King's College London (KQC) newsletter
APPOI T E TOF VICE- PRI CIPALS ANNOUNCED Professor Henry John Valentine Tyrrell, MA, DSc, CChem, FRSC, currently Principal of Chelsea College, has been appointed Vice-Principal of the merged College: his appointment will take effect from August 1st for one year. A profi le of Professor Tyrrell wi II featu re in the July edition of COMMENT. NEW APPOINTMENT The Secretary of the College, Myles McDermott Tempany, OBE, KSG, KCHS, has been appointed to the new position of Vice-Principal (External Affairs) and will take up this post in January 1986.
FORMER STUDENT AWARDED PRESTIGIOUS INTERNATIONAL PRIZE A former civil engineering graduate, Mr K K Framji, has recently been awarded the Olympia Prize for 1985 for his important contribution in world-wir.~ efforts for the protection of the environment; in particular for his work in promoting changes in the concepts of water resources planning. Mr Framji, who graduated from King's in 1930, is now a water resources engineer of international repute and Secretary General of the I nternational Commission on I rrigation and Drainage. As such, he has been instrumental in encouraging developing countries to improve the management of their water resources, adopt anti-pollution and anti-erosion measures and thus become less dependant on imported foodstuffs. The Olympia Prize is awarded by the Alexander S Onassis Public Benefit Foundation, Greece to 'people or institutions who have made a notable contribution to the preservation of nature or the safeguarding of our cultural inheritance or scientific progress connected herewith'. Former laureates of the prize have included Sir Harold Macmillan, Prince Salruddin Aga Khan and Or Dillon Ripley, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution.
Tianjin University, with whom King's College has recently signed an agreement on education and scientific co-operation. See article inside.