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Sydney Day Nursery Association
The Sydney Day Nursery Association was formed in Sydney, Australia on 3 August 1905. History Formation It was the first organised long day care in New South Wales. In the early 1900s in Sydney, working-class women in the role of sole or co-family breadwinner had no options for professional long day child care. In 1905, a group of politicised and energetic women from Sydney's affluent families formed the Sydney Day Nursery Association to meet the need for long day care for babies and infants. On 3 August 1905, they held a meeting "for the purpose of organising a movement to establish a Creche".SDN Children's Services, SDN (Sydney Day Nurseries) Children's Services Inc. – Records, 1905–2006, State Library of New South Wales call no: MLMSS 7242, http://archival.sl.nsw.gov.au/Details/archive/110318850 On 7 December 1905, these well-connected women opened the Association's first long day nursery in a terrace house at 126 Dowling Street, Woolloomooloo. From the outset the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sydney
Sydney ( ) is the capital city of the state of New South Wales, and the most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Located on Australia's east coast, the metropolis surrounds Sydney Harbour and extends about towards the Blue Mountains to the west, Hawkesbury to the north, the Royal National Park to the south and Macarthur to the south-west. Sydney is made up of 658 suburbs, spread across 33 local government areas. Residents of the city are known as "Sydneysiders". The 2021 census recorded the population of Greater Sydney as 5,231,150, meaning the city is home to approximately 66% of the state's population. Estimated resident population, 30 June 2017. Nicknames of the city include the 'Emerald City' and the 'Harbour City'. Aboriginal Australians have inhabited the Greater Sydney region for at least 30,000 years, and Aboriginal engravings and cultural sites are common throughout Greater Sydney. The traditional custodians of the land on which modern Sydney stands are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Woolloomooloo
Woolloomooloo ( ) is a harbourside, inner-city eastern suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Woolloomooloo is 1.5 kilometres east of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the City of Sydney. It is in a low-lying, former docklands area at the head of Woolloomooloo Bay, on Sydney Harbour. The Domain sits to the west, the locality of East Sydney is near the south-west corner of the suburb and the locality of Kings Cross is near the south-east corner. Potts Point is immediately to the east. Woolloomooloo was originally a working-class district of Sydney and has only recently changed with gentrification of the inner city areas of Sydney. The redevelopment of the waterfront, particularly the construction of the housing development on the Finger Wharf, has caused major change. Areas of public housing (Housing NSW a.k.a. "Housing Commission") still exist in the suburb, with 22% homes in the 2011 postcode, owned by the Department of Housing, in f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dorothea Mackellar
Isobel Marion Dorothea Mackellar, (1 July 1885 – 14 January 1968) was an Australian poet and fiction writer. Her poem ''My Country'' is widely known in Australia, especially its second stanza, which begins: "''I love a sunburnt country/A land of sweeping plains,/Of ragged mountain ranges,/Of droughts and flooding rains."'' Life The third child and only daughter of physician and parliamentarian Sir Charles Mackellar and his wife Marion Mackellar (née Buckland), the daughter of Thomas Buckland, she was born in the family home ''Dunara'' at Point Piper, Sydney, Australia in 1885. Her later home was ''Cintra'' at Darling Point (built in 1882 by John Mackintosh for his son James), and in 1925, she commissioned a summer cottage (in reality a substantial home with colonnaded verandah overlooking Pittwater), "Tarrangaua" at Lovett Bay, an isolated location on Pittwater reachable only by boat (this home is currently the residence of the novelist and author Susan Duncan and h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fairfax Family
Members of the Fairfax Family were prominent as Australian media proprietors, especially in the area of newspaper publishing through the company John Fairfax and Sons (later known as Fairfax Media, although the Fairfax family no longer control the eponymous company). Some members have also been prominent in Australian philanthropy and the arts. Six generations of the family are descended from Anglo-Celtic immigrants to Australia, patriarch John Fairfax, an English-born journalist, and his wife, Sarah (née Reading). Both were from the Barford area of Warwickshire, and emigrated to the Colony of New South Wales in 1838. Generational history First generation John Fairfax was born in Barford, Warwickshire, the second son of William Fairfax and his wife, Elizabeth ''née'' Jesson. In 1817, John Fairfax was apprenticed to William Perry, a bookseller and printer in Warwick. In 1825, Fairfax went to London where he worked as a compositor in a genera ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Teece
Richard Teece (29 April 1847 – 13 December 1928) was an Australian actuary, general manager and actuary of the Australian Mutual Provident Society. Teece was born in Paihia, Bay of Islands, New Zealand, the son of William Teece and his wife Catherine, and went with his family to New South Wales in 1854 or in 1852. Teece was educated at the Goulburn Grammar School and from 1865 to 1867 at the University of Sydney. Teece was a keen sportsman, secretary of the University Boat Club and played in early intervarsity cricket matches and later with the Albert and I Zingari clubs. Having gained a high reputation in connection with actuarial and assurance business, Teece was appointed general manager and actuary of the Australian Mutual Provident Society, a position of high responsibility. He has been President of the Free Trade and Liberal Association of New South Wales and President of the Australian Economic Association. He is also a Fellow and member of the senate of the University ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Blackburn
Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Charles Bickerton Blackburn (22 April 1874 – 20 July 1972) was an Australian university chancellor and physician. Blackburn was born in Greenhithe, Kent, England, to the cleric and entomologist Thomas Blackburn (entomologist), Thomas Blackburn and his wife Jessie Ann, ''née'' Wood. Mainly known as a long-serving Chancellor (education), chancellor (1941 - 1964) and member of the Senate of the University of Sydney, serving on the University Senate from 1919 to 1964. He was Dean of the Faculty of Medicine 1932 - 1935. He was also a councillor of the Australian Medical Association and the Association of Physicians of Australasia. Blackburn served in World War I as a lieutenant-colonel for the Australian Army Medical Corps. He was appointed an OBE for his services towards the Medical Corps, and became the chair of the Commonwealth Royal Commission on the assessment of war service disabilities, in 1924. In World War II, Blackburn served in the 113 Austra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mungo William MacCallum
Sir Mungo William MacCallum Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George, KCMG (26 February 1854 – 3 September 1942) was Chancellor#University Chancellors, Chancellor of the University of Sydney from 1934 to 1936, and a noted Literary criticism, literary critic. Early life Mungo William MacCallum was born in Glasgow, Scotland, the son of Mungo MacCallum, merchant, and his wife Isabella, ''née'' Renton. He studied at the University of Glasgow and at Humboldt University of Berlin, Berlin and University of Leipzig, Leipzig. In Germany MacCallum concentrated on medieval literature, he published several articles in the ''Cornhill Magazine'' in 1879-80. In 1884 he published ''Studies in Low German and High German literature''. Academic career MacCallum became Professor of Literature at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth in 1879, but moved to Sydney in 1887 to take up the post of Foundation Professor of Modern Language and Literature at the University of Sydney, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Preschool
A preschool, also known as nursery school, pre-primary school, or play school or creche, is an educational establishment or learning space offering early childhood education to children before they begin compulsory education at primary school. It may be publicly or privately operated, and may be subsidized from public funds. Information Terminology varies by country. In some European countries the term "kindergarten" refers to formal education of children classified as '' ISCED level 0'' – with one or several years of such education being compulsory – before children start primary school at ''ISCED level 1''. The following terms may be used for educational institutions for this age group: *Pre-Primary or Creche from 6 weeks old to 6 years old- is an educational childcare service a parent can enroll their child(ren) in before primary school. This can also be used to define services for children younger than kindergarten age, especially in countries where kindergarten is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joan Fry (educator)
Joan Fry, (31 December 1920 – 2 February 2006) was an educator and a leading political advocate of early childhood education in Australia. Early life Joan Fry’s aunt was Mildred Muscio, a NSW and national President of the National Council of Women of Australia. Fry was born on 31 December 1920, and grew up along the Murray River. She attended Hornsby Girls’ High School in Sydney, Australia. Professional career in early childhood education and care After leaving high school at age 16, Joan Fry enrolled at the Sydney Day Nursery Association’s pioneering Nursery School Training Centre at Woolloomooloo, Sydney, where she graduated with a nursery school teaching diploma in 1941. This was at a time when there were few professional career opportunities available to women. She joined the Association’s Woolloomooloo Day Nursery and Nursery School as a nursery school teacher, advancing to the role of Director in 1944. In 1946, Fry was awarded a scholarship by the Thyne Rei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ellice Nosworthy
Ellice Maud Nosworthy (25 February 1897 – 7 January 1972) was an Australian practising architect for approximately 50 years and graduated as one of Australia's first female architects in 1922. Early life and education Nosworthy, was a second of four daughters of Robert Nosworthy, who originated from England. Ellice attended Redlands Girls' School in Cremorne, New South Wales, under Gertrude Roseby. At the University of Sydney she enrolled in arts in 1917, Where Leslie Wilkinson arrived at the university the following year to establish the nation's first architecture course, Nosworthy transferred into the new facility with the first group of students then transferred to architecture in 1919 and studied under Professor Leslie Wilkinson. She lived at The Women's College, University of Sydney, where she won in both 1919 and 1921, the Dickinson Cup for tennis. Career Ellice was employed (1922–23) by Waterhouse & Lake, where she worked on the drawings for houses in Sydney, and s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nonprofit Organization
A nonprofit organization (NPO) or non-profit organisation, also known as a non-business entity, not-for-profit organization, or nonprofit institution, is a legal entity organized and operated for a collective, public or social benefit, in contrast with an entity that operates as a business aiming to generate a Profit (accounting), profit for its owners. A nonprofit is subject to the non-distribution constraint: any revenues that exceed expenses must be committed to the organization's purpose, not taken by private parties. An array of organizations are nonprofit, including some political organizations, schools, business associations, churches, social clubs, and consumer cooperatives. Nonprofit entities may seek approval from governments to be Tax exemption, tax-exempt, and some may also qualify to receive tax-deductible contributions, but an entity may incorporate as a nonprofit entity without securing tax-exempt status. Key aspects of nonprofits are accountability, trustworth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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