Shelter from the Storm – page 05

From the River Wear Hild to the Black Sea (via the Mary Rose) – page 08

The Art of Seeding Bede the Dream – page 11 Private Andrew Wilson, Durham Light Infantry Alumni – page 14 St Hild’s in the 1930s Association and the 1960s – page 20 magazine

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Principal’s Letter – page 03

Shelter from the Storm – page 05

From the River Wear to the Black Sea (via the Mary Rose) – page 08

The Art of Seeding the Dream – page 11

Private Andrew Wilson, Durham Light Infantry – page 14

Thomas Derrick Griffiths – page 16

St Hild’s in the 1930s and the 1960s – page 20

Modern Pentathlon at Bede College in the 1960s – page 24

Congratulations – page 25

Alumni News – page 26

Staff News – page 30

Clubs and Societies – page 32

Scholarships and Awards – page 36

In Memoriam – page 46

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Dear Friends. This will be the last letter I write to you as Principal of Hild Bede because, as many of you know, I am standing down from the role as from the end of August. I must emphasise that this was not an easy decision for me to take. I love Hild Bede and always will, but felt for all sorts of reasons (some professional and some personal) that I was not the right person to take our beloved College on into the future.

easier. My research work is ensure that it is honoured and also very important to me and preserved as far as possible. I feared that, as the planning We all know how shabby and building progressed, this College has become over the would require more than 50% years – I have received many of the Principal’s time if it were letters and emails from you on to be done properly, and I did that subject! This project will not want to sell short either the enable us to offer first-class College or my research. Finally, facilities to incoming students, and perhaps most importantly, while respecting the Hild Bede I thought that it would be in the traditions and ethos of which best interests of College to have we are all so proud. someone in post to oversee the whole project, from planning Finally, I would like to express to ‘decant’ to bringing Hild my appreciation to you all Bede back on site and taking it for welcoming me into ‘your’ forward into the future. It is for College; to the students (many all these reasons, then, that I of whom are now alumni) for decided that the time was right being such delightful young for me to stand down. people (even if a very few of The Principal, Jan Clarke, with As many of you know, my I am not, though, leaving the them have occasionally caused Norman Sherrington, former staff parents are unwell and getting University – just going back to me to tear my hair out!); and, and students and Ann Boynton down to Derbyshire to see my department full time. And last but not least, I would like Award winners. them as often as I would like I very much intend to remain to thank all the wonderful Hild is not really compatible with involved with College, primarily Bede staff who have supported the weekend working that is as a member of the Senior me so well during my time here. required as Principal. I also Common Room. I really will ‘Never Forget’. spoke to you in my last letter about the discussions that When speaking of the I will be handing over the reins were ongoing around the redevelopment and how long to Professor Simon Forrest, who development of the College it may take, I do not wish to is joining us from the University site. Since then, things have alarm you in any way. We of Newcastle (you will find out proceeded steadily but, as is all love the College (and the more about Professor Forrest almost inevitable given the two Colleges from which it elsewhere in this magazine). complexity of our site, we still sprang), but our versions of I wish him every success and have no definite plans nor these are all different. And in hope that he will be as happy indeed absolute confirmation order to survive, the College at Hild Bede as I have been. that the development will must continue to evolve. proceed. However, if and One thing that has given me With all good wishes, when it does go ahead (and great satisfaction as I have I must emphasise that from participated in planning Jan Clarke the College’s point of view it is meetings during the course of Principal absolutely vital that it should), the last year is the extent to it is certain to be a lengthy which the University and its process and involve the College planners, as well as those of being moved temporarily into the Durham County Council different accommodation. Planning Department, are This all comes at a time in my appreciative of and sensitive to life when I was starting to think the College’s history, and how about taking things a little far they are prepared to go to

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Meet the new principal Professor Simon Forrest

Simon has 30 years’ experience Advisory Group for Social of teaching, research and Justice and Rainbow Network. activity in practice in policy associated with the social Between 2009 and 2017, he aspects of HIV/Aids, Sexual and was Head of the School of Reproductive Health, Gender Medicine, Pharmacy and Health and Sexualities, and the social in Durham. He has a background sciences in medicine and health. that spans higher, secondary, He came to academic life via He came to academic life via further and prison education. teaching, youthwork and a short teaching, youthwork and a Public engagement and support short career as a professional for social change is central to his career as a professional musician. musician. work and reflected in authorship of not only academic outputs, Simon has been working in the but work with the mass media Institute for Health & Society and publication of several at Newcastle where he led a guides to sexuality and health UK Research Institute Doctoral for young people, parents and Training Pathway in ‘Health, schools. He is Chair of the Board Wellbeing and Society’, Chaired for an international Aids charity the Institute Board of Examiners, and a HEA Sir Ron Cooke was the Director of Education International Scholar. and the Faculty Director of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion. He sat on the University

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Shelter from the Storm

Nuala Ellwood (Hild Bede 1998-2001) was perished or boarded disease- find work. His idea of England ridden coffin ships bound for up until that point had been a chosen as one of the Observer’s ‘New America. Those who survived kind of Arcadia – a blissful land that horrific journey slowly of undulating hills, shiny black Faces of Fiction 2017’ for her first thriller, pieced together a new life in cabs, beefeaters, and palaces. the bestselling My Sister’s Bones. Nuala the land of the free. As a family, The small North East town they we remember these journeys, arrived at that first rain-soaked teaches Creative Writing at York St John not only through the stories night did not quite live up to the that filtered down the ages, but fantasy but it became home: University and lives in the city with her also deep in our bones. Those the place where he established young son. Day of the Accident is her voices haunt us like a half- roots, met my mother, raised a remembered song. My father family, and became an award- latest novel. recounts the time he visited Ellis winning television journalist. But he never forgot his real home, We are all, each of us, at any the mystical country across the one time, just a hair’s breadth water that he and countless away from catastrophe. Peace, others before him had been order, safety: these are temporal forced to leave behind. states, vulnerable to the whim of governments, ideologies, And so the sense of movement, extremes of weather. It is the tie of fleeing hardship and that binds us as human beings, persecution, or leaving your the fact that your life can turn country behind to find a better on a dime at any moment. A life, is written into my DNA. It hurricane hits your city, leaving influences everything I do: from death, destruction and chaos being unable to settle in any in its wake; war erupts; your one place for more than a few village is gassed; a dictator months to the themes I explore comes to power and decides to in my work. My debut thriller, eradicate everyone who believes My Sister’s Bones, published in your god. It could happen by Penguin in 2017, tells the anywhere at any time: from New story of a troubled female war York to Nuremberg; Aleppo to reporter who returns from Syria Aberdeen. to her childhood home on the North Kent coast and starts to So the worst happens. What do fear that something horrifying you do? Well for most of us, the is happening in the house next answer would be to scoop up door. Running parallel to this your loved ones and get the hell story are her recollections of • Nuala Ellwood (Hild Bede 1998-2001) away. But where do you run? Aleppo and the family she What if the nearest safe haven befriended there, among them a is across a perilous sea? What if These questions, and the sense Island as a BBC reporter back lively, football-mad ten-year-old the only means of transportation that we are all just teetering in the 1980’s and experienced a boy named Nidal. It is through is a flimsy boat, packed to the on the precipice of peace and strange epiphany. As he stood Nidal, and Kate’s interactions gills with hundreds of others stability, have haunted me for there, shortly after taking in the with him, that the true human just like you? You know the most of my adult life. As the words inscribed on the Statue cost of the Syrian conflict is answer. You get on that damned daughter of an Irish immigrant, of Liberty, he thought he could explored, in particular the boat, clutching your loved ones I grew up listening to stories hear the whispers of the aunts effects on the ordinary men and tightly, and you try to keep of the Great Famine, where and uncles who had gone women caught up in it and their that safe haven in your head, approximately one million there before him. ‘They were reluctance to leave cherished because it is the only thing that people died and a million everywhere,’ he told me, ‘and homes and communities to head will keep you going on that more emigrated from Ireland yet they were nowhere.’ Dad out into the unknown. interminable journey. And what when blight decimated the himself had been an immigrant. if you make it to the other side? potato crop. The West, where In 1956, aged 14, he had left Every day of our lives we are What then? What awaits you? my family originate, was one Ireland with his parents and two weaving in and out of potential Shelter? Food? Warmth? Or a of the worst affected areas. A younger brothers and set sail disaster and that disaster need closed border? number of my ancestors either for England so his father could not come via war and famine.

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On a domestic level, we place travelled across the UK giving faith in things that could so writing workshops to new easily be swept from under mothers, that really opened us: marriage, home, children, my eyes to the fears and friends, our state of mind. In uncertainty experienced by my current novel, Day of the creative people when they first Accident, the protagonist, have children. One of the young Maggie, wakes from a coma mothers told me that she wrote to find that everything she in secret, when her child was believes in, everything she loves asleep, as she felt that writing and cherishes, has been taken was a luxury, a guilty pleasure. away. Her daughter is dead, This idea that creativity should killed when the car Maggie was be hidden, that we don’t value driving plunged into the river; it enough in this country, struck her husband has left, and the a chord with me, and I used the house she thought they owned idea of it to form the character turns out to be rented and has of Maggie, a woman who had been sold on. In a matter of to put her creative life on hold moments, the life Maggie knew when she became a mother ceases to exist and she is thrown and whose attempts to reignite into a stark new reality, a world her writing career led to deep of social housing, rehabilitation, feelings of guilt and shame. loneliness, and a grief so raw she can barely breathe. Added to The success of my two novels this is a deep sense of confusion. – I was named as one of the Maggie has no idea what Observer’s New Faces of Fiction happened that day at the river for My Sister’s Bones, which has and she can’t shake the feeling been published in ten territories that somewhere, somehow, her and been optioned for film, daughter is still alive. while Day of the Accident was a number one bestseller – has The story is set against the been amazing. It has been a beautiful yet eerie marshland long journey since my days at of East Sussex, a place that has Hild Bede: a journey that saw both fascinated and haunted me me go from Durham University for as long as I can remember. It to Soho, where I spent my is here that, in 1941, the author early twenties living opposite Virginia Woolf put stones in her Ronnie Scott’s, writing and pockets and stepped into the singing songs and working in river and liquid oblivion, and the Chelsea Arts Club. But it where my character, Maggie, was a move back north, to York loses everything in a few and an MA in Creative Writing fateful moments by the water’s at York St John University that edge. I first encountered this helped me realise my dream landscape when I moved to of being a novelist. If someone Sussex in 2007. I was seven had told me on my first day months pregnant with my son at Durham, as I climbed the Luke and, as I walked across hill to Charles Stranks House, the Downs, the river snaking clutching my suitcase, kettle alongside me, I felt strangely and boxes of books, or as I sat disconnected, both from life, on Palace Green on graduation and my changing physical state. day wondering what would A pregnant woman’s body is become of my life, that one not her own. It is at the mercy of day I would see my own novels doctors, nurses, midwives, even on the shelves of my favourite passers-by on the street – I lost bookshops, I would never have I first encountered this count of the number of ‘well- believed them. But then, it is this meaning’ people who thought unpredictability, the fact that landscape when I moved my pregnant state gave them life can change on a dime, that to Sussex in 2007. I was the right to touch my stomach excites and drives me, both as seven months pregnant and ask when I was due. a person and as a writer. Stories with my son Luke and, help us make sense of the world This sense of powerlessness, and, in times of tumult, they are as I walked across the the concern that life is changing our life rafts, the only constant Downs, the river snaking beyond your control, is we have. alongside me, I felt something I wanted to explore strangely disconnected, in Day of the Accident, though it would be a decade on from both from life, and my those days by the river in changing physical state. Sussex that it would come to fruition. Yet it was a project called Writing Motherhood, where myself and other writers

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I started at Bede in 1972 on the I happened to be allotted a Jon Adams (Bede 1972-1976), three-year ‘Cert. Ed.’ course. I’d room in Thorpe on the same been accepted for it before I corridor as John Coates, then Professor of Maritime Archaeology took my A levels and I have to Bede’s Captain of Boats, and at the University of Southampton admit that this led to a certain John Hedley, a stalwart of throttling back on the effort the Bede Senate four and the and Director of its Centre for I put into them! Then I took University First Eight. I didn’t a gap year and everything realise how significant this was Maritime Archaeology, describes changed. Me and three friends until one day I was down at the took a VW minibus to the boat house. There were several his time as a member of Bede Hindu Kush in the days when crews out that day and my first Boat Club and his recent, stunning you could drive through Iran impression of rowing was that and Afghanistan. This took us it was a bit noisy (the clonking discoveries in the Black Sea. through the astonishing ruins of of oars and the exasperated every ancient culture between shouting of coaches), as well as here and there and, by the time a bit wobbly and splashy. Then I got back, I was wondering, the Bede Senate four came past: what chance of archaeology Colin Barratt at stroke, Jeremy as a career? It was too late, Spencer at 3, John Hedley at however, to change course, so I 2, the infamous Jock Wishart duly arrived in Durham, where I at bow, and Charlie Curtiss spent my first year negotiating as Cox. They were different: my transfer from the Cert. Ed. perfect balance, perfect timing, course to the Archaeology seemingly effortless and quiet! department, then based in the They basically oozed class. It old mill under Prebends Bridge. got better. On the command This was not possible until ‘Paddle firm’, the blades locked the next academic year, so I into the water as though indulged in Bede’s excellent art guided by machine. The boat course – and… I learned to row. seemingly leapt out of the

