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Background to Honorary Membership | Honorary Membership may be awarded to members who have made an outstanding contribution to the Society over an extended period and who are active proponents in fostering the aims of NZMS and microbiology in New Zealand. Honorary Members have all the rights, privileges and obligations of ordinary members, for life, and without the payment of annual subscriptions.

Honorary Membership may be nominated from time to time. The following excert from the Society's constitution explains the process of election:

Any member may nominate any other person who has given service of outstanding merit to New Zealand microbiology for election as an honorary member. Such nomination shall be considered by the Executive Committee and if approved by a two-thirds majority of such Committee shall be submitted for election at a general meeting of the Society and shall be declared elected if a two-thirds majority at such a meeting vote in favour. Honorary members shall be entitled to all the privileges of ordinary membership for life and without payment of annual dues.

If you would like to nominate someone deserving for the title of honorary member,
please FIRST contact the secretary who will be able to help guide you through the process.

 

Current Honorary Members | The society currently has a number of Honorary Members, although it should be noted that several have sadly passed away subsequent to their election. The following list gives a link to information about each honorary members respective contribution to the history of our society. This information was, for the most part, kindly collated and provided by the authors of "The first 50 years: a brief history of the New Zealand Microbiological Society" (by Terry Maguire, Frank Austin, Sandy Smith and John Tagg)

 

NZMS Honorary Members

Year Elected	Name and link	Affiliation
1964	J. O. C. Neill	Plant Diseases Division, DSIR
1972	C. S. M. Hopkirk	Wallaceville Animal Research Centre
1978	E. E. Chamberlain	Plant Diseases Division, DSIR
1979	J. A. R. Miles	Otago University
1981	M. J. Marples	Otago University
1982	F. M. Rush-Munro	National Health Institute
1984	D. Dye	Plant Diseases Division, DSIR
1988	J. S. Loutit	Otago University
	R. E. F. Matthews	Auckland University
1990	A. P. Mulcock	Lincoln University
	R. H. Thornton	Cawthron Institute
1991	M. W. Loutit	Otago University
1993	D. F. Bacon	Massey University
	F. J. Austin	Otago University
1995	A. W. Jarvis	Dairy Research Institute
	B. D. W. Jarvis	Massey University
	D. G. Till	Environmental Science & Research
1999	M. Baxter	Massey University
2001	C. G. Harfoot	Waikato University
2008	J. R. Tagg	Otago University
2010	D. R. Martin	Environmental Science & Research

 

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