 PHIPPARD Janet Susan |   | Born: 1934 | |
| Father: PHIPPARD Stanley Raymond | Mother: UTHER Winsome | ||
| Children: none | |||
| Siblings: PHIPPARD William Anthony (Bill), PHIPPARD Richard, PHIPPARD Prudence Hillary (Pru) | |||
Janet Susan PHIPPARD was born about 1934. She married John Marsden FLINT
6 September, 1958. He was born 15 December 1935. Susan graduated from The University of Sydney in 1956.
Janet and John had 3 children
(1) Sue
(2) John
(3) Penny
Source: Janet Susan Flint nee Phippard
Secretary – Chancellor’s Committee University of Sydney
May 2011 – Present (6 years 1 month)
The Chancellor’s Committee is a volunteer group with about 130 members. We raise funds for scholarships, especially aboriginal or disadvantaged students and help with funds for various Faculties’ projects with significant university wide benefits e.g. trumpet pipes for the Great Hall organ, Faculty of Engineering racing car, that was of benefit not only to the engineering students who built it, but Marketing, Commerce, Communications students who were part of the exercise.
1994 – 2011 (17 years)
Secretary – NSW Fulbright Alumni Association
1980 – July 1997 (17 years)
Teacher Librarian – Trinity Grammar School, Summer Hill NSW (2)
Janet also featured in The Golden Year Book of the University of Sydney. Featured as follows on page 70.
Janet fondly recalls her time at the University, including being a part of the Sydney University Musical Society, going to intervarsity camps in Frankston, Victoria, and Tallebudgera Creek, Queensland, and meeting other students. As a first-year student, Janet learned to dance the can can with Lillian Roxon. Lillian was a member of the Students’ Representative Council and part of ‘The Push’ (a left-wing intellectual subculture), who went on to become a music journalist and write Lillian Roxon’s Rock Encyclopaedia, a cult classic. “I remember with sadness the announcement of her early death in the 70s in New York where she was a journalist,” Janet says. “She had quite an impact on us.” Janet was part of a protest group on Parramatta Road requesting that a footbridge be built so that students could cross in safety. Janet resided in the Women’s College with the widely respected Betty “The Admiral” Archdale as principal, and vice-principal Phyllis Nicol, an inspiring physics tutor. She dined each night in academic dress on allocated seats at a table with mixed faculty members and year groups, “so you learned what the architects, science, veterinary science, agriculture and medical students were studying”.
She also recalls coffee in the evening with some of the senior students, including former Chancellor of the University and former Governor of NSW Marie Bashir, and Judith Robinson-Valéry, a distinguished French scholar who became a world expert on French poet and philosopher Paul Valéry. Janet became a librarian, establishing the library at professional services firm Price Waterhouse Coopers (now PwC). She pursued a Diploma of Education and a Diploma of Children’s Literature and was librarian at Trinity Grammar School for 18 years. After receiving a Fulbright scholarship in 1989, she went to the United States, looking at school libraries throughout the US. In 1994 she became secretary of the Fulbright NSW Alumni Association, a post she held for 17 years. One of Janet’s proudest moments was being awarded honorary lifetime membership of the Fulbright Alumni Association in 2009 by Mrs Harriet Fulbright, widow of Senator J William Fulbright, who established the exchange program that bears his name. (2)
Source:
- Linked-Inn Professional Profile
- University of Sydney Golden Year Book