UWO - Retirement 1993

... we are recognizing and commemorating my colleagues, my friends ... who are so much a fabric of this institution that we should pause and reflect especially on their contributions and their value. All of them came to us from far off places. ... it is in people that the monuments and the real records of a teacher's and a scholar's and a performer's career is written ... Damjana ... has a wealth of knowledge and reading and an appetite for interest, which is astounding to me and, I think, absolutely unique. To meet Damjana by chance in the office or the corridor is for me usually a humbling experience because she almost always begins, "Have you read ... " [laughter]

[from the Dean's, Prof. Jeff Stokes, speech]