The Year 2014 by Girton College

TheYear 2013 | 2014 Girton College Cambridge

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The Annual Review of Girton College

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Contents A letter from the Mistress

Student Reports JCR MCR Societies reports Sports reports

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Articles Girtonians at war From bats to beds to books A Title IX for Britain? Gender equality in education A brilliant alumna: Veronica Forrest-Thomson

Roll of Alumni Calendar of events Local associations

Miscellany Girton’s first Artist in Residence The People’s Portrait 2013 New College christmas cards Bald and proud!

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Births, Marriages and Deaths Births Marriages Death notices Obituaries

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Profiles Harriet Allen Gopal Madabhushi Ben Comeau Felix Franks

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College Reports Development Admissions Graduate admissions Bursaries and grants Librarian Archivist Culture and heritage Research evenings Music Chapel Choir

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Lists The Fellowship Comings and goings Fellows’ publications Awards and distinctions University and College awards Appointments of Alumni and Fellows Alumni publications

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A Letter from the Mistress Dear Friends, It seems too soon, after the spectacularly well-attended opening of our prize-winning residential wing in October, to be writing my annual letter on a hot July afternoon. So much has happened in ten fleeting months! I have enjoyed trips in my various professional capacities to Dublin, Finland, Singapore, Hong Kong and Australia, and have hosted visits from alumni, colleagues and friends of Girton from equally far afield. I have deliberated over the governance, and steered the business of the College, through more than 150 separate meetings; I am immersed in a round of estate and financial planning, with the long-term future of the College in mind. In addition to all this, and to Girton’s hectic programme of seminars, lectures and research initiatives, I have tumbled with pleasure into an energetic swirl of student-led activities and events, of which more anon. There is a great deal that I would like to say to welcome you to this edition of The Year. But space is tight, and the pages that follow are packed with good things. So if I have to choose one thing to highlight as we enter the ‘countdown’ to 2019 (the 150th anniversary of Girton’s foundation, just five years away), it has to do with the very heart and substance of College life: the people who make this unique higher education establishment the great success that it is. On a typical day during term, over 1000 exceptional individuals are hard at work in College. The majority are students. Among those who are not, one group in particular – those who populate the so-called ‘domestic departments’ – spend much of their time hidden from public view. Yet these are the people who turn a collegiate Cambridge education into a complete residential experience: a home from home, where students can feel safe, supported and secure, well-fed and warmly serviced. If being in

office for five years has taught me anything at all, it is that this College has its own very special domestic ethos: there is nothing generic about the role of a chef, a porter, domestic services or maintenance staff at Girton. When you visit – as I hope you soon will – you will know exactly what I mean. You will enjoy a friendly, personalised service delivered by professionals with a ‘can-do’ attitude, who know how important a warm welcome is to the spirit of this College.

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Then there are the administrative departments – the lean but wide-ranging support infrastructure that keeps us solvent, wired up, resourced for learning, in touch with each other, and in communication with the wider world. These are the professionals who support outreach, admissions, human resources, student services and scholarly endeavour; who manage the accounts, underpin the governance of the College, and co-ordinate the events and activities that drive the academic year. In the current financial climate, it would be naïve to believe that the College thrives on anything other than the willingness of so many of these individuals to go that extra mile. Sadly, one of them, Gill Starling – personnel officer extraordinaire – died just before Christmas, and we mourn her loss in very many ways. Another, Angela Stratford, Head of the Tutorial Admissions Office, brings exceptional depth and breadth of experience to Girton’s ongoing drive to widen participation and much more besides. With the academic admissions tutors and a small but determined team, she has played a key role in bringing Girton’s foundational mission, and primary strategic goal, firmly into the twenty-first century. Thanks to committed staff and some pioneering access schemes, I am proud to say that Girton has, in the last five years, taken a lead role in both attracting applications and admitting the very best students from a widening pool. This brings me to the academic Fellowship of the College, whose role it is to create and maintain a research-infused learning environment appropriate to the world-class education that a Cambridge degree implies. Girton enjoys an active and engaged Fellowship numbering over 100 (including Life Fellows). Intellectually, the Fellows bring

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scholarly strength across the entire sweep of the sciences, social sciences, arts and humanities, their enthusiasm spilling into numerous student-led subject societies and a variety of subject-specific alumni reunions. From time to time their research achievements (awards, prizes, publications) are profiled via the news feed linked to the Girton website (www.girton.cam.ac.uk/news). If you glance briefly at this you will also see how much the Fellows do to secure the all-round personal development of their students and staff. I note with pleasure that the Fellows’ and staff cricket team has been revived, that the student-led May Week Concert enticed no fewer than six Girton Fellows to the stage, and that the new Artist in Residence scheme has provoked lively exchange about the many ways of knowing that inform scholarly life. Girton’s Fellowship has a strong, stable core of long-serving educators. There is, however, some ‘built-in’ turnover, in particular through the research fellowships scheme, supporting promising young scholars while they build their postdoctoral profiles. There is also turnover in the many time-limited roles, or ‘offices’, that the work of the College demands. The comings and goings among the Fellowship are listed elsewhere, but I cannot let this moment pass without extending heartfelt thanks and appreciation to Dr Julia Riley who, after three dedicated terms of office, has completed her duties as Vice-Mistress. The effect of her quiet, constructive and good-humoured hard work on the smooth running, good governance and warm spirit of the College is impossible to overstate. The majority of those inhabiting the College today are, of course, students; around 720 in total, of

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whom just over two-thirds are undergraduates. You have probably noticed that, when measured by crude benchmarks like the Tomkins Table (the Cambridge undergraduate degree ‘results table’) Girton sits towards the top end of the bottom third. This, you may think, is hardly something to celebrate in the opening pages of The Year! But I disagree. For one thing, while over 80 Girton students (across all years) achieved a first-class outcome in their end-of year-exams last term, a further 90 achieved first-class marks on one or more individual papers. This means that over one third of Girton undergraduates are performing at the very highest level (sometimes at or near the top of their entire year group in the University). They fully deserve the raft of scholarships and prizes that Council has recently awarded them. At the same time, to support those who wish to do more, the Education Board has set up working groups to promote study skills, support subject societies, and enhance both the joy of learning and exam performance. Ongoing efforts to support scholarly excellence are designed to complement, not displace, the breadth of experience that a College base implies. I am pleased therefore to note that sixteen Girton students

received Sports Awards this year (enabling them to compete nationally and/or at University level), and I am delighted to report that half of those in the Girton women’s first VIII have, between them, an assortment of multiple Blues, half Blues, and lightweight Blues. There has also been a marvellous musical calendar, featuring the Choir, its soloists, the a capella singers, the chamber instrumentalists, a jazz collective, and a brass ensemble. One highlight was the Choir’s performance in a live broadcast from Girton’s chapel for BBC Radio 4’s Sunday Worship in November; another was the Echoes of Venice concert, performed to a packed Hall in May. The poetry group continues to thrive (as does the Jane Martin poetry prize), the Girton Amateur Dramatic Society is alive and well, and there is a great deal of warmth and laughter in the corridors of the College. It is also pleasing to know that this energising breadth is rarely at the expense of scholarly achievement: quite the contrary in many cases. For every matriculated student in College today there are up to 14 alumni scattered about the world. By checking our subject pages on the web, you can get a flavour of the myriad occupations they pursue. We also run ‘Making a Difference’

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stories from the home page, profiling last year the success of those Girton alumnae who became UNESCO-L’Oréal Women in Science Laureates, and featuring more recently a selection of our many successful literary figures. A particularly exciting glimpse of the life and work of a cross-section of Girton alumni will be available online from spring next year, when the University and Life Experience website goes live. This builds from an initiative launched in 1995, which set out to examine the life histories of university-educated women using input from successive cohorts of Girton alumnae between 1918 and 1990, and drawing from the records of Girton College. Material was collected from the College Registers, from 600 questionnaires and from 50 recorded interviews. Thanks to a new round of funding for a project co-ordinated by the College Librarian, Frances Gandy, and steered by a College committee chaired by Professor Dame Marilyn Strathern, a wide range of original material in the form of databases, summaries and photographs will be made available, opening a new window onto the experience and impacts of higher education in the twentieth century by way of a unique research tool. The Year, the web pages, the Development Newsletter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter are some of the methods by which Girton endeavours to keep in touch with its extended family; equally important are the many ways that you choose to keep in touch with us. It is always a pleasure to welcome ‘OGs’ back to year reunions, to the biennial Spring Ball, to subject dinners or activities (for medics, economists, natural scientists, and geographers for example, hopefully extending to music in 2015), or to one of our termly ‘alumni

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formals’ (before which you can sometimes catch the SCR–MCR ‘petcha-kutcha’ event – an accessible, often amusing, presentation of cutting-edge research). Alumni are very much involved in the life of the College, helping with networking, acting as role models, and inspiring today’s students to realise their potential in tomorrow’s world. From time to time, alumni with particular skills also play an important role in the governance of the College (acting as external representatives on a variety of key committees). Alumni often choose to support the College financially (Girton has one of the highest giving rates in Cambridge); equally, you bring to Girton qualities and opportunities that money cannot buy, and which we celebrate and appreciate almost every day. I have noticed in conversation that, for some observers, the term ‘Girton’ has become synonymous with Victorian splendour, extensive gardens, secluded woodlands, indoor swimming, on-site parking and expansive sports fields. In reality of course, it has all this, a touch of ’60s charm, award winning architecture from the late 20th and early 21st century, and the fruits of an extensive estate consultation still to come. But all this notwithstanding, Girton proper is defined by the people who live, work, study, grow and flourish within and beyond this magnificent physical site. I trust you will find a flavour of that in the pages that follow, and that you will continue to enjoy your attachment to, and role within, this very special institution. Susan J Smith, Mistress

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Girtonians at war This year, of course, is the centenary of the start of the First World War. It is being marked in multifarious ways, and I (the Editor) am very involved in BBC Radio 3’s commemorations of the war as I edit this year’s annual review. I have been obliged to find out any number of curious facts about musicians and the war in order to keep up with the broadcasts (for instance, Russian opera singers stranded in London were taught how to make toy penguins to sell, as a fundraising venture to keep concert parties visiting soldiers abroad). What, I found myself wondering, did Girtonians do during the war? Students’ wartime work at Somerville College, Oxford, has been made famous by Vera Brittain’s writing, but how did the generation of 1914 Girtonians channel their no doubt formidable brains and energy in aid of the war effort?

A famous propaganda poster from the First World War depicts a little boy asking his rather troubledlooking father, ‘What did you do in the Great War, Daddy?’ For many Girtonians, the answer was, ‘A great deal, and much of it of considerable importance’. Girtonians taught braille to blinded soldiers, won medals and were mentioned in dispatches, took over roles in major all-male public schools, and invented an extremely important gasdispelling fan, which saved lives and had a major impact on quality of life in the trenches. By the end of the war, 4.5 million families had lost a close relative, and students at Girton were mourning loved ones whilst trying to continue their studies. There was also the need to participate in work, of many different kinds, to help the war effort. Many found ways to volunteer alongside their degree, whilst others left and served abroad as nurses, often with great distinction. In 1916 and 1919, two requests were sent out by College to all its students, to find out how Girtonians were contributing to the war effort. Most of the cards replying to the 1916 survey no longer exist, but the Mistress at the time, Katharine Jex-Blake, wrote an article for the 1919 Annual Report, which summarised their results. Her words are reproduced below. Past and present Girtonians were asked to supply information as to their work of all kinds arising from the war. Notices were sent to 1483 in all, of whom 854 answered one or both enquiries. It is hardly safe to conclude that the minority did not reply because they had done no war work. In several instances the answer ‘None’ has proved to cover something very real, such as housing five Belgians for a year, serving regularly on relief

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committees, or constantly knitting for soldiers. For one such case that comes to light, many must remain unknown.

Present students, too, have undertaken short spells of work in different vacations.

Photographs from Nelly Scott (later Lady Walton, G 1915) showing land work at Briantspuddle, Dorset, and Shamley Green, near Guildford, circa 1916 and 1918. Archive reference: GCPH 10/8

Each answer as a rule contains several items. A general survey shows that while Girtonians have thrown themselves into every form of work which might help the country, as the war went on they gravitated more and more into the posts for which a University education best fitted them, in answer to an ever-increasing demand for women so educated. For instance, a hostel waitress has subsequently taught in a boys’ school, or a Voluntary Aid Detatchment nurse has become a chemist in munition works. Much has been done in the holidays and spare hours of women with professions or home duties, who have turned to one thing after another as need arose.

It is satisfactory to see that three old students have received the rank of CBE, and not less than twelve of OBE; one wears the Mons ribbon and the Royal Red Cross (2nd class), one the Serbian Cross of St Sava, and one the Belgian Médaille de la reine Elisabeth. Some corporate work may be recorded here which escapes individual answers. The Council received three Belgian students for a year without fees, and a Serbian student for five terms at an unremunerative fee. The staff gave tuition and help. Members of the staff and students contributed to the outfit, and afterwards to the upkeep, of the Girton and Newnham Unit of the Scottish Women’s Hospitals. Concerts and entertainments were given in College and in Cambridge for this and similar objects. Analysis 1. Agriculture – 176 A few worked on farms winter and summer. Many took allotments, or raised chickens and potatoes at home, even in town gardens. Workers in other lines turned in their holidays to seasonal work such as hay-making, harvesting, fruit-picking or flaxpulling. A peat cutter is found and

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several wood-cutters. It should be noted that two successive Garden Stewards, in spite of labour difficulties, greatly increased the amount of food produced in the College garden, and that staff and students laboured in the cause, though many have failed to record this work. 2. Applied Science (including research, working in hospital laboratories, radiography and munitions works) – 59 Research covers a wide field, especially in chemistry, pathology, and physics. Improvements in an anti-gas respirator are noteworthy, and one Girtonian inventor stands out. Hundreds of thousands of her gas-dispelling fans were used in France. The mathematicians were chiefly employed on gun-trajectories and aeroplanes. 3. Auxiliary Services (QMAAC, WRAF and WRNS) – 14 These came late into the field, and were beginning to absorb greater numbers in the last year of war. 4. Clerical and commercial (regular posts in banks, insurance offices, etc) – 71 5. Domestic duties – 29 Here are grouped all those who claim to have ‘done their bit’ by carrying on in the face of difficulties when their servants went on the land, became munition makers, or joined the QMAAC. 6. Educational (working in universities and schools) – 157 The number working in boys’ schools grew steadily as the war went on. Preparatory schools led the

way early in 1915, and by 1918 public schools such as Rugby had Girtonians on the staff. The demand, in fact, became far greater than the supply. In two University posts the woman assistant filled the place of the professor absent on service. Teaching in elementary schools and girls’ schools has only been counted when definitely due to the war: eg, an ex-head mistress or a married woman has gone back to her profession on account of the great shortage of teachers. Under the YMCA eight held educational posts in France or Germany; others taught French to soldiers, English to Belgians and Serbians, gave popular lectures on history and economics, etc. One taught shorthand braille to blinded soldiers. 7. Government Offices (such as War Office, Admiralty, Censorship and Muitions) – 163 8. Huts and canteens – 169 These helpers have provided food and entertainment for soldiers and workers, chiefly in England and France. 9. Medicine (surgeons, physicians and medical students) – 18 Five doctors served in France, one in Serbia and Romania; the others held posts connected with the war in England. 10. Misc. – 34 Includes a scout-master, two church organists, a temporary postman, a green-keeper, and the writers of patriotic songs and plays, of articles on Italy, and a soldier’s history of Serbia.

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11. Munitions – 36 Forewomen and hands of all kinds, some of them weekend workers, and one manager of an aircraft factory.

14. Refugees – 68 Two old students went to Corsica on relief work for Serbians, two managed hostels, one was a Flemish interpreter, one a repatriation officer.

12. Nursing, VAD – 179 Of the few Girtonians who have qualified as trained nurses two were mobilised in August 1914 and served till the end of the war. One was decorated and mentioned in dispatches. Members of Volunteer Aid Detachments and Red Cross workers served in France, Italy, Malta, Egypt, South Africa, Russia, and the Balkans as well as England. Several worked under the French or Serbian flags. They include six commandants, one of whom maintained a hospital in her own house, a superintendent of clerks, secretaries, general orderlies, cooks, laundry-women, a carpenter, and five ambulance drivers. At home, in addition to the permanent workers, very many undertook holiday or part-time duty. From 1917 students came up who had served in hospitals, in one case for as long as three years, between leaving school and entering College.

15. Social and organizing – 281 This section includes the voluntary workers who have undertaken committee work, enquiries, and visiting of many kinds. They range from the member of two Royal Commissions or the wife of a Commanding Officer who has been at the head of all women’s relief work in an Indian province to the student who has visited for the local Pensions Committee in the vacation. Hospital visiting, search for the missing, and police patrolling come under this head, together with answers from four members of the Union of Democratic Control, the No Conscription Fellowship, etc.

13. Red Cross depots, knitting etc – 137 Includes making swabs and bandages, picking sphagnum moss, sewing, knitting and mending. One old student gathered together 400 workers in Burma, 280 of them native ladies. Another headed a party in the Andamans, others made hospital supplies in India, Canada, the United States. Some have worked at depots, some have used spare minutes to advantage at home; one student had knitted 200 pairs of socks by the time she went down.

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16. Nothing – 56 Some who made this return give as the reason ill-health or bad eyesight. One explains that she was shut up in Constantinople, another that she was expelled from Palestine. We believe that the majority, had they given a less laconic answer, might have found a place under some other heading.

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Afterwards Oh, my beloved, shall you and I Ever be young again, be young again? The people that were resigned said to me —Peace will come and you will lie under the larches up in Sheer, sleeping, and eating strawberries and cream and cakes — O cakes, O cakes, O cakes from Fuller's! And quite forgetting there's a train to town, Plotting in an afternoon the new curves for the world. And peace came. And lying in Sheer I look round at the corpses of the larches Whom they slew to make pit-props For mining the coal for the great armies. And think, a pit prop cannot move in the wind, Nor have red manes hanging in spring from its branches, And sap making the warm air sweet. Though you planted it out on the hill again it would be dead. And if these years have made you into a pit-prop, To carry the twisting galleries of the world's reconstruction (Where you may thank God I suppose that they set you the sole stay of a nasty corner) what use is it to you? What use to have your body lying here In Sheer, underneath the larches? Margaret Postgate Cole (1893–1980), a Classics student at Girton from 1911

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From bats to beds to books I felt a bit like Pharaoh’s daughter after she discovered Moses in the bulrushes, (though the parallel should not be looked at too closely) when I ‘discovered’, or better uncovered, a long-forgotten enterprise which was Cambridge’s foremost contribution to the war effort of the First World War, namely the First Eastern General Hospital (Territorial Force). It began several years ago when I noticed a peculiar grid-like object on a 1927 Ordnance Survey Map of west Cambridge, in what is now the location of the University Library. It did not resemble the footprint of the Library, whose construction anyhow only started in 1931, and it took some time before a local historian identified it for me as a WW1 hospital which had been on the site. This tantalised me, and after finishing some research on west Cambridge as a whole, I decided to try to find out more about it, beginning in the archives of Addenbrooke’s Hospital. It turned out that this was one of 23 Territorial Force ‘shadow’ hospitals whose creation was mandated by the War Office in 1907. They were created in the sense that training of staff began in 1908, on a part-time basis like other Territorial volunteers, and sites were chosen, but they would only come into being if war were declared. Most of these hospitals, spread throughout Britain, were to be located adjacent to existing hospitals or in former schools or work-house infirmaries, but First Eastern was unique in being built on an empty site, since the only site next to Addenbrooke’s, its forecourt, was too small for the purpose. The location chosen, with the

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somewhat reluctant assent of Clare and King’s Colleges, was their joint cricket field bordering on Burrell’s Walk, and the hospital was to be built of pre-fabricated huts, for which detailed plans were drawn up. The three officers selected to carry out this project were all at Addenbrooke’s. The commanding officer was Joseph Griffiths, a surgeon, the others Dr F Apthorpe-Webb and Dr Richard Porter. For seven years they conducted weekly training exercises at a drill hall and took their trainees each summer for two weeks under canvas, tents being set up adjacent to the hospitals of the Regular Army where further instruction was provided. War was declared on 4 August 1914; the hospital was mobilised the following day, and started work at once using the premises of a boys’ school, The Leys, pending construction of the hut hospital. The school’s premises had to be vacated when term started, and since the construction of the huts was far from complete, Colonel Griffiths obtained the consent of Trinity College to relocate the hospital temporarily under the arcades of Nevile’s Court. This was a foretaste of what was to be a highly unusual feature of the hospital, namely that all wards were open on one side – at least initially. By 17 October 1914 hut wards for 500 patients had been constructed, and the transfer of patients began. When fully built, the hospital consisted of two rows of 12 wards, each containing 60 beds, plus operating rooms, laboratories and ancillary buildings. All wards were open on the south side, protected from rain by awnings. When there was a particularly large influx of patients, marquees were

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erected to the south of the main hospital to provide extra beds. The peak capacity, not directly stated, seems to have been almost 1,700 beds, and the site as a whole was described as ‘a village of over 2,000 people’. Apart from the three colleges already mentioned, the Hospital had many ties with the academic community, including a close one with Girton. Miss Mary Clover, the College Secretary, filled the exacting post of General Service Superintendent at the hospital from 1916 to 1919 on top of her normal work. While the Hospital drew patients from the Expeditionary Force, namely the troops fighting in France or Flanders, more than half its patients came from the Home Army, for which it served as regional head hospital. It did not specialise in any specific ailments or types of wound, but had two unusual features: firstly, being a fresh-air hospital – at least for its first two years – and secondly its bath ward, both of which attracted a great deal of public attention. The bath ward contained 6 baths, in which patients sat for varying periods of time, with their wounds bathed in circulating warm saline water, a treatment which proved particularly effective with certain kinds of infected wounds.

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In 1916 an instruction came from the War Office to enclose 20 of the 24 open wards of the hospital. It is unclear whether this was done on medical grounds, or because of complaints of the cold from the nursing staff or visitors, or because of the difficulties of blacking out structures one of whose sides was open. Oddly enough, 4 wards remained open-sided. The war eventually ended and the hospital was demobilised in the course of 1919. We have no specific information on how many patients it had served in total, apart from a statistic from June 1918, when the figure of 62,664 is given. From other sources, it is estimated that between 70,000 and 80,000 patients passed through its doors during its lifetime. Once the hospital was winding down, a delegation from the Cambridge Town Council, led by the Mayor, went to London to seek permission to retain the hospital huts and convert them into temporary housing. The Cambridge housing situation was in crisis: ex-service people, many of them with families, were returning, while the University lodging houses, which had filled up with other people during the time when there were hardly any undergraduates, were now evicting these people to make room for the returning students.

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The quality of much of the existing housing had been ranked as substandard long before the war began, and the construction of new housing was hampered by strikes and shortages of material. Permission to use the huts was granted, and the two Colleges reluctantly agreed to give up their cricket field for another two years. The Council spent £17,000 in converting the wards into about 200 housing units of between 1 and 5 rooms, most having 3. Each unit had a stove and cooker, but no running water. Water, hot and cold, had to be fetched in buckets from the central spine of the building, where the baths, toilets and sluices of the hospital had been retained for communal use. The difficulty of housekeeping without running water has to be imagined, but this was the case with not a few of Cambridge’s older working-class houses – and better than life in the trenches. Once the immediate postwar pressure subsided, the Corporation gave priority to rehousing people living in places condemned by the Medical Officer of Health. The Burrell’s Walk estate, as it came to be called, was a stop-gap while council housing was constructed, but supply of the latter could not keep up with

demand. Towards the end of the initial two-year lease, Clare and King’s renewed their effort to reclaim their cricket field, but when told that all units were occupied and there was a waiting list of about 100, they finally gave up and found a new site for their field. In 1925 both colleges sold the original cricket field land to the University. Estimates of how many families were housed there vary from 650 to 810. While the average length of stay on the estate was 2½ years, many spent only a year, while some people stayed on year after year even when offered alternatives. On the evidence of former residents, the discomfort of the poorly insulated huts was offset by the benefits of easy access to jobs and shopping – and the older children enjoyed walking through the colleges on their way to school. It was reported that 50 babies were born to families on the site, without a single case of infant mortality.

1929. Hut components were sold, and even today are to be found in village halls, or garden sheds. Thus this site had not only served an important medical purpose for more than 4 years, but also made a significant contribution to improving working class housing during the subsequent decade. Last but not least, without the war and its aftermath, it is highly probable that the University Library would have been built on a different site. Philomena Guillebaud (1944) Philomena’s book on the history of the First Eastern Military Hospital, From Bats to Beds to Books (2012) is available on Amazon, or from Fern House Publishers.

As agreed in the new lease, Clare progressively took back the east part of the site when it embarked on construction of its Memorial Court – the first of Cambridge’s older colleges to expand into the wilds west of the Cam – and from 1926 more huts were gradually dismantled in preparation for the building of the University Library, the last vanishing in

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A Title IX for Britain? Gender equality in education The academic year at Girton has gone at such a pace that I cannot quite believe I am using the past tense. For a new MPhil student, there seemed an early pressure to ‘do it all’ in a very short amount of time. I’ve just about managed the essentials, I think: wear the gown, make the mistake of attempting to cycle in the gown, make the even worse mistake of attempting to cycle in the gown in the wind, attend formals, write for a university newspaper, form relationships, succumb to an unnecessarily aggressive rivalry with other colleges without properly even understanding why, punt, eat animals I didn’t know it was legal to serve, learn the entirely new language of Cambridge student dialect (a sort of pidgin-posh, best articulated with a pinch of salt dripping in irony). Along the way I have also survived academic all-nighters to get work completed in time for deadlines, sung the Girton Pioneers Song whilst trying not to well up, nearly had my hand swiped off by Buster, attended balls, feasts and bops. Oh and learnt. Learnt an overwhelming amount of things. However, something I didn’t realise I would do is fall head over heels for my college. Wary of the danger of this article descending into sentimentality, I will keep this part brief. Girton feels like home. I was lucky enough to be able to attend the ADC’s production of Blue Stockings during which I came to understand more about the awe- inspiring women who struggled to create and maintain Girton College. For example: Philomena Guillebaud, the Girton alumna, whom I was lucky enough to meet twice. I can only hope I end up with stories as good as hers once my time at Girton is up!

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Although it is far smaller and less pioneering, my MPhil research shares some themes with the struggles of Barbara Bodichon and Emily Davies. My research is concerned with justice in the UK state education system. The aim of this research is to investigate the importance of Title IX in the status of women’s sport in the US, and to explore the possibility of introducing a comparable clause to law in the UK. I am also investigating the impact Title IX would have on Britain’s education system, as well as female rights and our contemporary understanding of equality. Title IX is a part of the United States of America's Education Amendments of 1972. Also identified as the 'Equal Opportunity in Education Act’, Title IX requires that schools provide participation opportunities in a non-discriminatory way. Furthermore, Title IX requires that schools receiving state funds must provide female students with equal opportunities to participate in educational programmes. Title IX was implemented to eliminate any discrimination in higher education on the basis of sex. However, it is best known for its positive impact on women’s sport in US education. Title IX helps to structure access to various sports, and helps to determine the distribution of resources to them. Since the amendment was passed, female participation in sports has increased by over 400%. My background is very much in sport. At the age of six, I signed for the Arsenal Ladies’ Football Club Centre of Excellence, before joining the England youth squad shortly after. I then took up a scholarship to study and play soccer in North Carolina, USA. My personal experience of sport in the UK and US suggests that there are radical

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differences in attitude between the two countries. Participation in sports in the US seems to involve a larger percentage of women, from all socioeconomic and ethnic backgrounds, through larger portions of their life cycle. Seemingly, one of the causes of such difference is the institutional differences between the two countries. This includes both formal institutions – organisations, laws, and structures – as well as informal institutional norms and conventions. In particular, I am exploring the differences caused by the presence of Title IX in the US and the absence of a British equivalent. The experience of women’s sport in the US seems to contrast dramatically with the UK. For example, football in the UK is seemingly immersed in sexism. The US boasts a successful identity for women’s soccer with high-profile sponsorship, positive media attention and promising economics. Meanwhile the UK possesses a neglected and under-recognised semi-professional league that is packaged and advertised as ‘professional’. The impact of this is the loss of the majority of Britain’s most successful, promising female athletes to the US, attracted by university scholarships, career promise and a more welcoming culture. Furthermore, females in the UK are facing inequality regarding opportunity, liberty and choice from primary school age in sport and physical education. The UK introduced its own Equality Act in 2010 which, amongst other things, impacts on institutional structures, including schools. However, it has no explicit funding or resource implications regarding gender equity and is generally seen as a weak vehicle for promoting change of this sort.

Lottie Birdsall-Strong in parliament

Currently, within the UK’s political climate there is evidence to suggest that the UK could be motivated to pass an equivalent law. For example, London 2012 was the greatest Olympic Games for women. For the first time in Olympic history there were female competitions in every sport. However, looking closely at Sport England’s figures, it is clear that participation rates for women and girls have declined. In light of this, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport launched an inquiry into the status of women’s sport.

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schools’ expenditure on sport benefits girls and boys equally. There is overwhelming anecdotal evidence that funding in the UK is given primarily to boys’ sports in schools. Such evidence remains anecdotal because the allocation or gender impact of spending is not appropriately measured, if at all. The Government offers generous funding for sport and physical education, but does not succeed in setting equality targets to ensure that this public money is used to benefit females to the same extent as it benefits males. This in itself highlights a fundamental flaw in the process and, if correct, locates issues of potentially systematic exclusion. I aim to prove that schools’ spending on PE and sport is deployed unequally.

Speaking at the University of Manchester’s ‘Women's voices amplified’ event.

