Person
Price, Joyce Ethel (1915 - 2009)
CMG OBE
- Born
- 8 August 1915
- Died
- 19 August 2009
Summary
Joyce Price was a trained botanist who was most well known for her contributions to the Girl Guides Association Australia and the Worldwide Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts.
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Chronology
- 1942 - 1944
- Career position - Laboratory Officer at the Ministry of Supply Explosives Factory, Scotland
- 1956 - 1960
- Career position - District Commissioner for Caulfield for the Girl Guides Association of Australia
- 1957 - 1960
- Career position - Secretary of the Australian Reading Union
- 1960 - 1970
- Career position - Vice-President of the Australian Reading Union
- 1961 - 1963
- Career position - Divisional Commissioner for the South Eastern Suburbs of Melbourne for the Girl Guides Association of Australia
- 1963 - 1968
- Career position - State Commissioner for Victoria of the Girl Guides Association of Australia
- 1967
- Award - Silver Fish Award received from the Girl Guides Association of Australia
- 1968
- Award - Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)
- 1968 - 1973
- Career position - Chief Commissioner of the Girl Guides Association of Australia
- 1972 - 1981
- Career position - Member of the World Committee of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts
- 1975 - 1981
- Career position - Chairman of the World Committee of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts
- 1978
- Award - Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG)
- 1983 -
- Career position - Life member of the State Council of the Girl Guides Association of Victoria
- 1984 -
- Career position - Vice-President of the Girl Guides Association of Australia
- 1985 - 1993
- Career position - Vice-President of the Olave Baden-Powell Society
Published resources
Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions
- McCarthy, Gavan; Morgan, Helen; Smith, Ailie; van den Bosch, Alan, Where are the Women in Australian Science?, Exhibition of the Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, First published 2003 with lists updated regulary edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, 2003, https://eoas.info/exhibitions/wisa/wisa.html. Details
Newspaper Articles
- Devlin, M.; and Price, D., 'Guiding light shone all the way to Westminster Abbey', Sydney Morning Herald (2009), 18, https://www.smh.com.au/national/guiding-light-shone-all-the-way-to-westminster-abbey-20091025-hem1.html. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6297614. Details
- 'Price, Joyce Ethel (1915-)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-765074. Details
Theses
- Carey, Jane, 'Departing from their sphere: Australian women and science, 1880-1960', PhD thesis, The University of Melbourne, 2003, 356 pp. Details
See also
- Herd, Margaret ed., Who's who in Australia 2002 (Melbourne: Crown Content, 2001), 2020 pp. Details
Ailie Smith
Created: 3 March 2003, Last modified: 15 June 2022