[Inlt] [SPAM: 8.000] FW: The death of Dr Rex Walford

[munazza fatima]

Its a sad news.... May his soul get rest in heavens.


Munazza Fatima
Lecturer- Geography
Department of Geography,
The Islamia University Bahwalpur
Pakistan
On 1/15/11, Mick Healey <mhealey at glos.ac.uk> wrote:
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> Dear Colleagues,
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> It is with great sadness that I am emailing you all to inform you about the
> death of Dr Rex Walford.  Tragically, he was killed in a boating accident on
> the evening of January 2nd, 2011, having been to dinner with long-standing
> friends on an island in the River Thames, where they lived. Rex was a major
> figure in UK and international geographical education, well known
> particularly for his work on games and simulations in geography education,
> but for much else besides.  He was a historian of geography in schools in
> the UK.  He was a major influence on so many geography teachers and tutors
> through his work at Cambridge University until he retired as geography
> education tutor (and also in another role as Head of the Department of
> Education), through his many courses and conference contributions, and
> through his writing.  I have known him from 1970, when I first met him as an
> undergraduate.  He has had an impact on my career, as on so many others over
> the past forty years.  He had so many interests outside geographical
> education, for instance in music, drama and the theatre and in motorbiking.
> He will be very much missed, not least because he was such a wonderful
> person, convivial, a great raconteur, just so thoughtful of others and
> caring, who gave much of his time to his many interests and the people
> involved in them.  It is a real sadness to convey this news to you.
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> Yours,
> Simon
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