2009 Annual Review

GIRTON COLLEGE ANNUAL REVIEW

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GIRTON COLLEGE ANNUAL REVIEW

2009

Girton College Cambridge cb3 ojg Phone: 44 (0) 1223 338999 Fax: 44 (0) 1223 338896 Cover: Spring morning outside Tower Wing, 2009, photo Peter Sparks. End Papers: PhotospheresŠ of Emily Davies Court and of Kings Parade by kind permission of, and obtainable from, Edward Hill Photography, www.glartists.com

The editor is extremely grateful for all the help received from Fay Faunch, Stephanie Trott and other members of the Editorial Committee. His and the Committee’s thanks also to Gillian Jondorf (Moore 1956) and Susan Moore (1952) for copy editing, Cherry Hopkins (Busbridge 1959) for proof-reading and Vera Seal for early help with the text The Annual Review is also available electronically, in PDF format, on the College website at: www.girton.cam.ac.uk/alumni-roll/publications

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Contents The College 2008–2009 List of Fellows and Officers Letter from the Retiring Mistress Farewell Words for the Mistress Professor Susan J Smith Two Profiles Articles: What is Culture For? Tower Wing and Jane Catherine Gamble Climate Change in the Jurassic Dragonsblood Widowhood – Gender and Human Rights Miscellany Awards and Distinctions College Reports Fellows’ Publications Student Reports

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The Roll 2008–2009

Roll News Roll AGM Local Associations College Friends Appointments of Members of the Roll Publications by Members of the Roll Births Marriages Deaths Obituaries Roll Diary of Events College Donors 2008–09

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The College 2009

Visitor: The Rt Hon Baroness Hale of Richmond, DBE, Hon FBA, Hon LLD, MA Mistress: Professor Susan J Smith, FBA, FRSE, AcSS, BA, MA, DPhil (Oxon)

Fellows and Officers of the College, October 2009 Honorary Fellows Dame Ann Bowtell, DCB, BA Professor Dusa McDuff, PhD, FRS The Rt Hon Baroness Hollis of Heigham, PC, DL, MA, DPhil (Oxon) Baroness James of Holland Park, OBE Viscountess Runciman of Doxford, DBE, BA The Rt Hon Baroness Symons of Vernham Dean, PC, MA Lady English, MA, MB, BChir, MRCP, FRCPsych Ms J Rachel Lomax, MA, MSc (London) Dr Margaret H Bent, FBA, FSA, FRHistS, MA, MusB, PhD, Hon DMus (Glasgow), Hon DFA (Notre Dame)

Professor M Burbidge, BSc, PhD (London), FRS Dr M F Lyon, ScD, FRS Sir Geoffrey Chandler, KBE, MA Dr Marjorie McCallum Chibnall, OBE, Hon LittD, MA, DPhil, FSA, FBA Mrs Anita Desai, BA (Delhi), FRSL Baroness Platt of Writtle, CBE, DL, Hon LLD, MA, FREng Dr B A Askonas, PhD, FRS The Rt Hon Lord Mackay of Clashfern, PC, Hon LLD, FRSE Professor A Teichova, PhD (Prague), Dr hon c (Uppsala), FRHS HM Queen Margrethe II of Denmark, Hon LLD Miss E Llewellyn-Smith, CB, MA Professor Dame Margaret TurnerWarwick, DBE, DM (Oxon), PhD, FRCP Dame Bridget Ogilvie, DBE, ScD, FIBiol, FRCPath Professor Dame Gillian Beer, DBE, FBA, MA, LittD, BLitt (Oxon) The Rt Revd David Conner, MA Professor Douglass North, BA, PhD (Berkeley) The Rt Hon Lady Justice Arden, PC, DBE, MA, LLM Baroness Perry of Southwark, MA Judge Rosalyn Higgins, DBE, FBA, QC, Hon LLD, MA, LLB

Dame Elizabeth L A Forgan, DBE, OBE, BA (Oxon)

Barbara Bodichon Foundation Fellows

Mrs Barbara Wrigley, MA Mrs Sally Alderson, MA Mrs Margaret Llewellyn, OBE, MA Mrs Veronica Wootten, MA, MBE Mrs Celia Skinner, MA Miss C Anne Wilson, MA, ALA Dr Margaret E Barton, MA, MD, FRCP(Edin), FRSM Dr Margaret A Branthwaite, BA, MD, FFARCS, FRCP Dr Ruth Whaley BA, MA, PhD (Harvard)

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Fellows

Roland E Randall, MA, PhD, MSc (McGill), Official Fellow, Director of Studies in Geography and Tutor for Arts Graduates Martin D Brand, MA, PhD (Bristol), BSc (Manchester), Life Fellow Leslie W Hall, MA, BSc, PhD (London), DVA, FRCVS, Life Fellow  John E Davies, MA, BSc, PhD (Monash), Official Fellow (Chemistry) David N Dumville, MA, PhD (Edinburgh), Life Fellow  Abigail L Fowden, MA, PhD, ScD, Professorial Fellow (Biological Sciences) (on leave LT and ET 2010) 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, Official Fellow and Director of Studies in History (Part II) Sarah Kay, FBA, MA, DPhil (Oxon), LittD, Life Fellow Mary Warnock (Baroness), DBE, Hon FBA, MA (Oxon), Life Fellow  Howard P Hodson, MA, PhD, FREng Professorial Fellow (Engineering) Peter C J Sparks, MA, DipArch, RIBA, Life Fellow  Stephanie Palmer, SJD (Harvard), LLM (Harvard), Supernumerary Fellow and Director of Studies in Law (LLM) Frances Gandy, MA, MCLIP, Official Fellow, Librarian, Curator, and Tutor for Science Graduates 2 Christopher J B Ford, MA, PhD, Official Fellow (Physics)

Janet E Harker, MA, ScD, Life Fellow Christine H McKie, MA, PhD, Life Fellow Enid A C MacRobbie, MA, PhD (Edinburgh), ScD, FRS, Life Fellow Poppy Jolowicz, MA, LLB, Life Fellow Dorothy J Thompson, FBA, MA, PhD, Life Fellow Elizabeth Marrian, MA, MD, Life Fellow Melveena C McKendrick, FBA, MA, PhD, LittD, Life Fellow Nancy J Lane Perham, OBE, PhD, ScD, MSc (Dalhousie), DPhil (Oxon), Life Fellow Joan Oates, FBA, PhD, Life Fellow Gillian Jondorf, MA, PhD, Life Fellow  Betty C Wood, MA, PhD (Pennsylvania), Supernumerary Fellow (History) Jill Mann, MA, PhD, FBA, Life Fellow *Ruth M Williams, MA, PhD (London), Bertha Jeffreys Fellow and Director of Studies in Mathematics *Julia M Riley, MA, PhD, ViceMistress, Official Fellow and Director of Studies in Physical Sciences A Marilyn Strathern, DBE, FBA, Hon DLitt (Oxon), Hon ScD (Edinburgh), Hon ScD (Copenhagen), Hon ScD (Helsinki), Hon Doctorate (Panteion), Hon ScD (Durham), Hon DPhil (Papua New Guinea), Hon DSocSci (Queen’s, Belfast), MA, PhD, Life Fellow John Marks, MA, MD (London), FRCP, FRCPath, FRCPsych, Life Fellow S Frank Wilkinson, MA, PhD, Life Fellow 2

The College 2009

Charity A Hopkins, OBE, MA, LLB, Life Fellow W James Simpson, BA (Melbourne), PhD, MPhil (Oxon), Life Fellow  Anne Fernihough, MA, PhD, Non-Stipendiary Fellow (English) 3 Angela C Roberts, PhD, Professorial Fellow (Behavioural Neurosciences)  Hugh R Shercliff, MA, PhD, Official Fellow and Director of Studies in Engineering (Part IA MT 2009 and LT 2010) (on leave ET 2010)  * Martin W Ennis, MA, PhD, FRCO, KRP (Köln), Austin and Hope Pilkington Fellow, Director of Studies in Music and Director of College Music John L Hendry, MA, PhD, Supernumerary Fellow (Management Studies) 2 Jochen H Runde, MPhil, PhD, Supernumerary Fellow (Economics), Director of Studies in Management Studies Dennis Barden, MA, PhD, Life Fellow *5Andrew R Jefferies, MA, VetMB, FRCPath, MRCVS, Official Fellow, Senior Tutor and Director of Studies in Medicine (Parts IA, IB, II and Clinical, LT 2010) and Veterinary Medicine Juliet J d’A Campbell, CMG, MA, Life Fellow Peter H Abrahams, MBBS, FRCS (Edinburgh), FRCR, DO (Hon), Supernumerary Fellow (Medical Sciences) *Deborah Lowther, MA, ACA, Official Fellow and Bursar Clive Lawson, MA, PhD, Official Fellow and Director of Studies in Economics (Parts I and IIA) Richard L Himsworth, MA, MD, Life Fellow

Gabriele Natali, Dott. in lett. e fil., Official Fellow and Director of Studies in Modern Languages (Part II ET 2010) Josh D Slater, PhD, BVMS (Edinburgh), Supernumerary Fellow (Veterinary Medicine) and Praelector *A Mark Savill, MA, PhD, Non-Stipendiary Fellow (Engineering) *Per-Olof H Wikström, BA, PhD (Stockholm), Professorial Fellow (Criminology) 2 S-P Gopal Madabhushi, PhD, Official Fellow and Director of Studies in Engineering (Part IA ET 2010) 3 Albertina Albors-Llorens, LLM (London), PhD, Official Fellow and Director of Studies in Law (Parts IB and II)  Mia Gray, BA (San Diego), MRCP (Berkeley), PhD (Rutgers), Official Fellow and Director of Studies in Geography (Part IB)  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, Director of Studies in Biological Sciences (Parts IB, II and III), Tutor for Admissions (Science) Eileen D Rubery, CB, MB, ChB (Sheffield), MA (London), PhD, FRCR, FRCPath, FFPHM, Senior Research Fellow, Registrar of the Roll Maureen J Hackett, BA, MA (Southampton), Official Fellow, Tutor, Warden of Wolfson Court and Graduate Accommodation, and Junior Bursar 3 Crispin H W Barnes, BSc, PhD (London), Official Fellow (Physics) (on leave 2009–2010) 

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Fiona J Cooke, MA, BM BCh (Oxon), PhD (London), MRCP, Official Fellow and Director of Studies in Medicine (Parts IB, II and Clinical, MT 2009 and ET 2010) Ross I Lawther, MA, PhD, Olga Taussky Fellow (Mathematics) Karen L Lee, MA, Official Fellow (Law) and Tutor *Sinéad M Garrigan Mattar, BA, DPhil (Oxon), Official Fellow and Director of Studies in English (Part I, and Part II MT 2009 and ET 2010) (on leave LT 2010) Stuart A Scott, MA, PhD, Official Fellow and Director of Studies in Engineering (Part IB) and Chemical Engineering Stelios Tofaris, MA, Brenda Hale Official Fellow and Director of Studies in Law (Part IA) Daniele Moretti, BSc, PhD (Brunel), Non-Stipendiary Fellow (Social Anthropology) Anna Andreeva, BA (Irkutsk), MA (Kanazawa), PhD, Margaret Smith Research Fellow in Japanese Religion Alasdair N Campbell, MA, MEng, PhD, Hertha Ayrton Research Fellow in Chemical Engineering Alderik H Blom, Dr (Utrecht), PhD, Katharine Jex-Blake Research Fellow in Celtic Studies Fionnùala E Sinclair, BA (Hull), PhD (Edinburgh), Official Fellow and Director of Studies in Modern Languages (Part IA, ET 2010 and Year Abroad) and Linguistics, and Tutor  Georgina E M Born, BSc, PhD (London), Professorial Fellow (Social and Political Science) (on leave ET 2010)

Arif M Ahmed, BA (Oxon), MA (Sussex), PhD, Official Fellow (Philosophy) (on leave 2009–2010) Judith A Drinkwater, MA, Official Fellow, Director of Studies in Linguistics, K M Peace Secretary to the Council Francisca Malarée, BSc (Econ), MA (London), Official Fellow and Development Director  * Colm Durkan, BA, PhD (Trinity College Dublin), Official Fellow and Director of Studies in Engineering (Part IIA and MET1) 1 Edward J Briscoe, BA (Lancaster), MPhil, PhD, Professorial Fellow (Computer Science) Emma Pugh, BSc (Keele), PhD, Official Fellow (Physics) and Tutor K M Veronica Bennett, BSc (Leicester), PhD (CNAA), Official Fellow, Director of Studies in Biological Sciences (Part IA) and Tutor for Admissions (Arts) *Harriet D Allen, MSc (Calgary), MA, PhD, Official Fellow, Director of Studies in Geography (Part II) and Education, Tutor Shaun D Fitzgerald, MA, PhD, Official Fellow (Engineering) and Tutor Stephen E Robertson, MA, MSc (City), PhD (London), Non-Stipendiary Fellow (Information Science) Stuart Davis, BA, PhD (Birmingham), Official Fellow, Director of Studies in Modern Languages (Parts IA and II, MT 2009 and LT 2010) and Tutor (on leave ET 2010) Benjamin J Griffin, MA, PhD, Official Fellow and Director of Studies in History (Year 1) 

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Bye-Fellows

Liliana Janik, MPhil (Torun), PhD, Official Fellow and Director of Studies in Archaeology and Anthropology (Part I) and Archaeology (Part II) 4 Marta Marzanska, BA, PhD, Non-Stipendiary Fellow (Hebrew Studies) (on leave LT and ET 2010) David B Kemp, MSci (London), PhD (Open University), Sarah Woodhead Research Fellow in Earth Sciences *Danielle W A G Van den Heuvel, MA (Amsterdam), PhD (Utrecht), Ottilie Hancock Research Fellow in Modern History Laura C McMahon, BA, MPhil, PhD Rosamund Chambers Research Fellow in French 4 Nik Cunniffe, MA, MPhil, MSc (Bath), PhD, Official Fellow (Physical Sciences) 10

Steven Boreham, BSc (CCAT), PhD (OU) (Geography) Louise E Braddock, MA, MB, BChir, MD, MA (Reading), PhD (Reading) (Philosophy), Praelector Karenjit Clare, MA (Aberystwyth), PhD (Economic Geography) Caroline J A Brett, MA, PhD, Director of Studies in Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic 4 Simon Cohn, BA, PhD (London), Director of Studies in Social Anthropology 4 Robert Doubleday, BSc (London), MSc (Sussex), PhD (London) (Geography) Sarah L Fawcett, BA, BM, BCh (Oxford), MRCS, FRCR (Medical and Veterinary Sciences) Paul T Griffiths, BA, DPhil (Oxon) (Chemistry) The Revd A Malcolm Guite, MA, PhD (Durham), Chaplain 9 The Revd Canon Margaret A Guite, MA, PhD (Durham) (Theology)  Christopher K Hadley, MA, MSc, Director of Studies in Computer Science Mark Hogarth, BSc (Manchester), MSc (London), PhD, Director of Studies in Philosophy Katherine Hughes, BSc, BVSc (Liverpool), MRCVS (Veterinary Medicine) Monica Konrad, BSc (Bristol), MSc, PhD (London) (Social Anthropology) John Lawson, BA, PhD, Director of Studies in Social and Political Sciences (Part II) 

Edward W Holberton, BA, MPhil, PhD, Official Fellow and Director of Studies in English (Year 2) Michael R Jones, BA (Oxon), MA, PhD (York), Non-Stipendiary Fellow and Director of Studies in English (Part I and Part II, LT 2010) Helen A Van Noorden, BA, MPhil, PhD, Wrigley Official Fellow and Director of Studies in Classics Sabine A Deiringer, MPhil, PhD, Eugénie Strong Research Fellow in Social Anthropology Aswin S N Seshasayee, BTech (Anna), Tucker-Price Research Fellow in Bioinformatics Francesco Montomoli, MSc, PhD (Florence), Mitsubishi Senior Research Fellow in Engineering Edward J M Naylor, BEng (Kingston), PhD (Cranfield), Mitsubishi Senior Research Fellow in Engineering 5

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Dana T Marsh, BMus (Rochester), MSt, DPhil (Oxford), Director of Chapel Music and Assistant Director of Music Ian G Mills, MBiochem (Oxon), PhD (Liverpool) (Biochemistry) Kamiar Mohaddes BSc (Warwick), MPhil, Director of Studies in Economics Ingrid I Schröder, MA, DipArch, RIBA, Director of Studies in Architecture C Patricia Ward, MA, PhD (Physics) Samantha K Williams, BA (Lancaster), MSc, PhD, Director of Studies in History (Year 2) Geoffrey J Willis, BSc (Liverpool), Assistant Bursar

External Teaching Officers

Archivist Emerita

Praelectors

Kate Perry Cert Ed (Froebel)

Louise E Braddock, MA, MB, BChir, MD, MA (Reading), PhD (Reading)

James A Aitken, BA, MA (Durham), PhD, Director of Studies in Oriental Studies Barbara A Bodenhorn, PhD, Director of Studies in Social and Political Sciences (Part I), Fellow of Pembroke College John S McCombie, MA, PhD, Director of Studies in Land Economy, Fellow of Downing College

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Richard Marks, PhD, Director of Studies in History of Art, Visiting Fellow of Fitzwilliam College Olivier Tonneau, PhD (Paris IV) (Modern Languages), Fellow of Homerton College

Josh D Slater, PhD, BVMS (Edinburgh)

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The College 2009

A Letter from the Retiring Mistress Dear Girtonians, Where to begin? Living things are always at the beginning, every moment a new one – and in the case of organisms, however young or old, are at the same time entire. Perhaps an institution is like an organism: perpetually growing, and at each moment complete, existing in itself. And perhaps this gives me a beginning for my account. For thinking of this last year in Girton, I imagine several amplifications of that image. The organism that is at once complete and ever growing has a form. If it could observe its own form, it would create an aesthetic. A functioning system, it sustains itself both by building on itself and by reacting to its environment. It is always moving. If it has consciousness, it looks ahead.

FORM. Keeping Girton recognisably Girton Otherwise, where should I begin? Do I begin with keeping the debate about equality alive – it is still a debate – through a public seminar at the LSE, ‘Making a difference: Gender in the state, the workplace and the family’, with the Visitor, Baroness Hale, and Fellows Mia Gray and Ben Griffin, on International Women’s Day? With spurring people on beyond the curriculum, the Hammond Science Communication Prize now being a regular event, and one that I see paired with the Ridding Reading Prize? With the accomplishments of a former holder of an Emily Davies Bursary who went on to graduate research and before her PhD was finished was given an award by the Association of American Geographers for the best Development Areas Speciality Group Student Paper? With asking where else on a website you would find verse from a Poetry Group by students and fellows alike? Or do I begin with public-spiritedness – another Bursary holder who, finding he had sufficient funds for the next two years gave up his Bursary for someone else beginning their course?

Well, I begin with what is so characteristic of an institution such as a college, with the flow of students and staff that gives it its form. One could look at the aggregate 7

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of individuals, as in Girton’s gender balance, for example. Here Official Fellows are poised equally, give or take one (19 women, 20 men). In the context of the University’s overall increase in state school offers (59%) among home students, Girton made 61% such offers. However, it must be added that, as observed in the Admissions Report, our gender balance at undergraduate admissions is skewed by the central allocation system of open applications. Given the growing numbers of graduate students, the Graduate Policy Committee has been at pains to implement a scheme to diversify the graduate body in terms of subject. Or, continuing the theme of flow, one could look to an institution within the institution such as the Chapel Choir: constantly replenished with new talent, it has sustained Girton’s reputation magnificently through its many activities this year, and under the Assistant Music Director who himself began with its newcomers.

Students have their own beginnings. When I see the first-years to record their matriculation, at the outset of their College and University career, I sometimes wonder where their many aspirations to throw themselves into societies and clubs will lead. Of course they give their own form to the opportunities they encounter and create. People combine activities in adventurous ways – I think, for example, of the JCR officer who is also captain of women’s football, social secretary for women’s and mixed hockey, and plays women’s rugby; or the participant in the Campus Children’s Holidays charity, who is also hillwalker, gymnast and poet; or of the Choir member at the same time involved in University and College dramatics, and the CU contemporary dance workshop.

As to the comings and goings of individuals, Dr Anne Rogerson, who has played such a pivotal role in the Lawrence Room Committee as well as the Classics Faculty, leaves us for a lectureship at Sydney University; the Faculty has continued our collaborative arrangement, and her successor will be Dr Helen Van Noorden. Our new appointment in English is Dr Edward Holberton. Dr Stuart Haigh was appointed University Lecturer in Engineering, and has now gone to a Lectureship and Fellowship at Trinity. The College Archivist, Mrs Kate Perry, who is retiring after 23 years, over which the archive has become known nationally and internationally, was given the title Archivist Emerita in recognition of all she has done.

There are other farewells, and to many destinations, though I do not detail these here. We say goodbye to our two Mitsubishi Senior Research Fellows in Engineering, Drs Jonathan Ong and Budimir Rosic, and to Drs Manpreet Janeja and Martin Stevens who come to the end of their Research Fellowships. We must warmly thank Dr Thomas Charlton and Ms Arina Nikandrova for stepping in to help with teaching in English and in Economics. Dr Myrto Hatzimichali completes her Research Associateship in the Faculty of Classics and her non-stipendiary Fellowship at Girton. In wishing them all well, I have to say we have enjoyed as much as we have profited from their company, as we have that of Dr Bettina Verwig, Bye-Fellow in Music for just this year. We shall be welcoming in October a new Eugénie Strong Research Fellow, Ms Sabine Deiringer (Social Anthropology) and a Tucker-Price Research Fellow, Mr A Seshasayee (Biological Sciences). Dr Robert Doubleday (Geography) has already joined us as a Bye-Fellow, as will Dr Simon Cohn (Social Anthropology), Katherine Hughes (Veterinary Medicine) and Dr Karenjit Clare (Economic Geography).

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The recognition that comes to the Fellowship gives it form too. The University Pilkington Prizes for teaching excellence 2009 included both our Vice-Mistress and Music Director, and we are reminded that, in their spare time, Dr Julia Riley teaches in the Faculty of Physics and Chemistry, Dr Martin Ennis in the Faculty of Music. Dr Jonathan Ong followed his colleague Dr Rosic’s award last year in being honoured with the Best Paper Award by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and Dr Danielle Van den Heuvel received the Association of Economic Historians’ 2009 PhD Thesis Prize. Dr Stuart Davis was nominated as a Newton Trust Lecturer in the MML Faculty; Dr Sandra Fulton was appointed Assistant Director of Teaching in Biochemistry, while Dr Paul Griffiths moved from his Official Fellowship to a Bye-Fellowship, and from Chemistry to Geography, upon deciding to work for a second PhD. Among outside honours, Dr Roland Randall was elected a Fellow of the Institute of Ecology and Environment Management, the highest accolade in the applied side of his research, where academic ecologists are rarely found. A special Study Day was held in November at the Royal Musical Association to honour the award to Professor Georgina Born, reported last year, of the Dent Medal. It was very nice for College that Mrs Veronica Wootten MBE was one of the representatives of the Cadbury family admitted – as a family – to the University’s Guild of Benefactors. And in his case if he is happy, so should we be, that the Senior Tutor has been appointed Associate Secretary of the University’s Senior Tutors’ Committee.

No fewer than seven Girton women were in the New Year’s Honours List 2009, including a DBE for Anne Owers (Spark 1965), HM Chief Inspector of Prisons, while Simon Duckworth, from the first decade of men undergraduates, has been appointed Deputy Lieutenant for Greater London. Athene Donald (Griffith 1971), Professor of Experimental Physics and Fellow of Robinson, became the 2009 European Laureate, Women in Science Awards (L’Oréal and UNESCO). We have our own honours to bestow, and are delighted that Dr Ruth Whaley accepted our invitation to become our twelfth Barbara Bodichon Foundation Fellow, and that Dame Elizabeth Forgan, recently appointed to head the Arts Council England, joins us as an Honorary Fellow.

Elsewhere in College, Sarah Westwood, who professionalised our record-keeping, has been succeeded by Elizabeth Ennion-Smith. John Gant, our long-standing adviser on College buildings and maintenance, becomes the College Surveyor, and Wendy Nixon has taken on the role of Schools Liaison Officer. 20-year long-service awards were made to gardeners Richard Hewitt and Colin Osborn, and to Gaye Liczbinski in House Services, but then Graham Hambling (Catering Manager) and Michael Pocock (Clerk of Works) both received recognition for 30 years with Girton. Staff qualifications continue to grow: NVQ in Business and Administration level 3 was obtained by Steffi Trott, and Level 2 by Claire Belcham; Steven Coe obtained Level 3 in IT Users. Richard Baker earned his Higher National Diploma in Hospitality, Leisure and Tourism. In the local Cambridge chefs’ competition Paulo dos Santos was awarded a Gold Medal in the Front-of-House section, while the chefs had several successes with individual dishes; Girton’s Head Chef led the Cambridge University team in the national competition.

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Mencap and Huntingdon Regional College to provide work experience for students with learning difficulties.

I find it very sad to record that Girton has lost two from the first band of Barbara Bodichon Foundation Fellows, Miss Margaret Diggle (1923), and Shirley, Lady Littler (Marsh, 1950). They will be remembered with great affection, and Shirley through Sir Geoffrey Littler who has been such a friend of College. Dr Daniel Goodman, a part-time graduate student working for the MSt degree, died suddenly during his course.

AESTHETICS. Keeping count Being self-conscious about growth is how one could characterise the celebrations of diverse beginnings this year: the University’s 800th Anniversary, College’s 140th, and the 30th year since men first became undergraduates (not to speak of the 25th anniversary of the Old Boys’ Rugby fixture with the incumbent XV). Apart from University events, there have been several occasions that have gathered the College under an anniversary rubric.

The year began with the Founders’ Memorial Lecture by Professor Henrietta Moore. The tradition of this lecture is intended to take us beyond ourselves and address important ideas of the day. This year it also marked a personal beginning for the lecturer, as the in-coming University William Wyse Professor of Social Anthropology – although the invitation had been extended long before that happy election. Posing the question What is culture for?, her response, Some thoughts on hopes, desires and satisfactions, was a spectacular event, literally so with its varied visuals. Celebratory events followed in July.

Dame Rosalyn Higgins, first woman President of the International Court of Justice, was warmly welcomed as the speaker at the AGM following a special Anniversary Lunch for the Roll. The dinner that followed was graced by Her Imperial Highness, The Princess Takamado of Japan (Tottori 1972) who was in the UK as Honorary President of Birdlife International for the University’s Darwin celebrations; the aesthetics of the occasion were enhanced by a concert of Baroque chamber music. A second dinner saw an aesthetic flourish indeed – the unveiling of the Visitor’s Portrait painted by Ben Sullivan – known to us from the painting he had added in 2007 to the People’s Portraits Collection. We are delighted to have the Visitor so visibly in College. Finally there is the Anniversary Celebration Concert at Goldsmiths’ Hall, in November 2009: to be looked forward to, and already in a new academic year.

This also seemed the year to mount the Historians’ Power Feast, with its cast of distinguished historians from Cambridge, Oxford and other universities, and from a cohort of schools (all according to stipulations laid down 40 years ago, with three diners who had been at the first occasion in 1969 just to remind us!). We were delighted to have Professor Pat Thane, FBA, as guest speaker. As a sign of the new, however, I broke rank with my predecessors and talked openly about Girton’s need for support for its College Teaching Officer (CTO) campaign. If this was History’s moment, the Geographers had again held one of their special reunions, and the Medics followed last year’s dinner with a second enthusiastic gathering. Dr John Marks’s support of Medicine is matched only by what he does for Girton sport: this year saw a new venture in the alumni Sports Dinner.

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Keeping the form of College’s surroundings is also keeping its aesthetics: ecological or ornamental, the kind of landscape it is good to look out on. The new plantings round the College periphery, and several new hedges, continue to establish themselves, while the Old Orchard is to be preserved as a unique wildlife habitat. The national importance of Girton’s apple trees we have known for a while, but the determination to conserve habitat comes from the new Strategic Plan for the Gardens and Grounds that joins the College’s strategic plan portfolio. If one were ever to look for an example of an entity at once entire and forever growing it would be that plan! Alongside, we may also note, the Rugby fixture referred to above was played next to a football match going on at the same time, and involving a second Old Boys’ team (including 1979 veterans). This simultaneity was possible for the first time following the expansion of the sports grounds, and the matches were celebrations that also inaugurated our new pitches. Inside, Pear Trees grew a refurbished gym.

SUSTAINABILITY. Keeping ourselves going Here is another beginning. The academic year began very buoyantly, with the announcement of the (anonymous) pledge from a Girtonian of a £5 million donation.

This is a true beginning for us all. It will make a substantial contribution towards our endowment; and it has opened up the possibility of putting our provision for CTOs onto a firm basis, making our goal look much more reachable than it did. Sustainability also rests on growth, and it is hoped that the non-endowment half will grow itself by attracting matching donations to our Teaching Fund. The gift starts a new chapter in our championing of the supervision system that is at the core of Cambridge education.

Let me add that it was fortunate that we were already at an advanced stage in discussions about CTO posts at Girton and thus ready to make maximum use of the funds in this way, and in a way that looks to the future. I pay tribute here to the Senior Tutor.

There was also an element of prescience, the outcome of the Bursar’s creative modelling (‘Options for change’), which has replaced anecdotal suppositions about the financial consequences of doing this or that with a worked-out ability to assess interactions between diverse variables (such as student numbers or residence arrangements). That work on her part has also helped us to face the far from buoyant months that have followed. Sharing with everyone the effects of economic recession, Girton has seen a substantial drop in income. However, the model has also allowed us to describe what is happening with some confidence; that is, we can see the impact of the losses, and in at least one regard it has indicated a way forward (thinking afresh about the length of student residence in College, with a proposal for nine months’ accommodation agreements). Without this forethought we would be in much more difficult circumstances. As it is, it is something of a bursarial triumph that for the coming year (2009–10) the budget allows us to continue operations. Its planned cash deficit (to be met from reserves) is not in this case the beginnings of a crisis, but putting first a commitment to sustaining the life of the institution. If we are overtaken by a larger external crisis, it may be necessary to think again.

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In the meantime, being able to ‘continue operations’ is only possible through the fortitude and combined efforts of the Junior Bursar, the Personnel Officer, the Heads of Domestic Departments Committee, and all College’s domestic staff, who have devised a plan of working practices that means that, for the time being at least, we can avoid redundancies. Everyone has set to with a will. Sadly, though, we will not have improved matters for staff by having already exhausted the funds put aside for the Nursery bursary scheme.

A huge factor in our sustainability has been all the assistance that has come to College from past students. Support has been magnificent and unstinting, and I trust our gratitude is evident. The response to the 2009 Telethon, for example, surpassed previous occasions.

And what a beginning this news is: we learnt that Girton topped all the colleges in Cambridge for the numbers of former undergraduates who had made donations in the year 2007–08. If our supporters show faith in us, we match this with faith in ourselves. We would only borrow for the long-term good of the College, but borrowed we have. Girton has secured a loan, as the Bursar reports, to help implement plans for re-development that should in turn bring long-term savings. A significant sum has been put aside for investment into ways of reducing College’s carbon footprint. Meanwhile efforts are being made to secure carbon offsetting for my own rather extravagant travels this year.

MOVEMENT. Keeping on the move There is movement around us. It will be interesting to see how future Annual Reviews will come to report on the University’s development of North-west Cambridge. Meanwhile, after much campaigning – alongside Girton parish – we are promised a reduction of the speed limit on Huntingdon Road outside the College entrance.

Sport is of course supremely about movement, and gives it an aesthetic. The 2007–08 University Report shows the range of Girtonians’ contributions, including those who got their blues or half-blues from boxing, fencing, and from women’s basketball, cricket, and football, to hockey and ice-hockey, women’s lacrosse, modern pentathlon, rugby union, rugby league, waterpolo, and volleyball. Three University teams this year are captained

by Girton women: Women’s Cricket, 2nd Blues’ Netball team and Badminton. As for competition among the colleges in the present year (2008–09), the men’s rugby team have regained promotion to the 1st division; GCBC men’s side won blades in the Lent bumps and returned to the 1st division after nine years’ absence, while the volleyball teams came second and fourth in the Indoor Cuppers. The Girtonian who rowed with the University Blondie boat last year became captain of it this year, bringing the women’s crew to victory over Oxford’s Osiris, for the first time (again) in nine years.

This seems to have accompanied some excellent examination outcomes. To highlight what is reported elsewhere: in Music, six out of twelve Girton students gained firsts, one a starred first and the highest mark in her year for her dissertation, while the highest marks that the Faculty can recall having ever given went to two Girtonians, one to our Organ Scholar in keyboard harmony, one (for his recital) to the pianist who also won a University prize for the second year running for the candidate showing greatest proficiency in his year-group. I draw attention to the University prizes, which this year 12

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The retiring Mistress, Professor Dame Marilyn Strathern, at a party for all staff and Fellows, held to mark her leaving office. The party was held on Thursday 25 June in the marquee erected for General Admission the following day.

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extend across many subjects large and small, and pick on one or two sets of successes: the two historians respectively fourth out of 211 candidates and eighth out of 186; the Classics candidate who came third in the University out of a Girton cohort of eight; the five MML firsts in Part II from a cohort of nine; the nine Physical Scientist firsts out of a cohort of 20, and the two out of five Girton architects who gained firsts, including the top overall mark.

Another kind of movement animates networks. Although they appear in detail later, I wanted to mention the growth of contacts among Girtonians past and present through the Roll and Local Associations. For some this has found a focus in what is now called ‘the Girton Project’, an enterprising generation on from the former Emily Davies Forums. The Project has found new growth this year in a publication based on Girtonians’ experiences, both as recorded in the archives and freshly collected. The Registrar has worked tirelessly here. And new movement is heralded in the further anticipation of putting on-line much of the material collected for the earlier University and Life Experience research project.

It is a source of satisfaction too that the third College Register (1970–2000), first mooted when I arrived, is now very near publication. In one sense completed already – dates are a matter of history – in another sense it charts ever-changing terrains as it follows people through their diverse careers.

This has been a year of travel for me, and the opportunity to enjoy the company of Girtonian friends new and old in Boston and New York, and then in Sydney, while meeting new circles of Girtonians in Auckland, Hong Kong and Singapore. On the latter two visits I joined the Vice-Chancellor’s Anniversary receptions; for the rest I am much indebted to my hosts, including Dr Una Ryan (Scully 1963), Dr Valerie Warrior (1955), and Mrs Gabrielle Graham (Kerr 1955). However, this is not really the place to name individuals; let me just say that I have very distinct and happy recollections of many acquaintances, and of wonderful hospitality. One of the most rewarding facets of the Mistress’s role is coming to learn just what a kind and interesting community Girtonians form.

LOOKING AHEAD. Keeping the future in sight I have often said to colleagues something to the effect that I am aware my letter is only a partial view of the College year. This year that is true in one very important sense: quite a lot of time was spent by many senior members, led quietly and effectively by the Vice-Mistress, in an activity in which I had no part at all. The outcome, a truly splendid one, was the election of my successor. I was in due course delighted to learn that Professor Susan Smith FBA, Professor of Geography and one of the founder Directors of the Institute of Advanced Study at Durham University, will be the new Mistress of the College. This is a beginning indeed!

The encouragement that has sustained me will still be in place next year. So let me be explicit in my gratitude, and pay tribute to the Fellows and Staff, as well as Students, of Girton for the support they have been over the last eleven years (a round ten discounting the sabbatical). Yet having said that, my expressions of gratitude to Fay Faunch will always seem quite inadequate; her contribution has been beyond measure. As last year, Julia Riley 14

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has acted as head of house on a significant number of College occasions. Many thanks are due to her and Council for making my life possible, as they are to Judith Drinkwater for so ably marshalling the affairs of Governing Body as well as Council. Again, I don’t think I have until quite recently realised what wide and complicated roles Maureen Hackett combines in those of the Junior Bursar and Warden. Not to speak of the Tutors and Graduate Tutors, and the Chaplain who serves people’s needs in his own inimitable style.

Stephanie Trott, under Fay’s guidance, has proved a great source of strength. And there are also several people whom, I fear, I shall never get round to acknowledging, such as those at diverse stages in their careers (for instance, with young children or being retired) who from time to time try to shed components of their participation yet continue to give a great deal to College. They still seem to be doing a lot! A wonderful case of moving in new directions and remaining almost as they have always been.

Marilyn Strathern

Farewell Words for the Mistress At a tea party for all Fellows and Staff held in the graduation marquee on 25 June the ViceMistress, Dr Julia Riley, expressed the gratitude of the College to Marilyn Strathern for all that she had done and achieved in her term as Mistress of the College. Dr Riley pointed out that Marilyn’s Girton connections went back to her mother (Joyce Evans 1929) and had extended to her daughter Barbara Morton (Strathern 1988). She then outlined Marilyn’s own very distinguished academic career. The remainder of her speech, which referred to Marilyn’s term as Mistress, is given here.

Many things have happened in Girton over the past 11 years under Marilyn’s guidance and it is obviously impossible to do full justice to everything she has done and to the immense contribution her remarkable scholarship has brought to the College. As Mistress, she has created the conditions in which things have been able to happen – giving people the freedom to think about possible academic, organisational and building developments, encouraging them and bringing the more sceptical round by gentle persuasion. She is always considerate of people’s feelings when making decisions.

This, and her awareness of College procedures, has meant that she has kept us all together and kept us moving forwards. She has been quietly effective and easy to work with – always willing to listen to all the arguments and to weigh them up most carefully.

Her Mistress-ship has seen huge organisational changes in College with the abolition of some old posts, the creation of new ones and the restructuring of the departments. In 2003 we took the decision to function without a Domestic Bursar. Probably uniquely for a Cambridge college, responsibility for running their departments and managing their budgets was devolved to the Heads of Departments. I think we all feel that this has been a real success and what started on a trial basis six years ago is now well established.

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When Marilyn became Mistress in 1998 the plans for the Library and Archive project were well advanced and a smallish fraction of the necessary funding had been found.

From the outset she supported the project with energy and enthusiasm and it was a great achievement for everyone involved when the new building was finally opened in 2005. Other slightly less prestigious, but nevertheless very important, building projects have included the Nursery at Wolfson Court, the refurbishment of the Kitchens and Cafeteria, the development of the conference area in the Old Kitchens and a new Conference Entrance and Maintenance Workshop, and renovation of the Porters’ Lodge area, Pear Trees and almost all of Tower Wing.

Inside the College there have been other developments. One of the most notable resulted from the contact the College had with Daphne Todd, then President of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters, who painted the remarkable double portrait of Marilyn which hangs in Hall. Through their joint vision the Royal Society of Portrait Painters’ exhibition entitled People’s Portraits came to Girton in 2002 as a long-term loan. This, and the annual additions since then, provide a real draw to visitors from outside – as the Mistress said, ‘People now come to Girton without having to be invited, without having to be the guest of anyone. You just walk in.’ Other exciting changes included the installation of the magnificent Swiss organ in the Chapel and, in a slightly more modest way, the refurbishing of the Lawrence Room.

Marilyn has done a great deal for Development, bringing in much support from alumni and other donors at home, and travelling all over the world – from the Far East and Australia to the US – to promote both Girton’s own development campaign and the University’s 800th anniversary appeals. Everyone with whom she comes into contact in this context senses that the present and future needs of Girton as an institution are very close to her heart. The announcement last year of the five million pound donation has been a wonderful achievement. The fact that half of it is to be used to endow teaching posts is a fitting reward for the tireless way in which she has promoted the need for Girton to invest in its College Teaching Officers – in their position in College, career structure and opportunities for promotion – in order to maintain its excellence in teaching.

Marilyn said to Varsity in 1998 that she really welcomed coming back to College to get some sense of students’ lives from all angles. She has a real feeling for and enjoyment of students and their activities. She is very supportive of them and has even sometimes been prepared to excuse their behaviour when perhaps some of us would not. Our students know she will always take an open-minded approach to their ideas and requests and they hold her in great esteem.

Marilyn has always let us know how much she appreciates what everyone does in and for Girton and has treated all of us – staff, students and Fellows – with the greatest respect. Her interest in, and feeling and sympathy for, people is one of her hallmarks and all of us must have been touched by her kindness and generosity to us as individuals at some time or other.

Julia Riley

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Professor Susan J Smith In February 2009 the College was delighted to announce that Professor Susan J. Smith had accepted election as Mistress of Girton from October 2009.

Professor Smith has been Professor of Geography, and a Director of the Institute of Advanced Study, at Durham University since 2004.

She read Geography at St Anne’s College, Oxford, and completed her DPhil at Nuffield College. She then held Research Fellowships at St Peter’s College, Oxford, Brunel and Glasgow Universities, and was appointed to the Ogilvie Chair of Geography at the University of Edinburgh in 1990. .

Susan Smith has had a distinguished career both as a social geographer and in the Susan J Smith, Mistress of Girton from October 2009 interdisciplinary world of housing studies. Her work is centrally concerned with the challenge of inequality, addressing themes as diverse as residential segregation, housing for health and fear of crime. Her current research focuses squarely on the housing economy: on home prices, mortgage debt and financial risk. Her most recent writings, following work supported by the ESRC’s professorial fellowship scheme, address the uneven integration of housing, mortgage and financial markets, the unequal geographies of credit and investment risks, and the uneasy encounter between market dynamics and an ethic of care.

Susan Smith is an inaugural member of the Academy of Social Sciences, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and a long-standing member of the Society of Authors.

She became a Fellow of the British Academy in 2008. She is experienced in research management, strategy and assessment of all kinds, having served as a panel member for the last two UK research assessment exercises, as well as contributing in a variety of ways to the work of the ESRC, the Leverhulme Trust and other funding bodies.

In addition to her academic work, Susan is a keen skier who is passionate about music. Her partner, Jeremy West, is a free-lance classical musician whose professional life, playing early music on historic instruments, takes him around the world. Susan herself plays euphonium and for the past few years the whole family have been members of the Stanhope Silver Band, playing alongside enthusiasts from all walks of life.

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Profiles Betty Wood As I was growing up in a working-class family in a small Norfolk village, and later as a teenager in Scunthorpe, going to university, any university, let alone a Cambridge college, was a distant dream. In the event, I turned out to be not only the first on either side of my family to receive a higher education but, in all probability, also the first to stay on at school after the age of fourteen or fifteen.

Mainly because of the appeal of its Foundation Year or, as we all referred to it, the ‘Plato to Nato’ year, I did my undergraduate work at Keele University. It was there that began what has proved to be a lifelong fascination with American history. In 1967, after graduating from Keele, I moved on to London, where I completed a one-year MA. degree in American Studies. The following year I was fortunate enough to secure a scholarship to the University of Pennsylvania, and it was there that I completed my doctoral degree in early American history.

Looking back, more than anything else, it was the time that I spent living in south Philadelphia that both confirmed and reinforced my enduring scholarly interest in ‘race’, class and gender. It was there that I first witnessed the iniquities of inner-city racism and grinding urban poverty; it was on my first research trip to the Southern states that I encountered the ongoing struggles associated with the Civil Rights Movement.

I returned to England early in 1971 and, more in hope than in expectation, applied for an Official Fellowship in History that was being advertised by Girton. I was amazed to be invited for an interview and incredulous when I received the letter offering me the position. Back then, little did I think that I would be spending the remainder of my career attached to Girton.

Arriving in College as I did, a few days before the start of the Michaelmas Term, there was so much to learn about so many things in such a short time. I felt it was quite an achievement when I managed to make my way from my room in New Wing to the Porters’ Lodge without having to ask directions! The Fellowship could not have been more helpful, but there was such a lot to try to commit to memory. The late Dr. Ruth Morgan and I agreed that what new Fellows needed was a comprehensive introduction to the College and its ways and, out of a casual conversation, was born the Morgan and Wood Guide, which I believe is still going strong.

It so happened that I arrived at Girton more or less midway between two of the most critical decisions ever taken in the history of the College: to build Wolfson Court and to go co-educational. As far as the latter was concerned, my initial thinking was that the places for women undergraduates in Cambridge were still so scarce that Girton should remain single-sex.

The more I thought about it, though, the more it seemed to me that the decisions made by King’s, Clare and Churchill to admit women probably marked the beginning of a trend that sooner or later would advance the cause of women throughout the university. In this respect, much has been achieved but I feel that much remains to be done. I also became convinced 18

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that the ultimate goal of Girton’s founders was gender equality; that for women like Emily Davies and Barbara Bodichon, single-sex education was a means to an end rather than an end in itself. For these reasons, I voted for the admission of men, and not once have I regretted that decision.

In 1974 my Cambridge life changed in two ways. I was appointed to an Assistant Lectureship in the Faculty of History and, quite coincidentally, started buying my first house. I had greatly enjoyed my time as a resident Fellow, but felt that the time had come to experience a different side of Cambridge life. Now, more than ever, the trusty bicycle that I had bought from Mr Whitehead became absolutely essential to this new geographically triangular life of mine. John Davies had made valiant attempts to teach me to drive, but all to no avail. The driving examiner – in fact the same examiner – failed me twice, and that was that. If nothing else, all these years later I can at least claim to be environmentally sound!

Like all other Fellows past and present, much of my College career has been divided between teaching and attending various committee meetings. Soon after my arrival at Girton I also found myself directing studies in History, and a little later on I began an eleven-year stint as a Graduate Tutor. I count myself fortunate to have had both the privilege and the pleasure of working alongside not only the most distinguished but also the most congenial colleagues that I could ever have wished for. I also feel equally fortunate to have encountered along the way so many students who, often in very different ways, have contributed so very much to both the academic and the social life of the College.

As I move towards retirement, I am often asked about the ways in which Girton has changed over the past thirty years. During my time, there have been two main changes to our built environment and grounds, one of which I lament, the other which I delight in. I am probably not the only Girtonian of a certain age who misses New Orchard and the vegetable gardens so loving tended by Mr. Stringer.

The present gardens at the back of the College are beautiful (and I say that not just as a former member of the Garden Committee!) but I do miss what we have lost by way of fruit and vegetables. Perhaps the ‘credit crunch’ might persuade the College Council to re-create at least a few of the vegetable patches!

The second alteration to our physical fabric has been the building of a long-awaited, and very much needed, state of the art archive. Girton has long housed one of the most extensive collections of papers documenting women’s history from the mid-nineteenth century onwards.

It is thanks largely to Alison Duke who as we all know lived and breathed Girton, and who cherished its history, that our records now have the space that they so patently deserve.

Finally, what is without doubt the biggest change of all: co-education. In some ways closely allied to co-education, especially over the last ten to fifteen years, has been the growing ethnic, ‘racial’, and social diversity of our graduate and undergraduate communities. Girton has long prided itself on its internationalism, and justifiably so. That internationalism continues, but over recent years there has been an impressively successful effort made to attract undergraduates from non-traditional backgrounds. As a result, the Girton of the early twenty-first century is characterised by a social and ethnic, as well as a gender, egalitarianism, an egalitarianism that surely would have pleased our founders.

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John Davies Born in 1947, I am a genuine ‘baby boomer’. Throughout my schooling in Australia, my class was the pioneering one that broke all previous size records. Despite frantic building work and the 1950s equivalent of Portakabins, there was an acute shortage of space. In 1958 my fifth-grade primary school class (32 pupils) was accommodated half a mile down a country road in something called the Mechanics’ Institute. Many of the boys were strapping farm lads who rode horses to school, and our young teacher, a nineteenyear-old girl, Miss Innocent, fresh from teacher training, was quite unable to control them. The farm lads spent most of each day playing football outside, while a minority of us sat dutifully in class, often working alone because our poor teacher was in tears, confined to her office. I remember spending long hours sitting at my desk with a finger in each ear, reading a book, trying to blot out the sounds of incessant inside chatter and the shouts from the football game outside. Mercifully, about half way through that year, the Mechanics’ Institute burnt down and we were housed back at school in a playground shelter shed: a primitive, windowless, three-sided wooden barn-like thing with an earthen floor, designed for temporary shelter during thunderstorms and gales. The only extras added for our comfort were electric light and a sheet of flapping canvas that served as a fourth side of the shed. On the plus side, the whole thing had a pioneering air of adventure and we buckled down to a syllabus little changed from the days of Queen Victoria: reading, writing and arithmetic.

