Girton College Newsletter 2021

Girton Development Newsletter of Girton College, Cambridge

GIRTON COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE

newsletter Spring 2021

In this issue...

Message from the Mistress The Mistress, Professor Susan J. Smith FBA, FAcSS, FRSE writes.

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A Great Campaign Executive Editor Deborah Easlick Editor Emma Cornwall Design www.cantellday.co.uk Photography Phil Mynott, Nick Guttridge, Martin Bond, David Johnson, Emma Cornwall, Ingrid Koning, Oh Brother

A Great Campaign is on target to raise £50 million, helping to secure Girton’s future.

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Creating a Legacy Gifts in Wills, and In Memory of loved ones, are transforming the College now and for generations to come.

Creative, Hannah Sargent, Jeremy West, Oli & Co. Printer Sudbury Print Group Contact: The Development Office Girton College Cambridge CB3 0JG +44 (0)1223 766672/338901 development@girton.cam.ac.uk www.girton.cam.ac.uk The Editor would like to thank many colleagues, and particularly Cherry Hopkins, and Gillian Jondorf,

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Alumni Profiles Caroline Harper (Archaeology and Anthropolgy,1978) and John Aitchison (Geography, 1984) reflect on their time at Girton and their careers since graduating.

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The Impact of Giving The generosity of our supporters is transforming the College.

for their support in the production of the Development Newsletter.

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Introduction

Message from the Mistress Professor Susan J. Smith FBA, FAcSS, FRSE Girton never sleeps... that at least is what it feels like clinging to the roller coaster that coronavirus has become. We have been closed, we have been at 80% capacity, we have scaled back so that fewer than half our students are in residence as I write. Fellows have been at full tilt taking their teaching, research and pastoral activities online, staff have adapted to new rotas, and the whole community has pulled together to ‘keep the show on the road’.

Working together, we have remained engaged and in touch with each other, and hopefully with you, by way of myriad online activities and events, and a variety of initiatives like #WeAreGirton, #HatsOffGirton, #StillGirton and, of course, #StaySafe.

It has been exhausting. Yet, animated by that irrepressible Girton spirit, the year has been exhilarating too. In fact it has been full of innovation and landmark achievements. Looking back, there is a lot we have learned; most of all, it is heartwarming to see how much of that was made possible by you.

For example, to deliver some truly amazing curricula, across all subjects, in a bespoke, personalised way, tailored to students’ needs in small group settings, we rely on a diverse, world-class Fellowship. Thanks to you we have, over the past decade or so, completed the endowment of an astonishing thirteen positions—six College Fellowships/ lectureships for University Teaching Officers, six full College Teaching Officerships, and an early-career Research Fellowship—without which it would have been impossible to deliver all that we have during this very challenging year.

Then there is Girton’s foundational aim—inclusion. Now, as at the very start, we aim to be open to all. That

means having sufficient bursary and hardship funds to support the very best candidates, wherever they come from and whatever their financial means.

Thanks to you we have added enough to the endowment to support 23 full bursaries, not least because of the huge success of the Class Gift initiative. A new generous gift from Paresh Patel (Engineering, 1981) means that we can also participate in the University’s pilot top-up bursary scheme to help students in the ‘squeezed middle’—those with family incomes just above the threshold for a standard Cambridge bursary but not quite high enough to make ends meet.

These truly are life-changing gifts enabling our students to thrive despite lockdown and all that implies. Encouraged by your support I am very proud to say that Girton is one of a small group of colleges piloting the new Foundation Year for young people from educationally disadvantaged backgrounds who show exceptional talent and potential. For more information please visit: bit.ly/ GCFoundationYear In light of all this, you won’t be surprised to know that we are in the closing months of A Great Campaign. It has been a remarkable journey with the aim

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of adding £25 million to our endowment and securing a further £25 million in legacy pledges. It was an ambitious collective effort and we are thrilled that it has paid off. Every gift, small or large, has combined into a game-changing result without which, by the way, it would have been hard to steer a course through the present pandemic.

which have included some first-rate talks, debates and performances by and for alumni. Do take a moment to check the online events archive (www.girton. cam.ac.uk/events-archive): I particularly recommend the series of talks presented to the alumni reunion last September, and the thrilling ‘transatlantic conversations’ posted in December.

As important to all at Girton as your generous financial support are the gifts of time and friendship that so many of you extend. We have had tremendous engagement with our online events,

Last but not least you will, I am sure, be keen for news of our students. Most importantly, they are well. We have had good access to testing, very little COVID in College and extra tutorial,

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counselling and nursing support for those who need it. Secondly, despite everything, they are thriving: we are so proud of their determination, their resilience and the energy they bring to a programme on site and online that is different, but every bit as engaging as the rules allow. Thirdly, like each and every one of Girton’s Fellows and members of staff, our students have invested the most they can into, and wrested everything possible from, one of the most challenging years in our history. Thank you so much for being there to support them.

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A Great Campaign Securing Girton’s future through difficult times as well as good 2020 has been one of the most difficult years in living memory including having to close the College for the first time in its 150-year history. We have highlighted elsewhere the inspiring fortitude shown by Fellows, staff and, above all, students in coping with these challenges. This remarkable ability to cope with the demanding, ever-evolving circumstances of a global pandemic has been supported by the generosity of all those who have given, and continue to give, to A Great Campaign.

Donations to A Great Campaign have underpinned the College’s ability to award means-tested undergraduate bursaries, hardship grants, and postgraduate scholarships. Philanthropy has funded Fellowship posts for worldclass academics, meaning that highquality, inspirational teaching will always be available to our students. Perhaps most importantly, donations have also

increased the permanent endowment capital, providing a level of financial stability that has enabled the College to cope with this unprecedented year.

This year has been hard for everyone, and it is therefore incredible to be able to report that A Great Campaign has reached over 90% of its £50 million target. Now, more than ever, we are so very grateful to everyone who has supported us. Thank you!

•T o support all-round education through music and the arts.

We are within touching distance of completing a fundraising campaign that has already transformed the College. In this most difficult of years, may we ask for your support to help us transform the future not just of today’s students but of generations of students to come?

As we approach the completion of A Great Campaign our current priorities are: •T o grow the unrestricted permanent endowment capital.

•T o endow even more meanstested bursaries for undergraduate students.

•T o establish one more postgraduate scholarship.

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Where Excellence Thrives Undergraduate bursaries and student hardship funding Thanks to the generosity of our alumni and supporters we have now completed the endowment of 23 undergraduate bursaries, exceeding our target of endowing 20 bursaries in the anniversary phase of A Great Campaign. Thank you so much for helping Girton to be a place where everyone with academic ability can study regardless of background.

The need to continue endowing undergraduate bursaries, however, is significant, with typically one in four of our undergraduates eligible for a bursary. This is why donations to bursaries are so vital.

As these words from one of our bursary holders show, this support means a tremendous amount to our students.

‘Thank you for your generous funding, allowing me to properly experience my time at Cambridge without the concern of how I will find the money. This bursary takes a huge weight off my shoulders!’

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The need for undergraduate student support is even greater now than ever. With the economic impact of the global pandemic continuing to be felt, it is vital that we can offer financial support to every student who needs it, both now and in the future. As well as the exciting new initiatives for expanding the support we offer (see page 3), endowing more bursaries means that the support for these students will be there, whatever happens. Many of you have already supported our undergraduate bursary appeal. May we ask you to continue to support the appeal as part of a Class Gift for your year, or to subjectspecific bursaries, or to our general undergraduate bursaries?

Student Hardship Fund Bursaries are only one of the ways in which the College supports students in financial need. Many students, particularly this year, have experienced unexpected financial hardship. In the recent crisis our hardship funds have helped students with fares for returning home, helped support those who are

Class Gift Bursaries The response to our Class Gift Bursaries has been tremendous and this year we are focusing on completing the bursaries from the following years: 1970, 1975, 1978, 1981, 1982 and 1983, which need between £7,600 and £73,000 to complete. In addition we continue to fundraise for more bursaries from 1958, 1985 and 1990.

Thanks to the generosity of two of our donors, gifts made to the 1970, 1981, 1982 and 1983 Class Gifts will be matched 1:1 subject to limits, doubling the value of your donation.

We will be looking to launch more Class Gift Bursaries in the coming year, so please do get in touch if you and other members of your year would be interested.

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unable to return home, eased the financial situation of those who were relying on income from a job in the vacation to fund their studies, and helped increasing numbers of students access counselling services. None of this would have been possible without the generous donations we have received towards our hardship funds. We would

like to be able to offer this support to every student who needs it, when they need it, something we can only do with your help.

This year, in recognition of the extraordinary circumstances that students find themselves in, all donations made to our hardship fund

will be eligible to release money from the University’s Harding Fund. By making a donation to support Girton students suffering financial hardship this year, your gift will also help the students in the most need across the University (see page 8 for details).

Where Originality Thrives Support for postgraduate studies Specialist knowledge gained by graduates is in great demand as many areas of work become increasingly complex. Our postgraduate community at Girton is growing to meet this demand, and this expansion will position the College as a unique and innovative intellectual community. We want to enable talented scholars from a diverse range of social and geographical banding (including some of our own undergraduates) to embrace the

challenge of completing a higher degree in Cambridge and at Girton. However, there is limited funding available for postgraduate education, which prevents brilliant students from taking up their offers, or applying at all. Thanks to your support we have endowed four partial postgraduate scholarships so far, leaving just one more to complete in A Great Campaign. You can help us achieve this by donating towards our Postgraduate Scholarships Fund.

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Where Creativity Thrives Support for an all-round education A ‘Girton experience’ is not just about academic adventures, it is also about the opportunity to become involved in music, the arts and sport in a way that is only possible within a Collegiate environment. The health benefits and the social support systems developed by taking part in these extra-curricular activities have been more important than ever to all our students this year, as many have faced a more isolating university experience. Whether trying new things, however, or continuing existing passions, training, competing and performing costs money—money that some of our students do not have to spare. Thanks to the generosity of our alumni and supporters we are helping to ensure that the opportunities for students to enjoy and excel in their interests outside of their degree are open to all, regardless of their financial circumstances.

This year we are asking for your help to continue this all-round education, and we are focusing on music and the arts:

Music Performance Fund: The College has a strong tradition of excellence in musical performance, with many former students having gone on to make their career in this field. Girton is also unusual among Cambridge Colleges in that senior members engage actively with students in performance projects (a phenomenon often restricted elsewhere to Chapel music). This high level of engagement is facilitated in part by our excellent Musicians in Residence scheme. By raising £5,000, our new Musical Performance Project aims to allow Girton’s Musicians in Residence to expand and enhance

the performance opportunities, both vocal and instrumental, they offer our students. For many students, Collegebased musical performances, whether as a performer or an audience member, have contributed to improving their mental health, never more so than during the current pandemic.

been described as the perfect way to de-stress from both academic work and other concerns that have been heightened by the pandemic. A fund of £1,800 will ensure that these classes can continue to support our students through the summer. Would you consider making a contribution?

Arts: The Girton College Art Club In this most extraordinary of years, our students, Fellows and staff have been offered the opportunity to be part of masterclasses and an art club run by the 2019–20 Artist in Residence, Luke Burton. These classes have

The Harding Challenge Fund Through the visionary philanthropy of David and Claudia Harding, Cambridge has an exciting opportunity to enhance the impact of your generosity. Gifts to any aspect of our student support initiatives—including bursaries, hardship, postgraduate scholarships, music, art or sport— will unlock, pound for pound, a contribution to a special University fund for undergraduate financial support. Your generosity will not only benefit students in need at Girton but also those in need across Cambridge.

This year the scheme is open to donors in four different categories: • t hose who have not given to Girton, another College or the University before • t hose who made their last donation before 31 July 2018 • those who made their first donation between 1 August 2019 and 31 July 2020 and whose donation supported an aspect of student support • a ny donor to student hardship, regardless of their past giving history

Gifts of any size up to £100,000 qualify and every pound makes a difference.

For more information please see www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/give-tocambridge/harding-challenge If you have any questions about the Harding Challenge, and whether your gift would be eligible, please do not hesitate to get in touch with the Development Office.

Thank you for your support in this most difficult of years, and for your generosity which is ensuring that, despite these challenges, our students have a bright future ahead.

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Our Financial Report

By James Anderson, Bursar

We are living through extraordinary times, and the College’s financial performance in the year to 30 June 2020 showed a very significant negative impact from the COVID-19 pandemic. It is fortunate that Girton was able to face the onset of this crisis from a financial position which was the strongest in its history: this was due largely to the enduring and very generous support provided by Girtonians, including the transformational effect on the endowment over the course of A Great Campaign.

