- Entry type: Organisation
- Entry ID: AWE0539
The Sybil Irving Memorial Fund Committee
- Occupation Commemoration
Summary
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.
Details
The Sybil Irving Memorial Fund Committee
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
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