Eric Wigglesworth has been the Executive Director of the Sir Robert Menzies Memorial Foundation Ltd since its inception in 1979 and retired from the Foundation on 1 July, 1998. He came to Australia in 1962 to join the Australian Defence Scientific Service as Safety Officer in Melbourne. 
After ten years, the scientific safety problems were under control and he accepted an offer from Sir Edward Hughes to become Director of the Injury Research Project located in the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. When the Menzies Foundation was formed, Sir Edward turned to the Injury Research Project team to service this new organisation. 

Foundation activities have been memorable and numerous - many in Melbourne - but also in Darwin, Brisbane, Sydney, Canberra, Adelaide, Perth, Hobart, and Alice Springs. They included a variety of scientific meetings as well as scholarship activities. He is immensely proud of the fact that a tiny permanent secretariat of Sandra Mackenzie and Eric Wigglesworth has been able to provide the resource necessary to accurately and comprehensively service these various activities. 

He remains an Honorary Fellow of the UK Institute of Occupational Safety and Health and also an Honorary Fellow of the Safety Institute of Australia and plans to become more active in these organisations. 

Eric tells us he is going to grow "manglewurrzles" in his retirement - as well as writing the definitive text book on occupational health and safety. We wish him well in all his future endeavours and thank him for his longstanding encouragement and support of the Menzies Alumni. There are many of us who have had much of our contact with the Foundation through Eric in the Secretariat office. We will miss his kind and thoughtful manner, and the efficient way he handled all our requests. The work of the Foundation will continue with the colleagues he leaves behind, but we all express our sincere and personal thanks for all the great work Eric has done.