The Year 2017 by Girton College

2016/17

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The Annual Review of Girton College Cambridge

Contents Welcome

A Letter from the Mistress

Features Profile: Dr Phil Hammond

Student Reports JCR

MCR

Societies and Sports

Jane Martin Poetry Prize

Roll of Alumni

Girton and Refugees

Calendar of Events

History at Girton

Regional Associations

Geography’s Class of 1960

Yelena Popova, Artist-in-Residence

Births, Marriages and Deaths

3D Anatomy

Births

Girton’s Malayir Rug

Marriages /Civil Partnerships

Death Notices

Obituaries

Fellows’ Profiles Shaun Fitzgerald

Stephanie Palmer

College Reports

Lists Fellows and Officers of the College

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University and College Awards

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Awards and Distinctions

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Admissions and Widening Participation 45

Appointments of Alumni and Fellows

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Bursaries and Grants

Fellows’ Publications

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Graduate Affairs

Alumni Publications

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Library

Hail and Farewell

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Archive

Culture and Heritage

Alumni Information

Chapel

Update your details

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Choir

Alumni Events

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Music

A Great Campaign

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Fellows’ Research Talks

Giving to Girton

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Alumni and Supporters

Designed and produced by Cambridge Marketing Limited, 01638 724100 Cover image: Fragment of embroidery by Lady Julia Carew, held in Girton Archive; picture by Peter Sparks

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Welcome We hope you enjoy this year’s snapshot of College life. We are grateful to our many contributors, in particular Judith Drinkwater and Anne Cobby for their invaluable work on student reports and death notices. We also owe a huge debt to Jill Jondorf and Cherry Hopkins for their expert assistance with copyediting and proof-reading. Hannah Sargent helped us once again in ways too numerous to list. Special thanks are due to Peter Morrison of Cambridge Marketing Limited for his good humour and patience throughout the production process. We’re always glad to hear from Girtonians with news or stories to share; please contact the Development Office at Girton College, Cambridge, CB3 OJG (alumni@girton.cam.ac.uk). Dr Martin Ennis and E Jane Dickson Editors, The Year

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A Letter from the Mistress Dear Friends, An eerie silence has settled over the Tower, as happens from time to time. Mostly, it is the sound of students thinking. At the moment, however, the College is quiet for a different reason. No fewer than 159 graduands have just become graduates, vacating their corridors for the very last time. Propelled by the wise words of Tom Fordyce, alumnus (1992, Geography) and guest speaker at the graduation dinner, fortified by an eleven-thousand-piece brunch buffet conjured up by Head Chef Nick O’Mahoney, they made their way through the day: down King’s Parade, up the aisle of the Senate House, and out into the world. Clutching degrees (over one in five a first) conferred through the time-honoured touching of hands, together with prizes and awards for myriad outstanding achievements, suddenly, they were gone. In their wake, there is a pause while our postgraduate leavers – a mix of Masters and PhD students – complete their coursework or theses, and those staying on prepare for a new term. That moment of anticipation will not last long because, as you know, Girton is always on the move; this summer quite literally so. Wolfson Court, once home to second-year undergraduates, and more recently a residential base for postgraduates, will be partly closed from September, enabling Girton students, if they wish, to take advantage of some of the best-quality new-build accommodation in Cambridge. True to its pioneering spirit, Girton has become the first Cambridge College to take a stake in the University’s visionary new urban-academic community in Eddington, North West Cambridge. Named after Lady Jeffreys (née Swirles; Mathematics, 1921) our new purpose-built graduate complex includes 325 en-suite rooms arranged as self-catering houses around landscaped courtyards and allotments. It will enable us to grow and improve the graduate school, while accommodating every student who wants to ‘live in’. A model of sustainability and accessibility, Swirles Court is right at the heart of the new development, close to the market square.

The Mistress outside the Senate House before General Admission

It is a short cycle ride from College, well connected to town, and already proving popular with students. For Girton, Swirles Court is a milestone in an ongoing educational adventure, representing one of the largest new developments embraced by any Cambridge College in recent years. Offering the potential to integrate a thriving undergraduate community with a growing graduate school, in close proximity to a new Postdoctoral Centre, this is the collegiate University at its best. We look forward to adding to, and benefiting from, the many new possibilities for interdisciplinary thinking, cross-community mentoring, lifetime learning and public engagement that this initiative implies.

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women to degrees in 1948, recognising Girton’s game-changing role in that achievement. For 2019, we shall expand our focus, celebrating Girton’s pioneering and ongoing position at the vanguard of excellence, inclusion and diversity. We plan, for example, to delve into the archives to showcase some remarkable achievements of our predecessors. We are working with current students to profile all they bring to the College, while reflecting on the life-changing opportunities they encounter here. We shall also seize this opportunity to bring the future into view, collaborating – not least with you – to consider what comes next for an institution that, from its earliest days, has posed a permanent and radical challenge to the educational status quo.

Professor Susan Smith, Mistress of Girton by Daphne Todd (detail)

Swirles Court will be opened in conjunction with the annual Ceremony for the Commemoration of Benefactors on 14 October 2017. If you visit Girton for that, or for any other reason, in the coming academic year, look out for some exciting developments on the main site (some 48 repairs and improvements have already been completed in the last quarter by our remarkable Maintenance Department). A facelift is planned for the Porters’ Lodge for an even warmer welcome and somewhat tighter security; and a new social

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hub will be built, opening up the JCR corridor and incorporating adjacent rooms. By next summer you should be able to relax in the all-day café and bar, and enjoy some state-of-the-art facilities in a 21stcentury setting, without sacrificing the hospitable charm of our 19thcentury heritage. On the subject of heritage, 2019 marks the 150th anniversary of the foundation of the College; and the 2019 Committee is busy making plans. En route, we shall take in the 70th anniversary of the admission of

To that end, a key date for your diary is the weekend of 28–30 June 2019, when you are warmly invited to a Festival to celebrate Girton’s 150th anniversary. The weekend commences a few hours after the conclusion of Girton’s 2019 General Admission. Exhibitions, activities and events will be spread across all three days, offering food for thought and entertainment for the family. Those who cannot travel to us might look out for dates in early April when we shall be visiting Singapore (and other centres in South and East Asia), and in the autumn, when we aim to visit our friends in North America. Whether you look across a single year, as I usually do in this letter, or survey the full 150, as we expect to in 2019, you cannot fail to be impressed by the irrepressible energy that drives the College on. Advancing the quest for excellence, for example, Professor Jochen Runde has this year become the eighth Girton Fellow

(and the third in consecutive years) to receive a coveted Pilkington Prize for distinction in teaching. Delivering a world-class education, Girton’s Fellowship is now the largest it has ever been, having grown in number by 12 in the last three years to 120 ‘on-site’ (including Life Fellows). These, together with 27 Honorary and 13 Barbara Bodichon Fellows, bring the grand total to 150. We also have our distinguished Visitor, alumna Baroness Brenda Hale of Richmond, DBE PC FBA (1963, Law), whom we thank for many years of wise and enthusiastic support. A role model for women in law for very many years, her trailblazing endeavours have made her the only woman member of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom. We congratulate her warmly on her recently announced appointment as its first female President. Two special events this year epitomise the way a thriving Fellowship brings inspiration to our core subjects. In January, students, Fellows and alumni gathered to celebrate half a century of History at Girton, inspired by the writings (and persons) of Life Fellows Betty Wood and Alastair Reid. It was a good moment to reflect on past success and also to look forward to the launch next year of an enticing History and Politics Tripos. Later in the year, a similarly mixed assembly considered the late Dr John Marks’s important contribution to medical research and education, and announced the establishment of the John Marks Fellowship in Medicine (the first of several partnership-funded Fellowships in the research and teaching of science that we aim to underwrite).

View of Swirles Court

To complement the educational value of established subject specialisms, the College Council has agreed to pilot a Fellowship for Life and Transferable Skills, and to launch ‘Thrive’ – a programme to support all-round personal development for graduates and undergraduates alike. This will comprise a suite of opportunities from mindfulness training and well-being strategies to communications skills, CV building, interview techniques and other preparations for life after Girton. Sports remain integral to Girton’s holistic vision for higher education; you can read some extraordinary stories of fortitude and success in the pages that follow. Similarly, music plays a central role, for fun, for fine performance and – as with other arts – a way of knowing the world. We extend particular congratulations this year to Organ Scholar Lucy Morrell (2015, Music), who has become an Associate of the Royal College of Organists. You can hear her play on the choir’s well received CD of music by Orlande de Lassus and – shortly – on a new

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recording of works by the magnificent but little-known composer Manuel Cardoso, which the choir performed to capacity audiences during their recent tour of Portugal. In the arts more broadly, our partnership with the Royal Society of Portrait Painters goes from strength to strength, as does the more recently established Artist-in-Residence scheme, which culminated this year in Yelena Popova’s intriguing art-trail, Elements. I have had an exciting round of travels this year, including visits to New York and Washington DC, and to Singapore, Hong Kong and Beijing. Heartfelt thanks to all who added warmth and hospitality to the mix, and who joined the Development Director and me in advancing A Great Campaign. It was particularly exciting to visit Beijing for the first time, and to see a recently established Girton alumni network poised to flourish. In a ‘return match’, three of that city’s universities are participating in the pilots for Girton’s international summer schools programme. Under the Directorship of Dr Nick Godfrey, this marks the start of what we hope will be a new style of international collaboration anchored on the College.

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On matters closer to home, I was privileged to attend a variety of subject and year reunion dinners in a year that welcomed hundreds of OGs back to College. A highlight was the gathering of the 1869 Society. It was deeply moving to meet so many people who have placed so much trust in our future by remembering the College in their will; I hope those who attended the gathering were as impressed as I was to hear Girton students present their worldchanging work, and to witness a stunning performance of Bach’s St John Passion in Hall. The main news from the Development Office this year is that, following completion of the first phase of A Great Campaign, an event was held in London in May to launch the final (150th Anniversary) phase. This is Girton’s most ambitious fundraising effort to date; its aim is to grow the permanent endowment sufficiently to support the work and ambition of the educational charity, and to offer stability and flexibility in the face of change. In this Anniversary phase, we hope to assemble sufficient endowment funding to meet Girton’s ongoing commitment to the Cambridge Bursaries Scheme, underpin the graduate school at Swirles Court,

and support the Fellowship to deliver the bespoke education that is Cambridge’s USP. With that in mind, you will be pleased to note that as I write, with five years of the Campaign still to run and just over £20 million of the £50 million target yet to raise (through a mix of income received and legacy pledges), A Great Campaign is already delivering on its planned contribution to financial sustainability. As you leaf through the pages of The Year, I hope you will feel that ‘The Great Scheme’ (as George Eliot called this College) remains as exhilarating as ever. When deeply rooted values are energised by irrepressible enthusiasm, it is hard to conclude otherwise. Of course, the future is always uncertain: the effects of Brexit remain unknown, cybersecurity is a challenge, and there will be political and economic shocks to prepare for. But change is inevitable, and there is optimism in the air. What keeps an institution like Girton forging ahead is the engagement and hard work of Fellows, staff, students and alumni. We have that in abundance, infused by the same clear vision that inspired our foundation. It is a privilege and a pleasure to be in the midst of it all, and to have the opportunity to record heartfelt thanks to everyone who has played their part – including, as ever, you. Susan J Smith, Mistress

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Strong Medicine Dr Phil Hammond (1981) probes the relationship between health and happiness Phil Hammond has an interesting take on alternative medicine. ‘For 90 per cent of symptoms,’ he says, ‘you’re better off with a dog than a doctor.’ The café of The Royal College of General Practitioners may not be the best place to air this view, but Hammond is on a roll. He points out that the causes of ill health are overwhelmingly social. Dogs are an antidote to loneliness and lack of exercise. And they give encouraging licks, which GPs are generally reluctant to do.

corner, he looks like an allegorical representation of ‘drive’. It’s a quality he associates with his Australian father, an outstanding physical chemist and Cambridge Blue who committed suicide aged 39. Hammond, who was seven at the time, believed it was a heart attack that killed his dad, and only learned the truth some 25 years later. Nagged by the thought of his own heart packing up in mid-life, he grew up in a hurry to get things done.

‘My dad had wanted me to be a doctor, that was As ever, ‘Dr Phil’ follows through with a fact (‘social one of the reasons I chose Medicine, and because isolation is as bad for you as fifteen cigarettes a he did his PhD at day’). Evidence-based Pembroke College, I had comedy is just one of The NHS was built on the this idea that I should Hammond’s specialisms in shoulders of workaholics who apply there – rather a career that combines worked 168 hours a week. foolishly, as it turned clinical practice with out, as I think they only investigative journalism, took three doctors that public-health campaigning and sell-out stand-up tours. ‘Basically,’ year. They offered me a place to do Natural Sciences, but I thought “No, I want to be a he says, ‘I talk and listen for a living. I do a maximum of two days doctoring a week – I work as doctor”, and was about to accept a place at Edinburgh when Girton invited me for interview. an associate specialist in a NHS paediatric chronic I remember going into lovely Dr Marks’s office fatigue service – and I’ve been Private Eye’s medical [Dr John Marks, Director of Studies in Medicine, correspondent for 25 years. Then there’s the Saturday morning show on Radio Bristol and lots of 1977–91] and having a great talk about all sorts of things, including rugby and rocks – he had a comedy and campaigning. It’s five different jobs, but they all revolve around health, so the material is series of rocks on his mantelpiece and I was able to name them. So I was plucked out of the Pool quite similar; it’s just the timing and the mood that and had three fantastic years at Girton.’ changes slightly.’

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It helps, too, that Hammond talks five times faster than the average human. On the edge of his seat, leaning into questions like a biker on a tricky

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In 1981, three years into mixed admissions, Girton felt like a place of unlimited possibility. ‘The atmosphere was enchanting,’ Hammond recalls.

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Homer Sykes

bit of work-life balance?” But it wasn’t just the hours; the thinking then [on medical procedures] was “See one, do one, teach one”. And if you made a howling mistake, you just buried the notes and burned the X-rays.’

Hammond as Junior Doctor, Bath 1988

One mistake is burned on Hammond’s memory: ‘As students at St Thomas’s we were allowed to step up and be house-officers when the real house-officers were away. I was working on a renal unit and had to re-site a drip at three o’clock in the morning. I had a book on my lap open at “how to put a drip in” and somehow picked up an ampoule of potassium instead of an ampoule of saline to flush through the line. Fortunately, I didn’t have the drip in properly, so I squirted potassium into this poor woman’s tissue. She screamed, I realised what I‘d done and went “Ooh, you must be allergic to saline”, and quickly covered my tracks. But I could have killed her. I’ve since learned to own up when I make mistakes, but back then, there was no duty of candour.’

‘It was completely liberal and inclusive and tolerant and, because it was still about 70% women, all the men had to play everything – we all did rugby, football and rowing. I captained Girton Rugby Team and, as you might expect of swotty boys, we were all fairly myopic. This was in the days before sporting contact lenses, and because we were blind, we were fearless. We actually did quite well in some games, but it was mainly because we couldn’t see what we were doing.’ The one thing that keeps me on

As a result, perhaps, of this early fright, Hammond has blood-pressure pills is the way Clinical Studies at St campaigned hard for we treat whistle-blowers. Thomas’s Hospital in junior doctors (he London rather broke the supported them in spell. ‘That was terrible – like an extension of a negotiations with the government, but considers public school where the Dean was Head Boy, the himself ‘too old-school’ to strike) and is consultants were prefects and everyone else was a passionate about accountability in the NHS. fag. And yes, we junior doctors worked silly hours, As medical correspondent for Private Eye he but the consultants’ hours were ridiculous. The broke the story in 1992 of the Bristol heart NHS was built on the shoulders of workaholics scandal, exposing the high mortality rate of who worked 168 hours a week, and we were just babies undergoing heart surgery at Bristol Royal moving into a culture where students and junior Infirmary. In 2012 he authored a special report, doctors were saying, “Well hang on, what about a Shoot the Messenger, detailing the systemic

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suppression of whistle-blowers in the NHS. ‘The one thing that keeps me on blood-pressure pills is the way we treat whistle-blowers. I’ve supported a lot of them, and I’ve never once been sued for publishing their stories, because they document their facts and generally don’t get it wrong. But in 25 years I’ve never once been able to get a whistle-blower back his or her job. There has to be a better, fairer way of protecting patients and those brave enough to speak up on their behalf.’ A practising GP until 2011, Hammond was loudly critical of the 2012 Health and Social Care Act. In a memorable episode of BBC’s Question Time, he flew at the then Health Secretary Andrew Lansley like a hawk tearing lumps from a particularly bewildered rabbit. He remains deeply frustrated by ministers playing ‘political football’ with the NHS.

Girton Rugby Team, 1982–83

‘The only political party I’ve ever been a member of is the Women’s Equality Party, because I believe in women and I believe in equality, so that seems like a good idea. But I don’t like the nastiness of mainstream politics. It might be that part of the Conservative health policy is quite useful, but if Labour get in, they ditch it purely out of spite, because that was a Tory idea. And it’s the same the other way round. So you keep reinventing the wheel every four or five years, and if you’re working on the front line of the NHS, you generally don’t take notice of anything because you’ll just have got used to the new system when they throw it all up in the air again.’ Hammond points out, too, that if we are to sustain a health service free at the point of use, the public must play its part: ‘Part of the problem

Chasing down HRH Prince Edward

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is that some people use the NHS like an all-youcan-eat breakfast bar, whereas we should be thinking of it as a most precious resource we want to preserve for future generations. We should be really proud of every day we get

through without having to use the NHS because there are people out there with appalling misfortune who are going to need it every day.’ Failing top-down reform, he is calling for a ‘bottom-up revolution’. Body parts figure appropriately large in Hammond’s ‘medical standup’ routine, and jokes can veer to the dark side. ‘You have to be careful,’ he admits, ‘because if you’re in comedy mode and you’re feeling a bit stressed, and somebody comes up to you in the bar and says “Doctor, I know you’re off-duty, but this freckle here – I’ve had it for 40 years and it’s got ever so slightly bigger”, the temptation is to say, “That’s cancer. You’ll be dead in a fortnight.” And of course, it’s never so funny when it’s read out in court … ‘ His most recent, 50-date UK tour, Dr Phil’s Health Revolution, played to packed houses and rave reviews (according to The Guardian, he is ‘one of the most entertainingly subversive people on the planet’), and he has a unique twist on audience participation. Ever since a woman threw a (bottled) urine sample at him, Hammond has taken his black bag and prescription pad on stage with him. ‘How else,’ he asks, not entirely joking, ‘will people get to a see a doctor on a Saturday night?‘ ‘Comedy,’ he goes on, ‘is strangely more accountable than doctoring. I could be a terrible doctor and still have a waiting room full of patients, but the Ste ve Ulla

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outcome in comedy is much easier to measure. If you don’t make people laugh, you don’t get bums on seats.’ It takes particular skill to raise laughs about, say, mental health or euthanasia, and if Hammond is sometimes flippant, his deep engagement is never in doubt (for the record, he believes mental health is intimately connected to physical health, and is in favour of assisted dying). ‘I’ve always done comedy with a message and I’ve not shied away from suicide, cancer, death, sexual health – I think, if you’re clever, you can talk about these things through comedy in ways that usually don’t offend people, but just get them thinking. Being British, we’re not great at showing our feelings, but I decided some time ago that instead of only making people laugh, sometimes I’d try to make them cry, then bring them back again. I think that can be really liberating.’

Jane Martin Prize for Poetry 2017 Now in its seventh year, this national prize for poets aged 18–30 is a key part of Girton’s support for poetry. This year’s winner, Katie Hale, studied in London, Melbourne and St Andrews. Her forthcoming collection of poems is published by Flipped Eye.

Portrait of a White Enamel Jug, 1874

It’s late afternoon and the sun is the colour of biscuits. It slides through the panes at a furtive angle, a slender thief sidling into the house. There’s a cluster of vetch in the jug at the back of the sink. It droops like old women coughing, and already it smells of dust and dying summers. A

Hammond’s 2015 book Staying Alive: How to Get the Best from the NHS is as much personal manifesto as users’ manual. Politicians, he argues, can’t fix the crisis in health care, but patients can; of the things that can be changed to improve our health, 70% are lifestyledependent. ‘Most lives need living, not medicalising,’ he urges. It sounds like a mantra, but Hammond is the least prescriptive of gurus. ‘You can go down a deeply thoughtful route,’ he says, ‘or you can say “stuff it, I’ll go and play with the dog.” In the end there is only one question we need to ask: “How can I get the most from this one wild and precious life?”’ n

field away, James and the horses lag against the uphill pull. In just a few weeks, the grasshoppers will bear down like a rasping army from the north and all the year’s corn will be undone. In the bottom of the frame, the tiny hand of a child who will one day pull my great grandmother from her body reaches up to tug the purple blooms.

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Exile and Exodus As Europe witnesses the largest migration of displaced people since World War I, The Year considers Girton's engagement with refugees

throughout the 1930s she was a leading voice in the Cambridge Peace Council, the International Women’s Service, the Women’s Institute and Save the Children.

ucked away on a new housing development in Trumpington, Hartree Lane commemorates a most remarkable Girtonian. Eva Hartree (1873–1947) was the first woman mayor of Cambridge, a tireless campaigner for human rights who transformed the lives of Basque and Jewish refugees in the city. Born in Lancashire, with a German Jewish family background, Hartree (née Rayner) was the daughter of a GP. At Girton she read Natural Sciences, passing Part I of the Tripos in 1895, the same year she married William Hartree, a University Lecturer in Engineering. She overcame tragic family circumstances – of her five children, only one, the mathematician and theoretical physicist Douglas Hartree, survived – and throughout her life was motivated by a strong civic sense and enthusiasm for public service. In 1913, the Hartrees moved to Farnham, Surrey, where Eva was Secretary of the local Suffrage Society. Though never a militant feminist, she fully espoused the cause of women’s rights; she became an active member of the National Council for Women, and would later serve as President.

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Eva Hartree in mayoral robes (with thanks to the Hartree Centre)

Returning to Cambridge in 1919, Hartree was soon elected to the local borough council as an independent (she remained outside mainstream party politics all her life), and in 1924 she became mayor; a fine photograph of her in mayoral robes is held by the National Portrait Gallery. She took an active role on the Committee on Lodgings for Women, a body attempting to build low-cost housing for working women in Cambridge, and

The rise of fascism in Europe galvanised Hartree to mobilise aid for refugees; at the same time she lobbied for peace via local groups upholding the ideals of the League of Nations. During the Spanish Civil War, she served in a local and national capacity to provide refuge for those fleeing war and persecution. She was a frequent speaker at rallies in support of children from the Basque region of Spain; in 1937, when some 4,000 unaccompanied Basque children arrived in Britain, 29 of them came to Cambridge where they were housed and looked after in a shelter set up on Station Road. Hartree was indefatigable in raising funds for the hostel and demanding greater support for all refugees. As chair of the Spanish Ship Society, she attempted to raise enough money to buy a ship that could bring destitute Spanish refugees from France. Horrified by the brutal treatment of Jews in Germany’s November

Pogrom (often known as Kristallnacht), Hartree was instrumental in setting up the Cambridge Children’s Refugee Committee, and remained its chair for much of the rest of her life. In the war years, she acted in loco parentis to many hundreds of Jewish refugee children from Nazi-controlled Europe; more than 100 were found foster homes in Cambridge, and the committee took responsibility for close to 2,000 children in the whole region. Records show how active Hartree was in caring for the children; some she took into her home in Bentley Road, and she personally intervened when children were found to be unhappy with their foster families.

important thing to Mrs. Hartree, as indeed it was. Her abounding kindness and friendliness were as essential a part of her as her passion for justice and truth. And on the truth she was most insistent. Never would she tolerate distortion or suppression of fact for the sake of a cause … … She was happy in seeing results, and it meant a great deal to her that

she had seen the recommendations concerning membership of the University for women.’ The obituary concluded with words that still have power seventy years after her passing: ‘It is no wonder that she was not only one of the best known, but also best loved of Cambridge women.’ Mike Levy

In the few years she survived after the war, Hartree campaigned for the naturalisation of foreign married women and the welfare of overseas students and graduates. She also helped establish the Graduates’ Club. She died suddenly in September 1947, a letter found unfinished in her typewriter. Her obituary in the Girton Review painted this affectionate picture: ‘… she had time for the individual who sought her out – always time to talk, to sympathise, to suggest, to make the visitor feel that his or her own business was the really

German Jewish refugees arriving in Britain

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Helen Cam Visiting Fellow Nour Adel reflects on her decision to leave Syria for a new life in Cambridge

hen the air-strikes started in Aleppo, Dr Nour Adel and her family had nowhere to run. ‘Bunker-busting’ bombs, in a city with few civilian bunkers, made a nonsense of civil defence. ‘Syria was surprised by war,’ Nour points out. ‘Other countries in the Middle East learned from the past. For example, after the war in Lebanon in the 1980s, when they rebuilt Beirut they constructed shelters, so that if in the future they have a bad war,

they know what to do. But in Syria this kind of conflict is totally new. The official advice is simply to stay where you are and wait for the bombing to end.’

lack of human resources; staff members and students would be unable to come into the university because the roads were blocked or the streets were unsafe.’

A lecturer in Economics at Aleppo University, Nour found it increasingly difficult to pursue an academic career. ‘Partly it was a lack of essential services that complicated things – often there was no water or electricity or internet – but more often it was a

When in 2015, Nour’s husband was killed by a bomb in the neighbouring city of Hama, life in the Syrian capital became unbearable for Nour and her children, Sally and Farouk. ‘The children were severely traumatised,’ she recalls. ‘They’d sit through their lessons in school, hearing explosions going off around them, and the next day, they’d be too frightened to leave the house. They couldn’t feel safe any more, and I was so scared of the effect all this was having, not just on their morale day-to-day, but on their long-term mental health.’ On the advice of friends, Nour applied to the Council of At Risk Academics (CARA) for help in relocating to the UK – she had previously studied for a MSc and PhD at Brunel University – and was delighted to be offered the Helen Cam Visiting Fellowship at Girton. ‘My husband died in October 2015 and we came here in July 2016. For all of us, it still feels a little bit like a dream to be in Cambridge.’

Nour Adel and family with Heidi Radke

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Farouk and Sally are now happily settled at Newnham Croft Primary

School; they’re proud of their new cycling skills and are enjoying getting to grips with British culture. Guy Fawkes Night, however, was an unforeseen challenge for the family. ‘We were in our flat at Wolfson Court when the fireworks started going off, and it affected Sally deeply. She ran behind the sofa crying “Mummy! There are explosions here, too!” Of course, I explained it was all part of a celebration but, for a moment, the bangs took them right back to Syria.’ Nour’s appointment is Girton’s first collaboration with CARA. The fellowship was arranged by Dr Heidi Radke, Fellow and Director of Studies in Veterinary Medicine. ‘I had been following the plight of refugees all over Europe and was regretting more

and more that I couldn’t, personally, do more to help,’ says Heidi. ‘When the nominations for the Helen Cam Fellowship came up, I thought “Wouldn’t it be nice to offer this to an academic at risk?”, and everyone I spoke to in College was immediately supportive of the idea. I think perhaps CARA was a little surprised to be contacted by a Cambridge college as usually they’re the ones approaching the universities!’ As CARA stipulates a minimum two-year placement and most visiting positions in Cambridge Colleges are limited to one year, Girton was delighted to partner with Corpus Christi College to host the family for the whole period, enabling Nour to complete her work at CRASSH, the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences

and Humanities. ‘Heidi has been such a good friend to us,’ says Nour, ‘and I’ve really enjoyed my time in Girton. It’s been a fantastic chance for me to rebuild my academic career and, more importantly, for my children to rebuild a normal, happy life.’ As civil war continues to rage in Syria, Nour is fearful for family and friends who remain there: ‘In every family, people are missing or dead – not one or two, but three, four, five people.’ The internecine politics of the region are, she says, as opaque to Syrians as they are to the rest of the world. ‘I don’t even consider who is killing whom, or for what, in my country. I only know it is civilians, always civilians, who are paying the price of this war. I only pray it will stop.’ n

Anna Barford, Fellow in Geography, shares her findings on the spread of the 2010 Haitian cholera epidemic

ery early on, Geography students learn to avoid the term ‘natural disaster’ because human factors frequently come into play when great losses have occurred. Seismologists will tell you that it is not earthquakes that kill people but buildings. In the case of the humanitarian crisis that followed Haiti’s 2010 earthquake, the disaster was exacerbated by a lack of basic resources.

The 7.0 magnitude earthquake of 12 January 2010 might have been unremarked on had it struck in a remote and unpopulated part of the world. In a region with enforced and effective anti-seismic building codes it might have garnered a brief mention in the news. Instead, the epicentre was only 25 kilometres from Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince, where even the iconic Presidential Palace collapsed.

The destruction of housing and infrastructure was widespread. 230,000 people were killed, 300,000 injured, and two million left homeless. Survivors relocated across the country, often living in camps for internally displaced persons (IDPs). Nine months later, Haiti recorded its first-ever cholera case. Cholera is a water-borne bacterial infection,

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system struggled to cope. Within six weeks 91,770 cases had been reported.

Refugee camp, Haiti

which is spread by the fecal-oral route. The outbreak has been sourced to UN peacekeepers from Nepal who carried the cholera bacterium unknowingly. They were deployed following the earthquake and stationed at a military base near the town of Mirebalais on a tributary of the Artibonite, Haiti’s main river. Leaky sewage facilities contaminated the river, and with limited availability of treated water and poor sanitation, the epidemic began. Cramped conditions in IDP camps and the population movements following the earthquake amplified the spread and impact of cholera, and Haiti’s already beleaguered healthcare

This explosive outbreak reflects several factors: the bacterium’s short incubation period of two to three days; the immunological naivety and lack of resistance amongst the population; and the flooding and additional displacement caused by Hurricane Tomas. But economic, political and historical circumstances are also crucial to understanding this epidemic: Haiti is the poorest country in the Americas, and one of the poorest in the world. Despite becoming the first independent country in Latin America and the Caribbean, Haiti has experienced prolonged instability, stoked by racial tension, an interregnum of US occupation and fiscal control, the Duvalier dictatorships, coups and gang

violence. The resulting poverty has left most people without basic amenities. For instance, in 2008 only 12% of the population received piped water and just 17% had adequate sanitation facilities. With such compromised water quality and poor sanitation, Haiti was, from the bacterium’s point of view, an ideal environment. In contrast, when the disease reached the US, it was quickly contained by the health authorities – a stark and timely reminder that poverty is a major obstacle to combating epidemic disease. n Anna’s research on Haiti is published in this paper: Smallman-Raynor, M; Cliff, A; and Barford, A: ‘Geographical Perspectives on Epidemic Transmission of Cholera in Haiti, October 2010 through March 2013’, Annals of the Association of American Geographers 105 (2015), 665–683.

Irit Katz, Bye-Fellow in Architecture, recalls the challenge of designing shelters for the Calais Jungle

n the autumn of 2015, Europe’s refugee crisis was at its peak. I was hectically writing up my doctoral dissertation on camps in IsraelPalestine when an email was circulated in Cambridge’s Department of Architecture, introducing a group of volunteers from Hackney who were

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looking for assistance in designing and building shelters for the refugees in the Jungle camp in Calais. The makeshift camp was then growing rapidly with dozens of people arriving daily, and there was an urgent need to replace tents with more robust shelters before the winter set in.

