Girton Development Newsletter of Girton College, Cambridge
newsletter Spring 2018
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Message from the Mistress The Mistress, Professor Susan J. Smith FBA, FAcSS, FRSE writes.
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Swirles Court Girton gains a foothold on the University’s new North West Cambridge site.
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A Great Campaign Helping the College to thrive.
www.girton.cam.ac.uk The Editor would like to thank many colleagues, and particularly Cherry Hopkins, and Gillian Jondorf, for their support in the production of the Development Newsletter. Copyright in editorial matter and this collection as a whole: Girton College
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Creating a Legacy Gifts in Wills are more than just numbers.
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Alumnae Profiles Karen Fawcett (Economics, 1982) and Sarah Harper Archaeology and Anthropology, 1976) discuss their time at Girton and beyond.
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Introduction
Message from the Mistress Professor Susan J. Smith FBA, FAcSS, FRSE
As I write at the start of 2018, and with an eye to 2019, I am conscious that there is an abundance of history to celebrate and a teeming future to embrace. This year marks the centenary of the (partial) enfranchisement of British women – an achievement our founders helped to secure. We are also approaching the 70th anniversary of the attainment of Girton’s foundational aim: the full admission of women to Cambridge University degrees. Finally, as set out in the pages that follow, next year is the culmination of 150 pioneering years at the cutting edge of excellence, diversity and inclusion. Why not drop the dates of the Girton150 Festival – 28–30 June 2019 – into your diary now? It will be an unmissable experience! Looking to the future, the horizon is expanding. The Council has delivered on its bold decision to secure a 325room graduate complex in the heart of Eddington, close to the main College site. It was my privilege to join the new Vice-Chancellor, Professor Stephen J Toope, to open that facility in October, celebrating another Girton first as we established a collegiate presence in the University’s new urban quarter. Swirles Court is now fully let, and we are set to consolidate and grow the graduate school. In the meantime, all our students can enjoy first-rate residential facilities somewhere in College and throughout their course, if they wish. In addition to all this, we have recently completed a visionary estate-planning exercise, enabling (in time) a 50% increase in capacity at the Girton site.
One corollary is that Wolfson Court – which played such an important part in the growth and development of the College in the last half century – is less central than it once was. The College Council has indeed decided that it is time, as both town and gown expand to the north and west of the City, to move on from Clarkson Road, and position Girton firmly as the College of North West Cambridge. I am well aware that many of you have fond memories of Wolfie, especially if you were there at the start. Yet, your successors at Swirles Court are making history just as you did, and Girton is all the richer for every cohort that breathes life into its ever-changing fabric. How, then, should we preserve our foundational aims, enduring values and fine traditions while embracing new opportunities and navigating the winds of change? Well, Girton is not Girton because of where it is; this College is not defined by the bricks and mortar that make up its buildings, nor indeed by the subjects that thrive within its walls. Girton is distinctive, momentous and glorious essentially because of people like you. Students, Fellows, staff and alumni together make the College what it is, just as they determine what it will become. That is why the targets for the anniversary phase of A Great Campaign are all about supporting talented people. Our ambitious endowment campaign is already over 60% complete. As
Professor Susan J. Smith it moves into its final phase, please take this opportunity to help our students thrive. Help us underpin bursaries, build hardship funds, create graduate studentships and employ talented Fellows to deliver the small-group teaching that is the foundation of a Cambridge degree. We have tried to make it easy – even fun – to participate. For example two year-groups with a reunion in 2018 are working to raise enough funds to endow a ‘Class of [date]’ bursary. Together they aim to open the door to Cambridge for brilliant young scholars who may go on to change the world. You will see as you read through the newsletter that, as 2019 approaches, we are working on messages, straplines and visuals to capture the essence of Girton, and raise its profile. We may tinker with this for a while, but the phrase that resonates for me is ‘Girton: where generosity thrives’. Thank you!
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College news
Swirles Court
On Saturday 14 October 2017, the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, Professor Stephen J Toope, and the Mistress of Girton opened Swirles Court, a new 325-room, purpose-built, graduate complex close to the main College site.
The complex is named after Girton alumna, Fellow and Benefactor, Dr Bertha Swirles (Lady Jeffreys); an influential mathematician and physicist, she is one of eight Girton alumnae whose names are, or will be, inscribed in the landscape at Eddington.
True to our pioneering spirit, Girton is the first Cambridge College to establish a base in the University’s largestever capital project, Eddington. This new neighbourhood in North West Cambridge brings high standards of sustainability and visionary conceptions of community to the city.
Swirles Court will enable Girton to grow its graduate community and to punch above its weight in achieving the University’s aim of increasing its postgraduate student body by 13% over 5 years. This will help Girton to remain globally competitive, fulfilling our academic mission of promoting excellence in teaching, learning and research.
Around 150 College members, alumni and invited guests gathered on the lawn in the heart of Swirles Court to mark the opening and were given tours by some of the first student residents. Swirles Court has a range of communal facilities, allotments, secure cycle parking, and more over is linked by a network of cycle routes to Girton, West Cambridge, central Cambridge, the Sidgwick site and, eventually, all the way to Addenbrooke’s.
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Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, Professor Stephen J Toope said:
‘I am encouraged – thrilled – that Girton is taking this pioneering step to create a College presence in Eddington. It is a reminder that the University and the Colleges together can create something much greater than the sum of their parts. I am certain that our continuing success will depend on partnerships of the type we are witnessing here.’
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A Great Campaign
College Facts and Figures 130
Undergraduate bursaries were awarded (academic year 2017–18)
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Where Excellence Thrives Every gift to A Great Campaign brings Girton closer to its vision of achieving long-term financial sustainability, ensuring that the College will thrive for another 150 years. The past year has brought the Campaign to 60% of its target and this fantastic progress is only made possible by a generous and loyal alumni community. Recently funding was completed for a Fellowship in Medicine, named for Dr John Marks; and further leadership gifts have primed three other Fellowships. We are also close to achieving the tenth undergraduate bursary, and therefore halfway to our target of 20. Girton’s modest endowment provides an income stream that is essential in underpinning all aspects of education, particularly student support, our world-class Fellowship and planned growth for the graduate school. Gifts to the endowment effectively last for
ever – as the capital is never spent but rather invested to provide a permanent income. This is what makes endowment gifts so precious.
Recipients of College awards for excellence including scholarships, competition and academic prizes, in 2016–17
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Graduate awards, scholarships and prizes awarded in 2016–17
Where Diversity Thrives ‘As a student I remember how tight my personal finances were. A little generosity from the College went a long way. I can now pay it forward and am happy to carry on the legacy of those who supported me in my youth.’ Paresh Patel (1981) Since its Foundation, Girton has opened its doors to people with exceptional academic talent, from all backgrounds and circumstances. Today, excellence in diversity is still at the forefront of
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Fellowships permanently endowed at Girton through your donations
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Undergraduates
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Postgraduates
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was subsidised by up to 50%. Girton’s endowment is fully stretched and is not yet able to cover this; growing that endowment is key to sustaining an adequate level of student support and meeting some important strategic aims. Thanks to the generosity of our alumni in supporting Undergraduate Bursaries, we are over half way to our goal to fund 20 means-tested bursaries at a cost of £87,500 each.
Where Inspiration Thrives
Society I’ve performed both on and off the stage: directing the Girton Pantomime, organising funding for shows in town and also several acting roles – my personal favourite being a villainous Trinity porter. I also spent time mentoring new maths students during their introductory course and preparing them for the demands of Tripos!
Girton’s Fellowship has nurtured the intellectual and personal development of students for generations. Notwithstanding growing competition and financial uncertainty, we strive to attract and retain the finest teachers and researchers from around the world. The keys to this are secure, adequate funding and a dynamic scholarly community. One aim of A Great Campaign is to future-proof existing Fellowships. Seven are now endowed, and the Campaign is forging ahead to underwrite the College portion of up to five more College Lectureships in conjunction with the University. The cost to endow each one is £400,000. A limited amount of match-funding is available as an incentive to give; and some are well under way.
I’ve really enjoyed making the most of my time at Girton and I’m looking forward to more great experiences in the future. I’m incredibly grateful to the donors who supported the Bursary scheme and helped make my time here possible.
Focusing mainly on Sciences, some of the subject areas in question are: Physical Sciences, Mathematics – a Fellowship named for Bertha Jeffreys (née Swirles) – and a Fellowship where the holder’s research has an International focus.
represented and 125 students were from minority ethnic communities. With over 500 undergraduates, one in four received a bursary and the real cost of educating every home student
Excellent teaching changes lives. The contribution each Fellow makes to every student’s future lasts a lifetime. Your contribution to securing every Fellowship ensures that inspirational teaching at Girton will thrive for ever.
George Cowperthwaite (Mathematics, 2016) It has always been my ambition to study at Cambridge and I feel very fortunate to have been able to attend Girton College. The financial support of the Bursary scheme has been invaluable, allowing me to focus on my studies and get involved with the many societies within Girton, rather than worry about part-time jobs and funding. Some of the things I have done in the last year include serving as Treasurer for the 2018 Girton Spring Ball, an experience which helped develop my management and accounting skills – particularly important when managing a six-figure budget! In the Girton Amateur Dramatics
Girton’s educational mission. Last academic year, almost 70% of our UK undergraduate student intake came from the state and maintained sector; overall, 37 nationalities were
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A Great Campaign’s Targets 2017–22
‘We cannot yet know what exact applications this research will have, that is part of the discovery, but two possible directions are exciting. The first is in the area of quantum computing, developing a completely new type of computer based on quantum mechanics. Secondly, I work with ‘quantum dots’ or artificial atoms, made in a liquid. Each is one ten-thousandth of the width of a human hair. These nano-particles are then sandwiched between metal and graphene. It may be possible in future to use such materials to harvest energy from waste heat and convert it to useful electrical energy.
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to endow 20 undergraduate bursaries in perpetuity
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to endow much-needed graduate scholarships
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to endow six College Lectureships in conjunction with the University, primarily in science related subjects
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to add to unrestricted permanent endowment
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for donor-led initiatives
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new pledges from Gifts in Wills, to be realised over the long term
Quantum Serendipity Chris Ford is a Fellow of Girton College and a Professor of Quantum Electronics, based at the Cavendish Laboratory. On completing a PhD at Pembroke in 1988, Chris spent a year with IBM near New York, before returning to Cambridge and taking up a Hertha Ayrton Research Fellowship at Girton. His experimental research aims to help provide the technology of the future; he explains: ‘Using the fabrication tools and techniques of the current semiconductor industry, we can make structures in which electrons behave as waves or individual particles – it’s fun to come up with a design, make it, and measure electrons in it behaving quantum-mechanically, often at very low temperatures. There’s always the hope that these designs may contribute to the next generation of electronics technology, when silicon technology is eventually exhausted.
‘Just recently we got a new result which made a lot of time and effort worthwhile. We made a source of single particles of light, or photons, which required very detailed measurements and we’ve just had a hint that it’s working – a dip in a straight-line plot. The device should be useful in quantum cryptography. ‘Much of this research is curiosity-driven and outcomes are often serendipitous, but essentially the goal is to help produce the next technology after the silicon chip. The industry can’t go on making transistors smaller and smaller now that they are becoming just tens of atoms wide.’ Chris juggles his research work with delivering a second-year lecture programme, third-year supervisions and up to nine PhD students whose projects each need hands-on involvement. All this, and a steady round of grant applications for funding. With true Girton energy, Chris still finds time to serve on the College Council and to sing with the University Musical Society Chorus.
