Newsletter 2003 by Lucy Cavendish College

Annual Report and Newsletter 2003

Lucy Cavendish College Annual Report and Newsletter 2003

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Contents Credits ......................................................................................................................................................... 2 Editors: ................................................................................................................................................ 2 Ms Jane McLarty and Ms Alison A Vinnicombe .................................................................................. 2 Acknowledgements ..................................................................................................................................... 2

CONTENTS

THE COLLEGE 2002-03

President...................................................................................................................................................... 5 Honorary Fellows........................................................................................................................................ 5 Emeritus Fellows ........................................................................................................................................ 5 In Memoriam .............................................................................................................................................. 5 Mrs Margo Bulman.............................................................................................................................. 5 Dr Margaret Wallace........................................................................................................................... 5 Catherine (Kate) Felicitée Shoenberg ................................................................................................. 5 Governing Body Fellows ............................................................................................................................ 6 Bursar .......................................................................................................................................................... 6 Research Fellows ........................................................................................................................................ 6 Visiting Fellow ........................................................................................................................................... 6 Visiting Scholar .......................................................................................................................................... 7 Fellow-Commoners..................................................................................................................................... 7 Member by Election .................................................................................................................................... 7 Honorary Member of the Combination Room ............................................................................................ 7 Members of the Combination Room ........................................................................................................... 8 Members of Staff ........................................................................................................................................ 9

THE STUDENT BODY

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

LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT

COLLEGE REPORTS

Report from the Senior Tutor .................................................................................................................... 14 Report from the Admissions Tutor ........................................................................................................... 15 Report from the Graduate Tutor................................................................................................................ 15 Report from the Students’ Association ..................................................................................................... 17 Lucy Cavendish College Students’ Association Representatives 2002-03 ......................................... 17 Lucy Cavendish College Students’ Association Representatives 2003-04 ......................................... 17 Report from the Students’ Association President............................................................................... 17 Lucy Cavendish College Boat Club 2002-03 ............................................................................................ 20 Lucy Cavendish College Stanza 2002-03 ................................................................................................. 20 Cambridge University Students’ Pro Bono Society .................................................................................. 21 My Brilliant Weekend............................................................................................................................... 22 Lucy Cavendish meets Virginia Woolf at Smith ...................................................................................... 23 Report from the Fellowship Secretary ...................................................................................................... 24 Recommendations and Elections ....................................................................................................... 24 Competition for Visiting Fellowships and Scholarships for the Academic Year 2004-05 ....................... 26

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Visiting Fellowships ........................................................................................................................... 26 Visiting Scholarships ......................................................................................................................... 26 How to apply ...................................................................................................................................... 26 Governing Body Fellows .......................................................................................................................... 27 Report from the Research Fellowship Secretary ....................................................................................... 34 Research and Visiting Fellows .................................................................................................................. 35 Report from the Bursar ............................................................................................................................. 45 Report from the Domestic Bursar ............................................................................................................. 46 Report from the ICT Manager .................................................................................................................. 47 Report from the Archivist ......................................................................................................................... 48 Lucy Cavendish College 1965-2003 Making Things Happen ................................................................. 50 Purpose .............................................................................................................................................. 50 Members ............................................................................................................................................ 52 Buildings ............................................................................................................................................ 53 Report from the Fellow Librarian ............................................................................................................. 55 Report from the Librarian ......................................................................................................................... 56 Report from the Friends of Lucy Cavendish College Library................................................................... 57 Friends of Lucy Cavendish College Library ...................................................................................... 58 Report from the Curator ............................................................................................................................ 58 Lucy Art Show .......................................................................................................................................... 59 Report from the Silver Steward ................................................................................................................ 60 Report from the Steward ........................................................................................................................... 61 Formal Hall Schedule for the Academic Year 2003-04 ............................................................................ 63 Report from the Garden Steward .............................................................................................................. 64 Report from the Studentship and Bursary Committee .............................................................................. 65 Prizes ................................................................................................................................................. 65 Studentships and Bursaries ................................................................................................................ 65 Anna Bidder Research Evenings ............................................................................................................... 66 Lucy Cavendish Appeal ............................................................................................................................ 66 Book Launch ............................................................................................................................................. 67 The Womb in which I Lay ........................................................................................................................ 67 Stop Press: Lucy Cavendish Lectures ....................................................................................................... 68 Wheels, Thrills and Hills! ......................................................................................................................... 69 Dear Folks Back Home ............................................................................................................................. 70

IN MEMORIAM

Dr Margaret Elise Wallace 1922-2003 ..................................................................................................... 72

THE ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION

Report from the Alumnae Association President ...................................................................................... 73 Members of the Alumnae Association Committee, March 2003 .............................................................. 74

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The College 2002-03 President Sutherland, Veronica Evelyn BA MA (HON) LLD DBE CMG

Honorary Fellows Burbidge, Eleanor Margaret FRS Grantchester, MA Hanratty, Judith LLB LLM Harris of Peckham, Lady (Pauline) Hetzel, Phyllis MA HM Queen Margrethe of Denmark HON LLD McLaren, Anne MA DPHIL HON DSC FRCOG FRS DBE Oldham, Barbara OBE MA MB CHB MRCS LRCP

Perry of Southwark, Baroness (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 Tizard, Catherine A BA GCMG GCVO DBE QSO Todd, Janet MA PHD Trumpington of Sandwich, Baroness (Jean Alys) PC Warburton, Dame Anne DCVO CMG MA HON LLD (ARKANSAS)

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

In Memoriam Mrs Margo Bulman Honorary Fellow 13 June 1913 – 3 September 2003

Dr Margaret Wallace Founding Fellow Emeritus Fellow from 1988 22 January 1922 – 8 January 2003

Catherine (Kate) Felicitée Shoenberg Calouste Gulbenkian Research Fellow Senior Member Senior Member Emeritus Member by Election 23 April 1906 – 1 August 2003

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Governing Body Fellows 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 Richardson, Eileen Haywood BA (HONS) MA PHD Sausman, Charlotte Ann MA PHD 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

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Abulafia, Anna Brechta Sapir MA PHD FRHISTS 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 Lindsay BSC MA PHD Esch, Edith MA PHD Gull, Sarah Elizabeth MBBS FRCS(ED) MRCOG Hawthorn, Ruth MA Houghton, Christine BA MA Jackson, Susan MA PHD CENG James, Mary Elizabeth BED MA PHD Jones, Ruth MA MB CHB FRCA

Governing Body Supper, June 2003, Marshall House Garden

Bursar Bryant, David Peter Herbert

Research Fellows Murphy, Alexandra BSC PHD Park, Sowon BA MA MPHIL DPHIL Tooke, Fiona BSC PHD

Waldick, Ruth Carolin BSC MSC PHD Windram, Heather Frances BSC PHD

Visiting Fellow Bolens, Jacqueline PHD Lee, Natalie LLB

Merrill, Lisa BA MA PHD Robertson, Ann BSC MSC DRPH

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Visiting Scholar Clarke, Ann BSC PHD

Cremona, Vicki Ann PHD

Fellow-Commoners Corbalis, Judy BA MA Pearse, Barbara PHD FRS

Purkiss, Brenda A MA Raj, Dhooleka Sarhadi PHD

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

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

Honorary Member of the Combination Room Anderson, Helen 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, Mary Brooke, Rosalind Beckford BA MA PHD Cheney, Mary Gwendolen MA MLITT Crawford, Harriet MA PHD FSA Davidson, Hilda Roderick Ellis MA PHD Herbert, Gertraud MA DPHIL Joysey, Valerie Christine BSC PHD Lee, Helen MSC PHD Maddocks, Susan

Martin, Jessica Heloise MA PHD Muthesius, Anna Maria BA PHD FSA 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 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 Arber, Muriel Agnes MA Bayraktaroglu, Arin PHD Bennett, K M Veronica BSC MA PHD Bocking, Marjorie BSC Bola, Manjit PHD Bradbrook, Bohuslava R DPHIL PHD Brindley, Sue MA 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 Crawley, R Eva LLB OBE Davies, Karen BA MA Dawson, Julie De Smith, Barbara LLB MA Dee, Lesley Dex, Shirley PHD 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 Hawtrey-Woore, Jo Hendricks, Henriette 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 Muller, Barbara Napolitano, Valentina BSC MPHIL PHD Panayotova, Stella Parodi, Teresa PHD Rathbone, Deborah BSC PHD Ridden, Jennifer Sue BA PHD Rogers, Gillian Elizabeth BA MA PHD Rushden, Elizabeth BA Scheibl, Fiona BA PHD Schiffman, Victoria Relisse BA MA PHD Schramm, Jan-Melissa PHD Stevens, Peta MA Tipper, Karen Sasha PHD Tooke, Nichola MSC PHD Vickers, Ilse Renate BA PHD Wallach, Robin Walsham, Alison MA Williamson, Elaine Wilson, Anji BSC MSC PHD Wilson, Jean MA PHD FSA Wood, Jennifer Susan Shirley BSC MSC DIP PHD Worsnop, Victoria Mary BA MA PHD

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Members of Staff Mr Kim Atterton, Handyman Miss Johanna Barber, Housekeeper (on sick leave) Mrs Anne Barham, Domestic Bursar’s Secretary (from April 2003) Mr Gordon Barnes, Accounts Assistant Mr Alf Blackiston, Night Porter (until December 2002) Mrs Mary Cavander-Attwood, Nurse Mr Alan Choat, Relief Porter (from May 2003) Manager of the Porter’s Lodge to Cover Maternity Leave (from June 2003) Mr Richard Crosthwait, Gardener Ms Linda Curnow, Personnel Administrator and Bursar’s Secretary Mrs Karen Davies, Archivist Mrs Rosse Ekins, Dining Room Supervisor Mr Tim Flood, ICT Manager’s Assistant Mrs Janet Fox, Gardener Mr Maurizio Fusinato, Kitchen Porter Mrs Penny Granger, Library Assistant (until February 2003) Mrs Lucy Graves, Till Operator Mrs Tasha Greer, Chef Mrs Sharon Hall, Cleaner Mrs Joan Harris, Assistant Librarian Mr Kevin Hart, Relief Porter (from December 2002) Mrs Beverley Harvey, Secretary to President and Vice-President Mr Robin Hill, Clerk of Works Mr Martin James, Chef Miss Gaby Jones, Admissions Officer Mrs Julie Kowalczyk, Tutorial Assistant (until September 2002) Ms Freda Larsson, Kitchen Porter (until September 2002)

Mr Ron Lawrinson, Weekend Porter Mr Ronan Le Noac’h, Evening Porter Miss Andrea Lines, College Accountant Mrs Helen Mallett, Assistant Housekeeper Mr Bryan Mansfield, Relief Porter (from May 2003) Mr Michael Mantell, Chef Mr Andrew Matthews, Relief Porter (until June 2003) Mr Hugh Matthews, Chef Manager Mrs Isobel McReavie, Housekeeper Miss Emma Mitchell, Domestic Bursar’s Secretary (until February 2003) Mr Alan Moggridge, Relief Porter (from November 2002 until January 2003) 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 (from October 2002) Mrs Sue Sang, Student Finance Officer Ms Gill Saxon, Library Assistant (from April 2003) 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 from June 2003) Mr Tom Turl, Handyman Mr Colin White, Relief Porter (from May 2003) Dr Michael Witty, Weekend Night Porter (from February 2003) Ms Tanya Wohlrab-Ryan, Evening/Weekend Till Operator (from February 2003 until May 2003)

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The Student Body Undergraduates First Year Aspinwall, Louise Barsam, Talia Beringer, Catherine Bridges, Laura Brooks, Alison Capuzzo, Jacqueline Chua, Tiffany Cross, Deborah Dennison, Kelly Dombrowski, Caroline Drescher, Jasmin Fadden, Sarah Feix, Birte

Higgins, Fiona Hodgson, Sally Horst, Simone 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 Parsons, Cheyne Reid, Charlotte Rutter, JoAnne Shiels, Tracey Sood, Radhika Spears, Camilla Surti, Meera Teichmann, Stefanie Tobiassen, Lene Ward, Janelle Williams, Diane

Second Year Allen, Laura Appel, Elizabeth Bates, Linda Booth, Victoria Butler, Michelle Cheese, Hilary Chen, Christine Chua, Ser Ching Cruse, Elizabeth Donaldson, Catherine Gardelin, Kari Hutchinson, Sarah-Elizabeth James, Sheridan

Joly, Ellen Khan, Najeeba Khan, Rosena Litterick, Danielle MorningStar, Alice Moscovich, Noga Nason, Sarah-Marie Onions, Sharron Payne, Emma Pellett, Sarah Pickerill, Susan Rajan, Deepa Rendle, Sophie

Robinson, Patience Rowan, Jane Ruddick, Gillian Rushworth, Lucy Scarlett, Sheila Scotland, Esther Shahani, Uttara Smith. Elisabeth Wareham, Alison Yule, Jennifer Zakrisson-Plogander, Anna

Third Year Birch, Sarah Bishop, Deborah Dezille, Mary Eisenstein, Ingrid Gray, Stephanie Jahangir, Sulema King, Fiona

Light-Hausermann, Jade Long, Susan McCracken, Jessica McIntyre, Elizabeth Pender, Julie Robinson, Kathryn Roxanas, Emma

Sanders, Hazel Sanders, Michele Smith, Kate Storr, Amanda Welch, Suzanne

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Graduate Students Ahmed, Amineh Alexander, Elise Alexander, Isabella Alireza, Patricia Allen, Kirsten Anderson, Deborah Asu, Eva Liina Balaram, Rakhee Batory, Agnes Berges Frese, Ame Bhana, Janita Bloomfield, Samantha Bolognesi-Winfield, Agnese Buhr, Kathrin Castle, Slavena Catania Kulper, Amy Cavanagh, Lorraine Chalcraft, Faye Chatzidaki, Emmanouella Chen, Min Chen, Theresa Cheong, Mei Collins, Rachel Corsgreen, Patricia Daikou, Sophia Dauteuille, Karine Deshpande, Anupama Dixon, Kate Dolinskaya, Irina Downham, Clare Doyle, Suzanne Drought, Anabel Druilhe, Celine Durkovic, Milja Ebersold-Silva, Aimee El Ashegh, Hanan Ellis, Clare Firth, Shirley Fischetti, Lucia Fisher, Elaine Gurung, Alka Haddock, June Hague, Caroline

Heard, Shelagh Hilliard, Claire Holliday, Gemma How, Karen Howes, Marie Hsieh, Wendy Jonsdottir, Ingibjorg Juss, Jatinder Kalyvianaki, Evangelia Karl, Alexandra Kefala, Eleni Kersel, Morag King, Louise Kitching, Amanda Kluk, Karolina Kolesnik, Elena Laffir, Fathima Lane, Abigail Lange, Ulrike Law, Carol Lee, Janet Lee, Fiona Lee, Yu-Lan Leong, Susanna Levey, Hilary Liao, Yu-chun Mack, Merav McDougall-Weil, Alison McNicol, Jennifer Messazos, Betty Miller, Jessica Mitchell, Poppy Miwa, Satomi Mohd Mokhtar, Norfilza Mole, Kristine Mukherjee, Tilottama Nahar, Shamsun Nguyen, Thuy Linh O'Donovan, Bridget Oliver, Mo Oom Ferreira de Sousa, Joana Park, Soo-Mi Patel, Disha

Peng, YuanYuan Petrovic, Maja Phanichewa, Sirima Rana, Uzma Ranganathan, Archana Richards, Morgan Richardson, Tanya Rickell, Jane Russell, Sheila Ryan, Triona Samsonova, Anastassia Saxton, Julie Sen Gupta, Soma Sharif, Bedra Shohaimi, Shamarina Singh, Alaka Skingley, Anita Skvirskaja, Vera Smith, Pamela Smith, Peri Stark, Joalice Stavridou, Ioanna Stockl, Andrea Stoeckl, Andrea Sullivan, Ann Sykes, Rosemary Teo, Hsiang Thomas, Emily Tobe, Renee Towers, Sarah Tribe, Vivien Wanderley, Lilian Wang, Yu-Chiao Warakaulle, Charlotte Webb, Sharon Wen, Jing Wolfe, Sylvia Xu, Mengjie Yeung, Ka Wai Yogendra, Shefaly Yoneki, Eiko Yong, Yee Sook Zheng, Yingqin

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Letter from the President hroughout last year the issue of student fees rumbled on, and we had the Secretary of State for Education offering throwaway remarks about medieval historians being purely decorative. As a College for mature women, many of whom are already making great personal sacrifices to be here, and as a body that cherishes learning, we might be forgiven for letting our dismay show. Fortunately our sense of purpose is even stronger and so this has been a year in which we have clarified our vision and have shown our resolve to build on past success. Our development brochure, Making Things Happen, has set out where we’re headed. It’s a daunting task to try to raise funds in current economic circumstances but I’m heartened by the knowledge that we have so many friends. Indeed, the thing that has particularly touched me over my second year here has been the sense of belonging that Lucy Cavendish engenders. Not only our former students and Fellows but also our visitors and honorary members have shown the affection they retain for the College. For example, Dr Helen Anderson, Chief Scientific Adviser to the New Zealand Government, much enjoyed her time under the auspices of the Centre for Women & Leadership. Both in writing and during a short follow-up visit she has spoken of the special atmosphere at Lucy Cavendish. And Judy Corbalis, author and Fellow Commoner, is always so happy to return here, including with her husband, Phillip King, President of the Royal Academy. Indeed, Sir Phillip is very kindly lending us one of his sculptures for display in the garden. Speaking of distinguished visitors, I am delighted that their number will be expanding by four with the addition of our new Honorary Fellows: Professor Carol Black, President of the Royal College of Physicians; actress Dame Judi Dench; Professor Alison Richard, the new Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University; and author Mrs Claire Tomalin whose biography of Pepys has been on the best-seller lists for some time. We are so very delighted that such eminent women have agreed to be associated with us. I feel sure that they will be of immense help in our efforts to raise the College’s profile, including to highlight the ways in which our specific requirements differ from the perceived needs of Cambridge Colleges. Our improved website will also help those who want to know us better. Indeed it was heartening that Claire Tomalin praised the informativeness and ease of access of the site, having shown commendable enthusiasm to find out more about the College

before recently making a preliminary visit with her

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The President addressing the Matriculation Celebration, October 2002

husband, Michael Frayn. The Governing Body has also taken the important step of appointing a Development Officer to help coordinate our fund raising. So I’m confident that one way or another we shall be making progress in raising funds, getting better known, and enhancing our contribution within Cambridge and beyond to the debates that affect us. All of which makes for a busy life. So I am conscious of the increasing load of work on the Governing Body and on our administrative staff. As we grow, and as we sharpen the focus of our activities, we have had to take difficult decisions, as well as having to test new ways of doing things. In this the Fellows have shown commendable flexibility, as well as demonstrating the breadth of expertise and experience that they can bring to bear. I am very grateful for their support and for their never flagging commitment to our students. With teaching in mind, I am delighted to be able to mention promotion for three of our University Teaching Officers - Mary James, Laura Wright and Antje Pedain. A very special honour also came to one of our former Fellows when Dr Olga Kennard was awarded an Honorary Degree by the University. Sadly of course there have been some departures. Ruth Hawthorn and Eileen Richardson are leaving us for new ventures elsewhere and we are grateful to them for their contribution to the College. And I should also record the death of Dr Margaret Wallace, a Founding Fellow of the College.

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Beyond the College, we are also saying goodbye to the current Vice-Chancellor, Sir Alec Broers. He has worked hard â&#x20AC;&#x201C; and often against the ghosts of long dead forces â&#x20AC;&#x201C; to improve central University administration, as well as to promote co-ordination among the Colleges. Much remains to be done by his successor, and Lucy Cavendish has many interests to be furthered. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s encouraging therefore that his successor is to be an Honorary Fellow of the College.

But of course it is our students who remain the purpose of our existence and who provide the lifeblood of the College. I shall not repeat what the Senior Tutor and others have written elsewhere in this Newsletter. I must however add my own congratulations for the many successes our students have achieved, not only academically but also in sporting, cultural, social and other areas. The process of getting to know our students is a great joy, so I much look forward to doing more of it in the coming year. Dame Veronica Sutherland President

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s I reflect over the last year, a kaleidoscope of memories and images come flooding back into my mind. I think it is the variety of Lucy Cavendish that is its strength. The student body in particular is composed of so many, different individuals, each with her own - often unusual – sometimes amazing - experiences and the one uniting factor within the whole community is an enthusiasm for the academic and a desire for an intellectual life alongside all the other lives that we live. This variety generally results – as it has this year – in a vibrant and active College. The students have participated with enormous energy in College concerns and in University and external affairs. So we have had concerts and poetry readings within the College; we have had students full of good ideas about how to plan a development programme; we have had successes in rowing and eventing - and a student running in the London Marathon; we have had students establishing an already successful University Pro-Bono Society– and on top of all this, we have had excellent academic results. It has been a good year.

