The Year 2013 by Girton College

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The Annual Review of Girton College

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Contents A Letter from the Mistress

Articles Constructing Girton 8 Girton College and The Monastery of Solovki: The Lorch Collection of Icons 16 Volcanoes on borders 21 Miscellany Dulce et Decorum est, pro Patria Mori? The Mistressâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Portrait Blue Stockings Larry Skeats, retired Dorset Shepherd, by Toby Wiggins RP Record Breaking!

26 28 30 32 34

Profiles Andrew Jeffries Sandra Fulton Law at Girton

36 39 41

College Reports Alumni and Supporters Admissions Bursaries and Grants Librarian Archivist Music Chapel Choir A Recipe from the Junior Bursar

44 47 48 49 51 52 55 56 58

Student Reports JCR MCR Societies Reports Sports Reports

60 61 62 71

Roll of Alumni Calendar of Events Local Associations

78 79

Births, Marriages and Deaths Births Marriages Death Notices Obituaries

82 83 85 108

Lists The Fellowship Comings and Goings Fellowsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Publications Awards and Distinctions College Awards and Prizes Appointments of Members of the Roll Alumni Publications

120 124 125 128 131 134 134

Due to the timing of the publication of The Year and the changes taking place to the Friends' groups, reports on the last two meetings will be included in the Development Newsletter next spring.

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A Letter from the Mistress After three hectic years, my fourth annual letter is written during a 'still point' in the whirl of activity that drives the College on. Before the Fellowship is engulfed in a wave of hysteria, as they tackle their unrelenting to-do lists, let me elaborate. By ‘still point’, I mean a moment full of the energies already exerted, and brimming with potential soon to be unleashed; a space for reflection between the groundwork laid to date, and a future that is soon to come. In short, I am thinking of this letter as an exercise in anticipation. Spotlight on the Estate First and foremost, Girton stands for excellence in educational experience and achievement. So it may seem odd to begin with some sentences on the estate. Yet it is all too easy to forget how integral the estate is to the quality and success of the College as a learning environment. Girton’s estate is an astonishing resource, and this year we have been celebrating its contribution to our mission in a variety of ways. The new wing at Ash Court is the dominant motif, and rightly so. It is a long time since we last built a residential complex on the Girton site. 'New Wing' dates back 80 years (1932), and even the more recent 8-room extension to Hospital Wing (1965) is nearly half a century old. So it was an historic moment when the contractors moved in last April, and a momentous achievement to hand the building over before the start of Michaelmas Term. Building Ash Court underscores the importance Girton attaches to offering students a residential experience of the highest quality: a room of their own, in a well-supported environment where they have the best chance to realise their potential. The project also embodies some other themes important to Girton’s character and identity.

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For example, the scale of the Ash Court development meant that we were obliged, indeed delighted, to commission a piece of public art. Yet few could have anticipated the extent to which Paul de Monchaux’s Girton Column would express the essence of the College. He chose the Column as a powerful symbol of life, interwove the Doric and Ionic forms as a gesture towards equality in the male and female figures, and used materials which complement the buildings and grounds.

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are being laid, and the pond is looking more spectacular than ever (even before the giant south American rhubarb takes hold…). It is truly a pleasure to see what can be achieved by a small, highly skilled, and passionately dedicated team, even at a time of budgetary restraint. How, you might ask, does this frenzy of activity, with Ash Court at its centre, fit into my opening image of a ‘still point’? The truth is that in signing off the new wing we mark the end of a spectacular new development. We pause; but only for a moment! Now we turn to the beginnings of another project. The future for Wolfson Court is our next concern.

The Mistress and Sarah Springman toast Dr John Marks as he opens the new John Marks Sports Pavilion

The Ash Court project also helps seal Girton’s claim to some of the best on-site sporting facilities in Cambridge: it contains the refurbished swimming pool, squash courts and new gym, and inspired the site and design of the new Sports Pavilion. It was a great pleasure to welcome alumna Sarah Springman (1975) to open the Pavilion in June, and to name it after Dr John Marks, who has done so much to support Girton’s sporting ambitions over the years. I would like to draw your attention to one other feature of the estate, namely the gardens and grounds: an inspiring 50 acres of courtyards, patios, meadows, shrubs, gardens, lawns, 2000 trees and a perimeter hedge that takes over 2 weeks to trim! As I write, oak trees are being replanted on the Huntingdon Road, new pathways to the bike sheds

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Rolling out A Great Campaign This year has seen a reinvigorated Development Office pull out all the stops to press on with A Great Campaign. It has been a whirlwind of energy, and I myself – like many of you – have been swept along in a tide of activity. This rip-roaring pace was epitomised by my trip, with the Development Director, to the USA in November last year. In the space of five short days, some rather long sleepless nights, and a total of 11330 miles, we hosted 3 dinners, 2 lunches, one breakfast and a series of individual meetings in Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York. We came home on a bumpy night flight just as Hurricane Sandy swept in, but the trip made the Atlantic seem less wide than it is, and reminded me of how many very good friends Girton has in that part of the world. Most Girton alumni live a little closer to home, however, and this year we have been celebrating that fact with events in Northern Ireland, Wales, Scotland and North-west England, as well as a dinner and discussion on girls’ education hosted by

the British Ambassador to the UN in Geneva. I am looking forward, also, to joining the party of over 50 Old Girtonians attending a performance of Blue Stockings at the Globe Theatre in September. There are three other points I that would like to mention about alumni links and A Great Campaign. First, I want to stress that our current Campaign is not a new departure. Instead, it is a reminder that in the earliest days of Girton’s Foundation, philanthropy was not an add-on to the operation; it was integral. The giving of gifts was never an exercise in funding ‘extras’; it was, as it is today, essential for maintaining our core activities and realising the vision that inspired them. Secondly, and for this very reason, the Campaign is everyone’s business. I have been heartened this year by the extent to which Fellows have given their time and energies to the many friend-raising, fundraising and scholarly activities supported by the Development Office. And I have been thrilled by the enthusiasm with which our alumni and friends have joined in. I am thinking, for example, of the ‘Women in Maths and Science’ event that set the year in motion, and the Medics’ dinner, which drew it to a close. I have also been deeply impressed by the professionalism and exuberance with which the staff and students of the College have supported our cause. Finally, I would underline the extent to which A Great Campaign formally embraces the full range of alumni-related activities which Girton values so highly. The Development Office now helps support our communications prizes, which bring ambitious undergraduates into contact with high-profile alumni. They have taken on the highly successful parent–student dinner, which this year was once

again packed to the rafters. And lest you think these things are tangential – or even inappropriate – to the work of Development, may I assure you that, despite saying a grateful au revoir to the outgoing Registrar of the Roll in September, we have expanded our outreach programme and continue to benefit from the energies and enthusiasm of our growing Roll of Alumni. So please do join A Great Campaign and use it to engage with, and enjoy, everything Girton has to offer. Again, you may be wondering, ‘Where is the “still point” in all this?’ Well, we have completed one year of our Great Campaign. We now look to the next wave of events, which will include, notably, launching the legacy brochure. But mostly I draw your attention to the way the Campaign – an endowment campaign – is prompting a rethink of our approach not just to fundraising, but to the way we identify, plan for and prioritise our core activities. Our bursaries, scholarships and prizes, the Library, the Lawrence Room, the Choir, the Chapel, the People’s Portraits, the gardens – and everything else that is essential to the life and soul of the College – all now have permanent budget lines. The challenge is to grow the endowment sufficiently to fund

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The Mistress and Sarah Springman toast Dr John Marks as he opens the new John Marks Sports Pavilion

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permanently the educational excellence they represent. It will be some time before we can rise to this – before we arrive at the ‘still point’ between contingency planning and funding all our strategic priorities – but I am certain that when we do reach that elusive goal, we will know exactly how to make the most of it. This brings me to my final point. From strategic vision to academic plan In my last letter, I wrote about the work we had done to agree a new strategic vision for Girton in the run up to our 150th anniversary in 2019. This year we have been turning that vision into an academic plan. And next year, we shall begin to roll it out. Seven areas of strategic focus are in line for special attention, and this letter is not the place to detail them. I simply note that the first three items relate to our most fundamental educational goals and priorities. Under the leadership of our outgoing Senior Tutor, Andrew Jefferies, we have developed clear-sighted plans for widening participation, promoting excellence and supporting all-round personal development. Mr Jefferies demits his office after 18 demanding years, and we are delighted that he will be staying with us as a Life Fellow. I cannot find the words to say

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how much the Fellows, staff and students of the College have benefited from his professionalism and dedication, or how great a debt we owe him. I would like to mention three other points relevant to our commitment to delivering an educational experience that promotes excellence, adds value and supports breadth. First, we are lucky that music continues to flourish at Girton. From jazz nights to choral evensong, from jam sessions to chamber music, there is something for everyone. As well as the busy agenda of the Chapel Choir, highlights this year included a tenth-anniversary concert for the Chapel Organ (a reminder of what fine organ scholars we attract, and of what an inspiration our Director of Music is); a celebration of the life and works of Giovanni Gabrieli in Girton’s Hall some 400 years after his death; and a similarly sold-out production of Benjamin Britten’s Rape of Lucretia as part of a Festival of Britten on his 100th birthday, directed by Kate Kennedy and staged by the Chamber Music Scheme. Secondly, our partnership with the Royal Society of Portrait Painters goes from strength to strength. The 48th People’s Portrait was received by a

capacity audience, who attended a gracious and amusing talk delivered by our speaker David Starkey last September. The 49th portrait is already on its way, and we shall be joined by art critic Martin Gayford for its unveiling. This year, too, my own portrait was painted by Benjamin Sullivan RP. Both can be seen elsewhere in this volume.

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Finally we completed the selection process for our newly-established artist-in-residence scheme, and the first incumbent, Tom Barnett, joins us in October. For this, as for so much else, we have our alumni and Fellows to thank for seeing such initiatives not as a luxury, but as central to the educational experience we offer. Three further areas of strategic focus are concerned with our human, physical and financial resources: maintaining our world-class Fellowship, developing the estate, and achieving financial sustainability. We are also working hard to develop and enhance the quality and effectiveness of our internal and external communications – an aim boosted by the recent decision to create the combined position of Secretary to Council and Fellow for Communications. Hardly a ‘still point’, then, but certainly an exercise in anticipation, and also a moment to thank everyone who helps the College to thrive, and makes it the warm, effective, excellent and exuberant institution it is. That includes you. I close, therefore, with the hope that I shall have the chance to express my gratitude in person, before too long. With kind regards, Susan J Smith

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Constructing Girton The College has just experienced the largest expansion of its buildings in forty years. Now the scaffolding has come down, the hoardings have been removed and the mud has been cleared, the College can celebrate the opening of the new wing at Ash Court. The new building provides the College with fifty en-suite bedrooms, including six wheelchairaccessible rooms, six new kitchens and an extra laundry. The project has also delivered new gym facilities, changing-rooms and a brand-new swimming pool. In addition, there are new outdoor spaces for everyone to enjoy. At first glance, the new wing is strikingly modern. The roof facing the courtyard is covered entirely with solar panels; the kitchens are bright and expansive; and the soaring vertical bays of bedroom windows look quite unlike anything else in the College. Technically, the building is unmistakably a product of the twenty-first century, as it provides some of the most energy-efficient and wellinsulated student accommodation in the United Kingdom. Despite exceeding contemporary construction regulations, the design of the new building is intimately connected with the earlier architecture at Girton. The architects Allies and Morrison have shown a sympathetic understanding and affection for the older buildings, which for the most part were designed by the prolific Waterhouse family. To mark the official opening of the new wing at Ash Court in October 2013 – exactly 140 years after the College moved from Hitchin to its purpose-built home at Girton – I would like to offer you a guided tour of the new building, tracing the relationships between the new development and the existing fabric of the College.

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The plan and elevations of the new wing respond in a number of ways to the older College buildings. The original plans for the College in 1872 always envisaged that the buildings would be extended when required, so the end walls of the first building (now Old Wing) were left blank in anticipation of further growth. Today, the new building’s footprint, on the north-eastern half of Ash Court, is generated by continuing the axes of existing corridors in the main building. A covered colonnade runs through Ash Court to the southwest of the new building, forming a continuation of the cloister corridor that stretches alongside Hall. The colonnaded walkway provides two entrances to the accommodation block and offers access to the gym rooms and existing squash court. Alternatively, the new rooms can be accessed from a passage that extends from the bar corridor. This entrance also leads to new changing-rooms for the swimming pool. If the plan of the building follows established routes through the College, the residential parts of the new wing similarly continue the traditional arrangement of rooms set off naturally lit corridors. This means it is still possible to walk from any part of the main College buildings to another without going outside, which was a key principle established by the College’s first architect, Alfred Waterhouse. The new accommodation block and colonnade therefore enclose the space behind Old Wing, which until recently formed a car park. Some 130 years after the completion of Orchard Wing, Ash Court can now truly claim to be a courtyard. While the north-western part of Ash Court will still provide some accessible car parking, half of the new outdoor space forms a landscaped courtyard.

The North elevation of Ash Court

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The North elevation of Ash Court

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The plan of the new wing, colonnade and courtyard at Ash Court is by no means avant garde. But conventional layout does not always mean conservative thinking. When designing the project, the architects were faced with stringent planning guidelines. The College is located in the Green Belt, which strictly limits the scale of new development, and the existing buildings are Grade II* listed. Under the close eye of English Heritage and the Victorian Society, the architects had to work within the confines of size and proportion. Even preservationist organisations acknowledge, however, that buildings need to live and that development cannot always be forbidden. Allies and Morrison have become well-versed in the design of modern buildings that respond to sensitive historical surroundings. The planetarium at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, is a notable example of how the architects are confident about inserting bold contemporary structures into a significant historic context. At Girton, the most striking marriage between old and new can be seen in the swimming pool. The much-loved pool has been completely rebuilt, but it carefully follows the size and proportions of the former basin. Swimmers can now benefit from the comfort of a heated and accessible pool, while still enjoying the delicate lighting of the original 1900 design. In addition to the carefully considered plan, the exterior of the new wing forms a dialogue with the older neighbouring buildings that is both reverent and playful. While the core of the building is made from reinforced concrete, the supporting structure is not visible as it is clad for the most part in traditional materials. Apart from the courtyardfacing roof and the flat roofs of the stair blocks,

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which are covered with photovoltaic cells, the exterior of the building is finished in deep red brickwork and red tiling. The bricks are laid in English bond, following the pattern of coursing used by Waterhouse in the first phases of the College. The early buildings at Girton were built to a tight budget so the façades were finished with what was considered to be only light ornamentation in the 1870s, such as the alternate banding of roof tiles with rows of semi-circular patterns. The later Waterhouse buildings are decorated with string courses made from terracotta, and ornamental bands of terracotta tiling combined with brickwork. These simple adornments are evidence of pragmatic design that seeks maximum impact with limited economic means. Eager to cut costs without compromising quality, Waterhouse also recycled numerous architectural motifs across his vast body of work so that the details of the buildings would not need to be completely designed from scratch. The new wing at Ash Court similarly avoids elaborate decoration, while retaining careful detailing. The pitch of the roof on the north-east side facing the gardens corresponds to the gradient of the neighbouring nineteenth-century roofs. In order to retain three storeys of rooms, the top-floor bedroom windows are dormers, while on the courtyard side the elevation extends to a full three storeys. The peak of the roof of the new wing is crowned with ten chimneys – nine of which are clad in grey metal, leaving a final ornamental brick chimney. The confident row of chimneys makes a strong reference to the chimney-stacks that punctuate the roof-lines throughout the College. From the orchard, the stalks of metal chimneys offer an amusing interplay with the flèche on the

Hall roof, and lighten up what could come across as a rather serious façade. This north-west face is broken into nine bays, each of which contains two bedroom windows. Alternating with elevations of plain brickwork, the bays project slightly from the main structure of the building, and the sense of volume is emphasised by the narrow recesses of brickwork that frame the bays and snugly house downpipes. The bays comprise solid blocks of pale buff reconstituted stone that frame aluminium windows and louvers. Each window is set off by a large slanting terracotta window sill, whose exaggerated proportions are not only playful, but create rhythmic optical patterns that appear to change as the observer walks along Orchard Drive. The choice of terracotta is a nod to Waterhouse’s favourite material, which since the mid-nineteenth century has come in and out of fashion as a modern, mass-produced alternative to stone. Each bay is topped by chunky dormers that provide the windows for the second-floor bedrooms. With its dormers punctuating the red clay-tiled roofs, the new wing makes a further reference to the earlier phases of the College buildings, while never straying into nineteenthcentury architecture pastiche. The bedrooms look out towards the Fellows’ Garden, offering a new view of the pond, which has been here since the ground was excavated for gravel during the construction of the Stanley Library in 1883. While many elements of the new wing are deeply sympathetic to the nineteenth- and early twentiethcentury College buildings, the new building certainly does not just look to the past. Pointing to the future, this project sets the agenda for

environmental standards in contemporary architecture. Designed following the Passivhaus guidelines for energy-efficient accommodation, the building features efficient insulation, triple-glazed windows and a sophisticated heating and ventilation system. The roof-top photovoltaic cells and ground-source heat pump will reduce energy consumption and help reduce the College’s CO2 emissions. Allies and Morrison are gaining a reputation for sustainable buildings. The Duke Building at Girton (2004), also designed by these architects, includes an environmentally controlled archive centre that relies on minimum energy use. Their Faculty of English building won an award for sustainable architecture in 2004. The new wing at Girton bears no relation to the draughtier parts of the College, in which students had to cope with smoky fireplaces and smelly oil heaters for decades before the installation of central heating. For many years the College did not have a piped water supply, and the Tower was designed in part to house a water tank. Today, the new wing has no problem with amenities as each room has its own bathroom, meeting the changing expectations of students, and providing comfortable accommodation for visitors, conference participants and wedding guests. On this tour I have spoken a lot about architects, materials and plans. As an architectural historian, however, I am concerned to show that architecture comprises more than design principles and physical structures. Numerous architects have certainly contributed much to the construction of the College, but it is the daily use and experience of a building that brings architecture alive. As the construction site at Ash Court reminded us over the

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The new wing at Ash Court nears completion, 2013

last eighteen months, architecture requires the work of many people for plans and drawings to become a place: surveyors, excavators, foundation layers, scaffolders, structural engineers, drivers, concrete technicians, bricklayers, cleaners, roofers, electricians, plumbers… the list goes on. Away from the site itself, no construction project can function without site managers and project planners, fundraisers and donors. Only when all the people who have worked on a project come together can something that we call architecture really begin to exist. Finally, once the

work is complete, the most important components of a building are the people who come to use it every day. This is surely the strongest connection between the new wing and the older parts of College – a collection of buildings whose meanings have been created by the people who live and work in them. For the last 144 years, it is people that have transformed the buildings of the College into a place that feels like home. Jacob Paskins

Constructing Girton timeline 1869 Following a fundraising campaign led by Emily Davies, the College for Women opens at Benslow House in Hitchin, Hertfordshire, with five students. The principal founding benefactors are Barbara Bodichon and Lady Stanley of Alderley. 1870–72 Benslow House soon proves to be too small for twelve students and a search for new premises begins. Fundraising continues, in order to transfer the College to a site closer to Cambridge. 1873 The College moves to a new building at Girton, designed by Alfred Waterhouse. The original entrance to the College can still be seen under the clock on Old Wing, facing Emily Davies Court. The first phase of construction provided accommodation for 21 students. 1876–9 The initial building phase continues with the construction of Hospital Wing, the Laboratory, and Gate Lodge. The part of the building known as Taylor’s Knob is named after a donation to the College by Thomas Taylor in memory of his daughter E H Taylor. The College can now house 55 students. 1883–4 Orchard Wing is completed, increasing capacity to 80 students. The Stanley Library and Mistress’s rooms are built as a gift from Lady Stanley. The Old Hall is extended, and the pond is created after excavations to provide gravel for the construction of the library.

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1885–7 The College receives a major benefaction from Catherine Gamble, which allows the purchase of 17 acres of land to the east of the original site, extending the estate to the boundary of Girton and Huntington Roads. The mock-Tudor gatehouse tower is constructed and Tower Wing opens, allowing 104 students to take College accommodation.

Construction of Wolfson Court in 1971

1900 The swimming pool opens, following donations by Julia Lindley, Mrs Durham, and former students.

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The new wing at Ash Court nears completion, 2013

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Construction of Wolfson Court in 1971

1900 The swimming pool opens, following donations by Julia Lindley, Mrs Durham, and former students.

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1901–2 The College’s most ambitious expansion to date sees the construction of the Hall, kitchens and Cloister, following designs by Paul Waterhouse. The Chapel, Chapel Wing and Woodlands Wing are completed shortly after. The College can now house 180 students. 1926 The College purchases The Grange, a large house adjacent to the Orchard, to provide additional accommodation.

The first building at Girton 1873

The Stanley Library 1885

1931–2 Following a major fundraising appeal, work begins on another extensive construction phase, resulting in the Fellows’ Dining and Drawing Rooms, the McMorran Library, the Hyphen, and the New Wing. The Eliza Baker Court was financed as a gift to the College by Oswald Lewis, and named in memory of his mother (at Girton 1873-7). The architect for the whole scheme is Michael Waterhouse, with Giles Gilbert Scott as consultant architect. 1961–2 A striking new flat for the Mistress is designed by David Roberts and constructed above the Fellows’ Rooms. The library extension is added and many of the Victorian chimneys are reduced in height.

The Tower Wing 1887–1900

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McMorran Library and Rose Garden in 1937

1969–72 The College launches its centennial appeal to provide a new building closer to the city centre. Architects David Roberts and Geoffrey Clark design a series of accommodation blocks and communal facilities, which are built off Clarkson Road. Opened by a major benefactor, Leonard (later Lord) Wolfson, Wolfson Court provides

102 study-bedrooms, three Fellows’ flats, a popular canteen, and five attractive courtyards. 1992 The second phase of Wolfson Court, Queen Elizabeth Court, is designed by Bland, Brown and Cole. The extension provides 32 single rooms for graduate students and two Fellows’ flats, alongside the Poppy Jolowicz Library and Fletcher-Moulton Reading Room. 2003–5 After a campaign to fund new accommodation for the College archival and special book collections, work begins to provide an environmentally controlled archive repository, reading room and computer suite. The project is designed by Allies and Morrison Architects and receives a prestigious RIBA award (among others). The Duke Building is named after Alison Duke, a former Fellow of the College and a major donor to the project. The new building encloses a new courtyard, named Campbell Court after former Mistress Juliet Campbell.

The Tower before 1900

2011–13 A new wing at Ash Court is designed by Allies and Morrison. Construction begins in 2012 and the wing officially opens on 19 October 2013.

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The first building at Girton 1873

The Stanley Library 1885

The Tower Wing 1887–1900

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McMorran Library and Rose Garden in 1937

The Tower before 1900

2011–13 A new wing at Ash Court is designed by Allies and Morrison. Construction begins in 2012 and the wing officially opens on 19 October 2013.

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Girton College and The Monastery Of Solovki: The Lorch Collection of Icons Anyone who has not viewed the splendid collection of 19 icons bequeathed in 2005 to the College by Diana Lorch, a former Girtonian, would be hard put to make a connection between a Cambridge college founded to foster the cause of women’s higher education and a remote and beautiful Russian monastery served by monks whose history is marked by appalling suffering as well as sanctity. The monastery is that of Solovki, located in an archipelago in the White Sea (Pls 1, 2). Diana Lorch became interested in the monastery and the icons depicting the lives of its founders in the course of her numerous visits to Russia when she was working for Elga Water Purification Systems. She seems to have obtained some of the icons on these travels; others were acquired on the London art market. The subject-matter of sixteen of them is concerned with this monastery and especially its saintly founders. As far as I am aware, the collection comprises numerically the greatest concentration of Solovki-themed icons outside Russia. The largest and most important item in the collection is what is known as a ‘vita’ icon (Pl. 4). Of seventeenth-century date, the principal image is of the two founders, Zosima and Savatii, standing on a barren island, with a small representation of the monastery; in the borders are episodes from their lives including a narrative of the foundation of Solovki, to be read horizontally. The imagery encapsulates the underlying principles of Orthodox

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monasticism: the adoption of a life of prayer, liturgy, labour and solitude within a coenobitic organisational structure. Unlike western monasticism, Orthodoxy has no religious orders; each monastery has its own rule (although often based on those of other monasteries). The model was the early monasteries of the Eastern Roman Empire; the vast empty forests of northern Russia were the equivalents of the deserts of Egypt and the Holy Land. Increasingly, as monasticism spread, individual monks moved further away from centres of population in search of greater solitude; round them gathered other monks, and gradually monasteries were established which were granted land and property by wealthy and powerful donors. Such was the case with Solovki, which was established in the 1430s by Zosima and Savatii. The monastery was at its height in the sixteenth century, when it received large territorial donations and rents from the Moscow elites, and notably from Ivan IV (the Terrible); thereafter it retained close ties with the capital, despite the vast distance. It was in this period that permanent buildings replaced the initial timber structures and were enclosed within massive stone walls with turrets, reflecting its function as a fortress as well as a monastery. These walls became the distinctive sign of the monastery on the icons (Pls 4–6). During the latter part of the seventeenth century Solovki was a major centre of resistance to the liturgical reforms of Patriarch Nikon, and after a seven-year siege the surviving monks fled and established the White Sea region as a stronghold of

1. Solovki monastery west side (photo: R Marks)

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1. Solovki monastery west side (photo: R Marks)

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religious festivals occur between April and September, when the White Sea is usually not frozen over. Even when the archipelago is accessible, a journey other than by air requires stamina. My stay of several days there last year involved a 15-hour train journey from St Petersburg followed by a ferry.

2. Solovki monastery south side (photo: R Marks)

3. Solovki main island (photo: R Marks)

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the Old Believers, who continued to reject the changes to ritual. Saints Zosima and Savatii were – and still are – especially revered by the adherents of the Old Belief. As communications improved, between the late nineteenth century and 1914 Solovki attracted large numbers of pilgrims. In 1921 the monastery was closed and the site appropriated by the Bolshevik government. In 1923 it became a prison and forced labour camp; the cruelty of its overseers and the harsh climate resulted in the deaths of thousands of inmates – revealed for the first time in Solzhenitsyn’s Gulag Archipelago. The monastery’s treasures were pillaged and dispersed, and its churches and buildings stripped and left to decay. Following Perestroika and a revival in the Orthodox faith, the monastery was re-established, and in 1992 Solovki was designated a Unesco World Heritage site. Today, once again, the natural beauty of the islands that make up the archipelago as well as the historic monastic buildings draw pilgrims and tourists, although the severity of the climate precludes visits for most of the year. It is no coincidence that the major Solovki

The icons collected by Diana Lorch are but a few of the thousands representing the founders of Solovki painted between c. 1600 and the early twentieth century, and they are once again being produced today. With the exception of the large vita icon and a rectangular panel in which the two founders are present amongst the holy hierarchs flanking the Deesis (the enthroned Christ flanked by the Virgin and St John), all are ‘prayer-icons.’ The vita icon (Pl. 4) almost certainly functioned as the patronal or ‘despotic’ icon placed on the iconostasis of a church dedicated to the Solovki founders. The fourteen ‘prayer-icons’ are smaller and could either have come from the ‘beautiful corner’ where family icons were kept in houses, or have been displayed in churches on feast-days associated with Zosima and Savatii and their monastery. The Girton examples exhibit the variety of ways in which the iconography of Solovki and its founding saints was rendered. They were executed variously between the late seventeenth century and c. 1900; all are painted except for a small enamelled copper icon which is probably the most recent in date (Pl. 10). As such artefacts were in continuous devotional use, most of the wooden icons show evidence of ‘refreshing’, i.e. retouching; many also once had metal oklads or covers (a few still do), a practice almost universal from the sixteenth century.

The icons are not formulaic, but rather are variations on a theme; common to all is the representation of the monastery within its walls on the island. The architectural features are flattened out so that every detail of the most important structures (the walls, the three principal churches and, in some cases, the shrine-tombs of the founders) can be recognised. A variant well represented at Girton (including the vita icon) is SS Zosima and Savatii standing on a rocky and barren island – a topos for the desert and a distinctive sacred landscape; in reality the archipelago is richly forested and abundantly served by fresh water (Pls 3, 4, 6). Sometimes plants grow under their feet, possibly suggesting that their holiness enriches the ground they tread. Often the monastery is held by both saints acting as supporting columns – metaphorically the pillars on which Solovki was established, a motif derived from Byzantine founder-imagery and which evokes Revelation 3: 12: ‘Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is New Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God’ (Pls 5, 6). There are icons on which the actual architecture of Solovki is rendered with a degree of accuracy, which has led some art historians to use them as evidence for the appearance of buildings which

have since been altered; several Girton icons fall into this category (Pls 4–6 ). Verisimilitude, however, is not the purpose of such icons; it was sufficient to render the features such as the walls and major churches as ‘signs’ which distinguish Solovki icons from those depicting other monasteries and their saintly founders. In another variant at Girton it is the monastic churches and the shrine-tombs of the founders which are the primary focus. On these icons, Solovki is rendered like a film or stage set in which the principal churches are identified neither by architectural accuracy nor in their actual relationship with each other, but by icons representing their respective dedications (Pls 7, 8). Their focus is on the rendering of a sacred ‘monasteryscape’, in which key events in Solovki’s history are played out in a simultaneous narrative. The icons themselves become an iconic sanctus locus, enabling the venerator to undertake a virtual pilgrimage to the great monastery itself. The multiple differences found between icons of this type may in some instances reflect the particular devotional priorities of the painter and/or purchaser. As ancient icons are rarely signed by their makers and do not often bear marks of ownership, it is impossible to establish the identities of those who executed or bought the Girton icons. In addition, all evidence of provenance was lost before they came on to the market. Quite often the closest one can

4. Vita icon of SS Zosima and Savatii, 17th Century 5. Icon of SS Zosima and Savatii offering Solovki monastery to the Mother of God of the Sign, 17th Century 6. Icon of SS Zosima and Savatii offering Solovki monastery to Christ, 19th Century 7. Icon of SS Zosima and Savatii with icons representing the dedications of the principal churches in Solovki monastery, 18th Century

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2. Solovki monastery south side (photo: R Marks)

3. Solovki main island (photo: R Marks)

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Volcanoes on borders get to the identity of the owner of an icon is the representation in one of the borders of his or her name-saint (Pl. 9). Even then, unless there is some ancillary documentation or an accompanying prayer on the icon, it is rarely possible to go beyond establishing the Christian name – and even then it may not be that of the first owner. Locating the places where the icons were painted is equally problematic. The enamelled icon, unlike the others, although still hand-painted, is a mass-produced artefact (Pl. 10). Solovki had its own painting workshop from at least 1615; in the second half of this century there were at least 45 resident icon-painters in the monastery, some from other centres, which is one explanation for the eclectic style of many Solovkithemed icons. Not all of the painters were monks. Many families resident in north Russia, especially around the White Sea, practised the craft. As the cults of the founders and other Solovki saints spread from the north

to the rest of Russia, so icon painters in other regions painted them. The absence of any trace of western influence on the eighteenth-century icons in the Girton collection may indicate that some were the work of Old Believers. For them, especially those who for canonical reasons lacked priests, the icon itself was a sacrament. The time-honoured styles prevailing prior to the liturgical changes of the second half of the seventeenth century were held to be the true forms of their heavenly prototypes; any innovations and especially traces of western influences were anathema, and proof of the presence on earth of Antichrist. Whatever their origins, the Girton icons are an important collection. They demonstrate the variety of ways in which one holy and historic site was represented over three centuries. They are far removed from contemporary European painting in terms of technique, style, rendering of human form, perspective and narrative; as such they offer a challenge to the western-dominated art-historical icon. Girton is very fortunate to have the Lorch collection.

