Roll News 2007 by Homerton College

FROM THE PRINCIPAL Someone said to me the other day, "It's been a quieter year at Homerton, hasn't it?" I wasn't sure how to answer. Was it a quiet year? And is a quiet year a good or a bad thing? Does it represent calm and purposeful progress or sloth and inactivity? Do Principals strive towards the former while trying to avoid fireworks and disasters? Put another way, is no news, good news? From my perspective there has been plenty of action. There has also been plenty of actual noise as we built South Court, completing the last phase of the programme that will allow all undergraduates to live on site, if they wish. The Bursar boasts that we now have more bedrooms than the Ritz! I can just see South Court's green roof, half-hidden by the trees, which frame it and give it perspective. The Court itself is surprisingly spacious and we have maintained the long vista across from the old buildings. So far the building has proceeded calmly enough: the excitements will come when all 138 new residents try out the plumbing at the same time in October. New plumbing has the possibility of nightmares for Principals. Cambridge, as you know, has a micro-climate created by the hot air emanating from 18,000 academic minds, all at work at once. So the early summer examinations have kept us relatively dry while all around us waters rise and flood. But even Homerton is having a damp summer. In the wild area, beyond the pond with its newts and yellow iris, is a magnificent flush of hundreds of pink pyramidal orchids, reflecting the swampier conditions of the summer. The gardens are magnificent. We have just replanted the herbaceous border outside East House and the treeplantings of recent years, many of them generously presented by Roll members, are leaping upwards. The College is looking good and as a result its members are feeling good. A matter of quiet satisfaction to a Principal. In December, we celebrated two things. The Vice-Chancellor, Professor Alison Richard and Chairman of the Trustees, Sir David Harrison, opened Harrison House, our new building for graduate students. (Harrison House's plumbing proved very exciting but is calming down). We chose to open it on 9th December 2006, thirty years to the day when Homerton succeeded in winning the vote in the University, which allowed us to become an Affiliated Society of the University, with our students matriculating as members of the University. That victory, achieved by the work of Dame Beryl and Alison Shrubsole, was possibly the most exciting thing that has happened at Homerton since our move from London at the end of the nineteenth century. Nothing in this year can match it. Now that's what makes for an exciting year. So this has been a year of consolidation. Our first Engineering students have received their M.Eng after four years and both the Principal and the Praelector had to learn some new Latin as a result. Our first mathematicians for the Maths Tripos will start in October, completing the list of new subjects we began in 2001. There is a new Education Tripos beginning this year. We are putting the finishing touches to our draft Statutes and Ordinances as we prepare the documentation for our application to the University and Privy Council to become a full College in name as well as in fact. And when that happens there will be fireworks! Kate Pretty July 2007

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Editorial remembered and celebrated, as should their achievements in education and other spheres on leaving Cambridge’. She has offered us a challenge – how should we respond to it? I would like to think that the Roll News, at least, may provide a forum for celebrating those achievements, and hope that the ‘Life After Homerton’ articles may be making some small contribution to this. More such accounts, please. Let’s hear from you all. For myself, I am very sure that Anne Martin is speaking no more than the truth when she says: ‘Now education and teaching has changed radically, and Homerton has had to change to survive and have a valuable future – but its future is a result of the successes of the past’.

When Ian Morrison asked me to take over the editing of the Homerton Roll News I didn’t know what I was letting myself in for - but I can truly say that it has been a revelation. Anyone who reads through the news you send in in response to our questionnaires (and my sincere apologies to those whose replies came too late for inclusion this year) must be struck by the places in the world into which Homerton reaches, and the range of activities, interests and achievements of Homertonians. Having read through your letters, news and memories, however, I have also been made even more aware than I was before of how the present achievements and future hopes of Homerton are built on the work of the past. As T.S.Eliot wrote in Burnt Norton, Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future, And time future contained in time past…. This can certainly be said of Homerton.

I hope you enjoy reading the mixture of present, past, and hopes for the future which you will find in these pages, and look forward to receiving your contributions, comments, criticisms … whatever you wish, as a way of keeping past, present and future alive in each other.

These thoughts were inspired by reading some of your letters, and particularly by Anne Martin’s long and very interesting ‘Thoughts on a Homerton Reunion’. It would be good to hear from more of you – perhaps in response to her wish that ‘the contributions of particular years of students to Homerton’s academic development should be

As a past lecturer and new editor, my greetings to you all. Janet Bottoms jfb33@cam.ac.uk

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CONTENTS From the President of HUS

p. 3

‘Thoughts on a Homerton Reunion’

p. 17

Prize Winners 2006 Football Victory

p. 4 p. 5

Branch News

p. 19

“Access” and Homerton

p. 5

Letters News By Decades – 1930s

p. 20 p. 22

The Changing Scene …and what doesn’t change

p. 6

1940s

p. 22

1950s

p. 24

In Memoriam Malcolm Pointon

p. 9

1960s

p. 27

1970s

p. 29

Memories of the Old Homerton

p. 10

1980s

p. 32

Life After Homerton (1) Life After Homerton (2)

p. 12 p. 13

1990s

p. 34

2000s

p.38

Memories of Homerton and Cambridge

p. 16

Deaths

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2007 Homerton Roll News ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------This year the Peer Support classes attended by some, if not most, of our Exec was well worth it and have helped us in providing support for welfare cases in college. Scott Bryant and Laura Smith, as well as many others, have provided a service that is at the beck and call of those students who need help most quickly. Their attitude has been professional and compassionate in one of the more demanding jobs and I as well as many others, are very grateful for their work. Whilst there is not enough time to pay tribute to everyone, my thanks go to Dr Kate Pretty, Dr Peter Warner, Phil Stevenson, Dr Peter Raby, Steve Watts, Ian Morrison, Lizzie Madder, Anne Thwaites, Penny Barton and of coarse, Bobbie and the wonderful Exec. This year has thrown up many challenges and many problems to overcome, and I genuinely believe it to have been a real team success. There have been physical changes, in the form of South Court as well as changes and adaptations to systems which will continue to provide support for students, hopefully long after I have left. My thanks to all who have helped the Exec and me achieve so much this year and I wish everyone the greatest success in all that they do next year and in the future.

My Presidential Year by Alexandra Boag, President of the Students Union. It might be an old cliché, but a year really does fly by. It seems like yesterday that I was being given instructions about things from my predecessor Chris, the incomprehensibility of which was startling and scary. It was a fast and, at times, difficult learning curve but I have thoroughly enjoyed every twist, challenge and especially all the wonderful people who have been so helpful and supportive and who have made this year a great success. The year started with the sad departure of our Administrator Helena who, after seven years of invaluable service, left for a career in finance. Whilst it was a tricky experience trying to do two people’s work when, having not been on the Exec before, work for one was tough enough, I was more than grateful when the wonderful Bobbie was appointed as our new Administrator at the start of the Lent term. Together we managed to cobble things together, at all times given full support by both staff and the rest of the Executive. One of the main issues that cropped up over the year was the changing of the Exec into a JCR and MCR, rather than an over-arching, universal body. We had a lively, but productive (!) debate over the decision, attracting a large number of people to discuss college issues: which can be no bad thing. After long debate, we made the decision to stick with the present but with an eye fixed firmly on the future. For my successor, Cassell, the issue will be one that comes up again and a decision should be made with the best and most practical interests of the college taken into account. This year the Exec, under the auspices of Colin Ferguson, have communicated with the ‘Dark Side’ rather well and have managed to set up a sister college for Homerton in Oxford. Mansfield College is similar to Homerton both in terms of its fledgling status as a college within the University, and in its beautiful grounds- a visit there was well worth it and I hope many other instances can take place in the forthcoming years. Talking of visits, a special mention must be made to the success of the Target and Access schemes, which were carried out with military precision by the one and only Sam Hinton. A very worthwhile and productive trip to Doncaster emphasised the need to continue these schemes to give a balanced view of life in Cambridge to all, especially those perhaps not thinking of applying specifically. As well as Target and Access, one of the most influential services provided by the HUS is Welfare.

May Ball 2007

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Prize Winners 2006

Horobin Prize – For the best overall results in the Education Studies Tripos Sarah Winfield

Foundation prize James Castell (English) Year 3 Simon Evans (Education) Year 3 Christine McCaughan (Education) Year 3 Arti Krishna (Linguistics) Year 4 Richard Kueh (Theology) Year 3 Charlotte Wilkins Education) Year 3 Sarah Winfield (Education) Year 3 William Hall (Natural Sciences) Year 1 Gregor Kuglitsch (Economics) Year 2 Amy Hobday (Education) Year 2

Westall Prize – Awarded to a student who has made a most outstanding contribution to College life and has helped students, and others, above and beyond the call of duty. Ben Wheeler Joyce Ridley Prize – For the best performance in the Arts & Education Hannah Graves

Shuard Prize Katherine Armstrong Katharine Cowan Megan Cross Michelle Ganderton Sara Gooding Hannah Goodman Hannah Graves Deborah Griffin Anna Webb Tom Simms Prize Anne Haines Sophie Stahl Ian Williams

George Peabody Prizes – For achieving a First in Part 1 of the Education Studies Tripos Alexandra Butt English and Drama Samantha Fincham History Laura Hughes English Jennifer Hurt Biological Sciences Sarah Sheridan English and Drama College Subject Prizes nominated by the Director of Studies

David Thompson Prize For achieving a First in: Hang Tung Chow Natural Sciences Year 3 Ivy Ko Economics Year 3 Can Liang Engineering Year 3 Richard Louth Economics Year 3 Alexandra Marks Social & Political Sciences Year 3 Georgina Matson-Phippard Natural Sciences Year 3 William Saab Social & Political Sciences Year 3 Yannick Bahé Natural Sciences Year 1 Ignas Budvytis Computer Sciences Year 1 Jingdong Chen Engineering Year 2 Simon Cooper Computer Sciences Year 2 Lutz Engberding Economics Year 1 Sam Gunning Social & Political Sciences Year 2 Hannah Page John Pawson Peter Rennie

For overall performance in the Preliminaries to Part 1 of the English Tripos Michael Finley For overall performance in the Preliminaries to Part 1 of the History Tripos Brendan Coyne Daniel Ham For overall performance in the Preliminaries to Part 1 of the Education Studies Tripos Peter Atkinson Crystal Reed Hui Xin Tan The Barbara Pointon Prize – For the most exciting and innovative materials for use in school music as part of the Education Tripos Part 1 Jacqueline Howard

Natural Sciences Year 2 Engineering Year 2 Archaeology & Anthropology Year 2

The Malcolm Pointon Prize – For personal composition in music by a first year student Toby Heath

The Helen Morris Prize – For the most distinguished results in English in Part 1 of the Education Studies Tripos Laura Hughes

“ACCESS” AND HOMERTON The Jonathan Beswick Memorial Prize – In recognition of outstanding project work in Maths for Part 1 of the Education Studies Tripos Amy Hobday

by Steve Watts, Admissions Tutor Though Homerton College has changed considerably in the last 6 years since we ‘converged’ with the University, our commitment to education has not wavered. We still take students for Education Studies degrees at both undergraduate and graduate level, and, of course, are the college for the vast majority of those taking the PGCE.

The Simms Benefaction – For the student judged by the History Directors of Study to have benefited most from the study of history Brendan Coyne

As you all know we now take under- and postgraduates for most of the courses offered by the University as a whole, and have a growing body of fellows, Directors of Study and supervisors covering everything from Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic to Zoology. This makes it even more important that we maintain and develop a serious interest in what is going on currently in education. It is from schools, obviously, that we get our students, and so we must go to schools in order to demonstrate that what we have to offer is for everyone with the necessary academic qualities. In practical terms this means visiting state schools, and having them visit us to help in raising aspirations. The schools we work with tell us that their biggest problem is persuading some of their very bright students that Higher Education is worthwhile at all, let alone ‘posh’ Cambridge.

Homertonian Mother and Son Andrew Malcolm (2004-2007) graduated in June having completed the Education Studies Tripos. Pictured here with his mother who was also a Homerton student, Helen Samuels (1972-1975)

Homerton has been involved from the beginning in the initiatives undertaken by the Cambridge Colleges to widen participation in Higher Education. With pumppriming money from the government (long gone, we pay now) Cambridge elected to work regionally, with individual colleges taking responsibility for areas that had lower numbers of students going into Higher Education than average. We took on South Yorkshire (Doncaster, Rotherham, Barnsley) and a zone of ‘Educational Action’ (particularly disadvantaged) in North East Derbyshire. We also took on most of Humberside (Scunthorpe, and Grimsby). I have to confess the main reason for taking this region was that it was where I come from- so I spoke the language. As well as visits to schools and day visits from schools, we have had regular residential visits from year 10 students from these areas. Groups of schools bring their ‘gifted and talented’ students to see what a Cambridge college is like and these are always amazed by the friendliness and lack of ‘poshness’ in Homerton College. We give them a taster of academic life with

Football Victory The Homerton College Student Football Club won back the Challenge Trophy from Leyton Orient Supporters Club after an exciting four all draw followed by a penalty shoot out. Prior to the match a plaque was unveiled above the ticket office in the newly built grandstand recording that Leyton Orient was founded by a group of Homerton students in 1881. This high profile location, close to the centre of the Olympic 2012 area, will be seen by many thousands of football fans and Olympic visitors. After the match and the presentation of the trophy, the College gave the Supporter's Club a framed copy of the Homerton Ladies Football Team of 1907-8

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friendships that will last, as the friendships so vividly witnessed to in the pages of this Newsletter have done.

This is all organised by our Schools’ Liaison Officer, Selina Hawkins, whose services we share with Jesus and Christ’s Colleges. Between us we keep her pretty busy. She is not a ‘recruiter’: we don’t ask that this programme bring more applicants directly to the college. It is about dispelling myths, promoting the value of intellectually stimulating and stretching courses, persuading those with the talent that the top universities are open to them, about showing that our own students, who work tirelessly and enthusiastically on all of these initiatives, are more like them that they think. The initiative is about to start its fifth year and is going strong.

And What Doesn’t Change

“A tranquil green” by Stephen Tomkins, Fellow and Director of Studies in Biological Sciences Arguably the oldest features of the Homerton grounds are our conserved College meadows. Although we now have less than one acre that is managed as long grass, with a hay cut in July, well over two thirds of the College site is still covered in lawns and playing fields. With some pride we are still perhaps the greenest College in that sense.

I recently looked at the Enclosure map of 1804, which clearly showed how the then out-of-town fields had their boundaries set, with hawthorn and oak hedgerows, so more clearly to demarcate the ownership of fields by individuals. One line of old oaks from this date persists in the College grounds, though the enclosure hedge has gone. It ran obliquely, on a diagonal, from the lime avenue boundary on the south east side of College, westwards across to the old tennis courts. It has a still traceable field boundary bank. It was the two adjacent fields to this hedge that were bought when Cavendish College was founded here on three open country fields. When the Victorian spine of the College was built, in 1876, some of our older trees were additionally planted. More were definitely added when Homerton College moved up here from London in the 1890s. In the past century there has been a long sequence of plantings, from orchards and copses to the many trees now given by former members. Today we love our trees very much, but we must also not lose the biodiversity of our grassland by wooding, and shading, the grass too much. We currently aim to balance the tranquil green of our lawn, playing fields and meadows with our tree and flower bed plantings.

The Changing Scene at Homerton Past decades have seen enormous changes in the physical appearance of Homerton, and at times it may have appeared to many to be one large building site as the black-and-white buildings came down and the various ‘wings’ and Mary Allen Building rose. At the heart of it all, however, the Victorian building remain (at least externally) unchanged and unchanging, and 2007 brings this phase of the College’s life to a conclusion. The most recent phase has brought two new accommodation blocks for undergraduate and postgraduate students, along with four self-contained flats for Junior Research Fellows. South Court (mainly for Yr 2 undergraduates) is being added to the existing accommodation in West and East Houses, and the opening of Harrison House, for graduates, was an important day in the life of Homerton as it takes its next steps forward in the Cambridge of the 21st century. Equally important for the College’s financial security is the new Conference Centre, making new use of some of the most venerable of our teaching rooms. The Leah Manning Room – of which more is written elsewhere in this Newsletter – is a good example of the sensitive way in which this refurbishing has largely been done.

It is not unreasonable that two hundred years ago much of the land where the College now stands was either grazed pasture or mown meadow and the sward from that time retains at least some of its diversity of plants. We still have some twenty three species of grasses with such delightful common names as the Yellow Oat Grass, Sweet Vernal Grass, and Yorkshire Fog, not to mention the metaphoric Crested Dog’s Tail, Cocksfoot and Meadow Foxtail. On rough patches of waste-land we even have Wild Oats .... which sow themselves

All this may appear strange to old-Homertonians revisiting the place, but the essential continuity of the College is assured by the continuity of everyday life – all the talking, working, eating, sleeping, living and growing – which goes on just as it always did, preparing today’s students for their future lives, and for

2007 Homerton Roll News ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------easily, by twisting their long and hairy awns to drive their seeds downwards! The case for the early existence of Homerton’s ancient meadowland is well made by the large number of native leguminous plant species. Once sheep farmers “were in clover” as they fattened their stock on these amazing plants that take nitrogen from the air and make protein without added nitrogen fertiliser. Where once we had cows and sheep grazing the mowers of the College groundsmen now take the grass away. This they do relentlessly and year upon year. Indeed the endless mowing of the College lawns removes the very nutrient base that encourages that greater diversity of hardy plants; for nutrient depletion enhances species-richness. A close look at any College lawn will show the tiny clovers and medicks that still make up much of its structure, along with the fine fescues, Yarrow, different speedwells, plantains and daisies. Botanists have an affection for very old lawns! Occasionally a patch of hockey pitch or tennis court is left uncut; it is then that one finds out what grasses we have, once they are up and in flower. On one such occasion recently a patch of bee orchids, probably present all the time in the College lawns, showed themselves in full glory in June. Annually we find bee orchids in the conserved meadow areas. We have two other orchid species, both liking the wetter ill-drained areas that occasionally flood after rain in winter or spring. These two are the green Twayblade and the Common Spotted Orchid, more than 50 of which we now have in flower annually. We even boast the very rare Adder’s Tongue Fern. As you walk through the College grounds, in high summer, not only will you see the extensive lawns and parkland trees which add such graciousness to our environment, but also extensive and sinuous patches of un-mown grass which support so much other life. Frogs from the pond need this environment for their food supply of insects. Ants develop much stronger colonies in long grass than in a lawn and we have a resident breeding Green Woodpecker that is keen on eating them. A fraction of the long grass area is left uncut, deliberately, each year and left uncut to the following July. It looks desperately untidy to some people (so we have a notice to explain its unkempt nature) but it is so necessary to have if we are to keep up good

seeding by the meadow plants and also retain resident populations of Meadow Brown butterflies, Gate-keepers, Skippers and Common Blues. These butterflies’ caterpillars feed on the meadow plants; the caterpillars then over-winter as pupae close to the ground. Low mowing does not give them much of a chance.

