Background
Cole Catley was born in 1922 in Wellington, New Zealand. She grew up on a Rangitikei farm and won a scholarship to study at Canterbury University.
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Christine Christine McKelvie Cole Catley DNZM QSM
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Education
University of Canterbury.
Career
She began her career working for the Taranaki Daily News while still at school. Later she wrote for The Press while attending Canterbury University in Christchurch. She wrote for the Labour Party"s daily paper, The Southern Cross, the New Zealand Listener, Radio New Zealand and Australia"s American Broadcasting Company Network.
She wrote for The Dominion (using the pseudonym "Sam Cree") and for the Sunday Times.
She died on 21 August 2011 from lung cancer at age 88.
Achievements
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In the 1994 New Year, Cole Catley was awarded the Queen"s Service Medal for community service. In the 2006 Queen"s Birthday, she was made a Distinguished Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to literature. In 2009 Catley"s DCNZM was redesignated as a Dame Companion of The New Zealand Order of Merit that includes the appellation of Dame.
Membership
She was a member of the Broadcasting Council, but was removed by then Prime Minister Rob Muldoon.
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Political Party
Labour Party