About Edith Marion Ralston
Lived 1894 – 1967 (aged 72–73). Edith Marion Ralston was an Australian head teacher.
Edith Marion Ralston (21 June 1894 – 16 October 1967) was an Australian headmistress who owned and expanded Wenona School in Sydney. In 1959 she gave the school away to a non-profit company so that it could continue.
Life Ralston was born in 1894 in the Sydney suburb of Ashfield. She was the first of three children born to Irish immigrant Henrietta Marrianne (born Orr) and her Australian born husband John Thompson Ralston. who volunteered their time with the Young Men's Christian Association's Snapshots from Home League.
In 1930 there were 200 students and Ralston bought three more surrounding properties to allow for further expansion. When the war started she refused to relocate the school deciding that "Business as Usual" should be the school's approach. there were 650 girls in the school.
Ralston died in her home in the Sydney suburb of Cremorne and she was buried locally.
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(1894-1967) headmistress in Sydney
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Edith Marion Ralston was born on 21 June 1894 in Ashfield.
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Edith Marion Ralston died in 1967 in Cremorne.
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Edith Marion Ralston was a head teacher.
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Edith Marion Ralston was Australian.
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