Feature Article
Joyce Irene Ackroyd (1918–1991)
Joyce Irene Ackroyd (1918-1991), professor of Japanese, was born on 23 November 1918 at Newcastle, New South Wales, second child of locally-born parents Alfred Walter Goldsmith Ackroyd, architect, and his wife Constance, née Lloyd. Educated at Newcastle and Parramatta High schools, Joyce attributed her lifelong interest in Japan to a childhood fascination with the East and an intellectual curiosity sparked by later history studies at school. Japan’s art, its language and ‘arcane script,’ and...