Christchurch Civic Awards for 2005 announced
Dr Patrick Cotter’s efforts in putting together the country’s largest collection of historic medical, dental and nursing equipment, books and journals has been recognised by the City Council with its annual Christchurch Civic Award process.
Dr Cotter is among 19 individuals and six organisations recognised this year with Civic Awards. The awards honour substantial service, usually of a voluntary nature, benefiting the city of Christchurch and its people.
The awardees are presented with a framed certificate, signed by Mayor Garry Moore, and an engraved bronze medallion. This year’s ceremony is being held in the Limes Room at the Christchurch Town Hall on Wednesday 7 December, at 6pm.
Since retiring, Dr Cotter has made a mission of gathering medical information and ensuring it is available to those it interests. He set up the Cotter Medical History Trust to look after the collection, organises other volunteers to help preserve and catalogue material and arranges public displays.
Philippa Mein Smith, Associate Professor of History at the University of Canterbury, describes Dr Cotter as a city “taonga” for the work he has done to preserve an important part of the city’s public heritage.
Dr Cotter is also working on an associated project — to record the life histories of Canterbury’s doctors, past and present.
- This year’s Christchurch City Council Civic Awards have been awarded to:Organisations; Canterbury Rose Society, Fore J Productions, Halswell and District Lions Club, Parentline (Chch) Inc, Samoa E Le Galo Charitable Trust and the Sumner-Redcliffs Historical Society for Sumner Museum. Individuals; Donald Lyndsay Aitken, Laurene (Liz) Bailey, Theo Boekel, David Bolam-Smith, Olive J Brown, Tui Brown, Dr Patrick William Cotter, Richard Cottrell, Allison Daphne Franklin, Bryce and Zoe Hadcroft, Kathleen Mary and Alan John Kerr, Janet Mary Low, Joyce Miller, Frances Lenore Ryman, Graham Donal Stairmand, Edith Lyndal Utteridge and Noriko Wright.
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