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Lucy Cavendish College Annual Report and Newsletter 2004

Lucy Cavendish College Annual Report and Newsletter 2004

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Credits Editors: Mrs Karen Davies and Ms Jane McLarty Printed by: Piggotts Printers Limited Front Cover: Dame Veronica Sutherland by Maggi Hambling, (Catherine Reid) Back Cover: Graduands, June 2004 (Sarah Lloyd)

Acknowledgements Photographs in the Annual Report and Newsletter have been kindly provided by the following: Jean Anderson (p.65) Alan Choat (pp.46, 48, 59) Rebecca Clarke (p.48) Karen Davies (p.52) Eaden Lilley (p.37) Edith Esch (p.31) Sarah Gull (p.32) Dave Harvey (p.21) Michelle Fossey (p.40) Ruth Jones (pp.56, 59) Nigel Luckhurst, courtesy of Cambridge University (p.64) Leila Mead, <leila@iisd.org> (p.42) Clare Morgan (p.75) Margaret Penston (pp.13, 16, 38, 39, 54, 57) Andrew Pollard (p.33) Jane Renfrew (p. 55) Morgan Richards (p.19) Helen Seal (p.46) Lene Tobiassen (p.27) Alison Vinnicombe (p.63)

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Contents Credits ......................................................................................................................................................... 2 Editors: ................................................................................................................................................ 2 Mrs Karen Davies and Ms Jane McLarty ............................................................................................ 2 Acknowledgements ..................................................................................................................................... 2

CONTENTS

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THE COLLEGE 2003-04

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President ..................................................................................................................................................... 5 Honorary Fellows ....................................................................................................................................... 5 Emeritus Fellows ........................................................................................................................................ 5 Governing Body Fellows ............................................................................................................................ 6 Bursar .......................................................................................................................................................... 6 Research Fellows ........................................................................................................................................ 6 Visiting Fellows .......................................................................................................................................... 6 Visiting Scholars ......................................................................................................................................... 6 Fellow-Commoners .................................................................................................................................... 6 Members by Election .................................................................................................................................. 6 Honorary Members of the Combination Room .......................................................................................... 7 Members of the Combination Room........................................................................................................... 8 Members of Staff 2003-04 .......................................................................................................................... 9

THE STUDENT BODY

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Undergraduates ......................................................................................................................................... 10 First Year ........................................................................................................................................... 10 Second Year ....................................................................................................................................... 10 Third Year .......................................................................................................................................... 10 Graduate Students ..................................................................................................................................... 11

LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT

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COLLEGE REPORTS

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Report from the Vice-President ................................................................................................................ 14 Report from the Senior Tutor .................................................................................................................... 15 Report from the Admissions Tutor ........................................................................................................... 16 Report from the Graduate Tutor................................................................................................................ 17 The Cambridge Students Babysitting Circle ............................................................................................. 19 Report from the Students’ Association ..................................................................................................... 20 Lucy Cavendish College Students’ Association Representatives 2003-04......................................... 20 Lucy Cavendish College Students’ Association Representatives 2004-05......................................... 20 Report from the Students’ Association President 2004-05 ................................................................ 20 Lucy Cavendish College Boat Club 2003-04............................................................................................ 22 “The Eggplant Club”: Excerpt from a Short History ............................................................................... 23 Link Community Development Sponsored Hitch to Morocco 2002......................................................... 24 Travels with my PhD and Lucy Cavendish College ................................................................................. 26 Knitting: A Competitive Sport!................................................................................................................. 26 Salzburg in December ............................................................................................................................... 27 Report from the Fellowship Secretary ...................................................................................................... 28 Recommendations and Elections ....................................................................................................... 28 Competition for Visiting Fellowships and Scholarships for the Academic Year 2005-06 ....................... 29 Visiting Fellowships........................................................................................................................... 29

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Visiting Scholarships ......................................................................................................................... 29 How to apply ...................................................................................................................................... 29 Governing Body Fellows .......................................................................................................................... 30 Report from the Research Fellowship Secretary ....................................................................................... 36 Research and Visiting Fellows .................................................................................................................. 41 Report from the Bursar ............................................................................................................................. 46 Report from the Domestic Bursar ............................................................................................................. 47 Report from the ICT Manager .................................................................................................................. 50 Report from the Archivist ......................................................................................................................... 51 Report from the Fellow Librarian ............................................................................................................. 52 Report from the Librarian ......................................................................................................................... 52 Report from the Friends of Lucy Cavendish College Library................................................................... 54 Friends of Lucy Cavendish College Library ...................................................................................... 55 Report from the Curator ............................................................................................................................ 55 Report from the Silver Steward ................................................................................................................ 56 Report from the Steward ........................................................................................................................... 56 Formal Hall Schedule for the Academic Year 2004-05 .......................................................................... 58 Report from the Garden Steward .............................................................................................................. 59 Report from the Studentship and Bursary Committee .............................................................................. 60 Prizes ................................................................................................................................................. 60 Studentships and Bursaries ................................................................................................................ 60 Report from the Development Office ....................................................................................................... 61 Annual Fund 2004 -05 .............................................................................................................................. 62 Introducing our most recent Honorary Fellows ........................................................................................ 63

IN MEMORIAM

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Muriel Agnes Arber 1913-2004 ............................................................................................................... 68 Eva Crawley 1928-2003 .......................................................................................................................... 69 Sylvia Schein 1947-2004 ......................................................................................................................... 70 Duke of Devonshire 1920-2004 ............................................................................................................... 71

THE ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION

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Members of the Alumnae Association Committee, March 2004 .............................................................. 73 Report from the Alumnae Association President ...................................................................................... 73

PUBLICATIONS

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Review of Lucy Cavendish College: The Crucial Years 1979-1984 by Phyllis Hetzel ........................... 75

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The College 2003-04 President Sutherland, Veronica Evelyn BA MA (HON) LLD DBE CMG

Honorary Fellows Black, Carol Mary CBE PRCP Burbidge, Eleanor Margaret FRS Dench, Judith Olivia DBE OBE HON DLITT (WARWICK) (BIRMINGHAM) HON DLITT HON DLITT (LOUGHBOROUGH) HON DLITT (LONDON) HON DLITT (OXFORD) DUNIV (YORK) DUNIV (OPEN) DUNIV (RSAMD) DUNIV (SURREY) Grantchester, MA Hanratty, Judith LLB LLM OBE Harris, Pauline DBE Hetzel, Phyllis MA HM Queen Margrethe of Denmark, HON LLD McLaren, Anne DBE MA DPHIL HON DSC FRCOG FRS Oldham, Barbara MA MB CHB MRCS LRCP OBE

Perry of Southwark, Pauline MA HON LLD (BATH) HON LLD (SUSSEX) HON DLITT (ABERDEEN) HON DLITT (CITY) HON DLITT (SOUTH BANK) HON DUNIV (SURREY) HON DED (WOLVERHAMPTON) FRSA FCOLLP HON FCGLI CIMGT Richard, Alison MA PHD Tizard, Catherine A BA GCMG GCVO DBE QSO Todd, Janet MA PHD Tomalin, Claire MA FRSL Trumpington of Sandwich, Jean PC Warburton, Anne MA HON LLD (ARKANSAS) DCVO CMG

Emeritus Fellows Clifford, Eileen MA Hartree, Anne Stockell BA MA PHD Lawrence, Marie Collins MA PHD Lyons, Ursula MA Mackintosh, Ellen MA Morgan, Clare B BSC MA PHD

Simms, Joan Anne MA Squire, Natasha MA DIPLOME SUPERIEUR DE RUSSE Thoday, Doris Joan BSC MA PHD Traub, Lindsey Margaret MA PHD Treip, Mindele Anne BA MA PHD Tucker, Elizabeth Mary BSC MA PHD DSC

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Governing Body Fellows Jones, Ruth MA MB CHB FRCA McLarty, Jane BA MA MPHIL McNeur, Lorna Anne BARCH MA MPHIL Pedain, Antje Luise MJUR Penston, Margaret Joan BSC MA DPHIL FRAS MBE Rath Spivack, Orsola MA PHD Rawlings, Susan Elizabeth MA Renfrew, Jane Margaret MA PHD FSA FSA (SCOT) FLS Tee, Mary Louise Holden MA Tiley, Jillinda Millicent MA Vinnicombe, Alison BA MA DIP RSA Williamson, Lorna McLeod BSC MD FRCP FRCPATH Wright, Laura MA MA DPHIL

Abulafia, Anna Brechta Sapir MA PHD FRHISTS Brindley, Sue MA Brown, Sarah Annes BA MA PHD Cameron, Ruth MA PHD MINSTP CPHYS Collier, Jane BSC MA PHD Curry, Allison MA PHD Dashwood, Julie Rosalind BA MA Ellington, Stephanie Katharine BSC MA PHD Esch, Edith MA PHD Greatorex, Jane Suzette BTEC FMLS PHD Gull, Sarah Elizabeth MBBS FRCS(ED) MRCOG Houghton, Christine BA MA Jackson, Susan MA PHD CENG James, Mary Elizabeth BED MA PHD

Bursar Bryant, David Peter Herbert

Research Fellows Depledge, Joanna BA MSC PHD Juhasz, Judith BENG PHD Murphy, Alexandra BSC PHD Park, Sowon BA MA MPHIL DPHIL

Sharipova, Liudmila BA MA MPHIL PHD Tooke, Fiona BSC PHD Waldick, Ruth Carolin BSC MSC PHD Windram, Heather Frances BSC PHD

Visiting Fellows Courtney, Mary BA (HONS) MA PGCE Further Education Fellow Dalsgaard, Inger Hunnerup MA PHD Carlsberg Visiting Fellow

Greaves, Rosa-Maria LLB LLM Wales, Katie PHD FRSA

Visiting Scholars Clarke, Ann BSC PHD Cremona, Vicki Ann PHD Hasan, Sana Sonia PHD

Speller, Elizabeth BA MA MPHIL Yamada, Minako BS MA PHD

Fellow-Commoners Corbalis, Judy BA MA Muthesius, Anna Maria BA PHD FSA Pearse, Barbara PHD FRS

Purkiss, Brenda A MA Raj, Dhooleka Sarhadi PHD

Members by Election Chang, Nien-Chuang Ting BA PHD Dain, Anne Rutherford BSC MPHIL PHD

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Harris, Mary Hill AB MA CERTIFICAT D'ARCHOLOGIE Whear, Rachel BSC PHD

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Honorary Members of the Combination Room Anderson, Helen PHD Arnot, Madeleine MA PHD Barr, Freda Elizabeth Hadley LLB Bartholomew, Susan BA MBA PHD Belcher, Hilary PHD DSC Blacker, Carmen PHD Brinton, Sarah Virginia MA Bristow, Christopher MA Broers, Lady Brooke, Rosalind Beckford BA MA PHD Cheney, Mary Gwendolen MA MLITT Crawford, Harriet MA PHD FSA Davidson, Hilda Roderick Ellis MA PHD Hawthorn, Ruth MA Herbert, Gertraud MA DPHIL Joysey, Valerie Christine BSC PHD Lee, Helen MSC PHD

Maddocks, Susan Martin, Jessica Heloise MA PHD Ngubane, Harriet BA PHD Perry, George MA MED Rampling, Anita Margaret BSC PHD MB CHB Rodriguez, Raquel Emilia Sheppard, Jennifer Mary BA MA PHD Slater, Lucy Joan MA PHD DLITT SCD Sohlberg, Ragnhild BA MA MPHIL PHD Spens, M Teresa PHD Stein, Janet Mary BSC MSC PHD Sutherland, Alex BA MSOC SC Swale, Erica Mary Forster MSC PHD DSC Vassilika, Eleni BA MA PHD Wheeler, Joyce Margaret BSC PHD Worden, Dorothy Mary BA Young, Maureen MSC PHD

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Members of the Combination Room Allen, Ann BA MA Arber, Muriel Agnes MA Bayraktaroglu, Arin PHD Beige, Almut PHD Bennett, K M Veronica BSC MA PHD Bocking, Marjorie BSC Bola, Manjit PHD Bradbrook, Bohuslava R DPHIL PHD Burney, Elizabeth Butterworth, Jill BA MA Carlton-Smith, Nancy BSC PHD Chapman, Elizabeth PHD Chawla, Sangeeta PHD Cleary, Ritva Liisa MA HUK DIP LIB ALA Cobby, Anne MA PHD Colcord, Ann BA Corsellis, Ann BA OBE JP Cotton, Geraldine Davies, Karen BA MA Dawson, Julie De Smith, Barbara LLB MA Dee, Lesley Diemling, Maria Dillon, Anne Kathleen PHD Dixon, Annabelle Felindre BA MSC Eggins, Heather Fritzinger, Linda BA MA PHD Gandelman, Olga MSC PHD Graham, Jenny MA Gray, Susan BA MA Grieco, Margaret Sybil DPHIL MCIT Haines, Esther Mary BSC PHD Hampton, Janie BA MSC Haresnape, Elizabeth PHD Hendricks, Henriette

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Hennegan, Alison MA Hill, Penelope Margaret Mary BPHARM MRPHARMS PHD

Hodder, Elizabeth BSC Holbrook, Margot MA Honeycombe, June BSC Hunt, Pauline Innes, Sheila Joan BA PGCE Kan, Qian BA MA PHD Korner, Wendy BA Lee, Karen Lichenstein, Jane Limb, Anne Geraldine Littlefair, Alison Barbara MA PHD Lucas, Angela M MA Luque, Sandra Silvia MSC PHD Napolitano, Valentina BSC MPHIL PHD Panayotova, Stella Parodi, Teresa PHD Ridden, Jennifer Sue BA PHD Rogers, Gillian Elizabeth BA MA PHD Rushden, Elizabeth BA Schiffman, Victoria Relisse BA MA PHD Sellers, Susan Stevens, Peta MA Tipper, Karen Sasha PHD Tooke, Nichola MSC PHD Vickers, Ilse Renate BA PHD Wallach, Robin Walsham, Alison MA Williamson, Elaine Wilson, Jean MA PHD FSA Wilson, Anji BSC MSC PHD Wood, Jennifer Susan Shirley BSC MSC DIP PHD Worsnop, Victoria Mary BA MA PHD

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Members of Staff 2003-04 Mrs Sandra Arnold, Lunchtime Till Operator (April - July 2004) Mr Kim Atterton, Handyman Miss Johanna Barber, (on sick leave) Mrs Anne Barham, Domestic Bursar’s Secretary Mr Gordon Barnes, Accounts Assistant Miss Carol Begg, Relief Porter (from March 2004) Mrs Mary Cavander-Attwood, Nurse Mr Alan Choat, Relief Porter (from May 2003) Manager of the Porter’s Lodge to Cover Maternity Leave (June 2003 - July 2004) Mr Richard Crosthwait, Gardener Ms Linda Curnow, Personnel Administrator and Bursar’s Secretary Mrs Karen Davies, Archivist Ms Meryl Davies, Development Officer (from September 2003) Mrs Rosse Ekins, Dining Room Supervisor Miss Naomi Ellis, Chef (from March 2004) Mr Tim Flood, ICT Assistant Mrs Janet Fox, Gardener Mr Maurizio Fusinato, Kitchen Porter Mr Carmelo Giammona, Chef (October - November 2003) Mrs Lucy Graves, Till Operator (until February 2004) Mrs Tasha Greer, Chef (until September 2003) Mrs Sharon Hall, Cleaner (until September 2003) Mrs Joan Harris, Assistant Librarian Mr Kevin Hart, Relief Porter Mr David Hathaway, Relief Porter (from March 2004) Mrs Beverley Harvey, Secretary to President and Vice-President Mr Robin Hill, Clerk of Works

Mr Martin James, Chef (until October 2003) Miss Gaby Jones, Admissions Officer Mr Ron Lawrinson, Weekend Porter Mr Ronan Le Noac’h, Evening Porter Miss Yuwan Lin, Evening/Weekend Till Operator (from March 2004) Miss Andrea Lines, College Accountant Mrs Helen Mallett, Assistant Housekeeper Mr Bryan Mansfield, Relief Porter (until May 2004) Mr Michael Mantell, Chef Mr Hugh Matthews, Chef Manager Mrs Isobel McReavie, Housekeeper Mr Steve Morgan, Relief Porter (from March 2004) Mrs Oonagh Moule, Chef Mr Bill Nelson, ICT Manager Miss Kate Newman, Financial Manager Mrs Faith Payne, Senior Tutor’s Assistant Mrs Catherine Reid, Librarian Mrs Janet Rogers, Tutorial Assistant (until July 2004) Mrs Sue Sang, Student Finance Officer Ms Gill Saxon, Library Assistant Ms Helen Seal, Senior Gardener Miss Nicola Shadrack, Clerical Assistant Mrs Ann Shiret, Kitchen Assistant Mrs Joanne Smith, Manager of the Porter’s Lodge (Maternity Leave until August 2004) Mr Donald Stubbs, Weekend Night Porter (March 2004 only) Mr Tom Turl, Handyman Mr Colin White, Relief Porter Dr Michael Witty, Weekend Night Porter (until February 2004)

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The Student Body Undergraduates First Year Alter, Amy Baillie, Martina Bermudez, Chloe Blackford, Sandra Brayne, Karen Bulman, Philippa Cleland, Lucy Coates, Mary Ann Cope, Charlotte Easton, Rita Firoz, Sophia Fossey, Michelle Fox, Vanessa Goldsmith, Petra

Harris, Lynne Heavey, Joanne Huehne, Eva Hyde, Stephanie Jacks, Jane Kemkaran-Thompson, Libby Khan, Nadia Mactaggart, Jennifer Man, Jane Meredith, Georgina Minshull-Beech, Nancy Outen, Margaret Paddy, Heidi Reid, Charlotte

Rose, Sarah Ryan, Melissa Schuller, Sabrina Shahabi, Laleh Shaw, Ruth Simpson, Julie Spencer, Debra Stone, Linda Tchum, Utibe Wake, Karen White, Zara Wilson, Margaret Wood, Sophie

Second Year Aspinwall, Louise Barsam, Talia Beringer, Catherine Bridges, Laura Brooks, Alison Chua, Tiffany Cross, Deborah Fadden, Sarah Feix, Birte Higgins, Fiona Hodgson, Sally Jenkins-Powell, Michelle

Lam, Amy Lang, Melanie Leiva, Anya Loader, Rebecca Lodge, Sarah MacRae, Iona MacSeoinin, Mara McDonald, Julie Mehta, Dimple Molyneux, Catherine Nayak, Shruta Onions, Sharron

Pickerill, Susan Rutter, JoAnne Shiels, Tess Sood, Radhika Spears, Camilla Surti, Meera Teichmann, Stefanie Tobiassen, Lene Ward, Janelle Williams, Diane

Third Year Allen, Laura Booth, Victoria Donaldson, Catherine Gardelin, Kari Hutchinson, Sarah-Elizabeth James, Sheridan Joly, Ellen Khan, Rosena

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McCracken, Jessica MorningStar, Alice Moscovich, Noga Nason, Sarah-Marie Payne, Emma Rendle, Sophie Robinson, Patience Rowan, Jane

Ruddick, Gillian Rushworth, Lucy Scarlett, Sheila Scotland, Esther Smith, Elisabeth Zakrisson-Plogander, Anna

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Graduate Students Alexander, Isabella Allen, Kirsten Anderson, Deborah Asu, Eva Liina Badger, Shirlene Balaram, Rakhee Berges Frese, Ame Bloomfield, Samantha Bolognesi-Winfield, Agnese Boyle, Meadhbh Brilhante Piedade, Cristina Cao, Yan Carter, Susan Catania Kulper, Amy Chalcraft, Faye Chatzidaki, Emmanouella Corsgreen, Patricia Darby, Laura Dauteuille, Karine Deshpande, Anupama Dixon, Kate Dombrowski, Caroline Drought, Anabel Durkovic, Milja Ebersold-Silva, Aimee El Ashegh, Hanan English, Carrie Fischetti, Lucia Gray, Stephanie Gurung, Alka Haddock, June Hamilton, Helen Heard, Shelagh Hendre, Marju Hicks, Kathrin Holliday, Gemma

Howes, Marie Huang, Jing Jonsdottir, Ingibjorg Kalyvianaki, Evangelia Karl, Alexandra Kefala, Eleni Kersel, Morag Khalil, Asma Kim, Chae-Young Kitching, Amanda Kluk, Karolina Laffir, Fathima Lane, Abigail Lange, Ulrike Lee, Fiona Leong, Susanna Liao, Yu-chun Mazzetta, Chiara Medani, Mushtaha Mitchell, Poppy Miwa, Satomi Mohd Mokhtar, Norfilza Mole, Kristine Nahar, Shamsun Noreen, Sumaira O'Donovan, Bridget Obradovic, Jelena Oliver, Mo Pellett, Sarah Peng, Yuan Yuan Perera, Avanti Petrovic, Maja Policroniades-Borraz, Palas Potluri, Annapurna Princz, Heidi Rana, Uzma

Ranganathan, Archana Richards, Morgan Richardson, Tanya Rickell, Jane Russell, Sheila Samsonova, Anastassia Saxton, Julie Sharif, Bedra Shaw, Naomi Shohaimi, Shamarina Singh, Alaka Skvirskaja, Vera Smith, Pamela Stark, Joalice Stavridou, Ioanna Stoeckl, Andrea Storr, Amanda Sullivan, Ann Sykes, Rosemary Szasz, Nora Teo, Hsiang Thomas, Emily Thurston, Katie Towers, Sarah Wanderley, Lilian Wang, Yu-Chiao Warakaulle, Charlotte Wolfe, Sylvia Wong, Tamara Yao, Xin Yeung, Ka Wai Yoneki, Eiko Yong, Yee Zheng, Yingqin Zhou, Julan

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Letter from the President

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he academic year just ended has seen successes for Lucy Cavendish, with excellent exam results and progress in our attempts to strengthen our longer term funding. It has however had its trials too, not least with the disruption of major repairs to Warburton Hall. And the backdrop of straitened Government support for higher education continues to haunt us.

We were delighted that the year began with the new Vice-Chancellor, Professor Alison Richard, being inducted as an Honorary Fellow of the College. At our matriculation dinner in October, Professor Richard told us how her sister had been a mature student at Sussex University.

She therefore understands the special difficulties that that entails.

I am glad to report too that elsewhere in the University there is a growing sympathy towards the particular circumstances of Lucy Cavendish as a College that sets out to help mature women, many of whom have to contend with demanding family and financial circumstances. This sympathy has been illustrated by a recent generous grant of £250,000 from Trinity College towards the establishment of a graduate colony at numbers 86 and 88 Chesterton Road. Another major building project on the horizon is the refurbishment of Oldham Hall, to be completed by June next year. For this we have received a generous contribution from the Wolfson Foundation, who have given £100,000 towards two new teaching rooms.

With these and other financial challenges ahead of us, at the beginning of the year we appointed Meryl Davies as our first full-time Development Officer.

With her help we have made a great start, and – in addition to organizations – I am grateful to the many alumnae who are providing tremendous support.

Not, I hasten to add, that money is the only means by which our former students help us. There are many ways we are served by having a wider family that embraces past and present members of the College. To that end I was delighted to meet some of our alumnae in the United States when I was in Washington and Boston in June.

Reflecting on Lucy’s past, it is timely to recall that next November we celebrate the 20th anniversary of the College achieving Foundation Status within the University. Former President Phyllis Hetzel’s recent book (reviewed elsewhere in this Newsletter) catalogues the obstacles that she and her colleagues faced in the early 1980s. I commend the book to you, for its readability as much as for its inspiration.

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Indeed, the successes of our predecessors should galvanise us as we approach what is already the middle of the new century’s first decade.

We have also been inspired by prominent visitors to the College this year. We had excellent talks on their respective areas of expertise from best-selling author Claire Tomalin, and from Professor Carol Black, President of the Royal College of Physicians, both of whom joined us as Honorary Fellows. In addition, the Vice-President has launched a series of open lectures, which I was happy to inaugurate with a talk on Ireland. Perhaps more directly relevant to many members of Lucy Cavendish was the lecture

by Allison Pearson, best-selling author of I Don’t Know How She Does It. She spoke amusingly on the problems mothers face in trying to establish a balance between work and other elements of life.

Ms Pearson’s talk was the first of what we intend as an annual lecture under the auspices of the Centre for Women and Leadership, about which we have also been reflecting. I am delighted therefore that Lucy Cavendish has recently been offered an opportunity to join the Cambridge Massachusetts Institute of Technology Institute (CMI) in setting up a project to give training in entrepreneurship and business skills to women with some previous work experience. If all goes to plan, we shall appoint to our Fellowship a project leader to set up short courses designed to help women return to the workplace.

That is of course a task that neatly complements the objectives of the College.