Our reading material came exclusively from The Victorian Readers, eight books in all, one for each of the eight primary school years. This reading material was chosen very carefully from some of the best English and Australian literature and we had to read it silently or aloud, many times over, committing some texts (especially poems) to memory. Together

Grade 5a at Glen Waverley State School, 1958, with John in the back row and Miss Innocent seated, in the dark blouse.

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with many others who grew up with the Readers, I remember them with great affection and regret the fact that my own children have never been asked at school to remember more than a few paltry lines of verse.

In 1960, when I moved from Primary to High School, the baby-boom problems continued with compound interest. I was one of ninety pupils who became the pioneers of a brand-new High School. At the beginning there were no school buildings, just a building site, and for the first two years we were taken six miles down the road by bus every day to a set of old corrugated iron army Nissen huts beside a railway track.

These army huts were not exactly luxurious and they were chilly in winter but, as with our Primary shelter shed, there was a plus side: we were assigned some of the best and brightest young teachers in the State, presumably to compensate for our really atrocious lack of amenities.

At University, it was the same story on a grander scale: brand-new buildings sprinkled around a huge muddy building site, lecturers and professors mostly young, newly appointed and extremely enthusiastic, too many students and a high failure rate (twothirds of the total first-year class would fail to graduate). I was determined to survive, my pioneer training came in handy and my luck held. I never had any trouble deciding what subjects to study – Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics – and when I encountered X-ray Crystallography in my second undergraduate year, that was it: for me, it was and is the perfect blend of those three favourite subjects and I never looked back. In October 1973, after a blur of four undergraduate and three graduate years I found myself on a then new-fangled Jumbo jet, flying towards Britain with postdoctoral money for just one year, to study in the University Chemical Laboratory in Cambridge.

If someone had told me, as I arrived at Heathrow Airport in 1973 carrying everything I owned in one suitcase, that I would still be living here in 2009, almost certainly I would have panicked and returned home immediately, trying to cheat my fate. I am still not sure exactly how it happened but, looking back, I am sure that becoming a member of Girton College was a large contributing factor…

Girton first appeared on my radar screen in 1977. My professor at the Chemical Laboratory explained that the College was soon to admit men and urged me to apply for one of its recently re-advertised Research Fellowships. Later, when I learned that my application had succeeded, I was both pleased and worried: I had no experience of Cambridge college life, no real idea of what would be expected of me. I certainly did not understand that I was about to become yet another sort of pioneer.

Before I moved into College, several events occurred which heightened my concern.

For example, after some chance remark in the laboratory tearoom, a famous Professor (not the one who had urged me to apply to Girton) suddenly understood that I was to be one of the first five male Fellows to live in Girton College. The effect of this news was electric: his eyes boggled and he quoted immediately some lines from Kipling: When the Himalayan peasant meets the he-bear in his pride, He shouts to scare the monster, who will often turn aside.

But the she-bear thus accosted rends the peasant tooth and nail For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.

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I was stunned. ‘The Female of the Species’ was not one of the poems in the Victorian Readers and I remember wondering vaguely what readers the professor had encountered at his school. Other similar experiences meant that when I finally moved into residence at Girton – at the beginning of October 1977 – I was uncharacteristically nervous and apprehensive despite all my pioneer training in mud, shelter sheds and Nissen huts.

The climax of this apprehension occurred at the beginning, at the party given by College to welcome new Fellows. Walking into the Fellows’ Drawing Room for the first time, I was confronted by a room full of people who all swivelled their eyes towards me simultaneously, as if connected to some complicated piece of mechanical equipment.

Mercifully, the discomfort was momentary: Christine McKie (the only person I recognised in the room – we share the same subject) detached herself from the throng, saved me and began to introduce me to people who, without exception, would later become great friends.

That first pioneering year was very special: there hasn’t been one quite like it since.

With the gift of hindsight, I think that everyone was nervous at first, wondering if a mixed Girton would succeed. In the end, I believe it worked quite simply because everyone wanted it to work – even those Fellows who had initially voted against the change. In that first year, Girton demonstrated that one of the best recipes for success is for everyone involved in the enterprise to mutter continually ‘This won’t fail because of me’.

Today, my old High School is one of the four largest and best secondary schools in the State of Victoria, and Girton College (with men and women almost equally balanced at undergraduate, graduate and Fellowship levels) must be the most genuinely mixed College in Cambridge. I am pleased and proud to have been a pioneer in both institutions and I like to tell schoolchildren that if I can make it to Cambridge from a schoolroom with a dirt floor, only three walls and horses tied to railings outside, then they should be able to do so too.

John Davies

What is Culture for?

Henrietta Moore (RF 1981), William Wyse Professor of Social Anthropology, gave the Founders’ Memorial Lecture at the invitation of the Mistress, on 26 February 2009. Speaking to the title ‘What is Culture For?’ Professor Moore challenged the widely held view that technology and mass production necessarily undermine authenticity and cultural value, and showed the importance of trans-media imagery as understood and developed through the interaction with its fan base. With a stimulating array of examples, that opened with a blast of the Rolling Stones and worked through Coca Cola advertisements, the Matrix and Schubert, Hitchcock and Bacon, to Picasso and the Malanggan statuary of New Ireland, she concluded with the example of the rise and influence of Japanese anime. We reproduce this section here.

New technologies not only make new ways of seeing possible, but they are productive of new relays of affect and intensity which in turn produce new cultural forms. Picasso might not have been interested in African cultures, but we can turn to one of the most successful instances of cross-cultural sharing, mixing and hybridity to demonstrate how such processes 22

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not only produce new cultural forms, but do so through enhancing cultural capacities. In the last ten years the global value of sales of Japanese animation and character goods has exceeded eighty billion dollars. Many of the most successful children’s series world wide such as Pokemon, and their associated products, come from Japanese production houses, as does almost all of the animated content for the most popular computer games and films.

This has not just been as a result of concerted marketing by Japanese media companies and their global partners; it has been fuelled to a very large extent by anime and manga fans who have used newly available technologies to build and expand globally distributed communities based on the desire for and engagement with these materials.

There is currently a great debate, inside and outside the academy, as to whether Japanese animation is actually Japanese in content and character. Critics point out that the characters do not look Japanese: they are, at the very least, ‘white’ by default, and most of the viewers who enjoy anime and manga have no sense that it is Japanese. Perhaps the creators and producers of games software intentionally make the characters look non-Japanese because they know that their market is global? Yes, to a certain extent, but as Koichi Iwabuchi makes clear, the popularity of these products is probably dependent both on a pleasure to be found in things Japanese and in Japanese culture itself, as well as on the fact they are racially, ethnically and culturally disembedded to a certain extent.

Anne Allison is one commentator who has argued that the attractiveness of Japanese products is that they encompass the consumer in a world that is both imaginary (imaginary places, creatures and adventures) and real (activities, exchanges, purchases, social relations, quests). The imaginary aspects involve and provoke strong emotional attachments with resonances to childhood and also to traditional Japanese culture. Allison suggests that the relevant aspects of Japanese culture involve ‘a tendency to see the world as animated by a variety of beings, both worldly and unworldly, that are complex, interchangeable, and not graspable by so-called rational (or visible) means’. Susan Napier shows that the traditional arts of Japan, like Hokusai’s woodblock prints and manga but also theatre and dance, have always produced wonderful images of other-worldly characters, including ghosts, ogres, goblins and demons, that are at once grotesque and uncannily beautiful. Drawing on aspects of Shintoism and Buddhism, this animist sensibility must not be understood as a timeless component of a stable and homogenous Japanese culture but as an evolving aesthetic, investing objects – including consumer items – with human, non-human and spiritual life in a way that re-enchants the lived world. Quite the opposite of Weber’s idea of the disenchantment accompanying capitalism.

In this world, familiar forms break down and recombine using human, machine and organic parts, and can thus be reassembled into new hybridities and possibilities. The attraction is a world of polymorphous perversity, or more prosaically a set of tensions and possibilities between the fantastic and the real, the foreign and the familiar, the strange and the everyday. As Allison says, it is a fantasy world but one that people also want to inhabit, 23

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to become fluent in and to be at home in. It is a world where the boundaries between play and non-play, work and leisure, the actual and the virtual are pleasurably blurred. But of crucial significance is the fact that for fans, and particularly for those young enough to have been entirely or largely brought up in the time of Google, ‘worldliness’ and knowledge of things beyond their own domain, difference is a desirable quality. More than that even, it is ‘cool’! The engagement with cultural difference provides its own satisfactions, and not least because it is productive of new relays of affect and intensity.

Fans get together in many ways, on-line and off, but in the United States the anime and manga conventions are huge affairs which last for several days, during which time many participants can be in costume as one or more characters. These occasions also involve Japanese food, tea ceremonies, exhibitions of martial arts and swordsmanship, and language lessons. Guest speakers include academics, industry people, voice actors, manga writers, and artists and musicians. All this activity is combined with the opportunity to buy the most recent anime and manga paraphernalia, to gossip, network and hang out. Many participants at these conventions are actively interested in Japanese culture, and speak and/or read Japanese. As one would expect, fans have a wide variety of ideas about, interests in and experiences of Japan, but many insist that their interest in anime led them to an interest in Japan and Japanese culture. I suggest that we cannot make much progress with our analysis if we just dismiss these people as playing games or see them as deluded or as geeks with reality problems. We need to proceed from the fact that their interest in Japan is genuine, but that their relation to Japan and things Japanese is an imaginary one – as indeed are all forms of identification.

Modern media and information technologies are not only a key component of the manner in which life is constituted in this interpretive community, but they are the platform that makes this world possible, and the new forms of distributed global sociality on which it is based. In one sense modern media and information technologies are no different from other forms of technology which may also involve multiple media and multiple forms of mediation, just as in African initiation rituals. They are certainly no different in consequence of their virtuality, or as a corollary to the fact that they allow new combinations and relationships to exist between the human and the non-human. Human culture understood not just as relations between people, but as the relations between persons and things, the human and the non-human across space and time, has always been virtual. Seen from this perspective, the virtual worlds enabled by modern information technologies are just another means of enhancing a very familiar and well-worn set of cultural capacities.

It is easy to dismiss people whose marriages break up because they were having an affair in an online game, or those who gather in Tokyo’s parks to re-enact scenes from a film, or adults who dress up as cartoon figures and go to three-day conventions to discuss imaginary worlds, as individuals who do not know the boundaries between the virtual 24

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and the actual. But contemporary information technologies do not work just because they allow people to be escapist or to confuse the relationship between the virtual and the actual, although they may well do so for some individuals. They work because of the satisfaction that arises in the tracking back and forth between the virtual and the actual, the way that the tension between the virtual and the actual creates spaces for our hopes and desires. What is so extraordinarily compelling about the virtual worlds proffered by modern information technologies is the way that people are using them to bind themselves to new interpretive communities, working out new ways of seeing and doing, innovative means of relating embodied experience to what cannot be perceived directly by the senses, forging new forms of social relations, creating new possibilities for the emergence of the social through the recombination of the human and the non-human. Through the integration and intensification of affect, and the new distributed forms of sociality they make possible, they are allowing individuals and groups to rework the virtuality which has always characterised being human. They are, in short, allowing us to develop new cultural ontologies, new ways of being humanly cultural.

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Tower Wing and Jane Catherine Gamble This summer saw the penultimate phase of the work to restore and improve Tower Wing.

That it, together with Chapel, Chapel Wing, Cloisters and Hall, was built at all was due to an unexpected benefaction from someone then quite unknown to the College. Here Dr Susan Bain (Stanley 1961), who has been researching the Gamble papers, outlines the life and contribution to Girton of a very independent woman.

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bolt from the blue, albeit a most welcome one. Jane Gamble, a Londoner, had no obvious connection with Girton, having been neither a student, nor related to Isabella Gamble, nor to any other Girtonian. No wonder there was speculation as to who this benefactress might be, both in the Girton Review of December 1885, and doubtless by the Executive Committee also, especially when they learned the extent of her bequest – about £19,000. Jane was unknown at Girton, but the decisive wording of her will, drawn up in 1882, indicates that the College, and its aims, impressed her: ‘the residue of my estate to Girton College, as an endowment for its educational purposes.’ In fact ‘the residue’ comprised roughly two-thirds of her entire estate.

Emily Davies saw her hopes of College enlargement within reach. She set off to Portland Place to meet Caroline Nutt, Jane’s companion for the previous ten years, who offered help with sorting the household effects. One can imagine that Miss Davies’s quiet composure may have been shaken on coming face-to-face with Jane’s extensive and sumptuous wardrobe – quantities of fans, furs, evening cloaks and gowns are listed. The lace and jewellery alone, sold separately the following year, raised nearly £4,000. A large quantity of books, many finely bound, some silver, furniture, and notable items of sculpture were chosen and transferred to Girton, the remainder sold. Two of Jane’s relatives had already applied to the College, via the solicitors, for family portraits, and an 1838 watercolour of Jane was lent to a cousin, reverting to Girton on his death. This, her only known portrait, shows a girl with long ringlets and a knowing smile, her hands and chin resting on the neck of a guitar. It is in stark contrast to the formal Victorian portraits of other College benefactors. Sadly, there is no likeness of her in later life; but it would seem from her history (supplied by her cousin’s family) that she became a somewhat grand but reclusive figure. ‘She lived in a certain amount of oldfashioned state, having a footman standing at the back of her carriage when she drove out.’ The formal wording of the inscription in the Lodge implies a grande dame, as does her splendid endowment.

A brief account of Jane’s life appeared in Barbara Stephen’s Girton College (1933). Born c.1810, of American parentage, she was sent to London at a young age after her mother’s early death and her father’s re-marriage, and was adopted by an aunt and uncle who had one son, an invalid. After their deaths, and by then very wealthy, she was pursued across Europe in 1851 by an American fortune-hunter (‘Not without encouragement’ as Muriel Bradbrook noted drily). This adventure ended in Genoa, when her suitor attempted to extract a promise of marriage at gunpoint; he was arrested, tried and imprisoned, and on his release published, in the States, his account of this debacle. It was assumed that this episode was the spur that led to Jane’s ‘marked distrust of men’. The other beneficiaries of her will were all women, and these legacies ‘were free from marital control’ – the Married Women’s Property Acts of 1870 and 1882 according with her own principles. She set up a generous trust for Caroline Nutt, bequeathed money to two women’s hospitals, and finally made the endowment to Girton College and its ‘educational purposes’.

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In an earlier publication, Emily Davies and Girton College (1927), Barbara Stephen wrote: Whatever the cause which may have inspired her to make this magnificent bequest, the results on the fortunes of Girton were great and immediate. A larger extension than anything hitherto undertaken was now carried out. An adjacent plot of 17 acres of land was bought, and rooms for 27 more students were built…There remained some acres unoccupied by buildings and this piece of grass land was laid out by Miss Welsh [the Mistress] as a miniature park surrounded by a walk, sheltered by trees and shrubs. It is to her care and skill, and to Miss Gamble’s gift, that this garden – one of the great attractions of Girton – owes its existence.

Progress on the new wing was rapid. Plans were published in the Girton Review of July 1886: ‘The chief feature will be the square tower over the archway – the pièce de résistance of the whole’; by March 1887 the new wing was nearing completion. That same year ‘Mr Waterhouse’s drawing was exhibited at the Royal Academy’ (presumably the one which shows Girtonians admiring the panorama from the top of the tower), which ‘will have made the present aspect of the College familiar to many of our readers’ (December 1887).

The next year Lady Stanley presented a new bookplate to the College, representing the tower and archway. Within just three years Jane’s legacy had borne fruit, and, as we shall see, not in buildings alone.

In 1935 an event occurred which showed Jane to have been more than a wealthy benefactress. This was the dispatch to Girton of a trunk of personal papers, which her bank had held for 50 years. It contained many fascinating letters from her aunt and uncle’s circle, and various precious mementoes; but also the manuscripts, and in some cases proofs, of more than 20 plays that she had written – five-act historical dramas, many featuring tragic or heroic women. Sixteen of these were published, anonymously, between 1880 and 1884, and had come to Girton Library as part of her bequest, the material in the trunk confirming her authorship.

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that decade. Her literary work included translations (Goethe, Hugo, Agostino, de Staël), and anthologies of her favourite writers – English, French, German and Italian. Most revealing of all, her journal, a 329-page manuscript describing the social life in her uncle’s home; her own literary pursuits; and lively, detailed accounts of her travels in Europe, especially Italy, undertaken regularly between 1850 and 1870, though the Genoa episode is not included. The journal records not only her life, but also her opinions. It transpires that, though fond of her aunt and uncle, and enjoying a full and happy life with them in London, she harboured an intense grievance against her father for her ‘banishment’ and a passionate hatred of stepmothers in general. ‘A second wife can only be looked on as a legalised mistress…my wrongs from this woman are written in characters of fire on my memory.’

Her trenchant feminism seems to place her somewhere between Mary Wollstonecraft and Marilyn French, as extracts indicate: ‘Selfishness and vanity are the two dominant passions of men…Flatter a man, fool him to the top of his bent and he will lie down and be trampled on – ruffle the said vanity and he will put a pistol to your breast.’ ‘Men make women slaves and then expect heroic virtues from them.’ ‘Men keep all the pleasant vices for themselves, and when a woman deviates from the line they are pleased to allot her, they exclaim “Frailty, thy name is woman.”’ ‘Men are so fond of asserting their intellectual superiority to women, that it would seem as if they tried to convince themselves of the truth of what they say.’

‘The legislation of men relative to women is infamous in every shape…worthy of themselves in fact.’ So, behind a conventional and formal demeanour, Jane was a woman of strong, even fierce, opinions, and clearly she spent time pondering women’s rights (and wrongs).

She would have heartily approved of a paragraph on page 1 of the Illustrated London News of June 20, 1885, noting the success of Girton and Newnham students in the Mathematical Tripos: ‘The day may come when “senior wrangler” will be virtually assigned to a candidate in petticoats, and Man will begin, with shame, to take a lower seat.’

It is fitting, given Jane’s views and her own literary achievements and knowledge (in spite of her strictures on men she had a number of male friends and correspondents with whom she discussed favourite books and authors), that not all of the money was spent on buildings, but part used to fund a prize in her memory. The Gamble prize, first awarded in 1888, was originally for research by certificated (graduate) students, the winner receiving books and a gold medal. Today, Gamble prizes are given for undergraduate achievement, six being awarded last year. The Minutes of the Executive Committee show that it was Caroline Lubbock (née Herschel) who proposed the Gamble prize, and it was agreed at the meeting on November 20, 1885, the last occasion that she was present. The youngest child of Sir John Herschel, Caroline attended lectures at University College London, before studying at Girton (1874–77), and becoming resident lecturer in Natural Science and Maths from 1878 to 1881.

That year she married and left Cambridge, but remained on the Executive Committee. As it happens, Jane and her family had met Herschel in 1828, when he invited them to visit Slough to view the stars through his giant telescope – an event recorded in her journal: ‘I saw as I have never seen since’ and confirmed by two letters from him among her papers. So the Gamble prize came into being through someone whose father had met Jane almost sixty years earlier.

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Climate Change in the Jurassic Dr David Kemp has been the Sarah Woodhead Fellow in Earth Sciences since August 2008.

His research at Cambridge focuses on using geochemical measurements to elucidate the nature of ancient climate change events, and how these events can provide key insights into the inner workings of the Earth’s climate system. This text is an abbreviated version of a talk that he gave to the Fellows’ Research Seminar on 21 January 2009.

One of the most effective ways that we can understand how the Earth works is by studying how it has behaved in the past. Over the course of the Earth’s 4.5 billion year history, a number of events in geological time have been recognised that reveal evidence of severe and rapid climate change. Such events may be analogous to the changes in climate currently observable at the present day, and much can be learned from their study. Geologists and palaeoclimatologists know that these events occurred because they are commonly marked in the geological record by the mass extinction of large numbers of organisms. Perhaps more importantly, though, chemical changes in the sedimentary rocks and fossils deposited coevally with these major climatic upheavals have the potential to provide insights into the exact causes and consequences of these events.

The sedimentary rocks exposed in cliffs around the Yorkshire town of Whitby may not seem the most obvious place to start looking for evidence of an ancient climatic cataclysm, but 183 million years ago the sediments which eventually became these rocks bore witness to one of the most extreme climate change events of Earth history. Within these Jurassicaged cliffs, there is an 8-metre interval of strata with an unusual abundance of fossilised organic matter – a feature given away by the rocks’ dark colour and the oily smell they give 29

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off (in fact these rocks will burn if you heat them to a high enough temperature). Analysis of the isotopic composition of these rocks reveals that there is an unusual and sudden change in the ratio between the two main isotopes of carbon, 12C and 13C. This change has been interpreted to reflect a massive and sudden input of 12C to the oceans. There is also an important change in the chemistry of fossil belemnites, which were squid-like organisms that went extinct many millions of years later at the same time as the dinosaurs.

The balance between the two main isotopes of oxygen – 16O and 18O – in the CaCO3 shells of these belemnite fossils changes markedly at the same time as the increase in 12C. In the 1940s, the American physicist Harold Urey first realised that such changes in the isotopic balance of oxygen in fossil shells co-varied with the temperature of the water in which the shell precipitated. Following this principle, it has been suggested that the seawater of the Yorkshire rocks increased in temperature during the event by as much as 8°C. In 2005, my colleagues and I realised that to determine the causes of this event, we needed to define the precise course and chronology of the observed chemical changes.

We therefore took samples of rock for carbon-isotope analysis every 2.5 cm through the critical organic-matter-rich interval (see figure on page 29). Our data revealed that the shift to higher 12C concentrations in the rocks was not a smooth continuous trend but in fact comprised 3 or 4 abrupt shifts, which each took place over just a few cm of rock (see figure). This result came as a great surprise to us, but our data also revealed another secret: we noticed that changes in the carbon-isotopes, organic matter concentrations and CaCO3 shell abundance during the event were actually cyclic, with a wavelength of around 70 cm. Indeed, the timing of the abrupt shifts in carbon-isotopes themselves appeared to follow a regular pattern that matched cyclic changes in the other geochemical parameters measured (see figure on page 29). Clearly, some phenomenon was causing subtle cyclic oscillations in ocean chemistry. The answer to what could have caused this observation lies in outer space. The Earth’s orbit around the sun is not perfectly smooth, the degree of ellipticity and angle of Earth’s tilt, for instance, change through time. Importantly, these ‘wobbles’ in Earth’s orbit are regular, and thus cause small, cyclical changes in the Earth–Sun distance. In climatically sensitive rocks such as the Jurassic rocks in Yorkshire, these climate cycles will manifest themselves as cyclic changes in chemistry, and thus it was these ‘astronomical’ cycles that we had found in our data. Such cycles are actually a common phenomenon in the geological record, and are probably responsible for pacing the timing of the Ice Ages, which have recurred every 100,000 years or so over the last few million years. Critically, our knowledge of celestial mechanics means that we know the periods and climatic impacts of these cycles, and it is this knowledge which allowed us to suggest that each 70cm cycle recognised in our geochemical data represented a change in the angle of Earth’s tilt towards the sun, known as obliquity, with a period of ~36,000 years. Armed with this knowledge, we therefore knew that the duration of the abrupt shifts we had recognised in our carbon-isotope data were very short, just a few hundred years in duration. To a geologist, this is quick!

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are ice-like materials that contain 12C-enriched methane, and are found at the present day on the continental shelves and in permafrost regions. On their own, the slight changes in climate caused by the periodic changes in the Earth’s obliquity could not have caused this melting, but it is known that during the early part of the Jurassic prior to the deposition of the Yorkshire rocks global warming had probably already been started by CO­2 released from large-scale volcanism occurring in present-day South Africa. The consilience of these two factors may thus have been just enough to tip global temperatures over the threshold necessary to melt the hydrates at each obliquity maximum.

There is growing concern at the present day that methane locked up in the permafrost regions of Siberia and Arctic Canada could be released if global warming continues unabated. Thus it is through data like ours that climatologists are able to assess the impacts of such events. As in all good science, however, the hydrate-melting theory is not without its detractors! Other groups have suggested that the increase in 12C and accompanying temperature changes could have been caused by a sudden change in ocean circulation, or even as a result of magma being injected into ancient coal deposits, thereby releasing vast amounts of CO2. The controversy surrounding the exact causes of this remarkable event will no doubt continue for many years to come, and part of my work at Cambridge is to continue to study the event by looking at contemporaneous rocks exposed in other parts of the world. Ultimately, the aim will be to replicate the results obtained in Yorkshire from a succession of rocks deposited in another part of the world. Only then can the brevity and true nature of the carbon-isotope changes be confirmed.

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Dragonsblood Dr Spike Bucklow (RS 1996) is a chemist whose career has moved from devising the material from which the Spitting Image puppets were made to doctoral research at Girton into pigment and now the restoration of major works of art at the University’s Hamilton Kerr Institute. This article introduces his work at the Hamilton Kerr and then focuses on the lore surrounding dragonsblood, an early pigment, and the subject of one of the chapters in his recent book The Alchemy of Paint which fascinatingly explores contemporary understanding of this and other mediaeval sources of colour.

Over the past fifty years, the restoration of paintings has become increasingly informed by science. Paintings are now routinely examined with non-destructive methods like ultraviolet fluorescence, infra-red reflectography and X-radiography. Minute samples are also sometimes taken and investigated with scanning electron microscopes, chromatographic and spectroscopic methods.

The Hamilton Kerr Institute, a department of the Fitzwilliam Museum, has been at the forefront of such developments since it opened in 1976. The Institute teaches a three-year post-graduate course in painting conservation and restores paintings for the Fitzwilliam Museum and Cambridge Colleges as well as the Royal Collection, National Trust, English Heritage, other major collections and private clients.

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Over the last fifteen years, some of the most important pieces of the country’s medieval heritage have passed through the Institute’s studios for examination and treatment. As the Institute’s scientist, I was responsible for all scientific aspects of the work undertaken on the Thornham Parva Retable (England’s best preserved medieval altarpiece, painted in Thetford around 1330) and the Westminster Retable (England’s oldest surviving altarpiece, painted for the high altar of Westminster Abbey in about 1260). I also examined the Macclesfield Psalter (a recently re-discovered manuscript made in Norwich around 1330 and acquired by the Museum in 2005).

The Thornham Parva Retable after restoration by the Hamilton Kerr Institute

Conservators are responsible for the physical welfare of such masterpieces and the role of a conservation scientist is to approach artworks as physically assembled objects in order to understand the materials with which they were made and the ways in which these materials interact with each other and their environment. But prolonged exposure to medieval masterpieces made me all too aware that my modern scientific understanding of them was very different from the understanding of the artists who made them over seven hundred and fifty years ago.

Artists obviously understood their materials – if they had not mastered them, their work could not have endured for centuries. Medieval painters’ skills are evident in their surviving work, but they are not recorded explicitly. Most knowledge was handed down informally in the workshop through practical demonstration and participation, with apprentice following master. However, some traces of artists’ knowledge can be found in their manuals.

Numerous artists’ manuals circulated in thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Europe and manuscript copies would have been available to painters in Westminster, Norwich and even Thetford. These manuals drew heavily upon earlier manuals, such as third-century Alexandrian papyri, and also upon older chemical knowledge embedded in the works of Pliny, Theophrastus and others who themselves drew upon the ancient lore of Assyria and even further afield. Artists’ manuals describe the preparation and use of dyes, metals and pigments but their descriptions are not always straightforward.

A case in point is dragonsblood, a natural pigment described in manuals over two millennia. It was said to be the mixed coagulated blood of elephants and dragons that fought to the death in India. The dragon (a type of constrictor) suffocated the elephant, only to be crushed as it fell to the ground. Their blood soaked the ground, was transported up a tree and transformed into a resin that was collected for use in the arts. A piece of this resin (still wrapped in a leaf from the tree) can be found in the medicine cabinet 32

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assembled by Giovanni Francesco Vigani, the first professor of chemistry at Cambridge University, and now kept in Queens’ College. Since everyone knew that the material came from an Indian tree, one could ask why the story about elephants and dragons persisted.

The answer suggests that artists’ understanding of their materials was profound, even if couched in terms that are now obscure.

The clues necessary for unravelling the origins of dragonsblood are not however to be found in artists’ manuals – like all technical manuals, they assumed a certain base level of knowledge. Some of the clues come from bestiaries, a peculiarly English aid to meditation that blended zoological, theological and metaphysical details. Bestiaries tell us that dragons are the largest of all creatures, that they breed in hot places and have burning poison. Bestiaries also tell us that elephants are the largest of creatures, that they give birth in water and their burnt bones (ivory) repel evil. Dragons and elephants are always depicted in conflict.

Some of the details in bestiaries might seem contradictory – dragons and elephants cannot both be the largest creature, for example – but such apparent contradictions were resolved by reference to theological or metaphysical texts. Indeed, one of the main functions of bestiaries was to harmonise the Book of Nature with the scriptures. But much of the animal lore contained in bestiaries pre-dates the Bible, and some clues about dragonsblood are to be found outside the Christian tradition.

Appropriately for a far-fetched material, the far-fetched story of dragonsblood’s origins encapsulates some distant wisdom. And the story is clarified with reference to Jain and Buddhist mythology where one of the protagonists relates to the constant flux of the temporal world whilst the other relates to the eternal stillness of spiritual realities. In terms that are familiar today, the dragon represents yin and the elephant represents yang.

Not all pigment recipes in medieval artists’ manuals were practical instructions, some, including dragonsblood, were ‘thought experiments’.

The creation of an artists’ material from dragons and elephants (at the cost of their mutual destruction) is a graphic re-statement of the idea that all existence depends on two (themselves non-existent) principles. In the East those two principles were called yin and yang, but in the West, equivalent principles are found in hylomorphism, the classical idea that all things are made of some matter in some shape or form. Aristotelian hylomorphism was transmitted through the European alchemical tradition and, in the thirteenth century, it entered the mainstream Christian tradition through the works of St Thomas Aquinas.

Many artists’ manuals explicitly acknowledge materials ‘made by alchemy’ and painters in Norwich and Thetford might also have known Aquinas’ work thanks to their patrons’ Dominican connections with Cambridge. Painters’ outlandish stories about dragonsblood threw light on the whole of Creation, not just their own creations.

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Widowhood – Gender and Human Rights Margaret Owen (Baron 1950, Visiting Fellow Commoner 2001–02) is Director of the international charity Widows for Peace Through Democracy and she writes here of the worldwide crisis that she is witnessing.

Never before in history has the world witnessed such an explosion in the numbers of widows and wives of the ‘missing’. In today’s wars it is civilians who are the casualties and women and children who are the abandoned victims. A harrowing feature of current armed conflicts is the manner of ethnic cleansing: separate out and kill the men and boys, rape and sexually abuse the women and girls.

Although UN Security Council Resolution 1325 requires all those engaged in conflict resolution and peace building to ensure that women’s voices are heard in peace negotiations, their needs addressed and their crucial roles in reconstruction supported, women are still regarded as a ‘homogenous whole’ and so this huge and most vulnerable category of women – the widows – whose marital status in so many patriarchal societies renders them victims of particular discrimination and abuse remains mainly neglected, unheard and uncounted.

The rough estimates of their numbers are staggering. More than 80,000 widows in Kabul alone; over 50% of all women in Eastern Congo widowed; 3 million in Iraq and how many now among the Tamil women of Sri Lanka? Think of Sudan, Somalia, Rwanda, Burundi, and Angola. Rape and sexual slavery, and prostitution forced on many widows by extreme Afghan widows in a refugee camp poverty, have also made them vulnerable to HIV/AIDS. And widows are of all ages, from elderly grandmothers caring for orphans, to the young child-widows, who have barely reached puberty.

Harmful traditional practices further threaten widows’ very survival and that of their children. Lack of rights to inheritance, land and property ownership, and, in many ethnic groups, widows’ status as chattels to be ‘inherited’ by the dead husband’s male relative, lifethreatening mourning and burial rites, the stigma of widowhood as ‘social death’ in communities where they may be branded as witches – all these are now causing an unprecedented increase in suicide. ‘We are headless, homeless and helpless and have nowhere to hide’ one Afghan woman told me, pleading for real help from the international community.

The widowhood issue is one that affects the whole of society; it is not just a women’s issue. Neglected, it frustrates all other efforts to build a sustainable peace, for poverty and inequality breed conflict, violence, crime, and disease, and prevent reconstruction, reconciliation, the establishment of good governance and the Rule of Law. Millions of 34

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children either never go to school or are withdrawn from education because of their mothers’ widowhood and powerlessness. They become street children and easy targets for traffickers. In Afghanistan, some desperate widows are selling their daughters, unable to house and feed them, and for as little as $10. In Iraq, widows are at greater risk of abduction than married women. In Burundi and the Democratic Republic of Congo widows and their daughters are targeted for gang rape and sexual slavery.

The lack of reliable data on widows – the Iraqi Minister for Women in her resignation speech this February gave as one reason for her resignation the lack of adequate resources to ‘address the plight of a Republic of widows’ – is one of the major obstacles in getting the UN and governments, donors and other big international NGOs to concentrate their attention on this scandalously neglected issue in every country where conflicts are occurring.

The charity of which I am Director, Widows for Peace through Democracy (WPD), is the only NGO in the world representing these women at the UN. As the umbrella organisation for a number of widows’ associations in several conflict-afflicted countries, we have managed to raise a certain amount of awareness among international and UK decision-makers, promote best practice, initiate mapping and profiling projects and empower some widows’ groups by providing them with a Widows’ Charter for use in lobbying for law reforms.

It is now clear that this complex issue of gender and human rights is of such importance that it must be addressed at the highest level at the UN and can no longer remain simply a discussion point for a few NGOs. Therefore, we at WPD are now requesting the UN Secretary General to commission a special report on the situation of widows in conflict and post-conflict scenarios and also to consider Kurdish widows, ‘The Mothers of Peace’ appointing a Special Rapporteur to gather information about what governments are doing to highlight on their agendas the extreme importance of widowhood.

Such mapping and profiling is key to taking real grass-roots action in ensuring that widows are protected from discrimination and properly assisted to be economically independent, raise their children and play an equal part in post-conflict reconstruction.

These widows are crying out for their voices to be heard. Although this is an Annual Review text, written by a Girtonian for Girtonians, and not officially an appeal, I do hope that you will all disseminate the news of widows’ plight worldwide and, with the editor’s agreement, I do also ask you to support us as much as you can with your time and donations.

Margaret Owen (Telephone 02076039733. director.wpd@googlemail.com)

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Miscellany Girton’s New Graduates Salute the Mistress

Rebecca Sands

Customarily, as graduates emerge each year from the Senate House, newly transformed by the Vice-Chancellor’s Deputy – the Mistress – from the graduands they had been until a moment before, they rush to join family and friends on the lawn to enjoy their new status and begin their celebrations. This year instead, as this image shows, they all gathered on the edge of the lawn to demonstrate the affection and respect in which they held the Mistress by cheering her from the Senate House after her final appearance in the Vice Chancellors’ chair.

One of the special strengths of Marilyn Strathern’s Mistress-ship has been her empathy with and support for the student body, and it was clear that this was reciprocated and that she greatly appreciated their spontaneous and emotional gesture.

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of the fine portrait of her, commissioned by the College and painted by Ben. Both artist and subject gave brief introductions to the work, explaining that the sittings took place at Lady Hale’s home in Richmond, Yorkshire. She is sitting looking out into her garden, and that rabbit behind her is a reminder of the many rabbits that used to live on her lawn. On the wall is a glimpse of a portrait of her father and in the bottom right-hand corner a part representation of the coat of arms borne since she was elevated to the House of Lords. As the Mistress said on the occasion and writes in her letter, it is good to have the Visitor permanently with us.

Kate Perry – Archivist Emerita Kate Perry retired as College Archivist in June after 23 years spent bringing order to the thousands of papers and artefacts that make up what has become one of the richest collections in the world devoted entirely to women’s education, suffrage and achievement.

Most of us probably picture the work of an archivist as solitary and dusty. In the old makeshift archive where Kate worked for many years there was certainly dust enough but, as all readers and researchers will attest, her real skill has always been her preparation of material for each of her multitude of visitors and then the unfailing care and interest she has taken in them and their research. However busy the Archive and however full of readers, Kate seemed always willing to welcome intruders with a smile and immediate help even if in the midst of organising conservation or assembling yet another exhibition.

Many of those readers have, of course, become her friends and with a significant number she has collaborated in research – notably on the Oral History Project in which she and colleagues have patiently encouraged elderly and sometimes reluctant Girtonians to leave records of their extraordinary lives. Council has acknowledged the importance of this project, and of course the significant contribution that Kate has made to the College and its Archive, by electing her to life membership of the Senior Combination Room with the title of Archivist Emerita.

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her monument you have only to open any one of the very many books and papers that have been researched at Girton over the past 23 years. There you will be sure to find the most effusive appreciation of the assistance given by Kate.

HIH Princess Takamado writes on Netsuke HIH Princess Takamado of Japan (Tottori 1972) visited Cambridge in its 800th anniversary year at the invitation of the Vice-Chancellor Professor Alison Richard and attended the Darwin Festival. As Honorary President of BirdLife International, she visited their head office in Girton and participated in the launching of the Cambridge Conservation Initiative. She was also invited by the Mistress to attend the first of the two dinners held in College in July to celebrate the University’s Octocentenary, and this provided her with the rare opportunity to stay in College and to see many of the recent developments. At Girton she had read Oriental Studies for Part I of the Tripos and changed to Archaeology and Anthropology for Part II. During this time she saw in the British Museum examples of Japanese netsuke, an art form then entirely new to her. Fascinated, she purchased her first netsuke during a visit to Japan the following year. She and her late husband went on to become avid collectors, and their collection of nearly 1,000 pieces contains netsuke from the beginning of the eighteenth century to newly commissioned contemporary pieces. In recent years her extensive knowledge has led to her giving a series of lectures at the Osaka University of the Arts on netsuke, and publishing several books. One entitled Have Netsuke, Will Travel is a collection of photographs taken by Her Imperial Highness, placing netsuke in a variety of settings that, with her written text, extend their meaning. Netsuke are toggles used to suspend objects from the obi (belt), and thus originally utility items.

However, their exquisite craftsmanship of natural, mythological and literary subjects, combined with a distinctive witty twist, make them fascinating commentaries on the social background within which they were made.

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because the bequest specifies in some detail the manner in which the dinner is to ‘maintain a very high quality’. It also identifies the categories of distinguished historians in Cambridge and nationally who are to be be invited. This has meant in practice a feast held once in approximately every fifteen years. The coincidence of the accumulation of (almost) sufficient funds with the launch of the College’s campaign to establish new teaching Fellowships in History suggested that 2009 was a suitable year for a Power Feast, and one was duly held on 1 May 2009.

The principal speaker was Professor Pat Thane, Leverhulme Professor of Contemporary British History, Director of the Centre for Contemporary History at the Institute of Historical Research in London, and VicePresident of the Royal Historical Society. She spoke about how far the initial aims of Girton’s founders to improve opportunities for women had been realised A salt from the College Power silver generally in the United Kingdom during the last 140 years, and also about the ways in which Girton and its unique spirit remain at the forefront of progress in this field.

The Mistress outlined also some new strategies for supporting and building up History teaching in the College.

Launch of the First Volume of The Girton Project Journal In my Annual Report I mention the publication of the first volume of The Girton Project Journal, which contains the reports on the various surveys of Girtonians’ experiences in both World Wars that had been carried out by College, and also an analysis of the effect of the Second World War on the subsequent lives of Girtonians. The response to Barbara Megson’s and Hilary Goy’s request for reminiscences of the Second World War had been so enthusiastic and interesting that the Roll Committee decided that College should mark the publication of The Journal on 25 April 2009 with a celebratory lunch to which all those originally invited to contribute their memories were invited. 85 people attended the launch, of whom 44 were Old Girtonians.

After drinks in the Stanley Library, lunch was served in the Old Hall, followed by short presentations on the contents of the various reports. After an introduction by the Mistress, Deryn Watson summarised her reanalysis of the two surveys of Girtonians’ involvement in World War I, and Barbara Megson reported on the 39

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survey carried out jointly with Hilary Goy on the activities of Girtonians during and after World War II and the effects of the War on their subsequent lives. After the formal presentations there was a lively question-and-answer session in which it became clear that many further issues remained to be addressed; further reports on the surveys are already in preparation for subsequent issues of The Girton Project Journal. Many of the contributors had brought members of their families with them, who also greatly enjoyed hearing (sometimes for the first time) of these earlier experiences.

On 7 July 2009, the Cambridge News included a two-page spread reporting on the publication of the report, including numerous quotes from the reminiscences and many pictures of Girtonians at work in and around College during the two War periods. Since publication, sales of The Journal have been steady (available from the Porters’ Lodge at £7.00 plus £1.00 for postage).

The Roll Committee would like to thank the College Council for providing a grant from the Publications Fund to enable the first volume of The Girton Project Journal to be published, the Archivist, Kate Perry, for help with the illustrations and access to material on these two periods, and also Stephanie Trott in the Mistress’s Office for her care and skill in preparing the text for publication.

Eileen Rubery

Friends for the Lawrence Room – Eyes and Excavations The Lawrence Room has been more visited than ever this year, and from October 2009 it will be open regularly for one afternoon each week, thanks to a group of volunteers from the Local Girton Association who have agreed to commit to a rota. For details of the timing of these openings please see: http://www.girton.cam.ac.uk/about/lawrence-room/ or telephone the Porters’ Lodge. Of course visits at other times are still possible by prior arrangement with a member of the Lawrence Room Committee.

To allow greater involvement in the Room’s development we have set up a dedicated support group: The Friends of the Lawrence Room. We hope that all those interested in the development of our collections will wish to continue their involvement in this project. Further details can be found in the Roll section of the Review and on the green pages at the back.

Some of the Mesopotamian eye idols given by Dr Joan Oates

Our holdings have recently been enriched by the generous donation from Dr Joan Oates of an outstanding group of seventeen early Mesopotamian eye idols from Tel Brak where she and her late husband David dug over very many years. Dating from early in the fourth millennium bc, these must be strong contenders for the title of the oldest artefacts in the Lawrence Room. Certainly they are among its most seductive.

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Another promising development has been the interest shown by members of the Cambridge Archaeological Unit (CAU) and the County Archaeologists in our Roman and Anglo-Saxon holdings from the College site.

In the summer of 2009 CAU carried out a vast exploratory dig over the total area of the University Farm land between the College and the M11, the site on to which the University plans to expand in future years. This dig has indicated a substantial Roman settlement of high status and there have been finds of glass and pottery closely related to some of those from the College cemetery site. The CAU will return next summer to undertake more detailed work but it was interesting to learn that the Girton site and the Lawrence Room holdings have been important in supporting many applications for permission and funding for local archaeological work.

Work is progressing well on the full illustrated e-catalogue of our holdings, and A section of the 14km of archaeological trenches on the University Farm site opposite the College we expect that during the year 2009–10 it will be complete and posted on the web for all to consult. Very many individuals within and beyond the University have worked and given advice on the catalogue and on many other aspects of the collection and we are extremely grateful to them all, but the Committee needs here to express some additional and very special thanks. Dr Anne Rogerson has been the most astonishingly able and efficient Secretary to the Committee, guiding us through the implementation of all that has happened in the past three years.

We shall miss her wise counsel and tactful prompting more than we care to admit but we wish her well in the relative peace of her lectureship in Classics in Sydney University.

Dorothy Thompson and Peter Sparks

‘Algaetecture’ Takes the Prize Karuga Koinange (2008) is a graduate student studying for an MPhil in the Department of Architecture. He was required for his course to design a 70 m2 house entirely dependent on the sun for all its energy. The resulting design by Karuga and two colleagues (jointly styling themselves ‘Algaetecture’) built on the potential of the symbiotic realtionship between the environmental needs of algae and of humans. The proposal was presented at the Third International Council for Research and Innovation in Building and Construction, International Conference on Smart and Sustainable Built Environments held in Delft in June 2009 where it was awarded first prize. Here Karuga outlines the basis of their idea.

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Under certain conditions – for example the absence of sulphur – algae can switch from the production of oxygen by photosynthesis to the production of hydrogen. To capture this hydrogen and subsequently use it in conjunction with a fuel cell opens up the potential for totally CO2-free energy consumption. Eukaryotic organisms, such as algae, generally thrive on exposure to high levels of light, also suitable for a housing environment.

However, the capture of gaseous hydrogen produced by the algae necessitates its housing in some form of sealed, transparent tank. To allow the algae to function efficiently, and to reduce artificial lighting, they need as much sunlight as possible without risking overexposure. Therefore, through employing ‘algae tubes’ and carefully calculating their shading and orientation to the sun, direct solar heat gain can be allowed only during winter months and on spring and autumn mornings and evenings.

A section through the winning design for an algae-powered house

As the house section illustrates, the shallow pool of water that lies in front of the façade of algae tubes performs two fundamental functions. Firstly, since the amount of light reflected increases exponentially as the angle to the surface decreases, the pool reflects low-angle sun up to the algae tubes, whilst absorbing the high-energy, midday summer sun. Secondly, water absorbs up to a hundred times more energy from infra-red light than from visible light. As heat energy is mostly transferred by the infra-red, the water absorbs much of the heat from direct sunlight before reflecting it up to the algae. Algae and people may not present themselves as obvious bedfellows, but this project shows that the use of algae as an energy generator within a house is not only feasible, but that cohabitation can result in a self-sustainable symbiotic system which opens up many exciting possibilities for ‘green living’. The Algaetecture trio believe that algae technologies can play a significant role in the future of our built environment.

India: Essays and Aspirations In the Autumn of 2008 Girton took part in a venture engaging the aspirations of secondary school children in Delhi. The Deputy Chairman of The Indian School, Mrs Nayana Goradia (Daftaray 1962), with the support of its Chairman and Director, and of her daughter Brinda Goradia Shroff (Goradia 1988), helped to initiate a special essaywriting competition. Subjects for the essays were deliberately chosen from outside the 42

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normal curriculum in order to encourage the essayists to think, research, and express themselves creatively.

The competition was open to all school children in Delhi and the National Capital Region, and thirty-four schools from across the region responded swiftly to the opportunity. The prizes, provided by The Indian School, were cash amounts significant enough to help with school fees. Judging took place in two stages. The first panel of judges was drawn from a cross-section of principals and teachers from Delhi’s colleges and schools including Dr Christel Devadawson (1989). Essays from the finalists were then judged in Cambridge by a panel drawn from academic and non-academic, present and former, members of Girton College. I visited Delhi and presented the prizes, in the presence of the Lt Governor of Delhi. The 15–17 year old winners afterwards said how interesting and challenging it had been to work for the essays – quite unlike their usual preparations for exams.

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Research Fellows’ Evenings The 2008–2009 Research Talks were impressively varied and each managed to both enlighten and entertain audiences most of whom were well outside their areas of expertise.

It is the cross-disciplinary nature of these evenings that makes them so important for us all. All the talks were very well attended which demonstrates the importance Fellows now attach to them. As usual most of this year’s speakers were junior or senior Research Fellows of Girton working in a broad range of diverse fields both in science and the humanities. The convivial informality of the SCR and the help the organizer received from both Fellows and staff made the evenings run very smoothly once, of course, the ritual electronic wrestling with the Power-Point projector had been completed.

The series got off to a particularly strong start in the Michaelmas Term when Dr Danielle Van den Heuvel, Ottilie Hancock Research Fellow in Modern Economic History, spoke about the role of women merchants in early modern Europe; her talk was entitled ‘Women, institutions and the rise of the consumer society in the Dutch Republic’.

Dr Stephen Robertson, Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research Cambridge and Non-Stipendiary Fellow, gave the third in his series on the history of computing, ‘Before Computers’, focusing this time on the development of the keyboard. It was a fascinatingly sharp-eyed exploration of something with which we all think we are extremely familiar.

At the first talk of the Lent Term the speaker was Dr David Kemp, Sarah Woodhead Research Fellow in Earth Sciences. He spoke on ‘Methane release and mass extinction in the Jurassic’, giving his talk the provocatively topical sub-title of ‘Climate change in the Jurassic’.

David managed to put across some complex science with a clarity and wit that rendered it (almost) totally accessible to a room full of mostly non-scientists. Part of his text appears earlier in this Review. It was very good to have with us on this occasion Dr Ruth Whaley, a distinguished alumna and member of the board of ‘Cambridge in America’.

