Lyceum Club (Adelaide) Incorporated (1922 - )

The Lyceum Club (Adelaide) Incorporated was founded in 1922 by Helen Mayo who became its first president. Its object was to advance the status of women in professional life and in art and letters.

Members

• Angove, Dorothy (1886 - 1985)
• Ballantyne, Gwenneth
• Bond, Aileen (1898 - )
• Bright, Elizabeth Holden (1914 - )
• Bright, Esther
• Brookes, Helen (1917 - )
• Buttrose, Stroma (1929 - )

  [1973 - ]

• Byrne, Roxy (1912 - 2004)
• Casley-Smith, Marjorie (1901 - )
• Caw, Harriet Marjorie (1893 - )
• Chambers, Doris
• Cook, Jean

  Member of the embroidery circle

• Crompton, Phyllis Owen (1906 - )

  [1928 - ]

• Dolling, Alison (1917 - )

  [1965 - ]

• Foster, Irene M
• Frost, Mary (1907 - )
• Gooden, Margaret (Peg) (1900 - )
• Hannon, Gwenyth (1909 - )
• Haselgrove, Elsie (1903 - )
• Hodge, Margaret (1918 - )

  Served in a number of official capacities over the years

  [1971 - ]

• Hone, Maisie (1897 - )
• Hosking, Lorna
• Howard, Patience (1900 - )
• Hughes, Dorothy
• Jarrett, Myra

  Executive Committee Member from 1989 to 1994. She served two terms as leader of the Travel Circle and was Convenor of Circles for 3 years. Secretary of the Australian Association of Lyceum clubs in 1977.

  [1966 - ]

• Johnston, Thelma (1908 - )

  Coordinated the flower roster for 4 years

• Jones, Nancy Bryn
• Kay, Francie
• Langley, Ruth Isobel
• Levy, Rose Winstanley (Winnie) (1900 - 1988)
• Lyon, Edeline (Tommy) (1914 - )
• Mander-Jones, Lois Jessie (1920 - )

  Vice-President and President and in 1993 Australian President of the Association of Lyceum Clubs. Mander-Jones was awarded honorary life membership in 1993.

• McCarthy, Gwendoline (Gwen) (1901 - 1986)

  [1923 - 1986]

• McLaren, Eva (1898 - )
• Mitchell, Roma Flinders (1913 - 2000)
• Mocatta, Frances (1921 - )
• Mocatta, Mildred
• Murray, Kemeri Anne (1932 - )
• Ozolins, Irina (1920 - )

  Member of the Art Appreciation, Literature and German Circles.

• Parker, Marjorie Bryson (Madge) (1908 - )
• Retalic, Lucy (1910 - )

  Leader of the Garden Circle

• Richards, Elizabeth K

  [1982 - ]

• Riggs, Clara Elizabeth (Betty) (1911 - )
• Rooney, Jean (1911 - )
• Sandford-Morgan, Elma (1890 - 1983)
• Sobels, Stella
• Somerville, Dorothy Catherine (1897 - 1992)

  Foundation member and honorary Life member in 1971

  [1921 - 1992]

• Stanton, Anne (1898 - 2000)
• Steele-Scott, Kathleen (1910 - 1998)
• Wall, Annie (Winifred) (1900 - 2001)

  member for over 50 years

• Wesley-Smith, Sheila
• West, Dorothy
• Wilmot-Griffiths, Gwendolyn (1904 - )
• Wilson, Honor Cameron (1914 - 1998)
• Wilson, Shirley Cameron (1918 - 2003)

  Leader of the Antiques and Collecting Circle for nine years

• Winnall, Helen
• Zelling, Sesca Ross (1918 - 2001)

  [1942 - 2001]

Presidents

• Mayo, Helen Mary (1878 - 1967)
• McCarthy, Gwendoline (Gwen) (1901 - 1986)

  [1967 - 1969]

• McLaren, Eva (1898 - )

  [1948 - 1949]

Related Corporate Bodies

• Lyceum Club (Melbourne) (1912 - )

Books

• History of the Adelaide Lyceum Club, Webb & Son, Adelaide, [1972], 26 pp. [ Details... ]
• The Lyceum Club Adelaide : a history, 1922-2002, Lyceum Club Adelaide Inc, Adelaide, 2003, 50 pp. [ Details... ]

See also

• MacKinnon, Alison, 'Helen Mayo', in Radi, Heather (ed.), 200 Australian women : a Redress anthology, Women's Redress Press Inc, Broadway, N.S.W., [1988], pp. 113-114. [ Details... ]
• Mackinnon, Alison, 1942-, The new women : Adelaide's early women graduates, Wakefield Press, Netley, S. A., 1986, 228 pp. [ Details... ]