Joan Montgomery
Joan Mitchell Montgomery (born July 1925) is an Australian retired principal. Early life Montgomery was born in Melbourne in 1925, the eldest of four daughters of Beryl and William Montgomery. She attended Presbyterian Ladies' College in East Melbourne, where she played tennis and baseball. In April 1942, when Montgomery was 16, her mother died and her father's cousin Anne Montgomery came to live with the family; 20 months later, in January 1944, Montgomery's father died and Anne Montgomery assumed responsibility for the four girls. Montgomery studied at the University of Melbourne and graduated in 1948 with a bachelor of arts degree and a diploma of education. Career Montgomery's first teaching position was at Frensham School at Mittagong in New South Wales, from 1949 to 1951. She then taught in London for two years (1952-54), at Tintern Church of England Girls Grammar School for two years (1955-57) and then in London again in 1958 and 1959. In 1960 Montgomery took up her first position as headmistress, at the private Melbourne girls' school Clyde School, a position she held until 1968 when she moved to the position of principal of Presbyterian Ladies' College. Montgomery retired from the college at the age of