St Hugh's College, Oxford - Chronicle 1955-1956 by St Hugh's College, Oxford

ST. HUGH'S COLLEGE

CHRONICLE 1

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ASSOCIATION OF SENIOR MEMBERS

FO UNDRESS: ELIZABETH WORDSWORTH BENEFACTORS: CLARA EVELYN MORDAN EDWARD GAY ELIZA MARY THOMAS CHARLES SELWYN AWDRY PHILIP MAURICE DENEKE MARY GRAY ALLEN JOHN GAMBLE MARY MONICA CUNLIFFE WILLS EVELYN MARTINENGO CESARESCO CATHERINE YATES ELSIE THEODORA BAZELEY ERNEST CASSEL HILDA MARY VIRTUE-TEBBS ISOBEL STEWART TOD ASPIN LOTTIE RHONA ARBUTHNOT-LANE

ST. HUGH'S COLLEGE ASSOCIATION OF SENIOR MEMBERS

Chairman: THE PRINCIPAL Hon. Secretary, 1955-7: MISS M. JACOBS, B.LITT., M.A. Editor of the Chronicle, 1954-6: MISS E. LEMON, B.A.

CONTENTS OFFICERS OF THE ASSOCIATION. VISITOR, PRINCIPAL, FELLOWS, HON. FELLOWS, ETC. . REPORT OF THE THIRTIETH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE ASSOCIATION OF SENIOR MEMBERS THE GAUDY,

1955.

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THE PRINCIPAL'S REPORT

GIFTS AND BENEFACTIONS

DEGREES

UNIVERSITY SCHOLARSHIPS AND PRIZES, POST-GRADUATE AWARDS

COLLEGE AWARDS .

HONOUR EXAMINATIONS

MATRICULATIONS .

THE JUNIOR COMMON ROOM

GAMES REPORT

OBITUARY .

MARRIAGES .

BIRTHS

PUBLICATIONS

NEWS AND APPOINTMENTS

As the Register of Addresses is not being printed this year the list of Members for whom the College has no address at present will be found at the end of the Chronicle.

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 LEGION 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 Relations. 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. HON. HONOR MILDRED VIVIAN SMITH, M.A. (B.SC., M.D. LOND.), Research Fellow. AGNES HEADLAM-MORLEY, B.LITT., M.A.,

JOAN EVANS, D.LITT. (D.LIT. LOND., HON. LL.D. EDINBURGH), CHEV. DE LA LEGION 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,

Tutor in Philo-

sophy, University Lecturer. SUSAN MERIEL WOOD (MRS.), B.LITT., M.A., Official

Fellow, Tutor in Medieval

History, University Lecturer. Official Fellow, Tutor in Geography, University Lecturer. MABEL RACHEL TRICKETT, M.A., Official Fellow, Tutor in English Literature, University Lecturer. MARGARET JACOBS, B.LITT., M.A., Official Fellow, Assistant Tutor and Cassel Lecturer in German, University Lecturer. MARJORIE MARY SWEETING, M.A. (M.A., PH.D., CAMBRIDGE),

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.

Lecturer BETTY ISABELLE BLEANEY, M.A.

(mils.), Lecturer in Physics.

Bursar EDITH MARY WORNER

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

Principal's Secretary EILEEN BEERS

REPORT OF THE THIRTIETH MEETING OF SENIOR MEM IERS HE meeting was held in the Mordan Hall on Saturday, 2 July 1955. T One hundred and eighteen Senior Members were present. The Chairman spoke of the death of two former Fellows of the College. An obituary notice of Mrs. Cutcliffe (Monica Farrow), who died on 12 December 1954, appeared in the last number of the Chronicle. Mrs. Martin Clarke, Tutor in English Language, 1930-50, died suddenly on 17 June 1955. She had been ill for some time previously, but seemed to have made a good recovery. She paid two visits to Oxford shortly before her death when she enjoyed seeing her friends and spoke cheerfully of her plans. A fatal road accident to Judith Dickinson, an undergraduate in her second year reading Modern Languages, cast a shadow over Trinity Term. A memorial service for her was held in the College Chapel. By the death on 3o June of Dr. Orwin, the College lost a good friend, and a most useful member of Council, 1937-45. Among recent awards and appointments made to members of the College were the Rose Mary Crawshay Prize awarded to Dr. Simpson by the British Academy for her edition of Donne's Sermons, and the Gill Memorial by the Royal Geographical Society to Miss Sweeting, together with a Leverhulme Grant. With the help of the latter she hopes to visit the Cockpit Country of Jamaica during the Long Vacation. Mrs. Thompson (P. Stradling) has been elected as a University representative on the Oxford City Council, and is the first member of the College to hold this office. The Christopher Welch Scholarship of 3(:)0 a year for two years has been awarded to M. Lunt, now working for Biochemistry Part II; J. Peacock, Nuffield Medical Scholar 1951-5 has won a scholarship at the London Hospital Medical School. College awards are recorded elsewhere in the Chronicle. R. Arbuthnot-Lane, who died in 1943, left the residue of her estate to be divided equally between the Oxford Mission to Calcutta, the Student Christian Movement, and St. Hugh's College ; our share in the legacy being expected to amount to about ÂŁ3,000. The traffic problems of Oxford have absorbed much time and thought in both University and City during recent months. All colleges were asked to comment on the letter from the Minister of Housing asking the City Council to put forward a scheme for inner relief roads. Our Governing Body gave careful consideration before replying and all colleges agreed in refusing support to schemes for roads through the University Parks or through the middle of Christ Church Meadow. The City Council, notwithstanding, adopted by a small majority a proposal for two such relief roads, but it seems likely that the strong opposition of the University and colleges backed by a vocal public opinion, will cause the Council to think again. A report was given on the results of the Building Fund Appeal up to 3o June, and it was stated that building was scheduled to begin in the summer of 1957, which would probably prevent a Gaudy from being held that year. A list of subscribers and building plans were on view. The Chairman announced that Dr. Ady, who had held the secretaryship for 23 years did not offer herself for election. She thanked her both personally and in the name of the Association for her long service. Dr. Ady proposed as her successor Miss Margaret Jacobs, who was eligible for office owing to her recent election as a Fellow, and who as a Scholar and Senior Scholar of the 7

College, was well suited for the work. Dr. Busbridge seconded the proposal and Miss Jacobs was elected with acclamation. The Chairman expressed her regret that, owing to the high cost of printing, it had been decided that the Register of Senior Members should in future be published every third year only. Miss E. Snowden, asked that plans for a new Chapel should not be forgotten. Whilst the Chapel Fund bears witness that this was much in mind, a new Chapel could not be included in the strictly limited scheme for 1957. Dr. Dean urged that efforts should be made to bring lapsed members back into the Association. A question was also asked as to the position of former members of St. Hugh's Club who were not eligible for the Association, as they had not completed a University course. Their numbers are diminishing, but all are invited to the Gaudy and are entitled to buy the Chronicle.

THE GAUDY, 1955 A S in 1953 'the Association of Senior Members gathered for the Gaudy . . . with a special sense of anticipation after the unusual interval of three years', so in x955 there was a feeling that building operations would probably mean a longer interval than usual before the next Gaudy and that this was a wonderful opportunity to glean as much information as possible about those operations. In this hope they were not disappointed as plans were on view in the Reading Room, and they were well studied. Those who attend the business meeting are not as many as those who come to the dinner and some members manage to get to one who cannot get to the other, but the business meeting in a Gaudy year gives one an encouraging awareness of the real interest of Senior Members in the College. In other years the Mordan Hall seems large, but in the Gaudy year one wonders how soon, like the Hall and the Chapel, it will seem, and be, too small. The Report of the meeting of Senior Members is, as usual, the first item in this Chronicle. The meeting was followed by tea out of doors. That tea gives a chance to find out who is there, to get a few words with a greater number of people than at the dinner and to make arrangements for Sunday (and perhaps Monday). It is seldom more than mentioned in a note on the Gaudy, but to one member at least it is by no means the least pleasant part of a happy week-end. For the dinner the College, in its wisdom, does not make an actual table plan, but lists the people to sit at each table and these can arrange themselves. The noise at dinner bears witness that advantage is taken of this. The speeches after dinner are given below. When they were finished we went out on to the terrace, but a chill wind drove people in rather earlier than usual and only on Sunday did we realize how fortunate we had been, for Sunday was cold and a very rainy afternoon made one tea-party of Old Members very glad indeed to see a fire. Sunday morning called the usual large congregation to the Holy Communion service in Chapel at 8 a.m. Miss A. M. Hedley (1934), Headmistress of Red Maids School, Bristol, proposed the toast of 'The Association of Senior Members'. She said that Miss Ady had asked her to do so in such a way that 'Yes' was the only possible answer. The past twenty years she had found more enjoyable than the first twenty of her life because of her association with St. Hugh's, of which the characteristics were unaffected friendliness and sound learning, in beautiful surroundings. (It was a very great pleasure to see the garden more than restored to its former glories.) Looking back on her years at College she 8

mentioned the academic detachment of the S.C.R., Miss Gwyer's instruction on chaperone rules, and her welcome of 'war babies', and Miss Gray's remark that it would be 'interesting to see what the moderators make of the new syllabus'. Passing on, she referred to the Bristol Group of Headmistresses, Miss Dunn at Colston's, Miss Glenday, Chairman of the Executive of the Association of Headmistresses, at Clifton, of which Miss Addison Phillips, who started the Bristol Venture Club—now the Soroptimists—had been the Head. The College in the past had a list of names distinguished in the scholastic world, but she herself found now too few opportunities for appointing staff from St. Hugh's, she would suggest that teaching is social work with an academic bias in spite of some parents' estimate of teachers as 'harsh and ruthless'. She was always interested to read of the work of the Senior Members and filled with admiration and awe by the lists of books and articles. Particularly gratifying were the successes in the administrative Civil Service, where imagination was very badly needed. She told an amusing story of being required to state 'my physical condition necessitates the use of additional soap', when asking for permits during the rationing period, and followed it by another of an Irish linen firm, from whom she had hoped to get counterpanes for her school, writing that 'creeping into the shops are small quantities of uncontrolled counterpanes, but the prices are appalling'. She concluded a most amusing speech by saying that it was a privilege to help the rising generation towards membership of the College and subsequently of the Association, and making a graceful reference to Miss Ady's retirement as Secretary of the Association. In replying to the toast of the Association, Mrs. Proudfoot (Mary Macdonald (193o)) said: `Since leaving Oxford in 1947 I have been more or less closely associated, in different ways, with three other universities—Northwestern University, Illinois, by marriage; Chicago, by physical proximity; and the University College of the West Indies, by research. I have, on various occasions, reflected on the peculiar characteristics of these institutions—on what gives each its distinctive flavour. `Northwestern, which in some ways I know best, is essentially a university serving a community. Its trustees are the big business men of Chicago. Its students go there to acquire those facts and techniques likely to assist them to be better salesmen, merchants, town-planners, engineers, and so on 0 the Chicago area. It houses under its academic roof schools of commerce, journalism, home economics, and education. It has even a flourishing traffic control institute. It might be well for Oxford if the Mayor could enrol here and take a few well-thought-out courses in the theory and practice of traffic control in the modern state. `Chicago has a different and in some ways a curiously medieval flavour. Here, the training of the mind rather than the acquisition of useful skills is the first consideration. The hair of the young men is on the long side—and many have suede shoes. The young women do not wash too often—and the Faculty have a faintly Ruritanian flavour. Disputation is the key-note—and students learn to argue cogently and with passion on either side at every conceivable academic fence. Some of the information they acquire is not strictly useful. Chicago University is a great and stimulating place of learning—or at any rate of training—and its rather dirty campus has an unmistakably academic smell. 9