We also ended on a high note. For the second year running our students performed outstandingly well in their examinations: congratulations to them - and to the Senior Tutor and her team. We then celebrated the end of the year with a splendid garden party. It was also the occasion when Dr Jane Renfrew unveiled the President’s portrait, painted by Maggi Hambling, a deservedly acclaimed artist whose portraits already hang in both Jesus College and New Hall. Leaving aside my own interest as the subject, it is a thrilling painting to add to the College’s collection. The Garden Party was also the occasion when Dr Lindsey Traub, former VicePresident, and I made a formal presentation to mark our donation of the boat Lady Charlotte to the College Boat Club. Let us hope our rowers go on to great things. The year then fittingly closed with a May Ball organised by the students jointly with St Edmunds.

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The President and Mr Alex Sutherland All in all, it has been a heartening year. There have been many signs of what we can achieve with self-

belief and hard work. I have drawn encouragement too from the way in which Lucy Cavendish is making its mark in the wider University; and it is reassuring to know how many good friends we have there and in the world beyond. In thanking all our staff, students, and Fellows for what we have achieved this year, I add special thanks to those involved in – and tolerant to the disturbances of – our building works. The trouble will be worth it.

We also have to say sad farewells to those Research and Visiting Fellows who are leaving us – Liudmila Sharipova, Fiona Tooke, Inger Dalsgaard and Rosa Greaves. Despite their loss, I am reassured that our Governing Body is not depleted. I am grateful to them for their support and look forward to working with our Fellows next year, our 40th Anniversary year.

Dame Veronica Sutherland President

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College Reports Report from the Vice-President

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nother very full year has passed. In addition to the busy routine of College business I have been particularly involved in Alumnae relations since taking on the position of Recorder. It has been a real pleasure to be able to devote more time to those who have graduated from the College and I have much enjoyed working together with the Alumnae Association. Another active area has been Development. It has been an enormous pleasure to work together with our new Development Officer, Meryl Davies, who has also taken on the secretaryship of the Alumnae Association.

Having a designated person in the areas of Development and Alumnae has given a significant impetus to our fundraising activities and our capacity to maintain permanent links with our Alumnae, as you can see in the various reports on these subjects in the Newsletter. Another very exciting development has been the Mid-Career Entrepreneurship Training for Women Programme, which we have undertaken with the Cambridge MIT Institute (CMI), about which Dame Veronica reports more fully in her letter.

New this year was the Lucy Cavendish Lecture series. The series consists of one lecture a term; one of those is earmarked as the annual CWL lecture.

Dame Veronica opened the series by giving a lecture in Michaelmas on the Good Friday Agreement. In Lent Dr Robin Wallach spoke on ‘Invisible cultures, invisible parents’ in which she discussed the work she does with parents living with disadvantage. The CWL Lecture was delivered in the Easter Term by Allison Pearson, the author of the best selling novel I Don’t Know How She Does It. Her title was ‘Having it all or doing it all: motherhood and the myth of equality’. All lectures were well attended and each lecture was followed by a lively discussion.

I am very grateful to the speakers for their contribution. For details of next year’s programme see notice on the following page.

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Anna Bidder Research Evenings We held six Anna Bidder Research Evenings. These evenings give the Fellows an opportunity to discover more about each other’s research activities. Sarah Brown opened the year with a talk on ‘Apollo flies and Daphne holds the chase’; Orsola Rath Spivack gave the second talk in Michaelmas on. ‘Modelling the noise from propellers, and its effect on underwater structures’. In Lent Liudmila Sharipova gave a talk on ‘Reformations, reforms and reformers: Europe in the Confessional Age’ and I spoke on ‘Walter of Châtillon: a twelfth-century poet’s engagement with the Christian-Jewish debate’. Jan Todd gave the first talk in Easter on ‘What does a reader of Jane Austen need/want to know?’ We used the occasion to formalise her Honorary Fellowship of the College. Heather Windram closed the year with a presentation on ‘The Evolution of Manuscripts’. The evenings have a healthy interdisciplinary nature and continue to attract a good audience. It is a particular pleasure to see so many Emeritus Fellows attend. Next year’s evenings take place on 26 October, 9 November 2004 and 8 February, 8 March, 10 May and 31 May 2005. Invitations will be sent out in the usual way closer to the time.

Finally, during Alison Vinnicombe’s maternity leave I have had the pleasure of standing in as Secretary to the Governing Body and Fellowship Secretary. I am very grateful to Beverley Harvey, Gaby Jones and Janet Rogers for the help they gave me in these areas.

All in all it has been another stimulating and rewarding year with lots of promising developments for the future.

Dr Anna Sapir Abulafia Vice-President

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LUCY CAVENDISH LECTURE SERIES VENUE: WOOD-LEGH ROOMS, STRATHAIRD TIME: 6.00 PM 21 October 2004 - Mr Alex Sutherland - ‘Mary Paley: The Other Marshall’ Mary Paley Marshall wasn’t a great economist and her recognised role is as a key supporter for some one who was. She was however an unusual and gifted woman, living in the wrong time and most certainly wrong place. She deserves to be with those who symbolise what Cambridge and the world beyond could have achieved if Victorian women had been seen as intellectual partners.

3 March 2005 - Professor Alan Dashwood - ‘The EU Constitution’ 26 May 2005 – TBA - CWL Lecture in honour of the 40th anniversary of Lucy Cavendish College All members of the College community are warmly invited to attend these events.

Report from the Senior Tutor

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he start of the academic year found me moving into the Senior Tutor’s room in College House physically while trying to encompass, mentally, what being a Senior Tutor requires. As is the case with challenging and demanding jobs, however much experience you have, and whatever advice and support is given, the only way you can really grasp what is expected of you is by working through the myriad tasks which unerringly present themselves.

In our case this is, in some ways, a reflection of the diversity of Lucy Cavendish itself, and although I have been a Director of Studies and Tutor for some years, this year in particular has brought home to me yet again what an interesting, and special, College this is. The sheer variety and richness of the experiences and aspirations of our students helps to create the College’s special ethos: a place where we can all encourage, support and learn from each other. I have relied heavily on certain people, and to Faith, Janet and Gaby, my colleagues in the Tutorial and Admissions Office, whose help and expertise has been as immeasurable as it has unfailing, I can only express my deepest gratitude. That Janet is now leaving us, after some two years, to take up the highly demanding and responsible post of Admissions Officer at Corpus Christi brings mixed feelings of rejoicing and regret. She has been a wonderful colleague. Similarly, the Senior Tutor simply could not function without the lively and committed participation of the Tutors in all matters concerning students and much beyond. I am, indeed, fortunate in being able to work with our tutorial team.

We can be justifiably proud of our achievements.

The list of prizes awarded by the College can be

found elsewhere in the Newsletter, reflecting what our students have attained in the academic and personal spheres. Among the undergraduates, and across a wide range of subjects, some 76% were awarded marks in the First or Upper Second class, and merit marks were obtained by six of our Part I and Part III students of Clinical Veterinary Medicine.

Sporting Blues were awarded to Meadhbh Boyle (Full Blue for Rowing) and Diane Williams (Half Blue for Dance Sport).

The generous gift of a College boat, jointly presented by our President, Dame Veronica Sutherland, and former Vice-President, Dr Lindsey Traub, led even more of us than usual to go down to the river, to cheer on the Lady Charlotte as she took to the water during the Bumps. Our indefatigable Marathon runners and cyclists for charity, including Fellows, staff and students, have all had great success, and our social calendar was fittingly rounded off by our Dinner and May Ball, this year organised jointly with our neighbours at St Edmunds’. Of course, not even a Senior Tutor can know everything, and the doings of a mysterious College society called the Eggplanters are recorded elsewhere.

I have been grateful for the opportunity to work closely with the Students’ Association, firstly with Dimple and Becky and subsequently with Chloe and Stephanie. Our weekly meetings during term, and sharing of opinions and ideas, have contributed in a positive and valuable way to the life and harmony of the College, and we owe a great debt to those students who are willing to give so much of their time to our general welfare and enjoyment. Keen negotiators as they have all been, they have also shown great interest in topics as diverse as library

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security and the Art collection, and have played an effective and positive part in College meetings. The College’s Governing Body, in particular, welcomes the presence and participation of the SA.

Ms Jane McLarty, Mrs Julie Dashwood and Dr Susan Jackson We have organised and run a number of workshops this year, including the BP workshop at which Ms Charlotte Blow kindly spoke on behalf of BP and Dimple Mehta shared her experiences and achievements during her work placement with BP as the holder of the annual BP Scholarship. We have also held ‘skills’ workshops to discuss, and practise, writing techniques and exam techniques. These workshops are much appreciated by our students, and our thanks go to all those who participated, including Dr Sarah Brown and Ms Sue Brindley.

We hope to develop and extend such activities next year.

Of course, our community necessarily interacts with the wider University community, and changes are in the air. A Senior Tutor has quickly to become familiar with the language, and acronyms, of change, and PRAO, NSI, RAM and BUN are now a fixed part of my vocabulary. For those interested in the activities of the Planning and Resources Allocation Office (PRAO) and the parameters drawn up for the strategic plans of the Schools and NSI (Non-School Institutions) with regard to the RAM (Resource Allocation Model) and the BUN (Base Undergraduate Number) for the College and relationships between the Colleges and the University, the next few years should be watched closely. I have the feeling of stepping into the job of Senior Tutor at a time which could prove to be a watershed, when we must all be intent on what our real priorities are, and clear in our desire to preserve and further them. Access to study at Cambridge for mature women students who might otherwise not have the opportunity to come here is our core mission, and an indispensable part of the University’s work in the area of access.

We are confident, though, that even in complex and testing times our friends and benefactors, to whom we already owe so much, will continue to be generous with their time and support. Thanks to their goodwill, and in addition to awards from the University Hardship Fund and the Newton Trust Fund, we have been able this year to disburse some £50,000 in awards and bursaries to our students. I was particularly moved by the letter from our former President, Phyllis Hetzel, in which she gave me further information about her decision to endow the Myson College Exhibition for Personal Achievement. Phyllis tells me in her letter that: ‘the exhibition is so named after my mother, Bertha Myson. She left school at 12, and was never in a position to pursue a career suitable to her acuteness of intellect. But she kept her spirit high: right up to her death – at 83 – she could still add up three columns of numbers in £.s.d. in her head. And she scanned all letters for any inaccuracies on the part of her suppliers.’ I hope Phyllis will not mind me including this tribute to her mother in the report: it is truly a reminder, and an example, to us all.

Mrs Julie Dashwood Senior Tutor

Report from the Admissions Tutor

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his year has been a difficult one for Admissions following the restructuring of the allocation of HEFCE funded undergraduate numbers to colleges.

Several colleges saw their allocation cut, including Lucy Cavendish, and although our President

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continues to lobby for an increase in view of our special role in widening participation, for this year we had to limit our offers. The introduction of topup fees from 2006 may also affect the numbers of mature people returning to education, so it looks as

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though we are experiencing the dubious privilege of living in “interesting times”.

However, to look on the positive side, for the coming academic year we have at the time of writing a total of 40 offers out comprising 28 home, 3 EU and 9 overseas. It’s always pleasing to see the smaller subjects (for us) represented, and amongst the offers is one for Engineering and one for Natural Sciences.

assisted by one of our own graduates, Sue Long (graduated 2003 in History) who has special responsibility for mature applicants. Their work in publicising Cambridge nationally as a realistic ambition for able mature applicants has had great effects in terms of increasing the number of enquiries to us – which makes the reduction in our undergraduate quota all the more difficult to countenance. I hope to be able to submit a more cheery report in 2005!

We have continued to work closely with Sarah Barnsley, the FE Access Officer in the central Cambridge Admissions Office, and she is now

Ms Jane McLarty Admissions Tutor

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t has been a busy year for Lucy graduate students, with many of them finishing their PhD dissertations or gaining their degrees on completion of a variety of one- and two-year courses.

students themselves are also planning other social events, to see them through the long summer.

Since my last report thirteen students were awarded a PhD: Amineh Ahmed (Social Anthropology), Elise Alexander (Education), Patricia Alireza (Physics), Lorraine Cavanagh (Divinity), Sophia Daikou (Veterinary Medicine), Suzanne Doyle (Education), Céline Druilhe (Management Studies), Carol Law (Archaeology), Chi Keng (Janet) Lee (Chemical Engineering), Merav Mack (History), Tilottama Mukherjee (History), Louise Pye (née King) (Virology); eighteen were awarded a MPhil: Janita Bhana, Slavena Castle, Faye Chalcraft, Xiaojie Chen, Mei Cheong, Sabia Dayala, Sasibai Kimis, Elena Kolesnik, Ulrike Lange, Yu-Lan Lee, Hilary Levey, Disha Patel, Aabira Sher Afghan, Yu-Chiao Wang, Sylvia Wolfe, Mengjie Xu, Shefaly Yogendra, Yee Sook Yong; two were awarded a MEd: Anita Skingley and Kim Ryall; and two a MSt in English History: Clare Ellis and Shirley Firth; Joana Oom Ferrera de Sousa was awarded an MBA, Rachel Collins the Bachelor of Medicine, and Avanti Perera has just been awarded an LLM. I am looking forward to the July Congregation, when a further sizeable group of graduates will be awarded their degree.

Our Graduate meetings have been, as usual, concentrated during Michaelmas and Lent, and have included sessions on ‘Student Finance’, ‘Presentation Skills’, ‘Time Management and Essay Writing for MPhil Students’, and ‘Dissertation Writing’, as well as a couple of parties. This year we are also having a ‘Summer Dinner’ for the very many graduates who stay on, toiling on their research, while Cambridge is somewhat depleted of other students. I am pleased to report that the

Dr Rachel Collins A course on English as a Foreign Language (EFL) has again run successfully during Lent, providing much welcome extra support for the many students who have to write in a language different from their mother tongue.

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We had a record number of graduates giving talks on their research, much to the cultural enrichment of our College community. The range of topics has been extremely wide and interesting, as you can see below.

Sylvia Wolfe (Education): ‘Teaching and Learning through dialogue in primary classrooms in England’.

Rosemary Sykes (English): ‘'This was a lesson in history'; Sylvia Townsend Warner, George Townsend Warner and the Matter of History’.

Emmanouella Chatzidaki (Biology): ‘Reproductive physiology and the onset of puberty’.

Chiara Mazzetta (Mathematics): ‘Assessing the population dynamics of bird species of conservation concern’.

Pamela Smith (Archaeology): ‘Morning coffee, afternoon tea: the history of Cambridge archaeology’.

Uzma Rana (Physics): ‘Magnetic semiconductor devices’.

Yu-Chiao Wang (English): ‘The image of St George: promoting books and book producers in pre-Reformation England’.

Aimée Ebersold-Silva (Primary and Community Care): ‘Positions of vulnerability: an autoethnographic study’.

Vera Skvirskaja (Social Anthropology): ‘Making it "home": the fall and rise of nomadism in Arctic Siberia’ It is with great admiration that I can report again that our graduates achieve excellent levels of research, with some choosing to deepen it on an academic level, others going on to apply it in a variety of ways. Of those who graduated with an MPhil, several have continued with a PhD, either in Cambridge or in other universities here and abroad.

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Other graduates have continued with research either in university post-doc positions or within R&D departments of leading industries, others have taken up professional posts – or, as most often in the case of MEd’s, continued in enhanced professional posts!

The College Harris Prize for Graduate Results was awarded this year to Yee Sook Yong, for outstanding results in her MPhil.

In addition to my usual activities as Graduate Tutor, this year I have also been busy getting off the ground the Cambridge Students Babysitting Circle, and helping to manage its list from the Lucy Cavendish website. Work on this actually started a while ago and the whole project had a rather long gestation period, which will hopefully ensure a lasting success for the benefit of all student parents, graduate and undergraduate, at Lucy and throughout Cambridge University.

All the activities and the success of our graduate community are of course the product of teamwork, shared by many in a variety of roles. I am pleased to thank the Graduates who contributed to the various workshop and the induction events, and – as ever – to extend very grateful thanks to the other Graduate Tutors: Allison Curry and Sarah Brown, who started this year taking over from Julie Dashwood, to everybody in Tutorial Office, to the Student Finance Officer, Sue Sang, and to all the others in College who share in the task of looking after our graduate students.

Orsola Rath Spivack Graduate Tutor

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his year saw the launch at Lucy Cavendish College of a new scheme devised to help cashstrapped student parents at the University of Cambridge.

others, but would be able to offer other help in exchange for babysitting.

This is a scheme that should benefit all student parents at Cambridge University, as well as our own student parents, graduates and undergraduates. It implements a cashless barter-like system, where members exchange tokens for babysitting or other forms of childcare or indeed other services (including, for example, proof-reading, or car lifts for shopping or moving). It is run online, through its own website accessible at: http://www.lucy-cav.cam.ac.uk/baby.

Dr Anna Abulafia and Allison Pearson at the launch

Dr Orsola Rath Spivack at the launch of the Cambridge Students Babysitting Circle It is intended to work in a similar way to community-based LETS (Local Exchange Trading System). By allowing a variety of different services to be exchanged, we hope it will particularly help single parents, who often cannot offer to baby-sit for

The launch took place in Lucy on Sunday 19 October, with a party that enabled students to meet each other and provided a platform to publicise the scheme and encourage people to join in. Several students have registered with the scheme since, and we expect many more to join next year.

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Report from the Students’ Association Lucy Cavendish College Students’ Association Representatives 2003-04 President Vice-President Treasurer Secretary Social Secretary Bar Steward Graduate Rep

Dimple Mehta Rebecca Loader Stephanie Gray Katy Molyneux Meera Surti Stephanie Gray Morgan Richards

Green Officer International Officer Web & Publicity Sports Rep Welfare Officer LesBiGayTrans Officer CUSU External Officer

Sallly Hogdson Radhika Sood Gemma Holiday Sarah Hutchinson Sarah Fadden Karen How Noga Moscovich

Lucy Cavendish College Students’ Association Representatives 2004-05 President Vice-President Treasurer Secretary Social Secretary Bar Steward Green Officer International Officer

Chloe Bermudez Publicity Officer Stephanie Hyde Web Officer Amy Alter Sports Rep Katy Molyneux Welfare Officer Phillippa Bulman LesBiGayTrans Officer Heidi Paddy Stephanie Gray CUSU External Officer Libby Kemkaran-Thompson Rag Officer Tess Shiels

Karen Brayne Debra Spencer Sabrina Schuller Sarah Fadden Charlotte Cope Sabrina Schuller Radhika Sood Margaret Wilson

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ucy Cavendish College is noted amongst the Cambridge Colleges for providing a calm, noncompetitive, and inviting atmosphere. This attitude makes for a more efficient working environment, and has enabled Lucy’s remarkable women to excel themselves not only academically, but physically and professionally. This year has seen Lucy students found the first ever student operated Cambridge Law Journal (Laleh Shahabi & Martina Baillie), achieve excellence in the London Marathon (Sophie Wood), and guide the Cambridge women’s rowing team at Henley (Meadhbh Boyle). These are just a few examples of the varying fields in which Lucy Students have excelled this year.

The Students’ Association’s main goal is to preserve the peaceful environment of the College so as to ensure that all our students have somewhere to relax and regenerate before embarking on their next adventure.

The Students’ Association has worked hard to provide social occasions in which Lucy students can interact with other likeminded graduates. Dimple (Students’ Association President 2003-3004) and her team began the year with a number of themed events including a Halloween pumpkin carving evening and a Christmas mince pie party. They initiated a tradition of ‘Thursday Night Jazz’ which has been successfully continued by this committee. For the first time ever, the Lucy Bar has a number of regulars.

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In order to enhance the social environment within Lucy, the current committee has two social secretaries (Heidi Paddy and Phillippa Bulman).

Together they have organised a number of ‘cheap drinks’ evenings, Formal Hall exchanges with other colleges, and a potluck event. Towards the end of the summer term the Students’ Association held a highly successful ‘Jazz/Funk Bop’. Rosena Khan, a Lucy medical student, and her band (the Mutherfunkers) entertained a crowd of about 80 graduates from the student community with her energetic jazz/funk. The SA would like to thank those who kindly donated alcohol for the event; this enabled rum punch to be provided without charge, and allowed the raffle of beer and Bacardi Breezers to raise £50 in aid of charity.

The year culminated with the very enjoyable Eds/ Lucy joint May Ball organised by Sarah Lodge (May Ball Committee joint president) and her group.

We would like to thank the organisers for all their hard work and congratulate them on a job very well done. The event began with an excellent meal provided by the Lucy kitchen staff, followed by dancing at St. Edmunds. The evening was great fun and we hope there will be another within the near future.

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Charlotte Cope, Sarah Rose, Dr Lindsey Traub, the President and Sarah Hutchinson The Student Association seeks not only to provide a lively social environment, but also to ensure that students can relax in each others company after a hard day. Radhika Sood (CUSU External Officer) and Tess Shiels (International Officer) have modified ‘Monday Movie Night’ by rotating between international and Hollywood movies. In addition, Sabrina Schuller and Charlotte Cope (LBGT Officers) held a LesBiGayTrans movie evening which attracted students from all over Cambridge.

Movie Nights are very popular.

However, sometimes we all need to relax alone, and as such, one of the early goals of the current Students’ Association Committee was to found a video/DVD collection. This has been successfully achieved with the help of numerous corporate and private donors. The SA would like to thank all those who have contributed to the collection; especially the Library Staff without whom the videos would have no home, and would be in a complete muddle.

The SA is not only concerned with food, drink, dancing, music and movies; we also attempt to address important welfare concerns by acting as intermediates between the College and its students on important issues such as accommodation and college charges. The current committee hopes to further improve its welfare services. As a college, Lucy has an excellent record for welfare provision.

The staff members are extremely supportive and always willing to help. The Students’ Association wishes to model itself on this tradition. Stephanie Hyde (Women’s officer and Vice President) intends to hold open welfare clinics in which students may come and chat to her about their problems. Life at Cambridge can frequently be stressful and these clinics have been successful in other colleges. In addition, our Welfare officer (Sarah Fadden) and LesBiGay officers continue to provide essential welfare services.

During the past year the Students’ Association has taken an active role in the Cambridge University Women’s Union. The Women’s Union arm of CUSU has been working diligently to increase awareness of issues pertinent to female students at

Cambridge. The union is focusing its energies on two key campaigns. The first campaign addresses women’s academic performance and is aimed at facilitating discussion of the recent Joint Committee on Academic Performance’s report. Of particular concern to the Women’s Union is the lower performance of female students as compared to that of male students. The second key campaign, entitled ‘Target Women’, endeavours to increase the level of outreach to potential female applicants to the University. A questionnaire examining numerous aspects of life as a female in Cambridge has been circulated among current female students. The data gathered will be used to help combat feelings of intimidation which serve only to deter many from applying to the University. Additional to these two main campaigns, CUSU Women’s Union has also been working alongside CUSU Welfare on issues such as eating disorders, sexual harassment and the promotion of positive body images.

The Students’ Association has had an exciting year.

We have experienced a significant boost in student interest and involvement in the Committee. This is best demonstrated by the contested Students’ Association election in February and a turnout of 22% of Lucy Students for the CUSU, NUS Delegates and GU elections.

The Students’ Association Committee meetings will now be open to all students so as to encourage further participation and scrutiny. Furthermore, we have added a Rag Officer (Margaret Wilson) to the complement of committee members, in the hope that Lucy will participate more effectively in broader social issues. Margaret hopes to not only encourage students to raise money for worthy charities, but bring Lucy students together at exciting fundraising events.

The future The main concern facing the Students’ Association for the forthcoming year is maintaining the comfortable and social environment already existing at Lucy, in spite of the loss of Oldham Hall.

Oldham Hall played an integral role in maintaining communication among the students, and thus the Students’ Association believe it is essential to provide a similar network through which interaction can continue. We feel this is particularly important for the incoming Freshers of 2004. Irrespective of age, it is always difficult to forge meaningful relationships in a new environment - especially one as distinguished as Cambridge. In order to ensure that Lucy is as attractive to the new students as to those present today, the SA intends to focus on making available a greater number of events, both in and out of the College. We hope to hold another bop, and to increase the number of Formal Hall exchanges. In addition, we have begun to build

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relationships with the students’ presidents and committees of other colleges, and have begun to see our events advertised outside of Lucy.

We are currently focusing, in conjunction with the Cambridge University Student Union and our CUSU external officers (Rhadika and Katy), on creating a Fresher’s week that will not only initiate friendships but encourage a greater involvement in CUSU, the Lucy Student Association and College itself.

In order to combat the loss of notice boards and the general advertising facilities of Oldham Hall, our Web Officer, Debra Spencer, has redesigned the Students’ Association website to facilitate advertising and communication. After a three-year hiatus, owing to an unfortunate lack of resources (of the human variety), the website was due an update.