For those of us who responded to the appeal, the initial brief posed particular logistical and political problems. The main problem, it seemed, was that existing designs for prefabricated emergency shelters were generally intended for hot climates. Our challenge was to design

low-cost, easily transportable shelters that would protect dwellers from cold and damp on a frequently flooded site. Furthermore, following guidelines set down by the Mayor of Calais, any shelter built in the Jungle had to be temporary and, equally importantly, it had to look temporary. The IKEA Better Shelter, used in refugee camps around the world, apparently looked too permanent and, at £950 per shelter, it was also too expensive; existing shelters built on-site by volunteers and Jungle residents typically cost £120. Our group planned to spend £250 per shelter. A few weeks after our initial briefing, along with two colleagues from the Cambridge Association of Architects

(CAA) and two representatives of the volunteer group, I visited the Jungle for the first time. Most of the shelters we examined there were composed of a timber frame wrapped in tarpaulin and insulated, from the inside, with blankets and carpets. We also watched production in the workshop of L’Auberge des Migrants (the main NGO working in the Jungle), where many of the shelters used in the camp were built. Our shelter design, incorporating many of the methods observed on the site visit, included the use of industrial timber pallets to lift the shelter off the soaked ground and the use of air trapped between two layers of tarpaulin and aluminium-foil bubble

sheet for insulation. However, because of logistical issues and time constraints, our design did not make it through to production. While this was clearly disappointing, the experience was invaluable. I revisited the Jungle several times for research and volunteering before the camp was completely demolished in October 2016. On each occasion I was inspired by the resilience of the refugees and by the countless acts of care and solidarity shown to camp inhabitants by volunteers. At the same time, it was frustrating to witness how vulnerable men, women and children, who are legally entitled to protection, are left abandoned and exposed to appalling and inhumane conditions just a few hours away from our comfortable homes. n Blueprint for Calais refugee shelter

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In 2012, the Libyan writer Hisham Matar (Visiting Fellow, 2008) returned to Tripoli in search of information about his father, Jaballa Matar, who was kidnapped by Muammar Qaddafi’s forces in 1990. His memoir, The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land In Between, was awarded the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Biography and the Rathbones Folio Prize. Hisham is also the author of two novels, In the Country of Men (shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, 2006) and Anatomy of a Disappearance. In an exclusive interview for The Year, he talks to E Jane Dickson about exile, loss and the creative process.

ou grew up in Tripoli and Cairo and now live in England. In The Return you describe yourself as ‘a person of mixed identities, a man whose preoccupations do not fit neatly inside the borders of one country’. Is it possible to expand on these identities and preoccupations? It’s interesting that you should start with this question because I have been thinking about how our times are so uniquely focused on identity. I hardly ever think of myself in reference to an identity. In fact, I am not even sure I know what that identity might be. I am not confident, in other words, in my skin or my sexuality or my gender or any of the affiliations one is implicated into. If anything, I am mystified by those who seem to be. Yet most of the time we speak about human life in terms of clearly delineated identities. And I think this might be the opposite of what it purports; it is not necessarily a sign of

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confidence. Perhaps we are bewildered. If Albert Camus is right when he says that the twentieth century was ‘the century of fear’, then perhaps ours, the twenty-first, is that of bewilderment. We are overwhelmed, and without a unifying centre we seek distraction. We seek it as though our lives depend on it. And we often reach for solace and security in narrow identities. And although I am passionately for the liberal instincts that are often behind much of this, I do mourn our culture’s unpractised will to find solidarity through difference, to find vigour not in what sets us apart but in the universalist principles and ideas and experiences that we share. Speaking more personally, I used to worry about all of this. I used to worry, for example, about the fact that the language I was born into, Arabic, and in which I uttered my first words and all of my words for the first dozen years of my life, now is rarely in my mouth and that I write in English and so on. All this used to weigh on me. I am now more

than anything intrigued by this fate: by its strangeness as well as its humanity, or what it says about being human and about language and our relationship to it. So although in The Return I write about specific and perhaps even unusual circumstances, my main concern and interest is in how these share the same subterranean network of human ideas that many of us experience. For most of your adult life you campaigned to uncover the circumstances of your father’s disappearance. How were you able to forge a literary career at the same time as hammering on embassy doors? How did it influence your choice of material? Our books are our fate; we rarely choose them. This is why the oldest prayer for a writer is to encounter a book that is better than them. This is why also I don’t feel myself an expert or an authority over my book, which is absurd given that I am, after all, its author. But to attempt to answer your question, I ‘worked and survived’ – which is a refrain from the book and which saved me, more than once – and I was also lucky to encounter certain individuals, buildings, paintings, books, cities and music just when I was ready for them. You discovered that your father was held in Abu Salim prison and probably died there. By coincidence, on the day in 1996 that 1,270 men were executed in Abu Salim, your father in all likelihood among them, you encountered Manet’s

The Execution of Maximilian in The National Gallery. Is it a function of great art to tell our stories back to us? I have been, since the age of 19 – in fact, ever since losing my father – engaged in a strange habit. I’m unable to do what most people seem able to do, which is to go to a gallery and spend an hour or so passing from one painting to the next, covering thirty or forty pictures. Instead, I select one picture and visit it as often as I am able. I rarely stand there for more than 15 to 20 minutes, but I do this several times a week and for several months. The Manet painting you mention entered my life in this way, and on a day that was to later prove mortally significant. Whenever I think of it, the coincidence still unsettles me. The story of Telemachus is a running theme in The Return. Clearly, exile and the search for the father are key features of literary culture. How did that mythic dimension feed into your own experience? Reading is a pleasure – and one should take one’s pleasures seriously – but it is also much more than that. Books nudge the world. They have connected me to a wider human repertoire of ideas, emotions and states of being. They have, perhaps most crucially, given me a chance to encounter myself in the lives of others, individuals as profoundly distant from me as Telemachus, and by doing so offered me their companionship. In the case of The Odyssey and several other books, certain lines slipped

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into my pocket and remained there, available but unfixed, changing and expanding in meaning. In The Return you refer to Samuel Beckett’s ‘banning himself’ from Dublin, and many writers have chosen to leave the country of their birth in order to write about it. In your case, exile was forced, but would you consider distance a necessary or favourable condition for writing lucidly about home? I wonder if exile or, for that matter, any other condition, increases the chances of writing well. There are terrible books written by exiles, and there are exquisite ones written about home by people who had never left the places where they were born. Perhaps it is all to do with what you are preoccupied with, what your mind and heart is engaged with in the quiet hours, when all demands leave you. One of the most affecting aspects of The Return is the way in which, despite your close early bond with your father, he is in many ways mysterious to you. When you recount that you ‘almost longed, sometimes, to be in Abu Salim with our father’ it is almost unbearably sad. In reclaiming your father’s story from ‘unknown death and silence’, do you feel that your relationship has been in some part restored? For a long time, my father, or the absent figure of my father, has stood at the centre of my life, with me on the periphery. A ghost ghosting you. This has changed. It has been reversed through a slow and gradual process. But I didn’t use the book to get there; if anything, the book used me. And I am pleased about this. I don’t think a book should serve its author, but the other way around. You can always detect when a book

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exists for its author. The other day I saw a man push his young son to beg on the pavement for him. It would be a bit like that. In an era of 24-hour, rolling news that tells us almost nothing, how important is it to bear witness to stories like your father’s? I would say it is necessary; but it is not so much the stories we find in books that are important as much as the sensibility. I never go to books for their stories. In fact, the best way to confuse me entirely is to tell me the plot of a book. When I think of the books that have captured my imagination, those to which I return, such as Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse or Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time or any one of Joseph Conrad’s paragraphs, but perhaps particularly those in Lord Jim and A Heart of Darkness, I don’t think of their plots. Instead, I remember the silence they cast around me, the way they altered the very atmosphere, and that particular excitement of recognition they inspire, as though great art makes us feel remembered. Finally, you have described Girton as ‘an oasis of calm and concentration’. Can you tell us a little about your time in College? Girton, its halls and library and each one of its doors, seemed to me, during the nine months I spent happily living and writing there, a hypothetical space: a space for the mind and the imagination. I was writing Anatomy of a Disappearance then, my second novel, and Girton allowed me that ideal escape from the usual expectations that are often placed on the shoulders of an author writing his second book. I found there the freedom I needed, which is partly why I have gradually come to believe that universities are perhaps among the last places where true liberty can be found. n

Pioneering the Past Ben Griffin, Fellow in History, celebrates the scholarship of Betty Wood and Alastair Reid Girton’s consciousness of its own history is one the working people to better their lot – most striking things about the College. This is partly Betty through her many studies of a function of the architecture: the long corridors enslaved women and men in the provide spaces for displaying paintings and American south, and Alastair photographs commemorating our past in a way through his histories of British trade that is not possible in colleges organised as unionism. They have each written staircases surrounding open courts. It is also a social histories animated by a deep matter of choice: the Lawrence Room collections commitment to questions of social attest to the value that Girton places on the study justice. The conference saw Drs Inge of the past. We are proud of our history, and Dornan and Sarah Pearsall pay especially proud of Girton’s history as the first eloquent tribute to Betty’s institution in Britain to offer a residential university pioneering role in early American education to women. As a women’s history, community we think that this and particularly to Girton has a matters, and that the pioneering, the importance of tradition of egalitarian, feminist spirit that her work on superb history animated the College’s founders enslaved women, ought to continue to animate whose lives had teaching imbued Girton today. But a college ethos frequently been overlooked by with a particular is a fragile thing, traditions are earlier histories of slavery. Dr ethic of care. easily lost, and Victorian values James Moher (one of our former seldom speak to the demands of visiting Fellows) similarly spoke the present. Each generation of Fellows has had to about Alastair’s contribution as one of the leading ask how they might create the Girton tradition revisionist historians of trade unionism, emphasising anew through their teaching and their scholarship. the role of trade unions as voluntary associations of great value in a pluralist liberal democracy. In January the College hosted a conference to celebrate the careers of two retired History Fellows Since the creation of the History Tripos, Girton has who have been particularly successful in meeting been particularly supportive of social and economic these challenges: Betty Wood and Alastair Reid. history, as can be seen from the work of The conference was organised by one of the distinguished Girton Fellows such as Eileen Power, current History Fellows, Dr Simone Maghenzani, Ellen McArthur and Jean Lindsay. The work of whose efforts were greatly appreciated by all Wood and Reid fits comfortably within this present. Throughout their careers, Drs Wood and tradition. In Women’s Work, Men’s Work (University Reid have focused on studying the struggles of of Georgia Press, 1995), for example, Betty explored

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– Alastair has broken decisively with Marxist forms of analysis, linking social history to political history in a completely new way.

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how many slaves were able to produce, buy and sell goods and services when they were not producing for their owners. She demonstrated that the need to regulate these informal economies became central to politics in early nineteenthcentury Georgia. A similar desire to root political history in the history of social institutions and economic structures has been one of the central concerns of Alastair’s work. He has argued that variations in the economic organisation of different industries produced different forms of trade unionism, and that those institutions in turn produced radically different political cultures: craft unions in industries like shipbuilding were characterised by broadly libertarian ideas, while seniority unions in sectors such as coal mining were more inclined to support statist solutions. In making this claim – as this author argued at the conference

The study of social inequality has been at the heart of the histories that Alastair and Betty have produced. A particular concern of Betty’s work has been to establish the internal diversity of both slave and free cultures, and the complexity of their interactions; this echoes a major theme of Alastair’s work, in which he has stressed that in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries the British working class was fragmented in immensely complicated ways, with ‘significant diversity and variation between regions, sectors and occupational groups’, not to mention ethnic, religious and generational divisions.1 This interest in the complexity of historical experiences has drawn both to focus on the ways in which collective identities or interests were constructed out of heterogeneous matter. If, for example, the working class was as fragmented as Alastair suggests, then the creation of trade unions and the labour movement was a political achievement, not a reflection of underlying social or economic forces. This has had significant consequences for the way in which the history of popular politics is written, requiring a new emphasis on the role of ideas and leaders in mobilising working people. The work of Alastair and his collaborators (notably Professor Eugenio Biagini and Professor Peter Ackers, both of whom spoke at the conference) has been characterised by a desire to take the ideas of working men seriously; they have uncovered at the heart of the labour movement a rich tradition of liberal radicalism that was pluralistic, voluntaryist, democratic, and that sought to regulate the market through collective

self-organisation. In a similar way, Betty’s work has sought to take seriously the role of ideas in creating new forms of social organisation, and she has been particularly interested in showing how changing religious ideas reconfigured social relationships in the American south and the British Caribbean (and the significance of her work in bringing Caribbean and American history into the same frame of analysis was a major theme of the conference papers by Professor Tim Lockley and Dr Ben Marsh). In the book Come Shouting to Zion (co-written with Sylvia Frey) Betty argued that ‘[t]he conversion of African Americans to Protestant Christianity was a, perhaps the, defining moment in African American history’.2 This focus on the ideas of groups whose rich intellectual lives had frequently been overlooked by historians, restoring dignity and a measure of autonomy to the relatively powerless, is an approach that embodies a set of values – a commitment to inclusivity, diversity and equality – that we would surely want to claim as part of a modern Girtonian ethos. Girton has a tradition of superb history teaching imbued with a particular ethic of care: OGs still talk fondly of the personal kindness that Jean Lindsay or Marjorie Chibnall showed towards their students, and in this respect they were merely following in the footsteps of predecessors like M G Jones. The fact that so many former students returned to College for the conference, some travelling from overseas, testifies to how successfully Betty and Alastair were able to continue that tradition of care. One of the highlights of the conference was an intervention from the floor by an Old Girtonian paying tribute to the deep impression that undergraduate

supervisions at Girton had made on her. The same point could be made about Betty’s and Alastair’s impact as postgraduate supervisors: both have been enormously generous and supportive to young scholars – as several of the speakers attested from first-hand experience. Several years ago the College drew up a strategic plan, which sought to identify Girton’s distinctive characteristics. ‘In fact, and in feel’, it tells us, ‘Girton has always been at the frontier (pioneering), on the margin (radical), at the (cutting) edge, and at a distance’. With the exception of the College’s distance from the city centre, these qualities are not passively inherited from earlier generations: they are the products of conscious choices and deliberate efforts to reinvent older values and traditions in new contexts. The pioneering, radical and cutting-edge scholarship of Alastair Reid and Betty Wood continues these traditions, and so it was entirely fitting for the College to celebrate the achievements of these remarkable historians. n

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1 A J Reid, ‘The Division of

Labour and Politics in Britain, 1880–1920’, in W J Mommsen and H G Husung, eds., The Development of Trade Unionism in Britain and Germany, 1880 –1914 (1985), pp. 158–60. Cf. Betty Wood, Gender, Race, and Rank in a Revolutionary Age: the Georgia Lowcountry, 1750–1820 (University of Georgia Press, 2000), p. xv. 2 Sylvia R Frey and Betty Wood, Come Shouting to Zion: African American Protestantism in the American South and British Caribbean to 1830 (University of North Carolina Press, 1998), p. xi.

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A World Apart Girton Geographers look back at an era of change and money was generally tight. Though our social world was focused on Girton, interactions with geographers from other colleges were friendly – invitations abounded as women were in short supply – but mainly confined to the Department, the Library and field trips. Although we had male supervisors from other colleges, especially in our third year, we did not have supervisions with students of other colleges. We did join various University and College societies but, for most of us, these were not all-encompassing commitments. Extramural lectures on Architecture and Art by famous speakers like Nikolaus Pevsner and Ernst At the invitation of Dr Harriet Allen, Fellow in Geography, the ‘class of 1960’ spent a morning Gombrich loom larger in our memories than did our various club activities. A few of us attended discussing ‘Geography at Girton Then and Chapel, and some were excellent athletes; one of Now’. This essay is based on their collective our number was awarded thoughts and memories. eight blues (for tennis, 1960 ushered in a new badminton and netball). Arriving for Michaelmas Term in October 1960, guard in Geography, and It was a time when Girton with our cabin trunks and Cambridge was at the centre did not have central bicycles, we found that of the revolution. heating except in certain ours was a very special College. We came to areas such as the Library, Girton encouraged by Geography teachers at our which is fondly remembered as a place of study and all-girls schools, and entered an environment where warmth. Rooms were heated with small gas fires only one in ten undergraduates were women. As whose meters needed to be constantly fed with one of the largest Tripos groups in Girton, we shillings. On a cold night, glasses of water would geographers soon gravitated to one another and have ice on the top by morning. After dark the formed friendships that would last a lifetime. Proctors were out, and we were required to wear gowns even while cycling, just as we did for Girton was a dominant pole for our term-time lives. lectures, for supervisions and to eat in Hall. The other was the Geography Department at the end of Downing Place. We cycled between these We all remember weekly supervisions with Dr Jean two places twice a day or more, rain or shine, and Grove and the tentative reading of essays in her rarely took the bus. We were there on scholarships, room at Girton with the light filtering through In 2016, nine Girtonians who matriculated in 1960 came back to Cambridge to renew friendships and to remember Valerie Haynes, one of their number who had died earlier in the year. Valerie had a long and successful career as a geographer teaching at the Universities of Strathclyde and Stirling in Scotland. She loved physical geography and undertook intrepid fieldwork, as far afield as the glaciers of South Georgia in the Southern Atlantic Ocean.

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the long French windows. At a time in the early 1960s when opportunities for most women beyond Cambridge were still limited, Jean Grove was our role model for a successful woman, showing that you could combine a professional life with marriage and young children. We sometimes had our supervisions at her home, and in 1961 she took many of us to Switzerland with her and her family to experience fieldwork on the Arolla glacier.

1960 was a very special time in Cambridge Geography although we may not have sufficiently appreciated it at the time. It was a time of the changing of the guard, and we were lucky to benefit from both the old and the new. The old guard included Augustus Caesar and his magisterial economic geography lectures; Jean Mitchell’s detailed approach to historical geography; Alfred Steers and his long coastline of England and Wales; and Bruce Sparks with

Mary Chisholm, Valerie Haynes, Anne Whyte (rear, left to right), Ann Peel, Elizabeth Saunders, Sarah Bloomfield (front, left to right), 1962

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William Morris Davis. They gave us a sense of our geographic lineage. They also had the foresight to recognise the need for change. 1960 ushered in the new guard of Geography, and Cambridge was fortunate to be at the very centre of the revolution. Richard Chorley and Peter Haggett, ‘the terrible twins’ of quantitative geography, were newly hired demonstrators in 1958. In 1960 they launched a new practical geography course of statistics, map-making and general systems theory to first-year Geography students in the top-floor laboratory. It was new; it was cutting-edge; it was eye-opening. Both men – close friends from Somerset – went on to be hailed as among the most influential geographers of the twentieth century. And we were in the front-row seats on Opening Night.

his enthusiasm for snails and his cyclical framework to explain how landforms were made. These geographers were shaped by the pervading influence of a Darwinian model of gradual change, whether the topic at hand was the evolution of a coastal spit, the ‘old age’ of the Thames Valley or the changing place names of England as waves of settlers came to its shores. Most were not engaging, much less entertaining lecturers – it was not unusual for chalk to be thrown at the late or unwary – but it was a privilege to be exposed to their scholarship and their very ‘Cambridge’ personalities. They connected us to the geographers of the past – to von Thunen and Weber, Ritter and Ratzel, Brunhes and Vidal de la Blache, Penck and

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What we most remember of that practical geography course were our various explorations into map-making – chain-surveying in Coe Fen, plane-tabling at Madingley Hall and on the Gog Magog Hills – and the fun times that we had. But the revolution brewing around us was one of the most decisive turning points in the history of modern geography: environmental quasideterminism, evolutionism and descriptive regional geography were yielding to the hard edges of the quantitative revolution. Long before it was on the curriculum of most geography departments, we were shown how to use statistics to solve geographic problems while also resisting the lure of spurious correlations (we found beautiful correlations between US Senators’ brain size and their legislative ability). We were introduced to systems thinking and

later, in our third year, to the brilliance of Humboldt and his understanding of the cosmos. While our focus – and that of Geography – remained on the relationship of society (aka ‘man’) and environment, our explanatory frameworks had been transformed. Despite this, our undergraduate dissertations did not label us as New Geographers. For the most part, their foci seemed more a continuation of the past, but we probably paid more attention to measurement and, perhaps, to statistical relationships than we might otherwise have done. Most of us certainly took the opportunity to travel abroad and explore new places using our new geographic tools. Although all students specialised in Part II (most of us in physical geography), we all studied ‘Geographical Thought’ that purportedly helped us to discover our geographic genealogy going back to Herodotus and Ibn Battuta (though that sometimes felt like a stretch). We saw, and still see, Geography as a discipline whose strength is that it bridges the physical and human aspects of human use of the environment and seeks to explain spatial relationships more generally. For us, despite the recent history of the discipline, human and physical geography are two halves of a whole, and much of Geography is, as Haggett said, ‘the art of the mappable’. If there were distinctions in the opportunities available for men and for women at Cambridge, we were unaware of them, or we did not recognise them. The world seemed open to us.

We all married, most of us had children, and we all developed rewarding careers. After Cambridge, we specialised in areas as diverse as town planning, local history, soil science, mathematics teaching, international aid investment, and environmental psychology. For each of those careers, we believe Cambridge Geography in the 1960s was a good foundation. We still consider ourselves geographers and are generally happy with the choice of study we made. We were well aware that being at Girton and Cambridge was indeed a rare privilege that came with wider responsibilities. We hope that we have lived up to them. Ruth Blacklock (Snook), Linda Eshag (Lewis), Mary Field (Chisholm), Sarah Gregory (Bloomfield), Ann Hamblin (Peel), Judith Nightingale (Langley), Valerie Offord (Wheatley), Elizabeth Walker (Saunders) and Anne Whyte

Dr Harriet Allen writes: 2019 is an important year for both Girton and the Department of Geography; as College celebrates its 150th anniversary, the Geographical Tripos will be 100 years old. Girton geographers will be celebrating both events, and we hope you will join us, either in person, or by sharing your memories. More information will be available from Girton and the Geography Department in the coming months.

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Painting Time and Place Yelena Popova reflects on her year as Artist-in-Residence

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Paintings are laid the length of the table in Girton’s Reception Room, like placemats for a fantastical banquet. The pigments – Sienna, Ochre, Umber – are viscous, the roiling forms packed with life. ‘I wanted to suggest the movement of the worm, the movement of the womb,’ says the artist, Yelena Popova. The work, she explains, was conceived to complement the Jacobean ‘Tree of Life’ tapestry that lines the Reception Room: ‘I liked the idea of primordial earth for the tree to grow in.’ Rootedness, and a keen sense of elemental process, is fundamental to Girton’s third Artist-in-Residence. Popova’s 2017 exhibition, Elements, comprises an ‘arttrail’ of works intimately related to Girton, its fabric and its history. A series of ‘parametric’ paintings – pale, protean images with allusions to mathematical forms and neoGothic archways – was made using ash from the fireplace in the Fellows’ Drawing Room and earth from the College grounds. The design of a jacquard lectern cloth, which Popova has presented to the Chapel, is based on the infinity loop and celebrates the skill of nineteenthcentury female artisans. Perhaps most arresting, however, is a group of ceramic portraits with faces filmed over by organic wood-ash glaze. Whispering of mutability, they make haunting companions to the generations of women pictured on Girton’s walls.

Popova’s Russian heritage also makes itself felt; Intricate cyber-patterns, like the patterns on bank notes, are a twenty-first-century nod to constructivism. There are shades, too, of her childhood in the Urals, close to the site of Russia’s first atomic experiments; abstract landscapes hanging in the Fellows’ Dining Room appear innocently pastoral, but their vivid verdigris is an ongoing chemical reaction. ‘The advantage of a year-long residency is that you have time to let things seep through and catalyse,’ says Popova. ‘Girton has been such an embracing environment, and I think it’s quite important to acknowledge that the College welcomed me with my family. The art world is not always very welcoming, or even accepting, of children. It’s a real problem for women artists, so it was wonderful to come here with my husband and son and feel so supported. Max was baptised in the College Chapel, and he had his fourth birthday with a “cake and collage” party for all his student friends. It was a nice way for students to relax from the stresses of the term, and the artwork they produced is a significant part of the Elements project.’ The ‘Girton effect’ will, Popova feels sure, stay with her when the residency has ended: ‘Being here has really helped regenerate my energy. I’ve loved discussing my work with the students and Fellows and hearing about their work in different disciplines. It’s a special thing to live and work in a community of ideas, and it’s been a privilege to feel part of it.’ E Jane Dickson

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Body Imaging Life Fellow Peter Abrahams explains how 3D technology is revolutionising anatomical studies

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Anatomy has historically been a cornerstone of medical education, regardless of nation or speciality, and until recently it was taught solely through dissection and didactic lectures. However, teaching methodology has been revolutionised; the internet is now widely used to consolidate and enhance the learning experience, and there is increasing reliance on computer models, imaging and simulation. Moreover, modern medical curricula place less importance on anatomy education and the acknowledged value of dissection. Indeed, some universities have either abandoned dissection altogether in favour of more user-friendly, multimedia teaching

approaches, or simply redefined priorities in clinical practice. With these changes in mind, Warwick Medical School, where I am Professor of Clinical Anatomy, has over the last seven years moved into the realm of video teaching apps, as well as virtualreality teaching in real-time 3D. In particular, we have been developing 3D videos with magnified human prosections; these are dissected specimens displaying special anatomical structures, which may be impregnated with polyresins to create durable teaching aids (all these specimens are donated by people in their own lifetime, for which medical science is eternally grateful). I have also been involved with two major anatomical software companies, primalpictures.com and 3d4medical.com. Both companies have developed full 3D mobile software applications using MRI and CT scans for scientific accuracy. Educationally, actual prosections are of course much better, but the 3D digital software enables students to engage and interact with the models by adding, deleting or rotating a given image. Every structure has an audio file to teach correct pronunciation, and I have recently started producing video links and short podcasts to connect the structures seen on the screen with real clinical cases; patient operative material, together with 3D radiological images and pathological specimens, helps students understand why they are learning all these anatomical details. More recently, 3D printing technology has meant we can copy

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dissections and reproduce a near-perfect plastic model which can be studied far from the medicalschool laboratory. This technology is becoming commonplace in the operating theatre, and has had other, less expected applications. Warwick Medical School’s

3D video prosections have been displayed around the world as part of the Leonardo da Vinci: the Mechanics of Man exhibition, while I have been working as a consultant for art museums and national galleries, analysing Renaissance anatomy using 3D printed replicas of 500-year-old statues. Leonardo, I feel sure, would approve. n

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Floor Show Peter Sparks, Life Fellow, describes the restoration of a College treasure There’s an old Persian saying, ‘the richer the man, the thinner the carpet’. One of Girton’s prized artefacts is the fine, single-wefted Persian Malayir carpet in the Fellows’ Dining Room. It was almost definitely one of many valuable items given to College in the 1960s by Beryl Le Poer Power, sister of the Girton Historian Eileen Power. The carpet is over five metres long, the size known as a kelleyi; a carpet of these dimensions would often have been woven for a large house or palace, and would have been

conceived as the central piece, the mian farsh, of an arrangement of rugs and carpets covering the entire floor of a principal room. Often, however, rugs and carpets were viewed in Persia as a more stable currency than money; many were ‘banked’ as capital and were bought by European travellers. Girton’s carpet has all the characteristics of a high-quality Malayir; it was woven on a vertical frame loom with a thin, Turkishknotted wool pile, predominantly in blue and red, with a developed herati pattern of flowers and feathers in both the medallion and the borders. We can date it precisely to 1889 as it has the equivalent Islamic hejry date of 1310 woven twice into one end. By 2016, despite several earlier minor repairs, the carpet was showing such serious wear that only the skills of Iranian weavers could save it. Farhad Erfan of Persian Tribal Rugs in Cambridge arranged for it to be sent to Hamadan in western Iran, only 35 miles north of the carpet’s original ‘birthplace’, Malayir. There, over almost six months, the master-weaver Javad Mozafari re-wove all the worn and torn areas, recreated the fringes and the missing lengths of selvedge and re-dyed the many faded areas. His skilled and painstaking work has

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Hamadan weaver Javad Mozafari at work on the Malayir carpet

The hejry date of 1310 seen from the reverse

restored the carpet to almost perfect condition, and we hope it will continue to delight Fellows and guests as they dine for generations to come. Peter Sparks, Life Fellow

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Shaun Fitzgerald Official Fellow in Engineering Thirty years ago I was dropped off at Girton on a Sunday afternoon by my parents. As a first-year Engineering student, I was both excited and relieved. My gap year as a sponsored student working in a large electrical engineering conglomerate hadn’t gone so well. I’d started out full of enthusiasm – I’d read about the amazing things an engineer could do to make a difference in the world – but on the first day of my placement I was marched into a room to sign the Official Secrets Act and listen to a talk about the high importance of the work I’d be doing with the company. My first task involved looking at a new defence system and learning some new mathematics to help in the design. Technically, the work was interesting, but the highly secret project was far from motivating, and my dreams of creating a better world were shattered. Happily, my time as an undergraduate at Girton was incredibly enjoyable and stimulating – an effective antidote to the disappointments of my year out – and the range of challenges and engineering applications filled me with renewed passion for my subject. As a sponsored student, I was supposed to return to the electrical engineering company during summer vacations. I did this for the first summer, but in my second year I made alternative plans. I arranged a trip to the USA and Canada, where I visited about fifteen companies and universities which were researching or trialling alternative energy technologies. I desperately wanted to get into the world of green energy or energy efficiency, and this trip lit a fuse. I was fascinated by some of the problems which proponents of the various technologies shared with me: geothermal reservoir technology appeared to have so much promise in some areas of the world.

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However, there were significant problems with reservoirs running out of fluid, wells running dry and investors losing money. I needed to know more, and I decided, there and then, on a PhD in geothermal reservoirs.

IB Fluids course at Cambridge? If they had, they would have known how to use regular pressure measurements along the pipelines to monitor the build-up of scale and plan regular maintenance work. It was my first ‘sale’ of consulting work, and I was delighted to see my recommendations implemented It wasn’t straightforward: no-one in the soon after I had completed the modelling. Another Engineering Department was undertaking project involved helping to undertake predictions of research in the area, but I was referred to temperature for a gold mine in Australia. Although I Professor Ron Oxburgh didn’t get the opportunity to (now Lord Oxburgh), visit the site, it was an I learned how the world of Head of Earth Sciences, enjoyable task. Finally, I got to academic engineering who said to me: ‘Shaun, attend another geothermal you need to work with conference later in the research and teaching could Professor Herbert summer in Hawaii. I had work closely with industry. Huppert in DAMTP applied for a travel grant, and (Department of Applied because at least some Mathematics and Theoretical Physics), but before expenses were covered, GeoScience sent me as the that you need to spend a year in the geothermal company representative! How could one not have fun industry. I suggest you contact Dr Tony Batchelor in engineering and fall in love with real-world of GeoScience in Cornwall.’ My Director of applications after a year’s experience like this? Studies at Girton, Professor Howard Hodson, agreed this was sound advice, a year out in During my year with GeoScience I applied formally for Cornwall was quickly arranged, and in my time a PhD position. It seemed a bit strange to be applying at GeoScience my whole view of engineering for a PhD in the Department of Earth Sciences to be was changed. After my experience with the supervised by an applied mathematician from DAMTP, conglomerate, working for a relatively small when my previous three years had been spent in the consulting company was a breath of fresh air. Engineering Department. But that’s one of the joys of I was sent to California for a week to attend a academia – the boundaries are somewhat artificial conference on geothermal engineering and and only really there to aid bureaucracy. Exciting ended up staying six weeks to help a company research often spans disciplines. near San Diego which had geothermal pipelines scaling up. My PhD and subsequent year as a post-doctoral researcher in Cambridge were spent wrestling with I learned that various pipelines were developing the problem of what happens when cold water is unexpected blockages and that they had no idea injected into a geothermal reservoir to replenish fluid how to predict which line would be affected levels and hence pressure. It was hard work, but fun next. I was bewildered – hadn’t they attended the and very satisfying. We discovered a new

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phenomenon: an instability at the interface between a viscous fluid and inviscid fluid in a porous medium when it is the viscous fluid that is being injected. Previous work had suggested the interface would be stable, but we found that if enough of the fluid actually boiled at the interface, it would become unstable and short-circuiting could occur between liquid injection wells and steam extraction wells. This was very interesting for the scientific community, but the really exciting bit was the experiments I undertook at home. We heated sand in the oven and conducted the experiments in the back garden where liquid ether was poured in and the interface observed through plastic. I’m sure it wouldn’t be allowed now for health and safety reasons, but I was a keen student and the photographs were published in a letter to Nature. My period in geothermal reservoir engineering culminated in an appointment as a Faculty member of Stanford University, where I learned how the world of academic engineering research and teaching could work closely with industry. However, I also came to realise that the real decision-makers in industry were often those responsible for the finances of the business, and I had precious little understanding of this world. I therefore left academia to join Bain & Company Strategy Consulting. The experience at Bain was diverse and invaluable in terms of business training. After four to five years with Bain it was time to get back into engineering and I returned to Cambridge, this time working in the field of energy efficiency in buildings. The research again spawned new ideas, but this time a patent was filed which captured the essence of a new way of ventilating buildings. We identified an opportunity to develop a range of products based on the patent and, using funding secured

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Shaun with his wife Rebecca on a research trip to a geothermal reservoir in California

from BP, Breathing Buildings was formed in 2006. Initial work confirmed that the construction market was receptive to our new approach to ventilation, and so capital was raised in 2009 from MMC Ventures to fund the expansion of the company. This funding enabled Breathing Buildings to grow much faster than would otherwise have been possible, and the impact on the construction industry has been very satisfying. We have promoted changes in the regulations for ventilation (exciting stuff, you know!), but even if these changes are of limited interest outside the ventilation industry, their effect is significant, as they will result in enormous savings in the energy consumption of new or refurbished buildings; this is hugely

important for the planet, as buildings are responsible for around 40% of all energy use in the developed world. To me, this marrying of engineering research and engineering in industry is immensely satisfying, and I hope it inspires current Engineering undergraduates at Girton. I’m fortunate that I can still devote time to supervising first-years in their Mathematics paper. Some of them also see me later in the course if they decide to pursue civil engineering and take the Building Physics or Architectural Engineering modules. My hope for them is that they’ll get the bug, that they’ll go out and apply engineering skills learned at Girton to build a better world. n

Stephanie Palmer I was brought up in Adelaide, Australia, where there was a wellknown school for girls named Girton. Although I didn’t attend the school, the history of the original Girton, and its role in educating women, has always been familiar to me. Both my parents came from remote areas in the outback; when I travel now to those places, I am amazed and a little frightened by the vastness of the land, the dazzling colours of red earth and blue sky, and the paucity of the population. Schooling there was quite limited, and my mother was forced to leave school at the age of 13. A voracious reader and autodidact, she was determined that her children should have a good education, and impressed on me the requirement to fend for myself economically and pursue my own career. I started reading Law at the University of Adelaide aged 16 (far too young – I always encourage younger applicants to Girton to take a gap year). Law was not my first choice, but as a minor I needed my father’s permission to attend university, and he would only agree to my taking a vocational course. While working as a trainee lawyer and then practising law in South

Australia, I continued to study towards a liberal arts degree. I enjoyed practising law, but missed university life. I was searching for a more stimulating career, and I wanted to see the world. With the assistance of a scholarship, I completed an LLM (Master of Laws) and SJD (Doctor of Juridical Science) at Harvard Law School. Harvard was totally unlike my previous university experience; it was noisy, competitive and highly political. Everyone there seemed so confident and articulate – Barack Obama was a fellow Law student – and initially it was rather intimidating; but these first impressions soon passed and I enjoyed my life at Harvard enormously. I was offered various posts in the US, but decided to come to the UK instead. I arrived at Girton in 1988 on my appointment as a Fellow in Law. As well as supervising undergraduates in Legal History (the intended focus of my research), I taught Constitutional Law and, over time, it was UK Constitutional Law that captured my interest. After studying Law in both Australia and the US, I found the UK version very different; Australia and the US both have written constitutions, whereas the UK famously has an unwritten or, more accurately, an uncodified one.

