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Science and Innovation Luncheon – Limited tickets!
We are delighted to be hosting the Redlands Science and Innovation Luncheon in Term 2, where we will celebrate the long history and achievements in Science and Innovation at Redlands. An exciting panel of Alumni Speakers will share their experiences in this field as guests enjoy a magnificent gourmet luncheon with spectacular Sydney Harbour views.
Proceeds from this event will be dedicated to the Dr Sue Morey AM Scholarship, the fifth Redlands Foundation Scholarship which honours and celebrates Dr Morey’s outstanding contribution and service achievements within community health in Australia.
This luncheon is open to all Redlands parents, friends and alumni and we anticipate another sell out event, so please buy your tickets early to avoid disappointment.
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Raffles and Auction Items
We seek the support of our community for this event through the donation of vouchers, products, services and experiences for inclusion in our event raffles and online auction.
Parents may also consider a corporate sponsorship at this event to promote your company. Click here for more detailed information or contact us at foundation@redlands.nsw.edu.au.
Science at Redlands has a Long Tradition of Innovation
We have asked our Archivist, Marguerite Gillezeau, to share some headlines about our Science program since its inception.
Science has been taught since the School’s first year in 1884 with the first matriculating student Sophia Liggins in 1887 including Physics among her subjects. Intrepid excursions around the state in the first decades of the 20th century involved Redlands girls abseiling into quarries, specimen hammers wedged into their belts, or dropping underground in cages into mining pits, all as part of the School’s experiential scientific education. The School’s first Science Room was built in 1908 to store, examine and dissect the botanical and geological specimens from these field trips.
Although for the most part, Science subjects taught pre-World War II were mostly Geology, Botany and an early form of Biology, the students were taught by experts, such as botanist Constance Le Plastrier and geologist Mabel Roseby, and went on to make their mark in a variety of scientific professions. Dr Thistle Stead (Harris, Class of 1920) became a leading botantist, environmental scientist and activist, Dr Anne Atkinson (Raymond, Class of 1942), a geologist and vulcanist (expert in volcanoes) and Myril Evans (1930), Redlands’ first graduate in Agricultural Science, became a food chemist and bacteriologist. A significant number of Redlanders entered health professions and became not only doctors, but renowned health advocates such as Dr Vida Sams (Class of 1915). Marie Cotton (Patison, Class of 1936) was the first woman to win the University Medal in Dentistry at the University of Sydney.
After World War II, Dr Sue Morey (Class of 1959) and Dr Diana Horvath (Longhurst, Class of 1961) also became leading health advocates. The Science labs evolved from a single room in the Liggins Building to two laboratories in the Mowll Building (replaced by the Learning Hub) with Physics and Chemistry offered for the first time in the late 1950s and early 1960s. A push for girls to take up Science in the 1960s by the government led to the building of the Science block in 1967 (now the Roseby Building, renovated in 2007), and a new era of scientists following in the footsteps of Dr Angela Dulhunty (Class of 1964) who pursued a career as electron microscopist, academic and founding director of Biotron (molecular biology technologies) and Dr Merilyn Edwards (Class of 1964), former research scientist and manager at CSIRO and founder of biotech company EvoGenix Ltd. There have been graduates in all branches of Engineering, particularly since the school became co-educational in 1978, including Aeronautical Engineering. Science teachers, such as Denise Playoust, have been responsible for igniting a passion for science for a significant number of Redlander scientists, as our current Science staff continue to do today.
Mrs Dana Casimaty
Director of Development
dcasimaty@redlands.nsw.edu.au
9968 9858