Degree pioneer Fuller dies at 84
22 March 2001
Professor John Fuller, who introduced the UK's first BA degree course in hotel and catering, has died following a short illness. He was 84.
Fuller left the RAF catering department in 1950 to take over as examination secretary and deputy secretary of what became the HCIMA.
His career included periods as head of hotel management at Battersea College of Technology, director of Strathclyde's Scottish Hotel School, head of the catering department at what is now Oxford Brookes University and catering adviser to the RAF.