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with a talk entitled ‘Natural convection and chemical reaction: explosions, volcanoes and saving the planet (possibly)’. We had a picture of the unnerving life of a volcanologist and again some difficult science was skilfully clarified, leading to much discussion over dinner.

Dr Laura McMahon, Rosamund Chambers Teaching and Research Fellow in French, brought the Fellows in the arts back to more familiar ground with her ‘In Touch: JeanLuc Nancy and Clair Denis’. This was dedicated to the ongoing dialogue between contemporary French philosophers and filmmakers, focusing on the exploration of the themes of the body, skin, sight and identity. This opened the audience’s eyes to entirely new and incisive ways of looking at film. She was followed in the Easter Term by Dr Alderik Blom, Katharine Jex-Blake Research Fellow in Celtic Studies, who took us into an unfamiliar linguistic world with his ‘The Welsh glosses in the Vocabularium Cornicum: a window on language attitudes in the early thirteenth century?’ His talk had been intended as the conclusion to the year’s programme but we had an unexpected but tasty encore. At the very end of the Easter Term Dr Manpreet Janeja, Eugénie Strong Research Fellow in Social Anthropology, dedicated an evening to the understanding and use of food in British and Indian cultures. Both the Mistress and Vice-Mistress were present to hear her talk on ’What’s cooking today? Culinary collaborations in India, Bangladesh and Britain’. This talk had appropriately to be held in the room known as Old Kitchens because the SCR had already closed for the start of building work. Manpreet highlighted a handful of innovative case studies from her research, offering a nuanced perspective on the ongoing debates in both social anthropology and cultural studies, and she prompted many questions.

I should like to thank all our speakers, and also all those Fellows and members of staff, particularly the catering staff, whose varied contributions made for such particularly enjoyable Wednesday evenings. I took great pleasure in arranging these events. Next year, the series will be hosted by Dr Laura McMahon, and I very much look forward to being among the audience.

Anna Andreeva, Margaret Smith Fellow in Japanese Religions

Where have all the Black Squirrels Gone?

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some black squirrel research (see below) – and a black-squirrel costume appeared as the fancy-dress of choice. All this led the Editor to plan a Review article and to circulate the entire College asking for photographs. None was forthcoming. Black squirrels are clearly very publicity-shy, for they appear immediately to have left the College grounds. There have been no reported sightings since, but the research suggests that they may soon be back, as Dr Randall writes: The first wild black squirrel was sighted in 1912 outside Letchworth in Hertfordshire and they have since been spreading throughout the area. Scientists studying the growing population have found that black squirrels are in fact a sub-group descended from one or more that escaped from a menagerie of exotic animals touring East Anglia more than a hundred years ago. The latest estimates show there could be as many as 25,000 in the East of England. Dr Alison Thomas, Professor of Life Sciences at Anglia Ruskin University, has found that their DNA is identical to that of the black squirrels found in the US, so our black squirrels are almost certainly imported. The gene that causes the black colouration may also be linked to higher testosterone levels – and there is anecdotal evidence that the black squirrels are more aggressive and successful as mates so they could become dominant throughout the Eastern counties within the next twenty years.

We were hoping that they would soon be back to perform their circus-turns outside the SCR window; then, on the day before the Review went to press, the editor was told that a group had been sighted in the area of Mare’s Run on the North side of College – too late to displace Becca Ward’s fancy-dress photograph with the real thing, but let us hope they have now taken up permanent residence.

New Visitors’ Entrance to College Most visitors to the College park in the Mare’s Run car park and, despite extensive and expensive signs, have later been found wandering, lost, in Woodlands Wing or beyond the Kitchens. Now the old Woodlands entrance has been superseded by a much clearer route from the Old Kitchens Door. This route is reached in a direct line from the car park, has cloakroom facilities, allows the staffing of an additional reception desk in the entrance when needed for larger groups, and brings the visitor directly to the centre of the College in Cloisters Corridor at the point between Hall and Eliza Baker Court. The route has been re-lit and lined with large black and white photographs from the early years of the College: the first students, sports groups, the student fire brigade, the old science laboratories and an early performance of Tennyson’s The Princess.

Consequently all our guests are exposed immediately to a subliminal history of the early years of the College.

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Fire Safety – Changing Attitudes During paint-stripping for this year’s phase of the work to Tower Wing a fire notice was revealed that probably dates from the 1950s; certainly from a time when either fires spread more slowly or a certain decorum was expected even in the face of danger. Current notices are blunt: ‘close windows and doors and leave the building immediately’. On the old notice: ‘a resident discovering a fire will immediately give the alarm by sounding the Whistle [sic]...inform the Porter without delay either by messenger or by telephone...put on a dressing gown and shoes, pull back the bedclothes on the bed...ensure that no-one is left sleeping in her room...make sure they are acquainted with the various exits.’

A Hand-Made Girton Shield Many homes and workspaces in Galle, Sri Lanka, were destroyed or damaged by the tsunami of 26 December 2004. Sri Lankan families, especially in rural areas, lost close relatives and their every means of livelihood. One group working to alleviate this suffering and forge opportunities in this area is the Alsoma Foundation. They fund projects for employment and conservation, particularly those focused on women. They help to provide training and employment that would not otherwise be available within easy reach of rural homes. At the suggestion of Barbara Isaac (1955) and Nirmala de Mel (1959) Girton has become involved with two of the workshops and the College shield brooch shown here is the result. It is handcrafted from solid silver and enclosed in a simple cotton bag. The newly trained craftswomen, who make the Girton shields, work the silver in a traditional Galle house which has been restored since the tsunami, using funds from the Agromart Foundation, established in 1989

by Nirmala to give women and their families access to clean water and sanitation.

The drawstring bag is made by a woman entrepreneur who runs her workshop nearby.

The brooch and bag shown here have been photographed against a 1 cm grid to give an idea of the scale. Of course it is in the nature of such craftwork that each will be very slightly different. The brooches are available for purchase from the College. Details are on the green merchandise page at the back of the Review.

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The Mistress’s Office and Stanley Library wing which was refurbished in 2009 as part of the Tower Wing works

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A photograph of some of the cast from a dramatisation of Tennyson’s poem The Princess given in College on 21 February 1891. The poem, first published in 1847, deals with women’s rights and, in particular, with women’s education. One main character, Lilia, says early on in the poem, ‘...Oh, I wish That I were some great Princess, I would build Far off from men a college like to man’s, And I would teach them all that men are taught, We are twice as quick.’

This image is one of those from the early years of the College that have been chosen for the walls of the new visitors’ entrance from the Mare’s Run carpark.

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Awards and Distinctions Abrahams, P H (F 1993) awarded First Prize (Basic and Clinical Sciences) by the British Medical Association (BMA) for McMinn Clinical Atlas of Human Anatomy with J H Boon and J D Spratt Ahmed, A (F) awarded a Leverhulme Trust Fellowship for 2009–10 Beazley, K R (2000) has been awarded the 2009 Development Geographies Speciality Group Paper Award by the Association of American Geographers for a paper entitled ‘Who Directs the Destinies of the Displaced? Interrogating Notions of the Powerless Oustee’ Chandler, Lady L B (Buxton 1951) appointed OBE in the Birthday Honours List for services to the voluntary sector Coleman, K (MacKenzie 1967) appointed MBE in the New Year Honours List for services to glass engraving Colley, L J (1975) appointed CBE in the New Year Honours List for services to Historical Studies Costeloe, K L (1966) (Mrs Burgess) appointed CBE in the New Year Honours List for services to health care for children Cullis, C A T S (1972) appointed MBE in the New Year Honours List for services to the conservation of ecclesiastical heritage Donald, A M (Griffith 1971) received the 2009 L’Oréal UNESCO Women in Science Award Dowling, A P (1970) was elected a Foreign Associate of the US National Academy of Engineering Ennis, M W (F 1989) awarded a 2009 Cambridge University Pilkington Prize for excellence in teaching Gill, C E (1997) received the ‘Overall Excellence Award 2008’ from UK Oil and Gas Harris, A M I (Collis 1957) appointed MBE in the Birthday Honours List for services to the community in Stourbridge, West Midlands Hillenbrand, C (Jordan 1962) appointed OBE in the New Year Honours List for services to higher education Miller, E J (Wilson 1941) inducted into the Illinois State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Hall of Fame on 28 March 2009 Miller, P D (1985) awarded the 2008 Orion Literary Agent of the Year Award at the British Book Awards in May 2008 Moores, Professor P M (North 1969) appointed OBE in the Birthday Honours List for services to languages O’Keeffe, A G (2008) awarded the Gutierrez Toscano Prize in Applied Statistics for 2008 for the best performance in the MSc in Applied Statistics at Oxford University Ong, J (2002) (F) given the Best Paper Award by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and the International Gas Turbine Institute Turbomachinery Committee at the ASME Turbo Expo 2008 49

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Owers, A E (Spark 1965) appointed DBE in the New Year Honours List for services to the criminal justice system Paulson-Ellis C M (Brunyate 1958) awarded a 2009 Cambridgeshire Local History Award for her book The Cambridge Association for the Care of Girls. Social work with girls and young women in Cambridge 1883–1954 Randall, R E (F 1977) elected Fellow of the Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management, June 2009 Riley, J M (F 1975) awarded a 2009 Cambridge University Pilkington Prize for excellence in teaching Ryan, U H (Scully 1963) awarded an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Science (Hon DSc)

by Bristol University Strathern, A M (Evans 1960) awarded an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Philosophy by the University of Papua New Guinea, April 2009, and an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Social Science by the University of Belfast, July 2009 Stevens, M (RF 2006) awarded a five-year Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council Fellowship Vaizey, M A (Stansky 1959) appointed CBE in the New Year Honours List for services to the arts Van den Heuvel, D A W G (RF 2008) awarded the PhD Thesis Prize by the International Economic History Association at the XVth World Economic History Congress.

Wilson, S D (Waller 1961) appointed MBE in the New Year Honours List for services to education and the community of Kingston-upon-Hull

Further Academic and Professional Qualifications Miller, K R (Ozanne 1988), Member of the Royal College of General Practitioners (MRCGP), 2007 Smith, H K (Chaplin 1970), PhD in Operational Research, University of Southampton, June 2008 Trusted, M H (1974), PhD under special regulations, History of Art, University of Cambridge, 2008

Cambridge University Further Degrees and Awards MB: H H Abdulkarim, T J T Mitchell PhD: R Apps, M A Arroyo-Kalin, B W Balmforth, A Banerjee, A P Bellini, A K Bennett, F J Dolby, M Dries, A Feduzi, Y Hong, G Kaur, A M McMinn, D M Marshall, J Oberoi, M C F Opel, A E Rowe, S Rutherford, C-B Schoenlieb, E Tosetti, K N Trapp, M H Trusted, E K Ttofi, J Vella, D E Vincent, S E Walker MPhil: A A Aghapour, B Armanazi, M A Arroyo-Kalin, S Bhattacharjee, E M Chemsi, P Constantinou, A R Crawford, F J Dolby, C R Falter, M Frey, N J Froggett, C Gajperia, A Hall, D Ham, A C Handley, D He, B Hedde, N A Hoffman,

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Y-C B Hsieh, K D Jurn, C H Kang, W Kim, M Krupa, T-H Lai, T P G Lamarque, W-T Lee, Z Lin, E M G Maier, J P Manns, T Mitomi, D E Mooney, T C Nelms, B M Ovington, N A F Owen, J M Park, A Price, L Sailo, S Saleh, S K Siem, D D Uberoi, L Vukotic, P J Wainwright, J Xia,Y Zheng, S Zhu MBA: L A Cedillo, C L S Ngan, P Olivari, S Pandey, F PĂŠrez CutiĂąo, J V Rindone MSt: A C Reed

University Prizes The P W Brian Award, 2008: R Wilebore Nigel W Brown Music Prize: M S Borowiak The Cambridge Association of Architects Prize: S A Wilkins The Central Electricity Generating Board Prize for Materials Science and Metallurgy: G M I Mecklenburg The Clifford Chance Prize for European Union Law: S M Mak The Sir Alan Cottrell Prize in Materials Science and Metallurgy: C Vie The William Vaughan Lewis Prize: C L Batchelor, L P Burns David Richards Travel Scholarships: O Harris, E Hayward, G Kwong John Stewart of Rannoch Scholarship, 2008: M J Thomas The Craig Taylor Prize: M J Hasler Henry Arthur Thomas Travel Exhibitions, 2008: V Foster, M Thomas The Donald Wort Prize: M S Borowiak

College Awards Graduate Scholarships Graduate Research Scholarship: A B Roman; Sidney and Marguerite Cody Travelling Studentship: N Vibla; Ida and Isidore Cohen: A P Hunsaker; M M Dunlop: A J V Renton; Pfeiffer: E Landerer, J P McIntyre; Maria Luisa de Sanchez: F Paddeu; Stribling Award: E Landerer, M Thomas, W Simonson Postgraduate Scholarships Edith Lydia Johns: E S Addison; M T Meyer: D T J Feist, A Pokrovskiy, M K Roeser Postgraduate Prizes for Mathematics Gertrude Mather Jackson: D T Feist, A Pokrovskiy, M K Roeser Postgraduate Prizes for Veterinary Medicine Edith Neal: E S Addison Thomas and Elizabeth Walton: E S Addison

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Undergraduate Scholarships Sir Arthur Arnold: M J Hasler, B Y Travers, J Nguyen, E C Rowett; Barbara Bodichon: C L Byrne, R L Cawley, X N Koh, M P Levenston, L J Miller, J N More, R Pavesi, B Ramsay, G D Rochez, J Shortt Butler, C D Spicer, M R Thompson; John Bowyer Buckley: A M Anderson, J J Clark, G C Ellse, E K Glover, H F Holmes, C M Rogerson, M Vincent; Rosalind, Lady Carlisle: A C Hall, D Kraljic, G M I Mecklenburg, B Metcalf, C M Wymant; Emily Davies: C L Batchelor, M A Blake, A J Brett, P T B Brett, D Daniel, S J Denny, J A Edwards, M J Hasler, E K James, A E Kwiatkowski, T G Leach, A A Lewis, L W Pryor, R C Rampling,W K H Tan, H Watson, E West, S A Wilkins, L T Witkowski; Sir Francis Goldsmid: T J G Ithell, L O Jones, S H Little, M J Vroobel; Amelia Gurney: V K H Foster; Mary Gurney: L G Brock; Russell Gurney: N R G Mead, S J Pollack; Florence Ethel Gwyn: T J Gault; Mary Higgins: H J Li; Jane Hunter: G C Mulligan; Edith Lydia Johns: C J Nye, C E Parte, A M Ridge, K Smallwood, T E Williams, C J Winthrop; Ellen McArthur: G S Borker, A H C Chan, T J Gault, Y Liu, N R G Mead, L J Miller, S J Pollack; M T Meyer: N Ball, E Bouaziz, C D Lazda, M Reich; Mary Sparke: S M Mak; Todd Memorial: C F Davenport, J L Davies; Henry Tomkinson: G S Borker, A H C Chan, O Kenny, Y Liu, C A Vie; Sophia Turle: M S Borowiak, P R Facer, J C K Harries, C Kelly, J M Williams, H Winstanley

Undergraduate Prizes ThÊrèse Montefiore Memorial Prize: M S Borowiak, P R Facer Laurie Hart Memorial Prize: C D Lazda, S M Mak Ridding Reading Prize: T Omer Rima Alamuddin Prize: H Winstanley Wrigley Prize: A Sharma, A Ziegler-Bailey Charlton Award in Medieval/Renaissance Literature: D Burke Hammond Science Communication Prize: R Glauert The Appleton Cup: T E Williams Chemical Engineering Raemakers: T J Ithell, W K H Tan

Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic Jane Catherine Gamble: J Shortt Butler Phyllis Tillyard: T G Leach

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Engineering Christina Barnard: E C Rowett Beatrice Mills: P T B Brett, M J Vroobel Raemakers: L O Jones, A E Kwaitkowski C B West: A J Brett

Medical Sciences Ming Yang Lee: J J Clark, E K Glover Edith Neal: C J Nye Thomas and Elizabeth Walton: C J Winthrop, T E Williams Modern and Medieval Languages Maria Degani: C J Byrne Elizabeth Hill: A A Lewis Jane Hunter: C F Davenport Mary Ponsonby: G C Mulligan, M R Thompson Raemakers: H Watson Lilian Amanda Thomas: R C Rampling Phyllis Tillyard: O Kenny C B West: J L Davies

English Charity Reeves: R L Cawley, J A Edwards, E K James, X N Koh Geography Margaret Anderson: C L Batchelor Janet Chamberlain: C L Batchelor, L P Burns History Margaret Hastings: T J Gault Lilian Knowles: S J Pollack Eileen Power:

Music Isabella Crawshaw: P R Facer, J M Williams Jane Catherine Gamble: J C K Harries, H Winstanley Beatrice Mills: M S Borowiak, C M Kelly

N R Mead Law Margaret Hastings: S M Mak Lilian Knowles: H J Li Thomas and Elizabeth Walton: E West

Natural Sciences (Biological) Marion Bidder: H F Holmes, C M Rogerson Ellen Delf Smith: M Vincent

Mathematics Gertrude Mather Jackson: N Ball, C D Lazda May Smithells: E Bouaziz, M Reich

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Music Awards: Organ Scholarship: C M Kelly College Music Scholarship: M S Borowiak London Girton Association Music Award: H Winstanley Siem Music Prize: M S Borowiak

Natural Sciences (Physical) Layla Adib: D Kraljic, R Pavesi, L W Pryer Gwendolen Crewdson: S J Denny, A C Hall, M P Levenston, G M I Mecklenburg, B Metcalf, B Ramsay Ida Freund: M A Blake, D Daniel, S H Little, J N More, C D Spicer, C A Vie, L T Witkowski, C M Wymant

Jill Vlasto Choral Awards: A P Berman, E R G Button, R Coombs, R L Dinham, K G Hambridge, D W T Levy, O N Nzelu, M Ovsiannikow, C A Owens, D E Parkes, C J E Patrick, S H Porter, S L S Rodriguez, M R I Seale

Philosophy Christina Barnard: M J Hasler Isabella Crawshaw: J Nguyen Social Anthropology Jane Catherine Gamble: L J Miller

Daphne Bird Instrumental Awards: B J D L Allum, C K A Cannizzo, T W Hedges, E Hopper, E P Stephens, H Watson, J M Williams

Veterinary Medicine Ming Yang Lee: A M Anderson, G C Ellse, K Smallwood Thomas and Elizabeth Walton: C E Parte, A M Ridge Travel Awards:

College Travel Scholarship: A Boguslav, F K Dickinson, R E Mellis; Adela Marion Adam Grant: A R Sharma; J K Brightwell Grant: K L Buckland, M Buhavac, M D Y J Chi, G S Y Kwong, M J D Turner; Dorothy Chadwick Award: R C Rampling; Rosemary Delbridge Award: A E Heaton; Judith Eccleshare Grant: E L Cosgrove, O J Harris, D Strange; Eileen Ellenbogen Award: J E MacKenzie; Edith Helen Major Grant: E Geranmayeh, S E H Smart, A E Ziegler-Bailey; Ruth Morgan Award: R L Dinham, J L Davies, S H Porter; Mary Morrison Grant: S K Deakin, D E Margolis, M A M Pepper, H Winstanley; E M Pooley Award: J L Davies; Charlotte Rycroft Award: M A Broadhurst, E Hopper, H McMillan; Marina Shakich Grant: J A Edwards, C E Gorman, E M Hayward, M Vincent; Johanna Stevenson Award: K J Tinslay; Dorothy Tempest Award: E Bowen, B M O Hunter, B Y Travers; Monica Wilson Award: K M Saar

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College Reports Admissions In October 2008 we admitted 159 new undergraduates, of whom 54% were in Arts and Social Science subjects; 46% in Science; 43% female; 40% from independent schools, and 89% of Home or EU status. We also admitted four students on exchange schemes: one from MIT, two Junior Year Abroad students (one from Columbia and one from Arkansas) and one ERASMUS student (studying Law). Of the offers made to this cohort of students: 58% were made to direct or open applicants, 42% through the winter pool and one through the summer pool. Of our direct applicants, 51% were female, but our ratio at admission was skewed by the fact that our allocation of open applicants was predominantly male. Among offers to home students, 61% were made to applicants from state schools, slightly above the university average of 59%. Another pleasing development was a 42% increase in the number of direct applicants to Girton in October 2009.

Interesting developments continue in Cambridge admissions. Last autumn saw the abolition of the separate Cambridge Application Form, and the introduction of an online supplementary application questionnaire. Next year will bring changes in the format of A-level examinations, with the introduction of the A* grade, a ‘stretch and challenge’ element, and changes to the modular structure of many of the examinations.

The application procedure for Cambridge is now entirely electronic for Home and EU applicants, with resulting standardisation of the format of forms used for interviews and decision-making, both within and between Colleges. ‘Operation deCAF’, as it was named, was a resounding success, with Girton’s Head of Tutorial and Admissions, Angela Stratford, being one of the guiding team bringing it to fruition.

We held Open Days for all subjects in September, June and July, and for Mathematics in May, to coincide with the Faculty Open Day. In previous years, the April Open Day had attracted only a small number of visitors, and June proved to be a more popular time of year. Numbers attending Open Days increased to 203 from 158 the previous year, and this, together with our outreach activities, may account for the very pleasing increase in direct applicants last October. We have hosted eight day-visits for Y10, Y11 and Y12 students from our access area in the West Midlands, and have sent a team out to run a similar activity day hosted by a school in Dudley. The visits have included workshops and masterclasses in specific subjects to give a flavour of university-level study. In March we ran an Introduction to Medicine Day for Y12 students from Camden and Cambridgeshire LEAs. The format proved very successful, and we would like to repeat it in other subjects. We also participated in the Teachers’ Conference run by the University in March, providing accommodation and evening meal for a number of teachers in Girton. The evenings provided a good opportunity to exchange information and views, and it was very useful and informative to hear about the experience of teachers and HE advisers at first hand.

We welcomed Wendy Nixon to the team in May as Schools Liaison Assistant, Sue Anspach having left the College in November. Wendy is already making the role her own and presenting a welcoming face to prospective applicants and developing our contacts with schools.

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Another exciting development this year has been the early success of our new appeal fund, ‘Girton Futures’, which has been set up in collaboration with the Development Office. The aim is to augment our budget for access activities and to allow us to take on more adventurous initiatives to attract more high-quality applications to Girton, particularly from those who might not otherwise aspire to Cambridge. We have in mind a range of possibilities including posters to advertise subjects and aspects of life at Girton for use at Open Days and school visists; brochures for school visits to disseminate information, such as advice on course choice; workshop activities for school visits; subject-specific taster days, particularly for Archaeology and Anthropology and Classics, which would make use of the newly refurbished Lawrence Room; one-day teacher conferences for Girton alumni, and the opportunity to assist schools from less affluent areas with transport costs for visits to Girton. We are very grateful to a number of alumni who have donated to this fund, and whose money will enable us to put some of these ideas into practice.

We are very grateful to all those who assist in our outreach endeavours, to the Mistress and Fellows who give their time to assist in fundraising, providing lectures and workshop sessions, and visiting schools; to the JCR Access Officer, Effie Kostalas, and to all the undergraduate helpers at Open Days and school visits. Our undergraduates are often our best ambassadors, and we are very grateful for their enthusiastic and friendly welcome for all our visitors.

We would also like to thank all those involved in the admissions process, Directors of Studies, interviewers, student helpers and office staff, all of whom strive to make the process as fair, transparent and comfortable as possible for our applicants. The team in the admissions office have worked under particular pressure this year, being under-staffed between November and May, yet everything continued to work as smoothly, efficiently and cheerfully as normal.

Our thanks are due especially to our Head of Tutorial and Admissions, Angela Stratford, and her team of Kate Burgess, Jenny Griffiths and, since May, Wendy Nixon, who run (we believe) the most friendly and effective admissions office in Cambridge.

Sandra Fulton and Veronica Bennett, Admissions Tutors

Graduate Admissions Girton admitted 112 new graduates and postgraduates in October 2008 (compared with 106 in 2007). This number was made up of 77 (71) graduates new to Cambridge, and 35 (35) former Girton undergraduates coming through to graduate studies or postgraduates returning to study for higher degrees. The numbers of ‘new to Cambridge’ graduates remain at an impressive level, which is due to the continuing high number of applications received and accepted by the University of Cambridge.

The 112 new graduates were made up of 76 (59) men and 36 (47) women and the Science intake of 56 (57) was in equal balance with the Arts intake of 56 (49) which we aim for but rarely achieve.

The number of new graduates registered for taught courses (LLM/PGCE/MBA/ Mst etc.) was 19 and new applicants registered as research students (CPGS/MPhil/PhD) numbered 73.

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Of the new-to-Cambridge intake for 2008–09, 20 (11) were home students, 19 (12) were from European Union countries and 38 (48) were from overseas.

The statistics for either full or part funding for the new-to-Cambridge and for undergraduates moving to new graduate study give a useful indication of the sources of available funding: Research body (MRC/EPSRC/AHRC etc) Public Body (CCT/CET/CHEVENING etc) University/Department/College External Bodies (Business/Government) Self Funding

14.00% 30.10% 9.70% 7.50% 38.70%

The total number of Girton graduates now stands at 236, including the part-time students, and represents a wide range of countries: Australia 4; Austria 2; Brazil 1; Canada 3; China 22; China (Taiwan) 3; Cyprus 1; Denmark 1; Egypt 1; France 2; Germany 12; Ghana 1; Greece 2; Guyana 2; Hong Kong 4; Iceland 1; India 6; Iran 2; Ireland 3; Italy 5; Japan 1; Kenya 1; Korea 6; Luxembourg 1; Malaysia 1; Mexico 2; Montenegro 1; Netherlands 1; Norway 2; Pakistan 1; Portugal 3; Romania 2; Russia 3; Saudi Arabia 2; Serbia 2; Singapore 2; Spain 2; Sri Lanka 3; Switzerland 1; Thailand 1; Ukraine 2; UK 109; USA 10; Vietnam 1.

Families We have a total of 21 graduate parents, 13 of whom live in Cambridge; two of these families live in College accommodation. The eight families who do not live in Cambridge have either stayed at home or spent the year working away. 12 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. The College continued with its own Childcare Bursary last year; however it is doubtful whether we will be able to continue at the same level of funding for next year. Many of the international/EU graduates benefited from awards from the University Central Childcare Bursary to which Girton subscribes. The College’s own Nursery at Wolfson Court also proves to be an invaluable resource for graduate families with young children.

Graduate Secretary Jenny Griffiths continues to divide her time between the College’s main site and Wolfson Court, and is therefore always available to graduates for enquiries, and often as their first port of call.

Graduate Tutors The two Graduate Tutors, Frances Gandy and Roland Randall, continue to help all the graduates in personal, academic and financial matters. They meet their graduate students individually and socially throughout the year, and regularly enjoy their company at Formal Hall each week.

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Bursaries and Grants Bursaries Twelve holders of Emily Davies Bursaries (worth up to £3,400 per student to cover the College Residence Charge) were in residence in 2008–09. The subjects being read by the bursary holders included Biological Sciences, Engineering, Modern and Medieval Languages, Physical Sciences and Theology and Religious Studies.

There were six holders of the Ellen McArthur Bursaries (worth £1,000 in the first year and £1,500 in subsequent years) in residence in 2008–09, two of whom were reading Social and Political Sciences, one reading History, two reading Economics and the final bursary holder reading Law. Three Jean Lindsay Memorial Bursaries for History, and two Margaret Barton Bursaries for Medical Sciences, were held by students in residence in 2008–09.

Two holders of Emily Davies Bursaries, one holder of a Jean Lindsay Memorial Bursary and two Ellen McArthur Bursary holders graduated in June 2009. The awards of all other bursary holders have been renewed for 2009–10.

There were 81 Cambridge Bursaries received by Girton undergraduates in 2008–09.

As in previous years, the Newton Trust provided 87.5% of the cost, and the College contributed the remaining 12.5%. These bursaries form part of one of the most generous bursary schemes of any University in the UK, guaranteeing a bursary of up to £3,150 per year to those students from the least well-off households.

The College Overseas Bursaries of 17 overseas and eight European Union students have been renewed for the next academic year, and new bursaries have been awarded to five overseas and three European Union students due to come into residence in October 2009. The new bursary holders were recommended to the Cambridge Trusts for further assistance, and most were made generous awards by the Trusts that will enable them to take up their places here.

In view of the number of students from the newer European Union accession countries and the scarce financial support that is often available to them from their government or family, the College has started a new bursary fund this year to help support these students. This small fund enabled us to increase the bursaries of three current European Union students, and to award slightly larger bursaries to two of the incoming EU students than has been possible in the past. While these bursaries do not cover all of the costs these students incur, they do help to alleviate some of the financial burden that they and their families face.

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amounting to £5,060 from the Pillman Academic Fund. The following grants were also made: three grants totalling £650 from the Beatrice Mary Thomas Fund for Physical Sciences; four grants totalling £700 from the Harry Barkley Fund to clinical medical students undertaking elective periods of training; and one grant of £180 from the Jean Lindsay Fund for History.

Angela Stratford, Head of Tutorial and Admissions

Bursar’s Report I have written in previous Annual Reviews about the need for the College to achieve ‘sustainability in every sense of the word’. It has been apparent for some years that our financial position was sustainable only while the external economic environment remained benign. Despite many years of economic growth and low inflation, the College was only just balancing the books each year, and was finding it increasingly difficult to afford to maintain its estate to the required standard.

This was not for want of careful budgeting, but rather the almost inevitable long-term outcome of the ambitious project, begun in the nineteenth century, of founding a new college to operate on the pattern of established colleges, but without the endowment those colleges had accumulated over many centuries. Girton, thanks to the generosity of its many donors and benefactors, has, of course, also now accumulated a substantial endowment of its own, but for many years the growth of the College ran ahead of the growth of its endowment, resulting, by the end of the twentieth century, in a College with more students and less endowment per capita than most.

Recognising this, I began a project several years ago to develop a financial simulation model which would help us to establish the optimum size of the College, with the idea that we would then work towards that size in the longer term. Since the College had less endowment per student than the average in Cambridge, I intuited that the only way for the College to become financially sustainable would be to reduce student numbers quite substantially. It also seemed that having two separate sites must be a financial disadvantage, resulting in a doubling of overheads such as the porters’ lodge and the cafeteria. However, unlike older colleges with only one fully developed city centre site, Girton did have the advantage of flexibility to grow or shrink as strategy required, and it seemed likely that a certain amount of shrinkage would be required.

Simulating the financial future of Girton is not as straightforward as might be expected, because of the complex interplay of the College’s main income streams (endowment income, benefactions and donations, student residence charges, catering and conference income, academic fees) and its fixed and variable cost bases. The relationships between key variables such as student numbers, numbers of Fellows, numbers of staff, numbers of rooms, numbers of conference bed nights, numbers of meals served, are difficult to model and sometimes counter-intuitive because of the inherent conflicts between different activities and the constraints they necessarily impose on each other. It is rarely clear what the impact of manipulating key variables will be.

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However, after an intensive period of modelling last summer, it appears that the College does have a surprisingly wide range of options open to it, and that becoming smaller is not the only way in which it can achieve financial sustainability. Nor is there a ‘silver bullet’ solution to the problem; it appears that achieving sustainability will depend on the continued aggregation of marginal gains. The good news is that there are many and varied scenarios in which gains are possible, and although there are gains to be made from better management of student numbers, major changes to the intake need not be contemplated unless they become desirable on educational, social and institutional grounds also.

The main lesson we have learned from the modelling undertaken so far is how much we stand to gain from re-structuring the operational estate, particularly by increasing the specialisation of our two main sites. Far too often, at present, we attempt to house undergraduates, graduates and conference guests alongside each other and one after another, constantly switching rooms between types of use and terms of occupation. It is difficult to manage efficiently and difficult to service to appropriate standards. We also have a number of off-site houses which are expensive and difficult to maintain, and which, even in the present somewhat depressed housing market, could be sold to fund development on one of the two sites. A long-term plan for rationalisation of the estate is clearly necessary.

Whilst I was busy with this financial modelling exercise in the summer of 2008, of course, the global banking system was about to experience an unprecedented crisis, triggering a global recession. Having focused my attention on solving the College’s longterm financial problems, I suddenly found we had some rather serious short-term ones to deal with as well.

It turned out that I was right about the lack of sustainability. If we were struggling to balance the books before the credit crunch, we are clearly eating into our reserves now.

Ironically, Cambridge colleges have not been much helped by having a more diverse income stream than other higher education institutions, since their investment and conference income have been severely dented by the financial crisis and subsequent economic downturn. I have been much exercised in the past by the failure of publicly funded fees to keep pace with inflation, but they are at least predictable for the moment.

Preparing the College’s budget for 2009–10 was an unprecedented challenge. All budget holders faced real cuts, but even this was insufficient to meet the gap between dwindling income and escalating demands for expenditure. Opportunities for economies and efficiency gains have been identified and wherever possible implemented. We have a new investment strategy and have re-launched our conference business. These are not ‘silver bullets’, but will add to the accumulation of marginal gains in the longer term.

However, we have not cut essential expenditure and we are continuing with longterm maintenance programmes. The current cohort of Girton students will not be disadvantaged educationally or socially in relation to previous cohorts by the present financial situation. We have made the decision to use reserves to help us keep going, knowing that we will be spending considerably more than our income for the next year at least.

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The limit of our reserves is such that we can only keep doing this for a very few years.

However, we hope this will be long enough for us to begin to implement some of the longer-term strategies identified by the financial modelling exercise as likely to improve the long-term financial sustainability of the College. The process of strategic planning has at least enabled us to take a long-term view of the present crisis.

Debbie Lowther, Bursar

Chapel Report Chapel continues to flourish amidst the sundry changes and chances of College life. This was our first full year under the choral direction of Dr Dana Marsh. It was good to welcome him into our midst and it has been a pleasure for me as Chaplain to get to know him over the year. Those attending Chapel this year will have heard for themselves beautiful fruits of his labours. The vibrant life of Chapel Choir is reported elsewhere in this issue and so I will reflect on other aspects of Chapel life, particularly the teaching.

Before term started I completed a pilgrimage on Cuthbert’s Way, from Melrose Abbey to Holy Island, and ‘The Pilgrim’s Way’ was our theme for Michaelmas. Preachers were invited to speak of the paths pioneered for us in our wayfaring Christian life by saints and luminaries whose insights they had found personally helpful. Highlights included Canon Dr Alan Hargrave speaking about the way of St Benedict, and Bishop Simon BarringtonWard speaking about the way of the Jesus Prayer and the particular Orthodox saints who had helped him to pray it more deeply. It was good to welcome back Zoe Bennet, a distinguished Old Girtonian who directs the MA in Pastoral Studies for the Cambridge Theological Federation. She spoke movingly at the Commemoration of Benefactors.

The Lent Term Chapel Card featured one of the most striking of our People’s Portraits, ‘Reg Andrews, bread delivery man,’ and this illustrated the term’s theme: ‘This is my Body’, a reflection not only on Christ’s breaking and sharing of bread but on all the links between spiritual and physical realms and the care and concern for the body which has been central to Christian Faith. Highlights included a memorable talk from Martin Blogg, dancer, choreographer and visiting Fellow of Robinson College who illustrated the way in which physical objects can carry profound personal meaning by placing a pair of dancing slippers in the midst of the Chapel and revealing towards the end of the sermon that they had been given to him by Rudolph Nureyev!

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for Fortitude and Hope in equal measure, and my ‘conversation’ with Chris Webb, our Senior Chapel Warden and a classicist about to take his finals on ‘Fortitude; Classical and Christian’ made some strong connections with those present who were about to do their finals too. The sense of finalities and endings was strong in our final Thanksgiving Service when we said farewell to almost all our Chapel Wardens and also farewell to Marilyn Strathern. It was especially moving when the Choir gathered round her in that service and sang ‘The Lord Bless You and Keep You’ as their parting gift to the Mistress.

I look forward to a new term and a new academic year. As I write, the fruits in our orchard are coming into their ripeness and we are preparing for a Michaelmas Term in Chapel devoted to ‘The Fruits of the Spirit’.

Malcolm Guite, Chaplain

Report of Heads of Domestic Departments This year will be remembered as one dominated by the impossible task of trying to match our collective spending plans with the minimalist budget targets set by the Bursar in January. One of the most difficult constraints on expenditure is the ban on paid overtime; this has hit some lower-paid staff members very hard. But this is Girton, and the staff have risen to the challenge by reorganising their working patterns to accommodate the shifting needs of the conference trade and taking time off in lieu of overtime pay. Catering staff from both sites have redecorated rooms in Orchard Wing, during a lull in the conference trade.

This kind of goodwill and loyalty to the College is beyond price. We would like to take the opportunity presented by the Annual Review to publicly thank all our staff members for their invaluable contribution in helping Girton weather the financial storm.

Phase four of the Tower Wing refurbishment, the renovation of Fellows’ rooms, including the SCR, was scheduled for summer 2009. We were delighted with the appointment of John Gant as College Surveyor; he has worked on our refurbishments for many years as an Associate with Pleasance Hookham and Nix, Architects and Surveyors, and now brings his skills in-house, to our great benefit. The Maintenance team has been busy with improvements to the Girton Road houses and the first phase of a project to improve the rooms on New Wing. The House Services Manager, Sue Bryant, proposed this project in her budget plans, and whilst funds available this year allow only new carpets and redecoration, she hopes next year to have funds for some new furniture. Sue was also pleased to help with the final stage of room moves for the Tower project. Another long-term joint initiative was completed with the installation of the new visitor entrance and associated signage in Old Kitchens. This allows access to the building without going along residential corridors, and can be staffed by the Lodge.

At Wolfson Court the re-roofing of the Cafeteria was completed. The Warden’s belief that because of global warming winter would be just as good a time for this project proved to be rather off the mark, as the roofers battled bravely with the ice and snowdrifts.

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of Cambridge College Maintenance Officers, and of their executive committee. He was also elected to the executive committee of VB Trophies Cambridge Sunday Football League. Michael completed 30 years of service in May and this impressive achievement was recognised by his colleagues, who held a surprise party for him. David Peck took second place in the European Duathlon Championship in Budapest, Hungary, and will travel to North Carolina in September to defend his world championship in the 75–79year-old group. Maintenance also refurbished the College Gym, now under the direct supervision of Steve Whiting, Head Groundsman, who has trained as a gym instructor.

In the Gardens Department, the warm dry spring gave a memorable show of flowers but the cold dry winter left wildlife struggling to find food and Old Orchard was badly damaged by hungry rabbits. The trees are now temporarily protected pending the arrival of a permanent fence. The garden at 2 Girton Road has been fenced and rearranged for easier maintenance following the building development to the south. Fellows’ Garden has a new yew hedge to replace the old board fence and a poor beech hedge, making possible a wider flower border in future. The Department was pleased to host a visit from the Girton Glebe School Gardening Group.

In Mare’s Run they looked at old trees and young ones and talked about their ages in relation to the ages of the children and their parents. The group also did some identification of trees and leaf shapes, and all – but especially the girls – really enjoyed digging out the beetles and maggots in rotting wood. Matt Johnson, Gardens Trainee, has successfully completed his NVQ Level 2 course together with outstanding marks in his The Girton Glebe Gardening Group Tractor Handling and Pesticide Spraying certificates.

Our two Administrative Trainees, Steffi Trott and Claire Belcham, both achieved their Level 2 certificates in Business and Administration in June and December 2008 respectively. Since then, Steffi has gone on to complete Level 3 and achieved the Endeavour Award for the University of Cambridge Level 3. Claire will begin the CIPD Certificate of Personnel Practice in September. In the Bursary, Clare Plumb and her daughter Holly raised over £300 for Cancer Research, after taking part in the annual Race for Life.

The Catering Department took an active part in both the University and National Catering Claire Belcham and Steffi Trott with their Tutor, Sue Foakes (left) Competitions. In the University of Cambridge Chefs’ Competition in October, the Girton entrants, Andy Bowen, Andrew Marsh and Paulo dos Santos, were successful medal winners. Then, in March, James Circuit, Girton Head Chef, led the Cambridge team participating in the TUCO Chefs’ Challenge in Blackpool and came first in the Starter category, winning a Highly Commended Award and coming 63

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fifth overall. Catering and Conference Manager Graham Hambling completed 30 years of service and was rewarded with a surprise party at Wolfson Court, where he began his Girton career.

The Bursary has installed a new software system in the Catering Department to aid the caterers to control stock levels and to give better management information about prices and wastage. The Stock Controller is Sarah Owen, who has a sound knowledge of the Catering Department, having been a casual worker at Girton for many years.

In the IT Department, the Computer Officer and his team successfully rolled out the new Voice-Over-Internet telephone system (VOIP) in College over the first few days of January, part of the new University-wide VOIP system with connection to 15,000 handsets. Most offices panic at the thought of change, but we were all pleasantly surprised by the ease of transition.

The IT Department now has the daunting task of removing miles of old analogue cables inside and outside College. All shared student computers were transformed into a Universitymanaged cluster on the Public Web Facility. This has been a very positive move allowing both students and Fellows access to software only previously available from central computing resources in their departments. Although not normally a site of conflict, the Computer Office came under sustained attack this year from a swarm of bees just outside their window – good to know that there are still some things in nature beyond computer control.

Peter Cook, Casual Porter at College, was appointed as part-time Relief Porter at Wolfson Court, replacing Ron Simpson, who retired in January after giving excellent all-round service as day, night and latterly Relief Porter. The Lodges on both sites have started work on a new coordinated CCTV and security strategy.

It is not often that Lodge members are immortalised but Buster, the College cat and our peripatetic senior official, has had his portrait commissioned by the Mistress as a gift to the staff. It hangs proudly outside the College Lodge, but just above Buster’s own eye level.This gift from the Mistress typifies much about the good-humoured relationship she has forged with the staff during her years of office. It is expected that a Head of House will command respect, but to also inspire goodwill and affection as the Mistress has done is unique and very special. She has been friend and counsellor to all the Heads of Domestic Departments and their teams, advising, noticing, supporting and guiding us through periods of great change and increased responsibilities. We will greatly enjoy the gift of Buster Immortalised in the years to come, but we are more grateful still for the gifts of her time, her quiet words of encouragement and sympathy, and her recognition of the importance of what we try to do. We wish her a long and happy retirement but hope also that she will often return to both sites.

Maureen Hackett, Junior Bursar and Warden of Wolfson Court with input from: Graham Hambling, Robert Bramley, Sue Bryant, Ciarian O’Loughlin, Andrew Leader, Gill Starling.

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The Library and Archive The Librarian’s Report In our increasingly digital age, readers of the Review will be pleased to hear that use of Girton’s Library goes from strength to strength. We have a steady rise in the number of readers occupying study space, more borrowing of books, and our IT resources take almost 70% of all computer area use in College and Wolfson Court. We try to anticipate demand and follow a practice of flexibility and balance. So whilst we continue to stock the shelves with ‘real’ books needed for Tripos, we also subscribe to the University’s e-books programme, which gives our students electronic access to over 1,000 of the most heavily-used undergraduate texts. We are steadily reducing our hard-copy journal subscriptions, but enjoy the massive benefit of on-line access to thousands of journals brokered by the University Library for all users in the cam domain.

IT resources are now as much a part of any library provision in Higher Education as the books on the shelf. The trick is to offer both, and at as high a standard of provision as possible. The other crucial component in all this is the provision of professional support in the use of information sources, staff who can encourage students to make the best and most discriminating use of the dazzling array of information available to them. In this way Girton’s Library continues its long tradition of being at the centre of Girton’s academic life, but with what is uncompromisingly a twenty-first-century slant.

Girton’s catalogue has been available on the web via the Girton Library website since we computerised it in the nineties, but we had made a conscious decision to hold back for a while from joining the University’s Union catalogue (now called Newton). This year the time was right to begin the process, and we exported our first records to Newton in May 2009. All newly catalogued material at Girton is now included on Newton, and we hope to send batches of retrospective records also over a period of a year or so, so that soon the larger part of our holdings will be included. This will not supersede our old catalogue, which will continue as our main record, and which can be found as ever via our website at http://www-lib.girton.cam.ac.uk/ Meanwhile we continue our ten-year programme of cataloguing our special collections electronically, the latest of which is the Callister collection, specialising in the work of poet John Clare, and these records will also gradually appear on Newton. We hope that this will provoke a broader interest in the use and exploration of our fascinating collections.

Following the retirement of Betty Brown, reported last year, we were delighted to welcome Shelley Tilston on to our staff as a Library Assistant in September 2008.

We experienced a major change in our staffing this year when Kate Perry retired at the end of July after 23 years as Girton’s Archivist. Although various people had worked on collating Girton’s archival papers before then, this was the first time someone had been employed to bring a concentrated focus to the task. Kate devised a new classification system, and began to catalogue and organise the collection, bringing together items that had hitherto been dispersed, and encouraging individuals and organisations to deposit their papers. In addition to the physical organisation of the material, she built up a 66

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standard of service in response to archival enquiries that soon had researchers coming back again and again to use Girton’s archive, and which began to establish Girton’s reputation as a repository having national, and indeed international, significance. Many of our longterm researchers will testify to the way in which Kate has always provided a value-added service by her ability to find material and to engage with the ‘quest’ of the researcher.

Had it not been for Kate’s work in transforming the archival collections into a well organised and coherent collection, and in establishing this level of professional service, we should not have been in a position in 1996 to begin to argue (as we did for the first time in that year) for a new building that would accommodate both that collection and our visiting researchers. As it was, we were able to produce a sheaf of warmly supportive references from eminent scholars who had used the archive. Kate was elected to a ByeFellowship in 1997, in recognition of her contribution to College. The College has now bestowed on Kate the honorific title of Archivist Emerita and has awarded her lifetime membership of the Senior Combination Room. We wish her a joyous retirement, but hope also that she will continue to be involved in the life and projects of the College for many years to come.

Our new Archivist, Hannah Westall, took up the post at the end of July. Hannah has a degree in Classical Civilisation from Glasgow University and an MA in Archives and Records Management from UCL. She has worked as an Archivist for the Brotherton Library Special Collections at Leeds University, at St John’s Hospital in Bath, and at Somerset County Record Office. She worked in China during 2008–09.

On the curatorial front, our Festival Pattern Group paper specimen, based on the haemoglobin molecule, went straight from the Wellcome exhibition to an exhibition on pattern at The Approach Gallery in Whitechapel. Our pair of fourteenth-century Sienese altar paintings by Francesco di Vannuccio underwent extensive conservation at the Hamilton Kerr Institute. These will be lent to an exhibition in Siena in 2010.

They have been moved from the Upper Library and are currently hung in the Lawrence Room.

We were deeply saddened this year by the death of Shirley Littler. Shirley had been a great supporter of the Library over the years, in terms of her very active role in championing its cause during our fundraising campaign for the building, and also in her own generous and substantial financial support. We had taken delivery only last year of a complete collection of her papers and publications, which she and Geoffrey brought to Girton themselves, and which they then saw deposited in the state-of-the-art archive repository that she had done so much to bring about. We shall miss her very much.

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Gifts and Bequests to the Library (Please note that all the donations listed here refer to the period 1 July 2008 – 30 June 2009)

The Library received the gift of a first edition of Les Passions de l’âme by René Descartes.

This was bequeathed by the late Freda Isaac, who worked in the Tutorial Office, rising to be Head, between 1971 and 1984. The volume is dated 1649, and was published in Amsterdam. It is a fine addition to our special collections.

We are most grateful to donors whose gifts of money allow us to purchase books and other essential items. This year these have included Professor Eileen Curran, Flora Wallace (McLeod 1952), Tony Whall (2000) and Sheila Mann. Friends and Patrons of the Library are listed elsewhere in the Review.

We continue to make good use of the generous donation from Muriel Kittel (Lister 1934), who, a few years ago, gave us a large donation to use for the purchase of works in language and literature.

We also continue to benefit from the generosity of CUP, whose special arrangement allows us to acquire over £3,000-worth of CUP books free of charge.

We were very sorry to learn of the untimely death of Tim Hall (1990). His family generously offered his English Literature books to Girton for the use of current undergraduates in English, and we were pleased to organise their distribution and to accession some for the Library.

We have received donations from Nicola Brooker (1962) with which to buy books in memory of Diana Vincent-Daviss (1962).

