St Hugh's College, Oxford - Chronicle 1953-1954 by St Hugh's College, Oxford

ST. HUGH'S COLLEGE

CHRONICLE '953 -54 Number 2 6

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 HILDA MARY VIRTUE-TEBBS

ST. HUGH'S COLLEGE ASSOCIATION OF SENIOR MEMBERS

Chairman:

THE PRINCIPAL Hon. Secretary, 1953-55: MISS C. M. ADY, M.A., D.LITT. Editor of the Chronicle, 1952-54:

MISS E. LEMON, B.A.

CONTENTS OFFICERS OF THE ASSOCIATION.

VISITOR, PRINCIPAL, FELLOWS, HON. FELLOWS, ETC. . REPORT OF THE TWENTY-EIGHTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE ASSOCIATION OF SENIOR MEMBERS

1954. 1953 . .

LONDON MEETING, THE GAUDY,

3 5 7 7 8

THE PRINCIPAL'S REPORT

BENEFACTIONS AND GIFTS

THE JUNIOR COMMON ROOM AND GAMES REPORT) DEGREES

16 17

UNIVERSITY PRIZES, POSTGRADUATE AWARDS

COLLEGE AWARDS .

HONOUR EXAMINATIONS

MATRICULATIONS .

OBITUARY .

MARRIAGES .

24 26

BIRTHS

PUBLICATIONS

NEWS AND APPOINTMENTS

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

Principal EVELYN EMMA STEFANOS PROCTER, M.A., CHEV. DE LA LgGION D'HONNEUR

Fellows ELIZABETH ANNIE FRANCIS, M.A. M.A. LOND.), Official

Fellow, Tutor in French,

University Lecturer. Professorial Fellow, Montague Burton Professor of International Rela tions. DOROTHEA HELEN FORBES GRAY, O.B.E., M.A., Official Fellow, Tutor in Classics, University Lecturer in Homeric Archaeology. OLGA DELFINA BICKLEY, M.A. (DOTTORE IN LETTERE, GENOA), Official Fellow, Tutor in Modern Languages and Martinengo Cesaresco Lecturer in Italian, University Lecturer. MADGE GERTRUDE ADAM, M.A., D.PHIL., Official Fellow, Tutor in Natural Science and University Demonstrator in Astronomy. IDA WINIFRED BUSBRIDGE, M.A., D.PHIL. (M.SC. LOND.), Official Fellow, Tutor in Mathematics, University Lecturer. BETTY KEMP, M.A., Official Fellow, Tutor in History, University Lecturer. MOLLY MAUREEN MAHOOD, M.A. M.A. LOND.), Official Fellow, Tutor in English Literature, University Lecturer. HON. HONOR MILDRED VIVIAN SMITH, M.A. (B.SC., M.B. LOND.), Research Fellow. AGNES HEADLAM-MORLEY, B.LITT. M.A.,

JOAN EVANS, D.LITT. (D.LIT. LOND., HON. LL.D. EDINBURGH), CHEV. DE LA LAGION D'HONNEUR, Supernumerary Fellow. PAMELA OLIVE ELIZABETH GRADON, M.A. (PH.D. LOND.), Official Fellow, Tutor

in English Language, University Lecturer. AGNES PRISCILLA WELLS, M.A., Official Fellow, Treasurer. HELEN MARY WARNOCK (MRS.), B.PHIL., M.A., Official Fellow,

sophy, University Lecturer. SUSAN MERIEL WOOD (mBs.), B.LITT., History, University Lecturer.

M.A.,

Tutor in Philo-

Official Fellow, Tutor in Medieval

Honorary Fellows JOAN EVANS, D.LITT. BARBARA ELIZABETH GWYER, M.A. IDA CAROLINE MANN, M.A. (D.SC. LOND.) CECILIA MARY ADY, M.A., D.LITT. MARY ETHEL SEATON, M.A., D.LITT.

Lecturers MARGARET JACOBS, B.LITT., M.A. Cassel Lecturer in German. MARJORIE MARY SWEETING, M.A. (M.A., PH.D. CAMBRIDGE), Lecturer

graphy. BETTY ISABELLE BLEANEY, M.A. (MRS.),

Lecturer in Physics.

Bursar EDITH MARY WORNER

Librarian JOYCELYNE GLEDHILL DICKINSON, M.A., D.PHIL.

Principal's Secretary EILEEN BEERE

in Geo-

REPORT OF THE TWENTY-EIGHTH ANNUAL MEETING OF SENIOR MEM ERS ffiHE meeting was held in the Mordan Hall on Saturday, 4 July 1953. One hundred and six Senior Members were present. The Chairman in her statement spoke of the great loss to English scholarship sustained by the death of Dorothy Everett. She came to Oxford as Tutor in English at St. Hugh's in 1921, was for twenty-five years a Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall, and from 1945 University Reader in English Language. Another distinguished Senior Member who had died recently was Mrs. Georgina Buckler. Her connexion with the College began when she was over 5o, and registered as an Advanced Student in Byzantine history. Her book on Anna Comnena is a standard work, and she had been a generous friend to the College. Mrs. Aspin had made a munificent gift of ÂŁ4,000 as a memorial of her daughter to be used as an endowment for the Library. Recent honours bestowed on Senior Members included an Hon. LL.D. (Edinburgh) to the Mistress of Girton (Mary Cartwright) and O.B.E.s to Enid Mcleod and Anstare Moore in the Birthday and Coronation Honours List. University Awards had been made to Nancy Sandars (Thomas Whitcombe Greene Scholarship) and Barbara Levick (Thomas Whitcombe Greene Prize), both for work in Classical Archaeology. Anne Elliott had been elected Mary Somerville Research Fellow and Rachel Toulmin Woolley Archaeological Fellow at Somerville College. The latter would hold her Fellowship in conjunction with the Elizabeth Wordsworth Studentship, and thus be able to carry out a plan of extensive travel for her work on Early Christian Mosaics. There had been two recent pieces of university legislation of particular interest to women. One is the amalgamation of the Appointments Committees for Men and Women into a single joint committee. Miss Fone, the present secretary of the Women's Committee, will become one of the secretaries of the new committee, and will deal with posts open to women only. The other is the increase of the quota for women undergraduates so as to allow up to zoo to each of the four residential colleges, and 23o to St. Anne's. In addition all students working for research degrees, and not as hitherto Advanced Students only, will be extra numerum. These important changes were passed without opposition. The Chairman concluded her statement by drawing attention to the College flag, now floating over the Mary Grey Allen Wing, the gift of Dr. Evans and Miss Francis for coronation year. Dr. Ady was re-elected Secretary of the Association for 1953-5. A discussion took place on the proposed meeting of Senior Members in London in 1954. The suggestion of a luncheon was not supported and a proposal by Miss Southwell that the meeting should take the form of a sherry party to be held towards the end of September received general approval. The arrangements as to place and date were left to the Chairman and Secretary. Tea in the garden filled with sunshine followed the meeting.

*NDON MEETING-SHERRY PA TY

HE Sherry party for Senior Members proposed at the Annual Meeting has been arranged for Friday, r October 1954, 5.30-7.30 p.m. It will be 7

held at Queen Elizabeth College, Campden Hill, by permission of the Principal (M. J. Sergeaunt), and we are very grateful to her for having us. Full particulars will be found on a slip enclosed with the Chronicle. It is hoped that this type of meeting may be more popular than a dinner, and will be well attended.

THE GAUDY, 1953 MHE Association of Senior Members gathered for the Gaudy of 1953 with IL a special sense of anticipation after the unusual interval of three years. About 16o attended, the span of generations represented being a wide one from 1900, with few gaps. Luncheon on Saturday, 4 July, was the well-remembered pleasant scramble. After the Association Meeting in the Mordan Hall, reported in detail elsewhere in the Chronicle, there was tea out-of-doors on a fine summer afternoon. All rejoiced to see the College gardens restored to their former serene beauty after the demolition of the wartime huts. The lawns bore hardly a scar, thanks to the skill of those who had watched over their recovery. May this success need no repetition. For the Gaudy dinner the Hall was filled to capacity: and the clamour of voices made conversation somewhat a matter of guess-work. Younger members, who dined in the extension, crowded into the main Hall for the speeches, but had to listen standing. Those privileged by seniority to sit in comfort pondered the difficulties of the organizers and began to understand the case for a divided Gaudy. After the Queen's health had been drunk, much acclamation greeted Miss Thorneycroft, who, most appropriately, proposed the toast of the Association. This was replied to by Miss Gwyer, in a speech of pungent reminiscence delighting those who had known her as Principal, as well as others of an earlier or a later day. The toast of the College was proposed by Miss M. K. James, who was an undergraduate in Jubilee year and recalled the manner of its celebration by her contemporaries. Looking forward to the future of the College, the speaker, who had recently completed a thesis on the Anglo-French wine trade in the fourteenth century, suggested that when circumstances permitted a beginning should be made in laying down a cellar. In reply, the Principal first thanked Miss James for her suggestion and invited her help in carrying it out at some future date. She then went on to her highly interesting and informative speech, which raised many questions and answered others in the minds of her hearers. The speech is printed in full elsewhere in this issue. On leaving the Hall, most of the company sought the cool air of the terrace and gardens, where groups of walkers and talkers were very content to stay until the college gates were closed. On Sunday, 5 July, a large congregation attended the celebration of Holy Communion in the Chapel at 8 a.m. The pressure on space at this service emphasized the need of the College for a new or enlarged chapel, and all Senior Members will be glad to know that a Fund has been opened for this object. After breakfast on Sunday the Principal received many callers in her -

Lodgings and dealt with a succession of inquiries on weighty matters, mingled with thanks to all who had organized the Gaudy. The Principal in replying to the toast of the College said : `During the seven years that I have been Principal I have been asked many questions by members of the Association and, as some questions concerning undergraduates tend to crop up again and again, this seems to me an opportunity to answer some at least of these questions. `First I am asked many questions concerned with admission—how difficult is it for a girl to get up to Oxford? Often put—especially by school mistresses and parents—in the form: "Of course admission is much more difficult than it used to be, isn't it ?" or "I suppose it is really only the brilliant girls who can hope to be admitted ?" I can assure you that there are not enough brilliant girls to fill all the available places, although there are certainly more than enough of the competent, and it is among these that selection is often difficult. It is true that it is harder for a girl to come to Oxford than for a boy, for Oxford is predominately a man's university and there are over five times as many male as female undergraduates—and there are not five times as many boys as girls in our schools. It is, however, possible that the difficulty of admission to a women's college has been exaggerated because of the abnormal conditions which prevailed immediately after the war. Things are not, naturally, the same as they were before the war, but we have now entered into what can be considered a normal post-war period, and I will give you some figures about admission and let you draw your own conclusions. As I have not detailed figures for all the colleges, the figures that I shall give refer to St. Hugh's only. We have about 165 undergraduates in residence, but some of these are graduates of other universities or students of mature age who have not taken our entrance examination. The bulk of our undergraduates—from 155 to 16o of them—have come to the University from school and have been admitted on the results of the scholarship and entrance examination. The average number of places thus allocated annually is 52, but one year is rather larger than the other two as a remote legacy from the two-year course during the war. The average number of candidates over the past five years has been 23o. This means that one out of every four or five candidates gets a place. But the ratio differs for the different subjects : in Natural Science and Mathematics it is one in every two or three candidates; in English it is more like one in every six. `Another question asked is: "What is the effect of the greatly increased financial assistance from public funds both on admissions and on the pattern of undergraduate life ?" In the five years before the war 5o to 55 per cent. of our undergraduates received some form of financial aid, although often the grants were very small. The figure is now from 75 to 8o per cent. In the last two years it has been 78 per cent. and 79 per cent. respectively. Some of these grants come from a variety of sources—school leaving exhibitions; City company grants; grants from various educational trusts, &c.—but the main source is from public funds administered either by the Ministry of Education or by the various local education authorities. State scholarships awarded on the General Certificate of Education at scholarship level are very much more numerous than those awarded on the Higher School Certificate before the war. Since 1946 all college scholarships and exhibitions qualify for what is in effect a State scholarship. Local education authorities have increased the number of their scholarships awarded on the General Certificate; 9