I am exploring how a UK equivalent law could come to exist within the UK’s contemporary political narrative. British state schools are considered to be a public authority, so they are supposed to comply with Public Sector Equality Duty. However, there is ambiguity about what responsibilities academies have to comply. There is room here, then, to ensure better equal opportunities in education are being implemented and enforced. A potential modification to the Equality Act 2010 looks as if it may act as an ethically and politically appropriate vehicle to introduce a British equivalent to this law. The lack of a Title IX equivalent in Britain means that no piece of legislation successfully ensures that

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In Michaelmas Term, I had the opportunity to discuss this in Parliament. In August 2013 the Department for Culture, Media and Sport launched an inquiry into the status of women’s sport. After submitting written evidence to this inquiry about my research, I was called before the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee to provide further, oral evidence. My submission was published. Lent Term brought further exciting opportunities. I was asked to feature on a Sky Sports news documentary series about women’s and girls’ sport. Not only was I lucky enough to be filmed at Girton, I was able to complete the interview in my favourite room in college: the Reception Room with its beautiful embroidered wall-panels. This was a real honour and made me feel a lot less nervous. Later in the term, I began talking to FIFA, the sport’s governing body, advising their Executive Committee about how they might implement more effective gender equality practice within Fifa’s anti-

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discrimination policy. More locally, my previous experience working as a researcher for the Football Association of England (the FA) and a policy adviser for the Women’s Sport and Fitness Foundation (the WSFF) has come in very handy during my MPhil, both organisations showing positive interest in sharing data, resources and networks. In Easter Term I was invited to speak for the National Council of Women for Great Britain (NCWGB) in the House of Commons about my research. Subsequently, the NCWGB have made me a member of their organisation and have put forward my proposal to implement a UK equivalent to Title IX as one of their annual resolutions urging Her Majesty’s Government to make positive changes to the lives of British women and girls. In summer 2014 I will speak about my research and proposal for change at the House of Lords with the Women’s Sport and Fitness Foundation at their upcoming All-Party Parliamentary Group meeting on women’s sport. I was also recently asked to work as a consultant on the upcoming West End musical production of Bend It Like Beckham. The story was previously a movie about two girls from England who want to play football, and go to America to do so. This was quite an experience, unexpectedly resulting in my being given a part in the show that required me to play football on stage in front of Andrew LloydWebber, amongst others. I was more nervous for that performance than for any match I’ve ever played in, international cup finals included! Within academia, I am chuffed to have been selected to present my work at the Sport, Gender and Education conference at the University of East

Anglia in September 2014, where I will speak alongside keynote speaker Dr Jayne Caudwell. Finally, I have been selected to present my MPhil research at the 6th International World Working Group on Women and Sport in Helsinki in June 2014. Presenting my work to a knowledgeable international audience will give me the opportunity to obtain specific, engaged feedback to further improve my research. Finally, it seems fair to say, within the context of a troubled modern Britain, the University of Cambridge grants a powerful opportunity to those of us privileged enough to be members. Girton College serves to remind me of the duty we have to use that power for good. And despite the number of people who sarcastically wish me ‘good luck with that’ when I explain my research aim, I know I haven’t got half the task on my hands that Barbara Bodichon and Emily Davies had. Whenever I need it to, their journey re-affirms my motivation to pursue further positive change for women and girls in Britain. Students and staff alike, who have supported me so strongly in such a short time, make Girton the extraordinary place it is today. As my year comes to an end, it’s a grateful goodbye to a gorgeous Girton. Lottie Birdsall–Strong (2013)

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A brilliant alumna: Veronica Forrest-Thomson Spring surprised us, running through the market square And we stopped in Prynne’s rooms in a shower of pain And went on in sunlight into the University Library And ate yoghurt and talked for an hour. (‘Cordelia: or ‘A Poem should not Mean, but Be’’)1

Forrest-Thomson on her graduation day, 1971. Her PhD thesis, a copy of which is housed in the

Even if we fail to catch the allusion to T S Eliot’s The Waste Land in the above lines – where summer surprises ‘coming over the Starnbergersee’ and in which the shower is a more conventional rain – we do get a sense of a poet rushing through familiar Cambridge locations, bouncing from one academic venue to the next. The exuberance of the lines, as well as the geographic detail and peculiarity of Veronica Forrest-Thomson’s images here, are indicative of all of her poems written in, and influenced by, her time at Cambridge between 1968 and 1971 when she read for her PhD as a Girton College student. While many of ForrestThomson’s poems incorporate the scenes, sights and intellectual pursuits of Cambridge in general, two of her poems refer to Girton in particular. In ‘Conversation on a Benin Head’, for example, she writes: ‘At Girton my gloves and my heart under / My gloves’ (Collected Poems, p. 126). This melancholy image is typical of her surreal but poignant image-making. The other poem, ‘The Hyphen’, is dedicated, ‘For the centenary of Girton College’ and was probably written in 1969. It begins:

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i hyphen (Gk. together, in one) a short dash or line used to connect two words together as a compound 18691969 to connect Chapel Wing and Library. (CP, p. 88)

It may breach corridor decorum, but the hyphen does enable a short dash from Chapel Wing to Library. Forrest-Thomson’s poem is similarly hurried and is comprised of definitions and etymologies of ‘hyphen’ from the Oxford English Dictionary as well as descriptions of features of Girton College. Many of Forrest-Thomson’s poems written during this time give us a strong sense of her passionate engagement with her surroundings. ‘Architecture’, as she writes in ‘Three Proper’, ‘is the jumping-off point, / for example, The Senate House Leap, to / Caius; it is responsible for a lot’ (CP, p. 91). Forrest-Thomson’s leaps and bounds around Cambridge – from Senate House to Caius (Prynne’s rooms again, presumably), to a trip on the Cam, to the UL, to Girton – were the backdrop to a prolific period of writing. Born Veronica Elizabeth Marian Forrest Thomson in Malaya on 28 November 1947, Forrest-Thomson grew up in Glasgow before attending the Universities of Liverpool, Cambridge and Leicester. In 1974 she got a lectureship at the University of Birmingham. Forrest-Thomson began her time at Cambridge as ‘Veronica Forrest’ and ended it as ‘Veronica Forrest-Thomson’, her name now hyphenated as if in homage to the architecture of her alma mater. By the time of her accidental death at the age of 27 in 1975 (she died of asphyxiation in her sleep from a combination of alcohol and sleeping pills), Forrest-Thomson had published four

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collections of poetry, numerous poems and essays in magazines and journals, as well as a few translations of French poetry and prose. While studying for her PhD, Forrest-Thomson privately produced the tellingly entitled twelve academic questions (1970), before assembling her collection, Language-games. This Ludwig Wittgenstein-infused collection was published as the prize (along with a much-needed £100) for winning the ‘New Poets Award’ 1971, run by the School of English at the University of Leeds and judged by the eminent poets, Peter Porter and Edwin Morgan. The award was prestigious, with an announcement appearing in the Sunday Times on 5 September which captures something of Forrest-Thomson’s eclectic style: Miss Forrest-Thomson fuses together bits and pieces of both general and arcane information from her university education into a series of poems which, if sometimes sounding like the product of an unholy wedding between the styles of William Empson and Gertrude Stein, almost always show a highly-developed stylistic sense and sharp humour. The poems offer a fusion of styles, with ForrestThomson assembling her poems from a variety of sources, writing many of them, it seems, with a notebook open in front of her academic books. William Empson’s poetry and criticism were very important to the development of Forrest-Thomson’s own ideas and her poetry and criticism offer witty but exacting challenges to his influential work. Were it not for the perseverance of a range of editors, critics and poets dedicated to promoting

Forrest-Thomson’s poetry, we might never have been able to appreciate the importance, as well as the quantity, of her work. There have been a number of publications since her death, including her last poetry collection, On the Periphery (1976) and her full-length critical book, Poetic Artifice: A Theory of Twentieth-Century Poetry (1978). In 1990, the publishers Allardyce, Barnett brought out a landmark Collected Poems and Translations; a Selected Poems followed in 1999, while Shearsman Publishers re-issued Collected Poems in 2008, securing continued access to the wide range and depth of Forrest-Thomson’s poetry. The next step in enabling access to ForrestThomson’s work is the wonderful new archive of her papers at Girton College Library, overseen by the Archivist, Hannah Westall and the College Librarian, Frances Gandy. Perhaps a little history of the creation of this archive might be permitted. During the course of my PhD research at the University of Sussex, I was introduced to academics and poets who knew Forrest-Thomson and I also met editors who had published her poems in their magazines. I eventually met Anthony Barnett, the editor of both Collected Poems who suggested that I contact Professor Jonathan Culler, to whom Forrest-Thomson was married from 1971-1973. After a brief correspondence with Culler, it transpired that, as the Executor of ForrestThomson’s estate, he had on file a number of her unpublished typescripts as well as a range of other materials. Forrest-Thomson was prolific, writing thousands of words on nineteenth-century poets such as Dante Gabriel Rossetti, A C Swinburne (a favourite of hers) and Alfred Tennyson, as well as Ezra Pound and a number of other modern and

Forrest-Thomson, Language-Games, (Leeds: University of Leeds, School of English Press, 1971).

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contemporary poets. Writing poetry and criticism, as Forrest-Thomson notes in ‘Cordelia’, was ‘a pretty productive process’, before adding, wittily: Especially if one may be a plumber as well as a poet And thus unstop the drain as well as writing Poetic Artifice ‘Pain stopped play’ and Several other books and poems including 1974 and All That (seriously though) I, Veronica did it[.] (CP, p. 156) 112 Huntington Road (now), where Forrest-Thomson lived in her first year at Cambridge, 1968.

Forrest-Thomson and Jonathan Culler in Connecticut, Christmas 1970.

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Forrest-Thomson had no difficulty ‘unstopping’ the flow of her creative and critical mind; if not ‘Several other books’, she was well on the way to producing another book before her untimely death and had also assembled a range of other intriguing essays. Towards the end of my PhD, I was determined to assemble as many of Forrest-Thomson’s materials as I could in order to create some sort of archive. However, I was unclear as to how much material there was relating to this young poet. As far as I was aware, there were just a few typescripts, some annotated books and some letters. I did not know that Jonathan had kept many treasures, which are now housed at Girton. After contact with Frances and Hannah, as well as Jonathan, it was agreed that the materials be housed

in the new, state-of-the-art Archive in Girton’s Library. On a beautiful summer’s day, 5 July 2012, Jonathan and I met Frances, Hannah and Dr Edward Holberton at Girton and, after sherry and lunch, we all inspected the materials. That evening and into the small hours, in a little guest room along from the Library, I set about listing and describing as best I could all the items Jonathan had brought with him. This list was the basis of the database of materials now available in the Library catalogue. The papers of Veronica ForrestThomson are a small collection, but the items are fascinating. The range of materials includes: typescripts of published and unpublished essays; a variety of photographs; heavily (and sometimes grumpily) annotated books belonging to Forrest-Thomson, many of which include her name and date in her own hand; a sheaf of (mainly) unpublished poems written between the ages of 13 and 19; a copy of her last notebook entitled ‘Pomes’, which is full of drafts of poems written between 1973 and her death; a number of letters to and from Jonathan concerning the various posthumous publications and, of course, original copies of most of Forrest-Thomson’s publications, as well as journals and magazines in which her poetry and essays were originally published.

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Papers of Veronica Forrest-Thomson Janus reference: GBR/0271/GCPP Forrest-Thomson. Janus link: http://janus.lib.cam.ac.uk/db/node.xsp?id=EAD%2F GBR%2F0271%2FGCPP%20Forrest-Thomson Dr Gareth Farmer, lecturer in English at the University of Bedfordshire and the academic consultant to the Veronica Forrest-Thomson Archive

One of many of Forrest-Thomson’s distinctive annotations in copies of her books. This reads: ‘typically Eliot Eliot parody!

1 Veronica Forrest-Thomson Collected Poems (Exeter: Shearsman; Lewes: Allardyce, Barnett, Publishers, 2008), p. 157. All quotations from F-T’s poems are from this edition (hereafter CP). Grateful acknowledgements are due to Anthony Barnett for permission to quote from these poems.

Forrest-Thomson’s copy of J H Prynne’s Wound Response (Cambridge: Street Editions, 1974), with a dedication from Prynne.

He He!’ This annotation is from her copy of T. S. Eliot’s The Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry and Criticism [1920] (London: Faber and Faber, 1960).

Having begun with a trip to Jeremy Prynne’s rooms in Caius, it is perhaps fitting to end by drawing attention to Forrest-Thomson’s edition of Prynne’s 1974 collection, Wound Response, which now sits proudly in the Archive [see picture]. The ‘Hah’ Prynne has inserted refers to Forrest-Thomson’s lines in ‘Cordelia’: ‘J H Prynne, the memorable poet / Who is happy to say that the UL / Has got his name wrong. / He claims it stands for Hah / But there is a limit’ (CP, p. 154). Many of the items in the Archive give us unique insights into her relationships forged at Cambridge, as well as a sense of the wit and brilliance of this Girton alumna. Now that the beautiful new Ash Court has been completed, Girton awaits another poet to write a comparable ‘The Hyphen’ to commemorate ‘the body, soul and spirit’ of Girton over the next hundred years. I urge you all to visit the Archive on your next trip to your College.

Ludwig Wittgenstein’s grave in the Ascension Parish Burial Ground (formerly St Giles and St Peter’s Parish), off Huntington Road, Cambridge and very near Forrest-Thomson’s student house which she shared with Professor Heather Glen (Murray Edwards College) in 1968. In this image taken in May 2014, I have placed a copy of Forrest-Thomson’s 1970, privately printed collection, twelve academic questions; a fitting tribute to the philosopher as well as the poet.

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Veronica Forrest-Thomson – Two Poems The Hyphen For the centenary of Girton College i hyphen (Gk. together, in one) a short dash or line used to connect two words together as a compound 18691969 to connect Chapel Wing and Library. But also: to divide for etymological or other purpose. A gap in stone makes actual the paradox of a centenary. ‘It was a hyphen connecting different races.’ and to the library ‘a bridge for migrations.’ In search of an etymology for compound lives, this architecture, an exercise in palaeography (Victorian Gothic) asserts the same intention. Portraits busts and books the “context in which we occur” that teaches us our meaning, ignore the lacunae of a century in their statement of our need to hyphenate.

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Conversation on a Benin Head You must come to terms with T S Eliot If you are doing the twentieth-century. At Girton my gloves and my heart under My gloves. Words as they chanceably fall From the mouth change colour whatever The source, pages or brain or midway Between window and chair. These colours, Brown wood air grey ink black, we didn’t Create them. We don’t believe they are there Whatever they are or this is a dagger. We know it’s a dagger or nothing whatever: A scream, a sentence, a phantom, a reading Of Laing. Believe that my neck is supported By circuits of communication, gold rings, I know that and hundred in number, remember Believe that my throat will collapse; flat Nose and fat lips disintegrate quickly under Your touch. Listen. I know it’s a dagger.

Of my skull. Own this armour at least, This stylistic skeleton caught in the last arabesque but one. Both poems reproduced from Veronica ForrestThomson Collected Poems, ed. Anthony Barnett (Exeter: Shearsman; Lewes: Allardyce, Barnett, publishers, 2008). With thanks to Allardyce, Barnett, publishers for permission to reprint these poems here.

Whatever it was I didn’t do it. A man must do something. If one Thinks of other however the chances Of seeming to cover a single event, Not in the mind of the doer, the point Of departure is hard to recover. It all Goes to clothes and the moves Of the wearer infinite in number Between window and bed and he Turned as he said it all goes to show You have never been whether Reluctant to swallow the traces of another Or touch at your own. We’ll collect Them tomorrow. Such monuments over The gathering quick of your pink Little finger furrowing under the bone

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Miscellany

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Tom Barnett, Girton’s first ever Artist in Residence Tom Barnett, born in London in 1984, studied painting at Chelsea College of Art and Design. Through performance, drawing, painting, video and installation his practice broadly investigates creativity and its relationship with human behaviour.

& again 2014 Clay, oil pastel and paint on wood 50cm x 40cm

Recent performances took place at the Victoria and Albert Museum as part of the Peckham Takeover, at the closing event for the Copeland Book Market 2013 and at the opening night of Art Brussels 2013. His most recent solo exhibition, The Beautiful Game, opened in the autumn of 2013 at Hannah Barry, London. The show was made up of 3 acts, each of which opened with new performances and signalled a transformation of the exhibition’s space and content. Tom is currently Artist in Residence (2013–14) here at Girton, the first ever such appointment, and is working in Grange Cottage, which he has transformed from a studio into a golden, blue and turfed installation. During his nine-month residency at Girton he has presented two ambitious exhibitions, Images and Believing in Time Travel, and two large-scale performances, Moor and Kick Off. Images and Moor 25 June, The Judge Business School An exhibition of Images, a new series of monoprints which Barnett made in Grange Cottage, his studio in the grounds of Girton College. Moor is a new performance work, incorporating film and music.

Gold door in Grange Cottage

Believing In Time Travel and Kick Off 28–29 June, Grange Cottage, Girton College Believing In Time Travel is an immersive installation

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that transforms Grange Cottage into a work of art. Kick Off is a new large-scale performance, a curated football match in which Colden Drystone, the artist’s mythical performance persona, leads a cast of characters onto the field of play and into a live game, with 22 players, for 90 minutes.Kick Off performers: Ed Begley (Singer); Typhaine Delaup (Dancer); Rachel Dormor (Potter); Colden Drystone (Drummer); Griff Rollefson (Double Bass); Cyrus Shahrad (Pianist); Greg Simpson (Comedian); Tim Smyth (Photographer); Huntingdon Town FC (2014/15 Under-18 squad). The Thing Is In Tension With The Idea Of The Thing Barnett’s stone wall sculpture (The Thing Is In Tension With The Idea Of The Thing, 2013), a key part of his recent exhibition The Beautiful Game in London, is now permanently installed and on view in the grounds of Girton College; a generous gift to the College from Tom.

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Images (William Blake) 2014

Images (Joni Mitchell) 2014

Images (Sheep) 2014

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The People’s Portrait Stuart Thorne, Tailor and Beekeeper John Walton RP 53 x 64 cm (21 x 25ins) Oil John Walton gave this account of painting the portrait: Stuart Thorne is a fellow craftsman; I work with a brush and Stuart with a needle. We worked side by side as I painted the picture and he created an elegant jacket. It was an altogether positive and fun experience. Stuart’s workshop is but five minutes’ walk from my house, and I must have passed his window and seen him sitting on his bench many times over the span of some forty years! The catalyst for the painting was my wife Alice’s addiction to Stuart’s honey plus the fact that I had failed to contribute a picture for the People’s Portraits collection at Girton College, Cambridge. Stuart hated school and burned his tie the day he left at the age of 15. As his wife Maureen remarks, this is the nearest he will ever get to going to Cambridge University.

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New College Christmas Cards

Bald and proud!

The College is offering for 2014 a new Christmas card design by Peter Sparks, showing Father Christmas and his sleigh arriving at the Tower Archway. The Fellow in the archway was intended to be feeding the reindeer, though the Editor's son prefers to think that the reindeer is biting the hand that feeds it. Readers may remember an earlier cut-out card that was designed in 1997 at the instigation of the then Mistress, Juliet Campbell. In those days Father Christmas was clearly required to park his sleigh in the Huntingdon Road and walk up the drive to the Tower. In these modern days of accessibility he can drive right in.

On 11th July, Su Tims, from the Household Services team, had her head shaved in Old Hall to raise money for Breast Cancer Research. Su had planned to raise funds in honour of her childhood idol, singer Bernie Nolan, who died last year, and had the support of the late Gill Starling (College’s Personnel Officer) to do so, but after Gill's tragic death, Su dedicated her act to both Gill and Bernie. She raised over £2000.

If you are in Cambridge you can call into the Porters’ Lodge where the cards are available in packs of five, with envelopes, at £5 per pack. Alternatively, you can call the Development office (01223 766672) who will be happy to take your order over the phone for delivery (postage will be extra). The College is currently reviewing all its merchandise, so watch this space for details on new cards and other items, and on how to purchase them.

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Profiles

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Harriet Allen I am writing this sitting on the veranda of a log cabin in one of the most extensive areas of cork oak forest in Portugal. I am working with a Postdoc from the Department of Plant Sciences, and we’re just finishing fieldwork assessing the biodiversity of habitats of importance to the Iberian lynx. We are part of a Cambridge–Portuguese collaboration researching habitat connectivity and landscape changes over the past thirty years. We have surveyed vegetation in olive groves, in oak savannah communities, bashed our way through stands of dense gum Cistus and Arbutus, and worked in open fields, all in some of the most remote areas of the Alentejo. We haven't seen a lynx as there are none in the wild in Portugal, but there is a captive breeding population and the areas we've been studying include possible re-introduction sites. Standing in a wet field and compiling lists of all the different species of vegetation in our plots reminded me that, ten years ago, I was surveying vegetation in olive groves at the other end of the Mediterranean, in Crete. There, with a different team, I was studying landscape changes associated with abandonment of olive cultivation as people moved from the upland, inland areas of the island to the coast; from a more traditional way of life to one reliant on tourism. But what has this got to do with Girton, you might ask? Well, my collaborator in Plant Sciences is Will Simonson, a Girtonian (undergraduate and PhD), and in Crete I was working with another Girtonian, Roland Randall. Roland is, of course, known to generations of Girton Geographers as their Director of Studies. He was also mine, along with Jean Grove, and it is to these two that I owe

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much of my continuing passion and interest in Geography (particularly biogeography), and environmental and landscape change. Jean instilled a sense of ‘anything is achievable – just get on and do it, and make sure it includes fieldwork’, while Roland taught me most of the vegetation survey skills that I have. Both of them encouraged me to join expeditions and discover the joys of fieldwork. My undergraduate summers took me to Canada, Iceland and India, and looking back to my school days in London I don’t think I would have dreamt that I would have been as adventurous as this – camping for six weeks beside a glacier in the middle of nowhere, hiking in the Himalayas far away from roads, and being eaten alive by mosquitoes. Without Jean’s and Roland’s persuasive direction I would not be the Geographer I am today – back at Girton, and a Director of Studies to later generations. My time at Girton divides into two: first my student days (both undergraduate and PhD), and then some fifteen years later, my return as a Fellow. Being an undergraduate Geographer was not just about Girton of course, as lectures in the Department opened my eyes to all sorts of new ideas, places and people. The best lectures were those where geomorphological processes were illustrated by slides: coral atolls (David Stoddart); African dunes (Dick Grove); the American Southwest (Dick Chorley); and glaciology (Jean and others). Through these I developed a strong sense of Wanderlust. As a result, I ended up in the mountains of the Yukon (courtesy of an MSc from the Department of Geography at the University of Calgary). My thesis was a reconstruction of climate history revealed by tree-ring widths, which entailed daily hikes to the treeline to core trees, followed by

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Harriet at the Platis River site

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months of staring down a microscope and measuring ring widths. This whetted my appetite for further research and I returned to Cambridge and Girton for my PhD, but swapping the sub-Arctic for the Mediterranean and one Grove for another, as Dick became my PhD supervisor. Fieldwork was in Greece collecting two lake sediment cores, followed by more lab work. The aim was to reconstruct the environmental history of the Lake Kopais catchment over the last 25,000 years. My work therefore brought together all the geography introduced to me by Jean, Dick and Roland. In the last year of my PhD I got married to Ian. We had been contemporaries but not known each other as undergraduates, even though we shared many Girton friends and probably walked past each other on numerous occasions on F corridor. He too was finishing his PhD (in Computer Science), and we decided we would move to wherever one of us got a ‘real’ job. Ian got there first and moved into industry. We’d both entertained the idea of moving to the United States or Canada, and it was very nearly Switzerland, but it turned out to be … Cambridge. So I moved from one end of the city to the other, spending the next 15 years as a lecturer in Geography at

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Homerton. At that time Homerton’s undergraduates were exclusively studying for a degree in Primary Education alongside a main subject, such as Geography. However, I still retained links with the Department of Geography and often joined their second-year fieldtrips to places like the Algarve. When Homerton became part of the University in 2001, I moved back to the Geography Department and a year later was invited to be a Fellow at Girton and join Roland and Mia Gray as a Geography Director of Studies. Through all this, family life has also been important. Ian and I have two daughters, Frances and Izzi, both of whom gave up Geography at the earliest opportunity; perhaps I turned too many family holidays into fieldtrips. They have now grown up – Frances is an aero-engineer and Izzi is a nurse – which gives me more time for other interests, particularly bird watching and textiles. I spend quite a lot of time dyeing and cutting up, and then piecing back together small bits of fabric and embroidering them to create pictures. Perhaps it won’t surprise you to discover most of these are landscapes. Mia and I now share an office looking out on Woodlands Court. My firstyear undergraduate room had a

similar view of Woodlands, albeit from a different angle. This rather sums up my time at Girton, as I have been fortunate enough to see the place from a number of different perspectives: as an undergraduate, a postgraduate, a Director of Studies, a Tutor, a member of Council, a member of the Health and Safety Committee, a member of the Schools Liaison Committee, and a member of the Academic Policy Committee. All have given me a rounded view of the College as a community: one whose members, at whatever level, strive to excel, to learn from and teach each other, and to explore new ideas and places. I very much enjoy being a part of this and encouraging new generations of Geographers to explore the subject in their own ways, and wherever it takes them.

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Gopal Madabhushi: From Kakinada to Cambridge Early schooling at St Joseph’s in a small coastal town called Kakinada was a dreamy affair. I would not listen to the teachers, and until year 3, contrary to the title of our maths book, sums weren’t fun. In those days we were banished from St Joseph’s after year 3 to go to a boys-only school called Gandhi Centenary. Maths and science became more fun, although I was pushed from year 5 to year 7 and then from year 8 to year 10. This left discrete gaps in my knowledge, and my mental maths is still weak as a result. Algebra was a boon as it was abstract and one could use symbols to manipulate ideas. In those days theoretical geometry was my favourite and our head teacher was particularly fond of setting me hard theorems and associated riders as homework. With all the jumping between classes, I was under-age and needed a doctor’s certificate to take my matriculation exams. But in the end my results were good and my head teacher was particularly pleased that I obtained 100% in general maths and 70/75 in further maths. I still remember how I lost those 5 marks: by substituting sin60=1/2 instead of √3/2. For A Levels we had to go to the prestigious Pithapuram Raja’s college, and our head teacher sent us off with wise words of advice: ‘You will now come across the other half of our species called girls; learn to treat them with respect and chivalry’.

At the end of A Levels we had to sit a competitive exam to get into an Engineering degree course, taken by some 50,000 students, with only the top 1000 obtaining places. I was too young to realise the competition and spent most of the summer playing with a friend rather than studying. I managed a rank of 422 while my friend got a rank of 4202, an ironic play of numbers. With that rank I could not get into Electronics, which is what I wanted. Instead I had to settle for Civil Engineering at Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University. Early years in Civil Engineering were a breeze. As the course was not too taxing, I had time to fall in love with Raji. We were both young and wanted to get married after completing our education. My father wasn’t pleased with this, and said we should only go ahead and get married if we were sure about each other. As a student, I was of course penniless. But that did not prove to be an impediment, and we began our joint experiment on continuing education after marriage. Raji got herself into a medical degree course at Rangaraya Medical College. Our colleges were located next to one another, and the next few years were some of my happiest. It was in the final year when one of our Professors taught a course on soil dynamics and earthquake engineering that I got excited about buildings and earthquakes. I decided to do a Master’s degree specialising in Soil Mechanics and Foundations at the same university, a decision that was influenced in no small measure by the possibility of staying close to Raji for two more years. Once I had finished my Master’s, the time had come to leave Kakinada. I joined the Indian Institute of Technology in Bombay working with Professor V S Chandrasekaran as a project engineer

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friend that only the rich and wellconnected can ever dream of going to Cambridge. He objected to this notion. To prove him wrong, I wrote a 0.15 penny post card to the Nehru Trust to express my interest. A month later I got the Cambridge graduate application forms to fill in with a letter from the Trust asking me to post the completed forms and saying that they would bear the cost to send the airmail to England. I complied and was called for an interview at the Teen Murti House in New Delhi, the former residence of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru. I was one of the ten scholars who were then sent to do a PhD at Cambridge, with all expenses paid including return flights. I knew nothing about Cambridge colleges and hence chose Churchill (being second on the college list; the first one, Christâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, I thought in my ignorance, might only do religious studies). on the effects of blast loading on underground structures. The plan was to do a PhD, re-join my family at Kakinada and live happily ever after. Destiny had other ideas. Following an evening stroll, I saw an advert on the Hostel 1 notice board regarding Nehru Scholarships to Cambridge. I commented to a

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Joining the world-famous Cambridge Geotechnical group was an eye-opener. My supervisor, Professor Andrew Schofield, was enthusiasm personified. I wanted to do my PhD in an analytical field but he convinced me within a year that experiments were the way to go, and that the data obtained from high-gravity centrifuge tests can give

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a unique insight into the complex behaviour of ‘dirt’. During my PhD I enjoyed being a researcher immensely, not having to worry about trivial matters like funding! Such matters were, happily, Andrew’s problem. I merely focused on the Perturbations of Tower Structures subjected to earthquake loading. Raji could visit me for a few months in between her clinical years. One particular visit was very fruitful, as our daughter Spandana arrived nine months later. I had to miss her birth in Bangalore as I had pre-booked my time on the centrifuge. I was perhaps never very good at judging my priorities. Rubbing shoulders with eminent researchers such as Malcolm Bolton, Sarah Springman (1975) and a bit later with Robert Mair made a deep impression on me. On completing my PhD in 2 years and 3 months, I had time to spare to get engaged in all other aspects of Cambridge research. I was truly smitten with Cambridge. My time in the lab had obviously impressed my supervisor Andrew enough to call me back to work as a Post-doctoral Fellow, developing a new earthquake simulator. At this stage Raji and I were blessed with our second child Srikanth. I turned down a job offer of an Assistant Professor at IIT Bombay, and returned to Cambridge. Two years later we had managed to develop the Stored Angular Momentum (SAM) earthquake simulator. In this period I got a Junior Research Fellowship at Wolfson College. But I wanted to be an academic, not just a researcher. I was offered a University Lectureship at University of Edinburgh and worked in that beautiful city for a year. In the meantime, an opening arose in Cambridge and I promptly returned. At this stage I was looking for

a predominantly undergraduate college community, and visited Girton. I was struck by the friendly welcome I received from the whole Fellowship and from the then Mistress, Juliet Campbell. Years have passed rather quickly in Girton with supervisions, undergraduate interviews, and the duties of Director of Studies taking the bulk of the time, while serving on various committees has had its moments of reward. The biggest reward is to see Girton Engineers graduate and the ultimate pleasure is to bump into them as professionals later on. True to every teacher’s experience, the students always remember you, while you need to maintain a serene look as if you remember them, while madly pedalling like a swan below water trying to remember which year they were at Girton. While my journey from Kakinada to Cambridge and Girton was convoluted, the academic and personal progress has been relatively smooth, culminating in a personal Chair, and the Directorship of the Schofield Centre last year.

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Ben Comeau This summer marks the graduation of Ben Comeau, one of the most gifted Music students at Girton in recent years. From the moment his application landed on my desk, it was clear that we were dealing with a phenomenon. After all, how many prospective students can list two piano concertos among their compositions? (In my experience, only the potty or the super-talented.) And when Ben arrived in Cambridge, one year before scholarship, he swept the board, coming top of all the categories â&#x20AC;&#x201C; playing, sight-reading, aural etc. As he approaches the end of his Cambridge career, he has pulled off a similar, though even more remarkable, feat. In the recent examinations for the Fellowship of the Royal College of Organists, he won all the prizes available to him. For some reason, only a special award for the overthirties proved elusive! Ben Comeau playing the piano in the Stanley Library

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In the period between these two landmarks Ben has demonstrated his prowess in a very wide range of genres. Two years ago he gained his LRSM (Licentiate of the Royal Schools of Music) diploma on piano with a high distinction, and in the last two years he has played concertos on piano, organ and harpsichord, performing in venues across the land. He is also a highly talented jazz pianist, and it was no surprise that he was one of the first batch of Cambridge students to win a place on the collaborative scheme run by the Cambridge Faculty of Music and the Royal Academy of Music in

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London. He now takes jazz lessons in London alongside more traditional instrumental studies in Cambridge. He has also worked regularly with singers and instrumentalists. Indeed, hardly a week goes by without Ben appearing in several different concerts. Some of his appearances are in unusual contexts: last term, for example, he provided an improvised ‘sound-track’ on organ to a silent film. All this could easily give a false impression of Ben’s accomplishments. He is not simply an exceptionally gifted performer; he has also achieved remarkable things in his academic work. Ben gained Firsts in each year of the Tripos, scoring what are thought to have been the highest-ever marks in papers in both Part IA and Part IB. In Part II he gained a starred First, winning the main Music Faculty prize for the best overall performance in the Music Tripos. Composition lies close to his heart and he is equally adept in free and stylistic composition. A recent fugue that employed invertible counterpoint at every available interval – only the initiated will know just how demanding that is – was virtually unprecedented for me in over twenty-five years of university teaching. At the same time as producing this exercise, Ben was putting the final touches to a piece that went on to win the composition competition run jointly by the Faculty of Music and the Britten Sinfonia; this success will result in a new commission to be performed at Wigmore Hall and on Radio 3. Where next? Ben is planning to take stock over the coming months, and he may then apply for postgraduate studies. Though his immediate career goals are uncertain, he is unlikely to disappear from the public gaze. His is a name to remember. Martin Ennis, Director of Music

A Random Walk; Professor Felix Franks, Bye-Fellow 1979–1997 Early in Professor Felix Franks’ illustrious career as a leading expert in the physics, physical chemistry and biochemistry of water, he was given the advice to “keep moving, they can’t hit a moving target”. It is a piece of advice that he has taken to heart, with a career spanning over 60 years and involving moving between academia and industry six times, creating one of the first University of Cambridge spin off companies, publishing over 200 articles and books, and yet still finding time to play the piano in a musical trio with his daughter (cello) and granddaughter (violin). Born in Berlin in 1926, Felix was place on a Kindertransport to London in April 1939 along with his two sisters. Unusually, and remarkably, his father and stepmother joined them in London when, just two days before the war started, they were called to the Gestapo Headquarters and given an exit visa. How or why his parents were permitted to leave the country remains a mystery. At school Felix had to rapidly learn English, and as his language skills

developed he made many friends with whome he is still in touch today. It was at school that his interest in science was piqued. After completing his exams Felix joined the British army as a volunteer. However, concerned he would find himself on a transport ship to Burma, he let it be known he could speak German and he was reassigned. The next few years were spent in various places in the European Theatre and for a short time after the war Felix remained with the army doing what he describes as ‘interesting duties’. On returning to the UK Felix took up a place at UCL – a formative time in both laying the foundations for his scientific career and it was also where he met, and married, his wife Heda (they have now been married over 60 years). Professor Franks’ career started in industry in 1951 at the Distillers Company, developing foam cushions, before taking up his first teaching role in 1955 at the South East Essex Technical College. It was during this appointment that Felix received the career advice to keep moving and with these words in mind he took up lecturing posts in Physical Chemistry at Huddersfield Polytechnic and then the University of Bradford, with a brief stint at the

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Professor Franks' company Pafra Biopreservation, was runner-up for a Prince of Wales Award for Innovation in 1991

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improving the yield of palm oil for plantations in Malaysia and Indonesia using cell culture techniques. Initial success was tempered when a virus wiped all the crops out – ‘biodiversity’ was not a much-used word then.