We have benefited from the bequests of Margaret H Woodley (1938), Professor Joan Hussey (1934–37), Dorothy Vivian Eyre Smith (Eyre Evans 1938), and John Crabbe.

Copies of their own work have been presented by: Dr Albertina Albors-Llorens, Val Campion, Elizabeth Cruickshank, Emma Donoghue (1990), Dr Jaqueline Elliott (1948), Dr Felix Franks, Dr Danielle van den Heuvel, Manju Jain (1976), Baroness James, Dr Aileen Kelly (1958), Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew GCMG, CH, Dr Tom Lockwood (1993), Kate Loveman (1995), Peter Manson (Visiting Fellow 2006), Dr John Marks, Dorothy McGrath (1954), Dr Stephanie Palmer, Janet Rizvi (Clarke 1958), Dr Roland Randall, Professor Valerie Sanders (1975), Jane E Sayers (1952), Dr Pamela Jane Smith, Professor Alice Teichova, Heather Toomer (Fomison 1966), Dr Michelle Elizabeth Tusan, Philip Vann, Valerie M Warrior (1955).

The following individuals have also presented copies of books and other media: The Mistress, Jennifer Baker (2007), Dr Veronica Bennett, Dr Belinda Bullard (1954), James Carr (2004), Dr Stuart Davis, Gwynneth Drabble (1973), Judith Drinkwater, Mary Dyson (1958), Dr Eric Farge, Zahra Freeth (Dickson 1943), Sir David Li, Professor Jill Mann, Peter Manson (Visiting Fellow 2006), Dr C H McKie (Kelsey 1949), Barbara Megson (1948), Dr Hazel Mills, Sarah Newton (1971), Dr David Penfold, Lucy Pollard (Robertson 1962), Susannah Read (Gill 1999), Dr Anne Rogerson, Michael Scott (2004), Vera Seal, Margaret Sparkes (David 1961), Professor Alice Teichova, 68

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Dr Dorothy Thompson (Walbank 1958), Professor Paul Tod, Dr Vela Velupillai, Valerie M Warrior (1955).

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: The Mistress, Dr Sandra Fulton, Mrs C A Hopkins (Busbridge 1959), Dr John Marks, Dr C H McKie (Kelsey 1949), Polyglossia editorial committee, Dr Alastair Reid, Dr Jane Ruddle, Dr M B Saveson (Buehrer 1951) Publications have also been presented by the following organisations: The ‘Cambridge Authors’ Project, Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Cambridge University Department of Architecture, Flemish–Netherlands Association, The Girton Project Steering Group, Girton LGBT Group, Lauterpacht Centre of International Law, Editions José Corti.

Frances Gandy, Librarian and Curator The Archivist’s Report As I write this report, there is a historian working in the Littler Reading Room who is undertaking research which seems to me to get to the heart of what archives are all about. Her subject is ‘Women and the early information state, 1870–1914’ and her premise is that although the concept ‘information state’ is of fairly recent origin, statistics were collected and kept about women as citizens from the mid-nineteenth century.

Recognising and tracking down such records requires patient trawling through numerous boxes of manuscripts, meticulously unpicking facts and figures from anecdote and detail.

It would make a salutary exercise for the many who are concerned about the future of archives as we move further and further into the electronic age when records of this kind are available as bald facts at the click of a button. It suggests that while the nature of the record may change beyond recognition, the integrity of its content remains. The role of the archivist is to ensure that records continue to be preserved in their context and made available for access, whatever the medium.

Other researchers may be making a more direct approach to the archival material here but the question of interpretation remains. Ann Oakley who has trawled the 14 boxes of Barbara Wootton’s papers at Girton for her biography writes, ‘Behind the public record there’s always the private person and the one illuminates the other. Biographers rely on memory, and memory is a complex thing.’

It is endlessly fascinating as Archivist to see the use made, and interpretation, of the material in one’s care. Of the many publications this year using Girton archive sources, one was a novel based on the (fictionalised) account of a divorce case in the Parkes Papers, another was a French translation of Judaeo–Spanish stories collected by Cynthia Crews in the late 1920s and preserved in the Crews Papers, and a third was a history of the College at Hitchin written by a member of the Hitchin Historical Association.

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considerably to the papers of Aelfrida Tillyard already in the archive. Much of the new material was written by Aelfrida’s daughters, Alethea and Agatha, both of whom were at Girton in the 1920s. Their perspective on events is often quite different from their mother’s. Another large acquisition, just received, is the papers of Alice Teichova (Hon F) whose research inspired a re-thinking of recent political history. These are her papers from the early 1970s when she came to Britain as a refugee from political oppression for the second time in her life, following the Prague spring of 1968. Her research at this time, exploring the links between economic and business history and political history, led to the publication of her ground-breaking book An economic background to Munich. Professor Teichova is regarded as one of the most important European economic historians of the twentieth century and we are very honoured that she has chosen Girton as a repository for her papers.

As part of the ten-year retrospective cataloguing programme (reported by the Librarian in 2007), Joan Bullock-Anderson has catalogued the papers of Beryl, Eileen and Rhoda Power. She completed the catalogues of the papers of Alison Duke and P D James (begun last year) and those of the Cambridge Women’s Liberation Group. For the last we were able to bring together papers donated to the Cambridgeshire Archives with the collection at Girton through the offices of members of the CWLG and the generosity of Cambridgeshire Archives. Finally, Joan completed a catalogue of the papers Shirley Littler gave to the archive last year. This was done before Lady Littler’s sad death at the end of March and we were able to consult with her on details and let her know the catalogue was published. All the above are available to view under Girton College on Janus http://janus.lib.cam.ac.uk/ Hilary Goy (Corke 1968) continues with her very generous help, volunteering the equivalent of a day a week in the archive. In addition she has become an archive user as she has begun a PhD using the Girton sources to which she has been exposed. Last October, Cherry Hopkins (Busbridge 1959) generously began the task of indexing those volumes of Council Minutes in the archive which are without this essential finding aid. She brings to this huge undertaking some 15 years of experience as Secretary to Council.

This is the last report I shall write as Archivist as I am retiring this summer. It has been a marvellous 22 years during which I have got to know and love Girton. I am sure that my successor, Hannah Westall, will find herself similarly captivated. I know that she will be made very welcome. I am not disappearing altogether. Amy Erickson and I intend to work on the enormous body of data we collected with Pat Thane from Girtonians for the University and Life Experience Project. We propose to broaden the scholarly community’s awareness of, and access to, this wonderful resource by creating a website for its presentation. The website will be hosted by College in the Library Department and managed by a College committee. Pat Thane will be an academic advisor. We shall be in touch with those of you who contributed with further details.

Gifts of archival material have been received from: The Mistress, Patricia Acres, Dr S Bain(Stanley 1961), Mark Bury, Val Campion, Rupert Christiansen, José Corti Publishers, Elizabeth Cruickshank, Edgerton Publishing, Dr M Ennis, Margaret Goodrich, Harvey Hefland, Paul Jackson, the JCR, Claire Jones, 70

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Jill Lamberton, Sheila Mann, Dr E J Wilson Miller (Wilson 1941), Dr G K Pechey, Yopie Prins, Dr R Randall, the Registrar of the Roll, Sage Publications, Pamela Jane Smith, P Sparks, B Stacey (Smith 1949), Professor A Teichova, Michelle Tusan, D Woolley (McGrath 1954), A Yaffey (Tillyard 1945).

Kate Perry, Archivist

Music Report The year just past has been marked by a proliferation of musical activities in Girton.

Over the past 12 months we have enjoyed more concerts than in any year I can recall.

Some details of the Sunday afternoon concert series and of the organ recital series (which featured luminaries such as Martin Neary, formerly organist of Winchester Cathedral and Westminster Abbey) are given immediately after this report; other concerts are described below.

This welcome increase in musical activity can be attributed in part to a particularly talented group of Music students. However, another important cause has been the arrival in Girton of Dr Dana Marsh, who has taken over direction of the College Choir while I devote myself to the position of Music Faculty Chairman. Dana has thrown himself into Girton’s musical life with great vigour, as will become clear below.

We have also been joined in recent months by Dr Bettina Varwig, who is spending a year in Girton before taking up a Music lectureship at King’s College London. It is also a pleasure to welcome Professor Georgina Born who, though a member of the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, is also an internationally acclaimed author on the sociology of music.

This summer’s Tripos results were particularly strong and, given this, another particularly welcome innovation this year has been a new award for Music students.

The Siem Music Prize was established in recognition of the time spent at Girton by two family members, Sasha and Charles, and the Prize is to be awarded annually for the strongest overall performance by a Girton undergraduate in any part of the Music Tripos.

The first recipient, Mateusz Borowiak, was an especially worthy winner, as he won the University’s Donald Wort Prize this summer for the second year in a row. (The latter is awarded to the candidate who shows the ‘greatest proficiency’ in his year-group in the Music Tripos.) Mateusz also scored what is thought to have been the highest-ever mark in the Part II Recital examination.

Choral activities continued to play a major role in College life. In Michaelmas Term, the Choir paid a visit to Milton Keynes and Bedford to give a concert and to sing in two services. As has happened several times in the past, this event (which was skilfully organised by Chris Webb) marked the passage from one cohort of singers to another.

Several recent graduates joined the new crop of singers to mark, as it were, the passing of the era. As if to underline this, the weekend’s musical activities were directed by Martin Ennis, though the choral baton had already passed to Dana Marsh.

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Oxford. The inaugural event was held at Trinity College, Cambridge, and the partnership will continue in Oxford in 2010. In this first effort, the repertoire was richly varied, with the Queen’s Choir concentrating on rare sixteenth-century Iberian polyphony as well as seventeenth-century English music. To complement this, Girton offered a sumptuous diversity of nineteenth- and twentieth-century works. While the choirs were on top form individually, the combined sound was especially thrilling. Sixty in number, the united group took over Pizza Express on Jesus Lane for a celebratory dinner before the performance.

Girton Choir remained on top form the following weekend to sing three liturgies at Salisbury Cathedral, all to a warm reception from the clergy. Rounding off a busy term one week later, they offered a service of Bach Cantatas for Lent with the periodinstrument ensemble, Charivari Agréable. Soloists from the Choir made a particularly impressive showing on this occasion, which doubled as the ‘Friends of Girton Choir’ annual event.

While the Cambridge University octocentenary celebrations have been in full force all year, Ely Cathedral has concurrently been observing the 900th anniversary of its foundation. In June, Girton Choir joined the combined Ely Cathedral choirs (men and boys/men and girls) and the Choir of Selwyn College, Cambridge, in a programme entitled Mixing their Music. Accompanied by a professional orchestra, Joseph Haydn’s Nelson Mass was the centrepiece of the evening. Each choir performed individually a brief set of works, marking the anniversaries of Purcell, Handel, Haydn, and Mendelssohn.

The combined choir comprised nearly 120 singers, and Handel’s Zadok the Priest all but raised the roof.

A couple of days later, on Thursday 18 June, many of the same performers were gathered again in Hall for one of the most ambitious May Week Concerts of recent years. The concert started with Purcell’s O sing unto the Lord, directed by Dana Marsh, but the main item on the programme was Britten’s The Little Sweep, which was given in a staged performance directed by Jenni MacKenzie. Chad Kelly, our new Organ Scholar, was musical director and, remarkably, all the parts were taken by Girton students. The first half showcased some of Girton’s remarkable instrumental talent. Harry Winstanley (flute) and Peter Facer (oboe), who both graduated with Firsts – and came second and third to Mateusz Borowiak in the overall University recital class list – combined forces with Matthew Ward (cello) and Martin Ennis (harpsichord) in Handel’s Trio Sonata in C minor. Katherine Hambridge, Elizabeth Wheeler, Alex Berman, and Tom Keen showed the depth of vocal talent in Girton in three vocal quartets by Brahms.

As is now traditional – as we all know, an event needs to happen only twice in Cambridge for it to fall into this category – the Donors’ Dinner was preceded by a concert which, this year, celebrated the afore-mentioned anniversaries of Purcell and Handel.

Two of Girton’s most talented recent graduates, Katherine Hambridge (soprano) and Lucy Goddard (mezzo-soprano), were joined by a rising star, Gareth John (baritone), and by a fine string ensemble led by Martin Ennis. We were particularly pleased that HIH Princess Takamado (Tottori 1972), who has generously supported the Choir’s activities in Japan over the past decade or so, was able to attend.

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One week later, on 22 July, Cambridge University’s 800th anniversary was celebrated in a special Prom at the Royal Albert Hall. Members of Girton Choir joined a selection of singers from sixteen colleges throughout the university – over 200 singers – in a spectacularly grand affair with the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir Andrew Davis.

The Choir’s work this year created a powerful momentum which reached its climax in an ambitious tour of the United States, which took place in August. The Choir sang in the foremost ecclesiastical venues on the eastern seaboard of America: in Washington DC, Philadelphia, New York, and throughout New England. Topping off the journey they undertook three days of recording sessions at St Luke’s Cathedral in Portland, Maine.

The resulting CD, which will feature English and French music of the early twentieth century, will be available by the time the Review is published.

Looking to the future, plans are now far advanced for the College’s 140th anniversary concert on 3 November in Goldsmiths’ Hall, London. The concert will feature the London Mozart Players and Girton College Chapel Choir, directed by Martin Ennis and Dana Marsh. Soloists will include Mateusz Borowiak (piano), Charles Siem (violin), and five vocalists who will perform alongside Girton’s prize-winning Choir. The programme will be an all-Mozart one: the Piano Concerto in E flat, K271 (Jeunehomme); the Violin Concerto in G major, K216; and the ‘Coronation’ Mass, K317.

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Freshers’ Concert: A selection of music performed by Girton’s first-year undergraduates

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‘All music is folk music, I ain’t never heard no horse sing a song’ (Louis Armstrong); various Girton musicians: Works inspired by folksong by Berkeley, Howells and Vaughan Williams

16 Nov

Girton College Chapel Choir (directed by Dana Marsh) with Chad Kelly (organ): Works by Hildegard of Bingen, Tallis, Bach, Britten, Bruckner, Bairstow,

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Melissa Ovsiannikow (soprano), Cassandra Gorman (contralto), Jonathan Williams and Chad Kelly (piano): Works by J.S. Bach, Vivaldi, Arne, Gluck, Mozart, Schubert, Frederick Loewe, and Jerome Kern

18 Jan

Chad Kelly, Hannah Watson, and Cathy Cannizzo (piano): Ravel’s Ondine, Gershwin’s Three Preludes, and works by Beethoven

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Alexander Berman (voice), Chad Kelly (piano): Schumann’s Liederkreis, Op.39, and Copland’s Piano Sonata

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Tom Hedges (viola), Mateusz Borowiak (piano): Works by Vaughan Williams, Flackton, Berkeley, and Rebecca Clarke

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Jonathan Williams (piano): Mozart’s Piano Sonata in C minor, K457, Chopin’s Ballade No.4 in F minor, Op.52, and works by Brahms, Scriabin, and Debussy

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Hannah Watson (piano), Fra Rustumji, Rebecca Lewis (violins), Kirsty Brown

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Ben Allum (viola), Hannah Watson (piano): Debussy’s L’Isle joyeuse, and works

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Okey Nzelu (flute), Edward Button (voice), Chad Kelly and Mateusz Borowiak (piano): Quantz’s Flute Concerto in G, and works by Dowland, Bach, Handel, and Bennett

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Katherine Hambridge (voice), Martin Ennis (piano): Copland’s Twelve Emily Dickinson Songs, and works by Bernstein and Barber

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Development Director’s Report Last year I wrote about the celebration that was to come in 2009, it being the College’s 140th year and the University’s 800th. This has certainly been an action-packed and always enjoyable commemoration, which is still going on and will culminate in a concert featuring Girton College musicians and the London Mozart Players at the Goldsmiths’ Hall on 3 November this year.

We have also had much to celebrate: the year began with news that a generous alumnus of the College has anonymously pledged £5 million to the Development Campaign in order to boost the College’s endowment funds and the endowed funds for teaching.

Half of the sum will be used to match, at a 1:1 ratio, gifts to teaching endowment funds given by other alumni. I am delighted to report that Girton’s community has risen to the challenge, with over £200,000 (excluding matching) having been donated to support the teaching endowment in the last six months.

We are grateful to Mrs Rosemary Lonergan for a magnificent gift of $100,000 which she donated to the Olga Taussky-Todd Fellowship in mathematics, and which will be matched by the Teaching Support Fund. Mrs Lonergan is the widow of Professor Jack Todd, who was himself a generous supporter of the College. He funded the TausskyTodd fund supporting mathematics students, and initiated the funding for the Olga Taussky-Todd Fellowship in mathematics.

Also on the fundraising side the annual telethon was Girton’s most successful ever, with near to £190,000 being donated to support various fundraising projects. Thanks are due to Verity Moore, Annual Fund Officer, and all the students who took part in calling alumni, as well as Linda Scott, Development Administrator, who has the task of thanking the many donors as gifts from the campaign roll in.

College has celebrated its 140th in style, beginning with the Founders’ Memorial Lecture given by Professor Henrietta Moore in February, which is reported on elsewhere The next event marked International Women’s Day and was a stimulating discussion on ‘Gender in the state, the workplace, and the family’ which took place at the London School of Economics. We were delighted that our visitor, Baroness Hale of Richmond, spoke on her experience as the first woman law lord and a judge at the Court of Appeal and the High Court; she was joined by Dr Ben Griffin, a History Fellow at College, and Dr Mia Gray, Fellow of Girton in Geography and Assistant Director of the Institute of Gender Studies. This was a popular and intellectually stimulating discussion highlighting how women’s experiences have altered (or not) in the last hundred years, it being the hundredth anniversary of International Women’s Day in 2009. A fuller report appeared in the Development Newsletter 2009.

On top of these, there were many other events, the Medical and Geography reunions, MA dinner, and our alumni reunion programme which could not have taken place without the dedication of the Alumni Officer, Emma Cornwall, and her organisational abilities.

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Chancellor’s receptions in both these locations. The Mistress also hosted a reception in New York at the former ‘speakeasy’ 21 Club in Manhattan. We were pleased that 25 alumni from the New York area were able to attend, some with their partners.

We also are grateful to Dr Una Ryan (Scully 1963) for hosting a wonderful farewell lunch for the Mistress at her home in Boston for alumni in Boston and Cambridge, MA. Around 25 Girtonians and their partners attended on a blisteringly hot May day.

On the occasion of the anniversary dinners, we were pleased that HIH Princess Takamado of Japan (Tottori 1972) was able to attend the first anniversary dinner in July. On this day, the College was also pleased to admit Dr Ruth Whaley (1974) as a Barbara Bodichon Foundation Fellow. Dr Whaley has generously funded a College graduate scholarship. The Fellowships mark the contribution made by major donors to the College’s continuing development. We were also treated to a wonderful pre-dinner concert, conducted by Dr Martin Ennis.

As well as the anniversary of the College’s Foundation, the past year has seen many other celebratory and notable events. There was a record turnout at the alumni football dinner, and a new trophy was inaugurated, the John Marks plate, for winners of the rugby fixture. The football Old Boys were joined for the first time by a football Old Girls’ match – we hope this will continue in future years! The rugby match was remarkable because the first-ever Girton rugby captain, Steve Richardson (1979), joined the Old Boys against the current team. We also held our second London Sports Dinner in May, which has been reported on in the Development Newsletter.

Continuing on the sporting theme, a Girton VIII rowed at Henley Royal Regatta in July this year, for the first time since 1994, and we thank all those who donated time and funds to make this possible, especially Alex Ross (Pirayech-Rossu 1981). The only other entry had been a combined Girton and Trinity Hall VIII in 1983. The Girton VIII was entered for the Ladies’ Challenge Cup, and beaten by a Henley Rowing Club VIII, but it was a good experience for an improving crew that had won blades in the Lent Term and narrowly missed out on blades in the Mays.

Also taking place in May, and reported elsewhere, was the Power Feast to celebrate History, which the Development Team organised together with Dr Alastair Reid, Director of Studies in History.

In August, the Choir toured the USA for the first time, and visited Washington DC, Wilmington, New York City, and Philadelphia, ably led by Dr Dana Marsh. The tour would not have been possible without the sum of £16,000 which was donated by alumni and friends of Girton in order to sponsor the trip, the rest being funded by the Choir members themselves. We are also very grateful to Cynthia Walker and alumni in DC for hosting Choir members and to Cynthia particularly for the pool party she hosted for the Choir and to Dr Ruth Whaley again, for her help in organising an alumni reception after the Choir’s performance at St Thomas Fifth Avenue in New York City.

The Development Team has had a very busy year, and it would not be possible for College to put on these events or start initiatives without their effort. It was with some sadness therefore, that we said goodbye to our Research and Development Officer, Sarah Westwood, who left in January, and who had held various roles in the College, initially 76

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that of Records Management Officer. Our other part-time Research and Development Officer, Margaret Nicholson, is currently on maternity leave, and I am happy to report that she had a healthy baby boy, Adam, in May this year. We are pleased that we have benefited from the work of Hannah James in replacing Margaret; Hannah has also been working on completing Volume III of the Girton Register, as well as somehow fitting in coxing Girton’s men’s first VIII and writing up her PhD. At all these occasions at College and as part of the anniversary year, many guests commented on the warmth of welcome they receive at Girton. This is partly due of course to great service from College’s various departments, especially the Catering and Conference Office, and of course the effort of my colleagues in the Development Office.

However it is also due to the connections that have been established with College, led by our retiring Mistress, Professor Dame Marilyn Strathern, who has done so much to build up relationships with alumni and who will be missed by many alumni and friends of the College as well as by us.

As always, thanks to all our donors and supporters, and thanks especially to Marilyn for her encouragement and leadership, and we wish her well in her retirement.

Francisca Malarée, Development Director

Fellows’ Publications Publications by the Fellows and Officers of the College during 2008–09 include:

P H Abrahams. (Both joint) McMinn’s Atlas of Clinical Anatomy (Elsevier, 2008); Abrahams – Visual Guide to Clinical Anatomy (DVD) (Elsevier, 2009) A Albors-Llorens. (Joint) EC Competition Law (OUP, 2009).

H D Allen. ‘Fire: plant functional types and patch mosaic burning in fire-prone ecosystems’, Progress in Physical Geography 32 (2008); ‘Vegetation and ecosystem dynamics’ in The Physical Geography of the Mediterranean, ed. J Woodward (OUP, 2009) G Born. (First item joint, others sole author) ‘Logics of interdisciplinarity’, Economy and Society 37(1) (2008); ‘Afterword – recording: from reproduction to representation to remediation’ in The Cambridge Companion to Recorded Music, ed. N Cook et al. (CUP, 2009); ‘Mediating the public sphere: digitalisation, pluralism, and communicative democracy’ in Changing Perceptions of the Public Sphere, ed. C J Emden and D Medgley (Berghahn, 2009); ‘The social and aesthetic: methodological principles in the study of cultural production’ in Meaning, and Method: The Cultural Approach to Sociology, ed.

I Reed and J Alexander (Paradigm, 2009); ‘On Tardean relations’ in Sociology After Gabriel Tarde: Debates and Assessments, ed. M Candea (Routledge, 2009) M D Brand. (All joint) ‘On the role of uncoupling protein-2 in pancreatic beta cells’ and ‘Dynamic regulation of uncoupling protein 2 concentration in INS-1E insulinoma cells’, Biochemica et Biophysica Acta 1777 (2008); ‘High membrane potential promotes alkenal-induced mitochondrial uncoupling and influences adenine nucleotide 77

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translocase conformation’, Biochem. J. 413 (2008); ‘Expression of human uncoupling protein-3 in Drosophila insulin-producing cells increases insulin-like peptide (DILP) levels and shortens lifespan’, Experimental Gerontology 44 (2009); ‘UCPs – unlikely calcium porters’, Nature Cell Biology 10 (2008); ‘The efficiency of cellular energy transduction and its implications for obesity’, Ann. Rev. of Nutrition 28 (2008) F J Cooke. (All joint) Oxford Handbook of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology (OUP, 2009); ‘Variation in Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi IncHI1 plasmids during the global spread of resistant typhoid fever’, Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (February 2009); ‘Characterisation of the genomes of a diverse collection of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium definitive phage type 104 (DT104)’, J. of Bacteriol.

(December 2008).

N Cunniffe. (Joint) ‘Scaling from mycelial growth to infection dynamics: a reaction diffusion approach’, Fungal Ecology 1(4) (2008) S Davis. ‘El lugar de las novelas tardías en la obra completa de Juan Goytisolo’ in Pesquisas en la obra tardía de Juan Goytisolo, ed. B Adriaensen and M Kunz (Rodopi, 2009) R Doubleday. (Both joint) ‘Ethical codes and scientific norms: the role of communication in maintaining the social contract for science’ in Practising Science Communication in the Information Age: Theorising Professional Practices, ed. R Holliman, J Thomas, S Smidt, E Scanlon and E Whitelegg (OUP, 2009); ‘Contesting the UK Government’s “Vision for Science and Society”’, EASST Review 27 (2008) S Garrigan Mattar. ‘Yeats and folklore’ in Yeats in Context, ed. D Holdeman and B Levitas (CUP, 2009); ‘The Return of the Native : animism, fetishism, and the enchanted heath’, Thomas Hardy Journal 24 (2008) B Griffin. (Joint editor) The Politics of Domestic Authority in Britain since 1800 (Palgrave Macmillan, May 2009) P T Griffiths. (Both joint) ‘Mechanism of reactive uptake of N2O5 by dicarboxylic acid aerosol’, J. of Physical Chemistry A 113 (2009); ‘Photochemical production of aerosol from real plant emissions’, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions 9 (2009) M K Janeja. Transactions in Taste: The Collaborative Lives of Everyday Bengali Food (Routledge, 2009) S P G Madabhushi. (All joint) Design of Pile Foundations in Liquefiable Soils (Imperial College Press, 2009); ‘Shallow Foundation Design’ and ‘Deep Foundation Design’ in Seismic Design of Buildings to Eurocode 8, ed. A Elghazouli (Taylor and Francis, 2009) G L Mann. ‘Messianic Chivalry in Amis and Amiloun’, New Medieval Literatures 10 (2008) L McMahon. (Joint editor of the first and sole author of the second and third) Rhythms: Essays in French Literature, Thought and Culture (Peter Lang, 2008); ‘Lovers in touch: inoperative community in Nancy, Duras and India Song’, Paragraph: Journal of Modern Critical Theory 31(2) (2008); ‘Figuring intrusion: Nancy and Denis’, Contemporary French and Francophone Studies 12(4) (2008)

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J H P Ong. (Joint) ‘Hot streak and vane coolant migration in a downstream rotor’, Print Proceedings of the ASME Turbo Expo 2008 (ASME, 2009) J M Riley. (All joint) ‘A 610-MHz survey of the Lockman Hole with the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope – I. Observations, data reduction and source catalogue for the central 5 deg2’, MNRAS 387 (2008); ‘The duty cycle of local radio galaxies’, MNRAS 388 (2008); ‘Observed properties of FRII quasars and radio galaxies at z<1.0’, MNRAS 390 (2008) S Robertson. (Co-author of the first, sole author of the second) ‘Probabilistic relevance ranking for collaborative filtering’, Information Retrieval 11 (2008); ‘On the history of evaluation in IR’, J. of Information Science 34 (2008) E D Rubery. ‘Christ and the angelic tetramorphs: the meaning of the eighth-century apsidal conch at Sta Maria Antiqua in Rome’ in Sailing to Byzantium, ed. S Neocleous (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009); (joint editor) Girtonians and the World Wars: The Influence of the War Years on the Lives of Girtonians (Girton College Roll, 2009) A M Savill. (All joint) ‘Insight into high-quality aerodynamic design spaces through multi-objective optimization’, Computer Modelling in Engineering and Sciences J. 37(1) (2008); ‘Using post-analyses of optimisation processes as an active computational design tool’, International Conferences on Computational and Experimental Engineering and Sciences J. 7(4) (2008); ‘Biobjective design optimisation for axial compressors using tabu search’, AIAA J. 46(3) (2008) W J Simpson. (Co-author of the first, sole author of the second) ‘Vernacular literary consciousness, c.1100–c.1500: French, German and English evidence’ in The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism, volume 2, The Middle Ages, ed. A Minnis and I Johnson (CUP, 2009); ‘Tyndale as promoter of figural allegory and figurative language: A Brief Declaration of the Sacraments’, Archiv für das Studium der Neueren Sprachen und Literaturen 254 (2008) M Stevens. (All joint) ‘Object outline and surface disruption in animal camouflage’, Proc. of the Royal Society, Series B 276 (2009); ‘Animal camouflage: current issues and new perspectives’, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Series B 364 (2009); ‘Testing Thayer’s hypothesis: can camouflage work by distraction?’, Biology Letters 4 (2008); ‘Dazzle coloration and prey movement’, Proc. of the Royal Society, Series B 275 (2008) A M Strathern. Partial connections (Rowman and Littlefield, 1991, re-issued by AltaMira Press, 2004; translated by M Zidar, ed. M Petrovic-Steger, as Pisanje antropologijo, Koda, Studentska zalozba, 2008); ‘Social invention’ in Contexts of Invention: Creative Production in Legal and Cultural Perspective, ed. M Biagioli, P Jaszi and M Woodmansee (Chicago UP, 2009); ‘Using bodies to communicate’ in Social Bodies, ed. H Lambert and M McDonald (Berghahn Books, 2009) A Teichova. (Joint editor) Gaps in the Iron Curtain: Economic Relations between Neutral and Socialist Countries in Cold War Europe (Jagiellonian UP, 2009)

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R M Warren. (All joint) ‘Mammographic density using two computer-based methods in an isoflavone trial’ and ‘Does a short cessation of HRT decrease mammographic density?’, Maturitas 59(4) (2008); ‘Evaluating the effectiveness of using standard mammogram form to predict breast cancer risk: case-control study’, Cancer Epidemiol.

Biomarkers Prev. 17(5) (2008); ‘Mammographic breast density and breast cancer risk: where do we go from here?’, Int. J. of Cancer Prevention 2(5) (2008); ‘Creating individual-specific biomechanical models of the breast for medical image analysis’, Acad. Radiol. 15(11) (2008) R M Williams. (Sole author) ‘Quantum Regge Calculus’ in Approaches to Quantum Gravity, ed. D Oriti (Cambridge University Press, 2009)

Student Reports JCR Committee The JCR Committee has had an action-packed year. Being elected to the position of President as a first-year student, I certainly had my work cut out. This account could not begin to touch on every effort that the Committee has made to improve student life in Girton. There have been many small and large changes but below are those I think are the most salient and memorable.

After much hard work, the College Gym was successfully refurbished and is now arguably the best college gym in Cambridge. The facility includes a large selection of dumbbells, Olympic plates and even a crosstrainer. It has an active membership of over 70 members, proving the provision to be a worthwhile investment. It is set to help bring more success to Girton’s future sports teams. A huge amount of thanks must go to the Head Groundsman and the Development Director for assisting in co-ordinating the project.

The event ‘Life After Girton’ took place for the second year running and was regarded as an outstanding success. This event was organised in conjunction with the Roll Committee and was a great opportunity to hear from a wide variety of alumni from a range of different careers and backgrounds. It is intended to become an annual event which really does allow for interaction between the present and the past community.

A great emphasis was placed on using the notice boards and the facilities of the JCR Office. A new sign was made for the Office and a permanent home was found for all the old dusty photos. The JCR room was given a new lick of paint and four new leather sofas were purchased. The JCR website underwent a face-lift making it both extremely attractive and user-friendly. Also the LCD screen at Wolfson Court was finally installed.

Turning to Girton JCR’s social scene, the Committee were hard at work to make sure the JCR members are able to play hard as well as work hard. Freshers’ Week was a huge triumph and ensured that incoming first-years were in the Girton swing of things

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very quickly. In addition, throughout the year a number of much-anticipated themed Ents were organised such as the Sea Shanty and Prehistoric events. The Girton Garden Party was enjoyed by all, with a large number of bands playing and singing the afternoon away.

Girton really is an incredible place, full of warmth, energy and an atmosphere unrivalled elsewhere in Cambridge. With the University celebrating its 800-year anniversary, other Cambridge Colleges would do well to take note of Girton attributes. I hope that Girton, in a further 800 years, will remain true to the qualities which make it so special.

Finally, I would like to take this opportunity to thank the out-going Committee without whose hard work and dedication nothing would have been achieved. The JCR has always worked to secure the long-term interests of students and is a vital part of the Girton community. With Tom Chapman taking the helm, the future of the JCR continues to look bright. Good luck...

Brett Shanley, President

MCR Committee 2008–09 was full of triumphs and successes for the Girton MCR. In truth, all of the credit for such a successful year goes to the enthusiastic and passionate students who constitute Girton’s graduate community, with special thanks to the individuals who dedicated themselves to the MCR Committee. This Committee worked tirelessly throughout the year to ensure that the entire graduate community had an enjoyable and entertaining year.

As the year progressed, the MCR came together as a community. At first completely impromptu, Saturday evenings eventually became official MCR potluck nights.

Graduates would congregate in the MCR room, bringing culinary delights to share with their fellows. These events were extremely popular, and it is our hope that they will continue in future years. Formal Halls were, as always, a weekly favourite. With tables full of graduates discussing their research, the future, and what constitutes a good wine, Thursday evenings never failed to be a highlight of any given week.

Finally, 2008–09 saw the revival of the Girton Graduate Research Seminars. The GGRS provides an opportunity for students to present their research to their peers in a friendly and supportive environment. Frequently there are little opportunities within individual departments for such presentation. Given the breadth of subjects presented, with topics as varied as theoretical physics, topology, archaeology, philosophy, public health, and seismology, we can safely say that the GGRS covered a lot of ground.

Thankfully, the seminars were well attended and look to be established as part of the MCR activities for years to come.

This year’s worth of effort was made despite numerous setbacks. To highlight some of the occurrences: the year started rather inauspiciously, with the elected MCR president stepping down from his post. Thankfully, he was able to resolve any difficulties, and later assisted the Committee in numerous ways. The MCR Treasurer, on an expedition to climb Mount Everest, shattered his leg in a terrible car accident. Despite this, he 81

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continued not only to excel in his studies, but also to perform his duties for the MCR Committee. Such triumphs are indicative of the spirit which suffused not only the Committee, but the entire graduate population.

In closing this brief report, I would like to take the opportunity to thank all of the members of Girton who help to support the MCR Committee’s endeavours, and who worked to make this year the success that it was. Particularly, I would like to thank the out-going Mistress, Professor Marilyn Strathern. She has dedicated herself to the College with a tireless zeal that is unmatched. Girton will be a poorer place with her departure.

But the future looks bright, with new opportunities for the College as a whole, and for the MCR members in particular. So let us be thankful for what we have been given, in the form of this year’s worth of friends, fun, and accomplishments, and let us turn towards the future, continuing our story of success in the coming days.

Nathan Wildman, President

Girton Art Society With no active Art Society before the Easter Term of last year, this has been an exciting and experimental year for the Girton art scene. Throughout the year the Art Society has built up a large variety of materials and equipment from paints to clay, modelling wire and textiles. Weekly sessions were held, some with a specific project or theme and others that offered an open-studio-type opportunity to meet and experiment with materials.

Specific projects over the year have included drawing to music and dance, fabric manipulations and illustration, mask-making and works in 3D, such as creating natural sculptures inspired by the work of Andy Goldsworthy. The final project of this year was ‘Playing on Film’, an experimental photography project cumulating in a successful weeklong exhibition in the JCR. Through collaboration with the Bernie Lee Photographic Society, the Art Society was able to take advantage of the excellent dark room facilities to develop and print both film and digital photos. ‘Playing on Film’ aimed to involve the whole College, with all welcome to take part. Pinhole cameras were posted across College to offer anyone the opportunity to take a photo, and the opening night was well supported by the student body. Our thanks are due especially to Helen Holmes who invested a lot of time and effort to make this project work and to Daniel Strange who helped in the dark room.

Thanks also to the Art Society Committee of Simon Smart and Jo Edwards, who helped to make this year so successful, and to all those who attended events and weekly sessions and were so supportive. I hope next year the Society will continue to flourish.

Helen Duncan, President

Biological Society This Academic Year has been another successful year for Girton Biological Society (BioSoc). We have held events throughout the Michaelmas and Easter Terms to support students through their studies.

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The first event of the year welcomed Freshers studying Natural Sciences and gave new students an opportunity to meet each other. Further meetings throughout the year proved popular amongst BioSoc members as a friendly forum to discuss their experiences of the Tripos thus far, and become acquainted with students in other years at the College studying Natural Sciences.

BioSoc events have been important in offering students the opportunity to seek advice from the senior students who were of course happy to lend their wisdom. Presentations were given by three final-year students, Isabel Winney, Benjamin Hunter and Michael Smith, who discussed research they had undertaken in the vacation period. Such a presentation offered members of Girton BioSoc insight into practical issues that students may come across, from how to approach the task of finding a laboratory placement, to acquiring funding. These presentations also allowed for discussion of new research findings and techniques, as well as the practical matters of work experience and career aspirations.

Events were not simply presentations though. The final event in Easter Term involved Dr Veronica Bennett giving students a tour of Girton’s expansive grounds. The tour gave students an idea of how the grounds themselves are relevant to BioSoc members during their studies. One such example was the monkey-puzzle tree, an example of a living fossil plant.

In all, a number of interesting, and hopefully helpful, events were arranged. With several students interested in arranging events for the Society next year it is hoped that the Society will achieve even greater success.

Farzana Miah, President

Geographical Society This year the Girton Geographical Society has continued its role in fostering a community atmosphere amongst Girton geographers, with a bar crawl for Freshers at the beginning of Michaelmas Term and a number of ‘geography lunches’ throughout the year. The Society’s Annual Reunion Dinner was held in February, and was very well attended by both graduates and undergraduates. The evening provided an opportunity for alumni to reunite with old friends and to socialise with current undergraduates and Fellows. The pre-dinner drinks and excellent three-course meal were followed by an interesting speech

by Dr Catherine Souch (1979) from the Royal Geographical Society. She emphasised the importance of retaining Geography as an academic discipline, and highlighted its growing decline in schools. The speech was very well received and encouraged us all to think about the changing nature of the subject. The evening was completed with postdinner drinks in the Fellows’ Drawing Room and a lively raffle contributing towards the Jean Grove Memorial Fund. Thank you to all the alumni who attended and for the generous contributions to the Fund, which will aid undergraduates in financing their dissertations. Special thanks go to Dr Catherine Souch and to Emma Cornwall from the Development Office.

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Girton Amateur Dramatic Society (GADS) The year began in the traditional way, with a frantic tapping at keyboards and tearing of hair as the last-minute Macbeth: The Panto leapt joyously onto the Old Hall stage, showcasing once again a wealth of Girton talent ranging from graduates to Freshers.

Written by third-year Engineer Bernard Travers, fourth-year Vet Lydia Chambers and second-year Computer Scientist Christopher Patrick, the show continued the tradition of new comedy writing in Girton, fostering a fresh generation of potential pantomime writers.

Lent Term brought forth another piece of new writing, The Crystal Maze: The Musical, associated with GADS mainly by the sheer number of Girtonians that made up the cast and crew. A fun-packed roller-coaster of music and comedy from start to finish, penned

by Peter Facer (of Girton the Musical fame), Christopher Webb and Simon Burdus, the show earned rave Varsity reviews. It packed out three full houses and managed to draw attention and praise from the Producer and Composer from the original TV show. With requests for a tour of UK Universities and plans for a potential Edinburgh Tour in the pipeline, this may not be the last we hear of challenges, zones and dancing bananas.

This year’s May Week Show, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard, was yet another example of what this Society does best. Directed by GADS veterans Toby Lamarque and Lydia Chambers, as well as involving comedic talent drawn from every year of the College, this popular and highly entertaining show bodes well for the future of GADS, as every show put on gets new people involved and fills audiences with pleased Girtonians.

Plans for the coming year include buying new technical equipment and renovating the stage, with a new website on its way. Preparations have already begun for two of next year’s shows, due to hit the Cambridge boards next Michaelmas and Lent Terms. Many thanks go to the hardworking and talented cast and crew of all the shows this year, as well as the support and dedication of the GADS Committee: Joanna Harries (VicePresident), Chris Patrick (Treasurer), Okey Nzelu (Secretary), Hana Ayoob (Technical), Toby Lamarque and Lydia Chambers (graduates and alumni). This year has proved to be yet another successful, fun and exciting year for GADS, which I hope will be followed by many more.

Bernard Travers, President

Girton Ethnic Minorities Society (GEMS) The Girton Ethnic Minorities Shadowing Scheme took place this year on 5–7 March 2009.

Six students who were interested in Medicine, Natural Sciences, English, Economics and Social and Political Sciences arrived by the afternoon of 5 March to experience a very full 36 hours in the College.

As they arrived on a Thursday it was natural to take them to Formal Hall where they interacted with their shadows and got a chance to talk about their shared fields of interest. This was followed by social time in the bar when we outlined and explained the plans for the following day. There was also time to explore some of the special features of 84

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the College including the swimming pool and the seemingly endless corridors they had to negotiate on the way back to their rooms.

Fortified by a Girton breakfast, the students were taken by their shadows to classes and supervisions to give them the opportunity to see how their subject of interest is taught in University and College and what kind of work would be expected of them. All met up again for lunch at Wolfson Court followed by a tour of Cambridge that included a sight of Trinity, St John’s, Emmanuel and Clare. They were also taken to department libraries as well as the University Library which proved unexpectedly fascinating; so many books in an electronic age. The evening was concluded with dinner in Hall and then a special international film night showing of Motorcycle Diaries with the Latin American theme reinforced by appropriate fruit and snacks.

The students left for their trains and buses the next day, sustained by another full Girton breakfast. Each completed a feedback form and the general reaction seems to be that, in addition to having a good time, they appreciated the nature of the Cambridge academic atmosphere at the same time as appreciating the warmth and support offered

by Girton’s close-knit community.

Tuba Omer, President

Girton Medical Society

Because of an oversight by the editor the Medical Society's report was omitted last year.He offers his apologies to Andreas Hadjinicolaou, last year’s President, and to his committee.

The Medical Society has enjoyed great success once again, supported by current undergraduates, clinical students, alumni and Fellows.

The year began with an introductory dinner organized by our Director of Studies Dr Fiona Cooke. The first-year students had the chance to meet older students and were welcomed as members of the Society. Reciprocal formal dinner swaps with the societies of other colleges, such as Fitzwilliam, Trinity, Lucy Cavendish, and Peterhouse followed. Two talks were organised: the first by a Girtonian, Dr Margaret Branthwaite, entitled ‘Medical ethics; the role of the law’, and the second by clinical students on the subject of electives. Michaelmas Term ended with an orientation evening where third-year students guided second-year students with regard to the option subjects they would choose for Lent Term.

Lent Term is traditionally the term for talks and our Society did very well in arranging such events. To begin with Professor Kevin Brindle presented ‘Imaging biology in the cancer patient’. Professor Brindle explained his group’s cutting edge research and the evening was enjoyed by both medical and biological scientists as the event was held in collaboration with the Biological Society. Our very own Professor Peter Abrahams followed with his famous talk entitled ‘Art, anatomy, and medicine – where are the boundaries in the twenty-first century?’. It was a unique presentation, laced with historical and cultural references.

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Our next guest speaker was Dr Eileen Rubery who gave us an in-depth account of the emergence of transmissible encephalopathies and the way their spread was followed and restrained by the British Ministry of Health. Finally, Dr Josef Alawneh presented ‘Research in stroke and current clinical challenges’, exploring how current efforts to understand molecular pathological mechanisms go hand in hand with the aim to devise new therapies for neurological disorders.

The Medical Society Annual Dinner concluded this year’s events. It was a hugely successful evening, with a great number of alumni returning to join the existing medical community. Hall provided a fitting background for a fantastic meal, and this was preceded and followed by drinks in the Fellows’ Gardens. A few brave souls even ventured into the Bar to round off the night.

I would like to thank the Committee for all their hard work over the year; also Dr Fiona Cooke for her guidance, and Dr John Marks, the man responsible for the resurrection and continuous success of our Society.

Craig Winthrop, President 2008–09

Law Society One sparkling pink jacket, a speech that amused everyone and several glasses of wine provided another enjoyable Girton College Law Society Annual Dinner. Dame Elizabeth Gloster, first female Judge of the Commercial Court in the UK and this year’s Speaker, regaled us with shocking stories of what life is really like at the Bar! While acknowledging the difficulties in entering the profession faced by competitors on the BBC’s The Barristers, we learnt that glasses of ‘water’ actually contained gin. Clearly the level of ‘Dutch courage’ required to stand up in court!

The Annual Garden Party was held one glorious afternoon in May Week, with live music, refreshments and the energetic lawyer community of Girton in the Fellows’ Drawing Rooms and the Eliza Baker Court. With unlimited Pimm’s and champagne, alumni old and new spent a lazy afternoon in the sunshine.

Following Matriculation, a cross-section of the Law Society enjoyed an evening at Café Uno. As well as being a great opportunity for the older students to catch up after a long summer vacation, it was a great way to introduce the Freshers to the older Law students. Events were also held promoting top law firms, and the ever-increasing nonlawyer contingent within the Society demonstrates Girton Law Society’s popularity.

This year Girton Law Society has formed a sponsorship link with Simmons & Simmons, a leading international law firm. Incoming Law students will, from September, each receive a £60 grant towards the high cost of textbooks.

Thanks go to Mr Stelios Tofaris, who has kindly supported the Committee through his role as Senior Treasurer, as well as to the other Law Fellows, all of whom attended the Annual Dinner.

Finally, thanks must also go to Kate Houston (Treasurer) and Joanne Southern (Secretary/Mistress of Moots) for all their help during our period of office. I look forward to 2009–10 and hope for another exciting year under the new Committee.

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Poetry Group Three times a term, a knot of people gather around the fire in the Fellows’ Drawing Room to read each other’s work over a glass of wine. Poems, submitted anonymously earlier that day, are read aloud (a rare pleasure, for reader and author) and thoughts are shared. Afterwards, we go our separate ways.

In some ways, it is this meeting and talking that is most valuable, but the poems themselves are always good, too. This year every meeting has produced intricate, funny, moving poems, which crackle with life. A week’s work never produces anything longer than a page, although a couple of the most excellent pieces have been over 50 lines. The shortest poem was only 17 words.

A couple of ‘prompts’ are provided each week, often inspired by the changes of the year (A Pang is more conspicuous in Spring – Emily Dickinson) and of the academic term (Throw your homework onto the fire – The Smiths). The most exciting poems have, more than once, been in response to a single word – ‘compass’, ‘letter’ or ‘salvage’ or to visual prompts such as Giovanni Bellini’s painting Presentation at the Temple. The last meeting of this year promises to be especially Girtonian in flavour, with poems inspired by a trip to the Lawrence Room to see its newly acquired collection of Eye Idols.

Thanks are owed to all the group’s attendees – both regular and occasional – and especially to Stephen Robertson for the upkeep of our website.

Alba Ziegler-Bailey, President A Pang for the End of Summer Shoe heavy with mud from where you fell in you stomp back, Following the prints of geese in the bubbly concrete.

Rolling around, straw bales, Caravan cushions in the stubble field.

I got mounds of chippings, got fantastic stories.

I bin collectin em, see.

Try to stitch us up, Keep on making holes.

Trying to tightrope walk it Back into your good books yeah!

Once the balloon’s ribbon held neat in my beak, And now you’re Sweetly Floating Away.

Helen Holmes

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Bernie Lee Photographic Society The Society’s and my thanks are firstly due to Cara Kerven who has valiantly taken an informal role as acting President and tried to hold the Society together through two rather fallow years. Although there is clearly a great number of active photographers in the College as evidenced by the report from the Art Society and the many interesting images that appear on the JCR website, it has not been possible this year to build up an active membership. We thus go into the new academic year with neither officers nor members, but with an excellent dark room for developing and printing roll film, a computer and a3 printer for digital work, and several cameras and lenses for loan – even a small bank balance. There is also the latent potential of the dedicated display boards outside Old Hall. I write this in place of the normal student report in the hope that it will attract some enthusiasts to re-form an active group and again raise the profile of photography in the College.

