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Rosemary Hutton's Retrospective presented at the 10th EM Workshop held in Ensenada, Mexico, 1990

As I have a notoriously bad memory, the only justification for my presence here this morning is that I was involved with the first EM Induction Workshop in 1972 and have been fortunate enough to have participated in all the subsequent ones. The first - and what we thought prior to its occurrence might be the only one - was held in Edinburgh, Scotland. Please excuse any errors I may make in presenting recollections of this series of meetings and note that the uneven coverage from one Workshop to another arises from the status and success of my own photography, since all the Workshops have been equally memorable but in different ways. At this stage, I would like to acknowledge help from Bruce Hobbs, Gaston Fischer and Alan Jones in filling some of the gaps in my own record.

I will start my talk - as is usual in our research field - with a map. The appropriate one in this case is a world map (Slide 1). Our story starts approximately here - in Moscow at the 1971 IUGG - when, in a coffee queue, Professors Ashour and Kertz approached me with the proposal for a Workshop and suggested that Edinburgh would be a good location. It did indeed take place there in September 1972 and the interest was such that it initiated a now well established series from Scotland - Canada - Hungary - Turkey - Canada (W.) - Nigeria - Switzerland - USSR - Mexico. So an alternative title might be ‘½ Way Round the World in 60 Workshop Days’.

So let us start our tour with a few photos from my Edinburgh Workshop Album. (Slide 2) Here are a few of the participants.... Profs. Ashour and Kertz - who made the suggestion to me, Profs. Price and Jacobs - respectively our invited speaker to whom the review publication was dedicated and our after dinner speaker, Prof. Gough - the Chairman of our Workshop Group at that time and Dr. Adam - the subsequent Working Group Chairman and the only E. European able to participate in our meeting.

The objectives of this Edinburgh meeting are documented in its 2nd Circular. Here is an extract (Slide 3). I would particularly like to draw your attention to the main ones - ample discussion time; theoretical experimental cross-talk; organisation of reviews; short contributions; panel discussions. As perhaps has been done regularly by successive Working Group Committees, and even again at this meeting, it is probably necessary to reconsider from time to time the extent to which these objectives have been achieved. Also from this 2nd circular we can see the 1972 costs - in the light of present day costs, these are very inexpensive e.g. daily B&B for 6 nights and conference was £21.00 ($38) approx.. This is currently the cost for one night in the same University Halls. The whole day tour, including lunch and dinner was only £3.50 (about $6) (Slide 4). Registration including city tours was £5.00 ($9).

Graphs - Workshop participation 1972 - 90: The number of participants and number of countries represented had doubled between 1972 and 1988 (Slide 5), but with some variability - is there an 11 year cycle?

Workshop Topics: The Review topics and thus the Sessions on the whole have a repetitive pattern (Slide 6).

On examination of the topics in 1972 - 80 and 1982 - 90 we find that several occur at almost every workshop, e.g., Group B. Where there has been a decrease (Group A) it is probable that this reflects the small number of specialists active in this field, e.g., Laboratory studies. You will note that the Moon is out of favour, while in recent Workshops - group C - we have become much more interested in Distortion effects.

Now let us move on to the lighter side of our Workshops - the social and cultural events, the participants and the locations. These are topics captured by our cameras and perhaps aspects of the Workshops of which we have the most vivid recollections. So let us now start our journey in Scotland in 1972.

Unfortunately, although it is on my own doorstep, I have no slides here of Edinburgh or the Perthshire Highlands which we toured on our full day excursion. I hope some of you can recall our castles in Edinburgh and Stirling, our heather clad hills, our local ancient volcano, Arthur’s Seat, which the Canadian delegates and perhaps others climbed every morning before breakfast and Princes Street Gardens and its statues. I well remember when I drove Dr. Adam into the city centre from the airport he seemed to know more about the sites I was pointing out than I did myself.

I do, however, have a few informal slides of participants at this first Workshop excursion. Slides 7-11 (Slide 7, Slide 8, Slide 9, Slide 10, Slide 11) show Culross Village with its little houses restored by our National Trust, Dunkeld and a coffee stop at Comrie. For me the 2nd of this group of slides is a sad one - in the centre is Ian Brazier an Australian colleague who did much to help us in Edinburgh in building up our first MT system. He was tragically killed in a road accident in Papua New Guinea a few years later. Most of you will recognise George Garland here.

Next we have the group photograph (Slide 14) - blank and white in these days - taken at the Ottawa Workshop (Pick out a few participants) Slides 15 - 20 (Slide 15, Slide 16, Slide 17, Slide 18, Slide 19, Slide 20) taken at this Workshop show the Carlton University area (where the meeting was held), the Bayshore Shopping Mall and Upper Canada Village. I also remember a delightful concert by the French Canadian Dance Company “ Les Feux Follies” and the day excursion. This included a cruise on the St Lawrence River among the 1000 Islands and a visit to Upper Canada Village which reflects the early history of the region.

Now we move to Sopron, Hungary, the venue of Workshop 3. It was a significant location as this was the first time that it was possible for E. European countries - particularly the USSR, Poland and E. Germany - to be reasonably well represented. The Hotel Locomotive - Slide 21 - was home for delegates from the U.K. (6 from Edinburgh I think), from the USSR and one from the USA - Al Duba. I well remember several jolly evenings there when we congregated in Al’s room with our duty frees and especially the one when we were joined by our Soviet colleagues for the first time and we toasted the successful launching that day of one of the Sputnik spacecraft series.

Sopron was a delightful small and old city - here we can see some of the old buildings in slides 22-24 (Slide 22, Slide 23, Slide 24). We also had a memorable cultural evening for which unfortunately I have no visual record. This was a production of Aida in the most unusual environment of an old mine. In addition to this dramatic setting, the acoustics were fantastic. I also remember the grim sight of the look-out posts along the Hungarian-Austrian border - gladly, these will no longer exist. I can, however, show you some scenes in slides 26-30 (Slide 26, Slide 27, Slide 28, Slide 29, Slide 30) from the day tour to Lake Balaton - as you can see we had a perfect summer day!!

From Hungary we moved the short distance to W. Germany for the 4th Workshop. Our venue was the charming, picturesque Upper Bavarian town of Murnau. Unfortunately my only photographic record of this meeting is the group photograph - Slide 31. I suspect that my record is restricted because this is the only Workshop at which I did not participate in the full day excursion up one of the nearby mountains. The “young at heart” climbed the mountain while the others went by chairlift. I expect the most vivid memory some of you will have of the Murnau Workshop is convivial evenings in the Bavarian beer cellars - I certainly remember such an atmosphere at the main workshop social evening.

Sadly, this is as far as Rosemary got before she passed away. Below is the list of the slides that Rosemary showed during her presentation.