Brookes, Ivy (1883 - 1970)

Ivy Brookes, winner of the Ormond Scholarship for singing in 1904, played first violin in Professor Marshall Hall’s Orchestra from 1903 until 1915. She was an executive member of the Lady Northcote Permanent Orchestra Trust from 1908 to the 1960s. Founder of the Housewives’ Cooperative Association of Victoria in 1915, Brookes also founded the International Club of Victoria in 1933, and was its president until 1958. Between 1931 and 1961, she also served as Director of the Bureau of Social and International Affairs. Brookes was a foundation member of both the University of Melbourne’s Boards of Studies in Physical Education, which she sat on from 1938 to 1970, and Social Studies, which she was sat on from 1941 to 1967. A Board Member of the Women’s Hospital for fifty years, Brookes also held executive positions in the National Council of Women, International Council of Women, the Playgrounds and Recreation Association, the League of Nations Union and the United Nations Association.

• Deakin, Ivy (maiden name, 14 July 1883 - 3 July 1905)

Chronology

1903 - 1915	First violin with Professor Marshall Hall's Orchestra
1904	Winner of the Ormond Scholarship for Singing
1908 - 1960s	Executive member of the Lady Northcote Permanent Orchestra Trust Fund
1915	Founded the Housewives' Co-operative Association of Victoria
1927 - 1929	President of the Royal Women's Hospital Board
1931 - 1961	Director of the Bureau of Social and International Affairs
1933 - 1958	Founder and president of the International Club of Victoria
1934 - 1938	President of the Royal Women's Hospital Board
1938 - 1945	President of the National Council of Women of Victoria
1938 - 1970	Foundation member of the Board of Studies in Physical Education at the University of Melbourne
1941 - 1967	Foundation member of the Board of Studies in Social Studies at the University of Melbourne
1944 - 1970	President of the Playgrounds & Recreation Association of Victoria
1945 - 1963	Vice-president of the United Nations Association of Victoria
1948 - 1953	President of the National Council of Women of Australia
1952 - 1960	Commonwealth member of the Import Licensing Committee

Children

• Clarke, Jessie (1914 - )

Parent

• Deakin, Elizabeth Martha Anne (Pattie) (1863 - 1934)

Presided

• National Council of Women of Australia (1931 - )

  [1948 - 1953]

• National Council of Women of Victoria (1902 - )

  [1938 - 1945]

Sibling

• White, Vera Deakin (1891 - 1978)

See also

• Arnold, John and Morris, Deirdre (eds), Monash Biographical Dictionary of 20th Century Australia, Reed Reference Publishing, Port Melbourne (Vic.), 1994, 568 pp. [ Details... ]
• Brookes, Herbert (Mrs) and Goodisson, L E (Mrs), Resume of the second conference, Women's Division, People's Liberal Party, Women's Division, Melbourne, 28-29 April 1915, 22 pp. [ Details... ]
• Eidelson, Meyer, Nation builders : great lives and stories from St Kilda General Cemetery, Friends of St Kilda Cemetery Inc., St Kilda, Vic., 2001, 120 pp. [ Details... ]
• Fitzherbert, Margaret, Liberal women : Federation to 1949, Federation Press, Sydney, 2004, 224 pp. [ Details... ]
• Flesch, Juliet and McPhee, Peter, 150 years, 150 stories : brief biographies of one hundred and fifty remarkable people associated with the University of Melbourne, Department of History, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, 2003, 168 pp. [ Details... ]
• Flesch, Juliet and McPhee, Peter, 'Ivy Brookes', UniNews, vol. 12, no. 14, 11-25 August 2003, p. 4. [ Details... ]
• Legge, J S (ed.), Who's who in Australia 1968, The Herald and Weekly Times, Melbourne, 1968, 956 pp. [ Details... ]
• Oldfield, Robert, The Early years of the Housewives Association of Victoria, 1915-1930, Monash University, 1989. [ Details... ]
• Ridley, Ronald T, Jessie Webb, a memoir, University of Melbourne, Department of History, Parkville, Vic., 1994, 208 pp. [ Details... ]
• Smart, Judith, 'A Mission to the Home: The Housewives Association, the Woman's Christian Temperance Union and Protestant Christianity, 1920-1940', Australian Feminist Studies, vol. 13 no. 28, October 1998, 1998, pp. 215-234. [ Details... ]