Joyce Price Explained

Joyce Price
Birth Date:8 August 1915
Birth Place:Nuriootpa, South Australia
Nationality:Australian
Occupation:Philanthropist
Known For:Leader of the Guide movement in Australia and of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts

Lady Joyce Ethyl Price (8 August 1915 – 19 August 2009) was an Australian philanthropist and a noted leader of the Guide movement in Australia and of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS).

Biography

Joyce Price was born in Nuriootpa, South Australia.[1] She married Sir Robert Price, the leading organic chemist.[2] Lady Price died in Shoreham, Victoria at the age of 94.[1]

Girl Guide movement

Lady Price was chairman of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (1975 - 1981), the only person to serve two terms and the only Australian appointed to that position.[1] [3] [4] As Chairman in 1977, she gave the address at the memorial service in Westminster Abbey for Lady Olave Baden-Powell, the World Chief Guide.[1]

Earlier she was Victorian Commissioner (1963 - 1968) and Chief Commissioner for Australia (1968 - 1973).[3] She was vice-president from 1985 to 1994 of the Olave Baden-Powell Society, a financial support organisation for WAGGGS.[3]

Honours and awards

The headquarters of Guides Victoria is named the Joyce Price Centre in her honour.[1] She was awarded the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1968 and Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) in 1978.[3] She was awarded the Silver Fish in 1967.[3]

Notes and References

  1. Obituary, The Age, Melbourne, 22 October 2009.
  2. Web site: Vale Lady Joyce Price.
  3. http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/biogs/P004319b.htm Bright Sparcs Biographical entry
  4. http://www.womenaustralia.info/biogs/IMP0118b.htm The Australian Women's Register