The Royal Society has had a foreign secretary for longer than the British government. The first, Philip Zollman, was appointed in 1723 as the ‘assistant secretary for foreign correspondence’. He was a German, whose linguistic skills were so much in demand that he left the job after six months to work for the government. He was not an FRS, but was succeeded by a long line of them. Scientific collaboration is remarkably robust against political influence. Scientific cooperation between the USA and USSR continued through the Cold War, for example, and much recent work has been done by scholars of the Arctic examining the diplomatic role of field stations. The sub-political role of science has been increasingly questioned in recent years, particularly by sociologists concerned

about the potentially undemocratic influence that science may have on policy. However, there is also a more positive sub-political role that scientific collaborations across national borders can play, particularly in a world where risk itself has become globalised and resources are limited. My work is concerned with the assessment and management of volcanic risk, with a particular interest in the role of scientists in providing advice to governments. In Western democracies, there is a common assumption that technological advancement generally increases our control over our lives. It can reduce our vulnerability to natural hazards – for example, through communication, advance warning and structural defences – but in

The before-she-was-famous phase of the 2010 eruption of Eyjafjallajokull

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Icon with a schematised representation of Solovki monastery with SS Zosima and Savatii in the centre,

Icon of SS Zosima and Savatii with the Old Testament Trinity; probably the owner’s name or patron saint

17th Century is in the right border, 19th Century 10. Enamel icon of SS Zosima and Savatii with two other saints, the Mother of God of the Sign and Solovki monastery, 19th or early 20th Century

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The before-she-was-famous phase of the 2010 eruption of Eyjafjallajokull

Richard Marks

Icon with a schematised representation of Solovki monastery with SS Zosima and Savatii in the centre,

Icon of SS Zosima and Savatii with the Old Testament Trinity; probably the owner’s name or patron saint

17th Century is in the right border, 19th Century 10. Enamel icon of SS Zosima and Savatii with two other saints, the Mother of God of the Sign and Solovki monastery, 19th or early 20th Century

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Monitoring the flank eruption of Eyjafjallajokull

some cases it also increases vulnerability. The most obvious example of this in the volcanic context is aviation technology, which is vulnerable to relatively small ash plumes. However, there is also danger from technological complacency. One of the greatest contemporary sociologists of risk, Ulrich Beck, stated in 2009 that earthquakes and volcanic eruptions ‘can be predicted with reasonable accuracy’ – which is not the case for earthquakes and vanishingly rare for volcanic eruptions. The eruption of Eyjafjallajokull in 2010

demonstrated this to residents of Northern Europe: the volcano had started erupting on 20 March at a remote site on the flank. This eruption was dubbed the ‘tourist eruption’, and turned the nearby glacier into a highway for three weeks as scientists (including myself) and tourists (including some from Top Gear) made their way across to the eruption. This phase of activity stopped on 12 April, with most thinking that the eruption was over. On 13 April, an eruption started at the summit crater, and caused widespread disruption to flights across Europe. (Ironically, it was still possible to fly into Reykjavik from the US, as some of my colleagues managed to do.) Eyjafjallajokull was not the first volcano to cause aviation problems: volcanic ash advisories are issued in different countries on a regular basis. Some recent work I was involved in suggests that even people who were affected by the UK ash crises in 2010 and 2011 have not made significant changes to future travel plans. It is a low-probability, high-impact risk. These are the most difficult risks to govern, particularly where they are not even anticipated (‘unknown unknowns’, described so very effectively by Donald Rumsfeld). I am currently working on Nabro volcano in Eritrea, close to the

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Ethiopian border. Nabro, like the majority of volcanoes around the world, has barely been studied before. In 2011, it erupted, displacing tens of thousands of people in Eritrea and Ethiopia – 3000 of whom lived inside the volcanic crater. The primary reason that it was reported on the news in the UK was because it interrupted Hillary Clinton’s travel plans to Tanzania! However, this in itself shows some of the challenges that result from volcanic activity: the impacts of eruptions are sudden, and increasingly transboundary. Their impacts are also read in different ways by different cultures in different places. Eruptions also change the course of knowledge production in volcanology – they create critical opportunities for scientists and social scientists. Nabro forms part of an alignment of volcanoes across Eritrea. Its neighbour, Dubbi, produced the largest known historical eruption in Africa in 1861, generating ash fall ‘like a London fog’, according to Red Sea mariners’ reports, and reportedly killing over 100 people. At a distance of 50km from the volcano, the ash ‘was darker than the darkest night’. Nabro itself has deposits that indicate a history of major eruptions – much larger than that in 2011. It has a summit caldera roughly 8km across, produced in a cataclysmic eruption (currently being dated). There are abundant deposits from other eruptions, exhibiting a wide range of eruptive styles from relatively passive lava flows to much more destructive pyroclastic flows. The Nabro eruption in 2011 resulted in new scientific collaborations between British scientists and Eritreans. Evacuations were carried out prior to the eruption, partly because a British scientist in Eritrea at the time received a regional earthquake

alert and referred it to the authorities. This probably saved thousands of lives. Eritrea has very few resources for volcano monitoring. Effective monitoring requires a network of seismometers (magma has to break the rock to reach the surface, causing earthquakes), a network for measuring ground deformation – ideally receivers for GPS, and gas measurements either from remote sensing or regular in situ sampling. These are all expensive, and as the risk is one of relatively low probability, developing countries simply cannot invest in extensive monitoring programmes. Even in the US, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal criticised Obama’s 2009 budget for including ‘something called volcano monitoring’ (the USA has over 160 active volcanoes, a number of which threaten urban areas). Volcano monitoring is frequently, and perhaps understandably, viewed as a luxury. At Nabro, collaborative projects funded from the UK allowed for monitoring of the volcano for a year after the eruption, and extensive geochemical and geophysical studies of the volcano. A largemagnitude eruption at this volcano (or one of its neighbours) would devastate the local area, cause regional-scale resource crises and have a global impact on trade, aviation and food security. There are many similar unstudied volcanoes around the world – particularly in developing countries.

A British scientist works with Eritreans to install a seismometer close to Nabro (photo: Clive Oppenheimer)

Scientific collaboration between nations has a long history, fulfilling different roles through the centuries: keeping communications open between hostile nations, providing knowledge from specialist groups in different places, allowing nations to stake claims in uncharted lands, and promoting exploration. In the modern world, scientific diplomacy has the potential to raise awareness of global risks, reduce knowledge inequalities

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Monitoring the flank eruption of Eyjafjallajokull

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A British scientist works with Eritreans to install a seismometer close to Nabro (photo: Clive Oppenheimer)

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Impacts of the 2011 eruption of Nabro (photo: Clive Oppenheimer)

between nations, and allow developed and developing countries to share resources. It can also open doors for political diplomatic relations. A final striking example is Changbai volcano (known in the Korean peninsula as Paektu or Baekdu). Changbai has a very picturesque crater lake, through which runs the border between China and North Korea. It has great cultural significance on the whole Korean peninsula. It has also shown signs of activity in recent years, but study of the volcanic system is challenging because of a lack of information exchange across the border. The last large eruption of Changbai (roughly 1000 years ago) sent an ash cloud as far as Japan. A growing awareness of the

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volcanic risk has catalysed collaborations between UK and US scientists and regional scientists from China and North Korea, as well as Japan and South Korea. The balance of power in such situations is very delicate, yet opportunities exist for scientific collaboration to strengthen relationships between communities and open doors for communication. ÂťIn the management of trans-border risks, such as those from volcanic activity, such opportunities may be critical in anticipating and preparing for future challenges. Amy Donovan

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Impacts of the 2011 eruption of Nabro (photo: Clive Oppenheimer)

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Dulce et Decorum est, pro Patria Mori? An interview with Girtonian and former MI5 spy, Annie Machon Annie Machon is a former intelligence officer for MI5, the UK Security Service, who resigned in 1996 to blow the whistle on the spies’ incompetence and crimes. Drawing on her varied experiences, she is now a media commentator, author, political campaigner, and international public speaker. She is also the Director of LEAP, Europe, a global group of serving and former police officers, lawyers, judges, intelligence officers, prison governors, customs officers and former drug czars. LEAP speakers have worked on the front line of the failed ‘war on drugs’, recognise its failure, and as a result campaign for the end to prohibition. Here she talks to the Editor about her controversial and colourful career since Girton. 1. When you came up to Girton in 1986, was the College what you expected it to be? I had just turned 18 and came from a small rock in the sea (Guernsey, in the Channel Islands), so I'm not sure I knew quite what to expect. I remember travelling over for my interviews at the fag end of the round and being the only person staying in Girton that final night, and I also remember Dorothy Thompson finding

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me to tell me in person that I had a place. It was really kind of her and it meant I did not have to wait for the dreaded letter... I also remember being very excited about going up, and just being keen to throw myself into new knowledge, experiences and seize hold of life. That said, the cycling was a bit of a pig, up and down the only hills in the whole of Cambridgeshire and I decamped to Wolfson Court after my first year – and I've kept to my resolution and not ridden a bike since... 2. In what ways do you think that your education, and in particular your Classics degree, has shaped and informed your life and career? Well, the key point is that getting a degree from Cambridge (and the Other Place) does still set you apart from other graduates. Really though, after a couple of years out, that desperate scrabble for CV points will be irrelevant – just the fact that you are ‘Cantab’ is the thing that will follow you through life. As for Classics – it's an unusually broad subject. The languages are intensely logical, which is useful for training the mind, but then you can let your imagination roam wild with the literature, art, philosophy, history, the politics – it's a very rich discipline.

What I hadn't realised is quite how many classicists end up being recruited by the intelligence agencies – probably for that very blend of skills, discipline and knowledge. Plus, of course, the ability to write concise, grammatical English, which can come in very useful when briefing top spooks and ministers... So perhaps reading Classics had more of an influence on my future course in life than I could ever have imagined. 3. You have obviously sacrificed many things in order to get where you are today. Which do you feel most keenly? The impact it had on my family, particularly, and also my friends. There is also the loss of career and future prospects. It would be too easy to play the game of ‘If I had stayed in MI5, where would I be now?’ However, if I had done that I would have had to compromise my fundamental principles. The organisation was not quite as described during the long-drawn-out recruitment process. 4. You seem to live in a constant spotlight of publicity. Would you rather it were otherwise? It is strange you ask that, as I feel that most of my life is spent at the coalface of my computer, quietly researching and writing. Then quite a lot of my time is also on the road, travelling to do talks across Europe and North America. I tend to forget that most talks are filmed and spread over the internet. Also, with modern technology, I am able to do radio and TV interviews via the computer from home or, after frantic tech scrambles, from hotel rooms, rather than having to get to a studio. This can feel like just having a chat, rather than an interview being broadcast across countries.

and someone reading the Telegraph opposite me. The front page had a picture of me handing in evidence about the Gaddafi assassination plot to the Metropolitan Police, and I remember cringing with embarrassment.

So, practically, I don't see too much of the public end of what I do, which sounds a bit strange even as I write it... That said, over the last few weeks with the Edward Snowden disclosures, there have been days of constant interviews. I find it stimulating to be able to contribute to the debate from an informed position – plus it's just damned fun. During the height of the David Shayler whistleblowing case (1997–2002) the media attention was relentless and intrusive and it felt much more like living under the spotlight. [Shayler was a colleague at MI5, and was at the time Machon’s partner. He was imprisoned for leaking information from MI5 to the media, incriminating them in a number of high profile plots against figures such as Colonel Gaddafi, and accusing them of having prior knowledge, and even involvement in, terrorist attacks]. However, the internet was in its infancy then and even YouTube had yet to emerge, so there was far less real exposure – although I do remember sitting on the tube in 2000

The other accusation that tends to be thrown at whistleblowers is that they are courting publicity. Well, yes, we do – mainly to get as much coverage for the disclosures as possible to try and effect change, but also as an insurance policy. As we've seen with the Snowden case, the more debate you stir up, the more protection you can receive – often from unexpected sources. 5. What does loyalty mean to you? ‘Omerta’!1 No, seriously, being true to your principles and beliefs, and encouraging, protecting, and supporting those around you. A question I was recently asked was, did I not have a psychological contract with MI5 when I joined? Well, yes, but it cuts both ways. During recruitment they said that they obeyed the law, which turned out not to be entirely true. So when they break the law and demand your complicity, does that psychological contract still hold, should you ‘just follow orders’? I have only ever helped expose unofficial secrets –

i.e. crimes – but I would never discuss the successful and valuable work that they also do. 6. Do you still hold to the view that the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Centre were in some way staged by the US Government as a pretext for wars in Afghanistan and Iraq? (See: Face to Face with Annie Machon http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature =player_embedded&v=2PgQr6uYF00&li st=PL4B0838CA73CB8402)

Intelligence agencies have always been involved in dirty tricks for political advantage – it is naïve to think anything else. From the CIA/MI6 Iranian coup against President Mossadeq in 1953, through the ‘Troubles’ in Northern Ireland, the Israeli Embassy bombing in London in 1994, the MI6 Gaddafi assassination plot of 1996, the KGB bombing of apartment blocks in Moscow in 1999 to make a case for war against Chechnya, to the backing of our terrorist enemies in Libya and Syria now. The list is endless and is just a political reality. All I would say is that there are many unanswered or unexplored avenues of evidence around 9/11, and that the testimony of many witnesses and US intelligence whistleblowers has been ignored.

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The Mistress’s Portrait It's always worth delving beneath the headlines. 7. When were you happiest? ‘And is there honey still for tea?’ Being specifically happy is a lovely but evanescent emotion, creating the champagne moments of life, and I've been lucky in that respect. To be generally content and comfortable in your own skin is, I think, more difficult to attain and yet much more important long-term. I've always found the most contentment during the periods of my life when I feel loved and valued by those whom I love and respect, and when I'm busy, intellectually interested and feel that I'm making a contribution – and potentially a difference. 8. Looking back over your somewhat turbulent past, to what extent do you feel that life so far has been worth the effort? Absolutely. For better or worse, I would not be the person I am today if I hadn't lived through my ‘turbulent past’. There have been moments of great joy and freedom and moments of great sorrow and pain. It has been a life of extremes, but rarely dull. Over the years I have done things I would never have dreamed of

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when younger, overcome old fears, learned so much, and met so many lovely, varied and interesting people. I would not change that for anything. This may sound sententious, but the old cliché remains true – what doesn't destroy you makes you stronger. And, boy, is that the case. Plus, you can have so much unexpected and unforeseen joy along the way. My advice? Don't have too rigid a life-plan, be open to new experiences, always have an open mind, keep learning, and may the dice fly high (as Julius Caesar almost said)!

1 A code of honour that places importance on secrecy, and on turning a blind eye to the illegality of others’ actions. It is often associated with organisations such as the Mafia.

In 2012 College commissioned Benjamin Sullivan to paint the Mistress’s portrait. Ben started the painting in October 2012 and finished it in the Spring of 2013. Sittings took place in the Mistress’s flat, and the predella at the bottom of the portrait represents the Girton skyline visible from the flat’s south-west window. The portrait was unveiled at a reception on 30 April. Girton previously commissioned Ben to paint a portrait of the College Visitor, Brenda Hale (Baroness Hale of Richmond, Deputy President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom). Ben also has a portrait (of John McWilliam) in the People’s Portraits Exhibition at Girton. Ben was the youngest artist ever to be elected to the New English Art Club in 2001, and to the Royal Society of Portrait Painters in 2003. In 2009, he was made a Freeman of the Worshipful Company of Painter-Stainers. Among other distinctions, he has won a BP Portrait Award every year since 2008, and in 2007 he won the Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize.

Ben’s work is widely exhibited, including at the Royal Academy, the National Portrait Gallery, the Royal Scottish Academy, Parliament House in Edinburgh and several Oxford and Cambridge Colleges. In 2009 he became artist in residence for a year at All Souls College, Oxford, where he undertook a large commission depicting College staff. The resulting work, The All Souls Triptych, was displayed at the Ashmolean Museum in 2012 and now sits in one of Hawksmoor's twin towers at All Souls College.

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1 A code of honour that places importance on secrecy, and on turning a blind eye to the illegality of others’ actions. It is often associated with organisations such as the Mafia.

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Blue Stockings In 2012 Jessica Swale undertook research for her new play, Blue Stockings, in the Girton archive. Blue Stockings encapsulates the long struggle for women to receive Cambridge degrees by focusing on one particular episode. Pressure for acceptance of women built up in 1896. A University Syndicate was appointed which recommended that women should be given the title of a degree without full membership of the University; but this was seen as the thin end of the wedge by the male establishment. The Senate voted on 21 May 1897. There was a huge campaign against the motion; special trains were chartered to bring MAs from London to vote against the women, and demonstrations were held in Cambridge. The motion was defeated by 1707 to 661, and violent celebrations followed. The play depicts life at Girton for a group of undergraduates at this time. As well as studying, they have to face the social pressures of the time, which expected women to conform to certain norms. The characters of the Girtonians reflect the range of students, including one who breaks the class divide, but poignantly is doomed to fall victim to traditional roles. A view of the male undergraduates’ disdainful and hostile attitudes is portrayed through

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the brother of one of the Girtonians and his friends, and in general by the eruption of violence in the aftermath of the vote. Jessica Swale is Artistic Director of the Red Handed Theatre Company, winners of the 2012 Peter Brook/ Empty Space Award for Best Ensemble. She directed Bedlam at the Globe in 2010. Blue Stockings, will open at the Globe on 24 August 2013. In conversation with Jessica: Where did the play start? A couple of things came together: reading about the history of education and the history of women. I found that, in 1896, although women had been allowed to study at Cambridge for forty years, they were not allowed to graduate. That year they finally managed to get the issue put to the vote, and that’s where the play starts. It was a time of turbulent social change; with the momentum building in the suffrage movement, you’d expect that it might have been simple to allow them equal recognition, but the force of the opposition was astonishing. Opposition from all quarters? Yes, and surprisingly often from other women. Queen Victoria was staunchly against women’s university education. She believed a woman’s role was in

the home and that women’s higher education could lead to a society where women would want to emulate men, work professionally and not have kids; that there would be no younger generation if these ‘unnatural’ women had their way. And on the flip side, there were brave, outspoken men who gave everything up for the cause. I wanted to ensure that the play didn’t portray great women and awful men… That wasn’t the case at all. Male lecturers sometimes cycled 20 miles out of Cambridge to get to the first college at Hitchin for very little pay and out of the goodness of their hearts, just because they believed in the education of women. Their reputations would be damaged by their involvement, and reputation at the time was everything. So are the characters based on real people? Two of the characters are based on reality, Dr Maudsley and Elizabeth Welsh; all the others are fictional, though often inspired by research. I spent a lot of time in the archives at Girton and other colleges, looking at details of lectures, lessons and finding out about their daily lives. I’d also recommend Jane Robinson’s excellent book Blue Stockings, which collates a lot of diaries and archival material. Did the female students share a similar background? There was so little by way of female education that girls were plucked from all over the country. So unlike the male colleges, which were the domain of the upper classes, the women’s colleges were far more diverse – daughters of ambassadors and farm workers would often find themselves in the same college. Getting a college place relied on a bright girl being at a school with a headmistress forward-

Effigy of a bicycling woman suspended across from the Senate House 21 May 1897 Stearn and Sons, archive ref GCPH 914

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Effigy of a bicycling woman suspended across from the Senate House 21 May 1897 Stearn and Sons, archive ref GCPH 914

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thinking enough to encourage her to sit the entrance exam. This partly explains the reluctance to formally accept women. Oxbridge was doubly worried: not only were women daring to enter, but some of them were working-class! Lots of the undergraduates made the women’s lives very difficult. They must have felt quite isolated. It would have been tough because these girls would never have been away from home. As a blue stocking you were seen as strange and unladylike. The truth of it was, if you chose to leave your community and disappear off to do something as unfeminine as study, you must have been odd. You clearly had no maternal instincts and you weren’t marriage material. Is the play also a statement about today’s education systems? Yes. University was such a formative experience for me. Education is a gift in so many ways, but financial constraints could really stop bright people getting a full education. I don’t believe everyone should go to university, but as soon as money becomes involved we have a situation where sometimes those who should can’t. A student loan hangs over you for a long time, and it’s almost impossible to pay back if you want to go into a creative job. There was a magical day when we were rehearsing. We were practising the riot, shouting ‘Education for all!’ and we had to stop working because the student protesters were marching down Gower Street and they were shouting the same things. 110 years later. We did think about going out and joining them. Jessica Swale in conversation with the Globe’s Communications Assistant David Bellwood, from an interview which appeared in the Shakespeare’s Globe magazine, Around the Globe.

Larry Skeats, retired Dorset Shepherd, by Toby Wiggins RP This year’s addition to the People’s Portraits collection. Toby graduated from Falmouth College of Art and then studied painting and drawing as a post graduate at the Royal Academy Schools. All students were obligated to draw from the life model and it was here, under the tutelage of numerous artists and academicians of great merit that an appreciation of the importance of drawing and figurative painting began to develop. Since leaving the R.A. Schools in 1999, Toby has been developing his practice and has exhibited widely and been selected on a number of occasions for the Royal Academy Summer Show, BP Portrait Award (winning the Travel Award in 2006), Discerning Eye Exhibition, Jerwood Drawing Prize and the Holburne Portrait Prize. Toby won the Prince of Wales Drawing Award in 2005 and was elected to the RP in 2006, winning the Changing Faces Prize that year.In 2007 he worked his way around part of the West Country, making portraits of the rural community from huntsmen to hurdle makers, shepherds and charcoal-burners to New Forest Verderers. These were exhibited in Dorset County Museum in 2008. He won the Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize in 2009.

‘I left school on the Friday and started work on the Monday – as a shepherd. I knew just as much about sheep then, when I was 14, because I’d been working with my father or going up to the sheep with him since I was 7 or 8 years old. And my wages for 7 days a week was 49 shillings. I’ve never paid a penny rent in my life. We’ve always lived in tied cottages on the farm. We had the old English sheepdog when I first started off, and then, as time went on, collies became more popular. It’s important to have a good dog. I used to have three, always had three, sometimes four. When I was at the Critchley Estate I had 2,500 breeding ewes there, which, at the time, was the biggest flock in Dorset. Shepherding was hard work – you had to be fairly fit – but it was good. I enjoyed it. I wouldn’t change a day of my life. I don’t think you’re going to see what I call the old shepherds back. I think it’s just general farm workers now, and they do what they’ve got to do with the sheep, and they’re on a tractor, and they go ploughing and do the rest of the work, and they all mix in. Sheep weren’t stupid – far from it. You could predict the weather with them, as well.’ Larry Skeats

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Record Breaking!

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Since the new gym was installed in 2009, it has been one of the most popular facilities in College. With a great atmosphere, it provides a place for teams to train, or individuals to keep fit and strong during their time at College. This year there has been a noticeable difference in the fitness of the College teams, as they have worked to improve their strength and conditioning. The College is very proud of undergraduate Matt Deacon-Smith, who managed to break the British deadlift record at 255kg in his weight class, while competing in the winning team at this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Varsity Power-Lifting meeting. Not content with his triumph, he then went on to break the world record in Germany a few weeks later. We congratulate him on his achievements, and are delighted that our gym has produced a world record holder. Steve Whiting, Head Groundsman and College Gym Instructor

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Andrew Jefferies I always wanted to be a farmer. One grandfather was a miller, and my other grandfather started his working life as a labourer cutting cabbages in Lincolnshire, and by the end of his life owned three farms of many hundreds of acres in Bedfordshire, specialising in market gardening. I was educated, thanks to the generosity of the Methodist Missionary Society, at Kingswood School in Bath where there was both a junior literary society for those aged between 12 and 15, and a senior literary society for the sixth form. The young Jefferies' contribution to the junior society was an extensively illustrated treatise on Farm Machinery, and for the senior society a racy discourse entitled ‘Professional Cycling’. Clearly future Cambridge University material, although being a School Prefect and playing hockey for the county may have done no harm in the mid Sixties to my chances of a successful application! My early literary adventures do, however, indicate lifelong interests in agriculture, the countryside, animals and wildlife, and the means to truly appreciate them, namely a bicycle. Having discovered at the age of 14 that possession of a 'serious' bicycle at boarding school enabled you to escape the confines of the school and explore the Somerset countryside, I have never, to this day, stopped cycling. The prospect of retirement with unfettered access to a daily 'spin', as my schoolmates used to say, is an attractive one indeed.

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So why did I not become a farmer and how did I end up as Senior Tutor at Girton College? Unlike virtually every prospective veterinary student today, I did not decide on a veterinary career until after my O levels, which was unfortunate, since up to that point, I had opted for the classics pathway and taken Latin, Greek and Ancient History. I was still keen to go into the agricultural business, and academic work seemed somewhat irrelevant anyway. It was my aunt who pointed out that, with all my cousins destined for the family farm, and the cutting-cabbages route into farming giving way to the need for hard cash, perhaps I should consider something else. But what? ‘How about being a vet?’ she said. ‘They seem to make a decent living.’ It seemed as good an idea as any, and so that was it. The problem, of course, was my lack of a science education. Post-O level, I embarked on catching up with A levels in Biology, Physics and Chemistry. Suffice to say that after much strife, the examinations were passed and I obtained a place to read veterinary medicine at Downing College, Cambridge. I think I can lay claim to being the only veterinary student ever to come to Cambridge with three passes at O level Latin. I failed at O level initially, and the school re-entered me for three different

exam boards on the grounds that I must be able to pass one of them! In those days Latin was a prerequisite for Cambridge entry. As a veterinary student I was not atypical, narrowly passing examinations in the first two years, so as to be able to proceed. At Part II of the Tripos, I was atypical in opting to read English Literature, but, not being allowed to discourse on either farm machinery or bicycles, I had to settle for writing essays on Dickens, E M Forster and Shakespeare. Studying for a completely different Tripos from veterinary medicine was an enormously rewarding experience and I have been for ever grateful to Downing College for allowing me the opportunity. In the clinical veterinary course I finally began to engage with academic work, and the merits and prizes arrived.

kennels, between the main Oxford to London road at the front, and the main railway line behind. I lasted about 18 months in the practice, not because of the nightly cacophony of dogs howling, trains whistling, and cars hurtling past the bedroom window, but because of a feeling that there was more to veterinary practice than the problem of puppies’ worms, tomcats’ fight wounds, dogs’ ears and budgies’ beaks. After all, I was a farmer at heart, wasn't I? My next job was in a mixed agricultural practice in Sussex, with a practice house on the edge of the South Downs, near enough to the sea to fish for cod from the beach by the light of a Tilley lamp. The job also came with all the mucky, smelly, exhausting and potentially life-threatening large animal work you could wish for. I stayed for three years and enjoyed it enormously, until again, the urge to do something more and take on a different challenge became irresistible.

On qualifying, my initial desire was to undertake a residency (postgraduate training) in veterinary anaesthesia at Liverpool University. I was offered the post, but on discovering the salary on offer and the living costs in the Wirral, I decided that with a wife and young baby it was not a viable option.

I moved to a veterinary hospital in Aylesbury with the intention of becoming a leading surgeon in the veterinary field. The facilities and staff were excellent and I learnt how to plate and pin bones, remove awkward cancers, correct some of the deformities breeders inflict on their animals and remove virtually every sort of foreign material you can imagine from a dog’s stomach. I also learnt the veterinary truism that you can see by X-ray the needle that the cat has swallowed, but you grow old looking for it during surgery.

So I took a job as an assistant in a small-animal veterinary practice in High Wycombe with a practice flat neatly positioned over the surgery

After another three years, I moved again to seek my fortune with what is now DEFRA and was MAFF, working for the Government Veterinary Laboratory Service. This was my introduction to pathology and

the examination of thousands of dead sheep in the Veterinary Investigation Centre at Aberystwyth. I still don't know why 75% of them die. I was comforted a few years ago to see a cartoon in which one sheep was saying to another: ‘Quick, here comes the farmer, it's your turn to lie down and die.’ Clearly it wasn't just me. My return to Cambridge was serendipitous, and was a world away from my farm visits in Aberystwyth, where I might as well have been in Kazakhstan for all the conversation I understood, not being a Welsh speaker. Although I'm sure they were not saying ‘Why have they sent this pommy wombat?’ or the Welsh equivalent.

Andrew with a friendly piglet

I returned to the Department of Veterinary Medicine in 1978 as University Pathologist in the Veterinary School, and it rapidly became clear that if I was to warrant that somewhat elevated title, I needed a specialist qualification in Veterinary Pathology. I studied between 6 a.m. and 8 a.m. before going to work, and at weekends, and eventually passed the membership examinations for the Royal College of Pathologists. My primary job in the Veterinary School was to provide a pathological diagnostic service to the hospital and

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So I took a job as an assistant in a small-animal veterinary practice in High Wycombe with a practice flat neatly positioned over the surgery

After another three years, I moved again to seek my fortune with what is now DEFRA and was MAFF, working for the Government Veterinary Laboratory Service. This was my introduction to pathology and

Andrew with a friendly piglet

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Sandra Fulton its associated clinics, and to provide teaching to clinical veterinary students. Although research was never a primary component of the job, no Cambridge academic worth their salt can be totally dissociated from research and writing papers. In my early years I published a good number of papers, often in conjunction with clinical colleagues, and supervised PhD and MPhil students. I was now supervising for Girton on the invitation of the late Dr Leslie Hall, and the initial introduction led to involvement in directing studies for both veterinary and medical undergraduates, and teaching pathology to both these groups and to Natural Scientists. Over the years my interest both in teaching and in the administrative aspects of teaching and veterinary education grew, and I was eventually asked to take on the new Departmental role of Director of Teaching in the Department of Veterinary Medicine. As in most areas of Higher Education, the amount of administrative work has grown exponentially as successive governments and professional bodies have introduced more and more quality control and audit. The role of Director of Teaching is now almost a full-time job, and I now hand over to my successor an administrative structure of a complexity that was never dreamed of when I took over. Whether this truly enhances the student experience is open to debate, but as with all these things there is really no going back. When I was a student, health and safety and quality assurance were hardly in our vocabulary, but now they control all we do. My career as Senior Tutor has grown up alongside my interest in teaching administration, and they

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have really run hand in hand as complementary activities. I am enormously grateful to Girton and to our past Mistress, Juliet Campbell, who asked me in 1995 to take on the job, which, although something of a roller-coaster ride, has been both enjoyable and rewarding. It would need another essay to recount adequately the multiplicity of experiences that are the lot of a Senior Tutor. The one thing I have learnt is that anything that can happen with students eventually will happen, so a high surprise threshold is essential. There are highs and lows, as with any job. The highs include the pleasure at graduation of congratulating not just the first-class student (although that is gratifying enough), but the student who has gained a degree against all the odds of health problems, financial concerns, or family disruption.

during her career at Girton. I had at times felt guilty that I had been particularly horrible to her in my efforts to get her to engage with her studies. In the end, it seemed that it had all been worthwhile, and that was truly satisfying.

I think my greatest pleasure, if not surprise, was the one occasion when a female student emerged from the Senate House with her degree, flung her arms around me and gave me an enormous hug, while saying: ‘Thank you, I would never have done it without you.’ The pleasure, I hasten to add, was not on account of the hug, but the fact that this student had caused me no small anxiety, frustration and (I have to admit) anger

I am leaving the job confident in the knowledge that the College has appointed an excellent successor, and that with all the other talent within the Fellowship and its imaginative leadership, Girton College will go from strength to strength.

The lows of being Senior Tutor are of course the tragedies that affect students in many different ways, from the ultimate Senior Tutor nightmare of a student death, to the often very necessary decisions for students to withdraw from a course either temporarily or permanently. The overriding impression of my time as Senior Tutor is, I think, the increasing conviction that if what one does can improve the University experience, however slightly, for both students and colleagues, then it is all worthwhile.

Andrew Jefferies

I was born and brought up in Coleraine in Northern Ireland by parents with strong Scottish roots. My brother and I count ourselves fortunate to have had parents who believed that children should be encouraged to do their best, but then left to get on with it. There was no pressure, just the offer of any support they could give and the occasional exhortation to remember sleep was an essential component of success. My mother set the great example that one should never take oneself too seriously, while my father had an enormous capacity to look forward and never back, and to take pleasure in the small things in life; all lessons that seem more valuable the older one gets. Despite the many problems in Northern Ireland, education was highly valued. Coleraine High School had a strong academic tradition of fostering independent learning. As a ‘school for young ladies’ there were no ‘boys’ subjects’, and so there was a large cohort taking science and maths. A level Physics, Chemistry, Biology and Maths were popular and I put off decision-making by taking all four. As we progressed through Sixth Form I realised that Physics and Maths, while fun at this level, were not for me. I applied for Biological Sciences at Edinburgh, which at that time had a structure very similar to the Natural Sciences Tripos in Cambridge – not that I knew that at the time – Cambridge

seemed a different world, not one even to be considered. Despite a great education, there was one omission that has proven to be rather inconvenient in later life. We lived above my father’s wool shop in the town centre, which meant I never learnt to ride a bike. I graduated from Edinburgh with a first-class degree in Genetics and chose to stay on to do a PhD in the subject area of my final-year project: studying meiotic aneuploidy in a fungus. Meiotic aneuploidy is the technical term for abnormal chromosome number – one outcome of defects in chromosome segregation during gamete formation. A human example is Down’s Syndrome. We hoped the fungal system would allow us to develop a screen for any environmental agents that might cause defects in segregation, but unfortunately this turned out not to be true. While working for my PhD I became increasingly aware that the future of genetics research would be heavily dependent on the emerging field of Molecular Biology, and so I looked for a post-doctoral post that would allow me to develop these skills. Edinburgh was a wonderful city in which to live, but after six years I felt the desire to move on. I relocated to Oxford in late 1982 to join the lab of Alan and Sue Kingsman in the Biochemistry Department, still working on fungi but now using yeast as a model system to study transposable elements in the genome – a model that was very topical, with the close parallel to retroviruses (the family to which HIV belongs). I was awarded a JRF at Somerville, which introduced me to the joys and stresses of tutorial teaching.

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Law at Girton The move to Oxford proved to be a turning point in my personal as well as my scientific life. Taking microbiological plates out of an incubator on a Saturday morning led to a chance encounter with Kevin Brindle, a post–doc in the lab across the corridor. Kevin was to become my best friend and husband, and we have met the challenge of developing science careers in parallel, while bringing up a family. We started working together, with me contributing molecular biology skills to his rapidly developing NMR lab.

Sandra in a science lesson

Sandra and family in Rome

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Our daughter Nicola was born in 1988, and added a new perspective to life. Shortly afterwards, we moved to Manchester so that Kevin could take up a lectureship in the Department of Biochemistry. Once we were settled there I was appointed to a temporary lectureship in Biotechnology. Not long after we moved to Manchester, a lectureship in NMR became vacant at the Department of Biochemistry in Cambridge and we moved again, followed very soon after by the birth of Christopher. This time I took a year to think about it, but returned to work on a grant awarded jointly to Kevin and myself, and I also started supervising for St John’s.

When a CTO position was advertised at Girton it seemed like a marvellous opportunity to stay working in the lab while expanding the teaching role that I enjoyed so much, and I was delighted to be appointed. I have thoroughly enjoyed this role, and that of Admissions Tutor, and more recently the challenges of acting as Assistant Director of Teaching in the Biochemistry Department. As my tenure as Admissions Tutor was coming to an end and our younger child heading off to university I was looking for a new challenge. It is with some trepidation that I step into Andrew Jefferies’ shoes as Senior Tutor in October 2013. He will be a hard act to follow. It only seems remotely possible because I know I can rely on the Fellowship and the excellent team in the Tutorial and Admissions Office to continue in the Girton tradition of working together to educate our students and to pursue our research, and in the knowledge that I have the continued support of Kevin and our children. Sandra Fulton

Law has been studied at Girton since the 1870s when Janet Wood (later Mrs Clark, 1875) was placed in Class I in the Special Examination in Law and was declared to have attained the standard of the Ordinary Degree. But the numbers of women reading the subject in both the College and the University remained very small until the nationwide explosion in its popularity as a subject for women in the 1970s, which led to the present sharp preponderance of female over male law students in the University. Girton now admits between six and twelve lawyers a year, most of whom enter the legal profession; there are also normally several graduate students each year reading for the LLM degree and others studying for the MPhil or PhD in law or criminology. Until the l960s the College had no Law Fellows, so the Director of Studies was always a Fellow in another subject who would deal with admissions, but entrust the organisation of teaching to a Law Fellow of another college. This meant that all supervisions took place in other colleges, but the quality of the supervisors was, with rare exceptions, very high: many of them were later professors or, from the ranks of weekend ‘carpet-baggers’, became

Queen’s Counsel and judges. The historian Dr Helen Cam, appointed Director of Studies in Law in 1935, was succeeded in 1948 by the economist and Bursar Mrs Marjorie Hollond. A dignified and elegant figure, she could be terrifying to those who were neglecting their work, but showed great kindness to those anxious to do well (‘Have some rum and orange my dear’ was sometimes her greeting if the supervision reports were good). The annual May week tea parties for Girton economists and lawyers in the Trinity rooms of her husband, Professor Harry Hollond (a formidable and influential member of the Law Faculty), were legendary. On Marjorie’s retirement in 1962, Poppy Jolowicz, who had experience of practice at the Bar as well as lecturing, became Director of Studies in Law and Secretary to the Council, and she and I were admitted as Girton’s first Law Fellows on the same day in 1964, Poppy as an Official Fellow and I as a Research Fellow. When Poppy became Bursar in 1969, I succeeded her as Director of Studies, but when I left for family reasons two years later, she resumed control of admissions, which she conducted with her customary verve and fine judgement, while the organisation of teaching was again delegated to other members of the Faculty.

