| History/Origin |
Adelaide Miethke OBE, as president of the Women?s Centenary Council of South Australia, helped raise money to establish the Alice Spring?s base of the Australian Aerial Medical Service (later Royal Flying Doctor Service). She was appointed an OBE in 1937. In 1946, she travelled to Alice Springs and noticed the shyness of outback children. She devised and set up, as a branch of the Flying Doctor?s Service, the world?s first School of the Air. It began operating from Alice Springs Higher Primary School on 20 September 1950, using individual, pedal-wireless sets on remote homesteads to link the children. |