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Women’s Word

Lucy Lucy Cavendish College Newsletter

Lucy Cavendish College University of Cambridge

Meet the Bursar

Telephone campaign

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Nearly two years have elapsed since I joined Lucy Cavendish College. They have been wonderful and challenging years in which, along with other Cambridge colleges, we have had to weather the economic storm. The experience reinforces what we already understood: that our development and future prosperity will largely depend on our own efforts and on the generosity of donors.

So I am glad to report that the fundraising telephone campaign held in January went well: a high percentage of those contacted chose to give. This fact suggests that we have a most loyal alumnae body. With the help of the whole College community and external wellwishers we will go on providing women of great ability with an education of uncompromising quality.

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Contents From the President

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Women’s Word

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English News

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Ladies of Steel

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Meet the Bursar

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Fellows’ News

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Telephone Campaign

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Angela Morecroft

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The Gyll Moore Fund

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Sports News

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Lucy Cavendish Singers

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HELENA KENNEDY In April 2010 the College was proud to welcome its newest Honorary Fellow, Baroness Helena Kennedy QC. Helena Kennedy is one of Britain's most distinguished lawyers. She has spent her professional life giving voice to those who have least power within the system, championing civil liberties and promoting human rights.

Helena has used many public platforms – including the House of Lords, to which she was elevated in 1997 – to argue with passion, wit and humanity for social justice. She has also written and broadcast on a wide range of issues, from medical negligence and terrorism to the rights of women and children.

this group has become an extremely valued part of the College.

Adding to these events, we have throughout the year held various one-day conferences and symposia relating to our Women’s Word activities. The first, in connection with the Jane Austen Society, was on interiors and exteriors in Jane Austen; then came conferences on Georgette Heyer and Women and Gothic.

Finally in June Celebrating Women’s Writing attracted a large audience of 93 people to listen to a total of 68 different papers. There had been some scepticism whether quite this much could be fitted into one day – when events for Women’s Word were also continuing – but with everyone working in harmony the conference proved to be a great success.

One of our Honorary Fellows, Dame Stella Rimington, was kind enough to open this year’s Women’s Word in June with a talk about her own relation to learning and language. We very much value the

Helena first visited Lucy Cavendish in the 1990s and then returned when she was invited to speak at Women’s Word 2009.

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Newsletter editors: Meryl Davies, Alison Vinnicombe and Kitty Blackwell Photographers: Nigel Luckhurst and Phil Mynott Front cover: Elly Griffiths, Selina Walker and NJ Cooper

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Women’s Word, which I started with Meryl Davies when I arrived, has now had two successful years. We wanted the festival to be an annual event and I think this is now assured. The festival presented a wide variety of talks on topics from violence in crime to naughty language between men and women; the talks were complemented by heavily subscribed workshops on short story writing, fiction, journalism and work for children. Earlier in the academic year our exhibition Rooms of our Own, part of the University of Cambridge’s 800th celebration, lived up to expectations and attracted several days of visitors. Some of the information we collected on the centuries of intellectual women can still be seen on our web page under News and Events.

Both Women’s Word and the exhibition were much enhanced by a performance of our own Lucy Cavendish Singers; under Katharina Megli’s inspired directorship

Beyond these lengthier happenings we have had a kaleidoscope of fascinating talks from external speakers. These have ranged from Baronesses Dean and Perry on politics and Kathryn Jones on palace china and silverware through Professor Neva Haites on science and the soul and Dr Carolin Crawford on nebulae to Aggie Mackenzie on dirty houses, Gillian Wadell on media crises and Suzanne Doyle-Morris on successful women. Dr Peter Brooks spoke on English Reformation studies and presented us with a rare book to add to our library: Memorials of the most reverend father in God, Thomas Cranmer.