Brenda Hale

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Sandra in a science lesson

Sandra and family in Rome

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Brenda Hale

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Cherry Hopkins

Brenda Hale Fellowship, succeeded me on my retirement in 2007 and supervises in contract, tort and Roman law. Stephanie, Albertina and Stelios share direction of studies between them. Karen Lee, who is Director of Publications at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law and co-editor of the International Law Reports, is an Official Fellow and Tutor.

College Reports

The competition for University appointments in law is very great, and it is therefore important for the College to be able to provide full funding for at least one teaching Fellow. The Brenda Hale Fellowship, funded by an anonymous donor, has so far only been held by lawyers but is not restricted to law, and the College is anxious to ensure continuing teaching in many of the ‘core’ subjects by Fellows of the College, who also obtain good teaching in other subjects through exchange arrangements.

John McMullen, the first of the ‘new generation’ of Law Fellows, was elected in 1980; he returned to practice as a solicitor in 1986 but continued to supervise for the College for many years, and he has had a distinguished career as a practitioner and author in the field of employment law. He was joined by Stephanie Palmer, now University Senior Lecturer, in 1986: she has written extensively in the field of public law and human rights, and supervises our students in constitutional law. I returned to Girton in 1989 to teach contract, tort, commercial law and international law, and Albertina AlborsLlorens, previously a Research Fellow, became an Official Fellow in 1999; she is now a University Senior Lecturer and is a specialist in European Union and competition law. Stelios Tofaris, who holds the

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The College has a distinguished roll of law alumni, most notably our Visitor, Baroness Hale of Richmond, Deputy President of the Supreme Court, and three Honorary Fellows: Dame Rosalyn Higgins, formerly Judge and President of the International Court of Justice, and Dame Mary Arden and Dame Elizabeth Gloster, both Lady Justices of Appeal. Others are circuit judges, Queen’s Counsel and partners in leading firms of solicitors. The annual law and finance event generously hosted by Slaughter and May provides a valuable opportunity for younger alumni and present students to meet their predecessors. Details of it appear on the College website, and we extend a warm invitation to Girton lawyers of all generations. Cherry Hopkins

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Cherry Hopkins

College Reports

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Alumni and Supporters report The last year saw the Development Office continue both its friend-raising and fundraising endeavours, with record numbers of alumni attending an array of events both in and outside the College. During the year we also began the process of transferring the Roll to the Development Office; this should allow us to better serve and engage with all alumni, whatever their interests and wherever they are.

1963 Reunion Group

Law and Finance Event 2013

During the year we hosted: our first College event in Belfast; an evening with Gwyneth Lewis (1978), former Welsh National Poet, at the Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff; an evening at the Royal Society in Edinburgh with alumni from across Scotland; and a well-attended reception at

Manchester Art Gallery. In London, our annual Law and Finance networking event goes from strength to strength, with around 180 attending this year (our thanks go to Slaughter and May for their continued support), and the GASA (Girton Alumni Sports Association) bi-annual networking lunch remains well attended. Further afield, the Mistress visited alumni in the USA and in Melbourne, Australia. Our new scheme to encourage the wider Fellowship, when they are travelling, to meet alumni, resulted in

Dr Kamiar Mohaddes (Economics), Dr Ben Griffin (History), Dr Louise Braddock (Philosophy), Dr Sabesan Sithamparanathan (Engineering) and the Revd Dr Malcolm Guite, our Chaplain, meeting alumni in Washington, Sydney, New York, Orlando and San Diego respectively. Our usual programme of events has continued in College: in September, we hosted reunions for several specific year groups, and the alumni weekend was a great success, with an array of talks and activities, including a memorable talk by Dr David Starkey, at the unveiling of a new portrait for the People’s Portraits, Larry Skeats: retired Dorset Shepherd by Toby Wiggins, RP. In November, we were delighted to welcome several alumni to co-host the Student and Parent Dinner, with excellent speeches to a packed Hall from Joyce Thom (1974), Higher Learning Co-ordinator at HMP Manchester and the Revd Dr James Hawkey (1998), a Minor Canon at Westminster Abbey. In 2013, the matriculants of 2006 returned to a snowy College in March for their MA dinner, and in April the bi-annual Medical dinner was strongly supported once again. To complete the run of alumni reunion dinners this academic year, over 130 Girtonians came back for our inaugural Mathematics Reunion Dinner in May. The national Jane Martin Poetry Prize goes from strength to strength; we received twice as many entries this year as last year, with London-based poet Jen Campbell taking the prize for her energetic and skilful poetry. The landmark event of the year however was undoubtedly the opening in late June of the Sports Pavilion, named the John Marks Pavilion to honour the Life Fellow in celebration of his tireless support and enthusiasm, over many years, for sport at Girton. The sun shone, for what seemed like the first time in many months, as around 130 donors

and supporters, Fellows and staff, gathered for the official ribbon-cutting ceremony, a buffet lunch, speeches by the Mistress, Dr Marks and Professor Sarah Springman CBE (alumna, International Triathlete and Professor of Geotechnical Engineering at ETH Zurich) and a cricket match, narrowly won by the alumni team. Our thanks go in particular to the 800 alumni and supporters who over the last decade have donated to make the Pavilion a reality. A Great Campaign, our major fundraising campaign, continues apace with just over £5.5 million now raised since the start of the campaign. This year we raised a pleasing £150,000 in our telephone campaign, and the final push to complete the funding for the Sports Pavilion saw around a further £100,000 raised for this purpose. Our special thanks go to the Campaign Board, an effective combination of both alumni and Fellows, bringing together their wealth of expertise and tireless support; and to the donor of our recent fundraising dinner at The Ivy, to celebrate the first year of A Great Campaign.

Dr John Marks at the opening of the Sports Pavilion

The Mitress and Jen Campbell, winner of the 2013 Jane Martin Poetry Prize

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1963 Reunion Group

Law and Finance Event 2013

Dr John Marks at the opening of the Sports Pavilion

The Mitress and Jen Campbell, winner of the 2013 Jane Martin Poetry Prize

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As the Mistress mentions in her letter, the Friends’ activities (the Lawrence Room, the Choir, the Chapel, the People’s Portraits, the Gardens and the Library) have now all been given their own budgets, rather than being dependent on the subscriptions that they received on an annual basis from Friends and Patrons. This is because in the majority of cases the subscriptions were insufficient to cover the cost of

the activities and we felt that it was very important that these essential elements of College life were financially underpinned. As a result, from this year we will be making some important changes. We shall not be asking Friends and Patrons to renew their subscriptions, but rather, to make a regular or occasional donation should they wish. However our programme of cultural activities will continue as will

the Fellowship’s involvement in these important elements of College life. Additionally, all Friends (unless they request otherwise) will automatically be made Members of A Great Campaign, recognising and honouring their contribution to and interest in the College. The department saw a number of staff changes during the year with the retirement of Linda Scott (Gift Administrator) and Sam Venn (Deputy Development Director), Chris Hallebro (Annual Fund Officer) and Margaret Nicholson (part time Research and Database Officer) moving to other Colleges. The relatively high turnover of staff reflects a buoyant market in fundraisers against the backdrop of funding pressures across the charity sector. We have used the opportunity to reorganise the team and to better address the high volumes of donations and enquiries from alumni and supporters, with Tamsin Elbourn moving to the team full-time (from the Mistress’s Office) to spearhead event management, and Dr Hannah James taking responsibility for both research and gift administration. I would like to add my thanks to all of the alumni, donors and friends who make my job such a pleasure – and to all of my colleagues who have given up so much of their time to support our programme of events. Elizabeth Wade, Development Director and Fellow

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Admissions report We admitted a total of 145 students in October 2012, the reduction in numbers being a matter of policy. Of this intake, 49% are studying a Science subject, 47% are female and 69% of our home students (those educated in the UK) were from maintained schools, compared to 71% in 2011. In this admissions round, 90 offers (52%) were made through the Winter Pool, and six through the Summer Pool after A level results were announced. Our intake included two Junior Year Abroad students (in Physical Sciences and History); two ERASMUS students (MML and Linguistics); two MIT exchange students (Chemical Engineering and Physical Sciences) and one organ scholar. We held general Open Days in September and June, and a Mathematics Open Day at Wolfson Court to coincide with the Maths Faculty Open Day. 2013 saw a pleasing 25% increase in attendance at these events. The College was also open for visitors on both University Open Days in July. Admissions Tutors also met with 22 individual students who were unable to attend Open Days, and with teachers wishing to learn more about the Cambridge application process and how best to prepare their students. In April we entertained teachers attending the University’s

Teachers’ Conference, a very fruitful experience for all. The HE+ programme, which we run with a consortium of schools in Dudley, has gone from strength to strength, with the addition of a new subject area (Modern Languages), and 200 students benefiting at school, and 150 attending master-classes in Girton. This very rewarding programme owes its success to the commitment of the teachers in Dudley, and the Girton Fellows and others who have given their time to run masterclasses, and we are very grateful to all. We are also grateful for funding from the Central Admissions Office. Admissions Tutors have had two productive meetings with the Heads of Sixth Forms from most of the schools in our contact area of Camden with a view to setting up a similar scheme to HE+, but funded by Girton from the Girton Futures Fund. We look forward to working with these schools, from October 2013. In addition to these programmes, we have welcomed 14 school visits to Girton, and visited 14 schools. Another new venture this year was the production of a new College prospectus designed by one of our undergraduates, Craig Slade.

Craig has done a great job and the result is very professional. We also have a new ‘alternative prospectus’ written and compiled by Jacob Conalty, and produced by Fred Cotterill, the JCR Access and Academic Officer. Our thanks go to all three students. We are very grateful to all our undergraduates who are great ambassadors for the College, helping to make visitors welcome, assisting at Open Days, school visits and at interview time. We also thank all the Fellows and Directors of Studies who have participated in the wide range of access events and visits throughout the year. This has been Sandra Fulton’s last year as Admissions Tutor, and she now moves on to become Senior Tutor. We thank her for all her investment over the last nine years, and we welcome Dr Stuart Davis to the team. He will act as Admissions Tutor for Arts from July 2013. Finally, we thank the whole team in what we believe is the best admissions office in Cambridge: Angela Stratford (Head of Admissions and Tutorial), Wendy Langmead (Schools Liaison Assistant), Jenny Griffiths (Graduate Secretary), Katie Bowers (Tutorial Assistant) and Holli Driver (Trainee). Wendy will soon be leaving the office after working with us for four and a half years. Her friendliness and calm efficiency will be keenly missed, but we wish her all the very best for her future life in Yorkshire. Veronica Bennett, Admissions Tutor

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Bursaries and Grants report

Bursaries Fourteen holders of Emily Davies Bursaries (worth up to £3923.50 per student to cover the College Residence Charge) were in residence in 2012/13. The subjects being read by the bursary holders included Architecture, Biological Sciences, Engineering, English, Geography, Medicine, Music, Physical Sciences, Theology and Veterinary Medicine.

One hundred and twenty seven Cambridge Bursaries and fifteen Cambridge European Bursaries were received by Girton undergraduates in 2012/13. 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 £3,500 per year to those students from the least well-off households.

There were five holders of Ellen McArthur Bursaries (worth £1,000 in the first year and £1,500 in subsequent years) in residence in 2012/13, three of whom were reading Politics, Psychology & Sociology, one reading Economics and the final bursary holder reading History.

The College Overseas Bursaries of five overseas and four 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 2013. 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.

Three Jean Lindsay Memorial Bursaries for History, and two Margaret Barton Bursaries for Medical Sciences, were held by students in residence in 2012/13.

Librarian’s report

Grants Sixteen undergraduate students were made hardship grants from the Buss Fund totalling £1,918. Five graduate students received grants amounting to £2,520 from the Pillman Hardship Fund. For academic expenses, grants totalling £2.056 were made to fourteen undergraduates from the Student Academic Resources Fund. Twenty one graduate students received grants amounting to £3,6225 from the Pillman Academic Fund. The following grants were also made: four grants totalling £900 from the Beatrice Mary Thomas Fund for Physical Sciences and three grants totalling £600 from the Harry Barkley Fund to clinical medical students undertaking elective periods of training. Angela Stratford, Head of Tutorial & Admissions Office

I am writing this in mid-June, and in a few weeks’ time we shall be involved in a significant moving of our resources, when the College’s Law collections will transfer to the main site and away from Wolfson Court. This decision has been made for two main reasons. First, the building of Ash Court is bringing more of our undergraduates to live in Girton rather than Wolfson Court, and secondly, since the University’s Squire Law Library moved to its present site at Sidgwick Avenue, only a stone’s throw from Clarkson Road, there is a danger of duplication of resources. The advantages to our students of having everything on the site where they live is clear, and the extra security that Law books and journals can be given will mean that we are less likely to lose valuable material. The Law collection will move into the ground floor of the Extension, and Law students will use the general study areas in the Main Library for their work, including the group study room.

summer – 2013. However, owing primarily to the ill health of one of our researchers, but also to additional checks necessary after certain recent legal developments, we have extended the deadline to early autumn 2014, with the permission of our funders.

Dorothy Howard (1901), painted by her father

Most of the bound journals currently housed in the Extension will move down to Wolfson Court and take up the space vacated by Law. This means that the former Law Library can be made available as a study space for all students and not just for lawyers, as has been the case hitherto. This will also offer a range of options for the extended use of the Fletcher-Moulton Room, the other library space at Wolfson Court. It has been agreed that the former Law Library will largely retain its current name but will be called simply the Poppy Jolowicz Library. The University and Life Experience Website Project (Oral History) was due to be completed this

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Bursaries and Grants report

Three Jean Lindsay Memorial Bursaries for History, and two Margaret Barton Bursaries for Medical Sciences, were held by students in residence in 2012/13.

Librarian’s report

Dorothy Howard (1901), painted by her father

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Archivist’s report Yesterday two marble busts by Alexander Munro were flown into Heathrow and returned to us, after a long period of loan to a highly successful Pre-Raphaelite Exhibition, held first at Tate Britain and then at the National Gallery in Washington DC. One is of Dante Alighieri and the other of the Victorian reformer, Josephine Butler. This is the second time in two years that the Dante has been away to an exhibition. The busts are now safely re-installed in the Stanley Library. A charming watercolour of Dorothy Howard, painted by her father George, the ninth Earl of Carlisle, will be leaving shortly for an exhibition of his work, to be held at Tullie House in Carlisle between the end of July and mid-October. Gifts and Bequests to the Library (Please note that all the donations listed here refer to the period 1 July 2012–30 June 2013) We continue to benefit from the generosity of CUP, 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. Copies of their own work have been presented by: Dr Carlo L Acerini, Siobhan Chapman, Dr Stuart Davis, Phillipa Glanville (Fox-Robinson 1962), Hans-Helmut Görtz, Dr Frances M D Gulland

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(1978), Revd Dr Malcolm Guite, Christopher Hilliard, Irit Katz Feigis, Donata Kulviecaité, Karen Lee (1985), Jonathan Moffett (1990), Valerie Sanders (1975), Professor Marjorie Senechal, Dr Inge de Wilde, Anne C Wilson (1945). The following individuals have also presented copies of books and other media: The Mistress, Suegene Ang (2011), Luke Baker (2011), James Burke (2009), Dr Stuart Davis, Dr Sabine Deiringer, Gwynneth Drabble (1973), Calum Eadie (2010) Dr Ben Griffin, Revd Dr Malcolm Guite, Sophie Hermanns (2010), Chit Wha Lau-Gunn (Gunn 1948), Sarah Hale (2009), Sarah Newton (1971), Kathleen Reddish (1943), Nick Sparks (1985), Professor Dame Marilyn Strathern (Evans 1960), Dr Dorothy Thompson (Walbank 1958), Hailey E Woldt (2011). We are very grateful to the following donors, who maintain regular subscriptions to journals on our behalf, or who present us with regular current copies: Dr Harriet Allen (1977), Dr John Marks, Dr Alastair Reid, Professor Dame Marilyn Strathern (Evans 1960). Publications have also been presented by the following organisations: Clare College Library, Commonwealth War Graves Commission, The Economist, Flemish-Netherlands Foundation, Girton Project Steering Group, Klau Library, Prior Books, Tate Britain. Frances Gandy, Librarian and Curator

This year Girton took to the stage. Jessica Swale, author of the play Blue Stockings and its cast members visited the Archive to get a feel for the College, investigate records of early students and, as one of the actresses said, ‘find her character’s motivation’. It was fascinating to see how they translated all this into the play, performed at RADA in October. I look forward to seeing how this will be presented at the Globe in the autumn. In July, K Foster’s Benslow, which looks at the College’s early years at Benslow House, Hitchin, was performed at the Hitchin Festival. There have been some pleasing accessions this year. The Girton Sports Honours book and the Sports Pavilion opening were the catalyst for the deposit of several sports-related items. Early College sport is well represented in the Archive, but coverage is more sporadic from the 1940s. Perhaps the most exciting accession this year were the letters written by Penny Chaloner (1970) during her time at Girton. Access to these letters will be restricted for some time, but it is an excellent collection as it extends our records of the ‘Girton Experience’ into the 1970s. I would again like 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 memory, so please do get in touch if you have any records you would like to donate to the Archive. Joan Bullock-Anderson has catalogued numerous collections this year, including the literary papers of Lilian Furst (1952) and Veronica Forrest-Thomson (1968), and the diaries and semi-autobiographical papers of Margaret Smith (1904), Lucy Slater (1951), Sophia Turle, Hilda Sebastian (1916),

Marion Bidder (1879) and Marjorie Docking (S 1946). These catalogues, which include brief biographies, are available on the Janus website – http://janus.lib.cam.ac.uk/. The Archive continues to receive a wide variety of enquiries and visits, and this year has seen renewed research interest in Bessie Rayner Parkes and the Langham Place Group. Sheila Mann, a regular researcher since 2005, has nearly finished her book Aelfrida Tillyard: Hints of a Perfect Splendour. I would like to thank Sheila for her advice on Tillyard enquiries and her dedication to expanding the papers of Aelfrida and her two daughters Alethea (1926) and Agatha Graham (1929). Finally, I would like to say a huge thank you to Hilary Goy (Corke 1968) and Cherry Hopkins (Busbridge 1959) who have both continued to volunteer in the Archive. (The donations listed refer to the period 1 July 2012 – 30 June 2013) Jad Adams; Ann Alexander (Coulton 1955); Robert Athol; Irene Bell; Dr Penny Chaloner (1970); Barbara Cooke (2010); Professor Jonathan Culler; Pamela Downes (Sterry 1962); Margery Elliott (1938); Jessie Falconer (Chidlow 1950); Susan Gray (Francis 1968); Nancy Greeves (Morgans 1939); Imogen Gunn; Matthew Hatfield (2010); Dr Gillian

Detail of a photograph from Alethea Graham’s papers showing (L to R) Aelfrida Tillyard and her two daughters Alethea and Agatha Graham.

Jondorf (Moore 1956); Audrey Larcombe (Caple 1944); Dr John Marks; Anne Oldroyd (Holloway 1951); Dr Jacob Paskins; Felicity Potter; Public Cataloguing Foundation; Alice Smalley; Peter Sparks; Benjamin Sullivan; Dr Dorothy Thompson (Walbank 1958); Walter Tillyard; Jeremy West; Nuri Wyeth (Marckwald 1964). Records were also transferred from various College departments throughout the year. Hannah Westall, Archivist

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Detail of a photograph from Alethea Graham’s papers showing (L to R) Aelfrida Tillyard and her two daughters Alethea and Agatha Graham.

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Music report I write with distant echoes of the May Week Concert in my ears: a particularly memorable occasion. For a start, it included two canonic concertos: Beethoven's C minor Piano Concerto, played with great authority by Jâms Coleman, and Bach's Double Violin Concerto, performed with verve and style by Margaret Faultless and Mark Seow. Mark leaves us for postgraduate study at the Royal Academy of Music after a remarkable career at Girton, which has included topping the Tripos in his second year and missing the same

achievement in his finals by only one mark. (Fortunately, another Girtonian, Max Liefkes, came top of the Part IB results this year!) Sasha Millwood, another finalist who has contributed enormously to musical life at Girton – not least as an exceptionally efficient Music Society Secretary – played two roles in the May Week Concert: he conducted Wagner's Siegfried Idyll, and he also had two short orchestral

compositions premiered. The choir provided light entertainment during the interval; which, along with a very elegant orchestral arrangement of Brahms's Geistliches Lied, was put together by Ben Comeau, our Senior Organ Scholar. However, the most ambitious concert of the year was undoubtedly The Glories of Venice, performed in

Hall on 16 February (and in St John's College Chapel the previous evening). The project brought together many of the College's top musicians as well as leading performers from the University and beyond. The Director of Music conducted the University Chamber Choir, strengthened by most of Girton's choral scholars; Maggie Faultless led the Music Faculty's Collegium Musicum (whose backbone these days often seems to be made up of Girtonians); and Jeremy West put together and directed an extraordinary array of almost twenty Baroque brass instruments – probably the largest group of sackbuts and cornetts ever assembled in Cambridge. This combination enabled us to perform a wonderful assortment of works composed in or inspired by St Mark's. Motets stood cheek by jowl with instrumental canzonas, but for many the highlight of the evening was Gabrieli's magnificent 33-part Magnificat. Several audience members were surprised and delighted to note that one of the sackbut players was none other than the Mistress, Professor Smith. We hope to present a similar programme next year. The Collegium also performed at Girton on 10 March in a concert that celebrated both the generosity of the Friends of the Choir and the tenth anniversary of the St-Martin organ, a much admired instrument used this year for all the University organ examinations. Details of this concert appear elsewhere, in the Choir report. Girton's musical life centred, as usual, on the Sunday afternoon concert series, details of which can be found on the College website. Special events this year included a wonderful performance

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of Schubert's Winterreise given by Nicholas Mulroy and Jâms Coleman on 30 November. Given the unusual richness of vocal (and pianistic) talent currently available at Girton, we plan to put together a small Schubert-Fest in the coming months. Another notable occasion was the Mozartiade held on 28 January. The series of single-composer profiles, of which this was the third, is the brainchild of Maggie Faultless, and each year she has helped devise the programme and coach the players. Mozart offers particularly rich pickings, of course, and the programme could provide no more than a small sample of his oeuvre. However, the quality of performance was high, and the opportunity for most of the college's musicians to perform together in the intimate setting of the Stanley Library was particularly valued. Next year Beethoven!

to see that former award-holders are now able to pass on their wisdom to current undergraduates. Mateusz Borowiak, who graduated in 2009, returned to Girton on 1 February to coach some of the current crop of pianists as part of the Chamber Music Scheme, organised by Kate Kennedy. Not long afterwards we were delighted to hear that he won both the audience prize and third prize overall in the Queen Elisabeth Piano Competition in Brussels, a major peak in any concert pianist's career. The achievement is all the more remarkable when one considers that the twelve finalists were locked up for eight days, without internet or telephone, in order to learn a specially composed, fiendishly difficult concerto. Fortunately, Tripos examiners have not yet adopted this particular ruse! Martin Ennis, Director of Music

The Roll Concert this year was given by Hannah Watson; her recital consisted of works by Schubert and Janáček. She and Kieran Hughes joined forces later in the year, on 10 May, for a concert springing from their London Girton Association awards. A whole generation of Girtonians has benefitted from this remarkable scholarship, and it is good

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Chapel report It’s been an interesting and lively year for the chaplaincy and the Chapel community. Our theme for the Michaelmas Term was ‘Elements of Science and Faith’. Speakers were invited to explore the relationship between faith and science. Old Girtonian and scientist Diana Stretton began the series, and then four distinguished scientists, whose work engages with the traditional elements of earth, air, fire and water, each spoke on the relationship between their field of study and their faith. Our explorations of faith and science were further deepened by links with the Faraday Institute here in Cambridge, whose Director, Dr Rodney Holder, was one of our speakers. Another highlight of the Michaelmas Term in Chapel was a special Evensong on the theme of ‘Christian Unity’ at which the speaker was the Most Revd Dr Joseph Edra Ukpo, Archbishop of Calabar, in Nigeria. In the Lent Term our theme was ‘Teach us to Pray’. I preached through this term and gave a series of talks on the practice of prayer, beginning with reflections on the Lord’s Prayer and then looking at a variety of ways in which people have learned to deepen their spiritual life. This included sessions on meditation, Ignatian spirituality, and the ways music and poetry can enrich our prayer life. Speaking of music, of which you will see more in the choir report, I must record here how grateful I am to Nick Mulroy, the Organ Scholars, and the choir, for the excellence of the music in Chapel throughout this year. Now, this particular term was somewhat complicated by the fact that at the end of January I fell on the last possible patch of ice in winter and broke my ankle in two places. It meant that our Ash Wednesday Eucharist had to be conducted

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from a wheelchair and that for some of the services before that I was replaced by Dr Randall and by my wife, Revd Canon Maggie Guite, an OG. I’m very grateful to both of them! Our theme for Easter Term was ‘God on Monday: Faith in Everyday Life’, a phrase I borrowed from Christian business ethicist Dr Richard Higginson of Ridley Hall. Since Sunday is, for Christians, the first day of the week, not the last, and the truths celebrated in Church on Sunday should have a real impact on the working week and the way we live in the world, speakers for the Easter Term were invited to explore the potentially radical impact of Christian faith on the ‘secular’ worlds of business, politics, the environment, media and the arts. This has proved a lively and challenging topic, and opened up some very worthwhile conversations beyond the Chapel doors. And it is beyond the Chapel doors, of course, that most of my work goes on. As always I value the conversations I have with many different members of the Girton community, Fellows, staff and students, and this year, when I was held back so much by my injury, I have been grateful to my Chapel Wardens and others who have kept things going and then allowed me to pick up the threads so seamlessly. Malcolm Guite, Chaplain

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Choir Report Girton Choir has had a productive, varied and successful year. We began the year with most of last year’s choir still in residence, which was an enormous help to continuity, and enabled us to build on the successes we had and the good work that we did on tour in northern Spain over the Long Vacation. Our first major assignment was a weekend singing the services in the wonderful setting of Salisbury Cathedral (while their own Cathedral Choir was on half term). I was unable to be there myself as my son, Michael, was born almost as the choir processed in for Evensong on the Saturday evening, but was delighted that former Organ Scholar Chad Kelly, who is now making waves in the profession (he is due to take up a Junior Fellowship at Trinity Laban in September), was able to lead the choir for the weekend, where the singers sang some wonderful repertoire and engaged in some important social cohesion exercises… Michaelmas Term continued, and choir and soloists sang a moving performance of Fauré’s Requiem, with eloquent accompaniment from senior Organ Scholar Ben Comeau, for All Souls’ Day, and the final strait into Christmas vacation included a

variety of events. We sang the Eucharist at St John’s Chapel on Advent Sunday, singing Langlais’ monumental Messe Solennelle and Victoria’s O Quam Gloriosum, the former allowing Ben some licence to thrill with marvelously fruity Gallic sounds on the St John’s organ. Later that same week, the ladies of the Choir made a visit to our Chaplain’s ‘other’ home in St Edward’s, Peas Hill, to give their first performance of Britten’s Ceremony of Carols. They were accompanied by not one, but two choir harpists: Stephen Wilkinson and Ciara McGlade, who were hugely impressive. We hope to record the Britten as part of an Advent themed CD with exciting young record label, Stone Records. The final service of Michaelmas term included a piece written especially for the choir by former Swingle Singer and highly regarded composer, Jonathan Rathbone. His setting of Christina Rossetti’s Earth Grown Old was terrific – evocative, atmospheric and a very touching piece which we also hope to record. We reconvened after our break for figgy pudding and too much turkey, and sang a joint service with the Choir of Emmanuel College, which provided a welcome chance to collaborate with another choir, this time in music by Mendelssohn and

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Kodály. This coming October we’ll make a similar trip to sing with Clare Choir. We were delighted in February to share in Hannah James and Stephen Wyborn’s big day, as we sang for their wedding. It is always a particular joy of the choir’s life to help provide music for these special College occasions. Some of the choir took part in Dr Ennis’ hugely memorable ‘Glories of Venice’ concert in Girton and at St John’s College – what a thrill to hear the music of Gabrieli, Hassler, Monteverdi et al played and sung with such panache and commitment, and joined by, amongst many other instrumentalists, Margaret Faultless and Jeremy West, two of Girton’s very distinguished Musicians in Residence. After another of our cathedral visits, where we sang in York Minster, and as part of an evening of Britten’s music to celebrate the centenary of his birth, the ladies, with Ciara and Stephen again on harp, sang Ceremony of Carols in the Stanley Library, and later the same week, the choir had the immense privilege of singing for Morten Lauridsen. The American is the most recorded and most performed living composer of choral music (and something of a recluse), and three Cambridge choirs: Queens’, Robinson and Girton, were chosen to sing his music for him at a special event. It was a beautiful

occasion, and testament to both the power of Lauridsen’s music and the eloquence of musical collaboration. Lent Term finished with the concert for the Friends of the Chapel Choir. This year, it was combined with a concert to mark the 10th birthday of Girton’s magnificent St-Martin organ; Ben Comeau played Poulenc’s Organ Concerto, Martin Ennis Handel’s Op 4, No 1, and the choir sang Bach’s Cantata BWV 131, with a marvellous orchestra led by Margaret Faultless and terrific soloists including Girton’s own Camilla Seale and Charbel Mattar, who teaches singing to most of our choir. It was followed by the final service of term, a journey through Lent to Easter, and we marked this with music by Victoria, Tallis, Casals and Vaughan Williams.

minds cleared of exam (if not result!) stresses, and the summer stretching ahead of us. Personally, I’m excited to take the choir to the USA and Canada in September, where we’ll sing in Chicago, Toronto, Ann Arbor and London, Ontario, as well as being reunited with one of my predecessors, Dana Marsh, at Indianapolis Cathedral on our first port of call. It is hugely rewarding to hear the choir making such great strides – both individually and collectively – and some of their work this year has been hugely accomplished. Once again, we’ll lose only one to graduation, and two who we hope will rejoin us after their years abroad; the signs for next year’s ventures are auspicious. Nicholas Mulroy, Director of Chapel Music

For obvious reasons, Easter Term is quieter than the others. Services keep us singing together, and despite the exam stresses we still managed to enjoy our contribution to the College Feast, which is such an important part of the College’s year. Some of the choir took part in a Girton Consort event at the start of term which included some top notch music and music making by many of Girton’s finest musicians. We now look forward to end of term events such as the May Week concert and end of year thanksgiving services, with our

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A Recipe from the Junior Bursar Following the popularity of last year’s recipe, the Junior Bursar Maureen Hackett has chosen to use her space in The Year to offer us another mouthwatering recipe from our award-winning chef!

Recipe (from the College chef, James Circuit) Slow-roast fillet of beef, shallot marmalade, celeriac purée and essence of port Beef fillet steak salt pepper Port wine sauce port beef stock Confit garlic garlic bulbs duck fat butter Celeriac purée celeriac water double cream Shallot marmalade caster sugar shallots red wine vinegar red wine Spinach butter baby spinach

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Make the port wine sauce by placing the alcohol in a hot pan and reducing by half. Once the port is a thin syrup consistency, add the beef stock and reduce the liquid by half again until it is the consistency of light gravy. Break the heads of garlic into individual cloves, making sure to keep the outer skin intact, simmer the cloves in the duck fat for 30 minutes until tender. Drain, cool and remove the outer skin of the garlic. Before serving, quickly colour the garlic in a pan of hot butter. To make the purée: peel the celeriac, chop into 2 cm cubes and put in a pan with 50/50 milk and water. Boil for 20 minutes or until soft, then drain. Blend the celeriac in a food processor until smooth, then add the boiled double cream, pass through a sieve and keep warm until needed. To make the shallot marmalade, put the caster sugar in a pan, take it to golden caramel stage and add sliced shallots. Cook until tender (approximately 30 minutes).

De-glaze the pan with the vinegar, and continue to cook until the mixture becomes sticky. Add the red wine, and reduce until all the liquid has evaporated. Allow to cool before serving.

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Season and sear the steaks in a hot pan for 30 seconds on each side. Place in the oven and cook at 200°C for 4–10 minutes depending on your preference, turning halfway through the cooking time. Rest the meat in a warm part of the kitchen for 4 minutes before cutting. To cook the spinach, warm the butter and slowly wilt the spinach in the butter until soft. Drain any excess liquid and keep warm until ready to serve. To serve, sweep the celeriac purée across each plate. Spoon the shallot marmalade onto the centre of the sweep, and top with a large cut of the steak. Place two small spoonfuls of the spinach either side of this, and top with two bite-sized pieces of the steak. Place a larger spoonful of the spinach next to the large steak. Scatter three browned cloves of confit garlic across the plate, and drizzle with the port wine reduction. Serves 4

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De-glaze the pan with the vinegar, and continue to cook until the mixture becomes sticky. Add the red wine, and reduce until all the liquid has evaporated. Allow to cool before serving.

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JCR report In many ways, a report on the Girton Junior Combination Room community could be a regurgitation of previous years: high spirits, great social cohesion, a variety of amazing people doing a variety of amazing things. The society reports in the following pages will demonstrate this. Readers from the alumni will be pleased to hear that undergraduate life has not drastically changed as they nostalgically play back the good times – Freshers’ Week frivolities, Christmas Formal Hall, a sunny May Week and so on. Another thing that has not changed for the JCR community is the religious participation in the activity of cycling. Believe it or not, despite enormous campaigning, we are still waiting for the distance between Girton and town to be reduced.

MCR report But in the Girton JCR community some things are changing, most notably the wall colour in the Common Room. Along with a new lick of (light blue) paint come a new set of furniture, a large TV and an Xbox games console that we hope will not be too detrimental to undergraduate exam results. The JCR Committee has been busy trying to fulfil its mantra of ‘making the possible, possible’ despite a tripledip chocolate-chip credit-crunch recession which has impacted on our budget. An exciting new Alternative Prospectus has been produced by Jacob Conalty, the out-going Access and Academic Officer, which we hope will give future generations some insider insights into the experiences of Girton undergraduates.

