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The Annual Review of Girton College Cambridge

Contents Welcome

Honeysuckle Walk

Roll of Alumni

A Letter from the Mistress

Social Hub

Calendar of Events

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Lawrence Room Book

Regional Associations

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Jane Martin Poetry Prize

Features Profile: Dame Karen Pierce

Births, Marriages and Deaths

8 Fellows’ Profiles

Making an Impact

Births

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A History of Girton in Ten Pioneers 12, 25, 30, 37, 39 47, 50, 54, 61, 69 Hertha Ayrton, Ground-Breaking Scientist 13

Arik Kershenbaum

Marriages and Civil Partnerships 126

Anne Wolf

In Memoriam

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Obituaries

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Amy Ida Louisa King, Girton’s First Black Student

Alumni and Supporters

Lists

Admissions and Widening Participation

Fellows and Officers of the College

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Bursaries and Grants

University and College Awards

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Postgraduate Affairs

Awards and Distinctions

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Library

Archive

Appointments of Fellows and Alumni

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Culture and Heritage

Fellows’ Publications

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Music

Alumni Publications

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Choir

Chapel

Research Evenings

Hail and Farewell

Delia Derbyshire, Pioneer in Sound

Girton in Novels

Balzan Prize

Asian Business Award

A New Generation of Girton Historians

Architect of the Future

Changing Times Senior Tutors in Conversation

Dons of the Old School

Jean Lindsay on Manners

College Reports

Anniversaries Girton150: Festival Weekend Girton150: Honorary Fellows and Anniversary Lectures Forty Years of Men

Student Reports JCR

MCR

Societies and Sports

Alumni Information Update your Details

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Alumni Events

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A Great Campaign

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Giving to Girton

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Welcome Welcome to this special edition of The Year, the second of two issues marking the 150th anniversary of Girton College. Last year, we celebrated Girton’s estate, focusing on our buildings, treasures and grounds. This year, the spotlight is on Girtonians. In ‘Making an Impact’, we look at some of the alumni who, over the years, have helped change the world. Another feature is devoted to the College’s anniversary celebrations. Between them, we reflect on ‘Changing Times’. We are very grateful to our numerous contributors and collaborators, many of whom have worked hard to produce their copy against a background of extra anniversary commitments. Our warmest thanks, as always, are due to Gillian Jondorf, an incomparable copyeditor. We are also extremely grateful to Anne Cobby,

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Judith Drinkwater, Cherry Hopkins and Ross Lawther, who have helped in preparing or proofreading reports, and to Hannah Sargent who once again provided muchvalued administrative assistance. We should like to express particular thanks to Peter Morrison, Stuart Cleary and Derrin Mappledoram of Cambridge Marketing; their creativity, commitment and ability to cope with the unexpected could not be bettered. We are always glad to hear from Girtonians with news or stories to share; please contact the Development Office at Girton College, Cambridge, CB3 0JG (alumni@girton.cam.ac.uk). Dr Martin Ennis and E Jane Dickson Editors, The Year

A Letter from the Mistress Dear Friends, What a year! The 150th anniversary of the foundation of the ‘College for Women’ is under way, and it is a wonderful, proud, moving and momentous chapter in Girton’s history. For more than a year, in fact, we have been steeped in pertinent anniversaries which together underline all those radical, pioneering, innovative and inspirational qualities that define our College. In October 2018, for example, at the annual Ceremony for the Commemoration of Benefactors, we marked the centenary of the first votes for women in the UK – a major step towards the full enfranchisement that our founders Barbara Bodichon and Emily Davies were instrumental in establishing. On that occasion we received a replica of the ‘Cambridge Alumnae’ banner originally crafted for the early-twentieth-century suffrage marches. With the help of historian Dr Hazel Mills, we reflected on the life and generosity of Sybil Campbell who was an early member of the Girton Suffrage Club; we also heard from our Visitor, Baroness Hale of Richmond, about the myriad dimensions of inclusion that the suffrage movement inspired. Sybil Campbell was the first woman in the UK to become a stipendiary magistrate; Lady Hale, the first female member – now President – of the UK Supreme Court. They both feature in an impressive array of Girtonians who are firsts among women in law, thus intersecting with another important centenary – that of the passing of the Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act of 1919 which enabled women formally to enter the legal, accounting and related professions. Look no further than Lady Hale’s Anniversary Lecture, ‘One Hundred Years of Women in Law’, for a glimpse of the major role that Girton as a seat of learning, and Girtonian lawyers too, played in the bid to secure women’s full participation in professional as well as public life.

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The Mistress and Princess Takamado en route to a tree-planting ceremony

The special significance of 2019, however, is the dawn of a sesquicentennial – the 150th anniversary of our foundation. So far, the year has been packed with events, and we have come to recognise, perhaps more forcefully than in the past, just how spectacular and far-reaching our predecessors’ achievements were. This is not the place to detail their bravery, audacity and ambition, nor to dwell on the challenges they faced or the milestones they passed. Suffice it to say that the highlights of the present year signal to me that our ambition to stay at the leading edge of inclusive excellence is undimmed by the passage of time. For example, we will surely build on our discussions in New York in December on the continuing mission of the colleges founded for women (including those, like Girton, that have long gone mixed), just as we will continue to document the sticky floors escaped, and the glass ceilings shattered, by those who have studied here. In Singapore in April, stimulated by

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innovations in Asian higher education, we explored the ongoing role of colleges, such as Girton, within university settings, and concluded that size matters: an institution needs to be small enough to lead change and spearhead innovation. We shall, I am sure, be energised for years to come by our five Anniversary Lectures, inaugurated by HIH Princess Takamado, and by the whirlwind of inspiration that was the Girton150 Festival. There, as through the whole anniversary, we recognised that at the heart of Girton’s foundation – indivisible from the principle of excellence – are matters of equality, inclusion and belonging. Other themes were present, of course: the Festival decor additionally highlighted diversity, inspiration, originality and fearlessness. Our newly elected Honorary Fellow, Her Excellency Dame Karen Pierce, added opportunity, partnership and friendship, and our Visitor, Lady Hale, unveiling a new blue plaque, spoke of ambition, of learning and, importantly, of fun. I was especially proud this year to support a series of student-led events to celebrate the BME

and LGBTQ+ communities at Girton, and to address the challenges and opportunities of our non-binary, intersectional world. Our Fellows, including the new Honorary Fellows – and especially Sandi Toksvig whose leadership has inspired us all – offered tremendous support. As we continue to push the envelope on widening participation, mindful that we have been coresidential and fully co-educational for 40 years, more initiatives of this kind are not just welcome, but essential. One of the other great things about the year for me personally has been the privilege and pleasure of catching up with so many of you. Girton alumni have gathered in numbers previously unmatched to enjoy an unprecedented array of activities. What a fine mix of intellectual stimulation, public debate, networking, drama, first-rate musical performances and thoroughly engaging social events you have helped galvanise. Thank you to everyone who has joined in, or still plans to, with this most marvellous programme. If, by the way, you have missed anything, you can catch up by viewing podcasts and articles on our steadily expanding online events archive: https://girton150.com/ events/event-archives/. On that same anniversary website, you can add your memories of the past, as well as your vision for the future. I conclude by noting something important about the year that you will certainly have enjoyed, but which has occurred mainly behind the scenes. It is the immense effort and sterling work that the staff of this College have put into delivering a mind-boggling calendar while maintaining the stunning surroundings in which we have

enjoyed it. You did not witness – though I did – the speed with which the People’s Portraits were rehung in advance of the Festival weekend, nor the instant repainting of the staircase from which they were removed. You cannot imagine – but I know for a fact – how much work goes into keeping the buildings and grounds in good order, quite apart from the immense energy that has been poured into special projects like restoring Honeysuckle Walk, cultivating the Emily Davies Rose (now on sale), laying new tennis courts, preparing self-guided tours of immaculately kept buildings, supporting an array of indoor and outdoor activities, catering to all tastes, and much more. You would be astonished to know how, in the twinkling of an eye, a building

The Mistress acknowledges applause after a euphonium duet with Robert Childs

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The Mistress and the Visitor, Baroness Hale, receive a blue plaque celebrating Girtonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s founders

site was transformed to create a sparkling reception for HIH Princess Takamado, or how quickly that same space was turned into a vibrant social hub. You would not believe how many tables and chairs have been moved from pillar to post, or how many miles our frontof-house team have walked (or run) during these anniversary months. That is all aside from, and additional to, everything else enabled by their professional skills, enthusiasm, support and willingness to serve. The staff of this College play a huge

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role in ensuring that Girton thrives as a residential higher education institution where young people can be themselves and feel at home. In expressing my thanks for this tremendous anniversary year there are too many individuals to name, not least because everyone has been working flat out. That includes you, our alumni, who have helped stage events, given presentations, hosted conversations, anchored networks, and contributed magnificently to A Great Campaign whose goals are

now tantalisingly close. It also includes the Fellows and students of the College, who have invested so much for so long to make Girton the vibrant centre of learning that it is today. All in all, I do not think I could have felt prouder or more privileged to be the Mistress of this College than I have done this year, when so much of what Girton stands for has been brought to the fore: shining brightly as a beacon of inclusive excellence; standing ready to grasp all the future holds. Susan J Smith, Mistress

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THE BIG INTERVIEW

Talking the World out of Trouble Dame Karen Pierce, UK Ambassador to the UN and Honorary Fellow, discusses the art of diplomacy. By E Jane Dickson Dame Karen Pierce grew up with a taste for adventure. As a child in the 1960s, she thrilled to Willard Price’s tales of scrapes in exotic locations. She drew fighter planes in art class and graduated from W E Johns’s Biggles books to Jane’s Fighting Ships and Jane’s Aircraft. ‘I really liked military hardware,’ she says. ’We lived in Lancashire, near where the Tornado jet was made at Warton, and I used to make my father take me to air shows.’ The only child of an architectural draughtsman and a school secretary, Pierce was raised to believe she could ‘be what she wanted to be’. Aged 11, she was leafing through the Sunday Times magazine when an image in the colour supplement brought her ambition and enthusiasms into pin-sharp focus:

to the UN and WTO in Geneva. Widely celebrated for her acuity and warmth in negotiations, Pierce is a vivid presence in the grey ranks of power; she is almost certainly the first dignitary to sport a feather boa in the UN Security Council and she travels with her own ambassadorial step for getting in and out of helicopters in stilettos. ‘I feel more confident in heels,’ she says, firmly. ‘I used to wear them in Kabul, where it’s not very easy terrain at the best of times, and my close-protection team would say, ’Ma’am, we didn’t know it was possible to walk this slowly!’

It takes a certain level of authority for a female leader to pronounce herself ‘a real girl’. Pierce has authority to burn, and her easy manner brings important dividends: ‘I never thought of myself as a charming person. I always wanted ‘I was struck by a photograph of a woman who I have since to be thought of in that way, but I’m quite combative. I’ve learned was Eleanor Hicks, an African-American diplomat, learned, though, that charm and conciliation make you feel stepping onto an aircraft carrier in the more in control. Obviously, the more Mediterranean. I think it was primarily the senior you get, the less you have to Girton seeps into your colours that drew me in – the contrast of struggle to get your voice heard, so you subconscious, you this bright blue sky and dark blue sea, the can afford to be magnanimous. But you assimilate it, and it aircraft grey, and then this black woman ought to listen to other people anyway, becomes part of you. in a white suit coming aboard with all because you might learn something the ship’s crew lined up to salute her. She new, or you might learn something you looked powerful, she looked glamorous, she looked like the thought you knew, and were wrong about. And a sense of way of the future.’ humour always helps.’

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Some five decades on, Pierce, 59, is blazing her own trail in diplomacy. In March 2018 she was appointed Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the United Nations in New York, the first woman to hold the post. Before that she was Director General for Political Affairs and Chief Operating Officer of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, British Ambassador to Afghanistan and Ambassador

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Pierce joined the FCO fresh from Girton, and looks back on her time in Cambridge as acclimatisation to the ways of the Establishment. ‘I was the second person in my family to go to university, and I came from a school [Penwortham Girls’ High, Preston] that had only sent three pupils to Oxbridge in its entire history. There is, I think, a lack of ambition on the part of some state schools which is not fair on their pupils.

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As an undergraduate, I used to show sixthformers round Girton, and I remember teachers saying “Oh, this isn’t for the likes of our pupils.” Which is crazy. My attitude was, “Someone’s got to get in, so why not give it a go?”’ An interview with Girton’s Jill Mann and Sylvia Woolford secured Pierce a place to read English. ‘That’s the one thing I regret. I wish I’d studied History. For the job I do now, I would have preferred to have a deeper sense of how world events feed into each other. That said, we once had to write an essay on the lies an author was telling, and that has been very useful; I struggled with the topic at the time, but being able to look at language and assess whether the author believes in the case they are making is very helpful in policy making.’

For Pierce, Girton was, and remains, a powerful state of mind: ‘It’s not that anyone says “You belong in this caucus of exceptional women, so go out and do your best.” I think you just absorb the atmosphere of all these very clever, strong women who have done huge amounts of things in the world. It seeps into your subconscious, you assimilate it, and it becomes part of you.’

When Pierce joined the diplomatic service in 1981, equal opportunities were scarcely embedded at the FCO: few women, for example, were encouraged to take up so-called ‘hard languages’. ‘I was ambitious,’ Pierce recalls, ‘and someone told me that to get to the For an architect’s daughter raised on clean top, you needed Russian or Arabic. lines and functionalism, Girton was, at first, an I didn’t want to go to Russia awkward fit: ’I didn’t like old Gothic architecture, because it was dark and cold and I still don’t. I wanted to be somewhere modern wet and miserable, so I applied to and near the centre. Also, for the first time in my learn Arabic. I have life, I was a small fish in a huge no aptitude for pond; that made me nervous I like reading a languages at all – and I found it hard to speak up room and working I can’t hear them in tutorials and lectures. I had out the best way to and I can’t speak been very good at debating at achieve our goals. them – but the school, and I did want to be aptitude test was in the Cambridge Union, but all about grammar, structure and when the time came to make a speech, I was learning vocabulary, and I was very overwhelmed by it. Gradually, I got better at good at that. I got incredibly high dealing with new things. I started really enjoying marks, which was total fraud, and life in College and at Wolfson Court – I have to was told I had to choose between say I think the loss of Wolfson Court is a huge Chinese or Japanese. I really pity – and in my third year I met my husband and didn’t want to go to a Communist had a great time.‘

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country, so I ended up in Tokyo for my first posting.’ Pierce returned early from Japan to marry Charles Roxburgh (Trinity; 1978). The couple have two sons, aged 27 and 21, and have pursued international careers in tandem. ‘I will say quite freely that if it were not for my husband, I would not be this successful. He has a brilliant mind for structure, and he passed that on to me. He was at McKinsey [the global consultancy firm] as a partner and director, with postings in Washington and New York, and he is now Second Permanent Secretary at the Treasury. So we run two careers and we help each other.‘ If, as expected, the UK exits the EU on 31 October, its role in the UN will, says Pierce, assume greater weight: ‘After Brexit, the UN will be the main international forum for Britain. There is NATO, of course, and that will remain vital, but the UN, like the EU, covers a greater range of topics, including public policy on health and education. Therefore what we do at the UN will, I think, be an even bigger signifier of how much Britain is engaged in the world, and how much we are trying to find solutions to the world’s problems.’

Dame Karen at the United Nations

In the UN’s debating chamber and in the Security Council, Pierce deploys a range of strategic and instinctive skills: ‘There are three things I really like about my job. I like reading a room and working out the best way to achieve our goals; I like running the mission, thinking about how to build capability and make the mission work as a team; and I really like the gladiatorial aspect of negotiation. For example, when I was in the Security Council debating with Russians on the Salisbury poisonings, I was nervous, but I also found it very challenging, and I love that.’ The Salisbury debate, in which Pierce and her Russian counterpart, Vassily Nebenzia, exchanged a

volley of barbed literary quotations, has entered the annals of international diplomacy. ‘I have negotiated with Russians in my professional career as long as I have negotiated with Americans. With the Russians, it’s a test of strength, a battle of wits. And without wishing to belittle some of the things the Russians do, which are very disruptive, I think they like what they would think of as “a worthy opponent”.’ The current US administration poses a different set of challenges. ‘Obviously, 99.9% of the time we are on the same side as the US. The Iran nuclear deal is a big area where we are not. We want Iran to stay in the deal, we want to keep the deal going, though we

do agree with the Americans on some of the destabilising things Iran does in the region, and we agree this needs to be addressed.’ Pierce is concerned, too, about the effect of Donald Trump’s presidency on the international rights of women. ‘Representatives to the UN take instructions from their capitals, and it is a fact that some in this White House have a negative effect on our ability to negotiate language on LGBT and women’s rights, particularly sexual and reproductive health and rights. People think of the UN as a talking shop, and it is a talking shop; the negotiation of language enables us to pass resolutions which provide a normative framework from which international or domestic legislation flows. In the past, each year you would find you had made incremental progress, so that you would end up with a rather good body of principles and language and recommendations. But the current American administration is

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blocking further progress on sexual and reproductive health and rights. That’s no surprise because of the strong conservative element in this Republican administration, but it has a direct effect on how we can negotiate and, very horribly, the Russians, who put the first women in space, are actually allies of the Americans in this; they have, I think, taken this stance partly to cause trouble, which is

something they’re very good at, partly to pander to conservative nations like Saudi Arabia and partly because Putin is quite close to the Orthodox Church. So on this one issue, you have this unholy alliance between the two superpowers. I think historians will have to study why, having gone in a fundamentally upward trajectory since the 1960s, LGBT and women’s rights are now at risk.’

A History of Girton in Ten Pioneers Hermione Grammatike (1st century CE) A bluestocking avant la lettre, Hermione was a teacher who lived and worked in the Roman province of Egypt. Her mummy portrait, painted on linen, is inscribed with her name and profession in Greek (Ερμιονη γραμματικη), and her skeleton suggests she died in her early twenties. She was excavated from the Roman cemetery in Hawara in 1911 by the archaeologist William Flinders Petrie who, in honour of Hermione’s academic distinction, sold the mummy to Girton. She now rests in the Lawrence Room.

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Global peace, prosperity and human rights are a tough set of professional objectives, but Pierce’s immaculately tailored shoulders are squared to the task. Each apparent impasse in international relations is an opportunity for resolution: ‘Ministers expect us to find a way forward, so that’s what we do. That’, she says with deep satisfaction, ‘is my job.’

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Making Waves Frances Gandy, Life Fellow, sheds light on the pioneering physical scientist Hertha Ayrton

n 1902, the Royal Society received a radical proposal. In a letter co-signed by nine distinguished scientists, John Perry FRS presented the physical scientist Hertha Ayrton as a possible candidate for the Society. The response was firm: ‘We are of opinion that married women are not eligible as Fellows of the Royal Society.’ The value of the science was not in question – Ayrton’s ground-breaking work on electrical arcs had already secured her international reputation – but, in point of law, a married woman, having no legal status, was ineligible for election. Ayrton’s much quoted reaction to the ruling has fired discussion of women’s representation in science well into our own century: I do not agree with sex being brought into science at all. The idea of ‘women and science’ is entirely irrelevant. Either a woman is a good scientist, or she is not; in any case she should be given opportunities, and her work should be studied from the scientific, not the sex, point of view. Portrait of Hertha Ayrton by Helena Arsène Darmesteter (Archive reference: GCPH 11/33/13)

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the world’ and sent Sarah to be educated with her cousins in north-west London. However, at sixteen, Sarah had to take work as a resident governess in order to support the family. At the same time she became friends with Ottilie Blind, who gave her the nickname of Hertha; the name, it has been suggested, was chosen in tribute to Fredrika Bremer’s 1856 novel, Hertha, an impassioned argument against the legal status of women as wards of men.

Portrait of Barbara Bodichon by Emily Mary Osborn (Archive reference: GCPH 11/33/31)

It is fitting that the portrait of this equalopportunities pioneer should hang in Old Hall, along with that of Barbara Leigh-Smith Bodichon, who co-founded Girton with Emily Davies. Bodichon, an artist and social reformer, considered Ayrton her spiritual daughter, and the relationship between these remarkable women speaks eloquently of Girton’s founding principles. Ayrton was born Phoebe Sarah Marks in 1854, the third of eight children. Her father had come to England from Poland as a refugee, but died when Sarah was only seven, leaving the family very impoverished. Her mother held that women should receive a better education than men because ‘women have the harder battle to fight in

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Ottilie encouraged Hertha to sit the Cambridge University Local Examination, which she passed in 1874. Family commitments prevented her from gaining one of the three scholarships offered by Girton, but Barbara Bodichon, impressed by Hertha’s potential and recognising her domestic difficulties, raised enough money to support her throughout her time in College, and she came up to read Mathematics in 1877. George Eliot was among those who helped fund Ayrton’s academic career, and it is said she borrowed her striking looks for Mirah, the clever Jewish heroine of Daniel Deronda (in pleasing symmetry, Bodichon was reportedly the model for Romola). While at Girton, Hertha began her career of inventions and constructed a sphygmomanometer (blood-pressure meter), led the choral society, founded the fire brigade and with Charlotte Scott, Girton’s first Wrangler, formed a mathematical club. She published problems and solutions in Mathematical Questions from the Educational Times for almost two decades. After her return to London she earned money by teaching and embroidery, ran a club for working girls and cared for her invalid sister. She invented a line divider, which was sold under her patent. In 1884 she

went to evening classes in electricity at Finsbury Technical College, run by electrical engineer Will Ayrton, founder of the City and Guilds Institute. A year later they were married and, when their daughter was born, she was named after Hertha’s inspirational benefactor. Barbara Bodichon Ayrton grew up to campaign with the suffrage movement and was elected as a Labour MP in 1945. Hertha set up lectures for women on electricity, but she had no time for research. Once again, however, Bodichon’s support and foresight came to the rescue.

When she died in 1891, she left Hertha a legacy of half the residue of her estate, plus an annuity of £40. This income allowed Hertha to employ a housekeeper and send money to support her mother, and so her serious research could begin. She took over Will Ayrton’s experiments on the electric arc in 1893, and this was to be the work that would make her name. She traced the hissing and instability to oxidisation of the positive carbon. Excluding air, she obtained a steady arc, and demonstrated a linear relationship between arc length, pressure, and potential difference. This became

known as the ‘Ayrton Equation’. She gave a paper on ‘The Hissing of the Arc’ to the Institution of Electrical Engineers in 1899, the first paper given by a woman, and was elected to the Institution in the same year. A woman was not elected to the Institution again until nearly 60 years later, in 1958. In 1900 she gave a paper at the International Electrical Congress in Paris, and her paper on the mechanism of the electric arc was read before the Royal Society in 1901; as a woman Ayrton was not permitted to present it herself. Much later on, her work in this field led to her patenting the anti-aircraft searchlights

Girton College Fire Brigade, 1878 (Archive reference: GPCH 10/2/41)

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that she developed for the Admiralty, and several ramifications of arc-lamp technology. Her book The Electric Arc, published in 1902, became the standard work on the subject, and she dedicated it to Bodichon.

1945, Hertha was awarded, in 1906, the Society’s Hughes Medal for her work on the electric arc and on sand ripples. She remained the only female recipient of this award, awarded annually for ‘an original discovery in the physical sciences’, until 2008.

In 1901, while staying in Margate, she began researching vortices and looked at the effect of wave action on sand ripples and sand bars, conducting experiments in the landlady’s zinc bath. She later read a paper on the subject to the Royal Society: the first presentation given by a woman. Further papers followed – to the British Association in 1904, to the Physical Society in 1907 and again to the Royal Society in 1908 and 1911. This work would inspire the ‘Ayrton Fan’ or ‘Flapper’ used in the trenches of the First World War to dispel poison gas; over 100,000 were used on the Western Front.

Like her benefactor, Barbara Bodichon, Hertha Ayrton worked tirelessly to give women equal opportunities – in work, society and scientific progress. She chaired the Physical Science section of the International Congress of Women in London in 1899 and encouraged women in applied science. She marched in all the suffrage processions, most notably in 1911 alongside 800 women graduates in academic dress, and suffragettes recovering from hunger strike often recuperated at her home. She helped found the International Federation of University Women in 1919 and the National Union of Scientific Workers in 1920. A close friend of Marie Curie, she argued vigorously for full acknowledgement of Marie’s work

While the Royal Society’s all-male membership remained intact until

on radium which, at the time, was largely attributed to Pierre Curie. In 1909, she wrote to The Westminster Gazette: ‘An error that ascribes to a man what was actually the work of a woman has more lives than a cat.’ Hertha died in August 1923 at the age of 69. Her obituary in The Girton Review of Michaelmas 1923 stated: It may be counted as one of Madame Bodichon’s many benefactions to the College that she made it possible for Miss Marks to become a student... Her own political activities and those of her daughter, Barbara Bodichon Ayrton, were a living testimony to Barbara’s beliefs. That legacy of belief still feeds Girton’s pioneering spirit. It is visible today in the commitment to providing opportunities for all in a College community drawn from the broadest diversity of backgrounds. Connection – a steady arc – is all that is required.

Tributes to Hertha Ayrton Opposite (left): Ripple-Marked Radiance (2019): Yelena Popova’s design for a jacquard-woven tapestry inspired by Hertha Ayrton’s research on sand-ripples and the electric arc. The tapestry hangs in Storey’s Field Community Centre, Eddington. Opposite (right): A poem in honour of Hertha Ayrton by Girton’s Chaplain, Malcolm Guite.

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Ripple-Marked Radiance Malcolm Guite That a single ripple, existing alone, in otherwise smooth sand, initiates a ripple on either side of it, that each of these ripples produces another on its farther side – these in turn originate on their farther sides, and so on, till the whole sand is ripple-marked. – Hertha Ayrton, ‘The Origin and Growth of Ripple-mark’, 1904 They tried to make her think she was alone, A bright mind on the wrong side of the gap, But she knew otherwise, and turned the flow And current of her time to a new light. Her energy was gathered at an edge, Potential energy held back awhile, By the dark gap that prejudice engendered; Her radiant mind would not be held apart, But arced across that gap, a sudden blaze Of genius, invention, and ideas, Whose ripples still run free in all of us. Now Hertha Ayrton has herself become That ‘single ripple which initiates A ripple either side’. Those ripples still Originate yet further ripples, till The whole is ripple-marked and radiant. And we, who gather here remembering her, Are woven with her in one tapestry, No longer lone or lonely, but renewed, Enlarged, and centred in community.

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MAKING AN IMPACT

A Pageant Truly Play’d Jane Liddell-King uncovers the life story of Girton’s first black student

By kind permission of the University of Roehampton

s he lay dying in 1996, my father murmured a startling secret: ‘You had a clever greataunt who was also at Girton.’ I knew that my paternal grandfather, who died before I was born, had come from Trinidad to Britain, where, in 1914, he was admitted to the Middle Temple and became a barrister. But of his sister I had heard nothing. Kate Perry, the then Girton archivist, confirmed that Amy Ida Louisa King (1881–1968) had read Medieval and Modern Languages at Girton from 1903 until 1906. And, in a copy of her matriculation photograph, there she was: a young black woman at Girton. Ida, as she called herself, was the first black woman to study at Cambridge. At home in Trinidad, her parents chose for her an English education which would offer opportunities as close as possible to those that enabled her brother, Percy, and her cousin, Conrad, to read for the Bar at the Middle Temple. She attended the Model School in Trinidad, St Mary’s Convent in Barbados and, to prepare for university entrance, Sunny Hill School in Somerset. She went up to Girton in Michaelmas Term 1903, aged 22. Miss Bentinck Smith and Miss Hentsch supervised Ida. Bentinck Smith was Director of Studies in Medieval and Modern Languages at Girton and a published author. She was erudite, disciplined and unforgettable: a lifelong role-model for Ida, who, under her tutelage, developed a particular passion for early English and for drama. Ida read Anglo-Saxon, Chaucer and Medieval Scottish Poets, Provençal and Anglo-Norman, Shakespeare, and literature of 1579–1650, the special period for Tripos in 1906. She studied literary history, historical grammar, etymology and metre.

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Ida King, May Day 1929

By kind permission of Jane and Judith Liddell-King

Ida and her brother, Percy, barrister-at-law

A poor examinee, Ida took a third in the Tripos. And, as a woman, she was not admitted to a university degree, but awarded a college certificate. Her certificate, however, enabled Ida to become professional, independent, modern.

School. In 913, King Alfred’s daughter Aethelfleda, Lady of Mercia, had fortified Stafford. In 1913, local enthusiasm for the millenary kindled Ida’s passion for

drama and English history. Together with two male colleagues, she was appointed Assistant Pageant Master for the Stafford Millenary Pageant, which took place from 30 July to 4 August. Moving from street to street, one thousand performers delighted an audience of twenty-two thousand. Ida took charge of the fifth of seven episodes: the visit of Queen Elizabeth I in 1573. A colleague of Ida’s recorded that ‘the whole pageant was a huge success but it was the Elizabethan scene rehearsed to perfection by the efforts of Miss King which, in the opinion of the High School, stole the show.’ Ida recognised the power of street theatre in connecting the community to its past and reaffirming a sense of

Matriculation photograph of Ida’s 1903 year-group (Archive reference: GCPH 11/4a/36/43)

She soon secured a teaching post at Heathfield School in Ilkley where she spent the next seven years, finding time also to lecture at the Ilkley University Extension Centre. She translated the Old English metrical Book of Genesis into modern English for her students and sent a printed copy to the inspirational Bentinck Smith. Rapidly assimilated into the community, she became Pageant Master, and included children from all the local schools in the Ilkley Pageant. From Heathfield School Ida moved on to a temporary post at Stafford High

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collective identity. In her foreword to New Plays for Boys and Girls (London, 1936) she identifies drama with adventure. Dramatic tension rescued the pageants from the dryness of textbook history. Just two years later, the First World War and the needs of its victims dominated the nation’s thoughts. Again, Ida drew the local community together to support the War Effort, as past and present Stafford High School girls transformed Christina Rossetti’s Goblin Market into a musical tableau performed at the Borough Hall. The production raised enough money to allow Stafford to fund a bed for a year in a Serbian hospital. Meanwhile, Ida had set her heart on London. In 1921, after a series of brief teaching posts, she secured a temporary lectureship in English at Whitelands Teacher Training College in the King’s Road, Chelsea. Founded in 1841, Whitelands was the first college of higher education in the UK to admit women. It is now the oldest part of Roehampton University. Soon after Ida’s arrival, the Bursar, Grace Grattan Guinness, recorded: ‘She has the most beautifully modulated speaking voice … Her brilliant brain is, I’m afraid, probably beyond my powers to attain – though she has touched me, as well as our

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girls, indeed everyone in her orbit, with her determination to widen our knowledge of literature and philosophy.’ Winifred Mercier, who became Principal in 1918, had read History at Oxford before becoming Director of Studies in History at Girton; later she held several key posts in education. Her core beliefs as leader were that no work was more important than the teaching of young children and that nothing was too good for student teachers. Accordingly, in 1922 she made Ida’s temporary position permanent.

a teacher of ‘ As teachers, Ida was rigorous, professional and passionate.

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At Whitelands, as in her previous appointments, Ida’s dramatic imagination impressed students, who would later recall her mantra, ‘let the children act a play, let everyone have a part!’ New Plays for Boys and Girls offers further explanation of her vision: ‘The object of the group method is to develop the power of every child in the class.’ She tirelessly wrote and directed plays and, in 1928, formed the Old Whitelanders’ Dramatic Society, which she called Quince’s Players, recalling Shakespeare’s

multi-tasking Peter Quince. The society flourished for eight years, and Ida even entered one project for the British Drama League Festival. Her demanding directing style resulted in a near-professional and deservedly acclaimed production, in which she herself played the comedic role of a French milliner. Ida also brought with her to Whitelands the visceral sensitivity to metre she developed at Girton. Whenever she met a student in a corridor, she would recite lines from Longfellow’s Hiawatha, then ask the student to repeat the lines while she herself tapped out the rhythm with her fingers. On another occasion, Ida stopped a student in her rhythmically incorrect recitation of Shelley’s To the Night after just one line, and went on to deliver an exemplary performance of her favourite poem. As a teacher of teachers, Ida was rigorous, professional and passionate. She was also memorably kind, often distributing chocolates in class and inviting students to tea in her book-lined Putney flat. For 20 years, Whitelands gave Ida scope to explore her own gifts and to nurture talent in others. After retirement, she helped girls in a remand home and coached neighbourhood children. Always interested in people

Inevitably, Ida’s arrival at Whitelands provoked comment from those who could not have known that both her parents were black nor that the Caribbean gene pool inevitably includes European DNA. One student noted that ‘some of the students were prejudiced and disliked Miss King but I found her most stimulating and unusual.’ In our post-colonial age, GreatAunt Ida, with her passion for all things British, could all too easily seem an embarrassing museum piece. Yet both her cousin Conrad,

who returned to the Caribbean to practise law, and my contemporary Caribbean relatives have emphasised that their sense of cultural and emotional connection to the UK remains as powerful as ever. I am saddened that Ida never entered my life, and that she and I were never able to compare our experiences of studying English literature at Girton. I am sure we would have shared a sense of the capacity of the language to mediate a huge diversity of experience, relished the poetry of Langston Hughes, felt and acted on the rage of James Baldwin. I am immensely proud of Ida’s achievements. I am also saddened that, as I write, Ida is absent from the brief list of the first black women at Cambridge. I hope this piece will rectify the omission.

By kind permission of the University of Roehampton

of all nationalities and creeds, she also worked to help refugees, even after a disabling accident. Well into her eighties, she presented herself to the world as a well-dressed, elegant woman of education and culture.

Ida dressed for The Old Curiosity Shop

Jane Liddell-King came up to Girton College in 1966 to study English. In 2004, she became the first Jewish woman to win the Seatonian Prize, awarded on an annual basis by the University of Cambridge for the best English-language poem on a sacred theme. In 2012, she and photographer Marion Davies published Faces in the Void: Czech Survivors of the Holocaust (Shaun Tyas). In 2018, she was the first poet to be appointed Artist In Residence at Strathnairn Arts Association, Canberra. She is currently writing a sequence of poems on Liszt for a London-based project, ‘A Liszt Affair’. She continues to supervise Cambridge undergraduates in Medieval English Literature. Jane Liddell-King warmly acknowledges the help of the following in the preparation of this article: Gilly King, History and Heritage Adviser, University of Roehampton; Gemma Bentley, Archivist, Whitelands College; Tim Groom, Senior Archivist, and Rebecca Jackson, Duty Archivist, Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Archive Service; the Librarians, Middle Temple; Hans Mallalieu and, above all, Dr Benjamin Tipping.

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MAKING AN IMPACT

Breaking the Sound Barrier James Riley, Lecturer in English Literature, profiles Delia Derbyshire, doyenne of electronic music

hen it comes to electronic music, the work of experimental bands such as White Noise might not immediately come to mind, but no doubt the theme tune to the long-running BBC science fiction series Doctor Who is familiar. The electronic musician Delia Derbyshire (1937–2001) was heavily involved in both. Although she received little direct recognition during her career, Derbyshire remains a singular artist – one who has had a lasting impact on British popular culture, whose artistic techniques have been endlessly replicated (with varying degrees of success), one who is increasingly acclaimed by a wide range of contemporary musicians and sound-artists. With a rare combination of technical skill, artistic ambition and creative drive, from the 1960s onwards she produced audio works that spanned mainstream media and the outré territories of the sonic avant-garde.

in early 1963 she was approached by veteran BBC composer Ron Grainer to work on the theme tune for Doctor Who, a new programme scheduled to launch in November 1963.

