St Hugh's College, Oxford - Chronicle 1952-1953

ST. HUGH'S COLLEGE

CHRONICLE I9 5 2 5 3 Number 2 5

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 ERNEST CASSEL

ST. HUGH'S COLLEGE ASSOCIATION OF SENIOR MEMBERS

Chairman:

THE PRINCIPAL Hon. Secretary, 1951-53:

MISS C. M. ADY, M.A., D.Lirr.

Editor of the Chronicle, 1952-54:

MISS E. LEMON, B.A.

CONTENTS OFFICERS OF THE ASSOCIATION .

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VISITOR, HON. FELLOWS, AND COUNCIL .

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PRINCIPAL, TUTORS, ETC. .

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REPORT OF THE TWENTY-SEVENTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE ASSOCIATION OF SENIOR MEMBERS THE GAUDY,

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THE PRINCIPAL'S REPORT .

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BENEFACTIONS AND GIFTS . .

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ST. HUGH'S COLLEGE GARDEN

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THE JUNIOR COMMON ROOM AND GAMES REPORT)

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ST. MARGARET'S HOUSE

DEGREES AND POST GRADUATE AWARDS)

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HONOUR EXAMINATIONS, 1952 .

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MATRICULATIONS

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OBITUARY

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MARRIAGES

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NEWS AND APPOINTMENTS OF SENIOR MEMBERS, 1952

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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. MARY ETHEL SEATON, M.A., D.LITT.

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

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

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

DOROTHEA HELEN FORBES GRAY, M.A., Official Fellow.

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.

JOAN EVANS, D.LITT., Supernumerary Fellow.

PAMELA OLIVE ELIZABETH GRADON, M.A., Official Fellow.

AGNES PRISCILLA WELLS, M.A., Official Fellow, Secretary to Council.

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. S. M. WOOD, B.LITT., M.A. (MRS.).

Medieval History.

H. M. WARNOCK, B.PHIL., M.A. (MRS.).

Philosophy.

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

Lecturers B. I. BLEANEY, M.A. (MRS.).

M. JACOBS, B.LITT., M.A. M. M. SWEETING, M.A.

Physics.

Cassel Lecturer in German.

Geography.

Treasurer A. P. WELLS, M.A.

Bursar E. M. WORNER.

Librarian J. G. DICKINSON, M.A., D.PHIL.

Principal's Secretary E. BEERE.

REPO T OF THE TWENTY=SEVENTLI ANNUAL MEETING OF SENIOR MEMBERS HE meeting was held in the Mordan Hall on Saturday, zI June 1952.

T Twenty-eight Senior Members were present. The Chairman began her statement by referring to the demolition of the huts which have disfigured the College garden for over twelve years. The work began in March and was now approaching completion. It was the most conspicuous event of the year and it restored a sense of spaciousness which came as a surprise to those who had begun to forget the pre-war garden. Chief of the Academic distinctions of the year was the award of the degree of D.Litt. to Miss Seaton, who thus becomes the sixth woman D.Litt., three of whom are Senior Members of the College.

Dr. Seaton has also won the Rose Mary Crawshaw Prize awarded by the British Academy for her edition of Abram France's Arcadian Rhetorike.

Professor Headlam-Morley was among those chosen to form the University Delegation sent to congratulate Queen Elizabeth II on her accession. Of the Universities represented on this occasion, the Oxford and Cambridge delegations alone included women, one of the two Cambridge members being Miss Cartwright, the Mistress of Girton, and a Senior Member. Dr. Adam has been appointed to represent the University at the General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union to be held in Rome in September 1922.

The Chairman concluded her remarks by announcing a further raising of undergraduates' fees, which is rendered inevitable by the steep rise in the cost of living. The increase will be spread over two years and for the Academic Year 1953-4 fees will be the same for all the four residential Women's Colleges in Oxford, i.e. for Arts undergraduates L255 (tuition £84, maintenance £m) per annum, for Science undergraduates an additional LI° for tuition.

Miss Lemon was re-elected Editor of the Chronicle.

A discussion took place on the type of meeting in London which might attract a greater number of Senior Members than the dinner proposed for July 1951 had succeeded in doing. Those present were inclined to favour a luncheon, to be held preferably in the early autumn, and it was agreed to ventilate the subject in order to come to a decision at the next annual meeting, which would be held in connexion with a Gaudy.

The Principal reported that a sum of about £6 remained over from the money collected for a memorial of Senior Members who lost their lives through enemy action in the 1939-45 war. It was agreed that it should be used to supplement a gift for providing new hangings in the Chapel.

The meeting was followed by tea in the Committee Room, the weather_ being too cold for the garden.

THE GAUDY, 1953 MHE St. Hugh's College Gaudy will be held from Friday, 3 July, until J1 Monday, 6 July 1953. The Gaudy Dinner will take place on Saturday, 4 July at 7.30 p.m. Invitation cards are enclosed with the Chronicle.

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THE PRINCIPAL'S REPORT R. SEATON, whose appointment as a Research Fellow terminated last summer, was elected in Michaelmas Term to an Honorary Fellowship.

We shall miss her wise counsel on the Governing Body of which she has been a member for so long, but as an Honorary Fellow resident in Oxford we shall hope to see her frequently in the Senior Common Room and at the High Table. In Michaelmas Term 1952 and Hilary Term 1953 Dr. Seaton lectured for Professor Wilson during his absence in America. Miss Busbridge has been granted sabbatical leave for Hilary Term and is spending the term in Cambridge where she is engaged in research. Mrs. Warnock and Mrs. Wood, who in 1949 were appointed to lecturerships in Philosophy and Medieval History respectively, have now been appointed to tutorships. During last Long Vacation the Senior Common Room suffered two personal losses: Miss Mason, who resigned her appointment as Bursar owing to ill-health in 1950, died on to July 1952 after a long illness borne with great courage; on 28 September 1952 Miss Aspin, who had been Librarian since 1950, died very suddenly. Her death is a great loss to the College, of which she was a devoted member. In addition to her work as Librarian, Miss Aspin took an active part in AngloNorman Studies ; an account of her work will be found in another part of the Chronicle. During Michaelmas Term Miss M. S. F. Cousins of St. Anne's College acted as a part-time temporary Librarian until more permanent arrangements could be made. Miss J. G. Dickinson, M.A., D.Phil., of Somerville College has now been appointed Librarian and took up the appointment at the beginning of January. Miss Dickinson read History at Somerville from 1937-40; during the war she served in the A.T.S. as a Staff Officer, with the rank of Junior Commander, in the Adjutant-General's Department of the War Office; this was followed by posts with U.N.R.R.A. and U.N.E.S.C.O. In 1947 Miss Dickinson returned to Oxford and worked for the degree of D.Phil.

Recently she has been Librarian of the History Faculty Library and Assistant Editor of the Oxfordshire Victoria County History. Among honours received by members of the Association two may be mentioned here : Edinburgh University has conferred an honorary LL.D. on Dr. Joan Evans and St. Andrews University an honorary LL.D. on Miss Marjory Perham.

The great event of the year has been the demolition of the huts in the garden. The work was begun on 3 March 1952 and was finished by the end of July. Both noise and dust caused considerable, if unavoidable, inconvenience, but it was exciting to see again forgotten views of the College across the garden as the walls of the huts fell before the onslaught of mechanical contrivances. In the autumn the sites of the buildings were levelled, prepared, and sown with grass seed, and during the winter the College gardeners have been busy remaking paths which had been altered to allow access to the huts.

Now that the College has full possession of its grounds for the first time since 1939, the full beauty of its gardens can again be enjoyed.

When in 1946 the St. Hugh's Club was dissolved, its assets in cash and securities were handed over to me to be used at my discretion for the purchase, at a more propitious time, of some article or articles which the College would not otherwise be able to afford. After a good deal of thought and discussion with the Fellows, it was decided that a beginning might be made towards providing tables more in keeping with the traditional dignity of a College dining hall than the trestle tables of stained deal which have hitherto served 8

for undergraduate use. Five refectory-style tables have been purchased with the St. Hugh's Club gift at a cost of £234. 14s. ad., leaving a balance of 14s. iod. A sixth table has been purchased from the legacy of £50 left to the College by Miss Mason. The tables have been specially made by Gordon Stark Ltd. They are of oak and the surfaces have been treated. with a heatresisting substance; they measure io ft. 9 in. by 2 ft. 6 in. but they are so constructed that they can be easily moved on occasions when the hall has to be cleared—as, for example, on St. Hugh's Night or for College dances.

Three rather shorter tables are still needed for the main hall, and the annex also retains its deal tables, but the appearance of the hall is certainly much improved by the six oak tables.

The Chelmsford Diocesan 'Worship and the Arts' Association, which has held its annual Conference at St. Hugh's College for several years in succession, has presented a new dossal and riddels of red and gold Warminster brocade for use in the College Chapel. These were made and hung during the Long Vacation. This gift will necessitate changes in some of the other furnishings of the Chapel which are of a rather light blue; there is money available for this.

Early in Hilary Term, by the courtesy of the John Lewis Partnership, the Boyd Neel Orchestra gave a concert in the hall of St. Hugh's College. The programme, which included work by Abel, Schubert, Wolf Ferrari, Bartok, and Shostakovitch, was listened to by a most appreciative audience numbering about three hundred, and made up of members of the Senior and Junior Common Rooms, and Oxford residents specially invited.

The results in the Final Honour Schools last year were disappointing. The College obtained no first class for the first time since 1933 ; there were twentysix second classes and seventeen third classes. More encouraging were the two first classes obtained in Classical and Mathematical Honour Moderations.

Miss C. Fortescue (Modern Languages, Class I, 195 i) is to be congratulated on being awarded a Zaharoff Travelling Scholarship by the University. The number of undergraduates in residence for the current year is 164, of whom nine are either of 'mature age' or are graduates of other universities. There are also twenty-four graduates resident in Oxford working for research degrees or post-graduate diplomas. In the last two years there has been a noticeable increase in the number of young graduates who have entered the teaching profession, either immediately on 'going down', or after taking a Diploma in Education at Oxford or elsewhere. This is a welcome increase, as after the war the number of Oxford women prepared to teach fell alarmingly. The number of scientists prepared to teach is still very small.

E. S. P. February 1953

BENEFACTIONS AND GIFTS rr HE following benefactions and gifts have been received since the last J1 issue of the Chronicle: From a Senior Member of the College: £Soo. Under the Will of the late Miss Sheelagh Mason (Assistant Bursar 1942-6; Bursar 1946-5o): From Mrs. Aspin: Furniture, including a fine Persian carpet, and books formerly belonging to Miss Aspin.

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ST. MA •GARET'S HOUSE `111DURPOSE of the Settlement: to share in the religious, educational, and .1 social life of the neighbourhood in friendly co-operation with local aspirations and efforts. To provide a residence for those desiring to further this aim.

To form a centre for non-residents, and to offer training to students in religious and social work. To receive and apply funds for these purposes.'

The connexion between the two communities of St. Hugh and St. Margaret, with which both are now familiar, originated in a meeting held at the College on 4 May 1923 when the then Principal, Miss Eleanor Jourdain, bespoke the sympathy and support of her audience for (to use its alternative title) the Women's Branch of Oxford House, Bethnal Green. Her successor counted it a privilege to implement the resolution there passed, and thenceforward members of the College have been active in relation to the House. At the present time there are members of the College on the Council, and among both the training staff and the resident students in training.

It should be understood, however, that St. Margaret's, which has been in existence since 1889, in no sense owes it to the College, but to the devotion and enterprise of a small band of women connected with prominent men in the University (the names of Harington and Anson are still commemorated in House activities). These had already launched a small residential community in the East End, following the example of their male predecessors at Oxford House ; and from this there branched out, still neighbours in Bethnal Green, two independent Settlements, St. Margaret's House and St. Hilda's East, the latter supported largely by the Ladies' College, Cheltenham, which had shared in the enterprise of the original centre. The Head of Oxford House is always a member of the Council of St. Margaret's.

