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Turnbull On 28 September, Clarice
Pamela Turnbull, MRPharmS, of 166 Melton Road, Stanton-on-the-Wolds,
Nottingham NG12 5BQ. Mrs Turnbull
registered in 1954. (Tribute)
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Tribute
Turnbull In a tribute to
the late Clarice
Pamela Turnbull, DIANA E. GRAY writes:
Pamela Turnbull, who died
on 28 September after a brief illness, was a student at London University
from 1951 to 1954.
After graduating she undertook her postgraduate training year at the
Piccadilly Circus branch of Boots The Chemists. It was there that she
met her husband George, also a pharmacist.
Subsequently Pam worked in the pharmacy department of University College
Hospital, London, and, briefly, at the Maudsley Hospital. In 1957 she
moved to the Pharmaceutical
Society’s headquarters in London, where she was an editorial assistant
on the British Pharmaceutical Codex and Martindale. She very much enjoyed her
time there.
Pam and George moved to Nottingham in 1958 and she joined Riker (later to become
3M Healthcare Ltd) in Loughborough, where she worked until her retirement in
1990. It was there that I first met Pam, when I joined Riker in 1962.
In 1958 Riker was still a relatively young company. As the company grew, Pam
held various managerial positions with increasing seniority. She was manager,
regulatory affairs, for product registration in the UK and overseas from 1965
to 1976 and manager, product licensing and acquisitions, covering the UK, Europe,
US and Japan, from 1976 to 1990.
Pam was a founder of the British Institute of Regulatory Affairs and of the Licensing
Executive Society. Also, from 1988 to 1990, she was a member of the board of
the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry. Throughout this time
she travelled frequently to many parts of the world.
In the 1950s and early ’60s there were few opportunities, in any industry,
for women to become managers. Pam’s standards were high and she meticulously
maintained them. She was an excellent role model for young women aspiring to
management.
In retirement she was also busy. From 1992 until her death she was a non-executive
director of the Nottingham Health Authority. She served on many of its committees
and was vice-chairman from 1995.
However, retirement did grant her more time for her leisure pursuits. Pam had
always loved the arts, particularly the theatre and visual arts. She and George
went on many holidays together to enjoy these interests. Pam was a loyal friend
to me and others and her funeral at Nottingham was attended by many of her former
colleagues, who extend their sympathy to George. They had been married for 50
years in June.
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