Ganley Maree

Dr Maree Ganley spent most of her professional career in leadership roles in secondary girls' and boys' boarding schools in Central and Southeast Queensland. She completed her full-time working life as Director of Advancement of St Leo’s men’s residential college within the University of Queensland.

Maree majored in Education, Religion and Classics in her academic pursuits. She completed her studies with a PhD which examined the impact of regional boarding schools on the social and cultural development of remote regions of Australia such as central western Queensland. The doctoral research resulted in the production of the book The Long Road to School, Sea Pictures of a Convent Boarding School: St Ursula’s Yeppoon founded in 1917 which captured the life and experiences of staff and students of regional boarding schools from the early 20 th century. Australian author and historian Edmund Campion referred to her book as having made a significant contribution to the history of Education in Queensland.

Maree’s ancestors of Irish and German descent arrived in Rockhampton in November 1862, and they lived and worked in many early settlements of the central west.

Currently she is commissioned to write a history of the Diocese of Rockhampton which was officially 140 years old in 2022.