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Obituaries
Chris Carroll
Chris Carroll, who died on 5
February, was a housekeeper in the Holland House student residence in Hove from
1972 until her retirement 20 years later. She remained in close contact with
her former colleagues and continued to be a regular visitor to Holland House.
Jimmy Sang
Geneticist James (Jimmy) Henderson
Sang FRSE, Emeritus Professor in BIOLS, died on 10 February at the age of 89.
 Dr Robert Whittle, Reader in Genetics,
said Jimmy was "one
of the last of the pre-war generation of great humanist scientists who really
understood the potential of modern genetics and the political and economic
forces that shape the subject".
When John Maynard Smith
offered him a professorship at Sussex, he became a
founding member of the School of Biological Sciences, and was Dean on two
occasions. Jimmy
was able to express his talents as a manager, leader and empirical researcher
in a university where he was also committed to the arts, to student services
and to the trade unions. He would also swap home wine-making recipes with the
School porter!
Friends and colleagues
have described him as an unwavering 'conscience' - someone who helped them to
think rigorously and who challenged unfounded assertions and presumptions. Robert said: "For me Jimmy has been
the personification of a conscience that could never be eroded. There goes a
life worth celebrating!"
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