My recollections about Diana are mostly from the early to mid-1990s, when I was on the WISENET Journal Team andDiana led the Sydney Link Team.

I worked with, at various times, Anne Skates, Sarah Miller and Nancy Mills Reid, Heather Rossiter and June Hollis Weber on the Journal of the day when the Sydney group edited it. Diana was always there – cheering us on, coming in with suggestions for articles and offering to write reviews of books she’d read.

As a Journal Team, we spent quite a few evenings at Diana’s place at Hunters Hill doing the mailouts: packaging up the Journals, labelling the envelopes, inserting subscription renewal reminders, and bundling the envelopes into strange regional groupings dictated by Australia Post. Diana’s positive attitude and the cups of tea she plied us with made a mundane task more enjoyable.

As well as all this, Diana organised WISENET meetings and AGMs, WISENET representations at various events and forums, and dealt with all the correspondence. I honestly don’t know where she got the energy! She was clearly motivated by a strong belief that women should have the opportunities in science that men had, and she worked tirelessly to try to bring that about.

People like Diana, to me, are the movers and shakers of the community. They don’t sit back and wait for someone else to fix the world’s problems and injustices. They get in there and have a go themselves. That’s one of the main things I’ll remember about Diana. Carrie Bengston