St Hugh's College, Oxford - Chronicle 1950-1951

ST. HUGH'S COLLEGE

CHRONICLE I 95 0 5 I Number 23

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ASSOCIATION OF SENIOR MEMBERS

FO UNDRESS: ELIZABETH WORDSWORTH BENEFACTORS: CLARA EVELYN MORDAN EDWARD GAY ELIZA MARY THOMAS CHARLES SELWYN AWDRY PHILIP MAURICE DENEKE MARY GRAY ALLEN JOHN GAMBLE MARY MONICA CUNLIFFE WILLS EVELYN MARTINENGO CESARESCO CATHERINE YATES ELSIE THEODORA BAZELEY

ST. HUGH'S COLLEGE ASSOCIATION OF SENIOR MEMBERS

Chairman:

THE PRINCIPAL Hon. Secretary, 1949-51 NIBS C. M. ADY, M.A., D.LITT. Editor of the Chronicle, 1950-52

MISS E. LEMON, B.A.

CONTENTS OFFICERS OF THE ASSOCIATION .

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VISITOR, HON. FELLOWS, AND COUNCIL PRINCIPAL, TUTORS, ETC. REPORT OF THE TWENTY-FIFTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE ASSOCIATION OF SENIOR MEMBERS DINNER IN LONDON, 1951 THE GAUDY, 1950.

THE PRINCIPAL'S REPORT BENEFACTIONS AND GIFTS

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EARLY DAYS OF THE COLLEGE .

THE JUNIOR COMMON ROOM AND GAMES REPORT)

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DEGREES

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MATRICULATIONS .

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OBITUARY .

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MARRIAGES

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HONOUR EXAMINATIONS, 1950.

UNIVERSITY SCHOLARSHIP

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ELIZABETH WORDSWORTH STUDENTSHIP

BIRTHS PUBLICATIONS

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NEWS AND APPOINTMENTS OF SENIOR MEMBERS, SCHOLARS, ETC. .

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Visitor THE RIGHT HON. EDGAR ALGERNON ROBERT, VISCOUNT CECIL OF CHELWOOD, M.A., HON. D.C.L.

Honorary Fellows BEATRICE MARGARET SPARKS, M.A. JOAN EVANS, D.LITT. BARBARA ELIZABETH GWYER, M.A. IDA CAROLINE MANN, M.A. CECILIA MARY ADY, M.A., D.LITT.

Council EVELYN EMMA STEFANOS PROCTER, M.A., Principal (Chairman).

ELIZABETH ANNIE FRANCIS, M.A., Official Fellow.

MARY ETHEL SEATON, M.A., Research Fellow.

GERTRUDE THORNEYCROFT, M.A., Official Fellow and Treasurer.

AGNES HEADLAM-MORLEY, B.LITT., M.A., Professorial Fellow.

DOROTHEA HELEN FORBES GRAY, M.A. Official Fellow, Secretary to Council.

OLGA DELFINA BICKLEY, M.A., Official Fellow.

MADGE GERTRUDE ADAM, M.A., D.PHIL., Official Fellow.

IDA WINIFRED BUSBRIDGE, M.A., D.PHIL., Official Fellow.

BETTY KEMP, M.A., Official Fellow.

MOLLY MAHOOD, M.A., Official Fellow.

HON. HONOR MILDRED VIVIAN SMITH, M.A., Research Fellow.

DOUGLAS VEALE, M.A., Fellow of Corpus Christi College, until the 1st day of

October 1951.

ALFRED EWERT, M.A.,

Fellow of Trinity College, until the 1st day of October

1952.

ARTHUR FREDERICK WELLS, M.A.,

Fellow of University College, until the 1st day

of October 1952.

JOAN EVANS, D.LITT., until the 1st day of October 1953.

CECILIA MARY ADY, M.A., D.LITT., until the 1st day of October 1953.

SIR JOHN LINTON MYRES, M.A., Fellow of New College, until the 1st

October 1952.

MARGARET JOAN SARGEAUNT, M.A., until the 1st day of October 1951.

HERMA ETHELFRIED FIEDLER, M.A., until the 1st day of October 1952.

MARJORIE MOLLER, M.A., until the 1s• day of October 1953.

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Principal E. E. S. PROCTER, M.A., F.R.HIST.S.

Tutors French.

Classics. in Let- Martinengo Cesaresco Lecturer in Italian. tere (Genoa).

Science.

M. G. ADAM, M.A., D.PHIL., F.R.A.S. Mathematics.

I. W. BUSBRIDGE, M.A., D.PHIL. History.

B. KEMP, M.A. English Literature.

M. MAHOOD, M.A. English Language.

P. 0. E. GRADON, M.A. E. A. FRANCIS, M.A. D. H. F. GRAY, O.B.E., M.A. 0. D. BICKLEY, M.A., Dottore

Lecturers S. M. WOOD, M.A. (MRS.). Medieval History.

H. M. WARNOCK, M.A. (MRS.). Philosophy.

B. I. BLEANEY, B.A. (MRS.). Physics.

Treasurer G. THORNEYCROFT, M.A.

Bursar E. M. WORNER.

Librarian I. S. T. ASPIN, B.LITT., M.A.

Principal's Secretary E. BEERE.

EPORT OF THE TWENTY-FIFTH ANNUAL MEETING OF SENIOR MEM 1ERS

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HE meeting was held in the Mordan Hall, St. Hugh's College, on Saturday, i July, on the occasion of a Gaudy. One hundred and nineteen members were present. The Chairman, in her statement, announced the election of Dr. Ady to an Honorary Fellowship of the College from i October 1950, on the termination of her Research Fellowship. She also announced the election of Dr. Joan Hussey to a Professorship of Medieval History in the University of London, tenable at Royal Holloway College. Dr. Hussey has made herself an authority on Byzantine History. She is the first of former undergraduates of the College to become a Professor and her election is a cause of much gratification to the Association. Two early students of St. Hugh's Hall had recently left bequests to the College. Mrs. Braine-Hartnell (nĂŠe Barker, 1888-90), LI oo ; Miss A. Malone (189o-2), ÂŁ5o. The Council had allocated the former bequest to the Research Studentship Fund and the latter to the purchase of books which were urgently needed for the Library. The resignation of four members of the Senior Common Room was announced with regret. Mrs. Martin Clarke, Fellow and Tutor in English Language (193o-5o), was resigning a year before she reached retiring age, in order to take up lecturing on) medieval art and literature to adult audiences in London. Miss Hesketh-Williams, Librarian, 1936-5o had been appointed Librarian at Barnett House, Oxford. Miss Mason, iursar, had been obliged to resign for reasons of health and Miss Menzies, Assistant Bursar, was also leaving.

The Principal reported that a contested election for a Member of Council had resulted in the election of Miss M. Moller, with 109 votes. Miss 0. M. Potts received 95 votes.

Miss E. Lemon was re-elected as Editor of the Chronicle for 1950-2.

A discussion took place on the holding of an Association Dinner in London in 1951. It was agreed almost unanimously that there should be a dinner, and after divergent views as to the date had been ventilated, early in July was fixed as the most suitable time. Miss Kingston, Miss Hobbs, Mrs. Roberts, and Miss Uhde were chosen as the London organizing committee.

A request from the Over Thirty Association for the use of the Register was granted.

MISS TH RNEYCROFT

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TEMBERS of the Association will learn with regret that Miss Thorney-1is retiring croft rnof the College this summer after from the Treasurership 26 years of service. She was appointed Bursar in 1925 and from that time has done much to keep in touch with Senior Members. It is thought that many of her friends may like to express their appreciation of her work for the Association by giving her a parting present. Subscriptions for this purpose should be sent to the Secretary, Miss C. M. Ady, D.Litt., 40 St. Margaret's Road, Oxford, by 8 June 1951.

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DINNER IN LONDON DINNER for Members and their friends will be held in London on Friday, 6 July, at the Mayfairia Reception Rooms, 32 Bryanston Street (near Marble Arch), W. r. Reception 6.3o p.m. Dinner 7.15 p.m. Tickets 15s. 6d. (exclusive of wine).

Those wishing to attend the Dinner should apply before 1 June to Miss Beere, St. Hugh's College, stating the number of tickets they would require.

Cheques should be made payable to the Treasurer, St. Hugh's College.

When making application please give dates of residence.

THE GAUDY, 195o Q ENIOR Members were fortunate in having a week-end of continuous 10 sunshine for the Gaudy, 3o June-3 July. With few exceptions all years since the foundation of the College were represented, the oldest member being Mrs. Price who was one of the original four students in 1886.

The meeting of the Association, of which the report is printed elsewhere in the Chronicle, was held on Saturday afternoon. Dr. C. M. Ady on this occasion, at which very happily the Principal was able to tell Members of her election to an Honorary Fellowship, completed her twenty-first year as Secretary. The meeting was as usual followed by tea in the Garden.

The more formal dinner, which is to most members 'The Gaudy' and which was banned by Government regulations in 1948, was attended by 18o members and if noise was any criterion they thoroughly enjoyed themselves. Before giving the speeches it should be mentioned that a large congregation was present at the 8 a.m. Service in Chapel on Sunday. Most members had left

by Sunday evening.

Miss M. Cartwright, Mistress of Girton, in proposing the toast of 'The Association of Senior Members, coupled with the name of Dr. Ady', said that though the Association was a comparatively recent creation dating only from 1926, in its members it preserved the memories of St. Hugh's Hall opened in 1886 in Norham Gardens where it remained until 1915. There was one tale of those days which had always puzzled her. There were houses on both sides of the road and it was de rigueur to wear a hat in the street, so a communal hat was kept in the hall for dashing across—but how did they ensure that the hat was not on the wrong side when most needed? The College grew with the opening of the present main building in 1915 and by 1919—when she came up—it already seemed that it had always been in St. Margaret's Road. Hers was an exceptionally big year and many students were in lodgings for one year. She remembered bicycling in the early mornings from Polstead Road to College to do chapels (42 in a term) and from College to Polstead Road with jugs of milk and plates of bread to make toast for tea parties. She was one of the first occupants of The Lawn and found herself involved at one stage in giving a the dansant there contrary to all the rules. Rules were many in those days. For instance, if one upset a canoe, as she did, one was supposed to go through all the performance of tests for half-captain and captain each time before one could again use the College boats freely. Her party, however, paddled back and walked home to Polstead Road with squelching shoes, 8

through the rank and fashion of North Oxford going out to Sunday lunch parties, and said nothing about it. That happened shortly after a dramatized version of The Sweet Girl Graduate had been performed in College and, though the book was based on Girton, the production had somehow developed most striking similarities to the regime at St. Hugh's. The canoe party had taken the book with them to see if it were really so much like St. Hugh's.

Miss Cartwright counted herself fortunate in being a resident member of Oxford and of Cambridge at the times when degrees were granted to women.

She took her first and only Viva—for Divers—in a hat, and did Honour Mods. in a gown. She had lectured in Cambridge without a gown (she never wore a hat) and taken a titular degree and she took her Sc.D. in person. When she came up to St. Hugh's there was already in it the feeling that the College was part of Oxford University, but in the early days Girton students were taught mainly at Girton and there was a large body of old students to whom the College used to mean something almost independent of Cambridge University. It was quite different now and she dated the change from the time that the present system of University lectures was set up in 1926—the same date as that of the Association and of the granting of the Charter to the College—which brought her back to the toast. Dr. Ady was made a Research Fellow in 1929 and she had been Secretary of the Association since about the same time and now she had been made an Honorary Fellow. Miss Cartwright, a mathematician, could not be expected to talk about Dr. Ady's learned work on Italian History or her more recent writings on Church History, but both her lines of expert knowledge seemed to be much in demand in Cambridge— lecturing to learned societies and examining for Ph.D. degrees. Her long association with the College as Tutor, Research Fellow, and Secretary of the Association had made this appointment most appropriate, and as Honorary Fellow it was pleasant to think that she could continue as Secretary for the remainder of her term of office.

