Newsletter 2006 by Lucy Cavendish College

Lucy Cavendish College University of Cambridge

Annual Newsletter 2006

Lucy Cavendish College Annual Newsletter 2006

Lucy Cavendish College

Credits Editorial Board Dame Veronica Sutherland Sue Brindley Sarah Brown David Bryant

Meryl Davies Louise Foxcroft Elizabeth Speller Alison Vinnicombe (Managing Editor)

Printed by: Piggott Black Bear Limited Front cover: photo by Alison Vinnicombe Back Cover: photographs by Kelly Dennison, Beverley Harvey, Libby Kemkaran-Thompson, Margaret Penston, and Alison Vinnicombe

Acknowledgements Photographs in the Annual Newsletter have been kindly provided by the following: Eaden Lilley Meryl Davies p16 Kelly Dennison p19 Vanessa Fox p21, 22 Dave Harvey p55 Morag Kersel p17, 66, 67 Libby Kemkaran-Thompson p23 Kenny Koenig p13 Mirca Madianou p11 Jane McGregor p48 Margaret Penston p5, 7, 8, 11, 12, 31, 32, 34, 37, 38, 56, 64 Catherine Reid p35, 36

Morgan Richard p9 Ruth R Roberts p18 Nicola Rotton p29 Helen Seal p27 Alison Vinnicombe p1, 6, 7, 10, 13, 14, 15, 20, 24, 25, 26, 27, 30, 32, 37, 39, 57, 71, 79 The photographs with the Interviews and for the Alumnae Profiles had been provided by the people named in those sections.

Annual Newsletter 2006

Contents CREDITS ............................................................................................................................................... 2 Editorial Board............................................................................................................................... 2 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ......................................................................................................................... 2

REPORT FROM THE PRESIDENT

COLLEGE REPORTS

GOVERNING BODY FELLOWS ................................................................................................................ 7 TUTORS ................................................................................................................................................ 7 CAMBRIDGE MEDIA RESEARCH GROUP ................................................................................................. 9 ARTS FELLOWS ................................................................................................................................... 10 SCIENCE FELLOWS .............................................................................................................................. 13

REPORT FROM THE STUDENTS’ UNION

LUCY CAVENDISH COLLEGE STUDENTS’ UNION 2005-06 .................................................................... 16 LUCY CAVENDISH DINNER SPEECH FROM THE STUDENTS’ UNION PRESIDENT ...................................... 16 STUDENT NEWS................................................................................................................................... 17 THE COLLEGE CHOIR ......................................................................................................................... 18 IT WAS ALL GREEK TO US.................................................................................................................... 19 MARGARET WILSON ........................................................................................................................... 20 LUCY CAVENDISH COLLEGE BOAT CLUB ............................................................................................. 20 MAY BUMPS ....................................................................................................................................... 21

COLLEGE OFFICER REPORTS

REPORT FROM THE TUTORS ................................................................................................................ 23 REPORT FROM THE HEAD OF DEVELOPMENT ...................................................................................... 24 REPORT FROM THE GARDEN SUB-COMMITTEE .................................................................................... 26 REPORT FROM THE FINE ARTS SUB-COMMITTEE ................................................................................. 28 REPORT FROM THE FELLOWSHIP SECRETARY....................................................................................... 30 REPORT FROM THE RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP SECRETARY ..................................................................... 31 GARDEN PARTY, JUNE 2006 ............................................................................................................... 32 COMPETITION FOR VISITING FELLOWSHIPS AND SCHOLARSHIPS FOR 2007-08...................................... 33 REPORT FROM THE DOMESTIC BURSAR ............................................................................................... 33 REPORT FROM THE ICT MANAGER ..................................................................................................... 34 REPORT FROM THE LIBRARY ............................................................................................................... 35 FRIENDS OF LUCY CAVENDISH COLLEGE LIBRARY ............................................................................... 36 REPORT FROM THE ARCHIVIST............................................................................................................ 37 REPORT FROM THE STEWARD ............................................................................................................. 38 LUCY CAVENDISH LECTURE SERIES 2005-06 ....................................................................................... 39 LUCY CAVENDISH LECTURE SERIES 2006-07 ....................................................................................... 39 REPORT FROM THE STUDENTSHIP & BURSARY COMMITTEE ................................................................ 40 Prizes............................................................................................................................................ 40 Studentships and Bursaries ........................................................................................................... 40

THE COLLEGE 2005-06

PRESIDENT.......................................................................................................................................... 41 HONORARY FELLOWS ......................................................................................................................... 41 EMERITUS FELLOWS ............................................................................................................................ 41 GOVERNING BODY FELLOWS .............................................................................................................. 41 BURSARS ............................................................................................................................................. 41 RESEARCH FELLOWS ........................................................................................................................... 41 FELLOW-COMMONERS ....................................................................................................................... 41 VISITING FELLOWS .............................................................................................................................. 41 VISITING SCHOLARS ............................................................................................................................ 42 3

Lucy Cavendish College MEMBERS BY ELECTION ...................................................................................................................... 42 HONORARY MEMBERS OF THE COMBINATION ROOM ......................................................................... 42 MEMBERS OF THE COMBINATION ROOM ............................................................................................ 42 POST-DOCTORAL MEMBER OF THE COMBINATION ROOM ................................................................... 43 MEMBERS OF STAFF ............................................................................................................................ 43

THE STUDENT BODY

UNDERGRADUATES ............................................................................................................................. 44 First Year ...................................................................................................................................... 44 Second Year.................................................................................................................................. 44 Third Year .................................................................................................................................... 44 Fourth and Higher Years .............................................................................................................. 44 GRADUATE STUDENTS ......................................................................................................................... 45

IN MEMORIAM

HILDA RODERICK ELLIS DAVIDSON 1914-2006................................................................................... 46 MARGARET ALLNUTT BAX 1920-2005................................................................................................ 47 ANNABELLE DIXON PRIZE FUND ......................................................................................................... 48

FEATURES

CREATIVE WRITING ............................................................................................................................ 51 LUCY ON RADIO CAMBRIDGESHIRE ..................................................................................................... 55 A LA PROCHAINE................................................................................................................................ 56 INTERVIEW WITH PROFESSOR MAUREEN YOUNG ................................................................................. 58 INTERVIEW WITH DR JULIE MAXWELL ................................................................................................. 60 INTERVIEW WITH DR DHOOLEKA SARHADI RAJ ................................................................................... 62 INTERVIEW WITH DR DAVID CARTER CVO ......................................................................................... 64 AN ADVENTURE WITH JANE AND MORAG: REVISITING THE CYCLADIC ENIGMA................................... 66 IN PLACE OF OLDHAM HALL…WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN 1971-1989 ................................................ 68 PROFILE OF SELINA MILLS ................................................................................................................... 72

THE ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION

MEMBERS OF THE ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION COMMITTEE, MARCH 2006 .............................................. 74 REPORT FROM THE ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION PRESIDENT ...................................................................... 74 ALUMNAE PROFILES ............................................................................................................................ 75 Lucy Cavendish College Alumnae Association Committee........................................................... 75 Alumnae and Friends.................................................................................................................... 76 LUCY CAVENDISH DINNER 2007......................................................................................................... 79 FORMAL HALL SCHEDULE FOR 2006-07.............................................................................................. 80

Annual Newsletter 2006

Report from the President

The new Porter’s Lodge has been much admired, both for its architectural merits and for the additional space it provides for our team of round-theclock porters. The teaching rooms and the greatly improved student facilities are equally significant. These include an enlarged gym and bar area, and a delightful conservatory opening out onto our gardens, providing a congenial environment for students to relax in. As I have previously commented, this project has not been without its problems, but its progress has been eased by the many people who have offered generous support, including those who agreed that the money originally Dame Veronica & Mr Alex Sutherland subscribed for a tennis court My own involvement covers a (for which there is no longer range of issues including audit, IT strategy and space on our site) might be diverted to fund the conditions of service. From this perspective I conservatory. have also been impressed by the way in which our own college, now entering its fifth decade, We have indeed been fortunate in our plays a full and increasingly important part in benefactors this last year, with a particularly university matters at all levels. Our role is often generous legacy from the late Susan Maddocks, the subject of favourable comment, and our which will be used to endow one of our tutorial positions in her memory. Another heartreputation held in high regard. warming episode relates to Marie Lawrence. This stands us in good stead when we face the Not long after her death (reported in last year’s inevitable difficulties which befall any Newsletter) one of her students asked if there organisation. We have had many successes over was a memorial fund. This prompted an appeal this last year, but no account of it would be to establish an annual prize in her name. In the complete without mention of the attack on one event, so much money was donated that there of our students which took place in Warburton will now be not one annual prize, but three. Hall on the first day of the Michaelmas Term. This seems an entirely fitting memorial to Marie She has been left with permanently impaired who did so much for all her students. Another eyesight, and I know I speak for everyone when I most welcome innovation came from one of our wish her well as she resumes her studies next Emeritus Fellows, Joan Simms, whose generosity term. The incident, for which the College itself means there will now also be an annual prize for was in no way responsible, was witnessed by a excellence in studies in education. number of fellows, staff and students, all of whom responded with great presence of mind, These prizes have been designated for students almost certainly preventing a far worse outcome. with first class degrees, for which happily there Some had the added burden of appearing as is an increasing need. I am always impressed by witnesses at the subsequent trial. All showed the hard work and determination our students that courage and determination which are the devote not just to their studies, but to a whole range of extra curricular activities, including Lucy hallmarks. membership of the Students’ Union Committee. On a happier note, the year saw many welcome They have also found time to produce a hilarious developments. The new layout of this Christmas pantomime and to excel in sports as Newsletter proved popular, and we are diverse as lacrosse, water polo and ice-hockey, following the same pattern again this year, with and of course rowing. This year once again our interviews, articles and poetry. Then, the eight performed magnificently, only narrowly Oldham Hall project was at last completed.

embership of the Council of the University over the past year has given me fresh insight into university affairs. Managing this complex organisation is a demanding task, but participation in various committee meetings has made me increasingly aware of the widespread determination to ensure that the University of Cambridge remains a world class institution. In this the Vice-Chancellor (who is one of our Honorary Fellows) takes a strong lead, particularly on fund-raising, and works hard to ensure that the different elements of the collegiate University – the colleges, the faculties and departments and the Old Schools - are working with a shared purpose.

Lucy Cavendish College missing another blade through no fault of their own. There have been successes beyond the College too, including two noteworthy external prizes, one for poetry reading and one for research into improving hearing aids for young children.

terms of both teaching and research, and leaves us on her prestigious appointment as Professor at Anglia Ruskin University. We look forward to welcoming Dr Julie Maxwell in her place.

We also say goodbye to our Bursar, David Bryant, who is leaving after ten years with us. The students of course deserve their successes. He has covered a wide range of responsibilities, But they would be the first to acknowledge how and introduced a number of important much they owe to those who have guided them improvements. In common with many colleges, through their years here: “I would never have our finances have not been easy to manage in got through without the supportive atmosphere recent times, but he nevertheless leaves behind a college with an impressive at Lucy” is a typical endowment portfolio, comment. For this our team several properties in town of Tutors and Directors of and an exceptionally loyal Studies must take great staff. In writing to me of credit. Their determination his achievements, my (together with that of our predecessor, Pauline Perry, staff) to secure the optimum rightly recalled “his love for working environment for the College, his hard work every one of our students is and long hours, his pleasure an example to us all. and pride in the oversight Our Governing Body of the Library building, and fellowship continues to David Bryant (l) and David Carter (r) his wise control of our thrive, so often building on endowment”. We wish him the achievements of predecessors. Amongst all the very best for the future, and hope we shall these was Dr Hilda Davidson who sadly died in see him here again as an Honorary Member of January. She was Vice-President of the College the Combination Room. His successor, Dr in the 1970s, and the foremost English-speaking David Carter, started work in July, and is scholar of the Norse religion. Today our already getting to grips with his many Fellows match her enthusiasm in pursuing their responsibilities. own researches (described in a later section), some of which are of national, and indeed Finally, let me mention all those members of our international importance. In addition to all this wider community who give us such invaluable activity, Governing Body Fellows continue to support. Many of our Honorary Fellows keep in provide wise counsel both at our many formal touch with visits and gifts and we look forward meetings and at the small informal lunches I to expanding their number next year when we inaugurate the broadcaster, have instituted at Marshall Ms Anna Ford, the Chief House where we can range Inspector of Prisons, Ms more widely and consider Anne Owers, and the former long-term issues. One Head of the Security Service, critical and recurring Dame Stella Rimington. question is the impact on Our Emeritus Fellows are mature students of top-up regular visitors to so many fees. For the time being this of our social occasions, as remains unclear. are numerous of our As ever there have been a alumnae who have recently number of changes. We say Dame Veronica and Dame Stella been working with renewed good-bye to two Governing vigour for the benefit of the Body Fellows: Jane Collier and Sarah Brown. college and in support of our fund-raising Jane has been with us for over 30 years efforts. We look forward to seeing them here for throughout which she has supervised and the alumnae week-end in September. encouraged our economics students. Always an enthusiastic member of our community, she will So, as our fifth decade progresses, we can be fortunately remain in regular contact not only as proud of our achievements, and look forward to an Emeritus Fellow, but also as our Steward - in building on them. Dame Veronica Sutherland place of Jillinda Tiley who is taking a year’s well-deserved leave. Sarah has been with us for President only four years but has packed in a great deal in 6

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College Reports

Governing Body Fellows

r Anna Abulafia In March 2006 I gave a guest lecture to the Program in Judaic Studies and the History Department at Yale. Afterwards I went to New York to give a speech at the Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race Dinner held on 30 March. The next day I gave a lunch-time talk on ‘Christian attitudes to Jews in the time of the Crusades’ to an Alumni gathering arranged by CAm (Cambridge in America). I greatly enjoyed meeting a number of Lucy Cavendish Alumnae during the trip to New Haven and New York. I have enjoyed catching up on some of my research and writing during my sabbatical leave in Easter 2006. Abulafia, A. (2005) ‘Walter of Châtillon: a twelfth-century poet’s engagement with Jews’ The Journal of Medieval History 31, pp. 265-286 Abulafia, A. (2006) ‘Intellectual and cultural creativity’, in: Power, D (ed) (2006) Short Oxford History of Europe. The Central Middle Ages c. 1000 – c. 1300 Oxford, pp. 149-77 Abulafia, A. (2005) Articles on the ‘Crusades’, ‘Talmud Trials’, and ‘Innocent III’ in: E. Kessler and N. Wenborn (eds) (2005) A Dictionary of Jewish-Christian Relations, Cambridge

rs Julie Dashwood As always, the year has sped by, sandwiched academically between our annual Pirandello Conference in Warwick in October and my trip to Calabria in mid-May. The latter visit was in response to an invitation to lecture at the University of Calabria, which is a new University based outside Cosenza. The system there operates rather differently from ours: I lectured to over a hundred students, the lecture was videoed and followed by a half-hour discussion afterwards and details of the lecture and the discussion were posted on the student website. I was also able to visit the old part of

Cosenza, now being renovated, and walk from the Swabian castle to the Norman Cathedral, which was apparently opened by the stupor mundis, Frederick II.

s Jane McLarty This year I have continued to be very much involved in organising the Faculty of Divinity’s outreach events - we took a collection of colleagues up to Manchester at the end of the Lent Term to run a Study Day for sixth formers, which was very successful. I’ve also embarked on a project with Faculty colleagues to develop a linguistic commentary on the gospel of Mark, growing out of our teaching for one of the Tripos papers, for which we hope to find a publisher soon. I continue to work on my parttime PhD, and aim to have finished the first draft by the end of 2007!

s Alison Vinnicombe This year I have been very heavily involved in new appointments – we have a new Bursar, a new College Lecturer in English and four new Research Fellows. The Lucy Choir gave a super performance in May of the Vivaldi Gloria arranged for women’s voices and accompanied by a chamber orchestra. I have also become a member of the Cambridge Philharmonic Society, giving me a chance to sing in larger-scale works with mixed voices. The highlight of the season was a performance of the Britten War Requiem in Ely Cathedral, but I also had a chance to sing in St John’s Smith Square and will be going to Prague for a long weekend in October where we will be performing English music in the Rudolfinum, home to the Czech Philharmonic, appearing by invitation of the Czech Technical University in Prague, which celebrates its 300th anniversary in 2007.

Tutors

s Sue Brindley I suppose 2005-6 could be summed up for me by one of my English PGCE students who commented ‘I didn’t know I could learn this much in one year’... As a new

tutor at Lucy I have found working with (probably) the best group in the University a great privilege – and lots of fun. The group entered into the spirit of their first year here at

Lucy Cavendish College Lucy and Cambridge with élan, holding tutorial parties at key points in the term (those ‘dipping points’ when it’s cold and dark and hard work still)and arranging a group table at Formal Hall in June to celebrate the successes of the year. It was good to see everyone there – with guests of family and friends. The exam results tell the story of the dedicated hours of study - and bright minds - so congratulations to all. Next year I move into the role of Assistant Graduate Tutor and am looking forward to this new role. I’m hoping to see some of my group in a few years as they move into Higher Degrees. My University lecturing work, specifically as secondary PGCE courses manager (which this year is running a pilot awarding the first year of an MEd to successful students) and as course leader for Researching Practice, the MEd the students will be following in their second year, has kept me busy. I’m also co-ordinating the Faculty’s development into blended learning – a brave new world for some! - and this is a great innovation with which to be involved. Research has focused on three main areas this year: a funded research project exploring ICT and pedagogy in the secondary classroom; the place of research in the construction of teachers’ professional identities; and co-ordinating the Secondary PGCE team’s research into assessment – a live issue for all of us in education. I’ve been invited to give a keynote on ICT and pedagogy in Dubai in November 2006 (a new place to visit for me and I’m looking forward to that) and a keynote on initial teacher education models in Nice in December. My husband (not in teaching) tells me he can see it’s a hard life academics lead... So between Lucy and the Faculty of Education it’s been another fascinating year. A long hot summer (and it’s doing its best) is just what we all deserve - enjoy! Brindley, S (2006) Initial teacher trainees’ perspectives on teaching students with English as an Additional Language Cambridge Journal of Education Brindley, S (2006) English, Research and Professionalism Australian Journal of English Education Brindley, S (2006) Reading and other English matters: enhancing, extending and transforming English teaching through ICT in Adams, A and Brindley S (eds) Teaching Secondary English with ICT

Brindley, S (2005) Are you sun literate? English, literacy and ICT in Monteith , M (ed) Teaching Secondary Literacy with ICT Open University Press

r Allison Curry It has been another year of supporting Orsola Rath Spivack as assistant graduate tutor and our spectrum of graduate events. Being responsible for the majority of MPhil students means that each year is an exciting experience of getting to know new individuals. Each year we also get new medical students through both the mature, affiliate and Cambridge Graduate Medical course programs. Again, as admissions tutor, and tutor for Medicine, it is interesting seeing them progress from paper applications to sitting round tables at medics’ suppers and organizing medsoc events. There is always an interesting conversation to be had from all our students with such divergent previous degree subjects and backgrounds and their experiences now as a medical student here in Cambridge. Last October I was invited to New Delhi, India, along side an Oxford Counterpart to conduct Overseas interviews on behalf of CAO and the Cambridge Colleges for Oxbridge Candidates and found it a fascinating and rewarding experience, but wasn't quite expecting to be doing part of it through earth quake tremors. Work continues in the Department of Surgery Transplant Unit. I was awarded a British Society of Surgery Travel award to present research at the American Society for Transplantation annual conference in Seattle, April and will be presenting my recent findings at the World Transplant Congress meeting in Boston, July. Meanwhile my children spend the summer months enjoying the College gardens, endless rolling competitions down the bank in front of Strathaird (especially after exams when they can scream) and of course the Garden party … swing boats, unlimited ice cream and dragon dancing … what more could a child want!

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Cambridge Media Research Group

osters for research seminars are, usually, hardly worth mentioning; this makes Morgan Richardsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; achievement even more special as she has managed to design a set of stylish and attractive posters for the Cambridge Media Research Seminars that deserve attention in their own right. What follows is a selection of some of the posters Morgan has designed in the past three years, which have been highly praised in Cambridge and further afield. The Cambridge Media Research Seminars are one of the two seminar series in the Department of Sociology in the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences. They provide an interdisciplinary forum for discussion among academics and research students working broadly on topics

related to media and popular culture. The seminars are the brainchild of Dr. Georgina Born (with contributions from other colleagues) and are held three times a term on Wednesday afternoons. Apart from being a gifted designer, Morgan Richards is currently completing a PhD in the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences and is a member of the Media Research Group. For more information please see: www.amdesign.co.uk/cambridgemediaresearch.html All are welcome! Mirca Madianou

Lucy Cavendish College

Arts Fellows

r Amineh Ahmed After completing my PhD at Lucy Cavendish, I established the Society for Dialogue and Action. The Society aims to promote dialogue, understanding and tolerance among the members of Jewish, Christian, Muslim, and other communities globally. Especially encouraging female and young people’s participation, the society aims to implement positive change through peaceful coexistence within our multicultural society. The Society, set up less than a year ago, has already held two major conferences. The first was an international inter-faith seminar in Cambridge. Speakers included: MP Martin Bell; Professor Julius Lipner; Cambridge MP David Howarth; and Professor Akbar Ahmed, who inspired the inter-faith Society and continues to support it, talked of the need to support such initiatives that give importance to the voice of women and the young. The second conference was held in March 2006. It was titled: “Abrahamic Dialogue: Towards Respect and Understanding in Our Life Together”. Prince Hassan of Jordan sent a message for the event emphasizing the need for peaceful co-existence and a genuine need to understand and appreciate each other’s diversity. The speakers at this event included the Mayor of Cambridge; Professor Julius Lipner, Chairman of the Faculty of Divinity; Sir Sigmund Sternberg, Founder of the Three Faiths Forum; Professor David Ford, Director of the Cambridge InterFaith Programme; and Sir Iqbal Sacranie, Secretary General of the Muslim Council of Great Britain. The Society encourages women intellectuals to express their vision about interfaith: Jane Liddell-King, from the Jewish Chronicle spoke, as did Marie Cooke, Principal of the Margaret Beaufort Institute; and Professor Dushka H. Saiyid, Allama Iqbal Fellow, at Wolfson College. In the Easter Term, the Society for Dialogue and Action was pleased to present a series of topical, exciting, insightful, dynamic, and enjoyable session of lunch-workshops and classes called Building Bridges for women of all backgrounds to promote understanding and to build lasting friendships across religious, cultural and social boundaries. The classes include visits to a synagogue, church and a mosque, and talks by female experts on each faith. This activity is supported by the CDF and Community Development, Cambridge City Council, and provides an opportunity for women—the mothers and leaders of society—to reach out to

one another in support of their common goals. Discussion takes place over lunch. The most rewarding comment one lady made was: “I am learning so much. I would love to do a PhD in this course”. Next term (September-December 2006) the Society will be focusing on secondary schools and talking to young people about understanding the commonalities while respecting the differences and appreciating the richness of human diversity.

r Sarah Brown Over the course of the year my edited collection of biographical material on Henry James was published by Pickering & Chatto and articles appeared on women translators (in the Oxford History of Literary Translation) and on Mary Cowden Clarke's Girlhood of Shakespeare's Heroines (in Shakespeare Survey). In November I was a keynote speaker at an international conference in Edinburgh on Ted Hughes and the Classics - the proceedings are to be published as a book by OUP. During my research leave I began thinking about a new monograph on classical reception but spent most of the time on some very enjoyable smaller projects. The first was on the afterlife of Pygmalion. This was commissioned as part of a collection of essays on Ovid and Queer Theory for Johns Hopkins University Press, and the analysis started with Euripides and Ovid but concluded, less expectedly, with a section on two films, Singin' in the Rain and Vertigo. I made another foray into popular culture in a second essay, to be published in the Blackwell Companion to Classical Reception, on science fiction and the classical tradition - 'You Can't Spell Greek without Geek' is its provisional title. (Well I thought it was funny). As this was my final year at Lucy Cavendish I was delighted by the excellent and very well deserved Part II results. Our students have also maintained a strong showing in creative writing, with several obtaining good marks for the Original Composition element of the Tripos, much helped and encouraged by Lizzie Speller. And Kelly Dennison has secured a place on the University of East Anglia's prestigious Creative Writing MA, a really impressive achievement especially given all her other commitments. I

Annual Newsletter 2006 really enjoyed reading the story Kelly submitted as part of her application (it was rather racy!) and wish her every success with her writing career. In response to the lively interest in creative writing among the student body Meryl Davies and myself invited several writers to our English formal hall this year. I was particularly pleased to meet Susannah Clarke as I loved her very successful first novel, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, a compelling fantasy set in an alternate nineteenth-century England where magic is an everyday occurrence. Although she couldn't make this dinner I was delighted that Ali Smith was able to come to Lucy for another guest night later in the year. Ali's recent novel, The Accidental, won the Whitbread novel of the year award. I am very grateful to the College for its support over the past four years and would like particularly to thank the Governing Body Fellows for giving me the opportunity to take a sabbatical in the Lent term. I would also like to express my gratitude to Louise Joy for taking on the role of DoS for that term and doing such a wonderful job. Finally I'd like to say how delighted I am that the College has appointed Dr Julie Maxwell as my successor. On top of her immensely impressive academic credentials Julie is well placed to foster creativity in amongst Lucy's English students as she has had her first novel accepted for publication by Jonathan Cape.

r Edith Esch This year has been busy professionally with my time divided between research, examining and teaching in the Faculty of Education. While the move of the Faculty to a splendid new building provides us with improved working conditions, being so far away from the College has seriously affected my ability to come for lunch in College, but I managed to stick to the Choir and very much enjoy both the singing and the friendship.

