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Ave Atque Vale
Elizabeth Alston M.A. (1948)
Edward Maurice Frederick Bradshaw M.A. (1940)
Jim Canning M.A. (1974)
Gerald Henry Henzell Giltrap, B.A., M.A.,
LL.D. (h.c.), (1946)
Lewis Glucksman LL.D. (h.c.) (2000)
Ernest Haynes M.B., M.A. (1945)
Patrick Kellett M.B., M.A. (1967)
W W Kennedy Smyth B.A.I., C.Eng., (1951)
Elliseva Sayers B.A. (1934)
Robert Henry Whiteside M.A.
(1967)
After graduation, Elizabeth became a teacher in history and latin. Her family moved to Trinidad where she met her husband James. Later, Elizabeth and James moved with their family of four children to the Isle of Man. There Elizabeth became very involved in community life. Elizabeth will be missed by her family and wide circle of friends.
Edward Maurice Frederick Bradshaw M.A. (1940)
Edward Maurice Frederick Bradshaw M.A. (1940) was born on 26 August 1918, the son of Rev. Canon Edward Bradshaw and Valerie Georg of Basel, Switzerland. He was educated at Portora and Trinity where he read Mental & Moral Science, graduating in 1940. During the war of 1939-45, Edward volunteered for the British army as an infantryman (Middlesex Regiment). After the war he held commission in the regular army, serving in the Education Corps. Leaving the army with rank of Captain, he joined the Conloila Service as an education officer. In the years preceding independence he served in 11 of the 12 districts of what was then Eastern Nigeria. Subsequently he taught in schools and colleges in Britain, Sierra Leone and Australia. He died in May 2006 and is survived by three of his four children.
Having left school at the age of 13, Jim Canning attended Trinity in the 1970s as a mature student. From meager beginnings in Lismore, Jim went on to have a variety of successful careers including setting up a taxi business in Lismore, selling encyclopedias and working for the Singer Sewing Machine Company in the UK, then moving on to the Simplex Dairy Machinery Company where he had responsibility for rectifying what was then an ailing organisation.
It must have been a shock to many when Jim, now with a wife and children, decided to put his career on hold to study economics at Trinity. From there he went on to become a successful property investor. Jim was passionate about art and about France where he spent many happy times. He died at his home in Wexford.
Gerald Henry Henzell Giltrap, B.A., M.A., LL.D. (h.c.), (1946)
G.H.H. (Gerry) Giltrap, Secretary to the College from 1 January 1966 to 30 September 1990, died in Dublin in February.
Educated at Sandford Park and Trinity College, where he was a Scholar of the House, he took a Moderatorship in Modern History and Political Science (1946). He joined Aer Lingus in 1947 and in those early days was co-ordinator of the then new Viscount fleet introduction programmes, and was later closely associated with the selection and introduction of the Boeing fleet. At the time he left Aer Lingus to join Trinity he was Acting Manager at Dublin Airport.
He succeeded Robert Brownlow Pyper as Secretary to the College in 1966, and, together with the then Treasurer, Dr Franz C.W. Winkelmann, B.A., M.A., LL.D (h.c.), F.C.A., (1948), was responsible for the modernisation and professionalisation of the College’s administrative and support structures. He served as Secretary to the College under Provosts Dr A.J. McConnell, Dr F.S.L. Lyons, and Dr W.A. Watts – a period of great change in the College which he both addressed and coped with in his highly individualistic, personal and witty style.
He was conferred with the degree of LL.D. (honoris causa) in 1991 in recognition of his service to the College. On his retirement he remained in College to become closely involved with the preparations for, and the celebration of the College’s Quatercentenary in 1992. He also edited Trinity Today for a number of years, and was a member of the Executive Committee of the TCD Association and Trust.
A gifted raconteur (anecdotes by and about him abound) with a great gift for friendship, he is remembered with affection by friends and colleagues in Trinity and in the other universities, in Dublin and further afield.
‘Rerum vel magni vel parvi momenti aeque studiosus’
J.V. Luce, 1991.
Lewis Glucksman LL.D. (h.c.) (2000)
Lewis L. Glucksman, entrepreneur and benefactor died in July 2006. With his passing, Ireland and America has lost a loyal friend who, along with his wife Loretta Brennan Glucksman, made an enormous contribution to culture and education on both sides of the Atlantic.
Lewis was a New Yorker of Hungarian-Jewish ancestry. A talented trader, he had an outstanding career on Wall Steet. In 1966, Lewis became a partner at Lehman Brothers and by 1983, was Chief Executive of this major financial firm. He later went on to more success with Smith Barney. Retiring in 1999, Lewis continued to take an active interest in the markets.