The new site will ‘officially’ launch at the beginning of the 2004 Michaelmas term. Sporting a new look, the new site will feature similar information to the old – for example, a social events calendar and minutes from previous committee meetings. In addition it will feature new information such as contact details for student housing representatives and weekly dining hall menus. The Students’ Association will also maintain pages for various college clubs and groups, thus allowing both students and staff to, for example, chart the progress of the LCC Boat Club as it starts the new rowing season with its new boat, the Lady Charlotte.

The Students’ Association is very excited by the prospect of the new and improved Oldham in 2005.

Not only will the gym be much bigger but the bar will open onto the gardens behind College House.

The Students’ Association hopes to work closely with the College to make the bar an inviting environment for all. The SA has been doing some research into Lucy’s history and Alumnae in order to bring a little of Lucy’s history into the bar and thereby enhance its atmosphere.

Thanks On behalf of the Students’ Association I would like to thank the SA Committee of 2003-2004 for all their hard work and dedication. I would especially like to thank Stephanie Gray (Bar Steward 2002-04 & Treasurer 2003-04) who retires from the Students’ Association this year after two years of service.

Steph not only created the custom of Thursday night Jazz, but has organised and run the Lucy Bar for the past two years. The bar is an integral part of student life and we greatly appreciate her hard work.

The Students’ Association would furthermore like to thank the College staff for maintaining lines of communication and remaining generous with their time. The College’s dedication to the students makes Lucy an enjoyable and rewarding place to learn.

Chloe Bermudez Students’ Association President, 2004-05

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his year began in promise for the Lucy Cavendish College Boat Club, with the generous donation by Dame Veronica Sutherland and Dr Lindsey Traub of funds to buy the College’s very own boat! The Lady Charlotte arrived in the Michaelmas Term, and has proven to be an invaluable asset to the club.

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In addition to the new equipment there was an unprecedented interested in LCCBC at the beginning of the year, with many new members joining the Club. This made it possible to put out both a novice and a senior boat, with both crews rowing in a number of competitive events throughout the year.

We also decided to continue the collaboration with Hughes Hall College Boat Club this year, in order to produce a combined club that was able to compete with the larger colleges.

The first event of the year was the Queens’ Ergs competition in the Michaelmas term, a 500m indoor relay for novice rowers. Having rowed for only a few short weeks, the Lucy Cavendish and Hughes Hall novices put in a fantastic performance in this gruelling race to reach the finals of the competition.

This was followed by an equally strong showing in the Emmanuel Sprint Regatta, a 500m novice sprint (in fancy dress!) and the Clare Novice Regatta. The Michaelmas term finished with the very tiring 2600m Fairburn Cup, in which the first VIII put in a

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In the Lent term the second boat competed in the Getting On race for the bumps, but unfortunately failed to qualify for the main event. The senior boat raced in the Lent Bumps, starting high in the third division. We had four days of excellent racing, though unfortunately we had a difficult draw and were bumped on three of the four days. However, we had a successful row over on the third day.

Throughout the exam term a committed senior crew trained hard in preparation for the May Bumps. Prior to these races we had an excellent row in the Cambridge Champs Eight Head, a 1450m timed event. We beat a number of crews from some of the larger colleges, and had a very enjoyable day. This race was also good preparation for the May Bumps, the highlight of the Cambridge rowing year. Though training was hampered by revision and exams, a very committed crew practiced hard throughout the term in the hope of improving on our May Bumps performance. Unfortunately it wasn’t to be, and we were bumped by other crews on the first three days.

However, we put in a fantastic performance on the final day in a very exciting race, successfully holding off a fast chasing crew to achieve a welldeserved row over.

May Bumps LucyHughes 2nd team All in all this has been a very enjoyable and successful year for LCCBC, and I look forward to building on our strengths in the year to come.

Thanks are given to Sarah Fadden, captain of LCCBC who stepped down at the end of the Lent term, and to Dame Veronica Sutherland and Lindsey Traub for their generous support.

Charlotte Cope LCCBC Captain

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he shadowy and infamous “Eggplant Club” a women’s dining society so exclusive its members must be known only by their “eggplant number” rather than their names has traditionally been acknowledged to have been founded after a rather long dinner in a first-floor kitchen in Bertram at Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge. The club, whose seventeen members are known as “Eggplanters”, is said to have derived its mysterious name from a confusion in the dining room over what exactly was in the vegetarian stew option.

Shockingly, the name “The Eggplant Club” and its cheery little symbol, a plump aubergine-brinjaleggplant sketch, have become synonymous with the type of pseudo-masonic activity that nice young ladies were previously rightfully excluded from.

“Eggplanters” are said to have their sights set on positions in amongst other things, powerful institutions such as the United Nations and the G8, whence they intend to “rule the world sensibly, banish misogyny, fight the steamroller of ‘free trade’ and the effects of the poverty it creates, as well as stop ridiculous things such as this illegal war in Iraq” (An anonymous source, 2004).

Historical orthodoxy has meant that the benign nature of the institutions professed goals “to share dinner because it’s easier to cook for more than one person” have hitherto remained unchallenged.

Official biographies of the Eggplant Club (Khan, 2003; Chen, 2003, Shahani, 2003) indicate that there were nine founding members who gathered at the same location reputedly regularly, although in reality meetings seem to have been more sporadic. The shadowy nature of the institution has made exact records difficult to identify and authenticate but it has been suggested that initially meetings were to have occurred “about once a week because it’s a real hassle to have to go shopping a lot”. Unsurprisingly, given the institution had all the characteristics of an international left wing think tank fuelled on daal and dangerously poised to take up further study and then employment in areas such as medicine, law, science and teaching, events soon progressed to more organised occasions than these impromptu dinners.

Larger events were organised on important cultural occasions such as Eid, Pancake Day and Thanksgiving. On these occasions international food is shared alongside cultural traditions, the knowledge of which is essential for “Eggplanters” to

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infiltrate important social and economic institutions the world over.

Events came to a head this academic year with the celebration of “The Eggplant Club Second Annual Diwali Bash in London, October 2003” where delicious Indian food was cooked to celebrate the Festival of Light at a secret waterside location. The author can reveal that “Eggplanters” travelled from Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge to within minutes of the financial centre of London at Canary Wharf illustrating the extent to which infiltration has already occurred. It can also be publicly revealed for the first time in the history of the club, that men were present, although all had consented to being “honorary ladies” for the evening, in the long and eminently sensible tradition of such exclusive social institutions that forbid entry to the opposite sex.

Photographic evidence of this occasion and another are (sensationally) available, although one cannot help wondering how at Diwali, these members did not realise they were being “pap’ed” given the proximity of the photographer at the time. One can only think the scent of power, the Indian sweets and the sheer quantity of cranberry juice had gone to everyone’s heads.

The Eggplant Club: A Short History (2004) is not yet available in print. Despite being granted unprecedented access to the club’s archive, the author fears publication has been blocked by senior members of the organisation due to the revisionist nature of this historical account.

References: Chen, C. 2003. From Egg to Eggplant, the story of an exclusive dining society and one woman’s mission to find the ultimate fried rice recipe. Boston, Harvard University Press.

Khan, N. 2003. “Daaling, should I stay or should I go?” The socio-legal aspects of cultural integration when the British Government is not keen to give you a student visa. Eggplant Archives.

Shahani, U. 2003. “No please, help yourself, I am not going to be able to finish it anyway”: Cooking for Friends on a Student Budget: How to make Friends and Rule the World. London, Yummy Dishes Publications.

Penny Robinson BA Social & Political Sciences 2001-04

Link Community Development Sponsored Hitch to Morocco 2002

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nyone for three hours stuck on a wet roundabout outside Calais? How about four hours on the tarmac of a Spanish petrol station in the sweltering heat wearing a fairy consume – including wings, wand, fuzzy green boppers and a pair of Union Jack boxer-shorts? Well if that hasn’t tempted you, how about 24 hours riding in the huge cab of a refrigerated lorry from the French border down towards Seville, listening to music, chatting, gobbling sweets, watching the Spanish countryside go by and marvelling at your genius for having stretched your thumb out to the nicest Irish Trucker on the planet? Go on, you know you’d love it, it’s character-building in the same way that your first pitched battle with the UL classification scheme is.

You come out at the end of it exhausted but triumphant, having achieved what you felt was improbable if not impossible only a matter of days before.

My fairy costume and I participated in the Easter 2002 “Morocco Hitch” for Link Community Development. Link is an organisation that promotes educational partnerships between schools in the UK and Africa as well as funding and supporting educational development projects in Africa. My hitch partner was a lovely Warwick University student called Andy who was my designated protector (Link does not allow women to hitch alone). While he was charming – and I am sure also

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quite capable of taking out a whole rugby team on his own if provoked – Andy soon realised that ensuring I got breakfast before I got really grumpy was probably the best protective function he could perform. I had done a bit of hitching before (although the fairy costume and the lovely Union Jack boxers were a whole new ball-game), but it was nice to have a rugby-playing hitch buddy just in case; if nothing else, it kept me in check if breakfast was on the slow side…

Just after the end of the Lent Term we set off on the Morocco marathon. We started after breakfast (fortunately) from outside King’s College and at the same time as all the other Cambridge hitchers (in full fancy dress with attendant press). Despite fierce competition for lifts out of Cambridge we made it down to Dover that evening in time for the night ferry to Calais. Before we set off we had armed ourselves with the appropriate French and Spanish phrases for “We are doing a sponsored hitch hike to Morocco for charity”, a million marker pens (all of which got lost except one) and a lifetime’s supply of cardboard for signs (all of which was reduced to recyclable pulp after 40 minutes of torrential rain on the verge of the A428). Fortunately a nice man in a white transit van (our first lift, and to all those who maintain people who drive white transit vans are unsavoury – shame on you, it’s not true!) gave us a

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bit of waterproof and totally indestructible sacking to write on, which served us until we reached Spain.

Strangely the trip from Cambridge to Dover was probably the hardest journey to make, involving about five lifts in, amongst other things, a beer truck and a posh BMW. The driver of the latter it turned out, was motivated by a desire for some first hand UCAS form advice. He wanted not only to show off his flash GPS system (we still got lost) but also pick our brains as to which university his son should study business and computing at. Eventually we got to Dover in time for the 9 p.m. ferry to Calais, even getting a lift right to the ferry station (but only after a lot of dancing and waving our sign for Dover on the verge of a motorway service station earlier in the evening).

I won’t go into every detail; there were a lot of lifts, much as there was a lot of waiting on wet/hot/steamy/hailing/cold/dark/sunlit roundabouts/ roadsides/motorway entrance barriers. Eventually we made it down to Algeciras in Spain to get the ferry to Morocco. Estimated hitching time: three days only, thanks to two charming truckers who helped us from Bordeaux practically to Granada.

Hitching can be a tiring business, but Andy and I soon found that singing and dancing, generally smiling and being happy gets you a lift much much quicker than any other tactic. We didn’t get much sleep despite an overnight stop with one driver.

Sleep did come at the wrong moments of course, like when we got a lift with a chatty French lorry driver and I was snoring away and dribbling into the steamy window beside me, leaving Andy to elbow me in the ribs enthusiastically whenever conversational input was required. All in all, the hitch was a fabulous experience. We got one bad ride, but opened the door and made a run for it, only to be picked up by a friendly British Trucker who had been admiring my boxer shorts (not for nothing then!). Our hitch traumas did not end there. Andy lost his passport and we had to file/fabricate a police report in Malaga with a taciturn Spanish policeman who spoke no English, and as we spoke no Spanish and the translator had gone home, we just kind of made it up as we went along. Andy’s hitch costume was Mexican, sombrero and all and I dread to think what the policeman made of the unwashed “fairy” in the green sparkly boppers and the equally rough looking English “Mexican” burbling away together in Spanglish and pointing at random places on the map of Spain where they though they might have lost some mysterious document.

Penny Robinson…minus fuzzy green boppers I raised almost £1000 for Link, thanks mostly to the fundraising efforts of my partner at Royal Holloway in London (thanks especially to the German Department) and of my family, but also the generosity and support of Lucy students who are not on the whole on big budgets themselves! Between us, Andy and I reckoned we managed to raise enough to support a small school though Link for one year. Cambridge is a massive privilege in educational terms and its really important to me that with your help I have been able to do a little (a very enjoyable little) something for an organisation that promotes educational opportunities for children in the developing world. These children have massive potential but a lack of resources might mean that they miss out on education that we take for granted by the time we get to Cambridge.

Link runs its well co-ordinated hitch every year, and has recently started a parallel hitch to Prague. Their website is www.lcd.org.uk and you can find details of their projects there. Do check it out, it’s fantastic, they need our support, I’ll appeal to your clannishness and say it’s an organisation started by Cambridge graduates, so it’s homegrown! Details of the Link Community Development Hitch to Morocco can be found at www.lcd.org.uk/events/hitch/.

Penny Robinson BA Social & Political Sciences 2001-04

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hen you specialise in an under-researched author there are many paths to tread, metaphorically at least. Sometimes I see myself as an explorer, cutting a path through illegible handwriting or plunging headlong into under theorised waters. (And yes, they can be sharkinfested, but that’s another story.) And sometimes, too, I find myself in that grim place which John Bunyan’s Pilgrim describes: the Slough of Despond.

It is at times like these when visiting real places and discovering fellow-travellers becomes invaluable.

The author whom I study is Sylvia Townsend Warner, and her haunts – the North Norfolk Coast and Dorset – have become my own thanks to convivial weekends organised by the Sylvia Townsend Warner Society. But finding academic fora (forums?) to share my research has been difficult. Sylvia’s work (novels, short stories, poetry, reviews, reportage, musicology, musical composition) resists pigeonholing and when I try to produce papers for conferences on, say, particular periods (actual or literary) or particular themes I feel as through I’m forcing my subject to bend unnaturally into places she doesn’t belong.

breadth of her work” I knew I’d found promising terrain. And then I read “proposed panel for MLA, San Diego, 2004”: it sounded too provisional, too ambitious, too far away. But not for long. Earlier in 2003 I’d read that Sylvia visited the States in 1949 to deliver a lecture on historical novels at a Congress organised by the League of American Writers. And after a bit of trekking through the vast wastes of the World Wide Web and footnotes in sociology journals, I found my quarry. This route had been so unexpected that I felt sure that I now had gold dust to barter for a place on the proposed panel; and I was right. Then, to my mounting excitement, the panel became a reality. All that remained was that notorious quagmire: funding.

Here, Lucy Cavendish College came to my rescue, awarding me a sum from the Masterman Braithwaite Fund which took me to a gathering of ten thousand academics in San Diego. Fewer than ten of that ten thousand are Sylvia Townsend Warner scholars but at last I’ve found an intellectual grove bursting with ideas, debate and travelling companions, thanks to the tremendous support of the College.

Rosemary Sykes PhD (English) 1999-

So when I saw a call for papers that requested “Sylvia Townsend Warner: papers that reflect the

Knitting: A Competitive Sport!

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he 2003-2004 knitting season has been decidedly eventful. In November…thanks to a handbag that I’d designed, knitted and filled…I was joint winner of the Barbara Maynard Memorial Trophy, awarded annually by the Cambridge Confederation of Women’s Institutes for excellence in craft.

In March I heard that two of my designs had been shortlisted for the British Handknitting Confederation’s Design Awards. Thus it was that two of my fluffy teacosies (the pink marshmallow and parrot feather colourways) and another of my knitted and filled handbags were displayed at the National Exhibition Centre (Birmingham) in April.

knitathon. This was the grand finale of a sponsored knit which raised over £1000 for the Phoenix Centre (an NHS centre for teenagers with eating disorders) and resulted in a large pile of colourful blankets that will be distributed in Rwanda by an aid organisation, Containers of Hope.

And just as the 2003-2004 season closed I received an offer I couldn’t turn down: the Cambridge Federation of Women’s Institutes has asked me to lead a day school on Domino Knitting, a technique I specialise in. The remuneration will be modest (unlike me!) but being asked to teach knitting to the WI…what an accolade.

PS. Oxford University now has a knitting club.

Anyone up for an inter-varsity knitting match?

In June BBC Radio Cambridgeshire requested my services as teacher and “knitting expert” at their

Rosemary Sykes PhD (English) 1999-

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Salzburg in December

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ix Lucy students and an adopted companion from Homerton all donned multiple layers of clothes and headed for Salzburg at the end of Michaelmas term. This was the third trip of the “unofficial tour company” at Lucy (which has subsequently been named). In what is fast becoming a new tradition, we, a group of friends, try to go on small three-day trips at the end of the Michaelmas and possibly Lent terms. We have realised that we never get to spend quite the time together that we would like to during term, and a trip brings a nice finish to the marathon that is the Cambridge term.

On the Sound of Music Tour Spending just two nights in Salzburg we really tried to make the most of it; we toured the city and the surrounding area on The Sound of Music Tour, which had Penny in hysterics and allowed us to see some of the amazing Austrian countryside. Leading up to our trip much fun was made of the fact that, being seven people, we were a bit like the von Trapps in the film. Because it was so incredibly cold, the mountains and lakes were framed beautifully - although standing still for too long to admire these views was not an option, thus finding ourselves randomly jumping up and down trying to contain whatever body heat was left. Penny fittingly had a toy penguin sticking out of her backpack most of the time.

View of St. Peter’s Monastery Salzburg, being the most expensive of our trips so far at an amazing £28 return, proved to be magical.

As it was just before Christmas, there were endless markets with all sorts of things quaint as well as Glühwein in ample supply. This proved to be of use, since it was FREEZING!!! -Lucy ladies in thermals paints the picture!

On the final day, another beautifully sunny but icecold day, some of the group went on an ice rink erected in the Mozart square. And I remember that, as I stood there, with pop music bellowing out in the background and watched my friends do a good job of something I do so incredibly badly – I felt so lucky. There I was – with an amazing group of friends - having just enjoyed three days in their company with so much laughter, optimism and random singing of Sound of Music songs - and I was so grateful, as am I now, to have met such fabulous people at Lucy.

Lene Tobiassen BA Social & Political Sciences 2002-05

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Report from the Fellowship Secretary

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his year we have had to say a very unwilling farewell to Louise Tee who resigned from her College Lectureship in Law in December. Louise came to Lucy Cavendish in 1989 to teach Law. She quickly made herself indispensable as a brilliant supervisor, a Tutor and latterly as Senior Tutor from 2002-03. It is to Louise that the College owes its beautifully clearly worded Statutes and Ordinances.

Writing the Statutes and Ordinances formed an integral part of the process in getting full College status. Louise contributed generously and cheerfully to the good running of the College during all her time at Lucy Cavendish. She was always prepared to give us any legal advice we needed and she did an enormous amount to promote the smooth running of College affairs. She is sadly missed by her students

and colleagues, but we all wish her the very best in her new pursuits. We very much hope she will visit us often as an Honorary Member of the Combination Room.

On a happier note the Fellowship has had a remarkably creative year.

In May Alison Vinnicombe gave birth to Eleanor Jane and Laura Wright gave birth to Charlotte Sahara Rance. In June Ruth Cameron gave birth to Simon Edward Hagan. Many congratulations to the new mothers (and fathers)! We also warmly congratulate Ruth on her promotion to a Readership in Materials Science and Metallurgy.

Recommendations and Elections Elections to Fellowships in Class B We welcomed Ms Sue Brindley into the Fellowship in the Michaelmas Term. Sue is a Lecturer in Education and took over Jane McLarty’s tutorial side in the Lent Term while Jane was on sabbatical leave. The other two Fellows who will join the College in October 2004 are Ms Anat Scolnicov, who will be our new College Lecturer in Law and Dr Mirca Mandianou who will be our Trinity CTO in SPS. Anat is completing a doctorate on ‘Freedom of Religion: between Group Rights and Individual right’ at the LSE; Mirca comes to us from University College London where she holds a Mellon Post Doctoral Fellowship. Among other projects she is conducting research into the relationship between news consumption and citizenship in the UK. We are all looking forward to having them with us.

Visiting Fellows This year we had the pleasure of the company of a number of Visiting Fellows. Dr Inger Dalsgaard was our Carlsberg Visiting Research Fellow in Modern American Literature. Professor Rosa Greaves, Professor of Law at the University of Durham joined us in the Easter Term. In the Lent Term we hosted our first Fellow in Further Education, Ms Mary Courtney, who is Manager of the Access to Higher Education Programme at the North Warwickshire and Hinckley College of Further Education. Mary rounded off her time at the College with a comprehensive report on her investigations into the University’s programme of widening access. It is through our Further Education Fellowship that we hope to disseminate knowledge about Cambridge to Further Education Colleges.

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and others in Cambridge might do to promote access of Mature Students.

Professor Katie Wales, Professor of Modern English Literature at the University of Leeds joined us in the Lent Term. She will be with us for the calendar year 2004-5. Next year we look forward to welcoming Ms Mia Kyed Jacobsen as Carlsberg Visiting Research Fellow, and as Visiting Fellows Dr Ruth Hart (State University of New York Upstate Department of Family Medicine), Professor Yvonne Friedman (Bar-Ilan University, Israel), and Professor Eva Baker (Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards and Student Testing, UCLA).

Visiting Scholars We also enjoyed the company of a number of Visiting Scholars. Lizzie Speller, one of our very own Alumnae was with us the whole year to research her new book on Madame de Stael. Dr Sonia Hasan came to conduct research on National Imaginations in India and Israel. Dr Minako Yamada from the University of the Air, Tokyo, was with us for Michaelmas and Lent and conducted research in linguistics. And we look forward to the return of Dr Vicky Ann Cremona from Malta at the end of the summer.

Honorary Members of the Combination Room Dr Harriet Crawford who has been a Research Fellow and a Fellow of the College was offered Life Honorary Membership of the Combination Room.

Membership of the Combination Room New elections to Membership of the Combination

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Room are Dr Almut Beige, Dr Elizabeth Haresnape, Mrs Anne Chase Allen (Lent Term), and Dr Barnai Ghosh.

Anna Sapir Abulafia Acting Fellowship Secretary

Competition for Visiting Fellowships and Scholarships for the Academic Year 2005-06 Visiting Fellowships Applications for Visiting Fellowships are invited from Senior Women* Visitors from an overseas, EU or UK University or recognised Research Establishment who intend to teach and/or conduct research in the University of Cambridge or in a recognised research establishment while in Cambridge and who are not normally resident in Cambridge.

Meetings.

The privileges of Visiting Fellows include the following: • • • •

Visiting Fellows are matriculated as members of the College and are observers at Governing Body

Two Formal Halls on Thursday evenings during each Full Term Suppers after Governing Body Meetings The Audit Supper following the Governing Body Audit Meeting (Michaelmas Term) Governing Body Guest Night (Michaelmas Term)

Visiting Scholarships Applications for Visiting Scholarships are invited from women* who will be

(c) funded by a learned society or recognised grantgiving body

(a) on sabbatical leave or (b) carrying out teaching or research while in Cambridge or

and who will be engaged in teaching and/or research in the University of Cambridge or in a recognised research establishment while in Cambridge and who are not normally resident in Cambridge.

How to apply Applicants should provide an up-to date CV and list of publications, the names and contact details of two referees, information about their proposed affiliation (if any) with a University Department, Centre or Research establishment and an outline of their project while in Cambridge. Applicants should ask their referees to write direct to the College by the closing date of Friday 15 April 2005.

Applications (ten copies) and references should be sent to: The Fellowship Secretary, Lucy Cavendish

College, Cambridge CB3 0BU (tel: 01233 339240, email: fellowshipsecretary@lucy-cav.cam.ac.uk) from whom further details can be obtained.

Applications cannot be accepted electronically.

The closing date for receipt of applications and references is Friday 15 April 2005 * By the Employment Act 1989, the College has exemption from the provisions of the Sex Discrimination Act, 1975 in relation to gender.

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r Anna Sapir Abulafia writes: I was invited to give a lecture at the Medieval and Renaissance Center in New York in February at the Conference on ‘Forbidden Fruit. The impact of knowledge in Medieval Europe’. I spoke on ‘A Twelfth-century poet’s engagement with the Jewish-Christian debate’. For me it was a special treat to visit New York. I left New York in 1967 as a girl of fifteen when I moved with my family to Holland. Since then I had only been back for a brief visit in 1981.

In July I gave a paper ‘”Sie stinken beide”, or how to use medieval Christian-Jewish disputational material’ at a Colloquium on ‘Seeing things their way. Studying the history of religious ideas’, held in Cambridge. I hope to use the summer to continue work on the book I am writing on ‘Christian-Jewish Relations, 1000-1300’ for Pearson Education Publishers.

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r Sarah Brown writes: I’ve enjoyed my second year at Lucy, though it has been even busier than the first! Through my new role – as Assistant Graduate Tutor – I’ve been introduced to students researching a fascinating variety of topics, including the Pukhtun women of Pakistan, autoethnography, and the place of women in university archaeology.

It was particularly interesting to hear some of our research students present their findings at the recent Lucy Cavendish Research Seminar.

