On Clinical Placement at Royal North Shore Hospital Maternity Unit as part of my Associate Diploma in Nurse Education in 1984, I met Dorothy McLennan and attended a NSW Midwives meeting.

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At that meeting plans were being made for an International Midwives Conference to be held in Sydney 1984. From this meeting I became an active member of the NSW Midwives Association now the Australian College of Midwives NSW Branch.

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I was an original member of the BFHI committee 1993 and became a Lifetime member of the College.

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My interest in History happened after meeting Pamela Hayes who was an advocate for recording History and maintaining photos, books, records and instruments used by midwives throughout history.

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I continue to be actively involved in the work of the ACM NSW History and Archives Committee.