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Commemoration Eve Gala Dinner video streams and photos from the evening.

The Commemoration Eve Gala Dinner took place on Tuesday 28 October 2003 at the Savoy Hotel London. The speaker was Professor Gordon Conway, President of the Rockfeller Foundation, who also received the Fellowship of 51³Ô¹ÏÍø College at Commemoration Day.

The purpose of the dinner was to celebrate the achievements of 51³Ô¹ÏÍø and its graduating students as well as to congratulate the newly appointed Fellows and Honorary Graduates.

Recipients of the Fellowship of 51³Ô¹ÏÍø College:

Professor Gordon Conway, President of the Rockefeller Foundation, an organisation committed to sustaining lives and livelihoods of excluded people throughout the world, was preofessor of environmental technology at 51³Ô¹ÏÍø from 1980 to 1988, and has been a visiting professor since 1989.

Professor Bill Wakenham, Vice Chancellor of the University of Southampton. Professor Wakenham worked at 51³Ô¹ÏÍø College from 1971- 2001, beginning his career in the department of chemical engineering and chemical technology.

Sir Colin Dollery, senior consultant at GlaxoSmithKline Research and Development. Colin Dollery was Dean of the Royal Postgraduate Medical School (RPMS) at Hammersmith Hospital until 1996 and initiated negotiations that took it into 51³Ô¹ÏÍø College school of Medicine.

Professor Christopher Edwards, Vice chancellor of the University of Newcastle. Professor Edwards was the first principal of 51³Ô¹ÏÍø College school of medicine, from 1995-2001. He was responsible for successfully merging the medical schools of St Mary's, Charing Cross and Westminster, Hammersmith and the Royal Brompton to form 51³Ô¹ÏÍø's school of medicine in 1997.

Honorary Graduates:

Professor Charles Rees, emeritus professor of Chemistry at 51³Ô¹ÏÍø. He joined 51³Ô¹ÏÍø in 1978 and researched widely in the areas of mechanistic and synthetic organic chemistry.

Professor Colin Caro, emeritus professor of physiological mechanics in 51³Ô¹ÏÍø's department of Bioengineering since 1991, founded in 1966 and directed until 1989 the physiological flow studies unit at 51³Ô¹ÏÍø.