Donald Dewar

Donald Dewar ...

University of Glasgow Dialectic Society
Dewar "led an enormously active life" as a student at the University of Glasgow "in the sixties. For as well as earning an MA in History and a legal LLB he also held student office as:


 * Assistant Clerk of Union Debates, 1959-60
 * Labour Club Secretary, 1960-1
 * Union Library Convener, 1960-1
 * Labour Club President, 1960-1
 * Union President, 1962-3
 * Observer Mace Champion, 1963 (with Malcolm MacKenzie)

"He was variously at other times Secretary of the Students' Representative Council; one of the first Editors of the Glasgow University Guardian; and campaign manager to Chief Albert Luthuli in his Rectorial bid of 1962."