What a woman!
Enduring another wet miserable day in Sydney I decided to watch a movie from my 'watchlist". I chose "The Best of Men" about the work of Dr Ludwig Guttmann with spinal injury patients at Stoke Mandeville Hospital England. I wish to honour the life of a woman who calls Rookwood "home" and benefitted from Guttmann's treatment. CHARLENE STUART MEADE OAM Charlene was born in Sydney in 1931 to Charles Ingram Todman, and his second wife, Phyllis Stuart Pearce. Her grandfather, George Todman, with his partner Wilheim Von Der Heyde, set up a very successful import and tobacco merchant business in York Street Sydney in the 1870's. Both held positions of high civil duty and lived in vast homes in the Strathfield area. Charles like his father was a successful businessman starting in the tobacco industry and later progressing to paper production and news media. In 1946, whilst living in Double Bay, Charlene was working with her mother at the Tor Lodge in ...