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Where Originality Thrives Girton’s strategic objectives include a leading role in the University’s plans to expand the postgraduate offer (both Masters and PhD) over the next five years. There is global demand from and for those talented scholars with higher degrees. This year Girton has become the first College to acquire a footing in the University’s new urbanacademic community at Eddington, by moving into a purpose-built graduate complex – Swirles Court – just a short
People and Horses A Meeting of Minds The unresolved questions of anthropologist and accomplished horse-trainer Rosie McVey led to her PhD at Girton, in which she investigates the way humans think when they connect with, and train, their horses. She explains ‘Humans have developed a unique bond with these strong, mindful and instinctive creatures. For six thousand years we have found ways to work with horses, training them to do complex things. I felt that there was room for a study that looked at the way people make sense of these animals’ minds, especially in light of recent, more natural training techniques that are now influencing people’s choice of approach.’ Rosie’s passion for horses began in early childhood; then at 14 she
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distance from College. To fill it with first-rate students, it is essential to fund their work (and of course, help them meet the cost of living). Postgraduate scholarships are one of the most urgent funding needs in British higher education today. We need your help to attract the best students in the world to the cutting edge at Cambridge, and to the inspirational environment at Girton. Even a partial scholarship can help Girton form a gateway to a host of other funding opportunities, and to a transformational educational scene.
saved her pocket money and bought her first pony at a horse fair, and on leaving school she headed to the USA to work with rescued mustangs. She was talent-spotted by trainer Kelly Marks who founded ‘Intelligent Horsemanship’, following in the footsteps of renowned horsewhisperer Monty Roberts. ‘My early life with horses was a valuable foundation, that total experience has given my ethnography a rich, reflective feel. I’ve gained so much from working with horses and now, through academic research, I am able to share something of this complex and special area of British culture and industry. Amongst equestrians there is wide debate about new, alternative methods of training horses, but there is little academic research. I’m interested in how people decide what to do as they manage and care for their horses
and I’m discovering more about how ethics, empathy and knowledgeevaluation combine in this process.’ Despite having only partial funding for her proposed PhD, Rosie seized the research opportunity at Cambridge. Her fieldwork was conducted at the livery yard near her home, where she keeps her own horse, and she recruited willing research participants from amongst fellow horse-owners at the yard. Alongside her PhD, Rosie runs horse-training services and clinics, and gives talks. On completion, she plans to continue working with people and horses, and there will undoubtedly be more academic research.
Full story by Alex Buxton, This Cambridge Life: https://medium.com/ this-cambridge-life/the-anthropologistexploring-ethical-questions-abouthumans-and-horses-255f6b89623f
Financial Report
Our Financial Report The College’s audited accounts for the year ended 30 June 2017 show a pleasing increase in net assets from £139 million in 2016 to £144 million thanks to an overall surplus for the year of £5 million. This was due at least in part to the performance of the College’s investment portfolio, which generated a total return of 11.8%, a huge improvement on the previous year’s 1.83%. Investment markets are, of course, cyclical, and the College cannot expect this level of return every year; our investment strategy is designed to deliver around 7% p.a. total return over the long term. Funds under management at the yearend were, however, £77 million – up from £69 million the previous year. This includes not only the College’s permanent endowment but also unrestricted and other reserves. We were also very pleased to report donations and benefactions totalling £2.7 million, of which 90% went straight onto the College’s balance sheet as permanent endowment. On average, this percentage has been growing since the start of A Great Campaign – last year it was 86%. This means that the generosity of donors and benefactors to the current campaign will benefit future generations of College members as well as current ones. Since the start of A Great Campaign, the College’s endowment, which includes restricted permanent funds for specific purposes (shown as ATF in Figure 1), as well as unrestricted permanent endowment capital funds for general purposes (shown as UPEC in Figure 1), has grown from £22 million (FY 2010–11) to £46 million (FY 2016–17) by a combination of investment returns, donations and benefactions. Within those totals, UPEC has grown from under £4 million to £13.5 million. This is a particularly important achievement, since the College has the freedom to allocate the investment income from this part of the endowment to wherever it is most needed at the time. The need to grow the unrestricted investment income (and hence UPEC) continues to be amply demonstrated in the accounts, with the unrestricted operating deficit before depreciation growing from £581,000 in 2015–16 to £872,000, the increase being due mainly to a large refurbishment project in the summer on Hospital Wing. Overall, building maintenance costs for the year were £1.8 million compared to £1.2 million in the previous year,
as part of a long-term programme of upgrading facilities. Staff costs, by contrast, at £5.1 million were only slightly higher than the £5 million in 2015–16. The deficit is structural, and will be to a significant extent eliminated by the strategic estate and other changes which are now under way in the College. These include the move into Swirles Court, the move out of Wolfson Court, the establishment of a summer programmes business, the expansion of the postgraduate student community and the progress of A Great Campaign. The overall financial effect of these changes will be to increase the amount of unrestricted income available to fund the College’s educational and charitable activities. Although the next five years will be a transition period, the College has adequate free reserves (£13.2 million) available to manage any risks associated with this shift, which will benefit the entire Girton community. To see a full set of accounts please visit: www.girton.cam.uk/committees/college-accounts www.gov.uk/government/organisations/charity-commission
FIGURE 1: GROWTH OF ENDOWMENT (UPEC AND ATF) DURING A GREAT CAMPAIGN FROM INVESTMENT RETURNS AND DONATIONS £50,000,000
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Legacy
Creating A Legacy Gifts in Wills are more than just numbers – 170, 11, 48, 270, 13
From its earliest days the College has relied on philanthropy to deliver its educational mission. One kind of gift has been especially game-changing for Girton: legacies. The College is built on bequests, and its future depends every bit as much as its past on the generosity and forethought that drives this style of giving. Since the creation of the Development Office in the 1990s Girton has received over 170 legacies totalling nearly £11 million. What does this mean? These generous bequests have contributed to the endowment of several teaching Fellowships across a range of subjects including Law, History, Economics, English, Mathematics, and Languages, with the latest Fellowship underpinned by a bequest named in memory of Dr John Marks, one of the first male Fellows of the College. Students have also directly benefited from this style of giving, with enough received to endow both means-tested undergraduate bursaries and postgraduate awards. This all means that talented scholars can thrive at Girton regardless of their financial background. Gifts in Wills have also generously supported the College’s buildings, grounds and facilities, not least the Library and Archive. Girton has one of the largest and most comprehensive College libraries in the University, holding in the region of 95,000 books. Alongside this repository, and housed in the awardwinning extension, are the College Archive and its Special Collections. These collections range from rare Sanskrit manuscripts to gifts of books from Girton’s most notable early supporters such as Tennyson, Ruskin and George Eliot. There are internationally important collections on the history of women and work, the suffrage movement,
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and women’s education, as well as an extensive archive of the College’s own groundbreaking history. Bequests were of immense importance in creating the Library and Archive buildings, and legacies continue to be instrumental in supporting the growth and maintenance of the collections we house. Many gifts in Wills, 48%, are unrestricted and it is an honour that such trust is shown by Girtonians and supporters. Since the launch of A Great Campaign, unrestricted gifts have been invested into the College’s endowment where the returns are spent but the capital value preserved, so that your legacy lasts in perpetuity. Income from the unrestricted permanent endowment underpins every activity in Girton and helps bridge the gap between our
educational costs and income from fees and charges. This enables the College to meet the challenges of an everchanging higher education landscape, ensuring that Girton’s future is as bright as its illustrious past. At Girton, we are, of course, sensitive to the fact that making a Will is a very personal matter. We are grateful to all those 1869 Society members who have chosen to notify us of their intention to remember the College in their Wills. There are 270 members of that Society! Some have elected to notify the College of the value, or the approximate value, of their future bequest, revealing pledges that total over £13 million. This support will transform the life-chances, experiences and opportunities of Girtonians in generations to come.
Legacy
It was good to have an opportunity to thank members of the 1869 Society, and their guests, at a special event in February 2017. The theme of the evening was ‘Girton Past, Present and Future’ and it featured an exhibition on five important College benefactors, words of welcome and thanks from Dr Margaret Mountford (Gamble, 1970), a talk from Thomasina Ball (2011), a research student, and former Girton undergraduate, who uses her Mathematics degree to study fluid dynamics at the Department of Earth Sciences, a summary of Classics at Girton today from Fellow Dr Helen Van Noorden, and a summary of the College’s exciting plans for the future from the Mistress. After supper, guests were invited to the Hall where there was a public performance of Bach’s St John Passion, but not before receiving a private recital from some of the musicians involved in the production including Dr Martin Ennis, Girton’s Director of Music, Girton Bye-Fellow in Music Margaret Faultless, and Nicholas Mulroy, a former Director of the College Chapel Choir.
Making a Gift in your Will Including a gift to Girton in your Will can be the easiest and most affordable way of supporting the College. You can choose to make a cash gift or donate a proportion of your estate (even 1% can make a difference), but either way please know that you will be helping the College reach its aims of providing financial support to talented students who might not otherwise be able to take up their place or continue with their studies, underpinning Fellowship posts that attract innovative researchers who also provide a bespoke learning experience for those studying here, and maintaining and expanding our exceptional buildings and facilities that mean students leave Girton with more than just a degree. Your gifts will also help us to withstand times of financial
L to R: Miss Thomasina Ball and Dr Margaret Mountford uncertainty and make the best use of future opportunities. Girton College is a registered charity (Registered Charity Number 1137541) so including the College in your Will may reduce your estate’s Inheritance Tax liability. Should you choose to make a gift to Girton in your Will we suggest that you use the following wording: ‘I give to the Mistress, Fellows and Scholars of Girton College, Cambridge (Registered Charity Number 1137541) [the residue of my estate] [_____ % of the residue of my estate] [the sum of _________] free of tax for the Unrestricted Permanent Endowment Capital of the College and I declare that the receipt by the Bursar or other authorised Officer of the College shall be good and sufficient discharge to my Executors.’ We recommend that you seek professional advice when making or amending a Will. Further information regarding gifts in Wills, including information on planned giving for our US-based alumni and supporters, is available on our website: www.girton.cam.ac.uk/legacy.
For a conversation in complete confidence, please contact the Development Director on +44 (0)1223 339893, d.easlick@girton.cam.ac.uk, or the Legacy Officer on +44 (0)1223 338901, e.cornwall@girton.cam.ac.uk.
Recognising your Generosity The College is grateful to all those who remember Girton in their Will, and recognises that it can be a very personal matter. Should you wish to notify the College of your intention, however, we would greatly appreciate it, not least so that we can fully understand your wishes and express our thanks for your generosity. All those who do advise us of a gift to Girton in their Wills are eligible to join the 1869 Society; members will receive a purple lapel pin and will be invited from time to time to events hosted by the Mistress. By making a gift to Girton in your Will you are supporting a remarkable institution with a pioneering history and an exciting future – thank you for sharing our vision.
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Cultural Heritage
Cultural Heritage Girton’s cultural and heritage collections are a core element in College life that we aim to make accessible to all. We welcome individuals and groups from all over the world to enjoy them and make use of them for academic research. The art collections and the People’s Portraits exhibition are becoming more visible through Art UK and Cambridge Open Studios; the Lawrence Room collections are open weekly to the public and are used as inspiration for the Humanities Writing Competition; and the Archive and Special Collections continue to welcome researchers with a wide range of research interests. Our professional curation of the collections ensures that they are properly catalogued, displayed and conserved, and I would especially like to take this opportunity to highlight Peter Sparks’ contribution. Last year Peter retired as the Steward for Silver and Antiques. In this role he had oversight of the College’s antiques, clocks, rugs and silver; thanks to his dedication and hard work, all the items in these collections are now fully catalogued and a comprehensive programme of restoration has been implemented. Peter will be greatly missed but I am pleased to announce that Dr Emma Weisblatt is now Keeper of Silver; and Maureen Hackett, Junior Bursar, and Gabor Peko, House Services Supervisor, will now care for the clocks, antiques and rugs. Last year’s new acquisitions for the collections were chiefly from Yelena Popova, Artist in Residence for 2016– 17. Yelena’s ‘Portrait for Future Faces’ was generously donated to the College by Professor Jochen Runde and Fiona Kinghorn. This anti-portrait was created specifically for Hall and sits alongside the portraits of Mistresses past and present. Yelena also gave us her ‘Invisible painting’. This is reminiscent of a human figure and reveals itself only when viewed from different angles. Yelena’s residency culminated in ‘For Body, Soul, and Spirit; a tapestry for Girton College’. Yelena took inspiration for this work from a letter
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L-R Sam Dalby, Pim Baxter and Richard Foster with the new portrait in which Emily Davies wrote that the College was to be ‘everything that is good for body, soul, and spirit’. The free-standing figure in the centre of the tapestry references the pioneering tradition of Girton, the cycles of the moon, and the Cambridge eight-week term, as well as the ideal proportions of the human body as propounded by Leonardo Da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man. All these pieces now hang in College. We were sorry to see Yelena leave but are looking forward to the appointment of a new artist in residence for 2018–19. 2017 continued to see our collections used in a range of cultural and academic activities. The richness of the collections is particularly showcased
by the annual series of talks at the September Alumni Weekend. The Library talk, ‘Episodes in the life of a publisher: from manuscripts to e-books’, was given by Kate Brett (1977). Kate spoke engagingly about her career at Cambridge University Press, where she started as a graduate trainee. Her humorous anecdotes included advice about practising how to say no as well as the trials and tribulations of a commissioning editor chasing recalcitrant authors. The Lawrence Room talk, ‘Cyprus in Context: Researching and re-assessing the Cambridge Cypriot Collections’, was given by Dr Anastasia Christophilopoulou, Assistant Keeper
Cultural Heritage
‘For Body, Soul and Spirit’ Tapestry by Yelena Popova
Girton College’s Artist in Residence 2016-17, Yelena Popova very wide ranging, covering the history, politics and archaeology of Cyprus; Cypriot objects in the Lawrence Room and the Fitzwilliam Museum; and museum practice.
