Raymond, Cherry, 1925-2006

Date: 1973

By: Lowry, Vanya, 1943-

Reference: Eph-B-WOMEN-1973

Description: Includes: Auckland District Communist Party. Women's liberation; a class issue! September 1973. Flier Auckland Equal Pay and Opportunity Council. Discussion led by Doris McDonald chairwoman of the National Council for Equal Pay and Opportunity. Oak Room, Great Northern Hotel, Queen Street, 10 July [1973]. "You are cordially invited ..." Flier Auckland Women's Liberation. Sexist society. McLaurin Chapel Hall, 3 March 1973. Guest speaker Cherry Raymond. Programme/flier Auckland Women's Liberation. Women's Suffrage Day September 19, 1893-1973. Flier Auckland Women's Theatre Group presents "Herstory history or Whostory?"; a satirical review. Programme (cover design by Vanya [Lowry]) Campaign Against Discrimination. Circular letter to secretaries [and] How to make submissions to Select Committee on Status of Women. Correspondence School Parents' Association re Financial assistants for mothers of full-time primary Correspondence School pupils [presented to Parliamentary Select Committee for Women's Rights 1974] New Zealand Department of Labour. Equal pay; checklist for employers with women on their staff New Zealand Socialist Unity Party. Women in Socialist countries. Yellow flier Order of reference from the Journals of the House of Representatives, 13 September 1973 Pilot Books (Wellington). Books on feminism and the origins of women's oppression by Evelyn Reed; [and] "On history, philosophy, sociology" by George Novack. Flier [1973] Single Parents Association [Auckland]. Flier Speak women; Women's workshop meets Monday 26 November, Student Union Building, Victoria University of Wellington. Yellow flier Eighty years ago, New Zealand women were the first in the world to achieve national voting rights ...". Suffrage Day meeting [with speakers Mona Williams, Dorothy Jellicich, Vera Levett, Jan Taylor. YWCA Rumpus Room, 19 September [1973]. Flier (2 copies, 1 white, 2 yellow) Equal pay is a woman's right. Vote for equal pay now. S.G>M. 6 March [1973]. Flier International Women's Film Festival. [29 October - 23 November 1973?]. Blue flier (2 copies) Is biology women's destiny? Evelyn Reed noted American feminist speaks. Christchurch Repertory Theatre, 27 April; Dunedin, University Student Union 26 April [1973]. Flier Socialist Forum. The struggle for women's rights. Common Room Auckland University, 21 September 1973. Flier United Women's Convention. Convention programme 15-16 September - proposed. Flier United Women's Convention. Press release. Convetion Festival: Women as artists / prepared by Valerie Richards [4 stapled sheets] University Women's Liberation. Circular letter for meetings in March 1973 University Women's Liberation. No female stripper! Come to the S.G.M. Friday 9 March. Vote against your oppression. Forum on abortion, 8 March. Voice of Women. Annual report 1973 (2 copies) Wellington Organisation for Women. Application for membership 1973 (2 copies) What's in it for us? (A feminist survey of Presidential election candidates) [July 1973] Women; vote not enough [1973] Women's Division Federated Farmers of N.Z. (Inc). Rest and holiday homes. "Honda" Club Rooms, Harris Cottage. [ca 1973]. Illustrated pamphlet Women's Studies lecture 2. Dr Tiwari on Women in India. Student Union Building, 12 July [1973] Women's Studies 3. Dr Ngaire Adcock speaks on Psychology of women. Student Union Building, 19 July [1973] (2 copies) Women's Studies 4. Janet Holmes speaks on Women in literature. Student Union Building, 24 July [1973] Women's workshop. 48 Aro Street. 1st Monday every month. Flier Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mimeographs and photocopies, sizes varying around 330 mm.

