The search is on at the University of Glamorgan to find the institution’s oldest living alumni.
The University will celebrate its centenary year in 2013, and as part of the celebrations is looking for its oldest past students to help mark the milestone.
The University started life in 1913 as the South Wales and Monmouthshire School of Mines, where in its first year approx 40 students signed up for courses mostly funded by their employers, the coal mine owners of the time. Of these students 12 were killed during the Great War.
In the 1950’s the institution became the Glamorgan College of Technology which later become the Glamorgan Polytechnic and subsequently the Polytechnic of Wales.
In 1992, the University of Glamorgan was born and is now home to 24,000 students across three campuses in Treforest, Glyntaf and Cardiff.
The University is looking for graduates from any era of the institution’s history to come forward and take part in the celebrations and meet some of today’s students.
Vice-Chancellor Julie Lydon said, “The University of Glamorgan is very proud of its 100 year history and we are keen to share the celebrations with some of our oldest graduates. I would urge anyone who has studied here, and thinks that they may have a chance of being our oldest former student, to get in touch, we would love to hear from you!”
The University also wants to identify the staff and students who appear in the attached photograph from the 1940s.
If you think you, or anyone you know, graduated from Glamorgan or any of its previous incarnations many years ago, please contact Daniel Porter-Jones on 01443 4836387 or email [email protected]