Some very pleasing examination results have brought the year to a close, a year in which we have also excelled in tennis and rowing and in which Annabel Banks, who won the Kinsella Poetry Prize last year, has this academic year been awarded The Other Prize.

contribution of our Honorary Fellows and are delighted to announce that Baroness Helena Kennedy has joined them. In April she was inducted into the Honorary Fellowship and gave us a talk on freedom of speech. Three other women have joined us as Fellows: Jane Davies from Judge Business School, Henriette Hendriks, Acting Director of the Research Centre for English and Applied Linguistics, and our new Bursar Lesley Thompson. We welcome all of them most warmly. As some arrive, others leave. During this year we have said goodbye to David Carter, Lorna McNeur and Meryl Davies. In the last case we trust it is not quite good bye as we hope that she will continue to be associated with Women’s Word, into which she has put so much successful effort. Finally, after 8 years, Anna Abulafia is stepping down as VicePresident to take a year’s well-earned study leave; she is succeeded as VicePresident by Ruth Jones.

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This annual festival draws attention to Lucy Cavendish and brings people over the threshold - people who otherwise might not have known that the Cambridge college uniquely for women over21 is right here.

Women’s Word There was no formal topic to the 2010 Women’s Word festival, but a number of fascinating themes emerged throughout the week. Events were wide-ranging: an afternoon focusing on crime writing, contemporary dance, abstract art, and historical fiction. Then there were the workshops giving aspiring writers the opportunity to come and learn about getting published, about writing poetry, or about writing children’s fiction.

Exploitation was certainly a theme which was addressed on the first day with the debate on women and violence in crime fiction. Writers NJ Cooper and Jessica Mann argued against graphic violence in crime novels whereas publisher Selina Walker and author Dreda Say Mitchell insisted it has its place. The theme emerged again when Lucy Research Fellow Dr Kate Mitchell interviewed Kat Banyard, whose book The Equality Illusion is at the forefront of a new wave of feminist thinking – a 21st-century version of familiar debates.

The audience included women who had articulated the same concerns in the 1970s only to find them re-emerging in remarkably similar form in 2010.

Collaboration was an exciting theme for the organizers of the festival: Women’s Word 2010 included a one-day symposium on the abstract artist Agnes Martin organized by Lucy Fellow, Dr Tamara Trodd, in conjunction with our colleagues at Kettle’s Yard where an exhibition of the artist’s work was on show. There was also a performance of contemporary dance by choreographer, and current Lucy undergraduate, Isobel Cohen. And then there was the hugely successful one-day conference Celebrating Women’s Writing, organized by Lucy President Professor Janet Todd and Dr Marie Mulvey Roberts and featuring several Fellows and students of Lucy Cavendish.

Fiction as social commentary and writing as a means to understanding the world around us and understanding the past were themes introduced on our ‘crime afternoon’ when a panel discussion asked ‘are crime writers the social commentators of our age?’ and the

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theme re-emerged when novelist Sophie Hannah was joined on stage by Chief Constable of Cambridgeshire Julie Spence to discuss Sophie’s novel, A Room Swept White, which delves into the difficult topic of women who are accused of killing their children. Relating the past and the present then became the theme of several of the later events in the festival as Lucy alumna and author of The Return of Captain John Emmett Elizabeth Speller was joined by Stella Duffy, who was discussing her historical novel Theodora. Finally author and comedian Natalie Haynes delivered 50 minutes of flawless stand up comedy on the theme of her forthcoming book, The Ancient Guide to Modern Life explaining how the contemporary world is sanely understood if viewed through the prism of the ancient one.

Lucy writers at Women’s Word 2010: Elizabeth Speller (1992) author of The Return of Captain John Emmett “set to be the new Birdsong - only better” the Independent Elizabeth Speller appeared alongside author Stella Duffy Sophie Hannah (Fellow-Commoner) author of A Room Swept White “the most adept of psychological thrillers… people are put under unimaginable pressure; relationships are tested; tragedy destroys lives.

Hannah's concern is how people cope, or indeed, fail to cope” the Scotsman.

Selina Mills (1996) a free-lance writer who writes regularly for The Spectator, The Guardian, The Times and The Finanical Times. Currently she is working on a book on the history of blindness.