A Senior Tutor also works closely with the Students’ Association, and this year I have had the tremendous pleasure of working first with Emma (Chatzidaki) and then, after the change-over, with Dimple (Mehta). I suppose that, being a mature College, we are likely to benefit from having a student body who know how to run organisations and who are responsible and effective – this certainly seems so with the SA. It is a real joint effort to ensure that we run our community for the benefit of us all. During the year, we have run various workshops for the students, including the BP Workshop which was extended to look at work experience placements generally. Najeeba Khan spoke about her studentship with BP and then Ellen Joly (the marathon runner!) talked about her Local Authority placement. Such work experience can be very helpful for those who are uncertain about their future careers. So far, it sounds as though the year has been full of sunlight. It has, but of course there have been clouds as well. The political manoeuvrings over the funding of higher education have worried us all.

The year started with my taking over the baton from Anna as Senior Tutor. Anna very kindly eased me into the new role and gave me a lot of support and help while I was finding my feet. She handed over to me a Tutorial Office that was running with extraordinary calm efficiency and a team of tutors who were working happily and effectively together. I am pleased to say that the Office and the Team have continued to function in the same way, and both have been a delight to work with. Personally, I think that Tutorial Team, June 2003 we have the best Tutorial Office of any Back Row: Dr Sue Jackson, Tutor; Mrs Julie Dashwood, Assistant Graduate Tutor for Cambridge College – Arts PhDs; Dr Allison Curry, Assistant Graduate Tutor for one-year courses; and I have come across Ms Jane McLarty, Admissions Tutor; Mrs Janet Rogers, Tutorial Assistant; Mrs Faith Payne, Senior Tutor’s Assistant; Miss Gaby Jones, Admissions Officer quite a few others Front: Mrs Louise Tee, Senior Tutor; Ms Ruth Hawthorn, Tutor and Admissions Tutor during the last year. in Medicine; Dr Orsola Rath Spivack, Graduate Tutor.

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Many of our students have to make enormous financial sacrifices to come here, and already end up with a heavy debt by the time they leave. To add further to the cost and expense seems certain to have an impact upon access – and this is a concern for our College especially, because we consider that our wide access is one of the special reasons for our existence. We have written letters and tried to make our voice heard in the debate – time will tell how successful we have been. We are lucky, however, in our friends and benefactors. And at the Studentship and Bursary Committee meeting last month, we were able to distribute some £62,750 in bursaries to our students. Two new funds this year to help scientists and vets respectively are due to the great generosity of the Bertram family and to Jane Nixon,

who read Veterinary Medicine undergraduate in the 1970’s.

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And so the year is now drawing to its close, and I am going to pass the baton of the Senior Tutorship on. I have realised that I am better suited to the law, and I have missed not having more time for my research, teaching and matters legal. But even though I am going, I have enjoyed the year very much, and, at Senior Tutors’ Committees and other University meetings, I have felt very proud to represent Lucy Cavendish. The College is a fun, energetic community and it seems to me that it is growing from strength to strength. Ms Louise Tee Senior Tutor

Report from the Admissions Tutor

nce again we have had an excellent year for Admissions, with at the time of writing 43 offers for entry in October 2003. Late interview sessions in March and June have proved very fruitful and we have decided to retain them, with a warning on our website when popular subjects (such as Law, SPS and English) become “full”. Continuing with the theme of recruitment, this year saw the launch of our new prospectus and leaflet – the University’s FE Access Officer commented that it was “very Ikea” by which I take it she meant stylish and attractive! Armed with this new material, one of our alumnae, Pauline Blake, is acting as an Outreach Officer for us and undertaking a range of visits to FE Colleges. We also contributed some student visitors to the Mature Target Scheme, which sends students back to their FE Colleges to spread the word about applying to Cambridge. The joint Mature Colleges Open Day, held this year at Wolfson, was particularly successful with around 100 guests; our own smaller Open Day saw around 30 visitors, with some interesting possibilities for applications for next year. St Edmund’s hosted a very successful

Open Day for FE Tutors in Law and the Social Sciences, at which both Louise Tee and I made guest appearances. I took part in one of the University FE Access Officer’s Regional Forums, up in Yorkshire, where I spoke about applying to Cambridge as a mature student, supported by one of our undergraduates, Sarah Lodge. Looking ahead, the cloud on the horizon for us is the question of differential tuition fees, which can be charged by Universities from October 2006. The University has stated that it does not wish widening participation to be affected by this move – but I am very much concerned that mature students in particular will be deterred from applying to Cambridge if higher fees are introduced. Other Admissions Tutors share my concerns about the effect on access, and we will be lobbying hard to ensure that a Cambridge education is accessible to all who can benefit from it. Ms Jane McLarty Admissions Tutor

Report from the Graduate Tutor

his year I can report on a particularly pleasing level of activity among the Lucy graduate community, as even more graduates finish their dissertations and are awarded their degree, while regular events are successfully repeated and new ones introduced.

(Archeology), Antoinette Ige (Biology), Hye-Kung Lee (Linguistics), Meis Moukayed (Biochemistry), Soo-mi Park (Clinical Medicine), Athanasia Spandidos (Biology), Sheh May Tam (Plant Sciences), Vivien Tribe (History of Art), Sharon Webb (Archeology).

Since my last report fifteen students were awarded a Ph.D.: Agnes Batory (International Relations), Min Chen (Chemical Engineering), Irina Dolinskaya (Economics), Clare Downham (ASNAC), Suzi Elneil (Pharmacology), Christina Hatzimichael

Sixteen were awarded an M.Phil.: Carrie Ankerstein (Applied Linguistics), Mariana Cerovic (English), Heather Cheshire (Geography), Ruth Elliott (SPS), Uugabileg Erdene (Development Studies), Hsieh-Li Ghan (Land Economy), Yvonne Liew (Management

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Studies), Susan O’Mahoni (Clinical Medicine), Yuan Yuan Peng (Land Economy), Maja Petrovic (Soc. Anthropology), Melissa Reynolds (Divinity), Lee Ming Seow (Management Studies), Elaine Venter, (Land Economy), Jodi Williams (Soc. Anthropology), Helen Woodhouse (Classics), Nazish Zeidi (Material Sciences). Five were awarded an M.Ed.: Patricia Cooper, Elizabeth Jurd, Carol Lavender, Elizabeth Pichon and Kate Ruttle; Linda Mercy was awarded the Diploma in Public Health; Jatinder Juss, Betti Messazos and Soma Sen Gupta graduated in Medicine, and Triona Ryan and Peri Smith have just been awarded an LL.M. To round off the year, we are expecting a record number of graduate students receiving their degree at the end of July. The Graduate meetings this year have included a combination of parties, talks and workshops, with sessions on ‘Student Finance’, ‘Time Management’, ‘Essay Writing’, and ‘Tackling a PhD Dissertation’. As graduates never go on holiday – in fact they are usually very much around and often slightly lost during the Long Vacation in a Cambridge devoid of undergraduates – meetings happen in the summer as well. Dr Laurie Friday, Secretary of the Board of Graduate Studies, came to Lucy in July to answer questions from our students and students from other Colleges. I am pleased to say that we also managed two meetings especially for part-time graduate students, and that both student participation and College provision for part-time graduates is growing. This is particularly important as Cambridge University prepares to admit the first part-time PhD students in the coming year. As a response to the growing needs of graduates, and to their expressed wishes, new initiatives have also been implemented. A workshop on English as a Foreign Language (EFL) was piloted during Lent, and continued throughout Easter due to public demand. Its obvious success owes as much to responding to a specific need, as to the dedication and skill of the course leader, James Griffiths. There will be another EFL workshop next year. A ‘Writing-up support group’ has been formed, to provide a forum where students who are writing their dissertation can share ideas and ‘ups and downs’. It is very much hoped that it will grow in size and strength. It has so far, after just one meeting, proved to be a source of innovative ideas. The move towards a number of joint ‘Graduate events’ with other Colleges widens opportunities for cultural and social exchange for the students, and

also enhances Graduate provisions across the Colleges, through sharing good practice and resources, where feasible. Three PhD students have given fascinating talks on their research topic: Sartorial sleuthing in the seventeenth century Characterization of macrophage inflammatory protein 2γ in normal human endometrium Hospital information systems and organizational changes in developing countries

Sheila Russell Norfilza Mohd Mokhtar Jane Zheng

Several graduates have achieved excellent research, some already resulting in publications. I cannot report them all here, but I will mention that, in addition to the two MPhil students receiving the College Harris Prize for Graduate Results, Mei Cheong and Milja Durkovic, in Geological Engineering and Linguistics respectively, Satomi Miwa, who is doing research at the Dunn Nutrition Unit, won the Poster Competition in the Graduate School of Biological, Medical and Veterinary Sciences. You can see the winning entry on the right. The traditional Lent party had a novel twist this year: we had smaller parties, organised by the individual Tutors and mixing graduate and undergraduate groups of students. Each one was different and, I hear, thoroughly successful. Some Tutors bravely offered their home as a venue for the

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party! Ruth Hawthorn and I had an ‘International Evening’ at Lucy, where food from all over the world, made by students and Tutors, was enjoyed by all. I must remember to ask again for the recipe for that banoffee pie! Many thanks to all who have contributed to this. The graduates, first of all, for their enthusiasm, their imaginative scholarly work and the multicultural vitality they bring to Lucy. The other Graduate Tutors, Julie Dashwood and Allison Curry, for their tremendous work, the advice, the sharing of

problems and happy moments. The rest of the staff: Sue Sang, the Student Finance Officer, for her quiet and incredibly efficient running of all students financial matters; Gaby Jones, Faith Payne and Janet Rogers in Tutorial Office, who not only keep track of all administrative matters and keep an extra eye on the students, but are always available for extra help, and cheer me up when I need it! I feel truly privileged to be part of this team. Orsola Rath Spivack Graduate Tutor

Report from the Students’ Association Lucy Cavendish College Students’ Association Representatives 2002-03 President Vice-President Treasurer Secretary Bar Steward Graduate Rep

Emmanouella Chatzidaki Bridget O’Donovan Stephanie Gray Linda Bates Andrea Stoeckl Rosie Sykes

Green Officer International Officer Press & Publicity Sports Rep Welfare Officer

Kari Gardelin Christine Chen Sulema Jahangir Penny Robinson Liz Cruse

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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

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

Report from the Students’ Association President God made the trees, the birds and the bees And the sea for the fishes to swim in. But above all this, he has to be praised For creating exceptional women. Sir Noel Coward (1899 – 1973) On behalf of the student body at Lucy Cavendish College I would like to say a heartfelt ‘thank you’ to Emmanouella Chatzidaki, Bridget O’Donovan and the rest of the Students’ Association members of 2002 – 2003 for their hard work and dedication over the past year. The new SA and I are particularly grateful for all their help and good advice during the transition period when we first came into office. We wish you the best of luck for the future and will be very sorry to see some of you leave as you come to the end of your academic journey here at Cambridge. However, I won’t say ‘Good bye’ – it sounds too final, somehow. Instead, I will simply say that we hope to see you again very soon.

October 2002 to embark upon an admittedly eccentric mission. I am a Law graduate from London who decided to pursue a personal ambition and read History (BA Hons) at Cambridge before joining the legal profession. I have just completed the first year of a two-year affiliated course. Since taking office in February, the SA and I have worked in partnership with the college administration and fellowship to improve college life. It has been an extremely successful year. Indeed, each year is successful because Lucy is the college that it is - a close-knit, friendly wonderfully unique place that prides itself upon its warmth and informality and which never fails to impress visitors from the University and further afield.

My name is Dimple Mehta and I am the President of the SA for 2003 – 2004. I joined the college in

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Perhaps it goes without saying that the open and friendly environment at Lucy Cavendish is attributable to its students. Surely, as ‘the hat makes the man’, so to speak, the students make the college the great place that it is. It takes just one email to the student body to ensure that a gang is on the banks of the Cam cheering loudly for our boat at the bumps or a series of comic advertisements (literally!) dotted around the college grounds to gather a lively crowd to enjoy some Pimms and ease the stress of the examination period. A particular highlight of the Lucy social calendar is the summer Garden Party – and this year was certainly no exception. It was wonderful to see so many members of the college, family and friends enjoying themselves. My thanks go to everyone who helped make it such a success, especially Hugh Matthews and his team for the delicious food! However, the students are not the only thing that make Lucy Cavendish such a special place. The SA and I would never have been able to organise 70 free places for the final formal hall of this academic year without the support of the President, Dame Veronica Sutherland, the fellowship and the administrative staff of this college. Few JCR, MCR or SA Presidents have the luxury of knowing that their college is always keen to listen to their ideas and, where possible, to turn as many suggestions for variations in college policy into concrete reality. It certainly makes my job a lot easier! I would like to take this opportunity to thank Dame Veronica Sutherland, the Vice-President, Dr Anna Abulafia and Mrs Christine Houghton, our Domestic Bursar, for continuing to take an active interest in the student life at the college and for supporting our needs. Special thanks also go to the Senior Tutor, Mrs Louise Tee, for her help and the weekly meetings with Becky Loader and me which have proved to be the key means of communication between the college and the students. We will all be sorry to see Mrs Tee step down from this post and feel extremely lucky to have had an opportunity to work with her to improve things here on many different levels. We also extend a warm welcome to Mrs Julie Dashwood as the new Senior Tutor and very much look forward to working with her in the future. The past six months have seen several changes; the SA and I have slowly tried to introduce more social events, with the generous help of the Alumnae Association new Lucy t-shirts have been commissioned (and have proved extremely popular – available at the Porter’s Lodge), and we are continuing to support the development of the new Lucy Cavendish College website and baby-sitting scheme. Our future achievements are set to be even more diverse; amongst other things, we are working in partnership with the college to strengthen the

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College Friends Network with the new students and we hope to introduce self-defence lessons in the next academic year. Evidently, being a mature female college, the SA is dedicated to paying attention to family life, childcare and women’s rights. A committee of talented, enterprising and enthusiastic individuals, to whom I am deeply indebted, supports me in my role as President. It takes hard work to study at Cambridge – but it takes something quite different and just that little bit special to have the drive to combine your academic studies with a selfless commitment to your University, college and your fellow students! Certainly, the Students’ Association members are all ‘exceptional women’, as Sir Noel Coward would say!

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In many ways, I consider my role as President to be a role held jointly with Becky Loader, the VicePresident. Becky and I consult each other on every policy matter or social event that the SA is involved with and I could not have asked for a more supportive and hard-working person to undertake this post. Becky is currently making arrangements

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for the Freshers Induction week and was responsible last term for the publicity and tickets for the Garden Party. Our Treasurer, Steph Gray, has bravely taken on the office of Treasurer for the second year running and combines this well with her duties as Bar Steward – I wholeheartedly approve of the two offices being combined into one person…it always ensures fantastic (well-financed) social events (something which other colleges should take note of, perhaps?). The great live music for the Garden Party that we all enjoyed so much was all down to Steph! Particular thanks go to Steph for ensuring the live Jazz on Thursday nights after formal hall that continue to be as popular both inside and outside the college (I have met many MCR members of other colleges who remember with fondness, visiting Lucy

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at some point and enjoying those evenings). Katy Molyneux, as Secretary, has helped to organise SA meetings and write up agendas and minutes – responsibilities which are often time-consuming but very much appreciated. Our Graduate Representative, Morgan Richards, has worked hard with Orsola Rath Spivack, the Graduate Tutor, to ensure that we have an active committee that fights for Graduate issues all year round. I represent Lucy Cavendish College at the Graduate Union meetings to make sure that the ‘Graduate voice’ is heard too. Almost half of the student body at this college are Graduates so this is obviously an important issue for Morgan, myself and the rest of the SA. Radhika Sood, our International Officer, has made a commendable effort in ensuring that the college continues to provide for the needs of all its international students. Social events such as pizza and video and potluck food nights have proved very popular! She will continue her good work when the new international students join us next year. Radhika, and others who volunteer to help her, provide a vital support structure for the community of international students studying here. Meera Surti, our Social Secretary, deserves credit for reminding us that we are here at Lucy to have fun too! Meera worked tirelessly to ensure that our heat in the Pop Superstars competition with St. Edmund’s College was a success (and entertaining us with an amazing

voice that we never knew she had!!) and arranging the food for the Garden Party with Hugh. We look forward to even better events next year. Gemma Holliday, our Web and Publicity officer has been working hard to improve the SA web pages on the new college website (which we hope will be completed by the next academic year). Sarah Fadden, Welfare Officer, will be arranging selfdefence lessons for the college and, along with Karen How, our LesBiGayTrans Officer, has helped to establish a strong pastoral support structure for Lucy students. Sally Hodgson, our Green officer, has done much to make sure that the college’s recycling and compost projects continue to run smoothly and ensuring that the college knows what we recycle/reuse. Sarah Hutchinson has done much to ensure that if there is a sport or activity any student wants to get involved with, there is a team out there for you to join. Noga has continued her office as CUSU External Officer for the second year running and is a valuable interface between the college and CUSU - commenting on policy, voting on the behalf of the SA and suggesting ideas to the CUSU Council. Particular mention should also be made of others who have helped to contribute to college life. Special thanks go to Kirsten Allen for continuing to organise the weekly video nights that are enjoyed by so many of us in the Paul Paget room. Thanks also go out to Pauline Blake and her terrific work with the Lucy Choir and their performances which continue to make every special formal hall even more special. Lucy’s very own poetry society – Stanza – was founded this year by Linda Bates (please see her wonderful report on this). I very much hope that next year will see others starting up their own clubs and societies to further enrich student life here – everything from drinking societies to yoga have been a success at this college so everything is welcome! The Students’ Association, including myself, is largely made up of undergraduates; a heady mix of Vets, with a dash of Graduate and Affiliated Medics, topped off with a Philosopher, a Theologian and a Historian and garnished (like all intoxicating mixtures) with a Lawyer (they always manage to scramble to the top don’t they?…only kidding, Radhika!). I would like to say how thrilled I am personally that this should be the case on what is the thirtieth anniversary of when the first intake of undergraduates were admitted to the college…it is a truism to say that History never repeats itself exactly but there’s nothing more delicious than the past coming full-circle with the present…at least for one year, anyway! Dimple Mehta Students’ Association President, 2003-04

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Lucy Cavendish College Boat Club 2002-03 he year got off to a fantastic start with many enthusiastic newcomers attending the LCCBC social at the beginning of Michaelmas term. Having eaten the pizza, watched the videos and been assured that you can eat as much as you like without putting on an ounce when you row, many ladies braved the cold, dark mornings to have a go at rowing and/or coxing for the first (and for a few, the last) time. We were also fortunate to find two experienced rowers amongst the new faces, so for the first time in club memory, Lucy was able to put out a senior boat in Michaelmas. The outgoing Captain, Bridget O’ Donovan, effectively generated much interest in LCCBC at the start of the year (in spite of the indecently earlymorning outings) and, from the many students inspired to dip their blades in the water, an earnest core of Novice rowers remained to prove themselves in the Queen’s Ergo Competition. This event involves a crew of eight rowers each completing an agonising 500m sprint on an ergo (rowing machine). The pain on the faces of the athletes and the screams of support from the spectators is something everybody will remember for a long time to come. An assortment of Novices and Seniors joined forces to take part in the light-hearted fancy-dress Emma Sprints. The Lucy nuns blessed their way down the river before outrageously bribing the marshals with chocolate to secure a good head start against the opposition. In spite of the opposition being made to start facing the wrong direction, it was a tight race with Catz finally overtaking Lucy just before the finish. A rousing rendition of “Kumbayah” lifted spirits on the row back to the boat house and, whilst we may have lost the actual race to our Catz

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CCBC is thriving and, especially with the prospect of buying a boat with funds generously bestowed by Dr Lindsey Traub, expectations for the club next year are deservedly high. Special thanks must go to Julie Saxton and Dave Lewsey, who have been committed to coaching and encouraging the rowers, as well as all the other non-Lucy rowers who have supported us. Bridget O’Donovan has

opponents, our nun costumes were undoubtedly “Superior” to their rather less imaginative pussycats. The Senior IV spent the first term training for the Fairbairns Cup and, spurred on by Lucy supporters, they completed the 2km course (with retrospective cheerfulness!). Members of this crew then went on to compete in both the Lent and May Bumps. The productive union of Lucy Cavendish and Hughes Hall rowers (and a lively male cox) in these events was aided by the use of brand new cleavers that a former Captain of LCCBC, Gloria Cheung, had kindly donated. Both Bumps afforded a range of experiences for the crews, the highlights of which included bumping a Catz boat during the Lent races (sweet revenge for the Emma Sprints!) and concluding the May event by successfully racing the entire course twice in one day – a testimony to the spirit and stamina of the rowers, cox, coaches and supporters alike. Julie Saxton Sarah Fadden Tony Eva of www.sportspictures.co.uk

Emma Sprints, November 2002 Stroke: Janelle, Sarah F, Kirsten, Peri, Camilla, Janita, Catherine, Bow: Fiona L. Cox: Bridget, Coach/Bank party: Julie

provided excellent leadership, helping me to undertake the captaincy of LCCBC, to which I look forward with great confidence and eagerness. Sarah Fadden LCCBC Captain-elect

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o accompany his annual lecture series, ‘Poetry and Language’, poet and English fellow at Caius, J.H. Prynne offers students the opportunity to

welcome him to college for an evening of poetry discussion. Liz Cruse and I invited Mr Prynne to Lucy in Michaelmas 2001, and the participation in,

