St Hugh's College, Oxford - Chronicle 1977-1978

ST. HUGH'S COLLEGE

CHRONICLE 1977-78

ST. HUGH'S COLLEGE

CHRONICLE 1977-1978 Number so

FO UNDRESS ELIZABETH WORDSWORTH BENEFACTORS CLARA EVELYN MORDAN EDWARD GAY ELIZA MARY THOMAS CHARLES SELWYN AWDRY PHILIP MAURICE DENEKE MARY GRAY ALLEN JOHN GAMBLE MARY MONICA CUNLIFFE WILLS EVELYN MARTINENGO CESARESCO CATHERINE YATES ELSIE THEODORA BAZELEY ERNEST CASSEL HILDA MARY VIRTUE-TEBBS ISOBEL STEWART TOD ASPIN LOTTIE RHONA ARBUTHNOT-LANE CECILIA MARY ADY CATHERINE FULFORD WILLIAM, VISCOUNT NUFFIELD DOROTHY MAY LYDDON RIPPON MARJORIE FOWLE THEODORA MARION ELIZABETH EVANS EDITH MARION WATSON KATHLEEN EMILY BABBS MARY ETHEL SEATON ANNIE HADFIELD

Visitor THE RIGHT REVD. LORD RAMSEY OF CANTERBURY, HON. D.C.L.

Principal MABEL RACHEL TRICKETT, M.A.

Fellows MADGE GERTRUDE ADAM, M.A., D.PHIL., F.R.A.S.,

Senior Research Fellow,

University Lecturer in Astronomy Nuffield Fellow, Tutor in Modern History, Special University Lecturer in Modern History PAMELA OLIVE ELIZABETH GRADON, M.A. (PH.D. LOND.), Official Fellow, Lecturer in English Language, University Lecturer in Medieval English SUSAN MERIEL WOOD (MRS.), B.LITT., M.A., F.R.HIST.S., Official Fellow, Tutor in Modern History, University Lecturer MARJORIE MARY SWEETING, M.A. (M.A., PH.D. CANTAB.), Official Fellow, Tutor in Geography, University Reader in Geography MARGARET JACOBS, B.LITT., M.A., Official Fellow, Tutor and Cassel Lecturer in German, University Lecturer, Vice-Principal VERA JOYCE DANIEL, M.A. (B.A., PH.D. LOND.), Official Fellow, Tutor in French, University Lecturer JOYCELYNE GLEDHILL RUSSELL (MRS.), M.A., D.PHIL., F.R.HIST.S., Official Fellow, Librarian, Tutor in Modern History, University Lecturer MARY RANDLE LUNT, M.A., D.PHIL., Official Fellow, Tutor in Biochemistry, University Lecturer, Senior Tutor, Custos Hortulorum THEODORA CONSTANCE COOPER, M.A. M.A. CANTAB.), Official Fellow, Tutor in Economics, University Lecturer RACHEL FRANCES WALL, M.A. B.A. MANC., M.A. CANTAB.), Additional Fellow, University Lecturer AVRIL GILCHRIST BRUTEN, M.A. B.A. BIRM., PH.D. CANTAB.), Official Fellow, Tutor in English Language and Medieval Literature, University Lecturer AUDREY JOAN COLSON (MRS.), B.LITT., M.A., D.PHIL., Additional Fellow, University Lecturer in Ethnology GILLIAN ANNE GEHRING (MRS.), M.A., D.PHIL. (B.SC. MANC.), Official Fellow, Tutor in Physics, University Lecturer MARY LUNN (MRS.), M.A., D.PHIL., Official Fellow, Tutor in Mathematics, University Lecturer JENNIFER CLARE GREEN (MRS.), M.A., D.PHIL., Official Fellow, Tutor in Chemistry GILLIAN ROMNEY, B.PHIL., M.A., Official Fellow, Tutor in Philosophy, University Lecturer MARGARET ROSARY HASWELL, B.LITT., M.A., Additional Fellow, University Lecturer in Agricultural Economics GLENYS LILIAN LUKE, M.A., D.PHIL. B.A. WESTERN AUSTRALIA), Official Fellow, Tutor in Mathematics, University Lecturer BETTY KEMP, M.A. B.A. MANC.), F.S.A., F.R.HIST.S.,

LAETITIA PARVIN ERNA EDWARDS (MRS.), M.A. M.A. CANTAB., PH.D. LOND.),

Official Fellow, Tutor in Classics, University Lecturer JULIA ELIZABETH ANNAS, M.A. (PH.D. HARVARD), Official

Fellow, Tutor in

Philosophy, University Lecturer, Dean 3

MARILYN SPEERS BUTLER (MRS.), M.A., D.PHIL.,

Official Fellow and Tutor in

English Literature, University Lecturer JOAN MARY NICHOLSON MILNE, O.B.E., M.A., HON. F.R.I.B.A. M.A. CANTAB.),

Senior Bursar HELEN MARY WARNOCK (MRS.), B.PHIL., M.A., Senior Research Fellow ELIZABETH ANN SMART (MRS.), B.C.L., M.A., Probationary Fellow and Tutor

in

Jurisprudence JOHN CRAVEN WILKINSON, M.A., D.PHIL.,

Probationary Fellow and Tutor in

Geography JOHN FREDERICK MORRIS, M.A. (B.SC., M.B., CH.B., M.D. BRISTOL),

Probationary

Fellow and Tutor in Medicine REBECCA POSNER (MRS.), M.A., D.PHIL.,

Professorial Fellow, Professor of

Romance Languages Honorary Fellows IDA CAROLINE MANN, C.B.E., M.A. (D.SC. LOND.), F.R.C.S. DAME MARY LUCY CARTWRIGHT, D.B.E., M.A., D.PHIL., HON. D.SC. (M.A., D.SC. CANTAB.; HON. LL.D. EDIN.; HON. D.S.C. LEEDS, HULL, AND WALES), F.R.S., COMMANDER OF THE ORDER OF THE DANNEBROG DAME MARGERY FREDA PERHAM, D.C.M.G., C.B.E., M.A., D.LITT. (HON. LL.D. ST. ANDREWS; HON. LITT.D. CANTAB.; HON. D.LITT. SOUTHAMPTON, LONDON, AND BIRMINGHAM), F.B.A. EVELYN EMMA STEFANOS PROCTER, M.A., CHEVALIER DE LA IIGION D'HONNEUR DAME PEGGY ASHCROFT, D.B.E., HON. D.LITT. DOROTHY STUART RUSSELL (Professor Emeritus), M.A. M.D. LOND.; D.SC. CANTAB.; HON. LL.D. GLASGOW; HON. D.SC. MCGILL), F.R.C.P. THE RIGHT HON. MRS. BARBARA CASTLE, P.C., M.P., B.A. LADY WOLFSON THE HON. MRS. MIRIAM LANE, HON. D.SC. PROFESSOR JOAN MERVYN HUSSEY, B.LITT., M.A. (PH.D. LOND.), F.S.A. PROFESSOR KATHLEEN HAZEL COBURN, B.LITT. M.A. TORONTO; LL.D. QUEEN'S UNIV. KINGSTON; D.LITT. TRENT; D.H.L. HAVERFORD), F.R.S. CANADA PROFESSOR AGNES HEADLAM-MORLEY, B.LITT., M.A. CHRISTINE MARY SNOW (MRS.), B.SC., M.A. PROFESSOR ALISON ANNA BOWIE FAIRLIE, M.A., D.PHIL. PROFESSOR GERTRUDE ELIZABETH MARGARET ANSCOMBE, M.A., D.PHIL. HELEN SUZMAN (MRS.), HON. D.C.L. (B.COM. WITWATERSRAND), Member of

House of Assembly of Republic of South Africa DAME KATHLEEN MARY KENYON, D.B.E., M.A., D.LITT. (D.LIT. LOND.; HON. D.LITT. EXON.), F.B.A., F.S.A.

Emeritus Fellows ELIZABETH ANNIE FRANCIS, M.A. M.A. LOND.) OLGA DELFINA BICKLEY, M.A. (DOTTORE IN LETTERE, GENOA) GERTRUDE THORNEYCROFT, M.A. B.A. BIRM.) IDA WINIFRED BUSBRIDGE, M.A., D.PHIL., D.SC. (M.SC. LOND.) DOROTHEA HELEN FORBES GRAY, O.B.E., M.A., F.S.A., Soc. ab.

Germ. AGNES PRISCILLA WELLS, M.A. B.A. LOND.)

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ep. Inst. Arch.

Rhodes Visiting Fellow KATHLEEN MILDRED BURK, M.A., D.PHIL. B.A. BERKELEY)

Elizabeth Wordsworth Junior Research Fellow MARGARET ELIZABETH TUCKER (MRS.), M.A.

I.B.M. Junior Research Fellow PENELOPE ANN CHALONER, B.A. (PH.D. CANTAB.)

Joanna Randall Maclver Junior Research Fellowship SYLVIA FERINO (UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA) M.A. BRYN MAWR)

Martinego Cesaresco Research Scholar DONATELLA DE FERRA HEBER (MRS.) (DIPLOMA LICEO TRIESTE) B.A. MOUNT HOLYOKE)

Lecturers BARBARA MARY LEVICK, M.A., D.PHIL., Lecturer in Ancient History GILLIAN MARY COHEN (MRS.), M.A., D.PHIL. M.A. EDIN.), Lecturer in Psychology BRIAN CRAYFORD LOUGHMAN, M.A. (PH.D. CANTAB.; B.SC. WALES), Lecturer in

Plant Sciences

EDITH MICHELE MCMORRAN (MRS.), B.LITT. (LICENCE Es LETTRES, DIPLOME D'ATUDES SUPgRIEURES, UNIVERSITE DE PARIS, SORBONNE), Lecturer in French PHILIP ANTHONY LLOYD-BOSTOCK, M.A., Lecturer in Spanish DOROTHY ANN WORDSWORTH (MRS.), B.PHIL., M.A., Lecturer in English Litera-

ture

THE REVD. ANTHONY ERNEST HARVEY, B.A., Lecturer in Theology JANET PATRICIA MORGAN, M.A., D.PHIL. M.A. SUSSEX), Lecturer in Politics HENRY CHALMERS BENNET-CLARK, M.A. (B.SC. LOND., PH.D. CANTAB.), Lecturer

in Zoology

JOHN CHARLES CLARKE, M.A., D.PHIL., Lecturer in History FRANCES ALLEYNE STREET B.A. CANTAB., M.A. COLORADO), Lecturer in JANE ALISON GLOVER, M.A., D.PHIL., Lecturer in Music DONALD GORDON FRASER, M.A., D.PHIL. (B.SC. EDINBURGH), Lecturer ANDREW NORMAN WILSON, M.A., Lecturer in English

Geography in Geology

College Secretary MISS G. A. EASTERBROOK

Domestic Bursar

College Matron

MISS E. ROTHWELL

MISS E. FOX

Chaplain

Principal's Secretary

THE REVD. R. LLOYD

MRS. M. NAHMAD M.A. LOND.)

Finance Officer MRS. C. GARNER

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PRINCIPAL'S REPORT T the end of April 1977 Miss Wells, who had been a Fellow of the College for 26 years, resigned as Treasurer. She was immediately elected A to an Emeritus Fellowship. We regret her loss, but wish her very well in her new home in Dove House Close, Upper Wolvercote. The College mourned the loss on 14 July of Dame Joan Evans, its foremost benefactor, and an Honorary Fellow since 1936. In January 1978 the Queen in Council gave her consent to a change in College Statutes which opens all College offices and Fellowships to men. Dr. Morris and Mr. Wilkinson are the first male Fellows of the College to be appointed. In the first year of opening Rhodes Scholarships to women the College admitted two scholars, Miss N. L. Coiner and Miss L. J. Garwin. The occasion was marked by the presentation of a gift of ÂŁ50,000 to each of the women's colleges from the Rhodes Trust. In the Library the old stockroom was turned into a new Science Reading Room with the help of a grant of ÂŁ25,000 from the E.P.A. Cephalosporin Fund and gifts from Old Students. It is to be opened by Professor E. P. Abraham on 14 February 1978, and named after him. During the year Mr. Cox and Mrs. Edbury resigned their posts. Mr. Ingram's Lecturership terminated at the end of Trinity Term 1977. Appointments made during the year were, Tutorial Fellowships: Mrs. Smart, Jurisprudence; Mr. Wilkinson, Geography; Dr. J. Morris, Medicine; Mrs. Smart and Mr. Wilkinson were formerly Lecturers of the College. Lecturer in French, Mrs. McMorran; Retaining Fee Lecturers: Mr. Fraser, Geology; Mr. A. N. Wilson, English; Sub-Librarian, Mrs. Northover ; Rhode s Visiting Fellow, Miss K. Burk; Joanna Randall-Maclver Junior Research Fellow, Miss S. Ferino; Moberly Senior Scholar, Miss J. Pappworth; Yates Senior Scholar, Miss C. G. Hall; Martinengo-Cesaresco Research Scholar, Mrs. de Ferra Heber. Major T. I. Hardie (Mathematics), Cheltenham Ladies College, was Schoolmaster Student in Hilary Term 1977; Miss J. Ramshaw (Classics), Bedlington High School, Northumberland, was Fanny Seaton Schoolmistress Student in Trinity Term 1977. R.T.

DEGREES, 1977 D.M. Mrs. O'Neill (P. Ripley) B.M. S. F. Bennett, H. F. Caudwell, M. H. Jordison, R. A. L. Thornhill D.Phil. K. M. Burk, H. S. Goldie, A. K. Henry, A. S. Jameson, Mrs. Mahtab (R. Idris), V. A. Wilson B.Phil. E. A. Ballard, J. M. Gonzalez, 0. Palagia B.Litt. Mrs. Born (A. R. Cookes), M. J. Clayton, Mrs. de Roche (C. D. Beck), A. Gould M.Sc. J. Curnow, S. J. Sworn 6

M.A. Mrs. Adams (R. S. Kershaw), E. A. Ballard, Mrs. Barton (M. Burns), Mrs. Bird (S. C. Squibb), Mrs. Bogle (S. M. Keene), E. R. Brown, K. M. Burk, Mrs. Burrow (E. Fairless), R. F. Chadwick, P. A. Chaloner, Mrs. Clinton (E. J. Verdon-Smith), J. A. Coates, Mrs. Cooper (S. C. Baynes), Mrs. Dodd (N. J. Taylor), J. A. Elliott, T. J. Engel, Mrs. Fyans (M. J. Ashworth), M. C. Gichard, P. C. Green, Mrs. Hands (M. E. Sells), Mrs. Hooper (C. R. Hopkinson), B. Hughes, Mrs. Jones (M. R. Cameron), A. E. Lambert, S. E. Letts, Mrs. Mathur (H. Cleverley), Mrs. Maxwell (E. J. J. Meynard), E. A. Moignard, M. E. J. Moir, R. Moorhouse, Mrs. Morton (J. Farley), Mrs. Mutterkumaru (A. E. Tutton), Mrs. Nesbitt (L. M. Campbell), S. P. North, J. O'Brien, Mrs. Payne (M. A. Moore), Mrs. Pirie (S. E. B. White), H. A. Pope, Mrs. Rickman (J. Herman), Mrs. Rosewell (B. C. Mills), A. M. Rowerlerson, Mrs. Rushbrook (H. J. Hine), Mrs. Smyth (J. D. Livingstone), Mrs. Spiers (B. Dennys), R. J. Thompson, Mrs. Van Leewen (E. C. Wolper), E. J. Wainwright, T. J. Walker, T. Welton, J. M. W. Winterbotham, Lady Wodehouse (C. L. Palmer) B.A. M. B. Acheson, Mrs. Adams (R. S. Kershaw), F. A. Aitchison, J. Allen, S. C. R. Barnes, H. S. L. Bayley, A. L. Birtwistle, T. M. Brasier, R. Broadhurst, M. A. Burwell, Mrs. Charmley (A. D. Bartlett), M. L. Chettle, S. A. Cleary, Mrs. Clinton (E. J. Verdon-Smith), J. A. Coates, A. H. Collison, H. Crabb, Mrs. Dare (J. H. Wilson), E. C. L. Davies, R. A. Davies, S. M. de G. Duke, R. Dumble, L. A. Ellery, F. M. Ewart, P. M. Foster, A. Foxon, Mrs. Fransman (C. F. Goodman), K. Garrick, E. A. Gibbs, A. M. Goldsack, Mrs. Hallett (J. Bullen), C. E. Hatch, J. A. Hazelden, Mrs. Henn-Macrae (R. C. A. Mason), J. R. Hewson, E. R. Hill, J. L. Hill, A. de B. Holdsworth, C. L. Holt, B. Hughes, L. J. Huntington, E. M. Irving, E. F. L. Ison, H. Jackson, N. A. Jackson, C. A. L. Jenks, P. A. Kingsland, H. F. Kirkby, E. L. Lafferty, F. A. Lambert, Mrs. Langtry (R. E. Giblin), S. M. Lauckner, A. Leslie, A. G. Lewis, Y. A. Luke, F. A. Luzny, T. E. Maclver, J. E. Maggs, S. J. Martin, Mrs. Massoudi (S. Vafa), E. K. Michelmore, K. K. Moon, C. M. Mooney, S. M. Mooney, M. Murtagh, R. E. M. Newell, Y. Y. Ng, Mrs. Nicholas (J. M. Taylor), S. E. Nicoll, V. A. O'Mahoney, H. M. Ousbey, J. P. Owen, M. A. Paine, J. Pappworth, Mrs. Pease (A. M. Goldman), B. A. Plastow, H. E. Pocock, S. Pritchard-Jones, H. L. Ratcliffe, V. A. M. Salisbury, M. Saunders, D. Sawkins, A. C. Shaw, E. L. Shearer, K. D. Shipp, R. E. Skett, N. G. Skrine, C. Strachan, P. J. Strong, R. E. Swan, V. Thompson, R. A. L. Thornhill, Mrs. Toon (A. S. Persram), R. B. Trinder, A. M. Turner, Mrs. Tyldesley (S. M. Christensen), D. J. Walton, V. A. Watson, A. Wilson, J. Z. Wimperis, Mrs. Wong (S. J. Bowler), Mrs. Wood (E. M. Johnson), T. M. Woodbridge, A. M. A. Woolley, J. 0. Youde

AWARDS AND PRIZES University Graduate Awards and Prizes Craven Fellowship: N. K. Mackie Senior Scholarship at Hertford College: H. F. Kirkby

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University Undergraduate Awards and Prizes Junior Heath Harrison Travelling Scholarship in French: H. H. Burson Junior Heath Harrison Travelling Scholarship in German: F. S. Dawson Charles Oldham Travelling Scholarships: J. A. Cocks, C. B. Dermot-Small,

L. M. T. Williams Proxime accessit for Marjorie, Countess of Warwick, Travelling Bursary:

J. R. Ardagh (French/German) Proxime accessit for Christopher Welch Scholarship: A. P. M. Thomas Postgraduate Awards German Academic Exchange Service Scholarship to Freiburg University for one year: H. C. Wilson Harmsworth Major Exhibition to the Middle Temple: P. M. Lucas Major State Studentships: W. L. Harris (B.A. Canterbury, Kent), N. A.

