Including a Special College Life Supplement Development News Projects Funded by You University Radio York 40 Years On

Grapevine Autumn 2007

Including a special College Life supplement Development News Projects funded by you University Radio York 40 years on

26074_Autumn07.indd 1 1/8/07 12:59:39 Professor Janet Ford, Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Estates and Strategic Projects, contemplates the challenges that lie ahead now that the University’s plans for expansion have been approved

York thoughts

Many of n 26 May this year, the University was lake are planned for 2009. The Departments of the features granted planning permission to double Computer Science, Electronics, and Theatre, Film which have made the the physical size of the campus, allowing and Television will be the fi rst occupants of the site; current O student numbers to grow from around the 10,000 they will also be associated with the fi rst college. campus so successful will we have currently to about 15,400 over the next By developing a transit system and good cycle and be echoed ten years. It has taken fi ve years to develop the pedestrian links, we will have one longer, but still in the new development plans and gain the necessary permissions, but the integrated, campus and do not intend to duplicate decision secures the future of the University for facilities such as the Library. Later, the Law School, the long term. Some people see the open parkland York Management School and the Departments of on the current campus and cannot believe that Economics, Politics and Philosophy will move to the University is full, but it is. This is because in new buildings on Heslington East. By 2017, there order to preserve the wonderful landscaped setting could be as many as six new colleges, a new sports that characterises York, we may only develop 23 complex with a swimming pool, a performing per cent of the site, and cannot build above the arts centre and a student venue, all in a maturing tree canopy. At the same time, demand for places landscape. Only 20 per cent of the site will be in well-established departments at York remains developed so that the setting echoes the current very strong. We have also established two new campus, parts of which will also be reconsidered departments – The York Law School and the for development. Department of Theatre, Film and Television – We have a strong commitment to sustainable which we hope will grow quickly. development. All buildings will be south-facing Those of us who have been planning the and naturally ventilated; rain water will be expansion have been mindful of the ideas and harvested and grey water recycled. Where we can principles that have made York a special place: the source materials locally we will, and spoil from the college system, the landscape, the human-scale new lake will be used to enhance the landscape. buildings, the lake, the quirky twists and turns, the I came to York in 1996 as the Joseph Rowntree odd shaped gardens and courtyards, how easily Professor of Housing Policy. So it came as quite a one can bump into people and – what most people surprise when, in 2003, I was asked to help plan a remark on – the University’s informality and campus expansion. I now know something about friendliness. It has been quite a challenge to think planning law, planning conditions, sustainable through how we can continue to express these drainage, and archaeological remains plans, and ideas in developing a new, 21st century campus. I I can convert acres to hectares without thinking. would like to draw your attention to the enclosed Most of all, I have worked with great staff and College Life supplement which will give you an students, all committed to helping York expand but update on your college and its plans for the future. keeping the best of what York is. Over the next ten The expansion will be on land to the east of years there is a lot for you to watch as it happens, Heslington village, known as Heslington East. and we will let you know when the web cam is up The college system will continue and the fi rst and running! college and fi rst academic buildings as well as a

For more about the campus expansion programme visit www.york.ac.uk/heslingtoneast

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26074_Autumn07.indd 2 1/8/07 15:37:17 Contents

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Development and Alumni Relations Office University University of York Heslington Christmas Card 6 York YO10 5DD www.york.ac.uk/alumni

General enquiries: Obituaries 8 T: 01904 434467 E: [email protected] Fax: 01904 434464 The far away Susie Fothergill Falklands Fundraising Programmes 9 Manager York alumni meet up on the other side T: 01904 434794 of the world E: [email protected] Lisa Hawkins-Weeks York rules the waves Alumni Co-ordinator 10 T: 01904 432097 Celebrating 40 years of URY E: [email protected]

Brian Porter Director of Development and Keeping in touch Alumni Relations Office 12 T: 01904 432090 Win a weekend for two in York! E: [email protected]

Jing Wood Alumni Assistant T: 01904 434467 Development news 13 E: [email protected] Showcasing projects funded by alumni and friends Grapevine is produced by the University of York Development and Alumni Relations Office and the Communications Office. It is designed and typeset by Campus Grad Hunt Copy and Print and printed by 17 Wyke Printers, Hull. On the trail of York’s missing alumni Grapevine is distributed free to over 41,000 alumni. Each copy costs around 30p to produce.

The views represented in this The Grapevine 21 publication do not necessarily Who’s doing what, why and where reflect those of the University. 25th anniversary reunion – 1980s alumni gathering in May

Cover photo by Georgi Mabee Events and reunions 26 Annual Race Day and Morning Reception

For a large print version of the text in this publication telephone (01904) 434467

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26074_Autumn07.indd 3 1/8/07 12:59:45 news Campus developments

The Government has approved also appreciate the opportunity to The Institute was proposals for the University’s increase our capacity for world- established at the £500 million 117-hectare leading research and welcome a University thanks to an greater diversity of students to £11 million donation expansion plans. York.” from the Bowland Charitable Trust. Its The site, to the east of the current For more details visit strategy board is campus, will release new space for www.york.ac.uk/heslingtoneast chaired by former research, teaching, student colleges, Secretary of State for sport, cultural facilities and spin-out Education, Estelle companies. Many of the proposed York-based institute Morris. facilities will be open to the local Professor Robert Slavin community. The new campus will to transform education feature many elements of the A striking purpose-built facility at the heart existing one, including a high quality A leading American educational of the campus on the former site of the parkland setting and a naturalistic psychologist is to be the founding Language Teaching Centre will house the new Institute. lake with signiﬁ cant areas of Director of York’s new Institute wetlands. for Effective Education, which will welcome researchers from across the Welcoming the decision, the world to develop, test and evaluate Vice-Chancellor, Professor Brian ideas on how to improve education. Cantor, said, “York is one of the best universities in Britain and it Professor Robert Slavin, Director of needs to grow in order to maintain the Centre for Research and Reform this position. This will enable the in Education (CRRE) at Johns Hopkins University to play an important University in Maryland and Chair of role in the future prosperity of the Success for All Foundation, will York and the UK as a whole. We head the Institute.

Entrepreneur Dr Simon Best Mellon Foundation grant will help (Music, Goodricke, 1977) has been elected a Fellow of the unlock the secrets of church court papers Royal Society of Edinburgh. Simon is a member of the University’s Development Board and is also Chairman of bioscience company Ardana plc and the UK BioIndustry Association Margot Livesey (English and Philosophy, 1974) has been appointed writer-in-residence at the nationally-renowned Bowdoin College, Maine, USA. Margot has published several award-winning novels, including Eva Moves One of most extensive collections A basic index for the collection, The Furniture and Banishing of ecclesiastical papers in Europe, which numbers over two million, Verona, as well as collections of which occupies more than 540 was created in the 1940s by the short stories. metres of shelf space in the former head of the Borthwick Borthwick Institute for Archives, will Institute, Canon John Purvis. Much Graham Swift’s (Honorary be compiled into an online database of the work was done while he was Graduate, 1998) latest novel, thanks to a US $744,000 grant by the on ﬁ re watch duty in the Second Tomorrow, was published Andrew W Mellon Foundation. World War. earlier this year to critical acclaim. He describes the story as being inspired by ‘the idea The papers, dating from 1300 to 1858 The new database, which will be of a couple as a kind of unit, from courts in the York Diocese, compiled jointly by the Borthwick which will one day lose one of contain a wealth of information Institute and the Department of its halves’. His previous works valuable to social, economic and History, will make information include the Booker prize- legal historians and include marriage more accessible across the full winning Last Orders, published and defamation cases. chronological range of papers. in 1996.

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26074_Autumn07.indd 4 1/8/07 12:59:51 news

Top award for York biologist

York Professor Ottoline Leyser of the Department of Biology has been Champions elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, the premier honour for scientists in of the Britain and the Commonwealth. Roses One of her most signiﬁ cant breakthroughs concerns the Photo by Georgi Mabee discovery of the Auxin receptor, the major hormone receptor in At the 43rd annual Roses competition between the Universities of York plants. Plant hormones integrate and Lancaster, thousands of spectators, alumni and competitors saw York environmental, developmental, win the Carter-James trophy by 143 to 103 points to bring the overall score and genetic factors to regulate back to 21 victories each. The tournament took place over three days with development. Understanding how more than 100 sporting ﬁ xtures from rugby and football to water polo and they do this helps us to grasp the ultimate frisbee. agricultural and environmental possibilities of plants. A substantial donation by the York Annual Fund from alumni allowed the Roses to become even more of a community event. Huge screens were set Professor Leyser recently received a up around the campus to which the student TV station YSTV broadcast live Rosalind Franklin Award from the footage of the sporting events. There was also a spectators’ marquee, which Royal Society. helped to increase publicity, text messaging services and coverage from the student radio station, URY.

York joins the nanotechnology revolution The opening of York’s new out single atom analysis. One of just Nanocentre in April sees the four similar instruments worldwide, University stepping up research it is the only one set up for fully into nanotechnology, the science remote operation in its own purpose- of making, manipulating and built pod. The other unique feature measuring the incredibly small. of the York equipment is a special chamber which allows scientists to Working at scales of one-billionth observe materials during natural of a metre, nanotechnology is set to reactions. revolutionise advances in science in areas such as medicine, computing The new centre, a £5.5 million and manufacturing. investment, is already forging close links with industry and is expected The York JEOL Nanocentre includes to result in signiﬁ cant developments one of the world’s most powerful of new materials for everything from electron microscopes which should medical science to electronics. eventually allow scientists to carry

Harriet Harman wins Labour Deputy leadership contest

York alumna Harriet Harman (Politics, 1972) was elected Deputy Leader of the Labour Party. She beat Cabinet members Alan Johnson, Hilary Benn, Hazel Blears and Peter Hain as well as left-wing backbencher Jon Cruddas. She was also appointed Party Chairman, Leader of the Commons and Minister for Women. Previously, Harriet Harman was a Minister of State at the Ministry of Justice. She has also been Secretary of State for Social Security (1997 to 1998) and the ﬁ rst female Solicitor General (2001 to 2005).