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and enjoyment of, this evening, from students reading for a variety of degrees, encouraged us to organise further meetings. In January 2003, after a year of informal events, we decided to make things official, and Stanza, the Lucy Cavendish College Poetry Society, was born. At our informal sessions, members bring along a favourite poem. These have included pieces by authors as diverse as A.A. Milne and Shakespeare, and even original compositions written by students themselves. Furthermore, during the Lent term, we were pleased to welcome two poets to college. On 12th February, John Stammers, poet and Judith Wilson fellow in the English Faculty, read from his published collection Panoramic Lounge Bar and from a collection to be published in early 2004. He answered questions from the audience, which led to a discussion about various aspects of writing and

reading poetry. Our most successful event was a reading in early March by poet (and Lucy alumna) Elizabeth Speller. Lizzie is an awardwinning poet, and the author of Following Hadrian. A Second-Century Journey Round the Roman World (2002). She is best known for her work with composer Michael Berkeley on the anthem ‘Farewell’, which appears on the memorial CD for Linda McCartney. We were delighted to welcome fellows and Old Girls to the Oldham Bar for Lizzie’s reading. We are looking forward to organising more events during the forthcoming academic year; keep an eye on our website (www.stanza.org.uk) for more information. Linda Bates Co-Founder, Stanza

Cambridge University Students’ Pro Bono Society

pril 2003 saw the hugely successful launch of the Cambridge University Students’ Pro Bono Society (CUSPBS). The society, which is sponsored by Allen & Overy and whose Honorary President is Louise Tee, was formed earlier this year by two Lucy affiliated law students, Catherine Beringer and Talia Barsam, along with James Willan of Trinity Hall, to address the absence of pro bono opportunities for lawyers at Cambridge. For those unfamiliar with the term pro bono, it translates as ‘for the public good’ (the full Latin term being pro bono publico), and has become a rather trendy term amongst the larger law firms, Chambers and Institutions in recent years. Schemes are based on the premise that access to justice should be available to everyone. The society functions by establishing links to existing organisations within the community and offering them the services of volunteers. This way we ensure that we receive adequate training, and, where necessary, supervision and insurance. Whilst we are aware that we are not yet in a position to offer legal advice to clients ourselves, our projects allow volunteers the opportunity to act as advisors under the guidance of fully-qualified staff (for example, at the County Court Housing Advice Desk) or, where specific legal knowledge is not required, to play some other, but nonetheless important, role in an organisation which shares the aim of providing everyone with access to justice. The term pro bono is stretched in the context of our society to cover the many roles students can play within the community to support free legal services (for instance, as an ‘Appropriate Adult’ with the Youth Offending Team, volunteers will attend Police custody and interviews when young people are arrested in order

to protect their rights and ensure they are not treated in an oppressive way by the Police). However, the projects to which we attach ourselves are nevertheless based upon the linked premise that access to justice should be available for everyone. Even where specific legal knowledge is not required, we feel that there is wide scope to develop and utilise the many skills acquired by and required for potential lawyers (for example, the ability to act quickly and tactfully, to conduct independent research, to be proficient at negotiation and mediation, to extract and work with information quickly and efficiently, and to communicate effectively with a client). We hope that the opportunities we are striving to create will be of significance for student lawyers for the following principal reasons. Firstly, pro bono work allows the skills and - in certain cases - the knowledge, acquired through studying law to be put to practical use, even if only to assist more qualified figures so that they can use their time more efficiently. Secondly, we feel that it is enormously beneficial for students to experience a more practical side to the law and its role within the community, and to develop practical skills that will serve them well throughout their career. Thirdly, volunteers are given the opportunity to see how the law affects real people; for instance, the effect on young people of custody, or how the laws of Landlord and Tenant affect those about to lose their homes to repossession. Finally, and most importantly, we consider that it is important for potential lawyers to become involved with pro bono as early as possible and develop a commitment to the principles of pro bono work. If the underlying principle of access to justice for all is promoted here at Cambridge, it is

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hoped that students will retain the confidence and motivation to enable a continuation of involvement with pro bono throughout their future legal careers. Presently CUSPBS has over 100 members, and is developing its current projects (the Appropriate Adult Scheme, the County Court Housing Advice Desk Project and several collaborations with the Citizens Advice Bureau, including social policy work and supporting the Bureau’s legal advice clinics) as well as laying the foundations for future

projects through the help of our newly expanded committee. We welcome support from students and staff, and if you would like to find out about future projects and possible opportunities next year, please email us at probono-soc-exec@lists.cam.ac.uk. We are also currently setting up our website, which will be found at www.cam.ac.uk/societies/probono. Talia Barsam Catherine Beringer

My Brilliant Weekend hat a brilliant weekend I've just had! After 3 hard years the last few weeks flew by. Hardly before I had recovered after the last Tripos exam and the celebratory jugs of Pimms were drained, May Week hit. I didn't make a Ball this year but a group of Lucy students had a great view of Trinity fireworks sitting on John's grass, a picnic at Midsummer Night's Dream in Peterhouse Deer Park and several Garden parties made up for that. What madness, after months of toiling in the computer room or in the UL everyone was desperate to spend time with friends before, as every year, Lucy students vanish back to their homes all over the globe. Then the culmination of it all… Graduation! Friday: The Graduands dinner was brilliant. Great grub and great company by candlelight. How Cambridge!

You stand forward and a familiar face utters unfamiliar words. You might not understand the words but you understand what they mean. Its over! The feelings begin to rush - happiness, relief, sadness, anxiety that you'll forget to bow but overall JOY. Everyone is happy - your family, friends, passers-by, tutors, college staff, but especially you. You've done it!

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How many times in the last 3 years have you thought of giving up, too many to count. When the road to success seemed littered with boulders to fall over and crevasses to disappear down. Forgotten the 10 supervision essays in 3 days and a dissertation to finish. It's do-able they all say, that's Cambridge speak for it’s totally impossible but we're willing to die in the attempt. But we haven't died, we're survivors, we Lucy women, we made it right to the end. We've done it. We're ALL amazing and not a little amazed. Love to you all.

Saturday: Mingling on Strathaird lawns eating strawberries. Passing Mary Dezille at Graduands' the Praelector’s inspection and a Dinner, June 2003 quick gallop over the backs in the bright sunshine to the Senate House. Friends from home mingle with friends of this other life and children hang over the balcony desperate for Mary Dezille a glance of Mum festooned in mock rabbit fur. (the oldest Graduand in Cambridge 2003 I suspect) Standing excited and nervous 'pretty maids all in a BA Social & Political Sciences, 2000–03 row' then the moment it has all been building up to. Your name is called…

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Lucy Cavendish meets Virginia Woolf at Smith

n the strength of a dissertation written in my second year as an affiliated undergraduate in English at Lucy, I was invited to present a paper at the Thirteenth Annual Virginia Woolf Conference. It was my first experience of an academic conference. Four hundred delegates packed out the lecture halls, exhibitions and seminar rooms. There were the eminent Woolf scholars such as Hermione Lee and Lyndall Gordon who gave keynote lectures; there were many hardworking academics and researchers and some plain enthusiasts who self effacingly described themselves as “common readers” among whom, with no university education, Virginia Woolf would have numbered herself. The majority were American and one of the many incidentals that struck me during the conference, along with American confidence and enthusiasm, was an alarming note of despair at the current political situation in the U.S. especially in relation to Iraq. The conference was hosted by Smith College, Northampton, Massachusstts. Smith was founded by Sophia Smith who was a farmer’s daughter. She sat outside the schoolroom while her bothers had their lessons and determined to give women better opportunities. The college thus has much in common with Lucy Cavendish. But being in America, somewhat older and well endowed with money, it’s Lucy writ large. It takes at least ten minutes to walk from one end to the other of the green and wooded campus. There’s a lake set in a hollow (I thought of the Lucy birdbath – our one water feature) and a botanical garden. Many of the college buildings are built in New England, a style that conjures up Edith Wharton and Henry James,

but there is also an imposing library with portico and a modern art gallery which houses works by Picasso and Matisse as well as a large collection of American painting in its spacious halls. Smith, I felt, could provide Lucy with a useful role model run as it is by and for confident and articulate women, proud of their gender. People at Smith were deeply interested to hear of Lucy’s contribution to taking forward Virginia Woolf’s ideas on the education of women especially since we are part of Cambridge University – about which Woolf had much to say, not all of it good. I remember the conference as a collage of fragments. Colour coding in Orlando. Was Woolf anorexic? What did she owe to Proust? How did Bloomsbury conceptualise race? Were Woolf’s views on the suffrage original? Woolf’s attitude to clothes. These were only some of the papers on offer. But there were also performances of Woolf’s texts, and several exhibitions including a display of photographs from Woolf’s childhood holidays in Cornwall. This was the raw material for Woolf’s great novel To the Lighthouse. The idolatry of Bloomsbury was a bit hard to take at times , but it was a rich four days which I would not have missed. I owe the opportunity to Lucy Cavendish, for had I not been studying here, had I not received a grant from the Hardship Fund, had I not been generously encouraged by Sowon Park, Lucy Research Fellow and supervisor of my dissertation, I should never have gone. Elizabeth Cruse BA English 2001-03

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Report from the Fellowship Secretary

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ne of the privileges of the Fellowship Secretary is that of having the space to record our thanks to Fellows for all they have done for our College community. To say that Ms Ruth Hawthorn, since October 1995, has been in turn or simultaneously the Times Educational Supplement Research Fellow, then Admissions Tutor, Admissions Tutor for Medicine and Undergraduate Tutor is to give little idea of all she has done for us. While it is difficult to do justice to her contribution, we should recall that while pursuing her own research she brought to the College her wide experience in the field of careers, and to the great benefit of students at Lucy and elsewhere was frequently called upon for advice and to lead careers workshops. Her work for Admissions was vital in building up the position we now enjoy of having Ms Ruth Hawthorn excellent relationships with FE colleges and a buoyant and ever-increasing rate of applications, while at the same time maintaining our appeal to a wide variety of students from many backgrounds and circumstances. And she had a pivotal role in the lengthy negotiations which led to the establishment of the Graduate Course in Medicine, and in formulating, launching and guiding the College’s contribution to that Course. Much more could be said, but one of the many things valued in this deeply kind and thoughtful colleague was her ability always to make us reflect, go beneath the surface

and seek a fair and balanced point of view which we could articulate to ourselves and others. Now that she and Robert finally have time to enjoy London, possibly revisit Kosovo and doubtless return tanned and happy from sailing in the Western Isles we send our warmest good wishes, and our hope that they will be frequent visitors when they are in Cambridge. Dr Eileen Richardson came to the College in October 1999 as Research Fellow for the WorkLife Project of the Centre for Women Leaders (now the Centre for Women and Leadership). In October 2000 she accepted the Directorship of the CWL together with a research contract with the College, and successfully extended the CWL’s network and organised seminars and lectures. She was an able and hardworking Director of Studies in Social and Political Sciences, and was generous with the time she was prepared to allocate to the tasks of Silver Steward and Deputy Steward for the College, Joint Editor (in 2001 and 2002) of this Newsletter and to workshops for students. Her keen visual and artistic sense, which will be invaluable in her new venture, was evident in many ways, manifesting itself, for example, in the plants, in pots and in beautiful and exotic sprays, with which she surrounded herself. We wish her every success, in her new career and new home. Finally, we have had to say goodbye also to Dr Charlotte Sausman, our Newton Trust time-limited Teaching Fellow in the field of Health Management, who was first elected in October 2000 and who resigned in March 2003 to devote herself to research and to her family. Our thanks and best wishes go with her

Recommendations and Elections Honorary Fellows The College is honoured that the following have accepted our invitation to become Honorary Fellows of the College: Professor Alison Richard, Vice-Chancellor elect of the University of Cambridge, who in October will become Cambridge’s first full-time woman ViceChancellor; Dame Judi Dench, the actress whose performances on stage and television have made her a much-loved figure and household name; Professor Carol Black, the highly distinguished first woman President of the Royal College of Physicians;

Mrs Claire Tomalin, the writer whose much acclaimed works have ranged from her 1974 biography of Mary Wollstonecraft to her recent biography of Samuel Pepys. We look forward to welcoming them to Lucy Cavendish and are delighted that they have agreed to be associated with us. It is also a matter of great pleasure, and one for our warmest congratulations, to be able to record that Dr Mary James has been appointed Reader in Education, that Dr Laura Wright has been appointed to a Senior Lectureship in English and that Ms Antje Pedain has been appointed to an Assistant Lectureship in Law. We have also sent our congratulations to Dr Olga Kennard, of Newnham

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and Lucy Cavendish, on becoming an Honorary Doctor of Law, and wish to express our warm appreciation of the gift to the College Library of Professor Lisa Merrill, Visiting Fellow in the Easter Term 2003, of her book When Romeo was a Woman. Charlotte Cushman and Her Circle of Female Spectators, Ann Arbor, The University of Michigan Press, 1999 (paperback, 2000).

Emeritus Fellows The Fellowship Committee considered the unique contribution made by Dr Lindsey Traub to the life of the College. From June 1993 to September 1996 she was Admissions and Recruitment Tutor; from June 1995 to September 2002 College Lecturer in English; from November 1995 to September 2002 Vice-President, and deputised for the President when the latter was on study leave; and she was also Editor of this Newsletter from October 1996 to September 2000 and Recorder from September 2000 until April 2002. With particular regard to the interests of the College, the Committee unanimously recommended to Governing Body that she be elected an Emeritus Fellow.

Fellow-Commoners To mark our gratitude for all she is doing for the College, as well as for her own work as a novelist, the Committee recommended to Governing Body that Judy Corbalis, formerly a Visiting Scholar to the Centre for Women and Leadership, be elected a Fellow-Commoner from December 2002. The Committee was further delighted to recommend that Professor Anne Muthesius, formerly a Research Fellow and Fellow-Commoner of the College and currently an Honorary Member of the Combination Room, and who is now moving to Cambridge on leaving her post as Professor of Textile History at the Surrey Institute of Art and Design be elected a Fellow-Commoner from October 2003.

Elections to Fellowships in Class B In the Michaelmas Term, it was the Fellowship’s pleasure to welcome Dr Sarah Brown to a Class B Fellowship and College Lectureship in English. Dr Brown’s most recent book is Devoted Sisters: Representations of the Sister Relationship in Nineteenth-century British and American Literature, London, Ashgate, 2003. We are further delighted that from Michaelmas 2003 Dr Jane Greatorex, Senior Research Associate in the Department of Pathology, has been elected to a Class B Fellowship tied to her post as Newton Trust Time-limited Teaching Fellow in Pathology.

Visiting Fellows This year we have had the pleasure of welcoming as Visiting Fellows Dr Anne Robertson, Associate Professor in the Department of Public Health

Sciences, University of Toronto, Professor Lisa Merrill, of the Department of Communication, Performance and Rhetorical Studies, Hofstra University, Madame le Professeur Jacqueline Bolens-Schmidt, until recently Maître de Conférences (première classe) at the Collège de France and Ms Natalie Lee, Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Southampton. We are grateful to all of them for their contribution to College life. Next year will see the welcome return of an old friend, Professor Rosa Greaves, Professor of Law at the University of Durham. We shall also be delighted to have with us for the Lent Term 2004 Ms Mary Courtney, Manager of the Access to Higher Education Programme at the North Warwickshire and Hinkley College of Further Education, who has been elected as our first Further Education Fellow. We also look forward to the arrival of Dr Inge Hunnerup Dalsgaard, specialist in modern American literature, who is our new Carlsberg Visiting Research Fellow.

Visiting Scholars To our great pleasure Dr Vicki Ann Cremona, Senior Lecturer in the Departments of Arts and Languages at the University of Malta, who has been a Visiting Scholar to the College this year will be returning to us to continue her research in Cambridge during 2003-4. We also look forward to welcoming Dr Sana Sonia Hasan and Dr Minako Yamada, Adjunct Lecturer of Communication in Japanese, Tokyo Kasei University as Visiting Scholars. And finally, we shall be welcoming back alumna Ms Lizzie Speller, as a Visiting Fellow while she undertakes research on her latest book on Madame de Stael.

Honorary Members of the Combination Room In recognition of their important and much-valued work for the College, the Committee warmly recommended that Dr Helen Anderson, Chief Scientific Advisor to the New Zealand Government and former Visiting Fellow to the Centre for Women and Leadership and Mr Alex Sutherland be elected Honorary Members of the Combination Room. It further wished to mark the College’s enduring debt to Ms Ruth Hawthorn by proposing her election as an Honorary Member of the Combination Room..

Membership of the Combination Room In recognition of their interest in the work of the College the Committee was pleased to recommend that Profesor Susan Sellers, Dr Maria Diemling, Dr Barbara Muller, Dr Robin Wallach, Mrs Angela Lucas and Ms Elaine Williamson be elected Members of the Combination Room, and

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looks forward to their continuing association with the College.

A Final Note The Committee wishes to record its grateful thanks for all the hard and detailed work carried out by our Registrar, Ms Alison Vinnicombe, which went into the preparation of the long document on Procedures

for the Appointment and Reappointment to Offices. It is a text which is an invaluable reference tool, and it will greatly facilitate the work not just of this Committee. In addition it sets out clearly the case for appraisal for all colleagues. Julie Dashwood Fellowship Secretary

Competition for Visiting Fellowships and Scholarships for the Academic Year 2004-05 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. Visiting Fellows are matriculated as members of the College and are observers at Governing Body

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

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) Lucy Cavendish Summer Feast (Easter Term)

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

(c)

(a) (b)

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.

on sabbatical leave or carrying out teaching or research while in Cambridge or

funded by a learned society or recognised grant-giving body

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.

The closing date for receipt of applications and references is Monday 19 January 2004.

Applications (ten copies) and references should be sent to: Ms Alison Vinnicombe, Registrar, Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge CB3 0BU (tel: 01233 339240, email: aav20@cam.ac.uk) from

*By the Employment Act 1989, the College has exemption from the provisions of the Sex Discrimination Act, 1975 in relation to gender.

whom further details can be obtained. Applications cannot be accepted electronically.

Owing to building work, it will not be possible to offer accommodation to Visiting Fellows or Visiting Scholars in the Academic Year 2004-05.

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r Anna Sapir Abulafia writes: I became a member of the Board of the EU project on ‘Kultur, Mobilitaet, Migration und Siedlung von Juden im mittelalterlichen Europa’ and gave a paper to a conference in Speyer in October 2002 on ‘The Jews of Medieval Europe’. I published an article ‘The Conquest of Jerusalem: Joachim of Fiore and the Jews’ in: The Experience of Crusading, volume one: Western Approaches, ed. M.Bull and N. Housley (Cambridge, 2003) pp 127-146.

My research in the Department of Surgery (Addenbrooke’s Hospital) continues into ‘antigen recognition pathways in chronic allograft rejection and tolerance’. This first year has been productive with the work being short-listed for the Medawar Medal at the 6th Annual Congress of the British Transplantation Society.

r Sarah Brown writes: It’s been a hectic but very exciting first year for me at Lucy Cavendish, becoming reacquainted with the (admirable) vagaries of the English Tripos after three years away from Cambridge and getting to know so many talented and enthusiastic new students. It was particularly good to get back to teaching after my year’s research leave – and great to return to the luxury of supervisions after taking classes of 20 or so in my previous post. But I’ve also (just about!) found time to do some research; Devoted Sisters: Representations of the Sister Relationship in Nineteenth-Century British and American Literature was published (and launched at Lucy!) in April and I have had articles accepted by Shakespeare Survey and NineteenthCentury Studies.

Papers given: “Prequel as Palinode: Shakespeare and Mary Cowden Clarke”, Girton College, November 2002. “Lesbian incest in nineteenth-century literature”, Victorian Sexualities Conference, UC Worcester (May 2003) “Apollo Flies and Daphne holds the Chase”, Ovid Colloquium, Corpus Christi College Oxford (June 2003)

r Allison Curry writes: I have enjoyed another year as part of the tutorial team here at Lucy, a unique opportunity to work alongside other members of the Fellowship and to integrate more closely with our students. A year seems to have passed by very quickly when I come to write this short report and it always reminds me of how much the one-year graduate students manage to achieve in this short space of time. In addition I am taking on the position of Admissions Tutor for Medicine following on from Ruth Hawthorn’s retirement. I have already had ‘a taste’, answering questions at Open Days and

representing Ruth on committees and am very much looking forward to the challenges ahead.

rs Julie Dashwood writes: As another academic year, busy on many fronts, draws to a close I have personally been particularly pleased to note the commitment, and the achievements, of our Lucy MML students, and to have had in my possession, albeit only temporarily, a copy of The Iconography of Early Anglo-Saxon Coinage: Sixth to Eighth Centuries (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2003) which is the work of my former tutorial pupil, Dr Anna Gannon. In accordance with Anna’s wishes her book is now safely in the Lucy Library, as a splendid example of what our students go on to do in the academic world. Otherwise, I have continued to be Director of Studies in Italian for Christ’s and Assistant Director of Studies in Italian for Selwyn, and have much enjoyed the contact with my subject, and with students and colleagues in those Colleges, as well as being Director of Studies in MML and Linguistics for Lucy. I have, as always, found my teaching stimulating and rewarding, although I cannot imagine organising supervisions for students from some 14 different Colleges without e-mail. I have been to some highly enjoyable conferences, in Italy and France as well as London, and am now fully engaged in writing up much of my material. My work as Fellowship Secretary has become more familiar, if no less demanding, but as my report under that heading shows the Fellowship Committee has accomplished much, and it has been a source of some satisfaction to see the realisation of a number of our objectives. Apart from all this, our year was divided by moving house in the snowstorms of the end of January, and being snowed in (an appropriate, if frozen, watershed) for three days, at the end of which we clambered out to the local pub. Since then, and starting with the Canada geese the local wildlife, including (to the occasional disgust of our cats) mallards, hares, deer, pheasants, moorhens, herons and among many small birds a colony of wrens has teemed around the house, and provided material for the photograph below.