University of Pittsburgh for good measure, and also completed his doctoral research. A request to visit Unilever in the mid-1960s resulted in a job offer in the Biophysics Division and Felix moving back to industry for a fruitful 10 years. At Unilever he found himself in a world of bio- this and bio- that, having never even attended a lecture starting with ‘bio’. His previous research experience had taught him, however, to give everything a go (“they won’t hold it against you”) and so he rolled up his sleeves and got to work on his assigned project,

The ‘bio experience’ gained while at Unilever allowed Felix to make the leap back to academia in 1978 when he was invited to take up a Leverhulme Professorial Research Fellowship at the University of Cambridge Department of Plant Sciences, and soon after joined the Fellowship at Girton. Felix jokes that he was the only one in the department who did not know which end of a plant went in the ground. It was here that Felix saw the commercial potential for the research he was conducting on preserving cells and so in 1984 he approached the University for help with filing patents and guidance on how to capitalise on the technology. Surprisingly none was available. At this time technology transfer and spin-out companies were not the norm. Thankfully Trinity College stepped in and provided the support along with laboratory space at the Cambridge Science Park, seed funding was obtained from Pafra Ltd and in 1984 Pafra Biopreservation was born. Felix and the company set about developing techniques to stabilise bio materials in a solid state without damaging them (freezing a sample causes damage whereas super-cooling a sample preserves it). If the stabilising process is not done correctly it could cost a company millions in damaged stock. Patents were filed which brought Pafra Biopreservation to the attention of Inhale

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Therapeutics (now Nektar Therapeutics) who were looking for a way to stabilise dried insulin so it could be administered to diabetics via an inhalation system thus eliminating the need for needles and refrigeration of the insulin. Patents were filed which brought Pafra Biopreservation to the attention of Inhale Therapeutics (now Nektar Therapeutics) who were looking for a way to stabilise dried insulin so it could be administered to diabetics via an inhalation system thus eliminating the need for needles and refrigeration of the insulin. A partnership was established in 1992 and the result was Exubera (the inhaled form of insulin) which later received the support of pharmaceutical giants Pfizer. This dynamic collaboration took Exubera through development, navigated many costly court cases defending the intellectual property, and lengthy clinical trials culminating in successfully gaining FDA and EU approval in 2006. With great expectation Exubera was launched onto the market and was set to have an enormous impact on the lives of millions. Pfizer, however, suddenly pulled the plug after barely 12 months with no explanation and so the future of this novel treatment remains uncertain. From this enterprise, however, Felix gained a valuable understanding of the pathway for taking an innovative idea to market and the many pitfalls along the way including filing a patent, and defending one’s intellectual property – a cripplingly expensive process many new companies cannot afford.

Felix describes Girton College as a special place and he enjoyed supervising students enormously, as he did the experience of dining on High Table where the topic of conversation could range from eleventh-century monks of Durham, to potty training a toddler. During his time at Girton Felix also started the tradition of Sunday afternoon concerts in the Stanley Library – a tradition that continues today through the efforts of the Girton College Music Society. Professor Franks has thrived on his zig-zag career through industry and academia, the former for its fast pace and getting to apply your research, the latter for its freedom of thought allowing you to nurture and develop ideas – although having the shortest unit of time being ‘a term’ can be challenging! Family is of great importance too and he and his wife delight in their children’s own diverse careers. And of their grandchildren?; “If we knew how much fun they would be we would’ve had them first.” Felix continues with research and consultancy work and is in the enviable position of being able to pick and choose projects that interest him. Fittingly the BioUpdate Foundation – which was founded by Felix and which organises courses for young and inexperienced scientists aimed at putting knowledge into practice – have named a forthcoming symposium after Felix and have chosen to host it at the College. A fantastic way to celebrate the significant contribution Felix has made in his field. Felix Franks and Emma Cornwall

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Development Director’s report The Development Office has experienced another busy year. The number of alumni that the College is in touch with continues to increase and is now well over 9,000. More and more Girtonians are attending events within the College, be they year group reunions, subject reunions, celebrations of our cultural heritage and collections, or one of our regular Alumni Formal Halls. Further afield we continue to be grateful to the many alumni and friends who host events for us and make us feel so welcome wherever we travel. Our new residential wing at Ash Court is a stunning addition to the College. The official opening ceremony, performed by the Visitor, Lady Hale, took place in October last year, as one of a series of events on the day that brought together donors and volunteers, Fellows, staff and students, architects and contractors, and several Heads of House. After the ceremony, participants had an opportunity to attend the ceremony of Commemoration of Benefactors in chapel, followed by a lively Foundation Dinner. Away from the College, our particular thanks go to Karen Pierce (1978), UK Ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva, for hosting a wonderful reception and dinner for alumni at her residence overlooking Lake Geneva. The following day the Mistress joined Karen and several others at a British Council panel discussion on girls’ education and economic advancement. In London, around 150 alumni attended our Law and Finance event, and heard Dame Mary Arden (1965) talk about her career challenges and inspirations. Our thanks go to Dr Guy O’Keefe (1990) and the team at Slaughter and May for making the evening possible, and for their ongoing support for Girton law students.

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We are also grateful to Elizabeth Werry (1955) for hosting two wonderful buffet lunches at her Dulwich home. During the year we have also visited the United States, meeting alumni in San Francisco, Los Angeles and Houston, and would like to thank all of the alumni we met for their hospitality but particularly Norma Acland (1964) for so generously hosting an event in Los Angeles. At Easter we made a successful trip to the Far East, meeting alumni in Singapore, Malaysia and Hong Kong. Thank you to the very large number of alumni and supporters who attended the events and meetings for their enthusiasm and encouragement. Particular thanks must go to Campaign Board member Karen Fawcett (1982) for hosting a drinks reception at Standard Chartered Bank’s offices in Singapore, To’ Puan Chit Wha Lau-Gunn (1948) and Madam Chit Ean Lau-Gunn for the dinner in Kuala Lumpur (our first visit since Juliet Campbell was Mistress) and to the very many of you in Hong Kong, who remain so engaged with, and supportive of, the College, and in particular Kevin Chan (1986) for hosting the now regular alumni dinner. Our scheme to encourage the wider Fellowship, when they are attending conferences or events, at home or abroad, to meet alumni continues. The Revd Dr Malcolm Guite, our Chaplain, visited Houston and Dr Sabesan Sithamparanathan (Engineering) met alumni in Seattle. The Development Office’s programme of events in College continued, including our September reunions for several specific year groups and the Roll of Alumni weekend which was very well attended and was covered in detail in

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The Development Newsletter earlier in the year (and in the report on page 57), and this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s schedule promises to be no less action packed. Subject specific events continue to grow, with Economists and (no less than 70) Geographers welcomed back to College for subject reunion dinners. Also Natural Science students held a careers evening which brought together alumni and students.

This yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s event saw a new format on the evening, as the winner Alexandra Strnad, a former Cambridge student, the runner-up Penny Boxall and the judges, John Fuller, Emeritus Fellow at Magdalen College Oxford, and Vahni Capildeo, Trinidadian writer of poetry and prose and former Research Fellow at Girton College, all read from their work.

The national Jane Martin Poetry Prize 2014 continues to attract entries of the highest quality.

A Great Campaign, our fundraising campaign, continues to make steady progress, as we work

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toward our 150th anniversary in 2019. The Campaign seeks to secure a sustainable financial future for the College through a mix of legacy pledges and donations. We have now raised over £7.1 million since the launch of the Campaign in 2012 and have been notified of legacy pledges in excess of £12.5 million. Our telephone campaign this year was the most successful of any Oxford or Cambridge college in the last eighteen months in terms of its participation rate, raising the College a record amount of over £265,000, primarily for the general endowment, student bursaries and teaching support. Our thanks to all of those who gave so generously and to our student callers who worked with such commitment over their Easter break. This Easter Term saw the College host two donor events. Members of the 1869 Society, a society for those who have indicated that they intend to leave a legacy to the College, were invited to listen to a talk by Frances Gandy on the achievements of Hertha Ayrton (1876). Miss Ayrton was the first woman to have been awarded the Hughes Medal which she received in 1906 for her work on electric arc and ripples in sand and water. Later in the evening, guests attended the Echoes of Venice concert in the Hall performed by the Cambridge University Chamber Choir who were joined by the Cambridge University Collegium Musicum and Historic Brass of the Combined Conservatoires. Our Benefactors Garden Party saw around 150 Members of A Great Campaign and volunteers welcomed by the Mistress under the shade of a marquee in Emily Davies Court, before venturing into the College and grounds to look at the Lawrence Room and Ash Court, together with

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the Grange Cottage studio of the College’s current Artist in Residence, Tom Barnett, and his recently donated wall installation, ‘The Thing Is In Tension With The Idea Of The Thing’, in Mare’s Run. Last summer, the department welcomed Sophie Comiskey to the team as Development Assistant. Sophie acts as PA to the Development Director, maintains our database and completes general administrative tasks. Dr Emma Cornwall remains Alumni Officer and we will shortly be taking on an assistant to support the important work of alumni relations. This will also allow Dr Cornwall to spend more time with the Development Director in managing our legacy campaign. Tamsin Elbourn now has responsibility for the annual telethon, young alumni giving, and development events and Dr Hannah James continues to run our fundraising research, and manage the College’s gift administration. Finally I would like to thank all of our alumni who make my role so rewarding, and my colleagues and all of our Roll of Alumni Committee and Campaign Board members for their tremendous support over the year. Elizabeth Wade, Development Director

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Admissions report I am delighted to be writing this, at the end of my first year as Admissions Tutor. As Dr Veronica Bennett moved to her new role as Secretary to Council I took on full responsibility for Admissions in September, with Angela Stratford, the Head of Tutorial & Admissions, guiding me through procedures. The Admissions Team also welcomed Laura Parkin as the new Schools Liaison Assistant, ably supported by the office team: Jenny Griffiths, Katie Bowers and Holli Driver. The Girton Ambassadors (current undergraduates) provide invaluable help, with great enthusiasm – giving tours and talks on Open Days and acting as guides at interview time. Although the personnel may change, many of the Admissions activities continue year to year. We enjoyed meeting prospective applicants at the 2013 College Open Days (June and September) and the University Open Days in July and the Maths Open Day in April 2014. As well as visiting schools and hosting school visits, we met students and several teachers visiting the College individually. In conjunction with Newnham College, we ran a workshop for teachers in the West Midlands area, advising them on support for Cambridge applicants. Our HE+ Scheme work with schools in the Stourbridge/ Dudley area (www.study.cam.ac.uk/ undergraduate/access/heplus.html) continues to develop. Because of the growing numbers we split the cohort across four days for their Masterclass visits to Girton. The success of the scheme is in no small part due to the enthusiasm of teaching staff in Girton and Stourbridge, as well as the University’s financial support, and we were able to reflect on this success with a talk by David Bell, the main Stourbridge coordinator, at a Fellows’ evening in February.

Funds raised by alumni and supporters have been instrumental in allowing us to build on the HE+ Scheme. This year it provided funding to allow the introduction of a pilot Camden HE Scheme. With the participation and support of all the maintained sector Sixth Form providers in the borough, it was launched in November, with the first talk given to over 100 students in December. In March we welcomed 70 students to Masterclasses at Girton, covering a range of Tripos subjects. As we follow the first cohort through we are excited at the favourable initial reaction to this scheme. The admissions round proceeded alongside our recruitment and widening participation work. We welcomed 142 new students this year, of whom 49% are studying a Science subject, 53% are female and of the Home students 70% are from maintained schools. We also welcomed one Junior Year Abroad student (in Economics), two ERASMUS students (MML), one MIT Exchange student (Engineering) and a National University of Singapore Engineering Exchange student. In this admissions round 96 (58%) of offers were made through the Winter Pool and nine from the Summer Pool. Finally, I am delighted that Dr Julia Riley (previously the Vice-Mistress) will be acting as Admissions Tutor alongside me next year. Stuart Davis, Admissions Tutor

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Graduate admissions report Girton admitted 95 new graduates and postgraduates in Michaelmas, Lent and Easter 2013/14. This figure includes 9 Cambridge undergraduates who progressed to graduate studies. There were also 5 students who continued to higher degrees and 15 Vets and Medics who moved on to their clinical studies. Therefore we had a total of 115 new graduates and postgraduates returning to study. The number of new graduates meant that we met our target figure of 95 exactly, which is not easy to achieve. The 115 new graduates were made up of 72 men and 43 women and the Science intake of 62 was higher than the Arts intake of 53; however, we must remember that the Vets and Medics (15) are included in the Science figures. Of the new-to-Cambridge intake for 2013/14, 29 were home students, 66 were from overseas, 27 of which from European Union countries. The statistics for either full or part funding for the new-to-Cambridge and undergraduates moving to new graduate study gives a useful indication of the sources of available funding: Research body/Department Public Body (Trust/CHESS etc) *College External Bodies (Business/Government) Self-funding

19% 9% 3% 4% 65%

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Bursaries and Grants and make a number of smaller awards to contribute towards the cost of studying at Cambridge. The total number of Girton graduates (including 38 clinical vets and medics) now stands at 255, and represents a wide range of countries: Australia 5; Austria 3; Bangladesh 3; Belgium 1; Brazil 3; Canada 5; Chile 1; China 19; China (Taiwan) 2; Colombia 1; Cyprus 1; Czech Republic 2; Denmark 2; Egypt 1; France 5; Germany 12; Greece 2; Hong Kong 2; India 4; Ireland 3; Israel 1; Italy 3; Japan 1; Jordan 1; Korea 1; Lebanon 1; Lithuania 1; Malaysia 5; Mexico 1; Netherlands 6; New Zealand 1; Nigeria 1; Norway 3; Pakistan 3; Poland 3; Portugal 2; Romania 3; Russian Federation 3; Singapore 4; Slovakia 1; Spain 2; Sri Lanka 3; Taiwan 2; Tunisia 1; Turkey 1;Ukraine 2; UK 108; USA 14; Viet Nam 1. Families We have a total of 8 graduate parents; all currently live in Cambridge. One of these families lives in College accommodation; 2 of the graduate parents are from overseas, 1 from the EU and 5 from the UK. They are a welcome addition to the graduate community.

Graduate Secretary Jenny Griffiths continues to divide her time between the College’s main site and Wolfson Court, and is therefore always available to graduates for enquiries, and is often their first port of call. Graduate Tutors The two Graduate Tutors, Frances Gandy (Sciences) and Liliana Janik (Arts) continue to help all the graduates in personal, academic and financial matters. They meet their graduate students individually and socially throughout the year, and regularly enjoy their company at Formal Hall each week. Dr Janik combines her role as Graduate Tutor with her University position of Assistant Director in Research in Archaeology, and Director of Studies for Girton. Frances Gandy combines her tutorial role with that of Girton's Librarian and Curator. She also teaches American literature. Frances Gandy and Liliana Janik, Graduate Tutors

Bursaries Fourteen holders of Emily Davies Bursaries (worth up to £4,440 per student per year to cover the College Residence Charge) were in residence in 2013/14. The subjects being read by the bursary holders included: Biological Sciences, Engineering, English, Medicine, Music, Physical Sciences, Theology and Veterinary Medicine. There were six holders of Ellen McArthur Bursaries (worth £1,000 in the first year and £1,500 in subsequent years) in residence in 2013/14, two of whom were reading Politics, Psychology & Sociology, two reading Economics, one reading History and the final bursary holder reading the new Human, Social & Political Sciences Tripos. Three Jean Lindsay Memorial Bursaries for History (worth £800 per year), and two Margaret Barton Bursaries for Medical Science (worth up to £3,500 per year) were held by students in residence in 2013/14. One hundred and sixteen Cambridge Bursaries and fifteen Cambridge European Bursaries were received by Girton undergraduates in 2013/14. This generous bursary scheme guarantees a bursary of up to £3,500 per year to those students from the least well-off households. The College Overseas Bursaries of five overseas students have been renewed for the next academic year, and new bursaries were awarded to two overseas students due to come into residence in October 2014. Grants Ten undergraduate students were made hardship grants from the Buss Fund totalling £1,807.

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Librarian’s report Eight graduate students received grants amounting to £5,796 from the Pillman Hardship Fund. Two undergraduate students from the newer EU accession countries were made hardship grants totalling £2,400 from the College Overseas Bursary Fund. The College Overseas Bursaries Committee agreed in 2013 to use any surplus in the fund each year to help such students meet the maintenance costs of studying at Cambridge, as these are significantly higher than their household income. For academic expenses, grants totalling £3,326 were made to twenty undergraduates from the Student Academic Resources Fund. Thirty five graduate students received grants amounting to £7,846 from the Pillman Academic Fund. Two grants totalling £880 from the Sybil Campbell Fund to assist with the cost of professional training leading towards a career, and four grants totalling £800 were made from the Harry Barkley Fund to clinical medical students undertaking elective periods of training. Angela Stratford, Head of Tutorial & Admissions Office

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The rhythm of the academic year followed its familiar course in the Library, from the flurry of inducting nervous and eager Freshers in week one of Michaelmas to the piling up of books, files and papers that walled in the stressed examination candidates in Easter. Behind this annual pattern, we can report the successful transfer of the Law collection from Wolfson Court to the main site, the bound journals to Wolfson Court, and the continued progress in cataloguing the special collections, as just three examples of major projects undertaken. Who had known how many examples of Icelandic yogurtmaking Dame Bertha Philpotts had collected before we had delved into the Newall/Philpotts boxes?

comfortable break-out areas. All these components provide what might be called a ‘Learning Commons’ and ensure that the Library continues to be a productive, popular and mutually supportive place to study. In planning ahead, while we must be infinitely flexible, continue to anticipate changing needs and extend resources, we must also be careful to preserve and maximise the rich environment for learning and research that has epitomised Girton’s library as a centre of academic activity in the College for generations of Girtonians.

The Library has actively participated in this year’s consultations about the future of the College estate. Nowhere has seen more changes in patterns of learning and the diversification of learning resources than HE libraries over the last 20 years. While hard text is still required, at least in book form, electronic resources in all kinds of formats are also now the norm, and so are a variety of supported study environments in which to use them, whether these be group study rooms, single study spaces, easy chairs, networked IT, high-grade wi-fi , or

We are most grateful to the many donors whose gifts of money allow us to purchase books and other essential items.

Gifts and Bequests to the Library (Please note that all the donations listed here refer to the period 1 July 2013–30 June 2014)

We owe a debt of gratitude to the late Annabella Kitson (Cloudsley 1946), a life-long supporter of the Library, who sadly died last year, but whose generous legacy to the Library has already enabled the purchase of some key editions in English Literature. At the moment the Library’s everpopular ‘break-out area’ is confined to the sofa in the corridor outside.

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Copies of their own work have been presented by:

A mélange of items from the Newall collection, which was bequeathed by Dame Bertha Phillpotts (nee Newall); a distinguished scholar in Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, and Mistress of Girton.

We are most grateful to Dr Jondorf (Moore 1956) for donating a large replacement sofa when the old one failed to recover from being used as a prop for the March Ball. We continue to benefit from the generosity of Cambridge University Press, whose special arrangement allows us to acquire £3000 worth of CUP books free of charge.

The Mistress, The Venerable Paddy Benson, G. Marigold Best (Davies 1949), Dr Vahni Capildeo, Dr Amaleena Damlé, Dr Elizabeth Foyster, Rev. Dr Malcolm Guite, Rosalind Hadden (1952), Professor John Hendry, Dr Katherine Holden, Dr Michael Hoskin, Dr Kate Kennedy, Christina Koning (1972), Dr John A L Lee, Clara Levin (1995), Loh Wei Leng (1966), Sheila Mann, Jonathan Manns (2007), Professor Ljiljana Marković, Diana Maryon, Anne Peile, Jennifer Petrie (Adcock 1945), Professor Dame Marilyn Strathern (Evans 1960), Dr P D M Turner (Watson 1957), Margaret H Williams (Thomas 1965), Alison Wilson, Dr Hope Wolf. The following individuals have also presented copies of books and other media: The Mistress, Mrs B Akester (Dyer 1950), Dr Veronica Bennett, James Burke (2009), Calum Eadie (2010), Dr Elizabeth Foyster, Dr Patrick James, Sarah Hale (2009), Holly Higgins

(2013), Baroness Hale of Richmond Mrs A J C Hoggett (Hale 1963), Tim Hartung (2010), Sophie Hermanns (2010), Annie Jackson (Dewhurst 1972), Dr G Jondorf (Moore 1956), Jane Reid (Bottomley 1961), Dr Julia Riley, Patricia Sharp (Monach 1965), Nick Sparks (1985), Professor Dame Marilyn Strathern (Evans 1960), Dr Dorothy Thompson (Walbank 1958), Dr Ruth Warren. We are very grateful to the following donors, who maintain regular subscriptions to journals on our behalf, or who present us with regular current copies: Dr Harriet Allen (1977), Dr John Marks, Professor A A Dashwood, Professor Dame Marilyn Strathern (Evans 1960). Publications have also been presented by the following organisations: Cambridge University Press, Cambridgeshire Gardens Trust, Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Flemish-Netherlands Foundation, Madingley Hall Library, Notting Hill Editions. Frances Gandy, Librarian and Curator

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Archivist’s report It has been a busy year in the Archive with researchers and enquiries from all over the world. The papers of Dorothy Needham (1915) were in particular demand, although some of our less used collections were also requested, such as Marion Bidder (1879), Helen Grant (Fellow 1954), Diane Worzala and the Cambridge Women’s Liberation Archive.

Letter from Mme Mohl (née Mary Clarke), Salonnière, to Louise Swanton Belloc, 1855. Damaged by Prussian soldiers during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71. Archive reference: GCPP Parkes 17a/1/10/2.

There have been numerous group visits this year. A palaeography seminar was given to a group from Miami University, Ohio using the papers of Barbara Bodichon; another American University group (UMAIE) and the Knebworth and Stevenage Arts Group were given historical tours of the College; and several groups visited to research their respective performances of Blue Stockings, the play by Jessica Swale, including a school group from Athens. The play has now been performed at the Bristol Old Vic, The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, and The Arts Educational Schools London, amongst others. The University and Life Experience (ULE) project is nearing its conclusion. The website currently being constructed will present anonymised data on the lives of Girton undergraduates between 1918 and 1985 for academic research. We are all looking forward to its launch early in the next academic year. There have been a variety of interesting accessions this year, including: silver sports brooches, a cricket blues blazer, additional papers of Gladys Williams (1903), who wrote under the pen name of John Presland, and diary extracts, photographs and illustrations from Joan Schneider (Garrod 1948). However, the most significant accession has been the additional papers of Bessie Rayner Parkes. Joan Bullock-Anderson is currently cataloguing

these papers which mainly relate to Louise Swanton Belloc, Bessie’s mother-in-law. They include family papers dating from 1654 and some letters which survived the ravages of Prussian troops during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–71, including those written to Louise by her close friend Adelaide de Montgolfier from Paris during the Siege of Paris. Other collections which have been catalogued this year include: Marjorie Docking (1946), Norah Jolliffe (1918), Constance Maynard (1872), Odette de Mourgues (Research Student and lectrice, 1946; Fellow 1952), Mary Taylor (1926), Barbara Weir (1961) and Jean Young (1921). These catalogues, which include brief biographies, are available on the Janus website – janus.lib.cam.ac.uk/. Finally, I would like to thank Hilary Goy (Corke 1968), Cherry Hopkins (Busbridge 1959) and Kimberley Ashwell who have continued to volunteer in the Archive, and also Anne Cobby (1971) who has joined as a volunteer to expand the catalogue of Emily Davies’s papers. The donations listed refer to the period 1 July 2013 –30 June 2014. Natalie Bird (2011); Charlotte Burford (2011); Sue Churchman; John Gray; Freddie Harris; Christine Joy; Eleanor Lavan (Research Student 2012); Ruth Lewis; Sheila Mann; Kate Price Thomas; Margherita Rendel (1948); Joan Schneider (Garrod 1948); Sara Stillwell (2011); Elizabeth Tilley; Sam Venn; Ana Vicente; Zoe Waterman; John Williams; Emma Willson; Anne Wilson (1945); David Woodhead; Nuri Wyeth (Marckwald 1964). Records were also transferred from various College departments throughout the year. Hannah Westall, Archivist

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Culture and Heritage Girton is rich in the diversity of its collections, whether works of art, antiquities, or the many fine collections in the College libraries and archive. This cultural heritage is one we owe initially to our founders, but thereafter to generations of benefactors and supporters. Members of Girton take pride in this tradition, and draw daily pleasure and inspiration from the added dimension that these collections offer us. And of course Girton makes its collections accessible to members of the public as well as to members of the College. Both the Lawrence Room and People’s Portraits are open regularly to visitors of all kinds, and several local primary schools have used both collections this year for Girton-centred project days, linking their curriculum topics with our artefacts. In September 2013, as part of the Roll of Alumni weekend, we held our annual events which focus on various aspects of Girton’s cultural life. John Walton presented to the People’s Portraits exhibition his portrait of Stuart Thorne, tailor and bee-keeper, and our speaker was the art critic, Martin Gayford, whose book Man with a Blue Scarf described his experience of being painted by Lucian Freud. The Library event saw writer and Girtonian, Christina Koning, talking about her work, Variable Stars, which concerns the eighteenth-century astronomer Caroline Herschel, who was awarded the gold medal from the Royal Astronomical Society in 1828. The Lawrence Room Committee welcomed Dr Catherine Hills, Senior Lecturer in Archaeology at Cambridge and Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, talking on early Anglo-Saxon pots, including references to Girton’s own collection.

Although the Friends groups were disbanded in 2013, we recognise the enthusiasm that members have for particular areas of College life and are committed to offering events that continue to showcase and celebrate our core collections. Scheduled for the alumni weekend of September 2014, therefore, are Andrew Nairne, Director of Kettle’s Yard, speaking to the People’s Portraits Reception on ‘The Portrait Today’, and the unveiling of a new portrait ‘Nicholas Brooks’ from Jason Walker RP; Prof. David McMullen talking about ‘Women in the Tang Dynasty’ for the Lawrence Room event; and the principal researchers from the University and Life Experience Website Project (due for completion by the end of 2014 and hosted by the Library and Archive department) discussing the particular challenges that this project has involved.

One of the Coptic textiles; a piece of linen from around AD 401-500 (catalogue/ID number: LR464)

Behind the scenes we endeavour to ensure the continued well-being of our collections and have extended the scope of our conservation programmes. This year we undertook a major restoration project on the Mistresses’ portraits in Hall. The Coptic textiles from the Lawrence Room are being cleaned and re-mounted, and two sets of Egyptian beads are being repaired and conserved. We are always eager to add to the scholarship surrounding our collections, and we are following with particular interest the archaeological excavations currently being undertaken for the north-west Cambridge development. These discoveries are adding to our knowledge of the historic and cultural context in which Girton’s own Anglo-Saxon and Roman ancestors lived. Frances Gandy, Curator

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Research evenings This year we have enjoyed as wide and eclectic a variety of research evenings as usual, and the Senior Combination Room has been packed to bursting. It is always a great privilege to be able to gain an insight into the work of colleagues, as well as to be able to provide a forum for Fellows to gather to discuss each others’ work. The discussions after a presentation are always lively and illuminating, whatever the topic presented, and often new angles of research emerge, or new approaches to the subject.

A beautifully-preserved specimen of the Ediacaran frond-like fossil Culmofrons, from the Bonavista Peninsula of Newfoundland, Canada. Culmofrons belongs to an enigmatic group of marine organisms called rangeomorphs, and may have been one of the earliest animals.

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Visiting Fellow Peter Ackers, Professor of Industrial Relations at Loughborough University, has been resident in College working on a biography of Hugh Clegg (19201995), and gave a talk on Clegg and the post-war crisis in British industrial relations. Three of our Research Fellows also shared their work with us: Jacob Paskins, the Eugenie Strong Research Fellow in architectural history and theory, treated us to a talk on the history of the hovercraft, and the extent to which it was claimed as a truly ‘British’ invention. I must confess I have spent very little time thinking about hovercrafts, and after Jacob’s compelling presentation, many of us are now converts to them! We were all taken aback by the fascinating history of their political and cultural significance, and Jacob powerfully made the case for the hovercraft as a

significant invention, despite having such a short commercial life. We greatly enjoyed Hope Wolf’s discussion of war poet and artist David Jones’ writing. Her fresh and innovative approach to texts drew out all sorts of unexpected angles of Jones’ mystical, puzzling long poem In Parenthesis. In May, Alex Liu, Henslow Junior Research Fellow in earth sciences, talked on ‘Resolving the early record of animal evolution: insights from the enigmatic Ediacaran biota’. His research on fossils from the late Ediacaran Period has been instrumental in helping to establish that animals did exist as early as 565 million years ago. A true highlight of the series was the talk given by Marilyn Strathern. We were honoured and delighted to be able to hear some of her work in progress this January, under the title ‘Uncertain journeying: an anthropologist not quite at home’. Her talk encompassed a dazzling range of disciplines, moving from anthropology to philosophy and linguistics, and the debate that followed would have carried on for hours had not the dinner gong interrupted us. Kate Kennedy, Convener

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Music report As I write, summer has arrived at last, and final preparations are being made for this year’s May Week Concert. We look forward to a mixed bill that highlights the talents of a particularly large and active group of musicians. Jâms Coleman, who leaves shortly for postgraduate piano studies in London, will play solo Ravel. Another finalist, Rhiannon Randle, who plans to stay on to study composition, will offer the first performance of a work for string quintet. Julius Stein-Supanich, who came to Cambridge from the US to enrol on the one-year MMus in Choral Studies, will be the soloist in a movement from Haydn’s Trumpet Concerto; and another trumpeter, Tristan Harkcom, will complete his time at Girton with the solo part in an arrangement of Gershwin produced by Benjamin Comeau. Ben, who is mentioned elsewhere in these pages, will contribute another concerto movement, this time from Mozart’s K.415. All this will be complemented by a selection of arias, duets and choruses from Mozart operas designed to showcase the leading singers in the Chapel Choir. Notable among them is Robert Haylett, who has been a mainstay of both the Choir and the College Music Society, having served as Music Society Secretary for the past year. This year’s Concert for the Roll of Alumni Weekend, on 28 September, also featured works by Mozart. Katherine Hambridge (OG), Lucy Goddard (OG) and Gareth Brynmor John (winner of the Kathleen Ferrier Award in 2013) came together to perform operatic scenes, as well as arias by Schumann and Brahms. Later in the year, on 4 March, two Girtonians, Robert Haylett and Cassandra Gorman, teamed up with singers from Trinity and St John’s – Lucy Cronin and Sam Oladeinde – to offer a programme entitled ‘Abendlieder’. This was an

assortment of suitably mellow songs and vocal quartets, built round Brahms’s Abendlieder. Vocal music also lay at the heart of the SchubertFest held in the Stanley Library on successive Tuesday evenings in Michaelmas Term. It was inspired by the presence of three international-level singers on the College’s roster – Nicholas Mulroy (Director of Chapel Music), Andrew Kennedy (Musician in Residence), and Charbel Mattar (who teaches singing to choir members when not otherwise engaged on the operatic stage). The concerts were devoted to the three principal song collections of Schubert, Die Schöne Müllerin, Winterreise, and Schwanengesang. In the event, Andrew Kennedy was indisposed, but Nicholas Mulroy very generously agreed to stand in at short notice. The project gave wonderful opportunities to Jâms Coleman and Benjamin Comeau to parade their skills as accompanists. These skills were also much in evidence in the bynow-annual concert devoted to a single composer. Curated by Margaret Faultless, this year’s concert, which took place on 20 November, was built round instrumental movements, Lieder and ensemble numbers by Beethoven. Lent Term began with Temptations, a new chamber opera written by Rhiannon Randle to texts by Girton’s Chaplain, Malcolm Guite. Performed in Girton on 23 January and repeated in St John’s College, it was an extraordinary display of compositional, vocal, instrumental – and indeed entrepreneurial – brilliance. However, the largest event of the year was the Echoes of Venice concert, presented in Hall on

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3 May (and given the previous evening in St John’s College Chapel). This brought together a highly gifted body of students, guided by three of Girton’s senior members. Jeremy West, Musician in Residence, put together a large group of sackbut and cornett players drawn from the combined conservatoires; Margaret Faultless coached and led Cambridge University’s early-instrument ensemble, the Collegium Musicum. The combined forces of these two ensembles together with Cambridge University Chamber Choir were directed by Martin Ennis in a programme that included Tallis’s 40-part motet Spem in alium, Striggio’s 40-part Ecce beatam lucem, and two 33-part reconstructions of canticles by Gabrieli, one of them specially prepared for the occasion by Hugh Keyte. Unusual repertoire from the German, Polish and Danish Baroque, all connected one way or another with the Venetian diaspora, made up the remainder of the programme. Another highlight of the year was a memorable piano recital given on 27 April by Mateusz Borowiak, a recent graduate who since leaving Girton has won numerous international prizes. Mateusz very generously also gave a masterclass for Girton’s pianists. Other masterclasses

this year included coaching on twentieth-century repertoire from Matthew Schellhorn, a Lieder accompaniment class given by Julius Drake, and a class on Alexander Technique from Sue Holladay. I should like to conclude by thanking my fellow senior members who have done so much to make the splendid diversity of music at Girton possible. The opening concert of the Sunday afternoon series back in October was given by no fewer than five members of High Table – an admirable illustration of the depth that Girton can now offer in music. However, I must finish by bidding hail and farewell to Griff Rollefson, who last September took up a bye-fellowship at Girton alongside a temporary lectureship in popular music at the Music Faculty. He leaves shortly for a permanent position in Cork; we wish him well in his new job. Martin Ennis, Austin and Hope Pilkington Fellow in Music, and Director of Music

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Chapel report It has been an exciting year for Girton Chapel. Our theme in the Michaelmas Term was ‘Michaelmas and Advent; the Missing Seasons’. Prompted by the thought that the feast of Michaelmas is over by the time term begins and Advent starts the day it ends, I thought it would be good to explore some of the themes of these seasons we just miss. The highlight of that term, though, for many Girtonians, and not just those in Chapel on the day, was Remembrance Sunday. On that morning BBC Radio 4’s Sunday Worship was broadcast live from Girton Chapel. I had devised a service, in collaboration with Stephen Shipley, the producer, weaving together poetry, Bible readings, brief meditations and music. The Choir acquitted themselves brilliantly and I was honoured that, at Stephen’s request, one of the poems featured was my own poem on Remembrance Sunday, from my collection Sounding the Seasons. I was also delighted to welcome back to Girton, OG Maggie Guite, (née Hutchison) who led the service beautifully. It was all live with one notable exception; by an unhappy clash of timetables I was speaking at a conference in Houston that morning, but Radio 4 kindly came up to Girton and recorded my parts earlier and so I was faded seamlessly in and out. (Perhaps Maggie and, who knows, some of the Choir, would like to keep that as an option for future sermons!)

humour, erudition, pathos, and an inspiring personal testimony, in one enthralling talk which left a packed Chapel deeply moved.

