Spring 2015 Development Newsletter

Girton Development Newsletter of Girton College, Cambridge

newsletter Spring 2015

In this issue...

Message from the Mistress The Mistress, Professor Susan J. Smith FBA writes.

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Our Financial Report A look at the financial health of the College.

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A Great Campaign Securing a sustainable future for the College.

Editor Elizabeth Wade Deputy Editor Emma Cornwall Design www.cantellday.co.uk

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Creating a Legacy A commitment today to a gift for tomorrow will transform this unique institution.

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Alumni Interviews Three alumni talk about their time at Girton and beyond, and how they are giving back to the College.

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Donors to the College 2013-14 A list of those who have supported Girton in the last financial year.

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The Editor would like to thank many colleagues, and particularly Cherry Hopkins OBE, for their support in the production of the Development Newsletter.

Introduction

Message from the Mistress Professor Susan J. Smith FBA

As 2015 gathers speed, I am conscious at every turn of the energy injected into Girton's academic year by the generosity of our alumni and friends. I routinely meet brilliant students whose lives have been transformed by the bursary schemes that you have helped create. I see evidence every day of the passion for learning that the supervision system encourages, and I am mindful that this intensive style of small group teaching is staffed by world-class academics whose positions are underwritten by your gifts to this College.

I am lucky enough to be invited to myriad sports matches, musical and dramatic performances, and subject society activities throughout the academic year. These events are very often inspired by your donations, and they enable Girton to add breadth as well as depth to the world of higher education. I share the enthusiasm of students as they work towards communications, sporting, choral and instrumental prizes, and I am proud of those who secure prestigious scholarships and exhibitions. All of these rely on gifts to our various endowment funds, none of which would exist without you.

I know that I speak for the Fellows, students and staff of the College in conveying our heartfelt thanks.

As you might expect from the vibrant medley that is Girton today, there is a great deal of news. Consider, for example, our ongoing plans for the future of the estate. Following the successful completion of a new wing at Ash Court, and in light of the University’s developments in North West Cambridge, the College Council has commissioned a comprehensive estate planning exercise for the Girton site.

The whole College contributed to a

brainstorming exercise, which has produced a long and exciting wish list including: new study spaces, enhanced library facilities, the transformation of Old Hall, an all-day café, and a suite of refurbishment projects to improve the living and learning environment.

Informed by a team of expert advisors working with local planners, there has also been an exhaustive site survey, to identify areas where new buildings could be accommodated at Girton without compromising the open feel of the estate or the setting of the historic buildings. That is, without encroaching on the woodland walks, the orchard, the major sports pitches or the amenity value of the College.

These are early days, but we have already glimpsed some of the enticing possibilities which are being assembled into a long term master plan for the main site. These, it is hoped, will provide for the development needs of the College well into the present century.

The College Council is also considering the future of Wolfson Court which, surprising as it may seem, is already in its fifth decade. In recent years, ‘Wolfie’ has provided a residential and social base for

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Girton’s growing graduate school, while acting as a teaching hub and cafeteria facility for the whole College. A wide range of more and less radical possibilities for this site are under consideration.You can be sure that whatever the outcome, the future will be carefully planned and designed to support the thriving postgraduate and postdoctoral community that is such a central part of Girton today.

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I hope you will engage in these deliberations, and indeed participate in the wider activity-base of the College, as the academic year unfolds.

There are many ways to do this; see for inspiration the profiles of Carol Bell (1977), Guy O’Keefe (1990) and Elizabeth Werry (1955), later in this newsletter. However, may I also draw your attention to two new elements of A Great Campaign. Having listened to the views of several of you, we have added to our ‘giving circles’; with the Benslow Circle for those who pledge

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£5,000 over the life of the Campaign (named to recall the house in Hitchin that was home to the first five Girtonians) and Jubilee for those who pledge £50,000.

Most importantly for Girton’s long-term financial future we also plan to grow our legacy society, the 1869 Society.

Since the start of A Great Campaign the number of you who have advised us that they are leaving a legacy to the College has doubled to just over 200.

We are in touch with well over 9,000 alumni in all, so we hope that we can

persuade many more to help double the size of the 1869 Society on a regular basis! Every gift of any kind contributes a great deal to the rich heritage of this remarkable institution.

But as you will see from the article on legacy giving later in the newsletter, if you choose to remember the College in your Will, you can not only help us plan for financial sustainability, but play a lasting part in securing Girton’s central position on the international educational stage.

Financial Report

Our Financial Report Girton is one of the larger Cambridge colleges, with a thriving community of almost 1,000 students, Fellows and staff. It is, of course, costly to run an institution which adds value to all degrees, whilst supporting all-round personal development and encouraging students to reach their full potential.

Thus work continues across the College to improve our efficiency; our estate planning exercise, mentioned by the Mistress in her report, is an important part of that. Elsewhere we continue to focus on funding the shortfall between income and expenditure through the professional management of our investment portfolio, fundraising through our Development Office and building our conference and events business.

Our Financial Performance In 2013/14, Girton’s strategy of selling outlying student accommodation as part of the move to consolidate on the main College sites contributed £3.3 million to income. This had two effects: it enabled the College to record an overall profit of £2 million (against a loss of £810,000 in the previous year, and after depreciation). The monies were also one factor behind the increase in the net endowment and investment assets which rose from £38.6 million to £40.7 million.

However, while such capital transactions provide a welcome boost to the endowment, they do not help the College to balance its regular income and expenditure, which are influenced to a greater or lesser degree by external factors.

Consolidated Income and Expenditure 2013–2014

£14,000,000

£10,500,000

£7,000,000

£3,500,000

£0 Income

Expenditure

Asset Sale Income

Depreciation

Donation Income

Residences, Catering & Conferences Education

Investment Income Conference & Events Academic Residence & Catering Education

The College has five regular income streams: academic fees and charges, members’ residence and catering charges, the conference and events business, income from the endowment and investments, and donations.

The majority of academic fees are constrained by external policy. These constraints mean there is a shortfall between the income received from academic fees and the expenditure required to meet the costs of educating students. In 2013/14, overall, only 70% of educational costs were covered by academic income received, and for Home/EU undergraduates, that proportion falls to 57.5%.

The educational funding gap is, to a greater or lesser extent, repeated across collegiate Cambridge and the challenge is to bridge that gap. Typically in the case of longer-established Cambridge colleges, investment income earned on their endowment and investment assets can comfortably meet any shortfall. Girton’s endowment and investment assets are of a reasonable absolute size compared to many colleges’, however on a per student basis there are only 11 of 31 colleges with less endowment per student than Girton, hence our challenge to bridge the shortfall.

Members’ residence and catering charges are influenced to a degree by market forces but also by the College’s policy of charging the same for all undergraduates regardless of the room’s size, location and amenities. This policy is reflective of the College ethos and supported by students and the Fellowship but is nonetheless costly.

In common with most providers of higher education, the College runs a conference and events business to cover its fixed costs, generate additional income and enable our buildings, accommodation and grounds to be used by others as an extension of the learning experience offered by the

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College. Conferences and events provided a gross income of £800,000 in 2013/14.

Investment income earned on our endowment contributed £1.4 million to overall income during the year. In the year to June 30th, 2014 the portfolio returned 7.8% (2013: 6.9%).

The return objectives of the portfolio reflect its management to maximise long-term total returns while seeking to control volatility and safeguard declines in value. In addition to the proceeds from the sale of houses and hostels mentioned above, donations and bequests totalling £505,000 were added to the endowment during the year. Donations contributed a further £879,000 to income.

together allow us to raise around £1 million each and every year. Girton is also grateful to its major donors; major donations, although by their very nature less frequent, have allowed us to deliver a very significant boost to income received in recent years.

Fundraising – Income Received 2006-2014

£4,000,000

£3,000,000

Focus on Fundraising

£2,000,000

£1,000,000

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Donations between £1 – £100k Of which legacies

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The table shows the amount of income raised through fundraising over the last eight years, a total of £15.3 million.

In particular it shows the vital importance to the College of legacies and the steady stream of donations – many the result of the telethon or generous regular giving by donors – that

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Almost one in five Girtonians made a donation to the College in 2013/14. Although we have a little way to go to get to the one in four achieved by Cambridge’s most successful fundraising colleges, your donations have put us well ahead of the Cambridge average of 13% when it comes to the proportion giving. Over the last five years the number of Girtonians that we are in touch with has risen by 12% to around 9,400 but donors among you have risen at twice this rate. We are extremely grateful to alumni and friends for this support which is vital to the College.

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A Great Campaign Launched in 2012 in the run up to our 150th anniversary in 2019 and with a target of £50 million, A Great Campaign is Girton’s most ambitious fundraising campaign yet. It is a sizeable goal by the standards of any charity and particularly a charity in the higher education sector. However our plans are ambitious, as we aim to secure the future of Girton for generations, allowing them to benefit as we did from all that the College has to offer. Our target seeks to raise funds through a mixture of donations and legacy pledges. To date the Campaign has raised close to £8 million of donations and we have been notified of a further £11 million of legacy pledges. This is a tremendous achievement, and we feel certain that with the growing support of our alumni and friends our target is achievable.

What is it for?

We continue to focus our energies on fundraising to secure a sustainable financial future, through adding to the unrestricted general endowment. This is the most important way in which you can support the College, as funds donated to the endowment allow the Fellowship to direct the monies to where they are most needed. As an integral part of our campaign for financial sustainability, funding for student support and achievement remains crucial across a wide range of areas. We also continue to raise money for our Teaching Support Fund to underpin scholarly excellence, in particular supporting College teaching officers in our core subjects.

A Great Campaign for Financial Sustainability Unrestricted General Endowment Girton maintains long standing core values of equality, diversity and academic excellence, and is a large and vibrant community underpinned by its endowment. However we are operating on an endowment which, on a perstudent basis, is around one third of the Cambridge average. This is partly a function of our history; we are a relatively young college, that grew in size during the twentieth century to meet the needs

of the large number of talented women applying to Cambridge (noting of course that we have been fully mixed since 1979). To ensure we can attract the top students and give them access to the best that a Cambridge education can offer we must continue to bolster our endowment.

To date we have raised £5.8 million towards our target of £20 million for the unrestricted general endowment.

Last year’s telephone campaign brought us one step closer to securing our future with around half of the alumni called directing their gifts towards the fund, and our key priority in the lead up to our 150th anniversary is to increase its power and reach. By giving to the General Endowment Fund you will be allowing us to direct your support to where it is most needed, thus ensuring the continuity of a transformative educational establishment in an otherwise uncertain future. Most of our major donors and the majority of those leaving a legacy also chose to donate to this fund.

Undergraduate and Graduate Bursaries With an increased focus across Cambridge on the graduate community Girton saw a rise of around 20% this year in the demand for graduate places. However the support that has

been put in place for graduates by the government, the University and the College is not as substantial as that which exists for undergraduates.

Last year we were able to offer new, partial, scholarships to only three of the 200 applicants. In this academic year, Girton has had to take the difficult decision not to award any new graduate scholarships so that such funds as we have can support existing students. This will mean that, for 2015/16, at least, we may lose the brightest potential applicants to other colleges or universities.

To stay at the forefront of academic excellence and produce life-changing research on the global stage, the University has recognised the need to grow the numbers of postgraduate students. Therefore if we are to keep pace with the rest of collegiate Cambridge, funding must be increased to attract the best of these to Girton.

Our aim this year is to double the amount of funds currently available for scholarships unrestricted by subject or nationality of recipient, meaning we would be able to further the careers of some outstanding scholars.

Our undergraduate students also need help. With tuition fees at £9,000 a year and estimated annual living costs in

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Cambridge between £7,500 and £8,500, the financial pressures on students can deter applicants at the outset, make students’ time here tough, and often burden them with obligations once they have moved on.

Graduate Funding Before coming to Girton, I completed my BA in English and Related Literature at the University of York. I then took the MA in Postcolonial Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Leeds, with a strong focus on African literature. I am currently in the second year of my PhD here at Cambridge, working in the Faculty of English.

My PhD research examines postcolonial African prison narratives, and I look in particular at six memoirs published by a range of politically detained writers from across the continent. These include well-known authors and political activists from Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Egypt and Malawi. Quite broad in scope, my project nevertheless focuses on the narrative strategies employed by each writer to represent their prison experience. I also study the wider political contexts in which their detention takes place. I am in the process of planning a research trip to Cape Town, scheduled for April 2015, and I am very much looking forward to the visit.

