1992 School Magazine

GLENYS LEIGH SCHIJNTNER Glenys Schuntner has recently been appointed a Trade Commissioner to Japan at the young age of thirty-one.

Her~career~has taken her to the RoyaFChndren's OSpitals in both Brisbane and Adelaide, and this year she took up the position of Paediatric Registrar for the Brisbane North Regional Health Authority. Dr Harris has been awarded a 1993 Churchill Fellowship to investigate the care in the community of children with disabilities or those socially disadvantaged. Her Fellowship will take her to the United Kingdom and to the United States for almost three months. We congratulate her and wish her well with her career and research. Dr Harris joins the seven other former BGGS students on the Honour Board who are Churchill Fellows. Dr A1ison Harris IENNIFER MCMILLAN Jennifer MCMillan (nee Roberts) who was named Queensland's Young Engineer of the Year in 1991, said many people had been surprised at her career choice. 16nnifer is a Civil Engineer with the Transport Department. She said women did not usually choose Civil Engineering. Women were not put under any more pressure than their male counterparts and should not approach the job in a defensive or hostile manner, she said. "If you expect to be treated with kid gloves because you are a woman, you are bound to be disappointed. "

Glenys Schuntner

AUStrade has appointed four trade commissioners to estab- lish new regional Australian trade offices throughout Japan. Glenys will establish a trade office in Sendai (about the same size as Brisbane), gateway to the important Tohuku region in the north of Honshu. The trade coinmis- sioners selected for the new regional offices all share flu- Grit Japanese language abilities, all are business managers and all have extensive experience in the Japanese market. The regional trade commissioners have been drawn from management positions in the private sector. Glenys began her study of Japanese at BGGS in 1973 and continued at the University of Queensland where she coin- PIeted a double major in Japanese as well as majors in German and Economics in her Arts degree. in her final year at BGGS Glenys was the President of the Student Representative Council. After winning various overseas scholarships, Glenys won the much sought after Monbusho Scholarship to do post- graduate studies at the prestigious Rikkyo University in Tokyo for eighteen months and at the end of this time she graduated from Rikkyo with a Master of Arts degree. Since then she has worked in management positions in the private sector, mainly in Japan but also in Sydney. As a few of the present staff remember Glenys was a Year 10 student when, at school on St Patrick's Day, 1975, she received the happy news of the birth of a baby sister. This sister is Leanne, one of this year's Prefects. CHURCHILL FELLOW, 1993 Dr Ajison Harris completed Year 12 at Brisbane Girls' Grammar School in 1979, after establishing herself as an all-rounder with not only high academic results, but also participation in sporting, music and service groups within the school. She went on to study Medicine at the University of Queensland where she received her Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (Hons). Her academ- to success was distinguished by her receiving a University Medal in 1986.

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