2007 Annual report (PDF 8.1 Mb) - University of Melbourne

Sally Firth
Single mother of three Sally Firth was awarded the Eleanor and
Joseph Wertheim Scholarship in 2007. Sally, 31, has had a lifelong
interest in photography.
She had completed some media studies at TAFE and worked parttime
in a photography lab, but could not afford to pursue full-time
study. Through the generosity of the Wertheim bequest to the
University of Melbourne, Sally is now studying a Bachelor of Fine
Arts at the VCA, majoring in photography.
Dr Eleanor Wertheim was a Senior Research Fellow in the Faculty
of Arts for a number of years. Her husband Joseph Wertheim was
a scientist and an alumnus of the University of Melbourne. It was
their intention to leave a legacy that would have a positive impact
on the lives of women for future generations. When Eleanor died
in 2001, four years after her husband, the Eleanor and Joseph
Wertheim Scholarship trust was established to assist ‘unmarried,
widowed or divorced women over the age of 25 years in difficult
circumstances to pursue undergraduate or graduate courses’.
‘The fact that the Wertheims have left a bequest specifically
targeted to women in difficult circumstances who wanted to study
shows such insight,’ said Sally.
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