St Hilda’s College The Chronicle 2017 St Hilda’s College Chronicle 2017

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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

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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

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St Hilda’s College Smith, Lorna, MA, DPhil, Tutor in Inorganic The Chronicle Chemistry, Peacock Fellow, Disability Fellow 2017 Armstrong, Rebecca, BA, MSt, DPhil, Tutor in Classics, Mary Bennett Fellow St Hilda’s College List Swift, Helen, MA, MSt, DPhil, Tutor in French, Eleanor Boyle Fellow, Tutor for Visitor Graduates The Rt Hon Baroness Elizabeth Butler- Sloss, GBE, PC Smith, Hannah, BA (Cambridge), MPhil (Cambridge), PhD (Cambridge), Tutor in Principal History Duff, Professor Sir Gordon William, Seregin, Gregory, PhD (Leningrad MA, BM, BCh, PhD, MD, FFPM (Hon), Polytech Inst), MD (Leningrad Polytech FBSPharmacol (Hon), FRCP, FMedSci, FRSE Inst), DrSci (VA Steklov Mathematical Inst St Petersburg), Tutor in Pure Fellows Mathematics Paul, Georgina, MA, DPhil, Tutor in Filatov, Dmitry, PhD (Moscow), Tutor in German, Vice-Principal Biology Yeomans, Julia, MA, DPhil, FRS, Tutor in Travers, Bronwyn, BA (Auckland), Physics, Pauline Chan Fellow, Professor of Development Director Physics Payne, Elinor, MA (Cambridge), MPhil Avramides, Anita, MA, DPhil, BA (Cambridge), PhD (Cambridge), Fellow in (Oberlin), MPhil (Lond), Tutor in Phonetics and Phonology Philosophy, Southover Manor Trust Fellow, Reader in Philosophy of Mind Hoge, Kerstin, MPhil, DPhil, MA (Ohio State), MLS (Ohio State), Fellow in German Cooper-Sarkar, Amanda, MA, DPhil, Linguistics Tutor in Physics, Professor of Particle Physics Glitsch, Maike, PhD (Göttingen), Moroz, Irene, MA, PhD (Leeds), Tutor in DipBiolSci (Göttingen), Tutor in Applied Mathematics Biomedical Sciences, Muriel Tomlinson Fellow Croghan, Maria, MA, MA (Lond), MSc Macintosh, Fiona, BA (Leeds), MA (Lond), Librarian (Leeds), PhD (Lond), PGCE (Lond), Clarke, Katherine, MA, DPhil, Tutor in Fellow in Classical Reception Ancient History, Atkinson Fellow Condry, Rachel, BSc (LSE), PhD (LSE), Schleiter, Petra, MA, MPhil, DPhil, BSc Fellow in Criminology (Lond), Tutor in Politics McHugh, Stephen, MSc, DPhil, MA Jones, Susan, MA, DPhil, Tutor in English, (Edinburgh), Tutor in Psychology Barbara Pym Fellow, AFStH Fellow Paton, Robert, MA (Cambridge), MSci Kean, Margaret, MA, DPhil, Tutor in (Cambridge), PhD (Cambridge), Tutor in English, Dame Helen Gardner Fellow Organic Chemistry

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Todd, Selina, BA (Warwick), MA Honorary Fellows (Sussex), DPhil (Sussex), Tutor in History Kennan, Elizabeth, MA, PhD (Washington) Noble, Alison, OBE, MA, DPhil, Professor of Lee Rudgard, Deanna, OBE, BM, BCh, MA Biomedical Engineering, Professorial Fellow Ishibashi, Hiro, OBE, PhD (Keio) † Katzourakis, Aris, BSc (Imperial), PhD Foster, Joanna, CBE (Imperial), Tutor in Zoology Butler-Sloss, Elizabeth (The Rt Hon Swales, Catherine, BSc (UCL), PhD Baroness), GBE, PC, Hon LLD (Hull), Hon (UCL), Tutor in Clinical Medicine DLitt (Loughborough), Hon DUniv (UCE) Wakelin, Daniel, BA (Cambridge), MPhil Goodhart, Celia (The Lady Goodhart), MA (Cambridge), PhD (Cambridge), Jeremy Moore, G Mary, MA, Hon LLD (Mount Griffiths Professor of Medieval English Holyoke) † Palaeography, Professorial Fellow Shephard, Gillian (The Rt Hon Baroness Howey, David, BA (Cambridge), MEng Shephard of Northwold), PC, MA (Cambridge), PhD (Imperial), Tutor in Engineering Sciences Jones Mueller, Gwyneth (Dame), DBE, Hon DMus (Wales), FRCM, Hon Mem Hulley, Philippa, BSc (Cape Town), PhD RACM (Cape Town), Tutor in Biomedical Sciences LeFanu, Nicola, MA, DMus (Lond), Hon Gangjee, Dev, BCL, MPhil, DPhil, BA DMus (Durham, Aberdeen), Hon DUniv (Bangalore), Tutor in Law (Open), Hon PhD (Patros), FRCM Gargent, Frank, MA, MA (Cambridge), Lefkowitz, Mary, BA (Wellesley), MA MSc (Birkbeck), FCA, Bursar (Radcliffe), PhD (Radcliffe), LHD (Trinity), Gibbons, John, BA (Evergreen State), Hon DMus (Durham), Hon DU (Open) PhD (Brown), Tutor in Philosophy Morrison, C Toni, Hon DLitt, BA Wild, Lorraine, MA, DPhil, Dean (Howard), MA (Cornell) Bulte, Daniel, BSc (Tasmania), PhD Caldicott, Fiona (Dame), DBE, BM, BCh, (Tasmania), Tutor in Engineering MA, FMedSci, FRCGP, FRCP, FRCPI, Barlow, Jane, MSc, DPhil, BA (Warwick), FRCPsych Fellow in Social Policy and Intervention Pomeroy, Sarah, BA (Barnard), MA Norman, Sarah, MA, BSc (Edinburgh), (Columbia), PhD (Columbia) PhD (Cambridge), Senior Tutor, Tutor for Le Pichon, Doreen (The Hon Mrs Admissions Justice), GBS, BA, BCL Gwenlan, Claire, MSci (UCL), PhD Lee, Hermione (Dame), DBE, MA, MPhil, (UCL), Tutor in Physics FRSL, FBA Kock, Anders, PhD (Aarhus), Tutor in Stevenson, Catherine (Lady), MA Economics Greenfield, Susan (The Baroness Schenk, Catherine, BA (Toronto), Greenfield), CBE, MA, DPhil, Hon DSc MA (Toronto), PhD (LSE), Professor of (Oxford Brookes, St Andrews, Exeter) Economic and Social History 3 COLLEGE LIST

Weir, Judith, CBE, MA (Cambridge) Innes, Doreen, MA, DPhil, MA (Aberdeen) Llewellyn-Smith, Elizabeth, CB, MA Ault, Irene, MA, BSc (Lond), PhD (Lond) Gaymer, Janet (Dame), DBE, MA, LLM, Mellanby, Jane, MA, DPhil Hon DLaws (Nottingham, Westminster), Gregory, Mary, MA, DPhil, MA (Glasgow) Hon D (Surrey) Watkinson, Sarah, MA, PhD (Cambridge) Wagley, Mary-Frances, MA, DPhil, BSc Howarth, Janet, MA, FRHistS (MIT) Goodden, Angelica, MA, DLitt Edgington, Dorothy, BPhil, MA, FBA Newby, Laura, MA, DPhil, BA (Lond) Baird, Vera (Dame), DBE, QC, LLB (Newcastle), BA (Open) Mapstone, Sally, MA, DPhil , BA (Bryn Mawr) Rose, Joanna Supernumerary Fellows Neville, Elizabeth (Dame), DBE, QPM, Watts, Nita, OBE, MA, BSc (Econ) MA, PhD (Lond), Hon LLD (Southampton) (Lond) † Smethurst, Jacqueline, MA, Med Harris, Rita, MA † (Massachusetts), PhD (Massachusetts) Williamson, Karina, MA, BLitt, DLitt (Lady), MA, MB English, Judith Rees, Margaret, MA, DPhil, BSc (Lond), (Cambridge), MRCP, FRCPsych MB (Lond), BS (Lond), MRCOG (Dame), DBE, BA Owers, Anne Brown, Verity, MA, MA (St Andrews) (Cambridge) King, Gillian, MA, DPhil MacMillan, Margaret, BPhil, MA, DPhil Aldgate, Jane, OBE, MA, MA (Edinburgh), Salmon, Paul, BSc (Lond), MRCS, MB, BS PhD (Edinburgh) (Lond), FRCP (Edinburgh, Lond), MRCP McAuley, Mary, MA, DPhil Allen, Thomas (Sir), CBE Street-Perrott, Alayne, MA, MA McDermid, Val, BA, LC, Hon DEd (Colorado), MA (Cambridge), PhD (Sunderland), Hon DLaw (Dundee), Hon (Cambridge), FRGS DCL (Northumbria), FRSE, FRSL Gray, Christine, MA, DPhil, MA Almond, Jayne, MA (Cambridge), PhD (Cambridge) (Dame), DBE Mason, Monica Taylor, Jane, MA, DPhil, HonD-ès-Lettres Forbes, Sheila, CBE, MA (Reims-Champagne) Edwards, Anne, BA (Wales), MEd (Wales), Emeritus Fellows PhD (Wales), ACSS, AFBPSS, CPsychol Christie, Margaret, MA, PhD (Cambridge), BSc (Glasgow), PhD (Glasgow) Buchanan, Ann, MBE, MA, MSc (Bath), PhD (Southampton) Sisam, Celia, MA Smith, Teresa, MA Rayner, Margaret, CBE, MA, DPhil, MSc (Lond) Brown, Hilda, MA, BLitt, DLitt, BA (Western Australia) Levick, Barbara, MA, DPhil, FSA 4 THE CHRONICLE 2017

Mountford, Brian (The Revd Canon), Wedler, Sebastian, DPhil, BA (Zurich), MBE, MA, BA (Newcastle), MA MA (Durham), Junior Research Fellow (Cambridge) Cendon Boveda, Karina, MA Blackshaw, Susanna, MA, BSc (Georgetown), PhD (Yale), Career (Birmingham), PhD (Wales) Development Fellow Tudor, Maya, BA (Stanford), MA Patterson, Jonathan, BA (Cambridge), (Princeton), PhD (Princeton), Government MPhil (Cambridge), PhD (Cambridge), and Public Policy Career Development Fellow Elliott, Victoria, MSc, DPhil, BA Troeberg, Linda, BSc (KwaZulu-Natal), (Cambridge), MPhil (Cambridge), PGCE PhD (KwaZulu-Natal), Associate Research (Leeds), English and Literacy Education Fellow Chirabell, Giulio, PhD (Pavia), Quantum Wren, Stephen, BSc (Manchester), PhD Computing (Cambridge), Associate Research Fellow Povey, Richard, BA, MPhil, DPhil, Fixed Senior Research Fellows Term Fellow in Economics Gordon, Lyndall, MA, MA (Columbia), Betts, Alexander, BSc (Bath), MSc PhD (Columbia), English (London), MSc (Uppsala), Junior Research Kearns, Emily, MA, DPhil, Classics Fellow Maclean, Mavis, CBE, MA, MSc (Lond), Smith, Alex, BSc (Texas A&M), MSc LLB (Lond), Law (Duke), DPhil (Vanderbilt), Junior Muschel, Ruth, BA (Cornell), PhD (Albert Research Fellow Einstein College), MD (Albert Einstein Worth, Eve, MSt, BA (Bristol), Junior College), Medicine Research Fellow Zhu, Tingting, DPhil, BEng (Malta), MSc Junior Research Fellows, Career (London), Junior Research Fellow Development Fellows and Associate Research Fellows Lecturers Aswad, Amr, BSc (KCL), MSc (Imperial), Baroghel, Elsa, BA (Sorbonne), MA Junior Research Fellow (Sorbonne), French Couch, Yvonne, MSc, DPhil, BSc Belu, Valerie, BA, MPhil, Politics (Manchester), Junior Research Fellow Board, Mary, MA, DPhil, Biochemistry Doyle, Casey, BA (Bates), PhD (Pittsburgh), Junior Research Fellow Brzezinski, Krzysztof, BA, MSc (Warsaw), Economics McKeown, Maeve, BSocSci (Manchester), MA (UCL), PhD (UCL), Junior Research Buckle, Alexandra, MSt, DPhil, BMus Fellow (Lond), Music Namburete, Ana, BSc (Simon Fraser), Coombes, Martin, BSc (Durham), MSc Associate Research Fellow (Exeter), PhD (Exeter), Geography

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Derakhshan, Jamshid, DPhil, Pure McGilvray, Matthew, BSc (Queensland), Mathematics DPhil (Queensland), Engineering Dorigatti, Marco, DPhil, DottLett Nodal, Fernando, BSc (Salamanca), MSc (Florence), Italian (Salamanca), PhD (Salamanca), Medicine Dowker, Ann Derore, BA, PhD (Lond), Norton, Roy, BA, MSt, DPhil, Spanish Experimental Psychology Percy, Ruth, BA (Sussex), PhD (Toronto), Dries, Manuel, BA (Exeter), MPhil History (Cambridge), DPhil (Cambridge), Philosophy Przedlacka, Joanna, MA (Warsaw), PhD Evans, Gareth, DPhil, BA (Durham), MA (Warsaw), Linguistics (Durham), English Sillet, Andrew, BA, MSt, DPhil, Classics Ford, Mark, BSc (York), DPhil (York), Sohail, Muhammad, DPhil, BSc (Punjab), Physical Chemistry MSc (Quaid-i-Azam), MPhil (Quaid-i- Gartrell, Amber, BA (Warwick), MA Azam), Biochemsistry (Warwick), Classics Song, Yang, BA (PR China), MA (York), Goddard, Stephen, MA, DPhil, French Oriental Studies Gwilym, Stephen, BSc, MBBS, DPhil, Teichmann, Roger, DPhil, BA FRCS (Tr & Orth), Medicine (Cambridge), Philosophy Harry, Martyn, MA (Cambridge), MPhil Thomas, Nicola, MA (Edinburgh), MA (Lond), PhD (Lond), Music (Nottingham), PhD (Nottingham), German Hills, David, MA, DSc, PhD (Trent Traill, John, DPhil, MMus (UEA), Music Polytechnic), CEng, FIMechE, Engineering Troeberg, Linda, BSc (KwaZulu-Natal), Hodgetts, Timothy, BA, MPhil, DPhil, PhD (KwaZulu-Natal), Biomedicine MA (Open), Human Geography Viles, Heather, MA, DPhil, MA Jbabdi, Saad, MSc (Paris), PhD (Paris), (Cambridge), Geography Engineering Ward-Perkins, Bryan, MA, History Jennings, Emily, DPhil, BA (Cambridge), Wild, Lorraine, MA, DPhil, Geography MPhil (Cambridge), English Wilkins, Robert, BA, DPhil, Medicine Klimek, Aleksander, BA (Warsaw), MMath (Warsaw), Mathematics Staff Ligoxygakis, Petros, BA (Athens), MSc Anstey, Tom, IT Manager (Crete), PhD (Crete), Biology Bountra, Hemlata, BSc (Manchester), Littleton, Suellen, BSc (California), MBA PhD (Manchester), ACA, College (Lond), Management Studies Accountant Malo, Aurelio, BSc (Madrid), MRes Cane, Gerri, Domestic Bursar (Madrid), PhD (Madrid), Biology Griffiths, Rachael, Junior Dean Maw, Florence, BA, BA (Savoie), MA Hancock, Susan, Academic Registrar (Cardiff), French

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Harvey, Claire, Communications Manager Committee Members: Hyatt, Neil, RIBA, Head of Buildings and Adams, Triona (1993), Alumnae Events Projects Manager, ex-officio Luke, Garry, Catering Manager Aswad, Amr (2012), co-opted Maddison, Antony, MB, ChB, DRCOG, Booth, Jennifer (2009) DCH, College Doctor Burton, Pauline (1963) McDonnell, Catherine, MB, BCh, BAO, Clarebourne, Catherine (1989) DCH, DROCG (Dublin), College Doctor Dyson, Julie (1982) Mountford, Brian (The Revd Canon), Hughes, Jacqueline (1965) MBE, MA, BA (Newcastle), MA Meakin, Lucy (2002) (Cambridge), Chaplain Moore, Alison (1989) Smith, Caroline, RGN, College Nurse Woodcock, Fran (2004), Alumnae Relations Truslove, Katherine, Junior Dean & Communications Manager, ex-officio Waltcher, Sarah, Junior Dean Williams, Jonathan, MPhil, DPhil, BMus American Friends of St Hilda’s Committee (Manchester), Director of College Music Co-Chair: Fenster, Julie (1979) Co-Chair: Teale, Sarah (1980) Middle Common Room Committee Treasurer: Coquillette, Judith (Rogers, 1965) President: Daniel Quetschlich Diamond, Sarah (Brandenburger, 1975) Vice-President: Julia Heitmann Keswani, Ankur (1995) Treasurer: Nafsa Sharif Stevens, Rosemary (1954)

Junior Common Room Committee Ex-officio President: Antara Jaidev Honorary Fellows: Vice-President/Treasurer: Kennan-Burns, Elizabeth (1960) Madeleine Hancock Lefkowitz, Mary (Visiting Fellow, 1979-80) Vice-President/Secretary: Georgie Bingham Pomeroy, Sarah (Visiting Fellow, 1989-90) Rose, Joanna Semel (1952) ASM Committee 2017-18 Chairman: Fuller-Sessions, Ruth (1986) Smethurst, Jacqueline (1960) Vice-Chair: Archer, Jan (1966) Wagley, Mary Frances (Penney, 1947) Secretary: Cosh, Henry (2013) Editor of The Chronicle: Ellis, Margaret The above lists are correct as at 1 October 2017 (1963), co-opted † denotes those who have since died Treasurer: Pinder, Charlotte (1975) Governing Body Representative: Travers, Bronwyn

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ASM Reports The Chairman’s Report to the Annual General Meeting, 24 June 2017

Welcome, Former Principal, Senior I am delighted to say Margaret Ellis Members and Members of the SCR. (English, 1963) joined us from November Thank you for coming. 2016, co-opted as the Editor of The Chronicle. Dr Pauline Burton (English, Report: Comings and goings: in the last 1963) and Catherine Clarebourne (Oriental year Liz Shanahan (Modern Languages, Studies, 1989) were co-opted in September 2004), Mark Stevenson (Classical last year. Henry Cosh (English, 2013) Archaeology, 2009) and Jen Booth hopes to join today; we will vote on this (Geography & the Environment, 2009) later in the meeting as well as extensions left the Committee. They all worked for some office-holders. really hard for the ASM, and I thank them for their support. A strong team Highlights of the last year’s events: remains – a really thoughtful and active committee, with special support from Garden Party – 25 June 2016 Jan Archer (English, 1966) as Vice-Chair, The Hobbit-themed Garden Party, Charlotte Pinder (Modern Languages, masterminded by Triona Adams (English, 1975) as Treasurer, and Lynn Featherstone 1993), was extraordinary. Never before (Modern Languages, 2000) our – sadly have I seen terrifying masked and hooded soon to be outgoing – Secretary. creatures enjoying a fantastic College tea.