Peter Sparks, Senior Treasurer

SAFE This has been another successful year for Girton College Southern African Fund for Education, with a substantial sum raised by the opt-out system for the JCR, the opt-in system for the MCR, donations from members of staff, and a generous contribution from the College itself.

This year has seen the Committee reduce in numbers to the modest but adequate size of two (myself and Sarah Footman, the Treasurer), just enough to act as signatories to the bank account, and after a year of hounding Barclays they have finally managed to sort this out, so the cheques will be paid in just in time to pay them out again.

The most important thing is to make sure the money raised is used as effectively as possible. We have undertaken research, met with fundraisers to discuss their charities and talked to gap-year students to arrive at a shortlist of charities. The next stage is to hold an open meeting at College to give everyone a chance to participate in the decision about how their money is spent. The only restriction is that all charities chosen are related to education and operate in Southern (Sub-Saharan) Africa, although such specifications are necessary for donations to be made in the first place. This education can be related to health, sanitation, life-skills or be of an academic nature.

Thanks go to Rob, last year’s Chairman, who has helped us and answered any questions we had, as well as the Senior Bursary Clerk, Martin Shadbolt, and to all those who made donations. The Committee’s last job will be to send out an email some time at the start of or just before the next Academic Year, inviting new members to put themselves forward and replace us.

Jan Gerhards, Chairman

Badminton Girton College Men’s Badminton had a highly successful year, causing many upsets against big teams in both the League and Cuppers. Although Michaelmas saw Girton I miss out on promotion by a single game, Lent saw the team improve greatly to comfortably come 88

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out on top in Division III. Girton men’s second team also had a good year, winning Division VI in Michaelmas and just missing promotion from Division V in Lent. With almost all of the current team staying on, we have no doubt that both teams have the ability to achieve promotion again next year.

Meanwhile in Cuppers, Girton I managed to pull off a huge victory against favourites and last year’s Division I and Open Cuppers champions Trinity I. We continued our run all the way to the final of the Open competition, where we suffered an unlucky loss against a very strong Jesus I side. Girton II pulled off their own big result against Robinson I, but were unlucky enough to be drawn against the eventual winners in the second round.

Thanks to Edward Rowett, Dominic Perrett, Duc Phan, Philip Woollins, Ritesh Patel, Rishi Baveja and Katie Scotter (Girton I), and Nicholas Hopkins, Thomas Chapman, Ian Tam, Mark Rendall, Ewan Stephens, Robert Harris and Peter Thum-Bonanno (Girton II) for some excellent performances throughout the year.

The women’s Badminton team had somewhat mixed fortunes this year but really improved as the year went on, showing vast improvement in the Lent Term. Many of last year’s players continued to play – Mary Reid (c), Natasha Aikman, Catherine Penington and Rachel Smith – and this provided a strong base for this year’s team. They were joined

by Jenny Cragg, Anne-Cecile Larribau, Sarah Penny and Sarah Potter.

In both terms we were in Division V of the Women’s League. Michaelmas saw a general struggle among the colleges in the League to find teams, so very few matches were played, with no victories for Girton, although our game difference meant that we did not finish last. Lent Term however saw a great improvement and we won over half of our games to finish in the middle of the League. Unfortunately we were not high enough up to gain promotion but many of our players will still be around next year. giving prospects of a successful season.

Tom Xu, Men’s Captain Mary Reid, Women’s Captain

Boat Club The 2008–09 Season has been a fantastic season for the men’s side of the Club. With a good group of people still here from last year and a good intake of Freshers, the year was looking promising from the start.

Michaelmas Term saw four people go off to trial for the lightweights, Mark Beevor, Owen Patey, Alexander Broadhurst and Wojciech Szlachta. While this left some gaps in our squad, people from last year’s second boat and new members of Girton filled them well.

Our Fairbairns result was not as good as we had hoped for however; with four people away with CULRC and some late losses due to illness we did as well as we could. This included Steven Wait having to be subbed out of the crew on the start line owing to illness and Daniel Ham having to change in the nearby public toilet and row the race.

Lent Term saw the return of the lightweights and the Girton first boat became a force to reckon with on the river. We achieved blades in Bumps, breaking into the First Division for the first time in nine years.

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We finished the term with a spot of fund-raising to try and buy some new blades for the men’s side. The first VIII did a 24-hour erg, keeping an average split of 1:45.4 and going over 40 km! We reached our target, and you can be sure those new blades were put to good use!

We continued on form through Easter Term, placing high or winning the races we entered, culminating in going up three in Bumps, increasing the year’s total to seven, one better than last year.

The culmination of this year came in the Henley Royal Regatta. For the first time ever, a Girton men’s crew raced at the prestigious event, and despite losing we had a fantastic two weeks training, racing and then spectating.

Whilst the women’s results might not look as impressive on paper as the men’s, the women’s side of the Club has gone from strength to strength this year. At the start of Michaelmas Term we only had enough rowers to put out a single IV. The crew were not without their successes however, winning the Cambridge Winter Head and finishing in the top ten in Fairbairns.

Lent Term saw the first VIII racing at Women’s Head of the River. For many of us this was the first time we had raced off Cam and in true GCBC fashion it was not without its drama. Sarah Walker saved the day subbing into the stroke seat at the very last minute and did an amazing job, especially considering she had not been in a boat for nine months. Despite being the longest race we had done, it really was not as bad as we were expecting and it was a fantastic experience. We finished 44 places higher than we started and came away with lots of smiles (and a huge bruise on the bow girl’s arm due to an unfortunately placed race number).

Lent Term also saw success for Katie Wood, flying the flag for Girton in the Blondie boat in their win against Oxford in the Boat Race.

From the four rowers we had in Michaelmas Term, we managed to put four women’s boats out for May Bumps – a huge achievement in itself. We would like to say a special thank you to the lower boats’ captains and to everyone who helped with the novices this year for making this possible. The prospect of starting fifth on the river had led to a term of hard training for our first boat. Despite an unfortunate term of injuries, illness and numerous subs, we rowed down on Wednesday determined to show what we could do. The culmination of the term’s hard work was seen in the epic row-over on day two.

We were able to hold Newnham off long enough for Downing to get them and after a slightly hairy boat-stopping-crab scenario on the reach we crossed the line with a sense of relief and accomplishment.

We would like to thank everyone who has contributed to us over the past year, from those who donated at the sponsored erg to all the people who volunteered to coach us, and those who have helped with the organisation of the Club. Especially, however, we would like to thank the rowers and coxes who have made this such a fantastic year and we hope we can do as well in years to come.

Matthew Tovey, Men’s Captain Hannah Sensecall, Women’s Captain

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Football Women With the loss of several key players this year’s team was somewhat skeletal for large portions of the 2008–09 Season. Despite the obvious drawbacks this presented, it saw a large influx of players completely new to the game, and resulted in a strong team spirit. Of the newcomers, Kristen Dokken and Anisha Sharma are due thanks for their contributions to the attack, and Clare Owens was a reliable addition to the defence. Of all the newcomers, Laura Leegood as goalkeeper was not only consistently available, but also showed the most progress over the Season, attending extra coaching sessions which were reflected in her game. This year’s award for ‘Most Improved Player’ was therefore presented to Laura in reflection of her efforts and improvement.

With such a large number of novices, our more experienced players were called upon more than ever. Fran Malarée and Lauren Iredale deserve a special mention in defence, a solid pair that have worked well together for three seasons now, and support each other well. In midfield, Maudie Powell-Tuck and Zoe De Beer provided much needed width, and linked central play with the attack in games where we were able to push forward.

This year’s ‘Player of the Season’ was Susan Little. Not only was Suse willing to adopt a more defensive position when needed, she was key in supporting the new players and offered strong leadership skills when necessary. After four years, her personality and skill will be missed.

Because of inconsistent player availability, scores were always high, but results varied.

An 8–0 victory over St John’s was well played and well deserved, whilst some of our losses were not only goal-packed (11–0 v Jesus, 7–0 v Selwyn-Robinson) but also hilarious.

Despite boasting a team of only eight players, our Plate exit against Sel-Robinson saw Zoe De Beer, playing as goalkeeper, make a spectacular run forward to the halfway line, with slick passing between herself and the midfield resulting in the most promising attack of the day. Whilst the only shot on goal was taken from the halfway line, we celebrated it as a small victory. A special mention goes, again, to Susan Little, who managed to score a headed own-goal at the same point, in the same game, as she did last year.

I will be continuing as Captain next year, and will hope for more games with the same spirit.

Anna Heaton, Captain

Hockey Women It has been a most enjoyable experience captaining the team this year. Sadly it was not possible to field a full team every week but the matches that were well attended effectively showed that despite this, Girton remains a notable force on the hockey pitch.

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not great, but this was sufficiently compensated for by our Cuppers action, where we reached the quarter finals after a nail-biting match against Pembroke that was won on Penalty Flicks. A special mention must go to Helen Phillips, not only for stepping in as goalkeeper at the last moment but also for an amazing performance under a lot of pressure.

Congratulations must also go to Ruth Graham and Rebecca Langton who both represented the University this year. ‘Player of the Season’ was awarded to Stephanie Otte – her performances from the first to the last match of the year were hugely impressive. The award for ‘Most Improved Player’ was split this year between Julia Townend and Joanne Southern, who maintained an enviable level of enthusiasm and joie de vivre, which no doubt aided their radical transformation from beginners to vital team members. I hope that they continue to play next year as both of them have natural ability and a lot of potential.

Thanks must go to Anna Heaton and Rachel Smith who have been very helpful Committee members this year. No doubt the biggest thanks must go to Susan Little; her commitment despite a busy work and University sports load was hugely appreciated and her talent as always was invaluable. Susan’s all-round skill and enthusiasm will be hugely missed next year. I thank her for her contribution over the last four years and wish her all the best in the future. We are also indebted to Matthew Chorlton, who umpired the majority of our matches this Season.

The Season was fittingly ended with a wonderful annual dinner in the Fellows’ Rooms.

Next year’s Captain will be Naomi Penfold. I wish her and the team the best of luck.

Women’s Squad: Maria Henty, Anna Heaton, Julia Townend, Rebecca Langton, Helen Phillips, Rachel Smith, Susan Little, Ruth Graham, Joanne Southern, Stephanie Otte, Elizabeth Cosgrove, Sophia Davis, Jenny Bromage, Francisca Malarée and Juliette McIntyre.

Maria Henty, Captain

Men Going into 2008–09, we were fortunate to have significant continuity in the squad. The first priority was finding a new goalkeeper. David Tysoe took up the challenge and there were several other additions to the squad.

Michaelmas Term opened with a 3–0 victory over Selwyn. In our second fixture we were drawn against Robinson to whom we lost 5–3. This single loss meant that we missed out on promotion in the Michaelmas Season, finishing second in the table.

In Lent Term, we were determined to go one better and achieve promotion. We put ourselves in a strong position with some convincing victories including a 14–0 win over Selwyn. In our final match we came up against Pembroke, a side that we had beaten in Michaelmas Term. We controlled the first half but lost the momentum after half-time and they scored two late goals (final score Girton 2–3 Pembroke). Unfortunately this meant that we narrowly missed promotion again.

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over Trinity and Gonville and Caius (both teams from the division above). Our semifinal was against Jesus, a very strong side from Division I. It was a highly competitive game with some dubious umpiring decisions, which we lost 3–2. Jesus went on to win the competition, which shows that Girton is able to compete at the same level as the best college teams in Cambridge.

The ‘Player of the Season’ Award went to Alec Dawson whilst the ‘Most Improved Player’ was David Tysoe. Next year the Captaincy will pass to Robert Harris. I would like to thank everyone who helped make this a very enjoyable season and I wish the Club all the best in the future.

Men’s Squad: Alec Dawson, Benedict Treloar, Christopher Miller, Christopher Kingcombe, Daniel Samuel, David Tysoe, David Vyravipillai, Fred Kelly, Grant Milne, Ian Tam, James Hosier, Joseph McIntyre, Jonathan Humphries, Luke Dennis, Matthew Chorlton, Matthew Tovey, Oliver Russell, Philip Woollins, Robert Harris, Robert Patrick, Steven Bryce.

Robert Patrick, Captain

Netball This year’s Netball Season proved yet again successful for Girton College Netball Club.

The first team really fought for a deserved fourth place in Division I, missing out on third place narrowly to Jesus. One particularly memorable match the firsts played was that against St Catharine’s, in which, after losing the first quarter, we came back desperate to win, and subsequently beat them in every quarter. Girton College had not beaten St Catharine’s in a netball match for two years. It was a thrilling moment!

Again the second team proved energetic and dedicated, once more displaying excellent performances, and exhibiting their unity as a team. Their promotion to Division III was well-deserved, finishing fifth in an extremely competitive division. Their ability is displayed in the fact that many players from the second team were called to represent the first team on various occasions. This also shows their complete commitment, for which I was extremely grateful.

The new Mixed Netball team stormed Division III, remaining unbeaten. Under the Captaincy of Benedict Treloar the team went from strength to strength, and promotion to Division II next year is thoroughly deserved.

The Cuppers tournament this year unfortunately did not go as well as we had hoped.

The first team came joint second to qualify for the semi-finals, yet missed out on goal difference. This was a great disappointment, yet has made us ever more eager to qualify next year!

I would like to thank Samantha Miller, the Captain of the second team, for all her support over the past year. I would also like to thank Emily James, Kate Houston and Joanna Keppe, who will all be graduating this year, for their commitment to the team.

They have been crucial players for the Netball Club, and will be sorely missed by Girton College Netball. I would like to wish them the best of luck for the future.

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‘Player of the Season’ goes to Charlotte Vie for her commitment and excellent consistent performance throughout the year. Charlotte will be taking over the Captaincy of the second team. I am confident the team will only improve under her guidance. The Captaincy of the firsts deservedly goes to Stella Deakin, whose leadership and ability will certainly help the firsts to achieve more superb results.

I have thoroughly enjoyed being Captain of the Netball Club, and I wish all three teams every success for next year.

Efftichia Kostalas, Captain

Rugby Men After last year’s disappointment at being relegated from Division I, Girton College Men’s Rugby Team had a point to prove over the course of the Season, and that was done to a large extent, but not to the full degree we perhaps deserved. With the influx of a large number of skilled and keen Freshers, the squad was strengthened to 28 members, something the College has not seen for a little while. This meant ‘picking the team’ really did mean picking the team, and even with a few injuries to key players, the side still managed to be re-promoted and to get to the final of the Plate competition, narrowly losing to Queens’ College 15–11 with 30 seconds to run on the clock. A win really would have been the icing on the cake. As it was, we lacked precision on the day, being held up over the line on two occasions and coming away tryless after being camped on their line for a decent 15-minute spell in the second half.

This was the story of our season: we were a very strong side capable of winning every game, but rarely putting the game beyond doubt. Our largest score was a 33–0 win over Homerton, but most often there were only one or two scores in it. We started slowly with a 19–19 Home draw with St Catharine’s, a feat we repeated in the return fixture 12–12! Both games were ours for the taking but we never managed to put the game out of sight in the second half and as a result conceded late in the half. Nevertheless, it was a fantastic season, as we were unbeaten in the League competition and promoted in second position behind St Catharine’s on points difference. We narrowly lost to St Edmund’s in the Cup 24–34. The majority of their team were University Blues, so to come away with such a scoreline was highly commendable, and it was arguably the match of our season.

Their Captain, the Blues Captain, congratulated us for such a performance, saying they ‘were actually worried they might be knocked out the Cup’. Unfortunately it was not to be in front of our Home crowd, which grew over the course of the Season, but it was the turning-point in our season. We recommenced our winning ways in the Plate with some strong wins over Emmanuel, Trinity Hall and Caius, only to lose in the final to Queens’, whom we had beaten twice in the League.

Our only other loss was in the Old Boys’ match, where the young were shown how to play clinical rugby by the not-so-young. It was made all the better by the College surroundings, with the new rugby pitch being used this year. It all made for a very enjoyable day, and night!

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Overall we had a successful season from a good squad, with 13 different try scorers.

We lose nine strong players this year to the big wide world. They will be sorely missed and their commitment has been greatly appreciated. Worthy of special mention is Stuart Forbes, who played his final game after six years at full back for Girton. The Squad should be looking to remain in Division I next year, where we deserve to be, and I fully believe we are capable of achieving that.

Andrew Badcock, Captain

Tennis The 2009 Season looked promising as Girton stood strong, finishing fourth in last year’s Cuppers competition. With a team of John Clark, John Russell, Jonas Rooze, James Nguyen, Robert Clark and Grant Milne we had the experience and thus were confident.

The first round against St Catharine’s II was thankfully, as we had hoped, a simple victory 8–1. However round two proved to be the draw we feared – Robinson College. Robinson with four Blues were seeded in the top three teams, and thus one of our main rivals. The game was set to be intense. Because of maintenance on Robinson courts we played on the two Girton hard courts, which unfortunately meant that the match ran on far longer than ever anticipated. Two hours in and both courts were still being used by the first pair doubles. As the light faded we had to bring the game to a close – Girton were up three games to one. Girton therefore had to win two more out of the five remaining to secure a place in the third round.

Over the next week the rest of the games were battled out with limited success. The spirit that held the Girton team together when playing on College grounds had been lost and the match was finally complete with a Robinson win 5–4. Unfortunately there were no further matches for second-round knock-outs and therefore this was our final game of the 2009 Season. We can only imagine where the team would have ended up if we had managed to defeat Robinson – quite possibly in the final! We shall never know. Next year the Girton team will have a lot to live up to as four of the team will be graduating.

However I have every hope that the new team will succeed and secure that Trophy that we were so eager for this year. I wish them every success.

Grant Milne, Captain

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Registrar’s Report This has been a busy and productive year for the Roll, with a number of initiatives linked to the Girton Project taking place as well as the more usual Roll events.

In November 2008, in collaboration with the MCR and JCR we repeated our successful ‘Life After Girton’ event for the undergraduate and graduate students.

Around 40 students met and dined with five alumni who were further down the road in their careers and able to discuss with the students how to take those important first steps after leaving Girton. This coming year, we have decided to modify the format of this event and include parents in the invitation to a dinner in Hall on 7 November 2009, following which two speakers will talk of their experiences in creating their own particular life style and career. This is the first time we have involved parents in a Roll initiative and we hope the format will enable parents to experience, to some extent, the unique Girton College environment, as well as to hear what the guest speakers have to say.

The most exciting and high-profile event this year was the preparation and publication of Girtonians and the World Wars: The Influence of the War Years on the Lives of Girtonians. This formed the first volume of the The Girton Project Journal and was published in April. It included the results of the survey of Girtonians’ experiences in and after World War II which had been carried out and analysed by Barbara Megson and Hilary Goy. In addition, Deryn Watson reviewed and did some additional analyses on the material collected by the then Mistress, Miss Jex-Blake, in her article in the Girton College Annual Review in 1920 on the experiences of Girtonians in World War I.

Hall, probably during the First World War. Note that there are just two half-loaves for each table of twenty. This was before Hall had been panelled. The lights are still gasoliers and there are two large fire-surrounds containing very small fires, but bearing the College silverware.

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The collection of articles provided the basis for a fascinating comparison of the effects of the two Wars on the lives of Girtonians. We marked the launch of The Girton Project Journal and the publication of the papers by a lunchtime event on 25 April, which is reported more fully in Miscellany. This proved very lively and enjoyable, both for those who took part in the survey and those who accompanied them. We were also fortunate to have a two-page spread on the findings of The Girton Project Journal in the Cambridge News on 7 July 2009. Copies of Volume One, containing these articles, are for sale from the Porters’ Lodge at £7.00 (plus £1.00 for postage).

The Roll Buffet Lunch in July was attended by 88 people. Our Guest Speaker at the Annual General meeting that followed was Dame Rosalyn Higgins (Cohen 1955) who spoke on ‘The work of the International Court of Justice in a changing world’. Dame Rosalyn, who is an Honorary Fellow of College, was a member of the International Court of Justice from 1995, and its President from 2006–09. In her talk she explained how the Court had been set up, how the Judges were appointed, and how it functioned and dealt with the many different cultural backgrounds and legal frameworks of the participating countries. Its continued growth reflected increasing confidence in its impartiality and in the value of its role. The full talk can be found in the Roll section of the College website.

The Roll Dinner in September 2008 was attended by 177 people and our Guest Speaker was Professor Elizabeth Jeffreys (Brown 1960), Bywater and Sotheby Emeritus Professor of Byzantine and Modern Greek Language and Literature and Fellow of Exeter College, at Oxford University, who had also played a key part in the organisation of the International Byzantine Conference held in London in 2006. She spoke on ‘The importance of being a Byzantinist: or the place of minority subjects in a modern University’, a subject of great importance to many of those anxious to maintain the breadth of academic disciplines in universities.

Our three Formal Halls were again well attended and provided a pleasant forum for Girtonians to meet and exchange views.

Finally, preparations are now in hand for a Workshop, to be held on 8 May 2010 in College, entitled ‘Life After Your Main Career’ when we will hear the more detailed results of the survey of Girtonians’ views on ‘Retirement’ that we carried out in 2007– 08. Further details are in the flyer that is being circulated with the Annual Review, and includes an application form to enable you to reserve a place (copies of this can also be downloaded from the Girton website). We are still developing the programme for this event and so anyone interested should get in touch, whether they want to contribute as a speaker or attend as a participant.

I would like to end by stressing that we are always keen to involve new people in helping with events or starting new activities, so if you would like to be involved in any of the Roll and Project activities more closely do just get in touch.

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Apologies for absence Minutes of last year’s AGM Membership of the Roll Committee Registrar’s report of Roll activities in 2009–10 and future plans The Mistress’s report on the College year Any other business

roll committee 2009–10 The Mistress Registrar of the Roll Alumni Officer Development Director Fellows’ Representative

Professor Susan Smith (ex officio) Dr Eileen Rubery (1967) (ex officio) Dr Emma Cornwall (1999) (ex officio) Ms Francisca Malarée (ex officio) Dr Ruth Williams (1962)

Period 1 (to 1949) Miss Barbara Megson (1948) elected to Sept 2012 Period 2 (1950–59) Dr Elizabeth Poskitt (1957) re-elected to Sept 2011 Period 3 (1960–69) Mrs Christine Thorp (Kenyon 1964) elected to Sept 2010 Period 4 (1970–79) Professor Valerie Sanders (1975) re-elected to Sept 2010 Period 5 (1980–89) Mrs Catherine Tilley (Thomson 1983) elected to Sept 2011 Period 6 (1990–99) Mrs Angela Dobson (Ambrose 1999) elected to Sept 2012 Period 7 (2000–09) Miss Louise Ivey (2002) re-elected to Sept 2012 Representative of Graduates in Residence Ms Kristin Kemmerich (2007) Co-opted Members Dr Christine H McKie (Kelsey 1949)

Ms Heather Morrison (1976)

Mr Rufus Evison (1986) Cambridge Local Girton Association Dr Pamela Hill (Harper 1953) London Girton Association Ms Fiona Gledhill (1975) Manchester Association of CU Women Mrs Judith Anstice (Williams 1955) Oxford Region Girtonians Miss Meg Day (1967) Wales and West Girtonians Association Mrs Heather Toomer (Fomison 1966) North East Emily Davies Association Dr Jane Ruddle (1971) Project Steering Group Chair Professor Deryn Watson (Morgan 1964) If you are interested in representing a Period or wish to nominate someone else to serve on the Roll Committee, please contact the Registrar at Girton (e-mail roll@girton.cam.ac.uk) for more information about what is involved.

If you wish to be consulted when your year representative is next elected, please ensure that we have your e-mail address, or indicate that you wish to be consulted by post.

If you would like to become more involved in supporting Roll activities or have ideas for additional events or initiatives, please get in touch with the Registrar.

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Local Associations Cambridge Local Girton Association The Cambridge Local Girton Association has 67 members at present and is keen to recruit more, especially from among the more recent graduates now living in the Cambridge area or from members of other local Associations. There have been some changes to the Committee. Dr Christine McKie resigned from her position as Treasurer, which was assumed by Brenda Bishop, who previously had been elected Chairman at the AGM in November, 2007. Jane Reid has become Secretary on the retirement of Hilary Goy and Judith Rodden is now Chairman. The Committee thanks Christine and Hilary most warmly for the hard work they have undetaken.

A most informative conducted tour of the gardens at Jesus College was organised by Christine McKie on 24 July 2008; the magnificent ancient trees, in one case introduced as a seedling in the early 19th century, were especially admired.

The lecture on 13 June by Dr John van Wyhe of Christ’s College on ‘Darwin in Cambridge’ was a fascinating, informative and at times entertaining account of Charles Darwin’s undergraduate years at the same college. The lecture was followed by a muchappreciated lunch in the Stanley Library. The occasion was organised by Brenda Bishop.

Those members of the CLGA who visited Ely on 5 July enjoyed tours of Oliver Cromwell’s House and the Cathedral led by a member of the CLGA, Anne Heffernan, who is an official – and superb – guide. Lunch at the Maltings restaurant beside the river was another high point of the visit.

The CLGA ran the customary raffle at the Roll Garden Party at the College on 11 July and raised £200 as a contribution to the provision of deckchairs for use in Campbell Court.

Judith Rodden (Wilkins 1955), email: clga@girton.cam.ac.uk

London Girton Association The period under review got off to a splendid start with two autumn visits. Marie Winkler took members to the Old Operating Theatre Museum and Herb Garret in St Thomas Street, Southwark on 22 October 2008. Then on the evening of 3 December 2008, Sue Holmes arranged for us to have a private guided tour of Dr Johnson’s House in Gough Street, behind Fleet Street. We were very privileged to visit Sir John Soane’s Museum in Lincoln’s Inn Fields, courtesy of Archivist Sue Palmer, as private visits are now charged at commercial rates. We are very grateful to Sue for agreeing to show us round one last time, in spite of the fact that half of us were snowed in on that snowy day way back on 3 February in 2009.

On 15 May, Ann Carey arranged for us to have places on a public tour of the Van Dyck and Britain Exhibition at Tate Britain, curated by Girtonian Karen Hearn. The final visit of the year was a long awaited return visit to Chelsea Physic Garden, on a lovely balmy evening on 1 July, again arranged by Ann Carey.

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The highlight of the year for me was a very special recital on 12 March at Eva Lomnicka’s beautiful central London home, given by violinist Charlie Siem, our 2006–07 music award winner, accompanied by Dr Martin Ennis. We were delighted that the retiring Mistress, Professor Dame Marilyn Strathern, was our guest. Charlie is already a popular performer at international festivals and is critically acclaimed for his debut recording.

Together our two recitalists performed a programme of music that truly showed Charlie’s great talent and we shall watch his burgeoning career with interest.

At our AGM in November 2008, our Members agreed that we should donate a further £4,000 of our surplus funds towards the endowment of a Teaching Fellowship at Girton and as this falls under the matched funding programme, about which you will have read elsewhere, our donation is worth £8,000 to College. For the year 2008–09 our LGA Music Award for Outstanding Musicianship was made to Harry Winstanley, who is a flautist. The award is worth £500 and is made possible through funds which we set aside for this purpose.

It is with a tinge of sadness that I finish this, my final report for the Annual Review, as by the time you read this, I will have stepped down as Chair. Also leaving the Committee at the 2009 AGM are Margaret Bryan, Archivist, Ann Nussey, Newsletter Editor, and Sue Holmes, Committee Member.

My involvement with the Association goes right back to 1997 when Jocelyn Mayne, our Founding President, set up the Association, and I have been Chair for the last nine years. It has been a privilege to lead the Association for so long, and see it firmly established in the minds of Girtonians. We have organised some fabulous events over the years but it is the people one meets and the friendships made that make the real difference. If you are not already a member yourself, why not contact Nuri Wyeth, our Membership Secretary, at lga@girton.cam.ac.uk?

Fiona Gledhill (1975)

Manchester Association of Cambridge University Women We were pleased to welcome Christine Tacon, one of our own members, as Guest Speaker at our autumn meeting. Christine is General Manager of The Co-operative Farms, the largest farming business in England and Wales and she soon passed on her enthusiasm for home-grown food to her audience.

The Speakers at our 63rd Annual Dinner were Natalie Walker, Head of Alumni Relations at Cambridge, and Margaret Brown, the recently retired Professor of Mathematics Education at King’s College London. Natalie spoke of her future plans and Margaret looked back at recent changes in the teaching of mathematics.

On our summer outing in June we visited Gorton Monastery. Designed by Edward Putin for the Franciscan Friars, the church is unusually sited with the altar at the north end. From small beginnings the congregation grew to more than 3,000 but with slum clearance the church fell into disuse and then disrepair until 2005 when the building was restored for community use.

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we would love to see any women Girtonians who are in the area.

Our 64th Annual Dinner is to be held on Friday 12 March 2010 when we shall welcome Gill Richards, Headmistress, Bolton School Girls’ Division. We would be very happy to see any Girtonians (male or female) who are able to be in Manchester on that day.

If any women Girtonians would like to hear more about MACUW please get in touch with me or with our Secretary, Helen Wright, at helenwright@btinternet.com.

Judith Anstice (Williams 1955)

North East Emily Davies Association The Association did not meet in 2008–09 but if you are interested in joining, suggesting or taking part in future events, please contact the Association President, Jane Ruddle, needa@girton.cam.ac.uk.

Oxford Region Girtonians The Oxford Region Girtonians has about 65 members, living mainly in Oxfordshire, Berkshire and Buckinghamshire, though some of our Honorary Members are further afield. We continue with our usual mix of talks and social outings, with a six-monthly newsletter keeping members informed of ORG and Girton news.

Our lecture meetings have each attracted 25 to 30 attendees, including guests. In October 2008 we welcomed Jane Mollison, who spoke on ‘Two Years in Yunnan – paintings of rural China’. By giving a commentary on the beautiful paintings she had brought to display she was able to give a vivid and warm account of her time in this remote area of south-west China. Her work is a valuable record of the life and scenes fast disappearing in China’s rush to modernise. For our next meeting in March 2009 we moved to Kenya, as Old Girtonian Celia Nyamweru described her experiences there, covering a time span from immediately after independence until the 1990s.

Throughout her talk Celia was showing slides of her work and family life, and these served to illustrate points she made about many issues, such as racial mixing in some areas of life but not others. Then in May 2009 we held our AGM and enjoyed a talk from Deryn Watson, Chair of the Girton Project Steering Group, who shared her enthusiasm for the work of the Project, and gave us such a lively picture of ‘Girtonians and the war years’.

In July 2008 our summer outing was a return visit to Broughton Castle, near Banbury, preceded by lunch in the nearby Saye and Sele Arms. Although the group was small in numbers, this had its advantage as it meant our guide, Lady Sele, was able to take us through parts of the house not normally shown to visitors. For our winter lunch we met at the Flowing Well in Sunningwell. More recently, a group of members enjoyed a guided tour of the new Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, which is still under construction in the city. This fascinating complex, with different rooms reflecting different traditional Islamic styles of architecture and decoration, will provide a remarkable venue for many years. We are now looking forward to a summer visit to Milton Manor, near Abingdon, starting with lunch in the Admiral Benbow.

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Any Girtonians new to our area are very welcome to join us for meetings and to receive the six-monthly newsletter; please contact me at org@girton.cam.ac.uk.

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Wales and the West Girtonians’ Association Last year our events comprised two talks and two visits. In October we had a well-attended and interesting visit to the Horsehair Factory at Castle Cary, where old looms can still be seen working to produce traditional furnishing fabrics and colourful versions for new uses. After lunch we moved on to the nearby National Trust property, Montacute, a very grand Elizabethan mansion with fine furnishings. Our November meeting was based around a fascinating talk on the setting up of our postal code system by Martin Reed who was heavily involved in the project.

In the spring we first visited Kings Weston House, a little-known property on the outskirts of Bristol, built to plans by Vanbrugh. It has sadly lost most of its original furnishings but retains a very fine staircase, plaster work and pictures.

John Hardy talked about how he has devoted himself to saving the property from its twentieth-century uses as a school, police headquarters etc under Bristol City Council and the trials and tribulations of working with English Heritage and other interested bodies to restore it to acceptable standards, bringing first the magnificent entrance hall then other rooms into use in turn, so that money could be raised to continue the project.

In July we were entertained to a talk by Ewart Smith entitled ‘Interesting everyday mathematics’, though, typically, the weather did not allow full enjoyment of our hostess’s garden.

We are a small group but, with minimal running costs, our events always make a profit, which goes to Girton’s Development funds. Our future programme is still in the planning stage but all Girtonians are very welcome to our meetings which are sociable occasions including lunch – contact Heather Toomer, wwga@girton.cam.ac.uk, or see the Girton website for details.

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Room. The regular Tuesday choral candlelit Compline is at 10.00 p.m. On Fridays Mothusi Turner (2006) has led Taizé style worship. On All Souls’, Ash Wednesday and Ascension Day, Eucharists were held at 6.00 p.m. A moving part of our Remembrance Service this year was when the Chaplain read parts of a letter from a Girtonian currently serving in Helmand Province, Afghanistan.

This year we were particularly fortunate to have the preaching skills of several Girtonians, past and present, in the Chapel. Zoe Bennett (1971) preached at the Commemoration of Benefactors, Diana Marshall (2001) returned in Lent to preach on ‘The Body’, and in the Easter Term Chris Webb (2006) was ‘in conversation’ with the Chaplain on the subject of ‘Fortitude’. The Reverend Raymond Obin (1982) preached at the end-of-year Service of Thanksgiving, at which we also said farewell to the Mistress, Professor Dame Marilyn Strathern.

A new addition to Chapel furniture has been a ‘hassock chest’ to store and protect those of the beautiful kneelers, made by Girtonians for the College Centenary, that at any time are needed for the size of congregation. The chest is of oak, matching in detail the Chapel panelling, and was made possible by subscriptions and donations from you, the Friends of the Chapel, so many thanks to all of you. The panelling itself has been extended to make more room for the carved memorials that endow the space with so many memories of its senior members.

Chapel continues to prove popular for Girtonian weddings and there have been several during the year. Most are followed by a reception in the Fellows’ Rooms and Eliza Baker Court. It is good that so many Girtonians continue their own links with Chapel in this way and also that they want to introduce their families and guests to the College Roland Randall, President

Friends of the Choir The Chapel Choir of Girton College has just returned from an extremely successful eighteeen-day debut tour of the eastern seaboard of the United States – resoundingly received in every venue. The Choir’s journey began in Washington DC in the acoustical splendour of the National Cathedral and the National Shrine; we moved on to performances at St John’s Cathedral in Wilmington, Delaware, St Mark’s Episcopal Church in Philadelphia, St Thomas Fifth Avenue (from which there was a webcast) and St Ignatius Loyola in New York, St Paul’s-on-the-Green in Norwalk, Connecticut, and finally St Luke’s Cathedral in Portland, Maine. At this last venue, the choir spent three days 105

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recording a new CD which will be released on 3 November 2009 at a special concert in Goldsmiths’ Hall, London, to mark Girton College’s celebration of the 800th anniversary of Cambridge University and its own 140th anniversary.

In every region to which we travelled, the Choir’s hosts were incredibly generous, looking after our Girtonian singers with the utmost care. There were, of course, one or two days of rest, even including a trip to the ‘Six Flags Great Adventure’ theme park near New York. Dinner parties and receptions were hosted for us in every city, most notably in New York, at St Thomas Church Fifth Avenue, provided by the Cambridge Society in America. Each host institution on the 650-mile itinerary made early enquiries into sales of the Choir’s forthcoming disc. Simply put, the Girton Choir was a big hit in America!

Looking ahead to the summer of 2010, Above: the cover of the new CD. we hope to capitalise on these successes Below: ‘It’s a wrap’: the Choir and engineers relax after the completion of their recording in New York. and introduce our Choir to the music festival circuit in France. Of course, none of these special initiatives would be possible without the generosity of the Friends of the Choir – your generosity – and we are all extremely grateful for all the support we receive. As has been the case for some fifteen years now, the Friends’ consistent commitment to the Choir makes it possible to spread Girtonian goodwill globally – through music.

Dr Dana Marsh, Director of Chapel Music

Friends of the Lawrence Room Girton’s Lawrence Room collections offer unique insight into College history. Hermione, our beautiful and unequalled portrait mummy, is joined by archaeological finds from as close at hand as the College site and as far away as Mesopotamia in offering material evidence of the interests and scholarship of Girtonians past and present.

The new display and much associated work has been established through generous donations received in response to our original appeal to the Girtonian Classicists and Achaeologists. The room is now open each Thursday afternoon, curated by local Girtonians, and can also be visited at other times by appointment, on application to the Lawrence Room 106

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committee at lawrenceroom@ girton.cam.ac.uk. At last we can showcase Girton’s treasures, and a complete scholarly and illustrated electronic catalogue now makes the Lawrence Room collections accessible to the public and researchers alike. However the generosity of the newly-established group of Friends and Patrons of the Lawrence Room is vital in ensuring the environmental monitoring, conservation, ongoing curation and security of these expanding collections. Donations meet small costs and large, from an annual filter change for Hermione’s state-of-the-art display cabinet to the establishment of an endowment that will meet annual running costs of £3,700 and support the management of the collections into the future.

Friends of the Lawrence Room receive an invitation to an annual event and, if they wish, are commemorated in the Donors’ Book. In addition, every year Patrons are sent an illustrated card highlighting recent research concerning an object selected from these fascinating collections.

Dorothy Thompson, President

Friends of the Library Friends and Patrons of the Library attended the annual event at Girton on the day of the Roll Annual General Meeting, 11 July 2009. Unfortunately, Dr Lynn Hulse of the Royal School of Needlework had to cancel her talk about the Reception Room embroideries at the last moment because of illness, but we hope that she will come and give it at the summer event in 2010. In its place Frances Gandy gave a talk entitled ‘Disreputable associations of old women and fighting harridans: suffrage and anti-suffrage at Girton 1905–16’. This was accompanied by an exhibition of related material from Girton’s archives. The talk elicited some fascinating contributions and personal anecdotes on the subject from the audience.

After this event and back in the Library, alumni and their guests were able to examine Girton’s finest Book of Hours. As happened last year, there was quite a queue to don the white gloves, under the watchful eye of the Assistant Librarian. The Archivist was also on hand to answer questions about many archival matters. A small exhibition of ‘Darwin, animals and botanicals’ from various of our special collections was set out in the Upper Library, and the matriculation albums from foundation to the present day were also on display.

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Campbell Court. These have been a popular addition to external ‘Library space’, together with the all-weather tables and chairs which were bought from Friends of the Library funds. They have all proved to be valuable assets during the exam period, when they were used for study in the fresh air, as well as for relaxation and breaks from work. Friends’ funds have also allowed us to continue our participation in the University’s ebooks project, and our students now have electronic access to over 1,000 of the most heavily used books in Cambridge. We are most grateful to the Friends for enabling us to provide such valuable extras to our facilities through their continued support of the Library.

We hope that you will feel encouraged to become a Friend or Patron of the Library, or to renew your membership. We are indebted to all our supporters, on whom we rely for the value-added aspects of our library service. If you become a Patron we will insert specially-printed bookplates into books acquired for the Library to the value of a Patron’s donation. These bookplates are based on one designed for Girton by Joan Hassall, and will have the Patron’s name incorporated into the printing.

You can keep abreast of developments in the library, archive and special collections by visiting our website on http://www.-lib.girton.cam.ac.uk/ .

Frances Gandy, President

Friends of the Gardens Life in gardens is rarely uneventful, and the Girton gardens have been suffering recently from a surfeit of rabbits, a problem throughout the whole of East Anglia. In such large numbers, these creatures can be extremely destructive, and they have stripped bark from the bases of many of the apple trees in the orchard. Since this contains a large number of rare varieties of apple, it is essential that they be protected, and the best way seems to be to erect rabbit-proof fencing around the perimeter of the orchard. In these days of economy measures, the College garden budget would not stretch to this, but we have agreed to meet the cost from the Friends of the Gardens fund, which seems an excellent use for it. We are extremely grateful to those Friends and Patrons who contribute to this fund, and especially to those who have increased their level of support this year.

By way of experiment, we decided this year to move the annual event for Friends and Patrons of the Gardens from the Roll Weekend in September to the Sunday in early March when the Friends of the Choir have their annual tea and concert, and when the gardens are full of spring flowers. Dr Roland Randall was all set to give a talk about gardening and climate change, when we reluctantly decided to cancel the event as the numbers were rather low. Many Friends had expressed interest, but somehow it was not a convenient date for many people. We may well try a March event again this next year; we would be very grateful to receive suggestions from Friends about the timing and content of the annual event.

When I interview prospective students, they often mention the beautiful grounds as one reason for choosing Girton. The current students particularly appreciate the grounds in the Easter Term, as a place to take a walk to lower stress levels during the exam period, and also as a wonderful location to relax and celebrate once the exams are over. I suspect 108

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that Fellows and staff of the College do not make enough time in their busy lives to enjoy the gardens as much as they could. I happened to take my puppy for a walk round the grounds in the bluebell season and was amazed by the stunning display. I hope that you will find time this year to visit Girton and enjoy the grounds.

Dr Ruth Williams, President

Friends of People’s Portraits The People’s Portraits exhibition continues to go from strength to strength. You may have seen the very positive double-page spread featuring the exhibition in the Independent on 26 January 2009, which has raised the profile of this hidden jewel. Furthermore, the exhibition now has a revitalised leaflet full of information, and this has proved very popular with visitors – you can also view this on the website.

As ever, we are very grateful for the support of the Friends and Patrons of the People’s Portraits and other donors, all of whom have helped with the exhibition’s ongoing maintenance and promotion. It has been a busy year for the exhibition and indeed for the Friends and Patrons. The Annual People’s Portraits Reception proved very popular in September 2008, when Friends, Patrons and guests were invited to celebrate not one, but two portrait unveilings. We were delighted to welcome Dr Charles Saumarez Smith CBE, Chief Executive of the Royal Academy of Arts since autumn 2007, to speak and unveil the two new portraits. Dr Saumarez Smith has been the Director of both the National Portrait Gallery and the National Gallery and his mother, Alice Saumarez Smith (née Raven), is an Old Girtonian.

The first portrait to be unveiled was ‘Girish Sethna, the note-taker’ by Alastair Adams PRP, the newlyelected President of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters. Alastair has won the Daler/Rowney Award for People’s Portraits accessions 2008.

Best British Painting at the National Acrylic Painters TOP: ‘The Hairdresser’ Association Annual Open Exhibition three times. The BOTTOM: ‘Girish Sethna’ second portrait was ‘The Hairdresser’ by Saied Dai RP and we were honoured by the presence of his two sitters. Saied Dai was elected as a member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters in 2004. He has since won the prestigious Ondaatje Prize for Portraiture in 2006.

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the Royal Society of Portrait Painters, in aid of the People’s Portraits collection. We are pleased to announce that the winning bid was made by Miss Barbara Megson, who is in the process of having her portrait painted by Mr Festing as I write. This has helped to raise funds to sustain this growing exhibition in the long term. If you missed the auction, but would like a personal post-card sized drawing of yourself – or someone else – drawn

by Daphne Todd PPRP or Andrew James RP, you can obtain one by donating £1,000 to People’s Portraits. On a final note, I hope that you might have a chance to view the People’s Portraits in the near future; it is well worth the visit.

Alastair Reid, President

Appointments of Members of the Roll Included here are only those appointments of which we have been notified through returns sent to the Registrar of the Roll.

1949 1959 1967

1969 1970 1970 1973 1976 1976 1976 1976 1977 1979 1980 1981 1983

Minogue V P (Hallett) President of the Emile Zola Society, 2005 Oppong C (Slater) Adjunct Professor of Applied Anthropology, University of Ghana, Legon, 2008 Chadwick P appointed by the Archbishop of Canterbury in 2008 to chair the new Dioceses Commission, reviewing the structure and organisation of dioceses across England Easson G (Oakley) Vice-Chairman, Stockport NHS Foundation Trust, 2007 Smith H K (Chaplin) Lecturer in Operational Research/ Management Studies, University of Southampton, October 2008 Waley-Cohen E J appointed Chair of the History Faculty, New York University Ackner C M appointed a Circuit Judge and a Bencher of the Middle Temple in October 2007.

Duckworth S commissioned as a Deputy Lieutenant (DL) for Greater London McLeish A Chairman, Ashford and St Peter’s Hospitals NHS Trust, October 2008 O’Brien F J (Mrs Molloy) Head of Editorial Standards, BBC Trust, April 2007 Walker J E appointed ACCC Commissioner (Australian Competition and Consumer Commission) Bell C (Pullan) appointed by Barcud Derwen as its new group Chairman Blyth R J appointed Associate Director, Capita Symonds Ltd Kemp N J P elected ‘London Representative’ to the council of the Association of Teachers of Singing (AOTOS) Harvey N appointed Chief Executive, Recolight Ltd Bell S J Head of Faculty, Northern Regional College, Co Antrim, April 2008 110

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Chrich A J appointed Vicar of St Mary and St Michael Church in Trumpington, Cambridge with effect from 7 September 2009 1989 Roberts A C (F) Cambridge University Professorship in the Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience with effect from 1 October 2009.

