For members of staff at the University of Hong Kong, Mr Norman John Gillanders hardly needs any introduction. He has just retired after nearly 40 years of service with the University, where he was successively Assistant Bursar, Deputy Bursar and Bursar, Secretary and from 1986 the Registrar.
He was born in Enniskillen in Northern Ireland in 1931 and was educated at the Portora Royal School in Northern Ireland and at the University of London where he graduated as a Bachelor of Laws. From 1949 to 1953 he worked in the accountants' department of the Fermanagh County Education Committee before joining the University in 1953.
Mr Gillanders is a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Management Accountants and a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators. Before his recent retirement he had additionally been involved with the University's computerisation programme and was a member of its Computer Centre's Committee of Management. He has also been a Justice of the Peace, a member of the Board of Review of the Inland Revenue, and a member of the Board of Governors of the Prince Philip Dental Hospital. He has been appointed a Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE) in June in 1992.
In recognition of his services to the University, the University has resolved to confer upon him the degree of Doctor of Laws honoris causa.
