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The Gazette, the University of Newcastle, Vol. 8, No. 3, December THE GAZETTE The University of Newcastle, N.S. W, 2308 VOL. 8 No. 3, DECEMBER, 1974. TRIBUTES TO THE VICE-CHANCELLOR'S LONG AND OUTSTANDING SERVICE Both parents were University graduates - his Professor Auchmuty was Deputy Warden of father having been educated at Trinity College the College from 1955 to 1959, a Member of and his mother at the former Royal University the Council of the University of New South of Ireland. Wales from 1959 to 1961 and Warden of the Professor Auchmuty's Coat of Arms gives College from 1960 to 1964. his lineage back to a Scottish Laird. In the 17th In 1959 he was elected Secretary of the century an Auchmuty established himself in Australian Humanities Research Council and Ireland. Subsequent generations included a from 1962 to 1965 was Chairman. He is a number of army officers, one of whom, Sir Foundation Fellow of the Australian Academy Samuel Auchmuty, took Java for the British in of Humanities, the Council's successor. 1814. From 1954 to 1960 he was President of the James Auchmuty graduated at Trinity Col­ Central Coast Branch of the N.S.W. Library lege in 1931 with a B.A. degree, having won the Association. Gold Medal in History and Political Science. He From 1962 to 1972 he was Chairman of receivedhisM.A. in 1934 and in 1935 hisPh.D., the· Australian U.N.E.S.C.O. Committee for after postgraduate work at Oxford and the Letters. London School of Historical Research. He attended the 4th Commonwealth Educa­ He was a Lecturer in the School of Educa­ tion Conference in Nigeria in 1968, and the 5th tion, Dublin University, from 1936 to 1946. in Canberra in 1971, as an Australian delegate. As a Lecturer he was responsible for courses on In 1971, as acknowledgement ofJames Auch­ the History of Education and the teaching of muty's contributions to education and inter­ History and for seminars in Educational Psy­ national affairs, The Queen awarded him a chology. C.B.E. In 1970, he was a Member of the Aust­ Professor Jar:-.es Johnston Auchmuty will be In 1934 he married an American, Mary ralian Educational Mission to the South Pacific. retiring at the end of this year after serving the Margaret Waiters, a graduate of Vassar College, He was Chairman of the Commonwealth Advis­ University and its predecessor, Newcastle Uni­ whom he met in Ireland while she was on a ory Committee on the Teaching of Asian Lan­ versity College, for nearly 23 years. His long students' tour. In 1938 he was elected a Fellow guages and Cultures, which in 1970 submitted a and outstanding career encompassed virtually all of the Royal Historical Society and served as a report to the Minister for Education and Science. the important events in the history of the two Member of the International Commission on the He is Chairman of the Australian National A educational institutions. This issue of "The Teaching of History. Commission for U.N.E.S.C.O. He has been a ,.,Gazette" has been devoted, in large part. to During World War 11 he worked for various prominent figure on the Association of Com­ reporting the tribu tes given to the Vice·C!tan­ Government Departments in Dublin and London monwealth Universities, making many flights cellor at ceremonies held in an ticipation of his and unsuccessfully stood for the Irish Senate. overseas and back to Australia to attend Assoc­ retirement. In 1941 he was admitted to the Royal Irish iation and Council meetings. James Auchmuty's ancestry had given him Academy. The Auchmutys' first child, Giles, He has been Vice-Chancellor of the Univer­ a vague link with Australia before he came here was born in Ireland in 1945. sity of Newcastle since January, 1965, when in 1952. He is a descendant of the sister of In 1946 he emigrated to Egypt, where he the University was incorporated. D'Arcy Wentworth, who was the father ofW.C. was attached to the University of Alexandria as The Australian Vice-Chancellor's Committee Wen tworth, explorer-politician-constitutional­ Assistan t Professor of Modern History. A appointed him Chairman for the period 1969­ ist . daughter, Rosemary, was born in 1950. Then, 1970 and broke convention by reappointing Professor Auchmuty's academic interests in 1951, with all other British public servants, him for 1971. ate in History and Education - interests that he was forced to leave the country hurriedly. Professor Auchmuty received the honorary have enabled him to publish more than 30 The choices available to him academically were degree of Doctor of Laws, from Trinity College, papers, five books and chapters in three books, positions at Universities in America, Irak or Dublin, and Doctor of Letters, from the Univer­ edit one book and contribute to The Austratlan Australia. sity of Sydney, as his term of Vice-Chancellor Dictionary ofBiography. He decided on Australia