In my other role as Director of Studies, I’ve very much enjoyed getting to know the very lively new first years in English. Particularly memorable was the surprise tea party they threw for myself and their other supervisors at the end of the first term – complete with lovely homemade cakes and scones!

Much of my research this year has focused on classical reception. I completed Ovid: Myth and Metamorphosis over the summer – this will be published in September – and have begun work on some exciting new projects, including a collection of essays on Tragedy, which I am editing for Blackwell. This summer I hope to complete my monograph on The Tempest’s afterlife.

Publications: ‘The Return of Prospero’s Wife: Mother Figures in The Tempest’s Afterlife’, Shakespeare Survey 56, 2003 ‘”There is no end, but addition”: The Later Reception of Shakespeare’s Classicism’ in Shakespeare and the Classics, Charles Martindale and Tony Taylor eds., Cambridge University Press (2004)

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r Jane Collier writes: In September 2003 I ceased to be Course Director of the MPhil in Management Studies. This meant that I could devote more time to research, consultancy and publications.

I have a paper about to be published in the US (Sage) called ‘Responsible Shareholding in the UK’.

This is part of a collection of papers to be called Corporate Integrity and Accountability edited by George Brenkert in Georgetown University. I also edited a special issue of the Journal for Policy, Planning and Futures, to appear later this year. The theme was Corporate Social Responsibility, and I contributed a paper (with Lilian Wanderley) on ‘Thinking for the Future: Global Corporate Responsibility’.

In March this year I gave an address at a CRASSH conference organised by the Department of Architecture. The theme of the conference was ‘Architecture and its Ethical Dilemmas’ and the paper was entitled ‘Moral Imagination and the Practice of Architecture’. Although I was aware that I was no expert on architecture, the assignment led me to reflect on the nature of professional ethics and its relation to organisational ethics. In fact, I have been asked to present the paper again in October at a Chicago conference of the Institute of Business and Professional Ethics in the US. More recently I submitted a paper to the conference of the European Group for Organisational Studies (EGOS) on ‘Rules, roles and relationships in the global ‘agora’: corporate responsibility and global governance’. This was accepted and will be given in Ljubljana in July. I shall be giving a different version of the same paper in October at the Transatlantic Business Ethics Summit in Barcelona (ESEADE).

All this work has been stimulated and underpinned by my various associations with organisations who actually do the work in the arena of corporate relationships with investors, NGOs, stakeholder groups, governments and consultancies of various kinds. (Since last year I have also become a Trustee of the Institute of Business Ethics). There is nothing like a whiff of real life to blow away academic cobwebs!

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r Allison Curry writes: Another year at Lucy, it seems to fly past. Work has continued as a graduate tutor with Orsola and Sarah, concentrating on broadening tutorial support through discussion groups and workshops targeted to scientific/non scientific students, aimed to address specific concerns raised previously. This year I took over

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the responsibility for medical admissions following the retirement of Ruth Hawthorn. We are lucky at Lucy to have both mature and affiliated medics and we are also one of three colleges involved with the new graduate medical course. Each, of course, has its own admission requirements! In this role I also took over as tutor for the medical students and so have had a year to adjust to being an undergraduate tutor as well, a very different job! Having said all that I must say a big thank you to the Tutorial Office where Gaby, Faith and Janet are so supportive.

I have continued to run supervisor training courses for Staff Development, as part of the Universities pro-active measures to ensure undergraduate supervisions are to satisfactory levels. This has been useful both at the graduate level, where it has enabled me to see more clearly how other departments operate, but also now as an undergraduate tutor, with all the supervision reports I receive.

At Addenbrooke’s my research in the Department of Surgery continues into immunological mechanisms surrounding graft rejection, and I have taken on an editorial position with the Journal of Transplantation. Although there have been major advances in immunosuppressive regimes, many grafts still fail 8-10 years on, requiring a new transplant, and there is still an immense shortage of donor organs for the vast array of patients waiting.

On top, if research is not enough, I also ran the London Marathon to raise money for the National Kidney Research Fund. There’s got to be an easier way to raise money, but thank you for all the Lucy support.

Publications: Dashwood, J.R., ‘Cotrone potrebbe forse essere Caliban? The Tempest e I giganti della montagna’ in E. Lauretta, ed., I giganti della montagne.

Progetto per un film, Agrigento, Edizioni Centro Nazionale Studi Pirandelliani, 2004, pp. 183-9 Dashwood, J.R., ‘Rebels and rejects: characters in the Pirandello manner’, in B. Richardson, S. Gilson, C. Keen, eds, Theatre, Opera and Performance in Italy from the Fifteenth Century to the present: Essays in Honour of Richard Andrews, Leeds, Society for Italian Studies, Occasional Papers, 6, 2004. pp. 258-272.

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r Edith Esch writes: In the Michaelmas Term I spent a sabbatical leave in Dakar (Senegal) working on a project on pupils’ linguistic identity at the French lycée. It is one of the French-speaking schools with which local schools in the area maintain a network of e-mail exchanges.

Since I came back, I have been busy teaching and supervising in the Faculty of Education and I have been external examiner for Applied Linguistics for Trinity College, Dublin, and for Anglia Polytechnic University.

In May, I gave a plenary talk on the use of ICTs in modern language pedagogy at a conference organised by the University of Castello (Spain), and in June, two plenaries on autonomous approaches to pedagogy at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and at the University of Hangzhou (China).

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rs Julie Dashwood writes: Necessarily, much of the year has been spent in finding my way through all that it falls to the Senior Tutor to do. I have, though, greatly enjoyed teaching the Part II Italian translation course, as well as supervising for 1A and teaching my modern Italian theatre option.

The latter course was particularly memorable for the students as their study of Luigi Pirandello’s Enrico IV coincided with the new version of that play by Tom Stoppard at the Donmar Warehouse in London: a meeting of minds, and scripts, both riveting and momentous. So teaching, examining, theatre and opera have all had their part, as have conferences in Sicily and Edinburgh and discussions about future research projects, even though the pile of material awaiting writing up is rising to new heights. Since the College has generously agreed that I can have a sabbatical term next year I hope, though, to make progress on that front. Now, as the summer vacation is underway, I am looking forward to going back to Florence and Milan and completing a short article on Fascist monuments in literature.

Dr. Edith Esch The research carried out in Senegal is to be presented at a conference on ‘The French Language and Questions of Identity’ organised by the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages in July.

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I was on the planning committee of the Universitywide event organised by Mrs Anny King, the Director of the Language Centre of the University on the theme of Multilingualism for the European Year of Languages and sponsored by the Faculties of Modern Languages, Oriental Studies and Education as well as by CUP and UCLES. The day was opened by Sir John Boyd, Chair of the Nuffield Languages Inquiry and by Dr Lid King, Director of the Centre for Information on Language Teaching and Research. Dr John Trim, Director of the Modern Languages Project of the Council of Europe and Dr I. Joyau, of the French Delegation attended the plenary lecture given by Professor Philip Riley on Multilingual and Multicultural Identities. The day was a resounding success with many University members, students and staff enjoying the language learning ‘tasters’ on offer while others were experimenting with language testing on-line in the company of Dr Neil Jones of UCLES or discovered about the way bilingual children manage pronunciation with Dr Ian Watson, of the University of Oxford.

Publications: Esch, E. (2003) ‘Le trilinguisme: recherches actuelles et questions pour l’avenir’ in : Vers une Compétence plurilingue, Numéro Spécial, Le Français dans le Monde, Clé International. pp 1831.

Harding-Esch, E. and P. Riley, 2003. The Bilingual Family: A Handbook for Parents, CUP, pp. 1- 189 (Second revised edition).

Submitted Publications: Esch, E., M. Evans and L. Fisher ‘We don’t know what’s happening in France because we are in Dakar’: E-Mail conferencing and pupils’ crosslinguistic and cross-cultural collaborative discourse’.

Discourse Analysis On-line.

Fisher, L., Evans, M. and Esch, E. 'Using Computer Mediated Communication to promote learner autonomy and develop intercultural understanding at secondary level', Language Learning Journal

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rs Sarah Gull writes: The Cambridge Graduate Course has just completed its third year, with eighteen students currently based at Lucy.

Time has flashed by. I completed my MA Education and have been busy since trying out further projects related to the humanities in medical education. With the help of artist Sarah Brownie we introduced life drawing to students. This helped observational skills, demonstrating what Leonardo da Vinci described 500 years ago, but also raised many other issues to do with science, art, physicality and the relationship between a doctor and patient.

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I shall shortly be off to the Ottawa conference in Barcelona to present this work, and then on to the second conference of the Association for Medical Humanities to present our Cinema Season from last year. Further help is at hand with Ruth Hart from New York, who will be coming to Lucy in Lent 2005 as Visiting Fellow.

Publications: “A Preliminary Study introducing a novel approach to the initiation of breast-feeding through experiential learning.” Reeve, J; Gull, S; Johnson, M; Streather, M. European Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology and Reproductive Biology. 113 (2004) 199-203 Papers given: “Towards shared learning between doctors and midwives.” Gull SE, Stevens T, MacDougall J Presented at ASME conference, RCOG, 24 November 2003 “Constraints to Learning from Recreational Films in Medical Education.” Association for Medical Humanities 2nd Conference, Swansea, July 2004 “Life Drawing in Undergraduate Clinical Attachments” 11th International Ottowa conference on Medical Education, Barcelona, July 2004

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r Susan Jackson writes: Degree day this year was a great source of delight as the first of my current batch of tutees graduated. It is such a pleasure to see the fruition of all those terms of hard work - particularly when the weather is good - and so nice to get notes of appreciation from tutees before they leave. I do hope they will all stay in touch.

It has been a busy year for me in College, as I have sat on endless building committees mulling over plans for the refurbishment of Oldham Hall. I originally became involved when I innocently asked if the College would consider using environmentally friendly building practices and codes of design. That turns out not to be so easy as it sounds, and resulted in numerous investigations to find out how to implement such ideas. What actually happens remains to be seen.

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Coincidentally, I was invited this year to take on the post of Executive Secretary to the Cambridge Environment Initiative. This means that I have the task of finding out who is doing what around the University in the area of the Environment, and produce a research register to encourage interdisciplinary collaborations. This has proved an extremely interesting role, which I am continuing to enjoy. It has certainly raised my awareness of environmental issues, and the responsibility we all bear to make the world a better place. This post is based in the Department of Earth Sciences, which is the third department in the University in which I have been employed. It is fascinating seeing how different departments work.

Last summer I was asked to write an article in CAM magazine about childcare in Cambridge, which also gave me the chance to research some of the issues myself. It is amazing how many people read that publication - I received a lot of positive response, so lets hope that some of the issues raised are addressed in a sensible way in the future.

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r Mary James writes: This year has been one in which I have had to ‘get my head down’ in both main elements of my current work: as Deputy Director of the ESRC Teaching and Learning Research Programme and as Director of my own Learning How to Learn (L2L) project within the ESRC TLRP.

development, qualitative and quantitative, and longitudinal. It is certainly the hardest thing I have ever done in my working life. However I am beginning to get cautiously excited about our results, and I am especially pleased to see how difficulties have been overcome and how junior researchers have bloomed. I have really enjoyed the nurturing side of the work.

The work on the TLRP as a whole has been frenetic with showcase events to raise the profile of the work in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, as well as an annual conference for about 300 researchers in the programme. The core programme team of 2.9fte are now working with 36 major projects, with more expected from extensions in Wales and Northern Ireland which are currently being commissioned. We are also working hard to engage the interest of potential users of TLRP findings. We produce regular newsletters that are distributed to all schools in the UK and elsewhere. We also contribute to policy seminars, for example, we led a seminar at the DfES in May on ‘Personalised Learning’ which seems to have become a focus for recent policy development. Publications from the programme, in the form of academic journal articles, research briefings and pamphlets for policymakers, practical texts for practitioners, and Gateway books for general audiences are beginning to emerge (see www.tlrp.org for regular updates).

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s Jane McLarty writes: Over the last year I have continued with my involvement with the teaching of New Testament Greek, in particular coordinating with colleagues from other universities the John Workbook project, supported by the LTSN. We hope to have published our commentary on selected chapters of the Gospel of John online by September 2004.

Recently I have taken on the task of Admissions Coordinator for the Theology and Religious Studies Faculty, with the remit of trying to increase applications for the subject – which will fit in nicely with my own desire as Lucy’s Director of Studies in Theology to see more mature women applying!

Dr. Mary James At the end of the Easter Term 2004 we will, I hope, have finished data collection for the L2L project. We are now deep into analysis and are beginning to write up. This is a huge job because the project is multi-site, multi-disciplinary, research and

I’m now half-way through my part-time PhD with King’s College London (on the role of emotion in the Acts of Thecla, a first century Christian conversion narrative), and it’s beginning to feel as though one day I might actually finish! The work was very much helped on its way by my sabbatical during the Lent Term, for which I’d like to thank the College.

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s Lorna McNeur writes: I worked with students this year on an academic design project of a homeless hostel for Emmaus, situated in Cambridge, that included: accommodation for six

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‘Companions’ and a Coordinator, a shop, workshops, a cafe and outdoor public space. I also took the thirty-nine first year Architecture students on a one week trip to Rome in which were presented approximately fifty sites, ranging from Ancient, Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque Rome; including Ancient and Renaissance villas outside of the city.

In the Autumn of 2003, I was given a Routledge contract to complete a book by December 2004, which I have been working on, whenever possible, throughout the year. I also published an article in Art and Cities, and was then invited to contribute another one that established the theme of the next issue. I am giving two conference papers this summer, one in Cambridge at St John’s College and the other at Cardiff University.

Publications: Art and Cities, ‘New York, Theatre of the Absurd and gardens of Earthly Delights’, Issue no. 13: Cities of Hell, Cities of Happiness, Autumn/Winter 2003, pp. 16-20.

Art and Cities, ‘Native New Yorkers and the Soul of the City’, Issue no. 14: The Landscape and the City, Spring/Summer 2004, pp. 8-11.

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r Jane Renfrew writes: This report covers two years since the report submitted for the last Newsletter was accidentally omitted. It covers the period of academic years 2002/3 and 2003/4 which were particularly busy for me from the point of view of foreign travel.

In October 2002 I was invited to attend the opening of the new lecture theatre in the British School of Archaeology in Rome. Travels in 2003 included a visit to the excavations of the well preserved Bronze Age town at Akrotiri on Santorini, with its wonderful wall paintings. In July I was invited to visit the palaeolithic cave at Church Hole, Creswell near Worksop, and climb up on scaffolding to see the newly discovered engravings; the earliest palaeolithic cave art found in Britain. In August, after a short visit to Tuscany to see painted churches, I went with my husband to the Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia in Mexico City, and also spent some days in Oaxaca visiting sites and museums including Monte Alban and Mitla. In September we visited sites in the west Mediterranean including Barcelona and Girona in Spain, talyots and navetas in Menorca, nuraghi at Barumini in Sardinia, the National Museum in Valetta, and the Neolithic temples at Hagar Qim and Tarxien in Malta, and finally Olympia and Athens in Greece. In October there was a quick trip to the Cotsen Institute at UCLA for the launch of Sitagroi II at which I gave a lecture on the plant remains from prehistoric Sitagroi. This was followed by a

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brief visit on the return journey to the University Museum in Philadelphia. In late November I attended a meeting of the European Science Foundation in Strasburg. This was followed several weeks later by a visit to Berlin to the Deutsches Archaeologisch Institut, and to the Archaeological Museum and the Egyptian Museum.

2004 has been a year of attending conferences. In March I took part in a conference on the Prehistory of the Cycladic Islands held in the McDonald Institute in Cambridge. This was followed in April by a visit to Valetta for the symposium which launched the splendid volume Malta before history

by Daniel Cilia, and a visit to the Neolithic hypogeum at Hal Saflieni and again to the temples at Tarxien. In May I visited Les Eyzies in the Dordogne to take part in a symposium of the Sir John Templeton Foundation on ‘Innovation in Material and Spiritual Cultures’ where I gave a paper on “Neanderthal Symbolic Behaviour?”

Publications: ‘The Archaeology of Wine Production’, Chapter 3 in M. Sandler and R.M. Pinder, Wine, a Scientific Exploration (Taylor and Francis, London and New York), 2003 ‘Seeds and Fruits from Neolithic Sitagroi’, Chapter 1 in E. Elster and C. Renfrew, Excavations at Sitagroi ll (Monumenta Archaeologica 20 UCLA Los Angeles), 2003

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r Orsola Rath Spivack writes: My research in underwater acoustics is keeping me adequately busy, with deadlines for research reports and ‘deliverables’ competing for time with family and College commitments. It is remarkable that things somehow get done, and I manage to even actually enjoy the work!

After completing work investigating how a scattered acoustic field is modified by different hull shapes and by confining the vessel in a tunnel, which is of relevance in interpreting current data obtained in experimental facilities and also in understanding the effects of navigation in shallow waters, I have concentrated this year on the study of acoustic fields due to moving (as opposed to stationary) sources. As a result, I have developed a code that realistically simulates the effect of a rotating propeller and can calculate incident and scattered fields.

Three (restricted) reports have been written this year for Phase II of the Pathfinder Project: ‘Modelling of Rotating Propeller Sources’ (Peake & Rath Spivack, 2003), ‘Parametric Study of Cumulative Force on a Submarine Hull’ (Rath Spivack, 2003), and ‘Parametric Study of Pressure Fields and Forces on a Submarine Hull: effect of thickness and loading noise from rotating sources, and of fluctuating

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tailshaft forces’ (Peake & Rath Spivack, 2004). A paper is about to be published: O. Rath Spivack, R. Kinns and N. Peake ‘Acoustic Excitation of Hull Surfaces by Propeller Sources’, Journal of Marine Science and Technology, 2004, vol. 9, in press, and work is under way at various stages for more publications. Some of the latest work will be presented at the 25th Symposium on Naval Hydrodynamics in Newfoundland, Canada.

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r Lorna Williamson writes: This has been a very full year of transfusion medicine research and writing, with several studies finally being completed. My main areas of interest and activity remain the development of better therapeutic components from donated blood, and a longstanding project to develop novel antibodies for the treatment of immune destruction of platelets in unborn babies.

I greatly enjoyed speaking on this last topic to the Lucy fellows at an Anna Bidder Research Evening, using my daughter’s K’nex to make impromptu models of antibodies! My team also completed two clinical studies, one on whether removing white cells from blood donations improves recovery after surgery (it didn’t make a huge difference), and a survey of how patients with sickle cell anaemia are transfused around planned surgery (considerable variation in practice). The project to use bar coded patient wrist bands to prevent transfusion errors has made much better progress this year, and we hope to demonstrate it at the Addenbrooke’s Open Day on July 3rd. I was pleased to be asked to contribute a chapter on blood transfusion to an undergraduate textbook of surgery, showing that transfusion issues now have a much higher profile.

I did very well for trips abroad, with presentations in San Diego (twice), Bermuda (2 days only, alas) and Toronto. I was extremely pleased to be offered the chair of the clinical studies team of an international research collaborative called BEST, which is an unusual mix of academics and manufacturers.

Finally, I am on the organising committee for the International Society of Blood Transfusion meeting in Edinburgh in July. I agreed to be responsible for abstract reviewing, but did not expect 900 of them!

Over 40 countries will be represented at the meeting, which just shows how global transfusion issues have become. Transfusion medicine really is a fascinating branch of medicine, and as our first graduate entrants approach their final year, I can recommend it as a future career!

Publications: Joutsi-Korhonen L, Smethurst PA, Rankin A, Gray E, Ijsseldijk M, Onley CM, Watkins NA,

Williamson LM, Goodall AH, Groot PG de, Farndale RW, Ouwehand WH. ‘The low frequency allele of the platelet collagen signalling receptor glycoprotein VI is associated with reduced functional responses and expression.’ Blood 2003; 101: 4372-4379.

Williamson LM, Cardigan R, Prowse CV. ‘Methylene blue treated fresh frozen plasma.’

Invited editorial. Transfusion 2003; 43:1322-1329.

Garwood M, Cardigan R, Drummond O, Hornsey VS, Turner CP, Young D, Williamson LM, Prowse CV. ‘The effect of methylene blue photoinactivation and methylene blue removal on the quality of fresh frozen plasma.’ Transfusion 2003; 43: 1238-1247.

Cardigan R, Williamson LM. ‘The quality of platelets stored for 7 days.’ Transfusion Medicine 2003;13:173-181.

Armour KL, van de Winkel JG, Williamson LM, Clark MR. ‘Differential binding to human FcγRIIa and FcγRIIb receptors by human IgG wild-type and mutant antibodies.’ Molecular Immunology 2003; 40: 585-93.

Visconti MR, Pennington J, Garner SF, Allain J-P, Williamson LM. ‘Assessment of removal of human cytomegalovirus from blood components by leucocyte depletion filters using real-time quantitative PCR.’ Blood 2003; 103: 137-1139.

Love EM, Jones H, Williamson LM, Cohen H, Todd A, Soldan K, Revill J, Norfolk DR, Barbara JAJB, Atterbury CLJ, Asher D, Chapman C. ‘SHOT- a voluntary system for the reporting of serious hazards in the UK.’ TATM 2003; 5: 249-255.

Llewelyn CA, Taylor RS, Todd A, Stevens W, Murphy MF, Williamson LM for the Leucodepletion Study Group.

‘The effect of universal leucodepletion on postoperative infections and length of hospital stay in elective orthopaedic and cardiac surgery.’ Transfusion 2004; 44: 489-500.

Joutsi-Korhonen L, Preston S, Smethurst PA, Ijsseldijk M, Kieffer N, Armour KL, Watkins NL, Clark MR, de Groot PG, Farndale RF, Ouwehand WH, Williamson LM. ‘The effect of recombinant IgG antibodies against the leucine-33 form of the platelet β3 integrin (HPA-1a) on platelet function.’

Thrombosis and Haemostasis 2004; 91: 743-754.

Forthcoming publications: Williamson LM. ‘Blood Transfusion’, Cambridge Surgery. Eds. Bradley JA, Jamieson NV, Watson CJE, Cambridge University Press.

Cardigan R, Prowse CV, Williamson LM. ‘Leucocyte depletion and pathogen inactivation’, Transfusion Microbiology. Ed. Barbara JAJ.

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Report from the Research Fellowship Secretary

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e were pleased to welcome Dr Joanna Depledge and Dr Judith Juhasz in October at the start of the academic year. Joanna’s first year has been largely taken up with two major book writing projects, both of which involve the international community’s attitude to climate change. One book builds on her PhD thesis and explores in detail how global negotiations are organised and how they could be carried out more effectively taking the climate change regime as a case study.

Judith, who also holds a position in the Pfizer Institute of Pharmaceutical Materials Science, is carrying out research into the suitability of new materials for implanting in the body. Biological suitability involves observing the effect of the implant material on the surrounding tissue as well as the body’s hostile environment on the implant.

During the course of her work Judith has noticed the potential of using proteins in accelerating and modifying the behaviour of implant materials and this work is progressing.

Dr Liudmila Sharipova intermitted her fellowship in 2002-03 to take a fixed-term teaching position as an Assistant Lecturer in Modern History at University College, Dublin (Ireland) in which she gained essential teaching experience for her future career. On her return to Cambridge she has continued in her research dedicated to the private book collection of Peter Mohyla, an eminent cultural and ecclesiastical figure and educationalist active in Ruthenia (now encompassing parts of Belarus and Ukraine) in the mid-seventeenth century. Her research has lead to the preparation of two books for publication.

Dr Ruth Waldick also intermitted her fellowship for a period but came back to the College on 1 May to complete her tenure of her Greenwood Bidder Fellowship.

Ruth's research focus is on the evolution of cooperative breeding in natural populations of vertebrates. Her research has led to the production of four papers investigating how cooperative behaviours may have evolved through intermittent patterns of migration and incestuous mating. This includes some of the first empirical data in support of the kin selection model for the evolution of cooperative breeding. Ruth has also been involved in teaching and the supervision of a graduate student. She anticipates a further three publications from her research.

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Both Dr Fiona Tooke and Dr Alex Murphy work in the Department of Plant Sciences. Fiona’s interests centre on plant genetics; one project she has been working on aims to discover genes which operate in the leaves of plants in response to changes in day length. She is interested in the genes which maintain flowering of the plant.

Alex is continuing her research work on the role of phytic acid on potato. Samples of transgenic and non-transgenic potato plants were grown with feeding regimes of differing phosphate and/or inositol and the sprouting behaviour of the resulting tubers studied.

Dr Heather Windram is halfway through her parttime Daphne Jackson Fellowship funded by the Leverhulme Trust. She is using modifications of techniques developed for the detection of DNA recombination, but applied in a novel way to the study of ‘manuscript recombination’. Heather and colleagues in the Department of Biochemistry are studying the transmission history of sections of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales which over time have been copied many times by scribes using different exemplar texts. With about 80 extant manuscripts of the Canterbury Tales they are attempting to work out the interrelationships between the different manuscripts.

