List of Old Collegians of PLC Melbourne

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.

Academic

• Maureen Brunt – Emeritus Professor of Economics, Monash University
• Maud Martha Cameron – Headmistress of Firbank Girls' Grammar School (1911–54) and president of the Victorian Association of Headmistresses (1936–37)
• 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
• Mary (Isabel) Flinn – Prominent school teacher and university lecturer
• Julia Teresa Flynn – Educationist; First female school inspector; Namesake of 'Julia Flynn Avenue' in Isaacs, Australian Capital Territory
• 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)
• Dame Leonie Judith Kramer – Former Chancellor of the University of Sydney
• Elizabeth Inglis Lothian – Teacher of Classics; Councillor of the Classical Association of Victoria
• Isabel McBryde AO – Professor Emerita, Australian National University; School Fellow, School of Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts; Independent Researcher
• Joan Montgomery AM. OBE – Educator; former principal of Clyde School, Woodend and Presbyterian Ladies' College, Melbourne
• Helen Gwynneth Palmer – Educationist, Socialist and Writer
• Rosemary Teele – Rhodes Scholar
• Marjorie Jean Tipping MBE – Freelance Author, Art Historian, Consultant and Lecturer on Early Victorian and Tasmanian History and Oriental and Colonial Art History

Business

• Fiona Balfour – Chief Information Officer of Telstra (2006–07), and Qantas (2001–06)
• 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)
• Jane Harvey – Director of Medibank Private; Director of IOOF Holdings
• Rosemary Jessamyn Howell – Proprietor, Strategic Action Pty Ltd (formerly Rosemary Howell Business Services); Director National Board of Directors, Quality in Law Inc.
• Patricia Kailis AM, OBE – Governing Director and Co-Founder of the M G Kailis Group of Companies

Community

• Annie Cohen – Charity worker
• Gladys Maeva Cumpston – Community worker, prize winning gardener and Braille transcriber
• Henrietta Jessie Shaw Daley – Community worker; Founder of the ACT branch of the National Council of Women
• Dame Phyllis Frost – Welfare worker and philanthropist, known for her commitment to unpopular causes.
• Jessie McLaren – Australian missionary in Korea, book collector, teacher and translator
• 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
• Eleanor Harriett (Nell) Rivett – Missionary and principal of the Women's Christian College, Chennai, India
• Philadelphia Nina Robertson – Red Cross administrator
• Helen Macpherson Schutt – Philanthropist
• Lady Alice Maud Sewell – First woman to win the Wyselaskie scholarship in classical and comparative philology and logic; Founding member of the Lyceum Club, Melbourne; Awarded the Coronation medal.
• Hilda Stevenson DBE – philanthropist and community worker
• Jean Marion Tom AO – Community worker; Recipient Centenary Medal 2003, ANZAC of the Year Award RSL 1999
• Rita May Wilson – Community worker

Entertainment, media and the arts

• Christine Dorothy Brunton – Actress
• Felicity Cockram – Executive Producer, Producer, Business and Script Consultant; former CEO Australian Film Institute

• Enid Derham – Poet
• Lauris Margaret Elms – Opera Singer
• Louise Berta Mosson Hanson Dyer – Patron of the arts and music publisher
• Helen Mitchell – Soprano, who would be known as Dame Nellie Melba
• Helen Morse – Australian actress and costume designer
• Ida Rentoul Outhwaite – Artist
• Janet Gertrude (Nettie) Palmer – Writer and critic
• Ada May Plante – Artist
• Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson – Author, published as Henry Handel Richardson
• Irene Frances Taylor – Journalist and feminist
• Violet Helen Evangeline Teague – Artist
• Tamsin West – Actress best known for her role as Linda in Round the Twist
• Grace Brown – Olympic Gold Medalist

Medicine and science

• Lilian Helen Alexander – Pioneering medical practitioner
• Constance Ellis – First Victorian woman to become a doctor of medicine
• Ethel Godfrey – Victoria's first female dentist
• Ethel Gray – Nursing sister and army matron
• 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
• Ida Gertrude Margaret Halley – Medical officer and Feminist; One of the first female medical students at the University of Melbourne
• Dr Margaret Hilda Harper – Pioneering paediatrician, daughter of former PLC principal Rev. Dr Andrew Harper
• 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
• Kate Mackay – Physician and public servant
• Dame Annie Jean Macnamara – Medical scientist
• Winifred Barbara Meredith – Pioneering medical practitioner specialising in child and infant care
• Joan Janet Brown Refshauge – Pioneering medical practitioner and medical administrator
• Alice Ross-King – Civilian and Army nurse
• Anna "Nan" Schofield – One of the first Australian Army nurses to serve in the Middle East during World War II; Author
• Dr Eleanor Margrethe (Rita) Stang – Pioneering medical practitioner
• Elizabeth Kathleen Turner – Paediatrician who was a Medical Superintendent of the Children's Hospital Melbourne (1943-1946) and was the first doctor in Australia to administer penicillin.
• Rose Ethel Janet White-Haney – Botanist

Politics, public service and the law

• Sally Capp – Lord Mayor of Melbourne
• Catherine Deakin – Sister of Alfred Deakin
• Joan Rose Dwyer OAM – Former Chairman Equal Opportunity Board (Vic); Member, Mental Health Review Tribunal (Vic)

• Elizabeth Moulton Eggleston – Academic lawyer and activist
• Vida Goldstein – Suffragette and first woman to stand for election to the Federal Parliament of Australia
• Flos Greig – First woman admitted to the Victorian Bar
• 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
• Fiona Krautil – Director of the Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Agency
• Eleanor May Moore – Pacifist
• Alice Frances Mabel Moss – Campaigner for women's rights
• Hon. Justice Marcia Ann Neave AO- Judge, Court of Appeal, Supreme Court of Victoria; Chairwoman of the Victorian Law Reform Commission
• Senator Jocelyn Newman – Former Senator for Tasmania
• Kelly O'Dwyer – Federal member for the seat of Higgins.
• Marion Phillips – Politician, first Australian woman to win a seat in a national parliament
• Kim Rubenstein – Professor and Co-Director, 50/50 by 2030 Foundation, University of Canberra
• Judge Meryl Elizabeth Sexton – Judge, County Court of Victoria
• 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
• Christian Brynhild Ochiltree Jollie Smith – Solicitor, second woman to be admitted as a solicitor in New South Wales, first female taxi driver in Melbourne

Religion

• Margaret Ruth Redpath AO – Former Acting Precentor, St Paul's Cathedral, Melbourne, and ground-breaking surgeon.

See also

• List of schools in Victoria
• List of high schools in Victoria
• List of boarding schools
• Girls Sport Victoria

References

Further reading

• Fitzpatrick, K. 1975. PLC Melbourne: The First Century 1875–1975. Burwood, Presbyterian Ladies' College.
• Reid, M.O. 1960. The Ladies Came to Stay: A Study of the Education of Girls at the Presbyterian Ladies' College, Melbourne 1875–1960. Melbourne, Council of the College.

External links

• Presbyterian Ladies' College Website