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Even today, when I mention that I teach Constitutional Law, people are surprised and make comments such as ‘But the UK has no constitution’ or ‘That must be a very short course!’ I suspect it was the connection to history which led to my great enjoyment of Constitutional Law; both

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the Glorious Revolution of 1688 and the 1689 Bill of concerning whether Parliament Rights play a significant role in the understanding of should have a say in the Brexit process, and there is some irony in UK Constitutional Law, and even Magna Carta the fact that, after years of debate, (1215) carries legal weight. Engaged in a feminist the Court has provided a reasoned rewriting of certain legal decisions, I also really enjoyed my research into the background of Roberts answer just as we are about to leave the EU. v Hopwood [1925]. This administrative law case concerned an attempt by Poplar Borough Council to The 1990s spawned huge changes to become a model employer and pay a higher our constitution. The election of the minimum wage to both men and women. At that Labour Party in 1997 led to an end of time, Poplar was one of the poorest parts of the UK as a London’s Docklands, and the unitary state and Council’s employment policy devolution for was influenced by a sustained Brexit will deliver Scotland, Wales feminist campaign and the dramatic alterations to and Northern 1918 Labour Party election the legal system. Ireland. Freedom manifesto promise of equal pay of Information for equal work. The courts, was introduced to the UK, which had however, failed dismally to protect the interests of traditionally been a highly secretive women. Even today, with an equality framework in state (even the 1977 Croham place, inequality still exists in the workplace. Directive, directing greater openness in government, was an official secret In retrospect, teaching Constitutional Law was until it was leaked). The UK had been relatively straightforward although, without the a treaty member of the European automatic structure that a written constitution Convention on Human Rights since provides, it seemed at the time difficult to describe the 1950s, but the rights were not and understand. Over the years, the subject has specifically protected in domestic law. expanded enormously. Even though the UK joined Since 2000, human rights have the European Economic Community (as it then was) infiltrated every area of law including in 1972, it was not until 1990 that a legal decision private law (and especially tort and by the House of Lords definitively confirmed that land law), as well as traditional public European law had supremacy over all UK domestic law disputes. law, including Acts of Parliament. This prompted lively debate about ‘what it all meant’ for our legal Change continues apace. Brexit will system and the doctrine of parliamentary sovereignty. The relationship between European and deliver further dramatic alterations and there will be an enormous UK domestic law has only recently been clarified by amount of new legislation. There are the Supreme Court decision of Miller [2017]

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constant threats that the Human Rights Act will be repealed and replaced by a British Bill of Rights and, if this happens, I suspect that fewer rights will be protected. Will the UK even remain one country? The Conservative Party’s current arrangement with the DUP also raises constitutional issues; there is a legal challenge claiming that, since the UK government undertook to exercise its power in Northern Ireland ‘with rigorous impartiality’, it is in breach of the Good Friday Agreement. The advantage of such a broad subject is that research can take a number of different avenues. I am currently researching issues concerning the introduction of standardised tobacco packaging and the legal and ethical issues surrounding assisted dying. I am giving a paper in July in Copenhagen entitled ‘Beyond Brexit: The Broader Implications of Miller for the UK Constitution, the Role of the Courts and International Law Obligations’, and I have also been invited to deliver a paper in Bogotá on ‘Culture and Abortion Law in Northern Ireland’. Grappling with all of these political and legal changes – and substantially rewriting my lectures every year – I have at times wistfully wondered why I didn’t stick with Legal History, but Constitutional Law remains an evolving and fascinating subject. n

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Alumni and Supporters The Development Office has been a hub of activity as we plan our approach to the 150th anniversary of the founding of the College, which falls in 2019. In the course of the year, we have organised 44 events attended by over 1200 alumni, and more than 80 one-to-one meetings with alumni. The College is in touch with 9,700 alumni, nearly all of whom were sent an alumni update survey in 2016; more than 3,500 alumni, Fellows and past Fellows replied. This is a fantastic response rate (over 36%). 73% of respondents were

female, 27% male, and the highest number of responses were from those who matriculated in the 1970s. Completed surveys were received from the UK (86%) and other regions worldwide (14%). A huge amount of information was gathered from the survey, and the College is extremely grateful for hundreds of offers to speak to students, write articles, be profiled for a College publication, or send material to the Archive. Many alumni indicated they would like to support the College by donating or remembering Girton in their will, and this is very much appreciated.

Alumni group with the Mistress and the Development Director in New York

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We have also spent time coming to grips with new UK and EU Data Protection regulations to ensure that we are fully compliant and that all alumni and supporters understand and approve the way we use your data. Please visit the College website – www.girton.cam.ac.uk /alumni-and-supportersdata-protection – for further details.

Laurence Martin, hosted regional launch events. Margaret hosted afternoon tea in Belfast for alumni in Ireland, while Sir Laurence welcomed London and East of England alumni to his home, a magnificent barn conversion in Suffolk, where Dr Tim Pestell (1987) inspired us with a talk on ‘The Kingdom of East Anglia’.

There has been a major thrust this year to evaluate Phase 1 of A Great Campaign and make preparations for the second and final phase, which will include our 150th anniversary celebrations. Our aim is to raise £50 million to secure a sustainable financial future for the College. Thanks to your support, £25 million was raised in donations and legacy pledges in Phase 1. Our report ‘Girton College: A Radical Vision for Learning’ – www.girton.cam.ac.uk/publications/ fundraisingimpact-report – details the impressive impact of your donations in improving the facilities, research and teaching at Girton.

With your kind support, nearly £2 million has been raised this year in gifts to College, including £265,208 from the Easter Telethon, which enjoyed a 65% participation rate. One of our objectives in the run-up to the 150th anniversary is to contact alumni who have never given before. We raised £29,981 from 70 new donors; 46% of this sum is made up of regular gifts matched by Hong Kongbased alumnus Richard Mun (1991). Thanks are due to all who have given so generously, and to our student callers who worked tirelessly over the three weeks after Easter.

The final phase of A Great Campaign was formally launched in The Ivy restaurant in London in late May, at a dinner very generously sponsored by an alumnus. More than 60 guests heard from bursary recipients Molly Hale (2016; History) and Tom Newman (2013; first-year Clinical Medicine) about the difference College bursaries and scholarships make to life at Girton. We also watched a stunning film, featuring Girton’s community of Fellows, students and staff, produced by former College Artist-in-Residence Sonny Vadgama. The dinner has already raised nearly £400,000 in donations, pledges and legacy pledges from alumni! Two members of the Campaign Board, Dr Margaret Mountford (1970) and Professor Sir

On a number of occasions, alumni returned to College, which allowed us to thank them in person for their support. On 15 October, during the Commemoration of Benefactors, over 70 alumni heard from the Jean Sybil Dannatt Fellow in Modern and Medieval Languages, Dr Stuart Davis, before joining supporters at the Foundation Dinner. On 4 February, members of the 1869 Society (alumni who have remembered Girton in their will) enjoyed a special supper where guests heard from Campaign Board member and legator, Dr Margaret Mountford, and listened to presentations from graduate student Thomasina Ball (about her research into fluid dynamics) and Dr Helen Van Noorden, a Fellow in Classics (about research and teaching at Girton). After the meal, we were treated to a short recital from Margaret Faultless,

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Nicholas Mulroy and Martin Ennis, who between them planned and directed the performance of Bach’s St John Passion that followed in Hall. This year also marked the retirement of History Fellows Dr Betty Wood and Dr Alastair Reid. A symposium entitled ‘50 Years of History at Girton’ celebrated their academic achievements; this was followed by a dinner attended by nearly 150 alumni, Fellows, students and guests. There was also a symposium followed by dinner for Medics and Vets in commemoration of Dr John Marks (Director of Studies in Medicine, 1977–1991). Once again, Girton is very grateful to Dr Guy O’Keefe (1990) and the team at Slaughter and May for hosting a Law and Finance reception in their Partners’ Dining Room. This event seems to grow larger every year; this year 200 alumni and students heard Colm O’Shea (1989) of COMAC Capital LLP present a talk entitled ‘Complexity is OverRated’. Prior to the reception there was a career networking event for undergraduates, who were given much-appreciated advice from Guy O’Keefe, Colm O’Shea and Sarah Hewin (1979), Senior Economist at Standard Chartered Bank. We are once again grateful to Elizabeth Werry (1955) for continuing to host her popular buffet lunches for OGs at her Dulwich home. Girton is also extremely grateful to members of the Campaign Board, the Roll of the Alumni Committee and other key volunteers, whom we thank for their tireless support and thoughtprovoking advice. In the autumn, the Mistress and I travelled to the East coast of the USA, where we met alumni in

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New York and Washington DC. Heartfelt thanks are due to Elizabeth Stribling (1966) for a fascinating evening ‘In Conversation with the Mistress’ at the Cambridge in America offices, and to Manuel de Miranda (1989) for hosting drinks in his Egon Zehnder International offices in Washington DC. Shortly before Easter, the Mistress and I made our regular trip to the Far East, meeting alumni in Singapore, Hong Kong and Beijing. Particular thanks must go to Yong Nang Tan (1980) who hosted the alumni drinks reception for nearly 30 Singaporeans in the Tower Club, and to the Hong Kong Committee of Kevin Chan (1986), Chadwick Mok (1984) and Franklin Heng (1985) who hosted the alumni drinks and dinner for over 20 alumni in Hong Kong. We were delighted to be greeted with such enthusiasm by alumni wishing to be involved with the 2019 alumni gathering in Asia and contribute to an endowed scholarship in the region. I would like to conclude by extending my thanks to the very many alumni and supporters who have shown such commitment and generosity in making Girton such a fascinating and remarkable institution. We look forward to welcoming many of you back to College during our 150th anniversary year, which runs from February 2019 to March 2020. Deborah Easlick, Development Director

Admissions and Widening Participation In October 2016 we welcomed 141 new undergraduate students to Girton, 46% of whom are studying a Science subject and 51% of whom are female; of the Home students 68% are from maintained schools. We were also joined by three Erasmus exchange students and one Junior Year Abroad student from Columbia University. In the admissions round, 71 of all the offers were made through the Winter Pool; we also took 12 from the Summer Pool. This year’s admissions round for 2017 entry saw the introduction of pre-interview written assessments for many subjects; all revised processes ran smoothly, thanks not least to the efficiency and oversight of Angela Stratford, the Head of Tutorial and Admissions, and her dedicated team; their help was greatly appreciated throughout the year. Regular outreach activities continue. At the time of writing, nearly 100 different schools, 80 teachers and 700 pupils have attended events in College this year. The number of schools visited by members of the Admissions Team, principally by our Schools Liaison Officer, Claire Nellany, continues to grow; this year a total audience of almost 3,000 young people, ranging from those starting secondary school in Year 7 to sixth-formers in Years 12 and 13, attended our workshops or presentations. Following a reorganisation of college link areas, Girton has

added two Cambridgeshire schools to its roster. This year’s launch of our HE+ Scheme in the Stourbridge /Dudley area was attended by 209 Year 12 students; 154 of these students attended masterclasses at Girton, covering 13 different subject areas. As part of our smaller Camden Scheme we also held a masterclass day which was attended by 39 students. The successful MML Taster Day was repeated in October 2016, with 66 GCSE students from 35 different schools attending. A Geography Taster Day in January 2017 saw 30 GCSE students attending from 16 schools. We also took part in four Cambridge Colleges Physics Experience Days, hosting 76 students. Also piloted this year was a scheme entitled ‘Girton Pathways to HE’ which offers pupils at selected schools in our link areas sustained support from Year 7, beginning with a workshop on aspirations and what it’s like to study at university, through to the point at which applications are submitted. We look forward to developing the scheme and reporting on it in future years. Stuart Davis and Julia Riley, Admissions Tutors

Bursaries and Grants Bursaries Fourteen holders of Emily Davies Bursaries (worth up to £3,500 per year) were in residence in 2016–17. The subjects read by the bursary-holders were: Engineering; English; Geography; Human, Social and Political Sciences; Law; Modern and Medieval Languages; Music; Philosophy; Physical Sciences; and Theology.

There were four holders of Ellen McArthur Bursaries (worth £1,000 in the first year and £1,500 in subsequent years) in residence in 2016–17, all reading either Economics or Human, Social and Political Sciences. Two Jean Lindsay Memorial Bursaries for History (worth

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£800 per year), and three Margaret Barton Bursaries for Medical Science (worth up to £3,500 per year) were held by students in residence in 2016–17. One hundred and twenty-six Cambridge Bursaries (worth up to £3,500 per year) were received by Girton undergraduates in 2016–17. This year we were once again delighted to award our most recently established bursaries, made possible by generous donations from alumni. Seven Rose Awards (totalling £8,500) were made to non-first-year students who were in receipt of a full Cambridge Bursary and who had the intention to benefit society and serve the community in a practical way. Twenty-four Girton Undergraduate Bursaries (worth up to £1,000 each) were awarded to first- and second-year students in receipt of a full Cambridge Bursary. All of these bursaries help students from the least well-off households to take up their place at Girton; they are fundamental to our widening-participation goals.

The College Overseas Bursaries of five students have been renewed for the coming academic year, and new bursaries were awarded to five overseas students expected to come into residence in October 2017. Grants Thirteen undergraduate students were given hardship grants from the Buss Fund totalling £1,812. Eight graduate students received grants amounting to £2,625 from the Pillman Hardship Fund. For academic expenses, grants totalling £5,843 were made from the Student Academic Resources Fund to thirty-six undergraduates. Eighteen graduate students received grants amounting to £2,830 from the Pillman Academic Fund. Seven grants totalling £1,229 were also made from the Harry Barkley Fund to Clinical Medical students undertaking elective periods of training. Angela Stratford, Head of Tutorial and Admissions

Graduate Affairs Girton admitted 95 new graduates and postgraduates in the Michaelmas, Lent and Easter Terms of 2016–17. This figure includes one Cambridge undergraduate who progressed to graduate studies. There were also eight students who went on to higher degrees and 14 Vets and Medics who moved on to their clinical studies. We therefore had a total of 112 new graduates and postgraduates returning to study. The number of new graduates this year meant that we achieved our target figure of 95.

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The 95 new graduates were made up of 63 men and 32 women. The ratio of Science to Arts in this year’s intake was very closely balanced at 51 Science and 44 Arts. Of those new to Cambridge in the 2016–17 intake, 31 were Home students, 22 were from European Union countries and 42 were from Overseas. The statistics for full or part funding of students new to Cambridge in the 2016–17 intake and undergraduates moving

on to graduate study gives a useful indication of the sources of available funding: • • • • •

Research body /Department 24% Public body (Trust /CHESS etc) 6% College 3% External bodies (Business /Government) 6% Self-funding 61%

The total number of Girton graduates (including 37 clinical vets and medics) now stands at 252 and represents a wide range of countries: Afghanistan 1; Argentina 1; Australia 1; Austria 5; Belarus 1; Belgium 4; Brazil 1; Bulgaria 3; Canada 2; Chile 3; China 15; China (Taiwan) 1; Cyprus 3; Czech Republic 1; Ethiopia 1; France 4; Germany 9; Greece 1; Guyana 1; Hong Kong 5; India 7; Ireland 4; Italy 6; Japan 1; Jordan 1; Lebanon 2; Luxembourg 3; Malaysia 1; Mexico 2; Netherlands 1; New Zealand 3; Pakistan 2; Poland 3; Portugal 1; Qatar 1; Romania 3; Russian Federation 1; Singapore 5; Slovenia 1; Spain 1; Switzerland 1; Thailand 1; Tunisia 1; Turkey 3; UAE 1; UK 124; USA 14; Vietnam 1. Families We have a total of 14 graduate parents. Eight currently live in Cambridge; three of the families live in College accommodation. Five of the graduate parents are from overseas, three from the EU and six from the UK. These are a welcome addition to the graduate community. Graduate Administrator We welcome Stephanie Farzad, who replaces Jenny Griffiths as Graduate Administrator; Stephanie divides her time between the College’s main site and Wolfson Court, and is therefore always

available to graduates for enquiries, often as their first port of call. We wish Jenny well in her retirement. Graduate Tutors This year marked a big change for the graduate community, with Frances Gandy standing down as Graduate Tutor after thirteen years in the role. Frances retires having helped establish a strong and vibrant graduate community in Girton, for which she has been a passionate advocate. The three Graduate Tutors – Dr Liliana Janik, Dr Sophia Shellard and Dr James Riley – continue to uphold our strong tradition of graduate support. They help all the graduates in personal, academic and financial matters, as required. They meet their graduate students individually and socially throughout the year, and regularly enjoy their company at Formal Hall each week. Liliana Janik combines her role as Graduate Tutor with her University position of Assistant Director in Research in Archaeology and as Director of Studies at Girton. Sophia Shellard is College Lecturer in Medical Sciences, and James Riley is Lecturer and Director of Studies in English, with research specialities in modern and contemporary literature. Looking forward Girton College at Swirles Court will be part of a new sustainable urban community featuring green open spaces, facilities and amenities such as local shops and a community centre, all linked by strategic cycle routes to promote connectivity to Cambridge city centre and beyond. Liliana Janik, Sophia Shellard and James Riley, Graduate Tutors

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Library One of the joys of working in a library is variety. Every year brings not only new students but also new roles and new challenges. Every day has the potential to spring surprises; a day that began quietly with a pile of books to catalogue can quickly move on to include unscheduled meetings, jammed-up printers (a disaster on dissertation-deadline day), and torrents of water from overflowing hand-basins. Also, for much of this year, the Library has been short-staffed, but everyone has turned their hand to almost everything, even Buster! Gifts and Bequests to the Library (Please note that all the donations listed here were received in the period 1 July 2016 to 30 June 2017) We are grateful to the many donors whose gifts of money allow us to buy books and other essential items. However, when the General Data Protection Regulation takes effect in the UK from 25 May 2018, we shall be unable to name any donors publicly unless they have given explicit permission for us to do so. Although we shall continue to bookplate all books that are donated or bought using gifts of money, from 1 July 2017 catalogue records of new Library material will no longer publicly show the names of donors without the donors’ express permission. This is therefore the final Librarian’s report to include a list of donors, bringing to an end a tradition that has lasted for 134 years. We remain grateful to everyone who makes donations to the Library – whether of books, journals, money or time – and we are sorry that we shall no longer be able to show our appreciation of your gifts in print. Donors to the Library include Muriel Kittel (Lister 1934), who, some years ago, gave us a large and generous donation to use for the purchase of works

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in language and literature, and whose family has since added to the fund. This enables us to continue to acquire various authors’ collected works in multiple volumes as they are published, and to overhaul the collections in these subjects on a periodic basis. We say ‘thank you’ for three particularly large donations this year. The first was of the mathematical books of the late Professor David Olive, given by his wife and daughter, both Girtonians. The second was the music collection of Lucy Roe (Jones 1940), given by her family, together with a financial donation to pay for cataloguing. The third was Dr Liz Hart’s collection of anthropology books, given in gratitude to her colleague and mentor Professor Dame Marilyn Strathern (Evans 1960). We were also very touched to receive legacies this financial year from Valerie Bowell (1950), Margaret Cox (1938) and Hilary Richardson (1948). Finally, we continue to benefit from the generosity of Cambridge University Press, whose special arrangement with the libraries of the University allows us to acquire books to the value of over £2,000 free of charge. Copies of their own work have been presented by: The Mistress, Yvonne Boyle (1972), Jane Claydon, Dr Fiona Cooke (1989), Prof Philip Davis, Dr Anne Fernihough, Dr Georg Gerleigner (2007), Nayana Goradia (Daftary 1962), Dr Ben Griffin, Dr Malcolm Guite, Dr John Hendry, Dr Danielle van den Heuvel, Dr Arnold Hunt, Christina Koning (1972), Dr Clive Lawson, Christine Love-Rodgers (1992), Dr Simone Maghenzani, Dr Hilary Marlow, Dr Jim Moher,

Dr Roderick Munday, Dr Gabriele Natali, Dr Alastair Reid, Professor Thomas Sherwood, Anne Spurgeon, Peter Stansky, Professor Dame Marilyn Strathern (Evans 1960), Dr Dorothy Thompson (Walbank 1958), Dr Elizabeth Vinestock (Morrison 1957) and Dr James Wade. The following individuals have also presented copies of books and other media: Dr Lindsay Burch (1958), Helen Chown (Benians 1968), Dr Juliet Dusinberre, Dr Liz Hart, Jenny Holmes (Pitts 1990), Dr Kate Hughes, Amanda Ingham and Nora Khayi, Dr Nancy Lane Perham, Alison Lewis on behalf of Dr Michael Hollings, Karen Lee, Dr Simone Maghenzani, Barbara Megson (1948), Jenny Olive (Tutton 1957) and Rebecca Olive (1986), the friends of Jennifer Renouf (Perfect 1951), the family of Lucy Roe (Jones 1940), Paul Sandbach, the Schools Liaison Officer, Mary Sidwell (1949), Zoe Stavrinou (2014) and Dr Dorothy Thompson (Walbank 1958).

Buster the College cat boosts his study skills

We are very grateful to the following donors, who maintain regular subscriptions to journals on our behalf, or who present us with regular current copies: Dr Harriet Allen (1977) and Professor Dame Marilyn Strathern (Evans 1960). Publications have also been presented by the following organisations: Oxford University Press and Ons Erfdeel vzw. Jenny Blackhurst, Librarian

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Archive The major project in the Archive this year has been cataloguing the papers of Baroness James of Holland Park, better known as the writer P D James (Honorary Fellow 2000). P D James’s output was prolific: she wrote nineteen novels (including those featuring the detective Adam Dalgliesh) and several works of non-fiction. She also produced many articles and reviews, lectured widely, was an active member of many societies and learned bodies, served as a Governor of the BBC, and was a Life Peer in the House of Lords. Since her death in 2014, a complex array of additional deposits has arrived in the Archive to join the manuscripts and research notes donated by Baroness James herself in 1999, 2000 and 2004. In 2015 further manuscripts were bequeathed under the terms of her will; in 2016 her literary agent donated papers relating to her publications; also in 2016 Baroness James’s family donated further papers, including manuscripts, lectures, articles and correspondence; and in 2017 examples of her writing from her school magazine were donated. It is hoped that a catalogue featuring this new material will be available in the new calendar year. Other new accessions this year include additions to the personal papers of Beryl Platt (Myatt 1941) and Madeleine Binnington (1927); Rhoda Mary Prescott Phipps’s (1924) photograph album; and reminiscences of Doulla Manolas (1991). All these collections add to our record of the Girton experience; however, I was particularly pleased to receive the reminiscences from Doulla Manolas as this is the first collection of student papers we have from the 1990s. More unusual accessions this year include an ashtray embossed with the

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College crest and examples of recent College merchandise, including the toy squirrel. Some of the catalogues mentioned in this report are now available on the Janus website at: https://janus.lib.cam.ac.uk/ I have been lucky this year to have had two parttime assistants in the Archive, Tilda Watson and Tilly Burn. Tilda has been dealing with visiting researchers and most of the day-to-day enquiries, whilst Tilly has focused on a variety of projects such as enhancing the catalogues, working on the rolling conservation project, and mounting internal exhibitions. With two assistants we have been able to introduce a new initiative this year, ‘Glimpses of Girton’. These articles, available on the College website, focus on an item or area from the College’s varied collections. Finally, I would like to thank Hilary Goy (Corke 1968), Cherry Hopkins (Busbridge 1959) and Anne Cobby (1971) who have continued to give generously of their time volunteering in the Archive. Hannah Westall, Archivist and Curator The donations listed below refer to the period 1 July 2016 – 30 June 2017: Jennifer Anderson; James Berry; Yvonne Boyle (1972); Lindsay Burch (1958); Monica Cheeseman; Jane Claydon; Peter Conlan; Anne Crabbe; Jonathan Dagley; Stuart Davis; Dianne Edwards (1961); Annabel Elton; Clare Bantry Flook; Frances Gandy; Barbara Gardner; Edith Gash; Edmund Gazeley (2013); Michael Harron; Arnold Hunt; John Higgins; Lois Jeary; Gillian Jondorf (Moore 1956);

P D James’s lecture notes on crime writing, circa 1972 (archive reference: GCPP James 3/1/1)

Heike Jöns; Gilly King; Christopher Lee; Doulla Manolas (1991); Jenny Marks; Catherine Marriage; Roland Mayer; John McCabe (1989); Jane Bantry McLeod; Jane Moriarty; Claire Myers; Heather O’Neill; John Pearson; Victoria C Platt (1972); Yelena Popova; Judith Rodden (1955); Peter Ryde; Anthony Seaton; Peter Sparks; Gordon Stokes; Marilyn Strathern (Evans 1960); Merril Sylvester; Dorothy Thompson (Walbank 1958); Richard Wilkinson; Malcolm Williamson; Martin Uildriks; Kate Varney; Nuri Wyeth (Marckwald 1964).

Records were also transferred from various College departments throughout the year. NB: On 25 May 2018 the General Data Protection Regulation [GDPR] will be introduced; this replaces the Data Protection Act in the UK. Once the GDPR is introduced we will be unable to name any donors publicly unless they have given explicit permission for us to do so. From next year we will therefore no longer include a list of the donors to the Archive in this report; however, with donors’ explicit agreement their names will still appear in the Archive catalogue.

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Culture and Heritage The College strives to make its cultural and heritage collections visible and accessible to all. These collections include the artwork, the People’s Portraits collection, and the College’s collections of antiques, clocks, rugs and silver, as well as the Archive, the Lawrence Room Collection and the Special Collections.

was no exception. The People’s Portraits reception welcomed Laura Cumming, The Observer’s art critic and author, as the guest speaker; the audience enjoyed her reflections on the unusual nature of the collection, as well as the unveiling of the latest addition: The Dentist, by William Bowyer (1927–2015) RA, RP.

Throughout the year we welcomed interested groups and individuals to enjoy the collections and to conduct academic research. However, it is the September Alumni weekend in particular that celebrates the collections, and the 2016 weekend

The Lawrence Room talk, entitled ‘Things Seen and Unseen: Some Surprises from Papua New Guinea’, was given by Professor Dame Marilyn Strathern (Evans 1960), who took as her starting point the nineteenthcentury Maori fish-hooks in the Lawrence Room. The Library talk was given by Jill Whitelock (Denham 1988), Head of Special Collections at Cambridge University Library. She spoke about curating the exhibition Curious Objects, inspiring an accompanying exhibition from the College Archive that displayed some of Girton’s own curious objects.

The Dentist by William Bowyer RA, RP (1975; oil on canvas)

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The 2017 Alumni weekend promises to be equally stimulating. Guest speakers will include Pim Baxter, OBE, Deputy Director at the National Portrait Gallery; Dr Anastasia Christophilopoulou, Assistant Keeper in the Department of Antiquities at the Fitzwilliam Museum; and Dr Katharina Brett, Publisher in the Academic Group of Cambridge University Press.

The College was particularly pleased this year to accept a generous donation of three sculptures by Christine Fox, 1922–2012, given in Christine’s memory by her daughter, Alison Mitchell, who is also an artist. Gateway to the Dark Wood is located next to the pond, and a pair of sculptures, both entitled Gazelle, now stands in Honeysuckle Walk. The College has also benefited this year from having Yelena Popova as Artist-inResidence. Behind the scenes, we continue to care for the Collections, ensuring they are properly catalogued and displayed, and conserving items when necessary. This year some of the items in the Lawrence Room were conserved, and some of the antiques were restored. The programme of marking the objects in the Lawrence Room also continues. Several works from the art collection have also been conserved and reframed, including the portraits of Hertha Ayrton (Marks 1876), and Fanny Metcalfe, Headmistress and Founder of Highfield School and member of the first Executive Committee of Girton College, 1872–96. I would like to end by thanking Peter Sparks for all his hard work as Steward for Silver and Antiques, a post from which he will retire on 30 September 2017. Hannah Westall, Archivist and Curator

Chapel In a year of many changes and challenges Chapel remains a place to be still, to be centred, to connect afresh with the unchanging things: the values we live by and the glimpses of eternity vouchsafed us in the midst of time. Our theme for Michaelmas Term was ‘The Good Life?’ We explored what makes for a good life, beyond the drive to material success. Some sermons distinguished between success and fruitfulness; others opened out the Platonic triad of the True, the Good and the Beautiful. However, the final sermon returned to the central theme of the Gospel, which is Love, and the desire for a life centred on giving and receiving love, both human and divine. Lent is perhaps the most challenging term, as students, Fellows and staff struggle through the dark days of January and February, often most exhausted and low-spirited at the point when their work is at its most demanding. The theme of the term, ‘Resistance and Resilience’, addressed more than just those collegiate concerns; the outcome of the American election and the challenges arising in Europe also seemed to call for a reconnection with our deepest values and for a spirit of resistance and resilience, and those concerns were reflected in both the preaching and the prayer life of Chapel. Amongst our preachers it was good to hear from Mandy Maxwell, the Vicar of Girton Parish Church, and to welcome back Old Girtonian Suzie Stride, who brought a much-needed message of energy and hope.

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With our final-year students beginning to consider their options and their calling beyond Cambridge, Easter Term’s theme of ‘Vocation: Choice and Calling’ was designed to help them in their reflections. One of the highlights of the term was a sermon on the calling of a musician by our own Director of Chapel Music, Gareth Wilson, who has brought the choir on from strength to strength. In this sermon, with a little unexpected assistance from Buster the College Cat, he helped us all reflect on how there was always an element of surprise and mystery in our vocation, as there is surprise and mystery in the God who has called us into being. I hope the Chapel has been, and will continue to be, a place where the surprising mystery of God can be encountered. Malcolm Guite, Chaplain

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Choir In October 2016 we were thrilled to welcome a sizeable new intake of talented singers, which made for a promising start to a very busy year. Just one week after the Ceremony for the Commemoration of Benefactors, we went to Lichfield Cathedral for a weekend residency, singing two evensongs and a morning Eucharist. It was a true delight to be well received by the clergy and congregation, and to have our ranks swelled by a former head-chorister and deputy head-chorister of Lichfield Cathedral. Within two weeks of this, we were off to London to join the choir of Christ Church, Chelsea for their All Souls’ service. This was the first of four joint services this year, the others being with St John’s Voices, and

the Chapel Choirs of St Catharine’s and Pembroke Colleges. Each event has been special and has reminded us that what happens in Girton Chapel is mirrored elsewhere; to be part of such an extraordinary and far-reaching tradition is indeed an enormous privilege. The beginning of Lent Term was tinged with sadness as our Senior Organ Scholar, William Fuest, resigned due to serious repetitive strain injury, leaving his colleague, Lucy Morrell, with an increased workload. We were soon rejoicing, however, when Lucy achieved her Associateship of the Royal College of Organists diploma (ARCO), a notable distinction for a young organist. This gave

Girton College Chapel Choir on tour in Canada

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the choir added impetus as we set off on another trip, this time to Norwich, where we had the privilege of singing Kenneth Leighton’s Second Service in the cathedral for which it was written. Our service for the Friends of the Chapel Choir, in which we were joined by Jeremy West and students from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, coincided with the arrival of our new CD recording, Requiem a 5 and Motets by Orlande de Lassus, which has been released worldwide and received critical acclaim. Other collaborations have involved students from the Royal Academy of Music and the Royal Welsh College of Music and

Drama, and we have greatly benefited from working with Margaret Faultless, both for our Bach concert in November and for Mozart’s Missa Brevis in F in the Easter Term. A Compline service at Westcott House in the final week of term was a very special occasion and led us into rehearsals for the May Week Concert, for which we were joined once again by Margaret Faultless and Jeremy West, as well as Martin Ennis. We now look forward to our tour of the Iberian Peninsula and, in particular, to concerts in Évora and Porto cathedrals. Gareth Wilson, Director of Chapel Music and Assistant Director of Music

In July 2016, the Chapel Choir, together with students of Historic Brass from London’s Guildhall School of Music and Drama, made a recording of music by Orlande de Lassus (1532–1594), arguably the most famous composer of the Renaissance. The CD, issued by Toccata Classics, is special not only because it makes several of Lassus’s pieces accessible for the first time, but because it takes advantage of our relationship with the Guildhall and Jeremy West (Musician in Residence at Girton, and professor of Early Brass at Guildhall). Lassus’s rarely heard fivepart Requiem (recorded with brass accompaniment for the first time) forms the centrepiece of the disc, and is interwoven with motets in a programme of beautiful and uplifting music. ‘The renditions are impeccable. A fantastic album [...] which also provides first recordings of important repertoire.’ (Naxos Germany: April 2017 Newsletter) You can order your own copy directly from Girton at this address: https://www.girton.cam.ac.uk/girton-today/music/choir/girton-college-choir-recordings

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Music The academic year 2016–17 was book-ended by two special concerts. The first placed the spotlight firmly on a single alumnus; the second revealed the depth and range of Girton’s current musical talent. A solo piano recital by Mateusz Borowiak (2006) provided a splendid upbeat to the year. Since graduating, Mateusz has developed a major career as concert soloist and recording artist, with several international prizes under his belt. We were therefore delighted that he agreed to perform for the Roll in September 2016, and his playing was rapturously received.

Mateusz returned to College in the spring to coach several of Girton’s pianists. This was one of a series of masterclasses this year. In February, Nicholas Mulroy, one of the leading tenors of his generation (and a former Director of Chapel Music at Girton), taught many of our top singers in a varied selection of repertoire, and in June we had a return visit from Sian Edwards (Head of Conducting at the Royal Academy of Music), followed only a few days later by a workshop on Alexander Technique from Sue Holladay (former Chair of the Society of Teachers of the Alexander Technique).

2016 Freshers’ Concert, Stanley Library

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Traditionally, the May Week Concert has served as a showcase for a broad range of Girton’s talent, and we’ve generally given the stage to those about to graduate. The four Part II Musicians, one of the strongest groups of recent times, played a pivotal role this year. Marianne Schönle, who carried off a University prize after notching up a second starred First, offered her services as both bassoonist and pianist; for her solo slot, she gave a masterly performance of Liszt’s devilishly difficult Mephisto Waltz No. 1. David McGregor, who also graduated with a First, performed as countertenor in a string of pieces – most notably, Britten’s Abraham and Isaac, where he was partnered by Ruari Paterson-Achenbach and Marianne Schönle. Also showcased were compositions by this year’s other two finalists: a movement from Konrad Bucher’s post-Romantic piano quintet, and Ji Heng Lee’s intriguingly titled What can one do in three minutes? – a sardonic reference to the time he had been allotted in the programme. Cameo performances by Margaret Faultless, Gareth Wilson, Jeremy West and myself demonstrated the sharing of experience at all levels which is such an enjoyable feature of musical life at Girton.

Posters by Ji Heng Lee and Andrea Seaton

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The other major concert of the year was a performance of Bach’s Johannes-Passion on 4 February. I was slated to conduct this, but had to stand down following an eye operation. My collaborators, Margaret Faultless and Nicholas Mulroy, took this in their stride and staged a remarkable conductor-less performance with direction shared between Maggie, who rehearsed and

led the orchestra, and Nick, who prepared the choir as well as giving an extraordinary performance as Evangelist. Many claimed it was one of the most moving versions of the Passion they had ever heard. There were other memorable events. On 17 January we hosted a recital to raise money towards the purchase of a piano for a conservatoire in Havana. The brilliant prize-winning Cuban pianist Marcos Madrigal and internationally renowned opera singer Ann Liebeck presented a programme of songs and piano music by Ernesto Lecuona, Cuba’s answer to George Gershwin, and Grammy winner Yalil Guerra. I can’t claim that there was dancing in the aisles of the Stanley Library, but feet were certainly tapping! The same week another notable alumnus, Matthew Schellhorn (1995), returned to play a major new piano work by Ian Wilson, A Sonata of Solstices and Equinoxes. This remarkable piece, by a composer whom Matthew has championed, engages with themes of recurrence, time, and musical culture as found object, referencing indigenous musics from Africa, India and Ireland. And on 6 November Duo Karadys, two performers who trained with some of the great names in chamber music (including Sándor Végh and Max Rostal), came to Girton fresh from the Cheltenham Festival to perform David Earl’s warmly romantic Viola Sonata alongside the Third Sonata by Frederick Delius. Most of the other concerts this year were ‘homegrown’. A flavour of the programmes can be gleaned from the stunning posters produced by Ji Heng Lee and Andrea Seaton.