Jackson (for graduate study at Wolfson College), Y. A. Luke (for graduate study at the Courtauld Institute, London), N. K. Mackie, J. Pappworth, V. A. Watson One Year State Studentship: V. A. M. Salisbury Scottish State Studentship: S. L. Boase S.R.C. Grants: L. J. Huntington, A. G. Lewis M.R.C. Grant: A. P. M. Thomas College Awards and Prizes To a Rawnsley Studentship: Mrs. E. Taylor (Charles Univ., Prague) To the Moberley Senior Scholarship: J. Pappworth To the Yates Senior Scholarship: C. G. Hall (B.Ed. Exeter) Bursary from the Monique Fluchare Barber Fund in recognition of achieve-

ment of proxime accessit for the Countess of Warwick Travelling Bursary: J. R. Ardagh Hurry Prize: A. P. M. Thomas Elizabeth Wordsworth Essay Prize: F. C. Stott Hilary Haworth Essay Prize: 1st prize: L. A. Bones; znd prize: J. E. Howarth Special College Prizes: M. W. Gleason, S. J. Martin, V. Thompson Julia Wood Book Prize: J. A. Smart Lorna Limpus Book Prize: D. Rozycki

HONOUR EXAMINATIONS, 1977 Literae Humaniores

Class I: M. W. Gleason Class II: F. M. Ewart, A. A. George, R. C. A. Henn-Macrae Class III: A. J. Codd, R. M. Puddy Mathematics

Class I: V. Thompson Class II: V. J. Churchill, P. M. Foster, J. C. Halfpenny, C. M. Mooney, A. M. Turner, J. M. Whitby Class III: J. Bullen, A. Wilson Pass: H. S. L. Bayley 8

Natural Sciences Physics: Class II: A. G. Lewis, K. M. Lloyd Class III: S. A. Cleary, J. C. Freeman Chemistry: Part I: E. M. Irving, C. J. Meunier, S. E. Nicoll, C. Slater, P. J. Strong Part II Class II: C. N. Mason, J. M. Stedham Biochemistry: Part II: Class II: K. Garrick, P. A. Kingsland, J. H. Wilson Zoology: Class II: J. M. Cheesewright, J. R. Hewson, E. F. L. Ison, E. M. Johnson Physiological Sciences Class II: M. B. Acheson, J. Allen, S. J. Bowcock, F. J. Hampton, A. C. Shaw

Geology Class II: F. A. Aitchison, J. A. Carroll, S. Fells

Human Sciences Class II: Mrs. S. J. Bray

Experimental Psychology Class II: C. E. Hatch

Geography Class II: A. L. Birtwistle, T. M. Brasier, A. H. Collinson, E. C. L. Davies, V. M. Guest, F. A. Lambert, L. A. V. Rowe, E. E. Saunders Class III: D. L. A. Palmer

Agricultural and Forest Sciences Class II: N. G. Skrine

Botany Class I: A. P. M. Thomas

Jurisprudence Class II: M. J. Fothergill, E. R. Hill, E. K. Michelmore, V. A. M. Salisbury, R. B. Trinder

Modern History Class II: A. D. Bartlett, S. L. Boase, Y. A. Luke, R. A. Omaar, H. J. Smith, D. N. R. Waterhouse, V. A. Watson Class III: M. Greenbaum, C. R. Halsey, L. A. Moores, P. Ritter Pass: J. E. Turpin

Theology Class II: J. L. Hill, A. S. Toon, D-J. Walton, R. J. Woodward 9

English Class II: C. F. Goodman,L . C. Grant, A. de B. Holdsworth, N. A. Jackson, S. M. Jones, V. A. Luzny, H. K. Moon, R. E. Skett Class III: A. L. Harward, D. J. Rathbone

Modern Languages Class I: S. J. Martin (Ger./Fr.) Class II: A. Foxon (Fr.), E. A. Gibbs (Sp./Fr.), *G. Holland-Smith (Fr.), E. A. Lafferty (Fr./Ger.), R. E. M. Newell (Fr.)

P.P.E. Class II: C. M. Jones, C. Peel, B. A. Plastow Class III: P. J. Howe

Philosophy and Modern Languages Class II: S. M. de G. Duke

P.P.P. Class II: C. D. Lee, A. K. Wright

Oriental Studies Class III: Mrs. S. Massoudi

Music Class III: M. A. Birley, A. N. Goldman

Honour Moderations Literae Humaniores Class II: J. M. Herrod, M. E. Lowther

Jurisprudence Pass: J. E. Capaldi, P. M. Lucas, A. M. R. Ross, D. A. C. Salisbury, S. A. Topping, C-A. M. Wood

English Language and Literature Class I: S. R. Boseley, J. Marsh, M. L. Reynolds Class II: A. A. Caudrey, A. M. C. Church, C. S. M. Hauser, A. M. Hazelton, K. Jones, H. E. King, A. Molyneux, J. E. Shilling, N. E. Van der Gaag, J. E. Yale

Mathematics Class I: S. L. Prince Class II: J. E. Blackwell, J. Campbell-Cooke, S. A. Gilbert, H. J. Lock, J. G. Robb, C. S. Thomas Pass: C. M. Emerton

Mathematics and Philosophy Pass: A. J. Livesey

Physics, Mathematics, and Engineering Science Class II: R. E. Gibb, E. A. Russell, P. A. Scraton Class III: E. S. Tyson Pass: L. J. C. Tanner *Distinction in spoken French I0

Geography

Class I: R. J. G. Clarke Class II: S. Heal, F. A. Kellett, R. M. Macleod, C. A. Matthews, F. R. Nicholson, B. C. Proctor, E. A. Shafto, V. A. Shaw Class III: J. S. Holland, G. D. Oblitas Diploma Diploma in Economic Development

Mrs. Z. Russell Scholarships and Exhibitions awarded since October 1976 Scholar: CLARKE, ROSALIND JULIA GEORGINA,

Geography, Clara Evelyn Mordan

Scholar (formerly an Exhibitioner) Exhibitioners: DAVIDSON, VERONICA RUTH, Agriculture, Old Students' Exhibitioner HEALEY, MRS. JOANNA MARGERISON, English, Hodgson Exhibitioner KING, HILARY ELEANOR, English, Hodgson Exhibitioner MOLYNEUX, ANNE, English, Hodgson Exhibitioner REYNOLDS, MARGARET LOUISE, English, Hodgson Exhibitioner

MATRICULATIONS, 1977 Scholars: (Jubilee Scholar, Engineering Science), Cheltenham Ladies' College GRANT, RENA JANE (Hodgson Scholar, English), Forfar Academy Lim, HOON GEOK (Clara Evelyn Mordan, P.P.E.), Raffles Institution, Singapore NEWTON, SALLY ANN (Theodore Evans, Modern Languages), Harrogate Grammar School PEARN, ALISON MARY (Irene Shrigley, History), Dr. Challoner's High School, Little Chalfont

BLAND, SARAH ELIZABETH LLOYD

Exhibitioners: (Ethel Seaton, English), Gloucester High School for Girls BELL, SARAH ANN (Old Students', Geography), St. Paul's Girls' School REGAN, LYNNE JOY (Nuffield, Biochemistry), Roundhay School, Leeds RILEY, JUDITH MARY (Thomas Wellbank Fowle, History), The Orme Girls' School, Newcastle under Lyme ROWORTH, JEAN ELIZABETH (Thomas Wellbank Fowle, History), West Bridgford Comprehensive School, Nottingham SMITH, ANNA ELIZABETH (Ethel Seaton, English), Convent of the Sacred Heart High School, London and Isleworth Polytechnic WALLACE, SUSAN RUTH (Ethel Seaton, English), Croham Hurst School, South Croydon ANDERSON, MONICA EILEEN JOCELYN

II

Commoners: ASKWITH, ANNE (Jurisprudence), Wycombe Abbey School ATKINSON, CAROL JANE (Chemistry), Gravesend School for Girls AUDUBERT, AUGUSTA CATHERINE (Modern Languages), Oxford High

School,

G.P.D.S.T. AYLWARD, REBECCA LUCIA MARGARET

(Medicine), St. Joseph's Convent

School, Reading BACKHOUSE, ANNE KIRSTEN (History), Monmouth School for Girls BAIGENT, ELIZABETH (Geography), La Sainte Union Convent Grammar

School, Bath (Geography), Henrietta Barnett School, London and Nasson College, Springvale, Maine, U.S.A. BEEDHAM, JUDITH PAULA (History), Harrogate Grammar School BELLHOUSE, JILLIAN (Chemistry), Sherburn High School, Leeds BLACKWELL, CAROLYN SARAH (Classics), Oxford High School, G.P.D.S.T. BRADLEY, VIVIEN JUNE (Classics), Loughborough High School BREWER, ELIZABETH CATHERINE (Classics), Sydenham High School, G.P.D.S.T. BRIMBLE, HELEN JULIE (Physics), Croesyceiliog Comprehensive School, Cwmbran, Gwent BROWN, IONA MARGORIE HILARY JULIET (English), Bedales, Petersfield and St. Mary's Tutorial College, Guildford CAUDWELL, MARGARET ROSEMARY (P.P.E.), Boston High School CHETWYND-TALBOT, JENNIFER MARY (Chemistry), St. Albans High School COBOURN, CHRISTINA PATRICK (History), Randolph-Macon College, U.S.A. COINER, NANCY LEE (Theology), St. John's College, Annapolis, Maryland, U.S.A. COLWILL, JULIETTE ANNE (Theology), Plymstock Comprehensive School, Plymouth COTTRELL, MRS. KATALIN (Experimental Psychology), CROSS, ALEXANDRA (English), King Edward VI High School for Girls, Birmingham CRUNKHORN, SUSAN (Botany), Queen Elizabeth's Girls' Upper School, Mansfield DAVIES, SIAN ELIZABETH (English), Ffynone House School, Swansea DINSDALE, HILARY JANE (Chemistry), Newquay-Tretherras School, Newquay DRUMMOND, ROSEMARY ELIZABETH OSBORNE (History), Horsham High School for Girls, St. Mary's Tutorial College, Guildford DUFFY, PATRICIA ANN (Mathematics), Layton Hill Convent School, Blackpool FAWCETT, ANGELA DAWN (Classics), Northallerton Grammar School FINDLATER, JANET ELIZABETH (Geography), Lancaster Girls' Grammar School GARWIN, LAURA JUSTINE (Geology), Harvard University, U.S.A. GOMERSALL, ELIZABETH (P.P.E.), Benenden School GRATSOS, ILEANA IBY (P.P.E.), Heathfield, Berks. and Westminster Tutors HALL, JACQUELINE ANNE (English), Haberdashers' Aske's Hatch= Girls' School, London HARRISON, ELIZABETH JANE (Mathematics), Kelvin Hall Senior High School, Hull BARNES, FRANCESCA

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HARTLEY, STELLA MARGARET (History), The Salt Grammar School, Shipley HAWDON, HELEN CHRISTINE (Jurisprudence), High School of Dundee HIGHNAM, SALLY DIANA MARY (Medicine), Queensbury Upper School,

Dunstable HOWL, JULIA CAROLINE

(Agriculture and Forest Sciences), Edgbaston High

School for Girls, Birmingham HUGHES, ROSAMUND ANNE

(Zoology), Priory Grammar School for Girls,

Shrewsbury HUNTON, CAROLYN MARGARET

(P.P.E.), Merchant Taylors' School for

Girls, Liverpool JOHNS, LORNA MARIE (Geography),

Bishop Gore Senior Mixed Comprehen-

sive School, Swansea

JOHNSON, GAIL DENISE (Chemistry), Banbury Upper School JOHNSON, HELEN CHRISTINE (Agriculture and Forest Sciences),

Ramsay

Abbey School, Huntingdon JUDGE, ELISABETH ANNE

(Zoology), Addey and Stanhope School, London

KEARTON, KATHLEEN (Physics), Blackpool Collegiate School KEEN, JENNY AMANDA (Modern Languages), Queen Elizabeth's

School, Faversham and Gillingham Technical High School KEMP, CATHERINE ANNE (Mathematics), Southbrook Comprehensive School, Daventry KENDALL, FELICITY (Geography), The Perse School for Girls, Cambridge KINDERMAN, SHEILA RACHEL (Mathematics), Tunbridge Wells Girls' Grammar School LAURENCE, CHRISTINE ELIZABETH (Agriculture and Forest Sciences), Cheadle Hulme School LEWIS, SUSAN BEVERLY (Geography), Tudor Grange Girls' Grammar School and Solihull Sixth Form College LLOYD, ELINOR WYN (Classics), Howell's School, Llandaff LOMAX, SARAH GILLIAN (Mathematics), King Edward VII Upper School, Melton Mowbray LOUGH, SARAH ROSEMARY (Mathematics), Benenden School LOWE, OLIVIA ANN MARGARET (Modern Languages), Lycee de Sevres, Paris, George Watson's College, and Westminster Tutors MACGILL, ALISON MARY (History), St. George's School for Girls, Edinburgh MCLELLAN, JACQUELINE MARGARET (Modern Languages), Bury Grammar School for Girls MCSORLEY, PATRICIA (Physics), Coloma Convent Grammar School, Croydon MASON, BRENDA CATHERINE (History), Sydenham High School, G.P.D.S.T. MIDDLETON, ANNE (Mathematics), Purley High School for Girls, Coulsdon MILLER, MARGARET CHRISTINA (Classics), University of British Columbia MILWARD, PATRICIA GRACE (Modern Languages), St. George's, Hong Kong and Highworth Upper School, Ashford MITCHELL, CORINNA MARY (English), Oxford High School, G.P.D.S.T. MOBEY, MIRANDA RUTH (English), Fleetwood Grammar School MOLYNEUX, SUSAN (Modern Languages), Bay House School, Gosport MORGAN, CATHERINE ELIZABETH ANNE (Classics), Surbiton High School and Westminster Tutors 13

(Experimental Psychology), Wyggeston Girls' School, Leicester NEALE, JUDITH ELEANOR (Zoology), The Abbey School, Reading NEGUS, JONQUIL CLAIRE (Biochemistry), The Purbeck School, Wareham NEWBOLD, LORRAINE ANNE ELSIE (Jurisprudence), St. George's School, Ascot and Queen's College, W.' ORLOWSKA, ANNA HELENA (Physics), Maidstone Grammar School for Girls PALFREY, MARGARET ELIZABETH (History), Wycombe Abbey School and Westminster Tutors PITT, KATHRYN JANE LOUISE (Modern Languages), Sherborn School for Girls PLEVIN, ELIZABETH ANNE (Mathematics), Marple Hall County High School PRITCHARD-JONES, KATHRYN (Biochemistry), John Port School, Etwall RAY, DIANA EFFIE ELLIOT (Agriculture and Forest Sciences), Cheltenham Ladies' College RICKETTS, LYNN (Physics), West Kirby County Grammar School, Wirral ROSE, MARY CLARE CONELY (English), Cheltenham Ladies' College RUSSELL, ANDREA CLAIRE (Music), Chingford Senior High School SKINNER, KATHERINE ANNE (Modern Languages), New Heys Comprehensive School, Liverpool SMART, FIONA MARGARET (Music), Cheadle Hulme School SMITH, SUSAN (Agriculture and Forest Sciences), Cardiff High School SPILSBURY, ANN ELIZABETH (Biochemistry), Arthur Terry School, Sutton Coldfield STENT, DIANA LYNDON (Geography), St. Swithun's School, Winchester STORR, MRS. CATHERINE LISETTE (English), (Mature Student) SUMNER, KAREN ANN (Geography), Merchant Taylors' School, Liverpool TERRY, KAY LOUISE (Jurisprudence), Lawnswood School, Leeds THEOBALD, NICOLA SALLY (Jurisprudence), St. Paul's Girls' School THOMPSON, ELAINE RUTH (Mathematics), Farnborough Hill School, Hants VASS, JANE ALISON CATHERINE (English), Westonbirt School WALKER, RENOLD SUSAN (P.P.E.), King Edward VI High School for Girls, Birmingham WARNFORD-DAVIS, PANDORA DEBORAH KAREN (Geography), Heathfield School, Ascot and Eton College WARING, CAROLINE MARY ISABELLE (History), Sheffield High School, G.P.D. S.T. MULLIGAN, JULIA CATHERINE ANN

FIRST-YEAR GRADUATES FROM OTHER UNIVERSITIES READING FOR OTHER DEGREES, DIPLOMAS, ETC. DICKSON, H. F. G. (B.A. Sheffield), Certificate in Education HARRIS, W. L. (B.A. Canterbury, Kent), B.Phil., English INGERSON, A. L. (B.A. Williams College, M.Sc., Mass.), Agricultural

mics LEADER, S. A. (B.Sc. Durham), Certificate in Education MCKAY, J. A. (B.A. Manchester), Certificate in Education

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MATTHEWS, A. M. (B.A. Nottingham), Certificate in Education MILLER, J. F. (B.Sc. Exeter), Certificate in Education PERRY, H. A. (B.A. Canterbury, Kent), Certificate in Education SHEARD, E. A. (B.A. Canterbury, Kent), Certificate in Education WILLIAMS, J. (B.A. Nottingham), Certificate in Education

ST. HUGH'S GRADUATES READING FOR CERTIFICATES IN EDUCATION CODD, A. J. COLQUHOUN, C. D. LAFFERTY, E. A.

RESEARCH STUDENTS (Term of admission in brackets) Board of the Faculty of Anthropology and Geography B.Litt. KING, L. V. (M 73), RIDD, R. E. (M 73) D.Phil. BLAIR, J. F. (M 7o), FENTRESS, MRS. E. W. B. (M 74),

(M 71) (M 7o)

JONES, A. M. (M 75), LETTS, S. E.

(M 69),

HOPA, N. K. WALTER, MRS. B. M.

Board of the Faculty of English Language and Literature B.Litt. ARMSTRONG, A. (M 74), LEIGHTON, A. (M 73), PAPPWORTH, J. (M 73) D.Phil. BIRCH, MRS. D. L. (M 71), CLEGG, H. F. (M 72), HANSCOMBE, G. E.

(M 74),

KEYTE, P. E. J.

(M 73),

LAHHAM, MRS. S.

(M 76)

B.Phil. HARRIS, W. L. (M 77), MOON, H. K. (M 74) Board of the Faculty of Literae Humaniores B.Litt. GODDARD, MRS. E. J. (M 7o), MACKIE, N. K. (M 72) D.Phil. BILLERBECK, M. R. (M 75), CHADWICK, R. F. (M 70) Board of the Faculty of Clinical Medicine B.M. CZAJKOWSKI, W. A. (M 73), HAMPTON, F. J. (M 74),

(M 66),

ILES, MRS. S. A. KEIDAN, A. J. (M 72), MOUNSEY, B. E. A. (M 72), NG, Y. C. (M

72)

Board of the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages B.Litt. KONNOVA, MRS. V. F. (M 75), MCDONALD, MRS. C. E. (M 66),

TAYLOR, MRS. E. (M 77) D.Phil. BALLARD, E. A. (M 74), BARTOS, B. M-A. (M 72), BRAYBROOK, MRS. J. (M 72), DUDEK, J. (M 72), DUNCKER, P. M. (M 73), HENDERSON, MRS. I. (M 74), MAXWELL, MRS. E. J. J. (M 70), O'BRIEN, J. (M 71), STEVENS, MRS. L. (M 73)

Board of the Faculty of Modern History B.Litt. MACIVER, T. E. (M 73), RATCLIFFE, H. L. (M 73), TAVERA DE ESTEBAN, MRS. S. (M 73), V. A. WATSON (M 74) ALLAN, J. E. (M 72), CHANCELLOR, V. E. A. L. (M 74)

D.Phil.

