Paying tribute

THERE’S A SENSE of normalcy returning to life at College this year. The disruptions of the past three years have mostly receded into the background, and the academic, social, sporting and cultural programs are in full swing again. With the return of in-person university teaching, students are experiencing College and university as they were before the pandemic. The pace of College life has taken on a relaxed vibrancy as students enjoy the fully immersive experience, including live examinations, again.

This issue of the Magazine pays tribute to the achievements of our students and alumnae. 2023 Senior Student Jade Richardson outlines her goals and resolutions for the year ahead, and gives her thoughts about the ‘real’ Women’s College, a place that defies comparison. We profile first-year student Juliette Burgess, who grew up on the South Coast of NSW and is studying fine arts at the University of Sydney. Third-year student Hannah Jones’s sporting success is celebrated, along with her recent University Blue for soccer.

Results from a series of 2022 surveys sent to students, parents and alumnae are summarised, including the findings of the cultural renewal survey, first presented as part of the Broderick Review in 2017 and re-administered last year. We thank the College community for its willingness to participate in these surveys, which generate valuable data to inform our future planning and programming.

Our alumnae continue to achieve across all their fields of endeavour. The Magazine highlights the extraordinary success of six very recent ex-students who completed honours degrees in medical science, music, linguistics and allied health last year. In addition, we profile our 2022 Alumnae Award winners: Professor Rose McGready, Chloe Hickey-Jones and Ané Coetzee. As a result of the pandemic, it had been four years since these awards were last held.

Included also are articles on the first Australian-born Chinese student at College, Mary Wang, two 1990s alumnae whose friendship has been forged across their personal and working lives in Darwin, and an alumna who accidentally discovered a rare form of cuttlefish during her anthropological field work on Lord Howe Island.

Last but not least, a sneak peek at the preliminary program for the second The Women’s College Film Festival is included. We invite you to join us for this special event, to be held in the Sibyl Centre 13-14 October.

My warmest wishes to everyone in our extended College community.

DR TIFFANY DONNELLY PRINCIPAL

THE WOMEN ’ S COLLEGE

The Women’s College Magazine is published annually to report on the activities of the College. Our students study across a range of degrees and our alumnae cover many fields of professional endeavour. The Magazine exists to tell the stories of this proud and unique women’s institution.

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