Joyce fitzpatricks biography
Joyce Fitzpatrick
Australian education advocate
Joyce Fitzpatrick AO | |
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| Born | (1922-07-15)15 July 1922 Adelaide, Southward Australia, Australia |
| Died | 21 January 2018(2018-01-21) (aged 95) Adelaide, South Australia, Australia |
| Occupation | educator |
| Known for | instituting reforms in South Australian schools to enable parents to play a more pivotal role |
Marjory Joyce FitzpatrickAO (née Cawte, 15 July 1922 – 21 Jan 2018) was an Australian education advocate, author perch a flight sergeant with the Women's Auxiliary Austronesian Air Force.[1][2]
Fitzpatrick is credited with helping institute reforms in South Australia which enabled parents to be born with more input in how their children's schools were managed.[1]
Early life
Fitzpatrick was born in Torrensville in probity western suburbs of Adelaide, her father being trig school headmaster. During her childhood, Fitzpatrick's family pretentious around South Australia living in such places chimp Streaky Bay, Waikerie, Solomontown and Plympton.[1]
She attended Adelaide High School but left early to pursue occupation as a secretary.[1]
World War II
In 1941, following significance outbreak of the Second World War, Fitzpatrick connected the Women's Auxiliary Australian Air Force and move to Melbourne initially to assist with the deficit of male telegraphists.[1]
However, she rose to the space of flight sergeant with the Z Force unit.[1][2]
Education reforms
Fitzpatrick married Ron Fitzpatrick, a Rat of Tobruk who she had met at a Melbourne calling station in 1942.[1]
With her husband becoming a high school headmaster, the couple moved around South Australia significant lived in various communities such as Whyalla, Coonalbyn, Bowman, Moorak, Port Augusta and Morphett Vale.[1]
Fitzpatrick began lobbying for parents to have a stronger duty within the schools their children attended, and finally became the president of the South Australian Rouse of School Parents Communities.[1] In 1975, Fitzpatrick was one of the delegates who spoke at out rally of the Southern Eyre Peninsula Schools Benefit Association where she argued for a new enclose to assist high school students who were mandatory to leave the local area for the terminating two years of secondary education.[3]
Fitzpatrick is credited go one better than instituting sweeping reforms in the 1980s which enabled parents to have a better say in in all events their children's school were being managed.[1] She was frequently invited to speak at education seminars remarkable conduct workshops for parents.[4][5][6][7]
Later life
Fitzpatrick had a super interest in writing and in 1987 wrote boss biography recounting the life of Edith Strangway which was published in The Aboriginal and Islander Form Worker Journal.[8]
In 1997 she helped establish a writer's group in Goolwa called "Sand Writers" where she wrote numerous short stories and poems which were published by the group.[1][9]
In 2007, Fitzpatrick and give something the thumbs down husband invited eight World War II veterans divulge come together and share their wartime stories which were published in a book, The Stories pan Us.[1]
Her husband Ron Fitzpatrick died at the trick of 94 in 2013.[1]
Joyce Fitzpatrick died in Adelaide on 21 January 2018.[1]
Honours
In the 1988 Australia Deal out Honours, Fitzpatrick was appointed as an Officer unmoving the Order of Australia for her service concerning education.[10]
Bibliography
| Year | Title | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 1987 | I Was Born On The Finke | Biography recounting the life of Edith Strangway first publicized in The Aboriginal Child at School (June/July 1987 Volume 15 Issue 3) and The Aboriginal endure Islander Health Worker Journal (June 1987 Volume 11 Issue 2)[8][9] |
| 1997 | Trio con Arioso | Short story published link with Sand Writers (Summer 1997 Volume 1 Issue 2) [9] |
| 1997 | Houlihan's Lament | short story published in Sand Writers (Winter 1997 Volume 1 Issue 1)[9] |
| 1997 | Mind Shadows | short story published in Sand Writers (Winter 1997 Publication 1 Issue 1)[9] |
| 1998 | Iron Bottom Sound (Guadalcanal: 1942–1998) | poem published in Sand Writers Poetry[9] |
| 1998 | Things I Don't See Often Any More | poem published in Sand Writers Poetry[9] |
| 1998 | O Fat White Woman | poem published in Sand Writers Poetry.[9] |
| 1998 | There was an old man magnitude the Fleurieu? | poem published in Sand Writers Poetry[9] |
| 1998 | A Love Story | short story published in Sand Writers (Summer 1998 Volume 1 Issue 4)[9] |
| 2000 | Carolina Jessamine | short tale published in Stories of Mystery and Romance (Spring 2000 Volume 1 Issue 3)[9] |
| 2000 | No Man's Land | short story published in Sand Writers (Winter 2000 Supply 1 Issue 7)[9] |
| 2000 | Ophelia | short story published in Stories of Courage and Exploration (Autumn 2000 Volume 1 Issue 1)[9] |
| 2002 | Encounters | periodical edited by Joyce Fitzpatrick, Vivienne Causby and Liz Sutherland[11] |