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Anne Heath

  • Person
  • fl 1970-

Heath's thesis was written in the 3rd and final year of her Teacher Training at City of Birmingham College of Education where she studied from September 1970 till June 1973, gaining a full Certificate of Education, with Merits in the Study of Education and also in the Main and Subsidiary subjects, Drama and Music. In 1972 Heath married and changed her surname to Linstead. She has since reverted to using her maiden name, Heath.

On deposit, Heath provided the following context and information: 'The study, or dissertation, is titled The Appeal of Comics and their Potential Influence on Children, and reflects my early interest in children's reading, and an ongoing fascination with the acquisition of reading skills. I have enjoyed a long and varied career in teaching, initially full- time in middle schools, then, after raising a family, as a supply teacher for the last 25 years. This has included many different teaching environments and situations, from language support in state schools to music at the local Montessori school, from nurseries to 6th forms, special needs, private tuition and whole class teaching. My daughter chose a Steiner education for her son. At his school, only Capital letters were used in the early stages, as is the case with comic strip speech bubbles. I gave her my study, as my young grandson soon became an a avid reader of comics. Now he is 15, competently literate, studying for GCSEs. It was during their recent house move that this document came to light. I dipped into it and found its naivety slightly embarrassing, until I reminded myself it was a work of its time by a 20 year old. I then read most of it again with some amusement. With a general election imminent and a government currently populated with public school boys, the attitudes and antics of Winker Watson at Greytowers, (pages 67-69) take on a contemporary flavour. Certainly the prevalence of the comic teacher in this study, and the issues discussed regarding that role will have helped me question and shape my own stance in the classroom, by default! Historically, this study is a bit of a relic from a point in time when significant change was happening. For instance, at a time when colleges were making requests for all work to be typed, it is probably one of the last degree level dissertations to be written by hand! Although, at that time, the Cert. Ed. did not officially count as a degree, the B Ed had recently been introduced, requiring a further year of study. Meanwhile, the James Report gave rise to new regulations. Graduates taking teaching posts needed a teaching qualification in addition to their specialist subject. Consequently, in 1973, our college population swelled with the influx of Post Graduate Certificate of Education students. They were quick to socialise and some gamely joined the 'extras' in our final Drama assessment production of the Marat/Sade by Peter Weiss. Innovation in the 70's is a familiar subject. In education, middle schools were emerging, bridging the division between junior and secondary schools; a new subject, drama, appeared on some timetables. Interested in both, I chose the junior/secondary age range and Drama as my main subject. Middle schools came and went, Drama eventually became a GCSE subject, now taught in many secondary schools. It was a good time to study. The modest grant, available for students from low income families, taught domestic economy and facilitated a great opportunity to learn to live independently. The necessity to take holiday work broadened social awareness. College policy of assessed Teaching Practice every year, increasing in length and responsibility, ensured readiness for the classroom, a probationary year, and, finally, registered teacher status complete with a number.' Heath also commented on the presentation and condition of the thesis: 'In the days before scanning, sellotape was my method of presenting source material for illustration. After 42 years it is perishing and has left rectangular stains where I have rolled it round to make an invisible mount. (If 2-sided tape was available, then, I hadn't heard of it!) Several cuttings from comics have become detached, but seem to be in the right places. There may be some confusion as to which side should be showing. If the context isn't clear, the way the cutting has been trimmed round the frame may indicate the right way up. Also the sellotape stains show through to the right side and can be matched to their original place on the page. Where there are several cuttings on one page, the arrangement is not significant. I think one or two cuttings are missing. Some full page examples are included, and are referenced at the foot of the page. Some were stuck together in pairs, back to back with small rolls of sellotape. In these cases, only the outer sides are relevant to the study, and are referenced at the foot of the page. Sample pages from large format comics have been mounted on 2 sheets of A4, joined with sellotape at the outer edge to reinforce the fold. They open out from the centre. Before photocopiers and computer print outs, the quality of the sample survey sheets in the Appendix was typical of formal duplicated print outs in schools and colleges at the time. I think I had these done, for a fee, at the college office. Just a little more history: When multiple copies were needed, the Banda machine was the source of all worksheets, and in my case, song sheets too. Text, illustrations and notation were done by hand on a choice of plain, lined, or squared, shiny, carbon-backed paper. Writing out music for songs became much easier when I came across a pack of carbon 'Masters' with blank music staves.'

Anne Sanderson

  • Person
  • fl 1930s-1970s
Anne Sanderson worked at the University of Dundee as a Biological Scientist during the 1930s - 1970s, undertaking a range of research activities relating to various aspects of biological science.

