St Hilda’s College The Chronicle 2019-20

St Hilda’s College Chronicle 2019 - 20

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Tel: 01865 276828 Email: [email protected] www.st-hildas.ox.ac.uk THE CHRONICLE 2019-20

Contents

Editorial...... 1 St Hilda's College List...... 2 ASM Committee...... 7 American Friends of St Hilda's Board...... 7

REPORTS The 2019 Annual General Meeting...... 8 The Chair's Report...... 10 ASM Financial Report...... 14 Senior Tutor's Report...... 15

NEWS OF SENIOR MEMBERS Marriages and Partnerships...... 17 Births...... 17 Deaths...... 18 Deaths of Partners...... 19 Recent Publications...... 20 Other Recent News...... 23

ARTICLES From the Archive: Dorothea Beale and St Hilda’s East...... 25 Charitable career change...... 27 Volunteering post-retirement in southern Rajasthan...... 28 Learning and rewards from volunteering: then and now...... 29 Greenpeace...... 30 School governing to Citizens Advice...... 31 Why 20mph matters...... 32 Dedicated social worker par excellence...... 33 Going green...... 34 The Samaritans...... 35 Training doctors for conflict and catastrophe...... 36 Learn to Love to Read...... 37 A time of transformation...... 38 “It only takes one night…”...... 39 CONTENTS

OBITUARIES Margaret Rayner...... 40 Elizabeth Sullivan...... 42 Shelagh Hill...... 43 Ann Trocmé...... 44 Alokananda Mitter...... 45 Beryl Yates...... 46 Catharine Bevis...... 47 Rosemary Grace Riddell...... 48 Anne Robiette...... 49 Jenifer Christine Williamson...... 50 Gwendolen Hampshire...... 51 Elisabeth Scheybeler...... 52 Gillian Raven...... 53 Sian Schofield-Hughes...... 54 Anna Torpey...... 55

LIST OF DONORS TO COLLEGE 2019...... 56

Data Protection Act 2018 All data are securely held in the St Hilda’s College Development & Alumnae Office and will be treated confidentially and with sensitivity for the benefit of St Hilda’s College and its members. The data are available to our academic and administrative departments, recognised alumnae societies and clubs associated with the College, and to agents contracted by the College for particular alumnae-related projects. Data are used for a full range of alumnae activities, including the sending of College publications, the promotion of benefits and services available to alumnae, and notification of alumnae events and of programmes involving academic and administrative departments. Data may also be used for fundraising programmes which might include an element of direct marketing. Data will not be passed to external commercial organisations. Under the terms of the Data Protection Act 2018 you have the right to object to the use of your data for any of the above purposes. THE CHRONICLE 2019-20

Editorial The last few months have brought profound changes for most of us and many of the events recorded in this edition of The Chronicle recall a different and more predictable world; there are references to others planned for the early months of this year which were skilfully modified by College and particularly by members of the resourceful Development and Alumnae team. They will be covered in the next edition. The same circumstances have meant that The Chronicle is appearing on your screens and through your letter boxes far later than expected and so some lists cover early 2020 as well as 2019. This year Senior Members have produced articles about their engagement in a wide range of charitable activities, and our archivist, Oliver Mahony, has prefaced them with an account of Miss Beale’s charitable enterprise, St Hilda’s East. For the next edition we would like to invite articles about how Senior Members were affected by and responded to the challenges of these last few months: those involved in medical and other essential services, those self-isolating, those who found the chance to explore new interests or write the unwritten book, those juggling working at home with looking after small children, those adapting to teaching online, and others. If you would like to contribute an article please contact the Development Office for further details. There is no ASM Student Report in this issue but in October 2019 the ASM Committee agreed that the award be increased to £3,000 from next year. Other benefits of the Studentship, such as Library access and College accommodation, are subject to change. We very much hope that by the 2021-22 academic year social distancing will be a distant memory, but at this stage the College cannot guarantee that such benefits will be available. As ever, our thanks go to Bronwyn and all those in the Development and Alumnae Office for their efforts to keep us all connected to the College even when we cannot be there in person. Margaret Ellis (Vaughan, 1963) Fran Woodcock (2004) Editors

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St Hilda's College Armstrong, Rebecca, BA, MSt, DPhil, The Chronicle Tutor in Classics, Mary Bennett Fellow 2019-20 Swift, Helen, MA, MSt, DPhil, Tutor in French, Eleanor Boyle Fellow, St Hilda's College List Communications Fellow Smith, Hannah, BA (Cambridge), MPhil Visitor (Cambridge), PhD (Cambridge), Tutor in The Rt Hon Baroness Elizabeth Butler- History Sloss, GBE, PC Filatov, Dmitry, PhD (Moscow), Tutor in Principal Biology, IT Fellow Professor Sir Gordon Duff, MA, BM, BCh, Travers, Bronwyn, BA (Auckland), PhD, MD, FFPM (Hon), FBSPharmacol Development Director (Hon), FRCP, FMedSci, FRSE Payne, Elinor, MA (Cambridge), MPhil Fellows (Cambridge), PhD (Cambridge), Fellow in Paul, Georgina, MA, DPhil, Tutor in Phonetics and Phonology German Hoge, Kerstin, MPhil, DPhil, MA (Ohio Yeomans, Julia, MA, DPhil, FRS, Tutor State), MLS (Ohio State), Tutor in German in Physics, Pauline Chan Fellow, Professor of Linguistics, Tutor for Graduates Physics, Vice-Principal (MT 2019 and TT Glitsch, Maike, PhD (Göttingen), 2020) DipBiolSci (Göttingen), Tutor in Biomedical Avramides, Anita, MA, DPhil, BA Sciences, Muriel Tomlinson Fellow (Oberlin), MPhil (Lond), Tutor in Philosophy, Macintosh, Fiona, BA (Leeds), MA Southover Manor Trust Fellow, Reader in (Leeds), PhD (Lond), PGCE (Lond), Fellow Philosophy of Mind, Vice-Principal (HT 2020) in Classical Reception Moroz, Irene, MA, PhD (Leeds), Tutor in Condry, Rachel, BSc (LSE), PhD (LSE), Applied Mathematics Fellow in Criminology Clarke, Katherine, MA, DPhil, Tutor in McHugh, Stephen, MSc, DPhil, MA Ancient History, Atkinson Fellow, Domestic (Edinburgh), Tutor in Psychology Fellow Todd, Selina, BA (Warwick), MA (Sussex), Schleiter, Petra, MA, MPhil, DPhil, BSc DPhil (Sussex), Tutor in History (Lond), Tutor in Politics Noble, Alison, OBE, MA, DPhil, FRS, Jones, Susan, MA, DPhil, Tutor in English, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Barbara Pym Fellow, JdP Fellow Professorial Fellow Kean, Margaret, MA, DPhil, Tutor in Katzourakis, Aris, BSc (Imperial), PhD English, Dame Helen Gardner Fellow (Imperial), Tutor in Zoology Smith, Lorna, MA, DPhil, Tutor in Inorganic Swales, Catherine, BSc (UCL), PhD (UCL), Chemistry, Peacock Fellow, Disability Fellow Tutor in Clinical Medicine

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Wakelin, Daniel, BA (Cambridge), MPhil Richards, Duncan, MA, BM, BCh, Climax (Cambridge), PhD (Cambridge), Jeremy Professor of Clinical Therapeutics, Professorial Griffiths Professor of Medieval English Fellow Palaeography, Professorial Fellow, Library Fellow Honorary Fellows Howey, David, BA (Cambridge), MEng Kennan, Elizabeth, MA, PhD (Cambridge), PhD (Imperial), Tutor in (Washington) Engineering Sciences Lee Rudgard, Deanna, OBE, BM, BCh, MA Hulley, Philippa, BSc (Cape Town), PhD Foster, Joanna, CBE (Cape Town), Tutor in Biomedical Sciences Butler-Sloss, Elizabeth (The Rt Hon Gangjee, Dev, BCL, MPhil, DPhil, BA Baroness), GBE, PC, Hon LLD (Hull), Hon (Bangalore), Tutor in Law DLitt (Loughborough), Hon DUniv (UCE) Gargent, Frank, MA, MA (Cambridge), Goodhart, Celia (The Lady Goodhart), MA MSc (Birkbeck), FCA, Bursar Shephard, Gillian (The Rt Hon Baroness Wild, Lorraine, MA, DPhil, Dean Shephard of Northwold), PC, MA Bulte, Daniel, BSc (Tasmania), PhD Jones Mueller, Gwyneth (Dame), DBE, (Tasmania), Tutor in Engineering Hon DMus (Wales), FRCM, Hon Mem Barlow, Jane, MSc, DPhil, BA (Warwick), RACM Professor of Evidence Based Intervention and LeFanu, Nicola, MA, DMus (Lond), Hon Policy Evaluation, Professorial Fellow DMus (Durham, Aberdeen), Hon DUniv Norman, Sarah, MA, BSc (Edinburgh), (Open), Hon PhD (Patros), FRCM PhD (Cambridge), Senior Tutor, Tutor for Lefkowitz, Mary, BA (Wellesley), MA Admissions, Equality and Diversity Fellow (Radcliffe), PhD (Radcliffe), LHD (Trinity), Gwenlan, Claire, MSci (UCL), PhD (UCL), Hon DMus (Durham), Hon DU (Open) Tutor in Physics Caldicott, Fiona (Dame), DBE, BM, Kock, Anders, PhD (Aarhus), Tutor in BCh, MA, FMedSci, FRCGP, FRCP, FRCPI, Economics FRCPsych Schenk, Catherine, BA (Toronto), MA Pomeroy, Sarah, BA (Barnard), MA (Toronto), PhD (LSE), Professor of Economic (Columbia), PhD (Columbia) and Social History Le Pichon, Doreen (The Hon Mrs Justice), Havelková, Barbara, MSt, DPhil, Mgr GBS, BA, BCL (Prague), LLM (Saarland), Tutor in Law Lee, Hermione (Dame), DBE, MA, MPhil, Mondino, Andrew, BA (Torino), MA FRSL, FBA (Trieste), PhD (Trieste), Tutor in Pure Stevenson, Catherine (Lady), MA Mathematics Greenfield, Susan (The Baroness Parrott, Matthew, BA (Michigan), PhD Greenfield), CBE, MA, DPhil, Hon DSc (Berkeley), Tutor in Philosophy (Oxford Brookes, St Andrews, Exeter)

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Weir, Judith, CBE, MA (Cambridge) Foundation Fellow Llewellyn-Smith, Elizabeth, CB, MA Midler, Monica, BA Gaymer, Janet (Dame), DBE, MA, LLM, Hon DLaws (Nottingham, Westminster), Emeritus Fellows Hon D (Surrey) Christie, Margaret, MA, PhD (Cambridge), BSc (Glasgow), PhD (Glasgow) Wagley, Mary-Frances, MA, DPhil, BSc (MIT) Sisam, Celia, MA Edgington, Dorothy, BPhil, MA, FBA Levick, Barbara, MA, DPhil, FSA Baird, Vera (Dame), DBE, QC, LLB Innes, Doreen, MA, DPhil, MA (Aberdeen) (Newcastle), BA (Open) Ault, Irene, MA, BSc (Lond), PhD (Lond) Rose, Joanna, BA (Bryn Mawr) Mellanby, Jane, MA, DPhil Neville, Elizabeth (Dame), DBE, QPM, Gregory, Mary, MA, DPhil, MA (Glasgow) MA, PhD (Lond), Hon LLD (Southampton) Watkinson, Sarah, MA, PhD (Cambridge) Smethurst, Jacqueline, MA, Med Howarth, Janet, MA, FRHistS (Massachusetts), PhD (Massachusetts) Goodden, Angelica, MA, DLitt (Lady), MA, MB English, Judith Newby, Laura, MA, DPhil, BA (Lond) (Cambridge), MRCP, FRCPsych Mapstone, Sally, MA, DPhil Owers, Anne (Dame), DBE, BA (Cambridge) Supernumerary Fellows MacMillan, Margaret, BPhil, MA, DPhil Williamson, Karina, MA, BLitt, DLitt Salmon, Paul, BSc (Lond), MRCS, MB, BS Rees, Margaret, MA, DPhil, BSc (Lond), (Lond), FRCP (Edinburgh, Lond), MRCP MB (Lond), BS (Lond), MRCOG Allen, Thomas (Sir), CBE Brown, Verity, MA, MA (St Andrews) McDermid, Val, BA, LC, Hon DEd King, Gillian, MA, DPhil (Sunderland), Hon DLaw (Dundee), Hon DCL (Northumbria), FRSE, FRSL Aldgate, Jane, OBE, MA, MA (Edinburgh), PhD (Edinburgh) Almond, Jayne, MA McAuley, Mary, MA, DPhil Mason, Monica (Dame), DBE Street-Perrott, Alayne, MA, MA Forbes, Sheila, CBE, MA (Colorado), MA (Cambridge), PhD Kani, Wasfi, OBE, BA (Cambridge), FRGS Boulding, Hilary (Dame), DBE, MA Gray, Christine, MA, DPhil, MA Pisa, Regina, MA (Cambridge), PhD (Cambridge) Climax, John (Professor), PhD (Ireland) Taylor, Jane, MA, DPhil, HonD-ès-Lettres Isserlis, Stephen, CBE (Reims-Champagne)

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Edwards, Anne, BA (Wales), MEd (Wales), Zahavi, Daniel, BA (Copenhagen), MA PhD (Wales), ACSS, AFBPSS, CPsychol (Copenhagen), PhD (KU Leuven), DrPhil Buchanan, Ann, MBE, MA, MSc (Bath), (Copenhagen), Philosophy PhD (Southampton) Smith, Teresa, MA Junior Research Fellows, Career Development Fellows and Associate Brown, Hilda, MA, Blitt, DLitt, BA Research Fellows (Western Australia) Smith, Alex, BSc (Texas A&M), MSc (Duke), Mountford, Brian (The Revd Canon), DPhil (Vanderbilt), Junior Research Fellow MBE, MA, BA (Newcastle), MA Worth, Eve, MSt, BA (Bristol), Junior (Cambridge) Research Fellow Blackshaw, Susanna, MA, BSc Zhu, Tingting, DPhil, BEng (Malta), MSc (Birmingham), PhD (Wales) (Lond), Associate Research Fellow Tudor, Maya, BA (Stanford), MA Patterson, Jonathan, BA (Cambridge), (Princeton), PhD (Princeton), Government MPhil (Cambridge), PhD (Cambridge), and Public Policy Career Development Fellow Elliott, Victoria, MSc, DPhil, BA Mars, Rogier, BSc (Groningen), PhD (Cambridge), MPhil (Cambridge), PGCE (Nijmegen), Associate Research Fellow (Leeds), English and Literacy Education Namburete, Ana, BSc (Simon Fraser), Kissinger, Aleks, MSc, DPhil, BA (Tulsa), Associate Research Fellow Quantum Computing Alvarez, Sebastian, BA (Cordoba), MA (Sorbonne), PhD (Geneva), Associate Senior Research Fellows Research Fellow Gordon, Lyndall, MA, MA (Columbia), PhD (Columbia), English Lecturers Kearns, Emily, MA, DPhil, Classics, Dean Athanassoglou, Vassilis, MB of Degrees (Cambridge), BChir (Cambridge), MA Maclean, Mavis, CBE, MA, MSc (Lond), (Cambridge), Medicine LLB (Lond), Law Balunas, William, BA (Carnegie Mellon), Muschel, Ruth, BA (Cornell), PhD (Albert MS (Penn), PhD (Penn), Physics Einstein College), MD (Albert Einstein Bandyopadhyay, Soham, BA, Medicine College), Medicine Baroghel, Elsa, BA (Sorbonne), MA Bernitz, Ulf, LLM, JD (Stockholm), MCL (Sorbonne), French (New York), Law Bavan, Luckshman, BSc (Lond), MBBS Hammond, Ester, BSC (Manchester), PhD (Lond), Medicine (Birmingham), Medicine Board, Mary, MA, DPhil, Biochemistry Kenny, Elizabeth, BA (Cambridge), FRAM, Music

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Buckle, Alexandra, MSt, DPhil, BMus Jenkinson, Sarah, MChem, DPhil, (Lond), Music Chemistry Conquer, Rey, BA, MSt, DPhil, German Jew, Luke, MPhys, DPhil, Physics Cooper, Charlotte, MSt, DPhil, BA (Lond), Johnson, George, MMath (Cambridge), French Physics Dahlquist, Henrik, BA (Uppsala), MSc Kariel, Joel, BA, MPhil, Economics (LSE), Politics Kennedy, Matthew, BS (Purdue), PhD Derakhshan, Jamshid, DPhil, Pure (Purdue), Biochemistry Mathematics, Deputy Dean of Degrees Koch, Lukas, MMath, Pure Mathematics Di Martino, Giovanna, BA (Milan), MA Lachish, Shelly, BSc (Queensland), DPhil (Milan), Classics (Queensland), Biology Dorigatti, Marco, DPhil, DottLett Lee, David, BA, MA (Nottingham), PhD (Florence), Italian (Bristol), Philosophy Dowker, Ann, BA, PhD (Lond), Psychology Littleton, Suellen, BSc (California), MBA Dries, Manuel, BA (Exeter), MPhil (Lond), Management Studies (Cambridge), DPhil (Cambridge), Marcus, Max, MSc, BSc (Bonn), Chemistry Philosophy Maw, Florence, BA, BA (Savoie), MA Evans, Gareth, DPhil, BA (Durham), MA (Cardiff), French (Durham), English Nodal, Fernando, BSc (Salamanca), MSc Ford, Mark, BSc (York), DPhil (York), (Salamanca), PhD (Salamanca), Medicine Chemistry Norton, Roy, BA, MSt, DPhil, Spanish Goddard, Stephen, MA, DPhil, French Parker, Joseph, DPhil, BSc (Imperial), Gwilym, Stephen, BSc, MB, BS, DPhil, Biology FRCS (Tr & Orth), Medicine Percy, Ruth, BA (Sussex), PhD (Toronto), Hammond, Elsa, BA, DPhil, MA History (Durham), English Petela, Naomi, MBioChem, DPhil, Harry, Martyn, MA (Cambridge), MPhil Biochemistry (Lond), PhD (Lond), Music Povey, Richard, BA, MPhil, DPhil, Classics Hermann, Tobias, Dipl (Stuttgart), PhD Ridley, Anna, DPhil, BSc (Southampton), (Stuttgart), Engineering MSc (Lond), Medicine Hills, David, MA, DSc, PhD (Trent Sillett, Andrew, BA, MSt, DPhil, Classics Polytechnic), CEng, FIMechE, Engineering Snelling, Sarah, MSc, DPhil, Medicine Holt Becker, Abbey, BA (Minnesota), PhD (Minnesota), Psychology Sohail, Muhammad, DPhil, BSc (Punjab), MSc (Quaid-i-Azam), MPhil (Quaid-i- Jbabdi, Saad, MSc (Paris), PhD (Paris), Azam), Biochemistry Engineering