From alternative prospectuses to alternative prospects: the JCR had the pleasure of welcoming Old Girtonian and Creative Director of Innocent drinks company, Dan Germain, to pass on words of inspiration and education at the inaugural JCR Speaker Event. Mr Germain gave insights into the life of an entrepreneur and the importance of ‘the team’, as well as effortlessly convincing the audience of two things: 1. There is more to life than a career in banking or management consultancy. 2. We should all be buying Innocent smoothies. I would like to thank Dan Germain for his speech and can certainly say that the audience regarded the event as a resounding success. The JCR Committee intend to continue the JCR Speaker Event on an annual basis as a result. In all, it has been a full and active year for the community and for the individuals within it. I would like to extend a ‘Thank you’ from the JCR to the College staff and the College Council for allowing us to have such a significant input into the College’s strategy and operations. The unity between the students and the Fellowship is growing stronger and the collaboration really is making the possible, possible. Matthew Hatfield, JCR President 2012–13

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This year, we focused on expanding the MCR’s presence both internally, within the Girton community, and externally, in the larger Cambridge community. The MCR and SCR research seminars have continued – an initiative carried over from previous years, providing a platform for Fellows to present their work informally and accessibly, and for graduate students to present their work to fellow-Girtonians. The presentations are given in the style of ‘Pecha Kucha’: you are allowed 20 presentation slides, which is more than enough; however, you are allowed only 20 seconds per slide: definitely not enough. Pause for a drink of water or just to catch your breath? Nope. If you snooze, you lose. The presentations are not only educational, but highly entertaining, with a wide range of approaches to the Pecha Kucha style. If you can present your work to an audience with no knowledge in your field in just 20 slides, with 20 seconds a slide, and convince them about your work, then you can certainly present anywhere else. A great variety of topics has been covered, ranging from the physics of nanomagnetism to the politics of the Irish circus. This year we were determined to strengthen the bond that already exists between Girton and its alumni.

To do so, the MCR worked closely with the Development Office to host a dinner at the Oxford and Cambridge Club in London. Because of its location and its beauty, the Oxford and Cambridge Club is the ideal location to host such an event. It was great for us to be able to sit down, appreciate the setting, and reflect together on past experiences and, for some, look forward to the time ahead outside of Girton College. Although it was the first time the MCR has hosted such an event in London, it was a resounding success, with current students socialising with alumni throughout the evening. I hope that this dinner was the first of many to come. Each term we have our own dinner that aims to strengthen the internal bonds of the MCR. Following a precedent from last year, we held the Lent Term MCR dinner in the College Dining Hall, and invited six colleges to join us and enjoy the Girton ‘experience’. This event thus allows the MCR to strengthen its bonds with other college MCRs. After dessert, the social secretaries invited us to a Rubik’s-cube-themed party organised in Old Hall, where participants were asked to wear different colours and swap items of clothing until they were in one solid colour, with prizes being awarded for the fastest participants to be dressed in one colour.

Furthermore, this year’s social secretaries were particularly keen on providing current students with the opportunity to attend formal dinners in other colleges and to offer other colleges the opportunity to visit Girton. This resulted in several formal dinner swaps a week, throughout the three terms. Every visiting college made the same comment: ‘We didn’t realise that Girton was so beautiful.’ Our Welfare officers have also been keeping an eye on the graduate students to ensure their welfare during stressful times, especially during the exam period. Their Mad Hatter’s Tea Party was a great success, and a great break from the books for a few hours. I have been working closely with our younger colleagues in the JCR to strengthen links between the MCR and JCR. I have also been working with the other colleges on, and close to, Grange Road and founded the West Cambridge Alliance to promote events and bring graduates in these colleges closer together. To celebrate this alliance, a joint event was held in Wolfson College, which was a great success, and quickly sold out of tickets. Haider Al-Taie, MCR President

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Biological Society The Biological Society has arranged a number of events this year, with the help of a very enthusiastic committee. In Michaelmas Term, we organised a PhD talk, to which we invited two old Girtonians, Naomi Penfold and James Lester, who are currently doing their PhDs, to come back and tell us about the application process. This event was mainly targeted at the final-year students. We also organised a summer placement talk, at which seven speakers gave presentations on their placement experiences. We included experiences from non-science (Laura Highcock), Biological lab work (Lizzie Hollwey, Susanne Mesoy, George Averill, David Fischer, Jing Zhao) and Physics lab work (Sebastian Mizera). This event was attended by a large group from both the Biological and Physical Sciences. Another highlight of the Michaelmas Term was the formal speaker event, at which Professor Sharon Peacock gave a presentation on her life as a scientist. Professor Peacock is a clinical microbiologist based in the Department of Medicine. Her life as a scientist has been truly inspiring; for example, she directed a wide-ranging programme of bacterial disease research in Thailand, and is now focusing on the role of sequencing technologies in diagnostic microbiology. This event was attended by both Biologists and Medics. In Lent Term the Biological Society arranged a talk targeted at the current Part IB students on subject choices for Part II, as the decision deadline was approaching. We invited Part II students doing a variety of subjects, including Psychology (Joshua Falconer Roberts), Pathology (Izzy Smith), Zoology

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Christian Union (Hannah Grayer), Plants (Gareth Johnson), Genetics (Lizzie Hollwey), and Biochemistry (Susanne Mesoy and Jing Zhao). This event also gave the Part IBs an opportunity to ask questions about the different subjects.

The past year has been an exciting time for Girton Christian Union. From the start, our Sunday preChurch fried breakfasts proved a popular way for freshers and returning students alike to get to know each other and to provide extra encouragement to make time for one of the most important events of our week.

Next term will see more exciting events from the Biological Sciences, including a garden party. I sincerely hope that the Biological Sciences students in Girton have found the events this year helpful, and that they have provided them with a platform of exchange with students from other years. A new committee will be elected towards the end of the Easter Term, and I would like to wish them all the best of luck for the coming year.

In addition, throughout the year, our regular midweek meetings have provided a great opportunity for us as Christians to be able to take a step back from the world of work and look beyond it to the encouragement of the truths that we hold to. These have also been a great time to enjoy ourselves as a group, our meetings ultimately culminating in a long-awaited cook-off between Sarah Gunn and David Harris on the final meeting of their year as reps.

Jing Zhao, President

Of course the Christian Union is also an outward-looking organisation, and this year has supplied many opportunities for the wider College community to consider the message we believe in. For example, Michaelmas Term saw the return of the popular Text-a-Toastie evening where students could text in a question and a food order and have the toastie brought to their room along with an answer. There have also been opportunities for Bible studies and slightly more formal question and answer sessions for anyone who was interested. One of the main features of the year was the 'What Kind of God?' week, run by the central Cambridge Christian Union in February. During this time we offered a free copy of John's Gospel to everyone in College, and there was an exciting programme of talks about the Christian faith, held centrally in Cambridge, that many of us in College had the chance to attend. Girton continues to be a place where some of the greatest minds tackle some of the greatest questions this world has to offer, and so as a Christian Union we relish the opportunity to engage with our fellow-Girtonians in discussing some of the biggest questions of them all. David Harris and Sarah Gunn, College Reps

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Jing Zhao, President

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The cast of The King of England's Daughter (from left to right): Ryan Weedon, Josie Teale, Jack Pulman-Slater, Samuel Nello-Deakin, Ellie Lavan and Aaron Crossey

GADS Girton Amateur Dramatics Society enjoyed a fruitful year, staging five productions. Our 2012 May Week show, Dear Uncle Perceval, took place in the Stanley Library. This provided a perfect setting for the early twentieth-century farce, which featured numerous costume changes, with servants and butlers mixed up in various love triangles. Our next production was an abridged version of the much-loved Girton the Musical for the freshers. There was much hilarity during this unofficial introduction to their new home. The end of Michaelmas Term saw Josie Teale's turn at directing and writing the traditional Girton-themed pantomime, starring Buster the cat (in puppet form) as an evil mastermind bent on taking over the world by means of kidnapping the College mummy, Hermione. We were thrilled to discover that it had been our most profitable production to date; extra seats had to be brought into Old Hall to accommodate everyone! Lent Term has been our busiest this year, with two productions taking place. Jack PulmanSlater directed the English-language stage première of The King of England's Daughter, a tragedy set in medieval Wales, written in Welsh by Saunders Lewis. Abandoning a traditional stage once more, with the permission of the Chaplain, GADS was able to use the Chapel as the atmospheric setting for the play. The Cambridge Student described the candle-lit performance as 'a rare chance to see one of the classics of Welsh literature in one of Cambridge's most unique theatrical spaces'. Our second production of Lent Term was Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales: The Knight's, The Nun’s, The Priest’s and The Miller's tales, directed by

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Buster takes his final bow in the Michaelmas pantomime – with Josie Teale

Bella Nicholson. Students from Selwyn and Fitzwilliam joined the GADS ranks, going some way to fulfilling our goal of broadening the scope of the society and reaching out across the university. GADS was pleased to see members of the College staff attending, including the Mistress and the Chaplain (who had already ‘broken a leg’), as well as members of Girton village, and students from both Girton and other colleges. It's been a brilliant year for GADS: the society has grown and been able to undertake more ambitious and demanding performances. We're hoping to recruit more budding thespians next year, and are looking forward to another year of spectacular productions. We've managed to get a bit more organised... but are still committed to providing the most relaxed and welcoming platform for theatre in Cambridge. Jack Pulman-Slater, Secretary and Camilla Gibbons, Publicity Officer

The Finale of Dear Uncle Perceval (from left to right): Jack Pulman-Slater, Ryan Weedon, Charlie RogersWashington, Alex Mirosovic-Sorgo, Robbie Haylett, Josie Teale, Gareth Johnson, Alex Thompson, Pippy Wiseman

The cast of The King of England's Daughter (from left to right): Ryan Weedon, Josie Teale, Jack Pulman-Slater, Samuel Nello-Deakin, Ellie Lavan and Aaron Crossey

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Buster takes his final bow in the Michaelmas pantomime – with Josie Teale

Joan Robinson Society (Economics)

Music Society and Chamber Music Scheme

The Joan Robinson Society has continued to thrive as a successful and active subject-based society this year, with presentations, as well as less formal meetings and gatherings.

Although the quantity of Sunday afternoon recitals has been somewhat low this academic year, our evening concerts have been particularly numerous, and the ambition and quality of our performing activity have been as been as high as ever, drawing on the considerable and wide-ranging expertise of the Music Fellows and Musicians-in-Residence. We are very fortunate in having this roster of accomplished performers, who have continued to be very generous with their time to coach and to play alongside us, providing invaluable guidance as we explore both familiar and less familiar repertoire, which has ranged from sixteenth-century music written for the basilicas of Venice to music written in 2013 by Girton composers for Tripos assessment.

We began the Michaelmas Term with informal welcome drinks for the incoming freshers before the freshers' Formal. This allowed them to be introduced to the Society and meet the other members, as well as to chat to a couple of their new supervisors in a more casual environment. This event formed the bonds between the years of Girtonian Economists, which have remained exceptionally strong as we progressed through the year. Later in the term we had a talk about internships, which provided useful and highly relevant insights into an important subject for many members of the Society. In addition, we had the pleasure of welcoming Girton alumna Sarah Hewin, currently Head of European Research at Standard Chartered Bank, to speak about the euro-area crisis. Lent Term for the Society was started by a dissertation presentation by the thirdyears, who each provided a review of their plans for their dissertations, the problems they had been facing, and their findings so far. This was extremely useful for second-years, who could see how econometric techniques are applied in a research context, providing

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ideas and potential methods to be used in their projects. First-year students also gained inspiration from seeing how the knowledge of the course can be applied to give real economic insights and real-life research. One first-year described what she saw as ‘the reason I study Economics’. Easter Term looks promising for the Society as we plan to bring in one more guest speaker, as well as arranging a garden party after exams. The key to the Society's success this year has been the attendance and enthusiasm from its members, and I hope this will continue in years to come. Shyam Modi, President

Many events have been joint efforts, enabling us to reconcile quantity and quality and involve more of our membership. This was particularly exemplified by our Mozartiade in January, which saw a total of nineteen musicians, including Dr Martin Ennis, Dr Kate Kennedy and Margaret Faultless, perform sonatas, chamber music, arias, two choral pieces, and even an in-house transcription of a symphonic movement! This combination of pragmatism and expediency has meant that our members, far from being pigeonholed by their existing abilities, often take on challenges outside their direct expertise to acquire new skills: during my undergraduate career, I have found myself being called upon to improvise on figured bass and jazz harmony, and to perform not only on my two ‘native’ instruments – pianoforte and violin – but also on viola, harmonium, chamber organ, and harpsichord! Sasha Valeri Millwood, GCMS Secretary

Chamber Music Scheme The past year has seen a dramatic expansion of both the size and the quantity of our projects. With the benefit of weekly meetings over coffee and croissant, our enthusiasm has been channelled by Dr Kate Kennedy into a busy schedule of masterclasses, performances and coaching sessions throughout the year. Our masterclasses have continued to provide vital experience for each and every student, and have provided added momentum towards

First year Ben Glassberg being coached by conductor Peter Stark

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Joan Robinson Society (Economics)

Music Society and Chamber Music Scheme

The Joan Robinson Society has continued to thrive as a successful and active subject-based society this year, with presentations, as well as less formal meetings and gatherings.

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First year Ben Glassberg being coached by conductor Peter Stark

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concerts in which our musicians were involved. Wind players from Girton and drawn from other colleges spent a day with the wind quintet the Gallimaufry Ensemble, and played side by side with them in a concert. Pianists have been busy, with renowned accompanists and solo pianists regularly coming to College to work with them. Conductors have also been put through their paces with William Carslake and Peter Stark, who worked with student conductors both embarking on their debut concerts, and those who are already very experienced. A Girton orchestra, known as Girton Sinfonia has been created, as a platform for some of our student conductors to perform.

players, including: our Britten concert which featured Musician-in-Residence tenor Andrew Kennedy and the ladies of Girton College choir; a performance of Schubert’s Winterreise given by Nicholas Mulroy and Jâms Coleman.

Lent term was dominated by our biggest project yet: a fully staged opera. Benjamin Britten’s challenging opera The Rape of Lucretia was met with a huge amount of enthusiasm, and from the beginning of the audition process until the end raised the bar for the standard expected of a student production. Its two performances, in Girton and Queens’ College both sold out, and a star cast and orchestra, conducted by Girton’s first year conductor Ben Glassberg, rose to the challenge of a piece that is both difficult in terms of subject matter, and technically extremely demanding.

Next year, closely partnered with GCMS, and strengthened by the prospect of new additions to the group in the coming Michaelmas term, we are looking forward to another year of inspirational teaching and of fantastic and wide-ranging concerts and recitals.

The year ended with two different but equally rewarding events – an afternoon of masterclasses with the baritone Roderick Williams, and a weekend of music-making in Gloucestershire at the fabulous house of Amy Jeffs, a third year art historian and singer, who has been a much valued member of the Scheme, and has contributed regularly to our jazz evenings.

Photography Society The Bernie Lee Photographic Society has been fairly inactive this year. Some have suggested that this is due to the general demise of print photography. Others have ironically attributed it to the ubiquity of the cameramobile phone. In keeping with the times, we have established an online presence (www.girtonjcrphotography.tumblr.com). This page functions as an online gallery for students to showcase their work. A few active members still continue to use the Society’s film and digital equipment, often simply to take photos of Girton’s beautiful surroundings. The Society has been particularly active in documenting College events: we have photographed several sports matches, musical productions and formal events.

Girton Football 1st captain, Jack Rans, providing half-time motivation during the

Mark Seow, President

quarter-final match against Magdalene.

Robert Haylett Chamber Music Scheme Secretary

Senior organ scholar Ben Comeau accompanying second year Robbie Haylett

This was undoubtedly the most extravagant of our achievements, directed by Britten scholar Kate Kennedy and double Olivier Award-winning actress Samantha Spiro. It received national media attention, as crucial lines in the libretto, censored from the original in 1946, were added for the first time. Glyndebourne Opera have taken our lead, and will be altering their production this season accordingly. There were also many performances of equally high calibre which did not involve quite so many

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Girton Football 1st captain, Jack Rans, providing half-time motivation during the

Mark Seow, President

quarter-final match against Magdalene.

Robert Haylett Chamber Music Scheme Secretary

Senior organ scholar Ben Comeau accompanying second year Robbie Haylett

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Badminton

This year has seen the re-establishment of Girton SAFE (Sub-Saharan African Fund for Education), which is one of the many branches of CUSAFE, the University umbrella organisation. The purpose of the society is twofold. First, to raise money for charities working in Southern Africa to promote education, and secondly, to raise awareness of the barriers to education and development that exist. To do this, Girton SAFE works with projects and charities that aim to overcome these issues, especially those with links to current Girton students. In the past, Girton has raised money through an opt-out scheme annually on the College bill, and donations have benefited projects such as the Menelik Education Ltd Summer Schools in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and the Hillcrest Advice Centre and Bursary Fund which supports impoverished students through school and as they enter into careers.

Men’s Team Running up to the new year of badminton, we were worried by how many of our strong players had moved on after a very successful year. However, this worry turned out to be needless, as lots of new talent joined the club. The men's first team started off slowly in Michaelmas Term (the norm in recent years), but picked up strongly in Lent Term. The team almost completed Girton's third consecutive Cuppers' victory, but fell just short to a very strong Clinical School team in the final. A few days later, Girton went on to champion the Division 1 Open League, making it a very successful term overall for the team. This was a very strong set of players, who grew stronger as a team as the year progressed. Many of the players have a few years left at Girton, and so we have great hopes for the future of the team.

It is fair to say that 2012–13 has been a rather slow year for Girton SAFE and it has taken a while for us to find our feet. We have been able to use this time to organise and plan for the next academic year (for example by doing all those exciting essential activities such as opening a bank account), and so we are very optimistic and positive about the work that will be done in 2013–14. The highlight of this year came in the form of a Christmas card project for an NGO in Zimbabwe called ‘Serving a Mighty God Trust’. Towards the end of Michaelmas 2012 we gave Girton students the opportunity to join us in the JCR to make, write and send encouraging Christmas cards to children benefiting from the work of the Trust: a really successful and fun evening for all involved. Rebecca Boardman, Co-ordinator

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Women’s Team It has been a volatile year for the women’s team. We started off in Division 2 in the Michaelmas Term, the highest in at least five years. Unfortunately, the team suffered huge losses, partly due to the many players having graduated the previous year, but also due to strong rivalry in the division. In the Lent Term, the women’s team put up an outstanding performance, losing only one match to Wolfson and eventually coming first in Division 3. It has been a fantastic year and I must thank all the women who have taken part.

Girton Men's First Team (from left to right): Ng Huey Yuen, William Moss, Rajan Bhopal, Prashant Chand-Bajpai, Vincent Poon, Edward Kwok.

Edward Kwok, President

The loss of players from the previous year hit the men's second team the hardest. Although the team grew together and some good pairings developed, it was a frustrating year for the seconds. Training was strong, and the players worked hard, but the team struggled to convert this to success in matches.

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Girton Men's First Team (from left to right): Ng Huey Yuen, William Moss, Rajan Bhopal, Prashant Chand-Bajpai, Vincent Poon, Edward Kwok.

Edward Kwok, President

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Boat Club

Members of GCBC past and present after the annual GCBC-TIBC races.

After earning blades in May Bumps 2012, a victorious M1 crew row past members of GCBC past and present.

The Girton men’s side rose to the challenge of the May Bumps 2012 with both M1 and M2 getting blades, and M1 making the first division for the first time in 32 years, since the formation of the first men’s boat. The first women’s boat gave a very strong performance, moving up for the first time since 2008 by three places. Our second women’s boat were disappointed to move down three places, faced by tough opposition. Michaelmas Term started off well with three rowers from GCBC deciding to trial for the University: Alastair Springgay for CUBC, Lottie Meggitt and Holly Game for CUWBC. However, this, combined with a below-average novice intake, resulted in a challenging term for the club. Nevertheless, we rose to the high standards set by previous years, with M1 finishing 20th in Fairbairns, two places up from the previous year. Despite half of W1 being ex-novices, they also competed well in Fairbairns, with a time only one second slower than the previous year, a result that showed the strength of mind of the crew. Good performances were also produced by M2 and NM1, while our invitational women’s boat, a composite of current and alumnae rowers, gained 15th place overall.

Cycling Club The beginning of Lent Term saw the return of our President to the club, which lifted the mood, and got the new year off to a good start. Special thanks go to alumna Kelly Clark for coming back and coaching during training camp, as well as supporting crews from the bank during Lent Bumps. M1 were unfortunately unable to replicate the successes of last year, and went down one place to 10th overall, with several hard-fought row-overs. W1 were bumped on the first day thanks to multiple crabs, but managed to return the favour on the second day, and then continued to maintain their position near the top of Division II. The second men were unlucky, being bumped every day, despite the quality of rowing improving throughout the week. The second women suffered the same fate, and regrettably didn’t place in Lent Bumps, despite a strong performance in the getting-on race. For the first time in several years, Girton were able to field a composite W1 crew for the Women’s Eights Head of the River Race on the 9th March, with 2 alumnae, Emily Hall and Hannah Sensecall, in the boat. Despite this being a new environment for most of the crew, they put in a strong performance, finishing 207th out of 302 boats. Racing off-Cam is a

fantastic experience we wish to continue in future years, and hopefully it will spread to all levels of the club. Girton presented a strong showing in the University boat races at Dorney on 23 March, with Lottie Meggitt and Holly Game each stroking their boats in two hard-fought races for the CUWBC Lightweight and Blue boats respectively. We look forward to their return to form a very strong women’s squad this Easter Term. In addition to this, we wish the best of luck to Holly Game, who is currently trialling for the GB U23 and Development Squad, and will be racing with the Blue boat at BUCS, Henley Women’s, and Henley Royal Regattas. We have high hopes for the May Bumps, with a very strong women’s squad and promising men’s crews who hope to continue to improve upon the previous year’s hard-earned position in the first division. We would like to thank all of those who have supported the club this year, and all our rowers and coxes who have made 2012–13 such a success. As ever, to keep up to date with GCBC, visit www.girtoncollegeboatclub.com. Jon Tong, President Beverley Wilson, Women’s Captain-Elect Annabel Butcher, Women’s Captain Calum Eadie, Men’s Captain

Welcome to Girton’s newest sports club! 2012 was the maiden year for the College’s very own cycling club. Set up by Will Sloper and James Fountain after discovering that a number of people in College were keen cyclists, we have begun building a team and even started to compete! The club focuses on Road Cycling, helping riders learn to ride safely and quickly in a group, and is beginning to provide more significant training for racing as time goes on. With multiple rides during the week, and a joint Club Run with the University Team at the weekend, it already boasts one of the most demanding training schedules of Girton’s teams, and provides a fantastic excuse to wear excessive quantities of lycra! So far we have entered three riders into individual timed events, with fantastic results: Matt Meek (3rd-year Vet) – 70 mile course – 16th out of 76 competitors Will Sloper (2nd-year Medic) – 70 mile course – 15th out of 77 Ellie Hayward (1st-year Historian) – 50 mile course – 30th out of 80 We also had a great result at Cuppers (an intercollegiate time trial held over a ten-mile course): Will Sloper – 13th out of 100 competitors Matt Meek – 30th out of 100 competitors This placed Girton 8th out of 19 competing colleges. Here’s to continued success!

Mays Boat Club Dinner 2012 where GCBC were honoured to host so many Alumni.

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Boat Club

Members of GCBC past and present after the annual GCBC-TIBC races.

After earning blades in May Bumps 2012, a victorious M1 crew row past members of GCBC past and present.

Mays Boat Club Dinner 2012 where GCBC were honoured to host so many Alumni.

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3rds Football The Girton 3rd team had a varied year of ups and downs this year. The season started in Michaelmas with the realisation that many of the team from the last year, including the previous captain, had in fact betrayed the squad to join the 2nd team. However, the core of the line-up had remained loyal, and with the help of some new recruits from the freshers, we regularly managed to field a strong side. However, owing to shortages in the 2nd team and a high level of necessary commitment from the 3rd team players, we agreed to merge to form something of a ‘Superteam’ from the beginning of Lent Term. The first fixture of the year was against Peterhouse. Having a fresh squad of well-rested athletes helped us ensure sufficient attacking prowess and flair to result in a 7–5 victory. This was followed by a tightly-fought fixture against Selwyn. The opposition worked us hard that week, and either they wanted to win more than we did, or we lacked stamina at the end, but we ended up letting a 4–3 lead slip through our fingertips in the last few seconds of the game, resulting in a slightly demoralising 4–4 draw. It could have been said that we played the better football, and were

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Hockey hindered by injury and a lack of substitutes, but the results could not be negotiated. The final game of the independent 3rd team was against Anglia Ruskin University. Despite a well organised team structure, a lack of commitment from certain squad members meant starting the game with only 8 players. Strong performances from the goalkeeper and defenders meant that we could hold the game, to be trailing only 1–0 by the time reinforcements arrived, but the level of fitness and stamina shown by the ARU team was unprecedented, and as the game continued and our weary 10 men became over-stretched, there was nothing that could be done to stop the 6–1 rout that followed, ending the term on something of a low point.

Men’s Hockey Girton Hockey Club has experienced a season of mixed emotions. Hockey is Girton's most successful major sport, with Girton Men's in Division 1 (the top 6 teams in Cambridge). In the Michaelmas Term, we came 4th – a greater achievement even than the Boat Club's M1 position of 10th in the Lent Bumps. Despite struggling for numbers on numerous occasions, Girton Men’s and Women’s Hockey somehow continues to survive in the top division. Along with the acquisition of new players this season, a new motto has materialised: 'Ludus ante victoriam' – 'Banter before Victory', a saying that goes way back in the annals of Girton Hockey to the time of GCHC legends Alec Dawson and Olly Russell, but has only recently been honoured with a Latin translation. The motto reminds us that despite victory being the main goal, we take each match in good spirits. Charles Fletcher, Men’s Hockey Captain

Following this result, meetings and discussions with the 2nd team led us to the decision that both teams would benefit by a merger into a 2nd and 3rd team combined force to help the 2nds stave off relegation. We can but hope for the best. Shyam Modi, Captain

Women’s Hockey After reaching the final of the plate competition last year, the women’s side were keen to carry their success on into the new season. With several new recruits, and sporting our new team shirts, we were ready and raring to go. Our first match against a strong Christ’s side didn’t get our campaign off to the best of starts, as we lost 4–1. Building on what we had learnt from our defeat to Christ’s, our next match against Emmanuel proved to be much more fruitful.

We quickly settled into the game and began to play well as a team. Excellent passing play and drives down the wings ensured an emphatic 6–0 victory with goals aplenty from the season’s top scorer Natasha Charlesworth. Our match against Selwyn proved to be much more of a test; however, a fine performance from goalkeeper Rachel Coy, and a solid defence headed by Emily Guest, kept our score-sheet clean on several occasions. Good attacking play from Kirsten Beggs and Lottie Murphy gave us the edge to claim a well-fought 2–0 victory.

Overall the season has been a positive one. Excellent individual and team performances throughout led us comfortably to retain a strong position in division 2. Hopefully next year we’ll be ready to go that one step further and gain promotion to the first division. Congratulations to Girton students Izzy Smith and Natasha Charlesworth who represented the University this year, playing for the Blues (1st XI) and Bedouins (3rd XI) respectively. Louise Whiteley, Women’s Hockey Captain

The goals kept coming in our fixture against Pembroke, giving us another 6–0 win. Miranda Johnson showed the Pembroke defence how it should be done and dominated the centre, adding several goals to the tally. The season ended much as it started with another hard-fought defeat, this time to a tough Newnham opposition. With a shortage of players and some early goals from Newnham, we were on the back foot from the start, but we quickly rallied, and put on a valiant show. Despite multiple chances on goal from Hannah Grayer and Emily Chadwick, we were unable to capitalise and the final score remained 2–0.

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Netball Ladies’ Netball After an enthusiastic year of netball in 2011–12, the Girton Ladies’ Netball Team were looking to maintain their position in Division 2 of 5 in the College Netball League. The Societies Fair saw a record number of eager freshers sign up in anticipation of an enjoyable year of netball. Michaelmas Term got off to a great start with a 20–4 win over Homerton. Unfortunately, we were unsuccessful for the rest of the season in gaining another win, finishing 6 out of 8 in our Division, and narrowly missing relegation. However, our team had lots of potential, with freshers Tamsin Banner and Ro Sharp providing a stern defence; Grace Ebony Darling, supported by Kayeon Yoo, consistently brought the ball down through the centre third, and Jenni Howe provided precious goals in the shooting circle. Returning Girtonians Rachel Gardner and Eleanor Richards also played brilliantly together in the shooting circle, with their notoriously quick, sharp passes. Charlie Rogers Washington also returned to add to our defensive line-up. Once again, Lent Term got off to a flying start with another win over Homerton, 16–6. After this match it appeared the term was heading in a similar downwards direction to the previous term, with a string of losses to Corpus Christi, St John’s and Pembroke. Our last match of the year was against Christ’s. In Michaelmas we had suffered our worst defeat of the year (5–21) to them, so our hopes were not high. But in a change of fortunes, and despite missing some key players, we were able to come away with a well-fought victory of 13–9. This last score, together with a couple of conceded matches by other colleges, placed us 3rd in the Division, just missing out on promotion to Division 1

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with the second-largest goal difference of 47. A great note on which to end the year. Lent Term also saw the Ladies’ Netball Cuppers take place. We played some excellent netball in the short games, beating three of the five in our group, with a notable victory of 9–1 over St John’s, against whom we had suffered a 4–12 defeat earlier in the term. Overall, with our two losses, 3–8 and 5–8, coming from Division 1 teams Murray Edwards and Trinity respectively, the tournament was a success. Thomasina Ball, Captain

Mixed Netball After an earnest but disappointing year in which the only matches we won were through the other teams conceding, this year was always going to be an improvement. But what an improvement it was! Following a huge influx of keen freshers into our regular pool of players, from the outset we had an advantage over the other Division 3 teams who appeared not to enjoy similar fresh talent. As a result, the teams that obliterated us last year were conquered with ease. Special mention goes to our solid star shooters, Alex Fudge and Rachel

Gardner (whose 20 goals against Trinity Hall must be some sort of College record), and our determinedly aggressive defenders Tristan Harkcom (Captain-elect, whose idea of a ‘noncontact’ sport is somewhat expansive) and Tamsin Banner (Blue triallist and Iron Lady Umpire).

Roll of Alumni

Week after week in Michaelmas Term, colleges succumbed to our might: Christ’s, Robinson, Trinity Hall, Sidney Sussex and Magdalene. The only two teams that managed to get the better of us that term were Trinity and the Vets, but we didn’t take much umbrage since they ended up being the only two teams to be promoted to Division 2 at the end of the season. In Lent we were slightly less consistent because of the everchanging combinations of players available for our weekend fixtures, but we still won the majority of our matches. On 10 March we played Cuppers at Jesus College’s courts, and despite being the only Division 3 team in our group, managed to beat Division 2 team Clare decisively 6–0. Next year we hope to build upon our experience, with the majority of our team having completed their first year at Cambridge, and finally break through into Division 2! Natalie Bird, Captain

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Roll of Alumni

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Calendar of Events

Local Associations

(all events take place in the College, unless otherwise stated)

It’s been another busy year for the Girton Associations – here’s a snapshot of their activities:

2013 Infidel Boat Club Dinner Economics Dinner Mountford Humanities and Arts Communication Prize Alumni Sports Matches/Dinner 2014 Lent Term Hammond Science Communication Prize Alumni Formal Hall Geographical Society Dinner Law and Finance Event Slaughter and May, London Choir Concert and Tea College Ball MA Congregation and Dinner Easter Term Girton Gardens Walk Alumni Formal Hall Jane Martin Poetry Prize May Bumps Marquee May Week Concert

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Saturday 9 November Saturday 16 November Friday 29 November Saturday 30 November

Wednesday 19 February Thursday 20 February Saturday 22 February Wednesday 5 March Sunday 9 March Friday 14 March date in March tbc

Friday 2 May Thursday 22 May date in May tbc Saturday 14 June Tuesday 17 June

Summer Term Alumni Reunion Dinner Saturday 20 September Matriculation years of 1998,1999, 2000 and 2004 Annual Library Lecture Saturday 27 September Annual Lawrence Room Lecture Saturday 27 September People’s Portraits Reception Saturday 27 September Roll of Alumni Dinner Saturday 27 September Open to all alumni (with reunion tables for matriculation years 1954,1964,1974, 1979 and 1980) Annual Gardens Talk Sunday 28 September Bookings for the Roll of Alumni Weekend and Dinner can be made on the enclosed form; for details about the other events in the calendar please contact the College on alumni@girton.cam.ac.uk or 01233 338901.

London Girton Association Tours of the Supreme Court, St James Theatre, trips to galleries and museums, a visit to a homeless shelter Bi-annual LGA Music Award winners’ recital: Kieran Hughes (flute) and Hannah Watson (piano) Poetry reading by Gwyneth Lewis, OG and first National Poet of Wales Cambridge Local Girton Association Talk by a member of the Scott Polar Research Institute on the Japanese Expeditions to the Pole 2010–12 Attending the ‘Glories of Venice’ concert at Girton (along with the LGA) Attending the Founders’ Memorial Lecture, with dinner in a local pub afterwards Lunch at the Fitzwilliam Museum and a trip to the Whipple Science Museum with the Local Association of St Anne’s, Oxford Manchester Association of Cambridge University Women Tour of the BBC studios, Salford Quays Annual Dinner at the Royal Northern College of Music, with an address from the acting President of Murray Edwards College, Professor Ruth LyndenBell, and Lynn Charlton, CEO of Manchester charity After Adoption AGM at Withington Girls’ School, lunch and a talk from Dr Mary Eminson on Munchausen’s Syndrome by proxy

LGA poetry reading

MACUW

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Calendar of Events

Local Associations

(all events take place in the College, unless otherwise stated)

It’s been another busy year for the Girton Associations – here’s a snapshot of their activities:

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Saturday 9 November Saturday 16 November Friday 29 November Saturday 30 November

Wednesday 19 February Thursday 20 February Saturday 22 February Wednesday 5 March Sunday 9 March Friday 14 March date in March tbc

Friday 2 May Thursday 22 May date in May tbc Saturday 14 June Tuesday 17 June

LGA poetry reading

MACUW

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Oxford Region Girtonians Birthday tea to celebrate 20 years of the association, at retired Girton Mistress Juliet Campbell’s house Talks on the Romanovs, and on ‘Place names and the Anglo-Saxon traveller’ Pre-Christmas lunch Regular newsletter

Births, Deaths and Marriages

Wales and West Girtonians Association Visit to Hereford Cathedral Newsletter

CLGA: Contact: Valerie Hall on clga@girton.cam.ac.uk

Oxford Region Birthday Party

LGA: Any Girtonian is welcome and you do not have to live in London. Contact: Nuri Wyeth on lga@girton.cam.ac.uk, www.facebook.com/LondonGirtonAssociation or www.girton.cam.ac.uk/london-girton-association MACUW: Contact: Helen Wright (Newnham) h.e.wright@btinternet.com ORG: Contact: Meg Day on org@girton.cam.ac.uk or 01865 375916, or www.oxfordregiongirtonians.org.uk WWGA: Contact Angela Bowen on wwga@girton.cam.ac.uk

Meg Day and Juliet Campbell

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Births, Deaths and Marriages

Wales and West Girtonians Association Visit to Hereford Cathedral Newsletter

CLGA: Contact: Valerie Hall on clga@girton.cam.ac.uk

Oxford Region Birthday Party

Meg Day and Juliet Campbell

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Births

Marriages

Carr. On 8 October 2012, to Katherine (Adams 1998) and Andrew, a son, Benjamin Adam, a brother for Thomas Charles.