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

Publications Dashwood, J.R. 2002. ‘ Il come e un po’ il perché. Rappresentazioni di Ciascuno a suo modo e Questa sera si recita a soggetto in Inghilterra’, in E. Lauretta (ed.), Pirandello e il linguaggio della scena nella Trilogia del Teatro nel Teatro, Agrigento, Centro nazionale di studi pirandelliani, 2002, pp. 183-90. Dashwood, J.R. 2003, ‘ Pirandello e il piccolo schermo. La prima televisiva dell’ Uomo dal fiore in bocca’, in S. Milioto (ed.), Pirandello e il cinema, Agrigento, Centro nazionale di studi pirandelliani., 2003, pp. 219-25.

r Edith Esch writes:

Publications: Esch, E. (2002) 'My Dad's auxiliaries' in Jones, M. and Esch, E. (eds.) Language Change: An examination of Internal, External and Extralinguistics Factors, Contributions to the Sociology of Language 86, Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin, pp 11-39. Harding-Esch, E. and Riley, P. 2003. The Bilingual Family: A Handbook for Parents, CUP, pp. 1- 189 (Second edition ). Esch, E. 2002, Overview article on 'Resource-Based Learning' in the Subject Centre's Web-Guide to Good Practice in Teaching and Learning in Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies (http://www.lang.ltsn.ac.uk ) Translation: French Translation of Professor Robin Alexander's article ‘Pédagogie, culture et comparaison: visions et versions de l'école élémentaire’, Revue Française de Pédagogie, no 142, Janvier-Février-Mars 2003, 519. Submitted Publications: Esch, E. (in press) 'L'acquisition trilingue: recherches actuelles et questions pour l'avenir', Le Français dans le Monde, Numéro Special. Esch, E., M. Evans and L. Fisher (in press) '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 Online.

The two publications above are associated with an email project involving a network of francophone schools and local schools. The network includes the Lycée Français Jean Mermoz in Dakar, Sénégal, where I will be doing a study visit during my sabbatical in the Michaelmas Term 2003. I gave a paper on the project at the British Association of Applied Linguistics ( BAAL) in Cardiff in September 2002 and a paper entitled 'Global Connections and Individual Learners: the Web as a new arena of language Use' at the International Association of Applied Linguistics (AILA) in Singapore in December 2003. Appointment: External Examiner in Applied Linguistics for Trinity College, Dublin, for a period of three years from 2004. Teaching: I am part of a team of linguists who are involved in a new M.Phil course on Research in Second Language Education in the Faculty of Education. Detailed information is available on the Homepage of the Faculty http://www.educ.cam.ac.uk/

rs Sarah Gull writes: The Cambridge Graduate Course continues to expand, with 13 students now at Lucy. As Graduate Course Supervisor one of my tasks was to design and deliver "Index Case supervisions" where clinical problems are used to try to demonstrate the relevance of science in medical practice. These supervisions have been a lot of fun for all and have tested my own knowledge to the limit, demonstrating how teaching becomes a powerful way of learning. The strand within the course using the Humanities in Medicine is developing. This summer we are trying out Life Drawing classes in collaboration with an artist, and staging a "Cinema Season" at the West Suffolk Hospital to address various themes, such as death (La Traviata) and aging (Iris). I am evaluating this as part of my MA Education, which I aim to complete by the end of the summer. Publications: Clinical Effectiveness Group (Association of Genitourinary Medicine and the Medical Society for the Study of Venereal Diseases). “National guideline on the management of vulval conditions.” Edwards

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S. Handfield-Jones S. Gull S. International Journal of STD & AIDS. 13(6):411-5, 2002 Jun. “Creative writing workshops for medical education: learning from a pilot study with hospital staff” Gull SE; O’Flynn R, Hunter JYL. (Medical Humaniites edition) Journal of Medical Ethics 2002, 28(2):102104 “Uterine diverticulum as a late complication of caesarean section”. Wild E. Gull S. Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology. 23(1):88, 2003 Jan

r Susan Jackson writes: I have had the privilege this year to be invited to re-join the tutorial team, after my initial foray into the role of undergraduate tutor two years ago. My team of 24 tutees in their first year at Lucy have proved a delight, and I have enjoyed getting to know them. On top of that, it has been a pleasure to see some of the tutees that I ‘baby-sat’ for Ruth Hawthorn three years ago, come through to graduation, with honours in many senses of the word. Apart from my life at College, I spend my days at the Department of Engineering, where I have a multitude of roles ranging from teaching Materials Labs for first and second year students to producing the undergraduate prospectus (printed, web and CD versions) and general publicity material for the Department as a whole, to supervising fourth year student projects relating to ‘Virtual Learning Applications’. The student projects are a source of great variety-one student has produced an excellent teaching resource for Key Stage 2 Science (9-11 year olds), whilst another was wrestling with Java Beans to produce a simulated electronic circuit for undergraduate teaching. Some of our courseware is now being used for undergraduate teaching. I also have a great interest in ‘Outreach’ activities in general (i.e. helping with the Engineering event for the Cambridge Science Festival). It was nice to see some of the Lucy families turning up for the day this

year and making aeroplanes! One of the fun projects which our team has implemented this year is a ‘Virtual Open Day’, which can be accessed from: http://wwwg.eng.cam.ac.uk/mmg/openday/. A particularly nice feature of this is that the two main lectures on applying to Cambridge and about the engineering course can be viewed on-line, for those students who cannot come to the Department on the day. I recommend the lecture on admissions to anyone who is confused about the Cambridge system, regardless of discipline! For the most part my work is based around webbased resources for Engineering, and one very worthwhile project we are working on is producing an on-line course on ‘Inclusive Design’-this is the notion that products should be designed to include (rather than exclude) the majority of the population, which is getting increasingly older and with a higher proportion of disabilities. (By the year 2021, in the UK, half the adult population will be over the age of 50, and already 15% are registered as disabled). As the years creep up on me I am hugely in favour of designers becoming more considerate in what they produce for the general population! Better get on with the work…

r Mary James writes: I was honoured to be promoted to a Readership in Education, with effect from 1 October 2002. This was tinged with a little sadness because my father, who died on 30 September, would have liked to hear this news. I have now emerged from two rather difficult years on the home front: my son has made a remarkable recovery from a near-fatal motorcycle accident and my own health is now good – all thanks to the care of Addenbrooke’s Hospital. Now I can concentrate fully on my work as Deputy Director of the ESRC Teaching and Learning Research Programme and as Director of the Learning How to Learn Project within it. The TLRP has now commissioned 12 new projects, specifically in post-compulsory education, including five on teaching and learning in higher education. These were launched at a major event in Westminster on 25 June 2003. Speakers included: Barry Sheerman, MP, Labour, Chair of the House of Commons Education and Skills Committee; Tim Boswell, MP, Conservative, Shadow Minister for Education and Skills; Baroness Margaret Sharp, Liberal Democrat, Spokesperson on Education, House of Lords. This brings the TLRP portfolio to 37 major networks, projects and fellowships, involving 300 researchers and many partner organisations. This is quite an undertaking but very exciting. For more details see http://www.tlrp.org/.

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In April I attended the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association in Chicago, and gave three papers: one on the TLRP in general and two on my specific project. Work continues on the latter and we are deep into data collection and analysis. We hope that more outputs will emerge next year. Those who are interested might like to keep an eye on our website at: http://www.learntolearn.ac.uk/. I continue to be a member of the Assessment Reform Group (http://www.assessment-reformgroup.org.uk/) and, as a result of this work, I was invited to Singapore in December 2002 to conduct workshops for primary and secondary teachers. It is gratifying that a little country that regularly tops international education performance tables should still believe that it can learn from the UK. Perhaps this attitude to learning is the secret of its success. Conference papers: James, M., Pedder, D. and Swaffield S. et al (2003) A Servant of Two Masters: designing research to advance knowledge and practice (work of the ESRC TLRP Learning How to Learn Project) Paper presented at the 2003 Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Chicago, in the Symposium, ‘Talking, working and learning with teachers and schools leaders: the Cambridge Symposium’ James, M., Black, P., and McCormick, R. (2003) Deepening capacity through innovative research design: researching learning how to learn in classrooms, schools and networks (work of the ESRC TLRP Learning How to Learn Project) Paper presented at the 2003 Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Chicago, in the BERA-1 Symposium, ‘The UK’s Teaching and Learning Research Programme: responding to challenges for Educational Research’

Lifelong Learning is alive and well at every level at Lucy!

s Jane McLarty writes: I have continued my involvement in Theology by supervising for New Testament papers, co-ordinating and teaching on the Faculty’s Greek language programme, examining, and sitting on the New Testament Subject Committee. This year as part of a consortium of colleagues teaching New Testament Greek in other institutions, we have obtained a small grant from the LTSN (Learning and Teaching Support Network) to develop a “John Workbook” on-line notes for those reading the Gospel of John in Greek independently. We also continue to organise an annual Study Day for Greek teachers, which this year will be held at the University of Birmingham. Meanwhile I’m still pegging away at the part-time PhD with King’s College London – two years down now, four still to go, if all goes well! I became a Trustee for Bridget’s this year – just as the decision was made to close the hostel – though the Trust itself will still continue to make grants to assist students with a disability in Cambridge. I have also become a member of the Societies Syndicate, though so far seem not to have had a similar effect in terms of the collapse of any student groups!

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The Further Education of a Fellow. Education at Lucy Cavendish College is not the sole prerogative of our students. The Teaching and Learning Forum is always interesting, and the Anna Bidder evenings, introduced this year by our VicePresident, have given us valuable insight into the research work of our colleagues. Betty Mezzasos

Thanks to Helen Seal and my friends on the Garden Sub-Commit-tee, I am increasing my knowledge of horticulture, and by this time next year I could be an expert on Silver.

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As a member of the Library Committee I can now speak with some authority on rare books, environmental control systems, and the responsibilities of building contractors.

Ms Jane McLarty and Ms Ruth Hawthorn at the Graduands' Reception, June 2003

s Lorna McNeur writes: Until recently, my research focussed mostly on the history and theory of the human passion for urban public space.

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This includes the politics, celebrations, and processions of different times and places like the Greek Agora, the Roman Forum, Medieval Mystery Plays, Renaissance and Baroque processions and piazzas, to name a few. This has all involved discussions of theatricality and gardens in their roles as mediators between the real and the ideal. Where theatricality explores what is and what could be, reflecting our lived reality and dreams, the city can represent real possibilities whilst the garden engages possible realities. In the past few years, my attention has been turning to issues relating to emotions and environment. This includes research into emotional health and interviews with specific health centres in the UK. Specifically, I am looking at the role that architecture plays in the encouragement and/or discouragement of health. My research and lecturing have supported one another in that the research serves as springboards for the lecture content and the lectures are healthy challenges to push the research forward. The seminar discussions always offer interesting perspectives from which to view the research. Much of the lecturing has been focussed on the ‘Theatre of the City’ issues and only recently have I begun to include the ‘emotions and environment’ interests through some new lectures on ‘bodies and buildings'. However, all of the above has been included in the studio design work through the years. This has been achieved through giving various different types of health centre studio projects that are urban based. These projects always include both gardens and

public space design and engage the creative arts (theatre, fine arts, music, etc.) in the process of health and recuperation. Theatrical Reflections on the Idea of the City in the Garden In my research I explore the city as the stage for political, social, philosophical, spiritual and cultural interaction. I also look at the relationships between cities, gardens and theatre in which the plan of the garden can embody the vision of ideal cities and theatre is the mediator between people, gardens and cities. These relationships have been acknowledged historically in numerous ways, literally and metaphorically. As an architectural theorist and designer, I look at public space from a socio-architectural perspective of the urban environment regarding the underlying intentions of public space; offering an historical and theoretical foundation from which to view the design of contemporary public space. Whilst giving an overview of the issues through time and place, I also provide a critical analysis of specifically chosen public spaces, in order to provide a way of reading and perceiving other spaces, historical and contemporary. Each piazza or garden is discussed relative to the fundamental ideas and intentions embodied within. The piazza or square is seen as the urban stage while facades act as the backdrop. Whether viewing politics in the piazza or promenading in the park, I aim to establish an understanding of the relationships between human beings and the environments they create to act out their understanding of reality and being; thus revealing

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architecture as the setting for the theatre of human existence. Bodies and Buildings, Psychology and Space My new research includes investigations into psychology and space and the relationships between bodies and buildings. This involves the relationships between people and their environments, or more specifically, emotions and environment. In particular, I am looking at how the architecture of health centres promotes, encourages and/or discourages recovery to health. More specifically, I am looking at the cutting edge of the psychotherapy field, body psychotherapy. Because of the heightened awareness of the body in space, of this branch of psychotherapy, it is highly suitable for an architectural investigation. In this work I investigate the inter-relationships between client, therapist, and the space or spaces in which they work. The approach I am taking is philosophical, phenomenological, and practical. I am interviewing three or four body psychotherapy centres in the UK according to their intentions, awareness, and assumptions of the inhabitation of their environment. I am consulted by institutions and individuals in terms of my specialist niche of psychology and space. I help people to identify the interrelationships between the existing conditions of their buildings (gardens) and lifestyles, and work with them to architecturally develop possible avenues of growth and development.

s Antje Pedain writes: This has been a busy year full of positive developments. Having given a series of lectures in Medical Law during Michaelmas Term, I was appointed to the Medical Law lectureship at Assistant Lecturer level in April. I also continued to supervise four subjects thankfully, next year this will be reduced to three! Teaching the mature and, for the first time, also the officially less mature from traditional undergraduate colleges, was fun, though I sometimes wish that - as in Germany - other people would be employed to read student essays! Most of my larger projects have progressed and some have even seen completion! An article on English criminal law, "Intention and the Terrorist Example", will appear in the September Issue of the Criminal Law Review (never mind that I wanted to finish it months before I did...). It is the first publication to grow out of my teaching (and might re-habilitate some of my more progressive studentsÂ´ views). And fortunately there is usually some time to write the odd little case note or book review.

Of course, in a certain sense I will have to spend the coming years earning my present job! Sometimes it is daunting to think of the many publications which will have to see the light of the day before the lectureship is fully secured. But in another sense I actually look forward to it: it certainly does not feel like a case of attempting the impossible!

r Margaret Penston writes: As I say elsewhere in this report I have thoroughly enjoyed my first year as Research Fellowship Secretary, I have particularly welcomed the opportunity to get to know members of the College better and to find out more about the great variety of research activities that are taking place in our name. In May I came to the end of my term of office as Vice President of the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) and with it as a member of the Council. Although I am still involved in committee work I will miss being at the heart of the Society's activities. With headquarters in Burlington House, Piccadilly, London, the RAS is the UK's leading body covering Astronomy, Geophysics, SolarTerrestrial Physics, and Planetary Sciences. Its activities cover the organisation of meetings, the publication of journals, educational activities at all levels and the maintenance of a comprehensive reference library. The Society is also involved in policy issues relating to these subjects at international and national level and regularly submits evidence to enquiries held by the Government and the Royal Society. Astronomy is one branch of science where amateurs can and do make a substantial contribution to professional research. It is very often an amateur astronomer who discovers a comet or may be first to notice the eruption of a 'nova' or 'supernova' and who can undertake long-term monitoring of interesting objects. Because of developments in technology an amateur may have a telescope in his or her back garden that is more sensitive than the best available professional equipment 30 years ago. Equally as important is the fact that it is all set up and ready to go when the call comes via the internet. So it is important for professional astronomers to keep in touch with the amateur community and this is regularly done through Pro-Am meetings and other activities. I hope this explains my involvement in one of the two main national amateur groups, the Society for Popular Astronomy (SPA). I have continued this year as President, during an exciting time when the SPA has been celebrating its Golden Jubilee. I have also been working hard as joint author on two astronomy reference books, and also on the revision of a Resource Guide. I hope that all of these projects

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the new Patient Information Advisory Group (six months and a rain forest of paper later!). We are also trying to set up a randomised trial in patients with sickle cell anaemia, and are hoping to collaborate with sickle physicians in the USA -fingers crossed! The Unit has been undertaking a consultation exercise to try to prioritise future studies, and a process for turning our wish-list into real trials is being developed.

Sir Patrick Moore, Margaret Penston and Professor Sir Arnold Wolfendale, 14th Astronomer Royal cut the SPA's Golden Jubilee cake at the celebration in January. On this occasion the International Astronomical Union honoured the Society by naming the asteroid 10216 discovered by a British amateur as '10216 Popastro'.

will have produced something to show by this time next year.

r Lorna Williamson writes: This has been a busy year in my work on blood safety with the National Blood Service. I am involved in a number of projects, including importation of plasma for children from the USA, as a precaution against variant CJD; screening platelets for transfusion for contaminating bacteria; and appraising options to prevent a rare immunological complication of transfusion affecting the lungs. It has been a fascinating process weighing up which safety initiatives offer most benefit for patients, not to mention the cost to the NHS. The work at Addenbrooke’s on bar-coding patients to prevent transfusion errors continues, and we are expanding this to a further clinical area soon. The new National Blood Service/Medical Research Council Clinical Studies Unit continues to develop. In trying to set up a national study of the epidemiology of transfusion recipients, we had to duck and weave our way through a plethora of new legislation relating to Data Protection. We now seem to be one of the first studies to obtain approval for the use of patient-identifiable data for research from

It has been a fairly quiet year in the research laboratory, as 2 post-docs have been on maternity leave, but some lovely baby pictures now adorn my notice board. I delivered the Kenneth Goldsmith Lecture to the British Blood Transfusion Society last autumn, and the Claus Högman Lecture to the Swedish Transfusion Society in Upsalla, Sweden in May. This was quite daunting, as Professor Högman was in the audience –I hope I can ask such penetrating questions when I am nearly 80! The International Society of Blood Transfusion conference in Istanbul was postponed from May because of the Gulf War, so I shall be chairing a plenary session and giving a paper when it is held in July Publications: Riddington C, Williamson LM. Preoperative blood transfusions for sickle cell disease (Cochrane Review). In: The Cochrane Library, Issue 3, 2002. Oxford: Update Software. Beckman N, Cardigan R, Wallington T, Williamson LM. Value of central analysis of leucocyte depletion quality control data within the National Blood Service, England. Vox Sanguinis 2002;83:110-118. Armour KL, Atherton A, Williamson LM, Clark MR. The contrasting IgG-binding interactions of human and herpes simplex virus Fc receptors. Biochemical Society Transactions 2002;30(4):495500. Williamson LM. Transfusion hazard reporting: powerful data, but do we know how best to use it? Invited editorial. Transfusion 2002;42:1249-1252. Ballard S, Buck J, Llewelyn C, Murphy MF, Williamson LM. Tracing blood units to their recipients: results of a two centre study. Transfusion Medicine 2003;13:127-130.

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Report from the Research Fellowship Secretary

he Research Fellows hold an important position in the College, enriching the academic environment and providing help and inspiration to students in their field. We are particularly pleased when they regularly dine in College, either at lunchtime or in the evening and generally take part in College activities.

Approval was given to both Dr Ruth Waldick (Greenwood Bidder Research Fellow) and Dr Liudmila Sharipova (Sutasoma Trust Fesearch Fellow) to take a break in their Research Fellowships. For Dr Sharipova this allowed her to take up a post as temporary lecturer in Eastern European history at University College, Dublin.

The Fellowship Review Group which reported at the end of last year examined, amongst other things, the remuneration offered to post-doctoral Research Fellows. It decided that it was necessary to couple endowments together so that where a stipend was offered it would be on a par with that offered by other Cambridge Colleges. This rationalisation has the effect that, when current holders come to the end of their fellowships, the College will be able to offer one part-time and three full-time stipendiary Research Fellows and two non-stipendiary Research Fellows. We would like to be able to offer accommodation for Research Fellows but rooms are in very short supply at present and this fact also has to be taken into consideration by the Fellowship Committee.

The College is pleased to be able to work with the Daphne Jackson Trust who fund women who have had a career break. Part-time Research Fellowhips are awarded which are designed to bring the holder back up to speed in a particular research area as well as enabling them to undertake a programme of research. Dr Olga Gandelman completed her Fellowship last summer but has continued to work in the Institute of Biotechnology. Her research work continues on firefly bioluminescence and she is now also involved in research for a start-up company developing, as she says, 'fantastic tests' for medical diagnostics.

