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3 Florence Violet Granville - Transcriptions and notes Key article copies Excellent biography of Violet as at 1922 in the Sydney Sun ROYAL RAIMENT. ELECTRIC WOMAN. BREAKING NEW GROUND. Wires and Wireless. There is an old saying that "if you know what you want life will give it to you." Miss F. V. Wallace, who has just won the first diploma for electrical engineering in Australia, is a living example of the adage. "I started my work as an electrical engineer with a five-pound note," she said when referring to the recent public distinction she has achieved. "Today the diploma doesn't mean very much to me, because I have been working steadily at my job for the last seven years. A great many people have never heard about the only woman in the business, but all the same I have had no trouble in getting all the contracts I could deal with. Before I took up this work I was a teacher of mathematics in Armidale. It suddenly occurred in church one night that I was wasting my time at that, and a strong feeling came over me that I ought to to study science. I didn't hesitate. I came back to Sydney, for although I belong to Austinmer I was educated at a Sydney high school, and I went to the 'Uni.' and studied science for a year. At the same time I attended the Technical College in the evenings and went through the engineering course." Miss Wallace's grey eyes flash with the enthusiasm that has made her — the only woman amongst hundreds of men — a success today. Petite and frail to look upon, she has obviously boundless energy and an indomitable will. THE HELPING HAND. "Yes, naturally the men were curious about me at first. They used to peep at me over the partition and through the doors, but I just waved back at them, and very soon they were treating me as one of themselves. Perhaps it's because I'm little, but I've never had anything to complain of in that way. There has never been a hint of superiority nor of contempt. I have always found that men tire ready to help me with my work rather than criticise it. "I remember the first evening at the Tec. It was 'practical night,' and the instructor gave me some soldering to do, probably thinking it would finish my enthusiasm. But that was child's play to me — the sort of thing I'd been doing since I was a kid. And anyway the boys all came round and offered to show me the best way to do it. "I got my first job through an advertisement. Someone at Undercliffe wanted a house wired, and though I had only book knowledge at the time of that sort of work, I wasn't afraid I couldn't do it if I got the job. It was a fearfully hot day, and the house was about two miles from the tram. I got the job because I was the only 'contractor' to arrive there. I employed a lad to help me, and — well, there were no complaints when it was done. Since that day contracting has been so ridiculously easy for me that I have had as many orders as I could keep up with." Miss Wallace went on to tell how she started her office and workshop combined at Rawson Chambers, where she threw herself on the mercy of the manager to lend her a few chairs, a table, and a strip of oilcloth to make a show for the customers. She had no tools in the beginning, but bought them with her first earnings. The men from the Technical College used to bring her their odd jobs, or come to work themselves in her workshop which was open house to them. It is the same thing today. When she transferred to the electrical and wireless shop that she now presides over she bought the entire stock of the wireless vendor who preceded her and began to take an interest in wireless telegraphy beyond the mere selling of the apparatus. DOTS AND DASHES. "The first man who came in for an iron pyrites crystal made me feel ashamed that I couldn't talk his language — he was a wireless operator from one of the boats — but I set about rectifying that, and very soon I was a keen convert to the radiograph. Today I could talk about wireless for hours and never get tired of it. Indeed I am so enthusiastic that I am giving up contracting altogether as soon as I can finish the orders I have on hand, and am going to devote myself entirely to wireless. We make the machines here. I have my own lathe upstairs, and we turn out the entire machines, both the crystal and the valve wireless apparatus. The connecting telephones come from America, but the ebonite and the crystals, and even the copper wire for the drums, are all produced locally. With this little machine that you can carry in your hand we are able to pick up Melbourne and all adjacent stations, while the valve machine puts us in touch with New York, the Eiffel Tower, Carnarvon, and all the big wireless stations abroad. There are five thousand amateur wireless enthusiasts in Australia, and supplying their needs is a trade — a growing trade — in itself." Through Miss Wallace having taken up a collection for the wireless operator of the Helen B. Sterling, who lost heavily in the wreck, and the pleasant social gathering that was convened for the presentation, has grown the establishment of the Metropolitan Radio Club, of which she has been elected the treasurer. There were at the first meeting, held a fortnight ago in the Persian Garden, one hundred members, all residents of Sydney. Again Miss Wallace was the only woman member. This enterprising woman pioneer of one of the most necessary branches of the world's work is one of those who says little and does much.http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article225218405 ROYAL RAIMENT The Sun 988 New South Wales, Australia 5 March 1922 12 November 2023 17 National Library of Australia Non-chronological material 1890s 1890 1890 01 1890 02 1890 03 1890 04 1890 05 1890 06 1890 07 1890 08 1890 09 1890 10 1890 11 1890 12 1891 1891 01 1891 02 1891 03 1891 04 1891 05 1891 06 1891 07 1891 08 1891 09 1891 10 1891 11 1891 12 1892 1892 01 1892 02 1892 03 1892 04 1892 05 1892 06 1892 07 1892 08 1892 09 1892 10 1892 11 1892 12 1893 1893 01 1893 02 1893 03 1893 04 1893 05 1893 06 1893 07 1893 08 1893 09 1893 10 1893 11 1893 12 1894 1894 01 1894 02 1894 03 1894 04 1894 05 1894 06 1894 07 1894 08 1894 09 1894 10 1894 11 1894 12 1895 1895 01 1895 02 1895 03 1895 04 1895 05 1895 06 1895 07 1895 08 1895 09 1895 10 1895 11 1895 12 1896 1896 01 1896 02 1896 03 1896 04 1896 05 1896 06 1896 07 1896 08 1896 09 1896 10 1896 11 1896 12 1897 1897 01 1897 02 1897 03 1897 04 1897 05 1897 06 1897 07 1897 08 1897 09 1897 10 1897 11 1897 12 1898 1898 01 1898 02 1898 03 1898 04 1898 05 1898 06 1898 07 1898 08 1898 09 1898 10 1898 11 1898 12 1899 1899 01 1899 02 1899 03 1899 04 1899 05 1899 06 Violet takes a prominent place, both reciting and singing, at a Thirroul Public School children's entertainment THIRROUL PUBLIC SCHOOL. Children's Entertainment. An entertainment in connection with Thirroul Public School was given in the schoolroom on Friday evening last, and (writes our correspondent) was a pronounced success, both as regards attendance and financial results. The object of the entertainment was to raise funds for prizes, and to complete the school library some time ago inaugurated. Every praise is due to our worthy teacher, Mr. L. C. Willard, his equally worthy assistant, Miss Baldwin, and also the scholars for the really enjoyable evening they gave and also for the splendid object lesson in self help, as our country schools are very heavily handicapped in comparison with the city schools as regards prizes and other requisites. The programme was a lengthy and varied one, and the cool and precise manner in which the pupils went through their respective items individually and collectively reflected the greatest credit on their teachers, considering the short period they had to prepare and the fact that this was the first entertainment given at the school. Master J. McEwan recited in very good style "Why the Rooster would'nt die." Physical drill and dumb bell exercise by the junior boys, was well done indeed; "Rock, Baby, Dear," by the little girls, was excellently rendered; a recitation, "Perseverance," by Miss Violet Wallace, a very appropriate piece for such an entertainment, was capitally rendered by this little lady of eight years, and although her voice was not strong enough to fill such a large room, the elocution was excellent, and with her natural talent, and good memory, she should give a good account of herself in the future; Miss G. Webb contributed a solo, "I'm Motherless now," with much credit; a dance, "Sailor's Hornpipe," by Master Ford produced an encore; a duet by Miss A. Akhurst and Master A. Osborne (in character), "Where Are You Going, My Pretty Maid," produced much amusement by the pert manner of this young lady in snubbing her mercenary lover; the funeral of "Cock Robin" was humorous, with a strong thread of the grotesque running through it; Miss Gordon's recitation, "Poor Little Joe," a rather lengthy piece, was well done, showing her to have a good memory and plenty confidence; the favorite juvenile recitation, "My Dead Doll," was well executed by Miss Violet Wallace; song, "Topsy Turvy," by the junior pupils evoked shrieks of laughter, and was well staged; Miss S. Ford danced the Highland Fling in first-rate style, receiving great applause and being encored; the song, "The Fireman," by Masters Akhurst and Osborne (in character) created great amusement and was rendered with the confidence of professionals; Master Ray Robins' rendering of "Santa Claus' Visit" evoked loud applause. The tableaux, rifle drill, and (particularly) the floral march and song, "Advance Australia," were most admirably done; "God Save the Queen" brought a most pleasant entertainment to a close.http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article132327304 THIRROUL PUBLIC SCHOOL. Illawarra Mercury XLIV, 83 New South Wales, Australia 1 June 1899 13 November 2023 2 National