- Entry type: Person
- Entry ID: AWE0660
Lyon, Heather Isabel
- MBE, MACE, FACE
- Born 17 March, 1917, South Yarra Victoria Australia
- Died 18 March, 2008, Edithvale Victoria Australia
- Occupation Educator
Summary
Pre-school teacher and educator Heather Lyon was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire on 11 June 1977 for her service to education.
Events
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1952
Principal of the State College of Victoria Institute of Early Childhood Development (formerly Kindergarten Training College)
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1937
Awarded Diploma from Kindergarten Training College, Melbourne
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1953
Awarded the Queen’s Coronation Medal
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1944 - 1946
Awarded the Free Kindergarten Union Travelling Scholarship for overseas study
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1958
Awarded the Fulbright/Smith Mundt Research Scholarship for study in the United States of America
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1939
Awarded Advanced Diploma from Kindergarten Training College, Melbourne
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1946
Gained Bachelor of Science in Education from the University of Columbia
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1959
Member of the Australian College of Education (MACE)
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1968
Fellow of the Australian College of Education (FACE)
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1938 - 1941
Kindergarten teacher
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1942 - 1944
Director of the Ada Mary A’Beckett Kindergarten at Fisherman’s Bend
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1947 - 1951
Lecturer at the Kindergarten Training College in Kew
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1948 - 1951
Vice-principal at the Kindergarten Training College in Kew
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1978 - 1981
Member of the State Enquiry into Teacher Education
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1978
Member of the Church of England Kindergarten Council
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1977
Appointed a Member of the British Empire
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1978
Council member of the Graduate Association of the Institute of Early Childhood Development
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1973
Consultant to the New South Wales Teacher Education Board for accrediting pre-school courses
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1975
Member of the Accreditation Panel for the Western Australian Tertiary Education Commission to accredit Early Childhood courses at the Western Australia Institute of Technology
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1973 - 1977
Foundation member for the Senate of the State College of Victoria
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1975 - 1977
Member of the Victorian Standing Committee on Pre-School Child Development
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1976
Member of the Premier’s Committee on Equal Opportunity in Schools
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1960 - 1970
Member of the Committee on Training Volunteers for Youth Work with the YWCA
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1952
Member of the Lyceum Club (Melbourne)
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1974 - 1980
Member of the Zonta Club of Melbourne
Archival resources
Published resources
- Edited Book
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Book
- In the steps of James Cowling : an account of a visit to St. Agnes, Cornwall in 1981, with some genealogical observations and sketches of the lives of one line of descendants of James Cowling born in 1802, Lyon, Heather I., 1917-, [1982?].
- The silver tea pot : the story of how the teapot, presented in 1824 to John Lyon of Edinburgh, together with other relics, helped to trace a family story, Lyon, Heather I., 1917-, 1985.
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Resource
- Trove: Lyon, Heather Isabel (1917-), http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-635693