Anya Lawrence

  • Person
  • 1949-
Anya Lawrence is a member of the Broughty Ferry branch of the Scottish National Party and was Chair of the Broughty Ferry Community Council

Arthur Dawson Foote

  • Person
  • 1931-

A. D. Foote was born in Toxteth and educated in Manchester from 1938 and at Balliol College, Oxford, from 1949 where he read Classics and English.

Foote suffered from schizophrenia from the age of 26. After he recovered from an illness he spent some years as Warden of the International Voluntary Service Centre in London. To get a quieter job he worked at the National Central Library in Malet Place till 1965.

In 1969 he moved to Dundee where his family stayed; he had to spend the first 5 years in hospital. There, he edited a quarterly magazine for the patients which ran up to 22 issues.

A. D. Foote has been writing poetry and short stories as a vocation, and from 1985 earning income as a translator. He speaks Finnish, Polish, Hungarian, Cornish, Arabic, Ido and Interlingua.

Arthur Donald Walsh (1916-1977)

  • Person
  • 1916-1977
A. D. Walsh, or Donald Walsh as he was known, was born in Loughborough, Leicestershire. Educated at Cambridge he took a PhD in physical chemistry in 1941 and became an ICI fellow. In 1955, after six years as a lecturer and reader in physical chemistry at Leeds University, Walsh took over the chair of chemistry at Queen's College, Dundee. He was well respected for his work on molecular spectroscopy and combustion and his contribution to chemistry was recognised with his election to the Royal Society in 1964. During his time in Dundee he oversaw the expansion of the Chemistry Department and was made Dean of the Faculty of Science when the new University was created in 1967. As his international standing grew Walsh was frequently asked to lecture abroad. Forced to retire in 1976 through ill health, he died in 1977 at the age of sixty.

Arthur Ranson

  • Person
  • June, 1939 - present
Arthur Ranson is an English comic book creator based in Surrey, England. He is best known for his work in the Look-in series, Button Man, Mazeworld, and Anderson: PSI Division. He has worked with many notable figures in the comic book industry such as Alan Grant, John Wagner, and Angus Allen and his comics have been translated into several languages worldwide.

Bert Barnett

  • Person
  • fl 1964-
Bert Barnett studied architecture at the Art College, Dundee, from 1964-1970, repeating years two and five of his course. Bert has spent most of his career as an architectural assistant, working with Ric Russell, partner in Nicoll Russell architects, who features in many of the photographs, and with local authorities. Latterly, he worked for an architect's firm in Blairgowrie, Perthshire.
'Sleepy People', the subject of the photographs, were a college band made up of architecture students who played at Art College ' hops'.

Bill Brown

  • GB 254
  • Person
  • c1920s -1980
Bill Brown was born in Dundee c1920s. Bill was educated in Dundee before serving in the RAF during WWII. Bill married Sally, a school cook, and they had two children William and Anne. Bill later worked delivering bottles of coca-cola and other drinks around Dundee. After winning the 'pools' (coupon),
Bill and Sally moved to Kendal in the late 1970s. Bill died in 1980.

Bill Robertson

  • Person
  • fl 1970 -
Bill Robertson was a dental student at the University of Dundee, Class of '77.

Bishop Edward Luscombe

  • Person
  • 1924–2022
Ted Luscombe was Bishop of Brechin from 1975 to 1990 and primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church from 1985 to 1990.
Educated in Torquay and London, Luscombe served in the army during WW2 then trained and worked as a chartered accountant until 1963
Luscombe then was ordained in the Scottish Episcopal Church as a deacon in 1963 and as a priest one year later in 1964. His ecclesiastical career began as a curate at St Margaret's Glasgow after which he was rector of St Barnabas' Paisley. From 1971 to 1975 he was provost of St Paul's Cathedral, Dundee.
In 1987 he was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws (LLD) by the University of Dundee.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Luscombe

Bob Smith

  • Person
  • fl 1960s-1980s
Bob Smith was employed for many years as Chief Technician at Dundee Dental Hospital. He retired from service c.1988

Calum Laird

  • Person
  • fl 1979-
Calum started working for DC Thomson in 1979. He worked on Jackie, Blue Jeans, Commando, Etcetra, Classic Legends, Dandy and in the Syndication Dept. In 2015 he was editor of the Commando. He did a Masters and then by 2018 gained a PhD in Comics at the University of Dundee

Cameron Thomson

  • Person
Cameron Thomson attended Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art from where he graduated in 1968. He has had exhibitions in Dundee, London and New York. He was a teacher of Art for six years. He married and was later divorced from Eileidh Campbell one of the best students of textile design at D of J. In 1978 he founded the Seer Centre which is dedicated to promoting rural regeneration, sustainable agriculture and organic products. He married Moira, another Duncan of Jordanstone graduate.

