Catalogue Number: 4469 Box of Glass Projector Slides for Lecture to Dentistry Students Category: Photographs Sub-Category: Addresses, talks Author: Alan Isaacs Time Period: 1940 to 1999 Place Of Publication/Manufacture: Melbourne Publisher/Manufacturer: Alan Isaacs Description Of Item: Brown heavy cardboard box 103 mm x 103 mm x 52 mm containing 15 glass projector slides 82 mm x 82 mm x 2 mm to accompany a lecture to dentistry students about the visual requirements for dentistry. Slides are numbered 1 to 5, 7 to 13 with three unnumbered slides. Numbers 2-7 cover brain anatomy and function, 8-12 eye anatomy and visual function and disorders. Slides 1 and 13 relate to visual tasks for dentistry. The unnumbered slides relate to brain anatomy (2) and optics (1). Historical Significance: Alan Isaacs was a student in the last cohort of students to complete the Fellowship of the Victorian Optical Association course in 1944. He became very much involved in the College and the development of the course. He was a Councillor of the College f947-1953 and 1961-1966. He was a member of the Committee that produced a revised course and a detailed handbook (syllabus) for the course in 1948 and lectured in the new College course. He was made an honorary life member of the College in 1962. He returned to study to do adult matriculation at Taylor's College and then studied medicine at the University of Melbourne, which he completed in 1962, and proceeded to train as an ophthalmologist in London. He practised ophthalmology in Melbourne and taught optics and refraction to ophthalmologists-in-training for more than 40 years. For this latter service he was the recipient of the Meritorious Service Award of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Ophthalmologists in 2009. He claims to be the first optometrist in Victoria to style himself, when he started practice in 1945, simply as 'optometrist' at a time when optometrists often described themselves as' Optician' or 'Optometrist and Optician'. How Acquired: Donated by Alan Isaacs Date Acquired: Feb. 2011 Condition: Very Good Location: Archive office. South wall. Cube 6 |