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Song, Yang, BA (PR China), MA (York), Meakin, Lucy (2002) Oriental Studies Moore, Alison (1989) Speidel, Leo, BSc (Munich), MSc (Tokyo), Van Broeck, Leen (2003) Pure Mathematics Way, Susan (1978) Teichmann, Roger, DPhil, BA Woodcock, Fran (2004), Alumnae (Cambridge), Philosophy Relations & Communications Manager, ex- Traill, John, DPhil, MMus (UEA), Music officio, and Co-Editor ofThe Chronicle Wedding, Lisa, PhD (Hawaii), Geography Wilkins, Robert, BA, DPhil, Medicine American Friends of St Hilda’s Wright, Laura, BA, MA (Yale), English Committee Co-Chair: Fenster, Julie (1979) Middle Common Room Committee Co-Chair: Teale, Sarah (1980) President: Amanda Lyons Treasurer: Coquillette, Judith Vice-President: Mina Moniri (Rogers, 1965) Treasurer: Joel Dyer Diamond, Sarah (Brandenburger, 1975) Keswani, Ankur (1995) Junior Common Room Committee Stevens, Rosemary (1954) President: Georgina Findlay Vice-President/Treasurer: Angela Liu Ex-officio Vice-President/Secretary: Alyssa Cho Honorary Fellows: Kennan-Burns, Elizabeth (1960) ASM Committee as at August 2020 Lefkowitz, Mary (Visiting Fellow, 1979-80) Chair: Monaghan, Jessica (2002) Pomeroy, Sarah (Visiting Fellow, 1989-90) Vice-Chair: Walker, Rebecca (1982) Rose, Joanna Semel (1952) Secretary: vacant Smethurst, Jacqueline (1960) Co-Editor of The Chronicle: Ellis, Margaret (1963), co-opted Wagley, Mary Frances (Penney, 1947) Treasurer: Hamilton, Catherine (1985) Governing Body Representative: Travers, Bronwyn Committee Members: Adams, Triona (1993), Alumnae Events Manager, ex-officio Cosh, Henry (2013) The above lists are correct as at 1 October Dyson, Julie (1982) 2019, unless otherwise stated

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The 2019 Annual General Meeting of the Association of Senior Members The 94th Annual General Meeting was held at St Hilda’s College in the Jacqueline du Pré Music Building on Saturday 29 June 2019 at 2pm. Ruth Fuller-Sessions was in the Chair. There were 17 people present. Those recorded as being present were: Pamela Nixon (Lawrence, 1956), Margaret Ellis (Vaughan, 1963) Jacky Hughes (Beaumont, 1965), Jan Archer (1966), Lady Duff (Naida Clarke, 1967), Jean ASM AGM and farwell to Chair, Ruth Fuller- Sessions, June 2019 Harker (Buchanan, 1967), Avril Aslett- Bentley (Aslett, 1973), Susan Way (Clark, 4. Report from the Chair 1978), Rebecca Walker (1982), Catherine The Chair presented her report which is Hamilton (Yorke, 1985), Ruth Fuller- printed in full from page 10. Sessions (1986), Fran Woodcock (2004), Henry Cosh (2013), Isabel Galwey (2015). 5. Report from the Treasurer The Treasurer reported that ASM finances Lady English, Honorary Fellow (Principal, are sound – see accounts on page 14. Her 2001-2007), Sir Gordon Duff (Principal), full report is available on request from the Bronwyn Travers (Fellow & Development Development Office. Director). 6. Report from the Co-Editor of The 1. Welcome and apologies for absence Chronicle The Chair welcomed those present and Margaret Ellis gave the Editors’ report, thanked them for attending. paying tribute to Dr Rayner for her years 2. Minutes of the previous meeting of service as editor to The Chronicle’s The minutes for the previous meeting forerunners, for her support and for (Saturday 23 June 2018) were agreed. her friendship. She explained that the Proposed: Catherine Hamilton; Seconded: publication of the next issue would, Henry Cosh. again, be determined by the overall pattern of College publications and she 3. Matters arising from the minutes thanked the Development Office and There were no matters arising from the particularly Fran Woodcock, the co- minutes. Editor, and Audrone Jurkenaite-Epih for their diligent work on the publication.

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7. Changes to the ASM Committee Susan Way (1978). Proposed: Rebecca Terms of Reference Walker; Seconded: Catherine Hamilton. The changes, outlined in the Chair’s Report 9. Any Other Business (page 10), were approved. Proposed: Ruth A warm vote of thanks on behalf of the Fuller-Sessions; Seconded: Jan Archer. ASM and College was given to Ruth 8. Election of Committee Members Fuller-Sessions for her work over the The following Senior Members were years, this being her last meeting as Chair all voted in as members of the ASM of the ASM Committee. Committee: There being no further formal business, Catherine Hamilton (1985). Proposed: Ruth the Chair declared the meeting closed. Fuller-Sessions; Seconded: Margaret Ellis. Henry Cosh Julia Heitmann (2016). Proposed: ASM Committee Secretary Margaret Ellis; Seconded: Jan Archer. Rebecca Walker (1982). Proposed: Susan Way; Seconded: Catherine Hamilton.

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ASM Reports The Chair’s Report to the Annual General Meeting, 29 June 2019

Welcome Principal, former Principal, could do better or differently and indeed Senior Members, family and friends. if we should continue to exist at all. We Thank you for coming. I start with some acknowledged gratefully that since the sad news: the recent death of Emeritus College’s appointment of Triona Adams as Fellow, Dr Margaret Rayner. She gave a Events Manager for the 125 celebrations, huge amount to the College from her the Development & Alumnae Office, appointment in 1953 – her life was rather than the Committee itself, has devoted to the College, Mathematics organised ASM events. Our conclusion research, and education. She was hugely was that the Committee’s existence influential in her field, was on the is still needed but the frequency of Hebdomadal Council of the University meetings could decrease. We clarified and was Vice-Principal of St Hilda’s. She the ASM Committee’s purpose as edited our Report and Chronicle for years being, in summary: to represent – and and wrote the College’s Centenary History; to help College engage with – the a huge amount of institutional memory alumnae community; to award the has gone with her. Her memorial service ASM Studentship and the Mabbs/Beale will be on Sunday 6 October in College. Scholarship; to discuss material for The Further details will be published soon. Chronicle; and to support the Development and Alumnae Relations team in whatever Committee Report: During the last year ways we can. Finally we agreed that the we have welcomed Catherine Hamilton tenure for all members would be four (Modern Languages, 1985) who has been years, and we propose to amend our Acting Treasurer, Julia Heitmann (Global Terms of Reference to reflect this. & Imperial History, 2016), Rebecca Walker (English, 1982) and Susan Way Highlights of the last year’s ASM events, (Law, 1978). They are at present co-opted again organised brilliantly by our and we will vote to formalise their Alumnae Events Manager Triona Adams appointments later. Dr Pauline Burton (English, 1993), include: (English, 1963) has stepped down. Garden Party 2018 – This time last year As I promised last June, we have we enjoyed a Victorian Fairground conducted a review of the role of the Garden Party in honour of the College’s ASM Committee. In April we reflected founding in that era with an excellent on the aims of equivalent committees in talk by Dr Sos Eltis (Barbara Pym Junior other Colleges. We discussed what we Research Fellow, 1992), ‘From Sensation to

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'Come and Sing', February 2019 Mission control at the space-themed Garden Party, June 2019 the Suffragettes: Pyrotechnics and Protest with a champagne brunch generously on the Victorian Stage’. With 10th, 20th, provided by College, followed by a closing 30th and 60th Reunion events happening concert in the JdP with Peter Sheppard too there was an excellent turnout. Skærved on violin and viola and Roderick Today’s theme is space, to celebrate the Chadwith on Piano. Triona and the anniversary of the 1969 moon landings. Development Office, the Domestic Bursar and the catering team excelled themselves. The Gaudy – 14-16 September 2018 was an epic one for our 125th year. On The Autumn Drinks – 8 November 2018 the Friday night there were 40th and was at the University Women’s Club. 50th Reunions; Saturday’s first event Dr Danielle Thom (History, 2003), was a talk by Emeritus Fellow, Janet Curator of Making at the Museum of Howarth, on ‘St Hilda’s, the first 125 London, explored outraged 18th century years’ followed by the wonderful latest reactions to neoclassical sculpture in her film from the St Hilda’s Living History talk, ‘Smooth Busts and Conspicuous Project. We enjoyed a presentation from Erections: the seductions of sculpture in Gort Scott Architects on the building 18th century Britain’. works in progress, followed by Katty On Saturday 23 February 2019 the Kay (Modern Languages, 1984) of BBC College Director of Music, Jonny America talking on ‘What’s Happening Williams, organised a come and sing in the Corridors of power in the US event in the University Church. The and beyond’. The Reverend Brian College Choir and Orchestra sang and Mountford led a Chapel Service. Then, played and several alumnae joined in the fabulous gala fundraising dinner and a performance of the Fauré Requiem 25th Reunion, followed by music, drinks followed by a very jolly dinner in College. and dancing in the marquee. It was a fittingly joyous event for celebrating There have, as ever, been alumnae events our 125 years. Sunday morning started abroad, notably:

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2 August 2018 – Boston, USA: US her visit to the East Coast. This was an Campaign Board Chair and Honorary opportunity for the Principal and Lady Fellow, Regina Pisa (PPE, 1977), hosted an Duff to introduce the Vice-Chancellor to event at the offices of Goodwin Procter. the US Campaign Chair and Honorary Around 20 alumnae gathered, including Fellow, Regina Pisa, and Honorary Fellow, US Campaign Board members, to meet Professor John Climax, along with newly the Principal and Lady Duff and enjoy tea appointed Climax Chair, Professor overlooking Boston Harbour. Duncan Richards, and alumnae and friends of the College attending the event. 22-24 March 2019 – Tokyo, Japan: Along After the event the Principal hosted a with the University’s Asia Reunion: special College campaign dinner. Meeting Minds, the Development Director and Emeritus Fellow Dr Mary Gregory 11 April – New York: Honorary Fellow welcomed 17 alumnae and friends from Joanna Rose (English, 1952) and Daniel Japan, Hong Kong, China and Singapore to Rose hosted a special dinner at the a St Hilda’s College dinner, with grateful Century Association in New York to thanks to alumna Fumie Suga (Law, 2000) introduce Professor John Climax and for making the arrangements. There was Professor Duncan Richards to the also a College table for the black-tie gala American Friends of St Hilda’s, with dinner which was part of the University’s Regina Pisa, US Campaign Chair making Meeting Minds programme, held in the the trip from Boston to join the group traditional setting of Happo-en gardens. and the other members of the US Board. A wonderful evening with dinner for 40 And in April on the USA’s East Coast donors and guests, also allowed Professor College meetings and events aligned with Climax and Duncan Richards to speak to the Vice-Chancellor’s US visit: the gathering about the important new 10 April – Boston: The Vice-Chancellor field of Clinical Therapeutics and the hosted a drinks reception for alumni Climax Centre at St Hilda’s. and friends in Boston, at the start of

Dinner in Tokyo, March 2019 Regina Pisa and Professor Duncan Richards at the Boston drinks reception, April 2019

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Principal, Dr Georgina Paul, talked to Claire Harman, Royal Literary Fund Fellow, about her new book Murder by the Book. Thanks again to Sarah Higgins (History, 1981), Chair of the Law Network, for hosting. Coming Up: 21 and 22 September 2019 is Claire Armitstead at the Twelfth Night Drinks the Gaudy weekend with a Performing Party, January 2019 Arts theme. The Autumn Drinks are on 7 November, again at the University 12-13 April 24 – Washington, DC: Women’s Club. the Principal and Lady Duff met Publications: over the summer you will Senior Members and attended the receive the fourth edition of The Chronicle. Vice-Chancellor’s half day academic We are very grateful to Margaret Ellis of programme in DC. They hosted a College the ASM and to Fran Woodcock of the table at lunch and later a St Hilda’s Dinner Development Office, our co-Editors. The at the University Club for 15 guests. Living History Project continues with The Career Networks run by Senior the very generous financial support of the Members supported by the Development Governing Body. Office continue to flourish. A brief Finally thank you to all the ASM summary of this year’s events: Committee. Particular thanks to Jan (Vice- • On 4 January the Media Network held Chair), Catherine (Treasurer) and Henry its third Twelfth Night Drinks Party at (Secretary). And, as ever, a huge thank you the London Review Bookshop where to Bronwyn and all in the Development Claire Armitstead (English, 1977) of and Alumnae Relations team. They the Guardian did a sterling job with a work so hard – harder than ever over the reluctant interviewee – me – on women 125th Anniversary – on events for Senior in television, both as subjects and Members. Thank you too to Garry and the makers of television. catering team. • On 24 March the Media Network I hope you enjoy the afternoon. Thank organised the tenth St Hilda’s day at the you for coming and I hope we see you at Oxford Literary Festival which involved some of the coming year’s events. Thank four events featuring alumnae writers you for having me as Chair. I will miss it. including Val McDermid (English, Ruth Fuller-Sessions (Classics, 1986) 1972) speaking to a packed Sheldonian. ASM Chair, June 2019 • The Law Network arranged a Careers Tea followed by the Network’s AGM The 2019-20 Chair's Report is available on and drinks during which the Vice- the College website.

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ASM Financial Report – 1 August 2015 to 31 July 2019 The Treasurer's full report is available on the College website.

01-Aug-15 01-Aug-16 01-Aug-17 01-Aug-18 31-Jul-16 31-Jul-17 31-Jul-18 31-Jul-19 £ £ £ £ ASM FUND INCOME Investment income 1,208 1,409 1,633 1,677 Events 6,535 6,939 2,092 Capitation fees 5,590 5,330 5,590 5,740 Total income 13,333 13,678 9,315 7,417

EXPENDITURE Events -5,238 -7,081 -6,086 0 The Chronicle -3,361 -1,812 -3,923 0 Total expenditure -8,599 -8,893 -10,008 0

ASM MABBS/BEALE SCHOLARSHIP FUND Investment income 2,749 2,937 3,097 3,160 Expenditure 0 0 -3,021 -3,112

ASM STUDENTSHIP FUND Income 2,599 2,766 2,900 2,978 Expenditure 0 0 -1,664 -3,600

CAPITAL VALUE OF FUNDS ASM FUND Fund value at 1 August 40,331 45,616 55,166 56,166 Fund value at 31 July 45,616 55,166 56,166 60,372 Unspent income cfwd (included in the 25,724 30,509 29,816 37,233 above fund value)

ASM MABBS/BEALE SCHOLARSHIP FUND Fund value at 1 August 99,987 103,978 113,922 117,171 Fund value at 31 July 103,978 113,922 117,171 121,988 Unspent income cfwd (included in the 6,078 9,015 9,091 9,139 above fund value)

ASM STUDENTSHIP FUND Fund value at 1 August 94,103 97,863 107,230 111,473 Fund value at 31 July 97,863 107,230 111,473 115,343 Unspent income cfwd (included in the 23,365 26,131 27,367 26,745 above fund value)

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Senior Tutor's Report November 2019

Undergraduates achieved our highest number of firsts, In 2018-19 we awarded 36 scholarships two up from the previous record in 2018. and 14 exhibitions to students who Our congratulations go out to all our achieved excellent grades in their highly accomplished students and tutors. examinations or showed remarkable Admissions, Access and Outreach progress. The University also recognised When comparing St Hilda’s admissions four of our students by the award of statistics on student diversity and Gibbs Prizes: for best performance in the educational background the College is Preliminary Examinations in Economics either above or very close to the average and in English Language and Literature; for the University. St Hilda’s has an for excellent performance in practical above average number of students from work for Engineering Science; and for postcodes with low progression to Higher Mathematics Part B examinations. Two Education, as well as of female students students were also awarded the Proxime and Asian students. For all other diversity Accessit Gibbs Prize, one for BMS Prelims measures we are within approximately and one for Medicine’s First BM Part II. 1% of the average University figures. Approximately twenty percent of In the coming year we will support students gained firsts or distinctions in one of the University’s new initiatives, their prelims or mods. For those who took ‘Opportunity Oxford’, which will enhance second or third year FHS examinations access to a greater number of students (Mathematics, Engineering and Physics) from disadvantaged backgrounds by an additional nine students gained either making additional offers of places to those firsts or distinctions. The finals results who would not have otherwise gained a for 2019 were an all-time record for place. These students will be supported St Hilda’s, with only one third class and by summer bridging courses to facilitate no unclassified degrees. Our students also their transition to studying at Oxford.

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UK 73.0% Other EU/EEA 8.5% Overseas 18.5%

Undergraduates’ Postgraduates’ geographic origin geographic origin

UK 73.0% UK REPORTS 43% Other EU/EEA 8.5% Other EU/EEA 23% Overseas 18.5% Overseas 34%

Undergraduates Undergraduates’ Postgraduates’ in schools at time geographic origin geographic origin of application

UK 73.0% UK 43% UK maintained schools 41% Other EU/EEA 8.5% Other EU/EEA 23% UK independent schools 34% Overseas 18.5% Overseas 34% non-UK schools 25%

Undergraduates Postgraduates’ in schools at time geographic origin of application

UK 43% UK maintained schools 41% Other EU/EEA 23% UK independent schools 34% Overseas 34% non-UK schools 25%

Undergraduates in schools at time oThef application University has significantly expanded to outreach is changing this year with its U Kflagship maintained schoolsUNIQ summer41% school, colleges acting in small consortia, increasing UK independent the schools number of34% places available enhancing support for a greater area; we by non-U 500,K schools in addition to introducing25% a plan to work with Somerville, St Hugh’s funding scheme for admissions-related and St John’s Colleges across the coastal travel expenses. St Hilda’s supported regions of Kent, Sussex and Hampshire both of these activities this year, hosting which have low progression to University 30 UNIQ students interested in studying and high levels of socio-economic Mathematics, English or History at disadvantage. This outreach support Oxford. We will evaluate the impact of the is in addition to the wider recruitment UNIQ course in the coming admissions objective of increasing the number and cycle, and if it looks promising we plan quality of first choice applications. We to expand our offering, with the kind are investigating strategies to widen financial support of an alumna. our reach, including an expansion of our videos featuring our students and We continue to be the main point of tutors, a new formal Student Ambassador contact in the University for our link Programme, and the launch of a Senior region schools in Surrey, offering support Member Ambassador Programme to to the county’s maintained schools, with a present St Hilda’s to a larger number of particular focus on students in years 9-13 schools distributed across the UK. from disadvantaged or under-represented backgrounds. The regional approach Dr Sarah Norman, Senior Tutor

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News of Senior Members Births Marriages and Partnerships 1997 Lansdown-Davies, Gwenllian 2003 (Lansdown), a daughter, Cara Menai Patterson, Gemma to Takaho Fukazawa, Arwyn, born 28 March 2019, a sister for 16 April 2019 Nel, Eldra and Arthur 2006 2001 Webb, Susan to Thomas Birch, Irisarri, Dr Kate (Ash), Eilis Julia, born 5 May 2019 25 October 2018 2008 Price, Alison (Woolliscroft), a son, Isaac Edwards, Annabel to Mitchell Harris, Alexander, born 9 January 2019 22 June 2019 2002 Greaves, Elizabeth to Phil Robinson, Shonfeld, Faye, a son, Dominic Randolph April 2019 Coulter-Shonfeld, born 25 September 2018 Johns, Marie-France to Caroline Pether, 2003 2016 Ackerman, Liesal, a son, Wilfred, born 2012 5 May 2019 Qurban, Behjat to Nabeel Aziz, Forbes-Standing, Rachel (Standing), a 30 December 2015 daughter, Willow Eva Betty, born 23 June 2019 2006 Robinson, Emma (Mundill), a son, Henry Arthur, born 17 February 2018 2008 Buxton, Harriet (Hattie Jackson), a daughter, Zoe Rachel, born 7 February 2019 2011 Aswad, Dr Amr, a son, Basil, born 8 January 2019 2012 Qurban, Behjat, a daughter, Lena Aziz, born 8 June 2018