Dr Margaret Rayner in conversation at the Storytelling at the ‘Teddy Bears’ Picnic’ Garden Party Garden Party

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The class of 2007 looking colourful at their 10th Reunion

Triona is overseeing her third Garden feasting on words and food. Everything on Party today, the Teddy Bears’ picnic, the menu for our Gaudy Gala Fundraising which promises to be different again and I dinner (held in aid of the Living History am sure just as much fun. Project) was mentioned in Shakespeare’s works, and during the dinner we were Gaudy – 16-18 September 2016 treated to a delightful talk from the Events commenced on the Saturday Olivier-Award-winning actor Oliver Ford morning with a talk from the Principal Davis about ‘Fathers and Daughters about the 125th Anniversary priorities and in Shakespeare’. Then, during second building plans, after which the programme desserts, Wendy Cope OBE (History, 1963) was themed around the 400th anniversary read some of her wonderful poems. It of Shakespeare’s death in April 1616. really was an excellent evening thanks to There were two events in the afternoon: the efforts of the Development Office, the a Sonnet Walk – in fact a promenade ASM sub-committee, the Domestic Bursar, staging of some favourite Sonnets and the Catering Team. While all these directed by Triona Adams – followed by events were happening, the Development a fascinating talk by Dr Dora Thornton Office also held reunions for alumnae (History, 1981) and Sir Jonathan Bate who matriculated in 1956, 1966 and 1976. (Provost of Worcester College) about their British Museum Exhibition entitled Autumn Drinks – 3 November 2016 at the “Shakespeare: Staging the World”. There Athenaeum was a late afternoon Chapel Service led We were treated to a talk by the Principal by the Reverend Katherine Pickering about his research work. It was a privilege, (Physics, 1976), followed by an evening of and completely absorbing, to hear him talk

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about his career before he joined St Hilda’s, chance to meet so many alumnae – St his ongoing work in the medical research Hilda’s had three tables at the event, and field, and his perspective on medical made up the largest gathering for a single research as the Chair of the Biotechnology college. The following day there was an and Biological Sciences Research Council. afternoon tea, kindly hosted by Jordan Isac (Contemporary India, 2010), with a We returned to the Lansdowne Club for talk from the Principal to 25 alumnae and the London Tea on 11 March 2017, where friends about the College’s plans for the Law Fellow and University Lecturer in future. In April, Senior Members gathered Intellectual Property Law, Associate for the Vice Chancellor’s reception in Palo Professor Dev Gangjee, shared insights Alto and later for a College dinner. into the special status of regional brands in “Terroir’s Travails: A Legal History of The Career Networks run by Senior French Wine”. Members continue to flourish. A brief summary of this year’s events: It has been a good year for extending the range and location of alumnae events, • On 1 April the Media Network – for from Hong Kong and Singapore in March the eighth year running – organised a St to the West Coast of the US in April. In Hilda’s day at the FT Weekend Oxford Hong Kong, alumna Regina Pisa (PPE, Literary Festival, which involved four 1977) hosted an event at the American events featuring alumnae writers. The Club for alumnae working in the law. theme was parents and children. I’d Later that month, the University’s Asia like to thank Triona for taking on the Meeting Minds weekend in Singapore mantle of organising this occasion from drew a number of alumnae from Nicolette Jones, who started this very Singapore, Hong Kong and China. During special event and has masterminded it the weekend, Senior Members turned for the last seven years. Plans are already out in force for the University’s Gala afoot for next year’s day on 7 April 2018. Dinner. The Principal and Development • Just last week on 12 June the Law Director were delighted to have the Network held their annual St Hilda’s in the City Summer Drinks, to which they made all comers welcome. Sarah Higgins, Chair of the Law Network, kindly hosted at Charles Russell Speechlys LLP once again. A large group of alumnae, current students, friends and family were very lucky to hear award-winning documentary film maker Anna Hall (English, 1987) talk Nicolette Jones, Triona Adams and Miranda about her achievements in making Emmerson at the Literary Festival social action documentaries, including

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the extraordinary Catching a Killer which extremely grateful to them both for so aired very recently. generously reducing their fees to create something that promises to be a unique • The Medical Network is planning a and exciting part of the celebrations. The conference in 2018; more information world premiere will take place on Sunday to follow. 18 February 2018 as part of the official Events still to come in 2017: 16-17 College 125th Anniversary Celebrations. September is the Gaudy weekend, with a University Challenge theme, and the Autumn Drinks will be held on 9 November, venue to be confirmed. Publications: As you know, the College has successfully changed its publications strategy and earlier this year we enjoyed the second edition of The Chronicle. I am delighted to say that Margaret Ellis has taken over as ASM Editor. We are very grateful to her. Bamber Gascoigne returned to his role as quizmaster at the Gaudy The Living History Project – the aim of which is to record 125 interviews Finally, thank you to all the ASM with Senior Members for the College’s Committee, and particularly to Jan (Vice- 125th Anniversary – continues under the Chair), Charlotte (Treasurer) and Lynn auspices of the Media Network. We do still (Secretary) for keeping the show on the need funding, so if you would like donate road. I know I speak for them and all on please do contact the Development Office. the Committee when I say a huge thank Other 125th Anniversary initiatives: you to Bronwyn, Audrone, Triona and all of I mentioned last year that the ASM the Development and Alumnae Relations Committee was exploring the possibility team. They work extremely hard to make of commissioning a new portrait of Miss Senior Members’ events special, and Beale for the 125th Anniversary. We have their efforts show in the ever increasing decided instead to run a competition to standard of events. Thank you too to Garry select an artist to make a representation and the Catering team for their enthusiasm of St Hilda, which remains ongoing. and energy for the catered events. I am thrilled to tell you that the ASM I hope you enjoy the afternoon. Thank you Committee has commissioned Honorary for coming and I hope we see you at some Fellow Professor Nicola LeFanu (Music, of the coming year’s events. 1965) to compose a “mini-cantata” about St Hilda, and Wendy Cope (History, 1963) Ruth Fuller-Sessions (Classics, 1986), to write the words. We are delighted and ASM Chairman

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The 2017 Annual General Emeritus Fellow; Margaret Rayner, Meeting of the Association Emeritus Fellow; Bronwyn Travers, of Senior Members Development Director; Audrone Jurkenaite-Epih, Campaign Executive; The 92nd Annual General Meeting was held Jeanette Crowther; James Taylor. at St Hilda’s College in the Jacqueline du 1. Welcome and apologies for absence Pré Music Building on Saturday 24 June The Chairman welcomed those present 2017 at 2.00pm. Ruth Fuller-Sessions was and thanked them for attending. Apologies in the Chair. were received from: Jacky Hughes There were 23 people present. Those (Beaumont, 1965); Catherine Clarebourne recorded as being present were: (1989); Alison Moore (Humphries, 1989); Triona Adams (1993); Lynn Featherstone 1952: Anne Thwaite (Harrop) 1957: (2000); Fran Woodcock (2004); and Helen Jackson 1959: Sandra Margolies Henry Cosh (2013). (Colbeck) 1962: Sue Garden (Button); Carol Worthington (Pearson) 1963: 2. Minutes of the previous meeting Pauline Burton; Margaret Ellis (Vaughan); The minutes for 25 June 2016 were agreed. Jenny Rowley-Williams (Wright) 1966: Proposed: Ruth Fuller-Sessions; Seconded: Jan Archer 1967: Jean Harker (Buchanan) Margaret Ellis. 1975: Charlotte Pinder (Crowther) 3. Matters arising from the minutes 1982: Julie Dyson 1984: Lynne Harris There were no matters arising from the 1986: Ruth Fuller-Sessions 1996: minutes. Suzanne Winder 2002: Lucy Meakin. Lady English, Honorary Fellow 4. Report from the Chairman (Principal 2001-2007); Barbara Levick, The Chairman presented her report, which is printed in full elsewhere in The Chronicle. 5. Report from the Treasurer The Treasurer gave her report. The layout of the Accounts has been revised for ease of understanding of the Financial Statements. Specifically, the three funds (ASM Fund, Miss Beale Scholarship Fund and the ASM Studentship Fund) are now reported separately, so that investment income and expenditure relating to the Scholarship and Studentship are clearly presented and management of the Funds is more transparent. For the purposes Dinner under the stars in the JdP Foyer for the of comparison, three years’ figures were 40th Reunion presented.

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The Treasurer reported that the ASM fund value of the Fund has now risen to over is now in a healthy position, mainly as a £100,000. result of two factors: Sue Garden queried why the ASM Firstly: there has been better management Studentship Fund was not awarded in the of ASM events, such that expenditure on latest year. It was explained this was due them no longer exceeds income. In the to lack of suitable applications last year, latest financial year, a surplus of £1,300 but that the Committee had just voted to was generated in relation to events. award a Studentship for the forthcoming financial year. Secondly: the reduction in the costs relating to the production and postage 6. Report from the Editor of The of the hard-copy Chronicle publication. Chronicle Since 70% of the ASM members elected The Editor of The Chronicle thanked Dr to receive such information electronically, Rayner and Eileen Roberts, who had the cost of producing and posting out The undertaken the pioneering work of Chronicle has fallen by just under 70% in producing the new Chronicle and left us the past financial year. with an attractive and well-planned format for the slimmer ASM magazine once again The Treasurer thanked the Development separated from the College report. and Alumnae Relations team for the excellent online versions of the She reminded Senior Members that the publications, which disseminate the same new default position for all publications information electronically. is ‘electronic’. Any members wishing to receive hard copies of the publications must now opt in. The latest Chronicle contained articles from members about careers in Science and Medicine, and also celebrated our triumph in winning University Challenge’s celebrity Christmas competition. Next year’s Chronicle will feature members whose work or lives have taken them overseas, and the Editor encouraged ASM members to contact her or the The stylish class of 1967 at their 50th Reunion Development and Alumnae Relations Office with offers or ideas. The Treasurer reported that the Miss Beale Scholarship Fund was not awarded Finally, the Editor thanked the in the latest financial year, as the student Development and Alumnae Relations to whom the award was made did not take Office and particularly Audrone Jurkenaite- up his research position. As a result, the Epih who meticulously compiled the

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Smiles all round for the class of 1957 at their 60th Reunion lengthy list of donors, and Fran Woodcock Meakin; Seconded: Margaret Ellis. who worked on every aspect: co-editing, Ordinary membership: proofreading (she has hawk’s eyes and is scrupulously particular – Ed.) and liaising Pauline Burton (English, 1963) with printer and publisher. Without their Catherine Clarebourne (Oriental Studies, professional and friendly assistance the 1989). production would not be possible. Proposed: Ruth Fuller-Sessions; Seconded: Margaret Ellis. 7. Election of Committee Members There were four vacancies for officer posts, Members interested in joining the and four vacancies for ordinary committee Committee themselves, or nominating membership; four nominations for the others, were encouraged by the Chairman officer positions and two for ordinary to speak to current Committee members committee membership had been received: or the Development and Alumnae Relations Office staff. Ruth Fuller-Sessions (Classics, 1986) to serve for one further year as Chair; 8. Any Other Business Jan Archer (English, 1966) to serve for one There being no further formal business, further year as Vice-Chair; the Chairman declared the meeting closed Charlotte Pinder (Modern Languages, 1975) at 2.30pm. to serve for one further year as Treasurer. The next AGM will be held on Saturday 23 Proposed: Pauline Burton; Seconded: June 2018. Carol Worthington. Charlotte Pinder/Lynn Featherstone Henry Cosh (English, 2013) to be elected ASM Committee Treasurer/Secretary to the Committee as Secretary with a tenure of three years. Proposed: Lucy

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ASM Financial Report 1 August 2013 to 31 July 2017 01-Aug-13 01-Aug-14 01-Aug-15 01-Aug-16 31-Jul-14 31-Jul-15 31-Jul-16 31-Jul-17 £ £ £ £ ASM FUND INCOME Investment income 1,126 1,204 1,208 1,409 Events 16,951 6,646 6,535 6,939 Capitation fees 4,509 5,460 5,590 5,330 Total income 22,586 13,310 13,333 13,678 EXPENDITURE Events -17,453 -6,266 -5,238 -7,081 Report & Chronicle -7,212 -11,032 -3,361 -1,812 Total expenditure -24,665 -17,298 -8,599 -8,893 ASM MISS BEALE SCHOLARSHIP FUND Investment income 2,562 2,741 2,749 2,937 Expenditure 0 -2,500 0 0

ASM STUDENTSHIP FUND Income 2,414 2,582 2,599 2,766 Expenditure -1,200 -1,200 0 0

CAPITAL VALUE OF FUNDS ASM FUND Fund value at 1August 40,805 42,444 40,331 45,616 Fund value at 31 July 42,444 40,331 45,616 55,166 Unspent income cfwd (included in the 25,358 20,990 25,724 30,509 above fund value)

ASM MISS BEALE SCHOLARSHIP FUND Fund value at 1 August 90,887 94,615 99,987 103,978 Fund value at 31 July 94,615 99,987 103,978 113,922 Unspent income cfwd (included in the 3,088 3,329 6,078 9,015 above fund value)

ASM STUDENTSHIP FUND Fund value at 1 August 85,575 87,888 94,103 97,863 Fund value at 31 July 87,888 94,103 97,863 107,230 Unspent income cfwd (included in the 19,384 20,766 23,365 26,131 above fund value)

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THE ASM STUDENTSHIP – 125th ANNIVERSARY HONORARIUM 2018-2019

Have you often thought of carrying out your own studies – returning to a subject you want to explore more fully, or moving into completely unfamiliar academic territory – but not known how to go about it? So many people dream of the chance to realise their own project but do not have the funding, access to books, or any idea of where to start. Fortunately, that is where the ASM Studentship comes in! The Studentship, set up in the mid-1970s As part of the College’s 125th Anniversary thanks to a generous donation, provides celebrations, the 2018-19 ASM Student one Senior Member each year with an will receive an honorarium of £3,600, honorarium, access to College facilities, triple the usual rate. It is hoped that this and up to three weeks’ residence in increased honorarium will encourage a College. particularly large number of applicants, so please do spread the word to your St Among those who held the Studentship was Hilda’s contemporaries. the poet Jenny Joseph (Honorary Fellow, English, 1950) in 1980-81, who afterwards To learn more about the ASM Studentship said that the purpose of the Studentship is and its application process, visit “to encourage minds whose diffidence has www.st-hildas.ox.ac.uk/asm-studentship, been entrenched by circumstances to take email [email protected], themselves a bit more seriously and stretch or call Fran Woodcock on out – for nothing, perhaps, but the pleasure +44 (0) 1865 610 330. Applications must of doing so.” be received before 1 August 2018.

Katherine Stevenson (Katy Mahood, Women’s Studies, 2001) held the ASM Studentship in 2013-14: “The ASM studentship was an excellent opportunity to step out of my day-to-day work and focus on a piece of independent research in the blissfully peaceful surroundings of St Hilda’s and the Bodleian. The work I undertook underpinned a number of articles and several projects I worked on while at the cancer charity Maggie’s. The experience also helped clarify my ambition to become an author – a lifelong dream which happily will be realised in March 2018 with the publication of my debut novel, Entanglement.”

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The ASM Studentship 2015-16 The Studentship has now given me a The association platform from which to pursue the theme between Alzheimer’s that alterations to the circadian rhythm disease (AD) and type 2 of cortisol secretion in AD are important diabetes is controversial, to understanding the disease process. with numerous Currently I am seeking to collaborate epidemiological studies with neuroscientists, with a view to providing evidence obtaining joint research funding. I would either for or against. Consequently not have reached this point without the scientific opinion is divided over whether ASM Studentship. There are times in or not diabetes causes or increases the life when one cannot do or work as one risk of developing AD. During the year should like. For many years my purpose I held the ASM Studentship I reviewed was to care for my invalid parents, which the literature to research an alternative came at the expense of my scientific hypothesis, that an association between career and self-confidence. But during AD and diabetes exists but is mediated this time there also came an idea, an by a separate factor – namely, the mildly overlooked and potentially important elevated cortisol levels that are manifested detail, concerning AD pathogenesis. by persons with AD at the early stages. “Give, and it shall be given unto you.” Although diabetes is a metabolic disorder To be awarded the ASM Studentship of obesity and old age, it is also a common to pursue this idea gave me the same complication of endocrine disorders feeling of elation as when I was accepted involving cortisol excess. Thus my at St Hilda’s as an undergraduate. The hypothesis was prompted by abundant award was an affirmation of competence evidence that even mild hypercortisolemia to conduct research in a new area, and is diabetogenic, through induction of an emotional lifeboat. I applied myself insulin resistance and hyperglycaemia. As to the project wholeheartedly. In my a result of the Studentship I was able to far-off undergraduate days I was truly present in a published article1 arguments privileged to receive guidance from my in favour of hypercortisolemia increasing tutor, Jane Mellanby, on conducting the risk of pre-diabetes and diabetes individual research and formulating during pre-clinical and early stages of AD. ideas – skills that were now essential Furthermore when I examined in detail for a sustained solitary effort. And those studies refuting an association for all that I am eternally grateful. between AD and diabetes, it emerged that the relationship may be yet more complex, 1Notarianni, E. (2017). Cortisol: Mediator of with diabetes of longstanding duration association between Alzheimer’s disease and diabetes having a protective role against AD mellitus? Psychoneuroendocrinology 81:129-137. development. In this way it was possible to reconcile seemingly contradictory data. Elena Notarianni (Biochemistry, 1976-80)

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Marriages and Partnerships Births Former Lecturer 1990 Watson, Dr Charles (Ben), to Dr Moira Reid, Eleanor (Ella Smith), a daughter, Gillis, 2015 Sophia Eleanor, born 25 March 2001 1959 1994 Davies, Anthea, to William David Wilson, Fronius, Dr Helen, a daughter, Eva 18 November 2015 Miriam, born 22 June 2017 1973 1995 Griffiths, Kathleen (Katie White), to Ebisch-Burton, Katherine (Kate Burton), Crispin D. Fells, 5 August 2017 a daughter, Felicity Clara Melany Ebisch, born 30 September 2015, a sister for 1999 Samuel and Ferdinand Adams, Elizabeth (Lizi), to John Elliott, 8 July 2017 1997 Lansdown-Davies, Dr Gwenllian Feng, Dr Wai Yi, to Dr Steven Murdoch, (Lansdown), a son, Arthur Meredydd ap 16 September 2012 Arwyn, born 9 November 2016, a brother 2000 for Nel and Eldra Bentley, Megan, to Mary Alice Bentley 1999 Moon, 28 July 2013 Feng, Dr Wai Yi, a daughter, Alexandra 2004 Caroline Murdoch, born 28 March 2015 Dawkins, Miranda, to Thomas Delaitre, Pitcaithly, Rebecca (Becca Hayes), a son, 8 April 2017 Benjamin Tristan James, born 11 June 2017 2006 2000 Gunton, Dr Laetitia, to Sam Chernanko, Bentley-Moon, Megan (Bentley), a son, December 2015 born 6 February 2008 2007 Dorsett, Elizabeth (Libz Hagan), a son, Shen, Zunan, to Zhang Zhongming, 2017 Ethan James Albert, born 16 November 2008 2017, a brother for Leo Hancock, Dr Rebecca (Becky), to Sam 2001 Elliott, 12 August 2017 Price, Alison (Woolliscroft), a daughter, Emilia Grace, born 2 February 2016

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2002 Deaths Shonfeld, Faye, a daughter, Phoebe Honorary Fellow, Former Principal Demelza Coulter-Shonfeld, born 12 March Moore, Mary Georgina (Galbraith), 2017 6 October 2017 2003 Honorary Fellow Ko, Karen, a son, Oliver Chong, born Ishibashi, Professor Hiro, OBE, November 2015 24 January 2017 2005 Former Visiting Fellow Mills, Alexandra, a daughter, Felicity Santiago, Senator Miriam (Defensor), Rose Bekker, born 4 May 2017 29 September 2016 Rodriguez-Hernandez, Carmen, a Former Lecturer daughter, Marta, born May 2017, a sister Wulstan, Professor David, 6 May 2017 for Viktor and Karolina 1935 2008 Foster-Carter, Lois Marguerite, Mbewe-Mvula, Alice, a child, born 8 16 August 2017 August 2013 Houlton, Enid Winifred (Walker), 12 November 2016 1938 Foucard, Dr Elizabeth Emily Marie (Betty), 26 March 2017 1940 Jones, Nesta, 16 February 2016 Venning, Dr Ruth Mary (Barker), January 2017 1941 Christie, Dr Hilary Joscleyn Eveleigh (Allen), 17 September 2017 Gray, Joan (Houldsworth), 31 December 2016 Waley, Mary Doreen Elizabeth (King), 18 May 2017 1942 Dickey, Mary Catherine Gaumann (Coller), 9 August 2017

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1943 Shillito, Jennifer Baines (Horne), Berryman, Dora Elizabeth (Betsy 20 November 2016 MacDonald), 30 March 2017 1953 Rebeiro, Pamela Dorothy (Phelps), Fells, Hazel Denton (Scott), 30 July 2017 22 April 2017 1944 1954 Nash, Margaret Murray (Scott), Morgan, Janet (McAllister), 27 April 2017 26 September 2017 1945 1956 Evans, Sally Lila Ann (Clothier), Brown, Professor Susan North, 30 August 2017 11 August 2017 Smith, Cynthia Anne, 24 May 2016 Cunliffe-Jones, Janet Mary (Marshall), 11 January 2017 1947 Donnison, Jean Elizabeth (Kidger), Holmstrom, Lakshmi (Devanandan), 27 January 2017 6 May 2016 Holden, Alison Mary, 30 August 2017 Millett, Katherine Murray (Kate), 6 September 2017 Summerskill, Florence Marion Johnston (Elliott), 18 January 2017 1962 Woolf, Leila Sara (Walters), 1949 21 October 2017 Hancock, Anne Guinivere (Protheroe), 24 July 2017 1963 Stewart, Jennifer (Russell), Roberts, Naomi Janet (Ziman), 11 January 2017 26 August 2017 1965 1950 Birdseye, Penelope Jane Constable Harris, Rita Doreen (Shulman), (Penny Smith), 24 October 2017 Supernumerary Fellow, 13 December 2017 Drew, Joy Rosemary (Ingram), 6 March 2017 Joseph, Jenny, Honorary Fellow, 8 January 2018 1967 Kelly, Dr Susan Jane (Sue), 1951 13 October 2017 Fisher, Jennifer Mary (Illsley), 11 January 2017 1968 Padley, Alison (Carlin), August 2017 1952 Quinton, Lady Marcelle, 18 October 2017

