The Year 2012

2011 | 2012

TheYear 2011 | 2012

The Annual Review of Girton College

TheYear Girton College Cambridge

Girton College Cambridge

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Contents Editor’s Introduction A Letter from the Mistress

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Articles Benefiting from History: Providing for the Poor in the Past The Arts in the Current Climate Pendulum

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Profiles Clive Lawson Eileen Rubery Subject profile: Maths Focus on … Nicholas Mulroy

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Miscellany The University and Life Experience Project: Phase Two Mistresses: Past and Present Girton – the Musical!

New ‘Twin Triposes’ in Social and Natural Sciences Wildlife at Girton The Chamber Music Scheme

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College Reports Development Admissions Bursaries and Grants Librarian Archive Music Chapel Research Evenings Warden Staff Entertainments

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Student Reports JCR MCR Societies Reports Sports Reports

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Alumni Calendar of Events Registrar Local Associations Friends

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Births, Marriages and Deaths Births Marriages Death Notices Obituaries

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Lists The Fellowship Fellows’ Publications Appointments of Members of the Roll Alumni Publications Undergraduate Prizes Awards and Distinctions

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Editor’s introduction It is with enormous pleasure and a little trepidation that I take over from the supremely capable Peter Sparks, whose knowledge of both Girton and the workings of the Annual Review is dauntingly encyclopaedic. At a time when the College is revising its communications, both in terms of the website and its publications, my appointment seems like a good moment to give the Annual Review a bit of a metaphorical dusting.

The Annual Review is a vital record of the life of the College, and I’m sensible of the responsibilities that come with its editorship.

It is the document to which researchers will turn in the future to find out what we were up to in 2011/12, and it is one of the main publications through which we can keep in touch with our Alumni, whose influence and support continue to shape the College and its development.

Dr Kate Kennedy

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A Letter from the Mistress I hope you enjoy the new look and feel of our review of ‘The Year’ at Girton. My letter remains a personal, inevitably partial, round-up of some of the key achievements and challenges of an action-packed twelve months. It is shorter than before and lacks fine detail. However, I can assure you that this does not reflect any slowing, or slimming, of the agenda driving the College calendar through successive scholarly years!

Girton College: going forward We have spent much of this year developing a strategic academic plan. No summary statement can do justice to the mix of serious study and passionate activity encapsulated in it, but here are some pointers.

Our students, of course, are at the heart of things.

The undergraduates have a packed agenda during three eight-week terms, and last year, as ever, an exuberant Freshers’ week set the pace. I met each and every newcomer during that hectic round and was, as always, bowled over by what they have achieved so far, by the energy they bring to College, and by their enthusiasm for this new chapter in their lives.

Interestingly, by the time they got to my office, those we picked from the pool already knew that, had they been better informed, they would have applied to Girton in the first place! One of our priorities for the future is to boost first-choice applications, aided by a sparkling new website, which is already raising our profile among prospective students.

Graduate numbers were up this year, as planned. Whether we crossed a numerical threshold or achieved the right balance of one-year MPhils and three-year PhDs, whether the organisation of the graduate students or the energy of the graduate tutors has finally paid off, the MCR has come into its own. Girton has been

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firmly established as a major graduate college for some time; it is now at the leading edge. I note in particular, and with pleasure, the strong links that are developing between the MCR and the SCR. This is one of our strategic goals and we are enjoying the pursuit of it enormously.

In all, I am greatly heartened, to know that most students who secure a place at Girton feel lucky to be here. We in the College, in turn, feel lucky to have the opportunity to share with some amazing young people the most transformative times of their lives. To make the most of that, at the heart of our academic plan is the commitment to provide an excellent all-round education in a research-infused environment, available to all and delivered within a relaxed, supportive setting.

How is this achieved? The tireless work of the Admissions Office underpins Girton’s reputation for widening recruitment, promoting excellence and inclusion across all major science, social science and humanities subjects. Driving this challenging academic agenda is a committed, enthusiastic Fellowship who have also put into place a dazzling programme of activities in music, sports and the arts.

Under the guiding hand of the Director of College Music, Dr Martin Ennis, working with a newly appointed Director of Chapel Music (Nicholas Mulroy) – who has doubled the size of the choir and trebled their ambition – as well as a team of scholars and performers in residence, Girton now boasts one of the most vibrant musical scenes in Collegiate Cambridge.

In the arts and humanities more generally (which we are determined to support through these

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challenging financial times), we enjoyed the company of poet Gwyneth Lewis in Michaelmas Term, oversaw the award of the second Jane Martin Poetry Prize, saw undergraduates compete for the first Mountford Humanities prize, and witnessed the People’s Portraits (a product of our enduring partnership with the Royal Society of Portrait Painters) go from strength to strength, flourishing alongside new proposals to establish an artist residency in 2013.

Turning to sport, we – or more correctly the redoubtable Dr Marks – cut the turf for the new Pavilion; Dr Sabesan reassembled the Fellows’ cricket team; undergraduate Holly Garne occupied a winning seat in the Women’s Boat Race at Henley, and the Girton Men’s first boat made history in the May Bumps by moving into Division 1.

We include in our academic plan a commitment to support all-round personal development and add value of all kinds to the educational offer at Girton. This round-up shows just how seriously that goal is viewed, and it is just the tip of the iceberg.

If I had more space, I would profile in some depth the scholarly achievements of Girton’s enterprising Fellowship, whose reputation for

excellence, innovation, knowledge transfer and public engagement goes from strength to strength.

Suffice it to say that there is huge momentum across all of the disciplines. You only have to glimpse the lists of people, events and news associated with College life to get a feel for the intellectual dynamism here. No wonder we have identified among our core priorities the challenge of attracting, retaining and supporting the ambitions of Girton’s world-class Fellowship.

Going, or growing, concern?

‘Going concern’ is the phrase we invoke each year when we ask the Bursar to prepare our financial statements. It confirms that the institution is not about to go broke; that it will indeed thrive for an indefinite period, fulfilling ongoing commitments, and embracing new objectives.

Girton is, of course, a going concern. We are in fact immeasurably rich in the quality and quantity of intellectual and social life that is shared among students, employees and a growing roll of alumni. Turning to more material concerns, Girton has a substantial, well-diversified investment portfolio with a broadly predictable income stream, and a reasonable settlement on student fees.

However, our income from the estate – from conferences and catering – has still to reach its potential, and there is a stubbornly unbridgeable shortfall in the operating budget. This leaves us just short of achieving a key strategic goal, namely to work from a sustainable financial base.

Oscar Wilde may have been right when he said that anyone who lives within their means suffers a lack of imagination, but this ongoing lack of funds is not sustainable. We are not, of course, alone in this

financial predicament and our starkly transparent accounting system at least means that we know the score.

Not for us the world of things we do not know that we don’t know!

Nor, for us, the rhetoric of impossible ‘efficiency savings’. There has never been excess in this lean, prudent, operation and I can assure you that everything that could be cut, without damaging the essential Girton experience, has already gone…

However, there is heartening progress regarding one of our key hopes for the medium term, namely the exciting Ash Court development. Now well under way, this impressive building will contain 50 high-specification en-suite rooms, together with a new leisure complex, for students to enjoy during the academic year, and for others to buy into across the summer months.

The dream is to have that wing full of people and events that are drawn to Girton for everything the College offers – spacious setting, superb sporting facilities, friendly professional services, fine food, and above all an engaging intellectual environment.

In this way, the Ash Court initiative will be something that adds to, as much as it supports, the core work of the College. To that end, please feel free to phone your friends and business associates today, and join us here tomorrow!

A Great Campaign To balance the books and enable a suite of ambitious new plans, Girton’s new development campaign was launched in March. The appealing thing about this initiative – which we are calling A Great Campaign – is that it is a microcosm of what Girton College has always been about.

The name, the mnemonic (GC) and, above all, the spirit, of the enterprise are drawn from the earliest days, when author George Eliot told founder Emily Davies that nothing short of ‘a great campaign’ could achieve the vision she had in mind.

There was no compromise then as to what the best possible scholarly education was about; there will be no compromise now.

So, as I said in my speech (available separately) to those assembled at the launch, the new Campaign is firmly rooted in the values of excellence, inclusion and exuberance that inspired our Foundation and brought this College to life. I also pointed out that the Campaign has, as its primary focus, a plan to support scholarly achievement. This is critical.

Everything else – the ambition to enhance the living and learning environment, a mission to secure the financial future – is geared to this end.

Furthermore, A Great Campaign is about recognising the life-long qualities of this distinctive Girton

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experience – something that reaches across, and draws together, every cohort of students, past and present Fellows, and an extended network of alumni and associates. That is why I am writing about it here.

A Great Campaign is, to be sure, in place to sustain the life, work and ambition of the thousand or so Fellows, students and employees who inhabit and steward Girton College today. It is also about paving the way for the generations of young people from all walks of life who have yet to come here, rightly expecting the best there is in Higher Education. But equally, and critically, it is about keeping in touch with 8000 alumni, scattered across more than 100 countries – people like you, who embody what the spirit of Girton is all about.

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As A Great Campaign rolls out, we must never under-estimate the financial challenge. But nor shall we forget how very rich we already are. If any institution has the culture, the commitment, the individuals and the energies required to turn the educational promise of the past into the realisation of a world-class future, it is Girton College. That is why, for me, the essence of a Great Campaign is about making the most we can of the gifts of friendship, fellowship and scholarship that form the heart of what we do.

Professor Susan J Smith

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Benefiting from History: Providing for the Poor in the Past Samantha Williams is Director of Studies in History, and has recently been promoted to a Senior Lectureship.

During the course of my research I’ve uncovered some surprising results, and provoked some interesting reactions. I have examined the plight of the poor and their families in two Bedfordshire communities between 1760 and the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834: Campton was a rural, agricultural parish, and Shefford was the neighbouring market town. The book’s principal finding – that the elderly and lone mothers were the most supported, and that male heads of families were the least – is the opposite of what was widely believed at the time.

Statutory relief for the poor has existed in England since 1601 and was called the ‘Old Poor Law’.

Each parish was required to appoint an ‘overseer’ to collect Poor Rates (taxes) and to redistribute them to the most in need in the parish. Historians have charted an increasingly extensive and relatively generous system of assistance between 1601 and 1834, particularly in the South and East of England.

The poor were given cash, coals, medical care, rent payments, and clothing. However, the lists of payments to recipients – in overseer’s account books – give the names of those who received these benefits, but not their family circumstances.

A payment given to a man, for instance, might also be intended for his wife and children. To overcome this problem (of ‘hidden beneficiaries’) I created over 1,000 biographies of paupers and their families by linking these account books to the parish registers, establishing the ages of paupers,

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whether they were single, married, widowed or remarried, noting the deaths of parents and numbers of orphans, and the number and ages of children (and indeed, how many of their children died).

Lucy Townsend was paid by the parish of Campton one shilling a week to care for William Newman.

The example of Lucy Townsend and William Newman illustrates how much more we know when the account books have been linked to the parish registers. The overseer’s accounts show that between May 1770 and January 1771 Lucy Townsend was paid by the parish of Campton one shilling a week to care for William Newman.

That is all that can be gleaned from this source but, when we link the accounts to their pauper biographies, we find that Lucy Townsend was already pregnant with an illegitimate child when she was employed as a parish carer and that William Newman was a widower with three small children. Lucy and William married on 24 January 1771, after which time the parish authorities no longer paid Lucy to care for him, since she was now his wife! Between 1792 and 1804, when William progressed from his fifties to his sixties, he received considerable assistance from the overseers, including weekly cash, shoes and fuel, and help with paying his rent. The parish also paid for his burial in January of 1804. After her husband’s death, Lucy reappeared in the overseer’s accounts, now as ‘Widow Newman’, and received weekly

cash payments until her own death in 1811, aged 65. Without linking these two sources we would never have thought to connect Lucy Townsend to the ‘Widow Newman’ who appears on the pension list some thirty-four years later.

The period after 1780 was a difficult one for many: there was war with France, a harvest crisis and rapid price inflation. The cost of poor relief and the numbers receiving some form of assistance escalated sharply. In Campton costs rose tenfold.

The Tomb of George Hicks, surgeon-apothecary to the poor, Campton Churchyard

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The poor and their families were increasingly pauperised and stigmatised. The period 1780–1834 has been characterised as one of prolonged crisis that finally resulted in the radical and punitive overhaul of the law in 1834 and the creation of the ‘New Poor Law’ (which was in place until the Welfare State). The impact of this crisis on the poor and their families is the central concern of my book.

The elderly, and lone parents – families headed by an unmarried mother, deserted wife, or widow – dominated the relief lists. The elderly were, in particular, over-represented in relation to their

Campton Parish Church

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numbers in these communities. The elderly were also given the most ‘generous’ payments of up to 62 per cent of neighbouring labouring households’ income, while lone mothers could receive up to 37 per cent. Additional extras such as fuel, clothing, and rent payments contributed another 8 per cent, and so some pensioners were given up to 70 per cent. Some paupers received assistance for many years. However, although these sums were relatively generous, the poor would only have made ends meet if they also earned some money (and, after men, children’s wages made the biggest difference

to household incomes); otherwise families might rely upon local charities, or friends and relatives.

Contemporaries saw the ‘problem’ of the poor rather differently. Many believed that the large numbers of men coming onto the relief lists were responsible for the increasing costs. Many of them might have large families or be out of work.

Indeed, the Revd Thomas Malthus blamed the Poor Law for encouraging the poor to ‘breed recklessly’, thereby creating the very poor that the laws sought to relieve. This was a period of rapid population increase. Others believed that labourers were lazy and feckless and that there was work for all those who sought it if they tried hard enough.

My research did find that many men were given assistance, but that ‘family allowances’ to households with many children were short-term (when prices are very high) and only ever supplementary in value. Family allowance payments supported large families through hard times, rather than creating them. There was widespread unemployment in agriculture after the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815 (and there was insufficient employment to go round), but, again, payments were far from generous and only topped up weekly wages to compensate for odd days without work. Indeed, at their highest, unemployment benefits accounted for only 13 per cent of all expenditure in Campton and just 4 per cent in Shefford. Rather, it was regular weekly cash payments and additional extras to the aged and to lone mothers that accounted for the lion’s share of spending.

These were the findings that caught the attention of the media during discussion of the government’s proposed policy changes to benefits and the

imposition of a cap at £26,000. I was interviewed

by John Humphrys on Radio 4’s Today programme (between the weather forecast and a piece on beavers) and on Three Counties Radio, who were interested in the fact that the book was on Bedfordshire. The research was also cited in an editorial in the Guardian (23 February 2012) and an article on the BBC on-line (5 March 2012). It was gratifying to find that the history of welfare provision is of current interest, and that when making policy changes some choose to look back to learn from the past.

Dr Samantha Williams Samantha Williams, Poverty, Gender and Life-Cycle under the English Poor Law (Royal Historical Society, Boydell and Brewer, 2011) http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/fe b/23/social-security-remaking-poverty-history http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17159966

Gravestones in Campton Parish Churchyard

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The Arts in the Current Climate On 24 September 2011 we were honoured to welcome Dame Liz Forgan, Chair of the Arts Council and Honorary Fellow of Girton, to talk at the People’s Portraits Annual Reception.

Those involved in the arts – like everyone else in the current climate – are worried, miserable and insecure. It’s therefore all the more remarkable that England is currently bursting with the most amazing talent – artists, composers, conductors, dancers, teachers, writers – both in traditional spaces and invading everywhere from dungeons to chicken houses.

I truly think that at this moment we are living in a golden age of the arts. There are the international stars, and institutions such as the Royal Opera House, Sadler’s Wells, the Hallé, the British Museum, and the new Whitworth Gallery in Wakefield. However, if you go to the theatre any night in any fair-sized town you will find innovative, fresh theatre. Squeeze your way into the South Bank Centre on a Saturday afternoon if you dare; see what happens when tough teenage lads suddenly ‘get’ contemporary dance; or catch one of the sensational new chamber orchestras that have sprung onto the scene. It’s creative. It’s innovative. It’s fairly well spread across the country. And for the most part it’s of real quality.

Why is this? We are a creative nation. And for the past fifteen years, with the huge boost of the Lottery and with ten years of sustained and generous public funding, the arts have been well and consistently supported by the public purse and have amply repaid the investment.

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We have seen efficient and sparsely-run organisations, with no squandering of national resources. It’s been an ideal combination; talent coupled with secure and adequate funding. But if one brick is pulled out of the wall, then things can start to totter.

I am worried about the future. The Arts Council had its grant from the government cut by nearly thirty per cent in the last spending review, and even more insidious cuts are happening all over the country as local government tightens its belt. What I’m most worried about is that the daring and the fragile will shrivel in these cold winds; that though we have done everything in our power to protect the seeds of future growth, some good arts organisations will die. Some exceptional artists will not get the support and the exhibition opportunities they need.

What I’m most worried about is that the daring and the fragile will shrivel in these cold winds; that though we have done everything in our power to protect the seeds of future growth, some good arts organisations will die.

I dare say the commanding heights of our artistic life, most of them situated in London, will manage to raise private funds from faithful donors to keep the best and most popular work alive and flourishing. It will not be easy, even for them, but my main concern is for the unfamiliar, the not wholly successful, the far away from the great cities, the difficult, the dangerous and the unfashionable. This is where new life comes in

Rodney Thomas, Architect and Administrator, David Poole

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Alan Cuthbert, Artist and Administrator, David Poole

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to refresh and reinvigorate our cultural landscape and if we choke it off we will eventually see the arts as a whole atrophy. This is the very place where Arts Council subsidy has done the most to encourage the emergence of exciting new talent and creative development. And it is the hardest place to persuade most private patrons to put their support.

But all is not gloom. We still do maintain a very substantial public investment in the arts (£300m from the taxpayer and £150m from the Lottery).

Some local authorities are making heroic efforts to protect their culture budgets. Some private donors are doing anything they can to support causes dear to them, including much that is brave and innovative. The silver lining, if there is one, is that people who care at all about the arts are waking up to the fact that they must take action to keep what they value.

Politicians making hard choices need to know how important the arts are to their constituents.

Unfortunately, many of them are too busy to experience them directly more than once in a blue moon, so it is important to tell them. And the key role that will increasingly be played by private donors is by no means confined to the very wealthy who can sign six-figure cheques for new opera productions.

The People’s Portraits, which relies upon the generosity of newly elected members of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters to mark the honour of election, and the continuing support of Girton which houses the collection and opens it to visitors, is an outstanding example.

The brief is inspiring: a painted portrait of a person – chosen not for their rank or status but as part of a cross-section of humanity. Of course this means that you look at this particular collection quite differently from the way you look – for instance – at the splendid portraits of Mistresses of Girton elsewhere in this College.

The paintings are not photographs. Neither are they memorials, or a badge of office. They represent an intimate engagement between two human beings where the only challenge is for one to understand and capture something extraordinary (it’s just no good calling these ‘ordinary people’) in the other. And we as viewers are taken into that process in a way that a photograph would never attempt.

Watching visitors to the National Portrait Galleries in London or Edinburgh you notice a special quality of attention in the way they look at the art on the walls. Portraits, especially painted portraits, are immediately accessible. It’s a person. Maybe a familiar person. It’s a good likeness. It’s nothing like them at all. At this point it’s a fairly superficial engagement, made through identification or curiosity, but it’s powerful enough to make an immediate connection and it is different from the way people engage or fail to engage with other sorts of art. Then of course the magic of a painted portrait starts to work. The human encounter between artist and sitter and between portrait and viewer produces layers of meaning, narrative, emotion or enigma that transform the snapshot into a work of art.

I have just come back from the Venice Biennale – a dazzling celebration of video and conceptual arts in all their weird and wonderful forms.

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Some absolutely inspired. Some that, I confess, struck me as very silly indeed. But in all the thousands of pieces on show there were probably not more than a dozen paintings.

I had to escape to the Guggenheim to restore my balance. Painting may currently be unfashionable among the avant garde, but it can say and do things that no other art form can imitate as this amazing collection amply demonstrates.

We do all need to cherish some flashes of brightness to prevent the economic gloom from becoming overwhelming. Excellent art and the generosity of artists and art lovers light up the landscape for everyone.

This wonderful scheme and the three marvellous portraits by David Poole and Michael Reynolds will be glowing in my memory.

Dame Liz Forgan

Madeleine, Michael Reynolds

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Pendulum By the end of the last century almost all the fine analogue, pendulum-controlled clocks in College had fallen still and silent. Time in College, as elsewhere, had acquired an impractical precision.

I suspect that started with the BBC ‘Speaking Clock’: ‘At the third stroke it will be ten forty-three, and twenty seconds: beep, beep, beeep.’ Useful for setting watches but hardly practical to live life by.

All our digital devices have meant that, even without counting the seconds, we use ‘ten forty three’ rather than ‘twenty to eleven’, and ‘seventeen thirteen’ instead of ‘coming up to a quarter past five’ and we look at flashing duodecimal screen numbers rather than the oncefamiliar analogue clockface from which so much can be deduced at a glance. Even sadder, with the stopping of the pendulums there is silence – no comfort of a measured tick, no reminder from a distinctive chime. The College long-case and mantel clocks, almost always showing the wrong time, became a source of irritation rather than one of comfort and a marking of the day’s passage.

Yet each is a beautiful hand-crafted mechanism housed in a case of elegance and originality, and most were family possessions given by those who loved the College. Now, after a concerted campaign of restoration, all but one is working again, and, by the time you read this copy of The Year, that one should also be back in its 1886 position on the wall of Hall.

The work began in the late 1990s when I was Domestic Bursar and determined to restore the turret clock installed in the gable above the old College entrance and very close to my room.

It had been dedicated by her step-daughter to the first Mistress, Elizabeth Manning, who had died while the College was under construction. Sadly its

bells and the flèche that had housed them had been removed after WWII, but the beautiful mechanism still keeps excellent time under a watchful eye and weekly winding from the Head Gardener. It is an eight-day movement and the drive weights fall the full three floors of the building, beside the Emily Davies staircase. Now groups of turret clock enthusiasts come on special outings to admire it.

The first clock to be restored – by the Warden, Maureen Hackett – was the elegant early nineteenth century long-case (‘grandfather’ to most of us) clock in the Airport Lounge at Wolfson Court.

This was made by John Wickes of Clement Street in the City and has a very pretty floral face with an

Wickes Face

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Halifax Long-case

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unusual third sweep hand to give the day of the month. It was probably the gift of Beryl Power, sister of the Girton Historian, Professor Eileen Power.

In 2009 the mid-eighteenth century long-case clock by John Hallifax that keeps the Fellows to time in the SCR had both its case and movement restored. It was a 1942 gift to the College from Mary Clover, for many years the College Secretary. Then, on the arrival of the new Mistress, who is an enthusiast for antique clocks, we brought back to life the mantel clock in her office, a fine continental movement striking the quarters on eight bells with a very ornate brass and walnut case, the gift of the Howards of Castle Howard.

The renovation of the Mistress’s flat gave the opportunity to revive the late eighteenth century long-case clock there. This was made by Alexander Cumming, who was one of the foremost clock and barometer makers of his day, working for George III, and also a member of the committee appointed by Act of Parliament in 1763 to adjudicate on John Harrison’s second attempt to build a prizewinning chronometer.

The movement still had all its original parts, though in very poor condition, and the case, japanned with oriental scenes in gold, was in a desperate state. The quality of the painstaking restoration of both is very remarkable and can now be enjoyed by all those

Cumming Long-case

mounting the stairs to the hall of the flat.

Some of the other clocks have turned out not to be what they seem, and this can give clues as to why they have become neglected.

The eighteenth century long-case clock by Gilkes of Shipton in the Fellows’ Drawing Room, was silent for so many years that we found the movement an arachnophile’s paradise. It was once a 30-hour clock into which had been fitted a nineteenth century eight-day mechanism. Unfortunately there was not room enough in the case for the fall of the ‘new’ weights and they had to be wound twice a week.

Somebody clearly got tired of winding and left it to the spiders.

Likewise the very early ‘country’ long-case by another important maker, Joseph Hocker of Basingstoke (he was later Mayor of Reading), which stands at the foot of the Tower staircase, looked innocent enough. Once it was opened up, it transpired that someone had removed the bell and replaced it with a most strident and unmusical gong. It is too early to have a strike/silent option so it is little wonder that no-one bothered to maintain it thereafter. The gong

Gilkes Face

has gone and the clock works, but to allow the Tower undergraduates to sleep, we have not replaced the bell.

What is undoubtedly the finest and most unique clock in College (housed in the Stanley Library) has also been sleeping for far too long. This is a particularly poignant case. It bears a plaque that reads:

Hocker Long-case

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Peter Sparks winding the Townshend clock in the Stanley Library

‘To chime in remembrance of the first GIRTON student registered (HITCHEN 1869) EMILY C TOWNSHEND (née GIBSON) and her chief friends: RACHEL SCOTT (née COOKE) and ISABEL TOWNSHEND (whose brother she married).

The family clock was given by her children 1935.’

But it did not chime. No more did it tell the time; pieces of brasswork were missing and its face had been crudely over-painted at some distant date.

The work done to bring it back to life is typical of the skill and dedication of the two craftsmen who have worked on all these clocks over the past three years. Gerald Dyke of Foxton not only overhauled and made new parts for the gilded and engraved

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brass English movement (an eight-day, striking the quarters and hours on eight bells) but, with infrared light, was able to discover the over-painted name of the maker (John Bowen of Long Acre, about 1830) and restore the entire dial to its original state. Jon Porter of Royston worked on the cabinetry and, in addition, had by hand to cut, file and polish replacements for the missing brass pieces. Now all those who use the Stanley Library can admire the Townshend clock in full working order – but also have to bear in mind that their activities will have a distinct accompaniment every quarter of an hour.

Peter Sparks

Profiles

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Clive Lawson the horizon! All of a sudden the prospect of going to university, especially if studying economics, seemed a lot more interesting.

Somehow, I made it to Girton as an undergraduate in 1981, the first year in which there were undergraduate men in all three years. It wasn’t the best of starts as I’d contracted something horrible travelling round Central America in my year off (or maybe it was the six months window cleaning first?) and spent the first term and a half in sick bay.

Despite this, I quickly realised that Girton was a great place to be. I had an inspirational Director of Studies in Frank Wilkinson, challenging supervisors (often members of local political parties) and a group of fellow students who were politically active and keen to learn about everything. It was a ‘heady’ time to be in Cambridge. The economics lectures were explicitly driven by debates and issues that seemed fundamental, relevant and, above all, real. I loved it.

Clive with his sons Callum and Jesse

Clive is a Fellow in Economics I was born and brought up in Somerset and spent much of my childhood playing football or getting into trouble at one of the nearby farms. My mother was a local girl and I think that in all the time I lived in Somerset, she left it only for a five-day holiday in Torquay. My father was Polish, a tailor, who apparently wanted to go to Australia after the war. He claimed to have missed the boat, but how he ended up in Somerset (and never

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quite managed to leave) was never really clear.

All in all, I was probably an unlikely candidate for university. Making it into the local sixth form was itself pretty touch-and-go (given the effects that my hectic commitments to a local punk band had on my ability and motivation to revise for O- Levels!).

Once in the Sixth form though, everything changed. In particular I discovered politics. We had three day weeks, rising oil prices, the IMF bail-out, stagflation and Thatcher on

On finishing my degree, however, it was music that initially occupied most of my time. I’d spent a bit of time playing in local bands while an undergraduate, but not very seriously; now seemed the time to see if I could make a living at it. I quickly realised that whilst it was quite easy to make money playing music, the amount of money I earned from any particular work was inversely related to the amount of musical satisfaction I got from it; certainly all the projects I loved were those that no record companies would touch with a bargepole. For a few years I managed to sustain myself with a reasonably happy combination of band and session work, theatre music and teaching (music and econometrics!), all interspersed with starting a PhD, travelling and writing.

At about this time, a group of PhD students in the Economics Faculty started meeting to discuss economic philosophy and methodology, mostly motivated by the feeling that economics was increasingly distancing itself from the important questions in the world by becoming preoccupied by ever more formal methods. The group was inspirational for me and re-kindled my interest in academia, and in particular in methodology and philosophy. On completion of the PhD I managed to get a Research Fellowship in the Department of Applied Economics. At this point my relationship with Girton was re-kindled too. I’d always supervised for Girton (from the first year after I graduated), but in the next few years my links to Girton became more and more formal. In 1997 I became a College Teaching Officer and Official Fellow of the College and have directed studies in Economics ever since.

The PhD group slowly evolved into a long-standing seminar series and more recently into the Cambridge Social Ontology Group, both of which take up a good deal of my time, along with coediting the Cambridge Journal of Economics.

Having been an undergraduate at Girton and associating it with so many different phases in my life, I guess that it’s not surprising that Girton is a special place for me; very much a second home – though I think the support and friendliness that are endemic to Girton seem to make it a special place for most people who spend much time here.

In terms of research, however, the most important point for me is that being at Girton allows me to ‘follow my nose’. Whereas Faculties require publication in an ever-narrowing number of ‘core’ journals, the real advantage of a college (and especially Girton) is the support and encouragement given to the pursuit of a wide range of different

research questions and orientations. I’ve certainly tried to take full advantage of this in my time at Girton. My research has shifted around all over the place, taking me to some fairly unexpected places, rarely by the quickest routes, but it’s never been dull. My PhD ended up being on the nature of institutions. It was largely philosophical and was very much influenced by the then newly emerging social ontology literature, especially structuration theory and critical realism. The primary concern was with attempts to ‘theorise’ institutions and all the other kinds of stuff that economists tend to label as ‘soft’ (and yet always seemed to me to be the really ‘hard’ things to get a handle on).

Lucy, Jesse and Clive

My Research Fellowship was more applied, but continued the focus on the constitution (ontology) of different kinds of productive systems, especially firms and regions. Since then my research has oscillated between methodological interests and particular applied questions (often environmental ones). Currently, however, I’m in the middle of writing a book on the philosophy of technology, a topic I’m really enjoying, if for no other reason than it’s forcing me to combine lots of previous interests – from social ontology to science fiction.

Music is still an important part of my life, though I’m no longer able to play in any serious way (owing to a brain problem called musicians’ dystonia). I do have a wonderful partner (Lucy Delap whom I met in a pub playing Irish music, and who is now a Historian at St Catharine’s) and two lovely sons (Jesse, 10, and Callum, 6) who between them fill the house with more than enough music for the four of us.

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Eileen Rubery student persuaded us to take a punt along the backs and his exclamation that one of the College buildings was ‘just crying out for creeper’ became a family catchphrase for years afterwards.