Sixty years ago the conditions of life in East London contrasted strongly with those of today. We who can recall the Whit-Monday parties of factory girls in 1900 see a marvellous improvement in physique and cultivation, but the vitality and gay courage of the Londoner were always the same, unextinguished even by the inter-war slump and the subsequent Blitz. The improvement in social conditions—though much remains to be done, in respect especially of housing—may have brought about a change in the machinery of social service, opening up ever wider vistas of State action; but the basis of true serviceableness between neighbours remains what it ever was, the grace of `charity' in its theological context and significance. To this ideal the House remains firmly dedicated, and tries to exemplify it through all the transformations it has witnessed of England's social scene. Penny dinners, workhouse visiting, provident clothing clubs may have given place to Citizen's Advice Bureaux, trained club leaders, and Old People's Welfare departments; but cooperation with the Borough authorities is close, and the influence of the House increasingly powerful. It may be said without undue complacency that neither can do without the other.

Thus, while the Council of the House hopes always to develop more interest among members of the University and their families in general, we have come to depend much on St. Hugh's College—its annual contributions of money and labour, and the friendly hospitality extended there to Club visitors.

Dr. Busbridge's services as a member of Council and chief organizer of the annual Sale of Work are quite indispensable ; but a longer list of annual subscribers who are Senior Members would make all the difference to our pre10

carious finance. I am always ready to send Banker's Orders and Covenant forms to any supporter. 'Friends of St. Margaret's House' contribute not less than los. a year, preferably with a seven-year Covenant and remission of income-tax in our favour. The Report for 1952 is of course available on application (please enclose stamp) to the Secretary, St. Margaret's House, Bethnal Green, E.2.

B. E. GWYER

(Chairman of the Council of St. Margaret's House)

ST. HUGH'S COLLEGE GARDEN HUGH'S COLLEGE Garden has never been planned as a whole; it is made up of a number of distinct units, laid out at different times, in different styles and acquired piecemeal by the College over a period of thirtyfive years. In some case dividing walls, fences, or hedges have been removed, in others they have been retained; extensions to the College buildings have necessitated some alterations and more have been brought about by the erection of temporary buildings when the College was requisitioned during the last war. The three largest units which have gone to the formation of the garden are the former 'Mount' garden at the junction of the Banbury Road and St. Margaret's Road, the 'Lawn' garden next to it and an undeveloped area in the centre of the island site; besides these there are the smaller gardens of the College houses fronting on St. Margaret's Road and on Woodstock Road, and part of the garden of the `Shrubbery'—in all about ten acres.

The lease of the 'Mount' was acquired by St. Hugh's College from University College in 1913 ; the freehold was not purchased until 1927. The garden of the 'Mount' extended to about 4acres ; the house faced the Banbury Road but stood well back from it, and was approached by a long drive between conifers, some of which still survive on the main lawn. The western boundary of the garden was marked by a line of fine beeches which probably once formed part of a hedge., The yews to the south, alongside the boundary of the `Lawn' garden, stand so close together that they almost certainly grew from a hedge. Besides these two rows of trees to the west and south, the 'Mount' garden was notable for its profusion of timber trees which formed a wooded belt between it and the garden of the 'Lawn'. These trees, most of which still survive, included beeches, hornbeams, elms, horse chestnuts, acacias, scotch firs, and a fine specimen of silver cedar; underneath them evergreens and hazel bushes helped to form a wild garden which was much more wood-like than it now is. The southern portion of the present main lawn was then a paddock of rough grass, divided from the garden by a wire fence ; some iron staples to which the fence was attached are still embedded in the trunk of a large peartree. To the south-west of the house a winding path bordered by flower beds led down to a dell, or depression—originally in all probability a shallow gravel pit—which a former tenant, the Reverend Robert Hartley, Vicar of St. Margaret's from 1896 to 1906, had turned into a fernery. Beyond this dell was an old orchard, and around the dell, screening it from the orchard and the paddock, a ring of cypresses, conifers, and ornamental trees and shrubs, including a clump of Berberis vulgaris, had been planted. The old house was pulled down and the much larger College building was sited nearer to St. Margaret's Road, and so that it faced north and south, instead of east and west. This necessitated

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considerable alterations in the garden. Much of the kitchen garden, which lay to the north of the old house, was destroyed; most of the drive was rendered useless and was taken up ; the paddock was levelled and turned into tennis courts. A number of the chief features of the present garden, however—the great trees to the south and west, the wild garden, the winding paths and shrubberies, and the elaborately laid out ornamental garden in the dell—were all inherited from the 'Mount' garden. The head gardener at the 'Mount', John Ball, was also taken into the service of the College.

In 1916 St. Hugh's moved into its new buildings, and from the beginning of its occupation the oversight of the garden was assumed by Miss Annie Rogers, one of the chief protagonists of women's education in Oxford. Her control was nominally shared by a garden committee, whose secretary she was and whose meetings she convened. The earliest minutes of the committee reflect war-time exhortations to grow more food; there are references to the growing of rhubarb and potatoes, and to the planting of currant and gooseberry bushes, and of plum- and apple-trees. In 1918 the College was keeping both bees and pigs, but by the next year the bees had all died and had not been replaced.

The College did not repeat its experiment in bee-keeping, but pigs were kept until 1933, when they were given up because Ball, by then an old man close on retirement, no longer felt able to look after them. The pig-sty was in the southwest corner of the garden, against the wall of the 'Lawn' coach house, and was hidden from the path by evergreens. The meetings of the first garden committee soon became intermittent, and after December 1923 they ceased; no reports were presented to the Council in 1925 and 1926. This lack of records makes it difficult to reconstruct the history of the garden during these years.

After the incorporation of the College by Royal Charter the garden committee reappeared and in 1927 became one of the standing committees of the Council; at the same time the office of Custos Hortulorum was created for Miss Rogers, an office which she held until her death in October 1937. The new committee met once a year in the Michaelmas Term, when it approved for transmission to the Council the report on the previous year drawn up by the Custos, and gave general sanction to her plans for work during the succeeding year. Matters which arose between the annual meetings were dealt with by the Custos on her own authority, and only in exceptional circumstances, as when extra land was acquired, were special meetings of the committee held.

There is no doubt that the garden benefited greatly from the enlightened despotism of Miss Rogers. She devoted to it endless time and thought and, as she gave up one by one her other interests and activities, her devotion to St. Hugh's garden increased and its care became an ever more absorbing interest.

Day by day she could be seen in the garden, superintending the work of the gardeners or showing the rarer trees and plants to appreciative friends. Her greatest interest was in the acquisition of flowering trees and shrubs and for this purpose the garden is well suited. The long south front of the building gives ample space for wall shrubs and climbers ; on the terrace front, sheltered by its shallow wings from wind and frost, such tender plants as passion flower, myrtle, loquat, and pomegranate can survive unprotected through the winter.

The spacious lawns, shrubberies, and borders also give plenty of scope for the growing of ornamental trees. A wide border was made alongside the Banbury Road and planted with varieties of cratwgus, syringa, berberis, spirea, and other shrubs. Flowering trees were also planted on the lawn and in the wild garden where the undergrowth was considerably thinned out. By the time of 12

Miss Rogers's death the garden had acquired a representative collection of ornamental trees and shrubs which by their flowers, foliage, or fruits add to the beauty of the garden and certainly constitute its chief interest. This collection has since been kept up and enlarged. Nearly all these trees and shrubs were obtained by gift or exchange. The Magnolia soulangiana on the main lawn, for example, was given by the students to celebrate the armistice of 1918.

Miss Rogers instituted the custom by which each new member of the Council presented a tree to the garden. This custom has been continued, and each new Fellow now presents one. Unfortunately there is no complete list of the ornamental trees and shrubs growing in the garden, but it is hoped that by degrees one may be compiled; nor are all the specimens as yet labelled, although an appreciable number of them are.

The chief new feature added to the garden when the College was built was the terrace, although it was not completely paved until some time after the building was occupied, and the design of the paving has since been altered, The paving as first laid was not satisfactory. Most of the rough paving alongside the low containing wall and in the two rectangular areas surrounded by the flagged paths was laid on the soil instead of on concrete ; when weeds became rampant the edges of the stones were cemented together in an attempt to check the weeds, thus making it impossible to move the stones to eradicate unwanted vegetation. The gardeners never had sufficient time to attend to the terrace, and the amateur labour of members of both the Senior and the Junior Common Rooms failed to make much impression. In spite of additional labour and expenditure in 1923, the condition of the terrace continued to deteriorate, and by 1926 it was a mass of weeds among which a few rock plants struggled for survival. In 1927 the Council voted up to ÂŁ200 to put the terrace in order, and the paving was relaid according to a design prepared by the present Principal. This design aimed at drastically reducing the area on which plants could grow and at making the weeding of this area easy. The rough pavement in the two rectangular areas was taken up and most of it relaid on concrete and cemented. Each of these areas of permanent pavement was surrounded by four `beds' for plants. These 'beds' were raised slightly above the level of the pavement and were lightly surfaced with stones which can be easily moved to facilitate weeding. Most of the border alongside the terrace wall was treated in the same way as the 'beds'. The work was carried out in the Long Vacation of 1927, partly by a contractor and partly by the gardeners, under the supervision of Miss Rogers who also supervised the planting of the 'beds'. The terrace is not a rock garden and, although there are some interesting plants on it, it is not intended as a collection of rare specimens. The effect aimed at is colour, and this is obtained by massing together helianthemums, alpine phloxes, saxifrages, campanulas, veronicas, and other low-growing plants. Throughout Trinity Term the terrace is a mosaic of colours which blend together in ever changing patterns. It is at its best at the end of May and early June when the helianthemums are in full bloom, and at that season it is the principal attraction of the garde'''.

At different times between 1919 and 1932 the College bought first the leases and later the freeholds of the 'Lawn', 3 and 4 St. Margaret's Road, and 8o and 8z Woodstock Road and used the houses for the accommodation of undergraduates. All these houses have gardens; the largest being those of the 'Lawn' and 8z Woodstock Road. The 'Lawn' garden was only divided from the College garden by a fence and, when the freehold of the 'Lawn' was

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purchased from Lincoln College in 1928, this fence was removed and the two gardens thrown into one. The 'Lawn' garden with its shrubberies, timber trees, and heart-shaped lawn between the road and the house harmonizes well with the College garden. It is, indeed, probable that these two gardens were laid out at much the same time, for both reflect gardening fashion of the midnineteenth century. At this time the nurseries and seed-beds which had been located in the south-west corner of the College garden were removed to the `Lawn' garden behind the house and their former site, which was partly enclosed by a hedge, was converted into a lawn on which some flowering trees were planted. The gardens of the other four College houses were surrounded by brick walls which were retained; these gardens thus remain distinct from the College garden.

In the spring of 1932 the College bought from St. John's College the freehold of an undeveloped piece of land of rather over two acres in extent which occupies the centre of the island site. The westernmost and larger portion of this land was held by Lady Whitehead on a tenancy which terminated at Michaelmas 1932. It was used as kitchen garden and was well stocked with fruit-trees. A broad gravel walk running north and south, with an herbaceous border on either side divided it into halves. Most of the plants from this border were removed by Lady Whitehead to the 'Shrubbery' garden and some of the rest were later used to restock the College borders. The College made comparatively little use of the 'Whitehead piece', and most of it was let out in small allotments. It had been bought to prevent possible development by St. John's College and not because St. Hugh's had any immediate use for it. The easternmost portion of this undeveloped area was held by Alderman Ansell, whose tenancy did not expire until 1934. It was divided into two distinct parts.

