Secretary of the Folklore Society of Victoria and later vice president of the Folklore Council of Australia, Maryjean collected in the field and also worked extensively with Norm and Pat O’Connor. Her approach was comprehensive, collecting not only individual items of folklore but also details of family background, occupational skills and other contextual information.
A number of recordings made by her and of her in NLA under a Catalogue search on her name and through the Norm O’Connor Collection. Of particular interest is an interview with Edgar Waters at https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/1545367
Jenny Gall, Mary Jean Officer: Life, Work and Ideology’, National Library of Australia News 19: 1 October 2008, pp. 15-18.
QUERY:
1 Where are her recordings?
2 Birth and death dates?
