I’m very happy to have been invited to open the new extension for the Attenborough Arts Centre,
in which my brother had a great deal to do. So this is to some degree in his memory.
In thinking about what I was going to say today I looked at the history of this University
and I found that my father articulated something which echoes in my heart and I think echoes in my brothers.
He wrote an article for the local newspaper and in the course for asking for support he said this,
‘A University should be an institution that cares not only about commercial success
but about those things of the mind and spirit, which are the distinctive mark of an educated and cultured people’.
My brother Richard could have written those words.
So for me this is an emotional moment, opening another building with the Attenborough name
and I am most grateful to you for allowing me to come and do so….