Female meadow brown butterfly Homerton’s wild areas are also still used with intensity and passion for education as well as leisure. The pond must be the most overworked wetland resource for teaching anywhere, to which each pond animal seized in a moment of triumphal rapture is hopefully returned with due respect for its fragile existence. Old members may well recall ecological natural history forays with William Palmer, Jennifer Embrey or John Hammond. There are Homerton memories attached to these names no doubt, and such activities as you enjoyed are no less loved and no less valued today. Whether its chasing a ball across the turf, sunbathing on the lawn, partying in May week or even fooling yourself that you are doing some effective revision on the grass, none of our students would want to be without these green spaces we all love. Stephen Tomkins =============================

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The Pond

Common Spotted Orchid

Images supplied by Maggie Bolt

The Meadow

2007 Homerton Roll News ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Malcolm was kind and supportive to his students. One recalled how a school visit from him left one feeling “so positive that you believed you could do it”. He did not always find himself in sympathy with the government directives of the day and, in such circumstances, his impish sense of humour might delight those lucky enough to be chosen to share his thoughts and feelings.

IN MEMORIAM, Malcolm Pointon, 1940 – 2007 Malcolm was a senior lecturer in music at Homerton College from 1968 to 1992. He died on Thursday 8th February, 2007 at the age of 66. He will be remembered with great affection by very many exstudents and staff of the college as well as by members of the larger community. Malcolm was born and grew up in Stoke on Trent before studying at Birmingham University, where he met his future wife, Barbara. After gaining a First, he researched into British Music between the Wars, taught in both primary and secondary schools, and came to Homerton after a period in the BBC, writing announcers’ scripts for what is now Radio 3.

As well as being at the centre of music at the college, Malcolm was also committed to music making in the community, especially in his home village of Thriplow, where he gave pleasure to an even wider audience.

Listening to memories of former students and colleagues, many remember Malcolm’s brilliant performing skills. To some it was his compositions, arrangements and orchestrations that made the greatest impact. To others it was his engaging teaching, never just run of the mill and often close to revolutionary, with his lively, often wicked, sense of humour providing an abiding memory and source of many anecdotes. As a skilled performer on piano, organ, harpsichord and percussion, Malcolm was particularly appreciated by his students for his ability as a sensitive and imaginative piano accompanist. Occasionally he would indulge his musical imagination and even his sense of humour in enlivening a dull piano accompaniment with characteristic ‘Pointonesqe’ embellishments, transforming the piece into a newly exciting enterprise. In his accompanying he was greatly assisted by his legendary ability to sight-read music. This he did with relish and enthusiasm, often apparently in direct proportion to the technical difficulty of the piece. Malcolm was also a masterful improviser, ranging convincingly over very many styles including jazz. To many Malcolm was the embodiment of music for he was an intensely musical being, his natural flowing sense of musicianship apparent at any level and in any style. He had the ability to make the score come alive and he seemed to be in love with all forms of music. Many of his students tell how he brought Baroque music to life for them for the first time. Others recount his commitment to new music, including that from different ethnic backgrounds. He designed and helped to build Homerton’s electronic music studio – the first of its kind in any College of Education.

Malcolm doing a Harry Worth in 1992 I remember, with affection, Malcolm’s in-service courses for teachers. The seriousness of purpose with which he approached music in schools tempered with humour and a love of fun was an inspiration. From 1991, Malcolm suffered from Alzheimer’s. Part of the progress of his condition was chronicled in a television documentary in 1999. Even when his dementia was fairly advanced and speech a difficulty, Malcolm could still enter his world of music and

2007 Homerton Roll News ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------lecturer at Regent Street Polytechnic teaching Special Zoology BSc. My Head of Department at Homerton was William Palmer a botanist and the third member of the Department was Valerie Sankey, another botanist. I was aware of conversations in the Combination Room about a possible Education degree in Cambridge but at the time I was too busy teaching Zoology (and still travelling to London to complete my contract there) so I kept a low profile on College politics.

improvise brilliantly on the piano. Barbara spent many hours caring for Malcolm in his illness and it is a tribute to her loving care that Malcolm was able to die in his own home. An update of the documentary, Malcolm and Barbara...a Love Story, with a new ending, is to be screened on ITV1on Wednesday, 8th August. A “Celebration of Malcolm” filled the Great Hall at Homerton on 28th April, 2007. Many present had travelled considerable distances to be part of the event, a sincere testament to the high regard in which Malcolm is held. The afternoon reminded one of how Malcolm used to be before the devastating illness hit him. Many paid tribute to the way in which his life had touched theirs. The programme embraced all kinds of music and the Finale, conducted by Barbara, was a grand, ad hoc ‘festival performance’ of Day by Day, with former staff and students joining in the choir or band and people dancing in the aisles. Malcolm would have approved of that.

William Palmer, acting as my mentor, helped my integration into the life of the Combination Room. He told me that I should arrive at the Combination Room before 10.30 in order to pour tea or coffee for my female colleagues. At that time the Combination Room was adjacent to the Dining Hall (and now the Cavendish bar) and there was usually standing room only! I often arrived late and had to ask for a coffee to be handed over the heads of those inside and drink it in the corridor! My first experience of Teaching Practice supervision was in that initial Michaelmas Term with secondary students in schools at Royston, Ware, Broxbourne, Cheshunt and Downham Market. Each student had two Supervisors, one in their Main Subject and one in Education, and we had to grade each student on an 8 point scale. This was a very subjective exercise and a waste of ones time discussing with the other Supervisor the difference between say B+ and B, and I found myself getting into College politics by raising the issue at a Staff Meeting. I recall asking William Palmer how I claimed back petrol money as I was filling up my car frequently for the weekly visits. He did not know because he and many others that I asked, did not claim, they saw it as part of the job. Marjorie Stuart, then College Bursar, agreed to re-emburse at half-term and thought it should be an item for a future Staff Meeting. Like it or not I was getting involved in College politics. At this time there was no provision on the College time-table for sessions relating to the teaching of the subject. One either provided something within the subject currently being taught in the laboratory, e.g. how to introduce pupils to use a microscope if the Main subject topic was Protozoa, or one gave supervisions in the lunch hour, or after school, specially to cover the next school lesson. Other subject Lecturers agreed that it was time for allocated slots on the time-table and so a Curriculum Committee was established with Charles Bailey in the chair and I as Secretary, though it took until 1967 to get it established!

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MEMORIES OF THE OLD HOMERTON ‘A lecturer remembers’ by John Hammond I was appointed to the College in May 1965 and arrived in September of that year, together with Elizabeth Brewer, Jack Ravensdale and Ian McMahon. I will record here some of my memories of that first year as a Lecturer in Biology and hope that it might provoke a response from some Homertonians who were actually students at that time. My colleagues were small in number and predominantly female - Tony Crowe and myself were the youngest of 15 males. Miss Beryl Paston Brown [Principal, later Dame] ensured that the staff were kept well informed of “Educational Developments” both locally and nationally and took time to make sure that new arrivals like myself were inducted into the ways of Homerton. My letter of appointment stated that I was to develop a curriculum in Biology that was compatible to degree level work. Previously I had been teaching ‘A’ level Biology at a Grammar School in London and in the evenings I was a part-time

Meals in 1965 were taken in the Dining Hall (now known as the Great Hall). All meals were more or less formal and lecturers congregated in the Combination Room, moved into the Hall en masse, and sat at top table on the slightly raised platform still there today.

2007 Homerton Roll News ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Grace was said by the Principal or Deputy Principal. Lecturers were served (usually by young Danish girls who lived in K Block) whilst for lunch the students would collect from hot plates at the opposite end of the Hall. Slacks, trousers even Jeans were becoming fashionable for the female students at that time but they were required to wear a skirt or a dress in the Hall. This meant that if I had a group of biologists visiting, say, Wicken Fen, in the morning, we had to ensure our return gave time for them to change before the lunch at 1.00 pm. No-one left the Hall until the top table had retired to the Combination Room for tea/coffee and preparations for the 2.00pm classes.

My ‘A’ level students were all male and either continued into High Education in Medicine, Dentistry or Oxbridge. My BSc students were mostly mature men and women reading for a part-time degree by studying in the evenings. I wondered how I would find the Homerton student, but I had no need to wonder for long – they were mostly very bright students with good ‘A’ levels, who could have easily found a place at any University outside of Oxbridge, and some might have made Oxbridge. They selected Homerton for a variety of reasons no doubt but their strong desire to teach coupled with their academic strengths made for a wonderful introduction to my career in Teacher Training. Sound knowledge in the sciences was an excellent platform for degree level work. They revelled in the diversity of practical work, responded to discussion in supervision and seminars and produced some well written essays. Field work in the Easter Term became more than just collecting and pressing wild flowers. Visits to, for example, Scolt Head Island and Slapton Sands were highlights of a term sprinkled with examinations. At least two students will recall their embarrassment when I directed them to study the fauna of exposed rocks below Strete village, in Devon, and it turned out to be a Nudist Colony! (I had not surveyed that part in my preliminary visit at Easter!).

At this time students studied three Main subjects, plus Education, in their First Year, and then dropped one Main subject at the end of the year. It was either in my first or second year that there were 90 students reading Biology in Year I and so each session was repeated 3 times in the week. Each session in Biology was of 4 hours duration with a coffee break after the first part which was usually a lecture followed by the practical work. I was given the freedom to write my own Zoology Syllabuses which was adapted from the one that I taught at Regent Street Polytechnic for BSc Special Zoology. Valerie Sankey taught most of the upgraded Botany and William Palmer covered Ecology. The new syllabuses were rubber stamped/approved by the Board of Studies at the Cambridge Institute of Education though at this point the students were only gaining a Certificate of Education at the end of the 3 years. The groundwork for the future BEd was being prepared.

Life at Homerton was not all academic and teaching practice. Concerts, plays, Art exhibitions and the endof-the-year Revue were entered into with the same enthusiasm. The large Rhubarb patch in the College kitchen garden was under a frequent threat in Revues; when in season we were offered rhubarb every day for weeks, served up in one form or another. There were no deep freezers in those days and so fresh fruit and vegetables were delivered daily by Joan Salter and her staff from the College gardens. Apples were harvested from the orchard and stored on hay (cut from the grounds in August) in the large apple store. In a decade or so before the sixties the College had also produced large quantities of jam and this was stored in large stone jars. In my first year I was taken down to the cellars below the Victorian building by ‘Westy’ (Dorothy Westall, Domestic Bursar) and we counted the number of these now redundant jars and also chamber-pots. Westy had arranged a lucrative sale of all such items to a shop in Kings Road, Chelsea. Sports Captains will recall that their equipment was also stored down there, out of season.

Apart from some 1920’s microscopes, a case of prepared slides, plant presses, dissecting kits and hordes of jam-jars [for growing beans or displaying grasses] there was little suitable equipment for teaching degree level work. Before accepting the post being offered I had been given £1000 to buy new equipment before my arrival. In those days there were no Departmental budgets; one simply made a case for funds to Dame Beryl and Marjorie Stuart. A second biology laboratory was needed (the first being the current Buttery area) and I was offered a room that had previously been a Physics Laboratory for Helen Bunton before the move into the new Science block. Although it had fitted benches in front of the windows facing the main gate, the students initially had to sit at little tables. One can imagine the problems of trying to dissect a slippery Dogfish or make a temporary slide of some invertebrate organism where items tended to slide down the slope. Fortunately I had previously been involved in creating a new laboratory at Regent Street Polytechnic and was able to order new solid tables from the same firm in Norwich.

At the end of the Easter Term, staff and all students sat down to a Final Formal Dinner. The Catering staff, led by the Head Chef, would parade into the Hall and be thanked for their service and then applauded out again. This was the point where one scrambled out of the Hall

2007 Homerton Roll News ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------meals and school milk, and became involved in helping to launch and after school ‘play centre’ at the school, though this had to be closed during the War years because of black-out regulations. After the war, Leah (now married to William Henry Manning) was given charge of the Vinery Road Open Air School, and in 1927 became Head of a larger Open Air School on Milton Road.

to get a seat in the Gymnasium for the end of year Revue - often satirical and where lecturers were parodied. There was a feeling of disappointment if one did not get a mention. And so this first year of mine ended in July 1966.

AFTER HOMERTON (1) During these years as a teacher, Leah Manning continued her involvement in Labour Party politics as well as becoming an energetic member of the National Union of Teachers. In pursuit of her involvement in educational reform she travelled widely in Europe and later in the United States, became a member of the N.U.T, Executive, served on the Burnham Committee, and in 1930 was elected President of the N.U.T. at its Diamond Jubilee Conference. In her Presidential Address she urged the need for raising the school leaving age to 15, and for the building of new secondary schools. In later life she would campaign against the 11+ exam (‘one catastrophic examination taken on one catastrophic day in the life of an immature child’) and in favour of comprehensive education.

Dame Leah Manning (Perrett) (Homerton 1906-1908) On the 9th March, 2007, a mixed group of visitors, former students and staff gathered in one of the refurbished art studios in the Ibberson building, now named after Dame Leah Manning who, as Elizabeth Leah Perrett, was a student at Homerton from 19061908. Here they listened to an illustrated account of the life of Leah Manning by the two authors of a biography of Leah, Ron Bill and Stan Newens, MEP and formerly Labour MP for Epping constituency and for Harlow, and were excited and impressed by what we heard about the life and achievements of this remarkable former student.

Leah Manning called her own autobiography, which she published at the age of 84, A Life for Education (1970). At that point she was still teaching, and encouraging girls to go into higher education, but teaching was only one part of her life. She was also a life-long campaigner for women’s rights and welfare. With her friend Ruth Dalton, the wife of Hugh, she opened the first Family Planning clinic in Cambridge, and continued her involvement with the F.P.A. all her life. In 1920, she and two other women friends became the city’s first female J.P.s; and during the period of the General Strike she took a leading role in organising the ‘bedders’ and other women domestic employees into trade unions.

A Life for Education Born in 1886, Leah Perrett first became a pupil-teacher at Oldfield Road School, in east London, before being encouraged to apply to Homerton College. In later life she was to recall that when she first came to Cambridge, to sit for the entrance examination, she was so overcome by the beauty of the city and its colleges that she knelt in King’s College chapel and prayed that she ‘might come to this perfect place to live for three years’. ‘I did not guess, then,’ she added, ‘that I would live there for half a century and do my best work here.’ Leah was an enthusiastic student who threw herself into the sporting, theatrical and social life of the college. She became chairman of the debating society and secretary of the Student Christian Union. Among the friends she made while in Cambridge were Rupert Brooke and Hugh Dalton, and she joined the University Fabian Society and, later, the Cambridge Independent Labour Party. It was these years as a student at Homerton that shaped her future life. On graduating she was offered a post at the school in New Street, in the Barnwell area of Cambridge, which was supported and used as a ‘practice school’ by Homerton. Here she taught a class of 70 to 80 children from some of the poorest homes in the city. As a result of this experience she began campaigning for school

In 1930 Leah Manning was elected as MP for the constituency of East Islington, although she was defeated in the election of the following year, when Ramsay Macdonald formed a National Government and dissolved Parliament. In the 1945 Election, however, she won the seat in the newly created Epping constituency, and held it until 1950. In the post-war period of desperate housing shortage, she was also instrumental in the creation of Harlow New Town. Her biographers, Ron Bill and Stan Newens, sum up Leah Manning’s achievements: ‘She was one of a formidable generation of women who both individually and collectively made a major contribution to the political and social advances achieved during the first seventy years of

2007 Homerton Roll News ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------CNAA doctorate for a thesis on the seventeenth century theatre and the staging of the plays of Aphra Behn. About the same time the Cambridge University Institute of Continuing Education – or Board of ExtraMural Studies as it was known in those days - had a need for someone to lecture in the history of theatre, drama and poetry. I was accepted as a part-time tutor and have taught on most of the variety of courses organised by them ever since.

this century. At this juncture, it is not easy fully to appreciate the obstacles faced by women as Britain emerged from the Victorian era. Leah and her feminist contemporaries… had to fight for the right to vote, to enter Parliament, to become J.P.s, and gain acceptance as equals. Once elected to Parliament, she battled on many issues raising the rights of women, including equal pay for women teachers and civil servants, widows’ pensions, analgesia in childbirth, nurseries, woollen underwear, and the need for a Womens Rights Charter. She was determined, resolute and persistent advocate – always ready to help the humble and to do battle with the mighty.’

Cambridge University’s adult or Continuing Education provision is an important aspect of its total contribution to the education of the community, and the part-time teaching staff are its backbone, yet after working in it for twenty years I still find that few even in the University know what that means, and even fewer know how it works in practice. As well as a complement of administrative staff the Institute – which is based at Madingley Hall, just outside Cambridge - has a number of full and part time Staff Tutors and Academic Development Officers, often College fellows, who are responsible for maintaining the academic standards of the Institute's work. Even so they cannot take on all the teaching commitments involved in catering for a yearly total of more than thirteen thousand students of whom more than two and a half thousand attend extension programmes each term.