As a studious child with my nose ‘always in a book’, I had a natural inclination to specialise in the humanities. But my father persuaded me to choose science, pointing out that I would earn more money and that that would make the provision of child-care easier if I had a family.

I could still read for pleasure, he said.

After some thought, I saw the merit of what he suggested and chose sciences, and I am very grateful to him for what turned out to be excellent advice.

Eileen is a Senior Research Fellow and retires this year as Registrar of the Roll.

My earliest visits to Cambridge were Sunday visits to meet with three aunts who lived in Leicester. My family lived in Southend, making Cambridge a convenient half-way house.

We would meet in the Market Square (then still in use as a car-park), have tea in the Copper Kettle and walk through the Colleges. I remember my mother saying, ‘Perhaps you will come to a College here one day’, but at that age I thought it would be nicer to stay at home! One Sunday a

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Following a period of serious illness I decided to study Medicine, but only 15% of medical school places went to girls then, and in the year I was applying, the Government cut the numbers of places following a report erroneously concluding that too many doctors were being trained. Getting a place at a medical school was therefore a particular challenge.

But, undaunted, I applied to all 24 British medical schools in existence, for there was no central application system. I decided to accept the first offer I was made, which turned out to

be from Sheffield. It proved an excellent place to read Medicine, providing many more opportunities for hands-on experience than the London schools.

After qualification and registration I decided to do a PhD in Biochemistry, and moved to Cambridge, choosing Girton because it was the first college established for women. I lived in the Girton hostel at 11 Trumpington Street, and soon began to realise that doing a PhD on the back of only preclinical Biochemistry was ‘courageous’. Fortunately one of the other PhD students in the Biochemistry Department, a year ahead of me, was my husbandto-be, Philip, who explained some of the more arcane areas of Biochemistry to me.

Whilst writing up my thesis on Methylation in Tumour Viruses, I spotted an advertisement for a Meres’ Senior Studentship at St John’s College, Cambridge. This was well before John’s went mixed, but the advertisement said the post was open to ‘persons of either sex’. I applied, and so became the first woman to have dining rights at St John’s (their statutes did not permit me to be a full member of the College). John’s was very good to me, but it was always a bit of a strain going in to dine. Since I was the only woman, the Fellows I had met usually remembered me, but I couldn’t always remember them. I became adept at asking neutral questions that didn’t (I hope) reveal my lack of recollection of their specific interests. There were some amusing moments. When the College kindly changed the rules so Fellows could bring women in to lunch (so permitting me to lunch at the College), I turned up one hot summer’s day and quietly seated myself at the table. After a while the President came in, welcomed me and introduced me to my neighbour, explaining that I was the

Meres’ Student. Clearly unsure what the correct response to a woman at lunch should be, he exclaimed: ‘Well, I did wonder what you were doing here!’ One of the professors in the Biochemistry Department, who knew me, accompanied me to coffee. I was wearing a rather bright red trouser suit, at a time when trouser suits were perhaps considered rather ‘advanced’. My colleague introduced me to another Fellow, who, no doubt startled by this feminine apparition in such outlandish clothes, blurted out: ‘Oh, I would have thought you might have worn something a little less striking for such an occasion!’ I replied truthfully that it had not occurred to me. I should stress that in neither case do I think there was any intention to be rude or to make me feel ill at ease.

The College was indeed always extremely supportive and coped with my later need for maternity leave perfectly. I was most fortunate to have had the opportunity to be part of the College in such an unusual way.

Following this position I decided it was time to return to medicine and joined the Radiotherapy and Oncology Unit at Addenbrooke’s Hospital under the leadership of another St John’s College Fellow, Professor J.S Mitchell, then the Regius Professor of Physic. Whilst climbing the medical ladder to Honorary Consultant, I was fortunate to have Dr Biddy Kingsley-Pillars (Dr Marrian to Girtonians) as a colleague, and re-established links with Girton College when she proposed me to replace her as joint Director of Medical Studies with John Marks.

Girton also made me a Senior Research Fellow at that time. I very much enjoyed interviewing, choosing and then teaching Girton Medics, though by now, with a young daughter as well as the need

to gain my Fellowship of the College of Radiologists, and frequent periods on call at night, life was very busy.

By 1983 it was time for another change, and seeing an advertisement in the British Medical Journal for the post of Senior Medical Officer in the Department of Health imaginatively headlined ‘Have 50 million people as your patients’, I moved into the Civil Service for nearly 20 years, advising Ministers on such knotty public health issues as the leukaemia cases around Sellafield Nuclear Power Station, the consequences of the Chernobyl nuclear accident, measles, mumps and rubella immunisation, HIV/AIDS and BSE/CJD. The job was a fascinating mix of science, medicine, politics and management, and the contact with ministers added an additional zest. I worked with, amongst others, Kenneth Clarke, Edwina Currie, Stephen Dorrell and Frank Dobson. Contrary to much that one reads in the papers, I found ministers generally hard-working, anxious to do their best and appreciative of civil servants. Frank Dobson was kind enough to recommend me for a CB, and my visit to Buckingham Palace to receive this from the Queen with my husband Philip, my daughter Caroline and my mother was a rewarding way of marking the end of my civil service career.

A novel use for a Girton scarf at my daughter’s birthday party

By the 1990s I was running a Division of around 300 staff in the Department of Health and was responsible for all Health Protection activity.

Having now worked with both Conservative and Labour Ministers, I thought it was time to move back to Cambridge. With the aid of a Cabinet Office Fellowship, I moved to the Judge Business School to do some research on the handling of uncertainty (given that almost all decisions in

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government have to be taken with inadequate information owing to time pressures). I was very pleased that this also enabled me to return once more to Girton College as a Senior Research Fellow.

In my last year at the Department of Health I had been involved in work on minimising social exclusion, and when the Monument Trust (one of the Sainsbury Charities) approached the Business School asking if they could set up a part-time Masters course on management for those running organisations trying to reduce social exclusion, I did a feasibility study for them, secured funding, and over the next few years set up the MSt course.

Girton agreed to be one of the Colleges accepting some of these students, who proved to be lively and challenging additions to the Business School and to College. By now I was also Registrar of the Roll at Girton, a position that involved meeting

many Girtonians from earlier years, and over the next 10 years, with the help of the Roll Committee, we ran events for alumni on ‘Work-Life Balance’, ‘Zig-Zag Careers’ and most recently, ‘Life after the Main Career’ and published a number of papers on these topics based on the outcome of the workshops.

In 2003, with the Masters course up and running, I decided to return to my early interest in the humanities and do a Masters degree in Art History at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London. This led to a PhD on the frescoes in the church of Santa Maria Antiqua in Rome. Changing from sciences to the humanities has been fascinating and trying to work out what went on in Rome in the 7th century has proved to be just as challenging as trying to decide how to manage public health issues from the centre.

As well as hoping to submit my PhD in September, I also cease to be Registrar of the Roll at the end of that month. So my association with Girton will change once again, as will my career, but I am sure the two will continue to be intertwined in a positive way.

Eileen and Phillip at the Palace

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Subject Profile: Maths It is impossible to look back at Girton mathematics in the twentieth century without thinking of three remarkable women, whose lives spanned most of the century. Dame Mary Cartwright was an analyst and one of the first women Fellows of the Royal Society.

Her work on differential equations was the basis of the very important modern theories of dynamical systems and chaos. After finishing her DPhil in Oxford under the supervision of G H Hardy, she was associated with Girton for the rest of her long life.

She not only taught mathematics at Girton but was also Mistress from 1949 to 1969: her portrait near the front of the Hall is an inspiration to all aspiring mathematicians.

Bertha Swirles (Lady Jeffreys) was a student at Girton; after a brief spell as a lecturer at several other universities, she returned to Girton as a Teaching Fellow and was Director of Studies in Mathematics from 1949 to 1969.

She did important work in quantum theory in the exciting early days of its development, but she is perhaps even more well known for the book she wrote with her husband, Sir Harold Jeffreys, entitled Methods of Mathematical Physics. This is a classic

Dame Mary Cartwright

outstanding research in number theory and matrix theory. She was ‘Woman of the Year’ for the Los Angeles Times in 1963.

More recent distinguished Girton mathematicians include: Professor Dusa McDuff, an expert in geometry at Barnard College, Columbia University in New York, and a Fellow of the Royal Society, Mrs Hwee Hua Lim, until recently Minister of Finance in the Singapore Government, Dr Vicky Pope, a senior climate change scientist at the Met. Office, often interviewed by the press when there is news about climate change, and Professor David Hobson, at the University of Bath, who won Cambridge University's prestigious Adams Prize for his essay on financial mathematics.

It is natural to wonder who will be the dominant Girton mathematicians of the twenty-first century.

Are we still nurturing talent and providing an atmosphere in which intellectual curiosity can flourish? Equally importantly, are we helping ALL our students to enjoy their work and reach their potential, irrespective of whether or not they will become well-known mathematicians?

Lady Jeffreys

which has influenced (and still influences) many generations of mathematicians.

The third of the group, Olga Taussky-Todd, was born in what is now the Czech Republic, was educated in Vienna and came to Girton as a Research Fellow in the 1930s. She went on to become the first woman full professor at the California Institute of Technology, and did

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We currently have about ten undergraduate students in each year; they come from a wide variety of backgrounds, all types of schools and many different countries. The recent expansion of the European Union has meant that the steady stream of students from Germany has been joined by those from Latvia and Lithuania.

We also have a large number of research students, the current cohort hailing from Canada, Cyprus, Germany, Korea, Portugal and Taiwan, as well as England and Scotland.

A thriving international community!

Every three years or so, we have a careers evening, when recent mathematics graduates come back to Girton and tell us about their jobs.

The participants at a recent one included an environmental scientist, an internet company director, a mathematical biologist, an economist, an educational technologist, a teacher and a stockbroker, who were all very enthusiastic about what they did.

At the moment, Girton has two teaching fellows in mathematics.

Dr Ross Lawther, who works in group theory, holds the Olga Taussky Fellowship in Pure Mathematics and supervises most of the pure mathematics in the first two years, as well as some of the huge number of courses in Part II. I am a Reader in Mathematical Physics in the Mathematics Faculty, hold the Bertha Jeffreys Fellowship in Applied Mathematics at Girton and supervise much of the applied mathematics in the first two years, and the theoretical physics courses in Part II. Currently we also have a Bye-Fellow, Dr Sebastien RenauxPetel, who helps with teaching, and our research students also provide wonderful support by supervising and helping with admissions.

Research students get their PhDs and move on; our Bye-Fellow is leaving for a more long-term job near his young

family in Paris. We hope to be able to rely on similar help from our future young Girtonians, but that is by no means guaranteed – the numbers of research students and post-docs fluctuate from year to year.

After being Director of Studies at Girton since 1976, I shall be retiring at the end of this academic year (2012). The College is looking to replace me, but no-one has been appointed yet. It is a time of change.

Girton very generously supports College Teaching Officers, but it obviously makes sense to try to attract University Teaching Officers whose main salaries are paid by the University. Unfortunately such people are often drawn to the richer colleges which are able to offer more perks.

I was supported solely by Girton for many years until an enlightened head of department, the late David Crighton, negotiated with Girton to set up a post which was funded jointly by the College and the University, but this position will not exist after I retire. I believe that it makes a tremendous difference to our students if they can have most of their supervisions in the first two years done in-house, as this provides continuity and the opportunity for fellows and students to get to know each other well. In mathematics, most of the supervisions involve a pair of students and the system is invaluable,

particularly in stimulating the good students and in helping those who are finding the course more challenging.

It is essential for the future of Girton mathematics that support is available for at least two teaching fellows. The Olga Taussky Fellowship and the Bertha Jeffreys Fellowship, in pure and applied mathematics respectively, have already been established, thanks to the great generosity of Professor Jack Todd (Olga Taussky-Todd's widower), their friend Rosemary Lonergan, and Lady Jeffreys.

However, both need considerably more capital to be sustainable, and we look forward to hearing from all friends who can help us to uphold the great Girton tradition in mathematics.

Dr Ruth Williams (Bertha Jeffreys Fellow and Director of Studies in Mathematics)

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Focus on‌ Nicholas Mulroy Nicholas Mulroy, well known as a tenor, was appointed in October 2011 as the new Director of Chapel Music.

What drew you to Girton?

In the first instance, I was attracted by the sheer quality of musical personnel here. I'd worked with many of them, and admired them all enormously, and I thought that if they all wanted to work at Girton it must be a place with something rather special going on.

Where did you study?

I took a relatively standard route, I suppose. I was a Chorister at Liverpool's Metropolitan Cathedral, and after my voice broke I stopped singing until I arrived at Clare College, where a friend suggested I join the Choir. I did a Modern Languages degree, so sang for four years there, and, after a brief spell after graduation as a Lay Clerk in Windsor Castle, I studied for four more years at the Royal Academy of Music.

How did you first get involved with music?

I suppose it has been part of my life for as long as I can remember. I enjoyed my time as a chorister enormously – we didn't have quite such a huge time commitment as some other cathedrals (we sang five services a week), but we had a fantastic Choirmaster and Organist team (Philip and Terence Duffy) and did some memorable things there. I was also fortunate that my school had a strong musical tradition, and as well as the more mainstream musical activities to which I now dedicate my time, music has taken me from a school bebop quintet, via playing keyboards in a 60s rock band, to singing (and dancing!) in a salsa band in Ecuador...

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What is it like working with undergraduates, when so much of your career has been spent working with top-level professional musicians?

It is a very different proposition, of course, but both sides of the story are fascinating. The students I've worked with here bring a fantastic energy and joy to what they do musically, are interested in really pushing the limits of their possibilities, and are wonderfully open to ideas and suggestions. I love the chance to achieve something very exciting with such a capable group of people, and already this year it is plain to see that the pace at which the choir improves is really rather remarkable, even by professional standards.

Weekend. We have also provided the music for the Chapel's liturgy, in repertoire ranging from the 12th century to the present day. Later this summer we'll tour the north of Spain with a varied programme. Next year exciting plans are afoot for a large scale concert marking the 400th anniversary of the death of the great Venetian Giovanni Gabrieli, and involving some of Girton's – and the University's – finest musicians. My hope is for the choir to contribute in as significant a way as possible to the life of the College and to the lives of its members, both while they are here at Cambridge and beyond. I want us to be a choir that our members and our College can be proud of.

Your background has been more in singing than in conducting. What special qualities does that bring to the post?

I've had enormous fortune in my professional life to work with some fantastic conductors and to sing in and with some wonderful choirs and smaller vocal ensembles. I've seen at first-hand what makes a choir work (as well as perhaps what doesn't), and what a choir needs on a musical, personal and motivational level. I also felt that I would be able to offer individual help to our young singers if and when they needed it.

What is your vision for the choir?

My idea is to give our young singers as much exposure to high level music-making as we can.

This year, we've performed a world première, a requiem to mark the 400th anniversary of the death of Tomás Luis de Victoria, sung with the University's Baroque Orchestra, sung the services at Lichfield Cathedral, enjoyed some close harmony on the College's brilliant inaugural Chamber Music

Nicholas Mulroy with the choir on the steps of Lichfield Cathedral, Michaelmas Term 2011.

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The University and Life Experience Project: Phase Two The second phase of the University and Life Experience Project has reached its halfway point and the ULE team felt that readers of The Year might like to hear about progress.

Readers will recall that the original ULE Project began in 1995, and set out to examine the life histories of university-educated women over the 20th century, using Girton records and input from successive cohorts of Girton alumnae who came up between 1918 and 1985, including 600 (30-page) questionnaires and 50 recorded interviews. The project was financed over four years by the Spencer Foundation, the Leverhulme Trust, and the British Academy.

Although a number of scholarly papers were produced from this data by members of the research team, there was no overall summary publication. However, recent reflection concluded that an attempt to produce such a ‘definitive’ interpretation of the data was not what was really required, and that it would be better to enhance the availability of this data to any serious researcher for their own use. In this day and age this meant, of course, some kind of on-line access. So it happened that, with the approval of Council and funding from the Newton Trust, the Spencer Foundation and the Cambridge Political Economy Trust, the second

phase of the project was launched in June 2010. The aim of phase two of the Project was to develop a research tool in the form of a website.

This website would include databases of College registers and the original questionnaire material in a searchable, anonymised form, sound recordings alongside interview transcripts, and visual material of exhibitions, photographs and film footage. We announced that this second phase of the Project would take 3 years and would be managed from the Library and Archive Department under the coordination of the Librarian, and steered by a College Committee chaired by Professor Marilyn Strathern.

Now we are just over halfway through, and expect to finish within budget and on time in summer 2013.

The structure and design for the site are in place, and a number of prototype pages mounted. It’s looking good. Roughly half of the original recordings have been fully checked, transcribed, and editorially framed.

All original interviewees, or the families of those now deceased, have been contacted to tell them about the new website, and outstanding copyright issues have been resolved.

All this has generated considerable correspondence, with some requests for exclusions, some new transfers of copyright, and deposits of some

additional material.

In accordance with best practice, we have undertaken some redaction of the interviews to ensure third party confidentiality, and the original databases are being re-organised, checked, anonymised and standardised for public search. Of course this data is immensely sensitive, and enormous care must be taken in handling and preparing it for access. We continue to take legal advice on issues of data protection and privacy.

At this point in the Project we have developed real momentum and enthusiasm, and we are also conscious of having developed some very professional protocols and working patterns on which we should like to capitalise. We captured very rich material for the period 1918-1960 in the first phase, and are now seriously considering trying to do the same for the pivotal decades of the 1960’s and 1970’s, connected as they are also to ‘going mixed’ in Cambridge. We have the data already, but would need to conduct a new set of interviews and to develop a concomitant extension of the new website. We are therefore actively (and excitedly) considering further funding applications over the coming year for a third phase of the ULE Project. Watch this space…..

Frances Gandy, Project Coordinator

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Mistresses: Past and Present that the Fellowship be named after her parents, not herself.

I also remember being woken by a fearful squawking and quacking outside the flat and having to send for someone with a big net to fish ten ducklings out of the pond in the court outside.

The nest had been cunningly concealed in a cotoneaster at the edge, and they had taken their first swim, but, not being able to fly, had no way out. Their mother was pelting up and down the side in hysterics!

Professor Susan J Smith (with Leo the cat) 2009–present, Mrs Juliet Campbell 1992–98, Baroness Mary Warnock 1984–91, Professor Dame Marilyn

On 4 November 2011 all four Mistresses (past and present) dined together in the current Mistress’s flat. An historic photo was taken, and the Editor thought it would be fitting to reproduce it here, and to ask each Mistress for a few of their impressions and memories of their time at Girton.

Strathern 1998–2009.

Baroness Mary Warnock: Perhaps the most memorable occasion was when the aged Constance Pilkington, long known to me as Director of Music for Oxfordshire and now near death, sent her solicitor to see me, and within five minutes he had signed an agreement to pay for a Fellow in Music for the College, with enough left over to buy a harpsichord, on the sole condition

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Mrs Juliet Campbell: The memories of my seven years at Girton come flooding back. First there was the day I came to be interviewed as a potential Mistress, when the buildings were at their reddest, almost overwhelming in the pouring rain. As a career diplomat, I was very excited and a little daunted at the prospect of joining the academic world which I had only known as an undergraduate. I quickly became aware that I was lucky in my College, in the strength and friendliness of Girton as a community and the important place it holds in the affections of so many alumni. I grew to love the buildings, particularly the Mistress’s office and the view of the Tower from the Mistress’s flat.

The buildings play an important part in Girton’s identity and I am very proud of having launched the project which, under Marilyn Strathern’s leadership, resulted in the new Library, Archive complex and Campbell Court.

The years flew by all too fast, but my final year, 1998, was very special. It was the 50th anniversary

of the University’s belated granting of full rights to women and of Girton’s acceptance as a full College of the University. We celebrated in style. All the pre-1948 students were invited back for lunch in College and a special ceremony in the Senate House presided over by the Vice-Chancellor.

So many people came that we had to have three sessions, with police outriders convoying people to and fro, while the bells of Great St. Mary’s rang out and the crowds cheered. And later in the year the University held its Honorary Degree Day lunch at Girton for the first time. As I sat on High Table between the University Chancellor (the Duke of Edinburgh) and the College Visitor (the Queen Mother), I was very conscious of the portraits of the Founders looking down behind me, and hoped that Emily Davies was celebrating too.

Professor Marilyn Strathern: I find myself rather shy about doing this – my tenure is all too recent for memories to have been sedimented for recall. But I recount two things I articulated at the time, one a matter of anticipation, the other a surprise. The anticipation was of the pleasure that Juliet touches on, of being in a beautiful place, and I include the grounds and the perimeter walk that still continued to afford those glimpses into the centre that had been part of the original educational intention to cultivate (how to take) a view. The surprise was (don’t get me wrong!) how much I came to enjoy sitting down to eat with the same people, more or less, several times a week, and the difference it made on those nights when the body of Hall was filled with graduates and undergraduates.

You also have to think of me constantly on the prowl for material for after-dinner comments (speech is too grand a word), and the gifts that fell into my lap with the renovation of the kitchens (the heroism of making–do), discarding gowns for guest nights (the complexity of codes), the building of the organ (making the fabric of the College sing), and what can be done with halves when the half was Alison Duke’s incredible donation of half a million. And not only while walking the corridors – also (and drawing a veil over my efforts at swimming) while running very briefly early in the morning out of Girton and down Thornton Road, turning in at the back gate on return, wondering if I had the energy to speed up for the last few yards.

Professsor Susan Smith describes the College today: My first three years have passed so quickly that it is hard to think of any of it as a ‘memory’; it all feels so immediate. So I think my comments relate more to what Girton is today, and where the future lies.

The former, in a nutshell, is something like: ‘Girton is a supportive, inclusive scholarly community that works hard, exceeds its potential, and also has fun.’

As for the future, suffice it to say that the plans are ambitious! The aim is to remain as innovative and excellent as ever – a jewel in the crown of British Higher Education.

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Girton the Musical!

Since its first performance in 2007, Girton – The Musical! has become an irreplaceable cornerstone of the Girton Amateur Dramatic Society (GADS). Peter Facer (2006) and Stefan Porter (2006) draw on and embellish their own experiences to tell the wonderfully diverse and often bizarre stories of five new Girton students, including a very angry chef who leaves his restaurant to study languages at Girton, a student who has spent his gap year in Ancient Greece studying with Socrates, and an interview for admission to Girton, conducted by a very stern Dr. Tim Sinneran. On arrival, the students are introduced to the JCR Committee who sing of the College’s values, including the glory of the Senior Organ Scholar. Over the course of the show, Socrates (a woman in disguise) declares her undying love for the gap-year student, students attempt to navigate long-distance relationships, and the musical closes with a rousing rendition of “We are Girton!”

Girton – The Musical! has so far been produced seven times: a week-long run in both 2007 and

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2012, and a 45 minute version in every Freshers’ Week since 2007. 2012’s October performance will see the musical’s eighth incarnation, continuing a tradition which it is hoped will support music and drama in College for many more years. Moreover, the musical has boosted membership of GADS for the last five years, and with the increase in members the amateur dramatic scene in Girton has been thriving; The Musical is just one of four annual productions. Whilst the musical’s writers have moved on to other things, and not a single performer photographed is from the original 2007 cast, Girton – The Musical! has achieved an iconic status amongst undergraduates. As a new crop of Girtonians seizes the reins of Girton – The Musical!, the College community is already looking forward to the new interpretations of what has already become a legendary part of Freshers’ Week.

Raphael Roesler (2009), most recent director of Girton – The Musical!

New ‘Twin Triposes’ in Social and Natural Sciences Colleges across the University have made their last offers for the Politics, Psychology and Sociology (PPS) and Archaeology and Anthropology Triposes.

Starting in October 2013, students will have the choice of two new Triposes:Human, Social and Political Sciences (HSPS) and Psychological and Behavioural Sciences (PBS). HSPS will embrace the current Archaeology and Anthropology Tripos plus the current PPS Tripos, with the exception of Psychology. PBS is a new Tripos addressing Psychology from both the Social Science and Natural Science angles.

At Girton we are looking forward to this opportunity to reinforce our strong tradition in the social sciences, especially in social anthropology and archaeology, as we admit to the HSPS Tripos. Teaching and direction of studies will be provided from within College by an archaeologist, two social anthropologists (one with an interest in politics and one with an interest in medicine), and a psychologist with extensive experience in directing studies in PPS. HSPS will offer students an unprecedented breadth of curriculum, and our Directors of Studies will be there to guide them through.

HSPS will have six streams: Politics and International Relations, Sociology, Social Anthropology, Biological Anthropology, Archaeology and Assyriology.

Students will take four options in the first year, which may include Psychology, borrowed from PBS, and specialise at Part II to study either one or two of these streams.

We shall provide support to students in the new PBS Tripos in both disciplinary areas from three Fellows contributing to directing studies and teaching, who, between them, will cover the social science and medical angles, and experimental psychology using animal models. PBS fills a gap in Cambridge provision, and there have been many students in recent years who would have loved to have the choice of this new Tripos.

PBS students will take two compulsory psychology papers at Part I, and two further papers borrowed from HSPS, Natural Sciences, Philosophy or Computer Science. At Part II, students have a choice of emphasis within their psychology papers and may continue to borrow optional papers from the same Triposes as for Part I. This Tripos will allow specialisation in psychology in all three years, which has not been possible before. It will also allow science-oriented students to study psychology without having to fulfil the requirement of the Natural Sciences Tripos for high performance in Chemistry and Molecular Biology.

We have strong teaching and support teams for both HSPS and PBS, and we are looking forward to the challenges and new opportunities that the new courses and their students will bring.

Dr Veronica Bennett and Dr Sandra Fulton

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Wildlife at Girton Black Squirrels Black and grey squirrels are the same species (Sciurus carolinensis). They are native to North America and were imported to England in the late nineteenth century. The first official UK sighting of a black squirrel in the wild was in 1912. It was spotted on the outskirts of Letchworth, which was not far from the location of the private menagerie at Woburn from which the entire UK black squirrel population was thought to have been released.

Just a few black squirrels were released in one location, whereas the grey squirrels were released in several locations all over the country. Indeed, Letchworth had a pub called ‘The Black Squirrel’.

Albino grey squirrels also occur and a melanistic (dark) form of the native red squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris) has also been recorded.

"For one who has beheld a squirrel black as the night (Of chauvinist oppression) A lion holds no dread: he's just a puss who's spoiling for a fight And needs help handling his aggression."

– Favourite saying of Emily Davies*

*allegedly!

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Other than colour, black squirrels have the same size, behaviour and habitat as greys. Theirs is the same specific mutation found in the black squirrels in the northern parts of North America. The chance of the same mutation occurring separately in the UK, and in the United States, is minimal. The dark coat is the result of a naturally occurring mutation of the gene that governs fur pigmentation.

This shows that at some point, black squirrels were imported into this country from North America in the same way as the greys.

It took another thirty years before black squirrels were spotted on the south-west borders of Cambridgeshire during World War II. Today they are found in a wide ribbon across Hertfordshire,

Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire. In some ‘hotspots’ such as Girton, blacks now outnumber greys, making up an estimated three-quarters of the squirrel population.

The rise of the black is the biggest change in squirrel demographics since the native red squirrel almost disappeared fifty years ago from large parts of England. This is not because black squirrels compete with greys in the way that greys compete with reds (the larger greys eat more, and carry a pox that is deadly to reds), but because the gene for black fur is dominant, just as the gene for brown eyes is dominant over blue in humans.

Hence, two grey squirrels cannot produce blackfurred offspring, just as two blue-eyed humans cannot produce a brown-eyed baby. The normal grey colouring of a squirrel is produced by a combination of orange pigment (pheomelanin) and black pigment (eumelanin). A jet-black squirrel (with no orange pigment) is produced by two black-furred parents. One black-furred and one grey-furred parent will produce brown-black offspring.

Dr Helen McRobie Dr McRobie of Anglia Ruskin University is studying the distribution of black squirrels in Great Britain and would be grateful for records of any sightings. helen.mcrobie@anglia.ac.uk .

Red Kites During my years maintaining the College grounds, I have been lucky enough to encounter all types of wildlife on a daily basis. The birdlife in particular is one of my passions, and the College is a haven for many species, from the smallest Jenny Wren to the Red Kite; Britain’s largest bird of prey. A pair took residence in early spring 2011, and could be seen gliding elegantly over the College on a daily basis.

They produced one chick, before leaving in late summer. In the warm March this year all three birds returned, and once again we could see them soaring high above the College with the crows in tow.

The Red Kite was almost extinct in Britain until the early 1980’s, when there was only a couple of breeding pairs left in South Wales. Since then, thanks to a selective breeding programme, they can now be seen the length and breadth of the country, and fortunately for us, seem to feel particularly at home in the College.

Steve Whiting, Head Groundsman

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Chamber Music Scheme The Chamber Music Scheme is only in its second year, but it is already fast becoming an established and central feature of Girton’s music-making.

With around fifty members from all areas of College life, from first-year undergraduates to Fellows, we have been matching up instrumentalists and singers, finding repertoire and engaging professional musicians to coach the groups. Many of our ‘classical’ musicians are also keen jazzers, so for the first time we tried a Jazz Night in the Stanley Library in Michaelmas Term, which was overwhelmingly well-attended – so much so that the audience had to spill out into the corridor.

We repeated the success in Lent Term, and this is set to become a fixture of the College calendar.

This year, as well as welcoming professional musicians to College to work with students throughout the term, we tried to beat the frustration of over-filled diaries during term- time by organising a residential weekend at the beginning of Lent Term, and packing every moment with masterclasses, lessons and rehearsals.

We welcomed players from the London orchestra Southbank Sinfonia to coach strings and wind, a Pilates teacher to work with musicians with particular injuries or tension issues, and Girton’s new Musician in

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Residence, tenor Andrew Kennedy and Nicholas Mulroy who gave singing lessons, led a public song class and coached Girton’s first close harmony group, which was a great success. Composer and Old Girtonian Tim Watts worked with undergraduate composers to create ‘flexi-pieces’: compositions that are flexible enough to be played by an ensemble of any instrumentation, and the students rehearsed and conducted their pieces.

A particular highlight was the accompanist masterclass, for which three pianists had prepared Schumann’s song cycle Dichterliebe, and Britten’s Winter Words. They spent the afternoon working with accompanist Simon Lepper, a professor at the Royal College of Music and an official accompanist for Cardiff Singer of the World, and with Andrew Kennedy. The class was such a success that Simon and Andrew were back by popular demand later that term to continue the work. Pianists also had an insightful and stimulating morning with Ian Jones, Deputy Head of Piano at the Royal College.