‘Portrait for Future Faces’ etching on brass, by Yelena Popova
‘Sun Bowl’ by Katharine Coleman and Cyprus Curator at the Fitzwilliam Museum, which holds one of the UK’s three most significant Cypriot collections. Anastasia spoke about the current project at the Fitzwilliam which seeks to recontextualise and redisplay the Cypriot collections. Her talk was
At the People’s Portraits reception Sam Dalby unveiled the latest addition to the collection, ‘Justin Eckersley’. Sam spoke eloquently of his friendship with Justin, about how the portrait came about and the relevance of elements within the portrait. Both talk and portrait were well received. The audience also enjoyed a talk by Pim Baxter, the Deputy Director of the National Portrait Gallery. Pim gave an introduction to the National Portrait Gallery, covering its history, profile, acquisition and commissioning policies, and recent and current projects. She then explored what portraiture can tell us about leadership qualities, using portraits from the NPG collections to illustrate her talk, incuding those of Elizabeth I, Benjamin Disraeli, Christabel Pankhurst and Simon Weston.
talk about ‘significant surroundings – gardens and other influences’. Katharine explored how she finds inspiration in the ordinary, whether in nature, garden plants or the modern urban landscape. Her specific garden influences ranged widely from the Seville municipal gardens to Beijing ginkgo trees. The urban world also features in her work, including the Barbican and Canary Wharf, where the jumble of buildings becomes tumbling block patterns. After the talk the audience were encouraged to enjoy the College gardens. The preservation, enjoyment and accessibility of our collections are vital to the College and we very much hope that you will be able to visit soon to enjoy them. Hannah Westall Archivist and Curator
Katharine Coleman (MacKenzie, 1967), a glass engraver, spoke at the Gardens
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Alumnae Profiles
Alumnae Profiles She read Economics, having developed an interest in the subject at A level. ‘Girton took a risk on me. I had glandular fever when I applied and they gave me an offer of two Es at A level, on condition that I took a year off. It changed my life.’
Karen Fawcett (Economics, 1982) Karen Fawcett has had an extraordinary career. Most recently, she played a leading role with Standard Chartered Bank, where she led global divisions over 12 years and was a member of the bank’s management team. ‘Girton was an amazing stepping stone to an international life and career filled with remarkable choices and experiences.’ Karen has been a member of the Girton Campaign Board since 2012 and was part of the decision-making behind launching A Great Campaign. ‘I think it’s absolutely critical to maintain the levels of education, to attract the right quality of student who may not be able to pay for themselves, to maintain the quality and the diversity which has always been a strength of Girton.’ Her undergraduate memories of Girton are of a lively, friendly and transformative time. ‘I remember being busy and animated from the moment I got into the place and loved every minute of it.’
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She threw herself into university life. As a senior instrumental exhibitioner, her passion for the violin took her into orchestras and friendships beyond the College and she recalls Girton as tremendously supportive. ‘Girton was a sort of sanctuary. It didn’t feel like an island, Girton was very integrated into the University, but it was peaceful, calm, very like a family. It was just a marvellous place to spend time. ‘ ‘Girton had huge influence over my career,’ she says. ‘It gave me the confidence to know that we can do most of what we set our minds to.’ Being taught by outstanding economist minds, including Frank Wilkinson and Wynne Godley, at Cambridge was an inspiration. ‘The intellectual purity was so interesting and the fact they weren’t swayed by anyone, they were just so independent in their thoughts and they would always argue things to the end. That was the real learning for me, it wasn’t something that you could get from books.’ Straight after graduating in 1985, she chose a financial consultancy job with Booz Allen Hamilton in London, taking a year in 1988 to complete her MBA at INSEAD business school, where she is now on the board. During a summer job with Booz Allen in Asia she met her husband,
an architect based in Singapore. Her personal geography switched its centre to Asia and she returned to work as a consultant across Asia, with Booz Allen and with spin-off consultancy Spicer & Oppenheim Consultants. After a childhood of holidays spent camping in England, with occasional trips to France, she then threw herself into her work which involved travelling across the continent through the 1990s. After a whirlwind decade, which overlapped with the Asian financial crisis, she had a rethink. ‘I was absolutely addicted to the consulting lifestyle, I had travelled for 12 years after INSEAD, away from home five days a week, always working with CEOs and boards, across most countries from India to Australia and Korea. It was an extraordinary and most addictive lifestyle. Then, one day, my husband asked me to change, suggesting that we could consider another kind of life.’ She accepted the offer of a job working with Standard Chartered Bank, based in Singapore, with a lot less travelling but a broader geography, across Asia, the Middle East and Africa. ‘It was absolutely fabulous shifting from consulting in financial services into banking directly.’ The change to banking brought her into a whole new environment. ‘Banking provided the intensity of serving clients like consulting but added the exciting elements of designing products and running the business.’ Her first experience with Standard Chartered was as a lead for Group Business Strategy. Then in 2005 she was made group head of Transactional Banking, working across the 70
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countries where the bank had a presence. She stayed in the role for nine years, bringing her characteristic energy and enthusiasm, revamping the business model and transforming the operation. In 2014, she made a step-change within the bank, moving to become group head and then chief executive officer of the Retail Banking division with its own culture and set of challenges. ‘The big challenge in retail is you can’t expect to spend a lot of time with each individual, whereas on the corporate side you would sit down and have a good chat with a client.’ As a member of the bank’s management team, she was jointly responsible for directing its global strategy and performance, with the retail comprising nearly 10 million clients in over 30 countries. In 2016, Karen was given the additional responsibility of brand and marketing strategy across
all the bank’s businesses and regions, as group head. Over the last four years to November 2017, she oversaw the construction of an end-to-end digital strategy for the retail division. A huge international undertaking, it was designed so that, once built, individual country teams would take it on and drive it. ‘We had designed and built most of a global platform and it was time to hand over and find the next challenge.’ She left the bank just before Christmas 2017 and is now making choices about what she will do next. She and her husband enjoy diving and sailing and have become keenly aware of the environmental threat to the oceans. They have been inspired to set up a sustainable fish farm off the coast in Thailand and Karen describes the many challenges of the business. ‘We’ve not cracked it yet,’ she says.
engagement. I’m really interested in the public understanding of science.’ Her time at Girton laid the foundation to fulfil these aspirations.
Sarah Harper (Archaeology and Anthropology, 1976)
Sarah is now Professor of Gerontology at the University of Oxford, co-director and founder of the Oxford Institute of Population Ageing and mother of three. Between 2014 and 2017 she served on the Prime Minister’s Council for Science and Technology and last year served as Director of the Royal Institution of Great Britain. Atop her body of published work, she has recently completed a monograph How Population Change will Transform our World for Oxford University Press.
Sarah Harper has a passion for both research and communication. ‘I became one of those academics who are more common now, but were less common in the 80s, who really believe serious academic research has to be involved with what we now call public
‘Role models are very important. At Girton, I was surrounded by wonderful women who were at the top of their careers and managing a work–life balance.’ Arriving to study Anthropology at Girton in 1976, she found herself in
For the last six years she has been on the Girton Campaign Board and was in at the beginning of A Great Campaign. ‘The first battle has been about raising awareness that giving is necessary. People don’t realise that fundraising is required. But now, with presentations and receptions, it’s started to gain momentum.’ She underlines the importance of building up an unencumbered endowment that goes into a fund in perpetuity. Her current concern is to organise a system for tax-advantageous donations to make individual gifts go further. Her commitment to Girton as part of her future is strong. ‘I’m at a crossroad, taking a break from banking and exploring new opportunities. But I’m convinced Girton is going to play a more important role going forward.’
the last years before the College opened its doors to male undergraduates. ‘At the time, being in an all-girls’ college with mainly female academics gave me the role models that so many young women nowadays don’t have, and it gave me huge confidence. It was a very supportive environment.’ She knew from early on that she was interested in communicating thoughts and ideas. In her second year at Girton she became JCR President and in her third year she worked on the University’s Stop Press student newspaper, with a view to becoming a journalist. Her time as JCR President coincided with the 30th anniversary of women being awarded degrees at Cambridge in 1948 and she found herself at the helm of the celebrations, which included a visit from the Queen Mother. With this and the many other demands of the role, she had great support from friends, Fellows and
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staff, especially from her two Directors of Studies, Joan Oates and Jean Grove, and the then Mistress, Brenda Ryman. ‘Everyone was encouraged to get really involved beyond academia, whether in student politics, music and chapel, in sport, in the garden or charities – our JCR got the bike path down the Huntingdon Road! – it was very warm and inclusive. It was very much a haven at the end of the day.’ She had an interest in demographics from before Cambridge and in her final year she switched to Geography in order to specialise in population and demography. She also joined the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure, set up by Peter Laslett and Tony Wrigley. ‘I thought, this is such an amazing subject – the way we are choosing our childbearing, the patterns of mortality and migration, they influence everything.’ 1976 was the last year when birth rates in the UK meant that the population replaced itself. ‘People were beginning to write and talk about an ageing population, but it wasn’t until the end of the 1980s that Britain woke up.’ Her final-year studies were of more exotic territories, India and China, and her work has always addressed demography across a range of societies. ‘The world of the 21st century is going to be very different. We’ve grown up with this idea that we have young societies with people entering and driving the economy and that is going to change across the world with populations ageing.’ After Girton, the chance to do a doctorate at Oxford left her in two minds: ‘I hadn’t thought of being an academic, but thought at Oxford I could do more journalism.’ She did both, spending a large amount of time at Radio Oxford and also loving the experience of studying for her doctorate. At this time, she met
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Susan Smith, the current Mistress of Girton, who was also studying for her doctorate at Oxford. After her doctorate, Sarah took up the offer of a coveted place on the BBC’s News and Current Affairs trainee scheme, where she honed her communications skills working in the TV and radio newsrooms, presenting on local TV and ending up behind the scenes on Newsnight. But the pull of academia was strong. ‘I realised I loved being an academic! I also love communicating, but I learnt early on that I like communicating things that I think are important.’ She lectured at the University of Wales and the University of London, followed by spells in the US, ending up as the Irving B. Harris Visiting Chair in Public Policy at the University of Chicago. Returning to Oxford in 1996 and inspired by the vibrancy that she witnessed in the American university system, she lost no time in founding the Oxford Institute of Population Ageing. The Institute, which celebrates 20 years this year, addresses key questions around the ageing of populations – from the potential of the growing labour pool in emerging economies to the progress of the fertility transition in the least developed economies. There is always a view to investigate current issues and create useful analysis. ‘We do cutting-edge empirical research, but research which is relevant to policy and practice.’ Sarah’s own research addresses the impact of falling fertility and increasing life expectancy, with a particular interest in Asia and Africa. Recent research has focused on women’s education and empowerment in subSaharan Africa and how this influences desired family size, and on the impact of life course trajectories on older women’s health in Africa and Europe.