Dr. Ady said how much pleasure it gave her to reply to the toast of the Association proposed by her distinguished cousin. Miss Cartwright had travelled far since she first came up and caused some amusement by the emphatic negative with which she replied to suggestions that she must be reading History because she was Miss Ady's cousin. The record of her published articles had long been a feature of the Chronicle; her fellow mathematicians doubtless studied it with admiration and understanding—the rest admired but did not understand. We were very proud of her election as a Fellow of the Royal Society and tonight we welcomed her on her first return to the College as Mistress of Girton. Dr. Ady expressed her thanks for the congratulations on her election to an Honorary Fellowship of the College. It was something which she appreciated very much indeed. In the course of the last fifty years she had worked under the patronage of St. Hugh in various capacities—scholar of St. Hugh's Hall, Tutor in History, Research Fellow, Doctor of the University. What she had never been was an undergraduate.

Her student days fell in the period between 188o and 1920 when women were in the University but not of it. Those who opposed our becoming members of the University sought to gild the pill by describing us as 'guests of the University'. They provoked the obvious retort that forty years was a very long visit. Now that stage was over, even Cambridge no longer prided itself on being a virile University. For herself she felt that the College had piloted her into a safe haven and that she would remain an Honorary Fellow till she died, 9

and she was particularly glad that she was still eligible for office as Secretary of the Association. The Association had now a membership of over goo. Its members were engaged in many occupations and were dispersed throughout the world. They had a pleasant way of turning up in all sorts of places. Best of all they turned up in Oxford. A week or two ago three people had appeared on her doorstep and she had not recognized them till one said 'I was Chichi Lindo and these are my son and my daughter'. She had come up to read History during the First World War and had returned to her home in Costa Rica. There she had married and had intended that her children should come to England for their education, and her daughter to St. Hugh's. But the Second World War had intervened. The daughter was now at the University of Toronto and was seeing Europe for the first time. The tour had begun with Oxford and St. Hugh's. Perhaps younger members of the Association who shared in the life of the University in a way unknown to the pre-192o generations might be inclined to think less of St. Hugh's and more of Oxford than their predecessors. It was natural that the greater should absorb the less. Yet the University was a Federation of Colleges and it recognized any one of us only as a member of a College—every member of the University must have an academic home in a College (or Society). Those who came to Oxford as graduates and had no academic home had to be adopted into one. St. Hugh's had quite a collection of adopted daughters, some of them very distinguished.

The present gathering suggested that member s of the Association did appreciate their connexion with the College and were glad of opportunities to return to it. Beside her was Mrs. Price, who belonged to the very first days of St. Hugh's and without whom a Gaudy would not be itself. At the other end of the Hall were some younger B.A.s who had gone down last year. It was a delight to see so representative a company. Keeping in touch with one's College, like everything else worth doing, did require a little effort. It was fatally easy to drop out, to say one would feel like a ghost if one came back, but those who kept in touch did not feel like ghosts. They felt as all did there that night that St. Hugh's College was a home to which their return was welcomed.

In proposing the toast of the College Phyllis Hartnoll (1926-9) said she approached her task with diffidence, being used to the more homely atmosphere of the Women's Institute, with its bustle of tea-making and frenzied knitting. She was also somewhat over-awed by the assembled presence of the Senior Common Room practically as it had been in her undergraduate days, and could assure her hearers that it was the first time she had been asked to speak in the presence of her former Principal and her Tutor. But this continuity was typical of the great gift which the College had to offer to old members—the possibility of returning for a while to the hopeful, ambitious days of early youth, renewing old friendships and meeting again the person one had been in those fruitful years. That the members welcomed these memories, and were conscious of and grateful for the ties which bound them to College and to each other was proved by their presence at the Gaudy.

Many other members would have been present had circumstances allowed, and Miss Hartnoll associated the thought of them with her proposal that the assembly should drink a toast to St. Hugh's College.

The Principal replying, said: 'Early last term I was at a luncheon party and my host turned to me with this opening gambit, "the Women's Colleges are fortunate, they have no problems". When I had expressed some disagreement TO

with this statement, he followed it up with, "Ah, but Principal, you have no estates." I can only suppose that he had been engaged in elucidating that remarkable piece of modern English prose entitled Town and Country Planning Act, 1947, a task which might well drive anyone to the conclusion that estates constitute so many problems. For anyone who administers a Women's College, whose only estate is the site on which it is built, and which has next to no endowments, it is the lack of estates, not their possession, which is the problem. `When I began to think of what I should speak about tonight, and to rack my brain for a subject which I could be quite certain would not be dealt with by any of the three preceding speakers, this incident came to my mind, and I decided to address you on the theme of "some problems of an unendowed college". Let me hasten to reassure you, this is not the prelude to a general appeal for funds. It is possible that in the future the College may feel the need to appeal to the generosity of its Senior Members, but tonight I am speaking ut to say is intended for without any ulterior motive, and what I am abo information only. `A "poorer college" has been defined as one whose income from endowments is less than 48,000 a year. On that showing all the Oxford Women's Colleges must be rated very poor indeed. Not so our more fortunate sister colleges at Cambridge, who have clearly managed this question of endowments so much better than we have. Among the Oxford colleges, St. Hugh's comes third; it is better off than St. Hilda's, worse off than Lady Margaret Hall and Somerville.

Apart from its recently constituted Endowment Fund, of which I shall speak later, the capital endowments of the College are now about £40,000, and nearly all of these have been acquired in the last twenty years. Most of our endowments were given for specific purposes, and the income from these trust funds supplies us with a number of scholarships, bursaries, and prizes. We have no endowed fellowships, and only one endowed post-graduate studentship—the Elizabeth Wordsworth Studentship. Although we have been given three new endowed scholarships in the last few years—the second Jubilee Scholarship and the Nuffield Medical Scholarship in 1946, and the Ethel Seaton Scholarship in 1947—we are still badly off for endowed scholarships, and the great majority of our awards are financed out of revenue. It is, I believe, sometimes thought that with the great increase of State and County Scholarships the endowment of college awards is no longer necessary. That is far from being true—at any rate as regards St. Hugh's. College awards have greater prestige, and provided their value is not less than 440 per annum their holders can apply for supplementation from the Ministry of Education. More important, they enable the colleges to choose their own scholars on the results of their own examinations. But the minimum of £40 which qualifies for supplementation applies to exhibitions as well as to scholarships, and as a result we are actually spending more from revenue on our awards than we did before the Ministry started its scheme of supplementation. Any new endowed scholarships should be used, not to increase the total number of our awards, but to decrease the number financed out of revenue. What are no longer so necessary are those large scholarships of 480 or 4 too which in earlier years appeared so desirable, and, in case there may be potential donors among my hearers, may I point out that two scholarships of £40 are now twice as valuable to us as one of 480. Our Endowment Fund was started in 1946 by a very generous gift, under a seven-year covenant, designed to bring the fund up to £20,000 by II

1953. The capital cannot be touched, but there is no restriction on the use of the income, which can thus be used for different purposes from time to time.

It is a fund which will, I hope, continue to attract gifts and benefactions. `Income from endowments does not, however, play a very large part in our economy. For our day-to-day expenses—for stipends, tuition, library, garden, household expenses of every kind, maintenance and repair of buildings, and furnishings, &c., we depend principally on undergraduate fees which provide about 87 per cent. of our annual income. Fees were raised in 1946 and they will again be increased this October. We should now have a workable margin, but the steadily rising cost of living is disquieting and should conferences (our other appreciable source of income) fail us, we should face a difficult situation. To have a margin our undergraduate numbers ought not to fall below 165—fifteen more than our pre-war average—and a higher figure would be an advantage. By University Statute we are allowed 18o but here we come up against another problem—lack of accommodation. Although St. Hugh's was founded only seven years after Lady Margaret Hall and Somerville, it remained small during its first thirty years, and it suffers from having been a "late starter". All its buildings have been erected between 1915 and 1936—in itself a very fine achievement and one which has given us the most homogeneous and, in my opinion, the most convenient and pleasantest modern collegiate buildings in Oxford—but alas, they are not yet complete.

The College can accommodate to6 undergraduates, the four adjacent houses another 42, but any undergraduates in excess of 148 have to be in lodgings.

When I was first a tutor here, before the building of the Gray Allen Wing, all second years were with "hostesses", as Miss Cartwright has reminded you, and in those days North Oxford residents were very willing to give up a superfluous spare room to an undergraduate. But times have changed, and lack of service in particular has rendered the task of "letting-in" and keeping gate bills intolerably burdensome. The pre-war "hostess" is almost as extinct as the dodo. It is still possible, although not easy, to find rooms for those over twenty-three or fourth years, for whom gate bills are not required, and there are usually fifteen to twenty such. There are two solutions for our lack of accommodation.

We are ground landlords of several houses in this island site whose leases still have some years to run. There is always the possibility that we may be able to buy the tag-end of a lease and the possession of one or two more houses would enable us to take our full quota of 180. Houses, however, create administrative and disciplinary problems. The final and ideal solution is, of course, a full-scale building plan which would give us not only rooms for undergraduates but more tutors' sets, and rooms for lecturers and for administrative staff, &c., all of which are needed. Building on this scale could only be carried out in instalments and would require to be partly financed, as was the library block, by loans. The present restrictions on building and the prohibitive costs make it, in any case, a long-term policy. "But", someone will say, "surely undergraduate numbers ought not to be regarded solely or primarily as matters of finance and accommodation ?" Certainly not; intellectual powers and suitability must always be the determining factor. There are two extreme schools of thought which I meet. There are those (I hope and believe a very small number) who profess to think that any increase in the number of women undergraduates in Oxford can only have a catastrophic effect on standards, and there are also those who assume that there is an untapped reservoir of talent, and that large numbers of suitable and even brilliant candidates are kept out 12

by limitation of numbers. I do not agree with either of these views,and I think that a moderate increase is possible without any change in standards. `May I, before ending, take up one point raised by Dr. Ady, when she referred to the fact that the modern undergraduates think of themselves rather as members of the University than of the College, and reminded you that Oxford is a University of Colleges and that every member of the University has to have an academic home. It is natural that the attitude of present undergraduates to the College should differ from that of students of my generation and earlier ones, for we were not members of the University. Further, social convention prevented young men and women from mixing freely in each other's society, and the College had to provide the greater part of our interests and recreations. Now the intercollegiate club vies with the College club to the detriment of the latter and sometimes, I fear, to the detriment of study, but I would not have you suppose that undergraduates are lacking in right feeling for their College. I am continually being gratified by evidence of their pride in, and affection for St. Hugh's and the number of very young graduates present with us tonight is conclusive proof of this.'

THE PRINCIPAL'S REPORT P-r HE last year has been a very important one in the development of the College. The decision of the Council to take the necessary steps to limit its membership to the Principal and Fellows, and the reasons for this proposed change, are fully set out in the statement enclosed with this number of the Chronicle; it is not, therefore, necessary for me to say more about it here, but I should like to take this opportunity of expressing my personal gratitude to those members of the Association who have served as elected members of Council.

