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Letters 1998
6 December 1997
Dear Dr Teed,
It was a very pleasant surprise just after my 70th birthday to be tracked down by Clayesmore School and receive a letter from John Grant enquiring if I was indeed an old boy.
Would you be good enough to send me details of the OC Society as I would like to become a member.
I always have had very pleasant memories of Clayesmore and have made a few brief visits to the school over the years but lately have lost touch. the last contact was with John Brook-Little when he visited Melbourne about a decade ago. I would like to find out what has happened to my contemporaries since the late 1940's and so I asked John Grant to send me a copy of the OC Register.
Enclosed is a copy of the 'blurb' about myself which I have sent to John Grant to edit as an entry for the next edition of the Register and which may be useful to you.
May I wish you a Happy Christmas and a Joyous New Year.
Yours sincerely,
John Waid.
Details:-
Married Sally Taylor. One son, four daughters, twelve grandchildren.
Recreations: Reading, walking, gardening, travel, watching grand children, good food and wine.
Education: Clayesmore(41-46), Regent Polytechnic(48-51)BSc, Queen's College Oxford(51-59)MSc, DPhil,
Professional Affiliations: Member of International Society of Soil and Science, Member of Australian Society of Microbiology, Fellow Institute of Biology (UK), Chartered Biologist, Fellow Australian Institute of Biology.
Appointments: Elsevier Science, Pergamon Press, Oxford, Editor-in-Chief of Soil Biology & Biochemistry, an international peer-reviewed journal. La Troube University, Emeritus Professor of Microbiology. Sunshine Coast University College, Buderim, Adjunct Professor of Microbiology.
Publications: D. Parkinson and J. S. Waid, Ecology of Soil Fungi, Liverpool University Press 1960. J. S. Waid, Ed., PCBs and the Environment, C.R.C. Press, Boca Raton. About 60 scientific papers in refereed journals.