Below – Gosling. On 8 September 2012, Katie L Below (2005) to Mark Gosling (2005).

Claass – Magezi. On 21 June 2013, to Johanna Claass (1999) and David Magezi (1999), a son, Noah Kisembo, a brother for Maya Nsemere.

Bromage – Naseman. On 14 April 2012, Jennifer E Bromage (2005) to Ben E Naseman (2007).

Ennion-Smith – Smith. On 26 November 2012, to Lizzy (Staff) and Ben Smith, a daughter, Annabelle Molly.

Samue Joseph Field

Heidi Diana Francis

Field. On 30 May 2012, to Anna (Waters 1998) and Andrew (1997), a son, Samuel Joseph, a brother for Amy Mathilda.

Katie Below and Mark Gosling

Coe – Sylvester. On 21 July 2012, Steve D Coe (Staff) to Katie Sylvester.

Francis. On 9 January 2012, to Helen (Barnes 1998) and Robin, a daughter, Heidi Diana.

Charlotte Clifton and Jonathan Murrells

Cochrane – Kyriakides. On 9 July 2011, Kate Cochrane (2002) to Stelios Kyriakides.

Kells – Grant. On 15 November 2012, to Andrea Kells (1994) and Andrew Grant, a daughter, Charlotte Andrea, a sister for Madeleine. Lingard. On 8 November 2012, to Sarah (Cobb 1998) and Thomas, a son, George Sebastian, a brother for Florence.

Clifton – Murrells. On 14 July 2012, Charlotte Amelia Clifton (2003) to Jonathan C Murrells (2003).

Michael Xavier Mulroy

Louisa Charlotte Musselman

Cockeram – Penson. On 4 May 2013, Chris Cockeram (2003) to Anthony Penson.

Kate Cochrane and Stelios Kyriakides

Francis – Griffin. In October 2012, Dariel E Francis (Peachey 1965) to William A G Griffin.

Mulroy. On 19 October 2012, to Nicholas Mulroy (Fellow) and Annie, a son, Michael Xavier, a brother to Katherine. Musselman – Scherebnyj. On 16 March 2013, to Kevin Musselman (Research Fellow) and Katrina Scherebnyj, a daughter, Louisa Charlotte. Scarff. On 21 May 2013, to Moira (Herring 1999) and Oliver, a son, Leo.

Leo Scarff

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Dariel Francis and William Griffin

Steve Coe and Katie Sylvester

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Births

Marriages

Carr. On 8 October 2012, to Katherine (Adams 1998) and Andrew, a son, Benjamin Adam, a brother for Thomas Charles.

Below – Gosling. On 8 September 2012, Katie L Below (2005) to Mark Gosling (2005).

Claass – Magezi. On 21 June 2013, to Johanna Claass (1999) and David Magezi (1999), a son, Noah Kisembo, a brother for Maya Nsemere.

Bromage – Naseman. On 14 April 2012, Jennifer E Bromage (2005) to Ben E Naseman (2007).

Ennion-Smith – Smith. On 26 November 2012, to Lizzy (Staff) and Ben Smith, a daughter, Annabelle Molly.

Samue Joseph Field

Heidi Diana Francis

Field. On 30 May 2012, to Anna (Waters 1998) and Andrew (1997), a son, Samuel Joseph, a brother for Amy Mathilda.

Katie Below and Mark Gosling

Coe – Sylvester. On 21 July 2012, Steve D Coe (Staff) to Katie Sylvester.

Francis. On 9 January 2012, to Helen (Barnes 1998) and Robin, a daughter, Heidi Diana.

Charlotte Clifton and Jonathan Murrells

Cochrane – Kyriakides. On 9 July 2011, Kate Cochrane (2002) to Stelios Kyriakides.

Clifton – Murrells. On 14 July 2012, Charlotte Amelia Clifton (2003) to Jonathan C Murrells (2003).

Michael Xavier Mulroy

Louisa Charlotte Musselman

Cockeram – Penson. On 4 May 2013, Chris Cockeram (2003) to Anthony Penson.

Kate Cochrane and Stelios Kyriakides

Francis – Griffin. In October 2012, Dariel E Francis (Peachey 1965) to William A G Griffin.

Leo Scarff

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Dariel Francis and William Griffin

Steve Coe and Katie Sylvester

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Gerleigner – Herding. On 6 October 2012, Georg S Gerleigner (2007) to Maruta Herding (2007).

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Gilmour – Morris. On 15 June 2012, Anna C Gilmour (1998) to Simon Wayne Dwyr Morris.

ASCHERSON. On 8 March 2012, Corinna Jane (Adam) MA (1954 Modern and Medieval Languages; 1956 Economics). Corinna was born in London, daughter of Kenneth Adam, a controller of BBC Programming, and Ruth Augusta King, author. She was educated at Ashford School in Kent before coming up to Girton to read French and Spanish in the Modern and Medieval Languages Tripos, switching to Economics in her third year. In 1957 she joined the staff of the Observer in Paris where she met up again with Neal Ascherson, a journalist with the Manchester Guardian, having first met him in Cambridge where he read History at King’s College. They had also met at an anti-Suez demonstration in Whitehall when Neal prevented her then boyfriend from being trampled by a charge by mounted police. She married Neal in 1958 and they had two daughters, Marina and Isobel.

Herring – Scarff. On 1 September 2012, Moira G Herring (1999) to Oliver Scarff. Georg Gerleigner and Maruta Herding

James – Wyborn. On 2 February 2013, Hannah James (2002) to Stephen Wyborn. Merritt – Ball. On 5 May 2012, Andrew J Merritt (1986) to Sara Ball.

Moira Herring and Oliver Scarff

Murdoch – Feng. On 16 September 2012, Steven Murdoch (2002) to Wai Yi Feng. Paterson – Trevelyan. On 6 April 2013, Robert Paterson (1992) to Esme Trevelyan. Anna Gilmour and Simon Morris

Smith – Bloggs. On 1 February 2013, Joe Smith (1998) to Jane Bloggs. Tudor – Hook. On 13 October 2012, Pippa A E Tudor (2002) to David Hook. Pippa Tudor and David Hook

Tymieniecka – Pickstone. On 22 September 2012, Karolina Elizabeth Tymieniecka (1998) to Stephen Christopher Andrew Pickstone. Hannah James and Stephen Wyborn

Richard Wielechowski and Francisca Malarée

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Wielechowski – Malarée. On 21 September 2012, Richard Wielechowski (2002) to Francisca Malarée (Past Fellow).

Corinna and Neal were known as the golden couple of journalism, both being internationally admired and respected. Like her mother, Corinna was a feminist and a socialist with strong principles, especially regarding issues such as advancing education for everyone regardless of their background, freedom of speech, and human rights. During their married life Corinna and Neal lived in Bonn, Berlin and Bethnal Green but separated in 1974, and divorced ten years later. Corinna did not marry again, although she had a long-standing friendship with Anthony Howard, Editor of the New Statesman magazine where she became Associate Editor. She also worked for the Guardian, and later edited the newspaper produced by Age Concern in Hammersmith.

In retirement she continued to be very sociable, giving parties in her garden, and entertaining friends and neighbours with her lively conversation. Sadly, she suffered ill health, with mobility problems, and died in a house-fire from smoke inhalation. ASKONAS. On 9 January 2013, Brigitte (Known as Ita) PhD (1948 Natural Sciences). Obituary p.85 BALL. On 17 January 2013, Nancy MA (1941 History). Nancy was born in Birkenhead on 8 July 1922 and grew up in Southport where she attended the High School for Girls, before coming up to Girton to read History. At College, Nancy held a Russell Gurney Scholarship and received the Lilian Knowles Prize in 1943 for a First Class in Part I of the Tripos. After graduation she gained a Cambridge Teachers’ Certificate from the Cambridge Training College. She began her lifelong teaching career in 1945 at Hulme Grammar School, Oldham, and taught in a number of institutions including Derby Training College, Tividale Comprehensive School, Tipton, and World’s End Primary School, Birmingham. She also lectured in Education at Bingley Training College, and became Principal Lecturer in Education at Crewe and Alsager College of Higher Education). She maintained her own studies, receiving a Diploma in Education from the University of London in 1956, an MA in Education from the University of Birmingham in 1961, and a PhD in Educational History from the University of Keele in 1971.

Corinna Ascherson

She published two books (as well as articles) on nineteenth-century elementary school education: Her Majesty's Inspectorate 1839–1849 (1963), and

Stephen Murdoch and Wai Yi Feng

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Gerleigner – Herding. On 6 October 2012, Georg S Gerleigner (2007) to Maruta Herding (2007).

Deaths

Gilmour – Morris. On 15 June 2012, Anna C Gilmour (1998) to Simon Wayne Dwyr Morris.

Herring – Scarff. On 1 September 2012, Moira G Herring (1999) to Oliver Scarff. Georg Gerleigner and Maruta Herding

James – Wyborn. On 2 February 2013, Hannah James (2002) to Stephen Wyborn. Merritt – Ball. On 5 May 2012, Andrew J Merritt (1986) to Sara Ball.

Moira Herring and Oliver Scarff

Murdoch – Feng. On 16 September 2012, Steven Murdoch (2002) to Wai Yi Feng. Paterson – Trevelyan. On 6 April 2013, Robert Paterson (1992) to Esme Trevelyan. Anna Gilmour and Simon Morris

Smith – Bloggs. On 1 February 2013, Joe Smith (1998) to Jane Bloggs. Tudor – Hook. On 13 October 2012, Pippa A E Tudor (2002) to David Hook. Pippa Tudor and David Hook

Tymieniecka – Pickstone. On 22 September 2012, Karolina Elizabeth Tymieniecka (1998) to Stephen Christopher Andrew Pickstone. Hannah James and Stephen Wyborn

Richard Wielechowski and Francisca Malarée

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Wielechowski – Malarée. On 21 September 2012, Richard Wielechowski (2002) to Francisca Malarée (Past Fellow).

Corinna Ascherson

She published two books (as well as articles) on nineteenth-century elementary school education: Her Majesty's Inspectorate 1839–1849 (1963), and

Stephen Murdoch and Wai Yi Feng

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Educating the People: A Documentary History of Elementary Schooling in England 1840–1870 (1983). She retired to Nantwich in 1977, where she joined St Mary’s Church. For many years she worked as a volunteer at Nantwich Museum and was a considerable expert on Nantwich and Cheshire local history; for a time she was also Archivist at St Mary’s. Latterly, she moved to Richmond. Nancy’s other interests included reading, walking, travel and ornithology. (Information supplied by her cousins, Christine Parr and Bill Marsden) BARBER. On 17 February 2013, Helen Rosemary (Tolson) MA (1960 English). Helen attended Moorfield School in Plymouth and St Audries School, Taunton, before coming to Girton to read English. Having been brought up by the sea, she loved sailing, and became a Cambridge Half-Blue in 1963. After graduation she took a secretarial course in London before embarking on a publishing career. Her first post was in the Publicity Department of Macmillan Publishers, from where she moved to André Deutsch in 1967 as Publicity Manager, and in 1972 to the East Anglia Tourist Board as Publications Officer. She met Richard Barber at Macmillan, although he had been at Corpus Christi reading History when she was at Girton, and they married in 1970. Together with some other friends they founded Boydell Press, which later became Boydell and Brewer when Derek Brewer joined them. The first titles they published were in Medieval Studies, and this became their principal field. The list developed during the 1970s and in 1979 Helen began to work

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full-time for the company. Helen is survived by her husband Richard, their two children Humphrey and Elaine, daughter-in-law Maura, and grandchildren Marlowe and Willow. BASS. On 9 April 2013, Elaine Iseult (Ellis) MA (1952 Natural Sciences). Elaine was born in London to Eunice and Arthur Ellis, and educated at Brockenhurst County High School and Haberdashers’ Aske’s Hatcham Girls’ School before coming up to Girton to read Natural Sciences. Arthur was a schoolmaster, and Elaine followed in his footsteps by taking a teacher training course at Hughes Hall, where she was awarded a PGCE in 1956. She lived in London and taught physics at Wimbledon County School for Girls for the next three years. For a short time she changed her career, becoming a hospital physicist at Kingston-upon-Hull Royal Infirmary before returning to teaching at Letchworth Grammar School. She married Sidney John Bass in November 1960 and they moved to Ashwell, Hertfordshire, where they had their first child the following year. With a family of four young children, Elaine returned to teaching, after a seven-year gap, at Aston Primary School, then moved to the Edward Peake Middle School, Biggleswade, and finally in 1983 to Droitwich Senior School. Elaine enjoyed gardening, hill walking and orienteering, and was much involved in voluntary work in Malvern. She is survived by her husband, three sons, a daughter and several grandchildren. (Written with the help of Joan Butler, 1952)

BRABY. On 9 February 2013, Miriam BA (1940 History; 1942 Moral Sciences). Miriam was born in Harden, New South Wales, Australia, and was educated there at Murrumburrah School before moving to England to continue her education at Westcliff High School. While at Girton she was awarded a Cambridge Blue for Hockey. Miriam continued her education at Glasgow University, where she trained for Labour Management. In 1944 she was appointed Assistant Welfare Organiser for Westcot Manufacturing Co Ltd, Egham. Miriam went on to devote a large part of her life to helping foreign students settle into the country, and taught them English from her home. She would also rent rooms to students from all over the world, and encourage friendly international relations; one student lived with her for 16 years, from the age of 13, after his family returned to India. In Gravesend, where she made her home, she founded the Gravesend and District International Club, to allow foreign students to socialise. Miriam worked tirelessly and voluntarily for her students, even buying a minibus to take them on trips and holidays. Her enthusiasm and dedication inspired many to help her in her efforts to bring people together, leading some to describe her as ‘the Mother Teresa of Gravesend’.

BRUCE. On 22 November 2012, Margaret (Kitchen) OBE MA (1937 Modern and Medieval Languages). Margaret was the daughter of Elizabeth and Percy Inman Kitchen, Principal of Rugby Technical College and of the Rugby Day Continuation School. She was educated at Rugby High School and the British Institute in Paris, and had private tuition in Munich before coming up to Girton to read French and German. After graduation, her first post was at the British Thomson Houston Company’s Research Laboratory Library in Rugby followed by an appointment in the Press Research and Archives Section of the Foreign Office Research Department, London. For a short period in 1945 she was also Private Secretary to the Mistress of Girton College. Margaret entered the United Nations Service in November 1945 in London, and attended when the organisation met for the first time in 1946. When the UN moved to America in the following year she was one of the first of the secretariat to travel to Hunter College in New York. There she worked on human rights and women’s issues, and worked with Eleanor Roosevelt on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In 1952, Margaret married William James Bruce, who also worked at the Secretariat. In 1973 she was

appointed Deputy Director of the Center for Social Development and Humanitarian Affairs. She travelled the world representing the Secretary-General at conferences on human rights and the status of women. At one point in her 32-year career at the UN, she was the highestranking British woman in the Secretariat, and was awarded an OBE in the New Year’s Honours List in 1978. In retirement Margaret continued to serve as a member of the National Board of Directors of the United Nations Association of the USA, and later of the Southern New York division and the Westchester chapter; she was also active in the Association of International Civil Servants and was the first woman president of the Federation of Associations of Former Internal Civil Servants from 1985 to 1988. She is survived by her daughter, Anne Sarokin, son-in-law, William, granddaughters Hannah and Emily. BURTON. On 20 February 2013, Ena Mary MA (1937 English). Ena was born in Banbury to Eva and Harold Burton. After graduating from Cambridge she continued her studies at Oxford University, and gained a Diploma in Education in 1941. Her first teaching post was at Dame Allan’s Girls School in Newcastle-upon-Tyne and she worked there throughout the war years. In 1945 she was appointed English Mistress at Wolmer’s Girls’ School in Kingston, Jamaica, where she stayed for three years. In 1948 she returned to England, to a temporary English Lectureship at Bingley Training College. She joined the King’s High School in Warwick in 1949, and taught English and Drama until her retirement in 1977.

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BUTTON. On 15 January 2013, Dorothy (Walker) MA (1934 Mathematics). Dorothy grew up in Dewsbury, Yorkshire, where her father owned a small mill: Harold Walker Dyers Ltd. She attended the Wheelwright Grammar School, where the Headmistress, Miss Isabella Thwaites, herself a Girtonian (1909 Mathematics), was influential in encouraging Dorothy to push herself academically, and she subsequently become the first in her extended family to attend university. She married Frank W Button (Gonville and Caius) on 3 September 1939: unfortunately, the day war was declared. ‘Dewsbury bride’s hurried wedding’ was reported in the local paper. They soon moved to Reading where their base was Leighton Park School, a Quaker foundation, at which Frank taught French and German until he retired. Wesley Methodist Church in Reading became a large part of their lives. Most of Dorothy’s working life was spent at Kendrick School in Reading, where she quickly became Head of the Mathematics Department. She was very highly regarded there, and took great pleasure in any progress her students made. In retirement, she enjoyed teaching basic literacy and numeracy to adults, and also spent many happy days tracking down the details of Walker and Button ancestors. Dorothy moved into sheltered housing in 1999, soon after Frank died. She was extremely grateful for the warm atmosphere there and the many friendships she made. Dorothy leaves two daughters, four grandchildren (spread between

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Brazil, Japan and Canada) and seven great-grandchildren.

DAWSON. On 26 October 2012, Christine Margaret (Firth), MA, PhD (1962 Natural Sciences).

(Edited notice from Margaret Collins, daughter) CURRAN. On 22 April 2013, Eileen Mary MA (1948 English). Eileen was born on 11 May 1927 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. She was educated at Staten Island Academy in New York and Cornell University, gaining a BA with distinction in 1948. Eileen came up to Girton as an affiliated student to read for the English Tripos, and took papers from both Part I and Part II in 1950. She began her teaching career at the University of New Hampshire, returned to Cornell University as a teaching assistant, and continued her studies, gaining a PhD in nineteenthcentury literature in 1958. After receiving her doctorate, Eileen taught English at Ohio University before moving to Colby College, where she stayed until her retirement in 1992 when she was awarded the title of Professor of English Emerita. Eileen was also Director of Colby’s Miller Library from 1973 to 1976. Eileen made many contributions to various journals, chiefly the Victorian Periodicals Newsletter, and she was also Associate Editor of The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals, 1824– 1900. Eileen was a generous supporter of Girton College, and in particular of the Library and Archive.

Christine (known universally as Chris) was born in Dewsbury but moved to the Swansea Valley in 1956. Most of her secondary education was at Ystalyfera Grammar School, and from there she went up to Girton in 1962 to read Natural Sciences. After graduation she studied for a PhD in the Biochemistry department at Cambridge, working on the changes in glucose metabolism in diabetes. While working for her PhD she met her future husband, Alan Dawson, who was doing a PhD in the same department. Alan moved to a lectureship at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, in 1967 and Chris followed him there after their

marriage a year later. After a period as a research fellow at UEA she stopped work to have children (Ben and Anna), but in 1978 returned to the School of Biology at UEA, working in a lively, international group studying the biophysics of insulin release from pancreatic cells. After eight very happy years she decided to pursue her interest in applied medical biochemistry, and moved to the Clinical Biochemistry Department at the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital, where she stayed until retirement in 2004. After retirement, her extraordinary talents for organisation were put to great use in a variety of causes. She joined the Norfolk branch of Butterfly Conservation and took over the running of the formal butterfly recording schemes in the county. In the space of 5 years she increased the number of transect routes on which butterflies were recorded in nature reserves from 5 to 36 as well as setting up 30 sites on farmland for recording butterfly populations outside nature reserves. She was much in demand as a speaker on butterflies at both local and national level. Chris died suddenly in her sleep on 26 October 2012. Her death has left a great gap and her loss is deeply mourned by Alan, their children and five grandchildren, and by the large number of friends and colleagues in

the many organisations that she worked for so unstintingly. (Edited notice from her husband, Alan Dawson) DEUCHAR. On 27 November 2012, Beryl Mary MA (1938 History). Beryl read History at Girton, and was awarded the Lilian Knowles Prize in her final year. After graduation, Beryl joined the Board of Trade as Assistant Principal and, in 1943, the British Red Cross where she worked in the Prisoner of War Education Department. In 1944 she received the Oxford University Diploma in Economics and Public Administration, which she passed with distinction. Beryl married Captain Lindsay Stewart Deuchar in April 1949 and they had a son, Robert, born in Hong Kong in 1951. DOCKING. On 16 May 2013, Marjorie Daphne (Staff 1946–1986). Obituary P. 109 DONNISON. On 4 February 2013, Aileen Barbara MA, MB BChir (1946 Natural Sciences). Barbara had a long and distinguished career in medicine, specialising in paediatrics. She was born in Nairobi, Kenya, to Cyril Percy Donnison, consultant paediatrician, and Doris Clara Hicks, and was older sister to Lesley Thomas (Donnison 1948).

Barbara was educated at Cheltenham Ladies’ College before coming to Girton to read Natural Sciences. Looking back at her time in Cambridge she said, ‘It was a wonderful 3 years in spite of all the post-war restrictions! It was an opportunity to meet people from all over the world.’ She did her clinical training at the London Hospital, obtaining Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery degrees in 1953. Barbara moved to the south-west, and over the following three years worked as House Physician at the Royal Cornwall Infirmary in Truro, as Paediatric House Physician at the Southmead Hospital in Bristol, and as Senior House Officer at Tadwell Court Hospital for Sick Children. She gained a Diploma in Child Health in 1956 and became Paediatric Registrar at hospitals in Plymouth and Bristol. In 1963 she moved back to London and was Senior Registrar at St Mary’s Hospital and, in 1966, Consultant Paediatrician at the East Berkshire District Hospitals. After she retired she travelled extensively, and it was a proud claim on her part that she had been everywhere except South America. She finally returned to England and settled in Farnham Common in a new house where she made a beautiful garden, to the delight of her mother who went to live with her there. She died in the Old Vicarage nursing home in Oxfordshire, at the age of 86. ELLIOTT. On 13 January 2013, Julia Margaret Clare (O’Donovan) MA (1960 Modern and Medieval Languages). Julia was born in London and came up to Girton from the North London Collegiate School to read

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Brazil, Japan and Canada) and seven great-grandchildren.

DAWSON. On 26 October 2012, Christine Margaret (Firth), MA, PhD (1962 Natural Sciences).

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French and German. After graduation she completed some secretarial training before joining the British Library as Assistant Keeper in the Department of Printed Books. She married Timothy Elliott, a medievalist who had studied at Trinity College, in 1964. She brought up a family of two daughters and a son, all three of whom went to Trinity. In the early 1970s Julia became a Local Correspondent at the British Council, followed by a post at the National College of Agricultural Engineering, Silsoe, as a Lodgings Officer. From 1978 she worked for Bedfordshire County Council’s Social Services as a Playgroup Advisor. In September 2001 she joined Ofsted as a Childcare Inspector and, after she retired, worked in a voluntary capacity with the Citizens’ Advice Bureau in Bedfordshire.

School (History), Lord Digby’s Girls’ Grammar School, Sherborne, Sherborne School for Girls, and St Anthony’s, Sherborne (French), as well as bringing up a family of three children: Julian, Penelope and Michael. During the mid-1970s she sang in the Dorset Opera and for some short periods Judy and George lived in America (1980–1, 1993–5 and 2000–1), so Judy took the opportunity to sing for the Boston Concert Opera and Masterworks Chorale, in Lexington. She also lived and taught in Malawi from 1990 to 1993. Judy fought against multiple sclerosis for many years and at the end she suffered from cancer.

(Edited notice from her husband, Timothy Elliott) FACER. On 21 September 2012, Judy Anne (Heath) BA (1960 History; 1962 Modern and Medieval Languages). Judy was born in Edinburgh and attended schools there and then Cheltenham Ladies’ College before coming up to Girton to read History, switching to French and Latin in the Modern and Medieval Languages Tripos for her final year. During her three years in Cambridge Judy pursued many interests including sport, receiving lacrosse and cricket Blues, and she sang in the College Choir. She was also the Treasurer of the Girton Ball Committee in 1962–3. After graduation, Judy joined the staff at the Simon Langton Girls’ School in Canterbury, teaching French and History. She married George Facer, also a teacher, in April 1966 in Canterbury Cathedral. Over the next few years Judy was employed as a teacher at Twickenham County Girls’

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FLETCHER. On 17 July 2011, Ruth MA (1969 Medical Sciences; 1971 Natural Sciences). Ruth was born in Sheffield, and attended Lady Manners School in Bakewell before coming to Girton. She read Medical and Natural Sciences, gaining a First Class result in the latter, and was awarded the Edith Lydia Johns Scholarship and Marion Bidder Prize. Ruth completed her clinical course at Newcastle and gained an MB and BS in 1975, and DRCOG (Diploma Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists) in 1978, whilst working as a Clinical Medical Officer (child development and disabled children) at Newcastle. Her other hospital posts included

House Officer, Hexham; Senior House Officer (Rheumatology) at Newcastle; School Medical Officer, Child Health, Family Planning, and Clinical Medical Officer (mental disabilities) at Prudhoe Hospital. In 1990 she joined the Health and Safety Executive as an occupational health physician, and later worked for Nuffield Health as a locum doctor, and Newcastle Premier Health as a consultation occupational physician. Not only was Ruth a respected doctor, she was also a talented sportswoman from her days at Cambridge, when she was a member of the hockey team, up to her untimely death when she died on a diving trip off the Northumberland coast. Although Ruth was born with a bicuspid aortic valve, a condition which can lead to an irregular heartbeat, she competed in triathlons, running, kayaking and cycling, and was variously a member of Hexham Canoe Club, Tynedale Harriers, Tyne Triathlon Club and Northumberland Fell Runners. She was also a former quadrathlon champion, North-East fell-running champion and Scottish 100k title holder. Ruth also cared about her community, and was a former director of Leisure Tynedale, a charitable organisation which supports and develops many of Northumberland’s sports services.

FORD. On 8 April 2013, Philip John (1977 Research Fellow). Obituary P.109 FRANCIS. On 25 April 2012, Elizabeth Anne Cobbold (Gilman) MA (1946 English). Anne was born to Henry Gilman and a Girtonian mother, Ida Elizabeth Gilman (Cobbold 1908). She had been a member of the Women’s Royal Navy Service (WRNS) during the war years, and so came up to Cambridge at the age of 22. Following four busy years as a Wren, she thought it wonderful to have the time to read and meet congenial people, both men and women. For a year after gaining her degree, Anne nursed at St Thomas’s Hospital. She married Peter Raphael Francis, a Consulting Actuary, on 12 September 1950, and their first daughter, Elizabeth Mary, was born the following September. Over the next few years, the household grew quite substantially, with twins Cecilia and Richard being born in 1953, Charles in 1956 and another set of twins, Thomas and Philip, in 1958. While busy raising her family, she also did some supply teaching and had articles published from time to time. Anne enjoyed returning to College for various reunions, and was one of the many of her generation who attended the celebration in 1998 of the 50th Anniversary of the

Admission of Women to full membership of Cambridge University. FURST. On 11 September 2009, Lilian Renee PhD (1952 English). Lilian was born in Vienna in 1931. Her parents were both dental surgeons who fled from Austria after the Anschluss. Lilian took her first degree at Manchester University, where she received First Class honours in Modern Languages (French and German). She came up to Girton in 1952 to do postgraduate work in Modern and Medieval Languages, working on the German Künstlerroman in the early twentieth century. She received a Catherine I Dodd Research Fellowship at the University of Manchester, and was appointed in 1955 as Assistant Lecturer, and in 1959 as Lecturer, at the Queen’s University, Belfast. She returned to Manchester University in 1967 to take up an appointment as Lecturer, then Senior Lecturer, in Comparative Literary Studies, remaining there until 1971, when she moved to the United States. There she taught at the University of Oregon, the University of Texas at Dallas and the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, before finally joining the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. During those 15 years she had also held a number of Visiting Fellowships which included the Ivy League institutions of

Dartmouth College and Harvard. She taught at Chapel Hill from 1986 until 2005, and was elected to the Marcel Bataillon Professorship of Comparative Literature. She was a prolific author and editor of many books, articles and reviews. Lilian also received many honours during her academic career including an honorary Doctor of Letters degree from University of Nebraska, Lincoln. She found her retirement difficult, with the onset of macular degeneration and a detached retina seriously reducing her ability to read. However, she had a number of close friends and former students with whom she maintained contact. She continued to be a mentor to many of her students, advising them on their projects, and on publishers who might be interested in their work. Fiercely independent, she managed to remain in her own home until her death. GARNETT-JONES. On 16 November 2012, Sybil Margaret (Bartlett) MA (1928 Classics). Sybil, known as Peggy, was a pupil at Leeds Girls’ High School before coming up to Girton to read Classics. After marrying Theodore Garnett Jones in 1932, she became a busy vicar’s wife, and mother to two daughters, Phoebe and Theresa. Together with her husband she ran a TOC.H Services Club in Ripon during WWII and together they started the Winksley-cum-Grantley Young Farmers’ Club. In 1948 they moved to Cambridge where Peggy helped Theodore in his post as Chaplain to the United Cambridge Hospitals. For 18 years she also filled their large house in Cambridge with University families from overseas. They retired to their first home, The Raikes, Wilsill, and made many new friends and entertained old ones. After Theodore’s death Peggy continued to

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live independently until the age of 101, when failing sight forced her to leave her beloved cottage in the Dales. She had two daughters, seven grandchildren, and thirteen great-grandchildren, all of whom keep in touch with each other, and who visited her as often as possible. (Edited notice from her daughter, Phoebe Taylor) GREEN. On 19 October 2012, Dorothy Frances Penrose (Hammond) BA (1934 Classics). Penrose Green was born in Ayr, where her father was the Episcopalian Minister. She went to school at St Leonard’s, St Andrews, Fife, and from there she went up to Girton College in 1934 to read Classics. She thoroughly enjoyed herself at Cambridge, having a wide circle of friends, many of whom she kept in touch with into old age. She met her husband, Henry Green, at Cambridge through mutual friends. She often spoke of her happy time at Girton. She recalled how the noise of nightingales singing in the grounds on summer nights would keep her awake. She married Henry in 1938, and had four daughters, one of whom predeceased her. After the war the family settled in a half-timbered house near Bedford where she created a wonderful garden. She knew the names of all the plants in both Latin and English. She taught Latin for many years at Hawnes School which was nearby. When Henry retired they moved to Cambridge, and lived just up the road from one of her Girton friends, Alison Duke. They lived a very full life in Cambridge making the most of the opportunities, making new friends and renewing old acquaintances. After Henry’s death in 1996 Penrose continued her busy life, enjoying the U3A (Military

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History and Greek) well into her 90s. She was able to live in her own home until she died peacefully after a stroke at the age of 96. GREENSHAW. In 2012, Jillian Sophie (Podmore) BA (1956 Natural Sciences). Jillian was born on 17 April 1937 at Stoke-on-Trent to Thomas Podmore, a National Union of Teachers Officer and Madge Littler, who was also a teacher. She was educated at Cheadle Hulme School and came up to Girton to read Natural Sciences. After graduation she joined the Department of Geodesy and Geophysics at Cambridge as a Research Assistant. She married John Ellison Greenshaw in August 1960. HARBOTTLE. On 18 February 2012, Ruth Barbara MA (1951 History). Barbara already had a love of history before coming up to Girton to read the subject. She had joined the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne and worked voluntarily for the Curator of the Museum there from February to July 1951. Barbara contributed numerous publications to their journal, Archaeologia Aeliana, for many years, and became a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 1970. Her first post after graduation was as a Research Assistant at the Cabinet Office where she worked on the Official History of the War against Japan. She lived in London for two years but her heart remained in the North, and she was appointed the Earl Grey Memorial Fellow at King’s College, Newcastle. In 1962 she became a tutor for the Universities of Newcastle and Durham and became involved in archaeology through her work with them. Her main interest in medieval sites led to the excavation of Nafferton Castle and her lifelong collaboration with the medieval section of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne.