`The University College of the West Indies—small, very new, and relatively very poor—is in many ways more closely akin to Oxford than either of these North American institutions. Here students—East Indian, African, and white —dine together in Hall, in their academic robes, and live as an academic community in a sense that their huge North American counterparts do not. This is a university of the intellectual elite. Its first Principal, Sir Thomas Taylor, was a Fellow of Brasenose and a distinguished Oxford scholar. Its present Principal was formerly the Registrar of Cambridge. None the less it, too, is a service institution. The West Indies is a backward area—poor in natural resources, over-populated, and in urgent need of development. The University College was founded primarily in order to raise the pitifully low standard of living—and the overriding consideration of its distinguished scholars must be with the pressing problems of the present. Òxford, I like to think, is not a service institution, and we are not obliged by hard circumstances to regard learning as a means to some other end, however laudable—but rather, and more properly, as an end in itself. We can spend our Oxford days—a few short years of a lifetime—in acquiring, happily, earnestly, and diligently, perfectly useless information, secure in the knowledge that to know is good. Sometimes, however, as I pore over the Chronicle, thousands of miles away at the other end of the world, I wonder if this ancient and good tradition is not somehow slipping. The old students seem, so many of them, to be engaged in such terribly useful work—and I wonder what has happened to their former and passionate interest in the location of West Saxon saucer brooches, in Homeric archaeology, in Anglo-Saxon philology, and so on. Ì should like to say, in conclusion, how very much I now enjoy the Chronicle. When I lived in Oxford I don't think I ever read it at all. In London I gave it a cursory glance. Now, in Illinois, I drop everything when the postman brings it, and bury myself in an armchair until I have sucked the last little bit of news from between its covers. And I like to be reminded that I am part of an academic society whose headquarters are located between the Banbury and the Woodstock roads, and whose members are scattered to the four corners of the world.' Ruth J. Dean (1922), proposing the toast of the College, said: `Miss Ady suggested that I must be used to doing this sort of thing, but actually we don't propose toasts very much in the States. I don't mind being efficient and presenting a report or pretending to be scholarly and reading a paper, but to be amusing to order is not my line. Ì took advice from more experienced friends: one said I was supposed to represent the College, be a spokesman : this seems unfair to Britishers, that an American should presume to represent them. On the other hand, it shows the broad-mindedness of St. Hugh's that I have been asked to propose this toast— indeed that I was admitted to College—and I greatly appreciate the years I had here as an undergraduate and the welcome I have had upon my subsequent repeated returns. Ànother said that I might reminisce: but I fmd I am of the wrong generation to do this; doubtless there were picturesque characters in my earlier days, and goodness knows that was thirty years ago, but I still retain too much respect for them to view them with the proper perspective to represent them as picturesque or comic. I might indeed reminisce about changes in the College, 10

but those of you who are here have seen that enough remains the same for you to enjoy a certain amount of nostalgia and enough has changed for you to take satisfaction in the College's progress. `A third piece of advice was to be brief, and with this I might now sit down. But being on my feet I feel somewhat like the man who found himself, while sightseeing, unexpectedly at a memorial service at which each person present rose and said a few words about the dear departed. When the person next to him sat down and everyone was looking at him he felt he must rise. "I regret", he said, "that I did not have the privilege of knowing your esteemed friend; but while I am on my feet I should like to say a few words about Los Angeles." ' So I should like to say a few words about our concept of the College. I referred a few moments ago to St. Hugh's as broad-minded: I was thus considering the College to have a personality. It is of course a body: corporate body and an incorporeal bodyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a body of which we are all parts. We are not the whole of it, and it is to each of us a combination in differing proportions of building, gardens, S.C.R., J.C.R., Association, growing-up, education, . . . and our particular part of the University. And we are each, in her own little way, a part of it. But we tend to forget this during much of our busy lives except when the Chronicle arrives, or an invitation to a Gaudy, or an appeal for funds. `As far as taking an interest in the College is concerned, I am obviously here talking to the converted; but I'd like to suggest that we should all do a bit of evangelization, and try to reawaken active interest in the College among those who are not members of the Association. We should get in touch with those we know of our contemporaries, and of our neighbours also, since doubtless St. Hugh's people of other generations live near us. We need only talk to a few and persuade them to talk to a few to make a big snowball effect. As I ventured to suggest in my question at the business meeting this afternoon, there may well be potential members of the Association who would join if urged, who perhaps imagine impediments to their joining which do not in fact exist. `When we feel ourselves genuinely members of a body we are more concerned to see the problems of that body worked out. A larger Association with a feeling of solidarity would increase moral and financial support of the College, and its effectiveness in the national life. `Most of us of course have an automatic reflex of resentment when asked for money. Yet we are all aware of the economic reasonableness of the College building programme as recently explained to us in the Principal's letter. The response to that appeal has been prompt and generous: as the Principal has already reported to the business meeting something like half of the needed sum has been paid or promised within the first five months. This is extremely gratifying. `But this response has come from only one-quarter of the Senior Members. Where are the other three-quarters ? Some no doubt feel obliged to await a more auspicious moment in their personal budget; very possibly many have remained silent because they felt that what they could afford to give was too little to be worth sending. `Nothing is too little. The important thing is that the College is one and that everyone should be represented in support of its activities, the material contribution may have to be small. II

'A campaign to have zoo per cent. of the Senior Members give something, however small, would have tremendous total results. I would urge us all to reason with ourselves, and with all the St. Hugh's people we know, for each person to be committed, were it only for a shilling a week. It is individual commitment that counts. It widens throughout the world the belief in and the influence of St. Hugh's and Oxford. On the purely practical side, even a pledge as small as a shilling a week from everyone who hasn't already pledged a contribution would give the College £2,000 a year. In the States we call this "living endowment"—pledges of modest annual payments from those who cannot afford more spectacular gifts, to take the place of the income from large invested endowments now that our changed society rarely produces large benefactions. `It is true that the College needs further endowment: I don't minimize this. When we can't contribute in such terms ourselves we can look around for potential benefactors to interest in the College. But the responsibility for the support of the College belongs to all of us, not only to a few fortunate wealthy individuals. `Let us all become involved, committed. `As an American, it is appropriate that I should give you an American toast: "The College, one hundred per cent.", with which I should like to couple the name of "The Principal".' The Principal began her speech by giving figures for the response to the Building Fund Appeal up to 3o June 1953; gifts and covenants from 277 donors, together with income tax returnable on the covenants, would bring in, over a period of seven years, a total of approximately &0,000, which was half the estimated cost of the extensions to the main building. After giving these figures the Principal said: `To have secured in the first five months after the issuing of the appeal gifts and covenants which will amount to half the required sum is a notable achievement and I should like to express (on behalf of the College) gratitude to all those who have given so generously. But there is another side to the matter and there are two points which I should like to stress—the number of donors and the need for a widespread response. Dr. Dean in her speech has told us that an independent American college expects to get a Ioo per cent, response to its appeals from its alumni. The register of Senior Members contains the names of over 1,100 persons. Some of these are not active members and they have not kept in touch with College, although they are life-members of the Association, but the majority keep the College informed of their addresses and take an interest in its well-being. The appeal was also sent out to a number of other persons who are either not eligible for membership of the Association or have not kept their names on the books. Some appeals were returned through the Post Office and it is probable that others, although not thus returned, failed to reach the persons to whom they were addressed, but the number of appeals which reached their destination must be nearer 1,500 than I,000. Up to the present, therefore, only about a quarter have responded. I am sure that many more intend to contribute but are putting off replying until a more convenient time—in fact some people have said so. Some of you probably felt that you would rather wait until after the Gaudy so that you could obtain more information. Many members may feel that they cannot give large sums and perhaps hesitate to give at all. But a large number of moderate or small 12

donations can reach a large total and, in fact, we are relying on such contributions to make up the sum we need. For those who can manage it, a seven-year covenant is a particularly convenient way of giving, because the sum is almost doubled by returned income tax, but single donations of whatever amount are welcome. There is no time-limit for responding to the appeal and contributions, whenever they are given, will be received with appreciation. I would urge those who can give now, or in the near future, to do so for the following reason. We hope to begin the work at Easter 1957. It will take about six months and payments must be made at regular intervals while the work is proceeding. Thus we shall have to pay out the whole cost, which is roughly estimated at £zo,000, between April and October 1957. When we begin the work we shall have in hand in the appeal fund any donations given up to that time and not more than three-sevenths of the sum which will be raised by covenants. Thus, even if the appeal ultimately raised the whole £20,000, we should still have to borrow to finance the actual building, and pay off the loan as the money from the covenants comes in; but at present we are only sure of half the necessary sum, and on these figures we shall have rather less than k5,000 in hand by the spring of 1957. We have applied to the University for a loan to be taken up in 1957, but we do not yet know how much we shall get or whether we shall get one at all. On such a loan interest will be only 2 per cent., but if we have to borrow from any other source the interest will certainly be higher. Thus the more we have in hand by the spring of 1957 the better, and I would therefore beg those who can give now to do so, although I would reiterate that contributions at any time and of any amount will be gratefully received. `It has been suggested to me that some of the younger members find it difficult to appreciate the financial needs of the College, because they assume that we receive an annual grant from the state. This is not so. The agreed policy of the universities and colleges of Oxford and Cambridge is that the colleges should not receive annual subventions from the state but should retain their independent status, because independent educational institutions have a real contribution to make. Our endowments are small, although they are increasing, and we have to look mainly to fees for our income. Our present number of undergraduates—about 17o—is not economic. An increase of twelve may seem very small but it should serve to stabilize our present small and uncertain annual balance, provided we are not burdened with debt, charges. Some of you may wonder whether the College cannot obtain a capital grant from the University Grants Committee for building. There is certainly less objection to this than to an annual grant and the women's colleges in Oxford hope to obtain such a capital grant in the future. But it needs the approval and goodwill of the University, and we do not know whether we shall get a grant or, if we do, for how much and when. Our need for additional rooms is urgent and the extension for which I am appealing is only a small part of our total building needs. The College should aim at being able to accommodate eventually its full quota of zoo undergraduates, but to do this will more than swallow up any capital grant we are likely to receive. The extensions to the main building proposed for 1957 can be carried out in a short time and, with the help of the Association, can be financed by the College out of its own resources. The only sound policy is to push on with this plan and make sure of at least so much. The additional undergraduates accommodated will be both an educational and a financial gain. I need hardly point out to the present company the benefit of an extended dining hall.'

THE P INCIPAL'S EPOI T I \

HERE have been three elections to Official Fellowships: Miss Sweeting, Tutor in Geography; Miss Trickett, Tutor in English Literature; and Miss Jacobs, Assistant Tutor and Cassel Lecturer in German. One former Fellow has died during the year: Mrs. Martin Clarke, Fellow and Tutor in English Language from 1930 to 1950, who died suddenly on 17 June 1955. A note on her career and appointments appears elsewhere in the Chronicle. Two former members of the Council have also died. Dr. Charles Orwin, Estates Bursar and Fellow of Balliol College and Director of the Institute of Agricultural Research, was co-opted as a member of Council in 1937 and served until he retired from his university and college appointments in 1945 and left Oxford for Blewbury. He was a valued member of our finance committee and took a great interest in the college gardens. He was himself a keen gardener, and the charming garden at Holywell Manor was his creation. During the war years, when the College occupied Holywell Manor and thus became a tenant of Balliol College, he did much to further good relations. With his death on 3o June 1955 the College has lost a wise friend and counsellor. Ethel Herdman, student of St. Hugh's Hall from 1907 to 1910, who died on 5 February 1956, served as an elected member of Council, representing the Association of Senior Members, from 1926 to 1931. She always maintained a close connexion with the College and took a deep interest in its welfare. Lettice Fisher, widow of the Right Hon. H. A. L. Fisher, died on 14 February 1956. From 1902 to 1913 Mrs. Fisher was Tutor in Modern History at St. Hugh's College. The beginning of last Trinity Term was overshadowed by the death, as the result of a road accident on the first Sunday of term, of Judith Dickinson, an undergraduate in her second year reading Modern Languages, and our deep sympathy goes out to her parents and sister. There were 17o undergraduates (including 9 graduates of other Universities) in residence during the academic year 1954-5. Of these 164 were reading for Honour Schools, 5 for research degrees, and 1 for a post-graduate diploma. In addition there were 19 graduates reading for research degrees and diplomas. In the Final Honour Schools in 1955 one candidate—Clarice Baker, reading Animal Physiology— was placed in the First Class; 35 were placed in the Second Class, and Io in the Third Class. These results are respectable but not outstanding, and it is disappointing that only one candidate should reach the first class. In Honour Moderations results were good: two First Classes (Margaret Hancox and Elizabeth Richardson) and three Second Classes in Mathematical Honour Moderations and five Second Classes in Classical Honour Moderations. This is the second year in succession that we have had two First Classes in Mathematical Honour Moderations. Our young graduates have obtained a number of distinctions. Mary Lunt has been elected to a Christopher Welch Scholarship in Biology, and Jennifer West to a Harmsworth Law Scholarship—the first to be obtained by an Oxford woman. Joan Peacock (Nuffield Scholar, 1951-5) has been awarded an Entrance Scholarship to the London Hospital Medical School. Tessa Solesby, who obtained entry to the administrative class of the Home Civil Service in 1954, has obtained entry to the senior branch of the Foreign Service in 1955. The number of State Scholars in College steadily increases; in 1954-5 there were 77 State Scholars, including those whose State 14