While applying to a number of universities for my PhD, I noted that

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Girton offered funding possibilities for English Literature students. As funding was a crucial factor for me in the application process, I chose Girton as one of my two selected colleges at Cambridge. I still remember receiving the email that informed me of my application success – definitely one of my happiest moments.

Girton has been fully funding my PhD for the last two years, and I will soon be applying for a renewal for my third and final year. I have been the recipient of the Doris Russell award, and then the M. M. Dunlop Scholarship, and have been keen to learn the inspiring histories of my benefactors. Without this funding, I would have been unable to accept my place at Cambridge, and I am immensely grateful for it. Not only has my scholarship allowed me to begin my PhD research and to investigate a subject that merits further study, it has also enabled me to grow as a person through participating in many of the other opportunities Cambridge has to offer, from enrolling on language classes to taking my first supervision. Finally, it has given me a stronger connection with Girton, where I feel very supported.

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Bursaries currently support around 20% of our undergraduates and are awarded according to need. Owing to Girton’s commitment to widening participation they are becoming increasingly valuable.

Just under £100,000 was raised for the Emily Davies Bursary Fund in last year’s telephone campaign alone, a fantastic achievement. This is the equivalent of supporting two students with bursaries in perpetuity.

Girton Access Fund This is the fund which underpins our efforts to widen the pool of suitably qualified students applying to university (and is an area where Girton leads the way among Cambridge colleges).

Widening participation to ensure equality and diversity is at the heart of Girton’s mission: in 2013/14 70% of admitted students came from maintained schools.

Our access programme, HE+, now in its fifth year, enables us to work closely with schools in our designated areas providing extension classes for brighter students, giving them help and information on applying to Russell Group universities and running masterclass days at Girton where they can experience a ‘day in the life’ of a Girton student. The HE+ programme, which we run in the West Midlands and in Camden, London, has grown year on year since its inception, to the extent that in this academic year we are working with over 300 sixth form students.

We are immensely proud to be helping and encouraging more students to apply to top universities. Double the number of students from the schools we work with in the West Midlands have gained places at Oxbridge since the start of Girton’s involvement.

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However we are a victim of our own success – more students means we need more funding to run the various programmes and support our Schools Liaison Assistant and currently we have a very modest budget. We can do a lot with very little – simply covering the costs of transport to Girton and a lunch for one of our masterclass days can mean the world of difference to a student from a modest background.

Personal Development Fund Girton is proud to be able to offer a breadth of extra-curricular activities to complement the scholarly achievements of our students. We currently have thriving sports groups, including many University level players, an enthusiastic music society which organises excellent concerts each term, a fantastic choir planning a tour of the Far East in Easter 2015 and many other clubs and societies. These activities rely on funding to buy equipment, enable performances and support new and exciting projects. We raised over £10,000 for the Personal Development Fund in last year’s telephone campaign which helped provide important funding for projects across the College including training and coaching sessions for various sports teams, the revival of the Girton women’s rugby team, and the replacement of damaged lighting equipment for the Girton Amateur Dramatic Society.

Widening Participation Girton Access Laura Parkin tells us about her journey from Newcastle to the University of Cambridge and finally to Girton College as our Schools Liaison Assistant. She is responsible for organising Girton’s involvement in the University’s very successful access scheme HE+.

Tell us a little bit about your background…

I went to the largest comprehensive school in Newcastle, with over 2,000 students. I then went to Jesus College to read English.

Had you always known that you wanted to go to the University of Cambridge?

My parents went to university (not Oxbridge) so there was always an assumption I would study for a degree, but I had never thought of Oxbridge as an option. The school received a lot of visits from the University of Cambridge as part of their access scheme, and I was given the opportunity for a residential visit when I was 15 years old.

We did team building exercises and mock lectures and it was then that I decided I wanted to apply to Cambridge. After that, everything I did at school was with that goal in mind.

Did you have help in applying?

A Great Campaign for Scholarly Excellence Teaching Support Fund Our students benefit greatly from the skills, commitment and enthusiasm of our diverse and talented Fellowship.

Girton’s Fellows are responsible for tailoring degree subjects to students’ needs, and for delivering the entire curriculum in small group settings.

The cost of delivering this is high, and it would not be possible without

The school’s help was limited as they did not have many Oxbridge applicants. However, I attended a personal statement workshop as part of the Cambridge access scheme, which was a great help.

What were your preconceptions of Cambridge?

That everyone would be rich – I was worried that I would not be able to afford it. Also that everyone would be

from the South of England and that I would stick out like a sore thumb.

What was the reality?

My fears were unfounded. It is a more diverse community than you think it will be. That is what is so important about access visits – it is very easy to show school students it’s not like the ‘antiquated stereotype’ by getting them chatting to current students. I remember during one of my visits meeting a ‘normal’ Cambridge student from Durham with a nose ring, and I was surprised, which shows how narrow my preconceptions were!

What made you want to work as a Schools Liaison Assistant?

My own experience at school was formative. If I hadn’t been to the access events (with the University of Cambridge), I wouldn’t have gone to Cambridge and taken on a lot of ambassador roles at my own college.

Tell me a little success story of the HE+ scheme...

There is a current student at Girton who went through the HE+ scheme in the West Midlands. Like me, he applied to the college he visited as part of the scheme, and successfuly gained a place. He is now one of our Student Ambassadors and helping out prospective applicants. People who attend access events say how it really affects them as they get so much out of it that they want to give something back.

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together from a large amount of smaller gifts. If you have not done so already, please join A Great Campaign at whatever level you are comfortable with to secure the future of a radical institution whose uncompromising quest for excellence in diversity stands for everything educators should be proud of.

Here are some examples of what could be achieved: • If we can secure 15 more members of the Benslow Circle (a pledge of £5,000) we can double the amount of support we typically give to graduate students.

• If just 20 Girtonians gave a little over £11 a month for three years we could provide bursaries for three students for one whole year (and those Girtonians would also become Members of A Great Campaign).

the independent contribution of the Cambridge colleges.

Attracting and retaining a Fellowship that is skilled, caring and at the intellectual cutting edge is one of the key means by which Girton adds value of all kinds to each and every degree.

That is why one of our leading donors has offered to match donations to the Teaching Support Fund (subject to limits). Through the generosity of our alumni, Girton has made significant progress in funding a number of Collegefunded teaching posts; to date A Great Campaign has raised £1.3 million for Scholarly Excellence.

Some subjects remain in urgent need of your support. History and Economics, for example, are both priority subjects which have less than 10% of the funding they require. This means that the cost of meeting the shortfall in funding these posts must be met by the General

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Endowment. However, to give some examples of how alumni could help us through their generosity: • If 65 Girtonians gave a gift of £30 a month for three years, with Gift Aid, this would double the size of the History Fellowship Fund.

• If 50 Girtonians gave a gift of £16 a month for three years, with Gift Aid, this would be the equivalent of supporting one Research Fellow for a year.

Gifts may take the form of lump sums, or can be given through regular donations. They can be received as cash, shares or financial instruments. Girton College is a charity, so giving is usually tax efficient. Donations are most effective when added to the unrestricted general endowment, though they may naturally also be directed to specific funds. Whether small or large, every gift is precious; every penny wisely spent.

Joining A Great Campaign

Donations can be made using the form with this Newsletter or online at www.girton.cam.ac.uk/giving. For more information about A Great Campaign or to talk about a specific fund or gift please contact our Development Office on +44 (0) 1223 766672.

Donate Directly

Recognising your Generosity

The warmth and generosity of Girtonians is overwhelming – in the past year we have seen the number of alumni donors increase substantially and achieved record-breaking results in our telethon.

This shows what we can achieve

Girton’s future depends on the success of A Great Campaign. So we must measure that success financially. But this is just the start. There are around 800 students in the College at any one time; yet Girton proper comprises more

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than 9,400 alumni and friends. This wider family is an important source of energy, identity and imagination that drives us forward. Joining A Great Campaign is about being part of the Girton community in every sense.

To acknowledge your support, for the lifetime of A Great Campaign, we have established various ways of recognising and honouring our donors, and this year we are pleased to introduce two new giving levels. For substantial gifts, donors’ names may be posted as inscriptions, carvings or engravings in a public area of the College. All donors will be listed in the Development Newsletter (see pages 27 – 34) and online each year (unless anonymity is requested).

a bronze lapel pin, and will be invited to the annual ceremony of the Commemoration of Benefactors and Foundation Dinner.

• Donors who give £10,000 or more will also be recorded on a donor Board in the main College. The College is grateful to the more than 50 alumni and supporters who have become Friends since the beginning of A Great Campaign.

We also celebrate and recognise your generosity in other ways:

• Individuals who pledge £50,000 will become members of the Jubilee Circle. Members will receive a silver and green enamelled pin badge, an invitation to the annual ceremony of the Commemoration of Benefactors and Foundation Dinner, and will also receive invitations to occasional special events hosted by the Mistress.

• Individuals who donate £500 become Members of A Great Campaign.

Members will receive an enamelled pin badge and will be invited to occasional special events including a biennial summer party. The College is delighted that over 840 alumni and supporters are already members of A Great Campaign.

• Donors who pledge £100,000 will become Patrons of A Great Campaign.

Patrons will receive a silver lapel pin, will be invited to the annual ceremony of the Commemoration of Benefactors and Foundation Dinner, and will also receive invitations to occasional special events hosted by the Mistress.

• Donors who give £500 or more will also be recorded on a donor board in Ash Court.

• Donors who give £500,000 or more to Girton become eligible for election

by the College Council to a Barbara Bodichon Foundation Fellowship.

These Fellows are invited to a number of special events each year, are listed in the University Reporter, and will receive a gold lapel pin.

• Anyone who indicates that they intend to leave a legacy to Girton becomes a member of the 1869 Society, and will receive a purple lapel pin along with invitations from time to time to events hosted by the Mistress. The College is grateful to the many alumni who have already indicated their intention to remember Girton in their Will. Please see pages 13-15 for more information about our legacy campaign.

• Additionally donors to Girton who have given £250,000 are eligible to be nominated as members of the University Vice-Chancellor’s Circle.

Donors who make gifts totalling £1 million or more are eligible to join the University Guild of Benefactors.

Girton is extremely grateful to all of its donors and supporters. However you support A Great Campaign, whether by donating, leaving a legacy, or bringing in conference business, thank you for playing a vital role in securing the College’s future.

• Those who pledge £5,000 will become members of our Benslow Circle, named to recall Girton’s first home, Benslow House in Hitchin, where the first five ‘Girton Pioneers’ studied. They will receive an enamelled pin badge, and will be invited to the annual ceremony of the Commemoration of Benefactors and Foundation Dinner.

We already have 35 alumni and supporters giving at this level, a fantastic achievement.

• Alumni and supporters who pledge £10,000 will become Friends of A Great Campaign. Friends will receive

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Girton Telethon 2014 It was an all-round record breaking year for Girton – we raised over £266,000, 77% more than we raised the previous year and an incredible 75% of alumni called made a gift, one of the highest participation rates in the UK! Our heartfelt thanks go to our many generous alumni who took the time to chat to current students and support the College last Easter. The team of 15 enthusiastic students chatted to 853 alumni over the three week period. Three quarters of those called chose to donate, with half choosing to make a regular gift to Girton. The Emily Davies Bursary Fund for undergraduates received enough to support two students a year in perpetuity and just over £88,000 was raised for the General Endowment Fund. This fantastic result proves how modest gifts from a large number of alumni really do add up and shows what a supportive and inclusive community Girton is.

Jack Pulman-Slater A Telethon Caller Talks…

Jack Pulman-Slater (Linguistics 2011) tells us a little bit about his experience as a caller in the 2014 Telethon: “I could talk about Girton and how much I like it for days on end. Whilst I was a Student Ambassador at Girton I could do this to whole captive audiences of school teachers and prospective students.

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So the prospect of earning some money, doing something completely new and talking about Girton for hours on end sounded perfect. There was a lot of training involved and at first it was hard to balance the financial side of the call with the personal side. Doing the Telethon reminded me about what an amazing community of people the College and its alumni is. I spoke to people all over the world, people who had learnt Norwegian and started a translation company in Scandinavia, people who were the first male students to be admitted to the College, economists who left the city to start a seed-selling business in wild west Wales, high achieving business people, parliamentary candidates and leading academics. Girtonians, it seems, can do anything and everything. More importantly, they do anything and everything extremely well.