It was his passion for literature that led Lewis to Ireland where he would be best known as a philanthropist and patron of the arts. Projects he supported included: the Glucksman library at University of Limerick, the Glucksman map library at Trinity, the Lewis Glucksman art gallery at University College Cork and the Millennium wing at the National Gallery of Ireland, among others. He was a member of the advisory committee of the National Treasury Management Agency in Ireland and was chairman of the Cork University Foundation.
As an alumnus of New York University, Lewis, together with Loretta, he
established a Center for Irish Studies at NYU which has become a major
centre for the study of Irish culture and literature.
In recognition of his extraordinary contribution to culture and to
Ireland, Trinity awarded Lewis with an honorary degree in 2000.
Ernest Haynes M.B., M.A. (1945)
On Tuesday, 13 June 2006, a new faculty building, named ‘Haynes Hall’ was opened at Queen’s University in Ontario, Canada. The naming of this building is to commemorate ‘the remarkable legacy’ in the development of family medicine in Canada by Dr Ernest Haynes, Queen’s first chief and ‘Father’ of Family Medicine. At the same time, a commemorative plaque was unveiled by Ernie’s widow, Mrs. Shelagh Haynes. Sadly, Ernie had died just two months before, in April 2006.
Born on 20th June 1924, Ernie was educated in the High School, Dublin, prior to entering Trinity to study medicine. After graduating in 1945, Ernie started his medical career in Yorkshire before moving to Trinidad in 1951 as a medical officer with Trinidad Texaco. In 1954, he moved to Canada where he practised as a GP in Stony Plain, Alberta, until in 1958, he set up an urban practice in Edmonton. In 1967, he joined the medical faculty of the University of Alberta. There he was involved in Community Medicine and Continuing Health Sciences Education and attended the University of Alberta Hospital and the Royal Alexandra Hospital, both in Edmonton. A four year spell followed at the State University of New York in Buffalo. There Ernie served as Clinical Professor of Family Practice and as a Director and Chairman of The Family Practice Centre of the Deaconess Hospital in Buffalo.
It was at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, that Ernie spent his most fruitful and rewarding years. In 1973, he was appointed Head of the Department of Family Medicine. From 1979 to 1981 he was Member of the Senate of the University and of the University Council. As professor in the Department of Family Medicine, he sat on a range of boards and committees and in 1987, was appointed Professor Emeritus at the University. During his time at Queen’s he attended Kingston General Hospital and until 1981 was head of its Department of Family Medicine. In those same years, from 1973 until 1981, he was also Head of the Department of Family Medicine at the Hotel Dieu Hospital in Kingston. In both hospitals he served on a range of advisory committees, chairing several.
Throughout his illustrious career, Ernie was a member of many associations and organisations in the world of medicine. In particular he was at some time or other, a member of the Irish Medical Association; the British Medical Association; the American Medical Association and of course, the Canadian Medical Association. In the CMA he served as a member of their committee on education and on their committee on audio-visual education.
He won the Max Cheplove Award in 1973 from the Erie County Chapter of the American Academy of Family Physicians in recognition of his dedication and devotion to family Medicine. In 1982, he was awarded a PAHO/WHO Fellowship (Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization). He had over a dozen publications to his name, some co-authored with colleagues.
On his retirement Ernie moved with his wife to Victoria in British Columbia where he could indulge his passion for sea fishing. There, inevitably, he continued his interest in family medicine and in 1999, was made an Honorary Life Member of the Vancouver Island Multiple Sclerosis Society which he had served for over seven years as a volunteer and occasional CEO and President of the Board. In 1994, he was given Life Membership of the College of Physicians of Canada.
Ernie is survived by his wife Shelagh and four daughters from his first marriage.
Patrick Kellett M.B., M.A. (1967)
Patrick worked as a general practitioner in Armagh for a period of 30 years. Born in London, Patrick came to Trinity to study medicine in the 1960s. He moved to Armagh with his wife in 1972 where he soon became known for his kindness and devotion to his patients. Patrick was an active member of the community in Armagh serving on many committees and holding distinguished positions which included High Sheriff of Armagh. In retirement, Patrick enjoyed travel. Sadly, it was on a trip to New Zealand to visit his son that he became ill. Patrick will be much missed by his wife, family of five sons and the community which he served so well.
In March 2007, Ray Murphy died at the age of 54. Ray was a terrific friend to Trinity as one of the early members of Trinity Business Alumni (TBA) who later went on to become President of the TBA.