Doctor Who followed the adventures of a travelling ‘Time Lord’, and Grainer had written a jaunty theme that he wanted to pepper with the futuristic noises of high technology and interdimensional travel: the ‘whooshing’ sounds of the cosmos. Derbyshire took the brief but transformed the piece into an utterly distinctive vortex of strange sounds and weird pulsations. This was not a tune embellished by bleeps and whistles, but an arrangement generated from hours of work with tape and relying on the sonic potential of electronic equipment. Grainer’s theme was somewhere in the mix; you could hum it, but at the same time the piece sounded truly alien, like a transmission from outer space. Grainer was, by all accounts, surprised and delighted to hear what his music had been turned into. For Derbyshire was also a Girtonian. She joined the College all Derbyshire’s input and creativity, though, the tune was in 1956, having won a scholarship to read Mathematics. for many years attributed to Grainer and the Radiophonic She had also been accepted to study at Oxford. It is a Workshop collectively. It was the policy of the BBC – sobering point but one that nevertheless needs to be precisely the kind of policy that so often made: for a young working-class works to the benefit of men – not to credit woman from Coventry in the 1950s, Her works spanned specific members of the department. this was no mean feat. After a year of mainstream media and Maths, Derbyshire changed to Music, the territories of the In parallel to her BBC work, Derbyshire graduating in 1959. Graduation led sonic avant-garde. found a creative outlet in two experimental to a series of jobs in 1959 and 1960, bands: Unit Delta Plus, formed with Peter before Derbyshire accepted a trainee Zinovieff and her Radiophonic Workshop colleague Brian position at the BBC. Soon afterwards she transferred to the Hodgson, and White Noise, again formed with Hodgson corporation’s in-house sound effects studio, the Radiophonic alongside sound engineer David Vorhaus. In 1969 White Workshop. Over the next eleven years Derbyshire would Noise released their album An Electric Storm, a dense collage design sound effects, incidental music and soundscapes for a of sonic experimentation that involved months of tapewide variety of BBC programmes using tape recorders, noise, splicing and cut-up effects. In the mid-to-late 1960s, avanttape-delay, reverse recording, sound modulation and other garde artists such as the writer William Burroughs were electronic effects. Much of this work was collaborative, and

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using tape recorders to distort and destabilise the recorded voice. White Noise used the same techniques but worked to create dense, intoxicating soundscapes. With tracks like ‘The Visitations’ and ‘The Black Mass: An Electric Storm in Hell’ the band often veered towards supernatural themes. Some of Derbyshire’s later work stayed in this field: in 1973 she worked on the soundtrack to John Hough’s horror film The Legend of Hell House. Her work was not all ghoulishness and gothic, but the genre offers useful language to get a grip on Derbyshire’s idiom; what one might call – to use the title of one of her pieces and that of a recent documentary – ‘The Delian Mode’. There is something distinctly otherworldly about Derbyshire’s music, one could even say ‘haunted’.

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Delia Derbyshire and Desmond Briscoe at work in BBC Radiophonic Workshop (© BBC Photo Library)

Her recordings echo with the sound of the future past and electronic voices summoned from the inner workings of pre-digital media. In 2005 the electronic group The Advisory Circle released the spectacularly spooky EP Mind How You Go, a combination of ghostly tape noises and unnerving spoken-word pieces. The best track ‘And the Cuckoo Comes’ features a languid, reverberant female voice intoning the title-phrase over a set of pulsing oscillations. If you look for the track on YouTube, the comments section features much speculation

as to the identity of the voice. One poster adds: ‘…I reckon it’s Delia Derbyshire…’ It is not Derbyshire, but the reference speaks volumes. It shows that her name is enough to conjure up a particular set of associations: the audio uncanny, British science fiction, tape recorders and the inner workings of post-war corporations. Derbyshire was a great innovator, an artist whose work exemplified ‘interdisciplinarity’. However, in recent years she has, gratifyingly, become something more: an important figure of influence in the complicated landscape of electronic music.

Archive reference: GCPH 11/33/42

A History of Girton in Ten Pioneers

Isabella Frances Vere Townshend (1847–1882) Matriculated 1869 Isabella Townshend was one of the original five Girtonians who enrolled at Emily Davies’s newly opened College for Women at Benslow House, Hitchin. An accomplished artist, as evidenced by this self-portrait, she left without completing a Tripos, but took advantage of new trade opportunities for women by establishing an interior-design business in London with a Mrs Hartley Brown. Appropriately, one of their commissions was to design fabrics for ‘the new ladies’ college’ at Merton Hall, where Newnham students were housed from 1872 to 1874.

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MAKING AN IMPACT

Variations on a Theme Crime-writer Christina Koning (1972) reveals how she took inspiration from Rosamond Lehmann’s classic novel of Girton life complicated plot involving poison-pen letters, vandalism of college property, and attempted murder. I was also helped immeasurably by being granted permission to research End of Term in the Girton College library and archives. Here, I found a treasure-trove of documents and photographs including copies of the Girton Review from the years immediately before and after 1935, the year in which my novel is set, and a selection of autobiographical works. Of these, Gwendolen Freeman’s Alma Mater: Memoirs of Girton College, 1926–1929 supplied me with many finely observed details of what life in a women’s college of the era was like.

n setting End of Term, the fifth and latest novel in my ‘Blind Detective’ series, at a women’s college resembling my alma mater, Girton, I knew that I was setting myself a challenge. I took comfort, however, from the fact that one of the inspirations for my novel, Dorothy L Sayers’s Gaudy Night, paid affectionate tribute to Sayers’s own Oxford college, Somerville (rechristened Shrewsbury), while managing to pull off a

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From Freeman I learned not only of Girton traditions, such as the ‘jugs’ or cocoa-drinking parties, and College slang – chocolate cakes were called ‘deadlies’, and College servants referred to as ‘gyps’ (a usage still current when I was an undergraduate) – but also what Cambridge academic life was like for young women at the time. The fact that, before 1948, women were not awarded the same degrees as men, and were regarded by at least some members of the University establishment as second-class citizens, was something I decided to make central to the plot of End of Term. Reading first-person

experiences of such reactionary attitudes in contemporary accounts was therefore extremely valuable. In creating my fictional St Gertrude’s College, I felt it was important not only to make the details of day-to-day life as accurate as possible but also to capture something of the atmosphere of the place. As anyone who knows Girton will attest, it is an extremely striking edifice. Built at a time when Gothic architecture – with its towers, turrets, spiral staircases, stained-glass windows, marble pillars, and seemingly endless corridors – was all the rage, it offered the perfect setting for my murder mystery. But while I now very much admire Girton’s Victorian Gothic extravagance, I am prepared to admit that I probably didn’t feel the same when I was an 18-year-old fresher. Then, I might have echoed the heartfelt cry of Rosamond Lehmann’s character, Judith Earle, in the 1927 novel Dusty Answer: ‘I can’t live in ugliness…’ Although, to be fair, Judith isn’t referring to Girton’s architecture here, but to the furnishing of her room. The passage deserves to be quoted at greater length:

The colour-scheme does sound a bit hectic, even for 1927. Lehmann’s novel – a succès de scandale when it was first published because of its portrayal, considered fairly risqué at the time, of a young woman’s romantic entanglements with both men and women – offers the reader a wonderfully vivid depiction of Girton life. We follow Judith from her rather lonely, bookish girlhood to her first term at College, where she is initially somewhat disdainful of her

She surveyed the four walls in which her independence was to flower. They were papered in sage green with perpendicular garlands of white and yellow rosebuds. There was a desk, a kitchen chair, a cane table, a narrow iron bedstead behind a faded buff curtain; and a distinctive carpet. It was of a greenish-brown shade, striped round the edge with yellow and tomatocolour, and patterned over with black liquorice-like wriggles.

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fellow students: ‘just a herd, when all was said: immature, untidy, all dull, and all alike, commonplace female creatures in the mass…’ Later she meets the beautiful and charismatic Jennifer Baird – ‘sympathy flowed like an electric current between them’ – and suddenly life at Girton is transformed: …when they got back to College, even that solid red-brick barracks was touched with mystery. The corridors were long patterns of unreal light and shadow. Girls’ voices sounded remote as in a dream, with a murmuring rise and fall and light laughter behind closed doors. The thrilling smell of cowslips and wallflowers was everywhere, like a cloud of enchantment.’

Rosamond Lehmann in her first year at Girton, 1919 (Archive reference: GCPH 10/9/6)

Even though my own novel about Girton belongs to a very different genre from that of Lehmann’s coming-of-age story, I found such descriptive passages brought the College sharply to life and, I hope, helped me invest my depiction of the place with some ‘enchantment’ of its own. I very much enjoyed researching End of Term within Girton’s red-brick walls and trying to convey, through my writing, the spell it laid upon me all those years ago.

Christina Koning is the author of ten novels, including Undiscovered Country, which won the Encore Prize and was long-listed for the Orange Prize. End of Term is the fifth in her series of crime novels featuring a blind detective.

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MAKING AN IMPACT

An Honour Paid Forward Former Mistress Marilyn Strathern shares her thoughts on winning a Balzan Prize

rofessor Dame Marilyn Strathern, Mistress of Girton from 1998 to 2009, has been honoured by the International Balzan Prize Foundation for her outstanding achievements in Social Anthropology. At the 2018 awards ceremony, held in the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei in Rome, the citation for Dame Marilyn praised ‘the profoundly innovative character of

her contributions to social and cultural anthropology’ and, in particular, ‘her critique of Western understandings of gender and equality’. Each year four Balzan Prizes are awarded to globally distinguished scholars. Former prize winners include Ernst Gombrich, Jorge Luis Borges and Eric Hobsbawm. Dame Marilyn is the second Girtonian to

Dame Marilyn receives her award from the President of Italy, Sergio Mattarella

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A History of Girton in Ten Pioneers be honoured (Dame Rosalyn Higgins won the 2007 Balzan Prize in International Law). The Balzan Prize Committee stipulates that half the prize money be used to support younger scholars. Dame Marilyn will be funding a doctoral student from Papua New Guinea at the University of St Andrews, as well as postdoctoral support for four international fellows affiliated to the same institution. Dame Marilyn has close professional and affective ties with Papua New Guinea, much of her career having been spent working with the Mount Hagen people. Between 1998 and 2004 she supervised first the MPhil and then the PhD of Andrew Moutu, who came to Girton from the University of Papua New Guinea and went on to become Director of the PNG National Museum and Art Gallery. ‘Students graduating from Papua New Guinea’s universities tend to seek overseas places in Australia or New Zealand rather than in the UK,’ Dame Marilyn points out. ‘I have always hoped to do more for the country that was so important to my research, and I’m delighted the Balzan Prize will be used to address the unevenness of opportunity in global academia.’ The main beneficiary of the prize will be supervised by two former students of Dame Marilyn, including Dr Tony Crook who now heads the Centre for Pacific Studies at St Andrews. ‘It’s a particular satisfaction to cement the connection with St Andrews, where the renowned Girtonian Louisa Lumsden did so much for the education of women,’ says Dame Marilyn. ‘In fact, the residence for women students first presided over by Lumsden (1896–1900) was known as ‘the Scottish Girton’. Then, as now, widening opportunity depended on particular people able to act at a particular time. The Balzan/St Andrews project may only help a handful of young scholars, but who knows to what effect?‘

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Sarojini Naidu (1879–1949) Matriculated 1896 Known as ‘the Nightingale of India’, Sarojini Naidu (née Chattopâdhyây) was a poet and leading activist for Indian independence. She came to Girton on a scholarship, and was heavily influenced by the British women’s suffrage movement; on her return to India she campaigned vigorously for women’s rights and became a close ally of Mahatma Gandhi in the non-violent struggle against British rule in India. In 1925 Naidu became the first Indian woman president of the Indian National Congress. After independence, she was the first woman to be appointed governor of an Indian state (Uttar Pradesh), and remained in this role until her death.

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Harnessing the Power of Big Data Ruth Williams, Life Fellow, explains the ground-breaking achievement of Girtonian mathematician Nikhil Shah

he term ‘Big Data’ was coined in the 1990s to describe data sets that are too large to be dealt with by traditional computing methods – for example, the results of particle physics experiments at CERN, human-genome sequences, meteorological data and, of course, the sum of all information held on the internet. Handling Big Data presents many challenges such as storage, access, transmission, analysis and visualisation. For large data sets to be useful, it must be possible to categorise their contents, identify correlations and make predictions, as well as screen out useless information. The study of Big Data has become a very active scientific area in the last twenty years and is likely to become increasingly important. Inevitably, the tools developed for dealing with Big Data are very complicated technically. Parallel computing is needed, with many tasks performed simultaneously rather than in sequence. When the data is multidimensional – say, information on quantities in three spatial dimensions – it can be represented as data cubes or, to use the mathematical term, tensors. This is the approach taken by a

Girton Mathematics graduate, Nikhil Shah, who was named Young Entrepreneur of the Year at the Asian Business Awards in London on 22 March 2019. Starting with material from Vector Calculus, a course in the first year of the Cambridge Mathematical Tripos, Shah developed the S-Cube Cloud with colleagues at Imperial College, London, where he did his PhD. In technical terms, the S-Cube Cloud is an artificial-intelligence platform for Big Data processing that applies computational optimisation to industrial sensor data. This has major applications in the energy sector, from subsurface exploration to power plants to refineries to carbon storage. Shah and co-workers have applied the S-Cube Cloud to seismic data to predict rock velocities ahead of drilling in offshore locations. This can guide the placement of wells and improve drilling accuracy, and is being used to locate candidate rock formations for carbon storage in the North Sea. Shah’s pioneering work has a very promising future in bringing enhanced automation and

efficiency to data-intensive industrial processes. It should help accelerate a much needed transition to greener energy provision.

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MAKING AN IMPACT

Making History Modern Life Fellow Alastair Reid presents the work of a new generation of Girton historians

n its 150 years, Girton has produced an impressive number of ground-breaking historians. The significance of, for example, Helen Cam’s work on local administration in the middle ages and Eileen Power’s work on medieval economic history is well documented. Historians, however, do not only illuminate the past; they reflect and in some measure define the preoccupations of their age. With this in mind, it is interesting, and perhaps instructive, to look at the books which former History undergraduates at the College have been publishing in the opening years of this century. Is there a distinctive Girton approach to the discipline today? We can start by thinking about what it is not, observing straight away that it has moved on from an earlier Girton bias towards medieval history, but not by following the dominant fashions in the field. Perhaps surprisingly, it’s not primarily about feminism or gender, but it’s also not global in its sweep, and it’s not primarily about cultural representations. And, while it asks questions, it doesn’t put forward overarching explanations in the style of the older social-science history. So, rather than being dominated by general concepts, it’s a rich body of detailed descriptions of a wide range of people in the modern world experiencing things, reacting to things, and doing things. Its bias, with the exception of Daniel Vyleta’s study of pre1914 Vienna, tends to be towards the south of England, reflecting both the tendency of the discipline and the ease of access to historical records. But this geographical bias is more than offset by the wide range of types of people included: from the mass of residents of modern cities to the more specific issues of queer men in the metropolis; from trade unionists and local party activists to national administrators, politicians and intellectuals. And it always aims to be accessible: as Vyleta puts it, ‘my wish is always simply to communicate.’ As it has grown up over recent years, this body of work has somehow managed to parallel the diversity of characters in the splendid collection of People’s Portraits on the College’s walls; Girton’s historians are now putting that diversity vividly into print.

Sarah Stockwell (1983): The British End of the British Empire (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018) How did Britain manage its transition from colonial power to postcolonial nation? The answer in this ambitious survey, which develops out of the author’s earlier work on British businesses coping

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with the transfer of power in Ghana, is based on archival research into key institutions: Oxford and Cambridge Universities and Sandhurst Military Academy, providing training for key personnel; and the Bank of England

and the Royal Mint, providing vital financial services. It emerges that the idea of the Commonwealth allowed many to feel that the Empire was not in decline but in transition. And Stockwell concludes

that ‘because those at their helm had risen through the ranks and acquired enduring mindsets in a period in which Britain had been more powerful, British institutions sought to promote their own models and practices over other, more generic, western ones, and had confidence in their ability to do so.’

Sarah Stockwell is Professor of Imperial and Commonwealth History, King’s College London, and author of The Business of Decolonization: British Business Strategies in the Gold Coast (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000).

Ian Cawood (1985): The Liberal Unionist Party: A History (London: Bloomsbury, 2012) Did the Liberal Unionists make a significant contribution to British politics? The party emerged in 1886 as a split within the leadership of the Liberals over William Gladstone’s controversial Irish Home Rule policy, became increasingly identified with the Conservatives, and finally wound itself up in 1912. But this first thorough study demonstrates that it had a more distinctive ideology and more significant local roots

than have previously been assumed. Rather than merely a small splinter disappearing without trace, it seems that this disparaged group helped its Conservative partners to move out from mere reaction to cope successfully with the development of modern politics. As Cawood concludes, ‘the Liberal Unionists were the means by which the mid-Victorian tradition that the Liberals

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governed on behalf of the entire national community, rather than on behalf of sectional or class interests, became transmitted to the Conservatives.’

Ian Cawood is Associate Professor in British Political and Religious History at the University of Stirling and editor of Joseph Chamberlain: International Statesman, National

Emily Cockayne (1991): Hubbub: Filth, Noise and Stench in England, 1600–1770 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007) What upset the senses of the citizens of large English towns in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries? Profusely illustrated with examples and images, focusing on London, Oxford, Bath and Manchester, this unusual study covers not only such obvious categories as ‘noisy’, ‘busy’, ‘dirty’ but also ‘mouldy’ (food), ‘itchy’ (skin) and ‘ugly’ (people). However, despite all these nuisances, the population of the urban areas continued to grow because ‘people often get used to difficult situations or unpleasant experiences and no longer notice or comment on them’, to the extent, indeed, that public health was not a priority until the end of the period. Nevertheless, for Cockayne ‘the key to not offending anyone was to act according to your station, gender, age and occupation’ – themes which are further developed in her broader, popular survey Cheek by Jowl. Emily Cockayne is Lecturer in Early Modern History, University of East Anglia, and author of Cheek by Jowl: A History of Neighbours (London: The Bodley Head, 2012).

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Leader, Local Icon (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2016) and of Print, Politics and the Provincial Press (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2019).

Matt Houlbrook (1994): Queer London: Perils and Pleasures in the Sexual Metropolis, 1918–1957 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005) How are we to understand the history of queer London between the First World War and the publication of the Wolfenden Report? Through a careful examination of court records, oral testimony and autobiographies, it emerges as distinctly urban both in its location and in its ambiguity and plurality. While it was moving increasingly behind closed doors and becoming more distinct from ‘normal’ urban life, it was not a homogeneous subculture: for example, respectable homosexuality repudiated both open effeminacy and working-class toughness. Nor was it the same as the modern understanding of ‘gay’. Houlbrook points out that ‘when men encountered each other as they moved across London, they were just as likely to be reminded of their differences as to recognise their commonalities; just as likely to react with disdain and disgust as with desire and comradeship.’ Matt Houlbrook is Professor of Cultural History, University of Birmingham, and author of Prince of Tricksters: The Incredible True Story of Netley Lucas, Gentleman Crook (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016).

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Dan Vyleta (1994): Crime, Jews and News: Vienna, 1895–1914 (New York: Berghahn Books, 2007) How antisemitic was Vienna in the decades before the First World War? This one exploration of a non-British topic by these Girton historians uses careful reading of newspaper reports to argue that portrayals of Jewish criminals emphasised their modern rationality rather than their inherited biological race. So, antisemitism was not casually accepted throughout the population, but was identified with a political camp, which was then able to capitalise on the unsettled years after 1918. Thus, while Vyleta makes use of close reading of texts, he is keen to present this as evidence

of something else: ‘it seems hardly credible that the language of crime hawked by newspaper vendors bore no resemblance to and did not at all impact upon private languages about crime ... the sources, in other words, yield real social implications for the nature and spread of antisemitism in Vienna in 1900.’ Dan Vyleta is Reader in Creative Writing and Literary Studies, University of Birmingham, and the author of four novels, most recently Smoke (London: Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 2016).

David Swift (2006): For Class and Country: The Patriotic Left and the First World War (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2017) How much support was there for the First World War within the British labour movement? This illuminating study is the first to make systematic use of the records of organised labour’s

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umbrella War Emergency Workers’ National Committee alongside more familiar sources. And it emerges that, despite the retrospective image of the waste of this war and the high profile of its opponents

in the existing literature, it was generally supported at the time as a fight against an illiberal and undemocratic enemy. This helped the Labour Party to present its socialism as a native tradition, and one not

confined to Nonconformist self-improvement or antiindustrial nostalgia. Thus, Swift concludes that ‘the war ultimately brought about the triumph of a very particular kind of leftism in Britain: reformist, statist, patriotic, thoroughly modern, and comfortable with the Britain which emerged after 1918.’

David Swift is Post-doctoral Fellow, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, and author of A Left for Itself: Left-wing Hobbyists and Performative Radicalism (London: Zero Books, 2019).

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Eileen Power (1889–1940) Matriculated 1907; Gilchrist Research Fellow 1910–11; Pfeiffer Research Fellow 1915–18; Director of Studies in History 1913–21 A leading figure in women’s and medieval social history, Eileen Power was influential in the development of economic history as an academic discipline. Appointed Professor in Economic History at the London School of Economics in 1921, she was a committed internationalist, and critical of Britain’s foreign policy in the interwar years; in 1933, with William Beveridge, she established the Academic Freedom Committee to aid academics fleeing Nazi Germany. Her legacy is celebrated at Girton’s Power Feast, where historians from around the world gather in honour of her ideals and scholarship.

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MAKING AN IMPACT

Building the Future Peter Sparks, Life Fellow, admires a model project by third-year Architecture student Eleanor Derbyshire

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limate change affects the whole planet – everybody and every living thing is affected.’ This was the rationale for Spencer de Grey RA’s selection of artworks for the Architecture Room at the 2019 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. The selection included Eleanor Derbyshire’s design for a fully sustainable ‘passive winery’, a final-year undergraduate project in the Department of Architecture. It is exceptional for even graduate work to be accepted for the RA Architecture Room, and I have never known undergraduate work to be shown there, so Eleanor’s is a truly remarkable achievement.

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Barbara Wootton (1897–1988) Matriculated 1915; Research Scholar 1919; Director of Studies in Economics 1920–22 Baroness Wootton of Abinger (née Barbara Adam) was a radical social scientist whose impact on twentieth-century public policy in Britain remains profound and far-reaching. An architect of the Welfare State, she was one of the first sociologists to argue for evidence-based policy making; she was instrumental in the abolition of capital punishment and campaigned to abolish corporal punishment in schools, legalise abortion and assisted dying, and decriminalise homosexuality. A founder member of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and the British Humanist Society, she became, in 1958, the first woman to be appointed a life peer.

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Each step of the wine-making process requires a different temperature and humidity; Eleanor decided to explore how these conditions could be generated, and her findings drive the form and materiality of the design. On the side of her Line of the Vines model, she gives a written explanation: ‘The design reduces energy consumption whilst heightening the senses. Within the timber canopy, a careful array of windows prevents overheating whilst directing light in a dramatic fashion. And inside the barrel canyon, visitors might not see the water trickling down the uninsulated basement walls, but they experience the resultant high humidity as they sip their wine in the cool gloom.’

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O Tempora, O Mores Dorothy Thompson was Senior Tutor at Girton from 1981 to 1992; Sandra Fulton took over the position in 2013. In a frank discussion with The Year, they share the rewards and challenges of a demanding College role How has the role of Senior Tutor changed over the years? Dorothy: It’s my impression that the job of Senior Tutor has become far more time-consuming with increased professionalisation in many respects. The balance of influence in College has certainly

shifted from the Director of Studies to the Tutor. When I became Senior Tutor, we were still fighting for Tutors to have copies of supervision reports. In those days Directors of Studies were held to be in a position of some prestige; they were mostly older members of the College, who really resented Tutors having any significant role. Nowadays the statutes and ordinances of the University require more information to go through the Tutors, and I think Tutors and Directors of Studies have an equally close relationship with their students. Sandra: I think that’s probably right. We try, where possible, to allocate the Tutor to the same subject area each year. It means the DoS and the Tutor get to know each other very well, and can work as a team to support ‘their’ students. Dorothy: That’s something I introduced. It seemed to me a very good thing for the student if both the Tutor and the DoS know how a subject works. Obviously, as Tutor you hear some confidential stuff, and if a student tells you they don’t want the DoS to know, it won’t be shared, but most students understand that a conversation between the DoS and the Tutor will help solve academic problems. I wonder when the term ‘DoS’ came in, though. It was always ‘Director of Studies’ in our days, then suddenly students were talking about their DoS, just as they were talking of ‘going to uni’.

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Have Tutorial issues also changed? Sandra: I think 18-year-olds are pretty much the same as they ever were. Some of them still need to learn the basics, such as how to use the washing machine; some will be lonely or anxious about work or exams; some worry about wider issues. Now there are new pressures. I think that, just as the previous generation worried about major conflicts and nuclear war, young people today are made anxious by the uncertainty, the sense of powerlessness in the face of huge, societal issues. Global politics, climate change, Brexit – these can all be an enormous worry for some of our students. Even in the time I have been in College, there have definitely been a lot more students reporting mental-health problems. It is very positive that students feel able to do so. There is a shockingly high and fairly uniform incidence of mentalhealth issues in 19- to 25-year-olds right across the country, but the triggers may be different in Cambridge. For example, there’s a degree of perfectionism in some of our students that can be hard for young people to manage successfully. Dorothy: I think the whole of society has changed, hasn’t it? I remember the first time a male student came to me in tears, and I hadn’t expected that. But I think that just as young people have changed their relationship with their parents, they have changed their relationship with other adults. I have found, over the time I have been involved with students, that they will talk to Fellows now in a way they never used to, and tell you all kinds of things I wouldn’t have dreamed of telling my Tutor when I was an undergraduate. When I was Senior Tutor, we were right at the beginning of Girton having a counselling service; the University service was embryonic and very ineffective. In fact, I don’t think the Disability Resource Centre even existed in those days. Now they have a very good system and offer so much more.

Sandra: Some students still feel they can manage their problems on their own, and that it’s a sign of failure if they don’t, but that attitude is much less prevalent now. We have a University counsellor in Girton one day a week, and our system is integrated with a whole range of University services including workshops and classes, as well as a psychiatrist and mental-health advisor. One very common issue, across the University, is self-harm. We’ve run a session with College nurses and Tutors to discuss how to manage the level of worry this engenders and how we can best support students with this kind of compulsion. Dorothy: I remember doing something similar for anorexia and bulimia. We were also at the beginning of the AIDS scare, and Mary Warnock, who was then Mistress, sent me off to a seminar in London to learn about the medical side of AIDS. Now of course there is effective treatment available, but then it was really very scary. Sandra: I know that when I was at university, most people would have found it much harder to talk about mentalhealth or sexual issues than about money problems. Now the reverse is often true. Money remains a big issue for some students, but it can take a very long time for them to come and ask for help. There is no maintenance grant now, and it’s often not sufficiently understood that parents are expected by the government to supplement student loans. (This contribution is often difficult for parents to find.) We have students who say that apart from Matriculation and the College Feast, which are free, they have never gone to Formal Hall, and that’s sad. In a College striving for greater inclusiveness, the ability to participate in College life is very important. We’re working with the JCR to find a way of making sure this improves in the future. Dorothy: The introduction, in my time, of differential rates for home and overseas student fees, then the replacement of the maintenance grant by student loans was upsetting

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both in concept and in the way the schemes were put into effect. One Girtonian gave up her course since she couldn’t bear the prospect of so much debt – so little compared with now – and that upset me greatly. Sandra: It can be very hard, too, when you see a student struggling with loneliness. Of course, many people fit right in to Girton immediately, but if there are few people like you, or at least superficially like you, and you’re not naturally gregarious, it can be daunting. College ways can seem strange, with unspoken codes and arcane traditions; even mealtimes, when one person’s ‘lunch’ is another person’s ‘dinner’, can feel like a challenge. Girton prides itself on its friendliness, and the student-parent scheme, where second-years ‘adopt’ first-years is one of the ways we’re trying to make integration easier for everyone, whatever their background. Dorothy: When Roland Randall was a Tutor, he told me that before the Matriculation Dinner he showed students the different knives and forks and glasses they’d need, which I thought showed great imagination. I’d never thought to do that. I was terribly bossy and I sent students little notes at the beginning of the year, telling them that RSVP meant you’ve got to reply. I did template letters of all the different ways you could do this – ‘X thanks the Mistress and Fellows for their invitation’ etc. – but of course students don’t have to do that now. They’re sent an email or an online form and they only have to tick a box. Sandra: We’re now moving to a completely web-based booking system for all events, but

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it still doesn’t guarantee a response. We have started pointing out that if a student doesn’t reply to a dinner invitation, we have to assume they’re coming and cater for them, which is a terrible waste if they don’t show up. We’re hoping that support for green issues and the moral imperative to avoid food waste will work where all else has failed! Has College discipline altered significantly? Sandra: We’re just about to change our disciplinary structure. We’ll still have the College Dean, but the Office of the Independent Adjudicator has come out with new guidelines for student discipline. The University is changing its discipline policy to one that is OIA-compliant, as is Girton. We have perennial issues with students losing control, often geared around drinking too much. Interestingly, there is a strong student backlash against this kind of behaviour, and we definitely view firm discipline as a way of supporting the main student body. Social media has added a new dimension to community relations. Students may say things online that perhaps they wouldn’t say about another person face-to-face; the whole thing very quickly gets out of hand and it can cause real hurt. On the whole, though, I’d say our students have a well-developed moral sense: they’re rightly horrified by racism or indeed by any kind of discrimination. There is an enormous range of views on gender-related issues, and I think that it is incumbent on us, as a College, to find a way of getting different groups to talk to

each other in a non-judgmental way. We’re aiming for an inclusive community where everyone feels welcome, and that means balancing different – and sometimes opposing – sets of rights. Dorothy: In my time Tutors, and primarily the Senior Tutor, were responsible for discipline in the College, and it was always tricky being responsible both for disciplining students and for looking after them. The most serious thing I remember was a case of antisemitism, but generally it was nothing worse than getting drunk and setting off fire-extinguishers. Perhaps my hardest task – hardest that is in terms of keeping a straight and serious face – was dealing with a group of

three Natural Scientists responsible for bringing out a fire engine to Wolfson Court. They had been told in a lecture that if they dropped milk powder from a height it would explode. They did just that, from the top floor down a stairwell; the milk powder did explode and set off the fire alarms. I actually rather admired their experimental spirit, but I still had to discipline them. I suspect they are making successes of their lives! Sandra: Students never fail to find a new way to surprise you – mostly positively. The role of Senior Tutor is fascinating; it’s challenging in many respects, but it offers a great opportunity to support our amazing cohorts of students and Fellows.

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Cigarettes and Sound Principles Jill Jondorf, Life Fellow and former Director of Studies in Modern and Medieval Languages, remembers a generation of inspirational dons

came up to read MML in the mid 1950s. There were giants on the earth, or at least at Girton, in those days. One such awe-inspiring figure was Helen McMorran, Librarian and Vice-Mistress, as well as Registrar of the Roll and Editor of the Girton Review. A stately woman, but not quite as stiff as she first appeared. One evening a friend and I were committing the sin of smoking as we walked along a corridor. I am not sure if there was actually a rule about this, but we suspected it was frowned upon. We met Miss McMorran, and tried to hide our cigarettes. Miss McMorran

stopped and inspected us. ‘Be bloody, bold, and resolute!’ she said, and sailed on her way. Then there was Marjorie Hollond, an elegant American who was Bursar as well as directing studies in Law and Economics. She drove a Bentley and sported a long cigarette holder (smoking may become a recurrent theme in this article). Later I learned more about her background – I was told that she came from a Boston Brahmin family where domestic staff of a different nationality were

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Marjorie Hollond

hired every few years so that the children could learn many languages (but not German because there was a mysterious interdiction on German butlers). Mrs Hollond lived in College though married (her husband lived in Trinity) and sometimes supervised from her bed. When a young Fellow got engaged, Marjorie said to her ‘I hear you are getting married. I have one piece of advice for you.’ The younger colleague waited somewhat uneasily. ‘Always,’ said Marjorie, ‘wear silk next to the skin.’

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The Fellows I knew best were of course those who taught me: Eva Engel, my German supervisor, and my two French supervisors, Odette de Mourgues and Alison Fairlie (we called them Miss Engel, Madame de Mourgues and Miss Fairlie, though all three had doctorates). Eva Engel was a kind and supportive person, but supervisions with her were not my favourite hours. The fundamental difficulty was that she was a philosopher, and I was not. I had enjoyed German lyric poetry before I came to Girton, but it never seemed to appear on the syllabus and my mild enthusiasm for German literature expired rapidly, smothered by being asked to contemplate the Geniebegriff or the kategorischen Imperativ. Eva went on to become the editor of the works of the preEnlightenment Jewish philosopher Moses Mendelssohn, an enormous scholarly achievement. Though she became a friend, I fear that as a teacher she was wasted on me. Odette and Alison, however, inspired me with a lifelong love of French literature, while also enlivening the Girton scene. Odette was quietly elegant, with what I sometimes suspected was a carefully preserved French accent. She was a novelist as well as an

eminent literary critic, and gave me a copy of her second novel when I graduated. She smoked French cigarettes (‘caporal’ tobacco and ‘papier maïs’) and used to tell us how much healthier these were than the ‘tabac blond’ of English cigarettes. (Years later she explained to me, with apparent conviction, that her chronic bronchitis had nothing to do with smoking but was caused by living in College for thirteen years and sleeping in an unheated bedroom.) The cigarettes were pungent, and one could tell when she had just walked down the corridor, or been in the Library, by the lingering whiff of Gauloises ‘Disque Bleu’. In supervisions we were offered Senior Service cigarettes in our second year (when we began to be addressed by our first names), and promoted to Gauloises in our third. Odette’s supervisions were as elegant as her person, carefully shaped and never running over the hour. Alison’s were more free-form, and always ran over. If you managed to bag the five o’clock supervision slot you got sherry along with instruction (and the inevitable cigarettes – Player’s in her case). Alison had a famous habit of waiting for an answer to her (difficult) questions until somebody’s nerve broke – but

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never mine, once I had discovered the knack of doodling to fill the excruciating silence. They both supervised for the whole range of early-modern and modern French literature, from the sixteenth to the twentieth century (though the so-called twentieth-century paper ran from 1870 to 1937), which I suppose never happens nowadays. We regarded them with awe and affection, enjoyed their generous hospitality, and not infrequently stayed up all night rather than miss their strict 9.00 a.m. deadline for the handing in of the weekly essay. When we were shaken by the death of one of our number, they provided us with (need I say?) cigarettes (and also sleeping tablets from Alison’s personal stock), there being no College chaplain or counsellors to offer other forms of support. I learned to know both these women better when I had the good fortune to come back to Girton as their colleague, and heard something of Alison’s upbringing in a Shetland manse (but nothing of her work at Bletchley Park), and Odette’s work for the Resistance in occupied France. But it was my early contact with them that determined my future career. It’s possible, of course, that my own foibles have been noticed in their turn; indeed, I rather hope so. I claim however the privilege of the old guard when I say ‘they don’t make dons like they used to’.

Odette de Mourgues

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Comedy of Manners While serving as Director of Studies in History (from 1947 to 1960), Jean Lindsay published ‘a guide for freshers, by a donnish bluestocking’. The following excerpts from Say “Thank You” illustrate her decided views on College etiquette On suitable attire

‘ It is a well-accepted convention that one must be comfortable in order to work, but even so blue jeans, corduroy trousers, one’s brother’s discarded grey flannel bags or even black peg tops are all deplorable. They may not be worn by women with academic dress. They should not be worn by women at any time. They either look slovenly or affected, and in any case are regrettable at Sunday lunch.’