One of Leah Manning’s battles was in the cause of the Spanish Republican government in its struggle against General Franco and his Nationalist Army. Despite the Labour leadership’s refusal to intervene, she served as secretary of the Spanish Medical Aid Committee, and went to Spain to arrange – and personally supervise the evacuation of nearly four thousand Basque children to Britain. Some of these were accommodated in Cambridge. In 1966 Leah Manning was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire for political and public services, and four years later she published her autobiography – and presented the N.U.T Benevolent Fund with a cheque which represented the entire estimated royalties from the book. She continued active both in local politics and education until almost the end of her life, when she went into the N.U.T. home for Retired Teachers, where she died in 1977. The college can truly be proud of this old Homertonian. *

The greater part of this teaching is therefore undertaken by part-time tutors drawn from a panel of about 250 although probably only some 180 may be called on in any one academic year. They are contracted separately for each course and are only paid if that course attracts enough students to run. This is the main feature distinguishing them from the University's full time teaching staff. It is a precarious way to earn a living and most have other occupations or else are now retired but still eager to share their expertise. Before being accepted to teach for the Institute they have to show not only academic standing - indeed in some cases some are very distinguished scholars in their own right - but also that they can share their knowledge with interested adults. This again distinguishes them from colleagues in the rest of the University. Madingley expects tutors to teach students of any age, often in a single class where some start with no knowledge of the subject while others may know as much or more than oneself. Twelve years ago this was not so difficult - lectures could be tailored to the requests from the students and discussion accepted on a wide ranging basis – but now Madingley has to have accredited classes, which means students have to be encouraged to do projects of some kind for assessment. This created certain problems because of

The following is an account from a more recent graduate.

AFTER HOMERTON (2) The Work of the Institute of Continuing Education : A Part-time Tutor's View, by Dawn Lewcock (Homerton 1978-1982) I came to academia late in life. Previously, I had taught speech and drama and theatre skills, gaining the Guildhall Teaching Diploma in Speech and Drama in 1976, but came to Homerton two years later, and after four stimulating years alongside students younger than my children I graduated in 1982 with a BEd in Drama and English. I went on to study with Anglia Polytechnic University and in 1987 was awarded a

2007 Homerton Roll News ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------praiseworthy pieces from all but the most obdurate, and from then on the pride of managing to complete a 'task' has meant more students are, if not anxious to write, no longer intimidated at the thought. I have had an exposition of the gearing used by Inigo Jones on the Masque stage from a retired aircraft engineer, a delightful personal response to Shakespeare's use of country themes from 'just a housewife', painstaking analyses of sonnets from some who left school early, an erudite discussion of the meaning of honour in Shakespeare's time from a PhD and an illuminated poem inspired by John Clare from an ex-farm labourer amongst many, many other worthy pieces of work.

the type of classes taught and the people being assessed. The main provision for the general public is the extension class. These are weekly classes, often but not always in the evening, usually two hours in length, and organised into ten week terms which are held in various locations, ranging from a school library to a village hall, a Community Centre or even someone's living room. This can entail much travel for the tutor sometimes in atrocious weather and late at night. Classes usually have a local organiser but the tutor often has to take any equipment such as projectors or screens, and is responsible for the box of books from which students can borrow, made up by Madingleyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s librarian to the tutor's booklist. The larger centres are able to support more than one course per term but most have only enough students for one. Recently, the establishment of the ACE (Adult Education Centre) evening classes in the Mary Allen Building in Homerton has made more provision available for students from Cambridge and nearby.

The credits gained by students on these programmes do not have to have been earned within a single subject area or discipline but may be gained from a wide variety of subjects. They are recognised by the Open University and other institutions using a credit system, or the student can receive the Certificate in Continuing Education from the Institute once enough credits have been earned, which would usually be over a series of six ten week courses. Some go on to undertake work towards a Certificate in Higher Education and can continue towards a Diploma or a higher Diploma in certain subjects. Several students each year are accepted to study for a part-time Master of Studies degree, when they become members of a college, with all the privileges of the University that entails.

The majority of extension students are retired people, who prefer a varied programme of courses that cater to a wide number of interests. One class may, for example, include a retired surgeon, a farmer and a horticultural worker, a shop assistant, a nurse and a social worker, an accountant, a single mother and an unemployed young man, together with several teachers not all of whom are retired. Tutors have to be flexible enough to understand this and not necessarily expect the students to have done any preliminary reading or study beforehand, although one hopes that they have been inspired to continue with suggested further reading afterwards. For this is the point of these courses. They provide people with opportunities they may not have had before to 'taste' without trivialising subjects, and to follow up those they find of interest.

Perhaps the best known of the Institute's provisions are the residential courses held at Madingley Hall. Here students have all the comforts of a top class hotel plus tuition. Many private and public organisations take advantage of the facilities to run their own courses or to hold other types of training session with the aid of the specialist law or industrial academics on the Institute's staff, but other courses open to the general public are held in the Hall on most weekends all the year round, and these too may be taught by a part-time tutor. Some of the worth of these courses comes from the communal living and the conversations over meals. A retired banker on a geology weekend may be discussing theatre with an ex-soldier studying Renaissance Art, while his wife debates the merits of Jane Austen with a young teacher brushing up her Latin conversation.

Despite the reluctance with which the introduction of accreditation was greeted by some students, and by some tutors, it is now agreed by most that it enhances the experience of these casual students, for to gain credits towards a Institute's Certificate of Continuing Education they are not simply examined on what they have been taught but are asked to recognise what they have personally gained or taken from the course. For adults this can vary from individual to individual since each has brought a different lifetime's experience to the subject matter the tutor has presented to them, and has therefore made a different assimilation of it. Much of the initial reluctance tutors faced was due to diffidence at the thought of writing essays after some thirty, forty, or even fifty years of writing no more than the occasional letter. Tactful cajolery has often produced

The problem for the tutor of one of these classes is to have everything ready for the entire seven or so sessions. Whereas in the weekly classes the tutor has time to prepare materials between sessions or in response to ideas that have arisen in the previous class there is no time to change the structure of a weekend course. This can be frustrating at times when the tutor finds there is an interest in a peripheral topic that

2007 Homerton Roll News ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------would add to the students appreciation but cannot be followed up for lack of the necessary reference time and materials. As these too are now accredited the tutor has to allow for and build in some kind of assessment task that is not just a check-list or a simple quiz but encompasses understanding of the course content.

There are other challenges for some tutors. The Institute's other large provision is for the International Summer Schools which are held during the Summer Vacation every year when some 1000 foreign students, from over forty countries, descend on the University for a full programme of daily lectures taught by staff tutors, part-time tutors and invited guest speakers from across the country. This is a quite different experience for the tutors. The courses attract people from all over the world and of all ages from eighteen to eighty so that one may find oneself meeting three or four American college students plus a college lecturer or two, two Japanese teachers, three Australians of varied backgrounds, a Korean, a Spaniard or two, an Italian and several other Europeans. Some often come with impressive knowledge of the subject already, teaching it perhaps, or researching a post graduate degree, whereas three or four others seem to have difficulty in understanding even the introductory talk. Somehow one has to weld this disparate group into a class that can learn together.

The Institute has long offered part-time courses towards a University Certificate in a single subject, such as Local History for example, for some time. The ACE centre has meant that several additional subjects including Diploma courses can be offered to Cambridge residents and those able to travel in. Some of the larger Centres throughout the region are also now able to offer courses which provide extended study towards a University Certificate in a particular subject and these make a natural progression for those who have had their appetites whetted by a credit bearing course. Here the students are often younger and looking for a recognised qualification, sometimes for advancing their career prospects but very often simply for the satisfaction gained from studying in depth.

Because these are daily lectures there is little time to prepare classes between times and most of the course has to be set up well in advance, not least because the syllabus, the booklist and a list of lecture titles have to have been prepared ready to send out six months before. It is nerve racking at times. One has to watch one's language and be careful not to make colloquial or contemporary references that will not be intelligible to a foreigner, and many of the students do not like a seminar style, but if one can manage to get a class to discuss some aspect of the subject matter of a session the exchanges between seven or eight nationalities and cultures provide enormous breadth to the topics under discussion. It is demanding of time and effort but it can be very satisfying as I found when I was invited to take some classes with the annual course that the Institute used to organise for managers from IBM. To introduce Shakespeare to a class of thirty young men of differing nationalities who normally work with and for computers, and then go with them to see Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet or Macbeth, was enormously enlightening and in some ways humbling. Their views were refreshingly different, reflecting cultural backgrounds in their reactions to the play, and to the underlying moral questions and sexual attitudes, and yet they listened to each other's points of view and discussed them with care and polite attention. Tutor as well as students had a stimulating experience gained from several different insights.

Again, the panel of part-time tutors provides most of the teaching strength for all these courses, though the teaching experience is rather different since the syllabus is necessarily more structured and is examined formally through essays and/or small research projects. A certain amount of supervision is given to each student and there is more personal involvement in helping each to produce work of the required standard. As the principle is to accept a student without any previous qualifications, provided they show potential and commitment, the personal supervision may sometimes require the tutor to provide tactful help in the necessary study skills for those who have had little academic training, but it is very rewarding to watch someone develop over two or three years and see their pride in finding they can present work of a high enough standard to be acceptable to the University. It is also possible for people from outside the region to study as part-time residents for certain University Certificates and Diplomas, and this enables the Board to provide for a minority interest that might not attract a viable number otherwise. These courses deliberately set out to encourage the students to attempt some original research to provide a focus for their studies and to allow them to work on a personal interest at their own pace, and to undertake their own research in their own locality. I have had students who have added to the knowledge of the history of Shakespeare productions in eighteenth century Norfolk; of the theatres in Richmond on Thames; of a possible medieval dragon play at Bishops Stortford; and of the design of masques at the Stuart Courts, amongst others.

There can be nothing casual or second-rate about a part-time tutor's work. Apart from the fact that the Institute requires tutors always to teach to the standard

2007 Homerton Roll News ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------of a first year undergraduate course, the adult students expect to receive high quality tuition that has been carefully and fully prepared and with any necessary handouts and illustrations of all the topics under discussion. This means most tutors spend at least twice the time in preparing for a class as they do in actual teaching time. But it is a very rewarding experience unless you are a tutor who is afraid of questions, for adults question everything; they rarely accept spoon feeding but demand to know the recipe of the mixture and exactly how it was cooked before then adding their own little flavourings that add immeasurably to the tutor's experience of the topic let alone that of the rest of the class. A quiet adult class may be simply totally absorbed but is sometimes a politely unhappy class many of whom drift away and do not turn up next time. At the beginning of each new course the challenge for the tutor is to find the key in the first session that switches that class on. It is not always easy. One has to virtually sell oneself and the subject matter - oneself as a friendly expert, and the subject as one that is so exciting and worthwhile it must not be missed. Nevertheless, most tutors would not miss the experience of managing to provoke this kind of discussion, or of sharing the joy when understanding dawns, maybe about iambic pentameters, or about a point in paleography or about the formation of rivers or the structure of a plant, in an adult who wants to learn for the sake of it.

MEMORIES OF HOMERTON AND CAMBRIDGE 50 YEARS AGO Joan Hollinghurst (Aizlewood) , Homerton 1957-59, writes: The Homerton Roll Reunion takes place as my friends and I celebrate the 50th anniversary of our entry into Homerton. In September 1957, 125 of us began our two year course together with 23 graduates embarking on a one year course. All were girls. Many of us had never seen Cambridge or even Homerton until we arrived as interviews were held around the country. Coming from Liverpool I was interviewed in Manchester. Nearly everyone travelled to Cambridge by train and the railways coped splendidly with all the trunks and bicycles sent on ahead. The single fare between Cambridge and Liverpool was then £1 - 14s. We dined in our beautiful hall three times a day with Miss Alice Skillicorn and her staff sitting at high table. We helped on a rota system to set and serve tables, called household duty. Also at regular intervals telephone duty kept us slim as we ran up and down the stairs between the telephone boxes and the bedrooms. Long distance calls were rare as these 'trunk calls' were comparatively very expensive so communicating with home was by letter. My mother kept all my letters so I have a complete record of my two years at Homerton. After first going out into schools on observation, we divided into six sections according to the age groups we wished to eventually teach. We had three teaching practices, one during the first year, one at the start of the summer holiday between the years and the last our finals. Homerton owned a house called Millbrook in Highgate to which some of us were sent to do teaching practice in London. Musical chairs took place with our vacated rooms in College. In our second year as well as the usual core subjects we specialised to a high level in two chosen subjects.

My time in adult education has certainly been a very rewarding one for me. As well as exploring theatre and poetry with adults for Madingley, I have continued to research theatre history, and have published in several journals, especially Theatre Notebook. Amongst other things I contributed to Aphra Behn Studies (CUP 1996) edited by Janet Todd, wrote a chapter on English Pantomime for Audience Participation (2003) edited by Katwinkle; and am contributing several pieces about masques and about Davenant’s work to the online Literary Encyclopaedia put out by EAU at Norwich. I have even given a few lectures and supervisions at Homerton. That was very odd experience - to come back as ‘one of them’ and enter the Senior Combination Room - and I guess I would not have done any of it had I not been at Homerton. So thank you Dr David Male, Dr Peter Raby, Dr Susan Macklin and all the students with whom I worked, not forgetting Keith Loveday, who organised us all in the old drama studio. None of it would have happened if I had not plucked up the courage to apply to Homerton thirty years ago.

Aside from work we packed as much as possible into our social lives aided by a wealth of societies and a ratio of ten men to every woman at Cambridge. The pace was curbed by a strict exeat system with a limited allowance each term of late night passes. At societies throughout Cambridge we would head for the door and our bicycles at 9.30 to be back by the curfew time of 10 p.m. Homertonians were not allowed into town on Bonfire Night. Fathers and brothers were the only males allowed inside our rooms. Apart from the 1957 flu epidemic which caused a downstairs lecture room to be converted into a ward we all kept very fit. It must have been all the exercise,

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2007 Homerton Roll News ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------gathered by the second years decorating the tables on May morning and the singing in the gallery of 'Summer is a cummin in'. This was another secret tradition like the carol procession passed from one generation of second years down the decades.The summer term brought attempts at punting and my famous plunge beneath the waters with full circular skirt billowing around me in front of the Garden House Hotel. I had a bath in Queens and became overnight a Homerton celebrity. As I sank beneath the water I could hear my friends' laughter, quickly followed by their care and practical help. The punt was full of girls, still my friends today.

the cycling, hiking, dancing and even ice skating on the lawn at the back of Homerton I have photos to prove it. For me there was the addition of table tennis and tennis matches.

My two years at Homerton gave me the opportunity to enter a profession which has given me enormous satisfaction. May Homerton continue to send forth students whose careers bring satisfaction and whose friendships continue down the years. Thenâ&#x20AC;Ś. * * * * * * * * * * *

THOUGHTS ON A HOMERTON REUNION From Anne Martin (Sparrowe), Homerton 1968-71, who writes: I have just returned from an enjoyable Saturday spent at the Homerton September Reunion. It was a number of years since I had attended a reunion as I had not been since the date had shifted from June to September, to be in line with the University Alumni Weekend. (It is not an easy time of year for those of us still teaching, with its proximity to the beginning of the school academic year.) In the autumn sunshine the college was at its best. The transformation of the college buildings was stunning. The best of the old buildings, the Victorian and Queenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Wing, have been retained and the new buildings so designed to make a unity of the college. It was slightly frightening to see the old black and white buildings that opened in 1968 as I arrived at Homerton completely gone, demolished before I have even retired, but what replaces them is far superior. With careful planning of the new development, and sympathetic and imaginative gardening, the college buildings now have a feeling of belonging together. The old buildings have been beautifully restored and, in some cases, new uses carefully thought out. Some rooms have been dedicated to previous principals. It is all very impressive.

and now. Apart from the May Balls (6 gns a double ticket) some occasions stand out above the rest. Music brought me immense joy, singing in evening dress Britten's St Nicholas with the Homerton and Selwyn choir and again singing in the choir of Great St Mary's, culminating in the candle lit Advent Carol Service. On the morning we were going home for Christmas we were woken early by our Second Years singing carols and then joined in the procession wending its way through College. In my second term I went on a first date with my future husband to the Union hearing John Arlott speak in the debate 'This House deplores the twilight of the Debs'. We had to sit in the gallery because women were not allowed on the floor of the debating chamber. February brought the annual Homerton Ball with its waltzes, quicksteps and foxtrots, and even a cha cha cha. Summer was heralded by the never to be forgotten sight of wild flowers

2007 Homerton Roll News ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------have for many years received the Cam magazine. In all those years, even when education was a main topic, I cannot remember seeing the career or achievements of an ex-Homertonian mentioned.

I was unable to attend the dinner, but on the Saturday I was also surprised that the vast majority attending were older then us. There were just three of us from my year who arranged to meet, and no-one else from the year above or below was there. When I attended previously, families of young children regularly appeared in the afternoon. I hope future reunions will not cater solely for the older generation, although I realise large numbers may require a rethink. (How about doing what some of the colleges do, mixing special years of old, middle-aged and younger students?) I originally got involved in the June reunions in the 1980s, when an effort was made for these not just to be mainly a meeting for the older members of the old Homerton Association but a continuous link across the generations from past to present.

Homerton was never “just a teacher training college”. It always stood for excellence. There was the enormous challenge for those of us who were among the first Cambridge BEd students. Each step forward, from two years to three years, to an all graduate teaching profession must have contributed to the college’s present success and future. Dame Beryl and the college fought a long battle to change Cambridge attitudes to the awarding of the degree. We, the students, then had to persuade the University that they were not making a mistake that would result in the dumbing down of the value of a Cambridge degree. We also knew that it would not necessarily advance our job prospects. Some authorities refused to even interview BEd candidates, saying that we would be a waste of money because we cost more, and would be further away from any practical teaching experience than third year students leaving with a certificate. The first year, graduating in 1971, had a terrible work load, through which they had to prove they could cope academically. It was slightly easier the second year from the point of view of balance, but still a slightly uneasy experience. As one of two music students taking the BEd I would turn up at the University music school only to be asked what did I think I was doing there – even when we came to take our tripos exams. Having chosen history of education as one of my courses I was supervised by a fellow of Emmanuel, who was slightly bemused to be supervising students from Homerton. He became more bemused and incredulous, over the year, as these students produced better essays and, indeed, exam results than those undergraduates who had changed to Education because it seemed an easier option.

