The Royal Free Association (incorporating the Royal Free Old Students' Association and Members of the School)

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 The President’s Report 2011

The year has flown by since I last with the already significantly higher living wrote the annual report. Change costs for students in and will continues apace in all our working lives threaten the diversity of the student group. and it is hard to keep up. Some of these The number of students in financial changes affect the Association which, I distress is very likely to increase and this hope, will be advantageous. makes the contribution of The Association As you may recall from last year, the even more important. To this end, the students of UCL Medical School have prospect of making a small increase in the founded a new Alumni Association specific membership fee will be considered. to the medical school and have named it On a brighter note, I am delighted to The Royal Free, University College and say that we have a fantastic group of past Middlesex Medical Student’s (RUMS) Royal Free students who have agreed to Alumni. The organisation will begin with come back to ‘show off’ at the Annual this year’s graduates and will aim to Meeting this year. We hope this will be the provide a network for members, to run start of a new trend so do not be surprised educational events, to support the current if you receive a letter of invitation and students and to maintain the history of the indeed, if you know of someone hiding three original medical schools. The Royal their light under a bushel, please let me Free Association will have a place on the know…….. management committee and will have the Finally, our stalwart Secretary and opportunity to benefit from the treasurer, Wendy Kelsey, is in need of a administrative and technical expertise of successor after many years of dedication the new association. The aim initially will and persistently going the extra mile, so be to modernise our membership database please consider whether you would like to and we may extend in to the world of consider taking over. I am sure Wendy Facebook. would be very happy to go through what The other major change for the the role entails. medical school is the institution of higher I look forward to seeing many of you university tuition fees. UCL, of course, in on 17th November. light of its apparent lofty status feels justified in setting the fees at the maximum permitted. This is combined Philip Lodge

Inside this issue Dr Philip Lodge, qualified 1989, ◘ The Programme for th Consultant in Palliative Care, Royal Free and THURSDAY, 17 NOVEMBER 2011 ...... Page 2 Marie Curie Hospice, North London ◘ Minutes of the AGM held on 18th November 2010 ... Pages 3-5 th ◘ Financial Statement for the Year to 30 April 2010 .. Pages 6-7 Dr Jane Zuckerman, qualified 1987, ◘ This and That: Director, WHO Collaborating Centre for Travel Medicine; Internal Issues ...... Page 8 Sub-Dean, Senior Lecturer and Honorary Consultant at the Achievements ...... Page 9 UCL Medical School (Royal Free Campus) and the Royal Reunion News ...... Pages 10-13 Free NHS Trust, London. ◘ Obituary ...... Pages 14-15

Enclosures: ◘ Registration Form for Attendance on Thursday, 17th November 2011 ◘ Membership Subscription Form ◘ Stay in Touch Form

Royal Free Association, Royal Free Campus, Street, London NW3 2PF Answerphone: 020 7830 2579 Fax: 020 7830 2070 E-mail: [email protected]

Page 1 THE PROGRAMME

for the Annual General Meeting to be held on Thursday, 17th November 2011 in the Sir William Wells Atrium, Ground Floor,

10.30 a.m. REGISTRATION AND COFFEE 1.00 p.m. LUNCH

Sir Williams Wells Atrium Ground Floor, Royal Free Hospital 2.00 p.m. THE PETER SCHEUER SYMPOSIUM

CHAIRMAN: Dr Philip Lodge 11.00 p.m. ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING Consultant in Palliative Care

Agenda "Where are we now? "

1. Apologies for absence Speakers: 2. Recording of deaths Professor Guy Rutty, East Midlands Forensic Pathology Unit, Leicester 3. Minutes of the last Meeting held on Dr Andrew Smith & Dr Bruce Martin, The Heart Hospital, London Thursday, 18th November 2010 Dr John Horton, GP, Hampstead, London

4. Matters arising 5. President’s Report 6. a. Election of Officers for 2011-2012 4.00 p.m. TEA b. Election of new Members

7. Financial Report 8. Any Other Business 5.00 p.m. THE MARSDEN LECTURE 9. Date of next Annual Meeting Speaker: Dame Carol Black National Director for Health and Work, Department of Health 11.30 a.m. REPORTS ON UCL MEDICAL SCHOOL

Speaker: Gareth Chan RUMS Vice-President for Events 6.00 p.m. TRUSTEES’ RECEPTION

Student President’s Report

6.30 p.m. for 7.00 p.m.

