Background
Veevers is the son of George Stanley Veevers and Dulcie Annie (née James) and attended Newington College (1944-1947).
Veevers is the son of George Stanley Veevers and Dulcie Annie (née James) and attended Newington College (1944-1947).
Veevers is the son of George Stanley Veevers and Dulcie Annie (née James) and attended Newington College (1944-1947). In 1946 he won the Wigram Allen Scholarship, endowed by Sir George Wigram Allen, for General Proficiency. At the end of 1947 Veevers was named Dux of the College and received the Schofield Scholarship and Halse Rogers Prize.
He went up to the and graduated as a Bachelor of Science in 1952 and a Master of Science in 1954.
Veevers was a cadet geologist at the Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics, Canberra, (1948-1951), rising to geologist (1952-1960) and senior geologist 1961-1967. He was awarded his Doctor of Philosophy in 1956 from Imperial College London.