THE ALLIANCE OF GIRLS’SCHOOLS, AUSTRALASIA VOLUME 15 PO BOX 296, MALVERN, 3144 DECEMBER 1999

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in alliance The Alliance of Girls’ Schools, Australasia

Executive Officer: Sue Collister Tel: 03 9828 3041 Fax: 03 9824 8553

President: Ros Otzen Korowa AGS, Vic

Executive: Beth Blackwood PLC, WA Lesley Boston MacRobertson Girls’ High School, Vic Nancy Hillier Annesley College, SA Stan Klan , Qld Suzanne McChesney , SA Barbara Stone MLC, NSW FROM THE EDITOR...

In this edition of In Alliance, there is an domains. In emphasis on ability, possibility and preparation of responsibility. With daily emphasis on their solar car, the globalisation and the event of the new Annesley College girls were able to learn the millennium about to be shared by us all, science of both solar propulsion and the girls are able to look to 2000 and beyond needs for fuelling a vehicle. The with lateral vision. However, with advantage actualisation of this preparation called for comes the responsibility to repay mankind teamwork, which underlies success in life for such privilege. and allows support throughout the highs and Our Executive Officer, Sue Collister shares lows of such a race. her enthusiasm for the Student Leaders’ Jodie Ziesel of Tara draws our attention to Conference and the evolution of Professional the possibilities girls have in Design and Development Seminars for girls’ schools. Technology. Another previously male Denise Thomas provides a summation of orientated domain, working with machinery the National Coalition of Girls’ Schools 1999 and tools has broadened female horizons. Conference in Maryland. Denise reports that Recalling Cokie Roberts’ words “from mother Cokie Roberts, Chief Political Analyst for to mechanic, from sister to soldier” is the American ABC News and author of “We Are role for women of today and of the future. Our Mothers’ Daughters”, spoke of the Being recipients of specialist education breadth of women’s roles and Denise shares requires the realisation that such benefit a quote from this book with us. The comes with responsibility. Margaret Coulter Conference continued with a report from speaks of the ability to achieve public Marie Wilson, President of the Ms. service with well-guided and united focus. Foundation for Women, about the drive in The girls at Monte Sant’ Angelo Mercy the USA which is being made for leadership College have found they have been able to by women. Recent reports from the USA make significant differences to real situations concerning Hilary Clinton’s personal political with such guidance. Again we are reminded aspirations have underlined this report. of the session at the Maryland conference Further sessions were given on personal motivating the roles of women in politics in safety training; the increasing links between the USA. girls’ schools and the association women Rosalyn Bird shares with us the have with their schools at different stages of importance of awakening the vast arrays of their lives. possible vocations to girls and not allowing Giving balance to our girls’ schools focus, the roles of women to slide back into the John Bednall offers his views of boys’ past. As we greet our new millennium, girls education and the importance of significant all over the world have entered every women’s roles in that education. The view is human venture and continually surpass the that these roles assist boys in their formation achievements of previous generations. of views of women. John explains the Seasons greetings to you all. differences between inter and intra gender language with their resultant interpretations and attitudes and the need for boys’ schools to teach the contrariety of these social Nancy Hillier, Editor interactions. Further, John stresses the need for each boy to be true to himself and to take ownership of his actions and that in this manner respect for one another will ensue. In Alliance Editorial Deadlines 2000 This message is as pertinent to girls as it is to Volume 16 ...... Tuesday 16 May boys. Volume 17 ...... Tuesday 15th August In a new section of In Alliance entitled Volume 18 ...... Monday 30th October “What is happening in our schools”, Peter Gubbins writes that within the All copy is welcome but must be excitement of the World Solar Rally, is the submitted to Dr Nancy Hillier knowledge that girls can achieve in male by the above dates. 2 FROM THE EXECUTIVE OFFICER...