The financial effects of COVID-19 have been felt in several areas. The College was forced to close for the duration of Easter Term 2020, leading to a near-total loss of rental income during the period. The commercial activities which are an important element of the College’s income—principally Girton Summer Programmes and conferences—also saw their activities drastically curtailed, a situation which remains the case at the time of writing.

The College took a number of actions to mitigate these financial blows and to preserve cash: large numbers of staff were put on furlough, and both routine maintenance and capital expenditure were pared back or postponed where it was practical and safe to do so. The net result of the pandemic and the mitigating actions was that over the course of the year the College experienced an operating deficit of £712,000. Net assets also decreased modestly from £153 million to £151 million.

The College, through its investment managers, runs a highly diversified portfolio spread across markets and asset classes.

This prudent approach to risk management ensured that, notwithstanding the market turbulence caused by COVID-19, funds under management ended the year up 2.1%.

A strong recovery in markets after the financial year end means that our total investments now stand at nearly £109 million. This comprises endowment assets, free reserves and loans outstanding.

Despite the pandemic, with the personal and financial pressures it has brought to so many, the College was very grateful to receive donations and benefactions of £2.2 million in the year. Again, nearly all of these funds went into the College’s endowment and will have a lasting benefit for future generations.

Since the start of A Great Campaign, the College’s endowment, which includes restricted permanent funds for specific purposes (shown as ATF in Figure 1), as well as unrestricted permanent endowment capital funds for general purposes (shown as UPEC in Figure 1), has grown from £22 million to c. £57 million by a combination of investment returns and donations

and benefactions. Within that total, unrestricted funds have grown from under £4 million to over £16 million. This is a particularly important achievement, since the College has the freedom to allocate the investment income from this part of the endowment to wherever it is most needed at the time.

Whilst the COVID pandemic presents daily challenges, the College strives to continue running our operations more efficiently so that our valuable resources can remain focused on supporting our core educational and charitable purposes.

To that end important work is underway in improving the financial performance of our estate, including Swirles Court, and modernising IT and HR systems. We are also developing our planning with regard to the medium-term future of the estate. We hope to resume our capital expenditure programme in 2021 to ensure that Girton students enjoy a high quality of accommodation and will be further advancing thinking in respect of potential new capital projects.

The times may be extraordinary but Girton continues to look forward and, thanks to the support of our donors, we do so from a position of strength.

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Legacy

Creating A Legacy Girton was founded on a principle of excellence and inclusion, and the challenges of this year have presented many opportunities for the College community to continue to show leadership and compassion.

From its response to the A-Levels results upheaval in the summer of 2020, to the recent announcement that the College is to be among the first to host students for the Cambridge Foundation Year—an innovative new programme offering talented students from backgrounds of educational and social disadvantage a new route to undergraduate study—the College is opening its doors wider and for more talented scholars than ever before. To achieve all that Girton has, it depends on a world-class Fellowship, dedicated staff, and the generosity of many Girtonians and friends. Bursaries and Fellowships are being endowed, the reach of hardship grants is extending, and more postgraduates are able to take up their hard-earned places thanks to new scholarships. Gifts in Wills are vital to these achievements and will be essential for the College’s future plans and growth for generations to come.

Gifts in Wills have played a central role in the success of A Great Campaign, both in terms of income received and pledges for the future. These future pledges, to be realised over the long term, have grown significantly over the course of the Campaign and we owe a deep gratitude to all those who have included the College in their Will. Every gift is appreciated, no matter the size, and every gift is acknowledged. If you have joined or are considering joining this special group of supporters in helping Girton to deliver its world-class educational experience, please get in touch. The College recognises that such pledges and estimates are not binding,

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and that circumstances can change, but they help us to say thank you and find out more about the aspects of Girton that are important to you.

Making a Gift in your Will You can choose to make a cash gift or donate a proportion of your estate (even 1% can make a big difference). Girton College is a registered charity (Registered Charity Number 1137541) so including the College in your Will may reduce your estate’s Inheritance Tax liability. When making a Will we suggest that you use the following wording: ‘I give to the Mistress, Fellows and Scholars of Girton College, Cambridge (Registered Charity Number 1137541) [the residue of my estate] [_____% of the residue of my estate] [the sum of _________] free of tax for the Unrestricted Permanent Endowment Capital of the College and I declare that the receipt by the Bursar or other authorised Officer of the College shall be good and sufficient discharge to my Executors.’

We recommend that you seek professional advice when making or amending a Will.

For a confidential conversation please contact the Development Director on +44 (0)1223 339893, d.easlick@girton. cam.ac.uk, or the Legacy Officer on +44 (0)1223 338901, e.cornwall@girton.cam. ac.uk. Information regarding Gifts in Wills, including information on planned giving for our US- and Canadian-based alumni and supporters, is available on our website: www.girton.cam.ac.uk/legacy.

Recognising your Generosity An invitation to join the 1869 Society is extended to all those who choose to notify the College of their intention to remember Girton in their Will. In addition to a purple lapel pin, members receive invitations to special events from time to time.

By including Girton in your Will you are supporting a pioneering institution with a stellar past and an exciting future— thank you.

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The 1869 Society Thank you! We hope that this sentiment is communicated successfully to Girtonians and our friends but in these extraordinary times it must be repeated loud and often as the College has experienced such extraordinary levels of support.

This is best illustrated by the fact that the 1869 Society has welcomed over 80 new members this last year. The society is dedicated to those whose forethought and generosity extends to notifying the College of their intention to include Girton in their Will. The society’s membership is broad (covering matriculation years from 1930s to 2018) and passionate about all things Girton.

We have welcomed the opportunity to host members at special events from time to time. These events have featured exhibitions, stunning performances by world-class musicians (including private recitals), talks from current students and Fellows, and stimulating company.

In addition to these remarkable events, members receive a Christmas card each year that includes a brief biography of an influential benefactor whose contributions are recognised at the annual Commemoration of Benefactors Ceremony. A wide range of lively personalities whose gifts and energies have transformed the fortunes of the College have been featured in this ceremony including our founders Emily

Davies and Barbara Bodichon and, most recently, Alfred Yarrow—a prolific inventor and engineer who recognised the importance of scientific research by women and men alike.

This moving Ceremony is completed by the recitation of names of our founders and benefactors including those whose Gifts in Wills the College has received. The recitation brings together voices from across the College as the names are read out by Girtonians, Honorary Fellows, Fellows, MCR, JCR and staff representatives. This year the Commemoration of Benefactors Ceremony was recorded and it can be viewed on the College’s website: bit.ly/CofBC2020 If you would like to receive more information about remembering Girton in your Will, or receive an invitation to join the 1869 Society, please do not hesitate to contact Emma Cornwall in the Development Office (e.cornwall@ girton.cam.ac.uk, +44 (0)1223 338901).

Emma would also welcome hearing from 1869 Society members who would

Performance of Bach’s St John Passion in Hall like to lend their voice to the dedicated section of the College website: www.girton.cam.ac.uk/alumnisupporters/give-girton/legators-and-theirstories

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Cultural Heritage

Cultural Heritage 2020 has been a challenging year for us all. On the 18 March 2020 we took the very difficult but necessary decision to close the People’s Portraits exhibition, the Lawrence Room, and the Archive and Special Collections to all visitors. At the time of writing they remain closed, with only the Archive and Special Collections open for a limited range of remote enquiries. We have greatly missed sharing our collections, interacting with our visitors, and simply enjoying the vibrancy that visitors bring to the College.

However, we have continued to work both onsite and remotely, caring for and managing the College’s collections. The Archive now has a new catalogue and the first national lockdown proved an ideal time for data checking, editing and migration. We also decided to split the Curator post and Dr Liliana Janik (Fellow 2007) has now taken over as the Curator (Lawrence Room). New additions to the collections were also received, and we were delighted to accept amongst others: a bequest from Felicity Strong (née Ranger, 1954) of two untitled paintings

by Abraham Manievich; a gift from Daphne Todd of her portrait of Simeon Barclay (Artist in Residence 2018–19); and a bequest from Beverly GriffinDougall (Fellow 1965) of a sculpture by the Zimbabwean artist, Luke Mugavazi.

Image left: Bee box, Image top right: Hazel, Image bottom right: December moth As usual, the richness of our collections was showcased by the annual series of talks at the September Alumni weekend. However, thanks to the hard work and technical expertise of the Development Office, the 2020 weekend was a virtual event. Although this was not the same as seeing everyone in person, it was lovely to see so many faces on screen, and the Zoom format did allow us to enjoy new elements, such as studio tours. The recordings of all the events can be accessed here: www.girton.cam.ac.uk/events/ girtonline-roll-alumni-weekend Dr Gordon Barrett (Lecturer in Modern Chinese History and Politics, University

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of Oxford) gave the Library talk, Dorothy Needham, China and the ‘Needham Project’. Dr Barrett explored Dorothy’s career, and how, as a committed internationalist, she went to China in 1944 to join her husband, Joseph. They went on to make two more trips to China in 1964 and 1972.

Dr Barrett drew on sources from the Needham Institute, where Joseph Needham’s papers are held, and from Dorothy’s China diaries held in the College Archive, both of which have been digitised and made available on the Cambridge Digital Library (cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/). It was especially interesting to hear about

Dorothy’s experiences and insights into wartime China.

Dr Augusta McMahon (Reader in Mesopotamian Archaeology, University of Cambridge, and Fellow of Newnham College) gave the Lawrence Room talk, The Girton College eye-idols and the origins of urbanism in Mesopotamia.

It was intriguing to learn more about these enigmatic eye-idols and Tell Brak where they were excavated, thought to be one of the earliest cities alongside Uruk. Dr McMahon explained that these figures, with their overly large eyes that were designed to ‘gaze’ at the gods, were probably made by

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Eye Idols from Tell Brak

Dorothy Needham and Joseph Needham holding up a silk banner embroidered with the words ‘The everlasting spring of scientific knowledge’

David Dibosa

92 years by Tim Benson

individuals to represent themselves or their families. The Q&A session which followed covered a variety of topics, ranging from Syrian lions to death curves found in archaeological sites.

the latest addition to the People’s Portraits collection, 92 years, a portrait of his grandmother painted towards the end of her life when she had dementia.

The portrait was extremely well received by the audience, and in the Q&A session the idea of losing one’s own self due to dementia powerfully linked back to David’s talk.

The People’s Portraits event started with a reading by the Revd Dr Malcolm Guite (Life Fellow 2020) of his poem, ‘Portraits by moonlight’, a light-hearted look at how the portraits coped in lockdown.

Next, Dr David Dibosa (1986, Reader in Museology, University of the Arts London) gave a thought-provoking talk, Take My Name. He explored the power of a name, and how, for some, a name can mark the site of a struggle. The Zoom format then allowed the audience to enjoy a pre-recorded tour of Tim Benson’s (PROI NEAC RP) studio. It was fascinating to see Tim’s working studio and his current projects, and hear him talk about his painting style. He unveiled

Luke Burton, Artist in Residence 2019– 20, also recorded a tour of his studio, exploring the work he produced during his Girton residency. He explained how the College site inspired his large dreamlike paintings and his small delicate enamels. We wait to see if it will be possible for Luke to return in 2021 to put on an exhibition of his work.

The Gardens talk, Wildlife in the Archive, was given by Stewart Rosell ( 2017).

Stewart primarily spoke about the moth

survey he started during his time at Girton and how he drew on a previous survey undertaken in 1986 by Chris Sharpe (1985) and Mike Bryan (1985).

The Mistress then spoke about aspects of the history of the College gardens.

During the talks and the following Q&A session it was clear that our ecology is rapidly changing, making it vital to record our current wildlife for future analysis. The session also highlighted the importance of the grounds and gardens for the well-being of our community.

To quote from Malcolm Guite’s poem, ‘we miss the merry throng that kept us company’, but even if we can’t see you in person, we look forward to seeing you virtually in 2021 to enjoy and learn more about our collections.

Hannah Westall Archivist and Curator (Pictures)

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Alumni Profiles

Alumni Profiles Dr Caroline Harper (Archaeology and Anthropology, 1978)

By Wendy Holden (English, 1983) ‘I’m basically curious!’ says Dr Caroline Harper. ‘I’m especially interested in material cultures and identity, but also simply how people express and understand “belonging”’. This urge to understand has shaped her career.

After many years working all over the world for institutions like the UN and Save The Children, she is now the Overseas Development Institute’s Director of Gender Equality and Social Inclusion, a post held for over a decade.

Caroline read Archaeology and Anthropology at Girton, coming up in 1978 in the last all-female year.

‘Cambridge definitely made me a feminist. The ratio of men to women was said to be 8:1. And the boys seemed so comfortable—many having come from public schools whereas I’d barely learnt how to use a library.’