Past, Present and Future It was heartening to hear Dr Pretty talk about the future of the college; its intention to maintain Homerton’s commitment to education and to retain half of its undergraduate body studying for the Education Studies tripos. She described how she felt the old ethos of Homerton could still be part of the future, in particular the friendliness of the college, the diversity of the background of its students, and, for those who had left, their strong feeling of continuing association with the college. It was good to hear from a recent male graduate who believed that one of Homerton’s strengths was in nurturing and encouraging able students who had previously had not perhaps been given encouragement to fulfil their potential. Yet, would I come back again to another Reunion? I don’t think so unless it was a special one when a good number of my contemporaries could return. Why? Because I have the feeling that Homerton may become slightly embarrassed about its past – and those of us who belong to – when it was “just a teacher’s training college”. Our memories of our time at Homerton are perhaps still relevant but what we achieved, and what happened to us afterwards, may be not. Also, perhaps inevitably, it will be difficult for us to connect to a college whose staff have no connection to and interest in our past. I was surprised at how few staff or ex-staff were present.

Before Homerton became an approved society, BEd students had to belong to an established Cambridge college. Of all the old training colleges in the Cambridge Institute, Homerton provided the largest number of reading for the degree – in 1972, I think, it was 50 out of 100 students. Most other training colleges contributed one or two, which individual University colleges were prepared to accept. Understandably, no college was willing to take on 50 students, and eventually Newnham agreed to accept Homerton students in name for six years. That they did not want us in college at all was also understandable; we did not need to go there. What really rankled was that on graduation day, a tutor arrived from Newnham to inspect us all, and measure our skirt lengths to make sure we were respectable enough to be seen at the

It is inevitable, with the hundreds passing through the college, that individual students are not going to be remembered unless someone was extraordinarily outstanding,. However, I would like to think that the contributions of particular years of students to Homerton’s academic development should be remembered and celebrated, as should their achievements in education and other spheres on leaving Cambridge. As a Cambridge BEd graduate, I

2007 Homerton Roll News ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------way of presenting my contemporaries’ successes and achievements. Of course, what I would really like to do is to go back to Homerton and complete a PhD, perhaps researching and assessing Homerton’s and Homertonians’ contribution to education over the last 100 years, particularly music education ……..but that’s probably a silly idea!

ceremony. We were instructed that we could not march behind the Newnham graduates to the Senate House, but must lurk around out of sight and slip in behind them just before they entered the door. We were even more incensed when we saw the length of many of the Newnham skirts, and the knee length books some graduates were wearing!

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Virtually all of us got seconds, many of the equivalent of 2:1s, with one First. The university would not initially divide the seconds because of how it would affect the pay of those reading for a BA in education. We had to work hard to prove our worth; and I’m sure that all Homertonians in the succeeding years continued to do so. Now education and teaching has changed radically, and Homerton has had to change to survive and have a valuable future – but its future is a result of the successes of the past.

BRANCH NEWS Cambridge Area Homertonians. We are pleased to have heard from a number of new members over the last term. We have regular gatherings at members’ homes and plan to arrange a bring-and-share lunch later in the Summer and a coffee morning in the Autumn. If you have recently moved into the area you are welcome to get in touch.

And what have ex-Homertonians achieved? Of my own immediate friends and contemporaries, one is a Head, one a Deputy Head and school governor, and another, having served as a Deputy Head, refused a headship and is no teaching in the Falklands. I’m sure that many in my year or other years have been as, or more successful, both in and out of education, working here and abroad. Can we know more about them? – I hope that in the future Homerton will celebrate its past students in the Roll News and the Homertonian. When a particular group attends a reunion, particularly the 30 – 40 year reunions, it would be interesting of the overall achievements of that group could be records (not necessarily naming individuals).

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Wessex Branch We had our autumn lunch on Saturday, 14th October 2006, at the Priory House Restaurant, Stoke-subHamden in Somerset. We used the Times ‘Dine with Wine’ vouchers again! This was a small restaurant which was able to accommodate the 18 of us who could manage that date. We were told that we would be the only people dining that lunch time! We had a really excellent meal, beautifully presented on the plates. It was a most enjoyable meeting, and some of us had time to explore the villages whilst there.

And me? Why was Homerton so important to me? I was one of those the college helped to make full use of my ability. Although achieving suitable ‘A’ levels, including music and Grade 8 standard instrumentally, I had been miserable at school and discouraged from taking music. Homerton opened the academic door for me and gave me confidence in myself. After teaching for several years I completed an MPhil at the London Institute of Education, researching music education in England and Germany, and later completed a MMmus at Surrey University. As a result of being awarded a bursary at the end of my time at Homerton I started playing the recorder seriously, and after many years of classroom teaching I now work as a peripatetic teacher, in both the state and private sectors, conduct adults across the country, arrange music, write and adjudicate. I’ve ended up on the General Synod of the Church of England, and on the Guildford Diocesan Board of Education.

Yesterday we had our Spring lunch on 31st March 2007 at Bowlish House in Shepton Mallet, where they always look after us so well. Twenty-five people were able to come, including some who had not been able to join us before. We were so please to be able to welcome Dr Peter Warner and his wife Irene again. At the end of a very nice meal Peter gave us an entertaining talk entitled “Quo vadis Homerton?” which brought us all up to date on college developments and proposed future plans! We meet for lunch every March and October and would always be delighted if any Homertonian in the area would like to join us. Please contact Coral

What would I like to do? I will contemplate organising a 40 year reunion for 2008, and seeing if I can find a

LETTERS

From Jean Bamford (Buckley), whose news in brief appears in the listing for the ‘40s:

I thought you might be interested to hear what ex-Homertonians do with their lives. I married my Cambridge ‘boyfriend’ who was doing his pre med, residing at Emanuel College where both his father and grandfather had resided. When we married he was still a ‘student’ at Guy’s Hospital and I taught in London, first in Brixton and then at the boarding school for the choristers of Westminster Abbey, in Deans Yard, just next to the abbey. A very different environment with long hours and weekend work (Saturday mornings and every other Sunday afternoon).

Dr Peter Warner giving his talk

My husband did house jobs at Guys after he qualified in 1950 (just in time for the birth notice of our first daughter, today Dr. and Mrs.) We had a second daughter in 1952 and came to Australia in 1953 where John knew he would find the sort of general practice (with obstetrics, his speciality) and no inhibiting health system. We settled in a group practice with its own brand new clinic and made a number of good friends and added two sons to our family. Unfortunately, my husband died in 1970, with four children still in full time education, although the eldest was in final year university. I had been a housewife, mother, and doctor’s wife for seventeen years and now I needed a job. I had been doing the odd bit of relief teaching at the boys’ independent school (private school) where both boys went, and I had to say to the head master that I would be in need of a full time position in 1971 and he simply said “that’s no problem”. So, in 1971 I took up my profession again, teaching English to middle school (years 8, 9 and 10 here) and being appointed to be in charge of middle school English. I worked very hard to justify the head’s confidence, and in 1976 I was appointed the Head of the English department when the then Head departed. It was unheard of to have a female head of department in a boys’ school but our HM was an enlightened man, and the Head of Maths was also a woman. I was at Wesley College for sixteen years as H.O.D. and made quite a reputation in Perth…sitting on English curriculum committees, addressing groups of teachers how to get students (especially boys) to write creatively in the poetic mode. This came about because it was noticed that in the creative writing field, and particularly interesting in the poetry section, Wesley

Wessex lunch 14 October 2006

2007 Homerton Roll News ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------marvellous things we have seen there! I taught for 8 years in Queensland and got rather a shock when I found the children using slates for writing and number – this was back in 1954.

College boys came off with a lot of prizes etc. marking TEE (Tertiary Entrance Exam) literature papers, helping to run conferences…and I wrote plays for the boys to perform and produced plays NOT by me!! I also ran the competitive debating team and I managed to spend time with my children. Children, here, tend to live at home while they are at university and my younger son was at home right through his degree years, his Masters year and a bit, and through to his PhD in Biology.

Since 2002 I am a widow, and live alone in this very nice retirement village right by the beautiful sea. I am well and happy and busy but unfortunately I am severely vision impaired caused by Glaucoma. Because of this reading is very difficult and as I write the words disappear and just look like black dots, so I am not able to re-read this. Please forgive any mistakes –certainly not Homerton’s fault!

I have only been back to England twice and I did catch up with Dorothy Evans last time, and she has been here to see me.

All best wishes to those at the Reunion and to Homerton College of the present and future.

When I had to retire from Wesley College at age 65, I was in demand from independent schools with English teachers on long leave and I moved around the metropolitan area to teach English and literature to mostly years 11 and 12 (the two final years of high school) to co-ed classes and all girl classes. I did, until 2003, do relief teaching in one particular girls’ school I had been to. NOW I do private tutoring in year 11 and 12 literature and this year I have five private students who come to my home.

* * * * * * * * * From Rowena Cherry (Dobson) 1972-76: I am highly amused to learn that I am a lost sheep! Academically, Homerton might well consider me a bit of a "black sheep" too. Having left Homerton via Newnham with my "good combined honours", I went to teach in Dorset, at Knighton House prep school, in the Bryanston group, and soon became fascinated with local lore and mysticism such as the Cerne Giant. After four years, I moved to London to teach English to university entrance level. I met and married my autodesigner husband, Wayne K Cherry (5th Vice President of Design for GM), and gave up teaching except for tutoring (History, to A Level) when we moved to Germany. Now,living in Michigan, USA, I write "racy and wildly entertaining futuristic romance" to quote Writers Write. My books all have chess allusion titles. Any educational and improving content is cleverly disguised.

All my children did well academically …my younger daughter and younger son are well known in Perth, my younger son in a wider field, too, because he is a biologist and an ecologist of some note. I always wanted to teach….and Homerton gave me that chance . I remember my two years there with affection and appreciation. *

From Heather Krajewski ( Davis ) who writes: * * * * * * * * * * This “Lost Sheep” is very happy to thank you for your letter and the enclosed questionnaire. It has brought back many happy memories of my time at Homerton so long ago. I can vividly see the people, their faces, the buildings and so many “happenings”, especially the dreaded exams! Little did I know then – when the students sang Waltzing Matilda – that I would end up living in beautiful Australia.

From Gillian Erskine (Wilson) who writes:

‘Notes from the ‘Class of 54-56’ I very much enjoyed the reunion last year, and was lucky enough to meet twenty friends from my year, 5456. Several more sent apologies along with snippets of news. Nadja Everson (Noble) and Owen have retired to Chicester where Nadja takes tours around the Cathedral. If you see a familiar figure wearing a purple cassock that is probably Nadja so do say ‘hello’. She also makes costumes for a local Dramatic Society where her husband often performs. Dorothy Bilson (Whiteside) is living in Canada. She changed careers and became an expert in gems.

I met my husband on an Oil Tanker in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean when sailing to Trinidad and Tobago to take up a teaching post at the big oil refinery’s school where I taught for 3 years. We decided to live in Australia and have had a most happy and interesting life here. We chose Queensland so we would be near the Great Barrier Reef and what

2007 Homerton Roll News ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------THOMAS, Florence J. Lewis 34: Retired elementary teacher. Now moved into a retirement home. Still enjoys needlework and a weekly swim. Have lost touch with all friends from Homerton, but am delighted that my youngest daughter Judith attended a Social Work lecturers course at Homerton this year.

Molly Sykes (Brompton) shares our sadness at losing Betty Shaw. Molly keeps up her interest in the theatre and regularly goes to Stratford and the RSC. Jacqui Sibley became a Head teacher and is now enjoying retirement. Pat Stephen (Conless) would love to meet Doreen Maryon again. Does anyone know her married name and/or address? Myself, I am still playing tennis two or three times a week, and a professional is now teaching me the modern shots, as my style went out with wooden raquets! I also go to a life-drawing workshop, which is surprisingly exhausting. As I now have the house to myself, I take lodgers – young graduate students from Kew gardens. It is rather like having my own grown-up children back home. They are even more untidy, if that is possible, but they are delightful and they do pay rent! I am looking forward to our second grandchild in April.

1940s BAMFORD, Jean Buckley 45: Retired teacher. Currently doing private tutoring. Jean has been living in Perth, Australia, since 1953, and her long and interesting account of her career is printed elsewhere in the Homerton Roll News. BUCHANAN, Dr. Brenda J. Wade 48: Visiting Research Fellow, University of Bath- honorary. Retired but close connection maintained. I continue to research, write and lecture. BUSHELL, Mary E. Aldebert 48: Retired Special Education teacher.

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I am organizing a 25 reunion for going up for my fellow Singaporeans and any other Cantabrigians from the matriculating class of 1982 who are resident in Singapore. This will take place on 10 November. This is also open to our Cambridge contemporaries from 3 years down and 3 years up, so in all we are looking at those who came up in 1979 to those who came up in 1988. I would love to see any Homertonians especially in those years. If you live locally and would like to join us - please email me: <elcleegl@nus.edu.sg>.

CLARKSON M.B.E., Betty Kelly 48: Retired Head teacher CLEMENT SMITH, Celia Hessian 47: Previously a teacher of music, but now a retired farmer’s wife with my own flock of small, Shetland sheep, which I show at the Royal Norfolk, South Suffolk, Herts, and East of England shows. I also ring the Wingfield church bells, play the organ occasionally, and enjoy oil painting and gardening. Our fairly large garden is open to the public on special days most years.

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News by Decades

COOPER, Greta H. 48: Retired Junior and Middle schools teacher (Kent, LCC Berks., Beds.) Since retiring, I have had a very active life in the local community- Church Warden & PCC, W.I. Sec & Pres. Drama Group member, Village hall comm., Book Group organiser

The news in this section has been supplied either by the people themselves or through information provided by others. I hope it is correct, and if not, that you will write so that we can correct it next year. Apologies to anyone whose entry has been missed due to the publication deadline.

DAWES, Joan (Pindar) 45: Now a retired teacher. Has just completed a course on Tudor Peterborough for the U3A, and will be starting one on the Brontes in September.

1930s PORTEOUS, Amy C. Biggs Known as “Cluny B” 39: Headmaster’s wife for 24 years. Grandparent of 8. Six of us were in the Rabbit Warren- 1939. We have sadly lost one. Five are still in touch.

DENNING, Rosemary J. Mason 46: Retired teacher. I’ve had a happy healthy life- always involved in education. Taught in 12 schools including Canada and Spain. Married a Physicist who taught at Alleyns

School, Bishopshalt and eventually became headmaster at Kings School, Ottery St Mary Devon. Lived in Sidmouth for 35 years and married for 44 years. Have 2 children. My sister Gillian Jamison followed me to Homerton.

GRIBBON, Patricia Blackburn 48: Retired. Previously a teacher and Head of Drama. Married with two children and two grandchildren. Keen interest in all things Italian.

DOWSE, Mary L. Buxton 49: Retired teacher.

JACKSON, Norma Crofts 42: Retired teacher.

DUNNING, Nancy Gertrude, 45: Previously Deputy Head of Comprehensive in Bristol. Retired in 1982 and spent time travelling – Australia, USA, Canada and Eastern Europe and Russia. Now busy raising funds for Every child, by sponsorship of 10 year old boy in Ekateringberg, Russia. Nancy still enjoys the friendships made in Homerton, and recent links via the Wessex Group with Homertonians somewhat younger than herself.

KEIR, Dorothy M. Fraser 44: Retired teacher. LAST, Roma Elizabeth (Harper) 46: Previously Headmistress of an infant/nursery school, now retired. KRAJEWSKI, Heather M. Davis 45: Has been living and teaching in Australia. Currently retired and very busy. A letter from her is printed elsewhere.

DUNSFORD, Margaret E. Perry 46: Retired teacher. A group of Old Homertonians - Nora Pickup, Ida Grundy, Daphne Shercliff (Llewellyn) and me-with other members of Consoc meet for a week in May at Bassenthwaite. We planted a rowan tree to commemorate 25 years of meetings. We began as a group of 24 but are now down to 12. I meet a small group for coffee at the home of Dorothy Elven in Cambridge. I am fortunate to live so near Cambridge.

LAST, Roma Elizabeth Harper 46: Previously Deputy Headmistress of infant/nursery school, now retired. LONG, June K. Bishop 46: Retired teacher (Primary and Secondary School). Now living in Dorset after many years in Kent. I have three children, 9 grandchildren and 2 great grandchildren. Have enjoyed quite a lot of travelling around Europe and the Middle East since retiring. Interest in history and archaeology. Have continued to contact Mrs Joan Hannant (Cozens) and Mrs Dorothy Burr (Wilks), both years 46 to 48.

EEDLE, Margaret Hooson 49: Was previously teaching and working in the public service, now happily and busily retired! Time to read, garden, go to concerts, meet friends, stay with family (we have four children and six grandchildren) and generally enjoy life. My husband (Downing 49 – 52) and I both keep well.

McWILLIAM, Eileen Price 45: Currently a part time voice teacher at the Royal Holloway (London University) and Guildhall School of Music and Drama (Juniors). Was previously a professional singer and voice teacher at various Colleges. I still enjoy teaching voice at Guildhall and at Royal Holloway. Also adjudicating Voice Competitions e.g. English Song Competition.

EVANS, Dorothy 45: Now retired from her post as Vice Principal of the College of St Paul & St Mary, Cheltenham, Dorothy spent periods in the ‘60s and ’80 working in educational and in-service courses for teachers and trainee teachers in Malta and St Helena. From 1992-2003 she made frequent visits to the South Atlantic islands to work with teachers and schools. Dorothy gained an MPhil from the University of Bristol in 1990, and was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters from Bridgewater College, Virginia, in 1998.

MEAD, Ann C. Prowse 45: Retired deputy head teacher. Still in touch with four Homertonians. MILLER, Beryl, Gettings. 49: Retired teacher. Meets regularly with Annie Melling, Janet Weston (Geary), and is also in touch with Barbara Powell. MOYSE, Joyce M. Wilson 47: Retired.

EVANS, Zenda D. Sillita 44: Retired head of music teacher at Woodlands Primary School, Tonbridge. Moved in September from their farm in Shropshire to live in Canterbury, two hundred yards from the County Cricket ground. Due to the move we are unable to attend the Reunion but send greetings and best wishes for a happy and successful day.

