Gallery

Elizabeth Berry nee Waugh Burns, graduated 1960

Featuring Katharine Bowden (nee Thomson)

Featuring Robin Helen Briant

Letter, 10 March 1891, from Emily Siedeberg, York Place, to the Chancellor of the University of Otago [second page], from ‘Scrapbook of autograph letters and photographs of Otago University Medical School staff’, MS-1689/001, University of Otago Medical Library Historical Collection

Featuring Robin Helen Briant

Photograph of Emily Siedeberg from ‘Scrapbook of autograph letters and photographs of Otago University Medical School staff’, MS-1689/001, University of Otago Medical Library Historical Collection.

Otago Girl’s High School, 1957. Joan Faoagali (nee Wilson): back row, third from the right

Meredyth Gunn (nee Wilson), Priscilla Gambeill, 1945

Ella Connolly (nee Langley), graduated 1925

Maureen Anne Bassili (nee O’Brien), graduated 1963

Cecily (Anne) Cowie (nee McNulty), graduated 1962 Anne at her MBChB graduation

The University of Otago Medical School graduates, year unknown

Karen Palmer (nee France), Darwin 2002 Representing the New Zealand Geriatric Society (as President) at the Australian Geriatric Society meeting in Darwin, Australia

The University of Otago Medical School, class of 1941. Medical students in their fourth year of studies

Featuring Robin Helen Briant

Joan Walton (nee Robertson), graduated 1945

Maire Smith (nee Tait), graduated 1947

Karen Palmer (nee France), Wellington Hospital 1985 Leading a discussion with staff on clinical management of patients while working as a Consultant Geriatrician

Featuring Robin Helen Briant

Karen Palmer (nee France), 2006 Pictured during annual leave while working as Acting CEO at Wellington Hospital. Karen later retired from medical staff after 40 years of service.

Featuring Robin Helen Briant

Bryce Gunn, Meredyth Gunn (nee Wilson)

Featuring Robin Helen Briant

Molly Smith (nee Wagstaff), graduated 1938

Karen Thelma Palmer (nee France), graduated 1964

The University of Otago Medical School, class of 1943. Medical students in their second year of studies

Karen Palmer (nee France), 1958 Karen and other BSc students sleeping on the street while waiting for All Blacks tickets

Fresher’s Hop, University of Otago, year unknown. Meredyth Gunn (nee Wilson), Norman Winsett

The University of Otago Medical School graduates, class of 1945

Capping Ball, May 8th, 1945. Back row (left to right): Meredyth & Kenn, Beryl & John Latton, Fred Desmond & friend, Norman Winsett. Front row (left to right): Ron Smith & fiancee, Noel Dalton & girlfriend, Jan Squires & friend.

Photo courtesy of Judith Barfoot (nee Radcliffe)

Featuring Ella Connolly (nee Langley)

Seven of the ten women who graduated from Otago Medical School in 1962. Left to right: Anne Cowie (nee McNulty), G.P.; Mary Miller (nee Cameron), pathologist; Robyn Hewland, psychiatrist; Haydn Cameron (nee Bell), G.P.; Maureen Peskett (nee Lester), anaesthetist; Dorothy Kral, psychiatrist. Absent Carol Shand, G.P.

Katherine Bowden (nee Thomson) and Cindy Farquhar, 2018. Katherine Thomson graduated from the University of Otago Medical School in 1954. She is pictured here with researcher Professor Cindy Farquhar during an interview for the Early Medical Women Project.

Robyn Hewland, graduated 1962

Daphne Adams (nee Morrison), graduated 1944

Mary Victoria Miller (nee Cameron), graduated 1962

Medical school friends, 1915 (Left to right:) [Unknown], Elspeth Fitzgerald (nee Cameron), [Unknown], Tui Bakewell

Elspeth Mary Fitzgerald (nee Cameron), graduated 1920

Uriti May Torrie (nee Strack), graduated 1925

Featuring Joan Walton (nee Robertson), graduated 1945

Elizabeth Berry nee Waugh Burns, graduated 1960

Karen Palmer (nee France), London 1973 Representing the London and South East of England ‘Cook of the Realm’ while working as a senior medical officer at Athlone House Geriatric Unit, Middlesex Hospital.

