Mike Oliver
Mike Oliver was born on 3 February 1945 in Chatham. He went on to be educated at the University of Reading and subsequently at the University of Kent, two institutions where he built the foundations of his academic career.
Oliver worked as a sociologist and as an author, producing work in English throughout his professional life. Alongside those roles, he was recognised as a human rights defender, a designation that sat alongside his academic and writing work as a defining feature of how he engaged with public life.
He held Hungarian citizenship, a fact that adds a further dimension to a life that spanned his work as a sociologist, his output as an author in English, and his standing as a human rights defender. The combination of those roles marked out the shape of his career across several decades.
Mike Oliver died on 2 March 2019, having been born in Chatham seventy-four years earlier. His work as a sociologist and his authorship of writing in English, together with his recognition as a human rights defender, remained the identifiable strands of his professional life up to his death.
Quotes by Mike Oliver
This is a great feeling. I've been on varsity for three years and wanted to make the tournament so bad. All the seniors wanted the same goal. As a group, we worked hard for this win. We have worked hard all season. I was just the lucky one who made the final shot. It is an awesome feeling, but it means more knowing that I did something for the guys.
A lot of people thought we were down this season, but that's not the case. We're just guard-driven instead of centered around post players, which is a good thing.
Our agreement basically says that if they want to buy Reno Airlines, and if they want to operate it, that they bring the pilots under the American Airlines seniority list, and pay them benefits.
We consider any deployment of a fire shelter a serious matter. We will always investigate these matters. Firefighter safety is paramount.
Outsourcing is a very big concern to the pilots of American Airlines. We don't want to see the company try and outsource the jobs to the lowest bidder.