With Lent Term came the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare’s birth, so I chose ‘The Bible and Shakespeare’ as a theme, asking our preachers to tell us what they would like best in the copies they received as ‘desert island cast-aways’. A stand-out sermon from that series was by Sally Phillips, the actress and comedienne, who managed to combine

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For the Easter Term I thought it would be good to look afresh at the Apostles’ Creed, which is, after all, recited every Sunday in Chapel, though usually without comment. What relevance does it have for today? How might we want to rephrase or reframe the mysteries towards which it points? I have tackled these questions in a connected series of seven sermons. In a new departure for Girton Chapel, all these sermons have been recorded and are available to hear, play again or download, on this page: www.girton.cam.ac.uk/girtontoday/places/chapel As always, my work as a chaplain goes well beyond the visible tip of the iceberg which is Chapel itself (happily Chapel will be a little less icy in winter now that we have sealed the windows!) but that wider work of presence, listening, prayer and occasional advice must remain, for the most part, necessarily and properly hidden. But I will say this, it is always a pleasure to see students whom I have first met in uncertainty, or even distress, mature and blossom over their three years, and always a bit of a wrench to say goodbye to some of them as I will be doing at this year’s graduation service.

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Choir Report This has been a busy year for the Choir – perhaps the busiest of my three years – and began with a tour to the USA and Canada, singing with former Director of Chapel Music at Girton, Dana Marsh, at his current post in Christ Church Cathedral, Indianapolis, as well as in concerts in Chicago, Ann Arbor, London (Ontario) and Toronto. Since returning from across the Atlantic, and launching ourselves back into Girton life, there have been many highlights this year: on Remembrance Sunday we sang music by Tippett, Tomkins, Britten and Ravenscroft to an estimated audience of 1.7million for BBC Radio 4’s Sunday Worship. The early start (live on air at 8:05am) seemed novel to some. The Choir also gave two performances of

our ‘Music for Remembrance’ programme, including Duruflé’s Requiem and Tippett’s Five Negro Spirituals from A Child of our Time, in Norwich and Girton, and gave the world premiere of American composer JAC Redford’s setting of Dr Guite’s sonnets (alongside Britten’s Ceremony of Carols) in St Edmund’s, in the presence of both composer and poet – a rare honour indeed! On the subject of world premieres, we also sang Junior Organ Scholar Rory Heaton’s O Magnum Mysterium, Senior Organ Scholar Ben Comeau’s Baroque Canticles, and in June sang new Fellow Dr Griff Rollefson’s The Cornerstone. We’ve been delighted to be joined on several occasions by Margaret Faultless, whose presence in the College is so helpful to the Choir, allowing us to sing cherished repertoire with one of the finest Baroque violinists there is. This year’s forays have included music by Purcell, Schütz, Handel and JS Bach, and the concert for the Friends of the Choir in February which featured music by Bach and Handel produced stylish singing, not least in solos by Camilla Seale, Julia Fine, Saskia BunschotenBinet, Jâms Coleman and Robert Haylett. As always, the pleasure of music making is offset by the sadness of saying goodbye to those who leave. This year, we will bid farewell to Julia Fine, Katie Walton, Sadhbh O’Sullivan, Ciara McGlade, Jâms Coleman, Michael Nelson and Tristan Harkcom, as well to our Senior Choral Scholar, Robert Haylett, as ideal a choral scholar as one could wish for, and Ben Comeau, our inimitable Senior Organ Scholar. We will miss them all. Nicholas Mulroy, Director of Chapel Music

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JCR report Our most successful Freshers’ Week in memory kicked off the start of this year with a great sense of community and fun. We offered new students everything from a sunny cycle ride through the local villages, to a ghost walk through town researched by members of the committee and hosted by a College student actress. Student satisfaction was high and new Girtonians experienced early College pride in awareness that the many possibilities for activities here – punting, picnics, life drawing, ceilidh, ents and nights out - far exceeded those of their counterparts at other colleges. During my Presidency, the JCR has sought to headline issues such as

responsible investment, and women’s and minority’s rights. Early in 2014 we voted at Cambridge University Students’ Union (CUSU) Council for a motion encouraging colleges and the University to ‘go fossil-free’ on their investments and to support a student campaign called Positive Investment Cambridge in their attempts to get colleges, including Girton, to adopt socially responsible investment policies.

speakers and a massive audience who had made the trek up from town.

In October, our wonderful Women’s Officer Priscilla Mensah hosted a hugely successful event with the Cambridge University Women’s Campaign and Black and Ethnic Minority Students Campaign called ‘A Vindication of the Rights of Black Women’ with three prominent

Turning to matters closer to home, students have been ecstatic at the opening of the new pool which is reminiscent of a spa, and is frequently utilised by College members.

Freshers' Week bike ride to the local villages

Additionally, we held a tea and cake-fuelled Amnestea letter-writing event, and a rainbow-themed Underground in the bar, photos from which we are sending ‘Amnesty-style’ postcards to the Russian government in solidarity with the lesbian and gay community there.

The JCR committee has also hosted two new formal halls in College over the past year. First years who had recently become ‘College-engaged’ for the first time could sign a marriage register, have an official photograph and share a formal meal with their College ‘spouse’. In Lent Term we were delighted to boost dwindling numbers at previous charity formals when we packed out the Great Hall in a Harry Potter-themed evening which sold out astonishingly quickly. On the menu were pumpkin pasties, liquorice wands and chocolate frogs; there were banners for each house, a real-life Fred and George, and even an invisible owl. Sara Stillwell, JCR President 2012–13

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MCR report It seems to have been a particularly busy and significant twelve months for graduates at Girton. I think that has much to do with the concentration of students living at Wolfson Court. It’s been a long time since so many of us have been settled at one location, and we’ve felt very positive effects as a truly cohesive community has formed. The start of my presidency coincided with May Week 2013, when the MCR garden party took place at Wolfson Court. The party set the tone for the full schedule of freshers’ events we’d planned for autumn. Our freshers were so active and enthusiastic, and so engaged with our programme, that it made introducing students to College life and fostering a new community in that hectic fortnight very easy. Live music events held in the Wolfson Court Bar were real highlights of the MCR Freshers’ Fortnight. The MCR committee’s revamping of that great social space with the help of Warden Maureen Hackett has proved very popular given the increased number of graduates on site. We’ll invest more time in improving the bar during the summer vacation in readiness for Michaelmas Term’s new cohort. The MCR thanks the Fellowship for continuing to be such willing – and

entertaining – participants in our termly Graduate Research Seminars. We hope next year to strengthen our links with the SCR through the institution of a Supervisors’ Supper. A pilot for this initiative is planned for Lent 2015 when graduates will have the chance to invite their supervisors up to Girton to meet colleagues and students in their field as well as our Fellowship. I’ve been delighted to forge new links with alumni since becoming MCR President. I’m most grateful to Cecilia Oram and the London Girton Association for facilitating a new hosting scheme which gives students with professional engagements or interviews in London access to overnight accommodation with LGA members. Students who have taken up this fabulous offer have so enjoyed their stays in London that I’m sure uptake will continue to increase next academic year. One of the most exciting endeavours for me this year has been to produce with MCR Vice President Leah Oppenheimer our submission to the consultation on developing the Girton estate. This must represent a unique opportunity to really shape graduate life at Girton – to help consolidate the College’s strategic academic aims even in its architecture. We couldn’t have achieved our final report without valued support and input from

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members of the MCR Committee, our students, and Graduate Tutors Frances Gandy and Liliana Janik. It’s been a pleasure to serve College this year. And with the groundwork laid for various plans and schemes, next academic year promises to be an equally busy one for my successor. But I know that with the support of the Girton community behind them, they’ll achieve great things for graduates here. Ellie Lavan, MCR President

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Girton College Spring Ball 2014 – Les Années Folles On Friday 14 March 2014 Girton College was transformed, for one night only, into a 1920s paradise. The 1,600 guests were transported back to this period of social, cultural and artistic exploration so that they could delight in the vast range of food, drink and entertainment the Ball Committee had prepared. There was a huge array of different foods to try, including sushi, exotic burgers, cupcakes and handmade chocolates. Many stuffed themselves on the dining menu (featuring venison and chocolate tart), but for those who had room, there was plenty more food on offer. The drinks included the ever-popular Hendricks G&T’s (served from teacups) and River Bar Cocktails as well as a wide variety of sophisticated soft drinks such as Fentimans, Belvoir and Innocent smoothies. The seven different stages featured performances from headliners such as King Charles and The Other Tribe as well as home-grown Girton talent such as pianist Ben Comeau, harpist Ciara McGlade, the Fourier String Quartet and close harmony group The Girtones. Of course it was hard to miss the return of the helter-skelter and swing boats which provided

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fantastic views of the courts, including the two enormous fountains! None of this would have been possible without the tireless work of the committee over the last year. We were especially lucky to have two returning members from the 2012 Spring Ball committee, Eleanor Richards and Thomas O’ Pray. Their experience and insight was invaluable in helping ensure the evening was a success, and it would be great to see some of this year’s committee back again in 2016! Finally, we would like to say an enormous thank you to the Fellows and Staff of the College. We are especially grateful Dr Kamiar Mohaddes, who acted as our Senior Treasurer, and to the Catering Office, Maintenance Department, Housemen and the Porters for all the time they put in to making the Ball a success! Charlotte Burford, President

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GADS It’s been another fantastic year for the GADS. The Society has continued to grow thanks to the help of the splendid freshers who joined the ranks at the start of Michaelmas 2013. The society has managed to replace a lot of its trade-mark damaged lighting equipment, and has even recently purchased a smoke machine - much to the committee’s delight! The year began with the first years’ traditional post-formal hall initiation to GADS and Girton in the form of the freshers’ version of Girton the Musical! A number of new actors replaced the veterans who had been playing the roles, and the freshers were introduced to the unofficial College

anthems; Old Hall was packed with people shouting along to ‘We are Girton!’ After the madness of the freshers’ musical, Josie Teale swiftly set to work directing a hilarious Agatha Christie spoof written by Peter Gordon. Murdered to Death was performed in the Stanley Library, and followed the ridiculous murders and fraudulent activities which took place under the watchful gaze of Miss Maple and Inspector Pratt. The committee were amazed at the fantastic audience numbers – we even had to bring in more chairs to accommodate the hordes! Michaelmas ended with the traditional Girton-themed panto, this time written by Charlie Rogers-Washington. The Old Hall became the setting for a Cinderella-based tale

Charlie Gatehouse as Inspector Pratt in 'Murdered to Death' All photos: Charles Bruce

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Katharine Wiggell and Fiona MacDonald as Lady Hunstanton and Mrs Allonby

in which a poor first year was academically enslaved to her evil supervisor until the Fairy Godmistress came to the rescue! Lent Term was extremely busy for GADS. First year Madeleine Searle put herself forward to direct a production of Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, and was truly chucked in at the deep end. Joe Jukes and Katharine Wiggell took to the stage as Helmer and Nora in what was a sterling performance. One production in Lent Term is now no longer enough for GADS. As Lent drew to a close, GADS drafted in directors and producers from Fitzwilliam and Churchill, and actors from other colleges joined Girtonians to put on a brilliantly clever production of Oscar Wilde’s A Woman of

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No Importance. The Stanley Library was once again transformed into a theatre, and on the opening night was packed with audience members from across the University.

are distraught at the prospect of leaving GADS. We’ve seen the society change enormously over the course of our three years. However, I’m positive that there are even bigger and better things to come!

GADS has recently held its committee elections, and during Easter Term will be showing the ropes to the enthusiastic team who will run the show next year. I’d like to thank everyone who’s been involved in the GADS productions of the past academic year and contributed to giving Girton a fantastic year of theatre. Those in their final year

Jack Pulman-Slater, President

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Medical & Veterinary Society It has been a fantastic year for Girton Medical & Veterinary Society (GMVS). With great speaker events and seeing its members even more integrated than ever, the society continues to provide much-appreciated academic and extracurricular support for all medical and veterinary students.

Michaelmas Term, November 2013: Dr Jane Risdall’s talk: Samantha Brown, Colum McGrady, Dr Jane Risdall, Lizzie Wicks, Tamsin Banner.

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In Michaelmas Term we were treated to a fascinating talk by Dr Jane Risdall, Girton alumna, and now a Consultant Anaesthetist who spends long periods of her time working at sea with the navy. Her exciting, if rather terrifying stories, describing working during wars, and despite stormy, tropical seas, certainly gave students and Fellows alike another perspective on speciality medicine. In keeping with the theme of quirky medical specialities, Professor David Gradwell of Aerospace Medicine at King’s College London gave an excellent talk about medicine in space – a thrilling start to Lent Term. Professor Andrew Lever, Professor of Infectious Diseases and Consultant Physician at Addenbrooke's gave a brilliant talk about his recent sabbatical in rural South Africa. Both students and Fellows gained more insight into the global perspectives of our secondyear pathology module, and, followed by a GMVS formal, this event was particularly enjoyed by all.

Lent Term continued to be successful, as we were well represented at the annual Girton Hammond Science Communication Prize. Two of our veterinary students, David Harrison and Ellie Drabble, won the Pathology prize and the Abstract prize respectively. The term ended well for third year-Girton medical students, when all were successful in securing their first choice for clinical school; the whole process was facilitated by the excellent support of our Director of Studies, Dr Fiona Cooke. The year will draw to an end with the GMVS dinner, which will be the first joint dinner with veterinary students and Fellows. Our after-dinner speaker will be Mr Stuart Eves, Veterinary Fellow of Selwyn College and supervisor to all GMVS students in their first and second years. I would personally like to thank Dr Fiona Cooke for her help and support with the society’s events; all our guest speakers for their intriguing and fascinating presentations; and the committee for their contribution to the smooth running of events and for their work in helping students to integrate. Samantha Brown, President

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Natural Sciences Society After many years as the Biological Society, this year the society was expanded to encompass all who study both Physical and Biological Natural Sciences at Girton, and so has become the Natural Sciences Society, or NatSciSoc. Alongside myself as President the committee has Beth Godddard as Vice-President, Treasurer Jakob Farnung and Social Secretaries Miha Pipan, Sam Morrow and Aisyln Taylor. The primary role of the society is to act as a central means of cross-year interaction, enabling older years to pass down experience with regards to subject choice, lab work and advice on handling the busy schedule all NatScis must manage. This year the committee has focused on bringing together the Bio and PhysNatScis with social events such as our meet-and-greet evening in Freshers’ Week, Christmas Party and Friday night cake bake – always with lots of food, drinks and chat! We also organised personalised NatSci jumpers which proved exceptionally popular, and led to a lot of coordinated dressing in the library. In Michaelmas we held a talk to give guidance on applying for lab and research placements which many students try to secure for the long summer holiday. Speakers from the second and third years gave short presentations, describing how they found, applied for and funded their

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placements, what they did and how the experience may have influenced future module choice and potential career prospects. We also held a termly formal swap, where Girton Natural Scientists went to formal dinner with NatScis at other colleges. In Michaelmas we went to St Johns, followed by Pembroke in Lent Term, both of which were really well attended and a great way to get to know more people in town. Next term will see more events from NatSciSoc, including the Part II subject choice advice evening and end of year garden party. As ever, a new committee will be elected towards the end of Easter Term, which will hopefully see an

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equally enthusiastic group of NatScis building on the changes to the society introduced this year and host even better and larger events. The final term is also seeing us increase links with alumni; by holding a CanapĂŠs and Careers Networking evening attended by students, alumni and Fellows. The event will be the perfect opportunity for Girton NatScis past and present to come together to exchange experiences and advice, and above all tell tales of times spent studying at the best College in Cambridge for 2.5 miles! Sarah James (President) and Miha Pipan (Secretary) in the NatSciSoc jumpers

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Sarah Ann James, President

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Men’s Badminton This year has been a transitional phase for Girton Badminton Club with three new captains and a newly created treasurer taking the reins for the first time. The club has come through it all very successfully and is in a good position for the coming year. Leading up to the start of Michaelmas Term, the strength and depth of the club was a cause for concern. Many team and social players had graduated the previous year, and two of our strongest players took on committee roles within the University's badminton team instead. Luckily, as seems to be the case every year, the club soon gained a lot of new talent with both freshers and students from other year groups wanting to get involved. Open Cuppers Champions in 2011 and 2012, and Open Cuppers runners up in 2013, Girton were determined to do well again in 2014. Weekly practices were put on for the entire club, as well as additional training and coaching sessions to work on tactics and technical abilities. At times the men's first team lacked availability and numbers this year. We struggled to field our best pairings for every match, forfeiting the defence of our title as reigning Division 1 Champions, in favour of pursuing Cuppers glory instead. We finished third in Division 1 in both Michaelmas Term and Lent Term. Knocking out some very tough opponents along the way, the Men’s First Team made it all the way to the Open Cuppers final. Unfortunately, for the second consecutive year, we narrowly lost 2–1 to a super-strong Clinical School, fielding a team of five University players. Still, we were very proud to finish the season as runners-up and end on a high.

The men’s second team began the year in Division 4. As was true of the first team, the second team frequently struggled to field the strongest pairings for many matches. Despite this, we retained our position in Division 4 during Michaelmas Term. We were less successful in Lent Term, winning only one of our six matches, which were often played against stiff competition. This does mean that we shall begin the 2014–15 academic year in Division 5. The team were not disheartened by this, however, continuing to play many close and enjoyable games with a friendly competitive spirit. The second team will be aiming for promotion during Michaelmas 2014, under the new Captaincy of first year Cyril Cutinha, who has encouraged and supported the Second Team unfailingly over the year, essentially acting as the team’s Vice-Captain. Girton Badminton Club ended the year with an outstanding win in the Mixed Cuppers competition: a first for the club. All in all we are satisfied with what we consider to be a very successful 2013–14. With well-attended practices and a strong cohort of 30 players, most of whom still have a few years left at Girton, we have great hopes for the future of the club. Vincent Poon, Men’s First Team Captain, and Andrew Williamson, Men’s Second Team Captain.

The Men’s First Team after finishing runners-up in Open Cuppers 2014 (from left to right): William Moss, Tom Newman, Xiangyu Hu, Ng Huey Yuen, Vincent Poon, Edward Kwok, Rajan Bhopal.

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Mixed Cuppers and Women’s Badminton With the loss of so many players at the end of last year, Girton Women’s Badminton Team’s future success was looking questionable. Nonetheless, over the first few weeks of Michaelmas Term we were able to develop a great team, with a good mix of girls from across the years.

At ladies training. From left to right: Maria Khan, Jenny Lowe, Emily Chadwick, Sarah James, Nilumi Withanage & Beth Goddard.

The winning team for Mixed Badminton Cuppers! From left to right: Beth Goddard, Xiangyu Hu, Rajan Bhopal, Alexandra English, Edward Kwok & Harriet

Unfortunately, Michaelmas wasn’t our best term, and we dropped from third place in division three to the fourth division over the 8 weeks, following only one win in a close game against Christ’s College. Despite this, there was a consistently strong turn-out for training sessions, and we were always working to improve our doubles game. We turned it all around in Lent Term: all the girls improved rapidly, and our sense of confidence and team spirit was continually on the rise. We played with prowess and flair, and the wins kept rolling in. Following only one loss across the 8 weeks, we find ourselves in a tie-breaker match against Trinity Hall for promotion back into the third league. This will take place at the beginning of Easter Term, so come on girls – let’s get back where we belong! The team played very well in Lent Term’s Ladies Cuppers, but being drawn against St Catharine’s strong, Blues-standard team meant we were

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knocked out of the tournament at the quarter-final stage. Well done to Alexandra English who this year played for the University team, representing Cambridge in BUCS games throughout the year and at the annual Varsity game, which was unfortunately won this year by Oxford. Lent Term was also a huge success for Mixed Cuppers, which Girton College managed to win, beating teams of a very high standard along the way. Let’s hope we retain the trophy for a few more years to come. I’d personally like to thank all the girls for their hard work and commitment, and for a really enjoyable year of badminton. I wish the team next year the best luck, and hope Maria Khan enjoys her position as captain as much as I have. Beth Goddard, Women’s Badminton Captain

Before our last Lent Term league game. From left to right: Beth Goddard, Sarah James, Rachel Gardner & Zoe Appleton.

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Boat Club Four men’s and three women’s boats competed in the May bumps of 2013: an impressive cohort. The men’s first boat built on the previous year’s results by bumping Magdalene M1 to move up one place. This took them to their highest position ever in May bumps, an indication that the boat is much closer to where it should be. After holding position in Lents last year and boosted by the return of two University rowers, W1 had a very strong crew with great potential. However, they struggled in the gusty head wind and unfortunately lost two places. Both M2 and W2 managed to bump and M3 held their position, whilst both of our Easter Term novice crews were less fortunate, losing two places apiece. We took great pleasure in welcoming back many alumni to support us on the Saturday of bumps at the Mays Marquee on Ditton Corner, as well as to the annual reunion boat club dinner. Michaelmas Term began promisingly, with a much improved novice intake compared to last year. With two complete novice boats for each side, this was vital to add much needed depth to the senior squads for Lent Term. Both the men’s and women’s novices competed in Emmanuel Sprints Regatta and Novice Fairbairns. They put in valiant performances despite some challenging

competition, equipment failures and harsh weather conditions. The senior crews were suffering from the loss of many experienced rowers after graduation. Despite this, good performances were produced by the M1, M2 and W1 VIIIs, and although they all finished down on last year’s results, the improvement made over the term was to set a strong base for Lent Term. The men’s side also entered a senior IV into Fairbairns who put in a solid performance and finished 8th overall.

Girton M1 celebrating their bump on Magdalene M1 in May Bumps 2013 (Photo courtesy of Kai Wohlfahrt).

The beginning of Lent Term saw a large proportion of the club return to Cambridge early for our training camp. Over the last two days of camp GCBC undertook a massive challenge: rowing for 24 hours on a single

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Concept 2 erg in an attempt to achieve a World Record. The Ergathon was a team effort to gain donations that would help GCBC with our day to day running costs, with anything left over being put towards buying a new men’s scull. The record was broken with 23 members of GCBC past and present, 2,401 quick change overs between participants and an average split per 500 metres of 1 minute 49 seconds. Thanks to the many kind GCBC supporters and one generous anonymous sponsor we raised around £7,500! Going on from this we will be supporting and fundraising for the local charity Jimmy’s Night Shelter, over the next two years. Further thanks must go to alumnus James Appleton for being on hand to capture some awesome photographs and for helping us out on the erg. Lent Term brought some very exciting action in bumps for the women’s first boat, which triumphantly returned to the first division. Overall, they went up three places, bumping Magdalene, Selwyn and Trinity Hall, suffering as sandwich boat for three days. M1 equally showed their strength and the

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improvements they had made over the term, but unfortunately they got bumped down one position by a blading crew from St Catharine’s College. This currently leaves M1 11th and W1 17th in the first divisions. And for the first time in history, both Girton first boats are in the first divisions for May and Lent bumps at the same time. M2 and W2 regrettably didn’t place in Lent bumps, despite strong performances in highly competitive Getting On Races for both crews. M1 were due to end the season competing in the Head of the River Race on the Tideway but owing to adverse weather conditions, the race was cancelled and they were unable to compete. Four Girtonians participated in the University boat races at Henley-onThames on 30 March. With Holly Game and Catherine Foot in the Blue

boat, Nicole Stephens in the reserve boat, Blondie, and Lottie Meggitt in the Lightweight boat, Annabel Butcher also decided to trial as a cox for CUWBC after coxing Girton’s women’s first boat for two consecutive years, and was the squad’s spare cox. Unfortunately none of the CUWBC boats won their races this year, but we’re looking forward to 2015, when the Newton Women’s Boat Race will be held over the Championship Course on the Thames alongside the men’s, and broadcast live on television. We also look forward to their return to rowing for Girton, to form a very strong women’s squad this Easter Term. As a club we have high hopes for the May bumps, building on the successes of Lents. The women are looking to gain back the places lost in a disappointing performance last time round, and we have a strong men’s crew hoping to build on their position in the first division. We would like to thank all those who have supported the club this year, and look to 201415 to be as much of a success as the past year.

Cross Country (mixed) Girton College Cross Country Club (GCCCC) has been revived this year, and is looking to make Girton a respected name in the college cross country league again. From the Freshers’ Fun Run at the beginning of Michaelmas Term, to the Selwyn Relays which round off Lent Term, Girton will need to bring a full complement of runners to see off the likes of Christ’s, Trinity, and Robinson, and show that ‘Girton thighs’ aren’t just for cycling! Whether you competed at school or for a club, or if you run for fitness, or for fun, you would be a welcome addition to the team. Like all colleges, we have strong connections with the Cambridge University Hare & Hounds, which provides regular structured sessions at every level. College league races are every few weeks in Michaelmas and Lent. Edmund Gazeley, Men’s Captain and Jade Harding, Women’s Captain

To keep up to date with GCBC, visit gcbc.girton.cam.ac.uk or ‘like’ our Facebook page and follow us on twitter @GirtonCollegeBC. Members of GCBC at the Michaelmas Term Boat Club Dinner 2013

Beverley Wilson, President

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Football – Men’s 1st Team Following a mid-table finish and remarkable Cuppers run last season, the team was eager to kick on to bigger and better things this campaign. With a strong contingent of freshers arriving in October, the omens looked good for a successful season - despite losing the traditionally chaotic derby against Fitzwilliam in a pre-season friendly. The league campaign began well, with a comfortable 3-0 win against Gonville and Caius II followed up by an impressive victory against Fitzwilliam. As the games came thick and fast, a large squad achieved a strength-in-depth and versatility that few other teams in Division 3 could match, resulting in back-to-back wins over Long Road and Homerton, putting Girton top of the league. An 0-2 loss to title rivals Clare in November temporarily put the brakes on, and the squad

Girton 1st XI 2013-14 (Green) with the Old Boys (Orange) in the annual reunion fixture, November 2013. The Old Boys overcame the young pretenders with a 4-0 victory in a good-natured and enjoyable game.

needed to lift itself once more for a titanic battle with Jesus I in the first competitive round of Cuppers. A nail-biting and at times controversial match would eventually finish 0-0 after normal time, with Jesus powering home to score three goals in extra time. Whilst it was disappointing to exit Cuppers at this early stage, it remained perhaps the team’s best performance of the season, against a strong Division 1 side who would eventually go on to win the entire competition. The quality and determination demonstrated against Jesus College would serve the squad well for the remainder of the league campaign. Consecutive wins against CCCC, a resilient Jesus II, and Churchill II would eventually secure promotion. Results elsewhere also meant that Girton were confirmed as Division 3 champions with a game to spare, and would re-join Division 2 after a two-year absence along with Clare College. Overall, 2013-14 must be seen as a hugely successful and promising year for Girton 1st XI, securing its first promotion in at least five years and building a strong squad core for next year. We look forward to what that brings, under the stewardship of new Captain Tom Day, Vice-Captain Yusuf Mushtaq and Social Secretary Ed Almond. Notable mentions must go to this year’s ‘Players of the Season’: Jack Rans and Shane Heffernan, for countless outstanding performances over the years in the green jersey. Thanks also should go to vicecaptain James Ballantyne and social secretary Ivan Savitsky for helping to organise, motivate, and lead the team this season. Ivan’s performances on the ‘long-shot, short-shot, header’ exercise have been particularly entertaining. Joe Pennell, Captain

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Women’s Hockey It’s fair to say that we’ve had a mixed season, with some great success but plenty of frustration. Throughout Michaelmas, we suffered repeatedly from the bane of College sports: the difficulties of gathering a team. The weekends when we had a team ready and raring to go, the opposition inevitably cancelled. Having struggled to get a team of 11 – including a goalkeeper! – together regularly, the decision was taken to combine forces with Homerton in what must be the longest distance relationship in Cambridge. This kicked off to a great start in the Lent Term, as we beat a combined Fitzwilliam/Trinity team 8–2. Despite this being the first time half of our players had met the other half, there was a great sense of teamwork and our passing easily outwitted the opposition; freshers Iona Tattersall and Amanda Brown were a great addition to the team. Sadly this victory was not repeated the following week, despite a strong performance; we lost to Selwyn in a close-fought contest. Once more, the lack of opposition came back to haunt us throughout the rest of the term. This did mean we continued to progress through the rounds of Cuppers till, somewhat to our surprise, we reached the semi-final without having played a qualifying round. There were no complaints from us, and after a warm-up league game against St Catharine’s second team, we were ready to face Christ’s on the last day of term. Several key team members had had to leave Cambridge early, but undaunted, we faced a confident opposition with only seven players and no goalkeeper. Our passing and shots on target were superb, especially from Finnoula Taylor and Louise Whiteley, and somehow

we managed to pull through with a 4–1 victory to take us to the final. The final was against an extremely strong St Catharine’s team, including nine University players. We played individually very well, particularly the stalwart defence of Emily Guest, yet it was here that our lack of match time came back to haunt us. Despite a great goal late in the second half by Natasha Charlesworth, the match ended with a bit of a cricket score. It would have been even worse had Julia Stanyard not stepped in at the last minute to play goalie for only the second time ever. Nevertheless, we hope we will be able to build on this result next year and perhaps go one better! Catherine Bevin, Captain

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Rugby Girton Rugby has been remarkable for its spirited performances over the past few seasons, but not always for its emphatic victories, or New Zealandesque team tries. However, the 2013-14 season has combined all three, and a level of skill has been demonstrated which many have argued has not been seen since the heyday of the mid-noughties. Despite squad-size discrepancies, providing only two new fresher players this year, the team cemented a commendable mid-table position by Christmas, including 50-plus point victories over the titans of Sidney Sussex and Magdalene. From January until the end of the league season Girton secured maximum points, and surged back to finish 2nd, a point behind Christ’s, whom we had beaten in a gruelling encounter a few weeks earlier. Controversially, as in the English Premiership, the top four teams then compete for play-off promotion, rather than reaping the rewards of the consistency which comes with a top-two league finish. During a boggy, squalid Thursday afternoon match in early February we were narrowly beaten by Emmanuel, thus missing out on promotion from the play-offs for the second season running. The Cuppers competition which followed was equally heart-wrenching, resulting in a five-point loss to Fitzwilliam in the Plate Final at the University ground on Grange Road. Our journey there witnessed three comprehensive annihilations: against the hatchet-job squad of Jesus IIs, and against the heffalumps of St Edmund’s and 1st Division Pembroke. Our two defeats of the competition came at the hands of Gonville and Caius (eventual finalists vs. St John’s) and Fitzwilliam (Plate winners). For a team whose average training turnout just about squeezed into single figures, the quality of rugby performed throughout the season was outstanding. Though the success of the season

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was testament to the collective efforts of the squad, it must be noted that Alexander Chong-Kwan, Jonty Richardson and Jack Bews in particular demonstrated exceptional skill and commitment to the much-weathered jerseys of the Girton rugby team. The 2013-14 season also saw the launching of women’s rugby at Girton for the first time. Owing to the infancy of the team, female players from Girton merged with others from neighbouring colleges (if Fitzwilliam and Murray Edwards can be considered neighbours). With the summer term approaching, mixed tag rugby will be taking place across the University. As many that took part last year would agree, these tournaments are a great chance for the men and women of Girton to play competitively together and demonstrate the progress both have made within the sport this year. Gideon Levitt, Captain

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Calendar of Events (all events take place in the College, unless otherwise stated) 2014 Alumni Sports Matches

Saturday 29 November

2015 Lent Term Young Alumni and MCR Networking Event, London Wednesday 21 January Mountford Humanities and Arts Communication Prize Friday 23 January Alumni Music and Choir Event Sunday 8 February Hammond Science Communication Prize Wednesday 26 February Alumni Formal Hall Thursday 21 February Law and Finance Event â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Slaughter and May, London Wednesday 4 March MA Dinner Friday 27 March MA Congregation Saturday 28 March Easter Term Girton Gardens Walk Jane Martin Poetry Prize Alumni Formal Hall May Bumps Marquee

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Friday 1 May Thursday 7 May Thursday 21 May Saturday 13 June

Alumni vs Students Cricket Match May Week Concert

Sunday 14 June Tuesday 16 June

Long Vacation Alumni Reunion Dinner Saturday 19 September Matriculation year 2005 Annual Library Lecture Saturday 26 September Annual Lawrence Room Lecture Saturday 26 September Peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Portraits Reception Saturday 26 September Roll of Alumni Dinner Saturday 26 September Open to all alumni (with reunion tables for matriculation years 1955, 1965 and 1975) Annual Gardens Talk Sunday 27 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 01223 338901.