The boys seemed especially comfortable on the river, Caroline noticed. It was somewhere she herself had grown to love. ‘Being tall and having a very long “reach” I was scooped up into the Girton first boat in my first term and never looked back. I loved it, even the 6 a.m. bike rides to break the river ice in February and the occasional in-boat fainting from pure exhaustion!

‘But I was very aware of the sexism on the river. We had to borrow boats from St John’s College when they were not using them. Women were not allowed to row at Henley, and in the Blues battle with Oxford, where it seemed

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men simply had to step into their boat and lock in their oars, (not even win), to get a ‘full’ Blue, women had much higher and more difficult targets set for their designated ‘half’ Blue—they had to win over Oxford and win several other events. I recall if they lost one event, they got nothing.’

Girton offered Caroline unparalleled educational opportunities. ‘I was so privileged to be taught by Professor Marilyn Strathern and Dr Joan Oates.

Having regular one-on-ones with an academic as celebrated as Marilyn is unforgettable and when I mention this to Anthropology colleagues now, they are in awe.’

After graduation, Caroline joined the museum world—initially with a nautical theme, as befits a rower. ‘I was volunteering at the Mary Rose museum as this ancient boat was raised from

the English Channel. I then moved to an internship at the wonderful Museum of Mankind in London. Rooting around in the expansive cellars I developed my PhD idea among the museum fabrics and material culture.’

A long period abroad then began.

‘I didn’t come back for 20 years!’

And what years they were. ‘I spent some time in Communist Eastern Europe, living in Poland when I did my MA and visiting Romania under Ceausescu. I did my Anthropology PhD on the Thai–Laos border, living in a remote village and working with the Hmong minority group.’

The group enabled Caroline to revisit a previous skill; she must be the only Girtonian to have Liberty sell her batiks.

‘My PhD was on semiotics, image and ideology and, as I’d previously made and sold my own batik, I asked the

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Hmong women to teach me their batik and weaving skills, and they generously did so.’

She learnt much else besides. ‘Living in those villages over 18 months was one of the most challenging things I’ve done.

Facilities were limited, and I learnt to do an entire body wash from one dog’s bowlful of water! But the isolation and intellectual demands were more testing.’

In 1987, Caroline moved to China and worked with the UN. The country was undergoing a dramatic period of change. ‘Beijing in 1987 was still a bicycle-dominated city. By the time I left in 1991 cars had taken over. During that time the events of Tiananmen Square took place and changed everything. It was a remarkable experience to be there and witness this historic moment.’

Her work took her all over the vast country. ‘I was working largely on the social aspects of agricultural development, all over remote areas, especially minority regions. Tibet had yet to see the enormous Chinese expansion into Lhasa, and on my first visit I was stunned and somewhat overwhelmed by this ancient city and its people’.

Then Caroline packed her bags once again and headed to Thailand to work for Save the Children. Her job took her throughout South East Asia, to Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Myanmar and back to China and Mongolia. ‘Mongolia was a lesson in how not to change an economy. Being the first, before Eastern Europe, to shake off the Soviet presence, they transited from a command economy to a privatised system which introduced huge inequalities and poverty. But the country is spellbinding, and still one of my favourite places.

Sadly, the challenges of climate change are now taking their toll.’

Finally, in the late 1990s, Caroline returned to the UK to become Head

of Research for Save The Children. She also took up a visiting fellowship at Manchester University, as an Associate Director of the Chronic Poverty Research Centre and as a Director of a linked research Centre on Childhood Poverty.

‘In 2001 I helped establish a longitudinal study of childhood poverty called Young Lives which is still running, the children now being almost 20 years old!’ Sixteen years ago, a research fellowship at the Overseas Development Institute led to Caroline’s current Directorship of the Institute’s Programme on gender equality and social inclusion.

‘A lot of my work is advising Governments, NGOs and the private sector. I’ve always worked in social justice and this is still as important in the UK as in any other country in the world.’ She is clear about her terms of reference. ‘It is not about interfering in people’s cultures, because abuses of human rights can never be defended with the excuse of “cultural traditions”’ Things in her field have altered, she acknowledges.

‘So-called “development” is pivoting to a more global understanding of change and “progress”. I work in partnership with researchers from around the world—in Africa and Asia, raising research money and working alongside them in trying to understand solutions to some of most pressing problems we face. In particular, I work on gender norms and at their root the oppressive systems of exploitative power—patriarchy and other systems of exclusion. I can see in retrospect how I was born into, and worked in, a post-colonial era, the dying embers of which are flickering out. Not, however, without leaving a damning legacy.’

Looking back on her career, Caroline says she has ‘had many highs and many lows. It’s less the positions I have held or the credentials to my name, though of course I am proud of them all, but rather the places, material cultures and people

I have encountered around the world, and the collaborations that have evolved into mutual learning and friendships, that I value most. I have been privileged to work with many stellar public policy and academic researchers in multiple countries. As educators I feel we have strived together to make a difference.

And I have never lost my love of creative arts and the museum world of artefacts, it’s something I come back to again and again.’

She feels that Cambridge is at the root of it all. ‘I recall the effort and sometimes pure struggle I put in, including overcoming failures, and though difficult, I really value those experiences. That effort started at Cambridge, with my academic pursuits and of course, my rowing.’

Yes, she still does it! ‘It’s a fitness I have never lost. I learnt to scull just five years ago. Now I row on the river Lea in London and every summer in Long Island USA, on the inland sea waters—gorgeous and such a good exercise for older joints!’

Girton, meanwhile, continues to occupy a special place in her heart. ‘I am hugely proud of the Girton feminist history— watching Blue Stockings—both at the Globe and later in the Girton grounds on the 150th anniversary was both sobering and inspirational. Girton and Cambridge made me aware of how women had to constantly achieve more than men to reach the same goals.’

It is a fight that of course still goes on, and to which Caroline remains committed. For the next generation too. ‘I was fabulously lucky to have my daughter late in life when I was 43. She has taught me so much about what is important. I would love to see my own work and effort bear fruit for her generation, but there will also be many fights to come and I will continue to play whatever part I can in making the world a fairer place.’

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Alumni Profiles

John Aitchison (Geography, 1984)

By Mark A. Walsh (English, 1997) ‘Oh, I love that book,’ the assistant at the bookshop told me when I ordered John Aitchison’s The Shark and the Albatross. ‘I’m a bit of an Arctic nerd, so this was my kind of thing.’ If you’re about to do an interview, believe me, this is excellent news. The Shark and the Albatross is a fascinating insight into wildlife film-making—and, in many ways, the perfect book for trying times.

Poetic evocations of far-flung, exotic nooks of the planet: check. An ode to patience and perseverance: check. A timely reminder of the beauty, fragility and mercilessness of nature: check.

A seasoned wildlife film-maker, John Aitchison is, reassuringly, exactly how you would expect. He’s softly spoken, of course—this is a man who can sit for hours, alone and silent, in a canvas hide—and he has a ready smile. He listens. I suspect that if you were to build an idea in your mind of a wildlife film-maker, you might conjure up someone like John.

He was raised in Portsmouth where his parents would take him on walks around the coast when he was little.

Treks on the nearby Farlington Marshes made a particular impression, John says, with flocks of migrating Brent geese, waders and other feeding birds providing spectacular windows on nature ‘away from human stuff out in this wild place in the harbour.’

Even as a youngster, the natural world drew him in. He enjoyed trying to identify the different species with his mother and soon struck a deal with his parents to buy binoculars—if he could raise half the money himself, they would finance the rest. ‘I washed cars and raised pennies that way. And then there was this moment of revelation

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when it was possible to see the birds much better.... it was a self-discovery type thing.’

John was soon borrowing a camera from his father, himself a keen amateur photographer. As a teenager, he had something of an epiphany. Watching the BBC’s Life on Earth, he said, ‘It dawned on me that there was a job that combined those interests.

I happened to have stumbled onto something that combined all the aspects of everything I liked.’

Academically talented, John was encouraged to apply to Cambridge and with his clarity of purpose, John thrived.

His Director of Studies in Geography, Dr Jean Grove, encouraged a wanderlust and fostered a get-your-

hands-dirty way of learning—music to the ears of a practically-minded student who had grown up with a love of the outdoors. ‘Jean thought we should all travel. She was really quite insistent about it. That stood me in good stead because it meant that by the time I was going to any work-related stuff subsequently, I had done quite a bit of travel—I’d spent a whole summer in Peru when I was 20, on an expedition, because Jean thought it was a good idea. I’d got a taste for it.’

By the time it came to graduating, a fortuitous conversation at a College dinner led to his applying for a job as an assistant film librarian with the RSPB. He didn’t get it, but he made an impression. ‘They kind of invented a job for me, they gave me a kind of

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researcher job, a dogsbody job really.’ It was on a two-week contract: he stayed for four and a half years. ‘It was great experience, they were making films and I got thrown into lots of different aspects of writing and research. It was like an apprenticeship in every step of the film-making process, especially the editing part of it, which is underrated.’

During that time John met his future wife, Mary-Lou, who was also a budding wildlife film-maker. Up to that point, it had been a difficult industry to crack: those starting out needed an expensive camera to get assignments, but it was difficult to afford the equipment without first having a commission.

‘You had to break that cycle somehow,’ John said. ‘We realised there was an opportunity with the new video cameras coming out that would let you change the lenses. And that meant we could put longer lenses—that’s the critical thing for wildlife filming—you could put telephoto lenses on these little video cameras and film properly things far away.’

Determined to prove themselves, they left the RSPB in 1992, and travelled by train to Hong Kong to buy a cheap camera, organising on the same trip to make three short films, in Thailand, New Zealand and Alaska. The resulting pieces, filmed, edited and produced by the Aitchisons, became their calling card. On the strength of that work, the Aitchisons were contracted by the BBC to make a film about rare great bustards in Spain.

John and Mary-Lou worked side by side. ‘It’s very useful to have two people when you’re filming. Two people walk to the hide, one person walks away and the birds relax.’ The gamble had paid off. ‘It did feel like a breakthrough moment,’ John said.

Eager to combine filming and producing, the Aitchisons were then tapped to film episodes of

Academically talented, John was encouraged to apply to Cambridge and with his clarity of purpose, John thrived.

Natural World for the BBC, starting with an eight-month assignment in Aberdeenshire. ‘I remember being very excited about getting to live next to this estuary and film everything that was going on there.’ But making their own programs was gruelling—and slow.

‘You could only make one film about every two years, and it was only on once, for about 50 minutes’.

In six years, the Aitchisons made four films for Natural World. To get more regular work, John pivoted to working with video. His adventures in the following years, such as capturing the likes of penguins and lynx at the snowcovered ends of the globe, tracking down tigers in India and documenting peregrine falcons in Manhattan, formed the basis of a radio series, A View Through the Lens. That series was expanded into his book, The Shark and the Albatross (2015), a timely meditation on the delicacy of the natural system and a clear-eyed exposé of humans’ effect on the environment.

As befits the skilled cameraman he is, John’s writing shifts focus and takes up different perspectives. The title refers to a common penchant in nature films, particularly in the past, of encouraging the viewer to take sides. ‘The way you make films often is to set up a sort of antihero,’ encouraging the viewer to

cheer for the albatross’s escape from the shark—but we shouldn’t be for sharks or for albatrosses, we should be thinking, do we want nature or no nature. That’s the choice.’

To that end, the narrative also positions people as fundamental parts of the environment. There are several unusual humans among the wildlife that John meets: researchers among the seals on isolated Bird Island in the South Atlantic, a native American tracker in the Yukon, a woman house-sitting alone in Arctic Norway with polar bears for company.

We’re reminded that Homo sapiens is just one more fascinating, varied species—albeit a powerful and potentially destructive one—and that we would do better to realise our place in the natural world, if we are not to obliterate it. If John’s work serves a higher purpose, it lies in the hope that his films contribute to that understanding. A call to all of us to find our own, inner ‘Arctic nerd.’

‘We’ve got to make that choice now to save the planet. We really don’t have long at all. But I’m not prepared to give up. Even if you’ve got no hope, as soon as you stop trying, you guarantee the outcome.’

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Impact of Giving

The Impact of Giving Throughout Girton’s history it has supported the arts, believing the opportunity to create, perform and experience art in all its forms to be an important part of the Collegiate University experience, both in terms of student mental health and for inspiring every student to develop creatively as an individual. The College is very grateful that a number of generous donations have enabled us to run ground-breaking creative initiatives that encourage our students to excel and which bring the arts to a wider audience in College and beyond.

The Jane Martin Poetry Prize Girton has a strong poetic tradition, thanks to the works, amongst others, of Sarojini Naidu (Chattopâhyây, 1896, a member of the Rhymers’ Club alongside W B Yeats and Oscar Wilde, a suffragist, a campaigner for Indian Independence and the first Indian Woman President of the Indian National Congress), Kathleen Raine (1926, Founder of the Temenos Academy), Gwyneth Lewis (1978, National Poet of Wales), Adam Crothers (2002, awardwinning poet and commissioning editor of The Literateur) and Seán Hewitt (2009, academic and award-winning poet). This tradition is continued today through Girton’s Poetry Group and by the renowned Jane Martin Poetry Prize.

