MBE, MACE, FACE
- Born
- 17 March 1917
South Yarra, Victoria, Australia - Occupation
- Educator
Summary
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.
Lyon, Heather Isabel (1917 - )
Details
Events
- 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, 504 pp. pps. 289-280..
Archival resources
National Library of Australia Newspaper Microcopy Reading Room
- [Biographical cuttings on Heather Lyon, college principal]; National Library of Australia Newspaper Microcopy Reading Room. Details
The University of Melbourne Archives
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
Online Resources
- 'Lyon, Heather I (1917-)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-635693. Details
See also
- Lofthouse, Andrea (ed.), Who's who of Australian women, Methuen Australia, North Ryde (NSW), 1982, 504 pp. pps. 289-280. Details
Anne Heywood
Created: 19 January 2004, Last modified: 30 April 2009
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