Chancellors

Sir Hermann Black AC - Gallery

Sir Hermann Black AC was Chancellor of the University of Sydney from May 1970 and served in the position until his death on 28 February 1990.

1970s

Above: Sir Hermann Black, photo, University of Sydney Archives

Above: Fisher Library Common Room Level 5: Sir Hermann Black, Professor Sir Bruce Williams, Harrison Bryan (Librarian) and Walter Stone (speaker), photo, courtesy University of Sydney Library.

Above: Vice-Chancellor Professor Sir Bruce Williams with Visitor Sir Roden Cutler and Chancellor Sir Hermann Black at the meeting of Convocation in the Great Hall, 1973, photo G3_224_1171_3, University of Sydney Archives.

Above: Chancellor Sir Hermann Black with Charles Findlay Bentley, Master of Arts (honoris causa), 1974, photo, University of Sydney Archives ... more photos of Sir hermann conferring honorary degrees.

Above: Portrait of Sir Hermann Black, 1974, by Louis Kahan (1905-2002), oil on canvas, commissioned by the University of Sydney
University Art Collection, reproduced with the kind permission of Mrs Kahan and the University of Sydney.

Above: Chancellor Sir Hermann Black being presented with a scroll painting by Liu Yangqiao, the first Vice-Minister of Education, China, 1979, photo, University of Sydney Archives.

1980s

Above: Deputy Chancellor the Hon Mr Justice David Mayer Selby, Vice-Chancellor Professor Sir Bruce Williams, Jill Wran and Chancellor Sir Hermann Black after the graduation address by Ms Wran, 1980, photo G3_224_1951, University of Sydney Archives.

Above: Zelman Cowen, Doctor of Letters (honoris causa) and Chancellor Sir Hermann Black, 1980, photo, University of Sydney Archives ... more photos of Sir Hermann conferring honorary degrees.

Above: Chancellor Sir Hermann Black conferring the degree of Doctor of the University upon former Vice-Chancellor Professor Sir Bruce Williams, 1982, photo G77_1_851, University of Sydney Archives.

Above: Sir James Rowland (who later succeeded Sir Hermann Black as Chancellor) and Chancellor Sir Hermann Black, 1983, photo, University of Sydney Archives.

Above: A Senate meeting in the mid-1980’s, Chancellor Sir Hermann Black, Deputy Chancellor Mrs Daphne Kok and Vice-Chancellor Professor John Manning Ward, photo G77_1_994, University of Sydney Archives.

Above: Fellow of Senate Associate Professor Margaret Sabine carrying the Mace ahead of Chancellor Sir Hermann Black and Vice-Chancellor Professor John Ward in the Open Day academic procession, 1988, photo G77_1_2184, University of Sydney Archives.

Above: Sir Hermann Black speaking to students in the Great Hall, photo, University of Sydney Archives.

Above: Sir Hermann Black presiding at a graduation ceremony, photos, University of Sydney Archives.

Above: Chancellor Sir Hermann Black on the dais in the Great Hall in the late 1980s, photo, University of Sydney Archives.

Above: Vice-Chancellor Professor John Ward, Chancellor Sir Hermann Black and Deputy Chancellor Daphne Kok after a ceremony in the late 1980s, photo, University of Sydney Archives.

Above: Chancellor Sir Hermann Black after the conferring of his degree of Doctor of the University by Deputy Chancellor (and later Chancellor) Emeritus Professor Dame Leonie Kramer, 1989, photo G77_1_992, University of Sydney Archives ... more.

Above: Sir Hermann Black, late 1980s, photo, University of Sydney Archives.

Above: Lady Black and Sir Hermann Black, 1980s, photo, University of Sydney Archives.