Established in 2010, in memory of Jane Elizabeth Martin (Classics, 1978) by her father, Professor Sir Laurence Martin, the Jane Martin Poetry Prize is a national poetry competition for young poets resident in the UK. The competition is managed with the support of the College’s English Fellowship, including the Jane Martin Fellow in English, Dr James Wade (a post also endowed by Sir Laurence).

The competition is judged by experts from across the literary world with previous judging panels including Hilary

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Davies, Adam Crothers, Jeremy NoelTod, Alex Huen and Holly Corfield-Carr.

Over the last ten years the reputation of the prize has grown considerably, raising the profile of Girton College in literary circles. Past winners include the academics Agnes Lehoczky, Jane Yeh and Andrew Wynn Owen, novelist Katie Hale and Sunday Times bestselling author Jen Campbell, while poems by past winner Nina Powles have been commissioned by the South Bank Centre and the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew. This year in particular the Jane Martin Prize, and the Girton Poetry Group, have provided inspiration and solace to our students, as Harry Camp (2018) outlines below: ‘Girton is home to many hidden riches, not least of which is its dynamic community of poets. Four times a term, Fellows, staff and students of all disciplines come together for an evening of good humour and stimulating discussion under the auspices of the Girton Poetry Group. It is a testament to the efforts of this year’s leaders, Esther Shambira and Francesca Weekes, that we have been able to bring this warm and welcoming spirit to the virtual realm.

Jane Elizabeth Martin (Classics, 1978)

Harry Camp (English, 2018)

Impact of Giving

‘I am very glad you like the idea of the College—people take to it so kindly that I have great hopes of seeing it done some day...with gardens and grounds and everything that is good for body, soul, and spirit.’

Emily Davies, writing to her friend Miss Anna Richardson, 25 October 1866

Jane Martin

All this has been made possible by the generous support of Professor Sir Laurence Martin DL for both the Prize and our English Fellowship. We are truly grateful.

10TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATING POETRY AT GIRTON

The Jane Martin Poetry Prize is a cornerstone of our community. The Prize offers a unique opportunity for aspiring poets to learn from more experienced writers. You can find

current undergraduate Francesca Weekes’ ‘Nightwatching’ in the Jane Martin Anthology, published last year.

Carefully selected by Malcolm Guite and Grevel Lindop, there is something of Girton in each of these poems. It is a profound and enduring legacy that the Jane Martin Prize leaves for young poets, both at Girton and beyond.’

THE JANE MARTIN POETRY PRIZE

Ahead of each meeting, a specific form, theme, or series of stimulating quotations is offered to help spark ideas and invite experiment.

All submissions are welcome and, characteristically for Girton, represent a dazzling variety of voices. Recent writing has startled, moved and amused us on a range of subjects, from the subtext of emails to the surface of the earth, from experiences in quarantine to cows along the A14.’

10TH ANNIVERSARY THE JANE MARTIN POETRY PRIZE

CELEBRATING POETRY AT GIRTON

First published in 2020 © Girton College 2020; copyright of individual poems remains with the authors

For more information on the Prize please see: www.girton.cam.ac.uk/lifegirton/arts ISBN: 978-1-5272-6842-5 £7.99

Edited by Malcolm Guite and Grevel Lindop

Ten Years of The Jane Martin Poetry Prize: Celebrating Prizewinning Poetry at Girton College edited by Malcolm Guite and Grevel Lindop

Professor Sir Laurence Martin

This special anthology celebrates the 10th Anniversary of the Jane Martin Poetry Prize and includes a selection of poems from eminent Girtonian poets, both past and present, as well as the winning poems and new poems from the Jane Martin Poetry Prize winners. The book can be purchased from our online shop: shop.girton.cam.ac.uk/

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Impact of Giving

The Artist in Residence Scheme Supported by the Mead Foundation Few could have envisaged the impact of having an Artist in Residence at Girton when the scheme was created in 2013, thanks to the generosity and vision of Suling Mead (Chan, 1975) and Dr Ruth Whaley (1974), with the aim of encouraging engagement between practising artists and any area of scholarship in the Collegiate University. A wide range of artists and disciplines have been supported since the scheme’s creation, with art works produced ranging from Colden Drystone’s dry stone wall in the College grounds, to Sonny Vadgama’s illumination of the outside of the Fitzwilliam Museum, to Simeon Barclay’s innovative photographic response to the social and cultural life of the College, to Yelena Popova’s tapestry celebrating the intention of Emily Davies to create a College that is ‘everything that is good for body, soul and spirit’. Each and every one of

these artists has left their mark on both College and Cambridge.

But these art works are not the only legacy of the scheme. Because the appointed artist lives and works in College for an entire academic year, mingling with Fellows, staff and students on a day-to-day basis, every Artist in Residence has shaped the experiences and opportunities open to the Girton College community.

There are workshops, exhibitions, and related activities, setting the scene for a new genre of interdisciplinary artworks produced and inspired by the College setting, and allowing students, Fellows and staff, to learn new skills and to be inspired in their own creative endeavours.

This has been more important than ever during the current global pandemic, thanks to the hard work of the most

recent holder of the residency, Luke Burton. Luke studied painting at Chelsea College of Art and Sculpture at the Royal College of Art, and has shown his work internationally. From Easter Term 2020 to date, when most of our students have been in College, Luke has continued to run a series of extremely popular Zoom art workshops as part of the College’s program for student wellbeing.

The impact of the workshops has been tremendous as one student explains: ‘It was an amazing release from work, it felt great to do something creative.’

All of this would not have been possible without the generous ongoing support of Suling Mead through the Mead Foundation and we remain truly grateful to her, and to Ruth Whaley, for the amazing things this scheme has achieved.

Luke Burton It is hard to put into words the profound impact this residency has had on my art practice and life in general. To have free accommodation and a large studio, a materials budget and a stipend have all meant I have not needed to seek external paid work during my stay. This not only takes away the fundamental precarity that being a self-employed person in the arts entails, but in turn, this new-found security allows for a bolder, more experimental and braver attitude to making, researching and collaborating.

I have made more work during my residency (and work that I am pleased with) and read more books and articles than at any time in my life. I cannot overstate this—the security and sense of sanctuary the College provided me is something I will never fully repay. This

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alone would be enough but this is merely one facet of the residency. I have also made life-long friends at Girton, spoken to people whose intellectual and creative passions are seemingly acutely different to mine, but whose curiosity, openness and academic nimbleness have given me fresh perspectives on my own work.

By starting the Girton College Art Club and leading in person and virtual workshops, I have discovered a hive of creative endeavour. There are many staff, students, and alumni who are seriously engaged in making and thinking about art and the Club has been a useful platform to gather these interested parties. The drawing and collage workshops, very experimental in nature, were embraced by those

who attended—many students found them a release from a particular kind of intellectual labour and academic pressures and enjoyed a different, more embodied, form of learning. It was also an opportunity to meet fellow artists (unbeknownst to them) and share their passions for the arts into the future.

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Stimulating Dialogue Between Artists and Scientists Supported by Dr Una Ryan (Scully, 1963) Academic excellence in the sciences is nothing new to Girton, particularly in Physics. From Hertha Ayrton, to Helen Megaw, to Athene Donald, Girtonians have pushed the boundaries in the study of Physics. This is celebrated in our newest artist residency—the Science into Arts Programme. Formed in collaboration with the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge’s world famous department of Physics, it has been made possible by the generous donations of Dr Una Ryan OBE (Scully, 1963).

Dr Ryan is a renowned scientist and entrepreneur, who has served as a former President and CEO of Diagnostics for All, Waltham Technologies and AVANT Immunotherapeutics and invests in women-led ventures.

The first artwork celebrating this dialogue has a permanent home at College. It involved the creation of a new fire surround for the fireplace in the Porters’ Lodge. ‘The Crystalline Fireplace’ was designed by Yelena Popova (Artist in Residence at Girton College 2016– 17), with the tiling created by Dave Langlois, The Victorian Tiler. Yelena’s

work was inspired by the crystallography diagrams of former Vice-Mistress and Life Fellow Dr Christine McKie (Natural Sciences, 1949), and the mathematics behind Victorian tile tessellations.

We are truly grateful to Dr Una Ryan for making this exciting collaborative scheme possible.

Designed to stimulate a dialogue between excellent artists and excellent scientists, creating pioneering and innovative artistic output with visibility on an international stage, the scheme aspires to engage a non-traditional audience with limited science experience.

Music at Girton Girton is renowned for the richness and diversity of the opportunities to study, participate in and experience music, provided to students, Fellows, staff, alumni and members of the local community. Alongside Dr Martin Ennis, the Austin and Hope Pilkington Fellow in Music and Gareth Wilson, Director of Chapel Music, the College is fortunate to have Bye-Fellow Margaret Faultless, and three Musicians in Residence, Andrew Kennedy, Nicholas Mulroy and Jeremy West. Their collective talents and experience add considerably to the opportunities available to our students. In addition the College is rightly proud of our award-winning Chapel Choir.

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Impact of Giving

Such unmatched provision for all those interested in music is only possible thanks to the generosity of the numerous donors who support our Music Fellowships, our music awards and our Choir. This year, for example, they have enabled the members of the Choir to have COVIDsecure individual singing lessons. In normal times donations help support the Choir on their tours. In the past these have been to countries as varied as Canada, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, Ireland, Spain, Slovakia and Switzerland. A tour to Australia enabled the Choir to sing on the set of Neighbours, while the tour to Israel and Palestine provided the opportunity to sing at an orphanage in Bethany and a refugee camp in Bethlehem.

Chapel Choir Recordings We remain very grateful to all our donors who have enabled students to have these musical opportunities.

Teaching and Research Fellowships Thanks to the generous donations of our alumni and supporters it is with pleasure that we can announce that we have fully funded our tenth, eleventh and twelfth teaching and research Fellowships in perpetuity: the Juliet Campbell Fellowship (which has an international research theme and could be focused on any of the following related academic disciplines: Economics, History, Human, Social and Political

Sciences, Geography, or Law), the Janet Harker Fellowship (for Biological Sciences) and the Bertha Jeffreys Fellowship (in Applied Mathematics).

The impact of securing a set of career positions for world-class scholars in perpetuity is considerable, not just for the College and its students, but also for the scholars themselves. Thank you.

Simone Maghenzani Marilyn Strathern Official Fellow in History Setting up a new online class, or writing up a new article, being the holder of the Marilyn Strathern Official Fellowship in History, one of the Girton endowed Fellowship posts, has allowed me in this complex 2020 to fully devote myself to Girton’s commitment to inclusive teaching and groundbreaking research, all underpinned by our well known ethos of care for our students. None of this would be possible without the kind generosity of our alumni who make donations.

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The Choir has recorded several celebrated CDs. The most recent is MARC’ANTONIO INGEGNERI: MISSA LAUDATE PUERI DOMINUM, a pioneering recording which reveals Marc’Antonio Ingegneri (c. 1535/36–92 and perhaps best known as the teacher of Claudio Monteverdi) to have been one of the masters of his age, writing music of breathtaking richness and beauty.

The recording features the Chapel Choir of Girton College, Cambridge and the Historic Brass of the Guildhall School and the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama.

The Choir CDs can be purchased here: shop.girton.cam.ac.uk/ collections/girton-college-choir

Alumni Events

Alumni Events Like any other year, 2020 started with a busy schedule of alumni events in the College including the Chapel Wardens Reunion, an afternoon tea for Geographers, a Music Reunion Dinner with ‘come and sing’ Festal Evensong, and sports matches.

The global pandemic, however, meant embracing new technologies, and we were delighted to organise a series of virtual events for Girtonians. The Roll of Alumni Weekend and Transatlantic Conversations and Celebrations were two highlights of the year; recordings of these events can be viewed on the College website: www.girton.cam.ac.uk/events/ girtonline-roll-alumni-weekend

Chapel Wardens’ Reunion

Geography Tea

Mistress’s Drinks – Transatlantic Conversations and Celebrations

Roll of Alumni weekend – drinks and update on College news

www.girton.cam.ac.uk/events/ transatlantic-conversations-andcelebrations Although virtual events cannot replace the richness of in-person events, they have certainly opened up new ways of communicating and have given us a great chance to connect with alumni who are unable to travel to attend in-person events whether in the UK or globally.

Organ Scholars’ Reunion

These events simply would not be possible without the support and enthusiasm offered by the alumni to the events team, whether it is hosting, sponsoring, organising teams, or promoting the events to others, and we would like to thank all our wonderful speakers and contributors for their help in making the occasions so successful.