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Figure 2. A Greek ship virtually intact, lying in over 2000 metres of water in the Black Sea. Its size and the fact it was both sail and oar-powered mean that it is likely to have been a pirate vessel (ancestors of Hild Bede rowers perhaps?) (© Black Sea MAP, Pacheco-Ruiz).

very much the Bede way where later Professors in Glasgow Figure 1. Bede Senate crew 1973 sport was concerned. The joke and Exeter respectively) (far side): David Trace, cox; was that when Castle students who encouraged me to think Andrew Gaskell, stroke; dressed for a formal dinner it about combining diving and John Hedley, was in DJ and gown, but Bede archaeology. I’d learned to dive 3; Jon Adams students put on a clean track at school and so, clutching 2, Jock Wishart, Bow). suit! Jock and John soon had my BA certificate, I pitched us going quite well, but we up in the office of Margaret didn’t enjoy immediate success, Rule, the Director of the team embarrassingly losing a race then excavating Henry VIII’s we should have won at home warship Mary Rose, sunk in (Wear regatta). This elicited a action against the French in string of expletives from Jock 1545. Margaret was looking for that would have made a Bede divers who were also trained rugby player blush and not in archaeologists. I was by no the least obscured by his Scots means the finished article, accent (‘Bloody yowsless’ being but in those days you could one of the mild ones). At the count the number of diving end of the tirade he hurled his archaeologists on the fingers bike in the river and for all I of one and a half hands so I water. The blades powered know it’s still there. We rowed was in. After another six years through to the finish leaving thereafter not for ourselves and much time underwater (c. boiling puddles well clear of the but for Jock and for Bede. We 30,000 dives between us), we stern. The blades snapped out duly won Novice Fours the recovered the ship that is now in round the turn and away, the next weekend. I kept rowing an amazing museum along with crew floating forward for the the whole time at Durham after 19,000 objects in Portsmouth. next stroke, the blades exactly that, winning Senate twice: once level and never a stray drop with Jock (bow), John Hedley From Mary Rose I moved from of water. Even the sound was (3), Andy Gaskell (stroke) and project to project, gaining intoxicating: the hiss as the hull Dave Trace (cox) in a record experience with the aim of passed through the water and time (Fig.1) and ending up in the ending up at a university. I the ‘smack-whoosh’ of each University First Eight coached did my PhD at Stockholm stroke as they swept down river by the much loved Eric Halliday. University as by then much ...I was by no means faster than anything else afloat. Wonderful, wonderful days, of my research was carried the finished article, ‘Struth’, I thought, ‘I’ve got to especially as by then I was also out in the Baltic – a place try that!’ Needless to say, they doing archaeology, and yes, the littered with well-preserved but in those days won Senate with nonchalant social life was pretty good too! shipwrecks. Eventually, the trail you could count the ease – they were half the led to Southampton, where the University First Eight after all. Alas, on leaving Durham I also Archaeology Department had number of diving left rowing. The archaeological responded to student demand archaeologists My rowing career started that world didn’t fit with the for someone to teach ‘maritime’. very weekend with John Coates demands of elite rowing. So I started as a visiting lecturer. on the fingers of devoting a lot of his free time to However, it was to be ‘maritime’ It proved popular enough for one and a half fast-tracking me in a tub pair. I archaeology and therefore being the University to commit to a was soon in a Novice four and on (and in) the water remains permanent post. I got it and hands so I was in. being trained both by John and a constant. It was actually I’ve been there ever since. We Jock Wishart. Jock expected us the two youngest members launched a Masters programme to adopt the same work ethic he of staff in the Archaeology in 1995 and the Centre for had: hard, uncompromising and Department at Durham (Chris Maritime Archaeology in 1997. bloody-minded! In fact, that was Morris and Anthony Harding, Now we’re the biggest research

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Figure3. A Roman ship, virtually unit within the Department Black Sea for the first of four obvious to the casual visitor intact, upright on the seabed and one of the two biggest seasons of fieldwork. Now, after which was which! I look back on at over 2,000 metres depth maritime research units in 2,000 km2 of seabed survey those days with great affection with its mast still standing. the world. That means critical and 92 geological core samples and fondly remember both These images are produced mass, which in turn increases up to 10m in length, we think we fellow students and staff with by photogrammetry, in which the potential to attract good are able to say with much more great affection, especially my thousands of overlapping hi-res students and research funding. precision what happened. To personal tutor, Jimmy Lawrence. photos taken with cameras on cut a long story short, we don’t I’m now back in touch with robotic vehicles (shown right) In 2015, we won our biggest see evidence of a sudden re- John Coates and John Hedley, are aligned to generate a 3D grant yet – for research in the filling of the Black Sea, although as well as several other crew model of millimetric accuracy Black Sea. It’s a place where change in the water level over members from those days, (© Black Sea MAP, there is fabulous prehistoric time was dramatic and would and of course Jock, who never Pacheco-Ruiz). archaeology but with a few have been noticeable at least leaves us alone for long and who mysteries that add to its allure. on a generational basis. So it never ceases his ambassadorial There’s controversy too: the might well have contributed mission for Durham. interesting thing about the Black to a flood myth (along with Sea is that it was isolated from other events in the Middle the world’s oceans during major East and the Indus Valley). glacial cycles. As water gets locked up at the poles, global The added value of the sea levels drop. At -35m the project was the discovery Bosporus dries and the Black of 65 shipwrecks from the It’s a place where Sea becomes a lake. This last Greek, Roman, Byzantine, and happened about 25,000 years Ottoman empires, and this is there is fabulous ago. As the world warmed what the press went daft over prehistoric again around 15,000 years last October. The oldest was a ago, global sea levels started Greek ship from c. 400 BC and archaeology rising. At around -35m they virtually intact (Fig. 2). Another, but with a few reconnected with the Black a 1st Century AD Roman ship, Sea but exactly when that sat upright on the seabed with mysteries that happened and how, as well its mast still in place and ropes as, what impacts were felt by still draped over the frames (Fig. add to its allure. human populations – that’s 3). The stuff of Clive Cussler what no-one could agree on. books yes, but more to the point, the best preserved and In 1997, two geologists most complete examples of published a paper that theorised their type ever discovered. that the Bosporus had failed like a giant dam, and the So the rowing, the archaeology resulting deluge was the origin and a lot else besides go back of the story of the biblical flood. to my time at Bede as it was Others disagreed. So, in 2015, then – though wandering I took the ‘Black Sea Maritime through Bede or Hild’s in those Archaeology Project’ to the days, it would not have been

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Diwei Chen When I first joined the creative voice quivered in timidity. She writing class as a mentee of looked at me as if she under- (Hild Bede 2011- Fadia Faqir at Durham Universi- stood my fears. She felt that ty, I didn’t know it was a seed of the class might be a challenge 2013) tells us how, a dream that would grow into a for me so, with a slight Arabic ...it would reality which would eventually accent, she smiled and said, eventually lead in her own words, lead to me running an art exhi- ‘Just keep writing.’ It was at that ‘her time at Hild bition with the Swedish artist particular moment that I realized me to collaborate Kristoffer Kullengren. Every Fadia, like me, was writing in with the Swedish Bede sowed a Wednesday, I left Hild Bede English as a second language. and walked along the riverside Although English was not her artist Kristoffer dream that be- then climbed the stairs up the first language, she had achieved hill, where Durham Cathedral to gain an international audi- Kullengren. came a reality’. was the eye that dotted the ence and her book My Name cerulean canopy. It began to is Salma was published in 13 feel like a literary ritual. Once I languages. Being able to express arrived, we made a circle around my words through painting Fadia, reading what we wrote. had been my dream, and Fadia Being the only non-native there, planted that belief in me. daunted me so much that my When she took us to the Baltic Art Museum in Newcastle to see the exhibition of Elizabeth Price, who later won the Turner Prize for her video installation ‘The Woolworths Choir of 1979’, Fadia challenged us with an opportunity: ‘If you can write something good, it will be displayed here’. Excited as much as I was terrified, I felt the opportunity was formidably precious. When she handed back my submitted draft with congratulations on having made it, this was the moment I truly began to believe that I can write. Having my work be associated with art only increased my interest and it would eventually lead me to collaborate with the Swedish artist Kristoffer Kullengren. Creating literary works with his art has brought me the kind of life experience and connection with others that I’d never imagined. And it all began with our first collaboration, Walking on Sunshine.

How the art journey started, the story behind Walking on Sunshine From my first collaboration with Kristoffer, the creative process of Walking on Sunshine, I learned how true art takes form and how it can create a bridge message through empowering emotions as well as reach another soul in a way no other kind of communication can achieve. That experience laid a deep foundation for what we would do in later years. The work, Walking on Sunshine, is a tribute to an artist in the west of China named Mrs Xia. She was one of the few Chinese artists whose works were collected and displayed at national museums as well as cultural heritage sites such as the Thatched Cottage of Du Fu, the former home of the great poet Du Fu of the Tang Dynasty, in Chengdu. Mrs

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Xia, as accomplished in art as she was, she selected my mother to be her last student, teaching her to paint and asking for nothing in return. I saw my mother’s painting that began as a few sketches and then it was transformed into a full autumn landscape where maple leaves danced about in the wind, and her passion for art transcended how she sensed the world.

I always wondered what drove her to share her skills, as she had always been generous to nurture people’s artistic abilities. I received my answer when we first met during her chemotherapy. Surprised and unprepared, she smiled and took me by her side. Mrs Xia stated, ‘The doctor told me there’s no medicine or treatment that can work now except for my will. Any day can be my last.’ She almost laughed at how absurd it sounded, but the tears lingering in her eyes said it was true. She couldn’t hide her deep love Ghost trees for life and art, knowing that her days were numbered. She A desolate desert with lifeless believed that the only thing trees is a surreal view of our she could do now was to teach cosmopolitan life, where we live people how to paint. To me, in soulless skyscrapers tapering it seemed as though she was towards the neon-lit sky like extending a legacy larger than ghosts on a concrete ground. her life. I wanted to honour Mrs Xia, therefore, Kristoffer and Like the best education that I worked on creating works creates profound lifelong that could express how we feel influence by a simple act of and that was how Walking on planting a dream, great art Sunshine came about. I wrote achieves the same just through the poem as a way to give a different language connecting her strength because it was with the soul. We believe that the only thing we could do. art has a paramount role to play in our time to build bridges between cultures, countries, Walking on Sunshine races, and genders, and Storm could be sometimes most importantly, medical turnaround – she left to visit this November’. It Heavy between the differences within hospital a few days later and was a dream-like cultural ourselves, because if we can at certain times of life lived for much longer than experience to have a western achieve peace with ourselves, Yet, it’s only one part of life the doctor had predicted. contemporary art exhibition in we can extend love and care This was the first time we saw an old city like Xi An. Here are That tests how much love to those who’re different from how much art could make some artworks from Between We have for our life us. And that appreciation of an impact on a person’s life Dream and Reality exhibition: difference is one of the best Like sunshine when all the other means have parts I take with me from my With love you give failed. Since then, we took art Digital Slavery Durham education, and now to more serious contexts. Love and warmth you we are spreading that seed The artist wrote ‘Digital through the art we create. will receive The Between Dream and Slavery’ in binary code to express his concern over To help you find Reality exhibition: how We are very interested in the seed of dreams grew humanity succumbing to being Hopes and strengths connecting with those who’d into the shape of reality consumed by technology. be interested in art and can To walk on Sunshine share what they think about And live through Storm Last October, we were invited Humanity this. For more of the art we do, by Xi An Contemporary Art please see: www.krsart.com For nothing, but: Museum, the first contemporary Humanity is painted in a graffiti style on a city museum in western China, to And you’re more than welcome Love for life background fading in excessive bring our exhibition ‘Between to contact me (Diwei) through: Life for love consumption of technology. Dream and Reality’ to the local [email protected] audience. It became a local hit The last generation of nature, with more than 30 media outlets the blue mountains and clear Little did we know, she was covering the event and they sky, is about to be in the not only pleased at seeing recommended it as ‘One of the past whereas there are ‘sky what we did for her, but it most worthwhile exhibitions eyes’ supervising all we do. also brought an unexpected

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Ian Rawles sent us the following article about a former Bede Man that had appeared in a booklet produced by the Great Bavington United Reformed Church to commemorate soldiers from the local area who gave their lives during the Great War. We thought it would be of interest to you and Ian was kind enough to give us permission to reproduce it here.

