An Honorary Fellow Extraordinary

Natalie Cobbing

doi:10.1192/pb.2.6.97

Abstract

Dr Alexander Walk, at that time President-Elect, Librarian, Co-Editor, Secretary of the Parliamentary Committee and our representative on the General Nursing Council, was the first Officer I spoke to when I joined the staff of the RMPA in January 1960. It was typical that he should telephone to welcome the newcomer, and, as I have learned over the years, also typical that he should then have been serving the Association in so many and varied ways, and that he should now still be engaged in the service of the College. To this service he has given his skill, wisdom, generosity and wit for half a century, and last month he and the College celebrated the Jubilee of his first official appointment—as Assistant Editor of the Journal of Mental Science—in May 1928—a record never equalled by any other member.

Highlights

Editor and probably the most prominent member of the Association, who picked his young AMO at Horton Hospital as a likely recruit to the work of the Journal, and it is in his connection with the Journal that Dr Walk's serviceâ€” as Associate Editorâ€”
Committee and our representative on the General Nursing Council, was the first Officer I spoke to when I joined the staff of the RMPA in January 1960
As one of the Officers, Dr Walk sat on the Associ ation's Committees, and his interest in mental health legislation led to his selection as Secretary of the Special Committee preparing the RMPA's Evidence to the Royal (Percy) Commission in 1954

Summary

Introduction

Editor and probably the most prominent member of the Association, who picked his young AMO at Horton Hospital as a likely recruit to the work of the Journal, and it is in his connection with the Journal that Dr Walk's serviceâ€” as Associate Editorâ€”. Dr Alexander Walk, at that time President-Elect, Librarian, Go-Editor, Secretary of the Parliamentary Committee and our representative on the General Nursing Council, was the first Officer I spoke to when I joined the staff of the RMPA in January 1960.

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