Nearest the 'Lawn' was a small apple orchard enclosed by a hedge; this became a Fellows' garden. The remaining strip of ground was used by Alderman Ansell as an allotment, and access to it was by a rough cart track between the College garden and 1 St. Margaret's Road. During the winter of 1934-5 the `Ansell piece' was cleared, levelled, and sown to form a lawn, and the fence dividing it from the College garden was removed. It was on this new lawn that the marquee was pitched for the Jubilee dinner on 27 June 1936. By that time the house at 1 St. Margaret's Road had been demolished and the new Library built on its garden. One practical convenience accrued from the acquisition of the 'Whitehead' and `Ansell' pieces—direct access was provided through the garden from the College to the College houses.

After Miss Roger's death in 1937 the Gardens Committee was enlarged and took over more control of the gardens; the office of Custos Hortulorum remained in abeyance until 1952, when the Principal was appointed Custos. Up to the outbreak of war the committee was occupied with two projects: the replanning of the area between the west wing of the main building and the new Library, and the provision of a memorial to Miss Rogers. The erection of the first part of the Mary Gray Allen Wing in 1927 had not necessitated any radical alterations in the garden but only some adaptation of the existing lawn, path, and herbaceous border to the south. The second extension in 1936 created a new problem. The Mary Gray Allen Wing was extended on to the site of 1 St. Margaret's Road and was then continued at right angles so that part of the residential block and the Library lie to the west of the former boundary of the 'Mount' garden. A conservative treatment, carried out according to a plan prepared by Professor Myres, was adopted. Although the trees 14

marking the old boundary were left, the area enclosed by the west wing of the main building, the Mary Gray Allen Wing and the Library, was treated as a whole. The northern end of the path under the trees, together with a neglected rockery, were removed and the lawn was extended to the Library. The herbaceous border was also extended but was completely replanned ; instead of a wide border with an irregular line of fruit-trees down the centre, two borders were made divided by a grass path with half standard apple-trees on one side and varieties of thorns and crab apples on the other. These trees were the gift of Professor Myres. Although the western end of the southern border is under the shade of the largest beech, it has proved possible by careful planting to ensure a good show of summer and autumn flowers throughout the length of the border. The alterations in this part of the garden were begun in the autumn of 1938 and finished by the following spring. The memorial to Miss Rogers was put up just before the College was requisitioned in October 1939.

It consists of a sundial erected at the entrance to the terrace. The brass dial

by Richard Glynn, the carved stone pedestal, and the plinth of two steps all date from about 1700 and came from Grove House, South Woodford, Essex.

The College obtained them through Percy Webster, Antiquarian Horologist of Mayfair. On the upper step of the plinth is inscribed: (north side)

Annie Mary Anne Henley Rogers Custos Hortulorum mcmxxvn—mcmxmivii

Floribus Anna tuis faveat sol luce perenni The inscription was composed by Professor Myres.

(south side)

The College and houses, except the 'Lawn' and 8z Woodstock Road, were requisitioned for use as a Military Hospital in October 1939• In the summer of 1940 six wards, grouped in pairs, were erected in the garden. Two wards running east and west were built on the main lawn where the tennis courts had been, two running north and south and reaching to within twelve feet of the Library were built on the `Ansell piece' and two, also running north and south, on the northern half of the 'Whitehead piece'. They were substantial, one-storied buildings of brick and concrete connected to each other by brick corridors. A similar corridor across the lawn and the terrace connected the wards in the main garden with the College. This corridor engulfed the memorial sundial which was encased in brick for protection. Extensions were later added to the wards in the 'Whitehead piece' and two detached stores were put up in the Fellows' orchard. Other buildings and sheds were erected along the north front of the College. The War Office gave an undertaking to respect the trees and shrubs in the main garden; this undertaking was kept and plans were on more than one occasion modified to meet objections raised by the Bursar (Miss Thorneycroft) on behalf of the College, but a large number of fruit-trees in the orchard, the 'Whitehead piece', and to the north of the College were destroyed. George Harris, who had succeeded Ball as Head Gardener in 1934, was taken into the service of the Hospital and was able to see that the essential work to the shrubs, terrace, and herbaceous borders was carried out. Thus the garden suffered less than it might have done. In October 1945 the College reoccupied its own premises, and during the following winter the buildings to the north of the College and the corridor across the terrace 15

and lawn were demolished. The rest of the buildings, however, remained and were let to the University as office accommodation from September 1946 to March 1952. The demolition finally took place in the spring and summer of 1952.

Early during the war the College acquired the 'Shrubbery' which was, however, requisitioned from 1943 to 1946 and used as an American Army Club.

When it was derequisitioned the house, as it was unsuitable for College use, was let to the Maison Francaise, but part of the garden was retained by the College and is now used as a Fellows' garden in place of the orchard. The new Fellows' garden is bounded on three sides by brick walls and on the fourth by a clipped yew hedge. It was elaborately laid out by Sir George Whitehead when he lived at the 'Shrubbery', and it includes two features which the College garden has hitherto lacked—a sunk rose garden and some lily ponds. There are also some good flowering trees including a tulip-tree, two catalpas, and a Magnolia soulangiana; the College has, however, other specimens of all these.

Old plans show that at one time there were three rows of glasshouses of which only the middle one now remains. The lily ponds seem to have been formed from the tanks of one of these vanished greenhouses which had been built as an orchid house, and a winding path, planted with irises on either side, occupies the site of the third house.

It is now possible to see the changes caused by the erection of the Hospital buildings. In the main garden—that is the former 'Mount' garden—the layout has not been much altered, except that the hedge which partly surrounded the small lawn made in 1928 was so broken about that it has had to be removed, and once the newly sown grass has become turf this part of the garden will look much as it did before the war. On the other hand, the changes in the undeveloped land acquired in 1932-4 are profound. The orchard has lost many of its trees and its hedge to the east and north and is no longer a separate enclosure. The hedge between the 'Ansell' and 'Whitehead' pieces has also gone, so have most of the fruit-trees which were in the 'Whitehead piece' and the greater part of the path which bisected it. All this central portion of ground is now much more open than it used to be and much more part of the main garden. Most of it has been sown with grass to form one large lawn. In replanning this part of the garden the layout has had to be kept as simple as possible for two reasons. Firstly, the College cannot afford more labour, even if it could get it, and wide lawns and straight paths are comparatively easily kept in order. Secondly, the College will eventually have to increase its buildings and it would be wasteful to adopt an elaborate plan for what may be a building site. The whole effect is, however, at present rather too open and some judicious planting of the smaller varieties of flowering trees would be an improvement. Thus the garden is now much less a series of separate closes than it once was, although it still retains evidence of its diverse origin. It is the variety resulting from this diversity of origin which constitutes the great charm of the garden—the spacious lawns surrounded by tall trees; the borders of ornamental shrubs; the terrace and the herbaceous borders which act as foils to the buildings; the informal treatment of the dell and the formal rose beds in the Fellows' garden all afford examples of different styles of gardening, and provide interest and colour at every season of the year. The St. Hugh's College garden can rightly claim to be one of the most beautiful of Oxford College gardens and deserves to be more widely known than it is.

E. S. P. i6

THE J.C.R. REPORT,

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TT is difficult, looking back over three years, to indicate any ways in which .11. College life may have changed. Members of St. Hugh's, however, do not appear to have much general College life, and as is characteristic of women's colleges members seek entertainment outside. But we find that there is a corporate feeling at such College functions as the carol service and St. Hugh's Night, and in addition to the usual carol service a group of people joined together for informal carol singing in the Mordan Hall. We have also a square dance club which meets every week in Oriel lecture rooms.

A College dance was held in the Trinity Term this year as well as in the Michaelmas Term. On both occasions the committee just managed to cover their expenses.

St. Margaret's Sale was again a great success, and for this we must thank Dr. Busbridge and members of the J.C.R. who put so much hard work into it. We should also like to thank those people who gave so generously for the stalls.

This year the J.C.R. has been in the unusual position of having money in hand. After long discussions as to the merits of television in College, we decided against it. Instead we have used some of the money on a typewriter, covers for the J.C.R. magazines, a new tennis net, and a hair-dryer. And since the Boat Club is unable to carry on this term, we are sending the money originally intended for the rowing enthusiasts to St. Margaret's House. We propose also to buy a picture for the J.C.R., but the variety in taste has caused disagreement and thus delay.

Two members of the J.C.R., Theo Goldrei and Judith Hackett, are wellknown in the acting world, and we are pleased to have had our Vice-President, Pamela Morton, as an Isis Idol.

Although for six weeks during the Trinity Term we were woken up at about 7.3o a.m. by the banging and squeaking of cranes and pneumatic drills, we are now rewarded by the sight of green grass in place of the huts which so disfigured our gardens. We hope that in the future we will again be able to use some of the ground for tennis courts.

The death of Miss Aspin, our librarian, came as a great shock to members of the College. Her help and organization of the library was much appreciated.

We should like to welcome her successor, Miss Dickinson, and to thank Miss Cousins for her help in the Michaelmas Term. Apart from this the J.C.R. has enjoyed a pleasant and active year.

JANE SPURGIN

GAMES REPORT

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URING the last year in St. Hugh's there seems to have been little interest in games as a College—the hockey secretary always has great difficulty in getting a team together but perhaps this is due to the fact that having no pitch of our own leads to lack of enthusiasm. The tennis secretary's job is not such a thankless one because people count a tennis match more as a social engagement than a game of skill, but nevertheless she would have difficulty in getting together the best College team.

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However, the interest shown by individual people in University games is very keen. There are quite a few people on the squash ladder, one or two of whom are likely to get blues this term though no one from St. Hugh's achieved that standard last year. In every other sport, though, the College was represented, if only by one or two people. Elizabeth Hem played in the University lacrosse team for the second year running, and Mary Lunt, who gained her blue last year, is this year's treasurer of the Lacrosse Club. We also have in the College this year's hockey captain, Pamela Morton, who also gained her blue for tennis. Rosemary Lewis and Norma Miller gained their blues for cricket, while Joan Dickins regained hers and is now secretary of the Club.

Although only one person, Barbara Levick, gained her blue for rowing last term, there is nevertheless quite a lot of support for the Boat Club in the College. We are therefore sorry to say good-bye to it, but perhaps it is only good-bye until next year. There was a great deal of discussion about it in both the Trinity and Michaelmas Terms J.C.R. meetings, and on both occasions the majority of votes were for paying more to the United Games Fund in order that the Boat Club could continue. We feel that so long as there are half a dozen people in the College who are enthusiastic enough to pay a termly subscription of 15s., it is only right that we should continue to support them as much as possible. We sincerely hope that when the subject is brought up for rediscussion at the United Games meeting in October, the Committee will decide that it would be a great pity if the Boat Club were closed for good.

PAMELA MORTON

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DEGREES, 1952 D.Litt. M. E. Seaton, M.A., Research Fellow.

D.Phil. M. K. James, B.Litt., M.A., Thesis: The non-sweet wine trade of England during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.

B.Litt. C. Clark, M.A., Thesis: An edition of annals, 1070 to 1154, of the Peterborough Chronicle, with introduction, grammar, commentary, and glossary. Mrs. Guldberg (T. Voronoff), Thesis: Modes of terminating international concessions. M. Jacobs, M.A., Thesis: A study of Otto Ludwig's views on the drama.

B.M. Mrs. O'Neill (P. Ripley), G. M. Trevaldwyn.

B.Mus. A. Slater.

B.Sc. F. M. E. Macdonald, M.A., Thesis: The histochemistry of the nerve cell during growth, regeneration and various functional conditions. D. M. Nutbourne, M.A., Thesis: The ignition of some gaseous mixtures.