Quintet concert

Fortunately, we left behind unpronounceable titles such as Fauréiade for our single-composer concert this year, opting instead for a Bachiade. Curated by Margaret Faultless and staged on 7 November, the programme revealed the sheer range of Bach’s compositional invention in a selection of trio sonatas, preludes and fugues, and cantata movements. As has become customary, the evening concluded with a piece for all the performers, in this case, Bach’s ‘Jesu, Joy’ – a resounding endorsement of the ensemble spirit that underpins so much of the Music Society’s endeavours. Martin Ennis, Austin and Hope Pilkington Fellow in Music, and Director of Music

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Fellows’ Research Talks The annual programme of events began with our new Research Fellow, Sebastian Falk, taking us into Britain’s medieval monasteries, where things were not as darkly and dogmatically religious as we had previously thought. Seb’s research shows that, even after the foundation of medieval universities, monasteries remained centres of learning that played an important, if previously unrecognised, role in the development of Western science. Talking us through the scientific instruments and manuscripts produced in the monasteries, Seb reflected on the monks’ motivations for engaging in science, and even showed us how to use an astrolabe! On Valentine’s Day, we had a special treat: a talk by James Wade on medieval romance. Reflections on eventfulness and arbitrariness – ways in which contingencies orient life – were central to this genre. Romance narratives were never causally coherent tales; they dealt rather in serendipity and chance, often personified as fairies. These were not the dainty, flowerbedecked girls we imagine today, but scary, funny or utterly bizarre creatures much given to mayhem. Modern readers, habituated as we are to cause-effectual sequences of events, are often confused by the logic – or its lack – in romances.

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But medieval audiences revelled in an uncertainty that is infinitely closer to life than most of what novelists write today. A week later we were in South Africa, following the life of Girtonian anthropologist Monica Wilson and her turbulent and euphoric marriage to anthropologist Godfrey Wilson. Seán Morrow, a South African historian who had recently published Monica’s biography, The Fires Beneath: The Life of Monica Wilson, South African Anthropologist, took us into the ways that two intensely intellectual lives were bound together and unravelled by unrelenting love. Godfrey killed himself in 1944; Monica lived for another 38 years, during which she published vast volumes of work, as if at once driven and freed by the death of her beloved. A fortnight later, we were back in Britain with Alastair Reid and Peter Ackers, who discussed their new book, Alternatives to State-Socialism in Britain: Other Worlds of Labour in the Twentieth Century, which they conceived while Peter was a Visiting Fellow at Girton. In the book, Alastair and Peter demonstrate that throughout the twentieth century British Socialist thought and the labour movement were much more varied than standard Fabian and

Marxist narratives would have us believe. They show that the labour movement had little class cohesion and that, rather than being a unionised march towards secular state-socialism, it involved a range of associational genres, which encompassed self-help and religion. The year ended on a drumroll with Malcolm Guite’s talk on the making of his critically acclaimed biography, Mariner: A Voyage with Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The book is a study of what Malcolm terms Coleridge’s ‘theology of imagination’, a distinctly Christian intellectual apparatus which informed Coleridge’s thinking on matters as varied as poetry and objectivity, creativity and inspiration, and the philosophy of Newton and Locke. At the centre of this intellectual universe was the idea of Imago Dei, or being made in the image of God, in which Coleridge saw the source of human creativity. As God comes into being by uttering ‘I am’, man self-creates by speaking, and writing. Man, like God, is in essence a poet – an imaginative animal – an idea which Malcolm conveyed with his vividly poetic performance. Anastasia Piliavsky, Fellow in Social Anthropology

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JCR Report The 2016 –17 academic year has been animated by a spirit of rebuilding and development, as students have sought to strengthen the bonds of community that have proved so essential over an extremely testing period for the College. The enthusiasm with which Girton’s

undergraduates have taken on the mantle of organising a 2018 Spring Ball epitomises this, serving as an example of the considerable progress made this year. The year commenced with the most packed Freshers’ Week yet,

encompassing 48 events over an exhausting 168-hour period. Everyone involved deserves credit for maintaining their energy through an eclectic mix of fancydress parties, Girton-wide scavenger hunts, club nights, pubcrawls, scenic bike rides and the

The JCR Committee with the LBGT+ flag. From left to right: Joshua Peters (President), Daisy Crowfoot (Catering Officer), Ellie Bishop (Welfare Officer), Elli Wilson (Equalities and Ethical Affairs Officer), Capucine May (Ents and Societies Officer), Kayan Patel (Vice President), Ryan Jenkinson (Treasurer), Haafizah Khodabocus (Disabilities and Mental Health Officer) and Momchil Peychev (Computer Officer)

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The 2016 intake enjoying a night at Funky Funhouse for Freshers’ Week 2016

inaugural edition of the Great Girton Bake Off. The JCR Committee maintained this momentum, running multiple ents, open-mic comedy nights, pub quizzes and welfare parties. The JCR Equalities Team hosted Sogo Akintaro, founder of Limitless Generation, a social enterprise that

assists students from under-privileged backgrounds, in celebration of Black History Month, and flew the Rainbow Flag at the front of College throughout February in support of the LGBT+ community. This year has seen tremendous sporting success. Once again Sam Philpott and Ellie Hopgood (who

captained the Women’s Lightweight crew) rowed to victory at the Henley Boat Race. Girton’s Cross Country Club has had its strongest year ever, thanks to a talented team of runners, with the men’s team under Will Lyon-Tupman and the women’s team under Ruby Woolfe coming top of their respective leagues.

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MCR Report In memory of Tom Millward, who in his time at Girton was a keen rugby player, the JCR established a Girton Sports Award Ceremony and Formal Dinner. Tom Wilson was recognised for his outstanding contribution to Girton through his seemingly endless sporting endeavours, and Kate Read for her achievements at University and national level in water polo. More than 150 students attended the event.

This academic year marks the end of an era as the Girton graduate community says goodbye to its spiritual home, Wolfson Court. With the graduate base now moving northwards to Swirles Court and closer to College, here is a short review of our final year at the unique and special place known to us all as ‘Wolfie’. Led by a diverse and strong MCR committee, the infallible graduate community spirit has grown ever stronger throughout the year. After a typically quiet summer, the start of the academic year heralded the arrival of a new cohort of Girton graduates. A packed Freshers’ Week was accompanied by some welcome

Undeterred by the 2.5-mile cycle-ride into town, Girtonians have ascended this year to the upper echelons of the wider Cambridge community. Adam Woolf and Enrico Hallworth have graced the comedy stage at Footlights, Dan Edwards was appointed senior editor of The Tab, and Miles Kekwick and Tom McArthur were elected to the Union Society committee. I would like to thank the students for their inspiring strength and determination in working to make Girton as wonderful as possible for all. Joshua Peters, JCR President

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Nikta Daijavad, Ruairi Mackenzie, Beatriz Esperança

October sunshine, as the MCR led our new members around Cambridge to observe and take in the impressive density and variety of activities such a small city has to offer – many pubs, wooden walls, old things, and Mill Road. The end of an excellent week was marked by the annual Matriculation photos and Freshers’ Formal Hall. As the academic year got into full swing, the MCR Committee grew to full capacity following an entertaining evening of hustings. Undoubtedly one of the most active and outgoing committees of recent times, this year’s group has had several noteworthy achievements. A Welfare Team was established to cater for the graduate body. A Welfare Tea has been a consistent feature throughout the year as the team provided hospitality and nourishment when needed. Among the social highlights were the Christmas Party, the Great Gatsby Formal, and the Two Ronnies Quiz Night. Regular Pecha Kucha events (mini research talks) have continued to entertain, inform and demonstrate the depth and breadth of the work and research of the graduate community. The MCR has become more active in demanding justice for Giulio Regeni, the Girton graduate student

Members of the MCR at Wolfson Court, including (in the foreground) Alfie Lake, Luisa Garcia, Georgia Tindale, Jason Ginsberg, Ellen Goodwin

tragically murdered whilst carrying out fieldwork in Cairo in January 2016. His name and picture have been ever present in Wolfson Court this year, and the MCR will continue to support the campaign for what is fair and what is right – Justice for Giulio. As the academic year draws to a close and we begin to say goodbye to Wolfson Court for the final time, I would like to extend my thanks on behalf of the MCR to all staff, past and present, who have been

incredibly supportive to the graduate community. Special thanks must go to the late Richard Cleary, a much-loved Lodge Porter who sadly passed away in October 2016. Christopher Hitchens once said, ‘A melancholy lesson of advancing years is the realisation that you can’t make old friends’. Girton has always been a place where friendships to stand the test of time have been formed, and long may it continue. Andrew Stretton, MCR President

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Badminton Club Girton currently fields two teams in the University league and the annual Cuppers knock-out tournament. Badminton has been one of the College’s most successful clubs in recent years, and in the last six years Girton has claimed three League titles, two Open Cuppers titles and one Mixed Cuppers title.

start with an assured win against Jesus II. Increased confidence led to a run of victories, and Girton I comfortably secured first place and promotion back to Division One. Particular credit should go to Nathan Vandromme for a series of stunning performances in his first season at the club.

At the start of the season, Girton I seemed to be facing an uphill task after losing several senior players and suffering relegation from Division One for the first time in a number of years. However, with key players improving in their consistency and form and with an injection of young blood, the team got off to a flying

With star player Xi Shern Tan taking over as first team captain in Lent Term, the prospects looked good. Unfortunately, a few narrow defeats left Girton I in danger of losing their place in Division One, and a late victory against Christ’s was not enough to stave off relegation. Girton I fought hard against Division

Alex Eldridge, Xi Shern Tan, Arjun Thayyil, Douglas Thomas, Nathan Vandromme, Rahul Shah

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Fresh shuttlecocks for the new season

One champions Jesus I in the second round of Cuppers, but in the end the quality and experience of the opposition was too much. Improved performances towards the end of the term leave room for optimism as the team looks ahead to next year. The second team plays in the fourth of nine divisions in the University League. Having gained promotion last year, the priority for new captain Alex Eldridge was to maintain the team’s position in a tough league. After finishing fourth in Michaelmas Term, Girton II pushed on in Lent with an impressive set of victories, most notably over Fitzwilliam I, a strong side with real pedigree in the sport. With a record of four wins and just a single defeat, Girton II stands on the verge of an historic promotion to Division Three. Special thanks should go to Nathan Bottomley, Jan Menz and David de Oliveira for their commitment to the team this year. Douglas Thomas, Men’s First Team Captain

Boat Club As always, May Bumps were the highlight of the rowing year, with four Girton crews participating in what promised to be an eventful week. Though W2 managed to fend off ‘spoons’ with a row-over, M2 were less successful, being ‘bumped’ consecutively; they will undoubtedly be seeking to rectify this in 2017. Following their descent into Division Two the year before, a determined M1 returned to reclaim its rightful place in Division One, bumping Fitzwilliam, Robinson, and Christ’s along the way. It was also another successful week for W1, who bumped up three places, putting them – for the first time since 2009 – in fifth place on the river. The new academic year saw plenty of novice coxes and rowers braving the frosty Michaelmas mornings to navigate the hazards of the River Cam. With true Girton spirit, a crew of Women’s Novices sported ‘Votes for Women’ banners whilst competing in the Emmanuel Sprints Regatta. Three crews entered Fairbairns at the end of Michaelmas; racing the 4,300 metre course, W1 proved themselves to be the seventhfastest college crew, while M1 exceeded all expectations by overtaking the boat ahead. Returning to the river in January, crews began clocking up miles and hours in preparation for Lent Bumps. Lent Term also saw the development of a strong and dedicated W2 led by the

GCBC May’s Boat club dinner

M1 Lent’s 2017: Top: Wilf Rake. Behind: Alessandro Davide Lalongo, William Lohrmann (Captain). Front: Calum Foley, Thomas Hancock, Jordan Eriksen, Rob Horne, Liam O’Connor and Alex Rossiter

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combined wisdom and enthusiasm of Thomas Hancock and Siobhan Eastman. Despite an impressive row in the ‘getting on’ race, W2 narrowly missed out on a place in Bumps. Undeterred, the team has continued to train, now setting its sights on Mays. In anticipation of Bumps, W1 raced in the Newnham Short Course and the Pembroke Regatta, making it through to the semi-final. An exciting week of Lent Bumps demonstrated strong racing from all crews. W1 defended their ninth position, while M1 and M2 bumped up two and three positions respectively. Beyond the Cam, Eleanor Hopgood made the CUWBC Lightweight Crew, and Samuel Philpott made the CULBC Crew. Both were victorious in their races against Oxford, making it a proud day for both Girton and Cambridge. Easter Term began with both Senior crews racing in City Sprints, and training is now well underway for May Bumps. Girton have five crews intending to race in Mays, for what is sure to be another eventful week of rowing. Ana Hernandez, President of GCBC 2017–18, and India Harris, W1 2016–17

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W1 and M1 May Bumps 2016: Back row: Alex Rossiter (Captain), Simon Schoenbuchner, Andrew McMahon, Sam Philpott, Annabel Butcher, Rob Horne, Teague Smith, William Lohrmann, Thomas Hancock. Front row: Jade Harding, Catherine Foot (Captain), Ana Hernandez, Holly Game, Tim Nye, Leonie Hondburg, Ellie Hopgood, Charlotte Zeally and Nicole Stephens

W1 Lents 2017: Back row: Jade Harding and Catherine Woller. Front row: Alex Reina Barker, Jenni Ebert, Ana Hernandez (Captain), Tamsin Banner, Anna Weir, India Harris, Camilla Fairbairn

Casual Choir I was very excited to take on the task of running the Casual Choir after having so much fun during the first year of its existence. The Choir was created to allow College students of all levels of experience to sing together, and members can commit as much time as their studies allow. I have tried never to put pressure on people to attend rehearsals or performances, and I am so proud of the commitment shown by the group in preparation for some brilliant performances in short time-frames.

hectic, so we had fun trying out new songs at more relaxed rehearsals. It has been a pleasure to lead the Choir and I would like to thank all the singers for the time and energy they contributed this year. I would also like to thank Jack Reynolds, Musical Assistant, for his ideas and help in rehearsals, and Rachel Dunn,

Administrative Assistant, for all her assistance in making sure things ran smoothly. I have found singing in the Choir to be a great break from studying and a good way to reduce stress, and I hope that many more students can do the same over the coming years. Rosie Baines, Director

This year was the first time the Choir was booked for performances outside College. In Michaelmas Term we went carol singing in the Grand Arcade, filling shoppers with Christmas cheer until we were hoarse, and raising money for Jimmy’s Cambridge, a charity that provides help for homeless people in Cambridge. We were invited by the Grand Arcade to perform at their Christmas lights switch-on, when I was again impressed by the sound and teamwork of the group. We had another chance to sing our favourite carols at the College Christmas Formal Hall. It was lovely to be a special part of the College community at such a key event, and to spend time together as a group over dinner. During Lent Term, our performance schedule was less

Casual Choir singing at the Girton College Garden Party 2016

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Christian Union Girton Christian Union started the year by joining with fellow Christians from Fitzwilliam, Christ’s and Wolfson Colleges for a day of studying the Bible, worshipping God and praying together, as well as some fun and games in the afternoon sunshine. We were delighted to get to know lots of friendly and enthusiastic Freshers during Michaelmas Term, and it has been great to see them settling into the CU in College. This year we have run a series of popular Text-A-Toastie events. In these, we give every student in College the chance to order a free toastie straight to their room, together with an answer from one of our members to any question about Christianity. We have also given students the opportunity to find out about our faith and to talk about their views through Share, a discussion group open to all which looks at big questions like ‘Can we make sense of a hurting world?’ and ‘Is lasting peace a real possibility?’ As part of the Inter-Collegiate CU (CICCU), the aim of GCU is to make Jesus Christ known to students in Cambridge. A big

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element of this mission is running city-wide events such as the University Carol Services, which take place at the end of Michaelmas Term, and Girton members have helped out with organising and supporting these efforts. We have also taken part in Unexpected, a week of talks and events run by CICCU to allow every student in Cambridge the opportunity to learn about, and respond to, the Christian message. We meet as a group on Wednesday evenings to read and discuss the Bible together and to plan events for College, and we meet on Friday mornings to pray for each other and for Girton as a whole. In Easter Term, David de Oliveira and Imogen Smith took on the mantle as new Reps, and we look forward to seeing the exciting plans they have for the year ahead.

Friday morning prayer meeting in Easter Term. Left to right: Sarah Wolstencroft, Imogen Smith, Ji Heng Lee, Sam Parkin, Will Lyon-Tupman, Rachel Dunn, Timothy Lee, David Lawrence, David de Oliveira

Douglas Thomas and Rachel Dunn, College Reps Some of the CU studying the Bible together on Wednesday evening at the start of Easter Term. Left to right: Sam Bartholomew, Imogen Smith, David de Oliveira, Ffîon Snelling, Sarah Wolstencroft, Sam Parkin

Men’s Football In the first CUAFL Premier League season after several years of absence the Girton College Football Club First XI out-performed even the greatest optimists’ hopes. After losing several core players from the previous season’s Division 2 campaign the team gained a new shape with the incoming students. It was not certain, despite their undoubted talents, that this mix of players would manage to function as a team, and we were predicted to finish eighth out of ten teams by Varsity in its annual pre-season forecast. The season started with a highlight as we took on St John’s in a repetition of last season’s legendary and dramatic Cuppers win. Newly promoted and playing our first match as a team, we started cautiously, but the longer we stood on the pitch the more confident we grew, and we finished St John’s off comfortably 4 -1. All our goals in this match were scored by Freshers. Over the course of Michaelmas Term, we remained unbeaten in Premier League and Cuppers with only one draw and a remarkable 2-1 away victory over the reigning league champions, Queens’ College. Determined to build on this record, we beat Fitzwilliam College, a team counting nine Blues players, 2-1 at home for our first match in Lent Term. This milestone victory put us above both of our strongest league competitors, Queens’ and Fitzwilliam. Despite the unlucky ending of our Cuppers campaign, our league performances remained impressively determined, resulting in a winning streak that lasted for the entire term. Continuously securing victories, we found ourselves three points clear of Fitzwilliam after our penultimate match, winning 4 -0 against

Jesus. It was only because of their better goal difference with one remaining match to be played that we are not able to call ourselves league champions at the time of writing. Special mentions would have to go to every single player of the team, as this season’s achievements were only made possible thanks to fantastic team performances. Next season’s captain has not yet been determined, but one of his most difficult tasks will be to replace PhD student Stefan Ritter who leaves Cambridge and the GCFC after four years of exemplary performances and leadership on and off the pitch.

GCFC at the Alumni match on 25 February 2017. Back row (left to right): Luke Harvey, Jack Nason, Martin Sasieta, Tom Virgo, Harry Hicks, Nik Trifunovic, Olly Tapper. Front row (left to right): Reo Shoshi, Shekeil Nasser, Christian Tien, Louis D’Costa, Owen Male

Christian Tien, Men’s First XI Captain

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Women’s Football This year brought the second football season since the Girton College Women’s Football Team was revived, thanks to captain Svenja Granderath’s enthusiasm and commitment in encouraging players of all abilities to have fun playing football.

friends at Murray Edwards College. Despite not having regular joint training sessions, we have a great team spirit and work well together on the pitch. We also find our opponents to be consistently friendly and welcoming, which adds to our enjoyment of the game.

We have once again enjoyed playing as part of a merged team with our

After an amazing run in last year’s Cuppers tournament, our hopes

were high for this season’s campaign. We were given a bye straight into the second round, but unfortunately this saw us face the merged Clare College and Peterhouse team, who defeated us in last year’s final. Again they had a very strong team and we were knocked out. However, we did manage to beat them 8-0 in our league match, which was some consolation. We played well in all of our league matches. Having been promoted into the Second Division after a run of wins last season, we have had slightly more mixed results this season. However, some good wins, such as that against the St John’s College and King’s College merged team, put us in a great position, and we won our final match to become division champions!

The team at Girton pitches. Back row (left to right): Tanzina Zaman (ME), Chloe Legard (ME), Emily-Rose Garnett (ME), Neeraja Bhamidipati (ME), Rebecca Graves, Isobel Hanna (ME), Catriona Parpworth (ME), Marine Schimel. Front row (left to right): Edwina Otira (ME), Lucy Alphonse (ME), Jade Pallister (ME), Rosie Baines, Svenja Granderath, Christiana Naziris (ME)

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Last season was a hard act to follow, but our league results show that we are going from strength to strength. I look forward to seeing what the team can achieve next year, but especially hope that players find training and playing as much fun as we have so far. Rosie Baines, Women’s football team member

Go and Yes Minister Society (in the style of Sir Humphrey) The schedule of the autochthonous Go and Yes Minister Society has been endowed with the most splendid of entertainments that this estimable College has to propound. With the gatherings on days of least and greatest temporal extremity among those of Full Term, a strong sense of occasion is in principle invoked among the conglomerated constituents of the aforementioned coterie. The Society is pre-eminently binate in nature, with two equal constituent parts enjoyed by all with identical measure. Go, a game of the variety that is played upon a board and of a Chinese origin, is widely considered to be inordinately cerebrally challenging, and is therefore endowed with parameters that may be considered quintessential in creating an alluring, competitive, and otherwise indefectible evening of fun. On the other hand, Yes Minister, a televisual pasquinade of the British political scene during the MCMLXXXs, is of suitable hilarity to comprehensively entertain each member present and is relished for many consecutive episodes. Without taking into consideration the measure one uses to judge, the activity and industry of the sesquipedalian members of the

Clockwise, from top left: Luke Stead (Chief Whip), Alastair Haig, Adam Swinton, Dan Saunders, Jakub Bojdol (Deputy President), Andrew Pritchard (Treasurer), Rhona Jamieson, Andreea Daniela, Povilas Slekys, Stephen Christopher (President), Jimmy Foster, Alisa Davies, John Bowskill, Molly Hale, Gemma Turner, Rosie Baines, Jack Reynolds

Executive Committee may be considered to have attained superlative levels of collegiate societal advancement and interdisciplinary attainment of happiness, the most prominent of which, the Annual Christmas Quiz, enticed minds both diverse and numerous to display their familiarity with such incommensurable and dissimilar subject matters.

Nevertheless, the greatest success, having been planned with great enthusiasm and diligence, despite unfavourable administrative circumstances, and attracting not a man or woman, was the Opera Trip. Would this not fill Sir Humphrey with utmost joy? Stephen Christopher, President

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Men’s Hockey Girton College Men’s team started the season in Division 1 after a welldeserved promotion last year. We were blessed with a keen, very able influx of Freshers including Zak Hopkins, Charlie Mabutt, George Margetson-Rushmore, Ben Woolstencroft, Robin Thornton and Phil Horton (in goal). The first game of the season saw us face the very strong side of St Catharine’s Men’s first team who were arguably our toughest match-up in the division. After a hard-fought game with goals from both sides we were beaten but, bearing in mind that we had only nine players, the score did not reflect our valiant efforts. The highlight of Michaelmas Term was our triumph against Emmanuel College’s first team, when again we had only nine players. The dangerous, speedy forward partnership of Sebastian Cheli and Zak Hopkins proved too much for the Emmanuel defence, as evidenced by the 4-2 scoreline. Another mention goes to Ross Hill, our postgraduate goalkeeper who on many occasions prevented us conceding to very able teams. Despite our efforts, we started our second term in the second division. In the new term, we were hit with a few injuries, including my own, during which Vice-Captain Beesh Mahen took charge. We also

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acquired the talents of goalkeeper Phil Horton who saved our skin many times, as well as some members of Robinson College who proved to be useful additions to our side. In our last match of the season we faced Jesus College second team. In this match, our hockey was smooth, fluid and fast, reflecting our collective improvement over the season. In particular, midfield linkups by Charlie Mabutt, Alex Clark, George Margetson-Rushmore, Ben Woolstencroft and Torin Elmhirst produced some game-changing goals and assists that led to our victory. Our defence players also deserve a mention; they stayed solid and sensible for the greater part of our season, providing for the midfield and forwards. We are well placed for next season, with capable hands taking over from me, and a strong set of reliable players to carry us forward. Special mention goes to Torin Elmhirst who, despite being an outfield player, stepped up and played in goal when it was required, and also to Lauren Hillier, our Women’s Captain, for stepping in when numbers were low and putting in some strong defensive shifts. Ankit Rai, Men’s Captain

Women’s Hockey Girton women have played alongside Homerton in the league again this year in an unlikely partnership that formed a few years ago. The joint team name has been debated from the start, although it appears ‘Horton’ is beginning to stick. Together, we have had a relatively successful season, finishing third in the Second Division at the end of Lent Term. It has been frustrating at times, as on many occasions we believe we could have come out with a better result, had we been able to synchronise our players’ schedules and field a full team.

to the team after we lost so many key players at the end of the last academic year. When her other sporting commitments permitted, Alice Elgar has played in goal and, with the support of a solid defence, has dramatically increased our goal difference. Special mention also goes to Eloise Dunn who, despite never having picked up a hockey stick before the start of this year, has

become a reliable and integral member of the group. ‘Horton’ hopes to attract more College players over the next academic year to help our growing squad continue to enjoy fighting for a position closer to the top of the division. Lauren Hillier, Women’s Captain

Our win against Emmanuel in Michaelmas Term, despite playing with only seven players, was certainly the highlight for those who attended. What has made this hockey season particularly enjoyable, however, is not the individual match results but the attitude of the team who as a group have managed to make light of the 15-0 losses and ensure we all look forward to our Sunday games, regardless of the opposition. Postgraduate Tess Skyrme, alongside Girton Freshers Ellie Hagan and Helena West, and Tisha Salmon, India Blaksley and Tamsin Golding Yee from Homerton, have been valuable and much-needed additions

The ‘Horton’ team after our defeat of Emmanuel College, November 2016. Back row (left to right): Alex Dawson, Erin Barnard, Lauren Hillier, Eloise Dunn. Front row (left to right): Tisha Salmon, Tamsin Golding Yee, India Blaksley

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Joan Robinson Society (Economics) Members of the Joan Robinson Society enjoyed another year of discussion and insight from a host of prominent speakers, as well as a range of more informal social activities. In Michaelmas Term we had our keynote speaker, Professor Bill Janeway, who talked to the Society about the innovation economy and gave unique insights from his long career in investment banking as well as his experiences in an academic role; this was followed by an impressive dinner in the Fellows’ Dining Room. We were delighted to host Girton PhD candidate David Minarsch to talk about his postgraduate studies, encouraging current undergraduate members to consider taking a similar path. Social events during the term included the informal Freshers’ welcome drinks at the beginning of term – an opportunity for new Society members to meet existing members and share tips and advice on how to thrive in the Economics Tripos – and the annual Christmas dinner with the Economics Fellows, Dr Lawson and Dr Mohaddes.

Lent Term saw a presentation from Mauro Terrinoni who introduced the concept of failing businesses and shared his experiences in restructuring such firms, as well as connecting this phenomenon with the troubles of the Eurozone. The talk gave members a chance to probe these issues and delve into Mauro’s experience. Professor Coen Teullings also tackled some of the Eurozone countries’ woes, discussing the problem of demographics and the effect of population growth on interest rates which, he contends, is the reason interest rates are so low following the Great Recession. There are no speaker events planned for Easter Term – this will allow members to focus on their forthcoming exams – but we look forward to unwinding at our post-examination Garden Party in June, and to planning future events to ensure that the coming year continues to be informative and stimulating for our Society.

Professor Janeway speaking in the FDR

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Rhys Williams, President

From left to right: Professor Bill Janeway, Mrs Weslie Janeway and JRS President Rhys Williams

Law Society Looking on with morbid curiosity as our predecessors waded through the bubbling lava of Finals before disappearing into the fiery abyss of employment, the new Law Society committee considered how best to prepare ourselves and others for a similar fate. The May Week Garden Party perhaps represents Cantabrigian ignorance of the norms of the working week, but it was a delightful event for students, alumni and guests. Similarly relaxed was the Freshers’ Week event in the President’s Quarters, at which the returning students could interrogate the 2017 matriculants and regale them with largely fallacious tales of ‘work hard, play hard’. We soon arranged some useful activities, including one-to-one interview sessions, introductions to firms and networking dinners, all of which proved to be very beneficial. As a new event during Lent Term, we held a Contract

From left to right: Chun Hau Ng, Ella Vacani, Dr Stelios Tofaris, Matthew Isaacs and Jenny Shelley at the Law Society’s Annual Dinner

Negotiation Workshop. It was not surprising that students quickly grasped the tactics of brinkmanship, haggling and incisive questioning, but gratifying that even those more delicate skills of compromise and teamwork made an appearance. Girton is now home to a strong team of advocates. This was apparent not only from the high standard of argument displayed at the prestigious First Year Moot, but from the accolades collected at University, national and international competitions. We were therefore delighted when Sir John Laws accepted the invitation to speak at our Annual Dinner. At this splendid occasion, Lord Laws’s comments on the intercourse between the advocate and the academic were well received. Of course, the other attraction of the Annual Dinner is the announcement of the Committee election results, followed swiftly by the Senior Treasurer expressing delight at the prospect of a ‘fresh start’ for the Society. This successful year has been made possible by a hard-working Committee of Debbie Eliad, Katie McGaughey and Max Dowbenko, the guidance of Senior Treasurer Dr Stelios Tofaris, and the generous sponsorship of Clifford Chance,

From left to right: Dr Stelios Tofaris, Katie McGaughey, Debbie Eliad, Max Dowbenko and Rory Copeland at the Law Society’s Annual Dinner

Herbert Smith Freehills, Slaughter and May, and Norton Rose Fulbright. As this year’s finalists ‘set sail, unaccompanied, upon a journey for which I can discern no just purpose and can identify no final destination’ [Lord Wilson, Société Générale, London Branch v Geys (2012)], we do so confident in the ability of our successors to continue the great work of the Girton College Law Society. Rory Copeland, President

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Medical and Veterinary Society The Girton Medical and Veterinary Society (GMVS) have been very privileged this year to host several interesting speakers who have talked about their career paths and the challenges they have faced. We were lucky that many of these speakers were Girton alumni and so could give an insight into their University life here as well. First, we welcomed Dr Rema Wasan, a breast-cancer imaging specialist at King’s College Hospital, London. She gave a fantastic introduction into the development of tomography to assist with early cancer diagnosis; it was a great insight into the development of a new technology through clinical trials. Rema returned to help us improve our presentation skills, which was invaluable for the Hammond Prize entrants.

Next, we heard from Celia Ingham Clark MBE, NHS England Director for Reducing Premature Deaths. Her presentation on developments in the NHS throughout her career, including the recent seven-day service, was especially relevant for medical students. Of note was the dramatic decrease in mortality following trauma, which demonstrates the immense progress of medicine over the years. She also talked about her student experience at Girton, especially her participation in a variety of College sports. Dr Mark Reed, a General Practitioner and Programme Director of Buckinghamshire Vocational Training Scheme gave us a valuable and enthusiastic account of his daily routine and some of the more

challenging consultations he has faced. We were lucky that he joined us for Formal Hall afterwards so we could continue quizzing him about his career. Professor Josh Slater gave an exciting talk about his work at the equestrian events of the London Olympic Games. It was fascinating to hear about the vast preparation that went into organising the event in terms of biosecurity and logistics. The third-year vets certainly enjoyed the cake, wine and catching up with their popular Anatomy supervisor. We must not forget the social side: enjoying Formals, meals out with other Colleges, and the Annual Dinner. The latter is always well attended and provided another great opportunity to interact with alumni and clinical students. The Society was saddened to hear of the sudden death of Gurpal Singh Gosall (1989). Gurpal was a supporter of GMVS, who spoke about ‘critical appraisal’ at a recent meeting, and also judged the Hammond Science Communication Prize. Gurpal had many talents, particularly related to medical education, and is missed by many.

Third-year vets at the GMVS Annual Dinner. From left to right: Rory Scrace, James Burdett, Kirsty Lang, Tom Hordle, Matthew Steele, Hollie Pitts and Caitlin Milne

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Caitlin Milne, President

Natural Sciences Society This year the Natural Sciences Society (NatSciSoc) was piloted by CoPresidents Rebecca Graves and Ned Bransden with a solid crew of enthusiastic second- and third-year committee members: Beth Austin, Joe Parkin, Hamish Evans, Gaelan Komen, and Marine Schimel. Together they have organised a healthy mix of social and informative events throughout the year, giving the Girton NatSciSoc community something to look forward to and creating cohesion for everyone from first-years to fourth-years. The year started with a well attended welcome drinks event which, for the first time ever, welcomed Girton Computer Scientists to the group. This was closely followed by the first Formal Hall swap of the year, an outing to Emmanuel College, which paved the way for a good year ahead. The Society offers more than social events, however, and several informative evenings are hosted by the older years to impart their experiences to their younger peers. The first of these, in Michaelmas Term, was an evening that gave guidance and inspiration on internship applications. Notable tales this year included research placements in Lausanne, Heidelberg, Munich and what can only be called a holiday spent hiking and researching in the Colorado

mountains. A second event (Part IB and Part II Options Evening) in Easter Term provided impartial advice from students who had taken the options previously about the content of IB and II modules and the feel of the departments that offer them. Michaelmas Term was rounded off with the NatSciSoc Bridgemas party and the Michaelmas pub quiz, which had a distinctly easier selection of questions than Andrew McMahon’s infamous quizzes of previous years. A coalition of first-years came up trumps against stiff competition from the fourth-year physicists, leading to a humbling of the latter’s egos, built up over years of NatSciSoc pub quizzes. The new calendar year saw another pub quiz, and Formal swaps with Sidney Sussex and Fitzwilliam Colleges. The latter had a large turnout from first-years, a sign that the newest members had gained confidence and made NatSci friends across all years. With preparations underway for Girton’s 150th anniversary in 2019 the decision was made to move the bi-annual NatSciSoc dinner to even years. This year, however, will see the first Botanical Garden picnic party with the high number of third-year Plant Scientists keen to show off their

botanical knowledge and share their appreciation of plants and good company. Ned Bransden, Co-President

2016–17 Girton NatSciSoc committee. From left to right: Beth Austin, Joe Parkin, Ned Bransden, Hamish Evans, Rebecca Graves, Gaelan Komen and Marine Schimel

Girton NatSciSoc host Sidney Sussex NatSciSoc at a Formal in Lent Term

Enjoying wine at the Bridgemas party

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Poetry Group It has been a joy to welcome so many new and talented writers to Girton Poetry Group this year. We’ve been dazzled by the quality of the poetry we have received throughout the year, on themes ranging from the singer Ke$ha to mirrors and Girton’s own orchards. Profound, insightful and often hilarious conversation has flowed each evening (as has the wine!), as we have done our best to maintain the encouraging and welcoming atmosphere that sets the group apart. We take pride in remaining one of the few societies in the University to welcome students, staff, Fellows and alumni alike. Our aim is to provide a space for anyone, whether amateur or otherwise, to share their creative work and listen to others’, without pressure to meet academic critical standards. It has been heartening to hear many new voices in the group develop in confidence throughout the year, and to play a part in fostering that growth.