they will also, in most cases, give grants to applicants who have obtained admission to a college on the results of a competitive entrance examination, provided that the applicant has also taken at least two subjects in the General Certificate at Advanced level. Some figures might be interesting. In 1951-2 out of a total of 165 undergraduates 52 held State scholarships (including those given to college scholars) and 56 had local education authority awards. Only 35 had no financial assistance of any sort. Even more important than increased grants at the universities is the advent of free grammar school education. It is, I think, true to say that the financial barriers, which used to stand between the child from the poor home and the university, are now demolished and' we get a much wider range of candidates in consequence. But I also suspect that parents whose incomes are not much above the upper income limit, and who have sons who are being educated at public schools and universities, cannot afford a university education for their daughters. Thus while we gain greatly on one hand we lose somewhat on the other, and while I welcome the gain, I also deplore the loss. `There is certainly less financial stringency among our undergraduates than there was before the war. Grants from public money are of course graded according to the parents' income but the Ministry of Education scale is a generous one. A few difficult cases occur at both ends of the scale: girls who have to support themselves entirely during vacation as well as term may have difficulties, for the additional vacation grant, which may be applied for in such cases, is a small one; parents whose incomes are just below the upper limit and who have heavy commitments may not be able to allow their daughters the full amount of the "parent's contribution" laid down in the scale, but by and large State scholars are well provided for. More difficulties occur among those with L.E.A. grants, for the local authorities have not all adopted the Ministry's scale, and in some cases the grants are barely sufficient. Freedom from financial anxiety is a great gain, but the majority of our undergraduates have far more money for incidental expenses than was usual before the war, and this is not an unmixed blessing. The standard of undergraduate life has in some respects gone up and this makes things still harder for the less well off. More money is spent on non-essentialsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;although expenditure on such essentials as books is deplorably low. More serious is the blunting of the sense of responsibility. We all value most that which costs us most. University education is looked on too often as a right which the Nation owes to its youth, and a right which carries no obligations. `It is not wholly a symptom of approaching old age that I am convinced that undergraduates try to do too much and provide themselves with too many distractions. Dances are far too numerous and there is far too much amateur acting. Women undergraduates now take the female parts, not only in the plays produced by the O.U.D.S. and the Experimental Theatre Club, but also by those produced by the dramatic societies of the men's colleges. It is possible to limit the number of dances a girl can attend or the number of plays in which she can take part, and a very severe limit is in fact imposed, but it is not possible to limit the number of societies she can join, and societies have increased beyond bounds. They are neither trivial nor frivolous. Every religious denomination has its appropriate society which acts partly as a discussion group, partly as a friendly society. They are well supported and certainly do much for the well being of their members. But even in the most serious the social element seems on the increase; I am told that the Liberal 0

Club owes its popularity, not to its politics, but to the excellence of its annual dance. Political clubs are on the whole less active and less time consuming than before the war, but other interests have taken the place of politics. There are societies concerned with every faculty subject; with all the arts; ones which study every conceivable current problem, or every type of philosophical question, or those which purvey general "uplift". They tend to duplicate each other and their number is staggering. The last retiring Senior Proctor gave the following figures to illustrate the growth of societies registered with the Proctors : in 1937 there were 72 ; in 1939 there were 95 ; in 1949 the number had risen to 15o and it is now over 200. Can you wonder that undergraduates on coming up are bewildered, and waste time in considering and sampling the claims of rival clubs? `Now I feel that behind all this immense undergraduate activity there is some change in the undergraduate's conception of the functions of a university, or at any rate a change in the stress laid on the importance of its different aspects. Our undergraduates tend to lay less emphasis on the pursuit of learning and more on making contacts, meeting people, enlarging their outlook and experience, on gaining a wide but sometimes superficial culture. There is something to be said for this conception of the functions of a university and it meets a real need of the times, but too hectic a pursuit of the "fuller life of the older universities" may degenerate into something not far removed from a course of training in "lifemanship". The reasons for this change in emphasis are various but they may be partly due to the influence of such misguided educationalists as the one who wrote not long ago in The Times to ask how, on the maximum maintenance grants provided by the State, it was possible to enjoy Oxford. Whatever the causes may be, I am sure the pendulum has swung too far. ' "What do our young graduates do after they go down ?" Generally speaking some sort of further training is necessaryâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a Diploma in Education, in Social Science, in Statistics or in Librarianship, or a secretarial course; so that it is not for a year or nine months after taking "Schools" that they begin to earn. After the war teaching was in the doldrums and few young Oxford graduates took teaching posts, now the position is beginning to right itself and in the last two years nearly a third of those going down have intended to enter the teaching profession. Most take a Diploma in Education at Oxford, Cambridge, or London; a few take posts without training but this is less easy than it was. Scientists and mathematicians tend to go into industry, and unless more of them become teachers the flow of candidates in these subjects will dry up for lack of specialists to prepare them. The Medical School at Oxford is a limited one with a quota for both men and women. Only eleven women are admitted each year and they are selected on the joint examination held by the five women's colleges. The system has worked well as far as we are concerned; two or three of our candidates generally get quota places, and in the last six years, besides two Nuffield Scholars, we have had two college scholars and three exhibitioners in medicine. They have no difficulty in obtaining admission to the London Teaching Hospitals for their clinical work and we have a small but growing number of qualified doctors among Senior Members. The number of women who read Law is a small one. There is still next to no future for a woman barrister; there are more openings for a solicitor provided there is a family firm in the background. There are also administrative and advisory posts in which a knowledge of law is an asset. The openings in the II

Social Services remain much what they were before the war, and each year a small number of our graduates take a Social Science Diploma as a training for such posts. One or two each year train as Librarians. Very few women are successful in the examination for the Administrative Grade of the Civil Service; a few enter the special departmental class. There may be rather more openings in commerce, industry, and publishing than there were. The only wholly new opening is provided by the three women's services, all of which offer commissions to graduates on advantageous terms, but only a very few are likely to be attracted. Generally speaking there is a fairly wide range of careers but, apart from teaching, the vacancies in each are few.'

THE PRINCIPAL'S EPORT

ISS MAHOOD, Fellow and Tutor in English Literature, has been appointed to the Chair of English at University College, Ibadan, Nigeria, and will take up her new appointment in the autumn. Her departure will be a great loss to us, but Ibadan is to be congratulated on its good fortune. At the beginning of the academic year 1953-4, Mrs. Warnock, Tutor in Philosophy, and Mrs. Wood, Tutor in Medieval History, were admitted to Official Fellowships. On 6 August 1953 Beatrice Margaret Sparks, Honorary Fellow of the College since 1927, died at her home at Leamington Spa. She had been an invalid for many years before her death, but until her retirement in 1936 from the Principalship of Cheltenham Ladies' College she was an outstanding figure in the educational world. A short note on her career and appointments appears elsewhere in the Chronicle. The Council learned with much pleasure of the knighthood conferred on the Registrar of the University in the New Year's Honours List. Mr. Veale was a member of the Council from 193o to 195o and its Chairman from 1937 to 1948, and the College owes him a debt of gratitude for his unfailing help and friendship. The College has received some notable benefactions during the year; two of them, the Yates bequest and the Virtue-Tebbs bequest, are from women who were not members of the College and had no close connexion with it. Miss Yates regularly attended the 'Vacation Term for Biblical Study' which over a long period of years before 1934 was held in alternate long vacations in St. Hugh's College, but there is no evidence that Miss VirtueTebbs ever visited the College. Catherine Annie Yates died on 19 March 1936 and, by her will dated 24 October 1918, she left the residue of her estate, subject to the life interest of her two sisters, to St. Hugh's College for the purpose of founding a theological lecturership or lecturerships or a theological scholarship or scholarships. She also left direct to the College a legacy of ÂŁ800 for the same purpose. This sum was used between 1937 and 1941 to provide a scholarship for a graduate to read for the Final Honour School of Theology. The scholarship was held for two years by Miss E. V. A. Turner, M.A. Sheffield (later Mrs. Herod), who died in 1949, and for one year by Miss P. M. C. Evans, now Headmistress of St. Swithun's School, Winchester, and by Miss L. M. Dolphin, who were both already graduates of the College. The balance of the legacy, together with some funds from another source, was used to provide a Yates Lecturership for the year 1942-3. This was held by Mrs. Nadejda Gorodetzky who had been invited by the Board of the Faculty of Theology to give a course of lectures on Russian Religious Thought. On the death 12

early in 1949 of the last surviving of the sisters the trust funds passed to the College absolutely. Some of the capital was invested in mortgages in Australia and New Zealand, and the realization of these assets and other delays held up the settlement of the estate. In October 195o a sum of £3,000 was received 'on account', but it was not until last summer that the final payment was made, bringing the total sum received up to just over £7,000. After careful consideration it has been decided to revive the type of graduate scholarship offered between 1937 and 1941. The scholarship will be of 2c)o a year for one or two years, to be held by a woman graduate, either of Oxford or of another university whose degrees qualify for Senior Status, who wishes to read for the Honour School of Theology or, in exceptional circumstances, for the Diploma in Theology. Experience has shown that there are from time to time suitable graduates, usually in the teaching profession, who want to study Theology; such persons have generally to rely on savings or loans to finance themselves and for them a substantial scholarship should be of real assistance. The number of girls who come direct from school to the University to read Theology is very small, but it has also been decided that if in any year a candidate wishing to read Theology should reach open award level in the college scholarship and entrance examination, she shall be elected to a Yates Scholarship of £40, and her emoluments shall be paid from the surplus in the Yates Fund. The whole scheme will be reviewed after a period of years. Hilda Mary Virtue-Tebbs, who died in February 1953, left the residue of her estate to the University for the purpose of founding, under certain conditions, studentships (or a studentship) for the furtherance of the study of Czech and Polish language and literature tenable at St. Hugh's College. A decree accepting the benefaction was approved by Congregation in Michaelmas Term 1953. The University is the Trustee and the Curators of the University Chest will be responsible for the investment of the trust fund, but the Governing Body of the College is responsible for making regulations to carry out the provisions of the will. The will provides for two studentships or, if the income available is not sufficient for this, one studentship for the study of Czech or Polish language and literature. If one studentship only is founded any surplus income is to accumulate over a period of years. The will also lays down that the holders of the studentships are to be Czech or Polish nationals provided that, if no Czech or Polish national be available or suitable, the College may elect some other person whose qualifications appear to it to be suitable. The exact amount of the residuary estate is not yet known but it will be not less than £7,000. This will not be sufficient to found two postgraduate awards and the College has, therefore, decided to found one studentship of £200 a year. In accordance with the will it is to be called the Rawnsley Studentship, in memory of Flight Lieutenant Derek Rawnsley, R.A.F., a nephew of the testatrix, who died in February 1942. There is not much provision for the study of Czech or Polish in the University at present but the Rawnsley Student will be expected to read either for the Diploma in Slavonic Studies or for a research degree. Both the Professor of Russian and the Professor of Comparative Slavonic Philology have welcomed the studentship as a valuable contribution to the furtherance of Slavonic studies in the University. The Rawnsley Studentship and the Yates Senior Scholarship have been advertised for October 1954. Mrs. Aspin's very generous gift of £4,000 for the endowment of the Library `in memoriam I.S.T.A.', which was announced at the Annual General 13