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Deaths 1948 Woodall, Patricia, 2 June 2019 Morrison, Professor Toni, Honorary Fellow, 5 August 2019 1950 Turner, Yvonne (Hall), 29 January 2019 Rayner, Dr Margaret CBE, Emeritus Fellow, 31 May 2019 1951 Clark, Evelyn (Mary Champeney), Blum, Professor Pamela FSA (Zink), 2 November 2019 Miriam Sacher Visiting Fellow, 6 August 2015 1952 Baker, Dr Ruth (Sewell), 1 January 2019 1938 Banister, Rachel (Rawlence), August 2019 Revill, Philippa, 2019 Bayly, Denise (Dudley), 1953 18 December 2018 Bevis, Elizabeth (Catharine Barstow), 16 April 2019 Sullivan, Elizabeth (Bayley), 23 October 2013 Missen, Dr Janet (Stephan), 5 November 2019 Wright, Sheila (Smith), 28 December 2016 Yates, Beryl (Coates), 23 December 2019 1939 1954 Cordy, Margaret (Peggy Sheward), Macdonald, Marianne, 18 December 2019 7 July 2019 1956 1943 White, Janet (Shaw Smith), Blackledge, Joan (Bishop), 27 April 2019 29 November 2019 1944 1958 Hill, Shelagh (White), 29 August 2019 Allen, April (Heather Wightman), 2019 Law, Joy (Spira), March 2019 Egan, Dr Sylvia (Binns), 9 March 2019 1946 Fremantle, Susan (Bell), 24 June 2019 Greenwood, Joan, 26 September 2019 Ives, Helen (Johnstone), 24 May 2019 Phillips, Sheila (Hagan), 4 January 2019 Williamson, Jenifer (Stead), 1947 1 December 2019 Hankinson, Ada (Sophia Mottram), 1959 18 June 2019 Crowe, Lady Virginia (Willis), Trocmé, Ann (Bowden), 19 May 2019 15 February 2019

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1960 Deaths of Partners Brown, Cicely (Mary Hope), 8 June 2019 1951 Volpp, Dr Ching (Yuan), Sandin, Alf, partner of Jeanne (Lewis), 29 December 2005 2017 1963 1956 Roach, Susan (Sue Banks), 2018 Russell, Dr Alan OBE, husband of Dame Philippa (Stoneham), 6 February 2019. 1964 Hampshire, Gwendoline (Gwen), 1963 14 March 2019 Hart, Colin John Jeffrey Dine, husband of Susan (Sue Lockwood), 2 June 2019 Rice, Trude (Van Voorhis), 15 June 2018 1966 1965 Berg, Robert, husband of Gillian (Thorn), Kalaugher, Mary, 16 November 2019 2019 1977 1981 Marquez Pemartin, Dr Amalia, Mannouch, Richard, husband of Gillian 18 December 2019 (Coleman), 22 October 2019 1989 Vipond, Sian (Hughes), 2019 1991 Torpey, Anna, 20 December 2019 2001 Gavin, Rebecca (Becky King), 2019 2003 Marsland, Dr Rebecca, 19 January 2019 2018 Yoshida, Haruno, 30 June 2019

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Recent Publications 1964 Minogue, Dr Sally: with Andrew Palmer, 1953 The Remembered Dead: Poetry, Memory and Reeve, Jane: Plotting to stop the British slave the First World War, Cambridge University trade: James Bruce and his secret mission to Press, 2018 Africa, Authorhouse UK, 2019 1965 1955 Lee, Professor Dame Hermione DBE, Schaffer, Professor Elinor FBA FBA, FRSL: ed with Kate Kennedy, Lives of (Stoneman): Research Director and Series Houses, Princeton University Press, 2020 Editor, The Reception of Newton in Europe, 3 vols, Bloomsbury; The Reception of Blake in 1966 Europe, two volumes, Bloomsbury, 2019 MacMillan, Professor Margaret: ‘My Mother’s House’ in Lives of Houses (see 1960 above) Dunmur, Juliet (Maufe): Edward Maufe, Architect and Cathedral Builder, Moyhill, 1969 2019 Bird, Jennifer (Barrett): with Sarah Gornall, How to Work with People…and 1962 Enjoy it!, Routledge, 2014 Klinck, Dr Anne (Hibbert): The Voices of Medieval English Lyric: An Anthology Hatt, Dr Cecilia (Freeman) is currently of Poems ca 1150-1530, McGill-Queen’s completing John Fisher’s Court Sermons: University Press, 2019 preaching for Lady Margaret for OUP, a companion volume to English Works of Maclean, Dr Mavis CBE (Linning): ed. John Fisher, 1520-1535, OUP, 2002 Digital Family Justice, Hart Bloomsbury Oxford, 2019 1972 Sherit, Dr Kathleen (Wing Cdr): Women 1963 on the Front Line: British Servicewomen’s Path Cope, Wendy: Anecdotal Evidence, a to Combat, Amberley Publishing, 2020 collection of poems, Faber & Faber, 2018 1975 Geras, Adèle (Weston): Girls behind the Johnstone, Dr Lucy: et al, ‘The Camera, 2018; to be published under Power Threat Meaning Framework: the name Hope Adams early 2021: an Towards the identification of patterns historical novel inspired by the Rajah in emotional distress, unusual quilt at a V&A exhibition, Dangerous experiences and troubled or troubling Women. behaviour, as an alternative to functional psychiatric diagnosis’, British Psychological Society, 2018

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West, Damaris (Naylor): Skolthan, Any 1986 Subject Books, 2012; Queen Anne’s Lace, Campbell, The Hon Dr Madeleine Any Subject Books, 2012; Wild Goose, (Higgins): Animals, Ethics and Us, Crimson Cloak Publishing, 2017 5mBooks, 2019 1979 Chatterji, Dr Aditi: forthcoming Colonial Cumming, Laura: On Chapel Sands, and Postcolonial Development in West Bengal Chatto & Windus, 2019 and Landscape and the Bengali Diaspora 1983 Fall, Baroness, Kate: The Gatekeeper, Mehta, Dr Anita: with Hughes, R, ‘Public HarperCollins, 2020 engagement with internationalisation’ 1994 in ed James, J Entrepreneurial Learning Chiu, Dr Frances: Paine’s Rights of Man, City Regions, Springer Verlag, 2017; with Routledge, 2020 Hughes, R, ‘Navigation in a complex world: English as compass or map?’ in ed Kemp, Emmerson, Miranda (Davies): A Little J, EAP in a rapidly changing landscape: London Scandal, Fourth Estate, 2020 Issues, challenges and solutions, Garnet Martin, Dr Joanna: The Findern Education, 2017; with Hughes, R, ‘Citizens Manuscript (Cambridge University Library, of Nowhere? It’s time we recognised the Ff.1.6): A new edition of the Unique Poems, vital contribution made by EU students’ Liverpool University Press, 2020; with The Telegraph, 10 March 2017 Wingfield, Emily, Pre-Modern Scotland, 1984 Literature and Governance, 1420-1587, Kay, Katty: with Claire Shipman and OUP, 2017; The Maitland Quarto Jill Ellyn Riley, Living the Confidence Code: Manuscript: A New Edition of Cambridge, Real Girls. Real Stories. Real Confidence, Magdalene College, Pepys Library MS HarperCollins, 2020 1408, Woodbridge: Scottish Text Society and Boydell and Brewer, 2015; Kingship Shell, Alison: ed with Maltby, J, Anglican and Love in Scottish Poetry, 1424-1540, Women Novelists; From Charlotte Brontë to Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008 PD James, T&T Clark, 2019 Jaffrey, Josie (Lyall): Novels: A Bargain in 1985 Silver, 2015; The Price of Silver, 2015; Bound Bewick, Samantha: under the pen name in Silver 2016; The Silver Bullet, 2017; The SR Garrae, her second book, Death in Gilded King, 2018; The Silver Queen, 2018; Camera, 2019 The Blood Prince, 2019; Short story: Living Holland, Christine: as Christine Brown, Underground, 2015 The Visits, Austin Macauley, 2019 2000 Leviston, Frances: The Voice in My Ear, Jonathan Cape, 2020

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2003 Other Recent News Chaghafi, Dr Elisabeth: English Literary Baird, Dame Vera DBE QC was appointed Afterlives: Greene, Sidney, Donne and the Victims’ Commissioner, May 2019. evolution of posthumous fame, Manchester University Press, 2019 1955 Shaffer, Professor Elinor FBA 2005 (Stoneman) saw her Reception of Newton Dunn, Daisy: In the Shadow of Vesuvius, A launched in the Wren Library, Trinity Life of Pliny, Collins, 2019 College, Cambridge, and her Reception 2009 of Blake at the Senate House, London Ungelenk, Johannes: Literature and University and at an all-day colloquium at Weather: Shakespeare – Goethe – Zola, Tate Britain in conjunction with the Blake Gruyter, 2018 exhibition there (see publications). 2011 1964 Stone, Kaiya: Everything is going to be K.O.: Taylor, Joan was featured on BBC Radio An illustrated memoir of living with specific 3 playing the slow movement of Karel learning difficulties, Anima, 2020 Janovický’s Piano Sonata in F on his 90th birthday from a disc of his music entitled Rain Songs. She has performed his Piano Sonata in the Czech Republic (2013) and the UK, and in 2019 gave the UK premiere of his Five Songs from 'A Shropshire Lad' with singer Katherine Nicholson in London. Joan’s performance of Mendelssohn’s Spring Song, recorded in Bryanstone School at the 2019 Suzuki International Summer School, where she has been accompanist and musicianship coach for 24 years, can be viewed online. 1969 Karpf, Professor Dr Anne has been promoted to Professor of Life Writing and Culture at London Metropolitan University. 1973 Ryan, Alison was appointed Chair of the Royal United Hospital Bath, April 2019.

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1975 the OECD General Forum, 2017 and Hasan, Zeenat (Firdaus), after teaching 2018; expert panel member on the UK at University of Akron, Ohio, USA, Forum for International Education and Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, USA Training, 2017; international expert and Rajshahi University, Bangladesh, is panel member for the Swedish Ministry's now teaching at Lakeland Community ‘Higher Education and Integration College, Kirtland, Ohio, USA. of Refugees' programme, 2017. Johnstone, Dr Lucy, as the lead author 1982 of an outline of a conceptual alternative Gale, Dr Tracy joined Oxford University to the diagnostic model of emotional and as the Divisional Registrar in the psychological distress, has given tours, Mathematics, Physical and Life Sciences talks and workshops in the UK, Ireland, (MPLS) Division in 2019. Denmark, Spain, Brazil, Australia and 1983 New Zealand on this work. Mehta, Dr Anita was appointed 1976 Leverhulme Visiting Professor, Oxford Paterson, Rev Susan (Chantler) was University. appointed Rector of the royal church of St 1985 Mildred’s Whippingham with St James, Hughes, Dr Bettany OBE was appointed East Cowes, May 2018. OBE for services to history at the Queen’s 1977 birthday honours in 2019. Strickland, Professor Nicola was 1986 awarded the title of Professor of Practice Chatterji, Dr Aditi visited Oxford (Investigative Medicine) by Imperial in 2018, and presented a paper at College, where she works, in 2019. She the annual conference of the Royal has just completed her three year term Geographical Society in Cardiff on her as the nationally elected President of the forthcoming book (see Publications). Royal College of Radiologists. She is currently working on her fourth 1980 postdoctoral research project at the Hughes, Dr Rebecca, among recent University of Calcutta on ‘Stately appointments, was sector lead in British Homes of South Bengal: Conservation, Council for ‘Education is GREAT’ Regeneration, Urban and Regional partnership for the interface with Cabinet Development’. She taught at the Office/Department of International Trade, Department of Geography, University 2014-17; member of the University of York of Calcutta, giving 15 MSc level lectures Education Department’s Advisory Board, on Historical Geography, and also 2014-18; member of the University of the taught on the Urban Management People’s Advisory Board for Education, and Planning Course at the Centre for 2017-current; invited participant in Urban and Economic Studies there.

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1994 Dunlop, Rebecca (Pollard) was awarded the degree of Master in Hand Surgery (only the third hand surgeon in the UK to complete this further degree) in association with the British Society for Surgery of the Hand and the University of Manchester. Her thesis was ‘Outcome of Surgical Repair of Digit Nerve Injury’. 1996 Scott, Catriona recorded James Francis Brown’s Clarinet Concerto for Resonus Classics, on the disc The Heavens and the Heart: Choral and Orchestral Music by James Francis Brown, 2018. 2006 Birch-Webb, Susan (Webb) won Birmingham Young Finance Professional of the Year 2019. She has been shortlisted for three further awards. 2010 Beaumont, Alex was appointed Police Constable in Scotland, 2019. 2014 Bartholomew, Jem was awarded the Fulbright Alumni Scholarship to study at Columbia University, New York City, 2019-20. He is studying MA Journalism with a focus on politics, history and longform writing. He received additional scholarships from Columbia and the Hugh Fulton Byas Memorial Fund.

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ARTICLES many years. She had quietly assisted girls needing financial assistance towards From the Archive: Dorothea education and she was keen to expand on Beale and St Hilda’s East this work. To this end, it was decided to When Dorothea Beale, Principal of set up a mission Settlement in the parish of Cheltenham Ladies' College, addressed St John’s in Bethnal Green, London. [2] the Meeting of the Guild of Cheltenham St Hilda’s East was one of a number Ladies' College in June 1898, she was in of Settlements established in London, a confident mood. The Hall in Oxford in which people from better off she had founded and invested so much backgrounds, usually linked to schools energy into only two years previously had and universities, would reside within just been accepted as a recognised hall economically challenged communities for students by the Association for the helping to organise educational, spiritual, Promoting of Women Students (AEW). cultural and social activities. [3] St Hilda’s Hall was also growing: student numbers had risen from six students in Bethnal Green was a wise location for 1893 to sixty. There was one achievement such an establishment. The industrial however that she highlighted above all revolution had resulted in huge else in her address: population growth in the East End of London, leading to chronic overcrowding, “Above all, this year S Hilda’s East has been slum accommodation, and malnutrition built by the spontaneous co-operation of past and disease amongst workers and their and present girls.” [1] families. After a decade of co-inhabiting a Dorothea Beale had been keen to establish residence with a fellow mission, St Hilda’s a mission helping the disadvantaged for East was finally opened on 26 April 1889. In her address to the Guild of Cheltenham Ladies' College, Beale stated that she hoped pupils of Cheltenham Ladies' College would contribute to the institution. She argued that by working at St Hilda’s East they would be able to: “learn sympathy, to see how the poor live, to learn of them the virtues in which we are so grievously wanting, the patience, the helpfulness, the self-abnegation which excites the admiration of our workers. I do believe that residence at S Hilda’s East would ennoble the lives of some, and renew the strength of others.” [4]

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The Oxford Hall Beale founded, St Hilda’s, “The pioneering Guild members who started was also to be closely linked to St Hilda’s our history over a century ago might not East. The Settlement’s activities in Bethnal recognise the buildings now, and they would Green were reported upon each year certainly be surprised by many of the changes in the early St Hilda’s Chronicle. These to the surrounding area. But they would still reports provide snapshots of the wide recognise the aims of St Hilda’s East today: variety of support work that students to combat deprivation and social exclusion undertook. It noted in its 1908 volume: through providing education and recreational provision along with social care – activities “The new Children’s care Committees … that enable and empower individuals.” [7] have given much work, and the medical Inspection now being taken up will open St Hilda’s East’s continued success is a further opportunities for help. The Girls’ club fitting memorial to its early supporter is active, and classes for Dressmaking, Plain and driving force, Dorothea Beale. needle-work, Painting, Singing and Musical The Director, Matthew Bond Drill are held each winter… The Skilled ([email protected]) would be Employment Committee, for helping girls and pleased to hear from anyone interested in boys to suitable employment, and encouraging further communication about St Hilda’s both them and their parents to appreciate the East and its activities. value of good and sound training continues its excellent work.” [5] Oliver Mahony, Archivist The students at St Hilda’s also hosted East residents on visits to Oxford and provided Endnotes: Christmas entertainments such as teas 1. The Cheltenham Ladies' College Magazine [No. and concerts. [6] XXXVIII, Autumn 1898, p225, REF/001/1/10] 2. In The Days of Miss Beale: A Study of her work and Over the decades St Hilda’s East has influence [London, J. Burrow & Co. Ltd, 1920, p26] continued to grow and last year 3. Scheuer, J. (1985). Legacy of light: University celebrated its 130th anniversary. It is Settlement’s first century. New York, NY: University still active in the community providing Settlement Society of New York, Retrieved 7 February 2020 from http://socialwelfare.library. inspiring community focused projects, vcu.edu/settlement-houses/origins-of-the- such as youth clubs, training targeted settlement-house-movement/ at Bangladeshi women in London’s East 4. The Cheltenham Ladies' College Magazine [No. End, food co-ops providing healthy food, XXXVIII, Autumn 1898, p225, REF/001/1/10] alongside vital support services such as 5. St Hilda’s Hall Chronicle of the Old Students' care for older people and award winning Association [Third Number 1908, p16, PUB 002/3] pro bono legal advice clinics. 6. Ibid, p16 7. St Hilda’s East website History page, retrieved 7 In the history section of its website it February 2020 from http://sthildas.org.uk/about/ outlines its continuing mission: history/

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Charitable Career Change had, to informing them about financial support and the networks available in Having left Oxford in 2005 with a degree the area, such as carers’ groups, musical in Law, I would have been surprised to therapy (‘Singing for the Brain’), and discover that several years later I would dementia cafes, where people with be working for a dementia charity in dementia and their carers are welcomed a non-legal role. Firstly, because I was and do not feel stigmatised. I also worked planning to work as a solicitor for the as an Information Officer to educate the long term and secondly, because I had no public about what dementia is, using the clue as to what dementia meant! However, ‘Dementia Friends’ initiative. A highlight a very stressful period in my life caused of my time at the Society was being me to change career. Ironically, one of invited by our then local MP, Sadiq Khan, the causes of the stress also provided me to visit John Bercow at the Speaker’s with the answer. My grandmother had House in the New Palace of Westminster been diagnosed with vascular dementia to acknowledge our work. and Alzheimer’s disease and my father was following the same fate. My mother The staff at the Society were great people had received much needed help from a to work with, the majority having some Dementia Support Worker (DSW); from direct experience of dementia which there came the idea that I could train to made them approachable and sincerely help someone in the same situation. committed to their role. I think this is indicative of the charity sector, and to My employment as a DSW at the some extent makes up for the lack of a Alzheimer’s Society involved making lucrative salary! Carers of people with home visits to dementia carers in dementia often feel isolated, without Wandsworth and consultations in appropriate support to guide them situ at St George’s Hospital. Working through a role which is extremely taxing: independently, I provided members of emotionally, physically and financially. the public (including a well-known actor, Members of the public are so grateful as dementia for the niche support that a charity does not organisation can provide where the state discriminate) lacks the relevant structure and funds. with tailored information A career is an ever-evolving beast and to suit your personal experience can be so their needs, helpful in some forms of employment. ranging from Now I have a different career change to explaining contend with: as a full-time mother of what type two boisterous toddlers! of dementia Faye Shonfeld (Law, 2002) their loved one

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Volunteering in centres and health camps, and to southern Rajasthan follow midwives and children’s health visitors on their rounds. Seva Mandir is an Our interpreters (from the internationally respected local dialects to Hindi, then NGO working with 500,000 of English) help us communicate, the world’s poorest people in and field visits allow us to Rajasthan. They improve lives write reports for Seva Mandir’s and strengthen communities various communications and contribute in remote villages, working on natural photographs. Seeing the lives led by these resources, education, health, early desperately poor but hard-working and childcare and women’s empowerment, overwhelmingly cheerful people, mostly by engaging all members of a village from tribal communities (below even in the process of self-governance, the lowest castes), is humbling, as is their including decisions relating to, and the universally friendly, generous welcome to management of, development projects. strangers. My husband John (modern linguist turned Feeling the joy of children who have lawyer) and I (modern linguist turned had no schooling (though they have editor/translator) had travelled throughout experienced things no child should) India for many years when, on retirement, when they suddenly realise they can read, we decided to spend longer periods there. write and count at Seva Mandir’s learning We came across Seva Mandir in 2012, and camp, seeing them have a chance to be since then have spent several months a children for a while, witnessing the care year with them, helping with English- provided to a seriously malnourished language communication projects; child, understanding the difference a conducting workshops on writing funding simple irrigation system makes to a proposals, donor reports, case studies, field farmer who earns £140 a year – these are photography; editing their annual report; enriching beyond measure. producing a brochure and e-newsletter; and, most recently, helping them create a We have learned that voluntary work website. They are committed and highly is not just digging ditches, but that experienced development workers, but offering one’s skills and experience, at English is not their mother tongue, and any age, can be of considerable benefit to helping them convey to the outside organisations doing wonderful work in world the life-changing work they do is a the field – and hugely rewarding. valuable contribution. www.sevamandir.org Work involves travelling, often for over www.sevamandirfriends.org two hours, to village meetings, to tramp Felicia Pheasant (Hendriks, Modern through fields to chat to farmers, to visit Languages, 1972) beneficiaries’ homes, schools, day-care

