The Council re-elected Mrs Glover as President and Mr Davies as Vice-President and elected Mr Allen to succeed Dr Appelbe as Treasurer.
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The Secretary and Registrar takes a ballot box round the Council table to collect members' votes during the election of the Treasurer |
The difficulty was that when one embarked on such wide-ranging activities, and in such depth, the more one looked at things, the more one identified and saw that much more needed to be done, and the task became that much greater. The Vice-President believed that the Society had been very fortunate during the past year to have had Mrs Glover lead it in a year of significant change. She had settled down into the role of President well, and indeed with enormous enthusiasm and a high work rate. She was making her mark among opinion formers nationally.
Much remained to be done, and the Vice-President had no hesitation in proposing that Mrs Glover should lead the Society for a further year in the position of President.
Mr DARLING said that it gave him enormous pleasure to second the proposition of the Vice-President. During the many years he had known Christine Glover, he had been impressed by her determination to advance the profession of pharmacy and to advance the profession in improving the health care of the nation.
During the past 12 months that energy and that determination had been extremely evident. Christine Glover had taken the profession forward and created and made contacts with decision-makers and with other health care professionals. That was very important in achieving one's objectives. For exactly the same reasons as the Vice-President, Mr Darling wished very strongly that Mrs Glover would serve a further year in the President's chair.
The SECRETARY AND REGISTRAR said that as there were no other nominations, the election had been duly conducted and the Council would wish to offer congratulations to the President. [Applause.]
The PRESIDENT thanked Council members for their support and confidence. As she had said in her nomination address, she was immensely impressed by the care and commitment shown by everybody on the Council. A Council member had to devote a great deal of time and effort to deal with the Council workload.
Council members were working better and she was sure that they could work better still. She knew that they could pull together and move the profession forward a little further.
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Left to right, the re-elected President (Mrs Glover), the re-elected Vice-President (Mr Davies), with his arm in a sling after dislocating his shoulder) and the new Treasurer (Mr Allen) | ||
The SECRETARY AND REGISTRAR said that it had been agreed that there should be a 15-minute break before the election of a Vice-President and Treasurer. There had been one advance nomination for Vice-President and none for Treasurer.
After the break, the Secretary and Registrar said that the one nomination for the office of Vice-President was that of Mr Davies.
Mr EMSON said that he wanted formally to nominate Mr Davies. The role of Vice-President was demanding and required a particular set of skills. He said that it was his pleasure and honour to nominate Marshall Davies for numerous reasons, but he would highlight three. First, Mr Davies had demonstrated the ability to do the job both in the public sense and behind the scenes in several roles that the Vice-President had to undertake. Secondly, he had supported the President very ably during the past year and had made a major contribution to the work of the Society. Thirdly, it would be good for the Society at the current time to have stability and continuity. For those three reasons Mr Emson nominated Mr Marshall Davies as Vice-President.
Professor DAWSON said that it gave him immense pleasure to second the candidature of Marshall Davies. Professor Dawson had had the pleasure the previous year to second his nomination for his first term of office. Over the past 12 months the Council had given many things to the Vice-President's office to do and Professor Dawson said he looked forward to Mr Davies serving for another term and completing the tasks that he had been given.
The PRESIDENT said that, as there were no other nominations, Mr Davies was duly elected Vice-President. [Applause.]
The VICE-PRESIDENT thanked the Council for his re-election and thanked Mr Emson and Professor Dawson for their generous comments. He did not recognise himself in what they had said. He said he would seek to make such contribution as he could to the Society.
He had enjoyed his role as Vice-President in the past year, during which much had been achieved by the Society. He had been pleased to work with the President and looked forward very much to working with her in the furtherance of the Society's interests, the profession's interests and in interests of the members.
The PRESIDENT called for nominations for the election of the Treasurer.
Mrs HOARE nominated Dr Appelbe as Treasurer, and Mr DAJANI seconded the nomination.
The PRESIDENT asked whether there were any other nominations.
Mr ALLEN said he would put himself forward for the post.
Mr NATHAN, on a point of order, said that he had thought that the Council had decided that nominations for Officers would be self-nominations.
The SECRETARY AND REGISTRAR said that the Council had agreed that there would be self-nomination but had not made it clear whether that excluded any other possibility. That was a matter that should be clarified. Therefore she felt that the Council should accept nominations.
Mr NATHAN said that the situation could be cleared up for the current meeting if Dr Appelbe was prepared to nominate himself.
Dr APPELBE said that he was happy so to do.
Mrs HOARE said that she wanted to speak in favour of Dr Appelbe's nomination as Treasurer.
The PRESIDENT said that that raised another problem which would have to be clarified. The view was that with self-nomination there would be no need for somebody to speak. But matters were not clear, and the Council had to let things run at the present time.
Mrs HOARE pointed out that the procedure could be self-nomination or by nomination. That was the way that she had read it.
The PRESIDENT said she felt that Council members would therefore be required to take a vote on whether the Council wished to have a support speech.
A vote was then taken and the motion was lost.
The Council then voted to elect a Treasurer, Mr Allen receiving 14 votes and Dr Appelbe receiving nine. Mr Allen was therefore duly elected as Treasurer.
The PRESIDENT congratulated Mr Allen and thanked Dr Appelbe for his hard work during the past year as Treasurer.
Mr ALLEN thanked Council members for their support, confidence and trust. There was a challenging year ahead and a challenging programme for financial affairs. The Council had to sort out the budget and balance the budget from the deficit situation. It had a new audit committee and that would be a great challenge for all. Mr Allen looked forward to working with the new audit committee. The Council also had museum developments to look at - again an exciting programme - and many other items to deal with.
Mr Allen looked forward to working closely with all members of Council and the Society's directors and directorates and to taking the Society forward in its financial affairs.
Paying tribute to his predecessor, Mr Allen said that Dr Appelbe had worked hard for and on behalf of the Society. He had been a good candidate and a fair one.
Dr GRAY suggested that candidates for the post of Treasurer should in future give a short statement.
On the motion of the President, the Council reappointed Miss Lewis as Secretary of the Society.