Sophie was joined on the Women’s Word stage by Chief Constable of Cambridgeshire and Lucy Associate, Julie Spence

Selina Mills interviewed Rebecca Stott, author of The Coral Thief

Natasha Solomons (Lucy Associate) author of Mr Rosenblum’s List “Utterly charming and very funny”, Paul Torday, author of Salmon Fishing in the Yemen Natasha Solomons appeared with Toby Litt.

Isobel Cohen (2009) first year undergraduate in English Isobel has been writing, devising, producing and performing her own work since 2005.

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EnglishNews Annabel Banks, a final year student studying English at Lucy Cavendish College, is the first person to win both the prestigious John Kinsella Poetry Prize (2009) and 'The Other Prize' (2010) also set up by John Kinsella and Tracy Ryan Trust.

David wallace, Annabel Banks, Roxana Silbert, Helen Mort and Tim Cribb

Both prizes are open to students of the University of Cambridge and both are hotly contested. 'The Other Prize' is awarded for an original, unperformed play, adjudicated by a panel of experts appointed by Churchill College. Final adjudication is by the Literary Manager of the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC).

In her first year in Cambridge Annabel was fortunate in working with the writer Tobias Hill who gave innovative and inspiring creative writing supervisions at Lucy Cavendish. In subsequent years Annabel has refined her skills with the Royal Literary Fund Fellows and has published in several University magazines.

novel before everyone settled down to watch the latest film starring Keira Knightley: popcorn and wine added to the occasion.

Food was very much in evidence during the poetry reading evening too, where a chocolate fountain helped sustain those who read from their own or others' work. Organised by Florence and Hannah, this was a lovely event.

Annabel Banks (2007), in her final year as President of the English Society, organised a trip to 'The Globe' in the Easter vacation to see a gory Macbeth. This made an interesting comparison to the far more minimal performance of the same play at the Barbican a few weeks earlier – by Isobel Cohen for her fellow students of English.

Creative Writing Lucy Cavendish alumna, Kelly Smith (2003), continued to work with the first year English students on their creative writing in a series of workshops. These were, as ever, greatly appreciated by those involved. Several students intend to submit work for the Bridport Prize and we wish them luck.

Everyone was delighted when Pritika Pradhan, a first year affiliated student at the College, had a short story accepted for publication in this year's 'May's Anthology'.

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Students become supervisors Students studying English at Lucy Cavendish College became supervisors for an afternoon in February 2010 when sixth formers from Northampton Academy visited the College to discuss poetry and the theme 'Love across the Ages' as an extension of their A-level literature syllabus.

This outreach event was aimed at broadening the learning opportunities of the Lucy students whilst widening the experience of the sixth formers. It was organised by Isobel Maddison, a Fellow of Lucy Cavendish, and Peter Foster, Head of English at the school.

Northampton Academy is an improving school with an ambitious sixth form and the pupils arrived keen and willing to participate.

Florence Hazrat, a second year student studying English at Lucy Cavendish, acknowledged that the prospect of teaching these enthusiastic students was a little nerve-wracking, but she and her fellow students enjoyed the experience enormously: "I have learnt at least as much as my pupils. There is more to giving supervisions than nodding sympathetically. My pupils engaged enthusiastically with the texts in a lively and mutually appreciative atmosphere. I'm looking forward to seeing them in the faculty one of these days!"

Peter Foster said "Year 13 students were very impressed and many of them now even more keen to move back from study of novels and plays to poetry - sex and seduction with Marvell and Donne after half term! The workshops with the Lucy students gave the pupils of Northampton Academy a real insight into the study of English at undergraduate level and many have said that their speed of analysis has increased."

Speaking after the prize-giving at Churchill College, Annabel expressed surprise and delight in receiving both prizes in consecutive years.

The English Society has had another enjoyable and active year. Florence Hazrat and Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou organised a well-attended ‘Pride and Prejudice Night'.

Professor Todd kindly gave a fascinating talk about the

THE LUCY CAVENDISH LADIES OF STEEL

It is hoped that links with the school and its pupils can be strengthen by further events.

