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Monash University > News and Events > Monash Memo
Talkin' 'bout four generations
4 November 2009
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| Nathan, John and Angas Hurst |
Associate Professor John Hurst from the Faculty of Information Technology had extra reason to be proud when he witnessed his son Nathan graduating with a PhD in IT recently.
Nathan is a fourth-generation Hurst PhD – following in the line of his father (PhD Computer Engineering), his grandfather (PhD quantum field theory) and his great-grandfather (PhD in surface chemistry).
"We dusted off my grandfather's PhD gown for the occasion, and it was a really great celebration of the Hurst family's doctoral lineage," Associate Professor Hurst said.
"It was a very proud moment for the family."
All four generations of Dr Hursts were represented at the graduation on 22 October 2009: Angas Hurst was in the audience, John Hurst (son of Angas) read the graduands names, and Nathan (son of John) was a PhD graduand, wearing the same gown that his great-grandfather Walter Hurst wore at his graduation at Cambridge in 1923.
Professor Hurst's grandfather, Walter was the first South Australian, and third Australian, PhD graduate from Cambridge University.
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