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26074_Autumn07.indd 5 1/8/07 12:59:52 news York’s new Law School Student television wins awards The York Law School has been launched, headed by Professor Stuart Bell, formerly Professor of Ghostly goings on in the city of York Environmental Law at Nottingham Law School, were featured in a York Student Nottingham Trent University. Television programme, Dead York, which won the 2007 National The York Law School takes its ﬁ rst postgraduate Association of Student Television students this October, while undergraduate courses Awards for Best Documentary. will start in 2008. The programme will be an integrated one, in which students will be taught by academics from other related disciplines such as YSTV also won the Open category Politics, Management and Criminal Justice as well for Welcome to Venus, a fortnightly the Law School’s own staff. talkshow produced, hosted by and Visit www.york.ac.uk/law for more details. about women. YSTV triumphed over 14 other student TV companies to win the prizes which come as High tech help for the station celebrates 40 years of broadcasting in 2007. dog and bone

Special phone boxes to help in the training of dogs for the national charity Hearing Dogs for Deaf People have been designed and donated by experts in the Department of Electronics. These boxes can be connected to household phones and used during the dogs’ advanced sound work training. Hearing dogs are trained to alert Past and current YSTV members at the their deaf owners to the everyday National Association of Student Television sounds that hearing people take for conference award ceremony held at Warwick granted such as the telephone. University

The University of York Christmas Card for 2007

This year’s ofﬁ cial Christmas Card is a photograph of the ruins of St Mary’s Abbey in York. The Abbot’s lodging is now the King’s Manor, where a number of University departments and centres are based. The photograph was taken by University staff member Paul Kelly. Each pack contains 10 cards and envelopes. The card dimensions are approximately 12.5cm by 17.5cm and the message inside reads ‘Season’s greetings’.

When placing your order for Christmas Cards we hope you’ll consider making a donation to the York Annual Fund. Your support will help us to meet the needs of students who fi nd it diffi cult to cope fi nancially. Thank you.

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26074_Autumn07.indd 6 1/8/07 12:59:54 news From tractors to to a New Zealander with a daughter in Malawi’, swaps the colourful caravans landscapes of Ukraine for the The Globe romance, satire and farce endured Marina Lewycka by a migrant family in the socialist comes (English paradise of Shefﬁ eld. Literature, 1979), north author of the Before she international became a full- bestseller A Short time writer, History of Tractors in Ukrainian, has Marina studied just published her second comic at York and novel, entitled England of Two Keele, lectured Caravans. in PR at Shefﬁ eld Hallam, and In her new book, Marina, who wrote carers’ describes herself as ‘a German-born manuals for Age Ukrainian Yorkshire woman, married Concern.

Dr Averil Macdonald (née Frost, Physics, 1981) was honoured at the ‘Women of Outstanding Achievement in Science, Engineering and Technology’ awards in March for her work in communicating science to the masses, making it accessible to everyone from young schoolchildren to grandparents. The names of all six award winners were announced by Malcolm Wicks MP, Minister for Science and Left to right: David Thacker (Executive Director Shakespeare North), Nick Helm (Architect), Richard Wilson (Cardiff University Innovation. – Trustee Shakespeare North Trust), Elspeth Graham (Liverpool John Moores University – Trustee Shakespeare North) Her talk, ‘Fantastic Plastic’, is the most successful lecture ever for GCSE students – 45,000 students Two York alumni have teamed up to have seen it and that number recreate a Shakespearean theatre is still growing – and she is also in an unlikely location – the tiny Science responsible for arguably one of Merseyside town of Prescot. the most novel ways to get people communicator talking about science: ‘Science with According to director David Thacker Coffee and Hobnobs’, where mums wins top award (English and Related Literature, and grandmothers talk about Derwent, 1973 and 1974) and his science over coffee and biscuits. colleague Professor Richard Wilson (English, Derwent, 1973), the town Rosemary Smith (English Literature has more than one claim on the title and French, 1979) is the new chair of ‘Stratford of the North’. As the To dye for of the Direct Marketing Association site of Britain’s fi rst purpose-built where one of the most signifi cant indoor theatre, recent research The world’s oldest and most challenges is to put together suggests that some of William fascinating dye is the subject of an industry code of conduct for Shakespeare’s earliest works may a major exhibition launched by marketing searches. have been fi rst staged there. Jenny Balfour-Paul (English, 1973). Now David and Richard, who fi rst EastEnders’ latest star is fl irty ‘Indigo: A Blue To Dye For’ touches met at York as director and actor in man-eater Preeti Choraria, aka on trade and empire, botany Drama Society plays, have set up the York alumna Babita Pohoomull and chemistry, medicine and Shakespeare North Trust. The plan (Education, Vanbrugh, 2003). folklore, and the history of textiles is to create a Northern counterpart The actress has been a hit with over more than two thousand to London’s famous Shakespeare’s years. The exhibition has toured millions of soap fans Globe. Its design will be based on Manchester and Plymouth and will since landing the Inigo Jones’ 1629 Cockpit-in-Court, be at the Brighton Museum and part, which follows which once occupied the Whitehall Art Gallery and Hove Museum and roles in Casualty site now home to 10 and 11 Art Gallery from 29 September to and a children’s Downing Street. David and Richard 6 January 2008. documentary, Black hope that their new theatre could Britain. become a twin to the Globe.

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26074_Autumn07.indd 7 1/8/07 12:59:55 in memoriam

Alison Cripps Tim Berry Anthony Mitchell née Lloyd (Politics and Sociology, Derwent, 1966) (Philosophy and Politics, (Chemistry and Technology, Langwith, 1993) I was fortunate enough to meet and Vanbrugh, 1982) stay with Tim and Linda on a cold Anthony Mitchell was among 114 night last November in Aldeburgh, people who died in the Kenya Suffolk. It was the fi rst time we had Airlines crash in Cameroon on 5 met for over 40 years. Soon we were May. After leaving the Richmond back to York in the mid 1960s. Tim and Twickenham Times in 1995, had been a keen sportsman and Anthony joined the Daily Express played both rugby and cricket for and from there worked as a foreign the fi rst University teams. However, correspondent at Associated Press, it was being picked regularly for the covering East Africa. He uncovered Heslington village cricket team that some of the most controversial issues he was so very proud of. Tim always in the region, often to the discomfort appeared more self-confi dent and of Ethiopian authorities. At the time grown up than many of us, a year of the crash, he was investigating of VSO service in Malawi having the criminal trade in endangered Alison Cripps died on 26 September made all the difference. I later species for food. He leaves his wife 2006 aged 46 after fi ghting cancer learnt that Tim had played a part Catherine Fitzgibbon, son Tom and for over eight years. We fi rst met in various social initiatives in the daughter Rose. in 1979 during her fresher’s week. city of York. Sadly Tim lost his long I was a second year chemist and struggle against cancer and died part of Vanbrugh’s Christian Union peacefully on 1 May. He was a kind Stefek Zaba and it was my task to meet and gentleman, with strong Christian (Computer Science, 1981) welcome her. Ali had a strong faith convictions, who is sadly missed in God, and went on to be a popular by his wife Linda, his daughter and Stetek Zaba died suddenly at the member of Vanbrugh CU. While stepdaughter. age of 47 from heart failure. He at York, she worshipped regularly was a unique individual, widely at St Saviourgate Church. After Bill King admired for his ability to combine graduation, she returned to her (Economics and Politics, Derwent, 1966) brilliant technical work, an acute home town of Stafford, but, soon awareness of social and political after, moved to Derby to take up issues, and a vibrant personal posts in the laboratories at both life. He enrolled for Biochemistry the Derbyshire Royal Infi rmary in 1977, but changed course to and the City Hospital. In Derby Computer Science and Maths and she met and married her husband then to pure Computer Science. Pete and had three children, Anna, He had a natural fl air for all things Heather and Andrew. At this year’s computing, and graduated with 25th anniversary reunion weekend the highest First awarded in that I met with a number of Alison’s subject. He worked for over 20 years close friends from her time at York. From right to left: for Hewlett Packard at their labs It was great to renew friendships Tim Berry, Pip Nayek (York’s fi rst Student in Bristol, and became one of their and share memories, but also very Union President), Bill Wicksteed and Bill King. most valued employees, working poignant. That joy of re-establishing This was taken during one of Pip’s very rare latterly on the technical, political and friendships was tinged with sadness visits to the UK from India. social aspects of Internet security, that for one friendship this was privacy and encryption. Stefek was no longer possible. She is greatly a ‘big’ character – solid as a bear, missed. larger than life, brimming with ideas and enthusiasm. He will be deeply Steven Daws Kate Petty missed by all his friends and most (Chemistry, Vanbrugh, 1981) née Chapman (English Language, Vanbrugh, 1972) especially by his wife Christina, daughter Helena and son Paul. The Development and Alumni Relations Offi ce endeavours to Kate died in St Austell, Cornwall John Murdoch on 22 May 2007. An author of non- print obituaries we receive in full. (Biochemistry, 1976) If this is not possible they are fi ction books for children, she had published in their entirety on the around a hundred titles to her name, web at www.york.ac.uk/alumni including The Great Grammar Book and its sequel The Perfect (Pop-Up) Punctuation Book.

