Graham Marion
Many posters from POB days will recall Western Australian colleague Graham Marion posting on POB.
I am saddened to report his passing on the 25th of May 2013 Below is a record of his achievement and a photo taken in 2010 at Sydney FIG.
Graham Marion 30/5/1949 – 25/5/2013
It is with sadness that we advise members that Graham Marion, SSSI Fellow passed away on Saturday 25 May 2013.
Graham Marion provided exemplary dedication and service to the spatial community for the past 25 years. He joined the Institution of Surveyors as a member in 1988 elected to the committee of the ISA WA Division the same year. He was elected a Fellow in April 1997.
He served as social convenor and Chairman of the constitution subcommittee before being elected as Treasurer of the WA Division from 1992 to 2001.
In 1994 he was elected as a Councillor of ISA. Graham convened the constitution, strategic planning and future directions sub-committees of Council. He was Vice President from 1997-99, President-elect in 2005-6 and President of ISA in 2006-07.
As convenor of the Constitution sub-committee he was responsible for the adoption by ISA of the broad FIG definition of a surveyor. He also introduced amendments to the Objects of ISA to incorporate the ‘York Vision’. These objects have since been adopted into the SSI and SSSI constitutions.
Throughout Graham’s service he was a supporter of the creation of a single unified professional body representing the spatial industry. He convened an attempt at national amalgamation which failed. However he was involved in the subsequent successful formation of WAIS (a unification of Cadastral, Mining and Engineering Surveyors) in WA. He fully supported the formation of SSI.
Graham is survived by his wife Cathy and 4 children: Paul, John, Edwina and Susan.
The Funeral Service to celebrate the life of Graham will be held at the Salvation Army Floreat Corps, cnr Brookdale St and Salvado Rd, Floreat on TUESDAY (04.06.2013) at 10.00am. A Private Cremation Service will follow.
Bandsmen, please bring instruments.Graham is standing on front LHS for those who never met him face to face.
RADU
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