Meanwhile our current Research Fellows have been as busy as ever. Dr Sowon Park (Alice Tong Sze Research Fellowship) spent the first term writing and giving her first series of lectures at the English faculty entitled 'An Introduction to Modernism' which included a discussion of the conditions and language of British Modernism illustrated by a detailed analysis of Virginia Woolf's 'To the Lighthouse'. Sowon is also coming to the end of writing a book on the British suffrage movement, which we look forward to seeing in print. Dr Alex Murphy (Non-stipendiary Research Fellow) is based in the Department of Plant Science and her research work has been on the role of phytic acid in potatoes. However her main 'production' of the year was on the home front! Alex was on maternity leave for four months and we are pleased to congratulate her and her husband on the birth of their second son, John, in December. Dr Fiona Tooke (Stanley Smith Research Fellow), also in the Department of Plant Science has continued a genetic study of the plant Impatiens balsamina with a view to understanding the process leading to repeat flowering. She gave a fascinating talk on this work to Fellows at one of the Anna Bidder Research Evening on "Flower development: insights from Impatiens" in May.

In June we were pleased to welcome Dr Heather Windram who had been awarded a Daphne Jackson Research Fellowship in January which enabled her to start on a research project in the Department of Biotechnology. She is using genetic techniques to study the evolution of manuscripts over the ages. She is currently exploring this with particular sections of the text of The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer. Two new Research Fellows were appointed who will join the college community in October. Dr Judith Juhasz, who holds a post-doctoral research position at the Pfizer Institute was appointed to a Lu Gwei Djen Fellowship during which she will continue research into the behaviour of bioactive materials when placed in the body. Dr Joanna Depledge was appointed to a Sutasoma Research fellowship. We are grateful to the Sutasoma Trust for their continued sponsorship and for their interest and involvement in the scheme. Jane Lichtenstein, from the Trust took part in the selection of our new appointee. Dr Depledge's research project will focus on improving understanding of global negotiation processes and how their effectiveness can be enhanced, an issue that is at the forefront of current concerns in international relations. This has been my first year as Research Fellowship Secretary which has been a most enjoyable experience. There are many people I should like to thank for helping me through this learning period, in particular Dr Allison Curry who held the position before me and also the President, Dame Veronica

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Sutherland, Alison Vinnicombe and Julie Dashwood and also the President's Secretary, Beverley Harvey.

Margaret Penston Research Fellowship Secretary

Research and Visiting Fellows

s Natalie Lee (Visiting Fellow) writes: Although at Lucy for only one term, I left at Christmas feeling one of “the family”, having been made to feel so welcome by everyone, academics, staff and students alike. Disappointed at not being able to live in College, I spent as much time there as I could, and was rewarded by meeting, particularly at Formal Hall, a host of fascinating and stimulating people with the widest possible range of interests. Indeed, now back at the University of Southampton, there has been left a huge gap in my Thursday evenings, and I continue to experience definite withdrawal symptoms from those happy gatherings. I found the students to be a complete delight, and so forthcoming in their views and with information about themselves. Well shall I remember enjoying Lucy cuisine one lunch-time whilst at the same time listening to graphic details about dissection from some enthusiastic medics – their point was that, at Cambridge, real bodies were utilised and that the advantages of this were ….. No dessert for me that day! Enthusiasm and camaraderie describe, I believe, the spirit of Lucy Cavendish. Together with an equally welcoming Faculty of Law, both of these spurred me on to complete a long article on the new system of tax credits (now published at [2003] 1 Journal of Social Security Law, pp7-52), and to write a paper on the relationship between taxation and works of art, my reason for being in Cambridge in the first place. This paper has since been published as part of a book, “The Art of Tax Planning: Tax Planning and Art” (2003, Kluwer), and was presented in March at a conference in Maastricht. My thanks to everyone at Lucy who made my stay in Cambridge both so very happy and productive.

rof Lisa Merrill (Visiting Fellow) writes: As the summer draws to an end here in New York City and I hold on tenaciously to my last days of research and writing before returning to teaching at Hofstra University, in New York, I am thinking fondly of the productive Easter term I spent at Lucy Cavendish College. ‘Lucy’ – and Cambridge in general — was a very supportive home to me as I delved into work on two concurrent book projects. As a theatre and performance historian, I came to Cambridge primarily to work on my collection of the letters of 19th century expatiate American actress Charlotte

Cushman. This book, tentatively titled Nothing But a Memory (forthcoming from University of Michigan Press) will present and put into context the correspondence of the prominent actress who sat out most of the United States Civil War at her homes in London and Rome, and wrote to noteworthy political, literary, and theatrical friends about her stage career, increasing roles for women, and the current events of her day against the backdrop of the Italian war for unification and shifting British sympathies in the years leading up to and during the American Civil War. Given the contemporary global crises last spring, I could not have picked a better vantage point to do this work than in the welcoming context of an international community of students, scholars, and new friends in Britain. With Cambridge as a base, I gave lectures and attended conferences at The University of Wales in Aberysthwyth, Nottingham Trent University, King Alfred's University in Winchester, University of Leiden, Netherlands, as well as getting down to the British Library in London whenever I needed. But the real joy to me was having access to the Cambridge University Library. The quick stroll from Lucy along the ‘backs’ to the university library and access to its vast resources tempted me to work as well on my next book project, in which I examine some of the discourses that shaped Victorian understandings of 'public bodies' on-- and off stage. In addition, I attended lectures and met with colleagues at other Cambridge colleges and felt energised by productive and interesting conversations about nineteenth-century theatre, Victoriana, and all things Italian with Julie Dashwood, Sarah Brown, and Visiting Scholar Vicki Cremona. In short, the only thing I regret was not having planned enough time to stay on. From the time of the induction ceremony that welcomed me into the community at Lucy Cavendish, Cambridge, I felt certain that this was an academic 'home' to which I look forward to returning.

r Sowon S Park (Alice Tong Sze Research Fellow) writes: The first term was spent writing and giving my first series of lectures at the English Faculty entitled ‘An Introduction to Modernism’. The course examined the theoretical premise of European Modernism and traced the major thematic and stylistic preoccupations of the period. It also examined and distinguished the terms Modernism, Modernity and the Modern; and discussed the conditions and the language of British

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In Michaelmas and Lent, I gave supervisions at Lucy and Girton on topics related to Modernism. I also submitted two papers: ‘Love or the Vote?: Romance and Suffrage in H G Wells’ Ann Veronica and Mrs Humphry Ward’s Delia Blanchflower; and ‘Tea, Suffrage and Woolf’s critique of Feminist Judgment’. The latter was presented at the Thirteenth Annual Virginia Woolf Conference at Smith College, MA, USA in early June. I will also give papers at the ‘Hystorical Fictions’ conference in Swansea in August and the ‘Modernist Studies’ conference in Birmingham in September. I was asked last year to write two entries for the Literary Encyclopedia. The entries for ‘The Women Writers’ Suffrage League’ and ‘Elizabeth Robins’ have been published and can be accessed on http://www.LitEncy.com. This term will revolve around writing additional chapters to my suffrage book; and looking beyond Lucy Cavendish for the next stage. This is my last year here and I would like to express gratitude for the opportunities and privileges given me during my fellowship.

the first descriptions of this were made in the 1700s, I have had a good opportunity to become familiar with much of the earlier, often highly-illustrated, work in this field.

Fiona Tooke

Modernism with a detailed analysis of Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse.

Impatiens Balsamina

r Fiona Tooke (Stanley Smith Research Fellow in Horticulture) writes: I continue to seek the causes of flower reversion, an unusual condition in which plants return to producing leaves after a period of flower development. Using leaves from Impatiens balsamina I have been constructing a cDNA library. The library is a collection of all the genes operating at a particular time and place in the development of the plant. Hopefully this collection contains the single, leaf-based gene which I believe to be the key regulator determining whether plants can maintain flower development, or whether they revert to producing leaves. I am at the stage of screening the library to find possible candidates. Meanwhile I have completed cloning and compiling the DNA sequence of a gene involved in stopping plant growth – a feature of the flowering process. I have sent this gene to a collaborator at the University of Reading who will assess its function. A significant commitment over the last year has been the preparation of a review paper, now published, in the Tansley Review series in the journal New Phytologist. The paper charts models regarding the growing point of the plant, known as the shoot apical meristem, and how it functions to produce all the above-ground parts of the plant. As

In February I attended a lively discussion meeting, ‘GM crops, modern agriculture and the environment’ at the Royal Society, London. Later in the year I gave a paper on induction of flowering, and contributed to a second, on strategies to maintain flowering, at the annual main meeting of the Society for Experimental Biology in Southampton. On a more practical level, during National Science Week this year, I organised an experiment to extract DNA from onions and kiwi fruit using only household items. All visitors to the Plant Science Department were invited to take part, and a great many did, achieving results to be proud of! In the next year I am looking forward to practicing my grafting skills for some new physiology experiments, and perhaps expanding to introduce another plant species to my work. Publication: Tooke, F. and Battey, N.H. (2003). Tansley Review. Models of shoot apical meristem function. New Phytologist 159 (1): 37-52.

Matriculation 2002

Alison Vinnicombe

Graduation 2003

Faith Payne

Sarah Birch

Alison Vinnicombe

Christine Chen, Najeeba Khan, Peri Smith

Christine Chen, Uttarah Shahani, Najeeba Kham

Suzanne Welch, Jade Light-Hausermann

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Kathryn Robinson, Mary Dezille, Michelle Sanders

The Praelector, The President, Mengjie Xu and the Graduate Tutor

Helen Seal

Lucy Cavendish Gardens 2002-03

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Music Pavilion in the snow

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College House in Spring

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Narcissi

Tulips

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Cabling by College House

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The lawn by College House on Red Cross Open Garden Day

Red Cross Open Gardens

Lucy Cavendish College Art Show, May 2003 (all photos by Bill Nelson unless otherwise stated)

Damjo and Self-Portrait Mary Cozens-Walker

Polka Dot Vase Sue Jackson

Tyger Jane McLarty

Mr. Jack Veronica Sutherland

Lucy on the Ground with Stars Helen Seal

Life Study Fiona King

Blue Copse Kevin Hart

Sarah Gull

Healing Hands Sarah Gull

Still Life Fiona King

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Report from the Bursar

uring this year we moved forward into a new era of buying outside properties for student accommodation and now have houses in Chesterton Road, Albion Yard and St. Peters Street. The house given to us by Anna Bidder in Cavendish Avenue is now for sale, the proceeds to go towards the new Porter’s Lodge on Oldham Hall. It was originally intended that the work on Oldham Hall to provide a new Porter’s Lodge, some improved and new accommodation and student facilities and new teaching rooms should start in September 2003 however, due to delays in obtaining planning permission, it was thought that planned timescales had become suspect and it was decided to delay the start until July 2004. More news next time. The financial position of the College is generally good but unfortunately, in my view, only thanks to the generosity of individual friends of the College and grant-giving bodies who together contribute about 30% of the total college income. As we do little better than break-even this is a major part of the College’s financial stability.

members but I would point out that during my short stay of six years the student body has grown by about 40% and it is essential to have the infrastructure to support that growth. We have an excellent team led by Bill Nelson providing computer services to students, staff and Fellows and this is an environment which grows almost daily in sophistication. The team dealing with conferences led by Christine Houghton, which is so crucial to the College’s finances, is doing so well and is ably supported by the catering staff under Hugh Matthews and all other staff who are more indirectly involved. I would also like to thank the Bursary who perform a thankless task with great humour and skill under the professional eye of Kate Newman, Financial Manager. The Student Finance Officer, Sue Sang, is providing such a good service to students that I have seen letters of appreciation for work that, although essential, is not normally so appreciated.

Alison Vinnicombe

Beverley Harvey

This year to 30 June 2003 sees the end of the form of statutory college accounts used since the 1930’s. They have been a superb art of obfuscation but now in the current light of public demands for openness are to be replaced by an understandable form of accounts akin to those produced by other charitable bodies.

Some of the Bursary Staff From the left: Nicola Shadrack, Gordon Barnes, Kate Newman

I would like to thank all our current members of staff who are doing a magnificent job for this College and without whom the College could not function. I am well aware that staff numbers have grown and that there is some criticism from some

Jo Smith with Molly who was born on 28 June 2003

We have had a number of changes in staff which are detailed elsewhere but I would like to single out Jo Smith who is now on maternity leave and Alan Choat who is carrying on the good work that she started. May I finish by wishing you all an excellent, healthy and happy year. David Bryant Bursar

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Report from the Domestic Bursar July 2002-July 2003 June ended with a really good Graduation Dinner and it was with great pride that we watched our Graduands celebrate with their families before they paraded down to the Senate House to collect the degree they had worked so hard for. July sees the start of the main conference residential period, although the University of North Carolina (UNCA) arrive in June, a week before graduation and this is a very stressful time as students move out at lunchtime on Friday and Isabel and her team have to get the rooms ready for UNCA who arrive on the Saturday.

During term time they look after all the communal rooms in College, they provide flower arrangements for Formal Hall and look after the College silver. They cleaned the entire silver collection for the Silver Dinner in February organised by the Silver Steward, Dr Eileen Richardson and Alison Vinnicombe. Tom Turl and Kim Atterton continue to work tirelessly for College, the jobs they tackle increase hugely. Robin Hill, Clerk of Works, is a great support to the

The events of 11 September 2001 affected the conference business but we still had a busy summer.

Some are one-off bookings and others we hope will become repeat business. If anyone is organising a conference or function, or knows someone else who is, please do not forget Lucy. I would be delighted to send out a brochure and to discuss requirements.

Alison Vinnicombe

Starting with a baby shower, a first for Lucy, with two ex-students celebrating imminent births; we then had a number of residential groups, some new bookings as well as a number of return bookings; a number of large Dinners, Wedding Receptions (including our then-Vice-President Lindseyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s daughter, Catherine), a Bar-Mitzvah, a Birthday lunch and many non-residential meetings.

Christine Houghton

The Catering Department, led by Hugh Matthews, continues to work tirelessly, especially during the summer. Hugh is assisted by Martin James, Michael Mantell, Tasha Greaves, Ann Shiret, Maurizio Fusinato and Lucy Graves. My thanks go to them all as they provide meals for many, many events, the letters of praise we receive are a testimony to their talents.

College and helps so much in dealing with out buildings, building projects and tricky maintenance problems which crop up.

Rosse Eakins continues to do a great job front of house. She has an excellent regular team and also trains new staff and organises the agency staff we sometimes need. We are often complimented on our professional friendly service.

It was a bittersweet moment when I said good-bye to my Secretary, Emma Mitchell, in March 2003, she was a real delight to work with and her patience, personality and organisational skills won her a great respect and many friends within College. I was pleased for her and wished her very well in her new challenge. I realised how much I had relied on her when I was without permanent help for almost two months.

In the Housekeeping Department, Isobel McKreavie and Helen Mallett do a sterling job, particularly in organising bed-making staff during the summer, they manage to provide an excellent service to our guests even thought it is very hard to get reliable casual staff.

The gardens just look better and better, everyone who comes to Lucy comments on them and gets great enjoyment from them. Thank you, Helen Seal, Richard Crosthwait, Janet Fox (and Denzille).

It was therefore with great joy that I welcomed Anne Barham who started at the end of April 2003. I cannot believe how quickly Anne has picked up the

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many aspects of the job and I am so fortunate, it is an enormous help to have such excellent assistance. Thank you, Anne. Jo Smith, Ronan Le Noac’h, Ron Lawrinson and Mike Witty provided a welcome in the Porter’s lodge. They deal with problems and queries with friendliness and good humour and many guests comment on how their first impression of College was their contact with the Porter’s lodge staff. We had a farewell party for Jo who gave birth to Molly Erin on Graduation Day, 28 June 2003, a true Lucy baby! We wish Jo and Mark much joy with their new baby.

Accommodation In our current fashion we agreed the sale on a house in Albion Yard in August 2002 which gave the usual short time to provide furniture, carpets, curtains, put in a new bathroom and update the fire alarm system in time for five students to move in at the beginning of October. We now own five properties outside the main College site, providing accommodation for 23 students, and we also lease three houses suitable for families.

Also during the summer of 2002 we refurbished the Wolfson Combination Room and the Meeting Room in College House for the Bursary staff and the Student Finance Officer, respectively. Both rooms have become lovely bright airy offices. There were five other office moves that summer to be organised and carried out before term started in October. The last few months have unfortunately seen some conference cancellations and for others the numbers have decreased due to people’s concerns about travel as a result of the war in Iraq and SARS. We have spent a lot of time trying to replace this business as the income from conferences is so necessary to help run the College for our students. I would, therefore, again urge everyone, if they can, to provide me with conference contacts so that I can solicit for new business to replace that lost as a result of world events. Another year at Lucy, time goes so quickly, there are always new challenges and it is great in October to welcome a new group of students to this very special College. Christine Houghton Domestic Bursar

Report from the ICT Manager

he year has been dominated by environmental concerns with difficulties in building operation and use requiring additional heaters, dehumidifiers in a number of areas from rare books to reading rooms. All the various concerns have now been resolved or are in hand and with new suppliers and maintenance contracts in place we can look now look forward to periods of trouble free operations. The library building mechanical and electrical services will in future be managed directly to ensure similar situations are avoided with the use of a new environmental monitoring system and rapid response. Enhancements in terms of improving humidity controls and maintaining higher temperatures in the reading rooms are under investigation for the next year. Please refer to the report of the Fellow Librarian for full details.

Student Services The service provision here was relatively trouble free given the development work undertaken in 2002. The programme of providing network capabilities to the existing and new remote properties continued using new BT services and Wireless systems.

All the library computer room systems have been upgraded for 2003/ 2004 and will utilise the Windows 2000/XP operating system. They have larger disk drives, memory and sound cards. Ten of the machines will support the Public Workstation facility (PWF) which is a University / Department wide computer facility providing access to new range of services and servers in response to academic and student demand.

Computer / Communication Services The Oldham Hall project has necessitated a number of separate projects requiring completion prior to commencement of building works (Now Summer 2004). These changes involve repositioning /rerouting security CCTV, voice and data cabling systems. To accommodate these cabling changes a new underground duct system was built between the rear of Oldham hall and the library. The communications room will become the centre of campus voice and data systems as opposed to the under stairs room in De Brye which has proved too small. The CCTV and computer network cable systems rerouting and enhancement will be completed this summer. The security and voice systems will be left until early next year.

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The use of private IP addresses behind the Lucy firewalls has continued to maintain computer system security. There have been no major incidents although the university and Lucy are under continual attack. Internal security will be further enhanced by only allowing approved machines to connect to the Lucy internal network. Approved refers to known and identified systems where the software and Virus protection level as far as software updates are concerned. The situation with spam (unsolicited emails) a growing problem, will be addressed in the third quarter 2003 for individuals who are in the front line using university email filters and local software. The new Lucy Website was finally implemented in February 2003 and has been well received. If you do review the website at www.lucy-cav.cam.ac.uk please let me know of any difficulties or views you may have. The site also includes a new student babysitting service where students looking for sitters

and /or offering to sit can register etc. This will be a university wide system. A development for 2004 will be an Alumnae online contact update system so watch the website. And finally, a special thanks to Tim Flood and in 2004 Tim will be continuing his development of user support systems for the likes of Email, CASC and Heritage, the student administration and library systems respectively. To sum up 2003 was an intensive year for all in the computing section maintaining and enhancing service levels for computer users (a recent student survey clearly confirmed this). 2004 will be no different and will certainly bring many new challenges given the major developments planned over the next few months and early next year. Bill Nelson ICT Manager

Report from the Archivist

ittle did I realise when writing my report last summer that within a few short weeks I would be dealing with an environmental nightmare – wildly fluctuating and alarmingly high humidity in the Archive (and Rare Books) store rooms. Our wonderfully controlled environment in these store rooms had been breached by a major failure in the air management system for the Library. A temporary de-humidifier was installed in the Archive atop a Heath Robinson type construction, but it worked and a very stable environment, perfect for the storage of paper and photographs, was quickly restored. As all who studied and worked in the Library can testify, the Michaelmas and Lent Terms were far from comfortable: we endured cool temperatures whilst the College doggedly pursued those responsible to put things right. And now there is more than light at the end of the tunnel as all of the problems associated with the Library air management system are being resolved one by one. As I write, the tapping of my keyboard is accompanied by the sound of drilling as dehumidifiers are permanently installed in the Rare Books and Archives store rooms, giving me confidence that we finally do have a fully controllable environment for the long-term preservation of this important material. I have reported in previous years on the progress of Janus: a project to provide a single point of networked access to the descriptions of the archives and manuscript collections held throughout the

University of Cambridge and its constituent colleges. Phase I of the project was completed in the Michaelmas Term and the public website was officially launched at a formal presentation to project partners and the wider archive and library community in Cambridge at Trinity College on 11th October. It is hoped that Janus will attract researchers from within the University and all over the world reaching a wider potential audience and hopefully in time also attract entirely new user groups. Following the official launch, catalogues and collection level descriptions have been added from Girton, King’s, St. John’s, and Selwyn to join those of Churchill, Lucy Cavendish, Trinity, the University Library, and the British and Foreign Bible Society’s Library. With more to follow, these archive collections represent a variety of subjects including education, social organisation, religion, gender, charitable giving, land holding, and developments in the wider world of British culture, the arts and sciences, and are contributing to Janus becoming part of the emerging National Archives Network. From the College Archive the personal papers of Margaret Braithwaite, Anna Bidder, Joan Liversidge and Lucy Masterman have been submitted to Janus, with further collections to be added. The importance of Janus in making archive collections more accessible was recognised earlier this year with the award of a grant of £3000 from the East of England Museums Libraries and Archives Council (EEMLAC). This will help fund the next phase of

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development, which is primarily to improve and enhance targeted searching. Janus is available at <http://janus.lib.cam.ac.uk/ The cataloguing of material deposited in the Archive and selected for permanent preservation continues. All material deposited in 2000 has either been catalogued or marked for disposal in due course, and 80 per cent of the material accessioned in 2001 has either been catalogued or placed on a disposal schedule. Over the last year the Archive has received a total of 109 accessions. The most significant of these is the original Trust Deed of the College from 1965, and a further addition to our collection of papers on Joyce Grenfell. The author Janie Hampton gifted to the College a large volume of primary and secondary sources, which she used in research for her biography of Joyce Grenfell. The material includes scripts, letters, press cuttings, and reminiscences dating from the 1940s. An entry for the correspondence of Joyce Grenfell held in the Archive is to be included in a Supplement to the Location Register of 20th-century English literary manuscripts and letters. Published for the first time in 1988 after five years of research by a team based in Reading, the Location Register is established as a standard reference work for literary research. The Supplement will cover literary accessions to British repositories from 1987 to 2003. It is hoped to mount a revised and supplemented Location Register as part of the University of Reading web site later this year.

