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She graduated from Sacred Heart College in Kensington, Sydney and went on to attend nursing training at Saint Vincent"s Hospital, also in Sydney, in 1942.
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Pamela Clauss
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Born as Pamela Heavey in Longueville, New South Wales, a suburb of Sydney, to Alison Maud (née Bennett) and John Aloysius Heavey, a New Zealand Navy veteran who had been decorated during World War I for bravery in the ANZAC landing at Gallipoli in 1915. In 1956 following activities in Europe and England she returned to Australia and became a nursing sister in charge of Saint Vincent"s newly established cardio-thoracic surgical unit She went on to pioneer cardiac bypass surgery techniques at the Mayo Clinic, at New York University and at the New York Medical College.
She was dedicated to the following:
Inner City Scholarship Fund for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York
Yorkville Common Pantry (Manhattan)
Community Board #8 (Manhattan)
The 74th Street Association (Manhattan)
Metropolitan Opera and Philharmonic (New York City).
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Roman Catholic