Commemoration Eve Gala Dinner report and video streams

Commemoration Eve Gala Dinner video streams and photos from the evening.

The Commemoration Eve Gala Dinner took place on Tuesday 28 October 2003 at the Savoy Hotel London. The speaker was Professor Gordon Conway, President of the Rockfeller Foundation, who also received the Fellowship of Imperial College at Commemoration Day.

The purpose of the dinner was to celebrate the achievements of Imperial College London and its graduating students as well as to congratulate the newly appointed Fellows and Honorary Graduates.

Recipients of the Fellowship of Imperial College:

Professor Gordon Conway, President of the Rockefeller Foundation, an organisation committed to sustaining lives and livelihoods of excluded people throughout the world, was preofessor of environmental technology at Imperial from 1980 to 1988, and has been a visiting professor since 1989.

Professor Bill Wakenham, Vice Chancellor of the University of Southampton. Professor Wakenham worked at Imperial College from 1971- 2001, beginning his career in the department of chemical engineering and chemical technology.

Sir Colin Dollery, senior consultant at GlaxoSmithKline Research and Development. Colin Dollery was Dean of the Royal Postgraduate Medical School (RPMS) at Hammersmith Hospital until 1996 and initiated negotiations that took it into Imperial College school of Medicine.

Professor Christopher Edwards, Vice chancellor of the University of Newcastle. Professor Edwards was the first principal of Imperial College school of medicine, from 1995-2001. He was responsible for successfully merging the medical schools of St Mary's, Charing Cross and Westminster, Hammersmith and the Royal Brompton to form Imperial's school of medicine in 1997.

Honorary Graduates:

Professor Charles Rees, emeritus professor of Chemistry at Imperial. He joined Imperial in 1978 and researched widely in the areas of mechanistic and synthetic organic chemistry.

Professor Colin Caro, emeritus professor of physiological mechanics in Imperial's department of Bioengineering since 1991, founded in 1966 and directed until 1989 the physiological flow studies unit at Imperial.