{"id":2024,"date":"2013-01-15T16:05:13","date_gmt":"2013-01-15T16:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.astro.gla.ac.uk\/?p=2024"},"modified":"2013-10-16T17:17:41","modified_gmt":"2013-10-16T17:17:41","slug":"professor-archie-roy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astro.gla.ac.uk\/?p=2024","title":{"rendered":"Memorial service for Professor Archie Roy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are deeply saddened to report that Professor Archie Roy passed away on December 27 aged 88. Most of the current A&amp;A group knew Archie well, and we have lost a good friend. Archie was an active member of the group, well into his 80s. We will miss his humour, zestful enthusiasm and seemingly boundless energy in everything he did over a remarkable career.<\/p>\n<p>A Memorial Service and Tribute to the late Professor Archie Roy will be held in Glasgow University Chapel on Thursday March 14 at 14.30 and will be followed by a reception in Hunter Hall West approx 15.30-17.00. All are welcome.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> Professor Archie Roy&#8217;s Memorial Service two weeks ago included a short film, made by his son Ian, showing photos from Archie&#8217;s life.  The family has made the film available at<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/iandroy\/archieroymemorialslideshow\">http:\/\/vimeo.com\/iandroy\/archieroymemorialslideshow<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are deeply saddened to report that Professor Archie Roy passed away on December 27 aged 88. Most of the current A&amp;A group knew Archie well, and we have lost a good friend. Archie was an active member of the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":272,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astro.gla.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2024"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astro.gla.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astro.gla.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astro.gla.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astro.gla.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2024"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.astro.gla.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2536,"href":"https:\/\/www.astro.gla.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2024\/revisions\/2536"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astro.gla.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astro.gla.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astro.gla.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astro.gla.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}