Events

1929 - 1941

Teacher with the Victorian Education Department

1936

Participated at the Berlin Olympic Games - Track and Field Athletics - placed sixth in the high jump

1937 - 1939

Played interstate hockey

1938

Represented Australia at the Empire Games, Sydney

1941 - 1946

Member of the Women's Auxiliary Australian Air Force (WAAAF)

1946

Officer-in-charge of the WAAAF Victory Contingent to London

1946 - 1948

Department of Post-War Reconstruction

1948 - 1951

Officer-in-charge of the Child and Youth Migration with the Department of Immigration, London

1951 - 1960

Director of the Women's Royal Australian Air Force

1952 - 1961

President of the Australian Women's Amateur Athletic Union

1956

Manager of the Australian Women's Team at the Olympic Games, Melbourne

13 June 1957

Appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire

1960

General secretary of the YWCA, Melbourne

1963

Member of the Board of Trustees at the Australian War Memorial, Canberra

1971

Member of the National Fitness Council, Victoria

Sources used to compile this entry: Daniels, Stephanie and Tedder, Anita, A Proper Spectacle: Women Olympians 1900-1936, Celebrating 100 years of women in the Olympics, Walla Walla Press with ZeNaNa Press and the Centre for Olympic Studies, UTS, Petersham, 2000; Legge, J S (ed.), Who's who in Australia, 1971, 20 edn, The Herald and Weekly Times, Melbourne, 1971, 1024 pp; Thomson, Joyce A, The WAAAF in Wartime Australia, Melbourne University Press, Carlton, Vic., 1992, 422 pp.