Library of Australia 1899 07 1899 08 1899 09 1899 10 1899 11 1899 12 1900s 1900 1900 01 1900 02 1900 03 1900 04 1900 05 1900 06 1900 07 1900 08 1900 09 1900 10 1900 11 1900 12 1901 1901 01 1901 02 1901 03 1901 04 1901 05 1901 06 1901 07 1901 08 1901 09 1901 10 1901 11 1901 12 1902 1902 01 1902 02 1902 03 1902 04 1902 05 1902 06 1902 07 1902 08 1902 09 1902 10 1902 11 1902 12 1903 1903 01 1903 02 1903 03 1903 04 1903 05 1903 06 1903 07 1903 08 1903 09 1903 10 1903 11 1903 12 1904 1904 01 Violet receives a certificate in religious instruction from Rural Deanery of Wollongong while at Thirroul Public School RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION. We have received a full report from the Church of England synod committee on special religious instruction in Public Schools. About 1,200 children in 13 schools in the Rural Deanery of Wollongong, taught by the salaried teacher were examined by the Rev. E. H. Tottenham, M.A., of whom 62 were invited to attend at Wollongong for further examination; 30 presented themselves, the difficulty of long distance preventing a larger number from doing so. The examiner in his report says: The 1,200 children whom I have examined show a fair knowledge generally of their work. Foremost are the pupils of Unanderra School. The Avondale quartet place this school in the very front rank. Corrimal, Mt. Kembla, and Thirroul gave evidence both of intelligence and of interest in their work. The W. Dapto and the (two) Corrimal (girl prize-winners) were also conspicuous for the example they set to the juniors. The work is one to be warmly encouraged, particularly in the direction of realistic teaching that Christian truths are intended to be lived, and not only to be learnt by heart. Wollongong Rural Deanery results: (A.) Ununderra, Avondale, Corrimal, Thirroul, Mt. Kembla, most excellent; (B.) W. Dapto, Mt. Keira, Balgownie, excellent; (C.) Dapto, Woonona, Keiraville, Wollongong, good; Fairy Meadow, Port Kembla, Berkeley, fair. Prizes.— Seniors: Albert Staff, Unanderra; Jessie Moir, Corrimal; Pearl Duncan, Corrimal. Intermediate: Arthur Hunter, Wollongong; Tamar Campbell, W. Dapto; Ethel Duley, Avondale, Avondale. Junior: Lily Frost, Mt. Kembla. Certificates.— (A.) Unanderra School:— Seniors — Albert Staff, H. Hurt, Connie Knowles, Annie Hunt, John Buchanan, K. Gorrell, Pearl Benjamin, Allan Rankin; Juniors — Walter Cattrell, Roy Bloor, Arthur Osborne. Avondale:— Intermediate — Eva Bryen, Ethel Duley, Lily Bryen, Polly Neville. Corrimal:— Seniors — Jessie Moir, Perl Duncan, Lucy Sanderson, J. Wilmot, H. Lynch; Juniors — Laura Liversidge, Lena Hankin, Georgia Harris, Eileen Moon. Thirroul:— Seniors — Violet Wallace, George Smith, Arthur Wilmot, Jack Harrison; Juniors — Mal. McGuiness, Muriel Walker, Charles Walker, Alfred Adey. Mt. Kembla — Seniors — Joyce Hamilton, J. Peace, James Vaughan, James Morrison, B. Johnson; Juniors — Lily Frost, Emily Stone, Sid Laidlow, Eric Kelly. (B.) W. Dapto School:— Intermediate — Tamar Campbell, Edwin Smith, Dorothy Harris. Mt. Keira:— Seniors — W. Anderson, H. Bissell, F. Anderson, M. Payne; Juniors — Ethel Bissell, Stanley Elson. Balgownie:— Seniors — George Hayne, V. Sherman, M. McKenzie, J. Harris, A. Crane; Juniors — Willie Campbell, Ada Chapman. (C.) Dapto School:— Seniors — Catherine Cameron, Grace Gentles, F. St. Clair, R. Gentles; Juniors — Linda Flodin, Enid Ford, Fred Posker. Keiraville:— Intermediate — H. Caisley, Edie Bulch. Eva Jubb. Woonona:— Intermediate — Jane Thompson, Emily Cope, Willie Carter, Elsie Burling. Wollongong:— Intermediate — Arthur Hunter, Ronald Osborne, Harold Cham-berlain, Cecil R. Blomfield, E. Williams, Thos. D'Arcy Irvine. (D.) Fairy Meadow:— Seniors — A. McKenzie, W. Crotty, E. McKenzie; Juniors — Fred Guest, Willie Scott. Port Kembla:— Intermediate — Alice Nicols, Peter Rieck, Muriel Peterson. Berkeley:— Intermediate — Isabel Neaves, Hilda Barber.http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article142853377 RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION. South Coast Times And Wollongong Argus V, 3 New South Wales, Australia 16 January 1904 13 November 2023 13 National Library of Australia 1904 02 1904 03 1904 04 1904 05 1904 06 1904 07 Violet wins a three year scholarship to the Sydney Girls' High School HERE AND THERE. . . . Miss Violet Wallace, of Austinmer, and pupil of Thirroul Public School, has received word of her success in the recent State Bursary examination, which is competitive. Miss Wallace is 13 years old, and is now entitled to a three years' term at the Girls' High School, Sydney, free.http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article258170115 HERE AND THERE. The Nowra Colonist 25, 1475 New South Wales, Australia 13 July 1904 13 November 2023 1 National Library of Australia 1904 08 SOUTH COAST ITEMS. . . . Miss Violet Wallace, late pupil at Thirroul Public School, and who gained one of the three bursaries competed for in June last, open to all school girls under 14 years, has now started her studies in the Girls' High School, Sydney.http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article142852498 SOUTH COAST ITEMS. South Coast Times And Wollongong Argus V, 32 New South Wales, Australia 6 August 1904 12 November 2023 8 National Library of Australia 1904 09 1904 10 1904 11 1904 12 1905 1905 01 1905 02 1905 03 1905 04 1905 05 1905 06 1905 07 1905 08 1905 09 1905 10 1905 11 1905 12 1906 1906 01 1906 02 1906 03 1906 04 1906 05 1906 06 1906 07 1906 08 1906 09 1906 10 1906 11 1906 12 1907 1907 01 1907 02 1907 03 1907 04 1907 05 1907 06 1907 07 1907 08 1907 09 1907 10 1907 11 1907 12 1908 1908 01 1908 02 1908 03 1908 04 1908 05 1908 06 1908 07 1908 08 1908 09 1908 10 1908 11 1908 12 1909 1909 01 1909 02 1909 03 1909 04 1909 05 1909 06 1909 07 1909 08 1909 09 1909 10 1909 11 1909 12 1910s 1910 1910 01 1910 02 1910 03 1910 04 1910 05 1910 06 1910 07 1910 08 1910 09 1910 10 1910 11 1910 12 1911 1911 01 1911 02 1911 03 1911 04 1911 05 1911 06 1911 07 1911 08 1911 09 1911 10 1911 11 1911 12 1912 1912 01 1912 02 1912 03 1912 04 1912 05 1912 06 1912 07 1912 08 1912 09 1912 10 1912 11 1912 12 1913 1913 01 1913 02 1913 03 1913 04 1913 05 1913 06 1913 07 1913 08 1913 09 1913 10 1913 11 1913 12 1914 1914 01 1914 02 1914 03 1914 04 1914 05 1914 06 1914 07 1914 08 1914 09 1914 10 1914 11 1914 12 Violet receives a pass in Mathematics I. B at University of Sydney as an evening student UNIVERSITY EXAMINATIONS. ADDITIONAL RESULTS. The following additional examination results have been supplied by the University of Sydney:— FACULTY OF ARTS. . . . MATHEMATICS I. B.— . . . Pass (alphabetical): . . . . (e) Florence V. Wallace http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article238884606 UNIVERSITY EXAMINATIONS. registrar to-day. The Daily Telegraph 11102 New South Wales, Australia 22 December 1914 14 November 2023 8 National Library of Australia 1915 1915 01 1915 02 1915 03 1915 04 1915 05 1915 06 1915 07 1915 08 1915 09 Violet passes Science at the University THE UNIVERSITY. The following additional results of examinations have been posted:— . . . Pass (Science) — Alberta C P Andrews, Ida D. Barnes, Mary M. R. Brooks, Aileen M. Broughton, Kathleen I. Cronin, A. D. Dibley, Marie Erhard, A. Evans, Winifred A. Goadby, R. G. Hay, T. H. H. Hughes, W. J. Kirchner, Ivy Litchfield, Catherine D. McGrath, Violet Meikle, Mona Moriarty, Estelle Penman, Eva M. Pollard, Leila B. Quigley, Elinor C. Ross, Heather H. Sherrie, C. R. Smith, G. A. Spring, Myrtle E. Thompson, Florence V. Wallace, Elsie M. Webb, G. R. White.http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article15613026 THE UNTVERSITY. The Sydney Morning Herald 24,236 New South Wales, Australia 11 September 1915 13 November 2023 20 National Library of Australia 1915 10 1915 11 1915 12 1916 1916 01 1916 02 1916 03 1916 04 1916 05 Violet succeeds with her tender for an electric light installation at Austinmer BUILDINGS, PLANS, AND TENDERS. . . . VARIOUS WORKS. Mr. S. H. Buchanan, architect, notifies that the tender of F. V. Wallace has been accepted for electric light installation at Austinmer, and the tender of Messrs. McIntyre and Curran has been accepted for painting and repairs to residence at Shell Cove Road, Neutral Bay. Plans are now being prepared for a residence at North Sydney. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article238676212 BUILDING, PLANS, AND TENDERS. The Daily Telegraph 11549 New South Wales, Australia 16 May 1916 14 November 2023 6 National Library of Australia 1916 06 1916 07 1916 08 1916 09 1916 10 1916 11 1916 12 1917 1917 01 Violet announced as having passed in electrical engineering and descriptive geometry at the Technical College AUSTINMER. . . . Miss Florence V. Wallace, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G. Wallace, of Austinmer, has passed the examination in electrical engineering (Technical College); she also passed in descriptive geometry. Miss Wallace is at present in rather unique position of being an electrical contractor in Sydney, and appears to be well adapted for this class of work. At the age of 13 she won a bursary at the Thirroul Public School.http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article141641653 AUSTINMER South Coast Times And Wollongong Argus XVII, 4 New South Wales, Australia 26 January 1917 14 November 2023 14 National Library of Australia 1917 02 1917 03 1917 04 Tenders Accepted. ARCHITECTS' WORK Place. Description. Architect and Builder. . . . . Leura — Instal Electric Light to Residence. Peddle and Thorp. F. V. Wallace, Rawson Place, Syd.http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article109675987 Advertising Construction And Local Government Journal XVIII, 480 New South Wales, Australia 16 April 1917 12 November 2023 1 National Library of Australia 1917 05 Violet wins two contracts for installation of electric lighting to factories BUILDING INDUSTRY & MACHINERY. CONTRACTS ACCEPTED. . . . City.