Honorary degree citation - Jill Ker Conway

By: Jack N. Lightstone, December 2003

Mr. Chancellor, I have the honour to present to you Dr. Jill Ker Conway professor, writer, university administrator, activist on the boards of numerous public and private institutions and agent of change.

Born in Hillston, New South Wales, Australia in 1934, Dr. Conway resided in a house called "Coorain," the aboriginal word for "windy place" in the Australian outback until the death of her father. The beautiful, but harsh outback and the struggle of her family, particularly her mother, would be a crucial factor in shaping her life as was the death of her older brother shortly after her family left the outback.

It was in Sydne