I loved my time on the Telethon – though I’m certain I didn’t do it as

efficiently as I could have, spending ages listening to people’s memories of Girton. If you were one of the people I spoke to – thanks for the chat! And to the alumna in Canada I spoke to, I’d like to say sorry for interrupting your porridge because we hadn’t worked out which time-zone you were in. Hope the porridge didn’t go too cold. The Telethon was a brilliant way to spend the Easter vacation. Above all it reminded me how brilliant Girton is, as an educational institution and a community. I now know how alumni generosity is an important financial and symbolic lifeline for the College. I relied a great deal on bursaries whilst at Girton, received travel awards for dissertation research and made extensive use of library funds for book requests. So it was fantastic to be part of the process which keeps these going for another year. Now I’ve graduated I don’t suppose it’ll be too long before I’m swapping roles and am on the other end of the phone. I can’t wait!”

Legacy

Creating A Legacy Girton is a remarkable institution that has enabled generations of young people, from all walks of life, to realise their full potential. Our success is rooted in, and sustained by, philanthropy.

Many of you already generously support the College by volunteering, donating to specific causes, or joining A Great Campaign – such contributions are cherished by all who live and work here. In these uncertain times, however, you can make a critical difference by remembering the College in your Will.

With your legacy pledge we can make firm plans to transform the life-chances, experiences and opportunities of the next generations, harnessing that pioneering spirit which stands for all that is best about higher education.

Your commitment today to a gift for tomorrow will secure the future of this unique institution where inclusion, diversity and distinction go hand in hand.

What your Legacy can do for Girton

longer term, the very best way to help is to leave a gift to the general endowment.

A gift, whether large or modest, invested in the endowment creates a legacy that will last in perpetuity. The capital remains unspent while the interest is used to underpin every activity in the College.

Making a gift to the general endowment will not prevent your name, or the name of someone you wish to be remembered, from being linked to a building, a Fellowship, a bursary, a prize or other aspects of College life should you so wish.

You may like to know that Girton’s endowment and investments are professionally managed, and supervised by a committee which includes qualified alumni and College Officers.

Supporting Scholarly Excellence

Securing Financial Sustainability The area of College life that your legacy supports is of course up to you; however, because legacies are realised over the

At the heart of Girton’s mission is the pursuit of excellence in teaching and research. Our ability to provide a worldclass education in a research-infused

Girton was established in 1869 by Emily Davies with the support of a small group of exceptional men and women like Barbara Bodichon, Sedley Taylor and Henry Tomkinson. This was a daring initiative that proclaimed a fierce belief in equality of opportunity and equality of access to higher education. In its early days the growth of the College depended exclusively on donations. It was not until nine years after its foundation that Girton could afford more than one resident lecturer! Perhaps the most transformative gift in the early years of the College came from Jane Catherine Gamble, who left a residuary legacy of £19,000*. It was this gift that allowed the College to build Tower Wing, including the famous square tower, and to buy the land which extended the estate to Girton Road. This enabled the College to transform the grounds from farmland to a park landscape, making Girton quite unlike the city centre colleges.

I thoroughly enjoyed my time at Girton. It could have been a daunting experience but the College provided a friendly and supportive environment, with Fellows who, I felt, actually cared whether I was happy or understood what I was studying, while maintaining the academic rigour expected of a Cambridge degree.

I believe that I owe my career as a City solicitor, and my success in it, to my time at Girton. Having been an undergraduate in the 1970s, I received a first-rate education that was entirely free. I have left the College a legacy because I want to help put it on a firm financial footing so that others, in years to come, can benefit, as I did, from what Girton can offer. I hope that many of you reading this will do so too, as a “thank-you” for what Girton did for us and a commitment to the future.

Dr Margaret Mountford (Gamble, 1970)

*a sum of close to £2 million at today’s prices

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Legacy

Adding Breadth to Depth The hallmark of a Girton education is an emphasis on all round personal development. We recognise that transferable skills, together with opportunities to engage with music, sports, literature, poetry and the arts, are all complementary to scholarly success. A legacy left to any of these areas of College life will enable Girton to continue to offer the diverse and enriching experience that it does today.

Creating the Physical College Dr Sabesan Sithamparanathan, Tucker-Price Research Fellow in Electrical Engineering, is conducting ground-breaking research that will enable organisations, such as high street retailers, inexpensively to monitor the location of an item in real time. He is a winner of the Sir William Siemens Medal, awarded annually to the country’s top 18 science and technology students.

The Tucker-Price Fellowship was founded in 1940 with a legacy from Miss Edith Tucker, specifically for scientific purposes. Miss Tucker was one who wished for, but did not achieve, a college education herself, and so became determined to make it possible for others to have what she could not.

environment is crucially dependent on attracting the very best scholars to our Fellowship. The creation of many of our research and teaching posts has only been possible because of the generosity of our benefactors and we continue to seek support in this area. Only in this way can we secure Girton’s distinctive educational ethos for the future and ensure that the College remains a place that is at once challenging and supportive – what one recent student has described as “a safe place to be intellectually daring”.

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Girton is built on bequests. Over the years, the memory of our major donors, or of their families and friends, has become quite literally written into the fabric of the site: the Stanley Library, the Eliza Baker Court, the Duke Building, to name but a few. This is a wonderful way to celebrate and commemorate those whose wisdom and vision have made the College what it is. We would like to continue that tradition as we add names to a whole range of facilities across the College from wings, colonnades and courts to sporting and musical facilities.

inflation, while insulating your other heirs from the effects of deflation, as well as from any decision you may make to reduce the size of your estate for your own needs in older age. So this can be a win-win arrangement.

A pecuniary legacy is a monetary gift of a specific sum; to safeguard its future value it can be index linked.

A specific or non-monetary legacy allows you to leave items to the College: for example, stocks and shares, property, furniture, paintings or other fixed assets, either to be used, or to be sold to generate funds.

A reversionary legacy or life interest trust leaves your assets to named beneficiaries to enjoy in their lifetime.

Upon their death the whole, or a proportion of what remains, could pass to the College.

As with any form of donation, gifts to the College for general purposes offer the most flexibility as they can be directed to the areas that require most support at any given time. Girton is naturally, however, also happy to receive gifts directed to specific areas of College life.

Leaving a Gift in your Will We are grateful to all of those who remember Girton in their Will. A legacy gift can be written into a new Will, or added to an existing one using a Codicil form. We recommend that you seek professional legal advice when making or amending a Will.

There are currently several methods by which you can remember Girton in your Will: A residuary legacy is a gift of all, or a percentage of, your estate after other bequests, taxes and charges have been met. We ask you please to consider the merits of leaving a residuary legacy; it protects your gift to Girton against

Whichever option you choose, we suggest that you use the following wording when leaving your gift to Girton: ‘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 general purposes 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.’

As a registered charity Girton pays no tax on gifts bequeathed and a legacy to

Legacy

the College may reduce your estate’s Inheritance Tax liability.

Alumni and supporters of Girton in the United States can make a planned gift to the College with Cambridge in America. To discuss this, or if you are making a Will outside the United Kingdom, please contact the Development Office.

Further information regarding leaving a legacy, including a pledge form should you wish to notify the College of your intentions and a Codicil form should you wish to make a change to your existing Will, is available on our website – www.girton.cam.ac.uk/legacy.

To discuss your legacy giving in complete confidence, please contact the Development Director on +44 (0)1223 339893 or the Legacy Officer on +44 (0)1223 338901, development@girton.cam.ac.uk.

The Development Office team is also happy to work with your solicitor should you prefer.

Recognising your Generosity College recognises that leaving a legacy is a very personal matter and one that you may wish to keep private. However, by telling us about your Will you can

have an immediate impact; not least because it will enable us to plan. It will also allow us fully to understand your wishes and express our thanks for your generosity.

As a legator you are eligible to join the 1869 Society, named to recall the year of the College’s foundation. Members of the 1869 Society will receive a purple lapel pin and they, and a guest, will be invited from time to time to events hosted by the Mistress.

There may also be opportunities to name Fellowships, scholarships, prizes, bursaries and buildings for certain gifts.

Please do get in touch for more details.

By leaving a legacy you are supporting a unique institution that has helped shape the Higher Education landscape.

With your support we can seize the opportunity to write the next bold chapters in Girton’s inspiring story.

Studying at Cambridge was lifechanging for me. It broadened my horizons immeasurably academically, socially, and in terms of aspiration and self-confidence but I spent a lot of time at the start feeling thoroughly overawed and questioning whether I ought to be there at all. Girton’s reassuringly down-to-earth atmosphere helped put me at ease and the College offered me a strong sense of community and belonging. By the time I left, I had built lasting friendships and the basis on which to carve out successful careers in banking and then the Civil Service.

I have decided to leave Girton a legacy so future generations can enjoy all the benefits the College has to offer: for me, these included meeting people with a completely different background and world view; the chance to try a huge range of new sports, hobbies and interests; and discovering an environment where ability and dedication were the only attributes required to succeed. Those benefits are enduring and I’m very glad to offer something lasting in return.

Belinda Lewis (1998)

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Cultural Heritage

Taking the Past to the Future

Girton’s many collections are the hub for a broad range of cultural and academic activities and a focus for study and research, both within and beyond the College. These activities continue throughout the year, but are particularly showcased by a regular series of events at the Alumni weekend in September.

At the annual People’s Portraits reception in 2014, the President of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters, Robin-Lee Hall, unveiled a new painting, ‘Brooksy’

by Jason Walker RP, the 50th addition to People’s Portraits at Girton. Sadly the artist could not be present, but Robin-Lee gave the large audience a background to the painter and an off-the-cuff appraisal of the painting, which she herself saw for the first time only when the cover came off. Andrew Nairne, Director of Kettle’s Yard, followed this with his reflections on the place of portraits in collections of contemporary art. We were delighted to welcome the ViceChancellor as a guest to this event.

2015 will mark the 15th anniversary of the exhibition and it is planned to hold a special evening event at the Mall Galleries in London, showcasing People’s Portraits at Girton, during the Royal Society of Portrait Painters’ annual show in April. The September reception over the Alumni weekend will take place as usual, and we shall hope to unveil yet another painting for the collection.

The exhibition (open every afternoon) effectively throws open the doors of the College to the public, and this gesture of accessibility, as well as the unique collection of non-commissioned portraits, is much appreciated by a regular stream of visitors.

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The Lawrence Room Committee and its volunteer curators work hard to offer a programme of access to the antiquities collections. Open every Thursday afternoon, the Lawrence Room also plays a part in the University’s Festival of Ideas, the Mountford Prize, Open Cambridge and curriculum-based activities from local schools, amongst many other special visits. The online, scholarly catalogue is of immense value to researchers and learned societies and is constantly updated. The collections are monitored for conservation needs and this year we undertook repair to two strings of Egyptian beads and the specialist cleaning and re-mounting of the Coptic textile fragments.

At the Lawrence Room annual event in September Professor David McMullen, Fellow of St John’s College, took as his starting point our Tang Dynasty figurine. This appears to depict a woman in a flamboyant pose, riding a horse at full gallop. He talked about the position of women in the Tang Dynasty and how, albeit relative to the conventions of that society, their lives were freer than one might have expected. This was true for the higher echelons, but life was intensely restricted for the lower orders. The figure from our collections still presents an anomaly, there being nothing else

quite like it, and Professor McMullen now intends to conduct more research to find out more about its context.

Girtonians may be interested to know that this year, as part of the regular programme of conservation for College pictures, we commissioned major conservation and repair to fifteen of the Mistresses’ portraits. This work was undertaken by Sally Woodcock and a small team from the Hamilton Kerr Institute. In the coming year we plan to conduct conservation work to nine of Barbara Bodichon’s landscape paintings.

Many of Girton’s paintings are on the BBC’s Your Paintings website, www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings, as part of the Public Catalogue Foundation programme. This site currently does not include watercolours or drawings, so it is not a comprehensive listing, but nevertheless well worth consulting.

The Library’s central role in Girton life, both past and present, was marked by the annual Library talk in September, at which historian and Eugenie Strong Research Fellow, Dr Hazel Mills with Kate Perry, Archivist Emerita, demonstrated the research potential of the muchanticipated University and Life Experience (ULE) Project website by presenting a case-study enquiry into girls’ schooling from 1900 to 1980. This

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Clockwise: The Mistress, Andrew Nairne, Frances Gandy, Robin-Lee Hall and the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz.

An apple in the Girton orchard.

Tang Dynasty figurine.

Dr Hazel Mills presents an update on the University and Life Experience Project.

elicited fascinating insights into Girton career paths and trends in feeder schools over the decades. The website has been built using questionnaire and interview data collected in the 1990s during the first phase of the ULE Project and information from the College registers.

