# List of Old Collegians of PLC Melbourne

This is a List of Old Collegians of PLC Melbourne – known as "PLC Old Collegians" – of the Presbyterian Church school, Presbyterian Ladies' College, Melbourne in Burwood, Victoria, Australia.
In 2001, The Sun-Herald named Presbyterian Ladies' College, Melbourne the best girls' school in Australia based on the number of its alumni mentioned in Who's Who in Australia.

## Academic

* Maureen Brunt – Emeritus Professor of Economics, Monash University
* Maud Martha Cameron – Headmistress of Firbank Girls' Grammar School (1911–54) and president of the Victorian Association of Headmistresses (1936–37)
* Dymphna Clark (née Lodewyckx) – Language scholar and wife of historian Manning Clark
* Nina Alison Crone OAM – Teacher; Former Headmistress of Melbourne Girls Grammar School; Historian; Linguist; Journalist
* Mary (Isabel) Flinn – Prominent school teacher and university lecturer
* Julia Teresa Flynn – Educationist; First female school inspector; Namesake of 'Julia Flynn Avenue' in Isaacs, Australian Capital Territory
* Nancy Jobson – Educator; Former headmistress of Southland Girls' High School (Invercargill, New Zealand), Queen Margaret College (Wellington, New Zealand), Fairholme Presbyterian Girls' College (Toowoomba, Queensland), and Pymble Ladies' College (Pymble, New South Wales)
* Dame Leonie Judith Kramer – Former Chancellor of the University of Sydney
* Elizabeth Inglis Lothian – Teacher of Classics; Councillor of the Classical Association of Victoria
* Isabel McBryde AO – Professor Emerita, Australian National University; School Fellow, School of Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts; Independent Researcher
* Joan Montgomery AM. OBE – Educator; former principal of Clyde School, Woodend and Presbyterian Ladies' College, Melbourne
* Helen Gwynneth Palmer – Educationist, Socialist and Writer
* Rosemary Teele – Rhodes Scholar
* Marjorie Jean Tipping MBE – Freelance Author, Art Historian, Consultant and Lecturer on Early Victorian and Tasmanian History and Oriental and Colonial Art History

## Business

* Fiona Balfour – Chief Information Officer of Telstra (2006–07), and Qantas (2001–06)
* Dur-e Najaf Dara OAM – Restaurateur; Owner and Operator of EQ Cafebar (Melbourne); Partner/Menu Design of Nudel Bar (Melbourne); Partner of the Tea Corporation; Recipient of the Centenary Medal 2003 (also attended Methodist Girls' School, Singapore)
* Jane Harvey – Director of Medibank Private; Director of IOOF Holdings
* Rosemary Jessamyn Howell – Proprietor, Strategic Action Pty Ltd (formerly Rosemary Howell Business Services); Director National Board of Directors, Quality in Law Inc.
* Patricia Kailis AM, OBE – Governing Director and Co-Founder of the M G Kailis Group of Companies
* Kerrie Kelly – Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Insurance Council of Australia (also attended Walford Anglican School for Girls)
* Karen Mahlab AM – Managing Director of the Mahlab Group; Founder of Pro Bono Australia

## Community

* Annie Cohen – Charity worker
* Gladys Maeva Cumpston – Community worker, prize winning gardener and Braille transcriber
* Henrietta Jessie Shaw Daley – Community worker; Founder of the ACT branch of the National Council of Women
* Dame Phyllis Frost – Welfare worker and philanthropist, known for her commitment to unpopular causes.
* Jessie McLaren – Australian missionary in Korea, book collector, teacher and translator
* Florence Mitchell - Girl Guide leader
* Lady Eliza Fraser Morrison – Charity worker; Chairman of the Victorian Red Cross home hospitals committee; Assistant commissioner of the Australian Red Cross Society in England; Appointed C.B.E. and Edward K.C.M.G
* Eleanor Harriett (Nell) Rivett – Missionary and principal of the Women's Christian College, Chennai, India
* Philadelphia Nina Robertson – Red Cross administrator
* Helen Macpherson Schutt – Philanthropist
* Lady Alice Maud Sewell – First woman to win the Wyselaskie scholarship in classical and comparative philology and logic; Founder of the Lyceum Club, Melbourne; Awarded the Coronation medal
* Hilda Stevenson DBE – philanthropist and community worker
* Jean Marion Tom AO – Community worker; Recipient Centenary Medal 2003, ANZAC of the Year Award RSL 1999
* Rita May Wilson – Community worker