In 1964 Barbara took a part-time post as tutor for the School of Architecture, again with the University of Newcastle. She continued to be involved in excavations at Blackfriars and many other sites over the next thirty years. In 1975 she was appointed the first County Archaeologist for the newly established Metropolitan County of Tyne and Wear. Barbara retired in 1997 and maintained a number of interests including sailing and bird-watching. She was also, at various times, a member of the Newcastle Diocesan Advisory Council, Tyne and Wear Archive Users’ Consultative Committee, Joint Museum Committee of Newcastle University and Society of Antiquaries, and Department of Education Area Advisory Committee (Archaeological) for the North of England.

childhood in Scandinavia she was sent to St Christopher’s, a progressive vegetarian boarding school in Letchworth. Her education was interrupted by evacuation during the war to Canada, but she returned to England in 1942. She then followed both her mother and her future mother-in-law by entering Girton in 1943. Her lifelong connection with St Christopher’s was strengthened when in January 1945, though still at Girton, she married Stephen, the eldest son of the Headmaster of the school. Though married, whenever Stephen visited her at Girton, they were required to move her bed into the corridor. After the war she followed Stephen to Peru, and there in a small Seventh Day Adventist clinic way up in the Andes she had two of her four children. On returning to

Barbara died peacefully aged 80, following a short illness. HARRIS. In 2012, Phyllis Barbara PhD (1997 Education). Phyllis came to Girton College as a research student in Education, working on ‘Teacher Efficacy – now and for the twenty-first century’, and gaining her PhD in 2002. HARRIS. On 17 November 2012, Margaret Elisabeth Macdonald (Hingeley) MA (1943 Economics). ‘Martie’, as she was known, was born in India in 1924. After an early

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Cambridge, after the births of her other two children, she trained as a teacher at Homerton. There then followed spells of teaching and being a school librarian. When Stephen moved to Lancaster and her children had flown the nest, Martie developed her interests in walking, gardening, spinning and weaving, and in the Society of Friends. All these interests she continued to pursue vigorously when she retired to North Wales. All her life Martie was fortunate enough to travel extensively, always showing a keen interest in the history, culture and peoples of the places she visited. From a very conservative young childhood Martie became quite a radical, nonconformist and questioning woman, though she always saw her most important role as being wife, mother and grandmother to her family. (Edited notice by the Harris family) HODGART. On 20 April 2013, Margaret Patricia (Elliot) MA (1937 English). Pat won a scholarship from Ribston Hall School in Gloucester and came to Girton in 1937, where she passed the English Tripos Part I with distinction. She went on to get a First in Part II, and received the Charity Reeves Prize in 1939 and 1940. Her years at Cambridge formed some of her happiest memories and they were the memories she spoke most about in her latter years. It was while she was at Cambridge that she met the man she was later to marry, Matthew Hodgart. During the war years Pat was at Dartington Hall School as a general Assistant and then went on to be a continuity girl with Gaumont-British Instructional Films and also with the legendary Paul Rotha. She and her husband returned to Cambridge where he was a lecturer in English at Pembroke College and where she reviewed fiction

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for the Manchester Guardian for many years. She also became an examiner for the Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate, and set and marked A-level papers in English literature of the Romantic period. She wrote a book on Shelley and another on the Romantics. She spent the remaining years of her life in Brighton, where her husband had become a Professor in the English Department of the University of Sussex. They spent their winters engrossed in a superior literary quiz called NEMO, which they would often win in double-quick time. Pat continued that habit after her husband died, almost until her last year. (Edited notice by her daughter, Suzanne Hodgart)

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HORNE. On 2 March 2012, Elisabeth Margaret Stewart (MacAlister) MA (1939 History). Born in Singapore in 1919, Elspeth enjoyed an idyllic colonial childhood in the Far East until her father’s early death in 1930 brought her, her mother and sister back to England to live in Cambridge (her father was from an academic Cambridge family). After attending the Perse School for Girls, Elspeth gained a place at Girton College to read History, changing to Archaeology in her third year. She was at Girton from 1939 to 1942 and remembered that ‘Wartime Girton meant windows painted blue for the blackout, one bucket of coal a week… and rook pie on occasion – black and very stringy!’ In 1942 Elspeth joined the WAAF and in 1945 was sent to Delhi to join the British Army’s Photographic Interpretation unit. There she met her future husband, J E T (Trader) Horne. They were married in 1947 at St Columba’s Church, Cambridge with their reception at Barrmore, her aunts’ house – now part of Lucy Cavendish College.

While Trader finished his degree at Clare College (interrupted by the war), Elspeth spent a further year studying at Girton. They lived for the next fifty years in Kemsing, Kent, where Elspeth taught history in two independent girls’ schools, and together they brought up their three children. After her retirement from teaching, Elspeth completed a Diploma at London University and began a successful second career lecturing in aspects of Art History, not only in Europe, but also as far away as Australia. After Trader’s death in 1999, Elspeth moved to Norwich to be near their daughter. She continued to attend local Cambridge Society events and kept up with several Girton alumni. In 1998 she finally received her degree in a memorable ceremony at the Senate House. She is very much missed. (Notice by her daughter, Polly Gould) HORRIDGE. On 30 January 2013, Audrey Anne (Lightburne) MA (1949 English). Born in 1930, Audrey Horridge was at first educated at home, and after a war-time evacuation to Wales, she boarded at Cheltenham Ladies’ College. Audrey arrived at Girton in 1949 to read Classics, but switched to English. She then took a postgraduate Diploma in Public and Social Administration at Barnett House, Oxford, which led her into her career. In 1954 she married Adrian Horridge, a Research Fellow at St John’s, and later moved to St Andrews, Scotland where Audrey continued practical and postgraduate work in the Department of Social Work, University of Dundee, and was awarded diplomas in Medical Social Work and Psychiatric Social Work. In 1969, the family moved to Australia, where Audrey joined the

ACT Dept. of Health, and, within a year, became Chief Psychiatric Social Worker. In 1973, while on leave, Audrey studied for a Diploma in Management of Social Services at Tavistock House, London. On her return to Australia, she was seconded to the National Capital Development Commission as a social planner. She wrote the briefs for the social development of the Tuggaranong suburbs, helping families and children there to live in a safe environment, and established the Community Centres at the old homesteads. In 1979 Audrey was appointed to the Australian Development Agency to manage the Service for Overseas Students. Audrey was also an honorary life member of the International Student Advisers’ Network of Australia. She retired in 1992. Audrey was not only an efficient professional with a generous spirit and well-stocked mind, she also had a great sense of humour and was a loving wife and mother, leaving four children, three grandchildren and one great-grandchild who remember her with great affection. (Edited notice by her husband, Adrian Horridge, FAA, FRS) INGLIS, In 2013, Margaret Janet MA (1955 Modern and Medieval Languages). Janet was born in Northampton on 1 March 1937. She attended Northampton High School until 1955, when she came to Girton to read Modern Languages (French and Spanish). She received an Exhibition and the E C Gill Prize in 1956 for a First Class in Part I Spanish. At College, Janet was also a member of the French and Spanish Societies. She returned to Northampton in 1960, and briefly worked as a Pharmaceutical Assistant before taking

up a teaching post at a Convent School in Kettering. In 1963, she worked in Adult Education for the Leicestershire Education Committee. She later became an assistant at the County Library in Northampton and gave private Spanish lessons at home. Janet regularly returned to College to attend Alumni events and kept in touch with her MML contemporaries. INNES. On 20 April 2013, Jocasta Claire Traill BA (1952 Modern and Medieval Languages). Obituary p. 111 IRWIN. On 7 February 2013, Frances Jane PhD (1978 English). Jane was born on 18 June 1941 at Smiths Falls, Canada. She gained her first degree in English Literature at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario. As a bookseller, Jane had a keen interest in literature and the arts in general, taking great pleasure in reading and research. She met her second husband, Richard Bachmann, also a bookseller, in Ottawa and they married in 1976. When Jane came to Girton to study for her doctorate they both lived in a College-owned cottage on the Girton Road. Jane’s doctoral thesis was called ‘A Process and an Unfolding: Character-Formation in the Fiction of George Eliot’, and she was awarded her PhD in 1983. Her interest in Eliot remained and she later published George Eliot's Daniel Deronda Notebooks (Burlington 1995 and CUP 1996). Upon her return to Canada she was appointed Assistant Professor of English Literature at Trent University. Richard and Jane owned and ran A Different Drummer Books in Burlington and she became increasingly interested in the history of Burlington. Jane also wrote

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Old Canadian Cemeteries: Places of Memory (Firefly Books 2007). She was awarded the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal in recognition of her work for the City of Burlington in 2012. Jane suffered a stroke and died the following day aged 71. She is survived by her husband Richard, three children from her first marriage, Shannon, David and Bronwyn, and five granddaughters. (Edited information from Richard Bachmann) JOHNSON. On 25 June 2012, Beryl (Durrant) MA (1951 Natural Sciences). Beryl read Natural Sciences at Girton and then studied for her Agricultural Studies Diploma at the University of Cambridge, 1954–55. She was a Cambridge Blue in several sports: hockey, swimming, netball, and even a half-Blue in cricket. She played hockey at County level and later encouraged her sons in sport as well as in their studies. One son, now a professional Head Coach for Rotorua Swimming, became a world record holder in 1500m freestyle at the New Zealand Deaf Olympics in the 1980s. Beryl’s professional life of nearly 40 years was devoted to teaching. She taught Agricultural Science at Durham Agricultural College and Glasgow University, followed by teaching school science at sixth-form level. In later years she greatly enjoyed her role as University of Durham Education Department Science Tutor for PGCE courses. In retirement she continued to pursue her interests in field botany, walking, cycling and amateur dramatics, to which she brought a wide experience as producer of school musical productions, WI and village plays and pantomimes, acting in many of them. Beryl died after a long fight with liver cancer. Her funeral service was attended by a large number from across

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the generations. Dearly loved wife of Ian, mother of Robert, James, Alastair and Timothy, a mother-inlaw and grandmother; she is sorely missed.

As her son Frank said: ‘Girton was a major influence on her, the springboard for her intellectual life as well as the start of many lasting friendships.’

(Edited notice from her husband, Ian Johnson) (Edited notice from her son, Frank Kitson) KITSON. On 6 May 2013. Annabella Leslie (Cloudsley) MA (1946 English). Annabella was part of that generation whose lives were characterized by the disruptions of war. On leaving St Paul’s Girls’ School, she went, via secretarial college, to work for the Committee for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts (later to become the Arts Council). This was followed in 1943 by national service in the WAAF. She came to Girton in the autumn of 1946 to read English. Her time at Cambridge formed her life’s intellectual passions and many cherished friendships. After Girton and time spent in Italy, Annabella worked as a translator, a theatre reviewer, and a lecturer in English as a foreign language. Her EFL publications include Written English Today (1982) and Let’s Go On (1977). Her interests included the history of astrology, and she was a leading figure in the Astrological Lodge of London, publishing History and Astrology: Clio and Urania Confer (1989), a collection of essays from a seminar series she ran in London for 23 years. She married the art historian Professor Michael Kitson, Deputy Director of the Courtauld Institute, and had two sons. Annabella never ceased to be involved with Girton and to offer the College her support in a variety of ways. She was one of the team who designed and created the embroidered hassocks for the Chapel.

LEDZION. On 1 November 2012, Mary McDonald (Currie) MA (1950 Natural Sciences). Mary was born in 1931 in the Indian hill town of Coimbatore in what is now Tamil Nadu. Her father was an officer in the Indian Forest Service and her mother came from a Cambridge academic family: her great-grandmother was one of the first women to attend Newnham in the 1880s. Mary and her family moved from England to the relative safety of Australia in 1940, and in 1950 Mary came up to Girton to read Natural Sciences. She had many happy memories of her Cambridge years, both academic and social, many of which involved avoiding the proctors late at night while sneaking in to other Colleges. Soon after graduating, she spent two years in America including a year as a research assistant at Berkeley, and a stint at a casino. Never one to take much notice of safety briefs (‘Advice, my dear is free, with the great advantage that you never have to do anything about it’), she travelled alone to many far-off places, including Mexico and outback Australia, in the 1950s. She eventually settled into the patent profession in London, where she met and married Andrew Ledzion. In the late 1960s, she moved to Switzerland where she brought up her two sons, while supporting her disabled husband. They moved to Cambridge in 1994, and Mary remained very active into her eighties.

She became an enthusiastic member of the University of the Third Age, the Royal Society for Asian affairs and the Scott Polar Research Institute, while authoring a book on the Indian Forestry Service (Forest Families) and publishing a volume of her memoirs (From Monkey to Bandicoot). In Cambridge she supported care for the homeless and aged with both time and money. Full of energy, and known for her sharp intellect and keen mind, when not striding daily to the University Centre she continued to explore the world, making trips to India, Mongolia, central Asia, the Australian outback, and both the Arctic and Antarctic. Mary is

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survived by her two sons, Michael and Ian, and four granddaughters. (Edited words from her sons Michael and Ian Ledzion) LIM. On 7 May 2013, Tan Sri PG . Obituary on page 112 LLOYD. On 5 July 2012, Gladys Ada Dorothy MA (1949 English). In 1931 Gladys was born in Little Dewchurch, Herefordshire. She attended Tewkesbury Girls’ High School before reading English at Girton from 1949. After professional training for Librarianship in Birmingham, she began her career as an Assistant Librarian in 1955. She was promoted to Chief Cataloguer at the University College Library in Swansea, Glamorganshire, in 1962 and later became a SubLibrarian. During her career as a Librarian, she entered the ‘Brain of Britain’ contest, and in 1969 she was the only woman competing against two men to go forward from the Welsh heat to the televised final. LOCKHART. In January 2012, Ursula (Parsons) MA, PhD, Vet MB (1943 Natural Sciences). Cambridge-born, Ursula was daughter to Thomas and Emily Parsons (Picking 1913), both University Lecturers educated at the University of Cambridge. She came to

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Girton from the Perse School for Girls, where she had passed her School Certificate with distinction and was awarded a Trinity Leaving Exhibition. Following in her mother’s footsteps, she read Natural Sciences and received the Dunn Gardner Scholarship in 1944 and the Crewdson Prize in 1945, after gaining a First in Part I. Ursula’s postgraduate studies focused on Animal Physiology and she was awarded a PhD in 1950. Ursula went on to read Veterinary Medicine and Surgery at the Cambridge Veterinary School and received a MRCS and VetMB in 1955. She was one of seven students in Britain to be awarded an Evans Final Year Studentship by the Animal Trust for the year 1954–55, which was given to students showing exceptional promise in their studies. As a qualified vet, she became a Demonstrator and Anaesthetist at the Department of Veterinary Clinical Studies at Cambridge until 1957. She published a number of papers and articles. Ursula married a local farmer, Robert Lockhart, in 1957. They ran a small veterinary practice and farm together in Covington, Hunts. She had a son, David and a daughter, Janet. As a keen equestrian she was a member of the British Horse Society and was an Assistant Instructor. She wrote Riding in the Countryside, published by The Book

Guild Ltd, 1989, and received a Cubitt Award in 1993 for her services to the Fitzwilliam Hunt branch of the Pony Club. Ursula was very grateful to Girton College and Cambridge for the ‘enrichment of her whole life’, joining many of her contemporaries for celebrations in 1998 of the 50th Anniversary of the Admission of Women to Cambridge University. MACLEAN. On 17 October 2012, Pamela (Ross) BA (1957 Natural Sciences). Pamela was born in 1938 in Harrow, and attended St Helen’s School, Northwood, before coming to Girton in 1957. After graduating, she undertook postgraduate studies at Medical School in London. In 1963 she moved to Scotland and was appointed a Research Fellow in the Department of Medicine at Edinburgh University. Pamela was also involved in projects at the Department of Clinical Chemistry and became a Research Biochemist in the Department of Pathology, Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital. Later, in 1977, she studied Business Administration at Edinburgh University. She received her PhD in 1966 and an MSc in 1978 from the University of Edinburgh. She published many guides, handbooks, teaching notes, evaluations and articles to do with her research and clinical sciences. In 1963, Pamela married Rt Hon Lord Ranald Norman Munro MacLean, QC, who had been at Clare College in 1957, and raised a family: Catriona, Fergus and Donald. She and Ranald later divorced. She was a keen sportswoman, being a squash Blue whilst at Cambridge. In later life her other interests included tennis, hill walking and impressionist art.

MADDOX. On 17 June 2012, Amy Mary Shaw MA (1924 History). Amy was born on 3 November 1904 in Landour, India, where her father was a medical missionary. She was educated in Scotland and Lausanne before coming up to Girton to read History. Eighty years later, she fondly remembered her time at College as ‘some of the happiest days of my life’. After leaving Cambridge with a titular degree she worked as a History Mistress at Blackheath High School. In September 1929 she married a solicitor, Edmund Theodore Maddox, and as was required at that time, she had to resign her teaching post. A few years later they had a family of two sons and one daughter. As one of our oldest alumnae, Amy received her BA and MA certificates at the age of 100 when her family surprised her by making a special presentation at her birthday party. ‘Being blind and a bit deaf [she] was slightly bemused’ when Julia Roskill (1952 History), representing the Mistress in ‘officiating’ at this celebration, said a few words and presented the certificates together with other presents from College. Amy was absolutely thrilled to receive her full Cambridge degrees at last. MARICA. On 18 December 2012, Ina Marion (Boeglin) MA (1946 Modern and Medieval Languages). Ina was born in Eastbourne, daughter of Charles Henry Boeglin and Muriel Mary Platt. The family moved, when she was quite young, to the French Pyrenees, but left when Germany invaded France in the summer of 1940, and returned to England. Ina was educated at St Paul’s Girls’ School before coming up to Girton to read French and Spanish in the Modern and Medieval Languages Tripos. After graduating, Ina took a secretarial course and trained as a conference interpreter. Ina had a long

and industrious career as an interpreter for NATO and UNESCO, as well as freelancing. She travelled extensively and lived in Panama, the United States, and Canada. She married Horia (John) Marica in 1965 but divorced in 1987. Ina lived for many years in Montreal where she retired, and in 1997 relocated to Bayonne, France, not far from where she had spent her childhood. She is survived by 5 nieces and nephews. Ina was a generous supporter of Girton College. (Edited words from her niece, Beatrice Boeglin)

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DE MEL. In January 2013, Nirmala MA (1959 Archaeology and Anthropology). Obituary P.115 MURRAY. On 18 April 2012, Barbara Ann (Cobb) PhD (1971 English). Barbara was educated at Haberdashers’ Monmouth School for Girls where both academically and in sports she showed a considerable talent. Her post-school education was spent initially at the University of St Andrews where she read English Language and Literature. She studied for her PhD at Cambridge, which she was awarded in 1978 for a thesis on ‘Shakespeare Adapted’ and which was supervised by Professor Muriel Bradbrook. She also won Blues in Lacrosse (Captain of Girton Team, 1973) and Women’s Cricket. Barbara was appointed Lecturer and Tutor in the School of English at the University of St Andrews in October 1974, and later became a Senior Lecturer. Her teaching, research and publications focused mainly on Shakespeare and Restoration Theatre. Although she had published many important essays on these subjects, her main publications were in 2001, Restoration Shakespeare: Viewing the Voice and in 2005, as

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editor, Shakespeare Adaptations from the Restoration: Five Plays. Barbara also took on a wide variety of other roles in University life, including those of Assistant Dean of Students for the Faculty of Arts, Convener of the Blues and Colours Committee and member of the University’s Religious Council. Barbara was a much loved and respected teacher, and made a significant contribution to the School of English and the University as a whole. She was a devoted mother to her two children (Sarah and David), and loved working in her country garden. In her younger days she rode her horse in the Fife countryside, and occasionally, on a warm day, in the sea at the West Sands in St Andrews. (Written by her husband J I M Murray) NEVILLE-TOWLE. On 17 January 2013, Hilary Claire (Duguid) MA (1977 History). Obituary p. 114

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NEWTON. On 2 March 2013, Jennifer Margaret MBE (Clapham) MA (1955 Natural Sciences). Jennifer, who died peacefully aged 76, had a lifelong passion for understanding and explaining the natural world, and for inspiring others to do the same. The daughter of the distinguished botanist Arthur Roy Clapham, at the age of 14 she was enlisted into his research team when he could find no one else capable of conducting a grasshopper survey. Such surveys and counts became a major part of her life, and in her last twenty years she walked a two-mile route cataloguing butterflies, 26 weeks a year. Spiders were an abiding passion, but she also gave her energy and enthusiasm to birds, bats, crickets, plants and trees. In 2007 she was awarded an MBE for services to nature conservation in North Lancashire – or, as her family

liked to say, for ‘counting things’. She was a member of many natural history organisations, several of which she helped to establish. At Girton she studied zoology and botany. She was also a highly accomplished musician, being principal clarinet in the National Youth Orchestra, and for four decades in the Haffner Orchestra. She studied for her PhD at Somerville, Oxford. It was here that she met the physicist David Newton, while they were organising a Hallowe’en party, and they were married in 1964. His work led them to Berkeley, California, where they were entirely untouched by the cultural upheavals of the late 60s. On their return they settled in North Lancashire, leaving only to spend a couple of years in Geneva when David was working at CERN. In the 70s, having lost three children, they adopted two daughters, Siobhan and Gill. For the rest of her life Jennifer divided her time between education, survey work, music and family life. (Written by daughter, Siobhan Newton) OFFNER. On 15 October 2012, Professor Elliot Offner (1991 M.A.C.H Fellow Commoner). Obituary p. 117 POND. In 2012, Margaret Helen (Jordan) MA MB BChir MD (1939 Natural Sciences). Helen was born in Suffolk and grew up mainly in Surbiton. She won an Entrance Exhibition to Girton in 1939 to study Chemistry. As for all of her generation, the war influenced decisions and she changed subject to read Medicine. She would,

however, say of these years that she 'sang her way through them', in choirs conducted by Boris Ord and David Willcocks and in ad hoc madrigal groups. Taking the role of one of the Three Ladies in a production of The Magic Flute instilled a lifelong love of Mozart. She married Dr (later Professor Sir Desmond) Pond in 1945, a physician and accomplished pianist and in spite of having twin daughters in 1947, finished a Cambridge MD. She loved recounting how, when she received the degree at the Senate House, an eminent begowned academic asked if she 'might be in the wrong place'. The arrangements for women at the University were in their infancy and indeed were not very advanced when her youngest daughter, Celia, followed her to Girton in 1974. Her sister Ruth and niece Frances Klemperer are also Girtonians and all four were tutorial pupils of Alison Duke. Helen specialised in diabetes for many years at King’s College Hospital. In retirement from 1982 she made pottery and tapestries, contributed to the National Art Collection Fund, enjoyed keeping miniature dachshunds and was secretary of the Devon–Cambridge Society. In 1988 she set up a Trust to support daughter Celia's brainchild, the European Union Chamber Orchestra, which still thrives. In memory of her husband, who died in 1986, she founded the Sir Desmond Pond Epilepsy Research Fund which successfully raises money for research into this little-understood illness. (Written by daughter, Celia Miller)

PRESTON. On 24 February 2012, Rosemary Christine Ann (Tuson) BA (1949 Economics). Rosemary was born in London. For the first year after graduation she was Secretary in the office of Cecil King, Chairman of the Daily Mirror. She then worked in the Consumer Research Department for Thomas Hedley & Co (now Procter & Gamble) and for the British Nylon Spinners, followed by a marketing post at Erwin Wasey, Ruthrauff & Ryan Advertising Agency in London. She married Lieut. Christopher Westbury Preston in 1958 and they raised a family of 3 children: Nicola, James and Caroline. Nicola Williams (Preston 1978) followed in her mother’s footsteps and came to Girton to read Engineering. Christopher was in the Royal Navy and so the family had a peripatetic life for a few years, whilst Rosemary did some teaching at a British Forces School in Singapore. Back in England, Rosemary trained to be a teacher at Bishop Otter College in Chichester and obtained her Certificate of Education from the University of Sussex in 1971. Once qualified, she taught at Dorchester Preparatory School, and later at Bedminster Down School in Bristol. Rosemary also did some teaching with the Home Tuition Services attached to Bristol Children’s Hospital. She enjoyed playing bridge,

riding and sailing. Rosemary thought of herself as a having the typical ‘countrywoman’s life’, taking an active part in village life as Chairman of the Compton Martin Players and as a church-warden. PUGH. On 7 April 2013, Margaret Wardle (Shufflebotham) MA (1937 Geography). Margaret Wardle Shufflebotham was born in 1918 in Stockport. She came up to Cambridge to read Geography and was known by her contemporaries as ‘Shuff’. She studied for a further year in Manchester and then started teaching at secondary level. She married John Charles Pugh, who had been a Geography student at St Catharine’s, in 1944, but did not join him in Nigeria for another two years, five years after he had started work there in the Colonial Survey. They later spent a year in South Africa, before returning to Nigeria where John joined the newly established University College in Ibadan as Lecturer. Margaret taught mostly at tertiary level when in Nigeria. Her passion for gardening and tropical fruits resulted in the garden of the staff bungalow in Ibadan, initially a barren building site, having at least one example of every fruit that she liked by the time she left. The University staff put on an opera each year, for the

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entertainment and education of the students, and she was often cast in one of the major roles, having a welltrained mezzo-soprano voice. The family returned to the UK in 1956, and Margaret continued to teach, at secondary level, for about 12 years. She continued to mark O-level and A-level papers and projects for another decade. The remainder of her life was essentially much quieter and it is difficult, now, to realise just how varied her early life experience had been. It certainly influenced her incisive views on many things, and gave her a deep distrust of politicians – especially African ones – and their manoeuvrings. Despite that deep cynicism, she could and did find humour in almost everything except the EU, and read widely about almost everything. She is survived by her son Michael John Pugh. (Written by son, Dr Michael J Pugh) QUIN. On 12 March 2012, Vera (Avakumovic) MA (1946 English). Vera was born in Belgrade in 1929. She was educated at Heathfield School in Ascot before coming up to Cambridge to read English. In March 1951, she married Cormac Quin. She took a secretarial training course at Queen’s College in London and

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briefly worked for the John Lewis Partnership. However, she later became involved with people who had special needs and was appointed as a Special Needs Teacher at Cheyne Centre, London. She was also a Specialist Teacher for the Learning Difficulties Clinic at St Thomas Hospital, London. Vera then worked as a Reading Consultant at the Learning Disabilities Unit at Portland Hospital and later became a peripatetic specialist teacher for the ILEA Schools’ Physiological Services. During her time working in this specialised profession she published In Our Road, Easy to Read Series (Methuen, 1973), Reading and Spelling Difficulties – a medical approach (Hodder and Stoughton, 1981) and Dyslexia – What parents ought to know (Penguin, 1986). She contributed to various other articles in professional journals. In her leisure time she was a devoted Jane Austen enthusiast and became an authority on her, publishing a number of books on the subject including Jane Austen Visits London (Cappella Archive, 2008) and In Paris with Jane Austen (Cappella Archive, 2005). ROWETT. In 2012, Helen Graham Quiller MA (1935 Natural Sciences). Helen came to Girton to read Natural Sciences, followed by her younger sister, Caroline E Chojecki (Rowett 1939) and her cousin, Eileen H Coates

(1941). She was an active member of College, singing in the choir and with CUMS, and was a member of the Biology and Zoology Society. She also enjoyed country dancing. She had ‘every intention of returning’ to graduate studies, and Girton College awarded her a two-year Alfred Yarrow Research Studentship; she also received a Grisedale Research Scholarship from Manchester University. However, after one year at Manchester, Helen felt she was not pulling her weight for the war effort, and left to work on the land. Because Helen had studied Chemistry for her degree, although she was really a Biologist, the Government diverted her from joining the services into a job which required her expertise in this field. So she worked part-time on research at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Plymouth, combined with working on the land, 8 months of which she spent market-gardening in Elberton, Devon. In 1944 she began to lecture in Zoology at Plymouth Technical College and was later promoted to Senior Lecturer in Education Technology. Much to her dismay and annoyance she was required to retire at 60 in 1976. She published many research papers, journals, articles, books and guides for educational purposes. One of her dissection guides was chosen by the National Book League as one of the 100 best books of 1951 for the Festival of Britain. She was also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a member of the Institute of Biology. In her spare time she enjoyed art, dressmaking and other crafts as well as walking and seeing her family and friends. She joined other Girtonians in July 1998 to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Admission of Women to Cambridge University, and contributed to the Girton Project Journal (Vol. 1) Girtonians and the World Wars.

RUSSELL. On 5 August 2012, Christine Margaret (Cutler) BA (1959 Geography). Christine was born in 1940 in Oldbury, Birmingham. She was educated at George Dixon Girls’ Grammar School in Birmingham before coming to read Geography at Cambridge. Her first appointment after graduation was as an Assistant to the Cartographic Editor at George Philip & Son Ltd. Christine later became a lecturer and an author. She married A Russell in January 1964 and had two children, Philip and Nicola. RUSSELL. In 2012, Christine Margaret (Plevin) MA (1958 Modern and Medieval Languages). Christine attended Edgbaston High School for Girls, Birmingham. At Girton she read French and German for the Modern and Medieval Languages Tripos, returning to languages later in her career. She was also the Treasurer of the Women’s Blues Committee and received her own Badminton Blue in 1960. After graduation, Christine took a secretarial course in London, but deciding upon a teaching career she returned to Cambridge to study for a Certificate in Education at Homerton College and was awarded a PGCE in 1964. Her first teaching appointment was at Bedford High School, where she taught Modern Languages until 1969. Thereafter she moved to Eastbourne and taught at the Moira House School, then Eastbourne High School, Eastbourne Grammar School and finally Eastbourne Sixth Form College. Here she was promoted to Assistant Senior Tutor and in 1987 to Head of the Modern Languages Faculty. Christine married a fellow teacher, David Russell, in 1963, but they later separated.

SAKOWSKI-COWLEY. On 18 June 2012, Alexandra Christina (Sakowski) PhD (1963 Natural Sciences). Alexandra was born in Zdunska Wola, Poland, in 1939. After World War II, she moved to Sierakow, where she completed her high school education. In 1956, she moved to Toronto, Canada, with her mother, to join her father Antony Sakowski. She attended the College of Engineering at the University of Toronto, and graduated in 1962 with a degree in Applied Science. After working for a year at the Ontario Research Foundation, and at the urging of her supervisor Dr Martius, she came to study crystallography at the Cambridge University Cavendish Laboratory, and was awarded a PhD in 1967. She moved with her husband, Ernest Roger Cowley, to Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. There she held a post-doctoral research fellowship at McMaster University, before temporarily halting her research career to raise a family. In 1976, she went back to graduate school, in the biophysics group at the Department of Biology at Brock University, and gained a Master of Science degree in 1980. In 1990, she took a position in the Physics Department at Community College of Philadelphia, and served as Chair of the Department from 1996 to 2004, before her retirement in 2006. She leaves her husband, three children: Jacqueline, Jane and Anthony, and three grandchildren: Ethan, Anna and Connor.

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member of the CUMS chorus, and won a Blue for Lacrosse in 1943. She completed her medical training at King’s College Hospital, London, and specialised in Paediatrics. It was at King’s that she met her husband Eamon Sheehan, whom she married in 1953. They moved to Milltown in Ireland to continue the Sheehan family tradition as General Practitioners; Eamon’s father and grandfather had also been in practice there. As well as a busy practice to run, they had four children, two sons (John and Tom) and two daughters (Gillian and Pamela), and became well known and loved within the community. Ann also worked as a Factory Medical Officer in the mid-1960s and wrote an article called ‘The Electrocardiograph in the diagnosis of cardiac arrhythmias in general practice’ in The Practitioner vol. 203. After 40 years in practice, Eamon died in 1995, and Ann retired. She still kept a keen interest in medicine and also enjoyed reading, gardening, history, archaeology, astronomy and bird-watching. Her main interest, though, was her four grandchildren: Colin, Eloise, Eve and Ellen. TERRY. On 24 February 2013, Margaret Frances (Hort) MA (1932 Modern and Medieval Languages). Margaret died at the age of 99 at her home in the village of Girton. Her father the Revd F F Hort ran a small prep school in Bedfordshire called The Knoll, where Margaret was one of two girls among fifty boys. She came up to Girton in 1931 with an Exhibition to read French and Italian, gaining a 2.1. Afterwards she taught French, first at Lowther College in North Wales, then at St Albans High School. Later, Margaret went back to teach at her alma mater, St Mary’s Calne, and when she was 39 married John Terry, a classicist who had studied at King’s. They had two children and lived at Northwood in Middlesex. After John’s death in

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1976, Margaret came to live in Cambridge and found kindred spirits in the community of Girton and its church; among these were old Girtonians Penrose Green (Hammond) and Alison Duke, whose sister Margaret Falconer had been a contemporary and lifelong friend. In 1998, along with many other pre-1948 women graduates, she was finally presented with her degree. She lived quietly, gardening and writing poetry, and reached a ripe old age probably well beyond her own expectations. She is survived by her children Rosemary and Stephen. (Edited notice from her son, Stephen Terry) THATCHER. On 12 October 2011, Thelma Mary MA (1942 English; 1944 Archaeology and Anthropology). Thelma was born in Cambridge and remained there all her life. She attended the Perse Girls’ School, coming up to Girton to read English in her first and second year. She changed to Archaeology and Anthropology in her final year and loved the subject. Thelma’s first appointment was as a Clerk in the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, and later as a Librarian at the Institute of Oriental Studies. She worked as a Biographer at the Centre of South Asian Studies in 1972. Thelma enjoyed her time at College, returning for alumni dinners, and was one of the women who received her MA at the Ceremony of the 50th Anniversary of the Admission of Women to Cambridge University. THOMAS. On 1 December 2011, Joan Ena MA (1939 Geography). Ena came up to Girton to read Geography in the lively department then headed by Professor Frank Debenham. After graduating, and with two Blues

to her name for lacrosse and squash, Ena, with Sophia Wilson (Girton) and Lucia Winsor (Newnham), were fast-tracked into the WAAF and stationed for the duration of the war at Medmenham and Nuneham Courtney, where they did vital work interpreting reconnaissance photos. Immediately after the war, and before the Cold War had smitten Europe, Ena was chosen to represent the Women’s Forces on a goodwill youth mission to Russia. Always ready for adventure, she was chosen to join a team measuring the rate of glacier flow in Norway. By then she had joined the Foreign Office Antarctic Research Department; she longed to join the South Pole expedition ships but at that date it was men only. Perhaps to be nearer the action, she transferred to the Australian Antarctic Division, and did get as far as Macquarrie Island! Family duty called her home to Guernsey, but before leaving Australia she joined, as cook, two ornithology expeditions run from the Natural History Museum in London that went deep into the outback. Her love for Australia was lifelong, and she explored much of the continent on many subsequent visits. In Guernsey she taught Geography and Mathematics at Blanchland School, and joined photographic and philatelic societies. Until her final illness she continued to travel widely, and to keep up her many friendships. It was characteristically modest of her that she never told any of us that in 1985 the Antarctic Place-names Committee had named Thomas Cove in South Georgia after her. There could not be a tribute more to the liking of this special Girtonian. (Written by friend, Shirley M Hebbert, Natural Sciences, 1939)

TURNER. On 2 March 2013, Alison Mary (Hammill) MA (1949 Modern and Medieval Languages). Alison was born in 1930 at Shedfield, Hampshire, and attended Sherborne School for Girls before coming up to Cambridge. After graduating with a degree in French and German, she spent a year in Siegburg, West Germany, as a Ministry of Education Exchange Teacher, before returning to England to teach German at the Notting Hill and Ealing High School. In 1955 she joined the War Office as a Research Analyst and Translator and met Carl Turner, a University Professor. They married in July 1957 and moved to Washington DC. Here she taught French at Holton Arms High School before moving to North Carolina (NC), where she taught French at NC Central University. After further studies Alison received a PhD in Romance Languages from the University of North Carolina in 1967, and continued to teach French and German locally. Owing to increasing deafness, she was forced to retire from teaching. When, several years later, Alison learned about the Self Help for Hard of Hearing People (SHHH) organisation, she founded the Wake Chapter in Raleigh. Here she worked as the State Chapter Co-ordinator for five years and was one of the first trustees of the state NC-SHHH Association. For 10 years Alison was the Associate Director for Adult Services at the Cued Speech Centre in Raleigh, helping adults overcome the frustrations of hearing loss. As a Hearing Talk Force Member, she regularly attended conventions throughout the USA, and used the ideas gained there to strengthen local and state organisations. Alison also organised programs for the Chapter and was the editor of its newsletter until again, owing to illness, she had to retire.

