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MONASH UNIVERSITY GAZETTEOBITUARYASSOCIATE PROFESSOR ELWYN MOREYAssociate Professor Elwyn Aisne Morey died in a roadaccident near Sydney in January of this year whiletravelling between Melbourne and Sydney. She wasfifty-three.There would have been few people whose tragic anduntimely death so profoundly affected a large and variedcircle of friends, associates, colleagues and students, foralthough Elwyn Morey had occupied university postsin Australia and abroadsince 1948, many of herprofessional interests andactivities were outsidethe world of academicaffairs. Among the institutionsand groupswith which she wasclosely involved werethe Australian Pre-SchoolAssociation, VictorianCollege of Speech Therapy,Australian Councilfor the Rehabilitation ofAssociate Prof. E. Morey Disabled, and the Societyfor the Scientific Studyof Mental Deficiency.There were numerous other groups, societies and institutionswhich made frequent demands on her time. Atthe time of her death she was closely involved with thedevelopment of the Monash Child Study Centre in thefaculty of Education, and with Rossbourne House, anindependent school for slow-learning children.Elwyn Morey graduated in English language andliterature from the University of Melbourne in 1935and later successfully undertook her Diploma of Education(1936), Master of Arts (1939), and Bachelor ofEducation (1940) at that University. She began herworking career as a secondary-school teacher, teachingin both Victoria and the United Kingdom. Her interestslater turned to educational psychology and she took upa research assistantship with the Australian Council forEducational Research. When travel abroad was againpossible after the war she completed her Ph.D. in educationaland vocational psychology in the University ofCalifornia at Berkeley, returning to Australia in 1948to take up a lectureship in psychology in the Universityof Western Australia. She returned to the University ofMelbourne in 1957 to a senior lectureship in psychologyand in 1961 accepted a similar position in the departmentof Education at the University of Melbourne. Shecame to Monash in 1965 to establish courses in educationaland clinical psychology in the faculty ofEducation.DEEP INTERESTS IN THE HANDICAPPEDAlthough at first sight Dr. Morey's activities and manyinvolvements appear to have been extraordinarily wideand diversified they were, in fact, closely linked by acommon concern. Elwyn Morey was primarily interestedin and deeply concerned with those who for reasons ofbirth, accident, illness, age, or psychological disturbancewere handicapped in their adjustment to school, work.or other people. Her single-minded and passionate concernwas to render help to such people. But in followingthis humanitarian interest she did not cast herself eitheras an interfering do-gocder or as a preacher. She wasremarkably objective and pragmatic in her approach tosocial issues; to her the most enduring and effectiveways of helping the handicapped were to foster comnumityparticipation, to establish properly backed andsupported centres and, above all, to train students in thepractice of clinical and educational psychology.In 1949 she began, in collaboration with AssociateProfessor Patrick Pentony, now at the AustralianNational University, the first graduate training coursein clinical psychology in the University of WesternAustralia, a landmark in psychological training inAustralia.To Elwyn Morey her university position and workconstituted a small part of her total activities and interests.She never pictured herself as a committeduniversity don, as a devoted researcher or, for thatmatter, as a committed and devoted teacher in thenarrow sense. The university, wherever it might be, providedher with a headquarters and base of operations aswell as with a forum. More important, the universitygave her an opportunity to draw the attention of studentsto the problems which concerned her and the means ofsolving them. She saw the principal solution in thestudy of human behaviour as an empirical science. Forher psychology was not in itself of central interest; itwas an effective way of coping with the problems of thephysically, emotionally and intellectually handicapped.For this reason Elwyn Morey was not overly concernedwith theory or methodology but only with putting intoeffective use the established facts of her science. Shewas a practical and often intuitive practitioner; not adeeply involved scholar in the narrow, donnish sense ofthat term.CONCERN WITH HUMAN PROBLEMSIf these comments convey an impression of a humourlessmissionary so involved and committed as to be intolerantof other pursuits of a less "worthy" kind, thenthey are quite misleading. Elwyn Morey had a robust anddelightful sense of humour which was triggered, moreoften than not, by the ridiculous and the pompous ratherthan by the merely comic and whimsical. She was asuperb raconteur. She indulged a broad range of culturalinterests and led a busy and active social life.One remembers Elwyn Morey's arrivals at home or inone's study as reminiscent of a minor typhoon - alwayswith so much to do and plan, so many to argue withand convince, and so little time in which to do all thesethings.The traditional pursuit of scholarship in a universityoften has the unfortunate effect of narrowing interestsand restricting a view of the world outside. ElwynMorey moved easily between the university and the restof the community, broadening her view of each by contactwith the other. She gave the lie to that popularimpression of the university person as "way-out" andunrealistic. She conveyed her views with clarity, integrityand simplicity, never compromising her professionin the interests of popularization. For her there were34
