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WE HONOUR, WE CELEBRATE, WE REMEMBER
Vale
Shirley McCorkindale
A life of distinguished service
As a young woman, Shirley, born on August 11, 1930,
was an accomplished ballet dancer, achieving the
highest vocation graded examination, the Solo Seal, and
maintaining a love of dance and opera throughout her
life.
Fluent in French, Italian, Greek and Russian, Shirley
graduated with a BA degree with Honours in FrenchGerman from the University of Queensland, and went
on to receive her MA and in later years, Master of
Theology.
In a long and successful career spanning some
forty years at the State Library of Queensland,
Shirley co-ordinated library services to Queensland
Government departments and was the Library’s first
genealogy librarian. She was awarded a medallion
for achievement within the State Public Service, and
retired in 1995.
A keen traveller, photographer and collector, in her
eulogy she was described as ‘knowledgeable, reliable,
with a wonderful sense of humour and a rapier wit!
A long term member of the Brisbane History Group, her
proof reading skills were legendary, as was her capacity
to improvise after she substituted for a speaker who
failed to show up at on BHG seminar by reading
Mt Pickwick’s address to the Pickwick Club to the
assembled audience.
A proud member of All Hallows’ Class of 1948, Shirley
passed away on June 23, 2021
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