Vale Beverley Ormerod Noakes

All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2022 February Vale Beverley Ormerod Noakes tribute Vale Beverley Ormerod Noakes 15/02/2022 | 4 MINS The following tribute to Beverley Ormerod Noakes, lecturer in French Studies at LIT from 1970 until her retirement in 2002, was written by Jane Southwood, Honorary Research Fellow, LIT. In August 1973 I met someone who was to become one of the most important people in my life. At our first meeting Beverley Ormerod impressed with her exotic Jamaican looks, resonant voice and attractive Batik dress. We soon met to discuss the work on which she was lecturing and I tutoring. So began a gloriously rich relationship with Bev, teacher, thesis supervisor, mentor, colleague and very dear friend. Countless hours of fun, laughter and shared ideas took place in her office, over the lunch or dinner table, in the company of mutual friends, in seminars, by phone and email. It was a friendship which lasted until her death on 20 January 2022 and continues to bring joy in recollection, inevitably tinged with great sadness. Endowed with brilliant French, a vas

All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2022 February Vale Beverley Ormerod Noakes tribute Vale Beverley Ormerod Noakes 15/02/2022 | 4 MINS The following tribute to Beverley Ormerod Noakes, lecturer in French Studies at LIT from 1970 until her retirement in 2002, was written by Jane Southwood, Honorary Research Fellow, LIT.

In August 1973 I met someone who was to become one of the most important people in my life.

We do more when we ask better questions together.