For the last two years the College has been engaged in active negotiations with St. John's College for the purchase of the freeholds of Nos. 85 and 87 Banbury Road, Nos. 9, to, i i tz, and 13 Canterbury Road and No. 7z Woodstock Road (the `Shrubbery'). These negotiations have had a successful termination, the price has been agreed, the consent of the Ministry of Agriculture has been obtained, and the matter is now in the hands of the Colleges' solicitors. The purchase date is fixed and, by the time this Chronicle is printed, the land will have been conveyed to St. Hugh's. This purchase will complete St. Hugh's ownership of the freehold of the whole of the island site bounded by Banbury Road, Woodstock Road, St. Margaret's Road, and Canterbury Road, an area of over fourteen acres in all, admirably placed, and giving ample room for future College development. The College does not at present occupy all this land. The Banbury Road and Canterbury Road properties now being purchased from St. John's have on them unexpired leases with about twenty years to run. The lease of the 'Shrubbery' was bought by the College during the war, but as the house is not suitable for use as an undergraduate house, it was let, when derequisitioned in 1946, to the Maison Franfaise. Part of its garden was kept as a Fellows' garden and a detached block of buildings comprising garages and two cottages was also kept for College use. Of the houses on the land acquired by the College at various dates before the war, No. 2 St. Margaret's Road and Nos. 78, 76, and 74 Woodstock Road still have leases ,

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with thirty years to run. The greater part of the site is, however, occupied by the College buildings and gardens and the five houses used for College purposes. Ownership of land is not so complete as it once was; compulsory purchase, town planning, possible leasehold reform, may all curtail the rights of the freeholder, but the College will now have as great a measure of control over the use of this site as it is possible for it to have. Directions under Section 85 (5) of the Town and Country Planning Act, 1947, have been obtained in respect of those houses not occupied by the College, so that the whole island site is recognized as functional land belonging to a charitable institution. Thus, if in the future the College should develop any part of the site for its own use, it will not incur development charges. Apart from such possible development, this latest purchase represents a sound long-term investment.

Benefactions and gifts are enumerated elsewhere. The grant of 41o,000 from the Cassel Educational Trust is a very important benefaction which is being used to endow a lecturership in the first instance in German. The College will be able in the future to vary this.use with the consent of the Cassel Trustees for the time being. The Braine—Hartnell bequest and the various anonymous gifts from Senior Members have been added to the Research Studentship Fund. When this Fund was first opened it was largely subscribed to by Senior Members and the emoluments of the Elizabeth Wordsworth Studentship, which is confined to graduates of the College, are paid from the income of the Fund. The emoluments were originally £150 a year, recently they have been 175 and for 1951-2 the Studentship is advertised at £zoo.

The Council is anxious to build up the Fund in order eventually to raise the stipend of the student to £zso. The Malone bequest was used to purchase books for the Library.

There have been two elections to Fellowships. Dr. Ady was elected to an Honorary Fellowship on relinquishing the Research Fellowship which she has held since 1929. The Hon. Honor Smith, Graduate Assistant, Nuffield Department of Surgery, has been elected to a Research Fellowship. Dr. Smith is working on the effects of tuberculin and streptomycin in the treatment of tuberculous meningitis. There have been various changes due to retirement and resignation. Mrs. Martin Clarke retired last July after twenty years as Fellow and Tutor in English Language; Miss P. 0. E. Gradon (Lady Margaret Hall), Lecturer in English Language, Bedford College, University of London, was appointed to succeed Mrs. Martin Clarke as Tutor in English Language. Miss Mason has resigned the position of Domestic Bursar and Miss E. M. Worner, who worked for some time under Miss N. Moller at the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine, has taken her place. Miss HeskethWilliams, Librarian since 1936, has left to become Librarian of Barnett House Library; her successor, Miss I. S. T. Aspin, is a Senior Member of the College. Mrs. Bleaney (Somerville College) has been appointed to a nonresident lecturership in Physics.

Mr. Herbert Buckland, Senior Partner in Messrs. Buckland and Haywood, and architect to the College, died early this year. Mr. Buckland was responsible not only for the main building (1915) but also for the Mary Gray Allen Wing (1927) and its extension (1936), and for the new Library block (1936).

The memorial plaque to the eight members of the College who were killed by enemy action during the war has now been placed in the Chapel.

Although the general level of attainment in the Schools was satisfactory,

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only one candidate, Mrs. Day (née L. Stockley) obtained a First Class. First Classes were in short supply among the women candidates in 195o, but this is the third year in succession that the English School has provided us with our only First Class and it is to be hoped that in 1951 more candidates representing more subjects will attain the highest honours. Miss M. M. Rigby, a Glasgow graduate who is now reading for the degree of B.Litt., is to be congratulated on winning the Charles Oldham Scholarship. The number of undergraduates in residence this year is 161, including nine graduates of other Universities. The number of graduates of the College reading for research degrees, diplomas, or a second honours school, and who will have resided for at least two terms in the academic year, is seventeen.

BENEFACTIONS AND GIFTS THE following benefactions and gifts have been received since the last issue of the Chronicle: From the Cassel Educational Trust: kro,000 British Transport 3 per cent.

Guaranteed Stock 1978-88.

From a senior member of the College: £700.

From a senior member of the College: 200 for the research funds of the College.

From a senior member of the College: £I2o.

From Mrs. Gardner: £zo for the Building Fund.

Under the will of the late Mrs. Braine-Hartnell (née Constance Lilian Barker): £ too.

Under the will of the late Annie Julia Georgina Malone: k50.

EARLY DAYS OF THE COLLEGE

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ORE than sixty years ago I well remember arriving at the new college for women, St. Hugh's, founded by Miss Wordsworth. It was a semidetached house at the end of Norham Road, and when two more students, C. Ashburner and Charlotte Jourdain, joined me and my schoolfellow, Grace Parsons, we had completed our numbers.

Here we remained with our Principal, Miss A. Moberly, for a year, enduring with what patience we could muster the music of our neighbour, a girl who was practising for some examination. However, as at the beginning of our second year our numbers had more than doubled, we took the adjacent house and in future could study undisturbed.

At the commencement of our third year, when we drove up to the end of Norham Road, we saw to our dismay that 'St. Hugh's' was empty, but a little ticket tied to the gate told us to drive on to Norham Gardens where we found Miss Moberly established in a large comfortable house next-door-but-one to Lady Margaret Hall. Here I spent my last year getting a little more tennis on our own court and rowing on the Cherwell in our own boat.

I went to lectures on Physics and Chemistry (subjects on which I was absolutely ignorant) because we were not allowed to take up Biology—the subject in which we had got our scholarships. Grace Parsons took 'Honours' in Botany, but, as I took Chemistry Honours and had to attend the same 15

lectures as the men, I had to have a chaperon. She was usually the wife or sister of a 'don' and employed the time usefully by knitting—much to the disgust of some of the undergraduates. Personally, I liked this arrangement, as I felt more free when I was with her and also in this way I got to know many people in Oxford and so had a good time socially. I was amused to find that my chaperon always deserted me at the door of the laboratory in which I was to work for the rest of the morning and—as it were—`threw me to the lions'. As I was the first woman to work in the Museum laboratories I felt that the responsibility for the future admission of women rested on my shoulders.

Everything was done by my lecturers to make things easy for me. I remember that once I had a big erection of the apparatus I was using and I had to climb up on a very rickety three-legged stool to read the thermometer. My tutor, Dr. Watts, seeing my difficulty (for in those days we were not supposed to show our legs) brought me his little library steps so that I could get up and down with ease and dignity, and when I went back to see my old friends soon after I 'went down', he asked me if I would like to see them again, and then led me to his private room where I found chalked on them: 'Sacred to the memory of Miss Emmerson. Never to be used again.' Somehow, I felt reassured and happy when I saw this. I did not think that I had in any way `injured the cause' of women's education in Oxford.

I do not think I can leave the subject of my early recollections without saying how grateful I always feel for the help and encouragement I always had from dear Miss Wordsworth. I went up to college without any adequate preparation and had not taken what was called the 'First Exam'. She offered to read my Latin books with us and astonished me by often walking about the room translating 'Caesar' into the most school-boyish story I had ever heard. She was a very learned woman and yet astonishingly feminine.

We were walking in the garden once when it came on to rain and she said, `We must hurry in or your hat will get spoiled. You always have such pretty hats.'

I remember that Miss Moberly told me that when Miss Wordsworth was getting her honorary degree and was arrayed in all her proper robes she insisted upon putting on her feather boa, and when she was told that she could not wear it she said: 'Oh, I must, I feel so bare round the neck.'

I never went to Oxford without paying her a visit, on the last occasion I took my daughter with me. She kissed me 'Goodbye' and then said to my child: `I must kiss you also, my dear, for your dear mother's sake.'

THE J.C.R. REPORT,

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1950-1

HE J.C.R. has had a very pleasant and interesting year, with as full a programme of activities in both the College and University as that recorded in last year's report. The J.C.R. subscription has been raised considerably this year, both to keep our finance on a sound basis, now the balance accumulated during the war has dwindled, and to enable us to extend the scope of our activities. We have already been able to set aside a considerable sum to support the College Play that St. Hugh's hopes to put on next term.

The J.C.R. shop and milk scheme have also increased in size and we are glad to be able to back this development. A set of sherry glasses has also been added to the property of the J.C.R. i6

The St. Margaret's House Sale was even more successful this year than last year. Miss Busbridge, whom we were glad to welcome to one of our meetings, kindly gave us a full description of the progress and activities of the Mission.

The carol service, at the end of the Michaelmas Term, was very well attended and the choir members of St. Hugh's and Hertford College, under the organist, Miss Whiteley's direction, sang a delightful variety of carols.

The Study Group under Bishop Hone has been meeting regularly throughout the year. We are glad to hear of the success of Bishop Hone's new book and look forward to seeing it in our library.

The Dramatic Society have been very active this year and produced some one-act plays to raise money for a major production. They also took part in the entertainment for St. Hugh's Night. Several of their members have gained considerable distinction in plays produced by the University societies. Miss Colman was elected President of the 0. U. Experimental Theatre Club, and is the first woman ever to hold this position. The Freshers produced a successful play in the Michaelmas Term.

The Hertford—St. Hugh's Choral Society are hoping to produce another Gilbert and Sullivan opera next term.

The J.C.R. Dance, held last Term, was very successful and the gardens were floodlit to great advantage. The original plan for holding one dance only in the year, of a rather higher standard of entertainment, has not been pursued from lack of support.

Academic distinction was won by Mrs. Day (nĂŠe Stockley) with First Class Honours in the English School and the Hurry Prize. The Lady Ann Pery was awarded the Moberly Senior Scholarship. M. M. Rigby has won the Charles JOCELYN ROFFEY Oldham Scholarship.

GAMES EPO T, '95 cf

r,--AlVIES activities in the College during the past year have been restricted

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kJ-to some extent by bad weather. The interest in squash, apparent during the previous year, has not been maintained, though some members of the College are on the University squash 'ladder'.

Neither lacrosse nor netball cuppers' have been played this year, but there are four lacrosse blues in the College: Miss B. West (who is also secretary of the O.U.W.L.C.), Miss M. Keene, Miss E. Hera, and Miss G. Morris. Hockey cuppers' are still in progress, St. Hugh's having beaten St. Anne's in the semi-final round.

The active interest shown by the College in the Boat Club has been maintained on a smaller scale, though Fresher's 'fours' have again been postponed until the Trinity Term owing to the condition of the river.

A number of enjoyable informal tennis matches were played against men's colleges last summer, but bad weather prevented `cuppers' from being played.

Interest in swimming continued; St. Hugh's won swimming cuppers' and there were three blues in the college: Miss V. Trueman, Miss M. Keene, and Miss A. Ritchie.

ANN RITCHIE,

Games Secretary 17

EG I! EES, 1950 B.Litt. M. Donaldson, M. A. Priestley.