Meeting last July, has been received and invested. The College has been given an interesting collection of forty-one engravings from drawings by John Buckler, F.S.A. (177o-1851), and John Chessel Buckler (1793-1894), collected by the late William Hepburn Buckler, D.Litt., and presented to the College by his daughters Mrs. Seymer and Mrs. Wrinch (B. Buckler, 192932). Thirty-three of the engravings, measuring about 22 by 16 inches, are from drawings by John Buckler and were published between 1798 and 1812. They depict nineteen English cathedrals (Hereford appears twice); the collegiate churches of Ripon, Romsey (two views), Sherborne, and Southwell; Westminster Abbey, the ruins of Fountains and Rievaulx Abbeys, Magdalen and Queen's Colleges, Oxford, two views of Boston in Lincolnshire and Winchester College. There are also two much smaller engravings published in 1838 from drawings of the High Street, Oxford, and the St. Aldate's Street front of Christ Church. John Chessel Buckler is represented by five small engravings of drawings of St. Paul's Cathedral, the cathedrals of St. Davids and Bangor, the garden front of New College, Oxford, and Magdalen Bridge. Finally there is an engraving from Sir W. J. Newton's portrait of John Buckler, painted in 1847. The views of the cathedrals are particularly interesting as they show the state of the buildings before the restorations of the second half of the nineteenth century. Thus the view of Chester Cathedral shows the tower without its present pinnacles, and that of Oxford Cathedral depicts the fourteenth-century east window which was later removed to make way for Gilbert Scott's 'Norman' rose window. The engravings have been hung along both walls of the ground floor corridor in the main building and add greatly to its dignity and interest. A full list of benefactions and gifts received during the year is appended to this report. Owing to an appreciation in the value of some of the College's trust funds it is now possible to increase the number of its endowed scholarships. In future there will be three Jubilee Scholarships of loo instead of two as hitherto, and the number of Gamble awards will be raised from three to five. The College offers each year for award on its scholarship and entrance examination a total of fourteen open awards, or fifteen when the Nuffield Medical Scholarship is offered. Two or three of these awards are endowed scholarships, the rest are College scholarships and exhibitions, the emoluments of which are paid from revenue. The number offered each year will remain unchanged but one more scholarship from endowments and one less from revenue will be offered each year. These three new scholarships and the Yates Scholarship will all qualify for supplementary State scholarships under the conditions laid down by the Ministry of Education. In the Final Honour Schools last summer the College obtained two first classes (both in English), twenty-eight second classes, sixteen third classes, and one fourth class. This is slightly better than last year but the proportion of third classes is still far too high. The two first classes were obtained by M. M. Sellens, an undergraduate of mature age who is now Lecturer in English at Ripon Diocesan Training College, and P. S. Moore, who has returned to Oxford as a probationer-B.Litt. student. If the 'Schools' results were rather disappointing, the list of postgraduate awards and other academic honours is a good one. Most of these awards were known in time to be announced at the Annual General Meeting last July; among those awarded since then, Lady Anne Pery's Research Fellowship in Physics at Harvard University should be specially mentioned. Last summer it was decided that 14

in future scholars and exhibitioners should be formally admitted in the presence of the Governing Body, and should sign in a register of admissions the following undertaking: 'I promise and declare that I will faithfully perform the duties of a Scholar (an Exhibitioner) of St. Hugh's College and especially I undertake to have regard in all things to its good name, to maintain to the best of my ability its reputation as an academic house of the University and make full use of the advantages of study therein afforded.' The first year scholars and exhibitioners accordingly signed the register on the occasion of the first Council Meeting of Michaelmas Term. The number of undergraduates in residence in the current year is 170 of whom eleven are graduates of other universities reading for Honour Schools or research degrees. In addition there are seventeen graduates of the College in residence reading for research degrees or post-graduate diplomas. The new arrangements for celebrating St. Hugh's Day outlined at the Annual General Meeting were duly carried out. On 17 November there was a special dinner in Hall for members of the Senior and Junior Common Rooms; at the end of dinner the Principal spoke briefly about the history of the College and the toast of the College was drunk. On Saturday, 21 November, an Open Evening was held in the Mordan Hall for Senior Members resident in Oxford. The smaller numbers made conversation much easier than at the large gatherings in recent years, and it is hoped that the guests enjoyed themselves as much as did the Principal and Fellows. February 1954 E. S. P.

BENEFACTIONS AND GIFTS rirHE following benefactions and gifts have been received since the last J1 issue of the Chronicle: Under the Will of the late Catherine Annie Yates: the testatrix's residuary estate for the purpose of founding a theological lecturership or lecturerships, or a theological scholarship or scholarships (capital value £7,017). Under the Will of the late Hilda Mary Virtue-Tebbs : the residue of the estate to the University for the purpose of founding, under certain conditions, a studentship or studentships for the furtherance of the study of Czech and Polish Language and Literature tenable at St. Hugh's College (capital value not less than £7,000). From Mrs. Aspin the sum of £4,000 as an endowment for the Library 'in memoriam I.S.T.A.' From Dr. Evans: 300 a year for 8 years under covenant for the maintenance of the College. For the Endowment Fund: gifts of £130 (anonymous) and £10 (Miss K. M. Hobbs). From two donors £80 towards College entertaining. From Mrs. Seymer and Mrs. Wrinch : a collection, made by their father the late William Hepburn Buckler, D.Litt., of 41 framed engravings of drawings by John Buckler, F.S.A. (1770-1851), and John Chessel Buckler (17931894) From Dr. Evans and Miss Francis : the College flag. 15

THE J.C.R. REPORT, 1953-4 NTIL last Michaelmas Term the J.C.R. constitution had remained unU altered since 1938; in revising it, it was noticeable that the activities of the J.C.R. today differ from those of sixteen years ago chiefly through the absence of College clubs and societies. It appears that College dramatic, musical and debating societies once flourished, but have now died out, this probably being caused in part by the breaking up of College life during the war. The cause (or result) of this is that J.C.R. members now find an outlet for their talents in the larger University societies of which they are often prominent members. The Carol Service and Freshers' Entertainment do, however, provide opportunities for those interested in singing and acting, but College debating is non existent; and the women's inter-collegiate debating club died a natural death in 1952, which was not surprising as the standard of debate was deplorably low. The St. Hugh's Square Dancing Club which started so well last year unfortunately came to an end, largely through lack of support from the J.C.R., although there was always considerable difficulty in finding 'callers' whose time was not taken up by the University Country Dancing Club. Perhaps greater efforts will be made in the future, but it seems a pity that we do not do more in expressing our individuality as a college, although, as is often the case, a small number of people work hard for activities connected with the j.C.R. Among these activities is the St. Margaret's House Sale which was very successful, Dr. Busbridge again being responsible for the hard work of organizing it. The organization of College dances has been brought down to a fine art and it is becoming traditional to hold two dances each year, one in the Michaelmas and the other in the Trinity Term. The dining hall is used for dancing and the Mordan Hall for the buffet, the decoration of the Mordan Hall with flowers up the stairs and along the gallery being particularly well done last term. A committee was set up last year to buy pictures for the J.C.R. after a sum of money had been voted from J.C.R. funds for this purpose. Choosing a picture is always difficult, especially when there is a large number of people to be satisfied, and, as was to be expected, there was great controversy over the pictures which were borrowed on approval from various London galleries. Opinion was very divided, but in the end it was felt that none of those provisionally chosen was quite suitable, so that no pictures have been bought so far this year. It is hoped that the committee will have better luck later on, as it should easily be possible to find a good picture to join the one by John Piper already in the J.C.R. Finally, the J.C.R. takes pleasure in congratulating Pamela Moore and Margaret Sellens who both obtained Firsts in English Schools last year. -

MARY LUNT

GAMES 1.,E]PS RT T. HUGH'S seems to have justified its reputation as a games playing college this year, by being represented in most of the important University S Sports. As Captain of Hockey, Pamela Morton regained her blue, and Eileen 16

Bowyer, this year's Secretary, gained hers. A good deal of inter-college hockey was played in addition, although it was not always possible to raise a full team, and St. Hugh's reached the final of the Hockey Cuppers, when they were beaten by L.M.H. St. Hugh's had a majority in the University Lacrosse team, blues being regained by Mary Lunt, the Treasurer, and Georgina Morris, and gained by Dallas Fawdry, this year's Captain, and Veronica Chevallier, this year's Secretary. This year St. Hugh's has a strong Lacrosse contingent, at least twelve players being available. No Netball blues were gained last year, but Rosemary Francis is going to be a blue this year. The Rowing Club controversy was at last settled, when, after a year's lapse, the club was restarted with a new boat in the Michaelmas Term of 1953. Barbara Levick, who gained her blue in 1952, is now Secretary. In the summer St. Hugh's had members in the University Cricket and Tennis teams. Leonora Burton, this year's Secretary and Treasurer, Marianne Cope, Veronica Chevallier, and Dallas Fawdry gained their cricket blues; and Vivienne Puckridge, Secretary and Treasurer this year, achieved her tennis blue, being the only player to win her doubles and singles. A great deal of inter-college tennis was played, and there is a possibility of cuppers this year. Francis Rainforth achieved a squash blue in 1952 and 1953, and this year's Captain and Secretary are Jennifer Lucas and Judy Anderson. DALLAS FAWDRY

DEGREES, 1953 D.Phil. Mrs. Kramer (L. J. Gibson), Thesis : Formal satire in the first half of the seventeenth century.