Dr Sowon Park came to the end of her Research Fellowship in January 2004. We wish her, Fiona and Liudmila who are also soon leaving us, well in their future careers and we look forward to meeting them again someday.

The College fellowship has had the opportunity to hear accounts of the research work of two of our Research Fellows at the Anna Bidder Research Evenings this year. On 3 February, Liudmila Sharipova gave a stimulating talk on ‘Reformations, reforms and reformers: Europe in the Confessional Age’ and on 1 June - Heather Windram fascinated her audience with a description of her work entitled ‘The Evolution of Manuscripts’.

For various reasons we were unable to appoint any new Research Fellows during this academic year but will be advertising again in the Michaelmas Term for Fellowships to begin in October 2005.

Margaret Penston Research Fellowship Secretary

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Research and Visiting Fellows

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s Mary Courtney (Visiting Fellow in Further Education) writes: What a great year I’ve had! Spending the Lent Term at Lucy Cavendish College has to be one of the high points of my working life. So it is with pleasure that I’m taking a break from checking results and preparing for exam boards to reflect on the eight weeks I spent in Cambridge.

It was a shock at first to be removed from the hustle and bustle of non-stop ‘phone calls and students’ concerns. Activity can become so habitual. It certainly seems to be a compulsory element of being Manager of an Access to Higher Education Programme in a Further Education College. And as we were “inspected” the previous term I was certainly ready for a breathing space and some thinking and reading time. As shocks go it was an extremely pleasant and welcome one!

Association of Colleges and the National Open College Network. In order to try to encourage people from Further Education Colleges to think that Cambridge could be a possibility, we gained fullpage photo coverage in the Nuneaton Telegraph, with the headline, “Oxbridge within reach, college students told”. And, “Applying to Cambridge” was placed as an agenda item in a recent regional meeting of Access Tutors. In addition, for the first time ever, representatives from the University will be joining in our college’s Higher Education Fair in the autumn.

I also had the opportunity to examine various education websites to evaluate their usefulness for FE practitioners.

My warmest thanks go to all the students and staff who made me so welcome at Lucy. It really was a lovely place to be. Gaby Jones, Alison Vinnicombe and Julie Dashwood – I appreciated your practical support. The formal halls were great fun, filled with lively conversations. The contents of suburban dustbins and how the holy trinity was decided, getting medical students to discover their artistic side and what it is really like in the jungles of South America. What a range of topics to wash the food and wine down with!

I enjoyed the seminars, the lecture series on Ancient Greek Medicine, my first ever experience of reading a very, very old book, the cycling - and the evensong that would make a stone weep. It was a truly enriching time for me, both personally and professionally. Thanks to all of you who made it so.

Ms Mary Courtney My priority was to find out about the admissions process and widening participation at Cambridge, with the focus being on mature students from the Further Education sector. This proved a most interesting enterprise, involving interviews with Lucy students, meetings with staff from central admissions and tutors from ten of the Cambridge colleges; along with an analysis of the prospectus, website and application and acceptance statistics. It was pleasing to see that Lucy Cavendish has gone a long way towards increasing applications from FE students. In the report I produced for the University I identified good practice in widening participation and put forward recommendations to both the FE sector and the University.

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r Joanna Depledge (Sutasoma Research Fellow) writes: Over the past academic year, I have edited a special supplement of the journal Climate Policy on Climate Change and Sustainable Development, and published a chapter in A. Owen (ed) The Economics of Climate Change (Routledge).

Copies of both publications are in the library. My main project has been completing work on a major book (over 600 pages!) with Farhana Yamin (IDS, University of Sussex) The International Climate Change Regime: A guide to rules, institutions and procedures. We presented a pre-publication draft at the ninth Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (Milan, December 2003).

So that these messages could gain an audience, the report was sent not just to Lucy for circulation throughout the university, but to NIACE, the

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that mimics human serum ion concentrations). The micrograph above shows the apatite layer formed on the HA substrate, structure of which can be seen on the left-hand side of the image. The micrograph below shows total HA surface coverage with an apatite layer.

Dr. Joanna Depledge The final work will be published by CUP later this year. In addition, I am working on a second book, The organization of global negotiations: Constructing the climate change regime, to be published next year by Earthscan.

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r Judith Juhasz (Lu Gwei-Djen Research Fellow) writes: Prior to placing a new implant material into the body, both its biological and mechanical properties must be found to be of an acceptable level for use in the body. Biological suitability involves observing the effect of the implant material on the surrounding tissue, as well as the effect of the body’s hostile environment on the implant. Ceramics used in hard tissue replacement, e.g. bone, can be partially inert, bioactive or bioresorbable, or a combination of these. One of the most desirable ceramics used in the body is bioactive and is known as hydroxyapatite (HA), which very closely resembles the inorganic component of bone. HA is able to create a bond with the bone it is placed next to by the formation and growth of an intermediate apatite layer similar to that seen in nature.

However, during bone apatite formation, the growth of this inorganic phase occurs via various intermediate calcium phosphate phases, starting with an amorphous structure. When the inorganic phase forms in nature, its nucleation and growth are aided by the presence of components such as noncollagenous proteins; for example, osteocalcin, osteopontin (also known as bone sialoprotein II) and bone sialoprotein. The current work is hoped to gain a better understanding of the effect of osteopontin (OPN) in the first instance, on apatite formation.

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r Alex Murphy (Non-stipendiary Research Fellow) writes: In December 2003 I received new funding from The Leverhulme Trust to continue my research. The aim of my new project is to apply the most modern gene expression analysis technique (the use of DNA arrays or ‘DNA chips’) to identify genes from low-phytate potato (an economically important crop) and Arabidopsis (a model plant) that are responsible for increased susceptibility to plant viruses.

Phytate or inositol hexakisphosphate (InsP6) is ubiquitous and occasionally abundant in living cells, but its function remains unclear. It accumulates in storage tissues of plants, especially seeds and tubers and is hydrolysed when stores are mobilised, which suggests a role in phosphate storage. I have recently shown that potato plants with reduced levels of phytate are more susceptible to plant viruses (Murphy, Brearley and Hanke, submitted).

In vitro apatite formation on hydroxyapatite after 7 days immersion into a simulated body fluid (solution

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There is intense biotechnological interest in low phytate crop plants. This is because phytate is responsible for the growing global problem of agricultural animal phosphorus pollution. It also contributes to iron deficiency in the human diet as

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phytate is the major inhibitor of iron resorption in the intestine. One possible solution to these serious problems is the generation and deployment of new crop varieties that are low in phytate. However, my discovery that potato plants with low levels of phytate in their leaves and tubers are also more vulnerable to virus attack, suggests that further characterisation of such plants is required before this course of action is taken.

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r Liudmila Sharipova (Sutasoma Research Fellow) writes: My post-doctoral research is dedicated to the private book collection of Peter Mohyla, an eminent cultural and ecclesiastical figure and educationalist active in Ruthenia in the midseventeenth century (the term ‘Ruthenia’ is used collectively to designate a vast area that currently forms the territory of Belarus and Ukraine, then a part of Poland). By extension I look into the role Latin books published in Western Europe played in the formation of local East Slavic intellectual milieus in the early modern period. This is the last year of my Research Fellowship, when most of the projects begun since 2000 must be brought to conclusion and lines of future research developed.

I intermitted my fellowship in 2002-3 to take a fixed-term position as an Assistant Lecturer in Modern History at University College, Dublin (Ireland). The aim of this exercise was to acquire teaching experience essential for the continuation of my academic career. A year of intensive teaching in Dublin provided me with an invaluable experience as a university lecturer. I would like to use this opportunity to thank the President and Fellows for giving me a chance to take a year off and then resume my Research Fellowship upon my return to Cambridge.

Last year saw the publication of two of my articles in prestigious peer-reviewed journals (see below).

One of them is particularly important since it throws light on the provenance of a seventeenth-century text attributable to Mohyla and heretofore thought to be an original work, as his translation of a famous Catholic devotional treatise, The imitation of Christ

by Thomas à Kempis. The text is also significant because it sheds light on the use of Latin sources by Mohyla at an early stage of his ecclesiastic career that would later be unmistakeably marked by further extensive appropriation of Catholic religious practices. I spent the Long Vacation and all of Michaelmas Term 2003 working on the final version of the manuscript of my book The name of the library: Latin books and the Eastern Orthodox clerical intellectual elite in Kiev (1632-1780).

Apart from a paper delivered in April last year in Dublin, I gave a presentation at the Anna Bidder Research Evening in Lucy Cavendish College in

February this year (see below). In this talk I presented the ideas that form the basis of my new research project that will, hopefully, result in my second book. I have been working on it since January. The monograph is dedicated to the reforming mind in the early modern age. It conceives of the European Reformations as a Europe-wide movement that included Catholic reform as well as the emergence and formation of Protestant churches, and introduces Orthodox reform as the third constituent in the process of the spiritual, doctrinal, and liturgical revival of Christianity in the early modern period.

I would like to conclude by expressing warm thanks to Lucy Cavendish College and the Sutasoma Trust for making possible three years of fruitful research, for constant support and encouragement, and for giving me a friendly and warm home-away-fromhome. I would like very much to be in a position to repay this debt of gratitude in not too distant a future.

I still remember how I finished my first report for the Annual Report and Newsletter 2001. I said I believed that Lucy was a lucky place, and I needed all that luck to help me realise my research plans.

Would I say the same thing now? Yes, by all means.

But today an older and more mature me would add something I had probably suspected even then, but had not thought important enough to say. Luck means a lot of hard work and mad determination.

Plus, a little help from my friends. Thank you for this wisdom, Lucy Cavendish.

Publications: ‘Latin books and the Orthodox Church in Ruthenia: Two catalogues of books purchased by Peter Mohyla in 1631 and 1633’, The Library, 4 (2003), pp. 129149.

‘Peter Mohyla’s translation of The Imitation of Christ’, Historical Journal, 46 (2003), pp. 237-261.

Book review: ‘Plokhy, Serhii, Tsars and Cossacks: A study in iconography. Harvard Papers in Ukrainian Studies, Cambridge, Mass., 2002’, Slavonic and East European Review, 82 (2004), pp. 352-354.

Papers given: ‘Latin books and the reform of the Ruthenian Orthodox Church: Two catalogues of books purchased by Peter Mohyla in 1632 and 1633’, Maurice Kennedy Research Centre, University College, Dublin, 9 April 2003.

‘Reformations, reforms, and reformers: Europe in the Confessional Age’, Anna Bidder Research Evening, 3 February 2004, Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge.

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r Fiona Tooke (Stanley Smith Research Fellow) writes: This year, in my study of the intricacies of flower development in Impatiens balsamina, I have been working on two main projects in the laboratory. The first is to investigate the properties of a gene called agamous which I have isolated from Impatiens balsamina. In other plants in which this gene has been studied it has been shown to be involved in the development of the reproductive structures in the centre of the flower. It also terminates further growth from this flowering point of the plant. My Impatiens plants can be somewhat unruly in these areas of development, producing flowers in which leaves sometimes follow petals and the growth habit is persistently indeterminate. These features (collectively known as flower reversion) imply that the agamous gene is failing to regulate the flower development processes correctly. I am working with a group at the School of Plant Sciences at Reading University on this project and they have generated transgenic Arabidopsis thaliana plants as one test of the function of the agamous gene. The development of flowers on these plants will help us to establish if this gene can regulate flower development in another plant.

The second area I am working on concerns a ‘library’ (a collection of genes isolated from the plant at a particular stage in development). The aim of this work is to discover genes which operate in the leaves of the plant in response to changes in day length. I am interested in genes which maintain the flowering of the plant. I am currently carrying out DNA sequencing of clones from this library.

In January I gave a seminar about my work as part of the Department of Plant Sciences seminar series and in March I gave a talk in College when the trustees of the Stanley Smith Trust, along with the representatives of other British horticultural trusts, visited Cambridge.

I have attended the Cambridge Philosophical Society meeting on the subject of the Fens and also the Royal Horticultural Society bicentennial debate on the future of horticulture. The latter meeting inspired me to write a short article considering the prospects for genetically-modified plants in horticulture. In May I attended the Science Communication Conference organised by the Royal Society and the British Association for the Advancement of Science.

Here discussions centred on how to encourage greater communication of science and how to organise consultative approaches to gain public opinion on policy.

My project for the summer is to complete an invited review on ‘Mechanisms and functions of flower reversion’. This is such an enjoyable undertaking as

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I have the opportunity to roam through diverse literature from the reproductive capabilities of Arctic and alpine grasses to the commercial production of Limonium.

This will be last my summer here. I am very grateful to the College and the Stanley Smith Horticultural Trust for all the support and wonderful opportunities I have received during the last three years.

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r Heather Windram (Daphne Jackson Research Fellow) writes: I have completed one year of a part-time Daphne Jackson Fellowship funded by the Leverhulme Trust and based in the Department of Biochemistry. My work is mainly computer-based, and I work mostly from home.

However, I am in regular email contact with members of the group, and generally travel to Cambridge once a week to discuss my work. I find that this arrangement suits me very well, and enables me to maximise my available working time.

Our research is interdisciplinary and involves study of the transmission history of sections of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales using techniques based on those originally developed for the analysis of DNA sequences. My own project has mostly been on ‘manuscript recombination’ in ‘The Wife of Bath’s Prologue’. Prior to the development of printing in the 15th century, most books were hand-copied, mainly by professional scribes. Inevitably, these scribes would make mistakes and alterations, and sometimes, a scribe may switch completely to another exemplar manuscript part way through the copying process. Each newly copied manuscript may then be used in turn as the exemplar for another round of copying. In many ways, this evolution of manuscripts is similar to the biological process of genetic mutation that produces inheritable alterations to the DNA molecules. Most of the recognised DNA mutations have a possible literary equivalent e.g. one molecule of DNA may undergo recombination with another to produce a hybrid molecule. Similarly, a scribe switching template in the middle of a text creates a hybrid text containing sections from each exemplar used. Using modifications of techniques developed for the analysis of DNA recombination, I have been working on the identification of locations where textual recombination may have occurred between pairs of manuscripts.

I have attended a conference on ‘New Technologies, Old Texts’ and a workshop entitled ‘Phylogenetics and Texts’ both at De Montfort University at Leicester. I have attended numerous laboratory talks in the Biochemistry Department, which have enabled me to learn about other areas of current biochemical research, and I have given two of the talks myself on the results of my project. Earlier this

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month I was pleased to give a talk for one of the Anna Bidder Research Evenings in College.

I have greatly enjoyed my first year back at work and my association with Lucy Cavendish College.

Dr Minako Yamada (Visiting Scholar) writes: "Life is stranger than fiction" is a famous Japanese proverb. My life appears to be one of those stranger ones. To my pleasant surprise, I was asked by Dr Edith Esch at a conference held in Reading in September 2001 whether I was interested in visiting Cambridge University. In fact, I had never thought of coming to the U.K. I attended the conference simply because the miles I earned with a Japanese airline company were going to expire at the end of the year. Two days later on Monday afternoon, I found myself at a loss in Heathrow, wondering why so many international flights had been cancelled on that day. This is how my visit to Lucy Cavendish College had begun.

Now I'm pleased to say that my experience turned out to be both fulfilling and enjoyable. I found the College outstanding in many ways. In particular, I enjoyed attending Anna Bidder Research Evenings.

Not only did the occasions give me opportunities to become acquainted with the speakers and those in attendance, but the talks also helped me appreciate recent research findings and problems in disciplines other than mine. Above all, they widened my views of European cultures with which I had not been familiar. I also enjoyed talking with scholars, students, and staff members at lunch time and Formal Halls. In general, the more familiar I became with them, the more I respected each of them as individuals because of their genuine interest in facilitating profound understanding of intellectual inquiries and their positive attitude towards others.

Importantly, it was good to observe that it is not impossible to create a community in which knowledge is shared through communication on an equal basis between people who come from diverse cultural backgrounds. Equality in creating shared knowledge is a key premise of my research.

The aim of my research is to develop English teaching methodologies by challenging the concept of the so-called "native-speaker model". This stems from my observations that Japanese businessmen might prove to be tough negotiators at the global market when it comes to their own speciality even if their knowledge of English grammar and vocabulary may not be higher, their English pronunciation may

be less intelligible, and their behavioural responses to interviewers may not be appropriate to the interviewers' norms. That is, an emphasis needs to be put more on what interlocutors can accomplish, i.e. task outcomes, mediated through a foreign/second language than on linguistic accuracy.

I wanted to collect data from British college students in order to support the above contention because I had already collected data from pairs of Japanese college students in Japan using an interactive mapcompletion task. On the one hand, the traditional concept of proficiency predicts that British students will outperform Japanese students. On the other hand, an analysis of the Japanese data has shown that the best task outcomes were not necessarily achieved by pairs whose English proficiency level was higher.

Data was collected from undergraduate students enrolled at the University and transcribed and collected in a corpus during my stay. The purpose of the research was twofold. One was to examine whether there are any significant differences between the two groups in terms of task outcomes.

The other was to examine the effect of cultural knowledge on task performance in order to gain insights into factors that need to be incorporated into an intercultural communication model. As for the first, the results indicate that, although the Japanese students' English proficiency level ranged from lower to higher, both the averages and the standard deviations of the task outcomes were very close in the two groups. As for the second, an analysis of private speech, i.e. self-directed speech, based on sociocultural theory shows that both culturecommon and culture-specific thinking processes were involved in task performance. In summary, my research has shown that non-native speakers can accomplish task goals as accurately as native speakers; both culture-common and culture-specific knowledge underlies abilities to perform tasks.

Soon after I arrived at Lucy Cavendish College, I started enjoying opportunities to experience the ideal communication, i.e. establishing shared knowledge mediated through communication on an equal basis.

Now it's my turn to apply the ideal communication model to language teaching and testing in order to make a very small contribution in creating world peace. May I take this opportunity to express my gratitude to Dr Edith Esch and to all those I met at the College? I will cherish the fond memory for years to come. Thank you very much.

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Report from the Bursar

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hat a good year it has been for the College which has continued to move forward on all fronts. We have had some exciting Research Fellows come and go and been honoured with eminent new Honorary Fellows, all of which have been covered elsewhere in this publication so I will confine this report to the areas which have been my direct responsibility.

The kitchen and dining room floors have been rebuilt. You may remember that at the end of last year we were having investigative work carried out to establish the cause of cracks appearing in floors and tiles. It was established that this was due to the floor collapsing away from the walls and this was found to be because a small pipe in which steam condensed had cracked. This costing but a few pounds led to remedial work costing near to half a million. Fortunately this was an insured event and we did not have to foot the bill. However, there was a degree of discomfort as temporary kitchens and dining hall had to be established in portacabins on the lawn of Strathaird. The kitchen staff were magnificent and I did not hear a word of complaint from them, in addition the high standard of meals was maintained.

Oldham Hall. At the same time the opportunity will be taken to improve student facilities in that building with a new student bar and gym and an enlarged communal area. It was very difficult to agree upon a design that was both within budget and efficient.

Sadly, the initial tenders proved to be outside our budget and we had to think again which meant removing extra accommodation and certain upgrades from our plans. We are currently awaiting a revised tender which if necessary will be further modified to ensure that it falls within budget. The financing is not easy and we have had to look at this most carefully. The bulk of the money will come from the sale of a property that was donated to the College by the late Anna Bidder and on top of that will be money raised by our fund raising team led by the Development Officer, Meryl Davies. We have received a grant from the Wolfson Foundation but we still have a considerable way to go as you will see from the report on development and fund raising activities continue in this area.

…and over The accommodation provided continued to grow with the acquisition of two side-by-side large houses in Chesterton Road, the first one being opened at the beginning of the year and the second one is now ready after extensive refurbishment. The Domestic Bursar has played a big part in ensuring a tasteful and sympathetic restoration with good furniture and fittings. The first house will now be subject to further improvements during the summer. We were very fortunate in being able to secure generous funding for this project from Trinity College.

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Funding is a very difficult aspect of a student’s life and this is steadily becoming more complex so much so that a maths degree would help. However, Sue Sang, our Student Finance Officer, copes with this very well but the net effect upon the College is a reduction in per capita income from fees.

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It is incredible how much computing has changed here at the College over the past five or six years.

Initially we were playing catch-up but now we are ahead of many of the larger colleges and thanks for this must go to Bill Nelson and his team for much hard work. Bill has carried us forward as each new development has become available; we even have wireless facilities in some outside accommodation.

All these developments cost money though and increasing amounts of it. Financial help is desperately needed in this area if we are going to continue to give our students, fellows and staff a first class service.

Behind the scenes are the accounting staff in the Bursary who have had a particularly difficult year, demands having been made for more and better management information and not least the preparation work for a new form of accounts. Kate Newman, the College Financial Manager, has worked extensively on this in particular dealing with some very intricate and difficult problems. Thanks to her we are in good shape for producing accounts for audit on time. These accounts look very different to those previously produced and are meant to be transparent and all revealing.

Front of House is the Porter’s Lodge and the former manager Jo Smith went off to have her baby leaving us with some excellent systems in place. She will be returning to join the ICT Department on a part-time basis. We are currently in recruit mode and looking for a manager and other staff.

May I thank all staff, including those who are not directly or indirectly responsible to me for everything they have done this year to contribute to the College’s continuing success and that includes tutorial staff, gardeners, librarians, the archivist, domestic staff and secretaries who are all mentioned elsewhere in this publication.

Finally, a big thank you to Linda Curnow, my PA/Secretary, without whom I could not survive and who has absorbed a considerable amount of extra personnel work this year.

Here’s to another good year.

David Bryant Bursar

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he College Calendar ended with the Graduands Dinner and General Admission – both very happy events for all concerned. It is always a joy to see our students processing to the Senate House to collect their degrees.

The Red Cross held their last course at Lucy Cavendish on 12th December 2003 as the Association had restructured its training department and leased its own premises. Courses had been held at the College since 1990 and the ladies who ran them were sad not to be returning.

Conferences Summer sees the start of our conference season.

UNCA arrive in the last week in June as they have done for the last sixteen years. Sadly this is not the case for our other overseas visitors who have cancelled as a result of world events.

Summer 2003 conference business included summer schools, the United States Air Force, an Indian film team, international training groups, University departmental meetings, the AWS Returners’ Course, conference dinners, private lunches, weddings, birthday parties and a number of day meetings, and self catering guests. We had three new residential conferences: Pearson Education, Institute of Ismaili Studies, and Legal Workshop, and I am pleased to say that all three have booked for 2004.

Once the academic year began in October we hosted many day seminars and meetings, company Christmas parties, a Christmas and a New Year wedding, a number of dinners and lunches and, during the Easter Vacation, two residential conferences.

It was with very great regret that the College heard of the sudden death of Eva Crawley. Eva was a great friend of the College and was instrumental in setting up the Association of Women Solicitors Returners’ Course which celebrated its 25th Anniversary in 2002. This week long course, held during the summer, has become very important to the College and I will miss Eva’s presence very much.

On the subject of conferences I urge everyone to consider Lucy Cavendish as a venue for events, whether it is a residential conference, day meeting, seminar, private lunch or dinner, or a celebratory event – for example, a wedding reception, a birthday party or a christening. I would be delighted to send our conference information to any contacts you may have, or walk anyone around Lucy to view our facilities and explain the type of events we can accommodate.

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kitchen and hall had to be replaced. All equipment and appliances were moved into temporary kitchens and a dining hall on Strathaird lawn. It was a rare sight to see portacabins being craned over our college buildings and the operation was not without its dramas! Hugh and his team coped admirably with the move and with cooking in limited space, and Rosse and her team efficiently managed the serving at functions.

wonderfully friendly and efficient manner. I would be lost without her and thank her very much for her invaluable support and help over the year.

We participated in an Open Day hosted by Conference Cambridge on 6th November 2003 at Robinson College. Conference and Event Managers from the surrounding area were united and Anne and I had a busy day â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;sellingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Lucy Cavendish as a venue.

Anne and Christine at Conference Cambridge

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The temporary kitchen and dining hall Organising and running college and conference events is an important function. We could not provide the service we do without the help of everyone: Hugh, Michael, Maurizio and Ann were joined by Oonagh Moule and Naomi Ellis and continue to provide excellent food for many different events; Rosse and her team organise the front of house tasks in a very efficient and friendly way; Isabel and Helen run the Housekeeping Department and cope excellently with the very busy summer season; Bill and Tim set up technical equipment; Tom and Kim undertake a myriad of jobs too numerous to mention; the Porterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Lodge staff welcome all college visitors; and Helen and her team make our gardens a beautiful place for everyone to enjoy.

One person I have left until the end: Anne Barham.

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The provision of good accommodation for our students is very important to the College and with an expanding number of Graduates we are always on the look out for suitable houses to provide a familystyle setting for our students.

The College bought 88 Chesterton Road in September 2003 and eight students moved into the newly furnished and decorated house on the 1st October.

