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BOYD,
Professor
Robert
Gavin
Died unexpectedly at his home in Halifax on Wednesday, December
10, 2003. Born in Brighton, Victoria, Australia on May 16, 1924,
he was the eldest child of the late Robert Gavin and
C. Margaret
BOYD. He was educated at St. Patrick's College and graduated
in Political Science from the University of Melbourne. He became
a Research Officer for the Joint Intelligence Bureau of Australian
Government and served on the S.E.A.T.O. Research Team in Bangkok,
Thailand from 1956-1959. He returned to the Australian National
University In Canberra where he wrote his 1st book. ''Communist
China's Foreign Policy'', which earned him a Fullbright Fellowship
to Notre Dame University, Indiana for two years. He spent a summer
semester at Stanford University's Hoover Institute for Peace
and moved to George Washington University, Washington, D.C. with
the family and taught there. The family returned to Canberra
in 1965 and he resumed his research studies and writing at the
A.N.U. A Canada Council Fellowship took him to Carleton University
in Ottawa following a lecture tour in the Maritimes, he was asked
to join the Political Science faculty at Saint Mary's University
where he taught from 1967 to 1989. On retirement he taught at
Rutgars's University, New Jersey and was named Honorary Professor.
He returned to Halifax and Saint Mary's in 1991 and taught part-time
in the M.B.A. programme until his death. He wrote and also collaborated
on many books in his field of Political Science and organized
a most successful series of fall seminars at Saint Mary's to which
distinguished guest scholars contributed. He is survived by his
wife, Margaret; his children, Angela, Stephanie (Peter
HORA,)
Dominic (Theresa
FOX), Mary Catherine, Austin (Beckett
FICHTER),
Christopher, Felicity and Hilary (Bret
BARTON.) He was grandpa
to Alexander and Lawrence
HORA,
Frances,
Katie and Michael
BOYD,
Andrew and Connor
BOYD,
Matthew and Julia
BARTON. He is survived
by his sister, Carmel
RYAN
(Peter,)
Canberra, A.C.T. Australia
three nieces and two nephews. He was a man of strong faith, generosity
of spirit and loyalty to his Catholic beliefs and principles.
Family will be re ceiving Friends at J. A. Show Funeral Home,
2666 Windsor Street, Halifax on Monday, December 15, from 2-4, 7-9
p.m. Memorial mass will be held 10 a.m. Tuesday, December 16,
in Canadian Martyrs Roman Catholic Church. In lieu of flowers,
donations may be made to the Saint Mary's University Faculty Women's
Association Scholarship Fund or to Hope Cottage.
Well done thou good and faithful servant, Cavin.
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