Donella Margaret Moss: 9 February 1938-28 November 2022.

• Date: 01 March 2023
• Author: McGibbon, Ian

NZIIA members were saddened to learn that former NZIIA committee member Donella Moss had passed away in a Christchurch rest home recently.

Donella Palmer was born in Wellington and educated at Palmerston North Girls' College and Nelson Girl's College. She graduated from Victoria University of Wellington with a BA in 1959 and an MA with first-class honours in the following year, during which she was a senior scholar. She was active in student repertory.

Donella joined the Department of External Affairs as a research assistant in December 1959--the usual path for women graduates aspiring to a diplomatic career in those days. She left New Zealand in September 1960, probably to take up a scholarship in the United Kingdom. Perhaps partly...