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Name	Ruth Edith Don
Born	28 December, 1902 Laidley, Queensland, Australia
Died	8 July, 2003 (aged 100) Queensland, Australia
Cultural Heritage	Welsh Includes subject's nationality; their parents' nationality; the countries in which they spent a significant part of their childhood, and their self-identity.
Education *	Ipswich Girls' Grammar School (Qld) (student, 1915-1917) Charters Towers High School (Qld) (student, 1918-1919) University of Queensland (student, 1921-1924)
Occupation or Descriptor *	schoolteacher (1926-1968) Queensland, Australia trade union official (1947-1962) Queensland, Australia school principal (1955-1968) Queensland, Australia
Awards	Medal of the Order of Australia (recipient, 1992)
Key Organisations *	Queensland Teachers' Union (member) Forum Club (Brisbane) (member, 1941) Forum Club (Brisbane) (president, 1941) Queensland Teachers' Union (organiser, 1947-1962) Queensland Teachers' Union (vice president, 1949) Queensland Teachers' Union (president, 1951-1953) Queensland Teachers' Union (life member, 1973)
Political Activism *	Equal pay campaign (trade union official, 1947)
Workplaces *	Domestic Science High School (Brisbane) (principal, 1955)

* Dates are approximate

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