Obituaries: Sally Connally Hardie, charity campaigner, 84 - Dr Helen Reid, ex-teacher, 71

TRIBUTES Have been paid to Sally Connally Hardie, a charity campaigner from Atlanta who settled in East Lothian, and Dr Helen Reid, a teacher from Edinburgh who made a life for herself in Australia.

Sally Connally Hardie was born in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1926, and educated at the Spence School, New York, and at Vasser College.

She first came to Scotland to study at the University of St Andrews and it was there in 1952 that she met and married Donald Hardie.

In 1956 the couple bought Chesterhill House in Humbie, East Lothian, which remained her home for the rest of her life. As well as making a home for their children David, Robin and Katharine, Mrs Hardie became involved in many organisations, and from 1978 until 1985 she served on the council of the National Trust for Scotland, before working on its executive from 1985 to 1995.

She was a member of the Court of St Andrews University from 1987 to 1997.

Mrs Hardie was also the founding chairman of the East Lothian branch of the National Art Collection fund, now called the Art Fund.

Her involvement with community life meant Mrs Hardie had many friends throughout Scotland and particularly in East Lothian, where friends said the "Southern belle" would be greatly missed.

Mrs Hardie died on September 21, aged 84, and is survived by her husband and three children.

Dr Helen Reid was born in Edinburgh on November 24, 1938, the daughter of a housemaster at Loretto School in Musselburgh.

She had two older brothers, and, after George Watson's College Field, attended St Leonards School in St Andrews, where she acquired a life-long love of golf.

She started to read medicine at Edinburgh University, but switched to mathematics after an attack of tuberculosis. After graduating in 1960, she joined the staff at Edinburgh Academy in 1963 where she is remembered as "cheerful and genial".

She later moved to Oxford to be with her parents who had retired there, but decided that to further her career and for health reasons, it would be better to live in a warmer climate.

In 1971 she applied for the post of deputy headmistress at Walford Church of England Girls Grammar school in Adelaide. Within two years she was made headmistress, and during her 19 years in the role the number of pupils increased considerably and resulted in an ambitious building programme.

When she retired in 1991 she was widely recognised as having made a huge contribution to the school's activities.

She returned to Scotland every two years to see her many friends, all of whom speak of her loyalty, generosity of spirit and warmth.

One friend of many years said: "Helen was always fun to be with. Bubbly and a very special person."

She never married, and died in Adelaide on August 9, aged 71.