ESU President Update
It has been a busy start to the year and the Ex-Students’ Union Committee has been planning for an exciting 2023. It has been wonderful to welcome some new members onto the Committee as well as our members who have been involved for many years, all of whom have been so welcoming to me as I settle into the President’s role. If you are interested in being involved, please do get in touch – we would love to hear from you.
One of the significant days we celebrated this term was International Women’s Day – a day to reflect on and push for gender equality, as well as shining a well-deserved spotlight on the achievements of women around the world. Many of our Pymble alumnae were featured in the College’s IWD campaign in partnership with the Australian Financial Review.
This UN theme this year for IWD was innovation and technology for gender equality; to elevate and advance gender parity in technology and celebrate the women forging innovation. This provided the perfect frame for our ESU industry networking event for women in tech which we held on Wednesday 1 March at the Stone & Chalk startup space in Sydney. We were joined by around 50 Pymble ex-students who were keen to network and hear from our panel of experts. Our panel included Jasmine Logaraj (2010), Laura Ly (2015) and Julia Mitchelmore (2010), who all generously shared their expertise and experience to provide an engaging discussion for the audience. A particular take-away was how very different a ‘career in tech’ can look. Our panelists had all taken extremely different (and not necessarily linear) paths to get where they are today – a great encouragement for all of us to be brave in seeking out challenges or taking opportunities that arise.
The evening was a great success, and a particular thank you goes to Rowena Ditzell (1986) and Brigitte Liew (2014), our ESU Committee members who were responsible for the organisation. This session followed the legal industry event that was held last year, with the aim of providing smaller, more targeted connection and networking opportunities. We will look to build on this series later this year.
We are also busily preparing for our major networking event, to be held next term on Thursday 18 May in partnership with the College. This is focused on connecting recent alumnae with members of the Pymble community who have established careers in a wide range of industries. We are lucky to once again be holding this event at KPMG’s Barangaroo offices, thanks to the generosity of the Chair of our College Board, James Hunter and his colleagues at KPMG. In line with the College theme for 2023, our panel discussion on the night will be focused on ‘giving back’.
I look forward to meeting more members of our wonderful Pymble community at this exciting event.
Class of 2022
We are so proud of our Class of 2022 (and newest Alumni members) for the hard work and dedication they gave during their HSC. Read more about some of our girls’ HSC experience in our Class of 2022 HSC Booklet
Class of 2022 – Congratulations and welcome to the Pymble Alumni family!
Mrs Fiona Walmsley (McGeachie, 1996). 