Colour photograph of (from left) Leo Carney, Robert Hess, Ian Bailey, Steve Zantos, Donald Mitchell and Tony Adams

Historical Significance: The 5th Australian International Optometrical Congress was the national congress of the Optometrists Association Australia (then the Australian Optometric Association). That congress featured seven Australian optometrists who were pursuing academic careers overseas. All those speakers are in this photograph except Gerald Westheimer. Four of the seven were graduates in optometry at the University of Melbourne (Carney, Bailey, Mitchell and Adams), one, Robert Hess, graduated at the Queensland Institute of Technology, while Steven Zantos was a graduate of the University of NSW. Dr Westheimer was an optometry graduate from the Sydney Technical College. At the time of the photograph Dr Carney was Associate Dean at the Ohio State University, Dr Robert Hess was Professor of Ophthalmology and Director of Research in ophthalmology at McGill University, Dr Mitchell was Professor of Psychology at Dalhousie University in Canada, while Dr Bailey, Dr Adams and Dr Westheimer were professors at the School of Optometry at the University of California at Berkeley.