Scholarships were supplementary to College awards. The maximum maintenance grant payable by the Ministry of Education was raised by £20 last autumn and some adjustments were also made in the methods used for assessing the contributions expected from parents. More of the local education authorities have accepted the ministry's scales, but there are still considerable differences between the grants paid by different authorities. The five Oxford women's colleges have reluctantly come to the conclusion that fees must be raised next year to meet rising costs. The total inclusive fee will, therefore, be raised by 30 from £255 (Science £265) to £285 (Science 295) from Michaelmas Term 1956. Lottie Arbuthnot-Lane, student of St. Hugh's Hall from 1904-7, who died in September 1953, left the residue of her estate to be equally divided between St. Hugh's College, the Oxford Mission to Calcutta, and the Student Christian Movement. The estate has now been wound up and the College has received the sum of £3,428. The College has also received during the year £212 from the Hope Greg Bequest. In 1948 the University accepted the bequest of the late Mrs. Mary Hope Greg of a half-share of her residuary estate, subject to certain annuities and life-interests, in trust for the benefit of the women's colleges. As annuities cease, the money which thus becomes available is being equally divided between the colleges. The total sum which each college is likely to receive will be about £1,700 but its receipt may be spread over a considerable period. The Principal of Lady Margaret Hall is one of the Trustees. A very successful Gaudy attended by about 17o Senior Members was held in the first week-end of July 1955. An account appears elsewhere in the Chronicle. At the Annual Meeting of the Association of Senior Members, Miss Jacobs was elected Secretary to the Association in succession to Dr. Ady, who did not offer herself for re-election. Dr. Ady was first elected Secretary in 1932 and has held office continuously for twenty-three years. It is impossible to over-estimate the value of her work for the Association. She has an unrivalled knowledge of its members—especially of its older members —and she has been unsparing of her time and interest. Her successor, Miss Jacobs, is well suited for the post. She came up to St. Hugh's as a Scholar in 1942, was directed into teaching from 1943 to 1945. She returned after the war for two years to complete her degree course in German and then, as Moberly Senior Scholar, spent a further year in Oxford working for her B.Litt. degree. After three years at Manchester University she returned to St. Hugh's in 1951 as our first Cassel Lecturer in German. She is now also an Assistant Tutor and an Official Fellow. She thus knows, and is known to, a large number of the younger members of the Association. The biennial Sherry Party for members of the Association will take place on Saturday, 29 September 1956, 5.30-7.30 p.m., at Queen Elizabeth College, Campden Hill Road, by kind permission of the Principal (M. J. Sargeaunt). Full particulars will be found on a slip enclosed with the Chronicle. I hope that all those who attended the Sherry Party held in 1954 will again be present and will encourage other members of the Association to attend.

GIFTS AND BENEFACTIONS NDER the will of the late Lottie Rhona Arbuthnot-Lane: the sum of

£3,438 being one-third of the residue of her estate. From Mr. and Mrs. Dickinson: books belonging to their daughter Judith. 15

DEG EES,

19)55

D.Phil. Mrs. Mirsky (A. E. Guilding). Thesis: 'The influence of the Pales-

tinian triennial cycle of synagogue lectionery readings on the Fourth Gospel.' Lady Anne Pery. Thesis: 'Investigations of partially reflecting metal films and application of such films to some problems of interferometric spectroscopy.' B.Litt. Mrs. Kitzinger (S. H. E. Webster). Thesis: 'An analysis of the problems of assimilation of African and West Indian Students in Oxford and Cambridge.' Mrs. Caplan (T. Finkelstein). Thesis: 'The contribution of the English Courts in the development of International Law.' R. M. Toulmin. Thesis: 'The relations between Church and State in the Byzantine Empire under the Heracleian Dynasty.' B.Sc. A. L. Mayer. Thesis: 'The role of the Vitamin B complex in certain nutritional disorders of neurones and the skin.' B.M. M. Keene, B. J. West. M.A. Mrs. Bedi (F. M. Houlston), Mrs. Blin-Stoyle (A. E. Balmford), Mrs. Brookfield (J. M. Startup), Mrs. Chloros (H. Comninos), S. K. Davies, Mrs. Elliott (F. J. M. Arthur), Mrs. Field (M. Stephenson), Mrs. Gill (M. H. Alexander), Mrs. Grove-White (M. Lofts), Mrs. Hurford (P. M. Matthews), E. Jackson, Mrs. Keeley (M. M. S. Kyris), M. Keene, M. M. Kirk, Mrs. Mace (S. E. Brown), L. C. Mackintosh, Mrs. Manley (G. K. West), I. P. Palmer, Mrs. Protherough (M. M. Feeney), Lady Anne Pery, M. N. M. Sheppard, Mrs. Spall (G. Crowther), J. 0. Stovin, M. C. Tindal, R. M. Toulmin, Mrs. Wahba (J. Salkind), Mrs. Westrop (N. M. Clegg), Mrs. Williams (A. M. Hutchings), J. M. Wood. B.A. C. A. Baker, M. Basco, J. Bates, Mrs. Bedi (F. M. Houlston), E. D. Bowyer, J. C. Burns, V. B. Chevallier, B. N. Coates, S. M. Colthurst, Mrs. Compsty (B. M. Hall), J. M. Cope, M. B. B. Davey, M. L. Davies, D. M. M. Downer, L. E. Fairbank, D. W. Fawdry, A. Finding, Mrs. Franklin (J. F. Leslie), V. M. Fraser, H. J. M. Greening, 0. D. Grenfell, M. C. Griffiths, Mrs. Grove-White (M. Lofts), J. L. Hackett, J. M. Hay, M. E. Hancock, I. D. Jenkins, S. M. Jones, J. Jopling, V. Kipping, M. A. M. Leighton, L. G. Mansfield, J. M. Martin, S. J. Marwood, M. J. Mason, J. E. Middlebrooke, A. T. D. Miller, J. M. Mills, P. M. Moore, N. R. Moylan, B. Oliver, F. A. Rainforth, C. A. Read, F. E. Richardson, T. A. H. Solesby, B. A. Stamp, D. M. Stedman, M. Stock, F. E. Q. Tate, A. H. M. F. Tennent, W. B. Watson, J. L. West. University Scholarships and Prizes, Post-graduate Awards, &c. Harmsworth Law Scholarship: J. L. West. Christopher Welch Scholarship: M. Lunt. Winter Williams Law Scholarship (Women) proxime accessit: J. M. Mills. Violet Vaughan Morgan Scholarship, proxime accessit: L. A. Dalton. London Hospital Medical School Entrance Scholarship: J. Peacock. Senior Branch of the Foreign Service: T. A. H. Solesby.

College Senior Awards and Prizes Elizabeth Wordsworth Studentship: D. M. Knox, M.A. Mary Gray Allen Senior Scholarship: B. M. Everett, B.A., St. Hilda's College. Yates Senior Scholarship: M. J. Cunningham, M.A. (M.A. Cambridge). Moberly Senior Scholarship: H. S. M. Macpherson, B.A. Hurry Prize: C. A. Baker, B.A. Elizabeth Wordsworth Prize: P. Crowsley. Hilary Haworth Prize: M. Saunders. Commended: J. Bailey and M. Dibb.

HONOU 111 EXAMINATIONS, 1955 Literae Humaniores

Class II: A. T. D. Miller. Class III: A. H. M. F. Tennent. Mathematics

Class II: J. Bates, E. D. Bowyer, L. Burton, 0. D. Grenfell. Natural Science

Chemistry Part I (unclassified): J. C. Burns, D. A. Jameson. Animal Physiology. Class I: C. A. Baker. Physics. Class II: B. Oliver. Biochemistry Part II. Class II: M. Lunt. Jurisprudence

Class II: B. N. Coates, J. M. Mills. Modern History

Class II: E. E. Browning, A. Finding, H. J. M. Greening, N. R. Moylan, A. S. Penny, B. A. Stamp. Class III: L. E. Fairbank. Theology

Class II: V. Kipping, C. E. Tristram. English Language and Literature

Class II: J. C. Anderson, P. A. W. Erlebach, G. M. Jones, J. Jopling, F. E. Richardson, W. B. Watson, Mrs. Wills (S. C. Dyke). Class III: D. W. Fawdry, V. M. Fraser. Modern Languages

Class II : E. L. Blanchard (French), M. E. Hancock (Spanish and French), I. D. Jenkins (French and German), M. A. M. Leighton (French), M. Stock (German and French). Class III: M. Basco (Spanish and French), M. C. Griffiths (Italian and French), S. M. Jones (French). Philosophy, Politics and Economics

Class II: S. E. Lindsay, J. M. Martin, D. M. Stedman. Class III: S. M. Colthurst, P. M. Moore. Geography

Class II: V. B. Chevallier, B. Cooper, F. M. M. Downer. Class III: J. M. Cope. 7

Classical Honour Moderations

Class II : N. M. Blindell, C. L. Jones, A. H. Low, E. M. T. Powell, C. M. Smart. Mathematical Honour Moderations

Class I: M. A. Hancox, E. C. Richardson. Class II: S. M. Green, E. A. Vigar, A. J. Wells.

MATRICULATIONS-MICHAELMAS TERM 1955 Scholars DALTON, LORNA ANNE

(Ethel Seaton Scholarship) (English), King Edward's

High School, Birmingham. FIELDSEND, WENDY MARY

(Gamble Scholarship) (Classics), Leeds Girls'

High School. HEATH, ANNE PATRICIA MARY

(Geography), King Edward's High School,

Birmingham. JOHNSON, JOSEPHINE (Modern Languages), Croydon High School. KELLY, SHEILA EDWINA (History), Haberdashers' Aske's School,

West

Acton. (Clara Evelyn Mordan Scholarship) (Modern Languages), Westonbirt School and La Colline, Switzerland. PRIDDLE, EVELYN SUSAN (Nuffield Scholarship) (Medicine), Croydon High LANGFORD, AMELIA MARY

School. ROSS, EILEEN MELLA

(Jubilee Scholarship) (Mathematics), Leeds Girls' High

School. WILLIAMS, ANTHEA MARION

(Abbott's Scholarship) (History), Clifton High

School. Exhibitioners ALLEN, MARGARET BEATRICE (Modern Languages), Kenya High School. FRENCH, MARY (Natural Science), King Edward's High School, Birmingham. LANGRIDGE, EILEEN ELSIE (History), Gravesend Grammar School for Girls. LLOYD, MARGARET SYLVIA (Classics), Oxford High School for Girls. PHILLIPS, JANET ELIZABETH (History), Monmouth School for Girls. SPIKE, SUSAN (English), Wycombe Abbey. WYNN WILLIAMS, JANET GLENYS (Classics), Bedford High School. ARTHUR, ROSE ELEANOR (History), Downe House, Newbury. BOURGEOIS, VELMA ELIZABETH, M.A., Louisiana State University, U.S.A. CHANCELLOR, VALERIE EDITH (History), King Edward's High School,

Birmingham. COSNETT, ELIZABETH JOAN (English), Calder High School, Liverpool. DALZIEL, GILLIAN ROSEMARY (History), St. Paul's Girls' School. DEAKIN, PAMELA AUDREY (Natural Science), Thistley Hough High School,

Stoke on Trent. DELLA-PORTA, PATRICIA

(Modern Languages), Roedean School and Ben-

dixens. DERRY, CELIA KATHLEEN 18

(Geography), Roedean School.

DUNBAR, CHRISTINE (Classics), Brighton and Hove High School. FOSTER, PATRICIA EVA (Modern Languages), Watford Grammar School

for

Girls. GIBBONS, ANNE (English), Clifton High School. GLEADALL, JILL (Modern Languages), Wycombe Abbey. GRIFFITHS, JUNE AUDREY (Mathematics), Dudley Girls' High School. GROSE, JUDITH CAROLYN MARY (History), Stover School, Newton Abbot. HAMBLY, MARY ROSA (Classics), Bath High School. HAYES, GILLIAN (Classics), Red Maids' School, Bristol. HAYNES, JOAN SYBIL (Mathematics), Pontypool County School for Girls. HOYLAND, GRACE ELLEN (English), Howell's School, Denbigh. JESSIMAN, MARIE ROSE (Modern Languages), St. James's, West Malvern. JONES, ROSEMARY JULIA (English), Gloucester High School for Girls. KIRK, ANN ELIZABETH (Theology), B.A., Bryn Mawr College, U.S.A. LARMAN, VALERIE EDITH (Geography), East Ham Girls' Grammar School. LLOYD, EDITH MARGARET (Natural Science), Howell's School, Llandaff. LUBEGA, FLORENCE (Overseas Services Course) Makerere College, East

Africa. MANSERGH, SUSAN JANE (Geography), Queen MATHEWS, ANTOINETTE GILLIAN FRANKLIN

Anne's School, Caversham.

