Wadim Jegorow papers aggregated collection

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1940s-1990s

Textual Records, Clippings, Ephemera, Graphic Materials, Architectural and Technical Drawings, Photographs, Moving Images, Objects, Badges

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Wadim (Bill) Jegorow, AM, MBE, social worker and lawyer, was born in Vilna, Poland on 14 May 1934, of Russian parents. During World War II he lived with his family in displaced workers' camps, including Ravensburg Workers' Camp, Germany. The family arrived in Australia in 1951.
After completing his secondary education at Homebush Boys' High School, Jegorow was awarded a Commonwealth Scholarship to Sydney University, where he was active in student affairs and served with the Sydney University Regiment. In 1953 he became a Cadet Child Welfare Officer with the New South Wales Public Service. He was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree and Diploma of Social Studies in 1957 and worked as a Parole Officer with the New South Wales Department of Prisons. Admitted to the Bar in 1964 after completing the Barristers' Admission Board examinations, Jegorow practised as a barrister until he rejoined the New South Wales Public Service as a Legal Officer with the Forestry Commission in 1970. He held the position of Magistrate in Hong Kong briefly during 1972. He was appointed to the New South Wales Ethnic Affairs Commission in 1977 as a part time Deputy Commissioner (1977-1979), and was Consultant on Ethnic Affairs, Premier's Department from October 1979 to October 1980. He was appointed a full time Deputy Commissioner, Ethnic Affairs Commission in 1980, a position he held until 1986, and in 1990 acted as honorary consultant to the Commission on local government matters.
Jegorow joined the Australian Labor Party in 1955 and later became President of the Haberfield Branch and of the Drummoyne State Electoral Council. From 1959 to 1987 he served as an Alderman on Ashfield Municipal Council and was Deputy Mayor in 1972. As an Alderman, and as Chairman of the Council's Community Development Committee (from 1984), he was associated with many community service activities, including establishment of the Ashfield Meals on Wheels Service and the Ashfield Community Aid Service. From 1959, as a foundation member, Secretary and later President of the Bankstown and District Civil Rehabilitation Committee, Jegorow was actively involved in prisoner rehabilitation, particularly the establishment of the first Halfway House (Judge Rainbow Memorial Halfway House) for released prisoners in 1964.
In 1973 Jegorow was awarded an MBE for services to the community and was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia in 1998. On 4 May 1980 he married Lydia Maria Nausica Dimitriadis (d. 10 May 1988).
Jegorow has served in many capacities on government bodies dealing with ethnic affairs, including the Australian Ethnic Affairs Council (1977-1980, and as a member of the Council's Standing Committee on Community Consultation and Ethnic Media), and the National Population Council (1984-1988, and as a member of the Council's Ethnic Affairs and Settlement Committee). He has also been actively involved in community welfare and ethnic affairs as a member of the following bodies: Good Neighbour Council of New South Wales (from 1956, and member of the Executive from 1973); Inner Western Suburbs Region Ethnic Communities Group (Chairman from 1974); Ethnic Communities Council of New South Wales (Foundation Chairman 1975-1979); Federation of Ethnic Communities Councils of Australia (Chairman, 1979-1984, appointed Honorary President 1984, Convenor Local Government Network 1988-1993); New South Wales Council on the Ageing (Chairperson, Ethnic Affairs Advisory Committee 1987-1989). Jegorow was a foundation member of the Australian Psychological Society. He is a member and councillor of the New South Wales Public Service Professional Officers' Association, and from 1978 was POA delegate to the Ethnic Communities' Council of New South Wales. He was elected a life member of the Association in 1991.
Wadim Jegorow died in Sydney on 11 April 2006.

COLLECTION 1
Wadim Jegorow - papers, 1947-1994

COLLECTION 2
Wadim Jegorow further papers, 1940s-1990s

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