The construction of the website (effectively an on-line archive) has been run out of the Library department, coordinated by Girton, and funded by major research grants over a four year development period. It will launch in late Spring 2015, and will offer an invaluable research tool on the life histories of university-educated women over the 20th century. It is unusual for there to be

a research project initiative that is purely College based, and this adds not only to Girton’s portfolio of achievements, but also to the sum of our knowledge about our heritage.

This year's annual Gardens talk was given by Life Fellow, Dr Roland Randall, when he spoke on how much wildlife has become reliant on our gardens as foraging grounds and refuge. In this interesting and interactive talk Dr Randall outlined ways of using an area of garden both to benefit wildlife and native vegetation and, at the same time, add variety to the food we eat.

Girton’s collections are rich in their diversity, their cultural significance and their academic importance. We are fortunate to be the legatees of such material, and the College takes seriously its on-going responsibility to steward these collections for future generations to enjoy.

Frances Gandy Librarian, Curator and Graduate Tutor

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Alumni Profiles

Alumni Profiles Charterhouse Petroleum, listed on the London Stock Exchange and growing by acquisition. With plummeting oil prices in 1986, Charterhouse was itself sold, to former Belgian oil giant Petrofina. Not wanting to join a monolithic company and keen to be part of the Big Bang (the deregulation of the London stock market), she took a job valuing oil companies in Equity Research at stockbroker Phillips and Drew (now part of UBS).

Dr Carol Bell (1977) Natural Sciences Born near Swansea in South Wales, her first day at Girton was the first day in her life when Carol Bell spoke only English.

Carol’s degree in Natural Sciences and the “relentless analytical capability that the training gives you” has underpinned her wide ranging business career. She specialised in biochemistry and was taught by Nobel Prize winners such as Max Perutz, “an absolutely amazing experience.” After graduating she acted on the considered advice of the department’s Professor Kornberg who suggested taking time out before deciding whether to return to research.

Carol graduated in 1980, and spurred on by her father, who was a metallurgist, she landed a sought-after graduate trainee job with RTZ Oil and Gas. “It was a very numbers-driven role and one thing that Natural Sciences at Cambridge gives you is that you know the size of numbers.”

RTZ was the beginning of her career in oil and finance. She accrued valuable analytical experience, but didn’t get to do any deals. So in 1983, she moved to

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Carol’s career followed the shape of the oil industry and, as a wave of privatisation loomed, she moved to investment bank CSFB which was strong in this area. Then onto JP Morgan, initially in its mergers and acquisitions department in London, and later developing its equity research, becoming head of European Equity Research. Then, after a spell as a Managing Director at Chase Manhattan’s investment bank, with responsibility for oil and gas, she took a step back from the world of oil and finance.

“I wanted to be an archaeologist,” she says. Her interest in archaeology pre-dated Cambridge and while working in oil and finance, she had spent over 10 years attending University of London evening classes. During the many business trips abroad she made a point of visiting museums, and holidays were spent visiting sites of archaeological interest.

So at the end of 1999, aged 40, she retired to begin a PhD at UCL. She researched what happened in an economic collapse that occurred in 1200 BC in the Eastern Mediterranean, synthesising the

evidence to build a hypothesis of the causes behind the collapse.

In 1999, she also joined Girton’s Investments Committee, becoming Chair of the Committee in 2005 and helping to guide the investment of the College’s endowment for 15 years.

“My time at Girton means a great deal to me,” she says. “Without Girton I don’t think I would have the right exposure to lead me down the path that I’ve followed.” As well as valuing the skill set of her Natural Sciences degree, she was thrown together with people on other degree courses. “I had close friends in Law and Medicine, where the conversations are different. Seeing the value of forming multi-disciplinary teams to work on problems is something that Girton gave in spades.”

She stepped down from the Investments Committee last year and is now on the Campaign Board. “Perhaps I understand the finances of the College better than someone who just reads the accounts.

You get to understand what the pressure points are and how things are changing through time. I’m very happy to do what I can to help other people understand why the College needs our support in order to allow as many people as possible to have what we all had. It is a different world now.”

Lured back into the oil industry when she finished her PhD, Carol is now on the board of three public companies and an investment trust. She also brings her experience to bear in her native Wales, where she is on the board of Welsh language public service broadcaster S4C and she has recently

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joined another old Girtonian Margaret Llewellyn (1973), on the Board of Finance Wales. She is on Cardiff University’s Council, is a trustee of the National Museum of Wales and the Wales Millennium Centre. In Cambridge she is also actively involved on the Friends Committee of the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.

“I really think it’s important to support educational and cultural institutions,” she says.

Dr Guy O’Keefe (1990) Natural Sciences Guy O’Keefe is evidence of Carol Bell’s belief that Natural Scientists make some of the best business people.

Now a partner at City law firm Slaughter and May, Guy arrived at Girton in 1990 to do a Natural Sciences degree, specialising in physics and theoretical physics, under Director of Studies Christine McKie. He also played in the College football team and has the distinction of being a member of the first Girton winning team in the final of the football Cuppers in 1995, with the then Mistress Juliet Campbell presenting the cup.

“Cambridge meant an awful lot to me as an undergrad“ he remembers. “It’s

just a fantastic place to be and Girton, of all of the colleges, remains unique.

Its location, while much maligned by those not at the College, gave it a great sense of community. The other thing that was very noticeable at the time, and I think is still the case, is the diversity of the undergraduate community.”

Guy accepted a place at the Cavendish Laboratories to do a PhD after graduating; “I thought if I don’t do it now it’ll be lost forever and I really wanted to do it.” His research was into ultra fast spectroscopy of conjugated organic polymers, using lasers to investigate the absorption properties of organic chemicals, very similar to those used in plants for absorbing sunlight and turning it into energy.

While researching, Guy explored nonacademic careers where he could use the analytical skills that he had learned at Cambridge. He found himself drawn to intellectual property law and accepted a general training contract for Slaughter and May as a first step. He discovered that he found the law surrounding business and the City extremely interesting. “When I got here I was surprised at how applicable the analytical skills I’d learned as a scientist were to the stuff we do here. So once I started practising law, I didn’t want to do anything else.”

His Girton footballing friends had already arrived in the capital, setting up Rivelino City, a team of footballing alumni, in the early nineties. The club acted as a magnet for London-based old Girtonians with an interest in the beautiful game and provided an opportunity to meet up with College friends.

Guy started to reconnect with the College on a more formal basis after 2007 when he was made a partner at Slaughter and May and took on

responsibility for recruitment, alongside a handful of partner colleagues. The firm recruits 70 or 80 undergraduates a year, focusing on Russell Group universities and drawing on any affiliations, especially those of partners with a responsibility for recruitment, including Guy. Three of Slaughter and May’s 115 partners are old Girtonians, Hywel Davies (1988) and David Wittmann (1983) being the other two. So it was a logical step for the firm to make links with both Girton law students and other undergraduates looking at the law as a career option. Its landmark initiative has been to sponsor an annual networking evening for Girtonians, bringing together students and alumni from different legal firms and barristers.

In recent years, the Girton Law and Finance Networking Reception has been held in the partners’ dining rooms at Slaughter and May and has opened up to incorporate finance-related careers alongside the law.

“It’s good for the students, good for the Development Office, as it helps to forge and consolidate those networks, it’s a good networking event generally,” says Guy. “We have a core number who turn up every year as well as a substantial number of different people who come along.”

The company also sponsors a more informal event in the Michaelmas term, held in Cambridge, as well as the Girton Law Society garden party in the summer.

“We have good relations with the Fellows as a result and hopefully they can ask us questions and we can support the students who are interested.”

Guy has a strong sense of his links to the College. “I think it’s when you look back you realise how much you owe the College, how much it really developed you as a person and how it gave you all of those opportunities.”

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Alumni Profiles

Elizabeth Werry (1955) Music Elizabeth was an organ scholar at Girton in the 1950s, where her music flourished and where she developed the organisational discipline that has underpinned her musical career and life as a mother of four.

Before Cambridge, she attended Mary Datchelor Girls’ School in Camberwell, which was renowned for its excellent music teaching. The headmistress at that time was Dame Dorothy Brock (1904), a former Girtonian, who inspired Elizabeth to combine her love of music with study at Cambridge. Jill Vlasto (Medway, 1934), another Datchelor alumna, was Director of Studies in Music at the College and was a great support and strong influence on Elizabeth, as the undergraduate threw herself into the world of music at Cambridge.

“I played as much as possible,” she says, describing how she played an enormous amount of chamber music in the CU Music Club recitals, sang in many choirs, and (with no instrumental or choral awards in those days) organised a tremendous amount of music in College as well. Elizabeth remembers in particular two recitals in King’s Chapel at the invitation of the then Director of Music David Willcocks.

“I could have spent my whole time at Cambridge playing chamber music and accompanying singers. One thing that you have to learn however if you’re going to be a creative performer is how to schedule your day, how to organise your practice and performance.”

After a fourth year gaining her Bachelor of Music, she moved to London, settling in Dulwich with her husband and four children. While her family have always been of the utmost importance to her, she managed to maintain her career as a freelance musician, despite the demands of her

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children, who all played two instruments, and all eventually each made their way to Cambridge.

In the 1970s she founded, with the oboist Neil Black, and the other Principals in the English Chamber Orchestra, The English Taskin Players.

This chamber group of six musicians, with Elizabeth playing the harpsichord, performed at venues around the country for over 20 years. Church music has also always played a large part in her life, and her last organist’s job was at St Mary le Strand in central London.

Elizabeth has taught music both formally and informally since her schooldays: her many private pupils in London have included outgoing Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger. For ten years from the mid-1990s she taught keyboard studies in Cambridge to the young choristers at King’s College and also to many undergraduates.

It was also in the 1990s that Elizabeth renewed her association with Girton.

She helped found the London Girton Association, coming up with the idea of the long-running and much appreciated annual LGA music prize. She also rekindled her direct musical links with the College, donating a Steinway Model B to Girton. In London, she started the Dulwich Literary Group,

which included three Girtonians among its nine members. More recently, her work as a volunteer at Dulwich Picture Gallery and the Foundling Museum has also involved music.

In 2012 she joined Girton’s Roll of Alumni Committee as a decade representative for the 1950s. She has since hosted several successful lunches at her house in Dulwich, inviting Girtonian friends and acquaintances, and recently welcomed the Mistress at one of her gatherings. “Girton means a huge amount to me. I have a grandson going up to Cambridge in October to read Music, and I am sure that he too will feel a tremendous sense of indebtedness to his College, and like me will make lifelong friendships.”

Pippa Considine (1985) English/Law Our alumni were interviewed by Pippa Considine. 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 personalised stationery business and is on the warpath to reintroduce real letter writing to a lost generation of emailers.

Development

Saying thank you…

To thank our supporters we held some very special events last year.

In May, over 60 members of our 1869 Society and their guests were treated to supper in the Stanley Library (with a surprise performance from the Cornett & Sackbutt Ensemble of the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama), and a fascinating talk on connecting the generations from Barbara Bodichon to Hertha Ayrton given by Frances Gandy, Librarian, Curator and Graduate Tutor.

After supper, we moved to the Hall where Girton Fellow and Chairman of the Faculty of Music, Martin Ennis, directed a magnificent concert ‘Echoes of Venice’ given by the Cambridge University Musical Society.

On a beautiful sunny day in June, we held our inaugural Benefactors’ Garden Party in Emily Davies Court. All members of A Great Campaign are invited to this

biennial event and over 130 alumni and supporters were in attendance in 2014.

Guests enjoyed a Pimm’s reception and wonderful barbecue put on by Girton’s fantastic catering team, and heard the Mistress outline the College’s achievements and future plans. Our first Artist in Residence, Tom Barnett, opened his (very gold!) studio at Grange Cottage for guests to visit, as they enjoyed a stroll around the College grounds.

We also were the honoured recipients of ‘That Infidel Piece’, a stunning silver sculpture especially designed and crafted for Girton College, generously donated by Pamela Maryfield (1953).

Our annual Commemoration of Benefactors and Foundation Dinner took place in mid-October to remember and thank all of our supporters both past and present. Research Fellow Dr Hope Wolf spoke about her recent publication (in collaboration with Sebastian Faulks) ‘A Broken World: Letters, diaries and memories of the Great War’, and we listened to the very talented Girton choir sing beautifully both during the ceremony and dinner.

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Alumni Events

Alumni Events From recitals to reunions and from talks to tours our events programme has been as varied as ever and we are delighted to have hosted over 550 alumni and guests at events in College and around the world since September.

