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was a member of the University Women’s Club in London and later, when she settled in Gloucestershire, she became an active member of the Wales and the West Girtonians Association. PERRY. On 13 September 2010, Susanne (Puddefoot) MA (1954 Modern and Medieval Languages). Obituary p.141. PHILLIPSON. On 6 March 2011, Diana (Martin) BA (1940 Zoology). Diana came up to Girton from Staffordshire, then moved on to take the Diploma in Education at the University of Birmingham. She was appointed Biology teacher at Hunmanby Hall in Yorkshire, where she met and married Alfred Phillipson. They had three children, and once these were old enough, she continued her secondary school teaching career, first in Luton and then in Bedford. She then changed age-groups and moved on to teach in infant classes in Clophill and Wolvercote. She was a member of the Oxford Region Girtonians which she found ‘a great help in keeping in touch’ and ‘thoroughly enjoyed [their] lectures … and social activities’. RIDLEY. On 13 June 2011, Jane (Baldry) BA (1947 Natural Sciences). A Girton scientist, like her mother, Jane (Jan) came to the College as an Exhibitioner from St Felix, Southwold. She was awarded a Carlisle Scholarship in successive years and specialised in Chemistry for Part II. Although WWII had been over for two years there were still shortages and Jan remembered ‘queuing for everything, including food and outside the bathrooms late at night’ as well as ‘sitting up late at night and arguing about nuclear disarmament and communism over revolting weak coffee’. After Girton she worked as a research Chemist at the Esso Development Company in Abingdon, and in 1953 she married a fellow researcher, Kenneth Ridley. She then devoted the next ten years to their six children, four of whom followed her and their grandmother to Cambridge. The family moved to Reading and for many years from the late 1970s Jan volunteered as an Advisor at the Citizens Advice Bureau. Her wider interests were in Local History and General Science. ROBERTS. On 4 February 2011, Gillian MA (1959 Mathematics). Gillian was educated at Guildford Girls County Grammar School before she came up to Girton. Following graduation, she was appointed to a firm of specialist tax advisers in London. By 1968 she had emigrated to New South Wales, where she worked in data management and then database design and development. She remained in Australia for her retirement. RODGERS. On 22 November 2010, Marlene Pearl (Staff ) Obituary p.142. ROMANES. On 4 March 2011, Constance Margaret (Gee) BA (1938 Modern and Medieval Languages). Margaret entered Girton with a Carlisle Scholarship. She achieved a First in German and the Mary Ponsonby Prize for French Literature. She then worked at the Ministry of Information during the war where she was an Assistant Specialist, first in Home Division and then in the Empire Division. She had met Giles Romanes, a medical student at Pembroke, while at Cambridge, and they married in 1943. After the War Margaret devoted her time to their three children. She was appointed Justice of the Peace and served as a member of the Magistrates’ Association Central Council and of the Treatment of Offenders Committee. With the benefit of this experience she was, in 1976, appointed Chairman of the Board of Visitors to HM Borstal, Portland, 123