Music Reunion

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Prizes

Innovative thinking

Prizes at Girton, funded by alumni and supporters Mountford Arts and Humanities Communications Prize 2020 The challenge: to find an artefact from a museum, or a museum itself, that conveys the theme FUTURE. The winning abstract: Why I Record Natural History: Insights from Girton College Archives Stewart Rosell (Natural Sciences, 2017) In the Girton College Archives, there are natural history observations from the College grounds dating back to 1938.

These were not written by well-known researchers, but by students and staff with an interest in natural history. Today, I coordinate several similar projects recording our local wildlife. However, reading these documents and contacting the naturalists who wrote these showed that I still had a lot to learn about the significance of my work. Comparing my projects to the work of past naturalists at Girton College has shown how they may be used by future naturalists.

The data from the archives has provided me with irreplaceable insights into changes in local natural history. In the future, what changes will my records highlight? It is particularly exciting to know that my work could be used to

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The Mountford Prize contestants with Dr Margaret Mountford study environmental changes, which have not yet happened. As I move towards graduation, I will leave the projects I have started. Allowing the use of the data after this was an important consideration when planning the surveys for my final year at Girton. In the short term, I now focus on teaching other students how to continue my projects. In the longer term, written reports of my work will be a way of communicating my findings to the next generation. Perhaps my work will

begin to show species recovering due to conservation efforts in my lifetime.

Privet Hawk Moth, Girton College, 1986, Mike Bryan and Chris Sharpe

Prizes

Hammond Science Communication Prize 2020 The challenge: to present a scientific idea that conveys the theme INTEGRITY. The winning abstract: Does the lack of integrity in the fossil record mean it cannot be trusted?

Anna McGairy (Natural Sciences, 2016) The fossil record is a vital resource for establishing past records of life and assessing evolutionary patterns.

However, the record is far from complete, and becomes increasingly sparse going back in geological time.

Does this lack of integrity render the fossil record untrustworthy?

A body fossil is the remains of an animal preserved in the rock record; famous examples include dinosaur skeletons and ammonites. The chances of any animal being preserved are slim—most animals will never have a fossil record. Even if the animal itself is not fossilised, the behaviour of animals, such as footprints or burrows, can be preserved as trace fossils. An individual may make lots of these traces in life, and they can reveal important insights about how and where the animal lived.

The Hammond prize contestants with Dr Phil Hammond and the Mistress Body fossils can provide answers to important evolutionary questions; the discovery of Archaeopteryx is often said to have provided the ‘missing link’ between reptiles and birds. Discoveries like this are rare and many evolutionary transitions remain unconstrained, such as the evolution of the first animals. Many early evolutionary steps have been extrapolated using limited evidence and theoretical models. Our

understanding of early life increases as more discoveries are made, but the record will never be comprehensive.

Despite its incomplete nature, the fossil record provides critical information regarding evolutionary transitions and without it, many questions would be left unanswered.

Jane Martin Poetry Prize 2020 National competition for young and gifted poets This prize for poets aged 18-30 years was founded by Professor Sir Laurence Martin in memory of his daughter, Jane Martin, who read Classics at Girton from 1978 to 1981 and had a love of poetry. The judges, Alex Houen and Holly Corfield-Carr, were greatly impressed by the work of Annie Forbes and Aaushi Jain and awarded them

first and second prize respectively. You can watch the winners give a special reading of their winning poems at: www.girton.cam.ac.uk/life-girton/arts

Professor Sir Laurence Martin

The College is very grateful to Dr Margaret Mountford, Dr Phil Hammond and Professor Sir Laurence Martin for their dedication to Girton, and their generous support.

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Sport

Football Match 2020 Alumni and students gathered on Saturday 7 March 2020 for a fun but competitive football match that would turn out to be one of the College’s last in-person events for the year. The alumni team retained the Fran Malarée Mug for the fourth year in a row (5–1). A very big thank you goes to both captains and all the players (and spectators!) for making it such an enjoyable day.

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Donors

Donors to the College 2019–20 Girton is extremely grateful to all the following for their support. Donors from 1 July 2019 to 30 June 2020 are listed below; donors from July 2020 will be listed next year. In addition to those listed below, our thanks also go to all donors who wish to remain anonymous.

Names in italic type indicate a legacy.

Class of 1938 Miss K Auty Mrs P Bergin (Wack) Class of 1940 Mrs R Winegarten (Aarons) Class of 1942 Mrs P Churchill (Harwood) Mrs A Finch (Dickson) Mrs A Sinnhuber (Daubercies) Class of 1943 Miss C Jayne Mrs A Nowell (Giles) Class of 1944 Mrs M Child (Bond) Mrs V Williams (Grubb) Class of 1945 Mrs J Humphreys (Bosomworth) Mrs H Kingsley Brown (Sears) Class of 1946 Mrs L Grant (Belton) Lady Wood (A Stanfield) Class of 1947 Mrs P Bollam (Waterhouse) Mrs R Collins (Mottershead) Mrs M Conn (Sumner) Professor H Francis (Wright) Dr J Hockaday (Fitzsimons) Class of 1948 Lady Chilver (C Grigson) Dr I Ferguson (McLaren) Mrs E Illing (Jones)

Mrs M Marrs (Lewin) Mrs P Marsh (Holland) and Mr D Marsh Mrs D Mayes (Law) Dr M Rendel Mrs B Sanders (Camplejohn) Mrs J Schneider (Garrod) Mrs S Tyler (Morris) Class of 1949 Mrs A Atkinson (Barrett) Mrs M Bryan (Grant) Mrs E Bullock (Pomeroy) Mrs M Hodgkinson (Wass) Mrs S Kaplow (Briscoe) Professor V Minogue (Hallett) Dr J Orrell (Kemp) Dr V Pearson (Mercer) The Baroness Perry of Southwark (P Welch) Dr M Snook (Butler) Dr V van der Lande Class of 1950 Dr J Attfield (White) Mrs R Dams (Bailey) Mrs D Dennis (Hinnels) Dr A Henderson (Rankin) Miss S Lesley Mrs A Michaels (Isenstein) Mrs M Owen (Baron) Mrs J Schofield (Plowman) Mrs J Towle (Barbour) Mrs S Turner (Davis) Class of 1951 Dr R Bailey Miss C Crump Dr M Howatson (Craven) Ms S Marsden (Marsden-Smedley) Mrs A Oldroyd (Holloway) Dr M Saveson and Professor J Saveson

Mrs G Scales (Grimsey) Mrs P Ward (Nobes) Mrs H Wright (Minginsqa) Class of 1952 Dr S Bolt Miss J Butler in memory of Avril Townshend (Harley) 1952 Mrs A Carey (Patrick) Mrs J Foord (Greenacre) Lady Foster (K Bullock) Miss R Hadden Mrs R Harris (Barry) Mrs J Hurst (Kohner) Mrs J Lindgren (Beck) Mrs J Lovegrove (Bourne) Mrs S Neish (Smith) in memory of Avril Townshend (Harley) 1952 Mrs P Ross (Davies) Mrs N Schaffer (Thomas) Mrs F Wallace (MacLeod) Mrs I Wiener (Pollak) Mrs J Wood (Felton) Class of 1953 Mrs S Alderson (Heard) Mrs W Arnold (Joyce) Mrs A Attree (Chapman) Dr M Barnes (Sampson) Mrs B Bishop (Baker) and Colonel D Bishop Mrs P Breitrose (Martin) The Revd L Brown Mrs I Burn (Bennett) and Mr R Burn Dr E Dobie (Marcus) Dr E Hardcastle (Grant) Miss O Harper Dr P Hill (Harper) Mrs K Larkin (Gibson) and Mr M Larkin Mrs J Marshallsay (Hall-Smith) Mrs P Maryfield (Cowgill) Mrs B Plummer (Lobb)

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Donors

Dr S Richmond (Townrow) Mrs J Round (Baum) Mrs J Shipley (Leeman) Mrs S Turner (Pascal) Mrs C Wood (Osler) Class of 1954 Mrs M Biggart (Murray) Mrs C Coleman (Whiten) Miss J Darby Mrs E Fenwick (Roberts) Mrs J Jordan (Hogbin) Mrs H Silk (Wallace) Mrs D Stallard (Randall) Mrs F Strong (Ranger) Ms M Swanwick (Richardson) Dr M Whichelow The Baroness Whitaker (J Stewart) Miss C Wilson Dr P Wittmann (Curry) Mrs D Woolley (McGrath) Class of 1955 Dr S Adam (Merrell) Mrs A Alexander (Coulton) Mrs J Anstice (Williams) Mrs P Bainbridge (Lawrence) Mrs J Barker (Cotton) Mrs J Lawe (Cardell) and Mr J Lawe Mrs R Edwards (Moore) Mrs M Fraser (Easterbrook) Mrs D Geliot (Stebbing) Mrs J Gilbraith (Southern) Mrs M Goodrich (Bennett) Mrs J Hamor (Wilkinson) Dame Rosalyn Higgins (Cohen) Lady Insall (L Moss) Mrs M Levett (Ward) Mrs C McLean (Lithgow) Mrs G Parr (Loft) Mrs A Preston (Walmsley) Mrs J Rodden (Wilkins) Mrs D Thorp (Galbraith) Mrs S Threlfall (Jackson) Mrs C Vigars (Walton) Mrs J Walker (Brown) Dr V Warrior Mrs D York (Macdonald) Class of 1956 Mrs J Barrett (Fountain) Mrs J Burrows (Woodd) Lady D Cassidi (Bliss) Mrs F Clark (Mill) Dr J Davies (Dadds) Ms W Hellegouarc’h (Thomas) Dr G Jondorf (Moore) Mrs S Lawless (Ford) Mrs S Le Quesne (Gill) Mrs M Pedlar-Perks (Tillett) Mrs M Poole (Smith) Dr M Rossiter Dr F Simpson (Zuill) Lady Swinnerton-Dyer (H Browne) Mrs M Thorpe (Perry) Mrs R Treves Brown (Harding) Ms M Vincent Mrs K Wills (Wright) Mrs J Woodcock (Beattie) Mrs A Wright (Miller) Class of 1957 Professor E J Ashworth Dr M Davies (Owen)

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Mrs A Goosey (Alexander) Mrs J Hammond (Haffner) Mrs A Harris (Collis) Mrs J Kenrick (Greaves) Dr M Laurie Dr E Poskitt Ms R Rattenbury Mrs V Roberts (Chapman) Mrs C Shelton (Nicholls) Dr E Vinestock (Morrison) Mrs V Wood-Robinson (Ginman) Mrs P Youngman (Coates) Class of 1958 Mrs A Bean (Steer) Miss J Corser Mrs A Eccles (Chib) The Revd Canon Dr R Edwards (Phillips) Mrs C Gascoigne (Ditchburn) and Mr B Gascoigne Lady Gass (E Acland-Hood) Mrs H Greenstock (Fellowes) Miss C Haworth Mrs J Hawtin (Knight) Mrs D Hobden (Hutchings) Mrs A Holland (Telling) Mrs A Kenning Massa (Kenning) Dr J Knell (Brown) Dr G Lachelin Mrs S Lawrence (Reeder) Dr J Lloyd (Muir-Smith) Ms R Niblett Mrs K Norman (Redwood) Mrs J Pardey (Stoker) Mrs C Paulson-Ellis (Brunyate) Mrs S Pigott (Megaw) Mrs J Prescott (Palmer) Professor F Rhoads (Secker) and Dr G Rhoads Dr J Rizvi (Clarke) Mrs R Ross (Fincher) Mrs C Stewart (Custance) Mrs J Blackburn (Saunders) Class of 1959 Mrs G Armitage (Dover) Mrs A Aveling (Green) Mrs H Barker (King) Ms F Bates (Spillard) Mrs S Beasley (Brown) Dr M Bent (Bassington) Mrs D Boatman (Coles) Mrs G Chadwick (Offen) Dr E Courtauld (Molland) Dr C Crow Mrs J Dandliker (Cheng) Miss N de Mel Dr A Deveson (Richards) Ms J Fairwood (Wood) Mrs A Foat (Goldup) Mrs B Goodings (Molloy) Mrs V Hall (Heard) and Dr J Hall Mrs T Hawley (Ounsted) Mrs C Hopkins (Busbridge) Ms S Landen Mrs K Lawther (Cameron) Mrs B MacKenzie Ross (Horgan) Professor S McConnell-Ginet (McConnell) Mrs A Montgomery (Hurrell) Mrs M Morgan (Stallard-Penoyre) Mrs H Nicholls (Cameron) Mrs L Ruffe (Cuppage) Professor S Szuchet Mrs P Thompson (Reed) Mrs D Turner (Greenaway) M Vaizey (Stansky)

