Notable lives : profiles of 21 South Australians

Short biographies of twenty one South Australians of distinction; lives and service of some who have enriched the community socially, culturally and in many cases, financially:

Charles Warren Bonython AO and H R ('Kym') Bonython AC DFC AFC: scions of a dynasty.
Hedley Brideson: librarian entrepeneur.
Dame Nancy Buttfield DBE : nothing like this dame.
A Bertram Cox: man with many hats.
Sir Walter Crocker, KBE, CBE, Croix de Guerre, Ordre Du Lion (Belg.): a radical with a sense of form.
Lt.-Col. Mary ("May") Douglas OBE OAM: patriot and pioneer.
John Dowie AM: a renaissance man.
Edith Dubsky OAM: Madamme Musica Viva.
Edith Eadie (née Butler): matron in war.
Dr B S ('Bill') Hanson CMG, DSO, OBE: doctor with a merry heart.
Nora Heysen: artist out of this world.
Garry Koshnitsky MBE: master of chess.
Noel Lothian OBE: vision splendid.
Jake McConnell: architect of the future.
Lois O'Donoghue AM, CBE: elder of our nation.
John Portus AO, OBE, DFC: champion of the underdog.
Noel Roscrow AM: man of vision.
Professor Emeritus Eric Rudd AC: geologist behind the boom.
Jack Weinert: the empire that Jack built.
Charles Wright AM EM and Bar: saviour of our heritage.