Speaker: Deborah Gill INFORMAL DINNER Deputy Director, UCL Medical School

"MBBS 2012: A Curriculum for at the Brasserie Chez Gerard, 215 Haverstock Hill, London NW3 4RB Contemporary Practice"

12.30 p.m. STUDENT ELECTIVE REPORTS

Royal Free Association, Royal Free Campus, Rowland Hill Street, London NW3 2PF Answerphone: 020 7830 2579 Fax: 020 7830 2070 E-mail: [email protected]

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Minutes of the Annual General Meeting of the Royal Free Association held in the Sir William Wells Atrium at the Royal Free Hospital, London NW3 2QG on Thursday, 18th November 2010

Present: Dr Philip Lodge in the Chair plus 57 Members of the Association, namely:

Rohini ABEYESUNDERE (1962) Judith HEGARTY (1965) Ann NAYLOR (1961) Stella AMBACHE (1942) David HENDERSON (1965) Ruth ODELL (1947) Rosemarie BAILLOD (1961) Susan HILLS (1979) Anthony ORDMAN (1978) Maureen BARTLETT (1963) Dorothy HOLDSWORTH (1961) Barbara PROSSER (1948) Yvonne BEECHING (1952) Mary HUGHES (1956) Anna RAKOWICZ (1962) Dora BLACK (Member) Anne HUNTER (1950) Avery REZEK (1959) Richard BRUETON (1971) Mary HUNTER (1950) Jane RIDLEY (1975) Malcolm CLARKE (1965) Shirley JONES (1959) Valerie ROGERS (1961) Wendy CLINE (1965) Sylvia LAQUEUR (1972) Helen SAPPER (1959) Andrew CLYMO (1959) Patricia LAST (1958) Sonia SASSOON (1977) Barbara CROFT (1959) Sabina LORIA (1961) Mary SELSBY Helen CROSSLEY (1961) Cynthia LUCAS (1959) Olive SHARP (1958) Anita DAVIES (1959) Susan LUCAS (1963) Hilary SHAW (1955) Paul DAVIES (1973) Rhona MacLEAN (1951) Frances SWAIN (1973) Stanley DAVIS (Member) Elizabeth MADIGAN (1980) William TAMPION (Member) Ewa DRAGOWSKA (1960) Mary MAGUIRE (1955) Brenda THOMPSON (1961) Ozgen FEIZI (1964) Angela MAIN (1956) Anne WICKHAM (1965) John GIBSON (1956) Deborah MEANLEY (1965) Dorothy WRIGHT (1950) James HARDIMAN (1964) Fred MEYNEN (1964) Jane ZUCKERMAN (1987)

1. Apologies for Absence

Apologies were received from 120 members, as per the list on Page 5.

2. Recording of Deaths

The Chairman regretted to report the deaths of 22 members; many of whom had made outstanding contributions to medicine and the care of patients. He asked Dr John Gibson to read out the names:

Hazel B. BAKER (née Hill) (1943), Audrey DAVIDSON (1951), David GERAINT JAMES (Member), Margaret H. GLADDEN (1965), Aileen M. HAMPTON (Mrs Parry-Jones) (1948), R. Juliet HAYDEN (née Reynolds) (1945), Catherine J. HEATLEY (1997), Mary HOOGEWERF (Mrs Hunt) (1957), Pamela M. HORNE (1945), Margaret E. HOWAT (née Harker) (1940), Arthur H. LISTER (1984), Ann LLOYD JONES (née Parry Williams) (1959), Terence H. MEANLEY (1970), Robert E. MOLLOY (1950), Henry G. NAYLOR (1960), Olive M. OBIN (née Grundy) (1957), Ann READER (née Maffett) (1951), Janet SHAW (Mrs Carruthers) (1960), Barbara J. SIMPSON (Mrs Roberts) (1962), Edward A. THOMPSON (1969), The Honorable Frances M. ULYATT (1943), Elizabeth M. WADE-EVANS (née Bough) (1950)

There followed a short silence.