In Michaelmas we purchased 86 Chesterton Road and refurbishment started in January. Work is near completion as I write and the new house will provide accommodation for an extra seven students. Each property also has a selfcontained flat. The houses have been linked at the rear with an attractive block paved area, and together will make a great Graduate colony.

My thanks go to Robin Hill who continues to help and advise the College on building and maintenance matters.

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College events One of the best times of the year is the beginning of Michaelmas Term when we welcome new and returning students. There were many events for the College community throughout the year but I would particularly like to mention three: on 7th October 2003 we hosted a Celebration Party and it was lovely to see so many members of the College gathered together; on 10th June 2004 the weather favoured our Garden Party and a good time was had

by all; and, finally, we hosted the Formal Dinner for the joint Lucy Cavendish/St Edmunds May Ball on 18th June 2004. The dining hall was decorated by Margaret Wilson and it looked fantastic!

Looking forward to another year at Lucy and the challenges it will bring. You can always be sure there’s never a dull moment!

Christine Houghton Domestic Bursar

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he year 2003/2004 has provided a wide variety of activity with expanding operational responsibilities, intensive response to global activities on computer security, changing college/university policies, developing needs within the college community for IT plus a few laughs along the way so thanks to all concerned.

Some key areas are summarised below:-

Operations The year has been busy in this area with a number of separate projects requiring completion prior to commencement of Oldham Hall building works (now Autumn 2004). These projects will maintain existing services to the campus given that all cable system ducts and existing equipment currently terminates in Oldham Hall and will be demolished.

The works commenced with the construction of a new duct from the rear of Oldham Hall to College House and on to the new communications room located in the library computer area. The ducts now carry security, CCTV, voice and data cabling systems. The separate projects involved BT, University Telecommunications, NTL, and Chubb plus a number of smaller contractors.

The library environmental management, monitoring and controls systems are all functioning well with only one major component failure leading to noncritical loss of service. Individual room environments are now electronically recorded to provide a valuable record of environmental activity in the library. A monitoring system provides early warning of out of specification operation via the mobile telephone system to nominated individuals.

For 2005 new maintenance contracts have been put in place increasing the frequency of service visits based on the past yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s experiences to ensure we can continue to look forward to trouble free operations. The 2004 winter proved relatively mild so any enhancements to maintain higher temperatures in the reading rooms proved unnecessary.

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vulnerable to virus and other security problems given the high prevalence of malicious activity across the world which may lead to individual problems or data loss. This effort was considerable and to alleviate the situation somewhat new procedures are being activated for 2004/2005 to automatically update the student and other campus machines. This is coupled with the demise next year (from July 2005) of the earlier windows systems namely 95, NT, 98 and ME as security support for these products is withdrawn. All college network connected machines will operate with either Windows 2000 or XP from the start of the 2005 academic year.

The PWF computers introduced for the first time last year have been well received and provided access to a new range of services and software in response to academic and student demand.

Security, Telephone & Communication Services The CCTV and computer network cable systems rerouting and enhancement have now been completed providing Hi speed connection to campus properties and all remote properties for the first time.

The campus can operate at 1GB, the remotes at lesser speeds from 512KB to 2MB providing all with the ability to access college/university systems, internet, email etc. The remote properties are also provided with a general access computer and printer with the same facilities as the central site. In addition, for the first time, CCTV is provided utilising the higher speed 2MB connections to further enhance site security and wellbeing whilst allowing central site monitoring of the property.

And finallyâ&#x20AC;Ś 2004 has been another intensive year in the ICT section for Tim Flood and myself; maintaining and developing a widening portfolio of operational services, reacting to global challenges, and with an autumn addition to the team in the shape of Jo Smith, looking to continue to provide in 2005 meaningful services and support to students, staff and fellows in support of college and individual requirements.

Bill Nelson ICT Manager

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ver the last year I have been preoccupied not so much with archives, but with the Freedom of Information Act 2000. The Act, which fully comes into force on 1st January 2005, is intended to promote a culture of openness and accountability amongst public authorities by providing people with significant new rights of access to the recorded information held by them. It is expected that these rights will facilitate better public understanding of how public authorities carry out their duties, why they make the decisions they do, and how they spend public money. ‘Public authorities’ are defined in the Act and they include higher education institutions. As a ‘public authority’ the College has two main responsibilities under the Act: to produce a ‘publication scheme’, and to deal with individual requests for access to all types of non-personal information, subject to specific exemptions in the Act. The duty to adopt a publication scheme came into force on 29 February 2004. Much of the Michaelmas Term was spent in preparing the College publication scheme ready for approval by the Information Commissioner by 31 December 2003. The publication scheme is, in essence, a guide to the information we hold and which we have agreed to make publicly available, e.g. prospectuses, statutes, minutes of committees, grievance & disciplinary procedures, etc. All members of the public can now request information listed in the publication scheme. Publication schemes for the College and for each of its two subsidiary companies can be viewed on the College web site at: http://www.lucy-cav.cam.ac.uk/FOI/Index.htm Work has now begun on preparing the College for dealing with individual requests for information in January 2005.

This includes ensuring that appropriate records management systems and practices are in place that will allow the College to know what information it holds, where it is, and be capable of retrieving it in a timely and efficient manner - as we will have only 20 working days to respond to a request for information.

The preoccupation with freedom of information has meant that the cataloguing of material deposited in the Archive and selected for permanent preservation has progressed at a slow pace. All material deposited in 2001 and 2002 has either been catalogued or marked for disposal in due course, and 40 per cent of the material accessioned in 2003 has also either been catalogued or placed on a disposal

schedule. Over the last year the Archive has received a total of 95 accessions, of which the majority have been College administrative records.

Disappointingly, the number of visits to view material in the Archive has dropped from 13 to just 5 over the last year. However, the number of enquiries dealt with has remained relatively constant at 88, principally from College Officers and staff.

The Joyce Grenfell collection of papers includes a series of photograph albums kept by Joyce’s best friend, Virginia Graham. They are a wonderful documentary source offering visual glimpses into the lives of ‘Joyce and Ginnie’ over a period of more than 50 years. Unfortunately, some of the earlier albums are in a fragile state: the stitching on the spines has broken and the leather covers crumble to the touch. Happily, two of these albums dating from 1927 and 1937 have been repaired and can now be handled (albeit gently) without fear of further deterioration. It is hoped that the remaining 10 albums in the collection will receive appropriate conservation treatment over the next few years.

Using material from the Archive, two separate exhibitions were assembled for display in the Library foyer for the Michaelmas and Easter Terms.

The first of these was an exhibition celebrating the 30th anniversary of the Grant of Arms in 1973. The archive records revealed that several designs were submitted for the Arms, including that of a merman (or triton), before the College gave approval to the existing design. The second exhibition in the Easter Term was assembled to mark the 40th anniversary of the Dining Group adopting the name ‘Lucy Cavendish Collegiate Society’ in 1964, and included material from the Lucy Cavendish Papers to illustrate the educational interests of Lady Frederick Cavendish. Once again the archive offered up a little known fact concerning the choice of name. At a meeting of the ‘Dining Group’ in 1960, Anna Bidder put forward the name of ‘The Mary Kingsley Society’. Mary Henrietta Kingsley (1862-1900) was a traveller, writer and ethnologist. Objections were raised to the proposed name on the grounds that it was not well enough known and would need frequent explanation, and no further mention was made of it. To me, unearthing forgotten stories such as these is one of the joys of being an archivist.

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his year has been a much happier one in the College Library. The problems which beset us last year with the environmental control system have been largely overcome and we now have an environmental monitoring system in place which alerts us immediately when there is a problem so that it can be swiftly dealt with.

By last October we were in a position to get back the College’s collection of Rare Books which had spent most of the previous year at Didcot in the care of Harwell Drying and Restoration Services. On their return their care was taken over by Karen Davies, College Archivist, whose office adjoins the Rare Books Room. Once back, the programme of their restoration and repair was resumed by Nicholas Hadgraft, most generously funded by the Friends of the Library. He had recently returned the last batch of repaired books when we heard, with great sorrow, that he had died suddenly of a heart attack at the age of 49. He had worked for the Library for a number of years repairing our rare books and had helped us greatly when the major environmental problems surfaced in the last academic year. His help and advice will be very much missed.

We have received many donations of books this year which have helped to strengthen our collections. The usual dinner for benefactors to the Library was postponed in February due to the repairs to Warburton Hall and we plan to hold it in the Michaelmas Term this year instead. The Friends of the Library held a very successful book sale in aid of the Library in March and also had a book stall at the College Garden party in June. The Friends also supply and look after the indoor plants which add so much to the foyer of the Library. We are extremely grateful to Lady Newns and the Friends for all their support.

It is a pleasure to record my thanks to Catherine Reid, Joan Harris and Gill Saxon for all their hard work in making the Library such a pleasant and welcoming place in which to work. Bill Nelson has again taken responsibility for seeing to the smooth running of the environmental system which is no easy task and we are grateful for all the time he has devoted to this.

Jane Renfrew Fellow Librarian

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am very happy to report on a successful year in Lucy Cavendish College Library. My measures for success are increased use of the library by our students, growing library collections, and a library staff team that has worked extremely well together and is still smiling at the end of the academic year!

The library has been well used for study purposes throughout this year. Our students find it to be a comfortable environment for study, and we were delighted to see that at times during the Easter Term every study space in the library was occupied.

processing and cataloguing all new additions to the library, dealing with the circulation of books, and the vast range of other “normal” library tasks, Joan and Gill have enthusiastically tackled a range of other jobs. This year these jobs have included learning to produce electronic spreadsheets, taking minutes during sub-committee meetings, producing book displays, designing posters, and receiving large donations of books. Thank you to Joan and Gill for all their hard work and for being cheerful throughout!

Our library collection has grown by approximately one thousand volumes during this academic year.

Approximately half of these were purchased by the College and half were donated. We are extremely grateful to our donors, who continue to give generously to our library. Our donors are too numerous to list here by name, but we very much appreciate every generous gift.

Joan Harris, Assistant Librarian and Gill Saxon, Library Assistant have worked extremely hard this year providing our library services and working on service development projects. In addition to

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One of the major developments in the library this year has been implementation of software to regularly transfer catalogue records from the University catalogue, Newton, into our library catalogue, Heritage. The implementation of this software means that we now enter catalogue records for each new library book into the Newton database only, rather than into both databases, and transfer catalogue records from Newton on a weekly basis.

The implementation of this new cataloguing procedure marks the end of a long project for us. We have speeded up our cataloguing process, and are now making time to address our cataloguing backlog in the library bookstore in addition to making a start on other development projects. I am very grateful to Joan for all the hard work she put in to helping me with the set up of the catalogue record transfer process.

The Friends of Lucy Cavendish College Library have continued to support us throughout this academic year, via the book sale, book conservation, talks in College, and the supply and upkeep of some delightful plants. The book sale was a great success in March, and we are delighted that with the help of the Friends the conservation programme for our rare books has been restarted. I very much enjoyed attending talks organized by the Friends on book conservation and on Charles Darwin. We are extremely grateful to Beryl Newns and all the Friends of the Library for all their hard work.

Our students and other members of College have continued to use the Newton catalogue to search the holdings of libraries within Cambridge University, including our own library, from remote locations.

We are looking forward to the release of the “Universal Catalogue” for Newton, which will amalgamate the records within the multiple Newton databases into a single database. This should make searching Newton much easier. The release of the Universal catalogue by the University Library has been delayed by technical difficulties, and we await further news.

I am very pleased to say that the problems that we experienced last year with the library air-handling system have now greatly diminished, allowing students to concentrate on their study in the library, and reducing the stress levels of the library staff!

We are indebted to Bill Nelson, ICT Manager, for all his hard work managing the maintenance of the airhandling system during this past year. We are also grateful to Bill and his assistant, Tim Flood for all their help with our IT needs during the year.

We have now produced a new Library User Guide, which will be incorporated into the “Blue Book” for all our new students, and will also be available in the library for all our readers. Thank you to Joan for all her hard work preparing this guide. We continue to update our library page on the College website, with the aim of telling prospective students about the library facilities we offer. Please feel free to contact me with feedback on the content of our page.

This summer vacation we are busy working on a project to reclassify some of our library collection.

We use the Dewey decimal classification system, which is regularly updated as subject areas evolve, and we will gradually update the classification in our library to the latest edition of the Dewey system.

We have also devised some smart new spine labels for our books, and are starting to put them on our reclassified stock as well as our new additions. So the books on our shelves will start to look a bit different over the summer.

We were sorry not to be able to have our usual benefactors’ table at formal hall during the Lent Term, due to the refurbishment of Warburton Hall.

We now plan to hold the dinner during the next Michaelmas Term, and look forward to an enjoyable evening.

I would like to thank the Fellow Librarian, Jane Renfrew, for all her help over the past year. Jane provides the vital link between the front-line library staff and the College administration. We greatly appreciate her continuing support.

We have been very lucky to have continuing help from our library volunteer, Ursula Lyons. Ursula brightens our Thursday mornings in the library, working very efficiently and cheerfully on a range of tasks. We greatly appreciate her help. We said goodbye to Alison Littlefair who worked as a volunteer on an occasional basis, but needed to devote time to her other commitments. We are very grateful for all Alison’s help.

We look forward to another academic year in Lucy Cavendish College Library. We welcome any feedback on our library collection and the services we provide. Most of all we look forward to seeing new and familiar faces in the library!

Postscript It is with great sadness that I have heard this week of the sudden death of Dr Nicholas Hadgraft on the 4th July 2004. Nick carried out the conservation work on our rare books collection, and we benefited greatly from his expertise. We also benefited greatly from Nick’s advice during the past year as we faced difficulties with environmental control in our Rare Books Room. We will miss Nick a great deal, and send our sympathies to his family.

Catherine Reid Librarian

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he Friends have had a busy and useful year, with a slow but steady increase in membership and an increasingly healthy financial situation. In the course of the academic year we had two pre-supper talks – on how books are bound, cared for and preserved, and on Charles Darwin and his ‘Circle of Friendship’, with fascinating details of the academic community, and particularly the Cambridge scene, in Darwin’s time.

Book sales seem to be becoming our speciality.

There was an all-day sale in March with some excellent books being donated and briskly sold at truly bargain prices, and some £360 was raised for the Library. Then, a last-minute idea to have a small sale at the College Garden Party gave a friendly focus of interest and raised getting on for £70, not including the sale proceeds from three College publications. We are much indebted not only to all those who donated some really excellent books – and acknowledge the wrench it must have been to part with them – but also to Catherine Reid and her staff at the Library, who receive and store the donated books before the sale, set up the tables for the sale itself, and then take back to storage books which remain.

explore the Founder’s Library Room itself in the company of Dr Stella Panayotova who is Keeper of Manuscripts and Printed Books at the Museum, and a member of Lucy Cavendish. We shall also be able to explore the Museum, with the new Courtyard extension, re-organised and extended galleries, educational facilities, and of course the extended Museum Shop and Café.

Next year it has also been suggested that we visit other Cambridge libraries, such as the Parker Library at Corpus and the newly built archive store at Churchill.

Now that the Rare Books Room at the Library is fully operational again, we have recommenced the task of refurbishing some of the children’s books in the Anna Bidder collection, for which the Alumnae Association had made a generous grant, and also some of the Adopt-A-Book candidates which are sponsored by individual Friends.

Karen, our Archivist, has kindly arranged this work with Dr Nicholas Hadgraft, and will use the Memorial Display Cases in the library Foyer to mount an occasional display of work in progress. We are most grateful both to Karen and Catherine for their very generous co-operation in this work of restoration.

With the Dining Room in Warburton Hall unavailable last Term, we were not able to have a Friends’ Designated Table at the Library Benefactors’ Dinner this year, but will certainly have one next year. It is a popular event, and gives us a chance to meet together.

Dr Betty Tucker and Prof. Maureen Young at the June Garden Party book sale The visit to the Fitzwilliam Museum to see some of the treasures of the Founder’s Library there was much enjoyed but somewhat restricted because of the building work going on all around. Now that the Fitz. is most beautifully extended and refurbished, we hope to go back in the coming academic year to

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Finally, with the help and advice of the Development Officer, Meryl Davies, we are rationalising our mailing list, adding email addresses where available and notifying local Friends of extra events at College by way of College email mailings.

May I send my sincere thanks to everyone who is supporting our work is so many different ways.

Have a very good summer.

Beryl Newns Honorary President of the Friends of the Library

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Friends of Lucy Cavendish College Library Do join us - a Library can never have too many Friends!!

Minimum Annual Subscription £5 (students), £10 (Senior Members). There is a tear off Banker’s Order/ Subscription Form on our leaflet (which is available in the Library). One can also become a Life Member / Benefactor, and participate in the Adopt-a-Book Scheme.

Membership is open to all members of the College and to the wider community of members of the Combination Room and members of the University.

The Friends aim to:  Support the Library by continuing and extending the ‘Adopt-a-Book’ scheme for the preservation and renovation of antiquarian and rare books, and adding to the rare books and special collections.  Raise funds and make these available for specific projects proposed by the Librarian.  Provide an ‘odd-jobs’ team for the Librarian when she needs extra help.  Run the occasional book-sale.  Supply and maintain the plants and flowers in the Library Foyer.

 Help the Friends maintain contact with each other, with the College, and especially the Library, by arranging social events, seminars and visits to other Libraries both in Cambridge and elsewhere in the course of the academic year.  Include a news item once a year in the College Newsletter (in addition to the Librarian’s Report) which will keep past and present members up to date regarding the activities of the Library.

Contact: Beryl Newns, 47 Barrow Road, Cambridge CB2 2AR, tel. 01223 356903

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here have been two major events this year for the Fine Arts Committee. In February Professor Philip King, the President of the Royal Academy, installed one of his sculptures entitled “Cavalcade” on the College House lawn. He has generously loaned it to the College for a year, and we are most grateful to him for all the trouble he took to personally oversee the installation on a cold, damp day in late February.

The second major event was the commissioning of a portrait of Dame Veronica Sutherland from the wellknown artist Maggi Hambling, an artist for whom she has particular respect. The portrait was unveiled at the Garden Party in June, and was hung next morning in time for a visit to the College by the artist. It is a distinguished addition to the collection of portraits of our presidents which hang in the entrance corridor in Warburton Hall.

The collection of photographs of Founding Fellows hanging in the Founders` Room in the Library now totals 19: we are still looking for photographs of Dr Barbara Holmes, Dr Joan Keilin (Mrs Whiteley), and Mrs Ann Petrie to complete the series. If anyone knows how or where these may be found please let the Curator know.

Cavalcade A large series of pictures of distinguished women has just arrived in College as a gift from the

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Department of Criminology and we plan to hang them in the Library in due course.

Apart from these major events we have looked after the Collegeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s valued possessions, and especially had all the pictures from Warburton Hall carefully wrapped and stored whilst the repairs were undertaken to the dinning hall and kitchen floors in the early part of this year. Similar care will be taken of the valued objects from Oldham Hall before the

major works begin during this Long Vacation.

We are most grateful to the Steward, Jillinda Tiley, for presenting the College with a new dinner gong on a stand to replace the one that was given to us by Dame Anne Warburton which disappeared several years ago.

Jane M. Renfrew Curator

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he Collegeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s collection of silver has been augmented by two generous gifts. In November Mrs Gay Firth gave a beautiful 1880s silver tea service to the College in honour of Dr Jane Renfrew, who had been a personal friend for more than 40 years. She particularly asked that it be used by the Fellows in the Anna Bidder Room in Barrmore.

Nautilus shell spoon warmers presented by Mrs Sylvia Meaden

An 1880s tea service presented by Mrs Gay Firth Early in the Easter Term the College received two more silver Nautilus shell spoon warmers as a gift from Mrs Sylvia Lyn Meaden. They are particularly appropriate as the nautilus shell forms part of our college crest in recognition of the research of our first president, Dr Anna Bidder.

Mrs Joan Simms, a generous benefactor to the college over many years, gave a silver plated ice bucket for use by the Fellows in the Anna Bidder Room when they have something special to celebrate.

To all our generous benefactors we extend our warmest thanks and appreciation.

Dr Ruth Jones Silver Steward

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his report is being written in haste and late from Scotland where I was summoned to help Mary for the week before and after the birth of her daughter, Eleanor Joy, sister for Thomas, just two.

All well and the whole family delighted.

For all of us who belong to Lucy part of the pleasure is the special sense of community and interest in each other. Friendships forged are deep and lasting and for many the experience of college life is a really crucial element. I would like to think dining plays a key part in this experience. So often we are in a rush, food can be eaten on the hoof, many homes have dispensed with formal dining rooms in favour of open plan living and actually sitting round

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a table is much less common. Eating at Lucy, whether informally at lunch or supper, or formally at dinner, is an opportunity to exchange ideas, meet friends or make new contacts in extremely civilised surroundings with lovely food at a very reasonable price.

Michaelmas Term saw the usual range of designated dinners with all the incoming students being welcomed at Matriculation dinner. The medics had their dinner which allows those finishing in December to thank their supervisors as well as bring their friends. It is always a particular pleasure to see returning students at designated dinners to support and meet current students and the medics turned out

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in force! I have to stress that all dinners are open to all members of college, whether of the designated faculty or not, the more often you dine the greater the number of interesting people you will meet!!

Because dining is a community activity there will normally be a Fellow on each table to act as informal host but whole tables can be set aside for parties or societies for particular evenings by prior request which are welcomed!

2003-04 saw major works carried out on the floor of Warburton Hall. The work was needed to repair water damage caused by a fractured steam pipe under the floor. At the same time we took the opportunity to make some changes to the kitchen layout increasing the cold store capacity. In retrospect it all went smoothly but the logistics of the operation were awesome. The initial delivery in January of the portacabins was delayed by high winds, their removal in May was relatively painless though the Strathaird lawn will take time to recover.

In true Lucy style everyone pulled together – the kitchen staff led by Hugh were amazing providing their usual range of fresh and varied food in campkitchen conditions. I have vivid memories of Alan leading a file by torchlight round the back of Strathaird over various obstacles to reach the portacabin!

The vets night fell this term, their enthusiasm was far from dampened by the venue, rather the reverse!

Many guests ran in and out, apparently ferrying in bottles hidden in the bushes! Or possibly answering the call of nature? The size and height of the portacabin made it seen particularly noisy. The evening was shared by the Australia and New Zealand Society who gamely filled the back part of the hall and decorated it with flags! Without being a wet blanket I feel I should ask all college members please to ask their guests to respect college conventions – we do NOT walk about in the middle of dinner, any more than you would at a private dinner party and we do NOT leave the table until after the second grace except in cases of extreme urgency! Additional table wine may be ordered in advance but not smuggled in! I know many colleges encourager self provision, please just advise guests what we do! The Lawyers’ dinner also fell this term, preceded by a lecture from Dame Ruth Deech, Principal of St Anne’s College, Oxford and Chairman of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority. She impressed with her calm and humanity and introduced a fascinating topic for discussion.

The Annual Lucy Cavendish Dinner was held this year at Churchill. Many of the readers will remember Churchill as our regular venue in the years before Warburton Hall was built. They gave us a magnificent venue and a real feast, Christine

supplied Lucy wine, a great evening was had with many alumnae returning to join present students and fellows past and present along with other members of the college community.

May saw a re opened Warburton Hall just in time to host diner for Allison Pearson who had given a most entertaining CWL lecture. Where there is a lecture followed by a dinner, please would anybody wanting to dine please ensure they have signed up in the usual way as well as booking for the lecture.

Unfortunately there were some people who thought booking for the lecture included dinner!

The final end of year event was a college Garden Party held on a lovely evening where the new portrait of the President by Maggi Hambling was unveiled. Members young and old very much enjoyed the event.

The Steward, Jillinda Tiley The calendar of dinners for 2004-05 will be included in the Annual Report, I do hope as many of you as possible will take advantage of the opportunity to come and join in. Its members make Lucy the warm and friendly place it is, we need to see you and hear from you! If there are particular people you would like to see or meet do let me know and I will try to broker! We are now in excellent order and looking forward to full house!