Class of 1960 Mrs J Abdallahi (Lunnon) Mrs D Bickley (Hurn) Mrs A Bowker (Bennett) Dr D Devlin Mrs C Eraut (Wynne) Mrs L Eshag (Lewis) Mrs C Field (Lander) Mrs M Field (Chisholm) Mrs B Gardner (Brennan) Ms J Hendra (Christmas) Dr A McDonald (Lamming) Mrs P Michell (Tombs) Miss F Mills Mrs E Siddall (Stone) Mrs S Thomson (Dowty) Mrs J Thorpe (Oakley) Mrs E Walker (Saunders) Dr M Walmsley Dr R Warren (Copping) Ms C Webb Dr A Whyte Mrs M Woodall (Evans) Class of 1961 Mrs H Arrowsmith (Royce) Dr S Bain (Stanley) Mrs S Barkham (Ratcliffe) Mrs H Blair (Tunnard) Mrs C Brack (Cashin) Mrs K Brind (Williams) Emeritus Professor W Childs (Baker) Dr A Conyers (Williams) Mrs S Cox (Crombie) Mrs J de Swiet (Hawkins) Miss P Dugard Dr J Jackson (Shave) Mrs C Kirkby (Billingham) Miss B Nevill Professor C Nyamweru (Washbourn) Mrs A Richards (Brown) Mrs L Scott-Joynt (White) Mrs R Sjolin (Simpson) Mrs S Smith (Jenkins) Mrs S Smith (Tyndall) Mrs J Standage (Ward) Professor A Thompson Dr R Toms (Peregrine-Jones) Mrs G Verschoyle (Kent-Lemon) Mrs C White (Slade) Mrs S Wilson (Waller) Reverend Professor F Young (Worrall) Class of 1962 Dr J Bainbridge Mrs R Binney (Chanter) Mrs D Bond (MacFarlane) Miss A Darvall Mrs P Glanville (Fox-Robinson) Miss H Greig Professor C Hillenbrand (Jordan) Mrs A Kobak Mrs J McAdoo (Hibbert) Mrs L Michell (Coleman) Mrs M Philip (Ferguson) Dr L Pollard (Robertson) Professor I Rivers (Haigh) Mrs B Salmon (Shaw) Ms P Simpson Ms H Strouts Commissioner M Sutherland Mrs J Way (Whitehead) Mrs H Willoughby-Ellis (Moerman)

Donors

Class of 1963 Lady Atkinson (J Mandeville) Mrs Z Biggs (Kharas) Dr J Braid (Slater) Dr E Burroughs (Clyma) Mrs M Deelman (Hall) The Rt Hon the Baroness Hale of Richmond Mrs S Hill (Gleeson-White) Mrs L Jones (Smith) Ms C Lane (Emus) and Dr G Lane Mrs H Langslow (Addison) Mrs L Lyne (Rees) Mrs B Mansell (Wulff) Mrs M Overington (King) Miss E Roberts Mrs M Stoney (Wild) Dr P Taylor (Francis) Dr V Thorne (Stanton) Mrs J Wymer (Marriott) Class of 1964 Ms N Acland (Gatley) Mrs C Ansorge (Broadbelt) Mrs C Beasley-Murray (Griffiths) Professor K Beckingham The Rev A Bradbrook (Turner) Mrs C Campion-Smith (Gerrard) Miss D Crowder Mrs A de Lotbiniere (Dent) Ms I Freebairn (Freebairn-Smith) Dr A Garner (Appleton) Dr S Hewlett Ms V Horsler (Sheen) Dr E Hughes Mrs J Kaung (Mak) Mrs J McManus (Edwards) Dr R Osmond (Beck) Mrs C Thorp (Kenyon) Ms G Turton Mrs P Van der Zee (Turner) Class of 1965 Mrs J Barville (Middlehurst) Dr D Challis (Pennington) Dr S Delamont Dr P Eaton (Mills) Ms J Gardiner Mrs G Henchley (Cassels) Dr J Mallison (Hallowes) Mrs A Mason (Harroway) Mrs R Miskin (Ward) Dr R Page (Wight) Dr S Paskins (Brown) Mrs P Sharp (Monach) Professor A Sinclair (Lees) Mrs A Swallow Dr A Tyndale Professor V van Heyningen (Daniel) Mrs G Webster (Runnicles) Mrs D Wells (Bousfield) Class of 1966 Mrs L Andrews (Scott) Mrs A Bueno de Mesquita (McCormick) Mrs J Bullman (Thompson) Dr E Capewell (Aldridge) Miss F Corrie Mrs L Curgenven (Charlton) Mrs H Davies (Waters) Mrs B Hird (Holden) and Mr A Hird Miss M Leeson Dr A Lishman Miss D Millward

Professor L Milne Dr R Smith (Loewenthal) The Rev Dr P Welch (Maggs) Class of 1967 Professor V Broughton (Nice) Dr S Carter Dr P Chadwick Mrs L Chesneau (Jacot) Mrs K Coleman (MacKenzie) Dr L Emerson Dr P Ford Mrs E Freeman (Rogers) Mrs H Ireland (Charnock) Mrs F Johnson (Lewis) Mrs J Lloyd (Pawson) Mrs D McAndrew (Harrison) Mrs B Moran (Jones) Dr C Nutton (Clements) Professor P Price Mrs M Saunders (Cain) Mrs R Tier (Hooper) Miss B Wimett Class of 1968 Dr A Blackburn Dr E Bowling Dr L Braddock Mrs B Carley (Gaskell) Mrs V Challacombe (Brousson) Mrs H Chown (Benians) Ms J Crimmin Dr K Crocker (Tombs) Dr J Cross Miss S Cubitt Miss M Cutler Dr P Falk Dr S Faure Walker (Sidebotham) Dr D Fok (Protheroe) Ms S Garvey Ms H Goy (Corke) Dr G Harte Professor R Jenkins (McDougall) Ms E Klingaman Mrs D Knight (Watson) Mrs V McGlade (Whitney) Dr A McLean Mrs J Mercer (Clarke) Ms S Minter Mrs S Penfold (Marshall) Professor H Ritvo Dr F Smith (Rankin) Dr L Somerville Ms J Thompson Class of 1969 Dr C Bell (Howe) Miss S Blacker (Brenton) Mrs E Bosher (King) Dr V Bowtell (Shepherd) Mrs R Dickens (De Courcy) Professor L Dowler Mrs L Emery (Crick) Ms M Friend Dr A Griffin (Ryder) Mrs F Hebditch (Davies) and Mr M Hebditch Mrs V Honeyborne-Martins (Honeyborne) Mrs M Innes (Woods) Dr G Monsell (Thomas) Professor E Nesbitt Professor M Fowler Miss A Plackett Mrs A Roberts (Mangham)

Dr B Taylor (Slimming) Mrs K Ward (Mee) Mrs S Watson (Head) Mrs M Winfield (Richards) and Mr W Winfield Ms C Wright Mrs R Yule Class of 1970 Miss H Barton Miss A Bell Mrs A Brackley (Butler) Ms C J Bradley Mrs B Coulson (Chambers) Professor Dame A Dowling Ms E Guppy Professor M Haycock Dr S Lawton (Marsh-Smith) Miss P Mander Ms R Martin Mrs V Martin (Bennett) Mrs G Maynard (Miller) Dr J Melia (Gibson) Mrs E Mendes da Costa (Lipscomb) Dr M Mountford (Gamble) Ms J Nockolds Mrs M O’Keeffe (Frawley) Dr R Siddals Mrs H Steel (Gee) Professor V Trimble Mrs S Walker (Hunt) Mrs J Woodward (de Cordova) Miss M Wooldridge Class of 1971 Mrs A Brown (Mark) Dr H Caldwell (Burtenshaw) Ms V Chamberlain Dr A Cobby Mrs J Denman (Dods) Miss L Fluker The Revd Canon M Guite (Hutchison) Mrs K Jenkins (Kubikowski) The Revd K Kirby Dr A McDonald (Delderfield) Mrs J McKnight (Ruddle) Dr K Morgan (Moore) Miss J Palmer Mrs H Papworth (Garson) Mrs J Randall-Smith (Cockburn) Mrs D Schuchart (Kane) Miss R Sykes Dr H Taylor Mrs J Tierney (Briggs) Mrs G Waters (Cutmore) Dr S Wright (Heywood) Class of 1972 Mrs H Asbury (Jephcott) Mrs J Bell (Spurgin) Mrs S Bignell (Houghton) The Rev C Clarke (Fletcher) Miss C Cullis Ms S Dawson Dr A Edmonds Miss G Edwards Mrs E Fleming (McCool) Mrs S Gaulter (Wright) Mrs F Gilbert (Tipping) Ms J Hanna Ms A Hey Ms B Hines (Fejtek) Mrs J Hope (Bentley)

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Donors

Professor F Kirkham Dr A Overzee (Hunt) Miss S Pargeter Ms V Platt Mrs D Reynolds (Bevin) Mrs A Robinson (Lawton) Mrs C Stoker and Mr A Stoker Ms D Sutherland Miss O Timbs Mrs S Walker (Wren) Mrs R Whatmore (Robertson) Class of 1973 Mrs J Alcock (Wilson) Mrs A Bamforth (Burgess) Mrs G Bargery (Hetherington) Mrs N Cooper (Stratford) Dr M Davies Ms L Duffin Dr L Dumbreck (Devlin) Mrs B Ford (Seeley) Mrs H Gray (Swan) Mrs P Greene (Crisp) Mrs A Griffiths (Evans) Dr S Jones Mrs V Knight (Hammerton) Dr A Lyon (Butland) Mrs N Miller (Thomas) Dr C Murray (Thorpe) Dr D O’Brien (Brough) Ms L Sampson (Whiddon) Rabbi S Sheridan (Romain) Mrs A Stainsby (Sutton) Dr S Tilby (Wharton) Mrs P Wade (Wellburn) Dr D Weissman (Chimicz) Class of 1974 Lady Baker (H Sharrock) Mrs M Bonsall (Shaw) Mrs C Borrill (Pateras) Dr J Clayton (Gardner) Dr S Dyson Miss D Farley The Rev Dr A Ferris (Thacker) Dr E French (Jacques) Ms J Fuller Miss A Heffernan Mrs A Jackson (Jones) Dr D Lamb Mrs R Mifsud (Moore) Mrs C Mitcheson (Ramshaw) Ms M Morris Dr C Morrison (Page) Ms J Portal (Bowerman) Miss K Refson Miss A Rhodes Dr J Scutt Dr C Shennan Dr H Trusted Mrs A Whipp (Smith) Class of 1975 Ms F Anderson (Wells-Thorpe) Dr S Black (Hollis) Ms F Boyers Dr J Coates (Whatley) Ms A Davidson (Jones) Dr F Doyle Ms G Elliott Mrs S Finlay (Perry) Ms F Gledhill Dr G Herridge (Chopping) Dr M Jubb

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Ms C Kerridge Miss J Mann Mrs P Matthews (Johnson) Dr P McCallum (Coon) Dr R Nye (Painter) Mrs S Palmer (Hull) Her Honour Judge I Parry Dr R Rayner (Talbot) Mrs N Richardson (Clark) Mrs A Rigg (English) Mrs J Robertson (Dowie) Professor V Sanders Dr K Saunders Ms L Shaddy Professor S Springman Miss A Stebbing Professor P Tyrrell Ms F Werge Class of 1976 Dr C Anderson (Aston) Dr J Appleby (Swinburn) Mrs E Barrott (Stosic) Ms L Bradbury Mrs P Cakebread (James) Mrs A Collier (Fowler) Ms L Davies (Cooper) Dr V Dhillon Ms J Ferrans Ms D Fuertes (Bartelt) Mrs S Grant (Jump) Mrs A Jenkinson (Sims) Mrs E Jones (Dando) Ms M Knowles Mrs G Millinger (Aston) Ms D Morgan Mrs S Morgan (Richardson) Ms H Morrison Dr A Roberts Dr C Robinson Dr Y Roe Mrs M Rutterford (Williamson) Dr S Seymour (Taylor) Mrs A Shrubshall (Horton) Mrs J Smallwood (Smith) Ms E Wade Dr J Walker Dr K Wheeler Mrs H Wright (Peacock) Class of 1977 Dr H Allen Mrs S Ballingall (Sampson) Dr C Bell Mrs C Bromhead (Smith) Dr C Brown Dr B Burin Mrs C Clarkson (Benians) Mrs J Collyer (Kiwana) Mrs A Coulton (McWatters) Dr C Davis Dr R Dyer (Snelling) Ms C Egan Dr S Felber Miss M Gaskin Mrs A Glanvill (Howe) Dr I Hadley Mrs C Hesketh (Castle) Dr J Hughes Ms R Jones Mrs N King (Cowell) Mrs N Lanaghan (Hamilton-Russell) Mrs K Langridge (Shaw) Miss J Main Thompson