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1975 News of Senior Members Ellington, Geraldine Mary, Recent Publications 29 September 2017 Honorary Fellow 1989 Distinguished Professor Sarah B Johnson, Sara Henry Thomas (Shea), Pomeroy: Maria Sibylla Merian. Artist, 14 March 2017 Scientist, Adventurer, Los Angeles, Getty Publications, 2018; a biography for young Deaths of Partners adults Goodhart, William Howard, Baron Senior Research Fellow Goodhart, QC, 10 January 2017, husband Dr Lyndall Gordon: Outsiders: Five Women of Lady Celia Goodhart (Herbert, 1957) Writers Who Changed the World, Virago, 2017. The five are Mary Shelley, Emily Stock, John Anthony Thelfal, Brontë, George Eliot, Olive Schreiner and 7 November 2012, husband of Philippa Virginia Woolf (Woodall, 1960) 1962 Summers, Dr Anne: Christian and Jewish Women in Britain, 1880-1940: Living with Difference, Palgrave Macmillan, 2017 1965 Elson, Professor Diane: with Balakrishnan, R, and Heintz, J, Rethinking Economic Policy for Social Justice: the Radical Potential of Human Rights, Routledge, London, 2016 Oxlade, Diana (Champ): 50 Weeds, self- published, written and illustrated 1966 Sugden, Dr Elaine (Pulman): Talking About Dying, Giddings Down Sugden Tuckwell Wilberforce Publications, 2017 1967 Gronvik, Dr Oddrun: ‘The Saga of Norsk Ordbok: a scholarly dictionary for the Norwegian vernacular and the Nynorsk written language’, Kernerman Dictionary News 25, July 2017

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1969 2006 Karpf, Dr Anne: recent publications Gunton, Dr Laetitia: recent publications include: ‘The post-Holocaust memoir: include: with Gooday, A J, Bett, B J, Glover, 20 years after 50 years later’, Mnemosyne A G, Vanreusel, A, ‘Macrofaunal nematodes 10, 2017; ‘Constructing and Addressing from the lower bathyal Whittard Canyon the “Ordinary Devoted Mother”: Donald (NE Atlantic): assemblage characteristics Winnicott’s BBC Broadcasts, 1943-62’, and comparison with polychaete History Workshop Journal 78, 2014 assemblages’, Marine Ecology DOI: 10.1111/ maec.12408, 2016; with Sikorski, A, Pavlova, 1972 L, ‘Laonice species (Polychaeta, Spionidae) McDermid, Dr Val: Out of Bounds, Little from the Whittard Canyon (NE Atlantic) Brown, 2016 with descriptions of two new species’, 1973 Journal of the Marine Biological Association Griffiths, Kathleen (Katie White): of the United Kingdom 97(5), 2017 with Clarkson, G, Ingrams, L, Cullen, M: Lee, Dr Natalie (Cygan): recent Primers, Volume One, The Poetry School publications include: with Fok, K, O’Leary, and Nine Arches Press, 2016; as singer/ C, White, A, Cox, H, Michael, M, Yap, A, songwriter for the band A Woman in Cooper, H: ‘Neogenin recruitment of the Goggles, My Shrink is Pregnant, 2013 WAVE Regulatory Complex maintains 1978 adherens junction stability and tension’, Higbie, Professor Carolyn: Collectors, Nature Communications, 2016 Scholars, and Forgers in the Ancient World: 2008 Object Lessons, Oxford University Press, Rowan, Dr Erica: recent publications 2017 include: ‘Bioarchaeological preservation 2001 and non-elite diet in the Bay of Naples: Stevenson, Katherine (Katy Mahood): An analysis of the food remains from Entanglement, HarperCollins, 2018 the Cardo V sewer at the Roman site of Herculaneum’, Environmental Archaeology 2002 22(3), 2017; ‘Olive oil pressing waste as a Sarkar, Dr Bihani: Heroic Shaktism: The fuel source in antiquity’, American Journal Cult of Durga in Ancient Indian Kingship, of Archaeology, 2015 British Academy Monograph, Oxford University Press, 2017 2004 Blewitt, Dr Emily: This is Not a Rescue, a debut collection of poetry, Seren Books, 2017

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Other Recent News Pugh, Katharine (Maxwell), OBE, has stepped down as Chief executive of the 1951 Heritage Alliance; she is Chair of the Earl, Rosemary (Blake-Jolly) exhibited Advisory Group on Cultural Protection her paintings and sculptures at St Andrew’s Fund. Church, Headington, Oxford, May 2017. 1971 1953 Cameron, Professor Lynne (Newdick) Bevis, Catharine (Elizabeth Barstow) has recently completed two years as still has permission to officiate as a Reader Senior Fellow and Artist-in-Residence in the Church of England. Her husband is at Cinepoetics, Centre for Advanced now in a nursing home; they have thirteen Film Studies, Freie Universität Berlin. grandchildren. She held several exhibitions of paintings 1964 and published a book of painting-poem Francis, Dr Diana (Ford) convenes a group artworks. of peace-building professionals named 1972 the Ammerdown Group. For information McDermid, Dr Val has had several drama about its Rethinking Security Initiative, go series broadcast on Radio 4: Dead Clever, to www.rethinkingsecurity.org.uk. 2016; Resistance, 2017; and Deadpan, 2017. 1966 She captained the winning St Hilda’s MacMillan, Professor Margaret, CH, has alumnae University Challenge team, been appointed Companion of Honour Christmas season 2016, and represents for services to higher education, history Scotland in Radio 4’s Round Britain Quiz. and international affairs in the New Year’s She was appointed Fellow of the Royal Honours list for 2018. Society of Literature, 2016, and Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 2017. 1968 Wild, Johanna (Wolf) is Chairman of 1975 the Northwood Live at Home Scheme, a Boulding, Dame Hilary, DBE, was charity which supports older residents in appointed Dame of the British Empire in the community. the Queen’s Birthday Honours List, June 2017, and President of Trinity College, 1969 Oxford, 2017. Karpf, Dr Anne has been awarded a PhD by Prior Output in Cultural Studies for Young, Reverend Diana (Joyner) was her thesis The Persistence of the Oral: on the licensed as Vicar of Woburn Sands, July Enduring Importance of the Human Voice, 2017. London Metropolitan University, 2015, 1976 and was the winner of Best Independent Tingwell, Elizabeth (Creese) is writing Voice on Older People’s Issues, Old a neurobiological short story of her People and Media Awards, 2013. experience with her brain injured baby.

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1977 Hillier, Meg was elected MP for Hackney Strickland, Dr Nicola has been elected South and Shoreditch for Labour in 2005 President of the Royal College of and has held the seat since then, and Radiologists, UK (September 2016 – returned in the 2017 general election September 2019) with an increased majority. She was elected Chairman of the Public Account 1978 Committee in June 2015. Stokes, Susan (Hargreaves), after a successful career in the transport industry, 1991 qualified to teach Secondary School Gillings, Annabel was nominated for a Mathematics but has now retired due to BAFTA (Best Director, Factual) and won ill-health as she has multiple sclerosis. ‘Earth Science Award’, Wildscreen, both for BBC2 programme Earth: The Power of 1979 the Planet (Atmosphere). Durham, Vivienne (Johnson) has been appointed Chief Executive of the Girls’ 1996 Schools Association. Dodds, Dr Anneliese, former MEP for the South East, was successful in gaining the 1981 seat for Oxford East for Labour in 2017 Abrey, Julia (Heighton) was awarded general election. Trusted Advisor of the Year 2015/6 by the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners. 2003 Thom, Dr Danielle, having been Assistant 1983 Curator of Sculpture at the V&A, was Ellison, Jane, was elected MP for appointed Curator of Making at the Battersea in 2010 and returned to the seat Museum of London and was BBC/AHRC in 2015, appointed financial secretary to ‘New Generation Thinker’ for 2015. the Treasury in 2016, but lost her seat in the 2017 general election. 2005 Bailey, Olivia contested Reading West 1984 seat for Labour in 2017 general election Prendergast, Liz (Rachel Cook) has and, although she was not successful, she been appointed Head of Strategic Projects is credited with Labour’s increased share (Faculty of Social Science and Public of the vote in the constituency. Policy) at King’s College London. 2007 1987 Gwynn, Dr Maria was appointed Oxford- Hall, Anna (Annabel Jenkins) was Princeton Global Leader Fellow, 2016-18. nominated for both a BAFTA TV Craft Award (Best Director, Factual) and a BAFTA (Best Single Documentary) in 2017.

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2008 New, Emma is still working in medicine and is very grateful for her support from the Student Development Fund which helped with the purchase of textbooks still proudly displayed (and regularly thumbed) on her bookshelf. Rowan, Dr Erica has been appointed Lecturer in Classical Archaeology at Royal Holloway (from September 2017).

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ARTICLES Canine letter to the Principal From the Archives: A list of The collections we hold contain many personal favourites. unique items; however there can be few collections that include a letter from a When I was invited to contribute to The dog. Well, the owner of a dog. The dog Chronicle, I was very conscious of this belonged to student Theodora Wigham year being the 125th anniversary of our (1900) and is addressed to the Principal, foundation. I therefore felt that a more Miss Burrows, outlining his canine personal look at some of our historic qualities that merited residence in Hall: records would be apt. These are not I am only a little fellow but I will do anything necessarily from our most popular or I can to serve you. I will carry anything you celebrated collections. These are just a want me to (that I can carry) and I will few of the items that have particularly protect any of your things from thieves, like I interested, amused and enlightened me; do my mistress’s bicycle. I hope you enjoy them too. If you would like further details about the archives, do Inter-collegiate Rules visit our website at https://www.sthildas. As in the other women’s Halls, student ox.ac.uk/content/archives. life was shaped by a strict set of rules. The inter-collegiate rules we hold from Moab Trinity Term 1924 illustrate this perfectly. This was the first item my predecessor Rule 4(a), for instance, stipulates that: Elizabeth Boardman introduced me to as “Mixed theatre parties may not be she showed me around the store room on arranged except in reserved seats. There my initial handover day. These washbasins must be at least two women at the were regular features of early student party, and permission must be obtained rooms, with daily morning visits made beforehand from the Principal or her by the maids to fill the basins with hot representative.” In a letter we hold from water. Interestingly, before Christmas, May 1925, a student representative wrote a Senior Member wrote to me that the to the Principal of Somerville criticising Moab was still a the rigidity of the rules: “The general feature in her room in objection to the rules is that by them an 1968 and attached a artificial standard of conduct is set which photograph, showing does not exist either in home life or in the Moab next to other universities.” By the mid-1930s such her desk (minus the rules were far less restrictive. maid). I wonder, is it the same one that Political postcard now sits in the store? Although St Hilda’s was founded by [The name comes Cheltenham Ladies’ College Headmistress from Psalm 60: “Moab Dorothea Beale in 1893, it was not until is my washpot”] 1920 that women were finally permitted

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to become members of the University which during term graces the doors of St and became eligible for Oxford degrees. Hilda’s lavatories before being preserved This struggle for recognition was, of in the slightly more strictly controlled course, mirrored conditions of the archive store room. The nationally in student paper in the 1970s was known as the activities Redlight. A favourite of mine dates from of the suffrage Michaelmas Term 1974: alongside notices movement. This about the upcoming bonfire party and undated political JCR Meeting, there are pieces about rough postcard with its sleeping in Oxford amongst the Cyrenian “Trio of Imperial community, the ongoing struggle against Celebrities” mocks the Oxford University women’s quota the prevailing system, and invitations to help with the establishment ‘War on Want’ lunch. To me it really view. shows the campaigning spirit of the times. Photograph: evacuee children 2008 matriculation photograph This touching photograph shows evacuee What to pick for a final item? I was tempted children with St Hilda’s staff in the College to go with a speech by the celebrated grounds. In 1941 human rights journalist Sue Lloyd-Roberts St Hilda’s took (1970), whose fascinating papers I have part in a scheme nearly finished cataloguing. However, hosting holidays this year also marks a second important for families from anniversary for the College; the 10th Bristol who anniversary of the arrival of men, opening had suffered in a fresh chapter in St Hilda’s rich history. It the air raids. seems a fitting final item. Photograph: Scout sits on Princess Margaret’s chair Madge Bootes, College scout 1947-1973, relaxes on the throne set up for the visit of Princess Margaret Here’s to the next 125 years… in 1954. Oliver Mahony, Archivist Student newspaper Our collections contain a large run of student publications, from The Fritillary, 1894-1930, through to the current Loo News,

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Back to Bede Commissions always make me anxious. Will I be able to do it? Am I the right person for the job? When St Hilda’s first approached me about the proposed cantata I wasn’t told that the subject had been decided. I thought Nicola LeFanu and I were going to have to think of something that appealed to both of us and was acceptable to the College. My inclination was to say no and forget the whole thing. However, when I was put in touch with Nicola, she told me in an email, somewhat apologetically, that the College said it had to be about St Hilda. That was fine with wording. Eventually I realised I needed me. It now looked less daunting. After a a Latin version as well. Fortunately I had few more days of shilly-shallying I said I’d kept my Latin dictionary. have a go. Once I’d got going I enjoyed the work. I As an undergraduate reading history I sent my first attempts to Nicola to see if had been obliged to read part of Bede’s she was happy with them. Another anxious Ecclesiastical History of the English People in moment. I didn’t have to wait long for her Latin. It was not a book that I had ever felt reply, telling me she liked what I was doing. tempted to re-read. I ordered an English After that I steamed ahead. Even though translation from Amazon and discovered, little is known about Hilda, I had to leave to my relief, that almost all of what we out some of it. We had agreed that it was know about St Hilda can be found in two essential to include the story of Caedmon. chapters. And I didn’t have to read them I composed a version of Caedmon’s Hymn in Latin. using a literal translation of the Anglo- I began sketching out the first chorus Saxon and Bede’s Latin. To distinguish it and a solo. I stuck pretty closely to Bede, from the rest, this is the only part of the crafting it into rhyming verse. Then I cantata that isn’t in rhyming verse. remembered that there is copyright in Once I’d finished I sent it all to Nicola, translations and ordered three more, one who suggested a few alterations. None of of them from the Gutenberg Project – no them caused me any problems. It has been copyright problems with that – and one a very easy collaboration. I can’t wait to published too long ago to be a problem. I hear the music. worked from all of them, so I couldn’t be accused of copying a particular translator’s Wendy Cope (History, 1963)

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Walking into Clarity; exploring helped keep his depression at bay. His Ivor Gurney’s Gloucestershire poetry is also full of landscape details poetry and of place names, reflecting his deep understanding and long familiarity with This is a brief extract from the P D James the Severn Valley and the Cotswold Edge English Presentation given by Eleanor near Gloucester. But there are also signs Rawling (English, 1967) on 2 March 2017 that his inspiration and creativity sprang directly from the experience of being out Ivor Gurney (1890-1937), the subject of in and moving through the countryside. my research, has been best known as a musician and WW1 poet but he also Old Thought (extract) wrote vividly and prolifically about his native Gloucestershire, the place where he Autumn, that name of creeper falling and grew up, that nurtured his creativity and tea-time-loving, helped confirm his identity when he was Was once for me the thought of High away from Gloucestershire: in London as Cotswold noon air, a music scholar, in France and Belgium And the earth smell, turning brambles, as a WW1 soldier and, eventually, in the and half cirrus moving, Dartford Mental Asylum where he spent Mixed with the love of body and travel of the last fifteen years of his life. good turf there. In a poem (Culpeper) written from O up in height, O snatcht up, O swiftly Dartford Mental Asylum in 1925, Gurney going, recognised the legacy of his childhood Common to beechwood, breathing was roaming the countryside and spoke of how loving,… “walking Gloucestershire, the child or boy (1920-22) learned his lessons”. Many of Gurney’s In the poem Old Thought, Gurney is not poems refer directly to the physical act of passively describing the landscape, he is walking and Gurney knew that exercise pouring out the experience of being there. The poem is filled with that exuberance and the uprising of joy aroused by the movement in outdoors. ‘O up in height, O snatcht up, O swiftly going’ – the arrangement of each statement in Old Thought forces us to breathe faster like a runner on the steep hillside, but the whole experience is welcomed – ‘breathing is loving’. We are taken along at this fast pace, smelling the leafy earth, pushing aside brambles, glimpsing with Gurney the high Sheepscombe Beechwoods, Gloucestershire cirrus clouds above the Cotswold Edge

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and feeling the ecstasy of movement in to the memory of wind rising on the this glorious autumnal environment. The Cotswold ledges nevertheless behind and poetry, like the man, is in a rush to gather beyond him is not Gloucestershire but these moments of being, and the mobility the asylum walls and himself. Gurney is is essential to the heightened perception. out of place and so he cannot reproduce the performance of being in place, only Since ‘being in place’ was so important comment on it as an outsider. to Gurney, it is possible to appreciate the huge significance of his ‘being out-of- place’ in the WW1 trenches of Belgium and Northern France. He had to rely on memory and indeed drew on his Gloucestershire places as a form of release from the stresses of war. In a poem called That Centre of Old he recounts how – ‘in the still small space at the strafe end’ that is when the guns stopped, the frightened young soldier conjured up images of a Cotswold hill to save himself from the noise and terror of war. Crickley Hill, Gloucestershire (The High Hills) Even more critical to the development of his place poetry, was his incarceration in The High Hills the Dartford Asylum for the last fifteen The high hills have a bitterness years of his life. He didn’t stop writing. Now they are not known, Indeed, some of his best ‘place poetry’ And memory is poor enough consolation was written in the asylum, particularly For the soul hopeless gone. the Rewards of Wonder collection, dating Up in the air there beech tangles wildly in from 1922-24 though not published in his the wind – lifetime. After 1924, his poems are more That I can imagine. difficult and bitter, expressing ‘place But the speed, the swiftness, walking into absence’ and many of them focusing on clarity, the Cotswold Edge near Crickley Hill. Like last year’s bryony are gone. In The Coppice, for example, Gurney is (1918) inhabiting his misery and not the place – “There is a coppice on Cotswold’s edge An extract from Eleanor M Rawling, Ivor the winds love; / It blasts so, and from Gurney’s Gloucestershire; exploring poetry below there one sees move / Tree branches and place, 2011, The History Press, Glos. like water darkling – and I write thus / At the year’s end, in nine hell-depths with such memories”. Although he is referring

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In a man’s world made it no easier. I was part of a research team investigating 30 years of war crimes. On graduating in 2007, I The team received frequent death threats returned to Afghanistan from local commanders and even high- and started working at ranking state officials. Seeing human rights the Afghanistan Human violators occupy significant state offices Rights Commission. and operate with impunity became the The country was incentive to research the post-2001 state- just emerging from three decades of building project in Afghanistan. Hence, I wars. The political and social scene was studied the role of warlords and completed opening up for women’s participation my PhD, The Political Economy of Warlord but, despite tremendous efforts, Democracy in Afghanistan, at Cambridge. women entering the public sphere had to struggle against patriarchy, Any woman who has stepped into male- traditionalism and sexism on a daily basis. dominated fields would testify that it is not easy being the only woman on a panel, There are not many effective defences lecturing to an audience of 99.9% men, or available to a young woman in Afghanistan simply voicing one’s opinion at a meeting against the prevailing misogynist political where women are the minority or absent culture. Intelligence, knowledge and altogether. As a female academic studying experience come second to age and security and terrorism, I have attended gender, which often preclude women panels on security where an all-male from participating in public debate. It audience has preferred to ask a question was during one of my earliest meetings about an unrelated topic such as women’s in Kabul with elders of communities and health and education in Afghanistan high-ranking state officials that I realised rather than ask a woman why the Taliban that Oxford’s reputation outweighed the has recently focused more on recruiting cultural negativity attached to women and educated youth. youth. Hence, “I graduated from Oxford” became the second sentence when We must fight on multiple fronts if we introducing myself. want to combat injustice, poverty and discrimination, and improve life for Having lived under the Taliban’s regime, it vulnerable communities. What prepared is perhaps the subconscious determination and supported me were friends, the to defy deeply-seated gender stereotypes – majority of them Hilda’s women. As one such as that a female activist should work said, “It is a 24/7 heavy battle if you want on women’s rights and a female academic to make changes in the world.” Studying explore “soft” topics such as gender – that at Oxford was a dream came true, but the drove me towards working on war crimes, experience of a graduate student’s life at warlordism, radicalisation and terrorism. St Hilda’s surpassed my expectations. Working in human rights is challenging in Afghanistan and the projects I chose Weeda Mehran (Sociology, 2006)

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Storytelling, Singapore & Success in the tech industry is not the St Hilda’s technology; it is weaving a narrative so compelling (and more honest than I perfected my ability to tell a good story when I was telling tutors the dog ate at St Hilda’s. my homework) that people remember you, want to work with you and buy No, honestly, my laptop crashed and deleted your products and services. There are the other half of my essay. I did save it, but so many products that businesses can somehow that got deleted too. I’ve definitely buy to stop up their communication and finished that book, but remind me who that productivity gaps that the story you tell character is again? behind yours is key to making people Thinking and responding on your feet is purchase, use and ultimately renew. essential in a tutorial, and that skill – the My arrival at Microsoft Singapore for ability to keep a straight face even when the first time had echoes of turning you may not be totally sure what is going up at St Hilda’s years before: sweaty, on and responding as though you are – with a Northern Irish accent that no is what led me to work at Microsoft in one understood. My colleagues took Singapore. me for ‘tea’ on my first day, which I read English at St Hilda’s, followed by I later realised was actually a local Creative Writing at St Catherine’s, so delicacy called ‘kopitam’: I drank it and what my Singaporean manager told me was promptly sick, necessitating an was that I was his artistic wild card hire. I embarrassing early exit. This story has had worked for Microsoft for four years at now entered my compendium; I tell it this point, in various roles in Reading and during introductions to new customers, Dublin, and my network now extended and it usually prompts a wry smile and to his; we had met through a colleague’s a visible relaxation because this shows a introduction. Everyone else on the team he human chink in the Microsoft armour. managed had done economics or project The importance of telling a good story management, and he had challenged is the most valuable lesson I took from himself to hire diversely. The value he Oxford: to sell not only your wanted me to bring was wares but yourself – and this creativity, communication skill, honed in hungover, skills and – ultimately – my bleary tutorials, is what has storytelling skills, which eventually led me to living was what convinced him and working in South East that he should hire me Asia. over the phone from eight thousand miles away, Laura O’Connor (English, aware I had never set foot 2008) in Singapore before.