(M 73),

IERODIACONOU,

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Board of the Faculty of Law B.C.L. SALISBURY, V. A. M. (M 74) Board of the Faculty of Music B.Litt. GILMORE, M. C. (M 76) Board of the Faculty of Oriental Studies D.Phil. GORTON, MRS. A. C. (M 73) Board of the Faculty of Physical Sciences D.Phil. CHAMBERS, MRS. S. (M 69), LEWIS, A. C. (M 74), MAHTAB, MRS. R. (M 74),

PICKETT, MRS. A. W. (M

71), SHARPLES, MRS. A. W. (M 71)

M.SC. GARLICK, P. B. (M 69), HUNTINGTON, L. J. (M 73), NIXON, L. M. (M 71) Board of the Faculty of Biological and Agricultural Sciences M.Sc. INGERSON, A. L. (M 77) Board of the Faculty of Social Studies B.Litt. EL-HELOU, A. (M 72), PALACIOS, MRS. A. (M 72) B.Phil. DANZIGER, G. H. (M 76) M.SC. HARLAND, D. (M 72), HIGGINS, S. A. (M 76), SHEARER, E. L. (M 69) Board of the Faculty of Theology D.Phil. WILSON, F. J. (M 71) Committee for Archaeology Diploma, COLLINSON, A. H. (M 74) B.Litt. TINKOFF-UTECHIN, T. A. (M 74) D.Phil. JONES, M. L. (M 71) B.Phil. PITTS, L. F. (M 72)

THE JUNIOR COMMON ROOM, 1977

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HE activity of the 1977 J.C.R. was shown by high attendance at J.C.R. meetings, by ballots on issues such as 'Co-residence', and by the revival of many College Societies. The Dramatic Society performed Ionesco's Exit the King, in Trinity College, and a production of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead in St. Hugh's Garden. The Music Society held several concerts both in the Mordan Hall and outside College, and the Christian Union held regular meetings with a variety of guest speakers. In Hilary Term the J.C.R. held a 'drinks party' for members of the Senior, the Middle, and the Junior Common Rooms with the aim of introducing the new committees to each other and strengthening the already friendly relationships. In Trinity Term the College celebrated the Queen's Silver Jubilee with a large and successful Garden Party, organized by the J.C.R. and financed largely by generous gifts from members of the S.C.R. Strawberries and cream were provided, and sparkling wine was on sale. Musical entertainment included a string quartet, hand-bell ringing, madrigals from the Choir, and morris dancing. All members of all three Common Rooms and the staff were 16

invited and attendance was high—many undergraduates arriving straight from 'Schools'. In Michaelmas Term there were parties for Freshers, with University College and Christ Church, and also a lively Scouts' Party in the Mordan Hall. The J.C.R. helped with the 'Open Day' for Headmasters and Headmistresses as well as on two others for sixth-form girls. It also sent out invitations of its own for another 'Open Day' for school-leavers, and consulted the College Secretary about the invitations, so that records could be kept of those schools which accepted then or for the future. A considerable number of undergraduates spent time with the guests, showing them round College and talking in their own rooms, over a friendly game of croquet, or at lunch and tea. Greater numbers of girls were invited than ever before and all the guests said they had enjoyed themselves. In College Chapel there was, as usual, the delightful Carol Service at the end of term. The J.C.R. was pleased to see the completion of the new J.C.R. room in the basement of Mary Gray Allen Building, and the beginnings of the expansion of the College Library. At J.C.R. meetings, motions, debated enthusiastically this term, have not been political, they concerned the provision of `fridges' for undergraduate use, the organization of a Special Guest Table for the J.C.R. at regular dates each term (the J.C.R. were allocated a Guest Room for men), and larger vegetable dishes with lids for the J.C.R. in Hall— the S.C.R. kindly agreed to this purchase. The J.C.R. extended invitations to the M.C.R. to use the J.C.R. Common Rooms, and the S.C.R. has bought a boat for the St. Hugh's crew, while the J.C.R. financed a new set of oars. Thus a friendly and happy sense of unity continues to influence all members of the College. STEPHANIE LAMB (President) Games Report. St. Hugh's has certainly maintained its sporting reputation through the 1976-7 season. There were representatives in a wide range of university sports, in rowing, cricket, netball, tennis, squash, athletics, crosscountry, swimming, sailing, and gymnastics. Blues were awarded to Helen Bayley, Lindsay Bones, Anne Gillard, Julie Halfpenny, Susannah Heal, Mary Hindle, Catherine Hutch, Sally Jones, Fiona Lea-Wilson, Penny Lucas, Margaret Maffey, Wayne McIntyre, Elizabeth Robertson, Hilary Shove, Nicola Shrine, Helen Steele, and Gillian Suttle ; and Penny Lucas (Sailing), Wayne McIntyre (Netball), and Helen Steele (Swimming) have been elected University team captains for the 1977-8 season. At the intercollegiate level our enthusiasm had led to success in sports hitherto untried: St. Hugh's rugby team, organized by Laura King-Lassman, has remained unbeaten in eight matches, including one v. St.Ed.H. (although the contribution of the New College referee to this record must not be forgotten !), and our hard-earned second place in 'Women's' athletic cuppers, for which we were the only college strong enough to produce an all-female team (captain Julie Halfpenny) was equally judicious! Our long-established prowess in rowing continues: St. Hugh's boats (captain Lalage Wakefield) reached the semifinal in Christ Church regatta, and the final of the IV's division in Oriel regatta, but sadly dropped from third to fourth position in the Women's Division following Summer Eights. We are entering this year with a new Donevatico shell VIII and have already won Christ Church regatta against 17

a record number of eighteen opponents, which bodes well for the summer. We also won Swimming Cuppers. Other College teams were organized by Amanda Besse (Darts), Rosalind Gibb (Hockey), Gillian Oblitas (Croquet), and Helen Steele (Swimming) It is on the energy of such people as these that the College relies for its reputation as an athletic establishment. VERONICA DAVIDSON

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HE M.C.R. maintains its constant numbers, at approximately eighty, despite its average annual turnover of 25 per cent. This year amongst the newcomers we have two Rhodes Scholars, Nancy Coiner and Laura Garwin, both from the east coast of the States, two Senior Scholars, Christine Hall and Joanna Pappworth, from Exeter and St. Hugh's, and a Rawnsley Student Elena Taylor from Prague. In the last year the M.C.R. has kept most of its existent links with other colleges—Brasenose and Queen Elizabeth House—as well as forging a few new ones—with Trinity and Exeter. We invited Trinity to a garden party at 12 Canterbury Road, and this had the unusual characteristic of starting with Pimm's and ending with volleyball! We also went to see Simon Gray's Butley at the Watermill Theatre, Newbury, with them and hope to have similar trips this year. Last term we acquired a colour television and a large semi-antique radio and these, together with some pot plants and minor changes in the decoration of the M.C.R., have meant that more people are using it as a meeting place, especially before meals in Hall. The outgoing officers of the M.C.R. Committee for 1977 are Pamela Garlick, President; Penny Ohanjanian, Vice-President; Pen Keyte, Secretary; Elizabeth Czajkowski, Treasurer; Barbara Mounsey/Ruth Chadwick; Social Secretaries. PAMELA GARLICK

GIFTS AND BENEFACTIONS Gift of silver cream jug from Miss K. M. Hobbs (1924-7). Gift from Old Students 1925 for the Garden Fund of £117.50. Gift from Old Students 1927 of garden seat and one volume illustrated edition of The Landscape Gardening and Landscape Architecture of the late H. Repton (1840). Gift from Mr. H. P. Goldman (father of A. N. Goldman, 1974-77) of two pairs of stone lions for the garden. Gift of £loo for improvement of lawns from Dr. I. W. Busbridge. Gift from Mr. and Mrs. P. Scarisbrick of a portrait of Dame Joan Evans by Peter Greenham. Legacy of approximately £5,000 from Mrs. M. G. Denbeigh (née Beamish, 1939-43). Legacy of £50 from Miss Irene Phyllis Palmer. Legacy of Canadian $3,000 from Professor Mary Estelle White. Miss Annie Hadfield (1923-6) left one-half of her estate to the College (value £22,700). 18

Gift of £50,000 from the Rhodes Trust, to commemorate first women Rhodes Scholars. Gift of £25,000 from the E.P.A. Cephalosporin Fund for the new Science Reading Room, which has now been named the 'E. P. Abraham Science Reading Room' and will be officially opened on 14 February 1978. Anonymous gift of 42,00o, allocated £1,500 to the Garden Fund and £500 to the Barbinder-Watson Bursary Fund. Anonymous gift of £8,000 for the Library Appeal. Gift of blotters for committee meetings by Miss A. P. Wells. In addition to the above, 203 individual donors, mainly senior members of the College, have contributed towards the Library Appeal either donations or deeds of covenant. A list of contributors is enclosed on a separate sheet. The Appeal now stands at £39,458towards an estimated total requirement of 457,000.

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ST. HUGH'S COLLEGE ASSOCIATION OF SENIOR MEMBERS

President, 1976-8

MISS M. L. MARR Hon. Secretary, 1976 8 MRS. J. V. COCKSHOOT (J. JOHNSON) Gateways, Harcourt Hill, North Hinksey, Oxford -

Editor of the Chronicle, 1976 8 DR. N. M. FLEET (N. M. THORP) 10 Polstead Road, Oxford -

Committee 1976-8

MRS. J. POTTER (M. NEWMAN, 1944) DR. H. S. M. BRADBURY (H. S. M. MACPHERSON, 1951) MISS V. CHANCELLOR (1955) MRS. CAMPBELL THOMPSON (M. A. W. TOOVEY, 1943) MRS. CURTIS (S. MYERS, 1954) DR. JONES (E. P. JACOB, 1963) DR. M. G. ADAM (Governing Body Representative)

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ANNUAL MEETING OF THE ASSOCIATION OF SENIOR MEMBERS MHE fifty-second Annual Meeting of the Association of Senior Members I was held in the Mordan Hall on Saturday, 2 July 1977, at 3 p.m., the President, Miss Marr in the chair. Forty-nine members were present. The President called on the meeting to stand in memory of those members who had died during the year. The Minutes of 3 July 1976 were accepted and signed and there was no business arising from the Minutes.

The President's Report. 'Madam Principal, fellow members of the Association, it is natural I think, that the year after one Gaudy and before detailed plans have to be made for the next one, should be a comparatively quiet year for your Committee. But for the first time since I joined the Committee, and that is, I think, seven years, in March this year we were able to dispose of the business by 4 o'clock, and enjoy a delicious and sociable tea, without making it a "working tea". I hope, however, that does not suggest that we have been negligent in the affairs of the Association. `The Committee has met three times during the year—in November, in March, and again today. In November we welcomed the three new members— Mrs. Campbell Thompson, Mrs. Curtis, and Dr. Jones. Some of you last year saw the Memorial to Miss Gwyer, designed and executed by Mr. Laurence Whistler, in the exhibition of his work, which was at the Ashmolean, covering the period of the Gaudy. By November it had been put into the Chapel, on the wall above the Principal's Chair, and we were able to see it in its full beauty. If anyone has not seen it there, do go to see it today. The Memorial was dedicated by Lord Ramsey at a service on 26 May, this year. The Principal very kindly allotted to the subscribers to the Memorial, among the members of our Association, sixty tickets out of the hundred available for visitors to the service. Unfortunately it was impossible for me to be present, but I understand the Association was well represented. I have seen a copy of the "Service Paper" which clearly reflected all Miss Gwyer's values, her attitude to life, and the ideas she would have hoped that members of the College would carry away with them into their lives. `Those of you who were at the A.G.M. last year, when I reported on the London Sherry Party held at Lady Johnston's Chelsea home in 1975, will remember that I explained that we could only hope to continue these enjoyable gatherings if we were offered a private house in which to hold them. It is no longer possible to hold them, at reasonable cost, in an hotel or club in London. We are therefore extremely grateful to Mrs. Sarah Curtis, who marked her debut as a member of the Committee by offering to let us hold the 1977 London Sherry Party at her home in Kensington. You will have received the notice about this with your copy of the Chronicle. I would point out that tickets will be allocated in order of receipt of application, as numbers may have to be limited if the demand is too great. Tickets cost £1.25 and Dr. Bradbury, who is organizing the bookings, is here today with a good supply of tickets for those who would like to buy them. `Your Committee has been aware for some time that the Address List of the Association of Senior Members, dating from 1973, is very out of date. This 23

has been discussed both by your Committee and by the Governing Body, and various problems, not least economic ones, have arisen, especially as an Address List involves a great deal of work and it can become out of date fairly quickly in these days of great mobility. However, last September our Editor, Dr. Fleet, offered to do all the preparatory work and typing for a new List and under these circumstances the Governing Body allowed us to print two hundred copies, on the understanding that the price at which they are sold covers the outlay. The 1976 Address List is therefore now available. It costs £1.8o and Dr. Fleet has copies here for those who would like to buy one. We are most grateful to Dr. Fleet for all the hard work that has gone into this project and of course, as always, for her editorship of the Chronicle which brings us such interesting and varied news about the College and its life. This year, in addition to all the perennial problems associated with the editorship, Dr. Fleet has also had to contend with delays due to industrial disputes at the printers. It is therefore very hard that when the Chronicle did arrive, there should have been, somewhere among the parcels it was packed in, some copies which were faulty—lacking pages at the beginning and at the end. Over two thousand copies of the Chronicle go out, and I am sure you will agree with me, that no editor could possibly check every copy before sending it off. Naturally Dr. Fleet is very distressed about this, as it is impossible to check who received one of these "maverick" copies. If you know of anyone who did, please tell Dr. Fleet and another correct copy will be dispatched. We can only commiserate with Dr. Fleet that this should have happened and thank her for all her dedicated work for the Association. `You will have seen that our plan to try to provide "contacts" for our elderly members with others near them has got well off the ground. There is a list of volunteers' addresses in the Chronicle, covering a very wide variety of areas. Any further offers to join this list should be made to the Editor. We have had very appreciative letters from elderly members who have received greeting cards from us, among them one from our oldest member, Miss Goddard, who came up to St. Hugh's in 1902. `That, Ladies, is I hope a true account of the activities and plans of your Committee during the past year. It only remains for me to record my very warm thanks to all members of the Committee for their support and help and, especially to Mrs. Cockshoot, our wonderful Secretary, without whose experience, wisdom, and advice to call on, no one could dare to accept the office of President.' The College Report. Dr. Adam, the Governing Body Representative on the A.S.M. Committee said: 'I will start with some general matters. Probably the most burning issue, at least for those of you who do not know the answer, is the College's position on the question of "going mixed". As you can imagine, there has been a good deal of anxious consideration and discussion. The Governing Body has decided that the College Statutes should be amended, so that official positions in the College are open to men or women, that is, the offices of Principal, Vice-Principal, Fellows, Hon. Fellows, and of all officers of the College. At present the College remains single sex at the undergraduate level. The J.C.R. were invited to give their opinion on "going mixed" at the undergraduate level. There was surprisingly little interest; less than one-third of the undergraduate body replied; although over half of those who did favoured co-residence, only twenty-five voted for immediate change. 24

`Next, some very generous bequests: as you know Rhodes Scholarships have now been opened to women and at the last Governing Body meeting the Principal gave us the welcome news that the Rhodes Trustees have made the College an unconditional grant of £5o,000 to mark the occasion. We have also had a very generous contribution to the Library Appeal Fund from Professor Abraham, who authorized a grant of £25,000 from the E.P.A. Cephalosporin Fund. This will go a long way towards the cost of the first stage of the Library alterations. No wit less important, up to 27 June we have received donations of L1,429 from Senior Members and also nineteen covenanted donations amounting to another £I,Ioo. We have also received legacies from two old students: Mrs. Denbeigh (Margaret Grant Beamish), 1939-43, and from Miss Annie Hadfield, 1923-6. `On Thursday, 26 May the Laurence Whistler panel, the memorial to Miss Gwyer, was dedicated by our Visitor, the Rt. Revd. Lord Ramsey of Canterbury. He and Lady Ramsey came to lunch, and he was very happy to recall that his mother had been a member of the College. [A photograph taken at the Dedication Ceremony and one of the Memorial Panel appear in this number of the Chronicle. Ed.] You will also see the bust of Miss Gwyer in place on the wall outside the Chapel. This was presented to us by Miss Mary Towerton, with whom Miss Gwyer shared a house for a large part of her life. Members who knew Miss Towerton will be sorry to know that she died in November last year. `The sixth Henry Rowlatt Bickley Memorial Lecture was given on Thursday, 2 June. The electors chose a scientist for the first time; Sir Bernard Lovell (of Jodrell Bank and Radio Telescope fame) gave a lecture on "Galileo and the intellectual cataclysm of the 17th century" to a very large and appreciative audience. 'An Open Day for Headmistresses or their representatives was held on 19/20 April, when fifty-seven guests attended. On Jubilee Day the J.C.R. organized a party in the College garden. `The Senior Common Room: the Principal was "Woman of Action" on B.B.C. Radio 3 in March, and I am sure, delighted a countless number of listeners with her delightful selection of operatic music. We also learnt how lucky we were not to have lost her to the world of opera! She has been in demand as much as ever to address various conferences and societies. She spoke at the Oxford Society Branches in North Cumbria and in Dorset, and at the Speech Day at Watford Grammar School for Girls. At the beginning of this term she made a tour in the U.S.A., lecturing and promoting the interests of the College among Senior Members there. She visited the University of Massachusetts, Smith College, Massachusetts, and stayed in New York. `There was a very well attended University Mission, conducted by Cardinal Suenens in Hilary Term. The Principal was one of the hostesses to Cardinal Suenens and was Chairman of the Wednesday evening meeting in the Sheldonian. `Miss Sweeting has been invited to lead a delegation of Physical Geographers visiting China in August this year. We have been very glad to have Miss Jillian Ramshaw, Classics Mistress at Bedlington High School, Tyne and Wear, with us this term as Fanny Seaton Schoolmistress Student. She brought a lovely invigorating breath of north-east coast air! The next Fanny Seaton Student is also from the north-east, she is Miss J. B. Turner, French Mistress 25

at Whitby Mixed Comprehensive School. She will be here in Hilary Term 1978. `We regretfully say "good-bye" to Mr. Ingram, Lecturer in French, Miss Kathirithamby, Rhodes Visiting Fellow, to Mrs. Edbury, Sub-Librarian, whose husband moves to a post in Cardiff, and to Dr. Cox our Lecturer in Geology. `The following appointments have been made: Mrs. E. A. Smart, formerly Lecturer in Jurisprudence, has been elected to a Tutorship in Jurisprudence and to a C.U.F. Lecturership by the University; Dr. John Morris has been elected to a "Lecturership with Tutorial Responsibility" in Human Anatomy —a title given for the time being to men who act as full Tutors. Dr. Morris also has a University Lecturership. Dr. John Wilkinson, University Lecturer, becomes a "Lecturer with Tutorial Responsibility" in Geography; Mr. Andrew Wilson is appointed retaining fee Lecturer in English; Dr. Frazer follows Dr. Cox as retaining fee Lecturer in Geology; Mrs. Wordsworth is reappointed stipendiary Lecturer in English; Mrs. McMorran Stipendiary Lecturer in French; Dr. Adams, Dean of Divinity at Magdalen College, ceases to be Lecturer in Theology and Mr. Anthony Harvey, already Lecturer in Theology, takes over as Director of Studies. ' "Outside" successes: we are proud to announce that Mrs. Dora Carr (D. M. Butler, 1923-6) was appointed Lord Mayor of Oxford from 16 May 1977 and that Miss Joan Kenworthy, Director of Studies in Geography 1958-9 has been appointed Principal of St. Mary's College, Durham. We also congratulate Professor Nadia Gorodetzky who has been elected to an Emeritus Fellowship by the Leverhulme Research Committee. And one unusual distinction, I believe we have no new Dames this year, but our Dame Elizabeth Ackroyd has become Chairman of the Bloodstock and Racehorse Industries' Confederation (Times, 6 April 1977). I imagine this must be the first Chairwoman! `The garden: with all the hazards of drought and Dutch Elm disease, I felt that a word about the garden was appropriate. Our Custos, Miss Lunt, has been watching the situation most carefully and has prepared an interim report, which, as she says, is very gloomy indeed. All the elms show the entry holes of the beatle which transmits the disease but maybe some will be saved by injection. Many other trees have been affected by drought or old age. But Dr. Lunt's report ends with a promising list of proposed replanting and the Governing Body has agreed that this should go ahead as far as possible. The generous donation from the matriculation year 1925 will be used particularly for replanting the Dell. `Finally, I cannot conclude without recording again our gratitude to Miss Wells, who retired at the end of April after more than twenty-five years as College Treasurer. We do indeed owe her a great debt for her devoted interest in College matters and for the efficiency with which she has conducted our financial affairs in a period of great expansion and unprecedented complexity. Miss Wells has been elected to an Emeritus Fellowship. It is good to know that she is settled in Oxford where she can keep in touch with the College. She and I are now near neighbours . . . and we now have the first "cat-door" fixed in the area, in the front door of 29, and I am glad to report that, after a short training period, Tiger Tim has learnt to cope with it perfectly.' The President then asked Miss Valerie Chancellor to make a presentation on behalf of the A.S.M. to Miss Wells on her retirement. Miss Chancellor

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said that it gave her particular pleasure to make the presentation as Miss Wells had shown her that financial administrators could have a human face. She had experienced Miss Wells's kindness both as an undergraduate and later as a member of the Middle Common Room. The gift consisted of a pocket calculator and a cheque, accompanied by the best wishes of the A.S.M. In reply, Miss Wells expressed her thanks for the good wishes and the generous gift. She had many most rewarding contacts with old students, and it was a great pleasure to meet and re-meet at Gaudies and on other occasions. She would be living not far away and she felt that the contact with the College gave a marvellous sense of continuity. The following letter was received by the Hon. Sec., Mrs. Cockshoot, from Miss Wells: 29 Dovehouse Close, Upper Wolvercote, Oxford 6 October 1977 Dear Jeanette, Thank you very much for your letter enclosing a further cheque for my retirement present. How very kind everyone has been! The holiday which I am planning for early June next year is to the Isles of Scilly, to which I am devoted. It is now becoming quite an expensive holiday, because of rising travel costs (helicopter and train). The generous cheque from the A.S.M. will enable me to stay in a rather more luxurious hotel than I have done previously, and to make the journey in comfort. I am so much looking forward to it, as I have never been able to go there in May or June before and these are some of the best months for bird-watching and for the flowers there. With best wishes, Yours sincerely, PRISCILLA WELLS As there was no other business the meeting was closed.