Univeristy of Otago third year medical students, 1937 Featuring women graduates: Christabel Mary Spence-Sales, Eunice Janice McLean, Norma Beatrice Benson. [photo courtesy of Otago Medical School Alumni Association: https://www.otago.ac.nz/medicalalumnus/images/class-photos/large/Med3%201937%20large.jpg)

Winifred Kennedy (nee Fisher), 1999 Family Planning 60th anniversary occasion and museum opening, where Winifred received a long service leave certificate.

Norma Beatrice Benson on the occasion of her 85th birthday (1 November 1995). The photograph was taken by Norman Gibb Brown at her home 17 The Crescent, Tindalls Bay, Whangaparoa.

Karen Palmer (nee France), 1992 ‘Out of Hours’: Presented Kauri Award for Service to Girl Guides New Zealand

Joan Walton (nee Robertson), graduated 1945

Image courtesy of Cecily (Anne) Cowie (nee McNulty), 1967 Site in Kawarau Gorge where Anne was sent to attend to accidents of a bus crash late in the evening. Both the ambulance driver and Anne (in her Morris Minor car), also found themselves washed into the gorge, and themselves were sent to hospital.

Karen Palmer (nee France), Wanaka 1989 Skiing at Cardrona Ski Field

Photo courtesy of Judith Barfoot (nee Radcliffe)

Ann Weston nee Coates, graduated 1954

Meredyth Colston Gunn (nee Wilson), graduated 1951

Noeline and Norman Walker’s wedding, 1946. Bryce Gunn, Meredyth Gunn (nee Wilson), Jane Aylward

Daphne Phyllis Adams (nee Morrison), graduated 1944

Margaret Elizabeth Coop (nee Rudd), graduated 1950

Christchurch Pathology, 3rd August 1976. Back row (left to right): Pat Kelleher, Mike Beard, Laurie Treadgold, Helen Angus, Robin Fraser Front row (left to right): Claude Andre, Joan Faoagali (nee Wilson), [Unknown], Roy McGiver, Jack Hamer

Meredyth Wilson’s 21st birthday party, 1946. George Emery, Jane Aylward, Meredyth Gunn (nee Wilson), Bryce Gunn

Robin Helen Briant, 1999 Robin on her final day of work at Auckland Hospital

Mary Litster O’Halloran (nee Burnet) and friend, outside Otago Medical School. (Right): Mary Litster O’Halloran (nee Burnet)

Featuring Robin Helen Briant

Mabel Christie nee Hanron, graduated 1917

Judith Barfoot (nee Radcliffe) and friend disembarking the plane at Christchurch after their capping ceremony, 1960

Rosalie Sneyd (nee McPherson), second Year Medical Class Photo, 1955.

Margaret Dawn Maxwell (nee Parsonage), graduated 1955

Marion Carey-Smith (nee Dewar), during her last year of medical school, 1963

Students’ last year of medical school training, 1950. Featuring Mary Litster O’Halloran (nee Burnet) in the front row, fourth from the left. The other woman three seats down from Mary is Margaret Coop (nee Rudd).

Karen Palmer (nee France), during 1988-1991 Chair of the New Zealand Committee of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians, and New Zealand Councillor of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians

Featuring Katharine Bowden (nee Thomson)

Judith Barfoot (nee Radcliffe) on her graduation day, 1960

Featuring Robin Helen Briant

Meredyth Wilson’s 21st birthday party, 1946. Meredyth Gunn (nee Wilson), Jane Aylward

Robin Helen Briant, 1974 Robin at her medical school desk

Photo courtesy of Judith Barfoot (nee Radcliffe)

The Samoa National Hospital, 1970. Joan Faoagali (nee Wilson): second row, third from the left

New Zealand Medical Women’s Association dinner, 1997. Back row (left to right): Anita Lloyd, Jean Mander (nee Martindale) g. 1964, [Unknown], Ruth Black (nee Blumenthal) g. 1952, Zoe During (nee Smuts-Kennedy) g 1948 Front row (left to right): Daphne Adams (nee Morrison) g. 1944, Margaret Gatman (nee Hunter) g. 1938, Shirley Tonkin (nee Curtis) g. 1945

Extract of appeal written by Mary Litster O’Halloran to the Department of Manpower, to argue for her entry into Medical School

Karen Palmer (nee France), Dunedin 1962 Karen is pictured with her beloved (10 pound bicycle). She could not reach the pedals from the seat!