Our events programme would not be possible nor as successful without the help and enthusiasm of so many alumni. The College is very thankful to event hosts in New York, Singapore, Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur and London – Manuel de Miranda (1989) and the New York Girton Association, Karen Fawcett (1982), Kevin Chan (1986), the Lau-Gunns, and Elizabeth Werry (1955); to organisers of the Infidel Boat Club dinner, Hannah Sensecall (2007) and Samantha Daniel (2001); to Roll of Alumni Decade Representatives Angela Dobson (Ambrose 1998), Christine Thorp (Kenyon 1964) and Anne Heffernan (1974) for encouraging their year groups to attend reunions; and to Ian Laurenson (1980) and John Longstaff (1979) for their musical contributions to their reunions.

New York 2014

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Houston 2014

Roll of Alumni Weekend 2014: 1964 Reunion Washington DC 2014

Singapore 2014

Kuala Lumpur 2014

Boston 2014

Hong Kong 2014

Alumni Events

Roll of Alumni Weekend 2014: Ely Tour led by Anne Heffernan Benefactors' Garden Party 2014

Benefactors' Garden Party 2014

Benefactors' Garden Party 2014 Dulwich Lunch hosted by Elizabeth Werry

Roll of Alumni Weekend 2014: Ely Tour led by Anne Heffernan

Roll of Alumni Weekend 2014: Drinks Reception

Roll of Alumni Weekend 2014: Ian Laurenson leads guests into dinner

Roll of Alumni Weekend 2014: The Ridgeway Ensemble

Law and Finance Event 2014: Lady Justice Arden addresses the audience

Law and Finance Event 2014: Host Guy O'Keefe and Lady Justice Arden

Law and Finance Event 2014: ViceMistress, Karen Lee, and guests.

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Prizes

Prizes Hammond Science Communication Prize 2014 “Chaos” was the theme for the seventh Hammond Science Communication Prize competition held last February in the Stanley Library. Student entrants were free to interpret the theme in any of the many scientific contexts in which it has meaning, and to give an eight minute presentation to a mixed audience of Fellows, students, and a panel of judges including alumni Dr Suzy Lishman (President of the Royal College of Pathologists), Dr Jane Risdall (Surgeon Commander) and the generous donor of the prize Dr Phil Hammond himself.

We heard presentations from seven students on subjects ranging from random number generation to epilepsy.

Charlotte Burford (2011), a third year Physiology student, won the Judges’ Prize and the Audience Prize with a presentation entitled “It is better to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally” about the psychology of investing. The Royal Society of Pathologists donated a prize for the best

Dr Phil Hammond (centre) and contestants talk with a pathology theme, and this was won by David Harrison (2012), a first year Veterinary Science student, for “The chaos of cancer”, in which he illustrated dramatically both the underlying biological chaos of cancer, and the chaos it causes in peoples’ lives. The abstract prize went to Ellie Drabble (2012), a second year Veterinary Science student,

Jane Martin Poetry Prize for 2014 The College was delighted that Professor Sir Laurence Martin, who created the prize in memory of his Girtonian daughter Jane Martin, was able to attend the wonderful evening of poetry to celebrate and award the annual national prize for young poets last May. The first and second prizes were awarded to Alexandra Strnad and Penny Boxall respectively, both of whom read some of their winning poems including “Strangers” and “The Animal Trials” to an audience of students,

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Fellows and alumni (the winning poems are available to read on our website – www.girton.cam.ac.uk/jane-martinpoetry-prize). This year both of the judges, John Fuller and Dr Vahni Capildeo, were also asked to read some of their poems. It was a very diverse and fascinating evening, so many thanks to all those who were involved.

From L to R: The Mistress, Penny Boxall, Alexandra Strnad and Professor Sir Lawrence Martin

for “Horsemeat: the risk to the public and the veterinary profession”.

Dr Hammond summed up the evening with an entertaining and informative speech ranging across his own professional experience from serious science and medicine to writing, broadcasting and comedy, highlighting the importance of communication.

Sport

Girton Football ... in London!

There’s something a little bit different about being a Girtonian. Maybe it's the bicycle ride. Maybe it's those red bricks. Maybe it's the smell of cut grass on the playing fields in summer.

Whatever it is, that Girton camaraderie has long been a part of the College's football club. And in London, a group of ex-Girtonians are recreating the feeling of pulling on the green shirt after two alumni, Ian Deacon and Paul Touil, helped set up a football club in 2012 called Hampstead Hawks.

Alex Mugan and Goran Glamocak were recruited first. Mark Walsh, Rob Calvert and Chris Kingcombe joined soon after, followed by Matthew Cook. The next season, James Streather signed up, and the latest additions, Matthew Foster and Naveen Anandakumar, take the number of Old Girtonians at the club to 11.

All of those players starred for Girton College Football Club at some point from 1997 to 2012, and several won Blues. There are a few ex-Selwyn players too but we try to keep that one quiet.

“Living in London only allows you so much free time and football is an ideal way to combine social activity with a competitive workout” Ian says. Our main aim in setting up the Hawks was to have a group of players who enjoyed playing together and who would be able to make the most of their individual talents by combining effectively on the pitch. Having a core of Old Girtonians gives us a special bond and makes us a better team.”

“It was difficult at first to find a team of like-minded people in London,” Rob adds, “But having that immediate Girton connection really helped, and it’s made Saturday games something all of us look forward to every week.”

Playing 11-a-side on Saturday afternoons – in Girton green kit, of course – the Hawks are eager to recruit players, both ex-Girtonians and those from further afield.

or rtdcalvert@gmail.com. The club also has a Facebook page: www.facebook.com/GreenFootballInter change.

Anyone interested in getting involved should contact iandeacon@gmail.com

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Sport

Alumni vs Students Football Match 2014 It was a fantastic day for a dramatic match. The teams were level at the full time whistle with the alumni securing the win on penalties.

Thank you to all those that took part especially the alumni captain, Chris Kingcombe (2007), and organiser Michael Coulson (1997), and the current captain Tom Day (2013).

REPORT FROM MICHAEL COULSON With just 10 days to go, the Football Old Boys team had only six players.

There then followed a frantic search via email, Facebook and the Development Office, so that finally on the day we made it to 13 players, two more than the previous year.

Early on the Old Boys took a shock lead thanks to an excellent corner from Captain Chris Kingcombe and a smart far post finish from Shane Heffernan (2010). However it wasn’t long before the current Girton team, riding high in division two, got into their stride and started to expose the inevitable frailties of the Old Boys team. Three goals duly arrived before half time, the best of which was a fine individual effort from the tall blonde haired striker who managed to chip Old Boys keeper Rob Jones (2002) from outside the box.

Half time allowed the Old Boys to have a breather and plan ways to try and get back into the match. But no one predicted what would happen early on in the second half. My goal-scoring

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record in my four years playing for the College was very poor and to be honest in the first half I was struggling to keep up. But as I was scheduled to come off for a 15 minute breather, I thought I would go up for a corner. Once again the delivery from Kingcombe was fantastic, and without a second to think I planted an unstoppable header in the top corner of the net. There are times when life truly amazes me!

The Old Boys now had momentum and with the current team scheduled to play Cuppers the next day, the match began to even up. Heffernan cleverly slotted home the equaliser with about 25 minutes left and the Old Boys held on for a remarkable 3-3 draw, which no one could have predicted at half time.

It’s very hard to single individuals out in such a great team effort but Kingcombe and Mark Walsh (1997) were pivotal in midfield, James Streather (2009) was energy personified on the right, Richard Staff (2003) was

rock solid at the back and Rob Jones’ handling was very assured.

Overall it was a great day meeting Girtonians Old and New. If you are interested in playing next year then contact me at michaelcoulson@rocketmail.com.

We always need reinforcements to our squad, because getting 11 footballers back to Girton is always much harder than people assume.

Donors

Donors to the College 2013-14 The College is extremely grateful to all the following for their support. Donors from 1 July 2013 – 30 June 2014 are listed below; donors from July 2014 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, addressable alumni from a year group making a gift within the financial year.

Names in italic type indicate a legacy.

Class of 1932 Mrs V Garner (Clague) Class of 1934 Miss J Macaulay Class of 1935 Miss E Chadwick Miss J Mangold Mrs J Westwood (Murrant) Class of 1936 Anonymous Mrs M Tyndall (Blench) Class of 1937 Miss E Burton Class of 1938 Miss K Auty Miss M Cox Miss M Elliott Class of 1939 Mrs J Abraham (Cole) Dr M Metcalfe (Davies) Miss E Yonge Class of 1940 Dr M Brown Mrs J Rawlence (Finch) Mrs L Roe (Jones) Mrs R Winegarten (Aarons) Class of 1941 Dr J Miller (Wilson) Mrs S Seddon (Proudlock-Dunbar) Class of 1942 Anonymous Miss M Evans Mrs A Finch (Dickson) Mrs I Goodwin (Simon) Mrs A Helliwell (Barnes) Mrs G Poole (Naldrett) Mrs A Sinnhuber (Daubercies) Class of 1943 Dr R Brooke (Clark) and Professor C Brooke Mrs C Heptonstall (Smith) Dr M Lyon Mrs A Nowell (Giles) Dr J Robinson (Callow) Dr J Trusted (Turner) Class of 1944 Anonymous Mrs P Broomhead (Wagstaff) Mrs P Burcham (Marson)

Mrs M Child (Bond) Mrs M Pinsent (Bowen) Miss O Searles Mrs B Sloman (Pilkington-Rogers) Mrs V Williams (Grubb) Class of 1945 Mrs A Bassett (James) Miss M Chevallier Mrs J Humphreys (Bosomworth) Mrs C Kerr (Fillmore) Mrs H Kingsley Brown (Sears) Mrs J Mothersill (Brock) Ms A Wilson Class of 1946 Anonymous Mrs J Duncan (Salmon) Mrs L Grant (Belton) Mrs A Kitson (Cloudsley) Miss S Warren Class of 1947 Anonymous Mrs B Barnett (Hurlock) Mrs J Carroll (Duncan) Dr M Chibnall (Morgan) Mrs M Christie (Makepeace) Mrs R Collins (Mottershead) Mrs M Conn (Sumner) Mrs R Felton (Holt) Professor H Francis (Wright) Dr J Hockaday (Fitzsimons) Mrs J Jolowicz (Stanley) Dr P Talalay (Samuels) Dr M Thomas (Hern) Mrs P Wilson (Knight) Class of 1948 Anonymous Dr S Beare (Reed) Dr J Brady Mrs R Buckley (Williams) Lady Chilver (C Grigson) Mrs M Clark (Ronald) Professor E Curran Dr I Ferguson (McLaren) Mrs J Goddard Mrs S Greig (Stutchbury) Mrs K Kummer (Morris) Mrs P Marsh (Holland) and Mr D Marsh Mrs D Mayes (Law) Mrs M Morgan (Byrant) Dr M Rendel Mrs J Statham (Lansdown) Mrs S Tyler (Morris)

Class of 1949 Anonymous Mrs A Atkinson (Barrett) Mrs M Bryan (Grant) Mrs E Bullock (Pomeroy) Mrs J Cartwright (Edmonds) Miss J Harington Mrs J Hewlett (Williams) Mrs M Hodgkinson (Wass) Dr S Kaplow (Briscoe) Dr J Lloyd-Thomas (Baron) Mrs M Milkman (Friedenthal) Professor V Minogue (Hallett) Dr J Orrell (Kemp) Dr V Pearson (Mercer) Baroness P Perry (Welch) Dr M Snook (Butler) Mrs A Thomas (Kendon) Dr V van der Lande Class of 1950 Participation Rate: 19.4% Anonymous Mrs J Alchin (Hankey) Dr A Chapman (Peter) Mrs R Dams (Bailey) Mrs D Dennis (Hinnels) Miss S Lesley Mrs M Owen (Baron) Mrs J Schofield (Plowman) Mrs J Towle (Barbour) Mrs S Turner (Davis) Class of 1951 Participation Rate: 27.7% Anonymous Dr R Bailey Mrs R Bennett (Appleton) Mrs J Gumeracha (Hill-Smith) Mrs A Hamaker (Church) Dr M Howatson (Craven) Dr K Lawson Mrs M Macey (Denton) Ms S Marsden Mrs A Oldroyd (Holloway) Mrs G Scales (Grimsey) Mrs R Smart (Armstrong) Miss B Stephenson Mrs P Ward (Nobes) Mrs H Wright (Mingins) Dr E Wyatt Class of 1952 Participation Rate: 27.5% Anonymous Miss J Butler Mrs A Carey (Patrick) Mrs J Foord (Greenacre)

