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Agent TypeFamilyActivities & OccupationsAcademics - EnglishDiplomatsHistoryDavid McKenzie Dow was appointed Official Representative of the Commonwealth in the USA in 1924, becoming Acting Commissioner General in 1931 and holding that post until 1938. Hume Dow, son of DMD, was educated at Staten Island Academy and Harvard University. Returning to Australia he became a journalist and later joined the Army's Educational Service and editor of "Salt". He returned to journalism 1947-1950. After a brief period teaching in England he joined the University of Melbourne as Senior Tutor in English in 1953. He remained at the University of Melbourne until retirement, rising to readership in 1974. Gwyneth Dow was appointed as a Lecturer in the Faculty of Education in 1958, Senior Lecturer in 1963 and Reader in 1970. She was an inaugural member of the Curriculum Advisory Board in Victoria fostering pilot schemes to introduce curriculum and organisational changes in secondary schooling. She introduced a Dip.Ed. course, 'Systems of Education' and was instrumental in introducing an alternative Dip.Ed. course "Course B" which concentrated on method and practical teaching in the first year.

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