The weekend’s work was showcased in two concerts in the Stanley Library, to give a flavour of some of the repertoire that had been covered.

Plans for next year are taking shape, and with the very welcome assistance of an extremely generous sponsor, we will be able to achieve more, and think even more ambitiously. Girton already has a very high number of the University’s most talented musicians in its undergraduate population, and hopefully, as we become known for our programme of ambitious music-making, we can continue to ensure that Girton is the place where all musicians will want to be!

Dr Kate Kennedy, Director

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Development report The last academic year has been something of a whirlwind for the Development Office, with a new Campaign, a new Development Director, a new website, and a packed schedule of events taking place within the UK and internationally.

In December 2011, Francisca Malarée, who had been Development Director at Girton for twelve years, moved to a similar role at Clare College, Cambridge. The Development Office would like to take this opportunity to thank Fran for her outstanding contribution to the College and specifically for building the department into one of the most successful in Cambridge. Fran was replaced in May 2012 by Elizabeth Wade (1976).

Liz brings significant experience in communications and investor relations to her new role.

Verity Armstrong, our Annual Fund Officer since 2008 also left during 2011 to join the Stephen Perse Foundation. Verity has been replaced by Christopher Hallebro, a graduate of St Peter’s College, Oxford, who now oversees our Friends’ Groups and runs the annual telephone appeal (which this year raised a record £200,000).

The main event of the year was the launch of our new fundraising campaign, A Great Campaign, which took place in March 2012 at the Royal Aeronautical Society in London. The campaign aims to secure a sustainable financial future for the College by our 150th Anniversary in 2019.

Our plans are more ambitious than ever before, we hope to raise a total of £50 million to support scholarly excellence (£10 million), the College’s living environment (£20 million, to include the development of Ash Court), and to grow our endowment (£20 million). To help us with this new endeavour we have assembled a Campaign Board

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whose wealth of experience, generosity and goodwill are already proving invaluable. To find out more about these exciting plans please visit our website: www.girton.cam.ac.uk/ supporters/a-great-campaign.

Our usual programme of events for alumni has continued, with reunions for specific year groups, events for various Friends’ Groups, and the alumni sports matches all taking place in the College. In London, we held a fascinating panel discussion on the Global Economy at the British Academy in November 2011, and in March 2012 our now annual Law and Finance networking event took place with thanks to Slaughter and May. Internationally, we have held events for Girtonians in Melbourne, Sydney, Perth, Hong Kong, Singapore, Washington, New York, and Geneva.

As ever, the College is immensely grateful to all its supporters, whose generosity is helping ensure a secure future for Girton. However you choose to support the College, whether by donating directly, by leaving a legacy, by bringing in conference business, or by volunteering your time, we are very grateful to you.

Samuel Venn, Deputy Development Director

Admissions report In October 2011 we admitted a total of 151 undergraduate students, 131 of whom were from Britain or the EU. The total included six exchange students: two (Archaeology and Anthroplogy, and Economics) on the Junior Year Abroad scheme and four (one Engineering, two MML and one Linguistics) on the ERASMUS scheme. We maintained our normal balance with 47% women, and 50% studying Arts subjects. In this cohort, 70% of our Home applicants and 71% of our intake were from maintained schools. We again made full use of the Intercollegiate pool system and made 75 offers through the Winter Pool and four through the Summer Pool after A-level results were published. As in 2010, the higher target of A*AA was not a problem for the majority of our offer holders, and did not result in a higher than expected proportion of missed offers among students offering the A-level qualification. Across the University, the average attainment at A level of successful applicants was 2.5 A*, which indicates that our current offer is well within the capabilities of the students that we are seeking to admit.

We held Open Days for all subjects in September and June, and were open for visitors on the University Open Days in July. We also welcomed prospective Mathematics applicants to

Wolfson Court on the Maths Faculty Open Day in April.

Our programme of visits to and from schools continued with a variety of activities ranging from an admissions talk to full activity days including subject workshops and aspiration–raising activities.

We continue to receive visits from individuals unable to attend Open Days, and an increasing number of individual visits from teachers wishing to gain a clearer idea of our admissions process, and how best to prepare their students for a Cambridge application.

The HE+ programme is now in its second year, and has been very rewarding. In Lent Term this year we hosted master-classes in Geography, Maths and Physics, Chemistry, Biology and Medicine, English, Economics, History and Law. We also ran workshops on the admissions process in the contact area of Dudley, and the local schools ran a series of subjectfocused extension classes (8 per subject). Over 100 students from the target area are involved in the programme. This is a considerable commitment for the teachers involved and is much appreciated.

Girton Directors of Studies, in conjunction with the Schools Liaison Assistant. The immediate aim was to encourage sixth-formers to research, think and write beyond the curriculum. The longer-term aim is to put Girton on the map as one of the Colleges actively working to raise student aspirations.

We are very grateful for the support of many of the Fellows and Directors of Studies who have given their time to run masterclasses and workshops, and to advise potential applicants at Open Days and on school visits. Our undergraduates are some of our best ambassadors, and have done much to welcome visitors on Open Days, in the interview season and at other times. Thanks are due to Jacob Malcolm-Conalty (JCR Access and Academic Officer), and others who took part in access events throughout the year.

Finally, our thanks go especially to the team in the Admissions Office who work with tireless energy and efficiency to smooth the admissions process for all concerned. Angela Stratford (Head of Admissions and Tutorial) continues to run a tight ship with an excellent team: Wendy Langmead as Schools Liaison Assistant and Jenny Griffiths as Graduate Secretary. Kate Thomas left in April to devote her time to her young son, and we will miss her more than she knows. We welcome Katie Bowers to the team as Tutorial Assistant and hope that she will enjoy her time working at Girton.

Dr Sandra Fulton and Dr Veronica Bennett, Admissions Tutors

A new initiative this year was the Girton Humanities Writing Competition, set up by a group of

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Bursaries and Grants report Bursaries Fifteen holders of Emily Davies Bursaries (worth up to £4,026 per student to cover the College Residence Charge) were in residence in 2011/12.

The subjects being read by the bursary holders included Architecture, Biological Sciences, English, Geography, Law, Medicine, Music, Physical Sciences and Theology.

There were five holders of the Ellen McArthur Bursaries (worth £1,000 in the first year and £1,500 in subsequent years) in residence in 2011/12, three of whom were reading Economics, and two reading Politics, Psychology and Sociology.

Two Jean Lindsay Memorial Bursaries for History, and Margaret Barton Bursaries for Medical Sciences, were held by students in residence in 2011/12.

Six holders of an Emily Davies Bursary, one holder of the Margaret Barton Bursary, and two Ellen McArthur Bursary holders graduated at the end of June 2012. The awards of all other bursary holders have been renewed for 2012/13.

One hundred and thirty-two Cambridge Bursaries and thirteen Cambridge European Bursaries were received by Girton undergraduates in 2011/12.

As in previous years, the Newton Trust provided 87.5% of the cost, and the College contributed the remaining 12.5%. These bursaries form part of one of the most generous bursary schemes of any University in the UK, which guarantees a bursary of up to £3,400 per year to those students from the least well-off households.

The College Overseas Bursaries of eleven overseas and seven European Union students have been renewed for the next academic year, and a new bursary was awarded to one overseas student due to come into residence in October 2012. The new bursary holder was recommended to the Cambridge Trusts for further assistance, and was made a generous award by the Trusts that will enable them to take up their place here.

Grants Eleven undergraduate students were made hardship grants from the Buss Fund totalling £994.

The number of grants has fallen in recent years due to many of the neediest students being awarded either College or Cambridge bursaries; however with the rise in tuition fees for 2012, demand on this fund may be higher in the future.

Eleven graduate students received grants amounting to £4,415 from the Pillman Hardship Fund.

For academic expenses, including ‘directed reading’ during the Easter vacation, grants totalling £2,585 were made to thirteen undergraduates from the Student Academic Resources Fund. Twenty graduate students received grants amounting to £3,835 from the Pillman Academic Fund.

The following grants were also made: two grants totalling £750 from the Beatrice Mary Thomas Fund for Physical Sciences and four grants totalling £650 from the Harry Barkley Fund to clinical medical students undertaking elective periods of training.

Angela Stratford, Head of Tutorial and Admissions Office

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Librarian’s report With an earlier deadline for copy this year, I find myself drafting this report in the middle of the exams. The Library is full of silent, focussed students, and the tension is high. The Library teeters on the brink of constant mess at this time, as students ‘nest’ into their particular study spaces, and the staff surreptitiously, but effectively, manage to keep things tidy and clear.

And the sun is out at last, and the tables in Campbell Court are in full use, as are our ‘literary’ deckchairs. In three weeks it will all be over; the Library will suddenly empty, and only piles of abandoned belongings will remain. Then we shall

turn our attention to preparation for various exhibitions and begin work on the larger projects earmarked for the Long Vac. A new project for this department follows Council’s decision to include Girton’s picture collections in the Public Catalogue Foundation’s listings. This also means that the paintings will appear on their associated website, Your Paintings, which is hosted by the BBC. We are currently preparing for the PCF to photograph the collections – a big task, although they will not include watercolours, drawings and prints. It will be made clear that Girton’s paintings are a private collection not a public one, but we feel that cooperation in this project will be beneficial to all, and Trinity and St John’s have both recently joined the project. The Royal Society of Portrait Painters has agreed that we may include the People’s Portraits collection.

The University and Life Experience Website Project (Oral History) is making good progress and is due to be completed by the end of next summer.

A separate report on this appears elsewhere.

On two occasions during the year, one of which was to mark the 400th anniversary of the King James Bible, we exhibited some of Girton's rare, early Bibles from the Special Collections, including the Ninth German Bible (Koberger) of 1483, and sixteenth-century editions of the 'Bugge' and the 'Breeches' Bible, and a seventeenth-century example of a 'Treacle' Bible. We produced a descriptive handlist for the exhibition, which we can make available to anyone interested.

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Gifts and Bequests to the Library (Please note that all the donations listed here refer to the period 1 July 2011–30 June 2012) We continue to benefit from the generosity of Cambridge University Press, whose special arrangement allows us to acquire over £3000 worth of CUP books free of charge.

We are most grateful to the many donors whose gifts of money allow us to purchase books and other essential items. These include Muriel Kittel (Lister 1934), who, a few years ago, gave us a large and generous donation to use for the purchase of works in language and literature, which we use every year to subsidise our book budgets in those areas. We have continued to benefit from the bequest of Sara Crawford (1948).

Copies of their own work have been presented by: Dr Tine Bagh, Professor Judith M Brown (1962), Professor Wendy Childs (Baker 1961), Alice Crawford, Felix Dennis, Dr Ben Griffin, Vicky Harper, Wendy Holden (1983), Neil Jenkins, Professor Cindi Katz, Joan Lennon, Gwyneth Lewis (1978), Dr Laura McMahon, Tessa Peters, Professor Saskia Sassen, Dr Jacqueline Stedall (Barton 1969), Milly Stoney (Wild 1963), Professor Dame Marilyn Strathern (Evans 1960), Dr Dorothy Thompson (Walbank 1958), Dr Mary Tiffen (Steele-Perkins 1949), C M Talbot, Dr Samantha Williams, Janice West, Hailey Woldt (2011).

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The following individuals have also presented copies of books and other media: The Mistress, India Alexander (2008), Anna Blackwell (2009), Dr Michael Cahn, Dr Ben Griffin, Virginia van der Lande (1949), The Librarian, Ivan Mazour (2003), Dr Gabriele Natali, Dr Tim Pestell (1987), Professor Dame Marilyn Strathern (Evans 1960), Professor Paul Tod, Dr Ruth Warren.

We are very grateful to the following donors, who maintain regular subscriptions to journals on our behalf, or who present us with regular current copies: Dr Harriet Allen, Mrs C A Hopkins (Busbridge 1959), Dr John Marks, Dr Alastair Reid, Dr M B Saveson (Buehrer 1951), Professor Dame Marilyn Strathern (Evans 1960).

Publications have also been presented by the following organisations: Cambridge University Careers Service Library, Commonwealth War Graves Commission, FlemishNetherlands Foundation, Hughes Hall Cambridge, Jesus College Cambridge, Klau Library.

Frances Gandy Librarian and Curator

Archive report This year started with an exhibition looking at the ‘Girton experience’ from 1869 to the present day.

It featured letters, student petitions, photographs, cartoons and records of clubs and societies. The exhibition had two aims: firstly to introduce the history of the College and the Archive to the new matriculants; and secondly, and perhaps more importantly, to encourage all current members of the College to donate their own records to the Archive to illustrate Girton as it is today. It is important to collect these ephemeral records before they disappear. With this in mind I have been in touch with the various clubs and societies and the JCR to gather in their records. I would also like to take this opportunity to appeal to everyone for any records they may have of their time at Girton. Photographs, diaries, letters, and recollections are all invaluable to the College’s collective memory. So please do get in touch if you have any records to donate to the Archive.

There have already been some wonderful accessions this year which illustrate the Girton experience.

These include the diaries of Margaret Evans (1942) and a photograph album that belonged to Mary Herring (1925). There has also been a literary theme to accessions, with donations

A page from Margaret Evans’s diary showing a sketch of her room in College, 1942.

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of manuscript plays by Elsa Malik (Barker 1924) and semi-autobiographical articles by Lilian Furst (1952).

As part of the retrospective cataloguing programme, Joan Bullock-Anderson has catalogued these new accessions along with the larger collections of Helen Megaw’s papers and Dorothy Needham’s papers. These catalogues, which include a brief biography of each woman, are all available on the Janus website – http://janus.lib.cam.ac.uk/.

Throughout the year the Archive has continued to receive a wide variety of enquiries and visits.

Many visiting researchers focused on individuals rather than broader themes, with Adelaide Anderson, Bertha Phillpotts, Hertha Ayrton and Constance Maynard being popular. Numerous researchers contacted the Archive whilst researching publications but perhaps the most thrilling publication was The Case of the Cambridge Mummy by Joan Lennon. I am sure you will all be relieved to learn that it is not Hermione who causes havoc at the Fitzwilliam Museum as the book is set several years before Hermione’s arrival at Girton.

I would like to end by expressing my gratitude to Hilary Goy (Corke, 1968) and Cherry Hopkins (Busbridge, 1959) who have both continued with their invaluable help in the Archive.

(The donations listed refer to the period 1 July 2011 – 30 June 2012)

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Donation to the Archive: S M Asplin; Dr Timothy Bolton; Peter Broadbent; Professor Judith Brown (1962); Jonathan Bruce (2010); Isabel Burn (Bennett 1953); Ann Carey (Patrick 1952); Sheila Clare; Barbara Cooke (2010); Dorothy Davies; Dr Juliet Dusinberre; Dr Amy Erickson; Margaret Evans (1942); Rachel Gay; Anna Goldenberg (2009); Imogen Gunn; Matthew Hatfield (2010); Shane Heffernan (2010); Cherry Hopkins (Busbridge 1959); Jasmin Hu (2009); Sue Kenny; Michael Lewis; Professor Ruth Lynden-Bell; Professor Elizabeth Anne McCauley; Omar Malik; Sheila Mann; Barbara Megson (1948); Dr Julie Mell; Jessica Morley (2010); Ronald Morris; Ryohei Nakamura (2010); Caroline Reeves; Stephen Roberts; Margaret Smart; Phyllis Smart (1942); Peter Sparks; Dr Dorothy Thompson (Walbank 1958); Anne Thompson; Kate Varney; Flora Wallace (MacLeod 1952); Alexander Wessely (2009); Margaret Wilson; Nuri Wyeth ( 1964); Angela Yaffey (Tillyard 1945).

Records were also transferred from various College departments throughout the year.

Hannah Westall, Archivist

Music report As reported last year, we finished the 2010–11 academic year with the news that Samuel Hudson, Director of Chapel Music, had been appointed Master of the Music at Blackburn Cathedral.

Circumstances forced the College to seek a replacement at relatively short notice, but we were fortunate in attracting a strong field. I was particularly delighted that Nicholas Mulroy emerged as the front-runner. He is a rare beast within the Cambridge choral scene – a vocal soloist who performs at the highest level on an international stage – and he has brought great vibrancy to singing in College. It has been a pleasure to see the choir move forward over the course of the year with renewed confidence and vigour.

I am delighted to be able to report here once again on the remarkable successes achieved by Girton musicians, both as performers and in the Tripos.

Girtonians distinguish themselves in many University contexts, but one particularly notable occasion was a master-class given by Richard Goode, the leading American pianist, on 12 May. Four pianists were selected from across the University to perform for him, and no fewer than three of them (Benjamin Comeau, Jâms Coleman, and Michael Leach) were Girtonians.

In the examinations just past, Girtonians again topped the bill. Mark Seow was at the head of the Part IB class-list, and Benjamin Comeau gained the highest (ever?) marks in Part IA; no-one got lower than a 2:1, and there were Firsts in each year of the Tripos.

All in all, a remarkable achievement on the part of the students – and a testimony to the attention bestowed on them by both Kate Kennedy and Tim Watts, who served as Director of Studies in Music

in Michaelmas and Lent Terms, while I was on academic leave.

I should also like to pay tribute here to the two finalists who ran the Music Society in my absence.

Raphael Roesler and Camilla Nelson did an outstanding job as Secretary and Treasurer. It was entirely appropriate that the Tom Lockwood Prize, for contribution to College Music, should be divided between Raphael and Anthony Fort, the outgoing organ scholar. Anthony has made an enormous contribution to College music over the past three years – as conductor, as organist, as oboist, even on occasion as violinist – and it is remarkable that he did all this while still achieving a First in his finals. Anthony moves on to the position of Musician in Residence at Bedford School; however, he will be much missed at Girton.

Margaret Faultless continues to play a galvanising role in Girton music. She brought the Collegium Musicum, the University’s period-instrument ensemble, to the College on 13 November for an excellent Bach programme. She was also the moving spirit behind two of the major concerts this year. The first, a Brahms evening on 16 November, was one of the most polished concerts of recent history. Pianists, violinists and singers combined forces to present a cross-section of Brahms’s output. The performance of the D minor Violin Sonata was particularly noteworthy: each movement was taken by a different violinist (and usually a different pianist). Not many colleges can offer such depth of talent, and we are very fortunate in having Maggie to help foster this.

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by a teenager, the work makes no concessions to youth, and it gave our string players an opportunity to shine.

One further special event should be recorded here.

On 24 September, in the context of the Roll weekend, John Longstaff, Girton’s first male organ scholar, returned to College to present a programme of music for piano duet with the Director of Music. We are very grateful to John for playing for the Roll – a small indication of his sustained commitment to Girton music.

Maggie was also a motivating force behind this year’s May Week Concert, which took place in Hall on 19 June. The first half was built round Bach’s Cantata No 37, which provided solos for four Girtonians, past and present: Madeleine Seale, Cassandra Gorman, Alexander Berman, and Kieran Hughes. Mozart’s A major Piano Concerto, K.488, was realised in an unorthodox fashion with the solo part divided between two particularly gifted pianists, Hannah Watson and Michael Leach, both of whom will be pursuing postgraduate performance degrees in London next year.

A movement from Mendelssohn’s Octet completed the programme. Though written

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The Sunday afternoon concert series continues to offer regular opportunities to Girtonians and outsiders. Visitors this year included Charbel Mattar, who as well as performing as a member of the Royal Opera House now teaches many of our choral scholars. His programme, accompanied by the Director of Music, included Wolf’s Michaelangelo Lieder and songs by Strauss. Jessica LawrenceHares (mezzo-soprano) and Patick Hemmerlé (piano) performed works by Brahms, Zemlinsky, Korngold, Fauré and Barber in their recital.

Many of the Sunday afternoon concerts are of a very high standard, so if you find yourself in the Cambridge area at the weekend, please do come.

A fresh list of all Girton concerts can be found on the College website shortly after the start of each term.

Dr Martin Ennis, Director of Music

Chapel report It has been another eventful year in the life of Girton chapel, rounded as always, by our two well-attended ‘rites of passage’ services; the Freshers’ service on the Sunday morning of the Freshers’ weekend, and the Graduation service at General Admission. In between those two great occasions it has been my privilege as Chaplain not only to plan and lead the regular Sunday services (which Karen Lee, the chair of our Chapel Committee has described in the Friends of Chapel

report), but also to accompany, counsel and guide a wide range of Girtonians on their journey from that first flurry of freshers’ nerves and enthusiasm, through all the challenges of Cambridge life, to the day of graduation itself. It is always a pleasure to watch how people gradually come to find themselves, grow in confidence and begin to develop a vision of who they are and what they are here for. ‘Vision and Visionaries’ was the chapel theme for the Michaelmas Term, and it was appropriate that one of the visionaries we celebrated was Emily Davies, to whose vision we owe our collegiate life.

Much of my work as a Chaplain is simply listening.

I listen as people tell me their stories and sometimes find, over the course of a year, that the way they tell their own story has changed, and often for the better; people can be helped to move on from seeing themselves as weak or inadequate, even as the victims in their story, to reframing a narrative in which they are open to new possibilities. As a chaplain I am not only a hearer and keeper of these individual stories, but also the keeper of a great story, told in the over-arching narrative of the Bible, a story in which, time and again, the weak are strengthened, and even the apparent ending of death itself becomes the start of a new story.

‘Stories and story telling’ was the theme of our Lent term and it was heartening to see how the great Biblical stories were revealing new possibilities in the life-stories of individual Girtonians.

As another year closes I am grateful to find myself part of the story, not only of Girton Chapel, but of the larger and wider life of the College.

Dr Malcolm Guite, Chaplain

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Fellows’ Research Talks This year, the Research Evening talks have been so well attended that we have had to move out of the SCR to the Fellows’ Drawing Rooms, and double our order of sherry! It is wonderful to see such interest amongst the Fellowship in each other’s work, and very illuminating for us all to hear in more detail than the odd mention over lunch about our colleagues’ research. In approaching the speakers, I tried to achieve as much of a balance between arts and sciences, and as wide a range of topics, as possible.

The year began with Senior Research Fellow Eileen Rubery, who gave a fascinating talk on the complex religious politics behind some Seventh Century frescoes in the church of St Maria Antiqua in the Roman Forum, complete with beautiful slides of the frescoes themselves, which brought her work to life, and made everyone on a wet and windy Autumn evening long for Mediterranean sunshine!

Eileen tells us a little about her work on the frescoes in her profile above.

The New Year began with Research Fellow Sithamparanathan Sabesan talking about his prizewinning innovations in the world of baggage handling and tracking in airports. He is developing a system that will enable retailers, airlines and other businesses to monitor the location of items such as shopping trolleys, luggage, and documents both cheaply and effectively in real time. The system could save airlines millions of pounds every year.

Retail groups have also been engaged in the project - not just for tagging items, but also for the development of self-service checkouts.

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Residence, gave a wonderful insight into Renaissance brass instruments, and played some sublime recordings of the group of which he is a founder member, His Majesty’s Sagbutts and Cornetts. His passion for the cornett and for the beautiful repertoire that he performs was infectious.

To round off the year, we were very grateful to Kamiar Mohaddes, Official Fellow and University Lecturer in Economics, who gave us a preview of a paper shortly to be published, in which he argues against taking a short–term perspective of oil revenue.

He suggests instead a theory for oil exporters such as Saudi Arabia and Iran in which oil export revenues can potentially affect the growth rate of income in the long run.

When we spend so much of each day absorbed in our own narrow fields, the Research Evenings series is a valuable way to get to know about areas in which we have no expertise, and to gain a glimpse into each other’s research. We’re looking forward to another year of insight and illumination!

Dr Kate Kennedy, Convener

Warden’s News Head Chef James Circuit will be off to the 2012 Culinary Olympics in Germany in October 2012, hoping to bring back more glory for Girton. At Hotel Olympia in 2011 James won a gold medal for his sustainable fish dish, which he’s donated to the Annual Review for you to try at home (if you have three frying pans...)

Pan Fried Red Gurnard Confit baby potatoes, cumin scented carrot pureé, sauté kale, broad beans and wild mushrooms, light curry sauce

4) Peel the carrots and roughly chop. Add to a pan along with the cream, butter and cumin powder. Bring to the boil, cook until tender then blitz in a food processor until smooth.

1 whole red gurnard 1 potato (maris piper) 100g kale Half a lemon (juiced) 100g mixed wild mushrooms 50g broad beans (shelled) 200g carrots 75ml double cream 2tsp cumin 50g butter 200ml fish stock 1 can coconut milk 500ml olive oil Bombay spice mix (cumin seeds, coriander seeds, turmeric, bay leaves, chilli powder, salt) 100g butter Coriander

5) Now prepare the sauce and other vegetables: place the fish stock, coconut milk and curry powder in a pan with the cream, butter and cumin powder and reduce until the sauce coats the back of a spoon

1) Fillet the gurnard, or ask the fishmonger to do this for you. Set aside in the fridge 2) Heat the olive oil in a pan with the Bombay spices, slowly bring to the boil then take off the heat and pass through some muslin to remove the seeds 3) Peel the potato and cut out rounds with a 5cm pastry cutter. Place the oil back on the heat and add the potatoes. Cook for 20 minutes

6) For the kale, pick the leaves and rinse under water ready for sautéing later. Pick and clean the mushrooms, shell the broad beans.

7) Get three frying pans on the heat: brush the fish with oil and pan fry for 4 minutes on one side then flip over, turn off the heat and cook for a further 2 minutes before removing to kitchen paper to rest for 5 minutes in a warm place.

8) In the second and third pans, put 50g of butter in each. When foaming, add the kale to one and the wild mushrooms and broad beans to the other; sauté both for about 2 minutes, season and add lemon juice to the kale.

9) To serve: take the carrot puree and make a smear across the plate, place the kale at the top of the plate with the fish resting on top, and the confit bombay potato next to it, scatter the wild mushroom and beans around the plate followed by the sauce and to finish, sprinkle the fish with coriander shoots.

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The Staff Entertainments Report The Staff Entertainments Committee is made up of a small group of volunteers who endeavour to provide fun events and activities for staff members and their families and friends. The events offered are designed to appeal to as many people as possible, from theatre trips to quiz nights or shopping excursions.

The theatre trips prove to be popular each year, so preferences are sought with the majority rule applying. The first production chosen was Thriller – Live, at the Lyric Theatre in London.

Forty people went along to see the show, having some spare time beforehand to eat, shop and generally enjoy the day. A further eight took advantage of a lift to London and back for a very reasonably priced coach ticket. The second theatre trip was more local. This year it was Buddy Holly at the Corn Exchange. While not as popular as the previous year’s production of Calendar Girls, it was still enjoyed by a dedicated small group of theatre goers.

The quiz nights continue to be well supported, with teams being made up from various departments throughout the College. They take place out of term in the main College bar. Food is provided along with cash prizes and the venue is always full to capacity. Thanks to the Deputy Head Porter for taking on the rôle of Quiz master.

The shopping trip is always organised for a Saturday a few weeks before Christmas and, most importantly, planned to coincide with the November pay-day. The variety of locations that can be reached in a reasonable time from College is limited, but just when it was thought that they had been exhausted, Rochester Christmas Market was

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discovered. Rochester may not be a Mecca for high street shops, but there were plenty of individual shops and cafés to visit. The market was set around the castle, complete with street artists, carols and snow! Although it was crowded, everyone enjoyed the day, managed to find somewhere to have lunch and was very pleased to see the coach arrive back on time. Once again there was a free raffle on the coach journey home, with a lovely food hamper being the main prize.

There are always a number of activities arranged around Christmas time, and a children’s party follows the shopping trip. This is a popular event which is open to children of any members of the College including staff, Fellows and students.

After the dancing, games and afternoon tea, the children were very excited to meet Girton’s very own Father Christmas, otherwise known as Brian Buncombe, the Deputy Head Porter.

To round off the year’s events the grand finale was the staff Christmas party. Just as popular as the children’s party and similar in many ways, there were dancing, a full buffet and raffle prizes, but no visit from Santa.

The Committee would like to thank everyone who has supported the events throughout the year, and would encourage anyone who has not come to an event to do so. New blood on the Committee is also very welcome.

Martin Shadbolt, Senior Bursary Clerk

How good is your knowledge of Girton?

One of the quizzes consisted of pictures taken around College. The Editor thought it might be fun to reproduce it here in The Year, to see how many Girtonians, old or current, have been paying attention to the minutiae of their surroundings in the College. If you can identify these photos (even roughly) send your answers to Dr Kate Kennedy at Girton College, and you will be in the running to win a cuddly Buster the cat, a squirrel sporting a Girton scarf, or a Girton teddy bear, depending on your preference!

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JCR report It has been a busy year for all involved with the JCR. The new influx of Freshers has settled in quickly and has already done wonders for Girton’s famous social atmosphere. There are very few colleges where all three years mix at mealtimes, on corridors and in the bar, and there was a fantastic sight on this year’s Varsity ski trip of five years’ worth of Girton students dancing together at the opening night party. The nature of our location means that all students bond together regardless of what year they are in, and it makes Girton a very happy place to be.

The JCR committee has been busy as well, committed as ever to improving Girton wherever we can. Thanks to the work of Matt Hatfield and Jonny Bruce, Girton now has its own student-run Allotment Society, which has proved extremely popular and boosted our green credentials as a College. We have set up a new website, at www.girtonjcr.com, which hopefully will become another link for alumni to stay in touch with

Andrew Lansley

MCR report ‘We are Girton. Super Girton. No one likes us.

We don’t care’ – we’ve all heard the chant before, juxtaposing our college’s strong sense of community with its supposed outsider status among the Cambridge colleges. It has, in a sense, been the inspiration for the MCR’s activities this year. We’ve taken pride in instilling the strong sense of friendship and family among graduate students that Girton is now known for. At the same time we’ve set about challenging the second half of the motto. For MCR members, 2011–12 has been a

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year in which outreach was a major feature.

The aim has been to show that we do care.

We care about other colleges as well as our own.

We care about our staff. We care about our Fellows. We even care about our younger colleagues in the JCR. Thanks to a fantastic and enthusiastic MCR committee, we can look back on a year of events and developments that saw our MCR being more open and more diverse than in previous years. To give you a flavour of our year, here are some of the highlights….

College life. As well as this, we’ve been branching out by joining with the MCR, and a recent joint ‘ent’ was a huge success that won’t be forgotten in a hurry.

This year, the JCR invited the Rt Honourable Andrew Lansley, our local MP, to give a talk to the College.

He accepted, and in late January the Old Hall was full of people eager to ask him questions about his controversial health reforms.