B.M. Jane M. Robinson, J. M. Shanks, J. Mclldowie Smellie, Mrs. Spencer

(D. L. Lindsay).

M.A. H. E. Bambridge, Mrs. Bedford (C. R. McDermott), Mrs. Clutterbuck

(B. A. Bristow), Mrs. Cooke (J. M. Dutton), B. Cowderoy, B. Coxon, Mrs. Croft (M. Nicklin), M. M. Dalston, M. J. Daniels, B. P. Deverell, M. P. Dodwell, M. 0. Easter, S. M. Eaton, M. R. Eldridge, E. J. Ellis, B. E. Fielding, Mrs. Gilbey (M. E. J. Trinder), S. W. Glenister, H. G. Goodwin, A. E. Guilding, Y. L. Harrison, C. Hill, M. I. Hodgkins, Mrs. Ilett (G. M. Parry), A. M. James, D. M. James, G. M. James, Mrs. Kipling (J. M. Hollins), J. M. Lake, L. L. Lewenz, M. A. Lister, J. D. McCall, M. McConnachie, Mrs. Maisey (A. J. B. Arnold), Mrs. Matthews (J. H. Lloyds), Mrs. May (B. M. Orton), N. M. Moore, Mrs. Morris (B. M. A. Beale), D. Nixon, P. Pedlar, N. Rhys, J. R. Richards, Jean P. Robinson, P. H. M. Rothwell, J. M. Segar, J. M. Sheppard, M. L. Sims, Mrs. Singer-Blau (H. Singer), Mrs. Spencer (D. L. Lindsay), K. D. Stedmond, H. M. Taylor, J. M. Telfer, M. M. Y. Tyler, Mrs. WarrellBowring (N. M. Windross), G. H. Weston, J. C. Winnington-Ingram, S. Wolff, P. E. C. Wood, R. E. Woolf.

B.A. M. H. Alexander, E. M. Andrews, S. L. Bailhache, Mrs. Baldick (G. E. Adlam), Mrs. Barnes (M. P. A. Colbourne), C. D. Bennett, J. Bradford, R. Brick, S. M. Brown, J. Burch, R. H. Cowen, M. S. Curzon, B. Dickeson, K. P. Drake, E. C. Ewert, M. E. Farson, Mrs. Ferguson (V. E. A. Trueman), S. M. Fernyhough, J. B. Frazer, A. E. Galbraith, Mrs. Gibb (C. Godfrey), D. M. T. Gillman, Mrs. Golding (C. P. Rogers), P. M. C. Green, M. A. Hart, M. F. C. Harvey, J. M. Hawkins, D. J. Hudson, D. M. Hunter, M. M. Kirk, D. M. Knox, S. M. Landa, Mrs. Lyle (H. M. Watt), L. C. Mackintosh, A. H. McMichael, J. D. May, V. P. Millar, B. J. Missen, R. M. Mockridge, M. C. Mogford, E. T. Monro, V. M. F. Neville-Terry, Lady Anne Pery, A. D. Phillips, A. J. A. Reid, R. M. Reynolds, S. V. Rymer, M. N. M. Sheppard, G. P. Sibley, A. Slater, Mrs. Spiers (B. Dennys), I. Stein, P. M. M. Tate, P. M. Y. Tyler, R. G. Tupper, G. K. West, A. M. V. Wilcocks, Mrs. Wilde (F. E. C. Bayliss), J. H. Wilkinson, E. B. B. Young, E. R. Ziman.

HONOUR EXAMIN TINS, 1950 Literae Humaniores. Class II, J. M. Hawkins, D. M. Hunter, J. F. Leslie,

C. A. Read. Class III, P. M. Stringer. Group Ai, L. M. N. L. Morgan.

Modern History. Class II, S. L. Bailhache, B. Dickeson, A. E. Galbraith,

D. M. Knox, S. V. Rymer, M. N. M. Sheppard, R. G. Tupper. Class III, M. F. C. Harvey, V. P. Millar, G. P. Sibley, D. M. I. Wood, A. H. McMichael. Class IV, N. E. Smith.

Shortened Examination, Class II, D. M. T. Gillman.

English Language and Literature. Class I, L. E. Stockley. Class II, S. M. Brown, R. H. Cowen, M. E. Farson, L. C. Mackintosh, E. T. Monro, P. M. Tate, P. M. Y. Tyler, J. H. Wilkinson. Class III, C. D. Bennett, 18

M. M. Doss, D. J. Hudson, J. P. Smalley. Overstanding for Honours, A. H. Elliott.

Modern Languages. Class II, F. E. C. Bayliss (Ger., Fr.), R. Brick (Fr.), M. P. A. Colbourne (Fr.), K. P. Drake (Ital., Fr.), E. C. Ewert (Fr.), J. B. Frazer (Ger., Fr.), M. M. Kirk (Ital., Fr.), M. C. Mogford (Ger.), A. M. V. Wilcocks (Ital., Fr.). Class III, M. M. Feeney (Ger.), M. A. Hart (Fr.), D. A. M. Ryan (Ger.).

Philosophy, Politics and Economics. Class II, V. Majumdar, V. E. A. Trueman.

Class III, M. H. Alexander, E. J. Burns, R. M. Mockridge, E. R. Ziman.

Shortened Examination. Class II, E. Quayle.

Geography. Class II, B. J. Missen, A. Nugent.

Psychology, Philosophy and Physiology. Class II, A. Kohsen.

Mathematics. Class II, J. E. Jackson, I. Stein.

Natural Science Chemistry Part I (unclassified), J. Burch, M. S. Curzon, C. Godfrey, S. M. Landa. Part II, Class III, E. M. G. Simpson.

Physics. Class II, Lady Anne Pery, Class IV: S. M. Fernyhough.

Botany. Class II, P. M. C. Green.

Zoology. Class III, E. M. Andrews.

Animal Physiology. J. Bradford, E. B. B. Young.

Classical Honour Moderations. Class III, P. M. Cooper. Class IV, M. J. Whiteley. Satisfied the Examiners: P. Shannon, M. G. Shiell.

Mathematical Honour Moderations. Class II, S. Blewett, S. M. Forbes, J. M. Mott. Class III, J. Cooper.

UNIVERSITY SCHOLARSHIPS AND PRIZES Charles Oldham Scholarship, 195o M. M. Rigby.

ELIZA ET HL WORDSWO TH STUDENTSHIP, 1951=2

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'PLICATIONS are invited for an Elizabeth Wordsworth Studentship of the maximum value of £zoo per annum, open to a graduate of St. Hugh's College wishing to pursue a definite course of higher study or research.

Further particulars may be obtained from the Principal. Applications should be sent to the Principal before I May 1951.

MATRICUL TIONS, 195° Michaelmas Term jubilee Scholar: BUTT, PATRICIA LILIAN,

Enfield County School, Middlesex. (Modern

Language.)

Gamble Scholar: STOLPER, JOAN MARY,

Radcliffe College, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A.

(P.P.E.) 19

Alice Ottley Scholar: NICHOLAS, SHEILA,

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Alice Ottley School, Worcester. (History.)

Scholars: County Grammar School for Girls, Dover. (Mathematics.)

LEVICK, BARBARA MARY, Brighton and Hove High School. (Classics.)

DALE, MARY KATHLEEN FEARNLEY,

Exhibitioners: BROWN, MARGARET ANN, The Maynard School, Exeter (Chemistry.)

DAVIES, LISBETH-ANNE HOWARD, St. Mary and St. Anne, Abbots Bromley.

(History.)

FORD, MADELEINE DUNDAS, Malvern Girls' College. (Geography.)

MOORE, PAMELA SHIRLEY, High School for Girls, Accrington,

Lancs.

(English.)

PEARSALL, PATRICIA MARY,

King Edward's Grammar School, Birmingham.

(Geography.)

SIGNY, RUTH SHIRLEY, Lady Eleanor Holles School. (Medicine.)

UNBEGAUN, GABRIELLE TATIANA, Lycee de Jeunes Filles, Strasbourg,

France.

(Modern Languages.)

WILSON, MONICA JOAN,

Cheltenham Ladies' College. (History.)

Commoners: BENNINGTON, NORMA ELIZABETH, Haberdashers' Aske's School, Acton.

BIRT, JOYCE, Gloucester High School.

BREWIN, ANNE VERONICA MARY, Hillside Convent College, Farnborough,

Hants., and Miss Hobbs, Buckingham Gate, London.

BULL, MARGARET ANN, Queen Bertha's School, Birchington, Kent.

CHARLTON, BERYL ENID, Rochester Grammar School for Girls, Kent.

CREED, ANNE CAROLINE, St. Felix School, Southwold.

CURTIS, KATHLEEN GRACE, Girls' High School, Chichester.

DICKENS, JOAN FLORENCE, Tunbridge Wells County Grammar School.

DICKINSON, ANNE, Malvern Girls' College.

EVANS, GWYNETH MARTHA GRIFFITH (B.A. University College, Cardiff).

EWERT, MARGARET JOAN, St. Mary's School, Wantage.

FORSTER, SHEILA MARY, Girls' High School, Skipton.

FORTESCUE, ENID MAUREEN, Enfield County School.

GALLOWAY, MARGARET SYLVIA, Bedales School, Petersfield.

GREIG, MARGARET, W.E.A. University Tutorial Classes.

HEDGES, ISOBEL MARGUERITE, Red Maids School, Bristol.

HENDERSON, SHEINA, Cheltenham Ladies' College.

HERN, ELIZABETH ENID, Cheltenham Ladies' College.

HOBSON, JUNE CAREY (B.A. Rhodes University College, South Africa).

HOUSE, ANNA MARY, Parkfields Cedars Grammar School, Derby.

HURST, BARBARA ELSIE, The Queen's School, Chester.

JAMES, ANNA MARGARET, Girls' Grammar School, Llanelly.

JOHN, SYLVIA MARY, Girls' Grammar School, Llanelly.

JOHNSON, PRISCILLA ANNE (M.A. Northwestern University, U.S.A.).

JONES, SHEILA ANNE RYLAND, Cheltenham Ladies' College.

KENNEDY-SKIPTON, ENID CONOLLY, Girls' Grammar School, Farnham.

KNIGHTON, JOY FRANCES, St. Helena School, Chesterfield.

LEWIS, JOANNA GETHIN, Westonbirt School.

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LUCAS, MARGARET JENNIFER, Cheltenham Ladies' College.

MARWOOD, SHEILA JOYCE, Clifton High School.

MASON, MARIE JACQUELINE, Clifton High School.

MASON, OLGA PATRICIA, Pontefract and District High School.

MICHAEL, JENNIFER JILL, Maynard Girls' School, Exeter.

MILLER, NORMA ALLENDALE, St. Andrew High School, St. Andrew, Jamaica, B.W.I. MORRIS, GEORGINA MAXWELL, Blunt House, Oxted, Surrey.

MORTON, PAMELA MARY, St. Leonard's School, St. Andrews.

PATERSON, YOLANDE, St. Paul's Girls' School.

PEERLESS, JOY LESLEY CLAREY, Collegiate Girls' School, Leicester.

POTTER, JOAN CONSTANCE, Mary Datchelor Girls' School.

ROSE, BERYL PATRICIA, Walthamstow Hall, Sevenoaks, Kent.

SANDARS, NANCY KATHARINE (Diploma University of London Institute of Archaeology).

SARGENT, PATRICIA MARGARET, Malvern Girls' College.

SELLENS, MARGARET MARY, L.E.A. Oxford Tutorial Classes.

SPURGIN, CECILIA JANE, Cheltenham Ladies' College.

STOTHERT, JANE, The Parks School, Preston.

