The Sybil Irving Memorial Fund Committee

Sybil Irving's friends and colleagues felt that her great contribution to the community, through her concern for the happiness and welfare of others, should not be forgotten.

A National Memorial Committee was formed to appeal for subscriptions. This brought response from all states and overseas.

A chain of memorials around Australia was planned - one in each capital city. The culmination was the unveiling, by Her Excellency Lady Cowen, of the memorial in Commonwealth Gardens, Canberra on 11 March 1979.

National Chairman
Miss May Douglas, OBE - Girl Guides, AWAS, AAMWS

Deputy Chairman
Miss Mabel Cooper, MBE - Girl Guides

Honorary Secretary
Miss Maureen White - Australian Red Cross Society

Honorary Treasurer
Miss J Strahan - Council on the Ageing

Committee
Miss Jean Wood, OBE - Girl Guides, AWAS
Miss P Adam-Smith - AWAS
Miss R M Alsop - Australian Red Cross Society
Colonel K M Fowler - WRAAC
Miss A McArthur Campbell - Girl Guides, Crippled Childrens' Assn, Army
Miss D Madden - AWAS
Miss M S Williamson - AAMWS, WRAAC
Mr A Wimpole - (Legal Advisor) Army

State Representatives
Queensland
Miss Dorothea Skov - AWAS

South Australia
Miss O J Michelmore - AWAS

Tasmania
Mrs Sefton Taylor - Girl Guides, Red Cross

Western Australia
Mrs B Clinton - AWAS, Red Cross

Chair

• Douglas, Mary Stewart (May) (1904 - 1999)

Related Cultural Artefacts

• The Sybil Irving Memorial, Australian Capital Territory
• The Sybil Irving Memorial, New South Wales
• The Sybil Irving Memorial, Queensland
• The Sybil Irving Memorial, South Australia
• The Sybil Irving Memorial, Tasmania
• The Sybil Irving Memorial, Victoria
• The Sybil Irving Memorial, Western Australia

Related People

• Adam-Smith, Patricia Jean (Patsy) (1924 - 2001)

  Committee member

• Fowler, Kathleen May

  Committee member

• Irving, Sybil Howy (1897 - 1973)
• Skov, Dorathea Jane (1911 - )

  State Representative, Queensland