Northampton Academy students

When new Lucy undergraduate, Juliet Sharpe arrived at College to begin her degree in Geography she also had musical ambitions. The “Lucy Cavendish Ladies of Steel” is the name of the steel band that Juliet has put together; and in the process Juliet decided to go one step further and form the band as a University society.

And so arose CUSPS – the Cambridge University Steel Pan Society.

“The Lucy Cavendish Student Union was keen for new societies, so I thought I would set up a society that would raise the profile of the College as well as introduce an unusual activity for students. Playing in a steel band is enormous fun but it is also quite therapeutic after writing essays or dealing with other intense academic work as it uses a different part of your brain. It’s brilliant for your concentration and coordination,” says Juliet.

The College music pavilion became the home of the first all-female steel band in Cambridge University, which is the first Lucy Cavendish College Band of its kind, proudly named ‘Liberators’.

“I suggested the name because of the ethos of Lucy Cavendish College which was founded through liberation of women’s educational achievement at Cambridge University and you almost certainly need to be a ‘Lady of Steel’ to make it through this challenging learning environment” says Juliet.

Current members are from a diverse range of backgrounds including India, Egypt, Portsmouth, South Cambridgeshire, Leeds, Bedford and London and have a wide range of ages.

The band’s repertoire includes popular songs by artists such as Elvis, Ronan Keating and Peggy Lee in addition to material from musicals and classic TV shows. Liberators also play Calypso and Samba.

CUSPS has been recognised outside the University by being featured in the local Cambridge newspaper and monthly magazine and in regional, national and international publications and steel pan internet sites. The band has grown in the College as a recognised CUSU society. It has a Senior Treasurer – a role taken on by one of the College’s newest Fellows, Dr Jane Davies.

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Meet the Bursar

Fellows’News

As she settles in at Lucy Cavendish, Lesley is particularly looking forward to supporting the College’s strategic development leading up to the 50th anniversary of the founding of the College in 2015.

Lucy Fellows have been engaged in a huge variety of teaching, writing and research activities over the year as shown by this snapshot.

Dr Anna Sapir Abulafia published "'Sie Stinken Beide' or How to Use Medieval Christian-Jewish Disputational Material", in A. Chapman, J. Coffey, B.S. Gregory (eds), Seeing things their Way (Notre Dame, 2009). She gave a keynote address at a conference on 'York 1190: Jews and others in the wake of the massacre' in March 2010.

This summer she will be putting her new book Christian-Jewish Relations, 1000-1300. Jews in the service of medieval Christendom through the press. She is very much looking forward to starting on her new research topic 'Jews and the medieval Christian commonwealth' during her sabbatical.

Our new Bursar Lesley Thompson joined us in June.

After gaining a BA Hons in German and Philosophy (University of Manchester), Lesley trained as a Chartered Accountant and was admitted to the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales in 1988.

She then undertook a part time Masters in AngloGerman Literary Relations (University of Leeds) whilst working in Arts Development. This was principally as Director of Business and Resources for Eastern Arts Board, the regional ‘arm’ of the Arts Council. Her next move was to The Open University in the East of England where she was Assistant Director, responsible for External Relations and Widening Participation.

There she worked closely with the Health & Social Welfare tutors. This led to a period working in the health sector, latterly as Project Director for the regional Aimhigher Healthcare Strand, developing a range of collaborative projects to engage young people in higher education relating to health professions. Lesley has a strong interest in education at all levels and was a school governor for eighteen years in local primary and secondary schools.

As she settles in at Lucy Cavendish, Lesley is particularly looking forward to supporting the College’s strategic development leading up to the 50th anniversary of the founding of the College in 2015. She will be working on the process of planning how the College can best serve the needs of its diverse students and can grow as a community. As Bursar she will be called upon to look at sustainability in all its senses and seek to ensure that all staff and Fellows are able to use their skills and experience to continue to build the College’s future.

Lesley has lived in Cambridge for many years but is new to the University. When asked about the largest challenge in the early days of her time as Bursar she admitted that

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Edith Esch has contributed to two publications. The first contribution is titled ‘Epistemic Justice and the Power to Define: Interviewing Cameroonian Primary School Teachers about Langauage Education’. The second is titled ‘Educational comlexities uinherent in Bidialectal Communities and the Potential Contribution of the Common European Framework of Reference to Second-dialect Development’.

