Calendar: 1966-1967 Page 346

Annual Report of the Delegacy xxi Professor Norman retired from the Chair of German after tenure of almost thirty years during which time department of modest size developed into one of the leading departments of German studies in the country The number of staff in the department rose from three besides himself in 1937 to nine in 1965 the number of Honours students from twenty-five to 104 and the number of post-graduates from four to fourteen This rise was by no means due only to the present trend towards expansion it was largely the result of rare blend of enthusiasm and realism which Professor Norman brought to his work which enabled him at all times to discern academic needs of the future and to raise the funds to implement them The teaching of postgraduates was one of Professor Norman's great strengths and his scholarship and unique knowledge in his special field is bearing fruit the world over for his pupils hold Chairs and senior positions in both the old and the new universities of this country and also in Germany and the United States In addition to his teaching and administrative work Professor Norman undertook formidable array of activities in the field of German studies Under his guidance the Institute of Germanic Studies became lively centre of research and meeting-place for scholars of German Through his publications and lecture tours in the United States Germany and Austria and his activities with the Congres International Permanent des Linguistes and the Deutsche Akademie der Wissenschaften he is one of the best known inter- nationally of English 'Germanisten' It is tribute to his many-sided activities on behalf of German studies that as medievalist he should have received the Gold Medal of the Goethe Institut The department the College and the University will alike undoubtedly miss his brilliant and immensely energetic personal- ity Mr Browns retirement from Senior Lectureship in Education at the end of the session ended thirty years of unbroken service to the College He came to the department as Lecturer in 1936 from Achimota College in West Africa where he had been tutor in the teaching of Geography and English since soon after leaving Oxford He was one of the three lecturers in the Department of Education the others being Dr Alan Titley and Mrs Blackwell who guided much-reduced department during the war years and he played