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Clare Stevenson
Clare Grant Stevenson, AM, MBE (18 July 1903 – 22 October 1988) was the inaugural Director of the Women's Auxiliary Australian Air Force (WAAAF). As such, she has been described as "the most significant woman in the history of the Air Force".〔Stephens, ''The Royal Australian Air Force'', p. 155〕 Formed as a branch of the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) in 1941, the WAAAF was the first and largest uniformed women's service in Australia during World War II, numbering more than 18,000 members by late 1944 and making up over thirty per cent of RAAF ground staff.
Born and educated in Victoria, Stevenson was an executive with the Berlei company when she was appointed Director WAAAF. Initially ranked squadron officer, she rose to become group officer by 1942. Stevenson resumed her civilian career following her discharge from the Air Force in 1946. Long active in education and social welfare, she helped form aid organisations including the Carers Association of New South Wales (now Carers NSW) after retiring from Berlei in 1960. Stevenson was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire and a Member of the Order of Australia for her services to the community and to female veterans.
==Education and early career==
Born in Wangaratta, Victoria, Clare Stevenson was the fifth of six children. When she was four her family moved to Essendon, where she attended Winstow Girls' Grammar School and Essendon High School,〔(Stevenson, Clare Grant (1903–1988) ) at (National Foundation for Australian Women ). Retrieved on 24 July 2012.〕 completing her intermediate and leaving certificates.〔Stephens; Isaacs, ''High Fliers'', pp. 76–79〕 In 1922, she entered the Faculty of Science at the University of Melbourne, but switched to education after failing chemistry in her final year.〔〔(Group Officer Clare Grant Stevenson ) at Australian War Memorial. Retrieved on 24 July 2012.〕 A hockey blue, Stevenson was active in a number of campus groups, including the Students' Representative Council and the Science Club. She became President of the Committee of Melbourne University Women, and graduated in 1925 with a Diploma of Education.〔
Stevenson began working with the YWCA in 1926. A strong advocate of continuing education, during her first two years with the association she organised night classes for workers in Sydney.〔〔 She served as General Secretary of the Rockhampton, Queensland, branch from 1929 to 1931.〔〔Gillison, (''Royal Australian Air Force 1939–1942'', pp. 99–100 )〕 In 1932 she took up a position as a training and research officer at Berlei, and from 1935 to 1939 represented the company in London as a senior executive.〔 Stevenson was based in Sydney at the outbreak of World War II, in charge of product research and the training of sales staff.〔
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