Laurie Salas
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Dame Laurie Salas DBE QSO |
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| Born |
Margaret Laurence Hay 8 February 1922 Wellington, New Zealand |
| Died | 26 January 2017 (aged 94) Karori, New Zealand |
| Known for | Women's rights and peace activism |
| Spouse(s) |
Ian Halliday Webster (m. 1941; d. 1943) Jack Reuben Salas (d. 2014) |
| Relatives |
James Hay (father) David Hay (brother) Hamish Hay (brother) |
Dame Margaret Laurence Salas DBE QSO (née Hay; 8 February 1922 – 26 January 2017), known as Laurie Salas, was a New Zealand women's rights and peace activist.
Born in Wellington in 1922, Salas was one of four children of philanthropist James Lawrence Hay and Davidina Mertel Hay (née Gunn); her siblings included Sir Hamish Hay and Sir David Hay. She was educated at Rangi Ruru Girls' School in Christchurch, and studied at Canterbury University College, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in 1942.
On 17 May 1941 she married Ian Halliday Webster at St Ninian's Presbyterian Church, Riccarton, but he died in 1943 from a sting to the neck that became infected. She went on to marry Jack Reuben Salas, an ENT specialist, and the couple had six children.
Salas was involved with the Playcentre movement, and became that organisation's first representative on the National Council of Women. She went on to serve the latter body as its national secretary between 1976 and 1980, and its vice president between 1982 and 1986. She was president of the United Nations Association of New Zealand, and vice president of the World Federation of United Nations Associations. For nine years she was a member of the public advisory committee for disarmament and arms control. Salas was a New Zealand committee member for the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific, and she was also an honorary vice president of the New Zealand Institute of International Affairs.
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