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The Retirees' Newsletter

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

Vol. VII , No.5, December, 1997

PHILLIPS RETIRING AS NEWSLETTER EDITOR

BILL PHILLIPS has advised the Executive Committee that he will be stepping aside as its editor of The Retirees' Newsletter.

Phillips began The Newsletter with its first issue in July, 1991, in the early days of the Association. That first issue was a halting one-page effort which he optimistically suggested "could even become a regular publication". The current Newsletter is the 25^th consecutive issue.

The announcement of his decision to retire from the editorship was made in September to a meeting of the 1996-97 Executive Committee.

According to minutes of that meeting, held on September 23rd: "(Phillips) indicated that, in order to minimize any problems of establishing a new editorship, he would be willing to put out the regular bi-monthly issue for December, 1997; and (though only if absolutely necessary), the regular issue for February, 1998".

That decision was later conveyed to the Association's current Executive Committee, at its meeting on October 30^th, 1997. At that meeting Phillips asked that the Association take steps as soon as possible to put new arrangements in place, in order to minimize any disruption the change might cause.

Consequently, the Committee, at the October 30th meeting, approved a motion that Datta Pillay serve as Editor of The Newsletter effective January 1998.

At that meeting, a special vote of thanks to Bill Phillips for his work in putting out the first twenty five issues, was unanimously passed.

MEMBERS' ACTIVITIES NOTED

In early June, Bruce McGarvey was registrar for the national conference of the Chemical Society of Canada. Late in June he gave a seminar in the Chemistry Department at UBC. In August, Bruce attended the International Conference on Coordination Chemistry in Santiago, Chile. September saw him back in Brazil till November. (The Newsletter has reported his earlier consulting visits to Brazil).

SINCE THE OCTOBER NEWSLETTER, which was truncated because of the editor's cataract surgery, a number of members have written in to report that they have had the same operation: Harry Morrow wrote from Toronto; Blake Gertz from St. Lucie, Florida; and others. All have said they were pleased with the results of the operation. This was certainly true in the editor's case. He considered doing a piece in this issue describing what is involved, but space does not permit..

A tip of the hat to Dev Puroshotham for her recent thoughtful article in The Windsor Star regarding the location of pediatric services in Windsor and Essex County. And to Dan Boles, both for his excellent sculpturing, and for the work he has done at the school set up in India for Orphans and Handicapped Children, by Tad Venkateswarlu of the Library.

In Memoriam

With deep sadness we record the deaths of seven of our colleagues since the spring of this year.

JOHN BARNES. John was a dearly loved and admired professor of Social Work for many years. He died at his cottage in Northern Ontario.

RALPH COWAN. Ralph completed his undergraduate degree at U. of W. in Economics, then took a doctorate at Michigan. Ten years with Chrysler in Detroit prepared him ideally for his career as a professor in Business Administration.

ZBIGNIEW FALLENBUCHL. Professor of Economics, then Department Head; later Dean of Social Science. He came to Windsor after a doctorate at McGill. He became an international scholar, compiling a prodigious record of scholarly publication and research.

RONALD IANNI. Graduated in Economics at Windsor, studied abroad, and returned to Windsor to become a Professor of Law, then Dean of the Faculty of Law and finally President of the University.

STEWART MOORE. An exceptionally talented teacher, he inspired droves of students over many years in the School of Social Work. His courage in his battle with post-polio syndrome in later years was truly inspirational.

JOHN O'FARRELL. A Professor of History. John loved probing the remote corners of history. His tract on St. Anselm's and St. Cecelia's Church in London, England is a gem.

TIMOTHY SUTTOR. Tim joined the Religious Studies Department in 1968 and retired in 1984; he was mild mannered, well liked by all; he lived most of his retirement years in Spain. Tim had four children who were students at the University of Windsor in the seventies and the early eighties.

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