As I was reading over my Executive Officer’s report from at the end of January. the last edition of In Alliance, I realised what a busy three During my visit to Sydney, I discussed at the meeting at months I have enjoyed! MLC School my objective to develop Professional I spent the first week of August in Sydney, visiting some of Development Seminars for staff in girls’ schools. I have long our member schools and having the opportunity to share my felt that many staff who gain employment in girls schools do vision with many of our Principals at an evening meeting at so because of career opportunities, and not necessarily the MLC School. I was very impressed with the exciting because of a specific commitment to the education of girls. programmes which have been developed and I would like to I was thrilled that our NSW members organised the first thank the Principals and Senior Staff of the Schools for seminar in September 1999 and it was attended by 50 staff, welcoming me so warmly, and inviting me to learn about and that they are planning to hold more next year. Last week their schools. Victoria held their first Seminar with attendance from 49 staff I would especially like to thank Barbara Stone at the MLC from 12 schools. In Victoria, the plan is for one each term. School for organising the evening function and I am looking forward to visiting , Western Judith Wheeldon for sharing her home during my trip. Australia and in early 2000 and learning about During the last few months I have continued to work the education of girls in our Schools. closely with staff at Ipswich Girls’ Grammar School to I have been very fortunate over the last 6 months to learn develop and plan a very stimulating, interesting and exciting about the exciting programmes that have been developed in Student Leaders’ Conference. At the moment over 80 students many of our member schools. Although I have only visited from all over Australia and New Zealand have registered to Schools in three states, I have been overwhelmed by the attend the conference. This year staff from South Australia, commitment, enthusiasm and drive of our member schools and Victoria will also be attending the towards achieving their goal - the education of girls in girls’ Conference and all member Principals from have schools. Every School I visit has been different and I am been invited to attend the Conference Dinner. constantly amazed and excited by what is happening, yet I The planning for the 2000 Annual Conference and know we share something very special, and I look forward to Business Meeting is continuing by Teleconference. However, learning more in the next 12 months. the last phone link-up was quite a challenge with 3 out of the Finally, I would like to welcome our newest member, 5 participants called Sue! Rockhampton Girls’ Grammar School, Queensland. The 2000 Conference will run from Saturday 29 April to Thank you everyone for your support this year. Monday 1 May 2000, and the keynote speaker will be author, Bronwyn Donaghy. The registration brochure will be sent out Sue Collister, Executive Officer

TEACHING GIRLS LEADERSHIP National Coalition of Girls’ School 1999 Annual Conference at Baltimore, Maryland

Denise Thomas tells of her three days with our Girls and Leadership: What Do Entrepreneurship and Money American colleagues. Have to Do With It? Godfrey is President of Independent During my study leave, I attended NCGS’s Annual Means, and Macaulay is President of Making Cents. The fact Conference in June. The conference was held at Bryn Mawr that most Australian teenage girls expect to marry a man who School in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. will support them, but in fact only 1 in 12 of them will be provided for by another person for the term of their lives, I joined 135 US colleagues in a stimulating series of deeply concerns us all. keynote addresses, “Break-Out Groups” and informal discussion. I appreciated the collegiality of our American Because of my late arrival, I could not represent the counterparts and the opportunity to exchange experiences Alliance at the Board meeting before the Conference. I was, and ideas. however, able to take greetings from members in Australia to the Coalition at the first formal session. Thanks to the combined efforts of two northern hemisphere airlines I missed the regular pre-conference The first day concluded with the Conference Dinner. The workshop led by Joline Godfrey and Fiona Macaulay, entitled guest speaker was Cokie Roberts, Chief Political Analyst for 3 Teaching Girls Leadership continued...

