Celebrating Nillumbik Women 2009 - Nillumbik Shire Council

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Audrey Cahn 1905 - 2008 Nominated by Sue Dyet Audrey’s associations with Warrandyte started when her father, Professor Osbourne, bought 60 acres of land in the area in 1904. ‘Gold mining was beginning to die out and Warrandyte was a decaying area. Land was cheap because of the lack of transport and the soil was poor for farming,’ Audrey said. Audrey first attended school in the city at the Church of England Girls’ Grammar School. ‘I was always a bit rebellious. If I felt some restrictions were unfair, or some judgement unjust, I resented it,’ said Audrey. Audrey got into Agricultural Science at Melbourne University and in 1928, was the second women to attain such a degree. Audrey married in 1926, and later divorced architect, Leslie Cahn. They had twin daughters, who she left with her parents in Warrandyte, while she studied Dietetics during the Depression. She found employment as a microbiologist at the Kraft/Walker Milk and Cheese Factory in Drouin, and drove home at weekends to see her daughters who were then at boarding school. During the war, Audrey was in charge of catering at the Heidelberg Military Hospital — again, the appointment of a woman caused some unrest. She was in the army for more than four years and achieved the rank of General, which made her the most highly ranked woman at the hospital. After the war, she became a senior lecturer in Dietetics at Melbourne University, again being aware of the limitations her gender brought to promotion possibilities. During her time at the University, she undertook a series of studies in nutritional biochemistry. Of a special note, is the analysis of common dietary foods, to discover the data that was needed for inclusion in food tables — which professional sports people and Weight Watchers so avidly follow today! In the 1950s, Audrey and fellow workers established norms for the growth of Australian children to be compared with British and American children. Over 17 years they concluded that Australian children were overweight and inactive. Audrey bought a cottage in Warrandyte as her home. In 1968, she retired to further develop her other interests as a potter and painter and became a foundation member of the group of potters that set up Potters Cottage. Audrey Cahn died aged 102.
Linda Cornelissen Nominated by Jenny Millar Linda spent her growing-up years in the south-west of Western Australia among the Karri and Jarrah forests. Her family came to Melbourne in 1974, and she moved with her husband to Diamond Creek in 1977 and bought the house where they lived in until 1980. Linda’s early working life involved clerical/ office work and then four years as a Personal Care attendant in an elderly citizens’ village. She ceased work when pregnant with her first child, staying at home with the children, helping on kinder committees and then as a parent helper in classrooms at school for a number of years. In 1992, Linda began studying part-time at La Trobe University and completed a BA and then a secondary Dip. Ed. in 1997. With the children a little older, she returned to the workforce in the secondary school system for eight years. During that time, her interest in gardening and food production and the importance of community, led her into permaculture and then into volunteering with the Stephanie Alexander program at Collingwood College for over three years. This gave Linda the opportunity to meet more people and organisations involved in community building, and food and water security issues. It was then that she found her real passions ignite. She took the opportunity to work at CERES Environment Park in Brunswick, where she has been teaching environmental and organic food production programs for the last two years. As a member of the local permaculture and LETS groups, Linda has had many opportunities to help out at festivals and events in the Shire and has seen the huge amount of work going on and many of the wonderful community building initiatives. She is currently working on contributing many of the skills and ideas she has learned during this time to projects in Nillumbik, especially those related to education, food and water initiatives and strengthening communities in the face of challenges ahead. With the many challenges which have faced our Shire in recent years and no doubt more to come, it is Linda’s belief that we will all be rewarded for our efforts to build a stronger community with more of our needs met locally.
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