1995 Udrea F (RF) now of Emmanuel College, a Professorship in the Department of Engineering 2003 Dodds Pennock C A (Dodds) Lecturer in Early Modern History, University of Leicester, School of Historical Studies, October 2007 2005 Misquitta A J elected to an Official Fellowship in Chemistry from 1 September 2009 at Murray Edwards College (formerly New Hall), Cambridge 1989

Publications by Members of the Roll Binney R (Chanter 1962). Wise Words and Country Ways for Cooks (David and Charles, 2008); The Allotment Experience (HowTo Books, 2009) Bucklow S (1998). The Alchemy of Paint (Marion Boyars, 2009) Cherniavsky E A (Willan 1956). Country Cooking of France (Chronicle, 2008) Clarke I (Alcock 1965). (Joint editor of the first, sole author of the second) Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for Acute Inpatient Mental Health Units; Working with Clients, Staff and the Milieu (Routledge, 2008); Madness, Mystery and the Survival of God (‘O’ Books, 2008); ‘Grounding the transpersonal in cognitive theory: a clinician’s perspective’, Transpersonal Psychology Review 2(1) (2008) Dodds Pennock C E (Dodds 2003). Bonds of Blood: Gender, Lifecycle and Sacrifice in Aztec Culture (Palgrave MacMillan, 2008) Donoghue E M (1990). The Sealed Letter (Harper Collins, 2008) Eades J M (Fox 1981). Celebrating Strengths: Building Strengths-Based Schools (CAPP Press, 2008) Einberg E (Kozlovska-Einberg 1957). ‘The Rake at Oxford. The progress of Hogarth’s Rake re-examined’, The British Art Journal (Autumn 2008) Elliot D C (Davison 1948). (Joint) Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (4th ed., OUP, 2009) Kemp N J P (1980). The Language of Song – Advanced High, Medium and Low Volumes (Faber Music, 2008) 111

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Loveman, K J F (1995). Reading Fictions, 1660–1740: Deception in English Literary and Political Culture (Ashgate, 2008) Medlicott M M (James 1965). Shemi’s Tall Tales: Fine Welsh Fibbing (Gomer Press, 2008) Miller P D (1985). ‘Nuesto rostro mañana’/ ‘Our Face Tomorrow’, La Vanguardia (13 February 2008); ‘From canker to Pinker’, Times Literary Supplement (April 2008); ‘Martin Ray’s Posthumous Conrad Bibliography’, English Literature in Transition, 1880–1920 51(4) (2008) Nicholls P K (1995). (Both joint) ‘A novel virus detected in papillomas and carcinomas of the endangered Western barred bandicoot (Perameles bougainville) exhibits genome features of both the Papillomaviridae and Polyomaviridae’, J. Virol. 81(24) (2007); ‘The molecular basis of mouse adaptation by human enterovirus 71’, J. Gen. Virol. 89 (7) (2008) Oppong C (Slater 1959). Marriage among a Matrilineal Elite (CUP, reprinted 2008); (co-editor) Care of the Seriously Sick in Ghana (Unipub Norway, 2009); (co-editor) Care of Children in Ghana (Unipub Norway, 2009); ‘Money, chores and conjugal power: women’s work and empowerment’ in Kvinners Arbeid, ed. L J Syltevic and K Kristensen (Unipub Norway, 2008) Paulson-Ellis C M (Brunyate 1958). The Cambridge Association for the Care of Girls: Social Work with Girls and Young Women in Cambridge 1883–1954 (Christina PaulsonEllis, 2008) Rizvi J M (Clarke 1958). (Joint) Pashmina: The Kashmir Shawl and Beyond (Marg Publications, 2009) Rubin M (1981). Mother of God: A History of the Virgin Mary (Allen Lane, Penguin Books, 2009) Sanders V R (1975). The Tragi-Comedy of Victorian Fatherhood (CUP, 2009) Sayers J E (1952). Papal Government and England during the Pontificate of Honorius III (CUP, 1984, reprinted 2008) Smith H K (Chaplin 1970). ‘Planning sustainable community health schemes in rural areas of developing countries’, European J. of Operational Research 193 (2009) Takamado, HIH Princess, of Japan (Tottori 1972). Have Netsuke, Will Travel (Kodansha, Tokyo, 2009). Lectures on the Netsuke in the Imperial Collection, vol 1 (2008) and vol 2 (2009), University of the Arts, Osaka Taylor P J (Francis 1963). ‘Boundaries, margins and the delineation of the urban: the case of Barnet’ in A County of Small Towns: The Development of Hertfordshire’s Urban Landscape to 1800, ed. T Slater and N Goose (U. of Hertfordshire Press, 2008) Toomer H (Fomison 1966). Embroidered with White: the 18th Century Fashion for Dresden Lace and Other Whiteworked Accessories (Heather Toomer Antique Lace, 2008) Trusted M H (1974). The Arts of Spain (Victoria and Albert Museum, 2007); (editor) The Making of Sculpture (Victoria and Albert Museum, 2007); (exhibition catalogue) The Return of the Gods (Tate Publications, 2008); ‘Gayangos’s legacy: Juan Facundo Riaño’ in Pascual de Gayangos, ed. C Heide (Edinburgh UP, 2008) 112

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Vinestock E M (Morrison 1957). (Co-editor) ‘“J’ose attaquer les plus mutins”: Baïf ’s poetical and rhetorical means of engaging in conflict’ in Writers in Conflict in SixteenthCentury France: Essays in Honour of Malcolm Quainton, ed. E Vinestock and D Foster (Durham Modern Languages Series, 2008); ‘“Un nouveau sentier”: L’Académie de Poésie et de Musique dans les Euvres en rime de Jean-Antoine de Baïf ’ in Les Académies dans l’Europe humaniste. Idéaux et pratiques, ed. M Deramaix, P Galand-Hallyn, G Vagenheim and J Vignes (Droz, 2008) Vollkommer N S (Sperry 1978). Eddie, Bei Mir Bist Du Geborgen (Hänssler-Verlag, 2009) Warrior V M (1955). Greek Religion: A Sourcebook (Focus Press, 2009) Watson D M (Morgan 1964). (Joint editor) Girtonians and the World Wars: The Influence of the War Years on the Lives of Girtonians (Girton College Roll, 2009) Welch P J (Maggs 1966). ‘Constructing colonial Christianities: with particular reference to Anglicanism in Australia, c.1850–1940’, J. of Religious History 32(2) (2008); Church and Settler in Colonial Zimbabwe: A Study in the History of the Anglican Diocese of Mashonaland/ Southern Rhodesia, 1890–1925 (Brill, Studies in the Religion of Africa 34, 2008) Wilson S J (1997). (All joint) ‘Rhesus macaque TRIM5 alleles have divergent antiretroviral specificities’, J. Virol. 82 (2008); ‘Independent evolution of an antiviral TRIMCyp in Rhesus Macaques’, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 105(9) (2008); ‘XBP–1 transactivates the KSHV ORF50 promoter, linking plasma cell differentiation to KSHV reactivation from latency’, J. Virol. 81 (2007) Woolley D (McGrath 1954). Sandpies (Eyry, 2008) Zornberg A H (Gottlieb 1962). The Murmuring Deep: Reflections on the Biblical Unconscious (Schocken, 2009)

Births Forenames of Girtonians are given, otherwise initials only Bowen. On 19 July 2009, to Andrew (Chef ) and K Bowen, a daughter, Lauren, a sister for Nathan Cartwright Naylor. On 20 July 2009, to James Alexander Naylor (1997) and Elenor Grace Cartwright (1998), a girl, Stella Marlena Circuit. On 20 September 2008, to James (Head Chef ) and T Circuit, a son, Oliver, a brother for Joshua Finnie. On 1 June 2007, to Nicholas James (1989) and H M Finnie, a daughter, Olivia, a sister for Alexander Miller. On 16 September 2008, to Kathryn Renee (Ozanne 1988) and J E Miller, a daughter, Anne Zelda, a sister for Edward Pearson. On 22 July 2009, to Shelley (WCT Cleaner), a son, Harvey 113

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Reinhard. On 25 September 2008, to Klaus (1992) and Annegret Reinhard (Jaekel 1997), a daughter, Estella Marie, a sister for Amelie Stewart. On 12 December 2007, to Maria Clare (Thomas 1998) and C R Stewart, a son, Andrew Philip, a brother for William West. On 4 April 2008, to Bernard Richard Caley (1994) and Eve Denise Walton (Kelley 1994), a son, Isaac Christian Gabriel, a brother for Reuben

Marriages Forenames of Girtonians are given, otherwise initials only

Barnes – Francis. On 16 May 2009, Helen Jane Barnes to R J Francis Benjamin – Schilling. On 25 April 2008, Louise Emily Benjamin to G P Schilling Bottome – Li. On 20 December 2008, Phillip James Bottome to J Li Bradnum – Degge. On 2 February 2009, David John Bradnum to Suzanne Elizabeth Degge Bryant-Rubio – Belal. On 21 March 2009, Joanne Henrietta Simone Bryant-Rubio to T Belal Colclough – Wong. On 8 August 2008, Sarah Joanne Colclough to N Wong Dodds – Pennock. On 21 June 2008, Caroline Elizabeth Dodds to J N Pennock Gill – Lynn. On 6 December 2008, Caroline Elaine Gill to G J Lynn Griffin – Brierley. On 19 July 2009, Benjamin John Griffin (Official Fellow) to S M Brierley Holland – Crosby. On 6 September 2008, Andrew Jon Holland to Karin Selina Crosby Horry – Lovewell. On 30 July 2009, Anna Jane Horry to T Lovewell Lane – Francis. On 9 January 2009, Daniel Jonathan Lane to Cathryn Elanor Francis O’Donnell – Gandy. In July 2008, Paul Dominic O’Donnell to Georgina Elizabeth Gandy Scattergood – Setchell. On 30 August 2008, Lara Alice Scattergood to J H Setchell Smale – Short. On 13 July 2009, Emma Louise Smale to S J Short

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Deaths Aspin. On 27 March 2009, Alice Ady (Crouch) BA (1934 Mathematics). Alice, known as Sadie, came to Girton on a Clothworkers’ Scholarship and was awarded the Gertrude Mather Jackson Prize for a First Class mark in her first year. After Girton she worked for the first two years as a Statistician for the Cwmbran Engineering Company. She then worked temporarily as a part-time Civil Servant before taking up work as a Technical Assistant for Vickers Armstrong (Supermarine). Like many other Girtonians during wartime Sadie undertook voluntary work, which she carried out for Mass Observation. She married Dr John Aspin, a Major in the Royal Army Medical Corps, in February 1941. They had three daughters and when the eldest was eight, in 1956, Sadie started teaching physics; first at the Bilston Girls’ High School, and later at the South Wiltshire Grammar School.

Ballhatchet. In 2009, Joan (Harris) BA (1944 History). Joan married Kenneth in June 1948 and they had a son and a daughter. She embarked on a career in publishing and commerce but left it to take up a post as Clerk to the Branch Council at Peter Jones, the Sloane Square department store. This work helped to finance her part-time postgraduate studies in Sociology at the LSE. She published some of her work in ‘The Police and the London Dock Strike of 1889’ which appeared in the History Workshop Journal 1991 32:54-68.

Batt. On 14 November 2008, Betty Joan (Spedding) BA MB BChir (1942 Natural Sciences). Betty completed her medical training at Leeds University Medical School.

After WWII she and her husband, Eric, attracted by the area round the small New South Wales town of Armidale, where her sister was already a lecturer at the local university, bought a local general medical practice, 22 km from Armidale. There they became immersed in the community and ‘delivered their babies and watched them mature into grandparents; removed their appendices and shared their joys and sorrows’. But Betty and Eric were also local innovators in many fields; starting the tennis and squash clubs, and driving the provision of the swimming pool and a hostel for the aged. When Eric died the workload became too much for Betty alone and she moved to the ‘perpetual warmth’ of Queensland. There, despite increasing deafness, she continued to practise, her habitual half-hour-long appointments making her, she said, ‘quite popular’. Back in New South Wales an ‘Eric and Betty Batt Park’ has been established in their memory.

Berry. On 1 April 2009, Patricia Craigen (Horton, formerly Rignold). Patricia, as Pat Rignold, was the Mistress’s Secretary at Girton from September 1968 until her retirement in October 1979. She also worked with many of the other departments within College and was elected into Membership of the Roll, honoris causa, in May 1971. A graduate of the University of London, Patricia had worked at the British Embassy in Rome. During the Second World War, she saw active service with the ATS, where she attained the rank of Captain, and was selected for duties with the Special Operations Executive. Patricia was later District Commissioner for the Cambridge Girl Guides, sharing this interest with Alison Duke. She remarried after her retirement and moved to Norfolk.

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Cahill. On 4 March 2009, Pauline Anne MA (1977 Geography, 1980 Social Political Sciences). Pauline worked as a Trainer/Consultant in Human Resources teaching assertiveness and counselling skills and also homeopathy training. She wrote a report on ‘The Abolition of the Inner London Education Authority of its effect on Mother-tongue Teaching for Migrants’, which was published by the London Voluntary Service Council.

In 1993 she returned to study and in 1995 completed an MSc degree in Psychology, at Roehampton University. As a British Psychology Society Chartered Psychologist and member of British Association of Counselling and Psychology, she worked for the NHS and in private practice. She also worked for University of West of England, Bristol, as Psychotherapist Researcher in the Department of Psychology. A member of Shambhala Europe, she was particularly interested in making meditation more accessible to children and families, leading ‘Peaceful Piggy’ meditation sessions at her daughter’s school. She was also a Trustee of Womankind, a Bristol Women’s Therapy Centre, which provides counselling, group therapy and on-going support to women in the Bristol area.

Campbell. In May 2008, Kheng Choo (Tan) MA (1955 English). Choo, as she was known, was educated at the University of Malaya before coming up to Girton in 1955. After Girton she began teaching part-time at Nanyang University. She married Donald Campbell, an International Civil Servant, in 1966. He served in the United Nations in Taipei, and Choo taught at Taipei American School and ‘found it quite an adventure teaching English to Americans’.

Clark. On 21 July 2009, Isabella Renwick (McMorran) MA (1923 English). Isabella married Captain Duncan Lindsay Clark of the 2nd/11th Sikh Regiment and they had a son, Ian, in 1935. She was the younger sister of two Girtonians, Helen (College Fellow, Librarian and Registrar of the Roll), and Louise. During the war, Isabella worked with Helen in the College and was Supervisor of Lodgings for out-students in Cambridge. A widow for many years, she died in her 105th year surviving her friend and contemporary, Margaret Diggle (qv) by just a few months.

Coats. In 2008, Eileen Hamilton MA MB BChir (1941 Natural Sciences). After completing the Natural Sciences Tripos Eileen left Cambridge for two years, working as an analytical chemist and research assistant for Standard Telephones and Cables in Sidcup, Kent. She returned to Girton just before the end of war to do pre-clinical medicine. Her clinical training was completed at the University of Liverpool Medical School. Eileen remained in Liverpool, first as a house surgeon in the Ear, Nose and Throat Infirmary, then the casualty offices of the Liverpool Children’s Hospital; she was House Physician at Bootle Hospital; House Surgeon in Obstetrics at Broadgreen Hospital, and House Physician at the Fazakerley Fever Hospital (now University Hospital, Aintree). She then moved to London and worked as a trainee at the Bethnal Green Medical Mission and at the Hackney Hospital in Geriatrics before returning to the Bethnal Green Medical Mission as a physician in 1962.

She retired from NHS practice in October 1983 and moved to Yelverton in Devon.

Cra’ster. On 9 September 2008 Mary MA(Oxon) (Affil. 1955). Long-time member of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society and of the Museum of Classical Archaeology and Anthropology.

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Dickinson. On 9 September 2008, Vera Kathleen (Pugh) MA (1933 Mathematics). Kathleen won a scholarship which enabled her to come up to Girton from Pendleton High School, in Salford, Manchester. She married Dr David Dickinson, an Emmanuel graduate, in 1940, and they had two children. During WWII, Kathleen worked for the Ministry of Defence. She later taught mathematics at Bristol and then Kingswood Grammar Schools, becoming Head of the Mathematics Department at Redland High School. On retirement, she and David moved to Barton on Sea where they used their home as a base for extensive travel. Before David’s death in 2007, they spent time in India, Malaysia and Australia, as well as in Europe and the Middle East. Kathleen is remembered by her extensive family as a keenly intelligent and fiercely independent woman.

Diggle. In November 2008, Margaret MA MLitt (1923 English). Obituary p.123 Eccleshare. On 8 May 2009, Elizabeth (Bennett) MA (1940). Obituary p. 125 Errington. On 19 February 2009, Katharine Reine (Macaulay) MA (1936 History). She married Lancelot Errington (knighted in 1976) soon after graduating at the outbreak of WWII and had her first child the following year, to be followed by four more children.

As caring for her children became less of a full-time occupation Katharine developed skills as a potter, exhibiting and selling, and undertook a wide range of voluntary work.

She volunteered for many organisations including the Citizens’ Advice Bureau, Meals on Wheels, Riding for the Disabled, and the RSPCA. She was also an Examiner for the Girl Guides and a Governor of local schools. She was on the central committee of Wives’ Fellowship Magazine, and its editor for six years. Apart from her pottery her recreations were riding and sailing Farquhar. On 25 April 2009, Lesley MA (1935 Modern and Medieval Languages). After graduating, Lesley took a secretarial training and then taught French and German privately. In 1940 she joined the German Department of the Postal and Telegraph Censorship Board which took her to Ottawa for three and a half years. There she was in charge of a department of seventy German readers. After the war she taught until 1963 at Darlington High School.

Fox. Helen Mary (Johnson) MA (1946 Mathematics; 1947 English; 1948 Archaeology and Anthropology). Before coming up to Girton Helen had worked for the Admiralty.

At Girton was awarded a Turle Scholarship and the Charity Reeves Prize for her Part II in Archaeology and Anthropology and in 1950 started research on Anglo-Saxon agriculture. She had married Arthur Haviland Fox in July 1951 and combined study, married life and motherhood when their first son, Michael, was born in 1952. She completed her PhD in 1953 and two other other sons, David and Andrew, were born in 1955 and 1957.

Goodman. On 13 January 2009, Daniel (2007). Obituary p. 127 Gulland. On 1 October 2008, Frances Audrey (James) MA (1947 English). Frances, known as Audrey, took the Certificate of Education at Hughes Hall in 1951, and began teaching at Norwich High School where she worked for the next eight years. She had met her husband, John Gulland, at the Girton College Ball, and they married in July 117

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1951. John was a marine scientist, and they had twins (William and Frances) in 1960, and their other son, David, in 1962. Audrey settled in Cambridge and was an active and sociable member of the Local Girton Association. She attended many Roll events, including the 50th anniversary of the admission of women to full membership of the University in 1998. Audrey vividly recalled the disadvantage of being a member of the first generation of women required to wear gowns – she was stopped by a Proctor one evening for wearing a coloured headscarf with academic dress, a crime punishable by a fine of six shillings and eightpence.

Hall. On 26 March 2009, Jennifer Anne (Biggs) MA PhD (1957 Classics). Jenny Biggs graduated in 1960 as Senior Scholar in Classics with a double first in the Classical Tripos and a distinction in Part II, marked in the University by the award of the Craven Studentship and in College by a Norah C Joliffe Prize and Mary Gurney Studentship for research. In the same year she won the Ridding and Thérèse Montefiore Prizes. This all-round record reflects her earlier results at Blackheath High School GPDST, where in the end ballet took second place to Classics. In 1962 she married J Barrie Hall, wellknown as her desk-partner in the Classics Faculty Library. After three years of research on the Roman satirist Lucian, she completed her PhD in 1967, and Lucian’s Satires was published in 1981. She took up a lectureship at Westfield College, London, which was then a women’s college, and speedily gained promotion. She remained in post during the difficult times (coinciding with the end of her marriage) when Westfield finally merged with Queen Mary College in 1989. Following early retirement in 1990, she continued to teach part-time until 2001. Jenny now had more time for her other interests, the theatre, museums and exhibitions and her work as an Elder at Eltham United Reformed Church. Her daughter Penny, born in 1972, followed her mother in reading Classics at Girton. Jenny’s life and career coincided with a period of change both in the professional role of women and within the universities, more particularly the University of London. She was a loyal member of institutions, a hard-working, thoroughly sensible and well-grounded individual, with a sense of fun and the ability to both enjoy and share that enjoyment with others. She will be widely missed.

Harvey. In March 2009, Maureen Elizabeth (Charles) BA (1945 Geography). One of the first women to receive a full degree in 1948. Maureen was awarded one of the Sir John Dill Fellowships to attend Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts, USA and gained an MA there in 1949. For a short time afterwards she became a textiles buyer.

She married Patrick Harvey in August 1950 and they had three sons and a daughter. In 1964 she began a teaching career in Maidstone, first at the Convent School where she taught Geography for ten years, then at Maidstone Girls’ Grammar School. She finally moved in 1980 to become the Head of Geography at the Invicta Grammar School, the post from which she retired in 1987.

Hodges. In November 2008, Peggy Lilian, MA, OBE (1940). Obituary p. 127 Hubbard. On 23 June 2009, June (Staff). June was a stalwart member of the Household cleaning team, working for most of her time at the College on Woodlands Wing where almost all the occupants were undergraduates. Many she got to know extremely well.

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She was married to the Head Houseman, Derek Hubbard and they lived in a College house on Girton Road. Their son and daughter were brought up there and were regularly to be seen playing in the College grounds until their son Paul’s tragic early death in a car accident. June always had a passion for competitions, and especially Bingo. This the College put to good use each year when she would be deputed to organise and stage-manage prize draws for staff Christmas parties.

Kay. On 9 June 2008, Elizabeth Alison MA (1950 Natural Sciences). Obituary p. 128 Kittel. On 25 April 2009, Muriel Agnes (Lister) MA (1934 English). Muriel worked hard to combine her scholarship, particularly in the area of romance poetry, with family life in the USA to which she and her husband Charles Kittel had emigrated just before the outbreak of WWII. She combined raising three children with the translation of romance poetry, and writing and publishing books and articles on the subject.

Most of her articles appeared in the Quarterly Review of Literature (USA). In 1961 she returned to academic life, studying at the University of California (Berkeley) for an MA in Comparative Literature (Medieval Language and Literature). She will be best remembered for her translations, but also in Girton as a generous benefactress to the College Library.

Kondo. On 13 November 2008, Ine Rachel known as Ineko (Sato) MLitt (1937). A graduate of Tohoku Imperial University, Sendai, she came to Girton as a research student in English and gained an MLitt in 1939. Back home in Japan she became an Assistant Professor at the Tokyo Women’s Higher Normal School until 1943, and Professor at the Tsuda Women’s College between 1948 and 1980. She had married Masao Kondo, an academic at the Gakashuin University (Physics), in February 1944 and their daughter was born in 1950. She received her doctorate in English Literature from the Tokyo University of Literature and Science by submitting a thesis on Jane Austen: A Study of the Development of her Art in 1952.

Leech. On 21 April 2009, Ann Bosdin MA (1938 History). After Girton she trained with the Society of Women Housing Managers in Manchester and Lancaster and gained the Housing Managers’ Certificate of the Chartered Surveyors Institute in 1943. After she qualified she became an Assistant Housing Manager for Lancaster City Council, then for Chester City Council. For 30 years from 1949 she worked for Manchester City Council, first as a Housing Officer, then as a Welfare Officer for Homeless Families, and for four years before her retirement in 1979 she was a social worker.

Le Prevost. On 20 November 2008, Ruth Anstice (Maple) (1935 Natural Sciences; 2nd MB (Physiology)). After a Temporary position as a clerk at the Milk Marketing Board she became a Science teacher at Mount School, Mill Hill. With the outbreak of the Second World War, she joined the ARP as an Ambulance Driver. In 1940 she became a Trainer and Supervisor for the Standard Telephone Company in Woolwich, followed by posts as an Assistant Engineer for the Planning Department of the Telephone Manufacturing Company, St Mary Cray, and an Assistant Labour Officer, Royal Ordnance Factory, Risley. She returned to teaching in 1945 for the Holy Trinity Convent School in Bromley. Ruth married John Le Prevost, a Captain in the Royal 119

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Scots Regiment in 1941 and they had four children. In 1948 the family went abroad and she continued teaching in Malaya. She was also an Announcer for Radio Malaya between 1950 and 1951. The family moved again, this time to Singapore where Ruth was a Lecturer in Biology at the Singapore Institute of Sciences and Lecturer in Zoology for the Teachers’ Training College, both at A Level equivalent. She then worked as a teacher for Tanglin Preparatory School in Singapore before the family returned to Britain. Back home in Sussex she began work for Rudolf Steiner schools, first as a Science Teacher for Michael Hall School (part-time and then full-time), and was also later on the Board of Governors, and New School, Kings Langley in Hertfordshire. At New School she was a Science Teacher and wife of the Housemaster (acting as house mother).

Littler. On 28 March 2009, Shirley (Marsh) MA (1950 History). Obituary p. 128 Moricz. On 10 June 2009, Freda (Stratton) MA (1956 Modern and Medieval Languages).

Immediately after graduation Freda signed a one-year contract to teach English in Sweden so that she ‘didn’t pine for the Cambridge life’. There she weighed up her chances of entering the theatre, teaching or journalism and decided on the last. After three years of hard enjoyable work in London on a miserable salary she returned, in 1962, to the second alternative. She taught Nigerian girls English and French in a boarding school in Lagos and although she would have loved to stay on, ill-health forced her to change direction again. She joined McKinsey and Company Inc., Management Consultants, as the editor and head of the translating department in their Düsseldorf office. The work was very demanding intellectually, the working hours long, but her colleagues were all distinct personalities full of drive. In 1970, she married Peter Moricz, a Hungarian McKinsey Consultant and graduate in economic sciences from Frankfurt University, and left the firm. In 1974, with Peter and another partner, she set up a company in Frankfurt, working primarily for public authorities in the economic development field. The company flourished, providing them with difficult problems to grapple with, a busy travel schedule, interesting international clients and many entertaining anecdotes. After 17 years they handed over to their younger partners. Peter started working for the EU in Hungary, and Freda continued working on a free-lance basis with her younger colleagues. In 2000 she retired to live a few months a year in Bavaria and the rest of the time in Hungary, where she attempted to learn Hungarian. She related how she struggled with the language as George Mikes struggled with English, with the result that: ‘I only understand the Hungarian I speak myself ’.

Nelson. On 14 January 2009, Hazel Doreen (Dent) BA (1946 English). She married John Nelson on 22 July 1949 and they had one son and one daughter.

Neville Smith. On 3 May 2009, Clare (Smith) MA MB BChir (1940 Natural Sciences).

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Home Press Summaries Section, Ministry of Information, and volunteered with the WVS and Red Cross Penny-a-Week Fund. Mary married Ronald in September 1938 and they had one daughter, Ann (Dr Hamblin, also a Girtonian). Mary was later a Tutor for the National Marriage Guidance Council 1968–78.

Pullon. On 24 September 2008, Helen Joyce Robertson BA (1939 Modern and Medieval Languages). Joyce read French and German, gaining a distinction in oral German in her first year. After graduation she taught Modern Languages at the School of St Mary and St Anne in Abbot’s Bromley for a year. In 1943 she joined the Foreign Office as a linguist and except for a year’s secretarial training course in 1945, including French and German shorthand, she stayed with the service until her retirement in 1980. She first worked for the Government Communications Bureau, and when she rejoined the Foreign Office in 1946 was sent to Trieste in early 1947; from 1949 to 1964 she was a translator for the Air Ministry and finally worked for the Ministry of Defence from 1964 onwards.

Ramsay. On or around 13 February 2009, Marjorie Craven (Findlay, formerly Bursa) MA (1944 Geography). Obituary p. 126 Rhodes. On 15 January 2009, Edith MA MB BChir MD (1934 Natural Sciences). LRCP and MRCS – 1941. Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine. Resident Anaesthetist, St Helier County Hospital in Carshalton.

Robson. On 17 April 2009, Rosemary Lydia MA (1946 Geography). In 1948 she won the University Geographical Society’s Bedford Travelling Prize and spent part of the Summer Vacation on the Frisian Islands, studying their human geography. After graduation and a year at Hughes Hall doing the PGCE, she became an Assistant Geography Mistress at the City of Worcester Grammar School for Girls. In 1955 she was appointed Head of Geography at the Girls’ High School in Eastbourne. She was to remain in the town for the rest of her life. A very popular teacher, she kept in touch with many of her pupils long after they had left school. The sixth form field trips around the country that she organised in typically meticulous fashion were a highlight of their school year.

She became Deputy Head and, as the education system changed, Deputy Principal of the mixed Sixth Form College. Ever able to rise to the challenge of a new environment, she dispensed perceptive careers advice and supervised university admissions, while continuing to teach A level geography. ‘Seeing them in and seeing them out with pastoral care in between’ as she would put it. Her dedication to her subject and the teaching of it was rewarded with the honour of being made an Honorary Fellow of the Geographical Association. Her retirement in 1985 provided new opportunities, and Rosemary’s house gradually filled with examples of her work in pottery, wood-turning and similar crafts. She became very involved in the administration of her church and designed and supervised the making of a set of several hundred hassock covers. For more than two decades she was a volunteer at the Eastbourne CAB and was still answering telephone enquiries there a short time before her death.

Solomon. On 27 February 2009, Joan Henriette (Diamond) MA (1950 Natural Sciences).

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Stevens. In 2008, Elizabeth Mary (Vines) BA (1942 Geography; 1945 Modern and Medieval Languages); she read French and Italian at Girton and took a secretarial course between July and November 1944; in 1946-47 she took a course in the Czech Language and Civilisation at the University of Paris. She was a temporary assistant at the War Damage Commission 1944-45. She was the Publications Secretary at the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association from 1959 and married Thomas (Sam) Stevens, an architect, in September 1963.

Taylor. On 14 May 2009, Janet Laura (Watts) MA PhD (1957 Natural Sciences).

Obituary p. 132 Theocharakis. In March 2009, Catherine (Grigoriou) MPhil (1986 International Relations).

Catherine was born in Greece and had a classical education (Ancient Greek and Latin), but her first degree, from Athens University, was in French Studies and Linguistics. A seasoned traveller, she also had a working knowledge of Spanish and Russian. She was best known as a New York based poet, but also as an art photographer and film-maker.

Arts subjects as a whole were a passion for Catherine, who had also studied acting at Athens University, and briefly in New York, as well as participating in choirs and reading poetry for gatherings in New York. She is known for her works in Europe and the United States. She completed her book of poetry known as The Transatlantic Icarus in 2005. This literary work was inspired by the author’s studies in Western World-History. Catherine was deeply interested in language and strove for accuracy of expression in her poetry.

Among her favourite poets, she enjoyed the works of Anna Akhmatova and Rainer Maria Rilke, and the ancient Greek poet, Archilochus. She strongly believed that through understanding and communication, negotiation and dialogue, military conflict could be averted. Her interest led to research on American post-war foreign policy and in 2006 she began working towards a PhD at the London School of Economics.

Thomas. On 8 November 2008, Sheila Elinor June (Hodge) BA (1942 English). June spent her childhood in Cairo, for which she always retained an affection, and Croydon. At the start of WWII she was evacuated to Llandeilo whence she came up to Girton as a Goldsmidt Exhibitioner. She gained a double first, the Turle Scholarship and an Eileen Alexander Prize. The award of a Mary Macmillan Dunlop Research Scholarship allowed her to move to Birkbeck College to research ‘Dramatic speech in English literature before 1550’. After Birkbeck she briefly joined Charles K Ogden’s Basic English Project, but then, in 1948, married Michael Thomas. During the upbringing of their son and daughter June acted as business and social secretary to Michael in his profession as musician, and collector and restorer of keyboard instruments. When the children were older her main focus – throughout the 1960s and 1970s – became her writing for the BBC. Under the name of June Hodge she serialised classics for the radio series ‘Adventures in English’ and also wrote many scripts on widely varied subjects for broadcasts by BBC History.

In 1951 she won a drama festival first-prize for one of her own original plays. In later life she took up teaching English as a foreign language.

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While her son and daughter were young, Primrose gave private tutorials in Latin and Greek. She then took to writing – both academic and creative. From 1979 she wrote regular articles for the lexicographer Laurence Urdang as well as pieces for a range of educational and religious publications and some personal prose and poetry. In 1982 she returned to Latin teaching for Derbyshire County Council at Woodlands and Ecclesbourne Schools before embarking on study with the International Distance Learning Body for the Diploma in Distance Education which she obtained in 1989.

She used this qualification in work as a marking tutor and course writer for the Rapid Results College. Primrose was a member of the Classical Association and never lost her enthusiasm for the classics. When Latin was dropped from standard school curricula she would find a way to include it, and some Greek, in her lessons. Besides the classics Primrose’s other major focus was on her faith. She attended St Edmund’s Church in Allestree for 36 years and became a Lay Reader in 1983.

Wynn. On 1 April 2009, Marianne (Langdon) PhD (1948 Modern and Medieval Languages). Obituary p. 136

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Margaret Diggle 1905–2008 Margaret Diggle was born in Moulton, Lincolnshire, the youngest of four children of John Diggle – a land agent and, later, civil servant – and Kitty Stark, a cookery teacher.

Her father was an active Liberal who believed in the importance of individual effort, and both her parents were supportive of higher education and careers for women. The foundations of her lifelong love of literature were laid, ‘when at the age of six I lay on a rug listening to my mother read David Copperfield’. She was sent to Harrogate College, where she was further inspired by a visiting lecturer, Louis Umbreville Wilkinson, who recommended that she try for a university place.

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She went up to Girton in 1923 as a Henry Tomkinson Scholar to read English (she was awarded the Charity Reeves Prize for her First in the Tripos), switching to History for her final year in 1925. Her memoirs of the period record that her first year at Girton was the happiest of her life, but she continued: ‘Three weeks in Cambridge,’ I wrote, ‘has been enough to convince me …. that my mind is of an extremely raw and elementary kind, and that I know nothing.’

Cambridge did not disappoint me, except in so far as I had yet to learn that after knowledge the ultimate nagging questions remain.

Here her raw mind was shaped by the likes of I A Richards, who made the ‘strong plea for art as a means of developing mature human attitudes’, Mansfield Forbes, ‘a genius akin to madness … a Scottish Puck’, and: A young man called Mr Leavis with a terribly nervy manner. …. One was aware in him of an extremely delicate but steely discriminatory organ, and under his influence something of the same kind started to develop in oneself.

She remained at Girton for a further two years as a Turle Scholar, obtaining her MLitt in 1928. She hoped that this would lead eventually to a university post, which apart from successful authorship was her main ambition. She went straight into teaching, but returned to Cambridge in 1930–31 to obtain the Certificate in Education at the Cambridge Training College for Women. She then held posts as Lecturer in English and Education at the Duchess School, Alnwick, and then the Gloucester Training College of Domestic Science. She then moved to Stockwell College, Bromley, as a Lecturer in Education.

After the war, she set off to the United States for three years to lecture at Wellesley College, Ohio State University, and the University of Oregon. Returning to Britain, she became a Tutor at Bilston College of Further Education. Her wide range of teaching experience – from the ladies of Massachusetts (including Nehru’s niece) to the workingclass apprentices of Wolverhampton – meant that she was eminently qualified for her final appointment as Lecturer at Garnett College where she was promoted to Principal Lecturer, a post she held from 1954 until her retirement in 1970. One of her students there, who was later a colleague on the staff, told me that she inspired them with her concern for young people who had been denied the grammar-school route through education.

In 1973, the Cambridge Quarterly published her study Mansfield Forbes on the Romantic Revival, and, c. 1990, she published an anthology of her poetry, The Telescope of Years.

The capital that she had inherited from her father and her substantial teacher’s pension meant that she was well provided for; but she was more interested in keeping up her activities both recreational and humanitarian, and her resources enabled her to take an interest in, and support, a huge number of charities.

In the late 1990s she made a bequest to Girton College specifically intended for the support of poorer and disadvantaged students. In 2005 she was delighted to accept election as a Barbara Bodichon Foundation Fellow and enjoyed her return to Cambridge to be installed just two weeks short of her hundredth birthday.

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Institute, the Westgate Unitarian Church in Lewes, the Ringmer Local History Group, and the U3A, at which she chaired the Poetry Group until she was one hundred and one. A fall forced her to accept a nursing home for the last two years of her life, but she retained all her faculties to the end of a full life.

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Elizabeth Eccleshare (Bennett) 1921–2009 Liz Eccleshare was an inspirational history teacher, a gregarious member of a north London liberal intellectual network and a dominant figure in the lives of generations of pupils, friends and family.

The eldest daughter of two Cambridge academics, Joan and Stanley Bennett, Liz was born in Cambridge. She read history at Girton before marrying the publisher Colin Eccleshare. They moved to London after the Second World War. Their home in Branch Hill, Hampstead, was the centre of an energetic family life where their four children were brought up, and where an endless stream of friends and relatives were entertained generously. Liz’s lifelong commitment to good food was reflected in her Encyclopedia of World Cookery, published in 1958 under the pseudonym Elizabeth Campbell. It was reprinted nine times.

Her teaching career took her from private crammer to inner-city comprehensive. She joined Westminster Tutors in 1958, where she coached for the Oxbridge entrance exams, with a consistently high success rate. In her late 40s, she entered the class-room, first at Godolphin and Latymer, then at Francis Holland, and finally as head of department at Camden School for Girls, where she had previously been both a parent and a governor.

In her 14 years there, she welcomed the school’s change to comprehensive status and led the development of the curriculum to mixed-ability teaching. With a distinctive, gravelly smoker’s voice and a fierce but good-humoured manner, she brought a rigour and intelligence to her lessons that few forgot. In retirement Liz remained as busy as ever.

She took further degree courses at Birkbeck College in Art History, and worked for the National Trust at two of their sites – Sutton House in Hackney, and the Ernö Goldfinger house in Hampstead. In her last years she returned to Camden School to bring order to its archives, a project she continued until her death. She kept up her wide circle of friends and made countless new ones from every generation. At a packed celebration of her life at Kenwood House on Hampstead Heath, all were struck by the wide age-range of the guests.

The sole driver in the family, she would cover thousands of miles a year in pursuit of good company and beautiful places. Few Morris Travellers can have gone a greater distance with more people across rougher terrain. Holidays were spent in corners of the west coast of Scotland or at the family cottage near Dolgellau in Wales. Days were filled with a schedule of outings, picnics, wonderful cakes and intensely competitive games of Scrabble.

Liz visited the College very shortly before her death in order to attend the launch of the Girton Project booklet, Girtonians and the World Wars.

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Marjorie Craven Findlay (Ramsay, formerly Bursa) 1926–2009 Marjorie’s life showed how opportunities can be made for somebody with sufficient will and skill. She was born to Jessie Findlay who had met Arthur Craven while working on a farm in Derbyshire. As Jessie and Arthur did not marry, Marjorie was raised by her aunt Elspeth and her maternal grandparents in Northenden, now a suburb of Manchester. Elspeth, a school teacher, placed great importance on education, transferring Marjorie to the Church of England school where she herself taught; she aimed to ensure Marjorie received the best possible education. As a result of her success in the national exams, Marjorie received three scholarships and enrolled in the Manchester High School for Girls. From there, seven years later, she won an exhibition to Girton where she read Geography.

Marjorie had an adventurous and independent spirit, pursuing challenges that took her far from her homeland. After completing her degree at Cambridge in 1947, she went to Iceland with a group of geographers from Cambridge and made a short study of Icelandic sheep farming. She spent two summers in the Icelandic countryside, and the intervening winter in Reykjavik at the University of Iceland where she studied Icelandic. After a brief hiatus in England, Marjorie then went to Finland as part of a British Council cultural exchange.

There she taught English and directed three amateur theatrical productions in English. While gratifying, this was not adventurous enough, for Marjorie longed to return to the ‘real Arctic’.

To study the Arctic, though, was a challenge for a single woman at that time. None the less, on the basis of her trips to Iceland and Finland, Marjorie persuaded the Royal Geographical Society to give her a grant to study sheep farming in Greenland over two summers. As soon as the ice allowed, she steamed to Greenland on the cryolite cargo ship M V Julius Thomsen, with her final destination Julianehaab, the location of the sheep-butchering and meat-processing plant. In this vicinity Marjorie carried out a systematic program, interviewing almost all of the local sheep farmers and researching the Greenland economics and livelihoods founded on sheep. Realizing that work in the Arctic could be better undertaken from the New World, Marjorie decided, on her final return trip to England, to emigrate to Canada. She received a McGill/Carnegie Arctic scholarship and pursued research on the economy and agriculture of the Ungava Bay area amongst the Inuit and First Nation peoples. Marjorie completed her PhD at McGill University in 1955. She continued to work as a geographer, then joined Steinberg’s, a supermarket and real estate firm in Quebec, as Director of Research. Having experienced the commercial side of the industry she finally joined the Canadian Federation of Agriculture, a farmers’ lobby group, where she worked as an economic geographer until she retired.

Whilst a graduate student at McGill University, Marjorie met Adam S Bursa, a scientist studying Arctic plankton, and they were married in 1958. After his death she met Donald Ramsay, a Fellow of the Royal Society, through the Cambridge Society of Ottawa, and they were married in 2001. Donald had been Marjorie’s contemporary at Cambridge though they had never met. In their joint retirement they enjoyed travelling much of the world.

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Daniel Goodman 1968–2009 Daniel joined Girton in October 2007 to work for the part-time MSt in Theology and Religious Studies, commuting from his home in North Carolina for each of his periods of study. He died suddenly, aged only 40, midway through his course. A graduate of Drew University, Daniel was a full Professor, holding the Bob D Shepherd Chair of New Testament Interpretation at the School of Divinity, Gardner Webb University, North Carolina. Before joining Gardner Webb in 2003, Daniel had been Associate Professor of New Testament Studies at Palm Beach Atlantic University, where he twice won the award for outstanding teaching. Daniel was a respected and well published scholar in the field of Jewish–Christian relations, contributing regularly to the Biblical Theology Bulletin and the Review of Biblical Literature. He also maintained his ministry, serving as interim pastor and preaching in a number of Baptist chuches. Although his periods in Cambridge were necessarily short and intensive, Daniel was a delight to have in College. He is perhaps remembered best at Wolfson Court as the student who had to sleep on the Warden’s Office floor. He had an early flight to catch and there were no rooms available to extend his stay. It was typical of him that he was extremely amused by the episode and touchingly grateful for his makeshift accommodation. Daniel leaves his wife, Barbara, and two sons, Daniel and Dylan.

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Margaret (Peggy) Hodges 1921–2008 Peggy Hodges read Natural Sciences and graduated from Girton in 1942. She then went to work at Standard Telephone and Cable, London, in the aircraft laboratory, where she concentrated on communications equipment. After eight years she moved to the GEC Applied Electronic Labs in Stanmore, Middlesex, to work in the Guided Weapon Division.

Necessarily most of her work there was secret, but she ‘starred’ in a BBC film shot in the late 1960s at the MoD guided-missile firing range at Aberforth in Wales and featuring her work. At this time she was made an Associate Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society and was elected to a Fellowship of the Society in 1969 – then one of only three female fellows.

In 1970 she received the Whitney-Straight Award for outstanding performance by a woman in the field of Aeronautics. This award comprised a specially commissioned sculpture by Dame Barbara Hepworth, presented by HRH The Prince of Wales at the Royal Aeronautical Society. Two years later she was gazetted OBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours.

After her retirement from active engineering, Peggy became involved in the Caroline Haslett Trust set up to encourage girls, by means of scholarships and competitions, to take up careers in engineering. Peggy was chairman of the Trust for many years. In 1978 she was also involved in the setting up, by the Institution of Electrical and Electronics Incorporated Engineers, of a new annual competition for what was then known as the Girl Technician Engineer of the Year. This was targeted at qualified female incorporated electrical engineers aged between 20 and 30. Peggy was on the adjudicating panel for the ensuing 20 years. For her support and work in this, the Institution made Peggy an Honorary Fellow.

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Elizabeth Alison Kay 1928–2008 Alison was a leading malacologist and environmentalist whose major work focused on the study of marine molluscs in the Pacific. She was born and grew up in Eleele, on the Hawaiian island of Kauai, attending Punahou School which, with over 3000 pupils, was then the largest independent school in the United States. She obtained her first degree from Mills College, California, and then came up to Girton as an Affiliated Student on a Fulbright Scholarship to read Natural Sciences – concentrating on Zoology. She returned to the University of Hawaii in 1952 to research for her PhD while working as a Teaching Assistant. Her dissertation was on cowrie shells, one of which, Cypraea Alisonae, was named for her. On being awarded her doctorate in 1957 she was appointed Assistant Professor, being promoted Professor of Science in 1967 and elected to the Chair of Zoology in 1980.

Her research focused on marine molluscs in the Indo-Pacific region, pioneering the use of biomolluscs for biomonitoring so that her graduate teaching in the fields of taxonomy, systematics and biogeography always emphasised the wider ecological implications to be derived from changing mollusc distribution. She was equally committed to her more general undergraduate teaching and was renowned as one of the most engaging lecturers in the early-year survey courses. She taught a particularly popular course in the natural history of the Hawaiian islands and that was the source of her major textbook in 1994. She published very widely throughout her career, writing several significant books and many research papers. She was also the longest serving editor-in-chief of the journal Pacific Science, working on almost every issue between 1972 and 2000. Practical applications of her environment concerns led to her research into and report, as consultant to the Scientific Advisory Board for the Environmental Protection Agency, on the politically sensitive area of the effects of atomic bomb tests on the Marshall Islands. Her research on the ecology of opihi (limpets) shaped regulations limiting their collection and she was an active founder of the campaign to save Diamond Head, Honolulu, an important volcanic cone then threatened by development but now a US State Monument.

The importance of Alison’s work was acknowledged by her election to Fellowships of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the Linnean Society of London.

Shirley Littler 1932–2009 Shirley Littler combined a happy family life with wide cultural interests and considerable achievements in public life. Born in India in 1932, the daughter of an Indian Civil Servant, Sir Percy Marsh, she went to school in Naini Tal, before returning to wartime England and the Headington School. This led on to an Exhibition at Girton where she read History under Jean Lindsay and Marjorie Chibnall from 1950 to 1953. Shirley had ambitions for an academic career, but when she narrowly failed to achieve a First, and in spite of the promise of a research scholarship, she opted for the Civil Service, and was one of the élite chosen for the fast stream at the Treasury. Here she met another rising star, Geoffrey Littler, whom she married in 1958.

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Sex Discrimination Act of 1975. In her years at the Home Office she also dealt with police discipline, powers and procedures, and later became a Trustee of the Police Foundation.

Promoted to Under-Secretary in 1978, she produced the Littler Report on Welsh Broadcasting, and was in charge of the Broadcasting Act of 1980, which set up Channel 4. She then took charge of the Immigration and Nationality Department, managing some 3000 staff.

In 1983 she was head-hunted by the Independent Broadcasting Authority to become first their Director of Administration, then Deputy Director General (1986–89), and finally Director General (1990), seeing the IBA through its final phase. She was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in 1988. In 1992 she was asked by the Secretary of State for Health to chair the ‘Confidential enquiry into stillbirths and deaths in infancy’. Then, just when she might have retired, the Home Office asked her to become Chairman of the Gaming Board, a role that she thoroughly enjoyed, and where she was the first woman to hold the post.

Shirley cared deeply about Girton, which had nurtured her great love of history. She was particularly supportive of the Library and Archive Project, which combined her love of books and her passion for preserving historical record. She and Geoffrey offered their house, hospitality and formidable energies to the major fund-raising campaign that began in the late 1990s, and she was a key member of the campaign committee. Their own substantial generosity is fittingly commemorated in the striking but tranquil space of the Littler Reading Room, part of the new building in which researchers in the archival and special collections may study. Shirley was elected an Honorary Commoner in 1998, and later, on the day that the new Library building was officially opened, she was installed as one of the first Bodichon Foundation Fellows. Her personal and published papers are deposited in Girton’s Library and Archive, and she also donated many volumes from her Charlotte Yonge collection to the College’s existing special collection of Yonge’s work. The fine portrait of Shirley, which was commissioned from Linda Atherton for the IBA, now hangs in the Library corridor, a warm and daily reminder of her contribution to the College.

Shirley was an excellent administrator who was good at anything she turned her hand to. An avid book collector, particularly of first editions, she also found time for knitting, theatre-going, gardening and cooking. And, as Geoffrey says, she was a deeply and warmly cherished wife, mother, grandmother, aunt and great-aunt, who was devoted to her family.

The Littlers’ elegant house in Earl’s Court Gardens was full of beautiful things, but perhaps its most noteworthy feature was the exceptional garden, which owed everything to Shirley’s love, care and organisation. Shirley and Geoffrey held a splendid and joyous Golden Wedding celebration at the Reform Club in the autumn of 2008, where Shirley was in good form although already ill.

In her address to a memorial gathering to celebrate Shirley’s life, held at the Reform Club in June, the Mistress, Marilyn Strathern, commented on the aptness of Shirley’s choice of career. She observed that, although Shirley had apparently turned away from history when she chose the Civil Service, her influential role in various enquiries and in formulating ground-breaking legislation, particularly in equal opportunities, had in fact created a lasting historical impact. She concluded ‘So the historian put her mark on history’.

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Clare Neville Smith 1922–2009 Clare Neville Smith was a reforming paediatrician and Newfoundland’s first Provincial Schools Medical Officer. Her friends also remember her fondly as a keen mah-jong player, Scrabble master, world traveller, eclectic non-fiction book collector and a most generous friend.

A true daughter of the Empire, Clare was born in Kasauli in the Simla Hills. Her father, Harry Neville Smith, was a chaplain officer in the Indian army. Clare was educated at Badminton School in Bristol and came up to Girton to read Natural Sciences in 1940 and undertook her clinical training in London during the Blitz. She recalled the magical effects of penicillin and streptomycin before overuse resulted in antibiotic resistance; she later went on to work with the first TB antibiotics.

She followed friends to Canada in 1948 and worked briefly at the Ottawa Civic Hospital. In 1949 she began work with the Grenfell Association in Harrington Harbour on the Quebec North Shore, sometimes travelling by dog-team and bush plane on skis.

Her interest in preventative medicine then took her to the University of Toronto where she obtained a Diploma of Public Health. Between 1956 and 1958 she worked in Korea as a paediatrician with the Canadian Save the Children Fund among the refugees from the Korean War. It was this experience that shaped her future career. She was profoundly affected by the desperate plight of children who were suffering from malnutrition and she found it difficult to settle back into ‘high tech’ paediatrics in Toronto and London.

In 1961 she obtained a Specialist Certificate in Paediatrics and was invited to join the Newfoundland Department of Health to develop programmes in children’s health.

A year later she became Newfoundland’s first Provincial School Medical Officer and Paediatrician. She set up screening programmes for the early diagnosis of childhood diseases and gradually developed appropriate care in the community wherever it was possible. She was based in St. John’s but travelled widely throughout the Province, liaising with the Grenfell Association Medical Services and the local networks of public health nurses. She was a strong believer in the importance of the role of public health nurses and used teleconferencing to bring her scattered staff together. She also played a key role in establishing the Provincial School for the Deaf, and employed the first audiologist at the Janeway Children’s Hospital in St John’s. She pioneered a programme to serve parents of preschool hearing-impaired children using videotapes and telephone counselling and, recognising the increased burden of deafness in the ‘outport’ communities she initiated a programme of genetic research at the Memorial University Medical School. From this work has come a much greater understanding of genetic links in deafness. Although her work in Newfoundland could be challenging and sometimes frustrating, she found most of it rewarding and great fun. In consequence she placed paediatric medicine in the Province on a sound footing.

