Helen Waldsax, 1923-2000
- Component identifier:
- Series 2
- Content Summary:
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This series contains a grouping of collected papers relating to Helen Waldsax. It contains a variety of formats including school reports, certificates, letters, newspaper clippings, and a booklet by Waldsax.
Folder 1 contains Waldsax's school reports from Poltoonga St Peters and Girton Proprietary School for Girls. The Poltoonga St Peters school reports covers May 1923 to the end of 1927. The Girton school reports covers term two of 1927 to term three of 1929. There is also a photocopy of the 1933 Girton Magazine which includes a photo of Waldsax as a school prefect.
Folio 2 contains the University of Adelaide Bachelor of Arts certificate awarded to Waldsax in 1938.
Folder 3 contains papers relating to Waldsax's application for an almoner position in England in 1944 and papers relating to her application for British naturalization. The application papers include her Victorian Institute of Hospital Almoners certificate awarded in 1941, a resume, and letters of recommendation dated from 1944. She became a naturalized British citizen in 1945.
Folder 4 contains various papers relating to Waldsax's life in Watford, Hetfordshire. It includes correspondences from 1964 in regards to her application for Justice of the Peace of Hertfordshire. There are papers dating from 1966 to 1982 relating to her involvement with the Watford Branch of the National Council of Women including newspaper clippings of interviews with Waldsax and a booklet she wrote on the Watford Branch's history from 1918-1982. Papers relating to Waldsax's her later years include some letters from family and friends, and an obituary and orders of service from her funeral in 2000.
Folder 5 contains miscellaneous papers. It includes a 1972 pamphlet from and newspaper clipping on Henry Carr, photocopies of an article on social workers in South Australia, and letters from 1995 and 2000 addressed to Waldsax's children.
Comprises 4 folders and 1 map folio packet.
- Immediate source of acquisition:
- The papers were donated by Ralph Waldsax (son of Helen Waldsax) in 2010.
- Names:
- Waldsax, Ralph
Access and use
- Parent Restrictions:
- Available for research. Not for loan.
- Location of this collection:
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Parkes PlaceCanberra ACT 2600, Australia
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