THE LONDON SHERRY PARTY, 1977 rT1HIS was a most pleasant occasion, held on Friday, 3o September, at the I delightful Kensington home of Mrs. Sarah Curtis, and we are most grateful to her and her husband for allowing us to hold it there and for making such efficient arrangements. About fifty-five Senior Members were present, and it was good to see a number of friends who find it difficult to come to Oxford for the Gaudy weekends. This will illustrate that the London Sherry Party, although inevitably a rather small affair, does really seem to be appreciated by a number of people, and we hope it will be possible, through the hospitality of Members in their private homes, to hold similar parties in the future. H. S. M. BRADBURY

GAUDY 1978 IT is expected that the date of the next Gaudy will be i--2 July 1978. 27

ST. MARGARET'S HOUSE IN BETHNAL GREEN TT is six years since I last wrote about St. Margaret's House for the Chronicle.

1The House still values it sconnections with St. Hugh's and is very grateful to the College and to members of the A.S.M. for their continuing support. Miss Theresa Fleming, who was Head of the House in 1972, resigned towards the end of 1973 in order to take up a suitable post near her parents' home. She had been Head for seven years. As her successor we appointed Richard Delafield, our first male Head. He was very much liked by those who knew him, but his rule was short, for he had a bad fall in September 1975 and died soon afterwards from his injuries. This was a bitter blow to the House and particularly to the staff and residents. The present Head is the Revd. Ronald Glazebrook, M.A. (Oxon.). When I wrote in 1972 we were considering the conversion of 19 Old Ford Road (the main part of St. Margaret's is No. 21) into three flats to be used either for members of the staff or to be let furnished at advantageous rents. This is one of our success stories. All difficulties were overcome, the necessary money raised, and the flats were ready for occupation by the beginning of 1974. Miracles, even financial ones, do occasionally happen at St. Margaret's! With a scheduled building to repair, with the Old People's Centre (O.P.C.) in need of a face-lift, with increased salaries for our staff, with rising costs all round, and with statutory fire precautions estimated to cost £17,500, the outlook was bleak at the beginning of 1974. Suddenly we were informed that St. Margaret's had been named as residuary legatee for the estate of a woman of whom we had never heard! (At one time she had been a subscriber.) The Council decided, in view of the diminishing value of the £, to use the money to carry out urgent repairs and improvements, reserving only a small sum for investment. A modern kitchen, servery, and toilet accommodation have been provided for the O.P.C. and considerable improvements made to the residents' accommodation. (Recently we have heard that we may be able to recover the cost of fire precautions.) Community Industry, which provides temporary employment for adolescents who cannot find jobs, have been working in St. Margaret's since September 1976. Among other things, they have redecorated the O.P.C. and are now coping with our fire precautions (except for those requiring experts). The mess is indescribable and it is very much to the credit of the Assistant Head (Mrs. M. Kimber) and the domestic staff that the House is still habitable. The end is not yet in sight! Since his appointment as Head, Mr. Glazebrook has been indefatigable in searching for sources of money and in launching an Appeal (to 'trusts' in the first place) for a capital sum of £50,000 and for many more annual subscriptions. This is backed by forty-five eminent sponsors, including the Principal, Dame Margery Perham, and Dame Elizabeth Ackroyd. The work of the House cannot remain static, but each new development, even if self-supporting or supported by grants, involves upkeep of premises and the cost of light and heat. Moreover, established institutions such as the Citizens' Advice Bureau are liable to outgrow their premises. In the case of the C.A.B., we have managed to push back the rear wall making room for a second interviewing room. Recent developments include a Work Centre for the 'young elderlies', which may soon be extended to some of the handicapped, and a 28

Crisis Centre. Both of these are being housed in the Workshop Building. The Crisis Centre is for the benefit of Bethnal Green families and individuals who are in distress or causing distress, and it is being run by the Area Psychiatric and Social Services. The next project (to be run by residents) is for an after-school club for latch-key children' ! IDA W. BUSBRIDGE Vice-chairman of St. Margaret's House

MARRIAGES JANET ALLEN 10 MICHAEL G. STEPHENSON, 17 July 1976 MADELINE JOSEPHINE ASHWORTH to BERNARD P. FYANS, 3 August VERONICA ANN BAGLEY to IAN S. LOWE, 2 December 1977

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ANN DOROTHEA BARTLETT 10 JOHN D. CHARMLEY, 23 July 1977 JANET ELIZABETH BATTISON to DR. J. B. LOWRY, 9 August 1975 DOROTHY VERA MARGARET BISHOP tO DR. P. M. A. RABBITT (Queen's College), in December 1976 SUSAN JENNIFER BOWLER to GING G. G. WONG, 31 December 1975 ANN VERONICA BREWIN to MICHAEL EDWARD MEAD, 3o April 1977 ANNE ROSS BROWN to JOHN ABBOTT, 22 October 1977 JANE BULLEN to SIMON HALLETT, 27 August 1977 LINDSEY MARY CAMPBELL to R. R. J. A. NESBITT, 3 April 1971 SUSAN MARGARET CHRISTENSEN 10 ALAN TYLDESLEY, 7 August 1976 JACQUELINE ANNE COATES to KENNETH PATTERSON, 26 July 1975 KATHLEEN CONOLLY tO HOWARD GLYNN DAVIES (Worcester College), 23 August 1975 MARY ANN DRABBLE to RICHARD LUTYENS (St. Edmund Hall), 9 October 1971 ALISON MARGARET GEE tO PETER NORTHOVER, 22 October 1977 ROWENA ELAINE GIBLIN to JAMES LANGTRY, 31 July 1976 AMANDA NAOMI GOLDMAN to CLIVE PEASE, 3o July 1977 CLAIRE FRANCES GOODMAN 10 MR. FRANSMAN, 7 August 1977 ELIZABETH HADRILL to IVAN SAVIDGE, 3 September 1976 JANE HERMAN 10 DR. BENJAMIN RICKMAN (Merton College), 20 March 1977 ANGELA MARY HOLMAN to M. J. MIDDLEDITCH, in July 1976 ELIZABETH MARGARET JOHNSON to NEIL S. WOOD, 17 September 1977 RINA KAMPEAS tO JONATHAN CHARLES RITTENHOUSE, 21 August 1976 JANIS ROSEMARY ADELAIDE KAY to R. G. MCGOWAN, I March 1975 SALLY ANN LITTLEJOHNS tO N. J. KENEALY, 23 November 1976 JUDITH DEBORAH LIVINGSTONE 10 T. M. SMYTH, 12 July 1975 CHERYLL NECIA MASON to P. R. WILLIAMS (St. Peter's College), 3 September 1977 ROSEMARY CECILIA ANN MASON to MR. HENN-MACRAE, z6 June 1976 MANORAMA SARA MATHAI to PETER MOSS in 1975 ANGELA MARY SWAN MITCHELL to JEAN-MARIE FERRARE, 3o December 1976 ALICE MARJORIE PALMER to DR. R. W. FEW (Trinity College, Cambridge), 5 November 1977 ANN ELIZABETH PUSEY to DR. CRAIG PACKER, 8 March 1977 URSULA CATHERINE RICE to C. W. DAWS, 5 June 1976 HEATHER ELIZABETH SAMPSON 10 ANDREW CHARLES MARVIN, 24 July 1977 29

MONICA SAUNDERS to JOHN HYDE

(University College), 9 July 1977 in St.

Hugh's College Chapel MARJORIE EDITH SELLS to P. HANDS, 19 July 1975 JANE SHIPLEY to DAVID FARNSWORTH, 22 May 1977 LYN JOY THOMAS to MARK BOOKER (St. Edmund Hall), x o July 1976 ELIZABETH JANE TOMBS to DAVID N. MARTIN (Oriel College), 23 October 1976 LESLEY FRANCES TWEDDLE to MR. MOHAMED BADRAN, 20 October 1975 SAVANAZ VAFA to BAHRAM MASSOUDI, 23 July 1975 ELIZABETH JANE VERDON-SMITH to ROBERT G. CLINTON, 14 September 1974 LETITIA JANE PATRICIA WILMSHURST to HOWARD GORDON MASON (St. Edmund Hall), 2 July 1977 JUDITH HILARY WILSON to A. KEVIN DARE, 7 August 1976 CLAIRE DIANE WINTRAM to MARTIN DAVIES (St. John's College), I July 1972 GILLIAN MARGARET WOOD to A. C. D. SMITH (Brasenose College), 23 July 1977 CAROL ANN WRIGGLESWORTH to RICHARD J. ROBINS (Pembroke College), 19

July 1975

BIRTHS DR. ANDERSON

(J. E. Lucking)—a third child (Sarah Elizabeth), 5 February

1976 MRS. BADRAN (L. F. MRS. BARKER (G. A.

Tweddle)—a son (Sahmer Mohamed), 5 May 1977 P. Maberly)—a second daughter (Sarah Felicity), 14 May

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MRS. BARTON (M. Burn)—a daughter (Katherine Rachel), 26 June 1975 MRS. BENNETT-REES (M. J. Fanning)—a daughter (Catherine Mary), 1 Septem-

ber 1977 MRS. BURROUGH

(J. P. B. M. Boenisch)—a second son (Nicholas Peter), 12

June 1977 MRS. BYWATER (C.

R. M. Dallyn)—a daughter (Camilla Elizabeth), 14 October

1976 MRS. CAPLAN (F. R. Beer)—a son (Joshua Isaac), 2 October 1976 MRS. DAVIES (K. Conolly)—a son (Crispian Howard), 18 August 1976 MRS. DOWN (W. M. Davies)—a son (Christopher Jonathan Alderson),

25 November 1976 MRS. ELLIS (J. Zavadinkova, 1972)—a daughter (Rowena), 8 June 1977 MRS. FORBES (A. C. Canti)—a son (Nicholas Ronald), 22 May 1976 MRS. FOSTER (H. P. Munns)—a daughter (Rachel), 1968; a son (Gerard), 197o; a son (Richard Gervase), 3o April 1975; a daughter (Alice Elizabeth), 10 September 1977 MRS. GAIR (M. E. Farson, 1947)—a daughter 1962; a daughter 1963; a son, 1966 MRS. GARRATT (M. C. Robson)—a son (Daniel Thomas), 3 June 1976; a son (Richard John), 3o September 1977 MRS. GREINEDER (G. Jones)—a son (Daniel), 24 December 1976 MRS. HAMILTON (E. M. Simpson)—a daughter (Clare Elunid), 12 August 1968; a son (Robert Sinclair John), 24 October 1973; a daughter (Catherine Nicola) 21 August 1975 MRS. HARDINGHAM (S. J. Townend)—a daughter (Katie Ann), I I August 1977 MRS. HATHAWAY (H. M. Mitchell)—a second daughter (Louise Amy), II May 1977 30

MRS. HAWORTH

(S. E. Payne)—a daughter (Kirsten Rosemary), 22 November

1976 MRS. HICKMAN (S. M. Tucker)—a daughter (Johanna), 16 June MRS. HIRST (M. S. Turnham)—a daughter (Katherine Jane),

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'977 (S. M. Jones)—a daughter (Anthea), 4 May 1959; a daughter (Hilary), 21 March 1962; a son (Jeremy), 27 October 1963; a daughter (Philippa), 25 July 1968; a son (Adrian), 16 December 1969; a daughter (Fiona), 24 July 1972 MRS. LEWIS (S. S. Kenner)—a son (Joseph Edward Gabriel), 10 March 1977 MRS. LORENZ (S. Morris)—a daughter (Amy), 1 o March 1977 MRS. LUTYENS (M. A. Drabble)—a daughter (Tanya), 4 February 1975 MRS. MCDONALD (C. E. Grayson)—a son (Henry John), 3 July 1976 MRS. MCGOWAN (J. R. A. Kay)—a son (Alisdair David Robert), 5 February MRS. KNIGHT

1977 MRS. MAIS (S. Reynolds)—a daughter (Annabel Eliza), 3 December 1974 MRS. MAIN (F. E. Chiswell)—a son (Andrew), 20 January 1977 MRS. PAEZ (S. J. Thurgood)—a son (Duncan), r May 1976 MRS. PARIS (M. C. Milligan)—a son (Alexander George), 5 April 1977 DR. PERRY (H. J. Morton)—a son (Hugh Dominic Edmund), 28 August 1977 MRS. PRITCHARD (S. W. Claridge)—a daughter (Amanda Kate), 27 May 1976 MRS. ROSS (M. B. Cobb)—a daughter (Rebekah Joy), 28 May 1977 MRS. SAYERS (H. M. Eyles)—a daughter (Emma Katherine), 16 April 1977 MRS. SPENDER (M. F. White)—a son (Richard Lionel Anthony), 29 July 1976 MRS. TILLMAN (J. B. Boyce)—a son (Richard William John), 4 January 1976 MRS. TUCKER (M. E. Fawcett)—a daughter (Catherine Elizabeth), 16 May

1977 MRS. WAKE

(E. V. Kirkpatrick)—a second son (Peter Jonathan), 20 October

1976 E. S. Fish)—a son (Robert), 9 April 1969; a son (Thomas), 18 October 1974 MRS. WILKINSON (P. W. Wright)—a daughter (Katherine Mary), 4 May 1977 MRS. WEBB (V.

ADOPTION MRS. CHRISTIAN

(J. M. A. West)—a son (Robert Steven), in April 1974

OBITUARY On 29 November 1977, EVELINE BLADES, Commoner of the College 1909-13. Aged 88 In February 1977, JENNIFER ROSEMARY COOPER, Commoner of the College 1967-70. Aged 27 On 27 May 1977, AUDREY BEATRICE CURTIS (née Buller), Commoner of the College 1913-16. Aged 83 On 16 April 1976, ISOBEL MARJORIE MARCHAM DEAN, O.B.E., Commoner of the College 1922-5. Aged 72 In 1977, EDITH DU PUTRON, Commoner of the College, 1910-13 On 14 July 1977, DAME JOAN EVANS, Research Student of the College 191417; Librarian 1917-22; Member of the College Council 1938-58; Hon. Fellow 1958-77. Aged 84 On zo July 1977, HERMA ETHELFRIED FIEDLER, Commoner of the College 1921-5; Member of the College Council 1946-52. Aged 74 31

In 1975, KATHLEEN IRIS GLASSER (née Coombs), Commoner of the College 1938-41. Aged 55 On 3o March 1977, ANNIE HADFIELD, Commoner of the College 1923-6. Aged 72 On 3o September 1977, PAMELA MERCY CROISSANT HARDLE (née Uhde), Commoner of the College 1946-9. Aged 51 On 26 March 1977, FREDA MARIE HOULSTON (Sister Palmo), Exhibitioner of the College 1929-33. Aged 66 On 12 September 1969, JOAN MCGUFFIE (née Irwin), Commoner of the College 1929-32. Aged 66 On 26 July 1977, DOROTHY JANET MARRIS (née Norwood), Commoner of the College 1912-15. Aged 84 On 13 April 1977, VIOLET MARY MACPHERSON, Commoner of the College 1908-11. Aged 87 On 6 August 1977, VIOLET ETHEL MISKIN, Exhibitioner of the College 191922. Aged 78 On 17 April 1977, IRENE PHYLLIS PALMER, Exhibitioner and Scholar of the College 1933-6. Aged 6z On 3 August 1977, ETHEL LESLEY PATERSON, Commoner of the College 191619. Aged 8o On 17 August 1977, SISTER MARY GRACE (née Grace Mary Younghughes), Commoner of the College 1923-6. Aged 81 On 3 August 1977, PHYLLIS ADRIENNE SMITH, Exhibitioner of the College 1932-5. Aged 64 In January 1977, PROFESSOR MARY ESTELLE WHITE, Commoner of the College 1930-3. Aged 68 On 12 July 1977, EVELINE JOYCE WOODROW, Commoner of the College 192730. Aged 69

DAME JOAN EVANS HE following address was given by the Principal at the Memorial Service in St. Hugh's College Chapel on Thursday, 1 o November 1977: We are here this afternoon to commemorate and to celebrate one of the most distinguished and influential figures of the century in art and antiquarian scholarship, who was at the same time a devoted and intensely loyal member of this society. She was also its greatest and most constant benefactress. Joan Evans came up as an undergraduate in 1914, she was Librarian of the College from 1917 to 1922, an active member of the College Council from 1922 to 1958, Supernumerary Fellow from 1951 to 1958, and an Honorary Fellow from 1936 to 1977. She might justifiably have said of herself, 'St. Hugh's, c'est moi', for she had known personally every Principal of the College since its foundation, had been involved in all its affairs, its plans, and its problems, and her munificence had enabled it to survive difficult and impoverished days. Nevertheless, she did not feel, 'St. Hugh's, c'est moi'. With a rare sense of community retained to the end, she refused to consider the College as one among her multifarious interests; rather she saw herself as part of the College. If she were discussing its affairs, she never spoke of what she thought the college should or should not do. She would say instead, 'we ought to remember this', or 'we could decide to do that'. Her association was close and familial from the start; it was an association of the heart and the head, and she

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MISS M. R. TRICKETT, M.A.

