Time Warp: 

A candlelight ceremony marked the graduation of nurses at Orange Base Hospital in December 1963. Matron Agnes Field was joined by special guest Miss E Shaw, the former matron of Crown Street Women’s Hospital. The graduates were: Denise Simpson, Elaine Scanlon, Anne Kershaw, Joyce Shepherd, Leone McNaught, Margaret Hicks, Grace Hewitt, Helen Shaw, Myra Pascoe and two male graduates Robert Dunn and Terence McGrath.

Photo courtesy CWD Negative Collection, Orange & District Historical Society. The society‘s volunteers hold a work day each Wednesday at Heritage Cottage, 148 March Street, from 10.30am-4pm. Members are available to answer inquiries at this time.