He received some challenging questions from the floor, from medics and non-medics alike. In particular, Thomas O’Pray (a third-year medic who works as a healthcare assistant in North Liverpool’s only hospital) put him on the spot with a question about the emergency services, which had Mr Lansley flustered and

Research Seminars (October 2011) One of the best initiatives carried over from last year’s committee has been the Pecha Kucha research seminars.

Twenty presentation slides, twenty seconds per slide and no pausing for breath! The idea is simple. The result is entertainment. This year the MCR persuaded the College’s most willing Fellows to present their work, no doubt providing them with a

temporarily losing his cool. Overall, it was a fascinating hour’s talk, and I’d like to extend the JCR’s thanks to Mr Lansley for his participation.

This year, it was decided that all students could extend their room tenancies to nine months. This has proved a very popular move, as we no longer have to clear our rooms during the holidays. As a result, the College is now vibrant even during the breaks between terms, with many people choosing to take advantage of Cambridge outside the stresses of term time.

We have been lucky enough to have a number of superb sports players in the College this year, with three undergraduates playing for the football Blues, one for the rugby Blues

and one for the Under 21 rugby team. College teams have fared less well, however, with the football 1sts and 2nds being relegated – although special mention should go to the Men’s rowing 8, who achieved blades.

In student politics, Akiliah Jeffers was narrowly pipped in the run for CUSU President.

This March saw the Girton Ball – ‘Once Upon a Storytime’ – which was greatly enjoyed by everyone there. Congratulations are due to Matt Hemmings,Tom O’Pray and the rest of their committee.

Overall it has been a great year for Girton undergraduates, and the College has gone from strength to strength.

Alex Wessely, JCR President

refreshing change from standard 30–60 minute academic lectures.

These seminars always aim to present a broad range of topics to a general audience and we made sure this was no exception. The college’s Old Hall, packed with students, Fellows and alumni, was treated to whirlwind tours of nanoscience, social geography, the history of masculinity and the ontology of technology.

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Our presenters ranged from the nervous to the nerveless and, fortunately for them and all of us, we’ll get to do it all again this May when it’s the turn of the graduates to sum up their work in 400 seconds. Phew!

International Nights This year we have had a bigger MCR than ever before and one of the most exciting aspects of this has been the huge range of nationalities represented. How do you make everyone feel at home? Well, you just celebrate it! This year saw some exciting, fully-flavoured international nights run by our MCR. Driven by some of our most sociable overseas students, both on and off the MCR committee, we’ve celebrated India, Mexico, the US and Jamaica! Hopefully these nights gave some people a nice taste of home. More importantly, they’ve given the moderately/poorlytravelled masses such as myself a gorgeous flavour of other cultures represented by the MCR. One of

the most enduring memories I’ll have from this year is an MCR room full of students dancing like Bollywood stars.

MCR Dinners Our termly MCR dinners have, in recent years, become a relaxed, in-house get together for us with a less-formal-than-Formal-Hall ambience.

This year we turned the format on its head. To start, we shifted ourselves out of Wolfson Court and up to the Main Hall. As a main course we invited 4 other colleges to join us and, finally, for dessert we made everyone wear white and organised a bop with the JCR to get all that white glowing.

The event was a smashing success in bringing other colleges in to experience Girton, as well as getting our collaborative groove on with the JCR. As usual, there have been countless good times outside of these organised events and Wolfson Court continues to foster a familial graduate community. Of course, as well as the good times, I cannot exclude the less tangible work that has been done by graduates to improve life for all in Girton. This year, thanks to the hard work of our committee, we have had major improvements to the décor and facilities of the MCR common room.

We have also successfully introduced a free-cycle scheme for students vacating, and persuaded the College to introduce paper-recycling bins in all student rooms. All in all, it’s been a year of enjoyment, achievement and action. For that, I’m thoroughly grateful to have had a creative and enthusiastic MCR committee as well as a friendly and diverse MCR population overall. Here’s to next year being the same!

Shane Heffernan, MCR President

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Biological Society The Biological Society has been revived over the last two years, and we have had fun getting it up and running again. In Michaelmas Term we welcomed the new Biological Natural Scientists and other members interested in the society. Both social and informative events were held, including an enjoyable formal swap with the Fitzwilliam College Biological Society. A summer placement talk was organised to inform first and second years about what was available and how to go about making applications and GETTING funding. I would like to thank all the second and third years who gave a presentation on their summer placements, which ranged from Lawrence Bates, Anna Woronuik and Jing Zhao’s laboratory-based molecular biology projects, to Emmanuel Briolat, Laura Highcock and Mary Higgs’ ecological field work and James Lester’s modelling project.

In Lent Term we were fortunate to have Dr Mark Avery, the former Director of Conservation at the RSPB, speak to us about ‘25 years of standing up for nature’. Dr Avery is now a prolific blogger and contributor to several national newspapers.

He drew on his own experiences to illustrate the challenges that face conservationists in Britain today. This was both extremely relevant for the more ecologically focused biologists but also interesting and informative from a more general perspective, and was enjoyed by both society members and Fellows of the College.

I look forward to the events of the next term, and wish the new committee good luck for the coming year.

Amy Butterworth, President

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Geographical Society The Geographical Society continues to be as active as ever. We have organised social events throughout the year. We introduced this year’s freshers to the Geographical Society over dinner in hall and post-dinner drinks one evening early in Michaelmas Term. It quickly became apparent to them that Girton geographers have a strong social community. In a first for the Geographical Society, we chose to offer hoodies to Society members, which were well-received and have promoted the Society amongst other geographers and Girton students.

We are extremely grateful to the raffle prize donors: Open Air, Fudge Kitchen, Ryder & Amies, Breeze, Heffers Music, The Little Corner Shop, Girton College Development Office, Girton College Porters’ Lodge, Dr Harriet Allen and Dr David Beckingham. Furthermore, we are immensely grateful to Emma Cornwall, who helped to ensure that the event ran as successfully and smoothly as possible.

The year’s main focal event was our biennial Reunion Dinner, which we held in February 2012 for 70 guests. This dinner followed a similar format to previous years, allowing students to talk to Girton’s Geography alumni about their shared experiences of studying this fascinating subject and studying at Girton, while enjoying a three-course meal. We were pleased to have Dr Piers Vitebsky as our guest speaker. We chose to introduce a new photographic competition for current students, with the theme of ‘Geography’ being widely interpreted by entrants. The winner, first-year geographer Tim May, was selected by Dr Vitebsky on the evening, and Tim’s photo is reproduced here. In addition, third-year geographers gave presentations on their dissertation research, which were followed by questions from guests. As we have done previously, we ran a raffle to raise money for the Dr Jean Grove Memorial Fund, which provides funding to support the dissertation research of Girton geographers.

As has become traditional, we shall conclude the year with a visit to the farm of Dr Roland Randall, a Life Fellow in Geography at Girton.

This will allow us to say goodbye to geographers leaving us this year, while having a tour of Dr Randall’s farm and sampling some of his award-winning goats’ milk ice-cream.

The Geographical Society looks forward to welcoming next year’s freshers to this special society.

Andrew Graham Williamson, President

Oxkutzcab, in Yucatán State, Mexico taken by Tim May (Geography 2011)

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Joan Robinson Society (Economics) As one of the most active subject-based societies, the Joan Robinson society organised a variety of events in the 2011–2012 academic year, including guest speakers and other more informal events.

In Michaelmas Term, Gill Hammond, Girton alumna and now Director of the Centre for Central Banking Studies at the Bank of England, returned to give the society a talk about the Bank of England’s new role in macroprudential regulation and its challenges.

In a delightful presentation, she discussed the bank’s new tasks in today’s evolving macroeconomic environment and the members had the chance to discover an expert’s outlook on the current European financial situation.

In Lent, the Joan Robinson Society welcomed Dr Kamal Munir, Reader in Strategy and Policy at the Judge Business School, who gave a talk about the economic reality of microfinance. Drawing on his personal research on the topic in Pakistan, Dr Munir presented an interesting, unconventional view on the lending system to the world’s poorest people, arguing that the mechanism failed at an individual level, creating more misery among the people it was initially meant to help. The event was interactive and certainly succeeded in giving the society’s members plenty to think about.

At Easter, Girtonian Nigel Pears, now a Partner at Mackinson Cowell, a capital advisory firm, spoke to the society. The talk was very insightful; Mr Pears shared his great knowledge of and experience in the financial sector (he has worked for twenty years in equity sales, corporate finance and research) with Girton’s young economists.

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The society also held a number of more informal social activities, including a welcome session for Freshers and the traditional Christmas dinner with Girton Economics Fellows. As always, the society helped develop close ties and collaboration among its members, with third years providing useful advice to younger students, especially by delivering pragmatic presentations on their dissertations.

With growing attendance at its events, the JRS has experienced yet another successful year and will hopefully continue on the same path in the future.

Sara Flegenheimer, President

‘Once’ – Girton College Spring Ball 2012 On the night of Friday 16th March over 1,500 guests were treated to eight hours of pure unadulterated fun and fantasy. The College was transformed into a stunning scene from a fairy tale; light projections flickered and danced, dodgems whizzed and bumped, colourful cocktails flowed and people partied until the sun came up.

Everyone was swept up in the excitement, with Fellows and students alike enjoying the entertainment; even the Bursar was seen letting her hair down as the first up the helter-skelter.

The Ball was a resounding success, with praise coming from all directions; however, it was not without much sacrifice on the part of the Committee. That one short night was the culmination of almost a year of blood, sweat and toil, all expended in trying to maximise the use of our modest budget to ensure this was the best ball yet. This feat was made more impressive by the fact that not a single member had any experience in organising this type of event and the committee members were essentially learning as they went along.

As well as the Ball night itself, a lot of focus this year has been placed on creating a legacy for future Ball Committees to build upon. We have managed to produce a comprehensive set of documents outlining the basics of running a College Ball, together with streamlining the Committee itself and its position in College. Our hope is that with our many changes and additions, future Committees will feel much more informed and be able to produce better and better events.

amazing experience. There have been useful skills learnt and great friendships made that will last a lifetime. An enormous thank you goes to the whole Committee and the many College staff for all the time and effort put into making it all possible.

Despite the many sleepless nights and hours spent juggling budgets, this has been a unique and

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Orchestra on the Hill

Bernie Lee Photographic Society

After recently celebrating its 10th anniversary, the Orchestra on the Hill has yet again had an exciting and busy year. Following the usual schedule of two large concerts in both Michaelmas and Lent Terms, and a more informal afternoon concert in Easter Term, the orchestra has tackled some major works including Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 2 and Mendelssohn’s Symphony No. 3. The orchestra also performed the UK Première of the Linnunlaulu Piano Concerto by Ivan Moody.

With further interesting prospects on the horizon, we look forward to welcoming new players for the next concert season.

Things at the Bernie Lee Society have progressed nicely since I last wrote a piece for the Annual Review: the College darkroom, a valuable rarity amongst Cambridge colleges, has been re-stocked with an impressive array of chemicals and photographic paper, and is now in regular use.

Being a unique and valuable aspect of College life, the society now has a large number of members, who are free to use the darkroom, and has even attracted quite a few members of other colleges. Inevitably, a large amount of the photography in College is digital, for which the darkroom provides a computer, A3 printer, and even cameras and lenses to borrow, but there is also a thriving community of film photography in Girton.

Pippa Bell, President

In the coming year, we hope to set up regular photo-walks, and to make use of the display boards which stand outside the Old Hall, on which we will showcase the work of the society’s members; however, for now, it is sufficient to say that the society is again established and running in College, and that it will surely go from strength to strength as more people begin to make use of Girton’s unique facilities.

Sean Hewitt, President

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Poetry Group Girton Poetry Group meets three times a term, gathering around the large fireplace in the Fellows’ Drawing Room to read and discuss each other’s work.

The group is well attended, and really fosters a strong community of writers within the College, with all year groups, along with postgraduates and Fellows, being among the attendees. Before each meeting, the President comes up with a list of themes, quotations or forms to provide inspiration; and during this year, we’ve ranged from prose poetry to the complex (in fact, as we discovered, nearly impossible) terzanelle, from translations to nonnets, covering a huge variety of forms and subjects in between.

Cold words.

O Winter Light (softly) you kiss my lips – and turn me away / from the little red fox / that climbs in my bin.

Anna Reynolds

It’s easy to see writers continually developing and benefiting from the support of the society and, instead of taking up my word limit by telling you more about the group, I’ll hand you over to the capable hands of some of our poets, whose works show just a sample of some of the great stuff being produced in College.

Sean Hewitt, President

Shore 1. Nonnet Cold and clear. The tide runs out, the creek is draining back towards the sea.

Along the margins waders scutter, scavenge – redshank, godwit, curlew – long beaks probing deep beneath the shining mud.

2. Sonnet Cold and clear. The tide runs out, the creek is draining back again towards the sea.

Along the muddy margins, in the lee of the sea-wall, around the bladder-wrack, long-legged waders scutter, scavenge, seek their winter sustenance. Out in the bay a seal watches us, then flips away, dives deep, leaving behind a swirling wake.

Nearer, the lapwings forage up the beach.

At water’s edge the oyster-catchers, gulls compete for surface scraps. The beach is good for all. The redshanks, godwits, curlews search for hidden treasure, long beaks buried full to probe deep down beneath the shining mud.

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Hockey On the back of the ‘Golden Era’ of 2010/11, Girton Men’s Hockey team was looking to solidify its position in the top tier of college hockey leagues.

We didn’t take it personally when only two freshers signed up for hockey at the Societies Fair, and the squad rose to the challenge.

In Michaelmas Term our style consisted of a careful passing game, switching play across the pitch and waiting for gaps to appear.

Newcomers Rory Duffin and Charlie Fletcher were energetic and skilful in exploiting weaknesses in opposition sides. The team’s passing, spearheaded by the artful Jonny Bruce, and finishing, typified by the goal-hungry Robert Woollins, were second to none at times. It was all

too much for Emmanuel, who were taken to pieces and beaten 9–0 in our best performance of the year, with guest players from our Women’s side, Lauren Grant and Natasha Charlesworth, bagging the majority of the goals. Despite good performances from goalkeeper David Tysoe, very competent Robinson and Old Leysians teams were too testing for our defences.

True Girtonian spirit was on display in a mid-term classic against Downing. With only eight Girton players on the pitch, a last-minute goal secured a crucial draw, with another Women’s guest player, Izzy Smith, putting in a top class performance as always. A solid victory against Jesus saw us finish fourth.

In many ways, Lent Term was more turbulent.

Our playing style became less structured, the team changed dramatically every week and several matches were delayed by snow. The gods were against us when, after dominating for most of the game, we lost to Robinson 3–2. Even the dizzying skills of Olly Russell could not prevent a series of defeats to well-drilled sides and that left us staring at relegation. However, a small glimmer of Champagne Hockey from years gone by saw us win 2–1 against Emmanuel and we are safe in division one for another year.

A special mention must go to Club President, James Streather, whose committed and tireless performances were integral to our success this season. After somewhat rolling with the punches this year, I hope we can go forward and challenge for the title next year.

Matthew Hatfield, Men’s Captain

Football The football season was, unfortunately, an unsuccessful one this year, as we suffered relegation to Division 3 of the University League. A poor start saw us lose our first three league games against Queens’ (5–1), St Catharine’s (3–2) and Churchill (3–0), before claiming our first win of the season against Clare in the cup, 5–2. Meeting Clare in the league in our next fixture provided an opportunity to move up the league, but we put in a poor performance and lost 2–0. Our team had lots of potential, and this was shown in glimpses throughout the season, most notably in our last match of Michaelmas Term, as we beat Darwin 7–2, Girton’s first league win in over 2 years.

A poor Lent Term saw four more league losses, to St John’s (4–2), King’s (4–0), Long Road (7–2) and Pembroke (4–0). In the cup,

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our fortunes didn’t change, with a spirited performance producing only a 2–0 loss to the eventual Division 1 champions, Homerton. However, a brighter note was the match against the Old Boys. This was an exciting 4–4 draw which we decided to settle on penalties, in which Girton prevailed. This was followed by the annual Sports Dinner, a pleasant occasion for all, and a chance to see former members of the team again.

In summary, this season was one in which Girton showed an ability to score goals but a leaky defence. Injuries and inconsistency cost us dearly as we finished 8th in Division 2.

However, we can be optimistic about promotion next season!

Simon Tinsley, Men’s Captain

Badminton Michaelmas and Lent Terms of 2011–12 academic year saw a recordbreaking number of achievements for the Girton College Badminton Club.

The exciting aspect of the successes was that they branched across all the Club’s teams.

The Men’s 1st team retained the Cuppers trophy from last year, where it went down to the very last game before Girton College took the win from Corpus Christi. They also went one step further by winning the Lent Term Open League as well, handsomely beating intense rivals Queens’ I en route. The Men’s 2nd team achieved promotions in both terms, championing the fourth and third divisions successively.

The Women’s team achieved promotion in Lent Term as well, and are now in the third division (the highest in a while!). They also reached the quarter-finals of Cuppers, for the first time in at least three years, beating Trinity II from the first division in the process.

High commitment levels and a strong sense of camaraderie were exhibited

throughout the squads, and these traits were vital leading to this outstanding year for Girton badminton.

We look forward to another highly successful year in 2012–13.

Prashant Chand-Bajpai (Men’s Captain) and Aayushi Sen (Women’s Captain)

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Rowing The academic year got off to a promising start for Girton College Boat Club when the Men’s 1st IV won the IV’s division of the Fairbairn Cup for the first time in College history. The result reflected a term of hard work throughout the club, with the Men working hard at their aim of entering the First Division of May Bumps by Easter Term, the Women consolidating their position and building up a good team, and the novices and Lower Boats’ Captains excited about their first races.

This put us in an excellent position at the beginning of Lent Term, which started off with a club fundraiser during training week. An impressive effort from everyone involved saw Girton College Boat Club raise £4,500 by erging 2012km in under 24 hours (to celebrate the start of 2012). This has been invested in new blades for the 1st Women and a Men’s Heavyweight scull, and I would like to take the opportunity to thank all those who supported us in this.

The rest of Lent Term saw both sides of the Boat Club gearing towards Bumps. Impressive results were seen from the 1st Men’s VIII in the Winter Head to Head (8th overall, 1st in Division) and the 2nd VIII was not far behind! The Women took the opportunity of racing Robinson Head whilst most other crews were sheltering from the freezing conditions on the Cam and this gave them some valuable racing experience. Pembroke Regatta saw the Men’s 3rd VIII do the best, reaching the semifinal, whilst the 1st VIII, faced with a tricky draw, were knocked out in the second round by a formidable Caius crew.

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Two sets of blades were brought home to round Lent Term off in style: by the 1st Men’s VIII bumping Emmanuel, Magdalene, Clare and Trinity Hall; and by the 2nd Men’s VIII bumping Caius 3rd, Robinson 2nd, Jesus 3rd and Kings 2nd. The Women’s 1st VIII were in a tough position with a very strong Murray Edwards’ crew looking to bump up to the First Division, but they valiantly held their position after the first day.

On top of this, congratulations must go to Holly Garne, the Girton College representative in the CUW boat at this year’s Henley Boat Races where she and her team-mates succeeded in defeating the Oxford crew in a truly nail-biting race. We look forward to having her rejoin the 1st Women for Easter Term.

Ellie Stone, President

Table Tennis Table tennis at Girton is a casual, fun activity.

Since we have a table in our JCR and rackets and balls are readily available, many students view it as a good way to spend their free time and socialise.

However, we also have a significant number of players who are interested in playing for the College and competing at a higher level. Starting from the Michaelmas Term, we had a number of training sessions and competitions within Girton to decide the teams that would represent Girton in the College League. We finally decided to field two teams: Girton 1 consisting of Benjamin Katz (President, 2nd year), Rishabh Bhargava (VicePresident, 1st year) and Vladas Jurkevicius (1st year) and Girton 2 consisting of Jaisal J Gohil (2nd year), Sebastian Mizera (1st year) and David Harris (1st year).

Another notable event was the introduction of the Girton Table Tennis League which tried to get more people from Girton interested in the sport. An email was sent round the JCR asking people to join the League, which was a challenge-based league and it turned out to be quite successful. A total of nineteen people (beginners and more experienced) signed up and played in the League. Though it was discontinued in the next term, there are plans to restart it in Michaelmas Term to get more people interested in this wonderful sport.

Rishabh Bhargava, President

Girton 1 was placed in Division 1 owing to the wonderful performance by the team last year.

Girton 1 put up a decent performance even though it was less experienced than the previous year’s team, all the members of which graduated last year.

Girton 1 finished fifth in its division out of the 6 teams. Girton 2 also finished fifth even though they were a bit unlucky in that on three occasions, they only lost their matches in the last games, with a finishing score of 5–4. It was quite a good showing, given the fact that it was the first time most of our team members had played in such a competitive environment and we hope to improve further with more practice and experience.

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Roll of Alumni Committee 2012–13 The Mistress Alumni Officer Development Director Fellows’ Representative

Professor Susan J Smith (ex officio) Dr Emma Cornwall (1999) (ex officio) Miss Elizabeth Wade (1976) (ex officio) Dr Ruth Williams (1962)

Period 1 (to 1949) Period 2 (1950-59) Period 3 (1960-69) Period 4 (1970-79) Period 5 (1980-89) Period 6 (1990-99) Period 7 (2000-09) MCR Roll Representatives/ Graduates in Residence

Miss Barbara Megson (1948) re-elected to Sept 2012 Mrs Elizabeth Werry (1955) elected to Sept 2015 Mrs Christine Thorp (1964 Kenyon) re-elected to Sept 2013 Miss Anne Heffernan (1974) elected to Sept 2013 Mrs Pippa Considine (1985) elected to Sept 2015 Mrs Angela Dobson (Ambrose 1999) re-elected to Sept 2015 Mr Stefan Porter (2006) elected to Sept 2014 Miss Katherine Fennell (2011)

Co-opted Members:

Cambridge Local Association London Girton Association Manchester Association of CU Women Oxford Region Girtonians Wales and West Girtonians Assoc Project Steering Group Chair

Dr Christine H McKie (Kelsey 1949) Ms Heather Morrison (1976) Mr Rufus Evison (1986) Mrs Hilary Goy (Corke1968) Mrs Ann Carey (Patrick 1952) Mrs Judith Anstice (Williams 1955) Miss Meg Day (1967) Mrs Heather Toomer (Fomison 1966) Professor Deryn Watson (Morgan 1964)

If you are interested in representing a Period or wish to nominate someone else to serve on the Roll of Alumni Committee, please contact the Alumni Officer at Girton (email alumni@girton.cam.ac.uk) for more information about what is involved.

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

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

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Calendar of Events (all events take place in the College, unless otherwise stated) 2012 Students and Parents Dinner Alumni Sports Matches/Dinner 2013 Lent Term Alumni Formal Hall Law and Finance Event Slaughter and May, London Founders' Memorial Lecture MA Congregation and Dinner Easter Term Medical Society Reunion Dinner (Legacy event) Alumni Formal Hall Sports Pavilion opening Summer Summer Event Friends of the Library talk Alumni Reunion Dinners Friends of the Lawrence Room talk Friends of the Peoples Portraits Annual Reception Roll of Alumni Dinner Friends of the Gardens talk

Saturday 10 November Saturday 24 November

Thursday 21 February Wednesday 6 March Friday 8 March, Saturday 23 March

Saturday 27 April Saturday 11 May (provisional) Thursday 23 May Date TBC

Date TBC Date TBC Friday 20 September Saturday 21 September Friday 27 September

The Girton Project Meeting January 2012.

(From left to right) Katherine Fennell (MCR Rep),

Saturday 28 September Saturday 28 September Sunday 29 September

Dr Elizabeth Poskitt , Dr Kate Kennedy, Dr Emma Cornwall, Prof Deryn Watson, Dr Eileen Rubery.

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Registrar’s report This year has been largely devoted to setting in place arrangements for the transfer of the links between the Roll and the College to the Development Office. As you will probably be aware from my Annual Report last year, the Roll Committee, in collaboration with the Alumni Officer Emma Cornwall and the Mistress, has developed a strategy for the handover. By the time you read this the strategy will have been implemented, and from 1 October 2012 Emma will be the main point of contact for Girtonians.

The Roll Committee will continue to act as a forum that takes account of the views of Girtonians, and through which College meets with the Regional Associations (although it may get a different name as the new arrangements start to bed in).

The revised arrangements should make access to College much simpler for Girtonians since you will no longer need to decide whether to approach the Registrar of the Roll or the Development Office first, and the Development Office will be able to integrate its numerous contacts with alumni more easily when everything is under one department.

Because we have been concentrating on ensuring a smooth handover, and making sure that everyone is kept informed about the changes, we have not organised any additional events this year over and above the regular Roll events. The Girton Project has been concentrating on finalising the papers for the second volume of the Girton Project Journal. It will contain a record of the setting-up of the Girton Project, a report on the highly successful ‘Life After the Main Career Workshop’ which the Project ran, and a miscellany of articles largely reflecting the activities of Girtonians after they have left College (although one of the articles, on Hermione Grammatica, focuses on the purchasing of our

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valuable Fayum mummy by the undergraduates).

Sales at the Porters’ Lodge of volume one of the Project Journal, which reported on Girtonians’ lives during both World Wars, have been steady. We hope volume two will be just as popular, and will provide alumni with enjoyable insights into what Girtonians get up to after they leave College.

The Roll Weekend took place on Saturday 24 September, 2011. As part of the celebrations of the centenary of the excavations of Hermione and her arrival at Girton, the ‘Friends of the Lawrence Room’ organised a talk entitled ‘Who was Hermione?’ This was given by Janine Bourriau (1976). Then there was a concert in the Stanley Library before dinner, given by John Longstaff and Dr Martin Ennis, who played piano duets by Schubert, Mozart, Poulenc and Dvorak.

The Roll Dinner was attended by 106 people.

The guest speaker was Caroline Beasley-Murray (Griffiths 1964) who is Her Majesty’s Coroner for Essex and Thurrock. She provided us with fascinating insights into her work, which includes a unique mix of legal and medical requirements.

So, all that is left for me to do now is to close this, my final report as Registrar of the Roll. I have found the responsibilities hugely enjoyable, and being in touch with so many Girtonians endlessly interesting and stimulating. It has been a great opportunity to meet many people and to organise a range of activities.

Dr Eileen Rubery, Registrar of the Roll

Local Associations Cambridge Local Girton Association The Cambridge Local Girton Association is very pleased to have linked up with the MCR this year.

Several of our members attended the Fellows’ research presentations held on October 27, followed by Alumni Formal Hall, and we were delighted to welcome the MCR's representative, Katherine Fennell, to our AGM on 12 November.

The first event in 2012 was a visit on Saturday, 4 February to Anglesey Abbey, a National Trust property just outside Cambridge. The trip was organised by Audrey Meaney and shared with the Cambridge group of St Anne's, Oxford. Despite an extremely cold day and the onset of snow later that afternoon, the displays of snowdrops and the birch, dogwood and witch hazel in the Winter Garden were much enjoyed.

On 2 April we had an interesting afternoon at Westminster College, with a conducted tour by the archivist, Dr Sue Sutton. On 26 May, together with members of the Middle Combination Room, we visited the rare breed animals at Monach Farm, Hilton, near Cambridge, run by Dr Roland Randall, Biogeographer and Fellow of the College.

We enjoyed seeing the magnificent cattle and sheep, which greeted us vociferously. We admired the goats which are sold widely abroad as breeding stock, and the horses, including some delightful Shetland ponies. The goats’ milk ice cream can be highly recommended. We are most grateful to Dr Randall and his wife for their hospitality.

Our first event of the next academic year will be a Saturday morning lecture, followed by a buffet lunch in early October to mark the centenary of Scott's expedition to Antarctica.

The Association currently has around 60 members, but would always welcome more.

Hilary Goy (Corke 1968)

London Girton Association The LGA has had an active and successful year. In July 2011 we visited the Guildhall Art Gallery for a guided tour and a viewing of a special exhibition `Sir John Gilbert: Art and Imagination in the Victorian Age’.

We also went to Twickenham to visit Strawberry Hill House, the home of Horace Walpole, from 1717 to 1797, and considered to be one of the earliest and finest examples of the Georgian Gothic Revival.

In October we were invited to the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre. Through demonstrations and presentations we learnt of the important work of this organization. Another popular event was a visit to Dennis Sever’s House.

This is a restored eighteenth century house in Spitalfields, lit by candlelight, and furnished as if it were still the home of a family of French Huguenot silk weavers.

with special reference to the ceiling of the House of Lords. This was followed by a tour of the Palace of Westminster, arranged for us by Baroness Perry (Pauline Perry 1949) so that we could admire the repaired and re-gilded ceiling.

For some forty of us, the highlight of the year was the LGA’s fifteenth anniversary dinner, which was held at the Oxford and Cambridge Club.

A champagne reception was followed by an excellent dinner and a challenging talk given by Michael Crick, which he titled ‘Who is stronger: politicians or the media?’

We also enjoyed a private visit with a guide to the Museum of the Order of St John which tells the story of the Order. We were able to descend into the twelfth century crypt of the Priory Church of St John, one of the oldest crypts in London, still used for services.

We are sad to report that we have lost several of our older members during the year. Our membership now stands at two hundred and two.

Ann Carey (Patrick 1952)

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Manchester Association of Cambridge University Women We have as usual held three meetings during the past year. Our autumn meeting took its traditional form; after the AGM Professor Gina Conti-Ramsden gave a talk about Specific Language Disorder (SLD) and then fielded numerous questions, which continued over lunch.

This year we held our Annual Dinner in April, and were delighted to welcome the Mistress to Manchester. We met in the Brodsky Restaurant at The Royal Northern College of Music, a most suitable venue as our second speaker was Mrs Claire Moreland, Head of Chetham’s School of Music.

By the time you read this we should have held our summer meeting. We plan to visit The Theatre Organ Heritage Centre in Eccles and have been told that we shall see, and maybe even play, the Wurlitzer organ that once graced the Trocadero Theatre in Liverpool.

We are holding our 2012 AGM and autumn meeting on Saturday 20th October and, as usual, it will be at Withington Girls’ School. Our speaker will be Dr Mary Eminson of Newnham College and her talk is entitled ‘Can too much healthcare ever be bad for children?’

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

Oxford Region Girtonians We have approximately 65 members, mainly from Oxfordshire, Berkshire and Buckinghamshire. We continue to hold talks and social outings, and to issue a six-monthly newsletter.

In November 2011 we welcomed the Revd Dr Malcolm Guite, Chaplain of Girton, to speak on ‘From Babel to Pentecost: Lancelot Andrewes and the making of the King James Bible’.

Malcolm came hot-foot from the service held in Westminster Abbey to celebrate 400 years of the King James Bible, so he was able to share his thoughts on that historic occasion.