Date: 30 Dec 1993

From: Media Women Oral History Project

By: Raymond, Cherry, 1925-2006

Reference: OHInt-0052/13

Description: Outlines her family background and early life; educated in Birmingham and at sixteen went to work in London in the theatre; family emigrated to Auckland after the war. Talks about work in New Zealand; first for Marina (Jocelyn Power) on 1ZB; then for New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation where she compiled women's programmes for National Radio and also produced some documentaries; with the emergence of television in 1960, she was drawn into that medium and directed a television series about expatriate New Zealanders called `Close Up in Australia'. In the mid-1960s was asked to write a column for Woman's Weekly which she tried to make thought-provoking and controversial; through this column she became interested in legal and social reform issues for women eg incest and abortion; discusses reasons for writing for Woman's Weekly and feminism; mentions the editor Jean Wishart. Also began public speaking on similar issues as well as appearing on magazine programmes on television such as `Beauty and the Beast' and 'Personality Squares'; then became Public Affairs Officer for the Mental Health Foundation; compares Woman's Weekly with contemporary magazines. Discusses involvement with ZONTA of which she became president; some of ZONTA's tasks; also involved with United Nations, National Organisation for Women, United Women's Convention; concerns about pornography and domestic violence. Talks about marriage to John Metcalfe. Access Contact - See Oral History librarian Venue - Auckland Interviewer(s) - Jane Wrightson Venue - Auckland Accompanying material - Includes curriculum vitae and photocopy of image of interviewee Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 1115.

Date: 1953

From: [Ephemera of octavo size, sales catalogues and pamphlets related to radio and radio equipment, transmission, radio stations and radio clubs in New Zealand]

By: A D Organ Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-RADIO-1953-01

Description: Programme contains photographs (and sometimes short biographical notes) about many personalities in broadcasting: John Proudfoot, John Griffiths, Ian Watkins, Doug Laurenson, Marina, Phil Shone, Cynthia Dale (Mrs Crombie Murdoch), Warwick Braithwaite, Pat McMinn, Peter Gwynne, Rod Talbot, Joy Burns, June Hansel, Joan Culpan, Cushla Maguire, Shirley Parkes, Pat McCullough, Rex Sayers, Pete Young, Selwyn Toogood, Jane Fisher, Cherry Raymond, Liz Mandler. There are advertisements throughout the booklet. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 32 pages, 219 x 139 mm. Provenance: Purchase, 2013. Transfers: From Photographic Archive - - Other material of the same provenance is housed in Photographic Archive PA1-q-1149..

Date: [ca 1940-ca 1980s]

By: Carson, Jack, active 1940s; Qantas Airways Ltd; Stuart Pemberthy Photography Ltd

Reference: PA1-q-1149

Description: Photograph album of images showing, and relating to, broadcaster Cherry Raymond (1925-2006), taken circa 1940s-circa 1980s by mainly unidentified photographers. Images reflect her professional and private life, including Raymond conducting interviews and on panels in the studio [Beauty and the Beast?], glamour portraits, modelling and performing (in Glasgow, for a camera company, and on a boat), and holiday images. Her association with other television and arts personalities such as Kiri Te Kanawa, Selwyn Toogood, Keith Bracey, Dougal Stevenson, Kenneth Adam, Diana Rigg, Patrick Mcnee, and Max Cryer is also covered. Another identified figure is Leo Silvera, tenor. Some photographers are identified (many of these on the back of loose prints held in separate pocket). These include Qantas airlines, Robert C Wood and Stuart Pemberthy Photography Limitied. Photographer information is likely on the back of other prints, but it is unable to be accessed due to the prints being stuck in the album. Accompanying information - Album also contains a small amount of ephemera and manuscript material, including a Christmas card, a telegram, and a postcard of the Eiffel Tour addressed to 'Poppy'. Screen Parade magazine, with a photograph and short article about Raymond, also included. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album Provenance: Purchase, 2013. Album may have originally come from Cherry Raymond or a close family member. Transfers: Collection received as a whole into the Photographic Archive and transfers made from there. - To Ephemera Collection - Broadcasting Ball souvenir programme of 1953 (Eph-A-RADIO-1953-01).

Date: [1978-1979]

From: Kent, Deidre, fl 1970-1997 : Papers relating to the Values Party

Reference: MS-Papers-6077-2

Description: Comprises Kent's inward and outward correspondence; newsletters from other regions (Auckland, Christchurch); Nambassa correspondence; co-ordinating committee minutes; and General Delegates Meetings minutes (Mangaweka, Dec 1978, Wellington, Feb 1979) Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 31 Aug 1980

From: Kidman, Fiona Judith (Dame), 1940- : Papers, photographs, ephemera and recordings

Reference: OHInt-0108-29

Description: Sunday Supplement includes 4 commentators. Cherry Raymond examines aspects of Leigh Minnitt trial. Jim Dart, Small is the Answer on the Land. Richard Higham, Business Planning. Lois Welsh, Trust. Venue - Wellington Venue - NZBC Studios, Wellington Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-002434 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 20 Minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - no abstract(s) available.