‘ Cambridge is cold. Most engagements have to be reached after a brisk ride on a bicycle through rain and a high wind. Warm underclothes are essential.’ On socialising

‘ Cambridge is convivial and much time is spent at sherry parties. It is often difficult to find the host or hostess but the effort must be made once on arrival and once on departure. Even at a sherry party there is no obligation to drink sherry. Two Professors have been known to drink orange squash.

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‘ When a girl has accepted an invitation the party sometimes turns out to be very different from what she had

expected. Sometimes the male guests’ only interest is obviously their host’s sherry and their own epigrams. Sometimes the party turns out to be one where there is not enough light, too much drink and loud, discordant and unmelodic music. If a girl dislikes this kind of party she should get the most pleasant young man to escort her and leave at once. There remains the problem of how to dispose discreetly of a young man who insists on escorting one back to College and taking a long, tender and only too audible farewell outside the front gate which happens to be under the Senior Tutor’s window. Another variant of this problem is what to do when in company with an injudiciously demonstrative young man when the whole scene is vividly illuminated by the headlights of one’s Tutor’s car. Young ladies should ask to be escorted home in a taxi; a private car can be parked indefinitely.’

‘ Methods of meeting young men vary. There is no need for a fresher to fall off her bicycle in King’s Parade. It is

always possible to join the Mummers or the A.D.C., though actors are apt to be too busy to be able to attend balls. One might join a religious society, but there the young men are apt to have very honourable intentions and to want to become engaged at the end of the second year. One might join a political society, but here young women are often made responsible for the tea, in which case they meet no one.’

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On domestic arrangements

‘ One of the major problems confronting a fresher is how to boil a kettle on a gas ring half way down the corridor

and keep up a flow of conversation with two shy male guests, one of whom is sitting on the bed and the other on a very collapsible pouffe. The correct solution is to turn an electric fire on its back and boil the kettle in the midst of the tea party – but this process often takes 90 minutes, and if the room is supplied with a space heater the operation is impossible.’

‘ In College an undergraduate usually has one room in which to sleep, work and entertain. The chief accomplishment which can be learnt after three years’ practice is to change all one’s clothes and leave no trace of stocking or petticoat, to wash one’s hair without leaving any stray kirbigrips, comb or wet towel in sight, to keep butter, marmalade and milk in the same cupboard but permanently separate from underclothes and lecture notes.’

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Kathleen Raine (1908–2003) Matriculated 1926; Eugénie Strong Research Fellow 1955–59; Jex-Blake Research Fellow 1959–61 Kathleen Raine was a visionary poet whose work explored the intersection between science, art and mysticism. Heavily influenced by William Blake and W B Yeats, she strove in her own poetry to reconcile personal experience with the principles of Neoplatonism and Jungian psychology. She published 18 volumes of poetry including Stone and Flower (1943), The Lost Country (1971) and The Oracle in the Heart (1979), as well as four volumes of autobiography and a large body of literary criticism. In 1992 she received the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry.

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Girton150: Festival Highlights Simone Maghenzani, Co-Chair 2019 Anniversary Committee, recalls a series of remarkable events Son et lumière in Woodlands Court

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t was like being at a massive party, but with a lot of intellectual content to it. It was full of serious debates, high-quality entertainment and, more importantly, it was fun!’ This is just one of the many appreciative comments made by the more than one thousand alumni, guests and friends of Girton at the end of our 2019 Anniversary Weekend (28–30 June 2019). The Girton150 Festival, as it came to be known, showcased many crucial conversations in which

the College is taking a lead, conversations that will shape tomorrow’s world. The weekend as a whole presented Girton’s cutting-edge research and portrayed our commitment to all-round personal development for students and staff through music, sports and art. The grand opening ceremony on Friday evening started with the admission of Dame Karen Pierce (1978 English), the UK’s Permament Representative

to the United Nations, to an Honorary Fellowship. For the first time in Girton’s history, the ceremony of admission was open to the public. A celebration of the history of the College, led by our Visitor, Lady Hale, culminated in the performance of a specially composed anniversary fanfare, played by the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama’s Brass Band and conducted by one of the leading figures in the world of British brass, Dr Robert Childs. The evening continued with music and dancing, and a party atmosphere prevailed until the small hours. On Saturday, three or four events were running at any given time. Portrait-painting was discussed in one room, while in another a concert organised by Dr Martin Ennis was taking place; meanwhile, poetry was recited in the main marquee. The hot topics of today were all on the agenda. These included: the ‘United Nations: Parliament of Fools or Parliament of Everyman’, Dame Karen Pierce’s Girton150 Anniversary Lecture; Lady Hale, Lady Arden and Dame Rosalyn Higgins ‘in conversation’ about women in Law; the Astronomer Royal, Professor Lord Rees, on the future of exploring the universe; the Vice-Chancellor in a panel discussion on the current challenges of higher education; and Baron Williams of Oystermouth on religion and equality. Add to this world-class music and art for all, and you have the makings of an unforgettable day. A superb interpretation of Jessica Swale’s Blue Stockings rounded off the afternoon, followed by a special Formal Hall. The evening included a magnificent variety show, presented by a fiercely funny Jonathan Mayor, as well as an entertaining reworking of Girton’s history, and a lot more music. Tricity Vogue’s swing band encouraged everyone to take to the dance floor; this was followed by a ‘Kaleidoscope’ of video contributions, including birthday greetings

Festival cabaret with Tricity Vogue

Anniversary dinner in Hall

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from Ed Sheeran! The night was yet young, and the party continued with Mystery Train, the band led by our chaplain, Dr Malcolm Guite. Panel discussions, unveilings, an Open Studio, and children’s banners re-enacting the suffrage movement were among the highlights of Sunday’s programme, though there was no shortage of lectures, including Professor Andrew Wallace-Hadrill’s talk on surviving Herculaneum and Dr Lucy Delap on the history of women’s suffrage. The musical programme continued, with events ranging from a special choral service in Chapel to a brass concert given by Queen Victoria’s Consort in Hall. The

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Rosalyn Higgins (b. 1937) Matriculated 1955 Dame Rosalyn Higgins (née Cohen) became, in 1995, the first female judge to be elected to the International Court of Justice and is the only woman to serve as the Court’s President (2006–09). Celebrated as a scholar and moderniser, as well for her skill as a practitioner and arbitrator, she received a Balzan Prize for International Law in 2007. In 2019 she was created Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire in recognition of her ‘outstanding service to international law, human rights and the United Nations’.

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closing ceremony reached its climax with the official unveiling of the College’s blue plaque, which commemorates Girton’s founders and aims – the first such plaque in South Cambridgeshire. A splendid cake in the form of the College tower was greeted by the singing of ‘Happy Birthday, Girton’, which concluded a glorious summer’s day of activities open to the community at large. I am most grateful to all the presenters and performers who enabled us to assemble such an exciting programme. I am also immensely grateful to everyone behind the scenes, not least Catering and House Services, without whose hard work and imagination this Festival could not have taken place. Thank you!

Girton150: Thinking in Fives… Susan J Smith, Mistress, salutes Girton’s new Honorary Fellows and Anniversary Lecturers

hen the College for Women opened its doors on 16 October 1869, five pioneering students walked in. They had already cleared the hurdle of the entrance exam, and three would become the first women to pass Tripos. It is hard to overestimate the significance of that moment, for them, or for the future of higher education. They played a crucial part in an international drive to secure women’s full participation in public life – in education, certainly, but also in politics and the professions. One hundred and fifty years later, Girton College is thriving as a permanent institution, fully integrated into the collegiate University of Cambridge. Needless to say, we are in celebratory mode, and keen to recognise all that our predecessors achieved. So, in a nod to those early days, the College’s Governing Body has elected five new Honorary Fellows, and staged a series of five anniversary lectures. On the theme of ‘fives’, we also received during the course of the Anniversary Weekend Jasper Dommett’s gift of a Fanfare to Girton; this opens with groups of five women players, is written in 5/4 time, and uses intervals of a fifth, proceeding in five-bar phrases… Those in the know will already be saying, ‘Well, when the doors opened there were actually six… And although one left, by the end of the year a seventh had arrived.’ So we should not be too hard and fast over our thinking in fives. Neither,

Her Imperial Highness Princess Takamado

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however, should we fail to appreciate the very slender base from which this College has grown; in that respect ‘the Hitchin Five’ continue to inspire. So, Girton is proud to mark the anniversary of its foundation by electing as Honorary Fellows five outstanding alumnae of the College who are pioneers of excellence and achievement for the twenty-first century. An Honorary Fellowship is the highest distinction Girton can award, the warmest hand of friendship it Professor Dame Pratibha Gai

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can extend. It is therefore a great privilege to welcome Professor Dame Pratibha Gai, Dr Suzi Lishman, Her Excellency Dame Karen Pierce, HIH Princess Takamado and Sandi Toksvig to the Fellowship of the College. In doing so, we recognise both the difference they have made in the world, and all that their election – their wisdom and experience – will do to enrich the life of this community. They enlarge the Honorary Fellowship of the College to 30 distinguished public figures who, together, add immensely to our stature, profile and intellectual reach.

To admit our new Honorary Fellows we have enjoyed (and in one case anticipate) some wonderful and varied events. Most of them are documented separately. The 58th Founders’ Memorial Lecture by HIH Princess Takamado, for example, can be viewed in the online anniversary events archive, as can the Founders’ Science Lecture given by Professor Dame Pratibha Gai. HE Dame Karen Pierce delivered the Festival Lecture as a highlight of our Anniversary Weekend in June, and Sandi Toksvig joined us for a memorable and moving evening of conversation as part of a student-led initiative on diversity, inclusivity and belonging. Dr Suzi Lishman has still to be admitted; she will take part in the annual admission of Fellows and Scholars in October, and will make an after-dinner address to members of the Foundation. Our new Honorary Fellows delivered three of the five anniversary lectures. The remaining two speakers were equally riveting and, in all, the lecture series attracted an audience of over 800 people. Herman Narula gave the Founders’ Enterprise Lecture on the day of the College Feast. For anyone over the age of thirty-five, it was a journey into the unknown. Entitled

Herman Narula

‘Virtual Worlds: The Next Great Wilderness’, it was a mind-blowing guide to multiple new ‘realities’ that don’t in fact exist – except in the imaginary dimensions of virtual space. There was, of course, a time

when the College for Women might have seemed equally bizarre and unattainable; so perhaps Herman is right to claim that we are born to over-invest in ideas, and perhaps that is no bad thing.

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A History of Girton in Ten Pioneers A highlight of this anniversary year has been the involvement of The Baroness Hale of Richmond, President of the Supreme Court. Lady Hale’s 15th anniversary as Girton’s Visitor happens to coincide not only with her own 50th year at the Bar, but also with the 150th anniversary of the foundation of the College, and the centenary of the passing of the Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act of 1919 which enabled women to practise in the professions. This concatenation of jubilees has occasioned many celebrations, not least the Visitor’s lecture in our anniversary series. Appropriately entitled ‘100 Years of Women in Law’, it was a tour d’horizon of women’s aspirations, struggles and achievements in which Girton was pleasingly prominent. All in all, thinking in fives during our anniversary year has been a fine way to reflect on Girton’s early days, and to look to the future. Furthermore, if the events and energies of our 150th anniversary year are anything to go by, I am inclined to believe that wherever that future lies, it will be every bit as energising and inspiring as the past.

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Ann Dowling (b. 1952) Matriculated 1970; doctoral student 1974–77 Dame Ann Dowling is a Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the University and a global authority on combustion and acoustics. She was the first woman to be appointed Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Cambridge and served as Head of Department from 2009 to 2014. In 2015 she led the Dowling Review of Business– University Research Collaborations. She is the first and only Girtonian to receive the Order of Merit (2016), and in 2019 she was awarded the Royal Medal from the Royal Society for her research on aerodynamic noise, the reduction of combustion emissions and aircraft design.

Girton150: Storming the Barricades Roland Randall, Life Fellow, reflects on 40 years of men at Girton

Celebrating 40 years of men at Girton. From left to right: John Davies, Brian Buncombe, Roland Randall, John Longstaff, George Cowperthwaite

orty years on, it is difficult to imagine just how momentous the decision to admit men was for Girton. In the late 1960s Churchill, Kingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s and Clare announced their intention to

admit women, and it became obvious to our Governing Body that this would have great implications for Girton; the possibility that the brightest girls would apply to newly co-ed

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colleges in the city centre could not be ignored. By 1971, despite the doubts of a sizeable minority of Fellows, Girton applied to the Privy Council for an enabling statute, and in 1976 the vote to admit men was passed. Meanwhile, in 1975, the government passed the Sex Discrimination Act, bringing about a decisive change in social attitudes. Even those who had voted against the idea of going mixed accepted the majority decision with excellent grace and, true to Girton’s tradition of consensus, everyone worked enthusiastically to make it a success.

Table of covering my apple pie with all the custard from what I took to be an individual jug. Alison Duke quietly explained to me that, normally, the table had one jug between six people! I remember learning a great deal about the history and traditions of the College from Marg Gaskell, the Librarian, and Margaret Hennessey, the Steward, during long, relaxing lunches in the Fellows’ Garden. Brenda Ryman, then Mistress, chaired Chapel Committee at 7.30 on Saturday mornings; afterwards, Alison Duke would explain who created the hassocks in Chapel, how to pronounce

In 1979, 40 years ago, our first male undergraduates were admitted. John Marks, Frank Wilkinson and I had been admitted as Official Fellows two years earlier along with Research Fellows including John Davies, who is still a Girton Fellow. In fact, I had been supervising Girton Geographers since 1972 and, when Girton offered me a Fellowship in 1977, I was delighted to accept. Then, as now, Girton was a vibrant, exciting and caring establishment; above all, it was friendly, and I felt immediately at home in the company of the opposite sex. Not everything, however, was straightforward in the early days. The College kitchens were not overly familiar with male appetites, and I recall the embarrassment at High

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the names of our benefactors, and how to sing the College songs. I was fired up by all this pioneering history, and I remember one elderly Fellow saying: ‘you are more of a feminist than many of my colleagues!’ Initially, first-year mixed Geography supervisions could be difficult because some of the women were wary of putting their point of view in front of the men. But after a few field trips, they generally realised that men were not a different animal, just a different gender. What’s more, the men often needed help living away from their mothers!

In most respects the watershed of going mixed was crossed without difficulty. At the beginning, some of the best female Geographers were indeed lost to men’s Colleges that had gone mixed, but very soon schools began to send their best male candidates for interview at Girton, simply because of our tradition as a well-respected Geography college. Within just a few years the numbers of men and women reading the subject at Girton were roughly equal. The vast majority of the first intake of men did not choose Girton but were taken out of the Pool. However, it was soon reported to me that, far from being disappointed at finishing up at Girton, they found the College to be an enjoyable academic and social challenge and a far more supportive, healthy and welcoming environment than many other colleges. I am still in contact with some of those men. In 1977 I was delighted to be offered the opportunity to join Girton. More than 40 years on, I am still proud to have been part of this great change. It has certainly changed me!

The debates within College about going mixed in 1976 appear to have been peppered with speculation about what exactly Emily Davies would have thought about the proposal. In fact, it can be stated with some certainty what her views about co-education were, because she set them out in a letter to her friend Anna Richardson in January 1868. In this letter she expressed her belief in ‘the desireableness of mixed education’ and regretted that the creation of the College for Women (as Girton was then known) ‘seems to stereotype the idea of separation.’ Her reason for proceeding with an exclusively female institution was straightforwardly pragmatic: ‘all good things have to be worked up to, & the only way open to us of working toward common education seems to be to stand out for common subjects, common exam[inations] & common standards.’ Given that there were so few co-educational schools in the mid nineteenth century, Davies believed small steps were in order: ‘You cannot artificially separate boys & girls, & then suddenly throw young men and women together at eighteen.’ Seen from this perspective, it might be expected that the growth of co-educational secondary schooling would remove a major obstacle to co-educational colleges, and Davies seems to have been perfectly comfortable with this prospect. In a startling passage, she wrote, ‘By & by, when the Colleges at Oxford and Cambridge are open to women, we will open ours to men.’ In this prediction, as in so much else, events proved her quite correct. Ben Griffin, Marilyn Strathern Official Fellow in History

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Heritage in a Nutshell Peter Sparks, Life Fellow, applauds the hard graft of Girton’s gardeners

he nut tree in the nursery rhyme bore a golden pear. Our gardens and grounds teams have come close to this by simultaneously restoring the range of nut trees in Honeysuckle Walk and winning their own Gold in the University’s 2019 Green Challenge Impact Awards. It was the first year Girton had entered, so this is a wonderful achievement, as reflected in the judges’ comments: ‘We were incredibly impressed by the enthusiasm shown by the team and enjoyed being shown the different initiatives and developments in place around the College. It is great to see the community spirit and well-deserved pride felt by the team. The promotion of wildlife and biodiversity was particularly impressive.’ As many readers will know, the Honeysuckle Walk was established in the mid 1880s; it consists of about eighty metres of mown grass running alongside Old Orchard. This is bounded to the east by the line of eponymous honeysuckles; to the west, as was traditional in East Anglia, there is a line of cultivated hazels, the ‘nut walk’ typical of the nineteenth century, but now rare and therefore nationally significant. In recent years, this whole scheme had become seriously overgrown, wild and seldom visited. Three years’ extensive research and labour has restored its original glory. The honeysuckles have been rejuvenated with new planting

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Honeysuckle Walk restored

propagated by the team with cuttings from the original stock, and the nut walk, comprising many varieties of cobnuts and filberts, has been expertly pruned and underplanted with spring bulbs. Girtonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Senior Gardener, Karl Dawson, was responsible for the overall strategy and the research underpinning the project; he also carried out the thinning and pruning of the nut walk. He was greatly helped in his research by Paul Read of the Suffolk Traditional Orchard Group. The rest of the Gardens team, Deputy Head Gardener Richard Hewitt with Mark Harben and Colin Osborn, undertook the herculean task of cutting back overgrown honeysuckle and overhanging trees, rebuilding the supporting matrix, planting the young, newly propagated plants, and installing an irrigation system for them; they were able to use shredded cuttings from the pruned nut walk as mulch. Finally, once light was filtering through the canopy, Groundsmen Steve Whiting and Will Cook brought their knowledge of turf to the elimination of ivy and clover and the total restoration of the grass walk. All in all, the project, made possible through a generous donation from Baroness (Rosalyn) Higgins, has been an amazing combination of historical research, horticultural expertise and physical labour.

The Gardens and Grounds teams between the cobnut and honeysuckle lines. From left to right: Colin Osborn, Karl Dawson, Richard Hewitt, Mark Harben, Steve Whiting, Will Cook

Filberts in full glory

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Space to Reflect College Surveyor John Gant shares the thinking behind the Social Hub. By E Jane Dickson its keep.’ The social potential of the Hub is self-evident, but the wifi-enabled space has also proved popular for study. ‘During exam term,’ explains Gant, ‘students brought their laptops down to revise, and this does seem to be the way they want to work these days. They don’t want to be locked away, studying in isolation; in the Social Hub they can be plugged into headphones, so they’re not disturbed by noise, but at the same time they have that sense of life going on around them.’

Official opening of the Social Hub. From left to right: John Gant, The Mistress, Sandi Toksvig

n a year crammed with commemorative events, Girton’s newly opened Social Hub is a confident, modern gesture. A clutch of rooms on either side of the old JCR corridor has been transformed into a welcoming and versatile space in the very heart of College. On the ground floor there is a café/bar opening directly onto Cloister Court, a suite of comfortable seating areas

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and a sleekly minimalist meeting room. A steel-and-glass platform lift to the basement allows disabled access to the much loved – and discreetly renovated – College bar. ‘It makes sense to bring that central area of College into more productive use,’ says College Surveyor John Gant. ‘It’s where all corridors lead, but until now it really wasn’t earning

The project was undertaken by Allies and Morrison, the award-winning architecture firm responsible for Ash Court and the Duke Building, and the pared-back aesthetic of the Social Hub is sensitive to the building’s history: detailing in the wood floor makes it possible to read the volumes and divisions of the original rooms, while materials such as bricks, pitch-pine floorboards and Girton’s distinctive red and black floor-tiles have been carefully conserved for future building works. ‘We’ve tried to salvage as much as we can,’ says Gant. ‘We knew we would uncover a couple of Victorian tiled fireplaces, because so much in College was boarded up and

‘blanded’ in the 1960s and ’70s; one of the fireplaces has stayed in situ, and we’ve built another into a new location.‘ There is a sense of deep time, too, in the Derbyshire limestone used to clad the base of structural pillars in the Hub; fossilised crustaceans are evident in the stone, while the rough-chamfered corners of the pillars have a ‘preworn’ appearance: ‘If the pillars had sharper corners, they would certainly be bashed off with time and use,’ Gant points out. ‘So it’s a practical design as much as anything else, and it just softens the whole scheme.’

A twenty-first-century arena for thought, with clear respect for the past: if Ruskin was right, and buildings are books to

be read, the new heart of Girton could scarcely tell a more appropriate story.

A History of Girton in Ten Pioneers

Sandi Toksvig (b. 1958) Matriculated 1977 Broadcaster and activist Sandi Toksvig made her comedy debut at Cambridge, where she wrote and performed in the first all-women Footlights revue. She is one of the BBC’s most popular presenters (QI, The Great British Bake Off), a prolific author and a high-profile campaigner for women’s and LGBTQ+ rights. In 2015 she co-founded the Women’s Equality Party with a manifesto to unite ‘people of all genders, ages, backgrounds, ethnicities, beliefs and experiences in the shared determination to see women enjoy the same rights and opportunities as men’.

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A Window on the Past Helen Van Noorden marks the publication of a new book on the Lawrence Room collection

irton’s museum of antiquities, the Lawrence Room, has often been described as one of the ‘secret jewels’ of Cambridge. This is not an accolade we really want, and much of the work of the Committee curating the room in the last decade has been to open up this fascinating collection to wider view. This year, we have produced a coffeetable book about the collections, published to coincide with the College’s 150th anniversary. The project was made possible by a generous donation from Catering Manager Graham Hambling on the occasion of his retirement. The book uses Lawrence Room objects to illuminate the history of Girton, as an area and as an institution. It is necessarily selective but delightfully multidisciplinary. Our goal was to showcase the three major strands of the museum collection: the Anglo-Saxon material recovered from the College site in the 1880s; the Mediterranean collection formed around the arrival of the Tanagra figurines in 1902; and the Egyptian collection, begun in 1911 with the arrival of the mummy Hermione. But we also feature items only recently on display, as well as some of the more surprising areas covered by this eclectic collection. For the first time, too, there is an account of the museum’s professionalisation. The Committee was overwhelmed by the enthusiasm of the contributors, several of whom undertook original archival research. Different chapters bring out different aspects of crucial figures in

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Girton history and, in their various ways, convey pride in the College. The Introduction pulls together committee records and collections in a brief history of the display, offers an overview of current activities and discusses progress in object conservation. The opening chapters set in context the Anglo-Saxon and Roman cemetery discovered on the College site, and Caroline Brett uses the typology of our Anglo-Saxon cruciform brooches (see left) to reflect on the budding cultural identity of the inhabitants of eastern England. Next comes a short description by Christopher Evans, Craig Cessford and Rose Ferraby of the archaeological context of North West Cambridge, noting the possibility of other, as yet undiscovered, links to Girton’s history. The development of the Lawrence Room project begins with the multi-decade process of cataloguing the collections. A remarkable chapter from Imogen Gunn, our dedicated cataloguer, reveals that ‘assembling experts’ was the common theme for every aspect of running the Lawrence Room. Next, we feature our earliest Egyptian and Mediterranean acquisitions. Dorothy Thompson engagingly juxtaposes the ancient and modern ‘lives’ of Hermione Grammatike, whose inscription, testifying to her learning, connected her with Girton. Lucilla Burn is similarly illuminating about the Tanagra figurines, whose rediscovery in the modern era raises important concerns about the ethics of cultural heritage collecting.

Turn the page, then, to lesser-known items in the Lawrence Room: Marilyn Strathern focuses on five Maori fish-hooks, literally the most far-flung objects in the Lawrence Room collections, and points to larger questions about Girton’s identity as an institution. Next, Peter Sparks explains Egyptian death beliefs through focus on our Senet boardgame pieces; these have been on display since 2009, and are very popular with students. Also popular with visitors is a set of eye idols from ancient Mesopotamia. Augusta McMahon’s chapter contextualises our examples, donated to the College in 2010 by Dr Joan Oates from her teaching collection.

Former Mistress Juliet Campbell admires a display in the Lawrence Room

The final section of the book focuses on Lawrence Room reminders of Girton College founders, Barbara Bodichon and Emily Davies. Hazel Mills investigates the legends of ‘Barbara’s Anglo-Saxon pot’ and ‘Emily’s writing desk’, elegantly sifting what we know from what we can only speculate. We end with Frances Gandy’s discussion of items in the Lawrence Room representing moments of twentieth-century progress in the status of women: the microscope of Ethel Sargant and the suffrage posters which hang on the walls. The first time Girton’s antiquities were put on display, shortly after excavation in 1881, a Girton student recorded that she thought viewers were ‘not sufficiently impressed’. We hope that this book will bring more visitors to the College, and we are sure that they will be impressed with what they find here.

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Jane Martin Prize for Poetry 2019 The Jane Martin Poetry Prize is awarded to poets aged 18–30 who are resident in the UK. Now in its ninth year, this national competition was established in memory of Girton alumna Jane Elizabeth Martin. This year’s winner, Felicity Sheehy, is currently studying for a PhD in English at King’s College, Cambridge.

The Horse Every recess he was there: a gray smudge where the eye came to rest, just over the hill, like a cloud, or a tractor. Not the kind of horse you’re expecting: nothing showy, nothing tall, just a sway-backed stallion with rheumy eyes and moldy hooves, a few flies flickering his sides. Still, the children talked about him. Looked for him after lunch, hearts hungry for some sort of news. One ear up meant a bad grade; two ears, a good one. Lying down and there’d be snow the next day. Not there, and we’d worry the whole half hour, double-checking the view. Some kids spoke of sneaking up to feed him. Some did, after school, and came back laughing about his laziness, his lazy eye. Suburban kids, who’d stand at the fence and shout move! A farm girl, I always said nothing. I knew Dylan would mutter over the muck on my boots, that Josh would crack my stutter like a whip. And I knew that I would leave, in time, as I always did, that I would never think of the horse again. And I didn’t. I don’t. Until this December, puttering around, home again. A gray smudge on the hillside. How I ran through the grass, wool-sweatered, unsure, my adult heart beating faster than before. How he stood there, ugly as ever, like some sort of God. And how he came to me at last, the smell of apple sharp in the air, his breath a fog between us, brief and mortal. © Felicity Sheehy

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Fellowsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Profiles The Year

Arik Kershenbaum Official Fellow in Biological Sciences and Tutor When asked what I do, I’m never sure whether to say first that I am a zoologist, or that I’m a Tutor at Girton College. These two aspects of my professional life are so complementary that it’s hard to imagine one without the other. Most people would consider my research to be relatively exciting: stalking wolves in Montana, recording dolphins in the Red Sea, and writing software to decode alien communication. But it is my work with Girton students that really sets the pace of my day and sends me home with a sense of achievement. When I arrived at the Department of Zoology five years ago as a research fellow, I immediately started teaching and began to look for a college affiliation. Having done my undergraduate degree in Cambridge (thirty years previously!), I was familiar with the college system, and had fond memories of supervisions and supervisors. How lucky I was that Girton was just at that time looking for a Postdoctoral Teaching Associate in Biological Sciences. The following year I was honoured to be made a Bye-Fellow, and two years ago, as a new Tutor, I became an Official Fellow. Girton has been a fantastic home for me these five years. The relaxed, friendly environment makes it very easy for a new Fellow to fit in, and the commitment to justice and

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equality that is part of the Girton ethos finds its way into every aspect of daily life. Most people at the College know me as ‘Darwin’s daddy’. My twelve-yearold Canaan dog, Darwin, has been one of the College’s therapy dogs for three years now. The therapy-dog programme began as a couple of sessions of dogpetting during exam term, and now has

expanded to become part of the Girton Thrive initiative for student welfare. Together with Sebastian Falk and his dog, Riley, we hold regular sessions throughout the year when students can come and spend time with a certified therapy dog. I matriculated in 1984 to study Natural Sciences at Magdalene College, and

My career path has been as indirect as my will always be grateful for the flexibility and undergraduate degree. After university, I entered diversity of the course. Although I came up to the newly expanding field read Physics, I quickly of machine learning and realised that it was not The ability to experiment and artificial intelligence. In at all what I’d expected discover your true interest is those days, there were from my sixth-form one of the most valuable parts not so many graduates in studies and found myself of the Natural Sciences Tripos. Computer Science, and I drawn to Earth Sciences had been programming instead. The geology field since secondary school, mostly on old punch cards! trip to Arran, where we had the opportunity I took a job at a biotech company, writing software to taste an inexhaustible supply of single malt whiskies, had nothing at all to do with it! But it was palaeontology that really attracted me, and as this was only a small element in Part IB, I leant more towards my other course: Ecology. So for Part II, I took Applied Biology, completing a 180° conversion from Physics to Biology. Now, as Director of Studies, I relate this story to many of my freshers, who are uncertain about which first-year courses to choose – the ability to experiment and discover your true interest is one of the most valuable parts of the Natural Sciences Tripos.

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Moving around from country to country has been a recurrent feature in my life. My family moved to the UK from the USA when my father, an assistant professor at an East Coast university, was told he was no longer welcome because of his work supporting students who didn’t want to be drafted into the Vietnam War. I suppose I’ve never been able to keep my mouth shut either. While at Magdalene, I was hauled up in front of a very displeased Dean, Chris Greenwood (later to become a judge at the International Court of Justice), for being arrested on an anti-racism demonstration at the Cambridge Union.

Arik with a meerkat in the Kalahari

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of my unorthodox decisions, I have never regretted that for a moment! After I finished my PhD at the University of Haifa in Israel, we moved to Knoxville, Tennessee, where I took up a postdoctoral fellowship at the National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis. Contrary to its image as a cultural backwater, Knoxville is a vibrant university town, with a tremendous music scene: they say that ‘Knoxville is the cradle of country music, and Nashville is the grave’. But most appealing to me were the stunning surroundings of the Smoky Mountains, full of black bears and coyotes, and gorgeous hiking opportunities; that’s probably what I miss more than anything else in the flat Cambridge fens!

Arik at graduation

I research animal communication – what is it, and why does it evolve? And, of course, what everyone wants to know: what does it mean? To find out how to understand what for analysing immunological assays. This led animals are saying, I need to record them and me into the field of scientific computing, and observe them in the wild, and that has taken for the next twenty years in Israel I worked me from the snow-covered Rocky Mountains in robotics and aerospace industries as well, to the Kalahari Desert. You mostly leading teams of cannot spend so much scientists and programmers The world would carry time in intimate association in developing algorithms on just fine without any with wild animals for artificial intelligence and humans present. without appreciating computer vision. Eventually the tremendous richness I came to realise that in the of their lives, their corporate world, ‘Research’ relationships with each other, and their would always be the junior partner of evident personalities. It is simultaneously ‘Research and Development’, and certainly humbling and frightening to realise that the less valued than ‘Sales and Marketing’. I world would carry on just fine without any left industry to pursue a PhD in Ecology and humans present. Environmental Biology, and as with so many

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I seem to generate most interest through my other field of research: the nature of alien life, or astrobiology. I recently gave a very popular TEDx talk on the possible nature of alien communication, and what we can deduce from looking at animal communication here on Earth. Quite a lot, as it turns out; alien animals are likely to be more similar to animals on Earth than you might expect! I have written a popular science book on the topic, The Zoologist’s Guide to the Galaxy, which will be published by Penguin-Viking in spring 2020. Our five children are mostly grown up now. One is a journalist in Israel, three are at university in the UK (one at St Edmund’s College here in Cambridge), and one is sitting her A-Levels. Still, I can’t help feeling that my fifty tutorial pupils are keeping me almost as rewardingly busy as I was when I was raising my own teenagers. Moving to university is easy for only a few, and the pressures of Cambridge are easy for hardly any. The support and advice we provide, just having someone available to listen to you, makes a real difference to those who are maybe leaving home for the first time and entering such a daunting environment. Fortunately, Girton is absolutely one of the softest places to land, and the support we provide our students is second to none. I cannot think of a better place to pursue the academic calling.

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Ben Glassberg (b. 1994) Matriculated 2012 Since graduating in 2015, Ben Glassberg has established a reputation as one of Britain’s most exciting young conductors. In 2017 he won the Grand Prix at the 55th Besançon Competition as well as the Coup de Cœur prizes awarded by both orchestra and audience. In the same year, he made his debut with Glyndebourne Festival, one of the youngest conductors to appear in the history of the Festival. Renowned for his clear, expressive style, Glassberg has since appeared with the Orchestre National de Lyon, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and the St Petersburg Symphony Orchestra. He will shortly take up a three-year contract as Principal Conductor of the Glyndebourne Tour.

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Anne Wolf Margaret Smith Research Fellow in Politics and International Studies I was twelve or thirteen years old when I first visited Cambridge. I was on a bus trip to England with my German high-school class and we stopped in Cambridge for a couple of hours. I still remember a few events from that day – in particular, that we went punting and were told about all the famous people who studied here, including Prince Charles. When I recount this story, people sometimes ask if that’s when I first started dreaming about studying in Cambridge. The answer is ‘no’. For sure, Cambridge was a magical place to visit for a couple of hours, but we quickly moved on to our next destination. It didn’t awaken dreams in me simply because it felt like it had nothing to do with my life. So when, during my undergraduate studies in the Netherlands, two of my friends started talking about applying to Oxford and Cambridge, I initially thought this absurd. I even remember, to my shame, a conversation in which I suggested they shouldn’t waste their time applying. Luckily, they didn’t listen to me and, to my surprise, they were both accepted. As for me, I wanted to do an internship after my bachelor’s degree but, struggling to find a paid post, I decided to send in a couple of applications for graduate programmes, so I’d at least have a Plan B. One application went to a university in Berlin, which I expected would be accepted straight away. I was rejected. Having seen my friends apply to Oxbridge, I decided to try my luck in Cambridge. I got in. When I arrived in Cambridge a few months later I was completely lost. For a start, I didn’t know what a pigeonhole was, and as a result failed to pick up my post, including orientation letters. I was convinced that there must have been a terrible mistake and that it would only be a matter of time before people worked out I didn’t belong here. However, I soon realised that most of my new friends felt exactly the same, and this helped me get over the initial shock of being

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at Cambridge. I did the MPhil in Politics and International Relations, which lasted only nine months – far too little time to squeeze in all the necessary information. My favourite class was Professor George Joffé’s Politics of the Middle East and North Africa; it was related to my bachelor’s thesis, which I wrote on Turkey and the EU. There were several highlights during my master’s programme. First, I did in fact cross paths with Prince Charles – one day he was there, in front of me, visiting a college. In terms of formative educational experiences, two events were of critical importance: a study trip to Israel and Palestine, and the outbreak of the Arab Spring protests. I was enthralled by the collapse of dictatorships that had been described as among the world’s most stable. I followed the revolutionary wave closely and wrote about the protests in my master’s thesis. In the summer of 2011, I was offered the opportunity to work for a recently created news outlet in Tunisia, the birthplace of the Arab Spring, covering the democratic transformations of the country. I did not hesitate to accept. I arrived in Tunis in September 2011, one month before the country’s first free and fair elections. As part of my new job I interviewed candidates, many of whom later became MPs; some were even appointed government ministers.