Sarah has advised government and non-governmental organisations in the UK, Europe and Asia, and most recently chaired the UK Ageing Review for the Government Office of Science. She does what she describes as ‘a huge amount of public speaking.’ Alongside keynotes at academic conferences and talks at literary and science festivals, she has spoken at World Economic Forums in China and Australia, given various TED talks and presented her work at two Nobel Prize Dialogues. ‘Education is at the root of everything. It changes people’s lives,’ she says. ‘Everyone today who has had the privilege of being able to go to such a fantastic place as Girton has a responsibility to make sure that other people have the same opportunities that they had.’
We are very grateful to Pippa Considine (English/ Law, 1985) for writing the alumnae profiles Pippa is a writer, editor and conference producer. She has contributed to The Times, Marketing Week, Campaign, The Daily Mail and produces the Televisual Factual Festival. She is also launching her own stationery business and is on the warpath to reintroduce real letter writing to a lost generation of emailers.
150th Anniversary
150th Anniversary After nearly one and a half centuries, as we approach our anniversary in 2019, the time seems right to take stock! In celebrating that milestone, therefore, we shall look back over Girton’s many contributions to excellence, diversity and inclusion in higher education; and we aim equally to use the anniversary as a springboard to the future. We shall celebrate the lives of those who have made Girton what it is today, reflecting on their achievements, and acknowledging the difference they have made to the world. Rooted in the fine traditions they established, and the values they held dear, we are planning innovatively for the future, embracing all that is needed to meet the challenges ahead. The world, technology and higher education are changing more rapidly than at any time in history. Girton thrives on such challenges, meeting them with new ideas, innovative practices, and imaginative interventions that enrich society at large. One thing is sure: as 2019 approaches, we shall be celebrating our past secure in the knowledge that, for Girton, the best is yet to come.
The first five students at Benslow House, Hitchin On 16 October 1869 the UK’s first residential university-level College for women – which became Girton College – was founded at Hitchin by Emily Davies and Barbara Bodichon. Only five students were enrolled in the first term, all of them pioneers, each one determined to establish her right to higher education. Today – almost 150 years later – Girton is a large diverse community offering the full breadth of academic disciplines to degree level and beyond, on a platform of widening participation. The College has been co-residential for nearly forty years and has an equal balance of men and women, which is unusual in a Cambridge College even today. As of this year, 2017–18, 25% of students are of black, minority ethnic or mixed race backgrounds (compared
to 14% nationally), and there is a wellestablished LGBTQ+ community. Thanks to Girton’s outreach programme and a raft of widening participation measures, around 70% of our talented undergraduates have been educated at a state or maintained school. One in four qualifies for, and receives, a means-tested bursary to supplement their student loan. Because of the generosity of our alumni, who help fund our bursary commitment, lack of family income no longer needs to be a barrier preventing the brightest undergraduates from enrolling. Over the next two pages are some of the highlights from the first period of our timeline on the Girton150 website.
This microsite can be found – after we go live in Easter Term 2018 – at www.Girton150.com or you can click through to this site from the main Girton website.
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Girton College Timeline As part of the celebrations Girton is launching a new timeline on the anniversary website. Taking leaps of thirty years at a time – and a glimpse into what plans the future might hold for the College – the timeline charts, for each thirty-year period, the implementation of The Great Scheme (milestones in our development), the extent to which our alumni are and have been Making a Difference, significant moments in Girton’s Student Experience, and key features in the constitution and membership of our Girton Community.
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1869–1900: THE GREAT SCHEME
1869: That Infidel Place On 16 October 1869, the ‘College for Women’ opened at Benslow House in Hitchin, 30 miles south of Cambridge. This was a small-scale start in a rented property, but the new College was born of an audacious vision. The goal was to create a permanent institution, and in time to secure full membership of the University of Cambridge for the College and its students. This creation would shake the foundations of British higher education, and have an impact across the world. As student numbers grew, and the Hitchin lease drew to an end, it was decided to move nearer to Cambridge, for ease of integration into the life and work of the University. Various options were debated, and in 1872 a site close to Girton village was secured. Here there was room for buildings and gardens, and the potential for later growth.
she was the first woman elected to the Institution of Electrical Engineers (1899); the first to read her own paper to the Royal Society (1904); the first (1902) nominated for election to that society (though barred by reason of marriage); and the first to be awarded its prestigious Hughes Medal (1906). Practical as well as scholarly, she made many important discoveries, including the connection between current length and pressure in the electric arc. She registered 26 different patents and invented the Ayrton Fan – over 140,000 of these were distributed to disperse gas from World War One trenches. Hertha Ayrton’s success was underwritten by the early generosity of Barbara Bodichon (1827–1891), which enabled her to study Mathematics at Girton despite family hardship after the death of her father. This philanthropic history is continued in Girton today, thanks to a 1925 gift from her friend Ottilie Hancock (d. 1929) to endow the Hertha Ayrton Science Fellowship.
STUDENT EXPERIENCE
MAKING A DIFFERENCE 1879: The Fire Brigade
1876: Hertha Ayrton Hertha Ayrton (1854–1923), born Phoebe Sarah Marks, was among the most influential British women scientists. A Girton student from 1876 to 1881,
The College’s pioneering spirit encouraged Girtonians to turn their hands to many things. In 1879 the Fire Brigade was founded by two students who had witnessed a nearby haystack go up in flames, and realised the College would be vulnerable if a fire broke out. Before then, the only fire-precautions at Girton were three small fire engines kept on each corridor which no-one knew
how to use. Trained by members of the London Fire Brigade, the Girton Fire Brigade was highly structured: a Head Captain was in overall charge, with a corps for each corridor, led by a Captain and Sub-Captain. In operation until 1932, the Fire Brigade was only called upon to put out one fire, in Girton village in 1918. However, its existence is testimony to the determination of Girton women to meet any challenge that confronted them.
GIRTON COMMUNITY
1880: The Girton College Association of Certificated Students In February 1880, a group of dedicated former students founded the ‘Girton College Association of Certificated Students’. Immediately popular, the GCACS was the forerunner of the Roll, (Girton’s alumni association). Its first Secretary was Gertrude Jackson (1858– 1920), later Resident Junior Bursar at the College. The Association kept Girtonians in touch with each other, increased their role in College affairs, and raised money for key causes, such as research studentships and enlarged sports facilities. In time, these would include the swimming pool. Regular meetings were organised in London and at College, together with sports matches between current and former students. In 1898 the first printed membership list was produced, with a bright blue cover and gold lettering.
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150th Anniversary
Dates for your diary ... The timeline, along with 2019 merchandising, A Great Campaign and the Calendar of Events for our celebratory year will be launched in Spring 2018 on our new anniversary website – www.Girton150.com. We will let you know once it is launched, so keep your eye on the main Girton website and our termly e-newsletter. Use the anniversary site to find out more about the 2019 events and to book early to take advantage of limited capacity in some venues. There are also special (including ‘early bird’) offers on some tickets. Please let us know if you would like a postal copy of the anniversary events calendar once it is published.
Sunday 30 June. More on Girton past, present and future, plus garden events and family-friendly activities. Look out for announcements later in the Spring with details of early-bird ticket sales for the Girton150 Festival. The Mistress, Fellows and Scholars hope to welcome many of you back to College for the Founders’ events and Festival: two highlights of a packed 150 Anniversary Year.
Girton150 Founders’ Memorial Lectures From February 2019 In tribute to the Girton pioneers, there will be a series of five public lectures capturing the spirit of Girton as a radical educational adventure. We are honoured that Her Imperial Highness Princess Takamado will open the series and that a keynote speech by the College Visitor, The Right Honourable the Baroness Hale of Richmond, will form its centrepiece. The science lecture will be presented by Professor Dame Pratibha Gai, and the series will conclude with events around the College Feast and the Festival. Girton150 Festival Friday 28 to Sunday 30 June 2019 A cluster of anniversary celebrations will take place over the weekend of Friday 28 to Sunday 30 June 2019. This will comprise a mixture of stimulating lectures and events based on Girton past, Girton today and Girton future, as well as cultural, artistic and musical activities. Highlights will include:
International and Regional Events Students and alumni come to Girton from all over the UK and across the world. We recognise that not quite everyone will be able to return to the College in 2019, and so 150th Anniversary celebrations will take place across the globe including: 12–13 April 2019 Pan-Asia Girton150 weekend in Singapore, including alumni reception, formal dinners, lectures and a panel discussion. December 2019 North America Girton150 event in New York.
Friday 28 June. The opening ceremony and an evening of music, magic, comedy and more.
UK Regional events include: London, Edinburgh, Leeds, and Birmingham.
Saturday 29 June. A full day’s programme of networking, lectures, panel discussions, activities, concert, a play, and dinner, culminating in an evening spectacular!
Further details on all the above events are to follow.
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Development
Girton Telethon 2017 The College is hugely grateful to all those who pledged their support to help Girton students both present and future.
£265,000
£40,000
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raised completing the funding for the John Marks Fellowship in Medicine
Emily Davies Bursary funded in perpetuity, helping a Girton student for every coming year!
£119,000
£240
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raised for the Unrestricted Permanent Endowment ensuring that the College will have nearly £5,000 each year, in perpetuity, to direct to areas of need.
a year – most popular gift
donors
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28–30, 56– 60, 75+
new donors came on board – thank you!
Were among the most generous age groups, with over 70% giving-rate.
80% of alumni called in the West Midlands made a gift!
Some of the topics covered… Teaching abroad, having triplets, going on walking holidays with your Girtonian friends, Muriel Bradbrook, volunteering at local prisons, being the first woman to study Electrical Engineering at Cambridge, cycling up Huntingdon Road at ten to midnight to avoid the midnight curfew, research on migration.
‘I’ll admit, the prospect of calling people that I didn’t know for a chat and asking them for donations was a bit daunting at first, but when I was speaking about funds that meant a lot to me, bursaries or student hardship for instance, I realised all I was doing was explaining to someone else why it matters so much. Of course, you’d sometimes catch someone on a bad day and they’d not want to talk, but for every one of those there were 20 other genuinely interesting and enjoyable conversations with people whom I really related to. While things have come a long way since students had to sneak out of their bedroom windows to avoid curfew, and since the bar was a little locked fridge in the Plodge, I still found a lot of common ground with people who have come through Girton and who have carried their experiences here with them throughout their lives and across the world.’ Jazz Darby, 2017 Telethon Caller
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Alumni Events
Alumni Events In 2017 the College hosted over 30 alumni events in Girton, London, Suffolk, Dublin, the Far East and the USA. More than 1100 alumni, Fellows, students and guests attended an array of events including lectures, symposiums, concerts, cocktail receptions, reunion dinners and sports matches. These events would not be possible without the support and enthusiasm offered by our alumni to the events team, whether hosting, sponsoring, organising teams, or promoting the events to others. Particular thanks this year to Yong Nang Tan (1980) in Singapore, Kevin Chan (1986), Franklin Heng (1980) and Chadwick Mok (1984) in Hong Kong, Angela Hey (1972) in California, Dr Guy O’Keefe (1990) at Slaughter and May, London, Sir Laurence Martin, Dr Margaret Mountford (Gamble, 1970), Hwee Hua Lim (Tan, 1978), and Elizabeth Werry (1955). 1869 Society Supper and Concert, 2017
History Symposium and Dinner
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Law and Finance Event, at the offices of Slaughter and May, London 2017
Alumni Events
Hong Kong, 2017
Beijing, 2017
Roll of Alumni Weekend 2017 Singapore, 2017
Artist in Residence Exhibition, 2017
The John Marks Symposium
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Prizes
Innovative thinking Prizes at Girton, funded by supporters
Mountford Arts and Humanities Communications Prize 2017 The challenge: to find an artefact from a museum, or a museum itself, that conveys COLOUR The winning abstract: When Colours Define Identity Borane Gille (Land Economy, 2015) Who cares about the colour of our passport? Does it even mean anything? Passports show where we come from. Burgundy passports are shared by many European countries to show their belonging to the European Union. Green is used by many Islamic countries, to emphasise the importance of that colour in the religion. Modern passport covers can also be blue or black. However, colours used to mean more than that. In West and Central Africa, before European colonisation and the establishment of occidental administrative systems, people used colourful masks to identify their tribes or countries of origin when travelling. The masks had different forms and colours to indicate the social position and occupation of each member of the village or tribe and were used to distinguish the different guilds. Colours reflected the main pieces of
Jane Martin Poetry Prize 2017 National competition for young and gifted poets aged 18–30 years
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Dr Margaret Mountford (Law, 1970) with the 2017 contestants information and were considered as a kind of writing, a language common to a specific region in Africa. The forms, positions and the numbers of colours were strictly codified to represent different professions. Moreover, the more skills you acquired, the fewer colours you had on your masks. Uniform
coloured masks were only given to highly-skilled or prominent people, such as masters or advisors. This presentation will attempt to translate the secret language of colours to the audience. Wearing a mask is often associated with hiding our true identity, but you would not want to take those ones off!
