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Issue 16 Spring 2014 For alumni and friends living in North America
From left to right: Dr Heather Reid OBE, Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson and Professor Anton Muscatelli
A winning start to the Andrew Carnegie Lectures Britain’s greatest Paralympic athlete Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson visited Glasgow during the year of the Commonwealth Games to present the Inaugural Andrew Carnegie Lecture ‘Seize the Day’ on Monday, 17 March 2014.
The evening was hosted in the Bute Hall by Dr Heather Reid OBE (DUniv 2010), Scottish meteorologist and former television presenter. Baroness Grey-Thompson competed in five Paralympic Games, winning 11 Gold Medals, and is acknowledged as one of the most gifted and courageous sportswomen of her generation. In addition to her outstanding Paralympic achievements, she won the
London Wheelchair Marathon a total of six times between 1992 and 2002. The Andrew Carnegie Lecture Series, funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York, will be delivered annually over the next ten years. The second lecture will be given by Paul Tudor Jones II, Founder and Chairman of Tudor Investment Corporation, in November 2014. Details to follow in the coming months.