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Australian Federation of University Women (South Australia) Inc. (1914 - )

From
1914
Adelaide
Occupations
University club/society and Lobby group
Alternative Names
  • Adelaide University Women's Graduates' Association
  • Women Graduates' Club
Website
http://www.flinders.edu.au/womensinfo/AFUW.htm
Location
AFUW - SA Inc Mail Box 16 , University of Adelaide NORTH TERRACE SA 5005

Summary

The Adelaide University Women Graduates' Association was founded in 1914 as the Women Graduates' Club, a sub-society of the Adelaide University Women Students' Club founded in 1909. Its aims as adopted at the first meeting on 7 July 1914 were "To provide social intercourse among women graduates" and "to deal with questions primarily affecting University graduates".
In 1923 the Club affiliated with the Australian Federation of University Women. The same year the Club affiliated with the Women Students' Union (as the Women Students' Club had become known), assuming independent status rather than that of a sub-society. It disaffiliated with the Women Students' Union in 1929 and became The Adelaide University Women's Graduates' Association, but affiliated directly with the University Union in 1934.

The objects of the Association as expressed in the 1929 constitution were "to promote understanding and friendship between the women graduates of this and other universities ... and to keep abreast of modern developments in academic subjects of interest to students".

Details

A bursary fund was established in 1929 and donations were made to the Australian Federation for scholarships and bursaries, the funds being derived from subscriptions and from the hiring of hoods and gowns (initiated in 1935). In 196 a formula was established for the apportionment of funds for bursaries, and the Association began a separate fund to finance its own bursaries while still contributing to A.F.U.W. and I.F.U.W. fellowships. The Jean Gilmore bursary was established in 1969 (initial value $500, open to all Australian women graduates proceding to a higher degree) and the Doreen McCarthy and Barbara Case bursaries in 1979.

Vocations Conferences for female secondary students were initiated in 1933 and held regularly (with the exception of the war years) until 1973.

In 1968 the name of the Association was changed to the South Australian University Women Graduates' Association, following the establishment of Flinders University. After the Brisbane Conference of January 1974 all branches altered their consititutions and names in the interest of uniformity and greater unity, and the Association became the A.F.U.W. - S.A. The Association was incorporated in 1981.

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Archival resources

Barr Smith Library, Special Collections, The University of Adelaide

  • Australian Federation of University Women - South Australia [Papers] [manuscript], 1914 - 1983, 376.65099423 A938p; Barr Smith Library, Special Collections, The University of Adelaide. Details

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Jane Carey

Created: 28 July 2004, Last modified: 29 October 2004

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