The following scholarships honour the individuals and families whose vision and generosity have shaped opportunities for students and have left a lasting impact at MLC.
These scholarships reflect a commitment to empowering future generations, celebrating academic achievement, leadership and resilience.
Dr Wood Scholarship
Rev. Dr Harold Wood, Principal of MLC from 1939-1966, was an inspirational leader of the College, and greatly loved. A scholarship in his honour was initiated by MLC’s Old Collegians’ Club in 1990 as an acknowledgement of his enormous and lasting contribution to the College.
The Scholarship has since been supported by philanthropic donations from many MLC alumnae and others. In years to come, we hope that Student’s name may follow in their footsteps as an MLC alumna who embraces our long and strong culture of philanthropy, and support future students as she is able.
The Dr Wood Scholarship is an Academic Scholarship available for Years 9 and 10 entry.
The Christian and Jinah Johnston / Goldman Sachs Gives Scholarship
With a strong commitment to education, current parents Christian and Jinah Johnston aspire to support students who, due to their families’ financial circumstances, would not otherwise have the opportunity to attend MLC.
The Christian and Jinah Johnston / Goldman Sachs Gives Scholarship is an Academic Scholarship, a Boarding Scholarship or an Indigenous Scholarship for Year 7 entry.
Thomas Henry Scholarship
MLC has produced many notable scientists, among them the late Dr Joan Wilkinson AM, who established a science scholarship in honour of her late grandfather.
Established by the late Dr Joan Wilkinson AM in honour of her late grandfather, Thomas Henry Driffield, the Thomas Henry Scholarship is intended for students who otherwise would not be able to access an MLC education.
Dr Joan Wilkinson AM was passionate about giving girls the same opportunities she herself had: “The freedom to learn, to participate and to be inspired by MLC’s marvellous atmosphere and educational environment.”
Angela Sharman Memorial Music Scholarship
This scholarship honours the life of Angela Sharman (OC 1985), a lively student and a talented violinist who loved the broad music offering that MLC provided. After finishing Year 12, Angela enthusiastically continued with her violin studies at the College of the Arts, until her untimely death in 1986. Angela’s family established this Scholarship in her memory to enable musically talented students to come to MLC and further develop their musical abilities and potential. It is a means-tested scholarship.
The Eville Orford (Penn-Tonkin) Scholarship
The Eville Orford (Penn-Tonkin) Scholarship has been endowed by Mr David Orford, son of Eville, in loving memory and deep abiding respect for his mother and her achievements. She attended Methodist Ladies’ College (MLC) from Year 8 to Year 12 and was a Prefect in her final year in 1934. While at MLC, Eville gravitated toward science, particularly botany and animal biology. Eville was also a pianist and sprinter.
A woman ahead of her time, Eville went on to study agricultural science at the University of Melbourne. Eville graduated from university in 1939, the year World War Two was declared. During the war, Eville worked as an officer in the Department of Supply and became a member of the RACV.
Eville is remembered as a thoughtful, caring person who was very involved in community service, including raising money for the establishment of the now Rossbourne School for children with special needs, and active in the Country Women’s Association.