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Committee – BAHVS President – Jane Keogh
j.keogh5@btinternet.com
Senior Vice-President – Mark Elliott homeopathicvet@btinternet.com
Junior Vice-President – Chris Day cday-avmc@hotmail.co.uk
Hon. Secretary – Stuart Marston sec@bahvs.com
Treasurer – Wendy McGrandles wendy@glenbrae-vet.co.uk
Magazine Editor – Malene Jørgensen malene@laforcevitale.eu
Communications Officer – Nick Thompson nickthompson@holisticvet.co.uk
IAVH Representitive – Nick Thompson nickthompson@holisticvet.co.uk
Faculty Veterinary Representitive
John Saxton
john.saxton@talk21.com
Mag distribution – Cheryl Sears cheryl.sears31@btinternet.com
Committee – IAVH President – Peter Gregory
pg.ahimsa@virgin.net
Treasurer – Don Hamilton donhamiltondvm@gmail.com
General Secretary – Helene Widmann helene.widmann@chello.at
Coordinator subcommittee for education:
Stefan Kohlrausch
stefan.kohlrausch@arcor.de
Head of IAVH Office – Markus Mayer office@iavh.org
Newsletter subcommittee
Malene Jørgensen
malene@laforcevitale.eu
IAVH Communications Officer
Nick Thompson
nickthompson@holisticvet.co.uk
LIGA contact – Marc Bär info@homeopatte.ch
There are many people whose lives feel distinctly reduced since our friend and colleague Trevor Adams died at the end of last year.
Trevor qualified from Bristol University Veterinary School in 1963 and joined veterinary practice in Glastonbury, Somerset – a predominently dairy farm practice where he worked in the practice until March 2001. In 2001 Trevor joined the teaching group at the Bristol Homeopathic Hospital and began to help me create the HAWL course.
I first met Trevor while I was studying agriculture at the Royal Agricultural College in 1998-9 when I asked Trevor to speak at a study group and then again to explain to the then Milk Development Council how homoeopathy could help farmers. We were both speakers at the British Cattle Vet Association conference, where I saw first hand the vicious opposition of many of his fellow vets and began to see Trevor’s quiet but firm response. He said of the sceptics that his main emotion was “one of disappointment and sadness for them. They are missing so much. I found that I had another weapon in my armoury used to help animals achieve good health”.
Trevor was a very quietly brave man, prepared to plough his own furrow in the face of scepticism and antagonism from many in his own profession. His contribution to homoeopathy generally and the HAWL course specifically, has been enormous. Without his thoughts, support, advice, and written material, Homoeopathy At Wellie Level would not be the well respected course that it is today, fifteen years on. I knew I could always count on his clear thinking and willingness to assist, from helping at Agricultural shows, speaking at conferences, writing all sorts of material for the course, creating advertisement and, whenever necessary, guiding me through the minefield of legislation and veterinary restrictions. I always knew he felt that HAWL was a worthwhile project.
Trevor was quietly organised and always on my side. I thoroughly enjoyed his company, and his quiet authority in the class room. The sceptic was subdued gently but effectively with irrefutable facts rather than arguement. Trevor was very good at putting his finger on the point and summarised the aims of HAWL for me as to encourage the responsible use of Hom on the
farm and to increase its use. To promote to educate, update, support and inform animal owners about the methodology and reasoning behind the use of Homoeopathy in their day to day animal husbandry. To create a sense of cooperation between the vets and homeopaths so that the farmers and owners wanting to use homeopathy responsibly are given support” When asked for his vision of HAWL in the future he wrote “ that we just keep on keeping on in a well organised, high standard sort of way until we reach exponential growth, and the establishment comes to us because they want to know more.
He wrote the Repertory and created a very careful teaching day for the introduction of case taking as well as creating dozens of practice cases for students to work on. All this was donated to HAWL, there was never any charge and it all forms the backbone of our course.
We in the HAWL team, the several hundred HAWL farmers he taught and all those who will learn from his material in the future owe him a great debt. I know we will all miss him very much.
Trevor’s funeral was a very Christian one. A packed church (200+) full of friends family and community. His theme was as eloquently described in the reading Corinthians, which he chose faith hope and love....and the greatest of these is love. Homeopathy was given a good mention and along with our representation, Chris Day and Barbara Jones were there too. A fitting tribute to a quiet, kind and caring member of the Christian community of Glastonbury and the homeopathic and veterinary community.
Trevor Adams – Obituary
I was pleased to have been able to represent the team and receive Trevor’s posthumous apology for ‘taking up our time to attend his funeral’.
Chris Lees – co-founder Homeopathy at Welly Level
...keep on keeping on...
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