M.A. Mrs. Ashmore (S. P. C. Hodgson), Mrs. Burgess (M. T. Whitcomb), Mrs. Bury (J. M. D. Purnell), Mrs. Carlisle (A. I. Gillmore), C. Clark, M. B. Dauphine, S. M. E. Goodfellow, E. H. Hadfield, Mrs. Harley (M. E. S. Weir), B. V. Harris, Mrs. Hurst (G. J. Whitty), A. Kohsen, D. M. Lane, J. Le Gros Clark, D. M. Nutbourne, V. J. Pitt, J. A. Pontremoli, Mrs. Pusey (E. J. Sparks), D. M. Rennie, Mrs. Sampson (E. S. Robinson), G. L. A. Schiller, Mrs. Sinker (J. M. Bullen), Mrs. Skemp (A. M. Weeks), J. E. Taylor, H. M. Wallis, A. A. Wardley, B. J. Watcyn-Williams, Mrs. Usherwood (M. L. Reepmaker d'Orville), T. E. Zaiman.

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B.A. L. M. Beaulah, M. R. Bird, S. Blewett, J. Blyth, P. A. Bowyer, D. T. Colman, J. Cooper, P. M. Cooper, Mrs. Coy (E. R. Johnston), J. A. Cureton, S. L. Cutcliffe, D. M. De Rin, Mrs. Dorling (P. Shannon), E. M. Edwards, C. P. Green, M. F. Hall, J. P. Hallett, B. C. Harlow, E. Heaton, C. Herbert, C. A. Isles, D. M. H. Jones, E. M. Jones, D. M. Lawton, E. M. Mackintosh, H. P. Moore, J. M. Mott, M. L. L. Palmer, Hon. H. D. Parnell, A. E. Pearson, Mrs. Pease (S. Spickernell), A. Priestman, Mrs. Putz (P. H. Fox), A. F. Ritchie, J. C. H. Roffey, M. J. Singleton, J. M. Stolper, M. Tamer, K. I. M. Tester, E. M. Threlfall, Mrs. V. M. Varley, B. J. West, M. J. Whiteley, J. R. H. Wood.

Post Graduate Awards C. R. Fortescue, B.A., Zaharoff Travelling Scholarship 1952.

R. M. Toulmin, B.A., Ronald Burrows Memorial Prize, King's College, London.

B. West, B.A., Exhibition to University College Hospital Medical School.

V. M. Varley (Mrs.), B.A., Moberly Senior Scholarship.

HON U EXAMINATIONS, 1952 Literae Humaniores: Class III

P. M. Cooper.

Modern History: Class II

Class III

P. A. Bowyer, C. P. Green, E. M. Mackintosh, A. E. Pearson, M. G. Shiell, V. M. Varley (Mrs.).

P. H. Fox, B. C. Harlow, J. C. Hobson, M. L. L. Palmer, M. J. Singleton, S. Spickernell.

English Language and Literature: Class II

Class III

D. T. M. Colman, J. A. Cureton, D. M. de Rin, J. Hudson, M. Tamer.

M. R. Bird, E. M. Threlfall.

Modern Languages: Class II

L. M. Beaulah (French), M. H. Blanchard (French), J. P. Hallett (German, French), 19

Modern Languages (cont.)

Class III

A. Jones (German), E. M. Jones (French), K. I. M. Tester (German, French).

E. Heaton (German), U. M. Kenny (French, Italian), H. P. Moore (Italian, French).

Philosophy, Politics, and Economics: Class II Class III

J. Stolper.

J. Blyth, E. M. Edwards, C. Herbert.

Geography: Class II

D. M. H. Jones, D. M. Lawton.

Mathematics: Class II Class III

S. Blewett, J. M. Mott.

J. Cooper.

Natural Science: Chemistry, Part I: S. L. Cutcliffe.

Chemistry, Part II: H. S. Marsh.

Class II Botany: A. F. Ritchie.

Class II Zoology: M. F. Hall.

Class II Physiology: Class II B. J. West.

A. Priestman.

Class III Engineering Science: S. M. Forbes.

Class III

Classical Honour Moderations: B. M. Levick.

B. E. Hurst, E. C. Kennedy-Skipton J. G. Lewis, Class III E. A. Young.

Satisfied the Examiners: S. Henderson.

Class I Class II

Mathematical Honour Moderations: Class I 20

B. B. Davey.

Mathematical Honour Moderations (cont.)

Class II

M. M. Belcher.

E. M. Fortescue, S. M. Loakes, E. E. MacCallum.

S. M. Colthurst.

Class III

Natural Science Moderations:

J. J. Michael.

M. J. Lucas.

Class II Class III

MAT ICULATIONS, 1952 Scholars: BAKER, CLARICE ANN, Croydon High School (Medicine).

CARABINE, EVA MARY (Ethel Seaton Scholar), Aldershot County

High School

(Classics).

JENKINS, IRIS DOREEN (Gamble

Scholar), Mitcham County Grammar School

(Modern Languages).

KURN, MARY

(Clara Evelyn Mordan Scholar), Chichester High School

(Modern Languages).

MARTIN, JUDITH MARY

(Abbott's Scholar), St. Michael's School, Limpsfield

(Philosophy, Politics, and Economics).

Exhibitioners: BECK, ELIZABETH JEAN, Lewisham Prendergast School (Classics).

CROWSLEY, PATRICIA ADELAIDE, Bedford High School (Classics).

FINDING, ANN, Croydon High School (History).

JAMESON, DOROTHY ANN, Copthall County Grammar School (Chemistry).

MOORE, PAMELA MARJORIE, Pinner County School (Modern Languages).

STEDMAN, DIANA MYRA, Cheltenham Ladies' College (Philosophy, Politics,

and Economics).

WATSON, WENDY BARBARA, Leeds

Girls' High School (English).

Commoners: BASCO, MARION, Cambridgeshire High School.

BATES, JEAN, St. Edmund's College, Liverpool.

BLANCHARD, ELIZABETH LOUISE, Queen's College, Harley Street.

BOWYER, EILEEN DOROTHY, Westcliff Girls' High School.

BROWNING, ELIZABETH EVELYN, Keswick School.

BURNS, JENNIFER CLARE, Brighton and Hove High School.

BURTON, LEONORA DENNIS, Christ's Hospital.

CHEVALLIER, VERONICA BRETLAND, Roedean School.

COATES, BRENDA NANCY, Tottenham County School.

COOPER, BARBARA, Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Mansfield.

COPE, JANET MARIANNE, Wyggeston Grammar School.

CRAM, LESLIE RHEA, B.A., Vanderbilt University, U.S.A. DE WET, FIDELA GRACE, M.A., University of Cape Town.

DYKE, SHIRLEY CHRISTINE, Enfield County School for Girls.

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ERLEBACH, PHILLIDA ANNESLEY WALFORD, St. Paul's Girls' School.

FAIRBANK, LILIAN EDNA, Nottingham Girls' High School.

FAWDRY, DALLAS WOOD, Portsmouth High School.

FORD, GILLIAN RACHEL, Clarendon School, Abergele.

FRASER, VERONICA MARY, Richmond Girls' County School.

GOODBODY, ANNE CELIA ROSEMARY ELIZABETH, Herons Ghyll, Horsham

and

Maynard School.

GREENING, HAZEL JEAN MARY, Plymouth High School.

GRENFELL, OLIVE DENISE, Downe House, Newbury.

GRIFFITHS, MARY CLARE, Farnborough Hill Convent College.

HANCOCK, MERIEL ELIZABETH, Portsmouth High School.

JONES, GLENDA MARY, Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Barnet.

JONES, SYLVIA MARGARET, Brackley County High School.

JOPLING, JEAN, Cambridgeshire High School.

KIPPING, VALERIE, High Wycombe High School.

LAMB, VIRGINIA CAROLINA, Godolphin School, Salisbury.

LINDSAY, SONIA EUGENIE, Downe House, Newbury and Miss Hobbs.

LEIGHTON, MARGARET ANN MITFORD, Westonbirt School.

LOSSKY, VERONICA (Madame), University of Paris.

MAYER, AGNES, Stuttgart University.

MILLS, JEAN MARY, Simon Langton Girls' School, Canterbury.

MOYLAN, NESTA ROSE, Godolphin School, Salisbury and Blunt House.

OLIVER, BETTY, Macclesfield County Grammar School.

PENNEY, ANNE SHEILA, Cheadle Hulme School.

SCOULAR, KITTY WELLINGTON, B.A., Edinburgh University.

SMITH, MARGARET CONSTANCE, W.E.A. Classes.

STAMP, BARBARA ANN, Portsmouth Northern Grammar School.

STOCK, MARY, Maidstone Grammar School.

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Member of St. Hugh's Hall 1886-9. Aged 84.

On 6 July 1952 MARGARET PRESTON POTTER, M.A., Member of St. Hugh's Hall 1904-6. Headmistress of Plymouth High School 1919-3o. Aged 78.

On 25 June 1952 ELEANOR ADDISON PHILLIPS, M.A., Member of St. Hugh's Hall 1905-8. Formerly Headmistress of Clifton High School. Aged 77.

On 26 July 1952, DOROTHEA ELIZABETH SMITH, M.A., Student of St. Hugh's College 1916-19. Aged 55.

On 8 October 1952 NORA KATHLEEN HEWETT, B.A., Commoner of the College 192o-3. Aged 52.

On 3o March 1952 ELIZABETH MARGARET NICHOLAS (née CROSTHWAITE), B.A., Commoner of the College 192o-3. Aged 5o.

On 7 December 1952 ELIZABETH NOBLE FAWCETT, M.A., Exhibitioner of the College 1922-5. Aged 48.

On 28 September 1952 ISABEL STEWART TOD ASPIN, B.LITT., M.A., Commoner of the College 1931-5. Librarian 1950-2. Aged 41.

On JO July 1952 SHEELAGH M. P. MASON, Assistant Bursar and Bursar of the College 1941-50.

N 21 January 1952 GRACE ISABEL PARSONS,

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GRACE ISA EL PARSONS

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RS. PRICE writes:—Tt was with real sorrow that I heard of the sudden death of Grace Parsons in January last. We had been close friends for many years at Aske's School, Hatcham, and later at St. Hugh's Hall. She and I were the first students to arrive at St. Hugh's, which began in an ordinary house in Norham Road. Later in the day we were joined by two others—Constance Ashburner and Charlotte Jourdain, who however did not wish to read Science. It was finally arranged that Grace should read Botany while I read Chemistry. We were both terribly unprepared for our work for only two women had ever taken Science Honours before us, and we were "breaking new ground".'

Miss Parsons took her finals in Botany in 1889, and a note in the College Register says that she was 'the first woman admitted to this School. No other woman, or man, was examined for it this year.'

After leaving St. Hugh's she was an assistant mistress at Oxford High School for one year, going to Wimbledon High School in 1890 and from there in 1894 as an Assistant Mistress to Falmouth High School.

ISA Is EL STEWART TOD ASPIN MHE very sudden death of Isabel Aspin on Sunday, z8 September 1952, .11. was a cause of great sadness to her friends and colleagues and a serious loss for the College. She had spent the previous day, in the best of health and spirits, on her work for the Library and her forthcoming publication. Her career, which ended so prematurely, had been interesting and varied, and had reached a very happy phase with her return in 195o to take up the congenial duties of College Librarian, and, in her leisure, to explore a new field of research in manuscript classification.

Isabel Aspin came up to read French in the Honour School in 1931. She had a practical artistic bent and during her four years as an undergraduate was able to obtain some training in architecture. After taking a good degree she became secretary and pupil-assistant to the Reader in Paleography, Dr. Lowe.

As a further qualification she took the course in Librarianship at University College, London, in 1938, and, for the bibliographical thesis which was required, she selected a study of the works of the Anglo-Norman Franciscan, Nicole Bozon. She held her first librarians' appointment at the London School of Economics, but the outbreak of war sent her to censorship duties and later to the post of Assistant Librarian in the School of Forestry at Oxford. When she was free to do so she spent a period of independent study, and, after she had taken a B.Litt. in 1951, she started a study of illuminations in some twelfthcentury Anglo-Norman Fable collections. Her edition of Anglo-Norman Political Songs for the Anglo-Norman Text Society was in proof at the time of her death. In 1948 she had been made Assistant Editor to the Society to give help to the Secretary, Professor Pope. This was an ideal appointment, and her devoted service is irreplaceable. The President, Sir William Craigic, wrote to express sympathy for 'a great loss to her friends, to the College and to the study of Anglo-Norman'.

