Our DC4 approaching Canberra Airport 1961 (photo courtesy Gerd Kratzer)

Aboard the DC4 Canberra Excursion 1961 (photo courtesy Gerd Kratzer)

Boarding the plane. (Photo courtesy Val Brooks (Bennett)

Article written by Gisela Olbrich in 1962, submitted by Gerd Kratzer in 2012.

Lunch at Broken Hill Hotel 1962 (photo courtesy Gerd Kratzer)

Margaret Voutier and Don Page, Strathmore House Captains, Broken Hill 1962 photo courtesy of Gerd Kratzer)

Three at Canberra War Memorial: Jill Gambetta, Margaret Fabry, Phyl Coath (Photo courtesy Val Brooks (Bennett))

Canberra excursion: cars outside (then) Parliament House. (photo courtesy Lindsay Cook)