Examiner 180: A history told through her eyes

I remember it still, carrying a plate of steaming food through the Examiner canteen and nestling into a spot at a table opposite Maureen Fox, the paper’s first female journalist, and Daphne Pochin Mould, aviator, geologist, pilot and photographer. It was the best gate-crashed lunch I ever had.

Anyone who knew Maureen Fox will remember that she was wonderful company; witty, a little bit wicked and immensely kind. She had invited Daphne in for “some grub”, as she put it, because hot dinners were not always a priority for a woman with so many plates in the air, so to speak.

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