Helen Oates (EVANS) BArch
1957-61
College friend Penny Cameron (WYNDHAM: 1957-59) remembers: Helen Evans came to Sydney University when she was sixteen, and went straight to the Women’s College. She was studying architecture. By their […]
Categories: Engineering & Architecture
Ellice Maud NOSWORTHY, BArch
1919 - 1922
Architect (1897-1972) ELLICE MAUD NOSWORTHY was born in 1897, the second of four daughters. Her father was a shipping company executive and her mother came from a family of notable […]
Categories: Engineering & Architecture
Sally Ingate (SAALFELD) BA
1948 - 1950
Yachtsman (1929-98) Sally enjoys the distinction of being the first woman to sail in the Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race. Sally was born in India where her father was in […]
Categories: Sport
Patricia Selkirk (CONNELL) PhD
1960 - 1963
Scientist Terrestrial scientist Dr Patricia Selkirk was awarded the Australian Antarctic Medal in 2004. Patricia has been a member of 17 Antarctic expeditions since 1979, and has spent a total […]
Categories: Science & Medicine
Lindsey Fairfield SMITH BSc, PhD
1958 - 1961
Astronomer et al Lindsey Smith studied initially at Sydney University and obtained her Doctorate of Philosophy from the Australian National University. She pursued a distinguished career in astronomy research with […]
Categories: Science & Medicine
Jessie Mary Grey STREET, BA (08)
Feminist and Social Activist (1889-1970) JESSIE MARY GREY STREET, feminist and social activist, was born in 1889 at Ranchi, Chota Nagpur, India, daughter of Charles Alfred Gordon Lillingston and Mabel […]
Categories: Activism
Dr Winifred Vere HOLE, MA Hon. PhD London
1941 - 1944
Sociologist and Author DR WINIFRED VERE HOLE was the only child of Ralph Vere Hole and Blanche Young, who had settled in the Coonamble district in the 1900s. For her […]
Categories: Public Life
Hazel Claire WEEKES, M.B.E. BSc, DSc, MBBS
1922 - 1923
Medical Practitioner, Broadcaster on Anxiety Neuroses (1904-90) Dr. CLAIRE WEEKES came to College from Sydney Girls’ High School in 1922. She was awarded the Yaralla Scholarship and studied science. Her […]
Categories: Science & Medicine
Julie White (ALSTON) BA
1974 - 1976
Born and educated in Orange, NSW, Julie came to Sydney University and Women’s College in 1974, where she studied for an Arts degree. She later attended the National Institute of […]
Lynn Wood MA MBA
1969
Recently reappointed to the Foreign Investment Review Board for a further 5 years, former student and College Council member Lynn Wood has lately attracted interest in the financial press for […]
Categories: Finance
Ann Moyal (HURLEY) AM BA
1943 - 1945
Ann Moyal has had an exhilarating life. A noted scholar of the history of Australian science and telecommunications, and a biographer, she began her career (after graduating in history with […]
Categories: Arts
Betty Marks (McEWEN) OAM MBBS
1943-48
Betty Jean Harvard McEwen was born at Oatley, Sydney, the second of three children born to Dr Bruce and Bessie McEwen. Betty was educated at Marsden Church of England Girls’ […]
Categories: Science & Medicine
Beverley RAPHAEL AM MB BS, MD, FRANZCP, FRCPsych, Hon MD, FASSA
1952-57
Beverley was born in Casino, New South Wales. She graduated from the local high school second in the state in physics and chemistry, and studied medicine at the University of […]
Categories: Science & Medicine
Lucy Lind Lloyd (TAYLOR) B Ag Sc
1939-42
Lucy Lloyd was born Lucy Lind Taylor in Armidale in 1920, the second of three children. Her father, Carl, was a grazier and veteran of the First World War. Lucy […]
Categories: Community Service
Julia FEATHERSTONE BA Dip Ed M Urban and Regional Planning (Adelaide), Grad Dip Communications (UTS), M Fine Arts (UNSW)
1964-67
Julia Featherstone grew up in a beachside town of Woolgoolga, NSW. The fibro shack of her childhood was five hundred metres from the beach and fuelled her love of surfing. […]
Categories: Arts
Suzanne McKENZIE MBBS, MMedSci (ClinEpid) GCULT FRACGP
1983-85
Suzanne attended Pymble Ladies College and in 1982 entered medical school at Sydney University, residing at Women’s College. She did her internship at Hornsby and Ryde hospitals, and residency in […]
Categories: Science & Medicine
JOHN BEER BA MA PhD
Senior Tutor 1985-2003
John attended Eastwood Public School and Sydney Church of England Grammar School, and initially followed his father into accounting. As a young man he was a member of St Alban’s […]
Categories: Public Life
Rosalind HINDE BSc (Hons) PhD
1961-63
Marine biologist Professor Rosalind Hinde was the daughter of novelist, critic and writers’ advocate Barbara Tarlton Jefferis and well-known Australian film critic and ABC journalist, John Hinde. Rosalind was educated […]
Categories: Science & Medicine
Helen Booth WILES MBBS, FRACP, CCH
1941-1946