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Local Associations Cambridge Local Girton Association It has been a good year for the Cambridge Local Girton Association – with increased membership, successful events and the creation of our own website. •

David Jones, author of ‘Hideous Cambridge, a city mutilated’, spoke to a bumper audience about the new buildings in Cambridge and their impact on the city.

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A group of the CLGA went to see an excellent production of Blue Stockings, by Jessica Swale, at the ADC theatre. The play, set in Girton in 1896, reminded us of the bitter opposition to the campaign for degrees for women.

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Selwyn Image, founder and Vice-President of Emmaus UK, gave a talk tracing the development of the society in the UK and its work.

Email: clga@girton.cam.ac.uk Website: www.sites.google.com/site/cambridgelga London Girton Association • 100 Girtonians, including the Mistress, attended a performance of Blue Stockings at the Globe. •

Girton Librarian, Frances Gandy, gave a talk titled ‘Disreputable associations of old women and fighting harridans: suffrage and antisuffrage at Girton 1905 – 1916’.

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Professor Peter Abrahams, Life Fellow of Girton, gave a lecture at the Wellcome Trust entitled ‘Leonardo da Vinci, the 15th century anatomist whose ideas and concepts predicted 21st century radiology’.

LGA Member, Aileen McLeish (1976) and Blue Stockings writer Jessica Swale chat to the LGA ahead of a performance at the Globe Theatre.

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Visits took place to Benjamin Franklin's house, Westminster Abbey and to Pitzhanger Manor House in Ealing.

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We have been working closely with the MCR on the pilot bed and breakfast scheme for students (see page 67) who have an early morning interview in London and are delighted to have hosted our first guest.

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MACUW Association • The association has continued with its tradition of 3 meetings a year including an Autumn Buffet Lunch preceded by the AGM and a talk this year by our chairman, Joanna Baulreay (Newnham). Her talk this year was entitled ‘How long does it take to create a new jet fuel?’ •

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Oxford Region Girtonians • The winter AGM was followed by a talk on ‘Whatever happened to our institutions’ by Revd Canon Angela Tilby (1969). •

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Email: Dr Helen Wright (Newnham) (1962): h.e.wright@btinternet.com The New York Girton Association The New York Girton Association was started in 2013. Anyone living or working in or around New York City is welcome to join - please contact newyorkga@girton.cam.ac.uk. Our events are also posted on the Cambridge in America website calendar. Further details of our events will be included in future newsletters and on the Girton website.

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Dr Avi Raz from the Faculty of Oriental Studies at Oxford University spoke at the Spring meeting on ‘A historian revisits his own past: the Arab-Israel conflict in the aftermath of the 1967 War’. We also continue our tradition of gathering for food and conversation, with our preChristmas lunch held at the White Hart in Wytham. This summer we will be visiting West Wycombe Park, with lunch at the George & Dragon beforehand.

Wales and West Girtonians Association • Lunches in members’ houses followed by talks: by Elizabeth Baker on the Second and Third Marquesses of Bute, and by Dr Mary Tiffen on her family’s life in nineteenth-century China and their connection with Sir Robert Hart. •

Visit to Hereford Cathedral, including the Mappa Mundi and Chained Library exhibition and the gardens of the Cathedral and Bishop’s Palace.

Email: Barbara Hird: wwga@girton.cam.ac.uk Website: www.girton.cam.ac.uk/wwga

A six-monthly newsletter sharing news of ORG activities and events at Girton is sent out and can also be found on our website: www. oxfordregiongirtonians.org.uk.

Email: org@girton.cam.ac.uk

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Births Beckham. On 20 October 2013 to Verena (Achenbach 2001) and Peter (2001), a son, Conrad Theodore. Bottome. On 14 May 2013 to Phillip (1991) and Jianke, a son, Edwin James. Bradnum. On 14 January 2014 to Suzanne E (Degge 2000) and David J (2000), a daughter, Jessica Beatrice.

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Isla Mary Coles

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Coles. On 29 January 2013 to Ruth (Potts 1999) and Simon (1996), a daughter, Isla Mary. Edward-Jenks. On 13 January 2013, to Sophie (Catling 1999) and Stuart, a boy, Oscar Arlo. Francis. On 10 September 2013 to Helen (1998) and Robin, a daughter, Zoë Marie, a sister to Heidi. Herding – Gerleigner. On 31 August 2013 to Maruta (2007) and Georg (2007), a daughter, Miriam. Mohaddes. On 21 January 2014 to Kamiar (Fellow 2008) and Evaleila, a son, Babak Henry, a brother for Kasra. Morris – Gilmour. On 16 June 2013 to Anna Gilmour (1998) and Simon Morris, a daughter, Anwen Catharine. Smith. On 27 February 2013 to Caroline (Thomas 1998) and Elliot (1998), a son, Edward Robin.

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Marriages Below – Gosling. On 8 September 2012, Katie L Below (2005) to Mark Gosling (2005). Baljekar – Trees. On 14 March 2009, Maneesha Baljekar (2000) to Hans Trees (2001). Belcham – Saunders. On 9 October 2013, Claire Belcham (staff) to Adam Saunders. Claass – Magezi. In February 2014, Joana Claass (1999) to David Magezi (1999). Charles Aneurin Smith

Cragg – Hopkins. On 22 June 2013, Jennifer Cragg (2008) to Nicholas Hopkins (2008).

Jennifer Cragg and Nicholas Hopkins

Kim Judge and Stephen Caldwell

Kian and Aisha Wardill-Sirdar

Jessop – Austin. On 6 April 2013, Luke Jessop (2008) to Elizabeth Jane Austin. Smith. On 30 September 2013, to Joe (2000) and Emma, a son, Charles Aneurin, a brother for Thomas William.

Joynson – Cole. On 1 September 2012, Vicky Joynson (1986) to Alan Cole. Judge – Caldwell. On 11 May 2013, Kim Judge (2007) to Stephen Caldwell.

Walters. On 23 February 2014 to Sarah (March 2002) and Dewi, a son, Joseph Nicholas, a brother for Annabel Rose. Wardill – Sirdar. On 15 January 2013 to Sam Wardill (1992) and Shameela Sirdar, twins, Kian and Aisha, a brother and sister for Leila (born on 5 September 2009). Vicky Joynson and Alan Cole

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Kerridge – Wright. On 26 June 2013, Catherine Mary Kerridge (1975) to Andrew Wright. Owen – Esquivel. In September 2013, Daniel Owen (1985) to Lisa Esquivel. Stradling – Taylor. On 25 May 2013, Helen Stradling (1998) to Philip Taylor.

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Ward – Kokkinos. In September 2011, Grace Ward (2009) to Ares Kokkinos. West – Harris. On 10 May 2014, Angharad Louise West (2008) to Robert Harris (2008). Wilson – Stark. On 19 April 2013, Shona Wilson (2011) to Findlay Stark.

Shona Wilson and Findlay Stark

Angharad West and Robert Harris

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Deaths ALCHIN. On 17 January 2014, Juliet Alers (Hankey) BA (1950 Modern and Medieval Languages; 1951 Economics). Juliet initially came to Girton to read French and Spanish but changed to Economics after a year, gaining a degree in that subject. She particularly loved the many opportunities to get involved in making music; she enjoyed madrigal singing, and a number of lifelong friendships developed from her choral groups. After a brief spell in market research she became a primary school teacher for a number of years. For the last ten years of her career, she worked with blind people on behalf of Social Services. Her family and friends, many interests and involvement in various causes were more important to her than her work. She loved travelling with her husband, Peter Alchin, with whom she shared a 56 year marriage, and with whom she had three children. She was a keen painter, sang in several choirs, and loved gardening and reading. She was a tireless member of committees, including the Kent Association for the Blind and the mental health charity Rethink. She helped to set up and support a local halfway house for people with mental health problems to live in the community. Juliet was a determined, kind, sociable person, loyal and positive in outlook, who believed in getting the most out of life.

ALLWRIGHT. On 13 February 2014, Marjorie Ruth (Rudkin) BA (1942 Mathematics). Marjorie was born in Leicester and awarded a state scholarship to study Maths at Girton, where she made many lasting friendships. Looking back at her wartime experience at Girton, she recalled ‘the blue paint on the corridor windows during the war, celebrations for VE Day in May 1945, and a senior College tutor who cycled along the corridor'. She stayed in Cambridge to take her Certificate in Education at Hughes Hall; the Principal’s reference read: ‘Miss Rudkin is a promising teacher; she has a high standard of work herself, and is anxious that her own interest and enthusiasm for mathematics is communicated to the girls she teaches. She prepares her lessons thoroughly and spares no trouble in thinking out interesting methods of approach. Her delivery is clear and her explanations varied and logical, whilst she is alive to the difficulties which occur to the children. Her manner is friendly and natural, and a sense of humour contributes to her teaching so she should have little difficulty with discipline.’ Marjorie’s own education, personality and gifts equipped her to become a supremely talented teacher. Marjorie taught at the King’s High School, Warwick, and the Carlisle Girls’ Grammar School. After marriage and family she returned to teach primaryaged children until her retirement. She is remembered with much love by her family and all who knew her.

Juliet Alchin

Marjorie Allwright

Edited notice by her daughter, Chloe Aldridge Edited notice by her daughter, Ruth Grant

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AXTON. On 30 January 2014, Marie (Horine) MA, PhD (1959 English; 1961 Research Student; 1963 Bye-Fellow). Obituary p. 112 BARTON. On 11 November 2013, Barbara Anne (Roesen) PhD (1954 English; 1960-62 Rosalind Lady Carlisle Research Fellow; 1962-1972 Official Fellow). Obituary p. 113 BAXTER. On 17 April 2014, Ann Katharine (Pretty) BA (1947 History). Ann came to Girton from Glover School, Newton Abbot, on a scholarship to study History. After graduating, she started a PhD on the early history of Fountains Abbey but abandoned it to marry Ralph Lambert Baxter (Trinity). She had three children. Her daughter Caroline followed her mother to Girton and is married to the editor Charles Moore.

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BUCKLEY. On 10 May 2014, Ruth Margaret (Williams) MA (1948 English). Ruth arrived at Girton to read English and it was at the College that she both won a hockey Blue and developed her lifelong interest in the seventeenth century mystics. She recalled the highlights of her time in Cambridge as including Archbishop Ramsey’s open theological lectures, attending the St Matthew Passion and Saturday organ recitals at King’s. She went on to study for a PGCE at Hughes Hall where her room overlooked Fenners, fostering an interest in cricket and cricketers which she passed on to her children. In 1952 she married the Revd Ernest Fairbank Buckley (1942 Jesus) and became, as she called herself, ‘an old-fashioned vicar’s wife’.

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Whilst bringing up four children, she also managed the busy parish work of women’s groups, Sunday schools, playgroups and parish occasions in Rochdale, Oldham, South Manchester and Clun successively. Moving into a Grade II listed Queen Anne vicarage at Clun, Shropshire, ‘the most beautiful unspoilt part of the country’, she took on the challenge of a spectacular but overgrown garden, digging up every inch of a 90 foot herbaceous border, which gave her scope for her love of hardy annuals. The vicarage bonfires became a marvel of the town. The garden was featured in The English Vicarage Garden (Michael Joseph, 1988). At Christmas 1980 she sent out the first of the annual ‘Buckley Bulletins’, an update of family life, to her many friends. With three parishes to serve and five churches to look after, there was a constant round of services, harvest festivals, fêtes and bazaars – everything occurring five times over! After retirement to Clunton she revived a childhood interest in pen and watercolour painting, and her flower paintings found a place in many homes in the Clun valley. Edited notice from husband, Ernest Buckley CAIN. On 24 May 2013, Helen Mary (Russ) Mus B (1940 Music). Helen was born in Salisbury in 1921 and attended Godolphin School. She came to Girton to read music and threw herself wholeheartedly into both the musical and social life of the University, very much enjoying her wartime years at Cambridge. She developed a lifelong passion for twentieth

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century English music and also country dance music, which was later to take her to work at Cecil Sharp House, the home of the English Folk Dance Society. In 1943 she moved to London to the Royal School of Music to train as a teacher, studying composition with Herbert Howells. Once she had qualified, she began teaching at Shrewsbury High School for Girls. In 1946 Helen married John Cain (Downing), a school friend of her brother. After he left the army in 1946 they moved to Shrewsbury where John taught at the Priory School. In 1956 they moved to Benson, Oxfordshire, when he was appointed Headmaster of Wallingford Grammar School. Helen did some teaching at the school and also conducted the local choral society, the church choir and led the Abingdon orchestra. She raised a daughter, Mary, who followed her to Girton, and a son, Charles (St Catharineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s). She was much involved in community life and instrumental in the creation of an over sixties day centre in Benson. After John retired, they moved to Cumbria, and she remained there after his death in 1990. Again, she founded and conducted a choir, led an orchestra (until last year), played string quartets and was also involved in the provision of a day centre at the local Abbeyfield house and local lunch club. Edited notice from her daughter, Mary A L Saunders. CASSON. On 15 May 2013, Rhona Herriet Strelsa (Pearey) MA (1947 Geography). Rhona attended Christâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Hospital, where she eventually became Head Girl. As a geography

student her years in Cambridge were happy and academically successful. She took up rowing and earned a half Blue. During the first long vacation Rhona worked on a farm in northern Iceland. The experience confirmed her enduring love of the vary far North and gave her the ambition to farm. But before that ambition was realised she spent some years in the Civil Service, starting as manager of the Labour Exchange in Ashington, Northumberland. When Rhona married George Casson they bought a farm in Dumfriesshire and a pedigree herd of Galloway cattle. They were complete novices and it took them some years to gain the experience to farm successfully; indeed Rhona eventually became a show judge of Galloways. It was during this early period that Rhona and George suffered the loss of two newborn babies. The Cassons established a trade in Galloways with farmers in north Germany where the cattle were appreciated for their hardiness, but this profitable business was undermined by the emergence of CJD in UK herds. When George died unexpectedly Rhona continued farming on her own. Some years later she visited Antarctica, confirming her love of high latitudes. In her late seventies, Rhona was diagnosed with cancer but she lived the rest of her life with great fortitude. She had a strong and adventurous personality and her friends felt it was a privilege to have known her. Notice by her friend, Mary Conn (Sumner 1947)

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CLARK. On 3 July 2013, Gladys Maud (White) MA (1928 Classics; 1930 Archaeology and Anthropology). Gladys, known as Mollie, came to Girton from Blackheath High School to read Classics, and stayed in Cambridge to take a Diploma in Anthropology and Archaeology. She joined the staff of the Royal Commission on Ancient Monuments for Wales and Monmouthshire in 1933 and was also Hon. Curator of Chichester and District Museum. During the 1930s she assisted in numerous excavations – an amphitheatre in Chichester, a timber circle, Arminghall, Norfolk, Giants’ Long Barrow, Spilsby, pit-dwellings in Farnham, and at Sutton Hoo, Suffolk. She contributed to The Antiquaries Journal, Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, Sussex Notes and Queries and Sussex Archaeological Society’s Collections. She was married to John Grahame Douglas Clark, Disney Professor of Archaeology and Master of Peterhouse, and had three children, Margaret, William and Philip. She died at the age of 104 in a Cambridge nursing home.

After graduation she remained in Cambridge to gain her PGCE. As one of the few people who could drive, she was much in demand as one who could use the College car to take her contemporaries to the more remote schools for their teaching practice! Claudia’s first position after Girton was at Malvern Girls’ College where she taught Physics. It was here that she first developed an interest in campanology, an interest she was to share with her husband Bill. Claudia and Bill retired to Cornwall where they had sought a house for some years. They found one with a large garden that was also near a church. Both were keen gardeners and devout Anglicans. Claudia embraced Cornish life wholeheartedly; she was interested in its history and she attended language lessons. Edited notice from her friend Marjorie Hulme (1941)

CRITCHLEY. On 1 July 2013, Claudia Alice (Harding) MA (1942 Natural Sciences). Claudia was the only child of Cornish parents but she was raised in rural Norfolk where her mother had become a highly respected village schoolmistress. They lived in a house adjacent to the school which, though charming, lacked running water, gas or electricity. Claudia indulged her love of rowing to the full at Girton, but was also musical and never missed an opportunity to go to a good concert. Her friends remember her as always being positive, determined and adventurous.

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DEFRISE-CARTER. On 22 July 2012, Lucette Jeanne-Augusta (1970-74 Research Fellow Mathematics). Obituary p. 115 DEYES. On 16 November 2013, Margaret Mackenzie MA (1948 Classics). Margaret began her study of classical Greek at Merchant Taylors’ School, Crosby, and took an active part in singing, acting and debates. She came to Girton to read Classics and was awarded a First and the Hilda Richardson Prize. Her Civil Service career took her from the Ministry of Pensions and National Service, to the Central Office of Information, and finally to the Treasury where she was Press Officer. On retirement she served on Social Security tribunals and became an active member of the Labour Party. It was retirement that gave her the opportunity to resume her interest in Greek culture. The most important work she undertook, which continued until shortly before her death, was with the Diaspora Centre Trust where she was Trustee, Treasurer and Publications Officer. The trust is a charity that works to promote the study of the trials and achievements of diaspora Greeks all over the world. For many years, both before and after retirement, Margaret taught adults at classes organised by the Workers’ Educational Association. She introduced her students to many aspects of ancient Greek culture, sharing with them her love of literature, philosophy and the arts. From 2003 she made an increasing contribution to the work and activities of the community venture, Theatre of Mankind, participating in workshops on creative writing and performance.

Throughout her life music was important – she sang with the London Orpheus Choir where, as its longest serving member, she was known as ‘mother of the Choir’. When her job took her to the Treasury, she joined the Treasury Singers and continued singing with them into retirement. Margaret was a member of the Campaign for Better Transport and the London Group, highlighting the problems faced by disabled people accessing transport. Her family was always important to her and she enjoyed the company of her nephew and of her niece and her children.

Margaret Deyes

Margaret is much missed for her conscientiousness, her commitment to high standards and to good causes, her light-hearted poetry reading, her dry wit and sense of fun. Edited notice by her friend, Margherita Rendel (1948) DOBSON. On 9 March 2014, Kevin Michael MA (1983 Natural Sciences). During his time at Cambridge Kevin was Vice Captain of Girton Boat Club winning his oars twice, and Captain of the University Darts Team. He met his wife Judith (Harrison) in their first term at Girton. On graduating in Natural Sciences Kevin joined Arthur Andersen in London and trained as a chartered accountant. He spent most of his career in industry in senior positions in finance. Kevin and Judith lived in London, Leeds and North Wales, settling in Nottingham 13 years ago with their four children, Katy, Lizzie, Tom and Eleanor.

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Kevin had very happy memories of their time at Girton and revisited often, attending reunion dinners including that held in September last year. Notice by his wife, Judith Dobson (Harrison 1983) DOUBLE. On 5 March 2014, Margaret Coupe (Robinson) BA (1950 English). Margaret looked back on her time at Girton with great affection. She was President of the English Club and a member of the College Hockey Team, and enjoyed tennis and singing. Having trained at Hughes Hall, she was a teacher of English for many years before becoming a Lecturer in Communications at Lincoln College of Technology. Margaret worked for the adult literacy scheme at Lincoln, and was active as a school governor and church warden. She was mother to four children. She died peacefully after several years of living with dementia. Notice by her daughter, Alison Double.

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EVANS. On 19 May 2013, Geraint MPhil PhD (1996 Spanish Literature). Geraint began learning Spanish at the age of 28 when a Sevillanas dance class introduced him to a new world of Spanish culture. After a year learning the language, he set out to live for a year in Granada, before returning to London where he attended evening classes at Birkbeck College studying for a BA in Hispanic Studies. He came to Girton in 1996, taking an MPhil in European Literature and then a PhD on the work of the seventeenth century playwright Pedro Calderón de la Barca. In 2004 he became a lecturer at the University of Nottingham where he taught sixteenth and seventeenth century culture, and in 2008 he

moved to the University of Nottingham, China, where he was a Spanish lecturer and tutor. His research focused on issues of the body, sexuality and religion in early modern Spanish culture, on intercultural exchange between Spain and China, and on representations of gender in Chinese cinema. He received the Cambridge University Gibson Spanish Scholarship, Girton College Graduate Scholarship and the British Academy Research Studentship. GALBRAITH. In 2013 Joan Mary (Parkinson) MA (1943 Geography). The daughter of a farmer and a teacher, Joan attended Park School, Preston. She came to Girton to study Geography and was awarded the Carlisle Major Scholarship and the Barrington Prize. Her long teaching career took her from Assistant Lecturer, University of Manchester 1946 48, to St Teresa’s Convent, Dorking, where she became Deputy Headmistress. She married Leslie Galbraith (Fitzwilliam 1947) in Cambridge and had two sons, Ian (St John's 1967) and Keith. GAUKROGER. On 16 October 2013, Susan Mary (Mrs Tatton) MA (1962 English; 1964 History). Susan was born in Halifax, the youngest of four children. In going to Cambridge she followed in the footsteps of brothers John (1951) and Roger (1945) and her mother Winifred Trenholme (1918, Girton). Susan and her mother participated in Girton’s ‘University and Life Experience Project’ together in the late 1990s (and were one of only two pairs of mother-daughter participants) After teacher training, Susan first taught in adult education and secondary schools, but then became focused on community work, becoming a local

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councillor and later becoming involved in local history and the arts. She settled with two small children in 1983 in rural Staffordshire, founding several projects that were later acknowledged when she received the Alan Hurst lifetime achievement award for community work in 2009.

She lovingly nursed her husband Bill for several years until he passed away in 1996. Joan was active in the Beaconsfield seniors’ community, playing bridge and coaching blind bowlers. She held executive positions with Beaconsfield Lawn Bowling Club and the Historical Society.

Her love of local history, and her interest in listening to and transcribing people’s memories led to various good causes set up in the Peak District such as Borderland Voices and History Live. In 1993 Sue gained an MA with Distinction in Local History, Literature and Cultural Tradition from Sheffield University.

Joan enjoyed peaceful summers at her country cottage with her family, who included her sons Graham, Bruce and David, and granddaughter Amanda. She was widely travelled, and enjoyed numerous road trips in North America and many visits to England and Cambridge for garden tours and Elderhostel.

She is survived by her two children, Anna and Joseph Tatton, who have set up a fund in Susan’s memory - Wellsprings Healing Arts Fund (www.wellspringsfund.org.uk). Donations have raised more than £2,000 for the local causes set up by Susan. Proceeds are being divided between the arts for health organisations in which she was involved and local mental health charities.

Notice by her son, Bruce Glen.

Notice by her son, Joe Tatton. GLEN. On 17 November 2013, Doreen Ida Joan (Greenwood) MA (1943 Geography). Joan left Rugeley, Staffordshire, to study at Girton, where she enjoyed netball and rowing, as well as her academic pursuits. She emmigrated to Canada in 1948 where she became active with the Canadian Youth Hostel Association and met Bill Glen, whom she married in 1952. She took a second Master’s degree in Economics from MacDonald College (McGill) in 1963, and taught Geography at Dawson College, Montreal, from 1973 to 1995.

GRAY. On 21 May 2013, Janet Mary (Wilson) BA (1949 Geography). Janet came to Girton as a state scholar from Dame Alice Harpur School, Bedford, where she had been Head Girl. Always sensitive to her surroundings and being especially alert to the interests and needs of people around her, Janet settled quickly to her studies. She took a full part in the social life of Girton, and played hockey for the College. The seven Girton geographers of her year became close friends - it was a happy, durable set of friendships. Janet greatly enjoyed the powerful influence (and, it seems, the friendship, esteem and personal trust) of Margaret Anderson, the Director of Studies for geographers. Jan often spoke of her with admiration, gratitude and affection. Their last correspondence dates from three weeks before Margaret died.

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Margaret Anderson unfortunately became ill during Janet's second year, so Augustus (‘Gus’) Caesar of St Catharine's College took her place as Director of Studies. His warm personality and breadth of scholarship meant that he became greatly respected and appreciated by Janet and her friends.

Anthropology for the final years of the Tripos. She may not have been the most diligent student while at Girton – she enjoyed her year as the Cambridge Rag Queen of 1969 rather too much – but her connection with the College was always very important to her.

Then Janet, too, became ill, and struggled unsuccessfully to achieve the First to which she aspired. After some months in bed at home, and more time during the summer of 1953 in a Swiss sanatorium, Janet studied for a PGCE at Bristol in 1953. She married in 1954.

Susan worked variously as a fashion model, a research assistant to Philip Noel-Baker (the Nobel Peace Prize winner), and a film scriptwriter, and also became a devoted mother. She qualified as a solicitor in 1983, being employed first at Max Barford & Co in Tunbridge Wells and later as an Assistant Registrar at HM Land Registry, where she had responsibility for the registration of the Channel Tunnel project. During this period she was also a part-time Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Greenwich, founded the Kent and East Sussex Girtonians’ Association, served as a secondary school governor, and was an active member of the Fawcett Society.

With her health worries now in the past, she turned first to classroom teaching, then to educational work for the Marriage Guidance Council. Soon she started counselling, which she found immensely fulfilling. Eventually she specialised in the training and supervising of MGC counsellors. She also taught at Bootham School, York, where her husband was Headmaster. Retiring with her husband first to Cumbria, then to Somerset, she remained active wherever she lived, and became a member of The Society of Friends (Quakers). She died unexpectedly, and without pain. Janet never lost her facility for creating friendships, nor did she lose that enjoyment of the natural world which had been nurtured by Margaret Anderson. Notice by her husband, John H Gray.

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GRAY. On 9 April 2014, Susan (Francis) MA (1968 Natural Sciences; 1970 Archaeology and Anthropology). Susan came up to Girton in 1968 to read Natural Sciences, changing to Archaeology and

Susan was married to Kevin Gray (Trinity Hall 1969) and co-authored with him a total of ten editions of two textbooks on land law, together with a number of other publications. Many friends, colleagues and students will have lasting memories of the Dean’s Party that Susan and Kevin hosted each June in golden sunshine on the Bowling Green in Trinity College. She died peacefully in Cambridge having fought a courageous battle against cancer. Her elegance, charm and keen intelligence are greatly missed by all who knew her. Notice by her husband, Kevin Gray.

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GREY. On 26 November 2013, Eleanor (White, Mrs Hodgkiss) MA (1956 History). Six weeks before her death Eleanor, already grievously ill, made a supreme effort of will to attend the 50th anniversary conference of the Robbins Committee on Higher Education. She had loved working with the Committee in the 1960s and was proud it had established the principle that ‘university places should be available for all who are qualified by ability and attainment'. Eleanor was a striking figure: tall, elegant, with one blue eye and one green. She lived her life with strict adherence to her principles and a strong sense of right and wrong. Marriage to Sandy Grey and the birth of three children interrupted her career, but she returned to dedicate her life to public service. She carried out research for institutions such as the National Children’s Bureau and the Department of Health, and became involved in local schools as a governor and volunteer. She spent the last few years, to within two weeks of her death, working with NICE on issues such as the ethics of health care. She was a quiet, private person but was always there to talk over a problem or listen when someone needed help. She married Tom Hodgkiss when he was in hospital, shortly before he died. Her children and eight grandchildren were immensely important to her and she to them. All who knew her admired and loved her for her determination and achievements. Edited from the notice by her friend, Fiona Clark (Mill 1956).

HIRST. On 23 February 2012, Rebecca Elizabeth MA (1975 Medical Sciences (pre-clinical); 1977 Natural Sciences). After studying at Girton Rebecca worked for Burton Hospitals NHS Trust as an anaesthetist and loved to travel. HOPKIN. Doris Evelyn (Whitaker) BA (1940 Modern and Medieval Languages). Born in Canmore, Alberta, Doris was a vicar’s daughter. She was educated at École Decroly, Bruxelles, Lycée de Jeune Filles, St Germain-en-Laye, France, and at St Brandon’s, Bristol. She came to Girton as a scholar to read French and Italian. In later years she recalled happy memories of her time in Cambridge, especially cycle rides, trips to Grantchester and attending lectures on the history of art. From 1943–46 she worked for the WRNS; after the war she worked for a merchant bankers’ information room as a linguist. She was married to Sir David Hopkin, magistrate and boxing administrator, and raised four children. She loved travelling, the opera, theatre and ballet. HUGHES. On 28 May 2013, Diana (Watson) MA (1963 Natural Sciences). Diana had a varied career after her time at Girton, which included primary school teaching and working in information technology. It was in studying the latter that she met her beloved husband, Richard. Through Richard she became a keen amateur radio ham, making many friends abroad, and set up the Yorkshire Ladies’ Amateur Radio Society. All this was given up after Richard’s sudden and untimely death, which devastated her. Health problems prompted her early retirement from work and a greater spiritual awareness. After

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Richard’s death, Diana began training and teaching others as a healer. Diana loved spiritual music. She had a good soprano voice and enjoyed singing in church concerts and at parties, where she included comic songs and dressed up for the parts.