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26074_Autumn07.indd 8 1/8/07 13:12:23 The far away still a very Falklands small world

hen TV producer Frazer was a fellow Yorkie, but I didn’t Sheppard went to the realise she had been assigned to WFalkland Islands earlier look after us for the week. We were this year to make a documentary for a long way from base, and Pippa ITV, one of the fi rst things he found did a great job of making us feel at out is that it really is a small world. home and laying on everything we needed. She even gave us a mobile After stepping off an aircraft phone because our own wouldn’t eight thousand miles from home, work down there!” Frazer was greeted by a fellow York politics graduate. Pippa Lang Frazer fi rst went to the Falklands in works for the Falkland Islands 1985 as his fi rst foreign assignment, government, and is looking after to see how the islands had press coverage of the anniversary of recovered after the confl ict. He was the confl ict – a big responsibility at working on the 25th anniversary the age of only 24. programme when he received his Frazer interviews a British soldier on his fi rst visit to the Falklands invitation to the York Alumni 25th Frazer graduated in 1981 from anniversary celebrations – which Vanbrugh College and has since took place on the same day as his worked as a journalist in radio and 20th wedding anniversary. television. Pippa was awarded her degree in PPE in 2004 – she He said, “The scary bit was when was also in Vanbrugh – and took I worked out that Pippa was only up a graduate traineeship with the a year old when I last visited the Falklands government. Falklands – I started feeling my age then!” Frazer and his team were making Falklands 25 – A Soldier’s Story Pippa is enjoying life in the South Pippa Lang which was shown recently on ITV, Atlantic – she says the downside for portraying a veteran’s emotional a twenty-something is that there are return to the islands after a quarter only four pubs and two restaurants of a century. in Stanley, where she lives. The upside? “I can go to the beach He said, “I read Pippa’s CV on during my lunch hour!” the journey down and knew she “The scary bit was when I worked out that Pippa was only a year old when I last visited the Falklands – I started feeling my age then!”

Frazer Sheppard on his return visit

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26074_Autumn07.indd 9 1/8/07 13:00:08 In 1967, Britain’s first independent radio broadcast came from a tiny room in the University of York’s Physics block. Forty years on, the station is gearing up for the biggest celebration in its history

Presenters James Haigh and Hannah Green in today’s studio

he Sixties in Britain were a Ttime of great change, and UK radio was no exception. Commercial operators across Britain queued up to get their hands on new local broadcasting licences as the BBC’s monopoly, York established by Royal Charter in the 1920s, was finally dismantled. In the midst of fierce rules the competition, a Philosophy and English student at the fledgling University of York, Ranjan Karunaratne, set out on an waves almost impossible challenge: to create a campus radio station run entirely by students. Undeterred by the fact that 1960s Britain had virtually no concept even of In 1998, new technology allowed a independent radio – much less its switch from 999kHz to 1350kHz, student-run equivalent – Ranjan allowing programmes to be broadcast nevertheless managed to convince far more widely than before

Forty University Radio York Famous faces years has been broadcasting news, music and gossip young for York students across four decades. Originally Rollo Armstrong (Philosophy and English, launched by John Peel, Langwith, 1988) was URY’s social secretary the station was recently in 1985. He’s now producer for Faithless, an named Best Student electronica group with a string of top-ten hits Station of the Year by including a number one album in 2004. BBC Radio One

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26074_Autumn07.indd 10 1/8/07 13:00:12 MUSIC TO OUR EARS The history of University Radio York 1967 Radio York’s new test licence makes it the first commercial radio station (and the first student-run station) in Britain

1969 Relaunched as ‘University Radio York’, the station broadcasts a welcome message from John Peel

1998 URY receives its first temporary licence to broadcast using FM, temporarily reaching the entire city of York for Freshers’ Week

Photo by Georgi Mabee 1999 URY’s first live music event, Spark, is a big hit on campus

the UK’s broadcasting authority to grant 2004 URY and YSTV jointly organise Britain’s first-ever commercial licence to his DID YOU KNOW? the first inter-college URY Vision Song home-built project, called simply ‘Radio York’. Contest The experiment was an instant success. ince its Two years later the station relaunched under a 2005 URY wins BBC Radio One’s new name, ‘University Radio York’, when the creation, URY S Best Student Station award first voice to be heard on its airwaves was that has been licensed of a certain young DJ by the name of John Peel, to broadcast its 2008 Alumni dinner (Saturday 14 fresh from another brand-new station called programmes across June) and special broadcasts for 40th BBC Radio One. In the 40 years since its inception, URY has the University birthday celebrations continued to push the boundaries of student campus and radio, adding occasional FM broadcasts, occasionally to The station’s 40th birthday celebrations streaming web audio and a major national the rest of the city will culminate on 14 June 2008 with a award to its portfolio. Yet for all its success, it of York. But while has never lost touch with its modest origins. grand dinner for all alumni. The special new equipment was The station’s base of operations remains a guest will be station founder Ranjan being installed in charmingly claustrophobic ex-laundry room Karunaratne. outside Vanbrugh college. 1968, there were reports of reception If you were a member of URY, we’d love from as far aﬁ eld as you to take part. Drop us an email at Scotland, Sweden [email protected] or visit the alumni and even Poland! web pages at http://ury.york.ac.uk/ alumni/. Then tune into URY’s 24-hour Mark Russell (Music, Derwent, 1982) was webcast and keep listening... thrown out of URY in 1982 for laughing while reading the news. He now composes music for ﬁ lm and TV as well as co-presenting an avant-garde night show on BBC Radio 3.

URY’s original studio in 1968

Peter Hunt (English and Education, Langwith, 1985) is the BBC’s Royal Correspondent. He conducted the ﬁ rst TV interview with Prince William and reported from Iraq throughout 2003.

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26074_Autumn07.indd 11 1/8/07 13:00:13 keeping in touch Win a weekend for two in York and help us improve our records

You can help us in assuring that the data we hold for you is correct and any gaps that we have are ﬁ lled by taking the time to check your home, business and University of York education details that we have overprinted on the ‘update your details form’ which came with this issue of Grapevine. Return the form using the pre-paid envelope by Monday 8 October and you could win a weekend for two in York. (QMR\DVWD\ZLWKDILQHODG\ /DG\ $QQH 0LGGOHWRQ·V 2XU UHVWDXUDQW RIIHUV D WKH FLW\·V PDLQ DWWUDFWLRQV This prize could give you a chance to recharge your LV D WUXO\ XQLTXH KRWHO ZKLFK WHPSWLQJ YDULHW\ RI GLVKHV VXFK DV

Nominations for The nominations committee York, Heslington, York YO10 5DD considers one or more of the or by email ([email protected]). Honorary Degrees following: The nominations will then be put to the Nominations Committee Alumni are invited to nominate • Academic or professional for consideration at its meeting in candidates for the award of an distinction in a fi eld of specifi ed February 2008. Honorary Degree for 2009 and interest to a department or to the beyond. Each year up to 12 University honorary degrees are awarded as • A signifi cant contribution to part of our March and July degree University affairs New web search ceremonies. Recent honorary • Distinction achieved by people facilities for degrees have been awarded to associated with York and the wider York Politics graduate Denise region the Grad Hunt O’Donoghue (Vanbrugh, 1979), the • Distinction achieved by our own co-founder of Hat Trick Productions alumni web pages and Sir Trevor Phillips, currently Chair of the Commission for Equality • Distinction in a fi eld consistent Following your feedback we and Human Rights. with the general ethos of have made several changes to universities as places of education, the web Grad Hunt pages. They learning, achievement and free include a more sophisticated enquiry. search screen, how graduates details are listed and the Each nomination should be response form. accompanied by a short CV of the person(s) proposed, a brief Please continue to help us supporting statement and a ‘Who’s re-connect with graduates we Who’ entry if one is available. are no longer in touch with. Please forward any nominations by Visit www.york.ac.uk/alumni Trevor 18 January 2008 to Sue Hardman, Phillips Academic Registrar, University of

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26074_Autumn07.indd 12 1/8/07 13:00:19 A campaign to re-connect with alumni

To co-ordinate with the planned college anniversary celebrations next year in Alcuin, Vanbrugh and Halifax, we have listed below a selection of graduates names whose contact details are out of date and whose college we do not know. Even if you cannot help with current addresses we would appreciate your help in linking alumni to colleges, especially as our early records do not have this information. With your assistance we will be able to invite graduates back to their college celebrations. Thank you to all who have taken the time to look at the Grad Hunt lists we publish in Grapevine and on the web. To ﬁ nd the full list on the web please visit www.york.ac.uk/alumni/ and following the links to ‘Keep in touch’ and then the ‘Grad hunt’ page.