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In 1993, she won the Quota International Deaf Woman of the Year and the Distinguished Service Award for leadership and significant contributions as SHHH State Co-ordinator. Alison also received the Key Stone Award from the National Committee of SHHH in 1995 and the Merit Service Award from Raleigh Regional Resource Centre in 2003.

In 1998, she returned to Girton to attend the 50th Anniversary of the Admission of Women to Cambridge University.

Alison also enjoyed tennis, art and gardening, and published a variety of articles, reviews and translations in French and German. She is survived by her husband, two sons, Jonathan and Nicholas, a grandchild and her sister Gillian.

WEST. In 2013, Cicely Helen (Holt) BA (1947 Modern and Medieval Languages) Born in 1928, Cicely was brought up in Rossendale. There she attended the Manchester City School before coming to Girton to read French and German. Cicely was an active member of the College as a member of the Amateur Dramatics Club, the French and German Society and the Student Christian Movement, where she was appointed the Secretary and later Treasurer. She also volunteered at the YMCA Canteen. After gaining her BA degree, Cicely took a course in teacher training at Manchester University. There she coached English, French and German, and received a Diploma in Education in 1951. Shortly after qualifying, she became an Assistant French Mistress at the Girls’ High School in Lincoln, followed by a post in 1961 at the Eccles Girls’ Grammar School in Lancaster. She married David West in 1961 and they had a daughter, Helen, but later divorced. Cicely kept in touch with her Girtonian friends for many years.

UPTON. On 27 August 2012, Hazel (Baker) MA (1937 History). Hazel attended Malvern Girls’ College in Worcestershire. During her time at Girton she played for both the College and the Cambridge University Women’s Hockey Teams. She was the Captain of Girton’s Hockey team and received a Blue for hockey in 1939. As a very active member of College, Hazel was also the Girton Representative for the Church Missionary Society and a member of the Cambridge University Conservative Association, and enjoyed being in the Girton College Dance Committee, the Cambridge Student Christian Movement, Dramatic Society and Historical Society. She became a History teacher in 1940 at Runton Hill School in Norfolk, and married Donald G S Upton in 1951. They moved to Hertfordshire and raised a family of three sons: William, Julian and Nicholas. Hazel continued to teach, at St Mary’s Church of England Junior School in Cheshunt. Hazel was an active member of her community, as a Guide Captain and Brownie Guider. She was also a member of the Cambridge Schola Gregoriana.

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WEDDERBURN. On 20 September 2012, Dorothy Enid Cole (Barnard) MA, LLD (1943 Economics). Obituary p. 118.

WILSON. In 2012, Clare BA (1947 Mathematics). Clare was born in Hove where she attended the Brighton and Hove High School. In her first year at Girton she received a College prize for her First Class in Part I of the Mathematics Tripos. Whilst studying at Girton College, Clare took part in many sporting and extra-curricular activities. She was a

member of the Cambridge University’s Boat Club and received her Rowing Blue in 1949. She was an active member of the Christian Movement Society, Guide Club, Archaeological Society and the Country Dancing Society. After graduation, Clare trained to be a teacher at Oxford University and received a Diploma in Education. Her first teaching post was as an Assistant Mathematics and Physics Mistress at Benenden School in Kent. She also worked at Mary Datchelor School in London, Newark School in Leicester and Haberdashers’ Aske’s Girls’ School in Hatcham. Clare also studied for a Lambeth Diploma in Theology in 1959. She was a member of the Professional Association of Teachers. She also involved herself in many outdoor activities such as Guiding, as well as having a keen passion for local history.

She was also a member of the English Folk Dance and Song Society, and kept in contact with many Girtonian friends.

We have also been made aware that: Dr Mindele Chana Treip (Black) MA (1953 English Research Student) died in 2010 aged 82 years.

WITHYCOMBE. On 1 October 2012, Olive Marianne BA (1933 Modern and Medieval Languages). Olive was brought up in Gloucester and attended the Girls’ High School before coming to Girton to read French and German. During her years at Girton she was the Treasurer of the Student Christian Movement and was a member of The Round, Cambridge University’s Country Dance Club. After gaining her BA degree she trained at the Mayfair Secretarial College in 1936. Olive had a career as a secretary for many years. Her first position was in 1937, for the Managing Director of Charles Vairon & Co. Ltd, London. During the Second World War she became the Secretary to the Officer-in-Charge, Postal Censorship in Scotland. She retired in 1973 from her post as a Secretary to the Chairman at William Baird & Co. Ltd. Olive was a keen volunteer, and was the Secretary to the City of Gloucester Remembrance Day Committee and a Governor of her old school in Gloucester.

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In 1998, she returned to Girton to attend the 50th Anniversary of the Admission of Women to Cambridge University.

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WEDDERBURN. On 20 September 2012, Dorothy Enid Cole (Barnard) MA, LLD (1943 Economics). Obituary p. 118.

She was also a member of the English Folk Dance and Song Society, and kept in contact with many Girtonian friends.

We have also been made aware that: Dr Mindele Chana Treip (Black) MA (1953 English Research Student) died in 2010 aged 82 years.

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Obituaries BRIGITTE ASKONAS 1 April 1923–9 January 2013 Brigitte Askonas, invariably known as Ita, obtained her BSc and MSc in Biochemistry from McGill University, and studied at Cambridge as a PhD student in the Department of Biochemistry from 1949 to 1952. Girton accepted an individual who went on to become widely recognised internationally as one of the founding figures of the discipline of Immunology, both through her own research and through the many people she trained or influenced during her 65 active years. At the time Ita was at Cambridge, the involvement of graduate students in the College was slight, although Ita respected Dr, later Dame, Rosemary Murray, then a Fellow of Girton. This respect was mutual, and in 1974 Ita was made one of the first two Honorary Fellows of New Hall, now Murray Edwards College, of which Rosemary Murray was the founding President. Girton recognised Ita with an Honorary Fellowship in 1990 and Cambridge University with an Hon. ScD in 2012. Her Cambridge days were memorable for her not only for her research training but also for the people she knew, such as Watson and Crick, of DNA fame, and Joseph Needham, the biochemist and sinologist. Her whole subsequent active research career was at the National Institute of Medical Research, London. She was a founding member of the Division of Immunology, and its Head from 1976 until her retirement in 1988. She initially worked on the formation, secretion and assembly of antibodies. She cloned memory B cells that make antibodies long before the Nobel laureates Cesar Milstein and Georges Köhler succeeded in producing large quantities of antibodies by hybridising cloned B cells

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with immortalised tumour cells. Ita also worked on macrophages, which are the scavengers of the body, showing that they have a key role in initiating an immune response to foreign proteins. In 1976, Ita changed direction to work on T lymphocytes, a subset of white blood cells that attack cellular targets such as virus-infected cells and tumours. She studied their role in real infections, most notably influenza infections. She showed that whilst antibodies to this virus can neutralise a specific strain only before it enters a cell, T cells can recognise and attack cells infected with a range of influenza strains. This work laid the groundwork for subsequent studies over the decades into the development of vaccines for a range of infectious diseases. Ita Askonas was born in Vienna into a Czechoslovak family of Jewish origin. The family left Vienna in 1938 after the Anschluss, and eventually settled in Canada. She was a modest person who rarely spoke about her achievements, and after her retirement seldom agreed to have her name on papers even when her contribution was considerable. After her retirement from NIMR, she kept busy, mentoring young immunologists at the Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine in Oxford and the Departments of Leukocyte Biology and Respiratory Medicine at Imperial College until a few months before she died. Her enormous interest and success in the support of young scientists were also manifest in her involvement with summer schools in Europe over many years. The precision of her own science (stemming from her biochemical training), the width and depth of her experience, as well as her enjoyment of science, made her a much respected and loved person, widely regarded as the scientific matriarch of immunology.

Ita received many honours, but she especially valued her FRS, Foreign Membership of the US Academy of Sciences, and the award of the Robert Koch Gold medal. However, most important to her was the continued friendship of those she mentored or encouraged, demonstrated by the continual stream of visitors throughout her final long illness. Bridget Ogilvie

MARJORIE DAPHNE DOCKING 1925–2013 Marjorie Docking, who died on 16 May 2013, spent forty years working in Girton (1946–1986). As Admissions Secretary from 1964, Marjorie will be remembered as the first point of contact and a welcoming face on arrival for generations of Girtonians, with many of whom she kept in touch. Born in Cambridge on 24 May 1925, she attended the Cambridgeshire High School for Girls in Long Road. Tubercular pleurisy at the age of 18 put an end to her planned training in PE. A year in bed followed (with extra wartime rations allowed) and it was only 10 years later that she was declared fully recovered. Meantime, a place at Homerton had to be surrendered when she learned that no teacher could be accepted who had suffered TB. A course at the Technical College involving secretarial training was cut short when she was offered a junior office post in Girton. Here she worked first in the office of Miss K M Peace, the College Secretary. After some four years she was offered the post of Secretary to the new Mistress (Miss M L Cartwright, later Dame Mary), with the added responsibility for

setting up and running a Tutorial Office. When Girton had acquired full membership of the University in 1948, the Mistress acted as Senior Tutor. Finally, when in 1964 Miss Peace retired and her roles were divided, a separate Admissions Office was set up with Marjorie as its first Admissions Secretary. Here her skills and organisational efficiency were put to use as she developed systems, ran the annual Scholarship and Entrance Examinations, serviced committees and was responsible for the clerical work of Directors of Studies and the Registrar of the Roll. A paper she wrote about the Roll shortly before her retirement, in which she stressed the need for centralised record-keeping, portrays a clear vision of long-term College needs. As a non-graduate in an academic community, she felt she lacked the status to effect the changes needed. In 1971, in recognition of all she had done (and was still doing) for Girton, Council took the unusual step of electing her into Membership of the Roll, honoris causa. She was, throughout her life, a person whose strong Christian principles dictated her priorities, attitudes and actions. As a long-standing member of the United Reformed Church on Cherry Hinton Road, she devoted much of her retirement to the support and care of its membership. Dorothy J Thompson

PHILIP FORD 28 March 1949–8 April 2013 Philip Ford was a member of Girton’s first intake of male Research Fellows in 1977. He had been an undergraduate at King’s, where he read French, Latin and Modern Greek for the Modern and

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Medieval Languages Tripos. After graduating in 1971, he spent a year teaching English at the Centro linguistico audiovisivo in Milan before returning to King’s to work for a PhD on the sixteenth-century humanist and Neo-Latin poet George Buchanan (awarded in 1977). He spent the academic year 1976–7 as English lector at the Centre pédagogique regional, Bordeaux, at the same time obtaining a Maîtrise ès Lettres Modernes from the Université de Bordeaux III. He maintained lasting links of friendship and collaboration with Bordeaux academics, and later bought a house in the area. Philip entered wholeheartedly into Girton life, taking on teaching and helping with admissions for MML, not to mention adopting the (self-appointed) College cat, whom he named Ottilie (his ByeFellowship was named in honour of Ottilie Hancock). Apparently it was Philip who arranged for Ottilie to be provided with a cat-flap near the front door. Philip lived in College, in a set at the opposite end of Bottom New from the gyp-wing. This was not a convenient arrangement for anyone who liked to cook, but he managed to overcome the difficulties. I still have a soup recipe he wrote out for me after racing along the corridor with the soup to serve it as the first course of an excellent dinner. After a year at Girton, Philip went on to a lectureship in Aberdeen, where he stayed for three years before coming back to Cambridge to a post in the French Department and a Fellowship at Clare, and, in 1982, marriage to Lenore Muskett. I was delighted to have Philip as a colleague again, and was fortunate enough to work with him on various projects such as the setting up of a series of

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colloquia on sixteenth-century French topics, whose proceedings we published under the imprint of ‘Cambridge French Colloquia’. He was a first-rate organiser, always competent and even-tempered, patient and humorous. His administrative talents found further expression in many areas in the Faculty and in his College, including stints as Chair of the Faculty Board and Admissions Tutor at Clare College. Meanwhile his scholarship advanced steadily, and covered a wide variety of Renaissance topics, including the iconography of the decorations in the palace of Fontainebleau, sixteenth-century reception of Homer, Renaissance mythography, and much work on Neo-Latin. His latest book, The Judgment of Palaemon, is a study of the relationship between French and Neo-Latin in Renaissance France. His son Tom was able to persuade the publisher, Brill, to hasten production of an advance copy so that Philip was able to see it. Philip introduced a Neo-Latin paper into Part II of the MML Tripos (a paper administered by the delightfully named, but now defunct, Department of Other Languages), and when he was made Reader (in 1999) and Professor (in 2004), he chose ‘French and Neo-Latin Literature’ as his designated domain. He studied Dutch and Italian alongside undergraduate modern linguists, in order to acquire still more competence as a Renaissance scholar. Cambridge University is deeply indebted to him for his skill and patience in the negotiations which led to the gift to the University Library of Gilbert de Botton’s extraordinary Montaigne collection. His distinction was recognised by invitations to give plenary and public lectures in the United States, Canada, and Australia as well as in Britain, and by election as a Fellow of the British Academy and as

an Associate Fellow of the Académie Royale de Belgique. He was also Chevalier, and then Officier, of the French Ordre des Palmes Académiques. Philip was trustworthy, kind, steady, modest, the most loyal of friends, a devoted and much loved Director of Studies and research supervisor. He enjoyed new experiences and took part in several of Professor Patrick Boyde’s semi-staged Greek-language productions of Greek tragedy and epic. There were only a few weeks between the diagnosis of Philip’s illness and his death, so insidious was its onset and so devastating its rapid progress. Those weeks were precious to Lenore and Tom, but they generously shared them with Philip’s close colleagues and friends. It was fortunate that Tom was in Cambridge when the illness was discovered, and he and Lenore were able to have Philip at home for his last days, as he wished. Gillian Jondorf

JOCASTA CLAIRE TRAILL INNES 21 May 1934–20 April 2013 Jocasta Innes who has died after a short illness, was, from her first appearance in Girton in October, 1952, clearly marked out as someone who was destined to have a dramatic and exciting future. Beautiful, with her exotic high cheekbones, and her often home-made, bizarre but stunning clothes (I had heard that she had attended her Girton interviews in wellington boots and green corduroy trousers), she had come up to College to read Modern Languages. Born in Nanking, China, she

was well-travelled, having lived on every continent except Antarctica before the age of 12. She was extremely sophisticated, and had already acquired the confidence to rebel against conformities, and pursue her interests passionately, without ever considering such boring issues as making money. When her first marriage to the film producer Richard Goodwin ended, she went to live in near poverty, as she described it, with Joe Potts, her second husband, then a struggling novelist. It was in the tiny back-street cottage in Swanage that she wrote her iconic Pauper’s Cookbook. There, living on £20 a week, she produced delicious meals from fruit gathered from the hedgerows and crustaceans collected in icy seas. Jocasta always loved swimming. She said she had dreamt of a cookery book planned for church mice, and she declared that what greedy paupers needed was a book where all the recipes were nice enough to be tempting but so cheap that users would be painlessly trained to economise. Published in 1971, it was a godsend to so many of us mothers, inspired by Elizabeth David, but finding her ingredients often far too expensive to use on a daily basis. Then came Jocasta’s Country Kitchen, followed by her equally innovative and practical Pauper’s Homemaking Book, persuading us, for example, to decorate cheap pine chests of drawers, have a go at stencilling, and make over old kitchen sinks so that they looked like antique stone containers for plants and herbs. From there, after a period as Food and Interior Decorating Editor for Cosmopolitan, Jocasta went on to write her marvellously practical Paint Magic book, and establish a chain of shops selling her

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paints and decorating kits, many of which organised courses on how to marble, stipple and drag. My own dining-room walls still carry the marbling which I, no DIY expert, learnt from Jocasta’s books. She was in fact the author of some sixty books, the earlier ones from her first job, after Girton, as a translator. Whether providing us with wonderful and cheap recipes, or instructing us on how to restore old furniture, decorate a child’s bedroom, smoke mackerel, or skin a rabbit, Jocasta had tested all her ideas herself. The beautiful eighteenth-century house in Spitalfields that she renovated from a derelict wreck still elegantly bears witness to her innovative way with colour, texture and brushwork.

1948, and to the Malayan Bar in 1954. She had a distinguished career as a barrister, notably as junior to Dingle Foot QC in an appeal to the Privy Council in 1953 on behalf of Lee Meng, a Chinese girl who had been sentenced to death in Malaya under the assessor system (trial by judge alone) for communist activities. The appeal was unsuccessful but the death sentence was commuted, and Lim took an active part in a campaign leading to the introduction shortly afterwards of trial by jury for all cases involving the death penalty. After the case, Dingle Foot presented her with a red bag, the highly prized token of recognition by senior counsel of the excellence of junior counsel’s work.

For the last thirty years she shared her life with the architect Sir Richard McCormick. She was a loving mother to Daisy and Jason Goodwin, and to Chloe and Tabitha Potts. Her Pauper’s Cook Book and Pauper’s Homemaking Book will continue to inspire homemakers for many years. I am proud to have known such a beautiful and creative woman. Margaret Owen

PHAIK GAN LIM 29 June1915–7 May 2013 Tan Sri Lim Phaik Gan, generally known as P G Lim, was a member of a distinguished family of Malayan lawyers. She was educated at Light Street Convent, Penang, and in 1934 came up to Girton where she read History Part I and Law Part II. After spending the period of the Japanese occupation in Malaya with her family, she read for the Bar, and was called to the Bar of England and Wales by Lincoln’s Inn in

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Phaik Gan Lim with Sir Dingle Foot, QC, and others, after a historic win for the Railwayman's Union

Lim became well known as a pugnacious advocate on behalf of trade unions, plantation workers and other underprivileged people, and as a campaigner for women’s rights. The citation for the Merdeka Award, a Malaysian award for excellence, which she received in 2009, stated that it was for her ‘outstanding contribution to the empowerment of women in Malaysia and for protecting and securing rights and economic opportunities for women through advocacy’. She was a founding member of the Labour Party of Malaya and was appointed a member of the National Consultative Council when the Malaysian Parliament was suspended after riots in Kuala Lumpur in 1969.

In 1971 Lim moved from legal practice to a new career in the Malaysian diplomatic service, serving as Ambassador to the United Nations and then to Yugoslavia, Austria and the EEC; she was the first woman in the Malaysian service to be appointed to an ambassadorial post. On retirement she was appointed Director of the Kuala Lumpur Centre for Arbitration, a position she held from 1982 to 2000. She was a founder member of the National Arts Council of Malaysia and was noted as a patron of the arts; she was also a fine pianist and an accomplished cook. P G Lim was a generous donor to the College. One of the fruits of her generosity may be seen in

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the Littler Reading Room where the rug, commissioned by the College from designer Kate Blee and woven in central Turkey, was given by her in memory of her two Directors of Studies, M G Jones in History and Helen Cam in Law. In 1938 she married the late Eng Luck Wee, and she leaves a son, a daughter, and two grandchildren. A volume of her memoirs, entitled Kaleidoscope, was published by the Strategic Information and Research Development Centre in 2012.

HILARY NEVILLE-TOWLE (DUGUID) 12 October 1958–17 January 2013 The straitjacket of specialisation was not for Hilary Neville-Towle. She preferred the freedom to hone many skills – acting, editing and singing – for her talents ran wide and deep. To her, acclaim was irrelevant and what counted was the sheer joy of mastering new skills; and master them she did, with a dependable professionalism. It was clear, from the first day that we met at Girton, that here stood the young embodiment of Shirley Conran’s multi-tasking ‘Superwoman’. As young women in the Seventies, we were the first generation to blossom under the possibilities of feminism. But as Girtonians, stuck 3 miles out of the city centre, we had to pedal hard against East Anglian winds to join in. On many mornings, and always in a hurry, Hilary could be found outside the Porters’ Lodge cursing her flat-tyred bike. There was much to fit in each day as she cycled fast from a supervision on the Reformation, to a Bach choral practice, by way of a Footlights Review, a tennis

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match with Benenden school friends, crumpets by a bar heater, on to a lecture and finally arriving late and flushed to a drinks party on yet another college lawn. With her blond bob and clear spring-blue eyes, Hilary disregarded ‘cool’, preferring to dress in a selection of primrose, turquoise, carnation-pink and apple-green clothes, finished off with the flourish of a floral scarf. But lest you be deceived by this sugar-almond coating, there was grit under the sweetness. Along with Emma Thompson, Sandi Toksvig and Jan Ravens, she was the first to introduce an all-female Footlights Review. Her supervisors were impressed by the incisive, comprehending sophistication of her essays. Her mezzo voice was clear as a bell and honed by hours of practice. This young Glaswegian was focused. After Girton, Hilary initially took a job editing children’s books at Heinemann, and later commissioned a variety of titles at BBC Books. Poor, young and happy, we would sit on the grass in Grosvenor Square and share a processed cheese

sandwich bought with luncheon vouchers. Here she would entertain me with her mimicry of colleagues and authors. Then, just as her Cambridge contemporaries were settling down to the hierarchical and monetary rewards of their chosen professions, Hilary kicked over the traces, enrolled at Webber Douglas, the drama school in South Kensington, and trained as an actor. By day, she was rehearsing as the comely country girl or the dashing principal boy in breeches, alongside students ten years her junior, by night she was lustily singing in the Holst Choir, which was where she met her husband, the music entrepreneur, Richard Neville-Towle. Richard’s flights of fancy – shall we live in Tuscany, restore an impossibly big Georgian house, motor American tourists around the opera festivals of Britain in a vintage yellow Rolls-Royce? – were the perfect foil to Hilary’s Scottish practicality. Their early married life allowed for some of these flights of fancy but when their daughter, Kate, and then son, Will, came along, they left their Wiltshire cottage and moved to Edinburgh where they contributed fully to the city’s cultural life. Her days were passed organising clavichord concerts, rehearsing Richard’s ‘Really Terrible Orchestra’, singing in choirs, at weddings and on high days and holidays, editing books (ranging from a debut novel to a World War II memoir), recording several of Alexander McCall Smith’s The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series, and helping Richard put together numerous programmes to entertain guests at the Gleneagles Hotel. Hers is the recorded voice that takes visitors round many of the nation’s museums and galleries, such as the Royal Collection, the Geffrye Museum, and the Royal

Academy. Many of us have listened to her warm RP voice, with a soft hint of Scots, reading the BBC’s Book of the Week. When Hilary was diagnosed with cancer two years ago she simply did not believe it would kill her. There were still too many songs to sing. How could she leave her beloved family just as they were flowering into such lovely adults? When Kate was summoned to Cambridge University for an interview, aged just 16, Hilary almost burst with pride. With remarkable sang-froid, Will manned the phone as his mother lay dying. He grew up overnight. At her memorial at Canongate Kirk in Edinburgh, a thousand of us sang ‘Climb Every Mountain’. How many of the congregation appreciated the in-joke? When playing a nun in The Sound of Music, Hilary had learnt that she was pregnant. She is survived by her husband, Richard, and her two children, Kate and Will. Jane Bourne (Mulvagh 1977)

NIRMALA DE MEL 27 July 1940 – January 2013 From 1959 to 1962 a small sari-clad figure was frequently to be seen cycling, rather dangerously, down Huntingdon Road towards town. This was Nirmala de Mel on her way to archaeology and anthropology lectures, prepared to brave the traffic (less heavy in those days but nonetheless threatening) and somehow managing to prevent the fluttering end of her sari from catching in the spokes of the bicycle. She took to cycling with the same enthusiasm with which she embraced other Cambridge customs. Growing up in her home country (still then named Ceylon), she had received in the fifties, at Colombo Ladies’ College, a school education very much modelled on the British system. This enabled her to adapt with apparent ease to life in Girton. With her memorable smile, warm friendliness and fine sense of humour she formed firm friendships not only with a wide range of Girtonians but with many members of other colleges too – friends who have continued to remain in close touch with her over the years and who have been greatly saddened by her untimely death in January from cancer, which she had fought bravely for two years.

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After gaining her MA in Anthropology, Nirmala worked in London for J Walter Thompson’s subsidiary company, Lexington International Public Relations, and then for Setpoint Ltd, a division of Decca, before moving in 1969 to the USA and working as public relations officer for Parker House, Boston’s oldest hotel. The travel company, Quickshaws, established by her father in Colombo, was an early landmark in the development of tourism in Sri Lanka, and it was to manage this company that she finally returned home in the late seventies. This was after a further period in London where she had been an active partner in Quinquereme in New Kings Road, marketing textiles designed by leading Sri Lankan designers of batik, one of the many Sri Lankan handicrafts which Nirmala did so much to promote. In addition to her role in managing Quickshaws, she was a committee member of the Pacific Asia Travel Association and travelled widely, attending international tourism conventions; she welcomed these occasions as they enabled her to maintain contact with her many friends in the West.

Sri Lankan Women’s Chamber of Commerce. For more than ten years, as president of the tree charity, Ruk Rakaganno, she worked with great commitment, using both local and international business contacts, for the cause of environmental conservation in her country, and supervised the charity’s annexation of the arboretum at Dambulla with its important environmental education centre for school and university students.

Nirmala’s interest in built heritage led her to become a Trustee of the National Trust of Sri Lanka, and she was also a founder member of the

The sculptor and printmaker Elliot Melville Offner was Mary Amelia Cummins Harvey Fellow Commoner at Girton in 1990. He was visiting from Smith College (Northampton, Massachusetts)

Nirmala was very independent and, unusually for a South Asian woman of her time, she never married. She did consider marrying an American man, but realised that she was more attached to his motorbike than to him! Through one of the NGOs for women with which she was involved, she added to the College’s collection of merchandise some hand-made silver brooches bearing the Girton crest, still available for purchase. Nim was someone of great vitality and charm who valued her Girton days and is fondly remembered in the College. A group of her friends have arranged for a memorial to be unveiled to her in College next year, and another memorial will be set up in Colombo in her honour. Bess Guest (Cuthbert 1959)

ELLIOT OFFNER 1931–2010

where he had taught since 1960, and where he remained until he retired in 2004. Elliot was a first-generation American, the second son of Jewish immigrants. He was born and grew up in Brooklyn, and began his university studies at Cooper Union, transferring to Yale (where he studied under Josef Albers) for the final year of a degree in Fine Arts, which he obtained in 1953. He served in the Army for two years and then worked for Steuben Glass as a calligrapher before returning to Yale for a Master’s degree, which he was awarded in 1959. He then taught for a year at the University of Massachusetts (Amherst) before moving to Smith College in 1960. In 1957 he had married Rosemary O’Connell, and they had three children, Helen, Daniel, and Emily. At Smith he taught mainly calligraphy, typography, and printmaking, but in his own work it was primarily as a sculptor that he gained national and international recognition. While at Girton he worked (in one of the tiny gate-lodges) on the clay model for a life-sized sculpture, Child with Dog, commissioned for the Children’s Inn at the National Institutes of Health at Bethesda, Maryland. Although his oeuvre contained many works reflecting Auschwitz, the Holocaust, and mythological themes, he was increasingly drawn to natural forms, and this interest was reflected in both sculpture and prints (many images of his work, as well as more biographical information, may be found on the website www.elliotoffner.com). On leaving Girton, he entrusted me with a set of ‘Blue Heron’ prints which he asked me to distribute round all the Girton offices, as a thank-you for the welcome he had received. Some of these are

probably still hanging in offices where no-one now working remembers Elliot’s friendly presence, his quizzical expression, or his quirky sense of humour. Towards the end of his 1990 visit he was joined by Rosemary. Tall Elliot towered over tiny Rosemary, and he was very protective of her, but it was clear that he also depended deeply on her support, encouragement, and wisdom. Together they made several later visits to Cambridge, often in quarters (a Trinity College flat in Bridge Street, a friend’s house in Cranmer Road) where they could exercise their gift for hospitality. They were a very close couple, and when Rosemary died less than a year after Elliot, their eldest daughter said that this was no surprise: ‘She never could bear to be apart from him.’ Gillian Jondorf

DOROTHY ENID COLE WEDDERBURN (BARNARD) 18 September 1925–20 September 2012 Professor Dorothy Wedderburn was a distinguished applied economist, industrial sociologist and social reformer who played a significant role in the reorganisation of the University of London in the 1980s, and the establishment of Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, of which she was the first principal from 1985 to 1990. Born in 1925 in the East End of London, Dorothy was educated at Walthamstow High School for Girls, from where she went on to Girton as an undergraduate. She maintained her left-wing

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The sculptor and printmaker Elliot Melville Offner was Mary Amelia Cummins Harvey Fellow Commoner at Girton in 1990. He was visiting from Smith College (Northampton, Massachusetts)

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principles and her belief in equality in the workplace and in education for the sexes throughout her life. In 1950 she returned to Cambridge, having worked initially in the Board of Trade, to take up a post as a Research Officer in the Department of Applied Economics at Cambridge, which she held for fifteen years. From 1973 to 1981 she was Professor and Director of the Industrial Sociology Unit at Imperial College, London. During her time at Imperial, Dorothy served with distinction on the Royal Commission on the Distribution of Income and Wealth (1978), on a government committee that addressed the pay and conditions of nurses, and on the Council of ACAS. From 1976 to 1982 she was a member of the Economic and Social Research Council.

university governance to City University, Goldsmiths College, London Guildhall, and Loughborough Universities. She was Honorary President of the Fawcett Society from 1986 to 2002. From 1998 to 2000 she was Chair of the Committee of Enquiry into Women in Prison. Dorothy Wedderburn received honorary degrees and fellowships from many universities, including an honorary LLD from Cambridge.

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Professor Wedderburn will be remembered both as a distinguished academic, and as a great champion of women’s rights.

In 1947 she married the economic historian William ‘Max’ Cole, and two years after their marriage ended married Bill (later Lord) Wedderburn in 1962. She had no children. During her career she published widely on social issues, establishing her as one of the most influential social thinkers of her time. Subjects included the plight of the elderly, white-collar redundancy, redundancy and railway employees, and poverty, inequality and class structure, among others. Dorothy was a Member of the University of London’s Court and Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Continuing Education. After retirement she continued as Senior Research Fellow at Imperial College, also serving on Chelsea and Kensington District Health Authority and the Medical Manpower Advisory Committee of the Department of Health. She was on the Board of the AngloGerman Foundation. She brought her experience of

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Professor Wedderburn will be remembered both as a distinguished academic, and as a great champion of women’s rights.

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Fellows and Officers of the College, October 2013 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 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 Rt Hon Lady 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, PhD, DCL (Hon) 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, Hon DLitt (Liverpool) 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 Howard P Hodson, MA, PhD, FREng, Life Fellow 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 1Christopher J B Ford, MA, PhD, Official Fellow (Physics) (on leave 2013-14) 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)

Hugh R Shercliff, MA, PhD, Official Fellow and Director of Studies in Engineering 3Martin 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, Life Fellow 1Jochen H Runde, MPhil, PhD, Professorial Fellow (Economics), Director of Studies in Management Studies Dennis Barden, MA, PhD, Life Fellow Andrew R Jefferies, MA, VetMB, FRCPath, MRCVS, Life Fellow Juliet J d’A Campbell, CMG, MA, Life Fellow Peter H Abrahams, MBBS, FRCS (Edinburgh), FRCR, DO (Hon), Life Fellow *Deborah Lowther, MA, ACA, Official Fellow and Bursar Clive Lawson, MA, PhD, Official Fellow and Director of Studies in Economics (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) *1S-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 4Mia Gray, BA (San Diego), MRCP (Berkeley), PhD (Rutgers), Official Fellow and Director of Studies in Geography (Part IB) 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, Senior Tutor and Director of Studies in Biological Sciences (Parts IB, II and III), Maureen J Hackett, BA, MA (Southampton), Official Fellow, Tutor, Warden of Wolfson Court and Graduate Accommodation, and Junior Bursar *2Crispin H W Barnes, BSc, PhD (London), Official Fellow (Physics), and Tutor 3

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Colm 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) *K M Veronica Bennett, BSc (Leicester), PhD (CNAA), Official Fellow, Director of Studies in Biological Sciences, K M Peace Secretary to Council and Fellow for Communications 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 *Stuart Davis, BA, PhD (Birmingham), Official Fellow and Director of Studies in Modern Languages(Parts IA and II) and Tutor for Admissions Benjamin J Griffin, MA, PhD, Official Fellow and Director of Studies in History (Year 2) (on leave ET and LT14) Fiona J Cooke, MA, BMBCh (Oxon), PhD(London),MRCP, Official Fellow and Director of Studies in Medicine (Parts IB, II and Clinical) Ross 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 (on leave MT13 and LT14) C Patricia Ward, MA, PhD (Physics), Official Fellow 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 3Samantha K, BA (Lancaster), MSc, PhD, Official Fellow and Director of Studies in History (Year 2) (on leave MT2013) *Kamiar Mohaddes BSc (Warwick), MPhil, PhD, Official Fellow and Director of Studies in Economics 2

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Simon Cohn, BA, PhD (London), Official Fellow and Director of Studies in Social Anthropology 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 (on leave LT and ET14) 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 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, and Director of Studies in Architecture Lucy G Cheke, BA, PhD Sarah Woodhead Research Fellow in Experimental Psychology Henrik Latter, BABSc (Sydney), BA (Hons) (Sydney), PhD (Astrophysics) 4

Hope Wolf, BA, MPhil, PhD (KCL), Rosamund Chambers Research Fellow Nadja Tschentscher, BSc, MSc (Münster), Hertha Ayrton Research Fellow Visiting Fellows Roger Leigh, MA, BSc (Wales), PhD (Bangor), CBiol, FIBiol, Brenda Ryman Visiting Fellow (ET and MT 2013) Peter Ackers, BA (Oxon), MA (Warwick), MPhil, PGCE, PhD (Wolverhampton), Helen Cam Visiting Fellow (Sept 2013 – Feb 2014) 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 Claudia Domenici, BA (Pisa), MA (Lancaster) (Modern & Medieval Languages) Judith A Drinkwater, MA, Director of Studies in Linguistics and Modern and Medieval Languages (Part IB and Year Abroad) Margaret Faultless, MA, Hon FBC, FTCL, ARCM (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 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 Weikersthal, BSc (Freiburg), PhD (Freiburg) (Pharmacology) Emma J L Weisblatt, BA, MB, BCh, Director of Studies in Psychology Archivist Emerita Kate Perry, Cert Ed (Froebel) External Teaching Officers John S McCombie, MA, PhD, Director of Studies in Land Economy, Fellow of Downing College Hilary Marlow, PhD, Director of Studies in Theology, Course Director of the Faraday Institute for Science and Religion and an Affiliated Lecturer in the Faculty of Divinity Ben Outhwaite, BA, MPhil, PhD, Director of Studies in Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Head of the Genizah Research Unit, University

Praelectors Louise E Braddock, MA, MB, BChir, MD, MA (Reading), PhD (Reading) Josh D Slater, PhD, BVMS (Edinburgh) Lectrice Manon Turban, 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 At the time of writing, we are coming to the end of the Easter Term and preparing to say our farewells to Fellows who are moving on. One of the major roles within College is that of the Senior Tutorship, and as we thank Andrew Jefferies for his enormous contribution over the past 17 years, we welcome him to a Life Fellowship. We hope that he will now enjoy a more leisurely time, although members of the Life Fellowship tend to be as busy as ever and are certainly very active within the College. We look forward to his company for many years to come.1 The Senior Tutorship will be taken up by Sandra Fulton,2 who has many years’ experience as Director of Studies in Biological Sciences, a Tutor and Admissions Tutor, and we can be assured of the post passing onto very safe hands. The Fellowship thanked Emma Pugh for her contribution to College, both recently for her work as Secretary to the College Council, Governing Body and Augmented Council, Education Board and Academic Policy and for 12 years as a Tutor. Emma has been appointed Lecturer in Physics at the University of Kent, based in Canterbury. We send our best wishes for his retirement to Professor Stephen Robertson, to Dr Elizabeth King for her future in Architectural practice and Dr Kevin Musselman, who comes to the end of his Hertha Ayrton Research Fellowship. We also thank the French Lectrice, Lola Boglio, for her year with us and wish her well for the completion of her studies in Lyon. The College elected Roger Leigh as the Brenda Ryman Visiting Fellow for the Easter and Michaelmas Terms of 2013. Roger, who is taking a sabbatical from the University of Adelaide,

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Australia, was a former Professorial Fellow at Girton College from 1998 until 2006, when he left to become the Head of the Department of Agriculture, Food and Wine, and later Director of the Waite Research Institute at Adelaide. We shall have the pleasure of his company until December 2013. Professor Saskia Sassen has held the Helen Cam Visiting Fellowship for the Easter Terms of 2011, 2012 and 2013 and as we thank her for her company, we look forward to meeting the next incumbent of the Visiting Fellowship. Peter Ackers is Professor of Industrial Relations & Labour History at Loughborough University and will be with us from September 2013 to February 2014. Two new Fellows joined the Fellowship during the 2012/13 academic year: Henrik Latter is an Official Fellow in Mathematics, and Claudia Domenici is a Bye-Fellow in Modern Languages (Italian). Professor Howard Hodson, who joined Girton in 1984 as the Sarah Woodhead Research Fellow in Engineering, and Dr John Hendry, a Fellow since 1990, have both been elected to Life Fellowships in recognition of their contribution to the College.

