The seven lectures collected in this volume were the second
Winter Lectures, a series of public talks given at the University of Auckland
in the second term of 1960, No attempt has been made to disguise their origins
as lectures, and where the speakers differ on incidental points, the
differences have been allowed to stand. The topic was suggested and the
speakers chosen by Dr Thomas Henry Scott, Head of the Department of Psychology,
before his tragic death in a climbing accident on Mt Cook on 1 February 1960.
Keith Sinclair (ed.). Distance Looks our Way
Auckland: Paul’s Book Arcade 1961, n.p.
Among these authors was Professor Fred Laserre, whose tragic
death in a climbing accident has since shocked his friends and colleagues. He
wrote the article on Canada.
J. M. Richards. New Buildings in the Commonwealth
London, Architectural Press, 1961, 8.
David Robbins was Lecturer in Sociology, University College
of Wales, Aberystwyth, until his tragic death in a climbing
accident in 1986.
Colin Creighton and Martin Shaw (eds.) Sociology of
War and Peace.
Houndmills: Macmillan, 1987, viii
Before his tragic death in a climbing
accident in 1947, [Glen] Millikan had begun to assess anesthetic
applications of oximetry.
Paul G. Barash et al. Clinical
Anaesthesia
Philadelphia: Lippincott, Williams and
Wilkins, 2009, 9.
Unfortunately, plans for this had to be
abandoned following the tragic death in a climbing accident of Professor Iztok
Saksida, its main organizer.
Barbara Bajd. “Human Evolution and Education
in Slovene Schools.”
Evolution: Education and
Outreach.
September
2012, Volume 5, Issue 3, pp 405–41
3 comments:
I am lucky to have come down alive from Snowdon.
David Robbins was my Tutor at Abersystwyth, and encouraged me to abandon Law and be interested in the social sciences, instead. He came to sociology and to Aberystwyth, after completing a PhD in the chemistry of heavy metals at Sheffield. He encouraged his students to be interested in all aspects of sociology and not to specialize. His courses - especially on the sociology of science and technology - were cutting edge. Thirty-four years later, I still miss the friendship that was growing between us.He was a great teacher and a lovely man.
Carl May (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine)
Thank you for writing. I am glad to know he is remembered.
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