(Natural Science), Badminton

School. MEADE, DAPHNE MARGARET YVONNE (Philosophy, Politics, and Economics), St. Leonard's School, St. Andrews and Westminster Tutors. MILWARD, CLARE ANTHONY (Geography), Downe House, Newbury. PALING, HILARY ANN (Modern Languages), Ackworth School, Pontefract. PEARSON, JENNIFER (Medicine), St. Felix School, Southwold. REDMAYNE, ALISON HOPE (History), Sherborne School for Girls. RUNDLE, PENELOPE ANNE (Modern Languages), Howell's School, Denbigh. SANDS, ROSEMARY CATHERINE (History), St. Elphin's School, Darley Dale. SCHUBART, JULIET (Philosophy, Politics, and Economics), Sherborne School for Girls. SMITH, ELIZABETH MARGERY (Natural Science), St. Leonard's School, St. Andrews. SMITH, JOCELYN ANNE (English), Mill Mount Grammar School, York. ‘• SPONNER-YAHRAES, ROSEMARIE INGRID, Ph.B., Marquette University, U.B.A. STANFORD, ROSALIND MARGARET PHILIPPA (Modern Languages), Watford Grammar School for Girls. WATSON, MARGARET ANNE (English), Calder High School, Liverpool. WILKINSON, JOAN MARGARET (Mathematics), Enfield County School for Girls. COLDWELL-HORSFALL, ROSEMARY ANNE, B.Sc., University of St. Andrews.

THE JUNIO COMMON OOM Trinity 1955—Hilary 1956

FEATURE in J.C.R. activities this past year has been to attempt to check the complete loss of 'native talent' to outside societies. Members continue to take interest in such and serve on numerous committees. In addition, however, some moving spirits in College have found ready support for the formation of our own clubs. 19

The first of these was a Drama Circle formed midway through the Michaelmas Term, when it held its inaugural reading of Vanburgh's 'Virtue in Danger', with the assistance of invited guests. The Circle flourishes, has a full committee, and holds two readings a term. This Hilary Term saw the revival of the but recently extinct 'St. Hugh's Muses', a debating society doubtless recalled by many Graduates. Pembroke College suggested we might combine with them in a joint society. The invitation was welcomed, and the first motion debated with vigour in the fifth week. The Society, under the name of `The Eriryeans', is to meet four times a term in the J.C.R.s of the respective colleges. This increased College consciousness manifested itself further in prompt response to a proposal to employ the musical talent evident particularly in the Second Year, for a St. Hugh's Night entertainment. The recent tradition of enjoying coffee with Senior Common Room after dinner was maintained. Subsequently we moved into the Mordan Hall. Musical talent had resolved itself into a string ensemble, a madrigal choir, trio of two clarinets and flute, and solo voice and piano items. Prior to the success 'on the day', objections had been tentatively raised as to the detriment to neighbourly relations of diverse `sawings and blowings' upon respective instruments in the afternoons. The justice of the cause once established, however, the calmed dissenters removed selves and tomes to the library on practice afternoons, leaving the instrumentalists to attain considerable proficiency. The Freshers' Play followed as second half. This represented a Fresher's early experience of Oxford in the Greek tragic vein. Much of the script was in verse, and the writers are to be commended on the topicality and originality of their wit. We trust our guests of the Senior Common Room found the evening as enjoyable as ourselves. The usual events of the year have met with success. It was the last year of the St. Margaret's House Sale as such, the settlement being recently affiliated to Oxford House. The College will, however, continue to make some contribution. We thank Miss Busbridge and those dons who assist with stalls, for their labours over the past years. A novel feature in entertainment this year at the Sale was a 'Punch and Judy Show'. The two dances of the year were held, that of Trinity Term being especially successful. Here again we should like to thank various members of the Senior Common Room for enthusiastic support by their presence. The J.C.R. Treasury can boast no greater reserves than last year. The five-shilling addition to battels for the Hilary Term to cover punting cost remains, enabling us to report ourselves solvent. The Picture Committee agreed on one purchase. It is not by a widely known name, but we find it pleasant and well suited to the room. One striking addition shortly to be set up in the J.C.R. is a small sculpture. Mrs. John Clarke, widow of an English sculptor working in the U.S.A. caused some twenty of her husband's smaller sculptures to be cast in bronze, and generously offered them to Oxford college J.C.R.s. On the principle of 'the oldest first' some of the men's colleges were able to make their choice earliest. Nevertheless we were happy to secure a lyrically carved winged figure. Another very kind gift was made to the J.C.R. in a piano for the Mordan Hall. The old one had begun to suffer badly from the central heating system, and from many years of use. We heartily thank Miss Hartnoll for her gift and report on increase in practising times. 20

We are pleased to note that our Chaplain is taking a considerable part in College life. He now joins us for Hall tea on Thursdays, attends dinner that day, and subsequently takes Evening Prayer for us. The study groups continue in alternate weeks. We have met with one tragedy during the year. Judy Dickinson, a Modern Languages undergraduate in her second year was killed in a road accident in the first week of Trinity Term. Graduates may remember her sister Anne, also a member of College formerlyt and will wish to join with us in extending our sympathy to herself and all Judy's family. Some distinction has come to us in University examinations. We congratulate Clarice Baker on her 'First' in her Finals in Physiology. Margaret Hancox and Clair Richardson gained First Classes in Maths. Mods. We are pleased to observe their honorary assumption of a more voluminous species of gown. The Hurry Prize was won this year by Clarice Baker; the Elizabeth Wordsworth Prize by the former President, Pat Crowsley ; and the Hilary Haworth Prize by Anne Saunders. The garden proves one of the chief joys of College life at all stages of the year. Last Summer, due to the kindness of the weather, we were able to see and enjoy it at its best. We look forward, beyond the present snowfalls, to such another Trinity Termâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;even those of us who are beginning to realize the painful inexorability of Newton's Law that what 'comes up' must also perforce `go down'. CAROL DIGHT

GAMES EPORT, 1955-6 A S usual, St. Hugh's has taken a large part in University games this year. We still produce plenty of Lacrosse players and though we have temporarily lost our hold in Squash, we now have a very strong Netball contingent. Susan Burdett and Alison de Courcy-Ireland, who both played in last year's University Lacrosse team, are secretary and treasurer this year. These two and Eileen Powell, who are old blues, were joined by Pat Della-Porta and Susan Mansergh this season. Out of the fourteen people who play for the 1st and 2nd University Netball teams, eight are from St. Hugh's. Rosemarie Francis and Margaret Hancox, who both had blues last year, have been captain and secretary this season and Margaret Hancox will be captain next season. They were joined by Jo Johnson in the 1st team, which defeated Cambridge for the first time for many years. Now that we have the University Netball court at St. Hugh's, I hope that we will remain superior in this game. There are no new hockey players at St. Hugh's this year. Brigid Hamilton, who won her blue last season, has been secretary this season, and Helen Dales, who played in the 2nd team last year, has now gained her blue. Clare Richardson is first reserve for the University team. We are fast building up a reputation for Table Tennis. This is a comparatively new sport in the University and members of St. Hugh's have played a large part in setting it on firm foundations. Of the four people who played in the University team this year, two were from St. Hugh's: Susan Burdett and Clare Richardson. 21

Ann Saunders represents St. Hugh's in the University Swimming team. She has just gained her half-blue this season. Last summer, Ann Hawker, who was secretary, Susan Burdett, and Helen Dales all won blues for Cricket. For the coming season, Susan and Helen are going to be captain and treasurer, respectively. We had only one representative in the University Tennis team last season: Margaret Hancox, who will be captain this year. Among the first-years, there are two promising players who will help to raise our standard in tennis next term. MARGARET A. HANCOX

OBITUARY N 26 December 1955, MARGARET LUCY LEE, M.A. Student of St. Hugh's Hall, 1890-2, Aged 84. O On 14 February 1956, LETTICE FISHER widow of H. A. L. Fisher, (née Ilbert),

Warden of New College. Tutor in Modern History 1902-13, Aged 80. On 9 May 1955, MARY LINDSAY GORDON, M.A., B.LITT. Scholar of St. Hugh's Hall 1906-10. Aged 68. On 5 February 1956, ETHEL HERDMAN, M.B.E., M.A. Student of St. Hugh's Hall 1907-1o. Aged 68. On 29 March 1955, MERE MARIE-JEAN (JEAN DOUGLAS) of the Beguinage, Bruges. Scholar of St. Hugh's Hall 1908-11. Aged 66. On 16 September 1955, HELEN KENDRICK (née KIEK) wife of Sir Thomas Kendrick. Commoner of the College 1918-20, Aged 56. On 17 June 1955, DAISY EMILY MARTIN CLARKE, M.A. (née KEATCH). Tutor in English Language 1930-5o, Official Fellow 1931-50. On 28 January 1956, HELEN CHLOROS (nee COMMINOS) M.A. Commoner of the College 1948-50. Aged 32. On 25 April 1955, JUDITH DICKINSON as the result of a road accident. Commoner of the College from 1953. Aged 19.

DAISY EMILY MARTIN CLARKE (nee KEATCH)

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AISY EMILY KEATCH was born in 1891 in India. She was educated privately and at James Allen's Girls' School, Dulwich. In 1910 she went to Newnham College, Cambridge, as Matilda Blind Scholar to read English and obtained First Classes in both parts of her Tripos. Shortly after going down from Cambridge she married Harold Martin Clarke, who was killed during the First World War. In 1919 Mrs. Martin Clarke returned to Cambridge to carry out research work under Professor H. M. Chadwick and in the following year she was elected to the Marion Kennedy Studentship at Newnham. The result of this period of research was her Edition and Translation of the Hdvamdl, published in 1923 by the Cambridge University Press. After a period as Senior English Mistress at Twickenham County Girls' School she was appointed, in 1924, Assistant Lecturer at University College, Exeter. Six years later she was appointed Tutor in English Language at St. Hugh's College and in 1931 she was elected to an Official Fellowship. During the 22

next twenty years Mrs. Martin Clarke was taken up with the varied and numerous duties which fall to the tutor of an Oxford College, but she also had other activities outside her academic work. She was a member of the Society of Friends and took an active part in the religious and charitable work of the Society. She was a keen amateur ornithologist and went on various birdwatching expeditions in vacations. During these twenty years her interest in Anglo-Saxon archaeology, which had first been aroused by Professor Chadwick's teaching, steadily increased, although she was never technically a `field-archaeologist'. This shift in her interests was reflected in her teaching, lecturing, and writing. During two terms sabbatical leave in 1945-6 she lectured on Anglo-Saxon Archaeology and Literature to various universities on the Atlantic seaboard of the United States of America. These lectures were published under the title Culture in Early Anglo-Saxon England by the Johns Hopkins University Press (1947), and (in this country) by the Oxford University Press (1948). In 195o Mrs. Martin Clarke resigned her appointment at St. Hugh's and retired to London where she undertook extra-mural lecturing for the University of London. This was not a new interest for she had engaged in university extension lecturing in Devon during the six years she was at Exeter. She died suddenly on 17 June 1955. In addition to the books mentioned above, Mrs. Martin Clarke's published work included contributions to Hasting, Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics ( 8) and H. M. Chadwick Memorial Studies (1953), and various articles in Devon Notes and Queries, the Modern Language Review, and the Review of English Studies.