He gave us a great insight into the ideas underlying Andrewes’ work, with detailed references to his renowned sermons, and examples of the influence of Andrewes on other writers, including John Donne and T S Eliot.

In February 2012 Sir Roger Bannister spoke on ‘The Olympic Games: Ancient and Modern’. It was a delight to welcome both Sir Roger and his wife Moira, and we thoroughly enjoyed his reminiscences of the days of his athletic triumph, and hearing about all the work he has done for the sporting community in the UK.

Judith Anstice (Williams 1955) Our most recent outing has been to Greys Court, a National Trust property near Henley. After coffee we were

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given a private guided tour by the House Manager, whose love of the house and affection for its recent inhabitants gave us a fascinating introduction to the old building and its more recent history. We followed that with lunch in the restaurant, with time to explore the grounds, including the bluebell woods just coming into flower, and the beautiful wisteria.

Several new members and their guests joined us for the first time, which made the gathering even more special.

We are always pleased to hear from Girtonians in our area: please contact me on org@girton.cam.ac.uk, 01865 375916 or via our website www.oxfordregiongirtonians.org.uk.

Meg Day (1967)

Friends reports Friends of the Library Friends and Patrons of the Library attended the annual event at Girton on the day of the Roll Annual General Meeting, 7th July 2012. We were delighted to welcome Professor Jim Secord who gave a talk about the nineteenth-century mathematician and scientist, Mary Somerville.

Elected an honorary member of the Royal Astronomical Society and of the American Philosophical Society, Mary Somerville was also a pioneering advocate of education and votes for women. Her mathematical library was presented to Girton College by her daughters in 1873.

In addition to copies of her own work, it contains personally inscribed works by leading scientists and philosophers of her day, such as Michael Faraday and Sir John Herschel. Professor Secord is based in the Department of the History and Philosophy of Science at Cambridge. He is the editor of The Collected Works of Mary Somerville (published in nine volumes in 2004), and also Director of the Darwin Correspondence Project.

bought a set of ten wooden book-rests, which have proved very popular as a study aid. And once again Friends’ funds have covered the cost of our contribution to the University’s ebooks project, which enables our students to have instant access to some of the most heavily used books in Cambridge.

We hope that you will feel encouraged to become a Friend or Patron of the Library, or to renew your membership. We are indebted to all our supporters, on whom we rely for the value-added aspects of our library and archive collections and the service we offer. If you become a Patron we will insert specially-printed bookplates into books acquired for the Library to the value of a Patron’s donation.

These bookplates are made for Girton by Joan Hassall, and will have the Patron’s name incorporated into the printing. You can keep abreast of developments in the library, archive and special collections by visiting us on the College website at www.girton.cam.ac.uk/library.

Frances Gandy, President

A small exhibition of works from the Somerville collection was on display in the Library. In addition some of the limited, rare editions of fairy tales and fables from the Dannatt collection, supported by other editions of fairy tales from the general library collections, have been displayed in the Upper Library.

After last year’s exceptionally large expenditure from Friends’ funds on the Upper Library curtains, we have been more cautious in our spending.

This year Friends’ funds have been used largely to stretch our normal budget for books, especially with the establishment of the new Linguistics Tripos (previously a subset of MML). At the students’ request, and thanks to the Friends’ support, we also

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Friends of the Chapel The Chapel Choir, which over the summer toured France as well as singing in Manchester Cathedral and in the local parish church, goes from strength to strength under the new leadership of Nicholas Mulroy, and continues to make a major contribution to the life of the Chapel.

The normal activities of Chapel continue, with Sunday Evening Services at 5.30 p.m., followed by an informal Communion Service, a meal in Hall and dessert in the Fellows’ Drawing Room, and Choral Candlelit Compline at the earlier time of 9.00 p.m. on alternate Tuesdays. Eucharists were held for Remembrance Sunday, Ash Wednesday and Ascension Day. The Advent Carol Service and the Services with music and readings for Lent, Holy Week and Easter were particularly well attended.

The academic year began with a Service for Freshers on their first Sunday morning in College, followed by an afternoon tea in the Stanley Library. In Michaelmas Term the Chaplain explored the theme of ‘Visions and Visionaries’. He looked at visionaries, from the early medieval mystic Hildegard of Bingen to Girton’s own Emily Davies, to help us to address such questions as where we have come from, and where, metaphorically, we are going.

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In Lent Term the theme was ‘Tell me a Story.’ Scholars, playwrights and professional storytellers (including OG Andrea Skevington) helped us to explore the power of the story and the kinds of truth that only narrative can convey. In Easter Term we were ‘Facing the Music’, looking at the rich tradition of anthems and liturgical music which combine the poetry of scripture with composition and musicmaking. The academic year ended with a Service of Thanksgiving, followed by a buffet lunch in Woodlands Court, and a Service for Graduands on the morning of General Admission.

Collections this academic year went to the Cambridge homeless charity, Jimmy’s Night Shelter, the Warwickshire-based Rufus’ Friends’ Fund (supporting those with learning difficulties) and the Wilkins Memorial Trust in Nepal.

As ever, special thanks go to the Friends and Patrons of the Chapel.

We would be delighted to welcome you in Chapel if you are ever in Cambridge on a Sunday evening.

Karen Lee, President

Friends of the Gardens No two days are ever the same in the Girton gardens and grounds, which is a good reason for visiting them as often as possible. New plants appear from nowhere; old trees are blown over in storms. Black squirrels challenge the grey ones; red kites nest one year and then are nowhere to be seen the next. The rabbits do what rabbits do!

The building project in Ash Court has now begun, but it will be a while before work can begin on landscaping the courtyard there. Our Guided Walk in October took in Eliza Baker Court (beside the Fellows' Rooms), which is in urgent need of re-paving, the open area beyond the Mare's Run car park, which has been extended to compensate for the loss of parking space in Ash Court, and the allotment which students have set up in the back garden of one of the College houses.

The May walk traced the boundary of the grounds and brought home to us the never-ending work needed to maintain them. For example, when the bus lane was constructed in the Huntingdon Road next to College, the pavement was extended so that it covered half of the root systems of the old oaks along the boundary of the grounds. These trees are now dying, and are having to be replaced. We also learned that there is a real problem with the theft of flowers, fruit and logs

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from the College grounds. We would like to maintain our policy of open access, especially for the benefit of local residents, so this presents a real dilemma.

Jonny Bruce, Jack Rans and Max Liefkes hard at work

As usual, the 2011 Friends of the Gardens annual event took place on the Sunday of the Roll Weekend in September. The talk was given by Sue Minter (1968), under the title ‘It’s a green life – how I moved from publishing to horticulture, and adventures along the way’. Sue read History at Girton, and later studied horticulture, which opened up a whole range of fascinating opportunities, ranging from the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew to the Eden Project. She is currently President of the Institute of Horticulture and Chair of the Herb Society. In 2010, she published The Well-Connected Gardener, a biography of Alicia Amhurst, who is recognised as the founder of garden history. This followed books about the rainforests, The Healing Garden and the history of the Chelsea Physic Garden. Sue’s energy and enthusiasm, coupled with her amazing knowledge of the plant world, were a real inspiration for all present. At the Roll weekend in 2012, we shall welcome Dr Mary Walmsley (1960), who will give an illustrated talk on a wildflower tour she took in Szechuan Province in China.

You are warmly invited to the Annual Event.

If you are not already a Friend of the Gardens, do please consider joining; we really appreciate the support of our Friends. Friends and others living locally are most welcome to join the guided walks.

Please contact development@girton.cam.ac.uk for more information or visit the website www.girton.cam.ac.uk/supporters/college-friends/ friends-of-the-gardens.

Jonny Bruce with an impressive harvest!

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The allotment in June

Dr Ruth Williams, President

Friends of the Lawrence Room Writing an annual report always poses a problem – which of our many activities to highlight. At our second annual lecture, in September 2011, Egyptologist Janine Bourriau of the MacDonald Institute of the University of Cambridge marked the centenary of Hermione’s excavation by William Flinders Petrie at Hawara, Egypt, with a lively lecture entitled ‘Who was Hermione?’ She looked at this question from different angles – the mummy itself as a treasured holding of the College, the identity of Hermione whose portrait carrying both her name and profession places her among the Greek-speaking élite of early Roman Egypt, and finally Hermione’s skeleton, suggesting her age (19–22) and, from the state of her teeth, her (relatively fine) diet, but not the cause of her death. Her portrait is among the finest of those preserved from the period (first half of the first century AD). In our 2012 lecture Dr Lucilla Burn, Keeper of Antiquities of the Fitzwilliam Museum, will speak about some of our Tanagra figurines.

With our catalogue now online – see http://www.lrc.girton.cam.ac.uk/ – work continues on the conservation and presentation of our collections.

There is so much still to do, with objects to mark and more labels needed. Thursday openings, thanks to our long-serving volunteers, bring a range of visitors, and on other occasions too we are happy to open for Girtonians and others who ask.

This year, for instance, the Young Archaeologists’ Club spent an exciting morning in the museum.

The University’s Festival of Ideas is becoming a further fixture in our calendar. Large numbers of children and their parents visit the Lawrence Room and take part in a range of activities. On 22 October 2011 we had over 150 participants; masks were made and coloured in, shabtis modelled and skeletons drawn.

The level of engagement and interest was visible to all involved. For all of these varied activities the support of our Friends and Patrons is essential.

The Lawrence Room Committee wishes to express its gratitude for this help, so vital to our operation.

Dr Dorothy J Thompson, President

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Friends of People’s Portraits The People’s Portraits exhibition has continued to prosper and expand since my last report.

The Friends’ annual reception at the Roll weekend in September 2011 once again featured a highprofile speaker from the arts world, alongside the unveiling of new donations to the collection from distinguished members of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters (RP).

A capacity audience of 70 guests filled the Fellows’ Drawing Room to hear Dame Liz Forgan, Chair of the Arts Council England, give a very stimulating talk on the arts in the current economy. Her reflections on the national importance of collaborations between artists and local institutions threw a new light on the significance of our own collection at Girton and those present, including some of the RP artists, enjoyed being able to contribute to this discussion. A version of her talk can be found earlier in The Year.

At the same time, three new paintings were added to the collection, now rapidly growing down the ground-floor corridor towards the Chapel and taking on quite a new character as it does so.

Two of the new portraits were painted by David Poole, former President of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters, who was himself present on the day. Alan Cuthbert was formerly the Head of Foundation Studies at Wimbledon School of Art. Rodney Thomas was a visionary of his time.

The final addition was ‘Madeleine’, painted by the late Michael Reynolds, a former member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters. Madeleine grew up in New York, moved to London, and worked for Harrods for 18 years before being appointed by the Home Secretary to the Board of Visitors of

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HM Belmarsh Prison, London’s highest security prison.

Because there were three new paintings it seemed more practical to have them hung already in their new locations, rather than presented on easels to the assembled gathering.

This had the added advantage of drawing everybody out into the

exhibition, where they could appreciate how well these three new pictures, by artists who had been contemporaries, work as a close group, and also see at first-hand how much the collection as a whole is developing.

Dr Alastair J Reid, President

Births, Deaths and Marriages

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Births Barnardo-Brouard. On 11 January 2012, to Libby (1985) and Suzy, a girl, Annie Grace.

Frideres. On 26 January 2012, to Laurent (1997) and Catherine Frideres, a boy, Dominik Leonard.

Karia. On 11 November 2011, to Rakesh (2000) and Liz (2001 Groom), a girl, Lila May. Kennedy. On 27 January 2012, to Kate (2010 Fellow) and Andrew (Musician in Residence) a girl, Emilia Rose, a sister for Theo.

Lila May Karia

King. On 17 January 2012, to Elizabeth Jane (1995) and Robert Small, a boy, Magnus.

Klevnas. On 27 November 2011, to Alison (Draper 1998) and Per Klevnas (1998), a boy, Petroc Folke, a brother for Felix.

Mohaddes. On 1 October 2011, to Kamiar (2008 Fellow) and Evaleila Pesaran, a boy, Kasra James.

Morrison. On 8 January 2012, to Helen (Sheard 1997) and Graeme, a girl, Harriet Jennifer Lyn, a sister for James.

Orton. On 5 May 2012, to Barbara (Clitherow 1980) and Michael, a boy, Felix John Geoffrey.

Emilia Rose Kennedy

Felix John Geoffrey Orton

Pinker. On 21 July 2011, to David (2001) and AnneSophie Pinker (Leluan 2001), a boy Matthieu.

Smith. On 24 February 2011, to Joseph (2000) and E. Glasson, a boy Thomas William.

Tofaris. On 14 April 2012, to Stelios (2007 Fellow) and Elizabeth, a girl, Alice Grace.

Turnbull. On 15 April 2009 and 25 February 2011, to Hannah (Minor 1998) and I. Turnbull, two girls, Violet Grace and Florence Rose.

Watts. On 22 September 2012, to Tim (1997) and Shelly (1997), a boy Lucian James Kasra James Mohaddes

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Marriages Achenbach – Beckham.

On 24 September 2011, Verena L Achenbach (2001) to Peter C Beckham (2001).

Catling – Edward-Jenks.

On 14 December 2011, Sophie C Catling (1999) to Stuart Edward-Jenks.

Matthieu Pinker

Verena Achenbach and Peter Beckham.

Dow – Wilkinson.

On 3 September 2011, Sophie A Dow (1999) to Christopher Wilkinson (1999).

Falloon – Goddard.

On 5 November 2011, Jane Helen Falloon (1948) to Peter T Goddard.

Lung – Dong.

On 18 April 2011, Raymond Lung (2003) to Weiying Dong (2004).

Raymond Lung and Weiying Dong

Simon Tappin and Anne Mottram

Jane Falloon and Peter Goddard

Sophie Catling and Stuart Edward-Jenks

Thomas William Smith

Minor – Turnbull.

On 16 September 2009, Hannah Minor (1998) to Iain Turnbull.

Spyvee – Murphy.

On 16 April 2011, Zoe Spyvee (1995) to Andrew Murphy.

Lucian James Watts

Tappin – Mottram.

On 17 September 2011, Simon William Tappin (1996) to Anne S Mottram.

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Deaths BALL, On 23 April 2012, Nanda Mary (Hulton) MA (1947 Mathematics).

Nanda came up to Girton to read Mathematics, and whilst at Cambridge met Richard Ball who became her husband. She continued studying at Cambridge, receiving a Certificate of Education from Hughes Hall in 1951. She then taught Mathematics at Morpeth Girls’ High School, Northumberland followed by temporary and supply teaching appointments in Ayrshire, Scotland.

Richard and Nanda moved to Loughton in Essex and had three children, Martin (now deceased), Alison (now Coote) and Andrew. Over the following years Nanda worked parttime for Loughton Senior Evening Institute, Wansfell College in Theydon Bois and Forest Adult Education Centre as well as raising her children and looking after the family home.

When Richard retired, they moved to Hereford, where they enjoyed long walks in the countryside as well as an active social life. Nanda had been suffering from Parkinsons Disease for 27 years. Richard died in 1992, and Nanda continued to live independently until September 2011 when increasing frailty meant that she had to move into Ledbury Nursing Home.

(Edited words from Alison Coote)

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BAXTER. On 2 April 2012, Helen (Scholfield) MA (1941 English).

Born in East Yorkshire, Helen was educated in North Wales before coming up to Girton during the war in 1941. As well as her war work, Helen greatly enjoyed her time with her friends at College and particularly appreciated seeing her uncle Mr A F Scholfield, who was the University Librarian at the time. A keen organ player, Helen always remembered the privilege of having lessons on the Kings’ College Chapel organ.

She later went on to play at St Luke’s in Redcliffe Square. After moving to Sydney, where she married Mr Roy Baxter, Helen returned to the UK to teach art at preparatory schools in and around Ashford, whilst she brought up her three children.

She and Roy divorced, and she moved to London, where she became a member of the English Speaking Union, which builds skills and confidence in communication.

In her spare time she was also a keen tennis player and swimmer.

Helen came back to Girton with her daughter Shelley in 2009 to attend the Girtonians and the World Wars book presentation.

BEAUCHAMP. In 2011, Felicity Daphne Dorina (Money, Mrs Riddick) (1943 Archaeology and Anthropology).

Born in 1925 in Kensington, she spent the first few years of her life in

Northumberland where her father was based as a Major in the Cameronians.

She was educated by the nuns at St Mary’s Wantage, and went on to study at Girton for much of the war. She had ‘great companionship and lots of stimulation mentally, but was freezing cold!’. Felicity joined the land girls, and on graduating became a civil servant in the Joint Intelligence Bureau in 1948. Previously in 1946, she had met her future husband in the reading room at the Royal Geographic Society. They married and moved immediately to Pakistan, which she loved, and which was where her daughter Venetia was born in 1950. After Karachi, the Chilterns were a contrast but my mother fell into a happy domestic life of children (Caroline and Julian too), dogs and running committees. Moving to Nunney in Somerset in 1981 she spent six happy years with her husband until his sudden death.

However supported by all her friends she came through remarkably. One of those friends was Julian Beauchamp an ex-submarine commander, and they fell in love, married and spent ten very happy years travelling, eating and drinking all the wrong things.

She had the rare ability to be ageless when it came to making friends, was astonishingly well informed and always had an opinion! Coming back to Girton for her 50 year Anniversary she said ‘I look back on my years here with a real sense of achievement’.

(Edited words by daughters, Caroline and Venetia) BRINKLEY. On 31 October 2011, Colin Richard Brinkley (staff member retired in 2003) (1938-2011) served as a Lodge Porter at Wolfson Court from April 1995 to April 2003 when he retired to live in Spain with his family. Colin, a keen member of the Manchester City supporters’ club, was a conscientious and respected Porter who gave eight years of loyal service to the College.

BRUCE. On 13 November 2011, Patricia Mary (Patsy) (1948 Modern and Medieval Languages).

Obitituary on page 98.

CARTER. On 24 May 2012, Mary Patricia (Cumming, Wagner) BA, MA (1953 Classics).

Mary won a scholarship to Cheltenham Ladies’ College before coming up to Girton to read Classics.

In 1958, she married Peter Wagner, an RAF officer. They had two children, Frederica (‘Freddy’, also a Girtonian) and Guy. Living the itinerant life of a

forces wife, Mary worked as a classics teacher, including at St Ivo School, in St Ives, Cambridgeshire. When Peter left the RAF, the family emigrated to Australia. As a divorcée she returned to England and the St Ives area, becoming a senior teacher at St Peter’s School, Huntingdon. As Latin declined in state schools, she began teaching business studies. Mary believed passionately in comprehensive education and for her they were places of opportunity for all children, whatever their social background or academic ability. An active church member, she was asked to write the history of the St Ives United Reformed Church Not an Easy Church (1982). She discovered an abiding passion for local history, writing and editing several more books. Particular interests were the hearth tax and a detailed 18th century survey of St Ives by Edmund Pettis, which she edited and published in 2002. She was proud of her PhD, secured while in full-time work in a demanding job.

In 1985 Mary married Alan Carter, a police officer.

They were very happy together and Alan cared for Mary devotedly during her final illness.

(Edited obituary from The Guardian, 17 June 2012

by Simon Bull) CHARLTON. On 1 May 2011, Sarah Louise (Bromley, Lamb) MA (1979 Engineering).

Obituary on page 99.

CHIBNALL. On 23 June 2012, Marjorie McCallum (Morgan) PhD (1947 History).

Obituary on page 99.

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CLAYDON. On 20 April 2011, Anita Stella (Kunes) MA (1938 English).

Stella grew up in Birmingham,where she won a scholarship to King Edward’s High School, followed by a scholarship to Girton to study English.

She joined the Communist Party whilst at Girton, through which she met her husband Cyril (Magdalene 1938), and moved to London after graduating. She worked briefly as a factory inspector and then teacher, before moving into Further Education. By this time their two children, Anne and John, were growing up, Stella was later to use her school-teaching experience as inspiration for her detective novel Lesson in Murder (1960). She worked at Bromley Technical College and later became Head of English and Deputy Head of Department in the Polytechnic of North London’s Teacher Training Department. Stella and Cyril moved to Lewes, East Sussex where she was a founder member of Lewes University of the Third Age (U3A) and ran a U3A writing workshop for 20 years. She maintained a passionate interest in literature and art, especially the work of William Blake about whom she ran inspiring study seminars.

(Edited from Jane Hayball’s (1975) text) COOPER. On 6 November 2011, Rosemary Anne MA (1943 Moral Sciences).

Rosemary came up to Girton to read English, changing to Moral Sciences in her final year.

Although she began her studies in the middle of World War II, she remembered it as a very happy period. After graduation she began a career of teaching. In 1960 she became Head of English at Queen Anne’s in Caversham, and from 1970 - 73 she was the Headmistress of Luckley-Oakfield School in Wokingham. After a move to Somerset, she was appointed Vice-Principal of The Richard

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Huish College in Taunton. It was a boys’ grammar school when she joined, but developed into a mixed VI form college, and Rosemary took a keen interest in the preparations for the intake of girls. Rosemary had many interests, especially gardening, reading, conservation of the countryside and historic buildings.

She was the Vice-President of the Mendip District Group.

DHUMÉ. On 16 May 2011, Lilla (Wagle) MA (1932 English).

Lilla came to Girton to read English, after gaining a BA at Bombay University. She was a woman of ‘indomitable spirit’. In 1935 she took up her first Lectureship in English, at the Sir Ramshuram Bhau College in Poona. Following her marriage to Sadanand Mangerh Dhumé in 1937, she moved to Bombay (Mumbai) and, unusually for a woman at that time, continued to work as a lecturer at the Ismail Yusaf College, Andheri. In 1948 she took the decision to enter a new career at the Ministry of Education in Delhi, as Deputy Secretary, temporarily leaving behind her husband and two children, Girish and Shailaja. Her husband’s premature death meant she was widowed at 52.

In 1966 she was selected by Sir Shri Ram to become the Principal of Lady Shri Ram College and ‘was in her element in the midst of the faculty and students of LSR, at her most relaxed and always at ease’. Sadly ill

health forced her to resign the position after only two years.

She went to live with her daughter Shailaja and her family.

(Edited from Shailaja’s Tribute) ELLIS. On 2 June 2012, Barbara MA (1946 Economics, 1947 Geography).

Barbara attended the Lady Eleanor Holles School in Hampton, Middlesex.

She read her Part I at Girton in Economics, and changed to Geography for Part II. She gained a Diploma in Town Planning in 1952, and became a member of the Royal Town Planning Institute in 1953.

Barbara held various planning posts with the London County Council from 1950, and was one of the few women after the Second World War who succeeded in becoming a Chartered Surveyor. In 1960 she joined the Herefordshire County Council as a Senior Assistant, followed by posts at West Bromwich and Bedfordshire. From 1968 she worked for the Department of the Environment, and then became a Principal Housing and Planning Inspector until her retirement. Barbara was also a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and a member of the Soroptimist Club. In 1998 she returned to the College to join in the 50th Anniversary of admission of women to full membership of the University.

ELSOM. On 13 May 2012, Joyce Fanny (Grant) MB BChir (1940 Natural Sciences).

Joyce came up to Girton to read Natural Sciences, receiving the Carlisle Scholarship and Crewdson Prize for a First Class mark in Part I and the Crewdson Prize Part II for Pathology.

She also received the Thérèse Montefiore Prize awarded annually to an outstanding undergraduate in their final year. Joyce completed her clinical training at King’s College Hospital Medical School, receiving the Cambridge University Nita King Scholarship and Gwynaeth Pretty Studentship in 1946. She resigned these awards in 1947 to take up a post as clinical pathologist to the Victoria Hospital, Lichfield. She married Dr A. Raymond Elsom in June 1947 and they had three children, Ruth, Michael and Elizabeth. Joyce held other posts in Lichfield and was a

medical assistant at the Chest Department of Staffordshire General Infirmary for many years.

FERNLEY. On 15 February 2012, Betty (1936 Mathematics, 1937 Natural Sciences).

Betty came up to Girton from Mary Datchelor Girls’ School in Camberwell, London, to read Mathematics, transferring to Natural Sciences for Part II of the Tripos. After gaining her Cambridge Teachers’ Certificate in 1940, her first post was as a Physics Mistress at the Bridgnorth Grammar School. In 1944 she joined Blackheath High School as a Physics and Mathematics teacher.

FLEMING. Dr Elizabeth M. L (Elliot) PhD (1943 Bacteriology).

Born in Golspie, Scotland, Elizabeth (known as Betty) was educated at St Leonard’s School, St Andrews, and gained a BSc at Edinburgh University in 1940. After a period of research as an assistant bacteriologist at the University of Bristol, she came up to Girton to study bacterial infection in the hen’s egg and gained her PhD in 1946. During her time in Cambridge she also completed her war-work as a bacteriologist for the Ministry of Food at the Department of Pathology.

She had met Dean Stephen Fleming, an American doctor, whilst studying in Bristol and in October of 1945 they married. In 1946 they moved to

Minnesota where Dean worked as a public health physician and had three sons, John, Andrew and Tom. When her children had grown, she resumed working in medicine as a bacteriologist. Betty and Dean enjoyed golf, their family and travel, including a memorable trip to Surinam where they travelled with Indians in dugout canoes. They also both cared for their youngest son Tom through his illness, and after his death in 1993 continued to be active in the fight against AIDS. FLETCHER. On 26 June 2009, Margaret Jane (Yapp; Seligman) (1935 History).

Margaret came up to Girton to read History and recalled they were ‘absolutely delightful years and most rewarding; I made many friends and treasure my friendship with Dr Helen Cam’. She was an active member of College and the University being a member of the Girton History and Political Society, the Cambridge Literary Society and the JCR Committee. She married Captain Raymond Seligman in July 1939 and they had two sons, Richard and Nigel. Sadly Margaret was widowed when Raymond was killed in action in 1944. In 1950 she married Michael Fletcher and they had another son, Christopher. Margaret had many interests including nature, reading and singing, and being involved with the Girl Guide movement.

FULCHER. In 2011, Margaret Norah MA (1956 Geography).

Margaret’s early education was at St Felix, Southold, Suffolk, she was head girl and won an exhibition to Girton, where she studied Geography. She obtained a diploma in Town Planning, and went on to study at the University of Lancaster, before being appointed to a lectureship at Sheffield University in 1969. There she helped to organise an

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internationally recognised MA in Town Planning.

She continued her interest in Social Economics and again published various reports. She retired in 1982 to Hereford and then to Suffolk in 1991, where she enjoyed gardening, bee-keeping and pursuing the ancient history of Suffolk Churches.

Her friends from her undergraduate days at Girton, Susan Butterfield (Hughes), Dorothy Downes (Slow), Gillian Norman and Felicity Simpson (Zuill) have provided a bench and some heritage fruit trees within the College orchard to remember Margaret.

brought up her four children, Christopher and Vicki, David and Patrick, initially working as Editor of consumer magazine Where?.

In retirement, Kathleen and her husband lived in a cottage they had renovated in Elsworth, where she took particular pride in her garden. All who knew her admired and loved her.

HACKNEY. On 12 August 2011, Consuelo Cecile (Bryans) (1972 Modern and Medieval Languages).

Consuelo read French and Italian for the Modern and Medieval Languages Tripos and made her career in those languages, flying all over the world working as an interpreter and translator.

Although fighting cancer, she continued to work up to July 2011. Among her many jobs she was often to be found at the Italian Cultural Institute, interpreting at their events, as well as at the London Film Festival. For the last few years she had also been the interpreter for Andrea Boccelli, which provided her with many exciting times. She is survived by a son and a daughter who live in London.

HELLIWELL. On 24 September 2011, Ann P, (Barnes) MA (1942 Modern and Medieval Languages).

Ann attended Malvern Girls’ College, and, after a ‘war time’ degree, acquired a professional librarianship qualification before working in Wiltshire and Cambridge. At 30, she became Deputy County Librarian of Hampshire. Five years later, she became Worcestershire’s County Librarian, and after local authority reorganizations also gained responsibility for the city and Herefordshire services. A colleague from that time recalled, ‘she was a person of unfailing good humour.

She cared about her staff and her amazing memory enabled her to know the personal details of just about everybody . . . many would say this period was the happiest of their career’. Ann had a strong sense of public service, gained from her civil servant father, but was delighted when the time came to retire and marry

HARTLEY. On 12 June 2011, Kathleen Maude (Vaughan) MA (1945 English, 1947 Modern and Medieval Languages).

Kathleen was the first Ulster woman to win a scholarship to Cambridge. There she met her husband, Brian Hartley, and it was love at first sight, lasting until she died. They had to part briefly while he did military service and she finished her English degree, but they married in 1949, and Kathleen taught English at Leeds Girls’ High School.

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(Edited obituary by Brian S. Hartley)

one-time colleague, Ray Helliwell.

Together they enjoyed a wide circle of friends, extensive travels and a shared interest in family and local history.

After his death, she maintained her pattern of correspondence, supporting others, and using her huge vocabulary for Scrabble!

She was widely read but music was her passion and the Winchester Festival a great joy. As a Christian, Ann was sustained through painful illness in the last few years; to her last day she continued charitable giving and enquiring after others.

(Words from her niece, Mrs Jane Grinstead) HOFMANN. On 26 December 2011, Sally Rowena (Johnson) MA (1960 History), (1941-2011) Sally was born in Epsom in 1941, and brought up in Guildford.

She attended Wycombe Abbey School and then Girton College, where she read law and history.

It was a very political time at Cambridge, and, although staunchly Labour, she became friends there with half of Margaret Thatcher’s future Cabinet. One event she always recalled with pleasure was organising the collections on Poppy Day – her

father had been wounded in World War I. In 1963 she joined the ongoing History of Parliament project, researching and writing biographies of early Tudor members under the direction of Professor S. T. Bindoff.

The House of Commons 1509-1558 was finally published in 1982.

After the birth of a son in 1974 she left archival work for a time, but in 1993 joined the Honourable Artillery Company as deputy to the archivist.

After retirement, a trip to Burma in 2005 sparked a new interest.

Already active in the British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia, the society that records monumental inscriptions of Britons buried in south Asia before the transfer of power in 1947, she became their Burma representative. Sally came to Shoreham when she married in 1973.

A few years later she became a stalwart supporter of the Toddlers’ Club, raising funds for equipment.

She was also a very active member of the committee of the Shoreham Historical Society.

HUNTER. On 18 October 2011, Brenda Laval (Chesterton) (1947 Mathematics).