Anne enjoying a break in the northern region of Bizerte, after an interview-intensive week

testimonies from Islamist activists and So, within a matter of a few weeks, I documenting their experiences of prison gained access to the centre stage of and exile. Tunisian politics. Over the next few years I also worked with several NGOs In October 2015 I moved back to and as a consultant in Tunisia. Initially, England, this time to Oxford, to start a many of my activities focused on the doctorate on Tunisia’s Islamist movement, Islamist movement. Ennahda, which Within a matter of a few Coming back to had been severely weeks, I gained access university was more repressed under to the centre stage of difficult than I the authoritarian Tunisian politics. expected. I no longer regime of Zine felt like a student; el-Abidine Ben Ali, most doctoral researchers go to the field but emerged in 2011 as the strongest in their second year, but I had already force in parliament. I began gathering

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lived in Tunisia and gathered data there for the previous four years. Also, I didn’t want to wait for another few years, until I had finished my thesis, before publishing my research on the Islamist movement. So, I made what was, in retrospect, a bit of a risky move: I decided to publish the information I had already gathered on Ennahda as a book, and to focus my PhD thesis on another topic in which I had become increasingly interested – the internal workings of the Ben Ali regime and the internecine factors behind his ousting in January 2011. By 2013, Tunisia’s postrevolutionary dynamics had changed, many Ben Ali-era figures had managed to make a comeback, and I wanted to understand why.

here have been absolutely fantastic; it really is the perfect environment in which to think and write, and socialise with friends. The research fellowship enabled me to push my work further, to publish extensively on authoritarian politics, and to work on my second book, which will focus on the Ben Ali regime. My hope is that this book will not only shed light on Tunisia’s previous dictatorship but also help us understand the authoritarian backlash many Arab Spring countries have witnessed over the past few years.

Girton’s Fellowship in the Arts is limited to three years and, in the event, I’ll be staying for only two. However, these years have been among the most important in my academic career. I’m immensely I was interviewed for Girton College’s Research grateful for the trust the College placed in my work Fellowship in the Arts in May 2017, just a and for the friendships I have found here. month before the publication The research I conducted at of my book Political Islam Girton has allowed me to secure The research fellowship in Tunisia: The History of another position, at All Souls enabled me to push Ennahda (London: Hurst; College in Oxford, where I’ll start my work further, to New York: OUP) and while in October. Though I’m looking publish extensively on I was still finalising my PhD forward to beginning a new authoritarian politics. thesis. I was thrilled when I chapter in my life, I’ll miss Girton was accepted. I immediately College tremendously and will loved the College, its friendly atmosphere and come back regularly. I cannot help but think that excellence in scholarship. The past two years Girton will always be the college of my heart.

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College Reports The Year

Alumni and Supporters This has been a truly momentous year for Girton. It has been a ‘foundational’ year in two important ways. First, we celebrated the historic founding of our College and raised more than a metaphorical glass in salutation to 150 years of world-class teaching and research of and by women – not forgetting the 40 years in which we have welcomed men! Second, we’ve laid deep and important foundations for the future of the College by developing our estate, enriching the diversity and inclusivity of our student body and teaching staff, and boosting the provision of scholarships and bursaries for a demographically changing cohort of undergraduates and graduates.

Opening ceremony of the Girton150 Festival

Six qualities can be said to define the Girton experience: diversity, excellence, fearlessness, inspiration, originality and resilience. These qualities have emerged in the course of our

history, and it is true to say they have found expression in this year of celebrations. As is well-known, Girton was founded on 16 October 1869 as the UK’s first residential college educating women to degree level. That it was founded for women was radical, but the key to Girton’s success lay in the establishment of a college with its own distinctive ethos and aims. However, it took years of campaigning and some notable defeats before, in 1948, Cambridge University finally yielded to the inevitable and allowed Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth (the third of Girton’s Visitors) to receive the first Cambridge degree granted to a woman. This can surely be seen as a triumph of fearlessness, resilience and excellence. Our inaugural Girton150 event, in New York in December 2018, was a symposium entitled ‘Empowering Excellence’. This included contributions from some stellar US alumni, as well as from the Heads of four of the ‘Seven Sisters’ (the seven liberal arts colleges in the north east of the US which, like Girton, were founded for women). A lively debate was followed by a drinks reception and the opportunity to catch up with old friends and forge new acquaintances. You can read an introduction by the Mistress with video footage from each of the two panel discussions at: https:// girton150.com/event/girton150-north-americacelebration/. Another of our defining qualities is diversity, and this year we celebrate alumni from the Asia-Pacific region – from Sarojini Naidu, poet and former President of India’s National Congress Party, to Madame Kwa Geok Choo, a founding member of the People’s Action Party, who helped craft the

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separation agreement between Singapore and the Malaysian Federation. The challenge of inclusive excellence grew with the expansion of UK universities. As Girton changed with the times, becoming fully co-educational from 1979, it remained at the cutting edge of widening participation, breaking down barriers to education for talented students regardless of their background, and without compromising University-wide standards of academic excellence. As a result, nearly 70% of UK undergraduates at Girton are from state schools, while one in five qualifies for a means-tested bursary; one in four identifies as black, Asian or minority ethnic; and over one in five reports a disability. Inclusive excellence is also about internationalisation: Girton today recruits on the global stage; we have more than 100 current students, as well as 660 alumni, from the Asia-Pacific region, and 727 alumni from North America. The Mistress and Fellows welcomed over 120 alumni and their guests in Singapore for a special weekend anniversary celebration from 12 to 14 April 2019, starting with a reception for alumni, sponsored by Yong Nang Tan (1980 Economics), in the Flower Dome at the spectacular Gardens by the Bay. This was followed the next day by a symposium, ‘Pathways to Excellence’, in Singapore’s Old Parliament, now the Arts House. Interwoven with performances by the College Choir, this event featured lectures and panel discussions from well-known alumni and others on topics such as the collegiate university, global health and human rights. More information can be found here: https://girton150.com/event/ asia-alumni-weekend/.

In Singapore, the Mistress and Fellows were also delighted to welcome alumni and their guests at a reception and dinner hosted by the British High Commissioner, Mr Scott Wightman, at his private residence, Eden Hall. The keynote speaker at this event was Hwee Hua Lim (1978 Engineering), the first woman in the Singapore cabinet, and Girton College Choir again performed for our guests. Many thanks are due to alumni: Karen Fawcett (1982 Economics) who spoke at the alumni reception and hosted an event for the Choir at her wonderful home; Nelson Loh (2000 Economics) and Terence Loh who generously sponsored the Choir’s trip to Singapore; and the members of the Girton Hong Kong Committee including Chadwick Mok (1984 Engineering), Franklin Heng (1985 Management Studies) and Kevin Chan (1986 Engineering), who spearheaded fundraising for two graduate scholarships. Discussions are under way on funding for 150th-anniversary Singapore scholarships.

At the Singapore High Commission. From left to right: Peter Abrahams, Kai Yin Lo, Martin Ennis, Hwee Hua Lim, Terence Loh, Jeremy West, Simone Maghenzani

Our graduates and Research Fellows undertake world-leading research across most subjects and especially across different disciplines; in this we are successfully implementing our final two Girtonian qualities, originality and inspiration.

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Girton is a beacon of inclusiveness in Cambridge University, welcoming under-represented social and geographical groups and offering all its students the experience ‘of being taught by the best minds in your field, and having access to the knowledge of renowned academics as supervisors’ (Professor Marilyn Strathern FBA, Mistress 1998–2009). The small-group teaching that is a hallmark of a Cambridge education is a College responsibility. No fewer than ten Girton Fellows have won the coveted Pilkington Prize for University teaching excellence in recent years. All our anniversary events, including the four regional events held to date – in Birmingham, Leeds, Edinburgh and Dublin – have showcased leading research from our academics and alumni. See: https://girton150.com/event/regional-alumni-event. Two regional events remain – London on 28 November featuring a concert at Gray’s Inn and an address from our Visitor, Lady Hale, and our Welsh event. In addition to those mentioned above, I would like to extend my thanks to the very many alumni who spoke at 150th-anniversary events, including the Girton150 Festival, and to those who hosted other events. These include: Guy O’Keefe (1990 Natural Sciences) and his team, who hosted the 10th-anniversary Law and Finance networking event; Mark Hanson (1985 History), who hosted the Class Giving reception at Lord’s Cricket Ground; Elizabeth Werry (1955 Music), who once again hosted her popular buffet lunch; and Dr Sean Fitzgerald, Supernumerary Fellow, who hosted a small dinner at the Royal Institution, where he is Director. We are also very grateful for the excellent support of members of the Campaign Board, the Roll of Alumni Committee and other volunteers, especially those who made the Festival possible. A Great Campaign continues apace; we aim to raise £50 million from a mix of donations and legacy pledges by June 2022 to help secure the

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financial future of the College. By the end of June 2019, almost £22 million (out of a target of £25 million) had been raised from donations and over £14 million in legacy pledges. Of our campaign priorities, three quarters of the target of 20 undergraduate bursaries, including the Jean Lindsay Bursary, have been endowed, and a ninth fellowship has been funded; this one, in Physical Sciences, is named after Dr Christine McKie. Two of our target of five graduate scholarships have already been funded, and considerable progress has been made towards funding two more. The Mistress, Fellows and Scholars were also delighted that the Margaret Tyler Research Fellowship in Geography was established in memory of Margaret Tyler (1953 Geography) following a generous benefaction by her husband. We have been involved in organising more than fifty separate events during the 150th Anniversary, and the College has been able to welcome back nearly 2,000 alumni and supporters from across the world. The Girton150 Festival (see page 48) has been a highlight, offering over eighty events over the weekend of 28–30 June. Six qualities: diversity, excellence, fearlessness, inspiration, originality and resilience. Together they describe the Girton experience for the undergraduates and graduates who come here to take their place as part of our family and part of our continuing history. This year of celebrations has rightly recognised those who came before us, those who fought so hard and with such resilience to make this College a unique community of learning. It has also been a year of consolidation of those crucial foundational principles. We now look forward to a future in which Girton asserts its rightful place at the heart of the University of Cambridge. Deborah Easlick, Development Director

Admissions and Widening Participation In October 2018 we welcomed 141 new undergraduate students to Girton, 51% of whom are studying a science subject and 50% of whom are female; of the Home students, 71% are from maintained schools. We were also joined by two Erasmus exchange students and one University of Columbia Junior Year Abroad student. Forty-one (29%) of our new students came to us through the Winter Pool and seventeen (12%) through the Summer Pool. Our regular outreach activities continued during the year, very ably and enthusiastically run by our Schools Liaison Officers Annie Hoyle (replacing Frances Ballaster Harriss whom we were sad to lose in September 2018) and Anna McGlinchey. The number of schools visited by members of the Admissions Team continues to grow; this year a total audience of more than 7,000 young people, ranging from those starting secondary school in Year 7 to sixth-formers in Years 12/13, attended our workshops or presentations, either at Girton or in their own schools. This is the third year of our Girton Pathways to Higher Education scheme, which involves working closely with twelve schools, ten in the West Midlands and two in Cambridgeshire; the scheme begins with an ‘aspirations talk’ to all of Year 7 and provides further support through to the point where applications

to university are submitted. Through the efforts of Anna McGlinchey it has continued to go from strength to strength with the first cohorts at the pilot schools now in Year 9; high attainers in this cohort were invited to write a mini personal statement, with Girton-branded prizes awarded for the best four. Our HE+ scheme in the Stourbridge/Dudley area and our Camden HE scheme have attracted around four hundred Year 12 students; the students attend application and interview presentations in their own locality and master-classes at Girton. We ran three Taster Days for GCSE students, in Modern Languages, Geography, and Theology, Religion and Philosophy of Religion. We also took part in four Cambridge Colleges Physics Experience Days and hosted a College Open Day in September and a Maths Open Day in May; the College was open in July during the University Open Days. As always, we thank the Head of Tutorial and Admissions, Angela Stratford, and her staff for everything they have done throughout the year and for the energy, enthusiasm and efficiency with which they work. Stuart Davis and Julia Riley, Admissions Tutors

Bursaries and Grants Bursaries Twenty holders of Emily Davies Bursaries (worth up to £3,500 per year) were in residence in 2018–19. The subjects read by the bursary-holders were: Biological Sciences; Chemical Engineering; Engineering; English; Geography; History and Politics; Human, Social and Political Sciences; Land Economy; Law; Mathematics; Modern and Medieval Languages; Philosophy; and Veterinary Medicine.

Three Margaret Barton Bursaries for Medicine were held by students in residence in 2018–19, and one Paresh Patel Bursary was awarded to a student reading Biological Sciences. Three new bursaries were awarded for the first time this year, made possible by generous alumni donations: the Class of 1958 Bursary, the Class of 1985 Bursary and the Elma Wyatt Bursary were awarded to students reading Modern and Medieval Languages, Biological Sciences and Clinical Medicine respectively. All seven awards are worth up to £3,500 per year.

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Seventy-seven Cambridge Bursaries (worth up to £3,500 per year) were given to Girton undergraduates in 2018–19. There were seven holders of Ellen McArthur Bursaries (worth £1,000 in the first year and £1,500 in subsequent years) in residence in 2018–19, all reading either History and Politics or Human, Social and Political Sciences. Three Jean Lindsay Memorial Bursaries for History (worth £800) and one Wilson Bursary for Classics (worth £500) were also held by students in residence. To celebrate the College’s 150th Anniversary, five Sybil Lewis Bursaries (worth £2,500 in total) were awarded in 2018–19 to students reading: Geography; History; Human, Social and Political Sciences; Mathematics; and Psychological and Behavioural Sciences. Six Rose Awards (totalling £8,500) were made to non-first-year students who were in receipt of a full Cambridge Bursary and who demonstrated the intention to benefit society and serve the community in a practical way. The inaugural Girton Pioneer Award (worth £500), which was established in 2018 by a donation from the 2018 Spring Ball Committee, was awarded to three students who had contributed to College life through participation in student societies, forums or welfare initiatives.

Grants Twenty-two undergraduate students received hardship grants from the Buss Fund totalling £3,416. Eleven graduate students received grants amounting to £2,473 from the Pillman Hardship Fund. Grants for academic purposes totalling £8,742 were made from the Student Academic Resources Fund to thirty-eight undergraduates. Twenty-five graduate students received grants amounting to £4,490 from the Pillman Academic Fund. Seven grants totalling £3,500 were made from the Harry Barkley Fund to Clinical Medical students undertaking elective periods of training, and four students reading Physical Sciences received grants totalling £950 from the Mary Beatrice Thomas Fund. We remain extremely grateful to alumni for their generous financial support which allows students not only to take up their place at Girton, but also to participate in all that a Cambridge education has to offer. Angela Stratford, Head of Tutorial and Admissions Office

Postgraduate Affairs Girton’s 2018–2019 postgraduate intake consisted of 149 new students. This figure included three Girton undergraduates who progressed to postgraduate studies. In addition, there were four postgraduate students who went on to higher degrees such as the PhD. We also welcomed 18 Vets and Medics as they moved on to clinical studies. With this combination of new postgraduates and students returning to study, we had an overall total of 153 (excluding the Vets and

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Medics) for the 2018–2019 cohort. The number of new graduates this year meant we exceeded our target figure. The 149 new postgraduates were made up of 86 men and 63 women. Of these, 36 were PhD students, 93 were studying for a Master’s course and the rest were on other one-year courses; 76 were Overseas students and 73 Home/EU.

The statistics for either full or part funding for those students new to Cambridge and undergraduates moving to new graduate study give a useful indication of the sources of available funding: Research body / Department Public body Gates College External bodies (Business / Government) Loans Self-funding

22 12 2 4 8 31 70

The total number of Girton postgraduates now stands at 217; this represents a truly international community. We are happy to have students from the following countries: Australia, Austria, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, China, China (Taiwan), Cyprus, Czech Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, India, Iran, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Korea, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Pakistan, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, Russian Federation, Singapore, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Thailand, Turkey, UK, USA, Venezuela, Vietnam and Yemen. Swirles Court Following a successful first year of operation, Swirles Court goes from strength to strength. The graduate community continues to develop new ways of using the building and exploring its potential as a social, work and meeting space. Occupancy levels have increased in line with the increase in postgraduate numbers. The themed ’pop-up’ suppers offered by Catering remain very popular, and the facilities at Swirles Court are now being factored into Girton’s Open Day provision. Postgraduate student achievements Girton postgraduate students are conducting research on a wide range of fascinating and socially relevant topics, and the termly Pecha Kucha talks give a good glimpse of the breadth and depth of the research undertaken. Jennifer Jia, our MCR President, was

part of a successful business team at the Royal Academy of Engineering’s Global Grand Challenge Summit; the team will compete against USA and China in September. PhD student Richard Clements has been awarded a research fellowship at the Institute for Global Law and Policy at Harvard Law School. Chloe Sariego will be embarking on a five-year fullyfunded PhD studentship in Sociology at Yale University. Many of the postgraduates took an active part in the Girton150 celebrations, and the MCR President and Vice-President organised a group of volunteers for the festival. Plans continue for the postgraduate Open Day, which is due to take place on Friday 1 November. Graduate Administrator Stephanie Farzad and Adrian Cosgrove have moved on to new ventures; as a result, we have a new member of the Graduate Adminstration team and are happy to welcome back Jenny Griffiths. Jenny is working part-time as Graduate Administrator, and Paula Harper has joined the team to assist with all aspects of postgraduate administration. Graduate Tutors The four Graduate Tutors – Dr Liliana Janik, Dr Sophia Shellard, Dr James Riley and Dr Hilary Marlow – uphold our strong tradition of graduate support, offering assistance to graduate students on personal, academic and financial matters. They meet their graduate students individually and socially throughout the year and enjoy their company at Formal Hall each week. Liliana Janik is Assistant Director in Research in Archaeology and Director of Studies for Girton, Sophia Shellard is College Lecturer in Medical Sciences, James Riley is Lecturer and Director of Studies in English with research specialisms in modern and contemporary literature, and Hilary Marlow is Director of Studies for Theology and teaches in the Faculty of Divinity. Liliana Janik, Sophia Shellard, James Riley and Hilary Marlow, Graduate Tutors

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Library The year 2018–2019 opened with what will doubtless become an annual tradition: we ran fourteen induction tours for students on the College’s summer programmes who, for the first time, were allowed to use the Library. It ended with a one-off, the Festival Weekend that marked the 150th anniversary of Girton’s foundation. In between those events we welcomed Gosia Drozdowska, who joined us as a Library Assistant. Gosia is responsible for the borrowing desk and for keeping track of fines and charges. She also processes new acquisitions, including this year the final items from Sara Delamont’s collection of historical material on women. This has been a substantial donation made over several years, together with money to catalogue it, and we are very grateful to Professor Delamont for her thoughtfulness towards her alma mater. Libraries are increasingly seeking ways to support students’ well-being as well as their studies. The Library works closely with the College’s Thrive programme, hosting, among other things, joint ‘dog and doughnut’ events in Easter Term. Two Fellows have family pets with training as therapy dogs; they made regular visits throughout the year, particularly in Easter Term. Providing doughnuts turned out to be an irresistible bonus – 50 doughnuts can disappear in just 15 minutes! Unusually, the Library this year loaned a copy of Emily Davies’s The Higher Education of Women from the special collections to the British Schools’ Museum in Hitchin for their exhibition, ‘First threads: preparing girls for life?’ While we would not normally lend items from the special collections, the links with Hitchin in this anniversary year were too much to resist. The Festival Weekend was the endpoint of the year, although not of the 150th anniversary celebrations. We are particularly proud of the Archivist, Hannah Westall, who has been heavily involved over the last 18 months in preparations for the various anniversary events, much of that work taking place

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The McMorran Library lit for the Saturday evening of the Girton150 Festival Weekend, June 2019

behind the scenes and in collaboration with historian Dr Hazel Mills. The Library remained an oasis of calm during the Festival itself. We enjoyed the opportunity to show so many of you the Archivist’s one-off exhibition – this used the range of material in the Archive to showcase the history of the College – and to hear your reminiscences of the Library. Here’s to the next 150 years! Jenny Blackhurst, Librarian

Archive The College’s 150th anniversary has dominated work in the Archive this year. As well as helping other departments with their 2019 projects and events, I have worked closely with Dr Hazel Mills (Fellow; 1998), the College Historian, to research and produce four exhibition banners which examine the College’s early years, capturing the truly remarkable history of the foundation, the Hitchin years and the early pioneers.

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What was the Reception Room used for? Which entrance/s do you remember using to go into the Library?

So I would like to take this opportunity to request your help to fill these gaps and enable us to update the tour booklet. When you were at Girton:

I would like to express my gratitude to Tilda Watson, our Archives Assistant, who helped with the day-to-day running of the Archive. She has now left, after two and a half years with us, to take up a new role as Archivist of St Catharine’s College, alongside her post as Archivist at Magdalene College; we wish her well. Finally, I would like to thank Hilary Goy (Corke 1968), Cherry Hopkins (Busbridge 1959) and Anne Cobby (1971) who continue to volunteer in the Archive.

I would like to thank Joan Bullock-Anderson, our Consultant Cataloguer, who helped catalogue many new accessions during the year, as well as working on longer-term cataloguing projects. We had a nice Hazel and I also array of new produced a accessions, booklet to guide including people on a tour additions of the College to existing buildings. The collections such research was as the personal fascinating, and papers of Helen our visit to the Grant (Fellow; archive of the 1954), together Royal Institute with material of Architects, augmenting which holds our record many of the early Detail from a plan by Alfred Waterhouse showing the kitchen and service rooms, 1872 (Archive reference: of the Girton College plans, GCAR 2/3a/1/6/1/2). It is hard to trace precisely the usage of this area, now the Social Hub, between 1901 experience. The was enlightening. and 1979 latter includes There are, photographs, a student scrapbook and a silver hockey brooch however, gaps in the record and the use of certain areas in from the 1930s. College is not always clearly documented.

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What was the original kitchen area (now the Social Hub café) used for? It ceased to be the kitchen in 1901, and in 1979 it became the JCR. Between these dates we have references to it being used as a housekeeper’s office, a buttery and a games room but no accompanying dates. Was there a bar and, if so, where was it?

Hannah Westall, Archivist and Curator

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Culture and Heritage Celebrating the College’s cultural and heritage collections has been a matter of great pride in the year of the 150th anniversary. During the September 2018 alumni weekend we welcomed the following speakers: Dr Suzanne Reynolds, Assistant Keeper of Manuscripts and Printed Books at the Fitzwilliam Museum, for the Library talk; Dr Nicholas Burnett, Chief Conservator at Museum Conservation Services at the Imperial War Museum, Duxford, for the Lawrence Room talk; and Professor Dame Gillian Beer (Research Fellow; 1965; Honorary Fellow) for the People’s Portraits reception. The People’s Portraits reception also saw the unveiling of The Painting Analyst: Portrait of Libby Sheldon by Emma Wesley. The celebrations continued with the publication of The Lawrence Room at Girton College, University of Cambridge. This book looks at some of the Lawrence Room treasures, tracing how the museum developed within the College. The 150th Anniversary Weekend truly showcased the College’s collections and its involvement with the arts. Simeon Barclay, our 2018–2019 Artist in Residence, opened his studio and gave a talk; Ingrid Pollard, Daphne Todd, Paul de Monchaux and Martin Rowson formed a discussion panel to explore aspects of portraiture; Professor Dame Marilyn Strathern (Evans 1960), Dr Dorothy Thompson (Walbank 1958) and Frances Gandy (Fellow; 1987) spoke about their chapters in the new Lawrence Room book; and there were exhibitions based on material from the Archive, Library and Special Collections. We also welcomed artist David Caldwell, who unveiled a further addition to the People’s Portraits exhibition, The Boxer.

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Behind the scenes, we continue our work on cataloguing, displaying, conserving and making our collections available to the public. We were pleased to participate in the Art UK Sculpture Project, which aims to make the nation’s sculpture collections available on the Art UK website; see https://artuk.org/. We hope that the College’s sculpture collection will be online soon. We rehung part of the People’s Portraits exhibition, moving 26 portraits to Cloister corridor and to the area in and around the café in the new Social Hub; this has made the collection a more integral part of the College environment. Conservation has been carried out on various items, including the seventeenth-century wooden figure of the Good Shepherd of the South German School. The figure, listed in College catalogues (probably incorrectly) as St John the Baptist, was given in memory of Eileen Power (Teaching Staff; 1913). There have been some new donations. We were particularly pleased to receive a replica of the Cambridge Alumnae Banner, made as a gift to the College by Annabel O’Docherty (1981), with financial support from her Girtonian friends. The original banner, housed at Newnham College, was carried by members of both Colleges in the 1908 London suffrage procession. Our replica banner was carried with pride at the head of a procession of schoolchildren round the College grounds during the Anniversary Weekend, linking the past, present and future through our heritage collections. Hannah Westall, Archivist and Curator Seventeenth-century wooden figure of the Good Shepherd (Archive reference: GCAR 9/3/5/12pt)

Music Last year’s Music report took its lead from the magazine’s overall theme, Girton’s estate, and it seems fitting now to reflect on this year’s special focus, Girton’s people. In a sense, this is what happens every year – after all, no meaningful account of Music at Girton could be produced without listing those who perform here, week in, week out. However, the sheer range of people involved during our 150th anniversary year encourages me to dwell on music-making across several generations of Girtonians. The two main concerts of the Girton150 Festival, which ran from 28 to 30 June 2019, were an Early Music Concert and a Victorian Parlour Concert. The former brought together for the first but not, we hope, the last time, all six members of Girton’s ‘Music staff’: myself (Director of Music), Gareth Wilson (Director of Chapel Music), Margaret Faultless (Bye-Fellow), together with Andrew Kennedy, Nicholas Mulroy and Jeremy West (Musicians in Residence). Given the instruments available to us – violin, cornett, organ, harpsichord, plus two tenor voices – a focus on the Renaissance and Baroque was inevitable. Together, we performed repertoire by Schütz and Monteverdi; in smaller combinations we also performed a duet by Tomkins, realised on chamber organ, and a Handel violin sonata, as well as arias, songs, duets and other miniatures by J S Bach, Purcell and Jarzębski. If the purpose of the Early Music Concert was, in part, to showcase the international-level talent available among senior members, the Victorian Parlour Concert was all about highlighting inter-generational collaboration. Maggie Faultless, Nick Mulroy and I appeared again, joined on this occasion by Charbel Mattar, who for some years has served as the College’s principal singing teacher, fitting his teaching around professional engagements at the Royal Opera House. Alumni were represented by John Longstaff (1979), who was Girton’s first male Organ Scholar and who has been a faithful supporter of Girton music for decades. Two Music students completed the cast list: Milly Atkinson, who graduated hours before the concert, and Rachel Hill. We presented songs, partsongs, duets

Early Music Concert. From left to right: Martin Ennis, Margaret Faultless, Jeremy West, Gareth Wilson, Nicholas Mulroy, Andrew Kennedy

and ensemble pieces from roughly the second half of the nineteenth century – in other words, repertoire similar to that heard in early concert programmes at the College. It is hard to list within a few lines all the other music that was heard during the Girton150 Anniversary Weekend. However, I must pick out two performers. Ben Comeau (2011), another former Organ Scholar whose meteoric progress has been charted several times in these pages, returned to Girton to perform a dazzling programme of his own jazz arrangements. The most recent generation of Girtonians was represented by Hannah Samuel, a firstyear Law student, who gave a reprise of her barnstorming performance of ‘Don’t Rain on My Parade’, heard only a week or two earlier at the May Week Concert. The May Week Concert itself was a further demonstration of the unusual degree to which senior and junior members combine forces in music-making at Girton. The crossgenerational theme was present in the opening items – two anniversary commissions for the Chapel Choir written by Rhiannon Randle (2011) and Milly Atkinson, both settings of texts by our Chaplain, Malcolm Guite. Jeremy West,

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Victorian Parlour Concert. From left to right: Milly Atkinson, Rachel Hill, Nicholas Mulroy, Charbel Mattar

Gareth Wilson and I were involved, in one way or another, with over half the items on the programme. However, some of the most striking performances were given by students alone. Andrea Seaton, who has devoted much of her spare time at Girton to fostering orchestral music, directed a spirited rendition of the ‘Habañera’ and ‘Les Toréadors’ from Bizet’s Carmen; Rachel Hill demonstrated the professionalism with which Girton’s Close Harmony Group performs these days; and the three first-year Music students (Lloyd Hampton, Louie McIver and Madeleine Morris) were joined by Ruari Paterson-Achenbach, who graduated this summer with a starred First, and James Mitchell, Senior Organ Scholar and another First-class student, for a scintillating performance of Mike Mower’s Sonata Latino. The year’s music programme began back in September 2018 with the Concert for the Roll, given this year by Marianne Schönle (2014), who offered stylish performances of neglected masterpieces by Clementi, Szymanowski and Rachmaninov. Our annual single-composer concert, as noted elsewhere, was devoted this year to Purcell. As usual, the Sunday afternoon concert series provided opportunities for both students and visiting performers. One of the most memorable recitals was given by the Amaranth Trio from Romania – memorable partly because the piano they were to have used had been taken into

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storage by mistake resulting in a last-minute change of venue, partly because of their riveting programme, which mixed standard repertoire with new compositions by Romanian and Chilean composers (several of whom were present). The Goldenberg Duo, a brother-and-sister combination from the mid-west of the United States, performed a popular programme of works for violin and piano. Two visiting organists gave recitals in the course of the year: in Michaelmas Term Marilyn Harper (Flemming 1974), another former Organ Scholar, presented a recital of works for Remembrance Sunday, Advent and Christmas by Buxtehude, while David Bendix Nielsen, a prize-winning Danish/Hungarian organist, visited us in Easter Term to perform pieces by, among others, Bach and Franck. The final Sunday recital of the year featured another prize-winner, Julia Wallin, who played an enchanting programme based round virtually unknown Finnish pieces. In the course of the year we also enjoyed return visits from Junior Prime Brass and Andrew Kennedy; the latter performed two of the most magnificent collections of nineteenth-century song (Schumann’s Op. 39 Liederkreis and Brahms’s Op. 32) accompanied by the Director of Music. Martin Ennis, Austin and Hope Pilkington Fellow in Music, and Director of Music

The Music report, like others, is almost always retrospective. However, Girton’s 150th anniversary and this year’s focus on people encourage me to signal two events planned for the coming months: •

To mark no fewer than four anniversaries – the 150th anniversary of the founding of the College, the 100th anniversary of Women in Law, the 40th anniversary of the admission of men, and the 20th anniversary of the founding of the London Girton Association Music Award – we shall be holding a special concert in Gray’s Inn, London, on the evening of Thursday 21 November 2019. Six former holders of the LGA award – Mateusz Borowiak (2006), Ben Comeau (2011), Marc Finer (2001), Chris Hedges (2015), Marianne Schönle (2014) and Charlie Siem (2005) – will perform.

concert. Details can be found on the anniversary website: girton150.com/events/. •

The anniversary season continues into 2020 with a Music Reunion on Sunday 23 February. All Music students and all those who have been involved with the Music Society or the Choir are invited to attend. Details can once again be found on the anniversary website: girton150.com/events/. Please get in touch if you were involved in the Music Society or the Choir; our records are incomplete, and we are keen for as many alumni as possible to receive a personal invitation.

In addition, a number of special anniversary concerts will be held in the course of the coming academic year, many in conjunction with other events. Please consult the College website for further details.

Tickets are £35 per person, and the ticket price includes a reception with drinks and bowl food plus admission to the

Choir Returning from last summer’s tour of Israel and Palestine to a five-star review in Choir and Organ for our Cardoso CD, released in March 2018, was an encouraging way to start the academic year. The tour had been life-changing for many: the impact of the political climate there upon the residents we met struck a deep chord among the Girton choir-members, leading many of them to research the situation further. The new intake of choristers and new assistant organist, Wayne Weaver, were given only a couple of weeks to find their feet before being whisked off to a residency at Salisbury Cathedral. Soon afterwards, we were joining forces with Bye-Fellow

Maggie Faultless and Director of Music Martin Ennis in Girton’s annual single-composer concert, with Henry Purcell heading the bill this year. In January we enjoyed two joint services: St John’s Voices joined us for compline at Girton, closely followed by a visit to Clare College for evensong with Clare Choir. Shortly before a residency at St George’s Chapel, Windsor, where alumna Lucy Morrell (2015) is Organ Scholar, our current Senior Organ Scholar, James Mitchell, received the happy news that he had passed his ARCO (Associate of the Royal College of Organists)

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Girton College Chapel Choir in the Chiesa di San Bernardino, Crema

exams. This was shortly followed by the release of the choir’s latest CD, featuring music by Palestrina and his contemporary, Ingegneri. The CD was recorded immediately after our trip to the Holy Land. It features Musician in Residence Jeremy West and students of historic brass from the Guildhall School and Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, and we were delighted to be joined by the same group for our annual service for the supporters of the choir, held at the end of Lent Term. There was therefore much to celebrate in advance of our hotly anticipated tour to Singapore in April as part of Girton’s 150th anniversary celebrations. The choir was delighted to sing at the Gardens by the Bay, the Arts House, and the residence of the British High Commissioner (and scarcely less delighted by the availability of low-cost and often free food!). After joining in the Palm Sunday service at St Andrew’s Cathedral,

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we headed home to participate in a Cambridge Brahms Festival concert in Queens’ College Chapel with Queens’ Choir. We also benefited this term from no fewer than three brand new pieces written for Girton choir; these were composed by alumna Rhiannon Randle (2011) and current Music students Milly Atkinson and Louie McIver. For the third year in a row, we sang our final compline service of Easter Term in Westcott House’s beautiful chapel. We then prepared for the May Week Concert, where the music sung by the choir took an Italianate turn in advance of our summer tour to Milan and surrounding area. We were proud to be invited to sing alongside Selwyn College Choir at the Senate House for this year’s Honorary Degree Congregation, and we look forward to participating in the Girton150 Festival. Gareth Wilson, Director of Chapel Music

Chapel This has been a year of celebration for the College as we entered the year of our 150th anniversary. In Chapel, the theme for Michaelmas Term was ‘Prayer: The Church’s Banquet’. This is the opening phrase of George Herbert’s beautiful poem Prayer, and over the term we took some of the poem’s other rich phrases – ‘the heart in pilgrimage’, ‘heaven in ordinary’, ‘something understood’ – and reflected on them in words and music. A late Easter meant that our Lent Term had as much of Epiphany in it as it had Lent, so we made our theme ‘To Epiphany and Beyond’. We considered not just the Epiphany itself but also the many moments of epiphany in the gospels; we took time, too, to reflect on such moments of personal epiphany as we had experienced. By the time we came back for the Easter Term, the whole College was straining towards our special anniversary weekend and, as might be expected, Chapel was fully involved. For us, the party started early with our thanksgiving for the year, at which I had the thrill of hearing graduand Milly Atkinson’s fine setting of one of my poems; earlier, I had been privileged to hear the premiere of a new piece, also setting my verse, by alumna Rhiannon Randle (2011).