Isabel Aspin's tenure of the Librarianship was a source of great pleasure to her. Close acquaintanceship with her predecessor made the transition smooth, 23

and, coming to duties in her own College, with much experience, she was able to carry out adjustments overdue from the war years and to make some lasting improvements.

From her undergraduate days Isabel Aspin drew to herself a wide circle of friends, who, although of very disparate interests and opinions, all found inspiration and enjoyment in her serenity, unselfishness, and quiet sense of humour. By all who knew her well she was valued for her steadfast character, her independent mind, and the wit and talents which lay at her command.

E. A. F.

VIOLET TALLENT IOLET TALLENT, whose death in March 1952 was noted in last year's came up to St. Hugh's in October 1922 to read Agriculture— V the only member of her year to do so. She took her degree in 1925, and spent Chronicle,

a further period specializing in poultry at the University Farm at Sandford before working under Professor Crewe at the Institute of Animal Genetics at Edinburgh University. She took her M.A. in 193o, and for a time had an appointment at the National Institute of Poultry Husbandry at Newport.

While there she was researching into the causes of 'eclipse plumage in the mallard' : on which she published her findings in Nature in October 1931.

The next year she returned to Edinburgh to research on heredity in rats and mice. In 1938 she set up a mouse-breeding establishment in Edinburgh, breeding mice for scientific and medicinal purposes, while continuing her own genetic research. The venture was a success, and she expanded it for a time to include guinea pigs. But war-time shortages in feeding allowances and her own failing health curtailed her activities. Since 1942 her health steadily declined; but as long as she could keep about she continued to run 'the mice' ; and her assistants carried on for her during the last two years which she had to spend in a nursing home.

She will be remembered by her contemporaries for her cheerfulness and gay hospitality, for the variety of her interests, and for the keen enthusiasm which made her such a happy and stimulating companion. Her increasing helplessness must have been a sore trial to one so vividly alive, but she kept her courage and humour to the last, bearing bravely all that she had to suffer. To those who love her it can only be a matter for thankfulness that the long, weary illness is over.

G. L. A. D. M. L. R.

MARRIAGES JOAN BURCH to KENNETH WILLIAM WEBB at All Saints Church, Viney Hill, Lydney, Glos., on 29 July 1952.

MONICA SYLVIA CURZON to RONALD K. WEBSTER, at Lower Slaughter, Glos., on 19 April 1952.

ELIZABETH RUTH EADE to KENNETH JOHN OVEY (Worcester College) on 9 August 1952.

MARY EVANS to ERIC A. G. MORGAN On 9 August 1952.

CLAUDE NOELE FONTHIER tO CHARLES NEWTON PEABODY, at the Chapelle Fran-

caise, Barcelona, on to October 1952.

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to JAMES HENRY PUTZ, at Wellington Meeting House, Somerset, on 23 August 1952.

MOLLY LEILA FRANKLIN to MICHAEL PARKER (Pembroke College, Cambridge) on 22 July 195o.

LAURA HARRIOTT MAUDE HILL tO ALFRED LEO DUGGAN at St. James', Spanish Place, on 14 January 1952.

CATHARINE HILL to JOHN R. B. BRETT-SMITH at Minchinhampton Parish Church, Glos., on 19 April 1952.

JUNE CAREY HOBSON to PENRY HERBERT WILLIAMS at the Old Church, Shanklin, Isle of Wight, on ro September 1952.

JENEPHER HUDSON tO MICHAEL GEORGE BARRATT, in Oxford, on z8 March 1952.

MARGARET CLAIRE JACKSON tO L. H. V. FRENCH on 19 July 1952.

GWENDOLINE MARY JAMES tO W. G. E. ANDERSSOHN at St. Mary's Church, Pembroke, on 22 August 1951.

JEANETTE JOHNSON tO JOHN VINCENT COOKSHOOT, B.A., B.MUS (St. Edmund Hall) at St. Peter's-in-the-East, Oxford, on 3o August 1952.

ANNIE JONES to DR. EASTLAND STUART STAVELEY, at West Kirby Presbyterian Church, Cheshire, on 26 July 1952.

HAZEL SWAINE MARSH to FRANCIS JOSEPH CHARLES ROSSOTTI (Merton College), at St. Peter's-in-the-East, Oxford, on 31 July 1952.

PAMELA MARY MAYCOCK tO GEORGE HERBERT ALEXANDER ROYDS at Haddiscoe, Norfolk, on z8 June 1952.

JOAN MELLOY to IAN A. S. MELLOWS, at St. Giles' Parish Church, Ashstead, Surrey, on 23 February 1952.

MARGARET MARY OLDHAM tO FRANK RAYMOND HORTON, at St. Osyth Church, Essex, on 3o September 1952.

ANGELA RAINE tO MONTAGUE V. REED, in London in April 1951.

RUTH MAISIE REYNOLDS to PETER MACNAIR, at St. John's Wood Chapel, On 24 May 1952.

JOAN RUSSELL RICHARDS to ROBERT ANDREWS (Principia College, Illinois) on 3 September 1952.

MARIANNE JOAN RIGBY tO R. G. STEVENSON On 29 November 1952.

PHILIPPA SHANNON tO ANTONY LIONEL DORLING On 2 August 1952.

JUNE PETRONELLA SHIELDS tO GILBERT MICHAEL RYE on 14 February 1953.

PENELOPE HOWARD FOX

GILLIAM PAMELA SIBLEY tO J. W. W. HUNTRODS On 19 July 1952.

MRS. SPENCER (DIANA LOUISE LINDSAY) tO DAVID TYLDEN-WRIGHT

(New

College), on 16 October 1952.

SUSAN SPICKERNELL to RENDEL SEBASTIAN PEASE, M.A.

(Cantab.) at St. Mary's

Church, Kintbury, on 9 August 1952. at St. Alban's, Golders Green, on 15 March 1952.

ROSEMARY GRACE TUPPER (daughter of Mrs. Tupper, D. F. H. Chappel 191r) to ANTHONY ARTHUR HILLIARD KELLY, at St. John's Church, Greenhill, Harrow, on 15 April 1952.

PAMELA MERCY CROISSANT UHDE tO CAPTAIN THOMAS IAN HARDIE, M.A. (Edinburgh), R.A., at the Parish Church, Cheltenham, on 24 June 1952.

SHEILA HELENE ELIZABETH WEBSTER tO UWE KITZINGEN, at the Friends' Meeting House, Oxford, on 4 October 1952.

ANNE ELIZABETH NAPIER WHITTINGHAM tO CHUNG SIAN LU (ex Lieut.-Commander, Chinese Navy) at Kensington Registry Office on 7 June 1952.

DAPHNE ELIZABETH TUCK to JOHN DERRICK PAINTER,

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IRTHS MRS. ADDISON (P. M. Russell)-a son (Mark), 22 January 1951.

MRS. ALLOTT (A. E. L. Peet)-a daughter (Rachel Margaret), 2 January 1953.

MRS. BARRY (E. R. Wynne)-a son (Paul James), 24 February 1952.

MRS. BOWLES (I. E. Lambert)-a son (Michael James), 24 September 1952.

MRS. BROMHEAD (Evelyn Snodgrass)-a daughter, 13 June 1952.

MRS. BIRCH-REYNARDSON (Nik Humphreys)-a daughter, 20 March 1952.

MRS. CALVERT-SMITH (S. M. Tilling)-a son (Peter), 9 November 1952.

MRS. COWEN (Rosamund Rieu)-a daughter (Jane), in December 1952.

MRS. COWPERTHWAITE (Patricia Stockdale)-a daughter (Ann Elizabeth), 21

January 1952.

MRS. CRAWSHAW (D. W. M. Keast)-a son (Alan), 28 May 1952.

MRS. CROCKER (Nancy Gamon)-a son (Piers Thomas), 11 April 1952.

MRS. DAUNCEY (R. L. Dennis)-a son (Mark Herne), 27 December 1952.

MRS. EAST (Millicent Standeven)-a son (John Anthony), 26 December 1951.

MRS. FLETCHER (Mary Jackson)-a son (John Duncan), 25 October 1952.

MRS. FORWARD (S. M. Castor)-a daughter (Miranda Jane), 22 January 1952.

MRS. FULLER (R. A. Andrews)-a daughter (Catherine Mary), 4 June 1952.

MRS. GOLDING (C. D. Rogers)-a son (Anthony Charles), 2 October 1952.

MRS. GRANDY (A. I. M. Shaw)-a son (John Clare), 21 August 1952.

MRS. GRIEVE (J. M. Gibbins)-a daughter (Bridget Mary Elizabeth), 31 August 1952.

MRS. ILETT (G. M. Parry)-a son (Nicholas John), 9 March 1952.

MRS. JOHN (C. M. Dowler)-a son (Nicholas Andrew), 18 August 1952.

MRS. JOHNSTON (B. J. Harris)-a son, 3 September 1951.

MRS. LYLE (H. M. Watt)-a son (Andrew Geoffrey Lawrence), 14 April 1952.

MRS. MAISEY (A. J. B. Arnold)-a son (Richard Mark Arnold), 6 April 1952.

MRS. MATTHEWS (J. H. Lloyds)-a daughter (Alison Paula), 29 April 1952.

MRS. MOWAT (P. F. Hunt)-a daughter (Catherine Mary), 20 September 1952.

MRS. O'NEILL (Pauline Ripley)-a son (Hugh Michael), 22 April 1952.

MRS. PARKER (M. L. Franklin)-a daughter (Imogen Jane), 15 December 1951.

MRS. PATTERSON (S. C. Pridmore)-a daughter (Anne Clarissa), 20 January 1952.

MRS. PELHAM (P. M. Brentnall)-a daughter, 5 August 1952.

MRS. POPE (S. E. Fryer)-a daughter (Hilary Anne), 5 April 1951.

MRS. PROTHEROUGH (M. M. Feeney)-a son (Hugh Michael), 28 June 1952.

MRS. PROUDFOOT (Mary Macdonald)-a son (Nicholas Jarvis), 6 June 1951.

MRS. ROOM (G. L. Musto)-a daughter (Caroline Penelope), 27 November 1952.

MRS. ROSENZWEIG (J. S. Chappat)-a daughter (Suzanne Jacqueline), 21 De-

cember 1952.

MRS. SMART (Joyce Graham)-a son (Richard Cedric), 3o June 1952.

MRS. SUTHERLAND (G. A. Campbell James)-a son (Patrick Macaulay), 28 October 1952.

MRS. SYLVESTER (M. A. Brady)-a daughter (Harriet Sarah), 3 June 1952.

MRS. THOMPSON (0. B. N. Fawcett)-a daughter (Hilary Christine), 20

July 1952.

MRS. TREHEARNE

(M. V. Blake)-a daughter (Elisabeth Scarlett), 27 February

1952•

MRS. VIGOR (R. G. Martin)-a daughter (Ruth Mary), I June 1952.

WATERHOUSE (R. E. Franklin)-a son (Edmund Hugh Foster), 4

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Febru-

MRS. WESTON (J. MRS. WYATT (H.

M. Gamon)-a son (Martin Wynell Lee), 29 July 1952.

M. Watts)-a son (Michael), 31 December 1952.

Adoption: MRS. CARLISLE

(Stella Grove)-a daughter (Janet Elizabeth), b. zz August

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PUBLICATIONS I. W. Busbridge, M.A., D.Phil. In collaboration with V. Kourganoff. Basic Methods in Transfer Problems-published by the O.U.P. in the series International Monographs on Physics, 35s.

