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+\title{Cathy Booth Memorial}
+\author{}
+\begin{Article}
+ At the 1992 AGM it was agreed that the \ukt\ would establish the
+ Cathy Booth Memorial Fund, to be used ``to support education and
+ research in electronic publishing in general and in the use and
+ development of \TeX\ and its relatives in particular, and for other
+ charitable purposes connected with education''.
+
+ The committee intended to set up a charitable trust to administer
+ the fund, and then to collect money for it (cheques cannot be
+ written to a trust which does not yet exist). However, both trusts
+ and charities are covered by various laws, and the legal hurdles
+ proved too much for the committee. Accordingly, at its meeting in
+ February 1995, the committee decided to adopt a simpler way of
+ honouring Cathy Booth's memory, but with the same aim.
+ Specifically, it was decided to do something in Cathy Booth's name,
+ at least once in each calendar year, supported by money if
+ appropriate, for the purpose ``of furthering research and education
+ in relation to electronic publishing in general and the use and
+ development of the public domain typesetting program \TeX\ and
+ related programs in particular''. (This wording is taken from the
+ draft trust document.)
+
+ As it's first act in Cathy Booth's memory, the committee gave
+ support, in two ways, to the April 1995 GUTenberg meeting on the
+ $\Omega$~project. It donated \pounds 200 to the meeting. It also
+ sent Robin Fairbairns to the meeting as its delegate. A report of
+ that meeting appears elsewhere in this issue.
+
+\begin{flushright}
+R. A. Bailey\\
+Honorary Secretary 1991--1995
+\end{flushright}
+\end{Article}
+\author{Chris Rowley and Malcolm Clark}
+\title{Cathy Booth 1952--1991}
+\begin{Article}
+Cathy Booth\footnote{This article is based on one that appeared in
+ \TeX line in 1991}
+died on June 27th, 1991. She had known that she had cancer
+of the kidneys for just about a year. She had undergone a major
+operation the previous summer, but sadly the extensive surgery
+performed at that time was too late to control the cancer. During
+that last year she fought the disease consistently, cheerfully and
+resolutely; she was determined that she should not be treated any
+differently, despite the gradual decline in mobility and energy which
+ensued. Ultimately she was confined to a wheel chair and she moved
+into a hospice at Tiverton, near her Exeter home, in the hope that her
+house would be modified to allow her to return to it and continue her
+life as normal. However, this was not to be: she died, peacefully
+and gracefully, at the hospice with most of her close family at her
+side.
+
+Cathy was born on June 19th, 1952. She attended Exeter University,
+where she completed a BSc in Geography. She fell in love with Exeter
+and spent the rest of her life that area. She spent some time after
+University working on Exmoor, and later had her own business as a
+furniture restorer. But in 1984, after a period in hospital where she
+began to do some computing, she took a post as Computing Development
+Officer back at Exeter University. One of her first responsibilities
+was support of \TeX. As a result, she attended the IUSC conference on
+Typography and Design Methods for Computer Typesetting held at Oxford
+University at Easter 1985. Following that meeting, she attended a
+\TeX\ course held at Imperial College. Her involvement and concern
+with \TeX, and more generally with Electronic Publishing, grew
+consistently from that time.
+
+She attended many of the \TeX\ conferences in Europe (Strasbourg
+1986, Karlsruhe 1989 and Cork 1990), as well as TUG meetings in
+North America (Montreal 1988 and Stanford 1989), and some of the
+GUTenberg meetings in Paris. But it will be the \TeX88 conference
+held at Exeter University for which she will be best remembered by
+many in the \TeX\ world. Cathy was the local organiser for this
+meeting and its huge success was due in no small way to, on the one
+hand, her vivacity and personal magnetism and, equally important, a
+lot of detailed planning and hard work that she undertook during the
+run up to the conference. She thus ensured the smooth running of the
+conference and various associated events: in particular, the memorable
+excursion to Totnes which included travel by both steam train and
+river cruiser.
+
+Cathy was an excellent teacher of \TeX. She taught a number of TUG
+courses on Beginning and Intermediate \TeX, and other \TeX\ courses at
+Exeter University and she was very energetic in organising other TUG
+courses in Europe. At the University she also developed courses which
+united her skill with \TeX\ and her design abilities. This facility
+with design was just one side of more general artistic skills; these
+later led to her completion of an Art History course. The course
+results were published only a few days before she died and,
+characteristically, hers were excellent.
+
+She was a founding member of the UK \TeX\ Users Group and of its
+committee; she was also a member of the committee of the BCS
+Electronic Publishing Specialist Group. Those of us lucky enough to be
+on either of those committees at that time will recall her very real
+contribution to the work of these groups: her range of innovative
+ideas, coupled with her down to earth attention to detail, resulted in
+significant improvements to the activities of both these
+organisations.
+\end{Article}
+
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