The Chaplain takes to the stage at the Girton150 Festival

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Then we were into May Week and, beyond that, our packed graduation service. In a normal year that would have been us finished for the term, but this year graduation fell on the Friday of the Anniversary Weekend, and we had two more services to help Girton celebrate: a quiet but well attended communion service early on the Sunday morning and, later that morning, a full choral festival service. The choir, who were preparing to set off on tour later that very day, lifted the hearts and minds of all who thronged the Chapel. Andrea Skevington (1981), who has published a fine book

on the ‘I AM’ sayings of Jesus, gave us a great sermon on ‘I am the Vine’ in which she reflected on her own time at Girton as an experience of being rooted, nurtured, and encouraged to flourish. To deepen roots, to nurture, and to encourage, that’s not a bad summary of our vocation, both as a Chapel and as a College! Malcolm Guite, Chaplain

Fellows’ Research Evenings This year saw no fewer than seven Fellows’ Research Evenings, with nine presentations in all. To start off the year, Christina Koning (1972) presented on ‘Turning the Past into Fiction: Researching the Blind Detective Series’, referring in particular to her new novel End of Term, set in a Cambridge women’s college in 1935 (see also p. 26). Then, in a reprise of last year’s highly successful joint events with Girton PhD students, Dr Shona Wilson Stark (Official Fellow in Law) spoke on ‘Individuality and Consistency in Public Law’, while Thomas Bailey (PhD student in History) talked about his work on ‘Ministering to the Mad: The Church Missionary Society and Colonial Kenya’s “Great Confinement”, 1952–1960’. Lent Term saw a particularly busy schedule. Simeon Barclay (Artist in Residence) started the term with a presentation on his work, highlighting some of the experiences and images that inform his art. In March, the second joint event of the year was held: Saikat Subhra Ghosh (PhD student in Engineering) spoke about his research on hybrid electric cars, and Professor Grevel Lindop (Mary Amelia Cummings Harvey Visiting Fellow Commoner) read poems inspired by his time at Girton as well as some of his best-known work. Later in the

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term, Dr Thomas Roulet (Official Fellow in Economic Sociology and Management, and Senior Lecturer in Organisation Theory at the Judge Business School) talked about his research into the surprisingly positive outcomes that can follow negative social phenomena such as stigma and disapproval. At the end of April, Professor Rachel Ong gave a talk on ‘The Edges of Home Ownership: Evidence from Australia and the UK’. Professor Ong, who works at the School of Economics, Finance and Property at Curtin University, Perth (Australia), came to Girton to take up a Helen Cam Visiting Fellowship. In June, Dr Anne Wolf (Margaret Smith Research Fellow in Politics and International Studies) used the last Research Evening of the year to cast new light on the ousting of President Ben Ali of Tunisia in January 2011 (see also p. 70). With new arrivals, some departures and a stream of visitors, the Fellows’ Research Evenings continue to epitomise the commitment to research excellence that moves Girton forward. Sean Collins, Research Fellow in Material Sciences and Metallurgy

Hail and Farewell In this, our 150th anniversary year, it has been a pleasure and privilege to welcome five new Honorary Fellows to Girton. All five are Old Girtonians, and they have been elected for their outstanding contributions to academic or public life. In order of admission they are: Her Imperial Highness, Hisako, the Princess Takamado of Japan; the distinguished physicist Professor Dame Pratibha Gai; the writer, broadcaster and cofounder of the Women’s Equality Party, Sandi Toksvig, OBE; the UK’s Ambassador to the United Nations, Her Excellency Dame Karen Pierce; and the eminent pathologist Dr Suzy Lishman, CBE. During the year Dr Andy Irvine, Bye-Fellow and Lecturer in Physics, was elected to an Official Fellowship; two other ByeFellows, Dr Aaron Hornkohl and Dr Arik Kershenbaum, also became Official Fellows on taking up tutorial appointments. We offer congratulations to College Teaching Officers Dr Ben Griffin, who has secured a permanent appointment in the History Faculty, Dr Kamiar Mohaddes, who takes up a Senior Lectureship in the Judge Business School, and Drs Shona Stark and Stelios Tofaris, who have accepted University Lectureships in the Law Faculty. They will all retain their Official Fellowships and lectureships at Girton. Dr Linda Layne joined us as Bye-Fellow and Director of Studies in Social Anthropology, while in December Dr Sinéad Moylett succeeded Dr Carys Brown as Bye-Fellow in Study Skills, an essential part of our Thrive programme. Just as the academic year ended, we welcomed Dr Dennis Grube as our new Official Fellow for Postdoctoral Affairs; this appointment is part of our commitment to enhancing provision for earlycareer researchers at Girton and to developing links across the University postdoctoral community more widely. New to the Fellowship from this autumn will be Official Fellow Dr Alex Thom (Chemistry) and three Research Fellows: Dr Anna Nickerson (Katherine Jex-Blake Research Fellow in English), Dr David Arvidsson-Shukur (Sarah Woodhead

Research Fellow in Physics) and Dr Lisa-Maria Needham (Tucker-Price Research Fellow in Chemistry). We will also be joined by Bye-Fellow Mark Smith, who will enhance the Thrive programme through a series of sessions that prepare our students for their transition to the world of work. Bursarelect James Anderson joins us in October as a member of the SCR, prior to taking up office in January 2020. We look forward to welcoming them all. We were profoundly saddened by the loss during the year of Baroness Warnock, former Mistress, and Baroness Hollis, as well as our great friend and colleague Dr Carlo Acerini. Among those leaving at the end of this year is Official Fellow Dr Anna Barford, whose contract as College Lecturer and Director of Studies in Geography came to an end; we wish her well in her new post as a Senior Research Associate at the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership. We also said goodbye to Dr Frisbee Sheffield, Bye-Fellow and Director of Studies in Philosophy, who will be taking up an Official Fellowship at Downing College, to Dr Arnold Hunt, Official Fellow in History, and to Dr Irit Katz, Bye-Fellow and Director of Studies in Architecture, who is leaving to become a Lecturer at the Sheffield School of Architecture. Congratulations also go to Margaret Smith Research Fellow in Politics, Dr Anne Wolf, who is moving on to a five-year research fellowship at All Souls College, Oxford. Last but not least, Dr Chris Hadley, who has been Bye-Fellow and Director of Studies in Computer Science for almost 25 years, has retired. To all of them we send our warmest thanks for their contributions over the years to the teaching and communal life of the College and our best wishes for their future plans. This year we welcomed a number of new faces to the College staff, many of whom were immediately thrown into the task of providing support for our 150th-anniversary activities. These included Rachael Humphrey as College Office Administrator; Dragos Reit as Deputy House Services Manager; Front-of-House Team Leaders Oskars Akulis and

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Kelly Blyth Smith and Operators Jane Loom and William Stander; Lodge Porters Bernie Blond, Gemma Brighten, Paul Harris and Wayne Newton; in Catering, Chef de Partie Pater Fazekas, Commis Chef Odean Davids, Bar Supervisor July Drawwater-Bell, Bar/Coffeeshop Supervisor Kuba Kubiszyn, and Kitchen Porters Jake Carter and Francisco Morales; and Apprentices Jenny Hewitt (painting and decorating) and Toby Howe (IT). Jenny Griffiths rejoined us as Graduate Administrator; Paula Harper arrived as Admissions and Tutorial Administrative Assistant; and Annie Hoyle as Schools Liaison Officer. Gosia Drozdowska is our new Library Assistant. Following the restructuring of our Human Resources team, Sally Moore arrived as Deputy HR Manager and Gwen Quigley as HR Administrator. Our Summer Programmes team was boosted by Administrators Mary Richmond and Andrea Senf. Liesl Conradie stepped into the shoes of our Accommodation Manager Emma Salmon during the latter’s maternity leave. Gábor Peko’s departure for a new life in Hungary was marked by a very large gathering of well-wishers. His promotion from Houseman to Deputy House Manager and then House Manager in just a few years was a reflection of the goodhumoured enthusiasm, energy and high standards he brought to this vital operational service; his work has been ably continued by his successor Lewis Andrews. Other staff who left for pastures new were Cliff Austine, Lodge Porter; Frances Ballaster Harriss, Schools Liaison Officer; Michael Cherry, Chef de Partie; Deborah Cousins, Front-of-House Team Leader; Lauren Elliott, Chef de Partie; Joseph Gale, Senior Sous-Chef; Ryszard Gesiorski, House Services Cleaner; Paul Harris, Lodge Porter; Diana Henderson, Front-of-House Team Leader; Nazar Kurbonbekov, Kitchen Porter; Patrick Lambert, Gardener; Andrew Maxwell, Chef; Iver Newman, Chef de Partie; Gerard Nijak, Bar Supervisor; Louis Payne, Apprentice Painter and Decorator; Robert Peckham, Bar Supervisor; Max Ruddock, Lodge Porter; David Stannard, Senior Sous-Chef; Danella

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Stearn, House Services Cleaner; Robert Taylor, Temporary Network Security Officer; Chris Tedstone, Front-of-House Operator; Iain van Gardingen, Web Developer; Tilda Watson, Archives Assistant; Lewis Webb, Chef de Partie; Jo West, Stock Coordinator; and Penny Wrigley, Acting Personnel Officer, who so ably held the fort during the changes to our Human Resources team. Two of our Gardeners, Deputy Head Richard Hewitt and former Wolfson Court Gardener Colin Osborn achieved 30 years of service this year. Richard marked the year with an exceptionally busy programme; alongside his work on a long-term strategic plan for the gardens, he contributed to much ceremonial tree-planting in the Orchard and assisted in updating the Garden Walk. In addition to his usual duties, Colin monitors wildlife around the grounds, and he entertained those taking part in the May Garden Walk with photos and film footage of fox cubs, badgers and rabbits. Four other staff-members reached 20 years’ long service to the College during 2019; we warmly thank Steve Whiting, Head of Grounds; Susan Burchell and Lyn Wilson, Cleaners; and Alison Winch, Kitchen Porter, for their commitment to life at Girton over the last two decades. Caroline Shenton, Secretary to Council

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JCR The past year has seen the construction of the Social Hub and a parallel period of transformation and innovation for the JCR. From the widely celebrated introduction of minimal-cost all-day punting passes to the opening of the new JCR Welfare Room, much has changed for the better. This year saw greater engagement with the JCR Committee, with voter turnout at elections tripling and nearly all positions contested, sometimes by up to six candidates; this is testament to the hard work of the undergraduate representatives. The enthusiasm and commitment shown by the JCR epitomises the spirit of the Girton community.

University Challenge Pub Quiz, Old Hall

Many fantastic events were hosted by the JCR throughout the year, starting with the annual Freshers’ Week. This gave incoming Freshers a chance to acclimatise to University life with a jam-packed schedule of inclusive events, including bicycle rides, barbeques and the infamous ‘Hunt’. Later in term, the University Challenge Pub Quiz was a roaring success and led to hotly contested trials for the College team. The JCR welcomed the return of the Harry Potter Formal, featuring pumpkins and chocolate frogs, although we

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Girton College Ski Team celebrating their victory. From left to right: Louis Relandeau, Egle Augustaityte, Andrea Seaton, Barnaby Van Straaten

were not quite ready for owls this year! Despite the loss of the Cellar Bar, the programme of JCR Ents continued, providing a much needed distraction from academic pressures; the introduction of acoustic nights and comedy smokers has proved widely popular. Girton witnessed phenomenal sporting success, with the College Ski Team crowned Oxbridge Champions for the second year running, after triumphing over our sister college Somerville in the Cuppers Grand

Final. In general, Girton teams have maintained a strong presence in the University sporting scene, with several undergraduates being called to serve as Blues, notably in Women’s Football and Men’s Rugby.

contributions to University basketball and American football. The Tom Mansfield Memorial Prize was jointly awarded to Lucy Morrell and Erin Barnard for their contributions to the musical life of the College.

The JCR presented its annual awards to students who had excelled in music and sports. The Tom Millward Sports Award was presented to Henry Waugh, for his contribution to College hockey and badminton, while the Julia Birkbeck Sports Award was presented to Jiarui Wu for

Heartfelt thanks go to all those in the College community, especially staff and Fellows, who have contributed so much to enrich the student experience and make the past year truly memorable. George Cowperthwaite, President

JCR Committee Executive at the annual Benefactors’ Dinner. From left to right: Molly Hale (Vice-President), George Cowperthwaite (President), Liam O’Connor (Treasurer)

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MCR The remarkable expansion of the MCR community at Swirles Court and the College main site, together with a record admission of MPhil and PhD students, marks a new departure for the College. As Eddington grows with the passing days, North West Cambridge is increasingly becoming home for students at Girton. The expanded Freshersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Fortnight proved to be a great success among both newcomers and returning students.

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The MCR community buzzed with excitement from the start of Michaelmas Term with events such as the International Food Night and guided walks in Grantchester. The orientation team worked tirelessly to establish a strong graduate presence at Swirles, which we hope will set the pattern for future years. With Eddington only minutes away from College, integrating the MCR with the JCR and Fellows serves to strengthen the Girton community.

Once again, the MCR and JCR joined forces to create a University Challenge Team, collaborating in the formation of a new Girton University Challenge Society. Students have been receptive to the termly Pecha Kucha and MCR–SCR Research Nights, which we hope to continue in the future to facilitate knowledge exchange and appreciation of other academic fields. Following the example of the previous year, we continued with the MCR Themed Superformal and twice-termly swaps with other colleges.

The dynamic nature of the MCR means new events are constantly being created for the evolving student body. Along with regular Sunday Welfare Teas and PhD Lunches, we introduced Queer Brunches and Movie Nights, as well as termly BAME (Black and Minority Ethnic) drinks and Start- and Endof-Term Socials to facilitate diversity and inclusion. This year’s celebration of Girton’s 150th anniversary has been central to College life, and students have

become increasingly engaged with the culture and history of the College. The Founders’ Lectures have been a great source of inspiration, showcasing the talent of Girton alumni and the inspirational work they are achieving outside the College gates. To celebrate diversity, the MCR will be holding an LGBT-themed MCR Garden Party to mark the end of the academic year. As the orchard blooms to greet the new season, the MCR roots in Girton are spreading far and wide, with a real dedication to providing a fully inclusive environment. Jennifer Jia, President

Students socialising at the LGBT ice cream social

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Amateur Dramatics Society Girton Amateur Dramatics Society (GADS) has both maintained and broken traditions this year, offering a wide range of original writing and events to enthusiastic audiences. The Freshers’ Show took a new turn when, after nearly a decade of incoming students enjoying Girton: the Musical!, writers Will J-Wood and Hassan Hussain decided it was time for a change. The replacement, Freshers – a Girton Musical, follows

the path of three new students as they navigate their way through College and try to survive Freshers’ Week. The musical featured a superb performance from Olivia Fleming as a power-walking priest, and a song charting the route to town from Girton, set to the tune of ‘Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious’. Will and Hassan then turned their focus to the annual pantomime. Directed by our

Freshers’ Representative, Ella Pound, and starring Pieter Durman as Pinocchio, The Girton Pantomime was a resounding success and a wonderful addition to GADS’s already wide selection of student-written pantomimes. In Lent Term, following on from the triumph of last year’s smoker, GADS organised its third comedy evening. Hosted by the hilarious Matthew Davies, the evening included a combination of sketches and stand-up that provided a rib-tickling evening and left the audience in stitches. Involvement in GADS has soared this year, thanks to the fantastic work of Ella Pound. This has culminated in the creation of what we hope will be a new annual GADS event, the Freshers’ Play. This event, run entirely by Freshers, allows first-years new to amateur dramatics to get involved in Cambridge theatre. This year’s play was a farce, Black Comedy, in the course of which the protagonists were plunged into utter darkness.

Cast and crew of Pinocchio – The Girton Pantomine. From left to right: (back row) George Cowperthwaite, Sam Drysdale, Hassan Hussain, Matthew Davies, Ella Pound, Artemas Nicoll Cowley, Imogen Gander, Izzie Fraser, Karina Poon, Will J-Wood, Natasha Schmittzehe, Andrea Seaton, Michał Graczyk; (front row) Clara Parry, Annabelle York, Pieter Durman, Riva Kapoor, Molly Hale

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Girtonians have shone in College Amateur Dramatics and also within the wider University; it is a great pleasure to see our members participate in a wide range of town productions. Hassan Hussain and Andrea Seaton, Co-Presidents, GADS

Badminton It has been a year of change for the Girton Badminton Club. Both the Girton I and Girton II teams lost key players from the previous season, with only a small cohort of first-years committed to the team. The Girton I team began Michaelmas Term with two disappointing but promising 5–4 losses to Pembroke I and Robinson I. After three further defeats, our relegation to the Third Division was confirmed with a final loss 6–3 to Fitzwilliam I. Although the team ended the term without a win, solid performances in a tough league and a number of close games gave us good cause to look forward to Lent Term. The team approached matches in 2019 with renewed vigour. Our first two matches of the new year resulted in two 6–3 victories, one of them an emphatic reversal of the 6–3 defeat at the end of the previous term to Fitzwilliam I, our companions in relegation from Division Two. Injuries and a busy schedule caused a couple of losses, but veterans Xi Shern Tan, Alex Eldridge and Gaelan Komen helped pull the team to two final victories, and the season culminated in a strong fourth-place finish in a division where four of the seven teams achieved four wins or more. The Girton II team followed in a similar vein. A tough beginning

Girton II Captain Jamie MacDonald (left) and Girton I Captain Henry Waugh

for newcomers Lydia Gardner and Maxwell Hardy was compounded by losses to Peterhouse I and Trinity II. Despite this, the team persevered and competed well with spirited performances against Gonville and Caius I and Anglia Ruskin I. A challenging term of badminton ended with relegation to the Fifth Division of the University Badminton Leagues. Lent Term got underway with an early victory, and a midterm slump was rectified with a 6–3 victory over Christ’s II thanks to a fantastic performance from fourth-

year Callum Jones. The final match of term, a 5–4 loss to Abbey College II, was perhaps the most enjoyable, and rounded off a thoroughly entertaining year of badminton for Girton II. A special thank-you goes to the Captain of the Girton II team, Jamie MacDonald, for his persistence and commitment throughout the year. We look forward to the next year of badminton with the hope of promotion for both teams. Henry Waugh, Captain, Girton I

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Boat Club Women’s I trained throughout Michaelmas Term as a Four and put in a strong performance in the Fairbairn Cup, crossing the line as the third-fastest Senior Women’s Four. We were also able to enter two Novice Men’s Eight crews and one Novice Women’s Eight crew in the Fairbairn Cup.

Nathan Bottomley

Girton College Boat Club (GCBC) has enjoyed a new wave of enthusiasm, with one of the largest novice intakes in recent history. After a reduction in membership when a talented bunch of Seniors all graduated at the same time, current members have put productive efforts into rebuilding the Club’s strength, and we are sure to see this pay off in May Bumps 2019.

Boat Club Dinner, Lents 2019. From left to right: (back row) Shashvat Verma (on shoulders), Max Earle, Oliver Wales, Chloe Hooper, David O’Brien-Møller, Jerome Gasson (in mask), Jaymil Patel, Calum Foley, Will Lohrmann, Kate Gillespie, Yfke van der Heijden; (front row, standing) Zhao Dong, Artiom Trashov, Limeng Zhu, Andrew Williamson, Paloma Miranda, Noa Marson, Harry McMullan, François Tirvaudey, Matilda O’Callaghan, Jade Evans, Kamile Matulenaite, Alisa Maring, Sophie Donszelmann, Olivia Daly, Thomas Hancock (in blazer); (front row, kneeling and sitting) Catherine Foot, Alex Rossiter (in blazer), Ranieri Arcella, David Garcia-de-Leaniz, Ross Hutchinson; (centre) Jan Sienkiewicz (leaning forward), Nathan Bottomley (on shoulders)

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While the year revolves around training and racing, it’s the team spirit and sense of community that make Girton rowing so rewarding. The Club radiates a positive, welcoming and encouraging environment, with a healthy balance between rigorous training and frequent social events to keep us all entertained. Members of GCBC always gladly welcome new members into the fold and enjoy having alumni back to reminisce over Boat Club Dinners. Thomas Hancock, President

Girton Novice Men’s crew racing in Queens’ College Ergs Competition, Michaelmas Term 2018. From left to right: (background) Ross Hutchinson, Ranieri Arcella, Tomás Reveco, David Yeung, Artiom Trashov, David O’Brien-Møller; (foreground) Oliver Wales Limeng Zhu

In addition to College sport, Girton rowing is well represented at University level, with Phil Horton training in the Blues squad throughout the year. Teague Smith was also selected to represent the University in the 2019 Lightweight Boat Race. Yfke van der Heijden has been accepted on to the CUWBC Development Squad programme this summer, and the team wishes her all the best with her progress.

Pete Twitchett

Unfortunately, Lent Bumps 2019 was a tough campaign, with Men’s I getting ‘Spoons’ (the traditional booby prize for repeated defeat in Bumps Races) to match Men’s II’s performance the previous year. However, the relentlessly optimistic Girton spirit has inspired the crews to leave their defeats behind them and prepare for May Bumps 2019. This year we hope to enter two men’s and two women’s crews.

Men’s II crew racing on the Cam, May Bumps 2018. From left to right: Jerome Gasson, Ross Hutchinson, Sanesh Mistry, Limeng Zhu, Max Earle, James Douthwaite, Jan Spolenak, Tom Cernov, Oliver McEnteggart

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Board Games Confronted with the loss of 80% of our members to the delights that lie beyond University, our position as a society was looking grim at the start of Michaelmas Term. Luckily, we had forgotten one important factor â&#x20AC;&#x201C; that STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Medicine) students, who are not typically enthusiasts of clubbing and rowing, would be forced to turn to us for their extracurricular entertainment. This year we enjoyed a diverse set of subjects, personalities and cooking ability within our Club, leading to the invention of Smash-and-ice-cream nights and the gradual invasion of the Cartwright Mathematics Society by nonmathematicians. We continued a number of traditions, most notably gambling away our society funding while it was in the transmogrified form of chocolate.

GCBGC playing Bang in the Emily Davies Rooms at the start of Michaelmas Term. From left to right: Jenny Fletcher, Oliver Wales, Temi Longe, Sebastian Shiers, Leah Binnall, Cathy Wooller, Daniel Saunders

We were also lucky enough to acquire a website, http://gcbgc.soc.srcf.net/, and an online game, https://fake-artist. imperialoctopus.com/, courtesy of Zoey Childs, CompSci extraordinaire, who studies Veterinary Medicine by day. Overall, it has been a good year; we have acquired a few more games to add to our collection, eaten several batches of home-made brownies, and played more than 100 rounds of Werewolf over a twomonth period. Cathy Wooller

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Harry McMullan (left) and Jenny Fletcher playing Coup in the Social Hub

Cartwright Mathematics Society of some of last year’s graduating class, who accompanied us to Wetherspoons, and we ticked off three more college bars on the list: Jesus, Christ’s and Emmanuel. There are 27 more to go.

We have continued the tradition of introducing young Mathmos to the high life by spending way too much of our budget on cheap doughnuts, playing far too much Radiohead, and participating in the much-heralded ‘Mathmo Bar Crawl’.

As we head into exam term we will once again become a serious revision club, but we don’t intend to end on a low note, and there will be plenty of ‘Mathmo’ social events to look forward to after exams, including barbeques, bar crawls and, we hope, a mathematical talk. Cathy Wooller, President

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Along the way, we accidentally adopted some unsuspecting CompScis and a Vet, forcing them to acknowledge our superior way of life. A highlight of the term was successfully teaching a NatSci how to integrate, and in turn being successfully diverted from Representation Theory by the appearance of board games in a never-before-seen collaboration between Cartwright and Girton College Board Games Club.

We also built a snowman, giving credit where due to the GCBGC members and random bystanders we roped in to help us achieve this goal. As main face-artist, Jenny Fletcher was given full naming rights, amidst some controversy. We attempted to imbue the snowman’s presence with some mathematical significance, by

scratching ‘A5’ into every available surface, and trying to construct snow dodecahedron friends for him. The former was notably more successful than the latter.

We saw our third-year Mathmos attempt to adopt a modicum of responsibility, significantly aided by supporting players, namely curly fries, mac ’n’ cheese and Sainsbury’s ‘Basic’ teabags. Doing our CATAM (Computer-Aided Teaching of All Mathematics) in the same room allowed us to offer moral support to CATAM comrades by pacing, ranting and occasionally punching brick walls. So that was nice. Two ‘Mathmo Bar Crawls’ were held this year, both kindly organised by the second-years. We saw the return

Cartwright Mathematics Society and GCBGC with Malcolm the snowman. From left to right: Cathy Wooller, Jenny Fletcher, Stewart Rosell, Sebastian Shiers, Daniel Saunders

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Christian Union Girton College Christian Union had a dilemma at the start of this year; there were no formal College Representatives to lead the group. We decided to pitch in and run the group together, taking on different roles at different times, and this has led to some fresh and exciting opportunities.

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In Easter Term 2018, we held a popular ‘Text-a-Toastie’ event, answering people’s big questions about faith and life and giving out free toasties. This was followed later in term by ‘Croquet and Chill’ in the bright sunshine, complete with strawberries, cream and some really interesting reflections on rest and peace in this busy and anxious world.

and heard a compelling talk from Michael Ramsden.

We welcomed some Freshers in Michaelmas Term, kicking things off with ‘Church Search Breakfasts’, which provided an opportunity to find out more about the great church communities in Cambridge, and visit them in the company of a friendly face. Following this, we hosted Chris Sharman from local church Kingsgate to talk about ‘Upside Down Success’: what true success really means, and how we can find it. The term ended with the University Carol Services at Great St Mary’s, where packed congregations celebrated together

The new year brought with it the Cambridge Inter-Collegiate Christian Union Events Week; the theme, ‘Tomorrow: Life in Longing’, gave us the chance to explore big topics such as success, societal transformation and hope, asking where we’re headed, and how God can make a difference. As part of this week’s events, the Student Pastor at Holy Trinity came to Girton to give his thoughts on the question ‘Is the Christian faith inherently arrogant?’ and to lead a fascinating discussion. We talked about the claims of Jesus, the nature of truth,

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Christian Union Dinner in Hall before a Wednesday evening meeting. From left to right: Samuel Bartholomew, Natalia Rye Carriegas, Ffîon Snelling, Imogen Smith, Anna Quincey, Stewart Rosell, David de Oliveira, Sarah Wolstencroft, Ella Hurley, Samuel Parkin

and the history of the Church, which gave plenty of food for thought. In the midst of all this, we met regularly to eat, pray for the University, read the Bible and plan together. Of course, there were also plenty of ‘Text-a-Toasties’. We’re excited that two dynamic Freshers, Ryan McMahon and Natasha Leake, are taking over as College Representatives and will be leading the group over the coming year. Ella Hurley and Sam Parkin, Representatives

Cricket The members of Girton College Cricket Club (GCCC) spent much of the academic year waiting with bated breath for the cricket season to arrive in earnest in the Easter Term. Despite the loss of prominent members of the squad, Chris Webster and Owen Male, we were heartened by the arrival of Afra Malik and Danny Murty, who had both been selected by the University Blues side and performed promisingly throughout Winter Nets. Following a coin toss in front of King’s College, we began our campaign at home and a strong side was fielded. Our initial confidence took a knock as both openers, who will not be named to save their blushes, were dismissed without score. Thankfully, Zain Charfare and Danny Murty came in to steady the ship and notched up 84 and 82 respectively, leading us to an

imposing 208 for 3 from our 20 overs. The Jesus College side batted admirably in response, finishing 134 for 6. GCCC then faced St Catharine’s in the Cuppers Quarter-Finals and, despite general dismay at having to play the fixture away from our home fortress, newcomer Zaki Habib opened the bowling well with Ankit Rai, and between them they dismissed four of the St Catharine’s batsmen for low totals, setting the tone early on. Wickets from Matthew Isaacs meant we bowled out the opposition for a mere 109 runs. Matthew continued his dominance with the bat, accompanied by Oliver Tapper: they scored 50 and 24 apiece, more than making up for their ducks in the first game, as Girton once again ran out winners. Unfortunately, due to exams and injuries we were not

able to field a side against Fitzwilliam College in the semi-finals of the competition. This year saw the inaugural College 6s Competition in which Girton entered a team. We were represented by Alice Elgar, Jess Hulse, Ankit Rai, Oliver Tapper, James Glover and Zak Hopkins, and a good time was had by all. This was an exciting opportunity for all to play more cricket after exams, at Fenner’s, the University ground. Special mentions must go to Girton College groundsman, Steve Whiting, who once again prepared brilliant pitches for us to play on, and to Afra Malik, who despite not being able to play for Girton this year, has taken on the role of Captain for the forthcoming season. Zak Hopkins, Captain

Men’s Football Girton College Men’s First Football team have had a tough and hard-fought season. After a successful spell last year, the First Team continued to participate in Cambridge’s Premier Division, facing the best college teams in the

University. With some of Girton’s key players having graduated, this year saw a major reshuffling of the team with several Freshers and new postgraduate students stepping up to the task (a number of Second Team players were also scouted).

These joined a small cohort of members building on last year’s achievements. The First Team’s Cuppers run was disappointingly short. After progressing through the first round with a convincing 3–0 win over Clare Firsts,

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the second round was a frustrating 3–1 loss to Christ’s Firsts, which resulted in Girton being knocked out of the competition. The team also struggled in the league this season, and to date has been able to gain just one point, but this is in no way representative of its determination or excellence. Each game saw a closely fought battle, with Girton often being the unlucky side. Except

for Fitzwilliam’s astounding win, each match has been limited to just one- or two-goal losses, and the result might easily have swung in the other direction. Girton’s key issue this season has been inconsistent player availability, as each week has seen a number of individuals forced to withdraw from the match for a range of reasons, leaving the team lacking substitutions. A nil–nil draw

at Jesus College was the highlight of the season, with players showing true grit and willpower to gain the point. Unfortunately, this season has led to the relegation of the First Team to Division 2, but without doubt it will return to the Premier Division in the near future. The season ended with the annual Old Boys’ Match, an enjoyable but tough game against Old Girtonians. This saw the Old Boys win 3–1, but the drinks and meal that followed were certainly the climax of the day. There is no doubt that, when on the pitch, every player’s effort is faultless; similarly, the quality of football has been exceedingly high from the team. They will hold their heads high moving on to next season. Chris Davies, Captain, Men’s First Team

Girton Men’s First Football Team in the College’s green colours

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Men’s Hockey The Girton Men’s Hockey Club ran a joint team with Gonville and Caius in this year’s league competition. The Cambridge University Hockey Leagues employed a restructured league system, with the Caius and Girton team settling in the lower of two divisions. Our first two matches were cancelled due to poor weather and a lack of players on the opposing team, but we soon got under way with a confident 3–0 win over promotion contenders Pembroke–Christ’s. Throughout the term, we struggled to find a permanent goalkeeper, which resulted in a nervy 2–1 win over Corpus Christi before our first loss of the season at the hands of Magdalene. Despite this setback, we took some positive encouragement from the 3–1 defeat, as a strong performance from first-years

Thomas Beauchamp and Arthur Clover ensured that we got on the scoresheet. We took a well deserved break in the final weeks of Michaelmas Term, celebrating the end of a tough but rewarding term. Our return in January came with the possibility of promotion, as a win over Robinson would return us to the top league of the Intercollegiate Hockey Competition. Outstanding performances from Charlie Mabbutt and George Margetson-Rushmore in a strong squad contributed significantly to a 6–2 victory in this crucial match. As a result, the Caius and Girton team were promoted back to the First Division. Lent Term brought its own challenges with poor weather and illness playing a big part in our results. The first two matches of

term were cancelled, with the opposition again unable to field full teams. Our first game was against St John’s, the winners of this league in the previous term. A tough match turned into a fantastic 5–0 win, with our fluid hockey and solid defence proving too much for the opposition. An unfortunate loss to Pembroke–Christ’s, who had been promoted with us at the end of Michaelmas Term, and a 2–2 draw against Emmanuel, ended our hopes of winning the league this year. A 6–0 victory over Selwyn capped off an amazing year of hockey, with Tom Watts ending the year on a high, scoring the final goal in the dying seconds of the match. Deserved mentions go to Tess Skyrme for her commitment throughout the year and to James Terrill who will be taking the team forward as Captain next year. Henry Waugh, Men’s Captain

Women’s Hockey Girton’s Women’s Hockey Group plays joint matches with women from Homerton College, combining forces to create the redoubtable ‘Gomerton Women’s Hockey’ team. Journeying on bicycles from opposite ends of the city, team members unite each Sunday to

play against other University college teams, often in adverse weather conditions. In Lent Term the team managed to reach the University Cuppers semi-finals, a historic match for Gomerton, marked by the first-ever

use of a ‘goalie’. It was a fine end to the hockey season, rewarded by the Homerton Captain’s never-ending supply of chocolate-coated digestive biscuits. Rachel Hill, Girton College Representative

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The Gomerton team after our last match in the Cuppers semi-finals, 10 March 2018. From left to right: (back row) Tasmin Golding Yee, Ellie Hagan, Chelsea Hartman, Rachel Hill, Corlijn Reigwart, Eleanor Ansell, Hannah Wetton; (front row) Grace Flanagan, Olivia Batho, Morgause Lomas, Eleanor Swire, Tisha Marne

Joan Robinson Society The JRS programme for 2018 followed the successful model of previous years, with a mixture of social and academic events providing an invaluable forum for Girton Economists to mingle and exchange ideas.

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We started off the year with our annual dissertation presentation. As always, the third-years produced accessible presentations that served as introductions to their topics for the other students. What followed, on 21 February, was a very successful

cooperation with the Cambridge Society for Economic Pluralism. Jan Toporowski, Professor of Economics and Finance at SOAS, University of London, gave a talk on â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Credit and Crisisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;; he took us on an interesting journey from Marx, via Keynes and

Veblen, to Minsky, considering the ways in which each of them treated the structural shift in capitalism that occurred as a result of the widespread availability of long-term finance. One of his conclusions was that the key distinction in economic theory is between those theories that recognise the central role of long-term finance in the capitalist economy, and those that consider finance to be merely ‘savings’ or another form of credit. After the talk, JRS members accompanied Professor Toporowski to a formal

dinner at Pembroke College. To round off Lent Term, the JRS organised a film screening of The Wolf of Wall Street. Easter Term is always quieter, with most of us preparing for exams. Nonetheless, Ryan Ng, Alfie Lake and Margit Reischer produced fantastic presentations on their PhD work, giving attendees a very good idea of the costs and benefits involved in becoming a PhD student. After exams, Girton Fellow Clive Lawson and Caius

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Fellow Victoria Bateman once again successfully organised the annual Girton–Caius Garden Party.

Formal Hall at Pembroke with Jan Toporowski. From left to right: Carolina Alves, Amber Abrahams, Victor Echefu, Aramede Adenmosun, George Margetson-Rushmore, Jason Tang, Kayan Patel, Christian Tien, Rhys Williams, Jan Toporowski, Lorenz Freigassner, Blanche Comolli, Roy Peleg, Emily Fitch Haestrup, Victoria Schwer, Katie Zorova, Katie O’Mara

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Our annual ‘Welcome Back Drinks’ proved to be the perfect way to kick off the new academic year. This is the most important event of the year as it introduces Freshers to the Society and sets the foundation for future engagement. What followed was another highlight of the year, the Alumni and Careers Event. Jan Gooding, an alumna of Girton and veteran of the advertising industry,

gave us an incredible insight into the working world, astounding each and every one of us as she explained how she overcame the difficulties she faced as a gay woman. She was joined by recent graduates Rhys Williams, who informed us about his experiences at an economic consultancy, and Marta Grzeskiewicz, who vividly recounted the story of why she had left a big investment

Mixed Lacrosse The Girton College Cloud Leopards began a joyful year of sport with a particularly good Fresher intake, the vast majority of whom had never played before but brought enthusiasm and varying degrees of hand–eye coordination. Sporting highlights included a hard-won 3–1 victory over Trinity, who sported four Blues players to our zero; our miraculous survival following a relegation battle in Michaelmas Term, largely due to the Freshers’ input; and an immensely satisfying showing in Cuppers in late Lent Term, showing just how far we had come as a group of sportspeople. We maintained our position in Division 2 throughout

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bank to take up a Master’s course in Data Science at University College, London. What followed was a lavish, seated dinner in the Fellows’ Rooms, which was truly the best food all of us had ever had in Cambridge! Another successful JRS year ended with our traditional Christmas Dinner at Al Casbar. Lorenz Freigassner, President

two seasons, despite some serious health difficulties and having to wear leopard-print clothing, and as a result of massive effort and commitment on the part of our admirably skilled players. Social events enjoyed by the team included the Swirles Christmas Pizza Party, with lacrosse-themed games and a turnout that outnumbered our squad roster, a single social

evening with the St Catharine’s team (whose mood was dampened by our victory over them earlier in the day) and innumerable group brunches. Special mentions must be given to Seb Horton and Jamie Klein, who graduate this year after helping the Leopards through thick and thin for four years. If we have played well, it is by standing on the shoulders of such giants.

