Margaret was Dean and Head of School when I took up my first post-PhD Lecturing position at Glasgow Caledonian University and was simply the Dean from heaven. Her standards and expectations were exhilaratingly exacting and her work rate would have shamed a Chilean mine rescuer. Her enthusiasm for nursing, for education, for research and for innovation and creativity was boundless. Her guiding philosophy seemed to be: 'The answer's yes, now what's the question'. How could you fail to thrive and develop as a new Faculty member under such inspiring and utterly humane leadership?