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Learning and rewards from and loss; theoretical volunteering: then and now learning; and developing skills Then – the beginning: such as active Before university, I took part in a listening and voluntary scheme to help lonely older non-judgmental, people. I visited a kindly, forthright, old empathic reflection. (to me, then) woman who always wore a Experience brings hand-knitted beret – the beginning of my continuing learning volunteering career, over fifty years ago! both from clients On leaving St Hilda’s, I swapped academia and fellow volunteers. It seems that for a few months as a full-time volunteer an important aspect is offering a calm, with Community Service Volunteers, neutral space and an outlet to let go. working in the city of Coventry. This felt Not always, but often, this is enough for serious and a bridge to professional work. people to begin to make sense of their We received basic living expenses and pain or confusion and find hope and ways there was a selection process, residential to cope. ‘The main benefits were having training and learning on the job from someone to talk to who was completely people with vastly more diverse life outside the situation and understood experiences, skills and qualifications than your point of view... I had never realised myself. For me, this was a valuable period how powerful talking could be and how of personal and professional growth. It it could result in such profound physical also introduced me to the immense scope and emotional changes.’ Comments like of voluntary organisations and voluntary this illustrate how rewarding the work roles and how these are interwoven can be. I feel it’s a privilege to be trusted with public services and professional with people’s expression of their deepest employment. feelings and the sometimes existential questions thrown up for them around Now: meaning, values and their very identity. Fast forward over 30 years. Embarked Having this window into other people’s on counselling training, I was accepted lives helps me appreciate my own small as a volunteer with my local branch of world and put it into perspective. Not Cruse Bereavement Care to give one- least, it brings back the relevance of the to-one support to people seeking help concepts of language, meaning, moral after someone close to them dies. Ten worth and personal identity that I years on and I’m still volunteering with wrestled with in philosophy essays and Cruse, now also doing supervision and tutorials so many years ago at Oxford. assessments of new clients. Training Sue Wayne (PPE, 1969) and work with Cruse has demanded reflection on my own responses to grief

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Greenpeace Embassy and at Chequers. It was a turning point for volunteers in Greenpeace. In 1985 Greenpeace was campaigning against the French testing of nuclear After nine years of volunteering, I was bombs in the south Pacific. The Rainbow invited to apply for a Regional Manager Warrior was in Auckland harbour when post – a job! I travelled round the UK two bombs planted by the French secret meeting volunteers, dealing with service blew it up, sinking it and killing difficulties, advising, encouraging, the photographer Fernando Pereira. My explaining, keeping them motivated husband and I were so appalled by this and feeling connected. I revised and violent act against an organisation which developed the NVDA training programme has its roots in the Quaker movement and to be delivered by volunteers. I developed peace activism that we started donating training for those volunteers who talked to Greenpeace. A year later they were to the public about Greenpeace’s work appealing for volunteers to organise fund- at festivals, fairs and on the street. As a raising events. We said yes. We had two manager of volunteers, I was constantly small children and I was working part- explaining to other staff that volunteers time. Over the next seven years I cajoled are not just tools in a box that you can put volunteers in Greater Manchester to take away and pull out when you need them. on organising street collections, Dolphin They have to be cleaned and polished Dive-Ins, Whale Walks, concerts and fairs. or they'll go rusty and fall apart. The I set up and supported local fundraising greatest satisfaction for me was seeing groups. I became an Area Coordinator! committed volunteers valued as part of In ‘88 we organised a fundraising concert the Greenpeace global team. I ended my with the band James. The MV Moby Dick working life in the UK Actions Unit, and had berthed in Liverpool that weekend, still occasionally volunteer to help on and the crew heard about the concert, actions. I feel privileged to be part of this came along for the evening and invited all astounding organisation. volunteers to tea on the ship the next day. Jo Melzack (Voss-Bark, English, 1967) Slowly the role of volunteers began to change as Greenpeace realised they had a lot of supporters who were keen to help in other ways. Local fundraisers were invited to non-violent direct action (NVDA) training, and took part in various actions as part of the campaigns against nuclear power and nuclear weapons – at Sellafield, in Whitehall, on the A34 (the road on which the spent fuel from Hinkley Point travels to Sellafield), at the French

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School governing to Citizens and there was so much to learn. But Advice I instantly found working one to one with people with a whole range of I left St Hilda’s with a German degree, but problems hit the right nerve, and it was without a clear idea what should happen life-changing. All I had learnt about next. My first job was as PA to someone organisations being fair, impartial, who had never kept one for more than six nonjudgmental, and dedicated kicked months – big mistake, and I escaped to in. The wide, diverse parameters of the teach English at a university in Thailand. work began to clarify, and I started to feel An MA in Linguistics for English useful. After five years I became staff. Language Teaching followed, and then five years editing ELT publications at Collins. The work has changed and not changed. We have clear approaches to how we help, Then the children arrived. I discovered but the political climate has had a deep school governing, campaigning for state impact. In 2001, benefits (our biggest area schools, and the beginning of life proper. of work) were clunky, but well-meaning. Governing provided a brilliant vantage The climate has since become hostile, and point over an organisation that was well we are working against systems which run. In my ten years (four as Chair), I are designed to fail. For sick or disabled learnt about keeping an organisation fresh claimants the effect is devastating. Poor – the school ran on a fuel of new ideas – design and repeated wrong decisions and letting staff flourish. Everything was result in seesawing income, with all sorts about balancing opportunities for the of emotional and psychological reactions children, with no one group treated more – fear, shame and deep depression to fairly than others – while the staff gave name a few. It takes much longer – and gave to make sure the children grew, months and sometimes more – to help. learned, and experienced. All we can do now is hang on, and hope I was involved in campaigns about political will eventually funding, class sizes and overcrowding – about-turns. and I lost some of my political naivety. Watching politicians tongue-tied to party Caroline Egerton lines made me staunchly independent – I (Modern Languages, could say what I saw and what I meant, 1974) and I had opportunities in local and national media. I also noted that when government announced initiatives for schools, one party funded them, and the other didn’t. I then started volunteering for Citizens Advice. I wasn’t sure what was involved,

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Why 20mph matters 60s). If you’re 60 and hit as a pedestrian your survival ‘20’s Plenty’ helps anyone chances are 50/50. Stopping wanting a 20mph speed distances are halved (three limit for their community. car lengths not six). 20mph I’m paid part time (ten is safer, cleaner, greener, hours a week, actually as a half as noisy, brings more self-employed contractor) health equality and makes to recruit and train no significant change to volunteers on how to lobby journey times in built up their elected Councillors areas. for slower road speeds. ‘20’s Plenty’ began in 2007. I’ve been an elected It isn’t a charity as it’s a Councillor for the City campaigning organisation (charities of York Council which helps explain can’t be primarily political). I began as a processes like scrutiny to campaigning volunteer and then was offered a paid job volunteers. My role includes writing in 2010 after I wrote to the founder, Rod briefing sheets and press releases, media King MBE, wanting to do more than just interviews, social media, conferences. affect my home city of York. I’d already It evolves as the campaign gets more written a book on traffic reduction, and successful. There are always new wins to had campaigned on slower speeds since get excited about – Glasgow announced 1996. the policy last week. When I began work there were 52 groups. Drawbacks include tight funding, Now there are more than 450 including volunteers getting campaign burn out many overseas branches campaigning for and the challenge of finding winning 30kmph speeds. tactics in places where political control isn’t going to change. I need other jobs This role is a passion, not a career. I’m to make ends meet – I teach yoga and do motivated by having been hit in a road property rental as well. crash, worked in health economics and a hospital, and by believing that roads are Wales has agreed a 20mph default speed, the most needlessly dangerous places in as has the majority of inner London and our society. For me, slower speeds are at most of the UK’s major cities. About the absolute forefront of public health 22 million people live where 20mph is and prevention of suffering. I make a policy. Do you? If not please contact me: difference: 20% fewer casualties occur in [email protected] places with wide area 20mph limits. www.20splenty.org 20mph is seven times safer in terms of Anna Semlyen (Jillings, PPE, 1987) likelihood of death (ten times for over

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Dedicated social worker par Child In Need Institute (CINI) and its excellence urban offspring, CINI ASHA. Towards the end of her life, she was involved in Lakshmi Chatterji was born in Calcutta Halsbury’s legal encyclopedia together in 1926. Kamala, her mother, was the with professional women lawyers. She first Indian woman to graduate from worked extensively with the National St Hilda’s. Lakshmi was educated at Loreto Law University of India, helping to frame House School, Loreto College and the laws regarding the status of women in University of Calcutta before herself going India, the condition of female prostitutes to St Hilda’s to read PPE in 1948. After and their children, and the suppression of graduating she taught at Loreto College immoral traffic in women and children; until the birth of her second child caused she was an authority on the last, having health problems. The 1970s saw her authored a landmark report with her initiation into social work, in particular friend and colleague, Rotraut Roy the welfare of women and children. Choudhury. They founded the Research Lakshmi did voluntary work at the All and Development Committee and Mental Bengal Women’s Union (ABWU), founded Health Committee at the ABWU, among in 1932 by a small group of women. By the earliest such initiatives. She was Vice- the 1980s, the rescue home had grown President of the ABWU until her death in to give shelter to women including East 2007. Bengali (Bangladeshi) refugees, and Her two major publications with hundreds of destitute children. She began Choudhury were A Project on Abused by teaching English and became Secretary. Children as part of Commercialised Vice: Lakshmi was also Secretary of the Save Social Psychological Perspectives and the Children Fund in Eastern India. Her Rehabilitative Strategies, and Research work involved touring West Bengal and and Pilot Activities in Community-based giving detailed reports, conferences and Approaches to Training and Counselling for seminars. By the 1980s, the SCF-India ran Victims of Immoral Traffic, Kolkata, both in over thirty projects including creches, the 1990s. homes, medical centres, educational and institutional programmes, flood relief My mother was an elegant, gentle, peace- projects, child care centres and training loving and very knowledgeable lady with centres for social workers. It sponsored a mind that stayed sharp despite physical about ten thousand children. It was frailty. She was a pioneer in the sphere visited by both Princess Anne and Prince of social justice. As the late Mrs Justice Edward during Lakshmi's days there. Manjula Bose said, ‘There will never be another Lakshmi Chatterji.’ In 1982 health precluded active work and she turned her attention to the theoretical Dr Aditi Chatterji (Geography, 1986) side of social work. The 1990s saw her venture into another organisation, the

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Going green developers, councils or other vested interests. Following discussions with St Hilda’s was a life-enhancing some leading lawyers, scientists and experience. I participated in as many environmentalists, a cross-disciplinary educational, social and extra-mural committee of trustees was formed and activities as I could cram into each 24 eventually the Environmental Law hours, and bonded with friends from Foundation was launched in 1992. Sir many different cultures and walks of life, Yehudi Menuhin, himself an enthusiastic some of whom still remain close. environmentalist, and Lord Alexander of On coming down, I married and worked Weedon QC were patrons; Martin Polden, with the British Council in London, but a distinguished solicitor, and I were chair we later moved to the country to start a and vice-chair respectively. The charity family and my husband’s consultancy. provides support and access to justice for Whilst enjoying my new lifestyle I was communities whose environments are appointed governor of the local church threatened, through a UK membership primary and middle school – my first network of lawyers and other volunteering activity which lasted twenty professionals including some university years until I decided to recycle myself. legal postgraduate departments. The relationship between the three Es Now, after over 25 years of successful – Energy, Environment and Economics – operation, Prince Charles is ELF’s has always been a key concern. In 1979, president, and Martin and I are vice- following research and collaboration presidents whilst remaining trustees. with scientists, academics and engineers, Sadly, with growing pressures on I co-authored Going Solar and later our environment, caseloads are ever wrote Energy: Crisis or Opportunity?. The increasing, restricted only by limited latter, with its strong environmental finance. Nevertheless, it has been a message and wide publicity, led to me humbling experience to see so many being invited to join or help to initiate distinguished environmental lawyers various charities including the Green and others freely give time and expertise Alliance, the New Economics Foundation, to support local environmental concerns the Environmental Action Group for and to witness the development of Europe, the Schumacher Society with its new cross-disciplinary educational various offshoots, the Gandhi Foundation programmes for young legal enthusiasts. and the India Development Group. Occasionally I now wish that I had read Following a lengthy and expensive Law rather than History, but St Hilda’s planning inquiry in our village, I certainly gave me the courage to think was appalled by the difficulty local beyond disciplinary boundaries to effect communities face in defending change. their environments from wealthy Diana Schumacher (Binns, History, 1960)

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The Samaritans to lonely drunks on Saturday nights, a I have been a Samaritan woman who assured me for seventeen years, she was not suicidal, ‘just having been trained as fed up with men’, and a listening volunteer someone who wanted not long after I retired. to discuss reincarnation My initial motivation and the novels of Doris in joining was not to Lessing with me at two lose the skills acquired in the morning. during thirty years of working in education. We have to try and cope with everything and everyone: from We handle telephone calls, emails and people suddenly in debt to bewildered texts or talk directly to people who simply immigrants; from women imprisoned walk in off the streets. Obviously each in forced and often violent marriages type of encounter requires a different kind to undergraduates panicking over of response, but they all have the same assignments. I have learned of people’s end in view: to give people a confidential sexuality, their mental distress, their hearing in whatever context they feel safe. addictions, their poverty, their loneliness. For me the most rewarding aspects of the Calls from people who are genuinely organisation are connected with variety. suicidal are hard to take, but always In the first instance there is the variety of there is the support of our companions. individuals with whom I work. We come Occasionally we may be able to help from all walks of life: doctors, students, someone back from the edge, possibly carers, priests. Once we go on duty, even to laugh despite their initial despair, however, all labels are irrelevant as we but sometimes we have to accept that know each other only by our first names some individuals’ lives are so harsh they and our numbers, though a professional cannot go on. They have rung us because slip may sometimes show itself. This is a they do not want to die alone and need democracy not dependent on age, class, the reassurance of our voices until they or status, where we are all volunteers and lose consciousness. all that matters is how we listen, how we refrain from judgement, and how We may be thanked, we may be abused; it we avoid giving advice: quite a learning is all part of the process, and I never know curve for many! what I will hear when I pick up the phone and say, ‘Samaritans. How can I help you?’ There is then the variety of individuals who contact us, their problems and the Caroline Phillips (Airey, English, 1960) information we find ourselves handling. That keeps us flexible. I have listened

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Training doctors more doctors around the for conflict and world in a strategic way. The catastrophe need is so acute because it is commonly the case that The first time I met my when war breaks out senior husband, David Nott, in surgeons with the resources 2014 I was struck by a grainy to leave do so, leaving picture he showed me of a young, enthusiastic but darkened room in a hospital inexperienced junior doctors in Aleppo the previous and medical students. Their summer, full of men and education is interrupted women, some in surgical scrubs or white as universities close and training is coats, others in shirtsleeves. David was at desperately needed to equip them with the front, standing by the steady beam of the knowledge to do the right operation light from his projector, talking through for the patient. what was on the screen. I judged a charity the most effective way David has been working in conflict and of raising funds and running projects catastrophe zones for some 25 years. that would open this training to doctors Going with MSF, the ICRC or Syria Relief, around the world. Our principal activities he spends weeks and sometimes months are the funding of scholarships for abroad as a surgeon, striving to heal the doctors to visit the UK and attend the wounded. In 2011, he began to teach the course David runs at the RCS and running local doctors as well as operate as part war surgery courses in the field. of the deployed team of expatriates. He The David Nott Foundation has trained taught and was developing courses at some 782 doctors since we began the Royal College of Surgeons of England operations in 2015. We have taught in (RCS) on surgical trauma and austere Syria, Turkey, Yemen, Iraq, Palestine, environment surgery; a specialism Lebanon, Cameroon, Kenya, Chile, essential in areas where resources are Argentina. We collaborate with other scant, technological assistance minimal humanitarian organisations in the same or non-existent and the surgeon present sphere of medical relief, and advocate has no colleagues from other specialities for the medical victims of conflict, both to call upon. If you are the sole surgeon civilians forced into hospitals as patients in a field hospital in a remote area, you and the medical workers who often find will have to be able to treat whatever themselves, illegally under international case comes before you, be it obstetric, law, targets. What motivates all we do is orthopaedic, general, vascular – anything. the principle that well-trained doctors When we met, I began to mull over how save more lives. to bring this ad hoc training to many Eleanor Nott (Jupp, History, 2002)

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Learn to Love to Read more affluent peers in their vocabulary knowledge. I have always loved words. I have been a reading volunteer for almost As a child I 20 years. In March 2014 I started a small would rather charity called Learn to Love to Read, sit inside and working in partnership with primary read than play schools in Wandsworth, London, where in the garden. 24% of the children who left primary At school my school in 2019 were not confident readers. Latin teacher Initially five friends and I helped in just revealed the one school. Now Learn to Love to Read origins of familiar English words and partners with seven schools and has inspired me to study Classics at St Hilda’s. around 75 volunteers working one-to-one After graduating I worked in publishing: with more than 100 children. We also writing, editing and proof reading. But it run Early Literacy classes for parents and was not until my daughter unexpectedly toddlers, to help children start school found learning to read difficult that I ready to read. And we run training realised the enormous impact illiteracy sessions for parents, encouraging and can have. equipping them to support their children Have you thought about how many at home. Our unique, whole family things you read each day? Newspapers, approach has seen an increase in listening magazines, books of course, but what skills, concentration and comprehension, about emails, texts, websites, directions, as well as improving literacy levels and menus, recipes, instructions? Imagine building children’s love of reading. not being able to read the options at My journey from personal reader to a cashpoint; not understanding the literacy advocate has been fulfilling, packaging on the medication you challenging and varied. It has allowed need to give your child; accidentally me to use all the skills and experience naming your child Winston rather than acquired over my full 56 years! I hope I Wisdom because you could not read the am helping to pave the way for others to paperwork. All real examples. access the opportunities I enjoyed. Poor readers have worse physical and You can read more about our work at mental health, fewer job prospects and www.learn2love2read.org.uk. If you lower incomes. Prisoners often have the would like to help more children learn reading age of an 11 year old. Children to love to read we would be delighted to living in poverty are less likely to read hear from you. well – by the age of five, children from the poorest families are already on Teresa Harris (Rolfe, Classics, 1982) average around 15 months behind their

