The Australian Women's Register

Summary

The eldest daughter of medical practitioner, Percy and Lily (née Johnston) Shelton, Moira Dynon was educated at Presentation Convent, Elsternwick, Loreto Convent, Toorak and the University of Melbourne. After graduating with a Bachelor of Science in 1941, Dynon was commissioned in the Women’s Australian Auxiliary Air Force and assisted Wing Commander R J W Le Fevre with chemical warfare munitions. Following her discharge she became a research officer with the Commonwealth Serum Laboratories and later with the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research.

On 2 December 1950 she married John Dynon and they had five children. At this stage Dynon became involved with community organisations. These included the Catholic Mothers’ Club Federation, the Catholic Women’s Social Guild and the Australian Council of Catholic Women. In 1952 the Dynon’s established the Malvern branch of the United Nations Australia Association, Victorian division. In 1960 she initiated and ran an appeal to provide secondary education for Japanese children of returned Australian servicemen. Moira Dynon became chairman of the Aid for India and president of its successor Aid India. She also helped with famine-relief campaigns in Bengal, Bangladesh and Pakistan.

Events

• 2042

  Commissioned in the Women’s Royal Australian Air Force

• 2043

  Posted to the Directorate of Armament

• 2043

  Promoted to section officer

• 2044

  Promoted to flight officer

• 1967

  National President of the Aid India Campaign

• 1964

  Chairman of the Aid India Campaign

• 1942

  Graduated from the University of Melbourne with a Bachelor of Science

• 2046

  Discharged from Royal Australian Air Force

• 1946 - 1947

  Research officer (Antibiotics) with the Commonwealth Serum Laboratories, Victoria

• 1947 - 1950

  Worked with the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research

• 1948

  Appointed female officer on the staff council at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research

• 2050

  Married barrister and solicitor John Francis Dynon at Xavier College, Kew

• 1954 - 1955

  Established and foundation president of the Federation of Loreto Old Girls’ Associations

• 1958 - 1959

  Vice-president of the Catholic Mothers’ Clubs’ Federation

• 1962 - 1968

  Member of the executive committee for the Catholic Women’s Social Guild

• 1966 - 1968

  Vice-president of the Catholic Women’s Social Guild

• 1961 - 1967

  President of the Italo-Australian Welfare Association Women’s Division

• 1967

  Received the Knight Order of Star of Italian Solidarity

• 1963 - 1965

  Member of the National executive committee of the A J Ferguson Memorial Appeal for Care of Australian-Japanese Children in Japan

• 1965

  Trustee of the National Fund of the A J Ferguson Memorial Appeal for Care of Australian-Japanese Children in Japan

• 1968

  Vice-president of the Australian Council of Catholic Women

• 1969

  Section chairman of the UNESCO Seminar “Human Rights” at Madras