Lyon, Heather Isabel (1917 - )

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.

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

Membership

• Lyceum Club (Melbourne) (1912 - )

  [1952 - ]

Related Corporate Bodies

• Free Kindergarten Union of Victoria (1908 - )

  Lyon was awarded the Free Kindergarten Union Travelling Scholarship for overseas study

  [1944 - 1946]

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... ]