NUTTALL, Mary Marguerite, 47: Retired as Headteacher of a primary school. PEARSON, Ruth 48: Retired teacher. Still managing to enjoy life, though not as much in the way of travelling as of before. On Manchester Branch committee and enjoyed 9 – 10 years on the College

2007 Homerton Roll News ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------now retired but keep busy in our various way – health and energy permitting. One of my occupations is as organiser of the Women’s World Day of Prayer for Norfolk and I would be interested to hear from Homertonians active in the W.W.D.P. around the world. Since being able to link up 22 of the generation of ‘47/49 for our Golden Anniversary in 1997 we are now hoping to gather a good number for our Diamond Reunion at College in September 2007. There are now 39 names in the mailing list and it would be really good to hear from other ‘old’ friends.

Committee. I’m also on the Committee of the Rochdale Branch of the Women’s Lecture & Luncheon Club which meets once a month from Oct to March each year to enjoy a varied but good programme of speakers. Still in touch with ‘our year’ especially at Christmas. Most of news gathered in Christmas cards etc. now. Mary Padsky, Pamela Saxton (Toms), Margaret Foster (Weeks), Joyce Calverley (Wallace), Jane Paterson (Charman) all D & E friends. POWELL, Barbara J 49: Retired Deputy Head teacher.

SUTCLIFFE, Constance M. 49 – 51, 53 - 54: Retired Principal Lecturer in Physical Education. Retired in 1970 due to ill health.

RICHMOND, Daphne M. Ransley 47: Retired Primary School Headteacher. We have just celebrated 56 years of happy marriage. We have four sons and a daughter. Our son has lectured on Reading at Homerton. I have taught in “Lower Schools” in Hertfordshire for 18 years until retirement in 1988. We have been very involved in the life of St Mary’s church since 1970. Now my activities are very limited owing to illness. Recently received a surprise contact by letter from Margaret Everard (Elder). I hear every Christmas from Rosemary Billet (Hillyard).

TAYLOR, Muriel M. Hobbs 46: Retired teacher. THOMAS, Penelope A. Bell 46: Retired College Lecturer. I now run an Introduction Bureau for Professional people only. I keep in touch with Roma Last (Harper) who is keeping well. WARNE, Mary W. Butler 47: Retired.

RISHBETH, Margaret 44: Retired reception teacher. Still active. Enjoys rambling and gardening. Holidays include bird watching and botanical and study weekends, and have just got back from Spitzbergen expedition. In contact with Mona Baddeley who is still living on the outskirts of Tamworth and Elizabeth Cochrane (King) who still lives in Melbourne, Australia.

1950s ANSELL, Carol Motte 56: Retired Primary School Headteacher. We retired to Lincolnshire in 2000 and live in a large village near Lincoln. My husband a retired clergyman fills in for colleagues in the area and I belong to a reading group and the National Womens Register. We have three children and 5 lovely grandchildren.

SAUL, Sylvia M. Ward 49: Retired. Previously did part time teaching. Geoff and I remain reasonably active – not walking quite so far or fast! Following same interests – church, local history, Red Cross and voluntary work in local primary school and care home. Garden visits enjoyed but our own reverting to wild life sanctuary! Five grandchildren – 7 – 23, provide continual interest and entertainment. Correspond with Mary Dowse (Buxton). Brenda Underwood (Cole) and I have fortnightly “Trolley Dolly” round with sweets and toiletries in local care home. Employed our wellhoned Homerton skills in art and recycling for their decorated mini bus in local carnival procession- Under sea theme plus mermaid – 3rd prize.

BEATTIE, Margaret Saunders 58: Retired. Previously teaching in Further Education. I am currently very much involved with the University of 3rd Age in Liverpool. I have been organising a walking group for 10 years and have also been trying to learn German for about as long. (We have 3 half German grandchildren.) We also have 4 (nearly 5) other grandchildren who all live somewhere else and we are kept busy visiting them and our four children. BURT, Renée Howe 50: Retired School teacher. Celebrated Golden Wedding this year. Six grandchildren. Son (Michael) is a Chartered Accountant while daughter (Susan) is a Primary School teacher. Both married.

SHERCLIFF, Daphne M. Llewellyn 47: Retired Music teacher.

CLARK, Sheila Gattie 59: Retired. Previously worked in Hospital Administration. The population of Masterton is 19000. I have been here for 5 years and already met 2 ‘old’ Homertonians; we do get around! I

SMITH, Mary M. Williams 48: Retired teacher. SMITH, Mavis T. Roberts 47: Retired. Previously a teacher and School Librarian. Amazing that we are all

2007 Homerton Roll News ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------GOODDIE, Sheila M. Morgan 52: Currently writer. Previously a teacher and bookseller. Published 3 books- co-authored ‘The Summers of Shotton’ with Brian Redhead 1987, 2 biographies – ‘Annie Horniman: A Pioneer in the Theatre’ 1990, ‘Mary Gladstone: A Gentle Rebel’ 2003.

am still in touch with Pam Dawson (Attwell), Maureen Greenland, Diana Allanson (Bartley) and Ann Elliott (Gill). 3 of them have visited; I am hoping the fourth will as well. CROWE, Freda M. Gill 54: Retired. Was a Junior School teacher briefly.

GRIFFITHS, Josephine Cook 54: Retired Teacher. CULLIMORE, Maureen Midwinter 51: Retired Primary & Special Needs teacher. Worked for 17 years as Special Needs teacher in local Primary Schools. Since retirement I have gone back to water colours painting, porcelain painting and cross stitch. Keep in touch with 1951 – 53 College friends.

HARDMAN Avril Senior 53: Retired. Was previously Deputy Head of Sussex Primary School and Teacher of the Deaf in Sussex. Taught for almost 40 years in Primary Education followed by teaching deaf children (age 3 – 12) in an Oral School for the Deaf in Cuckfield, Sussex.

DAVIS, Julia B. Harradine 57: Retired Migrant teacher (Primary). Interests include grandchildren’s activities, environment projects. Volunteer at the Environmental Education Centre.

HARTLEY, Dorothy E. Hill 55: Retired. Was previously Educator. Administrator. Musician/Choral Director-organist. Married Christopher Hartley in 1960. 2 daughters: 1964 in Hong Kong and 1967 in Massachusetts, USA. Church organist and choir director 1966 to present. Elementary and High School teacher and administrator until retirement in 1999. Am in frequent correspondence and meeting with Sally Townend (Bolwell), Lorraine Shorter (Sellars), Anthea Griggs (Bayne-Jardine).

DYER, Juliet A. Cheadle 51: Retired teacher. In my retirement I continue to sculpt and paint and find both a challenge, a delight and an on going source of contentment. I exhibit in various galleries and with various societies and sell well. See the sculpture called ‘Heart of the Matter’ given in thanks for my years at Homerton.

HASLAM, Shirley D. Jefferies 52: Retired as Head of nursery department. MA in Theology, 2004. We travel a great deal, enjoy our grandchildren and their parents, swim, play tennis and croquet, and walk.

EDGAR, Janet Stimpson 53: Retired Nursery School Headteacher. I am secretary of the village hall committee; act and help with costumes at the Sewell Barn Theatre and attend art classes in Norwich. Gardening is also an interest and of course our family the fourth grandchild is a girl at last. Our college “gang” plus partners are about to meet for a weekend together – Alison Littlefair (Ratcliffe), Margaret Sharman (George), Barbara Dixon (Jenkins), Elisabeth Tunnicliffe (Read), Shirley Emmerich (Oakley), Jill Langley (Pepperell). Also in touch with Pauline Smith and recently, Barbara Dawson (Mather).

HEWIN, Gillian Bulpin 55: Retired infant/junior teacher. Married for 34 years to Ian, who sadly died of cancer in 1993. Four grown-up children, Sarah, Simon, David, Fiona, and 8 grandchildren. HOBBS, Doreen E. Quinlan 55: Retired Head Teacher. I taught in a Secondary Modern Girls’ School for six years and then went into special Education – joining Coney Hill, Bromley, Kent, the pioneer school in the world for the residential education and self care training of children with spina bifida &/ hydrocephalus. After steady expansion of facilities I was Head for ten years of the Primary and Secondary and also Further Education College Nash House. The latter is still flourishing though wider integration of special needs meant the school closed 2 years ago.

ERSKINE, Gillian Wilson 54: still active, plays tennis and goes to life-drawing classes. See her Notes ‘Reunion of class of 54-56’ elsewhere in Homerton Roll News. FORREST, Averil Lawrence 57: Currently retired from teaching and Property Management. Has been happily married for 40 years; with 3 daughters and 5 small grandchildren. Has a house in the Dordogne. Studied for a BA with the Open University, gained 2000. Regularly in touch with Christine Ibbetson, Joanna Clark, Susan Riddy, Margaret Dewar, Victoria Peace and Linda Farrow. Recently met Doris Gibbons and Kathryn Donkin at N.E.Homerton Ass.

HOOD Pauline M. Robinson 51: Retired Teacher. Have two sons - one chartered and the other management accountants. The latter one teaches the subject in Chichester , West Sussex. My husband and I are active in U.R.C. in Leeds, have strong links with Italy and the Waldensian (minority Protestant) church and visit frequently. I keep in touch with

contemporaries Gwen Turner, Sheila Smith, Jenny Griffith (Henman), Marita Kern, Shirley Parry (Skelton). Sadly Jill Williams (Rose) suffers from M.S. and is unable to attend the Reunion this year 2006.

MEAD, Rev’d Nina Wilkinson 54: Retired U.R.C Minister. Was previously a Teacher in Primary & Secondary Maths and Minister of local church and in ecumenical team.

JANES, Annie Barley 57: Retired Primary Head teacher. Married for the third time after being widowed twice. Three children, three grandchildren. Spend much time in motor home abroad. Golf, swimming, keep fit teacher. Have been retired since 1989- my school was closed. In touch with twelve girls from my year. Coordinator Mrs Christine Jackson (Riley) and Mrs Joan Hollinghurst (Aizlewood)

MEEKS, Pamela Steward 53: Retired teacher. OXLEY, Josephine M. Dear 54: Currently retired. Was previously a Special Ed. Assistant in Gifted Programme. Brian (Peterhouse) and I have just had our 49th Wedding Anniversary and are happily retired to our cottage on 150 acres in central Ontario, about 200m north of Toronto. Deer, bears, wolves on the property, beautiful scenery. 3 children, 7 grandchildren, 1 ½ great grandchildren. She writes: ‘It is very hard to imagine how Homerton is now; in the fifties we had only 4 men, the old buildings, only hockey I think, no rowing or soccer. It was one of the most special times of my life, a magical time.’

JACKSON, Christine M. Riley 57: Retired Primary teacher. KING, Dr Mary E. Calder 56: Retired. Previously a Lecturer in the University of Malawi. Author of books about Malawi, Africa. “The Story of Medicine and Disease in Malawi” and “The Great Rift” by Michael and Elspeth King. KERN, Marita 51: Retired. Currently a member of an Association showing visitors around Notre Dome Cathedral in English. Was previously teaching and then lecturing in Higher Education. I enjoy my retirement taking groups of English speakers around the Notre Dome Cathedral, putting what I have learnt in History of Art to some practical use. We all enjoy each other’s company, as much as I enjoyed my teaching career. It is not so easy to give up altogether. I would have liked to know the whereabouts of my College-mother : Sheila O’Toole (1950 – 52) and Rosalind Harrisson (1951 – 530, last heard of working for the United Nations in New York.

PARKINSON, Janet Bloore 55: Retired as Headteacher of a primary school. BA (Open University) 1973. PETRIE, Meg Gate 54: Retired teacher. In touch with former fellow students- Sue Stickland (Bates) Jo Oxley (Deer), Jane Last (Cook), Jean Dolman (Angles), Catherine Allardice (Jack), Jill Northam (Hollingsworth). RIGBY, Dorothy I. Guilford 52: Retired Primary teacher.

LANGLEY, Jillian Pepperell 53: Retired teacher. Yearly ‘get-togethers’ for the last 6 or 7 years with Alison Littlefair (Ratcliffe), Margaret Sharman (George), Janet Edgar (Stimpson), Elizabeth Tunnicliffe (Read), Barbara Dixon (Jenkins), Shirley Emmerich (Oakley).

SEED, Barbara Blacklidge 54: Retired teacher. SCOTT, Eilidh S. Birnie 56: Currently a housewife. Previously a bookkeeper in a Hospital Shop Project. Taught in Stockton –On –Tees from 1958 – 60. Married in 1960 and taught in Cambridge in 1960. Lived in Switzerland from 1961- 67. Four children. Subsequently lived in Cambridge, Lancaster and Newcastle. Husband - a graduate from Queen’s went into industry, which resulted in extensive travelling for both of us.

LEWIS, Pam Walker 1951: Retired primary school teacher. Would like to know if anyone can tell her of the present whereabouts of Kathleen Newman (nee Doidge) who was her room mate and friend at college. LIEVIN-LIEVEN, Pamela Williams 54: Retired lecturer/teacher. Lectured in Physical Education at National Teacher Training college, Kyambogo, Kampala, Uganda, 1968-69.

SMART, Pamela Barton 59: Head of department 1 year after leaving Homerton , which I ran for 4 ½ years before having children. After 6 years at home returned to teach in secondary education, then general teaching in junior schools. Became interested in teaching dyslexic children in the private sector. Carried on

MARTIN, Marilyn Whittaker 59: Currently working part time in Special Education Needs and Disability

2007 Homerton Roll News ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Service, clerking in the Industrial Tribunals in Manchester. Frank and I have six grown up children and 10 grandchildren (ages 8 – 23). I have recently met up with Jackie Granger Brown (Routledge) at the delightful concerts arranged for charity each month at her house. I am also in touch with Jill Glenn (Alexander), Brenda Spencer (Dodgson), Valerie Fealhersone (Carter) and Eilidh Scott (Birnie)

teaching until retirement. Now School Governor and grandmother of 4. Taught at Riding for the Disabled for 20 years. SMITH, Janet E. Figures 56: Retired. Previously Head of Strings Dept. Bolton Education Dept. Music Service and Peripatetic teacher. Married in 1963 to Brian; present Borough Organist of Bolton, 2 sons Malcolm 1969 and Ian 1973. Interests – member of Bolton Symphony Orchestra (Viola). Till recently – Bowmen of Overdale for Archery. Studied Calligraphy up to Level 3.

THORNDIKE, Vera W. Anthony 54: Retired teacher. VALLANCE, Jennifer Annand 51: Retired. Previously a teacher and credit union clerk/teller. This year marks my 50th in Canada. Sadly my husband of 45 years died 2 ½ years ago. I have 3 children and 4 granddaughters ranging in age form 7 – 23 years. I love to travel and hope to be back in the UK for a visit next year. I would love to hear from any of my “class mates”. I keep in contact with 6 of them but would enjoy hearing from others.

SPENCER, Muriel Brenda Dodgson 56: Retired from teaching, but in March 2007 spent 2 weeks in East Jerusalem at the school where I taught in 2001. The children, who had been in kindgergarten then, now Year 6, made a special celebration, cooked Arab food, and danced and sang. I have a daughter, Elizabeth, now Senior Probation Officer in Bridgwater, and a son, Richard, the Daily Telegraph’s correspondent in Beijing. I have been lay chairman of Yeovil Deanery Synod for the last 5 years, and organist/choir leader at our church.

VARLEY, Jennifer M. Dixon 56: Taught in diplomatic schools in Moscow, Beirut, Prague. Senior mistress at Charlton Kings Secondary School, Cheltenham, and left 1972 to bring up family. I have been an active governor, now Chair of Governors, at Marling School, Stroud.

STEVENSON, Dorothy Holehouse 59: Retired. Was previously the Director’s Secretary International School of Geneva – Switzerland. Been living in Switzerland since 1967. 1962 – 67 was in Holland. 2 grown up children, 4 grandchildren.

WESTWOOD, Maralyn Steele 55: Retired teacher. WILKINS, Mary Peirce 57: Now retired after working as a counsellor/psychotherapist. “A great interest for me during the last 15 years has been painting. I have now held several exhibitions and sold quite a lot of pictures. I only discovered this delight in my mid-50s and am pleased to have more time for it now that I have retired. I also have 4 children and 8 grandchildren who keep me busy and are also a delight.”

STRANKS, Margaret Hyams 51: Retired teacher, and mother of 4. My husband, Richard J. Stranks, who was Secretary to the Faculty of Education, died on January 26, 2007 . We had moved to Great Shelfor in august 2006 to be nearer Cambridge for the music, theatre and arts. SUTTON, Josephine M. Biddlecombe 57: Retired Headteacher (Primary)

WILLIAMS, Jane Morton 52: Teacher of the deaf. Although ‘over age’ I’m still employed by 2 authorities to take lipreading classes for the deaf and hard of hearing – 4 classes with full complement of people in each. Meet for annual reunion with Susan Overman, Audrey Peck Mundy.

TAYLOR, Joan M. Weddle 57: Retired science teacher. A keen green bowls plays, now playing for a club in Selsey where I moved in December to be near one of my sons. Still a keen photographer, trying to get to grips with digital photography, having developed and printed my own black and white plates for many years.

WISE, Shirley M. 52: Retired teacher.

THOMPSON, Celia M. Bissell 56: Retired. Was previously teaching and a civil servant. I married Peter Slatcher (Trinity Hall) in 1959. We had two sons. From 1975 to 1983 I was a single parent. I gave up my part time teaching and private piano teaching when I remarried and I spent almost ten years in the Civil

1960s AINSWORTH, Jan Brych 1969: Previously Diocesan Director of Education for the Manchester Diocese, I took up the post of Chief education Officer for the

2007 Homerton Roll News ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Church of England on March 26. This means managing the whole of the Church of England’s stake in education, including the rapid expansion of the secondary sector, largely through Academies. Major challenges lie in servicing the establishment of chaplaincy and faith provision in FE and Higher Education; and similarly in the church’s own domestic informal education programme. I pick up responsibility for connecting with the church universities and colleges, i.e. those that kept their Christian foundation live – unlike Homerton! I gained an MA in Religious Studies, 1974; was ordained deacon in 2005 and priest in 2006.

