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St Hilda’s College The Chronicle 2017 St Hilda’s College Chronicle 2017 St Hilda’s College Oxford OX4 1DY Tel: 01865 276828 Email: [email protected] www.st-hildas.ox.ac.uk THE CHRONICLE 2017 Contents Editorial .......................................................................................................................................1 St Hilda’s College List .............................................................................................................. 2 ASM Committee........................................................................................................................ 7 American Friends of St Hilda’s Board ................................................................................... 7 ASM REPORTS The Chairman’s Report ............................................................................................................ 8 The 2017 Annual General Meeting ........................................................................................12 ASM Financial Report .............................................................................................................15 The ASM Studentship 2018-2019 ..........................................................................................16 The ASM Studentship 2015-2016...........................................................................................17 NEWS OF SENIOR MEMBERS Marriages and Partnerships ...................................................................................................18 Births ..........................................................................................................................................18 Deaths ........................................................................................................................................19 Deaths of Partners ...................................................................................................................21 Recent Publications .................................................................................................................21 Other Recent News .................................................................................................................23 ARTICLES From the Archives: A list of personal favourites ............................................................... 26 Back to Bede ............................................................................................................................ 28 Walking into Clarity; exploring Ivor Gurney’s Gloucestershire poetry......................... 29 In a man’s world .......................................................................................................................31 Storytelling, Singapore & St Hilda’s .....................................................................................32 Learning to love hurdles .........................................................................................................33 Occupation: Amateur ..............................................................................................................34 International Law, protecting the future .............................................................................35 Take it with you ....................................................................................................................... 36 Phosphorus, water, food security ..........................................................................................37 We need to talk ........................................................................................................................ 38 Stepping out into the unknown ............................................................................................ 39 A Brit in Brussels .....................................................................................................................40 The road less travelled ............................................................................................................41 From ballet to boardroom ..................................................................................................... 42 What are the odds? ..................................................................................................................43 CONTENTS OBITUARIES Mary Moore ............................................................................................................................. 46 Hiro Ishibashi, OBE ................................................................................................................ 48 Lois Marguerite Foster-Carter .............................................................................................. 49 Elizabeth (Betty) Foucard ..................................................................................................... 50 Joan Gray ...................................................................................................................................51 Pamela Rebeiro .........................................................................................................................52 Sally Owen ................................................................................................................................53 Anne Hancock ..........................................................................................................................54 Rita Harris .................................................................................................................................55 Jenny Joseph ............................................................................................................................ 56 Jennifer Shillito ........................................................................................................................57 Hazel Fells ................................................................................................................................ 58 Janet Morgan ........................................................................................................................... 59 Kate (Katherine) Millett ........................................................................................................60 Penny Birdseye .........................................................................................................................61 Susan Kelly ............................................................................................................................... 62 LIST OF DONORS TO COLLEGE 2017 ................................................................... 63 ENVOI: A Tribute to Jenny Joseph ..................................................................................... 76 2018 EVENTS ........................................................................................................ back cover Data Protection Act 2018 All data are securely held in the St Hilda’s College Development & Alumnae Office and will be treated confidentially and with sensitivity for the benefit of St Hilda’s College and its members. The data are available to our academic and administrative departments, recognised alumnae societies and clubs associated with the College, and to agents contracted by the College for particular alumnae-related projects. Data are used for a full range of alumnae activities, including the sending of College publications, the promotion of benefits and services available to alumnae, and notification of alumnae events and of programmes involving academic and administrative departments. Data may also be used for fundraising programmes which might include an element of direct marketing. Data will not be passed to external commercial organisations. Under the terms of the Data Protection Act 2018 you have the right to object to the use of your data for any of the above purposes. THE CHRONICLE 2017 Editorial The articles produced by Senior Members always provide interest and enjoyment to our readers and we believe this year is no exception. Our theme – living and working away from home – has produced a range of responses from Eleanor Rawlings’ reflections on the importance for Ivor Gurney of his native Gloucestershire countryside to three alumnae meeting up on a round-the-world yacht race. Wendy Cope has kindly provided an insight into the genesis of the text for St Hilda of Whitby: A Cantata, and we have celebrated the work of Jenny Joseph by including one of her poems. Our Archivist has chosen to present some of the archive treasures that most interest or amuse him and we hope that will stimulate memories of your own years in College. The Chronicle will be reaching your screens and doormats rather later than usual this year because of the extra posting which outlined the wide range of events prepared to celebrate our 125th anniversary. Those celebrations will, of course, feature in next year’s Chronicle and we would like to invite articles from Senior Members focusing on their time as undergraduate or graduate students. We would be especially pleased to get contributions from those of you who were up during the last twenty-five years. I would like, once again, to thank Bronwyn Travers and her team in the Development & Alumnae Office for all the support they give Senior Members and to give particular thanks to Audrone Jurkenaite-Epih and to Fran Woodcock for their work in producing The Chronicle. Margaret Ellis (Vaughan, 1963) Editor 1 COLLEGE LIST St Hilda’s College Smith, Lorna, MA, DPhil, Tutor in Inorganic