Head and shoulders image of Andy Guinand, professor and head, Department of Mathematics, 1960-1964.

Bio/Historical Note: Andrew Paul (Andy) Guinand was born 3 March 1912 in Renmark, South Australia. He attended school at St Peter's College, Adelaide from 1924 to 1929. He then entered St Mark's College of the University of Adelaide in 1930 to study mathematics, graduating in 1933. In 1934 Guinand won a Rhodes Scholarship to attend the University of Oxford in England. In session 1937/38 Guinand studied at Göttingen, then in 1939/40 at Princeton. In 1940 he joined the Royal Canadian Air Force, returned to England and was a navigator on many missions. After being an assistant at Cambridge, he became a lecturer at the Royal Military College of Science in 1947. He was promoted to associate professor of Mathematics before returning, in 1955, to a chair at the University of New England at Armidale which lies on the valley slopes of Dumaresq Creek in the New England Range in New South Wales, Australia. During his two years at Armidale he was head of the department, then he left to take up a post at the University of Alberta. His next appointment was to the University of Saskatchewan in 1960, then in 1964 he became the first chairman of the mathematics department at Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario. Guinand died 22 March 1987 in Peterborough.