{{Short description|Australian philanthropist}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Use Australian English|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox person | name = Joyce Price | image = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date|1915|08|08|df=y}} | birth_place = Nuriootpa, South Australia | death_date = {{Death date and age|2009|08|19|1915|08|08|df=y}} | death_place = Shoreham, Victoria | other_names = | occupation = Philanthropist | years_active = | known_for = Leader of the Guide movement in Australia and of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts | notable_works = | spouse = Sir Robert Price }}
Lady '''Joyce Ethyl Price''' (8 August 1915 – 19 August 2009) was an Australian philanthropist and a noted leader of the Guide movement in Australia and of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS).
==Biography== Joyce Price was born in Nuriootpa, South Australia.<ref name="Age">Obituary, The Age, Melbourne, 22 October 2009.</ref> She married Sir Robert Price, the leading organic chemist.<ref>{{cite web|title=Vale Lady Joyce Price|url=http://c.ymcdn.com/sites/www.csiroalumni.org.au/resource/collection/5156758D-F89F-466D-AD14-A5930AA5D615/Vale_Lady_Joyce_Price.pdf}}</ref> Lady Price died in Shoreham, Victoria at the age of 94.<ref name="Age"/>
==Girl Guide movement== Lady Price was chairman of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (1975–1981), the only person to serve two terms and the only Australian appointed to that position.<ref name="Age"/><ref name="BS">[http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/biogs/P004319b.htm Bright Sparcs Biographical entry]</ref><ref name="AWR">[http://www.womenaustralia.info/biogs/IMP0118b.htm The Australian Women's Register]</ref> As Chairman in 1977, she gave the address at the memorial service in Westminster Abbey for Lady Olave Baden-Powell, the World Chief Guide.<ref name="Age"/>
Earlier she was Victorian Commissioner (1963–1968) and Chief Commissioner for Australia (1968–1973).<ref name="BS"/> She was vice-president from 1985 to 1994 of the Olave Baden-Powell Society, a financial support organisation for WAGGGS.<ref name="BS"/>
==Honours and awards== The headquarters of Guides Victoria is named the Joyce Price Centre in her honour.<ref name="Age"/> She was awarded the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1968 and Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) in 1978.<ref name="BS"/> She was awarded the Silver Fish in 1967.<ref name="BS"/> She was inducted onto the Victorian Honour Roll of Women in 2006.<ref>{{Cite web |date= |title=Lady Joyce Price OBE CMG |url=https://www.vic.gov.au/lady-joyce-price-obe-cmg |access-date=2025-03-18 |website=State Government of Victoria |language=en-au}}</ref>
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Price, Joyce}} Category:1915 births Category:2009 deaths Category:Chairs of the World Board (World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts) Category:Officers of the Order of the British Empire Category:Scouting and Guiding in Australia Category:People from Nuriootpa, South Australia Category:Recipients of the Silver Fish Award