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A time of transformation published and I became curious about the intersection of yoga and psychology and My time at St Hilda’s represented the how programmes could be implemented most significant turning point in my to improve psychological health. life so far. Prior to my time at Oxford I’d studied Psychology and worked as a Upon returning to Sydney, Australia a Social Policy adviser at the Australian few years later, I decided to utilise my Department of the Prime Minister Psychology and Social Policy background and Cabinet. I arrived in Oxford full of to share yoga and meditation with ambition and expected at the end of my populations healing from trauma, studies to explore Policy opportunities. including refugees, survivors of domestic violence, prisoners and indigenous people. Instead, I found my heart and mind transformed while being immersed in For the past five years I’ve been building this new environment. For the first time, the Yoga Impact Charity I was exposed to lots of different people (www.yogaimpactcharity.com) – a team from around the world studying topics of yoga teachers sharing evidence-based, I knew nothing about. I enjoyed reading trauma-informed yoga within health widely and spending time digesting organisations. In 2019 we shared 347 yoga new information while strolling in the programmes with 3,496 people across University Parks. I made lifelong friends 18 locations globally! Our programmes at St Hilda’s and travelled to places have been evaluated by the New South outside of my comfort zone (including a Wales Service for the Treatment and hike up Mount Kilimanjaro). I also began Rehabilitation of Torture and Trauma seriously exploring meditation and yoga. Survivors and found to reduce PTSD By the end of my studies, I was reflecting within 9 classes and reduce depression deeply on my life purpose and how I within 12 classes. I’ve had the opportunity wanted to show up in the world. to share these results at conferences, workshops and training retreats around Shortly after this time, I decided to the world. become a yoga teacher and began teaching yoga in Oxford I’m forever grateful for the at a number of colleges privilege of being a part of and sports teams, whilst the community at St Hilda’s volunteering at a number which ignited the passion of charities. Around this and courage I needed to time, a lot of research follow the path of my heart. about the impact of yoga Danielle Begg (Comparative for people recovering Social Policy, 2009) from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression and anxiety was being

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“It only takes one Young Leader and Leader night…” for 15 years. Anyone who has What I love about ever volunteered for Guiding, and why I am something, and then got still doing it alongside hooked into it, knows doing a full-time job, is that this is never the that you can do just that: case! Girlguiding has have a life whilst giving been the one constant something back to the in my life: even when community that gave at St Hilda’s I still went me so many awesome on trips with my unit opportunities as I was back home, as well as growing up. When I took going to Switzerland and time out that was fine, volunteering at the Guide and when I was able to World Centre in Mexico. commit weekly again I was welcomed with open arms! I love the trips and At the grand old age of 31, I am the proud camps, but also the new programme bearer of my 10 year service badge, my which gives the girls the traditional first camp license, which means I am allowed aid skills as well as more modern ones to take girls on residentials, and my such as vlogging. Guiding is my second District Commissioner badge, among family, one where I can grow – and I can others. That is ignoring the many other help young women also find their feet in badges on my camp blanket, as well as a world of increasing complexity. the things I don’t get badges for. I once counted up my hours as part of my I leave you with a pertinent verse from Queen’s Guide award, the highest award one camp fire song: in Guiding that you can earn, and it I've been so long in uniform, my blood is totalled more than 400! navy blue, I joined at the age of six in my local My friends and neighbours think I'm Rainbow unit (the youngest of the strange and maybe so do you, Girlguiding sections, ages five to seven) But I'm so proud and happy I'd complain before progressing through Brownies with all my might, (seven to ten), Guides (ten to fourteen), If my many jobs in Guiding really only and then becoming a Young Leader with took one night! my Guide Unit where I got my Leadership For more information please see Warrant, now called the Adult Leadership www.girlguiding.org.uk/get-involved Qualification – no badge for that as it didn’t exist when I qualified, but I did Sam Handy (Gisborne, History and Politics, get my Warrant Card! I have now been a 2006)

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OBITUARIES University. In 1953 she arrived Dr Margaret E. Rayner, at St Hilda’s (and St Anne’s) as CBE (Emeritus Fellow in a Lecturer in Mathematics. Mathematics) Although she modified Dr Margaret Rayner – Maggy her earliest ambition to – was a stickler for ‘doing teach in a school, she never things properly’, particularly lost her interest in school when it came to not exceeding education. One of her first the strict one page limit for University committees an obituary in The Chronicle was at the Department of during her many years as Educational Studies, and Editor. She would be horrified she served on a number of to find her successors breaking governing bodies of schools, that very rule on her account, but we are both independent and state maintained, claiming editorial prerogative in the hope and as President of the Mathematical of doing justice to such an extraordinary Association. For many years she was person. Never one to leave the last word chief examiner in mathematics for to someone else, however, Maggy actually the International Baccalaureate. This prepared her own obituary, albeit a experience was of the greatest value few decades too early in a fit of post- when she later joined the Secondary retirement efficiency: Examinations Council, overseeing syllabuses for GCSE and A-level. After her “Margaret Rayner was descended from retirement her work on examinations two farming families: the Rayners continued with the Oxford Locals. from Cheshire and the Winnalls from Shropshire. Her parents had moved to Within the University and the College, Warwickshire before Margaret went there were many opportunities to to school, and for twenty years they stray away from mathematics. Such farmed near Stratford-upon-Avon. an opportunity came in the late sixties All her relations were farming, with when St Hilda’s needed money to put up the exception of an aunt who was Garden Building. Margaret volunteered headmistress of a village school; her as a fundraiser and had a splendid year freedom, her apparent affluence, her drawing up plans, arranging meetings, love of reading and the theatre, her car talking to Senior Members, writing letters and her foreign travel provided Margaret and acting as chauffeur for the Principal with a string of reasons for avoiding on a round-the-country campaign. the rigours and restrictions of tenant That year of fundraising was the start of farming. Margaret progressed from a tiny two decades of administrative activity: village school to Warwick High School a year as Assessor preceded a short stint and then to Westfield College in London on the General Board and a longer stint

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on Hebdomadal Council, which lasted Despite her many achievements, most of until 1989. On Council, Margaret’s main us will remember Maggy for something interests were the Staff Committee and less quantifiable: her kindness, her wit the Accommodation Committee, both of and her curiosity. It was a privilege which she chaired. She also chaired the to count myself as one of her friends Admissions Office Committee and this, – Maggy enjoyed nothing more than again, brought her in constant contact a good debate so it was a pleasure to with schools. have a weekly tutorial-like argument, accompanied by tea and ginger biscuits. After her retirement in 1989, Margaret Maggy was sharp (of both wit and tongue) was invited to write the Centenary to the last, bickering good-naturedly with History of St Hilda’s. This was one of me about the merits – or lack thereof – of the most enjoyable tasks she had ever modern classical music even in her final undertaken and it fitted in well with her hours. She loved to travel, and even after involvement with Reading University, her cancer diagnosis was still planning a which had also been founded in 1893. As solo trip to Turin. Good food was another a lay member of the Council at Reading, great passion, and she frequently took she was able to watch developments in herself out for lunch – and she was higher education in a more leisurely way thoroughly delighted to discover that the than had ever been possible at Oxford.” hospice where she ended her days had a Modest to a fault, Maggy chose to omit complimentary drinks trolley! two impressive achievements: that she Maggy’s greatest love, however, was served as one of the longest-standing Vice- St Hilda’s. She repeated so often that the Principals in the College’s history, and that College was her family: something you the Queen appointed her CBE in 1990. She love despite – or perhaps because of – its also left out the fact that she was the first imperfections, where every achievement woman to hold many of the positions she is cause for celebration, and where one is mentioned above. In her quiet but firm loved and appreciated. Maggy was part of way, she made many previously all-male St Hilda’s for more than half the College’s committees examine their practices: a entire existence, and nobody knew it as favourite story of hers was how, following well as she did. The JdP was packed to the a meeting with one such committee, all rafters at her memorial celebration, and it the members processed into the St Peter’s was clear from the many moving tributes dining hall but she was stopped at the that Maggy made a deep and lasting door as no women were permitted at High impact on so many colleagues, students Table. Without making a fuss, Maggy and dear friends. made her displeasure known and the entire committee moved their dinner to Fran Woodcock (Classics, 2004) the Master’s lodgings instead. The mistake was never repeated.

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Elizabeth Sullivan (Betty Bayley, until they were re-settled in the USA History, 1938-41) or the Commonwealth, or in the case of most Poles returned home. She was Elizabeth Margaret Sullivan, born Bettina proud of this work, which contributed to Margaret Bayley in Camberwell, in rebuilding lives shattered by WWII in an 1920, was the daughter of a successful area where the Iron Curtain was new and businessman who supplied the French very real. market with British leather through the interwar years. She attended Croham In 1947 Elizabeth married Matthew Barry Hurst School in Croydon and Tortington Sullivan (New College, 1934-1937), an RAF Hall School near Arundel, from where officer who, having studied in Hamburg she was only the second girl to win an before 1939, worked in interrogation Oxford place. of German prisoners of war and their re-education. He then worked in the BBC Before going up to Oxford she went on a German Service and on retirement wrote tour of South Africa but segregation put the authoritative book on German PoWs her off making a future there. in Britain, Thresholds of Peace (1979). She She experienced one pre-war year at quietly changed her name before marriage St Hilda’s and two in wartime before from Bettina (Betty) to Elizabeth, though taking a post-graduate certificate in we have never found evidence of a deed social work at the LSE. After a brief time poll record of this. in Cambridge (which enabled her to tell Elizabeth and Barry settled in the Quaker- her children that she had attended both founded village of Jordans in 1952 and Oxford and Cambridge) she returned to were active members of the Quaker Oxford to train and work as an almoner meeting. They had four sons and two at the Radcliffe Hospital. daughters, and from 1953 provided a Before the end of the War, she was home for a nephew. In 1974 Elizabeth accepted by the Friends’ Relief Service returned to social work, taking a post (FRS) for work in post-war Germany. After with Berkshire County Council Social training, her team arrived in the British Services at the Slough Child Guidance Occupation Zone in June 1945. Her two Clinic, where she continued working years of service were at Goslar, in the until her late sixties. Her husband died Harz mountains near the border with the in 1997. She left six children and eight Russian Zone. Its hotels and sanatoriums grandchildren. were taken over for Displaced Persons Mark Sullivan (her son) from Eastern Europe, who had been workers in the German munitions plants or had moved west to avoid the Soviet occupation. They looked after Poles, Lithuanians, Latvians and Estonians

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Shelagh Hill (White, History, 1944-47) Shelagh was born in Bournemouth in 1926 and when her mother ran a school in the New Forest during the war she was left there in lodgings with the barbed wire on the beach. Long cycle rides to the forest inspired a lifelong love of nature. From Bournemouth Grammar School Shelagh won a scholarship to Oxford. There she gained a blue for rowing, trod exercising their right as God’s herdsmen the boards and found time for boyfriends on earth to the Katalembo herd. She got despite lacking the requisite twinset and the cattle back. pearls. She also forged a firm belief that Shelagh returned to Oxford starting a education always broadens the mind PhD on ‘the language of history’ before while training may narrow it. She would deciding that there wasn’t one. She always question everything. also studied education and taught in Having tried code breaking, selling hats, Marston before returning to Africa, this making strawberry gin and pumping time Malawi. In 1977 she settled back in petrol she went into teaching, starting at England as deputy head of the Quaker a private school in Sussex. From there she school at Sibford Ferris, before being went to Kenya at the time of Mau Mau appointed headmistress of Lord Digby’s which must have made a change. Shelagh Girls’ Grammar School in Sherborne stayed for twenty years, working in House. Lord Digby’s retired when she did education with Indian, Arab and African but Shelagh was delighted by the success communities. She learned Swahili and of its replacement, the Gryphon. was soon testing others on it. She worked In retirement Shelagh was active in at Alliance Girls and helped set up the Yetminster history, Blackmore Vale first girls' secondary school in Machakos. ramblers, the Dorset branch of the Oxford In Machakos she met and married Society, the church, and finding a new Norman Hill, a coffee farmer. Whisky, role for Sherborne House. The first and tennis and the sports club were last resulted in books. Shelagh continued mentioned. As both loved Kenya, they to travel, going twice to India in her 80s. stayed on after independence. Sadly With the efforts of wonderful carers Norman died leaving Shelagh with a she remained at home until eventually toddler and a farm to wind up. She ran moving to Saint John’s Alms House, the farm for two years, trying to keep it where she had been a guide, and then to whole while getting the best deal possible Riverside Nursing Home where she died. for the workers. This involved a visit from Harold Hill (her son) Jomo Kenyatta, and giving chase to Masai

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Ann Trocmé (Bowden, the early 1950s, addressed Modern Languages, 1947-50) issues encountered by women after the war. Stemming from A Manchester girl with Protestant organisations, the ancestors in the Peak District movement aimed to promote and the Lake District, Ann and examine family planning, grew up between her parents the harmonious development and her two brothers, first of the couple, women’s attitude in Manchester, then in New to work and women taking on Mills (Derbyshire) after WWII responsibility in the church. bombings had destroyed the brand new buildings of Eventually Ann became Manchester High School for Girls. Her an active member of the Mouvement Methodist family valued and encouraged francais pour le planning familial, offering education, intellectual pursuits, music, pioneering consultations to women and sports, and general curiosity. couples on contraception at a time when the pill was still illegal in France. She and In 1947 she sailed to the United States Etienne became members of the French of America before starting her studies Socialist Party and campaigned for justice. at Oxford. She met a young Frenchman, Both also worked for an organisation Etienne Trocmé, at Mills College, Oakland, helping refugees and asylum seekers California. They later became engaged, in Strasbourg. They were generous and and married in 1950 after Ann had hospitable to family, friends and strangers. completed her French degree at St Hilda’s. Ann’s love of nature and big open spaces After one year in Basel, Switzerland, deserves a mention. She loved gardening the young couple settled in Strasbourg, and was ever interested in plants and France, where Etienne spent his career birds. Her other love was music: once a at the university as a theologian and keen cellist and pianist, she led family administrator. Ann initially taught part-singing at home, in the car, wherever English at a language school. Four possible. She was also a talented artist, children were born between 1952 and ceramicist and writer. 1960. Ann later worked for the Strasbourg programme for Syracuse University Ann died in May2019 just short of her (USA), eventually occupying the role of 91st birthday. She will be remembered Programme Director for five years. for her faith in life, her serenity and her optimism. A chat with her would put you Throughout her life she was active in right! She is missed by family and friends church affairs, giving a great deal of her on at least three continents. time, and becoming involved in a variety of campaigning activities. The Mouvement Suzanne Trocmé Latter (her daughter) Jeunes Femmes, which emerged during

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Alokananda Mitter (Chatterjee, methodology for rehabilitating Modern Languages, 1951-55) people with speech impairment. She received her PhD in speech Alokananda’s parents and pathology from Belgrade grandparents were progressive, University in 1985. pioneers in their own fields, and were involved in India’s freedom Alokananda was invited to lecture movement. As a child in Calcutta she at institutes across India, erstwhile had the opportunity to meet prominent Yugoslavia and the United States. She co- intellectuals and leaders of the time, authored numerous books on the phonetic including Rabindranath Tagore and structure of Indian languages with Kostic. Mahatma Gandhi. At the ISI Golden Jubilee celebrations Indira Gandhi expressed her wish to read Like her mother before her, Alokananda the books and sent someone to collect had a liberal, broad-based education. Soon them personally from our mother. She after the end of WWII, as a teenager, she was very passionate about her work, went to study in Britain with her sisters, explaining phonetics to us at the dining first at Westminster Tutors, London, and table, and she conducted a speech clinic then at St Hilda’s where her moral tutor for patients with speech defects, many was Mollie Gerard Davis. Her degree in from disadvantaged backgrounds. Russian and French was the foundation for a distinguished career as a linguist. Among her other interests was classical music. She played the piano and started Back in Calcutta she worked initially at a music club in Calcutta. She was an the Alliance Francaise. After the sudden, avid reader, with a large library. She tragic death of our father in 1968 she translated poetry from Serbo-Croat to joined the Linguistic Research Unit at the English. She was a gourmet and a gifted Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Calcutta. cook. She loved animals, and helped us Her initial role was translating Serbo- care for rescued birds. She was strong, Croat manuscripts into English. Her independent, principled, always dignified, Russian helped her here. She rose to head very kind-hearted, and a very positive, the Linguistic Research Unit at ISI. cheerful person. Above all she had a Alokananda’s mentor was Djordje Kostic, wonderful sense of humour. a visiting professor at the ISI, who had Our mother had very fond memories of studied under the pioneering British her time at St Hilda’s: her tutors, friends, phonetician Daniel Jones. Professor her participation in Russian plays and Kostic had broad interests encompassing other activities. We believe those were the different aspects of linguistics, from happiest days of her life. speech pathology to the rehabilitation of the hearing-impaired. She devoted her Rajashree Khalap, Ashoka Roychoudhury professional life to promoting the Kostic and Gautam Mitter (her children)

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Beryl Yates (Coates, Physics, in Ormskirk, Southport and 1953-56) Crosby. Beryl was born in Liverpool, As the children grew up Beryl the second child and only started working again – this daughter of Doug and Doris time as a physics teacher for Coates, who encouraged both ten years at Scarisbrick Hall her and her brother in all their School. While there she started efforts and achievements. She attended a Science Club, communicating her love Aigburth Vale High School for Girls of physics, along with other very varied were she eventually became head girl. activities such as outings to Malham Encouragement from her school and Cove in Yorkshire and Great Orme’s Head parents led her to gaining a place at in Wales. St Hilda’s to read physics. She was the After retiring from teaching she took first in her family to go to university. up painting. Soon paintings, prints At Oxford she took to punting on the and calendars of local landmarks were river and involvement with the Oxford being produced by her small business. University Women’s Mountaineering For many years she led a busy life with Club which gained her many lifelong her music and painting and, along with friends. As well as trips round the UK, she Allan, participation in the University also travelled further afield with ascents of the Third Age (including the Science in the French Alps. and Photography groups). There were After university she started working in also many holidays including walking Research & Development for Pilkington. and sight- seeing in the French Alps, the It was here she met her future husband Pyrenees and Mallorca. Allan Yates, a chemistry graduate from All this extremely busy life she combined Durham University. They shared an with her sense of duty, honesty and love enthusiasm for fell walking and rock of her family. She died in December 2019 climbing which led them to weekend and is survived by her husband Allan, her trips to Scotland – leaving work on daughter Heather, her son Ian and grand- Saturday afternoon and returning in the daughter Ruth. early hours of Monday morning in time for a few hours’ sleep before work. They Heather Yates (her daughter) got married in 1961. Beryl played the piano, but when her children started learning to play the violin she decided to try too. This led to a new lasting interest in music – culminating in her involvement with three different local amateur orchestras

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Catharine Bevis (Barstow, in 1978 became Girl Guides’ History, 1953 -56) District Commissioner for East Barnet. She welcomed Catharine Bevis (Kate) read into her large family student History and completed a visitors from abroad and young Diploma of Education. While a people needing support, and trainee teacher at North London chaired Ames House hostel for Collegiate School, headmistress young women in Hampstead. Dame Kitty Anderson told her Meanwhile she cultivated two that the girls would “talk in the corridors, huge allotments and kept bees. talk in the classrooms, and they will talk in your lessons if you are boring.” Kate After reinvigorating the local Junior disliked being boring or bored. Born Church by writing a teaching scheme in 1933, her childhood often featured based on the lectionary cycle, she boring times at evacuated schools and undertook the St Albans Diocese Cheltenham Ladies' College, brightened by Ministerial Training Scheme and became theatrical opportunities, from French plays a Licensed Lay Reader. As part of a team of to seeing Coward’s Where the Rainbow Ends. clergy working in the Parish of Chipping Barnet with Arkley, she regularly With OUDS Technical Subcommittee preached, supported ecumenical work, Kate enjoyed making props for worked as hospital chaplain and enjoyed productions. She added to the OUDS store visiting babies awaiting baptism. a large tree from King John and a papier- mâché lute from The Taming of the Shrew. Retiring to Sheringham, Norfolk in 1993 For a 1954 production of Verdi’s Macbeth she enthusiastically tended her garden she made an entire papier-mâché feast. while continuing community and ecclesiastical activities, from Diocesan A gifted artist, she attended drawing Liturgy Committees to organising classes at the Ruskin School of Art and ecumenical Easter and Advent children’s at the Ashmolean, drew cartoons for Isis, activities. She still made props including and painted water colours in Ireland a splendid papier-mâché dragon for the and Greece. To cure heartache caused by Sheringham Carnival street races. She tragedy in her final year, she toured the wrote and illustrated witty ‘Lives of the country on her motorbike Arethusa and Saints’ for the parish magazine. visited the Edinburgh festival again. At her death aged 85 she had six In 1959 she married OUDS stalwart daughters, thirteen grandchildren and Richard Bevis (Trinity, 1952) and they an imminent great-granddaughter. moved to Barnet, Hertfordshire in 1963. Donations have been made in her She studied for a Diploma in Sociology memory to St Hilda’s East. alongside motherhood, then ran parent support groups, visited the elderly and Xanthe Messenger (her daughter)

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Rosemary Grace Riddell Rosemary also loved the (Harrison, History then outdoors and was an PPE, 1955-58) enthusiastic gardener and, in her retirement, cyclist. Born in 1935, Rosemary Rosemary cycled locally was brought up in Preston, every week with friends Lancashire in a family of and made several trips six children. Although to the continent over the Rosemary did not live in Lancashire from years, covering hundreds of miles with the time that she left to study at Oxford, organised groups. she remained fiercely proud of her Lancastrian roots throughout her life and A few months after her eightieth birthday, attributed any achievements or successes, Rosemary was diagnosed with Parkinson’s including those of her children, to the Disease. While her symptoms developed ‘northern blood in her veins’. slowly, the illness made her much less mobile and she spent much more time On graduating from St Hilda’s, Rosemary at home. In her last months, she needed undertook secretarial training and round the clock care which was provided worked for the BBC and in Switzerland at home and she passed away peacefully before taking on an administrative in her home on 19 August 2018. role in the Education Department of Hertfordshire County Council. It was Rosemary is very much missed by her whilst living in Hertfordshire that she family and in the Devon community met her husband, John, on a sailing where she taught for many years. Her course where he was an instructor. Memorial Service was an upbeat occasion Sailing played a role in their cross-county with lots of people sharing vivid and relationship and in their choice of home, personal memories. firstly in Essex and then Devon. Ruth Yates (her daughter) Rosemary qualified as a primary school teacher and her focus was reading development. As well as imparting knowledge to children, she maintained an ongoing passion for her own education and gained qualifications in reading development, extra ‘O’ and ‘A’ levels in several foreign languages and most recently an additional degree, graduating from the Open University in her mid- seventies.

