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| 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 |
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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; Who's Who in Australia, 1971, p. 182 and The WAAAF in Wartime Australia by Joyce Thomson. |
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- 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. [ Details... ]
See also
- Legge, J S (ed.), Who's who in Australia, 1971, 20 edn, The Herald and Weekly Times, Melbourne, 1971, 1024 pp. [ Details... ]
- Thomson, Joyce A, The WAAAF in Wartime Australia, Melbourne University Press, Carlton, Vic., 1992, 422 pp. [ Details... ]
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