Mrs Hyslop, now a Mosgiel resident and in her 80s, first joined a women's institute - previously known as Country Women's Institutes - as a young farmer's wife in Clydevale in the 1950s.
Subsequently, as her late husband, Stewart, was transferred from one place to another as a stock agent, she continued her involvement with the institute, in Oamaru and then in Middlemarch.
More than a decade ago, she became a member of the Janefield Women's Institute in Mosgiel.
It was "just tremendous" to be awarded her 60-year service badge at the federation's annual meeting in Green Island, she said.
About 80 people attended.
She had gained a great deal through her women's institute involvement and, most importantly, "you make a lot of friends", she said in an interview.
When she shifted to Middlemarch, she knew few people, but the local institute soon provided plenty of friends.
Over the years, she has played many roles in the institutes, including serving as president.
She has many memories, but recollected particularly strongly one late night incident when she and three Middlemarch friends had been attending a women's institute reunion at Allanton in the early 1980s.
They had returned to their car after everyone else had left, only to discover one of their car tyres was flat.
"We were all flabbergasted."
Clad in full-length gowns, and never having changed a car tyre before, the four friends showed true women's institute spirit by all pitching in.
One removed the hub cap, another loosened the wheel, and another grappled with the unfamiliar car jack.
Having accomplished the wheel change with some difficulty, they eventually arrived home at Middlemarch about 2am, a couple of hours late, but otherwise unscathed, she recalled.
Other Federation of Women's Institutes badges and awards: 50-year badges, Lois Aburn, Ruby Beattie, Margaret Powell (Green Island), Vera Lamb; 40-year certificates: Gretta Jamieson (Abbotsford); Dorothy Christopher (Janefield); good service awards, Gaynor Todd (Abbotsford); Nora Burgess (Halfway Bush).