Brenda came to Girton in 1947 from Hove High School. She was a very social person and had many interests at College, and especially enjoyed rowing. However, a pivotal event of her time in Cambridge, apart from

study, was that she was elected treasurer of the Archimedeans (the University undergraduate mathematical society). While there she met her future husband John Hunter, President of the society, and a student at St John’s College.

After graduation she trained to be a teacher at Hughes Hall and went on to teach for two years at Godolphin and Latimer School. Brenda and John married in 1952 in Hove. John was appointed a lecturer in mathematics at Glasgow University and moved to Scotland. They bought a house in the country north of Airdrie, Lanarkshire.

Brenda became a teacher at Airdrie Academy and had two children, Keith born in 1956 and Lynn born in 1957.

They moved to Milngavie, north of Glasgow, in 1960, where they designed their own house helped by Brenda’s great skill for understanding building works. She was also appointed a lecturer at Jordanhill Teacher Training College, where she lectured for almost 20 years. Over the years, Brenda built up a considerable portfolio of letting properties, which she managed with her sister.

Although disabled in her final two years, Brenda’s mind remained crystal clear and her love and concern for all those she had to deal with, through family or business, never faltered.

She is sadly missed.

JACKSON. In August 2011, Stella Patricia (Allen) MA (1951 Theology and Religious Studies).

Stella came up to Girton from Nottingham High School. After training at Hughes Hall she taught in St Albans and later Reading.

Her marriage to Edward, a civil engineer, led to period of residence in Brunei and Ethiopia. In retirement she trained as a lay reader and served at St Mary’s Church, Chard, Somerset. Edward and their two sons and one daughter survive her.

KELLY. On 24 October 2011, Aileen Margaret MA, PhD (1958 English).

Aileen came up to Girton in 1958 to read English, graduating under her husband’s name.

Paul Grundy, a structural engineer at Melbourne University had been working for a Ph.D. in Cambridge and they married in 1961. They moved to Melbourne in 1962 and had four children.

Aileen worked as an adult educator, specializing in teaching poetry. She published a number of books under her maiden name: Coming Up for Light (1994) won the Mary Gilmore Award for best Australian first book of poetry, and was shortlisted for the Anne Elder and Victorian Premier’s awards. In 1998 she was awarded the Vincent Buckley Prize by the University of Melbourne, which supported a residency in Ireland, during which she wrote her second book City and Stranger (2002). Other publications included The Passion Paintings: Poems (2006).

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KENCH. On 18 March 2012, Shirley Joan Hamilton (Browne) (1951 History).

Shirley was born in Jamaica, and attended the St Andrew High School for Girls in Kingston before coming to England to board at Wycombe Abbey School in Buckinghamshire. She enjoyed her time at Girton, joining the Marlowe Society and the University’s Dramatic Society, acting and designing the stage settings. After graduation Shirley took a secretarial training course in London, and for a short time worked for her father and then the Canadian High Commission. She married Frederick Kench in 1962 and they had two sons, Andrew and Neil. Shortly after Neil was born, the family emigrated to Australia. In 1976, after a Diploma of Education at the Kuring-gai College of Advanced Education, Shirley became the Librarian and History teacher at Knox Grammar Preparatory School in Sydney, and worked there for the next twenty years.

Shirley loved working with children but also loved horses, and took a Diploma in Horsemastership, and became involved with a number of Pony Clubs as an instructor and breeder, winning the Australian Millennium Sports Medal. This medal was awarded to Australian citizens and included competitors, coaches, sports scientists, office holders, and people who maintained sporting facilities and services.

LEES. On 14 September 2011, Mary (1950 English).

Mary was born in Derbyshire and attended the Cavendish Grammar School in Buxton before coming up to Girton to read English. After graduation Mary took a postgraduate secretarial course and in 1954 became the Secretary to the Editor of the Woman’s Journal. She was also Personal Assistant to the Economist of Electric & Musical Industries (EMI) and later Information Officer for J & A Scrimgeour, Stockbrokers. Mary had a life-long love of music, and

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had particularly liked singing as an undergraduate in the College Opera Society. She also enjoyed gardening and had an interest in antiques.

McGLADE. On 9 October 2011, Margaret Marie (1969).

Margaret was born into a close-knit Catholic farming family in Draperstown, County Derry.

She was interested from an early age in politics and social justice and came to Girton in 1969 to read History.

She met Ian Smout whilst at Cambridge, and they married in 1989. Their daughter, Roseanne, was born in 1990. After a gaining a Masters at Oxford, Margaret embarked on a social work career, first in Birmingham and then at Nottinghamshire county council, where from 1986 to 1996 she was Assistant Director for Social Services.

Moving to Derby she became the City’s first director of Social Services.

After leaving Derby in 2005, she worked on a range of assignments for public bodies across England and Wales, and served as independent

chair of the Nottingham safeguarding children board, and as chair of the Sanswell children’s social care performance board. Margaret fought tirelessly, over many years, to ensure that domestic violence was put on the agenda and into services, setting up national guidelines. She also helped to establish Nottinghamshire Women’s Aid Integrated Services, of which she was a trustee. Margaret enjoyed hill walking with friends and family, and was a founder member of a 25 year old book group, which focused on women’s writings.

Friends remember her wise counsel, strong principles, tenacious determination, sharp intellect and personal warmth. Her Irish roots meant a lot to Margaret – of her 42 Christmases after leaving Draperstown, only two were spent away from ‘home’.

(Edited from the Guardian obituary by Isabella Stone) MASELE. On 3 March 2012, Balla Frederick Yumbu Pondejo (1992 Linguistics).

Balla came to Girton to do a Master of Philosophy degree, and graduated in 1993. Following further study he received his doctorate at the Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada.

The title of his thesis was The Linguistic History of Kisukuma, Kinyamwezi and Kisumbwa (2001).

Latterly he was a lecturer in Linguistics at the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

MOODY. On 28 October 2011, Jane MA (1997).

Obituary on page 101.

MORRIS. On 28 March 2010, Betty MA (Mumford) (1947 Geography).

Betty came up to Girton in 1947 after being educated in Yeovil and Oxford.

She played hockey for the College, and was part of the University Geographical Society. Following Girton, Betty completed a Certificate in Education at Hughes Hall in 1951 and then taught Geography in Stourbridge. During her marriage to Geoffrey Morris she lived in Indonesia and Ethiopia, where he was working at the time, and taught English. Later in life they settled in Surrey where Betty enjoyed woodcarving, home making and researching her family history.

MORRIS. On 11 March 2012, Florence (Mitchell) BA, MA (1941 Mechanical Sciences).

After seven terms at Girton she became a Temporary Experimental Officer for the Admiralty Mining Department for her war service, the only woman officer in the department. She continued there for three years and then decided to return to Education and was appointed Lecturer in Applied Heat

and Strength of Materials at Portsmouth Municipal College, where she lectured to groups of 100 or more, many students having just returned from overseas, anxious to obtain qualifications. During this time she met her husband, an Oxford Chemistry graduate, who was doing war service in the Admiralty Chemical Department. They married in 1948 and moved to Wolverhampton, where she continued lecturing in Strength of Material and Heat Engineering at the local Technical College. Their first of three children was born in 1950, and she moved into teaching maths in a variety of grammar schools, including teaching a ‘Maths and Money’ course to the present Governor of the Bank of England! Once her children had gone to university, she took a Postgraduate Diploma in Pastoral Theology, and became one of the staff at St James’ Church, Emsworth.

(Edited from her own words from The Girton Project Journal: Girtonians and the World Wars (2009)) RAWLENCE. On 23 May 2012, Jocelyn Mary (Finch) MA (1940 Classics; 1942 Archaeology and Anthropology).

Born in India in 1922,but educated in England, Jocelyn came to Cambridge with her twin brother, although Michael left Selwyn the following year, finishing his degree after the war.

Jocelyn observed that ‘War-time Girton could have been gloomy, but it was full of fun and friendship. We worked hard and enjoyed our leisure and shared good and bad times.’ After graduation Jocelyn trained to be a nurse at St Thomas’s Hospital in London. She qualified as a State Registered Nurse and studied midwifery, meeting her husband Dr Patrick Rawlence in 1947.

The young couple moved to Pulham Market in 1952, and as the wife of a rural GP, Jocelyn became very involved in local community groups in addition to bringing up a family of four children. In 1965 she joined the Lowestoft Grammar and later the Diss Grammar School as a Classics teacher, and also became a JP in 1967. In 1971 she was appointed the Head of Classics at the Notre Dame High School in Norwich. Jocelyn also trained as a counsellor, and as Chairman of the Norwich Drugs Action Group founded the Off the Record Counselling Service, pioneering counselling in GP surgeries in Norfolk.

She was a Magistrate and District Councillor for 21 years, and was awarded an MBE for services to her local community. Her daughter, Biddy, said her mother had ‘touched people’s lives in many different ways and will be missed so very much by all who knew her’.

RICHARDS. On 2 August 2011, Nicholas MA (1980 History).

Obituary on page 102.

RITCHIE. On 12 October 2011, Innes Elizabeth (formerly Jelly; Mrs Heraty) MA (1962 Natural Sciences).

After graduation, Innes completed a postgraduate diploma in Social Studies at the Bedford College,

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London. In 1966 she began her career as a Child Care Officer for the Borough of Richmond-uponThames, and that same year married John Michael Jelly, a solicitor. They moved to Sheffield and Innes continued her social work for the City of Sheffield until the children arrived; first Martha, then Julia and finally Edward. While the children were young she stayed at home with them but was also a smallholder. After further study and reverting to her previous name she became a Research Fellow at Sheffield Hallam University, and later a Reader in Computing within the School of Computing and Management Sciences. She taught postgraduate and undergraduate courses in Distributed Systems, Applications Development and Web Systems.

She left Sheffield Hallam University in early 2004 to take up a new job in Wellington, New Zealand.

In retirement she travelled to the Agape Learning Center in Tanzania, as a volunteer helping to train the teachers, improve ICT provision and marketing.

She was joined there by her second husband Kenneth Heraty.

SCOTT. On 16 April 2011, Diana Vandeleur (1937 English).

Educated at the Frances Holland School in London, Diana came to Girton in 1937. During her time at the College she involved herself with the Women’s University Chess Club and Cricket team.

After completing a Diploma in Education at Oxford’s Department of Education in 1941, Diana became a Secondary School mistress in Luton and then Yorkshire. Deciding to change career, she took a year’s training as a psychologist at the London Child Guidance Training Centre and became an Educational Psychologist in Northamptonshire. In her retirement she enjoyed travel, gardening, theatre and being part of the

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W.I., and was a very generous benefactor to the College.

SKINNER. On 26 September 2011, Celia Frances (Wheatley) (1952 Natural Sciences). (Bodichon Fellow).

Obituary on page 103.

SMURTHWAITE. In 2011, Gillian Christine (Webb) (1942 History, 1944 Moral Sciences).

Gillian gained the Social Science Certificate at the London School of Economics in 1945. After completing the Tripos in Moral Sciences in 1946, she joined the Psychological Laboratory at Cambridge, working on Industrial Research. She moved back to London and her parents’ home, and married Jon Skinner in April 1957.

SOUTHWORTH. On 11 January 2011, Nancy K G (Williamson) MA (1935 Modern and Medieval Languages).

Whilst at Girton, Nancy was the Captain of the University Lacrosse Team, and after graduating, joined the Civil Service as a 2nd Class Officer in the Ministry of Labour and National Services Department until 1946.

She married Thomas Southworth who was also a Civil Servant, and they had three daughters: Ann, Barbara and Rosemary. Living in Hampshire, Nancy enjoyed pursuing her interests in natural sciences, the environment, walking and playing tennis.

STAWT. On 29 April 2011, Christian Elizabeth (Randolph; Macpherson) (1948 Geography).

Christian went to school in Buntingford before coming to Girton where she had ‘quite the best three years of my life’. On graduating, she married her first husband Colin Macpherson and had three children.

After receiving several qualifying certificates for teaching, she taught dyslexic children in both state and independent schools in Hampshire from 1970-80. In 1983 Christian married Bernard Stawt and together they ran a contemporary art gallery from their home in Rimpton, Somerset. Christian also dedicated her time to Macmillan Cancer Support, the Dorset Garden Trust and was a Donation Governor of Christ’s Hospital. In 1998 she joined the many other Girtonians who came back to Cambridge for the 50th Anniversary of admission of women to full membership of the University.

STURTIVANT. On 9 October 2011, Dr Chris Robert MA (1986 Computer Science) Obituary on page 104.

SUTCLIFFE. On 24 November 2011, Sylvia Jean (Charles) MA (1940 Natural Sciences).

Coming up to Girton from Monmouthshire, Sylvia read Natural Sciences. Whilst at the College she

became a Member of the Cambridge Society and met her future husband, Roy Sutcliffe, who also studied at Cambridge. In the years after Girton, Sylvia taught Biology in schools in Harwich and Preston before settling in Brighton.

THEKLA. On 7 August 2011, Mother Marina (Sharf) MA (1937 English).

Obituary on page 105.

TREFETHEN. On 1 March 2012, Florence N (Newman) MLitt (1946 English).

Florence was born in Philadelphia in 1921. During World War II, she and her husband, Lloyd MacGregor Trefethen, served as US Naval Officers.

When the war ended, they both came to Cambridge to undertake advanced degrees; Florence was the holder of the Ottilie Hancock Bye-Fellowship at Girton. After Girton she had two children, Gwyned and Lloyd in 1953 and 1955, and moved to Lexington, MA, where she lived for 57 years.

During that time, she taught English at Tufts University, the Northeastern University Graduate School and the Radcliffe Seminars. She also spent 18 years at Harvard University as Executive Editor for the Council of East Asian Studies. Her column, ‘The Poets’ Workshop’ was a bi-monthly feature in The Writer, a magazine published in Boston. In retirement, she served as a volunteer docent at the Harvard University Art Museums, and as Manuscript Editor of the Radcliffe Culinary Times.

VON ABENDORFF. On 24 August 2011, Celia (Dodd) MA (1941 Natural Sciences).

Born in Yorkshire, she won an Exhibition to read Natural Sciences at Girton. She received the Ida Freund prize for physical sciences, and went on to complete a MSc at Bedford College, London. Her early years of teaching and political activity were followed by a busy family life with her late husband Richard von Abendorff and his Hungarian family, as well as her own two boys. She taught physics for sixty-eight years, thirty-five of which were spent lecturing at Chelsea College, London. Her love of Cambridge and Girton continued, and she made a recent visit to commemorate the Cavendish Laboratories and a Girton reunion which led to renewed contact with old comrades. Her interests in the theatre and opera, travelling and

political campaigning kept her very busy in her retirement.

She was a ‘gentle soul’; a modest person, who nonetheless contributed in many ways to her community.

Trees have been planted in a Huntingdon Wood as a memorial.

(Edited words by son Richard Von Abendorff).

WARNER. Bernard ‘Ted’ Warner (1916 -2011) (staff).

Ted served as Relief Porter at Wolfson Court for 16 years from 1985–2001, after a career which included being a much respected instructor to the Cambridge University Gliding Club. He was loved and admired by students, staff and Fellows; good humoured, always willing to engage vigorously in political debate (he was a Communist in his youth), and a complete gentleman. Much better read than the students to whom he gave out keys, he was always cheerfully gentle when putting us right, and retained a curiosity and delight in his fellow human beings which kept him youthful to the end.

WATSON. Hilary Ann (Newton) MA (1948 Natural Sciences).

Hilary went to schools in London and Buxton before entering Girton on an exhibition to study Natural Sciences in 1948. On graduating, she was employed as a palaeontologist by the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company until 1953, when she married Geologist John F Watson in Calgary, Canada.

She went on to have three sons, who all later studied at Cambridge. In retirement they explored for oil in Canada, New Zealand, USA, Norway and Ireland, before settling back in Berkhamstead in the UK.

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Obituaries PATSY BRUCE MBE 18 September 1929 – 13 November 2011 Patsy Bruce grew up in Blackpool in a GP’s household in the days when the surgery, belonging first to her grandfather and then her father, was part of the family home. It gave her a head start in dealing with all types of people, and a lasting interest in medical matters. She went to school locally at Bishop Arnold School before coming up to Girton in 1948 to read Medieval and Modern Languages. She read French, and was also part of the group studying Spanish under Helen Grant.

In Girton we were a tiny number, not more than two each year; in the wider university we belonged to a highly individual faculty headed by Professor J B Trend. Under his benign influence the Spanish Society played a large part in our social activity.

After Girton, Patsy followed what was at the time a well-trodden career path, a secretarial course followed by postings in the Foreign Office. She did two tours abroad, in Madrid and Damascus, with great enjoyment, before deciding that the life of the peripatetic personal assistant did not hold sufficient challenge for her. So in 1958 she applied for a job with Imperial Chemical Industries. The interview was, she said, one of the few occasions when she was persuaded (by her mother) that it was necessary to wear a hat. She got the job – in a department which was responsible for the application of new technology, such as computers, to office work. Ironically, although she acquired a computer in later life, Patsy resisted all persuasion to connect to the internet.

In the early 1960s Patsy transferred to the ICI International Trade Department, where she was responsible for advice to ICI businesses about trade and tariff regulations, which were very complicated

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at that time. Many ICI businesses exported 80% or more of their production, so correct advice was vital. She soon developed a mastery of the subject, displaying a talent for condensing large quantities of detail into digestible segments. The Chemical Trade Association and the Confederation of British Industry asked her to chair their committees on the tariff negotiations known as the GATT (General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade) Rounds. According to her colleagues she was a redoubtable chairman.

She became a leading advisor to the government negotiators, first for the United Kingdom then for the European Union, one of the very few women in what was essentially a man’s world (she had one German counterpart with whom she kept in personal touch). The CBI recommended her for the MBE (which she was later awarded).

Throughout her life Patsy’s pursuits were intellectual and artistic, with a dash of the scientific; she said that, had she been better at maths at school, she would probably have chosen a career in science.

She did not indulge in any outdoor exercise other than a daily walk; but this was done unfailingly and with purpose, not a stroll but a measured mile or so. She was a sophisticated – and excellent – cook, who took great trouble in preparing an inventive and varied diet even in post-war conditions when almost everything was in short supply. Many of her friends remember convivial dinners in her London flat and later in Farnham. She was hospitable, helpful, kind, and never lost for words.

Patsy was a committed European. Cambridge had channelled her interest towards southern Europe, and her inclination and curiosity remained focussed on that part of the world.

Margaret Bryan

THE REVEREND DOCTOR SARAH LOUISE CHARLTON 1961–2011 Born on the 10th November 1961 Sarah Louise Bromley was the elder of two sisters, both of whom attended the Priory School for girls in Shrewsbury, followed by Cambridge University. Sarah gained her degree in Engineering at Girton, and shortly after graduating married Andrew Lamb, a fellow Cambridge graduate.

Between 1982 and 1984 she worked as an industrial engineer at Kodak and as a support engineer at Marconi. Then followed various technical/sales support jobs within the data communications industry (two separate companies) ending with Product Marketing Manager, Tricom Communications Ltd. During this time she gained a diploma in marketing.

In 1991 Sarah and Andrew adopted Tom, then in 1995, Joe. Shortly after this they moved to Hexham in Northumberland where Sarah spent the remainder of her life. After some time working in training and lecturing, she began to train part time as a minister at Wesley Study Centre, St John’s College, Durham, which culminated in her gaining her MA in Theology and Ministry.

In 2003 she became a Methodist minister in the Tynedale circuit with responsibility for three rural chapels in the North Pennines. After her divorce, she married George Charlton in 2008.

In September 2008 she took over as Minister of Prudhoe and later Mickley. During this time she also became Probationer Studies Supervisor for Newcastle District and in 2008 joined the Faith and

Order Committee as convenor for the Social and Political Issues Resource Group. She also completed her PhD with her thesis on ‘The Creation of Families: Christianity and Contemporary Adoption’.

Following several months of what she thought was simply back pain, she developed a deep vein thrombosis in mid-March 2011, and in April was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. This was too far advanced and too aggressive for anything other than palliative treatment. Following a rapid decline, suffered with great fortitude and bravery for which she earned the respect of those caring for her, she passed away in the Marie Curie hospice in May 2011.

When asked to describe her interests and enthusiasms she listed the following: Reading, especially theology. Cooking. Exercise. Family life.

She was passionate about the value of all people, and serious about mission and enabling the church’s transition into a new way of relating to society.

MARJORIE CHIBNALL 1915-2012 Marjorie Chibnall, OBE Hon LittD MA DPhil FSA FBA, Honorary Fellow of Girton College, Fellow of Clare Hall, died in Sheffield on 23 June 2012 at the age of 96. She was born Marjorie McCallum Morgan on 27 September 1915 near Atcham in Shropshire, the birthplace of Orderic Vitalis (died c. 1142), whose magnificent medieval chronicle she would in due course edit and translate. As the daughter of a tenant farmer, she was the first member of her family to attend

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university, after gaining a scholarship at Lady Margaret Hall in Oxford.

At Oxford, she was deeply influenced by Eileen Power, the foremost social and economic historian of her time, who acted as the supervisor of her DPhil thesis on the English lands of the monastery of Bec-Hellouin, submitted in 1942, and published four years later in 1946 as a book dedicated to ‘her mother and father’, in that order. After brief spells of teaching in Southampton (1941–3) and Aberdeen (1943–7) she moved to Cambridge in 1947 having married the distinguished biochemist AC (Charles) Chibnall FRS, a widower with two young daughters, Joan and Cicely. As an amateur medievalist, he had approached her for advice; their meeting was followed by only two others before he asked her to marry him. This, she reminisced later, had been ‘retrospective love at first sight’. Two children were born, Mary and John, and their early years were the only three for which there was no publication.

A new departure for her was an edition and translation of the Memoirs of the Papal Court, written by John of Salisbury, a twelfth century clerk.

Even before it was published in 1956 in the series Nelson’s (now Oxford) Medieval Texts, she began her next project on a much more ambitious scale, namely the Ecclesiastical History of Orderic Vitalis.

This huge chronicle, which the Anglo-French monk Orderic spent his lifetime composing, was published in six volumes between 1969 and 1980. There is no doubt that her international reputation and fame are based on this magisterial edition which lies at the basis of much modern Anglo-Norman scholarship. Marjorie had an impressive command of the medieval history of England and Normandy,

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based not only on the narrative literary texts but also on a thorough understanding of the administrative and documentary records of the time. Girton College became her intellectual home.

Between 1947 and 1965 she taught medieval history, and from 1960 was Director of Studies in Fine Art. Marjorie’s Girton Fellowship (1953–65) was followed by an Honorary Fellowship in 1988.

In 1965 she realised that the editorship of Orderic was far more time-consuming than she had anticipated, so she retired from Girton, a move welcomed by her husband who had been retired since 1949. In 1969 Marjorie became one of the earliest Fellows of a newly founded graduate college, Clare Hall, whose statutes she drafted.

When, after forty years of marriage, her husband Charles died in 1988, she sold the family house, commissioned a stained glass window in his memory and retired to a small, sunny flat.

In 1985 she received a Festschrift: Tradition and Change. Essays in Honour of Marjorie Chibnall, presented by her friends on the occasion of her seventieth birthday, ed. Diana Greenway, Christopher Holdsworth and Jane Sayers (Cambridge, 1985).

Her own books inspired by Orderic’s edition include: The World of Orderic Vitalis (Oxford, 1984), Anglo-Norman England 1066-1166 (Oxford, 1986), The Debate on the Norman Conquest (Manchester, 1999), The Normans (Oxford, 2000), the collaborative editions of the Waltham Chronicle (Oxford, 1994), and the Gesta Guillelmi of William of Poitiers (Oxford, 1998). Her research on charters was published in Select Documents of the English Lands of the Abbey of Bec (London, 1951) and

Charters and Custumals of the Abbey of Holy Trinity, Caen (London, 1982). But the most remarkable of her monographs is her pioneering biography of Empress Matilda (d. 1167), daughter of Henry I and mother of Henry II, the first English princess who aimed (unsuccessfully) to become a queen in her own right (The Empress Matilda.

Queen Consort, Queen Mother and Lady of the English, Oxford 1991). Marjorie worked in the King’s College archives until well into her nineties in order to prepare an edition of the charters of the Suffolk priory of Great Bricett.

There were many academic distinctions: in 1978 she became a Fellow of the British Academy, in 1979 she received an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Birmingham, and in 2004 she was given the OBE for services to History. Two years earlier, in 2002, the University of Cambridge bestowed upon her a rare distinction in the form of an honorary doctorate.

Marjorie was a deeply reserved woman, with a strong sense of Christian responsibility to others, especially those less advantaged than herself.

Marjorie Chibnall was an outstanding medievalist, an inspirational teacher and a wonderfully supportive colleague.

Elisabeth van Houts (Eugenie Strong Research Fellow 1985–9)

JANE MOODY 1967–2011 The snowdrops in the College grounds were still blooming in early March as I walked to the Grange,

where Jane Moody lived during her four years at Girton as Rosalind, Lady Carlisle Research Fellow (1993–7). As I strolled past Mare’s Run, Old Orchard and Honeysuckle Walk, I felt as if she was walking with me. But she wouldn’t have been walking.

She would have been haring ahead on one of her early morning runs before diving into the ice-cold swimming pool. I turned back past the tennis courts, and could see her flying round the court with panting colleagues. Chris Cannon, her closest Girton friend and co-Research Fellow, writes that with Jane it was always summer. She flew in like Bede’s swallow across the lighted hall and out into the dark. Jane Moody died of breast cancer on 28 October 2011, aged forty-four.

Jane proceeded from Wakefield Girls’ High School to St Edmund’s Hall, Oxford; then to Girton, and subsequently to a lectureship at the University of York, transmuted into a personal Chair in 2004.

She was entrusted with the creation of York’s Humanities Research Centre, of which she became the founding Director.

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At Girton we saw the fledgling Jane, but she was already in a recognisable Girton tradition of outstanding young women scholars. Her first book, Illegitimate Theatre in London 1770–1840 (Cambridge 2000), is a thrilling and groundbreaking study of Shakespearean production in unlicensed theatres. She co-edited two significant volumes: Theatre and Celebrity in Britain, 1600–2000 (2005), and The Cambridge Companion to British Theatre, 1730–1830 (2007). I last saw her at a special lunch in honour of our former Mistress, the Shakespearean scholar, Professor MC Bradbrook.

Brad would have recognised in Jane a true follower of her own pioneering study of Shakespeare’s theatre.

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Girton has a marvellous record with its Research Fellows, who breathe new life into our community, and carry our reputation across the world. No-one fulfilled these two functions more brilliantly than Jane Moody. We mourn her loss.

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NICK RICHARDS 1961–2011 Nick came up to Girton as one of a talented generation of four Bedalians arriving in Cambridge to read History. He quickly made his mark in College, and in the History Faculty, with his flamboyant dress and willingness to debate anything at top volume and with maximum vigour and commitment. The dress-sense was a highly personal twist on ‘Old Fogey’ (a feature of the early 80s) and his contemporaries will remember his fez and his white scarf floating in the breeze as he hurtled down the Huntingdon Road.

History was Nick’s passion; he had a quick and quirky intelligence and was drawn to the historically recondite. He had a formidable knowledge of a huge range of historical periods and topics.

This passion remained with him all his life; he loved to discuss history with anyone, but preferably a fellow enthusiast, up to the end. Napoleon was a particular hero, and some Girtonians may remember a notable party in the Stanley Library to celebrate Napoleon’s birthday. Travel was also a pleasure for Nick, always with a historical bent and to travel with him was an education. It was also high-risk.

I survived two road trips round Europe enlivened by narrow escapes from armed Serbians and near-

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catastrophic breakdowns of ‘Emily’, the aged Triumph Vitesse.

With his love of argument it was not surprising that Nick chose law as a career. After a second gap year (that love of travel again), he did the conversion course for non-law graduates, then trained and qualified as a solicitor at Farrer & Co, where he remained for some years in a working environment he came to love. He was proud to be part of such an old and widely respected firm, enjoying its beautiful seventeenth-century offices in London and not averse to the charm of its ‘snob value’.

When the time came to leave London he moved to practise in Carlisle, a city of strong historical atmosphere, surrounded by wonderful countryside in which he took increasing pleasure. The rest of his professional life was spent as partner and Head of Litigation at Cartmell Shepherd, where his talents, legal brain and joie de vivre were highly valued.

The ebullient exterior hid a thoughtful, loving and empathetic man but also on occasion a deeply troubled one. Nick suffered two major breakdowns. The first he bravely overcame, helped by the love and support of his wife, Frances, a fellow lawyer. For many years she, his three children, Daisy, Edward and Henry, the law, his historical interests and his outdoor activities sustained him. Sadly though, a happy family life and a successful professional career were not enough to keep the demons entirely at bay.

In 2010 depression and anxiety overwhelmed him and, after a brave struggle, in the summer of 2011 he took his own life. Peace at last for Nick, but for those of us who mourn, a great gap left by a generous-spirited friend, of great intellect, vibrancy and humanity.

His funeral was held in a packed Carlisle Cathedral with his family upheld by the love of many friends, family members and colleagues. The service was entirely appropriate, with the organ thundering with marvellous music and the Order of Service taken from the Book of Common Prayer with no messing with mealy-mouthed modern versions.

It was grand in all the ways Nick would have loved, moving, dignified, with due deference to historical tradition. With the magnificent grandeur of the surroundings, there was a sense of drama that reminded one of the zest for life that Nick had almost to the end. It all spoke strongly of a life lived to the full.

Sally Lancashire (Marr, 1980-1983) CELIA SKINNER (WHEATLEY) 1933–2011 Celia Skinner grew up in Goldings, a Dr Barnardo’s Home for boys, where her father was Headmaster.

She was the only girl amongst about two hundred boys. She went to Ware Grammar School and eventually became Head Girl. She came up to Girton in 1952 to read Natural Sciences. There she made many lifelong and dear friends.

She met her husband, Bryan Skinner, in Cambridge.

He was at Fitzwilliam two years ahead of her; they were married in 1955. The early years saw many homes as they followed Bryan’s developing career, beginning their married life in Fairlie on the west coast of Scotland, moving south with a brief time in Harrogate, eventually settling for some years in Walton-on-Thames. In 1974 they moved further south to Jersey. Celia played a large part in helping her husband in his very successful businesses.

Sadly Bryan died in 1985; this coincided with her own first encounter with cancer. This she faced with fortitude and the same determination evidenced throughout her life. and she rebuilt a busy and fulfilling life in Jersey, by now very much her home.

Her family was very important to her. She had four children, three lovely girls who have all been very successful, and a son who predeceased her in 2006. She had eight grandchildren of whom she was very proud.