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Learning to love hurdles China’s rapid, large-scale modernisation. I went back to China on a Blakemore- Like a swimmer who trains with additional Freeman Fellowship at Tsinghua drag in order to meet race-day even faster University, and launched a newsletter out than she expected, learning Chinese has of my dorm room called Smart Agriculture taught me to embrace the daily struggle of Analytics (SAA). unexpected obstacles, knowing they make me stronger and better prepared to face Building a company is hard; doing it ever-greater challenges. in China, in a foreign language in a labyrinthine governmental system, was When I enrolled at St Hilda’s to read extraordinarily difficult; but focusing Modern Chinese Studies for my Master on gathering data in the agricultural of Science, I didn’t yet understand the space, which was not digital and which decentralised, and therefore bureaucratic, concentrated on China’s least developed nature of the University of Oxford. My areas, is the hardest thing I have MSc focused on the social, environmental, undertaken. For three years I relished the and political evolution in China during struggles: raising seed capital, building agricultural modernisation. Navigating a bilingual team, developing a product, a tough topic in a foreign language selling that product, ensuring the legality at the standards expected at Oxford, of our work – a Sisyphean undertaking to while living in a foreign country and ensure SAA survived! making new friends, was tough, but my Mandarin studies had prepared me to face SAA ultimately evolved: it’s now an online impossible challenges and yet persevere. marketplace for agricultural inputs called Ultimately, I found Oxford’s byzantine InstaAgro based in Brazil, where I was policies and procedures to parallel, if not born. But birthing an idea into reality, out-do, the complexity of those of China’s and then raising it through a complicated Communist Party. All of which helped infancy, toughened me to take on future build muscles for future confrontations. obstacles. After Oxford, I’m now at Palantir, a Big Data enterprise though software company based in Palo Alto. I tempted by the get the benefits of a mature employer opportunity with the opportunities of an entrepreneur. to continue Working in business development, I focus studying for on new geographies. And though obstacles a DPhil in the remain, the wisdom I’ve accrued – from Geography Oxford, China, and SAA – reminds me that Department, I they are what create meaning in life. couldn’t turn Manuela Zoninsein (Modern Chinese Studies, down the chance 2010) to participate in

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Occupation: Amateur metaphorical descriptions of As children in the 1950s we played a paradise were fortune-telling game – an American so beautiful in version of Tinker Tailor. Each button on a contrast to the shirt was tapped in sequence: ‘Rich man/ classic trope Poor man/Beggar man/Thief/Doctor/ of 72 virgins Lawyer/Indian Chief.’ The final button awaiting delivered the verdict on our future adult martyrs. occupation. No surprise – there were no women-gendered buttons for academic, With book contract signed to research the art historian, writer, activist – or amateur. ‘histories of heaven’, it was time to sojourn in Jerusalem where so many ascents Fast forward to 1993. Garbed in buttonless had occurred. But I could not rise above scarlet robe with sub fusc, I took my the earthly suffering of the Palestinian DPhil, after ten years of archival research, people in occupied East Jerusalem and the numerous international moves, and two West Bank. I was shocked by apartheid wonderful children. Although my tutor had conditions, illegal under international said he would never take another student law, and by the vulnerability of cultural like me, I prevailed. We parted in peace. heritage of ‘outstanding universal value’. A decade later the snake pit of artistic Two years later I founded ARCH, a competition in seventeenth-century Rome Swiss accredited NGO, to help protect that rattled through my thesis was finally Jerusalem. Current projects are ‘My enclosed within the covers of Giovanni Jerusalem’ mobile app and a cultural Baglione. Artistic Reputation in Baroque mapping project, the development of Rome (2003). When it was published I was which afforded me a coveted place at a living in Bangkok, with a husband on UN digital humanities training last summer. assignment, and had shifted to research on Thai culture. A few weeks later I was back in the State Archive of Rome, defending Baglione vs. Back in Geneva, I finished Bangkok: A Caravaggio for an ARTE documentary on Cultural History (2008) and took up artistic rivalry aired in November 2017. my post teaching western art history at Webster University. But the violence The occupation button that best suits me of 9/11, experienced within a Buddhist is amateur: ‘refusing to be tied down to country, had set me on a very important a specialty, in caring for ideas and values personal task – to build a small bridge despite the restrictions of a profession’ against Islamophobia and the ‘clash (Edward Said). of civilisations’ by teaching Art of the Maryvelma Smith O’Neil (History of Art, Islamic Worlds. This led to the discovery 1981) of extraordinary Islamic cultures. Richly

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International Law, protecting the future

I was delighted to be part of St Hilda’s and be part of the last all-women generation in the College. I did the Magister Juris degree in Law and was the first woman from Paraguay to have been awarded a degree from the University of Oxford. After the MJur I first went back to practising law but then continued my academic studies a way as to allow developing countries by pursuing a PhD in Germany. In 2016, actually to develop in a sustainable I was awarded the postdoctoral Global manner. I would never have imagined Leaders Fellowship, which brought me myself speaking up in a global forum like back to the University of Oxford. that, arguing with representatives of the I work in the areas of international law most powerful countries in the world, but and international relations with a cohort it felt the right thing to do. of amazing people from all over the world, Now, I am also working on something that and with faculty members from Oxford will hopefully have a positive impact. I and Princeton University. As part of my am analysing the most important energy research, I draft policy recommendations treaty in the South American region, which for developing countries, in particular is going to be renegotiated for the first suggesting different ways in which time in 50 years! I am trying to encourage these countries can reduce unintended the parties to include environmental sovereignty costs that sometimes derive standards that would prevent energy from international treaties. This work led policies of countries in South America directly to something very exciting for from having harmful consequences, such me personally: my attending the United as those leading to deforestation. By doing Nations Commission for International so, I hope to make it more likely that the Trade Law’s 50th Congress last summer, very source of energy governed by this a multilateral forum in which the treaty is protected: the rivers and water representatives of the UN’s member basin of South America. They are the countries debate various topics and then biggest reservoir of water on the planet, draft model laws for countries to follow. and governments can still benefit from My work was part of the session that dealt them; but if they do it in a sustainable way, with possible reforms of the investor-state they will also allow future generations to dispute settlement mechanism. Even enjoy and profit from this source of energy though I was not a country representative, for many years to come. it was fascinating to discuss how to balance the interests of the different actors in such Maria Gwynn (Law, 2007)

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Take it with you deftness and niftiness but there are plenty of other virtues to aspire to. Tolerance Since my degree at St Hilda’s (an MPhil in has been for me a by-word since primary Egyptology), I have worked abroad several education, even though there are those times in my life. As I have got older, I niggly little things that make one jump have tended to be better prepared, with (why do they use the sponge to wipe the more good intentions and willingness floor and then leave it by the dishes???). to make a contribution to my new Andere Länder, andere Sitten, as they say country. Becoming more value-based, (sometimes translated as ‘can’t put up rather than having the initial ‘What’s with them, but that is the way they are in it for me?’ attitude of one’s younger doing things around here’). years, means, however, that some of these values can also get sorely tested. I guess it just takes a while to adjust. Patience, tolerance and a bit of good Hopes, such as ‘I’m hoping for a lovely humour have gone a long way in earlier new flat’, or ‘hopefully they are going to sticky situations (viva of my thesis, losing make their own coffee and not use me as my first pet by leaving the front door their new dogsbody’, usually go out the open,…). Dusting off these values and window first. putting them above all else probably takes Then there is charity. This may include only a little time. And sticking to them taking in a homeless cat (for longer stays), with a bit of support ( joining a church or joining the local ladies in whatever choir, running and yelling at the top of charitable endeavour is going on around your voice in the local forest every night) there. That may lead to a long-term will probably do the rest. If that is what it commitment, although charitable causes takes. Whatever it will take… in the new location can often reveal Catherine Clarebourne how attached one was to the ones in the (Egyptology, 1989) previous place. Everybody recognises the need to hang on to faith in oneself when in a strange place. That is why it usually takes a little while to admit to oneself that there were incidents where faux-pas were committed (did I really mispronounce her name…?) and that maybe the cloak of infallibility (and unflappability) one projected during initial encounters has acquired a few spots and tears. As a woman I take almost for granted the innate qualities of resourcefulness,

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Phosphorus, water, food security and food security, and how society faces a growing ‘phosphorus paradox’: One of the benefits of the Oxford an excess of phosphorus impairing our Geography course is its integrative water resources, contrasted with the approach to the relationships between prospect of global scarcity of phosphorus society and the human and physical for food and bioenergy production. environments. Throughout my career, this has provided important grounding and Following this research, I was appointed context. After three years at St Hilda’s, by the British Consulate-General onto and a PhD at Reading, I began a career the US National Science Foundation in Environmental Chemistry with the Sustainable Phosphorus Research Natural Environment Research Council, at Coordination Network (P-RCN). the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology. This is a phosphorus network with representatives from the US, China, In 2011, I took a year’s sabbatical in the Japan, India, Australia, Africa, and US as a Fulbright Scholar. My research Europe, with a remit ‘to promote and focus is phosphorus biogeochemistry, and foster the implementation of sustainable the role of phosphorus in eutrophication phosphorus solutions in both the private (excessive growth of nuisance aquatic and public sectors’. In many ways, this was algae and plants), which is a pervasive a ‘coming home’ to my Oxford Geography threat to water quality. Working in the roots, and has demonstrated the need University of Arkansas’ Crop, Soil and for bringing together both Physical Environmental Sciences Department and Human dimensions to address the provided an opportunity, not only to research gaps in sustainable phosphorus undertake new research in phosphorus and water-quality management. cycling in agriculture, but also to widen my perspectives on the societal My collaborations in the US have recently challenges we now face in managing widened, and there are clear benefits phosphorus more sustainably. I arrived for our UK research, with new funding at a time of growing concern about the to explore the role of phosphorus in the long-term availability of phosphate rock resilience and sustainability of the UK reserves, the raw material for phosphorus food system. Here, we will be building fertilisers. We cannot on these international grow our food without partnerships to identify phosphorus, yet phosphate ways of optimising the rock is a fossil resource, balance between agricultural and extractable supplies production and good water are geographically limited. quality in UK farming. My work demonstrated Helen Jarvie (Geography, 1988) the pivotal role that phosphorus plays in water

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We need to talk inspector sitting by the English driver in the car I had finished my exams suddenly shouted “Mind the and packed my trunk when bugger!” and it was only my I saw a poster advertising shout from the back seat, aptitude tests for a place “He means mind the digger!” on a six-month interpreting that prevented an accident. course with the European Commission in Brussels. I I have witnessed huge had no time to prepare and changes. Meetings in the nothing to lose. They said eighties were mainly grey- “Let’s give her a try,” and I suited men talking about was absolutely delighted. textiles and coal and steel. No climate or environment, no inkling of information Six months was no time to master the technology. We expanded gradually techniques of simultaneous interpretation, from six official languages to twenty- memorisation, concentration, speaking four; the politicians weren’t prepared to and listening at the same time, and above limit the number and the Interpretation all negotiating a sea of change from 18th Department breathed a collective sigh of and 19th century literature to modern-day relief when the system worked. And yes, economics and geopolitics. The general now the presence of women is just normal. consensus on my essays had often been that they were concise, well-written, but Agreement doesn’t always come easily in an superficial! Those qualities proved to be international environment. Meetings may surprisingly useful, and if I had learnt one be tedious, ineffective on occasions, slow thing at St Hilda’s it was how to work hard at producing breakthroughs, but I have and fast. no doubt that there is no alternative to sitting people around a table to talk. I was The beginnings were far from easy. At filled with admiration for a diplomat who one of my first technical meetings on dealt with the aftermath of the Chernobyl Safety Requirements for Construction Site disaster, and I will always remember a Machinery, the German delegation referred diminutive female Swedish Minister who to “der Bagger”, pronounced “bugger”. I managed to get countries into one room prevaricated with “the machine”, hoping who were not even officially talking to for more context and some enlightenment, each other, because she was determined to but all I got was “der grosse Bagger” and make progress in the fight against human “der super grosse Bagger”. It turned out trafficking. Wars and disputes happen, to be an excavator. Many years later, I and if people talking to each other in any accompanied a veterinary inspection trip language can stop that, I’m all for it. to a Germany full of building sites as they moved their government from Bonn to Nicola Bonnard (Modern Languages, 1973) Berlin, post reunification. The German

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Stepping out into the unknown Western medicine is one model. It is an extremely powerful and successful way When we step put of looking at things. But it is not the only into the unknown, way. It is comparatively modern and is we do not know regularly superseded by more modern where it will take versions of itself. There is no reason why us. other models should not be equally valid. I remember lying Some models of health and medicine have in bed the morning been around for thousands of years. And we were to set some are better at preserving the essence off, so nervous that I wondered if I would of human spirit and experience than survive. I did and we embarked on a true others. This is what I started to learn on adventure: Nyoka ’94 Oxford University that trip, and it has shaped my life. Expedition to Kenya, to research snakebite. I went on to study psychology, completing Nyoka means ‘snake’ in Swahili. As a third a Master’s in Experimental Psychology at year medical student I was the leader, Oxford, researching the role of hearing accompanied by two other medics, a voices in schizophrenia. After that, I biologist and a human sciences student. went one step further and trained in I had always wanted to visit Africa but not Acupuncture. That is my profession now. on an organised tour or a safari. I wanted But my adventures cross-culturally didn’t to meet real Africa and to do something end here. I have been lucky enough to authentic. I put two and two together, study with a Tibetan Buddhist master and a vocation in medicine and a love of now run a small publishing house, writing travel, and made more than four. What I up and publishing his teachings. My encountered and what I learned changed passion is connecting cultures, finding the my whole inner landscape. wisdoms in each. We set out to report on snakebite around I still use everything I have been taught, in Kenya, visiting central and remote particular, the rigorous scientific method health centres, checking records and learned during those early years as a interviewing medical personnel. We medical student. As an acupuncturist, also researched methods of traditional I collate information, assessing it in treatment, interviewing herbalists and as unbiased a way as I can, which I use more shamanic-type healers. to formulate treatments and interpret outcomes. But travel, and travel within As we researched traditional medicine, I my own mind – learning to see things in became aware of different ways of seeing different ways – has changed everything things. Often we think of Western medicine for me. as the ‘truth’ and see other medical models at best as adjuncts which might support it. Mary Heneghan (Medicine, 1991) But this is not necessarily the case.

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A Brit in Brussels Brussels offers exciting artistic and musical opportunities and some fantastic Four years ago, in wintry November, I left restaurants. London and moved to Brussels. Friends of mine were rather surprised as I had only At work, I absorbed lessons in negotiating recently bought my small flat, and was skills, the intricacies of trade policy and enjoying my new settled life. However, trade law. I was inspired by the energy of they hadn’t counted on my ambition to my colleagues, who came from all over the work for the European Union, and my European Union and brought knowledge child-like pleasure at the idea of living and dedication to their work. Their abroad – even in Brussels. presentation of European interests to our negotiating partners was open, balanced As a civil servant, I could apply for and intelligent, despite the media’s a “national expert” position in the representation of the TTIP talks. I should European Commission: this means a add that Eurocrats don’t enjoy a two-hour secondment from the home government drunken lunch every day, but the culture to Brussels (or any other EU institution of taking proper time away from the desk location). Expertise didn’t have much to was a welcome change. do with it in my case. I went for a position in the US and Canada team in DG Trade, The 2016 referendum meant that I could which was then focused on negotiations no longer envisage a permanent career in for a new trade agreement with the US EU institutions. However, I had different (TTIP). I had a phone interview in which priorities during my last year. I’d met a my soon-to-be boss asked me how I charming Frenchman and we married last thought the Commission should deal with April, shortly before my contract ended. the emerging controversy over the deal. I He has bravely moved to London with argued for more transparency and clarity me, and we are settled in the same small about the benefits of free trade. I might flat I had left. My trade policy experience have thought a little more about this had I is now good currency back in the UK known how the next few years would turn government. My time in Brussels was out – but I would not change my answer. probably the best move I’ve ever made. Brussels is more interesting than its Miranda Delaitre chocolate-and-beer reputation suggests. (Dawkins, English While the local administration and the and Modern language regime (officially trilingual, Languages, 2004) but in practice francophone) can be confusing, the city provides for excellent quality of life. I could walk to work, visit the local market on a Sunday, and enjoy champagne, cheese and charcuterie for a few euros. As a confluence of cultures,

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The road less travelled your comfort zone if you choose to work in your home country – that is patently In 2009, less than a year after graduating not true. But working and studying from St Hilda’s, I found myself at Beijing abroad, you simply can’t avoid it. It is Airport. I didn’t speak a word of Mandarin, a unique experience that shapes you in had never been to this vast country before, myriad ways. It is difficult and exhausting but I was about to join the staff at the and ultimately wonderfully rewarding. British Embassy working on climate change and environmental issues. Two years I did manage to learn Mandarin, later, I would be repeating the experience eventually – and there are now an extra as I was introduced to community billion people I can talk to, and a wealth leaders at the Uatumã Biological Reserve of job opportunities open to me, because in the Amazon basin, where I was of it. I got to learn first-hand about seconded to do work on community innovative forest management practices development, using agroforestry. This in the Amazon, and contribute to their has been a repeated theme throughout dissemination and protection – as well as my life since Hilda’s. When I headed to bathe in the Rio Negro and sleep under to Vienna finally to complete my the stars deep in the rainforest. I mastered Master’s, my first conversation with the German (sort of), and graduated from the man who would become my husband University of Vienna with a Distinction was in a foreign language I was just and an amazing (foreign!) partner to share barely beginning to grasp. When we these adventures with. moved back to China together I tried The UK Higher Education Statistics Agency to conduct the first interview of my estimates that around 4% of UK domiciled doctoral research project amongst graduates head abroad for work within minority communities in rural Yunnan six months of completing their degrees. province in my still-broken Mandarin. This number jumps for top universities These were some of the – at Oxford it currently most daunting – and most hovers around 8%. All of formative – moments of my these new graduates will life. Working and studying face such challenges – and in a new environment – eventually share in the rich especially when a new rewards an international foreign language is thrown career can offer. I just hope into the mix – constantly they were smarter than pushes you beyond the me – and spent less time edges of your comfort zone. in the Turf, and more time It breaks and remakes you at the language centre. every single day. That is not Prudence Willats (Ancient and to say you can’t get out of Modern History, 2005)

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From ballet to boardroom It was totally inspiring, and whilst fellow My international career started prior to students found various tutors ‘strict’, to St Hilda’s. Like millions of little girls, I me they were so caring and approachable dreamed of becoming a ballerina. But for compared with the ballet world! I met a me this dream didn’t dissipate as I grew up. wonderful group of friends who didn’t care about my differences and At 16 I was accepted at the we all supported each other. prestigious John-Cranko Ballet Academy in Stuttgart. I spent After Oxford I attended the summer learning German business school in Barcelona, but when met my teacher she met my future husband who only spoke Russian! That was is Australian, and moved to hard from a linguistic and Sydney. I started working in cultural perspective. I was on management consulting but my own in a foreign country, quickly realised it wasn’t for hardly speaking the language, me and as soon as the right and being pushed by a teacher role came up in a “start-up” who was renowned as one of business, I took it and became the toughest worldwide. the CEO within a year. That “start-up” has just sold as part I went on to become part of of a £100 million deal! a ballet ensemble in Bavaria. Working on stage has incredible moments – when you There are many skills I acquired through are performing in front of thousands of ballet, implemented at Oxford, and rely on people and have got to the point where to succeed in business, such as attention you are running on adrenaline alone, a to detail, tenacity, and keeping calm under cold chill runs through your body and pressure. Different experiences make you look out into the darkness as though people richer and better employees. I nothing else exists. This is simply surreal. always tell people to relate what they have But these fleeting moments do not reflect done in the past to what they want to do the background work, and ballet is a short- in the future, and to be confident about lived career. making a change. The transition may not be easy – in my case some people would I applied to St Hilda’s as a mature student laugh at my aspiration to study at Oxford aged 24, without the academic entry and my belief that my years on the stage requirements, but making a strong case count as work experience, but the results for my transferrable skills. I am deeply tell a different story. appreciative that my past experiences were respected and I was given a chance. Alexandra Mills (Bekker, Modern Languages, 2009) Taking a degree at St Hilda’s taught me how to learn, no matter what the topic.