— Installation of electric light to factory, George-street West: F. V. Wallace, contractor, Rawson Chambers. . . . Botany.— Installation of electric light to factory: F. V. Wallace, contractor, Rawson Chambers, George-street. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article221956446 BUILDING-INDUSTRY & MACHINERY The Sun 2156 New South Wales, Australia 28 May 1917 14 November 2023 3 (FINAL EXTRA) National Library of Australia 1917 06 Violet wins another contract for domestic electric light installation at Coogee Tenders Accepted. ARCHITECTS' WORK. Place. Description. Architect and Builder. Coogee— Installation of Electric Light to Residence .. J. Dunstan and Son. F. V. Wallace, Rawson Place, Syd.http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article109674123 Advertising Construction And Local Government Journal IX, 488 New South Wales, Australia 11 June 1917 14 November 2023 1 National Library of Australia 1917 07 Tenders Accepted. ARCHITECTS' WORK. Place. Description. Architect and Builder. Summer Hill — Installation of Electric Light to Residence J. Dunstan and Son. F. V. Wallace, Rawson Chambers, Sydney.http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article109672988 Advertising Construction And Local Government Journal IX, 491 New South Wales, Australia 2 July 1917 17 November 2023 1 National Library of Australia Tenders Accepted. ARCHITECTS' WORK. Place. Description. Architect and Builder. Mosman— Installation of Electric Light J. Dunstan and Son. F. V. Wallace Rawson Pl., Sydney.http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article109675583 Advertising Construction And Local Government Journal IX, 494 New South Wales, Australia 23 July 1917 17 November 2023 1 National Library of Australia 1917 08 BUILDING INDUSTRY & MACHINERY. CONTRACTS ACCEPTED. Newtown.— Installation of electric light and power to house, Margaret-street; W. Laurisch, architect; F. V. Wallace, Contractor, Rawson-chambers.http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article221405103 BUILDING-INDUSTRY & MACHINERY The Sun 2216 New South Wales, Australia 6 August 1917 17 November 2023 7 (FINAL EXTRA) National Library of Australia 1917 09 BUILDING - INDUSTRY & MACHINERY. CONTRACTS ACCEPTED. Little Coogee.— Installation of electric light and power to two residences, Messrs. F. V. Wallace, contractor. Mosman.— Electric light and power to house, Raglan-street, Peddle and Thorp, architects, Messrs. F. V. Wallace, contractor, Rawson-cham-bers, Rawson-place.http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article221396756 BUILDING-INDUSTRY & MACHINERY The Sun 2258 New South Wales, Australia 24 September 1917 17 November 2023 7 (FINAL EXTRA) National Library of Australia 1917 10 Two more electrical contracts for Violet BUILDING - INDUSTRY & MACHINERY. CONTRACTS ACCEPTED. . . . City.— Light and power installation to shop premises, Pitt-street: F. V. Wallace, contractor, Rawson-chambers. . . . Lakemba.— Installation of electric light to premises for Messrs. George Hudson and Son: F. V. Wallace, contractor, Rawson-chambers.http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article221390656 BUILDING-INDUSTRY & MACHINERY The Sun 2282 New South Wales, Australia 22 October 1917 17 November 2023 8 National Library of Australia 1917 11 1917 12 1918 1918 01 1918 02 PERSONAL. ELECTRIC LIGHT AND POWER INSTALLATIONS. MISS F. V. WALLACE 103 Rawson-chambers, Rawson-place, Tel., City 8542http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article221948501 Advertising The Sun 2377 New South Wales, Australia 11 February 1918 12 November 2023 6 National Library of Australia 1918 03 1918 04 1918 05 1918 06 1918 07 1918 08 1918 09 1918 10 1918 11 1918 12 1919 1919 01 1919 02 1919 03 1919 04 1919 05 1919 06 1919 07 1919 08 1919 09 1919 10 1919 11 1919 12 1920s 1920 1920 01 1920 02 1920 03 MDLLE. EDISON. WHEELS AND DYNAMOS. ENGINEERING — FOR CHOICE. (Start Photo Caption) Miss Violet Wallace (End Photo Caption) "And when I was asked, 'What do you want to do?' I said, 'Engineering, please.' " Little Miss Violet Wallace admitted this with a genuine blush. She is so modest about her achievement that she would rather talk of anything than how she became a successful electric engineer, choosing it above all others when it became a matter of a career, and was discussed in the family circle. "The idea always fascinated me," she said. "I wanted to see the wheels go round from the day I could remember, and later wanted to know exactly what made them do so. It became a possessing obsession. Way back in the days when only three scholarships were available for girls wishing to get to the High School, I happened to be of the lucky trio one year. That was the real beginning, and I plunged straight into science and the notion took its first concrete form. From school the University was the next step, but after I had nearly completed my course circumstances arose that made it necessary for me to get at once into bread-and-butter harness, so the Technical College, with its big activities, became my new field. After that it was work — plain hard graft — with no time for powdering my nose or fluffing my hair. Overalls on all day, and no inclination to look into a mirror, even if one had been handy. It was a busy life for me — seven years — but packed full of interesting experiments and achievements. THE WOMAN BOSS "Of course all my 'hands' are men, and I never have any bother. Now and again engaging labor I have overheard the query, 'Say, what's it like working for a woman?' and the reply, 'She'll do — come in.' Once only did I strike the jealous masculine opposition that I had feared. A City Council inspector told me I ought to be home in my proper place, washing dishes; but he didn't find any fault with my work. "Another time I asked a gentle workman to put in a little overtime on a job, and he was so disgusted at the injury and insult of my sex and the request that he threw a coil of wire at me. But that's all in the game, and breaks any monotony that might threaten." Being a Mdlle. Edison isn't everything, but it is a great deal, and is an alternative to the old-fashioned jobs that still survive."http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article221383111 MDLLE. EDISOM The Sun 887 New South Wales, Australia 28 March 1920 12 November 2023 17 National Library of Australia 1920 04 1920 05 1920 06 1920 07 1920 08 1920 09 1920 10 1920 11 1920 12 1921 1921 01 1921 02 1921 03 1921 04 1921 05 1921 06 1921 07 1921 08 1921 09 1921 10 1921 11 Business Announcements. 10d per line (about 7 words to line); 2 lines, 1/8. . . . MISS F. V. WALLACE. ELECTRICAL ENGINEER. Wireless Apparatus a Speciality. 18 ROYAL ARCADE (opp. Queen Victoria Building) GEORGE STREET. SYDNEY. Telephone: City 8543.http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article239719177 Advertising The Daily Telegraph 13266 New South Wales, Australia 16 November 1921 12 November 2023 1 National Library of Australia 1921 12 Business Announcements. . . . MISS F. V. WALLACE, ELECTRICAL ENGINEER. Wireless Apparatus a Speciality. 18 ROYAL ARCADE (opp. Queen Victoria Building). GEORGE STREET. SYDNEY. Telephone: City 8543.http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article239717823 Advertising The Daily Telegraph 13284 New South Wales, Australia 7 December 1921 12 November 2023 1 National Library of Australia 1922 1922 01 1922 02 Violet organises a presentation to the wireless operator of the Helen B. Sterling PERSONAL. . . . The wreck of the Helen B. Sterling, and the stirring incidents associated with the rescue of her crew were recalled last night, when a public welcome, together with presentation of a wallet of bank notes, was tendered to Mr. R. H. Shaw, the youthful wireless operator of the vessel. The function, which was arranged by Miss F. V. Wallace was held at the Persian Garden, and was largely attended by members of the Wireless Institute, and others interested in wireless. Mr. R. C. Marsden, who presided, and other speakers, paid a tribute to the manner in which Mr. Shaw stuck to his post during a trying and critical period.http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article15970867 PERSONAL. The Sydney Morning Herald 26,241 New South Wales, Australia 11 February 1922 12 November 2023 12 National Library of Australia Violet passes her final examination for diploma of electrical engineering AUSTINMER LADY GAINS DISTINCTION. Miss F. V. Wallace, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Wallace, of Austinmer, has passed the final examination for the diploma in electrical engineering, after a six years' course covering theory and practice in electrical and mechanical engineering. This entitles her to be classed as an Associate of the Sydney Technical College. She is the first lady to have gained the distinction, and is now devoting her attention to wireless, and her place of business is 18 Royal Arcade, Sydney. She it was who organised the reception and presentation to Mr. Shaw, the wireless operator on the sailing ship Helen B. Sterling.http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article136367975 AUSTINMER LADY GAINS DISTINCTION. Illawarra Mercury 66, 5 New South Wales, Australia 17 February 1922 12 November 2023 2 National Library of Australia IN THE PUBLIC EYE. (Start Photo Caption) Miss F. V. Wallace. An electrical engineer, and first woman to be classed as an Associate of the Sydney Technical College. (End Photo Caption)http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article225228807 IN THE PUBLIC EYE The Sun 987 New South Wales, Australia 26 February 1922 12 November 2023 3 National Library of Australia 1922 03 Violet is appointed treasurer of the Metropolitan Radio Club THE MAGIC SPARK. Radio News for the Amateur. NEW CLUBS HELP SCIENCE ALONG. BY DOT DASH New Clubs Formed How