In spite of the tragedies in her life she retained her sense of humour and was remarkable in her lack of complaining – her glass was always at least half-full. She became an accomplished bridge player and developed her natural artistic talent particularly when her love of tennis and other more active pursuits became more difficult to continue.

Two further bouts of cancer finally took their toll.

She died peacefully and with great dignity at the end of September 2011.

Always willing to help others less fortunate than herself, she was involved with many charities over the years. She set up the Jersey branch of Backup (now Macmillan Cancer Support (Jersey)), the cancer information charity that Bryan had founded in London with Vicky Clement-Jones in the last years of his life. She was also involved for many years with the RNLI, and was a keen supporter of the Jersey Orchid Foundation and Durell Wildlife Conservation Trust (previously known as Jersey Zoo), to name but a few. She was a great role model for us all.

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She remained a keen botanist and loved her large garden, which she opened to the public. She gave the proceeds to various charities.

She remained very loyal to Girton and was a Barbara Bodichon Foundation Fellow. She always said how much her time there helped her in life.

CHRIS STURTIVANT 1967–2011 Chris came up to Girton from Queen Elizabeth’s Grammar School, Blackburn, to read Natural Sciences in 1986. He later progressed to the nascent Computer Science tripos for his Part II. Chris’s most memorable characteristics were his sensitivity and empathy, which showed themselves in his general love of animals – particularly of dolphins. As a teenager, he would go by train every Saturday to visit the Dolphinarium at Morecambe.

He rapidly became a valued member of the team there, becoming so involved that eventually he was allowed to put the dolphins through their ‘behaviours’ at public shows. Indeed, he was commonly known at College as ‘Dolphin Chris’ and would often be seen wearing a navy blue knitted sweater with a white dolphin design.

Chris had tremendous musical ability, playing the oboe and the clarinet, and later the acoustic guitar.

He was particularly proud of his twelve string guitar which he brought up to College with him at the start of his second year. Many pleasant hours were spent in conversation with him, discussing, for example, the merits of Syd Barrett’s ‘Jugband Blues’, whilst he strummed and picked absent-

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mindedly. Later, while at Loughborough, he learned bell-ringing. Chris was active in on-line role-playing, including helping to manage “MUDs” (multi-user dungeons), well before most people were even using the internet for e-mail!

After graduation, he joined BAE Systems near Preston, working on flight simulators for the Tornado combat aircraft and the Typhoon joint strike fighter aircraft. However, his heart remained with his interest in dolphins. and he eventually gained a place at Loughborough University to work on his doctorate, which he was awarded in 1997.

His PhD combined elements of computer science and dolphin research, being based on the various inter-communication calls of dolphins and porpoises around the British coast, for which he developed a computer programme which automated the identification of individual animals’ calls. During his PhD, in order to better communicate with his Swedish colleagues in this research area, he quickly taught himself Swedish.

In 1999 he moved to the San Francisco area, joining Silicon Graphics Inc. as a software engineer.

He subsequently moved on to EMF and then VMware. These were jobs he loved, and he was tremendously well respected by his colleagues.

In the years he spent in and around San Francisco he built up a large and diverse group of friends.

He also gained a private pilot’s licence, using this to entertain visitors by flying them around the Bay area.

Chris died suddenly and unexpectedly on the 10th October 2011.

Debra Bourne & Simon Howard (1986)

MOTHER THEKLA 1918–2011 On 6 September 1997 the words of an orthodox nun, Mother Thekla, resounded around Westminster Abbey, and around the world, as Princess Diana’s body left the Abbey.

‘Song for Athene’, originally intended for a Greek actress who died in a cycling accident, was put together by combining lines from Hamlet with the Orthodox funeral service. It made its composer John Tavener a household name, but Mother Thekla, the creator of the text, and the guide and religious mentor of the composer, remained in the shadows.

The daughter of a barrister, Mother Thekla was born Marina Sharf in 1918 at Kilslovodsk in the Caucasus, amid the clamour of the Russian Revolution. She described being baptised in a flower vase because her parents were prevented from getting to the church by crossfire in the streets. Shortly afterwards they moved to England and she grew up in London.

Educated at City of London Girls’ School, she went up to Girton to read English, graduating in 1940.

The following year she joined the WAAF, and spent the war working for British Intelligence, partly in India. She was mentioned in dispatches in 1943, although she would never be drawn on this episode in her life.

After the war she worked for a few years as a civil servant in the Ministry of Education, and later as a teacher, becoming head of English at Bedford Girls’ Courtesy of David Harrison www.davidharrison.info

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School. She briefly became an actress, before an abrupt decision to become a nun. ‘I went on a retreat and met Mother Maria and that was it. I was called to it. It’s a bit like a thunderbolt. You can’t deny it when it hits you. I used to love things like visiting second-hand book shops, but you can’t compare life now with life before. It’s like walking through a mirror backwards.’

Yet in many ways the pair were complete opposites.

It was Thekla, ever practical, who drilled the unworldly Tavener in the dynamics of a creative partnership. She never lost her volatile, thespian streak, and insisted on calling him ‘darling’. For all her devoutness, Tavener considered her ‘a pretty wild character, pretty formidable; she has a ferocious temper’.

‘It is the monotony of our lives which frees the spirit; all the imminent things drop away’, Mother Thekla told a visiting journalist in 2002. ‘It’s quite painful being faced with your real self without the trimmings. There’s time here to pray for the world.

That’s our work: it’s not something we do on our Sunday off.’

Mother Thekla co-founded the first Orthodox order in England, moving from the monastery she had founded in 1966 at Filgrave, Buckinghamshire, to a dilapidated farmhouse at Higher Normanby, outside Whitby, in 1971. It was the bleakest spot she could find, on the edge of the North Yorkshire moors.

It was Thekla’s short book The Life Of St Mary Of Egypt (1974), about the famous prostitute-saint, that caught the attention of John Tavener and became the basis of his second opera, Mary Of Egypt (1992). Sister Thekla, as she then was, became what the composer referred to as his ‘spiritual mother’. As well as his personal confidante and counsellor, Mother Thekla was also Tavener’s librettist. She wrote the texts for Mary of Egypt (1992), and for choral works including The Apocalypse (1993), and Fall And Resurrection (1999), which was dedicated to the Prince of Wales.

Her relationship with Tavener was almost telepathic; she would send him odd words – ‘crucify’ or ‘apple’, for example – which he would instinctively understand and interpret. He once described her as ‘the most remarkable woman I have ever met in my life’.

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The nuns would meet only at lunchtime, for a frugal meal of home-grown vegetables and rice.

At the hesychasterion (the hermitage or prayerhouse) Thekla followed the simple routine of the 7th-century Saint Hilda, rising at 4am, swathing herself in a loose black ‘shroud’ that served as a habit and praying every three hours six times a day.

Originally there were five nuns at Higher Normanby, but mothers Maria, Catherine and two others eventually died. Thekla remained there alone until 1994, hoping that a younger, American-born, sister nun, Mother Hilda, would take over. Ultimately, this was not a success. Some years ago Hilda delivered Mother Thekla to the infirmary at the Anglican Abbey of St Hilda in Whitby. Hilda did take over the monastery, but sold it, and died in Whitby in 2010.

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Visitor: Mistress:

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

Fellows and Officers of the College, October 2012 Honorary Fellows Professor M Burbidge, BSc, PhD (London), FRS Dr M F Lyon, ScD, FRS Mrs Anita Desai, BA (Delhi), FRSL Baroness Platt of Writtle, CBE, DL, Hon LLD, MA, FREng Dr B A Askonas, PhD, FRS The Rt Hon the Lord Mackay of Clashfern, KT, PC, QC, ZA, Hon LLD, FRSE Professor A Teichova, PhD (Prague), Dr hon c (Uppsala), FRHS HM Queen Margrethe II of Denmark, Hon LLD Miss E Llewellyn-Smith, CB, MA Professor Dame Margaret Turner-Warwick, DBE, DM (Oxon), PhD, FRCP Dame Bridget Ogilvie, DBE, AC, PhD, ScD, FIBiol, FRCPath Professor Dame Gillian Beer, DBE, FBA, MA, LittD, BLitt (Oxon) The Rt Revd David Conner, KVCO, MA Professor Douglass North, BA, PhD (Berkeley) The Rt Hon Lady Justice Arden, PC, DBE, MA, LLM Baroness Perry of Southwark, MA Dame Rosalyn Higgins, DBE, QC, LLB, MA, Hon LLD, FBA Dame Ann Bowtell, DCB, BA Professor Dusa McDuff, PhD, FRS The Rt Hon Baroness Hollis of Heigham, PC, DL, MA, DPhil (Oxon) Baroness James of Holland Park, OBE Viscountess Runciman of Doxford, DBE, BA The Rt Hon Baroness Symons of Vernham Dean, PC, MA Lady English, MA, MB, BChir, MRCP, FRCPsych Ms J Rachel Lomax, MA, MSc (London) Dr Margaret H Bent, CBE, MA, MusB, PhD, Hon DMus (Glasgow), Hon DFA (Notre Dame), FBA, FSA, FRHistS Dame Elizabeth L A Forgan, DBE, BA (Oxon) Professor Frances M Ashcroft, MA, PhD, ScD, FRS Professor Dame Athene Donald, DBE, MA, PhD, FRS The Hon Mrs Justice Gloster, DBE, MA

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Barbara Bodichon Foundation Fellows Mrs Barbara Wrigley, MA Mrs Sally Alderson, MA Mrs Margaret Llewellyn, OBE, MA Mrs Veronica Wootten, MBE, MA Miss C Anne Wilson, MA, ALA Dr Margaret A Branthwaite, BA, MD, FFARCS, FRCP Dr Ruth Whaley BA, MA, PhD (Harvard) Sir Laurence Martin, DL, MA, MA, PhD, DCL (Hon), FRACS Miss Sarah Caroline Holt, MA Mr Colin Grassie, MA Fellows Janet E Harker, MA, ScD, Life Fellow Christine H McKie, MA, PhD, Life Fellow Enid A C MacRobbie, MA, PhD (Edinburgh), ScD, FRS, Life Fellow Poppy Jolowicz, MA, LLB, Life Fellow Dorothy J Thompson, MA, PhD, FBA, Life Fellow Elizabeth Marrian, MA, MD, Life Fellow Melveena C McKendrick, MA, PhD, LittD, FBA, Life Fellow Nancy J Lane Perham, OBE, MA, PhD, ScD, MSc (Dalhousie), DPhil (Oxon), Hon LLD (Dalhousie), Hon ScD (Salford), Hon ScD (Sheffield Hallam), Hon ScD (Oxford Brookes), Hon ScD (Surrey), Life Fellow Joan Oates, PhD, FBA, Life Fellow Gillian Jondorf, MA, PhD, Life Fellow Betty C Wood, MA, PhD (Pennsylvania), Life Fellow Jill Mann, MA, PhD, FBA, Life Fellow Ruth M Williams, MA, PhD (London), Life Fellow *Julia M Riley, MA, PhD, Vice-Mistress, Official Fellow and Director of Studies in Physical Sciences

A Marilyn Strathern, DBE, FBA, Hon DLitt (Oxon), Hon ScD (Edinburgh), Hon ScD (Copenhagen), Hon ScD (Helsinki), Hon Doctorate (Panteion), Hon ScD (Durham), Hon DPhil (Papua New Guinea), Hon DSocSci (Queen’s, Belfast), Hon DSocSci (Yale), MA, PhD, Life Fellow John Marks, MA, MD (London), FRCP, FRCPath, FRCPsych, Life Fellow S Frank Wilkinson, MA, PhD, Life Fellow Roland E Randall, MA, PhD, MSc (McGill), Life Fellow Martin D Brand, MA, PhD (Bristol), BSc (Manchester), Life Fellow 7John E Davies, MA, BSc, PhD (Monash), Official Fellow (Chemistry) David N Dumville, MA, PhD (Edinburgh), Life Fellow 1Abigail L Fowden, MA, PhD, ScD, Professorial Fellow (Biological Sciences) Juliet A S Dusinberre, MA, PhD (Warwick), Life Fellow Thomas Sherwood, MA, MB, BS (London), FRCR, FRCP, Life Fellow Richard J Evans, MA, PhD, MRCVS, Life Fellow *Alastair J Reid, MA, PhD, Official Fellow and Director of Studies in History (Part II) Sarah Kay, FBA, MA, DPhil (Oxon), LittD, Life Fellow Mary Warnock (Baroness), DBE, Hon FBA, MA (Oxon), Life Fellow 1Howard P Hodson, MA, PhD, FREng Professorial Fellow (Engineering) Peter C J Sparks, MA, DipArch, RIBA, Life Fellow 3Stephanie Palmer, SJD (Harvard), LLM (Harvard), Supernumerary Fellow and Director of Studies in Law (LLM) *Frances Gandy, MA, MCLIP, Official Fellow, Librarian, Curator, and Tutor for Science Graduates *2Christopher J B Ford, MA, PhD, Official Fellow (Physics) Charity A Hopkins, OBE, MA, LLB, Life Fellow W James Simpson, BA (Melbourne), PhD, MPhil (Oxon), Life Fellow 4Anne Fernihough, MA, PhD, Non-Stipendiary Fellow (English) 1Angela C Roberts, PhD, Professorial Fellow (Behavioural Neurosciences) 3Hugh R Shercliff, MA, PhD, Official Fellow and Director of Studies in Engineering (on leave ET and MT 2013)

Martin W Ennis, MA, PhD, FRCO, KRP (Köln), Austin and Hope Pilkington Fellow, Director of Studies in Music and Director of College Music John L Hendry, MA, PhD, Supernumerary Fellow (Management Studies) 1Jochen H Runde, MPhil, PhD, Professorial Fellow (Economics), Director of Studies in Management Studies Dennis Barden, MA, PhD, Life Fellow *5Andrew R Jefferies, MA, VetMB, FRCPath, MRCVS, Official Fellow, Senior Tutor and Director of Studies in Medicine (Parts IA, IB, II and Clinical) and Veterinary Medicine Juliet J d’A Campbell, CMG, MA, Life Fellow Peter H Abrahams, MBBS, FRCS (Edinburgh), FRCR, DO (Hon), Life Fellow *Deborah Lowther, MA, ACA, Official Fellow and Bursar Clive Lawson, MA, PhD, Official Fellow and Director of Studies in Economics (Parts I and IIA) Richard L Himsworth, MA, MD, Life Fellow Josh D Slater, PhD, BVMS (Edinburgh), Supernumerary Fellow (Veterinary Medicine) and Praelector A Mark Savill, MA, PhD, Non-Stipendiary Fellow (Engineering) 1Per-Olof H Wikström, BA, PhD (Stockholm) FBA, Professorial Fellow (Criminology) 2S-P Gopal Madabhushi, PhD, Official Fellow and Director of Studies in Engineering 3Albertina Albors-Llorens, LLM (London), PhD, Official Fellow and Director of Studies in Law (on leave 2012-13) 4Mia Gray, BA (San Diego), MRCP (Berkeley), PhD (Rutgers), Official Fellow and Director of Studies in Geography (Part IB) (on leave LT and ET 2013) 7Neil Wright, MA, PhD, Official Fellow (Classics) Ruth M L Warren, MA, MD, FRCP, FRCR, Life Fellow *Alexandra M Fulton, BSc, PhD (Edinburgh), Official Fellow, Director of Studies in Biological Sciences (Parts IB, II and III), Tutor for Admissions (Science) Maureen J Hackett, BA, MA (Southampton), Official Fellow, Tutor, Warden of Wolfson Court and Graduate Accommodation, and Junior Bursar 3

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*2Crispin H W Barnes, BSc, PhD (London), Official Fellow (Physics), and Tutor 2Colm Durkan, BA, PhD (Trinity College Dublin), Official Fellow, Director of Studies in Engineering (Part IIA and METI) and Tutor *1Edward J Briscoe, BA (Lancaster), MPhil, PhD, Professorial Fellow (Computer Science) Emma Pugh, BSc (Keele), PhD (Physics), Official Fellow and K M Peace Secretary to the Council *K M Veronica Bennett, BSc (Leicester), PhD (CNAA), Official Fellow, Director of Studies in Biological Sciences, Tutor for Admissions (Arts) and Tutor 3Harriet D Allen, MSc (Calgary), MA, PhD, Official Fellow, Director of Studies in Geography and Education, and Tutor Shaun D Fitzgerald, MA, PhD, Official Fellow (Engineering) and Tutor Stephen E Robertson, MA, MSc (City), PhD (London), Non-Stipendiary Fellow (Information Science) Stuart Davis, BA, PhD (Birmingham), Official Fellow and Director of Studies in Modern Languages (Parts IA and II) Benjamin J Griffin, MA, PhD, Official Fellow and Director of Studies in History (Year 2) Fiona J Cooke, MA, BM BCh (Oxon), PhD (London), MRCP, Official Fellow and Director of Studies in Medicine (Parts IB, II and Clinical) Ross I Lawther, MA, PhD, Olga Taussky Fellow and Director of Studies in Mathematics Karen L Lee, MA, Official Fellow (Law) and Tutor Sinéad M Garrigan Mattar, BA, DPhil (Oxon), Jane Elizabeth Martin Official Fellow, Director of Studies in English (Part I and Part II) and Tutor Stuart A Scott, MA, PhD, Official Fellow and Director of Studies in Engineering (Part IB) and Chemical Engineering Stelios Tofaris, MA, PhD, Brenda Hale Fellow and Director of Studies in Law (Part IA) *8Liliana Janik, MPhil (Torun), PhD, Official Fellow and Director of Studies in Archaeology and Anthropology (Part I), Archaeology (Part II) and Biological Anthropology, and Tutor for Arts Graduates

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Kamiar Mohaddes BSc (Warwick), MPhil, PhD, Official Fellow and Director of Studies in Economics 4Nik Cunniffe, MA, MPhil, MSc (Bath), PhD, Official Fellow (Biological Sciences) 4Katherine Hughes, BSc, BVSc (Liverpool), MRCVS, Official Fellow (Veterinary Medicine) Edward W Holberton, BA, MPhil, PhD, Bradbrook Official Fellow and Director of Studies in English (Year 2) *Helen A Van Noorden, BA, MPhil, PhD, Wrigley Fellow and Director of Studies in Classics 3Carlo L Acerini, BSc (Dundee), DCH (Glasgow), MD (Dundee), MA, Official Fellow and Director of Studies in Medicine Katherine M Kennedy, BA, MA (King’s London), PgDip (Royal College of Music), PhD, Katharine Jex-Blake Research Fellow in English and Music Kevin P D Musselman, BSc.Eng (Kingston, Canada), MSc (British Colombia), Hertha Ayrton Research Fellow in Materials Science Peter R Williams, BA (Oxon), MSc (Saskatchewan), PhD (Reading), Supernumerary Fellow (Land Economy) Mary V Wrenn, BA (Appalachian State), BSc (Appalachian State), MA (Colorado State), PhD (Colorado State), Joan Robinson Research Fellow in Heterodox Economics Amaleena Damle, BA, MPhil, PhD, Newton Trust Research Fellow in French Sabesan Sithamparanathan, B Eng (Sheffield), M Phil, PhD, Tucker-Price Research Fellow in Electrical Engineering Amy R Donovan, BA, MPhil, MSc (University College London), PhD, Ottilie Hancock Research Fellow in Geography Alexander G Liu, MESc (Oxon), PhD (Oxon), Henslow Research Fellow in Earth Sciences Elizabeth Wade, MA, Official Fellow and Development Director Jeffrey J Defoe, BASc (Windsor, Canada), MASc (Windsor,Canada), PhD (MIT), Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Senior Research Fellow (Engineering) Jacob Paskins, BA (UCL), MSc (UCL), PhD (UCL), Eugenie Strong Research Fellow in Architecture Lucy G Cheke, BA, Sarah Woodhead Research Fellow in Experimental Psychology

Samantha K Williams, BA (Lancaster), MSc, PhD, Director of Studies in History (Year 2) Geoffrey J Willis, BSc (Liverpool), Assistant Bursar

Visiting Fellows Saskia Sassen, MA (Notre Dame), PhD (Notre Dame), MPhil (Poitiers), Helen Cam Visiting Fellow (ET 2013)

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Bye-Fellows 3Arif M Ahmed, BA (Oxon), MA (Sussex), PhD (Philosophy) Louise E Braddock, MA, MB, BChir, MD, MA (Reading), PhD (Reading), Praelector and Director of Studies in Philosophy Samuel F Brockington, BSc (Edinburgh), PhD (Florida Museum of Natural History), Newton Trust Post-Doctoral Fellow in Plant Sciences Caroline J A Brett, MA, PhD, Director of Studies in Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic 4Simon Cohn, BA, PhD (London), Director of Studies in Social Anthropology Judith A Drinkwater, MA, Director of Studies in Linguistics and Modern and Medieval Languages (Part IB and Year Abroad) Margaret Faultless, MA, (Music) Sarah L Fawcett, BA, BM, BCh (Oxford), MRCS, FRCR (Medical and Veterinary Sciences) The Revd A Malcolm Guite, MA, PhD (Durham), Chaplain 6Christopher K Hadley, MA, MSc. Director of Studies in Computer Science Morag A Hunter, BA, PhD, Director of Studies in Physical Sciences Elizabeth J King, MA, Dip Arch, RIBA, Director of Studies in Architecture John Lawson, BA, PhD, Director of Studies in Social and Political Sciences (Part II) Nicholas Mulroy, MA, Director of Chapel Music and Assistant Director of College Music 4Heidi Radke, DVM (Ludvig Maximilian University), DrVetMed (Zurich) (Veterinary Medicine) Sophia M I Shellard-von Wickersthal, BSc (Freiburg), PhD (Freiburg) (Pharmacology) C Patricia Ward, MA, PhD (Physics) Emma J L Weisblatt, BA, MB, BCh, Director of Studies in Psychology

Archivist Emerita Kate Perry Cert Ed (Froebel) External Teaching Officers 1John S McCombie, MA, PhD, Director of Studies in Land Economy, Fellow of Downing College Richard Marks, PhD, Director of Studies in History of Art, Honorary Professor and Fellow of Fitzwilliam College Praelectors Louise E Braddock, MA, MB, BChir, MD, MA (Reading), PhD (Reading) Josh D Slater, PhD, BVMS (Edinburgh) Lectrice Lola Boglio, Licence de LLCE (Ecole Normale Superiere de Lyon) Notes * Member of Council 1 Professor in the University 2 Reader in the University 3 Senior Lecturer in the University 4 University Lecturer 5 University Pathologist 6 University Computer Officer 7 University Technical Officer 8 University Assistant Director of Research

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Comings and Goings The College is a vibrant place to be during termtime, and this year was no different. The Fellowship is one of the great constituents of that liveliness, and though we are sorry to see people leave, we welcome many more in their place. We were especially delighted to have Dr Gwyneth Lewis with us, as the Mary Amelia Cummins Harvey Visiting Fellow, for a further term, the Michaelmas Term 2011. Gwyneth is an alumna and celebrated poet, recently winning the Crown at the 2012 Vale of Glamorgan National Eisteddfod. We were sorry it was a fleeting appointment, as was that of Professor Cindi Katz, a Professor in Environmental Psychology, Earth and Environmental Sciences, and Women's Studies at the New York City University Graduate Center. Cindi was appointed the Diane Middlebrook and Carl Djerassi Visiting Professor 2011–12 at the Cambridge University Centre for Gender Studies and Girton took the opportunity to invite her to stay in College as the Helen Cam Visiting Fellow.

We wished both Fionnuala Sinclair, Official Fellow in Modern Languages, and Francisca Malarée, Development Director, well in their new posts at the beginning of 2012 – Fionnuala as Lecturer in Medieval Studies at the University of Edinburgh, and Fran as Development Director at Clare College, Cambridge. Recently we said our farewells to Dr Gabriele Natali, Official Fellow and Director of Studies in Modern Languages, who retired to his native Italy after being with us since 1996; Dr Francesco Montomoli, Mitsubhushi Heavy Industries Senior Research Fellow and Dr Alasdair Campbell both left to take up appointments at the University of Surrey; Dr Danielle van den Heuvel was appointed to a Lectureship in Early Modern European History at the University of Kent; Dr Sebastien Renaux-Petel resigned his Bye-Fellowship

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to take up a Fellowship at the newlycreated International Centre for Theoretical Cosmology and High Energy Physics at the Lagrange Institute of Paris. We also gave our thanks and best wishes to Bye-Fellows Drs Steven Boreham, Robert Doubleday, Laurent Frideres, and Johannes Kaminski; to Research Fellow Dr Sabine Deiringer and to French Lectrice Clemence Fourton.

Dr Eileen Rubery retired as Honorary Registrar of the Roll, after taking an extra year to help with the transition of the integration of the Roll Office and Development Office. In May, we were delighted that alumna Elizabeth Wade accepted the appointment of Development Director, and she has already made great plans.

Dr Sophia Shellard-von Weikersthal was elected to a three-year ByeFellowship in January this year.

Dr Shellard has been supervising in pharmacology for medical and veterinary students for several years, and will in future assist with admissions and other student-related activities.

At the time of writing we look forward to having Dr Jeffrey Defoe join us as the Mitsubhishi Heavy Industries Senior Research Fellow. Jeff has a BASc and MASc from the University of Windsor in Canada, and a PhD in

Turbomachinery from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

We will also be joined by Dr Jacob Paskins, who will be the Eugenie Strong Research Fellow in Architectural History and Theory, and Ms Lucy Cheke, the Sarah Woodhead Research Fellow in Experimental Psychology; Mlle Lola Boglio is the French Lectrice for 2012–13.

As usual there are a number of internal changes within the Fellowship, and one that cannot go unmentioned is the retirement of Dr Ruth Williams.

Ruth came up to Girton as an undergraduate in 1962, returning in 1974 to take up the Hertha Ayrton Research Fellowship. She has been an Official Fellow and Director of Studies in Mathematics since 1976.

Ruth moves from an Official Fellowship to a Life Fellowship, joining our stalwart ‘retired’ Fellows who continue to be active at many College events and activities.

Fellows’ Publications Publications by the Fellows and Officers of the College during 2011-12 include: C L ACERINI. (All joint) ‘Auxological changes in UK survivors of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukaemia treated without cranial irradiation’, Br. J. Cancer 104(5) (2011); ‘Neonatal diabetes and insulin pump therapy’, Arch. Dis. Child. Fetal Neonatal Ed. 96(3) (2011); ‘Meta-analysis of overnight closed-loop randomised studies in children and adults with type 1 diabetes: the Cambridge cohort’, J. Diabetes Sci. Technol. 5(6) (2011); ‘Associations between paternally transmitted fetal IGF2 variants and maternal circulating glucose concentrations in pregnancy’, Diabetes 60(11), (2011) C J A BRETT. ‘Soldiers, saints and states?

The Breton migrations revisited’, Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies 61 (2011) E J BRISCOE. (All joint) ‘Unsupervised entailment detection between dependency graph fragments’, 10th Int. Workshop on Biomedical Natural Language (2011); ‘A new dataset and method for automatically grading ESOL texts’, 49th Annual Mtg. of Assoc. for Comp. Linguistics (2011); ‘Intelligent information access from Scientific Papers’ in Current Challenges in Patent Information Retrieval, ed. K Mayer and J Tait (Springer, 2011) F J COOKE. (All joint) ‘Clinical management of Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia’, Lancet Infect.

Dis. 11(3) (2011); ‘The management of Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia in the United Kingdom and Vietnam: a multi-centre evaluation’, PLoS One 5(12) (2010); ‘Endovascular aortic stent graft infection with Streptococcus equi: the first documented case’, Vascular (July 2011)

A R DONOVAN. (First item sole author, others joint) ‘Earthquakes and volcanoes: risk from geophysical hazards’ in The Handbook of Risk Theory, ed.

S Roeser et al. (Springer, 2011); ‘Social studies of volcanology: knowledge-generation and expert advice on active volcanoes’, Bulletin of Volcanology 74(3) (2012); ‘The aviation sagas: volcanic risk revisited’, Geographical J. 178(2) (2012) J A S DUSINBERRE. ‘Wilfred Owen and Macbeth’, Borrowers and Lenders. The Journal of Shakespeare and Appropriation 6(2) (2011) M FAULTLESS. ‘Interview: Margaret Faultless’, Areté 36 (2011) C J B FORD. (Joint) ‘On-demand single-electron transfer between distant quantum dots’, Nature 477 (2011) S M GARRIGAN MATTAR. ‘Yeats, fairies, and the new animism’, New Literary History 43 (2012) B J GRIFFIN. The Politics of Gender in Victorian Britain: Masculinity, Political Culture and the Struggle for Women's Rights (CUP, 2012) K HUGHES. (Both joint) ‘Conditional deletion of Stat3 in mammary epithelium impairs the acute phase response and modulates immune cell numbers during post-lactational regression’, J. Pathol. 227(1) (2012); ‘The spectrum of Stat functions in mammary gland development’, JAK-STAT 1(2) (2012) A G LIU. ‘Reviewing the Ediacaran fossils of the Long Mynd, Shropshire’, Proc. Shropshire Geological Society 16 (2011)

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J MARKS. ‘Beyond Hammersmith’, Boat Race Programme (April 2012); (joint) Origins of the Cambridge Blue (Hawks’ Club, 2011) K MOHADDES. (All joint) ‘Growth, development and natural resources: new evidence using a heterogeneous panel analysis’, Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance 51(4) (2011); ‘Does oil abundance harm growth?’, Applied Economics Letters18(12) (2011); ‘Recent inflation dynamics in GCC countries’, Regional Economic Outlook: Middle East and Central Asia (International Monetary Fund, 2010) K P MUSSELMAN. (Joint) ‘Thin-film ZnO/Cu2O solar cells incorporating an organic buffer layer’, Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells 96 (2012)

H RADKE. (All joint)‘Magnetic resonance imaging features of canine incomplete humeral condyle ossification’, Vet. Radiol. Ultrasound (2012); ‘Feline talocrural luxation: a cadaveric study of repair using ligament prostheses’, Vet. Comp. Orthop.

Traumatol. 25(2) (2012); ‘Modification of the cranial closing wedge ostectomy technique for the treatment of canine cruciate disease; description and comparison with standard technique’, ibid.

24(6) (2011); ‘Early kinematic outcome after treatment of cranial cruciate ligament rupture by tibial plateau levelling osteotomy in the dog’, ibid.