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What are the odds? What a happy coincidence it was when two strangers got chatting during a sailing course in the middle of the English Channel and it emerged that both of them went to St Hilda’s. Imagine, then, their delight when they discovered that they were not the only St Hilda’s graduates mad enough to attempt the Clipper Round the World Race; a third unexpectedly joined the race in Brazil! Here are the intrepid trio’s accounts of their adventures. Lizi, Luise and Alison all meet for the frst time in Fremantle, Australia shortly after the Elizabeth Adams (Geography, 1999) fleet completed the ferocious race across the Southern Ocean Legs 1, 2, 3, Unicef What a delight it was during my race participating (I wanted to fundraise for preparation to discover two fellow Unicef), but the common characteristic is Hildabeasts. One was on my boat, Unicef: that we all see challenge, or adversity, as I would act as her deputy Victualler; the opportunity. Sailing 15,000 miles across other, on GREAT Britain, I finally met some of the world’s most treacherous when her boat moored up alongside us ocean, fixing broken forestays, recovering in Fremantle at the end of my final leg. a man overboard, hearing awful news from The discovery of Alison and Luise gives another boat, preparing food for 23 at 45 the memory of my race a special glow: degrees has taught me to dig emotionally I have not only forged friendships with and physically deeper than I thought people from all over the world in that possible. And we have fun together. most inhospitable of environments, the Who can forget a Swiss woman learning Southern Ocean, but I have also made two rhyming slang for the last two weeks of a new friends from the familiar and safe difficult Southern Ocean passage? St Hilda’s. Alison Ryan (Purseglove, PPE, 1973) We three are privileged and slightly batty Circumnavigator, Unicef to have taken part in this 40,000-mile race circumnavigating the world in eight legs. “Well I expect you are all outdoor types,” The 11th edition of the race has already said the instructor at a Clipper course. proved challenging with a boat grounding “If not, you are seriously in the wrong on a South African beach, leaving 12 crews place!” A shock for me – most definitely spread across 11 boats, and a fellow fleet not an outdoor or indeed active type. member tragically dying in the Southern Leisure meant coffee, armchair and the Ocean. We had different reasons for Observer Azed. However, as everything

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in my life was changing, why not see if I end up in virtual futures which are weird or could adopt a new persona now that I was funny or scary. Sometimes all three. post full-time work, widowed and free We live in the moment, coping with what of responsibilities? Just as St Hilda’s had we have, and if something breaks we must unlocked capabilities and opened new fix it ourselves. You cannot be ‘excused’ doors for me in the 70s, perhaps yacht- from the waves and the weather; you racing for nearly a year might do the same. learn the limits of your personal power. You also learn that you really can live for a year with only 20kg of kit, that you do not need an ensuite to be happy, and that you will enjoy chatting to a North London carpenter as much as a French banker or a South African logistics manager. You live through amazing experiences and see astonishing things. And accumulate sailors’ bragging rights! My future, when I return in July 2018, will be unimaginably different – just as it was when I left Cowley Place in 1976. Which is what I wanted. Since writing this, Alison has unfortunately Lizi, Alison and crew mate Alex buying dozens of sausages in Liverpool just before setting sail had to take a short break from her to Uruguay circumnavigation having broken her arm two days into the Sydney-Hobart race. She Writing this, halfway round, I think the is resting in Tasmania before she rejoins the challenge has been delivered. Clearly boat as soon as possible. on the physical side pre-voyage training and on-voyage activity have increased Luise Birgelen (Engineering, 2006) my scope. I am leaner, stronger and Legs 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, GREAT Britain considerably more gnarled. Mentally, I am 35,000nm on a Clipper 70 foot ocean more rested than I have ever been. On a racing yacht with twenty other people, boat there is no need really to think. You very limited privacy, and plenty of get up, perform certain tasks, and you sleep saltwater in your face. Who would find again. I am Victualler so have additional this fun? Well, it turns out… me. responsibilities to ensure the crew are adequately fed but this is hardly stretching At my St Hilda’s 10 year reunion in 2016 intellectually. I don’t read on board – it I chatted to Emmy McGarry (Biology, compromises my sense of freedom. Instead 2006), telling her I had started sailing I allow my mind to wander untrammelled and really like it. She said she had done ‘a in a way which I have not since childhood. I sailing race’ (understatement!) a couple

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of years ago, which she had enjoyed, and I should look at it. Well I looked, and I was hooked. I signed up a couple of weeks later. Having sailed and skippered yachts for a couple of years, I felt partially prepared, but I left the first week of training humbled and with a new respect for what I was about to embark on. The size of these boats, the force of the winds they have to battle, the physicality of life on the open ocean – it’s a long way from a breezy summer sail in Croatia. Unicef crosses the fnish line victorious at The sailing is tougher, wetter, harder, more Fremantle tiring than I expected. My team, GREAT Britain, had a tragic accident during leg water, or being seasick yet again, I do 3 and a crew mate, Simon Speirs, lost his tend to question my judgement in having life. The event called into perspective the voluntarily subscribed to this. But secretly, real dangers of the rough ocean. I think I enjoy nearly every minute. Despite this, to my surprise sailing is also That is because of the wonderful crew exhilarating, rewarding and fun. I expected that I sail with – they become family, to be glad to get off in Cape Town for a and have taught me the meaning of break, but I wanted to head straight back teamwork, of working hard for each other, out there after my first leg! When I am and succeeding together. In Fremantle I knee-deep in the bilges, scooping up dirty needed a drysuit to brave the elements. I had met fellow Hildabeasts Lizi and Alison only the day before; that day, Lizi, having finished her race, came to find me, with a bag that said ‘to Luise, a gift from Lizi’, containing her huge yellow drysuit. She gave me a massive hug and said, “Please wear it as much as you can, stay safe and stay warm.” It has kept me dry and warm through the Southern Ocean to Sydney, and will do so across the Pacific!

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OBITUARIES the pseudonym Helena Mary Moore Osborne, and she later wrote plays for radio and television. (Galbraith, Principal, When Tony retired they 1980-1990; Honorary moved to Brill where Mary Fellow, 1990-2017) served as a local magistrate. When Mary Moore became In 1979 Mary was encouraged Principal of St Hilda’s, she to apply for the position of brought to the College charm, Principal at St Hilda’s. She elegance, a husband (Tony), was duly elected and held Four Principals a ten year old son (Arthur) the position from 1980 to and wide international experience. Her 1990, combining the many activities of a social talents and the breadth of her Principal with family life. She welcomed network of contacts proved invaluable in the contact with students, inviting them building support for the College in an era to the Lodgings and showing sympathy of financial constraints. for those in difficulty. She paid attention to Senior Members, leading to a new level Born in 1930, Mary had grown up in of their engagement with the College, and Oxford as the youngest child of the St Hilda’s became the first Oxford College distinguished historian VH Galbraith, and to appoint an alumnae officer. This was a after Oxford High School and The Mount, period of reduced government funding and York, read History at Lady Margaret Hall. severe financial challenges, requiring Mary In addition to her studies, she was much to spend much of her time on fundraising, involved with student plays and operas, and in the late 1980s she established including the legendary Neville Coghill the Centenary Campaign. She brought production of The Tempest. the outside world into the College, After graduation she entered the drawing on her extensive networks, Diplomatic Service, only recently opened travelling, entertaining, obtaining to women. Initially based in London, she support from large companies as well as dealt with Indonesia and Nepal, then individuals for funds to sustain existing served in Budapest before a posting to Fellowships and to secure new ones. the United Nations in New York. She was In retirement the family returned to seen as a “high flyer” and a role-model by Brill and, even after Tony died in 2000, more junior female colleagues, but her their home continued to be alive with diplomatic career ended when she married hospitality. Mary’s commitment to the in 1963 and was required to resign. She College lives on in the Mary and Tony accompanied her diplomat husband, Tony Moore Fund for student hardship. Moore, on postings to Harvard, Beirut and Tehran. To replace some of her lost Lady English (Principal, 2001-2007, salary, Mary took to writing novels under Honorary Fellow)

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The eulogy delivered at Mary moments. But she was also Moore’s funeral ended with quite capable of producing these words about what she a pertinent quotation from meant to her students: Shelley’s Hellas in reply to an undergraduate invitation. In her final annual report as She took great interest in Principal Mary wrote: ‘I shall us. There were the frequent miss – terribly, perhaps most parties and receptions she of all – the opportunity of and Tony hosted, but also the encountering undergraduates quiet observations of those and graduate students. I in need, the gentle advice use the word encounter advisedly: if offered in the kitchen of the Lodgings, or you are not a tutor you have to create the discreet use of her guest room. It was opportunities for meeting and talking to entirely fitting that one of her final acts as undergraduates, of getting them to talk Principal was to set up the Mary and Tony to you, and if you are not careful this can Moore Fund for discretionary awards to seem artificial. I would have expected to students in need, continuing that principle perceive great and significant changes in of providing unostentatious, practical care. the undergraduates themselves over these past ten years, but I am not sure that I do. I will end with a few voices of my They are as friendly, as hard-working, as contemporaries from back then in public-spirited and as sparkling as their College, taken from messages received predecessors; or alternatively, in some since the news of her death: ‘She was a cases, as idle and as naughty – but still just rare woman and I always loved meeting as amusing and attractive.’ her. She quietly radiated charm, style and incisive analytical thinking. Her husband From these words there emerges a love was a gentle, civilised presence too in the of us, ‘her’ students, and that love was Lodgings and they always had fascinating entirely mutual. Mary was, I think, quite guests there to whom they introduced us in aware of her standing as a role-model for the most natural, friendly way.’ ‘A very kind us, and she was a role-model. She had and perspicacious lady. Time has taught great personal style and elegance, with her me words of advice she gave me were right. tall figure and rather aristocratic visage She saw me better than I saw myself and I that could express great warmth and doubt I am alone.’ ‘She was my Principal. A concern, but also a ready ironic humour. lovely lady, who was always warm towards She loved it if one spotted that the little JCR members.’ ‘I shall never forget Mary black cat Cato was not named after the and how she nurtured all our talents.’ Roman statesman and philosopher but after Inspector Clouseau’s assistant, Georgina Paul (Modern Languages, 1980-84; because he would hide in impossible Vice-Principal) The complete eulogy can be places and jump out at unfortunate read on the College website.

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Hiro Ishibashi, OBE Department. She became (Honorary Fellow, President of the College in 1986-2017) 1981, and it later expanded to include two schools and Professor Hiro Ishibashi a university specialising was born in Tokyo and was in music. In 1985 she educated at Keio, Oxford and established the Ueno Gakuen Cambridge Universities. Her Summer School at St Hilda’s mother was a pianist and she under the auspices of the grew up in an environment Principal, Mary Moore, who, that fostered her artistic Sayaka Ishibashi and as Professor Ishibashi’s inclinations and her interest Mary Moore daughter Sayaka recalls, ‘gave in education. Although she full support from planning the curriculum was talented in music, she chose to pursue and organising staff to attending events at her literary interests and to read English the course and giving a lecture herself.’ Literature at Keio University, where she was supervised by Dr Junzaburo Nishiwaki, Professor Ishibashi became a leading figure a well-known English scholar and poet. in promoting understanding in thought and culture between Japan and the West. Her connection with St Hilda’s began She was married to a composer and in 1954 when she spent a year in Oxford music was an important element in her while working for her doctorate at Keio bridge-building. She introduced Western and was supervised by Anne Elliott and by music and performers (among them the Dr TR Henn at Cambridge. She specialised choirs of Magdalen College, Oxford and in Anglo-Irish literature, in particular King’s College, Cambridge) to Japanese W B Yeats, whose widow encouraged her audiences with notable success, and in 1981 research, and published the resulting book, she was appointed OBE for her services to Yeats and the Noh: types of Japanese beauty Anglo-Japanese cultural relations. and their reflection in Yeats’ plays, in 1966. She was an original member of the International Professor Ishibashi has been a generous Association for the Study of Anglo-Irish benefactor to Oxford and to St Hilda’s. Literature and was a regular lecturer at the She was a prompt contributor to the Yeats Summer School in Sligo. Jacqueline du Pré memorial fund and in 1995 she generously endowed College She began her teaching career at with a Tutorial Fellowship in Psychology, Ueno Gakuen College, Tokyo, a girls’ the Ueno Gakuen Fellowship. The first college which had been founded by her holder was Dr Jane Mellanby. In 1997 she grandfather, and was soon supporting was invited by the Chancellor to join the both him and her mother, then President, prestigious Court of Benefactors. in running the institution where she established a pioneering Humanities Adapted from College records

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Lois Marguerite local community. Having Foster-Carter (Modern lived in lodgings all her life History, 1935-38) she was delighted at last to move into a cottage of her Born in 1916, Lois was one own. She loved Yorkshire and of the last of that generation spent her leisure time walking whose early years were and especially following her overshadowed by the great passion, birdwatching. aftermath of the First World Finally her career path took War and whose youth was her back to hospital work in caught up in the second. York. She was an excellent social worker: She came up to Oxford to read History. warm, professional, encouraging and Eventually she went on to a career in social conscientious. Underpinning everything work but she always regarded herself as a was her deep but unobtrusive Christian historian. She was naturally suited to this: faith. broad minded, thoughtful and analytical. Lois had a tremendous sense of fun. She She was proud to be a student at St Hilda’s was a wonderful aunt, godmother and and maintained contact with the College adopted aunt to many. She had a natural all her life. She was firmly against the affinity with children, to whom her decision to become mixed, believing that combination of wittiness and mischief was women have fewer opportunities and that irresistible. She was a favourite visitor to this would further diminish them. the home of her niece and nephew and to During the war Lois enrolled in the ATS the children of her many friends. and was sent to Bletchley Park, where her In later years as her health failed she was name is on the Roll of Honour. Afterwards determined not to become a burden. she completed her social work training Eventually she made the difficult decision and qualified as an Almoner – as hospital to leave Yorkshire and join her sister in social workers were then known. residential care in Oxford. Here she settled In her forties she joined SSAFA, the army once more into a new life, still active and charity, spending three years at a British making new friends. Aged 85 she enjoyed Forces’ base in Germany. She pioneered the a performance of Medea at the Playhouse, work of SSAFA in that country, setting up perturbed neither by the grisly plot nor by a local branch from scratch which became the original Greek of the dialogue. the model for future developments. Sadly her final years were dogged by After Germany Lois went to work with increasing immobility and vascular Barnardo’s in Leeds, settling in the village dementia. She died just seven weeks of Crayke, north of York. Here she became short of her 101st birthday. an active and unstinting member of the Clare Silk (her niece)

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Elizabeth (Betty) Foucard (1938- still took up the ‘cello. Above all, she 39, Chemistry) continued to read and to indulge her passion for music, enjoying concerts, Betty was born in 1920, in Shanghai. Her ballet and opera. mother, Flora, was Belgian and her father, She was close to her brother Alec and Norman, was a French businessman. The his family. He was an accomplished family were in China until she was about member of the Magic Circle and she four when they came back to Wilmslow in always enjoyed his latest bit of mastery. Cheshire, where she spent her formative As the years passed Elizabeth became very years. attached to her niece, Sandra, and her She was a sickly child but bright and niece’s children. very determined. She excelled at school About two years ago she was knocked and gained a place at St Hilda’s in 1938, down by a taxi. She broke her ankle and but the war intervened and Betty left to her wrist, and her injuries impacted on her study librarianship. However, medicine general state of health: the bones healed was what really attracted her and when well but her muscles remained weakened peace came she completed a medical by the trauma, and this affected her degree in France. Since that was not mobility. She became a bit deaf and her recognised in the UK she headed for sight was failing, but her intelligence and America where she embraced psychiatry interest in the world around her remained and found work in the American Penal sharp; she was as determined as ever to Service. She was there for several years crack on, and she did. visiting prisoners and treating their complex issues and mental illnesses. Elizabeth was an extraordinary woman. When she came home, she declared that She was ahead of her time and a model of she was “so glad to be back in England: feminist achievement in resisting a system we have a much better class of criminal”. intent on excluding her, simply by getting on with what she wanted to do. She was Back in London she set up in private “ahead of her time”, but time itself never practice, eventually settling in Chelsea, intimidated her, and she continued to where she continued to see patients quench her thirst for knowledge to the until well into her nineties. Her immense very end. interest in people and her thirst for knowledge were backed up by a prodigious Edited from a eulogy sent by Sandra Boggon memory: very useful professionally (her niece) but sometimes intimidating for her friends. When she finally gave up her psychiatric practice she decided to learn Hungarian – a useful skill since she often visited Hungary for the music – and later

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Joan Gray In 1951 Philip got a job in (Houldsworth, Modern Australia, and they moved History, 1941-44) to Melbourne where they built their own house and Joan was born on 29 stayed until 1955. While they September 1923, in Salford, were there, Joan worked Lancashire, the only as a teacher at Ivanhoe child of Alfred and Mary Girls’ Grammar School Houldsworth. They lived and as a Public Servant in St Annes-on-Sea and for the Department of Joan went to the grammar Defence in Melbourne. school in Lytham St Annes. While she When they returned in 1955 they settled was there she learned the piano, and in Bristol as Philip was working in her talent became clear when, at the age Avonmouth. They were both strong of thirteen, she won and was awarded supporters of bell-ringing in the city. a medal at a county piano competition. Joan was still teaching, but it was at this She sang in both her school and church time she trained to be a Justice of the choirs, and became an excellent singer. Peace, and finally gave up teaching to Joan won a place at Oxford and went concentrate on that work. up to St Hilda’s in 1941 to read Modern In 1970 they moved to London for History. It was in Oxford that she learned Philip’s work. Joan was a JP in London to ring church bells. This became a and she became chair of the Bow Street lifelong hobby and bell-ringing was Magistrates, retiring in about 1995. how she met her husband Philip. She While they were in London she sang in went down in 1944 and after qualifying her church choir, and also with the New as a teacher at London University she London Singers. accepted a post at the High School for Girls, Rochdale, back in her native They moved to the village of Backwell Lancashire. Joan continued with her piano outside Bristol in 1995 when Philip retired, playing and around this time studied for and remained there for the rest of their and became a Licentiate of the Royal lives. Joan sang in the church choir and Academy of Music. The piano remained rang the church bells while she was able. important throughout her life until Philip and Joan had no children. Joan was latterly arthritis made her unable to play. good company and had a very sharp mind. She was loved and valued by her family, Joan married Philip Gray, a metallurgist, friends, god children and also bell-ringers on 18 August 1949 and they moved to in both Britain and Australia. Steventon, near Didcot. Joan taught in the village school in Harwell, and briefly in a David Threlfall girls’ secondary modern school in Didcot.

