Person
Evans, Evelyn Paget (1881 - 1960)
MBE
- Born
- 11 November 1881
Auckland, New Zealand - Died
- 10 April 1960
Rydalmere, New South Wales, Australia - Occupation
- Medical administrator
Summary
Evelyn Paget Evans became secretary of both the Australasian Trained Nurses Association and the Australian Massage Association (1917), which later became the Australian Physiotherapy Association. This began a lifetime of work in health administration. She remained secretary of the Australian Physiotherapy Association until 1956.
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Chronology
- 1917 - 1945
- Career position - Secretary, Australasian Trained Nurses Association
- 1917 - 1956
- Career position - Secretary, Australian Massage Association, later known as the Australian Physiotherapy Association
- 1924 - ?
- Career position - Delegate to the National Council of Women of New South Wales
- 1924 - 1950
- Career position - General Secretary, Australian Nursing Federation
- 1926 - 1946
- Career position - Member of Executive of the National Council of Women of New South Wales
- 1940 - 1943
- Career position - Organised first aid for the National Emergency Services
- 1955
- Award - Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)
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
Book Sections
- Godden, Judith; Radi, Heather, 'Evans, Evelyn Paget (1881-1960), administrator' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 14: 1940 - 1980 Di-Kel, John Ritchie, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1996), pp. 106-107. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A140121b.htm. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q21537557. Details
- 'Evans, Evelyn Paget (1881-1960)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1462758. Details
See also
- Alexander, John A. ed., Who's who in Australia 1944 (Melbourne, Victoria: The Herald and Weekly Times Ltd, 1944), 906 pp. Details
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Created: 10 March 2003, Last modified: 5 April 2022