Guest Speaker: Derek  Sutton

There's a whole world out there waiting for you! Now that you're retired and have the time (and even perhaps the money) what about travelling to see for yourselves some of those faraway places? It's really better than watching it on National Geographic on the telly. 

Kathy and Derek Sutton caught the urge to travel long ago. Whether as an adjunct to a conference trip or a sabbatical, or with an organized tour, or just by taking a tent and renting a car, they have managed to see many interesting places. Besides the excitement (and at times the frustrations) of just experiencing foreign countries and peoples, it has been a great outlet for two of their other interests: photography and wildlife. 

The talk and slide presentation will try to convey to you some of the experiences that they have had in visiting Chile, Argentina, Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands, and - if time allows - some of the wildlife parks in Namibia, South Africa and perhaps Kenya. 

DEREK SUTTON joined the SFU Chemistry Department in 1967, after completing his Ph.D. at Nottingham University in the UK and spending five years there as a lecturer in Inorganic Chemistry. While in younger days his passions were football (i.e., real football, aka soccer) and, later, windsurfing, advancing age has meant less strenuous pastimes like flyfishing, birdwatching and gardening. Since retirement looms, soon, no doubt, it will be only Scrabble, Trivial Pursuit and Jeopardy. 

[Webmaster's note: The biography immediately above was written by Derek Sutton himself, not by me. In the fashion in which Leonard Bernstein dissociated himself from Glenn Gould's interpretation of Brahms' Second Piano Concerto, I dissociate myself from Sutton's gloomy (tongue-in-cheek?) notion that we retirees pursue only board games. Everyone should have a look at John Mills' invitation to join him on two pilgrimages this summer.]