John Hales SASW 1981 A Yvonne Atkinson Eng 1977 Susan Atkinston Edu 1967 Mary Hales M 1968 Miss Haliburn M 1979 Christine Abbott M/Edu 1976 Geoffrey Attree M/Edu 1972 Lyn Attwooll Eng 1977 Alan Hall Bio/Edu 1980, SW 1974 Kevin Adams Bio 1987 Angela Hall Phy 1968 Catherine Adamson Edu 1971 Linda Audsley Edu 1979 Roger Aukett Phy 1969 Cherry Hall Lan/Edu 1977 Denis Aitken Eco 1972 Christopher Hall SA 1973 Judith Albiston His 1976 Barry Aulton Phy 1969 Randhir Auluck SPSW 1986 Francis Hall SA 1970 Ellenor Alcorn MS 1979 Harry Hall Bio 1978 Helen Andrew (née Turner) Elizabeth Austin His 1977 Felicity Austin (née Stewart) Mus 1985 Jane Hall Edu 1976 HealStd 2005 Janet Hall SocSci Sally Andrews Bio 1970 Janina Austin Che 1990 Mark Austin Eco 1982 Janice Hall Edu 1986 Nooshin Ansari Edu 1988 June Hall Edu 1976 Elizabeth Armistead Edu 1968 Nicholas Austin His 1978 Paul Austin CS 1989/1992 Katherine Hall Bio 1967 Thomas Armitstead Phil/Eng 1972 Margaret Hall Edu 1982 Hazel Armstrong Bio 1972 John Avery His 1975 Pamela Aveyard (née Warner) Marie Hall Eng 1967/1968 Roger Armstrong SW 1976 Roger Hall Eng 1970 George Arnold CompSci 1989 Edu 1975 Peter Avis M/Edu 1978 Susan Hall Psy 1979 Sheila Arnold-Brown Eng 1977 Thomas Hall Bio 1983 Ian Arrowsmith Pol 1977 Wafa Aws Ling 1990 Patricia Axsom Edu 1978 Nicolette Hallett Eng 1988 George Arthur Pol 1976 Andrew Halls EcoHis/Pol 1975 Pamela Arthurs WS 1989 Elisabeth Axtell M 1971 Randall Ayling Bioche 1972 Hedy Halpert Pol 1973 Roberto Artoni Eco 1970 Ms Halsall Mus 1976 Andre Artymuik Bioche 1977 Gerald Aylward Phil 1986 Christopher Ayres SocSci 1967 Elizabeth Halsall Edu 1983 Mary Arumemi Edu 1981 Bernard Halter Che 1976 Yoshiko Asaka MS 1985 Patricia Ayton Edu 1981 Girma Azene Chere HealEco Wells Halverson CS 1987 Sergio Ascari Eco 1986 Rachid Hamadouche Soc 1987 Ruth Ascott Eng Ann Hamblen Eng 1970 Robin Ash Phil 1972 H Christine Hambling Edu 1969 Vivian Ash Bio 1988 Alison Hamer His Margaret Ashby Bio 1977 Obino Haambote SAS 1981 Claire Haase (née Pitfield) Pol/Soc 1983 Josephine Hamer Bio 1975 Patricia Ashby Edu 1989 Michael Hamer (né Denis) Eng 1970 David Ashley Soc 1972 Kathryn Hackett Eco 1967 Sydney Hadden SA 1972 James Hamill SAS 1984 Janet Ashman Edu 1970 John Hamill SAS 1985 Catherine Ashmore Bio 1973 Patricia Haddock Phy 1969 John Haden Che/CheEdu 1977 Ian Hamilton Edu 1978, Eng/Pol 1977 Richard Ashton AES 1974 Marjorie Hamilton M 1970 Brian Ashworth Che 1974/1978 Clive Hadfield Edu 1970 Miss Hadi Soc/Edu 1979 Marion Hamilton-Russell M/Eco 1973 Susan Ashworth Edu 1981 Gaynor Hamley Che 1971 Ufot Asibong-Ibe M 1982 Julia Hadingham Edu 1968 Saou Hadj-Amar Eco 1975 Alan Hamlin Eco 1982 David Asker Eng 1972 Julia Hamlin WS 1988 Javaid Aslam Pol 1987 Eric Hadley Edu 1968 David Haffey Bio 1978 James Hammersley BioComp 1986 Paul Aslin Elec 1985 John Hammond Bio/Edu 1982 Victoria Aspinall Mus 1977 Dave Hage Eco 1984 Michael Hage SocSci Juliet Hammond Edu 1972 Jonathon Asquith Eco/Pol 1977 Hamalambo Hamoonga Lan 1983 Christine Astbury Bio/Edu 1968 Janet Hague Eng 1975 Lindsay Hague (née Mercer) Per Hampton Edu 1989 Frederick Astbury M/CompSci 1976 Yang Han Lan 1988 Bernice Astling Edu 1977 His 1976 Eng/Edu 1971 David Hai Eng 1975 David Hancock Pol Kathryn Atkins Eng 1977 Anthony Hand Pol/Soc 1968 Rosemary Atkins Bio 1971 Andrew Haigh Edu 1983 Jacqueline Haigh Eng 1979 Malcolm Hand CompSci 1986 Clifford Atkinson Mus 1972 Catherine Handley M/Phy 1974 Gershon Atkinson Pol/Soc 1974 Helen Haines MS 1984 Philip Hainsworth CS 1991 Barbara Hands His 1969 Judith Atkinson Edu 1978 Susan Hanks Eco 1972 Kathryn Atkinson (née Davies) Susan Hair Mus 1989 Nuhad Haj Yusef Lan 1988 John Hannaford Edu 1978 His/Soc 1975 SAS Alison Hannah Pol 1971 Peter Atkinson Edu 1976 Unto Hakkinen Eco 1985 Marilyn Halcrow (née Stone) His Lee Hannah MS 1980 Robert Atkinson Bio 1971 Nigel Hannah Edu 1970 Timothy Atkinson Edu 1977 Melanie Hale (née Barclay) Bio/CompSci 1981 Siobhan Hannan Lan 1986

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26074_Autumn07.indd 17 1/8/07 13:00:44 Gillian Hanney Edu 1971 Monica Harris Edu 1980 Trevor Hay Soc 1978 David Hannis SA 1972 Patrick Harris Edu 1981 Maureen Hayden His Linda Hanrahan Soc 1971 Sarah Harris Eng 1978 Miss A Hayes Soc 1979 Cathi Hanson (née Miriam) Eng 1978 Stewart Harris Archt 1985 Brian Hayes Eco 1971, Eco/SocHis 1969 Janet Hanson Eng 1977 Suzanne Harris (née Bethell) Helen Hayes (née Oliver) Bio 1976 Joy Hanson (née Robinson) Eng/Edu 1979 Jennifer Hayes Edu 1970 HealStd 2001 Mrs V H Harris Lan/Ling 1973 June Hayes Pol/Soc 1976 Michael Hapgood Eng 1969 Valerie Harris SA 1979 Teresa Hayes Phil/Pol 1974 Annette Happs AES 1994 Angela Harrison Eng/His 1971 Martin Haynes Phil 1989 Michael Hapshi Phil 1978 David Harrison SocSci Mr N J Haynes Che/Resr 1979 Mohammed Haque Phy 1972 Douglas Harrison Mus 1980/1973 Richard Haynes Eng 1971 John Harbottle M 1977 Eleanor Harrison (née Roberts) Maunu Hayrynen CS 1994 Christine Harby Edu 1986 Bio 1976 Marcus Hays Eco/Soc 1978 Keith Harcourt Edu 1977 Helen Harrison SASW 1975, His 1973 Pamela Hays His 1968 Kay Hardiman Bio 1973 Ian Harrison Edu 1980 Sue Hayton WS 1988 Frances Harding His James Harrison Che 1991 Mr Hayward EcoHis/Pol 1978 Jane Harding Eng 1969 Linda Harrison Eco 1968 Keith Hayward Che/Edu 1977 Jonathan Harding Edu 1988 Paul Harrison Eco/SocHis 1974 Yuanjian He Lan 1989 Kathleen Hardisty SPSW 1986 Shirley Harrison Edu 1982 Christine Heaffey Pol 1976 David Hardman EcoStd 1988 Stephen Harrison Edu 1976 Christine Heal Bio 1968 Martin Hardman Eng 1972 Mr T P Harrison Eco 1979 Donald Heald EduB 1984 Anne-Louise Hardwick (née Holding) Valerie Harrison Edu 1985 Charles Healey Bio/Edu 1984 SW 1985 Mr Harry EcoHis 1979 Janis Healey His 1973 Christopher Hardwick SPSW 1985 Eleanor Hart Phil/Lan 1971 Meriel Heap Eng/Edu 1969, Edu 1970 William Hardwick M 1978 Helen Hart His 1976 Rosina Hearfield Che 1983 Mr J M Hardy Eco/Pol 1979 Robin Hart IP 1986 Charmaine Hearne Eng 1986 Jane Hardy Edu 1989 Adrienne Hart-Davis Phy 1969 Philip Hearse Phil/Pol 1971 Joanna Hardy Eng/Edu Richard Harthill SA 1973 Christopher Heasman Edu 1973 Michael Hardy Che 1971/1976 Roger Hartley His 1971 Satah Heath Bio 1976 Mr S E Hardy Phy 1979 Heather Hartney His 1978 Mona Hebden Edu 1967 Susan Hardy Che Anna Harvey Bio 1968 Miss A Penelope Hebgin-Barnes Tansy Hardy M/Edu 1975, Edu 1976 Brenda Harvey SA 1973 His 1991 David Hare Bio 1973 Celia Harvey (née Hodson) Jean Hedges M 1966 John Hare Phy 1976 His/Edu 1966/1967 Lesley Hedges Lan 1983 Robert Hargitt Che 1972 Clare Harvey Che 1973 Josephine Hedley (née Evans) Soc 1968 Colin Hargreaves Eco/Sta 1974, Colin Harvey Eng/Phil 1967 Max Hedley Soc 1968 Eco/SocHis 1972 Kerron Harvey Lan 1973 Mary Hedvall Eco Maureen Hargreaves M/Edu 1967, Paul Harvey Lan 1982 Lawrence Hee SASW 1979 Edu 1968 Vaughn Harvey Pol/Phil 1976 John Heeley Soc 1972 Sarah Hargreaves (née Chisholm) Faiza Hasan Eco Richard Heery Edu 1987 SASW 1974 Sabah Hasan M 1980 Jorge Heine Pol 1973 Louise Hargreaves-Cardwell Burham Haseeb Eco 1965 Birte Helberg Ling/Edu 1995 (née Pearson) WS 1989 Sarah Haseldine Edu 1975, Che 1974 Wendy Hellam Lan/Ling 1974 Christopher Harker Edu 1971 Mr S Ali Hashemi Eco Tracey Hellawell Edu 1989 Elizabeth Harker Edu 1988 Patricia Haskew Edu 1981 Hilary Helliwell Soc 1974 Keith Harker Bio 1976 Ann Haslam His 1968 Barbara Hemmings Bio 1971 Robert Harker Che/Edu 1969 Zoulikha Hassaine (née Bensafi) Mr H O H Hempy M David Harland CompSci 1988 Lan 1978 Gloria Henderson His 1973 John Harland Edu 1985 Martin Hassall Mus 1985 Ian Henderson M/Eco 1974 Nathalie Harlay Edu 1987 Abida Hassan Lan 1980 John Henderson Eco 1978, Nigel Harle M/Phil 1972 Dilip Hassasing IP 1987 HealEco 1982 Briar Harley Eng 1988 Anthony Hastings Edu 1978 Laura Henderson Edu 1973 Elizabeth Harley Eco/Sta 1974 Barbara Hastings Thomson Edu 1986 Robert Henderson SAS 1975 Nicholas Harman Edu 1983 Heather Hatcher Field Archl 2000 Robert Henderson Phy 1978 Andrew Harmer SW 1977 Gillian Hatfield His 1973 Stephen Henderson Eco/Sta 1973 Martin Harmer SPSW 1988 Linda Hatfield His 1977 Carol Hendrickson M Steven Harness Edu 1977 Janet Hathaway Edu 1970 Elizabeth Hendry WS 1987 Jane Harp His 1977 Patsy Hattersley Bio 1971 Margaret Hendry Pol 1975 Anthony Harper Eco 1969 Bjorg Haukeli Eng 1996 Nigel Henery Pol 1974 Edmund Harper Edu 1971, SocSci 1970 Esther Hault Archt 1988 John Henry Eng 1969 Gareth Harper Phil 1976/1979 Mr R R Hausen Eng/Lan Kenneth Henry M 1973 Harold Harper Bio/Edu 1982 Pauline Hawker (née Measham) Manus Henry CompSci 1988, Mr J L Harper His/Pol His/Soc 1976 CompSci/M 1984 Leslie Harper EcoHis 1978 Nicolas Hawkes Lan 1973 Derek Henshall Edu 1983, Che 1981 Stephen Harper SocSci Verity Hawkes Eng 1976 Elizabeth Henshall Lan 1984 Winifred Harper (née Dunlop) Bio 1974 Miss Hawkey His 1979 Simon Henson Eng 1976 Stephen Harpin His 1972 Elizabeth Hawkey Eng 1967 Michael Henton Bio/Edu 1985 Rosamund Harre Edu 1980 Christina Hawkins MS 1973 Michael Hepburn SA 1978 Patrick Harrex Mus/Edu 1968 Kevin Hawkins Edu 1984 Vincent Heraud ElecEngn 1997 Graham Harrington Che 1981 Nigel Hawkins Phy/CompSci 1976 Frederick Herbert Phy 1967 Claudia Harris Lan 1977 David Hawkinson Edu 1988 Lesley Herbert Edu 1975 Colin Harris Edu 1983 Margaret Hawksworth (née Dodds) Paul Herbert Edu 1968 Dawn Harris Edu 1989 Eng/Edu 1969 Isabel Herd Mus 1980 Jeremy Harris His 1976 Susan Haworth SA 1968 Mr V Herink Eng John Harris Edu 1979 David Hay Pol 1975 Wolfgang Herles Lan Martin Harris M/CompSci 1977, Edu Marie Hay His 1971 Christopher Heron Phy 1978