Girton is a proud, inclusive, talented community, and the Cloud Leopards embody this in the best possible way. The two of us have had an outstanding time with the team this year, and hope that the next cohort of Leopards will love it as much as we did. Matt Davies and Katie O’Mara, Co-Captains

Our end-of-year photoshoot. From left to right: Jeffrey Tan, Alice Chapman, Elys Healy, Tom Lee, Katie O’Mara, Seb Horton, Matt Davies, Henry Waugh, Antonia Gkolanta, Ben Cudworth, Joseph Lee

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LGBTQIA+ JCR The LGBTQ+ community in Girton has been a real presence in College this year. The community has been more inclusive than before, inviting allies and non-LGBTQ+ individuals to most events and every welfare hour to discuss any LGBTQ+ issues. We have mixed with other colleges, including Murray Edwards, Homerton, Newnham and Fitzwilliam. For the first time, we hosted multiple nonalcoholic socials with these colleges; our biggest one was a Hill College Brunch at the beginning of the 2018–2019 academic year, which allowed members of the community to meet people from other colleges. The last year has seen Girton host two Pride Ents (‘Love Yourself’ and ‘Rainbow’), both of them successful within the LGBTQ+ community who enjoyed dancing along to queer artists and anthems. There have also been some events exclusive to Girton this year. The termly brunch remained popular, and the new termly Welfare Hour Cake Social was also a hit. Our most popular events were those open to the entire Girton community, particularly the film nights. We watched Pride, which has become a yearly tradition in History Month, Princess Cyd, Almost Adults and Carol. This year, for the first time, a mandatory LGBTQ+ respect talk took place in Freshers’ Week. The purpose of the talk was to explain to Freshers what being an ally means, and how they can support LGBTQ+ individuals and the community in general. We also attended a formal hall as a group in February to celebrate LGBTQ+ History Month, during which we flew the rainbow flag from the top of the Tower. These events have proved successful in the student community and have had a hugely positive impact on the LGBTQ+ community and its role in College.

Members of the LGBTQ+ community in front of the tower with the LGBTQ+ flag. From left to right: Molly Hale, Ella Pound, Michał Graczyk, Jin Gene Wong, Tiffany Lee, Sarah Merrick, Tom Sparkes, Deasil Waltho, Ella Shaxson, Clara Parry

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I am honoured and happy to have served as Girton’s LGBTQ+ Welfare Officer for the past year and have no doubt that Sarah Merrick, our new Officer, will keep up the hard work and go on to do amazing things for the community. Clara Parry, JCR LGBTQ+ Welfare Officer

MCR The Girton College MCR LGBTQIA+ community is a small, close-knit group of graduates. During 2018â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 2019 we gathered for a weekly viewing of The Bi Life, an LGBTQIA+ show hosted by Courtney Act, of RuPaulâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Drag Race fame. Coming together once a week provided a casual, laid-back environment for graduates to relax and enjoy a reality TV show. Additionally, the LGBTQIA+ group hosts bi-weekly Queer Brunch

events in which graduates gather in Hall to catch up, exchange stories, and reconnect during term time. In celebration of LGBTQIA+ History Month, the MCR organised our first Big Gay Dinner Party, for which the LGBTQIA+ Officer, Chloe Sariego, cooked home-made lasagne and hosted an open-invitation dinner party. Guests were asked to bring a piece of media produced by an LGBTQIA+ writer in order to celebrate and commemorate the history of LGBTQIA+ people and our own relationship with queer

media throughout our lives. During the dinner some graduates chose to share favourite song lyrics, quotes and poems, and some graduates read their own creative writing. In the coming term, the MCR is looking forward to hosting more dinners and brunches for the LGBTQIA+ community in order to maintain a safe place to come together and reflect. Chloe Sariego, MCR LGBTQIA+ Officer

Natural Sciences Society Natural Sciences is a big subject (combining more than 20 individual subjects); while this provides a great way to meet lots of different people, it can be a bit overwhelming, particularly for Freshers. The NatSciSoc continues to operate in order to foster friendships in the NatSci community, within and outside Girton, to provide career inspiration, and, perhaps most importantly, to act as the support and backbone for all NatScis in Girton, both academically and in terms of personal welfare.

We kick-started the year with the Subject Get-Together organised by the JCR, followed by the NatSci Welcoming Drinks. Expanding social opportunities to other colleges in Cambridge was one of the main focuses for the NatSciSoc this year and, thanks to a joint effort from Clare and Selwyn, we have held formal swaps among the three colleges all through Michaelmas and Lent Terms. It was truly rewarding to see strong bonds starting to form throughout the year.

Apart from social activities, careersupporting events have also been fruitful. The Careers Advisor from Cambridge University Careers Service came to give our students insights into different career pathways, as well as tips for the job-application process. Kevin Smith and Sankara Meenakshi made really good contributions to the collective career sessions; Kevin shared his experience at the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, where he collaborates with numerous conservation NGOs, whilst Sankara

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spoke about his PhD topic, which investigates how membraneless granules regulate mRNA metabolism and development. These sessions gave some inspiration about career options and demonstrated just how many opportunities there are to be explored.

In Easter Term, we were honoured to host two Girton NatSci alumni. We were joined by Dr Tim Cutts, Head of Scientific Computing at the Wellcome Sanger Institute, and Mrs Nicky Runeckles, Founding Director of Monticola Consulting Ltd., who shared with us their

life journeys after Girton. A blend of learning more about future opportunities and enjoying some socialising time brought NatSciSoc events to an appropriate close for the year. Eunice Chan, President

A group photo of NatScis from St John’s and Girton after our formal swap. From left to right: (back row) St John’s NatSci, Sam Jones, St John’s NatSci, Korbinian Kettnaker, St John’s NatSci, St John’s NatSci; (front row) Maite Arribas, Imogen Smith, Thomas Kemenes, Anna McGairy, Stanley Quek, Eunice Chan, Katie Zorova, Johanna Friege, St John’s NatSci, St John’s NatSci, Rugile Narbutaite, Ffion James, Maddy Leonardi

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Women’s Netball The Girton Women’s Netball Team has had one of its best years yet, going from strength to strength in our match results and in our closeness as a team. We had some fantastic new players, including first-years Imogen Gander and Isabella Yerassimou, and postgraduate student Jessica Riley, all of whom played a vital role in the success of the team. The position of Centre was taken up for the third year running by Sophie Kenny, who put in consistently excellent performances as one of the key players on court, alongside Phoebe Drummond, Ella Shaxson and Eleanor Swinburne, who alternated in Wing Attack and Wing Defence positions. The team was further strengthened by Virginia Bernardi, Ismay Keane and newcomer Laura Bleehen at Goal Keeper and Goal Defence, with Amelia Brennan and Jemima Worsfold maintaining positions in the shooting circle. The year couldn’t have started better for us, and we maintained an unbeaten streak throughout Michaelmas Term. There were many impressive results, including a 34–15 win against Hughes Hall in our first game, which set the trend for the ensuing matches. After a great Michaelmas performance, we were promoted to League 2, the highest division we have been in

for a number of years, testament to the team’s improvement over recent seasons. Starting Lent Term in a higher division was tough, but the team rose to the challenge and achieved some fantastic results against the strongest teams in the division. This was demonstrated in our final league standings, where we came third in the division, having lost only two matches. This has consolidated our position in League 2 for the forthcoming year, and we expect to see more improvement in our

performance in the 2019–20 season. One of the highlights of the season was the annual Cuppers Tournament, when we yet again put in one of our best performances after progressing from a tough group stage to the semi-finals for the first time in many years. Despite our not advancing further, it was the perfect end to a fantastic year. The whole team played superbly every week, providing an excellent model for women’s success in sport. I would encourage anyone who is interested to join us next year! Amelia Brennan, Captain

The Girton Women’s Netball Team after Cuppers 2019. From left to right: Phoebe Drummond, Imogen Gander, Jessica Riley, Jemima Worsfold, Amelia Brennan, Virginia Bernardi, Sophie Kenny, Eleanor Swinburne, Isabella Yerassimou

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Project W2 Project Worldwide Welfare (Project W2) is a charitable society that aims to raise funds for charities around the world and to raise awareness of important issues. Our launch event was a live-music night when a number of singers and bands, many of whom are or were Cambridge University students, performed at the Blue Room in the Cambridge Union. Students paid a small fee for entry and the funds raised were donated to the

Lebanese charity Auxilia. Auxilia works hard to provide essentials such as food, water and education to those in need, particularly those whose main breadwinner has died. With the help of Cambridge students, and in particular many supportive Girtonians, we managed to raise hundreds of pounds for this incredible charity. In 2018, we held a casual Quiz Night in College, ‘Let’s Get Quizical’. Students were charged a small fee

to take part and all funds went to the UK Brain Charity, which offers emotional support and practical help to those suffering from a neurological condition and to their families and friends. The evening included free snacks and wine, gave students a chance to take a relaxing break from studying, and was a positive and fun event held to raise money for an important cause. Lucy Nicholls and Leah Mereb, Girton Representatives

Men’s Rugby The season kicked off with a Sevens Tournament. Our team of eight men won two of the three opening games before the Finals were called off. We began in Division Two of the league. A struggle to recruit players hit us hard and led to us cancelling our first two games. The third was also conceded to Jesus, and we played with a depleted side, but were reminded of the enjoyment that rugby can bring in a stressful term. For the second league, Queens’ also had some issues, and so an alliance was formed, which entailed us dropping down to Division Four. Emmanuel could not face such

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Cuppers Shield Final at Grange Road. From left to right: (back row) George Nishimura, Joseph Thompson, Vadir Baktash, Henry Broomfield, Juan Rodgers, James Cullen, Will Scrivens, Adam Truelove, Max Capel, William Brassington; (front row) Chris Bell, Tim Smith, Stephen Quick, Ed Plaut, Will Melling, Ben Woolsencroft, Jamie Morley, Kit Livsey, Tom Wilson, Callum Slatter; (lying down) Dan Smith

a formidable partnership, and conceded the game. Following this, we took part in a match against Hughes Hall and St Edmund’s, resulting in a 17–40 loss. The final game of this league was a 75–12 win over Corpus Christi, Christ’s and King’s Colleges (CCK). Going into Lent Term, we were no longer able to continue with Queens’. We joined with Pembroke and, coincidentally, our first game was against our old allies who now managed to field a full squad. The first half saw our disorganisation get the better of us, and although

we managed to win the second half of the game, it was not enough to put us ahead and we lost 33–12. By another coincidence, we were next up against CCK and beat them 41–10.

Girton Old Boys game was organised. Although we only managed to play a six-a-side game on half a pitch, it marked the first time that the fixture had been held since 2011, with victory going to the Old Boys.

We began Cuppers against Homerton, who were not strong enough to make it into the second half. This led us to a defeat by a well-drilled St John’s side. All was not lost, as the new layout of the tournament placed us against Jesus, who this time conceded with too few participants. In the interval between Cuppers matches, a

Easter Term arrived and so too did the Shield Final against a familiar Queens’ squad. It was a tight match, with the scoreboard consistently flip-flopping. The game ended 31–29 in our favour. It was a promising result to end a tough season and we hope it heralds a prosperous future with Pembroke. Henry Broomfield, Men’s Captain Old Boys game on the Girton pitches. From left to right: (back row) Tim O’Connell (referee), Ben Wood, David de Oliveira, Mike Spencer, Kit Livsey, Rhys James, James Cullen, William Brassington; (front row) Alex Thompson, Ed Plaut, Lachlan McClean, Henry Broomfield, Dan Smith, Vadir Baktash

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Women’s Rugby Three Girtonians were selected for the Blues Varsity Match at Twickenham in December 2018, with Alice Elgar (Blue 2015, 2016, 2017) and Jaqueline Bramley (substitute 2016 and 2017) making up an all-Girton second row, while Jessi Abele started on the bench and came on at tighthead prop in the second half. Cambridge secured a hard-fought 8–5 victory, with Alice scoring a vital penalty early in the second half. Sadly, Jessi was ruled out of the Tigers’ (Second Team) Varsity owing to concussion, but Girton was still well represented with Hannah Samuel and Aude Mulard starting at fly-half and on the wing. Both were key members of the squad and put in huge defensive efforts as Cambridge succumbed 5–10 to a strong Oxford team. All five played for the Blues throughout their unbeaten league-winning season, which saw Cambridge promoted back to the Premier South league. Alice Elgar, Girton College Representative

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Alice Elgar scoring at the 2018 Varsity Match

Skiing The 2018–19 ski season saw a continuation of last year’s successes at College level, in Cuppers, and at University level on the Varsity Trip. The two strongest Oxbridge female skiers were Girtonians. Egle Augustaityte is a first-year Engineering student from Lithuania who has over six years’ international race experience, including the 2016 Lillehammer Winter Youth Olympics. Andrea Seaton, a third-year Music student from Chamonix, France, has been a regular competitor in French club races. Egle and Andrea dominated this year’s Varsity Races in Val Thorens with an overall win for Egle in the Women’s Races and second place for Andrea. The Giant Slalom Race saw Andrea taking first place and Egle taking second, whilst Egle won the Slalom Race, with Andrea coming in second. These performances contributed to the win by the Cambridge Women’s Blues Team, which was captained by Andrea. Solid performances from Louis Relandeau and Barnaby Van Straaten should also be noted; they were both in the Cambridge Men’s Second Team which beat Oxford. Having represented the Light Blues the day before, Girton’s top skiers joined forces to compete in the

Overall Women’s Podium, featuring Egle Augustaityte and Andrea Seaton

Egle Augustaityte skiing in Cuppers

Cuppers College Varsity Race which took the form of a Dual Slalom Match between teams of four. Girton’s domination in the Cambridge Cuppers qualified them for the final against Oxford’s top college, Somerville. Girton came

out of the match on top, winning the Teneo Cup in a tightly contested final. Andrea Seaton, CUSSC Women’s Captain and Girton College Ski Team President

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Women and Non-Binary Zine Society In the summer before this academic year began, Ellen Pearce-Davies and I discussed the need for a platform within Girton for women and non-binary people to express their experiences, to have a space to communicate with each other and be heard as a collective voice. Of course, the wonderful work of the Feminist Society has provided such a space, but we wanted to create something tangible from these conversations that others could learn from and empathise with. With the collaboration of Ximena BarkerHuesca and Asmita Chatterjee, Girton Reclaimed was born, together with The Zine, a magazine providing a creative space for women and non-binary people to express their experiences within the University and life as a whole. We wanted to create The Zine in the spirit of Girton’s foundation as a women’s college, and to amplify the voices of the women who make up the College today.

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Submissions to The Zine have been truly incredible, ranging from witty and entertaining anecdotes, to beautiful paintings, wonderful poetry, and deeply moving, painful and personal stories. It was a joy to see that people wanted to contribute

to and use the space we have made, and that the female and non-binary community here at Girton has so many stories to tell. We held a ‘drink and draw’ evening early in the year to raise awareness of the project, and are including all the drawings people produced in The Zine. Ellen and I visited the Girton archives to draw inspiration from previous students at the College. It was both fascinating and affirming to read through handwritten accounts and the poetry of women who studied and lived in the College so long ago, to see how much has changed and what remains exactly the same. We are very excited about the printing and launch of The Zine this Easter Term, and hope to continue the project with a second issue next year.

Front cover of The Zine, created by Emily Porro

Emily Porro (with Ellen Pearce-Davies)

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2020 – Calendar of Events All events take place in College, unless otherwise stated January

June

25th: Power Feast (History; by special invitation)

13th: May Bumps Marquee and Boat Club Dinner 16th: May Week Concert

February 7th:

Mountford Humanities and Arts Communications Prize

15th: Geography Dinner 17th: Hammond Science Communication Prize

28th: Benefactors’ Garden Party

September 19th: 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2010 Alumni Reunion Dinner Roll of Alumni Weekend:

20th: Alumni Formal Hall

26th: Library Talk (all welcome)

23rd: Music Reunion (special meal with come-and-sing Festal Evensong)

26th: Lawrence Room Talk (all welcome) 26th: People’s Portraits Talk (all welcome) 26th: Concert for the Roll (all welcome)

March

13th: Spring Ball

26th: Roll of Alumni Dinner (all welcome, especially matriculation years 1960, 1970, 1980, 1989, 1990 and 1991)

Law and Finance Networking Reception (date TBC)

27th: Gardens Talk (all welcome)

7th:

Alumni Sports Matches and Dinner

MA Dinner (date TBC) MA Congregation (date TBC)

October 17th: Commemoration of Benefactors and Foundation Dinner

May 7th:

31st: Celebrating 10 Years of the Jane Martin Poetry Prize

Alumni Formal Hall

Autumn Gardens Walk (date TBC)

14th: Alumni Formal Hall Celebrating 20 Years of the People’s Portraits Collection (date TBC)

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Bookings for the Roll of Alumni Weekend and Dinner can be made using the form on page 170. Details about other events in the calendar will appear in due course on the College website; see www.girton.cam.ac.uk.

Regional Associations An overview of the activities of regional associations at home and abroad Cambridge Local Girton Association The CLGA has held a number of talks this year, and the Association is grateful to Hilary Goy (Corke 1968) for generously hosting CLGA events at her home. Recent CLGA events have included: • a guided visit to the University Library to view the Tall Tales: Secrets of the Tower exhibition which examined copyright editions of ‘secondary importance’ that are housed in the UL’s tower; the tour was led by the exhibition’s curator, Liam Sims (Rare Books Department), and was arranged by Catherine Ansorge (Broadbelt 1964); • a talk by Tony Walsh, Project Manager for the Museum of London Archaeology, entitled ‘A Landscape Through Time: the Archaeology

of the A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon Improvement Scheme’; • a talk by Professor Julian Allwood, Professor of Engineering and the Environment at the University of Cambridge, on ‘Understanding Climate Change’; • a talk by Girtonian Christina Koning (1972) on her recently published detective story, End of Term. Details of events are on the CLGA website; please note that members are welcome to bring guests. Email: clga@girton.cam.ac.uk Website: www.sites.google.com/site/cambridgelga London Girton Association The LGA has held a number of interesting and successful events this year. Two events (a wine London Girton Association’s wine-tasting evening

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tasting and a pub-quiz) were open to all Girtonians, and the programme included: • a visit to the museum, crypt and church of the Order of St John in Clerkenwell; • a second very successful wine-tasting evening at the offices of Grant Thornton, with thanks to Paul Cook (1984) for providing the venue; this year, Master of Wine Sarah Jane Evans (Phillips 1972) talked guests through a selection of Spanish wines; • a repeat of the pub-quiz evening at the Rugby Tavern in Bloomsbury; there was a higher turnout than last year, so we will be looking for a larger venue for future pub-quiz nights; • a visit to Leighton House Museum in Kensington, former home of the Victorian artist Frederic, Lord Leighton; • a talk on the street-artist Banksy entitled ‘Who is Banksy?’, at the University Women’s Club in Mayfair. The talk was given by Daniela Rossi (2005), Director of Rossi Asiaghi, which promotes London’s emerging artists to collectors and businesses. The LGA is looking forward to supporting the Girton150 concert which will take place at Gray’s Inn on Thursday 21 November 2019. As well as celebrating the College’s 150th anniversary, this will mark the 20th anniversary of the LGA Music Award. Email:lga@girton.cam.ac.uk Website: www.girton.cam.ac.uk/london-girtonassociation Facebook: www.facebook.com/ LondonGirtonAssociation Oxford Regional Association ORG continues with about 50 members, including honorary members. We plan for four events a year

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and circulate a newsletter twice a year, giving writeups of past events and general news. Recent events have included: • our AGM and Autumn Lecture Meeting, when Life Fellow Peter Sparks spoke on ‘Between Two Cricket Tables – Learning Girton through Architecture and Artefacts’. Peter was Domestic Bursar from 1994 to 1999, and Steward for College Silver and Antiques until 2017; his talk showed both his wide knowledge of Girton and his love for the College; • a pre-Christmas pub lunch; • a Spring Lecture meeting, when Jennie Turner gave a fascinating talk on the history and development of the Oxford Botanic Garden; this was followed in the summer by a guided tour of the Garden, led by Jennie. The number of members and guests able to get to our events has declined significantly over the past year or so. Also, we have been unable to attract much new blood to the Committee, which is finding it increasingly difficult to maintain our previous level of activity. We are therefore seriously considering how best to continue the Association. Contact: Meg Day (1967) Email: org@girton.cam.ac.uk Tel: 01865 375916 Website: www.oxfordregiongirtonians.org.uk Manchester Association of Cambridge University Women MACUW welcomes members from all Cambridge colleges but has Girton, a founder member of the Association, at its heart. As usual, events have been varied and fascinating. The following are of particular note: • We were highly entertained at our AGM by Catherine Bankes, who educated us all on the

history of MACUW, highlighting some of the many feisty women who fought to gain degrees and found an association of their own. In preparing her talk, Catherine received fantastic help from the staff of the Girton Library and Archive. • ‘Out and About’ usually finds us at some of the north-west’s hidden gems, and the last two summer meetings have not disappointed. First, we enjoyed a wonderful opportunity to combine visits to Port Sunlight and the recently created butterfly park at New Ferry on the Wirral which is managed by the Cheshire Wildlife Trust. More recently, visiting Tabley Hall in Knutsford in glorious weather, we admired the grounds and enjoyed a fantastic tour of the art work and family archives, as well as a delicious cream tea. At the 73rd annual dinner we welcomed Corina Ferguson as our Cambridge speaker; she gave us an insight into life at the Bar, including her experience as judicial assistant to Baroness Hale (Girton’s Visitor), and her time working in-house at Liberty. This was followed by the Manchester speaker Viv Gardner, Emerita Professor of Drama at Manchester University, who talked about the period 1890– 1920, focusing on fin-de-siècle performance culture and the music hall. A great evening was had by all. As with other groups, numbers are on a slow decline, so alongside our big three events we are introducing more ad hoc events and using WhatsApp. The latter is organised by Helen Brown (St John’s), and you can be included by contacting her at: helenbrown070@gmail.com. All new members of whatever age are warmly welcomed. Come and join us. Email: Macuw@cantab.net

Wales and the West Girtonian Association WWGA activities continued, with a number of talks and visits organised over the last year. Recent events have included: • a meeting and talk held at the University of Bristol Botanic Gardens; thanks are due to Clare Campion-Smith (Gerrard 1964) for arranging the venue. The talk, ‘Some Things Do Get Better; A Reflection on 53 Years in the Services for People with Learning Difficulties’, was given by Shirley Turner (Davis 1950), who has devoted her legal skills, energy and determination to improving rights and conditions for people with learning difficulties; • the WWGA celebration of the 150th anniversary year of the College – a talk by Baroness Perry (Welch 1949). Her talk, entitled ‘Parliament, Family, Academe’, covered each of her different career experiences: postgraduate teaching in North American universities, working as HM Chief Inspector of Schools, as Vice-Chancellor of the South Bank University and as President of Lucy Cavendish College, and her experiences as a life peer; • a visit to Newark Park, a house on the Cotswold escarpment above Wotton-underEdge; this Tudor building was remodelled in the eighteenth century by architect James Wyatt; the visit included a talk on his career by Helen Roberts, a historian and guide at Newark Park; • WWGA member Heather Toomer (Fomison 1966), an expert on antique lace and whitework, invited members to her home to see some of her extensive collection of lace and white embroideries dating from about 1600 to 1900. Email: wwga@girton.cam.ac.uk Website: www.girton.cam.ac.uk/wwga

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New York Girton Association The New York Girton Association was delighted to promote the College’s first 150th-anniversary event in New York City. The symposium, ‘Empowering Excellence’, featured two panel discussions, with a stellar array of Girtonians forming the panel for the ‘Glass Ceilings and Sticky Floors’ session; for the ‘Pathways to Excellence’ session, the panel comprised representatives from four of the ’Seven Sisters‘ – the seven liberal arts colleges in the north east of the US which, like Girton, were founded for women. Members met in Manhattan

in February to celebrate the Chinese New Year at a Szechuan restaurant, and we met again in August for lunch at Copinette, also in Manhattan. Our next formal meeting will be in October. Shivani Nayyar will talk about the UN Human Development programme. Date and place will be posted on the Cambridge in America online events calendar. We hope that any Girtonians visiting New York at that time will join us. Email: newyorkga@girton.cam.ac.uk

Dawn Airey (1981) addresses attendees at the Empowering Excellence symposium in New York

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Births Aneiros. On 23 November 2017, to Nicole Trask (2000) and Tony Aneiros, a girl, Lucia Sophie, a sister to Noemi Beth. Baker. On 10 October 2018, to John (1999) and Laura (Mizon 2003), a girl, Millicent Grace, a sister to Bridget. Francis. On 21 March 2017, to Helen and Robin, a boy, Luke Henry, a brother to Heidi and Zoë. Gosling. On 26 November 2018, to Katherine (Below 2005) and Mark (2005), a boy, Harry James, a brother to Matthew.

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Gresham. On 1 October 2017, to Nicholas (2001), a girl, Eva. James. On 26 December 2018, to Gemma (Hancock 2003) and Rhys (2003), a girl, Carys Emily. Mayhew. On 12 December 2018, to Diana Fusco (Fellow; 2018) and Michael Mayhew, a boy, Jack Elia. Stark. On 8 June 2019, to Shona (Fellow; 2015) and Findlay, a son, Ruairi.

Marriages and Civil Partnerships Barton – Hatfield. On 7 July 2018, Lydia Barton (2010) and Matthew Hatfield (2010). Carter – Shaw. On 10 March 2018, Helen Carter (1976) and Leigh Shaw. Gibbons – Etheridge. On 27 April 2019, Camilla Gibbons (2014) and George Etheridge. Stockler – Hall. On 6 May 2018, Alexander Stockler (2006) and Catherine Hall (Murray Edwards; 2005). George Etheridge and Camilla Gibbons (2014)

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In Memoriam ACERINI. On 20 May 2019, Carlo Lorenzo (2010 Bye-Fellow; 2011 Official Fellow) Obituary on p. 138 ADAMS. In May 2018, Dinah Margaret (White) MA (1943 Natural Sciences) Dinah trained as a teacher and taught before marrying Stanley, a soil scientist who was posted to the West African Cacao Research Institute in the Gold Coast. On returning to Britain she became involved in several natural history and conservation societies and the National Council of Women, which promotes the empowerment of women. ANDERSON. On 30 September 2018, Mary Branford (Morgan) MA (1945 History) After graduating, Mary qualified as a teacher and taught until marrying Ian, a GP. They had a daughter and a son. Mary was present at the 1998 celebrations marking the 50th anniversary of the admission of women to the University. BALDOCK. On 25 November 2018, Susan Margaret (Tuke) MA (1954 Natural Sciences) Sue taught until she married David, in 1977, and had a son. At Girton she belonged to the University Women’s Sailing Club and various Christian and singing groups; later in life she enjoyed mountaineering of all kinds. Her memories of Girton included ‘climbing out of my room into the arms of a policeman who said “I better warn you, Miss, there’s a Peeping Tom around”’. BASSETT. On 25 December 2018, June Audrey (James) MA (1945 Natural Sciences) Audrey went to Girton after World War II on

a scholarship, and was very proud of being in the first year of women to receive a Cambridge degree at the Senate House in 1948. She taught Chemistry and continued to inspire other women chemists throughout her working life. Audrey married Harding (Clare), and they had two daughters one of whom, Libby, also went to Girton (1978). BEARE. On 7 August 2019, Sylvia Elsie (Reed) BA MB BChir (1948 Natural Sciences) Sylvia followed her sister Joanna (1946) to Girton. After clinical training at the London Hospital Medical College she specialised in Medical Microbiology, becoming a consultant virologist. She published many research papers on virology, especially respiratory viruses, some co-authored with A S Beare whom she later married. BOLTON. On 29 June 2018, Rosabelle Marjorie (Edge) MA (1951 Mathematics) For much of her life Rosabelle taught at Urmston Grammar School for Girls, rising to be Head of Mathematics, Deputy Head and finally Head, and making many friends among her colleagues. A tennis Blue at Girton, she remained a keen sportswoman, mainly playing golf. She had two children and several grandchildren.

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BROWN. In November 2018, Lucy Margaret MA (1940 History) Lucy was a Rosalind, Lady Carlisle Scholar at Girton and won several prizes. She worked as a research assistant in several Civil Service departments, then took a London PhD and taught at Somerville College, Oxford, the University of Hull and, for many years, the London School of Economics. She contributed to the Victoria County History (York).

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CANOVAN. On 15 June 2018, Margaret Evelyn (Leslie) MA PhD (1958 History; 1962 Politics) Margaret’s doctoral work at Girton on the social and political thought of Joseph Priestley led to an eminent career as a political theorist. She lectured at the Universities of Lancaster and Keele, and published on nationhood, populism and, in particular, on Hannah Arendt. She married James and had a daughter. Ruth Ann Reva Felton

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CHEVALLIER. On 28 September 2018, Rosalind Mary Bretland BA (1945 Modern and Medieval Languages) Mary’s work in the Diplomatic Service and the Ministry of Overseas Development took her to many countries, but she never lost her attachment to Girton, and in retirement she moved from London to Girton village. She maintained her Girton friendships and organised a group of her contemporaries to attend the 1998 celebrations marking the 50th anniversary of the admission of women to the University.

University College Hospital, then worked in Cardiff, in Uxbridge and for many years at Lewisham Hospital. She became a consultant chest physician and a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians. Mary enjoyed painting, gardening and baking. FELTON. On 17 January 2019, Ruth Ann Reva (Holt) MA (1947 Mathematics) Ruth married George (Magdalene) in 1951 and was a pioneer in computer programming in the 1950s before having her four sons. She returned to work, teaching Mathematics in Woking. Ruth was an avid participant in classical music, country dancing and photography, often serving on club committees. She had seven grandchildren. GARNHAM. On 8 June 2018, Angela Elizabeth (Booth) MA (1970 Classics) Angela was an Exhibitioner at Girton. After graduating she did a PGCE in Oxford and taught at Roedean. She then became an IT and management consultant, directing a consultancy firm with her husband Malcolm.

DEUTSCH. On 6 September 2018, Ann Caroline Elizabeth (Bucknall) BA (1958 English) Ann taught in schools and for the Workers’ Educational Association, which she also served as an Executive member and as secretary of one of the first WEA women’s branches. She gained an MA in Modern Drama Studies and acted with a feminist drama group. She married John and had three children.

GARTEN. On 22 August 2018, Anne Leslie Armstrong (Leonard-Smith) MA (1945 English) Anne came to Girton with a degree from Aberdeen University. She taught in several schools and then, as Lecturer, Senior Lecturer and Principal Lecturer, worked at the West London Institute of Higher Education (Maria Grey College). She wrote a book on the history of the British hosiery industry.

FARQUHARSON. On 19 August 2018, Mary MA MB BChir MD (1939 Natural Sciences) Mary came from a medical family (her sister Loveday followed her to Girton in 1942). She did her clinical training in Southampton and at

GOODMAN. On 8 December 2018, Gillian Mary (formerly Williams) BA (1959 English) Gillian, at Girton a member of the ADC and the Marlowe Society, went on to act professionally in film, television and repertory. She said that her

LAZARUS. On 17 January 2019, Leonie (Sharp) MA (1948 English) Leonie shared her love of literature with the A level and sixth-form students that she taught for many years at Francis Holland School. She married Allan and had a son, daughter and three grandchildren. Leonie maintained close friendships with fellow Girtonians and enjoyed Roll and Oxford Girtonian events.

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GREEN. On 27 March 2018, Joyce (Evans) MA (1940 English; 1942 Moral Sciences (Psychology)) Joyce did her war work in the Foreign Office, then spent the rest of her career as a clinical psychologist, latterly for Bath Health District. She had a son and a daughter, Sara, who came up to Girton in 1966.

LEESON. On 24 August 2018, Nancy Margaret (Shaw) BA (1946 English) Nancy and the friends she made at Girton managed to keep a ‘round letter’ circulating between them for over sixty years. She qualified as a teacher at Hughes Hall, and remained particularly interested in education; she was a member of a pressure group that campaigned for improvements in state schools.

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HALLIDAY. On 26 May 2018, Anita Josephine MA (1959 Economics) Obituary on p. 142

LUMLEY. On 25 October 2018, Judith Mary (Casey) MA (1959 Natural Sciences) Obituary on p. 146

HAMMERTON. On 25 October 2018, Brenda (Mann) MA PhD (1955 Natural Sciences) After Girton, Brenda taught Botany at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. There she married John and had a daughter. The family travelled to the Caribbean, where Brenda taught at the College of Arts, Science and Technology, Jamaica. After returning to Britain she taught for many years at Bradford Girls’ Grammar School.

MACQUEEN. In 2018, Christine Melven MA (1943 Natural Sciences) Born into a Methodist family, Christine became a local preacher while at Girton. After teaching in London and working at Wesley’s Chapel, she was finally able to fulfil her desire to serve the Church overseas. She spent nearly 40 years in India, mostly training teachers, and shared the Gandhian principles of the local community. She continued to serve her Church and community in retirement in England.

time at Girton altered her profoundly and gave her the courage to become an actor, ‘opening up new worlds to a working-class child from an industrial backstreet in the Midlands’. GRAY. Before May 2019, Norah Jessie (Watts) MA (1938 Natural Sciences) Norah worked as a librarian for the Ministry of Food and the Science Information Department of the Commonwealth Bureau of Soils, Rothamsted Experimental Station.

HOLLIS. On 13 October 2018, Patricia Lesley (Wells) MA (1959 History; 1998 Honorary Fellow) Obituary on p. 144

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MELICHAROVA. In 2017, Katharine Margaret (Hall) MA (1958 English) Margaret’s varied career included teaching English and Latin in several schools, serving as Deputy Principal of the Central Tutorial School for Young Musicians, and teaching Drama at the Polytechnic of North London. She was also a freelance writer, producing educational material for the Peace Education Project of the Peace Pledge Union. MELROSE. On 25 June 2018, Margaret Elstob (Jackson, formerly Watson) (1946 Geography) Margaret was a County Councillor in Cheshire for 34 years, and twice Chairman of Cheshire County Council, the first woman to hold the position. She worked tirelessly to get the Alderley Edge and Nether Alderley bypass built; this was named Melrose Way in her honour. MINTER. On 28 November 2018, Gillian MA (1955 Modern and Medieval Languages) Gill established lifelong friendships at Girton, through College drama and sport (she was a half Blue). University administration was her lifelong profession. She was Assistant to the Vice-Chancellor at the University of Ibadan and subsequently held similar posts at Leeds, Hong Kong, the University of the West of England and Wiltshire College (Chippenham). She enjoyed painting and walking. MOIR. On 12 June 2018, Priscilla Mary (Minton Beddoes) BA (1959 English; 1961 History) Priscilla felt immediately at home in the Footlights and the ADC. She taught with VSO in Nigeria, then returned to Shropshire where she taught History, English and Politics to A level, later

becoming an A level examiner. She married Ian and had three children. She loved France, entertaining, gardening and family life. MUNDLE. On 5 August 2018, Sheila Macgregor (Falconer, formerly Kilpatrick) BA (1936 English) Sheila spent the war years working for the WAAF, including as secretary to the Vice-Chief of Air Staff; in this capacity she dealt with the most secret papers. In her fifties she took a degree in Psychology and thereafter worked as a clinical psychologist. She had three children and lived to the age of 100. O’DRISCOLL. On 15 January 2018, Philippa Mary (Thrower) MA (1973 Modern and Medieval Languages) Philippa worked in adult education and in a variety of voluntary positions: she was diocesan representative on her council’s Children and Education Policy Committee, a member of Hammersmith Residents’ Working Committee, and a teacher of English to immigrants. She had wide interests including philosophy, divinity, creative writing and music, and attended many Girton events. OLIVE. On 1 September 2018, Jennifer Mary (Tutton) BA (1957 Mathematics) While at Girton, Jenny enjoyed going to English lectures (despite reading Maths). A skilled artist and a lifelong teacher, she combined all these talents in her book, Maths: A Student’s Survival Guide. She relished nature and the outdoors, especially her garden and the Lakeland fells. Her sister Rosemary (1961) and daughter Rosalind (1986) both went to Girton.

