Historical information

A press release from Melbourne Legacy in 1975 which relates a story of how Legacy works. The information was intended to be used by press and magazines etc.
The title 'Ambition achieved with a little help from her friends', and is about an 18 year old whose parents died within 12 months of each other. She was doing Matriculation (similar to VCE), and faced a problem with continuing her education until Legacy heard of her situation.
Legacy provided free dental care, granted her an allowance, paid her matriculation exam fees. After she matriculated her career path was a Diploma course in Foods and Food Services and Legacy paid for her first year course fees and continued her allowance. Based on her remarkable results Legacy continued supporting her course fees until she graduated a happy, well-adjusted, successful girl in a well known test kitchen.
It illustrates Legacy's ability to help ambitious young legatees to succeed and achieve their ambitions.

Significance

A record of how Legacy promoted their work in the 1970s.

Physical description

Yellow foolscap page x 2 with black type of a press release in 1975.

Inscriptions & markings

Title 'Ambition achieved with a little help from her friends'