Item MM 135120 Photograph - State Savings Bank Personnel Management Course, Melbourne, 1984

Summary

Colour photograph of attendees at a State Savings Bank of Victoria, Personnel Management course, held from 7-9 May 1984. In a group of 17 people, there is only one woman. Keith Morter, then manager of the branch at 315 Collins Street, is standing second from right in the front row. An employee of the State Bank from 1942, Keith retired the year after this photograph was taken.

Stapled to the photograph is a typed list of the attendees.

The photograph belonged to Harold 'Keith' Morter who spent his whole working life at the State Savings Bank of Victoria. Through the course of his long and successful career and subsequent retirement, Keith saved a number of mementos of the bank. Keith's collection not only provides insight into one man's working life, it also covers some important periods in Australian banking history, including the introduction of cheque accounts, the opening of small branches across the State, and the adoption of decimal currency.

Description of Content

Three rows of people, standing on steps, with a column to their right and leafy trees behind.