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St Hilda’s College The Chronicle 2018 St Hilda’s College Chronicle 2018 St Hilda’s College Oxford OX4 1DY Tel: 01865 276828 Email: [email protected] www.st-hildas.ox.ac.uk THE CHRONICLE 2018 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 2018 Annual General Meeting ............................................................................................... 12 ASM Financial Report ......................................................................................................................... 14 NEWS OF SENIOR MEMBERS Marriages and Partnerships .............................................................................................................. 15 Births ......................................................................................................................................................... 15 Deaths ....................................................................................................................................................... 16 Deaths of Partners ................................................................................................................................ 17 Recent Publications ............................................................................................................................. 18 Other Recent News............................................................................................................................... 20 ARTICLES Climax Professorship of Clinical Therapeutics ........................................................................ 22 The girl you left behind...................................................................................................................... 24 Still learning to balance ..................................................................................................................... 26 Bewitched, bothered and bewildered ............................................................................................. 27 A time of change ................................................................................................................................... 28 What change? ........................................................................................................................................ 29 What one year can do ......................................................................................................................... 30 Ask a busy person… ............................................................................................................................. 31 Becoming myself .................................................................................................................................. 32 Being a Rachel ........................................................................................................................................ 33 From the Archive: blutack to megabytes .................................................................................... 34 CONTENTS OBITUARIES Nita Watts, OBE ..................................................................................................................................... 36 Lady Hollis, MBE ................................................................................................................................... 37 Margaret Staveley-Taylor .................................................................................................................. 38 Mary Haines ............................................................................................................................................ 39 Sylvia Constance Masterman .......................................................................................................... 40 Sheila Phillips ........................................................................................................................................ 41 Ramona Morris ...................................................................................................................................... 42 Joan Walsh .............................................................................................................................................. 43 Alice Mary Stubbs ................................................................................................................................ 44 Ruth Baker ............................................................................................................................................... 45 Rachel Mary Leech ............................................................................................................................... 46 Audrey Hollingsworth ....................................................................................................................... 47 Patricia Marks ........................................................................................................................................ 48 Jane Rowlandson .................................................................................................................................. 49 Geraldine Ellington ............................................................................................................................. 50 Alison Coneybeare ............................................................................................................................... 51 Rebecca Marsland ................................................................................................................................. 52 LIST OF DONORS TO COLLEGE 2018 ............................................................... 53 2019 EVENTS ............................................................................................................... back cover Data Protection Act 2018 All data are securely held in the St Hilda’s College Development & Alumnae Office and will be treated confidentially and with sensitivity for the benefit of St Hilda’s College and its members. The data are available to our academic and administrative departments, recognised alumnae societies and clubs associated with the College, and to agents contracted by the College for particular alumnae-related projects. Data are used for a full range of alumnae activities, including the sending of College publications, the promotion of benefits and services available to alumnae, and notification of alumnae events and of programmes involving academic and administrative departments. Data may also be used for fundraising programmes which might include an element of direct marketing. Data will not be passed to external commercial organisations. Under the terms of the Data Protection Act 2018 you have the right to object to the use of your data for any of the above purposes. THE CHRONICLE 2018 Editorial This year Senior Members, including some who were awarded the Rachel McLean prize, have produced a range of articles about their time in College: how they experienced their student years and how their time at St Hilda’s influenced and, in some cases, shaped their futures. The College Archivist has supported these memories with some long- forgotten items that show how student accommodation – such a significant part of the university experience – has changed over the years, along with the process of recording such items. The Principal has kindly given us a helpful introduction to the new and exciting University Chair in Clinical Therapeutics and its relationship to College. You will notice that there is no mention of the ASM Studentship. The current holder will report next year, and meanwhile the ASM Committee is considering possible changes to the terms of the studentship to make it of more practical help to our graduates. Decisions will be made this autumn and we will report in next year’s Chronicle. Meanwhile we would like to invite articles for that issue from Senior Members working – either professionally or in a voluntary capacity – in the charitable sector, from government quangos to the local Oxfam. Articles should be between 400 and 430 words long and reach the editors by the end of November. We are very sad to announce the death of Emeritus Fellow and former Chronicle Editor Dr Margaret Rayner, who continued to be a wonderful source of knowledge and advice after handing over her Editor’s red pen to us three years ago. We will, of course, commemorate her life in far more detail in next year’s Chronicle, but in the meantime we will remember her as an inspiring educator, a dear friend, and a St Hilda’s woman to the core. Finally, we would like, once again, to thank Bronwyn Travers and her team in the Development Office for all the support they give Senior Members, and to give particular thanks to Audrone Jurkenaite-Epih for her help in producing