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26074_Autumn07.indd 18 1/8/07 13:00:45 Bradley Herrmann His Brian Hirst Phy/Edu 1983 Peter Hertzman Eco 1981 Evelyn Hirst M/CompSci 1976 Ian Heseltine Edu 1982 Geoffrey Histed Edu 1968 Sophia Heseltine SocSci Linda Hitchin CompSci 1989, Soc 1992 Andrew Hesketh Phy 1971 Trudi Hitchin MS 1979 Christopher Heslop His 1976 Russell Hitchins EcoStd 1988 Mr Hester Soc/Edu 1979 Raymond Hite His 1975 Esther Heszler Eng Than Hnit Archt 1986 Stevan Hetmanczyk Soc 1971/1972 Chung-luk Ho Mus 1987 Leslie Heward Edu 1982 Barbara Hoadley Soc 1970 Linda Hewett Phy/Edu John Hoar SA 1974 Jennifer Hewitt Phil/Lan Philip Hoare SASW 1975 John Hewitt Phil 1972 Brenda Hobbs Eco 1971 Kent Hewitt Phil Catherine Hobbs Psy 1978 Mary Hewitt Soc 1971 Andrew Hobson Pol 1989 Robert Hewitt Che 1966 Linda Hobson-West WS 1987 Roger Hewitt Edu 1989 Arthur Hockaday Edu 1981 “It’s lovely to hear from Sally Hewitt HealEco 1973 Mr C J Hocker Pol graduates who have found their Sarah Hewitt Edu 1988 Trevor Hockin SA 1973 names on the Grad Hunt list and Stephen Hewitt HealEco 1978 Jeffrey Hockley Edu 1977 have contacted us with their own or Nigel Hewlett EngLit/Lan 1969 Dennis Hodge Eng 1971 friends addresses. We really hope that Kenneth Hewson Eco 1977 Judith Hodge (née Dunhill) Eco 1973 everyone continues to help us in our Caroline Hewson-Stoate Soc 1976 Martin Hodge M/Eco 1972 quest to re-connect with graduates Stephen Heyman Soc 1974 Mrs P M Hodge Pol 1986 who no longer hear from us,” says Jing Carl Heywood Airport Mng 1999 Clive Hodges Pol 1978 Wood who processes all the responses Susan Heywood Eco 1967 Joanne Hodgetts (née Maud) Bio 1975 Octavia Heywood-Kenny MS 1991 Mr M Hodgkinson Phil 1979 that we receive into the ofﬁ ce. Wendy Hibbert-Jones WS 1988 Ann Hodgson Edu 1988 Antony Hickling Edu 1981 John Hodgson Che/CheEdu 1983 Miss A S Holt Eng 1979 Tim Hickson Eco 1974 Robert Hodgson Eco 1971 Anthony Holt Che/CheEdu 1978 Timothy Hickson Eco 1974 Sally Hodgson Eng 1975 Paulo Hidalo Pol/Soc 1978 Susan Hodgson (née Gray) Eco 1969 Jennifer Holt (née Uren) M/Edu Stefan Hiesener Elec 1988 Gayner Hodson Che 1973 Mack Holt His 1975 Bridget Higgins Pol/Soc 1976 Malcolm Hodson M 1977 Margaret Holt (née Old) Edu 1976 Frederick Higgins Eco/SocHis 1976 Patricia Hodway Bio 1971 Neil Holt His 1976 James Higgins Archt 1996 Linda Hoffman (née Rees) Thomas Holt-Wilson 1974 Jeffrey Higgins Pol 1976 Eng/Edu 1977 Anthony Homer SASW 1979 Martin Higgins Edu 1976 Mr U G Hoffmann His Frances Homewood Pol/Soc 1976 Antonia Higgs Eng/Edu 1978 Mark Hofman M 1974 Rober Honey Psy 1988 Rosalind Higgs Che 1969 Evelyn Hofs Jeremy Hood Phy 1974 Terry Higgs Edu 1982 Nora Hogan SA 1974 Suzanne Hood Eng/His 1979 David Highfield Archt 1983 Thomas Hogan Phil/Pol 1974 Ean Hooker Mus 1987 Avril Highley His 1972 David Hogg Phil/M 1970 Miss Hooper M/CompSci 1978 Richard Hil Soc 1984 Michaelle Hogg SA 1980 John Hooper SAS 1985 John Hilditch EduStd 1971 Susan Hoitt SocSci Stephen Hope Edu Linda Hildreth His Poppy Holden Mus 1974 Joanna Hopkinson SA 1977 Robert Hildyard Edu 1970 Susan Holden SASW 1977 Steffen Hoppe Elec Mr A R Hill Eco 1979 Brigitte Holdijk Pol 1977 David Hopwood Edu 1979 Andrew Hill Edu 1974, Che/Edu 1973 Pauline Holdsworth AES 1989 Christine Horan Edu 1980 Andrew Hill EcoHis/Soc 1975 John Holland SA 1977 Gail Hordley SW 1982 Barbara Hill Lan/Phil 1977 John Holland Bio/Edu 1989 Kipps Horn Mus 1984 Christopher Hill Che 1987/1980 Gillian Holliday SASW 1982 Angela Hornagold Che 1970 Geoffrey Hill Che/CheEdu 1978 Teresa Holligan (née Knight) Mr Hornby CompSci/M 1979 Jane Hill Bio 1986 Phil/His 1978 Mrs Horne Phil 1979 John Hill Eco 1974 David Hollings Che 1975 Kay Horne Edu 1975 Patricia Hill Bio 1975 Rosamund Hollingsworth His/Edu 1976 David Horner Edu 1970 Paul Hill Edu 1988, M/Phy 1987 Ian Hollingworth Edu 1970, Kenard Horner Phy 1981 Peter Hill M/Comp 1972 M/Eco 1968 Malcolm Hornsby His 1989 Robin Hill SASW 1983 Sean Hollinshead Che 1988 Janet Horriben Edu 1969 Sheran Hill Eng 1976 Robert Holloway Phil/Eng 1966 John Horsfall Bio 1976 Mr W R Hill Eng/Soc 1966 Janice Hollowood SocSci 1975, Monique Horsfall Eng/Edu 1974, Dora Hills Edu 1973 Edu 1976 Edu 1975 Edward Hills Edu 1971 Christopher Hollugan Phil/Eng 1978 Debra Horsley SASW 1982 Brian Hilton Che/CheEdu 1982 Sarah Holman Bio/Che 1973 Gail Horsley Eng 1977 Janet Hilton Edu 1973 Gavin Holme Soc 1973 Mr J W Horwood Bio Adrienne Hindle Edu 1971 Alison Holmes Soc 1972 Judith Hosegood Pol 1973 Joy Hindle M/CompSci 1978 Barbara Holmes SA 1969 Sadao Hoshina Eco Sylvia Hines Eng 1982/1980 Dennis Holmes SW 1987 Anne Hosie Bio/CompSci 1979 Rob Hingley Lan/Ling 1978 Jennifer Holmes Edu 1969 Rachel Hosker (née Dibb) HealStd 2001 Robert Hingley Lan 1978 Johanna Holmes Eng 1972 Dawn Hosking WS Kiran Hingorani Edu 1984 Margaret Holmes SP 1983 Ariko Hooya MS 1985 Jane Hinman Edu 1966 Michael Holmes Edu 1977 Robert Hough Phy 1971 Jennifer Hintlian Eng 1980 Robert Holmes Edu 1984 Eleanor House Lan 1976 Christopher Hinton His 1971 Sara Holmes SA 1975 Anne Houston SASW 1980 Robert Hiorns EcoStd 1985 Sylvia Holmes IP 1986 Noelle Houston Archt 1991 Adrian Hirst Che 1972 Susan Holroyd Pol/Soc 1970 Brian Howard Edu 1978