In retirement she continued her active interest in paediatric medicine and in 1985 spent three months at the University of Kampala with the Canadian International Development Agency. She also pursued her fascination with the Far East and the Silk Route, travelling several times to China and other parts of South East Asia. At home she became an active 130

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member of the Friends of the Memorial University Botanical Garden, and attended concerts, gallery openings and courses at the Seniors’ Centre. A concerned citizen, she frequently wrote to government and other authorities with forthright criticism and advice.

Frugal in her personal life, she was at the same time very generous. She made many donations to charities, especially those working in education and with children. Those who knew her valued her intelligence, generosity and loyalty as well as her ability to turn the mundane into hilarious fun. She was an inspiration to all her friends around the world.

Jenny Tyrrell, goddaughter, and Bodil Larsen, Judy Roberts, Kathleen Knowling and Joyce and Alan Macpherson, her friends from St John’s and Toronto Parts of this text appeared in the Canadian Globe and Mail and in the British Medical Journal

Joan Solomon (Diamond, later Ziman) 1932–2009 Joan is remembered as an inspirational teacher, a great storyteller and an innovative curriculum developer who brought formidable intellectual rigour to all she did. Through her research and writing she played an important part in the shift in science education from formal presentation of knowledge to emphasis on the critical interactions between science and society and the processes by which students find out about science and its impacts.

Joan was educated at St. Paul’s Girls’ School, and came up to Girton in 1950 to read Natural Sciences, specialising in Physics in her final year. She met Gerald Solomon at Cambridge and they were married in the year after her graduation. She went straight into teaching Physics, and remained at work while bringing up her four children: three daughters and a son. Her principal early teaching post was at Channing School, Highgate, where she worked for fifteen happy and productive years. It was there that she began to devise and refine her innovative teaching methods.

By the early 1970s, following divorce from Gerald and as a single parent teaching fulltime, she began her science writing with two books published during 1973–74: The Structure of Matter and The Structure of Space. In 1973 she re-met John Ziman, her second cousin, a physics professor and distinguished writer on science in society, whom she later married.

As their friendship flourished she found herself amongst his circle of academic friends and colleagues: contacts that led to her principal role in the development of the Science in Social Context (SISCON) in Schools project. This course was one of the first to place major emphasis on encouraging students to address and discuss complex and politically sensitive issues such as energy resources, nuclear weapons, evolution and the impact of science on culture. To prepare herself for an academic career in science education she moved for two years to a comprehensive school, St. David’s and St. Catherine’s Secondary School in Hornsey, where she delighted in the chance to encourage pupils at every level of ability.

In 1981 Joan published Teaching Children in the Laboratory and started research for a PhD at Chelsea College of Science and Technology, gaining the degree in 1983 for her thesis ‘Learning about Energy’. This bore immediate fruit in several conference papers and publications. Her tutor, Professor Paul Black, wrote of her ‘commitment to classroom discussion [and] science-based social issues and [her] imaginative initiatives’. She then received a grant to set up STIR – the Science Teachers in Research Group – which focused 131

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on the interface between pupils’ pre-conceptions and their school learning. Its outcome of four major academic papers demonstrated how teachers could be collaborative participants in high-quality research. From 1984 she spent four years teaching in the Oxford University Department of Educational Studies and was then appointed to Visiting Professorships at both the Open University and the University of Plymouth.

Joan developed the practical means to increase the scientific literacy of all young people in schools and colleges. She drew on her early experience with SISCON to help teachers to respond to changes in the National Curriculum, and she commissioned and edited a series of booklets on key episodes in the history of science for the Association of Science Education (ASE). In the words of Professor Glen Aikenhead, a member of ASE, friend and colleague: ‘Joan was among a small group of pioneers in school science education who wanted school science to mean something for all students, not just for an anointed elite… worldwide science education today is more advanced, more student-orientated, and more human as a result of Joan.’

She was an immensely kind, intuitive, engaging and loving person. A single parent for much of her school-teaching and academic careers, she unfailingly reminded her four children that they were ‘the best thing I have ever done’. She drew wonder from all aspects of the natural world and that ‘wonder’ was the quality that she wished most to instil into any child’s mind. Joan was a humanitarian and supported many causes and individuals. She fostered a Channing School sixth-former until she went to university, sponsored a young Indian through university, and was carer to an Oxford student with severe cancer, taking her and her two small girls into her home for two years until she was restored to health.

She published her final book, The Passion to Learn, an Inquiry into Autodidactism, in 2003, but John Ziman died two years later and her own health began to falter. Undaunted, she kept her faculties intact, even making her mark at the 2007 International Science Conference in Perth with a workshop on, of course, ‘Wonder in Science Education’. from information supplied by Tony Diamond and Janet and David Solomon

Janet Laura Taylor (Watts) 1938–2009 Janet Taylor (Watts) was born in Coventry, grew up in South London, and came up to Girton from Sutton High School in 1957. She read Natural Sciences for Part I of the Tripos and Chemistry for Part II. She remained at Girton working on physico-chemical aspects of lipoidal membranes for the Doctorate that she gained in 1964. This was followed by a three-year Medical Research Council Fellowship, when her research was at an interface of physics, chemistry and biology, and was essentially about ‘boundaries’. Her work provided valuable insights into the basic electrical properties of biological cell membranes, leading to an understanding of the mechanism by which molecules are transported across such membranes. In this period Janet worked in close collaboration with Professor Denis Haydon, with whom she published many papers.

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1973. The next decade was devoted to their now three daughters, Jessamy having arrived in 1975, and the family moved from Cambridge to East Molesey, Surrey.

Following a postgraduate teaching certificate at Chelsea, 1983, Janet taught at North East Surrey College of Technology. She was seconded for a year to the Royal Society of Chemistry (where she was later elected a member of the Council), and for a further year to the Laboratory of the Government Chemist. In her teaching, Janet was adept at seeing matters from the students’ point of view, and involving them in her ingenious methods of teaching problem-solving.

Out of those years came the third phase of Janet’s career, in which she developed her rigorous approach to educational writing, seen in her books In Search of More Solutions (Royal Society of Chemistry 1995), and Materials (CUP 2002 ). She was also an exacting external editor for several publishers.

Janet’s initially somewhat quiet manner, and her usually gentle way of speaking, cloaked a highly humorous, caustic, satirical, and thoroughly uncompromising nature, which would soon reveal itself both professionally and in her private life. Her joy in her family and her six grandchildren was tragically cut short when she died on 12 May 2009, of an occult breast cancer. This followed a year of difficult investigations and treatment, during which she took close practical interest in both medical detail and the technicalities of intensive care. She regarded each turn of events with optimism and in a spirit of adventure, even when all hope was gone reproaching Tony ‘for being gloomy’.

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Elizabeth (Betty) Tylden (Mrs Morgan) 1917–2009 Betty Tylden was an eminent physician and psychiatrist who was best known for her innovative ways of working with those, especially the young, suffering from complex posttraumatic stress disorders. Characterised as ‘patient’, ‘motherly’ and having a ‘hefty dose of common sense’ she was regularly called as an expert witness in cases involving mind control by religious sects, and where there was suspected child abuse.

Born and brought up in the Orange Free State she received her early education in Capetown but moved to England, to the Godolphin School, Salisbury, before coming up to Girton in 1935 to read Natural Sciences for medicine. She undertook her clinical training at the Royal Free Hospital, qualifying in the middle of WW2. From 1942 she moved, as house physician or surgeon, between a number of London Hospitals where she saw the extreme mental effects of conflict: civilians battered beyond endurance by the Blitz, and returning shell-shocked military labelled as ‘battle-exhausted’ and considered beyond further usefulness. It was these experiences that led her to focus her career in the area of psychological trauma.

Much of her career was based at the Bromley Hospital which she joined as physician in the Psychiatric Department in 1949, working primarily in child and family psychiatry.

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country house near Sevenoaks, setting up there a pioneering scheme to provide, for wives and mothers who had professional training, housing and nursery facilities that would allow them to continue their careers. Later, in the 1960s, she also set up in Kent, at Stepping Stones, the first scheme of ‘Care in the Community’ for the mentally stressed or ill. This reflected her view that the violent reactions of patients who had been the victims of mental stress did not in fact exhibit psychosis but were just normal ‘survival’ reactions, and that conventional psychoanalysis and psychotherapy could be ‘worse than useless’. Many patients received the greatest relief through simply understanding that they were exhibiting ‘normal patterns of behaviour’. This was particularly true of the victims, often young, of the growing number of religious and ‘new age’ cults. Subjected to mind-altering techniques, used and then cast aside, they would often end up diagnosed as schizophrenic, heavily medicated, and in prison or secure hospital. In the 1980s and even, after her retirement, in the 90s Betty had a large caseload of such young people, many of whom later became her friends. She was a frequent expert witness in their legal struggles.

Alongside her work at Bromley, where she became a consultant, Betty worked as a part-time liaison psychiatrist in the departments of Obstetrics and Academic Medicine at University College Hospital. There she established the country’s first drug-abuse clinic. She also drafted the Department of Health’s 1984 Guidelines for Good Clinical Practice in the Treatment of Drug Misuse and she wrote widely on drug dependence in pregnancy, care in the community, and the psychological effects of cult involvement. It was only ill health that forced her final retirement in 2004 at the age of 86.

Mary Barbara Wallis 1922–2009 Already by nature a very private person, Barbara always adhered strictly to her oath as a signatory to the Official Secrets Act, so very few of her colleagues and students at Homerton College, where she spent most of her later career, can ever have known of her intelligence work at Bletchley Park nor, probably, of her later experiences at the Nuremberg trials and her imprisonment in Egypt during the Suez crisis.

Although born in London, Barbara was connected to Cambridge through a long family history. She could trace Cambridge links among her ancestors going back over 200 years.

These included James Clerk Maxwell, the first Cavendish Professor of Physics, and her grandfather, Peter Giles, who was a long-serving Master of Emmanuel and Chair of the Girton College Council (1910–18). Two aunts had also been at Girton so her choice of college must have seemed predestined. Nevertheless the College recommended that, before coming up to read MML in 1941, she should spend a year with a German émigré family in Oxford to improve her understanding of the German language and culture. This was to prove a very influential experience.

At the end of her first year she was called up for service in the ATS and posted to the initial training camp on Northampton racecourse – clearly something of a sartorial experience: ‘There’ she wrote ‘we were kitted out from the skin up, there being no lingerie allowance as there was for the WRNS. Naturally everything was a khaki colour, including rayon bloomers.’ Transferred to Bletchley Park, she joined MI8 and played a crucial role.

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She tuned in to transmissions from stations all over Germany and, because of her acute ear for the language, she could recognise and distinguish different voices, especially those that were mobile, and so pin down troop movements. She also read tapes from the Enigma machine and was able to pinpoint critical pieces that linked with her audio receptions.

The German family in Oxford noted that her colloquial German was improving fast and wondered where she could be using it.

After the German surrender she monitored remaining German units in Czechoslovakia, then moved to Germany and acted as a translator for many of the war crime trials at Nuremberg. By 1946 she was back at Girton, now reading Anthropology and Archaeology for Part II. On graduation she trained at the Roehampton Froebel Institute and then taught in Bethnal Green before spending five years as a child-care officer in Reading.

1956 was a significant year for Barbara. She was initially involved in arranging billeting for Hungarian military personnel driven to Britain by the uprising. She wanted further involvement with them but when that proved impossible she took a British Council post as head of Victoria College, Cairo, only to become caught up immediately in the Suez Crisis and to find herself imprisoned and then expelled from Egypt. She returned to her Hungarians, acting as senior instructor for a group employed as miners in Wales. The following year she was back in Africa, taking a post as senior mistress at Tripoli College, Libya, where she remained for six years. She returned for a move into higher education, joining Leeds University as a Nuffield Research Fellow, working on teaching material in French for primary schools. This experience led to her final and most long-lasting appointment, as Senior Lecturer and Warden–Tutor at Homerton College. There she remained for seventeen years, retiring in 1983. Most of her academic work there was in French, with only a small demand for German, but she also had the considerable responsibility of arranging student accommodation both in College and for the large proportion of students living ‘out’ with landladies in the City. This last duty, requiring great tact and much negotiation, left Homerton students from every discipline deeply in her debt.

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Elvira Witney (Evans 1944) 1926–2009 Elvira Evans was born in Bridgend in Wales in 1926. Her mother was ‘in service’ as a cook so, because she had to work away from home much of the time, Elvira lived with and was brought up by her maternal grandmother. Early in her life they moved from Wales to London and then on to Southend where Elvira attended Southend-on-Sea High School for Girls. There she was encouraged to develop her love of English literature as well as her music and acting. The outcome was that she was offered university places at both Cambridge and Oxford, in addition to acceptance by the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. She always said that the choice was made easy for her: she would go to Cambridge, and specifically to Girton, primarily because there bed linen was provided and that would ‘save one expense at least’. The teachers at Southend spared her even greater expense by clubbing together to buy her a bicycle, and Elvira came up to Girton to read English in 1944.

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Elvira quickly took the opportunity to expand her acting experience, performing mostly with the Marlowe Society, and in leading roles as diverse as Miranda in The Tempest and The Pig Woman in Bartholomew Fair. A lifelong hero was John Gielgud and so she was delighted when, having seen her as Octavia in Anthony and Cleopatra, he told Elvira that she ‘spoke verse beautifully’. It was at Cambridge – in a break from Mill Lane English lectures and in the queue at Fitzbillies cake shop – that she met Donald Witney. He was at Jesus but also reading English following wartime military service in the army. He was thus slightly older but academically a year below her. They planned to marry and Elvira spent the period of his final year teaching at Dogmersfield Park School before their wedding in 1948. They made their first home in London when Donald took up a teaching post at Dulwich College. It was there that their two daughters were born and Elvira was much occupied as a mother. However, while at home with her first child Elvira was already looking for a new creative outlet and, almost on a whim, she joined an art evening class. Painting immediately became central to her, and a passion that lasted all her life.

Donald’s teaching took them to Warwick and then, in 1958, to Louth, where he was appointed Headmaster of the King Edward VI Grammar School, which was then admitting only boys. Elvira quickly made her mark as a young, glamorous and, for the times, unconventional Head’s wife. Friends from the school and the town remember with affection the warm hospitality she and Donald offered. Elvira soon made her own life in the town. She became a marriage guidance counsellor and a magistrate, rising to be chairman of the local Bench until her retirement in 1996. She later held several short teaching appointments that made their mark – her former pupils speaking of her later as an inspiring teacher of English who brought literature to life for them. She and Donald also sang with the Louth Choral Society and through everything she pursued her painting. As recently as the summer of 2008 she was exhibiting with the prestigious Nadin Group at Lincoln’s Sam Scorer Gallery.

Marianne Wynn 1921–2009 Marianne Wynn was Professor of German at two universities: London where she was based at Westfield College, and Giessen where she was a very active Honorary Professor.

She was a Mediaevalist, expert in German courtly romance with her emphasis on themes of narrative, love and mimesis. She is best known for her work on the twelfth-century epic poet Wolfram von Eschenbach.

Marianne was 16 when her family was forced by the growing threat of persecution in pre-war Silesia to leave Breslau, where she was born, and to emigrate to Australia. She continued her education at Melbourne University where she was allowed exceptionally to study simultaneously in two schools: German and English. In 1944 she graduated with a First in both schools and was awarded three separate University scholarships. She remained at Melbourne for her initial graduate work, writing her MA thesis on Middle English Poetry. This too was awarded a First and earned her a travel scholarship which she used for her first return visit to Europe. After three more years as a junior lecturer 136

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in German Literature at Melbourne she moved to Girton for her PhD. There she was Bryce-Tebb Scholar, and also undertook teaching in German Literature for the College.

Awarded her Doctorate in 1954 she moved to London where she met and married Victor Wynn, a doctor and Professor at St Mary’s Hospital, Paddington, and an early advocate of oral contraception.

Marianne started her London career with part-time lectureships at both King’s and Westfield Colleges but it was Westfield that she made her academic base. There she was first appointed Assistant Lecturer in 1956, then progressed to Lecturer, London University Reader, College Reader and then College Professor (these two last appointments being ad feminam). In 1985 she was elected to the established London University Chair of German.

She was at that time the only female at Westfield with a full University professorship. A year earlier her scholarship had also been recognised in Germany where she was elected to a personal chair in Mediaeval Studies (honoris causa) at the Justus Liebig University of Giessen. This was an appointment with unlimited tenure so for several years after her retirement from London and Westfield she continued to visit Giessen to attend colloquia and to run very popular graduate seminars. Marianne’s publications were extensive but she is best known for her Wolfram’s Parzifal:On the Genesis of its Poetry, which has remained a definitive text.

Outside their academic work Marianne and Victor were always keen to share their enthusiasms with their friends. First among these was fine wine, Victor being active in the family wine firm. Colleagues and friends would also regularly be invited to the tennis at Wimbledon or to the Royal Opera House; the latter notably if Wagner was being performed for Marianne had lectured on the mediaeval background to both Parsifal and Tristan. They also kept a generous open house at their fine Hampstead home. Sadly most of this had to be cut back when Victor became ill and took early retirement. The couple took to over-wintering back in Australia and as Victor’s condition worsened Marianne spent much of her time caring for him. After his death she continued her regular Australian visits to her daughter and grandchild.

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Roll Diary of Events 2009–10 Saturday 20 February 2010: Geographical Society Dinner Invitations will be sent out by the Development Office.

Thursday 25 February 2010: Alumni Formal Hall All alumni and their guests are invited to join the Fellows and current graduates in residence in a Formal Hall. If you would like to attend please contact the Alumni Officer for further details. Places are limited so early application is advised. Those living in the Cambridgeshire area, London, Home Counties and South-East may receive further notification by email around a month before if there are still places available.

Saturday 20 March: Reunion Dinner for those who matriculated in 1995 and 2000 Invitations will be sent out by the Alumni Officer.

Friday 26 March 2010: MA Dinner To be held on the evening of the MA Congregation – contact the Alumni Officer for more details.

Saturday 24 April 2010: Roll Committee Meeting There will be a meeting of the Roll Committee in the Old Kitchens on Saturday 24 April 2010 at 11.15 a.m.

Saturday 8 May 2010: The Girton Project Workshop: ‘Life After the Main Career’ For further details please contact the Roll Office or the Roll web page www.roll@girton. cam.ac.uk Thursday 20 May 2010: Alumni Formal Hall As above (25 February 2010) for details.

Saturday 10 July 2010: Roll Buffet Lunch, Annual General Meeting and associated events Before the Buffet Lunch, Friends of the Library will be hosting their annual event at 11.oo a.m. in Old Hall on Saturday 10 July. Our speaker is Dr Lynn Hulse, Archivist for the Royal School of Needlework, Hampton Court Palace, who will give an illustrated talk about Girton’s Reception Room embroideries within the wider context of the work and history of the Royal School of Needlework. This talk is deferred from 2009 when it was cancelled owing to last-minute illness. Friends, Patrons, alumni and guests are warmly welcome.

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Conference Rooms and Woodlands Court. There will be a Raffle organised by the Cambridge Local Girton Association. Tennis and Croquet and other games will be available. Bring your own sports equipment. Spouses, partners, children, friends and relatives are warmly welcome.

The Annual General Meeting of the Roll will be held at 2.15 p.m. in the Old Hall.

Following the meeting the Guest Speaker will be Ms Rachel Lomax (Salmon 1963). Ms Lomax, who was formerly Deputy Governor, Monetary Stability, at the Bank of England and a member of the Monetary Policy Committee, is an Honorary Fellow of the College.

In December 2008 she was appointed as an independent non-executive Director of HSBC Holdings plc. The title of her talk is ‘Reflections on the financial crisis’.

Saturday 11 September 2010: 1980 Alumni Reunion Dinner Invitations will be sent out by the Alumni Officer.

Saturday 18 September 2010: 1985 and 1990 Alumni Reunion Dinner Invitations will be sent out by the Alumni Officer.

Saturday 25 September 2010: Roll Committee Meeting There will be a meeting of the Roll Committee in the Chapel Box Room on Saturday 25 September at 11.15 a.m.

Saturday 25 September 2010: People’s Portraits Reception The People’s Portraits Standing Committee will be holding a Reception to receive a new portrait for the People’s Portraits at Girton Exhibition in the Fellows’ Rooms at 4 p.m.

The Reception is open to all alumni attending the Roll Weekend events.

Saturday 25 September 2010: Roll Weekend/Roll Dinner The Roll Dinner is open to all Roll Members and their guests. If you would like to organise a reunion for your year or for any special group, such as a decennial anniversary reunion, please get in touch with Dr Emma Cornwall, the Alumni Officer, who can help you with addresses, contacting people and providing a venue for special additional meetings if you wish.

The Guest Speaker will be Dr Simon Cohn (1984). The title of his talk is, ‘The extraordinary experiences of having an ordinary illness’. Dr Cohn will talk, as a medical anthropologist who through his career has conducted research in the UK, about the very varied, and sometimes tragic, ways in which people make sense of their illness.

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College Donors 2008–09 The College is extremely grateful to all the following for their support. Donors from 1 August 2008 – 31 July 2009 are listed below; donors from August 2009 will be listed next year. In addition to those listed below, our thanks also go to all donors who wish to remain anonymous.

Miss C Abbott (2001) Dr J Abernethy (1997) Mrs O Abisogun-Alo (Abisogun, 1958) Mrs J Abraham (Cole, 1939) Mrs O Abrahams (Rutherford, 1943) Dr I Adams Mr A Addis (2002) Mrs C Addis (Dewar, 1978) Dr S Aguilar (1992) Mr J Aitchison (1984) Mr A Aitken (1993) The Hon Mrs J Alchin (Hankey, 1950) Mrs S Alderson (Heard, 1953) Mrs A Alexander (Coulton, 1955) Miss L Allen (1997) Mrs R Allen (Green, 1955) Miss S Allen (1939) Miss S Allen (2001) Miss Z Allen (2008) Ms A Allport Dr E Almond (Robinson, 1999) Mr S Almond (1999) Dr L Altinger (1988) Miss J Anderson (1997) Mrs R Anderson (Naish, 1978) Ms K Anderson (1977) Mr J Andrews (2002) Mrs R Andrews Dr K Anipa (1993) Mrs C Ansorge (Broadbelt, 1964) Mrs J Anstice (Williams, 1955) Ms R Apple Mrs P Aris (Heesom, 1957) Mrs P Armitage (Scott-Moncrieff, 1985) Mr J Armitstead (1980) Mr R Armstrong (1988) Dr S Arstall (Leach, 1966) Mrs H Asbury (Jephcott, 1972) Prof J Ashworth (1957) Mrs A Atkinson (Barrett, 1949) Lady Atkinson (J Mandeville, 1963) Dr J Attfield (White, 1950)

Mrs A Attree (Chapman, 1953) Ms M Austen (1973) Mrs S Austin (Ladyman, 1971) Miss K Auty (1938) Mrs C Avery Jones (Bobbett, 1970) Dr H Bachmann (1994) Miss D Bagaglia (1997) Dr R Bailey (1951) Mrs J Bailhache (ArrowsmithBrown, 1940) Dr S Bain (Stanley, 1961) Miss J Bainbridge (1962) Mrs P Bainbridge (Lawrence, 1955) Mrs H Baker (Sharrock, 1974) Mrs J Baker (Leader, 1945) Mrs R Baker (Smith, 1997) Mrs S Baldwin (Wainwright, 1979) Dr N Ball (1941) Miss K Balls (2001) Prof I Bantekas (2004) Dr D Barden (1991) Mrs S Barkham (Ratcliffe, 1961) Mrs C Barlow (Shakespeare, 1975) Dr M Barnes (Sampson, 1953) Mrs B Barnett (Hurlock, 1947) Mrs J Barrett (Fountain, 1956) Mrs E Barrott (Stosic, 1976) Mrs K Bartlett (Watson, 1964) Mrs J Barwick-Nesbit (Nicholson, 1979) Mrs C Bar-Yaacov (Stonehill, 1952) Mrs A Bassett (James, 1945) Mrs J Batsleer (Hutchinson, 1974) Prof D Battaglia (1974) Ms A Bazin (1971) Mr S Beale (1990) Dr R Beare (1954) Dr S Beare (Reed, 1948) Mrs C Beasley-Murray (Griffiths, 1964)

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Mr P Beer (1997) Ms A Bell (1988) Miss A Bell (1970) Dr D Bell (1989) Miss N Bell (2001) Mrs F Bennetts (Farrar, 1958) Mrs A Berg (Hollis, 1992) Mr J Berger (1998) Mrs D Berman Dr C Beton (1986) Lady Bett (C Reid, 1956) Dr R Bewley (1983) Mrs D Bickley (Hurn, 1960) Mrs Z Biggs (Kharas, 1963) Mr P Bilton (1993) Miss K Bingham (1999) Miss M Bingham-Walker (1997) Mrs R Binney (Chanter, 1962) Mrs A Black (Shotton, 1951) Miss J Blackaby (1936) Mrs J Blackburn (Saunders, 1958) Mr M Blackburn Miss S Blacker (Brenton, 1969) Mr T Blake (2004) Mrs D Blamire (Giffard, 1944) Dr A Blandford (Francis, 1976) Mrs J Bleeck (Bailes, 1997) Dr C Blincoe (Tricker, 1976) Dr R Bliss (1980) Mrs D Boatman (Coles, 1959) Mrs C Borrill (Pateras, 1973) Dr P Boston (1978) Mrs M Bott (Haugaard, 1973) Mr T Boughton (1995) Miss B Bowden (1955) Mr S Bowie (1999) Mrs P Bowring (Soppet, 1968) Dr V Bowtell (Shepherd, 1969) Miss F Boyers (1975) Mr P Brabin (1989) Mrs C Brack (Cashin, 1961) The Rev A Bradbrook (Turner, 1964) Ms L Bradbury (1976) Dr L Braddock (1968) Mr D Bradnum (2000)

The Roll 2009

Mrs S Bradnum (Degge, 2000) Ms J Bradshaw (1990) Mrs G Brand (Butler, 1950) Mrs W Brandon (Holt, 1953) Mr P Bream (1985) Ms A Brice (1979) Mrs V Brierley (Norris, 1939) Ms R Briggs (1995) Mrs M Bright (Abel, 1956) Mrs K Brind (Williams, 1961) Mrs S Britton (Bird, 1953) Mrs C Bromhead (Smith, 1977) Prof C Brooke Dr R Brooke (Clark, 1943) Mrs N Brooker (Brooke, 1962) Mrs S Brooks (Foster-Smith, 1940) Mrs A Brown (Mark, 1971) Mr B Brown The Rev L Brown (1953) Dr M Brown (1940) Mrs M Bruce (Kitchen, 1937) Miss P Bruce (1948) Mrs M Bryan (Grant, 1949) Miss F Bryson (1998) Miss J Buck (1989) Mr E Buckley (1997) Mrs R Buckley (Williams, 1948) Mrs N Budd (Hill, 1992) Ms H Budnitz (1999) Dr B Bullard (1954) Mrs E Bullock (Pomeroy, 1949) Miss L Bullock (1999) Mrs A Burley (Snow, 1954) Mrs J Burridge (Saner, 1980) Dr E Burroughs (Clyma, 1963) Mr A Butler (2001) Mrs H Butler (Penfold, 1985) Miss J Butler (1952) Dr E Butterworth (1997) Mrs D Button Mr N Button Mrs N Cade (McCubbin, 1968) Miss B Cain (2001) Mr P Cameron (1984) Mr N Campbell (1979) Mrs C Campion-Smith (Gerrard, 1964) Mrs R Candlin (Shaw, 1947) Mrs R Canning (Harris, 1964) Mrs E Capewell (Aldridge, 1966) Dr D Cara (1985) Dr M Cara (Blake, 1985) Mrs J Cardell Lawe (Cardell, 1955) Mrs A Carey (Patrick, 1952)

Mrs B Carley (Gaskell, 1968) Mrs V Carroll (Jordan, 1954) Dr M Carter (Cumming, 1953) Ms E Cartwright (1998) Mrs E Cary (Simon, 1958) Mr D Cash (2001) Prof J Cassell (1982) Lady Cassidi (D Bliss, 1956) Dr B Castleton (Smith, 1967) Mrs H Castor Jeffery (Castor, 1988) Mr C Caulkin (2000) Miss E Chadwick (1935) Dr P Chadwick (1967) Dr E Challis (Lincoln, 1962) Dr P Chaloner (1970) Ms V Chamberlain (1971) Miss C Chan (1996) Sir Geoffrey Chandler (1986) Prof J Chandler (1955) Lady Chandler (L Buxton, 1951) Mrs M Chandler (Baker, 1954) Dr A Chapman (Peter, 1950) Miss V Chatterton (2001) Mrs L Chesneau (Jacot, 1967) Mrs N Chessher (Watson, 1988) Ms G Chester (1969) Miss M Chevallier (1945) Mrs V Chiesa (Wilkie, 1971) Mrs M Child (Bond, 1944) Dr P Child (Skeggs, 1979) Mrs A Chillingworth (Duff, 1961) Mr A Chisholm (1997) Ms N Chu Mr K Chung (1996) Mrs P Churchill (Harwood, 1942) Mrs S Churchill (Shields, 1971) Mrs A Clark (Cook, 1945) Miss M Clark (1966) Mr S Clark (2003) Ms I Clarke (1990) Mrs R Clarke Mrs M Clarkson (Lightburne, 1956) Mrs K Clay (Swift, 1979) Mrs K Clay (Cambell, 1932) Dr J Clayton (Gardner, 1974) Dr S Clayton (2001) Miss R Clements (2001) Mrs J Clitherow (Goodier, 1948) Mr S Close (1987) Mrs J Clough (Richardson, 1979) Mrs M Cobbold (MacFarlane, 1970) Dr A Cobby (1971) Mr B Coffin (1999)

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Dr A Cogan (1988) Dr L Coggins (1973) Mrs G Cole (Davies, 1943) Mrs M Collins (Worsey, 1981) Mrs R Collins (Mottershead, 1947) Mr W Collins (1993) Mrs J Collyer (Kiwana, 1977) Miss J Congdon (1948) Mrs S Conolly (Ruch, 1978) Mrs P Considine (1985) Mr D Conway-Jones (1979) Dr A Conyers (Williams, 1961) Mr C Coombs (2000) Mrs B Cooper (Newns, 1971) Mrs C Cooper (Parsons, 1962) Mrs P Cooper (Lilley, 1963) Miss R Cooper (1943) Mrs S Cooper (Vale, 1972) Dr H Cope (Wynne, 1974) Ms K Cornell (Reeve, 1989) Mr P Cornmell (1998) Miss F Corrie (1966) Miss J Corser (1958) Mrs B Coulson (Chambers, 1970) Mrs A Coulton (McWatters, 1977) Mr G Counsell (1981) Dr E Courtauld (Molland, 1959) Dr T Courtney (1994) Mrs T Cowen (Castling, 1981) Ms E Cox (1997) Mrs L Cox (Page, 1968) Dr M Cox (Whichelow, 1954) Miss M Cox (1938) Dr R Cox (1988) Dr T Craggs (1998) Mrs M Craig (MacCoby, 1974) Mr A Craigie (1988) Miss H Craik (2002) Mrs C Cranley (Clifton, 1988) Dr T Crickmore (Bartram, 1984) Mr S Cridland (1994) Ms J Crimmin (1968) Dr J Crisp (1969) Mrs C Critchley (Harding, 1942) Dr C Crocker (Tombs, 1968) Mrs S Croft (White, 1986) Mr S Croft (1986) Dr J Cross (Dawson, 1968) Miss D Crowder (1964) Miss C Crump (1951) Mrs E Cullen (Roberts, 1929) Mr M Cullingford (1997) Ms L Cummings (1978) Dr D Cunningham (Yeates, 1967)

Annual Review 2009

Mrs L Curgenven (Charlton, 1966) Miss G Curnow (1953) Prof E Curran (1948) Dr A Curry (1993) Miss N Curry (1935) Mr E Cyster (1996) Mr T Daines Mrs R Dams (Bailey, 1950) Miss S Daniell (2001) Miss J Dannatt (1947) Mrs D Darke (Meyer, 1951) Dr J Darlington (1960) Mr A Darnton (2003) Miss A Darvall (1962) Mrs P Dauris (Butterworth, 1958) Mr A Davey Mrs A Davidson (Jones, 1975) Mr M Davidson (1991) Mr S Davidson (1995) Mrs H Davies (Waters, 1966) Dr J Davies (Dadds, 1956) Mrs M Davies (Thompson, 1947) Dr M Davies (1973) Mrs M Davies (Owen, 1957) Mr P Davies (1980) Mrs A Davies-Jones (King, 1985) Dr C Davis (1977) Mrs J Davis (Crane, 1982) Miss K Davis (2001) Ms S Dawson (1972) Miss A Day (1954) Mrs J de Swiet (Hawkins, 1961) Mr C Deacon (1996) Miss L Dean (1996) Mrs M Deelman (Hall, 1963) Mr D Deitz (2004) Dr V Dekou (2002) Mrs D Dennis (Hinnels, 1950) Mrs D Derome-Asen (Derome, 1968) Dr D Devlin (1960) Mr E Dickson Mrs S Diggle (Chapman, 1959) Mrs B Dixon (Stone, 1946) Mrs L Dixon (Moffatt, 1954) Dr E Dobie (Marcus, 1953) Miss D Dobney (1941) Mrs A Dobson (Ambrose 1999) Mr G Dobson (1998) Ms G Dobson (1985) Mrs G Dodd (Andrewes, 1978) Mrs C Doggart (Voute, 1959) Dr J Dolby (Horton, 1943) Mr C Donnelly (2005)

Mrs P Dossetor (Willmott, 1963) Mrs M Double (Robinson, 1950) Prof A Dowling (1970) Mrs P Downes (Sterry, 1962) Mr J Doyle (1980) Mrs B Drabble (Knowles, 1993) Mr C Dryland (1992) Miss C Dube (2001) Ms L Duffin (1973) Dr L Dumbreck (Devlin, 1973) Miss N Dummler (2007) Mrs J Duncan (Salmon, 1946) Mr P Durkin Mrs C Dwyer (Williams, 1984) Miss R Dyer (2001) Miss M Dyson (1958) Dr S Dyson (1974) Mrs P Eaton (Mills, 1965) Mrs A Eccles (Chib, 1958) Mrs J Edis (Askew, 1979) Dr A Edmonds (1972) Mr B Edmondson (1990) Ms C Edwards (1981) Miss G Edwards (1972) Mrs R Edwards (Moore, 1955) Canon R Edwards (Phillips, 1958) Ms C Egan (1977) Dr H Elbeshausen (1999) Dr K Elder (1979) Ms C Elias (Carpenter, 1980) Mrs J Elkins (Kenny, 1980) Miss M Elliott (1938) Lady Elliott (O Butler, 1945) Mr T Elliott (2001) Miss B Ellis (1946) Dr J Elsom (Grant, 1940) Dr E Emerson (1967) Mr D Emmens (1999) Prof C Ennew (1978) Mrs C Eraut (Wynne, 1960) Mrs S Ereira (Frederick, 1962) Mrs L Eshag (Lewis, 1960) Miss C Evans (1948) Miss M Evans (1942) Mr M Evans Mr A Every (1995) Ms A Faherty (1987) Mrs C Falcon (Windsor, 1993) Mrs A Falconer Dr L Fallon (1987) Mrs J Falloon (Goddard, 1948) Dr N Farah (1995) Miss D Farley (1974) Miss K Farmer (2001)

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Miss S Farmer (2000) Mr A Feduzi (2002) Mrs R Felton (Holt, 1947) Mr J Fenlon (1996) Mrs E Fenwick (Roberts, 1954) Dr I Ferguson (McLaren, 1948) Ms J Ferrans (1976) Mr R Few Dr M Fewtrell (1980) Mrs C Field (Lander, 1960) Mrs N Fielding (Creedy, 1978) Mrs S Fielding (Ince, 1969) Prof A Finch (1966) Mrs A Finch (Dickson, 1942) Dr C Fine (Cheal, 1973) Mr M Finer (2001) Mrs S Finlay (Perry, 1975) Dr N Finnie (1989) Mrs C Firth (Jenkins, 1938) Mrs A Foat (Goldup, 1959) Mrs M Foden (Michael, 1947) Mrs J Foord (Greenacre, 1952) Mrs D Ford (Cole-Hamilton, 1950) Mr M Forsman (2005) Mrs M Forsman Mrs A Francis (Gilman, 1946) Prof H Francis (Wright, 1947) Mrs H Francis (Barnes, 1998) Mrs E Frank (Marr, 1957) Mrs A Franklin (Glossop, 1954) Mrs A Freeman (Rubie, 1967) Mrs E Freeman (Rogers, 1967) Mr G Freeman (1986) Mrs Z Freeth (Dickson, 1943) Dr A Fuhrmann Miss K Fulcher (2000) Miss J Fuller (1974) Mr I Furlonger (1993) Mrs S Galbraith (Smith, 1993) Prof M Gale (1984) Mr K Galloway (1987) Mrs B Gardner (Brennan, 1960) Mrs V Garner (Clague, 1932) Mrs P Garnett Jones (Bartlett, 1928) Miss M Gaskin (1977) Lady Gass (E Acland-Hood, 1958) Mr R Gautrey Mr P Gauvain (1998) Miss M Geary (1941) Miss A Gee (1996) Mrs D Geliot (Stebbing, 1955) Mrs J George (Peterson, 1978) Mrs E Gershuny (Sadie, 1968) Ms P Giaiero (2000)

The Roll 2009

Dr N Gibbons (Bole, 1967) Mr C Gibbs (1983) Mr P Giblett (1981) Dr P Gibson (1979) Mrs J Gilbraith (Southern, 1955) Dr S Gilleghan (1982) Dr A Gillespie (1988) Miss R Glauert (2008) Miss F Gledhill (1975) Mrs A Glenny (Sparks, 1947) Prof R Godby (1986) Miss A Goddard (2003) Mr R Goldsmith (1991) Miss V Gollancz (1944) Mrs M Goodman (Furness, 1941) Mr G Goodrich Mrs M Goodrich (Bennett, 1955) Mrs F Goodwin (Wollen, 1972) Mrs I Goodwin (Simon, 1942) Mrs A Goosey (Alexander, 1957) Mr M Gossage (2004) Mrs M Gourlay (Faulkner, 1956) Prof D Gowing (1983) Ms H Goy (Corke, 1968) Mrs L Grant (Belton, 1946) Mrs H Gray (Swan, 1973) Miss H Gray (1947) Mrs K Gray (Stormont, 1986) Mrs S Gray (Francis, 1968) Mrs N Green Mrs H Greenstock (Fellowes, 1958) Mrs N Greeves (Morgans, 1939) Miss H Greig (1962) Miss A Grey (2001) Ms G Griest (1954) Dr A Griffin (Ryder, 1969) Dr P Griffin (1986) Mr R Griffiths (2002) Mr K Grocott (1979) Mrs T Groom (Jordan, 1968) Mr P Groombridge (1987) Mr D Grove Mrs H Gullace (Keeble, 1954) Dr A Gurner (1976) Ms B Gutkind (1944) Mr S Hacking (1984) Miss R Hadden (1952) Miss H Haggie (2000) Mr J Haigh (2000) Dr J Hailé (Bramley, 1962) Mr R Hakes (1997) Mrs G Hakki (Ahmed, 1953) Dr S Hales (1979) Dr A Hall (1995)

Miss C Hall (2002) Miss E Hall (2001) Dr J Hall (Biggs, 1957) Mrs M Hall (Adams, 1959) Mrs F Hallworth (Whiston, 1974) Dr A Hamblin (Peel, 1960) Ms C Hamborg (2001) Mrs K Hambridge Ms C Hamilton (1982) Mr C Hamilton (1987) Miss K Hamilton (1996) Mrs E Hammarskjold (Richardson, 1947) Dr B Hammerton (Mann, 1955) Mrs J Hammond (Haffner, 1957) Dr P Hammond (1981) Mrs J Hamor (Wilkinson, 1955) Miss G Hancock (2003) Mr V Handa (2004) Ms J Hanna (1972) Mr M Hanson (1985) Dr C Harcourt (1980) Mrs S Hargreaves (1970) Dr T Hargreaves (1999) Miss J Harington (1949) Mrs E Harland (Lewis, 1937) Miss O Harper (1953) Dr J Harries (Bottomley, 1958) Mrs A Harris (Sturley, 1956) Mrs R Harris (Barry, 1952) Miss V Harris (1965) Miss H Hartley (1938) Mr A Hartshorne (1992) Dr C Harvey (Hobba, 1981) Mr N Harvey (1981) Mr R Harvey (1985) Mrs V Harvey (Jell, 1985) Mr A Hatzis Miss C Haworth (1958) Mrs J Hawtin (Knight, 1958) Mrs D Hay (Whittaker, 1974) Ms J Hayball (1975) Dr V Haynes Mckay (Haynes, 1960) Dr M Hayward (Baker, 1991) Dr S Hayward (1991) Mr S Haywood-Ward (1986) Mrs F Hebditch (Davies, 1960) Dr M Hedges (Smith, 1969) Miss S Hedley Lewis (1999) Miss N Heinen (1997) Miss M Heldt (2004) Mme. W Hellegouarc’h (Thomas, 1956)

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Mrs A Helliwell (Barnes, 1942) Mr D Henderson (1989) Dr M Henley (1999) Mrs C Hennock (Wood, 1978) Mrs D Henwood (Schroeder, 1950) Mrs C Heptonstall (Smith, 1943) Miss M Herring (1999) Mrs J Herriott (MacLean, 1960) The Rev C Hetherington (Bourne, 1971) Ms S Hewin (1979) Mr J Hewitt (2003) Mrs K Hewitt (1977) Mrs J Hewlett (Williams, 1949) Mr A Heywood (1988) Mrs A Higgs (Beynon, 1978) Mrs M Hill (Bell, 1945) Mr N Hill (1981) Prof S Hinds (F 1983) Ms B Hines (Fejtek, 1972) Mrs S Hinkley (Booth, 1969) Mrs B Hird (Holden, 1966) Mrs S Hirom (Wells, 1962) Miss J Hitchcot (1971) Mr S Ho (1996) Mrs S Hobbs (Wall, 1972) Mrs D Hobden (Hutchings, 1958) Dr J Hockaday (Fitzsimons, 1947) Mrs M Hodgkinson (Wass, 1949) Mr J Hogg (2002) Mrs R Holbrook (Brown, 1955) Mrs A Holland (Telling, 1958) Mr D Holland (1998) Dr O Hollings (Stone, 1948) Dr S Hollingshead-Fox (Hollingshead, 1964) Mr D Hollingworth (1980) Mrs M Holloway (Copple, 1950) Mrs S Holmans (Edge, 1955) Dr J Holt (1983) Miss S Holt (1972) Miss J Honey (1951) Mr S Hood (1982) Dr H Hooley (Spooner, 1982) Mrs A Hooper (Tyszkiewicz, 1956) Lady Hopkin (D Whitaker, 1940) Mrs M Horrell (Roddam, 1955) Ms V Horsler (Sheen, 1964) Mrs J Houghton (Rumsey, 1965) Mr T Houlton (2002) Mrs R Hourston (Madden, 1992) Mrs A House (McNiff, 1983) Dr M Howatson (Craven, 1951) Mrs R Howell (Griffin, 1949)

Annual Review 2009

Miss S Howell (1997) Mrs P Howell Evans (Woodhouse, 1979) Miss K Howes (1994) Mr J Howling (1989) Mrs S Hoxter (Solomon, 1943) Dr E Hughes (1964) Mr M Hughes (2003) Mrs A Hulatt (Birchall, 1994) Mr C Hulatt (1994) Mrs J Hull (Mee, 1957) Miss S Hume (1944) Mrs J Humphreys (Bosomworth, 1945) Mr R Hunsley Mrs W Hunt (Hunt, 1946) Mrs J Hurst (Kohner, 1952) Dr J Hutchinson (Baker, 1939) Mr M Hutt (1988) Dr A Hyde (1986) Mr U Inamete (2001) Mrs C Ingham Clark (Parsons, 1977) Miss J Inglis (1955) Mr W Ings (2001) Mrs E Insall (Moss, 1955) Mrs K Ip (Jopson, 1982) Mrs H Ireland (Charnock, 1967) Mrs R Iren (Gediz, 1992) Mrs S Irving (Sinson, 1942) Mrs B Isaac (Miller, 1955) Dr M Ives (F 1962) Miss L Ivey (2002) Mr A Jackson (1984) Mr E Jackson (2001) Mrs M Jackson (Stocks, 1941) Miss A Jacobs (1995) Dr J Jacobs (1989) Mr S Jacquest (1980) Prof D James (1975) Mrs H James (Stark, 1973) Mrs L James Mr P James (1991) Mr W Jeffels (1984) Mrs H Jeffreson (Miller, 1977) Mrs K Jenkins (Kubikowski, 1971) Prof R Jenkins (McDougall, 1968) Mrs A Jenkinson (Sims, 1976) Mr N Jennings (1999) Miss F Jivraj (1995) Mr L John (1995) Mrs J Johnson (Buckle, 1963) Mrs V Johnson (Howell, 1942) Mrs J Jolowicz (Stanley, 1947)

Ms A Jones (1977) Mrs E Jones (Dando, 1976) Mrs L Jones (Smith, 1963) Miss M Jones (1934) Miss N Jones (1937) Ms S Jones (Griffith, 1989) Mr T Jones (1998) Mrs J Jordan (Hogbin, 1954) Mr O Jordan (1997) Dr V Jowett (Howe, 1970) Dr M Jubb (1975) Miss L Julve (2003) Miss A Kaler (1999) Dr S Kaplow (Briscoe, 1949) Mrs S Kay (Clarke, 1951) Ms H Keen (1975) Mr J Kellas Mrs C Kellock (Hall, 1976) Mr J Kelly Mrs S Kelly Ms K Kennedy (Laver, 1998) Mrs J Kenrick (Greaves, 1957) Mrs P Keogh (McMullen, 1963) Miss P Keppel-Jones (1945) Mrs C Kerr (Fillmore, 1945) Mrs C Kew Mr N Kew (1979) Miss E Khadun (2003) Ms U Khalid (1997) Prof K Khaw (1969) Dr J Kinder (1972) Mrs N King (Cowell, 1977) Mrs H Kingsley Brown (Sears, 1945) Mr Z Kipling (1998) Miss K Kirby (1971) Mrs J Kitchen (Woods, 1973) Mrs A Kitson (Cloudsley, 1946) Ms E Klingaman (North, 1968) Miss C Kneer (2003) Miss K Kneller (2000) Mr J Knibbs (2001) Miss J Knight (1944) Mrs V Knight (Hammerton, 1973) Miss M Knowles (1976) Prof K Kong (1979) Miss R Kyle (1993) Dr G Lachelin (1958) Mr J Ladyman (1997) Miss D Lamb (1974) Dr L Lamb (Baker, 1995) Mrs A Lancaster (Mills, 1993) Dr N Land (1980) Mrs J Lane (Pickford, 1981) Mrs K Larkin (Gibson, 1953)

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Dr K Larkin (Marwick, 1980) Mr M Larkin Mrs D Larrissy (Pickard, 1939) Miss J Lau (2003) Dr I Laurenson (1980) Dr M Laurie (1957) Mr G Lavarack (1996) Mrs H Lawson (Ridyard, 1944) Mrs K Lawther (Cameron, 1959) Dr S Lawton (Marsh-Smith, 1970) Ms E Lee (1979) Mrs M Lee (Wilson, 1970) Miss S Lesley (1950) Miss B Lewis (1998) Mr J Lewis (1980) Mrs M Lewis (Wallington, 1979) Mr O Lewis (2004) Ms C Liassides (1986) The Rev M Light (Thaine, 1973) Mrs J Lindgren (Beck, 1952) Mrs D Lindsay (Gent, 1958) Dr M Lindsay (1983) Mrs A Linklater-Betley (Linklater, 1952) Dr A Lishman (1966) Mrs A Little (Jacobson, 1988) Mr S Littlefair (1994) Sir Geoffrey Littler Lady Littler (S Marsh, 1950) Dr J Lloyd (Muir-Smith, 1958) Miss G Lo (1997) Mrs S Lock (Walker, 1948) Mrs R Lonergan Mr J Longstaff (1979) Dr M Lovatt (Screech, 1968) Mrs C Love-Rodgers (Love, 1992) Dr E Lovett (Hardy, 1954) Mrs A Lovewell (Horry, 2001) Prof J Lowe (Denner, 1974) Ms D Lowther (1994) Miss S Luke (1996) Miss M Lumb (1939) Mr R Lung (2003) Mrs R Lyle (Day, 1942) Dr A Lyon (Butland, 1973) Mrs J Lyon (Hill-Smith, 1951) Dr M Lyon (1943) Mr P Macauglan Wilson Miss J Macaulay (1934) Mrs M Macey (Denton, 1951) Ms A MacFarlane (1983) Mrs N MacLaren (Malvin, 1941) Dr T Madej (1973) Prof M Maekawa