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Pamela Rebeiro was appointed Headmistress (Phelps, History, of Modern High School for 1943–1946) Girls, a post she filled with distinction until 1962. Pamela came up to wartime She then returned with Oxford. With few rooms her family to England but available in College that unfortunately Denis became first term, she boarded with very ill and, with the care of Professor Powicke, the an invalid husband and young Regius Professor of History children, she could only teach – a happy time as she was part-time. Nevertheless she specifically welcomed into his family. Her war work requested the leavers’ class in the lowest was to take Canadian pilot officers around stream. Her boast was that every child Oxford and as a result she received several who left her class aged fifteen could read, packages of clothes from Canada which write, open a bank account and knew the she shared out with her College friends, most popular Shakespeare stories. She making her very popular. Her eyes and had many successes: a boy who wanted to mind were opened to a cosmopolitan and be a car mechanic ended up with his own challenging world and, most significantly, successful car company and an immigrant during this time she converted to child with no English became a professor Catholicism, a faith which sustained at Brunel University. She believed that no her throughout her life. Her stories of child should be labelled a failure and set Oxford were joyous and her time there out to prove it. was a source of pride and achievement throughout her life. In later life Pamela was appointed Head of History and Religion at a large Catholic Pamela’s first teaching post was comprehensive school in Surrey. She in Islington, then a place of severe travelled extensively and her house deprivation. She was a naturally was filled with young people from all gifted teacher and found a vocation in over the world who held her in great encouraging all pupils to make the most affection. She later moved to Hove to be of their education. Her next job, teaching near her daughter and became an active in Calcutta, was equally challenging. On grandmother. She was nearly 93 when she the train between Bombay and Calcutta died and her Requiem Mass echoed her she was befriended by Iris Rebeiro, who view of life and her great faith, ending introduced Pamela to her Anglo-Indian with Don’t be sad for me, I’m glad as she family. Pamela was enchanted by this departed from a life of many challenges exotic and lively family and even more but great happiness. enchanted by Iris’s elder brother, Denis. They married in 1951 and in the next Jacinta Gillies (Pamela’s daughter) seven years she had three children and

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Sally Owen in Primary Schools with the (Mrs Evans, Clothier, Open University Press. English, 1945-48) After 35 years of marriage Gwil died suddenly in 1982 at Sally Owen (née Clothier) the age of 60, soon after their was born in 1926 in son Jeremy had been married. Blackheath, London. Her Several years later Sally father was a schoolmaster met Mervyn Evans in Iffley, and her mother was an through working together on actress. Her brother Bobs was the parish magazine, and they born a couple of years later. eventually married in 1992. Sally’s son During the war her family was evacuated Oliver married in 1999, and Sally gained a to schools in Hastings and West Wales, granddaughter, Abigail, in 2000. Mervyn and Sally later boarded at Bath High died in 2014. School. In 1945 a scholarship took her to St Hilda’s to read English. She greatly Sally stayed strongly independent in later enjoyed Oxford life and met another years, greatly enjoying travelling with her student, Gwilym (“Gwil”) Owen, who children in recent times – as far away as had recently returned from war service in Indonesia, as well as more recent trips to Burma and Siam. He was editor of The Isis, the Douro valley and Scotland. She also and he asked her to be his assistant. They travelled alone to Albania two years ago to fell in love and were married in Blackheath visit people involved in running a charity in 1947. They both graduated in 1948. she supported there. After two years in Durham the family Sally retained a remarkably active, moved back to Oxford and Sally was intelligent and curious mind until the to stay there for the rest of her life, very end. She took Continuing Education apart from two years while Gwil was a courses within the University, as well professor at Harvard. Jeremy was born as being much involved in theological in 1952 and Oliver in 1955. While Gwil discussion groups, poetry study groups, pursued his academic life as a specialist various Iffley societies, and the Village in Greek Philosophy, both in Oxford Shop. Sally was diagnosed with cancer in and Cambridge, Sally looked after 2016 and died peacefully at home on 30 her sons, and also taught part-time, August 2017. including English at Northway School Jeremy Owen (her son) and at Grendon Underwood Prison, and English as a Foreign Language in Oxford. She was also a librarian at New College, a PA to a don, and enjoyed life in university academic circles. In 1989 she published a new edition of History

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Anne Hancock we have met every year (Protheroe, English, since, so I knew Anne during 1949-52) her marriage to Professor Anthony Becher, living in ‘Puffy’, as she was known, Cambridge and then in lived in a world of friends. London. There, whilst her An only child, she lived in children were small, Anne India until sent to an English gained an MA with distinction boarding school at the age of for her work on Vanbrugh. eight. Her parents remained She taught at Francis in India and she did not see Holland School and lectured them again until after the war. The school at Westfield and at Morley College. evacuated to Canada. Returning in 1944 Divorced, she returned to Oxford and met she was admitted to Cheltenham Ladies’ Karina Williamson (Fellow and Tutor, College. There, with nearly 800 strange St Hilda’s, 1977-89). Karina, knowing of girls, she felt “lost in a sea of rules and Anne’s interest in Aesop’s Fables, asked regulations and inexplicable routines”, her to write the introduction and provide dreading holidays as she had no family a bibliography to complement her own nearby. The poem she chose by Thomas academic study as published in 1996. Hardy to close her funeral service reveals In the nineties Puffy moved to Bristol to the sadness she felt “journeying alone”. marry Professor Paul Hancock. A chance Anne’s scholastic achievements led to St meeting at Pisa airport had led to love Hilda’s. She read English and felt at home, and happiness. Their life together opened nurtured by the scholarship of her tutors up a new world of academia for Anne. Helen Gardner and Dorothy Whitelock. She accompanied Paul on his geological Friendship was the key to her happiness excavations, and after his death funded two and her most important friendship was prizes at Bristol University’s Department with Dame Helen Gardner. In later life of Earth Sciences in his memory. they were travelling companions and Anne Anne leaves two daughters: Sophie Barker, was diligent in launching a scholarship a film maker of note, and Millie Irving. appeal in her memory. The monies Millie completed her studies at SOAS, raised were the seedcorn to help to fund securing in 2015 a PhD in Anthropology. the Dame Helen Gardner Fellowship in This achievement gave Anne great pleasure. English, held by Dr Margaret Kean. Anne was also interested in the success After Oxford, when I returned from of granddaughter Lucy at Cambridge Harvard, she generously offered me an and, but for her last illness, would have alcove in the Chelsea house she shared followed closely the university and school with two friends. Later our little group careers of her other three grandchildren. evolved into the “Pont Street girls” and Elaine Fraser (Clement, History, 1949)

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Rita Harris (Shulman, Under her initiative St Hilda’s English, 1950–53; was the second Oxford college Fellow 1968–2017) to computerise its Treasury operations. Rita was also its Rita had a long association formidable spokeswoman on with St Hilda’s: a Fellow for University and intercollegiate nearly fifty years, she arrived committees and took a major from Brighton and Hove part in the then annual GPDST to read English. In negotiations on fees with her second year she met the Treasury in Whitehall. Roy Harris while grilling She was the first woman to sausages at a Labour Club breakfast party. hold the office of Secretary to the Estates In her words: “Encouraged by parental Bursars Committee. opposition – she was Jewish, he was not – That was a time when undergraduates she married him. But not until 1955.” wanted more freedom to pick and After short-term appointments in France choose from the residence package for and England, she returned to Oxford which they paid. Rita was a sympathetic with her husband and infant daughter, listener, making changes while protecting Laura, in 1959. She described herself as the finances of the College. And they “an unreconstructed-feminist wife and needed protection as Government cuts in mother” and didn’t take a regular job until University funding and new employment Laura was seven, although during that time legislation made it increasingly difficult for she marked O-level scripts and began work St Hilda’s to make academic appointments. on the second St Hilda’s Register. In 1967 Soon after Rita’s early retirement in 1983, she was appointed Assistant Treasurer at Roy gave up his University post and took St Hilda’s and a year later became Treasurer appointments overseas. Wherever they and was elected to a Fellowship. One of her lived, she did voluntary work. She also first jobs was to help to raise funds for the collected pictures, ceramics and glass, Garden Building and this she undertook travel and cooking, and Roy’s former with enthusiasm, visiting Senior Members, students still recall the couple’s Mayday and, with her minute team, providing the parties. essential administrative support. She even enlisted Laura to stuff envelopes and Roy Rita’s later years were painful and to help with a jumble sale. distressing but she demonstrated her usual determination and resourcefulness to cope These fundraising tactics, although with her physical challenges. Her daughter successful then, now seem very old- and grandson, Avalon, from Australia were fashioned, and Rita’s title, College with her when she died in Switzerland. Treasurer, sounds out-of-date, but there was nothing out-of-date about her work. Margaret E Rayner (Emeritus Fellow)

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Jenny Joseph (English, in something, she learned 1952-55; Honorary about it; if she wanted to do Fellow 2017-18) something, she did it; if she

© The Times wanted to go someplace, she When a Jenny Joseph poem went there. outpolled Auden, Larkin and Her gardens were enchanting. Dylan Thomas on the BBC She had a keen sense of as the most popular post- smell and sight, and one war poem in England, my hated to leave her garden ‘phone in New York rang with in Minchinhampton or her excited Oxford classmates. vegetable plot on the hill. Her poems live That poem was Warning, which Jenny on, as do the memories of a rare human wrote in her twenties. being. In the ensuing decades she published She was made an Honorary Fellow of over a dozen volumes, read frequently St Hilda’s in November 2017, and her at literary festivals, conferences, and on acknowledgment includes the following: the radio, and toured America reading her work. She also wrote Persephone, a Dear Sir Gordon, combination of poetry and prose which Not only would I like to accept this won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize invitation to join the Fellowship but and whose history will be archived in the would be obliged if you would pass on to Bodleian Library with her other material. the Fellows how very pleased indeed I was Yet she was always modest, clear-thinking, to receive this invitation. witty, unimpressed by fame, loving her Although, alas, I can no longer travel to three children and her grandchildren. She Oxford or stay there or take part in any of held strong socialist views, made friends the activities connected with university quickly and kept them forever. life (such as dining in College which I Here in America she has many admirers: have in the past enjoyed enormously), it an artist who illustrated her poems, a gives me a nice warm feeling [to have] my choral group who set several poems to continuing personal attachment to the music and performed them, and university College a little bit officialised. audiences who crowded her readings and With my best wishes and thanks to you and cannot forget them. all members of the Fellowship, Jenny and I were tutorial partners under Yours sincerely, Helen Gardner and never lost touch after 1953. I treasured her friendship, Jenny Joseph her humanity, her curiosity and her Joanna S. Rose (Semel, English, 1952) indomitable nature. If she was interested

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Jennifer Shillito (Horne, History, UK after Brian’s three-year posting, she 1952-55) was appointed a part-time Careers Officer in an extremely tough comprehensive Jennifer lived in Devon for the first twelve school near the family’s Wimbledon years of her life, but she was really a home. Her pupils’ aspirations were Cambridge girl. Her father was a Fellow limited and, despite her encouragement, of Christ’s College and Director of the it was rare for her to find anyone hoping National Institute of Agricultural Botany. to enter higher education. All changed She went to the Perse School for Girls in 1988 when she applied for a newly and, among other accomplishments, created personnel post at the Inns of learnt to skate. This meant that when, in Court School of Law. She was appointed, our second term at St Hilda’s in 1953, Port and spent the next few years in what was Meadow first flooded and then froze and undoubtedly the post she enjoyed most. the University took to the ice, Jennifer In 1999 Jennifer and Brian suffered a was the star skater, helping the rest of us cruel blow when Thomas, their only to keep our balance. child, was diagnosed with cancer and, In our year there were thirteen people at the age of only 31, died in just six reading History at St Hilda’s, and our months. Their grief must have intense tutors, Miss Smalley and Mrs Prestwich, and ever-present, but to the outside were both alarming in different ways. world they managed to carry on much Jennifer always said that it was thanks to as before, going frequently to France those tutors that she became so proficient and enjoying each other’s company. at planning her essays, a skill that Jennifer died aged 84 in late 2016. She certainly remained with her in what, as had not been well during the previous undergraduates, we called the ‘after-life’. two years but, with the help of Brian Several of us went to London on going and a most devoted carer, she was able down. In those days there were not many to stay in the Wimbledon house. Those jobs open to women graduates. Jennifer of us who remain have lost a wonderful managed to get a personnel one with friend: steadfast, full of robust good sense, ICI and then, after several years, moved and with a remarkable ability to see the to what was then the Inner London humorous side of life. Education Authority and worked as a Sally Mason (Hirst) and Rachel Clark Careers Adviser under the guidance of the (Falcon) (both History, 1952) redoubtable Miss Catherine Avent (LMH). In 1963 she married Brian Shillito, a civil servant in the Ministry of Defence. Their son, Thomas, was born shortly before they went on an assignment to Singapore in 1967. On her return to the

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Hazel Fells (Scott, necessarily her mind that Mathematics, 1953-56) first attracted him but her elegance, dressed as she was Hazel Scott was born all in black, accessorised in Sheffield in 1934 and with a long black cigarette educated at Sheffield High holder. Newly wed, she spent School before coming up to a year teaching at Ely High St Hilda’s. On graduating she School while he studied harboured dreams of being an at Cambridge. Later, after architect but was told that a a decade of lecturing, she woman couldn’t be admitted again focused on supporting to Oxford’s architecture school and opted her husband’s career and, with four instead to train as a teacher at Hughes Hall, sons, threw herself into family life in Cambridge, and, after gaining a Diploma in Newcastle. She was, however, acutely Computer Science, went on to become a conscious of gender imbalance and in the computer programming pioneer, lecturing 1980s entered the only all-women team to at Newcastle University. She had a knack compete in the popular television series, for simplifying her field, teaching arts The Great Egg Race. students – not the natural constituency – She and her husband became renowned the basics of computing with the help of a for their hospitality and dinner parties carousel packed with engaging slides. Above at which guests enjoyed her excellent all, she intuited the future importance of cooking. Classical music and silkscreen computers in everyone’s lives. printing were also among her interests, She was an early enthusiast for SPSS, the and she was a great grammarian. At a Statistical Package for Social Sciences, a dinner for the Northumbrian Cambridge groundbreaking programme that enabled Association she gave a lecture on the colon, researchers to do their own statistical following it up with one on the semi-colon. analysis, and was involved with processing This polymath quality gave her a talent for data from the Thousand Families project, a crosswords. Friends recall that she could study of health in infancy that continues to complete the Times crossword in twenty this day. Started in response to the high rate minutes and created a programme to help of infant mortality in the city, it was one to set crossword puzzles. She also set her of the first pieces of research to identify own, using more traditional methods, and that poor living conditions impacted on had one published in The Listener magazine the health, growth and development of in 1987 under the pseudonym Hamamelis children. It has been copied worldwide. (a shrub of the witch hazel genus). Meanwhile she had met and married Edited from the Times obituary of 3 May fellow scientist, Ian Fells, who also hailed 2017. from Sheffield. He recalls that it was not

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Janet Morgan then constituency party (McAllister, History, Chairman during the 1954-57) alliance and merger with the SDP. Janet recalled that Janet was born in © Oxford Mail she worked hard for good Abergavenny in 1935 but relations between the two spent her early childhood parties and was proud of the in London, as her father, amicable situation achieved. a maths teacher, was a In 1983 she was elected to housemaster at Mill Hill Abingdon Town Council and School. The family were later to the District Council evacuated to St Bees, Cumbria, during (Vale of the White Horse). She holds the war and she attended primary school the distinction of never being defeated there before boarding in Keswick. From during her twenty-eight year political North London Collegiate School she came career. One of her many achievements was up to St Hilda’s to read history. championing a campaign by local young people to bring a skate park to Abingdon, She recalled that on graduating she had which opened in 2007. She was Mayor of no clear idea of where she was going but Abingdon when the town commemorated accepted a job in personnel at AERE, William of Orange’s visit in 1688 and Harwell. Although it did not provide the she invited Jenny Wormald to give a career she wanted she found the work lecture there on the Glorious Revolution. interesting and while she was there met During this year she also established the her husband David, a theoretical physicist biennial ‘Clubs and Societies Day’ when at the Rutherford Laboratory. The the public have the opportunity to learn following years were devoted to family about the organisations in Abingdon. life: bringing up their three children and Janet also served as leader of the Vale accompanying David on his visits abroad of the White Horse Council, and as including a year in Geneva. When their education spokesperson for the Lib Dems youngest child started school Janet was on Oxfordshire County Council. In 2011 able once more to think about her career she was recognised for her work with and enrolled for a DipEd at Westminster the Patsy Coulton Award for national College. For fifteen years she taught part- services to the Liberal Democrats and was time at Matthew Arnold Comprehensive given the Freedom of Abingdon. “It really (Latin as well as History) and then, is a great honour which I don’t think I frustrated by changes in the educational deserve, but it is very nice to have.” system, moved to teaching full-time at Downe House, a girls’ boarding school. Edited from the Oxford Mail obituary by Erin Lyons and from Janet’s ‘Life’ in the In the mid 1970s Janet and David joined Report and Chronicle, 1991. the Liberal Party. Janet was local and

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Kate (Katherine) Millett recalled with great fondness (English, 1956-58) and respect. She enjoyed the tutorial system and the Although best-known for intensive discussion and her work as a feminist and © The Guardian debate that Oxford offered. her book Sexual Politics, Kate Leaving with a first, Kate went considered herself primarily on to graduate study and a sculptor and her work as a teaching in the US, but Miss visual artist centred on the Elliott remained a lifelong same themes as her writing. mentor. “I sent Miss Elliott The 1997 retrospective at drafts of my work and she the University of Maryland described her would write back to me with corrections subjects as “oppression and domination”, advising me to be moderate in my writing.” focusing on “cultural patterning of gender, Kate’s open marriage to Japanese fellow abuse and institutionalisation.” sculptor Fumio Yoshimura in 1965 Sexual Politics (1970), based on Kate’s prevented his deportation from the US. doctorate, was an analysis of patriarchal When the marriage ended in 1985 Kate had power. She developed the notion that men already been in a partnership with Sophie have institutionalised power over women Keir, a photojournalist whom she later and that this power is socially constructed married, for some years. In later life they rather than biological or innate. She lived on a farm in New York State, where explained women’s complicity in male at first they sold Christmas trees and domination by analysing the way in which later established a women’s art colony. females are socialised into accepting In 2012 Kate received the Yoko Ono patriarchal values and norms, challenging Lennon Courage award for the arts, and the notion that female subservience in 2013 she was inducted into the National is somehow natural. She was featured Women’s Hall of Fame in New York for on the cover of Time magazine and the her work as a feminist activist, visual book catapulted her into instant and artist, filmmaker, teacher and advocate for controversial fame. human rights. She described the honour as “overwhelming and humbling”. Kate was born in Minnesota to Catholic parents in 1935. Her mother worked as Her friend, Eleanor Pam, offers this view: a teacher and insurance saleswoman to “Kate: a rebel, an anarchist, a free-spirited support her three daughters after her gangster who wouldn’t behave, a woman husband abandoned them when Kate who, at enormous cost to herself, led was fourteen. Kate went to Columbia the rest of us – sometimes kicking and University, graduating in English literature screaming, often at her – into the future.” in 1956, before coming to St Hilda’s to Edited from The Guardian obituary, read English with Anne Elliott, whom she September 7 2017, and The Ammonite.

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Penny Birdseye Communications at Brunel (Penelope Smith, University in West London Physics, 1965-68) – where her DPhil was very helpful in establishing her Penny came up to St street credibility in the world Hilda’s in 1965. A ‘proper’ of academic politics! Geordie by birth (from Both before and after Tynemouth), and educated retirement Penny hardly at the local grammar school wasted a minute: school in Hartlepool, she followed governor, choir, tennis club, in the College’s northern audit chair as a non-executive director at tradition. One of only a handful of the then Ealing Primary Care Trust, Ealing physicists at the then women’s colleges, Talking Newspapers, Ealing Mediation she was immediately noticeable and Service, not to mention many touring, typically threw herself into all that Oxford walking and skiing holidays. had to offer. After graduation she stayed on to do a DPhil in field-ion microscopy Penny very much wanted to return to in the Department of Metallurgy. We got Oxford and finally persuaded me to move together (as fellow physicists) during that in 2011. She threw herself again into time and were married in January 1970, everything Oxford: North Oxford Tennis with the reception in my college, Univ. Club, Summertown Choral Society, St Hilda’s ASM, chair of the Friends of St Theoretical physics not holding lasting Mary’s Church in Iffley, Friends of the interest, she worked for a while in local Botanic Garden, the Gatehouse and government on economic planning and Oxford Advocacy, and any number of housing strategy while trying to decide lectures, concerts, the Literary Festival, what to do next. During that time she the Alumni Weekend, and Continuing decided she wanted to learn more about Education courses, including those on the theoretical underpinning of public ethics, how the brain works, music theory sector economics, duly achieved with an and, sadly, prophetically perhaps, the MSc at Salford University. This led to a job latest oncology research at the University. at the Confederation of British Industry as Head of Economics, where she made an She died in Sobell House, having lived impact on business leaders, and worked with a diagnosis of inoperable lung cancer closely with bodies such as the National since the summer of 2015. Penny loved Economic Development Council (in the Oxford and everything about it, both town days when government recognised that and gown. She had looked forward to such thinking was important). many happy years here but sadly, for both of us, that was not to be. Another change of career in the 1990s led to the post of Director of Marketing and Greg Birdseye (her husband)

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Susan Kelly career she remained active (Physiology, 1967-70) in research, publishing in all some thirty sole or joint Sue graduated from St Hilda’s articles in scientific journals. with 1st Class Honours in After retirement in 2009 she Physiology in 1970. Following held part-time positions as a DPhil in experimental Consultant Haematologist embryology at Wolfson at High Wycombe, Bury College, she retrained as a St Edmunds, and Oxford, doctor, completing the pre- where she particularly clinical stage at St Hilda’s, then enjoyed training haematology registrars in returning to Wolfson. After junior doctor laboratory work. But the last nine years of posts mainly in Oxford, including three her life were overshadowed by illness, which years’ research in the Nuffield Department she faced with extraordinary fortitude. She of Clinical Medicine, in 1988 she was was diagnosed with a mucosal melanoma appointed Consultant Haematologist at in 2008, and after many years’ successful Wycombe General Hospital, where she treatment the disease spread early in 2017, held a number of additional positions, preventing her, to her disappointment, including Chair of the Local Research Ethics from attending her St Hilda’s reunion in Committee and Associate Medical Director. September. She died on 13 October. Despite the problems of the NHS, Sue Sue was quite a reserved person. Not loved her time at Wycombe, particularly much given to social small-talk, she the combination of clinical and laboratory spoke about the things she cared for or work, and was devoted to, and highly was interested in, though she said little regarded by, her patients. She was about her deepest feelings. She expressed passionately dedicated to the core values herself above all through her work, and of the NHS. As she wrote in a letter to the through family and home life. She married Guardian, “It was the freedom from having her husband David in 1981, and had two to be commercial that allowed me and my daughters, Rebecca and Victoria, in 1982 colleagues to place the patients’ interests and 1985. She was a devoted, energetic, as our paramount concern. Never having and, in a typically quiet and efficient way, to question how a patient was to pay for wonderfully supportive mother and wife. their treatment has been a great privilege.” She was an excellent, very precise cook. Sue’s doctoral work involved an elegant Apart from part-time work and travelling, set of experiments which essentially her major retirement project was to defined the first stem cells, thus helping to rebuild the family house in Cornwall. The underpin subsequent stem cell research; other great pleasure of her retirement was four decades on, they were cited in a review the arrival in 2016 of her grandson Eddie. article in Nature Genetics. Throughout her David Robey (her husband)

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The College gratefully acknowledges the generosity of the following for their gifts over the last year, as well as those who have given anonymously: *denotes those who have died.