B.Litt. M. M. Rigby, Thesis: Education (including training in Courtly Manners) in Old French and Middle English romances. N. K. Sandars, Thesis : France in the Middle and Late Bronze Ages to the seventh century B.C. A. W. Henry, Thesis: An edition of A. C. Swinburne's Border Ballads. B.M. J. Bradford, E. B. B. Young. B.Sc. Mrs. Rossotti (H. S. Marsh). M.A. E. M. Andrews, Mrs. Baldick (G. E. Adlam), Mrs. Beith (J. P. Horrigart), Mrs. Betton (M. P. Paine), C. C. Boulter, J. Bradford, E. David, Mrs. de Trafford (P. M. Beeley), E. M. Deuchar, Mrs. Eames (J. E. Jackson), J. M. Floyd, Mrs. Hardie (P. M. C. Uhde), Mrs. Hartcup (A. A. E. Levison), J. M. Hawkins, B. Holland, D. M. Hunter, Mrs. Kagan (I. L. Echt), V. B. Ledger, Mrs. Lockyer (C. M. Wheatley), Mrs. Lu (A. E. N. Whittingham), R. S. Maas, Mrs. Mellows (J. Melloy), E. R. Micklem, Mrs. Mowat (P. F. Hunt), V. M. F. Neville-Terry, Mrs. Nichols (P. M. Robertson), Mrs. Ovey (E. R. Eade), N. Papworth, Mrs. Rye (J. P. Shields), E. M. G. Simpson, A. Slater, Mrs. Stewart (S. P. Wheeler), Mrs. Strawbridge (S. Hassid), A. L. D. Willan, E. M. Yonge. 17

B.A. Mrs. Barratt (J. Hudson), N. E. Bennington, J. Birt, M. H. Blanchard, A. V. M. Brewin, M. A. Brown, K. G. Curtis, M. K. F. Dale, J. F. Dickins, S. M. Forbes, M. D. Ford, S. M. Forster, M. Greig, A. M. House, I. M. Hedges, Mrs. Holmes (C. G. Vasey), A. M. James, S. M. John, S. A. R. Jones, J. F. Knighton, N. A. Miller, P. S. Moore, P. M. Morton, Y. Paterson, P. M. Pearsall, J. L. C. Peerless, J. C. Potter, B. P. Rose, M. M. Sellens, M. G. Shiell, R. S. Signy, E. M. Smith, M. A. Stobbart, B. M. Tyndall, M. J. Wilson, G. M. Wirgman, V. A. Wylie.

University Scholarships and Prizes: post graduateawards &c. Thomas Whitcombe Greene Scholarship: N. K. Sandars, B.Litt. Thomas Whitcombe Greene Prize: B. M. Levick. Mary Somerville Research Fellowship, Somerville College: A. H. Elliott, M.A. Research Fellowship, Harvard University, U.S.A.: Lady Anne Pery, M.A. Woolley Archaeological Fellowship, Somerville College: R. M. Toulmin, B.A. Nuffield Foundation Scholarship in Sociology: E. Dresel, B.Sc., M.A. Josephine Butler Bursary for Sociology: M. J. Wilson. Rhys Prize for Old French (open to undergraduates of all five Women's Colleges): J. Birt.

College Senior Awards and Prizes 1953 Elizabeth Wordsworth Studentship: R. M. Toulmin, B.A. Mary Gray Allen Senior Scholarship: J. C. D. Spencer, B.A., Somerville College.

Hurry Prize: M. M. Sellens, B.A. Elizabeth Wordsworth Prize: M. R. Buckley. Hilary Haworth Essay Prize: J. D. Peacock. Commended: B. B. Davey.

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EXAMINATIONS, 1953

Literae Humaniores: Class II

C. Vasey, M. P. Williams.

Mathematics: Class II Class III

M. Dale, V. Wylie. P. Morton.

Natural Science: Chemistry, Part I N. Bennington, M. Brown. Physics, Class III K. Curtis. Animal Physiology (for Medicine) Class III R. Signy.

Modern History: Class II

B. Charlton, L. A. Davies, S. Marwood, G. M. Morris, M. J. Wilson.

Class III

I. Hedges, S. A. R. Jones, S. Nicholas, B. M. Tyndall, P. A. Whitehorn, G. M. Wirgman.

Theology: Class IV

M. Stobbart.

English Language and Literature: Class I Class II

Class III

P. S. Moore, M. Sellens. J. Dickins, M. Greig, A. House, A. James, J. Peerless, J. Potter. A. Brewin, H. M. Stringer.

Modern Languages: Class II

Class III

J. Birt (French, German), P. Butt (Spanish, German), M. Ewert (French), S. M. Forster (French, German), M. Galloway (German, French), S. John (French), J. Knighton (German, French), M. J. Mason (French), 0. Mason (French), J. Stothert (French), F. Tate (French), G. Unbegaun (Russian, German). A. Dickinson (Spanish, Portuguese).

Philosophy, Politics and Economics: Class III

N. A. Miller.

Geography: Class II Class III

Y. Paterson. M . Ford, P. Pearsall, B. Rose.

Classical Honour Mode rations: Class II

A. T. D. Miller, A. H. M. C. Tennent.

Mathematical Honour Moderations: Class II Class III

E. D. Bowyer. J. Bates, L. D. Burton, 0. D. Grenfell.

Natural Science Honour Moderations: Class II

B. Oliver.

MAT ICULATIONS, 1953 Scholars: BEARDWOOD, JILLIAN ELIZABETH

(Jubilee Scholar) (Mathematics), Blyth

Grammar School, Norwich. ROCHAT, MARGARET

(Gamble Scholar) (Mathematics), Christ's Hospital,

Hertford. Exhibitioners: ABSON, CYNTHIA MARJORIE PEACH

(Modern Languages), Brighton & Hove

High School. ANDERSON, JEAN MARGARET PURCELL (Medicine), Selhurst Grammar School. BAILEY, JUDITH ANN (Physics), Wimbledon High School. DIGHT, CAROL PAMELA MARY (English), Notting Hill & Ealing High School. KING, ELIZABETH MARY IRVINE (Frances Savory Exhibitioner) (History),

Priory County Grammar School for Girls, Shrewsbury. LEWIS, MERIEL JANE MARGARET (Geography), St. Mary's School, Caine. MACDONALD, HEATHER SHIRLEY (Modern Languages), Watford Grammar

School for Girls. SMART, CYNTHIA MADGE (Classics), Orme Girls' School, Staffs. WARDLE, BARBARA HOPE (Geography), Blackheath High School.

Commoners: ALLEN, PHOEBE PERSIS, B.A., St. Andrews University. ANDERSON, JUDITH CAROL, B.A., Rhodes University, S. Africa. BATRA, BULBUL, M.A., University of Delhi. BAXTER, VALERIE EILEEN, Watford Grammar School for Girls. BLINDELL, NOEL MARY, St. Monica's School, Clacton. BOYLE, ROSEMARY WILLMOTT, Gardenhurst, Burnham-on-Sea. BROWNE, ELIZABETH ANN HARKNESS, Uplands School, Parkstone. CAMERON, SHEILA MORAG CLARK, Commonweal Lodge School, Purley. CLAYE, JUNE ELAINE ANN, Westonbirt School, Tetbury. COLE, AMY GLADYS, Prince Henry's Grammar School, Evesham. DANIEL, DEIRDRE KATHLEEN, Blyth School, Norwich. DAVIES, MARGARET EIRLYS GARFIELD, Grove Park Grammar School, Wrexham. DEACON, JOYCE MARGARET, Plymouth High School. DERRY, ANNE PENELOPE, Blunt House, Eastbourne. DICKINSON, JUDITH, Malvern Girls' College. EVERS, MARGARET BETHUNE, Cheltenham Ladies' College. FARRAR, MARY PATRICIA, Ilkley Grammar School. FRANCIS, ROSEMARIE ANNE HELEN, Queen Elizabeth's Girls' Grammar

School, Barnet. GOODWIN, TONI ANNE, St. Elphin's School, Matlock. GRIFFITH, JEAN MARY, York College for Girls. HAINES, BARBARY, Cheltenham Ladies' College. HAWKER, ANN FELICITY, St. Paul's Girls' School. HULL, PAMELA FAY, Cheadle Hulme School. IGGULDEN, LORNA WINIFRED, Simon Langton Grammar

Canterbury. IMRIE, ALISON MARY, 20

County High School, Aldershot.

School for Girls,

JONES, CLARE LYNELLE, King Edward VI High School for Girls, Birmingham. LAING, MARGARET IRENE, Varndean School for Girls, Brighton. LEWIS, ANN-MARY GETHIN, Westonbirt School, Tetbury. LLOYD, ANNE GERALDINE GREY, Dr. Williams' School, Dolgelley. Low, ANTHEA HILARY, King Edward VI High School for Girls, Birmingham. LOYD, MIRIAM ELEANOR, St. Monica's School, Clacton. mccARTAN, LEONTIA MARY CECILIA, M.SC., Queen's University, Belfast. MADDOCKS, ANNE CATHERINE, Whalley Range High School, Manchester. MARSHALL, MAUREEN GRACE, James Allen's Girls' School, Dulwich. MOORE, JENNIFER WYNNE, Headington School, Oxford. MORRIS, ANN MARGARET, Kingswood Grammar School, nr. Bristol. MULLANE, MARY, Catholic Workers' College, Oxford. NOAKES, AUDREY LILIAN, Wimbledon High School. OVER, MARGARET MARY SCHOFIELD, Mill Mount Grammar School, York. PIZZEY, MARION JEAN, Wyggeston Grammar School for Girls, Leicester. POINTON, DINAH GILLIAN, Newarke Girls School, Leicester. POWELL, EILEEN MARY TREASURE, Roedean School, Brighton. SEN, NANDINI, B.A., Hood College, Maryland, U.S.A. SMITH, GILLIAN LENA NEIL, Harrogate College. SMITH, SHIRLEY ANN, Rochester Grammar School. TRONE, ALEXANDRA VERA, Miss K. M. Hobbs, Buckingham Gate. WESTCOTT, SUSAN ELIZABETH, Howell's School, Denbigh. WHITING, JILL DAPHNE, Maidstone Grammar School for Girls. WILLAN, TERESA SONIA, Howell's School, Cardiff.

OBITUARY 1953 Hugh's Hall 1892-5. O On 6 August 1953 N IO June

SUSAN ELEANOR GENT

(née KERSHAW), Student of St.

BEATRICE MARGARET SPARKS, M.A., Student of St. Hugh's Hall 1894-7, Member of the Council of St. Hugh's College 1924-7. Honorary Fellow of the College from 1927. On 3 September 1953 LOTTIE RHONA ARBUTHNOT-LANE, Student of St. Hugh's Hall 1904-7. On 22 June 1953 DOROTHY EVERETT, M.A., Lecturer at St. Hugh's College 1921-3. Fellow and Tutor of Lady Margaret Hall. On 29 April 1953 MRS. GEORGINA GRENFELL BUCKLER, C.B.E., D.PHIL. First D.Phil. Student of St. Hugh's College 1927-9. On 7 September 1953 PHOEBE LLEWELLYN SMITH, B.A., Commoner of the College 1935-9. On 23 January 1954 RACHEL ATTENBOROUGH, Commoner of the College 1928-31.

ELEANOR ADDISON PHILLIPS L°LEANOR ADDISON PHILLIPS, later to become one of the College's 12a most distinguished members, came up in 1905 at the age of thirty-one, after successful study at the Maida Vale High School and St. Mary's College, 2I

Paddington, where after qualifying as a teacher she had been appointed Lecturer and Head of the Training Department. Her teachers at Oxford included Dr. Ernest Barker, A. L. Smith, and H. W. C. Davis (afterwards Regius Professor). She was awarded a second class in Modern History and immediately afterwards, on the advice of Miss Jourdain, applied for the Headship of Clifton High School, vacant by the retirement of its second headmistress, Miss Burns, and was elected. Her period of office lasted from 1908 to 1933 and was marked by development in every direction. Eleanor's example, grasp of principle, and unrivalled powers of leadership, administration, and teaching, in a place of education already remarkable for breadth of conception and policy, were an inspiration to Council, staff, and pupils alike. Close links with the College were maintained through the steady stream of ex-pupils matriculating as members, and the appointment of her successor, Miss D. N. Glenday, as the fourth headmistress was welcomed as of the same happy augury. Eleanor was a member of the governing Body of St. Hugh's from 1910 to 1926. Both before and after her retirement from professional work she was' a prominent and effective supporter of several religious and philanthropic movements, notably the Venture Club (afterwards incorporated with the Soroptomists), which she founded. She was a member of the Board of Management of the Mme Curie Hospital and of the Councils of Whiteland College and Chorley Wood College for Girls; and also one of the small band under whose leadership the Institute of Christian Education was launched in 1935, serving on its Council for nine years until ill-health enforced her retirement. From 1929 to 1931 she was President of the Association of Headmistresses and her address at the Jubilee gathering is still remembered. To all such causes and activities her strength of personality and gifts as a speaker were of untold value. Eleanor's character and its effect on all who knew her are perhaps best summed up in the words of an old girl of Clifton H.S., which I borrow from a memorial booklet lately circulated. 'She gave us a solid foundation for life, a true sense of values and the example of her own deep and courageous faith.' She died in London after some years of weakness and suffering, but kept to the last her vivid interest in persons and affairs together with 'the deep and courageous faith' which had been the core of her life and example. G.