American ABC News, and author of the book, We Are Our membership, new publications, an enhanced media profile, Mothers’ Daughters. Drawing from her book, she explored an improved web-site, and developing links with groups like women’s roles in American history, “From mother to the Ms Foundation and Girl Scouts of the USA. mechanic, from sister to soldier”. She gave an illuminating During the annual meeting, Irene Goodman and perspective from her own experience and spoke Colleen Manning of the Goodman Research Group reported enthusiastically of the wide diversity of education, career and preliminary findings of their research, commissioned by the lifestyle choices open to women today. Coalition. They have surveyed the 1983, 1987, 1991 and 1995 The second day began with a thought-provoking alumnae of 64 NCGS schools to gather perceptions of girls’ presentation by Marie Wilson, President of the Ms. school experiences, to document post-secondary experience Foundation for Women, and President of the White House and education and to collect information on home life, marital Project. The White House Project is a non-profit, non-partisan, history, ethnic and cultural background, income and so on. public awareness enterprise dedicated to changing the US Significantly, a high percentage of alumnae surveyed said political climate so that women can campaign successfully for they felt extremely or very connected to their school, are still key political positions, including the US Presidency. in contact with faculty or staff, have supported their school by The break-out groups on the second day focussed on financial giving, and have attended a reunion since leaving Heads and Development, Admissions and Public Relations, school. I understand the final results should soon be and Leadership Issues Across Divisions (which I attended). available. They will make interesting reading for us in My group looked at the special problems and concerns of Australia. girls and staff in middle school years, and how to deal with The conference was very well planned and organised and them in a K-12 school. I gained a lot from it. I give full credit to the organisers and Later that day, there was an entertaining, interactive their enthusiasm, especially the Coalition’s Executive Officers, session on personal safety training programmes in girls’ Whitney Ramsome and Meg Moulton. Meg hopes to join us at schools. Led by Donna Chaiet, President of PREPARE, the the Alliance Conference next year. session involved a panel of Heads, volunteers from the This was the second NCGS conference I have attended. I audience, and a man in a sumo suit. The aim was to simulate urge Alliance members to consider attending one of the the training classes in safety and assertive conduct run by Coalition’s conferences. Next year’s will be at Ashley Hall PREPARE. PREPARE is a personal safety programme used School in Charleston, South Carolina. Charleston is a beautiful widely in American girls’ schools. city, noted for its history, its gracious antebellum homes and The third day of the conference began with the Coalition’s its gorgeous magnolia gardens. The Civil War began here in Annual Meeting. The annual report reviewed highlights of the 1861, with shots fired upon Fort Sumter from the Charleston preceding year. These included a significant increase waterfront. It would be a fine setting for a conference. nationwide in girls’ school enrolments, with many member Denise Thomas, Principal, schools at near capacity; growing interest in NCGS

We Are Our Mothers’ Daughters ALLIANCE OF GIRLS’ SCHOOLS AUSTRALASIA

When we lived in Greece we used to go to the beach at Marathon. Looking out to sea, I could imagine the frightening 2000 ANNUAL CONFERENCE Persian fleet attacking, the brave Athenian soldiers defending AND BUSINESS MEETING their democracy. A great mound that was supposed to cover the Persian dead Saturday 29 April - Monday 1 May 2000 stood as a reminder of the often-told tales of the courageous deeds of those long-ago men. After we had been going to , Queensland Marathon for a while, we found nestled in the hills another site, one that never made the history books but made me marvel more. It dated back thousands of years earlier than the famous Co-hosted by Fairholme College battle, and a tiny museum had been erected to display the and St Ursula’s College findings. Here was nothing of heroic dimensions, nothing on a grand scale; in one case, needles and buttons, in another, jewellery and pots for makeup, in another, frying pans and toys. Keynote Speaker: Bronwyn Donaghy Here the objects from the everyday lives of women from thousands of years ago overwhelmed me with their familiarity. I An author and journalist who has been a specialist could have opened the cases, put on their jewels, and taken up writer on family and children’s issues for the past 20 years their tools, picked up where they left off without a moment’s Author of Anna’s Story in 1996. hesitation or confusion... That little museum has always symbolized for me the great strength of women. We are Registration brochures will be sent out at the end of connected throughout time and regardless of place - January 2000. For further details, contact the We are our Mothers’ Daughters. Alliance Office on (03) 98223403. Cokie Roberts 1998, We are our Mothers’ Daughters 4 TEACHING BOYS TO BE GENDER-BI-LINGUAL

