Honours to be given out at the fall convocation were
announced last week: four people will receive honorary
degrees, three people will be made "honorary members of the
university", and nine retired faculty members will be
designated "distinguished professor emeritus".
     That's in addition, of course, to hundreds of degrees
being given to students from all six of UW's faculties.
     Fall convocation will be held Saturday, October 25, in
two sessions: at 10 a.m. for applied health sciences and
arts, and at 2 p.m. for engineering, environmental studies,
mathematics, science and independent studies.
     The honorary degree recipients in the morning will be
novelist Jane Urquhart and co-op pioneer James W. Wilson.
Receiving honorary degrees in the afternoon will be Dr. Tom
Brzustowski, president of the Natural Sciences and
Engineering Research Council, and Dr. Arthur Carty,
president of the National Research Council.
     ù Urquhart, author of Away (1993) - co-winner of the
1994 Trillium Award - and two earlier novels and several
collections of poetry and short stories, will receive a
Doctor of Letters degree. A resident of Wellesley, near
Waterloo, she is married to Tony Urquhart of UW's department
of fine arts. Her most recent novel is The Underpainter.
     ù Wilson, who has been committed to co-op education for
more than 35 years, will receive a Doctor of Laws degree and
address convocation at 10 a.m. The co-author of the
influential book Workstudy College Programs is a former
professor of co-op education and former director of the Co-
op Education Research Centre at Northeastern University in
Boston.
     ù Brzustowski, a former UW provost, vice-president
(academic) and professor of mechanical engineering, will
receive a Doctor of Engineering degree. During his 25-year
career at UW, Brzustowski published about 60 research papers
in thermodynamics and combustion as well as a number of
textbooks. He became Ontario's deputy minister of colleges
and universities in 1987, and NSERC's president in 1995.
     ù Carty, whose research interests include synthetic
chemistry, metal clusters and new materials, will receive a
Doctor of Science degree. He has authored or co-authored
more than 200 scientific papers, two of which are among the
100 most-cited papers in pure and synthetic chemistry. In
1994, after a 27-year career at UW as chemistry professor,
department chair and dean of research, he was appointed
president of NRC.
     Both Brzustowski and Carty will speak at the afternoon
session of convocation.
     Becoming honorary members of the university, all at the
morning session of convocation, will be former registrar
Trevor Boyes; Dr. Peter Naus, long-time St. Jerome's College
faculty member; and Jake Willms, retired as assistant to the
dean of arts.
     To become distinguished professor emeritus are
(morning) Dr. Herb Lefcourt, Dr. Don Meichenbaum, and Dr.
Muriel Vogel-Sprott, all of the psychology department;
(afternoon) Dr. George Francis of environment and resource
studies, Dr. Richard Preston of geography, and Dr. Ralph
Haas, Dr. Bruce Hutchinson, Dr. Archie Sherbourne, and Dr.
Tim Topper, all of civil engineering.