BEATRICE MARGARET SPARKS EATRICE SPARKS was born in 1876, the eldest daughter of the Rev. W. R. Sparks. She was a student of St. Hugh's Hall, where she read Mathematics, from 1894 to 1898. After some years as an assistant mistress at the Gray Coat Hospital, Westminster, she became successively Headmistress of Wisbech High School (19o5-13), Headmistress of Colston's Girls' School, Bristol (1913-22), and Principal of the Ladies' College, Cheltenham (1922-36). She was an influential figure in the educational world and served on the Departmental Committee on Scholarships and on the Burnham Corn22

mittee on Teachers' Salaries. She was President of the Headmistresses' Association from 1925 to 1927. She was a member of the Council of St. Hugh's College from 1924 to 1927 and in 1927, in recognition of her work for the education of girls, she was elected to an Honorary Fellowship. After her retirement from the Principalship of Cheltenham Ladies' College she lived at Leamington Spa where she died on 6 August 1953. She was an invalid for many years before her death.

PHOEBE LLEWELLYN SMITH rirHE death of Phoebe Llewellyn Smith in a sailing accident on 8 September 1953 was a great grief to all who knew her. Born in 1917, the youngest child of the late Sir Hubert Llewellyn Smith, she grew up in a large and gifted family circle. From Charming School, Highgate, she went up to St. Hugh's in 1935 as a Scholar to read Greats. Although hampered in her first year by illness, she took an active part in College life and obtained a First Class degree in 1939. Even at that time her chief interest was in painting, and she at once began a course at the Central School of Arts and Crafts. This was interrupted by the war, during which she became a civil servant, rising to a position of high trust at the Air Ministry. At the same time she found opportunity to continue painting, and returned to it whole-heartedly when the war was over. Her ability to turn ideas into visual images made her a very good illustrator of books that strongly affected her imagination, such as Paradise Lost, Gulliver's Travels, Anna Karenina and The Bridge of San Luis Rey. It also led her to approach the problems of religious painting in a sensitive and original way. In the summer of 1953 she contributed to the exhibition of contemporary religious art held at 45 Park Lane, where her painting of the Last Supper was sold and has since been sent to America. She was a passionate admirer of Italian painting and sculpture of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and this made her a most stimulating lecturer. During 1952-3 she gave lectures at the City Literary Institute for London University Extra-Mural Department, and she had previously lectured for the W.E.A. and Oxford University Extra-Mural Department. Among her other work is a series of impressions of war-time London and some vivid sketches of Provence; she also had a number of book jackets published, and the illustrations for two children's books (The Shadowy Man and The White Rabbit's Road, both by Eileen O'Faolain). Phoebe's qualities of mind and spirit were unforgettable. The penetration and clarity of her thought deeply impressed those who shared it. She combined the perception of the artist, often painfully acute, with a scrupulous sense of moral values; a rare association of qualities which made her at once unsparing of herself and instinctively trusted by others. Added to these was her keen sense of the ridiculous; she could always be relied upon to deflate any kind of pomposity, and her ready sympathy was invariably salted with commonsense. She had a wide circle of friends, embracing many ages and many different interests, including music; and she was especially attached to children, who loved her and found her a delightful and entertaining companion. Her older friends will remember with gratitude her sensitive and courageous spirit, and her irresistible sense of humour. M. H. M. 3

GEORGINA GRENFELL BUCKLER RS. WILLIAM BUCKLER, C.B.E. (nee Georgina Walrond), was over fifty before she came closely into contact with St. Hugh's College. Then, living across the road, she enrolled herself as our first D.Phil. student, and in 1929 submitted her thesis on 'The moral and intellectual standards of Anna Comnena', published in the same year. Much lies behind this plain statement, and especially a record of vitality in living which carried her through Girton (Classical Tripos, Class I, 1891), through marriage with a distinguished American archaeologist, through social service in Baltimore, and during World War I in London for the Red Cross, and through so-called retirement in Oxford, when she took up Byzantine history to fill in the odd hours left by innumerable forms of service to education and to learning. That vitality did not seem much abated in her eighty-fourth year; it still manifested her activity of mind and generosity of spirit. The title of her thesis expressed her deepest interests and convictions. Her daughter Barbara (who also came to St. Hugh's) has written of her: 'She was moulded intellectually by the Classical education begun by her father, and spiritually by the conviction that it was a Christian duty to share her advantages with others. "Freely ye have received, freely give", was one of her favourite maxims and she lived up to it.' It would be impossible here even to indicate the wide range of her giving, not merely of financial help, but even more of that stimulating warmth and eager interest which all felt who in a very wide circle had any contact with her. They knew that they had been privileged to meet a woman as remarkable as she was attractive. M. E. S.

DOROTHY EVERETT OROTHY EVERETT's comparatively early death on June 1953, in D the middle of a distinguished career, brings a great sense of loss to English studies and medieval scholarship, and also to her many friends. She 22

was a Lecturer at St. Hugh's for only two years (1921-3), in transit from Girton and Royal Holloway to Lady Margaret Hall. In that short time, however, she impressed herself on her students so that she was always held by them in affectionate remembrance. As long as her health permitted, she kept up her connexion with the College, coming to the Gaudy and to St. Hugh's Night. Another kind of contact made her known to successive generations of `English' students, her lectures and especially her Chaucer classes, which were always one of the brightest spots of the three years' work. It was a privilege to learn from one whose deep knowledge of Chaucer and his time was imparted with so stimulating and gay a relish for life, and so exact and exacting a standard of scholarship. She will be long remembered by those who knew and valued her as a rare and many-sided personality. M. E. S.

MA IAGES MARGARET RUTH BIRD to ANGUS ARNOLD THOMAS

at Llanishan Parish Church,

Cardiff, on 11 April 1953. (Christ Church) at Christ Church, West Didsbury, on 5 September 1953.

NANCY MARGARET CLEGG to KENNETH JOHN WESTROP

MARIE ROSE D'ENTREVES to JOHN ANDREWS KING at on 2 July 1953. DOROTHY DYSON to T. H. ELKINS

St. Aloysius Church, Oxford,

at St. Catherine's Church, Neasden, on 25

July 1953. on 3 October 1953. at St. Nicholas Church, New

OLIVE PATRICIA FRODSHAM tO WALTER E. WARD PLATT, AGNES ELIZABETH GALBRAITH tO JOHN B. HYDE

Romney, on 19 September 1953. CECILIA PHYLLIS GREEN to IAN MAXWELL BARTON,

in August 1953.

PAULINE MARIAN CLARA GREEN tO JOHN EDWARD AITKEN PROCTER (St. Catherine's) at St. Peter Mancroft Church, Norwich, on I October 1953. AILEEN ETHEL GUILDING to DR. LEON MIRSKY

in Trinity College Chapel, Oxford,

on 12 August 1953. (New College), at the Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Oxford, on 9 April 1953. ELIZABETH MAUDE HUNTER to HUGH CHARLES ROWLINSON, M.A., D.PHIL. (Exeter College), at Christ Church, Sutton, Surrey, on 7 August 1953. ELIZABETH MAIR JONES to DR. JOHN HARDING PRICE, at All Saints' Parish Church, _ Odiham, on 29 July 1953. DOROTHY MARY LAWTON to A. E. F. DE SALIS (Exeter College) at Chapeltown, Sheffield, on io August 1953. JOCELYN FRANCES (JILL) LESLIE to NORMAN FRANKLIN at 6 Stanhope Gate, London, W.', on I March 1953. FRANCES MARY ELIZABETH MACDONALD to BRIAN D. McCALLUM at St. George's Church, Malvern, Melbourne, on 16 May 1953. BARBARA JOAN MISSEN to EDGAR JONES at St. Mark's Church, Cheltenham, 011 z8 September 1953. MARGARET MILLINGTON tO DAVID SCOTT at the Bedford Register Office, on 23 January 1954. MARGARET CEINWEN MOGFORD to ALISTAIR DUNCAN at Bristol, on 4 April 1953. NANCY MARGARET MOORE to DAVID LAWRENCE DINELEY, F.G.S., at St. Andrew's Church, Mottisfont, Hants, on 25 July 1953. MARJORIE PHYLLIS PAINE tO the REV. JOHN RICHARD BETTON (Pembroke College, Oxford) at St. Mary's Church, Witnesham, Suffolk, on 7 April 1953. PATRICIA MARJORIE ROBERTSON tO DAVID JOHN NICHOLS at St. Patrick's Church, Hove, on 4 April 1953. JANE MOORE SEGAR to HENRY CHARLES EAST JOHNSON at Holy Trinity Church, Brompton, on 25 July 1953. CYNTHIA GWENDOLEN VASEY to DEREK HOLMES, M.A., D.PHIL. (Wadham College), on 27 June 1953. CECILY MILDRED WHEATLEY tO JOHN HAMILTON LOCKYER at St. Leonard's Church, Watlington, on 3o May 1953. JOAN HAZEL WILKINSON to TERENCE DAVID THORNHILL CARTER, at the Church of the Holy Rosary, Umtali, Southern Rhodesia, on 25 April 1953. ANGELINE AUDREY MAY WILSON to I. J. 0. DELL, at Miller Memorial Methodist Church, Tottenham, on 19 December 1953. ELAINE MARY WOOD to FREDERICK LESLIE COGGIN, at Knypersley Church, Stokeon-Trent, on 27 December 1952. BRENDA MARY HENDERSON to STUART GEORGE HALL, B.A.

BIRTHS MRS. ADDISON (P. M. Russell)-a daughter (Rachel), 12 June 1953. MRS. ANDERSSOHN (G. M. James)-a daughter (Alathea Jane), z April 1953• MRS. BARRETT (C. C. Aspinall)-a daughter (Philippa Rosalind Lloyd), 22

October 1953. MRS. BATTEN (A. M. M. Oriel)-a daughter (Sarah Jane), 28 July 1953. MRS. BLEANEY-a daughter (Carol Heather), 19 January 1953. MRS. BRANNEY (Margaret Brittain)-a daughter (Veronica), 3o April 1953. MRS. BRETT-SMITH (Catharine Hill)-a daughter (Sarah Catharine), 21 Novem-

ber 1953. MRS. BURGESS (M. T. Whitcombe)-a daughter (Dinah Mary), 13 MRS. BURY (J. M. Purnell)-a son, 20 November 1953. MRS. CAIRD (V. M. Newport)-a daughter (Margaret Alison), Io

July 1953.