Deborah Tannen, professor of linguistics at Georgetown most profound imperatives. Boys must know that negative University, analysed thousands of conversations between men applications of sexuality cannot be tolerated, sexual and women and boys and girls.1 She concluded that men and harassment of either sex is inexcusable and there is great women, in their use of language, are prone to interpret each variance among individuals about what actually constitutes other from differing gender perspectives, even when there is sexual harmony in the cultivation of relationships. However, no apparent or overt misunderstanding. Her central entering into constructive conversations with boys about male hypothesis does not describe the complexity of the whole sexuality and the options in front of them for its expression issue but it does encapsulate the predicament and points to cannot escape legal, religious or conventional norms and the potential for boys to be steadily disadvantaged in the protocols relating to sexual behaviour. language of unthinking, politically correct feminism. Which leads me to the central thesis of my remarks: moral Tannen comments, for example, about the differences in and ethical considerations can be the only imperatives language between women when they share personal troubles brought to bear upon boys in the task of releasing them from with each other and how they enter conversations with men the social constructs of gender. This means then that the need about those same troubles. for a structured approach to values education becomes Women tend to show understanding of another woman’s inescapably linked to gender education. feelings. When men try to reassure women by telling them The human context within which sex relates to the other is that their situations are not so bleak, the women hear their heavily laced with gender-based, value-laden inferences. fears being belittled or discounted... (women) encounter a Modern constructs of gender allow for homosexual, bi-sexual failure of intimacy just when they were bidding to reinforce it. and transsexual behaviours. But it is a bad school indeed Trying to trigger a symmetrical communication (with men) which adds to the prejudice of stereotype or the injustice of they end up in an asymmetrical one. sexism. A boys’ school must not impose by intention or In the “boy-focused curriculum” of the boys’ only school, accident (I’m not sure of what would be worse) its own the theme of “gender bilinguality” leads to some specific socialised definition of how males are supposed to behave. strategies to guide boys towards an understanding of the Boys must be empowered to make rational and informed experience of womanhood. One strategy, for example, would decisions about their human sexual potential for themselves. be for schools to conduct an audit of the curriculum to see The mission of “gender bilinguality” declares that such where gender constructs are operating and where stereotypic empowerment has nothing to do with enforcing some alleged assumptions influence meaning. I would like to focus now proscription of gender. Rather it enables boys to aspire to a upon the power dynamics, which are represented in all definition of manliness which calls for no masculine schools but some of which, are engulfed in gender compromises yet does not impinge upon similar aspirations stereotypes. for gender justice by girls. Let me tender such a definition. The first issue is to do with boys and sexuality. The second A man is one who allows his own sense of masculinity to will explore what role a female staff member should play in a guide his life confidently and with due regard for what is boys’ school. I want to attack the notion that they are there ethical and moral. simply to provide female modelling. This definition is accessible and completely non- Boys must understand their own sexuality, how to value it intimidating to boys of all talents and interests and contains and how to express it without oppressing the rights of other no bias of stereotype, no gender discrimination, no new human beings. Adolescent boys have a powerful sexual drive. oppressions of fashionable, politically correct definitions. Michael Schwartz of the Royal Children’s Hospital Centre for Let me turn now to the issue of exercising power. Boys Adolescent Health suggests quite seriously that a fifteen year must understand that one undeniably important outcome of old boy will have a sexual thought about once every feminism means that future female colleagues and partners 2 seventeen seconds! Aspects of this sexual drive will be covert will have expanded ideas about their own roles, which men and experimental. We know from valid research that many must accommodate. For boys to operate appropriately within will wander with curiosity into the world of the homoerotic, this expanding definition of the female place in the world, some will disguise their apprehensions by resorting to the they should understand that essentially it is to do with the vulgar and the smutty, and virtually all will anguish over exercise of power. whether their very private sexual urges and behaviours, such as masturbation, are legitimate sexual explorations or merely Single sex schools for boys will validate this important the self indulgence of the less than true male. outcome by accommodating two dimensions of power brokerage. One is to place women into positions of Our task is to teach boys explicitly about these matters and leadership. Strategically this is a precise and sophisticated to explore the range of value-laden considerations, which process. It will not be achieved by some sort of vague and surround them. They must be led to understand that sexuality broadly implemented programme of affirmative action. The is one of the great joys in life but also expresses some of its issue is not how many women are operating in the school, 5 Teaching Boys To Be Gender-Bi-Lingual continued......

not is it an issue of enabling boys to see women in certain the like is of course, really only a matter of pragmatic allegedly non-traditional roles. It is rather where women are necessity. However, by applying the concept of gender functioning and what potential exists for cross gender bilinguality, such activities can become very formative negotiation and synthesis between the female power broker experiences in gender dynamics, providing nothing is taken and the boy. for granted and teachers are prepared to intervene in a It is also important for boys to see that a culture of considered and deliberate way. teamwork between males and females characterises how the Dickens meant his paradox to focus upon opposites not to staff live out their professional responsibilities. Not only must conjure up a new unity of meaning. A single-sex boys’ school boys see adult males and females working together in a co- can do the same by making its perceived weakness its operative manner, they must also see power delegation where manifest strength. males are accepting direction from females and where males 1 - in Deborah Tannen You Just Don’t Understand: Women are affirming a commitment to roles which traditionally might and Men in Conversation Morrow and Co, USA, 1990. have been associated with females. 2 - to a conference of Australian member schools of Boys’ Another dimension within this theme of power brokerage Schools, an International Coalition, Scotch College, involves opportunities for boys to work with women and girls Melbourne, May 1996. in platonic and power neutral situations. The practice of boys and girls schools coming together for drama productions and John Bednall, Headmaster, Wesley College, Perth

RACING WITH THE SUN... The Annesley College Solar Car Project ...

