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club. It should be pointed out that Jean was also awarded a Paul Harris Fellowship for her efforts both in the community and for Rotary. In 1995 they both took on the role of looking after the Rotary Bowelscan program in this area. Maryborough has had the largest sales per capita in our Rotary district and many people owe their lives to participating in this program. They only retired from the committee this year. John loved dogs and always had a terrier or the like. He enjoyed his social life both in Maryborough
and in Melbourne. John was involved in the Maryborough High School Advisory council and in the early years of Wattle House. In recent years his health had declined and
his quality of life was not good. He died on Wednesday, June 6. John is survived by his widow Jean, his two children and two grandchildren.
He was buried after a private family funeral at Ballarat.
John certainly lived by the Rotary principles. service above self.
Remember when?
He has The Pharmacist
occupied this busy shop for an age, like his His assistants in the shop are young girls fresh out of school
father before him. In the window two large flasks proclaim his ancient craft, one filled with red liquid, the other green; on a high shelf stand rows of porcelain jars with gilded squiggles and mystical names an apothecary might have mumbled: gentian violet, juniper, tamarinds, Russian isinglass, myrrh, syrup of squills ...
Once he used to take them down and make up his own ointments, powders and lotions. Today he spends most of his time counting out pills, and typing in forms with one reluctant finger.
who could be selling soaps or scents or sunglasses, color films or thongs ...
He thinks back to these long years at university, to the healing craft of his father who tended cut fingers and foreign bodies in the public eye, and even people’s pets. He knows that in a world of international drug houses and bureaucrats, he has been swallowed like a tablet.
Contraction of Australian community pharmacists’ professional activities as perceived by society. (Source: by courtesy AJP Vol 66 Mar 1985.)
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