D. M. M. Edwards-Rees, M.A. Voluntary Youth Leadership: Suggested Study Groups or Projects for Senior Member Training. The Church of England Youth Council, 6o Great Peter St., S.W. 1. March 1952. 2s. 6d.

Joan Evans, D.Litt. Dress in Mediaeval France. Clarendon Press, 1952. 35s.

Phyllis Hartnoll, M.A. The Grecian Enchanted, with 8 aquatints by John Buckland-Wright. Golden Cockerel Press. Cloth, 7 guineas; leather with extra set of plates in slip-case, 20 guineas. Pub. 1 September 1952.

A. D. Holt, M.A. 'Benn's Garden Chapel', Trans. Unitarian Historical Society, October 1952.

- Some English Dissenters and their American Friends (lecture delivered in Boston, U.S.A., 24 May 1952), Trans. American Unitarian Historical Society, 1952.

(Mrs.) L. Iremonger, M.A. The Cannibals. Hammond & Hammond. Pub. 24 October, 1952. 9s. 6d.

- The Young Traveller in the South Seas. Phoenix House. 13 November 1952. 8s. 6d.

D. A. A. Penny, M.A. Clifton High School1877-1952. Pub. by J. W. Arrowsmith, Bristol, 1952. 3s. 6d.

E. B. B. Sharp, M.A. The Modern Approach to Labour Management. Six lectures given in Calcutta August 1951 under the auspices of the University and published by the Indian Institute of Personal Management.

(Mrs.) E. M. Simpson, D.Phil. Donne's Essays in Divinity, edited by E. M. Simpson. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1952. 15s.

- The Works of Ben Jonson, vol. xi (with Percy Simpson, D.Litt.) Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1952. 42s.

ARTICLES (Mrs.) M. C. Allen, B.A. 'Broken Hill' in January 1952 number of the Australian geographical magazine Walkabout. Pub. by the Australian National Publicity Association.

I. W. Busbridge, M.A., D.Phil. 'On Emission Lines in Stellar Spectra.'

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. cxii (1952).

M. L. Cartwright, M.A., D.Phil. 'Van der Pol's Equation for Relaxation Oscillations.' Contributions to the Theory of Non-linear Oscillations, vol. ii, ed. S. Lefschetz (Princeton, 1952).

- With E. F. Collingwood: 'Boundary Theorems for a Function Meromorphic in the Unit Circle.' Acta Math. vol. lxviii, 1952.

M. M. Chattaway, M.A., B.Sc., D.Phil. 'Those Sapwood Trees Again.'

C.S.I.R.O. Forest Products News Letter, no. 179.

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M. M. Chattaway, M.A., B.Sc., D.Phil. 'What wood is this ?' Parts 1-4.

C.S.I.R.O. Forest Products News Letter, nos. 182, 183, 185, and 187. `The Development of Tyloses and Secretion of Gum in Heartwood Formation.' Australian Journal of Scientific Research, B. ii. 3, 5949. `The Development of Horizontal Canals in Rays.' Australian Journal of Scientific Research, B. iv. I, 1951. `Morphological and Functional Variations in the Rays of Pored Timbers.'

Australian Journal of Scientific Research, B. iv. I, 1951. — 'The Structure of Eucalypt Bark.' Forest Products News Letter, no. 19o, 1952. `The Sapwood-Heartwood Transition.' Australian Forestry, xvi. 1, 5952.

Cecily Clark, M.A., B.Litt. 'Caxton's Tullius of Olde Age' (letter). Times Literary Supplement, 22 August 1952.

R. J. Dean, M.A., D.Phil. Review in Romance Philology, vol. vi, 1 (August I952), pp. 63-66, of M. Dominica Legge, Anglo-Norman in the Cloisters, Edinburgh, 195o.

E. M. Deuchar, B.A. (with C. H. Waddington). 'Effect of Type of Contact with the Organiser on the Nature of the Resulting Induction.' Journal of Experimental Biology, vol. xxix, no. 3, p. 496. 1952. `Regional Induction by Amphibian Organiser after Disaggregation of its Cells in Alkali.' J. Exp. Biol. (in press). `The Effect of a High Temperature Shock on Early Morphogenesis in the Chick.' Journ. Anat. (in press).

Joan Evans, D.Litt. 'Archaeology in 1851' in Archaeological Journal, vol. cvii, p. I Alison Fairlie, M.A., D.Phil. 'Some Remarks on Baudelaire's Poeme du Haschischr' in The French Mind, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1952, pp. 291-317.

Mrs. N. M. Fleet. 'Recent Approaches to the Problem of the Authorship of the Nibelungenlied.' London Mediaeval Studies, vol. xi, part i, 1951, pp. 8o-86.

(Mrs.) N. Gorodetzky, B.Litt., M.A., D.Phil. 'La boue d'Odessa en 1818, Couplets inedits de Zenaide Volkonsky.' Revue des Etudes slaves (Paris), no. xxix.

W. J. L. Hazlehurst, M.A. 'Jesus as a Teacher of Adults.' (I) His Approach.

The Inquirer. 29 December 1951. `Jesus as a Teacher of Adults.' (2) His Parables. The Inquirer. 5 January 5952.

(Mrs.) Mary Holdsworth, M.A. 'Soviet Sociologists look at Indirect Rule.'

West Africa, March 1952. `Planning in the Steppes.' Economist, November 1952 (World Overseas Section). `Stalin and Islam.' Broadcast in 'Taking Stock', 3o October 1952.

Home Service.

R. M. Howard, M.A. 'Intention in Cruelty and Constructive Desertion.'

Solicitor Journal, 1952. `Lien and the Right of Sale.' Solicitor Journal, 1952. `Maintenance : Anomalies of Dual Jurisdiction.' Solicitor Journal, 1952. `Is Damage Necessary for Trespass ?' Solicitor Journal, 5952.

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(Mrs.) E. M. 0. Isserlis, B.Sc. 'Mammals collected by Mr. Shaw Mayer in New Guinea, 1932-1949• Bull. Brit. Mus. (Nat. Hist.), Zool. vol. i, no. ro, 1952.

(Mrs.) G. M. Jaffe, M.A. 'Folkways and Moves in a Greek-American Community.' Transactions of the Illinois Academy of Science. In press. To appear May 1953.

'In Memoriam, Marie Antoinette Du Cor.' (Poem.) Forest Leaves, Lake Forest, Ill. B. Kemp, M.A. 'The General Election of 1841.' History, vol. xxxvii. `Resignation from the House of Commons.' Parliamentary Affairs, vol. vi. `The Nineteenth Century.' Annual Bulletin of Historical Literature, 1950. `The Nineteenth Century.' Annual Bulletin of Historical Literature, 1951.

(Mrs.) R. J. Leys, M.A., B.Litt. 'English Student Life in Early Renaissance Italy.' Italian Studies.

R. S. Maas, B.A., 'The Comic Spirit' in Ideas of To-day, May-June 1952. `The Creative Activity' in Ideas of To-day, July-August 1952.

Ida C. Mann, M.A., F.R.C.S. 'Endocrine Disorders of the Eye.' Trans.

Oph. Soc. Aust. (B.M.A.), vol. xi, 1951, pp. 16-26.

M. F. Perham, M.A. 'The Changing Continent.' The Times, z8 October 1952.

(Mrs.) H. S. Rossotti, B.A. `8-Hydroxycinnoline and some of its Derivatives.'

Journal of the Chemical Society, August 1952 (575), pp. 3009-17. (By E. J. Alford, H. Irving, (Miss) H. S. Marsh, and K. Schofield.)

D. S. Russell, M.A., F.R.C.P. `Dystopia of the Neurohypophysis: Two Cases' (1950. J. Path. Bact. vol. lxiii, p. 485.

E. B. B. Sharp, M.A. 'A Decade in the Institute.' Journal of the Institute of Personnel Management. January 1950.

'Industrial Relations and Personnel Management in Canada.' Journal of the Institute of Personnel Management. September 1950.

'The Australian Scene.' Journal of the Institute of Personnel Management. May 1951. `Personnel Management in Australia.' Journal of the Institute of Personnel Management. July 1951. `Employment Problems in Africa.' Journal of the Institute of Personnel Management. June 1952. `The Workers' Welfare—Whose Responsibility ?' Journal of the Institute of Personnel Management. September 1952.

(Mrs.) C. M. Snow, B.A., B.Sc. 'Minimum Areas and Leaf Determination' (together with R. Snow). Proceedings of Royal Society, B, vol. cxxxix, 1952.

J. M. Telfer, M.A., B.Litt. 'The Evolution of a Mediaeval Theme', in The Durham University Journal, December 1952, pp. 25-34.

M. R. Toynbee, M.A. 'A Sydney Lawsuit.' Archaeologia Cantiana, vol. lxiv (P95 1).

'The Date of the Visit of King Charles I to Hull in 1639.' Yorkshire Archaeological Journal, part cxlix (1952).

H. M. Wallis, M.A. 'The Molyneux Globes.' The British Museum Quarterly, vol. xvi, no. 4 (1952), pp. 89-90.

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M. E. White, M.A. The Heritage of Western Culture (Toronto, Ryerson Press, 1952) Chapter I, pp. 1-25. $1.50.

Studies in Honour of Gilbert Norwood edited by Mary E. White (Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1952). $5.00.

Mrs. H. J. Wright, B.A. 'The Arabic Numerals in Infant and Primary Departments' in The Writing of Arabic Numerals by G. G. Neill Wright, pub. by Hodder & Stoughton for the Scottish Council for Research in Education. December 1952. los. 6d.

NEWS AND APPOINTMENTS OF SENIOR MEM 1E S, 1952 [The date of appointment is 1952 unless otherwise stated. The date after each name is that of entry to the College.]

C. ABOAV, M.A. (1944), was appointed teacher in English for Gothenburge Studenternas Kursverksamhet. She is a journalist for Gotheborgs Handels —och Sjofahrtstidning.

D. E. ACKROYD, M.A. (1930), was appointed a member of the British delegation to the High Authority of the European Coal and Steel Community (the Schuman Pool) going to Luxembourg under Sir Cecil Weir in August.

F. E. BATES, M.A. (1944), was appointed assistant French Mistress at Varndean School for Girls, Brighton.

L. M. BEAULAH, B.A. (1949), is reading for the Certificate in Education at Hughes Hall, Cambridge.

M. A. BELLAMY, M.A. (1920), has recently returned from Australia and New Zealand after travelling for about nine months.

C. D. BENNETT, B.A. (1947), was appointed Tutors' Secretary at Jesus College, Cambridge, in November.

M. H. BLANCHARD (1949), is taking a secretarial course.

SYLVIA BLEWETT, B.A. (1949), was appointed a Mathematician with the English Electric Co. Ltd., Luton Airport.

JANET BLYTH (1949) was successful in the Home Civil Service entrance examination, Special Department Classes, Inspector of Taxes in the Inland Revenue Department.

P. A. BOWYER, B.A. (1949), is reading for the Oxford Diploma in Education.

M. G. D. BOYALL, M.A. (1940), was appointed French mistress at Parliament Hill School, London, from September.

S. E. BROWN, B.A. (1948), took up an appointment with the L.C.C. in November 1951.

M. E. CAIN (1948) passed the examination for the Oxford Diploma in Education with distinction.

M. L. CARTWRIGHT, M.A., D.PHIL. (1919), Mistress of Girton, was one of the members of the Chancellor's deputation which presented a loyal address to H.M. The Queen on behalf of the University of Cambridge on 21 May. G. M. CHAPPEL, M.A. (1915), resigned her post as Headmistress of Romford County High School as from April 1953 for reasons of health.

