Former mayor receives award for “tremendous contribution” to university
-
Description
Cumberland & Westmorland Herald, 7th October 2006. "KESWICK councillor Elizabeth Barraclough has been awarded an honorary fellowship from Newcastle University, where she first began work almost 50 years ago. The 73-year-old, who has lived in Keswick since 1993, but was a frequent visitor to the town for 20 years before that, was given the accolade in recognition of her position at the forefront of the birth of electronic computers in Britain...... Graduating from Manchester with a degree in maths and physics, she had the job title computer operator before most people even knew computers existed and she sent her first e-mail in 1969!.... In 1957, Miss Barraclough began work as a computer operator at Newcastle University, then King’s College. She retired from work there as director of the computing service in 1993 ...." -
Owner
Cumberland & Westmorland Herald -
Source
Local (Co-Curate) -
License
What does this mean? Unknown license check permission to reuse
-
Further information
Link: https://www.cwherald.com/a/archive/former-mayor-receives-award-for-tremendous-contribution-to-university.239738.html
Resource type: Text/Website
Added by: Simon Cotterill
Last modified: 5 years, 6 months ago
Viewed: 437 times
Picture Taken: Unknown -
Co-Curate tags
