The Australian Women's Register

Summary

Beryl Ada Graham was a science teacher and author of several school textbooks.

She was educated at Bellevue Hill Public School, William Street Girls Junior High School (1931-1933) and Sydney Girls’ High (1934-35).

Graham graduated from Sydney Teachers’ College with Bachelor of Science in 1940 and was awarded the Eva Saunders Prize for Botany III. She received her Diploma in Education in 1941.

After graduating Graham taught at several public schools, including Cessnock High and Willoughby Girls’ Home Science High.

She married Ernest Graham in 1947 and had two children, born 1956 and 1957.

Events

• 1945

  Seconded for a year to Armidale Teachers College to lecture in Plant Biology

• 1949 - 1952

  Education Officer at the Australian Museum, Sydney, where she established the Museum’s school service

• 1952

  Resigned from the Department of Education in order to travel to the British Isles

• 1954

  After her return to Australia, Graham taught at Dover Heights Home Science School

• 1955

  Undertook editing work for CSIRO

• 1970

  Represented the Australian College of Education at the World Conference of Organisations of the Teaching Profession, held in Sydney