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M. M. cHATTAwav, M.A., B.SC., D.PHIL. (192o), attended the meeting of the Science Congress in Brisbane in May 1951. She has bought a car, which she calls 'Hugo', so that both she and her mother can get around more, and she took two friends to the Conference of the Australian Federation of University Women in Adelaide in January. At Easter she and her mother 'had a wonderful trip to New Zealand'.

CECILY CLARK, M.A., B.LITT. (1945), was appointed an assistant lecturer in English at King's College, London.

N. M. CLEGG, B.A. (1948), was appointed Assistant Secretary at St. Katharine's College, Liverpool.

MRS. COATMAN (S. M. Brown, 1947), B.A., was appointed Assistant English Mistress at the High School (Denmark Road), Gloucester, from April.

K. H. COBURN, B.LITT. (193o), was elected a Fello w of the Royal Society of Literature.

MRS. COCKSHOOT (Jeanette Johnson, 1944), M.A., resigned from the Foreign Office at the end of July.

D. T. M. COLMAN, B.A. (1949), was appointed Teacher-Secretary to the FinnishBritish Association of Turku/Abo, Finland.

JUDITH COOPER, B.A. (1949), is working for the Oxford Diploma in Statistics.

P. M. COOPER, B.A. (1948), is working for a Diploma in Education at King's College, London.

E. P. CORNER, M.A. (1933), who is still working as a Probation Officer in Derbyshire, was appointed a member of the Probation Advisory and Training Board of the Home Office, and was elected Vice-Chairman of the National Association of Probation Officers. She was sent to Germany, to lecture on Probation, by the Foreign Office in February.

LILY CRANKSHAW, M.A. (1938), has been Senior History and Latin Mistress at the West Cornwall School, Penzance, since 1949.

MRS. CURTIS (A. B. Buller 1913), B.A., was appointed a Governor of King Edward School, Bath. She is a Manager of Avonside School, a Home Office Approved School for Girls in Bath.

S. L. CUTCLIFFE, B.A. (1949), has a post with British Electricity.

ELISABETH DAVID, B.A. (1946), has a post in the War Office.

A. M. DAVIS, M.A. (1907), retired from teaching in 1951.

RUTH J. DEAN, M.A., D.PHIL. (1922), was appointed a member of the Fulbright Advisory Committee for Language and Literature.

MRS. DENBEIGH (M. G. Beamish, 1939), M.A., is now teaching under the Staffordshire Education Committee.

D. M. DE MN, B.A. (1949), is teaching, and studying for her L.R.A.M. E. M. DEUCHAR, B.A. (1945), was appointed Assistant Lecturer in Embryology at University College, London, Department of Anatomy, from January 1953.

B. P. DEVERELL, B.A. (1943), was appointed to a secretarial post in the British Legation at Berne, Switzerland, in July.

M. P. DODWELL, M.A. (1944), was appointed an Assistant Mistress at the Manning School, Nottingham.

THE HON. MRS. JOHN DU PARCQ (E. A. Poole, 1936), M.A., was elected a Member ers' Union. She is the of the London Diocesan Council of the Moth Mothers' Union Young Members Leader for north-west London.

E. M. EDWARDS, B.A. (1949), is doing a post-graduate secretarial course at the Oxford and Coiinty Secretarial School, Oxford.

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(P. M. Davies, 1922), M.A., left Benacre in August, her husband having accepted the living of Therfield in Hertfordshire.

JOHN EVANS, D.LITT. (1914), was given the honorary degree of LL.D. by Edinburgh University in July.

P. M. C. EVANS, M.A. (1931), who has been Senior Classical Mistress at Bradford High School since she returned to England, was appointed Headmistress of St. Swithin's School, Winchester, from January 1953.

M. E. FARSON, B.A. (1947), was appointed Secretarial Assistant to the School Book Editor at Evans Brothers, Russell Square—educational and general publishers.

MRS. FESSLER (A. M. Arnold, 1944), M.A., is doing part-time teaching at Beeston County School for Girls, Nottingham.

MRS. FINCHAM Cousins, 1944), M.A., is Secretary (part-time) to the Warden of Chelmsford Central Youth Centre and Part-time Day Release Centre.

MRS. FLETCHER (Mary Jackson, 193o), M.A., who is back in Aden, where her husband has been recalled from his secondment to Nigeria, hopes to be in England in August.

MARY FLEW, B.A. (1946), resigned her post at Tonbridge Girls' Grammar School and has been appointed to a short service commission in the Educational Branch of the Women's Royal Air Force.

S. M. FORBES (1949) was appointed a Technical Assistant at British Aeroplane Company.

M. G. FORSTER, M.A. (1937), has been doing supply work for a year, teaching in London.

C. R. FORTESCUE, B.A. (1948), was awarded a Zaharoff Travelling Scholarship for 1952-3.

J. B. FRAZER, B.A. (1947), who has had an appointment with Courtaulds Ltd., will be abroad in 1953 in Norway.

MRS. FRENCH (M. C. Jackson, 1934), M.A., has been a part-time assistant on the staff of the Lycee Francais de Londres since 1951.

0. P. FRODSHAM, M.A., B.M., B.CH. (1942), who is engaged to be married in the summer of 1953, is meantime continuing medical work in Manchester.

MRS. GARRETT (H. L. Coates, 1937), M.A., is back in New Zealand where her husband is Professor of English at Canterbury University College. She is a book reviewer for the Christchurch 'Press' and also has a regular Radio Book-review, and takes part in a Woman's Discussion Panel on the air.

L. J. GIBSON (1949), has returned to her Lectureship at Melbourne University.

M. C. GODLEY, M.A. (1919), founded a new Lecture Agency known as 'The Hollow Point Lecture Agency', in London. She lectures to senior forms of schools on 'Communism and the Answer to it'.

M. L. GORDON, M.A., B.LITT. (1905), has had to give up her flat and leave Cambridge owing to ill-health. She is living in Surrey till the spring.

C. P. GREEN, B.A. (1949), is reading for the Oxford Diploma in Education.

A. M. GRUTTER, M.A. (1932), was invited by the Foreign Office to make a lecture tour in Germany during the summer. This involved lecturing to Adult Education groups and running a course for German teachers.

J. P. HALLETT, B.A. (1949), is reading for the Oxford Diploma in Education.

MRS. HARDIE (P. M. C. Uhde, 1946), B.A., had an appointment as temporary editor on Savings and Income Survey at the Oxford University Institute of Statistics before her marriage.

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(D. A. 0. Hudson, 1941), M.A., was appointed Senior Mistress at Campden Technical School, Ladbroke Grove, London.

M. F. HARDING, M.A. (1936), qualified as a State Certificated Midwife in September and was appointed a Nursing Sister in the Sudan from December.

MRS. HARRIS (Evelyn Phipps, 1912) is still working as one of the two Secretaries to the Headmaster of St. John's College, Johannesburg.

PHYLLIS HARTNOLL, M.A. (1926), was appointed a Lecturer in the History of Drama at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art from October.

JOYCE HAZLEHURST, M.A. (1931), has accepted the invitation of Horwich Unitarian Free Church, near Bolton, Lancs. to be their Minister from August 1953. She has been Student Pastor at this Church since May 195o while training for the Unitarian Ministry and reading for her B.D. degree at Manchester University.

B. M. HENDERSON, M.A. (1945), was appointed Assistant Officer at the University Registry, Oxford.

CAROLA HERBERT, B.A. (1949), was appointed Assistant Economist at Electric and Musical Industries Ltd. I. R. HODGSON, M.A. (1940), sailed for South Africa in August to take up work as an Evangelist. She was in Grahamstown working with the Community of the Resurrection till shortly after Christmas, when she started pastoral and evangelistic work among coloured people in a parish in Port Elizabeth.

MRS. HOLDSWORTH (Mary Zvegintzov, 1927), M.A., has been doing voluntary work as a Manager of Forest Hill Primary School and a Governor of Holton Park Girls' Grammar School, both under the Oxfordshire County Council.

A. D. HOLT, M.A. (192o), was elected President of the Provincial Assembly of Presbyterian and Unitarian Ministers and Congregations of Lancashire and Cheshire 1952-3.

MRS. HORNIBROOK (Margaret Hemstock, 1918), M.A., was re-elected a member of the Eton Rural District Council.

MRS. IREMONGER (Lucille Parks, 1934), M.A., has lectured and broadcast regularly in the Home, Light, and Overseas programmes of the B.B.C. as usual.

D. R. K. IRVINE, M.A. (1941), is now teaching at the Army Children's Secondary School in Tripoli.

EDITH JACKSON, B.A. (1934), obtained a Private Pilot's flying licence on her last leave.

P. A. JOHNSON (195o) has returned to the High School, Middletown, Ohio.

D. M. H. JONES, B.A. (i949), is reading for the Oxford Diploma in Education.

E. M. JONES, B.A. (1949), is reading for the Oxford Diploma in Education.

N. S. JONES, M.A. (1938), was appointed Assistant in the Secretary's Office, Bedford College, University of London, in December.

MRS. KALN (Vera Pattison, 1916), M.A., is now the Secretary of the Oxford Society in Sweden, and will be very pleased to see any member of the College who may go to Sweden.

MRS. KEELEY (M. M. S. Kyris, 1948), B.A., was appointed Editorial Assistant to Mathematical Reviews, edited monthly by the American Mathematical Society.

E. T. KEENOR, B.A. (1944), was appointed assistant Classics Mistress at Bradford Girls' Grammar School for two terms only from January 1953.

MRS. HARDING

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Hackwood, 1946), B.A., was appointed History Mistress at Tottenham County School from September. u. M. KENNY (1949) is working for a Diploma in Education at the Institute of Education, London.

M. M. KIRK, B.A. (1947), is now working in the Foreign Office.

MRS. KNIGHT (D. M. Sherwood, 1933), B.A., has been doing part-time tutorial work with cadets at the Royal Air Force College, Cranwell. She expects to go to Singapore in March when her husband takes up his new appointment as Assistant Chaplain-in-Chief F.E.A.F. D. M. LANE, M.A. (1945), was appointed Assistant German Mistress at Middlesbrough Girls' High School.

D. M. LAWTON (1949) is working for a Diploma in Education at the Institute of Education, London.

M. R. LAYNG, M.A. (1918), was appointed Secretary at Priors Field, Godalming, Surrey.

M. L. LEE, M.A. (I890), sits on two Housing Committees and joins in some amount of social work, besides continuing to take an active interest in Wychwood School.

MRS. LENNIE (D. M. M. Thomas, 1936), B.A., has been Assistant Secretary of the Oxford Society since December 1951.

MRS. LEYS (R. J. Mitchell, 1921), M.A., B.LITT., who was awarded a Leverhulme Research Grant for 1952-3.—Subject, 'Englishmen in Italy in the XV Century'—lectured for the British Society of Italian Studies at Cambridge in August. She is also a Civil Defence Lecturer.

P. M. LINDSAY, B.A. (1944), who is working as a Research Student at the School of Slavonic and Eastern European Studies in London, spent some time in Yugoslavia in the summer making a study of Co-operative Farming.

M. A. LISTER, M.A. (1943), who has been teaching in Australia will return to England in May 1953, after spending three months in New Zealand.

F. G. LLOYD, M.A. (1939), was appointed Headmistress of the County High School, Brackley, Northants, from September.

M. H. LAGDEN, M.A. (1919), moved back to the Cotswolds, to Burford. She has published poems in America.

R. S. MAAS, B.A. (1943), gave a week's series of talks in London on the Gospel of St. John, in the New Year 1953.

J. D. MCCALL, M.A. (1943), was appointed Second French Mistress at the Perse School for Girls, Cambridge, from October.

E. B. MACKINLEY, M.A. (1934), was appointed Senior English Mistress at Hove County Grammar School for Girls.

L. C. MACKINTOSH, B.A. (1947), was appointed English mistress at Calder Girls' School, Seascale, Cumberland, from September.