Principal 1973—

(Bassano Studios) DAME JOAN EVANS, D.B.E., D.LITT. (D.LIT. LOND. ; HON.LL.D.EDIN.; HON.LITT.D. CANTAB.), HON. A.R.I.B.A., F.S.A., F.R.HIST.S., CHEVALIER DE LA LEGION D.HONNEUR

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never felt it a mere accident of history that she had come to one college rather than another. Joan Evans came to St. Hugh's with great advantages. She was the youngest child of Sir John Evans by his third wife, and the much younger step-sister of Sir Arthur Evans, the excavator of Knossos. Of this family background she was proud, and unashamed of the privileges it gave her—her connoisseurship, her familiarity with the worlds of art and scholarship, and authorship. Brilliant, spirited, and determined, she intended to make use of everything with which good fortune and nature had endowed her, and to make the best use of it. In this she was entirely successful. The last time I visited her she told me the story of her first meeting with the College's founder, Dame Elizabeth Wordsworth. It was St. Hugh's night 1914; Elizabeth Wordsworth, herself a brilliant and exceptional woman, looked down at the small company of girls in the little dining-room (it was before the present buildings existed), and singled out one of them. `The girl in the red dress', she said, 'I love red. Ask her to come up and sit beside me. I should like to talk to her.' It was Joan Evans in her first term. She would always be singled out, and rightly so, for she had, in a completely uneccentric way, the quality of singularity. My first recollections of her date from my arrival here as a tutor in 1954 when she was a regular attender at Council, later Governing Body, meetings. I thought her an imposing and a formidable woman. She would arrive early, often dramatically hatted and befurred, and as she sat scribbling on her agenda during discussion (one could only assume these were impatient comments she preferred not to utter), the splendid rings on her small round fingers sparkled excitably. What she said was shrewd and to the point, sometimes caustic, for she would not disguise her impatience with attitudes or ideas she thought foolish. I found her from the start (observing her, not then knowing her) very much the grande dame, and noted that she was a prudent economist in her views on the running of the College. What I did not know then was the extraordinary extent of her generosity. Joan Evans was not one of those who indulged herself in little charities to enjoy, in return, the small change of public or private thanks. She was a woman of bold imaginative gestures with the proud strength of character not to want them to be known. Her benefactions to the College were made anonymously and the College has respected her wish for anonymity. Nevertheless, like the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Society of Antiquaries, I believe that it is now right to honour her with some public acknowledgement of the extent and nature of her beneficence. She was awarded the D.B.E. in 1976 for services to charity, and St. Hugh's was one of the foremost of her charities. The College has been sustained in its most critical years, and in better times, through her generosity. So many were they that it would be tedious to enumerate all her benefactions to us, but I would like to take three as examples of her imagination and her warmth in giving. The first is the establishment of the College Endowment Fund which originated in a covenant she made in 1945. Within the next twelve years it was enlarged by substantial additions until it became, as it is now, one of the most valuable of the College's assets, a Fund that is almost entirely made up of her gifts. Two other benefactions more intimately reflect her love for the College and her intuitive sense of the right move at the right moment. In 1924, in one afternoon, impulsively, after hearing of the College's shortage of rooms, she bought 82 Woodstock Road, Sir Gilbert 33

Murray's old house, and handed it over to St. Hugh's. This was the beginning of our gradual acquisition of the whole of our present island site. It could only have been made with her help and in 1951 she enabled the College to buy the last freeholds of the remaining property, an act of immense generosity and faith in the future of St. Hugh's. She had in fact been the main agent in establishing our unique and self-sufficient situation. The other benefaction I must mention was of immediate, though inevitably, less lasting benefit. At a Gaudy in 1953 she complained of the hardness of the undergraduate bed she occupied and asked the Treasurer how much it would cost her to buy new beds for all the rooms in the main buildings of College. The Treasurer worked out the sum and advised her to sleep on it. She was greeted with the brief observation from Dame Joan next morning, 'I have slept on it and I'm all the more determined to make a covenant'. Which she did, to the immense improvement of the comfort of some generations of undergraduates. The broad view and the detail were both within her grasp, and equally inspired her charities and her scholarship. She did not suffer fools gladly, but she was a passionately generous giver to people, causes, and institutions she believed in. Because of her hatred of publicity few knew the extent of her charity. But anyone who had occasion to consult her about a subject that came within the extraordinary range of her interests felt at once the freedom of mind which unhesitatingly offered advice, opinion, information, and help. She was not easily deceived and could shrewdly distinguish between genuine and bogus interest, but once convinced of the sincerity of the inquirer she was instantly accessible. My later recollections of Joan Evans are more private ones: a conversation on Ruskin in a hotel courtyard where half an hour's informal talk revealed an acuteness of judgement and an authoritative knowledge which always avoided the conscious display of scholarship; a visit to her home when she talked late into the summer afternoon of the College and its past, talked wisely, amusedly, impartially, and wittily. She was old then, but the youthful spirit of irreverence flashed through the texture of her reminiscence, her love of the College displaying itself—not uncritically but always warmly—in every detail of her recollection. An episode she recalled then is one with which I would like to conclude— her last visit to the College. It was an occasion of great happiness for us all. In the summer of 1974 when she was between housekeepers, it was arranged that she should come and stay for a week in the vacation. She was driven over from Gloucestershire and took up residence in the guest room where she immediately made friends with those about her, including the scout who looked after her room, making light of her infirmities, and making the business of caring for her a pleasure. Down in the S.C.R. over sherry, or in the small dining-room, she delighted newer Fellows to whom she was a name and a legend, by the old charm and the shrewd wit, the vitality, the enthusiasm, and the familiar Evans edge to her talk and anecdotes. Her company was sheer enjoyment. Of that occasion, she said to me, 'I felt I had come home'. So did we. It is, then, as her family that we mourn her loss, and as her family that we rejoice in her life, her learning, her munificence, her distinction, and her uniqueness. She was one whom any college would be proud to claim. It is with deep gratitude that we remember today how, throughout her long, rich, and various life, she was always and equally proud to claim membership of St. Hugh's. 34

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BLADES, who was at St. Hugh's from 1909 to 1913, taught briefly at West Kirby High School and then, in 1914, became Secretary to the Advisory Committee for Juvenile Employment in Preston. In 1926 she joined the Ministry of Labour, and in 1947 became Regional Nursing Appointments Officer, N.W. Region. She retired from the Civil Service in 1950 and in 1955 her old friend, Mrs. Stanton (nĂŠe Stansfield) came to live with her at Alderley Edge. In a letter dated 27 March 1975 she wrote: 'Hilda and I are now rising 85 and 86 respectively and, alas, our circle grows narrower every year. St. Hugh's has dominated so much of our lives and we still read with interest all its news in the Chronicle. Hilda and I met for the first time on our way there in 1909. . . . When her husband died in 1955 she had to leave the vicarage and she came to live with me, bringing her faithful housekeeper, who has now been with her almost thirty-nine years. We used to enjoy coming to the Gaudies and had planned to join Phyllis Muscott there in 1968, but Hilda had a severe stroke and we had to cancel the visit.' Miss Blades kept in touch with many members of the Association and, in answer to a card written to her on the occasion of the last Gaudy, in July 1976, she sent a lovely photo of Alderley Edge, with the words: 'Hilda Stanton and I were delighted to receive the kind greeting from the Senior Members of the St. Hugh's Association gathered together for the Gaudy and were glad you had such a happy time. We still enjoy our life together at the foot of this hill.' ED.

AUDREY CURTIS (nĂŠe BULLER) UDREY died in Clevedon on 27 May 1977. She came up to St. Hugh's in 1913 from Clifton High School and obtained her degree in English Literature in 1916. Her only teaching post was at Oldham High School, for she married Osborn Curtis of Bristol in 1918. Bristol had been her home, for her father was a master at Clifton College, and she spent the first two years of her married life there. But when she moved to Bath she soon 'adopted' that city and remained there until a few years before her death. Wetherdene' became not only a very happy family home but also a centre for friends of all ages. There was always a welcome, I have myself spent many happy holidays there. She had four sons and after her husband died in 1943 her time was fully occupied in helping with the growing family of grandchildren and devoting herself to public work in Bath. Her main interest was in education: she was a co-opted member of the city's Education Committee, and a manager of a large number of schools until retirement in 1972. Audrey was deeply attached to her church, St. Mary's Chalcombe, and the Conservative cause too came in for her active support. Her school and her College remained high in her affection, and she was looking forward to attending the Jubilee in July, but it was not to be. Audrey was an intensely loyal person and she gave herself wholeheartedly to whatever she undertook. M. S. H. 35

ISOBEL MARJORIE MARCHAM DEAN FTER a year's teacher training Marjorie taught first at St. Edmund's College in Liverpool, where her family then lived; in 1929 she went to A Wallasey High School where she was keenly interested in Guiding as a Lieutenant in the School Rangers Company and Captain of the 8th Wallasey Company of Girl Guides. Her family moved to Wimbledon in 1931 and in 1937 Marjorie was appointed an Assistant Inspector of Schools. She took up her first appointment in Leeds when she returned from two months' travelling in the U.S.A.—the English Speaking Union had awarded her a Walter Hines Page Travelling Scholarship. In 1944 she was promoted H.M. Inspector of Schools and in 1947 went to Germany to advise on forces' education. A local paper reported: 'Miss Dean was the first woman to be sent abroad after the war to help with forces' education in B.A.O.R.' She then went to London and became secretary to the Central Advisory Council for Education (England) till 1952, after which she became an Inspector in Fulham and Twickenham. She was awarded the O.B.E. in 196o and retired in 1963 when she was 6o. Marjorie was a very devoted eldest sister to her three sisters and brother. Two sisters survive her and with the youngest she enjoyed many lovely holidays at home and abroad. F. C.

HERMA ETHELFRIED FIEDLER ERMA came up to St. Hugh's in 1921. As she was then living in Oxford (her father, Professor H. G. Fiedler, was Taylor Professor of German H Language and Literature) and continued to do so all her life, she may almost be said never to have gone down. She read Modern Languages and her First Class Honours degree in 1925 was due not only to her familiarity with the background but to the use she made of her opportunities to visit friends and relatives abroad. Nevertheless she elected to follow her other love, music (her uncle Max Fiedler was a famous conductor) rather than the academic career which might have been hers. Besides playing her 'cello in groups and orchestras of high standard she gave the greater part of her life to working for, and organizing, music in Oxford. Her help in this was recognized by Sir Thomas Armstrong in the fine obituary notice in The Times of 2 August 1977, and deservedly so, for the self-less labours which she performed so constantly might easily have been taken for granted. Besides organizing concerts and musical groups of all kinds—she was Secretary of the Oxford Orchestral Society, she worked for the Oxford Ladies Musical Society and, with Reginald Jacques, she started the Oxford Chamber Orchestra—she quietly did much work for individuals. She would put Oxford hosts and foreign guests in touch with each other, provide introductions to friends abroad, and accommodate teachers and rehearsing groups in her own house. But, efficient organiser as she was, it is as a loyal, hospitable, and altogether delightful person that her friends will remember her. She loved giving, and always did this with affectionate thoughtfulness: 'this seemed to be your colour', or 'You said you needed something like that', she said, and in her 36

later years she took endless trouble to dispose of things which had value in themselves or for their associations. This year's Annual Report of the Curators of the Taylor Institution states: 'The Curators also record with deep regret the death of Miss Herma Fiedler, whose generosity allowed not only the acquisition of the majority of her father's important library on German literature and Anglo-German relations but also the maintenance of these collections. A catalogue of the major manuscript and printed items appeared in 1962 but both the personal archive and the additions are of unusual interest. Miss Fiedler's other gifts included a bust of her father and, recently, a fine portrait of him.' Her home, The Lane House, has for many of us delightful memories, of welcome, of ample hospitality, of music and scholarship, for Herma remained all her life most loyal to her College: she was elected (unopposed) Member of the Council 1946-52, and it was she who organized and acted as Hon. Treasurer of the Memorial Fund for Members of the College killed by enemy action 1939-45. The panel is now in the Chapel, a fitting memorial to their sacrifice and to her devotion. Some of us will remember how, at the last Gaudy, she gallantly struggled to the Garden Party, although terribly hampered by the illness which eventually killed her. To her College and to all who knew her her loss is a great sorrow. A. C. P.

ANNIE HADFIELD NNIE HADFIELD came up to St. Hugh's in 1923 from the Hulme Grammar School for Girls, Oldham. After four years at Oxford she A was appointed English Mistress at the Liverpool Girls' College, but the ill health which dominated her life led her to give up teaching after a short time. She had repeated attacks of bronchitis throughout her life and so she and her mother left Lancashire in search of a milder climate and eventually settled in Exeter where, in 1940, she became Assistant to the Regional Secretary for Education in H.M. Forces and, in 1948, a member of the ExtraMural Department of Exeter University. She very much enjoyed the work there and was valued and appreciated, for she was careful and methodical in all she did and whatever she undertook was punctually accomplished. She was a prodigious reader—indeed, she and I spent many vacations reading in the John Ryland Library, Manchester, to which she has generously left half her estate—the other half goes to her old College. She was never a gregarious person and as she grew older she became more withdrawn and self-sufficient, but she had also great faith and trust in her friends. She had a strong sense of humour and her astringent comments on people and things were very entertaining. In March 1977 she went on her annual visit to Italy, recuperating this year after a bad attack of shingles, but she returned prematurely on 28 March and was found dead two days later. She had faced with calm courage more than one desperate health crisis and had now perhaps relied too much on her capacity to survive against the odds. Many of us will never forget the chubby redhead she used to be, nor the painfully thin, almost wizened figure of her later years. The spirit remained the same throughout as did her steadfast friendship. She was a very loyal and devoted member of St. Hugh's. M. M.

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FREDA MARIE BEDI (nĂŠe HOULSTON), GELONGMA KARMA KHECHOG PALMO REDA came up as an Exhibitioner to St. Hugh's in from Parkfield Cedars School, Derby, and graduated in the Honours School of P.P.E. F in 1933. Shortly before her death on 26 March 1977, she wrote that the 1929

National Committee of Indian Women had given her an award for 'outstanding service to India', adding: 'Well, the honour also goes to St. Hugh's.' In 1933 Freda married Baba Bedi, an Indian and an Oxford graduate and from then on her life was bound up with India: 'It had never been our fate since our marriage to live a particularly safe life in the political conditions then obtaining in India, and we had hoped that with the dawn of independence we should have a chance to settle down to solid constructive work to build up free India. . . . But there was a stretch of danger and difficulty still to be crossed, and we landed in Kashmir at the end of November 1947 to contribute what we could to the resistance. . . . We camped out in our first house in Srinagar, along with Ranga, then fourteen and Kabir, then two. . . . Along with the brave Kashmiri girls and women . . . I took up the organisation of women's work in the different refugee camps, all of us acting as older sisters to the thousands of children and women suffering not only physical hardship in the desperate cold, but often mental torture when relations and children had been killed, abducted, or lost on the miserable trek to safety. . . . January 1st, 1949, saw the Cease-fire. In September 1949 little Gulhima (Guli) was born. Her name means "Rose of the Snows", a fitting one for a child born in this valley of the Himalayas, famed through the centuries for its natural beauties, snows and flowers and lakes and gardens. . . The year 195o saw Freda back at work again, at a pioneer college for women in Srinagar, University of Kashmir. In 1959 she was invited to report on Tibetan refugee camps and threw herself unreservedly into the work of rehabilitation; she was especially concerned about the young Tibetan incarnate Lamas upon whom much responsibility for the future leadership of their country rested. In 1961 she became Hon. Director of the Young Lamas' Home School and in 1965, alive to the danger of having so many of the future leaders of Tibet together, she wrote: 'Due to the China-India war emergency I am leaving with three nuns and about twenty-three lamas for Andretta.' In 1963 she founded a Buddhist nunnery, became a Buddhist nun in 1966, and was subsequently ordained Gelongma, the highest ordination available to a Buddhist nun, and one not awarded in India for many centuries previously. By 1970 she was a valued speaker on the world stage in her chosen sphere and travelled extensively. A letter written last December, among the bourgainvillias and poinsettias on the verandah of her elder son's flat outside Calcutta, was full of news of her children and grandchildren and of Baba Bedi—gay and full of spirit, but recognizing at last that a modicum of rest was needed. 'Some there are who have left a name behind them to be commemorated in story.' O. C.

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GWYNETH MORLEY WYN had a severe stroke on Is October 1977 and died four days later. Her passing—so suddenly—left her to us as vivid as she had always G been. At the 1976 Gaudy, the Jubilee Gaudy for Gwyn and twenty-five of her 1926 contemporaries, she was as active as ever, making light of her physical handicap to join in all the festivities and 'tire the sun with talking and send him down the sky'. Membership of a community brought Gwyn great happiness and she was actively involved in the life of the schools where she taught: Holly Lodge High School, Smethwick, Wellington High School, and Enfield High School. At Enfield she was both Head of the Mathematics Department and Senior Mistress. By 1966-7 she was ready for retirement, not least because she felt unwilling to face the many changes which reorganization on comprehensive lines would inevitably bring to Enfield. But the deciding factor was Borth y Gest, near Portmadoc, which she had visited from childhood and where she and her brother had bought and modernized a pair of cottages with a glorious view across the Glaslyn estuary to Harlech. Gwyn thoroughly enjoyed her retirement, actively supporting the Church and serving the W.I. at county and national as well as at local level. Neighbouring choirs welcomed help from a former member of the Oxford Bach Choir and the London Philharmonic Choral Society. Gwyn found time too for her many hobbies—painting, wood-carving, gardening

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her life Irene Palmer sought what is most worth-while, and she found it pre-eminently in Oxford where she responded with lasting gratitude and loyalty to St. Hugh's College. She came up from Wyggeston Grammar School in 1933 as an Exhibitioner. She gained a First in Classical Honour Moderations in 1935 and was awarded a College Scholarship in 1937. Within a few days of finishing Greats, she sat successfully for the competitive entrance examination for the Civil Service, and became an Assistant Principal at the former Board of Education. Hard work did not prevent Irene from enjoying Oxford—the river and the beautiful garden at St. Hugh's—and London gave her rich experience of theatres, museums, and exhibitions. In 1954 she changed her career to teaching and became Classics Mistress at Barr's Hill School, Coventry. It was a good centre for her and she joined in the local activities, especially in the worship and fellowship of the new cathedral, and she shared her home with her widowed mother. Irene was an intrepid traveller, whom even wartime restrictions could not immobilize; at that period she would arrive for a visit after crossing a large part of England on bicycle. When the frontiers of Europe were open again she spent holidays in many countries then almost closed to tourists from the West, and retirement enabled her to travel more widely—to Egypt, to Kenya, where, at the Treetops Hotel, she had the joy of observing wild animals in their natural habitat—and to Calcutta to see the mission work of Mother Teresa. Unlike many travellers she did not readily talk about her experiences but, in response to genuine interest, her conversation could be fascinating, rich with unusual information and lightened by humour. Her reticence masked deeper qualities : complete integrity, constancy in friendship, compassion, and the great courage with which she faced a life that was often difficult and, after her mother's death, increasingly solitary. Her membership of St. Hugh's was, I believe, a source of strength to Irene. She regularly attended Gaudies and for the last one—that torrid week-end in July 1976—she had snatched a couple of days from the work of selling her house and moving into the flat she was to occupy for so short a time. In January 1977 she set off on a cruise round the world. Her return was followed by a brief illness and death on 17 April 1977. In a card dated 10-12 February (she had lost a day crossing the international date-line) she wrote : 'I feel I have been travelling for ever over the boundless sea. . . . The major event ahead is an excursion into the People's Republic of China.' It is good to think that this brave spirit remained adventurous and eager to the end. V. N. 40

ETHEL LESLEY PATERSON ESLEY PATERSON came up to St. Hugh's in 1916, from Norwich la High School for Girls, to read for an Honours Degree in French. Most of her time at Oxford was covered by the war years, when many activities were curtailed, but she made her mark on the life of the College as Senior Student for 1918-19 and also through her prowess in games for which she had a natural aptitude. She was College Tennis and Lacrosse Captain and won her Blues, and later she became very keen on climbing. On leaving Oxford she taught mainly at St. Swithun's, Winchester, but after her mother's death she retired and in 1947 went to live at Rosthwaite in Borrowdale. There she lived simply, almost austerely, identifying herself with the life of the Lake District. And she continued to enjoy walking on the Fells till within a few months of her death. D. N. G.

