Western Australian Retiring Chairmans/Presidents Addresses

From Engineering Heritage Australia


A table providing access to the Addresses that are available is below. Missing copies will be added when they are located and scanned. Some Addresses do not have a title, and in these cases a short description of the subject of the address has been included. Where an original printed copy is available, a .pdf that can be downloaded and then printed as as an A5 booklet replicating the original has been provided. However, in many cases the only version that is available is an A4 scan of two pages at a time.

YEAR AS CHAIRMAN NAME TITLE/SUBJECT
1920 Frederick Washington Lawson Missing - May be in SLWA 7843A/1
1921 Hubert Edwin Whitfeld The Improvements in the Quality of Engineering Materials brought about by recent advances in Metallurgy
1922 William Herbert Shields Missing
1923 Alfred Tomlinson The Engineering of Men, of Nations
1924 Claude Edward Crocker Missing
1925 Theophilus Mattingley Carey Missing
1926 James Andrew Missing
1927 Arthur Cecil Hewitt Growth and Importance of Engineering
1928 Archibald Muir Hutchinson The Development of Australia and the Part Played by the Engineer in that Development
1929 Herbert Augustine Cresswell Railways
1930 Francis William Harold Stileman Registration, Divisional Headquarters and the Economics of Transport by Rail, Shipping and Road
1931 Joseph (Jack) Arthur Ellis Economics of Transport by Rail, Shipping and Road
1932 Russell John Dumas Irrigation Developments in South-West Portion of Western Australia
1933 George Sidney James Norton General Aspects of Oil-Propelled Transport
1934 Frank Charles Edmondson Institution of Engineers
1935 Poul Herman Fraenkel Missing
1936 Othman (Frank) Frank Blakey Control of Building Operations by Bye-laws
1937 Geoffrey Drake Brockman The North-West of Western Australia, the puzzle of its Settlement, some recent developments and some possible solutions of its problems
1938 James (Jim) White Young The Problem of Traffic and Road Development in Western Australia
1939 William Alexander McCullough Railway Development in Western Australia
1940 John Stuart Foxall The Engineer in Mining
1941 Edward (Hugh) Hugh Oldham Some Aspects of Water Supply Maintenance
1942 Othman (Frank) Blakey Engineering Education
1943 Norman Fernie The Engineer and His Position in the Post-War World
1944 Howard Middleton Future Development of the WA Division and of the Institution
1945 Frederick (Fred) Mills Railway Mechanical Engineers
1946 Ernest William Clifford Godfrey The Engineer and the Community
1947 Sydney Johnson Commercial Side of Engineering, namely Marketing or Sales
1948 Frank Morrison Kenworthy Development and Population Distribution in the South-West of Western Australia based on Water Supplies
1949 John (Digby) Leach Some Aspects of Road Economics and Current Research
1950 James (Jim) Barcham Jukes Power
1951 Julius Myer Rosenberg The Professional Estate
1952 Peter Kennet Wyllie Butterworth General Engineering Works - General Survey of the Position of the 'Jobbing' Engineer
1953 Charles Searl Paterson Missing
1954 Norman Joseph Henry Some Aspects of Dredging
1955 Stanley Robert Newsome Missing
1956 William (George) George Inglis Hayman Missing
1957 George (Malcolm) Malcolm Prescott McRae The Impact of Engineering on the Community
1958 Gordon George Lutz Engineering Training in Nuclear Energy
1959 James (Jim) Russell Espie Standards
1960 William (Bill) David Benson Present State of the Engineering Profession
1961 Alan Elmore Raymond Stephenson Pride, Planning and Progress
1962 John David Gillespie Engineering Design
1963 Erich Walter Shilbury Mathematics, Science, Engineering
1964 Francis Albert Winthrop Le Souef The Development and Rise of Electrical Supply
1965 John (Jack) Joseph Edwards Municipal Engineering with Particular Reference to Western Australia
1966 William James Gillies The Allocation of Electrical Generating Plant for Loading
1967 Victor Morgan Hall Some Aspects of Education and Training as they Affect the Professional Engineer
1968 Francis (Frank) Edmondson Re-Organisation of Division Committee Work for the Future
1969 Arthur (Harry) Harry Nash Australian Engineering Education - An Historical Review and Proposals for Future Development
1970 Robert (Bob) Merry Hillman Perth's Water Supply
1971 Gordon Barratt Hill Professional Consulting Engineer
1972 Ernest Evelyn Freeth 30 Years of Diesel Electric Locomotives
1973 Reginald Richard Hugh Doran Plastics - The Non-Metallic Age
1974 Harold Ernest Hunt Water Supply - Taken for Granted
1975 Albert Henry Tognolini The Development of Western Australia's Roads - Changes over the Years
1976 Kenneth (Ken) John Kelsall A History of the Institution in Western Australia
1977 Ian William Steele Power in Perspective
1978 Peter Forbes Booth Engineering in the Pilbara Iron Ore Industry - Ten Years Development and Progress
1979 James Lampard Paton Engineering Heritage
1980 Kenneth (Ken) Campbell Webster Reflections on Water
1981 Percival (Cam ) Campbell Massey The Steel Structure - An Historical Review
1982 Michael John Corboy Division Headquarters - 1919 to 1983
1983 Kenneth (Ken) Cominos Michael Bridging the Years - A Short Review of the Development of the Perth Metropolitan Road System
1984 Charles (Tony) Anthony Ross Field A Brief History of Perth's Water Services
1985 Roland John Skevington A Brief History of Engineering Education in Western Australia
1986 Thomas John Baikie Swanson Consulting Engineers - The Early Years
1987 Bruce William Stodart James Rural Electrification in Western Australia
1988 Robert (Bob) Erskine Morrison Engineering Change
1989 Peter James Scales The Engineers Place in the Modern World
1990 John Gilbert Wager Whither Australia
1991 Stanley Nowak Engineering - Australia's Future
1992 James (Jim) Ian Gill Professionalism and the Northern Suburbs Transit System
1993 Russell Ian Candy Total Quality Management, What's in it for Engineers
1994 Charles Alec Oliver Waterton Geomechanics - The 'Foundation' of Western Australia
1995 Andrew Lawson Yuncken Engineering - Past, Present and Future
1996 Barry Arthur Clarke In Pursuit of the World's Best Road Network Management
1997 Douglas (Doug) Bruce McInnes Good Engineering
1998 Daniel (Dan) Clement Ryan To Engineer is Human - The Value of Failures in Successful Engineering Design
1999 William (Bill) Richard Marmion Missing - May be in SLWA 7843A/2
2000 Peter Francis Hopwood The Role of Renewable Energy in WA's Economic Future
2001 Peter L Lee Missing - May be in SLWA 7843A/2
2002 Edward (Ed) Royston Scull The Intimate Art of Bioengineering (power point slides)
2003 Carol Jelley Our Excellent Past - Our Excellent Future
2004 Stephen (Steve) Hopetoun Algie Taking Engineering Out of the 'Back Room'
2005 John Kingsley Ruprecht Engineering the Future of the Profession
2006 John Townley Phillips Report on the Division's Activities
2007 James (Jim) Martin Brown Report on the Division's Activities
2008 Lorie Jones Pathways to Sustainability Moving Forward
2009 Christopher (Chris) Berkeley Fitzhardinge The Contribution of 100 Years of Engineering
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