E. M. MACKINTOSH, B.A. (1940), is reading for the Oxford Diploma in Education.

MRS. MARTIN CLARKE, M.A. (F. 193o), gave the University of London Extension Lectures on English Gothic Architecture (Church and Domestic) at the City Literary Institute, Holborn.

L. E. MATTHEWS, B.A. (1948), was appointed English Mistress at St. Peter's School, Coulsdon, Surrey.

P. M. MATTHEWS, B.A. (1948), was appointed an Assistant Mistress at Blackheath High School (G.P.D.S.T.).

MRS. KELVIN (Patricia

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A. M. MAYALL, B.A.

(1946), is now working at Messrs. Faber and Faber (Pub-

lishers) Ltd. (Joan Melloy, 1943), B.A., will be living in Nigeria with her husband after March 1953.

MRS. MIDGLEY (C. A. Gaminara, 1934), B.A., is chairman of the Executive Committee of the Delhi Commonwealth Women's Association—a womens' club that she has helped to start in Delhi.

LADY MOBERLY (Gwen Gardner, 1912), M.A., is still Chairman of Governors, Godolphin Latymer School, Hammersmith, and Vice-Chairman of the Council of Westfield College, University of London. She has recently had a most interesting tour by air of very many American universities.

M. C. MOGFORD, B.A. (1947), was commissioned a Lieutenant in the Womens' Royal Army Corps in April.

H. P. MOORE (1949) is taking a secretarial course at the Hampstead Secretarial College.

R. M. MOORE, B.A. (1948), has a secretarial post in the Foreign Office.

J. C. MORLAND, M.A. (1941), was appointed a part-time Lecturer, in the Commerce Department, at the Gloucester Technical College.

J. M. MOTT, B.A. (1949), is reading for the Oxford Diploma in Education.

MRS. MOWAT (L. E. Homewood, 1934), M.A., was in England from April to September during her husband's leave. They returned to Malaya by air and took up residence in Butterworth, Province Wellesley, her husband having been appointed Senior District Officer for Province Wellesley.

Judging by the list of her activities a District Officer's wife is indeed a female Pooh-Bah. W. E. MURRELL, M.A. (1924), was appointed Senior Occupational Therapist at King George V Hospital, Godalming.

J. M. NEWMAN, B.A. (1919), went to Southern Rhodesia for the Girl Guide Association to help to train leaders.

MRS. NIEBUHR (U. M. Keppel-Compton, 1926), M.A., received the honorary degree of D.D. from Trinity College, Toronto University, Canada, on the occasion of the centenary celebrations of the college in September. This was the first honorary Divinity Doctorate given to a woman by that college or any other college of Anglican foundation on the North American continent.

DIANA NIXON, M.A. (1943), was promoted to the grade of Statistician in the Food and Agricultural Organization.

D. M. NUTBOURNE, M.A., B.Sc. (1943), was appointed Casualty Officer at St. Thomas' Hospital, London, from January to July 1953.

E. L. OLDHAM, M.A. (1938), was appointed Headmistress of Elmslie Girls' School, Blackpool, from September.

MRS. PAINTER (D. E. Tuck, 1944), M.A., was appointed Assistant Youth Employment Officer with the London County Council.

MRS. PATTERSON (S. C. Pridmore, 1936), M.A., has been engaged on a study of the Polish Ethnic Group in Canada for the degree of Ph.D. at the University of London since September.

A. E. PEARSON, B.A. (1949), was successful in the examination for entrance to the Home Civil Service in the Special Departmental Classes, Inspector of Taxes, Inland Revenue Department.

A. C. PERCIVAL, M.A. (192I), was elected a member of the Executive Committee of the Conference of Educational Associations. This Committee arranges MRS. MELLOWS

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the Conferences of various bodies, which are held annually in King's College, London, during the Christmas vacation.

M. F. PERHAM, M.A. (1914), was given the honorary degree of LL.D. by St. Andrews University in July.

LADY ANNE PERY, B.A. (1947), was re-elected Elizabeth Wordsworth Student 1952-3.

V. J. PITT, B.A. (1943), was appointed a Lecturer in English at Newnham College, Cambridge, from October.

M. J. PORCHER, M.A. (I 91 0), was elected Parish representative on Cheltenham Council of Churches.

MRS. PRATER (D. I. Fletcher, 1938), M.A., was appointed part-time Assistant French Mistress at the Collegiate School, Winterbourne, Glos., from January.

M. A. PRIESTLEY, B.LITT. (1945), was appointed a Lecturer in History, University College of the Gold Coast.

E. F. PRIEST SHAW, M.A. (1917), was appointed Hon. Curator of Shaftesbury Museum (in connexion with Shaftesbury and District Historical Society).

H. M. C. PURKIS, M.A. (1940), was granted un Doctorat de l'Universite de Paris in January.

G. E. E. RANDALL, M.A. (1939), is now a tutor to a local coaching school. She recently attended Liverpool University's Summer School in Spain.

B. J. REEVE, M.A. (1930), is in training at the Hampstead Child Therapy Course, and is a post-graduate student at University College, London.

M. I. REID, M.A. (1942), was promoted a Principal in the Treasury.

A. F. RITCHIE, B.A. (1949), is reading for a D.Phil. at Oxford.

J. E. A. ROBERTSON, M.A. (1922), writes 'At August Bank Holiday weekend, I opened a cafe and shop in a wing of my cottage—The Checkers. During August and September we did a great trade with teas and now the shop is flourishing. We sell drapery, handicrafts, China and pottery, toilet requisites, haberdashery, and garden produce and we specialize in children's garments and other hand-knitted goods. We should always be glad to see St. Hugh's students, past or present.'

J. C. H. ROFFEY, B.A. (1948), was appointed a Personnel officer at Bryant and May's works at Bow. MRS. ROSSOTTI (H. S. Marsh, 1948), B.A., is reading for a D.Phil. in Chemistry at Oxford.

D. B. SAUNDERS, B.LITT. (1925), was made Honorary Chairman of the Winnipeg Women's Branch of the Canadian Institute of International Affairs.

M. A. sFroN, B.A. (1948), is a trainee at Unilever Limited, London.

E. B. B. SHARP, M.A. (1928), completed her two-year tour round the Commonwealth studying industrial relations and developing talks between the British Institute of Personnel Management and similar bodies overseas in March.

She was Deputy Director of the Institute of Personnel Management until September and from then until December she was Personnel Supervisor for the General Assembly of the World Veterans Federation in Paris.

G. M. SHARPE, M.A. (1919), was appointed Second Mistress at Berkhamsted School for Girls.

M. G. SHIELL (1949) is taking a secretarial course at the Hampstead Secretarial College.

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(1949), started a six month's course at the Hampstead Secretarial College in September.

SISTER ELSA (E. M. Henry, 1923), M.A., went out to S. Africa to work in St. Peter's School, Rosettenville, in January.

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

ANN SLATER, B.A., B.MUS. (1946), was appointed an Extra-mural Lecturer for Nottingham University and for Hull University College.

J. MCI. SMELLIE, M.A., B.M., B.CH. (1944), was appointed House Physician at University College Hospital, London, in February, and Paediatric House Physician at the Royal Manchester Children's Hospital in August.

P. A. SMITH, M.A. (1932), was appointed Headmistress of Ashford County Grammar School, Kent.

THE HON. JANETTA SOMERSET, M.A. (1943), was appointed to the Staff of Morning Sun of Baltimore, U.S.A. ILSE STEIN, B.A. (1947), was appointed to the staff of the Prudential Assurance Company in January.

J. M. STOLPER (1950) has returned to U.S.A. K. I. M. TESTER, B.A. (1949), is reading for the Diploma in Public and Social Administration at Oxford.

MRS. THOM (E. A. Jeffrey, 1927), M.A., was appointed a Justice of the Peace for the borough of Colchester in May. MRS. THOMAS (G. M. Willing, 1929), B.LITT., was appointed Oral examiner in French, Cambridge University School Examinations Syndicate.

MRS. THOMSON (P. B. Davies, 1938), M.A., has lived at Chelsea since returning from Egypt two years ago. Her husband is Vicar of Chelsea Old Church.

M. P. THORNYCROFT, M.A. (1943), is working in the Information Department of a private bank in the City.

E. M. THRELFALL (1949) is taking a secretarial course at Cheltenham.

M. C. TINDAL, B.A. (1948), was appointed English and History Mistress at Seymour Lodge School, Crieff, Perthshire.

D. R. TITHERIDGE, B.A. (1948), was appointed Biology Mistress at Central Foundation Girls' School, Spital Square, London.

MRS. TUPPER (D. F. H. Chappel, 1911), M.A., is Chairman of the Harrow and District Marriage Guidance Council.

MRS. VINT (B. E. Jowers, 1920), B.A., went to Singapore in October to join her husband and expects to remain there till his tour of duty finishes in February 1954.

MRS. WALKER (S. H. M. Wilson, 1935), B.A., has been working in France since 1951 with the European Youth Campaign, writing, broadcasting, &c.

A. M. WATSON, M.A. (1936), was appointed Senior Probation Officer, Shire Hall Division, Nottingham.

C. E. WATSON, B.A. (1921), was appointed Assistant Secretary, 1930 Fund for District Nurses, in October 1951.

A. E. WAYMENT, M.A. (1941), was appointed Headmistress of Danemark County Secondary School for Girls, Winchester, from January 1953.

R. M. WEBSTER, B.A. (195o), while continuing as Minister of Twyford Congregational Church has been appointed also as Secretary of the Berkshire Standing Conference of National Voluntary Youth Organizations.

C. M. WERNER, M.A. (1944), passed the Final Examination of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors in March and was elected an Associate member

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of the Institute (A.R.I.C.S.) in November. The branch of the profession in which she has qualified is concerned with Valuations and Estate Management.

B. J. WEST, B.A. (1949), was awarded an Exhibition at University College Hospital.

M. J. WHITELEY, B.A. (1949), is reading for a Diploma in Education at the Institute of Education, London.

MRS. WILDE (F. E. C. Bayliss, 1947), B.A., taught for a year in an American-run school—the International Children's Centre—in Bangkok. She is now working for the British Council, but is leaving Bangkok for England in March 1953 and probably not returning.

M. K. B. WILKINS, M.A. (194o) was appointed head of the Classics Department, Benenden School, Kent.

A. L. 0. WILLAN, B.A. (1946), was appointed Chemistry Mistress at Folkestone County Grammar School for Girls from September.

G. M. B. WILLIAMS, M.A. (1924), was appointed Headmistress of Crediton High School, Devon, in April.

J. M. WOOD, B.A. (1948), was appointed Secretary to Professor F. E. Simon, C.B.E., F.R.S., at the Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford.

MRS. WRIGHT (H. J. Crump, 1919), B.A., is doing research into the history of Handwriting for a Study of the teaching of Handwriting under the auspices of the Scottish Council for Research in Education.

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JUBILEE SCHOLARS 1950 PATRICIA LILIAN BUTT 1951 MARGARET ROSE BUCKLEY

NUFFIELD MEDICAL SCHOLAR 1951 JOAN DOROTHY PEACOCK CLARA EVELYN MORDAN SCHOLAR 1952 MARY KURN

ETHEL SEATON SCHOLAR 1952 EVA MARY CARABINE

GAMBLE SCHOLARS 1951

THEODORA DIANA GOLDREI 1952 IRIS DOREEN JENKINS

ELIZABETH WORDSWORTH STUDENT 1951-3

LADY ANNE PERY

MARY GRAY ALLEN SENIOR SCHOLAR 1951-3 VALERIE LOUISE PEARL (MRS.), B.A. MOBERLY SENIOR SCHOLAR 1952 VERONICA MARY VARLEY (MRS.), B.A.

HURRY PRIZE-WINNERS 1951 GWYNNETH MARGARET MATTHEWS 1952 BARBARA JANE WEST

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