Preface

It is now nine years since the last reunion (at Blair Atholl) of our graduating class. 2014 will mark 50 years since we graduated, and to celebrate the occasion, a Golden Anniversary Reunion at the University is being planned for the 17th and 18th June 2014.

This special event is in the final planning stages, and a small planning group (see below) is working with the University Alumni Office to try to make contact with as many class members as possible.

Many of our class have already been contacted by Email and have indicated an intention to come to one or more of the events, and we are pleased some of them may bring their partners. Tuesday 17th June is being planned and organised for us to have a relaxing time with plenty of time for “meet and greet” and a chance to catch up on the years since we last met.
A Reunion Dinner is planned for the evening, and will be our main social event.

Wednesday 18th June is organised by the University and we hope you will reply to the official invitation which you should receive in April from the University. There are more details about the reunion on this website, which will be updated regularly.
You can start jogging your memory, by visiting the individual pages some members of our class provided for our last reunion, and also by looking at the other photo pages.

Please send an update to your biography and photo, if these are now somewhat out of date. Even if you cannot come to the reunion please contribute a short narrative resumé and photo.

Apart from this Reunion website, a printed Yearbook will be produced to commemorate the event. If you have not already decided to come, please reconsider and join us for a couple days back on Gilmorehill – there is lots to talk about – this is a once in a life-time occasion – please don't miss it.

Your Planning Group
Hilary Fraser, Anne MacKinnon, Frank Kinghorn, Mary McCann and Ian Jones February 2014

Fifty Years! How quickly they have passed- and how each year seems to pass ever so more quickly! We hope that you perhaps have already visited our website, and will also enjoy reading this booklet which is filled with so much interesting information about what we have all done since the summer of '64.

Of an original group of 72, 15 are deceased, 20 have their whereabouts unknown (plot for a novel here?), 29 have submitted recent biographies and 24 are attending the reunion. Having so many attending the Golden Reunion is most gratifying, particularly as 10 spouses or partners also plan to attend on either or both days.

Reading the contributed biographies is fascinating. We have been active in many parts of the globe and have been involved in so many different things. It seems that most of us have had rewarding careers - and for most, what we learned in the early 1960's has been directly useful. A goodly number of us developed careers in physics, mathematics and/or education.
A substantial proportion moved at an early stage into computing and IT, perhaps taking a gamble that this would be 'the next big thing'! Some have wandered a bit from our early physics - Anne MacKinnon recently commented that 'things like gravitational waves and Higgs bosons just float past me'. We suspect that may be true for many of us as we view the inexorable march of science, and how much our own early science knowledge has dimmed. There was a time when most of us knew that Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle meant more than whether or not the occupants of a certain pub in Dumbarton Road will be walking out in a straight line!

We were fortunate in many ways in the 1960's, having stimulating teachers in a superb university with a long tradition of educational excellence. Also, unlike many graduates of today, most of us had very few problems in obtaining early employment. Our varied and successful career biographies in this booklet bear testimony to our good fortune in having had such a strong foundation in our original degree course at Glasgow.

Your Organising Committee
Hilary Fraser, Anne MacKinnon, Frank Kinghorn, Mary McCann and Ian Jones Summer 2014