DUBOIS, Gillian Tanner 69: Currently teaching in international companies. Was previously teaching in schools. Am enjoying free lance teaching and modern technology helps! (sound recordings etc. BBC website) FELTON, Janice Margaret Mason 61: Semi-retired supply teacher at a special school for up to 3 days a week – otherwise I garden, decorate and do crossstitch, osteo-arthritis in my hands permitting. A grandaughter, Evelyn Grace, born October to our eldest daughter and her husband. Our younger daughter marries next year. FULLER, Jill Styman 60: Currently a freelance writer. Previously a Teacher, Advisor, School Inspector, Writer. In 2001 I was awarded a masters in Applied Theology, for which I wrote a dissertation titled ‘Listening to Children’s Stories: the significance of attending to the voices of children for children’s spiritual development’. I am continuing to lead some Quiet Days for clergy and churches. My last book was published by SPCK in January 2006 and is called ‘Time : God’s Gift in a Busy World’.

AMYES, Susan Fare 60: Currently an Image Consultant. Was previously a Pharmaceutical Rep. Interests – Politics. Fought a few local elections – not won any yet. Keeps in touch with a few Homertonians – just had a small reunion. BACON, Sarah Loveday 66: Retired. Was previously a teacher - SENCO and Head of Dept for children with language disorders. BONNIN, Joan Mary Ching 60: Retired from teaching, but still run a small music company called James Ching Professional Service which was started by my father in the 1930s. We sell A level music notes and analyses to schools. I keep in touch with Gill Baker Bullen and Jane Denerley Henman.

HANCOCK, Rosy M. N. Brown 66: Currently a volunteer worker. Was previously a teacher. HARDINGHAM, Margaret 66: Currently housewife and homemaker. Was previously an infant teacher. KNIGHTON, Audrey C. Land 63: Retired Primary teacher.

CARNALL, Jean D. Barrie 66: Currently a Maths Publisher. Previously Mathematics Development Officer (London Exam Board) and Maths teacher. Has been working in educational publishing for several years developing maths texts and software for primary and secondary schools. In regular contact with Chris Race (Daubney), Ann Bates (Sheldon), Helen Cattermole (Bisstett) Rosemary Lewis (Cole) and Sandra Mapp (Messenger) who has just visited from Canada.

KOHN, Joy M. Read 61: Currently retired and active in village and local church. Was previously a primary school teacher. I scraped a pass (literally) at Grade VI violin towards the end of the fifties. That has always irked me. So when a violin teacher moved in next door I decided it was time to try again. But it was so much harder now. Keeping my fingers thorn free while trying to run my small holding was a serious challenge; also avoiding pulling my wrists while bell ringing or restraining the dogs. So what a relief to get to the exam with everything working! But what are my chances to be fully fit for Grade VII in another 50 years time? I was one of Anne (Goss) and John Hulse’s guests for their magnificent Ruby wedding anniversary July 06.

COLE, Jennifer H. Medcalf 62: Currently Supply teacher. Previously a teacher. Relocated to Victoria having lived for 21 years in Sunningdale Berks, plus 6 years in Devon. I’ve taught everywhere from Canvey Island to Lambrook-Haileybury in Berkshire. Adrianne Ashcroft (Greenwood) now lives in Wales. Helen Slade (Orna) lives in Vancouver.

MACPHERSON, Christine Hay 63: Retired teacher. DAW, Elaine Crack 69: Currently an Educational Consultant. Was previously a teacher.

MARTIN, Anne Sparrowe 68: Currently a peripatetic music teacher: arranger, conductor, writer. Was previously Head of Music at a Prep School. Am now enjoying working as a peripatetic recorder teacher with time to write and arrange music. However life has

DOBSON, Shirley J. 66: Retired. Was a primary school teacher for 23 years. Left Cambridge in 1991 on retirement to live in Norfolk.

2007 Homerton Roll News ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------changed unexpectedly with my election to the General Synod of the Church of England and to the Guildford Diocesan Board of Education. Lindsay Williams (Dowling) a deputy head in Kent has recently become a grandmother. Wendy Reynolds is teaching in the Falklands.

RESCORLA, Susan Ruff 64: Previously a maths teacher, but now working in textile conservation., funeral directing, and library relief. I run my own textile business., and seem to have cornered the market in ecclesiastical and Masonic circles, with a year’s worth of commissions booked! Having led the college orchestra, I have risen to even loftier heights as fiddler for a local morris dance side.

MCKAY, Jennifer S. Taylor 60: Retired Head Teacher and Ofsted Inspector- Lead and team.

SARGINSON, Pamela Husbands 66: Retired teacher. 37 years of mostly ups since leaving College, 26 years teaching. Married with two grown up children. Latterly involved in girl-guiding. Nature abhors a vacuum and I seem to be just as busy now that I have retired but thankful to be so – studying for C & G Diploma.

NOLAN, Carole R. Hunt 62: Currently Retired. Was previously a Deputy Head and SCITT Coordinator. Having trained for primary, I always worked in secondary sector (Croydon, Elephant & Castle, Southwark, Lambeth, Barnet) but now am Vice Chair of a rural C of E primary school. In touch with Celia Tiley (Chamings) – TEFL Director, Putney; Victoria O’Connell (Waterton) –Educational Psychologist; and Ann Beeby – assisted husband in private school sector.

SMALLBONE, Annette Way 67: Previously full time, currently part time primary school teacher, teaching 3 days a week as a “floating” teacher. Have made contact with my contemporary, Nikki Black and my College “Mum”, Annette Woods (Mahoney) both through Friends Re-united.

PAYNE, Angela H. Mortimer 60: Currently a part time teacher. Previously a Fulltime Director of Studies, VIth Form College. B & B at Mulberry Farm. Chairman Bury St Edmonds Decorative and Fine Arts Society.

SYNER, Alison F. Barkham 68: Currently an Occupational Health and Primary Care Counsellor. Previously a lecturer.

POUTIER, Cheryl M. S. Rogers 61: Retired teacher.

TAYLOR. Jennifer Kilburn 67: Currently part-time maths teacher; previously Head of Maths. Married to Peter, with 2 daughters, Sarah, 29, a vet, and Kate 26, a buyer. We enjoy travelling especially to Italy.

POWELL, Margaret Piff 64: retired but voluntarily a J.P. Was previously Assistant Head of Montem Primary Slough. Magistrate since 2005. POWELL, Joan M. Weir 63: Currently Careers Advisor at University of Southampton. Was previously a teacher. Play tennis and golf when I can. Dennis (husband ) is semi retired. We have one son who is in 4th year at University College London. Keep in touch with Bridget Weir (Hill) my sister in law, Christine Macpherson (Hay), Judi Precious (Hogg).

WILKINSON, Janet Hobson 66: Currently running playgroup in Child Development Centre at Royal Surrey Co. Hospital. Was previously teaching – comprehensive, AD Tech College, Sec. School, Inf. School. WILLIAMS, Carole E. T. Roch 64: Retired teacher.

PRITCHARD, Lindsey Fox 67: Currently Special Needs Language Disorders teacher. 1970s RACE, Chris Daubney 66: Currently teaching part time. Was previously a full time teacher. BADDELEY, Jane M. Livett 74: Currently a Lecturer, previously a teacher. Married to Tim (Magdalene 1975-78) with 3 boys.

REES, Ruth Maillard 66: Currently Supply teacher. Previously full time teacher and management team in charge of pastoral care. Retired after teaching at the same school for 21 years (I was really happy there). They still ask me back to do supply work which I enjoy. I am grandmother to Ben who lives in Sydney with his mum and dad. Helen, his mum was at Homerton 92 – 96 and nagged me join the roll at last. Sadly a dear friend Carolyn Newlove (66 – 70) died last year, an elegant compassionate woman.

BARBER Jane R. Wallwork 70: Currently Senior Lecturer. Was previously a teacher. BIRRELL Brenda A. Hodgkiss 71: Currently doing High School counselling. Was previously a Physics teacher.

2007 Homerton Roll News ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------FRAY, Wendy A. Ackroyd 77: At present teaching piano, having worked as a class music teacher, 78-84, and then a computer programmer for a year, 88-89.

BRATT, Valerie J. Fyson 73: Previously a teacher, now a housewife. Married Dr Ian Bratt (Fitzwilliam 1973-79), with daughter and son, born ‘86 and ’88. Emigrated to South Africa in 1981 – husband working for Impala Platinum Refineries – sadly, no free samples!

FROOD, Kate 79: Currently Headteacher. Was previously Teacher/Deputy Head/Numeracy Consultant. Spent 25 years living and working in central London, primarily in the London Borough of Camden. Currently at Eleanor Palmer Primary School, my second headship. Partner Murray, stepson Alfie 18 and daughter Chloe 8. Love my work and life is good!

BRIANT, Ruth de Longh 78: Currently Freelance Museum Educator. Was previously a Primary Teacher. Married in Oct 1991, 2 children ages 12 ½ and 10. Enjoying teaching in a variety of London Museums on all topics including Romans, Victorians, World War II - using object handling and role play to bring history alive. Still in contact with Hilary Vipond (Baker), Jackie Lesley (Clenaghan), Sue Osmaston (Armstrong) and Amanda Savage (Baillie). Have met Mary Raikes through local Babysitting Circle.

GARVEY, Cynthia A. Pamment 70: Currently Carer for father. Was previously a teacher/supply teacher. Still in touch with at least 12 friends from Homerton, including those from 187 where I was for my first year. GOMAR, Philippa Jackson 78: Currently Supply teacher.

BRIMELOW, Louise 79: Currently Headteacher in Glasgow Primary School. Living very happily in Glasgow with partner and 10 year old daughter. Have lived in Scotland for 14 years. I taught in Oxford, London and Sheffield before moving to Glasgow. In regular contact with Kate Frood (of same year) who is also a Headteacher in Camden, London.

GRANT, Dr Clive A. 79: Currently a teacher, LEA Music Consultant, author on using Music ICT within the curriculum to enhance pupils achievements.

BRIND, Jane N. A. 77: Currently a teacher.

HARDING, Elizabeth C. George 77: Currently Nursery school owner. Taught English in Comprehensive schools for 12 years.

BROADBRIDGE, Deborah Faulkner 75: Currently a teacher.

HASLEHAM, Isobelle 75: Retired Research Technician.

COAD, Kathryn A. Davies 77: Currently a teacher.

HOFMAN, Deborah Brass 78: In March 2007 we moved to Wheeldon Trees Farm, in Earl Sterndale, Derbyshire, just south of Buxton, where we have 7 holiday cottages converted from an old dairy barn, while we live in the farmhouse. It’s a complete change of life for us and so far we are loving it. We’d be delighted to welcome Homertonians and their families to come and stay!

CURTIS, Jill D. 76: Retired teacher. I retired early from teaching to nurse my late husband in his final illness. Following his death, as 3 of my 4 children are permanent residents of Australia, I applied to live here and emigrated a year ago to an area called East Gippsland four hours east of Melbourne. I have joined the Cambridge Society of Australia.

HUGHES, Eleanor M. Brown 70: Currently Primary School teacher. Previously Housewife and Secondary School Teacher of English.

DAVIES, Joanne Southgate 76: Currently a teacher literacy co-ordinator. Has three children- Philip born 1986, Ruth born 1988 and Eleanor born 1993.

JEFFERIS, Jenny Sarsby 77: married to a lawyer, with three teenage children, and currently working part-time at the Norwegian school in London.

DE LA MARE, Kim Gallacher 77: Currently Head of Drama at Tunbridge Wells Girls Grammar School. DINNAGE, Susan M. Wilkinson 78: Currently a part time teacher.

JONES, Christine M. Waters 73: Currently Human Resource Consultant. Was previously Human Resource Director.

DUSSEK, Toby 79: Currently freelance I.T. Trainer. Was previously a Physics Teacher. I married Lisa in 1992 and we have two daughters, Charis (7) and Talia (4).

JONES, Melanie 74: Currently Special Needs teacher. Previously Maths Teacher (Adult Education.)

KULASINGHAM, Ann E.C. 54: Previously a deputy Head teacher , now working as a hospital and outreach education tutor. Married to Chandra, with 2 daughters, Naomi (14) and Rachel (12).

MOULSDALE, Nicky Tyler 74: Still in Wimbledon working as a Special Needs Teacher with children on the Autistic Spectrum, but am taking a year out of paid employment and enjoying every minute of it! Enjoy my yoga, Scottish dancing, and running a Rainbow unit. Husband Johnny (St Catharines 1974-77) still rows for Crabtree: (Cambridge Veterans), and we have celebrated our Silver Wedding Anniversary. 3 daughters: Jessica, just finished at Edinburgh University and going on to an MA in publishing at UCL; Lucy reading anthropology at Durham, and Hannah hoping to go to Bristol in October. I have joined the newly formed London Branch. I keep in contact with Katie Milne, Verity Lowe, Jane Colton Lindup, Lesley Turner Lambert, Annie Lee Casey, and Erin Shardlow.

LEAK, Lesley Groome 73: Currently Deputy Headteacher, Elliot School Putney (11- 18, mixed, 1400 on roll). Was previously LA Advisor, London Borough of Ealing. Since 1971, married to David Leak (Senior Lecturer, Imperial College London) a former student of Sydney Sussex College, Cambridge. Two children ; Sam aged 20 years at King’s College, London, reading music; Frances aged 17 years at Tiffin Girls’ School studying A-levels. LEWCOCK, Dr Marjorie D. 78: Just retired from teaching for Madingley Hall after 20 years. Before College, teaching speech and drama and theatre skills. As well as exploring theatre and poetry with adults at Madingley Hall, my thesis was on the staging of the plays of Aphra Behn, and I continue to research theatre history, particularly the ways the scenic stage worked in the seventeenth century. Have published in several journals, especially Theatre Notebook. I contributed to Aphra Behn Studies (CUP 1996) edited by Janet Todd, acted as an adviser and provided six entries for the Continuum Encyclopaedia of Literature (2003) edited by Grosvenor Meyer and Serafin, wrote a chapter on English Pantomime for Audience Participation (2003) edited by Katwinkle, have an essay, on Restoration Theatre Audience, in an on-line Journal put out by Aberystwyth, and am contributing several pieces about masques and about Davenant’s work to the on-line Literary Encyclopaedia put out by EAU at Norwich. I have even given a few lectures and supervisions at Homerton. That was very odd experience - to come back as ‘one of them’ and enter the Senior Combination Room - and I guess I would not have done any of it had I not been at Homerton. So thank you Dr David Male, Dr Peter Raby, Dr Susan Macklin and all the students with whom I worked, not forgetting Keith Loveday, who organised us all in the old drama studio.

MUNDEN, Sarah 77: Currently in Sales with Oxford University Press. MURCH, Dilys E. Inch 73: Currently a Guide at Tate Britain and Tate Modern. Was previously a Special Needs Teacher. PURWAR, Jane A. Slater 77: Currently a housewife. Was previously a teacher. READY, Karen W. 79: Currently Academic Liaison Librarian (Anglia Ruskin University). Previously Subject Librarian. REEVE, Alison 77: Currently Assistant Headteacher. ROUND, Beverley A. Simmons 72: Currently a Peripatetic Teacher – Piano, Flute, Clarinet & Voice. Previously Chemistry Teacher. RUSBRIDGE, Jennifer Wright 78: Currently Part Time Tutor. SMALL, Jennifer J. E. Martin 77: Currently household administrator. Was previously a teacher. I have lived in Wimbledon for over twenty years and our three children have grown up here. I worked at Queen’s Gate School until a few years ago and after a period of ill health I have decided not to return to teaching but keep myself busy running all aspects of our family life whilst pursuing tennis and supporting the children’s sports and activities. My husband, Francis, is a partner with Ernst & Young. We both manage to keep up with some of our college friends although we would enjoy a reunion in London with Homertonians living here. I keep in touch with Louise

LISTER, Julia Wheaten 75: Currently a Music teacher. Deborah Broadbridge – fellow student, living and teaching in Canterbury. MAXWELL, Sarah 73: Currently a teacher. McLELLAN, Carolyn J. Shaw 73: Currently studying for Degree in Environmental Horticulture and Design. McROBERTS, Helen Ruschill 75: happily involved in teaching at a large variety of venues. Large family (some still at home) plus interests including music and

2007 Homerton Roll News ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Lucas, Clare Bradley, Geraldine Lomax and Jo Caspari. A neighbour of mine, Nicky Moulsdale, fills me in with what news she has. Also I have met Mr McSherry – drama. He teaches my youngest son.

1980s ANDREWS, Susan Jane 87: Previously a teacher but not working at present due to suffering from M.E. Recently got engaged, and hoping to return to voluntary work in the autumn. Will shortly be changing her name by deed poll to Janey Darian Susan Andrews.

THOMPSON, Brenda J. 79: retired teacher of Science 11- 18. My husband Colin and I have both been retired for a couple of years now, though I did ‘supply’ teaching until recently – mostly Maths at Hatfield Girls’ School. We have 2 young Springer Spaniels – a male and a female which take up a lot of “spare” time and visit our daughter and family in Dubai and sons and families in Germany and Kent respectively as often as possible. Daughter Valerie has just been appointed Head of a 1200 pupil International School in Dubai. Colin and I are Jehovah’s Witnesses and spend a certain amount of time telling people the good news of the Kingdom and teaching from the Bible instead of our usual textbooks.

ATKINS, Louise M. Wareham 85: Currently a teacher. BARKER, Helen Rickards 84: enjoying life as a teacher, and currently teaching science at King’s College School, Cambridge, having also worked for a couple of years in the ICT department at Homerton. She and her husband run a catering business ‘Cantab Catering’, based at the University RUFC, and have two children aged 1 and 3.

VENN, Alison J. H. Avery 74: Currently Teacher and Director of Drama at James Allen’s Girls’ School. I love my job! And it’s fun to see pupils of mine beginning their own journey at Homerton (Marieke Audsley). I have two children, James (19) and Laura (22) and I re-married, very happily, in 2003. We have 5 grown up children and 2 granddaughters between us. I am in close contact with Vanessa Walker (Jones) exPresident of the Homerton Student Union, and Saxon Appleton. Both are still teaching full-time, like me.

BARNETT, Rachel 89: Retired from teaching in 2006, and has been running a saddlery shop and importing and selling Irish horses. Now taking a year out to look after Charlotte, born 9 January, 2007.

VIVIAN, Tessa M. Walker 73: Currently Supply teacher. Previously a teacher.