Mrs R Murnane (Richardson) Mrs C Newland-Smith (Wilson) Dr L Pillidge (Robinson) Dr R Randall Professor S Rowland-Jones Mrs B Schouten (Edwards) Mrs S Shaw (Everett) Mrs P Somervell (Holt) Professor H Thomas Mrs L Turner (Gemmell) Mrs G White (Lupton) Mrs J Wiggett (Tyler) Ms S Woodall Mrs G Woon (Doubleday) Class of 1978 Mrs R Anderson (Naish) and Mr J Anderson Mrs G Andrewes Dodd (Dodd) Professor H Atkinson (Bavister) Dr A Beckham (Roberts) Dr M Chambers Mrs S Conolly (Ruch) Mrs S Crawford The Rev Dr M De Quidt (Williamson) Ms J Elton Professor C Ennew Mrs S Ferris (Hanley) Mrs N Fielding (Creedy) Mrs A Francis (Fairbairn) Mrs J George (Peterson) Miss S Graham-Campbell Ms G Hammond Mrs A Harding (Moore) Dr I Henderson Mrs A Higgs (Beynon) Ms B Hill Dr I Howlett (Shaw) Ms K Knight Mrs G Marshall (Wilson) Mrs A Masters (Elms Neale) Dr J Mitchell (Stebbing) Dr A Mynors-Wallis (Lloyd-Thomas) Mrs S Routledge (Blythe) Mrs S Shrimpton (Lightfoot) Dr L Smith Mrs S Smith (Wildash) Ms C Tacon Lady Turing (N Simmonds) Miss A Weitzel Mrs L Wortley (Greenhalgh) Class of 1979 Ms F Aston Mrs J Barwick-Nesbit (Nicholson) Mrs T Brotherston (Nicholls) Ms J Caddick (Roberts) Mr N Campbell Ms I Child Dr T Child (Skeggs) Mrs K Clay (Swift) Mrs J Clough (Richardson) Dr E Davies Ms J Drinkwater Mrs J Edis (Askew) Dr A Gemmill Dr P Gibson Ms S Haggard Dr S Hales Ms C Hanks (Boag) Miss J Hewett-Cooney (Hewett) Ms S Hewin Mrs P Howell Evans (Woodhouse) Miss L Jerram

Donors

Mrs M Lewis (Wallington) Mr J Longstaff Mrs A Lowe (Alexander) Mr J Markwick Smith Dr J Martin (Hewitt) Mrs J More O’Ferrall (Hatton) Mr N Pears Professor M Power Mr S Richardson The Rev E Robertson (Savage) Dr J Sears Mrs A Sheil (Simpson) Mrs S Waller (Skelland) Dr G Warner Mrs M Warton-Woods (Johnson) Mrs F Weston (Simpson) Dr C Young Class of 1980 Miss M Archer Mr P Berg Mr P Bernstein Dr H Blackburn (Egan) Dr R Bliss Professor A Bourke Mrs L Bowen (Dennis) Mrs J Burridge (Saner) Mr S Butterworth Mrs J Cambidge (Dryden) Dr Z Conway Mr I Craggs Mr J Doyle Professor M Fewtrell Mr G Freeborn Mrs A Fyffe Reverend S Gill Mrs J Haines (Huggins) Mrs S Hall (Hetherington) Mr D Hollingworth Mrs S Lancashire (Marr) Dr N Land Dr I Laurenson Mrs G Lewis (Merrett) Mr J Lewis Mr C Milne Dr W Munro Mrs K Pugh (Burton) Mr D Recaldin Mr I Teague Ms P Treacy Dr C Vize Mrs H Wilderspin (Chatters) Class of 1981 Dr C Beveridge Mrs T Bubbear (Allen) Mr G Counsell and Ms A Reece (1981) Mr M Dowle Ms C Edwards Dr P Hammond Mr N Harvey Mrs R Hyde (Riley) Mr S Inglis Ms K Kearney Mr A Lane Ms H Linaker (Townshend) Mrs Y Maxtone-Smith (Maxtone-Graham) Mr P Patel Ms F Smith Mr M Smith Mrs A Whitaker (Rundle) Class of 1982 Professor J Cassell

Mrs D du Luart (France) Mr P Fitzalan Howard Mrs E Hess (Bannan) Mrs S Hood (Probert) Mr S Hood Mrs K Ip (Jopson) The Revd Canon Professor C Methuen Mr S Namasivayam Miss M Quinn Mrs J Raffle (Lobell) Ms L Simpson Class of 1983 Mr T Bass Mr I Benjamin Dr R Bewley Mrs A Dunne (Garbett) Mr C Gibbs Mr L Høegh Miss W Holden Mrs A House (McNiff) Professor M Lindsay Mr C Main Miss H McDonald Mrs F Napier (King) Ms C Orchard (Brind) Mr J Pike Mrs R Rawnsley (Schofield) Professor M Rubin Professor D Skidmore Ms F Van Dijk Ms R Williams (Tudor Williams) Mr D Wittmann and Mrs S Wittmann (Abesser) (1983) Class of 1984 Mr D Acres Mrs T Bradley (Jennings) Brigadier P Cameron Ms L Cattermole Watkins (Cattermole) Dr T Crickmore (Bartram) Ms E Drew Mrs C Dwyer (Williams) Professor P Dyer Professor M Gale Mr F Grun Mr A Jackson Mr W Jeffels Mr C Mok Mrs D Morrison (Restall) and Mr A Morrison (1985) Mrs S Peatfield (Charles) Dr L Power Mrs H Strong Mr P Williams Class of 1985 Dr C Bradley Mr P Bream and Mrs J Bream (Sharp) (1988) Mrs H Butler (Penfold) Dr D Cara and Dr M Cara (Blake) (1985) Mrs K Collins (Scrivener) Mrs P Considine Mrs L Given (Capell) Ms R Goodrich Ms M Hackett Mr F Heng Dr R Hyde Ms A King Professor A Knobler Mrs R Lewis (Davies) Professor D Mead Mr T Ramoutar Ms P Roberts

Ms J Simmonds Professor D Smith Ms M Sng Dr E Stuart Mrs C Travis (Bygrave) Miss S Williams Mr C Woodford Class of 1986 Mrs D Banerji (Urwin) Mr K Chan Mrs S Croft (White) Dr D Dibosa Mr J Downes Colonel S Duckworth Mr J Dunning Mr D Fielding Professor R Godby Mr S Haywood-Ward Mr R Lewis and Mrs R Lewis Clarke (Clarke) (1985) Ms C Liassides Dr S Lishman Mr A Pymer and Dr C Wernham (1986) Mr R Rayward Dr P Shah Dr W Simonson Dr N Storer Dr E Wang Mr K Watson Class of 1987 Mr M Anderson Dr T Barnes Mr J Bryan Mr S Close Dr L Fallon Mr K Galloway Mr P Groombridge Ms R Jayasundera Dr R Makarem Ms A Maxted Ms S Maxwell (McCollough) Mr J Oatley and Mrs J Oatley (Moriarty) (1987) Mrs M Quinney (Smyth) Dr J Saunders (Golding) Mr A Vaughan Ms J Wilson (Hainsworth) and Mr M Wilson (1985) Class of 1988 Ms C Bardon (Heslop) Ms A Bown Mr A Craigie Mrs A Gamble (Bell) Ms F Graham Mr G Green Dr M Hutt Professor S Iyengar Mr M Keady Dr J Malt Mr N Morgan Mr R Moss Ms S Nikapota Mr M O’Brien Mrs A Orsi (Knight) Dr J Rippin Mrs G Riviere (Pollard) Mr J Short Mr J Taylor Mr J Tothill Ms A Young

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Donors

Class of 1989 Mr J Armitage Dr D Bell Ms C Boute Mr P Brabin Miss J Buck Mrs N Bush (Seed) Mrs R Cowin (Clark) Dr T Cutts Ms N Guest and Mr D Riddell Mr D Henderson Mr J Howling Dr J Jacobs Ms S Jones (Griffith) Mr B Joshi Mrs R Moore (Batte) Ms C Rushton Mrs C Seward (Stanley) Class of 1990 Dr M Armstrong and Mrs S Armstrong (McGrath) (1990) Mr S Beale Mr M Hallett Mrs G McPherson (Hunter) Mrs B Mielniczek (Miller) Miss V Milner Mr J Moffett Dr G O’Keefe Mr D Poppleton Mr M Potter Dr M Stidworthy Ms L Wagner Dr H Wong Class of 1991 Mrs K Bass (Newbury) Mr P Bilton Mr S Bradley Mrs A Edwards (Jacklin) Mr D Germain Mr R Goodhead Dr G Hamilton Dr S Hayward Mr S Irvine Mr P James Mrs C Kendal (Currie) Mr S Lim Mrs P Martin (Hall) Mr R Mun Mr R Pavry Dr D Ramm Mr A Redfern Mr J Rouse Mr T Southern Dr L Strens (Meakin) Dr S Wallace

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Class of 1993 Mr G Arnold Mr T Barnes Mrs C Bodanis (Windsor) Mr C Choi Mr W Collins Dr A Curry Dr A Dal Colle Mr I Furlonger Mrs S Galbraith (Smith) Ms L Irish (Davey) Ms R Kerr Mr K Meghjee Mrs C Moore (Hemsworth) Mr A O’Rourke Mrs S Parsons (Relf) Mr W Potten Professor N Sartain Mr D Semal Mr H Stokes Mrs A Tobin Mrs J Waters (Hook) Mr R Weatherston Mr G Williams Class of 1994 Dr A Blaxter Paliwala Dr T Courtney Dr C Crowe Mr C Hulatt Mrs S Huxley-Reynard (Edgar) Dr A Kells Ms C Maugham (Hibbitt) Mr L McLernon Mrs J Moriya (Wells) Dr T Oh Mr S Payne Mr E Pugh Dr G Somayajula (Bradbury) Mrs A Thomas (Disbury) Mr H Thomas Class of 1995 Mr T Boughton Mr S Davidson Mr A Every Mr L John Dr K Loveman Mr P Ryland Miss L Shackleton Dr L Shaw Dr A Thurrell

Class of 1992 Dr S Aguilar Mr D Batchelor Dr J Bibow Mr R Bradford Miss K Evans Mr J Geston Mr O Haffenden Mrs R Hourston (Madden) Mrs R Iren (Gediz) Dr M Jarvis Professor H Koh Mr K Limbajee Mr J Marsh Mr A McCready Mr S McMurray

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Class of 1996 Miss L Archbold Dr L Bannister Dr K Best (Smith) Mr M Cobley Mr P Glover Mr A Gregorio Mr S Ho Miss L James Miss L Lim Mrs H Mackinlay (Bradley) Mr O Ming Mrs L Nielsen Board (Dean) Dr P Patel (Datta) Mrs B Richards (Goodridge)

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Ms C Roberts Mr A Sen and Mrs C Sen (Brown 1995) Mr R Smith Mr S Tappin Ms S Wilcock (Luke) Mrs C Wookey-Evans (Wookey) Class of 1997 Miss L Allen Mr J Anthony-Edwards (Anthony) Mr P Beer Miss M Bingham-Walker Mr E Buckley Dr E Butterworth Mr C Cheung Mr A Chisholm Ms E Cox Mr M Cullingford Mr B Gardiner Mr E Gatfield Mrs C Gruffudd Jones (Mulliss) Mr R Hakes Dr P Hall Mrs C Hawes (Slevin) and Dr J Hawes (1997) Dr L Hulatt Mr T Murphy Mr J Naylor Dr K Nelson (Duffin) and Mr S Nelson (1997) Mrs E O’Reilly (Reynolds) Mr R Pitcher Mr T Poon Mr P Rutland Mrs A Schofield Professor J Schonfield Dr M Shaw-Champion Mr M Sidhom and Mrs R Sidhom Ms J Smith Mr C Tuohy Mr C Vickers Ms L Walker Class of 1998 Ms J Booth Dr N Brooks Mr R Bryan Miss K Clark Mr P Cornmell Dr T Craggs Mr G Dobson and Mrs A Dobson (Ambrose) Mrs P Frowde (Barclay) Mr J Gilberthorpe Mrs S Holt (Merrigan) Mr M Jain Mr J Parker Dr L Pickering Miss R Pope Mr G Redman Mrs E Robinson (Hunt) Mrs C Smith (Thomas) Ms V Stevens Ms K Tymieniecka Mr J Vali Mr J Woolf Dr X Yuan Class of 1999 Mr E Blanchard-Wrigglesworth Miss L Bullock Miss T Collier Mr J Cooper-Colliander (Cooper) Dr E Cornwall Mr D Emmens Mr A Holland and Mrs K Holland (Crosby) Dr N Jennings

