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Walford Anglican School for Girls
Walford Anglican School for Girls crest. Source: www.walford.net.au/ (Walford website)
Location
Map
Hyde Park
,
South Australia

Australia
Information
TypeIndependent, Single-sex, Day & Boarding
MottoTemplate:Lang-la
(Courage and Truth)
DenominationAnglican
Established1893
FounderLydia Adamson
ChairmanPamela Martin
PrincipalRebecca Clarke
ChaplainReverend Tracey Gracey
Staff~70[1]
GradesP-12
Enrolment~720[1] (2006)
Colour(s)Navy Blue, Light Blue & Gold
Websitewww.walford.net.au/

Walford Anglican School for Girls is an independent, Anglican, day and Boarding school for girls, located in Hyde Park, South Australia.

The school is non-selective and caters for approximately 720 students from ELC to Year 12, including 70 boarders.[1]

Notable alumnae

Rhodes Scholars

Zoe Morrison

Amy King

Academic

Anne Campbell - Agricultural Scientist.

Margaret Clunies Ross - Professor of English Literature at the University of Sydney.

Anne Crowther - Professor of History; appointed as the first chair at Glasgow University and only the second woman to be appointed to a chair in Scotland.

Anna Steele - Clinical Psychologist. Completed PhD in Clinical Psychology and nominated as a finalist in the 2008 Mental Health Good Outcomes Awards for her innovative work and research in eating disorders.

Joan Claring-Bould - South Australia's first female Anglican Deacon and one of the first women to be ordained an Anglican priest in 1992.

The Arts & Entertainment

Catriona Barr - Mezzo Soprano.

Taasha Coates - Singer, Songwriter and member of the band The Audreys.

Josephine Jason - Ballet dancer, Artistic Director of Classical Ballet at McDonald College in Sydney and a Director of the Premier State Ballet Youth Company.

Politics & Law

Jennifer Cashmore - MHA of the South Australian State Parliament.

Frances Adamson - Australian High Commissioner to China.

Christine Adamson - Justice of the Supreme Court of New South Wales[2]

Medicine

Margaret Cleland - First woman in South Australia to achieve a post-graduate award as a Physician.

Pamela Sykes - Molecular Geneticist. Founding fellow of the Faculty of Science in the Royal College of pathologists of Australia.

Elizabeth Thompson - Clinical Geneticist at the Department of Genetic medicine at the Women and Children's Hospital, South Australia.[3]

Ann Woolcock - Professor of Respiratory Medicine at the University of Sydney.

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c Walford Anglican School for Girls- Choosing a School (accessed:23-05-2006)
  2. ^ http://www.supremecourt.lawlink.nsw.gov.au/agdbasev7wr/supremecourt/documents/pdf/adamson171011.pdf
  3. ^ http://www.wch.sa.gov.au/services/az/divisions/labs/geneticmed/clin_gen.html

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