The EOS Annesley College Solar Car Project began in 1989 Bridgestone, Affordable Air Conditioning, The Emerald Hotel with a decision to enter the 1990 World Solar Challenge from in Darwin and Parnell Mogas and great support from many Darwin to Adelaide with an all female student driving team. other people, we purchased new solar cells, motor and tyres CHOOLS The first race was such a success that the project continued and work on many other features to improve our S with invitations to race in in the Grand Solar Challenge performance. The new team of students raced superbly well in Noto in 1992 and the World Solar Rallye in Akita in 1994 and had an experience they will never forget.

UR where the EOS Team came fifth in its class in a large field of Peter Gubbins, Project Co-ordinator international competitors. EOS/Annesley College Solar Car Project O The team has competed in two Sydney Energy challenges winning the solar powered section on both occasions. A new car was built by the students for the 1993 World Solar Challenge and the new team was again successful. This vehicle was extensively modified for the 1996 Challenge and completed this race

APPENING IN in the best time yet with the new team of students. H Annesley became a member of the South Australian Solar Car Consortium in 1997, a group of four educational institutions, working towards increasing the participation of South Australia for HAT IS the 1998 World Solar Challenge.

W In October 1998, Annesley deferred its membership of the Consortium to rebuild its own car for the 1999 World Solar Challenge. With great sponsorship from The City of Unley, Holden, 6 VALUE OF JUSTICE W A IS HAT

Monte Sant’ Angelo Mercy College is a They have: college with a strong commitment to social

• donated funds to Taryan House in H justice. The value of justice is one of the Adelaide to provide funds for women who core values which underpins and directs the have been released from jail so they will be IN APPENING mission of the College. able to have a holiday at Christmas with In accordance with the value of justice, their children. the College community works to ensure • supported the Adopt a Minefield Project that: to help clear a Cambodian village of • its actions are based on and support the landmines. needs of the human family at the local Students from Sydney colleges at the • given funds to the Outreach Education and global level International Women’s Day Breakfast. Group to publish a book for children on • we respect our world’s resources and their experiences of loss and grief. use them in a way that is fruitful and • supported the organisation The Big

judicious O Issue which produces a publication which

• we seek to identify unjust social highlights the needs of the homeless and UR structures and practices and take action unemployed. for positive change. It is mainly through their connection with There are two active justice groups in the Mercy Foundation that the students have S the College, the Amnesty International and access to these community projects which CHOOLS the Mercy Action Group. The Mercy Action need funding. The students often have Group has members from Years 7-12 who direct contact with people from these meet each cycle to plan how to raise projects and are able to hear first hand what awareness in the College community of a difference their support has made. issues of justice. There is an education This year the girls held a major food component to these meetings too as ... Transporting care packages for the drive for the Penrith Kitchen in Sydney’s students gain information by listening to Kosovo Appeal to East Hills. western suburbs. The Kitchen prepares guest speakers and discussing justice issues lunch each day for the homeless and with them. elderly. The first major project for the Mercy The Kosovo Care Pack drive saw the Action Group was involvement in the Fair students organising the collection of Wear campaign. personal care packs for the Sydney based This campaign highlighted the unjust Kosovo refugees. These were distributed by wages and conditions of outworkers the Red Cross. experienced at the hands of well known As well, the students have maintained clothing manufacturers. their commitment to fundraising for their The students took part in rallies, made favourite charities. They sold: Donuts for banners, spoke in public forums and wrote Amnesty; Daffodils for Cancer Research; to manufacturers demanding an end to Pink Ribbons for Breast Cancer Research outworker exploitation. Through the efforts and Bandanas for Teen Cancer sufferers. of those involved in Fair Wear, major reform Christmas Hampers for the Canterbury City They wore jeans to raise money for the Community Centre... $3,000 worth! has taken place in the working conditions of Gene Research Programme, took part in the outworkers. World Vision 40 Hour Famine and raised $10,000 for this cause and filled a map of East Timor with gold Another major project of the Mercy Action Group was the coins to help the East Timorese refugees. establishment of the Student Reconciliation Network. Following the launch of the Network over a year ago, 16 surrounding Our final collection for 1999 will involve putting together Independent Colleges and State High Schools have students who Christmas Gift Packs for the mentally impaired living in boarding meet each month to discuss ways to promote reconciliation houses and hostels around the inner city. within their communities and to be better informed on Through attendance at conferences and social justice seminars Indigenous issues. and through the Religious Education curriculum, the girls are The students of the Amnesty Group and Mercy Action Group made more aware of their social responsibilities and learn that take an active role in trying to change unjust structures by working for justice is not a patronising exercise but an activity of encouraging the student body to write letters to governments, to human solidarity - of standing with the poor and disadvantaged sign petitions and attend public rallies and marches. in our community. Through student fundraising initiatives (civvies days and Margaret Coulter, Principal, Monte Sant’ Angelo Mercy College school dances) the girls have supported many projects this year. 7 NOT EQUAL OPPORTUNITY BUT EVERY OPPORTUNITY......

