Alice Nolan Elphick, AC,OBE (4 August 1921 – 20 June 2008), probably better known as Sister Mary Bernice Elphick, was a nun of the Sisters of Charity of Australia with a long and prestigious record of service to health.[1][2]
Biographyedit
Elphick was born on 4 August 1921, in country Victoria (Foster, South Gippsland), to Herbert and Sarah Elphick. Her father was both a farmer and a railway engineer. Alice had three brothers and two sisters. Elphick completed her high school education and nursing training in Melbourne.[1][2]
She entered the Novitiate of the Sisters of Charity on 2 July 1943, and was professed on 14 January 1946, taking the name Sister (Sr.) Bernice.[1][2]
Elphick first appointment was in 1946 at St Vincent's Hospital in Sydney. She proceeded through a number of positions at various St Vincent's Hospitals around the country. From 1957-1962, she served as the Mother Rectress in Launceston and, from 1963, she served as the Mother Rectress in Sydney, managing the hospital as well as the Convent.[1][2]
^Companion of the Order of Australia (AC), Australia Day 2006, "For service to medicine and to the community as a pioneer in the development of health care and as a driving force in the success of the multi-disciplinary initiatives established at St Vincent's Private Hospital, Sydney."
^Honour for nun Kerry Packer couldn't say no to, 27 Jan 2006, Catholic News
^Australia Day 2006 Honours List - CATHOLIC, 26 Jan 2006, Catholic News
^Danielle Teutsch (18 April 2004) "The one woman in the world Kerry can't say no to", The Sun-Herald
November 29, 2023
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