On the research side, I was able to do some exploratory work on language education in Africa and was invited to an International Conference on Language, Literature and Education in Multilingual Societies in Cameroon to give a paper on ‘Home learning, school learning and the role of Language’. I hope to be able to build up on the network of contacts I made in the future. Cameroon is of special interest to me because the country implements a French-English bilingual educational policy.

Apart from my usual stint of external examining at Anglia-Ruskin University and Trinity College, Dublin, I was invited to examine doctoral dissertations in France, in Northern Ireland and at the Open University. On the teaching side, apart from teaching and supervising on the Research in Second Language Education MPhil course, I have put a lot of effort in supporting research students. My part– time PhD student at the OU successfully passed her viva before Christmas and two PhD students from the Faculty should complete next year. I will also be the International Scholar contact for a former MPhil student from Kazakhstan who has been awarded a Central Asian Research and Teaching Initiative ( CARTI) Junior Fellowship funded by the Soros Foundation. And I have just heard that one of my MPhil students from Cameroon has won a fully funded PhD studentship at the Open University, so all is well! Esch, E. ( 2005) ‘Representations of English amongst French adolescents in Senegal’. In Cortese G. and A. Duszak (eds.) Identity, Community , Discourse: English in Intercultural Settings. Berne, Peter Lang. pp 233-265 Esch, E. (2006) ‘Autonomy ten years on: Clash or Crash?’ in Pemberton , R. (ed.) Autonomy and Language Learning: maintaining Control. Hong Kong, Hong Kong University Press. (In press) The Japanese edition of the book ‘The Bilingual Family’ was published in the Spring. I am afraid I cannot comment on the translation but the pictures are very nice!

s Helena McFarquhar (Visiting Fellow) I have spent a very happy and productive sabbatical at Lucy Cavendish in 2005-06.

After 20+ yrs teaching a very broad range of law/criminology subjects it was refreshing to be able to focus on research and writing in the peace of the Lucy library. This resulted in a paper presented to the SLSA[Socio-Legal Studies Association] conference at Stirling University in March 2006 entitled "Truth or Proof: A Contemporary Study of criminal Justice Procedure in Europe." Two proposals for books on criminal justice were also submitted and to date one of these has been successful and a contract with Palgrave Macmillan has been signed . So this has been a rewarding time and a welcome opportunity to read and follow up on footnotes once again! I am very appreciative of all the help I received from the staff in the ICT dept without which I would not have been able to manage the intricacies of modern computer technology. I am immensely grateful to Lucy Cavendish for awarding me this visiting fellowship and I have

Lucy Cavendish College enjoyed dining in college and making new friends and contacts, which I hope to maintain in the future.

r Mirca Madianou In the winter I gave a series of lectures linked to the publication of my book, Mediating the Nation. In October 2005 I was invited to give a talk at the Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek at King’s College London, while in November I gave a talk at the Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek, Faculty of MML, University of Oxford. In March I was invited by the University of Macedonia in Thessaloniki to give a paper on ‘Television, everyday life and cultural intimacy in Greece’ in the context of the conference on ‘Images and Stereotypes in Greek-Turkish Relations’. It was also a great pleasure to give an Anna Bidder seminar here at Lucy. The title of the talk was ‘What difference do the media make in multicultural societies?’ During the year, I continued working on my new project which focuses on news and affect and I am delighted to be awarded an Early Career Fellowship by CRASSH for Michaelmas 2006 to press on with the writing of a new book on this topic. I was invited to give a seminar reporting on this research at the Centre for Film and Media Studies at SOAS in December. In June I gave a talk on ‘News and Narrative’ at the Narrative Symposium organized by Kettle’s Yard. During the year I attended two conferences: in November I presented a paper entitled ‘From long distance nationalism to long distance relationships’ at the first conference of the European Association for Communication in Amsterdam. In June I attended the International Communication’s Association Annual Conference in Dresden where I presented two papers and organized and chaired a panel on affect and politics in the public sphere. I would like to thank the college for its support in helping me attend these meetings.

r Jane Renfrew I seem to have had an even busier year for travelling than usual. Last Long Vacation saw a visit to the Cycladic islands of Greece to revisit sites of former excavations on Amorgos

and to plan and make arrangements for this summer’s excavations on Keros, with the accommodation and workroom on the neighbouring island of Kouphonisi. In early November I went with my husband to Berne, Switzerland for a meeting of the Balzan Foundation and was able to visit the Iron Age site of La Tène on Lake Neuchâtel and the excellent new museum there. Later in November I paid a brief visit to Tuscany and saw the Etruscan collections in the Museum of Asciano. In early December and again in early January I went to Athens for the launch of two books on Aegean archaeology. The first was a comprehensive account of the archaeology of all the islands of the Aegean, and the second a detailed account of the so-called Keros Hoard. From January to mid March my husband was lecturing at UCLA and I managed to have two brief trips to Los Angeles in January and March and to visit the Field Museum in UCLA, the Getty Museum and its newly refurbished Villa housing their collection of antiquities, The Norton Simon Museum and the Huntingdon Library. In late May this year I visited the excavations which my husband was conducting on the island of Keros (see Morag Kersel’s account elsewhere in this Newsletter) which turned out to be exceptionally rich in special finds all of which appear to have been deliberately broken.

r Anat Scolnicov My second year at Lucy started on a positive note: the completion of my PhD at the London School of Economics, entitled ‘Religious freedom – between group right and individual right’. At the same time, I took up my new post of Director of Studies in Law. This gave me an opportunity to get to know the law students better, although I already teach all of the Lucy law undergraduates constitutional law and most of them international law as well.

I participated in two exciting conferences: the first was the Ninth Annual Symposium of the Cambridge Gender Forum, dedicated this year to the topic ‘Gender and Religion’. The second was held at the London School of Economics, entitled ‘Crossing the Boundaries: The place of human rights in contemporary scholarship’. I am due to participate this summer at a further conference at the University of Helsinki. The talks presented at all these conferences dealt with various aspect of the conflict between religious law and autonomy of religious communities on

Annual Newsletter 2006 the one hand and women’s rights on the other hand, and how this is dealt with by diverse legal systems.

Scolnicov, A (2006) Religious Law, Religious Courts and Human Rights within Israeli Constitutional Structure International Journal of Constitutional Law (forthcoming).

Scolnicov, A. (2006) A dedicated follower of (religious) fashion? Cambridge Law Journal 64, 527

Science Fellows

r Ruth Cameron My research in pharmaceutical and medical materials progresses well. In October I took over as joint director of the Cambridge Centre for Medical Materials in the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy. New funds totalling £1.5million have been secured this year to investigate bioactive nano-composites for regenerative medicine. Work on crystallisation of pharmaceutical polymorphs at the edge of drying droplets was the subject of a patent application in February. Results from the group have been published in peer reviewed journals and at international conferences. Capes J.S., Ando H.Y. and Cameron R.E (2005). ‘Fabrication of Polymeric Scaffolds with a Controlled Distribution of Pores’ Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Medicine, 16, 1069 - 1075

Lynn A.K., Nakamura T., Patel, N. Porter A.E., Renouf A.C., Laity P.R., Best S.M, Cameron, R.E, Shimizu Y. and Bonfield, W. (2005). ‘Composition-controlled nanocomposites of apatite and collagen incorporating silicon as an osseopromotive agent.’ Journal of Biomedical Materials Research, 74A, 447 - 453 Renouf A.C, Rose, J, Farrar, D. AND Cameron, R.E (2006) ‘A Comparison of the Degradation and Deformation Properties of a PLLA-lauric acid Based Family of Biomaterials’ Biomacromolecules, 7(2), 612 - 617 Laity P.R., Taylor J.E., Wong, S.S., Khunkamchoo P., Cable, M, Andrews G.T., Johnson A.F, Cameron, R.E (2006) ‘Morphological Behaviour of Thermoplastic Polyurethanes during Repeated Deformation’ Macromolecular Materials and Engineering, 291(4), 301 - 324 Laity P.R., Taylor J.E., Wong, S.S., Khunkamchoo P., Cable, M, Andrews G.T., Johnson A.F, Cameron, R.E (2006) ‘Morphological Changes in Thermoplastic Polyurethanes during Heating’ Journal of Applied Polymer Science, 2006, 100(1), 779 - 790 Noorsai, K., Cameron, R.E (submitted) ‘Analysis of Drug Distribution in Poly (glycolide-co-trimethylene carbonate) (Maxon) Controlled Delivery Devices Using Analytical Environmental Scanning Electron Microscopy’ Submitted International Journal of Pharmaceutics Fu, X., Dutt M., Milroy, G.E., Wu, C., Bentham, A.C., Hancock B.C., Nichols, G., Cameron, R.E., Elliott, J.A. ‘Investigation of Particle Packing and Compaction in Model Systems for Pharmaceutical Powders Using Quantitative Xray Microtomography’ Accepted for publication Powder Technology

r Jane DGoodness

Greatorex how time flies! I am now entering my fifth year of teaching

at Lucy Cavendish. I have been a Governing Body Fellow for the past three of those years and during that time served on the Education Committee. This coming academic year I will be Assistant Undergraduate Tutor and am looking forward to this role with great anticipation. Throughout, it has been my privilege to supervise second year students on the Cambridge Graduate Course in Medicine, as well as standard course medical students and veterinary students. Outside of College it has been a busy few years. My research centres on the molecular biology of the Human Immunodeficiency Viruses, seeking to find out more about how these viruses replicate. This will hopefully enable us both to be able to design better anti-viral drugs, as well as use the viruses themselves as gene therapy vectors. HIV continues to be a significant public health problem, particularly in the African subcontinent. We are making some exciting discoveries, particularly concerning key differences between the two major types of HIV, which may point towards some novel intervention possibilities. In order to disseminate our findings, we not only publish our work but I also attend many meetings, both nationally and internationally. So far this year I have spoken at the Society for General Microbiology AGM and presented a poster at the Retrovirus Meeting in Cold Spring Harbor, USA. In addition to teaching in the Colleges, I am also involved in running the second year specialism in Microbiology in the MSc in Biomedical Sciences at Anglia Ruskin University. This is a challenging, distance-learning course which is based on the concept of “portfolio of evidence”, where the students have to demonstrate they have met the learning outcomes using a range of approaches including essays, videos, interviews and posters! Having enjoyed the past few years so much, I can honestly say I am really looking forward to the coming year. Thanks to everyone for making my time at Lucy such a great experience! Jane S.Greatorex, Elizabeth A. Palmer, Roger J. Pomerantz, John A. Dangerfield and Andrew M. L. Lever. (2006) Mutation of the Rev binding loop in the HIV-1 leader causes

Lucy Cavendish College a replication defect characterised by altered RNA trafficking and packaging. J Gen Virol, in press. Greatorex J.S, Monie T.P, Maynard-Smith L, Hook .BD, Bishop N, Beales L.P, Lever A.M. (2005) Identification and visualization of the dimerization initiation site of the prototype lentivirus, maedi visna virus: a potential GACG tetraloop displays structural homology with the alpha- and gamma-retroviruses. Biochem. 44.1:294-302. Greatorex, J. (2004) The retroviral RNA dimer linkage: different structures may reflect different roles. Retrovirology. 1. 1 August 18th. Monie, T. P., Greatorex, J. S., Zacharias, M., and Lever, A. M. (2004) The human T-cell lymphotropic virus type-I dimerization initiation site forms a hairpin loop, unlike previously characterized retroviral dimerization motifs. Biochem. 2004. 43. 20:6085-90. J. Gallego, J. Greatorex, B. Lang, S. Chandrasekar, H. Zhang, R. Pomerantz, and A.M. Lever. (2003) A Rev binding site in the leader RNA of HIV-1. J. Biol. Chem.278.41: 40385-91 Strappe, P.M., Greatorex, J., Thomas, J., Biswas, P., McCann, E., Lever, A.M.L. (2003) The packaging signal of SIV is upstream of the major splice donor at a similar distance from the RNA cap site to those of HIV 2 and HIV 1. J. Gen. Virol. 84:242330 J. Greatorex, J. Gallego, G. Varani, and A. M. L. Lever. (2002) Structure and stability of wild-type and mutant RNA internal loops from the SL-1 domain of the HIV-1 packaging signal. J. Mol. Biol: 322:543-5

rs Sarah Gull The second cohort of the Graduate Course in Medicine has just qualified, and will be starting medical practice in August. They are entering the medical profession at a time of rapid organisational change, which was well described by Carol Black when she spoke to the students in March on “Working in the NHS”. The reality is both complex and challenging: drugs such as Herceptin offer new and effective treatments; Clinical Genetics can increasingly predict personal risk of disease. Yet these developments come at a cost, and against a background of mounting debt in the NHS and an increasing culture of “managed-care”, characterised by governmental control. I have continued to support the role of the humanities in medicine and medical education. The different discourses have made this an uphill struggle as the humanities are marginalised by both the positivist criteria of “evidence-based” practice, and the target-orientated vision of NHS Reform. I continue to argue that this is why they are needed. With the help of MPhil English student, Joanna Carter, and the support of Professor Ludmilla Jordanova, we held a oneday conference at CRASSH in October 2005 to 14

debate how to proceed in Cambridge. The main outcome from this meeting was to develop a “student-selected component” for the Standard Course in Clinical Medicine. Seven brave students developed their own projects this Easter term. With the help of different departments, including the Fitzwilliam Museum we considered matters such as looking, interpreting, writing, science, art, madness and dying. We even managed some visual art projects with the help of artist Helena Greene. Such perverse schemes are made possible by continued support from the College Community, which encourages thinking the unthinkable. Thank you all!

r Jenny Koenig I became a Fellow at Lucy Cavendish in June 2005 and my first year here has seen me developing my interest in the use of technology in teaching. It has been a fascinating process, reflecting upon how I teach in small-group supervisions and in lectures and how I can use the technology to support and enhance the learning environment. Outside of teaching in the medical and veterinary courses, my main project has been the development of a suite of online learning materials designed to help students in the life sciences improve their mathematical skills and apply their mathematical knowledge in a biological sciences environment. The need for this course arose from a number of factors including the wide variation in background amongst students and the different mathematical and scientific vocabulary used in university compared to school. Even for those students with maths A level, there is often difficulty in applying what they have previously learned into a new, biological context. Calculations are an integral part of any life sciences course but especially in medicine and veterinary studies, calculations are an essential skill. The online materials include computer based tutorials, formative tests, summative tests, reference material and a glossary and the learning experience is very much self-directed. Students use the parts of the course and the type of material depending on their learning styles and educational background. The material was launched in October 2005 and is available via the CourseWork Virtual Learning Environment. An extensive evaluation was carried out with the use of an online questionnaire and revealed some fascinating insights into how students approach their learning.

Annual Newsletter 2006 I am also Chair of Cambridge AWiSE (Association for Women in Science and Engineering). The essential function of AWiSE is to help retain and improve the representation of women in science, engineering and technology (SET) fields in both industry and academia. We do this through organising networking meetings, personal development workshops, access to a mentoring scheme as well as gathering and disseminating relevant information. AWiSE has members from the whole range of career stages, from undergraduates and postgraduates through to company directors and professors. Networking meetings, workshops and online forums allow these women to meet and influence each other. This year has seen a lot of work behind the scenes at AWiSE. We have set up our own website (www.camawise.org.uk) and a successful application for funding to the UK Resource Centre for Women in SET has allowed us to employ a part time Networking and Mentoring Coordinator who we hope will be in post by autumn 2006. This will allow us to expand our activities to a wider range of venues but we will be continuing our series of meetings at Lucy Cavendish. Cambridge AWiSE is affiliated to the MentorSET mentoring scheme (www.mentorset.org.uk) which is open to women working across the whole range of SET fields in both industry and academia. MentorSET is always looking for more mentors so if you know of anyone who might be interested, you can contact me (jk111@cam.ac.uk) or the MentorSET manager through the website.

r Anita Naiker (Visiting Scholar) It was a great pleasure to reside at the Lucy Cavendish College during my sabbatical visit from the Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine to the University of Cambridge. Apart from the accommodation being good I enjoyed the gardens immensely as I am a keen gardener. During my stay I continued my investigations on trophoblast invasion of the human placental bed in both normal and pathological pregnancies at the Department of Anatomy (Downing Street). My experiments were carried out on an extensive collection of embedded samples and histological slides brought from South Africa. I performed immunohistochemical studies using cell markers for oxidative stress and apoptosis, for both light and confocal microscopy. I am grateful to Professor Burton and his co-workers for their immeasurable supervision during my stay.

I am also indebted to the College for electing me a Visiting Scholar. In addition, I was fortunate to have received a scientific grant from the Isaac Newton Trust to cover costs of my research.

r Lorna Williamson This has been another exciting year, with two personal reasons for celebration. Firstly I was promoted to Reader in Transfusion Medicine last October, and secondly I was elected to be the next chair of an international transfusion research collaborative called BESTa thrilling but daunting prospect. On the local front, I have a long-term project to develop a novel antibody treatment for pregnancies affected by the mother producing antibodies to the baby’s platelets. We moved a step closer this year by gaining both funding and permission from the regulatory authorities to conduct a study in healthy volunteers- only for it all to be put on hold following the catastrophic effects seen during a quite unrelated antibody trial in London earlier this year. Such are the ups and downs of the research life! I also completed several book chapters which are in press, including one on transfusion in a surgical text book- I think the first time surgeons have considered this an important enough topic to feature in one of ‘their’ books. Finally, congratulations to this year’s medical finalists- you will be a great credit to Lucy Cavendish as you progress through your careers. Cardigan R, Lawrie AS, Mackie, IJ, Williamson LM. (2005) The quality of fresh-frozen plasma produced from whole blood stored at 4°C overnight. Transfusion: 45:1342-1348 Hughes DL, Evans G, Metcalfe P, Goodall AH, Williamson LM. (2005) Tracking and characterisation of transfused platelets by two colour, whole blood flow cytometry. British Journal of Haematology: 130:791-794 Armour KL, Parry-Jones DR, Beharry N, Ballinger JR, Mushens R, Williams RK, Beatty C, Stanworth S, LloydEvans P, Scott M, Clark MR, Peters AM, Williamson LM. (2006) Intravascular survival of red cells coated with a mutated human anti-D antibody engineered to lack destructive activity. Blood: 107:2619-2626. Krailadsiri P, Seghatchian J, MacGregor I, Drummond O, Perrin R, Spring F, Prescott R, Williamson LM, Prowse CV, Anstee D, and Turner M. (2006) The effects of leucodepletion on the generation and removal of microvesicles and prion-protein in blood components. Transfusion: 46:407-417.

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Report from the Students’ Union Lucy Cavendish College Students’ Union 2005-06 Emma James Rebecca Jenkinson Cindy Sze Katherine Poole Helen Atherton Aimee Alter Jacqueline Burney Heidi Paddy Philippa Bulman Green Officer Karen Halls

President Vice-President Treasurer Secretary Graduate Rep Bar Steward CUSU External Officer Entertainment Officers

Lucy Cavendish Dinner Speech from the Students’ Union President

n order to gain admission to Lucy Cavendish College a would-be student must satisfy three basic criteria. She must be female, she must be ‘mature’ and she, like applicants at all Cambridge Colleges, must have proven her ability to meet the rigorous academic demands of a Cambridge degree. The first criterion - to be a female, is reasonably straight forward.

The second criterion - that of ‘maturity’ - has the potential to pose problems for some. Indeed, my mother commented when I announced my intention to apply to Lucy Cavendish that she doubted that a student who, despite having left home 7 years ago, still found it necessary to call New Zealand at least once a week to ask questions about which clothes should qualify for a whites wash, and what food needed to be refrigerated would be considered mature… luckily for me (and quite a few of my friends here at Lucy) the ‘mature’ criterion is satisfied by attaining the age of twenty-one. The third criterion, regarding academic ability, is not unique to Lucy, but rather a requirement that must be satisfied by all applicants to the University - this College, like all other colleges, will not admit a student unless they are satisfied that that student has proven that she has the academic ability necessary to deal with the challenges and sheer intensity of a Cambridge degree. These three criteria ensure that each year Lucy welcomes a dynamic group of women from various backgrounds, countries, religions, and beliefs. Some of these students will be embarking upon their first degree after years of childrearing or work, others will have studied for a 16

International Officer Soo Jeong Hwang Les-bi-gay Officers Sabrina Schuller Charlotte Cope Publicity Officer Libby KemkaranThompson Sports & Social Officer Nama Masada Welfare Officer Alison Brooks Women’s Officer Karolina Zbieszczyk

degree years ago and have decided to return to University to obtain a higher degree, or change their focus entirely and read a new subject, others still will have recently finished a degree (or several degrees) and will be coming to Lucy either to change focus or continue their course of academic research. While at Cambridge many of these students, like students from many other colleges, will participate in lectures, supervisions, clubs, societies, student politics and the occasional pub crawl… at the end of their time at Cambridge they will more likely than not emerge with a degree, a large amount of debt, and, in theory, some knowledge they didn’t possess when they arrived here… But here’s where I get confused… really confused. Somewhere, in all of this diversity, experience, ambition and ability that defines and characterizes the Lucy student body the notion of ‘second chance’ arises… I am sure that all of you here tonight have heard Lucy Cavendish College described as a College of ‘second chances’… some of you might even use this terminology yourselves… but I for one, don’t understand where it comes from and don’t believe it is an accurate way to describe our College… If you type ‘second chance’ into Google you will find pages devoted to the rehabilitation of violent criminals, pages describing programs addressing juvenile delinquency, websites of businesses that accept slightly torn designer clothing and ‘give it a second chance’ and webpages on animal rescue initiatives - what you won’t find are pages referring to the decision of

Annual Newsletter 2006 women who have been successful bankers, mothers, lawyers, nurses, undergraduates, managers, government employees, documentary film makers, PhD students, actors, charity workers, secretaries, CEOs and hospital managers to attend one of the finest Universities in the world to obtain their first, second or seventh degree as an example of a second chance. The notion of a second chance implies that one has squandered their ‘first chance’… it implies failure or even victimhood. Over the past four terms as President of the Students’ Union, I have had the privilege to meet and get to know a large number of the Lucy student population - women who have led interesting lives, women who have raised families, women who have earned brilliant degrees and women who have run companies these women do not need a ‘second chance’ because by and large they are very happy with what they have made of their ‘first chance’; they have chosen to come to the University of Cambridge because it is considered one of the best universities in the world, and they have chosen to come to Lucy because Lucy is the best college to come to if you want to surround yourself in successful, motivated, talented, ‘mature’ women.

dominated University - and they did not see the establishment of this College as a place for women who needed a second chance - they founded this College to provide a space for likeminded women, equal in ability to any Cambridge student or fellow, to learn, and teach and grow. These women could come from any background, from any profession, from any family situation - but despite their differences they were all academically able, and motivated; they didn’t need a ‘second chance’ because whatever their past decisions and experiences they all met the three entrance criteria: they were female, they were mature, and - like every other student admitted to this University, they were deemed equipped to cope with the challenges of a Cambridge degree… to claim that the students at Lucy Cavendish College are here on a ‘second chance’ is reductive and diminishes the achievements, diversity and potential of the student body. Lucy is a college where women continue - they continue to learn, they continue to grow, they continue to make a difference… let us not confuse the continuation of academic studies, a change of direction, or a decision to study for a degree at a later stage than most, with the notion of ‘second chance’. Emma James Students’ Union President, 2005-06

The founders of this College did not allow themselves to become victims of a male

Student news In March 2006, Victoria Kingham performed in the Vagina Monologues with the Women's Union for Cambridge Rape Crisis and Cambridge Women's Aid. She also won the Winchester Prize for poetry reading.

Amie Scott (previously Storr) won the final year student award. The final year student award is given by the vet school to the student 'voted outstanding by her peers'

Morag Kersel presenting her poster

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The College Choir

he choir has grown in size and in stature this year, and we have had such fun! The year started with a bang when we were invited to sing at the wedding celebration of our choir trainer, Sally Bradshaw, in the Great Hall at King’s College in October. This was a splendid occasion, and we were very happy to be asked to perform, although it required some careful timing, as we were also asked to sing at the Memorial Service for Marie Lawrence, a College fellow emeritus, on the same afternoon.