The Roll 2009

Mrs D Magor (Haynes, 1964) Miss K Main (2005) Miss J Main Thompson (1977) Dr R Makarem (1987) Mrs B Makinson (Boulter, 1974) Ms F Malarée (2000) Dr J Mallison (Hallowes, 1965) Dr J Malt (1988) Miss R Mandal (2001) Miss M Mander (1970) Ms H Mandleberg (1968) Miss J Mangold (1935) Miss J Mann (1975) Mr K Mann (1986) Ms S Mann Ms D Manolas (1991) Mrs I Marica (Boeglin, 1946) Mr A Markham Dr J Marks (1977) Dr A Marlow (Sheppard, 1970) Mrs M Marrs (Lewin, 1948) Mr J Marsh (1992) Mrs J Marshallsay (Hall-Smith, 1953) Dr J Martin (Hewitt, 1979) Mrs P Martin (Hall, 1991) Mrs P Maryfield (Cowgill, 1953) Mrs W Maslin (Dean, 1974) Miss M Mason (1942) Mr T Massingham (1995) Mrs A Masters (Elms Neale, 1978) Ms C Maugham (Hibbitt, 1994) Mrs M Maunder (Glover, 1959) Mrs S Maunder (McVicar, 1976) Mr M Maxtone-Smith Mrs Y Maxtone-Smith (Maxtone-Graham, 1981) Mrs D Mayes (Law, 1948) Ms J McAdoo (Hibbert, 1962) Mrs D McAndrew (Harrison, 1967) Mr A McCready (1992) Dr A McDonald (Lamming, 1960) Mr R McDyre (2003) Ms J McGeough (1984) Mrs P McKearney (Walker, 1943) Mrs W McKenzie (Diggins, 1967) Mrs J McKnight (Ruddle, 1971) Mrs D McLaughlin (Ford, 1946) Mrs C McLean (Lithgow, 1955) Mr L McLean (2000) Mrs G McPherson (Hunter, 1990) Mrs J Meacock (Owen, 1966) Mrs J Meadows (Stratford, 1960) Dr J Meakins (1972)

Mrs M Medlicott (James, 1965) Mr J Meenowa (2001) Miss B Megson (1948) Dr B Mensch (1976) Mrs J Mercer (Clarke, 1968) Canon C Methuen (1982) Dr M Middleton (1963) Ms B Mielniczek (Miller, 1990) Mrs M Milkman (Friedenthal, 1949) Mrs I Miller (Spoor, 1955) Mrs N Miller (Thomas, 1973) Mr P Miller (1988) Miss F Mills (1960) Mr C Milne (1980) Mrs N Milner (West, 1993) Miss V Milner (1990) Prof V Minogue (Hallett, 1949) Miss G Minter (1955) Ms S Minter (1968) Mrs C Mitchell (Teall, 1975) Mr A Mohamedbhai (2000) Dr G Monsell (Thomas, 1969) Mrs C Montagu (Hayman, 1962) Mrs A Montgomery (Hurrell, 1959) Mrs L Montgomery (Alexander, 1964) Mr B Moore Ms R Moore (2001) Miss V Moore Mrs A Moore-Gwyn (White, 1968) Mr S Morales (1996) Mrs B Moran (Jones, 1967) Mr C Morgan (1995) Miss D Morgan (1976) Dr H Morgan (Retter, 1953) Mr J Morgan (1999) Mrs M Morgan (Bryant, 1948) Mrs M Morgan (StallardPenoyre, 1959) Miss S Morphet (2000) Mrs G Morrell (Timms, 1967) Mrs F Morris (Milner, 1974) Ms M Morris (1974) Mrs R Morris (Bowes, 1999) Dr A Morrison (1985) Dr C Morrison (Page, 1974) Ms H Morrison (1976) Ms R Morse (2001) Dr G Moss (Watson, 1950) Miss V Moss (2004) Mrs A Moston (Tissier, 1999) Mrs J Mothersill (Brock, 1945) Mrs M Mountford (Gamble, 1970)

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Dr J Moyes (Paul, 1972) Mrs P Moylan (James, 1957) Dr J Moyle (1939) Ms N Mukhtar (1999) Dr C Mulcare (1996) Miss C Mulliss (1997) Ms Y Mun Mr T Murphy (1997) Mrs B Murray (Cobb, 1971) Mr D Murray (2001) Miss J Murray (2001) Mrs F Mussio (Gonsalves, 1989) Mrs A Mustoe (Revill, 1952) Mrs S Nanz (Bedford, 1964) Mr J Naylor (1997) Mrs S Neish (Smith, 1952) Prof A Neiva (1966) Mrs K Nelson (Duffin, 1997) Mr S Nelson (1997) Miss B Nevill (1961) Dr C Neville Smith (Smith, 1940) Mrs H Neville-Towle (Duguid, 1977) Mrs L Newton (Davy, 1982) Ms R Niblett (1958) Lady Nicholls (J Thomas, 1954) Mrs D Nicholson (Hilton, 1960) Mrs J Nightingale (Langley, 1960) Miss A Norman (2000) Mrs K Norman (Redwood, 1958) Mrs A Nowell (Giles, 1943) Dr J Nowell (1993) Mrs A Nussey (1966) Prof C Nyamweru (Washbourn, 1961) Ms M O’Brien (1981) Mr C O’Donnell (2003) Mrs P O’Driscoll (Thrower, 1973) Prof E Offner Mrs V Offord (Wheatley, 1960) Mrs J Ogborn (MacKereth, 1953) Dr T Oh (1994) Mrs A Oldroyd (Holloway, 1951) Mr D Olgun (2004) Ms P Olivari (2007) Mrs E Olive (Morris, 1945) Mrs J Olive (Tutton, 1957) Ms S O’Mahony (Bigg, 1978) Dr C Oppenheimer (Hughes, 1974) Prof C Oppong (Slater, 1959) Dr M Orme (1995) Dr J Orrell (Kemp, 1949) Mrs B Orton (1999) Mrs J Orton (Sturgess, 1963)

Annual Review 2009

Dr R Osmond (Beck, 1964) Mr J O’Sullivan (1993) Ms K Otter (Knight, 1978) Dr J Outram (1989) Dr A Overzee (Hunt, 1972) Dr A Owen (1973) Mrs M Owen (Baron, 1950) Mr R Owen (1990) Mr R Owens (1982) Mr E Owles (1999) Lady Page (A Micklem, 1946) Mrs F Paine (Campbell, 1979) Miss J Palmer (1971) Mrs S Palmer (Hull, 1975) Mrs J Pardey (Stoker, 1958) Miss B Parker (1936) Mr J Parker (1998) Mr N Parker (1995) Ms S Parkes Miss K Parkins (1993) Mr T Parnell Mrs G Parr (Loft, 1955) Dr A Parsons Greer (Drysdale, 1955) Mr J Payne (1990) Mr N Peacock Mr N Pears (1979) Dr V Pearson (Mercer, 1949) Mrs S Peatfield (Charles, 1984) Mrs K Peissel (Lynn, 1982) Mrs S Penfold (Marshall, 1968) Mrs B Pepper (Siddons, 1943) The Hon Mrs B Perks (Butler, 1975) Mrs A Perry (Blackwell, 1969) Mr T Pestell (1987) Miss J Petrie (1967) Miss O Petrikova (2007) Mrs F Phillips (Cargin, 1965) Miss L Phillips (1946) Dr L Pickering (1998) Mrs S Pigott (Megaw, 1958) Mr J Pine (1981) Mr R Pitcher (1997) The Baroness Platt of Writtle (B Myatt, 1941) Prof J Politi (1970) Mrs M Poole (Smith, 1956) Mr D Poppleton (1990) Miss E Porritt (1935) Mrs A Poskitt (Fenton, 1949) Mr W Potten (1993) Mr A Poulson (1992) Dr J Poulton (Hunt, 1941) Miss N Powell (1974) Dr L Power (1984)

Mrs Z Powers (Jones, 1969) Mr S Prew (1979) Mrs F Price (Hough, 1961) Dr M Proven (Wilson, 2000) Ms S Puddefoot (1954) Mr E Pugh (1994) Miss J Pullon (1939) Mr N Purser (1990) Mrs J Quilley (Arnold, 1958) Miss M Quinn (1982) Dr R Quinn (Wong, 1997) Mr T Radcliffe (1996) Mr J Rae-Smith (1982) Mrs J Raffle (Lobell, 1982) Mrs M Railton (Armit, 1948) Dr D Ramm (1991) Mr T Ramoutar (1985) Mr E Ramsden (1990) Mr A Ramsey (1983) Mr C Randall Dr R Randall (1977) Dr J Randall-Carrick (Randall, 2001) Mrs B Rathbone (Bright-Smith, 1952) Ms R Rattenbury (1957) Mrs R Rawnsley (Schofield, 1983) Dr R Rayner (Talbot, 1975) Mr R Rayward (1986) Mr D Recaldin (1980) Dr P Recaldin (Sneddon, 1981) Mr C Reddick Mr G Redman (1998) Ms A Reece (1981) Dr M Rees (Jones, 1941) Lady Reid (M Kier, 1953) Mrs P Reid (Foster, 1959) Dr C Relf (Light, 1963) Dr M Rendel (1948) Mrs E Renwick (Gordon, 1958) Mrs I Restell (Wolstenholme, 1995) Miss S Reuterskiold (2000) Mrs J Reville (Sansome, 1971) Mrs D Reynolds (Bevin, 1972) Miss E Reynolds (1997) Miss S Reynolds (2002) Mrs A Richards (Brown, 1961) Mr N Richards (1980) Mrs G Richardson (Jones, 1961) Mrs M Ridler (O’Hara, 1949) Dr L Ridler-Wall (Wall, 1972) Ms S Riedhammer (Sharp, 1976) Miss M Rieger (2001) Mrs A Rigg (English, 1975) Dr J Rippin (1988)

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Mr A Ritter (1982) Prof H Ritvo (1968) Dr J Rizvi (Clarke, 1958) Dr A Roberts (1976) Ms A Robertson (1961) Mrs J Robertson (Dowie, 1975) Mrs U Robertson (Spearing, 1958) Mrs A Robinson (Lawton, 1972) Dr C Robinson (Murphy, 1976) Mrs E Robinson (Hunt, 1998) Dr J Robinson (Callow, 1943) Mr M Robinson (1983) Mr N Robinson (1997) Mrs C Rocher (Martell, 1948) Mrs J Rodden (Wilkins, 1955) Miss S Rodriguez (2007) Dr Y Roe (1976) Mrs A Rogerson (McMullan, 1980) Mrs M Romanes (Gee, 1938) Mrs J Rose (Rixon, 1950) Mrs J Roskill (Cooke, 1952) Mrs P Ross (Davies, 1952) Mrs R Ross (Fincher, 1958) Dr M Rossiter (1956) Mrs J Round (Baum, 1953) Mr J Rouse (1991) Mrs S Routledge (Blythe, 1978) Ms C Row (1998) Miss H Rowett (1935) Mr C Roxburgh Mrs K Roxburgh (Pierce, 1978) Mrs P Roynon (Beard, 1956) Miss N Rump (1999) Mrs J Ruston (Moulding, 1967) Mr P Rutland (1997) Mrs M Rutterford (Williamson, 1976) Dr U Ryan (Scully, 1963) Mrs B Sanders (Camplejohn, 1948) Mr J Sanders Miss M Sandle (1946) Mr N Sartain (1993) Mrs J Saunders (Todd, 1952) Mr M Saunders (1998) Dr W Savage (Edwards, 1953) Mrs G Scales (Grimsey, 1951) Mrs N Schaffer (Thomas, 1952) Mr M Schneider (2002) Mrs J Schofield (Plowman, 1950) Dr J Schonfield (1997) Mrs L Scott-Joynt (White, 1961) Mrs S Seacroft (Holmes, 1966) Mrs C Seal (Leach, 1949) Dr M Seal

The Roll 2009

Miss V Seal Miss O Searles (1944) Mrs S Seddon (Proudlock-Dunbar, 1941) Miss M Senior (1940) Miss H Sensecall (2007) Miss A Shah (2007) Mr P Shah (2003) Miss A Sharma (2001) Mrs P Sharp (Monach, 1965) Mr N Shave (2002) Ms L Shaw (Jones, 1975) Dr L Shaw (1995) Dr M Shaw-Champion (1997) Miss J Shewring (1938) Mr O Shibli (2001) Mrs J Shipley (Leeman, 1953) Mrs S Shrimpton (Lightfoot, 1978) Dr A Shukman (King-Farlow, 1950) Miss S Shuttleworth (1945) Mrs E Siddall (Stone, 1960) Dr R Siddals (1970) Mr K Siem Mrs H Silk (Wallace, 1954) Dr F Simpson (Zuill, 1956) Ms L Simpson (1982) Miss B Sims (1997) Miss J Sims (1935) Mrs A Sinnhuber (Daubercies, 1942) Dr G Siriwardena (1987) Mrs C Sita-Lumsden (Jeffcoate, 1964) Mr V Sivakumar (2004) Miss S Skinner (1999) Mrs B Sloman (PilkingtonRogers, 1944) Ms T Smallbone (1971) Mrs J Smallwood (Smith, 1976) Mr A Smith Dr D Smith (1985) Mr D Smith (2000) Dr F Smith (Rankin, 1968) Dr I Smith (1984) Miss J Smith (1997) Mr M Smith (1981) Mrs N Smith (Davis, 1980) Mrs P Smith Miss R Smith (1998) Mr R Smith (1996) Dr R Smith (Loewenthal, 1966) Mrs S Smith (Homewood, 1995) Mrs S Smith (Tyndall, 1961) Mrs P Somervell (Holt, 1977) Mrs P Souter (Baker, 1952)

Mrs A Speicher (Pepple, 2000) Mr B Speight (2000) Mr J Spencer (1991) Ms E Spohn (1986) Prof S Springman (1975) Mrs B Stacey (Smith, 1949) Mrs S Staff (Penny, 2003) Mrs J Stainer (Adams, 1964) Mrs A Stainsby (Sutton, 1973) Mrs D Stallard (Randall, 1954) Mrs E Stancliffe (Willday, 1953) Mrs J Stancomb (Cooper, 1961) Mrs J Standage (Ward, 1961) Miss A Standing (2003) Mrs M Stanford (Fish, 1957) Mrs J Staniforth (Nebel, 1959) Mrs S Stanley (Wright, 1950) Mr M Starr (2000) Miss A Stebbing (1975) Mr R Steiner (1995) Miss V Stevens (1998) Mrs C Stewart (Custance, 1958) Miss S Stewart (2002) Mrs R Stileman (Cremer, 1981) Mrs B Stocks (Martin, 1958) Mr H Stokes (1993) Dr N Storer (1986) Mrs J Storrs Fox (Hollings, 1939) Mrs E Stribling (1966) Miss H Strouts (1962) Mrs J Struthers (McMurran, 1945) Mrs C Suckling (Keal, 1983) Mrs H Swallow (Symes, 1968) Mrs J Syer (Vallat, 1960) Mrs D Sykes (White, 1945) Mr R Tabtiang (1988) Dr P Talalay (Samuels, 1947) Dr P Tallantyre (Martin, 1961) Dr S Tam (1986) Mr J Tassell (2003) Ms S Tate (1978) Dr H Taylor (1971) Ms K Taylor (1993) Dr P Taylor (Francis, 1963) Ms S Taylor (1974) Mr T Taylor (1990) Mr I Teague (1980) Miss P Teal (1959) Ms R Teale (1989) Mrs M Terry (Hort, 1932) Mrs R Tetlow (Bywaters, 1964) Mrs H Thacker (Stainthorpe, 1975) Mrs A Thomas (Kendon, 1949) Mrs C Thomas (Warne, 1960)

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Mr D Thomas (1982) Mrs E Thomas (Porter, 1938) Mrs M Thomas (Lander, 1950) Dr M Thomas (Hern, 1947) Dr A Thompson (Nagarkar, 1972) Dr A Thompson (1961) Dr M Thompson (Gibbons, 1971) Dr B Thomson (Bland, 1955) Mrs S Thomson (Dowty, 1960) Dr V Thorne (Stanton, 1963) Mrs J Thorogood (Hildreth, 1952) Mrs C Thorp (Kenyon, 1964) Mrs D Thorp (Galbraith, 1955) Mrs J Thorpe (Oakley, 1960) Mrs R Thorpe (Garton, 1953) Dr A Thurrell (1995) Mr C Thursby-Pelham (1981) Mrs M Thursby-Pelham (Williams, 1982) Mrs J Tierney (Briggs, 1971) Dr M Tiffen (Steele-Perkins, 1949) Dr S Tilby (Wharton, 1973) Mrs A Tilley (Christophers, 1950) Ms C Tilley (Thomson, 1983) Miss A Tobin (1993) Prof K Tod Miss K Todd (2002) Mrs J Tong (Creasey, 1957) Mrs C Tongue (Gwilliam, 1969) Mr J Tothill (1988) Mrs J Towle (Barbour, 1950) Dr G Tozer-Hotchkiss (Tozer, 1975) Miss P Treacy (1980) Mrs R Treves Brown (Harding, 1956) Mrs M Trotman (Pocock, 1952) Dr J Trusted (Turner, 1943) Ms M Trusted (1974) Mr G Tsai (2003) Mr A Tuck (1994) Ms L Tugwell (1990) Mrs D Turner (Greenaway, 1959) Mr J Turner (2002) Mrs S Turner (Davis, 1950) Mrs S Tyler (Morris, 1948) Miss K Tymieniecka (1998) Dr A Tyndale (1965) Mrs M Tyndall (Blench, 1936) Mrs J Tyrer (Montagu, 1952) Dr P Tyrrell (1975) Mrs H Underwood (Keeble, 1999) Mr V Uskokovic (2008) Lady Vaizey (M Stansky, 1959) Mr J Vali (1998) Dr V van der Lande (1949)

Annual Review 2009

Ms F Van Dijk (1983) Prof V van Heyningen (Daniel, 1965) Mr S van Lieshout (2000) Mr R Vann Jones (1991) Mrs R vanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t Hoff (Cooper, 1943) Mrs J Varley (Costain, 1946) Mrs J Varney Mr A Vaughan (1987) Mrs A Vaughan Williams (Blyth, 1947) Mr S Venn Mrs M Vessey (Higginbotham, 1935) Mr C Vickers (1997) Mrs C Vigars (Walton, 1955) Ms M Vincent (1956) Dr E Vinestock (Morrison, 1957) Dr C Vize (1980) Mrs C Von Abendorff (Dodd, 1941) Mr J Wade Mrs B Walker (Fogg, 1967) Mrs J Walker (Brown, 1955) Dr J Walker (1976) Miss L Walker (2004) Miss L Walker (1997) Mr M Walker (1984) Mrs S Walker (Carroll, 1974) Mr S Walker (1986) Mrs F Wallace (MacLeod, 1952) Dr S Wallace (1991) Mrs S Waller (Skelland, 1979) Dr M Walmsley (1960) Prof S Walton (Rowland-Jones, 1977) Dr E Wang (1986) Mrs K Ward (Mee, 1969) Mrs P Ward (Nobes, 1951) Dr R Warren (Copping, 1960) Dr V Warrior (1955) Dr C Warwick (1992) Dr S Watkinson (Day, 1961) Mrs S Watson (Head, 1969) Mrs J Way (Whitehead, 1962)

Ms C Webb (1960) Dr C Weber (Howe/Bell, 1969) Ms A Weir Miss A Weitzel (1978) Mrs M Weitzel (Leigh, 1946) Mrs J Welbank (Drayner, 1945) Mrs D Wells (Bousfield, 1965) Ms F Werge (1975) Mr B West (1994) Mrs E West (Kelley, 1994) Mrs F Weston (Simpson, 1979) Mrs J Westwood (Murrant, 1935) Dr S Westwood (Kitcher, 1972) Mr T Wey (2000) Dr R Whaley (1974) Mr A Whall (2000) Mrs R Whatmore (Robertson, 1972) Mrs C Wheeler Ms R Whippman (1993) Mrs G White (Lupton, 1977) Mrs M Whittington-Smith (Lutz, 1941) Mr T Whooley (1995) Mrs I Wiener (Pollak, 1952) Mrs H Wilderspin (Chatters, 1980) Mrs A Wilkins (Cooper, 1951) Dr J Wilkinson (1986) Ms J Wilkinson Ms A Williams (Joyce, 1972) Miss C Williams (1991) Mrs E Williams (Gossop, 1961) Mr G Williams (1993) Mr G Williams (1999) Dr R Williams (1962) Miss S Williams (1985) Mrs V Williams (Grubb, 1944) Mrs K Wills (Wright, 1956) Dr J Wilson (Trotter, 1969) Mrs M Wilson (Entwistle, 1954) Mr O Wilson (1994) Mrs P Wilson (Knight, 1947)

Dr S Wilson (1945) Mrs R Winegarten (Aarons, 1940) Mrs M Winfield (Richards, 1969) Mr W Winfield Mrs D Winson (Clowes, 1970) Mrs R Wintle (Frye, 1953) Dr T Wishart (F 1985) Miss O Withycombe (1933) Mr R Witter (1999) The Rev T Witter (Lock, 1955) Mrs P Wolstenholme (Nall, 1950) Mrs C Wood (Osler, 1953) Mrs J Wood (Felton, 1952) Miss K Wood (1998) Mrs M Woodall (Evans, 1960) Mr C Woodford (1985) Mrs E Woodham (Norman, 1985) Mr J Woolf (1998) Mrs D Woolley (McGrath, 1954) Mrs G Woon (Doubleday, 1977) Mrs H Workman (Turner, 1948) Ms E Worzala Ms M Worzala Mr J Wright Mrs L Wright (Watts, 1996) Mrs L Wright (Coker, 1958) Mr R Wright (2001) Dr E Wyatt (1951) Ms M Wyatt (1982) Mr S Wyborn Ms R Yard (1985) Mrs K Yates (Grey, 1997) Mr T Yates (2002) Mr P Yennadhiou (1981) Mrs D York (MacDonald, 1955) Ms A Young (1988) Dr C Young (1979) Mr J Young (1984) Mrs P Youngman (Coates, 1957) Mrs R Yule (Sanders, 1969) Prof Y Zhen (1999)

We should like also to thank the following organisations for their support: Cambridge Open Studios Galsworthy and Stones Fairfield Charitable Trust Goldman Sachs London Girton Association Wales and the West Girtonians Association 148

new information for 2009–2010 Please complete both sides of this form and return to The Registrar of the Roll, Girton College, Cambridge cb3 0jg Full name _________________________________________________________ Former name (if applicable) _ __________________________________________ Year of first entering College _________________ Tripos _ __________________

Current address

Have we used your correct, full postal address to send this Annual Review?

If not, please notify us of any changes to your address, telephone number or postcode: _________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ Telephone number(s) ______________________ Postcode _ ________________ I should like my address to be made available to Girton Regional Associations Email _____________________________________________________________ NOTE: It is now possible for those with internet connections to update addresses and details through our website. A new secure alumni online service is available at: http://web.girton.cam.ac.uk/alumni Those who register have the option of selecting, at each stage, which of the details they submit are to be confidential and which may be made available to other alumni.

I should like to be consulted on period-representative elections to the Roll Committee

by email

by post

Marriage within the year Full name of spouse ____________________________ Date of marriage ________ Is your spouse a Girtonian?

If so please give his/her year of entering College _______

Child(ren) born within the year Name _ ___________________________ Date of birth_ _________ M

F

Name _ ___________________________ Date of birth_ _________ M

F

Awards, Degrees and Honours (2009–10 or unreported earlier), with dates _________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ Please also complete the reverse of this form if applicable.

Career news this year New employment/new training, with date of commencement _________________________________________________________________ Name of new employer/institution _________________________________________________________________ New appointment to directorship, committee etc. in industry, public or voluntary sector, with date of commencement _________________________________________________________________

Publications (2009â&#x20AC;&#x201C;10 or unreported earlier) Book: title/publisher/year _________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ Chapter in book: chapter title/book title/publisher/year _________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ Article: title/journal/number/year/page numbers _________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________

Other personal and career news We are interested to hear about any of your personal and career news that has not already been covered. Even if we cannot publish it in the Annual Review for lack of space, it will be recorded and kept.

Please let us have your new information as changes occur, and before the end of June 2010 for inclusion in the next Annual Review.

2010 roll buffet lunch and annual general meeting of the roll Roll members from all years are invited to the Roll Buffet Lunch. Spouses, partners, children, friends and relations are all warmly welcome.

Saturday 10 July 2010 11.00 a.m. – 4.00 p.m.

11.00 a.m.

Before the Roll Buffet Lunch, Friends of the Library will be hosting their annual event. Our speaker is Dr Lynn Hulse, Archivist of the Royal School of Needlework, Hampton Court Palace, who will give an illustrated talk about Girton’s Reception Room embroideries within the wider context of the work and history of the Royal School of Needlework. This talk is deferred from 2009 when it was cancelled owing to last-minute illness.

Friends, Patrons, alumni and guests are warmly welcome.

Owing to the popularity of the ‘hands-on/white-gloved’ sessions with one of our Books of Hours in the last two years, we shall follow up with further hands-on sessions, this time involving other manuscript and antiquarian treasures from our collections. This will take place in the Littler Reading Room between 1.00 p.m. and 5.00 p.m.

12.00 noon

The Buffet Lunch begins in the Fellows’ Rooms and Old Kitchens with access to Eliza Baker and Woodlands Courts.

Tennis, croquet and other activities will be available.

(Please bring your own tennis racquets, and arrange for small children to be supervised.)

2.15 p.m.

The Annual General Meeting of the Roll.

Following the meeting the guest speaker will be Ms Rachel Lomax (Salmon 1963). Ms Lomax, who was formerly Deputy Governor, Monetary Stability, at the Bank of England and a member of the Monetary Policy Committee, is an Honorary Fellow of the College. In December 2008 she was appointed as an independent non-executive Director of HSBC Holdings plc.

The title of her talk is: ‘Reflections on the financial crisis.’

Registrar of the Roll Please see booking form overleaf.

I should like to attend the Roll Buffet Lunch on Saturday 10 July 2010

Number of tickets required

@ £20.00

£ ___________

_________ Children (12–16 years)

@ £6.00

£ ___________

_________ Children (under 12)_

FREE

_________ Adults

_________ Family (2 adults, 2 children) @ £45.00

£ ___________

£ ___________

TOTAL COST

I enclose a cheque (made payable to Girton College): £ ___________ Name ______________________________________________________ Former name (if applicable) _____________________________________ Year of entering College ________________________________________ Tripos _____________________________________________________ Names and titles of guests, with ages of any children* ___________________

______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________

Address ______________________________________________________

______________________________________________________

Email

__________________________________ Postcode ___________

Numbers in my party likely to attend the Annual General Meeting

_____

Numbers in my party likely to attend the Friends of the Library event _____

*This will assist us in the arrangements and activities for children Please return this form to: Registrar of the Roll, Girton College, Cambridge cb3 0jg before 22 June 2010.

2010 roll dinner and roll weekend The Roll Dinner is open to all Roll members and their guests.

If you would like to help to organise a reunion for your year or for any special group such as a decennial anniversary reunion please get in touch with Dr Emma Cornwall, the Alumni Officer, who can help you with addresses, contacting people and providing a venue for special additional meetings if you wish.

The dinner will be held on:

Saturday 25 September 2010, 7.00 pm for 7.30 pm 4.00 p.m.(onwards) Afternoon tea (location to be announced on the day).

People’s Portraits Reception

The Friends of People’s Portraits will be holding a Reception to receive a new portrait for the People’s Portraits at Girton Exhibition in the Fellows’ Rooms at 4.00 p.m.

The Reception is open to all alumni attending the Roll Weekend events.

after tea

A Musical Event.

(Details of this and other events will be confirmed later in the year.)

7.30 p.m.

Dinner in Hall.

Guest Speaker: Dr Simon Cohn (1984) The title of his talk is: ‘The extraordinary experiences of having an ordinary illness’.

Dr Cohn will talk, as a medical anthropologist who through his career has conducted research in the UK, about the very varied, and sometimes tragic, ways in which people make sense of their illness.

Registrar of the Roll Please see booking form overleaf.

I should like to attend the Roll Dinner on Saturday 25 September 2010 Name ________________________________________Matriculation Year ________ Name of guest (including title): ____________________________________________ Special dietary requirements: Vegetarian

Vegan

Other

_________________

I/we should like to be seated near to:_________________________________________ Overnight accommodation (bed and breakfast) may be available for Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights if booked in advance.

Please reserve: No. likely to attend the People’s Portraits Reception ____ FREE No. likely to attend the Musical Event

____ FREE

No. of dinner places

____ @ £37.00 per person

(there will be a retiring collection for Roll funds)

£______

No. of rooms for Fri/Sat/Sun nights (circle) ____ @ £40.00 per person per night £______ I enclose my cheque (made payable to Girton College) for the TOTAL SUM of

£______

Address _____________________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________

Email

_____________________________________ Postcode _______________

Please return this form to: Registrar of the Roll, Girton College, Cambridge cb3 0jg before 13 September 2010.

membership of girton college friends’ groups All memberships of Friends’ groups are now renewed in December/January. All existing and past members will be invited to renew in December 2009. If you are taking out a new membership it will be valid until December 2010.

FRIENDS OF GIRTON CO L L E GE CH A PE L

The College Chapel is a community and a haven available to all. Some are first drawn to it by the quality of music or preaching. Others take refuge at times of emotion or stress. Our Chapel is there for use by all members – those of any faith or none.

The Friends and Patrons of the Chapel are vital in maintaining this important aspect of College life. Funds raised by the Friends are used to improve the building fabric and to purchase new books. They also provide for the popular teas for Choir and congregation that follow each Sunday service.

As a Friend you will receive an annual newsletter and you are, of course, most welcome to join us in Chapel. In addition to this, Patrons will also be given the opportunity to have a personalised book plate in one of the Chapel library’s books.

Dr Roland Randall, President

FRIENDS OF GIRTON CO L L E GE CH O I R

Girton College Choir has a reputation as one of Cambridge’s most highly regarded choirs. As well as singing services in the College Chapel, the Choir frequently performs outside Cambridge. Termly visits are made to major British cathedrals and the Choir also travels overseas at least once a year. Recently the Choir won third prize out of 90 international entries in the 2007 Spittal International Choir Competition in Austria. The Choir has also recorded five CDs since 1995, and the sixth, now on sale, was recorded in New York at the end of the 2009 tour of the USA. It is the Choir’s Friends and Patrons whose support makes its overseas tours possible. Friends receive notification of and free admittance to the annual Friends’ Concert. Patrons may also, if they wish, have their contributions acknowledged in concert programmes.

Dr Martin Ennis, Director of Music and President

FRIENDS OF GIRTON CO L L E GE GA RDE N S

Girton College prides itself on its beautiful grounds, exceptional in their variety from formal courts and lawns to extensive meadow and woodland and a famous orchard.

Unusually for college grounds, no area is ‘private’ so that all members of the College, local residents and any other visitors are always welcome to enjoy the gardens and grounds.

The twin policies of open access and ecological management of habitat demand and require a wide range of skills from a small staff whose work has to range from maintaining our formal spaces to stewardship of rare varieties of fruit and acting as foresters in the perimeter woodland. Friends of the College Gardens are essential in supporting both day-to-day activities and special projects. Friends are invited to an annual event. Patrons of the Gardens additionally receive a ‘gardener’s tip’ from Girton’s Head Gardener.

Dr Ruth Williams, President

FRIENDS OF GIRTON CO L L E GE L I B RA RY

Girton is justifiably proud of its Library, which holds a series of outstanding collections, including our special collections of rare books, our unique Archive, and, of course, our

undergraduate collections, which are acclaimed as among the best in the University. The College Library plays a central role in Girton’s academic life and achievements, while its Archive and its Special Collections enjoy an international reputation.

Maintaining these collections, the fabric of the building, and a professional information service for our users is an expensive undertaking. Friends and Patrons of the Library provide vital help with the ‘value-added’ aspects that make Girton’s Library so special. Funds from the Friends have recently been used to provide additional books and IT resources for undergraduates, the cataloguing and conservation of archival papers, and the purchase of special book collections.

Friends of the Library are invited to an annual summer event. In addition, Patrons are commemorated on special personalised book plates of an original design by Joan Hassall inserted in new library books – to the value of the donation.

Frances Gandy, President

FRIE NDS OF PEOPLE’S PORTRAITS

From the lifeboatmen of Fowey to a retired actor, people from different walks of life are captured on canvas in our unique People’s Portraits exhibition. The high calibre of the artists, all of whom are members of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters, makes this one of the UK’s hidden jewels in the portraiture world. People’s Portraits is continually growing, thanks to the ongoing generosity of those newly-elected members of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters who each donate a portrait to the collection. The Friends and Patrons of People’s Portraits are essential in providing the resources needed to promote the exhibition and assist with its maintenance.

As a Friend you will be invited to an annual reception at which a new portrait will be officially unveiled. Patrons and other substantial donors are also invited to an annual dinner.

Those who donate over £1,000 have the chance to receive a personal postcard-sized drawing of themselves created by one of the artists from the Royal Society of Portrait Painters, though receipt of a drawing cancels the gift’s qualification for Gift Aid. Dr Alastair Reid, President

FRIE NDS OF T H E L AWR ENCE RO O M The Lawrence Room collections offer a unique insight into College history. Hermione, our portrait mummy, is seen with archaeological finds from as close as the Roman and Anglo-Saxon cemetery on the College site and as distant as ancient Mesopotamia. With new showcases and layout and a complete electronic catalogue, shortly to go on-line, the collections are now available to the public and researchers alike and their reputation is growing fast. The generosity of Friends and Patrons of the Lawrence Room is vital in ensuring the environmental monitoring, conservation, ongoing curation and security of these expanding collections. Friends of the Lawrence Room receive an invitation to an annual event and may be commemorated in the Donors’ Book. Patrons are each year sent an illustrated card highlighting an object selected from the collection.

Dr Dorothy Thompson, President

THE INFID EL BOAT CLU B

The Infidel Boat Club is Girton’s alumni boat club. The Club supports the Girton College Boat Club and promotes rowing within the College and beyond. Founded in 2001, the Club has enabled more than 40 alumni to get out on the water. The Club organises rowing and social events in Cambridge, London and beyond. Details can be found at: www.theinfidel.co.uk. Funds raised through subscriptions ensure the Club is able to offer rowing and social activities to alumni but its overarching aim is to strengthen links between alumni and current Girton students, and to assist in the development of GCBC. Members receive news by email of forthcoming events and activities. Patrons, who donate £200 or more, may, if they wish, have their contribution acknowledged in rowing programmes.

For the President of the Infidel Boat Club

FORM OF APPLICATION FOR MEMBERSHIP OF ONE OR MORE OF THE GIRTON COLLEGE FRIENDS GROUPS If you would like to join or renew your subscription to one or more of the Girton College Friends Groups, or make a donation, please use the form below. Your subscription will run until the end of December 2010, when you will be invited to renew.

If you are a UK taxpayer, paying tax at the basic rate or above, we should be grateful if you would complete the Gift Aid Declaration on the form overleaf. Using Gift Aid means that, for every pound you give, we receive an additional 25 pence from HM Revenue and Customs. To qualify for Gift Aid, what you pay in UK Income Tax or Capital Gains Tax must at least equal the amount we will claim in the tax year.

If you are already a member of one of the groups, please do not use the form below. We will be contacting all current and previous Friends and Patrons, inviting them to renew in December 2009.

I should like to subscribe as a Member or Patron as indicated below: Friends Groups

Member

Patron

Girton College Chapel

(£20)

(£50 min. = ______)

Girton College Choir

(£20)

(£50 min. = ______)

Girton College Gardens

(£20)

(£50 min. = ______)

Girton College Library

(£20)

(£50 min. = ______)

People’s Portraits

(£20)

(£50 min. = ______)

Lawrence Room

(£20)

(£50 min. = ______)

The Infidel Boat Club

(£25)

(£200 min. = ______)

Or I enclose a donation of £ ______________ to _______________________

Please turn over

Gift Aid Declaration Name:___________________________________________________________ Home Address:________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________Postcode:______________ Telephone:__________________________Email:_________________________ Matriculation Year:_________________________________________________ I am a UK taxpayer, paying tax at the basic rate or above. Please treat all donations I have made in this tax year to Girton College (Charity Tax number x1017), and in the previous six tax years, and all donations I make from the date of this declaration, as Gift Aid donations, until I notify you otherwise.

I understand that I must pay an amount of UK Income Tax and/or Capital Gains Tax at least equal to the tax that Girton reclaims on my donations in each tax year.

Signed:__________________________________Date: ____________________ Notes: 1 If in the future your circumstances change and you no longer pay tax on your income and capital gains at least equal to the tax that Girton reclaims, you can cancel your declaration at any time by notifying the Development Office (telephone 01223 338990) 2 If you pay tax at the higher rate you can claim tax relief in your Self Assessment tax return.

3 Please notify the Development Office if you change your name or address.

4 Girton College is an Exempt Charity, number x1017.

5 HMRC require charities to have the donorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s home address on the Gift Aid declaration.

Please return the completed form to the appropriate President or Presidents c/o the Development Office, Girton College, FREEPOST ANG6880, Cambridge cb3 0ye.

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The College has a wide-ranging portfolio of fundraising projects. With the reduction in government funding, Girton is more dependent than ever on the support of its alumni and friends to continue in its mission. Gift Aid can now be claimed on any gift made by a UK taxpayer to the College – meaning that for every £10 given by a taxpayer, we receive £12.80. Even a small gift can make a huge difference to the total raised, as the wide participation of our alumni in donating can influence funding decisions by donors such as Trusts and corporations. college endowment

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(currently around £46 million; in the long-term this needs to be over £100 million) The College’s income from fees is approximately £1.6 million per year, yet the cost of providing our students’ education is around £2.2 million per year. Girton is dependent on fundraising and its endowment funds to make up the shortfall. Girton currently has an endowment of approximately £46 million, which is professionally managed, and run on a total-returns basis.

Cambridge as a whole (i.e. the University and colleges combined) has an endowment of just over £3 billion. This compares with £8.5 billion for Yale and over £14 billion at Harvard. Backing every student, Cambridge has £150,000 of endowment capital; that number is £600,000 at each of Yale and Harvard and nearly £1 million at Princeton! Whilst there is clearly no scope for levelling this disparity in the immediate future, it is clear that Cambridge in general, and Girton in particular, needs to continue to build up endowed funds if we are to continue to offer a world-class education.

Within Cambridge, Girton is a larger-than-average College, and it currently operates with a lower-than-average endowment. An endowment of nearer £100 million would be more appropriate to the size of the College’s current operation. It is essential to Girton’s long-term future that the endowment is increased along these lines.

Unrestricted gifts for the College’s endowment are tremendously valuable as they give the College additional flexibility to cope with any situation in which it may find itself. funding of teaching fellowships

(Endowment of £1.2 million or annual funding of at least £40,000) The need to supply funding for teaching Fellowships is becoming increasingly urgent, as the present unique system is in danger of becoming unsustainable. The 20% decline in the fee-funding for colleges over ten years from 1998 means that there is less financial flexibility to support college teaching posts. The University’s departments are also under financial pressure and are cutting back on teaching provision, making the College Fellowships even more vital.

We are fortunate that an anonymous donor pledged £2.5 million in late 2008, to match any donations given to teaching endowment. This sum will be available to match gifts at a 1:1 ratio for endowment of teaching posts. The priority posts which College needs to fund at present are in the following subjects: Economics, English, History, Law, Mathematics, Modern and Medieval Languages.

In order to sustain for the long term, it is essential that College endows teaching posts.

The cost of funding a mid-level College Lecturer (Official Fellow), including 22% on-costs of pension, room and commons as well as salary, is over £40,000 per year. In order to generate this in perpetuity, an endowment of £1.2 million is needed for each post.

The experience of a Cambridge education is the experience of being taught by the best minds in your field, and having access to renowned academics as supervisors. Those who have really had the greatest influence on our formation, aside from our parents, are most often our teachers.

Supporting teaching at Girton will benefit generations of future students, and ensure that they have the best opportunities that the University can offer.

We are currently on the way to endowing two Fellowships, one in an arts subject and one in Mathematics, and our aim is to endow at least two more through fundraising in the next four years. Another post is being funded through donation on an annual basis, thanks to the generosity of a former student of Girton. the refurbishment of the tower wing

(£0.5 million) The Tower wing, a part of Girton which is immediately recognisable, is in great need of modernisation. The purpose of this project is to bring student rooms up to twenty-first century standards, which includes adding IT networking and improving bathrooms and kitchens. The project includes improvements to the front entrance and Porters’ Lodge, to make this aspect of the College more welcoming. Owing to the Grade II listed status of the building, and the extent of the work required, the target to refurbish the entire wing is £2 million. The cost of refurbishing each student room is £10,000. Much of this work is now finished, but a further £0.5 million is still required to complete the project. childcare bursaries

(£2 million) Providing childcare bursaries underlines our commitment to equal opportunities and access. We now have a children’s nursery at Wolfson Court, but the costs of childcare are still such that they deter many from continuing their studies after becoming parents. As well as encouraging more mature students and graduates with children to study in Cambridge, bursaries are an essential benefit for academic staff. sports pav ilion

(£1 million) Fundraising is well under way to build a pavilion worthy of the sporting triumphs of Girton’s recent years. These include the promotion of the men’s rugby team to Division 1 and the men’s football team winning the League in 2006. Thanks to the generosity of alumni and friends of the College, we have already completed a related project: the realignment of the rugby and football pitches so that the two games can be played concurrently.

The new pavilion will be a two-storey building with four changing rooms, and will incorporate a new gym. Currently the College’s gym is temporarily located in an old chair store, and the pavilion will provide it with a unified and permanent home.

GIRTON COLLEGE DONATION FORM This single form, the Girton College Donation Form, covers all donations other than subscriptions and/or donations to College Friends Groups.

IMPORTANT â&#x20AC;&#x201C; if you are a UK taxpayer, paying tax at the basic rate or above, please complete the Gift Aid declaration below, as we can now reclaim tax at the basic rate on donations (see * overleaf ).

Gift Aid Declaration Name:_______________________________________________________________ Home Address:________________________________________________________ _______________________________________Postcode:______________________ Telephone:______________________________Email:________________________ Matriculation Year:______________________________________________________ I am a UK taxpayer, paying tax at the basic rate or above. Please treat all donations I have made in this tax year to Girton College (Charity Tax number x1017), and in the previous six tax years, and all donations I make from the date of this declaration, as Gift Aid donations until I notify you otherwise.

I understand that I must pay an amount of UK Income Tax and/or Capital Gains Tax at least equal to the tax that Girton reclaims on my donations in each tax year.

Signed: ____________________________________ Date: ____________________ Designation of gift

I wish to donate to the Development Campaign

I wish to donate to a specific fund or funds Please state fund(s)__________________________________________ One-off gift

I enclose a cheque (made payable to Girton College)

I wish to pay by credit/debit card: Please debit the sum of ÂŁ_________________________from my account.

Card type (e.g. Visa):____________________________ Card Number (16 digits):_________________________ Expires:_________________ Valid from:____________ Maestro or Switch Issue No.:____ Security Number (last three figures on the reverse of the card):__________ Signed:_____________________________ Date:__________________

Regular gift by Standing Order (PLEASE DO NOT RETURN THIS FORM TO YOUR BANK) To the Manager,______________________________________________Bank Bank address:_____________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________ Account number:_____________________________ Sort code:_____________ Please pay the monthly quarterly annual sum of £__________________ commencing on______________________ until _____________________ to Girton College, Cambridge, Account No. 40207322 at Barclays Bank plc, Bene’t Street, Cambridge, cb3 3pz (Sort code 20–17–19) Signed:________________________________ Date:_______________________

Thank you for your support.

Donors to the Development Campaign will be listed in the College Annual Review. If you do not wish your name to appear, please tick this box.

Please return to: Development Office, Girton College, FREEPOST ANG6880, Cambridge, cb3 0ye.

* Gift Aid For every £10.oo you donate, the College receives £12.50 if you are a UK taxpayer (and £12.80 inclusive of Government transitional relief ). For example, a gift of £10.oo per month for three years increases to £460.80 once tax has been reclaimed, including transitional relief, from HM Revenue and Customs.

A one-off gift of £780 increases to £1,000.

There are extra benefits for donors of gifts of shares and for donors who are higher-rate taxpayers. For more information on other forms of tax-efficient giving, please contact us at the Development Office, Girton College, FREEPOST ANG6880, Cambridge, cb3 0ye (Tel: 01223 339893, email development@girton.cam.ac.uk).

girton college merchandise A wide range of items is always available for sale at the Portersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Lodge.

Some can be obtained by mail order and these are listed on the order form overleaf.

above right NEW: The College shield handcrafted in silver and supplied in a hand sewn linen bag. Both made by women artisans in Sri Lanka.

right NEW: A 90% wool and 10% silk pashmina in elegantly muted College colours.

bottom right NEW: The new CD from the College Choir, recorded in New York at the end of their recent successful tour of the eastern USA.

To: the Head Porter, Girton College, Cambridge cb3 0jg I wish to order the following items in aid of the Girton College Appeal Item

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Girton tie – pure silk Girton pashmina – wool and silk. NEW Girton cuff-links Girton hand crafted silver badge in embroidered pouch. NEW Girton scarf – College colours in wool with scarlet fleece backing Girton umbrella Squirrel wearing Girton scarf.

Teddy bear wearing Girton scarf Girton mug with College elevation in colour Girton shot glass with engraved shield Girton shot glasses with engraved shield, set of two Girton tumbler with engraved shield Girton tumblers with engraved shield, set of two Girton College paperweight Girton College memo holder with College shield Girton pen/pencil holder with College shield Girton College coasters, set of six Girton College table mat, set of six Men's badged polo shirt (white or black, S, M, L, XL – please circle colour and size) Women’s badged ‘ladyfit’ polo shirt (white or black, S, M, L – please circle colour and size) Zip neck sweatshirt with black embroidered shield (S, M, L, XL – please circle size) College Card with bird’s eye watercolour view of College in 2005 Choir CD O Porta Caeli Choir CD Res Miranda NEW Choir CD The Feast Celestial BOOKS Girton Thirty Years: ... in the Life of a Cambridge College The Girton Project Journal: Girtonians and the World Wars. NEW A Victorian Monument – College buildings by Prudence Waterhouse That Infidel Place – History of Girton College 1989–1969

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Post and packing (PER ITEM) Because we cannot assess postage before your order has been placed, we ask that you pay an additional charge on each item you purchase. We will refund the difference to you once we have calculated the cost of posting your order. Please note that this can be avoided by placing a credit card order by phone or by fax (please see below).

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Girton College Cambridge cb3 ojg Phone: 44 (0) 1223 338999 Fax: 44 (0) 1223 338896 Cover: Spring morning outside Tower Wing, 2009, photo Peter Sparks. End Papers: PhotospheresŠ of Emily Davies Court and of Kings Parade by kind permission of, and obtainable from, Edward Hill Photography, www.glartists.com

The editor is extremely grateful for all the help received from Fay Faunch, Stephanie Trott and other members of the Editorial Committee. His and the Committeeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s thanks also to Gillian Jondorf (Moore 1956) and Susan Moore (1952) for copy editing, Cherry Hopkins (Busbridge 1959) for proof-reading and Vera Seal for early help with the text The Annual Review is also available electronically, in PDF format, on the College website at: www.girton.cam.ac.uk/alumni-roll/publications

GIRTON COLLEGE ANNUAL REVIEW

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2009