Nola Dekyvere ca. 1931-1932 / photographed by Harold Cazneaux

P2/553

fonds

1931-1932

Graphic Materials, Photographs

1001323

1 photograph - print - 23.4 x 16.1 cm

Nola Dekyvere, charity worker, was born Nola Laird Kerr in 1904, daughter of Walter and Florence Kerr. She was educated at St. Catherine's Church of England Girls School, Waverley, and Ascham School, Edgecliff. She married firstly Alan McGregor, and after his death in 1938 she married Marcel Dekyvere in 1940.
Nola Dekyvere is probably best known for her long association with the Black and White Committee of Royal Blind Society of NSW, of which she was president for some eighteen years between 1948 and 1970. Between 1961 and 1970 Nola Dekyvere wrote a weekly social column, 'My Week', for the 'Sunday Telegraph'. She was involved in many other charitable organisations including the Red Cross Special Appeals Committee, the Sydney Opera House Appeal Fund, the Peter Pan Committee, the Elizabethan Theatre Trust, St. Vincents Hospital Committee, and St. Stephens Church Dorcas Society. In 1959 Nola Dekyvere was president of the Golden Ball Committee which organised the Golden Ball, held in honour of Her Royal Highness Princess Alexandra of Kent.
In 1958 Nola Dekyvere was awarded and a Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (M.B.E.), and in 1972 was promoted to Commander of the Civil Division of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (C.B.E.). Nola Dekyvere died in 1991.

Photograph depicts a young Nola Dekyvere standing on the first of a series of curved steps outside a building holding a treat for a dog. The dog is on the third step and is seated, with it's front legs raised and eyes focused on Nola.
The photograph is secured on backing board.

Out of copyright: Created before 1955
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales

Bottom right corner is signed "H. Cazneaux"
Verso reads "Nola Dekyvere c. 1931-1932"