We then settled down to the big task of learning the music (Vivaldi’s Gloria) for our major concert of the year, which took place in Warburton Hall on Monday 8th May. We worked solidly through Easter Term (and for those who were still in Cambridge, during the Easter vacation too). This task was made much easier by the arrival of our new choir pianist, Miriam Grant, for whose help we continue to be very grateful, and by the help in ‘note-learning’ given by Alison Vinnicombe during lunch hours. The Vivaldi, for which we were accompanied by a chamber orchestra and two soloists, Helen Arnold, soprano and Jennie Doolan, alto, filled the second half of the programme, while the first half consisted of solos by Natasha Lee and Anna

Wong (violin and piano), Linda Bates (formerly a Lucy student) and Miriam Grant (piano), Camilla Haggett and Karl Sandeman (oboe and piano), and Sarah Hickmott (piano solo) who is to begin reading music at Lucy next October. This was a wonderful evening, recorded for posterity by John Martin, who produced a CD and DVD of the whole concert. The remainder of the term was spent in an enjoyable fashion singing madrigals, some of which we presented to astonished diners in Warburton Hall at an impromptu lunchtime concert during the last week of term. We even hope to continue to study the madrigals (with the aid of some good picnic food and wine) from time to time during the summer vacation for choir members who are still in Cambridge. In all, we are a happy bunch of people who enjoy singing and good company, and we are looking forward to another busy year in 2006/7, when we hope to perform Schubert’s Mass in G as the focal point of our concert on Monday 5th May… put it in your diary now! Gillian Ruddick Choir Director

Annual Newsletter 2006

It was All Greek to Us

uring a hectic Michaelmas term, staff and students throughout Lucy Cavendish and our neighbour College St Ed’s gave up their time to participate in this year’s Christmas production It’s All Greek to Me! Given that the script was written, roles auditioned, and the play rehearsed, within three weeks, the cast were amazing, learning lines and perfecting their East end accents, so that on the night a full house formal hall could be entertained with the love lives of the gods and mortals.

the scenes, Seiko Matsui took care of lights and sound, whilst Mary-Anne Coates and Utibe Tchum produced the ‘low-down’ which had the audience giggling in their seats before the lights even went up. Thanks to our gorgeous Jen MacTaggart for volunteering her equallygorgeous partner Laurence Fass, who played Paris opposite her Helen. We would like to thank everyone for making the show such a huge success. You are gods and goddesses all.

Our cast, happily (and indeed enthusiastically) donned a concoction of Greek costumes, false nails, leather jackets, make up and wigs, transforming Warburton Hall into Mount Olympus and Athens square, the atmosphere brought to life by Margaret Wilson’s magical Dionysian decorations. Who will forget Gem Duncan’s brilliant Medea: “love ya kids do ya?” and the cheer that greeted Bill Nelson and Kim Atterton’s transformation into the Atreid brothers? The script was improved by the cast's fantastic ad libs and oneliners “you wanna kick in the Iliads?” Behind

Charlotte Reid & Kelly Dennison Goddess playwrights

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Margaret Wilson

006 was my final/finals year and the adjective most appropriate to describe it is gruelling. However, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m glad to report that there were, nevertheless, amazing highlights. A trip to Rome was a microcosm of the year; exhausting but wonderful. Up and at Stansted airport before dawn and, weird experience this, checked in with no baggage before being whisked off to the centre of Rome in time for morning coffee. Drink in the sights (and the water from abundant springs and fountains), eat delectable lunch, and then a coach trip through a Roman traffic jam to take the plane back to Stansted. I fell, replete, into bed at around 1 am. Christmas Formal Hall was booked to capacity and being involved in the hilariously ironic slant on Greek tragedy was a joy. The witty implant of Eastenders into Mount Olympus was an experience never to be forgotten. As the pressure of work began to bite during Lent and Easter we, nevertheless,

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fter our success of last year, the rowing club was keen to carry on the good work in 2006, and we started this term with three crews of novices. In Michaelmas term our novices managed to come top of their division in the Fairbairns race, which was great news for the rest of the year, as it meant we had a strong pool of novices. Thanks to an alumnae contribution we were also able to buy another rowing machine for our gym, which has been very useful for training. Our rowing club was given an extra boost when Pete Rudge, the Cambridge Men's heavy weight blue's Cox agreed to coach us through the year. Although he worked us really hard on the ergs and on the water it meant that by Lents we had a seriously strong squad. Although we failed to get blades in Lents (due to some dubious umpiring decisions after Homerton II mounted the bank!!), we still managed to bump up one place, and ended the event with three row over's and one bump. The summer term brought more success, after our fist team came top of their division in the

managed to gather around tea and cakes to make brain-storming sessions more appetising. We were even able to assemble a yummy picnic reminiscent of a larger one in my first year. Lovely home cooked food was produced and enjoyed on the lawn behind College House. The highlight for Easter term again centred around food and drink, but only after finals were done. In that balmy interlude between last exam and results, everybodyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s last exam had to be acknowledged in a special way. Sitting in Market Square, watching the punters on the Cam, or just meeting in rooms or on a Lucy lawn, camaraderie and shared Cambridge experience was the order of the day. 2006 has been a final year filled with friends made during the previous three; friends who, I hope, will remain for a lifetime. Margaret Wilson Final Year English

Cavendish College Boat Club Champions Eight Head (and second in the division above), and our Cox, Susan Buhr won an award for excellent coxing. We also had college success in the Small Boats Regatta, with College member Sarah Rose winning the women's sculling race. A stroke-by-stroke account of the May Bumps follows this piece, and we were so unlucky not to have got our blades. I feel we have done really well as a squad this year, and greatly improved Lucy's reputation on the river. Plans for next year are to enter two boats for Lent and May's races, get a website up and running, and to organise an event between Lucy Rowing Alumnae and current rowers as it would be great to keep in touch. If you are reading this as an ex rower, please get in touch and help spread the word! Thanks to everyone who has supported us this year! Rebecca Jenkinson Lucy Cavendish Boat Club Captain email: rej31@cam.ac.uk)

Annual Report 2006

May Bumps

hat are bumps? For those unfamiliar with rowing, 'Bumps' are the intercollegiate rowing races which take place during Lent term, and now, at the end of Easter term - Mays. The 17 boats in each race line up behind each other 1 and a half boat lengths in between each boat and all start when the cannon (yes, a real cannon), is fired. The aim is very simply to catch the boat in front and bump into it before being caught by the boat behind. It is incredibly exciting, as crews slog it out over a 2.7km course - for 4 days in a row! (and you may even see some rowers taking an involuntary swim after catching 'ejector' crabs - something which has to be witnessed to be appreciated). The May Bumps Day 1 The Result: The important bit... we bumped! (that's a 'win' to us for all you non-boatie type people!). We caught Homerton II in 27 strokes which was 'oarsome' (apologies - I couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t resist that terrible pun). The Race: Starting from the second last position in the race, almost at Baits Bite lock, we were pushed out by some of the rowing guys from Hughes Hall, and took a good position as the start was counted down. Our start was a bit scrappy and rushed, but that was almost to be expected on the first day of bumps. At the end of our 20 stroke start piece, Susan (our wonderful Cox) gave the instruction to lengthen the stroke and push for the bump - incredibly, we'd made up the 1 1/2 boat lengths over the start alone. Pushing hard, we turned the overlap into a bump with ease, but unfortunately the Homerton Cox who had stubbornly refused to concede ended up with our bow-ball in his back *ouch*. And that was it! We bumped before we even got to the motorway bridge! We cleared the water to allow Addenbrookes to row past, and began the celebrations by adorning 'greenery', as is custom when achieving a bump. The May Bumps Day 2 Despite our success yesterday, we had a difficult

task ahead. Moving up a position in the division, we would be chasing CCAT (ARU), a much harder battle, as CCAT are a good, strong crew who clocked a time just 2 seconds slower than us in a recent time trial. So the night before we indulged in lots of carbs, a good night sleep, and mental preparation. The Result: The Hughes/Lucy team bumped again - hurrah! The Race: We got a great start, making up a quarter of a length on CCAT who we were chasing. As expected it took us longer to close the gap than it had done on the previous day, but with some more great coxing calls from Susan, we put the power down and went in for the bump just after 3 minutes. We bumped at first post corner, and pulled to the bank to collect some greenery (from a lovely man whose garden backs on to the Cam) and to celebrate our victory. The May Bumps Days 3 and 4 Having moved up another position in the division, we started at position 15 and were chasing Magdalene II, who had 'rowed over' (not bumped/been bumped) so far. Our worry was that Magdalene II would be chasing Clare Hall who had been bumped on both days, so are obviously a slow crew. We needed to get a good start, and bump Magdalene II before they bumped Clare Hall. The Race: Day 3 saw us chasing Magdalene and being chased by CCAT. After about 10 strokes Magdalene had caught and bumped Clare Hall, which meant we had to row extra hard to close on First & Third (Trinity). BUT... Magdalene and Clare Hall failed to clear the river after they bumped, forcing us to have a near-collision with the bank. Having come pretty much to a standstill we had to get the boat moving again quickly as CCAT were closing in on us for a bump. We pulled together and drew away from CCAT, but all of the boats in front of us had already

Lucy Cavendish College bumped out of the race, and so we were left to row the entire course, holding off CCAT who put in a really good row. So - we 'rowed-over', i.e. maintained our position. We were all gutted. The mood was down-hearted and disappointed, and hugely angry with Magdalene and Clare Hall for impeding us... if we'd had clear water and not had to stop we had a good chance of catching First and Third for an 'over-bump'. Day 4, we were chasing Clare Hall. We knew we would catch them really easily as they were on for spoons (the opposite of blades, where a crew has been bumped down 4 positions). With a good, strong start and some great team work we closed in on Clare Hall for the bump just before the motorway bridge. The row back to the boat house was one filled with mixed emotions... satisfied to have achieved our 3rd bump of the week, disappointed to have missed out on blades, angry that we'd been denied the opportunity of challenging for blades by the terrible coxing of Magdalene and Clare Hall on day 3, and sad that this was the last time we'd be rowing together as a crew. Having put the boat away and had one last team talk with Pete, our

coach, we did the only thing which seemed to fit the mood of the day...headed for the pub! Thanks again to all our supporters - especially those of you with loud voices! A special mention has to go to Linda Stone who had managed to get the best spot on the river on Saturday and to Julie Dashwood and Veronica Sutherland for their enthusiastic cheering on Friday afternoon (and for Julie's getting from Grassy corner back to the Pike and Eel before we did!). On a personal note I'd like to say thanks you to everyone involved in the Hughes/Lucy boat club - I've had the most amazing year. I only started rowing in October, and can honestly say it's been one of the best experiences I've ever had. It has been so much fun, and I've made some great friends who I will miss a lot. My advice to all of you who might be considering rowing is to DEFINITELY give it a go - the winter mornings can be cold, the training sessions tough, but it is definitely worth it - the 4 days of the May Bumps were totally amazing.

THE CREW Back row: L-R: Lydia (Hughes Hall, PhD Genetics), Rebecca (Lucy Cav, Grad Medic), Georgie (Lucy Cav, Grad Medic), Vanessa (Lucy Cav, SPS), Marie (Lucy Cav, Grad Medic), Ali (Hughes Hall, PhD Genetics) Front Row: L-R: Gemma (Lucy Cav, Grad Medic), Emma (Lucy Cav, Grad Medic), Susan - Cox (Lucy Cav, ASNAC)

Vanessa Fox 3rd year SPS

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Report from the Tutors

ur Graduands’ dinner, and graduation ceremony, this year coincided with some of the most glorious weather we have had for some time. Without, of course, wishing to claim that this had all been specially arranged for us, or possibly falling into a version of the Romantic fallacy, our graduates this year have particularly merited this sunny outcome to all their efforts. As a College for mature women students we are particularly aware of the many responsibilities and burdens our students have to shoulder, to an extent which is not in anything like the same measure required of their younger counterparts. To a woman they have demonstrated yet again that this College can be deeply proud of their achievements, and proud of itself for providing the setting within which those hopes and dreams can be realised, and the sheer hard work, as well as realisation of intellectual potential, can successfully take place.

Success has come in many fields, from Medicine, Veterinary Science, Law, English, Social and Political Sciences, Archaeology and Anthropology, Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, Education, Geography, History to History of Art, Modern and Medieval Languages, Management Studies, Natural Sciences and Theology. It is a wide range of subjects, just as in the College we have a wide range of ages, backgrounds and interests. This year we have six Firsts: Sandra Blackford (Part II Education); Stefanie Teichmann (Part II MML – German and Italian); Lisa Tomlinson (Part IIA, History of Art); Zhiyan Lin (Part 1, Chemical Engineering); Nina Rzechorzek (Part 1 Medical and Veterinary Sciences); and Susan Buhr (Preliminary Exam for Part 1, Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic). Catherine Molyneux was awarded a Distinction in Clinical Medicine and Sarah Park was awarded a Pass with Distinction in the Diploma in Theology. We also have a very high proportion of Upper Seconds, and it is a credit to our students, and of course to their Directors of Studies and Tutors, that so many of them do so well. We have held the usual Workshops on writing skills, exam skills and exam stress, and in this context particular mention should be made of the contribution of Michelle Spring. Michelle is the Royal Literary Fund Fellow we share with Newnham and Selwyn, and she has done invaluable work in advising many of our students this year on matters such as essay and dissertation plans, writing skills and exam

preparation. We are delighted that she will be with us for a further year. Our students somehow manage to do far more than sit in the library, or the laboratory, or in the case of the Vets in the hut (which always sounds sinister to me: rather like a particularly barbaric form of solitary confinement). So they act as members of the Students’ Union, and sit on committees. They write and perform plays, including our Christmas entertainment which was All Greek, and contained a character called Helen, billed as: ‘Wife of Spartan king, Menelaus. Most Beautiful Woman in the World. Problems (I quote from the programme): High maintenance. Jealous husband. Interfering brother-in-law. Being pursued by the whole of the Greek army and navy. Likes: Paris, Paris and more Paris. Hates: Trojan horses.’ Creative writing is very much alive at Lucy. The students win poetry and reading competitions, play icehockey and water polo, golf, lacrosse and squash, win awards from the Hawks’ Charitable Trust (Rosalind Lloyd and Maxime Von Eye) go on charity runs and, of course, provide us with great excitement as our boat crew performs consistently and excitingly well on the river (see below). On the Graduate front the usual Workshops have been held during the year on time management and essay writing for MPhils, presentation skills, dissertation writing for PhDs, exam technique for taught graduate courses, and academic writing for overseas students. The graduate seminars this year, in the form of joint Workshops with St Edmund's, saw many contributions from Lucy students, including: "Nameless old hags in Apuleius' Metamamorphoses", by Joanna Atkin (PhD, Classics); "Reading between the lines: gifted third culture kids, their experiences, and how teachers can help", by Katherine Nason (MPhil, 23

Lucy Cavendish College Education); and "Why did my Internet book purchase fail?", by Eva Kalyvianaki (PhD, Computer Science). On the Admissions side, this year has been a somewhat difficult one for admissions: the introduction of increased tuition fees from October 2006 seems to be behind a marked decrease in offers, not only on our part, but for the other mature Colleges too. Although we received the same number of applications, we were able to make fewer offers, since the better candidates seem to be waiting to see how funding will settle down. On the positive side, we continue to work very fruitfully with the Cambridge Admissions Office on a variety of events and Open Days, and our own Open Day

at the end of June was a lively occasion with plenty of interesting enquirers. I am optimistic regarding a return to our usual level of offers next year, provided we can convince our particular applicants that there is financial support available (perhaps even increased, for some) under the new regime. Throughout this year I have as usual benefited hugely from the support of Gaby Jones, our Admissions Officer, who is a marvellously warm, friendly and informative “first contact” for enquirers. Julie Dashwood, Senior Tutor Orsola Rath Spivack, Graduate Tutor Jane McLarty, Admissions Tutor

Report from the Head of Development A lasting legacy When Susan Maddocks, an Honorary Member of the Combination Room at Lucy, died last year, the College lost a dear friend. What we learned after Susan’s death was that she had decided to help the College in the form of a bequest to the Lucy Cavendish. Legacies have been instrumental in forming and shaping Cambridge Colleges over the centuries. Many a College was founded or transformed through legacies and all have received significant bequests which have allowed them to continue their work. At Lucy, the Will of Lady Barbara de Brye allowed us to complete the three new buildings of Warburton Hall, Bertram House and, of course, de Brye house. Numerous smaller legacies have brought crucial help in all aspects of our work. What is clear to all charitable institutions is that legacies of any size form a vital source of income. All of our alumnae and friends who remember us in their Wills are expressing great generosity. As a College we must do two things: we must ensure that you are confident that your money will live on and nurture future generations. We must also take the opportunity to thank you during your life times. It is the aim of the College to invest any legacy gifts in our endowment fund. In this way gifts will go on helping Lucy students for generations. The Maddocks legacy is going towards the funding of the Tutors, so vital in their work in admitting and nurturing our students. You may have heard that the College has launched the Anna Bidder Association for those who have indicated that they have remembered the College in their Wills. As the Association grows we will begin to organise events for members at the College. 24

If you have already mentioned the College in your Will, please do let us know; we would like to have the opportunity to say thank you. If you are considering remembering the College in your Will and would like more information, please do not hesitate to contact me. Day to day need In 2003 we launched our Annual Fund, a Fund which is allocated specifically to help the College in its core activities: student support, teaching, the provision of library books and so on. The term Annual Fund is a curious one. It simply means a Fund for regular donations to core activities. Traditionally, if we can use that term in the relatively new world of educational fundraising, this would mean asking for an annual gift. In practice, we ask different parts of our constituency in different ways and at different times. Many of our alumnae and friends in the UK choose to give a regular donation by standing order. This makes it possible to give a significant sum without having to write a large cheque. £15 per month over five years, with Gift Aid, is worth a total of more than £1,150. With a number of people giving, these sums add up to a significant contribution to our core needs. A Gift Form is included with this Newsletter. If you feel able to give, please do. Annual Fund gifts from alumnae and friends

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give recognition either to the donor or to someone they wish to honour.

Fellowships and Bursaries This year we have been delighted that funding of our Research Fellowships has once more been renewed by two significant donors to the College, the Thriplow Trust and the Sutasoma Trust. We are proud to be connected with both bodies. We have also been delighted to renew our connection with the Laura Ashley Foundation for Research Fellowships funding.

Please donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t hesitate to contact me if you have any questions about our work, I am always delighted to hear from Alumnae and Friends on 01223 764020 or development@lucycav.cam.ac.uk

As fees for Higher Education increase we will be in greater need of Bursaries to help our students. A contribution of ÂŁ3,000 per year to a Bursary would allow the donor to name the Bursary and

Lastly, please do keep in touch with any changes of contact details and if you have an email address we would love to know it. It gives us the opportunity to let you know what is going on in College on a more regular basis. Meryl Davies Head of Development

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Report from the Garden Sub-Committee

his year has seen a few changes in the College Gardens. Firstly there have been changes in staff. We were very sorry to see Janet Fox leave us in March to join the Trinity Hall garden staff. She had been with us since 1998 and had taken an active part in the transformation of the gardens since then including helping with the new plantings round the College Library when it was completed in 2000, and round the Porters Lodge and the Bicycle Shed at the entrance to the private road last autumn. Her place has been taken by Vince Lucas who joined the garden team in April. We also have the assistance of Nicola Rotton who came to us under the Women Returners to Agriculture and Horticulture Scheme as a trainee gardener. She will be with us for two years. We are very pleased to welcome them into the gardening team. Our longest serving gardener, Richard Crosthwait, is now concentrating on Marshall House garden and the gardens of the external properties. It was a great pleasure to welcome back Roger Wilding (Assistant Gardener 1991 – 1998) to the garden on June 8th when he and Jenny Sheppard visited the college. The entrance to the College has been greatly improved by the construction of the new Porter’s Lodge and Bicycle shed and by the flower beds which have been planted up in front of them to make a welcoming approach to the college. They have been planted to give a succession of flowers throughout the year. The alterations to Oldham Hall involved heavy vehicles having to approach it across College House lawn. A temporary track way was laid down to take the worst of the wear and the lawn was made good by the contactors at the end of the work. The construction of the new Conservatory meant that the Silver Jubilee rose bed had to be destroyed, but the roses were transplanted to the south end of Oldham Hall where they seem to have settled in quite happily.

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with the weather. Despite the rain we had more than a hundred visitors. For the first time artists from Cambridge Open Studios also came, and Strathaird lawn was covered with sculptures for the afternoon. In April too we planted a magnificent specimen of Magnolia soulangea “Susan” on College House lawn in memory of Dr Hsin-Chang Chang 1923-2004, Fellow of Wolfson College and his wife Dr Nien-Chiang Ting Chang 1920 – 2004, a Senior Member of Lucy Cavendish College. This was generously donated by their daughter, Mrs Dawson, and the planting

Between Oldham Hall and the road we have planted some more Silver Birch trees and around them have established a bed of autumn and winter interest with species of Cornus with different coloured stems, some Hellebores and winter flowering bulbs. The wild garden between College House and Barrmore looked lovely this spring with a good display of fritillaries and orchids. We plan to plant more this autumn. The cyclamen round the base of the Judas tree on College House lawn gave a lovely show in the autumn and winter. We opened the gardens in aid of the Red Cross on Sunday 23rd April, but were very unfortunate 26

ceremony on April 19th was also attended by their son and adopted daughter, the President, the Archivist, the Garden Steward and the Gardeners. In Marshall House garden Richard Crosthwait has established a new rose bed and a small herb bed, besides putting in some colourful spring and

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Report from the Fine Arts Sub-Committee

ue to financial restrictions this year the Fine Arts budget was severely cut which has meant that our activities have also had to be somewhat curtailed. However we have received a gift from her family of a painting in the Chinese style by the late Dr Marie Lawrence, which has gone to be framed. We intend to hang it in the Anna Bidder Room. We were also able to hold a College Art Exhibition which was kindly opened by Mr Michael Harrison, the Director of Kettles Yard Art Gallery, during the Annual Garden Party in June. It was heartening to see works by members of the college community in areas other than that of their professional expertise. Next year we are planning to hold Life Drawing Classes on Monday evenings (7-9 pm) in the Wolfson Room in Strathaird. These are being organized by Dr Sarah Gull and are likely to cost £20 for a term’s sessions. Anyone who is interested to join in will be most welcome, please let Sarah know

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Christine Houghton very kindly organised a Bric-a-brac stall in aid of the Fine Arts Committee one lunchtime, which raised £70, for which we were most grateful. The Curator and Alison Vinnicombe are just completing a check of all the valued objects in college. This is quite a difficult task as pieces tend to be moved from room to room without notifying the Curator. Last summer we were delighted to receive a lovely silver dish from Dr Mary James, and it has been much admired at Formal Hall. The students and Fellows seem to appreciate having our silver put out on these occasions, and we are indeed very grateful to all those who have so generously donated pieces to the College collection. Dr Jane Renfrew Curator

Ruth Jones Silver Steward

Joseph by Josephine Johnston

Cactus by Josephine Johnston

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Portrait by Ulrike Lange

Ladakh by Ellen Mackintosh

Carolyne Tickell

Ramâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Head by Josephine Johnston

Festival Feet by Nicola Rotton

Paro Tsechu by Nicola Rotton

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Report from the Fellowship Secretary Farewells Dr Jane Collier becomes an Emeritus Fellow on her retirement from the Governing Body and Dr Sarah Brown becomes an Honorary Member of the Combination Room following her appointment to a Professorship at Anglia Ruskin University. Visitors in the Academic Year 2005-06 Visiting Fellows Dr Anne Ladegaard Larsen, Carlsberg Visiting Fellow, worked on polymer dynamics. Dr Anne McDougall, Associate Professor of Computer Education and Head of the Department of Science and Mathematics Education, University of Melbourne, Australia. Ms Helena McFarquhar, Senior Lecturer in Law, Anglia Ruskin University, working in the Institute of Criminology. Visiting Scholars Dr Amineh Ahmed continued as a Visiting Scholar working on the Society for Interfaith Dialogue and Action. Dr Jessica Hsin-Hwa Chen, Yuan Ze University, Taiwan, was a Visiting Scholar in the Faculty of Education working on the role of women’s leadership on higher education language programmes in the UK. Dr Emiko Department

Danno, Associate Professor, of English, Himeji Dokkyo

University, Japan, Visiting Scholar in the Faculty of English, looking at Shakespeare’s sense of justice, the transitional period of Goddess of Justice. Dr Linda Leung, Institute for interactive Media and Learning, University of Technology, Sydney, joined us in the Michaelmas Term working on a cross-cultural examination of virtual community-building amongst asylum seekers. Dr Anita Naicker, Associate Professor in the Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, Congella, South Africa, working for the Easter Term under Professor Graham Burton in the Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience. Ms Mary Sharpe, Freelance Consultant and Senior Associate Fellow at he Defence Academy of the UK, affiliated to the Faculty of Divinity, undertaking research on the religious and psychological drivers of suicide bombers. Ms Reiko Taniue, Kansai Gaidai University, Osaka, Japan, was a Visiting Scholar in the Faculty of English. Visitors for the Academic Year 2006-07 Professor Margherita Ganeri, Professor of Contemporary Italian Literature, University of Calabria, researching the end of postmodernism and the problem of cultural identity in Contemporary Italian Literature. Antonia Rose Logue, author of Shadow Box, which was awarded the Irish Times Prize for Irish Fiction and short listed for the John Llewellyn Rhys Award and the Hawthornden Prize. Dr Jette Møllerhøj, Carlsberg Visiting Fellow, researching into the history of depression from 1890 to the present day. Alison Vinnicombe Fellowship Secretary

Presentation of a bench for the College to mark Dr Jane Collier’s Retirement Standing (l-r): Dr Clare Morgan, Dr Betty Tucker, Dr Jane Collier, Mrs Ellen Mackintosh, Mrs Jillinda Tiley Seated (l-r): Dr Jane Renfrew, Mrs Joan Simms, Mrs Phyllis Hetzel

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Report from the Research Fellowship Secretary During the academic year 2005-06 the College was home to the following Research Fellows: Research Fellowship

Subject/Department

Dr Joanna Depledge

Sutasoma Trust

International Studies

Dr Nicola Gardner

Daphne Jackson

Biochemistry

Dr Jennifer Dueck (until July 2006)

Alice Tong Sze

Modern History

Dr Rebecca Nicholson

Greenwood Bidder

Chemistry

r Jennifer Dueck, who joined the college in October 2005, says that she has profited from this year to revise her doctoral thesis for publication by the British Academy/Oxford University Press under the title 'Decolonizing the Middle East: Culture and Politics in Syria and Lebanon, 1936-1946'. Jennifer was recently awarded the Leigh Douglas Memorial Prize for best doctorate on a Middle Eastern topic by the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies. She has also used the time to continue her primary research in the Levant, and prepare three forthcoming journal articles dealing with French writers and the civilizing mission, French educational policy in Syria, and the Lebanese scout movement respectively. In May, Jennifer gave a talk on her work to Fellows at an Anna Bidder Research Evening. Jennifer is leaving the college this summer to take up a British Academy Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Oxford. Dr Nicola Gardner, in the 2nd year of her Daphne Jackson Fellowship, has made excellent use of the opportunities offered by the Fellowship. She has not only attended lectures to catch up on developments in molecular biology which have taken place in the 18 years of her career break but she has also been a member of an active research group. Her research, supervised by Dr Jessica Downs in the Department of Biochemistry, has focused on studying how damage to DNA is repaired in cells so that the genetic code is maintained. In February she gave a talk to Fellows at an Anna Bidder Research Evening entitled "Introduction to DNA and how I modify it for my research". Dr Rebecca Nicholson is a Greenwood Bidder (non-stipendiary) Research Fellow. Her research focuses on the development of methodology for the rapid screening of compounds for biological activity. As part of ongoing investigations by members of the ‘Spring Group’ in the

Department of Chemistry, the technology was applied to the discovery of novel ligands for proteins associated with pathogenicity in the bacterium Erwina carotovora. The results have been presented at conferences and in publications. The college is extremely grateful to the Sutasoma Trust for its continuing generous support of a post-doctoral Research Fellowship at the college. Through the generosity of the Trust the four Sutasoma Research Fellows, Dr Jessica Martin (1994-1997), Dr Charlotte Hempel (1997-2000), Dr Liudmila Sharipova (2000-2004) and most recently, Dr Joanna Depledge (2003- ) have all been given the opportunity to embark on their academic careers. Our present Sutasoma Research Fellow, Dr Joanna Depledge, joined the College in October 2003. Her field of expertise is in climate change and treaty negotiation. Joanna had a baby daughter just before she took up her fellowship and she opted to work part-time, spreading her three-year fellowship over a five-year period. Joanna has already published two massive books The International Climate Change Regime: A Guide to Rules, Institutions and Procedures (coauthored) in 2004 and The Organisation of global negotiations: constructing the climate change regime in 2005 and numerous other papers. She has also been asked to become a regular contributor to the international journal Environmental Policy and Law. Particularly impressive is how her research links academic research to the practicalities of public affairs. As Joanna is working part-time the college has been able to appoint a new Sutasoma Research Fellow from October 2006. She is Rupa Viswanath who will be looking at the ‘Untouchables’ and the historical foundations of Indian secularism.