BOX, Alison Dawes 88: Worked as a teacher in Islington, London, until she met and married Australian teacher Philip Box in 1999. Now living in Melbourne, with twins Emily and Toby (4) and Samuel (2).

BATTEN, David N. 84: Currently Vice Principal of Cadbury Sixth Form College, Birmingham. Was previously teaching in sixth form colleges and 11-18 schools, Second in Science, Head of Physics, Examinations Officer and MIS Manager.

WALKER, Susan Hardingham 73: Currently Head of Preparatory School (Combe Bank). Previously Head of Prep School (Beechwood). Close friend and colleague (1990 – 2000) of Mary Emanuel (Dunsmore). Mary died in Oct 2005 after a dignified battle with cancer.

CAMPBELL, Meryl Gilchrist. 89: Currently Primary Teacher. Moving to Sydney with my husband and two children Aidan 5, and Briony, 2 and planning to teach over there once we are all settled. Am currently having my skills assessed by the education authorities in Australia. Recently saw Karen Hillywhite (Griffin) who now lives in America and would like to receive Homerton news.

WARREN, Daphne Bridges 71: Currently Teacher of Biology at Hitchin Girls’ School. Was previously teaching at various schools in Hertfordshire. I am married and have two girls aged 16 and 18. My elder daughter starts at Reading University in October. WATKINS, Marie Rose 78: After 23 years managing research laboratories and PhD students at the Genetic Research Department of Cambridge University, I have retired to catch up with my 3 grandchildren. Continuing with house restoration as a hobby.

CARLTON, Lorraine Bailey 85: Currently Numeracy teacher (Adults). Was previously a Maths teacher (1116).

WIMBUSH, Angela M. Nayler 77: Currently Junior Coordinator at Wakefield Girls’ High School Junior School.

COLDICOTT, Philip C. 88: Currently History Teacher at St Paul’s Catholic School, Milton Keynes.

CHAPPLE, Anna 81: Currently a teacher.

COPELAND, Rachel Salter 80: Currently a teacher (SENCO). I am now teaching at Sevenoaks Prep and have three sons James (18) David (16) and Timothy (12). I am married to Ian (Homerton postgrad 1980 – 81) who is Head of Maths at Lingfield School. Prior to current post I was working with gifted and talented pupils from local schools. We still meet up with Nicky (Warwick), Cordelia (Bloxham) and Caroline Worssam and hear from Clare (Burgin) and Louise Godbold who lives in the USA and Hilary (Reger). Helen (Rimes) was my son’s SENCO some time ago. Also pleased to find that a colleague Nik Pears was at Homerton too.

HALLETT, Rachel H. Frost 88: Currently mother of 4 year old twin girls and soon to start teaching in a nursery. Previously teaching for 5 years in a village school and 5 years in London. HIGGINS, Sarah A. Cottrell 82: Currently Tutor/C.A.B. Worker. Was previously a Primary School Teacher. HOSKINS, Clare Holmes 87: Currently Freelance Orchestral Musician and Music Co-ordinator at a primary school, 1 ½ days/week. Was previously an Orchestral Musician. Married to Conductor Paul Hoskins (Music Director – Rambert Dance Company) and have three children aged 10, 7 and 5.

CROFT, Susan Studd 81: Currently a teacher. Working as Second in Department at Impington Village College and really enjoying my new job. COLLIER, Sarah E. A. Gooddy 87: Was previously Year 1 Form Tutor, St Faith’s School Cambridge; currently a mummy.

HRUDA, Svetlana 87: Currently Special Education teacher to high level (12 – 16 year olds). Riding instructor for people with and without disabilities as a vocation. Have horse, house, pickup truck and 2 cats (America Dream). Got to see 5 year old nephew’s first bike ride without training wheels (June 2006).

FORD, Caroline Wootton 80: Currently Special Needs Coordinator in a local Prep schools, having worked for many years as a class teacher in various London schools and going into the special needs field with 3 years working at a specialist school for dyslexic children. I got married in June of 2006 to Stephan Ford (Magdalene 1983 – 1986) and have inherited 2 lovely stepchildren. I saw Sian Whittaker (Roberts) a few months ago when she was over from California. She has 3 children and they are thinking about moving to the Czech republic next year. Caroline Baird (Ivett) and her 3 children are moving to Turkey in September when he husband Nick becomes ambassador. Marie Mack (Alderson) lives in Middlesborough with husband and 4 children. Marie and Caroline were at my wedding. Caroline Worssam is teaching in Kent. Jacqui Taylor has moved to France with husband and 2 children.

KHURODY DAY, Shenaiya Khurody 86: Working part time as a primary school teacher in Haslemere, Surrey, while bringing up Anna and Henry. Also paints and sings in a small chamber choir when she has time. Would love to hear from other Homertonians in the area. Regularly sees Alison Scott Porter, who now has a daughter, Emily, and still teaches full time. KUMAR, Arjun 88: Currently running a business. My wife Jessima and I had a baby boy on 05/02/06. We now have three children - daughter Neeti (5) and sons Karamvir (7) and Nihal (1/2). LEWIS, Joanna M. Hazell 87: Currently a Primary teacher. Since moving to New Zealand (2003) I have formed my own company (Alwaysdo Ltd) selling teaching resources online. I also have 2 sons Owen (age 9) and Bryan (age 6).

GAMBLE, Graham N. 86: Currently the Business Development Director for the British Schools of America organisation. Was previously Acting Headmaster, British American School of Charlotte; Deputy Headmaster, British School of Washington. I married Sue Manville, a dance teacher and choreographer, in 1981. We now have two sons, Alexander (12) and Byron (9), and have recently bought a house in suburban Maryland, just outside Washington DC.

MARSH, Alice Corbett 83: Currently a Library Assistant. Working with children at the library and my church and tutoring as well as library work. Walking and reading are my main interests apart from travel. MAYTHER, Louise J. 87: Currently a Private Tutor. Was previously Central Service S.E.N. Specialist Teacher, Primary School Deputy head Teacher, SEN Co-ordinator, Assessment, Record-Keeping and Equal Opportunities Co-ordinator and Language & Literacy Co-ordinator.

GOULDSTONE, Suzanne (Susie) Moss 88: Previously a teacher, now living in Maidenhead with husband, Jeremy, and a full-time mother to Cameron, age 2. Involved with music at church and sings with a

2007 Homerton Roll News ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------– 1988; Bader First School, RAF Bruggen, Germany, 1988 – 1995. Still in touch with Penny Aspinwall, Helen Holt (Maden) Sue Hiorns (Martel), Sue Pilbeam (Tongue) and Joanna Georiadis (Whittington)

McCULLOUGH, Deborah A. Swan 85: Currently a housewife. Was previously a teacher. MICKLETHWAITE, Amanda Merrett 82: Previously a teacher; currently at home.

THOMPSON, Janice M. Watson 80: Currently Teacher and Kumon Instructor.

MITCHELL, Anne 80: Currently teaching Year 5 in Vernon Junior School in Poynton, where she has worked for 14 years. Recently divorced from Steve Allwright and returned to her maiden name.

TURNILL, Susan Edwards 88: Currently a mother. Was previously a Primary teacher. I worked for 6 years in a primary school in Bexleyheath. Married Richard from Churchill College. Had 3 children – Isobel 7 and Ross & Patrick (twins of 5).

MORRELL, Tom 89: previously worked as an organ builder, now a music teacher. Released “Free Arthur Fowler” in 1996. Married Cathy Heeler in 2001, and now has two children, Ben (4) and Jessica (3).

VICKERS, Lorna R. 86: Currently a Secondary School Teacher. VINCENT, Judy Gorman 80: Has just retired after 24 joyful years teaching science, and optimistic that her enthusiasm for the subject has been transmitted to lots of her pupils.

READER, Bridget Villar 85: Previously a teacher, now a housewife, having married on 24th March, 2007. ROACH, Donna Jane 83: Taught for 19 years but now does private tutoring in English, Maths and French. Living in London, near Canary Wharf, with her partner of 15 years, who is a banker in the City, and has travelled extensively with him in the Far East, Australia, South Africa and Europe.

WALKER, Angela McCormick 87; married Dr Gavin Walker, March, 2007. YOUNG, Jane Cattanach 86: Currently an Executive Coach. Was previously IT Director.

SAUNDERS, Claire E. Escott 88: Currently Manager of One Year Course Programme, Moorlands College. Was previously a Primary School teacher. Married with two children. Working at Moorlands College, using my training in a different education sector and loving it. About to undertake further study in supporting students with SPLD, including dyslexia.

1990s ABBISS, Lesley 91: Currently a teacher. AKHTAR, Pav 97: Currently Head of Race Equality at Unison, and an elected Local Councillor in Lambeth, London. Gained an MA in Journalism, 2003, and PG dip in Modern Languages, 2004.

SIMMONS, Jeannette Pilts 81: Currently a Part Time teacher.

ARMSTRONG, Joanne M. Farmer 91: Currently Deputy Principal. Was previously a teacher.

STOW, William 87: Currently Principal Lecturer in Education , Canterbury Christ Church. Was a Primary teacher from 1984 – 1994. I am married with one daughter, Megan, and my wife Clare is expecting our second child in October 2006. Clare Hoskins (Holmes) is a freelance oboist and music co-ordinator at Childs Hill Primary, Cricklewood. She is married to Paul and they have 3 children, Dorothy (10), Mabel (8) and Jess (5).

ATKINSON, Dr Catharine A. 96: Currently an Educational Psychologist/University Tutor. Previously a teacher. AXTEN-HIGGS, Christopher Higgs 99: Currently a Primary teacher. Was previously a Fund Raising Executive. I married Rachel Axten (at Homerton 2000 – 2004), in April 2006. We are now Mr and Mrs Axten-Higgs.

SWEETNAM, Carole Jory 82: Married, a mother, and back in England for 10 years, after teaching and translating work in Paris for 7 years.

BARLOW, John 97: Currently a teacher (part time with inclusion service). Remarried in 2003 to someone I met whilst on a trip sponsored by Pilkington Trust. Lydia born 29/07/2004.

TAYLOR, Elizabeth A. Wrenn 81: Currently Supply Teacher. Married Keith Taylor, RAF Pilot in 1994 and we have two daughters Lucy (1996) and Hannah (1998). Taught at Hinchley Wood F & M School, 1985

2007 Homerton Roll News ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------BARRATT-PEACOCK, Vivienne James 96: Married 2001, with children Benjamin, b.2005, and Eliana, b. March 2007. Previously worked as a Special Needs coordinator, and a Deputy Head.

CLARKE, Helen 90: Currently Learning Support Teacher. I am still living in Singapore. The start of this term marks the 8th year. I am enjoying working as a Specialist teacher rather than Class teacher. Pleased that Andrea Hawthorne is rejoining the staff at school in Singapore.

BAUMBER, Holly M. Woodhouse 91: Currently Assistant Head. Was previously a teacher. Had a baby girl, Lauren-May, in Sept 2004. Now back at work 4 days a week.

COLSON, Christina D. Carr 91: Previously a teacher: currently not working.

BEAN, Elizabeth Gent 96: Currently an Educational Psychologist. Was previously a teacher.

COOPER, John P. 99: Currently MA Student (Science & Security) at King’s College London (2006 – 2007). Was previously Master of Physics and mathematics at Rossall School.

BEAUMONT, Anne 99: Currently Leader of Creative Arts. Was previously Leader of Drama. BERLE, Vanessa Bresnark 92: Currently teacher, English Co-ordinator, Senior Management. Delighted to announce that I married Joshua Berle on 6th August 2006.

COULTAS, Joanna Thrussell 92: Currently a teacher. Was previously Teacher/Care Assistant. CROOTE, Sarah J. Turner 93: Currently Mother and Supply teacher. Was previously a full time teacher. Got married in April 1998 and had a daughter, Hannah on 06/01/03.

BERNS, Antonia 94: Has accepted a teaching post in Hong Kong and will be joining her fiancé in September, before their marriage, due to take place in London on January 5th 2008.

CUNNINGHAM, Nicola A. Duffin 98: Currently a teacher.

BURR, Hilary Cox 93: Previously Careers Adviser. Currently mother of 2 children, living in Singapore and about to move to Taiwan.

DARBY, Kerry Taylor 93: Currently Deputy Head teacher. DARBY, Timothy N. 94: Currently a teacher. Got married in July 2005 to Kerry Taylor (who was also at Homerton).

BUTTLE, Joanne Wiseman 97: currently a teacher. Married Paul Buttle in August 2006. CAROE, Anna C. Wells 98: Currently a teacher.

DURNIN, Marion 94: Currently a teacher. Part time PRD being attempted at Trinity College Dublin (School of English).

CARTER, Anna L. Keating 97: Currently Housewife. Was previously a teacher (Biology & Chemistry). I had my second child, James in Feb 2006. My first child, Katherine, is now 3 ½ years old.

EDWARDS, Philip 99: Currently Primary teacher. ELAND, Lisa M. 96: Currently a teacher.

CARSWELL, Abigail 99: Currently an Account Manager in a Media Agency. Was previously an Account Assistant, PR. Seems my obsession for skiing is in no way diminished. Since year as Cambridge Ladies Ski Captain (2000 – 02) I still dream of snow, and and after 3 years of working for a small London Media Agency I am heading to Canada for a year, come October, for another adventure in the mountains. I may be back.

ELLOTT, Cathy Unwin 96: Currently a teacher and Housemistress. FEDERA, Sonja 99: Currently a teacher. My husband and I will be travelling the world for the next twelve months. Friends can see our itinerary and updates at www.richardandsonja.blogspot.com. My friend Sophie Leroy, also from the ETP programme recently married and is now Mrs (Simon) Carnell. Her son, Louis is now 3 ½.

CHAMPION, Joanna Took 94: Currently a housewife and part time piano teacher. Was previously a Church Youth Worker. Married to Tim Champion (brother of Rebecca, who was in same year as me at Homerton!), 2 small children, Jacob and Katie. Enjoying life in Cornwall.

FORD, James 98: Currently Teacher of Mathematics. Have recently moved from Peers School, Oxford to teach at Abbeyfield School, Chippenham.

JOY, Kathryn 91: Deputy Head of a primary school in Hertfordshire, but also gave birth to twins in January. Spent a year in New Zealand (2006) working with Gifted and Talented.

GISSANE, Helen 93: Lived in Italy for 5 years, working in an International school. Now working in Thomas’s School, Kensington, with Homertonians Sarah Heath, Anna Dymond, Clare Cotton and Ellie Hudson.

KEELER, Emily 92: Working part time in Wandsworth for the music service, and enjoying being a mum to Anna, now 18 months old. KOWALSKA, Katy 99: Moved to Cambridge from Hertfordshire, and now working as Key Stage 1 team leader at Morley Memorial school, in Cambridge. Married, with one daughter.

GOODA, Theresa M. McEvoy 97: Undertook a teaching exchange to Australia n 2005, married in 2006, and gave birth to baby, Adelaide, in 2007. Newly promoted and will start post as Head of English when she returns from maternity leave in December.

KIRKWOOD, Georgina M. Lander 94: Currently a teacher. Moved from Newbury to Northampton 2002. married Andrew Kirkwood 19/8/05. Gave birth to Matthew Ross Kirkwood 27/8/06 so I’m taking a year out (at least) to be Mum.

HARDY, Clare Z. Embleton-Smith 94: Currently a teacher. Married to Nick. Now working one day a week at the Faculty of Education. HENNESSY, Neil James 99: Previously a rugby player, now teaching Special Needs children (11-18 years), and planning to start on a PhD in Sports Coaching in October 2007.

LAYCOCK, Susan J. Coley 94: Currently a teacher. LEGGETT, Alexander J. 94: Currently a Software Engineer. Was previously a Trainee Science teacher.

HEWITT, Sarah E. 98: Currently a teacher. LISTER, Juliette Williams 93: Currently a Mum. Was previously a Primary school teacher.

HILL, Timothy J. 99: Currently Secondary school teacher.

LONGBOTTOM, Nikki 93: Owner and Managing Director of a business with partner, James. Currently enjoying the quiet life in rural Northumberland, but still frequently visit Cambridge. One son, Harry , age 2, and another due in October.

HINNELLS, Audrey J. 96: Currently Mathematics teacher. Was previously Research Scientist (1977 –82) and Civil Servant DHSS (1982 – 96). HOLLAND, Julian S.E. 98: Currently a teacher. Recently promoted to run a boys’ boarding house at Framlingham College.

MARTIN, Miriam S. Dorey 97: Currently a teacher. Got married in 2002. Moved to Ross-on Wye in April 2006.

HOLMES, Joanne Simmons 98: Now living in the Sudan with husband and two children, Ben (b.’04), Sam (b.’05) and a third due soon.

McCLURE Anna Howell 92: Currently a teacher (Prep School History). Previously a Piano Teacher/ EFL Teacher/ Primary Teacher. I have two sons aged 11 and 10. I teach at Aberlour House, the Junior School at Gordonstoun School.

JACKSON, Lucy-Ann Fidler 97: Currently a housewife. Was previously a Class teacher (Primary, Foundation Stage). Married to Tony and have two children, Molly and Daisy-Kate. Very happy. Still in touch with Alice Smith, Abi Fearn (Norton), AnaLuisa de Jorge, Emily Daler (Nichols), Davinia (Hainsworth) & Andy Young. Davinia and Andy Young had a baby girl in Oct 05 – Alicia.

McDONNELL, Amy Testot 97: Currently a Primary School Teacher. McLEAN, Julie A. M. Collins 94: Currently Nurture Group Teacher. Previously a teacher.

JAMES, Abigail Kidd 95: Currently a teacher.

MOORE, Jacqueline 95: Currently a Head Teacher. Was previously a Teaching Assistant.

JARVIS, Steven J. 90: Currently a teacher. MORRIS-SMITH, Rachael Morris 98: Has recently finished medical school, passing with commendation,

2007 Homerton Roll News ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Principal in a new and growing school which will be a full primary and secondary school in 6 years. ‘I am having a brilliant time with daily new challenges of running such a large school and privileged to be in a position to implement what I learned at Homerton. The BEd course was brilliant and has given me a lot of confidence in running this school.

and starts work as a doctor at Lancaster Royal Infirmary in August. Hoping to specialize in Emergency Medicine, with a particular interest in trauma medicine. MORGAN, Helen N. Oldrey 93: Currently a teacher. NAYLOR, Matthew J. 96: Currently the DAC Secretary, Lincoln Diocese.