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Diana was an accomplished artist, producing watercolours of flowers and still life, and she was also a prolific photographer. In her later years Diana met her partner and soul-mate Trevor and together they enjoyed church activities, singing and visiting local gardens. As she became less mobile she enjoyed their own garden and loved to watch the birds, hedgehogs and foxes. Trevor was her constant source of support and her carer to the end. Notice by friend, Pam Cooper (Lilley 1963) and partner, Trevor Griffiths. JACKSON. On 14 December 2012, Marion Bessie (Stocks) MA (1941 Modern and Medieval Languages). Marion looked back at her years at Girton as enormously happy and fulfilling. She came to study French and German with the Turle Minor Scholarship and was awarded the Barrington Prize, a third-year major scholarship and the ME Ponsonby Prize. She loved singing and joined both the Chapel choir and CUMS. She was also involved in various religious bodies including the Methodist Society and the Student Christian Movement. A dedicated teacher of French, she worked for many years at the Girls’ Day School Trust. She took great pleasure and pride in the musical abilities of her two children, Stephen (Clare 1970) and Frances (Clare 1975), both of whom held choral exhibitions at Cambridge.

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JOHNSON. On 31 March 2014, Vivienne (Howell) MA (1942 Mathematics). Vivienne’s studies at Girton were interrupted by her war work as air mechanic (electrician) in the WRNS from 1943-¬46; but she came back to college for her final two years. She had grown up in London, and returned there to teach mathematics at Notting Hill and Ealing High School. She was Head of Mathematics and Deputy Head Mistress at Norwich High School where she taught for nearly 30 years. In retirement she came to several Girton garden parties and was honoured to take part in the fiftieth anniversary of the admission of women to full membership of the University, ‘such an important event in the history of women’s education’, she wrote. She married Group Captain Bernard Johnson in 1970. KLEMPERER. On 21 December 2013, Ruth Mary Mabarik (Jordan) MA (1944 Natural Sciences). Ruth was born in London in 1926, and attended Surbiton High, Wycombe Abbey and St. Leonard’s schools, before studying Medicine at Girton. She then switched to Microbiology and spent six years at Oxford as a doctoral student, then a Departmental Demonstrator (Junior Lecturer). She married biochemist Hugh Klemperer in 1955 and, after a 15-year career gap raising a family, she worked for over 20 years in Aston University's pharmacy department as a Lecturer, later Senior Lecturer and Senior Tutor. Ruth’s work focused especially on establishing adequate services and provisions for students, and at the end of her career she set up Aston

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University’s service for overseas students, and taught at the University of Dar es Salaam. She enjoyed telling how a Tanzanian student told her his greatest educational challenge had been the crocodiles in the river he crossed daily. While at Girton, Ruth sang in a madrigal choir and played the violin in CUMS orchestra. She played in and organised many choirs, quartets and orchestras throughout her life, and met her husband when they played together in an Oxford orchestra. Their three children all went to Cambridge University, her daughter to Girton. Ruth’s sister Helen and niece Celia Miller (Pond) are also Girtonians; remarkably, all four women were tutored by Alison Duke! The family connection with Girton was recognised by Ruth and Helen’s gift to the College of the portrait of a Spanish Gipsy by Sir Gerald Kelly PRA, a friend of their father; the picture was hung in the Fellows' Drawing Room and is still on display there today. Notice by her son, Paul Klemperer. LAWTON. On 27 June 2013, Dorothy Emily (Bowes) MA (1945 Natural Sciences). The daughter of a Lancashire farmer, Dorothy particularly loved to walk in the grounds of Girton. From Ulverston Grammar School, she came to study on a Higgens minor scholarship and was Secretary of the University Chemical Society. After a brief spell as a research chemist, she began her school teaching career. She was mother of five children. She was Chairman of the Young Farmers Club, President of Seascale WI and was a Friend of Girton gardens. She attended the Senate House fiftieth anniversary of the admission of women ceremony.

LEES-JONES. On 18 January 2014, Diana Margaret (Nayler) MA (1954 Classics; 1956 Archaeology and Anthropology). Di came up to Girton College in 1954 having won an exhibition to read Classics. She then switched to Archaeology and Anthropology for her final year. In the words of her great friend, Mary Murray (1954), ‘Di was always full of life: a beautiful, friendly, talented, dynamic and determined woman whom we all loved. With her thick red hair, Di was a golden girl at Cambridge where she also enjoyed many sports and represented the University for swimming and skiing, winning half-Blues in each.' Diana Lees-Jones

In December 1963 Di married Richard Lees-Jones (Clare). They lived in Lower Peover, Cheshire, and had three children, William, Simon and Anna, and nine grandchildren. Anna followed her parents, going up to Cambridge to read Engineering at Pembroke College and Di thoroughly enjoyed returning to Cambridge to support her. After leaving Cambridge Di went to London to work for a magazine publisher editing a range of technical magazines but she later returned to classics and taught Latin and Greek at her daughter’s school in Cheshire. Di loved skiing and was one of the first English girls to qualify as a Swiss ski instructor. She was President of the Ladies’ Ski Club from 1990 to 1993 and organised the British Schoolgirls’ Races for a number of years. She was skiing right up until her last week before dying peacefully in her sleep in a hospital room in Sallanches with views of Mont Blanc. Notice by her daughter Anna Griffin.

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LITTLEBOY. On 7 June 2013, Judith Ann (Isles) MA (1950 Modern and Medieval Languages). Born in Aldershot in 1932 to an army officer, Judith was educated in Belfast and London. She worked in Nairobi as a clerk-typist for Barclays Bank before coming to Girton to read French and German. Whilst at Girton she was Junior Treasurer and then Vice-President of the Cambridge University Runners, and joined the Lady Margaret Players. After graduating, she held a post in Intelligence Co-ordination at the Foreign Office. She studied Social Studies at Bristol University, and went on to become Childcare Officer for Devon County Council in 1957. She married Michael Francis Littleboy (St John’s), a schoolmaster, in 1959, and they spent two years in Nigeria. They had two sons, one of whom studied at St John’s, and a daughter. Judith went on to take up various appointments in child care with London, West Sussex and Somerset county councils, where she was Senior Practitioner in Child Care. In 1973 she studied for the Certificate of Qualification in Social Work, Bristol University. Her professional work was recognised by the Somerset County Council Golden Jubilee Commemorative Award. On retirement, Judith became a counsellor for the Marriage Guidance Council. MACCLEMENT. On 21 July 2013, Bera Angharad Elizabeth (Timms) MA (1960 Natural Sciences). Born in Fife in 1941, Elizabeth was educated at Cheltenham Ladies’ College. After graduating in Natural Sciences at Girton, she studied for a PhD at the University of Western Ontario. With her husband, David, she spent two years from 1968 working for the Canadian University Service

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overseas, teaching Physics at a secondary school in Ghana. She settled in New Zealand where she worked tirelessly for Greenpeace, both locally and nationally. She was always ready to spend time ringing round for volunteers or mustering support for a candidate. A fellow campaigner, Jeannette Elley, writes of her: ‘Bera’s calm, self-effacing demeanour could often conceal her shrewd and quick intelligence; she could be supremely scathing about neo-liberal idiocy but always tackled the issue and never the person… In the days following her death, members have shared their memories of her willingness to offer practical and personal support, in good times and bad, of her powerful grace, her patience, wisdom, energy, good humour and kindness.’ MANGOLD. On 27 May 2013, Alice Joan MA (1935 Mathematics). Alice won an entrance exhibition to Girton and whilst here joined the Choir and Student Christian Movement. She remembered her time at Girton as: ‘a wonderful experience for which I have not ceased to be grateful. It opened doors on new worlds which I did not know existed, and I feel immensely privileged to have been given such opportunities. I hope, during the course of my 40 years’ teaching, I have given back a little of what I received.’ Her first teaching post, in 1938, was as Assistant Mathematics Mistress, at Ashford School for Girls. From 1965 to 1978, she was Headmistress of St Martin-in-the-Fields High School, taking sabbatical leave in Cambridge in 1973 on a schoolmistress studentship. She was a member of

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the Roll Committee, Girton, from 1976 to 1982; and also a member of the Council of Church Schools Company, Secretary of the London Joint Executive Committee, Association of Headmistresses and Treasurer of the London Branch of AHM. Alice loved mountain walking, bird watching, music, architecture and cooking. She was also a member of the London Girton Association. MARRIAN. On 17 May 2014, Elizabeth Mary (née Kingsley Pillers) MA MB BCHIR MD (Fellow 196686; Life Fellow 1986). Obituary p. 116

2011; a dedicated volunteer in the Agnes Etherington Art Centre; and participant in its Agnes Goes to School programme which took art into schools. Inspired by her father, she was a writer and poet; an avid reader and member of several bookreading groups; a lover of the theatre, modern dance and classical music; and a member of a playreading group. Not least, she was an awardwinning gardener. To all she was a humanist and perpetual optimist who demonstrated enduring love and support for the artistic community. Notice by her husband, Gerald McGrath.

Her journey ended at her home in Kingston, Ontario, in her 82nd year after a lifetime of travel as loving wife, dearest friend and fellow traveller with Gerald (St John’s 1953, and Professor Emeritus of Queen’s University) for 54 years.

MCKENZIE. On 27 December 2013, Wendy Anita (Diggins) MA (1967 Natural Sciences). Wendy attended Westcliff High School for Girls in Essex before going up to Cambridge in 1967. She graduated in Natural Sciences and commenced working in the research laboratories at Beechams. She married David (Natural Sciences, Fitzwilliam College) in 1971 and moved to the West Midlands where she taught Chemistry until the birth of her daughter, Suzanne. Peripatetic years followed including spells in South Wales (where her other daughter, Sarah, was born), and in Indonesia before settling back in Essex.

She had lived in nine countries and travelled with him to many others. She was an artistic, philosophical and social inspiration to her husband, three children, grandsons and others. Beginning in 1961 whilst in Kampala, and inspired by her mother, she was an artist in oils, acrylics, watercolours, pastels, batik, clay, silver and pewter, with works in collections in Canada and the UK. She was the talented organiser of three large community art and crafts shows from 1967 to

Wendy re-started her teaching career in the early nineties at SEEVIC Sixth Form College, where she eventually became Head of Physics and Tutor for Oxbridge admissions. She retired from teaching in 2005 but continued writing instruction manuals and work sheets for various teaching organisations. After retirement she was able to indulge her love of travel, particularly to India, South Africa and the Greek Islands, and enjoyed spending time with her four grandchildren.

MCGRATH. On 26 April 2013, Joan Margaret (Kerr) MA (1950 Geography). Joan was President of the University Geographical Society, excelled in cricket and lacrosse for which she won half Blues, and played tennis for Girton which she continued recreationally for 60 years.

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She was an active member and one-time Chair of Ladies Circle and Tangent, where she helped to raise many thousands of pounds for charity. After discovering she had breast cancer she was active in Cancer Care charities. Notice by her husband, David McKenzie. MOORE. On 28 January 2014, Susan Polly (formerly Sheila) (1952 Classics, Oriental Languages). Obituary on page 117

psychiatrist, eventually specialising in child psychology. As a lifelong asthma sufferer, she also experienced a serious heart problem in 1979, and was given around five years to live, an estimate she would beat by decades. When they returned to Poole in the early 1980s she worked for mental health hospitals in the area, including St Ann’s, and she was appointed as the first chairman of the Dorset Healthcare NHS Trust, until her retirement in 1997. Edited notice by son, David Ockelford.

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OCKELFORD. On 12 January 2014, Olwyn Kathleen (Thomas) MA (1943 Natural Sciences). Olwyn’s father was a member of the Fabian Society and strongly believed in the value of a good education in bringing greater equality to the country, a belief his only daughter retained throughout her life. She continued her medical studies during the Second World War with the intention of becoming a GP, and was proud to be among the first women to receive a Cambridge degree when Girton was admitted as an official college in 1948. After finishing her training she began to practise as a locum GP, moving to Poole after meeting her future husband Charles ‘Malcolm’ Ockelford, an officer in the Royal Navy. Olwyn took a break from her work in order to raise their two children, David and Carly. During the late 1950s and early 1960s she and her husband both worked as Liberal councillors in Poole, and were associated with the Parkstone Yacht Club and the Royal Naval Sailing Association. During the 1970s they moved to the Bristol area where Dr Ockelford qualified as a consultant

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OLSSON. On 26 December 2013, Jennifer Mary (Best) MA (1963 Music; 1965 Agricultural Studies) Jenny studied the unusual combination of Music and Agriculture at Girton. She participated enthusiastically in Cambridge musical life, singing in John Eliot Gardiner’s first performance of the Monteverdi Vespers and with the University Madrigal Society under Raymond Leppard. A talented pianist and flautist, it was at Cambridge that she seriously took up the cello, which she would later play with the Devon Symphony Orchestra. At Cambridge she met Martin Olsson (College), and they married in Trewoon, Cornwall, in 1968. They moved to Bethesda, North Wales, where Jenny worked for Nature Conservancy, researching the ecology of mountain grasslands. Here she began using the new technology of computers and became one of the first generation of professional computer programmers, a career in which she continued to be involved freelance until the mid1980s. From 1970, Jenny and Martin lived briefly in Washington DC, USA, where Martin was a postgraduate student.

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On their return they bought Endacott Farm, Devon, to pursue their ambition of farming, achieving some success in breeding pigs and sheep. Jenny was also a keen gardener, and spent many hours cultivating a farmhouse garden out of the Devon clay. They had five children: William, Edward (d.1976), Alice, Ralph, and Harriet (d. 1995).

learned new things about her: how many obstacles she’d overcome, how life was often difficult, but how she’d persevered and offered strength and encouragement to many others. The service made visible just how many lives she had touched, in all walks of life, through her quiet, prayerful and faithful ways.

In the 1980s, market conditions did not favour small farms, so Jenny re-trained as a Maths and Music teacher, and she taught for a number of years in Devon schools, notably Okehampton College.

She leaves behind her husband Clive, children Ruth and David, and grandsons Jacob, William and Vid.

Edited notice by her son, William Olsson.

OWEN. On 4 October 2013, Heather Constance (Jones) BA (1964 Classics). Born on 29 July 1945, Heather grew up in Hereford where her parents had a grocer’s shop. After Hereford High School for Girls, she came up to Girton where, in addition to her academic work, she was able to indulge her artistic talents as a founder member of a Classics faculty magazine, Farrago, to which she contributed cartoons and articles gently poking fun at the subject. Her friends remember her as quirky and ‘alternative’: cladding her college room in hessian, importing her own furniture and being a leader rather than a follower of fashion.

ORTON. On 25 December 2013, Jean Lesley (Sturgess) MA (1963 Geography). After marrying Clive in 1968, Jean spent her early career teaching Geography at St Martin-in-theFields High School for Girls in south London. She retired from teaching in 1978 to devote herself to bringing up her children. Her second career began in 1998 as a Pastoral Auxiliary in the Diocese of Southwark, where she is remembered as a calm, caring and gentle person. As part of her pastoral work, she was the Volunteer Advice Worker for Refugee and Migrant Network Sutton (RMNS) for 13 years. She had a great capacity for listening; she understood loss and grief, and she lived and worked to the highest Christian standards. In 2011, ill health forced her to retire from the stresses of RMNS, but she continued to lead an active life, and took great delight in her grandchildren. At her funeral the church was full of people from many different facets of her life, many of whom

Notice by her husband, Clive Orton.

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After graduating she taught for a while at Truro High School, but then embarked on a life as a farmer after marrying Edwin Owen and having two sons, Richard and Thomas. It really suited her. She loved the countryside, the animals, the outdoor life – her sons have a photo of her mucking out in a Mary Quant ‘mini dress’. But she also kept up her Classics, teaching Latin for a while at the local grammar school, and never abandoned her artistic interests or lost her quiet sense of humour. She succumbed all too young to cancer,

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with a tie-breaker being held publicly at London Zoo and broadcast by the BBC. She won scholarships to Mary Datchelor School and Girton College.

Notice by her friends, Val Horsler (1964), Mary Palmer (Cooper, 1964), Jane Coggins (Hinckley, 1964) and Clare Wenham (Richards, 1964).

After war service as a factory ‘time and motion’ analyst, she went on to teach Classics at several schools, including in Kenya where she was a Headmistress for a while. Returning home to care for her elderly parents, who lived in Herne Bay, she was for many years Head of Classics at the Simon Langton School for Girls in Canterbury.

PEARSON. On 11 May 2013, Jean Muriel (Unwin) BA (1953 Natural Sciences). Jean came to Girton from the County Grammar School for Girls, Barrow-in-Furness. A keen sportswoman, she joined the College hockey team and also played badminton and tennis. She took her first job in 1956 as a research assistant in crystallography at the Cavendish Laboratory. She began her teaching career at Hatfield School in mathematics and physics, and later worked as a correspondence tutor for the National Extension College whilst bringing up her daughters, Katherine, Margaret and Elizabeth, with husband, John Pearson, whom she had married in 1958. She taught Physics at Rise Hall School, Humberside from 1977.

In 1971 she married Dr Eric Poole and together they translated and dated documents written in anything from Anglo-Saxon to modern day Russian. This included a spell living and working in Austin, Texas, in the late Seventies - a time in their lives much loved by Gina. In her later life, in Canterbury, she occupied herself with choirs, amateur dramatics, calligraphy, cookery, needlework, gardening and the Red Cross. Notice by her step-son, Stephen Poole.

PHILLIPS-MILES. On 19 March 2014, Jean Margaret (Parry) MA (1950 Modern and Medieval Languages). Born in South Wales, Jean came to Girton from Malvern Girls’ College to study French and German. POOLE. On 24 November 2013, Georgina Maud Louisa (Naldrett) MA (1942 Classics). Gina spent her childhood in Bermondsey and Southwark, the daughter of a printing works proprietor. She was an early admirer of the speech forms of market traders and street criers. Her developing love of language got her to the national final of a ‘spelling bee’ competition,

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REDDISH. On 9 July 2013, Kathleen Mary MA (1943 Classics). Kathleen came to Girton as a Gurney and Higgens Minor Scholar and went on to win the Alice Zimmern Memorial prize in 1946 and 1947. She joined the Cambridge Women’s Inter-collegiate Christian Union, Architecture Group and Classical Society. After teacher training in Cambridge she taught Classics at Notting Hill and Ealing High School and then Edgbaston High. She became Head of the Classics Department at Nottingham High School for Girls where she taught for 27 years.

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She was awarded a Goldsmiths' Travelling Scholarship in 1975 to study mosaics in Italy. REES. On 28 August 2013, Joan Sybil (Cushen) MA (1943 Mathematics; 1950 Tutor and Lecturer in Mathematics). Obituary p. 119

community, where her contributions included acting as a school governor, a church warden, fundraiser and concert organiser, taking part in amateur dramatics and chairing the WI. She will be greatly missed by her husband, family and friends. Notice by her daughter, Jenny Orton.

SCHWARZ. On 26 March 2014, Brenda Patricia (Pilling) MA (1944 Mechanical Sciences). Pat was born in Yorkshire, and remained proud of those roots throughout her life; she also took both Norfolk, where she lived for over 60 years, and Austria, her husband’s native land, into her heart. She went up to Girton from Merchant Taylors’ Girls School, Crosby, where she had been Head Girl. Pat read Mechanical Sciences, and then went into teaching Mathematics, with posts at Sunny Hill, Somerset, and then Norfolk. She married a fellow Cambridge engineer, Kurt, whom she had met through their shared love of music, a passion she enjoyed throughout her life. They had three children, nine grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. Pat was persuaded back into the teaching profession from full-time motherhood, and was a much loved and appreciated member of the Mathematics staff at Norwich High School for many years. Her pupils remember her patience and the loving attention she gave each individual. Indeed, throughout her life, Pat gave generously of her time to others, whether through her support for her husband and family, or through service to her beloved church, first in Norwich and latterly to St Peter’s Church, Bramerton. Her home was always a welcoming place – family and friends were catered for with generous hospitality, and her post-concert parties were legendary! After she stopped teaching she found even more time and energy for her local

SEALY. On 23 October 2013, Barbara Ann (James) DipArch MA (1947 Architectural Studies). Ann was educated at the Downs Kindergarten and Lawnside before gaining a place at Cambridge. Getting a First in Architecture, she remained to obtain her DipArch and MA.

Brenda Schwarz

Ann's first job was with Emo Goldfinger. After a brief spell at the London County Council she joined Architects' Co-operative Partnership, designing Hertfordshire schools. She moved to Elie Mayorcas, supervising further school building, finally accepting a position with Islington Architecture Department, working on social housing. Accepting of current values but ever hopeful of a freer society, she marched for CND and on Union protests. She was 'Samaritan no 52’ and wrote letters to dictatorial regimes against injustice. After a relationship of some ten years she married Ronald Robert Sealy in 1967.

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In retirement in 1992 she assisted the Centre for Accessible Environments and did research for 'The design of residential care and nursing homes for older people' (1998 NHS Estates), and also for her family's history W H James (Builders) 1889-1977 (Colwall Village Society 2002, Desktop Publication 2002). Notice by her husband Roland R Sealy.

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SENIOR. On 9 April 2014, Evelyn Margaret MA (1940 Modern and Medieval Languages). Peggy was born in 1922 in Yorkshire and was brought up in the village of Denby Dale. She was an only child and went to school in nearby Penistone where she excelled in all her studies. She was interested in science but also became proficient in languages, and this led to her coming to Girton in 1940 to study French, German and Italian. Recruited by Bletchley Park, she worked in the Naval Signals section from 1943-¬45. Her role was to read the many signals that came in, assimilate the intelligence that they contained and then draw conclusions about what German naval forces were doing, especially submarines. After the War she joined ICI and moved to Welwyn Garden City to work in the Patent Department where she began as a translator and eventually rose to become Head of Translations. She continued to develop her language skills and became proficient in several European languages as well as teaching herself some Japanese. She lived in Welwyn Garden City for the rest of her life. Peggy never married and her life outside work was devoted to music - she was a proficient pianist, performing at local fetes and charity events as well as at family occasions. She was an active member of the Red Cross, and she also enjoyed participating in the local Ladies' Luncheon Club and pottering in her garden. Notice by her nephew, Eric Walsby. SMITH. On 10 December 2012, Elizabeth Nancy (Kidner, Mrs Stagg) BA (1930 Natural Sciences). Betty came to Girton as a College Exhibitioner and played for the College netball team. On leaving, she

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took a secretarial course at the Vocational Training College, High Holborn, and found her first job in the staff advice department in the John Lewis Partnership. She moved to the Royal Meteorological Society where she worked as Assistant Secretary during the 1930s, and later became a Technical Officer at the Air Ministry Meteorological Office in 1939. She was Secretary of the Seaford Art Club, and committee member of the Seaford Natural History Society. Betty lived to celebrate her 100th birthday and was very active until shortly before she died. She spent the end of her life living with one of two sons in France. STARLING. On 26 December 2013, Gillian (2003 Staff: Personnel Officer). Obituary p. 120 TAISNE. On 27 May 2012, Marie-Catherine Helene (Plantevin) BA (1953 Geography). Catherine was born in the Haute Savoie to French parents. The family settled in Buxton where her father was managing director of a silk company, and she attended the Cavendish Grammar School. After graduation, she returned to France where, in effect, she started her university studies again, passing the Licence Ordinaire in Geography at the Sorbonne. She then specialised in demography and planning; most of her working life was spent in Paris at the Institut d’Amenagement et d’Urbanisme de la Region d’Ile de France. She published various reports on economic aspects of housing and population surveys. She married and had four children. She returned with her husband to Girton in 2002 for a Roll Dinner. THIAS. On 21 January 2014, Helena Alzbeta BA (Thiasová) (1946 Modern and Medieval Languages). Helena was born in Prague in what was then

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Czechoslovakia on 15 March 1921. Although the family spoke Czech, they also spoke German and French at home. Helena was educated in French in the Lycee Francais in Prague. By April 1939 Prague was under German control. Helena’s exit visa is stamped by the Nazi authorities with a swastika. Aged 18, she arrived in Dover on 2 June, which she remembered as a great adventure. She left her sister Anna and her parents behind, to manage the family business. Tragically, they were taken to Theresienstadt camp and murdered in 1942. On her arrival in England, Helena was given a free place in a private Catholic school out of the charity of the headmistress. She quickly joined the Auxiliary Territorial Service, although women were not generally given responsible positions, and her duties were mainly administrative. After the war Helena went up to Girton to read Modern Languages. She had become fluent in her fourth language, English, to enable her to do this. She then embarked on a long career as a teacher, but did not confine herself to England. In the 1970s she went to Rwanda and taught at a junior seminary, and her health suffered as a result. It was some time after her return before she was able to resume her career as a teacher in England. Throughout her life Helena remained in close touch with her family. But the real focus of her life was the pupils she taught. In 1995 Pope John Paul II awarded her the ‘Benemerenti’ medal. It was typical of Helena’s humility that her family did not find out about it until after she had died.

Never in her life did she speak with bitterness or self-pity about the horrific circumstances in which she found herself alone in this country. Instead she created a new world of friendship and love all around her. She led a life of simplicity and sanctity. Edited notice by her cousin, Michael Tugendhat. THOMAS. On 2 February 2014, Margaret (Lander) MA (1950 Music; 1952 English). Margaret’s time at Girton was marked by winning a half-Blue for rowing. After formal studies, she devoted her working life to music and education. Having been a peripatetic music teacher for all the primary schools in the old county of Westmorland for many years, she then became a professional singer. She performed for societies in Scotland and northern England, including the Huddersfield Choral Society. In due course, she returned to teaching in Cumbria, and taught music at Appleby Grammar School before taking early retirement. Margaret helped a lot of people into music and encouraged them to do achieve new musical heights. As well as running choirs, she started a music circle in Penrith, played the piano, and, many years ago, the oboe. At the age of six, she had made a piano keyboard out of paper, which she used to ‘play’ on her bed. She practised on that until her parents could afford to buy her a proper instrument. She is survived by husband Eddie, son Simon and three grandchildren, Ines, Maria and Joe. Notice written by the Thomas family.

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TILLYARD. In 2013, Gytha Margaret (Watson) BA (1945 Modern and Medieval Languages). Margaret came from the East Anglian School, Bury St Edmunds, to study French and Spanish at Girton. Having trained as a secretary she married Stephen (King’s) in 1950 and had three daughters and a son. The family connections with Girton are strong - her mother-in-law, two sisters-in-law and daughter, Virginia, were alumnae. Margaret worked for 15 years at the Citizens Advice Bureau, Norwich, and in the Archaeological Department, Norfolk County Council, as a documentary researcher. She contributed to Men of Property. An analysis of the Norwich Enrolled Deeds 1285-1311 (ed. Ursula Priestley, 1983, Centre of East Anglian Studies, University of East Anglia).

By the end of the war her first daughter Rosalind had been born, soon to be followed by two sons, Stephen and Robert, and then Joanna. Joyce set aside her ambition to pursue a career in social work or law, devoting herself to voluntary work on school boards, including St Felix, and on the board of the Girls’ Schools Association from 1963 to 1975, including five years as chairman. She served for 16 years on the Board of Governors at Westminster Hospital and as Chairman of Westminster Children’s Hospital.

WALEY-COHEN. On 30 June 2013, Joyce Constance Ina (Nathan) MA (1938 English). Joyce was the second of three generations of Girtonians, following in the footsteps of her mother, Eleanor Stettauer (Nathan) (1910) and blazing a trail for her daughter, Joanna (1970). A passionate believer in the principle that girls flourished best in single-sex schools, she herself had attended St Felix School, Southwold, and sent both her daughters to girls’ schools.

Notice by her daughter, Joanna Waley-Cohen (1970).

Joyce received her bachelor’s degree at the height of the Second World War, and went to work at the Ministry of Fuel in London alongside her future husband, Bernard Waley-Cohen, who in 1959 would become Lord Mayor of London. Later she expressed regret that she had not chosen to work in a factory, where she might have met people and gained experiences that she would not otherwise have encountered.

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Joyce enjoyed riding, including side-saddle, and gave it up only at the age of 75. She is survived by her children and 13 grandchildren, whose achievements she followed with great pride.

WILLIAMS. Katherine MA (1966 Archaeology and Anthropology). Katherine came to Girton to begin her studies at the age of 37. From Llanelli Girls’ Grammar School, Dyfed, she had trained as a nurse in the Cardiff Royal Infirmary. She worked for many years in London hospitals rising to Administrative Sister in University College, and was qualified as both a midwife and health visitor. She was the outpost nurse for a Greenpeace mission to Labrador. On leaving Girton she took up a research fellowship at the University of Aberdeen to work on a study of nineteenth century nursing systems. She contributed to the Nursing Times, and wrote on the sociology and ideology of nursing. Katherine had an extraordinarily diverse range of interests, which included: garden history (she re-created a medieval garden) and the art of botanical

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illustration, cycling, Shetland lace knitting, studying the piano, recorder, the French language and literature and writing poetry. She was secretary of the Architectural Heritage Society, North East group, and a member of the Shakespeare Society. WRIGLEY. On 26 July 2013, Adrian Martin Thomas MA PhD (1986 Natural Science; 1990 Computer Science). Obituary p. 121 YONGE. On 20 January 2013, Elizabeth Mary BA (1939 Classics). Elizabeth and Nancy met during their first week at Girton as they were both interested in music, and stayed friends for 75 years. After graduating they only met occasionally but corresponded often. Whenever Nancy thinks of Elizabeth, she imagines a garden with deep pools and scented bushes and music in the air. Elizabeth was known to be such a peaceful person to be with and calmed my busy lifestyle. Nancyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s last meeting with Elizabeth was at the wonderful Alumni Weekend in 1998 when they were both officially given our degrees in the Senate House.

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Elizabeth was also an inspirational Classics teacher, first at the Ursuline Convent School in Wimbledon, where she taught Val Horsler (1964) and then at Mayfield School, where she joined Miss Mary Biddle (1930), after the Ursuline went comprehensive. Her letters to friends were always full, not of work, but of organ playing, motoring and growing old gracefully. Notice by her friend, Nancy Greeves (1939) and student Val Horsler (1964).

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Obituaries MARIE AXTON 25 June 1937– 30 January 2014

Marie died peacefully in Sark, in the Channel Islands, after ten years suffering from Parkinson’s Disease and its dementia. Three loving carers helped me care for her during the last years. She arrived in Cambridge in October 1959, having graduated from Radcliffe (then ‘the women’s college of Harvard’), to spend a year abroad. As a major in History and Literature (English, French and Russian) she longed to explore earlier English. Over the next forty years she became a formidable scholar of Elizabethan literature and history.

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Marie was the only child of showbiz parents in Manhattan who had brought her up during the Depression in a touring company of puppeteers. At sixteen she had gone to France on the Liberté. She played chamber music. She struck us freshmen as grown up and exotic but full of enthusiasm; she was unfazed by Girton’s lack of heating, by her tiny north-facing cell in Orchard Wing, by the hundredyard dash to a bathroom, stove or washing machine, by the food (macaroni cheese with rice and mashed potato was a staple). These were no impediment to a passionate life of the mind. The College had a wonderful library and outstanding teachers in English: Joan Bennett (metaphysical poets, George Eliot) was later our neighbour; Mary Ann Radzinowicz (Milton) and Anne Righter Barton (Shakespeare) were new from America; M C Bradbrook (Elizabethan drama, later Mistress of the College) was Marie’s staunchest supporter. By Easter Term 1960, when the Orchard lured me to Girton daily for tennis and reading under the apple blossom, Marie and I had staged medieval plays in the Eagle pub yard and toured the Wye Valley in my ancient Austin Seven: we knew that we wanted to spend our lives together. Marie stayed to take Part II of the English Tripos, before starting research under M C Bradbrook. Marie’s identification of a manuscript treatise on the Elizabethan succession as by Edmund Plowden gave shape to her subsequent work on the Inns of Court dramas. In April 1962 we married, and survived the Great Freeze in a precious centrally-heated flat. The next five years saw the birth of Myles and Lucy, two successful PhDs and lots of supervising and examining to pay the bills. We shared child rearing and an old Remington typewriter.

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When Marie’s mother died and I got a fellowship at Christ’s, she put family first. While the children were at school she worked in the garden shed, turning her thesis into The Queen’s Two Bodies (1978), to win a Royal Historical Society Prize. A Research Fellowship at Newnham let her study the iconography of Shakespeare’s Sonnets. In 1979 she became Junior Proctor of the University, the first woman in the office at Cambridge or Oxford. She chaired the Theatres Syndicate for twenty years (overseeing the ADC), and was a Trustee of the Opera Society. She compiled a record of academic regalia for use in the Senate House, designed her own proctorial dress (Tudor black velvet), and knitted in Council of the Senate meetings.