Lucy Cavendish College The college is also extremely grateful to the other sponsors of its Research Fellowships. Some funding is provided by endowments and these are reflected in the name of the Fellowships. In addition, the Thriplow Trust has, for some years, provided additional funding to support the Daphne Jackson Fellowships and we are delighted to report that the Laura Ashley Trust has awarded the college a grant to further support this Fellowship in 2006-07. Three more Research Fellows will join the College in October. Ferzina Banaji, who has been appointed to an Alice Tong Sze Fellowship, aims to analyse and develop the theoretical engagement underlying the theses of war and cinema. Joanna Dally has

been appointed to an Ethel Cruickshank Research Fellowship with effect from 1 October 2006, tied to her funding in the sub-department of Animal Behaviour. Joanna will work on social cognition in corvids (Western Scrub Jays) focusing on the use of cache protection strategies and pilfering tactics employed by jackdaws and rooks. Julia Forman has been appointed to the Lu Gwei-Djen Research Fellowship. Julia will be expanding on her PhD research on the biophysical and genomic analysis of the protein polycystin-1 and other disease related proteins, to probe the genetic and molecular basis of disease. We welcome them all.

Garden Party, June 2006

Dr Margaret Penston Research Fellowship Secretary

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Competition for Visiting Fellowships and Scholarships for 2007-08

pplications 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. To reflect the work of the Centre for Women & Leadership, one Visiting Fellowship a year is reserved for women whose research is in the area of women and leadership. Visiting Fellows are normally expected to be in residence for at least one term and their status cannot normally be extended beyond one academic or calendar year. There will not normally be more that six Visiting Fellows in residence at any one time. Visiting Fellows are matriculated as members of the College and are observers at Governing Body Meetings. Privileges include the following:

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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) The Lyttelton Dinner (Easter Term)

Applications for Visiting Scholarships are invited from women* who will be (a) (b) (c)

on sabbatical leave or carrying out teaching or research while in Cambridge or funded by a learned society or recognised grant-giving body

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. Visiting Scholars will also be offered Membership of the Combination Room with dining privileges for the duration of their visit. Visiting Scholars are normally expected to be in residence for at least one term and their status cannot normally be extended beyond one academic or calendar year. There will not normally be more that six Visiting Scholars in residence at any one time. How to apply Applicants should provide an up-to-date CV and list of publications, the names and contact details of two referees, information about their proposed affiliation (if any) with a University Department, Centre or Research establishment and an outline of their project while in Cambridge. Applicants should ask their referees to write direct to the College by the closing date of Monday 15 January 2007. Applications, preferably in electronic format, and references should be sent to: The Fellowship Secretary, Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge CB3 0BU (tel: 01233 339240, email: fellowshipsecretary@lucy-cav.cam.ac.uk) from whom further details can be obtained. Applications can be accepted electronically. The closing date for receipt of applications and references is Monday 15 January 2007.

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

Report from the Domestic Bursar

his year, we were sorry to say farewell to Hugh Matthews, Head Chef, who left to take up a post a Homerton College and to Isobel McReavie, Housekeeper. In their places we have welcomed Martin James and Julie Knox. The building work on Oldham Hall has finally been completed providing a new nurse’s room and teaching/seminar rooms, a splendid new Porter’s Lodge with pigeonhole areas, a gyp room and back office for the porters, together with much needed storage space. The new teaching/seminar rooms are able to be booked during term for supervisions and are then available in the vacations for conferences. It is hoped to expand summer school business using the bedrooms in Oldham Hall and the seminar rooms for teaching.

We are continuing to follow up conference leads through Conference Cambridge and as well as attracting new business are pleased to report a high proportion of repeat business. The gym has been moved to a refurbished Dennis Rooke Room and a new conservatory has been added on to the space of the old gym, linking through to the Paul Paget Room and providing all student facilities – common room, bar and gym – in the one building. All the bedrooms in Oldham Hall have been redecorated and new shower attachments have been installed in all the bathrooms. Christine Houghton Domestic Bursar

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Report from the ICT Manager

his has been an interesting year with a number of staff changes to which I would like to add my own appreciation of the guidance and mentoring given by David Bryant since I joined Lucy Cavendish in 2000. The transition from commerce to academia was not without its ups and downs but David’s hand at the tiller was always steady. The other change was the decision by Jo Smith not to resume employment in ICT after her second child. Best wishes and thanks to both David and Jo and I am sure they will be successful in whatever they decide to do. The key areas are summarised below:Operations New computer servers were installed for the different college domains in October 2005 with the name of the applications server being chosen at the Christmas party by show of hands based on famous pairs. The winner was ‘Bonnie and Clyde’. The remaining server was then named ‘Bonnie’ and promptly failed shortly after commissioning. The server manufacturer dispatched an engineer the following day to repair the stricken machine but all to no avail and ‘Clyde’ emerged from the chassis. The old servers had provided continuous service since 1999 with one ‘Perky’ the longest serving machine displayed in the library foyer for a short time after being decommissioned and removed from the library basement. The Oldham Hall building works are now complete after the provision of computing, networking and security infrastructure. The CCTV control station and central monitoring are all installed and functioning. The lodge can now track the state of site doors, alarms and environment providing the much needed enhanced monitoring of the site especially the library on the environmental side.

Student Services Student machines are now checked and updated prior to connection to college and university networks by the individual machine owner using a CD containing all the required modifications to ensure compliance. The effort saved at the beginning of the year is significant and generally regarded by students as having been successful. The hands-on system will continue for the next year with additional facilities being implemented for 2006 / 2007 to detect students having any difficulties with the procedures for ICT use in the college to further improve service levels. A new printing/ photocopying facility has been implemented across the college including the student library computer facility. Unfortunately there have been a number of initial problems with one of the units in the library which are still being addressed by the supplier. A useful information display facility has been installed in the library foyer to relay current status for library and computer facilities, special notices etc in these areas. In addition and definitely not to be forgotten AGAIN was another Christmas Panto where I played a certain character of East Enders’ fame Thanks to everybody involved. And finally 2005-06 has been a more challenging and operationally difficult environment than previous years given the various staff departures, combined with a cost reduction exercise. The section, suppliers and others, in fact everybody has risen to the situation leading to another successful year in the provision of IT services. A special thanks to Tim Flood and Milja Durkovic for their efforts in maintaining support levels to the different parts of the college community throughout the year. Bill Nelson ICT Manager

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Report from the Library

We are very grateful for all the donations we have received for the library over the past year. These donations include books, journal backruns and contributions to the library books fund. We very much appreciate the gift of valuable time from our library volunteer Ursula Lyons who has continued to help us with a Joan Harris, Assistant range of administrative tasks. Librarian, and Gill Saxon, The Friends of Lucy Cavendish Library Assistant have worked College Library, led by Beryl extremely hard to catalogue and Newns, have continued to process all the new books for support us by raising money at the library in addition to their very popular booksales, managing the circulation of and by contributing funds to books and dealing with student purchase medical and enquiries. We are extremely veterinary books for our short grateful to Joan and Gill for loan collection. We are very their continuing dedication. As grateful to Maureen Young, a result of expansion over the one of the Friends, who donates six years in our new library the and tends to the plants in our shelves are very full and we are library foyer. The support of Catherine Reid (l) and Joan Harris investigating alternatives for the Friends makes a real coping with the growing difference to the library and we very much collection. appreciate it. We were very pleased that some of During the past year the Librarian has very the Friends were able to join library benefactors much enjoyed the opportunity to be a member of and members of the Library Subcommittee for the Cambridge College Libraries Forum e-book an enjoyable evening at formal hall in February. project team. This team includes librarians from We have a great deal planned for the next year six Colleges and it is running a pilot scheme to to continue to develop our library service. These provide electronic books to all members of the projects include reclassification of sections of our University. Lucy Cavendish College has archaeology collection, and development of contributed funds to the pilot project, along with remote access to our library catalogue. It is the five other colleges represented by the project working with our students which makes our job team. The pilot project provides electronic in the library so enjoyable and we wish well to access to the full text of more than a hundred everyone graduating this year. We look forward high-use undergraduate textbooks. Access to to welcoming current and new students, and all electronic books helps our students by giving our visitors to the library during the next fsthem access to popular texts for which we academic year. arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t able to hold multiple copies in the library Catherine Reid and by allowing 24/7 remote access to these Dr Jane Renfrew Librarian texts via the internet. We very pleased that the Fellow Librarian project team is planning to extend the service during the next academic year. t has been another busy year in the library. We have added approximately 1000 more volumes to our shelves, completed a full stocktake, upgraded our Heritage library management system and worked on exciting new projects to continue to develop our services.

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he highlight of this academic year was a visit constantly plied with drinks, cakes and to the Cambridge Illuminations, a sandwiches by our customers: some of us even spectacular exhibition of Medieval and got out as far as the ice-cream stand. We raised Renaissance illuminated manuscripts at the nearly £280 which traditionally goes to the Librarian to spend as she Fitzwilliam Museum and the wishes. Thanks must go to Cambridge University the library staff, who all Library, which ran from July pitched in, and especially to to December 2005. This Kim Atherton, who stalwartly included illuminated transported all the books up manuscripts many on public to Strathaird and those not view for the first time dating sold, back to the library. from the sixth to the sixteenth centuries and Next year, 2006-2007, will be drawn from collections of the our Tenth Anniversary Year, Fitzwilliam Museum, and we must be sure that this Cambridge University event is properly Library and many of the commemorated. When the Cambridge Colleges. The Lucy Cavendish Library was Beryl Newns range of manuscripts on inaugurated in 1972 it was a display showcased the work small collection of books in College House and, of some the greatest medieval and Renaissance constantly growing, moved to Barrmore in 1974. illuminators, and included commissions by the The Friends of the Library was officially most celebrated patrons of learning and art, recorded as being ‘born’ in November 1997 and including the Kings of France and England, the helped with the move from Barrmore to the Dukes of Burgundy and the Medici. An entire magnificent new Library building in 1999. We gallery of the Museum was devoted to the became particularly concerned with display of individual leaves from the renowned conservation, as well as setting up an ‘adopt-aMacclesfield Psalter and offered us a unique book’ scheme and organising lectures, visits and opportunity to enjoy the richness and variety of book sales to raise funds. We even had bookits illustrations. binding courses. Each year we have made The Friends were particularly fortunate to have a contributions to the Library of financial help. private visit conducted for us by Dr. Stella For the current year, 2005-06, we made a grant Panayotova, Keeper of Manuscripts at the for the purchase of core medical and veterinary Museum, who is a Member of our Combination books and also underwrote the repair of books Room. We were completely absorbed by her in the Rare Books Room, which bill we have just detailed lecture on the Macclesfield Psalter paid. For next year we have already promised, as which, at the end of the exhibition was to be an ‘exceptional’ grant, to pay for extra clerical taken to be rebound and not exhibited in this work to be done in the Library during the coming long vacation to help clear a backlog of form again. work. We also had a most enjoyable Library Benefactors Dinner in February, at which Our tenth Anniversary will also be an occasion Friends of the Library now, by tradition, have to consider how the Friends can adapt to the changing needs of the Library, and I shall be designated tables. writing to our Members to ask their views. At And last but by no means least, there was of the present rate of disbursement, our current course our now famous Book Sale at the end-offunds will soon be used up, and we must plan the-year Garden Party. The generosity of the for the future. My personal thanks to the Fellow donors of such high quality and varied books Librarian, Jane Renfrew, for her unfailing never ceases to astonish, and since the room in support and friendly counsel. which the sale was held gave onto the gardens Beryl Newns and the Garden Party itself, those of us involved in selling had a highly social time and were Chairman, Friends of the Library -

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Report from the Archivist

arlier in the year the College very kindly agreed for me to take a three-month leave of absence during the Lent Term to accompany my husband on his sabbatical, which was spent travelling around New Zealand. I am very grateful to the Librarian who dealt with external enquiries and visitors to the Archive in my absence, and also to the Registrar who assumed responsibility for data protection and freedom of information.

coincide with the Garden Party. Originally conceived to mark the completion of the redevelopment of Oldham Hall, the exhibition looked at two previous proposals to build on the site now occupied by Oldham Hall: a dining hall in 1971, and in 1985 an ambitious site development which would have included student accommodation, a President’s Lodge and a College Hall. An article about the exhibition appears elsewhere in the Newsletter.

The cataloguing of College administrative records is now upto-date with 33 per cent of the material accessioned in 2006 already catalogued or placed on a disposal schedule. Over the last year the Archive has received a total of 58 accessions, of which the majority have been College administrative records. There have been four visits to view material in the Archive over the last year, including a recent visit by a great-great niece of Lucy Cavendish. The number of enquiries was 54, principally from College Officers and staff, although a quarter of these were external enquiries.

I have reported in previous years on the progress of Janus: a project to provide a single point of networked access to catalogues of archives in the University, Colleges and other institutions in Cambridge. Phase II of Janus was officially launched on 28 November 2005. Key among the improvements now incorporated into the Janus site is profiled searching which now exploits the subjects, names and places used to index catalogue entries. There are now more than 1400 catalogues on Janus, and in the last two years, there has been an immense increase in the volume of website traffic; from approximately 12,000 pages served in October 2003 to 360,000 in May 2006. (The ‘Lucy’ collections on Janus have received more than 1600 ‘hits’ in 2005, which may account for the drop in numbers of enquiries and visitors as researchers increasingly find the answers to their queries on the website). Janus is available at <http://janus.lib.cam.ac.uk/>.

Another photograph album from the Joyce Grenfell and Virginia Graham collection of papers (dating from 1948) has been repaired, and eight books from the College’s Rare Books collection have received appropriate conservation treatment. This work has been part funded by the Library’s conservation budget and with generous assistance from the Friends of the Library and the Alumnae Association. Using material from the Archive, an exhibition was assembled for display in the Library foyer to

Karen Davies Archivist

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Report from the Steward

005 saw the introduction of our electronic booking system for formal hall masterminded by Bill Nelson, our ever good tempered IT guru. This was designed to enable college members to sign up electronically at the same time registering their dietary preferences and preferred method of payment. It would be untrue to say there were no teething problems, for much of the year we were confronted with guests who assured me they had booked but who had not been on the list! By the end of the year patience had triumphed and most of the errors had been tracked down. Much as is the wish to “blame the system” almost always any problem was down to user error! The new system has been a big help to the Bursary and proved its practical value by allowing a visiting combination room member successfully to book on-line from the USA! During the year Steve Daly, the head porter, and Enid Kuznets, one of his assistants, took over the role of producing the lists and generally keeping them updated. They can now quickly tell you if you are on the list for any given day and keep an eye on numbers, we were delighted to find the last formal hall completely full, though those on the waiting list were all miraculously accommodated with last minute withdrawals. Dinners were generally well attended with some special themes through the year. We plan to follow this pattern next year with some new themes including a “halfway” dinner in the Lent term and a festive final hall moving the traditional end of year garden party to the last Friday of term. Free seating or seating without an allocated slot is always available, although the majority of people continue to ask to be seated. It is serendipitous how often neighbours find something in common, on one evening two diners opposite me discovered they both had links with the Isle of Man and might even be distantly related! The electronic forms have not yet provided a space to request to be seated with xyz although guests are always seated with their hosts. I know a revised version of the booking site is planned for October 2006, I don’t know whether this will be incorporated. Meanwhile the Steward will be delighted to receive requests

and to book whole tables for groups for parties or meetings. Please give a little notice for this! Some of you may know I shall be on leave next year while my husband is on sabbatical leave. In my absence Jane Collier will be Steward, she very much looks forward to working with everyone! As usual I give heartfelt thanks to Rosse Eakins and the dining room team and Martin James and his team. Martin took up his position as chef manager at the start of 2005 and quickly established himself and thank-you to Naomi Ellis for the puddings! We have quite a reputation round Cambridge now! I would particularly like to thank Martin for his excellent and varied menus - with particular effort for vegetarians - and flexibility over numbers. It is very hard not to know the numbers when catering without wasting food which we really cannot afford to do! At our food committee meetings to review student feedback Martin has always been open to new ideas and to suggestions. If anybody has ideas do please bring them out, we want to share them. We certainly didn’t know the numbers in advance of the garden party but I am sure everyone would agree the spread was excellent and much enjoyed. It was a splendid way to round off the year. Jillinda Tiley Steward

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Lucy Cavendish Lecture Series 2005-06 he Lucy Cavendish Lecture series continued in 2005-06 with the following programme:

Professor Jonathan Riley-Smith, Emeritus Dixie Professor of Ecclesiastical History, Fellow of Emmanuel College, and the leading world expert on the history of the Crusades spoke on 'The Templars and the Denial of Christ' in the Michaelmas Term. Lord Fellowes, Chairman of Barclays Private Bank and Chairman of the Prison Reform Trust spoke on 'Britain's Prisons - A Dark Age?' in the Lent Term.

Dame Stella Rimington, Director General of MI5 from 1992 to 1996, the first woman to take the post and the first person to be publicly named while in office, delivered the annual CWL Lecture on 'Leading in Secret'. All lectures were extremely interesting and thought-provoking and were followed by lively discussion.

Lucy Cavendish Lecture Series 2006-07 Thursday 16 November 2006: Sir Christopher Hum, Master of Gonville and Caius and former HM Ambassador to China. Thursday 1 March 2007: Professor Simon Baron Cohen, Director of the Autism Research Centre and Professor of Developmental Psychopathology. The Lectures will begin at 6pm in the WoodLegh Seminar Room, Strathaird, and will be followed by formal hall at 7pm for 7.30pm in Warburton Hall. All members of the College Community are warmly invited to attend these lectures and to sign up for the formal halls.

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Report from the Studentship & Bursary Committee Prizes Alumnae Association Prize: Kelly Dennison and Charlotte Reid, for contribution towards the cultural life of the college Emmeline Pankhurst Award: Vanessa Fox and Linda Stone, for contribution to college life John Butterfield Prize for Clinical Medicine: Catherine Molyneux (Final MB, Part II) Kate Bertram Prize for outstanding non-Tripos results: Sarah Park (Diploma in Theology) Madelaine Jรถrgensen Prize for first class results in Tripos: Stefanie Teichmann (MML, Part II), Zhiyan Lin (Chemical Engineering, Part I) Marie Lawrence Prize for first class results in Tripos: Lisa Tomlinson (History of Art, Part IIA), Susan Buhr (ASNaC, Prelim to Part I), Nina Rzechorzek (Veterinary Sciences Tripos, Part IA) Simms Prize For Education: Sandra Blackford (First Class in the Education Tripos, Part II) Myson College Exhibition for personal achievement: Margaret Wilson and Ruth Shaw College Prize for sporting blues: Nana Masada: half blue for ice hockey, Maxi von Eye: half blue for water polo

Studentships and Bursaries Alumnae Association American Friends University

Amy Cohen Belcher & Swale Becker Law BPW Bertram Science Commemorative Bursaries Lord Frederick Cavendish

George Bidder Fund Jane Nixon (Veterinary) Ruth Tomlinson Rent Bursary Pauline Cooper Thriplow UCLES Vandervell Trust

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Y S Lin E Ingudomnukul K Nason V Fox K Rayner J Atkin M Djurkovic Z Lin S Hwang M Fossey P Goldsmith M Erlund J Obradovic M Kersel C Allison H Atherton T Jafri J Johnston S Mirza N Adeyeye P Bulman Jane Rowan G Halliday C Cope H Atherton S Badger J Chan S Hwang E Yeoman

J Taylor R Wolfgang

Y S Lin N MinshullBeech

C Reid U Rana S Schuller

H Higgin-Botham A Leive A Samsonova

H Van Den Berg M Von Eye

M Lopes Da Silva C Y Kim Y S Lin A Morecroft

S Gray S Hodgson

Y Y Peng M Petrovic U Yildirim S Yogendra H Van Den Berg S Hutchinson H Paddy

D Cross T Jafri E Kalyvianaki E James

L Harris M Petrovic E Yoneki T Lai

L Tomlinson

Ms Sue Sang Secretary to the Studentship & Bursary Committee

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The College 2005-06 President Sutherland, Veronica Evelyn BA MA (HON) LLD DBE CMG

Honorary Fellows Black, Carol Mary MD PRCP FMedSci CBE DBE Burbidge, Eleanor Margaret FRS Dench, Judith Olivia (Judi) Hon DLitt Hon DUniv OBE DBE CH

Grantchester , MA Hanratty, Judith LLB LLM OBE Harris, Pauline DBE Hetzel, Phyllis MA McLaren, Anne MA DPhil Hon DSc DBE FRS of Denmark, Margrethe Hon LLD

Oldham, Barbara MA MB CHB MRCS LRCP OBE Perry of Southwark, Pauline MA Hon LLD Hon DLitt Hon DUniv

Richard, Alison MA PhD Tizard, Catherine A BA GCMG GCVO DBE QSO Todd, Janet MA PhD Tomalin, Claire MA FRSL Trumpington of Sandwich, Jean Alys PC KCVO DCVO

Warburton, Anne MA Hon LLD DCVO CMG

Emeritus Fellows Clifford, Margaret Eileen Lloyd MA Hartree, Anne Stockell BA MA PhD Lyons, Ursula MA Mackintosh, Ellen MA Morgan, Clare Barnes BSc MA PhD Simms, Joan Anne MA

Squire, Natasha MA Dipolome 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

Governing Body Fellows Abulafia, Anna Brechta Sapir MA PhD FRHistS Brindley, Sue MA Brown, Sarah Annes BA MA PhD Cameron, Ruth MA PhD MInstP CPhyS Collier, Jane BSc MA PhD Curry, Allison MA PhD Dashwood, Julie Rosalind BA MA Davies, Meryl Grace BA MPhil Ellington, Stephanie Katharine Lindsay BSc MA PhD

Esch, Edith Marie MA PhD Greatorex, Jane Suzette BTec FMLS PhD Gull, Sarah Elizabeth MBBS FRCS(ED) MRCOG Houghton, Margaret Christine BA MA Jackson, Susan MA PhD CEng

Jones, Ruth MA MB CHB FRCA Koenig, Jennifer BSc PhD Madianou, Mirca BA MSc PhD McLarty, Jane Deane BA MA MPhil McNeur, Lorna Anne BArch MA MPhil Penston, Margaret Joan BSc MA DPhil FRAS MBE Rath Spivack, Orsola MA PhD Rawlings, Susan Elizabeth MA Renfrew, Jane Margaret MA PhD FSA (Scot) FLS Scolnicov, Anat LLB LLM PhD Tiley, Jillinda Millicent MA Vinnicombe, Alison Annette BA MA Dip RSA Williamson, Lorna McLeod BSc MD FRCP FRCPath Wright, Laura MA DPhil