Summer 2016: Poetry Group convenes in the Fellows’ Garden

We owe a huge debt of gratitude to Sinéad Garrigan-Mattar, Stephen Robertson, and Peter Sparks, whose support and dedication have made it a privilege to co-lead the group this year. Our thanks also go to Girton’s talented writers, and those who come along to listen each week. We are sure that the Poetry Group will continue to flourish in years to come. Grace Murray and Megan Fereday, Co-Leaders

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Stephen Robertson hands out the poems for the week

Women’s Rugby With the restructuring of the women’s College rugby system this year, there was little opportunity for College games, but attendance at the centrally run Development Days was high and included representatives from Girton and the Colleges we merge with to form the Sid-Hills team (Sidney Sussex and the ‘Colleges on the Hill’: Fitzwilliam, Lucy Cavendish, Murray Edwards, St Edmund’s). Looking forward, this should put us in a good position to form a strong team next year and to continue to have players within the University set-up.

Once again, Girton was well represented at the Women’s Varsity Match, with both Alice Elgar and Jacqueline Bramley in the Blues Squad. Alice started for the second year running, while Jacqueline, who only began playing in October, was an unused replacement. Sadly, the game went against Cambridge, who lost 3-0 after a number of missed opportunities, but we will return to Twickenham next year looking to right the wrongs and regain the trophy.

Jacqueline started for the Tigers team in the ’Seconds’ Varsity where she was joined by former Blue Tamsin Banner, who had missed the Varsity Match through injury. Both players were very involved throughout the game, with Tamsin scoring three tries on the way to a comfortable 30-0 win. All three players are already looking ahead to Twickenham on 7 December 2017 and are working hard to be a part of the Blues Squad once again. Alice Elgar, Women’s Captain The University Squad after beating Oxford 22-0 in November 2016: Alice Elgar (back row, second from left), Jaqueline Bramley (front row, first left)

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Leah Merheb

The year 2016–17 has unequivocally been the most successful yet for Girton College Mixed Volleyball (GCMV). We have not only increased our numbers but have also introduced an addition to the Girton College sporting calendar, in the form of the Girton College Mixed Volleyball Tournament.

Rosie Hoggmascall

GCMV Tournament Easter Term 2016, including Eloise Dunn, Anna Kathis, Arjun Thayyil and Viraj Bajpai

A GCMV training session, Easter Term 2017, including Henry Nurick, Alexander Law, Zak Hopkins, Mihai Varsandan and Jordan Eriksen

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Easter Term 2016 saw Girton College hold its first-ever volleyball tournament organised by the College Co-Captains, Rosie Hoggmascall and Lucinda Jones. Held during the last week of term, the tournament involved five-a-side matches on two outdoor courts in a round-robin style, followed by the semi-finals and final matches. Five teams from College entered and we had an amusing selection of volleyball-themed names such as ‘Some Spike it Hot’ and ‘Sets on the Beach’. Each team had male and female players, and there was a spread of students from all yeargroups. By luck, the tournament fell on a sunny day, which meant that it attracted supporters who cheered on their favourites from picnic blankets on the sidelines. What was fantastic was the enthusiasm and relaxed nature of the tournament and the fact that people came primarily to have a good time and socialise. Following this success, we hope to hold another tournament this year when any teams from College and elsewhere will be welcome to take part. Another triumph for GCMV has been the steady increase in the numbers of regular players, and we now have around ten regular team members. We expect this number to grow: we recently held the first

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GCMV Tournament Easter Term 2016, including Antoine Magré, Marta Grześkiewicz, William Lohrmann, Vineet Naik, Jamie Klein and Monica Dayao

session of the academic year when we found it necessary to rotate three teams of five due to the large number of students who came to try out the sport for the first time. We are hoping to enter two teams in Cuppers this term as a result of this interest, and the large number of first-year students who have shown an interest gives us hope that GCMV can continue to grow next year. As Co-Captains, we are extremely proud of the team and of the rising status of mixed volleyball in College compared to its state when we arrived in 2015. This year Lucinda and I will be handing over the roles of CoCaptain so that the success of GCMV can be carried on into the future. Rosie Hoggmascall, Co-Captain

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2018 – Calendar of Events All events take place in the College, unless otherwise stated January

September

Geographical Society Dinner (date TBC)

15th: 2008 Alumni Reunion Dinner

February 9th: Mountford Humanities and Arts Communication Prize 19th: Hammond Science and Communications Prize 22nd: Alumni Formal Hall

15th: 1997, 1998 and 1999 Alumni Reunion Dinner Alumni Weekend: 22nd: Annual Library Talk (all welcome) 22nd: Annual Lawrence Room Talk (all welcome) 22nd: People’s Portraits Talk (all welcome)

March

22nd: Annual Concert in the Stanley Library (all welcome)

4th: Festal Evensong for Alumni and Supporters 10th: Alumni Sports Day

22nd: Roll of Alumni Dinner (all welcome, especially matriculation years 1958, 1968, 1978, and 1983– 85)

15th: College Ball

23rd: Annual Gardens Talk

15th: Law and Finance Networking Reception, London April

October 16th: Autumn Garden Walk

6th: MA Congregation Dinner

25th: Alumni Formal Hall

7th: MA Congregation 27th: Spring Garden Walk Natural Sciences Dinner (date TBC) May 3rd: Jane Martin Poetry Prize 17th: Alumni Formal Hall June 16th: May Bumps Marquee and Boat Club Dinner 19th: May Week Concert Benefactors’ Garden Party (date TBC)

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Bookings for the Roll of Alumni Weekend and Dinner can be made on the form on page 142. For details about other events in the calendar, please contact the College on alumni@girton.cam.ac.uk or +44 (0)1223 338901.

Regional Associations Girton Associations are active in the UK and beyond – here’s an overview of their activities: Cambridge Local Girton Association The CLGA’s recent events have included: • a tour of the College given by Life Fellow and architect Peter Sparks; • a trip to the University Library to visit the ‘Curious Objects’ exhibition; the group was guided around this fascinating collection by one of the curators, Catherine Ansorge (Broadbelt 1964); • a talk by Hazel Mills about the early history of Girton and History as a subject at the College; • a joint event with the St Anne’s Society, Cambridge, which involved a day out in Sudbury, Suffolk; • a ‘Wine and Strawberries’ tea party in Fen Ditton, kindly hosted by the St Anne’s Society. Details of the CLGA’s events are available on their website; please note that members are welcome to bring guests. Email: clga@girton.cam.ac.uk Website: www.sites.google.com/site/cambridgelga/ London Girton Association The LGA committee has seen a number of changes lately, with Cecilia Oram (Hughes 1977) stepping down from her post as Chair after four years; Catherine Bailey (Crick 1978), Vice-Chair, was elected to take her place. Newsletter Editor, Marie Winckler (Sigwart 1967) also stepped down recently; however, the Association has been fortunate to find a replacement in Frances Goodwin (Wollen 1972). The LGA is very grateful to Cecilia and Marie for all their hard work over the years and is delighted to have Catherine and Frances in two of the Association’s leading roles.

Recent LGA events have included: • a guided walking tour of churches in the City of London; • a discussion supper during which Nancy Redshaw (Dobson 1965) gave a very interesting talk entitled ‘My Mother was a Suffragette’; • a visit to the former homes of two notable musicians: the Handel House, at 25 Brook St, Mayfair, and the neighbouring flat at No. 23, where Jimi Hendrix briefly resided; • a visit to 18 Stafford Terrace, the former family home of Punch cartoonist Edward Linley Sambourne and his family, who occupied it from 1875; • a repeat visit to the Dulwich Picture Gallery, followed by a swim and picnic in a neighbouring member’s stunning garden; • a visit to The Royal Mews at Buckingham Palace. Email: lga@girton.cam.ac.uk Website: www.girton.cam.ac.uk/london-girtonassociation Facebook: www.facebook.com/ LondonGirtonAssociation Oxford Regional Association ORG continues with about 60 members. Following a recruitment mailing carried out by the College, we received enquiries from 14 alumnae, four of whom have formally joined. The Association hosts a range of events and a newsletter is circulated twice a year. Recent events have included: • a guided tour of Fairford Church after lunch in a local pub; • a talk by Rev Professor William Whyte who spoke on ‘Women in Victorian Oxford’;

Jimi Hendrix’s house in Mayfair

Edward Linley Sambourne’s house in Kensington

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• a winter gathering at the Windmill Restaurant and Carvery, near Burford, for a substantial lunch and plenty of chat; • a spring lecture meeting, when Christina Hardyment looked at the story of the River Thames through prose, poetry and illustration, including the true stories behind Three Men in a Boat and The Wind in the Willows; • a visit to Upton House, near Banbury. Contact: Meg Day (1967) Email: org@girton.cam.ac.uk Tel: 01865 375916 Website: www.oxfordregiongirtonians.org.uk Manchester Association of Cambridge University Women MACUW continues at its usual pace with three meetings a year which are always thoroughly enjoyable. The events are intended to appeal to all generations of alumnae; they draw on a common theme of friendship, life experience and funny stories about Cambridge! Recent events have included: • the AGM, where members were treated to an update of news from Cambridge, a sandwich lunch, and a talk about Cambodia and Vietnam from a member who has recently travelled there; • a dinner with guest speakers Dame Barbara Stocking, President of Murray Edwards, who was Chief Executive of OXFAM in a previous life, and Professor Philippa Browning (formerly of Selwyn) who was Professor of Astrophysics at Manchester University; • a tour of Manchester Central Reference Library followed by a meal. Email: macuw@cantab.net Website: www.macuw.wordpress.com Wales and the West Girtonian Association Following a recruitment mailing carried out by the College, the number on the WWGA’s mailing list has increased from 86 to 117, which is an encouraging boost to the Association. Recent events have included:

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• a talk by Juliet Gayton (1966) on her doctoral research into the life of rural villagers in seventeenth-century southern England, focusing on how ordinary people were able to borrow and lend money in a period before banks or other financial institutions had been established; • a talk by Jinx Newley, a freelance historian and archaeologist, on the history and archaeology of bread. Jinx told the story of bread-making through about 5,000 years, from the beginning of farming in the New Stone Age – the ‘Neolithic revolution’– to the nineteenth century; • a visit to Dr Jenner’s House Museum, Berkeley, with a talk by Professor Gareth Williams, Professor of Medicine at Bristol University, Chairman of the Jenner Trust, and author of Angel of Death: the Story of Smallpox. Email: wwga@girton.cam.ac.uk Website: www.girton.cam.ac.uk/wwga New York Girton Association The New York Girton Association was delighted to help host the Mistress during her visit to New York in the autumn of 2016. The gathering of Girtonians was a great success. The Mistress was ‘in conversation’ with Elizabeth Stribling (1966), and they discussed transatlantic trends in real estate in global cities, as well as the impact of Girton on Elizabeth’s life. The New York Girton Association met on 8 May 2017 at Achla Eccles’s home in Manhattan for a discussion supper. We thank Achla (Chib 1958) for her kind hospitality. Judith Kampfner (1974) gave a wonderful account of her work in the media, starting with the educational experiences at Girton that helped her develop her career. She illustrated her talk with interesting audio clips of her radio work for the BBC. We thank Judith for an informative and thought-provoking talk that inspired an animated discussion. We look forward to the Mistress’s visit to the USA this autumn, and hope that she will visit New York again. Email: newyorkga@girton.cam.ac.uk

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Births Casey. On 29 June 2014, to James Michael Alexander (1995) and Victoria, a boy, Rupert, a brother to Thomas. Coe. On 6 October 2016, to Steven (Staff) and Katie, a boy, Oliver Anthony. Peko. On 27 September 2016, to Gábor (Staff) and Anita, a girl, Jazmin. Prior. On 21 March 2016, to Joanna Booth (1998) and Grant Prior, a boy, Dexter.

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Saunders. On 16 December 2016, to Claire (Staff) and Adam, a girl, Isla Rose. Rodgers. On 21 February 2017, to Dawn (Staff) and Richard, a boy, Aaron. Wade. On 2 March 2017, to James Wade (Fellow 2015) and Katie Walter, a daughter, Edith Constance. Wyborn. On 28 September 2016, to Hannah James (2002) and Stephen Wyborn, a girl, Eleanor Anne Arnison.

Marriages /Civil Partnerships Beevor – Foan. On 2 July 2016, Mark Beevor (2006) and Elizabeth Foan (2007). Gordon – Cumming. On 20 August 2015, Janet (1954 Cleave) and Ian celebrated their sixtieth wedding anniversary. Jones – Skinner. On 16 October 2016, Zoë Jones (1969; formerly Mrs Powers) and Michael Leonard Skinner. Mark Beevor (2006) and Elizabeth Foan (2007)

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Death Notices AITKEN. On 4 February 2017, Anna Constance (Rolfe) MA (1949 Moral Sciences) Anna travelled to South Africa upon graduating and married Bruce (Pembroke). They settled in Singapore and Malaysia and had four children. Anna later became a nurse at Queen Mary’s Sidcup, where her dinner parties for the doctors were legendary. She enjoyed her animals and regularly won prizes for her honey.

BOURQUE. In October 2016, Lisa Nicole PhD (1988 Social Anthropology) Nicole came to Girton from Canada on a Commonwealth Scholarship to do a PhD on the Ecuadorian Andes. After early ethnographical work she applied her anthropological training to other contexts, notably the anthropology of religion. She taught at the University of Glasgow from 1993 until her untimely death.

ALEXANDER. On 24 February 2016, Freda Elizabeth (Burn; Mrs Alexander-Watts) BA (1960 Mathematics) Obituary on p. 98

BOWELL. On 27 July 2016, Valerie Evelyn Mary MA (1950 Geography) Valerie worked at first in cartography, and was subsequently Head of the Nuclear Physics Division of the Science and Engineering Research Council and Honorary Visiting Professor in Systems Science at City University, and then Professor and Director of Science and Microgravity at the National Space Centre.

ANDERSON. On 17 March 2017, Janet Edith (Norrish) MA (1951 Natural Sciences) Janet taught Chemistry, resigning when head of department to have three children with Iain but returning afterwards. Later, she taught Electronics and Computer Science to the Army. She was very involved in her local community and volunteered for the Red Cross, as a Brownie pack leader, a school governor and a councillor. BEAK. On 1 September 2016, Vivien Easton (Wright) (1936 Economics) After bringing up five children Vivien gave much public service, notably as a Justice of the Peace, a school governor and a local councillor. First a member, then Vice-Chairman of Hartismere Rural District Council, she was unanimously elected as the first and only woman Chairman for three successive terms. BEAUMAN. On 7 July 2016, Sally Vanessa (Kinsey-Miles; Mrs Howard) MA (1963 English) Obituary on p. 99

BOWER. On 16 March 2016, Anne Alethea (Rubinstein) BA (1944 Moral Sciences) Anne was active in many voluntary organisations; she was Child Welfare Organiser for Northumberland WRVS and served on the Standing Committee of Voluntary Youth Organisations. She also worked with her husband Marcus (Trinity) for the Reform Synagogues of Great Britain. They had two sons. She loved oil painting and exhibited her paintings.

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BRADY. On 6 January 2017, June Pauline (Mrs Hyde) BA MB BChir (1948 Natural Sciences) June did her clinical medical training at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, London, before moving with her husband George to New York,

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California and later Africa. She specialised in paediatrics and became a leading neonatologist, receiving the Hillman Award for Lifetime Service from the American Academy of Pediatrics. She enjoyed travelling and skiing.

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BRIERLEY. On 26 January 2017, Valerie Margaret (Norris) MA (1939 History) After graduating Valerie did confidential work as a junior assistant in the Foreign Office until the end of the War, having already spent one of her long vacations as a Land Girl. She later taught History at Sheffield High School and the City College of Education, Sheffield. BULLOCH. On 25 February 2017, Mary Ruth Cecilia More MA (1949 Economics) Ruth (also known as Anne) worked for the BBC, the Board of Trade, and the Conservative Research Department, rising to Head of the Economics Section. She was seen as eccentric but very capable and kind. She became a barrister in 1989, and later stood for election as an Anti-Federalist candidate. CLEARY. On 3 October 2016, Richard (1993 Staff at Wolfson Court) Obituary on p. 102 CORNFORTH. In or before February 2017, Jean Blanche (Penwill) MA (1942 History) After taking Part I Jean spent a year working as a wartime administrative civil servant as qualification for a wartime degree, and then became an Assistant Principal in the Ministry of Labour. She served on Harpenden Urban District Council and St Albans Council, of which she was made an Honorary Alderman.

COWHIG. In May 2016, Ruth Mary (MacDonald) BA (1934 English) Ruth lived to the age of 100. She taught English and did a PhD aged 60. Her strong sense of social justice prompted much community work and, as part of her war work, she served as a Civil Defence Organiser. She was Convenor of the Presbyterian Mission Committee and established the URC Waldensian Fellowship. CRAM. On 24 June 2016, Patricia Jean (Middleditch) MA (1960 Modern and Medieval Languages) After academic postings around the world Pat and John (St John’s) settled in Newcastle, where Pat taught languages. As Head of Modern Languages at Gosforth High School, she led the development of the school into a specialist Language College. She had two sons, and loved France, gardening, and maintaining lifelong correspondences. CUNDALL. On 5 May 2017, Monica Mary (Pritchard) MA (1942 English) Monica was Senior Student at Girton and secretary of the University Student Christian Movement. She taught before marrying Bob; they went as missionaries to Nigeria and had four children. Settling in Harrogate, Monica enjoyed family life, walking holidays and art, and was a Methodist local preacher for over 50 years. CURNOW. On 22 October 2016, Vera June (Bull) BA (1952 Natural Sciences) June worked as a clinical biochemist in Birmingham, Aberdeen and finally Reading. Her husband Robert’s university work led to worldwide travel, in which they were often joined by their three children. June worked for her local Methodist

church, several medical support groups and the Museum of English Rural Life. DAGLEY. On 23 December 2016, Mary Joyce (Meynell) MA (1947 English) One of the highlights of Mary’s time at Girton was being taught by M C Bradbrook (‘Brad’), which gave her a lifelong love of literature and writing. She worked at Oxford, married Peter and moved with him to the Wirral, where she brought up five children, taught, painted and wrote. DANCY. On 12 December 2016, Annie Barbara MA (1968 Theology) Barbara matriculated aged 45. She had already tested early radar systems, had five children, been widowed, and trained as a teacher. After Girton she became Head of Religious Education at North Bromsgrove High School and Westgate School, Winchester, and at the age of 91 began an Open University course in Christian spirituality. ELLIOTT. On 6 September 2016, Daphne Clair (Davison) PhD (1948 Biochemistry) Daphne came to Girton from Sydney University and was one of the first women to be awarded a Cambridge PhD. After marrying Bill and bringing up their three children she taught at Flinders University, and was awarded the Chancellor’s Medal for her contribution to female education in science and mathematics. FIRTH. On 8 February 2017, Catherine Margaret (Jenkins) BA (1938 Natural Sciences; 1940 Economics) On graduating Catherine became a civil servant. She worked at the Department of Education and Science as a statistician, and later as Deputy Chief

Statistician at the Greater London Council. On retirement she moved with her husband Alfred to Somerset and gained a degree in Music from the Open University. FRANKS. On 6 September 2016, Felix (1979 ByeFellow) Obituary on p. 103 Daphne Clair Elliott

GIBSON. On 3 August 2016, Susan Jane (de Graaff-Hunter) MA MB BChir (1951 Natural Sciences) Susan completed her medical studies at St Thomas’s Hospital, London, qualifying as an anaesthetist. She married Australian surgeon Geoff Gibson in 1961, moved to Sydney and had three daughters while practising medicine. Prevented from practising by a brain cyst in 1970, she remained an exceptionally devoted daughter and mother. GILBERT. On 14 May 2016, Margaret Helen MA (1952 Mathematics) Margaret qualified as a teacher at Hughes Hall, attended the Bible Training Institute and received a diploma in Theology from London University. A member of the Cambridge Seventy, who dedicated themselves to missionary service overseas, she devoted most of her career to Kimmins High School in India where she became Principal. GOSALL. On 14 August 2016, Gurpal Singh MA MB BChir (1989 Medical Sciences; 1991 Archaeology and Anthropology) Gurpal completed his medical training in London, followed by specialist psychiatry training in Manchester. He became a consultant psychiatrist in Lancashire, married Narinder and had a son. His

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medical training company, Superego Cafe, initially a website for trainee psychiatrists, became internationally known for critical appraisal training. He once won a competition for the world’s funniest joke. GRANT. On 1 June 2016, Deborah Jane (Gittleson; Mrs Doyle) MA Vet MB (1988 Medical Sciences; 1990 Natural Sciences; 1991 Clinical Vet Course) Valerie Mildred Haynes

GRIFFIN. On 14 June 2016, Beverly Elayne (Smith; Mrs Griffin) PhD ScD (1955 Chemistry; 1962 Tucker-Price Research Fellow; 1965 Official Fellow) Obituary on p. 105 GUMPEL. On 22 October 2015, Liselotte (1977 Visiting Fellow) Obituary on p. 106

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Wilhelmina Madge Hume

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HARLAND. On 26 July 2016, Elisabeth Margaret Ethelwyn (Lewis) MA (1937 History) Elisabeth worked as a hospital almoner before going with her geologist husband Walter to China to work for the Friends Service Council. Her extensive public service included many years as a county councillor and a school governor. She received an OBE for services to the community, and a Polar Medal for work with Walter. HAWGOOD. In or before April 2017, Anne Evelyn (Mrs Ogborne) MA MB BChir (1961 Natural Sciences) Anne (who used her maiden name professionally) specialised in geriatric medicine and practised in Lancaster and Manchester, where she was also a lecturer. She married Young Ho Park Ogborne and they had two sons.

HAYNES. On 21 July 2016, Valerie Mildred (Mrs McKay) MA PhD (1960 Geography) Valerie lectured in Geomorphology and Environmental Science, first at Swansea, then Strathclyde and finally Stirling. Most of her work was in Scotland, but the high point of her career was working in South Georgia with the British Antarctic Survey. She had one son and two grandchildren. A bench given in her memory stands in Old Orchard. HEWLETT. In March 2017, Joan Vesely (Williams) MA LLB (1949 Law) After being articled to a firm of London solicitors Joan married Richard and they had three children. She then worked for 20 years in various schools, specialising in remedial teaching and dyslexia therapy. At the same time she was a marriage guidance counsellor for Relate. HONEY. On 19 June 2016, Josette Marie Jeanne Beatrice MA (1951 Classics) Josette did a PGCE at Hughes Hall and an MEd in Psychology at Edinburgh. She became a Classics teacher and educational psychologist, teaching in several schools and colleges and at the University of Swansea, before finishing her career as Principal of the Ladies’ College, Guernsey (from 1976 to 1992). HUME. On 4 July 2016, Wilhelmina Madge MA (1944 Classics) Storm (so known after the memorable storm at the time of her birth), a native of Belfast, taught at Nottingham High School and Newcastle High School before becoming Head of Redland High School, Bristol. She was a talented musician, excelling at both piano and singing, and a keen traveller throughout her life.

JEFKINS. On 2 November 2016, Diana Margaret (Peacock) MA (1961 Natural Sciences) On graduating Diana worked as a scientific officer for the Scientific Civil Service. Later she did a PGCE in Physics at Southampton University and taught at several schools, becoming Head of Science, Deputy Head and finally Headmistress. She married John (Sidney Sussex) and they had three daughters. JENKINS. On 2 February 2017, Mary Jennifer (Morris) BA (1939 History) Obituary on p. 107 KHUHRO. On 12 February 2017, Hamida MA (1959 History) Obituary on p. 108 KIDD. In or before August 2016, Betty (Holt) MA MB BChir (1947 Natural Sciences) A friend remembers Betty at Girton as ‘always busy, positive in her approach to everything, and a good, friendly member of our year’s NatSci group’. She did her clinical course at St Mary’s Hospital, Paddington, and worked in community medicine in the North East. She married John and had two children. KINNIBURGH. On 23 October 2016, Elizabeth Baxter Forbes (1960 Theology) A graduate of Edinburgh University, Betty went on to undertake New Testament research at Girton. She later lectured in Religious Education in Dundee before being ordained to the ministry and serving in several Church of Scotland parishes. She was also Infant Mistress in a small rural school for many years, and had an abiding concern for children in her church work.

KROLL. On 6 January 2017, Una Margaret Patricia (Hill) MA MB BChir (1944 Natural Sciences) Obituary on p. 109 LARRISSY. On 7 November 2016, Daphne Helen (Pickard) MA (1939 Classics) Daphne’s war work was in ATS Intelligence, after which she did teacher training at Homerton, married Thomas, also a teacher, brought up their three children and taught for several education authorities, with over 20 years’ service in the London Borough of Havering. Her interests included the countryside and animal welfare.

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LOCK. On 18 August 2016, Shirley Gillian (Walker) MA (1948 Music) Obituary on p. 111 MacKEN. On 12 October 2016, Joan Eileen (Hicks) BA (1943 English) Joan attended Redland High School, Bristol. After graduating she followed the teachertraining course at the University of Bristol. She lived in Lancashire.

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MacLEOD. On 21 June 2016, Margaret Elizabeth MA (1946 Natural Sciences) As Senior Student Margaret had the distinction of escorting Queen Elizabeth, mother of the present Queen, around College. She taught Biology, ending her career at James Allen’s Girls School, Dulwich, and then trained in counselling and neuro-linguistic programming. Her deep interest in spiritual matters led to her book Discovering Holiness (2009).

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MacQUEEN. On 1 October 2016, Winifred Wallace (McWalter) MA (1950 Classics) Winifred came to Girton as an affiliated student, graduating with a starred double First. She taught at Glasgow University, Washington University, St Louis, Missouri, Edinburgh University and St Hilary’s School, Edinburgh. With her husband John she had three sons. Together they published an edition of Books I-V of the Scotichronicon. MILLER. On 30 December 2016, Peter David BA (1985 Theology and Religious Studies) Obituary on p. 112

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MOSTYN. On 13 June 2016, Sheila Marjorie (Rouse) MA (1950 Mathematics; 1951 Natural Sciences) Sheila taught in schools in East and West Africa and at Pate’s Grammar School for Girls in Cheltenham. She married Anthony and had a son and three daughters.

of African languages at SOAS. For many years she lived in Uganda, where six of her seven children were born, and taught Greek in the theological college where her husband William was Principal. Returning to England, she worked energetically for the Council of Christians and Jews. NORTH. On 23 November 2015, Douglass Cecil (1981 Visiting Pitt Fellow; 1994 Honorary Fellow) Obituary on p. 115 NUSSEY. On 3 October 2016, Ann Elizabeth (Mrs Pomeroy) MA (1966 Mathematics) Ann made a career in computing, a new and exciting prospect in 1969, but first taught in Africa on VSO. Her work in IT and management consultancy changed the way that the value of IT to businesses was perceived. Later she became a teacher of the Alexander Technique, and married Vaughan Pomeroy.

MOTHERSILL. On 12 May 2016, Janet Margery (Brock) BA (1945 Classics) Janet taught English until her marriage to Donald. Family life gave her great joy. She was proud of having translated two volumes of the Domesday Book and of her voluntary work with the Citizens Advice Bureau at Kew Gardens and as an elder at St Columba’s Church of Scotland.

O’ROURKE. On 13 November 2016, Máire Henriette MLitt (1969 Modern and Medieval Languages) Máire did her first degree at the University of Cork and qualified as a teacher in Dublin. She came to Girton as a Schoolmistress Fellow Commoner in 1969, remaining as a research student. She worked on the French critic Charles Du Bos and published her thesis as a monograph.

MOYLE. On 1 August 2016, Jennifer Marice MA (1939 Natural Sciences) Obituary on p. 114

PACKMAN. In or before July 2016, Jean Winifred (Mrs Jordan) MA (1951 History) Obituary on p. 116

NORMAN. On 14 June 2016, Beryl (Welch) MA (1944 Classics) After graduation Beryl researched the classification

PAPADOPOULOU. In or before August 2016, Anna (formerly Mrs Barrett) BA (1953 History) Anna grew up in Greece and worked for the Bank

of Greece while following lectures on economics. She credited Girton with providing the foundation of all her thinking. Having lived through many conflicts in Greece she decided to share her family wealth with her whole village. She had two children. PHILLIPS. On 10 June 2016, Tanyss (Bell) MLitt (1949 Economics) Tanyss returned to Canada to work as a university teacher, editor, and economic analyst on the Royal Commission on Agricultural and Rural Life, Saskatchewan. She married Bob and had two sons. She was a long-time volunteer in her community, and received a Caring Canadian Award from the Governor General. POULTON. On 7 November 2016, Gillian Mary (Hunt) MA MB BChir (1941 Natural Sciences; 1969 Research Fellow) Obituary on p. 118 PRATT. On 21 March 2016, Harriet Walden (Ward) MA (1948 English) Harriet (Denny to her Girton friends) came to Girton on a Bryn Mawr College European Fellowship as an affiliated student. She married Tim in 1954 and they had three children. She strongly supported her local church, where she was famous for her American cookies, and played golf and bridge enthusiastically. PRICE. On 12 September 2016, Felicity Mary (Hough) MA (1961 English) Felicity was born in South Africa. The family settled in Grantchester and Felicity came up to Girton, joining Footlights and enjoying Cambridge social life so much that her father told the Mistress she

should be sent down; she was not. With her second husband Raymond and daughter she lived in Willingham where she became Librarian. QUILLEY. In or before August 2016, Janet Alison (Arnold) BA (1958 Economics; 1959 History) Janet qualified as a nurse and, after having four children with Alan (Christ’s), as a teacher. She specialised in education of the deaf, especially deaf multi-handicapped children. She was an active Quaker, and in the 1990s worked as Quaker Representative in Belfast on Peace and Reconciliation issues in political and community spheres.

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RENOUF. On 20 October 2016, Jennifer Anne (Perfect) MA (1951 English) Jennifer did a PGCE at Hughes Hall and taught at Peckham Comprehensive School before marrying Peter (Downing and Ridley Hall) and supporting his work as a vicar in various parishes and as a chaplain at Wellington College. They had four children. RENTOUL. On 13 February 2017, Catherine Lindsay (Stewart) MA (1955 Classics) Catherine married James, a doctor, and being a GP’s wife and mother of four daughters kept her busy. Later in life she did voluntary and translation work. Three of her daughters came to Cambridge; like Catherine, the youngest (Lisa Rentoul, 1984) read Classics at Girton. RICHARDS. On 28 October 2016, Peronelle Imogen (Armitage-Smith) MA (1938 Economics; 1939 History) During the War Penny served in the WAAF. She married Donald, a GP, and lived from 1951 until

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her death in Old Headington, Oxford, where she did much community work. She was a magistrate for many years, continuing work on family mediation after retirement, and did research on childhood epilepsy.

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RIDLER. On 22 June 2016, Margaret Mary (O’Hara) MA (1949 Mathematics) Margaret always spoke very fondly of her time at Girton. After graduating she became an engineer designing aircraft propellers, but later switched to teaching Mathematics to fit around the demands of four children, having married John, an Oxford graduate, in 1956. They lived in Staffordshire and then Brighton. RISDALL. On 18 October 2016, Jane Elizabeth MA (1978 Medical Sciences; 1980 Natural Sciences) Obituary on p. 119

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ROBERTSON. On 18 November 2016, Wendy Jean Rosalind (Sadie) BA PhD (1946 Mathematics; 1954 M T Meyer Bye-Fellow) Wendy married Alexander, a professor of Mathematics, with whom she had five children and published many papers. She taught at the universities of Keele and Glasgow, several American universities as a Visiting Professor, and finally as a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Western Australia. ROE. On 6 July 2016, Lucy Maude Howard (Jones; Howard-Jones) MusB MA (1940 Music; 1942 Theology) After Girton Lucy studied composition at the Royal College of Music. She married Jim, whose religious ministry took them to Algiers and Cairo, and had

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five children. Lucy taught music, organised concerts, and later returned to musical research, especially on William Croft. She was proud to receive her degree formally in 1998. SCOPES. On 13 September 2013, Elizabeth Agnes (Robertson) MA (1949 Modern and Medieval Languages) The Congregational Society at Emmanuel Church was central to Betty’s Girton life. There she met Barrie whom she married in 1954. From 1957 to 1970 they served as missionaries in Bengal. Betty was ordained to the ministry in 1985 and became the first woman minister of Wembley Park United Reformed Church. SHOOTER-ROSE. In or before March 2017, Antonia Margaret Nanson (Sewell; Mrs Rose) MA (1945 Archaeology and Anthropology; 1947 Moral Sciences) Antonia specialised in Psychology in Part II, and after some years doing research on the problems of ageing, she worked for nearly 50 years as a clinical psychologist at the Tavistock Clinic and elsewhere and as a self-employed psychoanalyst. She married Kenneth Shooter, with whom she had three children, and after Kenneth’s death married Leslie Rose. SMITH. On 19 January 2016, Margaret Anne MA (1957 History) Margaret followed her mother (Mary Louise Taylor, 1927) to Girton. She did a PGCE at Hughes Hall and became Head of History at Downe House School, Newbury and then at Clifton High School, Bristol, where she took charge of sixth-form coordination and careers advice. She also worked for the Citizens Advice Bureau.

TAYLOR. On 18 March 2016, Iris Monica (Gidley) BA (1944 Modern and Medieval Languages) Iris was an administrator at University College Hospital in the early days of the NHS, until she married and had three sons. She recalled wartime conditions at Girton: ‘A line painted on each bath marked the depth of water allowed – coal very short so fires were shared. Great friendships.’ THOMSON. On 19 February 2016, Elizabeth Frances (Williams) BA (1947 History) Betty became a journalist, working on the Derby Evening Telegraph, the News Chronicle and in the London office of the Yorkshire Post. She married George in 1963 and had a son and a daughter. While bringing up her family she wrote several educational books. TIER. On 17 October 2016, Rachel Child (Hooper, formerly Mrs Guy) MA (1967 Geography) Rachel did a PGCE in Bristol and taught there and in Cambridge. She married John Guy in 1971 and they had two children, but divorced in 2004. Subsequently Rachel lived in Edinburgh and worked as Director of Fundraising and Public Relations for Alzheimer Scotland, before marrying Ray Tier in 2011.

