Beaurepaire, Beryl Edith (1923 - )

Following the birth of her children, Beryl Beaurepaire became involved with charity work and the women's organisations of the Liberal Party. She summarises her liberal feminist views as follows: 'If you're a feminist you believe in equal opportunities and rights for women, but you also believe that women accept equal responsibilities.' (As cited by Emma Grahame in Australian Feminism: A Companion, OUP, 1998)

• Bedggood, Beryl Edith (maiden name, 24 September 1923 - 26 March 1946)

Beaurepaire was a member of the Australian Children's Television Foundation Board (1982-1988), the Board of Victoria's 150th Authority (1982-1987), and a member of the Australian Bi-centennial Multicultural Foundation (1989-1992). From 1985 to 1993 she was chairman of the Australian War Memorial Council and then chairman of the Australian War Memorial Fund Raising Committee (1993).

She is Patron to a number of community organisations including: Children First Foundation since 2000, Peninsula Hospice Service since 1999, Palliative Care (Vic.) since 1999, Victorian College of the Arts since 1999, Epilepsy Foundation of Victoria since 1999, Australia Against Child Abuse since 1999, Peninsula Health Care Network Foundation since 1996 and the Portsea Children's Camp since 1996.

Chronology

1942 - 1945	Served with the Women's Auxiliary Australian Air Force
1945	Commissioned Assistant Section Officer
1946	Married Ian Francis Beaurepaire
1969 - 1977	Member of the National Executive, YWCA Australia
1970 - 1986	Vice-President of the Citizens Welfare Service Victoria
1973 - 1976	Chairman of the Victorian Liberal Party Women's Section
1973 - 1987	Chairman of the Board of Management of Fintona Girls School
1974 - 1976	Chairman of the Federal Liberal Party Women's Committee
14 June 1975	Appointed, Member of the British Empire (MBE)
1976 - 1986	Vice-President of the Victorian Division Liberal Party
1977	Awarded Silver Jubilee Medal
1977	Member of the Federal Women's Advisory Committee Working Party
1978 - 1982	Convenor of the National Women's Advisory Council
31 December 1980	The Order of the British Empire - Dames Commander (DBE)
1982 - 1987	Board member of the Victorian 150th Authority
1982 - 1988	Board member of the Australian Children's Television Foundation Board
1982 - 1993	Member of the Australian War Memorial Council
1985 - 1993	Chairman of the Australian War Memorial Council
1988 - 1990	President of the Victorian Association of Most Excellent OBE
1989 - 1992	Member of the Australian Bi-centennial Multicultural Foundation
10 June 1991	Companion Order of Australia (AC)
1993 - 1996	Chairman of the Australian War Memorial Fund Raising Committee
1996	Patron of the Peninsula Health Care Network Foundation
1996	Patron of the Portsea Children's Camp
1999	Patron of the Victorian College of the Arts
1999	Patron of the Palliative Care (Vic.)
1999	Patron of the Epilepsy Foundation of Victoria Incorporated
1999	Patron of the Australian's Against Child Abuse
1999	Patron of the Peninsula Hospice Service
2000	Patron of the Children First Foundation

Chaired by

• National Women's Advisory Council (1978 - )

Membership

• The Alexandra Club (1903 - )

Presided

• Liberal Party of Australia Federal Women's Committee (1945 - )

  [1974 - 1976]

Related Corporate Bodies

• Women's Auxiliary Australian Air Force (WAAAF) (1941 - 1947)

  [1942 - 1945]

Books

• McKernan, Michael, Beryl Beaurepaire, University of Queensland Press, St Lucia, Qld, 1999, 316 pp. [ Details... ]

Online Resources

• Cadden, Rosemary, 'Women & Politics in South Australia', 14 April 1998, http://www.slsa.sa.gov.au/women_and_politics/index.html. [ Details... ]
• Department of Veterans' Affairs, 'BEAUREPAIRE, BERYL EDITH', in World War 2 Nominal Roll, 2002, http://www.ww2roll.gov.au/script/veteran.asp?ServiceID=R&VeteranID=1069542. [ Details... ]

See also

• 'War veterans honoured', Bayside Leader, 26 November 2001, p. 5. [ Details... ]
• [Waterfield, Dorothy edited by ], A decade of Mary Owen dinners, Mary Owen Dinner Committee, Sandingham, Vic., 1995, 178 pp. [ Details... ]
• Caine, Barbara (ed.), Australian Feminism: A Companion, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1998, 607 pp. [ Details... ]
• CAPOW, 'Australian Women's Honour Roll B', http://www.capow.org.au/Honourroll/honourroll-b.htm. [ Details... ]
• Herd, Margaret (ed.), Who's who in Australia 2002, 38 edn, Crown Content, Melbourne, 2002, 2020 pp. [ Details... ]
• Lake, Marilyn, Getting Equal: The History of Australian Feminism, Allen & Unwin, St Leonards, New South Wales, 1999, 316 pp. [ Details... ]
• Mitchell, Susan, The matriarchs: twelve Australian women talk about their lives to Susan Mitchell., Penguin Books, Ringwood, Vic., 1987. [ Details... ]
• Starke, Monica, The Alexandra Club : A Narrative 1903-1983, Alexandra Club, Melbourne, 1986, 140 pp. [ Details... ]
• Thomson, Joyce A, The WAAAF in Wartime Australia, Melbourne University Press, Carlton, Vic., 1992, 422 pp. [ Details... ]