A vice-chancellor remembers: The memoirs of Professor G.R. Bozzoli - INSCRIBED - G.R. Bozzoli

Publisher: Publisher: Alphaprint Randburg, 1995.
Edition: First Edition.

With author's inscription on title page.  Pages are clear and clean.  The wraps are a little shelf rubbed and minor creases on the front wrap.
The binding is strong and the book pleasant.

G. R. Bozzoli (Boz) was born in Pretoria in 1911 of Italian immigrant parents and educated at Pretoria Boys High School. He studied electrical engineering at the University of the Witwatersrand, and spent three years with the African Broadcasting Corporation (forerunner of SABC), before returning to Wits in 1936 to teach electronics.

During World War Two he enrolled in the Special Signals Services to develop a radar system for South Africa, and served as a Major until the end of the war. He returned to Wits where he became Professor of Electrical Engineering in 1948.
    
During his subsequent three decades at Wits he served as Head of Department, Dean of Cottlesloe Residence, Dean of the Faculty of Engineering (twice), Deputy vice Chancellor. He held the latter position during the turbulent years between 1969 and 1977, when confrontations between the University and the National Party Government were frequent.

After his retirement he played a central role in the development of a new Technikon in KwaZulu-Natal, and of a system of non-racial schooling through the Era Schools Trust (Nest).

He was married to Cora Collins from 1938 until her death in 1922. He has four children, eleven grandchildren and one grandchild.

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