wireless experimenting is going ahead may be judged by the enthusiastic gatherings to form clubs in the City and suburbs. This is all good for the enthusiast, for the more he gets together in organised bodies, the more will the authorities sit up and take notice when approached for the inevitable relaxation of restrictions. It has been suggested from some quarters that a large number of clubs will not enable the amateurs to present a united front to authority. But this is wrong, for a conference of delegates from the clubs could easily be arranged. In the meantime clubs are being formed and many are projected. It is a healthy sign, and amateurs would be well advised to join the club in their suburb or district, or get together and form one. We shall need all the organisation we can get when the time comes. A lusty infant is the Metropolitan Radio Club, formed recently by a gathering of over 70 persons. The present intention of this body is to have mixed social and wireless evenings, and the idea seems to be a popular one. Already the membership of the club is nearing the hundred mark, and names are still being entered in its register. The very small subscription is another popular feature. The following office-bearers were appointed by the meeting:— President, R. C. Marsden; secretary, A. Mitchell; treasurer, Miss F. V. Wallace; committee, W. G. Best, W. Bird, and P. Sewell.http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article118860426 THE MAGIC SPARK Evening News 17,071 New South Wales, Australia 4 March 1922 12 November 2023 2 National Library of Australia 18 ROYAL ARCADE, SYDNEY. Tel.,City 8543. MISS F. V. WALLACE, Electrical Engineer. Complete receiving sets for Wireless Ama-teurs from £7/10/-. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article118860428 Advertising Evening News 17,071 New South Wales, Australia 4 March 1922 12 November 2023 2 National Library of Australia PERSONAL PARS. "He is a worthy person who is much respected by good men". The first woman to become an engineer in this State is Miss F. V. Wallace, of Austinmer. After taking a course of six years in electrical and mechanical engineering, and passing the necessary examinations, the lady now blooms as the first Associate of the Sydney Technical College. Miss Wallace is young and charming, with a wealth of dark silky hair.http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article169181184 PERSONAL PARS. Truth 1678 New South Wales, Australia 5 March 1922 12 November 2023 6 National Library of Australia Excellent biography of Violet as at 1922 in the Sydney Sun ROYAL RAIMENT. ELECTRIC WOMAN. BREAKING NEW GROUND. Wires and Wireless. There is an old saying that "if you know what you want life will give it to you." Miss F. V. Wallace, who has just won the first diploma for electrical engineering in Australia, is a living example of the adage. "I started my work as an electrical engineer with a five-pound note," she said when referring to the recent public distinction she has achieved. "Today the diploma doesn't mean very much to me, because I have been working steadily at my job for the last seven years. A great many people have never heard about the only woman in the business, but all the same I have had no trouble in getting all the contracts I could deal with. Before I took up this work I was a teacher of mathematics in Armidale. It suddenly occurred in church one night that I was wasting my time at that, and a strong feeling came over me that I ought to to study science. I didn't hesitate. I came back to Sydney, for although I belong to Austinmer I was educated at a Sydney high school, and I went to the 'Uni.' and studied science for a year. At the same time I attended the Technical College in the evenings and went through the engineering course." Miss Wallace's grey eyes flash with the enthusiasm that has made her — the only woman amongst hundreds of men — a success today. Petite and frail to look upon, she has obviously boundless energy and an indomitable will. THE HELPING HAND. "Yes, naturally the men were curious about me at first. They used to peep at me over the partition and through the doors, but I just waved back at them, and very soon they were treating me as one of themselves. Perhaps it's because I'm little, but I've never had anything to complain of in that way. There has never been a hint of superiority nor of contempt. I have always found that men tire ready to help me with my work rather than criticise it. "I remember the first evening at the Tec. It was 'practical night,' and the instructor gave me some soldering to do, probably thinking it would finish my enthusiasm. But that was child's play to me — the sort of thing I'd been doing since I was a kid. And anyway the boys all came round and offered to show me the best way to do it. "I got my first job through an advertisement. Someone at Undercliffe wanted a house wired, and though I had only book knowledge at the time of that sort of work, I wasn't afraid I couldn't do it if I got the job. It was a fearfully hot day, and the house was about two miles from the tram. I got the job because I was the only 'contractor' to arrive there. I employed a lad to help me, and — well, there were no complaints when it was done. Since that day contracting has been so ridiculously easy for me that I have had as many orders as I could keep up with." Miss Wallace went on to tell how she started her office and workshop combined at Rawson Chambers, where she threw herself on the mercy of the manager to lend her a few chairs, a table, and a strip of oilcloth to make a show for the customers. She had no tools in the beginning, but bought them with her first earnings. The men from the Technical College used to bring her their odd jobs, or come to work themselves in her workshop which was open house to them. It is the same thing today. When she transferred to the electrical and wireless shop that she now presides over she bought the entire stock of the wireless vendor who preceded her and began to take an interest in wireless telegraphy beyond the mere selling of the apparatus. DOTS AND DASHES. "The first man who came in for an iron pyrites crystal made me feel ashamed that I couldn't talk his language — he was a wireless operator from one of the boats — but I set about rectifying that, and very soon I was a keen convert to the radiograph. Today I could talk about wireless for hours and never get tired of it. Indeed I am so enthusiastic that I am giving up contracting altogether as soon as I can finish the orders I have on hand, and am going to devote myself entirely to wireless. We make the machines here. I have my own lathe upstairs, and we turn out the entire machines, both the crystal and the valve wireless apparatus. The connecting telephones come from America, but the ebonite and the crystals, and even the copper wire for the drums, are all produced locally. With this little machine that you can carry in your hand we are able to pick up Melbourne and all adjacent stations, while the valve machine puts us in touch with New York, the Eiffel Tower, Carnarvon, and all the big wireless stations abroad. There are five thousand amateur wireless enthusiasts in Australia, and supplying their needs is a trade — a growing trade — in itself." Through Miss Wallace having taken up a collection for the wireless operator of the Helen B. Sterling, who lost heavily in the wreck, and the pleasant social gathering that was convened for the presentation, has grown the establishment of the Metropolitan Radio Club, of which she has been elected the treasurer. There were at the first meeting, held a fortnight ago in the Persian Garden, one hundred members, all residents of Sydney. Again Miss Wallace was the only woman member. This enterprising woman pioneer of one of the most necessary branches of the world's work is one of those who says little and does much.http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article225218405 ROYAL RAIMENT The Sun 988 New South Wales, Australia 5 March 1922 12 November 2023 17 National Library of Australia 1922 04 1922 05 1922 06 1922 07 1922 08 1922 09 1922 10 Violet resigns her position as hon. treasurer of the Metropolitan Radio Club due to her commercial association THE MAGIC SPARK. Radio Notes and News. BY DOT DASH . . . . CLUB OFFICERS RESIGN. Mr. R. C. Marsden (president), Miss F. V. Wallace (hon. treasurer), and Mr. W. Mitchell (hon. secretary), have announced their intention of resigning from their offices in the Metropolitan Radio Club. Mr. Marsden stated that he is now connected with wireless in a commercial sense, and therefore for obvious reasons, does not think it is right that he should continue as the head of a club composed of amateurs. He will, however, still remain a member of the club, and do everything in his power to forward its interests. Miss Wallace's reasons are practically identical, and she also promises the club her continued support. The resignations of these officers leaves the committee without a quorum, and it has been decided, therefore, to conduct an election of committee and officers at the next general meeting of the club, at the Laurel Cafe, Royal Arcade, on Wednesday week. At this meeting also, the reorganisation of the club will be discussed, and this will have to be the first task of the new committee. Nominations for the committee will close with the secretary, care of Royal Arcade, on Monday, October 30. Nominations must be signed by the nominee, and also by another member of the club, who will second him. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article118821497 THE MAGIC SPARK Evening News 17268 New South Wales, Australia 21 October 1922 14 November 2023 7 National Library of Australia Extensive discussion about conflict of interest at NSW Radio Association meeting THE MAGIC SPARK. Radio Notes and News. By DOT DASH. . . . THE ASSOCIATION. The second meeting of the Radio Association of Australia (N.S.W. Branch) was held at the Protestant Hall, Castlereagh-street, on Tuesday last. Mr. Hewett, provisional president, occupied the chair. The letter from Mr. Malone, as published in the "Evening News," was read, and it was agreed that the association should do everything in its power to assist the authorities. A lengthy discussion took place on the advisability of having experimenters who were connected with the commercial wireless as officers of the council. The main contention was that it was up to the amateurs to realise the situation, and if they did not want such persons on the council or committee of their association or club then the prominent amateurs should come forward, and take over the government of the various bodies. The following motion was unanimously agreed to:— "That this council expresses its opinion that experimenters on the council, engaged in commercial wireless have in no way acted against the best interests of the association or amateurs generally." It was also agreed that this council affirms its confidence in Mr. O. F. Mingay; and, further regrets that he is unable to accept the position of hon. secretary." Adoption of rules and bylaws — The rules and bylaws as presented by the constitutional subcommittee, were unanimously adopted. The full ???? printed and circulated to all sub branches when funds will allow of same. The election of officers resulted:— Mr. Hewett, president; Mr. Swinburne and Mr. Bowman, vice-presidents; Mr. Atkinson, hon. secretary; and Mr. Best, treasurer. The secretary can be communicated with at the Electricity Department, Sydney Town Hall.http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article118821252 THE MAGIC SPARK Evening News 17274 New South Wales, Australia 28 October 1922 14 November 2023 7 National Library of Australia 1922 11 Violet re-elected treasurer of the Metropolitan Radio Club, despite her earlier resignation THE MAGIC SPARK. Radio Notes and News. By DOT DASH. . . . CLUB OFFICERS RE-ELECTED. There was a good attendance at the meeting of the Metropolitan Radio Club on Wednesday evening, when the officers tendered their resignations. As has already been explained in this column, the president, Mr. R. C. Marsden, resigned because he is now interested in wireless in a commercial sense, and did not think it right that he should be at the head of an amateur body. This he explained at length to the meeting. The members, however, had other views and several voiced complete confidence in the officers, and urged their re-election. This was done, and the new officers and committee are as follows:— President, Mr. Marsden; hon. secretary, Mr. A. Mitchell; hon. treasurer, Miss F. V. Wallace; committee, Messrs. W. Best, F. Swinburne, W. Bird, S. Atkinson, and W. Cotterill. Mr. Marsden and Miss Wallace were appointed delegates to the Radio Association of Australia (N.S.W. Division). http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article118828409 THE MAGIC SPARK Evening News 17280 New South Wales, Australia 4 November 1922 14 November 2023 7 National Library of Australia Violet noted as being the only female delegate to the NSW Radio Association and a member of WIA NSW THE MAGIC SPARK. Radio Notes and News. WOMAN DELEGATE. By DOT DASH. There are many women experimenters in Australia today, and from all accounts they are very successful in the work. One of the best known, and an enthusiastic worker in the amateur cause, is Miss F. V. Wallace. At the last meeting of the Metropolitan Radio Club, of which she is hon. treasurer, Miss Wallace was appointed, with the president, Mr. Marsden, to represent the club on the Radio Association of Australia (N.S.W. branch). She is also a member of the Wireless Institute of Australia (N.S.W. division).http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article118827184 THE MAGIC SPARK Evening News 17286 New South Wales, Australia 11 November 1922 14 November 2023 7 National Library of Australia 1922 12 Violet's shop amongst those providing application forms for the upcoming Trans-Pacific Tests 1923 THE MAGIC SPARK. Radio Notes and News. By DOT DASH. . . . . THE BIG TESTS. The organisation for the forthcoming Trans-Pacific radio test is now in full swing and the committee have circularised all licensed stations in New South Wales. As the work will be exceptionally heavy, the committee wants applications from intending competitors as soon as possible. Application forms may be obtained at the following places:— Colville and Moore Wireless Supplies; Electricity House; Grace Brothers; Anthony Hordern and Sons; Miss F. V. Wallace; Radio House; F. F. O'Sullivan's; Burgin Electric Company; Australectric Limited; and W. Harry Wiles. The next general meeting of experimenters taking part and all interested in the tests will be held in the Railway Institute Hall on Tuesday, January 9, at 8 p.m. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article118808574 THE MAGIC SPARK Evening News 17322 New South Wales, Australia 23 December 1922 14 November 2023 7 National Library of Australia 1923 1923 01 Violet's firm supporting the prizes for the Trans-Pacific Tests 1923 THE MAGIC SPARK. Radio Notes and News. By DOT DASH. . . . THE BIG TESTS. Arrangements for the amateur trans-Pacific tests are well in hand, and the N.S.W. committee is working hard to bring success. Mr. Harvey, who was hon. secretary of the committee, has been appointed to the position of operator at Vila. The secretaryship has been taken up by Mr. G. W. Tatham, 58 Adelaide-street, Woollahra, to whom all inquiries should be addressed. The following are entering for the test, and will endeavor to receive the American messages:— Messrs. C. D. Maclurcan, W. Hudson, P. Spencer Nolan, Robert James Sharpe, Sydney V. Colville, R. C. Marsden, F. T. S. O'Donnell, Edward B. Crocker, Western Suburbs Amateur Radio Club, Burwood Radio Club (Calibration Test). Mr. C. P. Bartholomew has announced that he will not enter, but has given a donation of £2/2/-. "Sea, Land, and Air;" Australectric; Ltd.; Colville and Moore, Wireless Supplies; Electric Utilities Supply Co.; Burgin Electric Co.; Miss Wallace; Mr. Malcolm Perry; Mr. Frank F. O'Sullivan, Radio Company; Mr. W. Harry Wiles; Electricity House; "Wireless Weekly"; Western Electric Co.; Sydney Motor and Dynamo Co.; Universal Electric Co.; Mr. H. G. Dewis.http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article118812745 THE MAGIC SPARK Evening News 17351 New South Wales, Australia 27 January 1923 14 November 2023 7 National Library of Australia 1923 02 At first annual meeting of the Metropolitan Radio Club, Violet is re-elected treasurer, while future husband Cecil Roland McKenzie is elected secretary THE MAGIC SPARK. Radio Notes & News. BY DOT DASH . . . IN THE CLUBS. METROPOLITAN. The first annual meeting of the Metropolitan Radio Club was held at the Laurel Cafe, Royal Arcade, on Wednesday evening, when there was a large attendance of members. The principal item of the evening was the election of officers and this resulted as follows:— Mr R. C. Marsden, president; Mr. A. Atkinson, vice-president; Mr. C. R. McKenzie, secretary; Miss F. V. Wallace, treasurer; Messrs. D. McIntyre, S. Atkinson junr., W. Cotterell, and P. Sewell, committee. Mr Marsden and Mr. Atkinson will be the club's delegates to the N.S.W. Radio Association. It was decided that the meetings of the club be held on Monday evenings, instead of Wednesdays. . . . http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article118813074 THE MAGIC SPARK Evening News 17363 New South Wales, Australia 10 February 1923 14 November 2023 7 National Library of Australia 1923 03 1923 04 1923 05 1923 06 1923 07 1923 08 1923 09 1923 10 1923 11 1923 12 1924 1924 01 1924 02 1924 03 1924 04 1924 05 1924 06 1924 07 1924 08 1924 09 1924 10 1924 11 1924 12 1925 1925 01 Topics for Women. . . . (Start Photo Caption) Mrs. C. R. Mackenzie (End Photo Caption) The marriage of Miss Florence Violet Wallace, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Wallace, of Concord, and Mr. Cecil Roland Mackenzie, eldest son of Mrs. G. E. Mackenzie, of King's-road, Watson's Bay, was celebrated last night. The bride is an electrical engineer, and is the first Sydney woman to manage her own electrical and wireless apparatus shop. The ceremony was a quiet one owing to the ill-health of the bride's mother.http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article222945230 Topics for Women The Sun 4419 New South Wales, Australia 1 January 1925 12 November 2023 5 (FINAL EDITION) National Library of Australia 1925 02 1925 03 1925 04 1925 05 1925 06 1925 07 1925 08 1925 09 1925 10 1925 11 1925 12 1926 1926 01 1926 02 1926 03 1926 04 1926 05 1926 06 1926 07 Birth notice for Violet's stillborn daughter BIRTHS. . . . McKENZIE (F. V. Wallace).