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Donors

Mrs M Levett (Ward) Mrs C McLean (Lithgow) Mrs G Parr (Loft) Mrs A Preston (Walmsley) Dr B Thomson (Bland) Mrs D Thorp (Galbraith) Mrs S Threlfall (Jackson) Mrs C Vigars (Walton) Dr J Wade (Marlar) Mrs J Walker (Brown) Mrs E Werry Mrs D York (MacDonald)

Lady Foster (K Bullock) Ms M Gilbert Miss R Hadden Mrs R Harris (Barry) Mrs J Hurst (Kohner) Mrs J Lindgren (Beck) Mrs J Lovegrove (Bourne) Mrs B Marshall (Golding) Mrs P Ross (Davies) Mrs N Schaffer (Thomas) Miss C Somerset Mrs P Souter (Baker) Mrs I Wiener (Pollak) Mrs J Wood (Felton) Class of 1953 Participation Rate: 23.9% Anonymous Mrs S Alderson (Heard) Mrs A Attree (Chapman) Dr M Barnes (Sampson) Mrs B Bishop (Baker) The Revd L Brown Dr M Coope (Robinson) Dr E Dobie (Marcus) Miss O Harper Dr Pamela Hill (Harper) Mrs G Hitchcock (Worthington) Mrs K Larkin (Gibson) and Mr M Larkin Mrs J Marshallsay (Hall-Smith) Lady Reid (M Kier) Mrs J Round (Baum) Mrs J Shipley (Leeman) Mrs S Turner (Pascal) Class of 1954 Participation Rate: 26.8% Anonymous Mrs A Burley (Snow) Mrs V Carroll (Jordan) The Rev H Catton (Middleton) Mrs C Coleman (Whiten) Dr M Cox (Whichelow) Mrs E Fenwick (Roberts) Mrs A Franklin (Glossop) Mrs R Goring (Blake) Mrs J Harrison (Richards) Mrs J Jordan (Hogbin) Mrs D Lees-Jones (Nayler) Miss M McNulty Mrs H Silk (Wallace) Mrs D Stallard (Randall) Mrs F Strong (Ranger) Ms M Swanwick (Richardson) Mrs D Woolley (McGrath) Class of 1955 Participation Rate: 37% Anonymous Dr S Adam (Merrell) Mrs A Alexander (Coulton) Mrs R Allen (Green) Mrs P Bainbridge (Lawrence) Mrs J Barker (Cotton) Mrs J Cardell Lawe (Cardell) Professor J Chandler Mrs R Edwards (Moore) Mrs M Fraser (Easterbrook) Mrs D Geliot (Stebbing) Mrs M Goodrich (Bennett) Dr B Hammerton (Mann) Mrs J Hamor (Wilkinson) Dame Rosalyn Higgins (Cohen) Mrs S Holmans (Edge) Mrs B Isaac (Miller)

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Class of 1956 Participation Rate: 21.1% Anonymous Mrs J Barrett (Fountain) Lady Bett (C Reid) Mrs M Bright (Abel) Dr J Davies (Dadds) Mme W Hellegouarc'h (Thomas) Mrs A Hooper (Tyszkiewicz) 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 Class of 1957 Participation Rate: 19.7% Anonymous Professor J Ashworth Mrs M Davies (Owen) Mrs G du Charme (Brown) Mrs A Goosey (Alexander) Mrs J Hammond (Haffner) Mrs J Hull (Mee) Mrs J Kenrick (Greaves) Mrs P Moylan (James) Mrs S Otty (Williams) Mrs V Roberts (Chapman) Dr E Vinestock (Morrison) Mrs V Wood-Robinson (Ginman) Mrs P Youngman (Coates) Class of 1958 Participation Rate: 35.6% Anonymous Mrs F Bennetts (Farrar) Dr H Bewes (Bryant) Mrs E Cary (Simon) Miss J Corser Mrs P Dauris (Butterworth) 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 D Hobden (Hutchings) Mrs A Holland (Telling) Dr G Lachelin Mrs S Lawrence (Reeder) Mrs D Lindsay (Gent) Dr J Lloyd (Muir-Smith) Mrs A McFee (Mills) Mrs K Norman (Redwood) Mrs J Pardey (Stoker) Dr J Rizvi (Clarke) Mrs R Ross (Fincher) Mrs C Stewart (Custance)

Mrs B Stocks (Martin) Mrs E Unmack (Tait) Class of 1959 Participation Rate: 22.2% Anonymous Mrs S Beasley (Brown) Mrs D Boatman (Coles) Mrs J Butcher (Walker) Ms J Fairwood (Wood) Mrs A Foat (Goldup) Dr S Guthrie (Weltman) Mrs M Hall (Adams) Mrs V Hall (Heard 1959) and Mr J Hall Mrs C Hopkins (Busbridge) Mrs K Lawther (Cameron) Mrs A Montgomery (Hurrell) Mrs M Morgan (Stallard-Penoyre) Professor C Oppong (Slater) Mrs J Paine (Smith) Mrs L Ruffe (Cuppage) Professor S Szuchet Mrs D Turner (Greenaway) Lady Vaizey (M Stansky) Mrs E Woodhouse (Steele) Class of 1960 Participation Rate: 26.8% Anonymous Mrs R Brackenbury (Crabtree) Dr D Devlin Mrs M Field (Chisholm) Mrs B Gardner (Brennan) Dr V Haynes Mckay (Haynes) Mrs J Herriott (MacLean) Dr A McDonald (Lamming) Mrs J Meadows (Stratford) Miss F Mills Mrs D Nicholson (Hilton) Mrs V Offord (Wheatley) 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: 24.2% Anonymous Dr S Bain (Stanley) Mrs J Bower (Bath) Mrs C Brack (Cashin) Mrs K Brind (Williams) Dr A Conyers (Williams) Mrs S Cox (Crombie) Mrs J de Swiet (Hawkins) Mrs E Hambly (Gorham) Miss B Nevill Professor C Nyamweru (Washbourn) Mrs M Poole-Wilson (Gemmell) Mrs F Price (Hough) Mrs R Righter (Douglas) Ms A Robertson Mrs L Scott-Joynt (White) Mrs S Smith (Jenkins) Mrs J Stancomb (Cooper) Mrs J Standage (Ward) Dr A Thompson Dr R Toms (Peregrine-Jones) Mrs C White (Slade) Mrs S Wilson (Waller)

Donors

Class of 1962 Participation Rate: 17.4% Anonymous Miss J Bainbridge Mrs R Binney (Chanter) Mrs D Bond (Macfarlane) Mrs C Cooper (Parsons) Miss A Darvall Mrs P Downes (Sterry) and Mr P Downes Miss H Greig Ms J McAdoo (Hibbert) Dr R Morley (Doling) Dr V Raman (Srinivasan) Miss P Simpson Miss H Strouts Mrs J Way (Whitehead) Class of 1963 Participation Rate: 20% Anonymous Lady Atkinson (J Mandeville) Dr E Burroughs (Clyma) Mrs S Hill (Gleeson-White) Mrs L Jones (Smith) Mrs C Lane (Emus) Mrs H Langslow (Addison) Dr M Middleton Miss E Roberts Mrs M Stoney (Wild) Dr P Taylor (Francis) Dr V Thorne (Stanton) Mrs J Wakefield (Dawes) Class of 1964 Participation Rate: 13.2% Anonymous Mrs C Ansorge (Broadbelt) Mrs C Beasley-Murray (Griffiths) Professor K Beckingham Mrs R Canning (Harris) Miss D Crowder Her Honour Judge Fisher (E Fisher) Ms I Freebairn Ms V Horsler (Sheen) Mrs G McIlwaine (Leathem) Mrs J McManus (Edwards) Dr R Osmond (Beck) Mrs C Thorp (Kenyon) Class of 1965 Participation Rate: 16% Anonymous The Rt Hon Lady Justice Arden (M Arden) Dr D Challis (Pennington) Mrs P Eaton (Mills) Ms J Gardiner Mrs J Houghton (Rumsey) Dr R Page (Wight) Dr M Picton (Jones) Mrs P Sharp (Monach) Mrs H Short (Hawthorn) Professor A Sinclair (Lees) Professor V van Heyningen (Daniel) Dr M Whalley (Bramley) Class of 1966 Participation Rate: 17.6% Anonymous Mrs L Andrews (Scott) Dr L Bacon (Rayner) Dr E Capewell (Aldridge) Miss F Corrie Mrs L Curgenven (Charlton) Mrs H Davies (Waters) Professor A Finch

Mrs S Forster (Hawley) Mrs B Hird (Holden) and Mr A Hird Dr A Lishman Ms W Loh Mrs A Nussey Dr R Smith (Lowenthal) Class of 1967 Participation Rate: 17% Anonymous Dr A Baldwin (Barber) Dr B Castleton (Smith) Dr P Chadwick Mrs L Chesneau (Jacot) Mrs K Coleman (MacKenzie) Dr D Cunningham (Yeates) Dr E Emerson Dr P Ford Dr N Gibbons (Bole) The Rt Hon Lady Gloster (E Gloster) Mrs A Hoddell (Habakkuk) Mrs D McAndrew (Harrison) Mrs G Mintah (Quansah) Mrs B Moran (Jones) Mrs A Rowe (Helliwell) Mrs L Tee (Payne) Mrs B Walker (Fogg) and Mr W Walker Class of 1968 Participation Rate: 27.4% Anonymous Dr G Ball (Harte) Dr A Blackburn Dr L Braddock Ms S Burrows-Goodwill (Burrows) Mrs V Challacombe (Brousson) Mrs H Chown (Benians) Ms J Crimmin Dr C Crocker (Tombs) Dr J Cross Miss S Cubitt Dr H Falk Ms H Goy (Corke) Mrs S Gray (Francis) Professor R Jenkins (McDougall) Ms E Klingaman Mrs D Knight (Watson) Ms J Mercer (Clarke) Ms S Minter Mrs L Norman (Dunn) Ms F Oates Mrs S Penfold (Marshall) Professor H Ritvo Dr F Smith (Rankin) Mrs H Swallow (Symes) Miss J Thompson Class of 1969 Participation Rate: 16.3% Anonymous Dr C Bell (Howe) Miss S Blacker (Breton) Mrs B Elks (Sanderson) Dr A Griffin (Ryder) Dr J Lebus (Harvey) Dr G Monsell (Thomas) Professor E Nesbitt Mrs Z Powers (Jones) Mrs R Sheldon (Martin) Dr B Taylor (Slimming) Mrs K Ward (Mee) Mrs S Watson (Head) Dr J Wilson (Trotter) Mrs M Winfield (Richards)

Class of 1970 Participation Rate: 14% Mrs C Avery Jones (Bobbett) and Mr J Avery Jones Lady Burnell-Nugent (M Woods) Mrs B Coulson (Chambers) Dr M Curtis (Barber) Mrs S Hargreaves Professor M Haycock Miss E Howie Ms P Jones Dr S Lawton (Marsh-Smith) Miss P Mander Dr A Marlow (Sheppard) Dr J Melia (Gibson) Dr M Mountford (Gamble) Ms J Nockolds Dr R Siddals Professor M Skuncke Class of 1971 Participation Rate: 17.1% Anonymous Ms A Bazin Mrs Z Bennett (Humphries-Bennett) Dr H Caldwell (Burtenshaw) Mrs V Chiesa (Wilkie) Dr F Clifton-Hadley (Christian) Dr A Cobby Miss L Fluker The Revd C Hetherington (Bourne) Reverend K Kirby Professor L Markovic (Djurovic) Mrs J McKnight (Ruddle) Dr E O'Keefe (Robinson) Miss J Palmer Mrs H Papworth (Garson) Ms T Smallbone Dr H Taylor Mrs J Tierney (Briggs) Mrs G Waters (Cutmore) Mrs R West (Sykes) Class of 1972 Participation Rate: 16.9% Anonymous Mrs J Bell (Spurgin) Dr F Campbell The Rev C Clarke (Fletcher) Mrs S Cooper (Vale) Miss H Darby Dr S Davies Ms S Dawson Dr A Edmonds Miss G Edwards Mrs S Gaulter (Wright) Ms J Hanna Ms B Hines (Fetjek) Mrs E Hope (Bentley) Dr J Kinder (Stott) Mrs A Molloy (Taylor) Dr J Moyes (Paul) and Mr J Moyes Dr A Overzee (Hunt) Miss S Pargeter Ms Vicky Platt Mrs M Samuels (Moss) Mrs C Turner (Ogle) Mrs R Whatmore (Robertson) Class of 1973 Participation Rate: 15.6% Anonymous Ms M Austen Mrs A Bamforth (Burgess) Mrs M Beringer (Powell) Dr M Davies

