Dame Kathleen Ollerenshaw, DBE, DL's Biography

Dame Kathleen Ollerenshaw, DBE, DL's Professional Career

Career

chm: Assoc of Governing Bodies of Girls' Public Schs 1963-69, Manchester Educn Ctee 1967-70, Manchester Poly 1968-72 (hon fell 1978), Ct RNCM 1968-86 (companion 1978), Educn Ctee Assoc of Municipal Corporations 1968-71; author of numerous res papers in mathematical jls; Manchester CC 1956-81: Alderman 1970-74, Lord Mayor 1975-76, dep Lord Mayor 1976-77, ldr Cons opposition 1977-79, Hon Alderman 1981-; vice-pres Br Assoc for Commercial and Industrial Educn (memb delgn to USSR 1963); memb: Central Advsy Cncl on Educn in England 1960-63, CNAA 1964-74, SSRC 1971-75, Layfield Ctee of Enquiry into Local Govt Fin 1974-76; pres: St Leonards Sch St Andrews 1976-2003, Manchester Technol Assoc 1981 (hon memb 1976-), Manchester Statistical Soc 1983-85; hon res fell Dept of Computer Science Univ of Manchester 1998-2003; hon memb Manchester Literary and Philosophical Soc 1981; dep pro-chllr Lancaster Univ 1978-91 (memb Ct 1991-), pro-chllr Univ of Salford 1983-89; dir Manchester Ind Radio Ltd 1972-83; memb Manchester Astronomical Soc 1990- (hon vice-pres 1994-); Hon Col Manchester and Salford Univ OTC 1977-81; patron Museum of Science and Industry Manchester 2004-; chm Cncl Order of St John Greater Manchester 1974-89, memb Chapter General Order of St John 1978-96; Mancunian of the Year Jr C of C 1977, Wome's Hour Interview BBC Radio 4 Pick of the Year 2004; hon fell: Somerville Coll Oxford 1978, City and Guilds London Inst 1980 (memb Educn Ctee 1960-73), UMIST 1987 (vice-pres 1977-86); Freeman City of Manchester 1984; Hon DSc Univ of Salford 1975, Hon LLD Univ of Manchester 1976, Hon DSc CNAA 1976, Hon DSc Lancaster Univ 1992, Hon LLD Univ of Liverpool 1994; Inst of Mathematics and its Applications Catherine Richards Prize for mathematical research articles in Mathematics Today 2006; Hon FIMA 1990 (FIMA 1964, memb Cncl 1972, pres 1979-80), FCP FCGI; CMath; DStJ 1983 (CStJ 1978)

Dame Kathleen Ollerenshaw, DBE, DL's Publications

Books and Publications

Education of Girls (1958), The Girls' Schools (1967), Returning to Teaching (1974), The Lord Mayor's Party (1976), First Citizen (1977), Most-Perfect Pandiagonal Magic Squares, their Construction and Enumeration (with David Brée, 1998), To Talk of Many Things (autobiography, 2004), Constructing Magic Squares of Arbitrarily Large Size (2006)

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