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The Retirees' Newsletter The Bi-Monthly Publication of the Retirees' Association (Faculty, Librarian, Administrator) The University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, Canada N9B 3P4 Vol IX, No. 3, June 1999 First Published in July 1991 | |
| Issue # 33 |
Editor : Datta Pillay |
Two Emeriti Professors Receive Honorary Degrees
For the first time, in the history of the University of Windsor, two former professors of the University were conferred honorary degrees for their contributions to scholarship and service to the University. At an impressive ceremony during the Seventy-First Convocation of the University of Windsor, the Chancellor, Dr. Frederic L.. R. Jackman, conferred the degrees on the two.
Dr. Charles Fantazzi, AB, MA, PhD
On Saturday, June 5 , 1999 at 10 a.m.,Charles Fantazzi was conferred the Degree of Doctor of Humanities; and later he addressed the convocation. Fantazzi has played a central role in one of the most massive and important scholarly enterprises of the century, the translation into English of the writing of Erasmus of Rotterdam (1467--1536). Erasmus, a theologian, historian and educator, wrote in Latin. His 3,000 letters to Popes, Princes, Martin Luther and others are our greatest source of the intellectual history of the Renaissance. The international translation project began 30 years ago and will take until 2020 to complete.
Dr. Fantazzi is considered to be a Renaissance person of our modern age, with a practically limitless knowledge of the history of the literatures.
Forty years ago he was a teaching assistant at Harvard University, who came to Windsor in 1960 to begin teaching classics. He taught in the classical languages and literatures programs at the University of Windsor even after official retirement in 1995. Dr. Fantazzi was named to the highest rank of University Professor in 1994 and Professor Emeritus in 1995. He is currently the Whichard Visiting Professor of Humanities at East Carolina University in North Carolina.
Marie Sanderson, BA, MA, PhD
Dr. Marie Sanderson received an Honorary Doctor of Laws on Sunday, June 6 at 10 a.m., at the University of Windsor, St. Denis Centre.
Dr. Sanderson was the founding director of the Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research when the institute began in 1981. As a professor of geography and respected climatologist, she has been a leader in environment research in Canada for more than three decades. While we are concerned today with water levels in the Great Lakes, it might be noted that Dr. Sanderson was publishing research on climate and water balance in Lake Erie as early as 1966.
Dr. Sanderson has published articles and books on weather and the impact of changing climate in Kitchener-Waterloo and the Grand River Basin, the Canadian Arctic, the Hawaiian islands and the Essex County Region.
Dr. Sanderson is now a research associate with the Institute for Environmental Research at the University of
Toronto and recognized as a world leader in studies of climate and water quality management.
1. Honorary Degrees