Women who graduated from Otago Medical School in 1954. Back row (left to right): Margaret Belton (nee Hart), Bronwyn Robinson (nee Broomfield), Pat Bassett, Joan Kerr, [unknown], Kathleen Bradford (nee Johnstone), Elizabeth Naylor (nee Beauchamp), Katharine Bowden (nee Thomson). Front row (left to right): Margaret Gibberd (nee Sidey), Ann Weston (nee Coates), Gwen Allison (nee Hookings)

Featuring Robin Helen Briant

The University of Otago Medical School Graduates, 1962.

Rosalie Sneyd (nee McPherson) wearing her uniform for New Plymouth Girls’ High School in her final year at school, 1953.

Karen Palmer (nee France), 2006 Graduating from Massey University with a Graduate Diploma in Environmental Studies with Distinction

Daphne Adams (nee Morrison) giving a BCG vaccination at the Health Department, 1967

Mabel Christie (nee Hanron) and husband, 1919

Karen Palmer (nee France), Ross Sea, Antarctica, 2003

First day of university, 1939. Margaret Cameron, Daphne Adams (nee Morrison), Gwen Buchan

Photo courtesy of Judith Barfoot (nee Radcliffe)

Norma Benson (right) with Nira Dorset. This photograph was probably taken between 1940 and 1944.

Photo courtesy of Judith Barfoot (nee Radcliffe)

Norma Benson (left) with Nira Dorset. This photograph was taken in about 1990.

Karen Palmer (nee France), Canada 2002 Canadian Geriatric Society meeting at Banff

St Margaret’s College annual dinner, 8th October 1955. Left to right: Patricia Buckfield, Helen Bichan (nee Simpson), Patricia Wood (nee Houghton), Anne Gillies, Pamela Jones (nee Brown), Helen Angus, Jean Bryant (nee Fyfe)

Judith Anne Driscoll (nee Daniels), graduated 1964

Rosalie Sneyd (nee McPherson) and her husband, Sam, on their wedding day, 1959.

Mary Litster O’Halloran (nee Burnet), graduated 1950

Featuring Mary Miller (nee Cameron)

Letter, 10 March 1891, from Emily Siedeberg, York Place, to the Chancellor of the University of Otago [first page], from ‘Scrapbook of autograph letters and photographs of Otago University Medical School staff’, MS-1689/001, University of Otago Medical Library Historical Collection.

Rosalie Helen Sneyd (nee McPherson)

Jennifer Colston Wilson, graduated 1957

Elspeth Fitzgerald (nee Cameron), graduated 1920

Cecily (Anne) Cowie (nee McNulty), graduated 1962 Anne at her MBChB graduation ball with her parents Margert and Frank McNulty

Meredyth Gunn (nee Wilson), Priscilla Gambeill, October 4th, 1945

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Two medical sisters, ~1948. Jenny Wilson, (mother), Meredyth Wilson

New Zealand Medical Women’s Association Luncheon, 1962. Left to right: Dorothy Kral, Carol Shand, Haydn Cameron (nee Bell), Mary Miller (nee Cameron), Maureen Peskett (nee Lester), Anne Cowie (nee McNulty), Robyn Hewland

Photo courtesy of Judith Barfoot (nee Radcliffe)

University of Otago third year medical students, 1959 Featuring women medical students: Cecily Anne McNulty, Maureen Joan Lester, [Unknown] Harvey, Dorothy Jean Kral, Ngaire Jean Twose, Jocelyn Mabel MacKnight, Helen Robyn Hewland, Mary Victoria Miller, Meon Carolyn Shand, Dorothy Haydn Bell

Featuring Robin Helen Briant

Helen Beaumont Angus, graduated 1958

Otago University Student’s Association, 1963 Featuring Robin Helen Briant

Medical school friends, 1961 Back row (left to right): Gail McLean, Ruth Schell (nee Stevenson), Karen France (nee Palmer) Front row (left to right): Harvey Morgan, Jack Wong, John de Geus