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3. Minutes of the last Annual General Meeting held on Thursday, 19th November 2009 Dr Lodge acknowledged that the structure of today’s meeting has been very successful for a number of years. The Minutes of the last Annual General Meeting had been However next year he hoped to organise a day of circulated to all members via the Annual Newsletter and celebration of the success of Royal Free graduates by copies were made available to those present. The Minutes arranging for invited guest speakers to share their were ratified and signed by the President as a true record expertise, triumphs and in general to be given the with one minor correction. The name of Dr A. Dora Black opportunity to be proud of their impressive achievements. was added to the list of attendance for the Meeting. Finally, he explained that the Association has been 4. Matters arising heading towards the possibility of using e-mail to replace the costs and workload involved in printing the Annual There were no matters arising Newsletter. This work continues and he expressed his thanks to Marion Huber (in Switzerland) who has been 5. President’s Report updating our records assiduously. As an addition, and to facilitate spreading news and contacts for reunions, he The President welcomed the members to the Meeting on would like to explore the use of Facebook – his daughter this the first year of his Presidency. He said that it was a assures him that it is very useful, easy to use and one pleasure and a privilege to take over from Rosemarie who cannot actually live without it. If it is good enough for has been, and continues to be, dedicated in her support and the Queen, he said he is prepared to see if it would be hard work for the Association. He thanked her very much helpful for the Association. once again on behalf of all the membership and added that he would continue to call on her wisdom and expertise for 6. Officers for 2010-2011 many years to come. He also thanked Dr Wendy Kelsey for all the work she does in ensuring the Meetings are the President: Philip Lodge success that they undoubtedly are and for all her hard work Secretary/Treasurer: Wendy Kelsey as the Treasurer and Secretary of the Association. Executive Committee: The President was delighted to welcome onto the Executive Committee Dr Jane Zuckerman, a Consultant colleague and Rosemarie Baillod Patricia Last fellow Royal Free graduate (1987). He explained that Jane Richard Brueton Dimitri Mikhailidis had been instrumental in setting up and administering for Karen Cheetham Andrew Platts the Association the student elective bursaries and he said Jacqueline Cooper Wendy Reid that she holds the welfare and best interests of the students Bimbi Fernando Susan Tuck close to her heart. He thanked her for the work she had Peter Howden Marc Winslet already devoted to the Association. Sandra Jones Jane Zuckerman

He reported that once again the Association owes several debts of gratitude to the Royal Free Charity who has 7. Financial Report continued to support the Association with a contribution of £7000 this year. Although it had been noted that such Dr Wendy Kelsey was unable to attend the Meeting so support may not be possible in the future he hoped to work on her behalf Dr Rosemarie Baillod presented the with the Charity again over the coming years. Balance Sheets for the year to 30 April 2010; copies of which had been circulated at the meeting. The President said that most of those present are well aware that the Medical School and Hospital continue to go She was pleased to report that the finances of the through major changes and it was with this in mind that the Association are in a good condition with £36,000 Executive Committee members felt that they needed to (Deposit Account) and £2,300 (Current Account). consider the future of the Association once again. The cold hard reality is that the Association is no longer growing and She said that we had been fortunate enough to receive it will shrink gradually but the alumni have preserved the another £7000 from the Royal Free Charity, and their name of the Royal Free in recognition of the history and continuing support has been an enormous benefit to the value that it holds in the evolution of medical education in Association. Britain. He reported that, with this in mind, the Association would be making an approach to the Students’ Union She explained that ₤8,000 from the Students Distress regarding a possible collaboration to secure the longer-term Fund had been allocated to needy students through the future both of the Association and the name of Royal Free year. £3,500 had been issued to University College Hospital School of Medicine. He explained that there is a London towards the Student Elective Bursaries for the proposal to form a new medical school old students’ year 2010-2011. Successful candidates would be asked to association and with the members’ consent, he would like present their projects to the AGM next year. It was felt to explore if it is possible to ‘piggy-back’ the Royal Free that it might be possible next year to increase the bursary Association with the new organisation. He said that he award. would be happy to hear from the alumni if they had any thoughts regarding this. The members approved the financial report.

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8. Any Other Business A request was made for members to receive annually a A member enquired about the Archives and was informed copy of the Membership Directory. Dr Baillod stated that the Archives Centre is still located at the Hoo, that the cost of printing the full Membership Directory 17 Lyndhurst Gardens, London NW3 5NU, and there was was prohibitive but an Addendum of up-dates would be a very efficient archivist on the site. There had been talk circulated with next year’s Annual Newsletter. for sometime about the possibility of relocating the Archives Centre but no further information had been Dr Lodge said he would be happy to receive any received. It was noted that Professor Neil McIntyre was correspondence, etc via his e-mail address: in the process of writing a history of the Royal Free [email protected] Hospital School of Medicine. As there was no further business the meeting closed. Three members stated that they had received letters/ telephone calls from students (?UCL) requesting financial 9. Date of Next Meeting support. The President advised members that such requests should be referred to him. The next Annual General meeting would be held on Thursday, 17th November 2011.