Over the last year, the Archive has received a total of 13 visits from researchers with interests ranging from Oldham Hall, the Collegeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s application for Approved Foundation status, and Lucy Masterman, a niece of Lady Frederick Cavendish. The Archive has also dealt with 97 enquiries for information, principally from College Officers and staff. Using material from the Archive, two separate exhibitions were assembled for display in the Library foyer for the Michaelmas and Lent Terms. The first of these was an exhibition marking the 30th anniversary of the first admission of undergraduates and affiliated students to the College in 1972. The second exhibition in the Lent Term was assembled to coincide with the Annual Dinner on the 8th March and the formal launch of the new Development Brochure. Its purpose was to show how far the College had developed since its foundation in 1965. The exhibition attracted favourable comment from fellows, students and staff. Some elements of the exhibition have been published on the College website (follow links from fundraising/events), and an edited version appears elsewhere in this Annual Report. A third exhibition was planned for the Easter Term but was abandoned owing to the continuing absence of the rare books, which were to form part of the exhibition. Karen Davies Archivist

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Lucy Cavendish College 1965-2003 Making Things Happen

he College launched its new Development Brochure at the Annual Dinner on 8 March. To coincide with the launch, an exhibition was set up in the library tracing the development of the College since its foundation in 1965. Taking its cue from the Development Brochure, the exhibition centred on the three themes of ‘purpose’, ‘members’, and ‘buildings’, charting the progress of the College from a small, modest and experimental institution to a fully self-governing College within the University equipped with modern facilities, an innovative

approach to widening women’s participation in higher education, and plans for further expansion in the twenty-first century. The exhibition was well received and requests were made for it to be reproduced in some way. Owing to copyright restrictions and fees, this has not been possible, but what follows is an edited version, giving a glimpse of some of the changing times that Lucy has moved through.

Purpose The origins of the College are familiar to many. Three members of Newnham College formed a Dining Group in 1950: Anna Bidder, Margaret Braithwaite and Kathleen Wood-Legh. All three were teaching and doing research in the University but, not holding fellowships in either of the then women’s colleges (Girton and Newnham), they lacked the stimulation and support of collegiate life. Their weekly dinners went some way to resolving this problem. The group grew quickly in size and invited into its membership any woman who was a member of the Regent House but did not hold a College fellowship. In November 1964 the Dining Group applied to the University for recognition as the Lucy Cavendish Collegiate Society (LCCS), setting out in its Trust Deed to be “responsible for the care and discipline of research students working for higher degrees or diplomas and women, not necessarily so engaged, who wish to re-equip themselves for professional careers by advanced study, or by obtaining higher qualifications”. LCCS was granted formal recognition as an ‘Approved Society’ in July 1965, a new category of institution established in 1964, which gave the University the power to recognise “institutions of a less formal and more experimental character than is implied by an Approved Foundation”. Needless to say, the University also reserved the right to withdraw its recognition from any that failed. Darwin College and University College (later Wolfson) were also given recognition as Approved Societies in 1965.

Office’. So it is that without towers or turrets, without chaplain or porters, without a building of its own or even a foundation grant, Britain’s first graduate college for women has quietly come into being.” 1 From October 1965 to June 1966 the College was housed, courtesy of the University, in two rooms on the ground floor of 20 Silver Street. One of the rooms was kept for the secretary, Sharon Lowes, and the Tutor and Secretary to the Governing Body, Dr Kate Bertram, mainly used the other, with filing accommodation for the President. Each of the rooms was furnished with a desk, two chairs, a filing cabinet, a telephone and a metal wastepaper basket, which legend says was frequently upended to provide for additional seating.

Early Graduate Students on College House lawn, 1970. Back row (left to right): Ruth McQuillan, Jean Salingar, Carole Samuel, Hilary Jackson, E. West. Front row: Harriet Sibisi, Anna Dickens, Rosalind McIntosh, Elizabeth Hill, A. Deakin.

The Times carried a report on the foundation of LCCS on 11 October 1965, which illustrates how modest our beginnings were:

LR1/11/2 Box 1 (f.3a). Copyright: EJ Hill

“…anyone who walks to the river down Silver Street may see outside one of the houses a notice that says ‘Lucy Cavendish College, Temporary

LR1/11/2 Box 1 (f.2)

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The first resident student was Margaret (Peggy) Seay from Smith College, Massachusetts. Peggy arrived in 1966 to study number theory for a Ph.D. When Peggy asked for a college scarf, the fellows asked her to design one. The first non-residential student, Elizabeth Dupre, was admitted in Lent 1966 to read for a Ph.D. in history In 1984 the University approved the recognition of LCCS as an Approved Foundation, and thus a permanent institution within the University. This was perhaps the most momentous event in Lucy’s history thus far, as was evident from the recollections of the President and Vice-President, Phyllis Hetzel (formerly Lady Bowden) and Doris Thoday, who reveal that the final outcome was by no means certain:

strengths and traditions of Lucy Cavendish and provides an international focus for the creative generation and sharing of new ideas and solutions in management style and effectiveness, in employment law, practice and economic structures, and in relationships between family and workplace. Responding to the Government’s initiatives to expand Britain’s pool of doctors and to recruit a greater number of mature students into medicine, Lucy Cavendish helped set up the Cambridge Graduate Course in Medicine. Designed to train graduates from any discipline to become doctors in just four years, it was launched in September 2001.

“The change was crucial to the future of the College. As an Approved Society it could have been abolished by the relatively simple process of a Grace of the Council of the Senate. As an Approved Foundation it could only be abolished after the Chancellor had ordered a special enquiry by a committee of three, under an independent chairman. Potential benefactors, including the College’s Fund, could be certain they were supporting a well-established institution with a future. It had been a long process with a touch and go finale. The affirmative vote in the Council was by a majority of one, after their third deliberation. At last, five years of strenuous effort had met with success.” 2 Two years later the University gave consent for the Society to change its name to Lucy Cavendish College. In 1996 the College Trustees submitted a request that the College should be granted the status of a full College of the University, and thus become entirely self-governing. On 22 July 1997, Her Majesty the Queen approved the grant of a Charter of Incorporation to Lucy Cavendish College. As reported in Varsity, 24 January 1997, the decision to admit Lucy Cavendish came fifty years after women were granted full membership of the University, and a hundred years after it voted overwhelmingly to refuse them admission. 3

Dining: the table set for a formal dinner in the Wood-Legh Room in Strathaird, c.1988. LH1/4.

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Members The College has been enabling women to enter or return to academic life at a time of their choosing for almost forty years. Although founded as a graduate college, the College wasted no opportunity in publicly stating its willingness to take undergraduates and did so as early as February 1966. In October 1970, Lucy Cavendish accepted the first of a new category of students: women wishing to read for the degree of Bachelor of Education. Cambridge University had been the last in the country to accept the concept of an all-graduate teaching profession. In 1970 following the recommendation of the Robbins Report, the University agreed that 3-year trained certificated teachers could read for a 4th-year B.Ed. degree. Two students were admitted in the first year, Joyce Dobbie and Joan Hillier, with Joyce being the first Lucy student to gain a First Class degree. The system came to an end in 1978, but altogether the College admitted 73 of these BEd. students. The University amended its Statutes in June 1971, so that Approved Societies were no longer to be restricted to graduates only, and Lucy Cavendish was enabled to admit up to 50 mature (over 25 years of age) and affiliated students as undergraduates to read for a Cambridge first degree. In October 1972 the College welcomed its first intake of undergraduates. There were 20 of them, varying in age from 25 to 36, and from diverse backgrounds and occupations, including secretaries, housewives, teachers, and an actress. The College was limited to a total of 50 undergraduates until 1988 when this limit was lifted and the College was put on the same footing, in this respect, as other colleges. Today, the numbers of undergraduates have risen from 50 in 1988 to 95. Similarly, graduate student numbers have steadily risen from 22 to 125. Grants and benefactions have also provided for a wide range of research fellowships over the years. The first major financial grant arrived in 1967 in the form of a £15,000 award over three years from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation “to help women who on returning to active university life, wish to improve the quality of their teaching and research”. The grant enabled the College to elect up to three Calouste Gulbenkian Research Fellows, and up to three Calouste Gulbenkian Studentships to women graduates wishing to undertake post-graduate study. The grant was later renewed and ultimately provided research grants to about fifty women during the ten years of the benefaction. An early recipient was Helen Alderson, a Russian-born mathematician with a young family.

The Times Educational Supplement began sponsoring a research fellowship in educational policy at the College in 1995. It was an imaginative decision to offer a profession, which is still predominantly populated by women, opportunities for women to rise to senior positions in the academic world. Ruth Hawthorn was the first TES Research Fellow. Her project investigated how school leavers in their first jobs and adults who change jobs midcareer make these crucial choices, and the role of television and radio in these choices. Daphne Jackson was Britain’s first woman professor of physics, and a lifelong campaigner encouraging girls and women into engineering and physics. Knowing her scientific skills would need updating after a gap, she was inspired to launch a fellowship scheme in 1985. The aim of the scheme is to provide an advanced research and training opportunity for well-qualified women research scientists or engineers who are seeking to resume their careers after a break due to family commitments. The College began sponsoring the scheme in 1996, and continues today. Dr Veronica Bennett and Dr Orsola Spivack were the first to be offered Daphne Jackson Fellowships, carrying out research into the ecology of bramble bushes and Collision theory, respectively. The lack of support derived from collegiate life prompted those early members of the Dining Group to begin meeting once a week, first for lunch and then for dinner. At Lucy the pursuit of academic excellence has long been combined with a supportive and informal environment, from weekly formal dinners where Fellows, staff and students meet on equal terms to inclusive student activities. In the early days at 17-18 Northampton Street no more than fourteen could be seated for a meal, so college dinners were held in the Harvey Court of Gonville & Caius College. When the College acquired Strathaird in 1973, it became possible to provide lunches and a weekly formal hall. However, the Dining Room in Strathaird was not large enough to host the Annual Dinner and so these were held at Trinity College. It was not until the completion of Warburton Hall in the spring of 1995 that we held the Annual Dinner in our own hall for the first time since Annual Dinners began in 1967. At that time, a typical menu may have featured Melon, Kidneys Japonaise, Chaudfroid of Duck, and Charlotte a la Polonaise. Very different from a recent offering of Italian Panchetta Salad, Beef Olives, and Lemon Mouse with Raspberry Coulis.

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and enthusiasms of individual generations of students. A College crew entered the Lent bumps for the first time in 1981. No oars were won on that occasion, but the crew were determined as any other. Successive crews have participated in rowing events, and this year’s crew are no exception. They were particularly pleased with their recent performance in the Lent Bumps, managing to ‘row over’, i.e. completing the course at race speed without being ‘bumped’.

Boat crew: relaxing in the Bar, Strathaird, after a rowing race, January 1981. (Left to right) Beverley Lehey, Penny Claxton, Janet Gandy, Sue Watts, Mary Cox. LH1/4

Without the large-scale facilities of other colleges, sporting activity at Lucy depends on the inclinations

The first College newsletter was Lucely Speaking, produced by the Students Association, it was started in 1974 and ran until 1980. Subsequent titles included Lucy Cavendish Newsletter (1980-1988), Lucy News (1989-1999), and the more recent Lucidity from 2001, which (a sign of the times) is now produced on-line. Descriptions of Cambridge life, political comment, news, views and gossip were the preoccupations of the first edition of Lucely Speaking, and browsing through Lucidity on the web it seems little has changed.

Buildings The College started life in two small rooms on the ground floor of 20 Silver Street, leased from the University. Today it occupies a three-acre site containing an eclectic mix of late-Victorian houses and new buildings.

residence, named Oldham Hall in honour of its principal benefactor, Dr Barbara Oldham. It was one of the first Cambridge buildings to include ducting for Project Granta, the University scheme to introduce computer links into every student’s room.

The Victorian properties were acquired in the 1970s, but Lucy Cavendish made a huge leap forward in 1988 with the construction of the first purpose-built

The 1990s heralded a new phase of expansion with the acquisition in 1991 of 6 Madingley Road (later renamed Marshall House in honour of its original owner, Alfred Marshall, the distinguished economist). In 1992 a magnificent legacy of £1,000,000 from Barbara de Brye, allowed planning to begin for further residential accommodation and a purpose-built Dining Hall. And, in 1996 the decision was taken to build a new Library to accommodate the needs of an expanding student body.

College House: shortly after the College acquired the lease of St. Francis House from St. John’s College in 1970. The building had been empty for over two years, and both house and grounds were in a rundown state. The external appearance of the house today remains relatively unchanged, although a conservatory once ran along the west side of College House outside the Bursary. A2002/085. Copyright: E.J. Hill

Much is owed to the hard work, dedication and enthusiasm of past and present Fellows and staff in creating and maintaining the gardens. A report from the Garden Steward, Marion Clegg, in July 1971 reveals some of the toil and trouble in the garden of College House, which incidentally had been neglected for over two years prior to the College moving into the property in February 1970. The guinea pigs were used for keeping the grass down! “Guinea pigs got out of their enclosure and spread over the garden…The dead tree was dug up (bootlace fungus, or honey fungus) but some roots are still to be cleared, and a nearby rose has succumbed. Paths in the rockery were cleared with Paraquat, and so it looks more civilised, but needs much attention.” 4 4

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How different from today when, in May and for the very first time, the College opened its gardens to the public as part of the British Red Cross Open Gardens programme. As the College approaches its 40th anniversary in 2005, it is looking to provide 250 women with the opportunity to experience first-rate higher education at any time in their lives, and to encourage them to use their education to make an optimal contribution to society. A first step is the redevelopment of Oldham Hall to provide additional units of living accommodation and teaching rooms.

“Lucy transforms lives; turns existences into lives. An intellectual powerhouse, a community whose members would be disaggregated and of no account, their splendid minds wasted, if it did not exist. You can sense the atmosphere the moment you walk in. It is, literally, joyful. And, like all great institutions, Lucy is an act of faith. A handful of women dons who thought “Why not?” and acted upon it.” Karen Davies Archivist

The diversity of backgrounds, and the rewarding and life-enhancing opportunities attested to by many Lucy students is repeatedly commented upon and celebrated in the national press. One of the more recent examples comes from Michael Bywater writing in the Independent on Sunday, 28 March 1999: 5

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Report from the Fellow Librarian

his year has been full of trials for the Fellow Librarian due to the failure of the environmental system in our lovely College Library. The situation is now gradually getting resolved so that by the beginning of the next academic year everything should be working properly, and a computerized monitoring system will warn us of any similar problems should they arise in the future. When the library was built it was decided to put in triple glazing in order to minimize the traffic noise from Madingley Road, and to have an air conditioning system installed which would ensure a flow of air through the building, which would also serve as a heating system too. In the Archive Store and the Rare Books Room especially cool conditions were established and humidifiers were installed in order to maintain the best possible conditions for storing these valuable collections. Problems arose when several of the compressors, which run the system, failed in the summer of 2002. These were eventually repaired in January 2003. Meanwhile the Librarian noticed that mould was beginning to appear on the rare books, once the weather turned cold in October, and high levels of humidity, made worse by the failure of the heating system, were established as the cause. We contacted Harwell Drying and Restoration Services of Didcot, who responded very promptly, removed the rare books to Didcot and restored them, and stored them for us whilst we awaited the restoration of suitable stable conditions in the Rare Books Room. Meantime the humidity levels rose dramatically in the Archive Store and in order to prevent damage to our unique archive a dehumidifier was hired in from Munters Temporary Humidity Control Services, Huntingdon together with a number of thermohydrographs to monitor the environment in various parts of the library. By early December conditions in the library became very cold and temporary heating and dehumidifiers were hired in to make the reading rooms comfortable to work in. The repair of the compressors in mid January improved the situation greatly, but did not resolve all the problems. A complete overhaul of the system

was undertaken by the original builders and electrical engineers, and by April 2003 it had been restored to the condition it was in when the building was first commissioned three years ago. There still remained a problem with the uneven distribution of air pressure in different parts of the building, and this is currently being addressed. We are extremely grateful to Briggs and Forrester (the electrical engineers) for supplying and installing dehumidifiers in the Rare Books Room and the Archive at their expense. In the meantime we have agreed to purchase a computerized environment monitoring system for the whole library, which will shortly be installed. Once we are confident that the conditions in the Rare Books Room are stable and appropriate the 560 books now stored at Didcot will be returned, probably at the beginning of September. I am sorry to have to report such a catalogue of problems, but I do believe that we are now a long way towards getting them all solved. I would particularly like to thank Bill Nelson for all the time and care he has devoted to the resolution of these problems, and for his tactful negotiations with all the firms involved. Sincere thanks are also due to all of the following: Dr Nicholas Hadgraft who advises us on the care of our rare books, to Mr Ken Mackenzie of Harwell Drying and Restoration Services, Mr Andy Oakes of Munters Temporary Humidity Control Services, Mr David Bardwell of Mowlems and Mr Roy Moore of Briggs and Forrester, without whose help this situation would not have had such a successful outcome. Above all the Librarian, Assistant Librarian, Library Assistant and the Archivist have been stoical and kept cheerful despite having to endure such uncomfortable conditions; and, as usual, have continued to give excellent service to our readers throughout the year. We look forward in the next academic year to providing our readers with comfortable conditions in which to work and enjoy all the facilities of our lovely new library. Jane Renfrew Fellow Librarian

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Report from the Librarian

his year has been one of highs and lows in Lucy Cavendish College Library. We are very glad to say that we have managed to run the day -to -day library service and increase the library holdings, despite problems with the library air handling system and resulting environmental conditions. Our library is continuing to expand, and during the year from July 2002 to June 2003 we have added approximately a thousand volumes to the shelves. Students and other library users can consult the monthly list of new accessions in the library foyer to see what we have recently acquired for the library. A major development for Lucy students and the rest of the University was the introduction of the new Cambridge University Library catalogue, called Newton, at the beginning of this academic year. Newton incorporates records for our College library holdings as part of the Union Catalogue of Departmental and College Libraries. It is accessible from the University Library webpage. Joan, the Assistant Librarian, and I have had training in searching Newton and are happy to offer help to anyone accessing the catalogue from the library. Newton training courses are held at the University Library, and we highly recommend them!

library over the past year. We have had approximately seventy donations of varying sizes and extend our thanks to all donors. We are very grateful to the Friends of Lucy Cavendish College Library, led by Lady Newns, who have continued to work hard to support us this year by holding a very successful booksale during March, continuing to run the Adopt-A-Book scheme for conservation of our rare books, and tending to our plants. We said goodbye to our Library Assistant, Penny Granger in February of this year, as she moved on to another library post. I thank Penny for all her hard work during her 3 ½ years in Lucy Cavendish Library, and wish her all the best in her new job. We were very pleased to welcome our new Library Assistant, Gill Saxon, who joined the library team in April and is settling in very well.

The next major development with Newton will be the release of the “Universal Catalogue” by the University Library. This new version of Newton will combine the records of the University Libraries with the records of the Union Catalogue, so that each item appears in the catalogue as a single bibliographic record with attached holdings records. It should make searching Newton a good deal easier and we look forward to seeing the Universal Catalogue when it is released, hopefully during the next few months. We shared a very pleasant evening with some of our library benefactors and Friends of the Library at formal hall on the 13th February. We are extremely grateful to everyone who has donated books to our

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We have been adding records to Newton for all of this year’s library acquisitions, which has involved putting our training for MARC21 cataloguing into practice. We are currently testing some new software which will allow us to transfer records directly from Newton into Heritage, our in-house library catalogue. We should be able to implement this software during the summer vacation. This is a very positive step as we will be able to reduce the amount of time we spend cataloguing and devote more time to developing other areas of our service.

Librarian, Catherine Reid, and Assistant Librarian, Joan Harris, June 2003

I owe many thanks to Joan Harris, Assistant Librarian, who has worked extremely hard cataloguing new additions to the library, using the MARC21 cataloguing system which is completely new to us and not easy to master! All the library staff are very grateful to our two library volunteers, Mrs Ursula Lyons and Dr Alison Littlefair, who

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regularly help with our administrative tasks, and tackle everything with cheerful enthusiasm.

in the process of being resolved, we feel very positive about the next academic year.

