AV News 191 - February 2013
Lady Doreen Pollock
FRSA FRPS MPAGB EFIAP
It is with the greatest sadness that Sir George has to tell you that Doreen died on
16th October 2012, aged 95, very peacefully, with her loving family at her side.
The Funeral took place at Haycombe Crematorium, Bath on 24th October.
Her ashes were subsequently interred, next to her parents, in the cemetery of
St Michael’s Church, Mickleham, Surrey, where she and George were married
in 1951. The photographs opposite were used in the two services.
If desired, donations may be sent to ‘Fight for Sight’, research charity into
eye problems. 5th Floor, Fenchurch Buildings, Fenchurch Street, London
EC3M 5HR, on online via http://www.fightforsight.org.uk/
Doreen was a Fellow of the RPS, and also FRSA, MPAGB and EFIAP. She
and her husband George were the first two people to become Masters of the
PAGB in Audio-Visual. She served for some years on the RPS Council, and
during her time was instrumental in creating the system of Overseas RPS
Chapters which operate to this day. With the rest of the Overseas Committee
she helped create the Overseas Newsletter, and was involved in organising the
half-dozen Overseas Members' Exhibitions which were held in the Octagon.
It was her idea to start an RPS AV Newsletter, first issued in July 1976. She
edited the first ten issues, succeeding in building up a fund which formed the
initial capital of the RPS AV Group when it was created at the end of 1977. In
fact, the first members of the AV Group were the readers of Doreen's AV News.
Doreen was also much involved in the creation of the RPS International
Audio-Visual Festival, and served for some years on the RPS A & F Panel for
Slide-Sound Sequences, later renamed the Audio-Visual Panel.
Her own AV sequences were much appreciated, and she won first prize in
the National AV Championships (at that time a joint RPS/PAGB event) one
year with her sequence ‘One Brief Moment’ about the Lake District, and
another year, the first prize in the RPS International AV Festival with her
interpretation of some verses from the ‘Revelation of St John’.
David's Eulogy for 24th October 2012
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