Apologies for Absence

ADAMSON, Kenneth P. (1967) ALLEN, Roy T.J. (1960) HALL, Judith M. (Mrs O'Leary) (1958) RANDALL, Jean M. (Mrs Measday) (1948) ASHBY, Rosemary R. (Mrs Chapman) (1956) HALL, Professor Joseph G. (1957) REARDON, Patricia J. (1956) HARPUR, Jane E. (née Mathie) (1969) RICHMOND, Janis M. (1961) BACH, Clive D. (1973) HENDERSON, Elizabeth P. (1953) RIDGWAY, Geoffrey L. (1971) BATTERSBY, Margaret (née Crump) (1958) HENDERSON, Moira M. (1958) ROSS, Ian H. (1968) BEERE, Deborah M. (1981) HOBBS, Rebecca J. (1982) ROWLANDS, A. Eleri (née Owen) (1970) BIRKS, Doreen A. (1949) HORSMAN, David C. (1971) RUDWICK, Ann L. (née Hunter) (1956) BISHOP, Angela P. (1976) HOVER, E. Carol (née Lock) (1955) BOUCHER, Audrey M.G. (née Wilson) (1974) HOWE, Joy G. (née Shaw) (1961) SALTER, K. Elizabeth U. (née James) (1965) BOXER, Josephine C. (Mrs Lampert) (1968) HURLOW, Dorothy (1965) SELL, Dorothy M. (née Roberts) (1952) BRINKLEY, Diana M. (née Rawlence) (1945) SEYMOUR, Anne (1959) BROWNE, Doreen R.G. (1959) IDE, Joanna E. (Mrs Thomas) (1971) SHIRLEY, Janet A. (née Clements) (1971) BURTENSHAW, Hazel M. (1959) SIVATHASAN, Niroshan (2004) BUSH, Michael (1969) JAMES, Stephanie (née Holmes) (1951) SKEGGS, David B.L. (Member) BUTLER, Eleanor P. (née Durand) (1963) JAZEEL, Suvendrini N. (née Casinader) (1958) SKUBLICS, Janet B. (née Combs) (1970) JONES, David N. (1962) SLATTER, Elaine (née Bowlt) (1965) CHESTERS, Pamela J. (Member) JONES, Pamela A. (Mrs Kirk) (1966) SMITH, Marilyn J. (née Evans) (1963) CLARK, Helen M. (née Braine) (1964) SMITH, Margaret M. (née Healey) (1957) COLSTON, Jean R. (1957) KING, Isabel J. (1973) STANBRIDGE, Cynthia M. (née Marcon) COOPER, Colin P. (1959) KLUTH, David C. (1989) (1961) COOPER, Gisu (1988) STRACEY, Pamela M. (1958) COPE, Anna (née Pridal) (1956) LAST, Patricia A. (1958) STREETER, Helen L. (1989) COPE, James (1957) LAZARO, Neil G.T. (1992) SUMMERS, Lynne (Mrs Tracey) (1976) CREE, Sylvia J. (1957) LINSELL, Jane C. (1978) SYKES, Elizabeth (1978) CULLEN, Dorothy (Mrs Firth) (1957) CUMMINS, Eva L.P. (née Fisch) (1954) MacDONALD BURNS, David C. (Member) TAYLOR, Margaret E. (née Hughes) (1961) CUSWORTH, Jacqueline M. (Mrs Thompson) MANFIELD, Pauline A. (1954) THOMAS, A. Myfanwy (née Gray-Jones) (1970) MARR, A. Christina (1966) (1968) McKINNON, Jean (1961) THOMPSON, Clive D. (1957) DAY, José A. (née Hankins) (1953) McLAUGHLIN, James E. (Member) THOMPSON, Patricia A. (née Evershed) DEO, Surendra I. (1985) McINTYRE, Professor Neil (Member) (1962) DOYLE, Edmund X. P. (1994) McINTYRE, Waveney (1994) THOMPSON, Valerie M. (Mrs Yorke) MILLMAN, Guy C. (1994) (1948) EDMONDS, John P.F. (1971) MONEY, Patricia J. (Mrs Smith)(1961) THORNLEY, Barbara A. (1966) ETHERIDGE, Monica M. (1940) MORRIS JONES, Patricia H. (Mrs Casarini) TOBIN, Jean M. (Mrs MacDonald Burns) EVERETT, V. Jill (1959) (1957) (1968) MUDDIMAN, Margaret J. (Mrs Bates) (1973) TOWNSEND, Catherine R. (Mrs Desty) FISHER, Judith M. (née Shaw) (1963) MULLIGAN, Rosemary A. (Mrs King) (1962) (1959) FISHER, Marie G. (1952) TROWELL, Professor Judith A. (née Baily) FOX, John A. (1957) NICHOLS, Mary P. (née Bacon) (1982) (1965) FOX-MALE, Patricia (Mrs Ridgway) (1971) TUPPER, Annemarie D. (1952) ODEKU, K. Jill (née Adcock) (1961) GALVIN, Elizabeth A.S. (Mrs Turrell) (1971) UNDERHILL, Rosemary A. (1961) GARDNER OF PARKES, Baroness T. (Member) PAINTIN, Avril (1955) GARLAND, J. Shirley (née Pilkington) (1959) PERCY, Catherine M. (née Campbell) (1975) VAN RYSSEN, Maureen E.P. (1964) GOLTON, Andrea G. (1971) PLUMMER, Yvonne M. (1977) GOWER, Sean G. (1989) POLLITZER, Melanie J. (Mrs Fone) (née Moss) WOODHOUSE, Julian I.J.A. (1992) GREEN, Michael R. (1983) (1973) WORTHINGTON, Marion M. (1962) GUESS, H. Marian (née Trevitt) (1970) PROUT, K. Margaret (née Page) (1964) GUY, Rosemary (Mrs Holmes) (1966) PULLEN, Denise A. (Mrs Palmer) (1943) YOUNG, Glenda K. (née Swindells) (1961) YOUNG, Michael (1961)