This prize was founded by Professor Sir Laurence Martin in memory of his daughter, Jane Martin, who read Classics at Girton from 1978 to 1981 and had a love of poetry. The judges, poet and critic, Grevel Lindop, and poet and Chaplain at Girton College, Malcolm Guite, were greatly impressed by Katie Hale’s (First Prize) and Andrew Wynn Owen’s (Second Prize) poems.
L-R Grevel Lindop, Katie Hale and Malcolm Guite
Prizes
Hammond Science Communication Prize 2017 The challenge: to present a scientific idea that conveys FLUORESCENCE The winning abstract: Fish have glow-in-the-dark parties too! Smiji Saji (Medical Sciences, 2014) Fluorescent clothing and fluorescent paint have many uses in our daily lives, including in nightclubs and parties. They look vibrant, exciting and fun. Do you think that they may even make you look more attractive during those crazy nights out? Fish certainly do. Biofluorescence is a mechanism that is already being used by hundreds of underwater species to communicate and attract a mate. The fluorescent properties of underwater organisms such as jellyfish and certain coral reefs are commonly known in the world of fluorescence. However, little was known about the fluorescent properties of more common organisms such as fish. Scientists have discovered that hundreds of fish species can absorb the light in the deep oceans,
The contestants giving their seven-minute talks consisting predominantly of the blue wavelength, to re-emit green, red and orange wavelengths of fluorescent light (Schelly et al, 2014). This phenomenon is largely hidden from the naked human eye, but many fish have evolved to have yellow filters in their eyes, which enables them to detect the biofluorescence emitted by their surroundings and by other members of their species. This phenomenon is
hypothesised to be important as a form of intraspecies communication, one which many predators and other species of fish are oblivious to. The proteins involved in this are hoped to have experimental uses, just like the greenfluorescent-protein, which has already revolutionised experimental biology. Regardless, biofluorescence in fish is expected to be the focus of endless fascination and many future studies.
The College is very grateful to Dr Margaret Mountford, Dr Phil Hammond and Professor Sir Laurence Martin for their support and enthusiasm.
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Sport
Alumni Match On Saturday 11 March 2017 the alumni team broke the Girton team’s winning streak (they currently top the CU league) and lifted the Fran Malarée mug in a thrilling encounter that finished 5–4. Alumnus Mark Walsh (1997) took the Man of the Match honours thanks to his match-winning hat-trick. Conditions were near-perfect for the fixture and a special thanks must go to the current team for turning out for what was their second match of the day, having beaten Jesus 4–0 that morning. Many thanks also to the captains, Joe Pennell (2012) and Christian Tien (2015), and all the players for all their efforts in arranging the fixture.
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Donors
Donors to the College 2016–17 Girton is extremely grateful to all the following for their support. Donors from 1 July 2016 to 30 June 2017 are listed below; donors from July 2017 will be listed next year. In addition to those listed below, our thanks also go to all donors who wish to remain anonymous. The participation rate is the percentage of living, contactable alumni from a year group making a gift within the financial year. Names in italic type indicate a legacy.
Class of 1931 Miss U Leggatt Class of 1934 Miss J Macaulay Class of 1935 Mrs J Westwood (Murrant) Class of 1936 Anonymous Class of 1938 Miss K Auty Miss M Cox Class of 1939 Mrs J Abraham (Cole) Dr M Metcalfe (Davies) Dr J Moyle Class of 1940 Dr M Brown Miss K Edgar Mrs L Roe (Jones) Mrs R Winegarten (Aarons) Class of 1942 Mrs P Churchill (Harwood) Mrs J Cornforth (Penwill) Miss M Evans Mrs A Finch (Dickson) Mrs A Sinnhuber (Daubercies) Class of 1943 Anonymous Mrs C Heptonstall (Smith) Miss C Jayne Dr M Lyon Mrs A Nowell (Giles) Dr J Trusted (Turner) Class of 1944 Anonymous Mrs M Child (Bond) Mrs D Hope (Boutwood) Miss O Searles Mrs V Williams (Grubb) Class of 1945 Miss M Chevallier Mrs J Humphreys (Bosomworth) Mrs H Kingsley Brown (Sears) Miss P Ride Mrs J Struthers (McMurran) Mrs D Sykes (White)
Class of 1946 Anonymous Mrs L Grant (Belton) Miss L Phillips Miss S Warren Class of 1947 Anonymous Mrs P Bollam (Waterhouse) Mrs R Collins (Mottershead) Mrs M Conn (Sumner) Mrs R Felton (Holt) Professor H Francis (Wright) Dr J Hockaday (Fitzsimons) Mrs J A Jolowicz (Stanley) Mrs P Wilson (Knight) Class of 1948 Anonymous Dr S Beare (Reed) Lady Chilver (C Grigson) Mrs M Clark (Ronald) Miss J Congdon Mrs P Fenwick (Galley) Dr I Ferguson (McLaren) Mrs J Goddard Mrs P Hobhouse (Chichester-Clark) To’ Puan Lau-Gunn (C Gunn) Mrs M Marrs (Lewin) Mrs P Marsh (Holland) and Mr D Marsh Dr M Rendel Miss H Richardson Mrs S Tyler (Morris) Class of 1949 Anonymous Mrs A Aitken (Rolfe) Mrs A Atkinson (Barrett) Mrs M Bryan (Grant) Mrs E Bullock (Pomeroy) Mrs J Cartwright (Edmonds) Ms S Curtis-Bennett Miss J Harington Mrs M Hodgkinson (Wass) Dr J Lloyd-Thomas (Baron) Professor V Minogue (Hallett) Dr J Orrell (Kemp) Dr V Pearson (Mercer) The Baroness Perry of Southwark (P Welch) Mrs M Sidwell (Synge) Dr M Snook (Butler) Dr M Tiffen (Steele-Perkins) Class of 1950 Anonymous Dr J Attfield (White) Professor V Bowell Mrs J Carruthers (Stevens)
Mrs R Dams (Bailey) Mrs D Dennis (Hinnels) Mrs D Ford (Cole-Hamilton) Dr J Gibson Mrs M Hanton (Lumsden) Mrs E Keatley (Burgess) Miss M Lambrinudi Miss S Lesley Mrs A Michaels Mrs M Owen (Baron) Mrs J Schofield (Plowman) Mrs S Stanley (Wright) Mrs J Towle (Barbour) Mrs S Turner (Davis) Mrs P Watney (Lachelin) Class of 1951 Anonymous Dr R Bailey Mrs R Bennett (Appleton) Lady Chandler (L Buxton) Miss C Crump Dr M Howatson (Craven) Mrs J Lyon (Hill-Smith) Mrs M Macey (Denton) Ms S Marsden (Marsden-Smedley) Mrs A Oldroyd (Holloway) Dr M Saveson and Professor J Saveson Mrs G Scales (Grimsey) Mrs R Smart (Armstrong) Miss B Stephenson Mrs J Stephenson (Lindeck) Mrs P Ward (Nobes) Mrs H Wright (Minginsqa) Dr E Wyatt Class of 1952 Anonymous Dr M Bull (Huse) Miss J Butler (in memory of June Curnow (Bull) 1952) Mrs A Carey (Patrick) Mrs J Foord (Greenacre) Lady Foster (K Bullock) Miss M Gregory (in memory of June Curnow (Bull) 1952) Mrs R Harris (Barry) Mrs J Hurst (Kohner) Mrs J Lindgren (Beck) Mrs J Lovegrove (Bourne) Mrs B Marshall (Golding) (in memory of June Curnow (Bull) 1952) Mrs M Mitchell (Allen) Mrs S Neish (Smith) (in memory of June Curnow (Bull) 1952) Mrs J Roskill (Cooke) Mrs P Ross (Davies) Mrs N Schaffer (Thomas)
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Donors
Mrs P Souter (Baker) Mrs I Wiener (Pollak) Class of 1953 Anonymous Mrs S Alderson (Heard) Mrs A Arbuthnott (Terdre) Mrs W Arnold (Joyce) Mrs A Attree (Chapman) Dr M Barnes (Sampson) Mrs B Bishop (Brenda) and Colonel D Bishop The Revd L Brown Dr E Dobie (Marcus) Miss O Harper Mrs K Larkin (Gibson) and Mr M Larkin Mrs J Marshallsay (Hall-Smith) Dr H Morgan (Retter) Mrs J Ogborn (MacKereth) Lady Reid (M Kier) Mrs J Round (Baum) Mrs J Shipley (Leeman) Mrs E Silva (Barratt) Mrs S Turner (Pascal) Mrs C Wood (Osler) Class of 1954 The Rev H Catton (Middleton) Dr M Cox (Whichelow) Mrs E Fenwick (Roberts) Mrs A Franklin (Glossop) Mrs J Jordan (Hogbin) Dr E Lovett (Hardy) Miss M McNulty Mrs H Silk (Wallace) Mrs D Stallard (Randall) Mrs F Strong (Ranger) Ms M Swanwick (Richardson) Dr J Wheeler (Blacker) Mrs M Wilson (Entwistle) Mrs D Woolley (McGrath) Class of 1955 Participation rate: 31.3% Anonymous Dr S Adam (Merrell) Mrs A Alexander (Coulton) Mrs R Allen (Green) Mrs J Anstice (Williams) Mrs P Bainbridge (Lawrence) Mrs J Barker (Cotton) Miss B Bowden Mrs J Cardell Lawe (Cardell) Mrs R Edwards (Moore) Mrs D Geliot (Stebbing) Mrs J Gilbraith (Southern) and Mr C Gilbraith Mrs M Goodrich (Bennett) Dr B Hammerton (Mann) Mrs J Hamor (Wilkinson) Dame Rosalyn Higgins (Cohen) Mrs B Isaac (Miller) Mrs J Kingsley (Schofield) Mrs C McLean (Lithgow) Mrs I Miller (Spoor) Mrs G Parr (Loft) Mrs D Thorp (Galbraith) Mrs S Threlfall (Jackson) Mrs C Vigars (Walton) Mrs J Walker (Brown) Dr V Warrior Mrs E Werry Class of 1956 Participation rate: 21.2% Anonymous Mrs J Barrett (Fountain) Lady Bett (C Reid)
