1984 School Magazine

o -fll- Margaret and Cathryn Mittelheuser were both students at Brisbane Girls' Grammar School in the mid 1940's. Recently they decided to provide the means whereby the school cou ld have the advantages of an Artist-in- Residence. Arrangements have been made for Miss Virginia CuppaidB€, an Old Girl of Clayfield College, and now a painter residing in the United States, to become our first Artist-in-Residence in March 1985. Miss Cuppaidge will be in the school from 4th to 29th March,'1985 and will work with the girls through the art Department to give them some insight into what an artist actually does. Both Margaret and Cathryn are keenly interested in Art and its development in the school.

CATHRYN MITTELHEUSER on leaving school, became a nurse and then entered Queensland University in 1964, graduating B.Sc. (Hons.) with the University Medal in igOg. She ieceived her Ph.D. in Plant Physiology in 1971 and then became a member of the research staff of the University of Queensland, working as a post doctoral research fellow in Plant Physiology for some years with special interest in water stress, hormone and f ine structu re relationsh ips in leaf tissues. She is now retired and busily involved in many areas including gardening, art and antiquiti€S, photography and book binding Not on ly have Margaret and Cath ryn decided to su pport the school in a most worthwhile project, but they have also recently donated a print of a Matthew Flinders map of the East Coast of Australia date d 1799-1802. The school is most grateful for the support of these two Old Cirls and we are sure that students who are involved in the programme through 1985 will greatly benef it f rom their ge nerosity.

MARGARET MITTELHEUSER GRADUATED FROM THE University of Queensland, B.Comm., A.A.U.a. ,1952and B.A. (majoring in History) in 1974. She worked for two years in fne Commonwealth Public Service and was the f irst woman u niversity graduate to be employed straight f rom u n iversity in the Com monwealth Pu blic Service in Queensland. She then entered stockbroking, and in 1964, became the f irst woman in Australia to be a partner in a f irm of stockbrokers. She was managing partner of the Queensland offices of a stockbroking firm before retiring in 1983. Her present inerests are economics, current affairs, readin B, art, music and golf . 24