Page 5 Financial Statement for the year to 30th April 2010

Page 6 Financial Statement for the year to 30th April 2010 (continued)

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This and That ……….. Internal Issues

Executive Committee 2011/2012

President: Dr Philip Lodge Department of Palliative Care Members: Royal Free Hospital Pond Street, London NW3 5QN Mr Richard Brueton, Orthopaedics e-mail: [email protected] Dr Rosemarie Baillod, Emeritus Vice-President: Mrs Karen Cheetham, UCL Business Plc Dr Jane Zuckerman Dr Jacqueline Cooper, Anaesthesia WHO Collaborating Centre Mr Bimbi Fernando, Nephrology for Travel Medicine Dr Peter Howden (Retired) UCL Medical School, Royal Free Campus Mrs Sandra Jones, RUMS Alumni Association Rowland Hill Street, London NW3 2PF Dr Dimitri Mikhailidis, Clinical Biochemistry e-mail: [email protected] Dr Andrew Platts, Radiology Treasurer/Secretary: Miss Susan Tuck, Obstetrics and Gynaecology Dr Wendy Kelsey Professor Marc Winslet, Surgery 7 Butterworth Gardens Woodford Green, Essex IG8 0BJ e-mail: [email protected]

The RFA Database and Membership Directory

For up-dating the A number of you will PLEASE NOTE MARION Membership Directory notice that work HUBER IS NO LONGER the Association used addresses are now used DEALING WITH THE the Specialist Info and it is hoped you are DATABASE. Database, the Internet in agreement with this. ALL FUTURE and the returned Green If not, please say. CORRESPONDENCE Forms. Thank you to REGARDING THE all of you who do return A REMINDER AGAIN, DATABASE SHOULD BE the Green Forms. please continue to keep SENT TO: the Association up-to- TANYA SHENNAN Do not forget, those who date with your changes ROYAL FREE ASSOCIATION are registered with the of address and UCL MEDICAL SCHOOL Specialist Info additional (ROYAL FREE CAMPUS) Database, to up-date qualifications. ROWLAND HILL STREET your details there too! LONDON NW3 2PF. E-MAIL: [email protected]

Royal Free Association, Royal Free Campus, Rowland Hill Street, London NW3 2PF Answerphone: 020 7830 2579 Fax: 020 7830 2070 E-mail: [email protected]

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This and That ……….. Achievements

To all Alumni and Members

Our warmest congratulations to all Alumni and Members for their achievements and successes during the year

…………… and in particular:

The Election to the Royal Irish Academy

We are delighted to learn of the success of Professor Ray Dolan (Member) upon his election to Honorary Membership of the Royal Irish Academy (MRIA). Under the Academy’s rules, election to membership is a public recognition of academic excellence – congratulations on this notable achievement.

