Joan Donley papers.
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of material on the development of midwifery in New Zealand, including official papers and background, and a large amount of Joan Donley's personal papers and clipping files.
Dates
- 1933 - 2003
Creator
- Donley, Joan (Person)
- New Zealand Nurses Association. Midwives Section (Organization)
- New Zealand College of Midwives (Organization)
Conditions Governing Access
RESTRICTED: Access subject to review of individual files by the Special Collections Manager.
Biographical / Historical
Joan Donley was born in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada in 1916. She immigrated to New Zealand in 1964 with her husband and five children. In 1972 at the age of 56, Joan who had been a nurse since 1938, undertook midwifery training at St Helen's Hospital in Auckland. In 1974 Joan commenced domiciliary midwifery practice providing home birth services in Auckland. Joan played a major leadership role throughout all aspects of midwifery in New Zealand by motivating midwives to take control of midwifery and supporting consumers to fight for the home birth option. She initiated founding of the Home Birth Association in Auckland in 1978, the Domiciliary Midwives Society (Inc.) and the New Zealand College of Midwives.
Joan was awarded an OBE in 1989 for her services to midwifery, she died on 4 December 2005 aged 89.
Reference: Obituary: Joan Donley
, New Zealand Herald, 17 December 2005.
Extent
22.5 metres (45 cartons)
Language of Materials
English
Location
In off-site storage. Expect delay of 12-24 hours from time of order.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Collection donated by Dee Pigneguy in 2005.
General
NRAM Y4708.
- Title
- Inventory of the papers of Joan Donley (1916-2005), 1933-2003.
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Katie Johnston and Stephen Innes
- Date
- 2008
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- English
Repository Details
Part of the Special Collections, University of Auckland Repository
5 Alfred Street
Private Bag 92019
Auckland 1142 New Zealand
specialcollections@auckland.ac.nz