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Donors

Dr B Mensch and Mr M Evans Mrs G Millinger (Ashton) Mrs S Morgan (Richardson) Ms H Morrison Dr A Roberts Dr C Robinson (Murphy) Dr Y Roe Mrs J Smallwood (Smith) Miss E Wade Mrs S Weatherhead (Wallace)

Dr L Dumbreck (Devlin) Dr C Fine (Cheal) Mrs M Gildea (Brierley) Mrs A Griffiths (Evans) Mrs J Kitchen (Woods) Mrs V Knight (Hammerton) Dr A Lyon (Butland) Dr T Madej Mrs N Miller (Thomas) Mrs P O'Driscoll (Thrower) Dr A Owen Mrs A Stainsby (Sutton) Dr S Tilby (Wharton) Ms P Wade (Wellburn) Class of 1974 Participation Rate: 15.5% Anonymous Lady Baker (H Sharrock) Dr A Blum Mrs C Borrill (Pateras) Dr J Clayton (Gardner) Mrs M Craig (MacCoby) Dr S Dyson Miss D Farley Miss J Fuller Mrs F Hallworth (Whiston) Dr D Lamb Mrs P Marr (Swanney) Mrs F Morris (Milner) Ms M Morris Dr C Morrison (Page) Dr E Oakes (Jacques) Miss N Powell Dr M Trusted Dr R Whaley Mrs A Whipp (Smith) Class of 1975 Participation Rate: 16.8% Anonymous Ms F Anderson (Wells-Thorpe) Mrs J Barker (Leske) Miss F Boyers Mrs A Davidson (Jones) Mrs S Finlay (Perry) Miss F Gledhill Dr J Goldberg Dr M Jubb Ms J Mann Dr P McCallum (Coon) Mrs C Mitchell (Teall) Dr R Nye (Painter) Mrs S Palmer (Hull) Her Honour Judge I Parry Dr R Rayner (Talbot) Mrs R Ross Miss M Stebbing Dr G Tozer-Hotchkiss (Tozer) Dr P Tyrrell Ms F Werge Class of 1976 Participation Rate: 20.6% Anonymous Dr C Anderson (Aston) Ms D Bartelt-Fuertes (Bartlett) Dr H Benbow Dr C Bryce (Ford) Mrs P Cakebread (James) Ms J Ferrans Dr M Fiorotto Mrs A Jenkinson (Sims) Mrs E Jones (Dando) Miss M Knowles Mrs S Maunder (McVicar)

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Class of 1977 Participation Rate: 23.4% Anonymous Mrs S Ballingall Dr C Bell Mrs C Bromhead (Smith) Dr C Brown Mrs J Collyer (Kiwana) Mrs A Coulton (McWatters) Dr C Davis Dr R Dyer Ms C Egan Mrs A Glanvill (Howe) Mrs C Hesketh Ms S Hunt (Robin) Mrs N King Miss J Main Thompson Mrs H May Mrs H Neville-Towle (Duguid) Mrs C Oram (Hughes) Dr L Pillidge Professor S Rowland-Jones Mrs B Schouten (Edwards) Mrs S Shaw (Everett) Mrs P Somervell (Holt) Professor H Thomas Mrs L Turner (Gemmell) Mrs G White (Lupton) Ms S Woodall Mrs G Woon (Doubleday) Class of 1978 Participation Rate: 20% Anonymous Mrs R Anderson (Naish) and Mr J Anderson Mrs S Conolly (Ruch) The Rev Dr M De Quidt (Williamson) Mrs G Dodd (Andrewes) Ms J Elton Mrs A Francis (Fairbairn) Mrs J George (Peterson) Ms A Harding (Moore) Mrs A Higgs (Beynon) Ms B Hill Mrs M Jackson (Strudwick) Ms K Knight (Otter) Mrs H Lim (Tan) Mrs A Masters (Elms Neale) Dr J Mitchell (Stebbing) Ms S O'Mahony (Bigg) Dr J Risdall Mrs S Routledge (Blythe) Mrs S Shrimpton (Lightfoot) Dr N Simmonds Dr A Streetly Mrs L Wortley (Greenhalgh) Class of 1979 Participation Rate: 23.8% Anonymous Mrs J Barwick-Nesbit (Nicholson) Ms J Caddick (Roberts) Dr P Child (Skeggs) Mrs K Clay (Swift) Mrs J Clough (Richardson)

Mr P Clouts Mr D Conway-Jones Mrs J Edis (Askew) Mr C Edwards Dr A Gemmill Dr P Gibson Mr K Grocott Dr S Hales Ms C Hanks (Boag) Miss J Hewett-Cooney (Hewett) Ms S Hewin Miss L Jerram Ms E Lee Mrs M Lewis (Wallington) Mr J Longstaff Mrs A Lowe (Alexander) Dr J Martin (Hewitt) Miss T Nicholls Mrs R Payne (Francis) Mr N Pears Professor M Power Ms I Ruhemann Mrs A Sheil (Simpson) Professor A Taylor (Rosser) Mrs S Waller (Skelland) Mrs F Weston (Simpson) Dr N Wilkinson (Nanji) Dr C Young Class of 1980 Participation Rate: 17% Anonymous Mrs H Blackburn (Egan) Mrs J Burridge (Saner) Mr I Craggs Mr J Doyle Professor M Fewtrell Mr S Firth Ms S Gill Ms S Hall (Hetherington) Mr D Hollingworth Mrs S Lancashire (Marr) Dr N Land Dr K Marwick Mr C Milne Mrs K Pugh (Burton) Mr D Recaldin Mrs B Shah (Pandey) Mr I Teague Ms P Treacy Dr C Vize Mrs H Wilderspin (Chatters) Class of 1981 Participation Rate: 13.4% Anonymous Mr D Branson Mr G Counsell and Ms A Reece (1981) Mrs T Cowen (Castling) Dr P Hammond Mr N Harvey Mr A Lane Ms H Linaker (Townshend) Mrs Y Maxtone-Smith (Maxtone-Graham) Mr R McAllister Ms M O'Brien Mr P Patel Ms F Smith Mrs R Stileman (Cremer) Mr N Wells Mrs A Whitaker (Rundle) Class of 1982 Participation Rate: 17.9% Anonymous Mr D Bishop

Donors

Mrs C Burch (Ellis) Professor J Cassell Ms L Davy Mrs E Hess (Bannan) Mr S Hood Mrs K Ip (Jopson) Miss A Lea Miss S Leong Ms G McDonald (House) The Revd Canon C Methuen Mr S Namasivayam Mrs K Peissel (Lynn) Dr C Proudman and Miss S Major (1982) Miss M Quinn Mr J Rae-Smith Mrs J Raffle (Lobell) Mr A Simpson Ms L Simpson Class of 1983 Participation Rate: 12.8% Anonymous Mr S Bell Mr C Gibbs Professor D Gowing Mr L Hoegh Miss W Holden Mrs A House (McNiff) Mrs A Johnstone (Walkington) Ms J Kirrane (Cronan) Professor M Lindsay Mr G McCurdy Dr S O'Hanlon Ms C Orchard (Brind) Mr J Pike Mrs L Sadler (Hyde) Dr K Steward Ms F Van Dijk Mr D Wittmann Dr F Woodhouse Class of 1984 Participation Rate: 11.8% Anonymous Mrs T Bradley (Jennings) Mr P Cameron Dr T Crickmore (Bartram) Mrs C Dwyer (Williams) Professor M Gale Ms M Goring Mr S Hacking Mr A Jackson Mr W Jeffels Mr C Mok Mrs D Morrison (Restall) Dr L Power Dr I Smith Mr P Williams Mr J Young Class of 1985 Participation Rate: 16% Anonymous 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 T Earl Mrs J Fraser Ms M Hackett Mr M Hanson Mr F Heng

Dr R Hyde Mrs S Parton (Reid) and Mr J Parton (1984) Ms P Roberts Dr D Smith Mrs E Strachan (Hill) Mrs C Travis (Bygrave) Mr V Wang Miss S Williams Mr C Woodford Class of 1986 Participation Rate: 16% Anonymous Mrs D Banerji (Urwin) Mr K Chan Mrs C Crawley (Cregan) Mrs S Croft (White) Mr J Downes Mr R Evison Mr G Freeman Dr P Griffin Ms C Liassides Dr S Lishman Mr K Mann Mr A Pymer Mr R Rayward Mrs K Roberts (Granger) Dr P Shah Mrs A Sharp (de Labauve d'Arifat) Dr W Simonson Mrs K Stormont Dr S Tam Mr S Walker Ms K Whiting Class of 1987 Participation Rate: 9.2% Anonymous Mr M Anderson Mr R Bayall (Buaal) Miss R Bright-Thomas Mr T Britton Mr S Close Dr L Fallon Mr K Galloway Mr P Groombridge Mr R Toone Class of 1988 Participation Rate: 12.1% Anonymous Mrs J Ancel (Hatem) Ms C Bardon (Heslop) Dr R Cox Dr A Gillespie Ms F Graham Mr G Green Mr M Hutt Mrs A Little (Jacobson) Dr J Malt Ms K McEvoy Mr R Moss Mrs A Orsi (Knight) Dr J Rippin Mr J Short Mr A Tyrer Dr T Wong Ms A Young Class of 1989 Participation Rate: 12.7% Anonymous Dr D Bell Mr P Brabin Miss J Buck Mrs R Cowin (Clark)

Dr M de Miranda Ms N Guest and Mr D Riddell Mr D Henderson Mr J Howling Dr J Jacobs Ms S Jones (Griffith) Mr B Joshi Mr M Khalid Mr S Marsden Dr J Outram Mr A Ridley Mrs C Seward (Stanley) Ms R Teale Class of 1990 Participation Rate: 10.8% Anonymous Mr S Beale Mr R Collins Mr M Hallett Mrs G McPherson (Hunter) Ms B Mielniczek (Miller) Miss V Milner Dr G O'Keefe Mr D Poppleton Mr T Taylor Mrs J Treutenaere (Amos) Ms E Wagner Dr M Weston Dr H Wong Class of 1991 Participation Rate: 13.3% Anonymous Mr S Bradley Mr J Creighton Mr D Germain Mr R Goodhead Dr S Hayward Mr P James Mrs E Lester Mr G Marshall Mrs P Martin (Hall) Mr R Mun Dr D Ramm Mr A Redfern Mr J Rouse Mr T Southern Mr J Spencer Ms M Vintiadis Dr S Wallace Dr H Winand Class of 1992 Participation Rate: 10.8% Anonymous Dr S Aguilar Mr D Batchelor Mrs N Budd (Hill) Dr E Chesneau Mrs J Dumbelton (Ainsworth) Mrs J Geldart (Kelly) Mr J Geston Mr O Haffenden Dr R Jarvis (Brown) and Dr M Jarvis (1992) Mrs N Lancaster (Swift) Mr J Marsh Mr A McCready Mr A Poulson Mrs L Sabharwal (Hill) Dr C Themans-Warwick (Warwick) Dr D Thurley Dr B von Meier-Ince (von Meier)

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Class of 1993 Participation Rate: 11.5% Anonymous Mr G Arnold Mr T Barnes Mr W Collins Dr A Curry Mr I Furlonger Mrs S Galbraith (Smith) Ms R Kerr Mrs A Lancaster (Mills) Dr J Nowell Mr J O'Sullivan Mrs S Parsons (Relf) Mr V Rawal Mrs J Riley (Hook) Mr N Sartain Mr H Stokes Mrs A Tobin Mr R Weatherston Mr G Williams Class of 1994 Participation Rate: 8% Anonymous Dr R Albardiaz Dr A Blaxter Paliwala Dr G Bradbury Dr J Chen Mr N Coram-Wright Dr T Courtney Miss N Hollingsworth Mr C Hulatt Mrs S Huxley-Reynard (Edgar) Mr K Locherer Mr P Mason Ms C Maugham (Hibbitt) Mr L McLernon Mr E Pugh Class of 1995 Participation Rate: 11.7% Anonymous Mr T Boughton Ms R Briggs Mr S Davidson Mr A Every Mr B Fehnert Miss A Jacobs Mr L John Dr L Lamb (Baker) Mr T Massingham Mrs M Miksch White Mr N Parker Mr P Ryland Miss L Shackleton Dr L Shaw Dr A Thurrell