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26074_Autumn07.indd 19 1/8/07 13:00:47 Claire Howard Eng 1985/1978 Ana Huntly Edu 1978 Che 1969/1974 John Howard Che/Edu 1974, Edu 1975 Robert Huntly Edu 1976 Elizabeth Vicars-Miles Bio 1971 Lionel Howard Bio 1977 John Hunton Eng 1974 Susan Vicary Eng 1974 Rosaleen Howard Edu 1973 Kent Hurley Archt 1978 Hazel Vick Phy/Edu 1974, Edu 1975 Susan Howard SA 1973 Margaret Hurst Eng/Soc 1969 Donald Vickers Che 1969 Mr W J Howard Bio 1972 Mary Hurst Eng 1975 Jennifer Vickers Edu 1986 William Howard BioComp 1972 Philip Hurst SASW 1980 Ian Vidale Che/Edu 1972 Terence Howarth Soc 1973/1974 Susanna Hurst Bio 1975 Somasiri Vidanagama SocSci Winifred Howarth His/Pol 1966 Margaret Hurt Eng/Phil 1978 Rodolphe Villars AES 1987 Miss Howatson Soc 1979 Leslie Huson Bio 1974 Kevan Vincent Eco 1967 Clare Howcroft (née Thompson) Abdulabbas Hussain Phy 1985 Peter Vincent Phil 1978 HealStd 2001 Mohamoud Hussein SAS 1978 Balazs Vincent-Batyka Soc 1967 Gerald Howell MS 1974 Maison Husseini CS 1996 Mark Viner Pol 1976 Judith Howell Lan/Ling 1978 Christopher Hussey Bio 1979, Christine Vinten (née Allen) Richard Howell Edu 1988 Bio/Che 1975 Bio/CompSci 1978 Trevor Howells Archt 1980 Richard Hutchimson Che 1982 Carol Vinter (née James) Eng 1978 David Howes Edu 1968 Gary Hutchinson Phil/Pol Linda Virgo Eng/Mus 1977 Karen Howes SASW 1979 Kenneth Hutchinson Che 1984 Ann Virr SA 1985 Anthony Howitt M 1972 Lynne Hutchinson Bio 1975 Giuseppe Vitaletti Eco 1982 James Howley Pol 1989 Margaret Hutchinson Soc 1974 Barbara Vogel Pol Mr K S Howley Edu 1987 Paul Hutchinson Pol 1974 Detlef Vogt SocSci Jennifer Howse Pol 1969 Peter Hutchinson Eco/Sta 1972 Graham Vokes Edu 1968 Daniel Vic Hoyland Mus 1975 Richard Hutchinson Che 1978 Jugen Vlker Eco John Hoysted Archl 1987 Alan Hutchison Soc 1977 Fiona Von Heider Archt Adrian Hubbard Che/CheEdu 1988 Alexander Hutchison Edu 1984 Hartmut Von Roden Eng/Lan Gillian Hubbard Edu 1988 Stephanie Hutchison Edu 1983 Mr E H Von Schaper Eco Barbara Huck Pol 1976 Sandra Hutton (née Smith) SP 1987 Malcolm Vose Pol 1967 Anthony Huckle Soc 1973 Tahira Hyder Eco 1989 Juergen Vosskoetter SocSci Brian Hudson AES 1986 Wan Hyeon Phil 1989 Dimitrios Vougas Eco 1987 Christopher Hudson Eng 1983 Anthony Hyland CS 1979 John Vulliany Edu 1986 Deborah Hudson Eng/Phil 1978 Virginia Hyne (née Zenoen) Janice Hudson Edu 1979 BioComp 1991 John Hudson His 1972 Peter Hynes Eng 1980 Key List Rachel Hdson His 1975, Edu 1977 David Hytch Edu 1968 Richard Hudson Bio/CompSci 1979 Samuel Hudson AES 1971 AES Applied Educational Annemarie Huerlimann Eng Studies Archt Architecture Geoffrey Hueting Soc 1970 V Archl Archaeology Paul Huffman Edu 1980 Bio Biology, Biological Miss Hughes Pol/Edu 1979 Jonathan Vagg Soc 1976 Bioche Biochemistry Miss A S Hughes His 1979 Lauri-Kullervo Vaigo M B Broadcasting Che Chemistry Alan Hughes Edu 1980 Juliet Vale MS 1981 Comp Computation, Computer Ann Hughes Edu 1969 Ana Valenzuela Archt 1989 CS Conservation Studies Brian J Hughes Edu 1978 Donna Valgardson Eng 1972 Eco Economics, Economical Brian Hughes MS 1984 Mannu Valionen HealEco 1986 Edu Education, Educational Elec Electronics, Electronic Carol Hughes BioComp 1988 Elizabeth Valkhoff (née Munro) Eng English Dudley Hughes Eco 1974 Lan 1981 Engn Engineering Miss H M Hughes His/Pol 1979 Mr Van de Zande SA 1975 Heal Heath, Healthcare Laurence Hughes Mus/Thea 1975 Eddy Van Doorslaer HealEco 1983 His History IP Information Processing Peter Hughes CompSci 1988 Ludolph Van Hasselt Che/Tec 1978 Lan Language Robin Hughes Eng 1984 Mark Stuart Van Reysen Lit Literature Rosemary Hughes Edu 1985 Bio/CompSci 1978 Ling Linguistics Stephen Hughes Eco 1978 David Vance Bio 1974 M Mathematics, Mathematical Susanne Hughes Bio 1969 Jorma Vanninen Eco Mng Management Victoria Hughes Pol 1978 Antonia Vanrenen Eng 1969 MS Medieval Studies William Hughs EcoHis/Pol 1978 Barry Varley-Tipton Edu 1969 Mus Music Karen Huitt Edu 1984 Paul Varney Che 1973 PESH Politics, Economics and Anthony Hull Phil 1974 Social History John Vartholomeos Eco 1974 Phil Philosophy Edmund Hull Phil/Pol 1970 David Vaughan SP 1986 Phy Physics Jennifer Hullinger Eng 1986 Brenda Veilleux Bio 1979 Pol Politics Angela Hulme M/Edu 197 Cento Veljanovski Eco 1982 PPE Politics, Philosophy and Coralie Hum Edu 1979 Economics Benjamin Vengesa Bio 1976 Psy Psychology Ian Humberstone Phil/Lan 1971, Barry Venning His 1977 Resr Resources Phil 1973 Oscar Vera Eco 1981 SA Social Administration Susan Humbles SPSW 1985 Carlos Vera Guardia Archt 1976 SAS Southern African Studies Susan Humm Bio 1975 Pedro Vera Hormazabal SocSci SASW Social Administration and Social Work Peter Humpherson Bio 1986 Stephen Verde SA 1978 SESH Sociology, Economics and Shona Humphrey 1999 Dimitrius Veresoglou Bio 1984 Social History Ian Humphreys Edu 1970 Valerio Vergadoro Eco 1988 Sci Science Brian Humter Edu 1988 Jatinder Verma His 1976 Soc Sociology, Social SPSW Social Policy and Social Neil Hunt Pol 1972 Mahendra Verma Lan Work Raymond Hunt Edu 1969 Usha Verma Phil Sta Statistics Margaret Hunter Bio 1974 Caroline Verney Mus 1978 Std Studies Roy Hunter M/Edu 1974, Edu 1975 Peter Verney Bio 1976 SW Social Work Tec Technology John Huntley Pol 1972 Miles Vernor Eng 1969, SA 1970 Thea Theatre Robert Huntley Edu 1976 Jane Vian (née Bradshaw) WS Women’s Studies

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Please send your entries for the next issue of Grapevine to the Development and Alumni Relations Office, University of York, Heslington, York YO10 5DD. We would love to find out where you are and what you are up to. If you know any graduates who are not on the Grapevine mailing list please encourage them to send us their address. Edited entries are published at www.york.ac.uk/alumni.

