Crisp, Helen Craven (1916 - 2002)

From 1976 until 2002 Helen Crisp was an Honorary Fellow with the University of Canberra (formerly Canberra College of Advanced Education). She was made a Member of the Order of Australia on 8 June 1981 for service to education.

The daughter of E and D Wighton, Crisp completed her education at Girton (Adelaide) before graduating from the universities of Adelaide and Oxford. She married Leslie Crisp (later a professor at the Australian National University) on 22 June 1940. Helen Crisp, a feminist who worked in the field of education, was a member of several women's and social welfare organisations.

• Wighton, Helen (maiden name, 26 September 1916 - 22 June 1940)

Events

1961 - 1971	Member of the Canberra technical education advisory committee/council
1962 - 1965	President of the Australian Federation of University Women
1965 - 1966	Member of the commonwealth committee of enquiry into the need for a College of Advanced Education in the Australian Capital Territory
1966 - 1984	Deputy chairman of the Canberra College of Advanced Education
1974 - 1975	Deputy chairman of the interim committee for the Capital Territory Health Commission
1975 - 1977	Deputy commissioner of the Capital Territory Health Commission
1976 - 25 May 2002	Honorary Fellow at the University of Canberra (formerly Canberra College of Advanced Education)
1980	Publication The Mothering Years
8 June 1981	Appointed Member of the Order of Australia (AM)
1985 - 1986	Council chairmain of the Canberra College of Advanced Education
1991 - 1994	Commissioner at the Australian Capital Territory Legal Aid Commission

President

• Australian Federation of University Women Inc. (1922 - )

  [1962 - 1965]

Related Corporate Bodies

• Canberra Mothercraft Society Inc (1929 - )
• National Council of Women of the Australian Capital Territory (1939 - )

Books

• Crisp, Helen and Rudduck, Loma, The mothering years : the story of the Canberra Mothercraft Society 1926-1979, Canberra Mothercraft Society, Canberra, 1979, 112 pp. [ Details... ]

Newspaper Articles

• Crisp, Gerry, 'Served Canberra's people', Canberra Times, 14 June 2002, p. 13. [ Details... ]

See also

• Herd, Margaret (ed.), Who's who in Australia 2002, 38 edn, Crown Content, Melbourne, 2002, 2020 pp. [ Details... ]