May 1953 (her twin sister lived only two days). MRS. COLE (G. V. W. Yeats-Brown)-a daughter (Rachel Katherine), February 1953. MRS. DESPRES (Nina Shilston)-a son (Stephen), 18 September 1953. MRS. DE TRAFFORD (P. M. Beeley)-a son (Edmund Francis), 9 December 1952. MRS. DORAN (G. M. Ziar)-a daughter, 24 December 1953. MRS. FRANKLIN (Charlotte Hajnal-Konyi)-a son (Simon Colin), II August 1953. MRS. FREETH (R. M. Preston)-a son (Richard Charles Andrew), 9 December 1953• MRS. GIBB (C. Godfrey)-a daughter (Rachel Margaret), 26 July 1953. MRS. GILCHRIST (D. J. Hudson)-a son (Ian Andrew), 24 October 1952. MRS. GILL (M. H. Alexander)-a son (Stephen Henry), 23 July 1953. MRS. GREEN (June Burdett)-a son (Richard Gordon Lancelyn), 10 July 1953. MRS. HARDIE (P. M. C. Uhde)-a daughter (Edwina Mercy), 23 February 1953. MRS. HARLEY (M. E. S. Weir)-a daughter (Alison Frances), 18 June 1953. MRS. HORTON (M. M. Oldham)-a son (Peter Bernard), 19 June 1953. MRS. HOWELL (G. E. Davies)-a daughter (Lavinia Clare), 17 September 1953. MRS. ILES (M. W. Davies)-a son (George Daniel), 25 January 1953. MRS. ILETT (G. M. Parry)-a son (Michael James), Iv September 1953. LADY JOHNSTON '(B. J. Harris)-a daughter, 4 January 1953. MRS. LINES (E. M. Allum)-a son (Nicholas William), 6 January 1953• MRS. LU (A. E. N. Whittingham)-a daughter (Helen Elizabeth Maria), 5 June 1953. MRS. MACNAIR (R. M. Reynolds)-a daughter (Lucy Veronica), 15 November 1953. MRS. MANLEY (G. K. West)-a son (Martin John Deverell), 15 April 1953. MRS. MAY (B. M. Orton)-a son (Timothy Martin John), II November 1953. MRS. MOWATT (L. E. Homewood)-a daughter (Alison Loch) 21 November 1953. MRS. OLLARD (R. M. P. Swain)-a daughter (Margaret), 27 September 1953. MRS. PEABODY (C. N. Fonthier)-a daughter (Carol Anne), 23 November 1953. MRS. PEASE (Susan Spickernell)-a daughter (Rosamund Mary), z October 1953. MRS. POLAK (H. L. Utitz)-a son (Michael), II April 1953. MRS. PROUDFOOT (Mary Macdonald)-a son (Andrew), 16 October 1953. z6

MRS. SINKER (J. M. Bullen)-a son (Richard Wynn), 4 August 1953. MRS. STRAWBRIDGE (Stella Hassid)-a son (Nigel Farrant), 2z June 1951. MRS. THALER (A. L. Pollak)-a son (David Eliezer), ro October 1953. MRS. TURNBULL (G. C. M. Lewis)-a son (Robert Lewis), z6 January 1953. MRS. wARNocK-a son (James Marius Alexander), 15 August 1953. MRS. WILCOX (Leonora Fallas)-a daughter (Valerie Lynden), 18 April 1953. MRS. WYNYARD BROWNE (J. M. Yeaxlee)-a daughter (Clarissa Nicola), 29

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PU L][CATIONS C. M. Ady, M.A., D.Litt. Some Early Bishops of Oxford (St. Frideswide Papers, No. 3), ed. Dr. F. L. Cross, 1953. is. Issued by the authority of the Dean and Chapter of Christ Church. Kathleen Coburn, B.Litt. The Letters of Sara Hutchinson. Routledge & Kegan Paul and the University of Toronto Press (in press). Elizabeth Crittall, M.A. Introduction to reduced facsimile of Andrews' and Dury's map of Wiltshire, 1773. Records Brch. of Wilts. Archaeological Soc., 195z. 25s. Assistant Editor of Victoria History of Wiltshire, vol. vii. Oxford Univ. Press, 1953. 43. 3s. od. Joan Evans, D.Litt. A History of Jewellery, IIoo-187o. Faber & Faber, 1953. 5 gns. (Mrs.) Margaret Fairley. William Lyon Mackenzie's Vision of Canada, pub. New Frontiers, Spring 1953. (Mrs.) Mary Hopkirk, M.A. Queen Over the Water. John Murray, 1953. 21S. E. D. McLeod, M.A. Translation of Colette's Sido and (in conjunction with Una Troubridge) of her La Maison de Claudine, translated as My Mother's House, published in one volume by Seeker & Warburg Ltd. in the summer of 1953. (Mrs.) S. C. Patterson, M.A. Colour and Culture in South Africa. Routledge and Kegan Paul. International Library of Sociology, January 1953. 3os. (Mrs.) Margaret Potter, M.A. So Willingly to School. S.P.G. March 1953. zs. M. R. B. Shaw, M.A. Stendhal: Scarlet and Black. Penguin Classics, September 1953. 3s. 6d. (Mrs.) E. M. Simpson, D.Phil. The Sermons of John Donne, ed. by G. R. Potter and E. M. Simpson. Volumes I and VI. Univ. of California and C.U.P. 56s. 6d. (Mrs.) J. M. E. Tompkins, M.A. Seasonal Breeding and Migrations of the Desert Locust (Schistocerca Gregaria Forskal) in South Western Asia. Anti-Locust Memoir No. 5. Published by Anti-Locust Research Centre, London, 1953. los.

ARTICLES Ruth Barbour, M.A. `Maximos Archidiakonos of Alexandria (1597-1603)% in Tome Commemoratif du Millenaire de la BibliothOque Patriarcale d'Alexandrie (Publications de l'Institut d'etudes orientales de la Bibliotheque

Patriarcale d'Alexandrie, No. 2), Alexandria, 1953, pp. 111-13. (Mrs.) I. M. Brownrigg, M.A. 'Music in the Training College', in Music in Education (bi-monthly), October-November 1953.

I. W. Busbridge, M.A., D.Phil. 'Coherent and non-coherent scattering in the theory of line formation.' Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. cxiii (1953)• (Mrs.) A. I. Carlisle, M.A. 'Observations on the behaviour of Dromia Vulgaris Milne Edwards with simple ascidians.' Pubblicazioni della Stazione Zoologica di Napole, xxiv (1953), pp. 143-52. Review : 'Milton and the Literature of Travel.' Review of English Studies, (New Series), iv. 15 (1953), pp. 288-9. `Milton and Ludwig Lavater.' Review of English Studies (in the press). `Studies on the Didemnidae (Ascidiacea). I', with D. B. Carlisle. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom (in the press). M. L. Cartwright, M.A., D.Phil. 'On being a Specialist.' Spectator, 24 October 1953. M. M. Chattaway, M.A., B.Sc., D.Phil. 'More about Bark.' Forest Products News Letter, No. 192, 1952. `The Occurrence of Heartwood Crystals in certain Timbers'. Australian Journal of Botany. I. I, 1953. `The Anatomy of Bark. I. The genus Eucalyptus.' Ibid. I. 3, 1953. — 'What's in a name.' Walkabout, April 1953. `Lake Elizabeth.' Wild Life, July 1953. Cecily Clark, M.A., B.Litt. 'Review of the Peterborough Chronicle', trans. H. A. Resitske (1951), in the Journal of Ecclesiastical History, IV (1953), PP. 103-5. `Studies in the Vocabulary of the Peterborough Chronicle, 1070-1154.' English and Germanic Studies, V, pp. 67-89. M. R. Cunningham, M.A. 'Izaak Walton' in the Hampshire Review, Number 15, Spring 1953. Marjorie Davies, M.A. 'Teaching in a High School with a hearing aid,' in The Silent World (Magazine for the deaf and hard of hearing), March 1953• E. M. Deuchar, M.A. 'The Regional Properties of Amphibian organizer tissue after disaggregation of its cells in alkali.' Journ. Exp. Biol. 30 (I) (1953), pp. 18-43. (Mrs.) N. M. Fleet, M.A., D.Phil. 'The Recent Study of the Nibelungenlied', in the Journal of English and Germanic Philology, vol. 53 (January 1953), PP. 32-49Nadejda Gorodetzky, B.Litt., M.A., D.Phil. 'Tin episode du romantisme russe'. Revue de litterature Comparee, 27me annee, No. 4, OctoberDecember 1953. B. Kemp, M.A. 'Some Post Office Papers, 1766-81, in the Dashwood Collection', in Bodleian Library Record, vol. iv. 'Crewe's Act, 1782', in English Historical Review, vol. lxviii. 'The Nineteenth Century', in Annual Bulletin of Historical Literature, 1952. Anita Kohsen, M.A. 'System for an Instinctual Control Mechanism.' Behaviour, International Journal of Ethology (in the press, probably early 1954). (Joint author.) E. M. 0. Laurie, D.Sc. 'Rodents from British Honduras, Mexico, Trinidad, Haiti and Jamaica collected by Mr. I. T. Sanderson.' Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. vol. vi, pp. 382-94.

(Mrs.) R. J. Leys, M.A., B.Litt. 'Robert Langton's Pilgrimage', in The Library, March 1953. F. M. E. Macdonald, M.A., B.Sc. 'Murray Valley Encephalitis Infection in the Laboratory Mouse. I. Influence of age on susceptibility to infection.' Austral. .7. of Exptal. Biol. Med. vol. xxx (1952), p. 319. `Murray Valley Encephalitis Infection in the Laboratory Mouse. II. Multiplication of virus inoculated intramuscularly.' Austral. .7. of Exptal. Biol. Med. vol. xxx (1952), p. 325. Haemagglutination with the virus of Murray Valley Encephalitis.' British .7. exp. Path. December 1952. Lady Anne Pery, B.A. 'Reflectivity of the aluminium films and their use in interferometry.' Proc. Physical Society, B 66 (1953), p. 963. M. A. Priestley, B.Litt. 'Anglo-French Trade and the "Unfavourable Balance" Controversy, 166o-1685" .' Economic History Review, Second Series, vol. iv, No. 1 1951. (Mrs.) H. S. Rossotti, B.A., B.Sc., and H. Irving. 'Methods for Computing Successive Stability Constants from Experimental Formation Curves.' Journal of the Chemical Society, November 1953 (68o), p. 339. D. S. Russell, M.A., F.R.C.P. 'Histological change in the striped muscles in myasthenia gravis.' J. Path. and Bact., vol. 65, p. 279. `Further advances in Pathology.' Presidential address to the Association of Clinical Pathologists, 2 October 1953. Lancet, vol. ii, 771. (Mrs.) Joyce Smart, B.A. 'Coronation Celebrations in the Gold Coast', in Cumberland News, 23 June 1953, and in Leicester Evening Mail, I i June 1953â&#x20AC;˘ M. M. Sweeting, M.A. 'The enclosed depression of Carran, County Clare', in Irish Geography, vol. ii, 1953. M. R. Toynbee, M.A. 'The University College Statue of James II' (with the late K. A. Esdaile), Oxoniensia, vol. xvi, 1951 (1953). 'King Charles I and Winchester College.' Proceedings of the Hampshire Field Club, vol. xviii, part i, 1953. `The Two Sir John Dingleys.' Notes and Queries, October and November. H. M. Wallis, M.A. 'A Contemporary handbook to the Molyneux globes', in the British Museum Quarterly, vol. xviii, no. 3, September 1953, pp. 68-69. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 'A newly discovered Molyneux globe', in Imago Mundi, vol. ix (1952), p. 78. R. E. Woolf, M.A., B.Litt. 'The Devil in Old English Poetry.' Review of English Studies, vol. iv, no. 13, January 1953. ,

NEWS AND APPOINTMENTS OF SENIOR MEM ERS, 1953 [The date of appointment is 1953 unless otherwise stated. The date after each name is that of entry to the College.]