BARBARA ANNE BARTON 9 May 1933 – 11 November 2013 Anne Barton, who died in Addenbrooke’s hospital last November at the age of eighty, was a formidable and glamorous , if sometimes volatile, Girton presence during the years when she was a Fellow and Director of Studies in English. An American by birth who spent most of her adult life in her adopted England, she arrived in Cambridge in 1954, having already published the first ever article in Shakespeare Quarterly written by an undergraduate. Somewhere along the way she had also transformed herself from the awkward adolescent, with lank hair, braces on her teeth, and eyes hidden behind thick-lensed spectacles (her description) into a very beautiful woman.

From 1984 to retirement in 1999 Marie was a University Lecturer in English. She helped set up the English MPhil in Renaissance Studies. Textual editing allowed her to do what she did best – helping young scholars to get published. Together we started the Tudor Interludes Series. In retirement Marie founded Renaissance Texts in Manuscript. Most vacations meant filial trips to New York. But a fortunate stay in the Channel Islands led us to undertake a historical archive for the Seigneur of Sark. Our Calendar was published by HMSO in 1992. Fascination with the Sark discoveries led to retirement there, conserving the Elizabethan windmill and creating a museum and archive for the island. I continue our joint work in Sark and take delight in the visits of our six grandchildren and their parents. Richard Axton

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Although Anne remained a life-long exile from America, life in Britain wasn’t always a perfect fit, and her attitude to Girton itself was always ambivalent. A letter to an old friend back in America paints an acerbically witty account of a very dreadful tea party with the then Mistress, the eminent mathematician, Mary Cartwright ( still ‘Miss’, not yet ‘Dame’) and a gaggle of distressingly gauche and nervous undergraduates. As a Fellow, she was a committed non-diner (finding little in either the food or the company to attract her), and her set of rooms up on B Staircase, next door to the narrow little spiral staircase which opened directly out into the grounds, was perfect for her, as she set off, unperceived, for the weekends, with Bran Dog, her very large Irish wolfhound, comfortably wedged along the length of the back seat of her mini. Her Girton rooms were heady stuff for entrance candidates and young undergraduates: opulent fabrics, fine pictures, good silver, always many flowers, an unobtrusive harpsichord, and an open fire in winter which, during later afternoon supervisions, made the room a glowing, bejewelled place (she spoke with relish of her battle with the college authorities to make the fireplace useable again – she always enjoyed a good scrap, and one

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of her favourite anecdotes, frequently requested by her visitors, involved decking a childhood dancing partner, a disobliging eight year old boy who had seriously displeased her). Anne herself was as striking as her setting, and if both could seem slightly theatrical, that was fitting for a woman who became a leading Shakespearean and whose 1962 book, Shakespeare and the Idea of the Play, was one of the most influential to be published during. during the post-war years. Shakespeare was not her only passion. She championed his contemporary, Ben Jonson, celebrating him in a fine book, and pushing, successfully, for revivals of his plays, and her punctiliously crafted critical work extended beyond the Renaissance to include writings on Rochester, Byron, John Clare and Toni Morrison. After her second marriage in 1969, to John Barton, co-founder of the Royal Shakespeare Company, the two of them became a much photographed ‘celebrity’ couple, and the Visitors’ Books for Hillborough Manor, their house some eight miles outside Stratford, read like a Who’s Who of British theatre. But however awkward her relations with Girton as an institution, Anne was an extremely generous and inspiring Director of Studies and PhD supervisor. She set high standards for herself as well as for her students (she left Cambridge for a Chair at Bedford College when she was only 32, then to New College, Oxford and returned to a Chair at Cambridge in 1984). Although she made it clear when essays or supervision exchanges failed to meet her demands, her criticism was never destructive, and she was prepared to fight our

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corner for us when we ran foul of other authority. She was ambivalent, when not actively hostile, about the ‘f’ word (‘feminist’). To those women who incurred her wrath she could be harsh (some, whose work she savagely reviewed, had the scars to show for it). But although she rejected the ‘f’ word for herself, she nevertheless frequently showed individual women great loyalty and generosity, and sometimes for years, as I can testify. Mercurial, pugnacious, fiercely partisan, and, intellectually, an often unexpected mixture of the emotionally intuitive and keenly incisive, Anne inspired passionate responses in those who encountered her: for many of those she taught at Girton, the abiding emotions will be those of gratitude, admiration, and deep affection. Alison Hennegan, 1967 LUCETTE J-A DEFRISE-CARTER 1938 – 21 July 2012 Although only briefly at Girton, Lucette DefriseCarter is remembered with admiration and much warmth by the students she taught and the Fellows with whom she interacted.

Lucette Defrise was born into an academic family in Anvers, Belgium, in 1938. Her university education was at the Free University of Brussels, culminating in a PhD in 1969. Her research was on geometrical aspects of the theory of General Relativity and she made a number of very important contributions, including the development of a formalism for carrying out computations using complex vectors, pioneering work on conformal symmetries and the study of solutions of Einstein's equations with isotropy (her 1968 paper is a standard reference on the subject). Her work was characterised by elegance and rigour. In 1969, Lucette married a fellow General Relativist, Brandon Carter, and they settled in Cambridge in 1970. Lucette became a College Lecturer and Fellow of Girton, and for five years supervised Girton undergraduates in Applied Mathematics. Those students recall her kindness and patience; one remembers cycling back to Girton after lectures for supervisions with Lucette; to the accompaniment of their rumbling tummies, they would work through the problems, interspersed with Lucettte's stock phrase 'What is a-pen-eeng?' An affiliated student from the United States wrote: 'She seemed to understand the many facets of acculturation I was going through, as well as my feelings of inadequacy in my studies. She always made me feel at home with her welcoming smile and her easy and non-judgmental ways. She was patient but also expected hard work. She was lovely and made me feel like a winner!' Apart from her teaching, and her involvement with Admissions and the Entrance Examination, Lucette was busy with research and family life; the Carters lived in Great Eversden and one less-than-welcome

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aspect of life in the country was an invasion of harvest rats! Their first daughter, Catherine, was born in 1973. A student recalls being invited to their home after exams, and its being 'a very sunny and happy occasion'. In 1975, the Carters moved to Paris and Lucette's mathematics had a change of direction, to statistics. She taught for many years at the University of Paris X at Nanterre and worked on the application of statistics in a variety of fields including educational testing, medicine, ecology, economics and sociology; one of her more recent projects was on unemployment. Although always busy with her academic work, Lucette was very focused on her family (she had two more daughters, Barbara born in 1976 and Anne in 1979) and her many close friends all over the world. In reply to the standard Christmas letter, she would always write (not type!) a personal reply in early January, full of family news, amusing anecdotes and interesting insights. She had a strong sense of social justice and firmly-held political views. Lucette was very close to her daughters, who never let her forget that she did not go to an early Beatles’ concert while visiting the University of Hamburg in 1965! She was delighted when Anne produced the first grandchild in 2009. He was a source of comfort to her after she was diagnosed with a brain tumour later in the same year. The initial treatment seemed to be successful, but the problem returned. She died in 2012, and is sorely missed. Ruth Williams (1962; Life Fellow)

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ELIZABETH MARY MARRIAN 26 October 1919 – 17 May 2014 Elizabeth Mary (Biddy) Marrian (Kingsley Pillers) was born on the 26th October 1919 in Leamington Spa, daughter of a serving officer in the RAF of the First World War, and his wife Beatrice. After her early local education she read Natural Sciences at Newnham College from 1939-42. She progressed to study Clinical Medicine at Kings College Hospital, London and qualified (MB BChir) in 1945. After local house jobs and a training post at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children, she gained the Diploma in Child Health in 1946. It is not clear whether she would have continued with Child Health as her specialty, because in 1947 she married Denis Marrian, a research chemist in the Department of Professor Alexander Todd (later Lord Todd). They went to the United States and she worked as a Research Fellow in the Memorial Hospital (Sloan Kettering Institute), New York. When Lord Todd collected the ‘Toddlers’ including Denis to form his new Department in Cambridge, Biddy joined the Department of Radiotherapy, Tennis Court Road, as Damon Runyan Clinical Research Fellow (1952-1955). Biddy completed her MD in 1955, and took her Diploma in Medical Radiotherapy (DMRT) in 1956. She was appointed Consultant in 1963, and held this post together with that of Director of Cancer Registration East Anglia from 1973 until her ultimate retirement from cancer therapeutics in 1989. But let it not be thought that Biddy’s life in the Radiotherapy department was a sinecure. During the 1950’s her two sons were born, and Biddy played a full part as Denis’ wife when he was serially Tutor then Senior Tutor of Trinity

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College and Tutor to Prince Charles, University Senior Proctor then College Praelector. It was during the 1950’s that she first met John Marks, undertaking several medical research projects and publishing papers together. From then on two generations of Marrians and Marks became lifelong friends, encouraged by their sons being at Oundle School together. In 1963 Biddy was invited to become Director of Medical Studies at Girton. She undertook this role with great competence for 20 years, being made an Official Fellow in 1966. Her attitude was that it was vital that medical students had a broadly based understanding of life in its entirety in order to provide kind and considerate care for their patients. Her supervisions were fundamental but of considerable practical use, to ensure her students had a solid understanding of the basic medical sciences, and the manner in which her former students still speak of her attest to their appreciation of this approach. On her retirement she was elected to a Life Fellowship.

SUSAN POLLY MOORE 1 May 1933 – January 2014 Most Girtonians whose lives are recorded in these pages seem to have enjoyed their undergraduate years at Girton: not so Susan Moore (she changed her first name from Sheila in her twenties, formalising the change by deed poll later). Shy and unsociable, she found communal living unpleasant, and also disliked many aspects of the Classical Tripos. A phenomenal linguist, she hated writing essays and was particularly uninterested in Greek and Roman history.

Biddy’s retirement was not trouble free. She suffered from macular degeneration and getting around in Cambridge became increasingly difficult, but she was sturdily independent and remained an active member of her local bridge club. The death of Denis in 2008 made an active life even more difficult, though contact with her was always a great pleasure with her calm, courteous no-fuss approach, and she always enjoyed conversation with friends over a glass of wine. She died after a very short terminal deterioration on May 16th 2014. Fiona Cooke

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She entered Girton as the Senior Scholar of her year, from the Perse School for Girls, where she had been taught by Evelyn Genochio (Girton 1926), an outstanding teacher who introduced her best pupils to Latin and Greek verse composition. Susan continued this at Cambridge and her First Class in Part I of the Classical Tripos included Distinctions in Latin and Greek verse. She also in the same year won a John Stewart of Rannoch Scholarship, awarded at that time on the results of a competition in Latin and Greek prose and verse composition. One of her fellow-Scholars that year (Pat Fairfax, later Easterling) became the first woman to be elected Regius Professor of Greek at Cambridge. After gaining these successes, Susan declared she could not continue with Classics, and changed to Arabic and Persian, having no previous knowledge of either. After graduating, she trained in horticulture, and worked on a herb-farm in Kent, a nursery-garden in Milton, as a lab assistant in the CU Department of Agriculture, and as assistant to the Taxonomist at the CU Botanic Garden (where her Greek and Latin were useful). Next she taught Latin and English in private schools for a few years, then took time out to write children’s stories. Returning to horticulture, she became the Head Gardener (indeed practically the only gardener) at a National Trust property, Bateman’s in East Sussex (Rudyard Kipling’s house). She left this job in order to accompany her parents back to Cambridgeshire. Here she rapidly found part-time work as editorial assistant on a learned journal edited from the CU Geography Department. Though she had no previous experience she

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excelled at this, and received warm praise from the editor when she left. Her father died in 1979 and Susan felt she should contribute more to the household finances, so she began to work as a freelance proofreader, and then copy-editor, for CUP. Although she mostly worked on Classical editions and works of Classical scholarship, she took on other very challenging assignments including Jim Ede’s A Way of Life: Kettle’s Yard (CUP, 1984) – a pernickety and demanding author and a very complicated layout – and The Revised English Bible (OUP and CUP, 1989). Roger Coleman, who coordinated this latter project, wrote a book about the making of the REB in which he noted how Susan’s botanical interest led to ‘a succession of doubts or objections on distinctive yellow sheets of paper with such headings as Displicentia (‘Things unpleasing’) being addressed to the Director on such subjects as the colour of coriander seeds (Exodus 16:31) and the identity of ‘stinkwort’ (Isaiah 7:19).’ As a classical copy-editor, she was much in demand by British and American scholars who came to know how much their work would be improved by her scholarly precision and great concern for clarity of expression. Many insisted on breaching the CUP code of practice by naming her in their introductions or acknowledgements. Peter Jones and Keith Sidwell, for example, in the Acknowledgements at the beginning of Reading Latin (CUP, 1986) pay tribute to ‘our subeditor Susan Moore whose hundred-eyed vigilance during the preparation of the book for production caught so many slips that it had to be matched by a hundred-handed corrector.’ Susan’s attitude to Girton warmed as time passed, particularly after her sister Gillian became a Fellow

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in 1971. She came to concerts, contributed to the Lawrence Room Appeal, served for a time on the Garden Committee, and above all gave freely of her time and skills for many years by copy-editing the Girton Annual Review and then The Year, until, last year, failing eyesight prevented her from doing so. Not long before she died she said of Girton: ‘I wish now that I had appreciated it more at the time.’ Gillian Jondorf (Moore 1956) JOAN SYBIL REES 25 August 1924 – 28 August 2013 Joan Sybil Cushen was born in Portsmouth on 25 August 1924, the daughter of a teacher and a headmaster. She and her younger brother Ted grew up in Portsmouth. She won a scholarship to Portsmouth High School, and was evacuated with her school during the war. She went up to Girton to read Mathematics (with a scholarship) during the summer of 1943, starting, with a few others, a few months early so as to anticipate her nineteenth birthday in August 1942, and so avoid immediate conscription. She studied during the war, was involved in fire watching, and agreed to train as a teacher in order to be allowed to study for the full three years (but didn’t have to keep that promise because the war ended in time). She captained the University Women's Swimming team, and so had a full Cambridge Blue. A star student, Joan was awarded a number of prizes during her studies, and ultimately finished her degree with first class honours in the summer of 1946, but wasn’t able actually to ‘take’ her degree at that stage, because women were not yet members of the University; she took her MA later

on, when they were admitted. After finishing her undergraduate study, she continued to do postgraduate work in Cambridge, moved briefly to Royal Holloway College but then was taken back to Girton by Bertha Jeffreys, as a Mathematics Teaching Fellow. Although she had to resign her fellowship when she married in 1952, she continued working for the College whilst she had her first three children, until she left Cambridge to move to Exeter where her husband was appointed Professor of Pure Mathematics. In Exeter Joan had a fourth child (she had four daughters in all), and after a while was herself appointed to the Mathematics Department, where she remained (ultimately as a Senior Lecturer) until her retirement. She was loved by her students, whom she treated as family. Supervisions were scheduled at her home, and students helped with her young children. She always had wonderful personal relationships with her students and was a popular colleague. Joan was an accomplished painter of watercolours, and became well known in Devon for her work, particularly after retirement, holding a number of exhibitions. A Catholic convert from 1978, with a very strong faith, she was very involved in her local church community, representing her church on the Devon Education Committee, and teaching both Mathematics and Art as a volunteer in a local Catholic primary school after retirement. Joan was very attached to Girton, which had been a home to her for several years; she had had no

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home life with her parents after the age of about 14 (her parents had been evacuated with her father's school). She was heavily involved with Girton’s centenary appeal. Joan was an energetic and very talented woman, and led a full and active life until the beginning of this year, when the illness started which led to her death. Professor Sarah Rees (1976). GILLIAN STARLING 1 December 1958 – 26 December 2013 Gill was born in Cambridge, and spent her life in Romsey Town surrounded by a very close, extended family. It was from her mother and her cousins that she derived her love of music, as they played the guitar and sang to her, and encouraged her to listen to records. She was devastated to have failed her 11 plus, but found that attending Coleridge School was an unexpected advantage, being able to go on to take A levels anyway, and finding she could participate in the school’s brass band, in which a boy named Christopher Starling played the euphonium. He was later to become her husband.

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Her first employment was at the East Anglian Regional Health Authority, as shorthand typist and later as a secretary in the training department. She and Christopher married in 1980 and began their life together in a caravan in the fens at Wilburton. Theirs was a very happy marriage, and they shared many precious times together, travelling to Cuba and Africa, breakfasting whilst

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watching elephants, or closer to home, delighting in the bird life of Cambridgeshire. In 1987 she managed to obtain her ideal post, as a training officer. She looked back on her years working with a large team of people of all ages in the Medical Staffing Department with great fondness. The post included a five-month secondment to Ipswich Hospital, and gave her the opportunity to grow in confidence, and gain the CIPD, the qualification necessary to become a personnel professional. After a brief and less happy stint as Manager of the Medical Staffing Department at the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital in 1993, she took up her first post as a Personnel Director for the Mid Anglia Community Health Trust. In 1998 she and Chris moved into central Cambridge to look after her father, after her mother’s death. Her work was of great importance to her, but so was music, and she was honoured to be able to play with City of Cambridge Brass Band, finding inspiration from the more advanced performers around her. With the band she found herself performing on Radio 3, and in the Albert Hall, and making many lifelong friendships.

After her father’s death in 2000, she moved to a bungalow in Girton (which boasts three staircases!) and was overjoyed to be given the post of Personnel Officer when it was created at the College three years later. She loved Girton, and felt instantly at home in the College. When she was diagnosed with cancer in 2010, she found great support amongst the staff, and as back problems became increasingly difficult, she felt people went out of their way to help her. In 2011 she was elected to the SCR, which was an honour that meant a great deal to her. Edited from her own words. ADRIAN MARTIN THOMAS WRIGLEY 16 April 1968 – 26 July 2013 Having gained a studentship with GEC, Adrian spent a gap year at its Hirst Research Centre in Wembley, before matriculating in 1986. Originally enrolled as a Natural Scientist, Adrian’s childhood interest in electronics led him to move to the Engineering Department for his final undergraduate year, swapping to the Electrical and Information Sciences Tripos. As a postgraduate Adrian worked on computer graphics within the Rainbow Group at the University’s Computer Lab, earning his PhD in 1994 for his research on ‘Real-time Ray Tracing on a Novel HDTV Framestore’. He went on to design the world’s first ray tracing graphics processor.

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Whilst at Girton, Adrian was awarded an Exhibition 1987-1988; Ida Freund Prize in 1987, and M T Meyer Graduate Scholarship in 1991 and 1992. Adrianâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s motivation to invent extended to the desire to make his inventions available for the good of all. In a comment to a friend not long before his death he claimed, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;we have a moral imperative to use our talents to improve the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;, and this is a tenet by which he lived his life. With the support of Venture Capitalist Hermann Hauser, co-founder of Acorn, Adrian developed his work on three-dimensional computer graphics on a commercial basis, eventually moving to the United Sates where he met Lorna, his Canadian partner of 14 years. Alongside his research at Girton, Adrian was a very active campaigner for the Liberal Democrats, and attended the General Election count in Cambridge in 1992. His interest in politics, coinciding with an interest in the economics and more latterly the environment, led Adrian to develop far-sighted ideas on green energy alternatives, a unified public transport system for Cambridge and to co-found a Cambridge based think tank for promoting radical ideas on economic reform. His work on Systemic Fiscal Reform has achieved worldwide recognition, with radio interviews in Australia. Adrian had a passion for social justice that pervaded his work and life. His early death has deprived us of an outstanding thinker and inventor. Carolyn Greenwood (1989) and Dominic Wilson (1987).

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

Fellows and Officers of the College, October 2014 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, MA, LittD, BLitt (Oxon), Hon DLitt (St Andrews), FBA, FRSL 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), FBA Professor Frances M Ashcroft, MA, PhD, ScD, FRS Professor Dame Athene Donald, DBE, MA, PhD, FRS The Hon Mrs Justice Gloster, DBE, MA

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Barbara Bodichon Foundation Fellows Mrs Barbara Wrigley, MA Mrs Sally Alderson, MA Mrs Margaret Llewellyn, OBE, MA Mrs Veronica Wootten, MBE, MA Miss C Anne Wilson, MA, ALA Dr Margaret A Branthwaite, BA, MD, FFARCS, FRCP Dr Ruth Whaley BA, MA, PhD (Harvard) Sir Laurence W Martin, DL, MA, PhD, DCL (Hon) Miss Sarah C Holt, MA Mr Colin S Grassie, MA Mr Leif O HĂ¸egh, MA, MBA (Harvard) Ms Gladys Li, 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, Hon DLitt (Liverpool), FBA, 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), ScD, Life Fellow Julia M Riley, MA, PhD, Official Fellow, Tutor for Admissions (Undergraduate) 2 and Director of Studies in Physical Sciences

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A Marilyn Strathern, DBE, MA, PhD, 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), Hon DLitt (St Andrews), FBA, 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, BSc (Manchester), PhD (Bristol), Life Fellow John E Davies, MA, BSc, PhD (Monash), Life Fellow David N Dumville, MA, PhD (Edinburgh), Life Fellow 1Abigail L Fowden, MA, PhD, ScD, Professorial Fellow (Biological Sciences) (on leave LT & ET15) 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 (History) (on leave MT14 & ET15) Sarah Kay, MA, DPhil (Oxon), LittD, FBA, Life Fellow Mary Warnock (Baroness), DBE, MA (Oxon), Hon FBA, Life Fellow Howard P Hodson, MA, PhD, FREng, Life Fellow Peter C J Sparks, MA, DipArch, RIBA, Life Fellow 3 Stephanie Palmer, LLB (Adelaide), SJD (Harvard), LLM (Harvard), Supernumerary Fellow and Director of Studies in Law (Part IA & LLM) Frances Gandy, MA, MCLIP, Official Fellow, Librarian, Curator and Tutor for Science Graduates 1Christopher J B Ford, MA, PhD, Professorial Fellow (Physics) Charity A Hopkins, OBE, MA, LLB, Life Fellow W James Simpson, BA (Melbourne), MPhil (Oxon), PhD, Life Fellow 4Anne Fernihough, MA, PhD, Non-Stipendiary Fellow (English) 1Angela C Roberts, PhD, Professorial Fellow (Behavioural Neurosciences) 3Hugh R Shercliff, MA, PhD, Official Fellow and Director of Studies in Engineering (Part IA & IB)

Martin W Ennis, MA, PhD, FRCO, KRP (Köln), Austin and Hope Pilkington Fellow, Director of Studies in Music and Director of College Music John L Hendry, MA, PhD, Life Fellow 1Jochen H Runde, MPhil, PhD, Professorial Fellow (Economics) and 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, Dean for Student Discipline, Praelector and Director of Studies in Veterinary Medicine (Years 3 & 4) *A Mark Savill, MA, PhD, FRAeS, Non-Stipendiary Fellow (Engineering) 1Per-Olof H Wikström, BA, PhD (Stockholm), FBA, Professorial Fellow (Criminology) *1S-P Gopal Madabhushi, PhD, Professorial Fellow and Director of Studies in Engineering (Part IIA) 4P Mia Gray, BA (San Diego), MRCP (Berkeley), PhD (Rutgers), Official Fellow and Director of Studies in Geography (Part IB & II) 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 1Crispin H W Barnes, BSc, PhD (London), Professorial Fellow (Physics) and Tutor 3

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Judith A Drinkwater, MA, Official Fellow, Director of Studies in Linguistics and Modern and Medieval Languages (Year Abroad) and Tutor 2Colm Durkan, BA, PhD (Trinity College Dublin), Official Fellow, Director of Studies in Engineering (Part IIB & Admissions) and Tutor *1Edward J Briscoe, BA (Lancaster), MPhil, PhD, Professorial Fellow (Computer Science) K M Veronica Bennett, BSc (Leicester), PhD (CNAA), Official Fellow, Secretary to Council, Fellow for Communications and Director of Studies in Biological Sciences (Part IA) 3Harriet D Allen, MSc (Calgary), MA, PhD, Official Fellow, Director of Studies in Geography (Part IA & II) and Tutor Shaun D Fitzgerald, MA, PhD, Official Fellow (Engineering) and Tutor Stephen Robertson, MA, MSc (City), PhD (London), Life Fellow *Stuart Davis, BA, PhD (Birmingham), Official Fellow, Director of Studies in Modern & Medieval Languages (Part IB) and Tutor for Admissions (Undergraduate) Benjamin J Griffin, MA, PhD, Official Fellow and Director of Studies in History (Year 2) Fiona J Cooke, MA, BMBCh (Oxon), PhD (London), MRCP, Official Fellow and Director of Studies in Medicine (Part II and Clinical) Ross Lawther, MA, PhD, Olga Taussky Fellow and Director of Studies in Mathematics *Karen L Lee, MA, Vice-Mistress, Official Fellow (Law) and Tutor SinĂŠad M Garrigan Mattar, BA, DPhil (Oxon), Jane Elizabeth Martin Official Fellow (English) C Patricia Ward, MA, PhD Official Fellow (Physics) *3Stuart A Scott, MA, PhD, Official Fellow and Director of Studies in Engineering (Part IB) and Chemical Engineering (on leave MT 2014) 4Stelios Tofaris, MA, PhD, Official Fellow and Director of Studies in Law (Part IB & II) 8Liliana Janik, MPhil (Torun), PhD, Official Fellow, Director of Studies in Archaeology and Biological Anthropology (Part II) and Human Social & Political Sciences and Tutor for Arts Graduates

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Samantha K Williams, BA (Lancaster), MSc, PhD, Official Fellow, Director of Studies in History (Year 1 & 3) *Kamiar Mohaddes BSc (Warwick), MPhil, PhD, Official Fellow and Director of Studies in Economics (Part IIB) 4Nik Cunniffe, MA, MPhil, MSc (Bath), PhD, Official Fellow (Biological Sciences) 4Katherine Hughes, BSc, BVSc (Liverpool), MRCVS, Official Fellow and Director of Studies in Veterinary Medicine (Years 1 & 5) Edward W Holberton, BA, MPhil, PhD, Bradbrook Official Fellow and Director of Studies in English (Year 1 & 3) *Helen A Van Noorden, BA, MPhil, PhD, Wrigley Fellow and Director of Studies in Classics 3Carlo L Acerini, MA, BSc (Dundee), DCH (Glasgow), MD (Dundee), Official Fellow and Director of Studies in Medicine (Part IA & IB) Katherine M Kennedy, BA, MA (KCL), PgDip (Royal College of Music), PhD, Non-Stipendiary Fellow in English Morag A Hunter, BA, PhD, Official Fellow, Director of Studies in Earth Sciences and Tutor Mary V Wrenn, BA (Appalachian State), BSc (Appalachian State), MA (Colorado State), PhD (Colorado State), Joan Robinson Research Fellow in Heterodox Economics Sabesan Sithamparanathan, BEng (Sheffield), MPhil, PhD, TuckerPrice Research Fellow in Electrical Engineering Amy R Donovan, BA, MPhil, MSc (UCL), PhD, Ottilie Hancock Research Fellow in Geography Elizabeth Wade, MA, Official Fellow and Development Director Sophia M I Shellard-von Weikersthal, BSc, PhD (Freiburg), Official Fellow (Pharmacology) and Tutor Jacob Paskins, BA, MSc, PhD (UCL), Eugenie Strong Research Fellow and Director of Studies in Architecture Lucy G Cheke, BA, PhD, Sarah Woodhead Research Fellow in Experimental Psychology 4Henrik Latter, BA, BSc, MSc (Sydney), PhD, Official Fellow (Mathematics) *Hope Wolf, BA, MPhil, PhD (KCL), Rosamund Chambers Research Fellow and Director of Studies in English (Year 2) 3

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Nadja Tschentscher, BSc, MSc (Münster), PhD, Hertha Ayrton Research Fellow in Cognitive Neurosciences 1Matthew J Allen, MA, VetMB, PhD, Professorial Fellow (Veterinary Medicine) Hannah Scott, MA, MA (KCL), PhD (Bristol), Official Fellow and Director of Studies in Modern & Medieval Languages (Part IA) Hazel Mills, BA (Reading), DPhil (Oxon), Eugenie Strong Research Fellow in College History Lucy Thorne, MBiochem (Oxon), PhD (ICL), Rosalind, Lady Carlisle Research Fellow in Pathology Matthew Grayson, MA, Tucker-Price Research Fellow in Organic Chemistry Visiting Fellows Laurence D Murphy, BA, PhD (Trinity College, Dublin), Helen Cam Visiting Fellow (MT 2014) Artist-in-Residence Sonny Sanjay Vadgama, BA (Central St Martin’s College of Art & Design, London) Bye-Fellows Louise E Braddock, MA, MB, BChir, MD, MA (Reading), PhD (Reading), Praelector 4Caroline J A Brett, MA, PhD, (History), Director of Studies in Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic Claudia Domenici BA (Pisa) MA (Lancaster), Director of Studies in Modern & Medieval Languages (Part II) Margaret Faultless, MA, Hon. FBC, FTCL, ARCM, (Music) Sarah L Fawcett, BA, BM, BCh (Oxford), MRCS, FRCR (Medical and Veterinary Sciences) 5Kariann Goldschmitt, BA (UCLA), MA (UCSD), PhD (UCLA) (Music) The Revd A Malcolm Guite, MA, PhD (Durham), Chaplain (on leave MT 2014) 6Christopher K Hadley, MA, MSc. Director of Studies in Computer Science

John Lawson, BA, PhD, Director of Studies in Politics, Psychology and Sociology; Human, Social and Political Sciences, and Psychological and Behavioural Sciences (Part I) Nicholas Mulroy, MA, Director of Chapel Music and Assistant Director of College Music γ Anastasia Piliavsky, BA (Boston), MSc, DPhil (Oxon), Director of Studies in Social Anthropology (Part IIB) and Human, Social and Political Sciences 3Heidi Radke, DVM (Ludvig Maximilian University), DrVetMed (Zurich), Director of Studies in Veterinary Medicine (Years 2 & 6) γ Leslie Tourano-Taylor, BA (New York), BA (Oxon), MPhil, PhD (London) (Law) Emma J L Weisblatt, BA, MB, BCh, Director of Studies in Psychology and Psychological and Behavioural Sciences (Part IIA & IIB) γ Helen Yannakoudakis, BSc (Athens), MPhil, PhD, Newton Trust Teaching Fellow in Computer Science Archivist Emerita Kate Perry Cert Ed (Froebel) External Teaching Officers 1John S McCombie, MA, PhD, Director of Studies in Land Economy, Fellow of Downing College Richard Jennings, PhD, Director of Studies in Philosophy and History & Philosophy of Science Ben Outhwaite, BA, MPhil, PhD, Director of Studies in Asian & Middle-Eastern Studies, Head of the Genizah Research Unit in the University Hilary Marlow, BA (Manchester), BA (KCL), PhD, Director of Studies in Theology and Religious Studies, Faraday Institute for Science and Religion, Affiliated Lecturer in the Faculty of Divinity 4Sarah Rough, MEng, MA, PhD (DIC), Director of Studies in Chemical Engineering (MT 2014)

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Praelectors Louise E Braddock, MA, MB, BChir, MD, MA (Reading), PhD (Reading) Josh D Slater, PhD, BVMS (Edinburgh) Lectrice Madeleine Pham-Thanh, 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 Visiting Lecturer 6 University Computer Officer 7 University Technical Officer 8 University Assistant Director of Research Îł Subject to approval of Council

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Comings and Goings The Fellowship was saddened to learn of the death of one of its most senior members, Dr Biddy Marrian, in May 2014 (Obituary page 116). Members of College were also sorry to learn that Gill Starling, the Personnel Officer, lost her courageous battle against cancer just before Christmas, but heartened by the warm, wellattended celebration of her life at the beginning of the Lent term (Obituary page 120). As always, there are some changes in the Offices and Fellowships held within College. Most notably this year we take the opportunity to record our grateful thanks to Dr Julia Riley as she ends three successive and successful terms of office as the Vice-Mistress (a post she has held since October 2005). She is succeeded by Ms Karen Lee, a Girtonian Law graduate (1995) and a Fellow since 2003. Dr Riley herself takes on the mantle of Admissions Tutor alongside Dr Stuart Davis. The College was delighted to elect Chris Ford and Gopal Madabhushi to Professorial Fellowships following their promotions within the University. Dr John Davies, one of the first men to join the Fellowship as a Research Fellow in Chemistry, has been elected to a Life Fellowship and we look forward to enjoying his company and support for many years to come. Likewise, Professor Stephen Robertson has been elected to a Life Fellowship. Regrettably, Dr Albertina Albors-Llorens, the Rosalind Chambers Research Fellow in 1997 and subsequently Official Fellow, Director of Studies in Law and Tutor left the College this year. We shall miss her but are glad to report that she will remain in close touch with students, colleagues and friends at Girton. Dr Griff Rollefson, Bye-Fellow in Music,

who helped boost the popular music and jazz scene in College, has left to take up a permanent lectureship at University College Cork. Dr Arif Ahmed’s Bye-Fellowship also expires, though we hope to welcome him back to the Official Fellowship sometime soon. There are, as always, a few planned departures among the Research Fellows, and many congratulations are due: Dr Jeff Defoe, who resigned his Mitshubishi Heavy Industries Senior Research Fellowship slightly early to take up an appointment at University of Windsor, Ontario, in his home country of Canada; Dr Alex Liu, Henslow Research Fellow in Earth Sciences who has secured a prestigious NERC Postdoctoral Fellowship which will take him to Bristol University; Dr Kate Kennedy, Katharine JexBlake Research Fellow in English and Music, who was elected to a non-stipendiary Fellowship at Girton following her successful application via the English department for a Leverhulme Postdoctoral Fellowship; and Dr Amaleena Damlé celebrated the completion of her Newton Trust Research Fellowship with the launch in London of her new book The Becoming of the Body: Contemporary Women’s Writing in French. Professor Roger Leigh returned to The University of Adelaide, when his Brenda Ryman Visiting Fellowship ended at the end of December 2013. Professor Peters Ackers, who joined us as the Helen Cam Visiting Fellow for the Michaelmas Term 2013 and part of the Lent Term 2014, continues to work on the papers of Veronica Wootton and collaborate with Alastair Reid on a joint publication. He is succeeded in October 2014 by Laurence Murphy, visiting from University of Auckland. Our popular French Lectrice, Mlle Manon Turban, returns to her studies at the Ecole Normale Superiere de Lyon, and

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Mr Tom Barnett came to the end of his energetic and productive year as the Inaugural Artist in Residence (see details of his tenure on page 30). It is a pleasure to report several new appointments and additions to the Fellowship for 2014 and beyond. Council has elected two Professorial Fellows: Matthew Allen (from October 2014), a Girtonian who matriculated in Medical and Veterinary Medicine in 1985, and Chris Cannon returns to Girton and Cambridge to the chair of Mediaeval and Renaissance English (from October 2015). We have also appointed Dr Hannah Scott as half-time College Teaching Officer and Director of Studies in Modern and Medieval Languages. Two new Bye-Fellows were also appointed: Dr Helen Yannakoudakis, Newton Trust Teaching Fellowship and Kariann Goldschmitt, from New College of Florida, who teaches classes that combine world music, popular music and music history perspectives. Anastasia Piliavsky joins us as Director of Studies in Social Anthropology. Dr Hazel Mills, Girton Fellow in History from 1998 2008, returns as a Eugenie Strong Research Fellow tasked to write a scholarly history of Girton College for the 150th anniversary of its foundation in 2019. There are also two new Research Fellows in science: Dr Lucy Thorne, Rosalind, Lady Carlisle Research Fellow in Pathology and Mr Matthew Grayson, Tucker-Price Research Fellow in Organic Chemistry. Mlle Madeleine Pham- Thanh joins us as French Lectrice for the 2014-15 academic year and we welcome Mr Sonny Sanjay Vadgama as Artist in Residence (http://www.girton.cam.ac.uk/news/660girton-appoints-artists-in-residence).

