Orphan date February 2009 BLP sources date September 2008 Manuel James Aroney Order of Australia AM , Order of the British Empire OBE , was an Australian academic and human rights advocate. He died on the 15th February 2011. Aroney was the only child of Dimitrios and Stamatina Aronis Aroney who both were born in Aroniadika, Kythera , Greece . They met up again in Sydney , married in 1926 in Townsville, Queensland Townsville and then opened the Central Cafe in Mackay, Queensland Mackay , north Queensland, in 1928. Aroney grew up in Mackay and in 1951 was awarded a Queensland Open Scholarship, given to the top 25 students in the state, a Commonwealth Scholarship. He then went to the University of Sydney where he gained a B.Sc. with 1st Class Honours in Physical Organic Chemistry. He completed a higher degree, M.Sc., and in 1961 a further degree, Doctor of Philosophy Ph.D. , in Polarity, Polarisability and Molecular Structure. He was made a Teaching Fellow in 1955 and in 1961 a tenured lecturer in Chemistry at the University of Sydney. In 1960 he married Ann Pascalis and has three sons, Dimitrios Jim and Theodore Aroney, both doctors, and Stephen Aroney, a lawyer, who are married in turn to Evelyn, Felicia and Sophia. Professor Aroney was a Fellow of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry London . He was also a Member of the Australian Academy of Forensic Sciences . In 1975 he was foundation member of the Ethnic Communities Council of NSW. From 1977 81 he was appointed by the Federal Government as a member of the National Ethnic Broadcasting Advisory Council, charged with advising the Commonwealth Government on multilingual electronic media. From 1978 81 he served as one of four members of the first Board of the Federal Governments Special Broadcasting Service , which made ethnic radio permanent across Australia and, with Bruce Gyngell , established the SBS television service. From 1981 83 he was a member of the Australia ... more details
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