Catherine Pennington Paunov

  • Person

Catherine (Cathy) Pennington Paunov is a native of Washington, DC. Following graduation from high school in 1968, she participated in an American Institute for Foreign Study program that summer at the University of Dundee. Two of her favourite classes were History of the Highlands and Archaeology.

Cathy holds the BS degree from the University of Maryland in government and politics, the MS degree in the Administration of Justice from the American University in Washington, and the MLS and JD degrees from Brigham Young University. From 1972-1974, she served a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Italy. She is a member of the State Bar of Texas. Since graduation from BYU, she has lived in Texas and New York, where she met her husband, Zlatko Paunov, a sculptor, originally from Bulgaria.

Now semi-retired, they reside in Florida and New York, depending on season. Cathy continues some pro bono legal work with non-profit organizations, as well as substitute teaching at local schools.

Charles Lovatt

  • Person
  • fl 1975-2022
Charles Lovatt was born in Dundee. He studied Economics and Political Science at University of Dundee. While at University he wrote for Annasach student newspaper. Charles also worked for Dundee University Student's Association (DUSA) organising and promoting discos. Following University, Charles set up an audio business installing disco equipment. He then worked as a semi-conductor distributer broker before becoming a Lecturer in the School of Management at University of St Andrews. He is now retired.

Christine Pollock

  • Person
  • fl 1950s?
Christine Pollock was a law student at Dundee who was a mentor to Robin White

Christopher Dingwall

  • Person
  • fl 1972-
Christopher Dingwall is a landscape historian, with a particular interest in gardens and designed landscapes, working mainly across Scotland.
He graduated BSc Geography, University College, London in 1972 and was awarded his MA in Conservation Studies from University of York in 1988

Craig McNeil

  • Person
  • fl 2018-
Craig McNeil owns a property cleaning business in Fife. He has a long-time interest in comics and has collected them for several years.

Dave Albury

  • Person
  • fl 1973-
Dave Albury was a student at University of Dundee, 1973-1977. He studied Philsophy and Psychology but failed his final exams and did not graduate. During his time at University, Dave was the editor of 'Annasach' for a period of eighteen months.

David Ernest Cox

  • Person
  • 11 November 1908-5 November 1980
David Ernest Cox, the son of James Ernest and Agnes Jane Cox, was born in Lochee. His early education was at Stanmore Park, Middlesex, from which he entered Dartmouth Naval College as a cadet in 1922. As a Sub-Lieutenant he was present at the evacuation of Nankin in 1927. He was appointed Midshipman in 1928 and while returning from China, his ship, HMS Enterprise, was joined by the Prince of Wales at Dar-es-Salaam, who was rushing home from East Africa to see the King on his sick-bed. David served as a Commander in the Royal Navy until 1947.
After 1947, Cox and his wife, Mary Aileen Musgrove with whom he had two children, Jane and Edward, lived in South Africa, Rhodesia and Malta, then settled in Guernsey in 1972
During his retirement Commander Cox sailed his boats, 'Ninga' and 'Scottish Simo' through the French canals, across the Ionian and Adriatic seas, and throughout the Mediterranean from his base in Malta.

David Hopwood

  • Person
  • 7th April 1936 - 14th February 2016
Dr David Hopwood grew up around Leeds and Manchester, obtaining a BSc in Anatomy at Leeds in 1954 and a postgraduate degree in Pathology. He later became lecturer of Anatomy at St Andrew's Queens College from 1962 - 1968, later becoming Reader and Consultant in Pathology at the University of Dundee and Ninewells Hospital from 1972 until his retirement in 1998. Dr Hopwood became a painter in his retirement, attending Dundee Art College on Graham Street to study Fine Art. Dr Hopwood died on the 14th February 2016.

David Irwin

  • Person
  • fl 2000's

David Irwin, in partnership with David Grayson formed Irwin Grayson Associates which in 1980, founded Project North East, one of the UK's leading enterprise and economic development agencies, which has now worked in 40 countries. Irwin continued to manage and grow Project North East until 2000 when he was appointed as the first Chief Executive of the UK's Small Business Service taking responsibility for all of the UK Government's support for SMEs and a newly created role to be the "strong voice for small business at the heart of government" advocating the case for an improved regulatory environment. He stepped down from that role in mid-2002.

David is Chairman of Cobweb Information Ltd, a business that researches, publishes and markets business information. Following research into the competences that assist trade associations to succeed in influencing public policy in east Africa, he was awarded a PhD by Newcastle University in 2019. He is a Visiting Fellow at the Department of Politics, Newcastle University.
Some of David's ancestors were members of the Glasite Church, hence his research into the membership

David J MacDonald

  • Person
  • 1857-1940
David J MacDonald founded the engineering company, DJ MacDonald in 1892, initially at works in Dens Road, moving after three years to South Saint Roque's Works.
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