Open Letter to Vice Chancellor Noel Lloyd
Subject: Open Letter to Vice Chancellor Noel Lloyd
Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2008 14:59:10 EDT
Noel Lloyd, Vice Chancellor, University of Aberystwyth,
Annwyl Athro Lloyd, Dear Prof. Lloyd,
I am pleased to inform you that my armorial ensigns were granted on 7th July and they carry elements of the arms of my Alma Mater, the University of Aberystwyth, the two Tudor dragons rouge rampant in the crest. The Windsor Herald informed today that the Letters Patent are ready, and I thereby attain the rank of Gentleman in recognition of distinguished contributions to Britain in science. Currently I am the only member of the Civil List from Wales and hope to establish a new institute in Aberystwyth. Currently the AIAS, of which I am President, is out-impacting the average physics department worldwide by a factor of at least a hundred (see blog survey today on _www.aias.us_ (http://www.aias.us) ). Appointment to the Civil List is a High Honour and made by the Prime Minister’s Offfice following upon an Act of Parliament adn upon recommendation of the Royal Society. I am part of the Cambrian / Norman Havard family, descended from the eleventh century Sir Walter Havard, Knight of Bernard de Neufmarche, first cousin of William of Normandy. I am also a fluent Welsh speaker, and so my motto is a line of my own cynghanedd: “Poer y llwch o’r pair llachar”. So if all goes well I will shortly reestablish contacts with Aberystwyth, where I spent a distinguished early career before being obliged, much against my will, to move from there by unfortunate circumstance.
Yn gywir iawn Very truly yours,
Glyn Eithrym, (Prof. Myron W. Evans),
British Civil List Scientist, AIAS President, Chairman and Director TGA, Director of Steriwave Plc., ECE Technologies Ltd., Sometime University of Wales Fellow and Pilcher Senior Fellow.