Her parents, Jane (born Butler) and John White, arranged for an aunt to teach her and she also attended the Methodist Ladies' College in Kew.

[1] In 1947, she married Anton William Rutherford Vroland[2] and in the same year [3] and 1948 she was arguing in New South Wales newspapers for an improved treatment of the Australian Aboriginal people.

She argued for a new deal that recognised that they had lost access to their traditional way of life and that they needed sympathy and not punishing jail sentences.

[5] Strictly speaking the people she was talking to would have been identified as non-aboriginal as they were of mixed race.

Vroland had experience of experimental methods from a private primary school that she had taught at, in Belgrave in 1928.