STRINGER, HELEN MARGARET, Grammar School for Girls, Worcester.

TATE, FLORENCE ELIZABETH QUAYLE, School for Girls, Douglas, Isle of Man. TYNDALL, BRIGID MARY, Casterton School, Near Carnforth, Lancs.

WEBSTER, RUBY MARY (B.A. Bedford College, London).

WHITEHORN, PATRICIA ANN, Royal School, Bat h, Bath, and Westminster Tutors, London.

WIRGMAN, GERALDINE MARY, Atherley School, Southampton.

WYLIE, VALERIE ANNE, Allerton High School, Yorks.

YOUNG, ELIZABETH ANNE, Bedford High School.

Matriculated Hilary Term 1951: PETRIE, GILLIAN VICTORIA JOYCE, St. Michael's School, Petworth, and London School of Economics.

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N io March 1950 CONSTANCE LILIAN BRAINE-HARTNELL (née BARKER), Student of St. Hugh's Hall, 1888-9o.

On 3o January 1951, EVELYN MAUD HATCH, Student of St. Hugh's Hall, 1893-96.

On 15 April 195o, DORA CHANNING ABDY, Student of St. Hugh's Hall, 1894-97.

Aged 77.

On 3 February 195o, AMY ELIZABETH BELL, Student of St. Hugh's Hall, 1894-97. Sometime Headmistress of Harpurhey High School, Manchester.

DORA CHANNING ABDY DORA ABDY was born in 1872; she was a student of St. Hugh's Hall from

1894 to 1897 and obtained a First Class in the newly founded English Honours School. Her first intention was to teach, and she held posts in various schools, but the missionary traditions of her family were strong and in 1902 2I

she joined the Universities' Mission to Central Africa. From then until the outbreak of the First World War she worked in Zanzibar and later on the mainland at Msalabani„ and tramped from village to village trying to collect small groups to form girls' schools. From 1916 to 192o she went back to help reconstruct the work of the Mission. The next six years were passed in England and during this period of retirement from active mission work she wrote a Life of David Livingstone. The Conference on Education at Dar-es-Salaam in 1925 led to the reorganization of the educational work of the Mission, and once more Dora Abdy returned to Africa to take part in replanning the Central School at Kiwanda and in founding a Training School for Vernacular Teachers. Her final retirement took place in 1932, but her interest in the work of the Mission continued to the end, and from 1940 to 195o she served on the General Council of the Mission.

MA IAGES AUDREY MARY ARNOLD to HEINRICH FESSLER, at Christ Church, Brighton, on 22 December 1950.

GRACE EVELYN ADLAM tO ROBERT A. E. BALDICK, B.A. (The Queen's College), at

the Church of the Sacred Heart, Droitwich, on 29 July 1949.

FRANCES ELIZABETH CANDIDA BAYLISS tO PETER APPLETON WILDE, On 22 July 195o.

JEAN BRISCOE tO MR. HINDE, on 5 November 1949.

JEAN MELITA BULLEN to ROBIN FRANCIS SINKER (Brasenose College), at Heswall

Parish Church, Cheshire, on to June 1950.

SUSAN MERIEL CHENEVIX TRENCH to OSCAR PATRICK WOOD, M.A.,

Fellow of

Magdalen College, on 8 July 195o.

MAJORIE PATRICIA ALLEN COLBOURNE tO PHILIP GORDON BARNES,

at St. John's

Church, Middlesbrough, on 12 September 195o.

OLIVIA MARY KATRINE CROCKER (née HARRIS) tO HAROLD WILLIAM PAINE, On IO March 1950.

MARGARET CROFT tO JOHN CLIFFORD FEARON HORNER, On 24 February 1950.

JEAN ELIAS tO MR. PLIATSKY. DAMARIS ILEENE FLETCHER tO DONALD JOHN PRATER, M.C.S.P., at Westbury-onTrym Parish Church, Bristol, on 21 January 195o.

CHRISTINA GODFREY tO JOHN ANTHONY GIBB, M.A. (St. Edmund Hall), at the

University Church, Oxford, on 25 July 195o.

RITA ELAINE GUNTER tO HAROLD TALBOT LANDALE, On IO April 1948.

CHARLOTTE HAJNAL-KONYI to COLIN ELLIS FRANKLIN (St. John's College),

on

4 January 195o.

MARGARET GWENDOLINE HARTSHORNE tO PETER MANN, at

Leeds, on 28 December

195o MARGARET JANE HEBDITCH (née MILKINS) to PETER STANLEY PRICE, on 12 May 1950.

MARY EILEEN HOWARD to JOHN OWEN (Magdalen College), in Benburb Parish

Church, Co. Tyrone, N. Ireland, on 8 August 195o.

ADELINE AUGUSTA ELAINE LEVINSON to JOHN HARTCUP,

in London, On II

February 1950. at the Methodist Church, Southbourne Road, Bournemouth, on 3 October 1949.

JANET EILEEN MCKINSTRY tO ALAN RICHARDSON WILSON,

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at St. Paul's Church, Onslow Square, London, on II February 195o.

BARBARA ANNE SKEMP tO CHARLES HARVEY, in Exeter College Chapel, Oxford, on II April 195o.

BETTY SMITH to FLYING-OFFICER MAURICE RONALD DUNMORE, R.A.F., B.A. (Magdalen College), at St. Thomas's Church, Heaton Chapel, Cheshire, on z September 195o.

VIRGINIA ELIZABETH ANN TRUEMAN to IAN L. FERGUSON, at Caxton Hall, London, on 8 July 1950.

MARY E. WALFORD to DR. HARRY G. LEY, at Chastleton, Oxon., on 20 April 1949.

MARY TEMPLETON WHITCOMBE to JOHN SOUTHAN BURGESS (Brasenose College), on 23 September 195o.

MARGARET EDITH NEWMAN to R. JEREMY POTTER,

IRTHS MRS. ASHMORE

(Susan Hodgson)-a daughter (Catherine Halcyon),

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June

195o.

MRS. ATKINSON (Hester Cobb)-a son (Peter Giles), z July 195o.

MRS. BAILLIE (K. M. Cane)-a son (Ian Lindsay), 21 April 195o.

MRS. BALDICK (G. E. Adlam)-a son (Robert Julian), 6 August 195o.

MRS. BARRETT (C. C. Aspinall)-a daughter (Rosamund Lowri Carrington),

8 February 195o.

MRS. BEDI (Freda Houlston)-a daughter (Gul Hima), in September 1949.

MRS. BOGIE (M. S. Lloyd)-a daughter (Eirlys Morven Sheena Lloyd), 19

October 195o.

MRS. CAIRD (V. M. Newport)-a son (George Overington), zo August 195o.

MRS. CALVERT-SMITH (S. M. Tilling)-a daughter (Ruth), 16 August 1949.

MRS. cAvirrE (M. E. Gerken)-a daughter (Catherine Mary), 19 January 195o.

MRS. CHALKLEY (A. M. Walker)-a daughter (Katherine Helen), 22 July 195o.

MRS. COWEN (Rosamund Rieu)-a daughter (Diana), 3o July 195o.

MRS. CRAWSHAW (D. W. M. Keast)-a son (John), 21 January 195o.

MRS. CROCKER (Nancy Gamon)-a daughter (Penelope Harriet), 3o June 195o.

MRS. CULLINGWORTH (H. M. McCutcheon)-a daughter (Diana Margaret),

5 April 195o.

MRS. DALGLISH (Xanthe Ryder)-a son (James), 23 February 195o.

MRS. DESPRES (Nina Shilston)-a son (Christopher), 5 March 195o.

MRS. DE TRAFFORD (P. M. Beeley)-a son (John Humphrey), November 195o.

MRS. DISNEY (Eira Wynn Williams)-a daughter, 19 June 195o.

MRS. ENNIS (Barbara Tyler)-a daughter (Mary Wild), 15 November 195o.

MRS. FRANKLIN (Charlotte Hajnal-Konyi)-a son (Jacob Miklos), 17 October

195o.

MRS. FULLER (R. A. Andrews)-a son (Richard John), 25 March 1949.

MRS. GODFREE (Z. J. Garrett)-a daughter (Sarah Jean), 29 July 1950.

MRS. GRIEVE (5. M. Gibbins)-a son (Andrew.john), 10 August 195o.

MRS. HANEFORTH (Joan Tresise)-a son (Charles Adrian), 17 October 195o.

MRS. HARRISON (Helga Felberbaum)-a daughter (Deborah Margaret), 26 July 1950.

MRS. JARMAN (R. M. Lodge)-a daughter (Margaret Ann), 28 February 195o.

MRS. KIPLING (J. W. Hollins)-a daughter (Mary Vanessa), ro February 1950.

MRS. KNIGHT (D. M. Sherwood)-a fourth child in 1949.

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MRS. LINES (E. M. Allum)-a daughter (Margaret Helen), 1 November 1950.

MRS. LYLE (H. M. Watt)-a daughter (Catherine Anne), 20 July 1950.

MRS. MIDGLEY (C. A. Gaminara)-a daughter (Jennifer Harriet), in March 1949• MRS. MOIGNARD (J. P. Dawson)-a daughter (Elizabeth Ann), 3 January 1951.

MRS. MOWAT (Louise Homewood)-a son (Michael Geoffrey), 28 November

'949.

MRS. MUNBY (Lucy Jacques)-a son (Nicholas William), II May 1950.

MRS. OLLARD (R. M. P. Swain)-a daughter, 29 April I950.

MRS. POLAK (H. L. Utitz)-a daughter (Shulamite), z6 July 1949.

MRS. RAWLINS (Diana Colbeck)-a son (Nicholas), 31 May 1949.

MRS. ROBERTSON (F. E. Booth)-a daughter (Bridget Anderson), 15 November

1950.

MRS. ROSENZWEIG (J. S. Chappat)-a daughter (Anne Janine), 9 May 1950.

MRS. SAMPSON (E. S. Robinson)-a daughter (Jane Louise), 3o August 1950.

MRS. SCOTT (M. A. E. Howard)-a daughter (Caroline Anne), 26 December

1950.

MRS. SHAW (Margaret Plowman)-a son, in August 1950.

MRS. STEWART (M. L. Woodward)-a son (John Woodward), 24 June 1950.

MRS. STONES (J. M. B. Fradiu)-a daughter (Judith Anne), 8 November 1950.

MRS. SUTHERLAND (G. A. Campbell James)-a son (Allan Thomas), 17 May

1950 MRS. SYLVESTER

(M. A. Brady)-a son (William Pendennis), in November

1950.

MRS. TURNBULL (G. C. M. MRS. USHERWOOD (M. L.

Lewis)-a son, 16 October 1950.

Reepmaker d'Orville)-a son (David Nicholas Daniell), z6 February 1950.

MRS. WARNOCK (Mary Wilson)-a daughter (Kitty), 22 July 1950.

MRS. WARRELL-BOWRING (N. M. Windross)-a son (Anthony Robert), 3 February 1950.

MRS. WATERHOUSE (R. E. Franklin)-a son (Matthew John Franklin), 21 September 1950.

MRS. WILCOX (Leonora Fallas)-a son (Adrian Hervey), 23 February 195o.

MRS. WRIGHT (J. M. Crum)-a daughter (Clare Juliet), I July 1950.

PU LICATIONS Kathleen Coburn, B.Litt. Inquiring Spirit. A new presentation of Coleridge from his published and unpublished prose writings. Routledge & Kegan Paul. is. December 1950.

Joan Evans, D.Litt. Style in Ornament. Oxford University Press. 6s. 1950.

M. Hampden Jackson, M.A. Placido (a verse play). The Fortune Press.

6s. March 1951.