—June 9, to Mr. and Mrs. C. R. McKenzie, Jenolan, George street, Greenwich Point — a daughter (stillborn).http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article16306935 Family Notices The Sydney Morning Herald 27,624 New South Wales, Australia 19 July 1926 12 November 2023 10 National Library of Australia 1926 08 1926 09 1926 10 1926 11 1926 12 1927 1927 01 1927 02 1927 03 1927 04 1927 05 1927 06 1927 07 1927 08 University Women in the Business Life of Sydney. How Commerce is Linked With the Higher Education. (Written for the "Sunday Pictorial" by "Achernar.") IT has been said that women admire the male sex, but are condescending to the individual; whereas men admire individual women, but are condescending towards the sex. Is man's condescension towards the other sex a real reason why women graduates often find difficulty in entering the higher grades of business life? Helen Jerome, in her devastating book "The Secrets of Women," makes the bitter complaint that "if a woman would enter certain realms the male boss must approve of the color of her eyes, so to speak." Some other women critics of the ways of a man-made world insist that a jealous masculine fear of feminine ability spurs such acts of sex-antagonism as the illogical exclusion of women medical students from a few big hospitals. Even some men have confessed a fear of the business rivalry of women. Professor Powers, of California, goes so far as to prophesy that by 1977 at the latest, man will be doing the housework and minding the children, and that the woman will be the bread-winner and supporter of the family. Perhaps the masculine fear of such a revolution is aggravated by an ominous realisation that man is often more competent in the domestic arts than woman is. As a cook, or even a knitter, many males are exceptionally skilful, and one of the signs that women's place is not necessarily the home is that she has never invented, as man has, a notable device for lessening household drudgery. Woman is tied to the home frequently, not by her inherent instincts and capacities, but merely by the force of conventional circumstances. PREJUDICE AMONG EMPLOYERS. Of course, some of the difficulties experienced by women graduates climbing the hard, steep cliff of commerce are not peculiar to their sex. As the recent report of the Sydney University Appointments Board shows, there is still a prejudice amongst employers against both male and female graduates as candidates for business posts. That prejudice is partly fed by the critical superiority which some ex-University students manifest towards their animate and inanimate business surroundings. During their four or five years at the fount of culture, their ego burgeoned so magnificently that the very sight of a commonplace business office heightens their hauteur. That, fortunately, applies only to the very few. A more stubborn obstacle raised by some employers against the entry of women graduates into business is that a good woman employee, working amongst men, will probably marry, and so deprive the firm of her trained services. It must not be supposed that the opposition to the educated woman's advancement in the business world comes mainly from men. It was a woman writer of rare feminine sympathies who insisted that the woman can succeed at few of man's professions. Women, too, have seriously ridiculed the training value of the university for women, whether the vocational or the purely cultural goal be in mind. Frances Warfield, for instance, records how her own graduation left her with little more than a realisation that Emerson was a transcendentalist, and that Pasteur took all the bugs out of milk. Beyond the plain and fancy catchwords of erudition she barely probed, and from all her probings garnered little of permanent practical value. That may be an exceptional case, but even the woman who has made the most of her university training often finds it hard to realise that a special and additional apprenticeship is needed before she can effectively fill an advanced business vacancy. As the woman graduate who acts as adviser to women students at the University of Manchester points out in the June number of "Scribner's" magazine, it is foolish and hopeless for a graduate with no particular business training to imagine that her degree qualifies her for a high commercial post with privileges concerning working hours and rate of pay. But in spite of all the difficulties in the way of university students, and particularly women graduates, reaching out to good business positions, commerce should undoubtedly be linked with higher education. Not only in the field of industrial research, but also in many of the more prosaic ways, the well-educated mind can infringe profitably upon the business routine. A sound university training not only imparts detailed knowledge in a few selected subjects; it also increases the power of sifting evidence and reaching reliable conclusions. SOME SYDNEY WOMEN GRADUATES. . . . A WOMAN ENGINEER. Of unusual interest is the career of Miss F. V. Wallace (Mrs. C. R. McKenzie), who was educated first at the Sydney Girls' High School. Then she took the first year's course in Science at the University, later securing the Technical College engineering degree (Diploma — Associate, Syd. Tech. College). "This diploma," she says, "took five years to get — four to five nights' work per week — and during those years I carried on business as an electrical contractor, installing electric motors and wiring buildings, rewinding and repairing electrical apparatus. Then, in 1921, I opened an electrical and radio shop in the Royal Arcade, specialising later in radio — always on my 'own.' In 1924 I attended the New York Radio and Electrical Exhibition, and saw something of America." In December, 1924, Miss Wallace married Mr. C. R. McKenzie (electrical engineer) — "My most successful undertaking," she says — and in February, 1926, she sold out her business and retired. But in January, 1927, tired of "retirement," she accepted a position in David Jones's radio department, demonstrating and selling radio sets, etc. "I have the most optimistic views regarding the opportunities for women who have qualified in engineering," says Mrs. McKenzie. "While carrying on business as an electrical contractor I never had the least difficulty in obtaining contracts. I never seemed to meet with any prejudice or opposition. For some years I was treasurer of the Metropolitan Radio Club, and a member of the committee of the Sydney Technical College Engineers' Association. "I am satisfied that there is a large demand in business for qualified women, possibly because of their capacity for loyalty to their firm, their enthusiasm, and their attention to detail." . . . . http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article246404542 University Women in the Business Life of Sydney The Daily Telegraph 18 New South Wales, Australia 28 August 1927 12 November 2023 28 National Library of Australia 1927 09 1927 10 1927 11 1927 12 1928 1928 01 1928 02 1928 03 1928 04 1928 05 1928 06 1928 07 1928 08 1928 09 1928 10 1928 11 1928 12 1929 1929 01 1929 02 1929 03 1929 04 1929 05 1929 06 1929 07 1929 08 1929 09 1929 10 1929 11 1929 12 1930s 1930 1930 01 1930 02 1930 03 1930 04 1930 05 1930 06 1930 07 1930 08 1930 09 1930 10 1930 11 1930 12 1931 1931 01 1931 02 1931 03 1931 04 1931 05 1931 06 1931 07 1931 08 1931 09 1931 10 1931 11 1931 12 1932 1932 01 1932 02 1932 03 1932 04 1932 05 1932 06 1932 07 1932 08 1932 09 1932 10 1932 11 1932 12 1933 1933 01 1933 02 1933 03 1933 04 1933 05 1933 06 1933 07 1933 08 1933 09 1933 10 1933 11 1933 12 1934 1934 01 1934 02 1934 03 1934 04 1934 05 1934 06 1934 07 1934 08 1934 09 1934 10 1934 11 1934 12 1935 1935 01 1935 02 1935 03 1935 04 1935 05 1935 06 1935 07 1935 08 1935 09 1935 10 1935 11 1935 12 1936 1936 01 1936 02 1936 03 1936 04 1936 05 1936 06 1936 07 1936 08 1936 09 1936 10 1936 11 1936 12 1937 1937 01 1937 02 1937 03 1937 04 1937 05 1937 06 1937 07 1937 08 1937 09 1937 10 1937 11 1937 12 1938 1938 01 1938 02 1938 03 1938 04 1938 05 1938 06 1938 07 1938 08 1938 09 1938 10 1938 11 1938 12 1939 1939 01 1939 02 1939 03 1939 04 1939 05 1939 06 1939 07 1939 08 1939 09 1939 10 1939 11 1939 12 1940s 1940 1940 01 1940 02 Violet provides a status report on the WESC DOT AND DASH — GIRLS AT SIGNALS. MRS. F. V. McKENZIE, who is in charge of the Electrical Association for Women, is also in charge of the Women's Emergency Signallers' Corps, which has a membership of 300 girls, average age being from 24 to 25. And on Monday next a new company of about 100 girl signallers is being formed. The work in this corps is entirely voluntary, and none of the girls joins with the idea of making it a career — the work is being done purely for defence measures. The girls learn all branches of signalling — Morse code, lamp and flag signalling — and they follow as closely as possible the same course as the men's military signalling units. Morse code is the most important of the subjects taught to the girls, as it will prove most useful in defence work. It takes approximately six months for members of the Women's Emergency Signalling Corps to become sufficiently trained to be commercially useful in signalling, but they can go on learning new work for an indefinite period. The girls hold ranks according to their ability, and are given regimental numbers — the girl who passes the necessary examination first being number one. Miss Ena Stewart, who is a sergeant, is the proud member who holds this distinction, but she says she still has a great deal to learn. Miss Stewart and other advanced members of the corps sometimes assist Mrs. McKenzie in coaching the not-so-advanced members of the unit; occasionally, also, officers from Victoria Barracks, instruct the corps. The corps is at present supplying 16 of its members as honorary instructors to men and boys who are training to be recruited to the Air Force as wireless operators, as they are not eligible in their branch of the Air Force unless they have some knowledge of signalling. All the members of the first company of the Women's Emergency Signallers' Corps are quite capable of instructing, and a number of them are able to read 30 words a minute in Morse code. NECESSARY QUALIFICATIONS. The girls who are members of the corps come from all walks of life — some are business girls, some University girls and some are young married women; all the qualifications needed are a quick ear and a sense of rhythm, and for lamp signalling good eyesight. The radio course has just begun, and all the girls are anxious to learn all they can. The work never becomes monotonous, as there is something new turning up every day. Each member attends a lecture on one night a week, and the girls work in groups according to their speed and send messages to each other in code. They all spend as much of their spare time as they can in practising in the rooms of the Electrical