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Fellows’ Publications Publications by the Fellows and Officers of the College during 201314 include: P ABRAHAMS. (All joint) ‘Singapore's anatomical future: quo vadis?’, Anatomical Sciences Education 5(4) (2013); ‘Improving anatomy education in the digital era using mobile tablet technology’, Clinical Anatomy 27(2) (2014); ‘Complementing anatomy education using three-dimensional anatomy mobile software applications on tablet computers’, Clinical Anatomy 27(3) (2014). T BRISCOE. (Both joint conference papers) ‘Capturing anomalies in the choice of content words in compositional distributional semantic space’, Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (Hissar, Bulgaria, 2013); ‘Parser lexicalisation through self-learning’, North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (Atlanta, Georgia, 2013). J CAMPBELL. ‘Indonesia 30 years on: the RSAA tour, September 2013’, Asian Affairs 45(2) (2014). L G CHEKE. (All joint) ‘Do different tests of episodic memory produce consistent results in human adults?’,

Learning & Memory 20(9) (2013); ‘Can male Eurasian jays disengage from their own current desire to feed the female what she wants?’, Biology Letters 10 (2014); ‘Using the Aesop's fable paradigm to investigate causal understanding of water displacement by New Caledonian crows’, PLoS ONE (2014). A DAMLÉ. The Becoming of the Body: Contemporary Women’s Writing in French (Edinburgh UP, 2014); (joint ed.) Aventures et expériences littéraires: écritures des femmes en France au début du vingt-et-unième siècle (Rodopi, 2014). A FERNIHOUGH. Freewomen and Supermen: Edwardian Radicals and Literary Modernism (OUP, 2013). A M FULTON. (Joint) ‘Dual-modality gene reporter for in vivo imaging’, PNAS 111(1) (2014). M GRAY. ‘Educating Reeta Mia: reflections on producing narratives of work’ in Sage Handbook of Human Geography, ed. N Castree et al. (Sage Publications, 2014); ‘Altering the landscape: reassessing labour’s role in Las Vegas’ hospitality industry’ in A Hospitable World: Tourism and the Organisation of Work in Hotel Workplaces, ed. D Jordhaus-Lier and

A Underthun (Routledge, 2014); ‘Unions and institutional innovation: learning from Las Vegas’, Urban Studies (2014); ‘Austerity in the city: economic crisis and urban service decline?’, Cambridge J. of Regions, Economy and Society 7(1) (2014) doi: 10.1093/cjres/rst040. B GRIFFIN. ‘Women’s suffrage’ in Languages of Politics in NineteenthCentury Britain, ed. D Craig and J Thompson (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013). M GUITE. ‘Antiphons’, Best Spiritual Writing 2013, ed. P Zaleski (Penguin USA, 2012); The Singing Bowl (Canterbury Press, 2013); ‘The Word and the words: Andrewes, Donne, and the theology of translation’ in The King James Version at 400: Assessing its Genius as Bible Translation and its Literary Influence, ed. D G Burke et al. (SBL, 2013); (joint) Reflections for Daily Prayer Advent 2014 – Christ the King 2015 (Church House Publishing, 2014). K KENNEDY. ‘Dweller in shadows: writing the biography of Ivor Gurney’ in The use of English 65(3) (2014); ‘‘A music of grief’: classical music and the First World War’ in International Affairs 90(2) (2014).

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K HUGHES. (Joint) ‘Breast cancer: the menacing face of Janus kinase’, Cell Death and Differentiation 21(2) (2014). J MANN. ‘Making it up as you go along’, Religion and Literature 44(3) (2013); ‘Allegory and Piers Plowman’ in The Cambridge Companion to Piers Plowman, ed. A Cole and A Galloway (Cambridge UP, 2014); ‘Was the C reviser’s manuscript really so corrupt?’ in New Directions in Medieval Manuscript Studies and Reading Practices: Essays in Honor of Derek Pearsall, ed. K Kerby-Fulton et al. (Notre Dame UP, 2014). H MARLOW. ‘Ecology, theology, society: physical, religious and social disjuncture in Biblical and NeoAssyrian prophetic texts’ in ‘Thus Speaks Ishtar of Arbela’: Prophecy in Israel, Assyria and Egypt in the NeoAssyrian Period, ed. R Gordon and H Barstad (Eisenbrauns, 2013); ‘Law and the ruining of the land: Deuteronomy and Jeremiah in dialogue’, Political Theology 14 (2013); ‘The hills are alive: the personification of nature in the psalter’ in Leshon Limmudim: Essays on the Language and Literature of the Hebrew Bible in honour of A A Macintosh, ed. D Baer and R Gordon (T & T Clark, 2013); ‘“What am I in a boundless creation?” An ecological reading of Sirach 16 & 17’, Biblical Interpretation 22(1) (2014).

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K MOHADDES. (All joint) ‘Oil prices, external income, and growth: lessons from Jordan’, Review of Middle East Economics and Finance 9(2) (2013); ‘Oil exports and the Iranian economy’, The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance 53(3) (2013); ‘An empirical growth model for major oil exporters’, J. of Applied Econometrics 29(1) (2014); ‘One hundred years of oil income and the Iranian economy: a curse or a blessing?’ in Iran and the Global Economy: Petro Populism, Islam and Economic Sanctions, ed. P Alizadeh and H Hakimian (Routledge, 2014).

Verlag, 2013); ‘Du concept de “MythScience” au “Robot Voodoo Power”: L’héritage afro-futuriste et anti-antiessentialiste de Sun Ra’ in Interpretation – the Art of Lili Reynaud-Dewar, ed. A Szymczyk et al. (Paraguay Press, 2013); ‘Musical (African) Americanization in the new Europe: the case of Aggro Berlin’ in Crosscurrents: American and European Music in Interaction, 1900-2000, ed. F Meyer et al. (Boydell & Brewer, 2014).

J M RILEY. (Joint) ‘Milliarcsecond properties of 10C sources in the Lockman Hole’, MNRAS, 440 20 (2014).

J RUNDE. (All joint) ‘De Finetti on uncertainty’, Cambridge J. of Economics 38(1) (2013); ‘Technological objects, social positions and the transformational model of social activity’, Management Information Systems Quarterly 37(3) (2013); ‘Models of causal inference: imperfect but applicable is better than perfect but inapplicable’, Strategic Management Review (2013) doi: 10.1002/smj.2164; ‘Uncovering unknown unknowns: towards a Baconian approach to management decision-making’, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes (2014) doi: 10.1016/j.obhdp.

J G ROLLEFSON. “‘Gheddos du monde’: sounding the ghetto, occupying the nation from Berlin to Paris” in Hip-Hop in Europe: Cultural Identities and Transnational Flows, ed. S Nitzsche and W Grünzweig (LIT

S SABESAN. (Both joint) ‘Passive UHF RFID interrogation system using wireless RFID repeater nodes’, Proc IEEE International Conference on RFID, USA (2013); ‘Wide area passive UHF RFID system using antenna diversity

B OUTHWAITE. ‘Lines of communication: medieval Hebrew letters of the 11th century’ in Scribes as Agents of Language Change, ed. E Wagner, B Outhwaite and B Beinhoff (De Gruyter, 2013). J PASKINS. ‘The Boulevard Lefebvre disaster: a crisis in construction’, Architectural Histories 1 (2013) doi: 10.5334/ah.ax.

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combined with phase and frequency hopping’, IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagations 62(2) (2014). H SHERCLIFF. (Both joint) Materials: Engineering, Science, Processing and Design (3rd ed., ButterworthHeinemann, 2014); Manufacturing and Design (Butterworth-Heinemann, 2014). S J SMITH. ‘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, 2013); (joint) ‘Motivations for equity borrowing: a welfare switching effect’, Urban Studies 50 (2013); (joint) ‘Channels from housing wealth to consumption’, Housing Studies 28 (2013); (joint) A Role for Equity Finance in UK Housing Markets (Joseph Rowntree Foundation, 2013). M STRATHERN. ‘Reproducing the future, in conversation with Marysia Lewandowska’ in Undoing Property?, ed. M Lewandowska and L Ptak (Sternberg Press, 2013); ‘Die Aufteilung. Explorations and exchanges across the seas’ in Michael Stevenson: An Introduction/Una Introducción, ed. N Hirsch et al. (Portikus, 2013); ‘Innovation or replication? Crossing and crisscrossing in social science’, Arts and Humanities in Higher Education 13(12) (2014); ‘Reading relations

backwards’, Marett Memorial Lecture, JRAI (NS) 20(1) (2013). D J THOMPSON. ‘Introduction’ and ‘Hellenistic royal barges’ in The Ptolemies, the Sea and the Nile. Studies in Waterborne Power, ed. K Buraselis et al. (CUP, 2013); (joint) ‘A demotic tax list from the Thebaid’ in A Good Scribe and an Exceedingly Wise Man: Studies in Honour of W J Tait, ed. A Dodson et al. (Golden House Publications Egyptology, 2014); ‘Cleruchic land in the Ptolemaic period in Law and Legal Practice in Egypt from Alexander to the Arab Conquest, ed. J Keenan et al. (CUP, 2014). R WARREN. (Both joint) ‘Ethnicity and outcome of young breast cancer patients in the United Kingdom: the POSH study’, British J. of Cancer 110(1) (2014) doi: 10.1038/bjc.2013.650, Epub 2013 Oct 22; ‘Prospective observational study of breast cancer treatment outcomes for UK women aged 18-40 years at diagnosis: the POSH study’, J. of National Cancer Inst. 105(13) (2013) doi: 10.1093/jnci/djt134, Epub 2013 May 30. P-O H WIKSTRÖM. ‘Situational action theory’ in The Springer Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice, ed. G Bruinsma and D Weisburd (Springer, 2013); (joint) ‘Towards an

analytical Criminology: a situational action theory’ in Kriminologie – Kriminalpolitik – Strafrecht, ed. K Boers et al. (Mohr Siebeck, 2013); ‘Why crime happens’ in Analytical Sociology: Norms, Actions and Networks, ed. G Manzo (Wiley, 2014). R M WILLIAMS. (Joint) ‘WheelerDeWitt Equation in 2 + 1 dimensions’, Physical Review D88, 084012 (2013). C A WILSON. ‘The Leeds Symposium on Food History and Traditions: its origin and progress’, Petits Propos Culinaires 100 (2014). H WOLF. (Joint editor) A Broken World: Letters, Diaries and Memories of the Great War (Hutchinson, 2014). Music releases M FAULTLESS. W.A. Mozart: The Complete Horn Concertos, Roger Montgomery Horn , Margaret Faultless Director/Violin, The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment (Signum Classics, 2013); Règne Amour: Love Songs from the Operas of JeanPhilippe Rameau, Carolyn Sampson Soprano with Ex Cathedra Choir and Baroque Orchestra, Conductor Jeffrey Skidmore, Leader Margaret Faultless (Hyperion, 2014).

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Awards and distinctions ADAMSON, J (1985) awarded an OBE for services to the UK international arms control policy and the Arms Trade Treaty, in the New Year Honours List 2014. ATKINSON, H V (Bavister 1978) awarded an CBE for services to engineering and education, in the New Year Honours List 2014. BEER, G P K (Thomas 1965; Honorary Fellow) awarded Honorary Doctorate of Letters degree (honoris causa) from University of St Andrews, February 2013. BELL, C (1977) awarded an Honorary Doctorate from Swansea University, January 2014.

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COMEAU, B (2011) elected Fellow of the Royal College of Organists (FRCO), 2014; winner of the Cambridge University Composersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Workshop and the At Lunch commission, Britten Sinfonia and Faculty of Music, University of Cambridge.

KNOWLES, B (1979) awarded an MBE for services to science communication and the environment, in the New Year Honours List 2014

FARRAR, M (1974) awarded an CBE for services to education, in the New Year Honours List 2014. GASS, E P (Acland-Hood 1958) awarded the Dame Commander of Royal Victorian Order (DCVO), in the New Year Honours List 2014.

BENN, J R (1980) elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, 2011.

GRAY, M (Fellow 1997) awarded a CUSU Teaching Excellence Award, citing her innovative and engaging teaching style, her support for students and her ability to inspire critical and imaginative thinking, 2014.

BLACK, A (Davoll 1969) awarded an OBE for parliamentary and political service, as Secretary to the Labour Party Constituency, in the Queenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Birthday Honours List 2013.

KATZ FEIGIS, I (2011) awarded the Morris Essay Prize of The Society for Architectural Historians of Great Britain, for an article about camps in Mandatory Palestine.

BRIGGS, R (1995) awarded an OBE for services to hostages and the families of victims kidnapped overseas, in the New Year Honours List 2014.

KENNEDY, K (Fellow 2010) awarded a 3-year Leverhulme Fellowship by the Faculty of English, University of Cambridge, 2014.

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KELLY, C (2008) awarded the Shinn Fellowship (Post-Student) for piano by the Royal Academy of Music, 2013.

Dr Barbara Knowles with Elfi and Frank Knowles and Rodics Gergely at Buckingham Palace, after receiving an MBE from Prince William for services to science communication and the environment.

KOSER, K A (1987) awarded an MBE for services to refugees and asylum seekers in the UK, in the New Year Honours List 2014.

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MANN, M K A (1986) awarded an OBE for voluntary and charitable service, in the New Year Honours List 2014. OPPONG, C (Slater 1959) received a special award for her invaluable contribution to the growth and development of the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana, November 2013. SABESAN, S (Fellow 2011) awarded a Royal Academy of Engineering (RAE) Enterprise Fellowship, 2014. SAVAGE, W (Edwards 1953) awarded Lifetime Achievement in sexual health, for women-centred obstetrics and gynaecology and a continuing contribution to womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s health and reproductive rights, from UK Sexual Health Awards, March 2013. SMITH, R A (1980) awarded an EPSRC Fellowship in Manufacturing, March 2013. SMITH, S J (Mistress) awarded the Victoria Medal of the Royal Geographical Society and Institute of British Geographers for conspicuous merit in research in human geography, June 2014.

SPRINGMAN, S M (1975) awarded an honorary degree of Doctor of Science from University of Bath, 2013; awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Sunday Times and Sky Sports Sportswomen of the Year, December 2013. STRATHERN, A M (Evans 1960; Fellow) awarded Honorary Doctorate of Letters degree (honoris causa) from University of St Andrews, February 2013. TOKSVIG, A (1977) awarded an OBE for services to broadcasting, in the New Year Honours List 2014. WHITAKER, J A (Stewart 1954) elected Honorary Fellow, Royal Institute of British Architects, 2013.

Further Academic and Professional Qualifications DRIVER, H (Staff) NVQ Level 2 in Business and Administration, 2013. FREEMAN, A (Rubie 1967) MA in Early Modern History, from Birkbeck College, University of London, November 2012. GAYTON, J (1966) PhD in History, from University of Exeter, November 2013. GUSTAR, A (1983) MA (distinction) in Music, from Open University, 2009. HOWIE, C M E (1970) MA from University of Cambridge, October 2013. RIVER, L (Turner 1969) MA (distinction) in Literature, Representation and Modernity, from London Metropolitan University, 2005. SMITH, R A (1980) PhD, from University of Nottingham, 2010. SMITH, S J (Mistress) PhD from University of Cambridge, July 2013. WILLIAMS, R M (1962; Fellow) ScD from University of Cambridge, May 2013. (Sc.D. not D.Sc.)

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University and College Awards Cambridge University Further Degrees and Awards University Further Degrees: DSc: R Williams. PhD: A M A Aldawood, A M G Ali, R Anchala, A Anievas, C L Batchelor, M-L Cenedese, G Ciotti, K Fahy, D T J Feist, H D Gaimsterm, J M Gibson, C E Gorman, A C Hall, K G Hambridge, J Jung, E G Loukaides, P L W Man, F I Paddeu, P S Patrick, A J V Renton, S J Smith, N I Sol, Y Sun, R W Taylor, O A Valenzuela, L K Walker. MPhil: A Aparicio, K E Brook, A M Carrigan, M Celep, S Chakarov, A R Charania, D W Du Plooy, C A J J Durand, J Fuhrmann, L Greenaway, W J Haaswijk, C E J Hardy, Y He, D Hoogland, J Hu, Y Hu, W G E Hudson, J M Jachimowicz, C Jones, O Kenny, O M Kwon, R Landis, A McGoldrick, A Mendlein, D E N Minarsch, P Momtaz, Z F Ng, Z M Razack, M Reischer, L Ryndina, N Scales, A Scoica, C C Webb. MMath: J Dauparas, N Dupre. MASt: V Aravantinos-Sotiropoulos, H G J Bart, A B Booij, R Kramer, A M G E A Masullo, S W Pohorence, C Zou.

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MEng: D Armitage, S B Blackwell, A D Campbell, N Charlesworth, Y L Choo, N d’Estais, A Jasonas, C M Minciacchi, P Nardecchia, R O Seal, H Sherif, A Singh, M H Thoma, N Wilson. MFin: V Chhuor, A Görke, P John. MEd: T Salway. MSci: E P Brooker, S E I Bosman, J Bulstrode, M J Hatfield, T Kartanas, B Katz, S M Mesoy, J E C Morely, N B Nguyen, B O’Connell, V Oleinikovas, G Zhao. MB: N R Aikman, A J W Badcock, B Gaastra, T E Williams. VetMB: D R W Adams. BChir: J S Aris Chandran, J J Clark, E Courcha, N D Hopkins, A C Smithson, H I Wilton.

University Prizes for Academic Excellence: Donald Wort Prize: B Comeau. J B Trend Fund: R Kitchen. Richard Perham Prize: D S Fischer. Wrenbury Scholarship: S R Thiele.

College Awards College Competition Prizes Hammond Science Communication Prize: Charlotte Burford (Judges’ Prize and Audience Prize), Ellie Drabble (Abstract Prize), David Harrison (Royal College of Pathologists Prize for Best Talk with a Pathological Theme). Humanities Writing Competition Prize: Zeyuan Zhou, Wycombe Abbey School (first prize); Annabel Aldred, Abbey VI College, Manchester (second prize); Hannah Wooldridge, Benenden School (runner-up); Frances Benson, Nottingham Girls’ High School (runner-up). Jane Martin Poetry Prize: Alexandra Strnad (first prize) and Penny Boxall (second prize). Mountford Humanities and Arts Communication Prize: Aleksander Musialam (Judges’ Prize, the Abstract prize, and the Audience Prize), Suzanne Mesoy (joint winner of the Judges’ prize) and to Josie Teale (joint winner of the Audience Prize). Ridding Reading Prize: Camilla Seale. Rima Alamuddin Prize: Ben Comeau and Rhiannon Randle.

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Tom Mansfield Memorial Prize: Ben Comeau and Robbie Haylett. Wrigley Prize: Eleanor Lavan. Postgraduate Scholarships Edith Lydia Johns: K O Dokken, H Thorburn, H Wilton. John Bowyer Buckley: H M Phillips, M K Seneviratne, K Smallwood. M T Meyer: V AravantinosSotiropoulos, R Kramer, A M Masullo, S Pohorence. Postgraduate Prizes Mathematics Gertrude Mather Jackson: V Aravantinos-Sotiropoulos, R Kramer, A M Masullo, S Pohorence. Medicine and Veterinary Medicine Edith Neal: K O Dokken, H Thorburn. Leslie Hall: H M Phillips, M K Seneviratne, K Smallwood. Ming Yang Lee: H Wilton. Undergraduate Scholarships Alice Violet Jenkinson: E DinsdaleCooley, Z T Lanzara, G R Wagstaff. Amelia Gurney: J Stanyard. Angela Dunn-Gardiner: J Bulstrode, H J Lee, J E C Morley, E Saada.

Sir Arthur Arnold: J Cesonis, L M Degenhardt, S J M Hopkins, C K Kwok, P Sobanda. Barbara Bodichon: H Alexander, E P Booker, A W Chadwick, O De’Ath, M Kingston, D Lawrence, M Lees, C E Limb, N B Nguyen, J K Tong, F J Tveit. Edith Lydia Johns: I Abbass, H Clifford, C J McGrady. Ellen McArthur: O De’Ath, S DeBere, L Degenhardt, R Chesshyre, F Cotterill, P Mensah, M Williams. Emily Davies: A Gilbey, E A Crowdy, S E I Bosman, T Gemunden, A Johnston, J S D Jukes, T Kartanas, P Mensah, S A Mizera, S Wallace. Florence Ethel Gwyn: R K Chesshyre. Sir Francis Goldsmid: W CartwrightHarwood, C Ellery, R N Russo. Henry Tomkinson: S F Cotterill, M Hatfield, T E May, H J Parker, A D Rossiter. Jane Hunter: J M Ginn. John Bowyer Buckley: G Averill, D S Fischer, S M Mesoy, T Newman, S A Taylor, A Thompson, S D Vianello, C E Walker. Mary Ann Leighton: J O PulmanSlater, M T Williams. Mary Higgins: H C Greenstreet, H K Jameson. Mary Sparke: C R Aldrich-Green. M T Meyer: O W Abbey, T V Ball, E L Bentley, J Dauparas, R A I Deo, N Dupre, O McEnteggart. Rosalind, Lady Carlisle: S DeBere. Russell Gurney: D Neale-Draysey. Sophia Turle: C W Lim, B Comeau. Todd Memorial: R Kitchen.

Undergraduate Prizes The Appleton Cup: Stephanie Taylor. Charlton Award in Medieval/Renaissance Literature: Paoula Sobanda. Laurie Hart Memorial Prize: Ben Comeau. Thérèse Montefiore Memorial Prize: Matthew Hatfield. Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic Jane Catherine Gamble: A Gilbey. Archaeology & Anthropology Beatrice Mills: H J Lee. Chemical Engineering Satyanarayana Madabhushi: C K Kwok. Classics Ethel Gavin: J Stanyard. Computer Science Raemakers: A W Chadwick, F J Tveit. Economics J V Robinson: H Alexander, O De’Ath. Lilian Knowles: S DeBere. Engineering Jane Catherine Gamble: H K Jameson. Raemakers: R N Russo. Satyanarayana Madabhushi: J Cesonis, C Ellery, H J Parker, A D Rossiter.

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English Charity Reeves: C R Aldrich-Green, W Cartwright-Harwood, E A Crowdy, E Dinsdale-Cooley, H C Greenstreet, Z T Lanzara, P Sobanda, G R Wagstaff. Eileen Alexander: C E Limb. Jane Catherine Gamble: C E Limb. Geography Margaret Anderson: A Johnston, J S D Jukes, T E May. History Eileen Power: R K Chesshyre. Lilian Knowles: D Neale-Draysey. Law Lilian Knowles: S J M Hopkins. Mary Arden: S Wallace. Linguistics Beatrice Mills: J O Pulman-Slater. Mathematics Gertrude Mather Jackson: T V Ball, J Dauparas, R A I Deo, N Dupre. May Smithells: O W Abbey, E L Bentley, O McEnteggart.

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Medical Sciences Ming Yang Lee: S A Taylor. Thomas & Elizabeth Walton: I Abbass, C J McGrady, T Newman, A Thompson.

Veterinary Medicine Thomas & Elizabeth Walton: H Clifford.

Modern and Medieval Languages Fanny Metcalf: R Kitchen. Johanna Stevenson: J M Ginn.

Travel Awards Adela Marion Adam Grant: M Hatfield. Charlotte Rycroft: O Deâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Ath, N dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Estais.

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College Travel Scholarship: H Lee, I Savitsky. Dorothy Chadwick: E Chadwick. Dorothy Tempest: M McLaren. Edith Helen Major Grant: G Darling, M Nelson, C Walker. Eileen Ellenbogen: C Seale. E M and F A Kirkpatrick Travel Prize: I Hitchen. J K Brightwell Grant: R Chesshyre, E Grigson, T Hao, A Harber, R Haylett, M Ptacek, E Wells, K Yoo. Judith Eccleshare Grant: S DeBere, R Hazzard, A Johnston. K J Baker: S Taylor, S Moss. Rosemary Delbridge: P Mensah. Mary Morrison Grant: N Charlesworth, A Donegan, V Udra. Marina Shakich Grant: N Bird, I Coulson, I Diver, A Halstead, G Levitt, C Meggitt, S Mizera. Monica Wilson: A Ebrahimoff. Sheila Spire: C Bevin, A MirosevicSorgo. Music Awards College Music Scholarship: C Seale. Daphne Bird Instrumental Awards: J R Bourne, S A Bunschoten-Binet, A M Haupt, J Stein-Supanich. Jill Vlasto Choral Awards: S A Bunschoten-Binet, D Lawrence, M E Nelson. London Girton Association Music Award: J G Coleman.

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Appointments of Alumni and Fellows 1954 WHITAKER, J A (Stewart) appointed President of the South Downs Society; President of Friends, Families and Travellers; President of Advisory Council for the Education of Romany and other Travellers. 1963 JOHNSON, J A (Buckle) appointed Principal Examiner for the History Internal Assessment of the International Baccalaureate. 1970 DOWLING, A P appointed as the first female President of the Royal Academy of Engineering for a five-year term from September 2014. 1971 ATKINS, M J (Dunkerley) appointed Chief Executive of the Higher Education Funding Council for England from early 2014. 1971 DONALD, A M (Griffith) (Honorary Fellow) appointed Master of Churchill College, Cambridge, with effect from 1 October 2014.

1977 BELL, C appointed by the Minister to serve as Trustee of the National Museum of Wales (Amgueddfa Cymru) from 1 June 2014, for a term of four years. 1978 WILLSDON, C A P appointed Professor of the History of Western Art, University of Glasgow from August 2012; elected as Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland from November 2012. 1980 BENN, R J appointed Visiting Fellow in Flood Risk Management at University of Sheffield. 1980 GILLESPIE, A V appointed Head Teacher and Head of Centre at Grandpont Nursery School and Children’s Centre, Oxford from 1 January 2013. 1980 SMITH, R A appointed Professor of NDT and High Value Manufacturing, University of Bristol from April 2013. 1983 O’HANLON, S P appointed Chief Clinical Information Officer at EMIS Group.

1974 TRUSTED, M appointed Honorary Vice-President ARTES Iberian and Latin American Visual Culture Group from 2012.

1986 LISHMAN, S elected College President of the Royal College of Pathologists from November 2014.

1976 AUSTEN, M D appointed Deputy Lord-Lieutenant of Gloucestershire from 23 August 2013.

1990 BROODBANK, C elected Cambridge University Disney Professor of Archaeology from 1 October 2014.

1976 BLINCOE, C M (Tricker) appointed Clinical Tutor at Lancaster University from 12 September 2012.

1990 MILNER, V appointed Advocate of Callington Chambers.

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Alumni Publications DAWLING P (1970). Sustainable Market Farming: Intensive Vegetable Production on a Few Acres (New Society Publishers, 2013). GUILLEBAUD P (1944). From Bats to Beds to Books (Fern House, 2013). GUSTAR A (1983). ‘The closest thing to crazy: the shocking scarcity of septuple time in western music’, J. of the Royal Musical Association 137(2) (2012); ‘The life and times of BlackEy’d Susan: the story of an English ballad’, Folk Music J. 10(4) (2014). HERDING M (2007). Inventing the Muslim Cool: Islamic Youth Culture in Western Europe (Transcript, 2013). HOLLAND D (1998). Integrating Knowledge Through Interdisciplinary Research: Problems of Theory and Practice (Routledge, 2013). KONING A C (1972). Line of Sight (Arbuthnot Books, 2014). LACHELIN G (1958). A History of Ockham to 1900, ed. R Primrose (Surrey Archaeology Society, 2013). MANNS J (2007). Kaleidoscope City: Reflections on Planning and London (Birdcage Print, 2014).

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OSMOND R (1964). Waldenstein (Seraphim Editions, 2013). PATRICK S (2009). (Joint) ‘Dualmodality gene reporter for in vivo imaging’, PNAS 111(1) (2014). POTTS H W W (1988). (All joint) ‘The hidden medical school: A longitudinal study of how social networks form, and how they relate to academic performance’, Medical Teacher 34(7) (2012); ‘Making sense of personal health information: challenges for information visualization’, Health Informatics J. 19(3) (2013); ‘The mediators of minority ethnic underperformance in final medical school examinations: a longitudinal study’, British J. of Educational Psychology 83(1) (2013). SMITH J (2000). ‘A critical analysis of the 2014 draft English National Curriculum and a comparison with current high school practice’, Int. J. of Historical Learning, Teaching and Research 12(1) (2014). WILLAN E A (1956). One Soufflé at a Time: A Memoir of Food and France With Recipes (St Martin’s Press, 2013). WILLIAMS M H (Thomas 1965). Jews in a Graeco-Roman Environment (vol. 312 of Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen Zum Neuen Testament) (Mohr Siebeck, 2013).

WILLSDON C A P (1978). Impressionist Gardens (Thames and Hudson Ltd, 2010); Jardines Impresionistas (Museo ThyssenBornemisza/Las Fundacion Caja Madrid, 2010); Country Gardens: John Singer Sargent RA, Alfred Parsons RA, and their Contemporaries (Broadway Arts Festival Trust, 2012); ‘Impressionist interiors’ (review of National Gallery of Ireland exhibition), French Studies 66(3) (2012).

Music releases: SCHELLHORN M (1995). Ian Wilson: Stations. (Diatribe Records, 2014).

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