Private Andrew Wilson, Kirkwhelpington War Memorial.

Just over one hundred years ago, on 26 April 1915, a student teacher from Bede College, Andrew Wilson, died at a dressing station after being severely wounded during the Battle of Gravenstafel Ridge. This was the earliest conflict of the Second Battle of Ypres.

The author became aware of Andrew’s story during his research into a war memorial, known as the ‘Roll of Honour’, held within Great Bavington United Reformed Church. Great Bavington URC is the oldest former Presbyterian church still used for worship in Northumberland, and the second oldest in England. It lies at the heart of a tiny village within rural Northumberland some sixteen miles north of Hexham and sixteen miles west of Morpeth.

The Great Bavington ‘Roll of Honour’ consists of a single handwritten column on white Private card within a simple black frame. Nineteen local men, who served in WW1, are inscribed under the sub-title ‘The Great War 1914- 1918’. Eight men, who lost their Andrew Wilson, lives in the conflict, are then inscribed under the sub-title ‘Roll of Heroes’. The memorial hangs between two windows on the south side of the church. Durham Andrew Wilson is the final name included on the memorial. Light Infantry

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Andrew was enrolled as a private in Company B of the Durham Light Infantry and left Folkestone for Boulogne on 19 April 1915. He marched into action near Ypres on 23 April. He died on 26 April when his and the adjoining companies came under sustained attack by the German forces. A detailed analysis of Andrew’s movements in France and the events of 26 April have been researched and published by his grandson, Ian Wilson, in the Commemorative 1914-1918 issue of the Northumberland and Durham Family History Society Journal, Autumn 2014, volume 39, number 3. Andrew’s father and stepmother were still living at Mirlaw House, Capheaton, near Great Bavington at the time of Andrew’s death.

In addition to the Great Bavington ‘Roll of Heroes’, Andrew is commemorated in several other places. His name is recorded on the Menin Gate Great Bavington school photograph from May 1905. Andrew Wilson is first on the left in the middle row. memorial, panels 36/38. He is also remembered on a family Andrew Wilson was born on Andrew therefore attended stone in Kirkharle churchyard, 5 March 1894 at Hartburn, King Edward’s Grammar School the Kirkwhelpington War Northumberland, but his in Morpeth as a boarder. Memorial, the Bede College mother died while he was WW1 memorial, and in the young. The 1901 census shows ...on 26 April 1915, By 1911, Andrew was a student college chapel. his father, also Andrew Wilson, lodging with his Uncle and as a widower being helped by a student teacher Aunt Dobby and their family his sister and the family living from Bede College, at 105 Scarborough Road, at the Cottage at Sweethope, Byker, Newcastle. In 1912, Northumberland. His father Andrew Wilson, he was offered a place as was an itinerant shepherd so died at a dressing a student teacher at Bede the family moved frequently Teacher Training College in with his work. While they were station after being Durham. While at the college, living in Sweethope, Andrew severely wounded he joined the college military attended Great Bavington unit, affiliated with the Durham School, some two miles away, during the Battle of Light Infantry, with whom he across the Northumberland trained part time. He qualified fells. According to The Great Gravenstafel Ridge. as a teacher in 1914. During his Bavington School Managers’ studies, he was also a student Minutes from 6 July 1906 teacher at Kirkwhelpington state that Andrew Wilson had School (a larger village just passed the school exam and over three miles from Great was eligible for a minor bursary. Bavington).

Great Bavington United Reformed Church. The Great Bavington ????? ‘Roll of Honour’.

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Jan Alexander complete it. Or, when having decided he would do so too Thomas taken him to Rhyl on holiday, and resigned from his job at the wrote to us about his parents were horrified to see County Offices after one year of her father, Thomas him at the top of a high-diving employment. They studied the Derrick board at the swimming pool. available colleges. Whitelands ‘Derrick, come down!’ He did... College, usually based in Derrick Griffiths, London, had been evacuated Griffiths who brought bells Derrick was educated at Chester to Durham during the war and City Grammar School, but left Joan applied to it. Derrick had to Bede. He sadly school without going on to the always wanted to visit Durham, Higher School Certificate. This liked the look of the college, passed away in was because a friend of his and felt that their being in parents had told them there Durham together for their two- 2012. was a good job opening for him year training would be a very at the County Offices, adding good idea. He applied, and was Thomas Derrick Griffiths (always that a lad of Derrick’s flair might accepted. Only a few weeks known as Derrick), 1928-2012, rise to a high level in time, but before term began, Joan had joined the College of the an immediate application was a letter informing her that the Venerable Bede in September needed. So Derrick applied Whitelands buildings, though 1945, aged seventeen. The only and, shortly afterwards, began needing to be fumigated after child of Tom and Annie Griffiths, work. He was, however, already wartime use, would be available Derrick seemed destined – by a in a strong relationship with and that she would, therefore, combination of determination his future wife, Joan. They had have her two-year college and charisma – to succeed in met when, as 15-year-olds, they course in London! The best-laid whatever he tackled. As when, both started bell ringing. Joan, plans... at 14, he was the youngest who had gone through her competitor by far in the Mile high-school career a year early, Much disgruntled, Derrick Swim in the River Dee and, on wanted to go into teaching and Joan set off for college a bitterly cold day, he was one and, having given the matter a life hundreds of miles apart. of only two who managed to great deal of thought, Derrick However, they both very much

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Thomas Derrick Griffiths -middle row, 2nd from right

enjoyed their time at college with Ivan’s Grandad and, in the up – and had responsibility for and formed friendships that process, learned broad Geordie. instilling the basics of literacy would last for the rest of Another memory was the three and numeracy into those who their lives. Derrick’s college of them going to watch a ship had managed to leave school accommodation was arranged being launched – presumably without any. Their reading alphabetically, and he and from Newcastle. They also, from books, he said, were somewhat neighbours Ivan Garnham time to time, met girls from different from the norm, with and Alan Harrison became a another college, probably St phrases like ‘Bill has a fag’! strong trio. All three went on Hild’s. One got back in contact Derrick was reasonably happy to successful headships (and in later life, describing herself as with his enforced two years in a child from each family went ‘fat, fair and forty’. It’s strange the army, though not when they into teaching.) In his first week that Derrick’s college exam were sent to Scotland, where at college, Derrick went for a results appear to say that he quarters were very cold. Later, walk around Durham. Perhaps failed RE. A regular churchgoer being stationed close to Brecon, looking a bit lost and forlorn, and chorister from childhood, where Joan’s uncle owned a he met a middle-aged lady he knew the Bible well. However, pub, was much more to his liking ...he had a regular who appears to have taken an this early failure doesn’t appear – he could walk there to enjoy engagement to instant, motherly liking to him – to have affected him, and overall some home comforts, a pint and she took him back to her house his results were good. a good game of billiards! His play ‘chequers’ and fed him tea and scones! superiors very much hoped that She asked where he was from On leaving college, Derrick and Derrick would join up properly with Ivan’s Grandad and when told ‘Chester’, said Joan both found teaching jobs as his two years came to an and, in the process, encouragingly, ‘Well, that’s not in the Chester area. He had end – they forecast a successful far away!’ She thought he meant been in his new position only army career for him – but learned broad Chester-le-Street. Later – his one month when his call-up Derrick had other plans. Geordie. two friends being local lads – papers arrived and he had to he would sometimes go home leave to spend two years in He and Joan were married with them. At Ivan’s house in the army. There, he became a in August 1950, both having Tanfield Lea, he had a regular Warrant Officer – the highest teaching jobs at Cherry Grove engagement to play ‘chequers’ possible rank without joining primary school in the city of

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Chester. They soon bought their appropriate to the numbers attached to the old building. At that point they discovered own home and, in November there had been in Tarvin school This one had better facilities, but a clause stating that if the 1951, became the proud 23-year- on his appointment, but actual the garden was very overgrown, building ceased to be used for old parents of a baby girl. numbers in the school reduced and Derrick – having learned educational purposes, it – and Finances weren’t easy. Joan had by about 30 pupils. a good deal about gardening the attached house – must to return to full-time work six through the need to keep one revert to the ownership of the weeks after the baby was born Two more children arrived in step ahead of his pupils in family that had donated the land (cycling two miles back to her the Griffiths family (a girl and a gardening lessons at Tarvin – set for it over 100 years earlier. This parents’ house at lunch-time to boy, in orderly sequence) but, about transforming it. Derrick left the Authority in a somewhat feed her daughter) and Derrick by 1962, Derrick had become was to be the very popular Head awkward position, and the took out-of-hours temporary somewhat exasperated with Teacher of Long Lawford school upshot was that Derrick and work such as the Christmas suggestions from the County for over twenty years – the Joan, aged only 55, were offered post, or tuition, to augment his that he should try to find a grand plan of a return to Chester early retirement. They accepted teaching salary. They were able position commensurate with being foiled by the children’s and, with their joint lump sum, to afford a small car – always his salary. He did so – applying education and then the arrival were able to buy a house across known affectionately by its to suitable schools all over the of grandchildren. He and Joan the road – just before the boom registration ‘IH’ – and it brought country. Joan had pleasant were soon integral members of in house prices, that would have a new dimension to their lives thoughts of travelling with him the village church, and although put it beyond their reach. as they spent happy summer to job interviews. Derrick was Derrick had said he would evenings exploring lanes and immediately short-listed for a avoid being drawn into other They had an extremely happy villages which, although only a headship in Rugby, went for that community things, such was his retirement for almost 30 few miles from their home, they one interview and accepted the nature that he was, inevitably, years – doing supply teaching had never seen before. Derrick position (much to the horror very much involved in several. work when it suited them put in a successful application of not only his parents, who In the 1970s, the teaching of and, for some years, spending for a deputy headship in a saw the 100-mile distance from French in primary schools came summers in France as wardens village school some five miles of a caravan site, where Derrick out of Chester. A year later, put his fluency in French to the head-teacher decided to good use. Their family grew move on. Derrick applied for the and they became the much- headship and became, at 29, loved grandparents of twelve the youngest head in Cheshire. They were able to afford a small car grandchildren and (to date) ten At his interview, a lady on the great-grandchildren. But, in his interview panel asked how many – always known affectionately by mid-80s Derrick developed an children he had and was startled annoying cough and, although to be told that he didn’t really its registration ‘IH’ – and it brought his first words to the specialist know. ‘Well, when I left for this a new dimension to their lives as were ‘I’m as fit as a fiddle’, it interview I had one, but my wife transpired that he wasn’t. He had gone into labour so I might they spent happy summer evenings died of lung cancer six months have two by now!’ In fact, their exploring lanes and villages which, later, in September 2012, aged son was born in the early hours 84. There are now none left of of the following morning. although only a few miles from their the group that became such home, they had never seen before. good friends in Durham at the The family moved to live in the end of the 1940s, but they all School House at Tarvin, this left their very positive mark having been a pre-condition on so many lives. So many of the appointment. The memories! house had a tiny downstairs bathroom in a lean-to, no Joan was able, for the first time, central heating, and the toilet to visit Derrick’s college, in was a bucket arrangement Chester as enormous, but also in. None of Derrick’s staff was August 2018. Seeing the place in a shed in the back yard. of his 11-year-old daughter, who as fluent in French as he, so where he had spent two happy (The school toilets were also did not want to leave a place it was he who enrolled in the years meant a great deal to her, buckets, it being the unenviable where she had enjoyed a very necessary training – which and she was so very grateful for job of the caretaker to trudge happy childhood.) The idea was involved three months in Paris, the kindness shown in arranging down to the end of the school that they would live in Rugby at the Sorbonne. Derrick had a a visit (when she was shown garden to empty them!) It was for some five years, then Derrick wonderful time (again finding round by the patient, friendly a Church of England school, would find another headship in a motherly elderly lady – a and informative Ms Stephanie and Derrick worked closely the Chester area and they would Russian émigré – who took Maurel), and also that Dr Michael with the vicar, becoming a go back home. The best-laid to him!) Joan, at home with Stansfield took the trouble to churchwarden and lay reader plans, again... three children (the eldest now look for Derrick’s records in the as well as running the village at college) and in full-time archives. Calling him ‘the man library and planning riotous The family moved to Long teaching, probably enjoyed it who brought bells to Bede’ and fund-raising entertainments Lawford, Rugby in the summer a lot less. ‘something of a stylist, with with other like-minded people holidays of 1963. It was a split- initiative, real courage, and on the PTA. He was a teaching site school at that time, in the Retirement came early, and unusual self-control’, this record head, with a staff of three process of transferring itself by a freak circumstance. The – previously unknown to the ladies and, between them, they from the 1870 school building old school building, having family – forecast that he would taught ages 5-14. However, to a new one some half a mile been used a teachers’ centre become ‘a teacher of far more two years later, a secondary away, so the new Head was for years, became surplus than ordinary power.’ How right school opened in the area and required to expedite the move. to the Education Authority’s his tutor was! the 11-14-year-olds went there. Derrick, Joan and family again requirements and they This left Derrick on a salary moved into the School House wanted to sell it for housing.

