Editing Marie Bashir (section)

==Early life and education==
Marie Roslyn Bashir was born in 1930 in [[Narrandera]], [[New South Wales]], to [[Lebanese people|Lebanese]] parents Michael Bashir and Victoria Melick.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.worldpress.org/0601people2.htm |title=Marie Bashir: From Psychiatry to Politics |last=Coleman |first=Sarah |publisher=[[World Press Review]] |access-date=20 July 2008}}</ref><ref name=Clune614>Clune & Turner (2009) p.614</ref> Her father and her paternal uncle were both medical graduates from the [[American University of Beirut]]. Her maternal family had come to Australia in the 19th century.<ref name=Clune614/>

Bashir attended Narrandera Public School and in 1943 enrolled at [[Sydney Girls High School]], which her mother had also attended.<ref name=DistinguishedOldGirls>{{cite web|url=http://www.sghs.nsw.edu.au/History/index.html |title=Distinguished Old Girls |access-date=25 May 2008 |work=The History of Sydney Girls High School |publisher=Sydney Girls High School |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080622120326/http://www.sghs.nsw.edu.au/History/index.html |archive-date=22 June 2008 }}</ref> Bashir then moved to Sydney to live with her grandmother in order to attend. Upon graduating in 1947, Bashir studied at the [[Sydney Conservatorium of Music]], becoming a proficient violinist.<ref name=Clune615/>

Bashir completed the degrees of [[Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery|Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery]] (MBBS) in 1956 at the University of [[Sydney Medical School]], residing at [[The Women's College, University of Sydney|The Women's College]] from 1950 to 1955.<ref>{{Cite web |date=1955 |title=1955 Senior year book, Faculty of Medicine, University of Sydney |url=https://digital.library.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/11885?keywords=&lsk=efb5ff31fda94783b54602619dc08f27#idx321574 |access-date=23 May 2022 |website=University of Sydney Digital Collections}}</ref> In 1959, she was elected to the College Council, became Honorary Secretary in 1960 and was Chair from 1982 to 1990. She took up life membership of the College Union in 1969.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.thewomenscollege.com.au/marie-bashir.php |title= Marie Bashir |access-date= 8 August 2010 |publisher= The Women's College |url-status= dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110218010347/http://thewomenscollege.com.au/marie-bashir.php |archive-date= 18 February 2011}}</ref> While at university, she met rising rugby player, [[Nicholas Shehadie]], to whom she was married on 23 February 1957, in [[St Philip's Church, Sydney]], by [[Felix Arnott]], then the Warden of [[St Paul's College, University of Sydney]].<ref name=Clune615>Clune & Turner (2009) p.615</ref> They had their first child, Michael, in 1959, followed by two daughters, Susan and Alexandra.