales, first female taxi driver in Melbourne[78]
Religion
- Margaret Ruth Redpath AO – Former Acting Precentor, St Paul's Cathedral, Melbourne, and ground-breaking surgeon.[79]
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