Obituaries

David was born in Wanganui, on the north island of New Zealand and immigrated to Canada in 1958. David had extraordinary accomplishments in his sporting pursuits (a New Zealand University Blue), his academic life (Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford University), and his professional career as a lawyer (Queens Counsel). He remained with the firm of Fraser Beatty for thirty years, practising corporate and taxation law. After retirement, he served as Chairman of the Board of Allianz Insurance Company of Canada.

Dean and Professor in Tropical Medicine at Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, UK. He retired in 1986 but continued to teach in Ireland, Italy and Malta and helped postgraduates who were seeking further training overseas. He gained many recognitions, including being appointed Companion of the Most Exalted Order of the White Elephant by the King of Thailand for his work at the University of Bangkok. Herbert published over 150 journals and an array of books.

Dr Roy Chaudhury went to the Prince of Wales Medical College, Patna. In 1955, he was awarded the Rhodes Scholarship (the first doctor from India to be selected) and spent three years at Oxford, returning to India in 1960 to take up a faculty position at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences. Following brief stints at the Canadian FDA and at the CIBA research laboratories in Goregaon, he joined the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh in 1964 and over the next 17 years would hold a variety of positions there including Professor and Head of the Department of Pharmacology and Dean. A second part of Dr Roy Chaudhury’s career was with the World Health Organization, where he spent 16 years; in Geneva, Bangkok, Colombo, Alexandria and Yangon, producing over this period of time some seminal research and process of care deliverables in the fields of essential drugs and reproductive biology. After retiring, he continued to provided leadership to a wide variety of national and international organisations that included the World Health Organization, the National Institute of Immunology, Apollo Hospitals, the Delhi Society for the Promotion of Rational Use of Drugs, the Delhi Medical Council, the Medical Council of India, the Confederation of Indian Industry, the Population Foundation of India, the Voluntary Health Association of India, the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, the International Clinical Epidemiology Network (INCLEN), the Brahmo Smaj and Akshardham.

David attended St Andrew’s College from 1946 to 1949 and graduated from Rhodes University with distinction in History and Economics. He was a Rhodes Scholar in 1952 and, whilst at Oxford University, he achieved a Boxing Blue. David was a member of the St Andrew’s College staff from 1957 to 1993, a total of 36 years. During his time at College, David held a number of leadership roles including as Head of Biology, Head of Agricultural Science, Head of Economics, Master-in-Charge of Boxing, Hockey, Tennis and Squash and Second Master (1992).

Served as Principal of Queen’s University, Canada, from 1974 to 1984 and was also one of Canada’s leading experts on federalism. Professor Watts arrived at Queen’s University in 1955 as a lecturer in philosophy, but moved to the Department of Political and Economic Science in 1961. He was appointed Dean of Arts and Science in 1969 before becoming principal five years later. Professor Watts’ main academic interest was the comparative study of federal political systems. After retiring as principal, he served as director of Queen’s Institute of Intergovernmental Relations, senior adviser to the federal government on constitutional affairs, and consultant to governments all over the world, including Canada, Kenya, Nigeria, Papua New Guinea, South Africa, Pakistan, and the United Kingdom. He also published a number of books, including New Federations: Experiments in the Commonwealth, Multi-Cultural Societies and Federalism, Administration in Federal Systems, and Comparing Federal Systems. Professor Watts received five honorary degrees and became an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1979 and a Companion in 2000.

Emeritus Professor of Civil Engineering. Professor Bilger's career started with post-doctoral research in the US and UK, before joining the department of Mechanical Engineering at Sydney University in 1965 as a senior lecturer. He became a professor in 1976 and also served as the head of the Engineering Department on several occasions.

Rev. Sandys-Wunsch studied theology at Christ Church College during his time as a Rhodes Scholar in Oxford. As well as having an accomplished professional academic career as a professor of religious studies at Queen's College and Memorial University of Newfoundland and later as Provost of Thorneloe University in Ontario, he was an ordained minister in the Anglican Church. Prior to his academic career, he ministered to several congregations on the west coast including Tofino and Courtney with one year spent at St. John the Divine in Victoria. After his retirement he continued to be involved in the church as well as having an active interest in scholarly research in theology.

Mr Becker was a theatre critic and financier who acquired Janus Films with a partner in 1965, expanding its catalogue of art-house and Hollywood classics and eventually broadening their distribution to university audiences and home viewers on DVD. Founded in the mid-1950s by two former Harvard students, Janus originally prospered by exposing American filmgoers to the avant-garde work of ground-breaking but largely unfamiliar post-World War II European and Japanese directors, including Federico Fellini, Ingmar Bergman, Michelangelo Antonioni, François Truffaut, Luis Buñuel, Akira Kurosawa, Yasujiro Ozu, Robert Bresson and Kenji Mizoguchi. After acquiring the company, Mr. Becker and Saul J. Turell, a documentary producer and television pioneer, secured the rights to a vast trove of international films, including Jean Renoir’s “Grand Illusion” and Sergei Eisenstein’s “Battleship Potemkin,” as well as vanguard American works like Orson Welles’s “Citizen Kane” and the original “King Kong.”

From 1968 to 1970 Mr Smith served as the consultant in poetry to the Library of Congress, as the poet laureate’s post was then known. He was the author of many volumes of poems throughout his life, as well as criticism, memoirs, translations of poetry from a spate of European languages and children’s verse. At his death he was an Emeritus Professor of English at Hollins University in Roanoke, VA. Mr Smith’s poems for adults were praised for their diction and thematic variety. They ranged over the natural world, love, the experience of war, his Choctaw ancestry and many other subjects.