UCL Business Award 2011

Our warmest congratulations to Professor Pepys (Member) for winning the UCL Business Award 2011. Professor Pepys, FRS is the Head of the Division of Medicine (Royal Free Campus) and Director for the Centre for Amyloidosis and Acute Phase Protein.

The Begents

We hope the “new life” for Professor Richard Begent (Member) and his wife Nicky, Chair of Friends of the Royal Free, in buying and running a wood has been a great success.

At the time of retiring Prof. Begent was Head of Oncology and had worked 40 years in the NHS. He stays on as an Emeritus Professor at the UCL Medical School, part of which is based at the Royal Free, and Nicky remains on the Board of the Royal Free Charity and serves as a Governor.

Royal Free Association, Royal Free Campus, Rowland Hill Street, London NW3 2PF Answerphone: 020 7830 2579 Fax: 020 7830 2070 E-mail: [email protected]

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This and That ……… Reunion News

REUNIONS TO BE HELD IN 2011

1971: A Reunion for the 1971 qualifiers is being held at th the Grange Hotel in York on 4 November 2011 to mark this 40 year anniversary

IF YOU HAVE NOT ALREADY HEARD ABOUT THE REUNION and would be

interested in coming please contact Dr Ian Fletcher on e-mail: [email protected]. However spaces are limited and will be allocated on a first come, first served basis.

1981: A Reunion for the 1981 qualifiers is being held at st the Luton Hoo Hotel in Luton on Saturday, 1 October 2011 to mark this 30 year anniversary

IF YOU HAVE NOT ALREADY HEARD ABOUT THE REUNION and would like to attend please contact Dr Eleanor Shore on e-mail: [email protected].

1986: A Reunion for the 1986 qualifiers is being held at The Savill Court Hotel and Spa, Egham near Windsor on Saturday, 1st October 2011 to mark this 25 year anniversary

IF YOU HAVE NOT ALREADY HEARD ABOUT THE REUNION and would like to attend please contact Dr Sandra Quenault on e-mail: [email protected].

REUNION INFORMATION:

If you are organising a Reunion for your Year, the RFA can provide a list of names and addresses for any particular year (and where possible e-mail addresses) plus a print out of address labels.

Contact: Tanya Shennan, Royal Free Association, UCL Medical School (Royal Free Campus), Rowland Hill Street, London NW3 2PF, e-mail: [email protected]

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This and That ……… Reunion News (Continued)

REUNIONS TO BE HELD IN 2012

1960

A Reunion for the 1960 qualifiers is being planned for Friday, 18th November 2012 around the time of the Annual Meeting scheduled for Thursday, 17th November with a Triennial Dinner on the 16th.

Please make a note in your diaries and further details will be available at the beginning of next year.

Contact: Charmian Goldwyn on e-mail: [email protected] or 77 Elm Bank Gardens,

London SW13 0NX (tel: 0208 876 3700).

1962

A 50-year Anniversary Reunion for the 1962 qualifiers is being planned for Saturday 12th May 2012 at the Beaumont Estate Hotel near Windsor. If you have not heard from me and wish to attend please can you let me know as soon as possible. Anne Louise O'Donovan ([email protected]).

Class of 1964, 48th Reunion

A dinner to mark the 48th Reunion of the Class of ’64 will take place on 18th September 2012 at the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh. As in 2009, I plan a get-together on the preceding evening, 17th and outings [optional] on Tuesday and Wednesday, 18/19th. More details will be available in the Spring of 2012, together with a list of hotels/apartments/hostels which offer discounted rates for those attending College events. Please contact me if you are interested, preferably by e-mail [[email protected]] or at 9 Forres Street, Edinburgh EH3 6BJ to ensure that you receive further information.

1967

Our 45-year Reunion of the 1967 qualifiers will be held at the Double Tree by Hilton Hotel in Chester on the weekend of 11th-13th May 2012, with a buffet supper on Friday, 11th and a Dinner on Saturday, 12th. Full details will be circulated later, but anyone interested in attending, please contact David and Susan Campbell on [email protected] or David on [email protected]

1982 intake / 1987 graduation

Too disorganised for a knees up this year but plans afoot for the 25 year reunion to be held in 2012. Siobhan coordinating (but not organising) so please email for information ([email protected]). Please also send photos for me to upload to website : http://web.me.com/siobhanlaws/RFHSM1982_1987_Reunion/Welcome.html.