1935 1947 1951 Enid Houlton (Walker)* Mary Allan (Rees) Muriel Chamberlain Kathleen Moore (Pope) Margaret Bullard (Stephens) Mary Clark (Champeney) Delwen Foster (Rodd) Janet Clarke (Gunn) 1939 Cynthia Iliffe (Rayman)* Jean Clissold (Strachan) Val Hollis (Hammond) Ann Parker (Dickinson) Rosemary Earl (Blake-Jolly) Florence Summerskill Heather Field (Liddiard) 1940 (Elliott)* Elizabeth Jacobs (Shaffer) Jocelyn Morris* Mary Frances Wagley Sheila Klopper (Roberts) Mary Turton (Cleverley) (Penney) Ruth Marden Nancy Uffen (Winbolt) Nancy Morris 1948 Mary Stubbs 1941 Ann Broadbent Jeanne Sturmhoefel (Lewis) Joan Gray (Houldsworth)* (Younghusband) Margaret Connell (Harvey) 1952 1942 Joanna Cullen Brown (Cullen) Rachel Clark (Falcon) Margaret Mabbs Sonja Hawkins (Singer) Anna Horovitz (Landau) Betty Hill* Joan Kenworthy 1943 Janet Martin (Hamer) Monica Morris (Short) Gwen Coulter (Marks) Patricia Pugh (Wareham) Shirley Pankhurst (Worsley) Mary Davies* Alison Scott-Prelorentzos Brenda Percy (Sait) Barbara Thomas (Porritt)* (Scott) Louisa Service (Hemming) Dawn Smith (Banks) 1944 1949 Sheila Smith Eileen Burbidge (Brown)* Ruth Johnson (Raup) Felicity Taylor (Cooper) Joyce Haynes (Robinson) Ann Lloyd (Pritchard) Shirley Turner (Rushton) Antonia White (Plummer) 1945 1950 Helen Wickham (Wade) Sally Evans (Clothier)* Mary Collins (Overin) Betty Wicks (Brotherhood) Christine Hill* Daphne Crabtree (Mason) Amelia Woolmore (Mulligan) Joan Richmond Jean Dabinett Jill Dann (Cartwright) 1953 1946 Joan Dawson (Habgood) Irene Bainbridge (Jolles) Susan Hall (Carrington)* Kathleen Dawson (Sansome) Katie Baker (Potter) Gwenith Maddison (Thomas) Rita Harris (Shulman)* Hazel Fells (Scott)* Win Maynard Mary Pickthorn (Barton) Margaret Forey (Duncan) Sylvia Ross Cynthia Watson Sheila Hill Margaret Wood (Addison) Sybil Jack (Thorpe) Kate Kavanagh (Ward) Gill Mayne (Key)

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Janet Missen (Stephan) Sheila MacKenzie Valerie Swift Jane Reeve Elizabeth Marden Anne Watson (Crace) Sally Wade-Gery (Marris) Valerie Mountain (Lowther) Anne Wiseman (Williams) Aline Watson (Winter) Jill Murray (Bach) Pat Youngs (Gill)* Elizabeth Read (Lord) 1958 Rosemary Riddell (Harrison) Mary Anne Coate 1954 Elinor Shaffer (Stoneman) Sallie Edwards (Kenyon) Joyce Affleck (Watson) Julie Williams (du Boulay) Lynne Gamblin (Matthias) Judith Blanks (Hughes) Pat Hawkins (McNaught) Margaret Garvie (McIntosh) 1956 Helen Ives (Johnstone) Kate Giles (Whitmarsh) Margaret Abraham (Vokins) Susan Lang (Markham) Margaret Gleave (Ayres) Norma Blamires Patricia Legras (Wood) Pamela Gordon (Bantick) Janet Bolt Margaret Sale Joyce Hargreaves (Carlile) Mary Daley (Joseph) Jenifer Williamson (Stead) Vanessa Hart (Williams) Gilean Evans (Woodall) Karolen Hodgson (Koob) Gillian Gardner Smith 1959 Margaret Kirwan (Amlot) Janet Hall (Leaning) Mary Anderson Barbara Koch (Hill) Anthea Kaan (Allen) Virginia Crowe (Willis) Jane Lloyd (Shelford) Judith Mirzoeff (Topper) Janet De Santos (Duquemin) Eileen Lovell (Heaps) Prue Nichols (Hiller) Christine Eynon (Joseph) Marianne Macdonald Sarah Ogilvie-Thomson Caroline Farey-Jones Hilary Milroy (Firmin) (Wilson) (Houghton) Janet Morgan (McAllister)* Pamela Parsonson (Smith) Henrietta Leyser (Bateman) Ann Nicholls (Clark) Margaret Sharp (Mathews) Sandra Margolies (Colbeck) Barbara Page Elizabeth Smithies Carol O’Brien Daphne Palmer Mary Sykes (Saunders) Hilary Ockendon (Mason) Ros Partridge (Bishop) Anne Taylor (Dart) Caroline Phillips (Airey) Rosemary Stevens (Wallace) Sue Smith (Reynolds) Jill Strang (Shannon) 1957 Rosemary Spencer Janet Wide (Dobson) Jill Berry (Rand) Anthea Wilson (Davies) Emma Wilby (Vernon) June Bushell (Walton) Claire Wilson Angela Wyllie (Davis) Elspeth Currey (Meyer) Mary Wolf Anna Dunlop (LeFanu) 1955 Anne Glendining (Pugsley) 1960 Stella Addison (Kirk) Celia Goodhart (Herbert) Mary Brown (Hope) Wendy Cornwell (Thompson) Helen Jackson (Price) Fiona Caldicott (Soesan) Janet Cox (Williams) Julia Lafene (Radice) Shelagh Cox (Beaumont) Ann De Peyer (Harbord) Penelope Lowe (Bicknell) Karin Davies (Hodgkiss)* Jill Dearnaley (Handisyde) Janet Mihell (Scott) Margaret Durman (Boulding) Rosemary Dellar (Soutter) Anne Murch (Dixon) Dorothy Edgington (Milne) Mary Foley Rosaleen Ockenden (Brennan) Felicity Gillette (Jones) Margaret Gobbett (Campbell) Hilary Patrinos (Tomlins) Diane Gough (Ball) Wynne Harlen (Mitchell) Susan Quainton (Long) Deirdre Holloway (Roome) Pat Jenkins (Kirby) Anne Robiette (Cropper) Elizabeth Kerr (Kalaugher) Gill Kenny (Shelford) Jean Smithson (McKenzie) Caroline Pickard

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Marianne Pitts (Lengyel) Vivien Chambers (Portch) Anne Smith (Strange) Alison Smerdon (Webb) Sue Clothier (Ingle) Norma Webb (Day) Jacqueline Smethurst Valery Cowley (Haggie) Helen Smith Anne Craw (Hunter) 1964 Teresa Smith (Collingwood) Jacqueline Ferguson Carol Amouyel-Kent (Kent) Barbara Sumner (Charke) Sue Garden (Button) Gaynor Arnold (Parsons) Kirsteen Tait (Stewart) Suzanne Gossett (Solomon) Judith Austen (Lishman) Jane Taylor (Burnett) Esther Higgins (Croxall) Elizabeth Brocklehurst Janet Wedgwood (Merer) Anne Howell (MacFarlane) (Smith) Sheila Jackson (Henshaw) Silvia Casale 1961 Brenda Jerome (Coleman) Rosemary Connelly (Braddon) Fiona Agassiz (Wilson) Zoe Mars (Allen) Penny Freedman (Mitchell) Anna Alston (Ilott) Susan Padfield (Morgan) Elizabeth Goold (Hawkins) Susan Avery (Steele) Helen Patten (Starns) Heather Joshi (Spooner) Judith Beckman (Bor) Lavender Patten (Thornton) Elizabeth Major Angela Bird (Barratt) Janette Rates (Millar) Janet Mathews (Spall) Janet Brentegani (Mitchell) Sue Rees (Evetts) Jean Matthews (Hare-Brown) Margaret Cooke (Smith) Felicity Riddy (Maidment) Mary Pimenoff (Cutler) Mary Cunningham (Costain) Anne Rose (Willson) Christine Reid (Brooks) Diana Dillon (Botting) Jennifer Solomon Anne Saxon (Tatton) Frances Doel (Pendlebury) Joan Taylor Molly Dow (Sturgess) Mary Stewart (Cock) Kathleen Guyatt (Fedrick) Anne Summers 1965 Jenny Haden (Peck) Anne Theroux (Castle) Daphne Bagshawe (Triggs) Jocelyn Harvey Wood Josie Tuersley Evie Bentley (Bulmer) Angela Wingate (Beever) Penny Birdseye (Smith)* Sheelin Hemsley (Groom) Jean Wright (Yarker) Alison Blackburn (Nield) Katharine Judelson (Villiers) Kathleen Zimak (Smith) Victoria Bryant (Chase) Gabrielle Keighley Pamela Bunney (Simcock) Anthea Lepper (Scott) 1963 Sarah Chamberlain Nancy Lloyd Parry (Denby) Carol Blyth (Parsons) (Snellgrove) Mary Lunn (Garthwaite) Marjorie Cross Lanna Cheng Lewin (Cheng) Alison Macfarlane Juliet Crump (Boys) Mary Clark Jill Pellew (Thistlethwaite) Jennifer Fisher (Steel) Judith Coquillette (Rogers) Jane Rabb Maggie George (Pasco) Judith Coulson Eleanor Stanier (Worswick) Sarah Gosling (Cherry) Penny David Catherine Stevenson Christine Gratus (Gray) Hilary Fyson (Suffern) (Peacock) Mary Hunt (Burleigh) Janet Gordon (Senior) Adrienne Taylor (Barnett) Sian Johnson Rosemary Harrison (Stanser) Molly Todd (Tanner) Branwen Mellors (Williams) May Hofman Mary Ritter (Buchanan- Mary Kalaugher 1962 Smith) Winifred Kennedy (Nairn) Mary Beckinsale (Sully) Jenny Rowley-Williams Doreen Le Pichon (Kwok) Sue Bird (Fairhead) (Wright) Nicola LeFanu Jane Bulleid (King) Linda Slater (Hueting) Joyce Lishman (Major)

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Christine Pawley (Hambling) Mary Ibbotson (Starkey) Anne-Marie Morris (Fedou) Cathy Repp (MacLennan) Sheila Jenkins (Staples) Chris Piggin (Pighills) Elizabeth Silverthorne Sue Kelly* Vicky Rollason Jenny Willis (Arnold) Elizabeth Knight (Miles) Jane Russell Barbara Leyland (Mason) Diana Smith (Reed) 1966 Joanna Melzack (Voss-Bark) Julia Stutfield (Northey) Jan Archer Penny O’Callaghan (Spriggs) Jean Towers (Thompson) Sandy Baars (Haggett) Eleanor Rawling (Hicks) Brenda Vance (Richardson) Pam Baker (Thomas) Jacquie Roberts (Smith) Pauline Varughese (Smith) Sally Baker (Misselbrook) Elspeth Rymer (Allardyce) Jill Walton (Turner) Gillian Berg (Thorn) Pam Simmonds (Martin) Judith Yates Elizabeth Brennan (Lough) Dinah Sloggett (Woodcock) Elspeth Brighton (Richardson) Lindsay Stainton 1970 Eileen Conn Katie Thonemann (Ayres) Heather Armitage Tess Cosslett Janet Batey (Galvin) Christina Cox (Coppack) 1968 Elizabeth Breeze Sheila Forbes Liz Bissett (Styles) Alison Browning Elizabeth Franceschini Caroline Bolton (Moore) Bridget Corden (Corden) (Moreton) Anne Bridge (Robertson) Elizabeth Critchley (Tyson) Sally Goodman (Holcombe) Michele Conway Mirrlees Dolley (McKinlay) Melanie Hart (Sandiford) Susan French (Crowsley) Frances Dorman (Nicholas) Sue Hedworth (Smith) Grizelda George Jennie Feldman (Goldman) Rachel Heywood (Evans) Catherine Joyce Edwina Grodzinski (Keidan) Janice Jones (White) Mary Kelly Mary Harrington Barbara Jupe (Danson) Barbara Morris-Welsh (Welsh) Maureen Hehir Strelley Claire Lamont Ann Morse (Brown) (Hehir) Patricia Morgan Verity Peto (Cottrill) Rose Johnston (Carr) Sidonie Morrison Anna Romiszowska Felicity Miller Alice Reid Clemence Schultze Anne Mills Michèle Sinai (Picciotto) Joanna Shapland Vera Neumann Susan Wilkinson (De La Penelope Skinner (Lawton) Kate Quartano Brown Mare) Janet Whiteway (Brown) Deirdre Rogers (Piper) 1967 1969 Anne Salkeld Mary Buxton (Tyerman) Jenny Bird (Barrett) Miriam Stanton (Tate) Patsy Colvin (Randall) Judith Cope (Forman) Sue Stone (Lawrence) Stephanie Cook (Wright) Sue Deans (Owen) Margaret Edwardson Helen Forrester (Myatt) 1971 (Hawcroft) Cecilia Hatt (Freeman) Gillie Boddy (Brunskill) Melanie Fennell Rayna Jackson (Rothblatt) Deborah Bowker Gillian Graham (Tudball) Susan Kramer (Richards) Val Burrough (Edwards) Oddrun Grønvik Stella Law (Harris) Lynne Cameron (Newdick) Jean Harker (Buchanan) Kathy Le Fanu (Despicht) Deborah Ceadel (Stockton) Ferelith Hordon (Aglen) Alison Lester Allie Fitzpatrick (Wilkes) Felicity Huntingford (Morgan) Katharine Lumb Sally Gomm (Kelsey)

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Antonia Gwynn (Cordy) Rachel Brandenburger 1975 Kit Harbottle (Simkins) Antonia Corrigan (Strickland) Jayne Almond Bridget Kerle Edith Coulton (Gainford) Hilary Boulding Chris Morgan (Piniger) Emma Dally Sue Dow Annette Nabavi (Lane) Jane Eagle (Hucker) Geraldine Ellington* Joy Nelson Debra Gilchrist (Van Gene) Virginia Kearton (Poel) Karen Pratt Belinda Hayter-Hames Fiona Ledger Sheila Raumer (Boynton) Jo Hollands (Willey) Glynis Lewis-Nichol (Lewis) Margot Senior Dorothy Jackson Jan McCarthy (Hopkins) Sarah Staniforth Fiona MacKenzie Alison Overend (Newey) Elaine Stead (Best) Sue Malthouse (Howcroft) Alison Pangonis (Emery) Clare Tagg Irena Ray-Crosby (Crosby) Laura Pease (Wood) Jo Wallace-Hadrill (Braddock) Amanda Robinson Rosamund Pendry (Birch) Glenys Woods (Lloyd) Alison Ryan Pamela Thompson Mithra Tonking (McIntyre) 1972 Fiona Unwin (Morgan) 1976 Pauline Allen (Wright) Ruth Wallsgrove Kate Barker Madeleine Bidder (Thomas) Rosalind Baynes Anthea Bishop (Tilzey) 1974 Jennifer Blaiklock (Florence) Micheline Brannan (Moss) Jenny Barna Liz Booker (Bond) Lisa Curtice (Riding) Susan Batstone Anne Chorley Denise Cush Catherine Brislee Linda Earnshaw (Scutt) Helen Dickie Virginia Brown (Morris) Fiona Freedman (Halton) Pat Evans (Seymour) Marian Dain (Bunn) Frances Gerrard Sally Ezra (Edwards) Cathy Edwards (James) Aldona Grodecka (Siemaszko) Juni Farmanfarmaian Deborah Fisher (Dickinson) Sarah Ingham (Minns) Tanya Harrod (Ledger) Kay Garmeson Virginia Johnson (Bolton) Christine Heasman Alida Greydanus Young Geraldine Monaghan Joan Irving (Greydanus) Elena Notarianni Mariot Leslie (Sanderson) Heather Gwynn Susan Paterson (Chantler) Jane Liversedge Sue Horley (Baker) Jacqueline Pritchard Diana Niccol (Woods) Marcia James (Halstead) (Gondouin) Felicia Pheasant (Hendriks) Emma MacKenzie (Liddell) Ruth Richards (Anderson) Carolyn Smithson (Vincent) Margaret Marshall (Sims) Nicky Rowbottom Celia Sweetman (Nield) Jenny Morrison (Franklin) Helen Ruberry (Owen) Sally Watson Gillian Pickering Eleanor Seymour (Reid) Jill Wills (Freeman) (Mendelssohn) Julie Skinner (Bramah) Geraldine Wooley Sally Roe (Petts) Carolyn Vickery Terry Wright Deborah Scott Jane Sutton 1977 1973 Karen Taube (Pilkington) Caroline Black Avril Aslett-Bentley (Aslett) Margaret Taylor (Kisch) Rosie Chadwick (Joynes) Julia Bailey (Richardson) Chris Ward (Kay) Kate Chapman (Menin) Hazel Bickle (Chapman) Anne Cox (Turnbull) Maureen Boulton (McCann) Virginia Flower

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Sarah Gall (Platt) Elizabeth Cooksey Ceri Davies (Lloyd Jones) Alison Henshaw (Harper Felicity Dendy (Carr) Carla Edgley (Jones) Smith) Cathy Derrick Liz Gates (Whitelam) Sharon Hodges (Brown) Celia Fairley (Bore) Suzanne Graham (Edwards) Ann Marie McMahon Jane Farr (Hagar) Sarah Higgins (Howarth) Jenny Harper Sian Hill (Owen) Carol Pudsey Ulrike Horstmann-Guthrie Holly Hopkins (Dennis) Gillian Raven (Wisbey) (Horstmann) Kim Hurd (Richards) Sarah Speller (Edney) Mary Huttel (Grafton) Sally Jenkins Diana Thomas (Roberts) Josie Irwin Amanda Last Elaine Varty Revathy Lauer (Mahendran) Gillian Mannouch (Coleman) Claire Locke (Bullock) Gaynor Noonan (Everett) 1978 Emily Monson (Wheeler- Catherine Reading (Ormell) Sarah Carlin Bennett) Angela Skry (Jacobs) Tina Chase Susan Osbourn (Leach) Maggie Stirling Troy (Stirling) Edwina Curtis Hayward Elizabeth Rankin Caroline Tajasque (Ross) (Maple) Margaret Ruscoe Sue Tytler (Sanwo) Nicola Dandridge Helen Saunders (Price) Sara White Greta Dawson Jane Smith (Edwards) Alex Wood (Blackie) Harriet Feilding (Earle) Carolyn Williams (Tibbs) Marie Gregson (Rossi) 1982 Julia Grieveson (Ewbank) 1980 Alex Barr (Millbrook) Judith Heaton Sarah Cartledge Lucy Bird (Capito) Bridget Herring (Emmerson) Julie Franks Jane Bradbury Beverley Jewell (Tharme) Diana Fraser (Coombs) Elisabeth Cammell Katie Lee (Tute) Jessica Guest (Hibbs) Alison Carter (Fenn) Elizabeth Meath Baker Alison Jeffery (Nisbet) Sylvia Christelow (Booth) (Woodham-Smith) Jill Marshall (Ashton) Stamatia Cottakis (Comninos) Catherine Moxey (Rayner) Lorinda Munro-Faure Julie Dyson Jane Orr (Wright) (Grayson) Rosemary Gibson Angela Pound (Mawson) Lucy Newmark (Keegan) Deborah Hinson (Goode) Melanie Reichelt Georgina Paul Karen Holden Fiona Shelley (Douglas Lisa Rabinowitz Jayne Hutchinson (Shirt) Thomson) Charlotte Sankey Fiona Little (Smart) Sue Stokes (Hargreaves) Karin Scarsbrook (Longden) Catherine Marshall (Hyde) Jennie Tanner Kathryn Smith (Brown) Sally Mayo (Fletcher) Carol Thompson (Paxton) Augusta Wolff (Lonsdale) Julie Mottershead (Hall) Sue Way (Clark) Jo Nowak (Acton) 1981 Catherine Oliver (Andrew) 1979 Julia Abrey (Heighton) Rebecca Petty (German) Fiona Allen (Cass) Ruth Anderson Ann Pfeiffer Caroline Attfield Ros Ballaster Nanda Pirie Julia Baptie Claire Bradley (Reynolds) Silvia Pulino Katharine Beaumont (Fowle) Nicola Crawford (Ray) Sue Radford (Pickton) Georgina Bramley (Pickersgill) Fiona Cutts Fiona Redgrave