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Thomas Derrick Griffiths (always known as Derrick), 1928-2012

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Pat with her mother Vera.

Pat Ninham and Only two weekends were we Three generations allowed to go home and we her mother both were expected to attend chapel every morning at 8.30 am and in college, from the studied at Hild’s, in the evenings too. For the first term, I was quite unsettled and now her as I had not found any kindred grand-daughter spirits. However, after Christmas 1930s to the 1960s, I became a member of a group carries on the of eight Northumbrians. We joined together for weekend and beyond... tradition. teas and cups of coffee at mid- morning break. We shared our I have been familiar with the joys and sorrows, successes and name St Hild’s from being a little failures. I developed my love of girl. My mother, Vera Henderson, Art and Biology [...]. I admired née Patterson, spent two very Miss Lawrence, she seemed happy years training to teach so wise […]. Meanwhile, there there from 1937 to 1939. She were rumblings of war, we were loved working in the garden and taught first aid and procedures using the potting shed under in case of gas warfare […]. the chapel. She later wrote: When I left St Hild’s, it was to take some five-year-olds to be ‘We were expected to be in evacuated from Newcastle to College by four o’clock in the Cumbria wearing labels on their winter and nine o’clock during coats.’ the short summer term. If we attended dances, we had She kept in touch with those to sign in before midnight. friends for the rest of her life.

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Vera died in 2006 and, as I university activities to meet the did I realise that I was writing retired, we came to Yorkshire opposite sex, and I remember to my future husband, Tony to help her in those last two having a few relationships. Ninham (1960-1965), Senior Man years. She was a wise and Alcohol was not important to of St Cuthbert’s Society! That We joined various wonderful mother of five me at that time; how things have evening, he didn’t speak to me children, who combined that changed! Our co-ed systems are but sent a formal note the next activities and with teaching and working in my so much better where boys and day! He played hockey for the societies: some father’s parish. Her great faith girls get used to working and university and he would take permeated through every task living together. my friends running on the Race university ones and person she helped. Course to get fit! and some within I studied Geography and I (Pat Henderson) arrived at St Religious Education as main Tony got a teaching post at college. Of course, Hild’s in 1962 and stayed there subjects, and loved learning Ipswich School; we married we had to join in until 1965. It was my first choice to play the guitar as my violin the next summer and I joined and a dream fulfilled. On the was no use with infants. School Tony, but in the Prep School. university activities first day, I met Pat Colby who ‘Pracs’ were major worries, but We were very happy there and lived on the same corridor in we all supported each other. our son Mark was born. Tony to meet the Lawrence wing. We remained Miss Cowell, our tutor, would wanted to be a housemaster opposite sex, and I friends until she sadly died in invite us to her flat and chatter and was offered the senior December 2015. There was a away about her life as well house at Norwich School. We remember having a group of us, and we gravitated as asking about ours! I joined moved and had our daughter few relationships. together between lectures and the Christian Union and we all Kate in the same week! We lived school ‘pracs’. I remember June went to St Nicholas’s church in the Old Bishop’s Palace in Gascoigne, Dorothy Smart and in the Market Place. My faith the Close with 50 senior boys. Lynda Hasleden. My overriding strengthened at this time. In my The night our son Richard was memory of Hild’s was of feeling last year, I was voted to become born, there were cars parked secure and amongst friends. Secretary of the Student Union for a school event blocking our We joined various activities – a role I was very proud to car! They were hastily moved and societies: some university hold. I had to write to invite all for me to get to hospital! The ones and some within college. the Senior Men and Women of Dean of Norwich Cathedral, Alan Of course, we had to join in other colleges to supper. Little Webster, was keen to get some

Pat with some of her friends.

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younger people worshipping He then became Headmaster year we opened another class, at the cathedral. I attended a of Denstone College Prep and another, and then two meeting to discuss the way School at Smallwood Manor more. I loved teaching there for forward. We young parents said near Uttoxeter in Staffordshire. twenty years, by which time that we would come if there I was sorry to leave the Sunday the department had grown to was provision for children, and Club and Town Close but taught around a hundred pupils. The he suggested a Sunday Club English part time at Smallwood. children played in the woods be formed. Two clergy wives Numbers were down when we in track suits and wellingtons. and I opened this with our own arrived, so Tony informed the We had outings, parties, drama, children and met in a room for parents that we hoped to start musicals, swimming galas, part of the service then joined a Pre-Prep Department and also sports days, and nativity plays. in the worship. My training at take girls. Initially there was no My faith has always meant St Hild’s helped me to plan response, then one day I was a lot to me. I planned the Tony and I went the teaching programme; we pulled from a class to meet Religious Education for the had parties and outings and some Americans who had just department, with assemblies to Hong Kong to Christingle processions, and moved to the area. They stated and Bible teaching, and we the British Schools great fun. We had 50 children that if I started a Pre-Prep they joined the main prep twice a on the register and their parents would send their two children! week for worship in the school Exhibition for four enjoyed the services. As our The Governors agreed to this chapel. Friendship too has been years to recruit children started school, I got as long as it didn’t lose money, important – Julia was always a part time job at Town Close so I suggested that I would a great ally in those days and Chinese pupils. School Pre- Prep Department not initially take a salary. So, still is. My old school friend still in Norwich. My guitar was well in 1984, I opened a Pre-Prep comes here for lunch! used there in teaching music to Department for 4-7 year olds two classes. with 10 pupils, a friend, the Art We lived in the Manor with teacher, did some afternoons fifty boys. At the same time Tony was ready to move on to relieve me for other duties as opening the Pre-Prep, after 13 years as housemaster. I had in the school. The next we started taking girls and

At Durham Cathedral, Jean and Vera were looking after the children of Mothers Union Members.

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acquired two girl boarders! As a art and drama were all woven Mark went on to Nottingham college; there are really very few dormitory, they had a bedroom into a very full calendar giving to read Medicine, Kate went on changes. The old building is still in our apartment. Then, as the the children a wide range of to Newcastle to do a B.Ed., and beautiful, as are the surrounding numbers of girl boarders grew, experiences. Richard went to Edinburgh to grounds. However, the old they had their own dormitory. read Economic History. Kate is potting shed is now the bicycle Tony and I went to Hong Kong A great perk of both of us teaching in Leeds, and she and shed and there is the huge car to the British Schools Exhibition teaching were the long holidays. Chris have Charlotte and Olivia. park down in the garden. for four years to recruit Chinese We made the most of them and Richard is a housemaster at pupils. We became very close travelled all over the world. I got King’s, Canterbury, and he and We have recently met up with to them and their parents and to love snorkelling and still do! Annabel have Hugo, Beatrice the Revd Edward Tildesley in we valued their presence in Mark had joined the sea scouts and Piers. Mark is a GP on Weymouth, who is an old boy the school. As Headmaster’s at Norwich School and learned Portland in Dorset, and he and of Bede College. He and Pippa wife, I had to supervise the to sail. He then taught Richard Jo have Christopher and twins taught Mark at Norwich School, cleaning staff and matrons. I and I, and we all still love to be Ellie and Katie. and they came to a concert would often go up and help at on the water. I loved horse riding where Katie and Ellie were bath time, especially cutting after school, china painting And so the link with Hild’s again! performing. nails or to read stories to the and Art. Katie Ninham applied to Durham young ones. Running the tuck to read Physics. She is also a Since retiring in 2004, we came shop was a great joy. We had a After thirteen years at Grade 8 organist. I pointed out to live in Harrogate, Yorkshire, lovely family feel in the school. Smallwood, Tony left and went to her that Hild’s is quite a way where I was able to help my My father, now an Archdeacon, into the Schools Inspectorate. from the Science Site but she mother and our daughter, and mother would come and We moved out of school into wanted to try for Hild Bede. who had two young girls, and stay and he would preach in our own home down the road. On the Open Day, she went to who wanted to get back into chapel. The Bishop came to I stayed on running the Pre- Southampton to come up by teaching. We are members of confirm pupils, and our boss Prep for another seven years. air, but no planes were flying a wonderful church, St Mark’s, Provost, Keith Wilkes, and his Our three children all went because of snow! She told me and have run the Bookstall wife came regularly to officiate to Denstone College; the two that she wanted to see Durham there. I am also in the Mothers and have lunch. Sport, music, boys boarded in the sixth form. before making a firm decision. I Union and arrange flowers. I agreed to bring her if she came taught the Climbers (6-7 year to us in Harrogate by train. I olds) until I was 72, so my Hild’s rang the Alumni Office to say training came in useful again. Together we ran the Harrogate Church Mission Society group. With Inner Wheel, the University of the Third Age As Headmaster’s and a cocker spaniel, Maisie, wife, I had to life is very interesting. We love spending time with our eight supervise the grandchildren, and it gives us cleaning staff and so much pleasure to see them progressing and planning matrons. I would their futures. often go up and help at bath time, especially cutting nails or to read stories to the young ones.

we were coming and Katie rang the Physics department. We had a really memorable day looking round Hild Bede and the Physics department, then taking Tony back to St Cuthbert’s.

Katie achieved higher than the grades required at A level and is now a very happy student at Hild Bede. It is early days for her, but she has joined the Boat Club already. She had a wonderful time at the Winter Ball and has made some good friends. It has been interesting to go back to

Katie Ninham, Pat Ninham’s grand-daughter.

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Modern pentathlon at Bede College in the 1960s Paul Middleton (1962-1966) describes one of Bede’s greatest sporting achievements

I was so lucky to go up to Bede In those days, Bede was the Universities and Civilian Club premier sporting college — at its Championships in Cheltenham, in 1962, looking for new academic height, there were 700 students. and we became national winners I was basically a swimmer, so of the Dowty Cup at the first and sporting challenges. At Bede, I joined the college and university attempt. The team was Joe, teams as a freestyler. And then Mal Deans and myself from immediately felt at home under the I met Joe. Joe Bucsko was Bede, and John Livesey from St wing of George Smith (Ganges), the 32, married and lived outside Cuthbert’s. After that success, Bede. He was reading English, we gained entry to many other Vice-Principal. having left Budapest in 1956 at championships over the next 2 the Russian invasion. He had years, competing as guests in lived in Cheltenham for 6 years, the Navy, Army, RAF, Southern founding Cheltenham Modern Command, REME, and Police Pentathlon Club, but decided to championships, mixing with improve his education. He was British and European Olympians. already a British international In 1966, Durham came first in pentathlete. In 1962, at Bede, he the swimming team event in the formed an ad hoc MP team, and British Championships, as Guy by the end of 1963, had signed Tunnicliffe had recently come up up 6 athletes, with Ian Tunnicliffe to Bede. He took over from me as captain. In 1963, Joe as captain of both the swimming extended his influence beyond and modern pentathlon teams. the college to the university, Joe left Durham in 1966 and and then the really hard training became coach to the Canadian began. I remember in my Olympic team for the Munich training notebook recording Games in 1972. He passed away a week with 25 sessions: 11 in his mid-seventies, having swimming, 7 running, 3 fencing, dedicated his life to the sport. 3 shooting and 1 horse riding, A rogue, a mentor, a brilliant plus the odd weights session. All water-polo player, pentathlete this was fitted around academic and human being, he taught me work. A few athletes from other never to give up, but above all disciplines joined ‘the Gang’ but, to treat wins and losses equally. with one exception, swimmers Lessons I have never forgotten. became the best pentathletes. Swimming is a hard discipline in which to reach a high standard in your twenties! Looking back, I now realise how lucky we were. Norman Sarsfield, a legend in Joe’s ambition north-east swimming, gave us was relentless. He a key to the Baths; Durham School CCF Sgt Major gave us formed DUMPA, a key to the range and gave us which took on a free ammunition; Fencing Club gave us épées, and we used to legendary status pop down the A1 for free riding lessons. Joe’s ambition was in Durham. relentless. He formed DUMPA, which took on a legendary Joe Bucsko status in Durham. In 1964, he entered us in the British

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Congratulations

To the Hon. James D. A. To Student Support Secretary, Ramsbotham (1978-1981), on Ashleigh Snaith, on the birth receiving a CBE in the Queen’s of her baby Thomas, seen here New Year’s Honours, 2019, for with big brother Ollie. services to Business and the economy in the North East.