She has also contributed to conferences, continued her work as a supervisor, an internal and external examiner and has been appointed as an external expert for the Scientific Committee: Maison des Sciences de l’Homme in Lorraine . understanding the University and Colleges system was clearly a challenge. She is already discovering how much there is to learn about governance in Cambridge, not least “knowing how many of the 100 papers for my first Bursars’ Committee were really essential”.

Having arrived at the beginning of June, Lesley has had the chance to settle in during term time before embarking on a summer of fact finding and intensive learning. She has already discovered, she says, that one of the nicest things at College is getting to know students, Fellows and guests at Formal Hall.

Dr Ruth Jones continues to research materials for orthopaedic applications, nerve regeneration, drug delivery through oral and pulmonary routes, and the development of artificial tissues to reduce and replace animal testing. Her industrial and academic collaborations continue within Cambridge, the UK and the international community. Results from the group have been published in peer reviewed journals and at international conferences.

Dr Jenny Koenig continues to divide her time between teaching and science communication in pharmacology and maths. In addition to supervising Lucy students in pharmacology (medics and vets) and maths (first year biological natural sciences) she has worked on a variety of science communication projects.

In Michaelmas she explained the mechanisms of action and development of medicines for weight-loss funded by the Wellcome Trust as part of the Cambridge Science Festival. In Lent she took part in the Cambridge Science Festival at Cambridge Regional College with a demonstration of the effects of caffeine on the water flea Daphnia pulex. In Easter she gave a course for the Institute of Continuing Education called "How Do Drugs Work?".

Jenny has contributed to a number of Open Day and Summer School talks sharing her fascination with the science of pharmacology with prospective students and their families.

Isobel Maddison writes: “I very much enjoyed participating in the College conference in celebration of the journal 'Women's Writing' in June. This was part of the Women's Word festival and attracted a large and international crowd. I gave a paper 'Complementary Cousins: Elizabeth von Arnim and Katherine Mansfield' and chaired a session on 'Marriage and Motherhood.' It was a pleasure to work as part of the Lucy team.

I was a guest lecturer in March for the Deerfield Project, organised by the Cambridge International Office and based at Peterhouse. I spoke on the role of memory in the work of Virginia Woolf. I have been invited to take part in an international conference organised by the Katherine Mansfield Society in Cambridge next year. The conference, 'Katherine Mansfield: Shaping Modernism' will be held in March 2011.

My article 'Trespassers will be Prosecuted': Dorothy Richardson Among the Fabians' will appear in the next issue of Literature and History. My book Elizabeth von Arnim: Beyond the German Garden will be published by Ashgate in 2011.”

Dr Jane Renfrew travelled to Brittany to see the splendid megalithic monuments of the Carnac region earlier this year. In September she went to Naxos, Greece, continuing to work on the finds from the Keros excavations. In November she attended a conference in the Cotsen Institute, UCLA on the concept of value in antiquity. Dr Renfrew continues to work on the impressions of vine leaves, textiles and mats found on the bases of early bronze age handmade pots from Kavos and Dhaskalio, Keros.

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campaign It’s a common reaction to say that, should someone ring us up and ask us for money, we would not be at all pleased. College telephone campaigns seem to have a different effect, however, particularly because they also give alumnae and friends the opportunity to catch up with news of the College.

The 2010 Telephone Campaign at Lucy Cavendish met with a magnificent response: Lucy women clearly enjoyed hearing from the current students who were making the calls and the response has been very generous.

As Head of Development Meryl Davies, says “our telephone campaign has allowed us to contact our alumnae and friends. The generosity of those we spoke to has been overwhelming. It is a great way for a small college like this to stay in touch with its supporters”. So far, pledges for a total of more than £78,000 have come in for the various areas within the Lucy Cavendish Fund and more than 55% of those called chose to make a donation. One other great advantage of the telephone campaign was the opportunity it gave to exchange information between our callers and supporters allowing us to build on our portfolio of Lucy myths and legends as well as sharing the experiences of our alumnae and friends.