YAFFEY. On 14 April 2017, Angela (Tillyard, formerly Mrs Ahlers) MA (1945 Modern and Medieval Languages) Angela followed her mother and her elder sister (Veronica, 1941) to Girton. She read Italian and Serbo-Croat and worked for the Foreign Office and BBC Monitoring. A lover of art, literature and the natural world, especially tortoises, she read and travelled widely. She married first Ted Ahlers and then Hymie Yaffey. YEATES. On 11 April 2016, Jozy McIntyre (Fairweather) MA (1937 Modern and Medieval Languages) Jozy lectured in German at the universities of Wales, Durham and Newcastle. She was also a Justice of the Peace for Newcastle upon Tyne, a magistrate and Deputy Chairman of the Juvenile Panel of Magistrates, Newcastle, and director of her Residents’ Association. Her daughter Deborah followed her to Girton in 1967.

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WOOD. On 4 March 2017, Sister Mary Gundulf (Eleanor Katherine Wood) MA (1963 English) After working for a few years as a nurse, domestic bursar and executive officer, Eleanor entered the enclosed Anglican Benedictine Community of St Mary’s Abbey, West Malling, Kent and lived her life there. In 1980 she published The Play of Wisdom, a spiritual allegory. Jozy McIntyre Yeates

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Obituaries FREDA ALEXANDER (1941–2016) Freda Elizabeth Alexander (née Burn) was a searcher after many kinds of truth. She began her career as a pure mathematician, ended it as an epidemiologist specialising in cancer, and devoted much of her retirement to the service of the Scottish Episcopal Church. One of her sermons included a quotation from Harry Williams, sometime Dean of Trinity College, Cambridge. Williams taught her, she claimed, never to be satisfied with what is not totally satisfying. It was this insight that led Freda to move from pure mathematics and embark on ‘a risky but much more exciting journey which led me to epidemiology’. Freda Alexander was born in Northumberland, an only child. She came up to Girton in 1960 to read Mathematics, graduating in 1963 with a First and staying on to take Part III with Honours the following year. While in Cambridge she was an active sportswoman, gaining a Blue in golf. She was in the same cohort of mathematicians as her first husband, Connor, but got to know him only when they were research students together in Newcastle and, later, Edinburgh. They married in 1966. Connor died during a climbing holiday in the Austrian Alps in 1972. Their only child, Iain, was eleven months old at the time, and so for several years Freda juggled employment with the role of a single parent. It was during her Cambridge years that she also met her second husband, Ron Watts, a London-based lawyer whom she married in 1981; he predeceased her in 2011. Over the course of her life Freda worked in several universities, including Glasgow, Leeds,

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Southampton and Edinburgh. On graduating, she first pursued research in pure mathematics, gaining her PhD in 1967. Her interest in epidemiology was kindled in the 1970s, and was confirmed by the conferral of an MSc in Medical Statistics from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in 1981. At Southampton University she led an international team studying mothers of babies with infant acute leukaemia. By comparing their condition with data relating to the mothers of healthy babies, Freda’s team was able to posit a link between infant acute leukaemia and carbamate-based insecticides, typically a constituent of mosquito repellents. The success of her transition from pure mathematician to medical statistician is reflected in the fact that she completed her career as Professor of Cancer Epidemiology at the University of Edinburgh.

Freda’s Christian faith was central to her life. She was ordained a deacon in 2008, and in later years served as a minister of St John’s Episcopal Church in Edinburgh. She was also a Tertiary of the Society of St Francis, and she ended her life a Roman Catholic, giving individual spiritual direction to, among others, the transgender writer, Jo Clifford, who recalls: ‘The last thing she gave me was a simple message of love and support for all her trans friends; and […] this, coming as it did from someone so deeply embedded in the Christian tradition, meant a huge amount to me.’ Even as Freda faced death, she was able to inspire and encourage with conversations that mixed reflections on the theory of relativity with comments on the nature of human society. She is sorely missed by her son and grandchildren, as well as her many friends in Edinburgh and further afield.

SALLY BEAUMAN (1944 –2016) Sally Beauman (née Kinsey-Miles) became well known as a best-selling author. She grew up, an only child, in Bristol and attended Redland High School. In her first term at Girton, where she read English, Sally took the part of Hermione in The Winter’s Tale, and a series of challenging ADC plays established her as the leading actress of her year. Her most memorable roles included Alice in Strindberg’s The Dance of Death and Natalya in Turgenev’s A Month in the Country, and she more than held her own with male contemporaries who went on to become professional actors. Sally, however, had become engaged to fellow undergraduate Christopher Beauman (Trinity) and following their marriage in 1966, she moved to the Charlie Hopkinson

Freda was a devoted mother who delighted in entertaining children. In retirement she often volunteered as a parent helper on school trips; she also enjoyed devising individually tailored worksheets in mathematics – ‘fun maths’, as she termed it. Her son Iain recalls her love of amusement parks, claiming that she was constantly finding new excuses for taking her grandchildren to Blair Drummond Safari Park. Even after being diagnosed with cancer she undertook a trip to Spitzbergen to see the polar bears and to enjoy rides on fast inflatable speedboats. Her joie de vivre was clearly infectious: asked to describe her grandmother in three words, six-year-old Beth Alexander responded: ‘crazy, funny and mathematical’.

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US, where she had various jobs, culminating in working on the launch of New York magazine. Her journalistic debut was a scintillating piece on Norman Mailer’s attempt to make a film in East Hampton and, on her return to London, Sally quickly rose through the ranks of magazine journalism; she joined Vogue, very quickly moved, as Features Editor, to Harper’s Bazaar and, at the age of 26, was appointed Editor of Queen, just days before the title was closed. Thereafter she pursued a successful freelance career, notably writing in-depth profiles for The Sunday Telegraph magazine. In 1970, she was the inaugural winner of the Catherine Pakenham award for young female journalists. One of Sally’s interviewees was the leading Shakespearean actor Alan Howard, who was then playing Oberon in Peter Brook’s iconic production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Sally and Alan enjoyed a partnership of almost 45 years, and their son James was born in 1974. The family spent a lot of time in or around Stratford-upon-Avon, and there Sally embarked on her first book, a history of the Royal Shakespeare Company, combining archive material with contemporary interviews. She then honed her fictional skills on a number of Mills & Boon romances, written under the pseudonym Vanessa James. Sally achieved fame in 1987 with Destiny, the first novel written under her own name. The book was much talked about, even before publication, on account of the million-dollar advance Sally received and because of the publicity surrounding one or two rather explicit

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scenes. But Destiny more than earned its advance, translated into twenty languages and topping both US and UK bestseller lists. This was followed by a series of novels, mysteries or romantic thrillers: Dark Angel (1990), Lovers and Liars (1994), Danger Zones (1996), and Sextet (1997). Then, in 2001, came the novel best loved by many of her readers, Rebecca’s Tale, a prequel to Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca, seen through the eyes of Rebecca herself. The book was equally well received by critics; Linda Grant wrote that while both du Maurier and Sally were great storytellers, Sally ‘really is the better prose stylist’. Lisa Appignanesi, her friend and neighbour, described Sally as ‘that rare phenomenon – a writer whose prose sang and who could at the same time tell stories that captivated millions’. Her last novel, The Visitors, based on archival research on Howard Carter’s excavation of Tutankhamun’s tomb, was published in 2014. Sally lived in Highgate but spent time in a house in the Cotswolds (the dividend from Destiny) and increasingly, in summer, on Barra, the island in the Outer Hebrides where Alan and she had bought back the house once owned by his great-uncle, Compton Mackenzie. She also loved visiting their son and his family at their farmhouse by Hadrian’s Wall. But in her last decade Sally spent a lot of time caring for Alan (whom she married in 2004) as he suffered declining health, and supporting him in his final stage appearances; he died in 2015, and she was to outlive him by just 17 months before succumbing to cancer. She was, in the words of Lisa Appignanesi, ‘a proud, fiercely private, beautiful and generous woman – at all ages’. Christopher Beauman

FLORENCE BUCK (1931– 2017) The fortunate Girtonians who were cared for by Florence (Florrie) Buck on ‘her corridors’ in the Grange and New Wing, her colleagues among the staff and the wider community which was served by her, in Hall or at Wolfson Court, will remember the care she took with each of them and her lively interest in their lives. In many cases they will also value the concerned and imaginative support she provided when they were facing personal difficulties. Although Florrie’s time at Girton was officially spent as a ‘daily lady’, pantry worker and, for six years, NUPE shop steward, she was more deeply involved in College life than such a bald list can convey. Born in Islington, Florrie Buck (née Marshall) was eight years old at the outbreak of World War II and was twice evacuated from the Blitz. On completing her education, she trained as a dressmachinist and worked for Liberty until she

married fellow-Londoner, Len, and moved with him to join his sister in Girton village. Florrie worked for Marks and Spencer until the birth of her son in 1959. As a young mother seeking additional income, she was offered evening work in the College pantry (‘if you want a little job…’). She recalled being awed, initially, by the College, but stuck at her ‘little job’ for some six decades. Florrie said that she always tried to live by her mother’s maxim, ‘You get out of life what you put in’, and ‘put in’ she certainly did. Friendly with everyone on her corridors, she was regularly approached by students and Fellows seeking help and advice; one day she might be asked to ‘see after’ a student’s domestically incompetent boyfriend in Girton village, the next she might find herself looking after a Fellow’s baby. She was a special guest at many Girtonian weddings and kept in touch with a number of ‘her’ students, taking great pride in their achievements. Florrie clearly remembered the impact of Girton’s ‘going mixed’. The old, all-female Girton, she recalled, was ‘quiet and academic, with a lot of rules’, and the Mistress was always addressed as ‘Madam’. When important guests visited the College, their chauffeur would stay with Florrie at her home, and she would be driven to work next morning in a Rolls or Bentley. The arrival of male students, she thought, ‘lightened the atmosphere’ and made the College more sociable (though some of the older gyps were embarrassed at having to cope with young men, and not all female students were delighted by unisex bathrooms). Florrie, however, saw no real difference between caring for the women and the men, remarking that ‘both the boys and girls can be tidy or very grotty’.

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Her first retirement came in 1995 when she needed to spend more time with Len, who sadly died two years later. Before long, however, Florrie was back behind the servery at Wolfson Court and tending to monthly College lunches for the Probus Club, who specially requested Florrie and her niece Doreen as waitresses (according to dark mutterings from other staff members, they gave bigger portions). It wasn’t until Christmas 2011 that she finally stopped working at Wolfson Court. At Florrie’s funeral her son, Paul, described her as ‘loving, kind, funny, helpful, silly, stubborn, fiercely independent, quietly proud, accepting and non-judgemental’. That is the Florrie we too remember. The College was lucky to have such a loyal and dedicated employee for so many years, and we miss her very much. Peter Sparks, Life Fellow

RICHARD HENRY CLEARY (1946–2016) The whole College community was deeply shocked by the death of Wolfson Court Porter Richard Cleary, who died just a few hours after completing his shift at the beginning of Michaelmas Term 2016. Richard worked in the Porters’ Lodge at Wolfson Court for 23 years. A true gentleman, he looked after all of us with patience, care and empathy. Calm in any crisis, he was utterly dependable, carrying out his duties faithfully and with a thoughtful, humane intelligence. Richard always knew the right thing to say; he knew when we

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needed a hug, a cigarette, a cup of (incredibly strong) tea, or an email joke in questionable taste, and his daily greeting – ‘I’m all right, it’s the others’ – always set the day off properly. Surprisingly for such an erudite man, Richard left school early: at fifteen, following the death of his father, he went out to work to support his mother. Richard met Stella when the fireextinguisher company he worked for moved

offices to Sunbury, and they married in 1972. Their first child Paul was born in 1974 and Alisa followed in 1977. It was in 1993 whilst working in the personnel division of Cambridge Pre-Star, looking after first aid, that Richard saw our advertisement for a porter, and we were very pleased to appoint him. Both Paul and Alisa worked at Wolfson Court during the summer vacations, contributing to the family spirit of Wolfson Court.

familiar response to any tale of College absurdity. It was somehow no surprise to us to learn at his funeral that he had met both Jimi Hendrix and Bob Dylan, taking them in his stride as he did everyone else. He is very much missed. Maureen Hackett, Junior Bursar and Warden of Wolfson Court

FELIX FRANKS (1926 –2016) Over the years Richard advised and counselled literally thousands of students who responded well to his kind, fatherly tones. The many students who attended his funeral represented generations of young men and women from all over the world who remember Richard with great respect, affection and gratitude for setting them right and keeping them safe. If not on duty, he always went down to the Senate House for Graduation, to shake hands with those he had shepherded through their time at Girton and join the Warden for a glass of something with a sigh of amused relief for another cohort safely launched. When students come back to see us, it is always Richard they ask for. Richard was also the Wolfson Court Union representative on the Personnel Committee and served his constituency faithfully and with great good humour. Richard loved his job. On the day he died, he said, not for the first time, ‘I don't work here for the money, I work here for the craic’. He was consistently outward-looking, endlessly fascinated by the weird and wonderful habits of others, which meant he could get on with anyone. ‘You couldn't make it up’ was his

My father, Felix Franks, who has died aged 90, changed the way scientists understood water and introduced new ways of freeze-drying vaccines and of administering insulin. His career spanned both academia and industry. In 1978 he returned to academic life when he took up a Leverhulme Professorial Fellowship at Cambridge, and the following year joined the Girton Fellowship, serving as a Bye-Fellow for the next 20 years. During that time he established Pafra Biopreservation, one of the earliest companies on the Cambridge Science Park, gaining contracts from many of the major pharmaceutical companies. Together with a US biotech company Felix also developed a stable form of insulin that could be inhaled, promising an end to daily injections. Felix gained great pleasure from his connection with Girton. He enjoyed supervising students and participating at High Table ‘where the conversation could range from the monks of eleventh-century Durham to potty training a toddler’. In 2014 the Bioupdate Foundation held a Festschrift conference at Girton in his honour, ‘The Felix Franks Amorph Symposium’.

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Second World War broke out. The family lodged together in boarding houses around Hampstead, north London. In 1943, Felix signed up for the army, changing his surname to Franks. He fought in the D-Day landings and witnessed the liberation of Belsen. In 1945, waiting to be demobbed, Felix saw a note in the barracks seeking fluent German speakers for ‘interesting duties’. He was taken back to the UK, trained in espionage and spent two years working undercover in the Soviet zone of Germany. Many years later his life and his experience of exile featured in an exhibition at the Jewish Museum, Berlin. In 1948 Felix became naturalised and went to study physical chemistry at London University on an ex-serviceman’s grant. In 1950 he married a fellow refugee, Hedy Werner. Upon graduation he worked both in industry and later as a lecturer, gaining his PhD at Birkbeck College. His earliest substantive post was at Bradford University, followed by academic roles in Nottingham and Cambridge. This was interspersed with work for Unilever and a NASA fellowship in the US at Carnegie Mellon University, Pennsylvania. He was born Felix Frankfurther, in Berlin. As the Nazi storm clouds gathered, the young Felix became aware of things changing. His teacher appeared in uniform and ordered the children to give the Heil Hitler salute. After Kristallnacht, Felix and his two sisters, Beate and Eva, were dispatched on a Kindertransport, reaching Southampton in April 1939. Through a remarkable combination of circumstances his parents also reached Britain two days before the

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His early research career focused on the physical properties of water; he built up as complete a picture as possible of the properties of the water molecule. He published over 200 papers, but his magnum opus was a seven-volume work on the physical chemistry of aqueous solutions – giving him the nickname ‘Water Franks’ in the scientific community. This is how many came to know him, through the numerous publications he edited, bringing together as much knowledge as

possible. He also wrote a book, Polywater (1981), about the alleged Soviet discovery of a different form of water with a higher boiling point; this had become the focus of Cold War tension, but was exposed as a hoax. In later years he became an entrepreneur, developing preservation technologies. His first applied cloud physics to store solutions, unfrozen and uncontaminated, at temperatures as low as -30°C. His second was developing new freeze-drying techniques for the vaccines, pharmaceuticals and biotech industries. Felix was an accomplished pianist and cellist who performed in chamber music and orchestral ensembles into his late 80s. He played in many groups in Cambridge and was instrumental in establishing Girton’s Sunday afternoon concert series.

BEVERLY GRIFFIN (1930 –2016) Beverly Griffin was a ground-breaking expert in cancer research. In 1980 she completed the genetic sequencing of the mouse polyoma virus; at the time, this was one of the longest tracts of eukaryotic DNA that had been sequenced. Her subsequent career centred on the Epstein-Barr virus and its link to Burkitt’s Lymphoma, one of the fastest-growing human cancers. Born in Louisiana, Beverly won a scholarship to study Chemistry at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, and held doctorates from the University of Virginia (1955) and the University of Cambridge (1958). Following a lectureship at Mount Holyoke College, Massachusetts, she returned in 1961 to Cambridge as a Fellow of Girton and Senior

He retired in 2000 and moved to be closer to his family in London. He loved to organise outings and reunions, frequently taking the entire family on summer holidays to the South Tyrol, where he had spent happy times as a child. Felix’s two daughters held their wedding receptions at Girton. Despite having both graduated from Oxford, my husband (now Principal of an Oxford college) and I were delighted to marry under a wedding canopy in the Girton Fellows’ Garden, in what was apparently the College’s first-ever Jewish wedding. Felix is survived by Hedy, his daughters, Carolyn and me, and five grandchildren. Suzanne Franks

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Research Associate in the Department of Chemistry. At that time female researchers and lecturers working in the Chemistry building were required to use a different entrance from men; Beverly, a champion of equal opportunities, took this hard. In 1969 she took the position of staff scientist at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology under Nobel Prize-winner Fred Sanger, and in 1972 she was appointed Head of Nucleic Acids Research at the Imperial Cancer Fund research laboratory in London. In 1984, she was the first woman to be appointed Professor (of Virology) at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School at Hammersmith Hospital, where she continued research on the Epstein-Barr virus until her retirement. Beverly shared a love of music and art with her third husband, Tomas Lindahl, whom she met in 1979 and married in 2012. Sadly, she was not well enough to accompany Tomas to Stockholm when, in 2015, he received a Nobel Prize for his work on DNA repair. Fellow Girtonians recall Beverly’s lively, open manner and the touch of glamour she brought to High Table. She is remembered as an outstanding scientist, a generous mentor and an example to aspiring women in science. The Editors

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LISELOTTE GUMPEL (1926 –2015) Liselotte (‘Lisa’) Gumpel was born in Berlin, one of three daughters of a prosperous Jewish family. The family moved to Prague in 1935, and shortly before the outbreak of World War II, Grete Gumpel managed to put her three daughters on to one of the Kindertransport trains organised by Nicholas Winton. Grete died during deportation to the Łód ghetto in Poland, but her husband escaped via Poland to London and his daughters later met him again there. A single Protestant woman, Emily Harder, took in the three girls in 1939 but she died shortly afterwards, and they were sent to boarding schools. Lisa received a good education at the Stoatly Rough boarding

school in Haslemere (set up for Jewish refugee children) and later qualified as an X-ray technician. Then in the early 1950s she and her younger sister went to the USA. Here Lisa worked as an X-ray technician first in New York and then in San Francisco before deciding to acquire a university education in another field. She studied at San Francisco State University (bachelor’s degree) and Stanford University (master’s and PhD in German). Appointed Assistant Professor of German Language and Literature at the University of Minnesota, Morris, in 1968, she was made a full Professor in 1980, and remained there until her retirement in 1997. Meanwhile she published her first book, Concrete Poetry from East and West Germany, in 1976, and spent the academic year 1977–78 as a Helen Cam Visiting Fellow at Girton, coinciding with the first intake of male Research Fellows, who remember her well. Her second book, Metaphor Re-examined: a non-Aristotelian Perspective, was published in 1984 and nominated for the James Russell Lowell Prize two years later. Her connection with Girton meant a great deal to Lisa, and she came back more than once to reunions, as well as to visit her older sister in London. A touching footnote to her Girton stay was revealed in a note she added to a Christmas card to me one year: she had taken a Girton scarf back to Morris as a souvenir, and was wearing it when on a cold Minnesota night she found an injured kitten in a gutter. She sacrificed the Girton memento in order to wrap the kitten up and get it to a vet. Gillian Jondorf, Life Fellow

JENNIFER JENKINS (1921– 2017) Dame Jennifer Jenkins (née Morris) came to Girton in 1939 to read History. Her mother had been a journalist during the First World War; her father is remembered for the minimum standards for council houses that bore his name, Parker Morris. She was awarded the Hallett Scholarship, funded from the bequest of the notable suffragist Lilias Ashworth Hallett – very apt for someone like Jennifer who had strong political and feminist beliefs. She became Chairman of the Cambridge University Labour Club during her first year, and that summer at the Fabian summer school met one of the founders of the Oxford University Democratic Socialist Club, Roy Jenkins, then a student at Balliol College. They were married on 20 January 1945. Politically, she was probably the more radical of the two, but she said that one politician in the family was enough. She supported and advised Roy throughout his long career – as a major figure in the Labour Party for nearly thirty years, as President of the European Commission, as one of the SDP’s Gang of Four and subsequently its leader, and later still as biographer and historian. Early in her marriage Jennifer had said of herself, ‘I am not the kind of person who would be satisfied with housekeeping and cooking’, and she went on to make her name – not to mention gaining seven honorary degrees and, in 1985, a

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DBE – championing the preservation of the country’s built and landscape heritage without ever forgetting the needs of people. As was the case for many of Jennifer’s contemporaries, Girton was immediately followed by war work, firstly as a personnel assistant in a factory making propellors, and then as a temporary civil servant at the Ministry of Labour. Work for the Political and Economic Planning (PEP) think-tank followed the war, and there were twenty years of part-time extra-mural lecturing in History and Current Affairs and ten years as a juvenile magistrate. She joined the board of the Consumers’ Association in 1958 and was its Chairman for twelve years. She was Secretary to the Ancient Monuments Society, chaired the Historic Buildings Council in England for ten years, and at various times sat on the boards of the British Standards Institute, the Design Council and Sainsbury’s, as well as being a Trustee of the Wallace Collection and the Courtauld Institute. The National Trust remembers her as a warm, open and involving Chairman, a role she held from 1986 until 1990. She was also its first female Chairman. It was a period of great expansion for the Trust: membership rose from 1.3 million to over 2 million. A renewed emphasis on coastlines and smaller properties saw the estate grow too; this contributed to the Trust’s increased appeal to children and helped dispel what Jennifer had described as ‘a tendency in England to suppose that only the large and spectacular is interesting’. Jennifer was therefore a fitting author of From Acorn to Oak Tree: the Growth of the National Trust, 1895–1994 (cowritten with Patrick James). It is also perhaps no

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surprise that her tenure as Chairman presaged within the Trust a return to the original vision of Octavia Hill, whose family background included both radical politics and social housing. Jennifer died on 2 February 2017, 14 years after her husband. She is survived by two sons and a daughter, four grandsons, three granddaughters and two great-grandsons. Jenny Blackhurst, Librarian, with thanks to the Hon. Charles Jenkins

HAMIDA KHUHRO (1936 –2017) Hamida Khuhro, born 13 August 1936 in Aqil village, spent her childhood on the banks of the Indus in the province of Sindh, Pakistan. Later, in the course of a distinguished career, she twice served as Sindh’s Minister for Education (1990; 2004). Her first BA and MA were from the University of Karachi; in 1959, encouraged and supported by her father, she came to Girton as an affiliated student to study History. Here she

gained lifelong friends from around the world and a love of history instilled by those who taught her. She went on to gain her PhD from London University (SOAS) and in 1970 was elected Research Fellow at St Antony’s College, Oxford. Returning home, she taught History at the University of Sindh, where in 1978 she was chosen to head the newly established Pakistan Studies Centre. Hamida Khuhro was a widely respected scholar with several books and many studies to her name. Her PhD on the colonial period of Sindh resulted in her book The Making of Modern Sindh: British Policy and Social Change in the Nineteenth Century (OUP 1999). Her jointly edited Karachi: Megacity of our Times had two editions (OUP 1997; 2010). Her magisterial biography of her father, Mohamed Ayub Khuhro: A Life of Courage in Politics (1998), covers the departure of Britain from its South Asian empire and the founding of Pakistan, in which he played a significant role. Additionally, she was a prizewinning author of children’s literature.

UNA KROLL (1925 – 2017) Una Kroll (née Hill) came to public notice in 1974 when she stood for Parliament in Sutton as an independent candidate on an equal opportunities platform. Although she gained only 298 votes, her campaign attracted attention and helped pave the way for the passing into law of the Sex Discrimination Bill in 1975. In 1978 she made the news again: when the Church of England’s General Synod voted against the ordination of women, Dr Kroll stood up and shouted from the gallery, ‘We asked for bread, but you gave us a stone’. Her parents were George Hill and Hilda Pediani, members of the cosmopolitan merchant class in the former Russian Empire; they met serving as British intelligence officers in the First World War. Their marriage was short-lived, and her father’s

In 1987 she was elected to the Sindh Provincial Assembly. Her academic work remained her prime concern, but later as Education Minister she represented Pakistan at the UN. At home she promoted inclusive values, working hard to better the education and well-being of the rural population of Sindh. She died on 12 February 2017 and is survived by her daughter Nuha Ansari and family. Achla Eccles (Chib 1958) and Elisabeth Davies (1957), with help from Dorothy J Thompson (Walbank 1958), Life Fellow

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departure when she was 18 months old left Una and her mother living in real hardship in England. This poverty lay behind several ‘disasters’ which scarred Una emotionally, leading her to identify with ‘survivors’. Later in life, on a visit to the United States, she was able to receive the ministrations of some of the earliest women in the Anglican priesthood, and she experienced a spiritual resolution to some of these traumas in a way which had previously been impossible to her through the ministry of male-only clergy. However, she also drew on childhood memories of positive moments of heightened spiritual awareness, which were to be repeated later in her life. When money became available, she was educated at Malvern Girls’ College, whence she came up to Girton in 1944 to read Medicine. She gained a half-blue for diving and was Secretary to the Medical Society. She qualified as a doctor in 1951 after clinical training at The London Hospital, where she continued as a house officer. While at Cambridge, Una was deeply influenced by Br Denis Marsh SSF, vicar of St Bene’t’s, who set her on the spiritual path which resulted in her joining the Anglican Community of the Holy Name as a nun in 1953. She was sent to an Anglican missionary hospital in Liberia, but after the death of a local chief under her care it was judged that she should return to England, a decision which caused her to have a nervous breakdown. She was accompanied home by the American monk, Father Leo Kroll, who had been sent to Liberia to determine the case, and on the journey they fell in love. They married in 1957.

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Between 1959 and 1961 the Krolls served as lay missionaries in Namibia, but they fell foul of apartheid and were forced to return to England. Una became a GP, working in South London suburbs with significant areas of deprivation. In 1970, after part-time training, she was made a deaconess, serving in her local parish as a ‘nonstipendiary’, and working with (among others) the radical vicar, Donald Reeves, whilst continuing her work as a doctor. During the 70s she began campaigning, not only for women’s rights, but also gay rights and other (at the time) radical causes. She was a founder member of the Christian Parity Group, and worked closely with Women in the Media. She also became a prolific author on medical and spiritual subjects, and contributed to the work of the World Council of Churches and The Christian Medical Commission. In 1979, the Krolls moved to East Sussex, where Una worked as a community doctor in schools and helped create a counselling service for teenagers. Her husband died in 1987, and shortly afterwards she moved to Monmouthshire to live alongside a contemplative community of nuns, later trying out her vocation with them. When this failed, she became a ‘solitary’, living alongside the parish church in Monmouth, and serving as a non-stipendiary deacon, and then (from 1997) priest, in the parish. During this period she continued to write, and was increasingly sought out as a counsellor and ‘soul friend’ by individuals in distress. Una moved to Lancashire in 2003, to be near her son. In 2008 she shocked her friends by relinquishing her priesthood and becoming a

Roman Catholic. Some called this ‘perverse’. In her autobiography (Bread Not Stones, 2014) she explained that her faith had become less and less dogmatic, and she had been disillusioned by the 2008 Lambeth Conference’s rejection of parity for gay Christians in the Church. She felt unable, therefore, to continue to represent Anglicanism as a priest, and felt led to put herself beyond pressure to do so by becoming a Roman Catholic. This was clearly paradoxical, but it was consistent with a strong theme which had emerged in her writings of being at peace even with oppressors. She considered the Roman Catholic Church to be an oppressive and excessively dogmatic institution, but felt an inner compulsion to live her final years, and to die, as one of its members, and was glad to have found a priest and parish who welcomed her on that basis. She is survived by her children, Florence, Leo, Elizabeth and Una, and ten grandchildren.

crooked nose testified to a lacrosse ball that landed in the wrong place. But she was also passionately into music and sang as much as she could as well as playing the violin, the piano, and the organ. She was a founder member of the National Youth Orchestra in 1948, and the first of her school to gain admission to Cambridge. As other obituarists have commented, and Shirley would confirm, early post-war Girton was

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SHIRLEY GILLIAN LOCK (1929–2016) Shirley Gillian Lock (née Walker) was the only child of a father who was an oil merchant in Hull and a mother who had been an opera singer. She grew up in Bridlington in East Yorkshire and to the end of her life would switch into its dialect when she got to Doncaster Station. Her repertoire of risqué dialect stories would send Norwegian dinner guests, fellow Vikings, into fits of laughter but remain unintelligible to Southern Englishers. At school she was very sporty, being captain of cricket and a wicketkeeper, while a

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characterised by awful food and icy rooms. Nor would the teaching in the University Music Faculty have passed any audit today. Shirley’s supervisor, Professor Patrick Hadley, who had lost a leg in World War I, was renowned for his extended lunches at the Arts Theatre restaurant; not infrequently, after climbing the stairs to his room in Caius, Shirley would find Paddy’s artificial leg hanging from the door handle, signifying that he was not to be disturbed. Students, however, were encouraged to make their own music, and Shirley took full advantage of the opportunities. She played and sang for all the masterminds including Jill Vlasto, the energetic producer of Girton’s nationally famed operas; the pint-loving George Guest, conductor of the Lady Margaret Singers at St John’s; and the multi-faceted Boris Ord at King’s. After Girton, Shirley took up the Worshipful Society of Musicians Carnegie Scholarship at the Guildhall School of Music in London. She gradually began to work professionally in such important groups as the BBC Singers and the Ambrosian Singers, singing alongside two future Dames, Janet Baker and Felicity Lott, and under conductors such as Sir Thomas Beecham, Otto Klemperer and Igor Stravinsky. Shirley became a founder member of the Purcell Singers, a professional group founded by Peter Pears and Imogen Holst. Centred on Aldeburgh, the group gave many concerts at the Festival there and elsewhere. Imogen Holst, the composer’s daughter, became a friend, calling Shirley her ‘favourite soprano’ and composing her a song to celebrate our engagement. Benjamin Britten

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was to remark that Shirley’s solo in one of his choral works could not have been bettered. Sadly, Shirley had blood clotting problems and after a time was unable to stand for very long. So, turning to other interests, she became proficient in Italian and immersed herself in the fine arts; she chose the illustrations for each decade in a special edition commemorating the 150th anniversary of the British Medical Journal, of which I was then editor. She returned to Girton on that famous occasion in 1998 when many women who were unable to graduate on completing their studies were finally able to take their degrees. As well as her many other interests in Aldeburgh, where we retired, she delighted in her grandsons, thrilled that both had gone into music, albeit in totally opposite directions: Matthew writing film scores and Edward (Ed Sheeran) a popular singer-songwriter. Stephen Lock

DAVID MILLER (1966– 2017) David Miller, literary agent, editor and novelist, was an energetic champion of new writing whose death, at the age of 50, shocked and saddened the international publishing community. The son of a chartered surveyor, David was born in Edinburgh and educated at The King’s School, Canterbury. During his time at Girton, reading Theology and Religious Studies, he edited Misprint, a faintly scurrilous student magazine where, amongst other satirical items, he imagined a Cambridge supervisor’s comments on

Shakespeare’s soliloquies: ‘To be or not to be; that is the question … [Don’t state the obvious] … To sleep, perchance to dream … [bring in Freud here]’. His sense of fun and love of a juicy story remained undimmed throughout his professional career. David joined leading literary agency Rogers, Coleridge & White as a receptionist in 1990 and rose, in seven years, to become a director of the company. In 2008 he won Orion Publishing Group’s Literary Agent of the Year award. He acted as advisor to the Literature Department at the British Council and the Creative Writing course at Edinburgh Napier University. His own novel, Today (2011), drew on his great admiration for Joseph Conrad, and was praised by A N Wilson as ‘not merely a story about Conrad … [but] … a Conradian achievement in itself’. An assiduous sniffer-out of talent, David discovered the Booker-winning author Magnus Mills when Mills was still working as a bus-driver, and his portfolio of writers included Victoria Hislop, Kate Summerscale, Nicola Barker and Philip Hensher. He was, Hensher recalls, ‘hilarious, wayward, incisive, exuberant, gossipy, full of plots and stratagems’. Despite driving a ferocious deal, David did not confuse the value of a book with its price. Clients were apt to become close friends, and they trusted his literary judgement as much as his business acumen; it is a mark of this faith that he was appointed literary executor to the estate of Angela Carter. Latterly he also represented a number of Norwegian authors; Norway was one of his more mysterious passions, inspired perhaps by a lifelong love of Ibsen. Friends took comfort in the fact that, the night

before David suffered his fatal heart attack, he attended a performance of Hedda Gabler. David was the hugely proud father of two boys, Freddie and Billy (his marriage to author Kate Colquhoun ended in 2015). An enthusiastic adopter of social media, he described himself on Twitter as ‘father, literary agent, author, editor’. The description stands as an accurate ordering of his priorities. He is survived by Freddie and Billy, and a packed memorial service held at the Union Chapel, Islington, in March 2017 showed how very much he is missed. The Editors

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JENNIFER MOYLE (1921– 2016) Jennifer Marice Moyle is best known for her work with Peter Mitchell on the chemiosmotic theory of ATP (adenosine triphosphate) synthesis. Born in Norwich, where she attended Norwich High School, she was the daughter of Olive M Dakin and S H Leonard Moyle, a local tea merchant. Both parents were keen amateur musicians who passed on their musical talent to Jennifer and her younger sister (and fellow Girtonian), Vivien.

