Margaret Fargie
1930-1982

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Margaret Fargie by Vivian Hill
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"The law's no job for a woman."

This was the advice given in 1948 by a Geelong solicitor to Margaret's father just after she matriculated and had been Dux of the senior class at Morongo College Geelong.  She wanted to attend Melbourne University and was thinking of studying law.  Her father followed the advice and she was enrolled for a Bachelor of Arts degree.

In 1973 she showed how wrong the advice had been when, after studying law, mostly part-time, she graduated with an Honours Law Degree and the Supreme Court Exhibition in the Law of Conveyancing.  She became a partner in a long established firm and was probably the first woman in Victoria to be chairperson of a Building Society.

Her blithesome personality made one forget the physical restrictions she had ever after she contracted polio-myelitis as a 7 year old child.

Arrangement of material

The list below describes material held in the Margaret Fargie archive box, which is located at 340.099452 Fargie Hil/Mfa on the shelves in the Geelong Lawyers' Collection within the Special Collection at the Waterfront campus.  The material has been arranged in date order. 

Date	Title	Item no.
8/2/1951	Application for approval of course for ordinary degree of Bachelor of Arts	MF1
1/9/1952	Graduation programme	MF2
1/9/1952	4 graduation photographs [One photograph.  Click on image to enlarge it]	MF3
1/9/1952	Photograph of Bachelor of Arts certificate	MF4
2/10/1967	Certificate - Fellow of Institute of Legal Executives [Click on image to enlarge it]	MF9
12/1/1974	Cutting from Geelong Advertiser re. Law degree with honors	MF8
13/3/1974	Graduation programme	MF5
13/3/1974	Photograph of Bachelor of Laws with Honours certificate	MF6
1/5/1974	Admission certificate to Supreme Court [Click on image to enlarge it]	MF7
1974	Copy of deed of partnership re. firm Wighton & McDonald	MF10
11/6/1981	Cutting from Geelong Advertiser re. achievements of M. Fargie	MF11
12/6/1981	Cutting from The News (Geelong) re. M. Fargie's appointment as chairman of the Barwon Permanent Building Society	MF12
23/6/1981	Cutting from Geelong Advertiser re M. Fargie's appointment as chairman of the Barwon Permanent Building Society	MF13
1981	Portrait [Click on image to enlarge it]	MF14
1/1996	Profile of Margaret Fargie by her sister Mrs J. Mander	MF15
29/2/1996	Cutting from The Age re. poliomyelitis	MF16
1996	Biography by V. Hill [First page of the bibliography. Click on image to enlarge it]	MF17
	Portrait	MF18
	Photograph of graduation ceremony	MF19

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