Bursars Bryant, David Peter Herbert

Depledge, Joanna Jane BA MSc PhD Dueck, Jennifer Marie BA MA DPhil

Carter, David BA PhD CVO

Research Fellows

Gardner, Nicola BA PhD MBA Nicholson, Rebecca Louise MChem DPhil

Fellow-Commoners Pearse, Barbara PhD FRS Purkiss, Brenda A MA Raj, Dhooleka Sarhadi PhD

Corbalis, Judy BA MA James, Mary Elizabeth BEd MA PhD Muthesius, Anna Maria BA PhD FSA

Visiting Fellows Larsen, Anne Ladegaard PhD McDougall, Anne MSc MEd PhD GradDipMus FACS

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McFarquhar, Helena

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Visiting Scholars Ahmed, Amineh Chen, Jessica Hsin-Hwa Clarke, Ann BSc PhD Danno, Emiko BA MA PhD

Leung, Linda Naicker, Thajasvarie BSc MMedSc PhD Taniue, Reiko Sharpe, Mary LLB MA Dip CWL

Members by Election Dain, Anne Rutherford BSc MPhil PhD Harris, Mary Hill AB MA Certificat d'Archologie

Whear, Rachel BSc PhD

Honorary Members of the Combination Room Arnot, Madeleine MA PhD Barr, Freda Elizabeth Hadley LLB Bartholomew, Susan L BA MA MBA Belcher, Hilary J PhD DSc Blacker, Carmen PhD Brinton, Sarah Virginia MA Bristow, Christopher MA Brooke, Rosalind Beckford BA MA PhD Cheney, Mary Gwendolen MA MLitt Crawford, Harriet E W MA PhD FSA Hawthorn, Ruth MA Herbert, Gertraud MA DPhil Joysey, Valerie Christine BSc PhD Martin, Jessica Heloise MA PhD Ngubane, Harriet BA PhD

Perry, George MA MEd Rampling, Anita Margaret BSc PhD MB ChB Rodriguez, Raquel Emilia Sheppard, Jennifer Mary BA MA PhD Slater, Lucy Joan MA PhD DLitt ScD Spens, M Teresa PhD Stein, Janet Mary BSc MSc PhD Sutherland, Alex Swale, Erica Mary Forster MSc PhD DSc Tee, Mary Louise Holden MA Vassilika, Eleni BA MA PhD Wheeler, Joyce Margaret BSc PhD FRAS Worden, Dorothy Mary BA Young, Maureen MSc PhD

Members of the Combination Room Bayraktaroglu, Arin PhD Bocking, Marjorie BSc Bola, Manjit PhD Bradbrook, Bohuslava R DPhil PhD Bradshaw, Sally Burney, Elizabeth MA BLitt Butterworth, Jill BA MA Carlton Smith, Nancy BSc PhD Chapman, Elizabeth Claire PhD Cleary, Ritva-Liisa MA HUK Dip LIB ALA Cobby, Anne MA PhD Corsellis, Ann BA OBE JP Hon FIL Cotton, Geraldine Davies, Karen BA MA Dawson, Julie De Smith, Barbara LLB MA Dee, Lesley MEd PhD Dillon, Anne Kathleen PhD Eggins, Heather BA PGCE MPhil Fritzinger, Linda B BA MA PhD Ghosh, Barnali BTech MTech PhD Glassman, Cynthia Aaron Graham, Jenny MA Grieco, Margaret Sybil DPhil MCIT Hampton, Janie BA MSc Haresnape, Elizabeth PhD Hendriks, Henriette PhD Hennegan, Alison MA Hill, Penelope Margaret Mary BPharm MRPharms 42

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Hodder, Elizabeth BSc Holbrook, Margot MA Honeycombe, June BSc Hunt, Pauline Innes, Sheila BA PGCE Kan, Qian BA MA PhD Lee, Karen BA MA Leggatt, Melanie HND BA MSc Lichtenstein, Jane Limb, Ann Geraldine BA MA PGCE Hon FCGI Hon PhD

Lucas, Angela M MA Mannion, Paddy BVMS MRCVS Morris, Alexandra BA MA Panayotova, Stella PhD Parodi, Teresa PhD Rogers, Gillian Elizabeth BA MA PhD Rushden, Cynthia Elizabeth BA Schiffmann, Victoria Relisse BA MA PhD Sellers, Susan PhD Tipper, Karen Sasha PhD Tooke, Nichola MSc PhD Vickers, Ilse Renate BA PhD Wallach, Robin PhD Walsham, Alison MA Williamson, Elaine Wilson, Anji BSc MSc PhD Wilson, Jean MA PhD FSA

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Worsnop, Victoria Mary BA MA PhD

Post-doctoral Member of the Combination Room King, Christine A BSc MSc PhD

Members of Staff Mr Kim Atterton, Handyman Miss Johanna Barber, Housekeeper (on sick leave) Mrs Anne Barham, Domestic Bursar’s Secretary Miss Carol Begg, Relief Porter (until June 2006) Miss Raihanah Begum, Tutorial Assistant and Senior Tutor’s Assistant initially to Cover Maternity Leave from April 2005 and appointed from March 2006 Mr George Brightman, Night Porter (from October 2005) Mr Trevor Campbell, Weekend Night Porter (from May 2006) Mr Richard Crosthwait, Gardener Ms Linda Curnow, Personnel Administrator and Bursar’s Secretary Mr Steve Daly, Head Porter (from September 2005) Mrs Karen Davies, Archivist Miss Eleanor Dobson, Relief Porter Mrs Rosse Ekins, Dining Room Supervisor Miss Naomi Ellis, Chef Mr Dave Farley, Relief Porter (from October 2005) Mr Tim Flood, ICT Assistant Mrs Janet Fox, Gardener (until March 2006) Mr Maurizio Fusinato, Kitchen Porter Mrs Joan Harris, Assistant Librarian Mrs Beverley Harvey, Secretary to President and Vice-President Mr Robin Hill, Clerk of Works Mr Ian Hine, Relief Porter (from September 2005) Mr Martin James, Chef/Manager (from September 2005) Miss Gaby Jones, Admissions Officer Mr Gus Jones, Weekend Night Porter (from November 2005) Ms Julie Knox, Housekeeping Assistant (from October 2006) Housekeeper (from March 2006) Mrs Enid Kuznets, Afternoon Receptionist (until August 2006) Mr Ron Lawrinson, Weekend Porter Mr Ronan Le Noac’h, Evening Porter

Mrs Morag Lewis, Porter (until July 2006) Miss Andrea Lines, College Accountant (until February 2006) Miss Diana Lloyd, Nurse Mr Vince Lucas, Gardener (from April 2006) Mr Michael Mantell, Chef Mr Paul McElroy, Relief Porter (from March 2006) Mrs Isobel McReavie, Housekeeper (until December 2005) Mr Rex Morgan, Relief Porter (from March 2006) Mrs Oonagh Moule, Chef Miss Lucy Myhill, Clerical Assistant from January 2005 to cover maternity leave then appointed from March 2006 Mr Bill Nelson, ICT Manager Miss Kate Newman, Financial Manager Ms Penny Paterson, Tutorial Assistant (from March 2005 until December 2005 to cover maternity leave) Mrs Faith Payne, Senior Tutor’s Assistant (Maternity Leave from April 2005 then until March 2006) Mrs Catherine Reid, Librarian Ms Nicola Rotton, Trainee Gardener (from February 2006) Mrs Sue Sang, Student Finance Officer Ms Gill Saxon, Library Assistant Ms Helen Seal, Senior Gardener Miss Nicola Shadrack, Clerical Assistant (Maternity Leave from February 2005 until March 2006) Mrs Ann Shiret, Kitchen Assistant Mr David Simmons, Relief Porter (from March 2006) Mrs Fiona Simmons, Housekeeping Assistant (from June 2006) Mr Tom Slack, Relief Porter Mrs Joanne Smith, ICT Administration Assistant (Maternity Leave from March 2005 then until March 2006) Mrs Sarah Thomas, Tutorial Assistant (from September 2006)

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The Student Body Undergraduates First Year Adeyeye, Nina Alexander, Karen Anderson, Jane Baillie, Donna Budanova, Natasha Buhr, Susan Burney, Jacqueline Button, Brigid Carvello, Lesley Chan, Jacqueline Chowdhury, Marie Cousins, Lesley Cowan, Laura

Cox, Holly Davies, Gemma Drummond, Sally Faramarzi, Maryam Gooch, Valerie Gurney, Eleanor Hamilton, Jill Hodges, Nichola Hom-Choudhury, Anindita Hope, Catherine Jackson, Sara Jenkins, Sarah Juhasz, Judith

Knibbs, Shirley Lloyd, Rosalind Matsui, Seiko Okafor, Onyinye Richardson, Gemma Rzechorzek, Nina Santos, Simonette Skelton, Jane Tabl, Hala Taylor, Jennifer Thatcher, Lannah Thomson, Alison Yeoman, Emma

Second Year Brokenshire, Lorna Brown, Rachel Burke, Ailbhe Dove, Anne Duncan, Gem Franks-Jones, Jane Higgin-Botham, Helen Hwang, Soo Jeong Jabeen, Sidra Jacks, Jane James, Emma Jenkinson, Rebecca Johnston, Josephine

Khan, Aminah Lai, Tracy Lea, Claire Lim, Cindy Lin, Zhiyan Mace, Anna Mahadevan, Meera Marriott, Rebecca Marshall-Quinn, Hannah McRitchie Pratt, Suzie Niu, Cecelia Parsons, Cheyne Poole, Katherine

Pope, Rhiannon Rayner, Kate Sopp, Hazel Sze, Cindy Tandy, Sarah Tchum, Utibe Tickell, Carolyne Tomlinson, Lisa Van Den Berg, Hanne Vincenzi, Giulia Wolfgang, Rachael Zbieszczyk, Karolina

Third Year Alter, Amy Bermudez, Chloe Blackford, Sandra Brayne, Karen Bulman, Philippa Capuzzo, Jacqueline Coates, Mary Ann Cope, Charlotte Dennison, Kelly Firoz, Sophia Fisher, Karen

Fossey, Michelle Fox, Vanessa Goldsmith, Petra Harris, Lynne Hyde, Stephanie Kemkaran-Thompson, Libby Khan, Nadia Mactaggart, Jennifer Meredith, Georgina Minshull-Beech, Nancy Moscovich, Noga

Paddy, Heidi Reid, Charlotte Rose, Sarah Ryan, Melissa Schuller, Sabrina Simpson, Julie Spencer, Debra Stone, Linda White, Zara Wilson, Margaret

Brooks, Alison Cross, Deborah Feix, Birte Gray, Stephanie Hodgson, Sally Hutchinson, Sarah-Elizabeth

Lang, Melanie Leiva, Anya Molyneux, Catherine Onions, Sharron Pellett, Sarah Rendle, Sophie

Scott, Amanda Spears, Camilla Teichmann, Stefanie Thomas, Sarah Ward, Janelle

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Graduate Students Abdel-Razek, Amy Ahmed, Sangita Alexander, Isabella Allison, Catherine Anderson, Deborah Atherton, Helen Atkin, Joanna Azizah, Kurniawati Badger, Shirlene Baker, Amina Becker, Anna Berges Frese, Ame Bolognesi-Winfield, Agnese Bystriakova, Nadia Carter, Susan Cassell, Elizabeth Catania Kulper, Amy Chalcraft, Faye Cheeppensook, Kasira Cochrane, Clare Corsgreen, Patricia Cuckston, Judith Deshpande, Anupama Djurkovic, Milja Dougherty, Catherine Ekeruche, Mayoma El Ashegh, Hanan Erlund, Mary Gajraj, Priya Garcia, Margarita Gurung, Alka Haddad, Lara Halls, Karen Hamimeche, Samira Hanke, Veronica Heard, Shelagh Heflin, Tori

Howes, Marie Hsu, Yu-chiao Ingudomnukul, Erin Jafri, Tabassum Jia, Wenbo Jonsdottir, Ingibjorg Kalyvianaki, Evangelia Karl, Alexandra Kaye, Laura Kersel, Morag Kim, Chae-Young Kingham, Victoria Kiser, Grace Kittipanya-Ngam, Pichawadee Kluk, Karolina Laffir, Fathima Lambert, Rebecca Lange, Ulrike Leong, Susanna Leow, Yan Li, Sheng Liao, Yu-chun Lin, Yvonne Lopes Da Silva, Maria Malik, Alia Marcuzzi, Suzanne Masada, Nana Mazzetta, Chiara Medani, Mushtaha Mirza, Saima Mole, Kristine Morecroft, Angela Narasimhan, Janani Nason, Katherine Obradovic, Jelena O'Donovan, Bridget Ostik, Huigenia

Page, Philippa Pan, Ling Park, Sarah Paul, Erin Paul, Lynne Peng, Yuanyuan Petrovic, Maja Prasad, Divya Raidla, Kristel Rana, Uzma Richards, Morgan Russell, Sheila Samsonova, Anastasia Singh, Alaka Skvirskaja, Vera Stoeckl, Andrea Stott, Marina Sykes, Rosemary Teo, Hsiang Thurston, Katie Tiwari, Kanak Triyakul, Supattra Tzur, Maya Von Eye, Maxine Walker, Yvonne Wang, Yu-Chiao Warakaulle, Charlotte Waugh, Carole Whelan, Jennifer Wimhurst, Tamsin Wolfe, Sylvia Ye, Lanning Yildirim, Umut Yogendra, Shefaly Yoneki, Eiko Yong, Yee Yu, Xiao Xue

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In Memoriam

Hilda Roderick Ellis Davidson 1914-2006

never met Hilda Davidson, but two thoughts struck me as I read through her personal file in preparation for writing this piece. She was a prodigious scholar, as evidenced by a long list of publications and the admiration of her contempories in balancing scholarly research with a busy home life, and she took genuine delight in her long association with the College.

the author of several articles. Her scholarship was recognised by the Society of Antiquaries who elected Hilda a Fellow in 1950.

In 1968 Hilda applied to the College for a Calouste Gulbenkian Research Fellowship to study Eastern influences on the mythology and religion of preChristian Scandinavia. She saw the fellowship as a means of providing “an opportunity of getting back She has been described as the into academic life”. She had not foremost English-language held a university post since leaving scholar of Norse religion for London in 1954, having found it more than half a century. impossible to apply for a full-time Hilda Davidson by Valerie Grosvenor Myer Specialising in the detailed study post when her two children were of north European myths, her growing up, and “missed the work was typified by a detailed look at the stimulus of the academic background and 'evidence' and a refusal to make this evidence fit valuable contacts in other fields.” Her initial 1 two-year tenure was extended for a third year, into any over-arching theory. and her research during this time gave rise to the Hilda Roderick Ellis was born on 10 October publication of The Viking Road to Byzantium in 1914 in Bebington, Cheshire. She was educated 1976. at Park High School for Girls in Birkenhead, and at Newnham (1933-1936) where she took Firsts Hilda was delighted with her appointment as a in English Part I and Archaeology and College Lecturer in 1971, considering it “a joy Anthropology Part II. She was awarded her and a privilege to be associated with a growing Ph.D. in 1940 on ‘Eschatology and Manticism in college and to be part of its development.” She Old Norse Literature’, out of which was was appointed a Fellow in 1974 and in the same published her first book, The Road to Hel in year also became Director of Studies in AngloSaxon, Norse and Celtic. A year later she 1943. started a five-year term as Vice-President. In 1939 Hilda became Assistant Lecturer in English Language and Literature at Royal Away from her College responsibilities, Hilda Holloway College and also later in the Extra- made a significant contribution to the Folklore Mural Department at the University of London. Society. Founded in 1878, it was one of the first Marriage to Neil, a research chemist, in 1943, organisations in the world devoted to the study followed by the birth of her first child saw Hilda of traditional culture. Hilda became a Member return to work as a part-time Lecturer in English of Council in 1950, and served as its President at Birkbeck College until 1954, when the family from 1973-1976. From the 1970s through to moved from London to Welwyn Garden City in the 1990s she also acted as general editor for Hertfordshire. Hilda resumed her teaching Mistletoe Books, a series of academic 2 career in 1959, joining Queenswood School in monographs published by the Folklore Society. Hatfield where she taught History to all age At the age of 68 Hilda decided that the time had groups for the next five years. During all this come to resign her College Lectureship and her time she continued to write and research. She position as Director of Studies. She felt strongly visited Denmark, the USSR, Finland, Sweden, that it was “unfair to carry on too long when Norway, and Turkey to collect material, and there are younger people to take over”, and she was a frequent contributor to conferences both admitted that her “energy for committee at home and abroad. In the decade 1958-1968 meetings had lessened a little”. Happily for her, she published no fewer than six books and was 2 1

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An article about Hilda is to be published in Folklore, Volume 117 No. 2, in August 2006, pp.215-216.

Annual Report 2006 she also now had a number of commitments with various publishers, and saw “every prospect of a lot of work for some considerable time to come”. Her resignation from the fellowship followed in 1985. Following her retirement from the College, Hilda certainly devoted herself to writing and research, publishing no fewer than six books and editing and/or contributing to several others. She was awarded the Coote Lake Medal by the Folklore Society for outstanding research and scholarship in 1984, and in 1988 she received the Katherine Briggs Folklore Award for Myths and Symbols in Pagan Europe (1988). Her last publication was as co-editor for A Companion to the Fairy Tale (2003) which was short listed for the Katherine Briggs Folklore Award in 2004.

In 1969 Margaret Bax applied for a Calouste Gulbenkian Research Fellowship. She was the first to admit that her application fell somewhat outside the usual selection criteria; after all she had been actively engaged in a university career for more than twenty years, but admitted that “while marriage has had some effect upon my career, more important has been the problem of resettlement after a long spell of academic work 3 in West Africa”. The Awards Committee thought highly of her application and awarded Margaret a two-year Research Fellowship, later extended to a non-stipendiary third year. Margaret Allnutt Bax née Priestley was born in Grimsby, Lincolnshire on 19 April 1920. She read History at Newnham, graduating in 1942

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Margaret Allnutt Bax 1920-2005

n 1967, two years after its foundation, the College received its first major financial grant: a £15,000 award over three years from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation which was “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.

In the words of Joan Liversidge, a contemporary of Hilda at Newnham and a Founding Fellow of the College, she was “an outstanding example of how a married woman can manage to keep in touch with academic work without neglecting her responsibilities to her family or to the community in which she lives”. And, as the then President, Lady Bowden, acknowledged on Hilda’s retirement, the College owed “a great debt of gratitude” for all she had done over the years.

with First Class Honours in Parts I and II of the Tripos. Her war service was as Assistant Principal in the Admiralty, first of all in the Department of Naval Operational Research and then in the Naval Intelligence Division. After the war she took a research degree at St. Hugh’s College, Oxford (1945-1946) before becoming an Assistant Lecturer in History at the University of Leeds (1946-1949). This was followed by a year as a Tutor at Ashburne Hall at the University of Manchester and then a return to Newnham as a Lecturer in Modern History. In 1952 Margaret joined the newly established University College of the Gold Coast (later the University of Ghana), first as Lecturer and then Senior Lecturer in the Department of History. She started to specialise in the new field of West African history, working on Afro-European trade in southern Ghana during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Apart from lecturing and research, she also became the first tutor to women students. Of her work, Professor F. Agbodeka in A History of the University of Ghana 1948-1998 said “Margaret Priestley…is chiefly remembered in Legon and other centres of learning across the western world for her methodical and meticulous research works and lucid lectures in the humanities”. Following her marriage to Neil Bax (a civil servant in the Ministry of Overseas Development) in 1962 Margaret held a number of visiting appointments in Rhodesia, Canada

Lucy Cavendish College and the USA. These appointments continued until 1970 and were interspersed with periods of research and writing on the economic, social and political consequences of Afro-European trading contact which led to the publication in 1969 of West African Trade and Coast Society: A Family Study. With her husband working partly in London and partly in West Africa, Margaret made the decision to re-enter academic life in England and was delighted with the offer of a Calouste Gulbenkian Research Fellowship in 1970 which she hoped would enhance her prospects of obtaining a permanent post. Her research into the financial institutions of government in twentieth-century Ghana did lead directly to her appointment by the Commonwealth Secretariat in 1974 to act as a consultant, along with her husband, in preparing a study on Forward Planning and Financial Control in the

Commonwealth. However, she was unable to obtain an academic post in the UK and in 1975 returned to the University of Ghana as Visiting Professor of History. This appointment continued until 1979 when, following a difficult twelve months which culminated in a violent military coup in June 1979, she and her husband decided to “disengage ourselves” and return to the UK. Margaret greatly enjoyed her association with the College; she regularly kept in touch with details of her published articles and other news, and made a generous donation to a College appeal in 1977. Margaret died after a long illness on 11 December 2005. Karen Davies Archivist

Annabelle Dixon Prize Fund

e mark with sadness a year since the The second book, First hand experience: what passing of a dear friend and colleague matters to children is dedicated to Annabelle, Annabelle Dixon. Annabelle joined Lucy who died while the book was in press. Tim Smit Cavendish College as the Times Educational stated ‘this book could save lives’ and hosted a Research Fellow in Educational Policy during a two day conference around the publication at distinguished career in early years education. the Eden project he created in Cornwall. A This spanned the domains of research, bursary scheme for teachers to attend was set up by the authors in publication and the policy environment Annabelle’s memory . as well as the A fund has now been set classroom she up at the College in enjoyed so much. In Annabelle’s name, with this newsletter last initial donations from year, a piece on three former research Annabelle concluded fellows who were with the words ‘her contemporaries with work continues’ and Annabelle Dr this is demonstrably Dhooleka Sarhadi Raj, the case. Since then, Dr Charlotte Hempel, two books jointly From l to r: Annabelle Dixon, Sangeeta Chawla, Annelli and Dr Jane McGregor. Aitta, Jane McGregor, Charlotte Hempel, Dhooleka authored by Collectively they sought Sarhadi Raj, Deborah Rathbone Annabelle have been some way to continue chosen as the Times the spirit of generosity, collegiality and Educational Supplement Book of the Week. intellectual curiosity that Annabelle Learning without Limits was reviewed by Tim encompassed, and their donations will be used to Brighouse, who declared that everyone in establish an endowment fund to enable the education should read it and consequently College to award an annual prize to a student provided a copy for every school in the London who has made the most of her time at Lucy Challenge. Cavendish during that year. Annabelle‘s classroom was, in the words of a If you would like to make a donation to the fund friend, ‘a place of genuine intellectual search.’ please contact Head of Development at Lucy As a psychologist and teacher she was Cavendish, Meryl Davies (development@lucycommitted to offering first hand experiences to cav.cam.ac.uk) children as the essential basis for such a search.

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Features

Creative Writing

n a 2005 letter to Oxford Today an Oxford alumnus (though, matriculating in 1953, I doubt if he would call himself that) laments the development of the Undergraduate Diploma and Master’s Degree courses in Creative Writing: ‘writing ... is a sine qua non of scholarship. The only useful route to authorship is to read widely, write often and learn something of the grammar and syntax of writing.’ Delete the word ‘only’ and replace with ‘essential’, and I would agree with him. Every exceptional writer I have met, from successful commercial author to promising undergraduate, has read extensively from childhood and has always felt a strong need to write themselves. It could be argued that these hardly need any encouragement. A knowledge of syntax and fluent use of language is an advantage in all written work, of course, but ‘authorship’ is a broad term and academic writing makes very different demands from fiction, poetry or life-writing. Academic writing must demand truth where creative writing may be better-served by plausibility. Good academic writing requires clarity and, usually, a linear structure. Creative writing may use these skills but agility with metaphor and image, and the ability to stimulate the imagination, not simply to show or extend knowledge, is crucial to fiction and poetry. Academic writing style must be learned during a degree course. Can creative writing be taught at all, or is it something that is either innate or absent? (I should say here that the term creative writing seems a clumsy one to me, though I wouldn’t concur with the Oxford MA who described it as ‘Hogwash!’ As it is generally understood I shall continue to use it here). In a perfect world all undergraduates would already be fluent writers; but this is not that world. To justify its current unofficial place at Cambridge, creative writing must have some perceived utility. It seems to have two obvious strengths. Firstly, in trying to examine and acquire style in fiction and poetry it is necessary to understand how existing books create their effects. Certainly for arts students, an intellectual appreciation of the works in the canon expands as they experiment with their own writing. Secondly, it is often the case that some students who show surprising ability in creative writing are those who have found the conventions of academic writing quite hard. Success in creative

writing gives them confidence and the encouragement of being at the top end the range in a community of very able individuals. At the same time the skills they develop in pursuing their own, unconstrained writing are usually reflected in an improvement in formal essay writing. In all three years at Lucy there are students who have first-rate creative writing skills. Several current English undergraduates hope to move on into a wide range of careers connected with writing. Kelly Dennison, who graduates from Lucy this summer, has gained a place on the most prestigious of all Post-Graduate Creative Writing courses: the MA at UEA. Both teachers and alumni of this course are household names in fiction and poetry. Linda Bates, one of last year’s Lucy graduates, now at Trinity Hall, has an agent and a novel being prepared for publication. Kate Rayner was joint winner of the University’s Brewer-Hall Poetry Prize, Gem Duncan was short-listed in The Mays, Katherine Poole has already finished a novel and Lucy Alumnae have published in almost every field. At Lucy, creative writing has tended to blur into prac. crit. This is inevitable with the heavy essay load of Cambridge undergraduates. But whether within specific degree courses or merely an odd class discussing issues in individual creative work; whether done for the enjoyment of writing in itself or the hope of breaking into publication, Hopeless Pandora. Everyone blames Pandora. That box. She opened it, let all the evils out. Except that she didn't. Poor old Epimetheus Took her for better or worse and, what could be more clear cut, All her skeletons safely in the cupboard. Pandora; 'all gifts', his to enjoy. But no, he had to go searching, looking for her diary, finding faded Photographs, a ticket to a play, the wrong sort of underwear. Had to know as well as have. Levered open her box with his jealous chisel Splintered the trusting wood. Took it by force. 'The woman, she made me do it.' Laying the blame with Pandora. How perverse. Reading the gods as ambiguous. How cynical. All gifts. How ungrateful. Elizabeth Speller

Lucy Cavendish College it is an increasingly popular subject in Higher Education. Caron Freeborn, who supervises on the English Tripos at Lucy, is an Associate Lecturer on the new OU Creative Writing course. Applications are vigorous and come from a breadth of backgrounds and abilities. Cynics might interpret Oxfordâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s inclusion of a postgraduate degree in Creative Writing as jumping on a market led band-wagon. Cambridge has not yet felt it necessary to follow suit. The facility to submit an original composition in Parts I and II of the English Tripos, and the large numbers of professional writers, in and outside the university, but living in Cambridge, has meant that there is some more or less informal teaching of creative writing in

several colleges and for many years others have nurtured some notable authors as Writers-inResidence. My own guess is that, probably later rather than sooner, a post-graduate Creative Writing course will be put in place at Cambridge. I suspect it will be driven by financial incentives. Personally, I have few doubts that it is a useful adjunct to academic studies. Whether it can be considered a subject to be judged as an area of scholarship standing alone and leading to a degree, remains controversial, I think.