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Alumni News

Alan Pearson in order to attend many of the decades – this year being the to university education in (Principal of Hild traditional functions; College 60th since the foundation of the particular, a look around Bede, 2000-2008) Day, Sounding Retreat, etc. latter from within the College of Durham could not fail to give Pleasingly, we are also able to the Venerable Bede. Even more the feeling that here, at least, Alan Pearson with Norman maintain contact with former impressive is that Brian Kent there are some very positive Sherrington, who awards the students whose educational has fulfilled the post of Hon. developments, particularly with Ann Boynton award annually, experiences span a number Secretary for the last 50 years regard to the maintenance and Joe Elliott, Bede man of generations of attendance. of the Twos Up Club. By any of the college system. It is (1973-1977) and Principal of It was a particular pleasure to measure this is an outstanding very much anticipated that Collingwood College. be able to re-associate with a achievement and one that has future generations of students, number of you at Reunion last ensured the club’s continuity recruited from diverse Dear member of September and to be reminded and successful survival – 32 backgrounds, will continue to the Association, of forgotten events and members attended the annual enjoy the enduring benefits of instances! However, the difficulty reunion dinner in April. Over collegiate life that many of us Once again, I am pleased to for me in some cases it is not the years, the College(s) has experienced and appreciate be able to pen a few words of so much an issue of assigning a changed and will continue to do today. greeting to you for inclusion in name and a face to a year, but so, but with this as an example the alumni publication. One of to a decade! I have every faith that personal On that note, I feel I should sign the problems, however, is that it loyalties will be maintained. off and, on behalf of Dorothy seems like only yesterday that On a number of occasions I and myself, wish you well in your I was doing the same thing – have commented on the loyalty These days, it seems that lives with the very sincere hope something about ‘being over shown to the College by specific increasing column inches and that our paths may cross again 21’, I presume! That said, I hope alumni groups who return on an footage are being devoted in the not too distant future. that things are going well with annual basis, e.g. the Odinians by the media to aspects of you as they are with Dorothy and the Twos Up Club, whose our education system; the Alan Pearson and I. We very much appreciate association with the tendency being to highlight being invited back into College College(s) spans many the negative. With regard

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Honorary Secretary, feature of our Club Reunions, were, as ever, well received and Brian Kent, reports warmly applauded. During Alan’s on Twos Up Club address, he made, on behalf of the Club, the offer of full activity in 2018 membership to Julie Blake who and 2019 was pleased to accept – that means we have quickly doubled our number of ladies! The Twos Up Club traditional silence was observed Reunion, 2018 while the Hon. Sec. read out the names of the twenty-nine A lively crowd started the men who have died since the celebrations of our 57th Annual Club’s foundation in 1961. We Reunion in a packed Vernon have lost some very good men Arms, where we were joined – great friends who will never be by our special guest, Julie forgotten. A number of written Blake, Principal’s Secretary messages were circulated and, and Alumni Relations Officer. in addition, a further twenty Odinian trophy winner and HBBC cox, We were disappointed that, apologies for absence/best Nellie Chadwick-Smith, with the Men’s 1st VIII. once again, Vernon Armitage, wishes were recorded. In August, President Emeritus, could the Hon. Sec. set up the Club’s not be with us, but, as Alan Annual Golf Competition in Bruce McCulloch Sport Trophy. She also brought Pearson, President, so rightly Barnard Castle, where he was SRC President, Bryony Symes said, ‘We know that Vernon joined by Bill Allen, Roy Dawson, on the 2019 along for company as Jan is always with us in spirit!’ Geoff Dixon, Jim Fletcher, Mike Odinian Dinner was unable to be present. I do Following our warm up in ‘The Hind, George McLaughlan, hope they enjoyed themselves Vern’, we moved to the Gerald and Bryan Woodward – good amongst the geriatric brigade. Collier Room for dinner. Before weather, good food, good We had a good meeting for The College as usual came up saying the Grace, Alan Pearson company (all in all, a very good our 59th gathering in College. trumps; the meal was very good. asked everyone to observe a day!). Though our numbers Nowadays somewhat sad as It was a pleasure to see Alan minute’s silence in memory of are gradually declining, the well, having lost two more and Lee, two previous Principals, Bob Huey and Barry Storey, Club spirit remains as strong members during the year. and we all hope Vernon will be who had recently passed away. as ever. Long may it last! Roger Chicken and Tom Clish able to attend this year. I think Toward the end of yet another both passed away. However, that’s about it, our numbers excellent meal, Lee Worden, With every good wish to 13 members came and we had are getting less and less, which Vice President, proposed the everyone in the Hild Bede family, apologies from 5 so are hoping is inevitable, but to get 20ish Loyal Toast and the Toast to for a good turnout for our Odinians intending to be present the College and the Club. Brian Kent Diamond Jubilee in October in 2019 out of the 65 who left in this year. For the first time in 1959 is quite an achievement. Speeches by Alan Pearson, our history we had a female Lee Worden and Jan Clarke, student, Nellie Chadwick- Kindest regards, Bruce Principal, which are an important Smith receiving the Odinian (Odinian Club Secretary).

Bede College Twos Up Club Reunion, 2019

Our 58th Reunion was a most significant event. Most importantly, it marked sixty years since we all came together as a year-group in Bede, and also marked fifty years in office for the Hon. Sec., who received a magnificent presentation from the Club. Our special guest was Bryony Symes, SRC President. A most memorable occasion – a fuller report will appear in the 2020 Alumni Association Newsletter.

Brian Kent (April, 2019) Julie Blake shows off a cushion bearing the Hild Bede crest in the foyer of Hotel Indigo in Durham (in the former Old Shire Hall).

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Tim Ferguson fills us in on another busy year

This year, chapel has the themes of forgiveness, First Aid Training; 3. a round It was a really enjoyable evening continued to be a discipleship and ‘faith, hope table suicide protocol. This work with some great questions and warm, and welcoming and love’. We have had the is ongoing, but there have been thoughtful lines of enquiry. pleasure of a Cranmer student some good improvements made community. The new on placement with us. Esther since the campaign started. I This weekend was the Just Love intake for choir have has been a valuable person have run mindfulness meditation Road Trip, which took us out enjoyed singing with us to have around and good sessions both in college and of Durham City and to Hetton, and we have even picked company. She has got to know also in the Bill Bryson library Shotton Colliery, and Shildon. people in the chapel community as part of the wider university The students heard more stories up a few people who are and helped me out in chapel, chaplaincy activities. They of the devastating impact of regular members of the Universal Credit and the great congregation. We have work being done by some of the been very fortunate to projects in the area. Bishop Mark used to organise these trips, but have excellent directors of asked if I would do it once he music in Katy Moorhouse The students heard more stories had gone. It was great to travel and Charles Gurnham, with them and then reflect and who have led us well and of the devastating impact of pray with them at the end of the day. After a very long time chosen a magnificent Universal Credit and the great trying to get this going, we have selection of music. Once some students volunteering in again, the carol service work being done by some of St Hild’s School doing some was a special event and reading with children. The the projects in the area. school is awaiting Ofsted and the chapel was full to hear reading is one area where the choir at their best. they are keen to see some improvement. The students’ In evensongs, we had sermon efforts are much appreciated. I themes around ‘Stories that continue in my role as governor shape us’, following the arc of there with a Pupil Premium the Hebrew Bible from Creation while also learning to preach have been better attended responsibility. The Pelaw View to Exile, and ‘We must stop and lead services. This year than I expected, with between Community Centre also got meeting like this: what does we had another fundraiser 3 and 8 students turning up. up and running this year with traditional Anglican worship concert for Syria, which brought It’s also benefited me having students helping the children have to say to a digital age?’, together three choirs and was mindfulness in the middle of perform a Christmas drama. which both gave opportunities an excellent evening of choral the day. Over the last couple for students to preach. This music and managed to raise of weeks, we have had the term, our themes have been £200 in the process. chaplaincy board outside dining ‘Vocation’ and a series on ‘the hall asking in week one, ‘What Mystics’, and we have had a There has been a concentration are you grateful for?’, and in the range of interesting preachers around the Citizens UK Mental second week, ‘If you could ask for these themes. After the Health campaign. I worked God one question, what would it Sunday morning service, we alongside Bryony Symes, be?’ We had good engagement have had discussion around our SRC president, to meet on both of these questions. Rowan Williams’s book Being with Sam Dale, and worked After the second, I did the Disciples. We are half way with him and the university ‘chaplain on a bar stool’, taking through reading it, and it has on three areas: 1. improving the questions from the board, provoked some thoughtful communication for out of hours and answering them in the bar, contributions so far around help; 2. increased Mental Health plus questions from the floor.

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Clubs and Societies

A Varsity win was the crowning achievement to a successful season that saw the men’s A team win the premiership for the fourth year in a row and the women went undefeated in their league.

Basketball instrumental to the club’s season that saw the men’s A cup final. It was a fitting final success across all levels during team win the premiership for game for men’s A team captain It has been another the season. the fourth year in a row and Hyunggyu (HG) Kang who has strong year of sporting the women went undefeated in been a committed member performance for Hild On 24 February, the club had their league. The men’s B team, of the team throughout his the fortune of representing captained by Chi An Dong Páez, time at Durham. HG led the Bede’s basketball club. Team Durham at the College improved dramatically whilst A’s extra training session on a Varsity tournament against playing in a new league filled Sunday evening which caters Presided over by third-year Law York. The mixed team of twelve with tough opposition. Despite for those with more basketball student Kathy Lee, the club staged a late scoring surge to some unfortunate results they experience. has grown in size to over thirty bring the game within one point grew closer as a unit and their members and it comprises of with four seconds left. A buzzer- chemistry was always apparent The club will look to continue three different teams. Every beater shot by first-year Charlie on the court. The season their success and further expand Monday evening, the teams train Clark spiralled around the rim finished on a high note for Hild their community in the new together at Bede gym, running and eventually dropped into the Bede as the men’s A’s defended academic year. For updates on drills and playing practice net, giving Team Durham a 46- their silverware by winning the the club’s results, social events, games to learn new skills and 45 victory in front of a thrilled knockout tournament. They and news you can follow @ to improve club chemistry. The home crowd. defeated Hatfield and St Mary’s HildBedeBasketballClub on inclusivity of practice sessions, in the run to the final, and held Instagram, as well as the Team catering for men and women A Varsity win was the crowning on to a fourth quarter lead to Hild Bede Facebook page. alike of all skill levels, has been achievement to a successful beat Van Mildert 42-40 in the