MARGARET LUCY LEE

ARGARET Lucy Lee was born in 1871 at Hartley Wintney in Hampshire, where her father, the Rev. T. W. Lee, was then headmaster of a preparatory school. Four years later he became vicar of Leafield, Oxfordshire, a village with which his daughter retained a close connexion until her death. In October 1890 Margaret Lee entered St. Hugh's Hall (as it then was) as the twenty-fifth student on its register. She read English and in 1892 she was placed in the First Class in the English Honours School. Shortly afterwards â&#x2013; she became a teacher and, in 1897, a lecturer in English for the Association for the Education of Women, which at that time provided most of the teaching for women students in Oxford. In 1913 she was appointed Tutor to the Society of Oxford Home Students (now St. Anne's College), a post which she retained until her retirement in 1936. During the First World War Miss Lee also lectured at London and Reading Universities and was an examiner for the London B.A. degree. In January 1897 Miss Lee had started, with her friend Miss Batty, a private school primarily intended for the daughters of Oxford University dons. It opened with three pupils and from this small beginning Wychwood School developed. Academic and scholastic pursuits by no means absorbed all Miss Lee's energies and she was active in furthering the aims of the Council for the Preservation of Rural England, the Oxford Preservation Trust, and the Noise Abatement Society. She died on 26 December 1955, aged 84. Eight days previously she had attended the Wychwood School Christmas Concert in her wheel-chair. 23

MARY LINDSAY GORDON

MONGST her contemporaries at St. Hugh's in the years 1906-11 Mary Gordon stood out as unique, not only in appearance, but also in character and intellect. Her thick dark hair, drawn back quite simply from her forehead, framed fine features of an ivory pallor, equally arresting whether in absorbed repose or lit up by sudden flashes of amusement, interest, or affection, which revealed her singularly expressive dark eyes. Her clear mind, strong faith, and, above all, her devotion to duty enabled her to carry out a lifetime's work, which had seemed almost impossible for one delicate from childhood. Mary was an only child, devoted to her parents and sharing with them all the interests and influences of a rector's life, first in a poor London parish and then in a rural one at Middle Claydon, Bucks. So she gained that sympathy with the industrial worker and appreciation of country life which led her to a liberal view in politics. Her early education was carried out by her parents, except for three years in the upper forms of the Godolphin School in 1902-5. Her literary ability was outstanding, and after six months' coaching in Oxford she won a scholarship in English at St. Hugh's in 1906 and so was able to carry out her ambition to study Classics. She was a true scholar and rejoiced in the opportunity of study that college life offered, showing marked ability in Language and excelling in Literature and History. After gaining a First Class in Literae Humaniores she spent a year at the Cambridge Training College and another at Manchester High School. The First World War presented an opportunity of university work at Aberystwith, which she enjoyed to the full, but the post was not permanent and it was at the University College of the South-West that she settled down as Lecturer in Classics in 1923. The scope of her work here was not altogether what she deserved and needed, but she gave herself to it with whole-hearted loyalty. Her Principal writes of her: `Miss Gordon was a woman of great refinement and integrity of mind, sensitive and scrupulous and of industry and high aims in scholarship. . . . She was a most faithful teacher and a very choice personal influence. I had a great regard for the distinction of her character and her mind and for her devotion to the harder ways and the higher ideals. She was altogether of rare quality.' A stipulation of her appointment was that she should pursue some research work in vacation: this gave just the opportunity she needed both of pursuing her scholarship and of living with her parents, as her father retired to Cambridge in 1923. Here in 1924 she faced the shock of his death while he was preaching at St. Botolph's Church. So close were father and daughter in understanding that she was able to summarize and complete his sermon from his notes, and what she wrote of him shows the trend of her own mind. `He occupied himself always with great matters, not with the merely trivial and conventional, and was akin by sympathy and temperament to the goodly fellowship of the prophets.' For the next twelve years she and her mother lived in rooms at Exmouth during term-time and at Cambridge during the long vacation, where she worked steadily at the university library at a number of classical subjects, chiefly social and economic; the results were published in the Journal of Roman Studies. When at last she felt she must give up her post at Exeter to devote herself more fully to her mother, she moved to a flat in Cambridge and so had at last her own home and the opportunity for continuous research. Except for a break during the war she continued this work until 24

195o when the arthritis, which had so long threatened her and had been aggravated by nursing her mother, rendered movement impossible. She spent the last years of her life at St. Peter's Convent (Anglican), Woking, facing with the utmost courage and even serenity the hopeless deterioration of her condition. Her only regret was that she could no longer exercise the powers of intellect she still felt she possessed and she rejoiced in her continued study of New Testament Greek and in any questions of scholarship that came to her through the friends who could still manage to visit her. Hers were indeed 'True religion and sound learning' and her life an example of radiant goodness. D. A. A. PENNY

ETHEL HERDMAN Lâ&#x20AC;˘THEL HERDMAN came up to St. Hugh's in 1907 and after taking a JUA second in French taught for a time at Grassendale. In the first war she was in the Censor's office at Liverpool and in 1922 became Secretary of the Oxford branch of the League of Nations Union. Later she was Vice-Warden of Ashburne Hall, Manchester, until her appointment in 1938 as Warden of Bedford College House, London. Then in 1941 she began the work for which so many people remember her as Organizer in the Books for Prisoners of War section of the British Red Cross, and for which in 1945 she was made an M.B.E. and given the Distinguished War Service Certificate. In 1947 she became Counsellor in the Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Section of UNESCO and in 1952 the Assistant General Secretary and Education Officer to the Institute for the Study and Treatment of Delinquency. A. C. Dobbs, her contemporary at St. Hugh's, writes of her: 'Ethel Herdman read French and obtained a good Second Class, in spite of the fact that she had not then ever been abroad. Later she travelled widely when employed by the League of Nations Secretariat at Geneva. Wherever she went Ethel made friends and developed new interests. To the end her enthusiasm for people and causes was unbounded and ever fresh. Her love and loyalty to her College and University were part of her life. She was an omnivorous reader and books were her one extravagance. As a result of her wide reading and knowledge of people and affairs, she was especially fitted to supply the needs of prisoners of war when she organized the Educational Books for Prisoners of War Section of the Red Cross at the New Bodleian. It is difficult to describe Ethel's abounding vitality and love of people and ideas. It is equally difficult to imagine that she has left us and her loss will be felt by multitudes of friends.' Hilda Bryant, also of St. Hugh's, has written about Ethel Herdman at the New Bodleian: `I worked with Ethel Herdman in the Books for Prisoners of War Section of the Red Cross for only eighteen months, but this was probably the most significant period of its existence. The early struggle to get the machinery in motion was over and in 1942 there was the sense that something was really being achieved and results could be clearly seen in the many appreciative letters which were beginning to come back from the Camps. To nobody did these letters give more joy than to Ethel Herdman herself; at first when the numbers were small enough she took a deep personal interest in every man who wrote to us, from the Brigadier who was reading for the Bar to the airman 25

whose hobby was pig-keeping or pigeon racing. Her excitement grew afresh each morning as we opened the post; one of her favourite possessions was a huge stock of labels printed URGENT in bright red lettersâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;unfortunately her extreme anxiety not to keep anyone waiting for an answer sometimes led to several members of the staff finding their entire post labelled in this way, which rather cancelled the usefulness of the device! Her enthusiasm was an inspiration to everyone; expert advisers from the highest University levels drank their office tea from thick white mugs as they corrected the spelling of the youngest typist waiting for her call-up, all sharing in the determination to fulfil every request for books as soon as possible. `When the volume of work and office staff increased some of this 'happy family' atmosphere was inevitably lost, and the final years probably gave her less personal happiness, but her zeal never flagged. In all weathers she bicycled on her high, old-fashioned machine from her house in Summertown, let except for one room where she lived a comfortless existence, to direct the organization which changed for the better not only the prisoners' lives at the time but also the future prospects of many thousands.'

MARRIAGES Professor ROBERT YEWDALL JENNINGS, of Jesus College, Cambridge, at the Parish Church, Littleham, Devon, on 4 August 1955. GERALDINE CROWTHER to DR. B. C. SPALL on zr July 1955. JACYNTH ANN CURETON to JOHN DERMOT HOPE SIMPSON, at Tortington Church, Sussex, on 3 August 1955. KATHLEEN GRACE CURTIS to ALAN GEOFFREY FANCOURT, in Chelmsford Cathedral on 4 June 1955. CHRISTINE DOROTHY BENNETT to

LISBETH-ANNE HOWARD DAVIES to MR. BAWDEN. DIANA MARIA DE RIN to HILARY GOSLING, at Holy

Rood Church, Watford, on

26 July 1955. to DAVID DONALD KIRBY (Jesus College, Oxford), at Christ Church, Tunbridge Wells, on 2 April 1955. BEATRICE MADGE HALL to JAMES H. COMPOTY, B.SC., at Christ Church, Heaton, On 30 March 1955. FREDA MARY HANSON to PATRICK GALLAGHER, at Leicester On 5 August 1954. JOYCE ILOTT tO ROLAND ERNEST HOWARD CHALLIS, at All Saints' Church, St. John's Wood, on 8 October 1955. AUDREY MURIAL JAMES to RICHARD PETER MARTIN, M.A., D.PHIL. (Magdalen College), Department of Agriculture, Oxford, at St. Cross Church, Oxford, On I April 1955. SHEILA MARY LOAKES tO MICHAEL FORSCUTT PERKINS, at St. James's Parish Church, Thrapston, on 3o November 1955. MARY RUTH LOMER tO DR. DAVID REYNOLDS LIDE (Harvard and Lincoln), in Columbia, South Carolina, U.S.A., on 5 November 1955. PATRICIA MARY mArrHEws to PETER JOHN HURFORD, in Jesus College Chapel, Cambridge, on 6 August 1955. JANET ELAINE MIDDLEBROOK to DAVID L. WOODHEAD (Worcester College), on 31 December 1955.

JOAN FLORENCE DICKINS

Kentucky, U.S.A., at the Congregational Church, Eltham, on 3o September 1955.

DORIS MARY NIBLETT to THE REV. HAROLD E. CHRISTIAN, Of

MARY LAKEMAN LANE PALMER to THE REV. TERENCE GERALD TREANOR, B.A.

(St. John's College and Wycliffe Hall, Oxford), at Emmanual Church, Plymouth, on 22 January 1955. ALICE JUNE ANNETTE REID to JAMES RICHARD MADGE (New College), at St. Mary Abbot's Church, Kensington, on 12 March 1955. JOSEPHINE SALKIND tO Y. M. M. WAHBA, M.A., B.LITT. (Exeter College) in London on 13 July 1955. NANDINI SEN t0 SHANKAR LAL SEN, in Calcutta on 5 October 1955. MARJORIE SHERLOCK YO DR. HUGH GRAYSON-SMITH, Professor of Physics, University of Alberta, at Edmonton, Alberta, on 3 September 1955. MARGARET ANNE STOBBART tO THE REV. JOHN COSMO DE SATO, M.A. (Christ Church), at Bushey Parish Church on 4 August 1955. JOAN MARY TURNER to ROBIN KEEN, B.SC. (London), at All Souls' Church, London, N.W. 1o. on 14 April 1955. MRS. VERONICA MARY VARLEY CO F. J. CHESHER, on 29 December 1955. ANN CONSTANCE MARGARET WICKHAM to DR. ANGUS HENRY LUSCOMBE, at St. Bartholomew's Church, Wilmslow, on 18 June 1955. MOIRA PHYLLIS WILLIAMS to DR. STEPHEN GANG, on 15 December 1955. DIANA MARY INNES WOOD to P. E. SCARISBRICK. TOBA ELIZABETH ZAIMAN to ANSEL HARRIS, M.A. (Cantab.), in London on 13 October 1955.

BI 111:THS MRS. ANDERSON

(0. R. Gee)-a daughter (Rachel Elizabeth), 2 December

1955.

MRS. BAILLIE (K. M. Cane)-a son (David Martin), 27 April 1955. MRS. BAND (E. M. Mitchell)-a daughter (Ellen Alicia Marjorie),

27 June

1954. MRS. BIDGOOD (Ruth Jones)-a son (Martin Paul), 23 October 1955. MRS. BLIN-STOYLE (A. E. Balmford)-a son (Anthony Roger), 8 October 1955. MRS. BRANNEY (Margaret Brittain)-a daughter (Clare Elizabeth), 9 February

1955. MRS. BUCKINGHAM (D. R. Davie)-a son (Peter Joce), 25 September 1955. MRS. CARTER (J. H. Wilkinson)-a daughter (Hilary Catherine Thornhill), 15

February 1955. (C. M. M. Senior)-a son (John William Merritt), 7 September 1955. MRS. DANCER (D. E. Chatfield)-a son (Peter Diarmid), 18 July 1955. MRS. DAWSON (S. L. Bailhache)-a daughter (Bridget Jane), 29 April 1955. MRS. DE SALIS (D. M. Lawton)-a son (Roger Andrew), 14 June 1955. MRS. DE TRAFFORD (P. M. Beeley)-a daughter (Patricia Clare), in February 1955. MRS. DINELEY (N. M. Moore)-a daughter (Frances Gillian), I August 1955. MRS. DUNCAN (M. C. Mogford)-a son (George Lindsay), 19 January 1955. MRS. EAMES (J. E. Jackson)-a son, in June 1955. MRS. EVANS (Joan Morton)-a son (Christopher Barrie), 3o January 1955. MRS. FINCHAM (Jill Cousins)-a daughter (Portia), 4 January 1955. MRS. CASSELS

MRS. FRANKLIN

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MRS. GILL

(Charlotte Hajnal-Konyi)-a son (Daniel Ellis), 27 November

(M. H. Alexander)-a son (Richard Michael George), 9 September

955•

MRS. GRANDY (A. I. M. MRS. GREGORY (Anita

Shaw)-a daughter (Kathleen Anne), in January 1955. Kohsen)-a daughter (Catherine Madrigal), 22 July