PILKINGTON. On 26 March 2019, Harriet MA (1968 Classics; 1970 Medical Sciences) Harriet initially read Classics, but left for a year and came back to read Medicine. She did her clinical training at St George’s Hospital, London. POVEY. On 11 January 2019, Margaret Susan MA MB BChir MD (1961 Natural Sciences) Obituary on p. 148 ROSE. On 3 December 2018, José Gwendoline (Rixon) MA (1950 Modern and Medieval Languages) After graduating, José qualified as a teacher. She taught languages in Putney and St Albans before her marriage to Brian in 1956. Sadly she was widowed when still very young. She continued to teach as she brought up her three daughters alone. In retirement she enjoyed her garden and her grandchildren. RUTTER. On 29 December 2018, Christine Ruth MA (1973 Geography; 1975 Land Economy) Ruth worked as a surveyor for British Rail before moving to Dubai, later working for Leeds City Council. She was adventurous and loved travelling; she took part in the Cambridge annual survey of glaciers in Norway, and lived with a family of nomads in the northern Iranian mountains. She had a son and a daughter. SANKARAN. On 28 January 2019, Veronica (Tillyard) MA (1941 Classics) Veronica taught in England and New York and worked in a team translating the Domesday Book. Wartime at Girton included a night firewatching on the roof with the Mistress.

Her marriage, to an Indian, was long and successful. They had a daughter, who died young, a son and three grandchildren. Her mother, sister, sister-in-law and niece were Girtonians; her father, uncle, son and granddaughter studied at Jesus and Caius. SHEARD. On 6 January 2015, Kay Michelle (Wheildon) MA (1991 Oriental Studies; 1993 History) On graduating, Kay married Daniel, a scientific consultant, and did a PGCE in London. She worked as a Classics teacher and for a short while as a Research Associate in Cambridge. Kay and Daniel had one daughter.

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STANDRING. On 27 August 2017, Gillian Evelyn MA (1953 Natural Sciences) Gillian taught at several schools, including St Paul’s, Lincoln School, and Camden School for Girls. She also worked at the Children’s Zoo, Boston, Massachusetts, and finished her career as Education Officer at London Zoo. She wrote several books on animals and natural history, travelled extensively, and was involved in village life. STANLEY. On 12 January 2019, Margaret Shirley (Wright) MA (1950 Classics) Shirley took a Certificate in Education at Hughes Hall and taught Classics before and after bringing up her three children with Michael (Pembroke). She was extremely proud of being a Girtonian, served on the Roll Committee and attended many events, and donated her set of College centenary plates to be auctioned. She also held a Professional Cook’s Certificate.

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STATHAM. On 14 October 2018, Jennifer Mary (Lansdown) MA (1948 English) Jennifer worked in London University Library, where she met her husband Michael, and then for many years in King’s College (London) Library. In retirement in Radnorshire she was a prominent member of the local WI; on her father’s death she and Michael took over the family home in Trowbridge, where she volunteered at the local museum. Jennifer Mary Statham

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STEELE. On 24 February 2019, Christine Mavora (Hamilton Moore) MA (1954 History; 1959 Anthropology) Upon graduation Christine taught for a while and then returned to Girton to do a postgraduate diploma in Anthropology. After marrying Edward (Sidney Sussex), a lecturer, and having her son and two daughters, she worked for nearly twenty years at the Cambridge Office of the Oxford and Cambridge Schools Examination Board. STEPHENS. Before November 2018, Heather Constance (Parrington) BA (1941 History) Heather recalled wartime life at Girton, sharing coal fires and eating ‘roast swan’ for Sunday lunch. After her degree she joined the WRNS and was drafted to Plymouth as a Plotter, working deep underground in Combined Headquarters. She found her work interesting, exciting and rewardingly close to war activity. She later did secretarial work, married Peter and had four children. STOCKS. On 11 May 2018, Beatrice Rose (Martin) MA (1958 Classics; 1960 Theology) Beatrice did a Diploma in Education at Oxford and an MA in Primary Mathematics at Warwick,

then taught in primary and secondary schools. She married Alan and had two sons. Beatrice celebrated her retirement with foreign travel, first to Germany and then to the Romanesque churches of Burgundy with a Girton friend. SWIFT. In March 2019, Susan Elizabeth (Murch, formerly Stanton) MA (1969 Natural Sciences) After Girton, Susan did an MSc in Steroid Endocrinology at Leeds where she subsequently worked as a Medical Laboratory Scientific Officer and Senior MLSO. She married Alan Swift. THORNE. On 9 June 2018, Gillian Neville MA (1945 Natural Sciences) Gillian wrote her doctoral thesis on Plant Physiology for the University of London at Rothamsted Experimental Station, where she remained for 38 years. Her interests turned towards crop physiology and ecology, on which she published prolifically, and she was an inspiration to colleagues. She loved entertaining friends and hill-walking. TYLER. On 7 July 2018, Margaret Marie (Hughes) MA (1953 Geography) Margaret met Colin at Cambridge and they had two sons, David and Richard. She went on to teach Geography at Nottingham High School for Girls and Malvern Hall School in Solihull. She was a vivacious personality, enjoying travelling, painting and the outdoor life. VAUGHAN. On 9 September 2018, Rosemary Phillida Elizabeth (Crofts) BA (1944 Law) Rosemary followed her mother Maud (Ingram, 1908, the first woman to practise as a solicitor) both to Girton and into the law. She gained

a Masterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s degree at Columbia Law School and became a solicitor in the family firm. She married Bill Vaughan and had three children. WARNOCK. On 20 March 2019, Helen Mary (1985â&#x20AC;&#x201C;91 Mistress; 1986 Registrar of the Roll; 1991 Life Fellow) Obituary on p. 134 WEEKS. On 29 November 2018, Mary Viola (Lightburne) BA (1951 Archaeology and Anthropology; 1953 History) Mary was one of four Girtonian sisters (the others were Sylvia, 1946; Audrey, 1949; and Monica, 1956). She married David and had three daughters. She taught, and then became a selfemployed potter in Scotland.

WELHAM. In November 2018, Patricia Anne (Brophy) MA (1975 Natural Sciences) After graduating, Patricia did a PGCE and taught Physics in London before moving to Penzance. She married John. WHYBROW. On 24 April 2019, Catherine Lucy (Braithwaite, formerly Inchley) MA (1959 Mathematics) Catherine taught Mathematics all her life, and researched mathematics teaching. Between her first job in London and later posts in Portishead and Bath, she worked at Stanford University and the American School in Guatemala. She married first Ray Inchley and later John. Catherine was always positive and generous, and contributed much to community life.

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Obituaries MARY WARNOCK (1924–2019) The Year was fortunate to conduct one of the last in-depth interviews with Baroness Warnock (see ‘The Common-Sense Philosopher’ in the 2018 issue). Rather than reprinting this or duplicating one of the many obituaries that appeared in the press, we have chosen to focus on Lady Warnock’s time at Girton and to share with readers a tribute given by her daughter Kitty at the memorial service held for family and friends. Mary Warnock was Mistress of Girton from 1985 to 1991. Her predecessor, Professor Brenda Ryman, had died in office in late 1983, so there was a hiatus while the search and election took place, and Mary took up the post in January 1985. Mary Warnock had been appointed DBE before she was elected Mistress of Girton, and her life peerage followed soon after. She was a public figure, known for having chaired various government committees and commissions, most notably and most recently the inquiry into human fertilisation, which led to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act of 1990. Girton was probably very unlike the other Oxbridge colleges with which Mary had connections. Her husband Geoffrey Warnock was Principal of Hertford College, Oxford, and her brother, Duncan Wilson, Master of Corpus Christi, Cambridge; Mary herself had read Classics at Lady Margaret Hall and was later a Fellow and Tutor at St Hugh’s. But even if she found it an odd place, Mary Warnock did good things for Girton. As a

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life peer sitting on the crossbenches she spoke up for the universities (this was the period of the Baker Bill). At Girton, she at once understood the importance of fundraising (about which the Fellowship still felt rather nervous), and in 1988 announced in the Newsletter: ‘We have this year quietly launched a new kind of appeal.’ It was new in that it was to be ongoing, for as she wrote in 1990, ‘Fund-raising is a permanent and wholly necessary part of the administration of the College.’ There being as yet no professional help on this front in Girton, Mary did a great deal of the work herself. It was her personal initiative which won the funding from the Austin and Hope Pilkington Trust for a college appointment in Music (which Martin Ennis, the first holder of the post, still occupies). Mary also started the ‘Friends’ groups – Friends of the Garden, of the Chapel, and of the Library. With the development and professionalisation of our fund-raising, these have been disbanded, but they were very useful in their day. A number of the regional associations of Girtonians also began on Mary’s watch, and she would take every opportunity to arrange gatherings of Girtonians when she travelled overseas. She also instituted the practice, continued by her successors, of meeting every first-year undergraduate individually before courses started in October. I first met Mary Warnock during her first visit to Girton when she was being considered as a possible Mistress; I was detailed to keep her company for half an hour while we waited for two scientists to make their way from the

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Downing Site. In conversation we discovered that we had been taught at school by the same wonderful Girtonian classicist, Evelyn Genochio (Mary mentioned her in her first letter as Mistress to the readers of the Newsletter), who before moving to Cambridge had taught at St Swithunâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s School, Winchester, where Mary was a pupil. This formed a sort of bond, and we always got on well. During Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s last year as Mistress, my contact with her increased because I was serving as Secretary to Council, and I found that in one-to-one conversation she could be warm and funny (sometimes wickedly so). I also learned to cope with her unacknowledged deafness which was, I think, largely the cause of her sometimes distant manner with colleagues. Her energetic public life continued after she left Girton, and she was an eloquent speaker in support of various causes including, latterly, assisted dying. Gillian Jondorf, Life Fellow and former Vice-Mistress

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Thinking of my childhood, I am struck first by how my mother loved holidays. She filled them with people – another whole family or two, or some friends or cousins. Our father might have preferred quieter holidays, but he was swept along, only occasionally complaining. We went to the same places – several times to the same eccentric rented house in Tuscany, and regularly to the North Yorkshire coast. Our mother loved coastlines more than beaches, she loved walking, and riding, and birds, spring flowers and autumn blackberrying, but these outdoor pursuits were not at all about exercise, still less science or even jam-making – hers

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was a more Romantic pleasure, just being there, in the landscape. There was, I would say, a Wordsworthian element in her – things had more than their surface meaning, though this was instinctive and never quite articulated. She also loved houses. She always saw the possibilities of filling them with life, and wasn’t afraid of dilapidation or eccentricity. The big North Oxford house where she brought up her family housed five children, grandmother, a nanny, visiting families and friends, and later a succession of young friends needing temporary shelter. The house she bought in London for a son and several cousins and friends, music students who needed

somewhere to live and practise, now houses a fourth generation of the family. She took a rare delight in moving and creating a new home, right to the end of her life – she moved when she was almost 90, and only the bad luck of a higher bid stopped her from moving again a couple of years later.

the Oxfordshire County Music Service was the start of her public career. In any position that gave her the power to make more music happen, she did. One of the highlights of her life was having Alfred Brendel practising the piano in her sitting room in Oxford before a concert over the road in the Sheldonian.

It was partly the pleasure of planning improvements, choosing curtains and furniture. She didn’t think of herself as having the artistic talent of her sisters, but she loved colours and her taste in decor was unusual and bold – a sitting room with bright pink walls and a white carpet was very striking in 1950s Oxford. But there was shabby as well as chic – the dining table and beds in the holiday house came from a failed prep school’s closing-down auction.

Many people will remember her for her interest in and generosity towards other people, especially young ones in difficulties. She always wanted to help young people solve problems and start to make their way in the world – as a perceptive, practical and liberal headmistress; as a don spotting students in trouble; or as a respectful and understanding aunt or grandmother. As a headmistress, her ambition was not greater academic excellence but a school in which everyone could thrive. Only a couple of weeks before she died, she travelled into central London to meet a PhD student she had been asked to talk to.

It was the same with clothes. She was the opposite of ‘high-maintenance’ but dressed stylishly, and loved being generous and creative for others. Shopping, with friends or her daughters, in charity shops or in Regent Street, was a pleasure right through to the last year of her life. We can’t talk about her life without talking about music. She loved listening to music, but music was also for her something to be produced by oneself or people around one. She loved making occasions for others to make music. We sang rounds on long car journeys, gathered with cousins for family orchestra days, played chamber music as soon as we could string a few notes together. She believed passionately that making music should be part of every education: in fact, her involvement in

Underlying all this was family – her husband and children, siblings, uncles and cousins. Nephews and nieces who were students in Oxford recall the warm welcome when they visited – not just to do their washing but also to be treated as adults, taken an interest in. She loved her grandchildren and they loved her. If it was mixed with awe, she was able to break through that by asking just the right questions (and listening with genuine interest to the answers). She was not the kind of philosopher who discusses Kant over the breakfast table, but a warm, vivid, energetic person who loved every aspect of life. She would have been a great person even without her contributions to public life. Kitty Warnock

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CARLO ACERINI (1962â&#x20AC;&#x201C;2019) Carlo Lorenzo Acerini was born in Greenock in Scotland in 1962. His parents had a confectionery business, and he was educated at Holt School, Haddington, and at Glasgow Academy. On leaving school, Carlo went on to the University of Dundee in 1980 and completed a degree in Pharmacology before deciding to train as a doctor (he squeezed two years of pre-clinical science into one very packed year in which he also met his wife, Pauline, who was doing a PhD in Pharmacology). His clinical medical student training was based in Ninewells Hospital, Dundee, and he qualified in 1988. In the spring of 1988 Carlo completed an elective at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, which helped cement his choice of career pathway in paediatrics. After house jobs in general adult medicine and surgery, Carlo started his paediatric training, later choosing to specialise in diabetes and endocrinology. His first academic post was at the University of Oxford, where he was appointed Clinical Research Fellow with Professor David Dunger in

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1994. He came to Cambridge in 1997 as University Senior Lecturer and Consultant Paediatrician (Endocrinology and Diabetes) at Addenbrooke’s Hospital. His diabetes research centred on the development of new therapeutic approaches to the management of Type 1 diabetes in childhood and adolescence. This included work on the development of open and affordable closed-loop insulin delivery (artificial pancreas) systems and exploration of the use of adjunctive therapies for the improvement of insulin sensitivity and the avoidance of complications in Type 1 diabetes. He also set up the Cambridge Baby Growth Study in 2001, a prospective, longitudinal study designed to assess the impact of genetic factors and the role of the maternal in-utero environment in pre- and post-natal growth and reproductive health. Carlo published over 150 papers, and was a popular and well-respected speaker at national and international conferences. Carlo led the development of the paediatric teaching programme at Addenbrooke’s, with a strong emphasis on clinical learning and evidence-based medicine. Recently, he worked closely with colleagues from obstetrics, general practice and emergency medicine to ensure that students can address clinical problems in children of all ages wherever they present. Carlo strongly defended the stand-alone Clinical Paediatrics clinical examination, meaning that Cambridge is one of only a few medical schools that still have ’real patients‘ (i.e. children) in Paediatric finals. In addition to his local and regional

teaching role, Carlo influenced medical students globally through his editorship of the Oxford Handbook of Paediatrics which has sold over 80,000 copies and has been translated into other languages, including Mongolian. Carlo first came to Girton in 2010, initially as a supervisor for the secondyear undergraduate course in Human Reproduction and Endocrinology. He was soon appointed Bye-Fellow, and made such a significant contribution to Medicine that he became an Official Fellow within a year. For the last eight years he was the Director of Studies for first- and secondyear undergraduates. Carlo served on the College Council for three years and helped with development activities overseas. He fully supported the wider activities of Medicine and the College community, delivering the concluding remarks at the Girton150 Medical Symposium less than a month before he died. Medical Fellows at Girton greatly valued his clear vision and discerning assessment of situations. In a gentle and calm manner, Carlo pursued any issue that really mattered to him, always embodying Girton’s ethos of excellence and inclusiveness. Carlo had a great influence on students during their formative years; he was both supportive and encouraging and, as a result, was very well respected by the student body. Girton Medical students not only appreciated his teaching; they also confided personal concerns to him. On hearing of his death,

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many of Carlo’s students wrote tributes, all sharing the sentiments of the following selection: •

Thank you for devoting so much time, energy and effort on teaching us and checking up on us.

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You were my DoS and my interviewer – even before I started at Cambridge you made me feel comfortable here.

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You brought me out of my shell in supervisions. You were a mentor, a guide to life as well as a teacher.

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He managed to make every situation interesting and engaging.

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You were an inspiration and you’ve shaped the kind of doctor I want to be more than you could ever know.

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He was fundamental in our memories of Girton.

Carlo’s interests outside medicine were varied. He was a loving husband and father to his three children. He enjoyed cycling and keeping fit, and after the closure of Wolfson Court he parked in College before cycling to Addenbrooke’s every day. He was a keen beekeeper and planted vines in his garden in Little Gransden. His Italian heritage instilled in him a passion for food and wine. Carlo was a dedicated medical educator, astute researcher and excellent clinician. He has inspired many Girton Medical students, and will be greatly missed by his patients, colleagues, family and friends. Fiona Cooke, Official Fellow in Medicine

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JUNE BRADY (1929–2017) June Pauline Brady is remembered as someone who devoted her life to compassionate medicine, social justice and children’s rights. In 2014, she received the Hillman Olness Award for Lifetime Service and Lasting Contributions to Global Child Health from the International Child Health Section of the American Academy of Pediatrics. She leaves behind two books, dozens of articles on neonatology, and the many neonatologists she trained, who are now employed across the globe. June was born in Birmingham on 19 October 1929. Her father liked to joke that, having been born the week before it began, she was responsible for the Wall Street Crash. As a young girl, she spent World War II living in a caravan outside Cookham to avoid the bombings. Her parents inspired her to be ambitious: June later recalled that ‘my father never finished high school, so education was tremendously important to him’. At Girton she read Natural Sciences, graduating in 1951, and I am pleased to report that she supported the College throughout her life. It was at Girton that she first met two beloved classmates, Irene Ferguson (née McLaren, 1948) and Lorna Davison (née Stauffer, 1948); all three of them became doctors. After Cambridge and three years of clinical training at St Bartholomew’s Hospital in London, June became a House Officer in Paediatrics and ENT. June met my father, George A Hyde Jr, while skiing in Austria. They fell in love straight away. During their engagement, they lived in

New York City where Mom fulfilled paediatric residencies at Bellevue, Bronx Municipal and St Luke’s hospitals, before beginning a neonatology fellowship at Columbia University. June and George married in 1958, and by 1960 Dad felt it was his turn to live in the UK. He completed a paediatric surgical fellowship in Liverpool while Mom looked after me, her infant daughter Sandra. In 1961, we all returned to the US, and one of my favourite pictures from that era is of my parents standing next to my grandmother’s light blue Ford station-wagon. It would take them across the country in search of work, but even when they reached San Francisco, Mom couldn’t get a job. Dr Julius Comroe, then head of the Cardio-Vascular Research Institute (CVRI) at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF), explained why: ‘As a woman married to a surgeon, you’ll be too busy spending his money to work.’ Eventually, Dr Comroe agreed to hire her, but only after the birth of my sister Karen. Mom became a lifelong member of the CVRI.

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In the 1960s Mom was in the vanguard of the women who established the field of neonatology in the US. She set up the first Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at San Francisco General Hospital and went on to serve as Director of Nurseries at the Children’s Hospital for 24 years. A lifelong advocate of breast-feeding, Mom was a Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at UCSF. She was also one of the first neonatologists to study Sudden Infant Death Syndrome and, to encourage other parents, she had my baby sister Wendy participate in her sleep studies. Mom continued to expand her horizons, completing a Master’s in Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley, and a diploma in Tropical Medicine at Liverpool. In 1987 my parents set off to work and conduct research at Kenyatta National Hospital at the University of Nairobi. After two years in Kenya, they spent nine years at the University of Zimbabwe Medical School in Harare, where she was chair of the Paediatric Postgraduate Training Programme and also worked on HIV/AIDS. In 1998 June and George returned to California to spend time with their grandchildren. Though already retired, they accepted a consultancy in Equatorial Guinea to help provide better health care. Over her lifetime, Mom travelled to nearly 70 countries, worked in twelve, and learned three new languages – Swahili, Spanish and elementary Shona. Mom’s piece ‘Why go to Africa?’ revealed her outlook on life. ‘[You travel to Africa because] you are needed, because primary medicine goes so much farther than tertiary care, and because life [outside work] can be both challenging and fun. Because watching

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a herd of elephants digging for water in a river bed under a full moon and observing a leopard take a sip of water in the silence of night is simply unforgettable.’ Sandra Teresa Hyde

ANITA HALLIDAY (1940–2018) Anita Josephine Halliday will be remembered as one of the founders of St Paul’s Community Development Trust in Birmingham. The Trust grew from small beginnings in 1972, and by the time Anita retired in 2016 it was a large and successful voluntary organisation, employing more than 120 staff as well as 50 volunteers. Anita made lifelong friends at Girton, where she read Economics. She achieved a Cambridge Blue for women’s cricket, also playing at county level. Her overarm spin bowling was second to none and her stonewall batting greatly depressed the opposition; in hockey, her defensive ‘thou shalt not pass’ attitude to oncoming forwards was much appreciated by her teammates. While at Cambridge she met Michael Young (later, Baron Young of Darlington), who played a role in the foundation of both the Open University and the University of the Third Age. Young took students to study life in Bethnal Green, and visits to this deprived area of London had a profound effect on Anita, altering for ever her perspectives and beliefs. In 1967, she received a PhD in Social Sciences

from Keele University. Meanwhile, in 1965, she had been appointed Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Birmingham. Birmingham was a crucible of student unrest in the late Sixties. When the appointment of radical sociologist Dick Atkinson as Lecturer was vetoed by the university hierarchy, Anita regarded it as an attack on academic freedom and she was deeply involved in defending the appointment. When Dick Atkinson left the university to work in the highly deprived community of Birmingham’s Balsall Heath, Anita also abandoned her academic career, and in 1973 she and Dick established in a derelict terraced house an independently funded Special School with just five pupils. The pupils were young people who had given up on school and whose schools had given up on them. Anita recalled an occasion during the early days in Balsall Heath when she looked out of the classroom window to see a pupil driving off in her car. She chose not to call the police, later remarking: ‘I had a full and frank discussion with him on the dangers of taking without consent.’ Many of her pupils, she said, were ‘crushed by broken families, rotten slum living conditions and depression. They felt themselves failures with no hope of a future career, as well as outsiders because they had been rejected by their original schools. Before they could be taught, you had to get them to talk.’ Against all odds, St Paul’s School survived and continues to give new chances to pupils excluded from mainstream education. Starting in 1979, Anita worked with Dick to develop St Paul’s Trust, a combination of day nursery, adventure playground and school.

Their real aim, however, was to regenerate the community, and such was their success that Balsall Heath became a symbol of hope for deprived communities everywhere. Anita founded The Balsall Heathan, a community newspaper, in 1973 and it ran for over 40 years; in the last year of her life she started an online version, Neighbourhood News Online.

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As Head of St Paul’s School for many years, and as Chief Executive Officer from 1989, Anita led the Trust with vision, determination and resilience. She became a prominent figure in Birmingham’s voluntary sector, unfailingly committed to the disadvantaged, the downtrodden and the dispossessed. Her triumphs were many. The original nursery school grew from a tiny playgroup to become an important Early Years Centre, while the original adventure playground was upgraded to a purpose-built centre, The Venture, which provided extensive community and play opportunities. Balsall Heath received a huge boost from the government’s Sure Start programme, and the City Farm, now 39 years old, enriched the lives of countless people.

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On a wider scale, Anita played a major part in local regeneration: she worked on the Better Balsall Heath Campaign; she supported the Balsall Heath Forum and a host of smaller organisations including Language Alive! and Including Women! She was also a governor of Clifton School, a member of the Neighbourhood Partnership Strategic Group, and she contributed to the success of the Balsall Neighbourhood Plan. Throughout her life she exemplified the St Paul’s Trust mission statement: ‘To work for and with the community of Balsall Heath and the wider neighbourhood to promote education, recreation and life-long learning’.

For Patricia was different from the rest of us. She knew where she was going. Tall, redheaded, striking to look at, and vigorous on her bicycle, she was aiming to be the second Barbara Castle (the lively Minister of Transport from 1965 to 1968 in Harold Wilson’s second administration). Several decades on, I was to collect her from Barbara Castle’s 90th birthday party, where the leading Labourites of the era were gathered, having a great time.

In 2013 Anita was awarded an MBE in recognition of the massive difference she made in the lives of so many. She died peacefully, after a short period of illness, on 26 May 2018. Val Hart

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Patricia Hollis (née Wells) came up to Girton in September 1959, one of Mrs Jean Lindsay’s final intake of History students. I’m not quite sure how we became friends, other than that we were both eleven-plus girls and leant to the Left. Patricia, whose father had been involved in union activities when working in agriculture, attended Plympton Grammar School and supplemented her formal education with long sessions in the public library. Her performance in Cambridge admissions tests was uneven, but she shone at interview. Girton gave Patricia her first stepping-stone and, in return, she came to reflect great distinction on her College.

Patricia had exceptional powers of concentration and worked her way up to a First in her third year; I can still visualise the little cards on which she wrote her notes, densely covered with facts. She had grown up in the Wesleyan Methodist tradition and made her entry into Cambridge social life via the Methodist Society. Some of the young men found her alarming and disconcerting to deal with, for she was both formidable and flirtatious.

On graduating, she took up a Harkness Scholarship, studying at the University of California, Berkeley, and at Columbia University in New York, returning to the UK with markedly new sophistication. She took her PhD at Nuffield College, Oxford, as did her husband, Martin Hollis, a philosopher whom she met in the US. They married in 1965 and both secured posts at the University of East Anglia. Patricia was appointed Lecturer in Modern History in 1967 and later became Dean of the School of English and American Studies. Of her publications, it was Jennie Lee: A Life, winner of the 1998 Orwell Prize, that brought most acclaim. From 1968 to 1991, while pursuing her academic career and raising two sons, Patricia served on Norwich City Council. She was the first woman to lead the Council (1983â&#x20AC;&#x201C;88) and campaigned to save ancient buildings from demolition, effectively bringing about the modernisation of the city without losing its essential character. Her parents moved to be near her, and this period of her life, crammed with professional, civic and family commitments, brought her great satisfaction. But the political ambition was still there. Patricia stood twice, unsuccessfully, as the Labour candidate for the safe Conservative seat of Great Yarmouth, but when offered a safe Labour seat in the Midlands, found that she was not as ambitious as she had thought (the timing was wrong for her

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family). She did, however, find time to sit on public bodies such as English Heritage (1988– 1991) and the Press Council (1989–1990). In 1990, Patricia made her parliamentary debut, not in the Commons as she originally intended, but as a life peer in the House of Lords. She invited me to come and hear her speak; the subject was local-government finance, the session sparsely attended. Afterwards, we were in a back room when the Dangerous Dogs Act came up for debate. All the male peers rose as a body and roared down the corridors to the Chamber. We did laugh. Patricia, who took the title Baroness Hollis of Heigham, served as Opposition Whip and Opposition Spokesperson on housing, local government, the environment, disability and social security. When Labour took office in 1997, she joined the front bench as UnderSecretary of State in the Department for Social Security, and from 2001 to 2005 she was Parliamentary Secretary for Work and Pensions. These were not traditionally popular subjects for debate, but Patricia was able to bring them to life because on all matters touching social justice she knew exactly what she was talking about; she did her homework and was a fiercely logical communicator and lobbyist. She was also gifted at building crossparty support, particularly for causes affecting women. In 1996 she had campaigned successfully for legislation that would allow a divorced wife a share in her ex-husband’s pension, and in 2008 she pushed through reforms enabling working women to top

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up their pension (for the latter she was named Channel 4’s Campaigning Politician of the Year). In 2015 she led the revolt in the Lords against the abolition of working tax credits with a celebrated speech illustrating the day-to-day effect of proposed cuts on families and invoking ‘the trust between Parliament and the people we serve’. This was the serious mission of her life for which she will be remembered. Patricia was also very good company, with a taste for mischief. She loved jazz and sang in the Parliament Choir. Throughout her career she remained solidly based in her home life; after Martin Hollis’s death in 1998, she found happiness with Alan Howarth, a former Conservative MP who became a Labour peer. She is survived by Lord Howarth and by her two sons, Simon and Matthew. Tanya Hawley (1959 Ounsted)

JUDITH LUMLEY (1941–2018) Judith Mary Lumley (née Casey), my mother, was born in Cardiff in 1941. Her older brother died young, so for most of her life she was the eldest child, with three younger sisters. She was always intellectual, though in the interests of fairness I should point out that she strenuously denied reports of her reading books while walking or cycling.

Photo credit: Judith Lumley Centre, La Trobe University

long time. Travelling by ship was slow, and flying was expensive – in terms of what people earned, about ten times as expensive as it is now. It was ten years before Judith returned to Britain for a visit, with three children.

Judith went up to Girton in 1959 to study Medicine. She completed her pre-clinical study and took an MA. While she was there she met a Botany student, Peter Lumley. They were married in 1964 before setting out for Melbourne, Australia, where Peter and his PhD supervisor were to be the academic staff of the new Botany department at Monash University. Judith applied to the University of Melbourne to finish her medical degree, but wasn’t accepted, so she ended up as part of the first MBBS (Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery) cohort from Monash University. Moving to Australia was a much bigger step back then, and meant leaving family for a very

After finishing her medical degree, Judith did a PhD in fetal physiology with Professor Carl Wood at Monash. She went on to work in the research section of the Monash Medical School – first in the Obstetrics and Gynaecology department, and later in Pediatrics. In 1991 Judith established with state funding a separate research group, the Centre for the Study of Mothers’ and Children’s Health. The Centre was initially at Monash University, but later moved to La Trobe, and changed its name to Mother and Child Health Research. Apart from two years at Oxford, directing the UK National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit, she remained with the Centre for the rest of her career. In 2013, after her retirement, it was renamed The Judith Lumley Centre. Judith was a Fellow of both the UK Faculty of Public Health and the Australasian Faculty of Public Health Medicine. In further recognition for her work, she was awarded the Sidney Sax Medal by the Public Health Association of Australia, and appointed a Member of the Order of Australia. Early on, Judith managed fairly well to keep work separate from family time; it was only as the children got older that the big yellow legal pads and spiral-bound notebooks

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would creep out in the evenings and at the weekend. Long after adopting computers for final versions, she would still write everything out by hand, and would copy and paste, literally, using scissors and glue.

After she broke her hip in 2011, Judith moved into a nursing home; her health deteriorated over the following years and she succumbed, finally, to pneumonia. She died in October 2018. Thomas Lumley

When not working, Judith was interested in music, food, and reading, and in birdwatching (though not in the competitive checklist sense). She was also a good cook herself, though more interested in the results than the processes. She was willing to let children ‘help’, and later observed that the effort paid off in the long run. Judith liked listening to music and loved singing. She saw it as something everyone could do, even if they weren’t very good at it. Over the years, in the course of my career in biostatistics, I’ve had lots of people ask me if I’m related to Judith Lumley. Some of these enquiries have been from the great and the good of evidence-based medicine, but there’s a much wider range than that. I particularly remember a student in a class for which I served as teaching assistant. This student, a midwife doing a PhD in epidemiology, had emailed Judith with questions about a published paper and ended up in continuing correspondence with her. Part of Judith’s success in an often sexist medical world was her complete refusal to put up with people who tried to convince her against the evidence of her own senses. When Alzheimer’s made her memory unreliable, it was initially difficult for her to understand, and adapt to, what was happening to her.