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Boat Club London but hope to continue current members and alumni at new name “Lady Penelope” was Hild Bede Boat Club is their winning streak at Durham recent events, such as the 135th announced (although thankfully Regatta. Our senior men have anniversary at Phyllis Court in avoided the traditional method one of Durham’s most also had a great season, despite Henley, the Alumni dinner at of smashing champagne on the vibrant, energetic and composing of a relatively Cellar Door, and the annual Boat bow). In order to fully repay the successful college sports inexperienced squad. They have Club Ball at the Marriott Hotel in loan to the Caedmon Ceolfrid teams, there is always consistently been in contention Durham. Trust, there is still an opportunity for fastest college, creating a to purchase a seat in Lady work being done at HBBC strong platform moving into The club had its most exciting Penelope, the fundraising link and this year was no next year. These successes have delivery in January this year, is available on the Dunelm different. With new faces, been mirrored within the club’s following a long fundraising website. The Boat Club will be new challenges and even novice programme. The first campaign led by Alumni Officer undertaking a number of further Novice Cup saw the Novice Men and Ex-Captain of Boats, fundraising campaigns later this new boats, the past year claim fastest crew, a testament Hugo Morgan, to facilitate year, including a bid to sell the has been one of the most to their coaches after only the purchase of a new first Durham Regatta T-Shirts at the successful and exciting in having rowed for two months on VIII. From events such as the 2019 regatta. the club’s history. the water. Our Novice Women 135th anniversary in Henley, also displayed a fantastic to selling the Official T-shirt at In addition to the purchase of performance, having three the 2018 Durham Regatta, the Lady Penelope, Nellie Chadwick- The summer of 2018 saw crews in the top ten, going on club has been engaged in this Smith, alongside Captains of both Hild Bede’s Senior Men to take home fastest crew at the fundraising effort for over the Boats Ellie Reakes-Williams and and Women crowned as their second Novice Cup in February. past year. We must also give a Sam Powell, managed to secure respective fastest college The strength of the Novice huge thanks to donations from a new VIII for our novices from crews at Durham Regatta along Programme this year must be parents and alumni, as well as local club Chester-Le-Street. their road to Henley. Both attributed to Novice Women’s the generous loan from the Following a small fundraising squads would enter into highly Captains Lizzie Bodmer and Caedmon Ceolfrid Trust, which event at the Boat Club Ball, we competitive events at Henley Lucy Roberts, and Novice has facilitated the purchase of are happy to announce that Women’s and Henley Royal Men’s Captain Vicki Higgs, we this new eight. The club owes the VIII will be named “Captain Regatta facing stiff competition are excited to see what these the sincerest thanks to Hugo Morgan”, in honour of our from across the UK and squads can achieve as they Morgan, who has not only ex-President Hugo Morgan’s internationally. Although both move up into the Senior Squad. dreamt of providing Hild Bede immeasurable contribution to crews narrowly missed out on Boat Club with a new first boat the club. qualification, it was a fantastic HBBC has also seen great but has tirelessly fundraised experience for them racing on success off the water this alongside his degree to oversee We are so excited to see what an international stage. year. At the annual Hild Bede the delivery of the new boat. the club can achieve in both Clubs and Societies Formal, The new Hudson Super Predator these new additions to the fleet, The strength of the club has the boat club took home a eight was delivered on the 23rd following on from the successes carried on into this academic number of awards. Ellie Reakes- January, after being refurbished of this year. We will be holding year, with our Senior Women Williams received the award from Eton College. The boat various gatherings of members being undefeated amongst for ‘Sportswoman of the Year’, has provided a much-needed old, current and new the Durham Colleges. It has Hugo Morgan the award for upgrade from the club’s now- throughout the rest of the year, been fantastic to see the ‘Most Outstanding Contribution’ dated Vespoli, offering both so please do keep updated girls having one of their most to a club, and Nellie Chadwick- Senior Squads a fantastic vessel through our Facebook page successful years to date and Smith was recognised for both to train and race in. @HildBedeBoatClub for news is testament to their efforts her sporting prowess and of training, races or events on and off the water. Due to academic record, taking home The new Hudson was officially – it would be great to hear weather conditions they were the prestigious Odinians Award. unveiled in front of a crowd of from you. unable to race at Women’s With much to celebrate, it has current members and alumni on Eight Head of the River Race in been fantastic to gather both the 23rd February, where the

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Chapel Choir well as forming an important We are looking forward to the part of college Christmas rest of the year, particularly our The chapel choir have celebrations. opportunities to sing in fantastic had a fantastic year so far, buildings such as Durham The Michaelmas In addition to our regular Cathedral and York Minster. We singing a variety of music Term saw a great to a high standard. Wednesday and Sunday are delighted to be singing at services, the choir have enjoyed College Day in the cathedral highlight in the yearly hosting a charity concert on on 4th May, offering Ireland’s From the onset of Freshers’ Friday 22nd February in aid ‘Greater love hath no man’ and carol service, with Week, we were excited to of the Hands Up Foundation’s ‘O Quam Gloriosum’. We are the chapel packed welcome both new and former ‘Singing for Syrians’ Campaign also delighted to be returning to members of the choir. The for the second year, raising sing evensong at York Minster and exciting music Michaelmas Term saw a great over £200. (24th June) and St Paul’s ushering in the highlight in the yearly carol Cathedral (2nd September). service, with the chapel packed The choir were delighted to festive period. and exciting music ushering be highly commended in the We are excited to be going in the festive period. The category of Best Society for on tour to Belgium in July, musical offerings including the second year in a row at this particularly the opportunity to ‘Tomorrow shall be my dancing year’s Clubs and Socs Formal. explore Ghent and sing services day’ (Gardner) and ‘Magnum The evening was a fantastic of both Eucharist and evensong Mysterium’ (Lauridsen). The opportunity to celebrate the during our stay. choir greatly enjoyed this achievements of the year so far, highly anticipated event, while also looking forward to enjoying the opportunity to sing upcoming events. with the accompaniment of a snare drum and tambourine, as

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Women’s Football: Socials included the pyjama and Also - just in case anyone form after our first sports fair, tied socials (tying each of the thought these accolades went but we have flourished into The Mooses girls to a member of the Hild unnoticed, we only went and an exceptional ladies college This time last year, at Bede football boys) even though won the highly coveted club of football team! We are confident certain individuals didn’t quite the year award for Hild Bede that the current freshers will festival of sport, we had make it out! this year - a true story of rags continue to keep up the great the changing of the guard to riches and we can’t wait for success of this truly wonderful and a hoard of graduating We were all pretty new to the what’s to come! team! mooses, left just four football experience back then but soon, we all began to bond We never would have ever freshers in their wake and form great friendships, as expected such a great team to Moose love to continue the Mooses we doggedly powered through legacy. A sports fair and tough games! Our general 10+ football-keen freshers motto is ‘not today, hoe’ and it’s with this affectionate spirit later, a new set of Mooses that we raced to the floodlit Even when the chips are down the mooses have magnificently cup final and maintained a solid are notorious for our validation - during any emerged! league position! Even when the chips are down the mooses are given match you are likely to hear a chorus notorious for our validation - of ‘slay queens’ and ‘we stan’ and ‘yaaas gals’ With training sessions regularly during any given match you are booked at Maiden Castle, along likely to hear a chorus of ‘slay which may sound like a foreign language but with jaunty socials where we queens’ and ‘we stan’ and ‘yaaas you soon get used to it!! would either go for a night out gals’ which may sound like a or have a fun meal together and foreign language but you soon mingle to our hearts’ content, get used to it!! the team bonded right away!

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Scholarships and awards

The poster for ‘Poseidon’s Playhouse’ which was printed onto leaflets and posters to help The cast and production team in Edinburgh with publicity of the play. pictured outside our venue, Greenside!

Principal’s Fund of the play would be sure to a sell-out performance which, to my Edinburgh Fringe fit in nicely at Fringe and, it despite first performance experience, as I rapidly picked Beatrice would be a way to showcase nerves, went down extremely up on the weird and wonderful both the cast’s love for theatre well. The tech ran smoothly, lines flyering techniques to grab. Mather-Cosgrove and represent the university’s flowed near perfectly and the Each performance was special student writing. audience roared with laughter in and varied in its own right Beatrice tells us about all parts we were hoping for. whether depending on audience travelling to Edinburgh Such an endeavour would not size or the reaction of the and taking part in the come easily or cheaply, I was audience to certain jokes and therefore grateful to be awarded this contributed towards the Fringe Festival from £150 from the Principal’s Fund. enriching and diverse adventure The production team swiftly as a whole. receiving the Principal’s ...the feeling of Fund which is funded confirmed an excellent venue at the festival (Lime Studio actually performing I can honestly say that Fringe by both the SCR and at Greenside), booked the was one of the best experiences there somehow Darren Funnell. accommodation and train of my life so far and I am more tickets and ready we were for an gave the city an than eager to return next year. Father Ted meets The Office – adventure from 2-10 August! This endeavour wouldn’t have an intriguing concept perhaps even more exciting been possible without the but one which was brought I remember pulling into and lively edge. Principle’s Fund so I thank Hild to life through the student Edinburgh train station with Bede once again for allowing written production, Poseidon’s bags, cases and blow up me to experience such exciting Playhouse (written by Alex beds galore, stepping off opportunities. Julian-Ottie, a fellow member the train to be greeted by of Hild Bede College). Having an overwhelmingly electric performed in the play as a part atmosphere; I couldn’t believe of Durham Drama Festival in my luck! Having visited the Indeed, with such high morale February and proving quite a Fringe Festival before, I had the whole cast were raring to hit with 4* reviews, we, the cast an idea as to what to expect, flyer on the Mile the next day and production team, were keen but the feeling of actually to make sure we continued to take the play to Edinburgh performing there somehow gave to have such a successful run Fringe Festival this summer. We the city an even more exciting with a full packed audience. figured the quirky and slightly and lively edge. On opening I found that even the task of outrageous style of humour night, we were welcomed by flyering contributed hugely

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Palmyra- views from Qalaat Shirkuh before the IS occupation (credit: Judith McKenzie/Manar al-Athar).

Caedmon patterns of worship in response since helped me to articulate positioned in several rock-cut Ceolfrid Trust to different hydrological the position of my research in grottoes. The dedications on landscapes. The Roman Near the academic community. The these altars reveal that the East spanned the modern- discussions I shared with several Palmyrenes worshipped an Dr Eris day countries of Syria, Jordan, scholars also granted me the enigmatic god known as ‘He Williams-Reed Lebanon, Israel/Palestine and opportunity to become involved whose name is blessed forever’, parts of Turkey, Iraq and Saudi in a new book series on who is described as listening Eris has been offered Arabia. The region is well-suited ancient environments. to the prayers of his followers. a grant from Caedmon to the study of water and Given Palmyra’s location in the Ceolfrid Trust which religious life on account of both My conference paper discussed middle of the Syrian steppe, it its diverse religious communities one site in particular: Palmyra. is unsurprising that the city’s enabled him to present and varied local environments. Located in modern-day Syria, inhabitants developed a cult a paper at the Celtic Palmyra made headlines in site around the spring upon Conference in Classics The grant I received from the August 2015 after IS deliberately which the community relied so at St Andrews. Here he Caedmon-Ceolfrid Trust in destroyed many of the site’s heavily. Although the spring 2018 enabled me to present a monuments and artefacts. In dried up after the construction discusses how religious paper (‘Ecology and religious antiquity, the city was home of a nearby hotel in the 1970s, communities engaged life in the Roman Near East: to a vibrant, multicultural reports emerged from Syria in with water in the Roman methodologies, applications and population that developed a early 2019 that the waters of Near East. future directions’) as part of the range of sacred spaces in which the Efqa Spring are flowing ‘Approaching landscape in the to worship their gods. Previous once again. My research focuses on classical tradition’ panel at the studies on the city’s religious the different ways ancient Celtic Conference in Classics in topography have focused mainly communities engaged with St. Andrews. Presenting at the on Palmyra’s temples, whereas their local environment. This Celtic Conference in Classics my research focused on the interest developed during was an excellent opportunity development of sacred spaces the course of my doctorate, for me to share my research around environmental features. Water and Religious Life in the and enhance my professional One such space was the Efqa Roman Near East. Gods, Spaces development. During the Spring, where worshippers and Patterns of Worship, a conference, I received feedback developed a cult site around the study of the various means by on the methodology of my springhead itself. Worshippers which religious communities doctorate – which I was awarded descended to the spring via characterised gods, organised in December 2018 – and enjoyed a staircase and then entered sacred spaces and developed collaborative discussion that has the water to reach the altars

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Female royal flycatcher Great fruit-eating bat.