Donors

Mr J Lark Mr P Marshall Mr J Morgan Mrs R Morris (Bowes) Miss A Newman Mrs K Norman (Hill) Ms J Norton (Elliman) Dr R Orr Mr E Owles Mrs S Read (Gill) Miss N Rump Dr G Williams Class of 2000 Mr D Bradnum Mr C Caulkin Dr C Duckworth Mrs F Hall (Gaetani) Miss A Lawrence Mr N Loh Mr L McLean Dr S Nayyar Mrs N Pallikaropoulos (Pachiti) Mr J Panchaud Mr G Shuker Dr D Smith Mr T Sneddon Mrs A Speicher (Pepple) Mr B Speight and Mrs H Speight (Haggie) (2000) Miss K Urell Mr T Wey Class of 2001 Miss B Cain Mr D Cash Miss S Daniell Ms K Davis Mr D Devot Mr T Elliott Miss K Ellison Ms V Granell Marx Mr P Hempsall Dr U Inamete Mr J Knibbs Mr J Meenowa Mr T Mosher Mr M Namdarkhan Ms E Navasargian Dr V Samuels (Instone) Dr D Stretton (Marshall) Mr N Thornton Dr D Veldhuis Mr R Wright Class of 2002 Mr J Beeson Dr D Black Miss G Bryce Miss K Charles Mrs G Chen Miss H Craik Mr S de Haas Mr T Elson Dr S Gnanakumaran Mr J Hogg Mrs P Hook (Tudor) Mr T Houlton Mr S Hudson Dr H James Mrs A Pacitti (Riddoch) Dr K Ponomareva Mr M Schneider Miss S Stewart

Mr T Taylor Mr J Turner Dr S West Mrs L Wherity (Hare) Mr T Yates Class of 2003 Dr J Cobbett (Jones) Mr A Darnton Miss M Ferdous Miss A Goddard Mr J Hewitt Mr A Kumar Dr P Man Mr A Mugan Mrs C Murrells (Clifton) and Mr J Murrells ( 2003) Mrs S Saeed (Adam) Mr B Stimmler Mr W Wang Dr M White Class of 2004 Mr M Beckett Mr M Birmingham Mr D Deitz Mr P Dower and Mrs E Dower (2007) Mr V Handa Miss E Holdstock Mr T Howard Miss A Kaars Sijpesteijn Mr A Leung and Mrs V Leung (Moss) (2004) Mr O Lewis and Mrs R Lewis (Amos) (2004) Mr P Martin Mr R Stanchina Mr J Waiting Dr L Walker Mr T Wieladek Mr Q Wong Dr T Wood Class of 2005 Mr L Andrews Ms K Caro Mr J Clarke Dr N Culshaw Mr C Donnelly Dr O Falconer Mrs K Gosling (Below) and Mr M Gosling (2005) Mr P Hall Mr L Jones Miss C Kellas Miss D Dan Luo Mr S Mutter and Miss N Jocelyn (2005) Mrs J Naseman (Bromage) and Mr B Naseman (2007) Mr W Norris Mr R O’Brien Miss C Raynham Dr D Rees Mr R Sands Miss K Scotter Mrs J Sheard (Gulliver) Mr B Shen Dr R Stutt Dr W Szlachta Mrs M Waddington (Lavin) Mr W Walters Mrs P Wu

Class of 2006 Mr R Ahmed Ms E Alekseeva Mr S Antill Mr C Bauermeister Dr A Baxter (Brown-Kerr) Mr M Beevor and Mrs L Beevor (Foan) (2007) Mr S Cowen Mr J Gray Miss N Hamilton Mrs L Haywood (Iredale) Mr J Hosier Mr J Jacobstein Mr L Lin Dr T Medeiros Mr O Patey Mr B Ramsay Mrs K Russell (Tinslay) Ms I Simmonds Mr A Stockler Dr L Sun Dr M Sweeney Mr M Thomas Mr B Travers Mr C Webb Mr E Wong Class of 2007 Mr D Adams Mr C Ainsworth-Patrick (Patrick) Mrs E Corpe (Bowen) Mr J Drake Mr T Gault Mr S Hayes Mr T Ithell Mr A Ko Miss R Langton Miss S Miller Mr A Mullins-Smith Mr S Ngan Miss J Nutter Mr O Nzelu Mr F Perez Cutino Miss S Rodriguez Miss R Smith Mr D Tang Mr B Treloar Mr D Vyravipillai Mr S Wait Dr T Williams Mr A Young Class of 2008 Mr E Button Mr R Dhillon Mr L Fletcher Miss C Ford Mr M Jones Ms D Levy Mr C Lynn Mr J McKeown Mr N Mead Mr R Patel Miss H Phillips Mr N Rosa Mr G Shankar Mr D Spencer Ms C Wennersten Miss E West Mr J Williams Mr J Wong Mr P Woollins

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Donors

Class of 2009 Miss N Baroudi Mr L Bates Miss E Briolat Mr P Brook Ms R Butterfill Pace (Butterfill) Mrs B Cook (Tyrie) Mr J Curtis Hayward Miss J Davison Mr W English Miss S Hale Miss C Hardy Ms L Hassell-Hart (Hassell) and Mr S HassellHart (Hart) (2009) Mr T Hellier Miss J Hu Mr K Hughes Dr A Hussain Miss M Kang Ms M Phong Mr S Probyn Mr A Stikonas Mr J Streather Class of 2010 Dr I Beh Mr A Campbell Mr S Chankov Dr B Cooke Mrs K Green (Walton) Dr A Guzman de la Fuente Ms M Johnson Mr R Kilcoyne Miss C Mancini Ms T Pan Ms V Ravikumaran Mr C Scutt Mr M Seow Dr A Stead Mr M Thoma Miss E Walters

Class of 2014 Mr M Coley Mr A Liaudanskas Mr W Lyon Tupman Mr M Peychev Mr R Williams

Class of 2016 Miss A Seaton Class of 2017 Miss M Ini’ Class of 2018 Miss S Guhr Dr E Hart and Mr A Hart

Class of 2012 Dr I Ba

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Class of 2013 Mr Z Ding Miss C Foot Ms M Hawkins Mr J Holdsworth-White (Holdsworth-Miller) Miss F Yan

Class of 2015 Ms C Denhard

Class of 2011 Mr J Bews Mr C Fletcher Mr J Harvey Mr T Hawker-Dawson (Dawson) Mr E Lee Dr W Sloper Mr J Tong Mr V Udra Mr R Weedon Mr I Yate

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Mr J Cheung Miss H Davies Mr I Dunlap Mr B Glassberg Mr M Hoque Mr C Jin Mr T Lefley Mr S Rayner Ms H Smith Mr P Thomson

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Fellows1, staff and supporters Mr J Anderson Mr S Andrews Mr S Ansell Mr C Austin Dr D Barden Mr A Bennett and Mrs E Crowe (Family of Dr J. E. Harker) Mr A Blake Mr P Briggs Mrs J Campbell (Collings) Mr P Chan Mrs M Cornwall Ms D Easlick Mr B Easlick-Shoolman Mrs J Edmondson-Woods (Howe) Ms T Elbourn-Onslow (Elbourn)

The Hon Mrs C Flook Mr J Gant Mr T Hall Mr and Mrs M S Hedges Mr R Herr and Mrs V Herr Mr G Hoffman and Mrs W Hoffman in memory of Joyce Westwood (Murrant) 1935 Mr L Illing Miss I Koning Mr G Law Ms D Lowther Dr S Lock Dr A Lynch Ms F Malaree and Mr R Wielechowski (2002) Mrs S Mills C Quelch Dr H Radke Mrs C Rawlings Ms J Reynolds Mr S Robson Mrs L Scott and Mr C Scott Dr C Shenton P and C Shoup Mr A Smith Mrs P Smith Professor S J. Smith Dr H Van Noorden Baroness M Warnock Mr J West in memory of Julia West Ms J Wilkinson J Williams Mr S White in memory of Diana Farley (1974) Mr S Wyborn T Zhang Organisations Linklaters London Girton Association Friends of the Petrie Museum Chelys Consort of Viols Literature Cambridge Easy Fundraising Hitchin Historical Society Simon de Montfort Society Slaughter and May The Portland Fuel Group of Companies Wales and the West Girtonians Association Oxford Region Girtonians First Advisory Trust 1

Who are not also alumni

Meet the Team Deborah Easlick, Development Director. Deborah is responsible for the College’s Development Campaign, long-term fundraising strategy, major giving and all aspects of College alumni relations and development. d.easlick@girton.cam.ac.uk +44 (0)1223 339893 Tamsin Elbourn-Onslow, Development Manager. Tamsin is an ambassador for A Great Campaign; she will be contacting Girton’s wider community in support of the Campaign’s final phase, focusing on major giving. t.elbourn@girton.cam.ac.uk +44 (0)1223 765685 Emma Cornwall, Development Officer (Alumni Relations and Legacies). Emma oversees the College’s alumni events and communications, and supports Girton’s various alumni associations.

She also has responsibility for the College’s legacy giving programme. e.cornwall@girton.cam.ac.uk +44 (0)1223 338901 Hannah James, Development Officer.

Hannah is responsible for all aspects of gift administration. She also conducts background research for development campaigns and alumni events, and is

developing our stewardship programme. h.james@girton.cam.ac.uk +44 (0)1223 766672 Hena McGhee, Development Officer.

Hena is responsible for the Annual Fund giving programme, which includes the telephone campaign, direct mails and the Giving Day. h.mcghee@girton.cam.ac.uk +44 (0)1223 338992 Ingrid Koning, Development Officer.

Ingrid manages the College’s annual programme of networking, social and

educational events designed to engage alumni, students, Fellows and donors, as well as keeping the database up to date and providing administrative support to the office. i.koning@girton.cam.ac.uk +44 (0)1223 764935 Benji Easlick-Shoolman, Development Assistant and interim PA to the Development Director. Benji assists all members of the team, especially in arranging events and maintaining the database. b.easlick-shoolman@girton.cam.ac.uk +44(0)1223 765833

How we use your data We are committed to protecting your personal information and being transparent about what information we hold. The information you provide to the College together with publicly available data will be held and processed in accordance with the requirements of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018. The data will not be circulated in any other way without your permission. Girton College likes to keep in touch with all our alumni and supporters and the data provided will be used by the College for alumni relations and fundraising purposes. These may include publications, alumni surveys, appeals and the marketing of alumni events and services. Communications may be sent by post, telephone or electronic means. You have the right to object to the use of your data for any of the above purposes and you can opt out of all communications from the College by contacting the Development Office: development@girton.cam.ac.uk or +44 (0)1223 338901.

Please read our full data protection statement for alumni and supporters at: www.girton.cam.ac.uk/gdpr

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Events Calendar 2021 College update to all our Alumni and Supporters At College, we are continuing to ensure all members of our community, our students, staff and Fellows and, as far as possible, our alumni are taken care of in the light of the ongoing pandemic.

with your preferred contact details if you are not receiving emails from Girton. We would appreciate hearing from you, even if you just want to chat electronically or to arrange a telephone call.

Regrettably, we have had to postpone or cancel all in-person events until at least the summer and currently the College site remains closed to visitors.

The annual telephone campaign, which has gone ahead this year, and our events are important ways for the College to stay connected to our alumni and supporters, so we very much hope to resume our regular activities as soon as it is advisable to do so. For the time being many of the College communications will be electronic so please do contact the Development Office (development@ girton.cam.ac.uk, +44 (0)1223 766 672)

Please find below our current events schedule. If you plan to attend an event or simply visit the College please check our Visitor Policy for the latest guidance and up-to-date details on our event plans. This information is available by visiting the Alumni and Supporters section of the College’s website www. girton.cam.ac.uk or by emailing development@girton.cam.ac.uk.

8 May

25 September

Medics and Vets Symposium

People’s Portraits Event

Virtual

In-person/virtual TBC

13 May

25 September

Jane Martin Poetry Prize

Roll of Alumni Weekend Concert

Virtual

In-person/virtual TBC

12 June

26 September

Far East Alumni Event

Gardens Talk

Virtual

In-person/virtual TBC

25 September

26 September

We hope that this difficult period will last as short a time as possible, and that you are able to stay safe and well in these challenging times.

Library Talk

Artist in Residence Exhibition

In-person/virtual TBC

TBC

25 September

16 October

Lawrence Room Talk

Commemoration of Benefactors

In-person/virtual TBC

In-person/virtual TBC

Girton Column by Paul de Monchaux

Development Office The Development Office Girton College Cambridge CB3 0JG +44 (0)1223 766672/338901 development@girton.cam.ac.uk www.girton.cam.ac.uk