- Entry type: Person
- Entry ID: IMP0214
Skuse, Jean Enid
- AO, MBE
- Born 1932
- Occupation Church worker
Summary
Jean Skuse was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) on 26 January 1992 for service to religion, particularly through the World Council of Churches, and to women’s affairs. In the Queen’s Birthday Honors list 1979 she was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire for services to the community.
Events
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1981 - 1984
Member of the New South Wales Premier’s Women’s Advisory Council
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1975 - 1983
Vice-moderator of the Central Committee World Council of Churches
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1971 - 1975
Executive Secretary of the New South Wales Council Australian Council of Churches
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1970
Member of the United Nations Commission on Status of Women – Geneva
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1969 - 1970
Observer with the United Nations for Methodist Church United States American
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1963 - 1969
Administrator of the Methodist Girls’ Hostel Waverley
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1949 - 1963
Accounting and auditing (Sydney and London)
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1978
Awarded Queen’s Silver Jubilee Medal
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1992
Appointed Officer of the Order of Australia (AO)
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1979
Appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (Civil)
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1992 - 1993
Member of the Home Care Advisory Board New South Wales Government
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1988 - 1991
National Co-ordinator of the World Council of Churches Assembly
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1976 - 1988
General Secretary of the Australian Council of Churches
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1986
Member of the New South Wales Government Services for Victims of Crime Task Force
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1983 - 1985
Member of the National Advisory Council Australian Boardcastiong Corporation
Archival resources
Published resources
- Edited Book
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Site Exhibition
- Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html
- The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders
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Resource
- Trove: Skuse, Jean Enid (1932-), http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-744067