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Royal Free Students 50th Anniversary Celebration November, 2010

Photographs kindly provided by Michael Modelski

It was a great day! Thirty‐four old It is extraordinary how folk who friends who qualified in 1960 met to have studied and struggled together celebrate on 3rd November 2010. in their youth slip into the same easy camaraderie and familiarity. A dozen or so had gathered in the Some spouses and partners had morning at the Wellcome Medical joined us ‐ a number of whom were Museum in and walked familiar to us from our student days. around in their own time before having a light lunch, in anticipation of a feast in It was altogether a delightful day, the evening. skilfully organised by Ewa Dragowska to whom we expressed our admiration The Westbury Mayfair Hotel was the and thanks. setting of our Anniversary Dinner. A champagne reception was followed by We eventually ended our celebration a truly delicious meal. The active with fond farewells, taking with us swapping of table‐places between renewed memories of our Salad Days courses ensured that everyone could refreshed and enhanced by the Reunion. mingle and chat.

We had returned to London from all over the United Kingdom, America, Jill Bullimore (Mrs Pizey) Canada and Switzerland.

Page 12 Royal Free Students, 50th Anniversary Celebration May 2011

Photograph kindly provided by Russell Harper Photography

The 1961 qualifiers had held two informal Reunions The excellent meal and wine were appreciated for their 25th and 40th year Anniversaries around the enormously by all and this was enhanced by the time of the Annual Meeting in November but when service from the Ritz personnel which was done the 50-year Anniversary approached they said: with grace and kindness. Everything passed so "Let‘s splash out in the Summer"! This resulted in a quickly that we were all at a loss when 5 p.m. superb event held at the Ritz on 26th May 2011. arrived. Lunch was chosen to allow people to come up to London just for the day, an important point, as some A most beautiful bouquet of flowers was given to have dependent spouses. Rosemarie Baillod in appreciation of all her effort in arranging the Reunion. Rosemarie then gave a short The day started with a Champagne Reception in the speech reflecting on the various essays, life histories Marie Antoinette Suite. This is a beautiful mirrored and photographs people had provided. She reminded room. A table in the centre was useful to place three everyone that at the time of entry to the Medical folders containing individual histories from all the School, many voices had expressed that such an attendees and from some who were unable to be intense education was a waste on women who there. These were of great interest. would after all just get married. The histories however showed a different story of a huge work Before moving to the Music Room for lunch, the ethic. The work encompassed all aspects of formal group photograph above was taken in the medicine as well as many other areas of public life. Marie Antoinette Suite. When everyone was seated In addition to their work most had married and for lunch further photographs were taken of each brought up families. It appeared everyone had had table and these are now available on-line from the best life could offer. Russell Harper Photography. Dr Rosemarie Baillod

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Obituary

It is with sadness that we announce that Dr Bruce MacGillivray, Dean of the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine from 1975 to 1989, died on 17th December, 2010

Barron Bruce MacGillivray was born in South Africa in 1927. His political leanings became evident when boarding at Johannesburg's King Edward VII School where, aged thirteen, he used its facilities to set up a night school for local black employees. From 1946 he studied medicine at the University of Witwatersrand but in 1951, unhappy about apartheid, he moved to Britain, entered Manchester's medical school and qualified LRCP MRCS in 1955. After junior posts in and around Manchester he qualified MCRP in 1959 (FRCP 1974). Then, somewhat unusually, he worked for a London medical degree as an external student and graduated MBBS in 1962, having been registrar and senior registrar at the National Hospital for Nervous Diseases for three years. In 1964 he was appointed consultant in clinical neurophysiology & neurology at RFH but before starting did a year’s research at the University of California, Los Angeles. In 1971 he was also made a consultant at the National Hospital.

Bruce MacGillivray was Dean of the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine (RFHSM) from 1975 to 1989. His early years were arguably the most precarious in its history as the Todd Report of 1968 had advocated mergers of London schools - and siting of preclinical departments near science departments rather than teaching . Owing to RFHSM’s impending merger with University College the University Grants Committee withheld funding for preclinical departments in the new Royal Free complex in Hampstead into which the whole of RFHSM was scheduled to move; preclinical subjects were to be taught in the new building near UC. The UGC did however agree that Hampstead should have a Clinical Sciences Building (CSB), albeit one occupying less space than the planned preclinical departments.

RFHSM’s merger with UC depended on the availability of the new joint preclinical building, but in 1975 a moratorium on university building meant it would be unavailable until 1985, unless RFHSM surrendered the proceeds of the sale of the Hunter Street building housing its preclinical departments. Bruce rejected this idea.