In 1998, after many years of staff and Council work although “amateur” invariably produces planning, international and inter-state visits and absolutely outstanding design products, many of

CHOOLS advice, Tara Anglican School for Girls in North which have the potential to be patented and most

S Parramatta opened a new Science, Design and of which have a commercial application. Tara has Technology Block. These new facilities provide produced many exciting and also successful the physical infrastructure to complement the Higher School Certificate major design projects -

UR school’s carefully structured development in 1998, 4 projects were nominated for the NSW programmes. Girls are encouraged at Tara to Power House Museum Design Tech Exhibition. O work on innovative design solutions to problems Tara’s facilities are not only wonderful for the using their design knowledge and skills. girls but they are also inspiring areas for staff to The new building incorporates five workshops work in. The teachers feel that there is no limit to in which the students work on the development their curriculum planning with so much flexibility of a full range of skills; computing, metal in which student independence, problem solving, working, wood turning, electronics, moulding, lateral and critical thinking can flourish. Future welding, assembling and painting. The generations of girls have an absolutely limitless experiences that the girls have with all these career path choice because they have had, materials provide them with boundless design through their Design and Technology experience, applications and possible solutions to almost valuable insight into creativity, practical problem

APPENING IN every design problem. In addition to working solving and the total management design process. with such a broad range of materials the girls The Design and Technology staff at Tara are H learn to competently operate industrial-type very happy to welcome other teachers to the machines such as lathes, band and scroll saws, school to show them through our excellent grinders and power tools, plus the full range of facilities. We are pleased to share our philosophy less sophisticated material working tools. These that every opportunity and particularly skills begin to be developed from the earliest opportunity in Design and Technology should be days of Year 7 and are followed through, with

HAT IS the aim for girls’ education today. more intense levels of application, up to Year 10. Senior students then use their skills and are given Jodie Ziesel, Tara Anglican School for Girls W every opportunity to create and design. Their

WOMEN OF ACHIEVEMENT AT

During 1999 senior students at Danebank Anglican School for Head of Science at Danebank. Girls, Hurstville in New South Wales, have participated in a Dr Anne Green, Director for the Sydney University Radio programme to encourage and inspire girls. Beginning with a Telescope and the world’s third woman radio astronomer, gave a Breakfast for each Year 12 students’ most significant woman as her presentation following Drama students’ re-enactment of Ruby’s life. guest, we followed this in March with a visit by Geraldine Doogue who shared her experiences as a journalist and parent with Years 10 Throughout the year, girls have attended leadership programmes, to 12. profiling women of achievement: In June, composer and singer of Christian songs, Nicki Chiswell, • The Alliance Sponsored Breakfast with NSW Opposition Leader, unfolded her career, interspersed with her own compositions. Kerry Chikarovsky to mark International Women’s Day Our annual Tertiary Awareness Seminar featured old girl • Sydney University’s Leading Women - Insights into the careers of Tilda Sikes, now Student Recruitment Co-ordinator at the University high achievers of Technology, a career reflective of the need for multi-skilling and • The University of Technology’s Women in Computing Shadowing career change. Programme. In Term Three we commemorated the pioneering work of the Rosalyn Bird, Principal, Danebank Anglican School for Girls world’s first woman radio astronomer, Ruby Payne-Scott, former

in alliance Design: Kerri Valkova Tel: 0412 0416 52. Correspondence: Annesley College, 89 Greenhill Rd, Wayville, SA 5034 Tel: (08) 8422 2207 8