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University of York honours long-serving staff

Posted on 5 December 2007

Twenty members of staff at the University of York are to be honoured for their exceptional service in a special ceremony on Wednesday 5 December.

For the first time, the University will honour not only those staff who have been employed for 25 years but also those who have given 40 years’ service — and have therefore worked at the University since its infancy.

The University is not just an assemblage of gardens, offices, classrooms and laboratories. It is a community

Professor Brian Cantor

Since it was founded in 1963, the University has grown from an institution with just 230 students and 28 staff to one with more than 12,000 students and 3,000 staff.

Employees who have served for 25 years receive £125 in bonds, while those who have served for 40 years receive £400 in bonds. All 20 also each receive a ceremonial scroll.

Among those to be honoured for 40 years’ service are four members of the Department of Biology, two of Chemistry and one of Physics, as well as an archive conservator, a photographer and a member of Estates Services.

The cumulative experience of the staff to be honoured in the ceremony totals more than 650 years.

Professor Brian Cantor, Vice-Chancellor of the University of York, said: "The University is not just an assemblage of gardens, offices, classrooms and laboratories. It is a community. People who stay here for many years do so because they feel a sense of professional pride in the University, and they are the main reason that the University is so successful."

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