Address given on the occasion of awarding honorary life membership of the Victorian College of Optometry to Professor Sir Arthur Amies
 Catalogue Number: 1582 Address given on the occasion of awarding honorary life membership of the Victorian College of Optometry to Professor Sir Arthur Amies Category: Papers Sub-Category: Addresses, talks Author: KETT Cyril W Year Of Publication/Manufacture: 1970 Time Period: 1940 to 1999 Place Of Publication/Manufacture: Melbourne Description Of Item: Three 10 x 19.4 cm pages of typescript being notes for the speech given by Cyril W Kett on the occasion of awarding honorary life membership of the Victorian College of Optometry to Professor Sir Arthur Amies, signed by Cyril Kett Historical Significance: Sir Arthur Amies (1902 - 1976) was the second President of the Victorian College of Optometry from 1945 to 1969. He was Professor and Dean of Dentistry in the University of Melbourne and assisted the College establish its optometry course in the 1940s and the transfer of that course in 1961 to the University of Melbourne. He was awarded honorary life membership in 1970, See his biography in the Australian Dictionary of Biography http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A130048b.htm?hilite=amies Condition: Good Location: Archive office. Pamphlet and ephemera filing cabinet. Drawer 4 |