Jennifer came up to Girton in 1939 where, inspired by the pioneering biochemist Ernest Baldwin, she chose to focus on Biochemistry, completing her studies in 1942. While at Girton, Jennifer sang in various Cambridge choirs. On graduating, she worked first for MI8 as an intelligence officer based at Bletchley Park, becoming second-in-command of a section that analysed intelligence obtained from German codes. A year after the War finished Jennifer returned to the Department of Biochemistry in Cambridge, where she worked with Marjory Stephenson, one of the first women to be elected Fellow of the Royal Society. Here in the Department, in 1948, Jennifer first met and started working with the future Nobel Laureate Peter Mitchell. Their close scientific association lasted for 35 years. They moved together from Cambridge to Edinburgh in 1955, and in 1963 Jennifer followed Mitchell to Cornwall where they co-founded the independent Glynn Research Institute. Her niece fondly recalls visits to Cornwall, where she was taken to the labs tucked away down a long winding driveway. Jennifer was an acknowledged world-class experimental scientist, who helped design and perform elegant experiments that led to the acceptance of Mitchell’s then-radical chemiosmotic theory of biological energy coupling. They demonstrated that cells use energy released from fuel molecules such as glucose to pump protons across the mitochondrial membrane, creating a store of energy analogous to a hydroelectric power plant. The release of this energy as the protons flow down this concentration gradient into the mitochondria through a motor protein and

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enzyme (called the ATP synthase) results in ATP production, the ATP being used as the universal energy currency in the cell. At Glynn, Jennifer carried out experimental work until her retirement in 1983, after which she returned to Norwich. Here she continued to serve as a Director of the Research Institute, but still found time to exercise her considerable musical skills. As well as singing – she had perfect pitch – Jennifer played the piano. She cherished her large collection of LPs, and often spoke with her family about the emotional power of music. She also painted watercolours, as her mother had done. Jennifer was extremely dedicated to Biochemistry and the precision demanded by her work was carried over into her private life. Her quiet, unassuming and modest demeanour masked her standing as one of the great experimental biochemists of the twentieth century. Her work will remain a cornerstone of our understanding of biological energy metabolism. Sandra Fulton, Senior Tutor and Fellow in Biochemistry, with thanks to Professor Peter Rich and Jennifer’s niece, Meri Rizk

DOUGLASS CECIL NORTH (1920 –2015) Douglass North became an Honorary Fellow of Girton in 1994. He was already well known to College, where he had held a fellowship during his tenure (1981– 82) of the Visiting Pitt Professorship of American History and Institutions. The title of his University position in the Faculty of History was particularly apposite

for the area of work for which he was by then world-famous: the formation and evolution of the social conventions (‘institutions’) that sustained political and economic life. Such history held a special inflection for him: at the heart of his investigations were the consequences of diversity across institutions for the way economies performed through time. For his passion was economics. The self-account that he wrote shortly before accepting the Honorary Fellowship opened with the simple statement: ‘I knew where I was going from the day I decided to become an economist’. That had happened during his wartime service as a US merchant marine. His time at sea took him to Australia and the Pacific; it was also an opportunity for the ‘three years of continuous reading’ that convinced him he should be an economist. The urgent issue for Professor North was what made different economies rich or poor. It was a question he pursued all his life, and in the course of the pursuit he reinvented economic history. Focusing first on the US and then branching out into Europe, he constantly retooled his ideas along the slow road (as he described it) towards an analytical framework that would encompass why institutions did or did not produce economic growth. By institutions he meant the underlying ‘rules of the game’ in organisational behaviour (by contrast with the organisations themselves, which are the

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‘players’). Historical comparison between Britain, the Netherlands and Spain led him to a criticism of the rationality theories that had characterised neoclassical economics. Along with Robert Coase, he became known as a founding father of the New Institutional Economics. By the time of his election to the Honorary Fellowship at Girton, Professor North was the author of several major works, including Structure and Change in Economic History (1981) and Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance (1990). In 1993, he was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for ‘having renewed research in economic history by applying economic theory and quantitative methods in order to explain economic and institutional change’. This prize, established in 1968 in recognition of Alfred Nobel himself, was shared with Robert Fogel, an economist from Chicago. An earlier prize-winner, Milton Friedman, jokingly remarked that in order to get such a prize as an economist it helped (statistically speaking, that is, and that was the point) if as an American you had trained or taught at Chicago. Professor North’s own trajectory did not observe that orthodoxy. Trained at Berkeley, California (1940– 50), he taught for many years at the University of Washington (Seattle) before moving in 1983 to Washington University (St Louis), where he created the Center in Political Economy and later the Center for New Institutional Social Sciences. In the task of explaining how – so often – economies fail, he felt it was important to appreciate that there are few simple answers, and it was both his view and intellectual practice

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that the reach of enquiry had to be broad. The lessons for practical policy are severe. A short book that came out in 2005, Understanding the Process of Economic Change, sets out his convictions for a general readership. Among many marks of distinction, Professor North was a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy. Girton will remember him for his genial visits, his long-distance interest in College’s doings, and his many occasions of generosity. At the time of his death in 2015 he was Washington’s Spencer T. Olin Professor Emeritus in Arts and Sciences. Marilyn Strathern, Life Fellow; former Mistress

JEAN PACKMAN (1933–2016) My wife, Jean Packman, who has died aged 82, was a researcher whose work improved the welfare of children through her influence on legislation and policy in public services. The only daughter of Lou (née Sharp) and Sid Packman, she was the first in her family to attend university, going from Croydon High School to Girton to study History. There, she was recruited by Barbara Kahan, one of the pioneering group of chief officers appointed after the Children Act 1948, to join Oxfordshire County Council’s children’s department, where she worked first in residential care and then as a field social worker. It was Kahan who persuaded Jean to undertake a research project investigating the variations in the numbers of children in care in local

complex issues in simple language – that inspired loyalty and cohesion among staff and students. In 1975, she published The Child’s Generation, a history of children’s departments from 1948 to the establishment of Social Services departments in 1970. With a grant from the Department of Health, she then led a team to study policy and practice in two port cities in southern England anonymised as Shiptown and Clayport, publishing the findings in 1986 in Who Needs Care? This was one of a group of research projects that contributed to the new Children Act 1989.

authorities in England and Wales. This groundbreaking study, published as Child Care: Needs and Numbers (1968), gained her a doctorate from the University of Oxford; it also opened up a new field of research and teaching. In particular, she established that local policies influenced the number of children in care more than demographic or economic factors. Tall and with a fine voice, Jean was a talented actor who, during her time in Oxford, took leading roles in several productions of Shakespeare plays staged in college gardens; these included Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing and Kate in The Taming of the Shrew. In 1968 she moved to lead a postgraduate social work training course at Exeter University, where she remained until 1990. Modest and selfdeprecating, she displayed a warmth and humanity – along with a gift for explaining

Moving to the Dartington Social Research Unit, Jean revisited the two cities to study the effects of the legislation on practice. Her final book before retirement in 1996 was From Care to Accommodation, written with Christopher Hall. The central message for practitioners of this, as of all her work, is that commitment to the needs of children can go hand-in-hand with encouraging parents’ co-operation and offering them support, and that this may mean looking after their children away from the family home. Jean and I met as colleagues at Exeter in 1968 and married in 1982, buying a large farmhouse in Whimple, east Devon, where Jean excelled in offering hospitality to friends from all over the country and from wider Europe. An energetic walker, she also enjoyed gathering apples from our orchard for cider-making. She is survived by me and three cousins. Bill Jordan

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GILLIAN MARY POULTON (1922 – 2016) Dr Jill Hunt, as this remarkable Girtonian was professionally known, was born in London on 26 January 1922. Asserting a personal choice at a time when such a career was unusual for governess-educated girls, she escaped her planned future of a Swiss finishing school and opted rather to follow her father into medicine. She worked hard to get accepted at Girton. At Cambridge (1941– 43) she studied for Part I of the Natural Sciences Tripos, attending classes where the undergraduates were regularly addressed as ‘gentlemen’. Under wartime regulations, she completed her course in two years and followed this with clinical training at the West London Hospital (MB BChir 1946). Already as an undergraduate and afterwards in wartime London, the range of her activities and interests – from polishing the Mistress’s furniture to ambulance driving – expressed the zest for living that persisted to the end of her long life. In 1949 she married psychologist Christopher Poulton, who became Assistant Director of the Medical Research Council’s Applied Psychology Unit in Cambridge. Together they did ground-breaking

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research into the effects of sleep deprivation on junior doctors that led to reform of the on-call rotas. Her marriage brought a new dimension to an already full life, including offspring Pippa, Kit, Jo and Sally. The three Poulton daughters all followed their parents into medicine and research, two of them at Girton. When the children were young, Dr Hunt continued to work part-time, mainly as a GP. From 1970 she was also attached to Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge (Departments of Neurosurgery and Urology), where she became the independent observer for a study started in 1963 of 117 children treated at birth for open spina bifida. A Bye-Fellowship at Girton (1975–77) helped her to continue this research. She found that survival, walking ability and independence in open spina bifida could be predicted from the severity of the neurological deficit at birth and from whether there had been episodes of raised intracranial pressure. This research was Jill’s major lifetime interest for almost 50 years. For Jill, however, patients were never simply ‘cases’. Hers was a holistic approach, in which patients were primarily individuals. She followed up on every single member of the cohort throughout her and their lives. With some 32 published papers (five of them in the BMJ), she transformed knowledge of the condition. Her contribution to medical research was recognised at a memorable and unparalleled Cambridge University congregation on 24 November 2012 when, aged 90, Dr G M Hunt was awarded the senior degree of MD (on the basis of her published research) as, on the same occasion, was her daughter, Dr Alison (Sally) Poulton (Girton 1976).

From 1950 onwards, the Poulton household was based in Cambridge where Jill remained an active member of her local community (and church) well after retirement and the death of her husband of over 50 years, for whom she cared at home until his end. Although she had osteoporosis (with three broken hips!), she never allowed this to interfere with her life and continuing involvement in work. Even at the toughest of times, Jill presented a cheerful and optimistic demeanour. She remained the focal point of her family, now happily augmented by grand- and great-grandchildren of whom she was immensely proud. A room in Girton on Chapel Wing will carry her name as a fitting memorial to a loyal and much-respected Girtonian – a wife, mother and doctor, who tried to make the world a better place. Dorothy J Thompson (Walbank 1958), Life Fellow

JANE ELIZABETH RISDALL (1956–2016) Surgeon Commander Jane Risdall (1978), MBBS, MA (Cantab), MA (Lond), FFARCSI, FRAeS, RN, was a great supporter of Girton Medicine. In recent years, she was involved in College in numerous ways – supervising Statistics, talking to the Medical Veterinary Society, judging the Hammond Science Communication Prize and attending numerous other events. Jane was educated at Nottingham High School for Girls and came to Girton in 1978 for her undergraduate Medical Sciences. She then studied Clinical Medicine in Newcastle upon

Tyne, and after junior and senior house posts she started specialist training in anaesthetic and intensive care medicine in Edinburgh and Glasgow. During the First Gulf War she served with the Territorial Army and deployed with 205 General Hospital RAMC in Saudi Arabia. Jane joined the Royal Navy in 1992. After Britannia Royal Naval College, she continued Anaesthetics and Intensive Care Medicine training at the Royal Hospital Haslar, on the aircraft carrier HMS Invincible and at Addenbrooke’s Hospital,

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Cambridge. Qualifying as a Consultant in 1997, she was promoted and served again on HMS Invincible as Principal Medical Officer, a posting which included operational deployments in the Gulf and the Balkans. She then completed a year’s attachment as a Visiting Professor at the University of Texas, where she worked in the Hyperbaric Medicine Unit and conducted research into decompression illness for both NASA and the University of Texas. In June 2001, Jane moved to the Diving and Hyperbaric Medicine Unit at the Institute of Naval Medicine at Alverstoke in Hampshire. As well as commanding the unit, she managed to maintain her specialist interest in neuro-anaesthesia by working at the Wessex Neurological Unit. She continued to pursue her research interests and presented papers at clinical meetings in both the USA and Europe. She became an Associate Fellow of the Royal College of Anaesthetists and was a medical member of the Submarine Escape and Rescue Assistance Team. Further operational deployments included service as a Consultant Anaesthetist in Kosovo in 2002, service in the Second Gulf War in 2003, a humanitarian mission in the Mediterranean in 2006 and antipiracy operations in the Indian Ocean in 2010. Jane was appointed as a military Consultant Anaesthetist at Addenbrooke’s Hospital in 2004. She was energetic, extremely hard-working and delivered a high-quality clinical service. This was always combined with a major commitment to teaching and academic activities including lecturing in the USA, Australia and the UK, and the publication of a range of research papers. Jane frequently presented at scientific meetings

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of the Aerospace Medical Association, and in 2009 was elected one of its Fellows in recognition of her substantial contribution in this area. In 2015, she was elected as an Academician of the International Academy of Aviation and Space Medicine, the only serving Royal Naval officer to be so honoured. She was completing a higher degree in brain blast injury at the time of her death. Jane married Professor David Gradwell in April 2002, having met him in Houston in 2000. She was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2011, but with characteristic determination returned, when chemotherapy permitted, to work full-time after her surgery. She always showed extraordinary courage in the fight against her illness and did not let the frustrations distract her from her path, continuing her role as a Consultant Anaesthetist and Intensivist at Addenbrooke’s, pursuing her research and teaching interests and coxing for the Champion of the Thames Rowing Club in Cambridge and for the Royal Navy in inter-service contests. She last coxed her regular men’s crew on the Cam a few weeks before her death. Jane was a Medical Officer of the highest calibre who made a significant contribution to the Defence Medical Services, to Addenbrooke’s Hospital and to Girton College. It was wholly appropriate that the gathering after Jane’s funeral in Impington was held in the Stanley Library. She was extremely well cared for at The Arthur Rank Hospice in Cambridge, and Chapel collections from Easter 2017 were donated to this cause. Fiona Cooke, Fellow in Medicine

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Visitor:

The Rt Hon Baroness Hale of Richmond, PC, DBE, MA, Hon FBA, Hon LLD, Hon FRCPsych

Mistress:

Professor Susan J Smith, BA, MA, DPhil (Oxon), PhD, AcSS, FBA, FRSE

Fellows and Officers of the College, October 2017 Honorary Fellows

The Rt Hon Baroness Symons of Vernham Dean, PC, MA

Professor M Burbidge, BSc, PhD (London), FRS

Lady English, MA, MB, BChir, MRCP, FRCPsych

Professor Anita Desai, CBE, BA (Delhi), FRSL

Ms J Rachel Lomax, MA, MSc (London)

The Rt Hon the Lord Mackay of Clashfern, KT, PC, Hon LLD, FRSE

Dr Margaret H Bent, CBE, MA, MusB, PhD, Hon DMus (Glasgow), Hon DFA (Notre Dame), Dr hon c (Montreal), FBA, FSA, FRHistS

HM Queen Margrethe II of Denmark, Hon LLD Miss E Llewellyn-Smith, CB, MA Dame Bridget Ogilvie, DBE, AC, PhD, ScD, FIBiol, FRCPath, FMedSCi, FRS, Hon DSc (Nottingham, Glasgow, Bristol, Dublin, Durham, Kent, ICL, Leicester, Manchester, St Andrews) Professor Dame Gillian Beer, DBE, MA, LittD, BLitt (Oxon), Hon DLitt (Liverpool, Leicester, London, Sorbonne, Queen’s Univ Belfast, Oxford, Harvard, St Andrews), FBA, FRSL The Rt Revd David Conner, KCVO, MA The Rt Hon Lady Justice Arden, PC, DBE, MA, LLM, Hon LLD (Liverpool, Warwick, Royal Holloway, Nottingham, UCL)

Dame Elizabeth L A Forgan, DBE, BA (Oxon), Hon FBA Professor Dame Frances M Ashcroft, DBE, MA, PhD, ScD, FRS Professor Dame Athene Donald, DBE, MA, PhD, FRS The Rt Hon Lady Justice Gloster, PC, DBE, MA Professor Madeleine J Atkins CBE, MA, PGCE, PhD Professor Sarah M Springman, CBE, MA, MPhil, PhD, FREng, FICE Ms Daphne Todd, OBE, Hon PhD (De Montfort)

Baroness Perry of Southwark, MA, Hon LLD (Bath, Aberdeen), HonDLitt (Sussex, South Bank, City), Hon DEd (Wolverhampton), Hon DUniv (Surrey), Hon DLitt Hum (Mercy College NY), FRSA

Barbara Bodichon Foundation Fellows

Dame Rosalyn Higgins, DBE, QC, LLB, MA, Hon LLD, Hon DCL (Oxon), Hon LLD (LSE), FBA

Mrs Margaret Llewellyn, OBE, MA Mrs Veronica Wootten, MBE, MA

Dame Ann Bowtell, DCB, MA, PhD (London)

Miss C Anne Wilson, MA, ALA

Professor Dusa McDuff, BSc (Edinburgh), PhD, FRS, Hon DSc (Edinburgh, York, Strasbourg)

Dr Margaret A Branthwaite, BA, MD, FFARCS, FRCP

The Rt Hon Baroness Hollis of Heigham, PC, DL, MA, DPhil (Oxon), FRHistS Viscountess Runciman of Doxford, DBE, BA

Mrs Barbara Wrigley, MA Mrs Sally Alderson, MA

Dr Ruth Whaley BA, MA, PhD (Harvard) Sir Laurence W Martin, DL, MA, PhD, DCL (Hon) Miss Sarah C Holt, MA Mr Colin S Grassie, MA

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Mr Leif O Høegh, MA, MBA

David N Dumville, MA, PhD (Edinburgh), Life Fellow

Ms Gladys Li, MA

1 Abigail L Fowden, MA, PhD, ScD, Professorial Fellow (Biological Sciences)

Fellows Enid A C MacRobbie, MA, PhD (Edinburgh), ScD, FRS, Life Fellow Poppy Jolowicz, MA, LLB, Life Fellow Dorothy J Thompson, MA, PhD, Hon DLitt (Liverpool), FBA, Life Fellow Melveena C McKendrick, MA, PhD, LittD, FBA, Life Fellow Nancy J Lane Perham, OBE, MA, PhD, ScD, MSc (Dalhousie), DPhil (Oxon), Hon LLD (Dalhousie), Hon ScD (Salford, Sheffield Hallam, Oxford Brookes, Surrey, Heriot Watt), Life Fellow Joan Oates, PhD, FBA, Life Fellow

Juliet A S Dusinberre, MA, PhD (Warwick), Life Fellow Thomas Sherwood, MA, MB, BS (London), FRCR, FRCP, Life Fellow Richard J Evans, MA, PhD, MRCVS, Life Fellow Alastair J Reid, MA, PhD, Life Fellow Sarah Kay, MA, DPhil (Oxon), LittD, FBA, Life Fellow Mary Warnock (Baroness), DBE, MA (Oxon), Hon FBA, Life Fellow Howard P Hodson, MA, PhD, FREng, Life Fellow Peter C J Sparks, MA, DipArch, RIBA, Life Fellow

Gillian Jondorf, MA, PhD, Life Fellow

3 Stephanie Palmer, LLB (Adelaide), SJD (Harvard), LLM (Harvard), Official Fellow and Director of Studies in Law

Betty C Wood, MA, PhD (Pennsylvania), Life Fellow

Frances Gandy, MA, MCLIP, Life Fellow

Jill Mann, MA, PhD, FBA, Life Fellow

*1 Christopher J B Ford, MA, PhD, Professorial Fellow (Physics)

Ruth M Williams, MA, PhD (London), ScD, Life Fellow

Charity A Hopkins, OBE, MA, LLB, Life Fellow

Julia M Riley, MA, PhD, Life Fellow, Tutor for Admissions and Director of Studies in Physical Sciences

W James Simpson, BA (Melbourne), MPhil (Oxon), PhD, Life Fellow

A Marilyn Strathern, DBE, MA, PhD, Hon DLitt (Oxford, St Andrews), Hon ScD (Edinburgh, Copenhagen, Helsinki, Durham), Hon Doctorate (Panteion), Hon DPhil (Papua New Guinea), Hon DSocSci (Queen’s Univ Belfast, Yale), FBA, Life Fellow

4 Anne Fernihough, MA, PhD, Non-Stipendiary Fellow (English)

S Frank Wilkinson, MA, PhD, Life Fellow Roland E Randall, MA, PhD, MSc (McGill), Life Fellow Martin D Brand, MA, BSc (Manchester), PhD (Bristol), Life Fellow

1 Angela C Roberts, PhD, Professorial Fellow (Behavioural

Neurosciences) *3 Hugh R Shercliff, MA, PhD, Official Fellow and Director of Studies in Engineering 3 Martin W Ennis, MA, PhD, FRCO, KRP (Organ; Köln), KRP

(Harpsichord; Köln), Austin and Hope Pilkington Fellow, Director of Studies in Music and Director of College Music John L Hendry, MA, PhD, Life Fellow

John E Davies, MA, BSc, PhD (Monash), Life Fellow

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and Director of Studies in Management Studies

Judith A Drinkwater, MA, Official Fellow, Tutor, Director of Studies in Linguistics and Modern and Medieval Languages

Dennis Barden, MA, PhD, Life Fellow

2 Colm Durkan, BA, PhD (Trinity College Dublin), FRIET, Official

1 Jochen H Runde, MPhil, PhD, Professorial Fellow (Economics)

Andrew R Jefferies, MA, VetMB, FRCPath, MRCVS, Life Fellow Juliet J d’A Campbell, CMG, MA, Life Fellow Peter H Abrahams, MBBS, FRCS (Edinburgh), FRCR, DO (Hon), Life Fellow *Deborah Lowther, MA, ACA, Official Fellow and Bursar *Clive Lawson, MA, PhD, Official Fellow and Director of Studies in Economics Richard L Himsworth, MA, MD, Life Fellow Josh D Slater, PhD, BVMS (Edinburgh), Supernumerary Fellow, Dean for Student Discipline, Praelector and Director of Studies in Veterinary Medicine A Mark Savill, MA, PhD, FRAeS, Life Fellow

Fellow, Director of Studies in Engineering 1 Edward J Briscoe, BA (Lancaster), MPhil, PhD, Professorial

Fellow (Computer Science) K M Veronica Bennett, MA, BSc (Leicester), PhD (CNAA), Life Fellow 3 Harriet D Allen, MSc (Calgary), MA, PhD, Official Fellow,

Director of Studies in Geography Shaun D Fitzgerald, MA, PhD, FREng, Official Fellow (Engineering) Stephen Robertson, MA, MSc (City), PhD (London), Life Fellow The Revd A Malcolm Guite, MA, PhD (Durham), Supernumerary Fellow, Chaplain

Fellow (Criminology)

Stuart Davis, BA, PhD (Birmingham), Official Fellow, Tutor for Admissions, Director of Studies in Modern and Medieval Languages

1 S-P Gopal Madabhushi, PhD, Professorial Fellow and Director

4 Benjamin J Griffin, MA, PhD, Official Fellow and Director of

of Studies in Engineering

Studies in History

3 P Mia Gray, BA (San Diego), MRCP (Berkeley), PhD (Rutgers),

Fiona J Cooke, MA, BM, BCh (Oxon), PhD (London), MRCP, Official Fellow and Director of Studies in Medicine

1 Per-Olof H Wikström, BA, PhD (Stockholm), FBA, Professorial

Supernumerary Fellow (Geography) 7 Neil Wright, MA, PhD, Official Fellow (Classics)

Ruth M L Warren, MA, MD, FRCP, FRCR, Life Fellow *Alexandra M Fulton, BSc, PhD (Edinburgh), Official Fellow, Senior Tutor and Director of Studies in Biological Sciences Maureen J Hackett, BA, MA (Southampton), Official Fellow, Tutor, Warden of Wolfson Court and Graduate Accommodation, and Junior Bursar 1 Crispin H W Barnes, BSc, PhD (London), Professorial Fellow (Physics)

Ross Lawther, MA, PhD, Olga Taussky Fellow and Director of Studies in Mathematics *Karen L Lee, MA, Vice-Mistress, Tutor and Official Fellow (Law) Sinéad M Garrigan-Mattar, BA, DPhil (Oxon), Jane Elizabeth Martin Official Fellow 3 Stuart A Scott, MA, PhD, Official Fellow and Director of Studies in Chemical Engineering

C Patricia Ward, MA, PhD, Official Fellow (Physics) 4 Stelios Tofaris, MA, PhD, Official Fellow and Director of Studies

in Law

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*8 Liliana Janik, MPhil (Toru ), PhD, Official Fellow, Tutor for Graduates and Director of Studies in Archaeology and Anthropology 3 Samantha K Williams, BA (Lancaster), MSc, PhD, Official

Fellow and Director of Studies in History 4 Kamiar Mohaddes, BSc (Warwick), MPhil, PhD, Official

Fellow and Director of Studies in Economics 4 Nik Cunniffe, MA, MPhil, MSc (Bath), PhD, Official Fellow

(Biological Sciences) 4 Katherine Hughes, BSc, BVSc (Liverpool), MRCVS, PhD, Dip

ACVP, Official Fellow and Director of Studies in Veterinary Medicine Helen A Van Noorden, BA, MPhil, PhD, Wrigley Fellow and Director of Studies in Classics *3 Carlo L Acerini, MA, BSc (Dundee), DCH (Glasgow), MD (Dundee), Official Fellow and Director of Studies in Medicine 9 Morag A Hunter, MA, PhD, Official Fellow, Tutor and

Director of Studies in Physical Sciences 3 Heidi Radke, DVM (Ludwig Maximilian University),

DrVetMed (Zurich), Tutor and Director of Studies in Veterinary Medicine Emma J L Weisblatt, BA, MB, BCh, MRCP, MRCPsych, PhD, Tutor and Director of Studies in Psychology and Psychological and Behavioural Sciences

Hazel Mills, BA (Reading), DPhil (Oxon), Eugenie Strong Research Fellow in College History Matthew Grayson, MA, MSci, PhD, Tucker-Price Research Fellow in Organic Chemistry 4 Arnold C Hunt, MA, PhD, Official Fellow (History)

James Wade, BA (Boise State), MA (York), PhD, Official Fellow and Director of Studies in English *R James E Riley, BA (Lancaster), MA (Lancaster), PhD, Official Fellow, Tutor for Graduates and Director of Studies in English Simone Maghenzani, BA (Turin), MA (Turin), PhD (Turin), Official Fellow, Tutor and Director of Studies in History Samuel D Grimshaw, MEng, PhD, Mitsubishi Senior Research Fellow Trenholme Junghans, BA (Northampton, MA), MPhil (New York), PhD (St Andrews), CRASSH Research Fellow Gabriele Badano, BA (Genoa), MA (Genoa), PhD (UCL), CRASSH Research Fellow Arik Kershenbaum, MA, PhD (Haifa), Official Fellow (Biological Sciences) and Tutor Teng Cao, BEng (BUAA, Beijing), PhD, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Senior Research Fellow in Turbomachinery Deborah J Easlick, BA (Bristol), Official Fellow and Development Director

Sophia M I Shellard von Weikersthal, BSc, PhD (Freiburg), Tutor for Graduates and Official Fellow (Pharmacology)

Alexander G S C Liu, MA, MEarthSci (Oxon), DPhil (Oxon), Official Fellow (Earth Sciences)

4 Henrik Latter, BA, BSc, MSc (Sydney), PhD, Official Fellow

Anna Barford, BA, MA (Nottingham), PhD (Sheffield), Official Fellow and Director of Studies in Geography

(Mathematics) *1 Matthew J Allen, MA, VetMB, PhD, Professorial Fellow (Veterinary Medicine) Anastasia Piliavsky, BA (Boston), MSc, DPhil (Oxon), Director of Studies in Social Anthropology

*Sebastian L D Falk, BA (Oxon), PGCE (Buckingham), MPhil, PhD, Rosamund Chambers Research Fellow in History and Philosophy of Science 4 Claire L White, BA, MPhil, PhD, Official Fellow (Modern and

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11 John W Wills, BSc, PhD (Swansea), Hertha Ayrton Research Fellow in Biological Sciences

Sarah L Fawcett, BA, BM, BCh (Oxon), MRCS, FRCR, PhD (Medical and Veterinary Sciences)

Shona W Stark, LLB, LLM (Aberdeen), PhD, Official Fellow (Law)

6 Christopher K Hadley, MA, MSc, Director of Studies in Computer Science

Sean M Collins, BS (Michigan), PhD, Henslow Research Fellow in Materials Science and Metallurgy

Aaron Hornkohl, BA (Biola), MA, PhD (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) (Asian and Middle Eastern Studies)

Anne-Margret Wolf, BSc (Twente), MPhil, DPhil (Oxon), Margaret Smith Research Fellow in Politics and International Studies

8 Andy Irvine, BSc, PhD (Sussex) (Physics)

Jenny K Blackhurst, MA (St Andrews), MA (UCL), MCLIP, Official Fellow for Life Skills and Librarian

Visiting Fellows William T Waller Jnr, BS, MA (Western Michigan), PhD (New Mexico), Helen Cam Visiting Fellow Kenneth A Johnson, BVSc, MSc, PhD (Sydney), Brenda Ryman Visiting Fellow Hugh Keyte, MA (Oxon), Mary Amelia Cummins Harvey Visiting Fellow Commoner

Bye-Fellows

Irit Katz, BArch (Bezalel), MA (BIU, Israel), PhD, Director of Studies in Architecture John Lawson, BA, PhD, Director of Studies in Politics, International Relations and Sociology, and Psychological and Behavioural Sciences Hilary Marlow, BA (Manchester), BA (KCL), PhD, Director of Studies in Theology, Religion, and Philosophy of Religion Frisbee C C Sheffield, BA (Bristol), MPhil, DPhil (Oxon), Director of Studies in Philosophy Samuel Strong, MA, MPhil, Bye-Fellow for Study Skills Leslie Turano-Taylor, BA (New York), BA (Oxon), MPhil, PhD (London) (Law) Gareth F Wilson, BMus, MA, PGCert, DipPGPerfRAM, DipRAM, Director of Chapel Music and Assistant Director of Music

Louise E Braddock, MA, MB, BChir, MD, MA (Reading), PhD (Reading), Praelector 4 Caroline J A Brett, MA, PhD, Director of Studies in Anglo-

Saxon, Norse and Celtic Claudia Domenici BA (Pisa), MA (Lancaster), Director of Studies in Modern and Medieval Languages Amy R Donovan, BA, MPhil, MSc (UCL), PhD, Director of Studies in Geography Margaret Faultless, MA, Hon FBC, FTCL, ARCM, Hon RAM (Music)

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Postdoctoral Teaching Associates Stefan A Köstler, MSc, PhD (IMBA, Vienna) (Natural Sciences Tripos – Biological Sciences) Imen Lassadi, BSc (Ottawa), MSc, PhD (Paul Sabatier University, Toulouse) (Natural Sciences Tripos – Biological Sciences) Vita Peacock, BA, MA (UCL), PhD (Human, Social, and Political Sciences – Social Anthropology)

Archivist Emerita

Lectrice

Kate Perry, Cert Ed (Froebel)

Mlle Rose Borel, Licence de LLCE (École Normale Supérieure de Lyon)

External Teaching Officers 1 John S McCombie, MA, PhD, Director of Studies in Land

Notes

Economy, Fellow of Downing College

* Member of Council

Richard Jennings, PhD, Director of Studies in Philosophy and History and Philosophy of Science

Professor in the University

Reader in the University

Senior Lecturer in the University

University Lecturer

University Visiting Lecturer

University Computer Officer

University Technical Officer

University Assistant Director of Research

University Teaching Fellow /Associate

Praelectors Louise E Braddock, MA, MB, BChir, MD, MA (Reading), PhD (Reading) Josh D Slater, PhD, BVMS (Edinburgh)

10 University Herschel-Smith Research Fellow

University and College Awards Cambridge University Further Degrees and Awards

S Schoenbuchner, S Smart, T H Sum, S R Thiele, R R Unwin, Y Wang, D Zadrazilova

University Higher Degrees PhD: F Ahmed, P Berg, Z E Gungor, M U Janjua, R A Knighton, E C M Lavan, F Leditzky, E R Lybeck, A I Mashhour, L Matra, A P Muller, H Y Ng, G Pavarini, M Pavel, M Polgovsky Excurra, P M Roschatt,

MRes: M Boopathi, T Kartanas, P Koehler, P O’Hare, O Siddiqui MPhil: R Abel, M Artelsmair, R Barratt, S Butenko, A Cakar, J G Choo, B D Dalton, Z Dannelly, F E J D’Argenio, C R Denhard,

N Dossybayev, M Fenger, F Girardi, Q Guo, J D Hilbert, T Jackson, W-L Kan, L H A Law, L C C Lui, F Luo, M A Malam, K Ong, I Pedretti, K Pittas, S B Remer, E Robledo Sierra, T Sawada, M C Seag, J Shafi, R J Smith, E M Tarte, G Tindale, P J Walkley, A D White, S Wilkinson, A Zupan

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MASt: M Flattery, H Hadiji, W H Lim MB: I R-C Beh, R Callan, P J Edwards MEd: H Davidson, M Robinson MFin: V Barbiero, O A Buraimoh, S Rizvi, Q Wu University Prizes for Academic Excellence William Vaughan Lewis Prize: F Brown, A Dawson Ruth Smith Words-and-Music Prize: M Schönle College Awards College Competition Prizes Barbara Wrigley Prize (shared): G Tinsdale and A Ciurea Hammond Science Communication Prize: S Saji (First Judges’ Prize), E Bransden (Second Judges’ Prize), S Saji (Abstract Prize), S Saji and L Harvey (Audience Prize – tied), L Harvey (RC Pathology Prize) Humanities Writing Prize: First place: Maria Telnikoff (Leicester Grammar School); Second place: Harry Dearlove Still (Lewes Old Grammar School); Third place

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(joint): Sophie Al-Hussaini (The Maynard School) and Catherine Ogilvy (Cheltenham Ladies’ College); three other impressive entries were highly commended by the judges: Isabella Jakobsen (North London Collegiate School), Hannah Lewis (Oxford High School) and Peter Mumford (King Edward’s School, Bath) Jane Martin Poetry Prize: Katie Hale (First Prize) and Andrew Wynn Owen (Second Prize) Mountford Humanities and Arts Communication Prize: J D Kirkham, ‘Challenging perceptions of Antarctica as a colourless continent’ (First Judges’ Prize and Audience Prize), K Wiggell, ‘“Didn’t like the painted woman” – How the Peplos Kore can help us reassess our beliefs about Ancient Greek sculpture’ (Second Judges’ Prize), B Gille, ‘When Colours Define Identity’ (Abstract Prize)