Association for Women. The lunch-hour is a most popular practising time. Regular field days are held, sometimes in Centennial Park, to practise the practical work in field operations, and during the Easter holidays a four days' camp is being held at the Castle Hill Showground, at which 150 of the girls will attend. A complete programme for the camp has been drawn up by the officers of the men's signalling units, so that the girls will be trained in all branches connected with their units. The camp will be run entirely by the girls, however, and an advance party will go to Castle Hill the day before the main party to prepare the camp. Later on the Women's Emergency Corps intends holding a concert, and at present the members of the corps are busy training a ballet to take part in the concert. The uniform of the corps consists of a forest green skirt and military jacket, similar to the uniform of the Women Territorials in England, with brown buttons and brown leather belt, white shirt and brown tie, brown shoes and stockings, a forest green forage cap and brown gloves. The military jacket has the signallers' badge on the left sleeve, and stripes according to rank.http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article231229570 DOT AND DASH -- GIRLS AT SIGNALS The Sun 9409 New South Wales, Australia 29 February 1940 17 November 2023 25 (LATE FINAL EXTRA) National Library of Australia 1940 03 Violet notes that WESC already using Morse code aptitude test on its own applicants From Day to Day in Sydney. Signalling Test. NINETY-THREE applicants for the Women's Emergency Signallers' Corps were given an adaptability test last night at the rooms of the Electrical Association for Women. Mrs. F. V. McKenzie, who is in charge of the association and also of the Signallers' Corps, gave the test which is similar to that given to applicants to the R.A.A.F. Seventy-eight pairs of signals were presented and the candidates indicated whether the units of each pair were the same or different. The successful applicants will form part of a new company of about 100 girl signallers. After the test had been concluded Mrs. McKenzie reported that only three candidates had failed and that nineteen had secured 100 per cent although none knew Morse before joining the corps. "I believe the average percent-age of failures with R.A.A.F. candidates is about 25 per cent. so girls must have 'an ear' for rhythm," she remarked.http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article17667236 From Day to Day in Sydney. The Sydney Morning Herald 31,881 New South Wales, Australia 5 March 1940 17 November 2023 4 National Library of Australia 1940 04 Violet provides assurance that women are not being trained to replace men SIGNALLING CORPS. "THE GIRLS of the Women's Emergency Signalling Corps are under no delusion that they are being trained for a job or a career. They have no intention of replacing men; they are simply becoming more efficient so that in an emergency they could do the work of men on active service," said Mrs. F. V. McKenzie, organiser of the corps, at the Quota Club luncheon at Farmer's restaurant yesterday. Mrs. McKenzie said that practical tests were held frequently, and that shortly a night relay transmission will be arranged from South Head to Barrenjoey. "We are very privileged to receive permission to carry out this experiment, as it is unusual for women to be allowed inside official military enclosures," she explained.http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article17650131 SIGNALLING CORPS. The Sydney Morning Herald 31,911 New South Wales, Australia 9 April 1940 17 November 2023 4 National Library of Australia 1940 05 Violet speaks at meeting of women's volunteer groups concerned about overlap SUGGEST WAR WORK OVERLAPS. That there is overlapping in various branches of women's voluntary services was a criticism made by several speakers at yesterday's meeting of the council of the Women's Voluntary National Register. Because of this overlapping, many women had unknowingly registered themselves for both Federal and State services, said Miss K. McDowell, who represented the Women's Section of the National Defence League. "If an emergency arose these women would have to let down one or the other organisation, and so cause great confusion," she said. "The National Defence League feels, therefore, that the time has now come to clear up this confusion by clearly defining the overlapping sections." The same point was stressed by Miss E. H. Frazer, a member of the Women's Transport Corps. "Each organisation is doing excellent work, but there is too much division in the same class of work," she said. Government Recognition Miss Frazer then proposed a resolution which was passed by the meeting: "That this council should ask the Government to recognise officially the trained units enrolled with the National Register and whose qualifications have reached a standard recognised by the community." Different organisations gave reports of their work. Sixty per cent. of the certificates given by the National Emergency Services have been given to women, said Miss A. B. Parry. Whereas many other organisations had found that their active work would not be needed except in the case of emergency, Mrs. F. V. McKenzie said that the Women's National Emergency Signalling Corps had discovered a definite task on hand. "Many of our girls are now instructors, and train men who are waiting to be called up, particularly for the Air Force. "We have evolved a system of our own quite different from the Army's, which has interested military men," she said. "We have not yet been officially recognised by the Army, but are doing this definite work and have 200 girls quite capable of teaching by the new quick method. "We also have a definite plan to cope with any emergency in the break of communications," she added. Miss Ruby Board presided at the meeting.http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article247772400 SUGGEST WAR WORK OVERLAPS The Daily Telegraph V, 46 New South Wales, Australia 15 May 1940 17 November 2023 12 National Library of Australia 1940 06 WESC now just one of dozens of women's organisations contributing to the war effort WOMEN SHARE AUSTRALIA'S NATIONAL EFFORT. WITH the active concurrence of the Prime Minister, a new women's organisation is being formed as the result of a conference recently held in Sydney. This organisation is to be known as the Women's Australian National Services and in giving approval to the idea Mr. Menzies stated that the Commonwealth Government favored the proposal to organise all women's groups in each State for voluntary war service under a council suitable to the State Governments. Among women's organisations already doing active war work in New South Wales are: Women's Emergency Signalling Corps. — Director: Mrs. F. W. McKenzie (BW7436), 9 Clarence Street, Sydney. National Emergency Service Ambulance Drivers, previously Women's Transport Corps.— Secretary: Mrs. F. R. Pemble (BW7343), 71 Macquarie Street, Sydney. Australian Women's Flying Club, 221 George Street, Sydney.— State Commandant: Mrs. Nancy Walton (MX1569), Bushlands Avenue, Gordon. State secretary: Miss W. Gillespie (FU7084), 41 Towns Road, Rose Bay. Victoria has the: Women's Auxiliary Training League of the Power Farming Association of Victoria.— Director: Mrs. F. J. Woodward, 5 Flintoft Avenue, Toorak. Australian Women's Legion.— Controller-General: Mrs. A. H. James, 1 Missouri Avenue, Elsternwick, S.4. Women's Cavalry Corps.— Leader: Miss Lorna Embling, N. Clayton. Women's Auxiliary Training Corps.— Commandant: Mrs. Bell, "Monterey," 17 Queen's Road, Melbourne, S.C.2. Red Cross Emergency Companies.— Liaison officers: Mrs. T. W. White and Mrs. Scantlebury, Australian Red Cross Society, Latrobe Street, Melbourne. Melbourne Militors.— Commandant: Miss Madge Baker, 2 St. Aubins Avenue, Caulfield, S.E.7. Voluntary Aid Detachments.— Superintendent: Mr. Frederick Raven, Victorian Civil Ambulance Association, 217 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne, C.1. State Controller: Col. J. A. H. Sherwin, 217 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne, C.1. In Queensland there are: Women's Voluntary National Register.— The Lady Mayoress, City Hall, Brisbane. Women's Air Training Corps.— Mrs. Risson, Welbeck Street, Alderley. Women's Air and Motor Unit.— Miss D. Mullins, 41 Butler Street, Clayfield, Brisbane. Women's Reserve Emergency National Service.— Mrs. J. L. Selwood, Lisburn Street, East Brisbane. Women's Auxiliary Transport Service. — Mrs. C. Philp, Graham Road, Indooroopilly, Brisbane. Women's National Emergency Legion. — Mrs. W. D. Ryan, 195 Dornoch Terrace, Highgate Hill, South Brisbane. Southport Men and Women's Defence Council.— J. H. Morgan, Bongal Street, Southport. Western Australian women have active organisations, such as: Australian Red Cross Society.— State Controller: Col. D. D. Mackenzie. Assistant State Controller: Mrs. Mary Meares, M.B.E. The address of both of these is c/o Red Cross Headquarters, 18 Howard Street, Perth. Similar patriotic work is being done in South Australia by: Voluntary Aid Detachments.— Controller: Dr. H. H. E. Russell, Unley Road, Unley. Assistant Controller: Miss G. J. Jude, 6 High Street, Glenelg. Assistant Controller: Mrs. H. H. Dutton, Kapunda. Volunteer Service Detachments (under Red Cross Emergency Committee).— Chairman: Mr. G. S. Reed, K.C., 17 Currie Street, Adelaide. Secretary: Mrs. J. S. Blackburn, c/o Red Cross Society, Rundle Street, Adelaide. Commandant: Mrs. K. C. Wilson, 70 Tusmore Avenue, Tusmore. Red Cross Emergency Transport Service.— Director: Mr. J. H. Howard, National Safety Council, National Bank Chambers, King William Street, Adelaide. Commandant: Mrs. S. Roy Burston, Adelaide. Country Women's Association.— President: Mrs. I. Warnes, Burra. Secretary: Miss Dolling, 162 Rundle Street, Adelaide. Cheer-up Society.