and came to the was drawing to a close. His latest contribution is a chapter of the University of Technology, Sydney, where he As Vice-Chancellor he has attended every 640-page A New History of Australia, just pub­ took up an appointment as Senior Lecturer in graduation ceremony conducted by the Univer­ lished by William Heinemann. History. After 18 months he was transferred to sity and the old Newcastle University College, He was born in 1909 in Portadown (Northern Newcastle as Head of the Department of Arts except the first in 1953 (before his appointment Ireland) and educated at Armagh Royal Boys' at the young University College. He became an to Newcastle). He has seen more than 4,000 School and Trinity College, University of Dub­ Associate Professor in 1954, a full Professor in students receive their degrees. In addition, he lin. 1955 and Dean of the Faculty of Humanities has attended every meeting of the University He was the elder son of Rev. Canon James and Social Sciences at the University of Tech­ Council, except one, and 99 meetings of the Wilson Auchmuty and Annie Todd Johnston. nology in 1956. Senate. 2 THE GAZETTE DECEMBER,1974 DECEMBER,1974 THE GAZETTE 3 HONOUR CONFERRED The Vice-Principal (Professor A.D. Tweedie), The Vice-<:hancellor was honoured by the presenting Professor Auclllnllty for admission University at a ceremony in the Great Hall on to tile Honorary Degree of Doctor of Letters Thursday, 12th December. said: Professor Auchmuty was admitted to the "Mr. Chancellor, I present to you James honorary degree of Doctor of Letters before an Johnston Auehmuty, Commander of the Most audience of more than 700 students, members Excellent Order of the British Empire, Master of of staff and Convocation, citizens and dist­ Arts and Doctor of Philosophy of the University inguished guests, including the Vice-<:hancellor of Dublin, Professor of }1istory and Foundation of the University of Sydney (Professor B. Vice-Chancellor of this University. Williams), the Vice-<:hancellor of the University "Although his earliest scholastic distinction of New South Wales (Professor R. Myers) and was in the study of Geography, it is in the the Vice-<:hancellor of the University of New discipline of History, and particularly in the England (Profes or A. Lazenby). area of biography that James Auchmu ty has The Dean of the Faculty of Architecture won an international reputation as a scholar. (Professor E.C. Parker) was admitted to the His long time membership of the Royal Irish honorary degree of Master of Architecture. Academy, his election to Fellowship of the The honorary degrees were conferred by Australian Academy of the Humanities, of the the Chance))or (Sir Alister McMullin). Royal Historical Society and of the Institute of The Lord Mayor of Newcastle (AId. Joy Arts and Letters acknowledge his contribution Cummings) thanked the Vice-<:hanceLlor on be­ to our knowledge of 1I istory. half of the citizens for his services to rhe Uni­ "The study of History brought James Auch­ versity and the City. muty academic distinction. It gave him also Opening the ceremony, the Chancellor (Sir that kindly interest in people which has been so Alister McMullin) stated that the audience was much a f· ture of his leadership in the creation present primarily to say farewell to a Vice­ of the University of Newcastle. Today we pay Chancellor who had worked hard from his tribute not only to his scholarship in the inter- appointment in 1953 until his retirement this After the Graduation Ceremony. Rosemary, Professor lames and Margaret A UCl1mIH_ &retation of the past, but also to his vision and month. ~.oreslght of the future. The building in which Professor Parker receives !lis honorary degree from the Chancellor. The University College was created in 1952 "From Dublin, he came, and though amply our fellows. The very motto of this University wc are assembled, the campus on which it stands with 419 students, only five of whom were fuLl­ qualified, all his broad studies in English litera­ "I Look Ahead" was a stimulus for the dream- and the University in which we serve are in Universities. The Australian UNESCO Com­ advantage of those opportunities bu t I must time students. To-day student numbers exceed­ ture and history could barely conceal his basic ing and ideals of the newcomer as he entered large measure the outcome of that interest in mittee for Letters and the Australian National never forget how fortuitous it all was, how much ed 4000. Most of this growth was a long story Irish nurture betrayed by an infectious sense of those temporary premises below sea-level at people and that faith in the future. Commission for UNESCO have benefited from I was the creature of circumstances, at one time of hard work by an individual who possessed humour and softened no doubt by the incom­ Tighe's Hill.
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