ANGELA MORECROFT Angela Morecroft (1997) recently completed her PhD on her research into the Italian botanist and scientist Vitaliano Donati and the artifacts he collected during his journey of exploration in Egypt in the middle of the eighteenth century. Donati sent his collection to the Turin Museum of Antiquity in 1761, but,apart from three large statues, very little was known about the collection. Angela’s research uncovered a list written by Donati detailing the 1,689 items he collected. Most of Donati’s collection still has not been found, but Angela’s research identified 28 artifacts in the Turin Egyptian Museum and the Museum of Antiquity.

Angela’s discovery of Donati’s list has been published in the Journal of Egyptian Archaeology (JEA). Copies of Angela’s PhD thesis were presented to the Director of the Turin Egyptian Museum Dr Eleni Vassilika, a former Fellow of Lucy Cavendish College, and to the Director of the Turin Royal Library.

THE GYLL MOORE FUND The family of Elizabeth Speller (1992) has established a fund in honour of Gyll Moore, Elizabeth's mother, who died in 1993. The Gyll Moore library carrel was named last year and, as further donations came in, the Gyll Moore Prize was endowed. The first recipient of the prize, which is given to those gaining a First Class result in Tripos, was Florence Hazrat, currently reading English at Lucy.

Last November Gyll Moore's granddaughter ran in the Grand Union Canal Half Marathon in memory of her grandmother and added considerably to the Fund.

Donations were made via Just Giving and Miranda raised £1,250. There is now just £150 to go and the family will be able to endow a Gyll Moore Prize for Sporting Blues.

Thank you – it is great to know that we have your support.

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SportsNews ROWING Eleven rowers from Lucy joined their friends at Hughes Hall in the bumps this year, with our 2nd boat managing to qualify to get onto the bumping ladder for only the second time in our history. Since our amalgamation with Hughes Hall, the ladies have been extremely successful in these races, winning blades by bumping up every day for 4 out of the past 5 years.

RUNNING Lucy runner Emma Figures was women’s captain of the University Cross Country team this year and also ran the London Marathon this year raising over £2,000 for Guide Dogs, WaterAid and the Alzheimer’s Society.

Emma ran the marathon in 3 hours, 34 minutes and 6 seconds. Emma said “Despite being completely exhausted and stairs posing a serious challenge for the next week or so, I felt very, very happy.”

Prizes awarded in

June 2010 Madeleine Jörgensen Prize for First Class Results in Tripos Catherine Lewis Smith - 1st in IIA Theology and Religious Studies Purva Khera - 1st in IIB Economics Ting Zhu - 1st in IIB Economics Daniella Ritzau-Ried - 1st in IIB Social and Political Sciences Marie Lawrence Prize for First Class Results in Tripos Nikki Jecks - 1st in IA MVST Helena Rubenstein - 1st in IIB Social and Political Sciences Zhu Gong - 1st in 1B Mathematics Zara Hajioff – 1st in IA Natural Sciences Gyll Moore Prize for First Class Results in Tripos (preference for Classics, English or History) Florence Hazrat - 1st in Part I English The Simms Prize for best results in Education TBA The John Butterfield Prize for Clinical Medicine Caroline Woods

TENNIS And in tennis, the Lucy tennis team: Alex McGoodwin, Alice Barnes, Lucy Manico and Miriam Wendling, won Cuppers this year gaining a hard fought victory over the 15 other competing college teams.

The Berti Sapir Medical Prize for the student with the best results in Clinical Stage Two (first part of Final MB) Sophie Raby Kate Bertram Prize for First Class Results in non-Tripos exams TBA The Alumnae Association Prize for Contribution to the Arts Annabel Banks

The Lucy Cavendish Singers Year Two Katharina Megli, Founder and Director, writes: In their second year the Lucy Cavendish Singers have gone from strength to strength, giving 11 concerts in College and in the city, polishing off the term with a performance for a gala dinner at St John’s College at the end of July.

