obituaries
Obituaries - Dr Derek Gunn
Dr Alexander D. G. (Derek) Gunn OBE, died 4th February 2009
Derek qualified from the Sheffield University in 1960 and, after house jobs and a spell in general practice, began his career in student health by joining the student health service at Sheffield as assistant medical officer. He moved to Reading in 1967 and became Director of the University Health Centre in 1970, a position which he held until 1997.
Obituaries - Dr Dermot McCracken
Dr Dermot McCracken, FRCP, died 22nd August 2008
The following obituary was published on the University of Leeds website:We are very sorry to have to let members know that Dr Dermot McCracken, former Medical Officer in the University Health Service, died on 22nd August 2008, in his ninetieth year.
Obituaries - Dr Bent Juel-Jensen
Dr Bent Juel-Jensen, 11 November 1922 - 20 December 2006
As his middle name implies, Dr Bent Einer Juel-Jensen was a 'One-Off''- a truly remarkable man, who has been described by one writer as a Polymath - collector, bibliophile, linguist and physician: and who is recorded on the commemorative marble slab in the Bodleian Library in Oxford as Benedictus Juel-Jensen.
Obituaries - Kathy Stallwood
Kathy Stallwood, died 7th May 2006
Kathy Stallwood died on 7th May 2006 following a long battle with breast cancer.
Kathy trained as a nurse in St Patrick Duns Hospital in Dublin, followed by midwifery training at Kingsbury Maternity Hospital and Paddington General Hospital. In 1974 Kathy took a post at Southampton Institute of Higher Education as a Health Advisor in Occupational Health / Student Health Services.
Obituaries - Agnes Hallimond Wilkinson
Agnes Hallimond Wilkinson (née Crozier), MRCP London 1942, FRCPsych 1985, died 19th June 2005
Agnes Crozier was born in South Africa in November 1915. She lived variously at Tiger Kloof-a school for Bantu children at Vryberg, founded by her missionary grandfather (WC Willoughby, London Missionary Society), and later in Johannesburg. After returning to England the Crozier family moved to Birmingham in 1931, where she attended King Edward's High School, before entering Birmingham Medical School. As an undergraduate she played hockey for Warwickshire and was lady president of the Medical Students' Society.
Obituaries - Dr Derek George Holden Sylvester
Dr Derek George Holden Sylvester, died 22nd September 2004
Derek Sylvester died on the 22nd September 2004. After graduating from St Marys Hospital (1946), he gained his MD (London) in 1952. Derek was appointed Physician in Charge of the University of Bristol Students' Health Service in 1959. He was an ardent supporter of the British Student Health Association (now BAHSHE) and was President in 1975.Obituaries - John Stewart Munro
John Stewart Munro, MB. ChB., D(Obst)RCOG (1931 - 2003)
John Munro graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 1955. After National Service in the RAF, further junior hospital appointments and a spell in General Practice, John was appointed Medical Officer to Durham University in 1965.
Obituaries - Dr Robert Bolton
Dr Robert Bolton, died 3rd May 2003
Dr Robert Bolton graduated from Oxford in 1932 and, after working as a Ship's Doctor and in the Peckham Health Centre in London, started the first full-time University Health Service in the British Isles in Birmingham in 1945, where he had 3,000 students. Robert was a founder member of the British Student Health Officers' Association (later changing to our present name) and was the first President to wear the current chain of office. Robert died peacefully at his home in the New Forrest. Our good wishes and sympathy go to his wife and family.
Obituaries
Dr James Crighton born 1924, q. Dundee 1951, died 23 December 2002
His many friends in BAHSHE will be saddened to learn of the death of Jimmy Crighton after a long fight with prostate cancer. Jimmy had just completed his first year in an MA course when he was conscripted. He served in the Royal Artillery in India, and while there decided to read medicine. In 1946 he enrolled at the University of St. Andrews.