Laurie Salas was educated at Rangi Ruru Girls' School in Christchurch, and studied at Canterbury University College, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in 1942.
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Laurie Salas went on to marry Jack Reuben Salas, an ENT specialist, and the couple had six children.
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Laurie Salas was involved with the Playcentre movement, and became that organisation's first representative on the National Council of Women.
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Laurie Salas went on to serve the latter body as its national secretary between 1976 and 1980, and its vice president between 1982 and 1986.
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Laurie Salas was president of the United Nations Association of New Zealand, and vice president of the World Federation of United Nations Associations.
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Laurie Salas was a New Zealand committee member for the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific, and she was an honorary vice president of the New Zealand Institute of International Affairs.
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Laurie Salas was active in the peace movement throughout her life, and advocated for improvements in the status, safety and security of women.
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Laurie Salas was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire, for services to the community, six years later in the 1988 Queen's Birthday Honours.
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Laurie Salas received the Queen Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee Medal in 1977, and the New Zealand 1990 Commemoration Medal.
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Laurie Salas died at Sprott House in the Wellington suburb of Karori on 26 January 2017, less than two weeks before her 95th birthday.