1966 bands before they got too famous Education for the Diocese of London. and expensive. I have many happy For the past fi ve years, I’ve been ANDREW CAPES (Economics and memories of concerts, gigs and balls heavily involved in creating new Economic History, Derwent) from that era. secondary schools. I was awarded I am now Travel Plans Offi cer for ‘I have many happy OBE in 2007. I have three children, and in 2004 the eldest, like me, the Highlands and Islands Regional memories of concerts, gigs Transport Partnership in Scotland. It’s graduated from York in History. certainly a challenge, since we cover and balls from that era’ an area 25 times the size of Greater 1973 London but with only about one 1972 20th of the population – and where MARTIN BROOKES LAURA BARKER (née Davies) London has buses and taxis, we have (Economics, Derwent) (Physics and Education, Langwith) planes and ferries! After leaving York, I went to I’ve always been fascinated by how Birmingham Polytechnic for an MSc 1968 things work – my parents tell me in Town Planning. I worked in local that I used to take my toys apart! authority planning departments – so it’s not really surprising that SIMON MADDISON for a while, and I’m now a self- I’ve spent most of my working (Social Science, Derwent) employed Planning Consultant. I life in physics! After 30 years of Spring 2007 Grapevine recalled the married Gwen, a French teacher, teaching, juggling family life and Hendrix gig back in 1967 – though in 1981 and we have two children, a career, I was getting a bit jaded. we think that John Beresford Nicola and Christopher who work in So I went part-time to dedicate (History, Langwith, 1967; Alcuin, PR and tax accountancy. We all live more of my efforts to my work 1969) must have missed Hendrix if near Oxford. with GirlguidingUK. Eventually, he was in Derwent because the gig I decided that I’d had enough of was actually in Langwith! We were 1974 teaching altogether. Thirty-one lucky enough to book Hendrix for years at the chalk face was more the bargain price of £600. It was just ALAN POOL than a life sentence! My long-term before Hey Joe became a big hit, (Politics, Langwith) plan is now to go bird watching in so we were impressed that he still Grapevine magazine seems to be South America, but in the meantime turned up! There was an amazingly biased towards news about I haven’t quite escaped physics yet. diverse music scene on campus graduates who have achieved in the I’ve got myself a fabulous little part- then, which was very accessible in Harriet Harman (Politics, 1972), Harry time job as an Offi ce Administrator intimate venues. Between 1965 Enfi eld (Politics, Derwent, 1982) or for a company that makes keyless and 1968 it included Rod Stewart, Greg Dyke (Politics, Derwent, 1974) locks. It’s great: no preparation and Manfred Mann, The Who, The sense. This is not to decry what these no marking! Graham Bond Association, Sonny people have accomplished – but Terry and Brownie McGee, Roland making signifi cant sums of money Kirk, and The Don Rendall and Ian ROSY D’SOUZA seems to be an important criterion Carr Quintet (with Michael Garrick (English and Language, Langwith) for inclusion! I am a sales assistant on piano) performing the Dusk Fire on the Meat and Fish counter at a in Heslington. The Amadeus Quartet Waitrose food store in Cambridge. was also in residence and gave many Whilst I don’t split atoms or work as concerts. Then it was standing room a Cabinet Minister, I’m proud of the only in Derwent and Langwith JCR skills I use. And like Harry Enfi eld, I TV rooms to watch the latest Stones have been known to make people release on Top of the Pops! laugh – although not professionally! 1969 1978

GERALDINE FRADGLEY (née Bray) SEBASTIAN CODY (Biology, Derwent) (Mathematics and Music, Derwent) Jimi Hendrix played in Langwith. Last October, the Boyle family threw Very few gigs were in Derwent a party in honour of my 50th dining room: it is the wrong shape THOMAS PERYER birthday at their artists’ studio in with the stage at one end. Phil (English and History, Alcuin) Spitalﬁ elds. All parts of my life were Harding was the college Social Having spent my working life in represented, including of course Secretary in 1967 and 1968. He various London school and church York. Cathy Courtney (English, always seemed to have his ﬁ nger education roles, I’m now living in Derwent, 1977) was among the on the pulse, managing to book Bath and working as Director of guests.

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26074_Autumn07.indd 21 1/8/07 13:00:51 The Grapevine 1980 1981 1984 NEIL CUTLAND PAUL LUXTON (Computer Science and Physics, TORI ADAMS (Mathematics, Langwith) (Politics, Alcuin) Wentworth) I’ve been banging on about ‘zero In my dreams I frequently return I worked for carbon housing’ for 20 years now, to York. I am walking down to 14 years for and all of a sudden the Government the lake through Vanbrugh on a British Gas/ declares it to be a major agenda. summer evening. The windows are Transco/National It’s nice to think of oneself as a open and I hear someone playing a Grid. I was made redundant in 2004 visionary, but I’m not sure a 20-year trumpet. I was very happy that day. and went to work for the Supplies time frame qualiﬁ es! Now a life and a continent away, I Department of Leeds Teaching live a completely different life (and Hospitals NHS Trust. I managed AVERIL a different gender) but I always two teams of ten people in total, MACDONALD (née remember my days at York. maintaining a database of 200,000 Frost) (Physics, items and creating 50,000 orders a Alcuin and PGCE, ANN GRAYBURN year. My work on software there 1981) (Music, Wentworth) won a Government Opportunities I took a career I’m working as a piano teacher award in 2005 and a Laureate in the break from school privately at Wells Cathedral School Computerworld Honors on 2006. I’m teaching, during and at Marlborough College. I give now working as Programme Support which time I discovered an expertise solo piano recitals and accompany Manager for the Trust as we try to in science communication. One PhD singers and instrumentalists. I’m make savings of over £100 million and research programme later, I have involved with the local Incorporated in three years. My area of expertise contributed to 17 school textbooks Society of Musicians, and I’m in Microsoft Project is being used and I now develop free teaching trying to ﬁ nd time to get back into to help with the performance resources for schools, including composing! management of the multiple websites, CDs, posters and a talk projects. entitled ‘Fantastic Plastic – or How to Make Your First Million!’ It’s not quite what I envisaged when I left ‘It’s not what I envisaged... the best York – but then the best careers seem to be unplanned! (Don’t tell careers seem to be unplanned!’ the students that...) 25th Anniversary reunion weekend

York’s fi rst 25th anniversary of CHARLES PARRY graduation reunion weekend (Physics, Vanbrugh, 1981) was in early May, coinciding with ‘The University’s growth over 25 the Roses weekend. Our party of years has been impressive, but it’s alumni and their guests took part good to see some things never in campus tours, had lunch with change – like the Physics Building, college provosts and enjoyed an Central Hall and Vanbrugh X block. evening out in York. Even the early The ducks looked pretty similar spring weather couldn’t dampen our too...’ graduates’ mood! JOHN SINCLAIR (Economics and Politics, Vanbrugh, 1982) We plan to host an alumni reunion ‘In those days we really believed weekend on 1st May 2009 – the fi rst that “education is a right, not a bank holiday weekend. privilege”. As I walked up the steps of Heslington Hall, I could honestly hear the ghostly echoes of those sit- JAN SIM (English, Vanbrugh, 1982) in protests: “Organise, occupy, smash ‘I had a fantastic time seeing the education cuts!”. Was it our friends, some for the fi rst time since failure to appreciate what we had graduation – as well as that led to the today’s debt-based, re-acquainting myself with York!’ fee-paying regime?’

‘I had a fantastic time seeing friends, some Nikki Hicks (née Caparn) (English, Derwent, 1982) and Jonathan for the ﬁ rst time since graduation – as well Culling (Chemistry, Derwent, 1982) as re-acquainting myself with York!’

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MUSTAPHA AKCHICH MARK O’BRIEN (History, Langwith) (Linguistics, Wentworth) and JACQUI WILLIAMS (History, James, 2000) It’s always nice to hear about York We met over a glass of Merrydown cider in Vanbrugh, 1998. Mark’s nickname University. My eldest son was born was ‘the bin man’ and he was known for his impressions of gibbons and there. It’s marked our lives forever. kookaburras! I wasn’t deterred and we got married on 12 August 2006 at Thanks Grapevine. Now my eldest the church of St Mary Magdalen in Knighton, Leicester. A large number of son would love to study at York. friends from York attended the wedding. The best man was Andrew Roberts I wonder if any institution could (PPE, Wentworth, 1996 and Political Philosophy, 1997). The ushers were John grant him a scholarship and make his Purle (Philosophy and Economics, Goodricke, 1996), Martyn Fisher (Politics dream come true. and English, Derwent, 1996) and Martin Bush (Computer Science, Wentworth, 1996). One of the readers was Paul Marks (Political Philosophy).

1992 from anyone from the 1996 Social MIRIAM WALLER (née Harper) Policy graduates or staff. My email is STEPHEN LEAH (Derwent, Chemistry) [email protected]. (Chemistry, Wentworth) Richard and I would like to I work as a Computer Programmer announce the arrival of Bridget on at the British Library in Yorkshire, 7 January 2007 weighing 7lb 8oz, CHRIS KNIGHTING where I’ve been for seven years. a sister for Luke aged four. (Philosophy, Derwent) Meanwhile, I’m also Methodist local I’m still happily settled in Falkirk, preacher, leading worship in many working in the Registry at Heriot- churches in York. As if that weren’t Watt University. I got hitched to enough, I’m also actively involved in Kate, my lovely partner of three the ‘Palestine Solidarity Campaign’. years, last September at Edinburgh I went on a tour of Israel and the Zoo! Our honeymoon in Tanzania in West Bank in April 2007 and met a early February 2007 was just in time wide variety of people who have for the cold weather. Big hello to all suffered injustice or are working for those 1996 Derwent D block kids out a solution. Being beckoned through there – you’re awfully quiet! a military check point in Hebron by a soldier waving a machine gun at me 1997 was one of my most memorable, if 1996 unnerving, experiences. MARK SALMON (History, Vanbrugh) HANNAH JARVIS and HELEN SALMON (née Bazeley) 1993 (Social Policy, James) (History, Alcuin, 1997) I have been working as a Nurse We had a baby boy, Benjamin Roy NAOMI SLADE Advisor for Innovex (UK) Limited Thomas, 9lb 8.5oz, on 24 December (Biology, Vanbrugh) since October 2005. Currently I’m 2006. He is a welcome brother for Chris Wlaznik and I would like to on a programme which provides Lucy (born in 2000) and Jessica (born announce (albeit belatedly) the education and clinical sessions to GP in 2003). arrival of a brother for Holly and surgeries in Essex. In March 2007, Isabella. Zachary Christopher Lucien after a number of interviews and HANNAH was born on 11 June 2006. He is a an assessment centre, I was named SCHEILLING lovely, smiley little boy and we are Nurse Advisor of the Year 2007 at (née Reeve) all absolutely delighted. the PharmaField Awards at the Royal (Mathematics, Lancaster Hotel, London. This was James) the ﬁ rst time that my employer, Will and I are Innovex, had won the Nurse Advisor pleased to category in the seven year history of announce the the awards. In 2006 and again this arrival of our year, the Nurse Manager category beautiful daughter, was also won by Innovex, so we Rose Susan, swept the ﬂ oor! I’m still living in born on 27 Colchester, Essex. I’d love to hear February 2007.