(1944), was appointed as English Language Assistant at the Teachers' Training Department for Primary School Teachers in Gothenburg, Sweden, in May. 29

Y. C. ABOAV, M.A.

C. Levett, 1948), B.A., was appointed to the Mitchell Library, Sydney, as research assistant in December. MRS. ANDREW (Joan Whatley, 193o) is doing part-time teaching at Hollington Park School for Girls, St. Leonards-on-Sea. S. M. ANDREWS, M.A. (1922), is producer for the Tonbridge Theatre and Arts Club, and exhibits water colours in their annual exhibition. MARGARET BAXTER, B.A. (1928), has been doing visiting work in and near Brighton, coaching Latin and Greek since 1947. During 1953 she has been visiting St. Mary's Hall, Brighton, to give help in English to a group of foreign girls there from Asiatic countries and the Near East. L. M. BEAULAH, B.A. (1949), was appointed junior French Mistress at St. Mary's School, Calne, from September. L. F. BELL, M.A. (1929), was appointed an assistant Mistress at Hollington Park School for Girls, St. Leonards-on-Sea, from September. N. E. BENNINGTON, B.A. (195o), was appointed Chemistry Mistress at the Abbey School, Reading, from September. MRS. BILTCLIFFE (M. C. B. Acaster, 1935), M.A., was elected a Parish Councillor â&#x20AC;&#x201D;the first woman councillor to serve in Tillingham. J. BIRT, B.A. (195o), is working at the Oxford City Library before training at University College, London. B. E. BLOMFIELD, M.A. (1944), was appointed Mathematics Mistress at Roedean School from September. JANET BLYTH, B.A. (1949), was appointed H.M. Inspector of Taxes, Board of Inland Revenue, in December 1952, and is in Manchester. P. A. BOWYER, B.A. (1949), was appointed Assistant History Mistress at the City of Bath Girls' School. MRS. BOYD (J. M. Elles, 192o), B.A., has been Centre Organiser, W.V.S., in Leatherhead since 1952. JOSEPHINE BRADFORD, M.A., B.M., B.CH. (1946), was appointed House Physician at the Bristol Royal Infirmary. A. V. M. BREWIN, B.A. (1950), is taking a Secretarial Course at Brighton Technical College. MRS. BROWNRIGG (L. M. Miles, 1939), M.A., was appointed Music Adviser, City of Oxford Education Committee, from April 1954. MRS. CARLISLE (A. I. Gillmore, 1945), M.A., was appointed to teach Scripture to Senior classes at Moorfield School, Plymouth. M. L. CARTWRIGHT, M.A., D.PHIL. (1919), Mistress of Girton, was given the honorary degree of LL.D. by the University of Edinburgh in July. KATHLEEN COBURN, B.LITT. (193o), who was appointed Professor of English at Victoria College, Toronto, is having a year's leave on a Guggenheim Fellowship to finish the work on the proofs and index of the first section of the Coleridge Notebooks, now with the publishers. D. T. M. COLMAN, B.A. (1949), was appointed a Lecturer at the University, Helsinki, Finland. MRS. CONKLING (C. S. Sowby, 1917), M.A., is now living in Florida. Her husband resigned from the Diocese of Chicago in July. PRIMROSE M. COOPER, B.A. (1949), was appointed Classics Mistress at Croydon High School from September. R. H. COWEN, B.A. (1947), has been doing editorial and advertising work in the Cresset Press, publishers, since February 1951. MRS. ALLEN (M.

MRS. CULLOTY (M.

E. Clark, 1934), M.A., became Principal of Westwing School for Girls and Junior Boys, a very old established school in the Isle of Wight which she and her husband took over for her to run from September. MRS. CURTIS (A. B. Buller, 1913), B.A., was co-opted a member of the City of Bath Education Committee. K. G. CURTIS, B.A. (1950), was appointed a Mathematician with Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Company, Chelmsford. M. K. F. DALE, B.A. (1950), was appointed a Reader in Mathematics at the University Press, Oxford. E. B. DEAN, M.A. (1936), was appointed Librarian at New Mills Public Library, Cheshire, from April. R.J. DEAN, M.A., D.PHIL. (1922), was again a member of the Fulbright Advisory Committee on Language and Literature. H. C. DENEKE, M.A. (two), is Chairman, Holton Park Girls' Grammar School, Wheatley, and a Governor of Easington Modern School, Banbury. MRS. DE SALIS (D. M. Lawton, 1949), B.A., has been teaching in Northampton since September. J. F. DICKENS, B.A. (1950), is reading for the Oxford Diploma in Education. ANNE DICKINSON (1950), is doing secretarial and translation work at the B.B.C. E. M. DRESEL, M.A., B.Sc. (1939), was awarded a Nuffield Foundation Scholarship in Sociology, and has been at Liverpool University, reading for a Ph.D., since October, having resigned her post at Harwell. A. M. S. DUNN, M.A. (1939), was appointed Headmistress, Colston's Girls' School, Bristol, from January 1954. S. M. EATON, M.A. (1943), was appointed English Mistress at the Queen's School, Chester, from September. A. H. ELLIOTT, M.A. (1938), was elected Mary Somerville Research Fellow, Somerville College. NORA ELLIOTT, M.A. (1940), was appointed a Technical Assistant at the World Meteorological Organization, Geneva, from February. JOAN EVANS, D.LITT. (1914), was appointed a member of the Advisory Council, Victoria and Albert Museum. MRS. FAIRLEY (M. A. Keeling, 1904), was appointed Editor of the (Canadian) quarterly New Frontiers. J. M. FLOYD, M.A. (1946), resigned from the staff of Newport High School in July and since November has been taking a course at the Sorbonne. M. D. FORD, B.A. (1950), was appointed Geography Mistress at Clarendon School, North Wales. S. M. FORSTER, B.A. (195o), is reading for the Oxford Diploma in Education. C. R. FORTESCUE, B.A. (1948), was appointed Assistant at the Lycee Victor Hugo, Paris, 1953-4. A. H. GABAIN, M.A. (1938), was appointed Assistant French Mistress at Watford Grammar School for Girls from September. M. S. GALLOWAY (1950) had a six months' post with Ernst Klett (educational books), Stuttgart. D. M. T. GILLMAN, B.A. (1948), has been Senior Assistant, Oxford and District Hospital Management Committee, since December 1951. s. W. GLENISTER, M.A. (1943), has been working in the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations in Rome since September 1952. C. P. GOODENOUGH, M.A. (1924), is lecturing this winter in Christian Doctrine at the Adult School of Religious Education at Southwark Cathedral. 31

H. G. GOODWIN, M.A. (1943),

was appointed Senior Classics Mistress, Worthing High School for Girls, from September. D. M. GOSCHEN, B.A. (1935), has been Head teacher at Eastleach School (Primary) since January. A. M. GRUTTER, M.A. (1932), joined the Staff of Birmingham University Extramural Department in September and is the resident Tutor for Adult Education in Southeast Staffordshire (Lichfield area). J. P. HALLETT, B.A. (1949), was appointed German Mistress at West Heath School, Sevenoaks. J. M. c. HARPER, B.A. (1945), was appointed Teacher of French and Spanish at City of London College. C. A. M. HAVERGAL, M.A. (1926), the Headmistress of St. Audries School, West Quantoxhead, Somerset, has been busy in connexion with the opening of a new Junior School for St. Audries at Nettlecombe Court, near Williton. JOYCE HAZLEHURST, M.A. (1931), obtained her B.D. degree at Manchester University in July and was inducted as Minister of Horwich Unitarian Free Church on I August. EVELYN HEATON, B.A. (1949), obtained an appointment with Manchester City Libraries. I. M. HEDGES, B.A. (195o), is reading for the Cambridge Certificate in Education at Hughes Hall. at N. HENSMAN, M.A. (1925), resigned from the Headship of St. Bride's School, Helensburgh, at the end of June and went to the Community of St. Mary the Virgin in August and was clothed as a novice in December. She is now Novice Mary Frideswide. J. M. HEPBURN, M.A. (1940), was appointed to W.R.N.S. headquarters for recruiting duties in June and promoted Second Officer in October. She was appointed Midlands Area Recruiting Officer in December, based in Birmingham and holding monthly interview boards in Cardiff, Lincoln, and Nottingham. ETHEL HERDMAN, M.A. (1907), was appointed Education Officer and Assistant General Secretary to the Institute for the Study and Treatment of Delinquency. ELSIE HERRON, M.A. (1932), was made available by his publishers, Hodder and Stoughton, to assist Sir John Hunt in preparing his book The Ascent of Everest.

(1921), who recently completed twenty-six years with the Osiris Repertory Co., produced St. Joan and Everyman at St. Davids Cathedral, Pembrokeshire. CECILY HORABY, M.A. (1935), was appointed Psychiatric Social Worker at the Maudsley Hospital, Denmark Hill, London. MRS. IREMONGER (Lucille Parks, 1934), M.A., was appointed to the West India and Pacific Committees of the Conservative Commonwealth Council. She has done much broadcasting and, as usual, regular lecturing on travel, literature, and current events. Her husband was elected Conservative M.P. for Ilford at a by-election in February 1954. MRS. Iz (D. L. Rowley, 1940), M.A., is reading for a degree in Turkish at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London University. K. A. M. JACKMAN, M.A. (1941), was appointed Assistant French Mistress at Fairfield Grammar School, Bristol, from September. MRS. JALLAND (B. M. Hamilton Thompson, 1923), M.A., B.LITT., was appointed M. N. HEWINS, M.A.