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Anne Robiette Never totally devoted (Cropper, Chemistry, to chemistry, Anne 1957-60) nevertheless used her scientific knowledge Anne was born in to work mainly in Sheffield to George and scientific publishing, Emmie Cropper. She did though she also worked well at Sheffield Girls' as a research assistant to High School, gaining Nobel Laureate Dorothy a place at St Hilda’s Hodgkin. In daily life to read Chemistry, her chemical talent was matriculating in most obvious in her love 1957. She had also of cooking, and visits to considered going to Art markets to see what was School, having shown available were always a considerable talent high point of her week. as a teenager, but was persuaded not to pass up While working in the chance of going to Oxford. publishing she met fellow chemist Martin Robiette, and they were married in 1970. At Oxford she made many friends with Having had many happy holidays in whom she remained in touch all her France, they moved to work in France life. She appreciated the mix of people at in 1989, where they made their home in St Hilda's and the fact that nobody was the medieval town of Loches in the Loire interested in who you were or where you Valley. Here, with the help of Martin and came from, but accepted you as yourself. their cats, Anne began to paint full-time, Friends liked her astute and quizzical inspired by the exceptional quality of view on life, and her ability always to see the light in that region. Her original the funny side of situations. love for painting buildings expanded to At Oxford her artistic leanings were landscapes, flowers, and street scenes, already evident. She loved the buildings, and she painted not only in France but their architecture, and structure, and extensively in Spain and Italy. She opened the colour of the Cotswold stone that her own gallery in Loches, and is fondly dominates Oxford and that region. She remembered for her contribution to the was also able to develop her love of town's social and artistic life. music and singing in the Kodaly Choir Martin Robiette (her husband) at Merton College with Laszlo Heltay, a refugee and former student of Zoltan Kodaly. She continued to sing in choirs all her life, in London, Nottingham, Jersey, and in her final home in France.

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Jenifer Christine Williamson at the local primary school, (Stead, History, 1958-61) being President of the local WI, and she continued to donate Jenifer studied History at blood as she had for many years. St Hilda’s and, after graduating She suffered a stroke in 2012 and gaining her PGCE in which limited her ability to Manchester in 1962, became a continue many of her activities teacher, a profession to which and interests, but she continued she was naturally suited. to live according to her guiding belief that Whether it was generations of Grimsby the art of life is to make a bouquet out of school children, her own daughters, whatever flowers are to hand. or her carers in later life, Jenifer would educate and develop people with the Jenifer died peacefully at home on 1 passion and enthusiasm that made her December 2019, a few days before her one of the most popular and effective 81st birthday and is survived by Gilbert teachers in her school. She had a lifelong Williamson, her husband of 53 years, two love of learning herself, taking art GCSE daughters, Diana and Christina, and three and A levels later in life and also learning grandsons, Arthur, Thomas and Oliver. Italian. Christina Williamson (her daughter) Jenifer led a very active and fulfilled life, with interests that included working on her beloved garden, painting, and running after-school sporting clubs. A hockey blue and a county cricketer, she remained fiercely competitive throughout her life, frequently beating her daughters at Trivial Pursuit after joining a game half way through, or refusing to concede a tackle against a sixth form boy in staff versus school hockey matches. After teaching at Levenshulme Girls’ School, Manchester, Withington Girls’ School and Wintringham School, Grimsby, Jenifer spent most of her career at St James’ School, Grimsby, where she was Deputy Head for many years. On retirement, she took up a variety of voluntary activities including Witness Support with the Citizens Advice Bureau, running a local village magazine, helping

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Gwendolen Hampshire involved considerable detective (English, 1964-67; BLitt, 1972; work travelling around the College Librarian, 1974-84) country and successfully tracking down texts that had Gwen was born on 10 long since disappeared. She December 1923, daughter of left her extensive collection of Frank and Irene Hale and older Elizabeth Carter works to the sister to Pat and John. The early Bodleian Library. Her work on years were comfortable, but the Elizabeth Carter continued family business failed in the over the years and in 2005 she 30s, and hard times followed. published an edition of some In 1934, Gwen won a unpublished letters. scholarship to Christ's Hospital Gwen worked in the English Faculty School and then worked as a trainee Library as a trainee librarian in 1964 housing manager for the Anglican and then, with studies completed, she Church Commission, collecting rents became the librarian at St Anne’s 1971- and inspecting buildings in the East 74, at St Hilda’s 1974-84, and finally the End slums. In 1945 she was awarded librarian of the English Faculty Library a Diploma of Social Studies from the 1984-89. University of London. In her 'retirement', Gwen worked as Gwen married Ernest (Sandy) Hampshire an interviewer on the Healthy Ageing in 1950, and had two children, Adrian and Project, trained in therapeutic massage, Nicola. In Swindon where Sandy worked served on the Acupuncture Accreditation as a water engineer, Gwen was keen to Board and volunteered at the Bodleian, continue her education and studied for working on the ephemera collection. She her English and French ‘A’ levels. had a great love of music and spent many With children at boarding school, in 1964 hours playing in quartets and attending she was accepted as a mature student at music courses. St Hilda’s to read for the Honour School Gwen loved to travel, had many happy of English Language and Literature. For trips with friends and visited the family a brief moment, Gwen was famous – at in Australia and New Zealand many least, in Swindon – where the headline times. She was a great gardener, talented news was 'Swindon housewife wins place photographer, and wonderful cook who to Oxford' which shows how unusual this loved to entertain her many friends. was at that time. Gwen challenged the conventions of the Gwen loved the study and, after time to achieve the life she wanted. graduating in 1967, she undertook a BLitt Adrian Hampshire (her son) (Bachelor of Letters), researching the life and works of Elizabeth Carter. This

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Elisabeth Scheybeler their feet. IH Madrid is now (Tunnard, Literae nearing its fortieth birthday. Humaniores, 1967-71) On the domestic front the On going down from Oxford, Scheybelers took on an Elisabeth, by then married old and by then somewhat to Cedric Scheybeler (Christ dilapidated manor house Church, 67-72), did a PGCE at in Cantabria in the north of London University and then Spain which belonged to her pioneered the Cambridge husband’s Spanish family Latin project at the Roan and together, to all intents School in Greenwich. and purposes, they rebuilt it. With the house came a sizeable amount Though she thoroughly enjoyed her work of rough meadow which slowly grew less at the Roan (‘It helped to teach Latin if rough and more pastoral. In the last year of you were young and pretty… well, pretty- her life Elisabeth was heard to say ‘This is ish’), her husband’s Spanish connection the year of the garden!’ Her family smiled: then opened up new personal and they had heard that many times before. professional vistas. Franco had died in 1975, and in 1976 the Scheybelers moved Elisabeth had very fond memories of from a decidedly gloomy and conflicted St Hilda’s. Never, she admitted, did Britain to a newly democratic Spain she quite get the hang of Linguistic which seemed to offer sunnier horizons Philosophy but she remembered Mrs both physically and metaphorically. Austin’s tutorials as ‘frighteningly stimulating’ and Ms Levick’s Ancient Along with Spain’s fledgling democracy History ones as ‘stimulating without the there also burgeoned a vigorous demand frightening bit’. Holding pride of place in for English – till then the default foreign her recollections of Ms Levick’s tutorials language taught at schools had been were the elephants that Claudius took French. On the wave of this demand over in his invasion of Britain. This, for no Elisabeth and her husband, by now other reason, apparently, than ‘pour épater’ qualified as EFL teachers, founded their the folks back in Rome and to show he first language school in Santander. Soon was one up on Caesar. Elisabeth attributed with three partners, one from Cambridge, this particular insight to Ms Levick which, they went on to found International she would say, ‘tells you so much about House in Madrid and it was not long how students remember their tutors’. before that school was teaching up to ten thousand students a year. Other schools Elisabeth died suddenly, without followed. Elisabeth’s Oxonian and Greats- suffering, in April 2019. She is survived by formed logical yet tranquil approach to her two daughters and her husband. business helped the schools through their Cedric Scheybeler (her husband) inevitable growing pains as they found

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Gillian Raven (Wisbey, recreation of an Anglo- English, 1977-80) Saxon hall and that early period inspired many of the Although she was gentle programmes Gillian helped and unassuming in to design. In 2008 it was disposition, Gillian’s arrival destroyed by fire and her at St Hilda’s reflected poem lamenting its loss is a strong and adaptable outstanding. I thought this intelligence. Her original was one of only a very few, ambition had been to study but others have come to medicine, but her school’s light and I hope one day to shambolic science teaching be able to share them with led her to switch to English a wider audience. and, despite indifferent A level results, she gained a place through However, it was the last few years of her the entrance exam and interview. life that were the most fulfilling. In 2013 we moved to Kenya where Gillian served We met while I was a contemporary at with Arocha, an international Christian Magdalen and were married in 1981, Conservation charity, to help develop settling into working life in London, she their Karara site, 18 acres of forest in as a teacher, I in banking. In 1985 I was Karen, Nairobi. Here she designed a range accepted for ordination in the Church of of programmes for schools based on her England. My ecclesiastical career turned work at Bishops Wood, but now with out to be far from smooth, but despite a an explicitly Christian perspective. She lifelong struggle with depression, Gillian became a much loved mother figure to nevertheless built a strong family life for the young people in the team and was our three children and was a source of instrumental in bringing a European unfailing wisdom. Union funded project ‘Young People on In 2000, she began to teach again, now the Global Stage’ to Kenya. at the Bishops Wood Environmental She was diagnosed with ovarian cancer Centre in Worcestershire. She delighted early in 2015, but continued the work in this work, teaching outdoors in in Karen until our scheduled departure ancient woodland and able to combine in July 2016. Her remaining earthly her original interest in science and her ambitions were simply for her garden in teaching skills. A grove of small-leaved England and the birth of grandchildren. lime trees has recently been planted there Both were fulfilled before she died in her memory. peacefully in October 2018, strong in that She was also able to deploy her deep and personal Christian faith which undergraduate studies of Old English. had sustained her all her adult life. The site had an historically faithful Charles Raven (her husband)

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Sian Schofield-Hughes (Hughes, Ever resilient, Sian re-settled in Cardiff. Applied Social Work and Social Through a continuing involvement in Sciences, 1989-91) politics – indeed on running an election campaign in West Sussex – she met Neil Sian and I became friends at St Hilda’s, Schofield, a retired senior civil servant. staying close until the end of her too- Astoundingly well-suited, they took short life. Born on 28April 1967 to Roy great enjoyment from Cardiff’s political and Elvys Hughes, she had a much loved and cultural scenes. Four years later, one younger brother Gareth. Though brought year after their wedding, Sian’s death of up in Sussex, her family originated from a brain haemorrhage on 26 July 2019 South Wales. After happy, successful came without warning. All attending years at school, Sian studied for a degree her funeral paid heartfelt tribute to her in Politics at Swansea 1986-89, then for a and to her achievements, her lifelong Diploma/MSc in Social Sciences at Oxford. convictions and resilience, as well as Sian radiated humour, had great expressing their appreciation for her intellectual ability and felt true warm humanity and outward, supportive, compassion for the more vulnerable ‘giving’ nature. Leah, Eddie and I, some of in society. She was a lover of literature, her closest friends at Oxford, laid red roses music and the arts – but also enjoyed on her coffin. Neil scattered her ashes at relaxing with a James Bond film! Three Cliffs Bay on the Gower Peninsula. From 1991, Sian worked in the toughest She was hugely lovable, funny, quirky – social work field – Children & Families and always positive and interested in you. & Child Protection – first as a worker Because we formed the deepest bonds then manager on teams in the London with her, they will long outlast the short Boroughs. During this time, she had a span of her life. Sian leaves a silent space daughter, Roisin, with her partner John. which she once filled with vitality, love They moved to Swansea when Sian and fun. Sian, we will always miss you. obtained a senior post there, managing Helen Nathaniel-Fulton (Applied Social multiple children’s teams, shaping Studies, 1989) practice and policies. Some years after ending her relationship with John, Sian married Andrew Vipond, a fellow senior manager. In him she found a supportive, loving husband. However, one year later, Andrew died suddenly. The shock of this loss, followed by a serious accident and complex personal stresses, led to early retirement from an extremely promising career.

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Anna Torpey (PPE, 1991-94) went on Blockbusters and declared to host Bob Holness Anna was born and brought that she planned on becoming up in the Wirrall and educated the first female Labour Prime at St Mary’s College, where Minister! No doubt she would she excelled, before coming have excelled at that too up to St Hilda’s to read PPE. but settled for three Gold Anna’s love of learning was Runs and a trip to Texas. In evident in the quietly brilliant 2007 she reached the final and determined way she of Mastermind insisting approached her undergraduate studies. they credit her as 'full-time mother' not Her essays were meticulously researched, 'housewife' and so impressing the BBC argued and presented, and she always production team that they hired her to set had encouraging words for her fellow questions for many future series. students. College friends remember her as Anna trained as a teacher and again she incredibly kind and funny, able to bring shone, receiving a commendation from a smile to your face when you needed it Hope University and being awarded top most. Anna was an accomplished pianist PGCE student. She went on to teach at and loved to play everything from the Sacred Heart primary where she started classics to her favourite pop tunes. On a choir and made a CD recording to raise one joyous occasion, she took her violin school funds. The children so adored her to the Bullingdon Arms and joined in they nominated her for the Inspirational with an Irish folk band! Teacher of the Year Award in the Liverpool After graduating, Anna married Echo. Christopher – they had been a couple Devastatingly, Anna was diagnosed with throughout her time at Oxford – and cancer in 2013. She dealt with her illness settled in Wallasey. Their children with immense courage and grace, striving Jude, Ted and Jean are blossoming into to live normally and never losing her rare wonderful talented people, testament to gift for making the people around her feel Anna and Christopher’s devoted, happy lovely about themselves. She died on 20 partnership and to a family life full of December 2019, aged 46. love, music and laughter. It was a joy and a privilege to know Anna was endlessly creative with a daring Anna and she will be forever loved and sense of fun. Her glamorous style was remembered as a truly exceptional channelled into a vintage clothes eBay daughter, wife, mother, sister and friend. business, her talent for making people laugh led her to do stand-up at Edinburgh, Charlotte Gordon (English, 1991) and her craving for knowledge made her unbeatable at quizzes. At eighteen she

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The College gratefully acknowledges the generosity of the following for their gifts in 2019, as well as those who have given anonymously: *denotes those who have died

1935 Janet Martin (Hamer) Helen Wickham (Wade) Kathleen Moore (Pope) Patricia Pugh (Wareham) Betty Wicks (Brotherhood) Amelia Woolmore (Mulligan) 1937 1949 Joan Williams* Ann Lloyd (Pritchard) 1953 Irene Bainbridge (Jolles) 1940 1950 Katie Baker (Potter) Mary Turton (Cleverley) Mary Collins (Overin) Margaret Forey (Duncan) Nancy Uffen (Winbolt) Daphne Crabtree (Mason) Sybil Jack (Thorpe) Jill Dann (Cartwright) Kate Kavanagh (Ward) 1942 Joan Dawson (Habgood) Gill Mayne (Key) Kate Hall* Kathleen Dawson (Sansome) Janet Missen (Stephan)* Margaret Mabbs Sheila Rogers Jane Reeve Cynthia Watson Juliet Tadgell (Fitzwilliam) 1943 Margaret Wood (Addison) Sally Wade-Gery (Marris) Gwen Coulter (Marks) Aline Watson (Winter) Mary Davies* 1951 Muriel Chamberlain 1954 1944 Mary Clark (Champeney)* Joyce Affleck (Watson) Sheila Clark (Green) Janet Clarke (Gunn) Judith Blanks (Hughes)* Irene Davis* Heather Field (Liddiard) Margaret Garvie (McIntosh) Joyce Haynes (Robinson) Elizabeth Jacobs (Shaffer) Kate Giles (Whitmarsh) Sheila Klopper (Roberts) Margaret Gleave (Ayres) 1945 Jeanne Lewis-Sturmhoefel Pamela Gordon (Bantick) Joan Richmond* Ruth Marden Margaret Grinyer* Janet Morgan (Sclater-Jones) Joyce Hargreaves (Carlile) 1946 Nancy Morris Vanessa Hart (Williams) Enid Judge (Hastings)* Karolen Hodgson (Koob) Gwenith Maddison (Thomas) 1952 Margaret Kirwan (Amlot) Sylvia Ross Ann Billinghurst (Barnett) Barbara Koch (Hill) Rachel Clark (Falcon) Jane Lloyd (Shelford) 1947 Anna Horovitz (Landau) Eileen Lovell (Heaps) Mary Allan (Rees) Joan Kenworthy Marianne Macdonald Margaret Bullard (Stephens) Sally Mason (Hirst) Pamela Mawson (Merrill) Delwen Foster (Rodd) Monica Morris (Short) Hilary Milroy (Firmin) Sophia Hankinson (Mottram)* Shirley Pankhurst (Worsley) Julie Neale Ann Parker (Dickinson) Brenda Percy (Sait) Ann Nicholls (Clark) Joanna Rose (Semel) Barbara Page 1948 Louisa Service (Hemming) Daphne Palmer Margaret Connell (Harvey) Sheila Smith Ros Partridge (Bishop) Joanna Cullen Brown (Cullen) Felicity Taylor (Cooper) Rosemary Stevens (Wallace) Sonja Hawkins (Singer)* Antonia White (Plummer) Jill Strang (Shannon)

