Who is Muriel Henchman?

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Jess quickly. We've been chasing up who Muriel Henchman was
to have a sign a boat ramp.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
On it after we're asking that it's not on It's
not anywhere, which is weird. You think it'd be on
a council website somewhere, right.

Speaker 1 (00:11):
We've gone to the smart people on the Gold Coast
our listeners. Greg Turner is online. Hi Greg Turner, Hey,
how you doing good?

Speaker 2 (00:18):
Now you're a skipper with the VMR, so thank you
for you do looking after the waterways. Who's Muriel Henchman.

Speaker 3 (00:25):
Muriel Henchman she was a pretty well known journalist back
in probably the sixties and seventies, and she joined VMR
and became our publicity officer during the mid to late
eighties and all the way through the nineties. And when
she passed away, the little road leading down to VMR
had only just been sort of built and it was

(00:48):
just a dirt road, and we said to the council,
can we call it Muriel Henchman Drive? And they said, yeah, absolutely.
You know, it's not a gazetted road, so you know
it won't even be official, and you know, it became
a gazetted road and they built the boat ramp of
the pontoon and the reserve there. So yeah, Mary Alwa
used to call her Auntie Moo. She has a bit

(01:10):
of a legend. She was about when she was with us.
She was probably in her late seventies, maybe early eighties,
and she was as sharp as attack. She's a great,
great old lady.

Speaker 2 (01:19):
I just think that's the greatest way to end the show.
The fact that you know, a predominantly male industry at
that time with the woman coming in and doing that,
and then you guys honoring her is fantastic. And she's
our trade as well, guys like she's a journalist.

Speaker 3 (01:35):
Yeah, yeah, she was very good and really brought us
up into a new era of recognition through her work.
So you know, we're really honored her. You know, actually,
if you like for her work.

Speaker 2 (01:48):
With us, okay, well you need to get that online somewhere.

Speaker 1 (01:50):
I got a monument or something in the past.

Speaker 2 (01:52):
Just an explanation because a lot of Gold Coasters wanted
to know who she was and there was nothing online
about it. And now I understand why, because it used
to just be a little road and a little thing
for your community, probably on the map with her pubic pontoons,