Slicing Cucumber He slices cucumber like no-one else, in a fluid, circular motion, so that his broad, beautiful hands dance a dance, to no audience, for no prize, but simply because that is the way it is done. I learned two things watching him, as I grew. The first was that I would slice cucumber clumsily without wisdom or grace, schooled though I am in recognising both, but the second is the slow-dawning truth, like that of quiet words unspoken, that I am blessed by those years spent growing with such a man, who effortlessly lends to each task some essence of himself That makes it mildly spectacular. Holly Cox 1st Year English

Floating cumulus Spring willow uncoiling green Presents nestling pearls. Margaret Wilson 3rd Year English

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The Sestina Speaks I am the woman with the stubborn jaw who has set herself against the seasons’ rise and fall, rocking my chair past snow-melt stains and daisy-chains knitting through the knot, whistling past the flat when my throat is dry and when the young men are done dancing, then I initiate the real dancing. Leading out, not with my remnant breasts, but jaw jutted out against those who think I must be raisinned dry, I dance with full-juiced foot-fall in the lushness of my secret lovers, not in the decorum of a marriage whose chains I have forgot. You who wear the little gilded chains of admiration, who think that moving your body aright is dancing in its force and truth, are immobile, unhearing, not in awe of the third set of teeth which bubble in your jaw. You think of flight into joy and never of the fall into satisfaction, cannot sense rain coming in the long dry middleness of life. When your youth-moist eyes are dry your decorative fears will convocate into python chains fiercely grasping you. Gasping, you will fall into empty age from proudest dancing, into a paucity of mind slacker than a jaw, or I called you to dare and you would not. Rules I have broken. Truths I have not. The babies I laboured hard on, sinewed and dry, who clamped my reddened paps in a determined jaw, I did not bear to wear these dead-dream chains, but to set them loose in a world perennially dancing, lifting their feet to its intricate calls, regardless of a fall. I can bear it: we are living in the Fall, and will not spoil the Is for what is not. Where there are people there will always be dancing, even when blood and milk and beauty have run dry, and the spirit that grasps us tighter than death’s chains will draw out songs from every clenching jaw. I have savoured the phoenix call. My dancing disperses chains into their final rust. Stars may fall like teeth from heaven’s jaw, but still our life’s paps can not be sucked dry. Kate Rayner 2nd Year English

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Breakfast Fox Hitching your skirts up high, you totter on a chair, In your garden, fox, fox, Sliding round plant pots, Closer, it’s all about Fear. He is there, and though you can’t see him no matter how hard you stare, You can hear his claws on the path, A scratch at the back door, a jolt, as the cat flap slams shut. And he’s in the kitchen with you, your panic is jam jar tight, shut. He’s creeping through the legs of your chair, Winding his twisted path Under the butcher’s table, eyes like marmalade fox, Yellow shredded stare Smeared about. With his trailing brush he pushes toast crumbs about, Deep, in to all the corners. The Gate falls shut. Your eyes fly to the window, base blue stare, A mixture of tea and excitement run down the legs of your chair, Creating a puddle, reflecting fear flattened fox, They have followed your path Rust scented, cut through dew drenched grass, your path. It has led them straight to you, or there about You are no longer the hunter fruisli fox, You are a fugitive, trying to shut Out the baying clamorous multitude by hiding under a chair. From between its scuffed beach legs you stare Your pitiful poached yoke stare, Their thundering din from the path. Calmly now, you survey all from your chair, You can relax now you know they’re about, You and him shut in and them shut Out, and you can’t help repeating “They’ll have you for breakfast fox.” Before the world had finished its coffee you’ll be in pieces fox. Can you view them in the same morning light? Destine to stare Down the barrel of a humane killer, track a final path. As the countryside dies, the hammer snaps shut. It will all be red about, In the papers, over bacon and eggs, from the safety of a comfy chair. And frantically you’ll writhe, raising your wild sunrise stare breakfasts fox, You have shut him in, you have chained him to your chair. All you can taste is fear, it’s been sprayed all about, and they’re coming down the path. Rhiannon Pope 2nd Year English.

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Lucy on Radio Cambridgeshire

ill Saxon (Lucy graduate and Library Assistant) and I were both invited to read our own work at the “Big Readathon Day” on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire on 19 April. Our 30 minute interview with Graham Hughes was transmitted from Borders Book shop. Gill and I both read poems and discussed our favourite reading material. We have been writing partners for over eighteen months and have just finished the first draft of a drama for television. The poem I read was entered for a national competition, and it is published in the book My Small World. One of Gill’s poems recently won a Bridport prize; the other was published in the May Anthologies.

Gill Saxon and Beverley Harvey

During the interview we promoted Lucy, explaining the ethos of the College and the opportunities it offers.

Cambridge Two lives almost parallel, but sometimes crossing the divide. The baker delivers to anyone who will buy his bread. The secretary can type any letter; answer any phone. Rooms cleaned by one life and studied in by another. “What’s a dissertation?” the bedder mutters passing by the notice-board to read the tabloid instead. The punts on the Cam, lazy and serene or loud and bustling. “Anyone for Pimms; maybe a beer from the other life?” Not in competition today; not that race, is it? And once a year the fancy girls dress to impress the fawning boys, spilling over the divide in the awakening dawn. The backdrop of noisy laughter fades away; the workers transparent at the start of the day. And the revellers stumble to finish their evening, all jumbled up with wine. The ancient brotherhood watch their offspring race the years and the local folk stretch their timetable over a lifetime. Town and Gown; going down. Beverley Harvey President’s Secretary

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A La Prochaine The Long Road Once upon a time, I was an accountant consultant with about two days a week to fill when I saw an advertisement to the effect that a college in Cambridge needed a part-time person to resolve their accounting problems. I went through the interview process and having obtained a set of college accounts I prepared a spread sheet by way of analysis and aired my opinions which turned out to be completely wrong. In those days, all college accounts were designed to look impressive but were actually an exercise in obfuscation, this has since changed. However, I was given the task of overhauling the systems and procedures used by the college. After several months the Bursar of the time decided to move on so the job was advertised and as I had by that time fallen in love with Lucy I applied along with many others and found myself offered the position. I did not accept straight away because I had just been offered a post with an American company at a salary almost twice that offered by Lucy and in any case I could earn a lot more as a consultant. However, I accepted the Lucy offer and so started the long road to the present time which has been ten years in all. Staggering when you think that it is a quarter of my working life and of Lucy’s total life. “What a Cushy Number” I had been Bursar for about two years and had just completed the stressful period of overseeing the building of the library when, one lunchtime in the dining hall a student sat opposite me and said “being a Bursar is such a cushy number”. She went on to say that she would like such a job and asked what qualifications and experience were needed. I cannot remember how I replied at the time but I am sure that I did not tell her that instead of reading maths as planned I joined the Royal Navy. No I didn’t run away to sea but I had been offered a research post at AWRE in Baldock. AWRE stands for Atomic Weapons Research Establishment (as you probably know) and I was to work under supervision as a trainee Experimental Officer on the techniques of neutron production needed to trigger nuclear bombs. I had to take degree equivalent courses in electronics and mechanical engineering. Big Bang ! I did not actually get to trigger a nuclear explosion but was involved with an experimental non nuclear bang. I was experimenting with the fusion of glass and metal in the construction of

high voltage valves. We used a circular eddy current heater which surrounded and heated to red the glass and metal to be fused. This could not be done in air because the metal would oxidise and was therefore carried out in an atmosphere of hydrogen. The equipment was set up so that hydrogen from a cylinder entered at one end and expelled the air through a small tube at the other end. As you may know a mixture of hydrogen and air is very explosive as the creators of early dirigibles discovered. To deal with this the length of time needed for the hydrogen to expel all the air had been calculated after which the hydrogen emitted from the tube could be ignited to prevent a back flush of air. Either we had short calculated or the ignition device malfunctioned but there was an incredible bang and all the equipment that had been on the bench in front of me had disappeared and I was untouched. Several people took to their beds for a week but I went off that afternoon to play in an international Table Tennis tournament – no sense no feeling, I suppose. Some months later I realised that more money was to be earned elsewhere and I decided to be an accountant. I obtained a trainee post with a large international manufacturing company in London, duly progressed through the ranks and held posts of responsibility with a number of companies up to Managing Director. Finally I decided to go it alone and eventually this led to my affair with Lucy.

Annual Report 2006 Question? So what have I done for the college I hear you ask and if I were a politician I would wax lyrical with loads of spin but I believe that this must be the judgement of college members. However, when I joined the college it was growing, necessitating the further development of the infrastructure and it was an exciting time for us all. A library had been planned and additional building was needed to improve conference and teaching facilities. IT technical support, equipment and networks were required as well as an upgrade in security. Further student accommodation had to be purchased. This all meant that additional professional staff were needed to deal with all aspects of college development. This has been an exciting time of accelerating development within the college and the changes could only have been accomplished with the help of a wonderful team of staff that I now leave behind for the next Bursar. I have tried to bring about an atmosphere of team spirit between academics and staff which I am sure will be carried forward. Without doubt there are fundamental differences between those on either side of this imaginary fence and each must try to understand the other.

numbers who are both able and inclined to support are small. The college needs to look outwards and make more contacts with the corporate world not just for the benefit of income but for the good of students. My small success in obtaining this donation must indicate that it can be done.

Success The college needs more funding to help bridge any gap between income and expenditure and probably nothing has given me greater pleasure than to recently obtain a donation of £5,000 from a local company for student furniture. It is a good thing for alumni to support their college but this is a young college and therefore the

It is not good bye from him but “see you next time“ as I am now a Honorary Member of the Combination Room and never turn down free coffees and meals.

Life after Lucy You bet there will be. I am returning to the accounting world and setting up an accounting, book-keeping and payroll bureau. So, if you know anyone or any organisation with such a need please refer them to me. In addition, I have a lovely farm cottage and mobile home in Brittany which are available to let. Here endeth the ‘plug‘. And Finally I thank the college for its trust in me and say that it has been a pleasure and a privilege to be the first male Bursar. It has also been my privilege to head such a wonderful team of staff, people to whom without exception I could delegate tasks with confidence. My “five minute” jobs were infamous but everyone cooperated with enthusiasm and good humour (I think).

David P H Bryant Bursar 1997-2006

David Bryant with Kate Newman, Finance Manager, and Linda Curnow, Bursar’s Secretary and Personnel Administrator

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Interview with Professor Maureen Young Retired Personal Chair in Perinatal Physiology and Honorary Member of the Combination Room, Professor Young was one of the first woman appointed to teach Physiology at a London Medical School. She was appointed after WWII in 1946, when it became obligatory for all medical schools to admit 15% women students. She talked to former Lucy Cavendish medic and Pain Specialist Dr. Marcia Schofield (1992) about training and working in British Science in the last century. Maureen and I met several years ago when I was seated next to her at a Medic’s Formal Hall. As one so often does at hall, we chatted away conversationally about her work on the placenta, and my own interest in immunology as an undergraduate in medicine at Lucy. I did not realize until later that I was talking to a Professor of Physiology – and member of our combination room. To date, there are still only a handful of women professors in Physiology in the country. She greets me at the door of her neat home, a bright-eyed woman looking twenty years younger than her age of 90. She is, as she puts it… “Rather chary of reporters…they do change so much without consulting one…” I assure her I am not, nor have ever been, a reporter; merely a simple, country chronic pain specialist... She leads me out to her bright conservatory. I admire the beauty of her garden, not yet in full glory due to the lateness of summer. Professor Young’s university education was at Bedford College for Women in Regent’s Park, London. Elizabeth Jesser Reid, a social reformer and anti-slavery activist, was a strong believer in the need for better education for women, and founded the College in 1849. The intention was to provide a liberal and non-sectarian education for women, something no other institution in the United Kingdom provided at the time. Bedford College women began gaining University of London degrees from the early-1880s and became one of its constituent colleges in 1900. Maureen’s father was determined his daughter should be independent. Bedford College was chosen for a science degree. She remembers it fondly “of course, we all went there, before WW II. The old students were very distinguished and atmosphere was…quite special. The staff were very stimulating, dedicated and friendly. I fell in love with physiology” She gained her BSc in 1938 and her MSc two years later, after working with the South West London Blood Transfusion Service during the war on improved storage fluids that prolonged the shelf-life of red cells. I ask her what was it like to be a woman and a scientist in the 1930s? She laughs and

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remembers that it was “tremendous although it was sometimes difficult”.

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In 1941, she became a demonstrator in Physiology at Bedford College, and went to Cambridge when the college was ‘evacuated’ from London. She describes the atmosphere in Cambridge during this period as “very hospitable… I was lucky enough to be a young physiologist who came early under the influence of Joseph Barcroft, emeritus professor of Physiology at Cambridge”, (then turning his attention to foetal physiology after a life’s work in cardiovascular and respiratory physiology) “... he was extremely friendly and easy to work with, very encouraging…” Barcroft inspired Maureen’s lifelong interest in foetal growth. She remained with Bedford College in Cambridge until it returned to its Regent’s Park home. Until the end of WWII, the study of medicine by women was limited to just three institutions. In 1946, she was invited to join the faculty of St Thomas’s Hospital Medical School, along with its first ever intake of women students. “Then after the war came the stipulation that all medical schools had to admit 15% women- part of the so-called ‘monstrous regiment of women’… The first intake of women medical students after WWII were all mature students, as at Lucy Cavendish. All had previous experience in nursing and related occupations; and all were single. I went to St Thomas’s as lecturer and tutor in Physiology to the women students, but

Annual Report 2006 this didn’t last long, as the men did not have a tutor! … Many of the men had served in the forces and were quite prepared to learn from a woman.” Early in the 1960s, the Labour government increased university funding, and clinical departments began to expand into basic sciences. Maureen was invited to join the department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology as a physiologist, as well as the usual endocrinologist frequently attached. She was appointed Reader in Reproductive Physiology in 1965, and in 1976 given a personal chair in Perinatal Physiology. “I had the freedom to study physiology with young colleagues, although the total number of papers published during my career was about 100; quite low by today’s standards!” Was it difficult to work as a scientist alongside the clinical staff, with different priorities? “No, from the start it was very integrated, at the Teaching Hospital. Research staff working along side clinical staff... The ability to observe and get feedback. We also had a great deal of fun.” It is clear that Maureen enjoys teaching-she is at pains to clarify everything we discuss, to make sure I understand what she is saying. We discuss her life’s work, the path that led into her area of foetal growth and nutrition. I see the echo of the bright young researcher, excited by the challenges of her work in a rapidly expanding field – and interested by the challenges of her students. And did she regret not being qualified as a doctor? “No, I never regretted not becoming a doctoralthough when I was working at St Thomas’, it was discussed that this might be valuable… one has one’s own niche as a scientist and there was time to do a PhD in 1956…St Thomas’s led to a very exciting career, teaching medical students, in the physiology, medicine and paediatric departments and researching my field of interestphysiology and nutrition of the foetus.” After a lifetime’s work on the subject, she is no less interested in it. She worked in a golden era of Physiology, when models explaining oxygen delivery to the tissues; the action of adrenaline and noradrenaline on tissues and development of the foetal circulation, were being worked out from first principles. On the table in the conservatory amongst the latest issues of physiology journals and nestling alongside gardening books is a copy of her own book, What Is Baby Expecting?, a very clear and concise account of the growth and development

of the foetus, designed for the interested layperson. We discuss the current crisis in the NHS, and the spectre of looming medical redundancies and unemployment. “Yes”, she sighs, “When I speak to the young students now, they can scarcely believe I never had to apply for a job. One just ‘went on’… responding to the growing number of opportunities…” After retirement, invitations followed. She became an emeritus visiting professor in the department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology both at St Mary’s Hospital Medical School and in Perth, Western Australia; and a Visitor at Babraham AFRC. For the last 20 years, she has remained very involved with her subject, albeit from a distance. She was invited to become a member of the Combination Room at Lucy Cavendish, where “I have enjoyed the very good company of women with most interesting lives, and that of younger students too…I’ve continued my interest in Perinatal Physiology by going to meetings and introducing those new to the subject…” She is a keen observer of the current dilemmas facing her profession. Do you feel that scientists working today are still able to be independent-given that most research today is funded by large corporations with a stake in the outcome? Do you feel in some sense, scientists have to ‘sell’ their research? “No, I don’t think they have to- the journals still have an editorial force…but it’s the application of the science that causes problems - and how people perceive it.” A long discussion follows of the problems facing science as it struggles to compete as ‘news’ – how, perhaps, it has had to become more sensational; and the danger of overrepresentation of certain viewpoints or results, because they make better stories. Maureen points out that in the past, research was allowed to grow and develop away from the glare of publicity; science in the days of letters, libraries and lab meetings- before the internet, before Medline and instant access to full-text back issues, … knowledge gained with light microscope, by dissection; by painstakingly recording observances. It is almost inconceivable to today’s scientists, trained in high-tech labs with computer simulations and broadband access (many of whom have never had to go to a library and search by hand through card catalogues and journal indexes!) to think that some of the most basic and still-valid models in human and animal 59

Lucy Cavendish College physiology were worked out with no more than good observation, simple pressure-sensing equipment and the right questions. In 1954, there were still only 1000 women on the medical register. Women now comprise about 50% of the 100,000-strong medical workforce, with a predicted growth to 65% by 2012. We discuss our shared experience of studying science in a single-sex environment, a field still mostly male-dominated. About the unique atmosphere it provides to learn, make mistakes and discover. Writing in 1984, two years after her retirement in the St Thomas’s

Hospital Gazette, she reminisced “…It has been most enjoyable working in a man’s world. We were welcomed and given many opportunities which our 19th century sisters fought for…It would be interesting to know how women would ultimately have performed if co-education at University level had been delayed for a hundred years or more to give them time to establish their own style. The transition from a relatively short period of increased educational opportunities to direct competition in a man’s world was certainly abrupt.” Interview by Marcia Schofield (1992)

Interview with Dr Julie Maxwell Dr Julie Maxwell will be joining the College in September 2006 as a Fellow and College Lecturer in English. Her work focuses on Renaissance literature and she is currently completing a monograph, Ben Jonson: Religion and Art. She has been teaching at university level for several years, most recently at New College, Oxford. Dr Sarah Brown interviewed Julie soon after her appointment. SB: I know one of your research interests is the use of allusion. Do you think Renaissance writers consciously thought about the whole context of the texts they were alluding to? For example, did Shakespeare reflect on the implications of having Prospero follow so closely the words of Medea when he renounces magic at the end of The Tempest? (The speech begins, ‘Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes, and groves…’) JM: Not necessarily and yes, absolutely. In their notebooks and compositions, Renaissance writers grouped quotations for their thematic relevance or enjoyable turns of phrase while ignoring their original contexts. That was how they could promiscuously combine, say, Machiavelli and the Bible, Plato and poetry. However Shakespeare uses quotations with such sophistication (and Prospero’s paraphrase is so long) that there is no way he would not have thought about this case with care. The context of Medea’s speech, in Ovid’s Metamorphoses, is her rejuvenation of the dying Aeson. After invoking magical powers in the speech, she boils herbs, slits his throat, and replaces his blood with the curative liquid. But she also wants to kill Pelias, so she encourages his daughters to try dad à la provençale – with horrible results. (Don’t try this one at home, kids!) Shakespeare’s Prospero lifts Medea’s speech from this context – it’s a set piece, after all – but then reminds us of it when he describes the enchanted brains of his victims as ‘now useless, boiled within thy skull!’ So we are lightly encouraged to read structural parallels between Ovid’s text and Shakespeare’s, between the

witch Medea and the magician Prospero, as well as to register local verbal borrowings. Why? Because there is pleasure in the initial recognition – like recognizing a motif in music. And because there is pleasure in noticing the variants on a formula. Ultimately, it expresses our biological life, which is repetition with variation. All humans have fingers but none of them leave the same prints. Shakespeare is fascinated by twins. And one last point: while quotations and allusions are inherently selective, so is Ovid’s presentation of Medea. She has a short role in a long book. She is not Euripides’ Medea, already betrayed and the future killer of her children. Ovid concentrates on earlier episodes, and leaves the darkest ones for a parting summary. So Prospero’s quotation of Medea also opens up a literary context beyond Ovid. And the ‘implications’ of this – by which I assume you mean how it influences character judgements – are ambiguous. Prospero can be considered like and unlike Medea, while Medea can be considered both sympathetically and unsympathetically. SB: I was very interested to read your piece in Renaissance Quarterly about the sources of Hamlet. Do you find that reading and reflecting on the play's sources changes the way you think about that play? JM: Yes, but with trepidation. Think how badly wrong T.S. Eliot went when he pronounced Hamlet ‘an artistic failure’ and blamed it on the intractability of the source – a now-lost play, possibly by Kyd, based on a Danish legend that had been translated into French. ‘Nothing Shakespeare can do with the plot can express

Annual Report 2006 Hamlet for him’. Eliot was wrong about the sources and wrong about the play: a warning example. I am rather with Goethe, who suggested that someone would have turned the source legend into a great work of art if Shakespeare hadn’t. Source study is one avenue into the mind of a writer and the sorts of decision he has to make – what to retain, add, alter. It can help us see the end result more clearly. Sometimes critics give the impression that everything is straightforward and clearly pragmatic in the original legend, while the hero’s motive, delay, and feigned madness are complicated (un)successfully by Shakespeare. In fact, just like Shakespeare’s play, the original Danish hero’s madness attracts suspicion as well as quells it. Like Hamlet, Saxo’s hero is more inventive, more playful, than a revenge plot strictly requires. Need avengers pun darkly? Shakespeare and the source legend are economical but not utilitarian. Literature isn’t. To give another example: critics who argue that the Bible is a great work of literature point out how much its artistic qualities exceed the rather modest requirements of doctrinal teaching. Eliot was concerned about another excess – Hamlet’s repulsion at his mother’s behaviour ‘is in excess of the facts as they appear’. But that is what an obsession is: excessive. Shakespeare has it right. SB: And you discovered some possible new source material for Hamlet, didn’t you?’ JM: I became newly interested in the sources of Hamlet when I came across two previously unknown Renaissance versions of the story. Johannes and Olaus Magnus of Sweden (the subjects of Kurt Johannesson’s intriguing 1991 biography) were brothers and prelates, Catholic exiles who both wrote summaries of the legend. Recognising the brilliance of Saxo’s history, and the way it had been appropriated in the cause of Danish Protestant dominion over Scandinavia, they were concerned to downplay all the best episodes. It was the play without the Prince.

However there are details in their studies, which correspond to Shakespeare’s play, and which are found in no other known sources: e.g. that Hamlet’s father was sole monarch of Denmark, that the public is misled about the correct identity of his killer, that Scandinavians conduct warfare on ice. And one of Olaus’ woodcuts is, as far as I know, the only Renaissance picture of Hamlet. I expect it will be adorning new editions of Hamlet from now on.

Olaus’ picture of Hamlet

The Magnus versions of the story are particularly concerned to blacken Hamlet’s father, by claiming that he was really a regicide himself and therefore deserved to die. They remind me of Freud’s Moses and Monotheism. Suppose, says Freud, Moses had really been an Egyptian, suppose the Hebrews murdered this religious father-figure shortly after the Exodus, and then suppressed the deed. Suppose this much and murder will out: the Bible is allegedly full of clues about it. Freud’s analysis of the Jews’ supposedly distorted version of history depends entirely, of course, on his own act of distortion. He called on others to investigate whether something similar is apparent in national epics other than the Bible. The Magnus brothers thought it was. Like Freud, they distorted a text which was a cultural monument (Saxo) in order to argue that the text itself was distorted. They engaged in the same paradoxical activity of revealing the hidden truth of history – by making it up. SB: I think a lot of students will be very interested to hear that your first novel is about to be published as many of them are also creative writers. Could you tell us a bit about the book? JM: You Can Live Forever is a comic novel. It is about religious extremism, insurance fraud, and the exacting art of fornication. It will be published by Jonathan Cape in 2007. SB: Which modern novelists do you most admire?