(Mrs.) Lucille Iremonger, M.A. Creole (a novel). Hutchinson & Co. Ltd. 9s. 6d. February 1950.

- On Fighting an Election (Adventure and Discovery 1950). 12s. 6d.

Jonathan Cape.

(Mrs.) R. J. Leys, M.A., B.Litt. (R. J. Mitchell and M. D. R. Leys). A History of the English People (illustrated). Longmans. 27s. 6d. September 1950.

(Mrs.) H. M. Lyle, B.A. The Rebellion of Jack Cade 145o. George Philip & Son Ltd., for the Historical Association. Is. 6d. June 1950.

(Mrs.) Norah Mackenzie, M.A. Education for Change. Macmillan. zs. 6d.

1949.

Children of London, Athens and Rome. Ginn. 1931. Is. 6d.

Teachers' Handbook to the above. Ginn (new edition). 1951.

One chapter on the Psychological Approach to the Patient in the Hand-

book for Hospital Librarians. 6s.

Molly Mahood, M.A. Poetry and Humanism. Jonathan Cape. 16s. 195o.

Veronica Ruffer, B.A., edited with A. J. Taylor. Mediaeval Studies presented to Rose Graham. Oxford University Press. 1950.

M. E. Seaton, M.A. 'Abraham Fraunce, The Arcadian Rhetorike'. Blackwell, for the Luttrell Society. 3os. 1950.

(Mrs.) E. M. Simpson, D.Phil. (with Percy Simpson, D.Litt.). Works of Ben Jonson. vols. ix and x. Clarendon Press, Oxford. 35s. each volume.

December 5950.

D. Warriner, B.A. Revolution in Eastern Europe. Turnstile Press. tzs. 6d.

1950.

ARTICLES C. M. Ady, M.A., D.Litt. Articles on Italian History. (General History tenth to eighteenth centuries, articles on separate states, biographies, &c.) Chambers's Encyclopaedia, 195o. `The Quincentenary of Lorenzo dei Medici.' Italian Studies, vol. v, 195o.

I. W. Busbridge, M.A., D.Phil. 'On the Integro-Exponential Function and the Evaluation of some Integrals involving it.' Quarterly Journal of Mathematics, Oxford (2), vol. i (1950), p. 176.

— 'On a Recent Paper on Radiative Equilibrium by D. H. Menzel and H. K. Sen.' Ap. Journal, vol. iii (1950), p. 176.

M. L. Cartwright, M.A., D.Phil., Sc.D. 'Forced Oscillations in Non-Linear Systems', Part IV of 'Contributions to the Theory of Non-Linear Oscillations', ed. S. Lefschetz. Annals of Mathematics Studies, no. 20.

Joan Evans, D.Litt. 'Cluny, centre d'art medieval'. Medecine de France, vol. xii, p. 17. `The Wilton Diptych Reconsidered.' Archaeological Journal, vol. cv (1948), P. I• `Millais' Drawings of 1853: Burlington Magazine, vol. xcii (July 1950), p. 198.

(Mrs.) G. M. Jaffe, M.A. 'Nature and Nurture: Monozygotic Twins.'

Journal of the Illinois State Academy of Science, 1951.

Ida C. Mann, M.A., F.R.C.S. 'Recent Cancer Research and its Relation to Ophthalmic Problems.' Reprinted from American Journal of Ophthalmology, vol. xxxiii, no. 7 (July 1950).

(Mrs.) D. E. Martin-Clarke, M.A. 'Significant Objects at Sutton Hoo', contributed to the H. M. Chadwick's Memorial Studies entitled The Early Cultures of North-West Europe. Cambridge University Press. £3. 3s.

1950.

(Mrs.) U. M. Niebuhr, M.A. 'The Vocation of the Christian Disciple.'

The Third Hour, vol. v, Winter 1950 (New York). `Prayers for the Church in the World.' Christianity and Crisis, vol. x, no. 14, p. 109 (August 195o).

M. F. Perham, M.A. 'Lord Lugard: A Preliminary Evaluation.' Africa, July 1950.

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E. E. S. Procter, M.A. Reviews of Ramon Menendez Pidal, El Imperio Hispanico y los Cinco Reinos, and Ramon Menendez Pidal, The Spaniards in their History, both in English Historical Review, vol. lxv (195o).

M. E. Reeves, M.A. 'The Liber Figurarum of Joachim of Fiore.' Mediaeval and Renaissance Studies. Ed. R. Hunt and R. Klebansky, vol. ii (195o), published by the Warburg Institute, University of London.

D. S. Russell, M.A. 'The Pathology of Intracranial Tumours.' Postgraduate Medical Journal, vol. xxvi (1950), 109. `Pathology.' Chambers's Encyclopaedia (195o ed.). `Meningeal Tumours : a Review.' Journal of Clinical Pathology, vol. iii (195o), 191.

(Mrs.) H. M. Warnock, M.A. 'Some Considerations on the Relation between Use and Meaning. Analysis, December 1949. `A Note on Aristotle's Categories.' Mind, October I950.

NEWS AND APPOINTMENTS OF SENIOR MEMBERS, 1950 [The date of appointment is 195o unless otherwise stated. The date after each name is that of entry to the College]. was appointed Director of the Steel and Power Division of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe.

C. M. ADY, M.A., D.LITT. (Iwo), headed the poll in the election for the eleven lay representatives from the Oxford Diocese to the Church Assembly, in May. MRS. ALLOT (A. E. L. Peet, 1939), M.A., was appointed English Mistress at Our Lady's Convent, Abingdon.

E. M. ANDREWS, B.A. (1946), is working under Professor Hardy on Telepathy in Animals.

A. M. ARNOLD, B.A. (1945), was appointed to a post at Boots College, Nottingham, from April 1951.

I. S. T. ASPIN, M.A., B.LITT. (1931), was appointed temporary Librarian of St. Hugh's for the academic year 1950—i.

S. M. BACKHOUSE, B.A. (1944), was Assistant English Mistress at the Mary Datchelor School, London, for the autumn term, and was appointed Assistant English Mistress at the Lady Margaret School, Parson's Green, London, from January 1951.

S. L. BAILHACHE, B.A. (1947), is training as an Archivist in Oxford.

G. M. BAKER, M.A. (1917), was appointed Senior English Mistress at Brentwood School, Southport, from September.

MRS. BARNES (M. M. Beaver, 1915), M.A., is teaching in a Chinese Girls' School in Singapore.

L. F. BELL, M.A. (1929), was appointed an Assistant Mistress at the Grammar School, Caistor, Lincoln, and mistress in charge of the girls' boarding house from September.

C. D. BENNETT, B.A. (1947), is taking a Secretarial course in Oxford.

JOSEPHINE BRADFORD, B.A. (1946), is a Medical Student at St. Mary's Hospital, Paddington.

S. Al. BROWN, B.A. (1947), is reading for the Oxford Diploma in Education.

D. E. ACKROYD, M.A. (1930),

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MRS. BROWNRIGG (I. M.

Miles, 1939), M.A., was appointed Lecturer in Music at Sunderland Training College.

JOAN BURCH, B.A. (1947), is reading for the Oxford Diploma in Education.

F. L. E. CAMOUS, M.A. (1919), was appointed Headmistress of the Grammar School for Girls, St. Austell, Cornwall, from September.

MRS. CARLISLE (A. I. Gillmore, 1945), B.A., was appointed temporary Librarian to the Department of Zoology, University Museum, Oxford.

M. L. CARTWRIGHT, M.A., D.PHIL. (1919), Mistress of Girton, was a delegate of Cambridge University, and of the Royal Society, at the International Congress of Mathematicians at Harvard, 3o August-6 September, and afterwards went to Princeton University for a fortnight as Consultant on their Differential Equations project.

ESTHER CHAWNER, B.A. (1922), whose post of Deputy Directress of Women's Education in Kashmir has been abolished, was appointed to the Staff of the High Commissioner for the United Kingdom in India.

M. L. CLARKSON, M.A. (1923), was appointed Senior Welfare Officer, Department of Social Welfare, Gold Coast.

L. M. CLISH, M.A. (1938), was appointed Head of the English Department at Bradford Girls' Grammar School.

KATHLEEN COBURN, B.LITT. (1930), was appointed an Associate Professor at Victoria College, Toronto.

MRS. COOPER (P. M. A. Deards, 1921), B.A., was elected President of the Glasgow and District Branch of the National Council of Women of Great Britain.

BRENDA COXON, M.A. (1943), passed the Registration Examination of the Library Association in June, and was appointed an Assistant in the Manchester Reference Library from November.

M. R. CUNNINGHAM, M.A. (1919), was appointed to a part-time teaching post, in Divinity, at the Pilgrims (Cathedral Choir) School, Winchester.

M. J. DANIELS, B.A. (1942), has returned from Switzerland and is at home for the time being.

D. E. H. DARKER, M.A. (1924), was appointed Principal of Oakley Emergency Training College, Cheltenham, from April 1949.

MRS. DAVIES (B. R. Hamilton, 1943), B.A., B.SC., was appointed interviewer by the B.B.C. to work on the Survey of Listening from January.

R. J. DEAN, M.A., D.PHIL. (1922), was promoted Professor of French Language and Literature, Mount Holyoke College, and was appointed a member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, N. J., 1950–r.

H. C. DENEKE, M.A. (1900), again visited Germany twice during the year for the Foreign Office. She is now a Governor of Wilton Park.

E. M. DEUCHAR, B.A. (1945), was appointed Research Assistant (Scientific Officer) to Professor C. H. Waddington, in the Department of Genetics, Edinburgh.

BRENDA DICKESON, B.A. (1947), is reading for the Diploma in Social Study at Manchester University.

MRS. DICKINSON (M. M. L. Bailey, 1937), M.A., was appointed Educational Psychologist to the Borough of Dewsbury, City of Wakefield. c. E. DORMOR, M.A. (1921), was appointed Mathematics Mistress, East Haddon Hall School, Northamptonshire.

M. M. H. DOSS (1947), was appointed (temporary) Documents and Publicity Officer at the United Nations Information Centre, Cairo, in November.

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P. T. DUKE, B.A. (1946),

on returning from Bruges, where she was working for Thos. Cook, took up an appointment with Czarnikow, Plantation House, Mincing Lane, London.

DOROTHY DYSON, B.A. (1946), was appointed Assistante d'anglais at the Lye& de jeunes fines, Aix-en-Provence.

MURIEL EASTER, M.A. (1943), was appointed Assistant Mistress at Chorley Wood College for girls with little or no sight.

NORA ELLIOTT, M.A. (1940), was appointed Secretary to the General Secretary, World's Y.W.C.A., Geneva, in September.

JOAN EVANS, D.LITT. (1914), was made a Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur.

She was elected a Fellow of University College, London, and an Hon. A.R.I.B.A., and was appointed Honorary Editor, Bristol and Gloucester Archaeological Society.

P. M. C. EVANS, M.A. (1931), has resigned from the Headship of Nja Tawa, New Zealand, and will be returning to England in June 1951.

E. C. EWERT, B.A. (1947), is taking a Secretarial course at Oxford.

MRS. FLEET (N. M. Thorp, 1929), M.A., D.PHIL., was reappointed a temporary Assistant Lecturer in German, King's College; London; for the session 1950—I. MRS. FLETCHER

(Mary Jackson, 1930), M.A., went to Nigeria in May with her husband who was seconded there from Aden.

MARY FLEW, B.A. (1946), was appointed an Assistant Mistress at the County Grammar School for Girls, Tonbridge, Kent.

J. M. FLOYD, B.A. (1946), was appointed English Assistant at the Bundesergichungsanstalt near nden, Gmu Austria, for one year.

