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Award of ADB Medal to John Love for long and distinguished service (2002)

Citation

John Love has served the Australian Dictionary of Biography for almost three decades.  He joined the ADB’s South Australian Working Party as secretary in September 1974 and served in that capacity until September 2002.  He is also an ADB author.

For twenty-eight years, John Love was an outstanding secretary of the South Australian Working Party.  Methodical, well-organised, responsible and hard-working, he brought a professional archivist’s skills to the voluntary position of secretary of the working party.  His expertise was manifested in the making and systematic filing of the South Australian records of the Australian Dictionary of Biography, and in the regular updating of each volume’s list of subjects, authors and word limits.  He was an efficient producer of the working party’s minutes of meetings, and a thoughtful contributor to its deliberations.  His responses to queries from the ADB’s central office were invariably prompt, courteous and informative.  As a contributor to the Australian Dictionary of Biography, John Love has written eight articles, two on newspaper men, one on a medical practitioner and five on Presbyterian clergymen.  John Love’s twenty-eight year association with the Australian Dictionary of Biography has been characterised by a self-effacing but unwavering and highly valued commitment to the project.