28.03.07
A Tribute to Professor Roland Levinsky

The Objective One Partnership would like to pay tribute to Professor Roland Levinsky, valued Vice-Chancellor of the University of Plymouth, who died on New Year's Day this year (2007).

A memorial service of music and words to celebrate the life of Roland Levinsky will be held at 2.30pm on Friday 30 March in St Andrew's Church, Plymouth. Carleen Kelemen, who will be attending the service, said: "Professor Levinsky played a key role not only at the University of Plymouth and helped to set up a lasting legacy for the South West in the groundbreaking partnership of Combined Universities in Cornwall. His dedication and hard work will be sadly missed by all, not least the Objective One Partnership."

Dr Ian Tunbridge, Executive Director of Combined Universities in Cornwall (CUC) and former University of Plymouth Dean commented: "Roland's commitment to widening participation in university study was underpinned by a belief in education's potential for transforming lives. He was the driving force behind the creation of University of Plymouth Colleges as a building block towards a broader confederation of academic institutions reaching out into communities in the South West. He had a vision of wider academic collaboration in which CUC was an important component."

The University of Plymouth, in accordance with the Levinsky family's wish, is setting up a Roland Levinsky Memorial Fund which will be used to provide scholarships, studentships or prizes for students, both undergraduate and postgraduate, across the university.

Anyone who wishes to contribute can do so via this web link - www.plymouth.ac.uk/vcmemorial

For further information please contact Clare Morgan, Media Relations Manager for the Objective One Partnership. Tel: 01872 223439 /07973 813647. Email: cmorgan@cornwall.gov.uk.

Editor's notes:

Professor Roland Levinsky BSc, MA(Hist), MD, FRCP, FRCPCH, FMedSci, was the Vice-Chancellor and Chief Executive of the University of Plymouth, from 1 September 2002 until his death on 1 January 2007. The world of academia was his second career: for most of his working life, he was best known as an internationally acclaimed physician.

Clare Morgan
Media Relations Manager
Objective One Partnership Office
Castle House
Pydar Street
Truro TR1 2UD
Mobile: 07973 813647
Telephone: 01872 223439

cmorgan@cornwall.gov.uk

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