• Entry type: Person
  • Entry ID: AWE0660

Lyon, Heather Isabel

  • MBE, MACE, FACE
(1917 – 2008)
  • 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

  • 1952

    Principal of the State College of Victoria Institute of Early Childhood Development (formerly Kindergarten Training College)

  • 1937

    Awarded Diploma from Kindergarten Training College, Melbourne

  • 1953

    Awarded the Queen’s Coronation Medal

  • 1944 - 1946

    Awarded the Free Kindergarten Union Travelling Scholarship for overseas study

  • 1958

    Awarded the Fulbright/Smith Mundt Research Scholarship for study in the United States of America

  • 1939

    Awarded Advanced Diploma from Kindergarten Training College, Melbourne

  • 1946

    Gained Bachelor of Science in Education from the University of Columbia

  • 1959

    Member of the Australian College of Education (MACE)

  • 1968

    Fellow of the Australian College of Education (FACE)

  • 1938 - 1941

    Kindergarten teacher

  • 1942 - 1944

    Director of the Ada Mary A’Beckett Kindergarten at Fisherman’s Bend

  • 1947 - 1951

    Lecturer at the Kindergarten Training College in Kew

  • 1948 - 1951

    Vice-principal at the Kindergarten Training College in Kew

  • 1978 - 1981

    Member of the State Enquiry into Teacher Education

  • 1978

    Member of the Church of England Kindergarten Council

  • 1977

    Appointed a Member of the British Empire

  • 1978

    Council member of the Graduate Association of the Institute of Early Childhood Development

  • 1973

    Consultant to the New South Wales Teacher Education Board for accrediting pre-school courses

  • 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

  • 1973 - 1977

    Foundation member for the Senate of the State College of Victoria

  • 1975 - 1977

    Member of the Victorian Standing Committee on Pre-School Child Development

  • 1976

    Member of the Premier’s Committee on Equal Opportunity in Schools

  • 1960 - 1970

    Member of the Committee on Training Volunteers for Youth Work with the YWCA

  • 1952

    Member of the Lyceum Club (Melbourne)

  • 1974 - 1980

    Member of the Zonta Club of Melbourne

Archival resources

  • National Library of Australia
    • [Biographical cuttings on Heather Lyon, college principal, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals]
  • The University of Melbourne Archives
    • Free Kindergarten Association of Victoria, Inc. Formerly Free Kindergarten Union of Victoria

Published resources

  • Edited Book
    • Who's Who of Australian Women, Lofthouse, Andrea, 1982
  • 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.
  • Resource

Related entries


  • Membership
    • Lyceum Club (Melbourne) (1912 - )
  • Related Organisations
    • Free Kindergarten Union of Victoria (1908 - )