Helen Wiles grew up in Sydney’s east and attended secondary school at Ascham in Edgecliff. She was a very bright student and topped her class every year. She achieved “Honours” […]
Categories: Science & Medicine
Susie Flook BA LLB (BALDWIN)
1968 - 1971
Susie Flook is Group General Counsel for The Body Shop International plc, based in the UK with responsibility for all legal matters on a global basis. The Body Shop produces […]
Categories: Law
Ann Felton (KENDALL)
1953 - 1956
After studying medicine at Sydney University, Ann Felton (KENDALL: 1953-56) was ‘discovered’ in 1958 and became one of the world’s top models, earning $1000 a week by 1960. Ann has […]
Categories: Arts
Jane Fitzgerald SPRING BEc LLB
1985 - 1987
In October 2008 Jane Fitzgerald Spring was awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the University for her services to rowing. For nearly two decades Jane has been an icon, an inspiration […]
Categories: Sport
Sally AULD
1990 - 1993
Banker, Cricketer In May 1999, Sally Auld was selected to represent the MCC in its first ever women’s fixture against a Surrey U21 side. As captain of the Oxford University […]
Categories: Finance
Her Excellency Prof. Marie BASHIR AC CVO
1950 - 1955
Governor of New South Wales From Senior Student to Governor of New South Wales “When the suggestion was made to me… to begin with I was absolutely spellbound and speechless. […]
Categories: Public Life, Science & Medicine
Anne BOYD
1964 - 1965
Professor of Music, Composer ‘When in 1996 I was awarded the AM in the Order of Australia, undoubtedly a career highlight, I was especially touched that it was ‘for services […]
Categories: Arts
Clare BURTON BA PhD
1961 - 1963
Anthropologist, expert on gender and race bias (1942-1998) DR CLARE BURTON, an international expert on gender and race bias, was one of Australia’s finest feminist intellectuals. She put her scholarship into […]
Categories: Public Life
Sally Crossing (FLETCHER) BEc AM
1964 - 1965
Diagnosed and treated for breast cancer in 1995 and 2004, former Women’s College student and Council member Sally Crossing founded the Breast Cancer Action Group NSW in 1997. This group […]
Categories: Activism
Jane DIPLOCK BA (Hons) LLB DipEd Dip IntLaw
1968 - 1977
After leaving the Women’s College in 1977 Jane worked as a policy maker and a lawyer and she was recently the first woman to be elected as the chairman of […]
Ruth Lissant DOBSON OBE BA
1937 - 1939
Diplomat (1918-89) Ruth was educated at Malvern School, Mosman and at Frensham where her mother was housemistress. She was at the Women’s College from 1937-1939 and graduated Bachelor of Arts […]
Categories: Public Life
Ingrid PEARSON
1992
Ingrid Pearson BMus (Hons), PhD, DipEd, LTCL, LMusA is Deputy Head of the Graduate School at the Royal College of Music (RCM), London. Born in Newcastle, Australia, Ingrid began her […]
Categories: Arts
Rosemary Foot (ASHTON) AO BA
1954 - 1956
Politician, Board Member, Investor Rosemary participated fully in University life while a student at the Women’s College. The varied friendships she formed in the mid-fifties broadened her outlook after a […]
Categories: Public Life
Joan FREEMAN
Nuclear Physicist JOAN FREEMAN, a great Australian, a nuclear physicist who helped unlock some of the secrets of the universe, died 18 March 1998. Her story is outlined in her […]
Categories: Science & Medicine
Grace JOHNSTON, Dip Massage, MBBS
1930 & 1941 - 1946
Medical Practitioner GRACE JOHNSTON was born in Sydney in 1906. Her father was Swedish, with Scottish connections and her mother was an Australian of English and Danish ancestry. As a […]
Categories: Science & Medicine
Pauline Lyle-Smith BA LLB
1964 - 1968
Pauline graduated with Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws degrees from the University of Sydney and, after qualifying as a solicitor in NSW, practised law at Freehill, Hollingdale & […]
Categories: Law
Susan MacDONALD BArch MA
1981 - 1982
Susan Macdonald studied architecture at Sydney University and holds an MA in Conservation Studies from the University of York / ICCROM Rome. From 1988-98 Susan worked in the UK as […]
Categories: Engineering & Architecture
Wendy MACHIN BA MComm
1977-78
In an eleven-year parliamentary career that commenced at the age of 27 and ended in 1996, Wendy Machin represented the mid north coast of NSW and held numerous senior positions, […]
Categories: Public Life
Jane Hamilton MATHEWS LLB., Syd., LL. (Hon.) Wollongong Uni.
1958 - 1959
Judge JANE HAMILTON MATHEWS came to College direct from boarding school at the age of 17. At that time there was only one law school in New South Wales and […]
Categories: Law
Judith WRIGHT McKINNEY
1935 - 1936
Poet and Writer JUDITH WRIGHT was described in a 1972 ABC broadcast by fellow poet, A.D. Hope, as ‘Australia’s leading conservationist’ and was one of Australia’s greatest lyricists. She drew […]
Categories: Arts