The Retirees' Newsletter

The Retirees's Association ( Faculty, Librarian, Administrator), University of Windsor, Windsor, Ont. Canada

Vol I X, No. 2, April 1999

Dr. Dennis G. Tuck
Professor Emeritus
Chemistry and Biochemistry

Datta Pillay asked me to write a note on what I have been doing since I retired in 1994. The quick answer seems to be "Much the same as I was doing before I retired, except that I now do it entirely for pleasure", but that is much too glib, because I really enjoyed most of the things I did before retirement, some administrative matters excepted.

I spend a good deal of my time practicing chemistry, which is something I have enjoyed all my life, and indeed I count myself blessed that as a schoolboy I discovered the subject which has provided me with lifelong challenge and satisfaction. I have been able to continue with my research work, with the aid of a reasonable research grant from NSERC; this, and the support of the Department, has allowed me to maintain a small research group, and as a result I have been able to publish about five papers per annum since 1994.

I also enjoy the pleasure of working with collaborators new and old in other parts of the world (Brazil, Czech Republic, Chile, New Zealand, UK), and partly as an outcome of this, I spent very happy and productive periods during the last few years in Durham

(as a Visiting Professor at my alma mater), Brazil and Cambridge. I am delighted that retirement has not led to any lessening of my scientific interests, and I hope to continue as a practicing chemist for some time yet.

I no longer enjoy the dubious pleasure of participating in committee work within the University, although I am a long-time member of the Board of Canterbury College, but it is perhaps my experience in the area of non-profit making organizations which has drawn me onto the Board of the Windsor Symphony Orchestra. As a continuation of my interests in health care, I am on the Board of Cancer Care Ontario South, the DHC Emergency Health Services Task Force and the Essex County Hospital Restructuring Executive Committee, all of which I enjoy to a greater or lesser degree depending on the issues involved.

Since my marriage to Rosemary Jull in 1995, we have, inter alia, been happily engaged in redecorating the home which we bought in Walkerville, and where we are able to enjoy our far-flung families when they are able to visit us. In my spare time, I play tennis and enjoy the cultural and gastronomic pleasures of the world. If you gather from all this that I am very happy in retirement, and feeling remarkably blessed with my lot in life, then I have conveyed the right impression.

Dr. Ripu Daman Singh
Professor Emeritus
Sociology & Anthropology

Ripu Daman Singh, Professor Emeritus Biological anthropology, and Fellow of the Human Biology Association, USA, has been honored by the Indian Social Sciences Association and awarded the D.N. Majumdar Memorial Gold Medal (1998) on March 28, 1999.

The XIX annual conference of the Association was held at the University of Lucknow from March 27-29, 1999. Singh is the fourth recipient of the annual award during the fifteen years of its history. He delivered the Majumdar Memorial Lecture during the conference.

The Memorial Medal was instituted in honor of the late Dr. D.N. Majumdar, Professor of Anthropology and Dean of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Lucknow. Majumdar was an internationally renowned Indian anthropologist of his time (1930-1960), known for his dedicated researches, publications, love for the discipline and concerns for his students.

The Executive of the Association unanimously recommended Professor Singh to receive the 1998 award for his continued research and publications in biological anthropology during his forty years of active career and research assignments in India and Canada. He has authored, co-authored and edited books (seven) in Hindi as well as in English. One of his publications, Shareeik manava Vijnan was recognized as the second best scientific publication in Hindi, and received the Birbal Sahni Award in 1976. Dr. Sahni was an internationally renowned paleobotanist in the quarter of this century. He was professor and director of the Paleobotany Institute at the University of Lucknow.

Singh joined the Department of Sociology and Anthropology in 1970, after a sojourn from Lucknow University, to the Anthropological Survey of India, to the University of Oregon, USA, and retired in 1993, but not from the academic research activity which he enjoys even today. After retirement, he was invited to contribute articles on several eminent senior anthropologists who were considered a bulwark in the making and shaping of the discipline of anthropology. These articles have been published in the two volume History of Physical Anthropology, published by the Garland Press, New York, 1997.

His pen did not dry out, and he was commissioned again by the Indian Council of Historical Research, Government of India, to review the progress and direction of bioanthropological researches on the living populations of India since 1947. This long review is scheduled to appear...... I around June 1999.

Dr Peter Sonnenfeld
Professor Emeritus
Earth Sciences

Dr. Peter Sonnenfeld, Professor Emeritus-Geology has been appointed as a reviewer of abstracts of poster sessions and oral presentations, and later of completed papers for the VIIIth WORLD Salt Symposium Proceedings, The Hague, Netherlands, May 7-11,2000-Sec. I Salt sources and occurrences. Dr. Sonnenfeld had the same position at the VIIth Salt Symposium in Kyoto, Japan in 1991. Dr. Sonnenfeld founded the Department of Geology ( Now Earth Sciences) in 1966 and served as Head for many years. He is an international authority on Salt Evaporates and has written a book on the subject in 1988.

Dr. Charles Emmanuel Fantazzi
Professor Emeritus
Classics and Italian

Dr. W. Keats Sparrow, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences - East Carolina University announced the appointment of Dr Fantazzi as the David Julian and Virginia Suther Whichard Distinguished Professor in the Humanities..

Dr. Fantazzi University Professor and former Head of Classics and Italian at the University of Windsor, Ontario is a world-renowned scholar whose published works spans centuries. He is the Northern American Editor of Humanistica Lovaniensia and serves on the editorial boards of several other learned journals and the University of Toronto Press. To his credit, he has ten books and numerous articles on such traditional classical authors as Virgil and Ovid as well as such major Medieval thinkers and Renaissance humanists as Juan Luis Vives, Jacopa Sannazaro and Erasmus.

As the Whichard Distinguished Professor in Humanities, he will offer seminars and several campus lectures in 1998-99.

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