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Life Summary

Name	Renée Fauvette Erdos
Born	3 November, 1911 Colombo, Sri Lanka
Died	10 March, 1997 (aged 85) Neutral Bay, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Cause of Death	cancer (pancreatic)
Cultural Heritage	Hungarian Includes subject's nationality; their parents' nationality; the countries in which they spent a significant part of their childhood, and their self-identity.
Passenger Ship *	Morea (1917) (passenger)
Education *	Loreto Kirribilli (Sydney) (student, 1921-1928) Sydney Teachers' College (student, 1929-1933) University of Sydney (student, 1929-1933)
Occupation or Descriptor *	schoolteacher (1933-1959) New South Wales, Australia technical/TAFE college administrator (1959-1969) New South Wales, Australia
Awards	Fulbright fellow (recipient, 1961) Smith-Mundt Fellowship (recipient, 1961)
Key Organisations *	History Teachers' Association of New South Wales (secretary, 1954) History Teachers' Association of New South Wales (member, 1954) History Teachers' Association of New South Wales (chair, 1957-1958) Australian College of Education (NSW) (member, 1961) International Council for Correspondence Education (president, 1965-1969) Australian College of Education (federal) (fellow, 1967) Australian Dictionary of Biography (ANU) (author, 1967-1967)
Workplaces *	Wenona School (North Sydney) (schoolteacher, 1933-1933) Wollongong High School (NSW) (schoolteacher, 1937-1940) North Newtown Boys' Intermediate High School (Sydney) (schoolteacher, 1941-1941) Armidale High School (NSW) (schoolteacher, 1942-1944) Gosford High School (NSW) (schoolteacher, 1945-1945) Sydney Technical College (schoolteacher, 1946-1959) Sydney Technical College (supervisor, 1959-1969) United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (1972-1979)

* Dates are approximate