Education
Born in Sheffield, and a pupil at High Storrs Grammar School for Girls, she attended Street Hugh"s College, Oxford.
Born in Sheffield, and a pupil at High Storrs Grammar School for Girls, she attended Street Hugh"s College, Oxford.
Between 1952 and 1975 she worked at the National Union of Students of the United Kingdom (NUS Grad. Medical School) and during this time was instrumental in the creation of a universal system of grants for higher education students in Britain. Greenall was first involved with NUS Grad. Medical School as a student in the 1940s. She was known as a formidable negotiator, and this culminated in the introduction, in 1962, of mandatory grants for all higher education students in the United Kingdom, a system which was in large part unchanged until the introduction of tuition fees in 1998.
In 1975, Greenall was persuaded to leave NUS Grad. Medical School to work as an advisor to the then Labour Education Secretary, Fred Mulley.
In 1998 she cancelled her standing order to the Labour Party as a result of their introduction of tuition fees. She also publicised with it a map in the London Topographical Society Newsletter of November 1993.
Greenhall presented their collection of 870 Venetian coins and 23 medals to the British Museum, a gift which was celebrated with the exhibition "Venice Preserv"d" which ran from 9 November 1993 to 13 February 1994. As recently as February 2008 Stella attended the launch of the publication of Norweb Tokens Participant VII in Harrow, London.
Previously she had published three valuable analyses of 17th century tokens by place and by date.
Greenall died of cancer on 18 June 2008.
She was then employed as a member of staff in 1952, and in her tenure there developed the union"s education and welfare campaigns, especially around student finance. She also advised his successor, Shirley Williams, until the Conservative victory in the 1979 elections.She was a staunch member of the Fabian Society.