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.

Details

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, 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, 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, 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

Resources

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

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"... the rengitj, as a visible mark or imprint on the land, is characterised as a place of origin, the repository of all names, as well as a kind of mapped visual expression of the connection between people and places which is to be carried out in the temporal sequence of the journey." Fanca Tamisari (1998) 'Body, Vision and Movement: In the footprints of the ancestors'. Oceania 68(4) p260