VALETE
Frank Alfred Moorman Lees AM MBE FRSA (1925- 2021)
We extend condolences to the family of Honorary Life member, Frank Lees AM MBE FRSA, who passed away on 5th October 2021.
In the last weeks of World War II, while stationed at Balikpapan in Southern Borneo, Frank wrote and received more than 700 letters. A letter dated 16th Frank was born in 1925 in Melbourne. He attended August 1945 from his father Alfred, which told of how Ivanhoe State Primary School and then went to he joined 350,000 people in the CBD to celebrate the Northcote High School. After completing four end of the war, with community singing and dancing years of high school, he was enlisted for World was chosen as the most interesting letter in Australia War II. Frank returned to Northcote High after the Post’s Top 200 Letters of a Nation competition in war to complete his matriculation and went on to 2009. study Mechanical Engineering at The University of Frank also helped develop the book, A Short History Melbourne. of The Graduate Union of The University of Melbourne, Frank joined The Graduate Union in 1958 and was published in 2002.
on The Graduate Union Council from the mid1950s; and became the 13th President of The Graduate Union from 1999 to 2005.
Frank maintained contact with The Graduate Union and visited Graduate House in February 2019 with wife Jeannine.
As a representative of the Faculty of Engineering graduates, Frank made major contributions to the University through his association with The Graduate Union.
Frank gifted two of his Shalford Press publications to the Graduate House Library - a book of poems, Haiku Earth Water Air and a personal history of his time in Occupied Japan, Tales of Post War Japan.
While stationed in Japan with the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF), Frank developed a great love for that country’s culture, writing two books of Haiku in his later life. 18