PATRICIA FRODSHAM, M.A., B.M., B.CH. (1942), was appointed Assistant Medical Officer to the Royal Manchester Children's Hospital Outpatients Department.

CLARICE GARNETT, B.A. (1943), was appointed to the Staff of the Wesley Girls' Secondary School, Gold Coast, and arrived there in September. Officially she is the Science Mistress but has been 'attempting to teach Maths., Hygiene, Geography, and Latin to some forms. However, we hope to begin Science when we move to our new buildings early in 1951'.

M. G. GENT, M.A. (1923), was appointed Headmistress of St. Albans High School, Herts., from January 1951.

SYLVIA GLENISTER, M.A. (1943), is now Secretary to the Composers' Guild Of Great Britain, as well as to the Screen Writers' Association.

EVE GOLD, M.A. (1937), was appointed Ward Sister at the Royal Free Hospital, London.

HAZEL GOODWIN, M.A. (1943), was appointed an Assistant Mistress at Elliott Secondary School, London.

MRS. GORODETZKY, M.A., B.LITT., D.PHIL., was reappointed University Lecturer in Russian at Oxford.

P. M. M. GRAHAM, M.A. (1925), was reappointed Warden of Women Students, Makerere College, Uganda.

J. R. GRATTON, B.A. (1946), is a case-worker, Stepney Pacifist Service Unit.

D. H. F. GRAY, M.A. (Fellow, 1935), was appointed Woolley Travelling Fellow, Somerville College, 1950–I. During the summer she took part in excavations at Mycenae with Professor A. J. B. Wace, and in Cyprus with the Ashmolean Museum—Sydney University expedition to Cyprus.

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(N. M. Blacow, 1917), M.A., was appointed a J.P. for the West Riding of Yorkshire.

MRS. LANCELYN GREEN (June Burdett, 1944), B.A., was appointed a W.E.A. Lecturer on Drama.

P. M. C. GREEN, B.A. (1946), was appointed Scientific Assistant, Commonwealth Bureau of Plant Breeding and Genetics, Cambridge.

A. M. GRUTTER, M.A. (1932), was appointed Deputy Chief Education Officer, Land Schleswig Holstein, Allied High Commission for Germany, in September.

MRS. HACKETT (F. M. A. Cook, 192o) B.A., has a part-time post as a member of the editorial committee of an American magazine with a large British and Commonwealth circulation.

M. V. HALMSHAW, M.A. (1929), was appointed English Lecturer at Lady Mabel College of Physical Education, Wentworth Woodhouse, Yorkshire, in January, after having a similar appointment for three years at Bingley Training College.

E. M. HAMPSON, B.A. (1945), is reading for the Oxford Diploma in Education. minus HARDCASTLE, M.A. (1931), was appointed Executive Officer, Board of Trade, Administration of Enemy Property Department, in September. She passed the intermediate examination of the Chartered Institute of Secretaries in February, and in October was re-elected to the National Executive Council of the Society of Civil Servants.

M. F. HARDING, M.A. (1936), qualified as a State Registered Nurse in June.

B. V. HARRIS, B.A. (1945), was appointed Assistant French Mistress at Ilkeston Grammar School, Derbyshire.

MRS. HARTCUP (A. A. E. Levinson, 1936), B.A., transferred to free-lance, instead of full-time, writing for The Times Educational Supplement, on her marriage in February.

M. F. C. HARVEY, B.A. (1947), is reading for the Oxford Diploma in Education.

JOYCE HAZELHURST, B.A. (1931), was appointed a Lay Pastor at Norwich Unitarian Free Church', near Bolton, Lancs., from May to October. She has been accepted for training for the Unitarian Ministry and started the B.D. (three years) degree course at the Unitarian College, Manchester, in October.

J. M. HEPBURN, M.A. (1940), Third officer, W.R.N.S., was appointed to H.M.S. Raleigh, Torpoint, Cornwall, in July, for administrative duties.

ETRE', HEADMAN, M.A. (1907), was appointed Assistant to the Hon. Secretary of the Bird Ringing Committee of the British Ornithological Trust at the Natural History Museum, London.

P. K. HESKETH-WILLIAMS, M.A., B.LITT. (1933), was appointed Librarian, Barnett Trust Library, Barnett House, Oxford.

MRS. HIGGINSON (Jeanne Brassington, 1942), B.A., was appointed Assistant Geography Mistress at Hulme Grammar gchool for Girls, Oldham.

G. M. K. HILL, (1908), was appointed Secretary to the National Women Citizens' Association in 1949, after four years in Germany as Advisory Officer, Save the Children Fund.

E. M. HIRST, B.A. (1917), was appointed tutor to the first Training Course for Wardens of Old People's Homes, organized by the National Old People's Welfare Committee.

M. I. HODGKINS, B.A. (1943), was appointed an Assistant Mistress at Southall Grammar School in September.

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(G. E. Davies, 1938), M.A., is the joint Principal of a private preparatory and kindergarten school—Saville House School.

D. J. HUDSON, B.A. (1947), is taking a Secretarial course at Oxford.

G. E. S. HUNT, B.A. (1934), was appointed Warden of St. Hilda's East Settlement, Bethnal Green.

P. F. HUNT, B.A. (1946), was appointed Secretary to the Head of the Physics Division of the British Cotton Industry Research Association, Shirley Institute, Manchester.

J. M. HUSSEY, M.A., B.LITT. (1925), was appointed Professor of History at Royal Holloway College, University of London, from October.

MARGARET IGGLESDEN, M.A. (1942), was appointed temporary French Mistress at William Gibbs's Girls' School, Faversham, from September to December, when she left for South Africa to take up a teaching post at Kingsmead School, Johannesburg.

A. C. ILIESCU, D.PHIL. (1939), who is a Re.search Scientist with the Gas Research Board at Beckenham, Kent, was appointed a Flying officer in the W.R.A.F., V.R. MRS. IREMONGER (Lucille Iremonger, 1934), M.A., was appointed to two boards of management which govern six L.C.C. schools; and to the committee organizing the Literary Festival of the Society of Women Journalists. She was awarded the 1949 Lady Brittain trophy by the Society of Women Journalists for the best book of the year, as well as the 1949 Lady Violet Astor trophy for the best article of the year. She took an active part in her husband's campaign in the Northfield division of Birmingham in the General Election, and is actively engaged in nursing her husband's new constituency of North Paddington. During the year she lectured in England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales on an average of twice a month, and suffered a severe loss in the disappearance of 25,00o words of original manuscript of her new book due out at Christmas in the registered post. The B.B.C. asked permission to include one of her broadcasts in their anthology of the best broadcasts of the year and the Oxford University'Press to include a broadcast of hers in an anthology of spoken English now being compiled. She has as usual done much broadcasting.

D. R. K. IRVINE, M.A. (1941), is now better and looking for a post.

EDITH JACKSON, B.A. (1934), writes that Tonj Girls' School, Sudan, of which she was appointed Headmistress from January, opened in June and after a strenuous and harassing first month the children settled down well. Till June she spent her time learning the Duika language and having minor adventures trekking round the country-side to interview prospective pupils.

MRS. JAFFt (G. M. Spurway, 1917), M.A. writes that her present activities include a series of 'radio programs'—add resses on social problems, with special reference to racial and group prejudice against Negroes, Jews, and Mexicans in U.S.A. D. M. JAMES, M.A. (I043), has taken her M.Sc., London.

G. M. JAMES, M.A. (1942), was appointed an Assistant Mistress at Pembroke Dock Grammar School.

M. K. JAMES, M.A. (1935), was appointed Senior Lecturer in History at Goldsmiths' College, University of London.

MRS. JONES (Josephine Lane, 1934), B.A., left Bristol in January 1951 to go to Burford where her husband has been appointed Headmaster of the Grammar School.

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(1934), was appointed Assistant Youth Employment Officer for north-east Norfolk, by the Norfolk Education Committee from February.

G. I. KEENLEYSIDE, M.A. (1938), was appointed a Lecturer at Oakley Training College for Women, Cheltenham, from April.

E. T. KEENOR, B.A. (1944), was appointed English Mistress at Brillantmont School, Lausanne, Switzerland.

MRS. KELVIN (Patricia Hackwood, 1946), B.A., was appointed Senior History Mistress at the Convent of Our Lady, Abingdon.

MRS. KNIGHT (D. M. Sherwood, 1933), B.A., does part-time teaching at H.M. Borstal Institution, Aylesbury, and gives lunch-hour lectures to office workers on English and Current Affairs.

D. M. KNOX, B.A. (1943), is reading for an Education Diploma at the Catholic Training College, London.

0. J. LACE, M.A. (1924), was appointed Lecturer in Biblical Studies and Senior Tutor at William Temple College, near Chester.

M. 11. LAGDEN, M.A. (1920), who has published stories and poems at various times, has had to sell the cottage she built in the Cotswolds and has moved to Surrey.

JEAN LE GROS CLARK, B.A. (1945), joined the Company of St. Francis, the group of women who run the Durham Diocesan Retreat House and also go out doing evangelistic work with the Anglican Friars, in September.

MRS. LETTS (E. F. C. Bonner, 1922), M.A., was appointed a member of the Board of Management of the Cirencester and District Hospitals and a member of the Finance Committee. She is Chairman of the House Committee of the Memorial Hospital, Cirencester, and Secretary of the Arts Club Committee, as well as being a member of three committees of the district hospital group.

M. A. LISTER, M.A. (1943), was appointed History Mistress of Toorak College, Frankston, Australia, from February 1951. Frankston is twenty-five miles from Melbourne, on the sea.

MRS. MCKANE (E. C. Harris, 1939), M.A., returned to England from Australia in April, after three years' absence.

MRS. MACKENZIE (Norah Carter, 1914), M.A., is a Lecturer to the Royal College of Nursing, in Schools of Physiotherapy and in Schools of Speech Therapy as well as to various County Councils in respect of the Public Health Field.

A. H. MCMICHAEL, B.A. (1946), is taking a Social Studies course at Oxford. v. M. MACPHERSON, M.A. (1908), has now retired from the teaching profession, and is becoming involved in the activities of the Hampshire village where she has an old and attractive cottage.

MOLLY MAHOOD, M.A. (Fellow, 1947), was appointed a University Lecturer in English Literature at Oxford in October.

IDA C. MANN, M.A., F.R.C.S. (Hon. Fellow), was appointed Consulting Ophthalmologist to the Neuro-Surgical unit of the Royal Perth Hospital, Western Australia.

MRS. MANN (M. G. Hartshorne, 1943), B.A., was appointed Cataloguer in the Picton Reference Library, Liverpool.

MRS. MARTIN CLARKE, M.A. (Fellow, 1931), who resigned her Fellowship to carry out some private work, has taken up part-time University Extension lecturing for London University.

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(1946), was appointed a Lecturer in Statistical Psychology, Maudsley Hospital Institute of Psychiatry.

E. M. MELLES, M.A. (1939), is now at the Portsmouth office of the Ministry of Labour. v. P. MILLAR, B.A. (1947), is reading for the Oxford Diploma in Education.

MARGARET MILLINGTON, B.A. (1944), who was awarded the Certificate in Psychiatric Social Work at Edinburgh University, was appointed a Psychiatric Social Worker in the Bedfordshire Child Guidance Service in October.

LADY MOBERLY (G. Gardner, 1912), M.A., was appointed Chairman of the Godolphin Latymer Girls' School and Vice-Chairman of Westfield College Council.

M. C. MOGFORD, B.A. (1947), is reading for a B.Litt.

H. M. P. MONFRIES, M.A. (1940) was appointed a teaching Assistant in the Department of French at the University ' of California in September.

