Congratulations to our new Life Member

Sally Anne's outstanding professional contributions over more than three decades, beginning with her role as inaugural curator at Claremont Museum (1975––1989), then later as Director; and her formation there of the first non-arts Friends Association in WA. We pay tribute to her many years of service as a Trustee of the WA Museum (1994—2001), including a period as deputy chair (1994––1998); and to her many personal honours and awards, which include Citizen of the Year (1993) in Claremont; and the Premier's WA History Award (inaugural), also in 1993. Her advocacy of important causes on behalf of professional development of museums locally and nationally have been widely appreciated by Museums Australia and colleagues nationally.

The various offices she has held in Western Australia include the state branch of the Museums Association of Australia (MAA), and later of Museums Australia, as both Vice-President and President covering the period 1978—1987. Her years of service recently as a Council member of the National Museum of Australia (2004––2010) seem a fitting national coda to so many years of service on various sectoral boards.

We congratulate Sally Anne for her outstanding service, and wish her all the best.