24(3) (2011) J M RILEY. (Joint) ‘10C survey of radio sources at 15.7 GHz – II. First results’, MNRAS 415 (2011) S E ROBERTSON. ‘On retrieval system theory’ in Facets of Knowledge Organization, ed. A Gilchrist and J Vernau (Emerald, 2012); ‘The web, the home and the search engine’ in The Connected Home: The Future of Domestic Life, ed. R Harper (Springer, 2012) E D RUBERY. ‘Conflict or collusion? Pope Martin I (649–54/5) and the exarch Olympius in Rome after the Lateran Synod of 649’, Studia Patristica 52 (2012); ‘The Acts of the Seventh Ecumenical Church Council of 787 CE and the Iconoclast Council of 815 CE’ and ‘The Liber Pontificalis (to c. 900): Papal attitudes to imagery up to the end of the ninth century’ in Fifty Key Texts in Art History, ed. D Newall and G Pooke (Routledge, 2012) J H RUNDE. (Joint) ‘The uncertain foundations of the welfare state’, J. of Economic Behavior and Organization 80(3) (2011)

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S SABESAN. (All joint) ‘Low-cost ubiquitous passive RFID real time location sensing system", RFID Europe 2011 (September 2011); ‘Low-cost ubiquitous passive RFID real-time location-sensing system’, RFID Journal Live! (October 2011); ‘Lowcost ubiquitous passive RFID real-time locationsensing system’, RFID Journal Live! (April 2012); ‘An error free passive UHF RFID system using a new form of wireless signal distribution’, International Conference on RFID (April 2012)

Hellenistic Egypt’ in Political Culture in the Greek City after the Classical Age, ed. O van Nijf and R Alston (Peeters, 2011); ‘Animal husbandry in Hellenistic Egypt’ in The Economies of Hellenistic Societies, Third to First Centuries, ed. Z Archibald, J Davies and V Gabrielsen (OUP, 2011) 390–401; ‘The sons of Ptolemy V in a post-secession world’ in Ägypten zwischen innerem Zwist und äusserem Druck. Die Zeit Ptolemaios VI. bis VIII., ed. A Jördens and J Quack (Harrasowitz, 2011)

S J SMITH (Editor-in-Chief) (2012) International Encyclopaedia of Housing and Home Elsevier, Major Reference Work (7 volumes); S Lowe, B A Searle and S J Smith (2011) From housing wealth to mortgage debt: the emergence of Britain’s assetshaped welfare state. Social policy and Society 11: 105-116; S J Smith (2011) Home Price Dynamics.

A Behavioural Economy? Housing, Theory and Society 28: 236-261; S J Smith (2012) ‘Crisis and Innovation in the Housing Economy: A Tale of Three Markets’ in Financial Innovation – Too Much or Too Little? Cambride, Mass: MIT Press (M. Haliossis, ed).

D VAN DEN HEUVEL. ‘The multiple identities of early modern Dutch fishwives’, SIGNS: J. of Women in Culture and Society (37)(3) (2012)

A M STRATHERN. ‘Social invention’ in Making and Unmaking Intellectual Property: Creative Production in Legal and Cultural Perspective, ed. M Biagioli, P Jaszi and M Woodmansee (Chicago UP, 2011); ‘An experiment in interdisciplinarity: proposals and promises’ in Social Knowledge in the Making, ed. C Camic, N Gross and M Lamont (Chicago UP, 2011); ‘A tale of two letters: reflections on knowledge conversions’, Insights 3(16) (2010); ‘What is a parent?’ (unedited text,1991), Hau. J. of Ethnographic Theory 1(1) (2011); (joint) ‘Donating bodily material: the Nuffield Council Report’, Clinical Ethics 6 (2011) D J THOMPSON. Memphis under the Ptolemies (2nd ed., Princeton UP, 2012); ‘Ethnic minorities in

R M L WARREN. ‘Prevention of breast cancer in the context of a national breast screening programme’, J. Intern. Med. (2012); ‘Mammographic breast density and breast cancer: evidence of a shared genetic basis’, Cancer Res. 72(6) (2012) E J WEISBLATT. (Both joint) ‘Auditory temporal envelope processing in high-functioning children with autism spectrum disorder’, Neuropsychologia (February 2012); ‘Medically unexplained symptoms in children and adolescents’ in Medically Unexplained Symptoms, Somatisation and Bodily Distress: Developing Better Clinical Services, ed. F Creed, P Henningsen and P Fink (CUP, 2011) S K WILLIAMS. ‘Britain, 1750-2000’ in Making a Living: Family, Income and Labour: Rural Economy and Society in North-Western Europe, 500–2000, ed. E Vanhaute, I Devos and T Lambrecht (Brepols, 2011) M V WRENN. ‘Agency, identity, and the great crisis: a Veblenian perspective', J. of Economics Issues 46(2) (2012)

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Alumni Appointments 1967 WOODROFFE, R H M Appointed Chairman of The Friends of the Royal Scottish Academy in October 2011.

1969 FOWLER, C M Appointed the new Master of Darwin College, Cambridge with effect from 1 October.

1974 BROOKS, M M Appointed a Trustee, Textile Conservation Centre Foundation in 2010.

1975 HENDERSON, V (Alford) Appointed Lead Chaplain at the Musgrove Park Hospital, Taunton.

1979 BLYTH, R Appointed Head of Policy and Practice at the Royal Town Planning Institute.

1984 EVANS, G Promoted to Colonel and appointed as Commanding Officer of 202 Field Hospital with effect from January 2012.

1991 RUNDE, J Appointed to a Cambridge University Professorship, 2012.

1997 WATTS, T Appointed Associate Lecturer, Music Faculty, Cambridge and Director of Studies in Part 1 Music, St John’s College 1998 BASON, N Appointed as Head of Policy and Public Affairs, Bowel Cancer UK. 2003 DUNNE, N Appointed College Lecturer in Law at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge with effect from 1 September 2012.

2008 WILLIAMS, S Appointed to a Cambridge University Senior Lectureship, 2012.

Alumni Publications BROOKS M M (1974). ‘Sharing Conservation Ethics, practice and decision-making with museum visitors’ in J Marstine ed. Routledge Companion to Museum Ethics: Redefining Ethics for the Twenty-First Century Museum (London: Routledge, pp332–349); Brooks M M and Eastop, D D eds Changing Views of Textile Conservation, Readings in Textile Conservation (Los Angeles: Getty Conservation Institute 2011).

COCKAYNE, E J (1991). Cheek by Jowl: A History of Neighbours (Bodley Head 2012) CORLEY M (1954). ‘Evaluating Services in Partnership with Older

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People: exploring the role of ‘community researchers’ 2008–11’, Working with OIder People 15 (1) pp.

26–32 (March 2011) Jointly with Simon Evans et al.

ORTON B M (Clitherow 1980).

‘Good Laboratory Practise in the Cell Culture Laboratory’ in Animal Cell Culture Essential Methods (Wiley – Blackwell 2011).

GORING R (Blake 1954). Return to Patagonia: by way of the Falkland Islands (Peter Owen 2006).

PERRATON J K (Warner 1955).

One Musician’s War: from Egypt to Italy with the RASC, 1941–45.’

(Amberley 2011).

HEFFERNAN M (Windham 1974).

Wilful Blindness: Why we Ignore the Obvious at our Peril (Simon & Schuster Ltd 2011).

MILLS M E (1963). ‘Divine Violence in Book of Amos’ in Aesthetics of Violence in Hebrew Prophecy (T&T Clark International 2010).

STROMBOM A (1980). Say No to Meat: the 411 on Ditching Meat and Going Veg (Book Publishing Company, April 2011).

Undergraduate Prizes Cambridge University Further Degrees and Awards

College Awards

MB: H Dong, M A Murdoch, S K Tobin PhD: K Al-Rodhan, M S Bothwell, A W Cranstone, G S Gerleigner, M Herding, K Inamura, H V A James, T Jin, K Kemmerich, H Kim, C M Kwong, M-C Lai, J Lee, T C Lee, T Li, A O’Keeffe, S Park, S I J Wilberforce, H Zhang, X Zhou MPhil: S A Ali, K Al-Rodhan, P Anuvatnujotikul, S-A Ashton, Y Baum, M Behull, A S L Blake, E Brabcova, P S J Chung, B J Cooke, L K Davidson, O J Farnan, M M Ghassemi, Y Gong, D Grufferty, S L Jackson, A Jomis, P Klus, C M Kwong, J Lotz, M Malinsky, C Meng, R D Minsky, S Nam, S Nomura, P D S Parsons, F C Pino Luna, L P Pirgova, G Regeni, G A Ruffino, P E Rump, A Schiza, P D Siegrist, L P Skiba, A Stephenson, N S Thompson, A Tishler, A H Walas, D Wescott, F A Wiles, T Yeung, D Zadrazilova, Y Zhang, S G Zeitlin, X Zheng MBA: A Banka, M Chui, N Edwards, S Huq, C Roemer MMath: H M S Leong, J I Peacock, R Stutt MASt: S Brownlie, P J Conradie, A-J Kommer, B N Kuester, M Roser, C R Soares, C Tognini, J T Tsang, M Weiss MSt: Z Barbakova M.Mus: J M Cope III M.Ed: M L Henham

Graduate Scholarships J E Cairns: J Losbichler; Sidney and Marguerite Cody Studentship: D Zadrazilova; Ida and Isidore Cohen: I Katz Feigis; M M Dunlop: A Hazard; M T Meyer: P Jell, L Perreault Levasseur; Pfeiffer: B Cooke, E Landerer, A LoPumo, S Wilson; Maria Luisa de Sanchez: F Paddeu, I Troconis; Stribling Award: A Hallou, D Tan; Ruth Whaley: I Katz Feigis, M Polgovsky; Doris Woodall: B Cooke; Diane Worzala Memorial Fund: A Hazard

University Prizes for academic excellence in the undergraduate examinations The Donald Wort Prize: M S X Seow The Central Electricity Generating Board Prize for Materials Science and Metallurgy: F L Gunnion The Wishart Prize (Mathematics): M Reich

Postgraduate Scholarships John Bowyer Buckley: G Ellse, R Nixon; Rosalind, Lady Carlisle: A Zolotar; Sir Francis Goldsmid: J Fraczyk; Mary Graham: S S Zhu; Edith Lydia Johns: C Parte; M T Meyer: J T Tsang; Henry Tomkinson: M Bauer Postgraduate Prizes for Law Margaret Hastings: S S Zhu Lilian Knowles: A Zolotar Thomas and Elizabeth Walton: J Fraczyk Postgraduate Prizes for Mathematics Gertrude Mather Jackson: J T Tsang Ida Freund: M Bauer Postgraduate Prizes for Veterinary Medicine Thomas and Elizabeth Walton: C Parte Ming Yang Lee: G Ellse Edith Neal: R Nixon Undergraduate Scholarships Sir Arthur Arnold: H B Frost, S J Hart, M Hatfield; Barbara Bodichon: C M Burford, A W Chadwick, S Flegenheimer, L J Fletcher, H Greenstreet,

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Rhiannon Randle, winner of the Barbara Wrigley Prize for her composition

M F Herbst, T Kartanas, I McDonnell, I Sampson, P K Wiseman; John Bowyer Buckley: E S Briolat, D S Fischer, J Freedman, M Higgs, E Hollwey, M Kingston, S A James, E Newey, R Newman, A W Szopa Comley; Rosalind, Lady Carlisle: N O Wand; Jane Chessar: E Loud; Emily Davies: R Buscombe, C Coulter, E J Darley, J G Graham, S E Hewitt, S N Kemp, D Kraljic, C K Kwok, C S Lindberg, R Nakamura, C Y Nightingdale, V Oleinikovas, K M Preston, V Ravikumaran, J K Tong, B L Tyrie, V Wiseman; Sir Francis Goldsmid: I M Diaz, F L Gunnion; Amelia Gurney: V Lee; Russell Gurney: T J Bordell, F Ward; Florence Ethel Gwyn: J Davison; Mary Higgins: P ChandBajpai; Jane Hunter: G McKelvey; Alice Violet Jenkinson: A F Clements; Ellen McArthur: C Coulter, O De’Ath, S Flegenheimer, H B Frost, R Nakumara, V Ravikumaran, I Samson, F Ward; M T Meyer: A J Appleton, D Ardickas, T Bachmann, C K A Cannizzo, J Dauparas, R A I Deo, R Pavesi, M Reich, E P Stephens; Todd Memorial: D Slinn, H Watson; Henry Tomkinson: D Armitage, R Bhargava, O De’Ath, S Graves, T H Hellier, J Hu, H K Jameson, V Jurkevicius, R P N Loh, P Nardecchia, N Shah, W Smith, J A Q Styles, V Udra, N Wilson; Sophia Turle: B Comeau, A Fort, M S X Seow

Hammond Science Prize winners: Hannah Clifford, Hana Ayoob, Will Sloper, Hilary Roberts, Ian Beh and Charlotte Burford

Undergraduate Prizes Thérèse Montefiore Memorial Prize: A Fort Laurie Hart Memorial Prize: H Watson Ridding Reading Prize: K E Walton, Rima Alamuddin Prize: J G Coleman Wrigley Prize: R E Randle Charlton Award in Medieval/Renaissance Literature: C Y Nightingale Hammond Science Communication Prize: W Sloper Mountford Humanities and Arts Communications Prize: J Pulman-Slater/J Teale

Jâms Coleman, winner of the Rima Alamuddin prize for his performance

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Archaeology & Anthropology Raemakers: S N Kemp Asian & Middle Eastern Studies Jane Catherine Gamble: I M Diaz Chemical Engineering Christina Barnard: D Armitage, P Nardecchia, N Wilson Classics Alice Zimmern: E Loud Mary Bennett: V Lee Computer Science Raemakers: A W Chadwick Economics Lilian Knowles: O De’Ath, S Graves, J Hu, R P N Loh, N Shah Thomas and Elizabeth Walton: C Coulter, S Flegenheimer, H B Frost, R Nakamura, V Ravikumaran, I Samson Engineering Isabella Crawshaw: R Bhargava, R Buscombe, A F Clements, T H Hellier, H K Jameson, V Jurkevicius, K M Preston, V Udra Christina Barnard: I McDonnell English Charity Reeves: H Greenstreet, S E Hewitt, C Y Nightingale, W Smith Eileen Alexander: H Greenstreet Geography Margaret Anderson: J G Graham, V Wiseman

History Lilian Knowles: T J Bordell Eileen Power: J Davison, F Ward Law Margaret Hastings: B L Tyrie Linguistics Jane Catherine Gamble: E J Darley Mathematics Gertrude Mather Jackson: A J Appleton, D Ardickas, T Bachmann, C K A Cannizzo, R Pavesi, M Reich, E P Stephens, May Smithells: J Dauparas, R A I Deo Modern and Medieval Languages Fanny Metcalf: G McKelvey Mary Ponsonby: H Watson Johanna Stevenson: P K Wiseman C B West: D Slinn Music Jane Catherine Gamble: B Comeau, A Fort, M S X Seow Natural Sciences (Biological) Marion Bidder: M Higgs, M Kingston, A W Szopa Comley Ellen Delf Smith: J Freedman, S A James, R Newman Ming Yang Lee: E Newey Edith Neal: E S Briolat, D S Fischer, E Hollwey Natural Sciences (Physical) Gwendolen Crewdson: P Chand-Bajpai, S J Hart, T Kartanas, D Kraljic, C S Lindberg, N O Wand Ida Freund: L J Fletcher, F L Gunnion, M Hatfield, M F Herbst, V Oleinikovas, J A Q Styles

Music Awards: Organ Scholarship: B Comeau College Music Scholarship: M S X Seow London Girton Association Music Award: H Watson Siem Music Prize: M S X Seow Daphne Bird Instrumental Awards: T Harkcom, K Hughes, M Leach, C Mcglade, S Millwood, C Nelson, K Walton Travel Awards: College Travel Scholarship: M Bacon, A F Clements, C M Ingham Adela Marion Adam Grant: T J Bordell K J BakerAward: A G Williamson J K Brightwell Grant: F N Brill, S U Crawford, R J Daboul, N B Nguyen, J L Payne, J O Pulman-Slater, C Stocks, E Wells, G Zhao Dorothy Chadwick: M Jones Rosemary Delbridge: E R Walters Judith Eccleshare Grant: V Gramm, M S L Johnson, M Karleskind Eileen Ellenbogen: S E I Bosman, J P Malcolm Conalty, C M Minciacchi, L Pryer E M & F A Kirkpatrick Travel Prize: A J Davies Edith Helen Major Grant: A Gomar, S M Hermanns, V Oleinikovas, J Streather Ruth Morgan: R Kitchen, S M A Roscoe Mary Morrison Grant: T Kartanas, A A Rangette, M S X Seow E M Pooley: R Kitchen Charlotte Rycroft: E P Stephens Marina Shakich Grant: E Grierson, D T Hotchkiss, N Kardaman, C G Scutt Sheila Spire Travel Award: A Jeffs Dorothy Tempest: S E Hewitt Graduate K Waldram Travel Award: I Katz Feigis

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Awards and distinctions Atkins, M J (Dunkerley 1974) Vice-Chancellor, Coventry University, appointed CBE for services to Higher Education.

Barber, K J (1968) Professor of African Cultural Anthropology, University of Birmingham, appointed CBE for services to African Studies.

Bason, N (1998) awarded the Talk Talk Digital Heroes Award for his hyperlocal website, Walthamstow Scene, in 2011.

Beer, G P K (Thomas 1966) awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Letters by Harvard University.

Bollam, P M (Waterhouse 1947) appointed MBE for services to the communities in Upwey and Weymouth, Dorset.

Chan, C B H (1985) received the President’s Award for Excellent Performance/Achievement (Teaching) 2010/2011 from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

Evans, G A (1984) appointed Commanding Officer of the Hospital at Camp Bastion, Afghanistan.

Goodman, Dr D (1977) awarded an Order of the British Empire for Services to Science, 2012.

Heffernan, M A (Windham 1974) awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Bath, 2011.

King, Prof. J (1979) appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the Queens’ Birthday Honours, 2012.

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Martin, U H M (1972) Professor of Computer Science at Queen Mary, University of London, appointed CBE for services to Computer Science.

Penwith College, appointed MBE for services to Further and Higher Education

Schellhorn, M (1995) elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

Further Academic and Professional Qualifications

Smith, L M (1978) Director and Founder of Intetech Limited, which has won the Queen’s Award for Enterprise for Continuous Innovation 2012

Brooks, M.M (1974) PhD from the University of Leeds, June 2010.

Springman, S M, OBE (1975) President, British Triathlon, promoted to CBE for services to Triathlon.

Strathern, A M (Evans 1960) Honorary doctorate from Universidad del Pais Vasco (in Basque, Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea/the University of the Basque Country), 2011, Honorary doctorate from King's College London: Doctor of Social Science (Honoris Causa), 2011.

Teichova, A (Honorary Fellow) awarded ‘The Medal of Honour from the City of Vienna for Services rendered to the Land of Vienna’ at Vienna’s Rathaus, October 2011.

Williams, S K (Fellow 2008) elected to a British Academy Fellowship, 2012.

Winser, M E (Fraser 1961) Chair of the Board of Governors, Truro and

Hanson, Dr I H (Reed 1987) PhD from the University of Sheffield.

Mountford, M PhD (1970) PhD in Papyrlogy UCL, 2012 Takamado, H M (Tottori 1972) PhD Osaka University of Arts, 2012: "Research on Netsuke Collections: a Case Study of the Prince and Princess Takamado Collection"

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Please complete both sides of this form and return to the Alumni Officer, Girton College, FREEPOST ANG6880, Cambridge CB3 0YE (please affix stamp if posting from outside the UK). Alternatively, you can update your details online at: www.girton.cam.ac.uk/alumni/update-your-details Personal details Full Name

Former Name (if applicable)

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Have we used your correct, full postal address to send this copy of The Year? If not, please notify us of any changes to your contact details: Address

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Career News If you have changed your job or started training in the past year, please provide details here.

New position/training, with date of commencement

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Year of Matriculation

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Name of new employer/institution .................................................................................................................................

New appointments to committees, directorships etc. in industry, public or voluntary sectors, with date of commencement ................................................................................................................................. .................................................................................................................................

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New or Unreported Publications .................................................................................................................................. ...................................................................

Telephone number(s) Email

Postcode ...........................................

Books Title ..........................................................................................................

Publisher ............................................... Date of publication ......./......./.......

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Chapter in book Chapter title

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Book title ..............................................................................................................

News and Life events (2012/13, or unreported earlier)

Publisher ............................................... Date of publication ......./......./.......

These will be recorded in next year’s edition of The Year.

We should welcome a photograph of these events – please send to alumni@girton.cam.ac.uk.

Article Title .........................................................................................................

Journal

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Number ............................Year ...................... Page numbers ......................

Marriages/Civil Partnerships Other personal information not already recorded

Marriage/partnership date ......./......./.......

Partner name

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If your partner is a Girtonian, please give us their year of matriculation

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Children born within the year Name of Child

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DOB ......./......./....... M / F Name of Child

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DOB ......./......./....... M / F

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We are interested to hear about any of your personal and career news that has not already been reported elsewhere on this form.

Even if we cannot publish it in The Year for lack of space, it will be recorded and retained.

Please let us have your new information as changes occur, and before the end of June 2013 for inclusion in the next edition of The Year.

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Events

Roll of Alumni Dinner and Weekend Booking Form I wish to purchase:

2013 Roll of Alumni Dinner and Weekend

Dinner tickets @ £45 per person

The Roll of Alumni Dinner is open to all Girtonians and their guests.

Rooms @ £50 per person per night for the night(s) of Friday/Saturday/Sunday (circle)

£ .......................

Total:

£ .......................

If you would like to help to organise a reunion for your year or for any special group such as a particular subject or society, please get in touch with Dr Emma Cornwall, the Alumni Officer, who can help you with addresses, contacting people and providing a venue for special additional meetings if you wish.

£ .......................

I wish to reserve: Lawrence Room lecture ticket(s) (free)

Quantity: .......................

Musical event ticket(s) (free, with retiring collection)

Quantity: .......................

Draft programme of events

People’s Portraits reception ticket(s) (free)

Quantity: .......................

Saturday 28 September 2013

Friends of the Garden talk ticket(s) (free – NB event is on Sunday)

Quantity: .......................

Lawrence Room Talk

Title: ....................... Preferred first name:

There will be a talk for Friends and Patrons of the Lawrence Room at 14:00 (details and venue TBC later in the year)

Surname: ..............................................................................................................

People’s Portraits Reception The Friends of the People’s Portraits will be holding a Reception in the Fellows’ Rooms at 16:00 to receive a new portrait for the People’s Portraits at Girton Exhibition. The reception is a ticketed event.

Previous name (if applicable):

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Address: ................................................................................................................ .................................................................................................................................. ...................................................................

Postcode:

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Telephone (mobile/home/work): ..................................................................

Email

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Name of Guest (if applicable) Afternoon Tea

Title: ....................... Preferred first name:

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From 16:00 (details TBC on the day)

Surname: ..............................................................................................................

A Musical Event

Special dietary requirements (e.g. vegetarian, food allergy, etc.)

A musical performance will follow Afternoon tea (details TBC later in the year)

Your Name:

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Dietary requirement:

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If possible, I/we would like to be seated near: Dinner in Hall 19:00 for 19:30.

Sunday 29 September 2013

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I enclose my cheque for £ .......................made payable to Girton College, Or, I have paid online via PayPal .......................(please tick) Payment by credit/debit card:

Garden Talk

Card type (Visa/MasterCard etc):

There will be a talk for Friends and Patrons of the Garden (details and venue TBC later in the year)

Card number (16-digit number on card):

Please return by 13 September 2013 to: Emma Cornwall, Alumni Officer, Girton College, FREEPOST ANG6880, Cambridge CB3 0YE (Please affix stamp if posting from outside the UK) tel: +44 (0) 1223 338901, fax: +44 (0) 1223 339892, alumni@girton.cam.ac.uk

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Expiry date: ......./......./....... Valid from date: ......./......./.......

Issue no. (Maestro/Switch) .....................................................................................

Security number (last three digits on reverse of card): .................................

Signed: .................................................................................... Date: ......./......./.......

Supporting Girton: A Great Campaign Girton was founded on vision, energy and philanthropy. Like all UK higher education establishments, the College thrived as public support for Universities grew. Today, however, the charitable underpinnings of this remarkable institution are more important than ever before. That is why we need a Great Campaign; so that promising students, whoever they are, can realise their potential to change the world. By our 150th anniversary in 2019 we aim to secure, for the first time since our foundation, a sustainable financial future for the leading-edge learning environment that is Girton College, Cambridge.

We aim to realise some new and far-reaching plans to enable us to secure a sustainable financial future. This means adding substantially to the endowment, as well as supporting a range of exciting projects across the College. We have set a target of £50 million.

• To support scholarly excellence, nurturing the very best in teaching and research: target £10 million • To realise the potential, as an educational resource, of our fine buildings, spacious grounds, first-rate facilities and loyal staff; to create a vital space for living and learning: target £20 million • To achieve financial sustainability for a world-class enterprise, promoting excellence in diversity: target £20 million By supporting a Great Campaign you are securing the future of a radical institution whose uncompromising quest for excellence in diversity stands for everything educators should be proud of.

With your help, we can seize the opportunity to write a new chapter in Girton’s inspiring story.

More details can be found on our website at www.girton.cam.ac.uk/supporters/a-great-campaign. If you wish to offer your support, please see the donation form on the next page, or alternatively you can go online and donate directly via our pages on www.girton.cam.ac.uk/giving.

Supporting Girton: Joining a Friends Group Our Friends and Patrons play a vital role in the life of the College, and become part of its future.

The Friends Groups have been established to ensure that several important strands of College life are supported and safeguarded now and in the future. An outstanding College needs exceptional supporters, and we rely on the support and generosity shown by members of the Friends Groups of Girton College. We hope that you too will consider becoming a supporter. Regular gifts are particularly appreciated.

The Friends Groups exist to help us ensure that our treasures are maintained and, where possible, enhanced for future generations of students, staff and visitors to enjoy.

Membership of the Friends Groups costs £25 as a Friend, and a minimum donation of £60 as a Patron (£200 for the Infidel Boat Club). Both Friends and Patrons receive newsletters and invitations to events tailored to the area they choose to support; Patrons receive additional recognition in the form of specially commissioned research cards, bookplates or mentions in programmes, again depending upon the group they choose to support. Whichever group you wish to join, your support is greatly appreciated, and we look forward to welcoming you to the College for one of our events in the coming year.

You can also join our Friends Groups online, as well as reading more about each individual group, on our website at www.girton.cam.ac.uk/supporters/college-friends.

For more information you can contact us by email on development@girton.cam.ac.uk, or you can telephone us on 01223 338990.

For more information you can contact us by email on development@girton.cam.ac.uk, or you can telephone us on +44 (0) 1223 766672.

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Giving to Girton I wish to donate to: □ Scholarly Excellence

□ Financial Sustainability

□ Living and Learning

□ Other ..........................................................

Please also sign the Gift Aid form if you are a UK taxpayer.

Joining or renewing membership of a Friends Group I wish to join/renew my membership of the following Friends Groups as a Friend (£25) or Patron (£60 minimum, £200 minimum for the Infidel Boat Club) Chapel Choir Gardens Library People’s Portraits Lawrence Room The Infidel Boat Club

□ Friend (£25) □ Friend (£25) □ Friend (£25) □ Friend (£25) □ Friend (£25) □ Friend (£25) □ Friend (£25)

□ Patron (£60 minimum .............) □ Patron (£60 minimum .............) □ Patron (£60 minimum .............) □ Patron (£60 minimum .............) □ Patron (£60 minimum .............) □ Patron (£60 minimum .............) □ Patron (£200 minimum ..........)

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IMPORTANT: If you are a taxpayer, please read and sign the Gift Aid declaration below. This will enable Girton to reclaim the tax on your donation, making a typical gift worth 25% more to the College at no extra cost to yourself.

Gift Aid Declaration I am a UK taxpayer paying tax at the basic rate or above. Please treat all donations I have made in this tax year to Girton College (Registered Charity Number 1137541), and in the previous four tax years, and all donations I make from the date of this declaration, as Gift Aid donations, until I notify you otherwise.

I confirm I have paid or will pay an amount of Income Tax and/or Capital Gains Tax for each tax year (6 April to 5 April) that is at least equal to the amount of tax that all the charities or Community Amateur Sports Clubs (CASCs) that I donate to will reclaim on my gifts for that tax year. I understand that other taxes such as VAT and Council Tax do not qualify.

Name ....................................................... Year of Matriculation ........................

Address: ....................................................................................................................... ............................................................................

Postcode: ...................................

Please also sign the Gift Aid form if you are a UK taxpayer.

Telephone: ...................................................................................................................

Regular gift By standing order (PLEASE DO NOT RETURN THIS FORM TO YOUR BANK)

Email .............................................................................................................................

To the Manager, (insert name of bank) ................................................ Bank.

Signature: ............................................................................... Date: ......./......./.......

Bank Address: ............................................................................................................ .........................................................................................................................................

Account number: ........................................... Sort Code: ..................................

Please pay the □ Monthly □ Quarterly □ Annual sum of £ ...................

To Girton College, Cambridge, Account number 40207322 at Barclays Bank PLC, 9-11 St Andrews Street, Cambridge, CB2 3AA (sort code 20-17-19) Signed: .................................................................................... Date: ......./......./.......

One-off gift I enclose a cheque for ............................ made payable to Girton College, Cambridge Or, I wish to make a donation by credit/debit card: Please debit the sum of ..................................................... from my account.

Card type (Visa, MasterCard etc) .........................................................................

Card number (16 digit number on card) ..........................................................

Expiry date: ......./......./....... Valid from date: ......./......./.......

Issue no. (Maestro/Switch) .....................................................................................

Security number (last three digits on reverse of card): .................................

Signed: .................................................................................... Date: ......./......./.......

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Gift Gift Amount Aid

Tax Final Cost Benefit Reclaim to Donor to Girton

Cash Gift

£1000

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–

£1000

£1000

Cash Gift with Gift Aid, Basic Rate Taxpayer

£1000

£250 –

£1000

£1250

Cash Gift with Gift Aid, Higher Rate Taxpayer

£1000

£250 £250

£750

£1250

Cash Gift with Gift Aid, Additional Rate Taxpayer £1000

£250 £375

£625

£1250

Please return the completed donation form and Gift Aid declaration (if appropriate) to The Development Office, Girton College, FREEPOST ANG6880, Cambridge CB3 0YE. (Please affix stamp if posting from outside the UK.) Girton also has a variety of merchandise available for purchase, ranging from cuff-links and brooches to a soft toy Buster the College cat. To request a list of the merchandise available, please email development@girton.ac.uk or download a copy from our website at www.girton.cam.ac.uk/alumni-a-supporters.

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