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Lucy Cavendish College JM: In the film Shakespeare In Love, the bard goes to see his shrink and worries he’s lost his ability to write: It’s as if my quill is broken. As if the organ of the imagination has dried up. As if the proud tower of my genius has collapsed… And this is Shakespeare’s idea of a diminution of creativity! I admire writers who are like that – Shakespearean in their prodigality: James Joyce, Salman Rushdie, Gabriel Garcia Marquez. But admiration isn’t necessarily love. I am thinking of Dryden’s famous statement, ‘I admire Jonson, but I love Shakespeare’. What would I rather be reading? I love the comic economy achieved by

SB: I agree - Bulgakov is wonderful! What do you anticipate being the biggest difference when you move from Oxford to Cambridge? JM: Spelling Magdalen with an e? Interview by Sarah Brown Outgoing College Lecturer in English

Interview with Dr Dhooleka Sarhadi Raj

ur story begins on a slow train between Delhi and Bombay. 18-year-old Dhooleka Sarhadi, who had been born and raised in Canada, had asked her parents if she could do some travelling before she started her university course. They stipulated that she should only visit countries in which they had ‘a connection’ with whom she could stay; the trip included Bahrain, India, Germany, Greece and England. On that long train journey, she was befriended by a group of young people, two of whom were at Selwyn College, and who invited her to visit them in Cambridge when she got to England. She fell totally in love with Cambridge, and still remembers meeting a fellow-Canadian student, who casually mentioned that he was off to Paris that weekend for a party. It seemed like a magical existence, and the thought occurred to her that, if he could be at Cambridge, perhaps so could she one day.

But there could be no question of her coming to Cambridge as an undergraduate. She had already had considerable difficulty with regard to her choice of degree. Her parents encouraged her to get an education; however, mindful of their own initial struggles to make a living in Canada, their ambition for their daughter was that she should read medicine. Dhooleka, on the other hand, had known from an early age that she wanted to study anthropology, and since a career path in this subject seemed to them uncertain, this led to family tension. She received no financial support from her parents throughout her undergraduate years, working part-time to support herself, although she did continue to live in the family home. Four years later, after being awarded a 1st class honours degree in anthropology at the University of Alberta, her impossible dream seemed attainable, and she applied to the Board of Graduate Studies in Cambridge. By this time, she

Evelyn Waugh or Muriel Spark, who wrote unexhausting novels you can read at a sitting. I enjoy Ian McEwan. By far the best novel I have read recently is Mikhail Bulgakov’s classic The Master and Margarita.

Dhooleka and Aryana Devika Raj

tempered her romantic vision with more practical considerations when making Lucy Cavendish her only choice of college. ‘I wanted’, she later said in an interview for the college audiotape, ‘to live with women who knew what they wanted to do in life.’ Months passed without her hearing anything (and many of us will share her reaction, which was that she had been crazy after all to think that Cambridge would offer her a place), and she enrolled for a Masters degree at York University, Toronto. A couple of months into the course, her surprised mother phoned to tell her that somebody had phoned from Cambridge to ask if she was still interested in coming to the university. (She realised afterwards that she had probably applied at completely the wrong time of the academic year.). She happily accepted the offer, was pleased to learn that she would be joining the women’s college of her choice, and finished

Annual Report 2006 off the two-year degree programme at York in only one year. But there were still problems for her to overcome with regard to funding. By this time, her parents were reconciled to her choice of career, and took out a second mortgage on their home to secure the place offered by the University. She herself took out student loans, but throughout her first two years she was still plagued with worries that she would be unable to stay on. Eventually she received an Overseas Research Studentship Award (ORS) and support from the Cambridge Commonwealth Trust, and was also grateful for a number of research grants from various sources to allow her to conduct fieldwork, including our own George Bidder Fund. After completing her PhD, she became the SmutsHinduja Fellow at the Centre of South Asian Studies (University of Cambridge), and was delighted to remain affiliated to Lucy as a Research Fellow. Before beginning her PhD fieldwork, a further, happy complication had been a whirlwind romance which resulted in her marriage with Ajay Raj, an American in the telecommunications industry, whose work then took him to Tokyo. Throughout her fellowship, therefore, between terms, she was commuting first between England and Japan, and later, England and America. Dhooleka’s PhD dissertation focused on middleclass migrant Indian families in London, who had experienced a double migration, the first to India from Pakistan at the time of partition, and a subsequent migration to the UK. In 1997, coinciding with the fiftieth anniversary of partition, she undertook post-doctoral research in Delhi on reflections on partition from three generations of the ‘refugee families’. She became increasingly aware that changes in the structure of the families that she had studied were related to, and reflected, changes in global capitalism, and was convinced that policy issues should take these shifts into account. She is sure that she would not have had the confidence to channel her theoretical curiosity into fields beyond academic anthropology without the benefit of her eight years at Lucy Cavendish, an environment she describes as supremely affirming in valuing a woman’s intellectual capacity and the opportunity to imagine oneself through a spectrum of various possibilities. ‘Lucy’, she told me, emphatically, ‘shaped who I am, how I see the world, and my commitment to social change.’

Her book, tellingly entitled: Where are you from? Middle-Class Migrants in the Modern World, published in 2003 by University of California Press, expounding her beliefs, received much praise in peer reviews, such as the judgment that her work ‘is an important and original contribution both to the anthropology of ethnicity and to critical studies of multiculturalism’. After joining her husband in the United States, Dhooleka spent a year as a Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, at Harvard University, where she conducted pilot research for a project, Globalization and the American Family: Work, Life and Class for Middle Class America, embracing families of all ethnicities within a specific neighbourhood. She was then (she says, modestly, ‘to her surprise’) invited to address high-level Canadian policy groups, comprising leaders of industry as well as senior members of government, on issues of multiculturalism. Pursuing her interest in wider applications of her work, she then joined the Battelle Memorial Institute, a large non-profit organization, set up by a philanthropist for the public good. Its remit is to ’make the world a better place’ by tackling ‘real-world problems with practical, technologybased solutions’. Among technological advances developed at Battelle, are things that affect everyone’s everyday life, for example, photocopiers, CDs, and barcodes, but also numerous advancements in the health care field. Dhooleka worked there for two years as a Principal Health Research Scientist, evaluating national health care programmes. Her research focus was on bio-terrorism preparedness in the United States, and she led two research projects and participated in a third national evaluation project to assess national and state bio-terrorism preparedness. Additionally, she led and participated in various research projects related to cancer control, tobacco cessation, and youth and intimate partner violence. Dhooleka has now been tempted back to academia and return to focus on South Asian Studies, by becoming Associate Chair of Yale University South Asian Studies Council. Her many friends at Lucy will be delighted to know that her interest in family structures now has a further personal dimension with the arrival in 2004 of her daughter, Aryana Devika Raj. Interview by Wendy Pollard (1996)

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Interview with Dr David Carter CVO I am to collect Dr Carter from Cambridge station and drive him to College for our ‘interview’, squeezed in before a Governing Body meeting he is due to observe. I haven’t met him before and am told to look for a man with a nice, open face. A bit vague perhaps but, in the event, he is easy to spot. He is open, straightforward and very approachable, and arrives at Lucy with thirty years experience as a career diplomat, including seven years at Ambassadorial rank; he has qualities and a background which will serve him well when he takes up his role as Bursar in July. Brought up and erratically educated in Africa, in what is now Zambia, in the 1950s and 60s, Dr Carter took a first degree in Modern History and Politics at the University of Wales, and then a PhD, Non-violent resistance among blacks in South Africa, at Durham. He grew up, he says, in a climate of tension and racial conflict and wanted to understand some of the ways of promoting democratic change in very troubled circumstances. Of particular interest were Gandhi’s activities in South Africa, where many of that great man’s ideas were generated, and the role of the South African National Congress and its allies in seeking non-violent change in South Africa, after the Second World War, in the fifties and early sixties. It was ‘a tremendous eyeopener speaking to people who had participated in resistance campaigns – their determination, courage and ultimately their preparedness to be reconciled … made the modern South Africa possible’. Dr Carter finds himself ‘constantly amazed at the positive outcome in SA now’. He began his career in the Foreign Office as research specialist on African political affairs, broadening to become a mainstream career diplomat with the focus mainly on African and Asian affairs and management. In one job he examined missions abroad, exploring ways that institutions could run more efficiently and be more inclusive. In his foreign postings he helped to manage the Embassy or High Commission where he was working – contributing on human resource issues, financial and estate matters. He also handled political affairs, and promoted relations with outside communities. He has a track record of leading and motivating large and diverse teams in tough times and testing environments. Dr Carter’s most recent post was as British High Commissioner, 2000-2004, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, where he led a 250-strong team championing UK interests in this South Asian

nation of 140 million with major British ties. His work here involved safeguarding UK interests, securing openings for UK business and development partners, working for the release of UK hostages, promoting restraint in Bangladesh domestic politics, pioneering Diaspora links, and encouraging change in the High Commission. From 1996-1999 Dr Carter was Deputy High Commissioner and Minister in New Delhi, India, where his tasks ranged from helping to organise a major visit by The Queen to managing bilateral relations requiring sensitive policy advice. In the early nineties Dr Carter was Deputy High Commissioner in Pretoria/Cape Town, South Africa. As a South Africa specialist, he held this post during the crucial transition period to democracy. During the 1970s and 80s he held overseas posts in Lusaka, Manila and Accra, and worked in Foreign and Commonwealth Office departments and the Cabinet Office dealing at various times with Southern Africa, East Africa and nonproliferation. Dr Carter and his wife, Susan, have two children Rachel, 30, (a graduate of Clare) and Ben, 28. Susan was a Geography teacher and is now teaching English as a foreign language, part time, in Portsmouth (which she will continue to do). In any free time in Cambridge they look forward

David and Susan Carter

to the many opportunities there for the theatre and music. David enjoys classical music, ancient and modern, western and eastern, ‘but nothing too discordant and not lieder!’. Other interests are walking, distant travel and African and Asian affairs. Till May, a Deputy Director of the Centre for Studies in Security and Diplomacy at the University of Birmingham, Dr Carter is also on a Home Office Independent Monitoring Board for an Immigration Detention Centre. He seeks to ensure that the detainees are humanely treated.

Annual Report 2006 He hopes to continue this work at another centre nearer to Cambridge. He is also interested in new outreach work, perhaps with GEEMA (Group to Encourage Ethnic Minority Applications to Cambridge University), a Cambridge-wide body for staff and students based in the Cambridge Admissions Office. But he wants to get his feet under the bursarial table first! Dr Carter will live in College during the week which, he says, will assist in his already steep learning curve about Lucy. He intends to be part of the college community and admires ‘the spirit of Lucy [having] respect for institutions and individuals who have had to struggle in constructive ways to very clear ideals’. There should be ‘real pride in what has been achieved in such a short space of time – so much has been done here. A spirit of adventure infuses the college and it must not lose sight of its tremendous foundation.’ Perhaps unfairly, as he has only just arrived, I asked whether he had a vision for the future of the College and he told

me that it would be ‘to help preserve and enhance its sense of community … for it to be a real beacon for inclusivity with the widest possible range of Fellows and students committed to the ideals of the College’, and ‘that it should continue to be a real exemplar of outreach, innovation and research’. Lucy’s new Bursar intends to ‘listen, have an open door, and seek to engage in honest dialogue’. Dr Carter sees his role as very much part of the College community and hopes to be able to build on that with transparency, openness and honesty. He wants to encourage innovation and change, but recognises the need to find a good body of support for it. As with Gross National Product so, Dr Carter believes, should there be a drive for Gross National Happiness – resources are of huge importance but so is remembering what the resources are for. Interview by Louise Foxcroft (1992)

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An Adventure with Jane and Morag: Revisiting the Cycladic Enigma

n May, Jane Renfrew and I made the trek out to the island of Keros as part of a joint GreekUK archaeological team under the direction of Colin Renfrew and Olga Filaniotou, where we investigated the Cycladic enigma. And a trek it was. The journey to Keros from Cambridge involved buses, trains, planes, metros, ships, ferries, and small boats. Despite my best efforts, no donkeys were involved but the daily trip from the island where we lived – Koufounissi – to the island where we excavated, Keros, was adventure enough due to rough seas and the jump from the boat to the rocky shore, which often made for some interesting landings.

Jane Renfrew and Morag M. Kersel on the boat out to Keros

But what is the Cycladic enigma? And why did we make the journey to Greece to take part in the archaeological investigations? The Early Bronze Age (ca. 3200 BC to 2000 BC) period in Greece witnessed the birth of a remarkable and distinctive culture in the Cyclades. Located in the Aegean Sea many of the Cycladic islands are comprised mainly of marble – marble that was used to construct vessels and figurines that typify this culture. The sculptures from this period inspired artists such as Constantin Brancusi, Alberto Giacometti, Barbara Hepworth, Henry Moore, and Pablo Picasso. Many experts agree that the elegant marble figurines were highly prized in the Early Bronze Age Cyclades, but exactly why, we do not know. Why did the early inhabitants of the Cycladic islands make these figurines and how were they used? Some argue the figurines depict gods or venerated ancestors, perhaps acting as substitutes for human sacrifice, while others suggest they were simply children’s toys. Why were they purposefully broken (most of the figurines recovered in archaeological excavations were broken in antiquity)? Archaeologists have spent decades attempting to demystify these enigmatic figurines and the culture that created them. The aim of the Keros

Project is to investigate the many mysteries and unanswered questions surrounding Cycladic figurines and the Early Bronze Age in the Aegean. The modernist art movement, whose artists were inspired by these figurines from the Cycladic islands, spurred an interest in the prehistoric art of the area (Gill and Chippindale 1993:605). This curiosity increased demand by museums and private collectors for figurines and in order to meet that demand the local inhabitants began to Folded arm Cycladic pillage the surrounding figurine fragment found in archaeological sites. situ at Keros Encouragement from middlemen and dealers from Athens and other parts of Europe resulted in a looting frenzy, which culminated in the 1950s and 1960s on Keros. Recent estimates put the number of known Cycladic figurines from around the world at approximately 1,600, only about 150 of which were recovered during archaeological excavations (Brodie, Doole, and Watson 2000). Most of the remaining pieces appeared on the market, in museums, or in private collections with little or no information about the archaeological find spot. Without the exact archaeological context of the figurines, archaeologists cannot interpret their function in antiquity, nor can we draw inferences from any associated cultural material or architectural elements. Were the figurines grave offerings? Or were they found in settlements as household bric-a-brac? Valuable information about the past is lost when objects are looted from the ground and as a result some questions about prehistoric Greece will remain unanswered. I am interested in the looting legacy at Keros (my PhD research was on looting and the demand for antiquities in Israel), Cycladic figurine head fragment found in situ at whether or not it Keros continues until today, and how the local inhabitants understand the practice of archaeology in their community. As

Annual Report 2006 part of a holistic approach to archaeology this project centres not only on questions about the Cycladic enigma, but also on how looting and the demand for these figurines have impacted the archaeological landscape and our understanding of the past. Our typical day consisted of a half hour boat ride out to the site, sometimes accompanied by a dolphin or two, at about 6:30am. We then excavated in 5m X 5m squares following the stratigraphic depositions of thousands of years. Careful excavation often revealed the fragment of a figurine head, legs, foot, or folded arm torso, obsidian blade fragments, and marble vessel fragments along with the ubiquitous pottery sherds. At about 9:00am the crew (both Greek and non-Greek) would usually stop for the 5-minute “emergency croissant” break where most participants would open a package containing a chocolate-filled croissant. One of our visitors to the site – Jane’s daughter in-law, an accomplished pastry chef – was appalled by this eating of a pre-packaged croissant, but it seemed to keep the troops happy so the practice continued. Work continued until about 2:30pm (with a breakfast break at about 11:00am) when we returned to the main island. In the afternoon

Working on the notes at Keros

we rested, swam, caught up on notes, and in the early evening we had a few hours of lab (Apotheki) work – pottery washing, labelling of finds, and data in-put. Here Jane demonstrated her remarkable drawing skills as she prepared index cards of the special finds. In the evening we all met at a local taverna for a plate of moussaka or souvlaki, ouzo, and a well-earned Amstel. We were heartily welcomed into the local community. We attended the Eurovision Song Contest party at a local taverna, we were taught Greek dances, we challenged the locals to a

weekly football match where we were always defeated, and we introduced them to the proper way to support Liverpool in the FA Cup final. We were often asked if we were “looking for gold” or if we “had found anything exciting” only to provide the disappointing answers of “broken pottery and broken figurines.” Some days were hot, some very windy, and one

Morag M. Kersel pointing to a Cycladic figurine torso fragment found in situ at Keros

day it actually rained. Every day was an adventure with new and exciting finds, stratigraphic sequencing, and new theories to postulate and debate. It was a great adventure, one that both Jane and I hope to repeat next summer. As often is the case with archaeology, we answered some of our research questions but in excavating and surveying we arrived at a whole new set of mysteries for future investigations. While the 2006 excavation season was a resounding success and we uncovered many figurines in situ (found in their archaeological context) the Cycladic enigma lives on, but through the results of our efforts we are closer to shedding some light on this intriguing riddle of the past. Stay tuned for the future adventures of Jane and Morag. Morag M. Kersel PhD Archaeology References: Brodie, N., J. Doole, and P. Watson (2000). Stealing History: The Illicit Trade in Cultural Heritage. London: The McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research. Gill, D.W.J. and C. Chippindale (1993). “Material and Intellectual Consequences of Esteem for Cycladic Figurines.” American Journal of Archaeology 97:601659.

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In Place of Oldham Hall…What Might Have Been 1971-1989

ldham Hall has the distinction of being the College’s first purpose built building. Completed in 1989, it was designed to provide for specific College needs, both for student accommodation and teaching, and functional as well as public rooms. Partial redevelopment of the building during 2005 (and completed earlier this year) has seen the creation of a new Porter’s Lodge, additional teaching accommodation, and improved student facilities.

contributed to the design of a hall that was demountable, both for ease of construction and because at the time College House was only leased from St. John’s College to 1996. The building would be constructed from welded steel frames, braced with diagonal tension wires, and clad with terracotta coloured wood panels at an estimated cost of £15,000 (£129,000 at today’s prices), plus a further £8,000 for site clearance, furniture, kitchen equipment and fees.

Oldham Hall was the first of our new buildings but it was not the first development to be considered by the College. This article looks at two previous proposals to build on the site now occupied by Oldham Hall, and the design and construction of Oldham Hall itself.

A Dining Hall Appeal brochure containing information about plans, materials and costs was

1971-1973: The Dining Hall Project The Lucy Cavendish Collegiate Society moved from Northampton Street to our present site in February 1970 when it was assigned the lease of St. Francis House (now College House) from St. John’s College. The house provided accommodation for the College Office, College Officers, four study-bedrooms, two common rooms, a quiet room for study, the nucleus of a library, and a small room for informal meals – the George Bidder Room. College dinners were held in Churchill College. As the College began to develop in the early 1970s, the need for a central meeting place became increasingly important, particularly as a large part of the College membership was nonresidential. In 1971 membership of the College was 88 (this included fellows, senior members, and graduate students). In September 1971 the Trustees agreed to investigate the possibility of a simple steel frame hall being built, having reason to believe that the major components might be given by the building industry. John Walker of Rugby Cement Company had already expressed an interest in the project. He believed that through his contacts in industry, and in particular with Robert Watson & Company of Bolton, a steel-framed demountable building could be produced, the major components of which would be contributed by the manufacturers as an advertisement for modern construction methods. John Meunier of the Cambridge University School of Architecture became interested in the project and agreed to act as architect along with his partner, Barry Gasson. He engaged his students in a feasibility study and their findings 68

A scale model of an early proposal submitted to the Governing Body in January 1972. LA4/10/4. Copyright: John Meunier & Barry Gasson

distributed in October 1972 to members of the building industry with the hope that major components would be donated by leading members of the industry, and help with the construction given by students under skilled guidance. It was intended that the dining hall would be built ready for Michaelmas Term 1973. But by May 1973, the total costs had increased to £30,000 (£20,000 for the hall and £10,000 for site clearance etc.). Although a total of £15,100 had been raised (£8,500 in money and £6,600 in building materials from suppliers), the Trustees did not feel able to give the go-ahead with the funds available. A month later the College learnt that it was to be made a gift of the lease of Strathaird from October, providing it with eight study-bedrooms and the space for a dining room to seat 50 people and which would be sufficiently flexible to accommodate meetings and lectures and thus the opportunity to offer conference facilities and much sought-after income. The dining hall project was put on hold. An application in January 1975 to Cambridge City

Annual Report 2006 Council for an extension of the time limit for work to begin was successful and the time limit was extended to July 1979, but no more was heard of the project. 1985: Site Development Proposal

smaller groups for meetings etc., and to be let for conferences during vacations. However, much disquiet was felt about its distance from the kitchens in Strathaird, and the fact that the College was not geared for the conference trade on such a scale. In a letter to the Bursar at

A drawing from the Dining Hall Appeal brochure sent to members of the building industry. The proposed hall was to be sited at right angles to College House with an uncovered corridor leading to the hall. The site had been chosen so as “to disturb the well established garden as little as possible, to give diners a view of it, and to shield them and other users of the College from the noise of the traffic along Lady Margaret Road.” LA4/10/3. Copyright: John Meunier & Barry Gasson

A Building Development Study was commissioned by the College in April 1985 to consider possible building projects to service the planned expansion of the College. The study was undertaken by Elaine Denby & Gordon Badnell. Their proposal was that new buildings should be designed to link and enhance the existing buildings and to give a physical and visual impact of the identity of the College, especially as approached from Lady Margaret Road. These included additional accommodation for graduate students in the form of flatlets and for teaching, additional accommodation for undergraduates, a President’s flat, a College Hall which could generate money from conference use, and a Porter’s Lodge. The hall was the largest part of the proposed new building scheme, designed to hold 150 people seated, and to be versatile so that it could be subdivided into smaller units for use by

Churchill College in July 1985, our own Bursar, Ellen Mackintosh, indicated her unease at building a hall capable of seating 150 people. “Since we can only sleep about 30 people and feed 60, a hall for 150 could only be fully used for day conferences, which must be a limited market.”4 Similarly, although a Porter’s Lodge would control the entry point to the College and thus be useful for security, management and visitors, the view was taken that a porter was an “expensive occupier of space” and “we cannot afford one now”. The proposed new building scheme was not accepted. In October 1985 the Governing Body agreed that their priority should be

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Lucy Cavendish College accommodation for students and for teaching,

larger undergraduate admissions allowed for by

The site plan shows the creation of a court which was designed to increase the collegiate atmosphere. The hall (with living accommodation) would create a dominant link between College House and Barrmore and thus form an open quadrangle, a single storey wing of tutorial rooms would be attached to Barrmore, and a two storey building of flats and a Presidentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Lodge would be built on the site now occupied by Oldham Hall. LA4/3/2. Copyright: Elaine Denby & Gordon Badnell

with a Porterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Lodge and a hall following in second and third place respectively. 1986-1989: Oldham Hall In 1986 the College could accommodate only 40% of its 70 students. The University average at that time was 80%. (Incidentally, today we have 247 students and can offer accommodation to 53% of them). And so in May 1986 the Trustees approved a proposal to build a residential building. Elaine Denby was asked to design a building which would provide sets of study bedrooms with amenities suitable for conference users and large communal rooms suitable for meetings and the serving of light refreshments. The location was chosen in order that the College should announce its presence on the corner of Lady Margaret Road and Madingley Road; to ensure that when in use as a conference facility it did not impinge much on the rest of the College; and to encroach as little as possible on the garden. Work on Oldham Hall commenced on 10 July 1988, and the building was formally opened on 6 October 1989. Oldham Hall doubled the accommodation of the College and thereby made it possible for the College to move towards the 70

the University. In June 1988 the statutory limitation on undergraduate numbers was removed. It had previously been set at 50 at any one time. The College invited a number of major donors

The short projecting wings and different roof shapes were intended to add interest, reduce the apparent overall size, and retain a scale suited to the domestic character already created in the (then) three existing College houses. The use of redbrick was stipulated by the planning authorities as most fitting in the west Cambridge context, and darker handmade clay roofing tiles were chosen for the same reason. LH5/2/10. Copyright: Michael Manni

Annual Report 2006 and established supporters to choose names for rooms in Oldham Hall. Oldham Hall was named after its principal benefactor and in memory of her late husband, Edward Oldham. Barbara Oldham was herself a mature student, reading medicine at Manchester University Medical School, and took a keen interest in the College when she met one of the trustees in

1978. She became a supporter of the College and donated funds from the Oldham Foundation and the Edward Oldham Charitable Settlement. She was elected an Honorary Fellow in 1982. Karen Davies Archivist

Barbara Oldham and Elaine Denby outside Oldham Hall at the formal opening on 6 October 1989. It is reported that Elaine Denby was the first woman architect to create a college or university building on this scale in Cambridge. LH6/1/3. Copyright: Cambridge Evening News