not two worlds, or three, or four, but one world withpeople who had problems which she saw it as her dutyto help solve.Monash University is fortunate indeed to have attracted,even for such a tragically brief period, the servicesof this remarkable woman. It is entirely fitting thatthe Monash Child Centre will in future bear her name.She would have liked that.-R. H. Dayr». ALBERT LEONARD JONESDr. A. L. JonesDr. Albert Leonard Jonesdied. on 21 July while onstudy leave with his familyin England. Born in Newtown, Montgomeryshire,Wales on 14 May 1924, hereceived his undergraduateand graduate training at theUniversity College of Wales.Aberystwyth (B.Sc. firstclasshonours, 1946; Ph.D.•1949). A period of nationalservice as assistant researchchemist in leI preceded hisPh.D. training under C. W.Davies. He then joined theRoyal Military College ofScience at Shrivenham as a lecturer in the department ofChemistry and Metallurgy, being promoted to seniorlecturer in 1951 and to principal lecturer in 1955. In1964 he moved to Australia to take up a senior lectureshipin the Chemistry department at Monash University.On the research side his main interest was in themechanisms of crystallization and dissolution of ioniccrystals, an interest kindled in his Ph.D. studies of silverchloride. At Shrivenham, where research facilities inchemistry were very limited, he at first worked in collaborationwith E. C. Baughan on problems relating tohigh-polymer solutions but subsequently recommencedstudies of crystal growth. At Monash he actively pursuedthese studies. The research group that he had builtup at the time of his study leave had been producingsome interesting new results that could lead to a substantialrevision of currently-held views of dissolutionmechanisms but his untimely death may mean that thiswork will not be immediately exploited to the extent thatit deserves.Len Jones made many worthwhile contributions inhis all-too-short period at Monash. Calling on his extensiveprevious experience of radiochemical techniquesand facilities, he designed and supervised constructionof a radiochemical laboratory, now named after him, forthe Chemistry department. He willingly shouldered manyadministrative duties. He was a member of theV.U.S.E.B. standing committee for science. departmentalrepresentative on the engineering faculty board, a memberof the University Safety Committee and chairmanof the departmental safety committee. He shared responsibilityfor the running of the first year laboratory,made substantial contributions to the planning of somerecently-completed extensions to the department andsome further extensions that have currently beenrequested.Len's personal qualities were outstanding. He had thehighest standards of integrity and an attractive, warmpersonality that universally inspired respect and affectionin his colleagues and students alike.He had wide interests. His sporting interests wereseverely handicapped by the leg-iron that he wore as theresult of polio in his youth.He leaves a wife, Joan, and three young children.We at Monash, and particularly the Chemistry department,will miss Len's loyalty. integrity and unfailinggood humour. He was a man of rare distinction.-R. D. BrownUNIVERSITY STAFFCHAIR OF I,cONOI\1ETRICSThe first chair of Econometrics in an Australianuniversity is occupied by Dr. Alan Powell who has beenreader in economics at Monash since 1965.Before his appointment to Monash he lectured ineconomic'S at the University of Adelaide and in 1964was post-doctoral fellow in political economy at theUniversity of Chicago.He graduated B.Sc.Agr., with honours in agriculturaleconomics, from the University of Sydney. Later hewas awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy by thesame University for his thesis ·'A national fodder reservefor the wool industry - an economic and statisticalanalysis".On his arrival at Monash he joined the team headedby Professor F. H. G. Gruen, which was concernedwith long-term planning of Australian agricultural supplyand demand.Professor Powell is currently working on the furtherdevelopments of econometric models of supply anddemand. He is married and has three sons and adaughter.NEW CHAIR OF ANTHROPOLOGY ANDSOCIOLOGYThe second chair of Anthropology and Sociologyestablished at Monash is held by Professor MichaelSwift, recently senior lecturer in the department ofAnthropology at the University of Sydney.Professor Swift graduated from the London School ofEconomics as B.Sc. (Econ.} and Ph.D. in 1951 and35
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