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MARY ESTELLE WHITE last issue of the Chronicle noted honours and achievements of Mary White, Emeritus Professor of Classics in Trinity College, Toronto. They proved sad reading for her friends, who knew she had died on 7 January 1977 after a short illness. Mary came up to St. Hugh's on Senior Status in 193o. In appearance she was slight and, in fact, so insubstantial that once, while canoeing at the stern, she was left behind, suspended on a hawthorn bush. Only the agitated shouts

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from punts coming upstream revealed her plight to her companions. She never quite lost this appearance of fragility but her friends and colleagues became increasingly aware of the strength of character underlying it. Being already an M.A. of the Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Mary found it exhilarating to pursue her studies under a very different system and amusing rather than oppressive to live under the old-fashioned discipline of a university where women were still 'on sufferance', and after a very happy time here, interrupted by a return to Canada for family reasons, she completed Greats in 1933. After various school-teaching appointments in Western Canada she obtained, in 1938, a lectureship at McMaster University and, in 1941, moved to Trinity College, Toronto, where she became Associate Professor in 1946. In 1946 she was appointed Worrell Professor, and a year later Head of the Department of Classics. She was the only woman head of a department in the University of Toronto. By chance I was in Oxford in the summer of 1949 when Mary paid her first return visit to College. She was on her way to Athens and was eager to see her former tutors and old friends. No doubt she impressed the former by her academic achievements, the most obvious of which was the editing of Phoenix, the Journal of the Classical Association of Canada, of which she was one of the founders. We, her contemporaries, were more impressed by the smallness of the suitcase which contained her wardrobe for two months. Canada had nylon! Her Christmas letters kept her friends in touch but our paths did not cross again until 1961 in Princeton, when Mary was again on her way to Athens. The years in between had been filled with the writing of articles, the editing (oh, so tactfully!) of other people's contributions to Phoenix and, above all, to teaching. She was an exacting but also an inspiring teacher, who could impart her own knowledge and enthusiasm to her students. And throughout these years she was steeping herself in the history of sixth-century Athens, about which she was steadily becoming an outstanding authority. An extended visit to Oxford took place in 1966 when Mary returned as an Exchange Scholar under the auspices of the Canadian and British Councils. Two enlivening and profitable terms were spent as an Hon. Fellow of St. Hugh's, where she was a welcome addition to the S.C.R. She surveyed the Oxford scene of the sixties and found it exceeding good. She approved the more acceptable status of women dons, who by then were allowed to approach the male High Tables, even their Senior Common Rooms. Within a year of her return to Toronto she had succeeded in introducing the same liberal approach in that university. The public lectures she delivered during these two terms brought her work to the attention of British scholars who fully appreciated her worth. She was made an honorary member of the Hellenic Society, a tribute she valued as highly as her honorary doctorates of two Canadian universities. Throughout the years many of Mary's friends had the chance to visit her in Toronto and to enjoy her gracious hospitality. Pressure of work never interfered with the entertainment of her friends who, however, suspected that the midnight oil burned long after they themselves had gone to bed. In 1975 scholars in Britain had the chance to learn more of how Mary's great work was shaping. The paper she read at the Triennial Meeting of the Classical Societies in Oxford was acclaimed the best in a series of outstanding papers. This critical and innovatory account of Peisistratos aroused great 42

expectations for her book on the foundations for Athenian growth laid by the Tyrants. Colleagues and friends will now see her book through the press: a fitting memorial to her memory. L. B. T.

EVELINE JOYCE WOODROW OYCE WOODROW died in hospital on 12 July 1977, a few days after her year had held its jubilee reunion. We who were at the reunion were concerned at the silence from her, but had no idea of its sad cause, and were shocked to hear of her death. She came to St. Hugh's in 1927 to read French; she was one of the year's Firsts and was awarded the Hurry Prize. After training in Birmingham she went to Clifton High School in 1931 where, as Miss Glenday writes: 'she soon made her mark. She was one of those people for whom teaching is a true vocation, and she genuinely enjoyed all aspects of it. Her scholarship was reflected not only in the Advanced Level and College Entrance work but also in the accurate and thorough grounding achieved lower down in the school. . . . In 1934 she became Head of the French Department and it was no surprise when, in 5946, she was appointed Headmistress of Kettering High School for Girls, where she remained until her retirement in 1972: We did not see anything of her at Gaudies, for she suffered for many years from rheumatoid arthritis. Yet, as her secretary and great friend writes: 'she never complained but always managed to cheer and encourage others. She did not leave Kettering when she retired and her home was open to young and old, especially to children whom she loved and understood. Few babies of "Old Girls" from Kettering High School were without knitted garments from her needles, for fortunately her arthritis did not prevent her knitting. When she first came to College she had already had a year at the Sorbonne. This would be nothing unusual these days, but in our time it was enough to make us stand in considerable awe of her, and she was indeed most obviously gifted. Yet, through shared lectures and tutorials and many bicycle rides, we saw both the serious scholarly side and the outgoing friendliness of her character. One of her very great friends was Hilary Haworth, and those of us who remember will realize what a great sorrow Hilary's death was to Joyce. In our turn we, who knew Joyce, are now bearing the sorrow of her death. A. B.

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PUBLICATIONS J. Bartlett, B.A. Job Creation Alternatives in West Cumbria. (Part of the evidence to the Windscale Inquiry, 1977, submitted and published by the Socialist Environment and Resources Association.) Professor K. H. Coburn, B.Litt., M.A., LL.D., F.R.S. In Pursuit of Coleridge, Bodley Head, L4:5o. M. E. Colthorpe, M.A. Royal Cambridge, publ. by Cambridge City Council, 1977, £1.95• with Linley H. Bateman, Queen Elizabeth I and Harlow, publ. by Harlow Development Corporation, 1977, 75p. —

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L. A. Cort, B.Litt. The Tokugawa Collection: No Robes and Masks (translation and adaptation of the exhibition catalogue, sponsored by Japan House Gallery, New York). E. B. Dean, M.A. Bramall Hall: the story of an Elizabethan Manor House, publ. by Recreation and Culture Division, Metropolitan Borough of Stockport, 1977, k2.95• J. A. Duncan, B.Litt., M.A. Paul Adam: du symbolisme litteraire au symbolisme cabalistique. (Critical Study), Lang, Bern, 1977, 52 Swiss Fr. Mrs. V. Griffiths, M.A. (née Kipping). The Wind is Howling, from the Japanese by Ayako Miura, Hodder & Stoughton, 1976, Sop. Dr. A. E. Hamlin, M.A., Ph.D. Three Guide Books to Monuments: Armagh Friary, Bonamargy Friary, Co. Antrim, Carrickfergus Castle, Co. Antrim, H.M.S.O. Belfast for Dept. of Environment for N. Ireland, 1977, 8p. each. P. M. Hartnoll, M.A. Who's Who in George Eliot, Elm Tree Books, Jan. 1977,£3'95. Mrs. J. Hope-Simpson, M.A. (née Cureton). Who Knows? Twelve unsolved mysteries. Paul Hamlyn, paperback sop. and Nelson, N.Y. 1976. Black Madonna, Heinemann, London, 1976, £2.5o, and Nelson, N.Y. Vote for Victoria, Heinemann, London, 1976, £1.90. —Coven and Cauldron, paperback edn. of The Hamish Hamilton Book of Witches, Paul Hamlyn, 1977, sop. Mrs. L. d'O. Iremonger, M.A. (née Parks). How do I love thee, paperback edn., Sphere, 1977. The Revd. Dr. M. E. Isaacs, B.D., M.A., D.Phil. The Concept of Spirit, Heythrop Monograph No. r, publ. by Heythrop College, London, 1976, £3.50. Professor L. J. Kramer, M.A., D.Phil., with R. D. Eagelson, Language and Literature: a Synthesis, Nelson, 1976. Dr. B. M. Levick, M.A., D.Phil. Tiberius the Politician, Thames & Hudson, 1976, L9.50. Dr. A. C. Percival, M.A., Ph.D. The English Association Handbook of Societies and Collections, publ. by the Library Association, September 1977, £2.50, paperback. The James-Pyne-Dixon Family Book. Printed privately, 1977. Dame Margery Perham, D.C.M.G., C.B.E., M.A., D.Litt., F.B.A. East African Journey, Faber & Faber, 1977. Mrs. M. Potter, M.A. (née Newman). Tony's Special Place, Bodley Head, 1977, £2.35. —A Place for Everyone, by Anne Betteridge, Hurst & Blackett, 1977, £3.50. —The Lorimer Line, by Anne Melville, Heinemann, 1977, £4.90• Dr. M. E. Reeves, M.A., Ph.D., D.Litt., F.B.A. Joachim of Fiore and the Phophetic Future, S.P.C.K., 1976, L3.95, paperback; Harper & Row, N.Y., 1977, as a Harper Torch Book. Mrs. R. 0. Tickell, M.A. (née Haynes). The Seeing Eye, Seeing I, by R. Haynes, Hutchinson, 1976, St. Martin's Press, U.S.A., 1977. Mrs. J. B. Tillman, M.A. (née Boyce). Exploring Sound-Creative Musical Projects for Teachers, Staines & Bell, £3•oo. Mrs. R. E. Waterhouse, M.A., Ph.D. (née Franklin), with J. Whybrow, How Birmingham became a great city. J. Whybrow, 1976. 44

Mrs. A. Watson, M.A. (née Young), with E. Bellinghaus, Odo of Bayeux. History Textbook, W. and R. Chambers Ltd., 1977, £1.25. D. T. M. Webster, M.A. Understanding English z and 3, Otava, Helsinki, 1975, Step 4, W eilin & Gobs, Helsinki, 1975. The Twins and the Ghost, Otava, Helsinki, 1977. The Twins and the Five Father Christmases, Otava, Helsinki, 1977. —Guess What? Macmillan, 1977. Daisy! Daisy!, Radio Play, Finnish Radio, Feb. 1976. So Many Everests, Radio Play, Finnish Radio, March 1977.

ARTICLES Dr. R. A. Bailey, M.A., D.Phil., with F. H. L. Gilchrist and H. D. Patterson. `Identification of Effects and Confounding Patterns in Factorial Designs.' Biometrika, 64, 1977, pp. 347-54. `Patterns of Confounding in Factorial Designs.' Ibid., pp. 597-603. with M. F. Franklin. 'Selection of Defining Contrasts and Confounded Effects in Two-level Experiments.' Applied Statistics, z6, 1977. Mrs. Bax, B.Litt., M.A. (née Priestley) with Neil Bax. 'Government Accounting in Ghana: a Survey of Problems and Possibilities.' Greenhill Journal of Administration, vol. 2, no. 2, 1975. `Colonial Policy and Administration.' Proceedings of the Seminar on Ghanian Historiography, ed. J. 0. Hunwick (University of Ghana, Legon), 1977. D. V. M. Bishop, M.A., M.Phil. 'Registered Criminality', etc. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 1976, 85, pp. 240-2. `The P-Scale and Psychosis,' Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 1977. Dr. B. R. Bradbrook, Ph.D., D.Phil. (née NeCasova). Reviews of Viktor Fischl: Kuropeni; Milogkaka: Krev na Palete; Jaroslav Strand: Job. In World Literature Today, 1977. Dr. Chaloner, M.A., Ph.D., with A. B. Holmes, M. A. McKenvey and R. A. Raphael. 'Synthesis of cyclooctatriene--1,4—dione bisethyleneketal.' Tetrahedron Letters, 265, 1975. with J. K. M. Sanders. 'Increased sensitivity in low temperature '3C n.m.r. spectroscopy.' N.M.R. Discussion Group, Dec. 1975. —with Z. Shakked. 'The crystal structure of 5,8-dibromo-cyclooct-2,3ene-I,4-dione bisethyleneketal.' Crystal Structure Communications, 5, 1976, p. 655. with A. B. Holmes. 'The lithium enolate of cycloocta-2,5,7-triene-I,4dione and its reactions with electrophiles.' .7. Chem. Soc. Perkin 1, 1976, p. 1838. with J. M. Brown, 'Strong amide-halothane hydrogen bonding observed by neuclear magnetic resonance.' Canadian Journal of Chemistry, 55, 1977, p. 3380. `Enantiomer Recognition and Conformational Equilibria in metal phosphine complexes and its relevance to asymmetric catalysis.' Paper given at the Chemical Society, Autumn Meeting, Aberdeen, September 1977. Dr. A. M. Chisman, M.A., Ph.D. (née Fletcher). 'Rhyme and word order in Las Cantigas de Santa Maria.' Kentucky Romance Quarterly, 1977. 45

C. Clark, B.Litt., M.A. 'People and Languages in pre-Conquest Canterbury.' Journal of Medieval History, 2 (1976), pp. 1-33. =Some Early Canterbury Surnames.' English Studies, LVII, 1976, pp. 294-309. L. A. Cort, B.Litt. 'Special issue on Shigaraki pottery.' Aruku.Miru.Kiku, June 1977, in Japanese. Professor R. J. Dean, M.A., D.Phil. 'Nicholas Trevet, Historian.' Medieval Learning and Literature. Essays presented to Richard William Hunt. Ed. J. J. G. Alexander and M. T. Gibson, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1976, pp. 328-52. Mrs. Dimond, M.A., LL.D. (née Price). 'Evaluation of Hospital stay.' The Hospital, Sept. 1972. —`Consent and Communication'. World Medicine, Sept. 1976. J. A. Duncan, B.Litt., M.A., `Paul Adam et l'Afrique—le mirage de raventure coloniale.' L'avant-siecle 2, Paris (Minard), Jan. 1977, PP. 21-44• 44 French Fr. `Mirrors and labyrinths: some comparisons between Cortazar and the French nouveau roman.' Comparison, no. 3, July 1976, pp. 43-64. —`Self and Others: neurosis and conflict in the Goncourts' Germinie Lacerteux' . Forum for Modern Language Studies, July 1977. Dr. A. E. Hamlin, M.A., Ph.D., with J. Hall. 'Deserted settlements in Devon.' The Devon Historian, Nov. 1976, pp. 2-7. with D. M. Waterman. `Banagher Church, County Derry.' Ulster Journal of Archaeology, 39, 1976, pp. 25-41. Mrs. Hartcup, M.A. (née Levinson). Articles in Times Educational Supplement, Nov., Dec. 1975, Jan. 1976; Times Higher Education Supplement, July, Nov. 1975; April 1976. M. Jacobs, B.Litt., M.A. 'Legitimate and illegitimate Drama. Ferdinand Raimund's Der Alpenkonig and der Menschenfeind and John Baldwin Buckstone's The King of the Alps.' German Life and Letters. Festschrift Number for Professor W. Witte, October 1977. Dr. P. C. Johnstone, M.A., D.Phil. 'Some early "Spanish" plants in Arabic Herbals.' Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Sciences, 26 (99), Dec. 1976, pp. 280-8. `Aconite and its Antidote in Arabic Writings.' Journal of the History of Arabic Science, I (1), 1977. Professor L. J. Kramer, M.A., D.Phil. 'The Literary News 1882-1883.' Australian Literary Studies, V01. 2, no. 3, 1976, pp. 259-68. —`The Landscapes of Slessor's Poetry.' Southerly, no. I, 1976, pp. 3-14. `Symbolic Landscapes.' Man and Landscapes in Australia, eds. Sedilon and Davis, 1976, pp. 145-56. Dr. B. M. Levick, M.A., D.Phil. 'The Fall of Julia the Younger.' Latomus, XXXV , 1976, pp. 301 ff. I. C. Lunt, B.A. 'Rhythm and the Slow Learner.' Special Education, vol. 62, no. 4, 1973. Mrs. M. S. Moss, B.A. (née Mathai). 'The Indian Family.' UNICEF News, Jan. 1977. Dr. A. C. Percival, M.A., Ph.D. 'Women and the Society of Arts in its Early Days.' Royal Society of Arts Journal, April, May, June 1977. Professor J. A. Sylph, M.A. `Long-term Psychiatric Care in Ontario.' Canadian Medical Association Journal, 1976. 46

`Alternatives to the Medical Hospital.' Archives of General Psychiatry, August 1977. `Social Disability in Chronic Psychiatric Patients.' American Journal of Psychiatry, Dec. 1977. Mrs. R. 0. Tickell, M.A. (nĂŠe Haynes). 'Utopia = SF. = Doomsday.' The Contemporary Review, April 1977. R. Weatherall, M.A., M.Sc. 'Seasonal Variation in Infant Mortality.' Papers on Child Health, publ. by H.M.S.O., 1976. `Which? Statistics.' Journal of B.I. A.S. Jan. 1977. Dr. V. E. S. Webb, D.Phil. (nĂŠe Fish). 'A faience vase from the Bomford Collection ?' In Levant, iv, pp. 150-5.

NEWS AND APPOINTMENTS OF SENIOR MEMBERS (The date of appointment is 1977 unless otherwise stated. The date after each name is that of entry to the College) MRS. ABBOTT (A.

R. Brown, 1972). Assistant French teacher, Alleyne's School, Stevenage since 1976. MRS. ADAMS (S. Edgar, 1971). Research Assistant, Department of Pathology and Ophthalmology, 1977-9, in Cheshire, studying the factors affecting corneal grafting. MRS. ALDHOUSE (C. S. Walker, 1965) rejoined the Engineering Employers' Federation as Senior Industrial Relations Officer in 1976 and was reappointed member of H.M. Industrial Tribunals in October 1977. o. ALEXANDER (1931) retired from the post of Head of Upper School, Priory School, Lewes in July. DR. ANDERSON (J. E. Lucking, 1962) is a part-time Clinical Medical Officer for the Lancashire Area Health Authority. MRS. BARNETT (A. Huxley, 1954) is teaching English as a Foreign Language for a business college catering mainly for Swedish businessmen. She writes: `the family returned from Rhodesia in stages in 1976 and my husband became Vicar of St. Matthias, Colindale, in March 1977. Now we are still trying to adapt to England after fourteen years in Africa.' J. BARTLETT (197o) is doing research with the Earth Resources Research (Research arm of the Friends of the Earth) on 'The Re-use of derelict land and buildings in Britain, with a view to creating local long term employment'. C. P. BARTON (1949) is very active in political work and was elected a member of the Welsh Liberal Party Executive in June. MRS. BAX (M. A. Priestley, 1945). Visiting Professor, Department of Library and Archival Studies, University of Ghana, Legon, 1977-8. MRS. BIRD (S. C. Squibb, 197o) was elected as Associate to the Register of the Library Association in February. D. V. M. BISHOP (197o). Research Officer Neuropsychology Unit, Churchill Hospital, Oxford since 1975; Fulford Research Fellow, St. Anne's College, Oxford since 1976. MRS. BOOKER (J. J. Thomas, 1971) was appointed in September teacher of French and German at Tiverton School. 47

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E. Mason, 1972). Assistant teacher at Southwood Comprehensive School, Corby, Northants, since 1976. DR. BRADBURY (H. S. M. Macpherson, 1951) is looking forward to a few months sabbatical leave this spring at Flinders University, near Adelaide. R. M. BROOKE (1945) writes: 'My present appointment (as Principal Lecturer, Religious Studies, Philippa Fawcett and Furzedown College of Education), is temporary owing to the imminent closure of the College. But I had a year's leave of absence to read for an M.A. in Educational Psychology, which I hope to take up when my present appointment comes to an end.' M. L. BROWNE (1969) has worked for an international marketing research consultancy, involving much travel in Europe and a project in Japan. In April she was appointed marketing research executive with Rank Xerox Ltd., responsible for co-ordinating European projects. MRS. BURROUGH (J. P. B. M. Boenisch, 1966) writes :`in spite of the addition to the family I am kept busy editing and correcting theses and papers written in "English" by Dutch people.' MRS. BUSHING (P. M. Moore, 1952) writes: 'We are on the point of returning to the U.S.A. after twenty months in the U.K. One of the highlights of our stay for me was attending my first Gaudy last July.' R. M. BUTLER (1971) completed a postgraduate course in Librarianship at the Postgraduate School of Librarianship of Sheffield University and was awarded an M.A. In September she was appointed Assistant in the History Faculty Library, Oxford. MRS. CAIRD (V. M. Newport, 1941) writes that her husband resigned the Principalship of Mansfield College on his appointment as Dean Ireland's Professor, and they have therefore left the Lodgings at Mansfield College to live at Letcombe Regis. MRS. CAMRASS (J. Heslop, 1944) has completed a two-year course (part-time) at Auckland Technical Institute and gained the Certificate in Statistics for Technologists and Research Workers. MRS. CAPLAN (F. R. Beer, 1966) is a freelance interpreter with the E.E.C. MRS. CARLISLE (A. I. Gillmore, 1945) since September Head of Religious Education within the Humanities Department and in charge of Classical Studies at Shene School, East Sheen, London. Her eldest daughter is studying for a Ph.D. at the University of California, and her second daughter, now married, is a trainee journalist. MRS. CARR (D. M. Butler, 1923) was Sheriff of Oxford in 1972-3 and Lord Mayor in 1977-8. MRS. CARTLEDGE (J. S. Portrait, 1965) has been a partner in Messrs. Herbert Oppenheimer, Nathan and Vandyk, City Solicitors since March 1976. MRS. CATLOW (J. E. Grant, 1962) writes: 'With my family I have recently enjoyed an exciting trip to Rio de Janeiro, to visit Anne Robinson (nĂŠe Duff) and her husband and children.' c. J. CHARDIN (1967). Assistant Market Research Manager, The Financial Times since August. M. CHATTERJEE (1969). Research Assistant, Molteno Institute, Department of Parasitology, Cambridge. M. L. CHETTLE (1973). Teacher of Mathematics, Tideway School, Newhaven since September. S. CHINN (1966). Lecturer in Medical Statistics, Department of Community Medicine, St. Thomas's Hospital Medical School since March.