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Angela Wyllie (Davis) Penelope Lowe (Bicknell) Gwen Evans Janet Mihell (Scott) Mary Fama (Duncan) 1955 Anne Murch (Dixon) Felicity Gillette (Jones) Stella Addison (Kirk) Susan Quainton (Long) Diane Gough (Ball) Wendy Cornwell (Thompson) Valerie Swift Kirsteen Hardie (Stewart) Janet Cox (Williams) Deirdre Holloway (Roome) Jill Dearnaley (Handisyde) 1958 Elizabeth Kerr (Kalaugher) Rosemary Dellar (Soutter) Mary Anne Coate Caroline Pickard Jennifer Dodd (Houghton) Barbara Emerson (Brierley) Marianne Pitts (Lengyel) Helen Foley (Smith) Lynne Gamblin (Matthias) Alison Smerdon (Webb) Mary Foley Pat Hawkins (McNaught) Jacqueline Smethurst Margaret Gobbett (Campbell) Helen Ives (Johnstone)* Helen Smith Wynne Harlen (Mitchell) Susan Lang (Markham) Teresa Smith (Collingwood) Pat Jenkins (Kirby) Margaret Sale Barbara Sumner (Charke) Gill Kenny (Shelford) Jenifer Williamson (Stead)* Jane Taylor (Burnett) Elizabeth Marden Janet Wedgwood (Merer) Valerie Mountain (Lowther) 1959 Pat Yudkin (Nabarro) Elizabeth Read (Lord) Mary Anderson Elinor Shaffer (Stoneman) Janet De Santos (Duquemin) 1961 Elena Snow (Tidmarsh) Christine Eynon (Joseph) Fiona Agassiz (Wilson) Julie Williams (du Boulay) Caroline Farey-Jones Anna Alston (Ilott) (Houghton) Susan Avery (Steele) 1956 Maureen Forster (Lynch) Judith Beckman (Bor) Margaret Abraham (Vokins) Gill Hayton (Stevens) Angela Bird (Barratt) Norma Blamires Ruth Jennings-Day (Smith) Janet Brentegani (Mitchell) Janet Bolt Maggie Lecomber-Paish Margaret Cooke (Smith) Mary Daley (Joseph) (Archer) Diana Dillon (Botting) Gilean Evans (Woodall) Sandra Margolies (Colbeck) Frances Doel Gillian Gardner Smith Anita Millott (Tiarks) Molly Dow (Sturgess) Janet Hall (Leaning) Carol O'Brien Margery Franklin (Mason) Anthea Kaan (Allen) Hilary Ockendon (Mason) Kathleen Guyatt (Fedrick) Ita Kirwan (O'Boyle) Caroline Phillips (Airey) Jenny Haden (Peck) Judith Mirzoeff (Topper) Judith Salway (Beck) Hermione Harris Sarah Ogilvie-Thomson Jane Simpson (Place) Jocelyn Harvey Wood (Bulmer) (Wilson) Sue Smith (Reynolds) Sheelin Hemsley (Groom) Pam Parsonson (Smith) Rosemary Thorp (Mason) Katharine Judelson (Villiers) Sari Salvesen (Clarke) Katharine Trotman (James) Gabrielle Keighley Margaret Sharp (Mathews) Xanthe Valev-Fitzpatrick Anthea Lepper (Scott) Mary Sykes (Saunders) Jane Whiter (Wakinshaw) Mary Lunn (Garthwaite) Anthea Wilson (Davies) Alison Macfarlane 1957 Claire Wilson Jill Pellew (Thistlethwaite) Jill Berry (Rand) Mary Wolf Jane Rabb Elspeth Currey (Meyer) Jaqueline Wren (Braxton) Eleanor Stanier (Worswick) Marilyn Davies (Hayter) Catherine Stevenson (Peacock) Anna Dunlop (LeFanu) 1960 Adrienne Taylor (Barnett) Anne Glendining (Pugsley) Shelagh Cox (Beaumont) Molly Todd (Tanner) Celia Goodhart (Herbert) Karin Davies (Hodgkiss)* Helen Jackson (Price) Dorothy Edgington (Milne)

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1962 Jenny Rowley-Williams Mary Kalaugher* Mary Beckinsale (Sully) (Wright) Doreen Le Pichon (Kwok) Sue Bird (Fairhead) Linda Slater (Hueting) Nicola LeFanu Jane Bulleid (King) Anne Smith (Strange) Lanna Lewin (Cheng) Vivien Chambers (Portch) Jean Smith (Mitchell) Joyce Lishman (Major) Sue Clothier (Ingle) Juliet Taylor (Kerrigan) Anne Nesbitt Valery Cowley (Haggie) Norma Webb (Day) Diana Oxlade (Champ) Anne Craw (Hunter) Christine Pawley (Hambling) Jacqueline Ferguson 1964 Caroline Pond Sue Garden (Button) Carol Amouyel-Kent Cathy Repp (MacLennan) Suzanne Gossett (Solomon) Gaynor Arnold (Parsons) Elizabeth Silverthorne Wendy Hague (Gordon) Judith Austen (Lishman) Margaret Walker (McIlwain) Rosalind Haworth Elizabeth Brocklehurst (Smith) Jenny Willis (Arnold) Esther Higgins (Croxall) Silvia Casale Anne Howell (Macfarlane) Rosemary Connelly (Braddon) 1966 Sheila Jackson (Henshaw) Miggie Cotton (Knox) Jan Archer Brenda Jerome (Coleman) Penny Freedman (Mitchell) Sandy Baars (Haggett) Susan Padfield (Morgan) Elizabeth Goold (Hawkins) Pam Baker (Thomas) Lavender Patten (Thornton) Gwen Hampshire* Sally Baker (Misselbrook) Janette Rates (Millar) Heather Joshi (Spooner) Gillian Berg (Thorn) Sue Rees (Evetts) Susan Kennedy (Davey) Eileen Conn Anne Rose (Willson) Pat Kenworthy (Edmondson) Tess Cosslett Jennifer Solomon (Pendlebury) Dany Khosrovani Christina Cox (Coppack) Mary Stewart (Cock) Elizabeth Major Yvonne Diakomanolis Anne Summers Jean Matthews (Hare-Brown) (Apelbaum) Josie Tuersley Mary Pimenoff (Cutler) Sheila Forbes Angela Wingate (Beever) Christine Reid (Brooks) Sally Goodman (Holcombe) Jean Wright (Yarker) Anne Saxon (Tatton) Elizabeth Gorsuch (Clark) Kathleen Zimak (Smith) Ann Thomson (Ferguson) Charlotte Gray Melanie Hart (Sandiford) 1963 1965 Sue Hedworth (Smith) Rosemary Andrew Daphne Bagshawe (Triggs) Rachel Heywood (Evans) Carol Blyth (Parsons) Evie Bentley Janice Jones (White) Marjorie Cross Alison Blackburn (Nield) Claire Lamont Juliet Crump (Boys)* Victoria Bryant (Chase) Evelyn Murray Phillippa Egerton (Green) Pamela Bunney (Simcock) Marchia Pratt (Allsebrook) Margaret Ellis (Vaughan) Sarah Chamberlain (Snellgrove) Alice Reid Jennifer Fisher (Steel) Mary Clark Angela Sibbald (Collingwood) Maggie George (Pasco) Judith Coquillette (Rogers) Michèle Sinai (Picciotto) Adèle Geras (Weston) Judith Coulson Elaine Sugden (Pulman) Sarah Gosling (Cherry) Jessica Crawford (Alfort) Caroline Weymouth (Scull) Christine Gratus (Gray) Penny David Susan Wilkinson (De La Mare) Mary Hodgson* Cicely Gill (John) Mary Hunt (Burleigh) Janet Gordon (Senior) 1967 Sian Johnson Christine Harford (Nevins) Alison Chippindale Branwen Mellors (Williams) May Hofman Patsy Colvin (Randall) Thea Morris (Webb) Jacky Hughes (Beaumont) Stephanie Cook (Wright) Mary Ritter (Buchanan-Smith) Liz Inwood (Abram) Naida Duff (Clarke)

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Melanie Fennell Rayna Jackson (Rothblatt) 1971 Jane Green (Speake) Janet Janis (Clark) Jane Binstead Oddrun Grønvik Susan Kramer (Richards) Deborah Bowker Jean Harker (Buchanan) Stella Law (Harris) Val Burrough (Edwards) Ferelith Hordon (Aglen) Kathy Le Fanu (Despicht) Lynne Cameron (Newdick) Mary Ibbotson (Starkey) Alison Lester Blanche Chenery (Faulder) Sheila Jenkins (Staples) Catherine McGowan (Coventry) Avril Crotch-Harvey (Lewis) Elizabeth Knight (Miles) Gail Mooney (Turner) Allie Fitzpatrick (Wilkes) Barbara Leyland (Mason) Margaret O'Mara Susan Francis (Marshall) Bernadine McCreesh Margaret Pickford (Young) Gretel Furner (Koskella) Joanna Melzack (Voss-Bark) Chris Piggin (Pighills) Sally Gomm (Kelsey) Penny O'Callaghan (Spriggs) Vicky Rollason Antonia Gwynn (Cordy) Eleanor Rawling (Hicks) Diana Smith (Reed) Suzanne Jepson Jacquie Roberts (Smith) Julia Stutfield (Northey) Bridget Kerle Pam Simmonds (Martin) Linda Sullivan Heather Lumsden Dinah Sloggett (Woodcock) Maire Sykes (McAloon) Julia Miller (Hunter) Lindsay Stainton Jean Towers (Thompson) Chris Morgan (Piniger) Katie Thonemann (Ayres) Brenda Vance (Richardson) Annette Nabavi (Lane) Frances Tyler (Stevenson) Pauline Varughese (Smith) Joy Nelson Jill Walton (Turner) Karen Pratt 1968 Susan Wayne Margot Senior Liz Bissett (Styles) Judith Yates Sarah Staniforth Caroline Bolton (Moore) Elaine Stead (Best) Anne Bridge (Robertson) 1970 Clare Tagg Michele Conway Heather Armitage Jo Wallace-Hadrill (Braddock) Susan French (Crowsley) Janet Batey (Galvin) Glenys Woods (Lloyd) Grizelda George Elizabeth Breeze Sue Hamilton (Westrop) Alison Browning 1972 Catherine Joyce Bridget Corden (Corden) Genie Barton Mary Kelly Elizabeth Critchley (Tyson) Madeleine Bidder (Thomas) Helen Lloyd Frances Dorman (Nicholas) Anthea Bishop (Tilzey) Barbara Morris-Welsh Jennie Feldman (Goldman) Jane Broughton Perry Verity Peto (Cottrill) Mary Harrington Sue Cullimore (Walker) Anna Romiszowska Maureen Hehir Strelley Denise Cush Clemence Schultze Rose Johnston (Carr) Helen Dickie Joanna Shapland Brenda McQuade (Gough) Pat Evans (Seymour) Penelope Skinner (Lawton) Felicity Miller Sally Ezra (Edwards) Julie Tidey (Lang) Anne Mills Cindy Gray (Selby) Janet Whiteway Cassie Nash (Peterson) Jennifer Greenbury (Adler) Johanna Wild (Wolf) Vera Neumann Tanya Harrod (Ledger) Kate Quartano Brown Christine Heasman 1969 Marian Read (Gilbart) Judith Hutchins (Fisher) Jenny Bird (Barrett) Deirdre Rogers (Piper) Joan Irving Judith Cope (Forman) Anne Salkeld Mariot Leslie (Sanderson) Sue Deans (Owen) Miriam Stanton (Tate) Jane Liversedge Helen Forrester (Myatt) Sue Stone (Lawrence) Val McDermid Jenny Gibbon Felicia Pheasant (Hendriks) Cecilia Hatt (Freeman) Rosalind Reilly (Robinson)

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Kath Sherit Davina Giles (Salter) Virginia Johnson (Bolton) Carolyn Smithson (Vincent) Lesley Gray (Smith) Geraldine Monaghan (McNabb) Laurian Stokoe (Barker) Heather Gwynn Elena Notarianni Celia Sweetman (Nield) Sue Horley (Baker) Delma O'Brien (Brough) Sally Watson Marcia James (Halstead) Susan Paterson (Chantler) Jill Wills (Freeman) Karen Lawrence (Parrington) Sarah Paxton (Horner) Geraldine Wooley Emma MacKenzie (Liddell) Katrina Poole Terry Wright Margaret Marshall (Sims) Jacqueline Pritchard Jenny Morrison (Franklin) (Gondouin) 1973 Gillian Pickering (Mendelssohn) Nicky Rayner (Gray) Avril Aslett-Bentley (Aslett) Sally Roe (Petts) Ruth Richards (Anderson) Julia Bailey (Richardson) Deborah Scott Helen Ruberry (Owen) Caroline Best (Rawcliffe) Jane Sutton Eleanor Seymour (Reid) Hazel Bickle (Chapman) Karen Taube (Pilkington) Helen Simpson Maureen Boulton (McCann) Margaret Taylor (Kisch) Julie Skinner (Bramah) Rachel Brandenburger Sarah Walters (Stanton) Kate Stuart-Smith Antonia Bullard Chris Ward (Kay) Caroline Wheal Antonia Corrigan (Strickland) Edith Coulton (Gainford) 1975 1977 Sarah Curtis Lesley Ainsworth Nicki Billington Emma Dally Jayne Almond Caroline Black Philippa Dickins Mary Bambrough Mary Bromfield (Moylan) Jane Eagle (Hucker) Hilary Boulding Rosie Chadwick (Joynes) Debra Gilchrist (Van Gene) Sue Dow Anne Cox (Turnbull) Belinda Hayter-Hames Fiona Ledger Prue Dowie (Judd) Jo Hollands (Willey) Glynis Lewis-Nichol Virginia Flower Dorothy Jackson Jan McCarthy (Hopkins) Sarah Gall (Platt) Rosemary Lomer Jane McNeill Alison Henshaw (Harper Smith) Fiona MacKenzie Penny Murley (Wiseman) Sharon Hodges (Brown) Sue Malthouse (Howcroft) Alison Overend (Newey) Margaret Hutchings (Friar) Jenny McKay Alison Pangonis (Emery) Ann Marie McMahon Amanda Robinson Laura Pease (Wood) (Howarth) Alison Ryan Rosamund Pendry (Birch) Helen Schofield (Gracie) Brenda Scanlan Ellen Schroder (Laskey) Sarah Speller (Edney) Ruth Thomas Linda Shires Catherine Springett (Redgate) Mithra Tonking (McIntyre) Pamela Thompson Diana Thomas (Roberts) Fiona Unwin (Morgan) Jane Whitehead Elaine Varty Ingrid Walton (Purnell) 1976 1978 1974 Kate Barker Zeinab Badawi Jenny Barna Rosalind Baynes Christine Bowyer-Jones Catherine Brislee Jennifer Blaiklock (Florence) Rosemary Brown-Humes Virginia Brown (Morris) Liz Booker (Bond) (Windridge) Marian Dain (Bunn) Anne Chorley Sarah Carlin Cathy Edwards (James) Linda Earnshaw (Scutt) Tina Chase Viv Faull Frances Gerrard Angie Coad Deb Fisher (Dickinson) Karen Gillum Edwina Curtis Hayward (Maple) Kay Garmeson Sarah Ingham (Minns) Greta Dawson

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Kira-Louise Fayle (Campkin) Claire Locke (Bullock) Kim Hurd (Richards) Harriet Feilding (Earle) Emily Monson (Wheeler- Amanda Last Marie Gregson (Rossi) Bennett) Gillian Mannouch (Coleman) Catherine Headlam Susan Osbourn (Leach) Gaynor Noonan (Everett) Judith Heaton Veronica Patrick (Davies) Catherine Reading (Ormell) Bridget Herring (Emmerson) Elizabeth Rankin Maggie Stirling Troy Victoria Hislop (Hamson) Jackie Robinson Kate White Beverley Jewell (Tharme) Margaret Ruscoe Sara White Nicolette Jones Helen Saunders (Price) Alex Wood (Blackie) Katie Lee (Tute) Sue Saville Elizabeth Meath Baker Claire Selby (Hallpike) 1982 (Woodham-Smith) Jane Smith (Edwards) Lucy Bird (Capito) Ziyah Mehta Rachel Stratton Karen Border (Wingate) Helen Middleton Joanna Sunman (Sayer) Jane Bradbury Catherine Moxey (Rayner) Tamsin Varley Alison Carter (Fenn) Jane Orr (Wright) Carolyn Williams (Tibbs) Caroline Chichester (Storer) Angela Pound (Mawson) Sylvia Christelow (Booth) Pyrrha Hocknell 1980 Stamatia Cottakis (Comninos) Melanie Reichelt Pamela Beasant Julie Dyson Judith Roles (Ibbotson) Siobhan Brzezina Irene Easun (Luke) Fiona Shelley (Douglas Sarah Cartledge Rosemary Gibson Thomson) Helen Evans (Johnys) Deborah Hinson (Goode) Sue Stokes (Hargreaves) Jessica Guest (Hibbs) Karen Holden Jennie Tanner Marian Iszatt White Jill Holder (Hatton) Carol Thompson (Paxton) Alison Jeffery (Nisbet) Bronagh Kennedy Sue Way (Clark) Vineeta Manchanda-Singh Fiona Little (Smart) Jill Widgery Jill Marshall (Ashton) Catherine Marshall (Hyde) Lucy Newmark (Keegan) Sally Mayo (Fletcher) 1979 Georgina Paul Alex Millbrook Fiona Allen (Cass) Lisa Rabinowitz Julie Mottershead (Hall) Caroline Attfield Karin Scarsbrook (Longden) Jo Nowak (Acton) Katharine Beaumont (Fowle) Katy Smith (Brown) Catherine Oliver (Andrew) Georgina Bramley (Pickersgill) Susan Wagland (Wood) Rebecca Petty (German) Felicity Carr Ann Pfeiffer Elizabeth Cooksey 1981 Nanda Pirie Elaine Davies (Jordan) Julia Abrey (Heighton) Sue Radford (Pickton) Cathy Derrick Ruth Anderson Fiona Redgrave Jia Doulton (Kani) Ros Ballaster Su Thomas Celia Fairley (Bore) Claire Bradley (Reynolds) Rebecca Walker Jane Farr (Hagar) Nicola Crawford (Ray) Julia Watson Julie Fenster Dido Crosby Heather Williams (Drake) Jenny Harper Ceri Davies (Lloyd Jones) Claudia Wordsworth (Josephs) Bea Hearne Carla Edgley (Jones) Ulrike Horstmann-Guthrie Emma Gilmour (Williams) 1983 Mary Huttel (Grafton) Suzanne Graham (Edwards) Maria Antoniou Josie Irwin Sarah Higgins Ruth Bartholomew (Close) Revathy Lauer (Mahendran) Susan Hindle Barone Coralie Bingham Elizabeth Leeming (Bowes Lyon) Holly Hopkins (Dennis) Liz Boston