SMITH, Jacqueline 99: Currently a Primary school teacher and Science Coordinator. I recently travelled to Sri Lanka to do research work for Cambridgeshire LEA. Sarah Oetting (Rust) has married and moved to America. Trudy Hazell (Martin) has married and had a baby boy. Sarah Mugleston has had a baby boy.

O’KEEFFE, Juliet 97: Currently a teacher. PARRA, Zoe Piper 96: Currently a teacher. PATERSON, Helen Matthews 97: Currently a Homemaker. Was previously a teacher and Church Children’s worker

THEISS, Beatrice H. Fraundorfer 99: Currently a High School teacher. Was previously a College teacher. Married Jurgen Theiss (who graduated with a PhD from Pembroke College in 2000); we have a baby boy, born 22 May 2006.

PHILLIPS, Helen L. Stainsby 92: Currently a teacher. PURSER, Kate Pettifor 99: Previously teaching in primary school, now on maternity leave expecting first baby in July, having married Marcus in 2005. Also has own dance school, Footsteps Dance Academy in St Neots, with nearly 100 students on the roll.

TOMLINSON, Lisa 93: Currently Acting deputy Head. Was previously a teacher. TOMLINSON, Louise C. 96: Currently a Part time teacher. Teaching part-time in local primary school, including French at primary level.

ROBERTSON, Sarah L. 96: Currently Deputy Headteacher/ Acting Head ROSS, Katherine Bashforth 97: Currently a Secretary.

TROTTER, Hazel Susan 96: At present a civil servant. Took a post-grad conversion diploma in psychology with the Open University in 2006, and will start training as an educational psychologist in autumn 2007, working for a Doctorate in Educational and Adolescent Psychology at Queen’s University, Belfast.

ROWLEY, Anthony 95: Now a teacher, previously working as a Warehouse Manager. RUDDOCK, Philippa P. P. Marshall 94: Currently a Mother. Was previously Year One Class teacher. Married to David in 1999. Now have two daughters, Jessica born 9.3.04 and Anya born 30.10.05.

WATSON, Frances Allsop 99: Teaching maths, and got married in August 2006.

SANDERSON, Christine J. Bishop 95: Currently Year 2 teacher. Was previously working as Reception teacher. I worked as a teacher in Cairo for 3 years.

WELLARD, Diana Smith 93: Currently a housewife. Was previously a teacher. Now married to Steve Wellard and have two children Amy, age 3, and Jack, 8 months.

SCHIANNINI, Nicola A. Madan 99: Currently a teacher. Was previously an educational E-Publisher.

WICKENS, Rev Andrew P. 94: Currently Clerk in Holy Orders. Was previously teacher/musician.

SHAW, Sarah Crabtree 99: Currently a primary school teacher. I married Alex Shaw in 2004 and I am currently a lead teacher in the borough of Westminster. Ian Gill is now a metropolitan police officer working in Brent.

WRAY, Andrew J. 99: Currently Head of VI Form and English Teacher. Previously in Advertising. Still living the dream. Just returned from India having taken eleven students to the Himalayas and Rajasthan. In touch with Tim Hipperson – second in English dept at Oundle; Ben Greatorex- History teacher at Woodbridge.

SHERIDAN, Rachel C. Watts 96: Currently a teacher. SIDHU, Amanpreet Gill 96: Took an MPhil in Educational Research at Trinity Hall in 2000/01, and after deciding to move to India was offered the post of

WYDER, Heidi Johnson 91: Currently a teacher.

2007 Homerton Roll News ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------BRIGNOLLE, Camille 01: Currently teacher and Head of French. I teach in North London in a Secondary School (Comprehensive). Next summer, I am planning to volunteer to teach in Mongolia. I am also interested in photography. Congratulations to Katie Snelling who got married in July 06 (she was also on the PGCE course for MFL).

ZIESSEL, Stephanie 95: Currently in between jobs. Was previously a teacher. I taught in the UK for 6 years after the PGCE then joined V.S.O and worked for 2 years in the Maldives as English teacher/teacher trainer. The last couple of years I taught French in Malaysia at University Kuala Lumpur. Now seeking a temporary position in Denmark before going (hopefully) to South America

BROOKS, Will Gardner 03: Has just returned from teaching in Spain. Is now a PE subject leader in his new school, and in the process of buying a house.

ZSAK, Alison J. Barnes 90: Currently Class teacher.

CLIFFORD, Jodie L. 03: Currently Language Policy Assistant, Council of Europe. Previously teacher of English / French.

2000s ABBOTT, Judith M. 02: Currently a teacher. Previously a Teaching Assistant.

COTTENDEN, Sarah 00: Currently a teacher. ADENUBI, Adeola O. 02: Currently doing IT Consulting with Accenture. Was previously working in the banking sector with Zenith Bank Plc.

COTTINGHAM, Amy 02: Currently Children’s Worker. COTTRELL, Janet 02: Currently a teacher.

AINGE, Lesley 01: Currently a Primary Teacher. I am now living and working in Senegal, West Africa, teaching the children of missionaries at Bourofaye Christian School. It’s challenging at times but very rewarding.

DAVIDSON, Laura 01: Currently a teacher. Was previously a TEFL teacher. DERBYSHIRE, Hannah 00: Currently a Research Assistant. After leaving Homerton, I stayed in Cambridge to complete my MPhil at Darwin College. I now live in London, working as a researcher for the pharmaceutical industry.

ALSTON, Victoria J. 02: Currently a teacher. AXTEN-HIGGS, Rachel Axten 00: Currently a Primary Teacher. I married Chris Higgs (1999 – 2000) in April 2006.

DeSOUZA, Roger 05: Currently a science teacher, and will be starting at Chesterton Community College in September 2007.

BACON, David J. 01: Currently a teacher. Just achieved tenure at a community school in Midlands of Ireland. Often think of the College with great fondness.

FALOON, James S. 01: Currently a teacher. My first born Emily was born 29/4/06-our little angel.

BALL, Victoria M. 02: Currently a Secondary teacher.

FARMER, Sam 02: Teaching English, and has just been appointed Head of English and Deputy Key Stage Manager. Will complete a course on “Leading from the Middle” in Dec. ’07.

BARNES, Jennifer Armer 00: Currently teacher at St Edwards Middle School Windsor. BATEMAN, Peter 02: Currently a Probation Officer. Was previously a teacher. Married Georgina Matchett, also a Homerton student at the same time, in April 2005.

BELL, Adam G. 01: Currently a Museum Curator.

FLYNN, Jennifer A. 00: Currently a Youth project Co-ordinator. Was previously an English teacher. I am happily married to Marc Flynn (my partner when studying at Homerton) and I am five months pregnant. Soulla Tantouri is at Liverpool University doing an MA in Screenwriting.

BELLAMY, Elizabeth 03: Currently a teacher.

FRANCIS, Robert 06: Currently a teacher of history.

BRYANT, Paul J. 04: Currently teaching in Sheffield and happily married.

GATES, Alexandra 02; Currently a teacher.

BECKFORD, Lucy 01: Currently teacher of Year 4.

HAMILTON, Fiona 04: Currently a substitute teacher.

HAWKINS, Laura 02: Currently a teacher. HEMSLEY, Victoria Clarke 04: Primary school teacher. In August 2006 married David Hemsley, also Primary PGCE 04-05.

RAWLINGS, Tracey 01: Previously working as a Nursery Nurse, now a housewife and proud mum to Isaac (20 months) and Frazer (born June 2007).

HIBELL, Caroline 00: Currently a teacher. I got engaged to Tim Webb (also Homerton) in December 2006. We hope to marry in summer 2008.

SALMON, Chloe 03: Has just been promoted to Head of Music at Northgate High School, Suffolk. SCOTT, Elizabeth Joy 01: in September will start new job at Davenier School in Beaconsfield. “I’ve had enough of the red tape and lack of funding so have opted for a private school!!”

HUTTON, Karen 04: Currently an Art/Design teacher. Was previously a Graphic Designer. JESSOP, Emma 02: Currently a teacher.

STRETTLE, Nadine 00: Currently a teacher.

KOLLER, Vanessa 05: Art teacher , “teaching to my heart’s content!”

SUTCLIFFE, Diana M. Falzon 01: Currently a teacher. Was previously a Retail Buyer. Having recently relocated to Cornwall, due to my husband’s work as a Naval officer, I am keen to get to know people in the area. If there are any ex-Homertonians in Cornwall who would like to get together, please get in touch. Tel : 01326 377422. E mail : dmf26@cantab.net

LEACH, Richard J. M. 04: Currently a Schoolmaster. LEE-McCLOUD, Tracy (Sam) 00: Has worked in mainstream primary for 5 years, but spent the last year gaining experience in special needs, and will be going to Granta School in September to teach year 9. Husband Chris, who left Homerton in 2005, is teaching at Sutton Primary.

TAIT, Senga 03: Currently Year One teacher. Bought a house. Taking my lovely Year Ones into Year Two to do SATS with them. Also doing SENCO role.

LJUNGBERG, Madelene 04: Currently a Primary teacher.

TAYLOR, Rebecca 04: Currently a teacher. Was previously a Council Tax Recovery Officer.

MAY, Caroline A. 02: Currently an English teacher. Was previously in various other occupations e.g. Editorial/Administration.

THOMPSON, Kay A. Brine 00: Currently an English teacher.

McCARTHY, Sonja O. 03: Currently a teacher. Was previously an Account Manager. Now living in Norway, working at an international school here and very happy.

TILLOTSON, Stephanie A. 03: Currently a University teacher. Previously an Artistic Director – Theatre. I am now in my second year of teaching in the Theatre, Film and Television Studies Department at University of Wales, Aberystwyth. Also engaged in research into Drama and Pedagogy at undergraduate level.

McSWEENEY, Katie L. Snelling 01: Currently a teacher and Head of Modern Languages. MOXEY, Suzannah 02: completing a PGCE at Oxford University, with a job teaching in Oxford next year.

VELEZ-CASTRILLON, Susana 03: Currently a PhD student. Was previously a Project Manager. I have started a PhD in Management at the University of Houston. My PhD research is an extension of my MPhil’s dissertation, which was supervised by Dr Bryn-William Jones, whilst a Homerton JRF.

MULLER, Stephane 00: Currently CEO of Optimumtutors.com. Was previously a French Lecturer. I teach French at Beverly Hills High School. I also created a Tutoring company in west Los Angeles, CA, USA.

WEBB, Timothy 00: Currently a teacher. I got engaged to Caroline Hibell in December 2006.

NOURI, Dr Farid 03: Currently a Director. Bloomsbury Education, a private equity group is further expanding in the Chinese education market.

WILKINSON, Jennifer 04: Currently a Reception teacher.

2007 Homerton Roll News ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Margaret married Keith Bryant in 1964, and had one son, also Keith, in ’65. She worked as a teacher in a local school, and was highly skilled in needlework and art, as well as excelling in knitting and tapestry. Later she developed a passion for calligraphy and bookbinding. A wonderful mother, in-law and grandmother, too, she is very much missed by her family and friends. __________________________

YENI, Naz 03: Currently a teacher. Was previously an actor. ____________________________

Deaths

CARSTAIRS, Sheila, 1942, who died 6th June, 2007. Her friend, Pat Calverley, writes:

ALBOROUGH, Lynda (Herbert ) 1970, died on 25th December 2006. Her friend, Sue Yandell (Jaworska) writes:

Sheila was a pioneering, and highly respected Head Teacher in Derbyshire until her retirement, as well as being president of Derby N.U.T. While still an assistant teacher, she was one of three teachers who produced 24 Reading scheme books published by Nelson. These were widely used, sent to many countries, and even translated into Swahili! Sheila was also a talented artist, potter and wood carver, and served her village community as a member of the village hall committee for 30 years, and chairman for ten of them. ______________________________

“Lynda Alborough (Herbert) was a student at Homerton from 1970 to 1974. She studied Biology and PE for her Cert. Ed and then Botany for her B.Ed. We met on our first day at Homerton as we had adjoining rooms on ABC (62 and 63, if memory serves me correctly) and we remained good friends until her death. Lynda died on Christmas Day 2006 from mesothelioma, a cancer of the pleura membrane caused by asbestos. She had been diagnosed in January. She made the most of the time she had left by travelling and doing things she had wanted to do for a long time. She never complained although she did say that she wished she had more time to live and enjoy life. She leaves a widower, Roy.” _________________________

GIBSON, Juliette (Parker) 1958, who died in Bethesda Hospital, Perth, on 14th April, 2007. Her friend Elaine Pounder (Murray) writes: Juliette was born in 1939 in Swansea, South Wales, and educated there. She came to Homerton in September 1958. She specialised in science, with Mr Palmer, and was a three year student, starting off on ABC block and finishing on D&E. She always championed Wales, along with Nerys Evans and Carmen Jones. She had a great sense of humour which stayed with her to the end.

BARTLETT, Dorothy (Nicol) 1933, died on 25th May, 2007. _________________________ BLAND, Sylvia (Bland), 1957, died April, 2007. Her husband, Graeme, writes: My wife Sylvia was at Homerton 1957 – 1960. I was at Queens' during the same years, and we married in 1962. Sadly Sylvia died in April this year, having been struck down by that dreadful Motor Neurone Disease in 2005. She taught much of her life and in fact was still teaching - part time supply - when the first MND symptoms showed, long after retirement. She was ever so popular with all her colleagues and also the children in the schools where she worked - a great loss to me and our family. ______________________________

Shortly after leaving Homerton Juliette took advantage of the £10 ticket to Australia. First she taught at Merton School for Girls in Melbourne, but after meeting her husband, Brian Gibson, they moved to Perth. She taught Human Biology at the Methodist Ladies College from 1965 to 1969 and from 1977 to her retirement in 1999, with a break for her two children, Candace and David. She passed on her love of science to her many students. In 1998 Juliette made the journey to our 40th reunion at Homerton, when her friends will remember she lost her voice – a rare thing! During her short illness, faced bravely, she apologised for not making it to the special reunion for the 1958 intake in 2008. She will be sadly missed. In her husband’s address at her funeral he

BRYANT, Margaret Edith (Richards) 1940, who died in April 2006.

WATSON, Adrienne Olwen (Bartlett) 1960, died on 28th april 2007, aged 66, after an eight year battle with breast cancer. ____________________________

HOLMAN, Susan, MBE (Whittaker) 1965, who died in January 2007. Her husband, His Honour Judge Richard Holman, writes:

WARD, Sheila, 1948, died on 26th November, 2007. _____________________________

“It is my very sad task to advise you of the death from cancer on 9 January 2007 of my wife who, as Susan Whittaker, was at Homerton from 1965 to 1968. I was at Caius at the same time and we met very early in our first year, eventually marrying in 1969. We have two sons now both pursuing successful professional careers.

WILSON, Olive (Gell ) 1928, who died on 30th December 2005. Her son, Christopher, writes: “With deep regret, I have to inform you that my mother died in The John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford on 30 December 2005. While sorting through the various papers she left in her Oxford home of 55 years, I came across a copy of the Homerton College Roll News for 1998. It was this discovery that prompted me to write this letter to you.

On leaving Homerton, Sue obtained a post at Wilmslow Preparatory School for Girls teaching French and English. She left in 1972 to have a family but returned (initially on a very part time basis) in the early eighties until she retired in 1995. She made an indelible impact on many of her pupils and I was very touched to receive letters from a number of them after her death.

In 1928, Olive Gell won the much-coveted place at Homerton College, Cambridge to study for teacher training for two years where she was awarded a Class II (a) in her examinations. At the close of 1931 she was accorded recognition as a Certificated Teacher by the Board of Education. After an initial teaching appointment in Bradford, during the next five years Olive held an appointment as a Qualified Assistant Teacher in St. James’ Junior C of E School, Barrow-in Furness. She then left teaching on 26 July 1936 in order to marry William Wilson the following day at St. James’ Church. Despite having taught the full three school terms, the simple fact that Olive resigned before the close of the academic year on 31 August caused her to lose a whole year’s entitlement when her Teacher’s Pension was calculated at retirement, a bureaucratic injustice that infuriated her for very many years.

Sue became a governor/trustee of the Royal Schools for the Deaf, Manchester in 1977 and was appointed chairman in 1988. In recognition of her considerable efforts in this connection, she was awarded the MBE in the New Years Honours List 1995. During her tenure she hosted visits from the Princess Royal, the Duke of Kent (who opened a swimming pool, which has been named after Sue) and ultimately in 2004 (At a time when she was undergoing chemotherapy) Her Majesty the Queen. In 2006 she was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant for Greater Manchester, but sadly, was never able to undertake any duties in this capacity, as her condition deteriorated very shortly afterwards.

Having been fully occupied bringing up her three sons (all of whom read Mathematics at University), once they reached their teenage years Olive felt that she would like to resume her teaching career. In January 1956, she found employment when taking up an assignment as a ‘floating’ teacher at Headington C of E Junior School, Oxford, teaching classes of all ages from 5 to 11 years. To her regret, she was obliged to leave when staff numbers were unavoidably reduced. However, having enjoyed the overall experience she decided to seek permanent employment as a teacher. In

Sue lived life to the full and had many interests. Multitasking came readily to her! Her organisational skills resulted in her being Lady Secretary at the Wilmslow Golf Club for three years, and I have little doubt that in the fullness of time she would have become Lady Captain. She faced her illness very positively, and, particularly in the final nine months, when she encountered setback after setback, with extraordinary courage. It is estimated that over 400 people attended the funeral service, a testament to the affection and respect which she generated.” ___________________________

September 1957, Olive took the post of Assistant Teacher for the Infant class at Iffley School. By

2007 Homerton Roll News ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------September 1962, she had accepted the position of Second Mistress at Blackbird Leys C. Infants’ School. In trying to describe Olive’s character and personality, it might be interesting to quote the opinion of the Principal of Homerton who in 1930 wrote: “She has force of personality and very good quality. She shows insight in dealing with children and the atmosphere she produces is industrious and happy.” _____________________________ ________________________________