FOR KEELE PEOPLE : past and present issue : one : May 2006 studying, socialising sixties’and style wE catch uP wIth three of keele’S ‘bRain bunnies’ INSIDE : Celebrating 40 years of the Chapel : An ‘all-Keele’ wedding : Keele people going ‘out of their way’ to help others : What happened to…? keele:people keele:welcOmE offers contents what’S KEEP in tOuch Welcome inside… If you want to keep up to date on the goings- It is a moderated list – all messages are read by It is my great pleasure to introduce you to the first on at Keele but don’t want to wait for the next a member of the alumni Office team before 4 Every Little helps – a look magazine, sign up for our electronic alumni being posted to the list. this means you won’t edition of our new magazine forever:keele, which is at Keele’s fundraising projects mailing lists. be flooded by spam, and we also try to find lost friends from our database before posting to the More than 4,300 former Keelites are already being sent to 40,000 former students and members 5 building Keele’s Future – list. For this reason there may be some delay in Multi-million pound subscribed to alumni-l, which is used by the messages appearing. of staff around the world. alumni Office team for announcements, news expansion plans and other interesting information. It can also be the second is an unmoderated mailing list called his magazine is the first hard copy publication produced by used by alumni to share their news or look for alumni-chat. this is designed for free discussion of the alumni office for several years, and we hope you will enjoy friends from their Keele days, for example. days at Keele, personalities, bars, demos, whatever catching up with the University and your fellow ex-students, you like! 8-9 t as well as keeping in touch with us electronically. If you would like to join either or both lists, send a Inside you will find a look forward to Keele’s major plans for expansion celebrating message to Hannah Crush ([email protected]) and a look back at the Chapel as it celebrates its 40th anniversary, as well 40 years of If you have subscribed but you giving your name, name when at Keele if different, the chapel are in doubt whether your mail as profiles of alumni and news from the University. is getting through to you, then years at Keele, subject(s), postal address and i: contact hannah crush and we telephone number. this information will be used these are exciting times for Keele, with an opportunity to open up a further 10-11 will check when you should to identify subscribers, prevent the mailing lists 70 acres of the site, which has provided the opportunity to think about last have had a message. being abused by non-alumni and to update the the University’s long-term development. the vision is that Keele should back in alumni office database. be “the ultimate campus university for the middle of the 21st Century”, the summer just as it was the template for other campus universities in the middle of of 1966 – the 20th Century. Keele’s model students as well as developing on the new part of the site, we are also planning to restore the University’s 617-acre campus and historic estate. However, the Heritage, Lakes and Valley project is not simply a restoration project, but 12-13 Out of africa – aims to assist with the maintenance, improvement and development of african adventures offers Keele’s woodland, parkland, gardens and heritage features to make them suitable for contemporary use. 15 a Real “Dead-Ringer” for We are not just developing our campus – we are extending our range of Love – Keele wedding celebrations for aLumni courses too. With professor richard Hays now at its head, Keele’s medical school is going from strength to strength, and recruitment is now under 16-17 way for the new Osteopathy course. approval has also been granted for International news and events Keele management centre @ Keele university Save up to 70% on the new Keele University school of pharmacy to accept students and the resting in the rural setting of Keele village is Keele Management magazine subscriptions! University has been inundated with applications. We have been delighted by 18-21 Centre; a self-contained facility incorporating 41 bedrooms, 12 alumni of Keele University can take the enthusiastic support of local employers, which has enabled us to offer what happened to...? meeting rooms, and the Hawthorns restaurant. this year-round advantage of the lowest prices available one of the strongest programmes of clinical placements in the country. venue can host anything from small board meetings to lectures for on subscriptions to magazines such as We are glad to welcome our alumni back to the campus, whether it is for up to 150 delegates in its various, well equipped training rooms. the economist, time, newsweek, Vogue, a special event – such as a reunion, public lecture or poetry reading – or national Geographic, and many more. • 41 bedrooms of which 39 are en suite • all en suite bedrooms have just a visit, and hope that this magazine will remind you of happy years alumni Office spent here at Keele. Keele University, Keele, staffordshire ST5 5BG television and tea/coffee making facilities, towels and toiletries. Visit http://www.alumni-subscriptions. Fax: 01782 584422 Iron and ironing boards are available on request • all standard co.uk/ for more information Web: www.keele.ac.uk/depts/uso/alumni rooms are equipped with washbasin and share bathroom facilities alumni Officer/Editor,forever:keele • Luggage storage areas • Free car parking Save money on hotel breaks! Hannah Crush telephone: 01782 583857, email: [email protected] Bed & Breakfast £37.50 pp pn (inc VAT) Keele alumni can save money with Crowne plaza, Holiday Inn and express By Holiday International alumni Officer John easom Inn hotels. Offers change regularly – see telephone: 00 44 (0) 1782 583370 www.ichotelsgroup.com/exclusive for email: [email protected] For more information please call 01782 635828 more information. Janet Finch i: or visit www.keele-conference.com Vice Chancellor alumni administrator Janet Caruso telephone: 01782 583856 email: [email protected] The views expressed in forever:keele are not necessarily those of the editor, alumni or Keele University. 2 forever:keele | issue : one : May 2006 issue : one : May 2006 | forever:keele keele:NEwS keele:NEwS fundraising development from THE EDItOR The provision of student bursaries and the Welcome to the first edition of your new magazine restoration of Keele’s historic campus are two forever:keele, bringing you the latest news from of the fundraising projects in which alumni can Keele University and from your fellow alumni. We get involved. plan to publish a magazine every year in the spring, While targets of £1.3 million and £2.1 million with an online newsletter in the autumn. elps respectively have been set, the University is not the alumni office team has been in position only interested in gathering financial support. for a year now and we have been enjoying h Whether you can contribute time or money, getting to know as many of you as possible. In fundraising officer Leia Bassett would be glad fact, we had such a response from our last to hear from you. mailing that we received far too much news to print in this magazine – please see the website at “Charitable donations have always played a large part www.keele.ac.uk/depts/uso/alumni to find in contributing to the success of Keele University,” out what all your old friends are doing now, and she says, “and our alumni are key to the success return the update form to keep us posted on little of fundraising here – not just in terms of financial all your news. contribution, but in terms of volunteering, letters eele has unveiled plans for a multi- of support, and advice and guidance from within million pound expansion of the “We are firm in We hope you enjoy this magazine – remember y their own fields of expertise. to stay in touch and come back to visit when you University and Science Park, bringing can. We look forward to hearing from you! “Whether you feel able to give a donation, would jobs and investment to the area and our belief that improving the student experience. er K like to leave a legacy to the University, or act as a Hannah Crush volunteer, we would love to hear from you.” the development of the 70-acre ‘phase 3’ site the development Editor, forever:keele/Alumni Officer the first major fundraising project, the innovative to the east of the University aims to bring Ev Vice Chancellor’s bursaries will be available to £60 million of investment and 1,000 jobs to of the ‘Phase ’ all students wishing to study at Keele. the 50 north staffordshire, with staff and student bursaries, of £4,000 per year for three years of accommodation and buildings for academic and site will help in study, will be awarded on the basis of academic commercial use planned for the site. around 38 excellence, regardless of background. acres will be for development and 32 acres for roads, services, open space and landscaping. the continuing Other bursaries include support for medical students, local students from rural communities, Plansfor expansion of the University and Science Park site infrastructure work – likely to be funded development ethnic minority students, foundation year students a leaflet ‘Plans for a 21st century by regional development agency advantage and those wishing to study abroad.