Dan Nesbit water above ground are in the transect is slowly walked, aguadas (low lying areas that any amphibians or reptiles Dan writes about the fill with rainfall). When the encountered are caught, work he did as a research torrential rains in the winter identified, measured and Birds are a particular Assistant for Operation fail, as they have done for the weighed. Lastly on mammal past five years, these aguadas surveys you are unlikely to see passion of mine, so Wallacea, in Mexico from a quickly dry up. Opwall has any mammals but rather their I decided to focus fund he has received from been collecting data for many footprints or scats. Caedmon Ceolfrid Trust. years and therefore can assess primarily on bird the impact this lack of water is Birds are a particular passion surveys. Whilst in Due to the generosity of the having on life in the forest. of mine, so I decided to focus Caedmon-Ceolfrid Trust this primarily on bird surveys. Mexico, I saw a total summer, I was able to spend a There are four camps across Whilst in Mexico, I saw a total of 109 different month in Mexico as a research the reserve, and each has a of 109 different species of bird, assistant with Operation number of 2km transects from 84 of which I had never seen species of bird, 84 Wallacea. Operation Wallacea which data relating to birds, before. The great thing about of which I had never are a research and conservation bats, butterflies, herpetofauna catching birds in the mist nets organisation with sites in and large mammals is collected. is it gives you a chance to seen before. numerous countries across the This is done using a variety of interact with and get up close globe. Their terrestrial site in techniques. Birds and bats are to birds you would normally Mexico is situated within the caught in very fine nets known only get a fleeting glimpse Calakmul Biosphere Reserve, as mist nets, which they are of, or perhaps not see at all in which is part of the Selva Maya, unable to see and therefore the thick foliage. I enjoyed the the largest expanse of tropical fly into. Once caught, they are whole trip immensely and it forest outside the Amazon. The removed and processed. They was of great value, teaching me primary purpose of Opwall’s are identified, sexed, aged and many techniques that will prove research in the Yucatan a number of morphometric invaluable in my future peninsula is to collect long-term measurements are taken. They scientific career. monitoring data on the diversity are then released unharmed. and abundance of a number of Butterflies are caught in baited different animal taxa within the traps that are hung at various reserve. points in the forest and at different heights. The species In this part of Mexico, there are are then identified, and the virtually no rivers as a result number of individuals counted. of the permeable limestone Herpetofauna surveys are on which the peninsula sits, carried out during the day therefore the only sources of and at night. The length of

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Lauren Irwin Britain for two years at Under Lauren was given support 23 level after making the step up from a junior to under 23 in by the Caedmon Ceolfrid under a year. In my 1st year at Trust to help her with university, I raced in Bulgaria in her rowing. Here she tells the U23 World Championships us about what she has and Poland in the U23 European Championships where we achieved in the sport both finished 3rd place after a long before and during her summer. From this success, time at Durham. myself and another member of the boat club won championship My rowing career started at women’s pair at the British my secondary school at St. University Championships Bede’s in Peterlee where my Regatta (BUCS) to be the first PE teacher encouraged me to women’s crew to win a gold start rowing. There was a group medal in several years for the of us who competed against university. I was selected to row local schools which I enjoyed. for GB again in summer 2018 at I then competed at the Junior the U23 World Championships Indoor Rowing Competition in Poznan, Poland where held at Maiden Castle where we finished 4th place in the I won 2 years in a row. I got women’s 8 by 0.2 of a second involved with a junior rowing behind 3rd place, just missing programme taught by Durham out on a medal. University coaches and current students called the ‘Junior Alongside training and studying, High-Performance Programme’, I have been working with where I was coached on the Durham University Boat Club water, ergo machine and in the coaches and students, coaching gym. This programme gave at the Junior High Performance me support and knowledge and giving back to the which helped the development community. As this programme Myself and 3 other DUBC members who represented GB in the summer of my rowing and as a person. was the development of my U23 World Championships 2018 held at Poznan, Poland. I was encouraged to join my rowing career, I was very keen local rowing club, Chester-Le- to get involved and meet Street ARC to continue this people who are in the same development. After 2 years and position I was in years ago. The plenty of training I was selected programme runs over an 8-week to represent Great Britain at the period to support and develop Junior World Championships in local junior rowers. Students act the Womens Pair in 2016 held in as mentors in this programme Rotterdam. and lead a group of juniors who we coach, support and share on After a successful Junior season, our knowledge and experience I came to Durham University to help them develop as rowers. with the same ambitions to compete for my country again. After a very successful Studying Sport, Exercise programme, I have recently and Physical Activity has obtained my Level 2 Coaching increased my knowledge and qualification where I am now Racing at the U23 World Championships in 2018 in the women’s 8 at Poznan, understanding of subjects such able to get involved with more Poland. I am the girl 7 from the back or 3 from front (including the cox). as the nutrition and psychology coaching roles to give more of an elite athlete which I have back to the sport, but also been able to use to help me support others. This qualification become a better rower. During required 4 pre-requisites to be term time we train 6 days a completed before you could week, twice a day. A 5:30am start the Level 2 course. This start to the day and getting was very time consuming but home as late as 8pm. These along the way I developed sessions range from on the knowledge and understanding water, on the ergo machine of the demands a coach has, as or strength and conditioning well as how to handle situations training to keep things varied. both on the water and on the As you may guess, training 6 ergo machine. I have really times a week, two or three times enjoyed watching junior rowers a day and studying can be quite develop in the programme at stressful, and therefore relies on Durham University and I am being organised and dedicated. excited to see what the future may bring. I am currently in my 3rd year All U23 GB women and men on podium at U23 European Championships and have rowed for Great in Poland. We came 3rd place in the womens 8.

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King’s College, Cambridge.

The Backs, Gently waving my sleeve, I am building a better world King’s College, Cambridge. not taking away a single cloud. for everyone. (Chen, 2008, p. 29) At the same time, I took Thanks to support from the the opportunity to explore Caedmon/Ceolfrid Trust, College Cambridge as a city. I went of St Hild and St Bede, I had punting along the picturesque the opportunity to attend route along the historic college the training course ‘Closing backs along the river Cam, the health/wealth gap? An passing Queens’ College, the introduction to the sociology Mathematical Bridge, King’s of health and illness’ held in College and Trinity College, the University of Cambridge in etc. The images described in March 2019. This professional Zhimo Xu’s poem – To seek a training, which was closely dream? Go punting with a long related to social justice and pole – made me wonder what social mobility, enriched my kind of dream we human beings knowledge of this area of always try to seek. It must be a sociology and contributed to dream to pursue knowledge; a the literature review of my PhD dream to understand ourselves dissertation. as human beings; and a dream to explore the world that we Xin Shao romantic Chinese poet Zhimo During this training course, I are living in – just as Sir Isaac From Durham to Xu, who studied at King’s met researchers from different Newton, Charles Darwin, College, Cambridge. I remember areas of sociology and together Bertrand Russell and many more Cambridge, Xin writes that some lines of this poem we explored the root causes have sought. about her study deeply touched me: of inequalities in health, the experience in Cambridge theories and concepts relating I would like to take this with the help from Softly I am leaving, just as to health inequality and possible opportunity to thank the softly as I came; I softly wave ways to narrow the health/ Caedmon-Ceolfrid Trust for Caedmon Ceolfrid Trust. goodbye, to the clouds in the wealth gap. All the intellectual its very kind support for this western sky … To seek a dream? conversations that I had with my unforgettable and thought- As a Chinese international Go punting with a long pole. colleagues during the lectures provoking journey. This specific student, the first time I got to Upstream to where green grass and seminars further inspired course came to an end, but my know about Cambridge was is greener. With the punt laden me to think deeply about our journey of seeking a dream through the well-known poem with starlight, and sing out loud society and how we human goes on … ‘On Leaving Cambridge’ written in its radiance … Quietly I am beings, both individually and by the early 20th century leaving, just as quietly as I came; together, can contribute to

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Poster Session YAO Hamburg, 2019.

Parth Patel opportunity for me in order to learn about current research. Parth had the occasion to travel to Hamburg, I was worried about the finances Germany to present a needed to participate in the poster at the Young Atom conference. I am a self-funded student and the application fee, Opticians from a grant the flights, visa fees and other that he received from the travelling expenses needed Caedmon-Ceolfrid Trust. for this would be hard for me to support by myself. I was In May, 2019, I was selected informed about the Caedmon to present a poster at the Ceolfrid Trust. Young Atom Opticians 2019, conference at Hamburg, This conference was a dream Germany from 29 July, 2019 come true. I got to meet to 2 August, 2019. Normally, many young Ph.D. and Master First Talk at YAO, Hamburg 2019. conferences consist of mostly students from around the world Post Docs, researchers and and discuss research. This really professors who have been in the helped me broaden my horizons research field for a long time. It and learn what is being done is difficult for young scientists around the world in my field. to participate in conferences such as these and this is what It’s a great opportunity for lead to the creation of Young young scientists like myself to It is difficult for young scientists to Atom Opticians. It was the be able to participate in events participate in conferences such as these and 25th edition of the conference like these, I thank the Caedmon in Hamburg, Germany. This Ceolfrid Trust, which made this this is what lead to the creation of Young conference was formed by Ph.D. possible. Without this support it Atom Opticians. It was the 25th edition of the students and it was designed would be almost impossible to for early career scientists like attend by myself. conference in Hamburg, Germany. Ph.D. and Master students to get together to share ideas and discuss their research. I am a research master student; this conference was a perfect

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Hild Bede postgraduate education scholarship

Daniel Jones that the true value of the engaging with dissertation UK. Not only was the Hild Bede scholarship advances beyond research projects. This process scholarship instrumental in Daniel was awarded an its financial component and has benefitted my own work as providing me with the necessary opportunity to do an can actually be found in the well as the work of others, as I finances to attend this trip, but community engagement that have been able to challenge my moreover, it allowed me to build MA in Education and this promotes. On a college own opinions, compelling me the relationships that initially tells us about his time level, I have relished the to adopt a wider perspective created the opportunity and for at Hild Bede. opportunity to become involved towards issues in education. this, I am beyond grateful. in postgraduate events, both The opportunity to attend When applying to study a socially and academically education conferences, held The Hild Bede scholarship has Master’s degree in Education, I such as the postgraduate both at Durham University and been pivotal in my time as was unaware of the opportunity presentation evenings. The elsewhere, has been similarly a postgraduate and I would for scholarship at Hild Bede. opportunity to discuss other rewarding and this has allowed recommend it to anybody that Since applying and being aspects of academia and me to build strong connections is interested in postgraduate awarded the scholarship, I can different viewpoints that I may and relationships with leaders studies in Education. I will say that this has been the most not have otherwise considered in the field of education, many always be grateful for the significant factor in shaping has been enlightening and of whom I remain in close diverse range of opportunities my time as a postgraduate at sparked new interests that contact with. I was invited to that the scholarship has university. will extend beyond my time at participate on the Durham afforded me, along with being university. University China Teaching able to participate in such a Initially, the financial aspect of Programme as an ambassador, welcoming and vibrant college the scholarship has allowed me Through my responsibilities supporting undergraduates community. to become more fully engaged attached to the scholarship, who were teaching in a range with my studies, being able to I have enjoyed working of primary schools for two purchase resources that I have closely with both Education weeks in Shenzhen. I particularly come to depend on, such as postgraduates and enjoyed the opportunity to textbooks and IT equipment. undergraduates, using my own speak in front of an audience of Whilst my gratitude for this experiences to offer support headteachers and government cannot be understated, I feel whenever possible, along with officials about education in the

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An interesting exchange with TV The Graduation Ceremony for my first week presenter Ivan Kabacoff at the of the Université BELC Hiver in Paris. Université BELC Hiver.

Ian Cramb explored Andorra, which must not be merely overlooked as a Scholarships crossroad between France and Spain. I was fascinated by how Clorrie Yeomans locals naturally switch between Clorrie recommends French, Spanish and Catalan during the same conversation! saying ‘Yes’ to every opportunity. Plus, there is no better way to test your language skills than I am a Third Year student by taking a group of French of Modern Languages and I am already looking forward to my children hiking in the mountains Cultures. Before embarking and tree trekking! on my Year Abroad, Professor third and final adventure of the Year Jan Clarke advised me to ‘say I am already looking forward yes to every opportunity’. I Abroad! From June to September to my third and final adventure have therefore made the most of the Year Abroad! From June of my Year Abroad in order 2019, I will be completing an internship to September 2019, I will be to perfect my language skills, completing an internship in get to know new cultures and in Mendoza, Argentina with a travel Mendoza, Argentina with a develop both personally and journalist and editor. travel journalist and editor. I professionally. However, I would have really enjoyed writing for never have been able to accept Durham University’s Modern these invaluable opportunities Languages and Cultures if it were not for the Ian Cramb Magazine, The Definite Article, Scholarship. during my year abroad. Therefore, I am keen to gain I started my Year Abroad in Next, I undertook a British language and Francophone some professional experience in Barcelona, where I worked Council English Language culture in 37 countries. Thanks order to hopefully make the next as a marketing intern in an Assistantship from October to the Ian Cramb Scholarship, I step in pursuing a journalism international travel technology 2018 to April 2019 in Toulouse. was able to fund this invaluable career. start-up from June to I worked in the Toulouse course which involved 60 September last year. It was Hospitality and Catering hours of workshops delivered Finally, I would like to thank Ian my responsibility to manage College where I indulged in in French and numerous Cramb and the dedicated staff all written and face-to-face French cuisine! I was selected inspiring networking events at Hild Bede whose support is correspondence with external to represent my school at the with teachers, TV and radio enabling me to gain a world companies in Spanish. Outside Université BELC Hiver held at presenters, ministers and class degree, as well as many of work, I participated in the the Centre international d’études academics. Alongside my indispensable life skills through regional festivities of this pédagogiques (CIEP) in Paris. internship, I volunteered as the Year Abroad. buzzing city; my favourite of This prestigious two-week-long a Scout Leader in my local which was undoubtedly Sant course welcomed professionals community, which was an Joan (Summer Solstice). I also who represent the French extremely rewarding experience.