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(A. McG. Fletcher, 1964). English Translator, Organization of American States, Washington, D.C. since June. MRS. CHRISTIAN (J. M. A. West, 1961) has had a 'very part-time' position as a Social Work Representative for the Family Fund since December 1975. MRS. COOPER (P. M. Morton, 195o) writes: 'In October 1977 I started on the one-year Certificate of Education course at the University of British Columbia, on a part-time basis. When completed I will be qualified to teach mathematics in High Schools in British Columbia. I have been tutoring mathematics to individual students for the last three years. To be accepted at the University of British Columbia was not as straightforward as I had expected. My Class III Honours degree, albeit from Oxford, was apparently not good enough (they require a 65% average from all universities equally), and I was required to do a Theory or Numbers course, to qualify. I proceeded to get a First in it.' L. A. CORT (1966). Japan Foundation Professional Fellowship, April—September 1976, in Japan. MRS. COVERDALE (F. M. Reid, 1946) resigned on her marriage from the post of Personal Assistant to the Director of Social Services for East Sussex, which she had held since the Local Government Re-organization in 1974. B. COWDEROY (1943) has been made Director of the Christian Organization Research and Advisory Trust, in succession to the new Bishop of Croydon. DR. CRAMP (C. E. Bastie, 1965). Senior Registrar in Paediatrics, North-West Regional Health Authority. MRS. CRELLIN (D. M. Harvey, 1943) writes: 'My husband is moving to the UNESCO Regional Office in Bangkok and I am therefore giving up my post here in Jakarta and hope to find a similar post in Bangkok.' J. CURNOW (1971) who gained her P.G.C.E. with Distinction at Reading University and the University Prize in Education, is now Assistant Mistress (Mathematics) at the Royal Grammar School for Boys, High Wycombe. MRS. DAVIES (C. D. Wintram, 1968) taught modern languages from 1972 to 1975 at a Comprehensive School in Oxfordshire and is now a Social Worker in the Social Services Department at Leicester, where her husband has a post at the University. MRS. DAWS (U. C. Rice, 1967). Secretary for Personnel and Labour Relations, Health Visitors' Association since November 1974. MRS. DIMOND (B. C. Price, 196o) is at present in pupillage in Barristers' Chambers, 34 Park Place, Cardiff. She was called to the Bar in July 1975. E. A. DOVEY (1972) has been History Mistress at the Alice Ottley School, Worcester since September 1976. MRS. DRAFFAN (J. M. Albery, 1958) became part-time Mathematics Teacher at Deep Dene School, Hove in March. M.G. EDWARDS (1935) writes: 'On reaching the age of 6o in June, I formerly retired from the Civil Service, after thirty-four years with the Ministry of Defence. Not yet feeling ready to stop full-time work, and wishing to augment my pension, I accepted re-engagement in a lower grade. My new job is helping the Ministry's Youth Welfare Officers to look after the interests of young new entrants, between the ages of 16 and 21 years of age. It is a complete and refreshing change after eleven years spent purchasing military equipment.' MRS. ELLIOTT (K. B. Lawrence, 197o) has been Private Secretary to John

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Fraser, M.P., Minister of State, Department of Prices and Consumer Protection, since June 1976. N. ELLIOTT (1940). Director of Housing, North East Fife District Council since February 1975. C. D. EVANS (1967) writes: 'Having completed five years at Hayes School, Hayes, Kent, as Head of Religious Education, I have now taken up an appointment as Head of Middle School at Hanbury Grange School, London Borough of Bexley.' P. M. C. EVANS (1931) is a member of the Bishop's Council, Winchester Diocese and Lay Co-Chairman of the Winchester Deanery Synod. MRS. FARMAN (P. A. Bowyer, 1949) has a part-time post to teach History at Hills Road, Sixth Form College, Cambridge since September. DR. FINCHAM (J. Cousins, 1944). Human Studies Manager, Life Science Research, Stack, Essex since June. MRS. FLYNN (R. M. G. Andrews, 1969) has been Assistant Mathematics Teacher at Sir William Perkins's School, Chertsey since September. MRS. FOOT (M. E. Beckinsale, 1957). Press Officer for British Actors' Equity. MRS. FREER (D. G. Pointon, 1953) was awarded the degree of M.Phil. at Leicester University for a thesis on 'Business families in Victorian Leicester' in July 1976. DR. FRY (C. Bilverstone, 1964) has been awarded the degree of Ph.D. in the University of St. Andrews (Faculty of Divinity), for a thesis on 'Some studies in secularization, with reference to worship, Religious Education, and the situation in Scotland'. MRS. GAIR (M. E. Farson, 1947). Permanent, full-time English teacher, Wilmslow County Grammar School for Boys since September 1975: Extra-Mural Lecturer for Manchester University, giving winter classes in literature, since September 1973. MRS. GAMMAGE (P. J. Hedley, 1961) writes:' We have just spent a very enjoyable three years in Canada and we are now off to Connecticut, where my husband has a job with ITT.' DR. GAME (1970) obtained a D.Phil. in high energy physics at Linacre College in October 1976 and is now on an M.Sc. course entitled 'Landscape Ecology, Design and Maintenance' at Wye College, London University. MRS. GARRATT (M. C. Robson, 1962) writes: 'I am still doing some sporadic freelance editing for Macmillan Education Ltd., but with three children under four, it is difficult to find time or energy for outside work.' MRS. GIBSON (S. M. Precious, 1972) gained third place in the order of merit, the Hewitt Prize, and the Little Prize for the Taxation paper in the May professional r examination of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. M. C. GICHARD (1959). Executive Assistant to the Director of the Walther and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research. Previously she spent five years with the U.K. Medical Research Council and took her B.Sc. at Birkbeck College, London, with First Class Honours in Psychology. MRS. GORRIE (L. C. Mackintosh, 1947). After being part-time teacher of English at St. Hilary's School, Edinburgh, has been made, following further qualification, part-time teacher of Religious Education as from September 1976. MRS. GRAYSON (J. M. Jones, 1961) writes: 'After teaching for six years in secondary schools, I entered Birmingham University as a postgraduate 50

student, eventually registering for a Ph.D. For the last year I have been teaching part-time in the Economic and Social History Department at Birmingham, and I hope to submit my Ph.D. thesis sometime next year. The thesis will be "A study of popular education in Worcestershire between 178o and 1870, in its social and economic context". MRS. GRIFFITHS (J. Howard, 197o) resigned her post as Computer Tape Librarian with the South-Western Regional Health Authority in August. MRS. GRIFFITHS (V. Kipping, 1952) writes: 'We have returned to England on leave and expect to remain until September 1979.' V. A. L. GRISOGONO (1968) qualified as a physiotherapist in December 1976. She is currently working at Hillingdon Hospital, Uxbridge, and travelled as Team Physiotherapist with the British team to the World Student Games in Sofia, Bulgaria, in August. REVD. MRS. HAIRE (M. C. Davies, 1966) writes: 'I continue to serve as a Minister of the Evangelical Christian Church in Halmahera, Indonesia, and as a Lecturer (Docent) at the Theological College of the Evangelical Christian Church in Halmahera, at Ternate, Indonesia.' MRS. HALL (F. J. Cutts, 1973) worked at Thornhill School, Gaborone, from October to December, and has a post at Tswelelopele School, Old Naledi, Gaborone from January 1978. MRS. HANDS (M. E. Sells, 1970). Legal Officer, S.N.C.O. Europe Ltd. since February. D. HARLAND (1972) returned to St. Hugh's in September to study for an M.Sc. in Applied Social Studies. MRS. HARPER (P. Della-Porta, 1955) joined the staff of Hansard in January, as a transcriber. DR. HARRIS (V. V. R. Cohen, 1964) was awarded First Place in the June Examinations for the Certified Diploma in Accounting and Finance. MRS. HARRISON (H. S. B. Felberbaum, 1942) writes: 'My husband is retiring early and we are returning to England at the end of this year. We have bought a house in Sussex and hope to be able to devote ourselves entirely to writing and freelance translating and editing.' MRS. HARTCUP (A. A. E. Levinson, 1936). Hon. Press Officer and Member of the Executive Committee Kent Voluntary Service Council. P. M. HARTNOLL (1926) writes: 'After the appointment, in 1969, of a young man to edit the Fourth Edition of The Oxford Companion to the Theatre I gradually withdrew from the job, and did other things. However, he has now decided to give up, leaving the book half finished, so I have taken it up again and hope it will be published in about four years' time. Meanwhile the Third Edition is being reprinted with corrections.' M. F. C. HARVEY (1947). Elected member of the Bristol Diocesan Synod and the Bishop's Council Standing Committee 1976. S. M. HAZELDEN (1971). Branch Librarian, Radlett, Herts. since September 1976. MRS. HICKMAN

(S. M. Tucker, 1969). Education Welfare Officer, Bedfordshire County Council from April 1974 to March 1977. MRS. HOLLAND (J. M. Hollingdale, 1971) will be staying in Chicago until October 1978. MRS. HORTON (M. M. Oldham, 1940) writes: 'Our son, Peter, got his B.A. in Music last summer at Magdalen College, Oxford.' 51

(A. C. Rashleigh, 1956). Library Assistant, Homerton College, Cambridge since August 1976. R. M. HOWARD (1936) retired at the age of 6o from the Food Manufacturers Federation, after seventeen years' service there. She has embarked on a fresh career—teaching English as a foreign language, and, after taking an intensive course at International House, London, she hopes for assignments abroad. DR. HOWL (E. M. C. Dyke, 1941) has been a partner in General Practice since July 1975. D. R. K. IRVINE (1941) has been Headmistress of North Foreland Lodge School since 1968. M. IGGLESDEN (1942). Secretary to the Deputy Registrar, Rhodes University, Grahamstown. MRS. IREMONGER (L. d'O. Parks, 1934) spent a prolonged visit, in 1976, to Italy, Greece, and the Levant to gather material for forthcoming books on Aberdeen and Byron. She writes: 'My daughter is a barrister, practising at the Criminal Bar and on the South Eastern Circuit, and frequently prosecutes at the Old Bailey.' MRS. JACKSON (V. Williams, 1956) writes: 'From September I shall be returning to full-time teaching, as my sons are now both at school. I mall be taking up a History post at King Edward's Grammar School for Girls, Camp Hill, Birmingham.' DR. P. C. JOHNSTONE (1966). Temporary Lecturer (three-year appointment) in Arabic Language and Literature, University of Manchester since October. MRS. KEAREY (J. M. Scott, 1969) writes: 'From 1975-6 we were in Canada and I took an M.A. course and was awarded the degree by the Religion Department, Carleton University, Ottawa, on "A Critical Analysis of Jung's Thought on the Feminine within the Godhead". I also did some sessional lecturing in religion and modern culture and acted as a teaching assistant. Since returning to England I have had two temporary teaching posts (R.E. and English), have finished off my thesis and have been appointed Head of R.E. at Marlwood School, a large new comprehensive school (ex-Thornbury Grammar School) near Bristol.' w. Al. KEENS (1926) is still 'recording busily for various bodies and Trusts, and conserving rare plants. The Newbury Literary Society continues to serve as an antidote to any over-indulgence in botany!' DR. KELVIN (P. Hackwood, 1946) was awarded the degree of Ph.D. by London University in October. She is still Senior Lecturer at Thomas Huxley College of Education, Acton. MRS. KNIGHT (S. M. Jones, 1952) writes that her daughter, Anthea, has just been offered a place at St. Hugh's to read English. PROFESSOR L. J. KRAMER (1949) was made an O.B.E. in 1976 and an Hon. D.Litt. (Tasmania) in 1977. She is a Member of the Australian Broadcasting Commission, of the Universities' Council, the Secondary Schools' Board of N.S.W. and of the Council of the National Library of Australia. She is also a Trustee of the Australian Museum and President of the Australian Council for Educational Standards. o. J. LACE (1924), who has been seriously ill—she had a stroke on 10 June 19'77—is recovering, but is not yet well enough to answer letters. A. E. LAMBERT (197o). Systems Engineer with I.B.M., based at their Newcastle branch.

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has held a Graduate Trainee post in the British Library Lending Division since September. J. M. LAWSON (1971) was appointed to a teaching post at Bryanston School in September 1976, for German and French. MRS. LELLO (S. E. Nash, 1958). Fellow of Hughes Hall, Cambridge 1976; Member of the English Faculty, University of Cambridge 1976. MRS. LINCOLN (C. R. Allen, 1959). Director of Development, St. Paul's College, Lawrenceville, Virginia in March, a four-year Liberal Arts College, affiliated to the American Episcopal Church, with a predominantly black, co-educational enrolment. MRS. LOBEL (M. D. Rogers, 1919) has been granted a British Academy award for research on post-medieval topography. MRS. LONG (S. A. Franklin, 1954) has been Literary Co-ordinator, London Borough of Ealing, since 1975, and would like to hear from anyone else working in the Basic Educational field. MRS. LOVE (B. Haines, 1953) has been a full-time teacher at Kirkburton Middle School since September 1976. MRS. LU (A. E. N. Whittingham, 1947) writes: 'My husband and I celebrated our twenty-fifth wedding anniversary in June, and also his retirement, with a family dinner, a large party, and a trip, by motor-coach, round Australia, which took us to Melbourne, Mildura, Adelaide, Alice Springs, Ayers Rock, Townsville, Brisbane, and back to Canberra. The tour took three weeks and was most enjoyable and interesting.' I. C. LUNT (1966) was Research Associate on the Music for Slow Learners project at Dartington Hall, 1971-3. Since 1973 she has been teaching at Wanstead Comprehensive School in East London and is now Head of Sixth Form and Head of Remedial Departments there, as well as 'setting up the A-level psychology and running that department'. S. LYON (1968) retained (1976-7) as Personal Assistant at Millbank College of Commerce, Liverpool and gained the Royal Society of Arts Diploma for Personal Assistants in June. She was appointed Assistant Buyer, Favourite Food Services Ltd., Cheltenham in November. MRS. MCGOWAN (J. R. A. Kay, 1969) qualified as a Chartered Accountant (English Institute) in September 1975. MRS. McKANE (E. C. Harris, 1939) has returned to England at the completion of her husband's three-year tour as Counsellor at the British Embassy in Washington, and moved into a seventeenth-century Cotswold barn, which they have converted into a house, mid-way between Stroud and Cirencester, in the south Cotswolds. S. J. D. MACKENZIE (1967) is still with the Countryside Commission for Scotland, now covering the 'East', from Montrose to the Borders. J. E. MAGGS (1973) has been a Junior Executive with Dakzety Ltd., in the Group Development Department, since February. PROFESSOR M. M. MAHOOD (1947) has 'acquired an Oxfordshire hideout, for long vacations, Church Cottage, Barford St. Michael'. MRS. MAIS (S. Reynolds, 1964) writes that her husband has taken a new post in Trail (B.C., Canada) 'which is rather dominated by a lead smelter but has beautiful surrounding countryside. I am now a housewife and working towards my Canadian teacher's qualifications.' R. D. MALLIN (1931) retired from teaching in 1976 and is now living in the 53

Dordogne, which 'despite la guerre des cent ans is quite anglophil, and I try to encourage "l'Entente Cordiale" in a small way'. MRS. MARTIN (E. J. Tombs, 1971) has been Teacher of Modern Languages (French and German) at Beauchamp Upper School and Community College, Oadby, Leicestershire since September 1976. MRS. MARVIN (H. E. Sampson, 1971) writes that she has taken up her violin studies again, with Leonard Hirsch. MRS. MASON (L. J. P. Wilmshurst, 1972). Assistant teacher of Geography, Marist Convent, London Road, Sunningdale, Berks. since September. PROFESSOR MAXWELL (W. A. Pronger, 1927) has been made an Hon. Fellow of Rhodes University I.S.E.R. She writes: 'A volume of essays in my honour was published in 1976 (O.U.P. South Africa) by a few of my students who have distinguished themselves in the academic field. I am at present editing Diaries and Journals of early settlers in this area, and have done a little postgraduate tutoring in medieval history. I also work in a literacy campaign for the African staff of the University. I noticed in the Chronicle Dr. Cartwright's note on the 1975 International Conference at the Settlers' Monument, Grahamstown. I was partly responsible for the time-table and organisation, and lectured on Women and Industrial Organisation in nineteenth-century Britain.. . . I was bitterly disappointed to miss the Jubilee of my year.' MRS. MIDDLEDITCH (A. M. Holman, 1968) was teacher of Geography and Geology at St. Catherine's School, Twickenham, 1972-3 and from 1973 to 1976 at Thames Valley College, Twickenham. She writes : 'I was married in 1976 and my husband and I came out to Ras al Khaimah four days later. Since then I have been teaching many nationalities at the R.A.K. English Speaking School, and also teaching the local Sheikh's children English. My husband is Project Manager, building a new power station for R.A.K.' s. M. MOONEY (1972) was appointed to Canon Slade Grammar School, Bolton, in September. MRS. MOWAT (L. E. Homewood, 1934) writes: 'In January my husband resigned the living of Coln St. Aldwyns with Hatherop and Quenington in the Gloucester Diocese and went to Penang, Malaysia, sponsored by the C.M.S. to work with a Chinese congregation for two years. I am unable to join him at present owing to the need of my aged father for constant care and attention. Hence my change of address, temporarily, to his home in Bath.' MRS. MOWAT (P. F. Hunt, 1946). Clerical Officer, Civil Service (Premium Savings Bonds) since 1975. FRAU NEUHANN (J. A. Parker, 1965) writes: 'We have just returned from Richards Bay, South Africa, after the completion of a harbour-building project on which my husband was working I was teaching English a few hours a week to the children of the other expatriots. I am still interpreting for IYHF.' MRS. O'DELL (A. A. M. Wilson, 1933) retired recently from her appointment in a Psychiatric Hospital. She has been Director of the Samaritans in Hull for seventeen years and National Vice-Chairman of the Samaritans for five years. She was awarded the M.B.E. in the New Year Honours List, 1978, for service to the community. E. L. OLDHAM (1938) will be retiring from the Headmistress-ship of Elmslie School, Blackpool, at the end of March 1978. 54

J. Reeve, 193o) writes: 'My husband retired from the Prison Service at the end of April. We are much looking forward to living in a real country area (Much Marcie, Herefordshire). M. A. PALM (1972) has been a Research Student for a Ph.D. (Botany) at St. Andrew's University since October 1975. MRS. PARIS (M. C. Milligan, 196o) writes: 'I have been involved in setting up the new Community Council for this area (Glasgow) and have found this very interesting. I am now one of twenty-one Councillors forming a link between the local government and our own community.' DEACONESS J. D. PAYNE (1973) has been a part-time Tutor on the North-West Ordination Course since September and was made a Deaconess of the Church of England in Sheffield Cathedral on 18 December. DR. PAYNE (M. A. Moore, 1969) is at present a G.P. trainee, Stoke-on-Trent, February 1976 to January 1979. DR. A. C. PERCIVAL was attending the International P.E.N. Congress in Sydney, with the Delegates, in December and hoped to visit New Zealand again afterwards. D. F. PONTER (1972) writes: 'After working as a volunteer at Kingswood Special Unit, where "dangerous, disturbed, deprived, and delinquent" adolescent boys are kept under lock and key, I became a regular member of staff. I am transferring to a completely different line of work in May— Market Research.' H. A. POPE (1969) has been Assistant Mistress of French and Geography at Stamford High School, Lincolnshire since September. E. M. T. POWELL (1953) was seconded to do an M.A. in Philosophy at Birmingham University in 1976-7. She is now Co-ordinator of the Postgraduate Certificate in Education Course at the North Worcestershire College of Higher Education. MRS. POWELL (M. Williams, 1948) has been Mathematics Teacher at Brecon High School since 1976. She writes: they 'are now living five miles outside Brecon and enjoying the rural life'. MRS. PRITCHARD (S. W. Claridge, 1968) resigned from her teaching post in Birmingham 1975, when her husband moved to the Bath and Wells Diocese, and is now a fully occupied housewife and mother. MRS. PROCTOR (P. M. C. Green, 1946) writes: 'I am still feeling immense satisfaction from teaching juniors at Costessey in the Norfolk Central Area. I am a Committee Member at the Norwich Teachers' Centre, dealing mostly with In-Service Training. I am delighted to report that my son, Roger, is at Worcester College, reading Chemistry, at the same time as my daughter, Barbara, is at St. Hugh's reading Geography, so that both can be visited at once and Oxford enjoyed at the same time. It was a marvellous feeling to stay in College again in term time, amid all the bustle generated by the young.' J. REDFEARN (1972) was from 1975 to 1976 Committee Clerk at the London Borough of Camden; from 1976 to 1977 Minutes Secretary at the Equal Opportunities Commission, Manchester, trying to ensure that women are given equal pay and equal opportunities. In December 1976 she passed Part 2 of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries' and Administrators' Examinations and is now continuing with Part 3. G. 11. REES (1972) became in October 1976 Business Development Executive at Charles Ambler and Associates (U.K.) Ltd., London. MRS. OXFORD (B.