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M. Gibbons)-a daughter (Jenny Annabel Dorothea), II March 1955. MRS. HARDIE (P. M. C. Uhde)-a daughter (Gillian Augusta) 29 August 1955. MRS. HARLEY (M. E. S. Weir)-a daughter (Janet Clare), 19 May 1955. MRS. HARRISON (H. S. B. Felberbaum)-a daughter (Dinah Patricia), 17 March 1953• MRS. ILES (M. W. Davies)-a daughter (Sarah Clare), 20 January 1955. MRS. JARMAN (R. M. Lodge)-a son (Richard Hugh), 23 June 1955. MRS. JOHNSON (J. M. Segar)-a son (Guy Andrew), 9 December 1955. MRS. KELLY (R. G. Tupper)-a daughter (Elizabeth Sarah), I° January 1955. MRS. KNIGHT (E. M. Stanbury)-a son (Andrew James), 3o November 195o. MRS. KOK (Pamela Gibbons)-a daughter (Stillborn), 9 April 1955. MRS. LITTLE (N. E. Smith)-a daughter (Catherine Elizabeth), 8 April 1955. MRS. MORGAN (J. M. Haworth)-a daughter (Candia Ruth), 24 August 1955. MRS. MORGAN (Mary Evans)-a daughter (Rosemary Margaret Alice), 15 November 1955. MRS. MOWAT (P. F. Hunt)-a daughter (Sarah Elizabeth), 15 March 1955. MRS. MULLIS (H. M. Stewart)-a daughter (Karen Stewart), 21 February 1955. MRS. NICHOLS (P. M. Robertson)-a daughter (Stella Jane), 2 July 1955. MRS. NORMAN (E. G. Elliott)-a daughter (Clarissa Gaye), 19 April 1955. MRS. PAINTER (D. E. Tuck)-a son (Simon Hugh), 5 August 1955. MRS. PEABODY (G. N. Fonthier)-a son (Charles William), 12 November 1955. MRS. PEASE (Susan Spickernell)-a daughter (Sarah Frances), 21 June 1955. MRS. POTTER (M. E. Newman)-a daughter (Jocelyn Main), 6 December 1955. MRS. RAYMENT (C. M. Werner)-a son (Henry Arthur), 1 July 1955. MRS. ROSENZWEIG (J. S. Chappat)-a son (Philip Mark), 15 February 1955. MRS. STEWART (M. L. Woodward)-twin son and daughter (Alexander Ewin and Elizabeth Mary), 11 June 1955. MRS. THOMAS (M. R. Bird)-a son (Charles David Arnold), 8 March 1955. MRS. THOMPSON (D. B. N. Fawcett)-a son (Simon Gregory), 25 December 1955. MRS. TYLDEN-WRIGHT (D. L. L. Lindsay)-a son (Royds), 12 January 1955. MRS. VIGOR (R. G. Martin)-a daughter (Jane Hazel), 3o November 1955. MRS. WESTON (J. M. Gamon)-a daughter (Priscilla), 12 March 1954, and a son (Adrian Hugh Spencer), 8 October 1955. MRS. WESTROP (N. M. Clegg)-a son (Richard John), 26 September 1954. MRS. WOOD (S. M. Chenevix Trench)-a son (Charles), 12 March 1955. MRS. GRIEVE (J.

PUBLICATIONS (Mrs.) F. M. Bedi, M.A. 'Problems of Hill People in the North Himalayan Region', pub. 1955 in the reference book Social Welfare in India pub. by Central Social Welfare Board, New Delhi (Publication Division, Govt. of India, New Delhi, India. Rs. 7/8/-). 28

M. L. Cartwright, M.A., D.Phil. The Mathematical Mind. O.U.P. 1955, 2S. 6d. Mary L. Clarkson M.A. Report on Begging and Destitution in the Gold Coast. 2S. 6d. 1955;Report , on Friendly and Mutual Benefit Societies. 2S. 1955; Problem Children of The Gold Coast. is. 1955. Govt. Printer, Accra. Lorna M. Clish, M.A., in collaboration with the Central Committee on the Teaching of English in East and West Ridings of Yorkshire. Poetry and Children. Methuen. 7s. 6d. 1956. Elizabeth Crittall, M.A. Victoria History of Wiltshire, vol. ii, local editor of. Published for Institute of Historical Research, by Oxford University Press. 1955. ÂŁ3.3s. od. J. G. Dickinson, M.A., D.Phil. The Congress of Arras (1435); a study in medieval diplomacy. Clarendon Press. 1955. Margaret Donaldson, M.A., B.Litt. Minors in Roman-Dutch Law. Durban, Butterworths (Africa) Ltd. June 1955. 35s. (Mrs.) Lucille Iremonger, M.A. The Young Traveller in the West Indies. Phoenix House. 9s. 6d. The Young Traveller in the West Indies (American Edition) Dutton & Co. $3 . West Indian Folk Tales. Harraps. Spring 1956. Joan Evans, D.Litt. The Endless Web: John Dickenson & Co., 1804-54. Jonathan Cape. 325. 6d. (ed.) C. A. E. Moberly & G. F. Jourdain. An Adventure. 5th edition. Faber & Faber. los. (Mrs.) Anita Gregory, M.A., C. C. L. Gregory and Anita Kohsen. Physical and Psychical Research-An Analysis of Belief. Omega Press, Reigate, Oct. 1954. 15s. (Mrs.) H. S. B. Harrison, M.A. The Keepers of the Walls. Seeker & Warburg. October 1955. I2S. 6d. M. M. Mahood, M.A. Inaugural lecture: The Place of English Studies in an African University. Ibadan University Press. 1955. Ida C. Mann, M.A., F.R.C.S. 'Ophthalmic Survey of the Eastern Goldfields Area of Western Australia.' (W. A. Government Publication.) `Clinical observations on the prophylaxis of ophthalmia neonatorum', Brit J. Oph. vol. 38, P. 734. 1954. `Preliminary Report on an Ophthalmic Survey of the Kimberley District of Western Australia.' (W. A. Government Publication.) M. J. Mason, B.A. The King's Man, by Felicien Manceau. Arthur Barker. 1954. izs. 6d. (Translated in partnership with David Hughes.) The China Shepherdess, by Felicien Nanceau. Arthur Barker. 1955. 12s. 6d. (Translated with David Hughes.) Savage Paris-Zola. Glek Books. 1955. 15s. (Translated with David Hughes.) (Lady) E. M. Richardson, B.A. General Index to Gloucester Notes and Queries, vols. i-x. Published by Gloucestershire Community Council (Local History Committee). Spring 1956. zos. (Mrs.) E. M. Simpson, D.Phil. The Sermons of John Donne, vol. ii, 1955 (with G. R. Potter). Published by University of California Press, U.S.A. Cambridge University Press. $7.50. (Mrs.) S. M. Wood, M.A., B.Litt. English Monasteries and their Patrons in the Thirteenth Century. Clarendon Press. 1955. 2IS. R. E. Woolf, M.A., B.Litt., Juliana (an edition), Methuen's Old English Library. 1955. 8s. 6d. 29

ARTICLES (Mrs.) 0. R. Anderson, M.A., B.Litt., 'The British War Office in the later years of the American War of Independence.' Journal of Modern History, vol. xxvi, no. 2 (June 1954), pp. 123-36. -- 'The treatment of prisoners of war in Britain during the American War of Independence.' Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research, vol. xxviii, 1955. Àmerican escapes from British naval prisons during the War of Independence.' Mariner's Minor (Journal of the Society for Nautical Research), vol. xli, 1955. I. W. Busbridge, M.A., D.Phil. (with D. W. N. Stibbs). 'On the intensities of interlocked multiplet lines in the Milne-Eddington model.' Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. xlii, 1954. Òn the X- and Y- functions of S. Chandrasekhar.' The Astrophysical Journal, vol. cxxii, 1955. Òn solutions of the non-homogeneous form of Milne's first integral equation.' Quarterly Journal of Mathematics (series 2), vol. vi, 1955. M. M. Chattaway, M.A., B.Sc., D.Phil. 'The Anatomy of Bark, 2. Oilglands in Eucalyptus sp.' Aust. J. Bot. 3.1. 21-27. 1955. 3. Enlarged Fibres in Bloodwoods.' Ibid. 3. I. 28. 38. 1955. 4. Radially elongated cells in the Phelloderm of species of Eucalyptus.' Ibid. 3. I. 39-47. 1955. 5. Eucalyptus species with stringy-bark.' Ibid. 3. 2. 165-9. 1955. 6. Peppermints, Boxes, Ironbarks and other Eucalypts with cracked and furrowed barks.' Ibid. 3. 2. 170-6. 1955. `Crystals in woody tissues: I. Tropical Woods.' Ibid. 102. 1955. Cecily Clark, M.A., B.Litt. 'The Green Knight Shoeless: A Reconsideration.' Review of English Studies, vol. vi (1955), pp. 174-7. `Natural Love in The Parlement of Foules.' Essays in Criticism, vol. v (1955),PP. 405-7. E. M. Deuchar, M.A. 'Distribution of Free Amino-Acids in Embryos of Xenopus Laevis.' Nature, vol. clxxvi (6 August 1955), p. 258. Joan Evans, D.Litt. 'A Hope on the Rheims Resurrection (Reliquary).' Antiquaries Journal, (Jan.-April, 1955), p. 52. (and Norman Cook) 'A Statue of Christ from the ruins of Mercers' Hall.' Archaeological Journal, vol. cxi, p. 168. S. de C. Forster, M.A. 'Social Group Work in Great Britain', ed. P. Kueretler : one chapter. D. H. F. Gray, M.A. 'Houses in the Odyssey.' Classical Quarterly, vol. v (1955), pp. 1-12. R. M. Howard, M.A. Various Articles on legal topics in The Solicitor's Journal.

(Mrs.)E. M. 0. Isserlis, B.Sc. 'Notes on some mammals from Ecuador by E. M. 0. Laurie.' Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. Sed. vol. 12, 8. pp. 268-76. 0. J. Lace, M.A. 'The Second Decade.' Church Quarterly Review, AprilJune 1955. (Mrs.) Sheila Patterson, M.A. 'This Canada.' Queens Quarterly, Kingston, Ont. Spring 1955. `Old and New Canadians.' The Listener, 6 Jan. 1955. 30

M. F. Perham, M.A. 'The Royal East African Commission.' The Listener, August 1955. Àfrican Pro-Consul.' Ibid., June 1955. Èconomics Versus Race.' The New Commonwealth, September 1955. D. S. Russell, M.A., F.R.C.P., 'The nosological unity of acute haemorrhagic leucoencephalitis and acute disseminated encephalomyelitis.' Brain, vol. lxxviii (1955), p. 369. N. K. Sandars, B.Litt. 'The Antiquity of the one-edged bronze knife in the Aegean' (article in honour of Professor Childe). Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, vol. xxi. (Mrs.) C. M. Snow, M.A., B.Sc. `Spinodistichy Re-interpreted.' Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc., series B, August 1955. (with R. Snow). 'Regulation of sizes of leaf primordia by growing point of stem apex.' Proc. Roy. Soc., series B, vol. cxliv, 1955. M. M. Sweeting, M.A. 'Recent Trends of Glacier Fluctuations in the North Atlantic Area.' Report of British Glaciological Society Discussion, Nature, vol. clxxv (1955) p. 188. M. R. Toynbee, M.A. 'Sir Robert Stone.' Notes and Queries, January and February 1955. `Lodowick Carlell.' Notes and Queries, May 1955 (with Sir Gyles Isham). `The Becon Arms.' Notes and Queries, September 1955. `The Family Connections of Joan Carlile.' Notes and Queries, December 1955. À Relic of the Forty-Five.' The Stewarts, vol. x, no. i (1955) (with Sir Gyles Isham). H. M. Wallis, M.A., D.Phil. 'Further light on the Molyneux globes.' The Geographical Journal, vol. cxxi, part 3 (Sept. 1955), pp. 304-11. R. E. Woolf, M.A., B.Litt. 'The Lost Opening to the Judith.' Modern Language Review, vol. 1, pp. 168-72. Elizabeth Zaiman, M.A., B.M., B.Ch. (joint author with Baldueci, D., and Tyrrell, D. A. J.) À.P.C. Viruses and Respiratory Disease in Northern England.' Lancet, 17 Sept. 1955, pp. 595-6.

NEWS AND APPOINTMENTS OF SENIOR MEM ERS [The date of appointment is 1955, unless otherwise stated, The date after each name is that of entry to the College.]

