Walford Anglican School for Girls

Walford Anglican School for Girls

Latin: Virtute et Veritate
Courage and Truth
Location
Hyde Park, South Australia
Australia
Information
Type Independent, Single-sex, Day & Boarding
Denomination Anglican
Established 1893
Founder Lydia Adamson
Chairman Pamela Martin
Principal Rebecca Clarke
Chaplain Reverend Tracey Gracey
Staff ~70[1]
Grades P-12
Enrolment ~720[1] (2006)
Colour(s) Navy Blue, Light Blue & Gold
Website www.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

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