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siblings at a young age, deeply affected her. She began her early schooling in New
Zealand, and later she attended the Methodist Ladies' College in Hawthorne. She travelled to England with her parents for a year in 1914, before returning to Australia. Her health was precarious, and her studies were frequently interrupted. She completed her studies at the Methodist Ladies' College in 1917.
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As a young woman, Porter assisted her father with the administration of his charitable trust, the F. J. Cato
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Having begun participating in the local YWCA when she was eighteen years old, Porter became a member of the
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After completing her degrees, Porter spent a year working as a resident at Prince Henry's
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Despite being raised in an affluent family, Porter's childhood was marred by tragedy. When she was four years old, she and her sister Edith, age six, were playing by a pond on their family's property, when Lois fell in the water and drowned. Her sister's death, and the death of another of her
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