(W. E. E. Brooke, 1922), M.A., appointed Assistant Provincial Education officer, Lake Province, Tanganyika, in 1954, was on leave during most of 1955 but is returning to Tanganyika to join her husband early in 1956, leaving her daughter as a first-year undergraduate at St. Hugh's. MRS. ALLOTT (A. E. L. Peet, 1939), M.A., examined for the Oxford General Certificate, English language 0 level, in 1952, 1953, and 1955, and gives occasional lectures at York Adult Educational Settlement. S.M. ANDREWS, M.A. (1921), was appointed Deputy Head Mistress, Tonbridge Girls' Grammar School. She had two sketches for the W.T.A. exhibition at the R.I. Galleries, Piccadilly. 31 MRS. ALLEN

(1952), will begin her clinical medical course at the London Hospital in April 1956. G. M. BAKER, M.A. (1917), resigned her post at St. Augustine's School, Ascot Priory, on the death of her father in June. RUTH BARBOUR, M.A. (1936), represented the Bodleian Library at the tenth International Congress of Byzantine Studies at Istanbul in September and read a paper on 'A manuscript of Ps-Dionysius the Areopagite belonging to Robert Grosseteste'. L. D. BECHLER (1942) was appointed personnel manager to a departmental store, G. W. Robinson, Co., Ltd., in Hamilton, Ontario, in March 1954. MRS. BEDI (F. M. Houlston, 1929), M.A., has been Editor of 'Social Welfare', the organ of the Central Social Welfare Board, since 1953 and in charge of their regional publicity in ten Indian languages. JOYCE BIRT, B.A. (195o), was appointed to the staff of Westminster City Libraries in August after passing the examinations for the Diploma in Librarianship and Archive Administration at University College, London. E. D. BOWYER, B.A. (1952), was appointed Assistant Mathematics Mistress at St. Mary's School, Calne, from September. MRS. BRADBURY (L. F. Todd, 1904) is doing some Mother's Union local administrative work and speaking in the Avebury deanery of Salisbury diocese. JOSEPHINE BRADFORD, M.A., B.M., B.CH. (1946), was appointed Paediatric House Physician at Park Hospital, Davyhulme, Manchester. A. V. M. BREWIN, B.A. (195o), was appointed directors' Secretary, Cadbury Brothers Ltd. M. A. BROWN, B.A. (195o), was appointed Assistant Science Mistress at Roedean School from September. M. R. BUCKLEY, B.A. (1951), was appointed Assistant History Mistress at Peterborough County Grammar School for Girls. MRS. BURGESS (M. T. Whitcombe, 1945), is now Secretary of Wallingford Women's Institute. A. C. BURROWS, M.A. (1942), was appointed Secretary to the Registrar, Royal College of Art, in 1954. P. L. BUTT, B.A. (195o), is working as a free-lance at Langenscheidt's publishing firm compiling for new edition of Munet Sanders English-German and German-English dictionary. E. M. BUTTERWORTH (1916) writes that she finds plenty of scope for voluntary activities such as running a club for Old People of the village, and as a representative to the Diocesan Conference, &c. MRS. CAMPBELL (J. M. Stolper, 1952), B.A., was appointed Assistant Editor, Technical Books, McGraw-Hill Publishing Company, Ltd. MRS. CARLISLE (A. I. Gillmore, 1945), M.A., B.LITT., was appointed Senior English Mistress (as well as Scripture Mistress) at Moorfield School for Girls, Plymouth. CECILY CLARK, M.A., B.LITT. (1945), was appointed an Assistant in the Department of English Language at the University of Edinburgh from October. L. Al. CLISH, M.A. (1938), was appointed Headmistress of Cleveland Grammar School, Redcar, Yorkshire. s. M. COLTHURST, B.A. (1951), was appointed an Assistant Mistress, teaching Economics and Mathematics, at the Lady Eleanor Holles School, Hampton, Middlesex.

C. A. BAKER, B.A.

(B. M. Hall, 1951), B.A., was Secretary to the Professor of German in the University of Manchester from July 1954 to September 1955. E. P. CORNER, M.A. (1933), was elected chairman of the National Association of Probation officers for the current year, and was invited to serve as a member of the Probation Advisory and Training Board of the Home Office for a further three years. R. H. COWEN, B.A. (1947), was appointed Assistant to the Publishing Manager at Vallentine, Mitchell, and Company. MRS. CURTIS (A. B. Buller, 1913), was co-opted a member of the Children's Committee by Bath City Council in November. S. L. CUTCLIFFE (1949), was appointed a Technical Assistant in the Oil Products Development Department at the headquarters of the Shell Petroleum Company from September. M. K. F. DALE, B.A. (195o), was appointed Editorial Assistant, Butterworth's Scientific Publications, from June. M. L. DAVIES, B.A. (1951), was appointed Secretary to the Managing Director of Samuel French Ltd., publishers of plays and literary agents. H. C. DENEKE, M.A. (1900), visited the Saar at the request of the Saarland Government in March, to give lectures on aspects of English life. E. M. DEUCHAR, M.A. (1945), was promoted Lecturer in the Department of Anatomy and Embryology at University College, London. MARGARET DONALDSON, M.A., B.LITT. (1935), has been in Butterworth's Editorial Department since August 1954. MRS. ELIOT (P. M. Davies, 1922), M.A., is vice-president of Therfield Women's Institute and Deanery representative of Therfield Parochial Church Council. MRS. ENNIS (B. M. Y. Tyler, 1938), M.A., is now at the American Embassy in Athens. JOAN EVANS, D.LITT. (1914) was elected a member of the Executive Committee, Friends of the National Libraries, and a member of the managing committee of the British School at Athens. She was an additional Examiner, History of Art, University of Edinburgh. MRS. FESSLER (A. M. Arnold, 1944), M.A., took up a part-time appointment at Clarendon College, Nottingham. J. Al. FLOYD, M.A. (1946), was appointed Modern Languages Mistress at Kingsley School for Girls, Holley, Surrey, from September, after having been at Witney Grammar School from January to April and at King's Norton Grammar School from May to July. s. M. FORBES, B.A. (1949), has been Mathematician at Ruston and Hornsby, Engineers, Lincoln, since October 1953. S. DE C. FORSTER, M.A. (1931), was appointed Warden of the Birmingham Settlement from November. A. H. GABAIN, M.A. (1938), was appointed Senior French Mistress at Watford Grammar School for Girls from September. MRS. GALLAGHER (F. M. Hanson, 1939), M.A., who left Alderman Newton's Girls' School on her marriage in 1954, was appointed to the staff of Skipton Girls' High School, Yorkshire, after one term at Glusburn County Secondary School and two terms at Keighley Girls' Grammar School. MRS. GANG (M. P. Williams, 1949), B.A., was appointed fashion buyer at Marments Ltd., Cardiff. MARJORIE GARNER, M.A. (1920), has moved to Abbotsford School, Kenilworth. MRS. COMPOTY

C. GODLEY, M.A. (1919), is again organizing short courses of citizenship in London, for girls over sixteen. J. M. GOODRICH, M.A. (1946), was appointed History Mistress at St. Paul's Girls' School, Hammersmith, from September. MRS. GRANDY (A. I. M. Shaw, 1936), M.A., returned to Canada in June. MRS. GRAYSON-SMITH (Marjorie Sherlock, 1927), M.A., resigned her post as Chief Librarian, University of Alberta, on her marriage in September. MRS. L. GREEN (June Burdett, 1944), M.A., is chairman of the local branch of the N.I.H. and president of the Women's Institute. She was an Independent candidate at the local council election. H. J. M. GREENING, B.A. (1952), is reading for the Certificate of Education at Hughes Hall, Cambridge. F. M. GUY, B.A. (1920), has been Senior English Mistress at St. Swithin's School, Winchester, since January 1946. JUDITH HACKETT, B.A. (1951), does regular broadcasting in plays, Children's Hour, and 'The Archers' for the Midland Region. M. Q. HMG (1917) is still giving lectures on the history of costume and social life. Her tours have recently extended to Germany, where she and her musician friend have made two tours and where the 'costume and social life' approach is something quite new in the schools. PHYLLIS HARDCASTLE, M.A. (1931), was appointed an Examiner, Board of Trade, Bankruptcy Department, Trustees' Release Section, from July. MRS. HARRIS (T. E. Zaiman, 1948), M.A., B.M., B.CH., was appointed a (temporary) member of the scientific staff of the Medical Research Council in November. MRS. HARRISON (H. S. B. Felberbaum, 1942), M.A., resigned from the Economic Commission for Europe in 1954. I. M. HEDGES, B.A. (1950), has been teaching at St. Mary's Hall, Brighton, since September 1954. J. M. HEPBURN, M.A. (1940), was appointed to the Royal Naval Barracks, Chatham, as Divisional Officer and Assistant to the Officer-in-Charge, W.R.N.S., from September. She was awarded the Certificate of Merit and prize for Naval Examination in French. F. M. J. HIGHAM, M.A. (1943), was appointed Administrative Assistant in South-East Area Planning Office at Fareham, Hampshire County Council, from January 1956. G. M. K. HILL (19I I), was appointed Lady Warden of the Kearsney Healing Home (P. E. Kearsney via Stanger, Natal, South Africa) from April 1956 for an indefinite period. MRS. HINDE (J. M. Briscoe, 1940), M.A., B.M., B.CH., was appointed Assistant County Medical Officer for Devon County Council. K. N. H. HOARE, M.A. (1920), has retired from teaching. A. D. HOLT, M.A. (192o), was appointed Honorary President of the Unitarian College, Manchester. JOAN HOOLE, M.A. (1925), was appointed Assistant Mistress at the Temple School, Oxford. MRS. HORNIBROOK (Margaret Hemstock, 1918), M.A., was elected chairman of the Parish Council, Gerrard's Cross. B. E. HURST, B.A. (1950), was appointed Assistant Classics Mistress at Roedean School from September. DORA IBBERSON, M.A. (1910), retired as from I December.

D. R. K. IRVINE, M.A. (1941), was appointed Senior History Mistress at Barnhill Secondary Modern School, Hayes, Middlesex. MRS. ISSERLIS (E. M. 0. Laurie, 1942), B.sc., was appointed in charge of the Mammal Section of the Zoology Department of the British Museum (Natural History) from March. EDITH JACKSON, M.A. (1934), was appointed Lecturer in Latin at the Nigerian College of Technology (Zaria branch) from July. MRS. JALLAND (B. M. Hamilton-Thompson, 1923), M.A., B.LITT., had her appointment as Lecturer in History at Rolle College, Exmouth, made permanent. She was elected a member of the Church Assembly (House of Laity), Diocese of Exeter. MRS. JENNINGS (C. D. Bennett, 1947), M.A., resigned her post as Tutor's Secretary at Jesus College, Cambridge, on her marriage. MRS. JOHNSON (H. J. M. Annett, 1936), M.A., became Local Secretary of the National Council of Women, and is teaching foreigners English. D. M. H. JONES, B.A. (1949), was appointed Research Assistant to town Planning Consultants Ltd., Toronto, from September. N. S. JONES, M.A. (1938), was appointed Secretary to the Dean of the Institute of Cardiology (University of London) in June 1954. W. H. JONES, B.A. (1934), was appointed Assistant Mistress at Arnwood House, an independent boarding and day school for girls and small boys at Beaulieu, Hants, from October. MRS. KAGAN (I. L. Echt, 1946), M.A., was appointed editor of the house organ and technical review of the National Paint, Varnish, and Lacquer Association, Washington, U.S.A. MRS. KEEN (J. M. Turner, 1951), B.A., who was at Hughes Hall, Cambridge, from 1954 to 1955, was appointed English Mistress at the Friends' School, Saffron Walden. G. I. KEENLEYSIDE, M.A. (1938), who took the Lambeth Diploma in Theology in 1954 and was given a First Class, was appointed Lecturer in Divinity at the North Riding Training College in September 1954. E. T. KEENOR, B.A. (1944), was appointed Assistant Classics Mistress at Oxford High School from September. J. F. KNIGHTON, B.A. (1950), has been working since November 1953 as Assistant to the Merchandise and Sales Director of Bourne and Hollingsworth, Ltd. D. M. KNOX, M.A. (1948), was elected to the Elizabeth Wordsworth Studentship. M. H. LAGDEN, M.A. (192o), has bought a piece of land at Burford with a view to building thereon some day. D. M. LANE, M.A. (1945), is taking a supplementary Divinity Course at Westminster College, London, 1955-6. M. A. M. LEIGHTON (1952), was appointed to an Intelligence Section of the War Office from January 1956. L. L. LEWENZ, M.A. (1943), was awarded a Walter Hines Page Travelling Scholarship to the U.S.A., which she took up September to October 1955. Al. J. LUCAS, B.A. (195o), had her Fellowship in geology at the University of Illinois renewed for a second year. M. R. LUNT, B.A. (1951), was awarded a Christopher Welch Scholarship. MRS. LUSCOMBE (A. C. M. Wickham, 1948), M.A., B.M., B.CH., who was House Surgeon at Stockport Infirmary from February to July, was appointed House Physician at the Royal Portsmouth Hospital from August till February 1956. 35