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Mrs M Bright (Abel) Dr M Abel Mrs J Burrows (Woodd) Mrs F Clark (Mill) Dr J Davies (Dadds) Ms W Hellegouarc’h (Thomas) Mrs P Hooker (Warren) Mrs M Pedlar-Perks (Tillett) Mrs M Poole (Smith) Dr M Rossiter Dr F Simpson (Zuill) Lady Swinnerton-Dyer (H Browne) Mrs M Thorpe (Perry) Mrs R Treves Brown (Harding) Ms M Vincent Mrs K Wills (Wright) Class of 1957 Participation rate: 18.1% Anonymous Professor J Ashworth Dr M Davies (Owen) Mrs A Harris (Collis) Mrs J Hull (Mee) Mrs J Kenrick (Greaves) Mrs S Otty (Williams) Mrs V Roberts (Chapman) Miss M Smith Mrs J Tong (Creasey) Dr E Vinestock (Morrison) Mrs V Wood-Robinson (Ginman) Mrs P Youngman (Coates) Class of 1958 Participation rate: 26.9% Anonymous Mrs A Bean (Steer) Mrs J Blackburn (Saunders) Lady Brooke (B Kalaugher) Miss M Dyson Mrs A Eccles (Chib) The Revd Canon Dr R Edwards (Phillips) Mrs C Gascoigne (Ditchburn) and Mr B Gascoigne Lady Gass (E Acland-Hood) Mrs H Greenstock (Fellowes) Miss C Haworth Mrs J Hawtin (Knight) Mrs D Hobden (Hutchings) Mrs A Holland (Telling) Dr G Lachelin Mrs S Lawrence (Reeder) Dr J Lloyd (Muir-Smith) Ms R Niblett Mrs K Norman (Redwood) Mrs J Pardey (Stoker) Mrs S Pigott (Megaw) Ms C Pountney Dr J Rizvi (Clarke) Mrs R Ross (Fincher) Mrs C Stewart (Custance) Mrs B Stocks (Martin) Class of 1959 Participation rate: 27.4% Anonymous Mrs G Armitage (Dover) Mrs S Beasley (Brown) Dr M Bent (Bassington) Mrs D Boatman (Coles) Mrs G Chadwick (Offen) Dr E Courtauld (Molland) Mrs J Dandliker (Cheng) Dr A Deveson (Richards) Mrs S Diggle (Chapman)
Mrs C Doggart (Voute) Ms J Fairwood (Wood) Mrs A Foat (Goldup) Mrs V Hall (Heard) and Dr J Hall Mrs T Hawley (Ounsted) Mrs C Hopkins (Busbridge) Mrs K Lawther (Cameron) Mrs M Morgan (Stallard-Penoyre) Mrs H Nicholls (Cameron) Mrs J Paine (Smith) Mrs L Ruffe (Cuppage) Professor S Szuchet Mrs P Thompson (Reed) Mrs D Turner (Greenaway) Class of 1960 Participation rate: 20.0% Anonymous The 1960 Geographers in memory of Valerie Haynes (1960) Dr D Devlin Mrs L Eshag (Lewis) Mrs M Field (Chisholm) Mrs C Field (Lander) Mrs B Gardner (Brennan) Mrs F Hebditch (Davies) and Mr M Hebditch Dr A McDonald (Lamming) Miss F Mills Mrs E Siddall (Stone) Mrs U Sparrow (McDonnell) Mrs S Thomson (Dowty) Mrs J Thorpe (Oakley) Dr M Walmsley Dr R Warren (Copping) Ms C Webb Mrs M Woodall (Evans) Class of 1961 Participation rate: 21.7% Anonymous Mrs S Barkham (Ratcliffe) Mrs C Brack (Cashin) Mrs K Brind (Williams) Dr N Coldstream (Carr) Dr A Conyers (Williams) Mrs S Cox (Crombie) Mrs J de Swiet (Hawkins) Mrs C Kirkby (Billingham) Miss B Nevill Professor C Nyamweru (Washbourn) Mrs A Richards (Brown) Ms A Robertson Mrs L Scott-Joynt (White) Mrs R Sjolin (Brooking) Mrs S Smith (Jenkins) Mrs J Standage (Ward) Professor A Thompson Dr R Toms (Peregrine-Jones) Mrs G Verschoyle (Kent-Lemon) Mrs C White (Slade) Mrs S Wilson (Waller) Class of 1962 Participation rate: 19.2% Anonymous Dr J Bainbridge Mrs R Binney (Chanter) Mrs D Bond (MacFarlane) Dr J Dales (Parry) Miss A Darvall Mrs P Glanville (Fox-Robinson) Dr N Goradia (Daftary) Miss H Greig Mrs A Kobak
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The Countess of Sandwich (S Hayman) and The Rt Hon the Earl of Sandwich Dr R Morley (Doling) Mrs M Philip (Ferguson) Professor I Rivers (Haigh) Mrs B Salmon (Shaw) Miss P Simpson Mrs W Tucker (Jones) Mrs J Way (Whitehead) Class of 1963 Participation rate: 14.0% Anonymous Lady Atkinson (J Mandeville) Dr J Braid (Slater) Dr E Burroughs (Clyma) Mrs S Hill (Gleeson-White) Mrs L Jones (Smith) Mrs C Lane (Emus) Mrs H Langslow (Addison) Mrs B Mansell (Wulff) Mrs M Stoney (Wild) Dr P Taylor (Francis) Class of 1964 Participation rate: 16.0% Anonymous Ms N Acland (Gatley) Mrs C Ansorge (Broadbelt) Mrs C Beasley-Murray (Griffiths) The Rev A Bradbrook (Turner) Miss D Crowder Ms I Freebairn Dr S Hewlett Dr S Hollingshead-Fox (Hollingshead) Ms V Horsler (Sheen) Mrs D Magor (Haynes) Mrs J McManus (Edwards) Dr R Osmond (Beck) Dr H Robinson (Taylor) Miss J Soulsby Mrs C Thorp (Kenyon) Ms G Turton Class of 1965 Participation rate: 15.7% Anonymous Mrs J Campbell-Howes (Oliver) Miss M Creer Mrs P Eaton (Mills) Dr A Ferraro (Condon) Ms J Gardiner Dr J Mallison (Hallowes) Dr R Page (Wright) Mrs F Phillips (Cargin) Mrs P Sharp (Monach) Professor A Sinclair (Lees) Mrs F Summers (Halestrap) Professor V van Heyningen (Daniel) Mrs M Watkins (O’Dowd) Mrs G Webster (Runnicles) Mrs D Wells (Bousfield) Class of 1966 Participation rate: 14.7% Anonymous Mrs L Andrews (Scott) Dr E Capewell (Aldridge) Miss F Corrie Mrs L Curgenven (Charlton) Mrs H Davies (Waters) Dr R Downing (Cottrell) Professor A Finch Mrs B Hird (Holden) and Mr A Hird Miss M Leeson
Dr A Lishman Miss D Millward Dr R Smith (Loewenthal) Class of 1967 Participation rate: 11.5% Anonymous Dr A Baldwin (Barber) Dr B Castleton (Smith) Dr P Chadwick Mrs L Chesneau (Jacot) Dr E Emerson Dr P Ford Mrs J Lloyd (Pawson) Mrs D McAndrew (Harrison) Mrs S Mead (Damms) Mrs B Moran (Jones) Mrs A Rowe (Helliwell) Class of 1968 Participation rate: 20.1% Anonymous Dr A Blackburn Dr L Braddock Mrs V Challacombe (Brousson) Mrs H Chown (Benians) Ms J Crimmin Dr K Crocker (Tombs) Dr J Cross Miss S Cubitt Dr H Falk Ms H Goy (Corke) Dr G Harte Professor R Jenkins (McDougall) Ms E Klingaman Mrs D Knight (Watson) Dr M Lovatt (Screech) Ms H Mandleberg Dr A McLean Ms J Mercer (Clarke) Ms S Minter Mrs S Penfold (Marshall) Professor H Ritvo Mrs F Oates Dr F Smith (Rankin) Mrs H Swallow (Symes) Ms J Thompson Class of 1969 Participation rate: 19.2% Anonymous Dr C Bell (Howe) Miss S Blacker (Brenton) Mrs R Dickens (De Courcy) Ms M Friend Dr A Griffin (Ryder) Mrs S Hinkley (Booth) Mrs M Innes (Woods) Professor K Khaw Mrs M Lewis (Powell) Dr G Monsell (Thomas) Professor E Nesbitt Professor M Fowler Mrs Z Skinner (Jones) Dr B Taylor (Slimming) Mrs C Tongue (Gwilliam) Mrs K Ward (Mee) Mrs S Watson (Head) Dr J Wilson (Trotter) Mrs M Winfield (Richards) Ms C Wright
Class of 1970 Participation rate: 11.4% Anonymous Mrs C Avery Jones (Bobbett) Miss A Bell Mrs A Brackley (Butler) Ms C Bradley Mrs B Coulson (Chambers) Professor Dame A Dowling Ms E Guppy Dr J Harper (Sykes) Professor M Haycock Miss L Howie Miss P Mander Ms R Martin Dr J Melia (Gibson) Mrs S Moore (Third) Dr M Mountford (Gamble) Ms J Nockolds Dr R Siddals Class of 1971 Participation rate: 10.8% Anonymous Dr H Caldwell (Burtenshaw) Mrs V Chiesa (Wilkie) Dr A Cobby Mrs A Cowley (Bazin) Miss L Fluker The Revd C Hetherington (Bourne) Mrs K Jenkins (Kubikowski) The Revd K Kirby Mrs J McKnight (Ruddle) Dr K Morgan (Moore) Dr E O’Keefe (Robinson) Miss J Palmer Dr H Taylor Mrs J Tierney (Briggs) Mrs G Waters (Cutmore) Dr S Wright (Heywood) Class of 1972 Participation rate: 12.5% Anonymous Mrs H Asbury (Jephcott) Mrs J Bell (Spurgin) Ms S Dawson Dr A Edmonds Miss G Edwards Ms J Hanna Ms A Hey Ms B Hines (Fejtek) Mrs E Hope (Bentley) Ms C Koning Mrs A Molloy (Taylor) Dr A Overzee (Hunt) Miss S Pargeter Ms V Platt Mrs D Reynolds (Bevin) Mrs C Stoker (Porter) and Mr A Stoker Mrs C Turner (Ogle) Mrs S Walker (Wren) Mrs R Whatmore (Robertson) Professor J Winch Class of 1973 Participation rate: 9.5% Anonymous Mrs A Bamforth (Burgess) Mrs G Bargery (Hetherington) Dr M Davies Dr L Dumbreck (Devlin) Mrs B Ford (Seeley) Dr S Jones Mrs V Knight (Hammerton)
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Dr A Lyon (Butland) Mrs N Miller (Thomas) Dr A Owen Mrs A Stainsby (Sutton) Dr S Tilby (Wharton) Ms P Wade (Wellburn) Class of 1974 Participation rate: 13.8% Anonymous Lady Baker (H Sharrock) Mrs M Bonsall (Shaw) Mrs C Borrill (Pateras) Dr J Clayton (Gardner) Mrs M Craig (MacCoby) Dr S Dyson Miss D Farley Dr E French (Jacques) Ms J Fuller Ms E Hanson (Robinson) Mrs A Jackson (Jones) Dr D Lamb Mrs C Mitcheson (Ramshaw) Ms M Morris Mrs F Morris (Milner) Dr C Morrison (Page) Miss K Refson Miss A Rhodes Mrs C Robertson (Derbyshire) Dr H Trusted Dr R Whaley Mrs A Whipp (Smith) Class of 1975 Participation rate: 17.0% Anonymous Ms F Anderson (Wells-Thorpe) Dr S Black (Hollis) Miss F Boyers Ms G Carey Mrs S Chamberlain (Rigby) Dr J Coates (Whatley) Ms A Davidson (Jones) Mrs S Finlay (Perry) Dr M Jubb Ms C Kerridge Dr G Kilner (Benbow) Miss J Mann Mrs S Mead (Chan) Dr R Nye (Painter) Mrs S Palmer (Hull) Her Honour Judge I Parry Dr R Rayner (Talbot) Mrs N Richardson (Clark) Mrs J Robertson (Dowie) Dr K Saunders Professor S Springman Miss A Stebbing Professor P Tyrrell Ms F Werge Class of 1976 Participation rate: 17.5% Anonymous Dr C Anderson (Aston) Dr C Bryce (Ford) Mrs P Cakebread (James) Mrs A Collier (Fowler) and Mr R Collier Mrs L Davies (Cooper) Dr B Mensch and Mr M Evans Ms J Ferrans Ms D Fuertes (Bartelt) Mrs A Jenkinson (Sims) Mrs S Jones (Wallace) Mrs E Jones (Dando)
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Miss M Knowles Dr C Leith (Bruck) Mrs S Maunder (McVicar) Mrs G Millinger (Aston) Mrs S Morgan (Richardson) Ms H Morrison Ms S Riedhammer (Sharp) Dr A Roberts Dr C Robinson Dr Y Roe Mrs M Rutterford (Williamson) Dr S Seymour (Taylor) Mrs A Shrubshall (Horton) The Revd Dr S Singer (Kent) Mrs J Smallwood (Smith) Miss E Wade Mrs H Wright (Peacock) Class of 1977 Participation rate: 16.7% Anonymous Mrs S Ballingall (Sampson) Dr P Boston Mrs C Bromhead (Smith) Dr C Brown Mrs J Collyer (Kiwana) Mrs A Coulton (McWatters) Dr C Davis Dr R Dyer (Snelling) Ms R Evans Miss A Griffiths Mrs C Hesketh (Castle) Ms R Jones Mrs N King (Cowell) Mrs N Lanaghan (Hamilton-Russell) Dr L Pillidge (Robinson) Mrs L Rackham (Spurgin) Professor S Rowland-Jones Mrs B Schouten (Edwards) Mrs P Somervell (Holt) Professor H Thomas Mrs L Turner (Gemmell) Mrs G White (Lupton) Mrs J Wiggett (Tyler) Ms S Woodall Mrs G Woon (Doubleday) Class of 1978 Participation rate: 18.5% Anonymous Mrs R Anderson (Naish) and Mr J Anderson Mrs C Bailey (Crick) Dr M Chambers Mrs S Conolly (Ruch) The Rev Dr M De Quidt (Williamson) Mrs G Dodd (Andrewes) Ms J Elton Professor C Ennew Mrs N Fielding (Creedy) Mrs A Ford (Prescott) Mrs A Francis (Fairbairn) Mrs J George (Peterson) Ms G Hammond Ms A Harding (Moore) Mrs A Higgs (Beynon) Ms B Hill Dr I Howlett (Shaw) Ms K Knight Ms H Lim (Tan) Mrs A Masters (Elms Neale) Dr J Mitchell (Stebbing) Dr A Mynors-Wallis (Lloyd-Thomas) Mrs S O’Mahony (Bigg) Mrs S Routledge (Blythe) Dr A Streetly Ms S Tate
