Item HT 14885 Letter - Equivalency of Foreign Qualifications, C Harper, The Institute of Engineers, to Director of Works, 6 Nov 1950

Summary

Letter from C Harper, Secretary, The Institute of Engineers, to the Director of Works dated 6 November 1950. The letter states that Katarina Pimenowa's Russian Diploma entitles her to be considered an Engineer holding a degree and that she is exempt from the examinations of the Institute of Engineers.

Kateryna Caurs (nee Pimenow) was born in 1915 in Luzk, Poland. A mechanical engineer, from 1946-49, she worked with the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) and later for the International Refugee Organisation (IRO). In 1950 Kateryna and her mother migrated to Australia. She married Alexander Caurs who was born in Latvia in 1926, and who migrated to Australia in 1948.

Physical Description

Yellowing paper with black typed text.

Significance

Statement of Historical Significance:
The Caurs collection represents the experiences of wartime dislocation and post-war immigration of a family from three cultural backgrounds, Polish, Latvian and Ukrainian. The principle story represented in the collection is that of Kateryna Caurs (nee Pimenow) and is one not often told, that of a professional educated woman, a mechanical engineer, whose qualifications were recognised in Australia.