Temporary Lecturer in History at Rolle College, Exmouth, training college for women teachers. She has also done temporary work helping with essay classes at the University College of the South West, Exeter. A. M. JAMES, B.A. (195o), is reading for a post-graduate certificate in Education at the Central College of the Institute, University of London. D. M. JAMES, M.A. (1943), was appointed Assistant Mathematics Mistress at the Old Palace School, Croydon, from September. MRS. GRETA JAMES, M.A. (1951), was appointed Lecturer in Geography at Maria Gray Training College from September. MRS. JAMES (Barbara Missen, 1947), B.A., is still working at the Government Communications headquarters, which has moved to Cheltenham from Eastcote. S. M. JOHN, B.A. (1950), is reading for the Oxford Diploma in Education. LADY JOHNSTON (B. J. Harris, 1934), M.A., B.C.L. Her husband was made a K.B.E. in the Coronation and Birthday Honours. D. M. H. JONES, B.A. (1949), was appointed an Assistant Mistress at Wimbledon High School, G.P.D.S.T., from September. S. A. R. JONES, B.A. (195o), is taking a course in Librarianship at the Leeds College of Commerce. MRS. KEELEY (M. M. Kyris, 1948), B.A., is in Greece for a year where her husband is teaching English at Salonica University under the American Fulbright programme. E. T. KEENOR, B.A. (1944), was appointed Tutor in Languages at Stroud Court International School, Eynsham. MRS. KNIGHT (D. M. Sherwood, 1933), B.A., was appointed Education Officer at St. Hilda's Church of England Diocesan School, Katong, in May. v. B. LEDGER, M.A. (1945), was appointed History Mistress at Ealing Grammar School for Girls. M. B. LEWIS, M.A. (1934), was appointed Headmistress of St. Edmund's College, Liverpool, a Church of England Direct Grant Girls' Grammar School, from September. M. A. LISTER, M.A. (1943), returned to England from Australia in May after three months' working and travelling in New Zealand, and was appointed a Temporary Assistant Mistress at the Herbert Sturtt School, Belper. She has been appointed a Tutor at the House of Citizenship, Ashridge College, from January 1954. M. E. LONG, M.A. (1933), who was a Lecturer in History at the United Missionary College, Ibadan, Nigeria, from 1951, was appointed Senior History Mistress at Wellingborough High School, Northants., from April. R. S. MAAS, M.A. (1943), became co-editor of the periodical Ideas of To day. MRS. McCALLUM (F. M. E. Macdonald, 1936), M.A., B.SC., who went out to Australia with a Colonial Medical Research Studentship in 1951 and worked at the Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, was working in the Pathology Department at Prince Henry's Hospital, Melbourne, from June to September, and was appointed a Graduate Assistant in Pharmacology in the Baker Medi cal Research Institute, Melbourne, in October. L. C. MACKINTOSH, B.A. (1947), was appointed Assistant Teacher of English at the Mary Erskine School for Girls, Edinburgh. E. D. MCLEOD, M.A. (1915), was appointed Acting Controller, European Division, British Council from April. She was made an O.B.E. in the Coronation and Birthday Honours. -

(1908), is Honorary Secretary of Cheriton Parochial Church Council and of Cheriton Women's Institute. She is a member of the Winchester Diocesan Conference and of the Winchester Diocesan Missionary Council. G. M. MATHEWS, B.A. (1947), was appointed an Assistant Lecturer in the department of Philosophy at the University College of the South West, Exeter from August. s. j. MARWOOD (1950) is reading for the Diploma in Social Science at Bedford College, London. E. M. MELLES, M.A. (1939), was promoted in 1953 and transferred to the London regional office of the Ministry of Labour and National Service. She is now working on the wages inspectorate. V. P. MILLAR, B.A. (1947), has become a resident Mistress at Howell's School, Llandaff, since September. N. A. MILLER, B.A. (195o), is reading for the Certificate in Statistics at Oxford. P. E. MINNEY, B.A. (1947), was appointed to the staff of George Newnes, Ltd., as sub-editor. A. H. MOORE, M.A. (1922), was made an O.B.E. in the Coronation and Birthday Honours. H. P. MOORE, B.A. (1949), was appointed secretary to the assistant buying manager of Pirelli Ltd. from July. MRS. MORGAN (Mary Evans, 1947), B.A., was teaching at the Rosebery County School for Girls, Epsom, until December. Her husband now has a post abroad and they will be living in Luzern, Switzerland. J. C. MORLAND, M.A. (1941), was appointed a full-time assistant at Gloucester Technical College from September. G. M. MORRIS (1950) has a post in the mail order department of Hatchards, booksellers, London. D. M. NIBLETT, M.A., B.LITT. (1933), left England in August for a year's exchange Lecturership at Bethel College, Hopkinsville, Kentucky, U.S.A., under the Fulbright Interchange of Teachers. SHEILA NICHOLAS (1950) has a six months' post in the Devon County Record Office. MRS. PAINTER (D. E. Tuck, 1944), M.A., has been moved to the Careers Advisory Section of the L.C.C. Youth Employment Serviceâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a central section dealing with grammar school pupils only. YOLANDE PATERSON, B.A. (1950), is reading for the Cambridge Diploma in Education. MRS. PATTERSON (S. C. Pridmore, 1936), M.A., was awarded a pre-doctoral Fellowship by the Canadian Social Science Research Council, for the study of the Polish Ethnic group in Canada, and is at present in Canada doing field work. P. M. PEARSALL, B.A. (1950), was appointed Geography Mistress at St. James's, West Malvern, from January 1954. PAULA PEDLAR, M.A. (1943), is at present working as a clerk-receptionist in the Outpatients' Surgery of St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London. J. L. C. PEERLESS, B.A. (1950), is reading for the Cambridge Diploma in Education. A. C. PERCIVAL, M.A. (1921), whose work at Trent Park Training College is now

V. M. MACPHERSON, M.A.

half-time, was appointed a part-time Lecturer in Education at the Hornsey School of Art. MRS. POPE (S. E. Fryer, 1936), M.A. has been teaching French at evening hnical College since September. classes at Nuneaton Mining and Tec J. C. POTTER, B.A. (195o), is reading for the Diploma in Education at King's College, London. MRS. POWER (Margaret Chilton, 1918), B.A., is leaving Marlow in January and going to New Zealand before returning to their old home in Churt in June 1954. MRS. PRICE (E. M. Jones, 1949), B.A., was appointed Assistant French Mistress at Headington School, Oxford, from September. MRS. PROCTER (P. M. C. Green, 194o), B.A., resigned her appointment at the Commonwealth Bureau of Plant Breeding and Genetics, Cambridge. MRS. PROTHEROUGH (M. M. Feeney, 1947) was appointed a civilian teacher for Adult Education in H.M. Forces, employed by Nottingham University. H. M. PURKIS, M.A. (1940), has been appointed a Lecturer in French in the University College of the Gold Coast from January 1954. MURIEL M. REES, M.A., B.LITT. (1944), has been teaching Geography at the Abbey School, Reading, since the summer of 1952. D. M. RENNIE, M.A. (1941), was appointed Classics Mistress at La Retraite Grammar School, Bristol, from September. M. M. RIGBY, B.LITT. (1949), was appointed temporary assistant Lecturer in English Language at the University of Glasgow. G. M. ROBERTS, B.A. (1946), is working with Thames and Hudson, a publishing firm. J. E. A. ROBERTSON, M.A. (1922), was appointed Secretary of the Radcliffe, Wingfield-Morris and Associated Hospitals Welfare Fund from March, having left the staff of the Radcliffe Infirmary after sixteen years. B. P. ROSE, B.A. (195o), is reading for the Oxford Diploma in Education. MRS. ROWLINSON (E. M. Hunter, 1948), B.A., B.SC., has a teaching assistantship at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, for the year 1953-4. JOSEPHINE SALKIND, B.A. (1948), was appointed a research assistant in the Economic research division of the London School of Economics in February. N. K. SANDARS, B.LITT. (1950), who was awarded the Thomas Whitcomb Greene Scholarship in Classical Art and Archaeology 1953-5, will be working at Oxford and the British School of Archaeology in Athens. D. B. SAUNDERS, B.LITT. (1922), was elected to the Senate of the University of Manitoba in October, and elected Secretary of the Association of the Academic Staff of the University of Manitoba in May. M. M. SELLENS, B.A. (195o), was appointed English Lecturer at Ripon Training College from September. M. A. SETON, B.A. (1948), has left Unilever Ltd. E. B. B. SHARP, M.A. (1928), was appointed Personnel Officer, Polytechnic Touring Association, Londo n, in October. M. N. M. SHEPPARD, B.A. (1947), was appointed Assistant Youth Employment Officer, Derbyshire County Council, at Alfreton from February. MRS. SHORT (C. M. Hill, 1944), B.A., has resigned her appointment as archivist at Glasgow University. M. L. sais, M.A. (1943), was appointed a B.B.C. Talks Producer in June. 35

MRS. SINGER-BLAN (Helen

Singer, 1943), M.A., was appointed History Mistress at King's Warren School, London. s. P. SLIPPER, M.A. (1944), resigned her post with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in October in order to study Spanish, and after taking the course for foreigners at the University of Madrid has obtained the Diploma de Estudios Hispanicos. MRS. SMART (Joyce Graham, 1945), B.A., was a part-time teacher of English at Opokis Ware Secondary School, Kumasi, from April to December. J. M. SMELLIE, M.A., B.M., B.CH. (194.4), was appointed Senior House Officer to the Professorial Unit at the Royal Manchester Children's Hospital, Pendlebury, in February. She took her D.C.H. (Royal Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons, England) in March. MRS. STIRLING (G. M. Blackmore, 1934), B.A., was appointed Lecturer in English at Queen Aliyah College, Baghdad. JANE STOTHERT (195o) has a post with Benthall of Kingston. H. M. STRINGER (1950) is teaching at Nottingham High School. F. G. SUTTON (Iwo) is going to live with a widowed sister in the bush, some zoo miles south of Perth, Western Australia, from June 1954. MRS. SYKES (M. J. Whicher, 1921), B.A., is an Assistant Probation Officer in training. MRS. TAKADA (M. F. Nakamura 1927), M.A., is Professor of English Literature and Language at Doshisah Women's College, Imadegawa, Kyoto, Japan. E. M. THRELFALL (1949), B.A., was appointed Secretary to the Contracts Manager, Brockworth Engineering Company, Gloucester, in May. R. M. TOULMIN (1948), B.A., was elected to the Elizabeth Wordsworth Studentship, St. Hugh's, and to the Woolley Travelling Fellowship, Somerville, in June. MRS. TUPPER (D. F. H. Chappel, 1911), M.A., was appointed President of the Harrow Christian Council of Women for one year. E. M. WALLACE, M.A. (1908), is coming on furlough from March to October 1954. B. M. TYNDALL (1950), B.A., is reading for the Social Science Diploma at Edinburgh University. H. M. WALLIS, M.A. (1945), was promoted Assistant Keeper, Class I, at the British Museum in July. A. A. WARDLEY, M.A. (1945), was appointed Research Assistant to Dr. Janet Vaughan, Principal of Somerville, from September. A. M. WATSON M.A. (1936), was awarded a Social Work Fellowship of 445o for it) months, ' from the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations, for an advanced course in social casework. F. C. WELCH, M.A. (1925), was elected Secretary of the Ulster Headmistresses' Association. D. L. WERNER, M.A. (1944), has been doing bilingual secretarial work in a French advertising agency since July 1952, in England. G. H. WESTON, M.A. (1943), has been teaching in the British Syrian Lebanese Training College, Beirut, since October 1952. M. J. WHITELEY, B.A. (1948), was appointed Assistant Scripture and Latin Mistress at Ware Grammar School for Girls, Herts., from September. M. J. WILSON, B.A. (195o), is training in Housing management. She was awarded the Josephine Butler Bursary. ,

G. M. WIRGMAN, B.A. (195o), is reading for the Oxford Diploma in Education. V. A. WYLIE, B.A. (195o), is reading for the Oxford Diploma in Education. E. B. B. YOUNG, B.A., B.M., B.CH. (1947), was appointed House Physician to the

Paediatric Unit of St. Mary's Hospital, Paddington, for six months. was elected to a Senior Research Fellowship in Virology in Toronto from November 1952 to April 1954.

T. E. ZAIMAN, M.A., B.M., B.CH. (1945),

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