N. M. MOORE, M.A. (1943), was appointed Assistant to the Academic Secretary, University College of the South West, Exeter, from October.

D. B. MORGAN, M.A. (1925), was appointed Lecturer in History, Bishop Otter College, Chichester.

D. M. MOSS, M.A. (1939), was appointed Inquiries Assistant, Picture Post Photographic Library, London.

G. M. MOSSOP, M.A. (1937), was appointed Physics Mistress at Sutton High School (G.P.D.S.T.). v. C. MURRAY, M.A. (191 1), has retired from the Wardenship of University Hall, St. Andrews, and is living in a country cottage five miles from St. Andrews.

MRS. NIEBUHR (U. M. Keppel-Compton, M.A., 1926), was promoted Associate Professor of Religion, Barnard College, Columbia University, and she is still the Executive Officer, Department of Religion.

MRS. NORMAN (E. G. Elliott, 1937), M.A., writes from time to time on France and French education for The Times Educational Supplement.

AUDREY NUGENT (1947), was appointed an Assistant Mistress at Hollingwood County Secondary Modem School for Girls, near Chesterfield.

M. c. OWEN, M.A. (1926), returned to the Y.W.C.A. after three years with the National Association for Mental Health, and was appointed General Director, Y.W.C.A. Central Building, Great Russell Street, London.

M. P. PAINE, B.A. (1946), was appointed Geography Mistress at Brentwood County High School, Essex.

MRS. PAINE (0. M. K. Harris, 1935, Mrs. Crocker), B.A., resigned her post with the Modern Language Association in March on her re-marriage, and she now has her two children at home with her again.

MRS. PANNELL (A. G. Gary, 1931), D.PHIL., Dean of Goucher College, Baltimore, 1949, was appointed President of Sweet Briar College, Virginia, U.S.A., from 1 July 1950.

MRS. PATTERSON (Sheila Pridmore, 1936), M.A., was awarded the Academic Post-graduate Diploma in Anthropology by London University in July, after two years' study and research, for a thesis on 'The Status of the Cape Coloured People within the South African Social Structure'.

D. A. A. PENNY, M.A. (1906), retired from teaching at Clifton High School and is now living in Headington, Oxford.

A. C. PERCIVAL, M.A. (1921), was appointed Vice-Principal of Trent Park Training College, Middlesex.

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LADY ANNE PERY, B.A.

(1947), was appointed the Moberly Senior Scholar,

1950—I. (1919), was appointed Principal Medical Officer, Royal Ordnance Factories, Ministry of Supply.

MRS. POLAK (H. L. Utitz, 1944), B.A., has been working with children in a collective settlement in the Valley of Beit Shean since 1949.

J. A. PONTREMOLI, B.A. (1945), did conference work as a translator and preciswriter for the United Nations in Switzerland and New York during 1949 and 195o.

MRS. POTTER (M. E. Newman,. 1944), B.A., who returned from the Middle East in January, was appointed Editor of a children's magazine in April. o. M. POTTS, M.A. (1910, writes 'In the autumn of 1949 I visited South Africa with Lorna Southwell and we made our headquarters on Ella (née Roechling) McGregor's farm. We went out by flying boat via Taormina, Luxor, Kampala, and the Victoria Falls. I had to come back before Lorna did and I flew to Kano and came back through the Sahara by motor bus, landing in England on 31 December 1949• M. A. PRIESTLEY, B.LITT. (1945), was appointed a temporary Lecturer in History at Newnham College.

MRS. PROVIS (E. R. Young, 1921), M.A., writes that she has just spent six months travelling over Africa and left her partner to run the school for a term. 'While in Cape Town I met Alba Wyndham and Mrs. de Villiers (née Mavis Oliver) who were both at St. Hugh's with me, and I met Mrs. Ashton Hopper (née Mary Harvey) in Pietermaritzburg who also was at St. Hugh's.

ANGELA RAINE, M.A. (1941), was appointed Picture Editor of a group of International Reviews, published by the Central Office of Information in France, Italy, Holland, and the Commonwealth, in April.

B. J. REEVE, M.A. (193o), was appointed a Child Welfare Officer, London County Council, from May. M. E. REEVES, M.A. (1923), was appointed Vice-Principal of St. Anne's Society, Oxford.

F. M. REID, B.A. (1946), was appointed Secretary to the manager of the Engineering Department of Rowa and Forgas, Ltd. J. R. RICHARDS, B.A. (1943), was appointed Instructor in French and German at Principia College, Elsah, Illinois, U.S.A., for two years.

P. M. ROBERTSON, B.A. (1943), is teaching German and French at Brighton and Hove High School. s. V. RYMER, B.A. (1947), is reading for the Oxford Diploma in Education.

SISTER FENELLA (F. E. Saintsbury, 1934), M.A., was appointed Acting Headmistress of the Old Palace Grammar School, Croydon.

J. E. SEYMOUR, M.A. (1936), was appointed an Assistant Mistress at Headington School, Oxford.

E. B. B. SHARP, M.A. (1925), Deputy Director of the Institute of Personnel Management, left for New York in April on the first stage of a tour which will take her round the world. She has planned to stay in the United States and Canada before going to New Zealand and Australia. She will be returning via Singapore and intends to reach South Africa during the summer of 1951.

J. P. SHIELDS, B.A. (1946), was appointed a Statistical Clerk with E.C.A. A. D. K. PETERS, B.A., B.M., B.CH.

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(E. M. Spearing, Tutor, 1918), D.PHIL., was appointed a Supervisor of Advanced Students for B.LITT. and D.PHIL. degrees at Oxford.

E. M. G. SIMPSON, B.A. (1946), was appointed a Research Chemist at the Research Association of the British Paint, Colour and Varnish Manufacturers, Teddington.

M. L. SIMS, M.A. (1943), was appointed by the National Federation of Women's Institutes as Education Tutor at Denman College.

MRS. SINGER-BLAU (Helen Singer, 1943), M.A., was appointed History Mistress at Bexley Heath County Secondary School for Girls from September.

MRS. SINKER (J. M. Bullen, 1948), B.A., has gone with her husband to the Gold Coast, where he is teaching at Achimota School. She is also teaching parttime there.

S. P. SLIPPER, B.A. (1944), gained a French Diploma with 'mention tres honorable' at the Institut de Phonetique of the Sorbonne in July. Since July she has been working with the Travel Development Section of ECA/OSR. in Paris, as secretary and translator.

M. I. G. SMITH, B.A. (1940), was appointed to the Editorial Staff of the Brighton Evening Argus (Sussex Group) as general reporter and editor of a weekly women's feature, in December.

H. J. SOUTHERN, M.A. (1934), was appointed Lecturer in Geography at St. Katherine's College, Liverpool, from September.

L. V. SOUTHWELL, M.A. (1909), was appointed Research Assistant (part-time), Institute of Education, University of Bristol.

MRS. STEWART (M. L. Woodward, 1941), M.A., was with the Technical Planning Associates of New Haven, Connecticut, until March.

P. M. STRINGER (1946), was appointed an Assistant Mistress at Sherborne School for Girls.

MRS. SUTHERLAND (G. A. Campbell-James, 1939), M.A., has been doing parttime W.E.A. tutoring in Newcastle.

F. V. TALLACK, B.A., B.M., B.CH. (1943), was appointed House Physician at Chase Farm Hospital, Enfield, Middlesex.

D.M. THORNTON, M.A. (1944), was appointed Tutor, Institute of Almoners, Tavistock Square, London.

MRS. TRENEMAN (P. G. Moss, 1925), accepted an invitation to act as Manager of one of the Liverpool Primary Schools.

R. G. TUPPER, B.A. (1947), IS reading for an Education Diploma at the London Institute of Education.

MRS. VINT (B. E. Jowers, 1920), B.A., writes that her son is now at St. Edmund Hall, and so she will be in Oxford from time to time and hopes she may see some of her contemporaries.

E. M. WALLACE, M.A. (1908), is Supervisor of Religious Instruction in Holy Cross Mission and Parish, Cape Province.

H. M. WALLIS, B.A. (1945), was appointed Mary Gray Allen Senior Scholar, 195o—I. A. A. WARDLEY, B.A. (1945), was appointed a Chemist in the Laboratory of Tampan, Ltd., Northolt, from January 1951.

MRS. WARRELL-BOWRING (N. M. Windross, 1943), M.A., is no longer teaching at Reading University, but she is carrying on with her W.E.A. class on 'Clear Thinking'.

MRS. WATERHOUSE (R. E. Franklin, 1941), M.A., was awarded the degree of MRS. SIMPSON

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H. D. of the University of Birmingham in December for a thesis 'Medical Education and the rise of the General Practitioner 176o-186o'. c. M. WHEATLEY, B.A. (1945), was appointed Assistant Secretary in the Labour Department of the Conservative and Unionist Central office in May. A. E. N. WHITTINGHAM, B.A. (1947), has a post with the Brazilian Consulate General in London.

J. H. WILKINSON, B.A. (1947), is taking a course at the University of London School of Oriental and African Languages.

A. L. D. WILLAN, B.A. (1946), was appointed Chemistry Mistress at the Dorchester County School for Girls, Dorset.

A. A. M. WILSON, M.A. (1933), was the Parliamentary Labour Candidate for the Sutton Coldfield Division at the General Election in February. In August she was adopted as prospective Parliamentary Labour Candidate for Bedford.

ETHEL WILSON, M.A. (1917), was appointed an Assistant Mistress at the King's High School, Warwick.

H. M. WILTON, M.A. (1939), was appointed Assistant in the Treasurer's Office, Bedford College, London.

P. D. WISE, B.A. (1934), was appointed Classics Mistress at Ashford School, Kent.

SULAMMITH WOLFF, B.M., M.A. (1942), was appointed Senior Resident Medical Officer, Royal Liverpool Children's Hospital, Heswall, Cheshire.

R. E. WOOLF, M.A., B.LITT. (1943), was promoted Lecturer in the English Department, University College, Hull.

E. M. WRIGHT, M.A. (1941), was appointed Assistant and Secretary to the Editor of The Life of Faith.

E. B. B. YOUNG, B.A. (1947), is a Medical Student at the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford.

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JUBILEE SCHOLARS 1948 RACHEL MARY TOULMIN 1950 PATRICIA LILIAN BUTT

NUFFIELD MEDICAL SCHOLAR 1948 ANN CONSTANCE MARGARET WICKHAM

CLARA EVELYN MORDAN SCHOLAR 1949

DIANA THERESA MURIEL COLMAN

GAMBLE SCHOLARS 1948 ELIZABETH MAUD HUNTER 1949 JACYNTH CURETON 1950 JOAN MARY STOLPER

ELIZABETH WORDSWORTH STUDENTS 1948-50 MARGERY KIRKBRIDE JAMES, B.LITT., M.A. 1950-1 DORIS MAUDE JAMES, M.A.

MARY GRAY ALLEN SENIOR SCHOLARS 1947-9

VALERIE JOAN PITT, B.A. 1949-51 HELEN MARGARET WALLIS, B.A.

MOBERLY SENIOR SCHOLARS 1949

NO AWARD 1950 LADY ANNE PERY

HURRY PRIZE-WINNERS 1949

JOAN MARGARET HAWORTH 1950 MRS. LOIS DAY (née STOCKLEY)

HILARY HAWORTH PRIZE-WINNERS 1949

ELIZABETH MAUD HUNTER and CHRISTINA GODFREY 1950 HAZEL SWAINE MARSH and BARBARA JANE WEST

ELIZABETH WORDSWORTH PRIZE-WINNERS 1949

VINA MAJUMDAR 1950 RACHEL MARY TOULMIN

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