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Gill Smith (Clayworth) Katherine Gotts Sam Davidson (Dawson) Catherine Stollery (Sutcliffe) Lynne Harris Alison Denly (Grant) Su Thomas Mary Harris Jane Dixon (Thompson) Rebecca Walker Anne Hodgson Liz Fuller (Jones) Claudia Wordsworth Cathy Mayne Ruth Fuller-Sessions (Josephs) Elizabeth Morgan (Kemp) Fanny Goodhart Sara Moseley Janet Kirby (Singleton) 1983 Sue Natan Claire Polkinghorn (Smith) Maria Antoniou Catherine Nelson (Badger) Susan Xia Ruth Bartholomew (Close) Emma O’Kane (Lowry) Coralie Bingham Judith Sanders 1987 Katherine Brown Georgie Stewart (MacLeod) Sarah Boswall (Sharman) Kitty Carrick Tess Stimson Jane Boygle Sarah Charman Gillian Styles (Stewart) Fleur Clegg (Cass) Susan Driver (Hooper) Emma Thornton (Moss) Angela Cowdery Jane Ellison Julia Goddard (Rotheram) Trish Foschi 1985 Samantha Hands (Mayers) Judith Letchford (Affleck) Samantha Bewick Alison Mayne (Woolley) Denise Mansi (Gough) Diane Brown (Howland) Emma Morrison (Rydings) Alison Mayne (Irving) Helen Brown (Bracegirdle) Caragh Murray (Bacon) Libbie Mead Alison Cannard (Tracey) Julia Redfern Amanda Owen Louisa Crompton (Philpott) Vicky Rigby-Delmon (Rigby) Casey Pearce (Pearce) Helen Dance Carole Scott Rachel Pilcher (Wilson) Aarti Evans (Girdhar) Alice Seferiades Antonia Pompa Helen Evans (Thomas) Sian Slater (Pearson) Rhonda Riachi Vicky Evans (Beer) Sophia Steer Sam Rushton (Smith) Maddi Forrester (Fletcher) Anna Taborska Belinda Sanders (Stansfield) Jane James (Liddell) Julia Topp Susannah Simon Monica Midler (Kalmanson) Clare White (Skinner) Anna Stephenson Suzy Spencer (Whybrow) Charlotte Winter (Hiett) Maria Tennent (Barreto) Justine Swainson (Phillips) Melanie Tribble (Trinder) Cath Urquhart 1988 Susan Yeates (Johnson) Lindsay Want-Beal Julia Blewett Rebecca Webb (Phelps) Victoria Cleland 1984 Rachel Weir (Robert-Blunn) Liz Edwards Felicity Aktas (Helfer) Rachel Wood (Willcock) Sarah Fitzgerald (Swaddling) Frances Bailey (Haines) Fiona Worthy (Miller) Marion Gibbs (Buttery) Belinda Bramley Amanda Gillard (Holdsworth) 1986 Ruth Hurst (Gifkins) Judy Caddle Anna Attwell (Spash) June Jantz (Blanc) Sara Carroll (Girkin) Joanna Berry (Ibbotson) Ruth Louis (Browning) Joanna Cox Ann Broadbent (Briggs) Juliet Manzini (Ireland) Penny Cullerne-Bown (Jowitt) Jane Chaplin Amanda McLean (Leake) Fran Davies (Siddons) Alison Coneybeare Karen Phillips (Norman) Sarah Fox (Chenery) (Cartwright)

69 DONORS TO COLLEGE 2017

1989 1991 Melissa Milne (Cooch) Josephine Alexander Jo Beattie Pascale Nicholls (Weisman) Eleanor Booth (Gillam) Beatrice Purser-Hallard Barbara Bellis (Durham) Sarah Christie-Verma (Purser) Victoria Clare (Christie) Chloe Riess Josepha Collins (Ridding) Lucy Farrington Smriti Singh Laura Gerlach (Canning) Julia Headey (Church) Kate Smout (Webb) Sarah Glendinning (Perret) Irene Hewlett (Grimberg) Anne Stratford-Martin Alison Humphries (Moore) Sarah Lion-Cachet (Stratford) Shea Johnson* (Loosemore) Joyrene Thomas Andi Johnson-Renshaw Gillian Lowrey Andrea Williams (Johnson) Kathy Nicholson (Borradaile) Snjezana Lelas Julia Sheraton (Stones) 1994 Kathy Morrissey (Singleton) Anna Sweeney (Johnson) Caroline Beabey (Langley) Sara Morrow (Rogers) Mary Tait (Ambler) Sara Catley Anna Moyle Jean Tan-Chia (Chia) Wendy Chapman (Appleby) Kathryn Moyse (Newton) Farah Yamin Tammy Ching Liz Mulgrew (Campbell) Caroline Cook (Smith) Joanna Pickles 1992 Nicole De Zoysa Natasha Pope (Berrigan) Katie Balderson (Mills) Vanessa Docherty (Therrode) Victoria Summers (Bailey) Tracey Cansdale (Bant) Rebecca Dunlop (Pollard) Sarah Woodall (Osborne) Philippa Charles (Casey) Sarah Grant (Pearson) Alexandra Wright (Priestley) Neasa Coen Lucy Heaselgrave (Hawks) Martha Da Gama Howells Victoria Jackson 1990 Jessica Dosch Jenny Jenkins (Haworth) Katy Cheney (Pells) Vicky Hau Dagmara Milian Ellie Clewlow Serena Hedley-Dent Esther Musgrave-Brown Melissa Collett (Manes) Lucy Holland (Manson) Meriel Patrick Glenda Cooper Sarah Johnson (Greenwood) Katherine Peacock Sarah Delfas (Shearman) Katy Judd (Martin) Helen Smith Marie Demetriou Nina Kessler (Neoman) Lana Wood Julia Fernley Gemma Knight Rhian Woods Fiona Haarer (Nicks) Claerwen Patterson Elizabeth Wootten Katherine Henig (Williams) (Simmonds) Shanda Huntingford Catherine Rudd (Elliott) 1995 (McAteer) Nicola Walther (Oddie) Chloe Ansell Laura Lauer Joanna Williams Eleanor Blagbrough Sian Maddock (Monahan) Joanna Dodd Claire Moisson (Appleton) 1993 Diarra Harris Ruth Murray (Brown) Rebecca Chalkley Louise Legg (Pickwell) Sarah Powell (Hotson) Deborah Cooper Tamsin Lishman Catrin Williams Sian Davies Negin Minakaran Annabel Wright (James) Clare Kerr (Phethean) Laura Mylet (Tidbury) Sonya Lipczynska Melissa Payne (Bough) Kate Love Elizabeth Robinson (Hancock)

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Lynn Robson Lucy Pink (French) 2000 Alison Wallis (Marsh) Tamsin Ross Browne Barbara Barnett Charlotte Walton Anne Schmidt (Jandrell) Val Chowbay Helen Shute Lynn Featherstone 1996 Jana Siber (Englichova) Arlene Holmes-Henderson Emma-Jane Adamson Jessica White (Harrison) Margaret Johnston (Seddon) Sarah Lambert (Snelgrove) Clare Armstrong (Iliffe) 1998 Lisa Lernborg Myriam Birch (Benrhaiem) Sonya Adams Jo Livesey (Budd) Sohini Brandon-King Maria Almond Shonali Routray (Sengupta) Helen Bailey Hannah Stoneham (McSorley) Harriett Bremner (Gold) Liz Chare Bronwen Corby (Riordan) Liana Coyne 2001 Sherry du Chayla (Nursey) Danielle Cunningham Jennifer Adam-Hau (Adam) Anna Giorgi Rebecca Edwards (Emery) Rebecca Flanagan Janet Goodall (Hollingsworth) Angela Gray Tora Hallatt Kai Lew Selma Harb (Tibi) Ellen James Daisy Lisemore (Quinn) Rosie Hyde (Budden) Sally Koo Caroline Mylward Sarah Larcombe (Swindley) Anna Mohr-Pietsch Adaora Nwandu Susan Mantle Ruth Nunn (Ward) Julia Sherriff Karen McCallion Hannah Veale Elaine Teo Mosimann (Teo) Katie Page (Thomas) Emma Watford (Wilkinson) Vanita Sharma 2002 Sophie Weatherley (Kelly) Charlotte Smith (Moore-Bick) Emma Grenville-Mathers Vickie Williams (Ball) Daniela Weiner (Raidel) Antonia Jackson Izzie Jamal 1997 1999 Jessica McGurk (Monaghan) Carina Ancell Lizi Adams Jennifer Redfearn Jane Blumer Megan Alcauskas (Patrick) Chisa Sato Mairi Brookes Leanne Alexander Faye Shonfeld Sally Collins Julia Barron (Kendrick) Ailsa Terry (Latham) Ruth Cropper (Hosking) Catherine Cava Eve Dewsnap Kavita Choitram 2003 Abi Fagborun Bennett Annie Chou Sophie Brighouse Jones (Fagborun) Laura Edwards (Wilkins) (Brighouse) Emma Furuta (Lowdon) Catherine Gough Gemma Dickinson Emma Gubisch (Green) Luisa Huaccho Huatuco Claire Halsall (McDonald) Ailis Kane Thor Maalouf Sarah Jones Maryam Khan Annette Mutschler-Siebert Jo Joyce Leeya Mehta (Mutschler) Tamsin Mehew Eva Micheler Beck Nicholson (Shellard) Danielle Thom Dorothy Newman Becca Pitcaithly (Hayes) Kathy Xu Thuy Anh Nguyen Lisa VanderWeele (Crawford) Sally Onions Sarah Windrum (Davison) Louise Perry (Jones)

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2004 2007 2010 Liz Challis Polly Akhurst Hirrah Anwar Lindsey Cullen Harriet Ash Harry Browne Katharine Cummins (Platt) Michaela Chamberlain Oliver Carr Miranda Delaitre (Dawkins) Nicola Clark Anders Friden Kirsten Hunter Sumana Hussain Markus Gerstel Emily Kerr Laura Pereira Maddie Grant Kelly-Beth Lawman Sarah Reder Francesca Johns Ting Man Leung Kelly Stanley Tonya Kocharova Sarah Little Jablanka Uzelac Alice Parkin Sarah Tan Rebecca Whitmore Rachel Prior Fran Woodcock (Hargraves) Phill Putter Felix Rieseberg 2005 2008 Frances Roddis Charlotte Aldworth Alex Bates Alison Ward Olivia Bailey Jack Carruthers Manuela Zoninsein Gemma Brown (Parker) Alvaro de Andres Chiara Brozzo Andrea Dolcetti 2011 Charlotte Brunsdon Camilla Hamnabard Justin Dargin Daisy Dunn Margaret James Ceri Fowler Jana Funke Will Janse van Rensburg Martin Gallagher Ada Grabowska-Zhang Ben Lindley Alice Holohan (Grabowska) Emily Mayne Andrew Jenkins Natasha Jackson Nick Pierce Joel Kariel Jessica Jacoby Phil Robinson Harold Khoo Dina Khater Erik Lee Elizabeth Krempley 2009 Ricky Nathvani (Davidson) Christopher Barrie Daniel Sawyer Alexandra Mills Jen Booth Emma Robinson Yousuf Chughtai 2012 Sarah Trueman Quentin Cregan Huzaifah Abdul Razak Alice Crocker Nika Adamian 2006 Josh Deery Will Duncan Becci Burton Jon Hanks Vikranth Harthikote Nagaraja Sarah Husain Sarah Hewett Sean Lim Esther Kim Francesca Kellaway Yujie Tag Naomi Lecomte Jessica Lee Sophie Logan Marcus-Alexander Neil 2013 Chesca Lord Chloe Orland Henrique Alves Esteves Kat Rollo James Phillips Toni Baeumler Isabel Tate Charlotte Sherman Clare Bycroft Ciara Walker Vincent Slater Henry Cosh Jane Wang Mark Stevenson Georgie Daniell Matilda Williams (Lane) James Tierney Gabrielle Dyson Amol Verma Vasileios Eftychidis

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Mia Harris Hannah Dury Carlos Fonseca Grigsby Amir Jamaludin Tessa Greenhalgh Megan Gibbons Tom Lettice Rachael Griffiths Andrew Grimmer Sarah McCuaig Sarah Grunnah Lynn Haidar Carolin Rindfleisch Lizzy Harnett Sungwon Han Pietro Romanazzi Christina Heroven Julia Heitmann Johanna Schnurr Reece Jacques Colin Higgins James Sexton Claudius Kocher Hayato Hosoya James Smythies Corentine Laurin Francis Hounkpe Adam Unthiah Susan Leung Alice Kelly Phil Warren Aileen Luo Roger Kim Kevin Wheeler Andrew Marotta Thomas Kramer Hepp Tom Wright Maxence Mayrand Vikram Kumar Jan Melcher Thomas Layton 2014 David Moore Lin Li Nasir Ahmad Ravi Nayer Rosie Little Moses Batwala Elliot Nelson Yukun Liu Safwan Bin Mohd Murad Amy Orben Mpho Makola Hannah Bower Vladimir Pazitka Sophie Maskell Gerardo Ceron Martinez Frank Penkava Jack McCarthy Thomas Davies Sandrine Rodier-Tremblay Rebecca Menmuir Tom Green Kirsty Sawtell Sayanta Mondal Lina Guo Chris Sharwood Jakob Boecher Mueller Daniel Holyoake Emilia Skirmuntt Magnus Nagel Aleksander Klimek Andreas Sojmark Nav Nagra Daniel Kohn Jonathan Stanhope Yu Nie Giulia Monducci Ross Upton Georgios Nikolou Marahaini Musa Tom Walton Henry Owen Tomas Pinto Stephen Zhao Jemima Paine Nafisa Sharif Shefali Parmar Sanjeeta Tamang 2016 Clara Pavillet Naushad Velgy Kristina Aertker Katie Pratt Miranda Wright Kristina Arakelyan Daniel Quetschlich Joel Baldwin Trishna Raj 2015 Daliso Banda Felix Richter Henriette Arndt Paola Barbagallo Alex Saad Bartosz Bartmanski Katie Bedborough Kin San Michele Bianconi Sabrina Bennstein Kayla Schulte Rob Blakey Hattie Brooks-Ward Mohsen Shafaei Anna Chamberlain David Cheifetz Konstantinos Stasinos Theodor Cojoianu Katie Chester Cecilia Tosciri Matt Coker Antoine De Gombert Katie Truslove Marco Del Tutto Naveed Dogar Lauren Urbont Giovanna Di Martino William Ellis Christo Van Bree Jack Doyle Kate Evans Alvaro Vinals Guitart

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Yinghong Wang Friends of College and Barbara Levick Rebecca Wells members of the SCR Fritz and Nancy Levy Ghozlane Yahiaoui Mina Al-Oraibi Graham Linacre Ayse Yasar Elizabeth Aracic Chris Lintott Miriam Zachau Walker Adam Baillie Michael Llewellyn-Smith Anna Zelenkova Jeanette Beer Caroline Lucas Li Zhao David Bentley Sue MacGregor Yiran Zhou Tom Bower David Mayhew Gerard Brennan Kate McLuskie Jean Briggs Mary Alice Money Laurel Browne Susan Morrison Deirdre Bryan-Brown Christina Nelson Ann Buchanan Lucia Nixon Bruce Claxton Jean Nunn-Price Jenny Claxton Celia Nyamweru Gaynor Coules Mark Olszowski Joanna Dodsworth Ian O’Reilly Ann Dowker Jennifer Palmer Judith English Jonathan Patterson Adrian Evans Barbara Peters Frances Everson Andrew Pitt Aline Foriel-Destezet Alexis Pogorelskin Joanna Foster Simon Prior-Palmer Zach Fuchs James Pulsford Jane Glover Paul Richards Christine Gonsalvez Margaret Roake Laura Goodhart Joe Romig Lyndall Gordon Verena Rose Christine Gray Sue Rumfitt Sarah Green Eileen Schlee Russell Hampshire Julia Schnabel Mari Hannah Richard Scoffield Ruby Haynes Celia Sisam Caroline Hill Christopher Smart David Honeybone Dana Staden Janet Howarth Meggi Stewart Edward Hussey Rick Stone Angela Huxter Helen Swift Doreen Innes Justin Tackett Audrone Jurkenaite-Epih Grant Tapsell Martin Kemp Brian Testdata Thomas Kielinger Sue Testdata Jeff Kofman Bronwyn Travers Robin Leanse Judith Unwin Mary Lefkowitz Patricia Walby

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Sarah Watkinson Donations to the Library Peter and Linda West and Archives were received Mary Wilkinson from Karina Williamson Frances Bailey Anita Woodcock Carolina Bax Julia Yeomans Jeanette Beer Lucia Zedner Sally Bruce-Gardyne Marco Zhang Abigail Burman Sarah Cawkwell Jack Cook Chris Cowley Maria Croghan Ann Dowker Christopher Eames Virginia Evans Deborah Fisher Deborah Freeman Fahid Claire Harman Kerstin Hoge Sally Horovitz Margaret Howell David Howell Rini Jones Kinuko Kameda Kate Kavanagh Barbara Levick Sally Mason Kate Millett* Margaret Ogilvie Kiaora Tolmie Sarah Watkinson Flemish-Netherlands Cultural Organization

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A Tribute to Jenny Joseph Jenny felt that society should ask not ‘What do you do?’ but ‘What do you think?’, and while she talked a great deal about her ideas she said very little about her life. That, however, has its interest: when she came down, after working as a teacher and as a journalist, she moved in 1957 to South Africa where she worked for Drum Publications and taught at an Indian high school until she was expelled in 1959. Two years later she married Tony Coles. They had three children and for some years ran a pub in Shepherd’s Bush. From the early 1970s Jenny taught for the WEA and various extra-mural university departments before retiring to Gloucestershire where she lived until she moved to Swansea to be near her daughter Nel. She is survived by her children, Nel, Martin and Bec, her four grandchildren and her great-granddaughter. Her son, Martin, read this poem during a tribute to Jenny on BBC 4’s Last Words, chosen because she particularly liked it and because it recalled the London streets of their years there.

Dawn Walkers Anxious eyes loom down the damp-black streets Then I noticed a girl running after, calling out Pale staring girls who are walking away hard ‘John’. From beds where love went wrong or died or He must have left his sandwiches I thought. turned away, But she screamed ‘John wait’. He heard her and Treading their misery beneath another day ran faster, Stamping to work into another morning. Using his muscled legs and studded boots. We knew she’d never reach him. ‘Listen to me In all our youths there must have been some John. time Only once more’ she cried. ‘For the last time, When the cold dark has stiffened up the wind John, please wait, please listen.’ But suddenly, like a sail stiffening with wind, He gained the corner in a spurt and she Carried the vessel on, stretching the ropes, Sobbing and hopping with her red hair loose glad of it. (Made way for by the respectful audience) But listen to this now: this I saw one morning. Followed on after, but not to catch him now. I saw a young man running, for a bus I thought, Only that there was nothing left to do. Needing to catch it on this murky morning The street closed in and went on with its day. Dodging the people crowding to work or A worn old man standing in the heat from the shopping early. baker’s And all heads stopped and turned to see how Said ‘Surely to God the bastard could have he ran waited.’ To see would he make it, the beautiful strong young man.

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2018 EVENTS

17-19 August St Hilda’s Crime Fiction Weekend This year’s theme is Sharks Circling: Politics & Crime Featuring Sara Paretsky as Guest of Honour and Val McDermid hosting the gala dinner in aid of the PD James Fund.

14-16 September Gaudy and Reunions (1968, 1978, 1993) Three days of celebrations with reunions, exhibitions, lectures and concerts, including special guest speaker Katty Kay and a magnificent 1920s-style gala fundraising dinner, in celebration of the time when women became full members of the University.

20 October MA Reunion Lunch A celebratory lunch for those who matriculated in 2011 and received a BA or BFA degree, as well as those with a four-year undergraduate Master’s degree.

7 November Lady English Lecture This lecture series marks the College’s continuing commitment to the education and advancement of women. As our 125th Anniversary year draws to a close, we will use this opportunity to look ahead and assess women’s equality from a global perspective.

8 November London Autumn Drinks Details to follow, but save the date.

14 November Founder’s Day Service of Thanksgiving In this special anniversary year we hold this celebration and thanksgiving in the University Church, to be followed by a drinks reception. We welcome all students and alumnae to join us in rounding off our 125th year.

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