Shaine Meghji
Congratulations Doug on your retirement! Wishing you the best as you embark on this new journey. No more alarm clocks and you officially have permission to relax. Happy Retirement! I am so glad you were the graduate advisor when I joined Linguistics as Program Assistant way back in 2010. Your support, guidance and mentorship meant […]
Marion Caldecott
Doug, I can't believe you're finally retiring (for now?). You showed me the magic and logic of phonological theory and supervised both of my theses, for which I am eternally grateful. The breadth and depth of what I learned from you still informs my work. Your patient and critical but kind approach is my model […]
Bruno Baron
Felicitations! J’espère que tu te sens fier de tout ce que tu as accompli professionnellement, et d'une manière plus générale dans la vie. Ca m'etonnerait que tu t'imaginais accomplir autant lorsque tu avais 20 ans et que tu pensais a ton avenir. Et surtout merci beaucoup pour ton amitié, tes conseils, les conversations, et toutes […]
Susan Blake
Hi Doug, Congratulations on making the next big transition! I remember meeting you for the first time in Sept. 1993 — I was an incoming PhD student, and you were facilitating the graduate phonology seminar – the one in which we read the draft manuscripts of McCarthy & Prince, and Prince & Smolensky (1993). For […]
Fusheini Hudu
Before coming to UBC in 2005, I spoke to two people in Alberta separately about my desire to study in UBC. “Do you know Doug Pulleyblank?” “Will you be studying under him?” They enquired. “I hope so”, I said. I had been in touch with you via e-mail prior to submitting my application and you […]
Darin Flynn
I get to support my family doing a job I love, thanks to Doug's help, and I'm just one of so many people he's taught and mentored over the years. I'm honoured to be part of his sprawling academic tree. Happy retirement, Doug! You done made Calgary proud 🙂
Vina Tsakali and Sabine Iatridou
Dear Doug, You are wonderful! Thank you for everything you have done for CreteLing over the years! We are very grateful. Not just for your teaching, but for your overall charismatic and cheerful presence and companionship. The school would not have been the same without you. You are one of its basic pillars. Thank you […]
Darius Adjong
Dear Prof. Pulleyblank, It was through your support that I gained admission to conduct part of my doctoral research at the University of British Columbia (UBC) while studying at the University of Hong Kong. When I arrived in Vancouver to commence my studies, I had only dreamed of a 'book-long' study period filled with official […]
Ingrid Pulleyblank
He can bike, he can hike, he can ski…of course he can, he’s Papy! Happiest retirement wishes to the Best Papa Ever. We feel spoiled every time we get to spend time with you. Almost all my favourite memories are of shared outdoor adventures: swimming in glacial rivers, the ocean and lakes, the Vancouver cycle […]
Rowan DP
Papy you are the best Papy in the entire universe and beyond
Hayden Dietrich Pulleyblank
Congrats Papy!!!!!!! I hope you are happy and super happy, you’ve been the best Papy ever! From going on walks through the forest, to helping me plan a climbing gym, you’ve always been there to help me. Backtrack a few years, you started making audio recordings of you reading the Hobbit and the Lord of […]
Akinbiyi Akinlabi
Snippets of my memories, with Doug I have known Doug for more than forty years. Therefore, I decided not to write about a single incident, because there are just too many. Some are funny, others are quite serious. Chronologically, Doug and I were both undergraduates at the University of Ibadan, in 1976. He was in […]
Tegan Dietrich Pulleyblank
I hope you have a great retirement with lots of nice walks and beach side hikes!!:) we miss you a lot and hope to see you soon
Su Urbanczyk
Wishing you all the best in this new phase of your life. I want to share a short story about what a profound effect you had on my thinking on reduplication. I was fortunate to be a post-doc at UBC when your were developing an analysis of Yoruba reduplication in the late 1990’s. I'm not […]