## Entertainment, media and the arts

* Christine Dorothy Brunton – Actress
* Felicity Cockram – Executive Producer, Producer, Business and Script Consultant; former CEO Australian Film Institute
* Enid Derham – Poet
* Lauris Margaret Elms – Opera Singer
* Louise Berta Mosson Hanson Dyer – Patron of the arts and music publisher
* Helen Mitchell – Soprano, who would be known as Dame Nellie Melba
* Helen Morse – Australian actress and costume designer
* Ida Rentoul Outhwaite – Artist
* Janet Gertrude (Nettie) Palmer – Writer and critic
* Ada May Plante – Artist
* Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson – Author, published as Henry Handel Richardson
* Irene Frances Taylor – Journalist and feminist
* Violet Helen Evangeline Teague – Artist
* Tamsin West – Actress best known for her role as Linda in Round the Twist
* Helen Casey – Current Slushee Queen

## Medicine and science

* Lilian Helen Alexander – Pioneering medical practitioner
* Constance Ellis – First Victorian woman to become a doctor of medicine
* Ethel Godfrey – Victoria's first female dentist
* Ethel Gray – Nursing sister and army matron
* Robyn Guymer – Associate Professor, Department of Ophthalmology, University of Melbourne; Head, Macular Research Unit, Centre for Eye Research Australia; Consultant, Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital
* Ida Gertrude Margaret Halley – Medical officer and Feminist; One of the first female medical students at the University of Melbourne
* Dr Margaret Hilda Harper – Pioneering paediatrician, daughter of former PLC principal Rev. Dr Andrew Harper
* Mary Jermyn Heseltine – One of the first Australian doctors to study exfoliative cytology; Established the first gynaecological cytology unit in Australia at King George V Hospital
* Kate Mackay – Physician and public servant
* Dame Annie Jean Macnamara – Medical scientist
* Winifred Barbara Meredith – Pioneering medical practitioner specialising in child and infant care
* Joan Janet Brown Refshauge – Pioneering medical practitioner and medical administrator
* Alice Ross-King – Civilian and Army nurse
* Anna "Nan" Schofield – One of the first Australian Army nurses to serve in the Middle East during World War II; Author
* Dr Eleanor Margrethe (Rita) Stang – Pioneering medical practitioner
* Elizabeth Kathleen Turner AO – Paediatrician who was a Medical Superintendent of the Children's Hospital Melbourne (1943-1946) and was the first doctor in Australia to administer penicillin.
* Rose Ethel Janet White-Haney – Botanist

## Politics, public service and the law

* Sally Capp – Lord Mayor of Melbourne
* Catherine Deakin – Sister of Alfred Deakin
* Joan Rose Dwyer OAM – Former Chairman Equal Opportunity Board (Vic); Member, Mental Health Review Tribunal (Vic)
* Elizabeth Moulton Eggleston – Academic lawyer and activist
* Vida Goldstein – Suffragette and first woman to stand for election to the Federal Parliament of Australia
* Flos Greig – First woman admitted to the Victorian Bar
* Rosemary Claire Hunter – Professor of Law at the University of Kent; formerly Professor of Law at Griffith University, Dean of the Faculty of Law, Director of the Socio-Legal Research Centre
* Fiona Krautil – Director of the Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Agency
* Eleanor May Moore – Pacifist
* Alice Frances Mabel Moss – Campaigner for women's rights
* Hon. Justice Marcia Ann Neave AO- Judge, Court of Appeal, Supreme Court of Victoria; Chairwoman of the Victorian Law Reform Commission
* Senator Jocelyn Newman – Former Senator for Tasmania
* Kelly O'Dwyer – Federal member for the seat of Higgins.
* Marion Phillips – Politician, first Australian woman to win a seat in a national parliament
* Kim Rubenstein – Professor and Co-Director, 50/50 by 2030 Foundation, University of Canberra
* Judge Meryl Elizabeth Sexton – Judge, County Court of Victoria
* Jillian Skinner – Politician, elected as a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly; Former Deputy Leader of the Opposition, Shadow Minister for Health, Shadow Minister for Science and Medical Research, and Shadow Minister for Arts
* Christian Brynhild Ochiltree Jollie Smith – Solicitor, second woman to be admitted as a solicitor in New South Wales, first female taxi driver in Melbourne

## Religion

* Margaret Ruth Redpath AO – Former Acting Precentor, St Paul's Cathedral, Melbourne, and ground-breaking surgeon.