— President: Mr. E. B. Grandfield, c/o W.A. Insurance Co., Currie Street, Adelaide. Secretary: Mr. G. Hawkes, c/o Savings Bank, Rundle Street, Adelaide. Organiser: Mrs. G. Hawkes, 5 Orange Grove, Kensington Park. Women's National Voluntary Register. — President: The Lady Mayoress, Mrs. A. G. Barrett, Town Hall, Adelaide. Women's Defence Services.— Chairman: Mrs. Lance Lewis, "Benacre," Glen Osmond. Defence Society.— President: Miss Natalis Davies, B.A., c/o Epworth Buildings, Pirie Street, Adelaide. In Tasmania women's groups include: Australian Women's Air Training Corps.— State Commandant: Mrs. D. Taylor, "Winton," Campbell Town. Australian Women's Air Training Corps.— Northern Commandant: Mrs. T. H. Davies, George Town. Voluntary Aid Detachments.— Mrs. G. A. D. Youl, Northern Controller, "Leighlands," Perth, Tasmania. Women's League of Remembrance.— President: Mrs. G. A. D. Youl, c/o Anzac Hostel, Launceston. Women's Works Committee.— President: Mrs. E. E. Barker, Red Cross Society, 71 St. John Street, Launceston. Women's Works Committee.— Secretary: Mrs. F. M. Parker, Red Cross Society, 23 Elizabeth Street, Hobart. Womens' Auxiliary, St. John Ambulance.— Secretary: Mrs. T. K. Robson, 2 Pen-y-bryn Place, Launceston. V.A.D.'s.— Controller for State: Lt.-Col. Thirkell, M.B.E., V.D., 405 Elizabeth Street, Hobart Assistant Controller: Mrs. R. J. O. Harris (Southern Tasmania), c/o Hutchin's School. Red Cross Emergency.— Headquarters' Superintendent: Mr. R. St Hill, 4 Proctor's Road, Hobart. St. John Nursing Division.— District Superintendent: Dr. T. H. Goddard, 197 Macquarie Street, Hobart. Women's National Register.— Miss Cecily Travers, Fisher Avenue, Lower Sandy Bay. Girl Guides.— Acting-State Commissioner: Mrs. R. M. W. Thirkell, 405 Elizabeth Street, Hobart.http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article234582017 WOMEN SHARE AUSTRALIA'S NATIONAL EFFORT Smith's Weekly XXII, 18 New South Wales, Australia 29 June 1940 17 November 2023 18 National Library of Australia 1940 07 WESC being used to test applicants for the Air Force for morse aptitude GIRLS HELP TO TEST AIR CREWS. Applicants for entry into the Air Force as aircrews (pilots, observers and wireless-telegraphists-air gunners) are now being tested in "Morse aptitude" by girls of the Women's Emergency Signalling Corps. "Morse aptitude" is not to be confused with ability to transmit and receive in Morse code. The candidate may know nothing about Morse — at present. The test simply determines the ability of the candidate to distinguish between one sound and another. The tester, for instance, makes the letter X twice on the Morse buzzer, and asks if the sounds made are the same. Or she may make a Q and a Y, and the candidate seeks to distinguish between them. Seventy-eight separate pairs of letters are buzzed out. Some men pick correctly up to 70 or more. Perception Of Signals The test serves to measure the applicants' quickness to differentiate between signals. Those who are unsuccessful are marked unsuited for training as wireless operators in any section of the Air Force. They may, however, be quite suitable as pilots and observers. Every man applying for aircrew enlistment is now subjected to this test. Since the recent speeding-up in dealing with candidates, the strain on the men at Woolloomooloo centre has increased to a point where the voluntary services of the well-trained members of the Women's Emergency Signalling Corps is proving most acceptable.http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article230914241 GIRLS HELP TO TEST AIR CREWS The Sun 9522 New South Wales, Australia 11 July 1940 17 November 2023 20 (LATE FINAL EXTRA) National Library of Australia 1940 08 1940 09 1940 10 1940 11 1940 12 1941 1941 01 1941 02 1941 03 1941 04 1941 05 1941 06 1941 07 1941 08 1941 09 1941 10 1941 11 1941 12 1942 1942 01 1942 02 1942 03 1942 04 1942 05 1942 06 1942 07 1942 08 1942 09 1942 10 1942 11 1942 12 1943 1943 01 1943 02 1943 03 1943 04 1943 05 1943 06 1943 07 1943 08 1943 09 1943 10 1943 11 1943 12 1944 1944 01 1944 02 1944 03 1944 04 1944 05 1944 06 1944 07 1944 08 1944 09 1944 10 1944 11 1944 12 1945 1945 01 1945 02 1945 03 1945 04 1945 05 1945 06 1945 07 1945 08 1945 09 1945 10 1945 11 1945 12 1946 1946 01 1946 02 1946 03 1946 04 1946 05 1946 06 1946 07 1946 08 1946 09 1946 10 1946 11 1946 12 1947 1947 01 1947 02 1947 03 TODAY: AUSTRALIA. She gave the boss electrician a shock. Today's Sydney Office Twenty-three years ago, a shy, young, 5ft. tall woman arrived at a house in Undercliffe, opened up a bag of tools, went to work installing the electric light. She climbed up through the manhole in her overalls, nailed down the conduit, pulled through the wires, climbed stepladders, screwed in the switches. When the job was finished a husky inspector arrived to pass the work. "Who is the electrician," he demanded. "I am," said the small woman, meekly. "Well, I'll be darned," said the inspector, examined the installation, passed it. It was the first time in Sydney that a woman had installed an electricity service. The woman, Florence Violet Wallace, worked for eight years as an electrical contractor in Sydney, and suburbs, didn't give up the business until she got married — to electrical engineer Cecil McKenzie. In 1925 she got an amateur transmitter's licence, and went on the air as 2GA, later demonstrated electrical cooking appliances. Early in 1939 she had a feeling there'd be another war, so she decided to open a signalling school for women. In the event of war, she decided, there'd be a demand for women telegraphists in post offices and other essential communications. She took premises in Clarence Street — two floors at the top of two long flights of a narrow, worn, almost perpendicular stairway. Lessons were free, her own efforts voluntary. She taught the first batch of girls herself, and when they got through their exams they stayed on to instruct others. When war came, her school — the Women's Emergency Signalling Corps — was well established. In the war years she and her assistants taught telegraphy to more than 1000 girls, more than 12,000 servicemen, for all branches of the Services. Her classes became international. Men came to her for tuition from the Royal Indian Navy, the US Forces, the Merchant Marine of half a dozen countries — French, Dutch, Norwegian, Danish, American, Indonesian. One night in March, 1945, an American Liberty ship began flashing a message. Greenwich Point residents, thinking the ship was in distress, ran to Mrs. McKenzie's home, asked her to read the message. She was surprised when the flashes spelled out her own name. It was a message for herself, sent by a ship's officer, asking if he could attend her classes to increase his morse transmitting speed. Mrs. McKenzie replied, by torch, that he could. The officer afterwards explained that he had been told in San Francisco about her school, and that she lived at Greenwich Point. At war's end Mrs. McKenzie didn't slacken. This week she was still on the job, her brown hair greying, her tired eyes magnified by the thick lenses of her spectacles. Nowadays most of her pupils are ex-RAAF men studying radio or improving their speed to meet civil flying needs. Forty-three civil pilots have passed through the school this year. Also attending are Merchant Marine men studying for masters' and mates' certificates. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article248361527 TODAY: Australia The Daily Telegraph VIII, 17 New South Wales, Australia 9 March 1947 12 November 2023 27 National Library of Australia 1947 04 1947 05 1947 06 1947 07 1947 08 1947 09 1947 10 1947 11 1947 12 1948 1948 01 1948 02 1948 03 1948 04 1948 05 1948 06 1948 07 1948 08 1948 09 1948 10 1948 11 1948 12 1949 1949 01 1949 02 1949 03 1949 04 1949 05 1949 06 1949 07 1949 08 1949 09 1949 10 1949 11 1949 12 1950s 1950 1950 01 1950 02 1950 03 1950 04 1950 05 1950 06 1950 07 1950 08 1950 09 1950 10 1950 11 1950 12 1951 1951 01 1951 02 1951 03 1951 04 1951 05 1951 06 1951 07 1951 08 1951 09 1951 10 1951 11 1951 12 1952 1952 01 1952 02 1952 03 1952 04 1952 05 1952 06 1952 07 1952 08 1952 09 1952 10 1952 11 1952 12 1953 1953 01 1953 02 1953 03 1953 04 1953 05 1953 06 1953 07 1953 08 1953 09 1953 10 1953 11 1953 12 1954 1954 01 1954 02 1954 03 1954 04 1954 05 1954 06 1954 07 1954 08 1954 09 1954 10 1954 11 1954 12 1955 1955 01 1955 02 1955 03 1955 04 1955 05 1955 06 1955 07 1955 08 1955 09 1955 10 1955 11 1955 12 1956 1956 01 1956 02 1956 03 1956 04 1956 05 1956 06 1956 07 1956 08 1956 09 1956 10 1956 11 1956 12 1957 1957 01 1957 02 1957 03 1957 04 1957 05 1957 06 1957 07 1957 08 1957 09 1957 10 1957 11 1957 12 1958 1958 01 1958 02 1958 03 1958 04 1958 05 1958 06 1958 07 1958 08 1958 09 1958 10 1958 11 1958 12 1959 1959 01 1959 02 1959 03 1959 04 1959 05 1959 06 1959 07 1959 08 1959 09 1959 10 1959 11 1959 12 1960s 1960 1960 01 1960 02 1960 03 1960 04 1960 05 1960 06 1960 07 1960 08 1960 09 1960 10 1960 11 1960 12 1961 1961 01 1961 02 1961 03 1961 04 1961 05 1961 06 1961 07 1961 08 1961 09 1961 10 1961 11 1961 12 1962 1962 01 1962 02 1962 03 1962 04 1962 05 1962 06 1962 07 1962 08 1962 09 1962 10 1962 11 1962 12 1963 1963 01 1963 02 1963 03 1963 04 1963 05 1963 06 1963 07 1963 08 1963 09 1963 10 1963 11 1963 12 1964 1964 01 1964 02 1964 03 1964 04 1964 05 1964 06 1964 07 1964 08 1964 09 1964 10 1964 11 1964 12 1965 1965 01 1965 02 1965 03 1965 04 1965 05 1965 06 1965 07 1965 08 1965 09 1965 10 1965 11 1965 12 1966 1966 01 1966 02 1966 03 1966 04 1966 05 1966 06 1966 07 1966 08 1966 09 1966 10 1966 11 1966 12 1967 1967 01 1967 02 1967 03 1967 04 1967 05 1967 06 1967 07 1967 08 1967 09 1967 10 1967 11 1967 12 1968 1968 01 1968 02 1968 03 1968 04 1968 05 1968 06 1968 07 1968 08 1968 09 1968 10 1968 11 1968 12 1969 1969 01 1969 02 1969 03 1969 04 1969 05 1969 06 1969 07 1969 08 1969 09 1969 10 1969 11 1969 12 References