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Elizabeth Booth (Liddell 1961) Elizabeth has two children and five grandchildren, and is happy to say, she has just celebrated 55 years of marriage. Much of Elizabeth’s working days were spent in areas of the Education Department, including teaching in childcare, preschools, and pre-primary centres. Later she was involved in the integration of disability children into mainstream schools in WA.
Sophie Coote (2007) Co-founder/Creative Director of SIR. Since graduation at PLC, Sophie went on to study a Bachelor of Commerce at the University of Sydney. Whilst at university she pursued the creative side of the fashion industry and worked in multiple facets of the industry, styling, retail, PR and design. She moved to Los Angeles in 2011 and pursued a career as a fashion stylist and personal shopper. On her return to Sydney in 2013 she commenced planning the launch of her clothing company SIR with her business partner and best friend Nikki after identifying a gap in the market (and their wardrobes) for elevated feminine basics and feminine silhouettes.
Erica McKenzie (1991) After graduating PLC, Erica attended veterinary school at Murdoch University before continuing specialist training in Canada and the USA. Erica became a board-certified specialist in large animal internal medicine and completed a PhD focused on equine muscle disease at the University of Minnesota in 2003. She then worked for two years in a post-doctoral position at Oklahoma State University, studying exercise related phenomena in horses and sled dogs, and traveling to Alaska to work with sled dogs completing the 1000-mile Iditarod race. Since 2005, Erica has been a faculty member at Oregon State University where she works as a veterinary specialist with large animal patients, teaches third and final year veterinary students, and performs research focused on muscle diseases of horses
and other medical problems of large animals. She is a published author of many scientific manuscripts and veterinary book chapters, and the first female chair of the International Conference on Equine Exercise Physiology, which is a global group that meets every four years to review the most current research advances in equine exercise. Erica has been married for nine years to Dave, who is an engineer and patent agent for the University. She lives in Corvallis, Oregon, a town of 50,000 people, with her two Kelpies (Tasi and Jarrah) in a house bordered by the forest. Recreational pastimes include trail running, ironman triathlons, hiking the beautiful natural areas throughout Oregon and crossing the Canadian border to visit her twin sister, Fiona, who lives in Squamish, British Columbia with her husband and two children.
Elizabeth has been living in Tasmania for 15 years on an eight-acre property in the Tamar Valley, overlooking the Tamar River. In a bid to assist with a more responsible and sustainable environment, as well as contributing towards reducing global warming, Elizabeth has grown pine trees for shelter belts for livestock and animals and wind breaks for rural properties.
Carly Donovan (Morrison 1991) Carly has lived in Sydney since 1997 with her husband, Ciaran. They have three sons, Finn, Riley, and Killian. Besides raising her young men since 2000, in 2015 Carly started her own virtual PA business and has now ventured into natural therapies where her passion lies in holistic healing and working with nature. Carly says: “We are lucky enough to experience Sydney from our beautiful harbourside suburb on the lower north shore. Our sons have all attended/ or are currently attending The Scots College and I am delighted to say our youngest son plays the bagpipes.”
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