Series 1: Gladys Irene Kennan Young papers and related material

series

approximately 1908-1996

Textual Records, Clippings, Ephemera, Graphic Materials, Photographs

9669713

3.28 metres of textual material (13 boxes, 5 outsize boxes, 1 outsize folder) includes photographs
3 albums (approximately 718 photographs) (2 boxes)
1 photograph - ambrotype, full plate set in embossed oval mat within embossed rectangle pinchbeck frame inside velvet-lined leather case - framed image 7 cm x 6 cm, case 9 cm x 8 cm

Gladys Irene Kennan Young (née Petter) and known as Irene, was born in England on 6 April 1910 and emigrated to Australia in 1940. She was a leader of Christian women’s organisations from the 1950s to the 1980s. She was a long-term council member of the Crusader Union of New South Wales and a leading member of the Inter-Varsity Fellowship of Evangelical Unions from its foundation in England in 1928. She was active in working with overseas students from the early 1950s until the 1980s. In recognition of her work with overseas students she was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia in 1993. She married Geoffrey Lawrence Young in 1935. They had five children and ten grandchildren. She died at Normanhurst, NSW, on 22 September 1996.

Reference
Library correspondence file and donor

File 1: Gladys Irene Kennan Young and family papers and related material
File 2: Gladys Irene Kennan Young and family photograph albums
File 3: Eliza Read Kennan ambrotype portrait

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This collection was arranged and listed by the donors and identified alphanumerically prior to cataloguing. Where possible the original ID/Series number has been maintained and added to the description in square brackets. Copies of the donors' original box listings can be found in MLMSS /Box 1/ Folder 1A. Please note that during the cataloguing process some material has been rearranged and therefore some listings may have changed.