Biographical entry Price, Joyce Ethel (1915 - 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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Events

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 Exhibitions

• McCarthy, Gavan; Morgan, Helen; Smith, Ailie; van den Bosch, Alan, Where are the Women in Australian Science?, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, 2003, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/wisa/wisa.html. Details

Newspaper Articles

• Devlin, M. And Price, D., 'Guiding light shone all the way to Westminster Abbey', The Sydney Morning Herald, Obituary, 26 October 2009, p. 18. Also available at http://newsstore.fairfax.com.au/apps/viewDocument.ac?docID=SMH091026O13AI77Q44L. Details

Theses

• Carey, Jane, 'Departing from their sphere: Australian women and science, 1880-1960', PhD thesis, The University of Melbourne, 2003, 356 pp. Details
• Carey, Jane, 'Departing from their sphere: Australian women and science, 1880-1960', PhD thesis, The University of Melbourne, 2003, 356 pp. Details

Online Resources

• 'Price, Joyce Ethel', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-765074. Details

See also

• Herd, Margaret (ed.), Who's Who in Australia 2002, 38 edn, Crown Content, Melbourne, 2001, 2020 pp. Details