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(1923) who was elected to an F.B.A. in 1974, was Visiting Professor, sponsored by the Inter-University Council, at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, from October to December 1976, and Visiting Professor in Medieval Studies, at the University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A. from April to June 1977. MRS. REISS (E. D. Mossel, 1964) has been part-time Teacher in Everyman's University, Tel-Aviv since March. She has three daughters and not two and a son, as given in error in the last number of the Chronicle. MRS. RICHARDS (A. M. James, 195o) writes: 'I am still teaching English and Latin at Mount Carmel Convent School, Alderley Edge. My son is in his second year at University College, Oxford, reading Russian, and my daughter in her first year at Hull University, reading European Studies.' MRS. RICKMAN (J. Herman, 197o) qualified as a solicitor this year and spent the first six months of her married life in the U.S.A., as her husband was teaching at the University of Chicago. They are now back in Oxford. MRS. RIDSDILL SMITH (C. M. S. Ward, 1961). Part-time History teacher at Maidstone Girls' Grammar School since September 1975. L. A. ROBERTS (1973). Assistant Field Director, Central America, Mexico, and Caribbean Region for Oxfam (U.K.), with responsibility for assessment of new applications from agricultural, health, social development, skilltraining, handicrafts, and humanitarian projects throughout the region, and follow-up on projects receiving support. The regional office is in Antigua, Guatemala. MRS. ROBINS (C. A. Wrigglesworth, 1971) was appointed Chemistry Teacher at Icknield School, Wantage, Oxon. in September 1976 MRS. ROBINSON (J. R. M. Wood, 1948) became a councillor for the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames in 1974 and Chairman, Conservation Areas Advisory Committee, Vice-Chairman, Planning Committee, and Chairman, Local Authorities Aircraft Noise Council. MRS. ROGERS (C. H. I. E. Grewe, 1959) became Head of German at Folkstone Girls' Grammar School in September. MRS. ROTHWELL (M. E. Meehan, 1941) writes: 'My own activities are mainly domestic and unremarkable. I am glad to say that the first of our four children has followed in his father's and his mother's footsteps, being a Scholar in Oxford, at the end of his first year (Modern Languages).' MRS. ROWLINSON (E. M. Hunter, 1948) has been appointed Dean of St. Hilda's College, University of Toronto and will also be lecturing in the Mathematics Department, from July 1978. MRS. SAVIDGE (E. Hadrill, 1963) has been Second Secretary, British High Commission, Nairobi, Kenya, since March 1976. MRS. SCOTT (D. Bishop, 1939) relinquished the post of Head of Modern Languages at Enfield Chace Girls' School in December 1976, but continues to teach French and remains a Year Head there. SISTER Y. A. GABELL (1956) had been appointed School Counsellor to Christopher Wren School, London, W.12, as from January 1978. She writes: 'I am still living on the White City estate, where I shall continue my pastoral Parish work and with my work at the local infants' school, as my new post is scheduled on a three days a week assignment. The Christopher Wren School is large, with 1,2oo boys, some of whom I have been teaching at home, individually, for the last three years.' DR. M. E. REEVES

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L. Filtness, 1967) had extended maternity leave from her post as Lecturer in Mathematics at the Polytechnic of the South Bank, and intends to return to her work in January 1978. MRS. SMYTH (J. D. Livingstone, 197o) is working as a Town Planner with the Hampshire County Council. H. J. SOUTHERN (1934) retired in August from the post of Deputy Principal of St. Mary's College, Bangor, which, in the reorganization of Colleges of Education, has been merged with the University College of North Wales. MRS. SPENDER (M. F. White, 1963) writes: 'Despite the rigours of childrearing I still find time for my beloved tennis and squash—we live outside the Hurlingham Club I' MRS. STEPHENSON (J. Allen, 1972) has been French Teacher at Greenlands High School, Blackpool since September 1976. MRS. STRAWBRIDGE (S. Hassid, 1942) writes: 'I am still in charge of the Chemistry at Shaftesbury Grammar School (for Boys and VIth-form Girls), where my husband is similarly in charge of the Physics. The school has, so far, escaped reorganization. My two elder sons have already graduated at Oxford (in Greats and Science). The third is reading History at the University of York, and the fourth Biochemistry at Oxford. s. J. STYLES (1964) gained her degree of M.Ed. from Exeter University this summer and has been involved in examining and evaluating G.C.E. and C.S.E. papers for the Schools Council Project, History 13-16. She is also a member of the joint G.C.E. and C.S.E. Working Party to consider a common examination syllabus at 16 plus. MRS. SUTHERLAND (G. A. Campbell James, 1939) has been since 1974 Lecturer in the Department of Health and Welfare, Granville College of Further Education, Sheffield. A. F. SUTTON (1962). Assistant Archivist in the Corporation of London Records Office since 1973. PROFESSOR J. A. SYLPH (1957) became Assistant Professor in Community Medicine, at the Memorial University, St. John's, Newfoundland in 1973, and Research Scientist (Epidemiology) at Clarke Institute of Psychiatry, Toronto in 1975. MRS. TATE (J. Forsyth, 1969) is a Tutor at Roan Consolidated Mines Ltd., Luanshya Division. She writes: 'but really I am a Jack of all trades: I have taught Mathematics and Statistics, also English and telephone usage, hygiene and even nursing theory, on occasion!' MRS. TEBBY (B. D. Swire, 1967) is still working for the Foreign Office. DR. G. R. TER HAAR (1969) was appointed Research Fellow at the University of Surrey (Guildford) for January–June 1977, and since July 1977 at the Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton, Surrey. DR. R. J. THOMPSON (1969) became a Member of the Royal College of Physicians (U.K.) in February, and Registrar in General Medicine, Edinburgh, teaching hospitals in July. MRS. TICKELL (R. 0. Haynes, 1924) writes: 'My grandson James went up to Trinity College, Cambridge, as an Exhibitioner in 1975 to read architecture; my grandson Oliver went as a Scholar to St. John's, Oxford, in 1976 to read physics; my son Crispin is chef de cabinet to Roy Jenkins at the E.E.C., Brussels; my son Patrick is joint manager of Pergamon Press, and my son Tom runs the Family Finance column in the Guardian and does freelance broadcasts and television appearances.' 57

B. Boyce, 1962) became Principal Advisor on Music Education to Stainer and Bell Ltd. in August. MRS. TOWNSEND (D. E. Harris, 1959). Teacher of Mathematics with Science at the new secondary section of the European School in Brussels. MRS. TOZER (J. C. Morland, 1941) started voluntary work with the Citizens' Advice Bureau, Bristol, in April, on its reopening. M. V. TRELFA (1972) has been teaching Mathematics at Macclesfield County High School for Girls since September 1976. MRS. TURNER (B. V. Harris, 1945) writes: 'I have been Secretary for the last two-and-a-half years of the Lowestoft Archaeological and Local History Society, which together with membership of the Committee of the Lowestoft Ladies Lifeboat Guild, and the cultivation of a large garden makes for a very full but interesting life.' MRS. TURNER (E. H. Duthoit, 1929) writes that she and her husband have now retired and are living mostly in the country but keeping a flat in Blackheath as a London base and maintaining a garden, an orchard, two dogs, and membership of the Society of Nautical Research, the Historical Association, the London Society of Huguenots, the Smith College London Club, and the Dickens Fellowship. L. F. 'MEDDLE (1963) now Mrs. Badran, writes that she would appreciate contact with anyone intending to emigrate to Egypt or who is already in residence there. M. P. VAULK (1940) writes: 'The Catholic Seminary, in which I have been living and teaching for the last five years, was recently sold to the government, and we have been given land for new buildings nearer Addis. Meanwhile we shall spend a year as guests of another mission, with classrooms lent by a near-by Lutheran Seminary, an ecumenical gesture which we greatly appreciate. In spite of the troubled state of the country there is much that missionaries can still do to help, particularly in the areas of relief work and development projects.' E. M. WALLACE (1908) is 'still going strong' and is looking for a possible publisher for her 'Reminiscences of the Transkei 1925-1950'. E. K. WALLEN (1933) writes: 'Having retired from the Headship of Bedford High School in September 1976, I was asked to act as temporary Headmistress of St. Mary's School, Wantage, in the summer of 1977 and have now been asked to stay on. For the present, therefore, my address is at the School or the Headmistress's House, though I am retaining my house in Oxford.' MRS. WATERHOUSE (R. E. Franklin, 1941) was reappointed in May as a member of the National Consumer Council, in August as a member of the new Price Commission, and in July, by the Commission of the European Communities, as a member of the Consumers' Consultative Committee in Brussels. R. WEATHERALL (1965) has been a Statistician to the Consumers' Association since April 1974. DR. WEBB (V. E. S. Fish, 1965). Sir James Knott Fellow, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, from October 1976 to September 1978. MRS. WEBSTER (M. E. Mist, 1951) writes: 'While my four children have been young I have been involved in play-groups, one in the Gorbals area of Glasgow and another at the Friends Meeting House in Canterbury. I also became involved in voluntary remedial work in a partially hearing unit, MRS. TILLMAN (J.

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attached to a primary school, teaching five infants, some of whom were just learning to speak their first sentences. This year, 1976-7, I have been teaching in a unit attached to a secondary school, where the children's needs were somewhat different but the work equally absorbing. Next year I hope to return to the Lady Spencer Churchill College to study for the Certificate in the Education of Deaf and Partially-hearing Children.' D. U. C. WESTON (1936) has been teaching at the Alice Ottley School, Worcester since 1972 and will be retiring in July. MRS. WIJEYARATNAM (D. E. A. Shuftan, 1958) writes: 'I have been working as a freelance translator, most of the material being technical translations from Swedish and Norwegian. My husband has been appointed Principal Engineer, Road Construction Unit, Harrogate, from February next, and the family will move to Harrogate next spring.' MRS. WILDE (F. E. C. Bayliss, 1947). Assistant Librarian, West Wales General Hospital, Carmarthen since July. M. K. B. WILKINS (1940) became Senior Housemistress at Benenden School in September 1976. MRS. WILLIAMS (C. N. Mason, 1973). Junior Scientific Officer with AllenHanburys' Research Ltd. since July. MRS. WILLIAMS (W. J. Hackney, 1944). Headmistress, Dr. Challoner's High School, Little Chalfont, Bucks. since 1975. DEACONESS WRIGHT (1941). Deaconess of Holy Trinity Church, Roehampton, in association with Roehampton Methodist Church.

ARRANGEMENTS FOR CONTACTING MEMBERS OF THE ASSOCIATION The Editor reported to the Committee that the following members have most kindly offered their help: Miss A. C. Percival, 21 Maunsel St., London, S.W. 1 P2QN. Tel. 01 834 3273 Miss H. M. Taylor, 62 Bellingham Rd., Catford, London, S.E. 6 2PT Miss E. C. M. Rountree, Little Glebe, 1 Churchill Rd., Chipping Norton, OX7 5HR. Tel. Chipping Norton 2794 Mrs. Tozer (J. C. Morland), 17 Hyland Grove, Henbury Hill, Bristol, BS9 3NR. Tel. Bristol 503665 Miss E. K. Wait, Beechcroft, Urchfont, Devizes, Wiltshire. Tel. Chirton 248 Miss J. Lake, Ham Cottage, Coaley, Dursley, Glos., GL' 5AS Mrs. B. R. Davies, 15 Bridge Road, Rudgwick, Horsham, Sussex. Tel. Rudgwick 2807 Mrs .V. Jackson, I Ramsden Close, Selly Oak, Birmingham. Tel. 0a14756132 Miss H. J. Southern, Wood Gap, 23 Cecil Road, Barnard Castle, County Durham. Tel. Barnard Castle 2739. Mrs. M. A. Wolton, The Old Rectory, Little Saxham, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk. Tel. 810260 Mrs. M. C. Rentoul, 165 Compton Road, Wolverhampton. Tel. 0902 25322 Miss M. Wilkins, Byways, Benenden, Cranbrook, Kent. Tel. Benenden 53o Miss C. M. Lilleyman, Convent of the Holy Family, Aucklands, Littlehampton, Sussex. Tel. Littlehampton 323o 59

Mrs. M. S. Gray (M. S. Viner), Old Glebe, Waldron, Heathfield, Sussex. Tel. Heathfield 3865 Mrs. V. Nurse (V. Hughes), Willow Garth, Notton, Wakefield, W. Yorks., WF4 2ND. Tel. Royston, Yorks. 252o Miss J. Newman, Keil House, Ardgour, by Fort William, Scotland, PH33 7AH, Tel. Ardgour 231 Mrs. M. H. Marsden (M. H. Gillett), Jardin du Milieu, Le Fort, Sark, C.I. Tel. Sark 117 Miss C. L. MacDonald, Pietarinkatu ira 12, 00140 Helsinki 14, Finland. Tel. 657835 Members who may find themselves in any way isolated through old age, illness, bereavement, or in any other emergency, are invited to contact the Person at the nearest address on the list above. The Editor would welcome offers of help from any member who would be willing, in this connection, to have her name and address and, if possible, her telephone number printed in the Chronicle.

ADDRESS LIST, 1976 OPIES of the new Address List, 1976, are now obtainable from the College Secretary, at ÂŁ1-80. Only zoo copies have been printed, and C it is hoped that as many members as possible will avail themselves of this opportunity to buy one, to help defray the considerable cost of preparation and printing. ED.

THE COLOURED FORM EMBERS are reminded that it is essential to complete details of new appointments, courses taken, publications, etc. sothat, should reM ferences be required from the Principal or from Fellows and Tutors, this information is readily available to them in College.

SCHOLARSHIPS FOR POSTGRADUATE WORK HE B.F.U.W. and the I.F.U.W. offer each year for competition amongst members certain Scholarships and Fellowships that enable the holders to T undertake research work abroad, mostly for an academic year, or occasionally for a shorter period to complete a piece of work; there is also available each year a Scholarship at Crosby Hall, the B.F.U.W.'s Club House in London. Particulars may be obtained from: The Secretary, British Federation of University Women, Crosby Hall, Cheyne Walk, London S.W. 3. 6o

FORM OF BEQUEST rr HE College is sometimes asked by Senior Members or their solicitors to 1 suggest the wording to be used when making a bequest to the College: for guidance we suggest the following: I give and bequeath (specify the property) to the Principal and Fellows of St. Hugh's College, Oxford, to be dealt with or disposed of for the purposes of the College as the said Principal and Fellows may think fit. The receipt of the Treasurer or proper Officer of the said College shall be a sufficient discharge to my Executors.

ADDRESSES REQUIRED rr HE College has no known address for the following Members and former 1 undergraduates, and the College Secretary would be grateful for any news. (Please note that the list consists of people with whom the College has lost touch during the past year, and that names will be kept on the list for one year only.) A. B. Addison (1971) Mrs. Aram (J. Morris) (1965) E. L. Baker (1929) Mrs. Barbour (J. M. Galbraith) (1941) Lady Beevor (C. Herbert) (1949) Mrs. Beresford-Dew (D. E. Shore) (1966) J. H. Bishop (1972) Mrs. Brims (J. A. Butcher) (1968) S. M. C. Clarke (1968) Mrs. Coetzee (S. C. Keeble) (197o) Mrs. Cooper (F. E. Muha) (1954) Mrs. Cracknell (M. F. Grant) (1963) Mrs. Davies (M. B. Allen) (1955) Mrs. Dehnel (J. M. Muller) (1967) Mrs. Douglas (S. C. Shrigley) (1969) Mrs. Elliott (B. Holland) (1944) Mrs. Feeney (K. Arms) (196o) Mrs. Fogarty (P. M. E. Leathem) (1964) P. V. Green (1966)

S. L. Hart (1971) A. F. L. Heron (1971) Mrs. Holdsworth (M. Zvegintzov) (1927) Mrs. Locke (D. E. H. Darker) (1924) Mrs. Mann (M. Moore) (1957) Mrs. Newman (A. E. Page) (1954) E. T. P. Payne (1971) Mrs. Pitt-Lewis (J. R. Tucker) (1972) Mrs. Roberts (D. M. Val Davies) (1969) Mrs. Scott (J. Rawlinson) (1932) Mrs. Sedgemore (M. H. C. Sedgemore) (1958) Mrs. Shepherd (K. M. Gadegaard) (1959) Mrs. Stirling (G. M. Blackmore) (1934) M. E. Taylor (197o) Mrs. Tylden-Wright (D. L. Lindsay) (1942) S. M. R. Webb (1912) Mrs. Zvegintzov (C. A. Mills) (1959)

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CONTENTS VISITOR, PRINCIPAL, FELLOWS, HON. FELLOWS, ETC. THE PRINCIPAL'S REPORT DEGREES . AWARDS AND PRIZES HONOUR EXAMINATIONS

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RESEARCH STUDENTS .

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THE JUNIOR COMMON ROOM .

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THE MIDDLE COMMON ROOM

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GIFTS AND BENEFACTIONS .

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ANNUAL MEETING OF THE ASSOCIATION .

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PUBLICATIONS .

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ADDRESSES REQUIRED .

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NEWS AND APPOINTMENTS .

The attention of Members is drawn to: I. The coloured folder enclosed with this number. 2. The list of Members of the College for whom the College has no address at present. 3. The arrangement that all Members should notify the College Secretary of any change of address.

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