You currently have JavaScript disabled in your web browser, please enable JavaScript to view our website as intended. Ute Maria Foggensteiner — came to England with her husband in from Vienna, having been born there in in an era of great upheaval and austerity. The resilience required to survive such times was evident in her later life. They had lived in Lucca, Italy before the UK, and it was there that she embraced the Italian language.
She had studied linguistics and Russian at McGill University, Montreal, Canada before returning to Buckinghamshire in prior to arriving in Leicestershire in She continued in academic activities and graduated from the University of Leicester in with a rare First Class Honours degree in Combined Studies majoring in History of Art, with language subsidiaries.
She joined the Italian conversation group and became its group leader from until , maintaining her customary high but fair standards. She was extremely well-read and joined book groups and a political discussion group. Her generosity of spirit, wry humour and linguistic experience were much appreciated by those who were fortunate to meet her. She will be greatly missed and we extend our sympathies to her family.
Peter Jackson was born in Tyneside in , and lived mainly Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire during his childhood. He always spoke fondly of his time at Leicester. Peter married Christine in and they had two daughters, setting up the family home in Middlesex where he lived for the rest of his life. Later in his career he collaborated with Trevor Baylis and Co wrote the book Inventing for Dummies, which was published in We have learnt, with great regret, of the death of Leicester alumnus Deborah Roberts.
Read more about Deborah Roberts. Her duties required being on call to deal with programming problems from the punched card system, frequently in the middle of the night.
