Draft:Rosalie Hernon
Rosalie Hernon (née Wong; died 7 September 2022) was a Singaporean beautician, linguist and social worker. She was the owner of a beauty salon and the head of the Singapore Academy of Beauty Culture.
Early life and education
[edit]Career
[edit]Hernon was elected to the general committee of the Chinese Ladies Association of Singapore in September 1953.[2] She was elected the association's assistant secretary in the following year.[3] In May 1955, she was elected to the general committee of the United Nations Association of Singapore.[4] Hernon had been elected the association's social secretary by May of the following year. She was then a linguist working for the Indian Information Service as an interpreter. Her work with the United Nations Association was voluntary and she was among the few Singaporean members who were women.[5] In the same year, she was invited by politican David Marshall to assist him in his Meet-the-People Sessions voluntarily.[6] She was elected to the general commitee of the Singapore Voluntary Workers' Association in 1956.[7] By 1957, Hernon had been elected honorary secretary of the Chinese Ladies Association.[8] She had also become the secretary of the China Society of Singapore by April of that year.[9] She was elected the secretary of the The Singapore Association for the Deaf by November 1959. The Singapore Free Press then described her as a "prominent social worker" who had "devoted most of her time to the under-privileged and the handicapped".[10] By Febrary 1960, she had been elected the secretary for the Singapore Association for the Blind.[11]
By 1961, Hernon had become a beautician.[12] In August 1962, she embarked on a three-month trip to Europe where she was to attend beauty culture and hairstyling festivals in Paris, Frankfurt and Amsterdam. She was to attend a refresher course on beauty culture and hairstyling in Paris. Hernon was then the director of the Singapore Academy of Beauty Culture.[13] She owned a beauty salon on Orchard Road.[14] By 1972, she was still a member of the general commitee of the Chinese Ladies Association, which had been renamed the Chinese Women's Association.[15]
Personal life and death
[edit]Hernon married Patrick Hernon, a teacher, on 2 September 1950.[1] A Rotarian, she made a large donation to the Rotary Club of Singapore and established the Patrick Hernon Trust Fund. The fund had depleted by her death on 7 September 2022.[17]
References
[edit]- ^ a b https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/article/singstandard19500902-1.2.45
- ^ https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/article/straitstimes19530925-1.2.127
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- ^ https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/article/straitstimes19550502-1.2.37
- ^ https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/article/straitstimes19560529-1.2.131.1
- ^ https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/article/straitstimes19560311-1.2.44
- ^ https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/article/straitstimes19560313-1.2.56
- ^ https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/article/straitstimes19571029-1.2.113.1
- ^ https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/article/freepress19570410-1.2.28?
- ^ https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/article/freepress19591109-1.2.34
- ^ https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/article/freepress19600225-1.2.106
- ^ https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/article/freepress19611121-1.2.105
- ^ https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/article/straitstimes19620811-1.2.36
- ^ https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/article/straitstimes19621211-1.2.98
- ^ https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/article/newnation19720304-1.2.14
- ^ HAVE DIPLOMAS WILL TRAVEL BEAUTICIAN (11 August 1970, Eastern Sun)
- ^ https://clubrunner.blob.core.windows.net/00000013603/en-us/files/homepage/vol59issue4/Vol_59_Issue_4_30.9.22-min.pdf