Kid from Norfolk Island

The Story of the Remarkable Alf Pollard

Professor John S. Croucher (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

334 Seiten

2014
Woodslane Pty Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-922131-61-4 (ISBN)

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This warm and lively biography provides insight not just into the life of Alf Pollard, but also into Australian life from the 1920s right through to the 1990s. Born almost 100 years ago in Melbourne, Alf Pollard spent most of his childhood on Norfolk Island where his family leased a banana plantation. Despite having virtually no education in his early years, Pollard’s tenacity and natural intelligence saw him top the state in the NSW Leaving Certificate and graduate from university with honours. He later gained a Masters degree and a PhD, and at age 23 became one of the youngest people ever to qualify as an actuary. A brilliant businessman, Pollard became Deputy General Manager of the MLC in 1954, aged just 37, but was later controversially embroiled in the scandalous H.G. Palmer affair that led to his forced resignation from the MLC in January 1966. He was later appointed as the Foundation Professor in Economic Statistics at Macquarie University, where he founded the first university actuarial program in the world. Pollard received many awards during his lifetime, including an Order of Australia, NSW Father of the Year and a prestigious Doctor of Science degree. He served on the boards of many companies, and helped save both the Sydney Eisteddfod and the Wesley Mission from bankruptcy.

John is a scholarly researcher with an international reputation, publishing 24 books and over 120 papers in refereed journals and conference proceedings, along with more than 1000 other articles in newspapers and magazines. He was recently awarded the Prime Minister’s Award for University Teacher of the Year.

Foreword by the Honourable John W. Howard OM AC

The Actuaries Institute

Preface

Background

The Adventure Begins

Early Times on Norfolk Island

Life on the Land

School Days

University

In the Office

The War Years

Back at MLC

Climbing up the Corporate Ladder

Opportunity Knocks

The Darkest Times

Life after Macquarie

Work, Sports, Church, Arts, Music

Natures Masterpiece - bringing up children

The Golden Years

The Passing of a Beloved Wife and Mother

The Death of an Icon

Erscheint lt. Verlag	18.3.2014
Verlagsort	Mona Vale
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
ISBN-10	1-922131-61-X / 192213161X
ISBN-13	978-1-922131-61-4 / 9781922131614
Zustand	Neuware