Ray was committed to his work in the philanthropic sector and the majority of his career was spent in not-for-profit. Most recently, he was senior advisor with the Charles Mott Foundation, a large US private foundation, where he had responsibility for the Foundation’s civil society grant making programme. Prior to Mott, Ray worked with Tara Consultants, now The Atlantic Philanthropies, where he had opportunity to influence an area about which he was passionate – educational disadvantage.
Ray’s board memberships were extensive and worldwide and included: the Advisory Board, Center for Civil Society, UCLA; the Citigroup Private Philanthropy Partnership; the Silicon Valley Community Foundation and the US Independent Sector’s International Task Force.
Ray’s gregarious personality and social conscience will be greatly missed.
Reminiscences from Hilda Simon (née Jacobson), LL.B. (1935)
My mother was born in 1913 and attended Trinity in the early thirties. She
passed away in June of this year, a few weeks short of her 94th birthday. When
going through her effects, I discovered the enclosed (hand-written).
From son John Simon (M.B., 1964)
I intended for sometime to Trinity Today but did not think your readers would be interested.
However over one weekend I read most of last year’s Trinity
Today and realized that a short resumé of my time
in college might be of some interest to your readers
I entered Trinity in 1931 having passed the Leaving Certificate in
Alexandra College. In those days most women chose modern languages
as their B.A. subject. As I was really interested in English I intended
to do it and French. In any event Trinity decided in 1933 on a new
subject for Moderatorship--- ‘Legal Science’. This was
much more interesting to me as my older brother was a solicitor. I was
the only woman in the class of 1934/1935 – there was one previous
year 1933 in which there was also just one woman!! Stella Webb??
I remember Professor Duncan very well for various reasons. I could not sit ‘Littlego’ on the due date so my tutor Sir Robert Tate arranged for Dr. Duncan to test me.
My most vivid memory is that of Professor Frances Moran, known to everyone in The Law School as ‘Fanny’. She was a brilliant lecturer in all the property laws and, because I was still the only woman in 1934, she took a special interest in my future. She persuaded me to do an LL.B. in the June before the B.A. exam – it really was good practice. In any event I managed second class honours in both degrees. I graduated in 1935 – I hope to be 88 years old in July 2001.
Unfortunately I did not achieve my ambitions of becoming a barrister or a solicitor – I married a Doctor, Robert Henry Simon (also a graduate of TCD) in June 1939 - He was then in the R.A.M.C. stationed in Gibraltar. We went there after a short honeymoon in the South of France and we were there on 3rd September 1939 when war was declared.
After France fell in 1940 almost all the women (mostly Gibraltarians) were evacuated, some to North Africa and some to the UK. Officers’ wives without children were permitted to remain provided they did some form of work! I became an Air Raid Warden.
There were very few officers wives left in Gibraltar at that time – only
about five or six of us – there were a few female cypher clerks – they
were the only women left there.
We were just given 24 hours notice and at the end of August 1940
we had boarded a troopship for return to the UK. She was an old ship
named the Neuralia – nicknamed the ‘Neuralgia’ by us!
Henry managed to get the Medical Officer’s duty – it was just routine, passing everyone through to board. I think we left that night in a convoy of merchant ships with one destroyer to ‘protect’ us. I don’t think it stayed very long perhaps for a couple or days!
After a few days punctuated by dead stops at night waiting for the convoy to stay together and by various ‘sightings’ of German submarines, we discovered we were halfway across the Atlantic! We then turned right passing the west coast of Ireland which we could not see. Right again past the Irish Northern Coast, down the Irish Sea, into dock at Liverpool. As it was being bombed that evening and night we were not allowed to disembark until the next day.
It took all of that day to pass through the police and other authorities . I went to the Adelphi Hotel in Liverpool, to telephone my parents to tell them where I was. Next day I went to get an exit visa. Fortunately I had kept my Irish passport although I had intended to change it at some later time. No problems there, so I left for Kingstown the next day by train and boat. It took two weeks for the journey from Gibraltar to Liverpool!
W W Kennedy Smyth B.A.I., C.Eng., (1951)
In 1953, after graduating from Trinity, Kennedy emigrated to Canada where he worked in municipal and consulting engineering. His final role before retiring in 1986 was in the area of water resources for the Government of British Columbia.
Elliseva Sayers, head of an eponymous public relations firm for over 40 years in New York City, after leaving a successful career as a reporter in the legendary world of London’s Fleet Street newspapers, died in hospital Tuesday, February 27, at age 95 after an illness of several months.
