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The rise in numbers reflects the growth in the University which has tripled its student complement over the last 12 years. This year’s ceremonies see the first large group of around 100 graduate nurses honoured as well as the first cohort of BSc graduates in health care management.
University Chancellor Sir James Black will preside over all four ceremonies to take place over Thursday 9th and Friday 10th July in the following order :
Thursday 9th July
10.30 Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences
2.15 Faculty of Science & Engineering
Friday 10th July
10.30 Faculty of Duncan of Jordanstone College
and Faculty of Law & Accountancy
2.15 Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry & Nursing
 Mr Jim Duncan, who was Stephen Fry's agent on campus for six years, will receive an honorary degree of Doctor of Laws on Thursday morning. Stephen Fry will personally deliver the laureation address in appreciation of Mr Duncan’s services. |
 Also honoured with an LLD at the Thursday morning ceremony will be Scottish composer and pianist Dr Ronald Stevenson. Professor of the History of Scottish Art Murdo Macdonald delivering the laureation address on composer and pianist Dr Ronald Stevenson, described him as ‘one of the most distinguished composers of our day’... a composer who wants his music to ‘talk straight about life’ and uses music as a reflection of reality. |
 Honoured with LLD at the Thursday afternoon ceremony will be Mr Euan Baird chairman of the board, president and chief executive officer of Schlumberger. Professor David Boxer, Dean of the Faculty of Science & Engineering Macdonald delivering the laureation address on Mr Euan Baird, president and chief executive officer of Schlumberger, one of the major oil service companies in the world referred to the company’s restructuring and spectacular recovery under his leadership which has guided the company to its present position with a turnover of $10billion and 45,000 employees. He paid tribute to Mr Baird’s qualities of ‘personal commitment, hard work and outstanding judgement’. |
 Also receiving an Honorary degree on Thursday afternoon is Sir John Browne who was knighted in the Queen’s birthday honours list this month for his services to the oil and gas industry. Professor Malcolm Horner delivered the laureation address on Sir John Browne who has since 1995 been chief executive of BP, one of the largest petroleum companies in the world. Sir John’s special attributes included ‘a fierce intelligence’, a style of leading from the top which inspires such loyalty that ‘people die in the ditches for John Browne’ and an ‘almost infinite capacity for hard work...he thinks nothing of holding three meetings within 24 hours in different parts of the world’ |
 Honoured with LLD on Friday morning will be Professor Sir David Tweedie chairman of the Accounting Standards Board, the committee charged with producing the UK’s accounting standards. |
Honoured with LLD on Friday afternoon will be Mr Russell Leather chairman of the Gannochy Trust, a major grant-making trust based in Perth which has benefited many local projects. Dean of the Faculty of Medicine Professor David Levison, giving the laureation address on Mr Russell Leather, noted his career with Ferranti and lifelong interest in the process of invention ‘during which he has filed some 25 personal patents’.
Professor Levison had particular praise for the impressive range of ventures given support by the Gannochy Trust of which Mr Leather is chairman. Among the many projects aided by the trust are the new Science Centre, the Ninewells Cancer Centre Appeal and the Wellcome Trust Building, which he said would have been without the top floor had it not been for the Gannochy Trust.
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Miss Anne Jarviem, who will also receive an honorary degree on Friday afternoon, is chief nursing officer at the Scottish Office Department of Health, a post held since February 1992. Deputy Principal Professor Peter Howie giving the laureation address for Miss Anne Jarvie referred to her ‘distinctive and distinguished contribution to the NHS in Scotland. He talked of her reputation in the profession as ‘a gutsy wee fighter’ and suggested that it was ‘largely due to her efforts that nursing has a stronger status in Scotland than elsewhere’.
‘Anne Jarvie is playing a major role in NHS reform in Scotland,’ he said. Her vision, vigour and vitality make her a ‘splendid advocate of nursing’. |
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