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Robin Elizabeth Miller (born 7 December 1940 – 7 December 1975), known as ''"The Sugarbird Lady"'', was an Australian aviator and nurse. The name "The Sugarbird Lady" was given to her by outback Aboriginal children during her work combatting polio. She died of cancer at the age of 35.〔( Dicks, Robin Elizabeth (1940 – 1975) ) Australian Dictionary of Biography〕 ==Biography== Her mother was the writer Dame Mary Durack, and her father was an aviator, Captain Horrie Miller. After obtaining a private pilot licence and a commercial flying licence while training as a nurse, she approached the Western Australian Department of Health to ask permission to fly to northern Western Australia in order to carry out a vaccination programme. Permission granted, she borrowed money for a Cessna 182 and set out on her first flight on 22 May 1967. After travelling to remote communities, she would treat children with the Sabin vaccine in sugar lumps. She later flew with the Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia (RFDS), after carrying out nine aircraft delivery flights for them. In 1973 she married Harold Dicks, the director of the Royal Flying Doctor Service, and became Robin Miller Dicks. Later that year she was sponsored along with Rosemary de Pierres to compete in the 1973 All Women’s Transcontinental Air Race across the United States, a.k.a. the Powder Puff Derby, finishing sixth past the finishing post.〔(History of the Zonta Club of Perth 1971-2001 )〕 After her death, Dicks set up a A$50,000 memorial foundation to help nurses get flying licences. She is remembered fondly in Perth; as well as the large memorial in Jandakot Airport, there is also a seminar room in the Royal Perth Hospital named after her, in addition to a road at Perth Airport: ''Sugarbird Lady Road''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Robin Miller (nurse)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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