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John Simpson A typical day in Siptindhara consisted of being woken up by Greenwell the family’s animals, followed memorial fund by a breakfast of black tea, rice or noodles with all the teachers Evonne after a humid walk along the muddy footpaths on the side Baltrock-Nitzsche of the stunning green steep hills. The children began their With the help from school day after an already the John Simpson busy morning helping with Greenwell Memorial their family farms, by singing the Nepali national anthem Fund, Evonne had the and performing drills in an opportunity to travel to assembly in the school yard. The Siptindhara, Nepal to students then sat in half hour lessons until the day ended at work with teachers and 4 o’clock, with a lunch break at students. 1, and were expected generally Breakfast with Nirmal, a local teacher, and his daughter. to sit and listen to the teachers Thanks for the HELP! and copy as they did, and work from the outdated government As a child, did you ever have to textbooks. This made our job climb into school? In flip flops? exciting as we went through all the classes throughout the day Last summer with the financial teaching new styles of learning support of the John Simpson by playing games and using Greenwell Memorial Fund and visual aids to teach children the Caedmon Coelfrid Trust, new vocabulary, until by the this became an everyday end of our time many of the routine for myself alongside older pupils could engage in the teachers and students I had full English conversations about the pleasure of working with themselves. A vast amount of for 4 weeks in North Nepal. The singing ‘head, shoulders, knees Village of Siptindhara (or the and toes’ was naturally involved. three fountains) in the Indrijwati municipality is a friendly and We were given a goodbye lively community, roughly four assembly on our final afternoon, hours’ drive from Kathmandu. with speeches from both Depending how many landslides teachers and students followed The daily morning assembly of physical exercise for the whole school. you get caught in! by ourselves about the importance of education and Villages in this region were hit international friendships, and hardest by the 2015 earthquake, what we can learn from each and three years later the houses other’s ways of life. I of course and lives of people across could not keep my eyes dry. The Nepal were still being rebuilt. final gifts to me were ceremonial Despite this, those who live in guest scarves and a sari that this village are the most cheerful I was dressed in by teachers and hospitable people I have and made to do a dance (I only ever met, and we made friends knew the macarena); our final for life among the school and gift to the school was a frisbee village community. and newfound knowledge in how to play bingo. The school This wonderful opportunity community of Siptindhara were occurred through the incredibly caring and truly Helambu Education Livelihood committed to improving the Partnership, also known as lives of those in the school. HELP, a grassroots partnership We cannot wait to visit again supported by the international someday. charity Mondo Challenge, Teaching the students ultimate frisbee. founded by Jimmy Lama, a University of Sussex ‘Human Development’ graduate, who grew up in this region of Nepal. I would strongly recommend this scheme to anyone looking for voluntary work with small charities that may develop teaching skills and the experience of living within a whole new culture.

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The Andes.

Elizabeth Matson My initial thoughts of a This background research industries which contribute dissertation topic focused on helped me to develop the focus to the national economy and Elizabeth travelled to agriculture which is of huge of further fieldwork. When exports on a larger scale. Argentina as part of importance to the country in considering development, her year abroad with terms of the economy and my research highlighted a For my fieldwork in Mendoza, employment. As my geography key theme of the inequality I conducted interviews the help from the John interests and studies have in landownership, which has with wine producers and Simpson Greenwell focused on development contributed to social inequality. relevant organizations such studies, I concentrated on I found that agricultural as the Argentine Winemaking Memorial Fund. the interaction of agriculture products, such as soy, that Corporation and the Association I am a Combined Honours with local communities and dominate national exports are of Winemakers of Mendoza in Social Sciences student, development. In my first mainly controlled by largescale (La Corporación Vitivinícola studying Geography and few months in Argentina landowners and has encouraged Argentina and La Asociación Spanish. As part of my year I conducted background the accumulation of power and de Viñateros de Mendoza) to abroad, I have just spent six consider the impact of this and a half months in Argentina, industry on the provincial where I worked at an English Valle de Uco. economy and on local Institute and also conducted development. Having just the fieldwork for my Geography returned from Argentina, I am dissertation, to combine all now in the process of writing up aspects of my combined my fieldwork which I will use to honours degree. My time in write my dissertation in my final Argentina has enabled me to year starting in October 2019. hugely improve my Spanish language skills, understanding I am very grateful to the John of a different culture and Simpson Memorial Fund for customs through living with supporting my dissertation Argentinian families, and use my fieldwork in Argentina, allowing geographical research skills in me to conduct in-depth Spanish. research and I visited some capital in a small elite group. background research and agricultural production sites This encouraged me to consider thorough fieldwork in Mendoza My dissertation focus is on the in Buenos Aires. I conducted the winemaking industry in to form a topical and relevant importance and impact of the interviews with landowners Mendoza, which differs in that research area. It also allowed me winemaking industry on local and with members of various it is dominated by small and to spend more time immersed development in the province agricultural organisations, such medium scale producers. Whilst in the country to continuously of Mendoza in Argentina. I am as La Sociedad Rural Argentina, this industry is less significant to improve my Spanish language considering this in the context an important organization the national economy, it is very skills, enriching my language of the industry’s increasing for producers to voice their important on a provincial scale. experience in Argentina. transnationalization and concerns and challenges, as Therefore, my dissertation now integration with the global well as with someone from the focuses on how this industry, market, in other words how this Ministry of Agroindustry (El which is increasingly integrating global system has affected the Ministerio de Agroindustria de la with the global market, affects local context, with a focus on Nación). local development in Mendoza employment and social equality. differently to agricultural

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Vera Mary Bell nee reunion every year and, until together. Hazel and I became Rev Peter Hallam her death, she never missed a friends through our involvement Berriman reunion. When some of us were in college chapel. The college It is with great sadness that Rev Vera was a Durham girl through fading by the end of a long day, chaplain was Canon Alan Peter Hallam M.A. Cantab, or and through. She was born in Vera would still be going strong. Richardson, who was known as he was known to many of Coxhoe, and lived all her life to all students as ‘Canny Alan’. us, ‘Noddy’ has passed away in and around Durham City. When her mother was no He was a distinguished New on May 10. He was buried at She knew half the resident longer able to care for Richard, Testament scholar and we were Briercliffe St James Blackburn population of the City and the Vera’s disabled brother, Vera, incredibly lucky to be taught on the 23rd May. Peter was surrounding villages. Mention supported by John, took by him. Since he had to fit in his ordained in 1958 and served his someone local to Vera and responsibility for all aspects of work as Chaplain and teaching curacy at Heyhouses on Sea, St she would know their parents his life. She fought valiantly us, with his main responsibility Annes. In 1962 he took on the and their offspring. Her entire and successfully to prevent him in the University Theology role of Assistant Chaplain and teaching career was in the City, being taken into care. In spite of department and as Canon in the Tutor Bede. In 1967 he returned first at what was then known as the heavy commitment of caring Cathedral, the running of the to the Diocese of Blackburn St Hild’s College Demonstration for Richard she never stopped College Chapel was mainly in to become Vicar of St James, School and then at St Margaret’s learning. She took an M.A. and the hands of the chapel wardens where he remained until he Primary School. then a Ph.D. studying children’s’ of whom Hazel and I were two. retired in 1998, Peter was made charities. While studying she We also sang in the chapel an Hon Canon at Blackburn Vera was the eldest of a large continued her involvement in choir but Hazel also played the Cathedral in 1992. Although he and happy family. She came College as a personal tutor and organ several times a term. The was only at Bede for 5 years up to the University to read for then as a mentor. Vera was chapel wardens were invited his influence on many of us was a degree in 1946 but was very never someone to take on a from time to time to lunch at considerable, he was one who distressed when a much wanted role without being completely the Richardson’s house in the could always be relied upon boy was born who was severely committed and she and John ‘College’ at the Cathedral. On for sound advice and ‘liquid’ disabled. Vera switched to spent much time on their one special day the Chaplain support. training as an infant teacher (key students. took us on a tour of the triforium stage 1). She did so well that or upper levels of the Cathedral. it was natural that the College Vera was my contemporary Now Hazel wasn’t too keen on Tom Jackson. recommended her to the head in College and I admired her heights but she was determined Chorley, Lancs. of the Demonstration School as greatly for her commitment to not to miss out. She was as suitable teacher. The school was College and, especially for the white as a sheet, but persisted Joan Mildred Pütz where the university nursery is way she sought to enrich the life and this was a characteristic of now situated and it was very of Richard. Hazel – if you take something on (Nee Harrison) – much part of the life of the you persevere. college. Lilian Groves 1929-2019 After College, Hazel went to College of St Hild – Vera’s deep Christian faith Nigel Holmes teach history in a secondary probably made it inevitable modern school in Leeds. Her 1949-1953 that she would seek to teach Nigel was a former BBC Radio head of department was John Joan graduated in 1952 with a in Church of England schools. Cumbria producer. He acted Howard. Hazel and John married B.A. in General Arts, specialising It was while teaching at St as our publicity trustee when and went to live in Scarborough in English + R.E. She obtained Hild’s School that Vera met her I was the sole member of staff where John became head a diploma in Education in 1953 husband. John Bell had spent at the Community Foundation. of a large comprehensive – all 4 years were spent at St his National Service in the RAF He also master-minded the school. They had two sons and Hild’s and enjoyed the caring, and then came to Bede College official launch of the Community a daughter and Hazel gave Christian life of the College, to train as a teacher. During Foundation in August 1999. up teaching to bring up her attending services in College his training he attended a children. She continued to play chapel and Matins on a Sunday demonstration lesson given by Nigel was active in his church the organ for her local church morning at the Cathedral Vera. Before very long they were and Parish Council amongst and on retirement volunteered (wearing gowns of course!!). engaged and married. Their joy many commitments and at the local Oxfam shop, where, After leaving College, Joan was complete when the twins, accomplishments. I saw Nigel since all the other volunteers taught at York College and later Stephen and Sarah, came along. about three years ago and were nervous of it, she took in Lytham St Anne’s where she he was interested to learn of charge of the till. Her daughter and her husband Johannes Vera was invited by the College our successes. More recently Catherine married a man from Erich Pütz made their home. Principal, Nina Joachim, to Richard Roberts has been in Malta and went to live in Turin, Her last 3 years being spent at become a member of the discussions with Nigel’s son who where Hazel had many happy New Thursby Nursing Home, College Governing Board as a is a judge in London. holidays with Catherine and her Lytham on her back. Joan had a representative of the alumni. children.. strong, Christian faith and was Inevitably she became very an inspiration to all who had met involved in the Old Students HAZEL HOWARD né Until she was too frail to travel, her. Hannes pre-deceased her. Association (later the Alumni). WOOD 1928-2019 Hazel regularly attended Our thoughts and prayers are For many years the Association College Reunion and always with her daughter Catherine, her was run by the College staff but Hazel was one of 40 or so remembered her college days husband Ben and their children eventually its organisation and young women who arrived at St with pleasure. Josie and Freya. running was handed over to the Hild’s in 1946, just a year after former students themselves. the end of WW2. It was a time Lilian Groves Vera became secretary of the of great shortages but the one Association and in the early thing we weren’t short of was 1980s, she took over from me friendship. We all supported as Chairman. Vera organised one another and mucked in

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An Appeal on Behalf of the Caedmon Ceolfrid Trust

In 1982, the College Many of you will remember your substantial loan from the Trust, Why are we telling you all Alumni generously set College Day with affection, but which the club pays back over this? Over there years, in did you realise that the hiring several years. Others of you will spite of occasional donations, up a trust to enhance of the marquee that is such a have been involved in theatre. the capital has diminished. student experience while feature of the day was funded The Trust is able to help with Moreover, the interest on the at College. If you are by the Trust? This is, indeed, a mixture of grants and loans. capital has shrunk dramatically wondering why we chose the Trust’s major single item Other clubs have been helped in in the last few years. Will you of expenditure each year. Also, similar ways. consider making a donation to this title for the Trust, it at an early stage, the Trust enable the students of today was because the talents enabled the establishment of a Each year, we receive requests and of tomorrow to have the of Caedmon, the first number of choral scholarships from individual students for help opportunities you enjoyed? English hymn writer, were to enhance the music in chapel. with music lessons, for example, We very much hope so. These continue to be awarded or who have the opportunity to nourished by St Hild, while and have been tremendously attend conferences or represent Lilian Groves Ceolfrid was the friend successful. the College (and sometimes Trustee and teacher of Bede. We even the country), or who see Caedmon Ceolfrid Trust felt this indicated the way College societies are helped in other ways of fulfilling their a variety of ways. Some of you dream, but are unable fully to in which it was hoped the will have belonged to the Boat fund their participation. We Trust would help the life Club and know that rowing is always try to give at least a of the College to flourish. a very expensive sport. The small sum to those we feel fit purchase of a new boat is the Trust’s terms of reference. only ever possible thanks to a

To donate please see the College’s online donation site: dunelm.org.uk/donations/colleges/hildbede or alternatively send a cheque made payable to The Caedmon/Ceolfrid Trust to Julie Blake at the College of St Hild and St Bede, St Hild’s Lane, Durham, DH1 1SZ.

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