Born in Cork, to parents who emigrated from Russia, Ms. Sayers overcame many obstacles to establish a career as a writer, her lifetime obsession. She gained acceptance in the competitive world of Fleet Street, eventually becoming a pioneer in the field of public relations in New York, where she established one of the first firms to have international clients after World War II.
Ms. Sayers initiated what were then innovative media programs for foreign government agencies, such as Japan’s, when its export business was critical to economic recovery after the war. Her work with JETRO (Japan External Trade Recovery Organization), the Japan Trade Center, Portuguese, Venezuelan and Greek consulates and trade groups proved highly successful, and she found herself in demand by a wide range of businesses including Kent of London, the Guinness-Harp Company, Sherle Wagner International, the Hotel George V in Paris and the Swiss Wine Growers Association, among others.
Ms. Sayers never left behind her Irish roots. A student of Samuel Beckett at Trinity, she maintained correspondence with him and also with George Bernard Shaw. Her account of her friendships with Beckett and Shaw and her reminiscences of Joyce were published in The World of Hibernia Magazine in 1995.
As an undergraduate, she contributed regular book reviews to The Irish Times (selling the books after reading them to fund her fashionable wardrobe) and after graduating, she was invited to write a bi-weekly column for the Dublin Evening Mail, which covered the fashionable goings on of society in the recently established Irish Republic. Once the Dublin-Bristol air flight was inaugurated, she moved to Britain, but not before attending a huge party in her honor, which even the Lord Mayor, Alfred Byrne (Dublin’s longest serving mayor) attended. Intrepid and adventurous, she worked for a time at the Manchester Daily Express, cutting a dash through the newsroom usually wearing a cloche hat that covered her red hair (she had the fiery temperament to match). Proceeding to London by train, she worked as a Fleet Street reporter during the World War II, contributing to the Daily Mail, amongst many other British publications and cultivated lifelong friendships with many well-known figures of the time.
Knowing her admiration for the world-renowned writer, George Bernard Shaw, the poet W.B. Yeat’s sister, Elizabeth Yeats, provided her with a letter of introduction and she paid a visit to him in his home in London. This began a fond acquaintance (he had been an absentee student at the same high school, Wesley College, purportedly spending all of his days in the public library). He agreed to allow her to publish a formal interview with her when she told him she wanted to sell it to buy a new hat. The editor who bought it paid ten pounds for it and afterwards told her he would have paid a hundred, much to her chagrin. As a personable, single, career woman, she faced many challenges but her keen intelligence, wit and charm helped her eventually become a staff writer for the London Daily Telegraph.
Moving to the United States after the war, Miss Sayers continued to write, contributing to publications such as the Saturday Evening Post, Connoisseur and the New York Times magazine. She appeared on numerous television shows and co-produced a radio interview show in addition to running her public relations consultancy.
Eventually she devoted herself to writing fulltime, producing scripts and articles on a huge range of subjects from gourmet dog food to the legendary life of Princess Nina Mdivani Conan Doyle. Syndicated in the U.S., Canada and overseas, she retained a lifelong curiosity and love of a good story. Ms. Sayers never stopped writing. Just recently a poem of hers, “Why Aren’t I Famous and Rich?” (subtitled “A Disconsolate Reporter’s Lament”) was set to music by a nephew-in-law and produced for distribution in Australia. Her sense of humor and sometime biting wit was legendary and she maintained extensive correspondence with friends and family around the world.
She was a member of the Overseas Press Club of American, The Foreign Press
Association, the English-Speaking Union of New York, the British-American
Chamber of Commerce, and the Wine and Food Society of New York. One of
Miss Sayer’s last public appearances was as a guest at a meeting
of the Trinity Alumni Association in New York where she enjoyed the distinction
of being the oldest living graduate in attendance.
The last surviving member of five sisters, Ms. Sayers has nieces and nephews who live around the world, from the United States to Australia, Taiwan, Israel, and Ireland, and she maintained an extensive correspondence with many friends around the world.
Whilst she remained a citizen of Ireland, she considered New York her
home and
although she never married, she was considered an incorrigible flirt
even in her 90s.
Robert Henry Whiteside M.A. (1967)
Robert Henry Whiteside M.A. (1967) was born on 16 November 1944. The son of Harry Whiteside and Ruth (née Hill), he grew up in Rathdowney, Co. Laois, where his father was bank manager. It was there that his imagination and character were shaped by the people and scenes of a rural environment which he cherished. He was educated locally and then at Newtown School in Waterford, where his sister Janet and brother Brian, both younger, also went. He learnt much from that co-educational community with its Quaker openness. He was a keen sportsman at school and had many memorable performances on the rugby pitch and cricket field. Following a year of study at The King’s Hospital in Dublin, he entered Trinity in 1963. There he studied History, played hockey, playing as goalkeeper on the Irish Universities team, and wrote for the weekly student newspaper Trinity News, as well as many other activities. At college he met Lesley Mathers from Co. Down, also a student of History, and they were married in 1968.