(1951), was appointed Mathematics mistress at Oxford High School from September. E. B. MACKINLAY, M.A. (1934), was appointed Senior English Mistress at Watford Grammar School for Girls. E. D. MCLEOD, M.A. (1915), was appointed Cultural Attache at the British Embassy, Paris (while remaining Representative of the British Council in France). H. S. M. MACPHERSON, B.A. (1951), was elected Moberly Senior Scholar in June and is reading for a B.Sc. IDA C. MANN, M.A., F.R.C.S. (Hon. Fellow), was elected to an Honorary Fellowship of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia in 1954, and appointed a member of the Expert Committee on Trachoma of the World Health Organization in 1955. She was the President of the Australian Ophthalmological Society, 1955. L. G. MANSFIELD, B.A. (1951), was appointed English Mistress at Fulham County Grammar School from September. S. J. MARWOOD, B.A. (195o), was appointed Almoner at the Maida Vale Hospital for Nervous Diseases, London, from October. M. N. J. MASSEY, B.A. (1951), is a Research Assistant for Thomas Hedley and Company at Newcastle upon Tyne. M. E. MEEHAN, M.A. (1941), was a part-time teacher of English at the British Institute, Madrid, from January and was appointed Secretary to the Modern Languages Department at Leeds University from September. J. E. MIDDLEBROOKE, B.A. (1951), was appointed Assistant Organizer of Children's Care Work in the L.C.C. Public Health Department. J. M. MILLS, B.A. (1952), is an articled clerk to Frederic Hall and Company (Solicitors), Folkestone. NANCIE MOLLER, M.A. (1922), resigned her appointment as Principal of Lady Mabel College, Wentworth Woodhouse, in September. MARGARET MOORE, M.A. (1915), left the staff of the Women's Christian College, Madras, in October 1954, and is now in Bishop Cotton Girls' School, Bangalore, teaching, part-time, Scripture and English and helping with the Library, Drama, &c. The school was founded seventy years ago for Europeans; the majority of the pupils now are Indian. She writes that at the fiftieth-anniversary celebrations of the Women's Christian College 'it is very pleasant to meet Miss Mary Tindal, also from St. Hugh's, who is teaching History here'. G. M. MORRIS, B.A. (195o), was appointed Secretary to the Editor and Production Manager of Phoenix House, Publishers, in September. MRS. MORRIS (B. M. A. Beale, 1931), M.A., writes that her husband has been appointed Chaplain of the British Embassy Church in Paris, and she hopes that friends living or staying in Paris will look her up. P. M. MORTON, B.A. (195o), was appointed Head of the Market Intelligence Section of Colodense Ltd. (Quality converters of Cellophane), Bristol, from April. E. S. NICHOLAS, M.A. (1913), is visiting her sister in the United States and expects to return to England in May 1956. D. M. NUTBOURNE, M.A., B.SC. (1943), was Medical Registrar to the Neurosurgical Unit, Atkinson Morley's Hospital, Wimbledon, from September 1954 to October 1955. Since November she has been House Physician at the Hammersmith Hospital and Postgraduate Medical School. E. E. MCCALLUM, B.A.

MRS. PAINTER (D. E. Tuck, 1944), M.A., was on leave from the MRS. PATTERSON (S. C. Pridmore, 1936), M.A., has a two-year

L.C.C. research appointment with the Department of Social Anthropology in the University of Edinburgh. Subject: Race relations study in Brixton. J. D. PEACOCK, B.A. (1951), was awarded an open scholarship at the London Hospital Medical School. P. M. PEARSALL, B.A. (1950), was appointed an Education officer in the British Colonial Service, and is at Kano, Nigeria. PAULA PEDLAR, M.A. (1943), having taken the Testamur in Social Studies of Bristol University in August, was appointed to the administrative staff of the Liverpool Council of Social Service as Assistant to the Head of the Group Work Department from August. M. F. PERHAM, M.A. (1914), has been given a sabbatical year in which to live in the country and concentrate on her research, especially the second part of the Life of Lord Lugard, the first part of which is being printed now. MRS. PERKINS (S. M. Loakes, 1951), B.A., resigned her post with Electrical and Musical Industries in September. LADY ANNE PERY, M.A., D.PHIL. (1947), was appointed an Assistant Lecturer at Imperial College, London. MRS. POPE (S. E. Fryer, 1936), M.A., was appointed French teacher at Newhaven Technical School Evening Classes from September. MRS. POYNTON (Mary Flew, 1946), M.A., was appointed part-time teacher of English and French at Salisbury and South Wilts. College of Further Education. MRS. PRATER (D. I. Fletcher 1938), M.A., has had a part-time appointment at Queen's College, Red Hill, Stourbridge, teaching mainly French and English, some History and Scripture since February. This is a new independent school for boys and girls which has grown from 40 to over zoo pupils in two years. NANCY RICE-JONES, B.A. (1932), has had an appointment in the International Department of the National Council of Social Service since 1953. MRS. RICHARDSON (C. L. A. Dening, 1899), M.A., who lost her husband in 1954, is now living with her son at Bletchley and is still doing a fair amount of lecturing and coaching. s. E. RICKARDS, B.A. (1951), has been working in an antique furniture and interior decorating shop since September. M. M. RIGBY, B.LITT. (1949), was appointed Assistant Lecturer in English in the University College of North Wales, Bangor, in October 1954. M.I. M. ROGER, M.A. (1934), is now Associate Professor in the School of Social Work, University of Manitoba. MRS. ROOM (G. L. Musto, 1938), M.A., had a most interesting visit to Berlin, where her husband is stationed . They had one brief visit into the Eastern Sector, among other sightseeing trips. 'It appears very dreary and is plas' tered with propaganda'. E. C. M. ROUNTREE, B.A. (1917), retired in July and is now living at Chipping Norton. MRS. RUSSETT (Anne Dickinson, 195o), is in England on home leave from Tanganyika for six months from January 1956. N. K. SANDARS, B.LITT. (195o), returned from the British School at Athens in September. 37

(1922), was elected President of the Canadian Federation of University Women in August. G. L. A. SCHILLER, M.A. (1944), has been working for the past year as a nutritionist and assistant to a doctor specializing in endocrinology and chronic diseases, in San Francisco. x. W. SCOULAR (5952), was appointed to a tutorship in English at University College, Swansea. E. A. SHACKLE, B.A. (1951), was appointed Geography Mistress at Northwood College, Middlesex, from September. M. R. B. SHAW, M.A. (1910), has been finishing Part I of Life of Sterne, to be published shortly, and is translating Andre Billy's Les Deux Goncourts before starting on a translation of Stendhal's La Chartreuse de Parme for Penguin Classics. R. s. SIGNY, B.A. (1950), is continuing clinical studies at University College Hospital, London. G. M. S. SIMEY, B.A. (1923), has adopted a third child. MRS. SIMPSON (E. M. Spearing, Tutor 1918), D.PHIL., was awarded the Rose Mary Crawshay Prize of k too by the Council of the British Academy. M. L. sims, M.A. (1943), was appointed Production Assistant, Women's Programmes, B.B.C. Television. M. J. SINGLETON, B.A. (5949), has been teaching at St. Andrew's Church of England School, Totteridge, since April. She was elected a member of the Council of the Heraldry Society in the summer. J. M. SMELLIE, M.A., B.M., B.CH. (5944), obtained the Diplomas of D.C.H. Eng. and M.R.C.P., London. MRS. SMITH (J. F. Stothert, I950), B.A., was appointed buyer for travel goods, handbags, and fancy leathers with James Beattie Ltd., Wolverhampton, in September. c. J. SPURGIN, B.A. (195o), is now a Student Almoner. s. F. STALLMAN, M.A. (1917), was appointed Assistant Executive Secretary of the International Federation of University Women. B. A. STAMP, B.A. (1952), is reading for the Oxford Diploma in Education. MRS. STANTON (H. M. Stansfield, 5909), M.A., who lost her husband early in the year has now left Fleetwood and is living with Evelyn Blades. D. M. STEDMAN, B.A. (1952), was appointed Economist in Investment Research with the Bankers' Trust Company, London. MRS. STEWART (Ann Slater, 1946), M.A., B.MUS., was appointed Music Mistress at Hunmanby Hall School in April. O. M. SWEETING, M.A. (1929), was appointed Senior Classics Mistress at Brighton and Hove High School (G.P.D.S.T.) from September. MRS. SYKES (M. J. Whicher, 1921), B.A., was appointed a Probation Officer, London Probation Service, attached to the East London Juvenile Court. H. M. TAYLOR, M.A. (1930), is now studying for Intermediate Examination of the Chartered Institute of Secretaries. K. I. M. TESTER, B.A. (1949), was appointed temporary Research Assistant to Dr. Griinhut, Reader in Criminology, Oxford University. D. M. THORNTON, M.A. (1934), was appointed to a Fellowship in the School of Social Service Administration, University of Chicago, from October till June 1956. D. B. SAUNDERS, B.LITT.

(1949), was appointed Secretary to the Company Secretary of Costainâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;John Brown Ltd. (Mechanical and Civil Engineers), London. MRS. TOMPKINS (J. M. E. Fortescue-Foulkes, 1942), M.A., will be returning to Kenya in the summer of 1956. Her appointment with the Desert Locust Survey at Nairobi terminated in May 1955. R. M. TOULMIN, M.A., B.LITT. (1948), was appointed to a Junior Research Fellowship at the Warburg Institute from October. E. M. WALLACE, M.A. (1908), was appointed Warden of St. Lucy's Hostel, Maritzburg, for European girls for 1956. MRS. WARRELL-BOWRING (N. M. Windross, 1943), M.A., was appointed Research Assistant to the Warden of Nuffield College from October. A. M. WATSON, M.A. (1936), resigned from the Inspectorate of the Children's Department of the Home Office in August and is now taking the Mental Health Course at the London School of Economics, hoping to be a psychiatric social worker. C. E. WATSON, B.A. (1921), who was Secretary to the Hampstead Old People's Housing Trust from June 1954, was appointed Departmental Secretary in the Laboratory of Physiology, Oxford, in December 1955. F. C. WELCH, M.A. (1925), was elected Chairman of Ulster Joint Four in 1954, the first woman to hold this post. J. L. WEST, B.A. (1951), was awarded a Harmsworth Law Scholarship. MRS. WESTON (J. M. Gamon, 1941), M.A., will be on leave in England from April to September 1956. A. L. 0. WILLAN, M.A. (1946), is now at the C.M.S. Women's Training College, hoping eventually to teach science in a mission school. MRS. WILLIAMS (A. M. Hutchings, 1929), M.A., has been an Assistant Mistress teaching French at Edgbaston High School for Girls, Birmingham, since May 1951. MRS. WOLFE (M. A. Hart, 1947 ), M.A., was appointed Secretary to the Division of Dental Research, Faculty of Dentistry, at the University of Toronto. SULAMMITH WOLFF, M.A., B.M., B.CH. (1942), was appointed Senior House Officer at the Maudsley Hospital, Denmark Hill, London. J. M. WOOD, M.A. (1948), was appointed Secretary to Hugh A. McClure-Smith, Australian Ambassador to the Netherlands, in August. P. E. C. WOOD, M.A. (1943), was appointed Translator to the British American Tobacco Company in November 1954. E. M. YONGE, M.A. (1920), was appointed Vice-Principal of Highlands School, Eldoret, Kenya. This is a new Government High School, opened in 1953 in Nairobi, which was transferred to new buildings in Eldoret in December 1955. E. B. B. YOUNG, M.A., B.M., B.CH. (1947), was appointed Senior Medical House Officer at St. Mary's Hospital, Portsmouth, from April. E. M. THRELFALL, B.A.

Miss E. Beere, The Principal's Secretary, St. Hugh's College, would be glad to hear of marriages and any changes of address. The College has no known address for the following Members, and Miss Beere would be grateful for any news : U. R. Allen (1941-4) M. H. Birley (1887-90) Mrs. Bown (M. E. Prichard) (1919-22) M. S. Cochrane (1930-3) Mrs. Daitz (1949-51) Mrs. Dickinson (M. M. L. Bailey) (5937-40) Mrs. J. Godwin (E. J. Hackshaw) (1924-7) D. M. Hammonds (5904-7) J. 0. Harries (1938-41) I. R. G. Hart (5909-12) G. H. Johnstone (1912-22) J. Pontremoli (1945-8) Mrs. Rowland (A. F. Alexander) (1940-3) Mrs. W. A. Stewart (M. I. Hodgkins) (1943-6) Mrs. Viliesid (S. M. Foster) ( 5939-42)

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