Jillinda Tiley Steward

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Formal Hall Schedule for the Academic Year 2004-05 1 MICHAELMAS TERM ♣ 07 October 2004 All Members of the College Community – Fellows, Staff, Students, Alumnae & Members of the Combination Room *Matriculation Dinner ♥ 14 October 21 October Members of the Faculties of Economics, Social & Political Sciences and the JIMS. ♣ To coincide with the Lucy Cavendish Lecture Members of the Faculty of Medicine ♦ 28 October 4 November Members of the Faculty of Law and Department of Criminology ♦ Graduate Students in all Faculties and Research Fellows ♦ 11 November *Governing Body Guest Night ♥ 18 November Members of the Faculties of History, Philosophy and Theology ♦ 25 November 2 December Christmas Dinner for all in residence ♣ LENT TERM ♣ 20 January 2005 All Members of the College Community – Fellows, Staff, Students, Alumnae & Members of the Combination Room Out students ♦ 27 January Members of the Faculties of Archaeology and Anthropology and History of Art ♦ 3 February Members of the Faculties of Architecture, Geography, MML, Oriental Studies and ♦ 10 February Education Student Association Night and Library Benefactors ♦ 17 February Members of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine ♦ 24 February 03 March Overseas and EU Students to coincide with the Lucy Cavendish Lecture ♣ Members of the Faculties of Science and Mathematics; Research Fellows and ♦ 10 March Graduate Students in all Faculties 12 March 40th Anniversary Lucy Cavendish Dinner ♣ In-house & Family (drinks beforehand hosted by the President and Vice-President) ♣ 17 March EASTER TERM All Members of the College Community – Fellows, Staff, Students, Alumnae & Members ♣ 28 April of the Combination Room Members of the Faculties of English and ASNaC ♦ 05 May Partners and Friends ♣ 12 May 19 May Supper ♣ Dinner in connection with CWL Lecture in honour of the 40th Anniversary of Lucy ♣ 26 May Cavendish College (to be confirmed) Supper ♣ 02 June Supper ♣ 09 June 40th Birthday Celebration ♣ 16 June *Graduands Dinner ♥ 01 July *These events are by invitation only Formal Halls devoted to specific subjects are open to all College members; All Members are always welcome to dine. Individuals should inform the Porter’s Lodge when booking, if they wish to sit at the designated subject table. If members wish to bring more than two guests they are encouraged to approach the Steward in the first instance, to confirm that space will be available.

Bookings can be made by post or phone to the Porter’s Lodge on: 01223 332190 and payment can be accepted by credit or debit card, cheque or cash. Bookings are accepted up to 12 Noon on the Wednesday before the Formal Hall. Formal Hall bookings will not be subject to any handling charge when using debit or credit cards.

Members, Alumnae and Members of the Combination Room are asked to pay for Formal Hall at the time of booking.

Members with Annual Meal Allowances are asked to pay for their guests when booking Formal Hall.

All College Members and guests who are members of the University should also wear gowns for Formal Hall.

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Key: ♣ Events open to all members of the College Community, including staff ♦ Events open to all College members (Fellows, students and alumnae) and to those who have been offered membership of the combination room (i.e. everyone on the College List and external Directors of Studies) ♥ By invitation only

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Report from the Garden Steward

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he gardens have had a good year and as usual have attracted many compliments both from members of the College and from outside visitors, all of whom appreciate the efforts of our gardeners Helen Seal, Richard Crosthwait and Janet Fox. We have had a few disruptions, however, mainly due to the refurbishment work in Warburton Hall.

For the whole of the Lent Term and the beginning of the Easter Term Strathaird lawn was covered with portacabins housing the temporary kitchen and dining room. Services to these were laid in a neat trench down the Barrmore side of Warburton Hall and across the south side by the mulberry tree, which caused the minimum disruption to the flower beds and lawns. The drains from the kitchen were laid over the surface and fed into drains in Marshall House drive so as to avoid damaging tree roots. The Strathaird lawn looked very moth-eaten when it emerged from under the portacabins in May, which was hardly surprising, but it is going to be levelled and re-turfed in September and should be fully restored by next spring. There was also a small trench dug across the Library lawn taking further cables to the Computer Room. This was quickly filled in and re-turfed and has almost disappeared from view.

The wild garden between College House and Barrmore looked lovely again this spring culminating with a mass of fritillaries flowering in April. We plan to add some wild orchids to it in the autumn and hope that they will also quickly become established and spread.

The privet hedge along the Madingley Road boundary is now thickening up well and is home to several nesting birds so that trimming it has to wait till the fledglings have flown. The nesting boxes which were put up in various locations in the gardens several years ago have been well occupied and some of the nests recovered from them last autumn are illustrated here.

We opened the gardens on behalf of the Red Cross on Sunday 13th June and had quite a good number of visitors despite counter attractions that afternoon in other parts of town.

Strathaird lawn after the portacabins Apart from these episodes the gardeners have moved the white narcissi from the bank in front of College House to an area beside the Music Pavilion, where they flowered beautifully this spring and formed a nice background to the Philip King sculpture â&#x20AC;&#x153;Cavalcadeâ&#x20AC;? which was installed in the garden in February, on temporary loan.

I would like to thank Helen Seal and her team for all the hard work they do to keep our grounds looking so beautiful despite the inevitable disruptions caused by building works; and I would also like to thank members of the Garden Committee for their continued help and support. On a personal note we extend our congratulations to Richard Crosthwait on his marriage, and send our best wishes to Dr Fiona Tooke, Stanley Smith Horticultural Trust Research Fellow, on taking up her new job at the Eden Project in Cornwall.

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Report from the Studentship and Bursary Committee Prizes Alumnae Association Prize: Julie McDonald, for contribution towards the cultural life of College BP Studentship: Lene Tobiassen College Prize for Sporting Blues: Meadhbh Boyle for Full Blue in Rowing; Diane Williams for Half Blue in Dancing Emmeline Pankhurst Prize: Stephanie Gray, for contribution to College life; Sarah Lodge, for contribution to College life Kate Bertram Prize: Kate Dixon and Amanda Kitching for merit marks in Part III Clinical Veterinary Studies examinations; Stephanie Gray, Abigail Lane, Sarah Pellett and Amanda Storr for merit marks in Part I Clinical Veterinary Studies examinations; Gillian Ruddick for First Class Honours in Part II Music Tripos dissertation; Stefanie Teichmann for distinction in Certificate in Humanities Computing for Languages; Yee Sook Yong for distinction in MPhil dissertation Madeleine JĂśrgensen Prize: Melanie Lang, for First Class result in Part IB, Modern Languages Tripos; Sarah Nason for First Class result in Part II, Law Tripos; Margaret Outen for First Class result in Preliminary Examination for Part II, History of Art Tripos; Penny Robinson for First Class result in Part IIB, Social & Political Sciences Tripos; Jo Anne Rutter for First Class result in Part IB, Theology Tripos; Tess Shiels for First Class result in Part I, Education Studies Tripos Myson College Exhibition for Personal Achievement: Alice MorningStar

Studentships and Bursaries Alumnae Association Bursary American Friends of Cambridge University Amy Cohen Belcher & Swale Becker Law Bertram Science Business and Professional Women Commemorative Bursaries Fund

Dorothy and Joseph Needham Research Fund Eunice Black Fund George Bidder Fund Harris Graduate Harris Science Engineer Harris Vet/Med Jane Nixon Fund (Veterinary) Lord Frederick Cavendish

Maddocks Fund Mastermann Braithwaite Fund Pauline Cooper Ruth Tomlinson Science Research Fund UCLES

K Dixon A Alter S Shahabi V Fox A Ahmed M Baillie J McDonald E Chatzidaki A Kitching M Fossey S Hyde D Mehta S Gray

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Report from the Development Office

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hen I was offered this job at Lucy I couldn’t have been more pleased. I, too, had been a mature student (at London) and I knew that being associated with this College would be a wonderful thing.

some of our mailings to those who live within easy reach of Cambridge. If you would like to know of all of our events and activities, do let me know and I will add you to my list of ‘local alumnae’ wherever you live.

Taking on a new job one usually inherits a wealth of information to digest as well as systems and practices that predecessors have put in place. I came to Lucy having spent two-and-a-half years at Gonville and Caius, where the Development Office had been running since the mid-’90s. Being the first incumbent of a newly created post is a very different matter. I arrived at Lucy to find a desk, a chair, a computer - and a wonderfully warm welcome.

Our alumnae survey has helped us a great deal in trying to ensure that we have correct addresses and email addresses for everyone. We sent out more than 1,000 questionnaires and had a good rate of return. You will remember that we held a prize draw for all those returning their questionnaires on time and the prize, £100 of Amazon vouchers went to Sheh May Tam (1998). I am enclosing a questionnaire with the Newsletter and would be delighted if those who did not fill it out earlier in the year were to do so now. You won’t be surprised to hear that we are keen to cut the cost of mailings where possible, and email is such a bonus. If you are happy to receive information by email then do please let me know. And please remember the University’s email for life service which can be found on their website at: http://www.foundation.cam.ac.uk

Working closely with Dame Veronica Sutherland and Anna Abulafia, I set about establishing quite what would be covered by the work of this new Development Office, just which areas of information I needed to seek out and what systems and practices we would like to put in place.

A lot of groundwork had already been done: prior to my arrival the College had sent out an Appeal Brochure to the whole College community letting everyone know what is needed to help the College to sustain its vital work. The Annual Fund had been launched, as had the Anna Bidder Association which was established to acknowledge those who mention the College in their Wills. Alison Vinnicombe had worked at building up alumnae communications and networks and had established the Alumnae Dinner, held each September to coincide with the University’s Alumni Weekend.

It was up to me to build on all of this and to work on both areas of a development office’s remit - working with alumnae and expanding what we have to offer those who have already left Lucy, and raising funds to ensure that the College can continue its work.

The joy of Lucy Cavendish alumnae relations is that the College extends a welcome to all members of its community to participate in the academic life of the College in the shape of lectures and seminars. This year alumnae have come along to talks by Claire Tomalin, Carol Black, Ruth Deech and Allison Pearson. I believe that this is the most wonderful thing we have to offer: continued membership of the intellectual community of a college and lifelong opportunities to be stimulated in this way.

A high priority this year has been to develop communication with all our alumnae and friends and to make sure that people hear of news, events and activities. Information on all our events is on the website http://www.lucy-cav.cam.ac.uk but we limit

The joy of fundraising for Lucy Cavendish is that so many people understand what the College stands for and believe in our mission. We have had a remarkable year with generous donations from Trinity College towards our new graduate colony on Chesterton Road and from the Wolfson Foundation towards our development of Oldham Hall. In this first year of our latest fundraising campaign we have raised more than £520,000. As well as the gifts for the buildings and special projects, there have been countless acts of generosity by alumnae and friends.

This year we have been able to buy a rowing eight, have received a generous donation which has completed the piano fund and been given great support for dyslexic students as the Ray Wattles Dyslexia Trust has transferred its funds to the College. Smaller donations made at the time of the purchase of Ursula Lyons’ book on the Lucy Cavendish gardens have brought in nearly £500 for landscaping after the Oldham Hall development.

Every gift means a great deal and the College is hugely grateful to all those who support it.

Our fortieth anniversary year will also be the year in which we will focus on the Annual Fund (see below). As you can see from the chart below, which shows new gifts and pledges made since last year, the bulk of our donations have come in the form of help for the important building projects we are currently undertaking. In contrast to this kind of large project, Annual Fundraising is the regular appeal we now make to all alumnae and friends for unrestricted funds, which can immediately be put

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towards the College’s most important needs, such as the recruitment and retention of teaching staff, student facilities and support, the library and IT. The Annual Fund allows us to solve problems as they arise and to seize unexpected opportunities to grow and develop.

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College. That empty desk I found on my first day was soon piled high with fascinating paperwork from all around the College containing records and correspondence, lists and tables. Just as I was beginning to worry about how one person could find the right balance between driving forward with new projects at the same time as gaining a full understanding of the College’s past, I got a phone call out of the blue from an alumna offering to help.

Ingrid Dixon (1993) has spent one morning a week with me and has done the most splendid job in getting the records under control and into easily digestible chunks. I can’t thank her enough.

I do hope that in our fortieth anniversary year I will meet many more Lucy people as we celebrate what this College has achieved and to look forward to exciting times ahead.

My first year here at Lucy has been truly enjoyable.

It is a privilege to work with the dynamic members of the Development Group, to spend time with alumnae, students, staff, Fellows and friends of the

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he Lucy Cavendish College Annual Fund was launched in September 2003 with the aim of encouraging as many people as possible to make a donation to the College on a regular basis. In the first nine months nearly £20,000 of new gifts have been donated to the Annual Fund.

Providing the College with unrestricted funds which can be put towards the area of current greatest need is crucial for the College’s ability to move forward whilst attending to its daily work of educating and housing students. A gift to the Annual Fund represents a gift to every aspect of the College and the lives of our students. Endowed funds may provide us with student bursaries, but they do not provide us with the means to meet the everyday cost of teaching our students. Foundations and other organisations may give large donations towards construction or refurbishment but the day-to-day running of the buildings which house our students at this crucial and demanding time of their lives is a cost which we have to meet.

In the course of our fortieth anniversary year we hope to make individual contact with all of our alumnae and friends and ask you to make a donation

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of whatever sum you are able. Increasing the number of members of the College who give to Lucy Cavendish means that we can make a better case when we seek outside help; a foundation will always be impressed that those within the College community - our alumnae, our Fellows, our friends – believe in what we do and demonstrate this with financial support. A gift of any size makes a big difference.

The Annual Fund Gift Form is enclosed with your Newsletter. For more information on the Annual Fund or any other aspect of fundraising at Lucy Cavendish please do not hesitate to contact Meryl Davies on 01223 764020 or development@lucy-cav.cam.ac.uk Dame Veronica Sutherland (President), Anna Abulafia (Vice-President), David Bryant (Bursar), Jane Renfrew (Fellow), Jane McLarty (Admissions Tutor), Alison Vinnicombe (Registrar), Meryl Davies (Development Officer), Katherine Steele (President of the Alumnae Association), Chloe Bermudez (President of the Students’ Association) The Development Group

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Introducing our most recent Honorary Fellows

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rofessor Carol Black’s first degree at Bristol University was in history chosen, it is said, because she liked her school's history master.

However, she soon realised medicine was her preferred career. Following a postgraduate diploma in medical social studies and many hours working in odd jobs in order to pay for a medical degree, she entered medical school as a mature student in Bristol at the age of 25, qualifying in 1970. Prof. Black has said that even personal warnings from Dame Cecily Saunders on the challenges of entering medicine at a late stage did not deter her. Dame Cecily, the founder of modern palliative care, worked in nursing before she too became a doctor. As for being older, Prof. Black has said “I don't think it a bad thing to have had experience of a different world, because in medical school you tend to mix only with medics.”

The President welcoming Prof. Carol Black to the fellowship She trained first in gastroenterology but soon found that rheumatology and general medicine were to become her enduring interest. Her first consultant appointment was in 1981 at the West Middlesex University Hospital. She moved to the Royal Free Hospital in 1989 and became Professor of Rheumatology in 1994. This was followed by her appointment in 2000 as Medical Director of the Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust to lead the changes in medical management made necessary by the introduction of clinical governance.

She was elected to the Council of the Royal College of Physicians in 1996 and was elected Clinical VicePresident in 1999. In March 2002 she became only the second woman to be elected President of the Royal College of Physicians, taking up her appointment on 25 July 2002.

Prof. Black is a world-renowned expert in systemic sclerosis: a connective tissue disease of unknown

cause. Symptoms include disfiguring hardened skin lesions and fibrosis of the internal organs, such as the lungs, heart, kidneys and digestive tract. The disease is often progressive, leading to premature death due to organ failure. It affects about 7,000 people in the UK, of whom most are women, and occurs when the body produces too much of the basic structural protein collagen.

Prof. Black recalls why she decided to get involved in scleroderma research as a junior doctor in Bristol.

“A woman of about 27 came in with acute scleroderma and she lost both her kidneys overnight.

I said to the doctor in charge: ‘What are we going to do about it?’ And he said she was going to die and there was nothing we could do about it.

I determined then that if ever I had the chance I wanted to develop a centre for scleroderma in this country because nobody really knew very much about it and no-one seemed very interested in it.”

The young woman died, but Prof. Black’s determination has paid off. Her success can be measured by the fact that the Royal Free rheumatology department (which when she inherited it in 1989 was little more than an empty corridor), is now the largest European centre for the care of patients with scleroderma, and boasts an international reputation for research. And as a result, scleroderma patients have a better chance of effective treatment than ever before.

Last year Prof. Black was awarded a £½m programme grant by medical research charity the Arthritis Research Campaign for a five-year investigation into this rare but incurable disease.

She and her team and the Royal Free medical school and King’s College London, hope to carry out detailed research that could lead to new drugs which slow down the progress of the disease, and reduce symptoms.

For her research and clinical care in scleroderma and fibrotic disorders, Prof. Black received a CBE in the 2002 New Year’s Honours List.

Prof. Black has lectured extensively abroad and has had particularly fruitful clinical and research collaborations with American colleagues. Recently she was made a Fellow of the American College of Physicians, and the Royal College of Physicians Edinburgh, and she is also a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians Ireland.

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was appointed an Honorary Fellow of University College London in May of last year and in July 2003 she was awarded Honorary degree of Doctor of Medicine from the University of Bristol.

Prof. Black has played down the fact that she was only the second woman president of the Royal College of Physicians in its 484-year history. (The first was Dame Margaret Turner-Warwick, who was President from 1989-1992.) She has said “It probably reflects what is happening in medicine because we are graduating at least 50 per cent of women from our medical schools. I would hope that women are going to play a greater role at the top of British medicine.” On being elected, Prof. Black said “the tasks ahead will not be easy. Challenges for the RCP include the future of postgraduate medical education and the need to form better relationships with the patients and the public. I will endeavour to build a healthy and robust relationship with government, the Department of Health, other Royal Colleges, Faculties and numerous other bodies.”

Lucy Cavendish College has worked closely with the Clinical School here in Cambridge to set up the new Graduate Course in Medicine. A main aim of this course is to draw graduates from all disciplines into medicine. Given Prof. Black’s own experience as a mature graduate medical student from an arts discipline, it is particularly appropriate that with great pride we welcome her to join our Fellowship as an Honorary Fellow.

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rofessor Alison Richard graduated from Newnham in 1969 with a First in Archaeology and Anthropology, and went on to receive her doctorate in primate biology in 1973 from Queen Elizabeth College, later part of King’s College London.

She moved to Yale University in 1972, and was appointed Professor of Anthropology in 1986. This was followed with a joint appointment as Professor of Environmental Studies in the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies in 1990. For three years from 1991, Prof. Richard was Director of the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History and responsible for one of the most important university natural history collections in the United States. She played a leading role in preserving more than 11 million natural history specimens and anthropological artefacts in the Peabody collections and in raising the funds to create a new environmental science centre.

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Already renowned as a “great teacher” and an “outstanding scholar” she took on what one colleague called “the hardest job at Yale” and another one called “the most thankless one in the University” when, in 1994, she was appointed as Provost, Yale’s chief academic and administrative officer next to its president. In this role she coordinated and oversaw the educational policies and academic plans of all sectors of the institution, and bore principal responsibility for developing Yale’s operating and capital budgets and long-range financial plans. She has been praised for performing this role “not only well, but with great pluck and spirit,” and is noted for her substantial achievements in the area of financial management, recruitment of leading scholars, and the major redevelopment of Yale's campus.

Prof. Richard is widely known for her research into the evolution of complex social systems among primates. This work has taken her to Central America, northern Pakistan and in particular the forests of southern Madagascar, where she has maintained a field research project for the past 15 years. Her research has focused on the population dynamics, ecology, and social behaviour of the sifaka, one of Madagascar's endangered primates, shedding new light on the unique pathways of evolution exhibited by the island's animal community. In collaboration with her Malagasy colleagues, Prof. Richard has also emphasised partnership with villagers in this remote region of Madagascar. Since 1977, she has helped lead an ongoing effort to conserve the area's remarkable natural heritage and enhance socio-economic opportunities for people trying to make a living in and around the forest.

Prof. Richard has been a leader of numerous professional organisations and scientific advisory councils. Since 1995, she has been a board member of the World Wildlife Fund, the largest privately supported international conservation organisation in the world. She also serves as a Director of the Liz Claiborne/Art Ortenberg Foundation, dedicated to the survival of wildlife and wildlands, and to the vitality of human communities with which they are inextricably linked.

Prof. Richard has written two books, Primates in Nature (1985) and Behavioural Variation: Case Study of a Malagasy Lemur (1978), and numerous articles on her research.

Prof. Richard has become the first woman vicechancellor at Cambridge since the position acquired its chief executive role. (We of course don’t forget Rosemary Murray who was appointed to the post in 1975 to work part-time, albeit when the post was very different.) She has also become the sole

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Professor of English. In 1980 Prof. Todd also held visiting professorships in India at Jawaharlal Nehru University and the University of Rajastan.

Prof. Anthony Badger, who headed the international search to fill the position of vice-chancellor, said it was essential that the committee chose “someone who was tough, independent and resilient”. “The committee…believe that [Prof. Richard] has the appropriate personal style for leading a democratic, self-governing university”.

Prof. Richard is highly regarded in the United States for her strong leadership and financial management at Yale, and her initiatives and commitment to recruit more women and ethnic minority candidates to senior and professorial jobs. Her experience in both areas will be extremely useful at Cambridge, which is running an annual deficit of £9.8m and is criticised for its under-representation of women in senior positions. The first ever equality audit (in 2001) recorded that just 6% of professors and 15% of academics at Cambridge were female. At Yale, she presided over an initiative to get money for more women and ethnic-minority academics in leading posts, after Yale was similarly criticised. Prof.

Richard has said that she is pleased things have improved, but disclaims the credit. Cautiously, though, she has indicated that it is something that she would like to look at over here.

In her letter accepting the offer of an Honorary Fellowship of Lucy Cavendish College, Professor Richard wrote: “I would like to tell you that two years ago I stood behind a pillar in Canterbury Cathedral watching (in principle, anyway) my elder sister receive her PhD from the University of Kent.

It was one of the proudest moments of my life, and brings home to me in the most personal way the importance of the mission of Lucy Cavendish College. I am honoured to become a member of your community.”

Our Fellowship is deeply honoured to welcome her amongst us.

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rofessor Janet Todd came up to Cambridge in 1961 to read English at Newnham. Following her graduation in 1964 she left the UK to become a lecturer in African and English Literature at the Mfantsipim School and the University of Cape Coast in Ghana, returning in 1967 to study for a one-year Diploma in Linguistics and Teaching English at the University of Leeds. In 1969 she commenced her PhD studies in English at the University of Florida and was awarded the degree in 1971.

For the next 12 years, Prof. Todd continued her teaching career abroad, firstly at the University of Puerto Rico where she was Assistant Professor of English for 2 years before moving to Rutgers University in New Jersey where she later became

Prof. Todd returned to the UK in 1983 and became a Fellow in English at Sidney Sussex College. In 1990 she was appointed Professor of English at the University of East Anglia, leaving in 2000 to take up the appointment of Francis Hutcheson Professor of English at the University of Glasgow.

Prof. Todd published her first book, In Adam’s Garden: A Study of John Clare’s Pre-Asylum Poetry, in 1973. However, she is noted more for her interest in early women writers (rather than Romantic poets) and has been described as a pioneer in their recovery; the author of more than 15 works of non-fiction and the editor of a great many more.

Her pioneering A Dictionary of British and American Women Writers, 1660-1800 opened up a new area of research for scholars. She has also written on feminist theory in Feminist Literary History and on the entry of women into literature in The Sign of Angellica: Women, Writing and Fiction 1660-1800. Her largest contribution to the study of women's writing is her textual editing. She has edited individual works of Charlotte Smith, Eliza Fenwick and Helen Maria Williams, and co-edited the complete works of Mary Wollstonecraft with Marilyn Butler. She has also edited the complete works of Aphra Behn, and more recently, the complete correspondence of Mary Wollstonecraft.

In the 1990s Prof. Todd turned to biography as a genre that reaches out from academia to a more general readership. Her first full-scale biography published in 1996 was The Secret Life of Aphra Behn. This was followed in 2000 with Mary Wollstonecraft: A Revolutionary Life, which concentrates on Wollstonecraft as a sister and daughter and sees her as “a pioneering recorder of an inner life”.

Her most recent biography, Rebel Daughters: Ireland in Conflict 1798, was published last year and is a study of the early life of Mary

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Wollstonecraft's pupils, Mary and Margaret King from Michelstown, Ireland, and their involvement in the rebellion of 1798.

Prof. Todd retains her interest in the excavation of early women writers by co-editing a journal, Women's Writing. In the United States in the early 1970s she started the first journal devoted to women's writing, Women and Literature, and organized the first bibliography of their study. She is also on the advisory board of various journals devoted to women's history and writing.

Prof. Todd is a frequent speaker in the United States and Europe and has been on lecture tours with the British Council in India, Italy and Spain. She has been the guest speaker in many conferences on Jane Austen, Mary Wollstonecraft and Feminist Criticism. She is a Past President of the British Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, and she serves as an English panel member on the Arts and Humanities Research Board.

Janet Todd was made an Honorary Fellow of this College in 1999 and has been a regular visitor and strong supporter of our activities. It is fitting that an eminent scholar and a researcher into the lives of so many outstanding women is also a member of our honorary fellowship.