From 1968 to 1985, Robert was a member of the teaching staff at The King’s Hospital, serving as a houseperson during an important period of transition from an old city school for boys to a new suburban, co-educational campus. He was a pioneer beyond the classroom: encouraging the work of the History Society and of a student newspaper, as well as promoting the idea of girls’ participation in sport. He was a very successful hockey and cricket coach for boys and girls alike. During this period in life he lived in Lucan where his father had come to be bank manager. There he was active in the village, in particular at St Andrew’s Church. His three children, Clodagh, Andrew and Heather grew up there close to where their grandfather lived.
In 1985, Robert left Dublin and moved to Westmeath where he became Warden of Wilson’s Hospital in Multyfarnham. He set about negotiating the progress of the school towards long-term sustainability, a journey begun by the previous warden, his close friend, The Rev Philip Day. With the help of a committed board of governors and trustees, he determinedly pursued funding for teaching and accommodation facilities that would ensure the school’s viability into the 21st century. The good relationship which he developed with local TD, Mary O’Rourke, Minister for Education, was vital to the success of the project. Soon after the opening of the new teaching block, the Preston Building, in 1993 Robert resigned his position and returned to Dublin to resume his involvement in the life of The King’s Hospital.
Even after his return to teaching in Dublin, he and Lesley remained part of the small, rural community of Marlinstown where they had bought a home soon after their arrival in Westmeath. There he took a keen interest in the life of the townland, the farmers working in their fields, the children playing outside their houses, the birds on the canal where he liked to walk — he cared for everything that went on around him. Each year he helped to organise a spring clean-up of the roadside on the bohereen, involving many neighbours in a joint effort to keep the environment tidy and safe. Also at local level, he brought long-felt concerns for justice globally to the streets of Mullingar in a successful campaign to make Mullingar the first Fair Trade town in Leinster.
He spent the last few years of his career at The King’s Hospital as school chaplain, drawing on the ministry he had learnt both in the classroom and in the parish of Edenderry Union following his ordination in 1998. Two journeys abroad with pupils of the school had a profound influence on him — as chaplain to a Habitat for Humanity work party in Guarai, Brazil and as part of a small pilgrimage to the community of Taizé in France. He retired at the end of the 2004-2005 school year and returned to parish ministry in Edenderry Union, especially in Carbury, Co. Kildare.
Soon after his retirement, he became ill and was diagnosed with a brain tumour in October 2005. He underwent radiotherapy treatment during the winter at St Luke’s Hospital. When this was unsuccessful, he was told to expect to have a couple of months before he died and he expressed a firm desire to spend that time at home with his family. His health improved somewhat and stabilised, allowing him to enjoy summer to the full. In September, his fifth grandchild, Callum, was born to his younger daughter Heather and her husband The Rev Daniel Nuzum, Rector of Templebreedy, Co. Cork. Robert enjoyed his role as grandfather and showed determination to be at the baptism of Callum. His health had begun to decline rapidly and in his last weeks he was dependent on care from the local palliative team and from volunteers drawn from friends and neighbours. During his illness, he wrote of his experiences in The Church of Ireland Gazette, for which he had written a regular column for several years.
The funeral of Robert Whiteside, who died in the early hours of 10 November, took place at St Etchen’s Church, Killucan on the afternoon of Monday, 13 November. This is the church where the family worshipped for many years and where both his daughters had been married. His elder daughter Clodagh is married to Kevin Ryan and lives nearby at Greatdown. She works part-time as a nurse at St Mary’s in Mullingar. They have two children Aoife and Oisín. His son Andrew lives in Dublin where he runs his own consultancy business. His younger daughter Heather is married to The Rev Daniel Nuzum, Rector of Templebreedy. She works as a midwife in Cork University Hospital. They have three children Adam, Hannah and Callum. Robert is survived by his sister Janet, wife of The Rev Leslie Crampton, recently retired Rector of Geashill, Co Offaly, and brother Brian, who lives in Dublin with his wife Brenda. He is sadly missed by his nephews Mark, Stephen, Simon and Barry and nieces Ruth, Gilly, Kathy and Amy, as well as his goddaughter Laura and fellow priests of the Dioceses of Meath and Kildare.