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EMMA GALASSO (née Williams) ANTHONY HOLLINGWORTH ANDREW (History and Politics, Goodricke) (PPE, Wentworth) BROOMHEAD After reading in the last issue about On 7 October 2006, I married (Economics, the arrival of son of Mark and Jessica Megan Parrington Goodricke) Wilberforce (Economics and Politics, at the University and Goodricke, 1998 and Psychology, of Pennsylvania in CHRISTINA Goodricke, 1998) (congratulations, Philadelphia, USA. We LOVELOCK by the way!), I realised that I had fi rst met at York where (Physics, been remiss in not announcing we lived in Wentworth Wentworth, the arrival of my daughter before College and Megan was 2003) now. Born on 17 August 2005, Sofi a completing a semester We were Rhiannon is the best excuse I could abroad programme in married in think of for taking a hiatus from the English Department. Other York September work for alumni attending the wedding were 2006 at a few the best man, Tim Cooper (English, The Clumber Park Hotel, Notting- years. Goodricke, 2000), along with hamshire. We had a wonderful day Anthony Jeannette Elsworth (English, with our families and close friends. and I Langwith, 2000), Julia Lambo now live (English, 2000) and Ade Lambo SARAH BURNAGE (née Lomas) with her (Environmental Science, Langwith, (History of Art, Vanbrugh) and on two 2000). We now live and work in TIM BURNAGE (Music, James, 2002) acres Philadelphia but often refl ect fondly We were of rural Pennsylvania mountain on how our time at York brought us married on top, and we delight in showing together. 12 August her the wild turkeys and deer that 2006 at St congregate in the garden! LI JIN Michael-le- (Computer Science, Vanbrugh) Belfrey, York. Sarah is in ‘Wild turkeys and the fi nal year of her PhD at deer congregate York in the History of Art in the garden’ Department and Tim is 1999 currently working for KHALID SHAHJAHAN (Biology and York Schools Education, Langwith and and Youth GEMMA SHAHJAHAN (née Priestley) Trust as a (English Language and Linguistics, I married Jia Li in Shanghai in 2004. secondary Goodricke, 2001) I’m now an engineer and a group schools We met in 1998 leader in an Investment Company in worker. and married on Pudong, Shanghai. My family has a 19 August 2006 close relationship with the University at the Merchant of York. My father, Professor Ya-Quiu 2003 Adventurer’s Jin, was a visiting Professor in the Hall, York. The wedding was in Department of Electronics in 1993 LIZZY DIJEH true Oscars fashion with a theme and my sister, Chen Jin (Langwith, (English, Goodricke) of bow ties, tuxes, posh frocks and 1997), graduated from the My play, High Life, was performed as glamour! We had a brilliant day Department of Economics. part of the Tiata Delights Festival of in the perfect city. Our family also new African Writing at Soho Theatre gave us an Asian-style post-wedding 2001 in West London in April this year. party at the Marriott Hotel, Waltham It was directed by Olusola Oyeleye, Abbey in November 2006, and we’re PAUL JOBLING Associate Director of Porgy and Bess. now making plans to have a further (Chemistry, Langwith) I graduated from the Royal Court wedding reception in Bangladesh My time at York was so special and Theatre Young Writer’s Programme around 2008, where Khalid’s family was a formative era of my life. I (Critical Mass) in 2006. I am currently originate. We’re currently living in made little to no impact on campus an assistant tutor to playwright Leo Hove Edge, Brighouse. Khalid is a life and have no photos to share, but Butler at the Royal Court Theatre. I solicitor at a large Leeds law fi rm the people I met and friends I made have recently been selected by the whilst Gemma is a marketing and were very special. When I Royal Court to represent the UK business development executive for recommence my OU modules, I’ll at the 2007 World Interplay Young a national construction company in pick courses that have summer Writer’s Festival in North Wakefi eld. schools at York! Queensland, Australia in July.

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LOTTI SALTER (née Wallace) 2004 (History, Vanbrugh) David and I got married on 11 DEBBIE (née Gooch) (Psychology, Derwent) and ROBERT EDWARDS November 2006. I am now a qualiﬁ ed (Mathematics and Physics, Derwent, 2005) midwife working in Guildford.

We met in our ﬁ rst year in Derwent D Block and married on 2 September 2006 in Cambridge, with Simon Thomas (Biology, Vanbrugh, 2005) as best man and Bridgit Campbell (Psychology, Langwith, 2004) as one of the bridesmaids. We’re both long standing members of York University Basket- ball Club, and are proud to have joined the team in holy matrimony! Former York students were reunited on our wedding day, as Rob’s parents, Steve and Sheila Edwards (Sociology, Langwith, 1973) met at York and married in 1973.

Booking and payment details

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staff from the Development and 29 March 2008. As well as conferring Autumn 2007 Alumni Relations team, then enjoy degrees on new graduates, the an exciting afternoon with friends ceremony will be a celebration for BA Festival 9 to 15 September and family at York’s award winning alumni in the region and the families racecourse. One of the UK’s biggest celebrations of both groups. If you would like to attend, please register by Friday of science, the annual BA Festival We are delighted to offer graduates of Science, is to be hosted by the 30 November 2007 at alumni@ tickets at a special price of £20 for york.ac.uk and your details will be University of York. Visit www.york. the County Stand. Try your luck and ac.uk/admin/presspr/ba for details forwarded to the Graduation Office. enjoy the last race meeting of the They are organising the event in of events taking place on campus season! and in the City. Beijing and will send you all the To book the reception and/or your information you need in order to Pub crawl for 1997 intake County Stand race tickets contact take part. 6 October Jing Wood (01904 434467 or email [email protected]) or complete the Bronya Norton (Biology, booking form on the previous page. Goodricke, 2001) is organising an informal reunion/pub crawl for Calling all new graduates alumni who met at York in 1997. 14 November The event begins at 12 noon in the Deramore Arms, Heslington This year’s 2007 graduates who are and winds up in the evening at living and working in the London ‘the Lowther/The Gallery/Toffs/ area are invited to a graduate Wherever!’ Contact Bronya through evening reception. Contact Jing the Development and Alumni Wood (01904 434467 or email jww2@ Relations Office on alumni@york. york.ac.uk) to find out more about ac.uk. this event and to book your place! Vanbrugh 40th Annual Alumni Anniversary 14 – 15 June Race Day and Morning Spring 2008 Reception 13 October Vanbrugh College’s celebrations Asia Paciﬁ c begin after lunch on Saturday 14 On the morning of Race Day you are Graduation Ceremony June and go through to midday on invited to a reception from 10.30am 29 March Sunday 15 June 2008. Do let us know to midday with light refreshments how you would like to celebrate and in Heslington Hall. Come along and The University’s first graduation what you would like to see in the find out about York’s plans for the ceremony in the Asia Pacific region programme by emailing college@ future. Mingle with friends and meet will take place in Beijing on york.ac.uk. It would be wonderful to hear from JCR chairs and members. Get together for Guys and Dolls 1999! 6 October Alcuin 40th anniversary Katherine Manuel, Lucy Parker, Isla Wilson née Newman and Beth Jones are organising a reunion in York for all Guys and Dolls cast The Alcuin College anniversary will and crew from the 1999 production in Central Hall. take place over Easter 2008 – keep For more details email [email protected] an eye on our website and the next issue of Grapevine for further details. Your copy of the College Life, enclosed with this magazine, will give you a flavour of what’s going on within your college and its plans for the future.

URY 40th anniversary 14 June

Hannah Green and the team at University Radio York are organising a special event with Ranjan Karunaratne, the first ever URY station manager, as speaker. Email [email protected] if you would like to join the celebrations.

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Browse instore or visit www.york.ac.uk/commercialservices/retail All available from the Costcutter store, Market Square on campus. Tel 01904 434866 For your order form email [email protected] or contact Caroline Leafe Tel 01904 434866 Retail Services, 1st Floor Helix House, University of York, YO10 5DD

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The Development and Alumni Relations Ofﬁ ce cordially invites graduates and friends to a morning reception at Heslington Hall from 10.30am to 11.30am.

This reception will give you an opportunity to ﬁ nd out what is happening on campus and York’s plans for the future over coffee. Bring your family and friends along and enjoy the thrill and excitement of the ﬁ nal race day meeting of the season at York racecourse.

Gates open at 11.15am First race starts at 14.05pm

We are delighted to offer graduates, family and friends a special ticket price for the County Stand of £20 per person.*

To purchase your ticket, please either complete and return the booking form on page 25 inside or ring Jing Wood on 01904 434467. *This offer only applies to graduates who buy their tickets in advance via the Development and Alumni Relations Ofﬁ ce by Monday 1 October 2007.

We look forward to receiving your booking.

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