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Kitty Carrick Sarah Verger (Dunlop) 1987 Susan Driver (Hooper) Catherine Wilson Jane Boygle Jane Ellison Fleur Clegg (Cass) Trish Foschi (Foschi) 1985 Angela Cowdery Judith Letchford (Affleck) Samantha Bewick Julia Goddard (Rotheram) Denise Mansi (Gough) Diane Brown (Howland) Samantha Hands (Mayers) Alison Mayne (Irving) Alison Cannard (Tracey) Alison Mayne (Woolley) Libbie Mead Kay Chaplin Carol Miller Amanda Owen Caroline Cornish Emma Morrison (Rydings) Casey Pearce Louisa Crompton (Philpott) Caragh Murray (Bacon) Rachel Pilcher (Wilson) Helen Dance Sara Murray Antonia Pompa Rosie Dastgir Vicky Rigby-Delmon Rhonda Riachi Helen Evans (Thomas) Alice Seferiades Belinda Sanders (Stansfield) Vicky Evans (Beer) Sian Slater (Pearson) Susannah Simon Maddi Forrester (Fletcher) Jessica Spungin Juliet Souch (McKenna) Nilofer Ghaffar Sophia Steer Anna Stephenson Jane Harfield (Davies) Anna Taborska Melanie Tribble (Trinder) Claire Haymes (Spencer) Julia Topp Sue Yeates (Johnson) Jane James (Liddell) Julia Warrander Catherine Max Charlotte Winter (Hiett) 1984 Stephanie McFarlane (Willis) Felicity Aktas (Helfer) Vanessa Potter (Kenney) 1988 Frances Bailey (Haines) Sarah Ramsay Linda Chui Belinda Bramley (Holdsworth) Suzy Spencer (Whybrow) Victoria Cleland Judy Caddle Justine Swainson (Phillips) Claire Fazakerley Sallie Campbell (Hanlon) Cath Urquhart Sarah Fitzgerald (Swaddling) Sara Carroll (Girkin) Lindsay Want-Beal Amanda Gillard Joanna Cox Rebecca Webb (Phelps) Atsuko Hayakawa (Sakamoto) Penny Cullerne-Bown (Jowitt) Rachel Weir (Robert-Blunn) Ruth Hurst (Gifkins) Fran Davies (Siddons) Rachel Wood (Willcock) June Jantz (Blanc) Emma Foote Helen Jarvie Sarah Fox (Chenery) 1986 Diane Kilbane (Battisby) Ali Gill Anna Attwell (Spash) Ruth Louis (Browning) Katherine Gotts Joanna Berry (Ibbotson) Amanda McLean (Leake) Lynne Harris Ann Broadbent (Briggs) Karen Phillips (Norman) Mary Harris Jane Chaplin Kristina Tarczy-Hornoch Anne Hodgson Michelle Chen Kirsten Wild (Crook) Rachel Kerr Alison Coneybeare Ruth Yates (Riddell) Sarah Millington (Cartwright)* Sara Moseley Sam Davidson (Dawson) 1989 Sue Natan Alison Denly (Grant) Josephine Alexander (Weisman) Catherine Nelson (Badger) Jane Dixon (Thompson) Becky Ausenda (Howden) Judith Sanders Ruth Fuller-Sessions Barbara Bellis (Durham) Carolyn Scott Fanny Goodhart Charlotte Burton-Thomas Alison Steel (Redgrave) Helen Hughes (Micklem) Victoria Clare Georgie Stewart (MacLeod) Janet Kirby (Singleton) Josepha Collins (Ridding) Gillian Styles (Stewart) Claire Polkinghorn (Smith) Laura Edwards (Rainford) Emma Thornton (Moss) Laura Gerlach (Canning)

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Sarah Glendinning (Perret) Lisa Bryce (Trueman) Faye Dyce (Jones) Sara Henderson-Morrow Sarah Christie-Verma Gabbie Jerrit (Allnutt) (Rogers) Rachel Cosgrave (Kemsley) Kathryn Leaf Andi Johnson-Renshaw Jane Day (Sigaloff) Kate Love Snjezana Lelas Joanne Dewar (Cooper) Heledd Najib (Williams) Julia Leunig (Cerutti) Lucy Farrington Pascale Nicholls Alison Moore Lucy Gibson Beatrice Purser-Hallard Corinna Moore (McNally) Patricia Haitink (Bloomfield) Chloe Riess Kathy Morrissey (Singleton) Alison Hamlett Gillian Shaw (Lonsdale) Anna Moyle Julia Headey (Church) Smriti Singh Kathryn Moyse (Newton) Irene Hewlett (Grimberg) Kate Smout (Webb) Liz Mulgrew (Campbell) Sarah Lion-Cachet (Loosemore) Anne Stratford-Martin Natasha Pope (Berrigan) Pamela Loke Andrea Williams Victoria Summers (Bailey) Kathy Nicholson (Borradaile) Helen Taylor Paola Sechi 1994 Vicki Wood (Howe) Julia Sheraton (Stones) Caroline Beabey (Langley) Sarah Woodall (Osborne) Anna Sweeney (Johnson) Sara Catley Alexandra Wright (Priestley) Mary Tait (Ambler) Wendy Chapman (Appleby) Jean Tan-Chia Caroline Cook (Smith) 1990 Elena Dalrymple (Ghiringhelli) Susie Amann 1992 Nicole De Zoysa Kiersten Avery Danah Al-Mulla Vanessa Docherty (Therrode) Beth Buffalo Ming Alsop-Lim Rebecca Dunlop (Pollard) Katy Cheney (Pells) Katie Balderson (Mills) Emma Gange Ellie Clewlow Tracey Cansdale (Bant) Sarah Grant (Pearson) Melissa Collett (Manes) Philippa Charles (Casey) Donna Harper (Clark) Glenda Cooper Neasa Coen Lucy Heaselgrave (Hawks) Alison Copner (Fletcher) Martha Da Gama Howells Vicki Jackson Sarah Delfas (Shearman) Vicky Hau Jenny Jenkins (Haworth) Marie Demetriou Eleanor Hayes Shivanthi Kandiah-Evans Katherine Henig (Williams) Serena Hedley-Dent Dagmara Milian Harriet Herbst (Briggs) Lucy Holland (Manson) Meriel Patrick Shanda Huntingford (McAteer) Emma Hubbard (Donnelly) Katherine Peacock Fiona Lamb (Austin) Sarah Johnson (Greenwood) Katherine Rainwood Laura Lauer Katy Judd (Martin) Alex Reece (Crowe) Sian Maddock (Monahan) Nina Kessler (Neoman) Helen Smith Claire Moisson (Appleton) Gemma Knight Iselin Theien (Andreassen) Ruth Murray (Brown) Claerwen Patterson (Simmonds) Lana Wood Sarah Powell (Hotson) Kathryn Percival (Kent) Rhian Woods Kirsty Thomson Baljit Rai Elizabeth Wootten Catrin Williams Catherine Rudd (Elliott) Heather Williams Joanna Wallis (Williams) 1995 Annabel Wright (James) Tori Widdowson Chloe Ansell Lucy Barrass (Hetherington) 1991 1993 Eleanor Blagbrough Linara Bartkuviene Triona Adams Joanna Dodd Jo Beattie Azrina Aziz Susie Geddes (Hendy) Eleanor Booth (Gillam) Sonya Di Giorgio (Lipczynska) Matilde Hahn

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Ankur Keswani (Gandhi) Caroline Greenlee Yee Vonne Khoo Frauke Lachenmann Emma Gubisch (Green) Thor Maalouf Tamsin Lishman Maryam Khan Jessica Martell Negin Minakaran Elham Khanifar Annette Mutschler-Siebert Laura Mylet (Tidbury) Sophia McDougall Beck Nicholson (Shellard) Melissa Payne (Bough) Dorothy Newman Becca Pitcaithly (Hayes) Elizabeth Robinson (Hancock) Sally Onions Natalia Shunmugan Lynn Robson Louise Perry (Jones) Fiona Smith (Worrall) Katherine Terrell Lucy Pink (French) Lisa VanderWeele (Crawford) Alison Wallis (Marsh) Tamsin Ross Browne Katherine Wheatley Charlotte Walton Anne Schmidt (Jandrell) Sarah Windrum (Davison) Helen Shute 1996 Jana Siber (Englichova) 2000 Emma-Jane Adamson (Seddon) Jessica White (Harrison) Ambikai Balasundaram Clare Armstrong (Iliffe) Barbara Barnett Claire Barrett (Wenham) 1998 Margaret Johnston Myriam Birch (Benrhaiem) Rachel Abbott Sarah Lambert (Snelgrove) Sohini Brandon-King Sonya Adams Lisa Lernborg (Sengupta) Helen Bailey Sophie Leski (Sperlich) Harriett Bremner (Gold) Clara Choi Jo Livesey (Budd) Lucy Cathrow Liz Coombes (Chare) Shonali Routray Bronwen Corby (Riordan) Liana Coyne Henriette Spyra Sherry du Chayla (Nursey) Danielle Cunningham Hannah Stoneham (McSorley) Anna Giorgi Rebecca Edwards (Emery) Bertie Thomson (Whitter) Emma Kedgley Angela Gray Kai Lew Selma Harb (Tibi) 2001 Daisy Lisemore (Quinn) Rosie Hyde (Budden) Jennifer Adam-Hau Petra Lukacik Lizzie Kimber Henrietta Aitken Caroline Mylward Sarah Larcombe (Swindley) Kate Day Amy Norton Janet Lovett (Banham) Rebecca Flanagan Catriona Scott Susan Mantle Ellen James Julia Sherriff Karen McCallion Sally Koo Bernice Tang Katie Page (Thomas) Anna Mohr-Pietsch Elaine Teo Mosimann Charlotte Smith (Moore-Bick) Ruth Nunn (Ward) Emma Watford (Wilkinson) Abigail Vaughan (Coates) Sarah Rees (Easton) Sophie Weatherley (Kelly) Katy Stevenson (Mahood) Isabel Zervos 1999 Lizi Adams 2002 1997 Megan Alcauskas (Patrick) Elizabeth Bonapfel Tasha Alden Leanne Alexander Izzie Jamal Carina Ancell Julia Barron (Kendrick) Lauren McGregor (Whitmore) Jane Blumer Kavita Choitram Lucy Meakin Helen Bruce (Thomas) Annie Chou Morven Mills (Porteous) Katarina Burnett (Rosolankova) Kerry Clayton (Gardner) Jess Monaghan Sally Collins Laura Edwards (Wilkins) Emily Price Ruth Cropper (Hosking) Catherine Gough Jennifer Redfearn Eve Dewsnap Susanne Grosse Miriam Rodgers Abi Fagborun Bennett Luisa Huaccho Huatuco Faye Shonfeld

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Ailsa Terry (Latham) 2006 Emily Mayne Susan Birch-Webb Alice Mbewe-Mvula 2003 Jennifer Burgess Nick Pierce Akari Atoyama-Little Becci Burton Phil Robinson Nicola Ayton Clare Chen Jeanne Ryan Sarah Bell (Jones) Laetitia Chernanko (Gunton) Eric Schneider Sophie Brighouse Jones Sarah Husain Gemma Dickinson Esther Kim 2009 Jo Joyce Naomi Lecomte Danielle Begg Sandra Liu Yu-Hsiu Liao Jen Booth Tamsin Mehew Chesca Lord Yousuf Chughtai Danielle Thom Anna Mertens Zoe Conn Leen Van Broeck Fran Nagle Lia Costiner Annemarie Walker (Wait) Ellena Rae Quentin Cregan Kathy Xu Katherine Rollo Josh Deery Xiu Li Sim Rosie Falconer 2004 Anita Tofts Michael Ferguson Lindsey Cullen Ciara Walker Sarah Geraghty Miranda Delaitre (Dawkins) Matilda Williams (Lane) Jon Hanks Annwen Evans Bates Sarah Hewett Christie Genochio 2007 Meyrick Hockly Ali Gibson Polly Akhurst James Illingworth Kirsten Hunter Nicola Clark Luke Jew Emily Kerr Maria Gwynn Djordje Kiene-Maksimovic Kelly-Beth Lawman Zoe Hoster Jessica Lee Liz Massie (Challis) Sumana Hussain Lizzie Moore Hannah Widdop (Williams) Laura Pereira Marcus-Alexander Neil Fran Woodcock Clare Reynolds Chloe Orland Taya Smith James Phillips 2005 Kelly Stanley Erin Ranue Charlotte Aldworth Jablanka Uzelac Andrew Renuart Natasha Attipoe (Jackson) Rebecca Whitmore (Hargraves) Claire Sargent Olivia Bailey Qing Nan Zhao Hasan Sari Daisy Dunn Alastair Shipman Jana Funke 2008 Vincent Slater Jay Gilbert Rakesh Ankit Chris Spicer Ada Grabowska-Zhang Alex Bates Mark Stevenson Kristina Gren Felix Chow-Kambitsch Jonathan Surr Claire Hunter (McGough) Alvar Closas Farriol Rosanna Thomson Jessica Jacoby Andrea Dolcetti Caroline Thurston Elsa Pollard Anna Hirsch-Holland James Tierney Mhairhi Pontin Henry Hope Daria Ukhova Emma Robinson Margaret James Amol Verma Liv Robinson Will Janse van Rensburg Ioanna Zafeiri Sarah Trueman Xingyan Jin Jens Ziska Sarah Wride Alice Kent Denise Xifara Eelke Kraak 2010 Ben Lindley Josh Abbott-Scott

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David Alexander Tom Green Yukun Liu Hirrah Anwar Giulia Monducci Mpho Makola Sina Bergmann (Drink) Heloise Robinson Nav Nagra Harry Browne Nafisa Sharif Daniel Quetschlich Anders Friden Sarah Trolley Trishna Raj Angela Howard (Wu) Felix Richter Tonya Kocharova 2015 Alex Saad Bernard Martin Henriette Arndt Cecilia Tosciri Thom Russell Bartosz Bartmanski Alvaro Vinals Guitart Rachel Scoffield Michele Bianconi Florence Walker Anna Chamberlain Yinghong Wang 2011 Bernard Chu Ghozlane Yahiaoui Colleen Curran Matt Coker Callyane Desroches Giovanna Di Martino 2017 Alice Holohan Jack Doyle Nicolas Arning Andrew Jenkins Hannah Dury Giacomo Bertuzzi Erik Lee Mara Gold Gaurav Bhole Grace Mwaura Tessa Greenhalgh Lausdeus Chiegboka Daniel Sawyer Rachael Griffiths Benjamin Danet Sarah Grunnah Jan Eijking 2012 Christina Heroven Piyush Gandhi Demelza Abbott-Scott Reece Jacques Aaron Gluck-Thaler Sabrina Gleeson Claudius Kocher Josh Goldstein Ren Kang Coco Laurin David Grainger Sean Lim Susan Leung Wahdae-Mai Harmon Sissi Penttila Andrew Marotta Elise Heslinga Michael Poolton Maxence Mayrand Josh Hitt Georgina Speller Elliot Nelson Anna James-Bott Amy Orben Francesca Kaes 2013 Frank Penkava Dearbhla Kelly Clare Bycroft Anna-Maria Ramezanzadeh Patrick Kidger Ryan Christ Kirsty Sawtell Andrea Klaric Henry Cosh Emilia Skirmuntt Olivia Klevorn Georgie Daniell Andreas Sojmark Liz Kullmann Noel Duan Ross Upton Brigid Leung Cristal Garcia Amy Lim Chee Hu 2016 Timothy Lo Charlotte Koolstra Kristina Aertker Ciaran Lunt Tom Lettice Joel Baldwin Pablo Martin-Baniandres Helena Loutas-Paraskeva Daliso Banda Iain McGurgan Cody McCoy Paola Barbagallo Mina Moniri Pietro Romanazzi Antoine de Gombert Nicholas Moroz Eerik Toom Naveed Dogar Toby Newberry Julia Heitmann Nuzha Nuseibeh 2014 Francis Hounkpe Jonathan Packham Ahmed Amarouch Alice Kelly Christian Peters Gerardo Ceron Martinez Thomas Layton Sasha Rasmussen James Galvin Rosie Little Harry Reynolds

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Friends of College and Duncan Coneybeare Ruby Haynes members of the SCR Gaynor Coules Wendi Haynes David Acheson Adrienne Cox Geoffrey Hoguet Kathy Ackley Leo Criep David Holder Adeyinka Adenekan Michael Crump Janet Howarth Eugene Adogla Paul Curtis Hayward Ian Howell Abena Agyeman Carmen and Glyn Davies Janet Huskinson AIG Mike Davies Eyitemi Igbe Diane Alimena Amanda and Tony Davis Cicely Jaggard Vivienne Al-Kawari Diana Dejonquiers David Jago Carlos Alonso Nick Delfas Mark Jenner Peter Alsop John Dellar Pamela Jerham Elizabeth Aracic Moya Denman Sarah Jobbins Rose Asare Alan Dorey Jennifer Johnson Adam Baillie Graham Dow Roy Jones Barbara Pym Society Ann Dowker Audrone Jurkenaite-Epih Luisa Barnes Alex Drace-Francis Nneka Kanu Jeanette Beer Alex Drong Mustapha Karkouti Beverly Bell Gordon Duff Bruce Kelley Iona Bennion Roberts Wayne Earle Maoliosa Kelly Adrienne Benson Lynden Easton Martin Kemp Chantal Bergé Melissa Edmundson James Ker Franklin Berman Ariela Emery Trish Kilpatrick Peter Bird Judith English Richard Lamb Vicki Bloom Timothy Evans Helen Lange Elizabeth Boardman Faber Music Barbara Levick Geoffrey Bond Christopher Fanner Fritz and Nancy Levy Abigail Bosanko Ian Farr Graham Linacre Hemlata Bountra Zara Fleming Elizabeth Llewellyn-Smith Michele Bourdeau Joanna Foster Michael Llewellyn-Smith David Bower David and Patricia Frampton George Lloyd-Roberts James Bradley Helen Fraser Geoffrey Locke Verity Brown Zach Fuchs Heather Locke Laurel Browne Frank Gargent Nancy Macknight Chris Brown-Humes Isaac and Rebecca Ghansah Ann MacMillan Deirdre Bryan-Brown Panagiota Giannakoura Stephen Marmon Robin and Gill Butler Bette Gray-Fow Rita Marowitz Bryan Cartledge Sarah Green Elizabeth Martin Charitable Giving Hazel Grinyer* Mary Marwil Adrian Chichester Diana Gulland Ann Mason Don Chow Nick Guthrie Bruce McCoy Jenny Claxton Claire Gwenlan Kate McLuskie Bruce Claxton Janice Halsey Joe Mela Wendy Clent Brian Hands Jane Mellanby Eric Cliffe Val Hanrahan Anna Minta Akakpo John Climax Ann and Alan Hargreaves Kofi Minta Combined Jewish Robin Hart Moses Minta Philanthropies Paul Hatt Victoria Minta

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Daniel Modes Michael Skinner Lucia Zedner Andrea Mondino Peter Smart Marco Zhang Tim Morrison Leslie Smith Qian Zhu David Mungall Peter Snow Kathleen Murrell Christopher Solomon Ruth Namuyinga Frankie Solomon Donations to the Library and NCVO Trust Meggi Stewart Archives were received from Mary and Harold Ned Carole Stone Toni Adejuyigbe Christina Nelson Peter Stutfield Anita Avramides Stephen Nelson Julie Summers Barbara Pym Society Lucia Nixon Dorene Swanson Carolina Bax Tim Noone Helen Swift Arianne Camacho Peter Norman Ania Szmuksta Chiara Campioni Sarah Norman Martha Szydlowski David Cheifetz Jean Nunn-Price Justin Tackett Amanda Cooper-Sarkar Celia Nyamweru Nicolai Tangen Edith Coulton Rebecca Obeng Grant Tapsell Chris Cowley Caroline Okorie Peter Taylor Ann Dowker Josephine Omobhude Thomas Taylor Elsa Drummond Tim Parker Tony and Mary Taylor Deborah Fisher Mark Pellew Vanda Taylor Delwen Foster Martin Perkins Jeremy and Estela Thorp Josie Jaffrey Nick Perry Bill Tollett Luke Jew Pfizer Foundation Marsha Touchstone Eric LeGresley Simon Pilcher Bronwyn Travers Emily Maine Alexis Pogorelskin Judith Unwin Matthew Parrott John Pollack Monica Unwin PD James Fund Rory Pope Evelien van der Werf Daniel Sawyer Ruth Rees Elizabeth and Graeme Wake Hannah Smith Adrienne Regan Keith Warboys Sufi Trust Rowenna Reid Sarah Watkinson Anne Summers David Reynard Alan Wedgwood Julie Summers Janet Richards Westmount Trust Risa Tan Paul Richards John Weston Ruth Thatcher John Riddell Margaret White Margaret Roake Roger Williams Mary and Ian Roger Rory Williams Dan Rose Sheila Williams Sophia Russell Karina Williamson (McIntosh) Christine Ryrie Michael Wilson Catherine Schenk Marie Winckler Eileen Schlee Hillier Wise Julia Schnabel Anita Woodcock Richard Scoffield Sadie Wykeham Carey Scott Julia Yeomans Tom and Margaret Sharp James Youngs Azar Shirazi Dimitris Zafeiris Celia Sisam Betty Zausner

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