Photos

are listed in table far below.

Please send me copies of your

Donald Higman photos

Please send your photos and anecdotes about Don Higman. Check our collection of photos and list of manuscripts. Corrections and comments are welcome. We would appreciate hearing about any publication dedicated to Don Higman.

special issue editors:
Eiichi Bannai (Kyushu University) bannai@math.kyushu-u.ac.jp
Bob Griess (University of Michigan) rlg@umich.edu
Cheryl Praeger (University of Western Australia) praeger@maths.uwa.edu.au
Leonard Scott (University of Virginia) lls2l@virginia.edu

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Dinner at Gratzi's, 1981.

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Don Higman with Jaap Seidel. Photo credit A. A. Ivanov. "Holland" written on back. Year 1988?

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60s?

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Oberwolfach, May 1988.

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Don and Betty Higman, outside their home near Traverse City, MI. On back: "The stranger smiles and Betty puzzles at the inept photographer!", 5/10/01.

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at 50th wedding anniversary celebration, 14 August, 1998.

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Don and Betty and son, at wedding of son, 1 May, 1993.

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Sailing in Northern Holland (Friesland), 1978; 6-78 stamped on back.

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Sailing in Northern Holland (Friesland), 1978; 6-78 stamped on back.

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Don Higman with Tatsuro Ito (middle) and Francois Jaeger (right). The place is probably near Kiyomizu Temble in Kyoto and the occasion was the RIMS meeting, November 21-24, 1994. On back: "Japan, second visit"

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Don Higman with Katharine Gruenberg, in Oxford or Cambridge, early 1970s.

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frontal portrait, October, 1994.

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Boating on the Ganges -- at the summer Institute of Mathematics at Patna University, India, 1966 On back: handwritten "India?" and stamped "Kodacolor print Sept. 66R"

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in lecture hall in front of blackboard. The "niet roken" sign suggests Netherlands or Belgium

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about 1970? in private home, at a party. J. M. Goethals (left) talking to Don Higman (right). Whose head are we seeing from behind? On back: "Belgium/Holland".

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frontal portrait, 50s? (photo higman18 and higman19 are part of a Christmas card, signed "Best wishes for Christmas from Marianne and Gunnar af H" (final characters not legible)

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At the Math Dept. potluck picnic, 1958. Male on left unknown, Don Higman to the right, then Betty Higman with a child. (See higman18.)

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Picnic scene. Males on left unknown, Don Higman to the right. Others unidentifiable?

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Picture is taken from an international driver's license, 1962.

higman22 At Kyoto meeting 1974? On back: "Japan, 1st visit."

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Hiroshi Nagao? On back: "Japan, 2nd visit".

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large group photo, names written by hand across the bottom. Zassenhaus present. Don Higman in T-shirt, young-looking. Probably a summer Canadian Math Society institute, 1952 or 1953.

at the Santa Cruz group theory meeting, summer 1979. Coffee queue. I notice: David Sibley, David Benson, Donald Higman, Michael Collins, ?, ?, ?, Bernd Stellmacher, Sia Wong, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, Bob Griess, Mike O'Nan, Bill Kantor, Franz Timmesfeld(?), Simon Norton, David Goldschmidt, Walter Feit, John Thompson, Bernd Fischer, Richard Foote

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at the Santa Cruz group theory meeting, summer 1979. (Don Higman, Michael Collins, Jon Alperin)

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Ann Arbor, 1987.

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(contributed by Paul-Hermann Zieschang, who got it from Wellem Haemers or Aart Blockhuis; they probably got it from an album which Seidel gave them before he passed away.)