Lady Turing (N Simmonds) Miss A Weitzel Mrs L Wortley (Greenhalgh) Class of 1979 Participation rate: 17.3% Anonymous Ms J Caddick (Roberts) Mr N Campbell Dr T Child (Skeggs) Mrs K Clay (Swift) Mrs J Clough (Richardson) Dr I Cooke Mrs J Edis (Askew) Mr J Ford Dr A Gemmill Mr J Gower Ms S Haggard Dr S Hales Miss J Hewett-Cooney (Hewett) Ms S Hewin Miss L Jerram Professor K Kong Mrs M Lewis (Wallington) Mr J Longstaff Dr J Martin (Hewitt) Mr N Pears Dr D Poole Professor M Power Mr S Prew Mr S Richardson The Rev E Robertson (Savage) Ms V Ryan Dr P Schaffner and Ms P Schaffner Mrs A Sheil (Simpson) Mrs S Waller (Skelland) Mrs F Weston (Simpson) Dr C Young Class of 1980 Participation rate: 17.9% Anonymous Miss M Archer Mr P Berg Dr H Blackburn (Egan) Mrs L Bowen (Dennis) Mr P Burren Mr J Doyle Professor M Fewtrell Mr S Firth Mrs A Fyffe Reverend S Gill Ms S Hall (Hetherington) Mr D Hollingworth Mrs S Lancashire (Marr) Dr N Land Dr I Laurenson Mr C Milne Dr W Munro Mrs K Pugh (Burton) Mr D Recaldin Mr Y N Tan Mr I Teague Mr N H Tio Ms P Treacy Dr C Vize Mrs H Wilderspin (Chatters) Dr R Wrigley Class of 1981 Participation rate: 10.7% Anonymous Mrs A Carboni (Young) Mr G Counsell and Ms A Reece (1981) Dr P Hammond
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Mr N Harvey Mrs R Hyde (Riley) Mr A Lane Mrs Y Maxtone-Smith (Maxtone-Graham) Mr R McAllister Mr J Okin Mr P Patel Ms F Smith Mrs R Stileman (Cremer) Mrs A Whitaker (Rundle) Mr P Yennadhiou Class of 1982 Participation rate: 9.1% Anonymous Mrs K Ames (Healey) Professor J Cassell Ms L Davy Mr P Fitzalan Howard Mrs S Hood (Probert) Mrs K Ip (Jopson) The Revd Canon Professor C Methuen Mr S Namasivayam Professor C Proudman and Miss S Major (1982) Miss M Quinn Mrs J Raffle (Lobell) Mr H Roberts Ms L Simpson Mr A Simpson Class of 1983 Participation rate: 5.9% Anonymous Mrs Y Benoit (Pyndiah) Mr C Gibbs Mr L Høegh Dr J Holt Professor M Lindsay Mr C Main Ms C Orchard (Brind) Mr J Pike Mrs R Rawnsley (Schofield) Ms F Van Dijk Mr D Wittmann and Mrs S Wittmann (Abesser) (1983) Class of 1984 Participation rate: 6.9% Anonymous Mr P Cameron Ms L Cattermole Watkins (Cattermole) Dr T Crickmore (Bartram) Professor M Gale Mr A Jackson Mr C Mok Mrs D Morrison (Restall) and Mr A Morrison (1985) Dr L Power Ms H Strong Mr M Walker Mr P Williams Class of 1985 Participation rate: 12.4% Anonymous Dr S Bankes (Thorniley) Dr C Bradley Mr P Bream and Mrs J Bream (Sharp) (1988) Mrs H Butler (Penfold) Dr D Cara and Dr M Cara (Blake) (1985) Dr H Chan Mrs K Collins (Scrivener) Mrs P Considine Mrs A Davies-Jones (King)
Mr J Gooch Ms M Hackett Mr M Hanson Mr F Heng Dr R Hyde Mrs R Lewis (Davies) Mrs S Parton (Reid) and Mr J Parton (1984) Mr T Ramoutar Ms P Roberts Dr D Smith Mrs E Strachan (Hill) Mr G Whiley Miss S Williams Mr C Woodford Class of 1986 Participation rate: 10.7% Anonymous Mrs D Banerji (Urwin) Mr K Chan Mrs S Croft (White) Dr S Edwards Mr D Fielding Mr G Freeman Mr S Haywood-Ward Ms C Liassides Dr S Lishman Mr A Pymer and Dr C Wernham (1986) Mr R Rayward Dr P Shah Mrs A Sharp (‘de Labauve d’Arifat) Dr W Simonson Dr N Storer Dr W Tam Mr S Walker Dr E Wang Class of 1987 Participation rate: 6.7% Anonymous Mr M Anderson Mr T Britton Mr S Close Ms R Jayasundera and Mr R Day (1987) Dr L Fallon Mr K Galloway Mr P Groombridge Dr R Makarem Mr M Marcel Mr A Vaughan Ms J Wilson (Hainsworth) Class of 1988 Participation rate: 10.2% Anonymous Ms C Bardon (Heslop) Ms A Bown Ms A Gamble (Bell) Ms F Graham Mr G Green Mr M Hutt Dr J Malt Dr J Marshall Ms K McEvoy Mr R Moss Mr M O’Brien Mrs A Orsi (Knight) Dr J Rippin Mrs G Riviere (Pollard) Mr J Short Ms J Sundaralingam Mr J Taylor Mr J Tothill Ms A Young
Class of 1989 Participation rate: 10.6% Anonymous Dr C Allen (Murray) Dr D Bell Mr A Betton Miss J Buck Mrs N Bush (Seed) Mrs R Cowin (Clark) Dr M de Miranda Mr J Goodman Mr D Henderson Mr J Howling Ms S Jones (Griffith) Mr B Joshi Dr J Outram Ms N Guest and Mr D Riddell Mr A Ridley Ms C Rushton Mrs C Seward (Stanley) Class of 1990 Participation rate: 7.1% Anonymous Mr S Beale Mr M Hallett Mrs G McPherson (Hunter) Miss V Milner Mr J Moffett Mrs G Motte (Crowley) Mr D Poppleton Dr K Rutherford and Dr S Rutherford (Whitby) (1990) Dr M Stidworthy Mr T Taylor Ms L Wagner Class of 1991 Participation rate: 10.7% Anonymous Mrs K Bass (Newbury) Mr S Bradley Mr M Davidson Mr D Germain Mr R Goodhead Dr G Hamilton Dr S Hayward Mr P James Ms C Kendal (Currie) Mrs S Maltarp (Boswell) Mrs P Martin (Hall) Mr R Mun Dr D Ramm Mr J Rouse Mr T Southern Mr A Taylor and Mrs J Taylor (Byrne) (1990) Dr S Wallace Class of 1992 Participation rate: 7.7% Anonymous Dr S Aguilar Mr D Batchelor Mr R Bradford Mr C Carter Miss N Cleal Mr J Geston Mr O Haffenden Mr K Limbajee Mr J Marsh Mr A McCready Mr R Paterson Mr A Poulson Dr U Sharan Dr C Themans-Warwick (Warwick)
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Dr D Thurley Class of 1993 Participation rate: 9.4% Anonymous Mr G Arnold Mr T Barnes Mr W Collins Dr A Curry Mr I Furlonger Mrs S Galbraith (Smith) Ms R Kerr Mr K Meghjee Mrs C Moore (Hemsworth) Mr J O’Sullivan Mrs S Parsons (Relf) Mr V Rawal Mr N Sartain Mr D Semal Mr H Stokes Mrs A Tobin Mr G Williams Class of 1994 Participation rate: 7.6% Anonymous Mr N Baker Dr A Blaxter Paliwala Dr T Courtney Mr C Hulatt Dr A Kells Mr T Kyriakoudis Mr P Mason Ms C Maugham (Hibbitt) Mr L McLernon Mr S Payne Mr E Pugh Dr G Somayajula (Bradbury) Mr H Thomas Mrs A Thomas (Disbury) Mr B West and Mrs E West (Kelley) (1994) Class of 1995 Participation rate: 7.1% Anonymous Mr T Boughton Mr S Davidson Mr A Every Miss A Jacobs Mr L John Mrs M Miksch White Mr P Ryland Dr L Shaw Dr A Thurrell
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Class of 1998 Participation rate: 9.4% Anonymous Miss K Clark Mr P Cornmell Dr T Craggs Mr G Dobson and Mrs A Dobson (Ambrose) (1999) Mrs P Frowde (Barclay) Mr J Gilberthorpe Mrs S Holt (Merrigan) Ms K Kennedy (Laver) Mr J Parker Miss R Pope Mr G Redman Mrs C Smith (Thomas) Ms V Stevens Ms K Tymieniecka Mr J Vali Mr J Woolf Class of 1999 Participation rate: 9.0% Miss L Bullock Mrs R Cole Miss T Collier Mr J Cooper-Colliander (Cooper) Dr E Cornwall Mr J Dunham Mrs S Edward-Jenks (Catling) Mr D Emmens Mr A Holland and Mrs K Holland (Crosby) (1999) Dr N Jennings Mr P Marshall Mr J Morgan Mrs R Morris (Bowes) Dr R Orr Mr E Owles Mrs C Paine (Andrade) Miss N Rump Dr G Williams
Class of 1996 Participation rate: 9.1% Anonymous Mr Louis Altman Dr L Bannister Dr K Best (Smith) Miss C Chan Mr M Cobley Mr J Follett Miss A Gee Mr P Glover Mr S Ho Miss L James Mrs H Mackinlay (Bradley) Mr O Ming Mr D Rhys Mrs B Richards (Goodridge) Ms C Roberts Mr R Smith
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Class of 1997 Participation rate: 14.0% Anonymous Miss L Allen Mr J Anthony-Edwards (Anthony) Ms K Bana Mr P Beer Miss M Bingham-Walker Mr E Buckley Dr E Butterworth Mr C Cheung Mr A Chisholm Ms E Cox Mr M Cullingford Mr E Gatfield Mrs C Gruffudd Jones (Mulliss) Mr R Hakes Mr P Hall Dr J Hawes and Mrs C Hawes (Slevin) (1997) Mrs A James Mrs H Morrison (Sheard) Mr T Murphy Mr J Naylor Mrs E O’Reilly (Reynolds) Mr N Robinson Mr P Rutland Dr J Schonfield Dr M Shaw-Champion Mr M Sidhom Ms J Smith Mr C Tuohy Miss L Walker
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Class of 2000 Participation rate: 8.1% Anonymous Mrs C Bright (Wright) Mr C Caulkin Mr I Deacon Mrs P Heasman-Walsh (Heasman) Mrs C Hempsall (Dovey) Mr T Kerswill Miss K Kneller Miss A Lawrence Mr J Panchaud Dr H Park Dr M Proven (Wilson) Mr G Sankar Dr D Smith Mr T Sneddon Mr B Speight and Mrs H Speight (Haggie) (2000) Mr T Wey Class of 2001 Participation rate: 11.3% Anonymous Mrs K Byrne (Farmer) Miss B Cain Mr D Cash Miss S Daniell Ms K Davis Miss R Dyer Mr T Elliott Miss K Ellison Mrs A Gaston (Sharma) Mr P Hempsall Mrs C Holman (Mott) Dr U Inamete Mr J Knibbs and Mrs R Knibbs (Sutherland) (2001) Mr J Meenowa Mr T Mosher Ms E Navasargian Mr S Rath Dr D Stretton (Marshall) Dr H Trees and Mrs M Baljekar-Trees (Baljekar) (2000) Mr R Wright Class of 2002 Participation rate: 10.9% Anonymous Mr J Beeson Dr D Black Miss G Bryce Mrs G Chen Miss H Craik Mr D Das Mr S de Haas Mr A Drysdale Mr T Elson Dr G Gnanakumaran Mr J Hogg Mrs P Hook (Tudor) Mr T Houlton Mr K Merrett Ms A Outhwaite Mrs A Pacitti (Riddoch) Dr K Ponomareva Mr M Schneider Mr O Shave Miss S Stewart Mr J Turner Mr S West Mrs L Wherity (Hare) Mr T Yates
