A Small Footprint A Big Impression

This timeline is about Elsie Locke

1912 Elsie was born.

1930 Elsey became the first student from Waiuku District High School to go to
University in Auckland.

1933 Elsey moved to Wellington.

1935 Elsey married Fred Freeman but left him two years later, before their son
Don was born.

1940s Family life was disrupted when Elsey spent two years in Hospital with
Spinal Tuberculosis.

1941 Things looked up to Elsey when she married Jack Locke.

1950 She helped found the New Zealand campaign for nuclear disarmament.

1959 Her writing career took off after the School Journal published a piece of her
writing.

1960 She fought against a power scheme to rase Lake Manapouri.

1965 The Runaway Settlers was published.

1970 She opposed the felling of native forests on the West Coast.

1973 She won that battle in the high court.    

1999 The Runaway Settlers won the Gaelyn Gordon award for the most loved
book.

2001 A Present For Pudding was published over fourty years later.