The problems with the environment have caused low points during the year, as the students, staff and books have all suffered due to fluctuating temperatures and humidity levels in the library. I am very grateful for the patience of all the students who used the library during this academic year. I would also like to thank the Assistant Librarian and Library Assistant who have worked extremely hard to maintain a high level of service in the library. We are all grateful to our Fellow Librarian, Dr Jane Renfrew, and to our ICT Manager, Bill Nelson who have worked so hard to resolve the problems with the library environment. As the problems are now

There is a section on the library on the new Lucy Cavendish College website – please log on and have a look. The intention is to promote our library services and facilities to prospective students, and photographs are included to confirm that Lucy Library is a good place to work. We look forward to making exciting developments in the library service for next year and above all we look forward to seeing you in Lucy Library! Catherine Reid Librarian

Report from the Friends of Lucy Cavendish College Library

o save an extra bulletin from the Friends in October, this Report for 2003-04 is post hoc for the past academic year, and also an outline of our programme for the coming one. It will bring best wishes for the new academic year and a a tactful reminder, if necessary, to renew subscriptions. In the Michaelmas Term 2003 we are planning to have a before-supper talk by Dr Paul White, who is working on the Darwin Papers project at the University Library. Further details will be posted on our noticeboard in the Library when the date and time have been fixed at the beginning to Term. I hope, too, to persuaded Barry Coleman, who has run the very popular Book Restoration Seminars in the past, to give us a lecture, if not a whole series, again, in the Michaelmas Term. In the Lent Term 2004 we will continue our tradition of having a Designated Table for Friends of the Library to coincide with the Library Benefactors’ Dinner (on Thursday 12 February 2004). This is becoming increasingly popular – two tables usually being required – and is a very cheerful “gettogether” for many of the Friends. Another tradition – the Annual Booksale to raise funds for the Library – will also take place, probably in March 2004. The 2003 sale raised over £600!

Having myself rather spectacularly missed our longawaited private visit to the Founder’s Library at the Fitzwilliam Museum in May 2003, (which by all accounts was a great success and much appreciated), I am consoled by the promise of Dr Stella Panayotova, Keeper of the Manuscripts and Printed Books at the Museum, to arrange a second visit for the Friends, this time in the Founder’s Library itself, when the Museum re-opens, fully extended and refurbished, at the beginning of the Academic Year 2004-05. The date will be announced later. In general, our Adopt-a-Book scheme will be continued and expanded, now that the Rare Books Room is to be fully functional again. If any Friends would like to have a list of the many books already repaired and back in use, of work still in hand, or of books awaiting adoption, please let me know. Our finances are in good shape, with a closing balance in June 2003 of just over £7,000, to be used for the Library. Our thanks for this are due to all the Friends who continue to support us and encourage others to join us, our Honorary Treasurer, June Honeycombe (who is taking a bit of a sabbatical this year) and Andrea Lines in the Bursary, who keeps track of the accounts. Our thanks as ever are also due to Catherine Reid, our Librarian, and her colleagues in the Library. 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

Report from the Curator his year has seen the Picken collection of oriental ceramics put on display in various parts of the college. The smaller items are in an Edwardian display table, which he also gave us, in the Anna Bidder Room in Barrmore. Also in this room are the 18th century painted marble plaque with a Chinese poem on the reverse, a display of miniature Japanese vases in a range of different forms and colours, in a special wall cabinet; a set of lacquer shelves with modern Chinese figures sitting on them, a couple of Japanese plates hanging on the walls and an Art Nouveau vase decorated with dragons. In the corner of the room is a large 18th century blue and white vase decorated with pheasants, with its wooden lid. Two display cabinets in the Founders` Room in the library are also filled with Oriental Ceramics from this collection. One case is filled with blue and white porcelain, the other with pieces of various colours including a Chinese bowl decorated with goldfish swimming round inside it. The tea service left us by Dr Joan Liversidge is now in the display cabinet in the Bulman Room, Strathaird. Also on the bottom shelf of this cabinet are the two Worcester saucers, the Foley ware teapot and cream jug, and a modern Japanese tea service all part of Dr Picken`s gift to the college.

Finally a sphinx-like ceramic tomb guardian is in the display cabinet in the George Bidder Room. Among the gifts we have received this year are a portrait of the late J. Margaret Evans, first Assistant Bursar in the college, which was given to us by her husband, Dr Clifford Evans and their family. It now hangs in the Bursary office. A watercolour painting of the Music Pavilion has been given to the college by the artist, Phyllis Hetzel, our third President. It now hangs on the staircase in College House. Music Pavilion by Phyllis Hetzel

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The Fine Arts Committee have been making plans for commissioning a portrait of our current President, Dame Veronica, from the artist Maggi Hambling whose work she much admires.

We have had two very special events this year. The first was a most successful Silver Dinner in February, which was arranged by Eileen Richardson and Alison Vinnicombe. The College’s collection of silver was all put on display, beautifully arranged so that it could be seen before the meal, and an after dinner talk was given by Stephen Ottewill who has made some of the pieces in our collection. At the dinner Pauline Perry presented a most elegant candelabra to the college to commemorate her presidency. It was altogether a most memorable evening and grateful thanks go to Eileen and Alison for organizing it. The second event was an informal exhibition of paintings and sculptures made by Fellows and staff of the college. This took place in the Reception Room before the Summer Feast in May. It was beautifully organized and hung by the President,

Eileen Richardson

The year has ended with a splendid offer of a steel sculpture, “Cavalcade” by Philip King, President of the Royal Academy, for our gardens. He has offered it to us on long loan, and it will be placed beside the Music pavilion on the College House lawn.

Baroness Perry presenting her gift of a candelabrum at the Silver Dinner, February 2003

Jane McLarty, and Sarah Gull. The works were of a high standard and our guests were impressed by what we get up to in our ‘spare time’. We very much hope to repeat it from time to time in the future. Warm thanks are due to all concerned. As we go to press another three photographs are being added to the collection of Founding Fellows in the Founders’ Room, there are now only a few who are missing: if anyone has any photographs of early days in the college the curator and the archivist would be very happy to hear from them. Jane M. Renfrew Curator

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he idea for the Lucy Art Show was born at a meeting of the Fine Art Committee – slightly apprehensive at tentative proposals for a large fundraising professional exhibition, we decided to dip our toe in the water with a small, in-house “open” exhibition. The President, Sarah Gull and myself undertook to make the art show happen: the idea was to keep it as simple as possible, and see what kind of response we received. Our conclusion is that there is a lot of artistic talent within the College! We had works from Fellows, staff and students, and easily filled our exhibition space. Mary Cozens Walker, a professional artist and friend of Sue Jackson, one of the Tutors, officially opened the show for us. The quality and range of work was impressive, and gave

interesting different perspectives on colleagues, a glimpse of their other selves, the “whole person” rather than solely the professional aspect. As a result, we have decided to run the Lucy Art Show again, with improved publicity (by an error in circulation, Emeritus Fellows only found out about the exhibition through word of mouth), and perhaps this time with a theme. Publicity will go out at the very beginning of the Michaelmas Term, with a view to holding the Art Show later in the term. We look forward to even greater things from you all… Ms Jane McLarty Admissions Tutor

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Report from the Silver Steward

Eileen Richardson

he college silver had a splendid year. There were several donations of silver items and cash, and on 8 February the college hosted a ‘Silver Dinner’.

The College Silver on display, February 2003

Other benefactors this year have included Mrs Joan Simms, Dr Clare Morgan, Mrs Elizabeth Ruhlmann, and several anonymous donors. The college is very grateful to all its benefactors for their generosity. Isobel and Helen have done a sterling job keeping the silver clean. Finally, I would particularly like to thank Ms Alison Vinnicombe for all her tireless work helping me to organise the silver dinner (especially the enormous task of laying out, and then putting away, the silver!), catalogue and photograph the collection, and complete the necessary but timeconsuming and laborious task of the annual audit. Dr Eileen Richardson Silver Steward

Alison Vinnicombe

The dinner was attended by fifty college friends, including honoured guests Baroness Perry, Dame Anne Warburton and Sir Robert Honeycombe. The college silver was on display and the Registrar Ms Alison Vinnicombe produced a wonderful catalogue of all the pieces. In the highlight of the evening, Baroness Perry, immediate past President of the college, presented to the college an exquisite pair of candlesticks. These beautiful pieces will grace the table at many future events. The evening’s speaker was Mr Steven Ottewill, silver designer and manufacturer, who gave a fascinating account of the process by which silver pieces are produced. The small profit from the dinner has been put into the silver fund that supports the upkeep of the silver collection.

Mrs Rosie Chazallet donated £1000, to be used to buy a piece of silver in honour of Emeritus Fellow Mrs Natasha Squire, with the remainder to be given to the college Alumnae Association. In consultation with Mrs Squire and the college Curator Dr Renfrew, Alison and I have chosen a very elegant crystal claret jug, with ‘To Lucy from Rosie, with thanks, 1989-93’ inscribed on the spout, and the college crest etched into the body.

Claret Jug purchased with the donation from Mrs Rosie Chazallet

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Report from the Steward

he year has been a happy one with many excellent dinners well supported by all sections of the college community. Particular thanks are due to Hugh and his team for their imaginative menus and patience in dealing with numbers fluctuating at the last minute as I struggle to accommodate additional guests or whisk away unwanted places. The good turnout was due in no small measure to the number of college members who brought large numbers of guests or friends. Many thanks to them for their support. Chief among them was the Students Association who organised hall swaps with various colleges and Christine Chen who hosted numbers of international students. On one occasion by happy serendipity the Thai society were at Lucy for their annual dinner on the same evening that Judy Corbalis, now a Fellow Commoner, had brought her husband, Philip King, President of the British Academy. At pre dinner drinks it emerged that Philip had recently returned from Thailand having been commissioned by the Queen of Thailand to sculpt a BUDDHA! The visitors were delighted to meet Philip and to hear about his trip. Some of the faculty evenings were very well attended, medics and vets always make their presence felt! But on some evenings attendance was disappointing. We are currently considering some possible changes to the schedule, do look carefully for next year. Let me stress ALL college members are always welcome to dine subject to space. I was horrified at the end of the year to have one of my own students say she had not realised the dinners were open to those of other faculties! Please if you have ideas or suggestions do let me know , whatever we propose it is not too late to consider and implement maybe in the future.! On several of the “grand “ nights we were treated to singing by the choir which was a real treat, many thanks to them and their conductor, Elaine. In addition to the traditional Christmas concert with carols after dinner, the college grace, composed by Gillian and sung by the choir, together with other items, preceded the Lucy Cavendish Dinner in March and the summer madrigals were a lovely end to the term. The very full hall at the end of term may have been attributed to the 70 free student places negotiated by Dimple on behalf of the Students’ Association – in any event the Governing Body has decided to repeat that next year so book early but don’t wait until the summer! Matriculation Dinner is

a welcome the college gives to all incoming students, we hope they will then want to sample Lucy dinners more often! One of the smallest gatherings was the one night of snow in the year when Cambridge came to a halt and guests coming from London were turned back at the station. For those who made it it was an excellent dinner, endless thanks to the kitchen and waiting staff, it must have been a very long night for those who were there. I had slithered down by bicycle but Hugh drove me half way home over sheet ice at 1 mph! I was later happy to accommodate Alison and family who were quite unable to return to Wicken. Cambridge hotels must have done well that night as there was really no room at the inn! As many of you will know Eileen Richardson has moved on, during the year she did a marvellous job as Deputy Steward and more importantly Silver Steward. In the latter capacity she organised, with Alison Vinnicombe, a Silver Dinner, the purpose of which was both to celebrate our growing college collection of silver and to raise funds for future additions. At the dinner Pauline Perry, our immediate past President, presented the college with a beautiful silver candelabra specially commissioned to represent the free spirit of Lucy. Some of you may have seen it at formal hall without knowing its provenance. It is hoped this sort of event could be repeated for those with an interest in the silver. Paintings were the subject of an exhibition which coincided with the College Summer Feast in May. This time organised by Sarah Gull and Jane McLarty. The artists were college members old and young, fellows, students and staff. The range of styles and the talent displayed were a delight and again we think this might be repeated perhaps with the possibility of selling items with commission to the college. During the year we try at formal hall to highlight the contribution made by different groups, the Students’ Association, Library Benefactors, the Garden Committee – so often our guests are overwhelmed at our lovely gardens, particularly this year in summer. We do sometimes take them for granted. Special thanks to Helen and her team for the garden and the flowers and to Isabel for arranging them and indeed for polishing the silver! Any one who is tired of polishing or who has unused silver we will give it a good home! On the designated faculty evenings as well as identifying the evening as having a discipline theme for incoming guests the college has used the occasion to ask students to invite their supervisors so

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that the college can thank them for their support and help to our students. Most colleges have some form of more or less formal supervisor “thank you” but over the years we have found that mixing supervisors with their “flock” in an informal manner is both more enjoyable and more productive in that it deepens the rapport and provides a real opportunity to share ideas. Parties which consist solely of college supervisors meeting each other can be either very dull or very incestuous depending on how many you know and are very difficult to host! I think maybe we need to make this purpose a little more explicit to all those involved. The college student bar goes from strength to strength allowing us to resume the custom of offering drinks upstairs after formal hall as a matter of routine. Guests may be taken to join the student bar which often has live music on a Thursday but guests who simply wish to linger or to continue conversations will find a comfortable venue upstairs. Replacing Eileen will be difficult but I hope Ruth Jones will allow her arm to be twisted and accept the job of Deputy and Silver Steward. The job of Steward is an interesting one, it allows you to meet a huge cross section of college members and to hear a lot of gossip first hand, it may also reveal a memory that sometimes cannot match name to face in the way you would wish! I think seating plans are

helpful, though they are time consuming and not always easy! I try to ensure individuals are always made welcome and if possible sat with other diners with whom they might have something in common.. I am happy to receive seating requests to sit with friends but I hope formal halls will always be open to meeting newcomers as there are so many other opportunities for private meetings. If you are seated next to a stranger please do introduce yourself and make them welcome! Finally my thanks to Jo Smith who has managed the porter’s lodge and acted as Steward’s secretary taking bookings for dinner and deciphering my writing to do the table plans. Jo is now on maternity leave, we hope to see her back with the new addition during the summer but she plans to take a full year before returning in an official capacity. For next year the lodge will still take bookings for dinner in the normal way but I shall be working with Beverley’s help for the other elements. This should pull together the oversight of college entertaining and enable us to offer you the best possible service. Please come and enjoy what we have to offer, bring your friends and let me have feedback! With every good wish for 2003–4. Jillinda Tiley Steward

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Formal Hall Schedule for the Academic Year 2003-04 MICHAELMAS TERM 9 October 2003 All Members of the College Community – Fellows, Staff, Students, Alumnae & Members of the Combination Room 16 October 2003 *Matriculation Dinner 23 October 2003 Graduate Students in all Faculties and Research Fellows 30 October 2003 Members of the Faculty of Medicine 06 November 2003 Members of the Faculties of Archaeology and Anthropology and History of Art 13 November 2003 Out students 20 November 2003 *Governing Body Guest Night 27 November 2003 Members of the Faculties of History, Philosophy and Theology 4 December 2003 Christmas Dinner for all in residence LENT TERM 15 January 2004 22 January 2004 29 January 2004 05 February 2004 12 February 2004 19 February 2004 26 February 2004 04 March 2004 06 March 2004 11 March 2004 EASTER TERM 22 April 2004 29 April 2004 06 May 2004 13 May 2004 20 May 2004 27 May 2004 03 June 2004 10 June 2004 25 June 2004

All Members of the College Community – Fellows, Staff, Students, Alumnae & Members of the Combination Room Members of the Faculties of Architecture, Geography, MML, Oriental Studies and Education Members of the Faculties of English and ASNaC Members of the Faculties of Economics, Social & Political Sciences and the JIMS Student Association Night and Library Benefactors Members of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine Members of the Faculties of Science and Mathematics; Research Fellows and Graduate Students in all Faculties Members of the Faculties of Law and Criminology Lucy Cavendish Dinner In-house and Family (drinks to be hosted by President and Vice-President) All Members of the College Community – Fellows, Staff, Students, Alumnae & Members of the Combination Room Overseas Students Partners and Friends Supper *Lucy Cavendish Summer Feast Supper Supper Open House with 70 free student places *Graduands Dinner

*These events are by invitation only DESIGNATED TABLES do not preclude other College members from dining; All Members are always welcome to dine. Individuals should inform the Porter’s Lodge when booking, if they wish to sit at the designated 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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Report from the Garden Steward

he highlight of this year in the garden was opening of it to the public on the afternoon of Sunday 4 May 2003, in aid of the Red Cross. It was a glorious sunny day, the gardeners were all here to show people round, the visitors were most appreciative and enjoyed the plant stalls and the teas in the garden too. The event raised more than ÂŁ700 for the Red Cross. We plan to hold a similar event next year. Just a month earlier the lawns were deeply trenched from Oldham Hall to the Library, and up the path between the two areas of wild garden to College House in order to lay ducting for new computer cables prior to building work on Oldham Hall. The gardeners` hearts sank when they saw the state of the lawns after the trenching work was completed â&#x20AC;&#x201C; but with new turf and a great deal of hard work all was put right in record time, and was hardly detectable on the Open Day. A considerable number of wild flowers were added to the areas of wild garden by way of compensation for the upheaval. We have had several losses in the garden. The snake-bark maple donated by Jenny Sheppard and Roger Wilding and planted beside the Library has died due to the waterlogging of its roots. We intend to replace it in the autumn with a silver birch which would be much more tolerant of these conditions. An Escallonia bush has succumbed to the dreaded Honey Fungus in the long border between College House and Barrmore, and we plan to replace it in the autumn with a variegated Kerria japonica, which should be more resistant. The October gales fortunately did not do too much damage to our trees: we lost a branch off a Lime tree beside the Madingley Road, and part of the large Horse Chestnut beside the College House lawn. This tree has now been reduced in height by a third in order to reduce the weight of the crown and prevent further damage from high winds. Otherwise it has been a year of consolidating our planting and generally maintaining the appearance of the gardens. We have thickened the privet hedge inside the railings on the Madingley Road boundary, and planted a privet hedge along the far boundary of

Marshall house garden. On the advice of the Head gardener of King`s College we have had a programme of weed and feed on the lawn outside Strathaird which has been very successful: we plan to do the same for the lawns in front of the Library and College House next year. We continue our policy of being as environmentally friendly as possible in the garden, using the minimum amount of chemicals and the maximum amount of compost. This, and our well-established wild flower garden have supported an increased number of butterflies this summer. We are also keeping a record of the different species of birds seen in the garden, and of those using the nesting boxes. The birdbaths have been coated with a waterproof lining to make them more effective. This year we have purchased a new Snapper ride-on mower which is working well, and replaces one which did 10 years valiant service. We also received generous donations of garden tools from Elaine Durham, and a large planter pot which is in front of Strathaird porch, from Hilary Belcher and Erica Swale. In December the Eastern Region of the Professional Gardeners` Guild held their Christmas Dinner in college; it was a most interesting and enjoyable evening. We held our annual informal supper for our gardeners and members of the garden committee in early June and were delighted that Ursula Lyons could join us. Her history of the college gardens is now in the final stages of completion and we look forward to its publication next year. It is a great pleasure to be Garden Steward and to constantly be receiving compliments about the state of the gardens. There can be no doubt that they are greatly appreciated by members of the college and our visitors. This is a great tribute to the dedication and hard work of our senior gardener, Helen Seal, and her assistants Richard Crosthwait and Janet Fox who do such a wonderful job for us. We give them our warmest thanks. Jane M. Renfrew Garden Steward

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Report from the Studentship and Bursary Committee Prizes Alumnae Association Prize: Ms Linda Bates, for contribution towards the cultural life of College BP Studentship: Miss Dimple Mehta Emmeline Pankhurst Prize: Miss Dimple Mehta For contribution to College life; Ms Peri Smith For contribution to College life Harris Prize for Graduate Students Results: Miss Mei Cheong, for an outstanding degree result; Miss Milja Durkovic, for an outstanding degree result John Butterfield Prize for Clinical Medicine: Ms Rachel Collins, in recognition of future contribution to patient care as a qualified doctor Madeleine JĂśrgensen Prize: Ms Elizabeth Appel, for First Class result in Part II, English Tripos; Ms Linda Bates, for First Class result in Part IB, English Tripos; Miss Sarah Nason, for First Class result in Part IB, Law Tripos; Ms Sophie Rendle, for First Class result in Part IA, Medical and Veterinary Sciences Tripos; Ms Stephanie Teichmann, for First Class result in Part IA German, Modern Languages Tripos Myson College Exhibition for Personal Achievement: Miss Deborah Bishop; Ms Mary Dezille

Studentships and Bursaries American Friends of Cambridge University Amy Cohen Belcher Fund Commemorative Bursaries Fund Dorothy and Joseph Needham Research Fund Eunice Black Fund George Bidder Fund

Harris Science Lord Frederick Cavendish Mastermann Braithwaite Fund Business and Professional Women Roll Club Bursary Ruth Tomlinson Thriplow Charitable Trust

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Anna Bidder Research Evenings

ver the years I have realised how little I really know about the research activities of many of my colleagues. The fact that so many Fellows are juggling so many responsibilities means that we get far too few opportunities to relax in each other’s company discussing each other’s research. That is why I suggested to Governing Body that we set up two evenings a term for Fellows to do just that. The new Anna Bidder Room seemed an obvious venue, attaching Anna Bidder’s name to the evening seemed a fitting memorial to our much loved Founding President. Starting in the Lent Term we have had three highly successful meetings so far. Laura Wright launched the scheme with a lively presentation on “English World-wide: The Island of St Helena, South Atlantic”, Fiona Tooke brought in live specimens to

present “Flower development: insights from Impatiens”; Lorna Williamson treated us to a presentation on “Of platelets, antibodies and placentas”. All talks engendered lively discussion and I am sure I am not the only one who feels much more in touch with my colleagues’ work. Six sessions are planned for next year. The dates are 21 October and 4 November 2003, 3 February, 24 February, 4 May and 1 June 2004. Please let me know if you would like to do a presentation. As usual we shall meet for drinks, have supper and then come back to the Anna Bidder Room for the talk and discussion fortified by coffee and Christine’s finest dessert wine. Anna Sapir Abulafia Vice-President

Lucy Cavendish Appeal

eaders of the Annual Newsletter will have received the Lucy Cavendish College Appeal Brochure a few months ago and know from that that the College has embarked on a fundraising drive. Funds are needed to acquire additional student accommodation, increase the availability of student hardship funds, increase the number of secure teaching and research posts, and maintain up-to-date Library and ICT resources.