This year, we look forward to having Ms Nadja Tschentscher join us as the Research Fellow in Science; Dr Hope Wolf, Arts, Humanities and Social Science Research Fellow in English; and Mlle Manon Turban as the French Lectrice for 2013-14. Finally, the College was delighted to be able to elect Tom Barnett as the first Artist in Residence. The Artist in Residence scheme will run alongside other Visiting Fellowships and complement the existing Musicians in Residence programme.

Please see Andrew Jefferies’ profile on page 36 2 Sandra Fulton’s profile is available on page 39 1

Publications by the Fellows and Officers of the College during 2012–13 include: P ABRAHAMS. (Joint) Clinical Atlas of Human Anatomy (7th ed., Elsevier, 2013) (with accompanying website with 2000 clinical pictures and 250 3D videos for students’ and teachers’ use). A ALBORS-LLORENS. ‘Remedies against the EU institutions after Lisbon: an era of opportunity?’ and ‘Sealing the fate of private parties in annulment proceedings: the General Court and the new standing test in Article 263(4) TFEU’, Cambridge Law J. 71 (2012); ‘Securing trust in the Court of Justice of the EU: the influence of the Advocates General’, Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies (2012). H D ALLEN. (Both joint) ‘Use of an airborne lidar system to model plant species composition and diversity of Mediterranean oak forests’, Conservation Biology 26 (2012); ‘Remotely sensed indicators of forest conservation status: case study from a Natura 2000 site in southern Portugal’, Ecological Indicators 24 (2013). C H W BARNES. (All Joint) ‘The effects of electrolyte concentration on film composition and homogeneity in electrodeposition’, Electrochemistry Communications 27 (2013) doi:10.1016/j.elecom.2012.11.008; ‘Magnetic vortex stability in Ni80Fe20 split rings’, J. of Applied Physics 113(4) (2013); ‘The irreversibility line and Curie-Weiss temperature of the superconductor LaCaBaCu3-X(BO3)(X) with x=0.2 and 0.3’ in Superconductivity Centennial Conference 2011,

vol. 36 (2012) doi:10.1016/j.phpro.2012.06.244; ‘Ab-initio calculation of C and CO adsorption on the Co (110) surface’, Surface Science 608 (2013). L G CHEKE. (Both Joint) ‘How Do Children Solve Aesop’s Fable?’, PloS One 7(7) (2012); ‘Evidence suggesting that desire-state attribution may govern food sharing in Eurasian jays’, Proc. National Academy of Sciences (2013). A DAMLÉ. (Joint editor) Women’s Writing in Twenty-First-Century France: Life as Literature (U. of Wales Press, 2013). S DAVIS. Writing and Heritage in Contemporary Spain (Boydell and Brewer, 2012). J DEFOE. (Both joint) ‘Effects of boundary layer ingestion on the aero-acoustics of transonic fan rotors’ and ‘Shock propagation and MPT noise from a transonic rotor in non-uniform flow’, J. of Turbomachinery 135 (2013). M GRAY. (Joint) ‘Making Space for Well-Being’, Cambridge J. of Regions, Economy and Society 5 (2012). M GUITE. Sounding the Seasons: Seventy Sonnets for the Christian Year (Canterbury Press, 2012); ‘Keeping alive the heart in the head; poetic imagination as a way of knowing’ in Head and Heart: Perspectives from Religion and Psychology, ed. F Watts and G Dumbreck (Templeton Press, 2013); ‘The truth of imagination; imaginative truth-telling in the writing of C S Lewis’, Theology (November 2013).

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J HENDRY. Management: A Very Short Introduction (OUP, 2013); Ethics in Finance: An Introduction (CUP, 2013). K HUGHES. (Both joint) ‘Prognostic histopathological and molecular markers in feline mammary neoplasia’, The Veterinary J. 194 (1) (2012) doi: 10.1016/j.tvjl.2012.05.008; ‘The role of Stat3 in mammary gland involution: cell death regulator and modulator of inflammation’, Horm. Mol. Biol. Clin. Invest. 10 (1) (2012) doi: 10.1515/hmbci-2012-0008. L JANIK. “Noble death”, images of violence in the rock art of the White Sea’ in Visualising the Neolithic: Abstraction, Figuration, Performance, Representation, ed. A Cochrane and A Jones (Oxbow Books, 2012); ‘The social context of Palaeolithic figural art: performativity, materialisation and fragmentation’ in Unravelling the Paleolithic: Ten Years of Research at the Centre for the Archaeology of Human Origins (CAHO, University of Southampton), ed. K Ruebens et al. (Archaeopress, 2013); ‘Revisiting the chronology of the rock art of the Vig river and its significance for understanding prehistoric art in the northwest Russia-Scandinavia region’, Mesolit i neolit vostochnoj Evropy: Khronologija i kul’turnoje vzaimodejstvije (Rossijskaja Academija Nauk Institut Istorii Material’noj

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Kul’tury, Musej Antropologii i Etnografii imeni Petra Velikogo (Kunstkamera), 2012); ‘Her or him, exploring the creation myth and symbolism of gender in Upper Palaeolithic portable art of Eurasia’ in L’Art pléistocène dans le monde / Pleistocene Art of the World / Arte Pleistoceno en el Mundo, ed. J (Actes du Congrès IFRAO, Art mobilier pléistocène, 2012). K KENNEDY. (Joint editor) The Silent Morning: Culture, Memory and the Armistice, 1918 (Manchester UP, 2013). R LAWTHER. ‘Elements in reductive algebraic groups with abelian connected centralizers’, J. of Algebra 359 (2012); ‘The P-radical classes in simple algebraic groups and finite groups of Lie type’, J. of Group Theory 15 (2012). A G LIU. (All joint) ‘Explaining the exceptional preservation of Ediacaran rangeomorphs from Spaniard’s Bay, Newfoundland: a hydraulic model’, Precambrian Research 231 (2013); A Global Comparative Analysis of Ediacaran Fossil Localities (report submitted to UNESCO as part of the dossier for the nomination of Mistaken Point Ecological Reserve as a World Heritage Site, 2012); ‘The architecture of Ediacaran fronds’, Palaeontology 55(5) (2012); ‘A new assemblage of juvenile Ediacaran

fronds from the Drook Formation, Newfoundland’, J. of the Geological Society 169(4) (2012). J MANN. ‘In defence of Francesca: human and divine love in Dante and Chaucer’, Strumenti critici 131 (2013); ‘Falling in love in the Middle Ages’ in Traditions and Innovations in the Study of Middle English Literature: The Influence of Derek Brewer, ed. C Brewer and B Windeatt (Boydell and Brewer, 2013); (editor and translator) Ysengrimus (Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library Series 26, Harvard UP, 2013). J MARKS. ‘Chitty Chitty Bang’ and ‘Old Blues don’t even fade away’, Boat Race Programme (April 2013). J M RILEY. (All joint) ‘10C survey of radio sources at 15.7 GHz - II. First results’, MNRAS 415 (2011); ‘A new connection between the jet opening angle and the large-scale morphology of extragalactic radio sources’, MNRAS 427 (2012); ‘The faint source population at 15.7 GHz - I. The radio properties’, MNRAS 429 (2012); ‘The radio source count at 93.2 GHz from observations of 9C sources using AMI and CARMA’, MNRAS 430 (2012). S ROBERTSON. (Joint) ‘On per-topic variance in IR evaluation’, Proc. ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, ed. W R Hersh et al. (ACM, 2012). S SABESAN. (All joint) ‘Wide area passive UHF RFID system using antenna diversity combined with phase and frequency hopping’, IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagations (March 2013); ‘Passive UHF RFID interrogation system using wireless RFID repeater nodes’, Proc. IEEE

International Conference on RFID (April 2013); ‘Wide-area accurate passive RFID real-time tracking system’, RFID Journal Live! (2013). S J SMITH. ‘Care-full markets: miracle or mirage?’, Tanner Lectures on Human Values 31 (2012); ‘Crisis and innovation in the housing economy: a tale of three markets’ in Financial Innovation – Too Much or Too Little?, ed. M Haliossis (MIT Press, 2012); (joint) ‘Motivations for equity borrowing: a welfare switching effect’, Urban Studies (2013); (joint) ‘Debted objects: homemaking in an era of mortgage enabled consumption’, Housing, Theory and Society (2013); ‘Channels from housing wealth to consumption’, Housing Studies (2013). M A STRATHERN. ‘Gifts money cannot buy’, Social Anthropology 20(4) (2012); ‘Eating (and feeding)’, Cambridge Anthropology 30(2) (2012); ‘Currencies of collaboration’ in Collaborators Collaborating: Counterparts in Anthropological Knowledge and International Research Relations, ed. M Konrad (Berghahn Books, 2012); ‘The academic as examiner’ in Academic Working Lives: Experience, Practice and Change, ed. L Gornall et al. (Bloomsbury Academic, 2013); ‘Epilogue: expectations, auto-narrative and beyond’ in The Interview: An Ethnographic Approach, ed. J Skinner (Berg, 2012); ‘Afterword: a last word on futures’ in The Sage Handbook of Social Anthropology, ed. R Fardon et al. (ASA and Sage Publications, 2012).

The Encyclopedia of Ancient History, ed. R S Bagnall et al. (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013); (joint) ‘A reconstructed land survey from Kerkeosiris’, in Papyrological Texts in Honor of Roger S Bagnall, ed. R Ast et al. (American Society of Papyrologists, 2013). R WARREN. (All joint) ‘Evaluation of mammographic surveillance services in women aged 40–49 years with a moderate family history of breast cancer: a single arm cohort study’, Health Technol. Assess. 17(11) (2013); ‘The heritability of mammographic breast density and circulating sexhormone levels : two independent breast cancer risk factors’, Cancer Epidemiol. Biomarkers Prev. 21(12) (2012); ‘Differences in natural history breast cancers in BRCA1 and BRCA2

mutation carriers and effects of MRI screening-MRISC, MARIBS, and Canadian studies combined’, ibid. 21(9) (2012) ; ‘Defining the role of PET-CT in staging early breast cancer’, Oncologist 17(5) (2013). P-O H WIKSTRÖM. ‘Why crime happens’ in Analytical Sociology: Norms, Actions and Networks, ed. G Manzo (Wiley & Sons, 2013); ‘Situational action theory’ in The Springer Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice, ed. G Bruinsma and D Weisburd (Springer, 2013); (joint) Breaking Rules. The Social and Situational Dynamics of Young People’s Urban Crime (OUP, 2012); ‘Tracking social life and crime’ in The Urban Fabric of Crime and Fear, ed. V Ceccato (Springer, 2012).

D J THOMPSON. ‘P. Enteux. 27 and the Nile transport of grain under the Ptolemies’, in Actes du 26e Congrès international de papyrologie (Genève, 16–21 août 2010), ed. P Schubert (Droz, 2012); ‘Cleruchs (Egypt)’, ‘Double-cropping’, ‘Memphis’, in

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Awards and distinctions BENT, M H (Bassington 1959; Honorary Fellow 2007) elected to membership of the American Philosophical Society. BlACK, A (Davoli 1969) OBE. BOROWIAK, M (2006) awarded the Musiq’3 Prize (Audience Award) and received the Count De Launoit Prize for third place in the recent Piano 2013, Queen Elisabeth Music Competition in Brussels. CUMPER, P (1973), playwright and Artistic Director of the Talawa Theatre Company, appointed MBE for services to Black British Theatre, in the New Year’s Honours List 2013. FAULTLESS, M (Fellow 2010) elected Honorary Fellow of the Birmingham Conservatoire. FENNELL, R E (Farleigh 1950) appointed MBE for services to UK–Tanzania relations along with her husband, Ronald, in the New Year’s Honours List 2013. GAI, P L (1970) received a L’Oréal-UNESCO Women in Science Laureate for her work using electron microscopy to observe chemical reactions in catalysts. GOONERATNE, M Y D (Bandaranaike 1959) awarded the Premchand Fellowship 2012 by Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi, India. GRIFFIN, B (Fellow 2003) awarded the Royal Historical Society’s Whitfield Prize 2012.

HALLIDAY, A (1959), Chief Executive of St Paul's Community Development Trust, appointed MBE for services to the community in Balsall Heath, Birmingham, in the New Year’s Honours List 2013. HORSLER, V A (1964) elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries (FSA), 2012; received the Cross of the Order pro Merito Melitensi for her recent publication The Order of Malta: A Portrait, 2012.

LEWIS, G (1978) awarded the Crown at the 2012 Vale of Glamorgan National Eisteddfod for her sequence of poems called ‘Y Frân’ on the subject Ynys (Island). LISHMAN, S C (1986) awarded the 2012 Royal Society Kohn Award for her excellence in engaging with society in matters of science and its societal dimension.

HUGHES, K (Fellow 2009) PhD awarded the Royal College of Pathologists’ Gold Research Medal 2012 for her entry covering the speciality of veterinary pathology. INGHAM CLARK, C L (Parsons 1977) appointed MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours 2013 for services to the NHS.

McDUFF, M D (Waddington 1967; Honorary Fellow 1997) elected to membership of the American Philosophical Society, Spring 2013.

KELLY, C M (2008) elected as a Shinn Fellow (Post-student Fellowship) for piano at the Royal Academy of Music, 2013.

RANDALL, R (Fellow 1977) awarded the Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management's Best Practice Award 2012, including Outstanding Achievement in Practical Nature Conservation, Outstanding Innovation and Outstanding Knowledge Exchange and Promoting Best Practice.

LETWIN, I (Davidson 1975), Director of Legal Services at the Department of Health, appointed CBE in the New Year’s Honours List for legal services to Government, 2013.

SASSENS, S (Visiting Fellow 2011) awarded Prince of Asturias Award 2013 for Social Sciences. STRATHERN, A M (Evans 1960, Fellow) awarded the Leverhulme Prize and Medal for Humanities and Social Sciences for 2012 by the British Academy. THOMPSON, D J (Walbank 1958, Fellow) awarded an Honorary DLitt from Liverpool University 2013. WATSON, J H F C (1994), winner of the Freedom from Torture (Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture) short story competition by Random House judges for ‘London Plane’. WRENN, M (Fellow 2011) awarded the Association for Social Economics Warren Samuels Prize for the best paper presented at the Allied Social Sciences Association annual conference.

Further Academic and Professional Qualifications BARATHA-RAJ, S (Poulton 1976) MD for her research on aspects of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, from University of Cambridge, 24 November 2012. COGGIN, B (1999) PhD for his research on Anglo-Saxon bishops in their political context, 577–1066, from University of London (Institute of Historical Research), 2011. HEATON, A E (2007) MA in International Development Management, University of Bradford, 2012. HUNT, G (1941) MD for her research on open spina bifida, from University of Cambridge, 24 November 2012. SMITH, D N A (2000) PhD in Hispanic Studies, University of Birmingham, 15 December 2010. WATNEY, P J M (Lachelin 1950) BA Hons in Fine Art from Chichester University, October 2012 (One month after her 80th Birthday). WOOD, H (2003) MBChB from University of Warwick, July 2012.

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McDUFF, M D (Waddington 1967; Honorary Fellow 1997) elected to membership of the American Philosophical Society, Spring 2013.

KELLY, C M (2008) elected as a Shinn Fellow (Post-student Fellowship) for piano at the Royal Academy of Music, 2013.

LETWIN, I (Davidson 1975), Director of Legal Services at the Department of Health, appointed CBE in the New Year’s Honours List for legal services to Government, 2013.

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College Awards and Prizes Cambridge University Further Degrees and Awards MD: G M Hunt, A Poulton MB: M Sweeney PhD: F Cheng, E Erdogdu, S L Fawcett, J M Foster, J M Hallett, K Hughes, C H Hsu, S Liang, C N S Lynch, J L Martinez Hurtado, A C B Medeiros, E I C Nikolic, E T Owen, W D Simonson, S J Smith, L Sun, N Trakuphadetkrai, D Wang, H S Wong

MPhil: Z O Allen, A Amodia-Bidakowska, M D Apostolidis, B Atalic, R S Avis, H Baid, J A Barber, O C Brandon, M M V R Camargo, D Contractor, M A Crisafi, M H Duyzend, H Fan, K H E Fennell, R Flazi, T Gajic, M Grant, A Hallou, C E J Harrington, A P L Hazard, M J Herbert, H Indegjerd, C Jin, M A A Khan, E Longinotti, J G Losbichler, V Malikgulyyev, C Mancini, M A C O Margerin, S Martyn, A R Milde, B Miranda, A Mortada, A P Muller, G C Mulligan, D O’Brien, A Padhee, G Pavarini, K Pitcharoen, D D Rees, A C Reynolds, S Roberts, T Rus, M J Sheldon, F Shi, S E Squires, C C Tan, R Tang, I Troconis, R J Walker, C S Witte, H Woldt, M Wouters, S Xie, X Yan, H Yin, F Zhang, L Zhao, Y Zheng, Y S Zhu MBA: P A K Jain, S M-L Lim, N Pedrotti Marinkovic, J Qin, A Svalov, H Watanabe, L E Zhuang LLM: D Y M Tan MCL: S Bouvy University Prizes for academic excellence Institute of Astronomy Prize: P M Molliere George Peter Baker Prize in Medicine: T E Williams Computer Department ECM Prize for the Best Student: A W Chadwick The William Harvey Studentship in Clinical Medicine: B Gaastra The William Harvey Prize in Paediatrics: A J W Badcock The Dorothy Knott Prize in Community Palliative Care: A J W Badock Lewins Prize in Nuclear Energy: C Harrington The William Vaughan Lewis Prize: A G Williamson The Donald Wort Prize: M T Liefkes

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Graduate Scholarships: G M Gardner: S A Burney; J E Cairns: P Momtaz, A Scoica; Sidney and Marguerite Cody Studentship: V J Harvey, E J S Inns, E R Lybeck; Ida and Isidore Cohen: I Katz Feigis; M M Dunlop: A J Main; M T Meyer: L Perreault Levasseur; Pfeiffer: B J Cooke, I Katz Feigis, S Wilson; Doris Russell: R A Knighton, A J Main; Ethel Sargant: A G Williamson; Stribling Award: F Ward, A G Williamson; Ruth Whaley: B J Cooke; Doris Woodall: B J Cooke; Diane Worzala Memorial Fund: S A Burney Postgraduate Scholarships: John Bowyer Buckley: A J W Badcock, B Gaastra, C E Parte, A Ridge, M K Seneviratne, T E Williams; Sir Francis Goldsmid: D Y M Tan; Edith Lydia Johns: G Ellse, S L H Healey, H M Phillips, K Smallwood; Henry Tomkinson: P M Molliere; M T Meyer: RW Irvine, P K Jell, P S Mangat Postgraduate Prizes for Law Margaret Hastings: D Y M Tan Postgraduate Prizes for Mathematics Gertrude Mather Jackson: R W Irvine, P K Jell, P S Mangat Postgraduate Prizes for Medicine Edith Neal: A J W Badcock, B Gaastra, T E Williams Postgraduate Prizes for Natural Sciences (Physical) Ida Freund: P M Molliere Postgraduate Prizes for Veterinary Medicine Leslie Hall: A Ridge Edith Neal: G Ellse, M K Seneviratne

Thomas and Elizabeth Walton: S L H Healey, C E Parte, H M Phillips, K Smallwood Undergraduate Scholarships Sir Arthur Arnold: J P Conalty Malcolm, C Ellery, H B Frost, S J Hart, M Hatfield, E C Kwok, T T H Nguyen, H J Parker, J K Tong; Barbara Bodichon: A W Chadwick, A Gilbey, M F Herbst, M S L Johnson, T Kartanas; John Bowyer Buckley: C M Burford, L G Dunsmore, D S Fischer, M Pipan, I P Savitsky, A Taylor, A Thompson, K J Wohlfahrt Rosalind, Lady Carlisle: T H Cummings, V Gramm, A Jeffs, N O Wand; Jane Chessar: V Lee; Emily Davies: P H L Cheung, A F Clements, H C Greenstreet, A R Halstead, H J Lee, N B Nguyen, V Ravikumaran, M T Williams, A G Williamson; Angela Dunn-Gardiner: P Sobanda; Sir Francis Goldsmid: F L Gunnion, S A Mizera; Mary Graham: G E A Darling; Russell Gurney: F Ward; Florence Ethel Gwyn: S M Hermanns; Mary Higgins: M Kingston, J O Pulman-Slater, P K Wiseman, K Yoo; Edith Lydia Johns: S Taylor, G Zeng; Ellen McArthur: S DeBere, O De’Ath, A De Ville, A Ebrahimoff, H B Frost, S Modi, T T H Nguyen, M Williams; M T Meyer: A J Appleton, T Bachmann, J Dauparas, R A I Deo, I J Dunlap, N Dupre, J I McDonald, O McEnteggart; Henry Tomkinson: E P Booker, P Chand-Bajpai,

O De’Ath, S DeBere, F N Brill, N M Farandos, J G Graham, J Harvey, S Modi, I Samson, W Smith, J A Q Styles, A De Ville, N Wilson; Sophia Turle: B Comeau, M T Liefkes, M S X Seow Undergraduate Prizes Thérèse Montefiore Memorial Prize: M S X Seow Laurie Hart Memorial Prize: V Gramm Ridding Reading Prize: G R Wagstaff Rima Alamuddin Prize: K E Brook Hammond Science Communication Prize: D Fischer (First Place and winner of Audience Prize); M Sachdeva (Second Place); S Brown (Royal College of Pathologists Prize for Best Talk with a Pathological Theme); G Zhao (Abstract Prize) Mountford Arts & Humanities Communication Prize: Josie Teal (First Prize and Audience Prize); Emily Loud (Second Prize); Alexander Thompson (Prize for best abtract) [1] The Appleton Cup: A Thompson Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic Jane Catherine Gamble: A Gilbey Archaeology & Anthropology Raemakers: H J Lee Chemical Engineering Christina Barnard: N M Farandos Isabella Crawshaw: E C K Kwok Phyllis Tillyard: P h L Cheung

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Classics Hilda Richardson: V Lee Computer Science Raemakers: A W Chadwick Economics Lilian Knowles: S DeBere, O Deâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Ath, S Modi, I Samson Thomas and Elizabeth Walton: A De Ville, H B Frost, T T H Nguyen, V Ravikumaran Engineering Christina Barnard: C Ellery, H J Parker, N Wilson Isabella Crawshaw: A F Clements Lilian Knowles: I Samson English Eileen Alexander: S E Rayner Charlton Award in Medieval/Renaissance Literature: H C Greenstreet Charity Reeves: T H Cummings, H C Greenstreet, M S L Johnson, W Smith, P Sobanda Geography Margaret Anderson: J G Graham, A R Halstead, A G Williamson Janet Chamberlain: O Burke, M Karleskind, A G Williamson History Lilian Knowles: S M Hermanns Eileen Power: F Ward History of Art Jane Catherine Gamble: V Gramm, A Jeffs Land Economy Jane Catherine Gamble: F N Brill

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Law Lilian Knowles: G E A Darling Thomas & Elizabeth Walton: J Harvey Linguistics Isabella Crawshaw: J O Pulman-Slater, P K Wiseman, K Yoo Management Studies Joan Robinson: P Chand-Bajpai Mathematics Gertrude Mather Jackson: A J Appleton, T Bachmann, J Dauparas, N Dupre May Smithells: R A I Deo, I J Dunlap, J I McDonald, O McEnteggart Medical Sciences Ming Yang Lee: S A Taylor Edith Neal: G Zeng Thomas & Elizabeth Walton: A Thompson Music Christina Barnard: B Comeau Jane Catherine Gamble: M T Liefkes C B West: M S X Seow Natural Sciences (Biological) Marion Bidder: C M Burford Ming Yang Lee: K J Wohlfahrt Ellen Delf Smith: D S Fischer Natural Sciences (Physical) Marion Bidder: A Taylor Gwendolen Crewdson: M M J Bellaiche, E P Booker, F L Gunnion, M F Herbst, T Kartanas, M Kingston, J K Tong, N O Wand Ellen Delf-Smith: M Pipan

Ida Freund: S J Hart, M Hatfield, S A Mizera, N B Nguyen, J A Q Styles Ming Yang Lee: L G Dunsmore Edith Neal : I P Savitsky Politics, Psychology and Sociology Jane Catherine Gamble : J P Conalty Malcolm Christina Barnard: M T Williams Social Anthropology Raemakers: A Ebrahimoff Music Awards: Organ Scholarship: B Comeau, R Heaton College Music Scholarship: J Coleman London Girton Association Music Award: B Comeau Siem Music Prize: M T Liefkes Tom Mansfield Memorial Prize: S V Millwood

S K Oram; Judith Eccleshare Grant: J Dauparas, T Harkcom, S A Mizera, M Nelson, K J Nunn, V Oleinikovas, A G Williamson; Eileen Ellenbogen Travel Prize: E Loud; E.M. & F.A Kirkpatrick Travel Prize: R Kitchen; Edith Helen Major Grant: R Duffin, R A Haylett, R Jones, G R Wagstaff; Mary Morrison Grant: L T Dawson, T E May, R N Russo, H Schober, E Wells, J Wright; Marina Shakich Grant: G H Lloyd-Thomas, J P Malcolm-Conalty, J E C Morely, R J Weedon; Shelia Spire Travel Award: M C McLaren; Dorothy Tempest Travel Award: S A James; Kythe Waldram Award: N A Baroudi; Monica Wilson Travel Award: M Capes

Jill Vlasto Choral Awards: J Fine, T Harkcom, R Haylett, R Randle, E Rogers, K Walton, S P Wilkinson Travel Awards: College Travel Scholarship: O Deâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Ath, D S Fischer, S N Kemp, M S X Seow Adela Marion Adam Grant: I N Barker; Charlotte Rycroft Award: R L Boardman, M Hatfield; K.J. Barker Travel Award: R Cooper, C Coulter; J K Brightwell Grant: J Mosedale, J O Pulman-Slater, J Rans, S Stillwell, J Teale, C E Walker; Dorothy Chadwick Travel Prize:

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Appointments of Alumni and Fellows 1963 HALE, B M (College Visitor) appointed Deputy President of the Supreme Court. 1967 GLOSTER, E (Hon. Fellow) appointed Lady Justice of Appeal. 1968 SWALLOW, H J (Symes) appointed first Head of the European Parliament Editing Unit in Luxembourg. 1972 HEARN, K appointed Honorary Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature, University College, London. 1977 INGHAM CLARK, C (Parsons) appointed National Clinical Director for Enhanced Recovery and Acute Surgery for NHS England. 1985 LEE, K (Fellow) appointed as an editor of the Internal Law Reports, thus joining Sir Christopher Greenwood and Sir Eli Lauterpacht as editor of the series. 1985 MEAD, D R appointed Professor of Public Law and British Human Rights Law, University of Essex from 1 October 2013. 1988 COCKER, J H appointed Head of Biology at Merchant Taylors’ School.

1989 BUCK, J K appointed as an external member of the Girton College Investments Committee. 1989 FORD, C J B (Fellow) appointed Professor in the Cambridge University Department of Physics. 1989 FINNIE, N J appointed to Global Head of Intellectual Property at Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics. 1997 MADABHUSHI, S-P G (Fellow) appointed Professor in the Cambridge University Department of Engineering. 2000 SMITH, D N A appointed Project Manager at Red Gate Software Ltd. 2009 PADDEU, F appointed to a Junior Research Fellowship at Queens’ College from 1 October 2013. 2011 BROCKINGTON, S F (Fellow) appointed to a five-year NERC Advanced Fellowship to be held at the Department of Plant Sciences, Cambridge University from 1 October 2013.

Alumni Publications BAILEY R V (1951). Credentials (Oversteps Books, 2012); The Losing Game (Mariscat Press, 2010); (joint) From Me to You (Peterloo/Enitharmon, 2007). BLACKER S M (Brenton 1969). Pure Wool (Bloomsburg, 2012). CADMAN T (1985). Climate Change and Global Policy Regimes: Towards Institutional Legitimacy (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013). DERANIYAGALA S (1981). Wave: A Memoir of Life After the Tsunami (Virago, 2013).

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GLANVILLE P (Fox-Robinson 1962). Dinner with a Duke (Harley Foundation, 2010); ‘Gold, golden, gilded’ in Gold: Power and Allure, ed. H Clifford (Goldsmiths’ Company, 2012). HEARN K (1972). ‘Lady Anne Clifford’s “Great Triptych”’ in Lady Anne Clifford: Culture, Patronage and Gender in 17th-Century Britain, ed. L Hulse (Yorkshire Archaeological Society, 2010); ‘The Painters’ in

The Lumley Inventory and Pedigree, ed. M Evans (Roxburghe Club, 2010). HORSLER V A (1964). (Editor) The Order of Malta: A Portrait (Third Millennium, 2011); Sovrano Ordine di Malta. Ritratto di una istituzione millenaria (Third Millennium, 2013). IRWIN F J (1978). (Joint) Old Canadian Cemeteries, Places of Memory (Firefly Books, 2007); (joint) Burlington (Boston Mills Press, 1995).

ISAAC A B (Miller 1955). (Joint) ‘Unexpected trajectories: a history of Niuean throwing stones’, Journal of Polynesian Society 120, (4) (2011). KATZ FEIGIS I (2011). Shnat Horef [Hibernating] (Kibbutz Hameuchad, 2012). LEVIN C L (1995). Los Siete Nombres (Alfaguara Juvenil, 2010); La Duna Helada (Alfaguara, 2011); Familias: Modelo Para Armar (Color de León, 2011). MEAD D R (1985). The New Law of Peaceful Protest: Rights and Responsibilities in the Human Rights Act Era (Hart Publishing, 2010); ‘“Don’t make us get a warrant…we only want a quick look in your husband’s shed”: the Article 8 issues raised by the domestic legal framework on police entries and searches by consent’, European Human Rights Law Review 11 (2011); ‘When the police come knocking – the case for review of public law trespass and consensual entries onto property’, Criminal Law Review (2012); ‘Outcomes aren’t all: defending process-based review of public authority decisions under the Human Rights Act’, Public Law (2012). MILNER V S (1990). (Joint) ‘Employment tribunals in the Channel Islands – time for a closer look?’, Jersey and Guernsey Law Review 17 (2013). MOFFETT J (1990). (Joint) Judicial Review: Principles and Procedures (OUP, 2013). SANDERS V (1975). Records of Girlhood. Volume Two: An Anthology of Nineteenth-Century Women’s Childhoods (Ashgate, 2012).

SMITH D N A (2000). ‘Bolivarianism and Socialism: a Corpus-driven Investigation into Changes in Hugo Chávez’s Rhetoric’, in Spanish At Work, ed. N Lorenzo-Dus (Palgrave MacMillan, 2011). SPARY E C (1992). Eating the Enlightenment: Food and the Sciences in Paris, 1670–1760 (U. of Chicago Press, 2012). STAINSBY A P (1973). ‘Emergency Planning and the UK Civil Contingencies Act 2004’, Municipal Engineer (ICE Proceedings), ME2 165 (2012). TAYLOR P J (Francis 1963). ‘Eadulfingtun, Edmonton and their Contexts’ in The English and their Legacy, 900–1200: Essays in Honour of Ann Williams, ed. D Roffe (Boydell and Brewer, 2012). TIFFEN M (Steele-Perkins 1949). Friends of Sir Robert Hart: Three Generations of Carrall Women in China (Tiffania Books, 2012). WILSON C A (1945). Water of Life, A History of Wine-Distilling and Spirits 500 BC–AD 2000 (Prospect Books, 2006). WOODHOUSE L (Steele 1959). Elizabeth I: The People’s Queen? (Troubador, 2012).

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