Graduate Awards Graduate Research Awards Bryce-Jebb Scholarship, Doris Russell Scholarship: D Carver Pfeiffer Scholarship: D Sanz Hernandez Amelia Gurney Scholarship, Joyce Biddle Scholarship, Irene Hallinan Scholarship: D Thomas Irene Hallinan Scholarship: R Millan Reyes Woodall Fellowship, Joyce Biddle Scholarship: R Williams Stribling Award: D Thomas, R Williams Maria Luisa de Sanchez Scholarship (Venezuelan Award): R Millan Reyes Postgraduate Scholarships Mary Sparke: R Zamora-Wildson Mathematics M T Meyer: J GöItz, M Sasieta Medical and Veterinary Medicine Edith Lydia Jones: H Clifford Postgraduate Prizes

Ridding Reading Prize: S DavidLonge Rima Alamuddin Prize (shared): C H Ng (performance) and T Sparkes (composition) Tom Mansfield Memorial Prize (shared): K Bucher and D McGregor

History, Law and Economics Lilian Knowles: R Zamora-Wildson Mathematics Gertrude Mather Jackson: J GöItz, M Sasieta Medicine Leslie Hall: H Clifford

Undergraduate Scholarships Ellen McArthur: A Barker, S Dolton, M Hankin, G Jones, T McArthur, C Tien, D Weir Sir Arthur Arnold: R Kusztos, D Fischer, G Rusinov, X S Tan Barbara Bodichon: C Faith, M Hankin, D Lawrence, L Pujos, D Ryan, M Schimel, B Srinivasan, M Strachan Emily Davies: I Coulson, O Dawson, S Parkin, C Yong Angela Dunn-Gardner: N Ashraf, S Dolton Sir Francis Goldsmid: A Clark, S Leibana Garcia, M McEveley, A Sarva, P Sellars Mary Graham: F Brown, S Gräfin von Einsiedel, O Kwanicka, H Martin, B van Straaten Mary Higgins: R Dunn, R Jamieson, W Lohrmann, T McArthur, G Murray, M Peychev Alice Violet Jenkinson: A Barker, A Dawson, R Hoggmascall, K Li, J Probin, C Tien Mary Ann Leighton: H Rudner, J D D Long, M Inglessis, F Schlicke, D Weir Rosalind, Lady Carlisle: S Christopher, D Crowfoot, T Hancock Mary Sparke: A Chong Kwan, S Gooch, R Lane, F Snelling, T Lee, P Wongprasert Henry Tomkinson: Z Stavrinou, H Hicks, M Lees

Classics Jane Agnes Chessar: B Halberstam, D Thomas History Russell Gurney: G Jones Florence Ethel Gwyn: K Bickley Mathematics M T Meyer: O Abbey, P Asvydis, G Cowperthwaite, S de CourcyIreland, H Lam, M Lausch, M Lehmkuehler, L Schmieding, A Swinton Medicine and Veterinary Medicine John Bowyer Buckley: D Hines, E Bedborough, L Harvey, K Lang, R Scrace, M Steele, J Teh Edith Lydia Johns: R Barnard, S Hailes, N Patel Modern and Medieval Languages Jane Hunter: A English, J Nason Todd Memorial: J Foster, J Ginn Music Sophia Turle: D McGregor, M Schönle Natural Sciences (Biological) John Bowyer Buckley: T Kemenes

Undergraduate Prizes Senior College Awards Thérèse Montefiore Prize (shared): M Lees and M Schönle Laurie Hart Prize (shared): M Lehmkuehler and D Thomas Tutors’ Prize (shared): S Patelmaster and W Lyon-Tupman College Prizes Jane Catherine Gamble: A Chong Kwan, C Faith, M Hankin, D McGregor, G Rusinov Phyllis Tillyard: O Kwasnicka, S Liebana Garcia, M McEveley, H Martin, A Sarva Raemakers: A Barker, T Hancock, R Kusztos, K Li, M Peychev, H Rudner, X S Tan Isabella Crawshaw: D Crowfoot, B Srinivasan Beatrice Mills: M Schönle, Z Stavrinou, C Yong C B West: I Coulson, S Gooch, T Lee, J Nason Classics Ethel Gavin: B Halberstam Norah Jolliffe: D Thomas Engineering Satyanarayana Madabhushi: S Christopher

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English Charity Reeves: R Dominic, R Dunn, R Jamieson, G Murray, L Pujos, M Strachan Charlton Award: R Jamieson Eileen Alexander: L Cameron History, Law and Economics Eileen Power: K Bickley Lilian Knowles: S Dolton, J Probin, P Wongprasert Margaret Hastings: G Jones Thomas and Elizabeth Walton: N Ashraf, T McArthur, C Tien Geography Margaret Anderson: F Brown, A Dawson, O Dawson, S Gräfin von Einsiedel, R Hoggmascall, J D D Long, M Inglessis, F Schlicke, D Weir Janet Chamberlain: K Beech, F Brown, A Dawson

Leslie Hall: E Bedborough, S Hailes, N Patel Modern and Medieval Languages Johanna Stevenson: J Ginn Mary Ponsonby: A English, J Foster Natural Sciences (Biological) Marion Bidder: L Harvey, K Lang Ellen Delf-Smith: R Scrace Edith Neal: T Kemenes Natural Sciences (Physical) Gwendolen Crewdson: D Fischer, H Hicks, R Lane, W Lohrmann Ida Freund: RA Clark, D Lawrence, M Lees, M Schimel, P Sellars, B van Straaten Layla Adib: S Parkin Theology and Religious Studies J Y Gibson: F Snelling Music Awards

Mathematics Gertrude Mather Jackson: O Abbey, M Lausch, M Lehmkuehler, L Schmieding May Smithells: P Asvydis, G Cowperthwaite, S de CourcyIreland, H Lam, A Swinton Medicine and Veterinary Medicine Appleton Cup: R Barnard Thomas and Elizabeth Walton: R Barnard Ming Yang Lee: D Hines, M Steele, J Teh

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College Music Scholarship: M Schönle (piano) Daphne Bird Instrumental Awards: L Alexander (violin), E Barnard (violin), K Bucher (piano), C Hedges (cello), B Winter (piano) Jill Vlasto Choral Awards: J Ginn, D McGregor, R Paterson-Achenbach Siem Prize: M Schönle Organ Scholarships: L Morrell; J Mitchell (pre-elected)

University Choral Awards: A Atkinson, E Pearce Davies; N Brocksom, O Fleming, E Holder, R Hill (pre-elected) University Instrumental Awards: C Hedges (cello), M Schönle (piano) Travel Awards Adela Marion Adam: L Morrell Charlotte Rycroft: R Hoggmascall, M Lees College Travel Scholarship: M Schönle, R Vieira Ribeiro da Costa Dorothy Tempest: A Ciurea, J Evans, F Schlicke Edith Helen Major: S Christopher, C Cooper, M Schimel, L Tuck Eileen Ellenbogen: M Inglessis J K Brightwell: A Chong Kwan, L Hillier, J Leighton, A Liaudanskas, W Fung Tang Judith Eccleshare: J Cory-Wright, I Coulson, S Eastman, D McGregor K J Baker: M Strachan, L Harvey Marian Shakich: A Clark, A Montero Horas Mary Morrison: N Ahmed, C Basu, A Strumpel Monica Wilson: D Crowfoot Rosemary Delbridge: C Sotire Sheila Spire: R Bride

Sports Awards Archery: A Rubino American Football: E Bransden Athletics: F Brown, S Cheli Badminton: A English Basketball: A Liaudanskas

Cricket: A Elgar, C Webster Cross-Country: P Finn, R Woolfe Dancesport: R Hartley Young Equestrian: C Milne Football: L Bleehen, R Graves, H Hicks, Y Mushtaq Golf: M Dayao

Hockey: M Jervis, C Webster Rugby: C Cooper, A Elgar, E West, T Wilson Tennis: M Kaminski, C Milbank, T Prossor Ultimate Frisbee: M Y Chua Volleyball: M Dayao

Awards and Distinctions BATES, S N (1990) appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire, in the 2017 New Year’s Honours List, for services to Innovation.

CAPILDEO, S V P (2000) awarded the 2016 Forward Prize for Poetry (Best Collection), for her volume Measures of Expatriation.

BEER, G P K (Honorary Fellow; 1965 Thomas) awarded the Truman Capote Prize for Literary Criticism, for her book Alice in Space: The Sideways Victorian World of Lewis Carroll, 2017. BENT, M (Honorary Fellow; 1959 Bassington) awarded the Derek Allen Prize for Musicology by the British Academy, September 2016.

CHIPPINDALE, C (Research Fellow; 1985) awarded the EU Prize for Cultural Heritage /Europa Nostra Award 2016 (category: Research and Digitisation) with F BAKER, for ‘Pitoti: Digital Rock Art in Ancient Europe’, a project that focused on the recording and analysis of rock art in Valcamonica, a UNESCO world heritage site in the Italian Alps.

BORN, G E M (Professorial Fellow; 2008) appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire, in the 2016 Queen’s Birthday Honours List, for services to Musicology, Anthropology and Higher Education.

CROTHERS, A (2002) awarded the 2017 Shine /Strong Poetry Award for Several Deer, the best first collection of poems by an Irish author; the same collection was also awarded the 2017 Seamus Heaney Centre Prize for First Full Collection.

DOWLING, A (1970) awarded the 2016 James Watt International Gold Medal by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, for her work on efficient, low-emission combustion and noise reduction in cars, helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft. ENNEW, C T (1978) appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire, in the 2016 Queen’s Birthday Honours List, for services to Higher Education and British-Malaysian Relations. HEYWOOD, A C R (1988) appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (Military Division: Army), in the 2017 New Year’s Honours List. KATZ, I (Bye-Fellow; 2015) awarded 2016 RIBA President’s Award for Research (Cities and Community); she was also awarded the 2017 Association for Israel Studies (AIS) Ben

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Halpern Award for Best Dissertation in Israel Studies for her PhD entitled The Common Camp: Temporary Settlements as a Spatio-political Instrument in Israel-Palestine.

RUNDE, J (Fellow 1991) awarded the University of Cambridge Pilkington Teaching Prize, in recognition of the outstanding quality of his teaching, 2017.

WILSON, G (Bye-Fellow 2015) elected Associate of the Royal Academy of Music (ARAM) in March 2017, in recognition of his significant contribution to the music profession.

MARIO-GHAE, O M (2011) awarded Young Engineer of the Year Prize by the National Microelectronics Institute (NMI), November 2016.

SCHELLHORN, M T (1995) elected as Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Musicians, April 2017.

Further Academic and Professional Qualifications

MATAR, H (Visiting Fellow 2008) awarded the Pulitzer Prize (in Biography or Autobiography) and the Rathbones Folio Prize for his memoir The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land In Between, 2017.

WARNOCK, H M (Former Mistress 1984) appointed Companion of Honour, in the 2017 New Year’s Honours List, for services to charity and children with Special Educational Needs.

BRETT, P (2005) PhD in Electronic Engineering, from Surrey Space Centre, University of Surrey, April 2014. MORRELL, L (2015) Associateship diploma of the Royal College of Organists (ARCO), February 2017.

Appointments of Alumni and Fellows

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1964

BEASLEY-MURRAY, C (Griffiths) elected VicePresident of the Coroners’ Society of England and Wales, with effect from September 2017.

2008

KELLY, C appointed Solorepetiteur at the Bayerische Staatsoper, with effect from 1 September 2017.

1967

GLOSTER, E (Honorary Fellow) appointed Vice-President of the Court of Appeal (Civil), with effect from 7 December 2016.

1973

LIGHT, M (Thaine) appointed Honorary Canon at Norwich Cathedral, with effect from October 2016.

1963

HALE, B (College Visitor) appointed President of the Supreme Court, with effect from 2 October 2017; she will be the first female holder of this post.

1976

HARPER, S appointed Director of the Trustees of The Royal Institution, with effect from 1 May 2017.

1980

KEMP, N-J appointed Head of Singing at Eton College, with effect from September 2015.

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BUBBEAR, T (Allen) appointed Her Majesty’s Ambassador to Estonia, with effect from August 2016.

1985

REGAN, L elected President of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, with effect from 23 September 2016; she is the first female President of the College in 64 years.

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MARCEL, M appointed Consejero and Member of the Board of Directors of the Banco Central de Chile in 2015; appointed Chairman of the Board and Governor of the Banco Central de Chile for a five-year term, beginning on 11 December 2016. PYMER, A appointed Managing Director of Wessex Water Services Ltd, with effect from August 2016. DEVADAWSON, C appointed Head of the Department of English at the University of Delhi.

1990

MOFFETT, J K appointed a Queen’s Counsel (Civil), with effect from 13 February 2017.

1991

HEATHER, C M appointed a Queen’s Counsel (Civil), with effect from 13 February 2017.

1993

ADDY, C J appointed a Queen’s Counsel (Civil), with effect from 13 February 2017.

1993

RADFORD, A appointed Professor of Behavioural Ecology, School of Biological Sciences at the University of Bristol.

2006

GRAVESTON, V (Houlker) appointed Associate at K&L Gates LLP.

2011

RANDLE, R appointed Manager of the Cambridge University Chamber Choir.

2013

MEZGHANNI, S S appointed UN Young Leader for Sustainable Development Goals, by the Office of the Secretary-General’s Envoy on Youth, with effect from 19 September 2016.

Fellows’ Publications Publications by the Fellows and Officers of the College during 2016 –17 include: C ACERINI. (Joint) ‘Prenatal paracetamol exposure is associated with shorter anogenital distance in male infants’, Human Reproduction 31(11) (2016); (joint) ‘Home use of day-and-night hybrid closed-loop insulin delivery in suboptimally controlled adolescents with

type 1 diabetes: a 3-week, free-living, randomised crossover trial’, Diabetes Care 39(11) (2016); (joint) ‘Prenatal androgen exposure alters girls’ responses to information indicating gender-appropriate behaviour’, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 371(1688) (2016); ‘The rise of technology in diabetes care. Not all that is new is necessarily better’, Pediatric Diabetes (2016).

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A BARFORD. ‘Discourses supporting socio-economic inequality in Kenya, Mexico and the United Kingdom’, Portuguese J. of Social Science 15 (2016); ‘Emotional responses to world inequality’, Emotion, Space and Society 22 (2017). G BEER. Alice in Space: The Sideways Victorian World of Lewis Carroll (Chicago UP, 2016). C BRETT. ‘The hare and the tortoise? Vita prima sancti Samsonis, vita Paterni, and Merovingian hagiography’ in St Samson of Dol and the Earliest History of Brittany, Cornwall and Wales, ed. L Olson (Boydell Press, 2017). J CAMPBELL. (Joint) One Small Island and Two World Wars – The Life and Times of Maj Gen Wilfred d’A Collings, CB, CBE (Rimes House, 2016). F J COOKE. (All joint) ‘Gram negative cocco-bacilli’ in ‘Infectious Diseases’, Oxford Handbook of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, 2nd ed. (OUP, 2017); ‘Patient and public understanding and knowledge of antimicrobial resistance and stewardship in a UK hospital: should public campaigns change focus?’, J. of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy 72(1) (2016); ‘Exploring the coverage of antimicrobial stewardship across UK clinical postgraduate training curricula’, J. of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy 71(11) (2016). N J CUNNIFFE. (All joint) ‘Modelling when, where and how to manage a forest epidemic, motivated by sudden oak death in California’, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 113 (2016); ‘Virus infection of plants alters pollinator preference: a payback for susceptible hosts?’, PLoS Pathogens 12 (2016); ‘Regional growth rate differences specified by apical notch activities regulate liverwort thallus shape’,

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Current Biology 27 (2017); ‘Risk-based management of invading plant disease’, New Phytologist 214 (2017). S FALK. ‘A Merton College equatorium: text, translation, commentary’, SCIAMVS 17 (2016); ‘Learning medieval astronomy through tables: the case of the Equatorie of the Planetis’, Centaurus 58 (2016); ‘Monks, models and medieval time’, BBC Radio 3 (2017). M GRAY. (All joint) ‘Assessing austerity’, Cambridge J. of Economics 38(4) (2016); ‘Crowdfunding: understanding diversity’, Handbook on the Geographies of Money and Finance, ed. R Martin and J Pollard (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2017); ‘Urban policy and governance: austerity urbanism’ in Urbanization in a Global Context, ed. A L Bain and L Peake (Oxford UP Canada, 2017); ‘Sharing economies: moving beyond binaries in a digital age’, Cambridge J. of Regions, Economy and Society 10(2) (2017). M N GRAYSON. (Joint) ‘Chronology of CH···O hydrogen bonding from molecular dynamics studies of the phosphoric acid-catalyzed allylboration of benzaldehyde’, J. of the American Chemical Society, (2017); ‘Mechanism and origins of stereoselectivity in the cinchona thioureaand squaramide-catalyzed asymmetric Michael addition of nitroalkanes to enones’, J. of Organic Chemistry 82 (2017). S D GRIMSHAW. (Both joint) ‘A computational and experimental compressor design project for Japanese and British high-school students', J. of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power 139 (2016); ‘Fast settling millimetrescale five-hole probes’, ASME Turbo Expo 2016: Turbomachinery Technical Conference and Exposition (GT2016) 6 (2016). M GUITE. Mariner: A Voyage with Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Hodder & Stoughton, 2017).

J HENDRY. Reason: Its Power and Limitations, Uses and Abuses in Science, the Humanities, Ethics and Religion (Melrose Books, 2016); The Art of Managing (Robert Hale, 2016). K HUGHES. (Both joint) ‘Stat3 modulates chloride channel accessory protein expression in normal and neoplastic mammary tissue’, Cell Death & Disease 7 (2016); ‘Pathology in practice: Yersinia pseudotuberculosis infection in three captive Egyptian fruit bats (Rousettus aegyptiacus)’, J. of the American Veterinary Medical Association (2017). I KATZ. ‘Between bare life and everyday life: spatialising the new migrant camps in Europe’, Amps: Architecture, Media, Politics, Society (2017); ‘Prefabricated or freely fabricated?’, Forced Migration Review 55 (2017); ‘“The Common Camp”: temporary settlements as a spatio-political Instrument in IsraelPalestine’, J. of Architecture 22(1) (2017); (joint) ‘Urban spaces of internal displacement in Mexico: reproducing inequalities’, ReVista: Harvard Review of Latin America 16(2) (2017). A KERSHENBAUM. (All joint) ‘Introduction to the special column: communication, cooperation, and cognition in predators’, Current Zoology (2017); ‘The progression pattern of male hyrax songs and the role of climactic ending’, Scientific Reports (2017); ‘Visual classification of feral cat Felis silvestris catus vocalizations’, Current Zoology (2017); ‘Measuring acoustic complexity in continuously varying signals: how complex is a wolf howl?’, Bioacoustics (2017). C LAWSON. Technology and Isolation (CUP, 2017); ‘Feenberg, rationality and isolation’ in Critical Theory and the Thought of Andrew Feenberg’, ed. D Arnold and M Andreas (Palgrave MacMillan, 2017).

K L LEE. (Joint Editor) International Law Reports: Volumes 167 to 172 (CUP, 2017). A G LIU. ‘Framboidal pyrite shroud confirms the “death mask” model for moldic preservation of Ediacaran softbodied organisms’, Palaios, 31(5) (2016); (joint) ‘Remarkable preservation of brain tissues in an Early Cretaceous iguanodontian dinosaur’, Geological Society of London Special Publications, 448 (2016); (joint) ‘The origin of animals: can evidence from molecular clocks and the fossil record be reconciled?’, BioEssays, 39(1) (2017); (joint) ‘Post-fossilization processes and their implications for understanding Ediacaran macrofossil assemblages’, Geological Society of London Special Publications 448 (2017). K MOHADDES. (All joint) ‘Country-specific oil supply shocks and the global economy: a counterfactual analysis’, Energy Economics 59 (2016); ‘Long-run effects in large heterogeneous panel data models with crosssectionally correlated errors’ in Advances in Econometrics: Essays in Honor of Aman Ullah, ed. G Gonzalez-Rivera, R Carter Hill and T-H Lee (Emerald Group Publishing Ltd, 2016); ‘Is there a debt-threshold effect on output growth?’, Review of Economics and Statistics 99(1) (2017); ‘Fair weather or foul? The macroeconomic effects of El Niño’, J. of International Economics 106 (2017). A PILIAVSKY. ‘The wrong kind of freedom? A review of David Graeber’s The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy’, International J. of Politics, Culture, and Society 30 (2017). H RADKE. (Joint) ‘Combined physeal fractures of the distal radius and ulna: complications associated with Kwire fixation and long-term prognosis in six cats’, J. of Feline Medicine and Surgery (2016).

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A J REID. (Joint Editor) Alternatives to State-Socialism in Britain. Other Worlds of Labour in the Twentieth Century (Palgrave, 2016). J M RILEY. (Both joint) ‘10C continued: a deeper radio survey at 15.7 GHz’, MNRAS 457 (2016); ‘The faint source population at 15.7 GHz – III. A high-frequency study of HERGs and LERGs’, MNRAS 462 (2016). J RUNDE. (All joint) ‘Unknowns, black swans and the risk/uncertainty distinction’, Cambridge J. of Economics 41 (2017); ‘Cambridge social ontology: clarification, development and deployment’, Cambridge J. of Economics 41 (2017); ‘Capabilities, resources, learning and innovation: a blueprint for a post-classical economics and public policy’, Cambridge J. of Economics 41 (2017); ‘De Finetti and Savage on the normative relevance of imprecise reasoning: a reply to Arthmar and Brady’, History of Economic Ideas 25 (2017). F SHEFFIELD. ‘Eros and the Pursuit of Form in Plato’s Symposium’ in Plato’s Symposium: A Critical Guide, ed. P Destrée and Z Giannopoulou (CUP, 2017); ‘Platonic piety: Beyond the Euthyphro’, Ancient Philosophy and Religion (2017). S J SMITH. (Joint) ‘Wellbeing at the edges of ownership’, Environment and Planning A 49 (5) (2017); (joint editor) ‘The edges of ownership – the borders of sustainability’, International J. of Housing Policy (theme issue) 17(2) (2017); (joint) The Great Austerity Debate (A Forum Theatre collaboration, 2017); (joint) ‘Reaching the corridors of Cambridge academia’, Brass Band World 262 (2017). M STRATHERN. ‘Divergences and cross-overs: response to Robert Wilson’s “Thinking about relations”’,

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Anthropological Theory 16(4) (2016); ‘The authority of value and abjection from value’ in Against Value in the Arts and Education, ed. S Ladkin, R McKay and E Bojesen (Rowman & Littlefield International, 2016); ‘Naturalism and the invention of identity’, Social Analysis 61(2) (2017); ‘Connections, friends, and their relations: an issue in knowledge-making’ in Comparative Metaphysics: Ontology after Anthropology, ed. P Charbonnier, G Salmon and P Skafish (Rowman & Littlefield International, 2017). D J THOMPSON. ‘Finley and the teaching of ancient history’ in M. I. Finley: An Ancient Historian and his Impact, ed. D Jew, R Osborne and M Scott (CUP, 2016); ´ ‘Iza Biezunska-Małowist and the young papyrologist’, P Przeglad Historyczny 107 (2016). H VAN NOORDEN. ‘Philosophical traces in the Sibylline Oracles’ in Religio-Philosophical Discourses in the Mediterranean World, ed. A Klostergaard Peterson and G van Kooten (Brill, 2017). Artwork Y POPOVA. ‘Phaidon Editors’ in Vitamin P3: New Perspectives in Painting (Phaidon, 2016); ‘Ele Carpenter’ in The Nuclear Culture Source Book (Black Dog Publishing, 2016); ‘Yelena Popova’ in Yelena Popova Catalogue (Nottingham Contemporary, 2016). Music G WILSON and J WEST. (Joint) Orlande de LASSUS, Requiem a 5, Motets (Toccata Classics, 2017).

Alumni Publications ASENSIO JIMÉNEZ, N (2012). Libro de la traslación y milagros de san Millán (Ediciones Emilianenses, 2016). BENNETT, A (1981). Bamboo Heart (Monsoon Books, 2015); Bamboo Road (Monsoon Books, 2017). CHAPELL, C (2005). Ye That Are Men Now Serve Him: Radical Holiness Theology and Gender in the South (University of Alabama Press, 2016). COLSON, C (1983). (Joint) Memoirs of A Lab Rat (Neptune Books, 2016); What Happens When You Die: A Straightforward, Non-religious Guide to Death and Dying (Neptune Books, 2016). DEVADAWSON, C R (1989). Out of Line: Cartoons, Caricature and Contemporary India (Orient BlackSwan, 2014). EDWARDS, R B (Phillips 1958). Discovering John: Content, Interpretation, Reception (SPCK, 2014 and Eerdmans, 2015). EINBERG, E (Kozlovska-Einberg 1957). William Hogarth: A Complete Catalogue of the Paintings (Yale UP and Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 2017). GERLEIGNER, G S (2007). ‘Smikros hat’s gemalt: Zur Schriftbildlichkeit

griechischer Vaseninschriften’ in Schriftträger – Textträger: Zur materiellen Präsenz des Geschriebenen in frühen Gesellschaften, ed. A Kehnel and D Panagiotopoulos (De Gruyter, 2015); ‘Das Rätsel der Sphinx in Schwarz und Rot’ in Potters – Painters – Scribes: Inscriptions on Attic Vases, ed. R Wachter (Akanthvs, 2016); ‘Tracing letters on the Eurymedon Vase: on the importance of placement of vaseinscriptions’ in Epigraphy of Art: Ancient Greek Vase-Inscriptions and Vase-Paintings, ed. D Yatromanolakis (Archaeopress, 2016). JENKINS, N (Visiting Fellow 2002). John Beard: Handel and Garrick’s Favourite Tenor (Bramber Press, 2012).

RENDEL, M (1948). ‘Margherita Rendel interviewed by Louise Brodie’, The British Library Sound and Moving Image Catalogue: Pioneers in Charity and Social Welfare (British Library Sounds, 2016). WERNHAM, C (1986). (Joint) ‘Consent for the diagnosis of preclinical dementia states: a review’, Maturitas, 98 (2017). VINESTOCK, E (Morrison 1957). (Joint Editor) Jean-Antoine de Baif: Oeuvres complètes V. Euvres en rime, Troisième partie. Les Jeux, Tome III (Editions Honoré Champion, 2016). VYLETA, D (1994). Smoke (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2016).

KONING, A C (1972). Time of Flight (Arbuthnot Books, 2016). LOVE-RODGERS, C R (Love 1992). Given in Good Faith: Celebrating the Funk Projects at New College Library, 2006–2016 (University of Edinburgh, 2016). OWENS, J (2001). Labour and the Caucus: Working-Class Radicalism and Organised Liberalism in England, 1868–1888 (Liverpool UP, 2014).

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Hail and Farewell Having recorded a number of retirements from key positions last year, I am heartened to report on this occasion that leavers are relatively few. Moreover, we say ‘au revoir’– never, from Girton, ‘goodbye’ – mainly to colleagues whose fixed terms of office have expired. The Helen Cam Visiting Fellow, Dr Nour Adel, has completed the first of two years in Cambridge as Research Fellow in Economics and Business Studies. The placement was secured in collaboration with the Council for At Risk Academics, and Girton shared this arrangement with Corpus Christi College, which will accommodate Dr Adel for the remainder of her visit. We shall nevertheless miss her and her two children enormously; their bravery and camaraderie have been an inspiration. Our third visiting artist, Yelena Popova, has been in residence with her husband Stuart Hodges and their son Max, whose fascination with music endeared him to the Choir, and whose fourth birthday party encouraged an outburst of artistic creativity among our students. Yelena’s year-end exhibition took the form of an ingenious ‘art-trail’, with a series of works responding to and, ultimately, transforming a number of exhibition spaces around the College. Finally, Dr Deirdre Scadden, who has secured the 2018 Biochemical Society Teaching Excellence Award, steps down as a Bye-Fellow. We look forward to welcoming a number of new Fellows this year. The Governing Body has elected Daphne Todd, OBE, RP, to an Honorary Fellowship in recognition of her contribution to portrait painting. She was the first woman President of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters, and in that capacity helped create the partnership between Girton and the RP that resulted in the People’s Portraits – a unique collection which continues to grow in size and in recognition.

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Daphne’s own work includes a portrait of the current Mistress (which won the 2017 Changing Faces Portrait Commission Prize) and one of my predecessor, Dame Marilyn Strathern (which won the 2001 Ondaatje Prize for Portraiture). Four new Official Fellows are anticipated for the coming year. They are: Dr Claire White, elected through the Trinity scheme to the Brenda Stacy Fellowship in French; Dr Shona Wilson Stark, appointed as College Teaching Officer in Law; former Bye-Fellow Dr Arik Kershenbaum, who has been appointed to a College Tutorship; and special congratulations to Jenny Blackhurst on her election to a new Fellowship in Life and Transferable Skills. There will be two new Bye-Fellows this year: Dr Hilary Marlow (Theology); and Dr Aaron Hornkohl (Asian and Middle Eastern Studies). The College Council has been fortunate to elect three new fixed-term Research Fellows. Two are scientists: Dr Sean Collins measures the optical properties of metal nanoparticles, and joins us as a Henslow Fellow; Dr John Wills, Herschel-Smith Research Fellow, is a medic with interests in, amongst other things, nanochemical safety evaluation. The third is a social scientist: Anne-Margret Wolf will assume the Margaret Smith Research Fellowship while continuing her work on politics and international relations in North Africa and the Middle East. Additionally, Hazel Mills has been elected to a Non-Stipendiary Research Fellowship to enable her to continue working on aspects of the College’s history. There will be three Visiting Fellows this year, in addition to the French Lectrice, Rose Borel. The Helen Cam Visiting Fellowship (in the arts and social sciences) goes to William Waller, who is William R Kenan, Jr Professor of Economics at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, in the Finger Lakes

region of New York State. Professor Waller is interested in institutional economics and is an expert on the work of Thorstein Veblen. The Brenda Ryman Visiting Fellowship (in the sciences) goes to Kenneth Johnson, Professor of Veterinary Orthopaedics at the University of Sydney, and the Mary Amelia Cummings Harvey Visiting Fellow Commoner is former BBC music producer Hugh Keyte, who will be writing up his new edition of Tallis’s Spem in alium and completing his researches on the Vasari/Buontalenti stage machinery of the Uffizi Theatre, Florence.

development arm of the College; he is supported by Mary Richmond. In the Development Office, we welcome Anne Greenwood and Deborah PattersonJones, who have been job-sharing Hannah James’s maternity cover. In the Bursary, David Boyd is replaced by Caroline Quelch, and the Personnel Office has been supported by Chris Abrey while Claire Saunders is on maternity leave.

The professional and operational departments have seen rather more turnover than the Fellowship. We have, nevertheless, recognised twelve colleagues for long service, including Catering Manager, Mark Foreman, who has been here for thirty years. We are also pleased to announce that since July 1 Jenny Blackhurst has assumed the role of Librarian, bringing a great deal of wisdom and experience from her time as Assistant Librarian to bear on plans for the future. Some restructuring is still required in the Library, and this explains why – following the departure of Library Assistant Helen Grieve, together with two Temporary Assistants Naomi Sturges and Amy Bowles – Jenny is currently supported by Library and Archives Assistant Tilda Watson. We also welcome Tilly Burns as part-time Archives Assistant.

It is hard to believe that Jenny Griffiths, who has done so much over the years to help grow and support the graduate school, has realised her dream of retiring. Her successor as Graduate Administrator is Stephanie Farzad, who is already embracing the challenge of moving the graduate school to Swirles Court. She is ably assisted in this by our new Accommodation Manager, Emma Argles, who brings a wealth of experience to the challenge of housing students at all levels across all courses, and of accommodating visitors and others for the short and longer term. From the Admissions and Tutorial Office we have lost Katie Bowers, whose position as Tutorial and Administrative Assistant is now occupied by Paula Dennis (whose own former role is filled by Natalie Thomas). Claire Nellany has left for a graduate-support role in the Registrary’s office in the University; to expand our programme of schools liaison and outreach she is succeeded by Frances Ballester-Harriss and Anna McGlinchey.

For the first time ever, the Council has appointed a professional Secretary in the figure of Dr Caroline Shenton. This half-time position will keep Girton at the forefront of good governance, while enabling Dr Shenton to maintain her profile as a celebrated freelance historian, writer and speaker. We are also pleased to have on board a new Director of Summer Programmes, Dr Nick Godfrey, who brings a wealth of experience and some visionary ideas to the business

Among the College Porters, celebrated for their warm welcome, attentive professional service, and firm but fair policies, we lost one of our finest colleagues through the untimely death of Richard Cleary. In many ways the heart and soul of Wolfson Court, Richard is sorely missed; his obituary is included elsewhere in this magazine. Chas Davies and Dave Shaw retired, and Ian Whitwham left to take on a more senior role at Trinity College. Paul Judd, Aaron Long and Nader Safavi have

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stepped into the gap, together with Relief Porters Martin Rush, Peter Kapral and John Grosvenor. In the area of catering, where Girton’s reputation has gone from strength to strength not only for the quality and quantity of canteen food, but for fine dining and fabulous Formals (nearly 50 in the academic year), Leroy Ebanks and Madusha Wijetunga (part of the Wolfson Court team) have left, while Lewis Webb has joined as Chef de Partie and David Stevenson as Trainee Chef. Candace Seabridge has been appointed as Front-of-House Leader; she is supported by Chris Tedstone and Laura Henry who join the operational team, together with Kitchen Porters Max O’Riley and Nazarbek Kurbonbekov. From the Housekeeping team, now led by Tina Philips and Julie RobertsLaw, we have lost Kasia Czapczynska, Susan Kennedy and Su Tims and welcomed Abigail Heydon and Siobhan Walsh. Ryan Faghy, Dragos Reit and Nick Reit have all left House Services; we welcome Lewis Andrews as Deputy House Manager. David Papala is brightening up our days as incoming College Electrician and Deputy Maintenance Manager, as is Louis Payne in his capacity of Apprentice Painter and Decorator. Susan J Smith, Mistress

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I wish to reserve: Draft programme of events 22 September 2018 Library Talk There will be a talk for Girtonians and their guests at 11.00 (details TBC later in the year). Lawrence Room Talk There will be a talk for Girtonians and their guests at 14.00 (details TBC later in the year). People’s Portraits Talk There will be a talk for Girtonians and their guests at 16.00. In addition a new portrait for the Girton People’s Portraits exhibition will be unveiled. Afternoon Tea From 15.30 (details TBC on the day).

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