Georgina Sweet and Jessie Webb
Two of the Founding Mothers of Graduate Women Victoria In 1922, two women friends set out to travel the length of Africa, from Capetown...
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Past Members Remembered
This page is dedicated to the memory of these outstanding women.
Constance Tisdall
1877-1968 Alice Constance Tisdall, known as Constance, was born in 1877 at Walhalla, Gippsland, Victoria. Her parents were schoolteachers...
Claire Taylor
d. 2004. Claire Taylor was a member of the Eastern Suburbs Branch of AFUW-Vic (now Graduate Women Victoria) for many years, serving on...
June Stewart
1927 - 2011. June Stewart’s brother Derry provided these details of June Stewart’s life. She was born in Malvern in 1927. She attended St...
Margaret Rumbold
d. 2023. Margaret Rumbold joined Graduate Women Victoria in 1958, and remained active until a few years before her death in 2023. A...
Frances Penington
d. July 12, 1972. This obituary was published in the year of Frances Penington’s death, in the V.W.G.A Newsletter August 1972. It was...
Francis Thorn, née Remington
d. 1954. Frances Remington (married name Thorn) was a foundation member of the Victorian Women Graduates’ Association, and one of...
Nancy Millis
10 April 1922 - 29 September 2012. Nancy Millis described herself as ‘interested in anything that ferments’, an appropriate comment for...
Kathleen Sherrard, née McInerney
1898-1975. Kathleen McInerney was born in 1898 in North Carlton, Melbourne. She graduated with honours in Geology from the University of...
Ethel McLennan
Ethel McLennan who died in 1983 was one of Australia's outstanding early women scientists and university teachers. She graduated BSc from...
Philippa McCall
1924 - 2008. Philippa McCall died in May 2008, before just before the award of a bursary in her honour. She left Graduate Women Victoria...
Trudy Kentish
1921 - 2002. Gertrude Florence Kentish or Miss Trudy Kentish achieved the Trained Primary Teacher's Certificate at Melbourne Teachers...
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