When the CSB opened in 1978 he moved some preclinical staff into it; others remained at Hunter Street. He proposed a move of the whole School to Hampstead to the Vice-Chancellor who, soon after, set up a working party whose main remit was to identify financial savings. Chaired by Lord Flowers, its report suggested phasing out preclinical teaching at RFHSM. Bruce led the School's battle against 'Flowers', which was also unpopular at other medical schools. The University eventually decided an independent RFHSM should teach preclinical and clinical subjects at Hampstead but would not pay for the structural changes needed to house the preclinical students. RFHSM used its reserves, and in the summer of 1983 all RFHSM's departments were united on one site.

The School's financial situation was poor before Bruce took over and economies already in force left him with little room for manoeuvre. Initially inflation was 24% and remained in double figures until 1982. UGC funding fell by 14% in real terms in the early 1980s and the size and effect of subsequent reductions were exacerbated owing to relatively poor grades at the first Research Assessment Exercise. Somehow, under Bruce's leadership, RFHSM balanced its budgets and it continued to expand. In 1988 a two storey building was erected across the CSB’s south-east courtyard. It was funded from the proceeds of the Hunter Street sale, which also allowed further expansion to increase the School’s research activity. Bruce saw research income increase from £140k to £4m per annum; he also sought

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Bruce, as a clinical neurophysiologist, worked in a somewhat recherché field but in 1980 he was, briefly, in the public eye as an expert on the definition of brain death, an important issue in relation to , but one about which there was then confusion following a misguided Panorama programme.

He had a genuine interest in medical education and oversaw a radical revision of the clinical curriculum which aroused interest from other medical schools. Loved and respected by the medical students he supported their social and sporting activities. In his last year as Dean he was delighted to acquire the West Hampstead building which became the School’s first dedicated hall of residence. He was highly regarded by colleagues at the Royal Free, and elsewhere, as one who created a sense of collegiate togetherness and whose door was always open for discussion. When he retired in 1989 he left a much happier and more optimistic school than the one he had taken over fourteen years earlier. Much of that change was due to him.

As Dean he sat on many University and NHS committees, at local and national levels. In 1985 he was appointed the first Pro-Vice Chancellor (Medicine) of the . After retiring he was, from 1994 to 2000, a University representative on the Council of St George's Hospital Medical School, and was its Honorary Treasurer from 1996.

Bruce had many interests outside medicine. He had artistic bent, and was a gifted sculptor, potter, woodturner and photographer. He was also a qualified pilot.

He died peacefully on 17 December 2010 after a long and complex illness and is survived by his wife, Ruth (née Valentine), a fellow student at Manchester, and by their three children and four grandchildren.

IN MEMORY OF DR DAVID GERAINT JAMES (MEMBER) WHO SADLY DIED IN OCTOBER, 2010

Many members will have seen the numerous obituaries written about David Geraint James (Member), husband of Dame .

I thought I would like to write a very personal note about this lovely man that I met whilst working as a PA to Professor Neil McIntyre.

When Dr Geraint James was looking for a new place to hold his MRCP courses, Prof McIntyre said that it would not be a problem for him to run them from the Medical Unit at the Free. It was ideal, as often a whole ward was available, due to the then summer ward closure programme, the students benefitted enormously from these Courses, the lecturers were keen to teach on them and everyone had great fun. Dr James would organise for his excellent „clinical sign“ patients to make the journey from the Royal Northern catchment area to the Royal Free and they came willingly. Who could ever forget the patient who had worked as a silversmith and his now very „silver“ appearance! He certainly kept the students guessing. Registrars would send patients from the wards and it worked very well. Most participants passed their MRCP Part II with flying colours and if they didn’t Dr James always encouraged them to come back to try again.

No-one could feel lonely when they attended a meeting, dinner or an event with Dr Geraint James present; regardless of race, creed or colour he made you feel so welcome. He would take you around and introduce you to everyone.

Dr James was so thoughtful and often brought in little presents, a book about an area that you had said in passing that you had visited, a book of medical history in London, a bottle of sherry and many others. We were all on the receiving end.

Although both Dr James and Dame Sheila were not Royal Free graduates their devotion and loyalty to the Royal Free and its Medical School were unquestionable. Dame Sheila had mentioned that on leaving their „huts“ on the rooftop of Grays Inn Road, many of her staff were unsettled to work in the new environment of the Royal Free Hospital. However, she told them that they would not be going back and to look forward and this she repeated at the meetings on merger with UCL.

Dr James was truly kind and generous; our fond memories of him will never diminish. by Marion Huber (Member)

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