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Class of 1998 Participation Rate: 12.5% Anonymous Miss A Bayona Font Mr R Bryan Miss F Bryson Miss K Clark Mr P Cornmell Dr T Craggs Mr G Dobson and Mrs A Dobson (Ambrose) (1999) Mrs H Francis (Barnes) Mrs P Frowde (Barclay) Mr J Gilberthorpe Mrs S Holt (Merrigan) Ms K Kennedy (Laver) Miss R Pope Mr G Redman Mrs C Smith (Thomas) Mr J Vali Miss L Wingfield Digby Mr J Woolf Class of 1999 Participation Rate: 14% Anonymous Dr E Almond (Robinson) Miss K Bingham Mrs H Budnitz Miss L Bullock Mrs S Callas (Hedley Lewis) Dr J Claass Dr B Coffin Miss T Collier Mr J Cooper-Colliander (Cooper) Mr D Emmens Mrs A Hami (Kaler) Mr A Holland Dr N Jennings Mr H Li Dr H Lu Mr P Marshall Mr J Morgan

Class of 1996 Participation Rate: 10.8% Anonymous Dr K Best (Smith) Ms H Bradley Miss C Chan Mr M Cobley Ms Y Erden Miss A Gee Mr P Glover Miss L James Mrs A Keen (Neale) Mrs B Richards (Goodridge) Ms C Roberts Mr R Smith Dr L Wilson-Shaw (Jackson) Mrs C Wookey-Evans

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Class of 1997 Participation Rate: 18% Anonymous Miss L Allen Mr J Anthony-Edwards (Anthony) Mr P Beer Miss M Bingham-Walker Mr E Buckley Dr E Butterworth Mr C Cheung Mr A Chisholm Mr M Cullingford Mrs C Finburgh (Pearson) Mrs C Gruffudd Jones (Mulliss) Mr R Hakes Mr P Hall Dr J Hawes and Mrs C Hawes (Slevin) (1997) Dr L Hulatt Mrs J Lam (Anderson) Miss K Moorhouse Mr T Murphy Mr S Nelson Ms E O'Reilly (Reynolds) Mr N Robinson Mr P Rutland Dr J Schonfield Dr M Shaw-Champion Mr M Sidhom Miss J Smith Mr C Vickers Miss L Walker Mr J Wheeler

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Mrs R Morris (Bowes) Dr R Orr Mrs B Orton Mr E Owles Mr H Rowntree Miss N Rump Mrs H Underwood (Keeble) Mr G Williams Class of 2000 Participation Rate: 7.9% Anonymous Mrs S Bradnum (Degge) Mr C Caulkin Mr S Costello Dr M Dries Dr C Duckworth Mr D Grier Miss L Hamilton Mr A Mohamedbhai Mr J Panchaud Mrs K Seed (Butlin) Dr D Smith Mr T Sneddon Mr B Speight and Mrs H Speight (Haggie) (2000) Mr T Wey Class of 2001 Participation Rate: 16.4% Anonymous Miss Z Best Miss S Brien Miss B Cain Mr D Cash Miss S Daniell Miss G Durkin Miss R Dyer Mr T Elliott Miss K Ellison Mrs B Fletcher (Wecker) Mr P Hempsall Mr U Inamete Mr E Jackson Mr J Knibbs Mrs L Leach (Ingle) Miss H Lloyd Miss R Mandal Ms V Marx Mr J Mather Mr J Meenowa Ms R Moore Dr A Owen Miss A Sharma Ms E St. Matthew-Daniel Dr D Stretton (Marshall) Mrs R Walker (Clements) Mr R Wright Class of 2002 Participation Rate: 13.1% Anonymous Mr J Andrews Mr J Beeson Miss G Bryce Miss K Charles Mrs K Clark (Irving) Miss H Craik Mr S de Haas Mr T Elson Dr G Gnanakumaran Mr R Griffiths Miss C Hall Miss L Hare Miss G Heffernan Mr J Hogg

Donors

Mrs P Hook (Tudor) Mr T Houlton Miss N Osborn Ms A Outhwaite Dr K Ponomareva Mr M Schneider Miss S Stewart Mr J Turner Mr S West Mr T Yates Class of 2003 Participation Rate: 13.4% Anonymous Mr W Armstrong Miss E Cheng Mr N Cook Mr A Darnton Miss N Hitchon Mr M Hughes Mr H Johnson Mr A Kumar Dr S May Mr J Mitchell Mrs C Murrells (Clifton) Miss S Pankaj Dr L Pechey Mr J Rees Mrs S Saeed (Adam) Mr P Shah Dr R Staff Mr B Stimmler Dr M White Ms J Wong Class of 2004 Participation Rate: 11.7% Anonymous Mr A Ainsworth Mr M Beckett Mr M Birmingham Mr S Burdus Mr D Deitz Mr P Dower Mr R Durkin Miss R Fahy Mrs K Fryatt (McDonnell) and Mr J Fryatt (2004) Mr M Gossage Mr V Handa Mr N Jones Miss A Kolbe Miss R Laidlaw Mr A Leung Miss E Lowe Mrs W Lung (Dong) and Mr R Lung (2003) Miss V Moss Mr S Murray Mr D Olgun Mr S Rattan Miss I Sides Mr J Staff Mr K Wong Class of 2005 Participation Rate: 16.1% Anonymous Mr J Anderson Mr L Andrews Miss D Bradley Dr Peter Brett Miss K Caro Mrs J Cox (MacDonald) Mr N Culshaw Miss N de Pointis Brighty Mr M Eaton Mr M Forsman

Miss C Kellas Mr E Livingston Miss D Luo Miss K Main Mr S Mutter Mrs J Naseman (Bromage) Miss C Nichols Mr A Paul Miss S Potter Miss C Raynham Dr D Rees Mr D Ryder-Cook Mr R Sands Miss K Scotter Miss J Sheard (Gulliver) Mr R Stutt Mr W Walters Class of 2006 Participation Rate: 14.6% Anonymous Miss R Anthony Mr S Antill Mr M Beevor Mr C Cameron Mr S Cowen Miss S Footman Miss N Hamilton Miss J Harries Miss S Hawkins Mr J Hosier Miss L Iredale Mr L Lin Miss D Margolis Dr R Mellis Dr G Milne Mr P Morris Mr H Onslow Mr O Patey Mr S Porter and Mrs R Porter (Dinham) (2007) Miss C Rainsford Mr B Roman Dr M Sweeney Mr D Swift Mr W Tan Miss R Tandy Mr B Travers Mr Y Xu Class of 2007 Participation Rate: 17.4% Anonymous Mr D Adams Mr N Caldwell Miss W Chan Miss F Dickinson Mr J Drake Mr T Gault Dr F Hansell Mr S Hayes Mr G Hung Mr T Ithell Mr C Kingcombe Miss E Kostalas Miss G Kwong Mr J Manns Miss S Miller Mr J More Miss J Nutter Ms P Olivari Miss M Oliver Mr F Perez Cutino Miss M Sasai Miss R Smith Miss A Tedder Mr O Timmis

Mr B Treloar Mr D Vyravipillai Mr S Wait Miss L Walden Mr A Young Class of 2008 Participation Rate: 10.1% Anonymous Miss H Ayoob Mr J Brighton Mr E Button Mr A Carter Miss N Coan Mr R Daboul Mr M Duyzend Mr L Fletcher Miss C Ford Mr R Harris Mrs J Hopkins (Cragg) Mr R Pavesi Mr M Rendall Mr G Rochez Mr D Shah Mr G Shankar Miss R Singer Mr D Spencer Mr E Stephens Mr J Wong Mr P Woollins Class of 2009 Anonymous Miss S Hale Mr S Hart Mr M Hathrell Miss M Kang Mr F Kirsch Mr J Meisner Miss E Richards Mr A Stikonas Mr J Streather Mr J Styles Mr M Udoff Mr L Wong Miss A Woroniuk Class of 2010 Anonymous Mr M Meek Mr P Thompson Mr M Wright Class of 2011 Mr R Bhopal Miss A Mirosevic-Sorgo Mr J Tong Fellows1, staff and supporters Professor P Abrahams Mr S Ansell Dr D Barden Prof Dame G Beer (Thomas) Miss V Bennett Mr D Berman and Mrs D Berman Mr A Blake Mr B Brown Mr A Dawson Dr J Dusinberre Professor S Dyson Dr M Ennis Mrs A Falconer Ms F Gandy Mr R Gautrey Mr J Gray Professor J Hendry

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Donors

Mrs P Hill Professor S Hinds Mr M Hsin Dr M Ives Mrs S and Mr T Law Mr A Leader Professor R Leigh Ms D Lowther The Rt Hon the Lord Mackay of Clashfern Professor G Madabhushi Professor M Maekawa (Nakanishi) Ms F Malaree and Mr R Wielechowski (2002) Dr J Marks Mr N Peacock Mr M Pocock Dr H Radke Ms J Reynolds Mr D Shelley

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Mr A Smith Mrs P Smith The family of Margaret Stokes (nĂŠe Farquhar 1940) Miss V Thompson Professor P Tod Mrs J Varney Mr S Venn Ms J Wilkinson Mr HBK Williams Mr P Wilson Organisations BHP Billiton Cambridge Local Girton Association General Atlantic Girton College Geographical Association Goldman Sachs

London Girton Association Nuclear Electric Insurance Ltd Oxford Region Girtonians Portland CSO Trading Ltd Slaughter and May Third Order, Society of St Francis 1

Who are not also alumni

Meet the Team Our Development Director, Elizabeth Wade, is an Old Girtonian herself (1976) and is responsible for the College's Development Campaign, long term fundraising strategy, major giving and all aspects of College alumni relations and development. Liz would be happy to hear from you if you have any comments regarding the College’s development plans and events. If you would like to know more about A Great Campaign. Liz can be contacted at e.wade@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, as well as supporting the hardworking volunteers involved with Girton’s various alumni associations. Emma also now has responsibility 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.

Hannah James (h.james@girton.cam.ac.uk, +44 (0)1223 764935) is our Development Officer and manages the busy

administrative hub of the office. She has responsibility for background research for development campaigns and alumni events and maintenance of our alumni database. Hannah is also responsible for all aspects of gift administration and for preparing the College’s quarterly and annual fundraising reports.

Our Annual Fund and Events Officer, Tamsin Elbourn, is responsible for the organisation of Development Office events and also spearheads Girton’s Annual Fund giving which includes the Easter telethon campaign, so please contact her if you have any queries about this at t.elbourn@girton.cam.ac.uk or on +44 (0)1223 765685.

Kate Belger (development@girton.cam.ac.uk) +44 (0)1223 764821 is our temporary Development Administrator. She provides administrative support to the Development Director and helps with events and communications.

Ingrid Koning (development@girton.cam.ac.uk) +44 (0)1223 764935 has also recently joined the office on a temporary basis to help with our events.

Elizabeth Wade

Emma Cornwall

Hannah James

Tamsin Elbourn

Kate Belger

Ingrid Koning Spring 2015

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Events Calendar 2015 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 27 March

Sunday 14 June (TBC)

MA Dinner

Alumni Cricket Match

Girton College

Girton College

Saturday 28 March

Tuesday 16 June

MA Congregation

May Week Concert

Girton College

Girton College

13, 14 April

Wednesday 17 June

Mistress and Development Director Visit

Artist in Residence Exhibition

Tokyo

Cambridge

Saturday 19 September

15, 16, 17 April Mistress and Development Director Visit Hong Kong

Alumni Reunion Dinner for those who matriculated in 2005 Girton College

Saturday 26 September

20, 21 April

Library Talk

Mistress and Development Director Visit

Girton College

Singapore

Saturday 26 September Lawrence Room talk

Thursday 23 April

Girton College

15 Years of People’s Portraits, RP Mall Galleries Exhibition

Saturday 26 September

London

People’s Portraits Reception Girton College

Saturday 25 April

Saturday 26 September

Medics and Vets Dinner

Friday 1 May

Roll of Alumni Dinner including reunions for those who matriculated in 1955, 1965 and 1975

Spring Gardens Walk

Girton College

Girton College

Girton College

Sunday 27 September

Thursday 7 May

Gardens Talk

Jane Martin Poetry Prize

Girton College

Girton College

Tuesday 20 October

Saturday 9 May

Gardens Walk

Classics Supper

Girton College

Girton College

Thursday 29 October

Thursday 21 May

Alumni Formal Hall

Alumni Formal Hall

Girton College

Girton College

Saturday 21 November

Saturday 13 June May Bumps Marquee and Boat Club Dinner

Commemoration of Benefactors and Foundation Dinner Girton College

Cambridge

GIRTON COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE

Development Office Freepost RTJS-ZSHH-ZHBS The Development Office Girton College Cambridge CB3 0JG +44 (0)1223 766672/338901 development@girton.cam.ac.uk www.girton.cam.ac.uk