With their unusual style of highly-structured, semichoreographed, musically-varied and dramatic programmes – all sung by heart, from the heart – the Singers have captured the hearts and imaginations of their audiences and attracted a group of faithful followers who come to all their public concerts. The hall at the Michaelhouse lunchtime concert on 20th March was filled to overflowing and people had to be turned away at the door.

All of the Lucy Cavendish Singers have a strong commitment to excellence, which carries their natural love of singing to a near-

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professional level. Performing from memory fosters a powerful esprit de corps, as each singer must know the music both for her own sake and for the sake of her colleagues. This in turn creates a strong connection with the audience, as all the choir’s energy is directed to sharing the music with the listeners. The singers’ voices are individual and distinctive: in solos and small ensembles this permits a wide range of musical styles; blended they produce a powerful, compelling and unique sound.

If you are interested in auditioning, or simply want more information on our performances, programmes and accompanists past and present, see our web page at: http://www.lucy-cav.cam.ac.uk/pages/news-events/lucycavendish-singers.php Painting by Lesley Fotherby

Alumnae Association Prize for Graduate Excellence TBA The Annabelle Dixon Prize for the student who has made the most of her time at Lucy Cavendish Margaret Wilson Pritika Pradham The Emmeline Pankhurst Prize for Contribution to College Life Michelle Tucker Christine Liddiard The Myson College Exhibition for Personal Achievement Zoe Berridge Esther Silva College Prize for Sporting Blues Dame Veronica Sutherland Prize Catherine Blake - Half Blue in Rowing Sally Bullock - Full Blue in Water Polo College Prize for Blues Emma Figures – Half Blue in Cross Country Running

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Kanak Tiwari working on urban issues in India

Alumnae Dr Isabella Alexander (2002) published her book, Copyright and the Public Interest in the Nineteenth Century, in March 2010.

Debby Banham (1982) is delighted to be back at Lucy as Director of Studies in Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic. Currently there are no students to direct, but she's working on that.

Susie Boulton (1980) is the author of some 20 guide books to European destinations, published by Insight Guides, the AA, Dorling Kinderlsey and other main travel guide publishers. She continues to write, mainly on Italy.

Patmalar Ambikapathy (1989) continues to practise as a barrister in Melbourne Australia. She is also chair of a law reform lobby group in Tasmania to eliminate laws that sanction violence against children and is also involved as co-founder of a recently formed national group for the same purpose.

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Audrey Cook (1977) is the codeveloper of a neurological trauma integration technique called OEI (Observed Experiential Integration).

This technique is helpful for dissociation, perceptual distortions and depersonalization. She is pleased to announce her second book, in collaboration with Dr. Richard Bradshaw. With a third book due in the autumn of 2010.

Isabel Clare (1983) having spent many years in a split clinical-academic post, is now working full-time in health services

research, still in the Department of Psychiatry (University of Cambridge). At the end of November, she became a grandmother for the first time. With colleagues, Isabel has had a number of academic and practitioner papers and book chapters published this year.

providing top quality content that is helping the building industry move forward with technology.”

Pip Jones (1975). Her last book, The Other Tudors: The Mistresses and Illegitimate Children of King Henry VIII has been selling well and the next Tudor book, Elizabeth: Virgin Queen? is due out in October. The book looks at whether Queen Elizabeth I had any physical relationships, with whom, and whether she could have had a child.

Lachmi Khemlani (1992) after graduating from Lucy, Lachmi subsequently did her PhD at UC Berkeley, and in 2003, launched AECbytes, an online publication focused on researching, analyzing, and reviewing technology products and services for the building industry.

Lachmi says, “It is now a highly respected publication, noted for

Nandita Menon (1985) is still living in southwest France and working on a biography of a Foreign Legionnaire. She recently attended a lunch organised by the Dordogne branch of the Cambridge Society and was delighted to meet old alumni. She found them a varied group.

Linda Pomeroy (2004) completed a race to the North Pole. She raced 600km pulling a sledge weighing 100 lbs. Competitors skied 65 miles from Resolute Bay in Canada to the start line at Polaris mine. From here the route ran through 3 checkpoints, passing through the magnetic north pole, and finishing at Isachsen, a disused weather station.

