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Life Summary

Name	Jean Edna Blackburn
Alternative Names	Jean Edna Muir
Born	14 July, 1919 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Died	2 December, 2001 (aged 82) Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Related Entries	[View as tree] Forte, Kathleen Margaret (colleague)
Education *	Lloyd Street Primary School (Malvern, Vic) (student, 1925-1931) University High School (Melbourne) (student, 1932-1936) University of Adelaide (student) University of Melbourne (student, 1937-1939)
Occupation or Descriptor *	communist (1938-1946) Victoria, Australia women's activist (1938-1946) Victoria, Australia public servant (1942-1946) Federal, Australia communist (1946-1956) South Australia, Australia women's activist (1946-2000) South Australia, Australia schoolteacher (1954-1966) South Australia, Australia educational reformer (1966-1990) South Australia, Australia feminist (1966-2001) South Australia, Australia
Awards	Officer of the Order of Australia (recipient, 1976) Victorian Honour Roll of Women (inductee, 2002)
Legacies *	Jean Blackburn Oration (University of Melbourne) (eponym)
Key Organisations *	Melbourne University Labor Club (member, 1937-1939) Council for Women in War Work (Vic) (member, 1942-1946) New Housewives' Association (SA) (member, 1946-1958) Union of Australian Women (SA) (member, 1958) University of Canberra (administration) (chancellor, 1990-1991)
Political Activism *	Communist Party (Vic) (member, 1938) Communist Party (SA) (member, 1946)
Workplaces *	Dept of War Organization of Industry (Fed) (public servant, 1942-1946) Seymour College (Adelaide) (schoolteacher, 1954-1966) Western Teachers College (Adelaide) (academic, 1966-1970) Australian Schools Commission (deputy chair, 1972-1980)

* Dates are approximate