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Lyon, Heather Isabel (1917 - )

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Born: 17 March 1917  South Yarra, Victoria, Australia

Pre-school teacher and educator Heather Lyon was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire on 11 June 1977 for her service to education.


Career Highlights

Chronology
1937

Awarded Diploma from Kindergarten Training College, Melbourne

1938 - 1941

Kindergarten teacher

1939

Awarded Advanced Diploma from Kindergarten Training College, Melbourne

1942 - 1944

Director of the Ada Mary A'Beckett Kindergarten at Fisherman's Bend

1944 - 1946

Awarded the Free Kindergarten Union Travelling Scholarship for overseas study

1946

Gained Bachelor of Science in Education from the University of Columbia

1947 - 1951

Lecturer at the Kindergarten Training College in Kew

1948 - 1951

Vice-principal at the Kindergarten Training College in Kew

1952

Principal of the State College of Victoria Institute of Early Childhood Development (formerly Kindergarten Training College)

1952

Member of the Lyceum Club (Melbourne)

1953

Awarded the Queen's Coronation Medal

1958

Awarded the Fulbright/Smith Mundt Research Scholarship for study in the United States of America

1959

Member of the Australian College of Education (MACE)

c. 1960 - c. 1970

Member of the Committee on Training Volunteers for Youth Work with the YWCA

1968

Fellow of the Australian College of Education (FACE)

1973

Consultant to the New South Wales Teacher Education Board for accrediting pre-school courses

1973 - 1977

Foundation member for the Senate of the State College of Victoria

1974 - 1980

Member of the Zonta Club of Melbourne

1975

Member of the Accreditation Panel for the Western Australian Tertiary Education Commission to accredit Early Childhood courses at the Western Australia Institute of Technology

1975 - 1977

Member of the Victorian Standing Committee on Pre-School Child Development

1976

Member of the Premier's Committee on Equal Opportunity in Schools

11 June 1977

Appointed a Member of the British Empire

1978

Member of the Church of England Kindergarten Council

1978

Council member of the Graduate Association of the Institute of Early Childhood Development

1978 - 1981

Member of the State Enquiry into Teacher Education

 
Sources used to compile this entry: Lofthouse, Andrea (ed.), Who's who of Australian women, Methuen Australia, North Ryde (NSW), 1982, pps. 289-280.
 
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Published Resources

Books

  • Lyon, Heather I., 1917-, In the steps of James Cowling : an account of a visit to St. Agnes, Cornwall in 1981, with some genealogical observations and sketches of the lives of one line of descendants of James Cowling born in 1802, H.I. Lyon, Hawthorn, Vic., [1982?]., 40 pp. [ Details... ]
  • Lyon, Heather I., 1917-, The silver tea pot : the story of how the teapot, presented in 1824 to John Lyon of Edinburgh, together with other relics, helped to trace a family story, H.I. Lyon, Glen Iris (Vic.), 1985., 103 pp. [ Details... ]

See also

  • Lofthouse, Andrea (ed.), Who's who of Australian women, Methuen Australia, North Ryde (NSW), 1982, 504 pp. [ Details... ]

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