Donors
Class of 2003 Participation rate: 6.3% Anonymous Mr A Darnton Miss A Goddard Mr M Hughes Mr A Kumar Dr H Liu Mr P Man Dr S May Mrs C Murrells (Clifton) and Mr J Murrells (2003) Mrs S Saeed (Adam) Mr B Stimmler Dr M White Class of 2004 Participation rate: 7.8% Anonymous Mr M Beckett Mr M Birmingham Mrs E Bridge (Kawashima) Mr D Deitz Mr R Durkin Mr V Handa Mr A Leung and Miss V Moss (2004) Mr O Lewis Mr P Martin Mr S Murray Dr E Owen Dr I Sides Mr A Stanchina Mr J Waiting Dr L Walker Dr D Wang Mr K Wong Class of 2005 Participation rate: 12.6% Anonymous Mr J Anderson Mr L Andrews Miss D Bradley Miss K Caro Dr N Culshaw Mr C Donnelly Mr M Eaton Mr Markus Forsman Mrs K Gosling (Below) and Mr M Gosling Mr P Hall Mr L Jones Miss C Kellas Miss M Lavin Mr E Livingston Mr S Mutter Mrs J Naseman (Bromage) and Mr B Naseman (2007) Miss C Nichols Mr R O’Brien Mr W Prior Dr D Rees Mr D Ryder-Cook Mr R Sands Miss K Scotter Mrs J Sheard (Gulliver) Dr R Stutt Dr W Szlachta Mr W Walters Class of 2006 Participation rate: 10.6% Anonymous Mr R Ahmed Ms E Alekseeva Mr N Anandakumar
Miss R Anthony Mr S Antill Dr A Baxter (Brown-Kerr) Mr M Beevor and Mrs L Beevor (Foan) (2007) Mr M Butler Mr S Cowen Mr J Gray Miss N Hamilton Ms J Harries Mr J Hosier Miss L Iredale Mr C Johnston Mr O Patey Mr B Ramsay Mrs K Russell (Tinslay) Mr A Stockler Mr B Travers Mr H Wong Class of 2007 Participation rate: 8.8% Anonymous Mr C Ainsworth-Patrick Miss E Bowen Miss S Chidlaw Miss F Dickinson Mr T Gault Mr S Hayes Mr A Higginson Mr T Ithell Miss R Langton Miss J Nutter Mr O Nzelu Miss S Rodriguez Mr A Smith Miss R Smith Mr B Treloar Mr C Wiltsche Mr A Young Class of 2008 Participation rate: 8.5% Anonymous Mr J Brighton Mr E Button Mr M Duyzend Miss A Eades Miss N Epaminonda Mr L Fletcher Miss C Ford Mr C Kelly Mr C Lynn Mr J McKeown Mr N Mead Mr R Patel Miss H Phillips Miss C Rogerson Mr O Russell Mr G Shankar Mr J Smith Mr D Spencer Mr J Wong Mr P Woollins Class of 2009 Participation rate: 6.5% Anonymous Miss N Baroudi Mr P Brook Miss R Butterfill Mr P Chand-Bajpai Mr S Hart and Ms L Hassell (2009) Mr T Hellier Mr K Hughes Dr K Humphris
Miss M Kang Mr S Probyn Mr J Streather Class of 2010 Participation rate: 6.4% Anonymous Dr I Beh Mrs K Green (Walton) Dr A Guzman de la Fuente Ms M Johnson Mr B Katz-Crowther (Katz) Ms T Pan Mr J Royle and Mrs L Royle (Hollwey) (2010) Mr C Scutt Dr A Stead Mr M Thoma Mr P Thompson Miss E Walters Class of 2011 Participation rate: 5.1% Anonymous Mr A Adeoye Mr R Bhopal Mrs C Bingham (Booker) Mr T Dawson Mr C Fletcher Miss A Johnston Miss S Oram Dr T Ottersen Mr T Shao Mr J Tong Mr S Xie Mr I Yate Class of 2012 Miss H Davies Miss E Dixon Miss I Fuell Mr M Harry Mr J Murphy Mr S Rayner Mr I Savitsky Mr P Thomson Class of 2013 Mr C Jing Class of 2014 Mr A Ali Fellows1, staff and supporters Professor P Abrahams Dr D Barden Dr V Bennett Mr D Berman and Mrs D Berman Mr A Blake Mr P Briggs Mrs J Campbell Professor G Constable (in memory of Helen Cam 1921) Dr P Dagley and the Dagley Family (in memory of Mary Dagley (Meynell) 1947) Dr S Davis Dr J Harker Dr E Hart Mr G Jones Dr T Kittel and Ms G Kittel (in memory of Muriel Kittel (Lister) 1934) Ms D Lowther Ms F Malarée and Mr R Wielechowski (2002) Dr J Marks Professor G McGrath and family in memory of Joan McGrath (Kerr) 1950’
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Mr M Mesquita da Cunha and Ms C Cardon de Lichtbuer Dr H Mills Ms A Mitchell (in memory of Christine Fox) Mr M Morgan Dr J Moyes (Paul) and Mr J Moyes Professor D North Mr O Padel Mr N Peacock Mr R Reinfrank Ms J Reynolds Professor J Runde
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Mr D Shelley Mrs P Smith Mr A Smith Mrs J Varney Mr J Wallace Mr W Walters Ms J Wilkinson Mr P Wilson Organisations Cambridge Local Girton Association Easy Fundraising
HM Government Matched Funding London Girton Association Robert Barr Charitable Trust The Fuel Trading Co Ltd
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Who are not also alumni
Meet the Team The Development Director, Deborah Easlick, is responsible for the College’s Development Campaign, long-term fundraising strategy, major giving and all aspects of College alumni relations and development. Deborah would be happy to hear from you if you would like to know more about A Great Campaign. She can be contacted at d.easlick@girton.cam.ac.uk or on +44 (0)1223 339893. Our Alumni and Legacy Officer, Emma Cornwall, oversees the College’s alumni events and communications, and supports Girton’s various alumni associations. Emma is also responsible for the College’s legacy-giving programme. Contact Emma if you want to find out more about any of our alumni relations activities or if you are thinking about leaving a legacy to the College. Emma can be reached on e.cornwall@girton.cam.ac.uk or +44 (0)1223 338901. Our Development Manager is Susie Bromwich. As an ambassador for A Great Campaign, Susie is contacting Girton’s wider community in support of the Campaign’s next phase, focusing on major giving. Together with the team, her work will also involve plans for the 150th celebrations in 2019. Susie can be reached on
s.bromwich@girton.cam.ac.uk or +44 (0)1223 338992. Hannah James, Development Officer, is responsible for all aspects of gift administration. She also conducts background research for development campaigns and alumni events. Hannah can be contaced at h.james@girton. cam.ac.uk or +44 (0)1223 766672. Anne Greenwood, Development Officer, manages the busy administrative hub of the office. She is also the PA to the Development Director and will be assisting with our anniversary plans and events. Anne can be contacted on a.greenwood@girton.cam.ac.uk or +44 (0)1223 764821. Tamsin Elbourn-Onslow, Development Officer, manages Girton’s Annual Fund giving which includes the Telephone Campaign, and is responsible for the organisation of Development events. She can be contacted at, t.elbourn@girton.cam. ac.uk or on +44 (0)1223 765685. Ingrid Koning is our Development Assistant and assists with all aspects of our many alumni and supporters’ events, as well as keeping the database up to date and providing administrative support to the office. Ingrid can be
reached on alumni@girton.cam.ac.uk +44 (0)1223 764935.
Deborah Easlick
Susie Bromwich
Emma Cornwall
Anne Greenwood
Hannah James
Ingrid Koning
Tamsin ElbournOnslow
How we use your data We are committed to protecting your personal information and being transparent about what information we hold. The information you provide to the College, together with publicly available data, will be held and processed in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998. The data will not be circulated in any other way without your permission. Girton College likes to keep in touch with all our alumni and supporters and the data provided will be used by the College for alumni relations and fundraising purposes. These may include publications, alumni surveys, appeals and the marketing of alumni events and services. Communications may be sent by post, telephone or electronic means. You have the right to object to the use of your data for any of the above purposes and you can opt out of all communications from the College by contacting the Development Office: development@girton.cam.ac.uk or +44 (0)1223 766672. Please read our full data protection statement for alumni and supporters at: www.girton.cam.ac.uk/alumni-andsupporters-data-protection
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Events Calendar 2018 Details of all events are available by emailing development@girton.cam.ac.uk or by visiting the Alumni and Supporters section of the College’s website www.girton.cam.ac.uk
Friday 6 April
Saturday 22 September
Girton College
Girton College
MA Dinner
People’s Portraits Reception
Saturday 7 April
Saturday 22 September
MA Congregation
Roll of Alumni Weekend Concert
Girton College
Girton College
Friday 27 April
Saturday 22 September
Spring Gardens Walk
Roll of Alumni Dinner including the reunion for those who matriculated in 1958, 1968, 1978, 1983–85
Girton College
Thursday 3 May
Girton College
Girton College
Sunday 23 September
Jane Martin Poetry Prize Gardens Talk
Thursday 17 May
Girton College
Cambridge
Saturday 13 October
Alumni Formal Hall Commemoration of Benefactors and Foundation Dinner
Saturday 16 June
May Bumps Marquee and Boat Club Dinner
Girton College
Cambridge
Tuesday 16 October
Autumn Gardens Walk
Tuesday 19 June
Girton College
Girton College
Thursday 25 October
May Week Concert
Alumni Formal Hall Girton College
Saturday 23 June
Benefactors’ Garden Party Girton College
Saturday 15 September
1997–99 and 2008 Reunion Dinner Girton College
Saturday 22 September Library Talk
Girton College
Saturday 22 September Lawrence Room Talk Girton College
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