Crisp, Helen

Also known as
Crisp, Helen Craven
Crisp, Helen Craven (1916-2002)
Field of activity
Educator and Feminist
Libraries Australia
http://nla.gov.au/anbd.aut-an35104029
NLA Persistent Identifier
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Biographies

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.

  • 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

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Australian Women's Register

  1. The mothering years : the story of the Canberra Mothercraft Society 1926-1979
    Crisp, Helen and Rudduck, Loma
    [1979]
    Published: Canberra Mothercraft Society
  2. Served Canberra's peopleCanberra Times 13 : Served Canberra's people
    Crisp, Gerry
    [2002]
  3. Who's who in Australia 2002
    Herd, Margaret
    [2002]
    Published: Crown Content
  4. National Archives of Australia, National Office: Associations individual - National Council of Women (Helen Craven Crisp) (1952 - 1964)
    A6122/45
  5. National Library of Australia: Interview with Mrs Helen Crisp, feminist [sound recording] / interviewer, Ian Hamilton; recorded by Liz Wilson (28 September 1982)
    Crisp talks about her interests after becoming a mother; women's movement; dealing with legislation for women in the Public Service, which led to married women getting equal rights with the unmarried sisters and also with males, being President of the Women's Union at the University of Adelaide; trying to get the marriage bar removed; sending a motion to the then Prime Minister Mr Menzies on equal pay for women but he was not interested in anything to do with working women; joining the Public Service in Public Administration; writing a letter to Billy McMahon congratulating him on all the things he was saying about working women.
    ORAL TRC 1170
  6. National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection: Crisp, Helen Papers, [manuscript] (1939 - 1983)
    Papers relating to various organisations with which Helen Crisp was associated, including the Child Welfare Committee, National Council of Women, Winston Churchill Memorial Trust, Australian Federation of University Women, ACT Health Commission, Australian Consumers' Association and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Other files contain material on women in the Commonwealth Public Service, child care, home economics, women's education, technical education and health services.
    MS 7593

Resources by Helen Crisp (8)

  1. Helen Crisp interviewed by Ian Hamilton
    Crisp, Helen
    [ Sound : 1982 ]
    View online
    At National Library
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 10.428)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 10.428)

  2. The mothering years : the story of the Canberra Mothercraft Society 1926-1979 / Helen Crisp and Loma Rudduck
    Crisp, Helen
    [ Book : 1979 ]
    At 19 libraries
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 8.827)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 8.827)

  3. Papers
    Crisp, Helen
    [ Unpublished : 1939-1983 ]
    At National Library
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 8.4)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 8.4)

  4. My life / by Golda Meir
    Meir, Golda, 1898-1978
    [ Book, Audio book : 1975-1997 ]
    Languages: English, Yiddish, Russian
    read online at Open Library/Internet Archive
    View online
    At 44 libraries
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 5.36)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 5.36)

  5. Lucinda Brayford / Martin Boyd
    Boyd, Martin, 1893-1972
    [ Book, Audio book : 1946-2009 ]
    read online at Open Library/Internet Archive
    View online
    At 73 libraries
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 5.081)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 5.081)

  6. Growing pains : the shaping of a writer / [by] Daphne Du Maurier
    Du Maurier, Daphne Dame, 1907-1989
    [ Book, Audio book : 1977-1978 ]
    At 40 libraries
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 4.063)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 4.063)

  7. City slickers : Habitat use and foraging in urban Common Mynas Acridotheres tristis
    Crisp, Helen; Lill, Charles
    [ Article : 2006 ]
    Languages: eng
    View online
    At Monash Uni Library
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 1.969)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 1.969)

  8. One-way gates: Initial trial of a potential tool for preventing overpopulation within fenced reserves
    Crisp, Helen; Moseby, Katherine
    Ecological Management & Restoration
    [ Article : 2010 ]
    View online (access conditions)
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 1.955)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 1.955)

Resources about Helen Crisp (3)

  1. [Biographical cuttings on Helen Crisp, former member of the Canberra Mothercraft Society, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals]
    [ Published : 1900-1990 ]
    At National Library
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 13.947)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 13.947)

  2. Helen Crisp interviewed by Ian Hamilton
    Crisp, Helen
    [ Sound : 1982 ]
    View online
    At National Library
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 10.359)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 10.359)

  3. Papers
    Crisp, Helen
    [ Unpublished : 1939-1983 ]
    At National Library
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 8.329)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 8.329)

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  2. Keith Powell Oral History Recordings
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  2. Movement patterns of feral predators in an arid environment - implications for control through poison baiting
    Moseby, Katherine Elizabeth; Stott, Jenny Susanne; Crisp, Helen Amanda; School of Earth and Environmental Sciences
    [ Article : 2009 ]
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  3. Bibliography of Australian music : index to journal articles, monographs and theses / compiled by Deborah Crisp
    Crisp, Deborah
    [ Book, Article : 1982 ]
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  4. Cool Customers; Take advantage of crisp June days to recharge your garden. Plant, prune and prepare now and in time your plants will repay your kindness, writes Helen Young
    Australian House & Garden
    [ Article : 2011 ]
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  1. MADE DEBUT AT RED CROSS BALL
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    ... MADE DEBUT AT RED CROSS BALL Debutantes who were presented to the Governor (Sir Hugh Binney) at the Red Cross Ball at the Hobart bart City Hall last night. L. to r.: Hilary Drinkwater, Noel Mid son, Anne Quinton, Helen Lorimer, Helen Denholm, Sheena Gibson, Rosemary Crisp, and Barbara Wil- son. ... 52 words
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  3. PARTY AT GROSVENOR
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