Oldham Hall in July 2006

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Profile of Selina Mills

elina Mills had opted to go to an American university as an undergraduate, because she wanted a different experience after her English schooling. She graduated from Brown with a degree in History, but, during the course of her studies, had developed an interest, almost an obsession, she says, with the work of Henry James. She followed in the footsteps of James when she returned to Europe, by going to live in Rome. Despite having then little Italian, she found work teaching English to journalists on the Corriere della Sera, and they persuaded her to consider journalism as a career herself. She was successful in applying for a month’s internship at Reuters in Rome, and during that time one of the staff had to leave through illness, and she was offered a permanent job. She had already applied to Cambridge to take an MPhil in English, so left Italy after a year at Reuters to come to Lucy Cavendish. Her dissertation was on the city in the novels of Henry James (no surprise, there). She has fond memories of Lucy, playing the piano in the music pavilion for hours, writing in the garden on long summer days, but, above all, meeting people who had lived lives of very different kinds before coming to the College. ‘I remember,’ she says, ‘sitting at table discussing other people’s work, and it wasn’t being pretentious, it was adults thinking out loud about how things work, whether their subject was in the humanities or, say, veterinary science.’ After being awarded the MPhil, Selina returned to journalism, first as a freelance, and then in a series of permanent jobs. Nothing particularly unusual in all of this, you might think, except that she was born with her right eye already blind, and with at best extremely limited eyesight in her ‘good eye’ – 15 to 20%, she says, matterof-factly. In the last few years, a cataract on which it is thought to be too risky to operate, has developed at the back of her left eye, reducing her vision still further. But Selina refuses to be defined by the fact that she is legally blind, and constantly sets herself targets which might daunt the fully-sighted. Without an economics degree, or any financial background, she became Deputy Finance Editor at Estates Gazette, and then City Correspondent at the Daily Telegraph, as well as writing features and working on the diary for that newspaper. She has also reviewed books for several national newspapers and periodicals. In case she might sound rather serious and noble, I must add that the qualities I remember most about her from the time we spent together at Lucy are her

screamingly funny sense of humour and her huge laugh. One of the few times she has referred to her blindness in print was in a feature article commissioned by the Guardian at the time of David Blunkett’s resignation. She quoted a remark about Blunkett made to her by a London taxi-driver, passing her white stick to her as he helped her out of a taxi: ‘He ’ad no control, did he? Coz ’eez blind, ain’t he?’, and she cited similar sentiments expressed in the media on that occasion, if somewhat more delicately phrased. While admitting that a blind person’s senses are necessarily in some respects dulled, she pointed out that other senses are heightened and intensified, and concluded: ‘I hope I will not be excused for bad behaviour or reckless judgement simply because I am blind, but be considered in the same way one would any human being.’ Although Selina has now decided to move on from being a full-time financial journalist, she considers the experience she has gained in the last ten years to have been invaluable. Journalism has given her insight, she says, into ‘what different components of the world do, because most of the time, you get on with your own little bit of life, and you don’t really look outside yourself that much.’ When assigned to a story, a reporter has immediately to start thinking of different ways in which it could be presented, in order to represent what she/he thinks of as the truth. It makes one realize, she says, ‘how much power you have, but at the

Annual Report 2006 same time, you are also aware of how ephemeral it all is, so it’s a very odd combination of excitement and frustration. You’re both an observer and a participant. I had days when I would go away thinking that I’ll never be a journalist again, and then I’d go back, and feel how glad I was to be doing it.’ She recognizes that her entry into the profession came about almost accidentally, and that it is very difficult to find advice about how to go about it, and she would be happy to offer guidance to any Lucy student considering journalism as a career. From July of this year, Selina will be working on a part-time basis as Press Officer for the Citizens Advice Bureau. ‘It’s the first time I’ve ever gone to the other side of the fence,’ she says, ‘because I knew that I would never go into PR unless it was for something I believed in. I was headhunted quite a few times to do PR for financial products, but I could never do that. I do think that’s very true in general, that if you do something you believe in, you can’t fail somehow.’ Her main reason for wanting now to work parttime is because she is writing a collective biography of at least six blind women from different periods of history. As her sight deteriorated still further, she started thinking about who could be her mentors, her intellectual

icons, and could only think of blind men, Homer, Milton, Borges. She thought that there must be some blind women to whom she could relate more fully, but when she started to search in libraries, she could only find what she describes as ‘redemptive tales’ of bravery and good cheer. On the day she came across a recently-published book called Happy to be Blind, her reaction at the title was, to put it mildly, negative. So she continued researching in depth, and succeeded in locating some phenomenal, but forgotten, women, in at least one case by following the trail of a single footnote. Her only criterion was that they had to be women of note, who had achieved something remarkable, independent of their blindness. Her subjects include a 13th century Italian nun, an 18th century Austrian composer, an 18th century English poet, a 19th century French feminist, a 19th century American celebrity, and a 20th century Cuban ballerina. The epigraph to Selina’s book will be a quotation from Jacques Derrida: ‘The absence of great blind women in our history will not be without great consequence.’ Selina’s laudable aim is to redress that omission to give herself strength, and, she would hope, strength to other women, whether visually-impaired or not. Interview by Wendy Pollard (1996)

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The Alumnae Association Members of the Alumnae Association Committee, March 2006 President of the Alumnae Association: Jill Armstrong Treasurer of the Alumnae Association: Liz Hooper Vice-President and Recorder of the College: Dr Anna Abulafia Head of Development and Secretary to the Alumnae Association: Meryl Davies Pauline Dawes (1998) Dr Louise Foxcroft (1992) Catherine Hopkins (1991)

Report from the Alumnae Association President

he Alumnae Association Committee represents the many hundreds of our alumnae around the world. Our task is to search constantly for ways to maintain and improve our relations with them. As part of that process, in 2005 we launched the Lucy Cavendish Forum programme, which has been extremely successful. This year Pauline Dawes (Geography 1998) talked about her experiences, whilst holidaying on Montserrat during the volcanic eruptions, and how they have inspired her. She also described the innovations her company has made to the storage capacity of lorries, which will have a significant impact for the haulage business. Catherine Hopkins (Law 1991) gave a talk about her time at Lucy and her work as a lawyer specialising in cases involving child medical negligence. As well as being informative the events have been great fun and have offered opportunities to meet old friends and to network. Our speaker for Michaelmas 2006 will be Marcia Schofield (medicine 1992). Marcia was in a very successful rock band called The Fall before coming to Lucy to study medicine. She has recently finished an MSc in Pain Management. The talk will be on 19 October. In Lent 2007, on 1 February, Verity Griffiths (Veterinary Medicine 1989) will give a talk entitled ‘From Lucy to Latex’. Verity works in a small animal veterinary practice in Dorchester, sails and works her Hungarian Viszla dog. In Spring of 2007 we will hold our first London Forum. Details will be sent out early in 2007. The University Alumnae Weekend is an important date in our calendar and this year we wanted to do something different for our 40th celebrations. We decided to host a Brunch on the Sunday morning. Bucks fizz and brunch were served against the background of a jazz band

Helen Lawton (1999) Dr Wendy Pollard (1996) Elizabeth Speller (1992)

playing. We also had a magician who intrigued both children and adults. Our raffle was particularly exciting with top prizes of Eurostar tickets to Brussels and Paris. It was a great success and we are organising another Brunch during the University Alumnae Weekend this year. In this our 40th year, it seemed an appropriate time to undertake a major review of the Association’s work. There have been some changes to the Committee’s structure and activities. There has been a positive response to our decision to transfer the administration of the Alumnae Association Bursary Fund to the College’s Development Office. The Alumnae Association Bursary will continue to be awarded as before and I would like to thank all of you who already give to the Fund and to encourage anyone wishing to contribute to use the Gift Form which accompanies this Newsletter. The size of the Committee is now a little smaller. As well as President, Treasurer, Recorder and Secretary there are 6 Committee members serving for two years. The focus of Committee work has shifted entirely to representing the College’s alumnae and making opportunities for us to meet and exchange news and views. I would like to take this opportunity to thank retiring Committee members for their past contributions. Particularly, my thanks go to Moira Lavery Callaghan for her generous commitment over many years and her effective leadership as President in our 40th year. I would also like to welcome our new Committee members and thank them for the commitment they are prepared to make to help find new ways to improve our alumnae relations. The Alumnae Association AGM will take place before the Lucy Cavendish Dinner. To see the minutes of the 2005 AGM, please look at the alumnae and development section of the website:

Annual Report 2006 http://www.lucy-cav.cam.ac.uk/development. The agenda for the 2007 AGM will be posted on the website early in the Lent Term 2007. If you would like papers for the AGM to be mailed to you, please contact Meryl Davies.

between the past and the future and between the College and the alumnae. The Committee’s dedicated aim is to ensure that we fulfil our role to the best of our abilities. Jill Armstrong Alumnae Association President

The Alumnae Association has a pivotal role in the life of our College. We represent a link

Alumnae Profiles Lucy Cavendish College Alumnae Association Committee Jill Armstrong (History, 1996) I work as a garden designer. My projects include contemporary and traditional styles in both town and country. Garden design allows me to exercise my creative abilities but is also an analytical and intellectually challenging process. I feel I have the best of all worlds. I maintain a keen interest in modern history and hope, one day, that I can find the time for some further study. I have been on the committee for three years and am delighted to be President this year. I am very committed to finding new ways to improve and extend our alumnae relations and I’m fortunate to have a great team to help me in this task. Email: jillarmstrong@btconnect.com

Liz Hooper (Economics, 1996) I have been treasurer of the LCCAA for the past year and a bit and have worked with Jill Armstrong on a number of initiatives such as the Lucy Fora and the Brunch. I look forward to working closely with Jill now that she is President, and with the rest of the dynamic committee. I bring to the committee experience of setting up a new group, the ESRC Electricity Policy Research Group at the Judge Business School. Of course the past four years has been peppered with challenges as well as excitement, but probably the most rewarding achievement has been the development of a dynamic and very successful team, with shared goals and mutual trust and respect. Having said that, I have finally made the very difficult decision to hand on my fantastic job to someone with a new vision and perspective. I have made the commitment to start a PhD on integrating European energy markets at the ESRC Centre for Competition Policy at UEA starting in October 2006.

Email: eah38@cam.ac.uk

Pauline Dawes, MA, MBA, Wife and Mother (Geography, 1998) I am Managing Director of SOMI Trailers Ltd. and am interested in: encouraging women entrepreneurs - especially those disadvantaged by culture or natural disasters; environmental issues; women who are leaders; travelling and gardening. I joined the alumnae committee to bring my commercial experience to it, to have contact with people having interests outside my normal sphere and to enable others to do the same, and to give back a little of the "something" Lucy and Lucy-ites have given me. When you think of a good idea to help alumnae help themselves please contact the committee all ideas are welcome. Best Regards to all Lucy Ladies wherever in the world you are. Email: paulinedawes@somitrailers.com

Dr Louise Foxcroft (History, 1992) My book, The Making of Addiction: The ‘use and abuse’ of opium in nineteenth-century Britain, will be published by Ashgate in spring 2007. I am now working on a medico-cultural history of the menopause, to be published by Granta. As a Non-Alcoholic Trustee of Alcoholics Anonymous (Great Britain) I work on their Literature and Archive committees and am speaking at conferences in Sweden and Edinburgh this summer. Being a member of the Lucy alumnae committee allows me to give something back to the college community - I’ve particularly enjoyed contributing to the Newsletter and helping to build contact between Lucy and the alumnae. lou@jayls.com

Lucy Cavendish College Catherine Hopkins (Law, 1991) I am currently working for Darby's of Oxford as a Specialist Clinical negligence solicitor, acting for children with Cerebral Palsy. I have been entered in the Legal Hot 100 for success in an IVF group action. While at Lucy I had four small children at home and will be attending two of their graduations this summer. My objectives for the next yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s work on the committee are to foster better networks between alumnae and to encourage alumnae to maintain contact with Lucy. Email: chopkins@darbys.co.uk

Helen Lawton (Economics, 1999) Since I graduated from Lucy I've been working at the Bank of England firstly on credit risk issues, and currently in the Notes (as in banknotes!) Division. The work has certainly been interesting and rather good fun too! I begin a parttime MSc in Economics at Birkbeck College this October. I'm also getting married to my partner, Caroline, this August and we are enjoying living in London with my 12-year old son and 9year old daughter. I was delighted to be asked to join the committee because I felt that I had become distanced from Lucy once I had graduated, and I really hope I can help the committee put alumnae back in touch with each other to form a fun and supportive network - both personally and professionally. Email: Helen.Lawton@bankofengland.co.uk

Dr Wendy Pollard (PhD English, 1996) I have been on the alumnae association committee for four years. I have thoroughly enjoyed helping with events, and, in particular, with Louise Foxcroft, recently writing profiles of several remarkable alumnae of our college for the newsletter. But then, I have come to the conclusion that if we were to choose our subjects at complete random from a list of all former Lucy alumnae, we would be bound to find equally enthralling material. I am at present writing a biography of the novelist Pamela Hansford Johnson, whose second husband was C.P. Snow, and who was a

very influential literary figure in the midtwentieth century. My researches took me to the University of Buffalo, NY, in May, to read a series of letters written to her when she was 22 by a wonderfully precocious 19-year-old â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Dylan Thomas. Would that he had kept her side of their correspondence as she did his! Email: wendypoll@aol.com

Elizabeth Speller (Classics, 1992) My new book, Sunlight on the Garden: a family in love, war and madness, was published this spring by Granta, as was a second edition of my guide to Athens, and I have been involved in activities to support these, including articles in publications ranging from The Independent to Vogue, an appearance on Midweek on R4 and at a literary festival in Paris. I am working in Greece for most of the summer, both on my new book (set between the wars) and travel writing. I was very glad to be co-opted on to the alumnae committee and hope I can use some of my media contacts and experience to further its work.

Alumnae and Friends Jessie Cao (MPhil Land Economy, 2003) I attended the event "Towards a Shanghai Network" held on 10 April in Shanghai. This event, which was hosted with the University of Cambridge, focused on the Photo with the ViceChancellor, Jessie is key success factors in third from left growing a world-class high technology cluster and the benefits of linking such clusters together around the world. We met alumni graduates ranging from 1960s to 2000s, and had a very wonderful night. Email: vanilacaoyan@yahoo.com.cn

Associate Professor Judith A. Davey (Postdoctoral Researcher, 1967) I have been the Director of the New Zealand Institute for Research on Ageing for almost five years. We carry out research on the social and economic implications of population ageing, mainly for central government organisations. We also have a programme of lectures, seminars, conferences

Annual Report 2006 and overseas visits and maintain an email network of about 500 organisations and individuals throughout the world. I will be standing down from my position of Director in early 2007, but will remain active in research and public discussion of ageing and its implications. Isabelle Desquesnes (Law, 2000) After leaving Lucy I took a Masterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s degree in Intellectual Property Law and New Technology Law at the University of Toulouse, France. I became a lawyer in France in December 2005. Email: idesquesnes@hotmail.com

Suzanne

Doyle-Morris (MPhil, PhD, Education, 2003) I recently returned to the Cambridge area, buying a house in Burwell with my husband. I am excited to be basing my company, Doyle-Morris Coaching, in the area. I work predominantly with women who want to make the most of their careers; addressing issues such as promotion into a management role, work/life balance, maternity leave, entrepreneurship, change of career and redundancy, through personalised coaching. My clients range from individuals who want to progress in their careers to organisations that see a clear business benefit in developing and promoting female employees. This year, clients include a Cambridge college, a non-profit organisation and a leading London-based global law firm. For the first time since I left Lucy, I love what I am doing-putting my academic background to use by working with women who want to make significant changes in their lives. Cambridgeshire is a county full of women who are devoted to their careers as much as their families and I love working with these types of professional women. I would welcome hearing from other Lucy alumnae. Email: Suzanne@doylemorris.com

Margrit Fauland-Blackburn (Archaeology and Anthropology, 1996) I am still a NY LON (dividing my time between New York and London) and am involved in a new project editing and producing a quarterly newspaper.

Dr Anna Gannon (BA, MA, PhD, History of Art, 1994) My book, The Iconography of Early Anglo-Saxon Coinage, was published by Oxford University Press in 2003, still not a blockbuster, though. However, I have just been elected to a Fellowship at St Edmund's College, and I have become a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in London. I am Director of Studies in History of Art for 4 colleges and will be teaching an undergraduate course on Anglo-Saxon Art for the Department of History of Art here at Cambridge. I continue working on Treasure for the British Museum, and have several research projects on the go. I am also Academic Adviser for the Academic Staff Development of the University, a job that gives me tremendous insight into how the University works. Svetlana Kurtes (MPhil, PhD, English, 1997) I obtained my doctorate in applied linguistics and, after working for a number of years in the University of Cambridge Language Centre, I have recently joined the University's ESOL Department (English for Speakers of Other Languages), where I coordinate a major project in English as a second or additional language. Email: sk253@cam.ac.uk.

Bernice Patient (History, 1994) I have now retired, with my husband, and live in New Hadstock, Essex. Email: oltbP@dsl.pipex.com

Karen Powell, nee Goddard-Sharp (English, 1993) Still living in York and set to stay here for the next five years as our eight year old, Isabella, has just won a Minster choral scholarship. With luck, we might have earned enough money by the time she finishes to hotfoot it to Rome (Steve and I got married there four years ago and we just can't seem to stay away now). My second novel, If Susie Said Jump, is due for publication in early Autumn. Email: karenlpowell@btinternet.com

Lucy Cavendish College Dr. Maria Purves, nee Brown (English, 1993) I am currently working on a book on the 18th Century gothic novel for the University of Wales Press, and contributing a chapter to another book on the Gothic. I am at present combining research with full-time motherhood. http://www.eeb.princeton.edu/~dpurves/mp/mariapurv es_webpage.html or Google Maria Purves.

Carolyn Reid (English, 1987) I am now in Pimlico, London, and am finishing two years of law at Westminster University to qualify as a solicitor. I am planning to work in Human Rights and Immigration. Email: proofreid@yahoo.com

Gill Saxon (English, 1994) Now Lucy Library Assistant I have had my first radio drama broadcast by BBC Radio Cambridgeshire on 30 March 2006. Entitled Household Harmony, it is a comedy about a couple whose lives are turned upside down by a New Age therapist. The play won a writing competition organised by the radio station and I gained valuable experience by seeing the production process from start to finish, even though it took five hours in a cramped studio to produce 15 minutes of script! You can still hear the play on my website: www.gillsaxon.com. Enter the user name play and the password hh. Deepa Shetty (Veterinary Medicine, 1994) Having qualified as a vet 7 years ago, I have been working up at the same practice in Sheffield ever since. I love Sheffield, with its big city offerings and friendly village mentality and lush green countryside right on the doorstep. My work is almost entirely with dogs and cats, although I do have a soft spot for rats and have my own fancy rat called ‘Mouse’! I would be really pleased to hear from any of the Lucy crowd who shared my years from 1994-1999. Email: ds204@hotmail.com

Katherine Steele (MML, 1993) In September 2005 I left Cambridge after 35 years and bought a wonderful old house in Normandy which I share with my partner Nigel, also spending some of our time at his apartment in Saint-Denis just outside Paris, where he has been established for about 10 years. I am 78

enjoying being a full-time maîtresse de maison, reading all the literature that there was never time for at Lucy, helping re-edit a dictionary of French/English house buying terms, writing my Blog and cultivating my garden. Email: steele.katherine@wanadoo.fr

Dr Minako Yamada (Visiting Scholar, 2003) This September I will be presenting a paper, ‘Language assessment as socially mediated activity’, at a colloquium in Cork, Ireland. It is not widely known that culturally biased test items are excluded from language tests in order to be fair to test-takers who come from diverse cultural backgrounds. For example, if an assumption made in constructing a test item is “lemon is yellow”, then those who come from a culture where “lemon is green” would be disadvantaged. I advocate expanding the traditional framework by situating test theories in human science in order to assess intercultural communication abilities, i.e. the abilities to understand the difference made in assumptions – such as the colour of a lemon – and to use language appropriately in order to fulfil one’s objectives in intercultural settings. We have organized the colloquium - Language assessment as a human science underpinned by both Applied Linguistics and Linguistics Applied - for the Joint Annual Meeting of the British Association for Applied Linguistics and the Irish Association for Applied Linguistics. I am very much looking forward to visiting the College on the way to Ireland from Tokyo. Reverend Jennifer Yule (BTh, 2001) It is the best of jobs, it is the worst of jobs and if I really believed I could do anything else, even half as well, I would do it. The Lucy Cavendish graduation address 2003 from the President assured us that as ‘Lucy Girls’ we could do anything. This assurance has come back to haunt, nag and encourage me at regular intervals. What is my profession, or rather vocation? I am a Minister of the United Reformed Church, serving in an ecumenical partnership in South Derby, Sinfin Moor, Authorised by the Anglican Church, Recognised and Regarded by the Methodists and paid by the URC. I am also a chaplain to our local ASDA store, and as they say “Always happy to help.” Over the past twenty months it has not been so much four weddings and a

Annual Report 2006 funeral but rather two weddings, nine baptisms, twenty five funerals and over a hundred Sunday services! Thanks go to your neighbours, Westminster College, who trained me for ministry and Lucy Cavendish College who gave me the degree of confidence that assures me that I can do it, with Godâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s help of course.

It is always a pleasure to hear from alumnae. If you would like your news to be included in next yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Newsletter, please send it to Meryl Davies at development@lucy-cav.cam.ac.uk.

Email: jenny.yule@tesco.net

Lucy Cavendish Dinner 2007 Saturday 10 March 2007 7 for 7.30pm in Warburton Hall

Lucy alumnae, friends and all members of the College Community are always welcome at all Lucy Cavendish Dinners, however, since 2005, we have been encouraging particular year groups to attend the dinner for a reunion. In early 2007 a reminder and booking form for the dinner will be sent to those who have registered an email address with the Head of Development (development@lucycav.cam.ac.uk) and in particular those alumnae who first came to Lucy between 1996-2000 will be encouraged to come back for the Lucy Cavendish Dinner. If you do not have access to email and would like a reminder by post, please write to Meryl Davies at College.

Lucy Cavendish College

Formal Hall Schedule for 2006-07 MICHAELMAS TERM 2006 05/10/06 12/10/06 19/10/06 26/10/06 02/11/06 09/11/06 16/11/06 23/11/06 30/11/06

a b b c c c b c b

Matriculation Dinner Formal Hall – Partners and Friends Formal Hall – all College Community (alumnae forum prior to the dinner) Formal Hall – separate subject tables for Medicine Formal Hall – separate subject tables for Law and Criminology Formal Hall – separate tables for Graduate students & Research Fellows Formal Hall – follows Lucy Cavendish Lecture by Sir Christopher Hum Formal Hall – separate subject tables for History, Philosophy, Classics & Theology Christmas Formal Hall

LENT TERM 2007 b c c

18/01/07 25/01/07 01/02/07

c b c b c c

08/02/07 15/02/07 22/02/07 01/03/07 08/03/07 15/03/07

Formal Hall – separate tables for Library and Friends of the Library Formal Hall – separate subject tables for Economics, SPS and JIMS Formal Hall – separate subject tables for Archaeology & Anthropology, Architecture & History of Art Formal Hall - separate subject tables for Geography MML, Oriental Studies & Education Halfway Hall Formal Hall – separate subject tables for Veterinary Medicine Formal Hall - follows Lucy Cavendish Lecture by Professor Simon Baron-Cohen Formal Hall - separate subject tables for English and ASNaC Formal Hall – separate tables for graduate students and research fellows

EASTER TERM 06 b

26/04/07

c b b a b b b b b

03/05/07 10/05/07 17/05/07 18/05/07 24/05/07 31/05/07 07/06/07 14/06/07 15/06/07

Formal Hall – all College Community with special invitations to Honorary Members of the Combination Room Formal Hall – separate subject tables for Science and Mathematics Formal Hall – separate subject tables for Partners & Friends Supper Lyttelton Dinner Supper Supper Supper Formal Hall – Final Formal Hall of the year Garden Party

All College Members are always welcome to dine at any Formal Hall, regardless of subject designation, if any. Bookings for formal hall can be made through the College’s website http://www.lucy-cav.cam.ac.uk/formalhall or by telephone or in person in the Porter’s Lodge (01223 332190). Bookings are accepted up to 11am on the Wednesday before the Formal Hall, although sometimes a waiting list will be in operation, so booking before then is strongly recommended. Individuals should, when booking, make it clear if they wish to be seated or put on a free seating table (i.e. with no formal seating plan). If members wish to bring more than three guests they are encouraged to approach the Steward (steward@lucy-cav.cam.ac.uk) in the first instance, to confirm that space will be available. Free seating tables are also available at each formal hall and space on these tables can be reserved at the time of booking. Free seating tables are a particularly popular way of enjoying Formal Hall with a larger group of friends, perhaps for a special celebration or to invite sports and social clubs to come to Lucy. There will be a drinks reception preceding the meal and two glasses of wine are served with the meal. Bottles of wine can also be purchased from the College Bar, Warburton Hall, from 7pm on the evening of the meal and can be taken down to the dining hall to be enjoyed with the meal and wine or port can be ordered in advance from the Domestic Bursar (mch27@cam.ac.uk) and will be served after the second Grace. All College Members and guests who are members of the University should wear gowns for Formal Hall. Key a by invitation only b open to all members of the College community, including members of staff c open to all College members (Fellows, students and alumnae) and to those who have been offered membership of the combination room (i.e. everyone on the College List and external Directors of Studies)

Lucy Cavendish College • Lady Margaret Road • Cambridge • CB3 0BU Telephone: 01223 332190 Fax; 01223 332178 email: lcc-admin@lists.cam.ac.uk Website: http://www.lucy-cav.cam.ac.uk