Sarah Lovell (2007) served as a United States National Academy of Sciences’ Christine Mirzayan Science and Technology Policy Fellow last autumn in Washington, D.C. She is now working in Afghanistan as a Field Engineer for Sierra Nevada Corporation, the top woman-owned defence technology company.

Attreyee Roy Chowdhury (1995) joined the World Trade Centre Mumbai as a Joint Director on 1 June 2010.

Soma Sen Gupta (1990) did a prelim year of medicine at Sinai-Johns Hopkins (medicine), and is now in her final year of a Neurology residency at BIDMC/CHB-Harvard. She has been awarded an R25-NIH award for research

which starts in Jan 2011, and continues for 18 months. She has also been offered a prestigious fellowship in neuro-oncology at MGH-Dana Farber which starts in July 2011. She has been a co-author of book chapters, and is in the process of getting a couple of clinical papers out.

Kanak Tiwari (2005) pictured above, is currently working on urban issues in India with a focus to enhance ‘People’s participation in urban governance, urban planning and access to basic services’. She strives towards amplifying the voices of women and other marginalized groups in cities and improving their interface with the local government to demand their rights.

She also teaches postgraduate courses on urban poverty and housing in the School of Planning and Architecture in New Delhi.

Jenny Yule (2001) will be inducted as Associate Minister of two churches in Eastbourne in August 2010.

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Events 26 September 2010

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Alumnae Assocation tour of Folk Museum, Alumnae Association AGM & buffet for Alumnae Matriculation Dinner Matriculation Dinner Formal Hall - Neighbours Formal Hall - to be determined Formal Hall - Halloween Alumnae Forum - Louise Allum Formal Hall - Veterinary Science Lucy Thursday - in conjuction with AWISE Formal Hall - Science, Computer Science, Engineering & Maths Formal Hall - Law and Criminology Lucy Thursday - Prof Caroline Series Formal Hall - Thanksgiving; Prize-Winners Formal Hall - Christmas Carols around the tree

06 October 2010 07 October 2010 14 October 2010 21 October 2010 28 October 2010 04 November 2010 04 November 2010 11 November 2010 11 November 2010 18 November 2010 25 November 2010 25 November 2010 02 December 2010 04 December 2010

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20 January 2011 27 January 2011 03 February 2011 10 February 2011 10 February 2011 17 February 2011 24 February 2011 03 March 2011

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10 March 2011 12 March 2011 16 March 2011 17 March 2011

18:30 19:00 19:00

Formal Hall - Library, Graduate Students & Research Fellows Formal Hall - Burns Night Formal Hall - Chinese New Year Lucy Thursday - to be organised by the Fine Arts Sub-Committee Formal Hall - Silver dinner, Fine Arts Formal Hall - English, Linguistics and Languages (ASNaC, MML) Formal Hall - Medicine Formal Hall - Social Sciences (Geography, Education, Land Economy, Economics, PPS, Management Studies, International Relations) Supper from 6.30pm to 7.30pm; no formal hall Lucy Feast Science Festival possible date Formal Hall - Arts subject night, musical entertainment before dinner

28 April 2011 05 May 2011 12 May 2011 19 May 2011 26 May 2011 02 June 2011 09 June 2011 09 June 2011 16 June 2011 17 June 2011

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Formal Hall - Garden and College Community Formal Hall - Sports Formal Hall - Graduate Students & Research Fellows Formal Hall - College Community Formal Hall - Partners and friends Formal Hall - HM Queen Elizabeth II coronation day; scarlet dinner Fiction Prize talk Formal Hall - nearly final formal hall; Winner of Fiction Prize announcement Final Formal Hall College Garden Party

On most Thursday evenings between 6pm and 7pm there will be a talk or event in the WoodLegh Rooms, Strathaird.

Further details will appear on the College website. www.lucy-cav.cam.ac.uk/pages/news-events.php

Lucy Cavendish College University of Cambridge

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