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laire Tomalin was born in London in 1933 to a French father who worked for UNESCO and an English mother who was a musician. She attended a French lycée in London aged 4, and at the age of 7, started writing poetry and taking refuge in books to help her through the war and years spent moving between homes and schools. Reading, she has said, became her “solace”. “I fell in love with Shakespeare when I was 12 and I read the whole works. Yes, I was precocious”.

When she was 15, her mother sent her to Dartington Hall as a cure for teenage rebellion, and it was there that a teacher suggested she apply to Cambridge a year early.

Accepted at Newnham College, Cambridge to read English, she was in the year above Sylvia Plath. She graduated with a first in 1954.

When Claire left Cambridge she was unsure of what to do. She applied to the BBC, but although she had secretarial skills, fluent French and a first in English, she was rejected on the grounds that “the competition for general trainees is confined to men”.

Eventually she got a job as an editorial assistant at Heinemann Hutchinson and Cape because, it is alleged, the bosses gave her 7 out of 10 for good looks.

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She began to review books - for the Times Literary Supplement and The Observer - was offered a job on the Evening Standard, and then became deputy literary editor of the New Statesman. She was approached by agents and publishers after she wrote an article about radical writer Mary Wollstonecraft, and agreed to write her biography. The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft was published in 1974, and won the Whitbread First Book award.

Following publication of her Wollstonecraft biography, she was offered the job of literary editor of the New Statesman, influencing national literary taste by her acts of commissioning and so encouraging the early efforts of Clive James, Julian Barnes, Martin Amis, Craig Raine and other London-based key 'names' of that generation.

She became the literary editor of The Sunday Times in 1979, but left in 1986 (over the News International labour dispute) to become a full-time biographer.

She is a trustee of the National Portrait Gallery and the Wordsworth Trust, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a Vice-President of English PEN. Claire didn’t write her first book until she was 40, but today she is one of the most respected biographers in the literary world. Who are the diverse subjects of her prize-winning biographies?

Remarkable women, “crossing the barriers of class and defying the sexual conventions” for the most part, from the mid-eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries. They include not only the pioneering feminist thinker Mary Wollstonecraft, but also a bisexual short story writer, Katherine Mansfield, a socially conservative novelist, Jane Austen, a famous actress, Dora Jordan, and a previouslyobscure mistress of Charles Dickens, Nelly Ternan.

While Claire has written on Shelley and (most recently) Samuel Pepys, her effort has been overwhelmingly to uncover 'secret' or 'invisible' aspects of women's lives, and to re-evaluate their ideas, dilemmas, domestic as well as artistic achievements.

Indeed, critics consider her best and most influential work, to be the two books on women who had previously been unseen: Nelly Ternan and Dora Jordan, who was the mistress of King William IV, and bore him 10 children. The distinguished academic, Elaine Showalter, has said “The Nelly Ternan book was part of a group of books that came out at a similar time about women who led invisible lives, the women behind the scenes. The women's movement had developed an awareness of the importance of [such] lives, and yet we needed examples. I think the book on Nelly Ternan particularly was extraordinarily timely in that

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regard.” The book subsequently won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the NCR Book Award for Non-Fiction and the Hawthornden Prize.

Her play The Winter Wife published in 1991 is based on her own biography of Katherine Mansfield, and she edited the first edition of a previously undiscovered manuscript by Mary Shelley, Maurice, or the Fisher's Cot, first published in 1998. A collection of book reviews and journalism, Several Strangers: Writing from Three Decades, was published in 1999.

Her biography of the seventeenth-century diarist Samuel Pepys, Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self, (2002) won the Samuel Pepys Award, the 2002 Whitbread Biography Award, and the 2003 Whitbread Book of the Year literary prize, beating a list of contenders which included her husband, Michael Frayn, and his World War II novel, Spies.

She became only the third woman to win the prize since it began in 1985. Judges described The Unequalled Self as a “superb, humane and compassionate portrait”, and “a superb biography by

a writer at the height of her powers”. Though Pepys has been the subject of several biographies in the last dozen years, Claire took a new approach to the 17th century diaries, revealing his personal side - his marriage, the man who preyed on innocent girls and his financial and political ambitions.

When asked recently how she could cope with Pepys's infamous womanising, Claire came up with the wry remark: “Every man is not like Pepys. But a lot of men are.” When they are they usually affect the lives of women and Claire has documented such lives extraordinarily well. Her comment combines the intellectual rigour and warmth of understanding that make her an outstanding biographer and a justifiably visible woman.

We welcome this extraordinary woman into our Fellowship as a partner in the work we do to encourage women to aim for the best.

Karen Davies Archivist

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In memoriam Muriel Agnes Arber 1913-2004

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uriel Arber was born in Cambridge on 21 July 1913, the daughter of Dr. E. A. Newell Arber (1870-1918), a University Demonstrator in Palaeontology, and Agnes Arber née Robertson (1879-1960) who in 1946 became the first woman botanist to be elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.

Muriel Arber read Natural Sciences at Newnham, graduating in 1936 to become a research student in the Department of Geology at the Sedgwick Museum under the supervision of Professor Bulman and doing research on the development and evolution of brachiopods.

The results were published in a series of papers in Geological Magazine. In 1941 she studied for a Certificate in Education at the Cambridge Training College for Women (now Hughes Hall), and in 1942 was appointed Assistant Mistress at King’s School, Ely. She taught geography at the school until 1962 when she became Head of the Geography Department at March High School for Girls (later Hereward Comprehensive School) where she remained until her retirement in 1973.

Throughout her teaching career and continuing well into her retirement, Muriel Arber found it possible to continue with her independent research on the development of cliffs and coasts, particularly in the south-west of England, publishing her findings in a number of journals including Nature, Geographical Journal and Proceedings of Geologists’ Association.

She was a member of the Geologists’ Association, serving on the Council a number of times from the late-1940s onwards before becoming President in 1972 for a two-year term. She was awarded the R. H. Worth Prize (for amateur geological research) by the Geological Society of London in 1970.

Muriel Arber was introduced to the College by Dr. Kate Bertram, her contemporary at Newnham, and became a Member of the College in 1975. She greatly enjoyed her association with the College and dined regularly until her advancing years made this difficult. 2 Karen Davies Archivist

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Eva Crawley 1928-2003

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n 1977 Lucy Cavendish College held the first of what were to become annual week-long courses for women lawyers who wanted to return to work after career breaks. The course was founded by Eva Crawley, herself a returner, who when she asked the Law Society if they ran such a course was told there was no demand. 3 Eva qualified as a solicitor in 1955 but ceased to practise law after her marriage and the birth of her first daughter until asked by a friend to do the conveyancing on his property purchase. She developed this into a sound property and probate practice before taking on appointments to the Police Complaints Authority, the Office for the Supervision of Solicitors and the Parole Board. Over the years Eva worked for the benefit of the legal professional, becoming Chairwoman of the Association of Women Solicitors (AWS), President of the North Middlesex Law Society and Chairwoman of the Solicitors Benevolent Association (SBA).

When the AWS instituted an award to be given every two years to a woman who has made an outstanding, but relatively unremunerated contribution to the progress of women in the Law, it was fitting that it should be called the Eva Crawley Award. Eva, the first recipient, was presented with the award by Cherie Booth at the AWS 75th Anniversary Dinner in 1998. 4 Eva was offered membership of the Combination Room in 1985 and it is said that she felt very much at home at Lucy Cavendish. Alison Parkinson and Geraldine Cotton, both past Chairwomen of the AWS, have now set up a fund to commemorate her association with the College and the Returners’ Course. The money will help to furnish one or more new student bedrooms. 5 In recognition of Eva’s close association with the SBA her family has endowed an ongoing bursary for one solicitor to attend the annual Returners’ Course. 6

In 1999 Eva was awarded an OBE for services to women solicitors. Not only did she set up the AWS Returners’ Course, convincing lecturers to give their time at reduced rates and AWS Committee members to provide administrative assistance and after-dinner talks and encouragement, but she also began the AWS Mentoring scheme at her sitting-room desk, by simply ringing up her friends and persuading them to help someone who had rung her with a problem.

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Sylvia Schein 1947-2004

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ylvia Schein came to Lucy Cavendish in 1974 as a PhD student, working under Dr R C Smail of Sidney Sussex College, a renowned expert on the crusades and a close friend of her former teacher, the legendary Joshua Prawer of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Among her contemporaries was David Abulafia of Caius, who was just completing his own PhD under Smail when she arrived, and whose first contact with Lucy, a good ten years before Anna arrived as a Fellow, consisted of formal dinner in the old Dining Room with Sylvia as his host. Her first book, Fideles Crucis, was based on her PhD thesis and was not merely published by O.U.P. in 1991 but has been selected as one of the monographs worth keeping in print in the O.U.P. – Sandpiper series. Her concern was with the impact of the final fall of the crusader kingdom of Jerusalem in 1291 on European opinion and action.

It was a pioneering work in that it addressed an otherwise neglected period in crusading history, that following the end of a European presence in what are now Israel, Lebanon and Syria. The theme of European attitudes to Jerusalem either side of the critical year 1291 remained central to her research, and she looked closely at spiritual longing for the

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Holy City as well as at concrete, but unfulfilled, plans to create a new crusader state if and when the armies of Christendom recovered control of the Holy Land – as they never did. Thus she wrote about the importance of Christian attitudes to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, about the hopes of the western Christians that the Mongols would help to tear Muslim power apart; and (in a final article that reached its editor a few days after her sudden death) she looked at ‘Jerusalem as the stage for Christ’s suffering in the late medieval period’. She also looked at the role of women in crusader society, and in medieval society more generally, moving beyond legal sources to use literary ones, including those written by women. She was an able guide to historical sites in Israel, to which her family had come during one of the nasty bouts of governmentapproved anti-Semitism in Poland. Her sudden death on Tuesday 23 March 2004 leaves a void in the study of the crusades in Israel and beyond.

Professor David Abulafia Fellow, Gonville & Caius College (With thanks to Prof. Yvonne Friedman for many details)

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t was with some sadness that the College learnt of the death of the Duke of Devonshire on 3 May. His association with the College began more than 40 years ago when he gave his consent to the use of the name ‘Lucy Cavendish’. From those early days in the life of the College he maintained an interest in and a willingness to support our endeavours, whenever called upon to do so.

Born Andrew Robert Buxton Cavendish on 2 January 1920, he was the younger son of the 10th Duke of Devonshire and so was not expected to succeed to the title, but the 10th Duke’s elder son was killed in action in the last months of the Second World War and Andrew became heir to the vast ducal estates at the age of 24, becoming the 11th Duke in 1950. In 1941 he married Deborah (“Debo”) Mitford, the sixth of the 2nd Lord Redesdale’s famous daughters. Together, she and the Duke restored the main family seat, Chatsworth, to its previous grandeur, making it one of the nation’s most popular tourist attractions.

The Duke’s association with the College began in July 1963 when he was approached by the 1st Viscount Chandos, Oliver Lyttelton (1893-1972), requesting permission to use the name ‘Lucy Cavendish’. (Lucy Caroline Lyttelton married Lord Frederick Cavendish, the second son of the 7th Duke of Devonshire, in 1864). Oliver Lyttelton was a grandson of George William, 4th Lord Lyttelton (Lucy’s father) and therefore a nephew of Lucy Cavendish. This also made him a cousin of Lucy Masterman, the mother of Margaret Braithwaite, a founding fellow, and through these family connections he was persuaded to approach the Duke on behalf of the ‘Dining Group’. The Duke gave his permission in a letter to the Viscount Chandos, dated 1 August 1963, and also consented to the use of the Cavendish Arms for the College crest.

In [October] 1963 Anna Bidder wrote to the Duke about the plans of The Society of Women Members of the Regent House who are Non-Fellows to become a charity under the name of ‘Lucy Cavendish Collegiate Society’ and start a “Women’s Post-Graduate College at Cambridge”. Dr. Bidder also made reference to their efforts in approaching institutions and individuals for donations, and how they might be helped in this regard if they could announce, with their new name, a small benefaction from the Duke. She then enquired if it would be possible to meet the Duke for a brief meeting. 7 In

response to this letter the Duke sent a cheque for £50 and suggested that she meet him at his office at the Commonwealth Relations Office in Downing Street at 11.00am on 21 November 1963. 8 At that time he was serving in Harold Macmillan’s government as Minister of State for Commonwealth Relations, an appointment that he criticised more than 30 years later, in 1996, as “nepotism of an unacceptable kind in the 20th century” 9 - he was the nephew of Macmillan’s wife. In January 1964 Dr. Bidder reported on her meeting in a circular to all members of the Society saying that the Duke showed “a keen understanding of and sympathy with our activities and aims, both the supervisors’ dinners and the problem of bringing back into their professions women whose careers have been interrupted. I believe that we have a genuine friend here.” 10 Just over a decade later, in November 1975, the College made contact again. An appeal had recently been launched to provide funding for people and buildings in support of a ten-year development plan.

The then Vice-President, Margaret Braithwaite, wrote to the Duke requesting a meeting for the purpose of seeking advice as to the names of charitable associations and foundations whose terms of reference might qualify the College for their support. The Duke replied that he “would be only too delighted to help you in any way I can” and agreed to a meeting with Mrs Braithwaite, the President, Kate Bertram, and the Development Officer, Beryl Green, at his London home. 11 Although there appears to be no record in the archive of a meeting having taken place, a letter from Dr. Bertram to the Duke in June 1976, in which she encloses some papers on the College at his request and invites him to the College for “further talk”, indicates that they may have possibly met in May. 12 Correspondence between the Duke and the College resumes in late 1979, shortly after Lady Bowden (now Phyllis Hetzel) became President. Lady Bowden and the Duke had met on a number of occasions previously, both in a professional capacity (when the Duke was serving in Macmillan’s government and Lady Bowden was a senior civil servant), and socially through the shared interests of Lord Bowden and the Duke. The correspondence from the Duke is thus expressed in particularly 8

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warm and friendly terms. Writing in December 1979 to thank Lady Bowden for her personal support of the Royal Hospital and Home for Incurables, of which the Duke was President, he writes, “When next you have a cause you wish to raise money for, please put me at the top of the list of those to be approached.” 13 Responding to a letter from Lady Bowden wishing him a speedy recovery after a spell in hospital, the Duke again repeated his offer to help, writing, “It is a happy coincidence that Lucy Cavendish College, which bears my family’s name…is now presided over by you. This makes me all the more anxious to strengthen the ties between your College and my family. If there is any way in which I can help the College please do not hesitate to let me know.” 14 In January 1981 Lady Bowden wrote to the Duke, inviting him to visit the College, and “if you are in a position to help us financially…I wonder if you might consider my Bursaries Memorial Fund.” 15 This was a scheme inaugurated by Lady Bowden in 1979 whereby anyone could commemorate a woman of special importance to him or her in a Commemorative Book, recording the name of the donor and a citation for the woman whose memory the page was dedicated. The book was displayed in a glass case and the pages turned regularly.

Donations to the Fund provided bursaries and studentships up to 1989. 16 The Duke readily accepted the suggestion made by Lady Bowden that the first page of the Commemorative Book should be dedicated to Lucy Cavendish and supported this with a donation of £100. 17

In 1995, upon hearing from The Old Schools that the Duke was intending to visit Cambridge the following year and had mentioned the Cavendish family connection with the College, the Duke was issued an invitation to visit from the President, Baroness Perry. He accepted, saying, “It will be thrilling to visit Lucy Cavendish College and see all the exciting things going on there. When I think of my outstandingly undistinguished career at Trinity I cannot get over the trouble that you are all taking over my visit. It is far more than I deserve, but I appreciate it more than words can adequately express.” 18 During his visit to the College on 22 April 1996, he viewed an exhibition on ‘Who was Lucy Cavendish?’ created by Dr. Jane Renfrew in 1990 to celebrate the Silver Jubilee of the College.

(Incidentally, as part of the Silver Jubilee celebrations and in support of the exhibition, the Duke lent the College the fourteen leather-bound volumes of Lucy Cavendish’s diary.) The Duke sat down amongst students and Fellows to what he subsequently described in a letter of thanks to the President as a “lovely luncheon”, and went on to say, “Stimulating is not an adjective I often use but it is the only one suitable to describe that luncheon.

The company was really marvellous and I can say with my hand on my heart that it is a very long time since I enjoyed a luncheon so much”. 19 Obituaries have described the Duke as humorous, tolerant, self-deprecating, and a man of constant good nature, being neither spoilt nor arrogant. A reading of the letters from the Duke to the College over the years bears testament to these qualities, together with his willingness to take the trouble to help.

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The Alumnae Association Members of the Alumnae Association Committee, March 2004 President of the Alumnae Association:

Mrs Katherine M Steele

Treasurer of the Alumnae Association:

Mrs Moira Lavery-Callaghan

Vice-President of the College and Recorder:

Dr Anna Sapir Abulafia

Development Officer and Secretary to the Alumnae Association:

Ms Meryl Davies

Mrs Jill Armstrong (1996) Ms Jenefer Bamborough (1991) Mrs Elaine Durham (1984) Ms Penny Granger (1998) Mrs Dorothy Heeneman (1981) Ms Elizabeth Hooper (1996)

Mrs Angela Morecroft (1997) Lady Newns (1974) Mrs Julia Payne (1993) Dr Wendy Pollard (1996) Dr Trudy Stevens (1988)

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nce again, this has been an exciting year for us – as the Alumnae Committee is constantly changing and developing in order to keep pace with changes in College. This has been our first full year with Meryl Davies not only as Development Officer but also with us on the committee as Alumnae Association Secretary. One of her first achievements has been the compilation of a list of “Lost Lucys”, alumnae for whom we no longer have any address.

In order to prevent your becoming one of these, it would help tremendously if Meryl and the committee had e-mail addresses for as many of you as possible.

After the Lent Term meeting the committee was pleased to be invited to a delicious home cooked supper at Marshall House by the President and her husband. In February we held our most successful ever “Meet the Alumnae” party; in addition to current students invitations were also sent to over 200 local alumnae. Mini biographies of committee members attending were made available to all, courtesy of the newly formed mentoring subcommittee, and a great deal of networking took place – both between alumnae who had lost touch, and between alumnae and current students who found studies or other areas in common. The mentoring sub-committee is also working on other exciting ideas for the Michaelmas Term.

It has been a good year for College memorabilia; attractive new blue “Lucy is Appealing” mugs sold quickly at the Alumnae dinner and at the AGM,

together with a new range of T-shirts. Ideas and designs for new items are being considered by members of the committee, who hope to have a permanent show of memorabilia on display once the new porter’s lodge is finished.

This year the Association has been able to give £2,000 from the Roll bursary 200 club for student bursaries, £1,500 to the George Bidder fund and £1,500 to the student hardship fund.

The Alumnae Dinner in September – as part of the University Alumni Weekend - was a great success with twice as many guests as the year before, and promises to be an important new date in the Lucy calendar. Next year is the College’s 40th anniversary, so both the Alumnae Dinner - and the Annual Dinner and Alumnae Association AGM on 12 March 2005 – will be extra special events, and we hope to see even more of you than usual, and to hear all your news. Please put the date in your diaries now. The minutes of the 2004 AGM will not be distributed, but will be (unconfirmed) on the College website for perusal before the event. They are also available from Meryl on request.

Once again, I would like to extend grateful thanks to my fellow committee members for all their support and hard work; I know that we are all united in what we owe to Lucy.

Mrs Katherine Steele Alumnae Association President

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Lucy Alumnae, Friends and all members of the College Community are warmly invited to

The 40th Anniversary Lucy Cavendish Dinner Saturday 12th March 2005 7.30 pm Drinks will be served from 7.00 pm ÂŁ24.75 All Lucy people are always welcome at all Annual Dinners.

From 2005 we will be encouraging particular year groups to attend the dinner for a reunion. To mark our 40th anniversary we are particular keen to see our earliest students.

In early 2005 a reminder and booking form for the dinner will be sent to those who first came to Lucy between 1965 and 1985.

A reminder will also be sent to all those for whom we have an email address. If you would like to receive information about the Annual Dinner or other College occasions by email, please send your email address to Meryl Davies at development@lucy-cav.cam.ac.uk.

If you do not have access to email and would like a reminder by post, please write to Meryl Davies at College.

The Alumnae Association AGM will take place before the Lucy Cavendish Dinner. To see the minutes of the 2004 AGM, please look at the alumnae and development section of the website: http://www.lucy-cav.cam.ac.uk/development/index.htm. The agenda for the 2005 AGM will be posted on the website early in the Lent term. If you would like papers for the AGM posted to you, please contact Meryl Davies.

Fortieth Anniversary Announcing the 2nd Lucy Art Show Date to be confirmed Works will be invited in any media from all connected with the College who would like to exhibit. All enquiries to Jane McLarty on 01223 332197 or jdm35@cam.ac.uk.

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Publications Review of Lucy Cavendish College: The Crucial Years 1979-1984

by Phyllis Hetzel

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t 4pm on Saturday 9 November 1984, Lucy Cavendish College became an Approved Foundation within the University of Cambridge. To obtain this status had been a long struggle, against sometimes seemingly insuperable odds, but the then President, Lady Bowden, and Fellows were greatly relieved to hear that their efforts had been successful.

Sir Alan Cottrell, Chairman of Trustees 1980-89 and Mrs Doris Thoday, Vice-President 1981-84 at the launch of The Crucial Years Today, twenty years later, Mrs Phyllis Hetzel as she now is, has set out her account of these dramatic days in her recently completed book: Lucy Cavendish College: The Crucial Years 1979-84, Reflections of Phyllis Hetzel, a Former President.

The title is apt. When Phyllis Bowden arrived at Lucy Cavendish in 1979 she realised immediately the critical importance of obtaining Foundation status to ensure the survival of the College as an integral part of the Collegiate University. She also rightly describes her work as “personal reflections”.

Her aim was never to embark on a lengthy tract of historical analysis. It is rather to set out events as she recalls them.

Those seeking a detailed work of academic research might therefore be disappointed by this brief account. But that would be to mistake its essence, for it represents that essential tool of the academic researcher: primary source material. Through its pages rings the clear voice of someone who has witnessed important – and sometimes painful events and who, by temperament and experience, is capable of describing them in an objective, succinct and arresting manner. But, while the tone may be

measured, the example of those involved in these events is, for us who follow them, nothing short of inspirational.

The story Phyllis Hetzel recounts ranges from the bizarre to the triumphant. She describes the College as she first found it with Fellows sweeping the road, mowing the lawn and dusting the offices. She then follows the tortuous path she trod first to try and establish a definition of Foundation status, and then to fulfil the requirements, a virtually impossible task since no accepted definition existed. Nevertheless, by dint of Herculean hard work, she and her colleagues put together a case which was eventually submitted to the University Council. At the vital Council meeting, when the case was to be discussed, she was then confronted with an initial intervention which claimed that as no definition existed, the case could not be considered. Fortunately other members of the Council were convinced by Phyllis’ own powers of persuasion that this was not so. The case was approved. Clarity of vision and determination of purpose had triumphed.

Mrs Phyllis Hetzel This book casts a penetrating light on a vital episode of the history of Lucy Cavendish College. In so doing it also illuminates aspects of the history of women at Cambridge University as they broke away from the prejudices which had shackled them for so long. It is thus doubly valuable. I commend it to you for it readability, its historical significance and for the encouragement it provides for all of us today.

Dame Veronica Sutherland President

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Books from Lucy…..Books from Lucy…..Books from Lucy Lucy Cavendish College The Crucial Years 1979-1984 Reflections of Phyllis Hetzel, a Former President Completed in 2004, this is an absorbing account of a remarkable time in the history of the College as the President, Trustees and Fellows worked to gain Approved Foundation status within the University.

Phyllis Hetzel’s recollections allow fascinating insights into the development of the College and the running of the University.

Soft cover with many B&W photographs. £9.00 “A Treasure of a Garden” Lucy Cavendish Garden The First Thirty Years 1970 – 2000

By Ursula Lyons Former Garden Steward Ursula Lyons tells the story of how the gardens of three Edwardian houses were gradually amalgamated and turned into the delightful gardens of Lucy Cavendish College. It is a story which mirrors the growth of the College from its small beginnings to its current well established status.

Soft cover with many colour illustrations. £7.00 The Opportunity to be Myself A History of Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge

By Nigel Watson This informative and lively book places the vision of the College founders’ campaign for recognition in the context of the struggle for equality in education for women generally, and in Cambridge in particular. The book tells the fascinating story of the campaign itself, and the triumphant outcome, continuing with the evolution of the College through to the present. The narrative is enriched and illuminated by recollections of founders, fellows and undergraduates.

Hard cover with numerous colour and B&W photographs of the college and its members through the years. £10.00 To order any of these books please contact Meryl Davies. You can write to Meryl enclosing a cheque made payable to Lucy Cavendish College (please add £1 for post and packaging). Meryl Davies, Development Office, Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge, CB3 0BU. Phone 01223 764020 email development@lucy-cav.cam.ac.uk.

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