Buttrose, Stroma (1929 - )

Stroma Buttrose went to school at Hopetoun and then Woodlands at Glenelg where her interest in geography and later town planning began. She completed a Diploma in Arts and Education at Adelaide University and at 21 travelled to Europe with her family. After returning to Adelaide she taught Geography while completing a Bachelor of Arts degree majoring in Geography. In April 1957 she was appointed temporary female draftman's assistant to the government town planner. She organised the Land Use Survey covering Gawler to Willunga and the Development Plan for the Metropolitan Area of Adelaide was published in the Spring of 1963. During 1962 Buttrose was one of ten students doing the Master of Town Planning degree at Adelaide University with Professor Rolf Jensen. In February 1973 she was appointed a Commissioner of the Town Planning Appeal Board/Tribunal, later to become the Environment, Resources and Development Court. She was the first woman to hold that position.

Chronology

1941 - 1947	Attended Woodlands Church of England Girls' Grammar School
1948 -	Life member of the Woodlands Old Scholars Association
1949	Common law clerk with Thomson, Buttrose, Ross & Lewis, Barristers & Solicitors
1951 -	Member of the Graduates Union at the University of Adelaide
1952 - 1954	Secretary with the Department of Architecture at the School of Mines, South Australia
1953	Winner of the On Dit 21st birthday litarary competition with three poems
1954 - 1956	Geography teacher at St Peter's Collegiate School, North Adelaide
1954 - 1956	President of the Woodlands Old Scholars Association
1955 -	Member of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia (SA)
1955 - 1956	Tutor in geography at the University of Adelaide
1956 -	Geography teacher at The Wilderness School, Medindie, South Australia
1957 - 1958	Vice-chair of the Young Contingent with the Victoria League
1957 - 1973	Member of the Royal Australian Planning Institute
1957 - 1973	Planning officer with the State Planning Office, South Australia
1960 -	Life Member of the National Trust of Australia (SA)
1960 - 1962	Member of the Commonwealth Counciol of the Fellowship of Australian Writers
1960 - 1972	Member, later a Fellow, of the Fellowship of Australian Writers
1966 - 1969	Tutor in town planning with the South Australian Institute of Technology (SAIT)
1966 - 1972	Vice-president of the Fellowship of Australian Writers (SA)
1967 - 1973	Council member of the National Trust of Australia (SA)
1968 -	Member of the Australian Conservation Foundation
1969 -	Member of the Queen Adelaide Club
1969 -	Member of the Zonta Club of Adelaide
1970s	Member of the Children's Book Council
1971 - 1973	Member of the National Council of Women
1973 - 1999	Commissioner of the Planning Appeal Board, South Australia
1975 -	Life Member of the RSPCA
1975	Publishers Rigby commissioned her to write a children's reader, City Planning in Australia
1977 -	Life Member of the Friends of the State Library of South Australia
1977 -	Council member at Woodlands CEGGS Inc.
1977 -	Member of the Poets Union of SA
1977 -	Member of the Australian Society of Authors
1977 - 1979	Vice-president of the Society of Women Writers of Australia (SA)
1980 -	Council member of the Workers Educational Association of SA Inc.
1980 -	Life Member of the Royal Zoological Society of SA Inc.

Membership

• Lyceum Club (Adelaide) Incorporated (1922 - )

  [1973 - ]

Books

• Buttrose, Stroma, City planning in Australia, Rigby, Adelaide, 1975, 30 pp. [ Details... ]

Newspaper Articles

• Buttrose, Stroma, 'Scholar devoted to family and law', Advertiser, 23 November 2002, p. 88. [ Details... ]

See also

• Lofthouse, Andrea (ed.), Who's who of Australian women, Methuen Australia, North Ryde (NSW), 1982, 504 pp. [ Details... ]