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- 1 -Ⅰ．Start of International Exchanges(1) Mr.Guy Butterworth’s Contribution(ⅰ) Conferment of honorary doctoral degree“On March 15, 2002, HonoraryDoctoral Degree was given to Mr.Guy Butterworth who was going toretire at the end of this Marchafter he has been worked forMiyazaki University (hereafterMU) for 27 years. He is the firstforeign teacher who received thisdegree. Mr. Butterworth came toMU in 1974 as a foreign teacherwho trained students to be juniorand senior high school English teachers in Miyazaki prefecture. He also helped students energetically intheir international exchanges. He was deeply involved in the exchangeprograms with The Evergreen State College in America and Dunedin Collegeof Education in New Zealand. In addition, he made MU an examinationvenue of TOEFL, which is indispensdable for study abroad, and worked hardas the organizer of the test at MU. To admit his immeasurable contributionto MU and its students, MU confers this Honorary Doctoral Degree on him.In the ceremony, President Fujiwara gave Mr. Butterworth the HonoraryDoctoral Degree and a present. Mr. Butterworth talked about his goodmemories at MU and his impressions of MU students.” (from MU BulletinNo.123 (March 2002))(ⅱ) Arrival of Mr. Butterworth ~A start of international exchanges~We cannot talk about the internationalization of the Faculty of Education(and Culture) of Miyazaki University without Mr. Guy Butterworth, whostarted his new post at this university in 1974. He was born in 1939 in NewJersey, USA. After graduating from Yale University, he got the master’sdegree in TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Language) fromUniversity California, Los Angeles. In 1972, he became an English teacher