Dinner on 8 March 2003 and the exhibition organised by Karen Davies in the Library to show in pictures the remarkable development of the College from its founding in 1965.

Ever-decreasing government support for universities has made our need to secure private funding even more pressing. Lucy Cavendish needs the support of all its Alumnae and friends to continue its work in widening access and offering the best possible facilities to our wonderful students.

This Newsletter sees the launch of the Anna Bidder Legacy Association and the Annual Fund for 20032004. Please study the leaflets we have enclosed. We look forward to hearing from you very soon (in the reply paid envelope)!

Milestones of this year’s preparatory work were the launch of the appeal brochure at the Lucy Cavendish

In July 2003 we appointed a Development Officer, Meryl Davies, who comes to us from Gonville and Caius College, and we wish her every success in her new job which she starts in early September.

Anna Sapir Abulafia Vice-President

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Book Launch n Tuesday 3 June 2003 Baroness Perry came back to the College to launch her new book The Womb in which I Lay: Daughters finding their Mothers in Life and Death. After being introduced by the President, Lady Perry explained how her book had grown out of an article she had written after her own mother died many years ago. In her book she explores the intense ambiguity of the relationship between daughters and their mothers through the eyes of ten women. The ten women, all highly successful in their careers, are of Pauline Perry’s generation. Their stories highlight the gulf between their generation and the generation of their mothers, who did not have the kind of career choices their daughters enjoyed. But their stories also show that ultimately there was more that united these women to their mothers than kept them apart. Lady Perry’s book echoes her vision that women can and should be able to pursue their careers while at the same time fulfilling their role as caring mothers. A lively discussion followed and Dr Felicity Hunt, the University’s Equal Opportunities Officer, rounded off the occasion by sharing Lady Perry’s optimism

Beverley Harvey

Baroness Perry at her book launch

about the role women can play in society and by thanking her for producing a book which carried such a positive personal message for its readers. Anna Sapir Abulafia Vice-President

The Womb in which I Lay

auline Perry, who was of course President of Lucy Cavendish College between 1994 and 2001, began the project now published as The Womb in Which I Lay: Daughters Finding Their Mothers in Life and Death soon after the death of her own mother in 1989. The complex processes of grieving prompted her to write an account of her experiences; this was published in The Guardian. As she explained at the book’s very successful recent launch at Lucy Cavendish in June, the response to this piece was so overwhelming that a television documentary dealing with the impact on women’s lives of their mothers’ deaths was then commissioned. What makes the resulting book so striking – and so moving – is its inclusion of individual women’s voices. Baroness Perry interviewed ten very successful and articulate women whose frank and deeply involving stories are powerful testimony to the peculiar – not to say problematic - strength of the mother-daughter bond. A former Vice-Chancellor of the South Bank University and, as Baroness Perry of Southwark, a life peer since 1991, Pauline Perry is herself part of the generation of women who provide the book’s focus – the first generation to attain sexual freedom and professional success in any numbers. The gulf between the experiences of these dynamic women and the ostensibly more limited lives of their mothers is a thread running through all of these case

studies. It is also a phenomenon with which many students and Fellows of Lucy Cavendish will be able to identify. Most of our mothers probably didn’t work, at least while we were young, whereas many of us are now juggling a busy job or course of study with the demands of a young family. However one of the many interesting things to emerge from the ten narratives which Pauline Perry weaves together, is just how enterprising and active so many of the women’s mothers were, even if they could not fulfil their potential in ways we recognize today – by becoming a lawyer, doctor or academic for example. We learn how Judith’s mother sold her wedding ring and family home in order to set up a profitable retail company, how Ana’s mother was a successful entrepreneur (in partnership with her husband) in Zanzibar and how Simone’s mother, a trained nurse, was the first in her village to dare to wear trousers. Some of the book’s most upbeat moments are provided by anecdotes of these funny, feisty and flirtatious women, such as Judith’s memory of her mother twirling round to show off her new bright red cami-knickers, a present from Judith’s father. But there are many very painful stories here too, such as that of Barbara, separated from her mother at birth, only to be reunited when both are dying of cancer, or that of Jane, called out from a meeting to be told her mother had died, and

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devastated to have missed the opportunity to say goodbye. This is not a long book and when read in one sitting we move very quickly from vignettes of vibrant, clever often beautiful women to pictures of their declining years, marked by ill health and confusion. This telescopic effect may encourage the reader to make an imaginative effort to recuperate one’s own mother’s lost youth. I certainly find it difficult to bridge the gap between the rather glamorous young

student pictured in black and white photos in my family home, a drink in one hand and a cigarette in the other, with my own memories of my mother in middle or old age. And I wonder (with vague unease) if my daughter will have the same problems reconciling similar photographs of me with her own recollections. Dr Sarah Brown College Lecturer in English

The Womb in which I Lay is published by Souvenir Press.

Stop Press: Lucy Cavendish Lectures Venue: Lucy Cavendish College, WoodLegh Rooms 1 and 2, Strathaird.

On 18 November 2003 at 5pm, Dame Veronica Sutherland will give a lecture on “The Good Friday Agreement and beyond”.

On 27 January 2004 at 5pm Dr Robin Wallach will discuss the work she does with parents living with disadvantage and give a talk on 'Invisible cultures, invisible parents'.

All members of the College community are warmly invited to attend both events.

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Wheels, Thrills and Hills! efore I begin the account of my cycling adventure I would like to say how sorry I was that Sue Sang was unable to take part due to illness. I know that she was thinking of me all day and I her. My day began at 4.30 (I woke up before the 5am alarm – too excited) and the main tasks for me were to go through my checklist and pack my new panniers with fruit, drink, nuts, energy bars and other essentials. After a soundless drive to college to collect my bike, I cycled over to Midsummer Common to be confronted with masses of participants, organisers, tents and coaches. The silent queue to register snaked over the common to awaiting bike trucks where we were allocated a coach to take us all to the River Lee Country Park at Waltham Abbey. And so I began the actual ride at 9.15am. To conjure a picture of the start, imagine a miniature London marathon but with everyone on bicycles. Add to that official starters (men and women) dressed up as lollypop ladies to wave everyone off! Almost straightaway I felt hungry so after a few miles I stopped to eat a banana and it certainly gave me a surge of energy. So much so that I skipped the first refreshment stop and carried on to the second which was a field decked in bunting and people selling homemade cakes and tea. This is when I met up with a group of cyclists who had been friendly to me right at the start. I shared their snacks and carried on. The route was idyllic – mostly through villages I had never seen or heard of. At every bend of green and leafy lane there were beautiful dwellings to admire and cycling past enormous cornfields beneath the fluffy clouded blue skies will stay forever in my memory. Each mile was signposted with a pearl of knowledge e.g. raindrops travel at 7 miles per hour and you can hear a lion’s roar at ten miles. At 12 miles everyone was reminded as to exactly why they were on the bike ride; that 12,000 women die of breast cancer each year. I did not feel lonely but euphoric. My energy seemed endless because I was enjoying myself so much. Occasionally another rider would have a word or two and the encouragement from marshals at regular intervals was uplifting. I was severely tested on two particularly long and drawn out inclines roughly at 32 miles (the maximum speed of a running giraffe!) Determined not to walk any of the route I managed by standing and pedalling slowly (with puff and probably looking elongated like a …. giraffe) whilst in 1st gear. My reward was

whizzing down the other sides singing a new version of the Rodgers and Hammerstein song “It’s a grand day (night) for cycling (singing). At the last refreshment stop in an Ickleton pub I treated my biking buddies to tea in proper cups where we chatted for twenty minutes or so (me wildly I think, as I was on an incredible high!) before starting off on the last 15 miles. Although I went at a steady but sure pace, this last journey was the hardest not least because of the busy A1301 to Cambridge (stopped for a picture by the sign) and

the never-ending Hills Road (including bridge!) The amount of red traffic/pedestrian lights was frustrating and I was just itching by then to get to the finishing line. As I rounded the corner and on to Newmarket Road I bit my tongue to prevent an emotional tear. I heard Dave call me to look up for a picture and then watched him run to the finish to capture me again. I know I waved like a mad thing as I crossed the line and there were my biking buddies clapping as well as some of my family and other onlookers. It had taken me 6 hours and 20 minutes (including stops). After a good soak in the bath I lay in bed that night grinning and thinking “I’ve cycled from London to Cambridge today – wahayeeee!”

Dave Harvey

“A huge and heartfelt thanks to Fellows, staff and friends for helping raise £1,005 for Breakthrough Breast Cancer”.

Mrs Beverley Harvey President and Vice-President’s Secretary

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Dear Folks Back Home ometimes I hear the coyotes in the night, in the woods below our house – a sound like witches playing netball. Ten months on and the West is no less Wild, but a lot less disconcerting. If I’d known quite what a mountain we would be climbing…but at last the practicalities of becoming Californians are pretty much sorted and our psyches have more or less settled down and understood how they are supposed to deal with it. Now I can honestly tell you that life is good.

Lindsey Traub

We moved into our house in mid-January; it’s beautifully high and light and of course arranged for easy and convenient living – though at the time completely empty. The whole of the back, livingroom (with open kitchen beyond), study and ‘master’ bedroom open straight on to the lovely garden, through French windows, so I’m writing to you looking through roses to the little wooded mountainside opposite – roll over in bed in the morning and through the trumpet vine you see the mist wisping about the summit and hear the birds.

Mindful of all your hectic lives I have not been idle – at least I have fully revelled in such idleness as seemed only gratitude for this unlooked for time of peace and reflection. Reading under the wisteria, in

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the cool bright morning was fine so long as it was something good and difficult? I began to see why everyone loves a sabbatical. After a suitable passage of emails and the production of kinds sponsors’ letters of introduction, I was invited down to UCLA to enrol as a Visiting Scholar. No mean feat, actually, as it meant negotiating two different freeways, then racing along - imagine it! – Sunset Boulevard, with a whole lot of people who clearly knew where they were going, even if I didn’t. The campus is lovely – the-UL-goes-to-Ravenna should give you the idea, complete with umbrella pines. I came back armed with an ID card, and a stack of exactly what I wanted from the research library. I’m now in the process of contacting faculty members about joining activities after their summer break

Anyway, that’s all behind us now. We even passed our driving tests – written and practical – and are now fully identifiable members of the Californian public; no longer just figments of her Britannic Majesty’s imagination – whoever she is. We were just sorry that neither of us was tested on the rule about not using a firearm at traffic lights or to deface a road sign.

Faith Payne

It has taken time to feel right though and the weird sounds the pigeons make still evokes the sheer panic I used to feel as I opened my eyes each day, for weeks. Where am I? What are we doing here ? The wall-mirror reflected a stand of arum lilies through the window. So exquisite – so alien in our garden. Why did we dismantle our happy life? It wasn’t simple homesickness, more a vertiginous sensation of living in parallel universes, with an unmeasured drop between them. Both made sense, but which one was I actually in? Emma Roxanas, Lindsey Traub and Deborah Bishop at Graduands' Dinner, June 2003

The other healthy distraction is something I’ve always wanted to do: working with disabled riders. There is a fabulous local outfit here that gives lessons to children and adults with mental and physical disabilities. What is achieved is truly

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amazing. A silent, profoundly autistic child will suddenly speak and laugh when his pony breaks into a trot. There’s an undergraduate from UCLA who drives herself here and does immaculate dressage, mounting and dismounting from her wheelchair – she’s been paraplegic from the age of three. It was a real lifesaver to find such a familiar, human scene; when I wept with frustration over mastering the road system or missing my children, I could still put a bridle on a pony and someone was pleased with me!! We have (luckily) delightful neighbours, a surprisingly busy social scene, generated by Micky’s work colleagues and are surrounded by wonderful mountain trails and beaches for walking. There are occasional good movies and lots of handy eateries The telly is a not a great attraction though we do watch the 7.30 BBC America World News every night religiously, to have any idea what’s going on. There is soccer, some of it with Spanish commentary, and Bull Riding. Also the Hunting Channel, where large men in plaid shirts wriggle over the tundra with rifles in search of ‘burrs’ or ‘deeeurr’ and the ads. are all for motorised duck decoys and cartridges. There’s really too much to tell – like the works outing weekend in Las Vegas: by coach across the desert, near Death Valley (we have seen the

mountains of Mordor and they are black), lunching at the truckstop town with the highest recorded summer temperature in the USA. We wandered bug-eyed through a hotel made like a scale model of a piece of Venice, Doge’s Palace, Campanile and all, with a portion of the Grand Canal, complete with water and full size gondolas (some containing brides) indoors and upstairs! Now, in August the heat is way up – though not as high as in England this year – and we were relieved to go to Alaska for our vacation. What a wonderland! We spent a week on a small, 70 berth, cruiser pottering about the sheltered fiord-like coast of south-east Alaska, small enough to anchor and approach the unimaginable, blue, towering, tidewater glaciers in large inflatable dinghys. We spent hours watching the beautiful movements of humpback whales, puffing and diving all around us, quite unconcerned. Everyday we anchored and went ashore to walk in the forest, seeing grizzly bears at about 50 yards, too busy gorging on the spawning salmon to notice us… Yes, the West is wild all right – and it’s sure nice to know you’re all still there. So long friends! Dr Lindsey Traub Emeritus Fellow

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In memoriam Dr Margaret Elise Wallace 1922-2003

r Margaret Wallace was a founding fellow of Lucy Cavendish Collegiate Society.

Margaret Elise Wallace (née Wright) was born in Heliopolis, near Cairo in Egypt on 22 January 1922, the third child (out of five) and only daughter of Claud Wright, an Air Commodore, and Elise Rodwell. In 1928 Margaret became a boarder at Notre Dame Convent School in Teignmouth, Devon, leaving in 1940 to travel to Simla in India to join her parents who were on RAF service. She worked as a stenographer and private secretary for a couple of years before returning to the UK in 1944. From an early age Margaret had loved observing birds and other mammals in the garden of her home. Hoping to secure a job that would allow her to pursue her interest in biology, she wrote to several university professors. Sir Ronald Fisher, Professor of Genetics at Cambridge University, responded positively, employing Margaret as a research assistant in his mouse laboratory. Margaret went on to read Natural Sciences at Girton and in 1948 was amongst the first cohort of women students at Cambridge awarded the title of degree and, with her husband David whom she married in 1947, became the first married couple to graduate together. In 1950 Margaret returned to the Department of Genetics as a researcher. Her Ph.D. thesis, Studies in Mouse Genetics, awarded in 1955, formed the basis of a life-long academic interest in genetic mutations in mice. This work flowed into research and consultancy on the breeding of tomatoes, dogs, mink, and Charolais cows. Margaret published extensively throughout her academic career: she was the author or co-author of some 76 articles in refereed academic journals, 102 un-refereed papers and four books. She continued working at the Department of Genetics, becoming Assistant

Director in Research in 1965, until she retired in 1984. Although in retirement Margaret continued her research into genetic mutation in a population of Peruvian mice, carrying out experiments in the laboratory she had created in a garden shed. Margaret’s wide range of interests outside of genetics included writing sex education booklets for children and parents, and writing an advice booklet on coping with osteoporosis – a disease from which she suffered for thirty years. 6 Writing to Dame Anne Warburton in 1990, Margaret recalls that she was asked several times to join the Dining Group in the 1950s and early 1960s, but always declined because “with a full-time job as a University Teaching Officer and four children I didn’t have the time”. 7 Margaret was finally persuaded by Nora Willson and was welcomed as a member of the Dining Group at a meeting on 26 November 1963. 8 Margaret felt “totally committed” to the aims of Lucy Cavendish Collegiate Society, particularly with “helping women maintain or return to full academic life”. She had struggled with determination to follow a full-time academic career, and thus felt strongly that women should be able to combine a family and career “to the same level that is open to men”. Margaret served on the Governing Body and for a short time on the Finance Committee. Commitments outside of the College made it increasingly difficult for Margaret to serve as a Governing Body Fellow and she resigned from the Governing Body in 1973. However, she continued to follow with interest the progress of the College, and was made an Emeritus Fellow in 1988. A memorial event to celebrate the life of Margaret was held at the College on 12 April. Organised by Margaret’s children, it was attended by family, friends, colleagues, and members of the College. Karen Davies Archivist

From A Celebration of the Life of Dr Margaret E. Wallace, LCC/A2003/029

LCC/A2003/047

LCC/LD1, vol. 4

Annual Report and Newsletter 2003

The Alumnae Association Report from the Alumnae Association President

am very pleased and honoured to report on the Association in this my first year as President. After a successful AGM in March the outgoing President, Maureen Brown, was presented with flowers and gifts from the Committee, together with thanks for all her enthusiasm, hard work and commitment to the College. We all enjoyed the Annual Dinner and the chance to meet so many old – and new – friends. For the second year running a very successful “Meet the Alumnae” drinks party was held at the beginning of the Lent Term, and the committee and alumnae really appreciated the opportunity to meet and talk with so many of the current Lucy students, yet more inspiring women, each with a different story. In addition to £2,000 in bursaries the Association was pleased to be able to award £1,500 towards the Student Hardship Fund and a further £1,500 to the George Bidder Fund. The sale of Lucy Memorabilia increases steadily under the watchful eye of Penny Granger, and now includes a stylish new range of Lucy T-shirts. The very first Lucy Alumnae Dinner was successfully held during the University Alumni weekend in September; this is to be repeated this year on 27 September, and we hope to see many more alumnae and their guests, and that this will

develop into an important annual event for Lucy Alumnae. During the year members of the Committee represented the Alumnae Association on the College Development Group, an exciting new phase in Lucy’s history and something we feel very privileged to be a part of. We look forward to continuing to work alongside the Development Group, and forming an important and significant contact between the Group and Lucy Alumnae. Now that the number of Lucy Alumnae has reached an astonishing 1500, the Committee’s own projects for next year include the setting up of matriculation year groups, each with their own year representative, in order to rationalise the growing problem of keeping in touch with everybody! We would welcome help from any interested alumnae with comprehensive and up-to-date address books; please contact the committee through the college. We welcome the new committee members who have joined us this year, and warmly thank those who have retired. I am grateful to my fellow committee members for their support and hard work, but know that we are united in what we all owe to Lucy. Ms Katherine Steele Alumnae Association President

Lucy Cavendish College

Members of the Alumnae Association Committee, March 2003 President of the Alumnae Association:

Mrs Katherine M Steele 54 Ainsworth Street Cambridge CB1 2PD

Treasurer:

Mrs Moira Lavery-Callaghan 2 St Andrewâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Way, Impington, Cambridge CB4 4NQ

Vice-President of the College

Dr Anna Abulafia Lucy Cavendish College Tel: 01223 332193 Email: asa1001@cam.ac.uk

Recorder and Secretary:

Ms Alison Vinnicombe Lucy Cavendish College Tel: 01223 339240 Email: aav20@cam.ac.uk

Mrs Jill Armstrong 19 Beaulands Close Cambridge CB4 1JA

Ms Elizabeth McIsaac 11 Durnford Way Cambridge CB4 2SP

Ms Jenefer Bamborough 42 Montague Road Cambridge CB4 1BX

Mrs Angela Morecroft Midlanes House 18 Hartford Road Huntingdon PE29 3QD

Mrs Elaine Durham 74 Norwich Street Cambridge CB2 1NE

Lady Newns 47 Barrow Road Cambridge CB2 2AR

Ms Penny Granger 23 Chesterton Towers Cambridge CB4 1DZ

Mrs Julia Payne 5 Ambrose Way, Impington, Cambridge CB4 9US

Mrs Dorothy Heeneman 51 Harbour Avenue, Comberton Cambridge CB3 7DD

Dr Wendy Pollard 14 Bateman Mews Cambridge CB2 1NN Miss Trudy A Stevens 79 Vinery Road Cambridge CB1 3DW

The College Website: http://www.lucy-cav.cam.ac.uk has a section on the Alumnae Association and it will be updated on a regular basis to keep you in touch with what is happening at Lucy Cavendish College and how you can continue to be involved.