Yvonne Rust, QSM
![Yvonne Rust: Maverick Spirit by Theresa Sjoquist (David Ling, 2011)](https://theresasjoquist.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Maverick-Spirit.jpg)
Beginning in August 2007, I started research for the biography, Yvonne Rust – Maverick Spirit. The completed work included the location and interview of 400 people, approximately 80 of them in depth. Yvonne’s great grandfather, John Stewart Rust, arrived in Whangarei when thirty-six houses constituted the township. His son, Gordon, Yvonne’s father, was a native schools headmaster. In 1928, when Yvonne was six, he […]