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SUE POVEY (1942–2019) In 2003 the Human Genome Project (HGP) published the complete sequence of human DNA. Susan Margaret Povey, who has died aged 76, contributed greatly to this international collaborative project. Her work as a molecular geneticist had started much earlier, in the late 1960s. She was motivated throughout by a strong interest in people and disease. At the outset, Sue exploited newly developed enzyme-detection systems that revealed differences between individuals and among species, allowing her to solve a number of long-standing puzzles. One involved mapping the chromosomal location of human genes, using inheritance patterns across generations, as in Gregor Mendel’s pioneering work, to identify closely linked genes. Later mapping used human–mouse hybrid cells. In this approach, genes are assigned to specific human chromosomes by observing their coordinated presence or absence. Sue co-authored more than 60 gene-mapping papers (several with us) before the human genome was fully sequenced. A remarkable early achievement – initially with enzyme technology, subsequently with DNA – was her

contribution to the understanding of the origin of gynaecological tumours. More mundane, but of great practical use, was the recognition, through genetic-marker analysis, that many cell lines used for research had been taken over by other fast-growing cancer cell lines. Sue was also able to link the liver disease that took the life of her niece at the age of 13 to deficiency of alpha-1-antitrypsin; she went on to contribute

significant research in this area, delivering early molecular diagnostics to other families. As DNA technology advanced, the pace of disease-gene mapping speeded up. Sue attended and contributed to every Human Gene Mapping Workshop between 1975 and 1991. Her early work in this field made her appreciate the need for precise gene naming and annotation. She

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took over from Phyllis McAlpine as Chair of the International Human Genome Organisation’s gene nomenclature committee in 1996, continuing until her official retirement in 2007. After establishing maps with genes assigned to each chromosome, work began on searching for the positions of disease-associated genes. In 1985, Sue began to map the complex disease tuberous sclerosis (TSC). She soon succeeded in linking TSC to the ABO blood group which, in turn, was assigned to chromosome 9. However, further analysis showed that, in some families, the disease mapped to chromosome 16. The race was on to identify two different TSC genes. Although Sue was aware of international rivalries, she was always ready to collaborate, so her group was one of eight labs that, in 1997, co-authored the paper identifying the gene on chromosome 9. She later set up and managed the TSC variation database, an invaluable international resource for the interpretation of molecular genetic results. In recent years, she also made massive contributions to developing ethical guidelines for maintaining confidentiality while allowing genetic disease data to be shared for the benefit of other patients and researchers. Born in Leeds, Sue was the daughter of Jack Povey and his wife Margaret (née Robertson). Jack was an RAF intelligence officer who went on to set up the Physics Department of St Michael’s College, now Mount St Mary’s Catholic High School, in Leeds. Margaret was the first woman to graduate from Leeds Medical School, becoming a paediatrician and running

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a maternity hospital in Leeds. From her mother Sue gleaned that women can pursue any career they wish, but should avoid learning to sew. From Notre Dame Collegiate School in Leeds, Sue went up to Girton, graduating in 1964 in Genetics. Three years later she qualified in Medicine at UCL. After clinical training in Liverpool and Huddersfield she spent a year with the Save the Children Fund in Algeria. Her decision to become a research scientist was triggered by an overland trip to India, which yielded her first paper (on the genetics of leprosy), and by a stint in the laboratory of the renowned human geneticist Harry Harris, whose group at the MRC Human Biochemical Genetics Unit at UCL she joined as a staff member in 1970. She remained at UCL for the rest of her career, becoming Haldane Professor of Human Genetics in 2000. Unassuming at first sight, Sue could be fierce in defence of her principles, taking on a whole committee if necessary. To enable her staff and students to attend international meetings, she would often travel at very low cost herself. Several of her students, many of them women, are now professors or in leading professional roles. Holidays were generally extensions of work trips to interesting countries where she could walk and enjoy the fauna, flora and terrain with colleagues. Sue is survived by her brother, Phil, and nephew, Ian. Dallas Swallow and Veronica van Heyningen (Daniel 1965)

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Visitor: The Rt Hon Baroness Hale of Richmond, PC, DBE, MA, Hon FBA, Hon LLD, Hon FRCPsych Mistress: Professor Susan J Smith, BA, MA, DPhil (Oxon), PhD, AcSS, FBA, FRSE

Fellows and Officers of the College, June 2019 Honorary Fellows Professor M Burbidge, BSc, PhD (London), FRS Professor Anita Desai, CBE, BA (Delhi), FRSL The Rt Hon the Lord Mackay of Clashfern, KT, PC, Hon LLD, FRSE HM Queen Margrethe II of Denmark, Hon LLD Miss E Llewellyn-Smith, CB, MA Dame Bridget Ogilvie, DBE, AC, PhD, ScD, FIBiol, FRCPath, FMedSci, FRS, Hon DSc (Nottingham, Glasgow, Bristol, Dublin, Durham, Kent, ICL, Leicester, Manchester, St Andrews) Professor Dame Gillian Beer, DBE, MA, LittD, BLitt (Oxon), Hon DLitt (Liverpool, Leicester, London, Sorbonne, Queenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Univ Belfast, Oxford, Harvard, St Andrews), FBA, FRSL The Rt Revd David Conner, KCVO, MA The Rt Hon Lady Arden, PC, DBE, MA, LLM, Hon LLD (Liverpool, Warwick, Royal Holloway, Nottingham, UCL) The Rt Hon Baroness Perry of Southwark, MA, Hon LLD (Bath, Aberdeen), Hon DLitt (Sussex, South Bank, City), Hon DEd (Wolverhampton), Hon DUniv (Surrey), Hon DLitt Hum (Mercy College NY), FRSA Dame Rosalyn Higgins, GBE, QC, LLB, MA, Hon LLD, Hon DCL (Oxon), Hon LLD (LSE), FBA

Dr Margaret H Bent, CBE, MA, MusB, PhD, Hon DMus (Glasgow), Hon DFA (Notre Dame), Dr hon c (Montreal), FBA, FSA, FRHistS Dame Elizabeth L A Forgan, DBE, BA (Oxon), Hon FBA Professor Dame Frances M Ashcroft, DBE, MA, PhD, ScD, FRS Professor Dame Athene Donald, DBE, MA, PhD, FRS The Rt Hon Dame Elizabeth Gloster, PC, DBE, MA Professor Dame Madeleine J Atkins DBE, MA, PGCE, PhD Professor Sarah M Springman, CBE, MA, PhD, FREng, FICE Ms Daphne Todd, OBE, Hon PhD (De Montfort) HIH Hisako, The Princess Takamado of Japan, MA, PhD, Hon LLD (Alberta and Prince Edward Island), Hon EdD (Hannam), Hon PhD (Josai) Professor Dame Pratibha Gai, DBE, BSc, MSc, PhD, FRS Ms Sandra (Sandi) Birgitte Toksvig, OBE, MA, Hon DLitt (Portsmouth, York St John, Surrey, Westminster and Leicester) HE Dame Karen Elizabeth Pierce, DCMG, MA, MSc Dr Suzannah Claire Lishman, CBE, MA, BChir, MB, Hon FRCPI, Hon DSc (Swansea)

Dame Ann Bowtell, DCB, MA, PhD (London)

Barbara Bodichon Foundation Fellows

Professor Dusa McDuff, BSc (Edinburgh), PhD, FRS, Hon DSc (Edinburgh, York, Strasbourg)

Mrs Barbara Wrigley, MA

Viscountess Runciman of Doxford, DBE, BA

Mrs Margaret Llewellyn, OBE, MA

The Rt Hon Baroness Symons of Vernham Dean, PC, MA

Mrs Veronica Wootten, MBE, MA

Lady English, MA, MB, BChir, MRCP, FRCPsych

Miss C Anne Wilson, MA, ALA

Ms J Rachel Lomax, MA, MSc (London)

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Mrs Sally Alderson, MA

Dr Ruth Whaley BA, MA, PhD (Harvard)

Martin D Brand, MA, BSc (Manchester), PhD (Bristol), Life Fellow

Sir Laurence W Martin, DL, MA, PhD, DCL (Hon)

John E Davies, MA, BSc, PhD (Monash), Life Fellow

Miss Sarah C Holt, MA

David N Dumville, MA, PhD (Edinburgh), Life Fellow

Mr Colin S Grassie, MA

Mr Leif O Høegh, MA, MBA Ms Gladys Li, MA Fellows Enid A C MacRobbie, MA, PhD (Edinburgh), ScD, FRS, Life Fellow Dorothy J Thompson, MA, PhD, Hon DLitt (Liverpool), FBA, Life Fellow

Abigail L Fowden, MA, PhD, ScD, Professorial Fellow (Biological Sciences) Juliet A S Dusinberre, MA, PhD (Warwick), Life Fellow Thomas Sherwood, MA, MB, BS (London), FRCR, FRCP, Life Fellow Richard J Evans, MA, PhD, MRCVS, Life Fellow Alastair J Reid, MA, PhD, Life Fellow Sarah Kay, MA, DPhil (Oxon), LittD, FBA, Life Fellow Howard P Hodson, MA, PhD, FREng, Life Fellow

Melveena C McKendrick, MA, PhD, LittD, FBA, Life Fellow

Peter C J Sparks, MA, DipArch, RIBA, Life Fellow

Nancy J Lane Perham, OBE, MA, PhD, ScD, MSc (Dalhousie), DPhil (Oxon), Hon LLD (Dalhousie), Hon ScD (Salford, Sheffield Hallam, Oxford Brookes, Surrey, Heriot Watt), Life Fellow

Joan Oates, BA (Syracuse), PhD, FBA, Life Fellow Gillian Jondorf, MA, PhD, Life Fellow Betty C Wood, MA, PhD (Pennsylvania), Life Fellow

Stephanie Palmer, LLB (Adelaide), SJD (Harvard), LLM (Harvard), Official Fellow and Director of Studies in Law Frances Gandy, MA, MCLIP, Life Fellow *1 Christopher J B Ford, MA, PhD, Professorial Fellow (Physics) Charity A Hopkins, OBE, MA, LLB, Life Fellow

Jill Mann, MA, PhD, FBA, Life Fellow

W James Simpson, BA (Melbourne), MPhil (Oxon), PhD, Life Fellow

Ruth M Williams, MA, PhD (London), ScD, Life Fellow

Anne Fernihough, MA, PhD, Life Fellow

Julia M Riley, MA, PhD, Life Fellow, Tutor for Admissions and Director of Studies in Physical Sciences

A Marilyn Strathern, DBE, MA, PhD, Hon DLitt (Oxford, St Andrews), Hon ScD (Edinburgh, Copenhagen, Helsinki, Durham), Hon Doctorate (Panteion), Hon DPhil (Papua New Guinea), Hon DSocSci (Queen’s Univ Belfast, Yale), FBA, Life Fellow and Former Mistress

*3 Hugh R Shercliff, MA, PhD, Official Fellow and Director of Studies in Engineering

S Frank Wilkinson, MA, PhD, Life Fellow

Angela C Roberts, PhD, Professorial Fellow (Behavioural Neurosciences)

Martin W Ennis, MA, PhD, FRCO, KRP (Organ; Köln), KRP (Harpsichord; Köln), Austin and Hope Pilkington Official Fellow, Director of Studies in Music and Director of College Music

John L Hendry, MA, PhD, Life Fellow

Roland E Randall, MA, MSc (McGill), PhD, Life Fellow

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Jochen H Runde, MPhil, PhD, Professorial Fellow (Economics) and Director of Studies in Management Studies

Dennis Barden, MA, PhD, Life Fellow

Andrew R Jefferies, MA, VetMB, FRCPath, MRCVS, Life Fellow Juliet J D’A Campbell, CMG, MA, Life Fellow and Former Mistress Peter H Abrahams, MBBS, FRCS (Edinburgh), FRCR, DO (Hon), Life Fellow *Deborah Lowther, MA, ACA, Official Fellow and Bursar Clive Lawson, MA, PhD, Frank Wilkinson Official Fellow and Director of Studies in Economics Richard L Himsworth, MA, MD, Life Fellow Julian D Slater, PhD, BVMS (Edinburgh), Supernumerary Fellow A Mark Savill, MA, PhD, FRAeS, Life Fellow Per-Olof H Wikström, BA, PhD (Stockholm), FBA, Professorial Fellow (Criminology)

Colm Durkan, BA, PhD (TCD), FRIET, Official Fellow, Tutor and Director of Studies in Engineering Edward J Briscoe, BA (Lancaster), MPhil, PhD, Professorial Fellow (Computer Science) K M Veronica Bennett, MA, BSc (Leicester), PhD (CNAA), Life Fellow Harriet D Allen, MSc (Calgary), MA, PhD, Official Fellow, Tutor and Director of Studies in Geography

Shaun D Fitzgerald, MA, PhD, FREng, Supernumerary Fellow (Engineering) Stephen Robertson, MA, MSc (City), PhD (London), Life Fellow The Revd A Malcolm Guite, MA, PhD (Durham), Supernumerary Fellow and Chaplain Stuart Davis, BA, PhD (Birmingham), Jean Sybil Dannatt Official Fellow, Tutor for Admissions and Director of Studies in Modern and Medieval Languages

Benjamin J Griffin, MA, PhD, Marilyn Strathern Official Fellow and Director of Studies in History

P Mia Gray, BA (San Diego), MRCP (Berkeley), PhD (Rutgers), Supernumerary Fellow (Geography)

*7 Fiona J Cooke, MA, BM, BCh (Oxon), PhD (London), MRCP, Official Fellow, Dean of Discipline and Director of Studies in Medicine

S-P Gopal Madabhushi, PhD, Professorial Fellow and Director of Studies in Engineering

Neil Wright, MA, PhD, Official Fellow (Classics) Ruth M L Warren, MA, MD, FRCP, FRCR, Life Fellow *Alexandra M Fulton, BSc, PhD (Edinburgh), Official Fellow, Senior Tutor and Director of Studies in Biological Sciences

Ross Lawther, MA, PhD, Olga Taussky Official Fellow and Director of Studies in Mathematics *Karen L Lee, MA, Vice-Mistress and Official Fellow (Law) Sinéad M Garrigan-Mattar, BA, DPhil (Oxon), Jane Elizabeth Martin Official Fellow in English

Maureen J Hackett, BA, MA (Southampton), Official Fellow, Tutor and Junior Bursar

Crispin H W Barnes, BSc, PhD (London), Professorial Fellow (Physics)

Judith A Drinkwater, MA, Official Fellow, Tutor and Director of Studies in Linguistics and Modern and Medieval Languages

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Stuart A Scott, MA, PhD, Official Fellow and Director of Studies in Chemical Engineering Stelios Tofaris, MA, PhD, Brenda Hale Official Fellow and Director of Studies in Law

Liliana Janik, MPhil (Toruń), PhD, Official Fellow, Tutor for Graduates and Director of Studies in Archaeology and Anthropology

Samantha K Williams, BA (Lancaster), MSc, PhD, Official Fellow and Director of Studies in History

Kamiar Mohaddes BSc (Warwick), PhD, Official Fellow and Director of Studies in Economics

Nik Cunniffe, MA, MPhil, MSc (Bath), PhD, Official Fellow (Biological Sciences)

Katherine Hughes, BSc, BVSc (Liverpool), MRCVS, PhD, Dip ACVP, Official Fellow and Director of Studies in Veterinary Medicine

Simone Maghenzani, BA (Turin), MA (Turin), PhD (Turin), Official Fellow, Praelector, Tutor and Director of Studies in History

Samuel D Grimshaw, MEng, PhD, Mitsubishi Senior Research Fellow *Amy R Donovan, BA, MPhil, MSc (UCL), PhD, Official Fellow, Tutor and Director of Studies in Geography Arik Kershenbaum, MA, PhD (Haifa), Official Fellow (Biological Sciences) and Tutor

Helen A Van Noorden, BA, PhD, Wrigley Fellow and Director of Studies in Classics

Teng Cao, BEng (BUAA, Beijing), PhD, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Senior Research Fellow in Turbomachinery

Carlo L Acerini, MA, BSc, MBChB (Dundee), DCH (Glasgow), MD (Dundee), Official Fellow and Director of Studies in Medicine (â&#x20AC; 20.5.2019)

Deborah J Easlick, BA (Bristol), Official Fellow and Development Director

Morag A Hunter, MA, PhD, Official Fellow, Tutor and Director of Studies in Physical Sciences

Heidi Radke, DVM (Ludwig Maximilian University), DrVetMed (Zurich), Official Fellow, Tutor and Director of Studies in Veterinary Medicine

*Emma J L Weisblatt, BA, MB, BCh, MRCP, MRCPsych, PhD, Official Fellow, Tutor and Director of Studies in Psychology and Psychological and Behavioural Sciences Sophia M I Shellard von Weikersthal, BSc, PhD (Freiburg), Tutor for Graduates and Official Fellow (Pharmacology) Henrik Latter, BA, BSc, MSc (Sydney), PhD, Official Fellow (Mathematics)

Matthew J Allen, MA, VetMB, PhD, Professorial Fellow (Veterinary Medicine)

Arnold C Hunt, MA, PhD, Official Fellow (History)

James Wade, BA (Boise State), MA (York), PhD, Official Fellow and Director of Studies in English *R James E Riley, BA (Lancaster), MA (Lancaster), PhD, Official Fellow, Tutor for Graduates and Director of Studies in English

Andrew Irvine, BSc, PhD (Sussex), Official Fellow (Physics)

Alexander G S C Liu, MA, MEarthSci (Oxon), DPhil (Oxon), Official Fellow (Earth Sciences)

*Anna Barford, BA, MA (Nottingham), PhD (Sheffield), Official Fellow and Director of Studies in Geography Aaron Hornkohl, BA (Biola), MA, PhD (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Official Fellow (Asian and Middle Eastern Studies) and Tutor *Sebastian L D Falk, BA (Oxon), PGCE (Buckingham), PhD, Rosamund Chambers Research Fellow in History and Philosophy of Science Claire E White, BA, PhD, Brenda Stacey Official Fellow (Modern and Medieval Languages)

John W Wills, BSc, PhD (Swansea), Hertha Ayrton Research Fellow in Biological Sciences

Shona Wilson Stark, LLB, LLM (Aberdeen), PhD, Official Fellow (Law)

Sean M Collins, BS (Michigan), PhD, Henslow Research Fellow in Materials Science and Metallurgy

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Jenny K Blackhurst, MA (St Andrews), MA (UCL), MCLIP, Official Fellow for Life Skills and Librarian Carolina C Alves, BSc (UNESP), MSc (UNICAMP), PhD (SOAS), Joan Robinson Research Fellow in Heterodox Economics Anne-Margret Wolf, BSc (Twente), DPhil (Oxon), Margaret Smith Research Fellow in Politics and International Studies *Hilary F Marlow, BA (Manchester), BA (KCL), PhD, Official Fellow, Tutor for Graduates and Director of Studies in Theology, Religion and Philosophy of Religion Evis Sala, MD (Tirana), PhD, FRCR, Professorial Fellow (Medicine)

Diana Fusco, BPhys (Milan) MPhys (Milan), PhD (Duke), Official Fellow (Physics) Thomas J Roulet, MSc (Audencia, Nantes), MPhil (Sciences Po, Paris), PhD (HEC, Paris), Official Fellow (Management Studies)

Charles J M Bell, MA, PhD, MB, BChir, John Marks Fellow in Medicine and Praelector

John Lawson, BA, PhD, Director of Studies in Politics, International Relations and Sociology, and Psychological and Behavioural Sciences Linda L Layne, BA (USC), MPhil, PhD (Princeton), Director of Studies in Social Anthropology Ian Lewis, BSc (London), PhD SinÃ©ad Moylett, BA (TCD), MSc (NIUG), PhD (TCD), Bye-Fellow for Study Skills Frisbee C C Sheffield, BA (Bristol), DPhil (Oxon), Director of Studies in Philosophy Gareth F Wilson, BMus, MA, PGCert, DipPGPerfRAM, DipRAM, Director of Chapel Music and Assistant Director of Music

Postdoctoral Teaching Associate Stefania Carrobio, BSc, DPhil (Geneva)

Lisa-Maria Needham, MChem (Leicester), PhD, Tucker-Price Research Fellow in Chemistry

External Teaching Officers

Bye-Fellows

Caroline J A Brett, MA, PhD, Director of Studies in AngloSaxon, Norse and Celtic

Richard Jennings, PhD, Director of Studies in Philosophy and History and Philosophy of Science John S McCombie, MA, PhD, Director of Studies in Land Economy

Claudia Domenici, BA (Pisa), MA (Lancaster), Director of Studies in Modern and Medieval Languages

Musicians in Residence

Margaret Faultless, MA, Hon FBC, FTCL, ARCM, Hon RAM (Music)

Nicholas Mulroy, MA, PGDip (RAM), ARAM

Sarah L Fawcett, BA, BM, BCh (Oxon), MRCS, FRCR, PhD (Medical and Veterinary Sciences) Irit Katz, BArch (Bezalel), MA (BIU, Israel), PhD, Director of Studies in Architecture

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Andrew Kennedy, MA, PGDip (RCM)

Jeremy West, Hon FRWCMD

Visiting Fellows 2018–19

Notes

Simeon Barclay, Artist in Residence

* Member of Council

Professor Grevel Lindop, Mary Amelia Cummins Harvey Visiting Fellow Commoner

University Professor

University Reader

University Senior Lecturer

University Lecturer

Lectrice

University Assistant Director of Research

Tiphaine Calcoen (École Normale Supérieure de Lyon)

University Senior Research Associate

Professor Rachel Ong ViforJ, Helen Cam Visiting Fellow

University Teaching Associate/Associate Lecturer

Archivist Emerita

Faculty Affiliated Lecturer

Kate Perry, Cert Ed (Froebel)

Secretary A, Department of Veterinary Medicine

University Herschel-Smith Research Fellow

EPSRC Doctoral Prize Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Chemistry

Secretary to Council Caroline Shenton, MA (St Andrews), DPhil (Oxon), PGDipARM (UCL)

University and College Awards Cambridge University Further Degrees and Awards

S E Strawbridge, M E Strong, M M Valim Reis Camargo, A G Williamson

University Higher Degrees MRes: A D Rossiter, J M Tuffnell PhD: T P Call, O Crawford, E R Fewings, R M Hours, Y-T Hsu, R A Jones McVey, M A A Khan, K Kozyrska, R S Mezghanni, L-M Needham, C O’Connell, N O’Connor, D J Ryan, C Schinckus,

MPhil: L Baika, Y Bou Hamze, A A A Budair, P Chinotaikul, H Cleverdon, N Csandova, A Hannon, C I M Harouni, P-Y Huang, T Iashagashvili,

W J Johnston, A M López Hurtado, E K Lythgoe, C J Mackay, M Martens, M Morency, L V Murch, D G Murty, A Pedretti, E M Reichardt, R Shen, V P Sokleva, L H Steyn, G D Utzeri, F J Valencia-Dongo Quintanilla, R J Williams, Z Xiao, A L Zhou MASt: J F Melo, B Seron, N Sivakumar MB: I Abbass

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MBA: C-M Chen, H L Nguyen, F G Silva

Jane Martin Poetry Prize: Felicity Sheehy (First Prize) and Oliver Newman (Second Prize)

Postgraduate Scholarships

VetMB: T E Banner University Prizes for Academic Excellence The Philip Lake Prize: O Dawson (Geography), B Thurlow (Geography) The William Vaughan Lewis Prize: O Dawson (Geography) The Institute of Nuclear Engineers Jeffrey Lewis Prize: M McEveley (Engineering) College Awards

Doris Woodall Studentship: F S Sener

Mountford Humanities and Arts Communications Prize: E Absalom (Judges’ Prize), L Rogers (Audience Prize), J Petre (Abstract Prize), T Rialan and L Rogers (The Lawrence Room)

Emily Davies: S Jain (Law), J Riley (Law) Mathematics M T Meyer: F Duque, J Roosmale Nepveu

Ridding Reading Prize: S Weppel Rima Alamuddin Prize (joint): M Khatana and L Miller

College Competition Prizes

Tom Mansfield Memorial Prize (joint): A B Atkinson and A K Seaton

Barbara Wrigley Prize: M Hardy

Graduate Research Awards

Hammond Science Communication Prize: P Durman (Judges’ First Prize, Joint Audience Prize and Pathology Prize), C Jones (Judges’ Second Prize and Joint Audience Prize) and T Kemenes (Judges’ Third Prize and Abstract Prize)

Bryce-Tebb Scholarship, Doris Russell Scholarship: D Carver Pfeiffer Scholarship: D Sanz Hernandez M M Dunlop, Irene Hallinan Scholarship: M Ini Joyce Biddle Scholarship, G M Gardner Award: H Mace Stribling Award: G Utzeri Old Girtonians Award: M Kalenak Diane Worzala Memorial Fund: H Mace Ruth Whaley Scholarship: M Kalenak

Medical and Veterinary Medicine Edith Lydia Johns: T Hordle, K Lang, R Scrace, M Steele John Bowyer Buckley: E Denny, R Hartley-Young, J Hawesby, T Newman Postgraduate Prizes

Humanities Writing Prize: Alice Hunt (First Place), Jennifer Zhou (Second Place), Zac Copeland-Green (Third Place); Isabel Lewis and Alexander Wright (Runners-Up)

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Law Margaret Hastings: S Jain, J Riley Mathematics Gertrude Mather Jackson: F Duque, J Roosmale Nepveu Medicine Leslie Hall: E Denny, R HartleyYoung, J Hawesby, T Hordle, K Lang, R Scrace, M Steele Thomas and Elizabeth Walton: T Newman

Undergraduate Scholarships Sir Arthur Arnold: S Jones (Natural Sciences, Physical), C Mabbutt (Natural Sciences, Physical), S Shiers (Natural Sciences, Physical), J Smith (Natural Sciences, Physical), J G Wong (Natural Sciences, Physical) Lilias Sophia Ashworth Hallett: A King (English), S Liebana Garcia (Engineering), M McEveley (Engineering), A Sarva (Engineering) Barbara Bodichon: S Abu Al Haj (PBS), D Begaj (PBS), J Tan (Economics), X S Tan (Chemical Engineering) Rosalind, Lady Carlisle: D Alexandridis (Engineering), H Jenkinson (Engineering), F Lopes Marques Estaca (Engineering), D McGough (Natural Sciences, Physical), E Saunders (Engineering), J Wu (Engineering) Emily Davies: E Crawley (TRPR), O Daly (HSPS), A Davies (Economics), E McMullan (Natural Sciences, Physical) Angela Dunn-Gardner: M Ground (Archaeology), B Thurlow (Geography) Sir Francis Goldsmid: I Branford (Law), I Fricker (PBS), J Tan (Law), P Tonkaboni (Law) Mary Graham: T Deingruber (Natural Sciences, Physical), K Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Mara (Economics)

Mary Higgins: A McGairy (Natural Sciences, Physical), T Rialan (Natural Sciences, Physical) Alice Violet Jenkinson: S Borasio (HSPS), O Dawson (Geography), E Hurley (HSPS), S Kenney (Geography), E Shaxson (HSPS), Y Q Yap (Geography) Mary Ann Leighton: A Gkolanta (Chemical Engineering), S Gooch (Computer Science), T Lee (Computer Science), H Waugh (Chemical Engineering) Ellen McArthur: S Borasio (HSPS), A Cooper (History), O Daly (HSPS), K Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Mara (Economics), E Shaxson (HSPS), J Tan (Economics), B Thurlow (Geography), M Yang (Economics) Mary Sparke: C Jones (Natural Sciences, Physical), S Nasser (Chemical Engineering), M Schimel (Natural Sciences, Physical), R Thornton (Chemical Engineering), B Van Straaten (Natural Sciences, Physical), T Virgo (Chemical Engineering) Henry Tomkinson: I Cernyte (Engineering), H Gale (Manufacturing Engineering), T Hancock (Engineering), B Hasna (English), E Porro (English) Classics Jane Agnes Chessar: M Hardy Amelia Gurney: B Halberstam, D Pratico, B Woolstencroft

History Russell Gurney: J Adjei, A Davis, M Hale, A Martin, E Young Florence Ethel Gwyn: A Cooper Mathematics M T Meyer: G Cowperthwaite, A Disney-Hogg, D Saunders, A Thornton Medicine and Veterinary Medicine John Bowyer Buckley: M Graczyk, A Kisat, G Nishimura, T Page, N Schwartz Edith Lydia Johns: P Patel, R Rashid Medicine/History of Art Florence Ethel Gwyn: H Hussain Modern and Medieval Languages Jane Hunter: P Drummond, A Langridge Brewer, T Normanton, J Webb Maria Degani: N Borchgrevink, E Dunn Todd Memorial: J Hawkes, N Schmittzehe Music Sophia Turle: N Maier, L McIver, J Mitchell, R Paterson-Achenbach Natural Sciences (Biological) John Bowyer Buckley: H Evans, T Kemenes, A Khalaf, G Komen, V Sadilek

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Undergraduate Prizes Senior College Awards Thérèse Montefiore Prize (joint): M Hale (History) and R PatersonAchenbach (Music) Laurie Hart Prize (joint): O Dawson (Geography) and S Gooch (Computer Science) Tutors’ Prize: E Pearce-Davies (Geography) College Prizes Christina Barnard: M Ground (Archaeology), S Liebana Garcia (Engineering), M McEveley (Engineering), A Sarva (Engineering) Isabella Crawshaw: N Maier (Music), J Mitchell (Music) Jane Catherine Gamble: D Alexandridis (Engineering), O Daly (HSPS), I Fricker (PBS), F Lopes Marques Estaca (Engineering), L McIver (Music), E Saunders (Engineering), J Wu (Engineering) Beatrice Mills: S Nasser (Chemical Engineering), R Thornton (Chemical Engineering), T Virgo (Chemical Engineering) Raemakers: S Borasio (HSPS), I Cernyte (Engineering), H Gale (Manufacturing Engineering), T Hancock (Engineering), E Hurley (HSPS), R Paterson-Achenbach (Music), E Shaxson (HSPS) Phyllis Tillyard: S Abu Al Haj (PBS),

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D Begaj (PBS), S Gooch (Computer Science), T Lee (Computer Science) C B West: H Hussain (Medicine/ History of Art), A Skolanta (Chemical Engineering), X S Tan (Chemical Engineering), Henry Waugh (Chemical Engineering) Classics Norah Jolliffe: M Hardy Hilda Richardson: B Halberstam, D Pratico, B Woolstencroft Economics, History and Law Mary Arden: W J Teh (Law) Anita Banerji: E Fitch Haestrup (Economics) Lilian Knowles: I Branford (Law), A Cooper (History), J Tan (Economics), J Tan (Law), P Tonkaboni (Law) Eileen Power: J Adjei (History), A Davies (History), M Hale (History), A Martin (History), E Young (History) J V Robinson: A Abrahams (Economics) Thomas and Elizabeth Walton: K O’Mara (Economics), M Yang (Economics) Engineering Satyanarayana Madabhushi: H Jenkinson English Charity Reeves: B Hasna, A King, E Porro Eileen Alexander: S Kean

Geography Margaret Anderson: O Dawson, S Kenny, B Thurlow, Y Q Yap Janet Chamberlain: O Dawson Mathematics Gertrude Mather Jackson: G Cowperthwaite, A Disney-Hogg, D Saunders May Smithells: A Thornton Medicine and Veterinary Medicine Thomas and Elizabeth Walton: T Newman, P Patel, R Rashid Ming Yang Lee: M Gracyz, A Kisat, G Nishimura Leslie Hall: T Page, N Schwartz Modern and Medieval Languages Joseph Brandebourg: A Langridge Brewer Fanny Metcalf: E Dunn Mary Ponsonby: P Drummond, N Schmittzehe Johanna Stevenson: N Borchgrevink, J Hawkes, J Webb Natural Sciences (Biological) Marion Bidder: T Kemenes Ellen Delf-Smith: H Evans, G Komen Edith Neal: A Khalaf, V Sadilek Natural Sciences (Physical) Gwendolen Crewdson: A McGairy, T Rialan Ida Freund: T Deingruber, C Jones, S Jones, D McGough, M Schimel, S Shiers, J Smith, B Van Straaten,

J G Wong Layla Adib: E McMullan Theology J Y Gibson: E Crawley Music Awards College Music Scholarship: M Morris London Girton Association Award: N Maier Daphne Bird Instrumental Awards: L Hampton (flute), L McIver (piano), A Seaton (recorder), B Thurlow (piano), J G Wong (piano) Jill Vlasto Choral Award: T Sternberg Siem Prize (joint): N Maier and J Mitchell Organ Scholarship: J Mitchell University Choral Awards: R Hill, H Samuel; C Howdle*, J Newbold*, B Pymer* University Instrumental Awards: M Morris (clarinet) *Pre-elected

Travel Awards

Graduate

Undergraduate

KythĂŠ Waldram: M Huss Sidney and Marguerite Cody Studentship: J Allen, S Ams, M Iniâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;, H Yin

Adela Marion Adam: N Maier Charlotte Rycroft: O Dawson, M Leadbetter, S Liebana Garcia College Travel Scholarship: D Hines, A McGairy Dorothy Chadwick: E Jones Dorothy Tempest: J Clayton, R Hill Edith Helen Major: A Gkolanta, I Smith, B Thurlow Eileen Ellenbogen: W JohnstonWood, R Shoshi E M Pooley: T Carter J K Brightwell: S Christopher, E Crawley, K Gillespie, S Khetani, A Quincey, X Y Thean Judith Eccleshare: L Cameron, H Camp, T Kemenes, I Koos, A Magliano-Wright K J Baker: T Kadlecova, G Rubin Marina Shakich: M M Mannan Mary Morrison: L Fries, S Kenny, M Schimel Rosemary Delbridge: C Sotire Sheila Spire: H Hussein

Sports Awards Alpine skiing: E Augustaityte American football: C Ashling, S Fey, S Horton, A Lotay, J Wu Archery: A Rubino Athletics: S Brown, G Craft Australian rules football: E Plaut Ice hockey: S Owen, J Zapletal Rugby: A Elgar Rugby league: J Abele, J Bramley, J Erikson, K Read, T Wilson Skiing: A Seaton Swimming: K Romain Named Sports Awards Diana Lees-Jones Award: E Augustaityte (skiing) Joan McGrath Sports Award: S Owen (ice hockey) Robin Sports Award: J Dempsey (running), E Grace (cycling), F James (cycling), T Wilson (rugby)

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Awards and Distinctions ATKINS, M J (1971 Dunkerley; Honorary Fellow) appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire, in the 2019 New Year Honours List, for services to Higher Education. BENT, M H (1959 Bassington; Honorary Fellow) awarded the Guido Adler Prize by the International Musicological Society for ‘her lifetime record of path-breaking research in early music’, December 2018. BRITTAIN, A J (1994 Hopkins) appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire, in the 2019 New Year Honours List, for services to Business. BULSTRODE, J (2007) awarded the 2018 Sarton Prize for History of Science by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, in recognition of ‘her achievement and promise as an emerging scholar in the field’, April 2019. DANQUAH, E (1986) awarded the World Agriculture Prize by the Global Confederation of Higher Education Associations for the Agricultural and Life Sciences, in recognition of his work in founding and leading the West Africa Centre for Crop Improvement, October 2018. FERRABY, R (2002) awarded the Michael Marks Award for Illustration

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for illustrating The Tender Map by Melanie Challenger (Guillemot Press), December 2017. GEE, A J (1983), commissioning editor and executive producer for Missed Call, awarded a BAFTA at the Virgin Media British Academy Television Awards (Short Form Programme category), May 2019. GRIMSHAW, S (2014; Senior Research Fellow) awarded the ASME TurboExpo 2016 Best Paper Award for Education, for a paper entitled ‘A Computational and Experimental Compressor Design Project for Japanese and UK HighSchool Students’, June 2016; awarded the ASME TurboExpo 2017 Best Paper Award for Unsteady Flows in Turbomachinery, for a paper entitled ‘The Role of Tip Leakage Flow in SpikeType Rotating Stall Inception’, June 2017. HEWITT, S (2009), winner of an Eric Gregory Award, awarded by the Society of Authors to poets under the age of 30, June 2019. HIGGINS, R (1955 Cohen; Honorary Fellow) appointed Dame Grand Cross of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, in the 2019 New Year Honours List, for services to International Law and Justice.

MANNS, J P (2007) elected (the youngest-ever) Fellow of the Royal Town Planning Institute, October 2018; awarded the RICS (Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors) Young Surveyor of the Year award, November 2017. ROWAN, A M (1957 Wrinch) awarded an Honorary Masters in Letters (MLitt) from Trinity College Dublin, June 2018. SALA, E (2018; Professorial Fellow) elected Fellow of the European Society for Urogenital Radiology, September 2018. STRATHERN, M (1960 Evans; Former Mistress) awarded Honorary Doctor of Laws from Harvard University, May 2019. WOOD, B (1971; Life Fellow) appointed 2018 Honorary Foreign Member by the American Historical Association for her distinguished field of work that has ‘notably aided the work of American historians’, January 2019. Further Academic and Professional Qualifications WATSON, S L (1976) PhD in Creative Writing for ‘From Floor to Ceiling Crowded Shelves: Writing About Reading’; awarded by Goldsmiths, University of London, November 2018.

Appointments of Fellows and Alumni 1977 ROWLAND-JONES, S appointed President of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, with effect from September 2018; she is only the second woman appointed to this role. 1979 ARNOLD, C L M appointed Sheriff of Nottingham (2018â&#x20AC;&#x201C;19) by Nottingham City Council. 1983 HODGES, P appointed President of the London Court of International Arbitration, with effect from May 2019. 2002 HUDSON, S C appointed Organist and Director of Music at Worcester Cathedral and Worcester Artistic Director of the Three Choirs Festival, with effect from September 2019. 2002 WILLIAMS, A B appointed President of Humanist Teachers, the network for humanists working in education in the UK, with effect from November 2018.

2006 FACER, P R appointed Associate of the Royal Academy of Music (ARAM), with effect from May 2019. 2011 LIU, A (Fellow) appointed Associate Editor for the Journal of Palaeontology, with effect from 2018; elected member of the Council of the Palaeontographical Society, with effect from January 2019. 2012 GLASSBERG, B M appointed Principal Conductor of the Glyndebourne Tour (formerly Glyndebourne Touring Opera), with effect from 2019. 2014 KENNEDY, A (Musician in Residence) appointed Director of Music at Uppingham School, with effect from September 2019. 2015 ELGAR, A appointed Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Team Manager of the Cambridge University Rugby Union Football Club, with effect from March 2019.

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Fellows’ Publications Publications by the Fellows and Officers of the College during 2018–19 include: P H ABRAHAMS. (All joint) Bailey and Love’s Essential Clinical Anatomy (CRC Press, Taylor and Francis Group, 2019); Abrahams’ and McMinn’s Clinical Atlas of Human Anatomy (8th edition, Elsevier, 2019); ‘An anatomical whodunnit’ in Michelangelo: Sculptor in Bronze, ed. V Avery (Philip Wilson Publishers, 2018). C L ACERINI. (All joint) ‘Shared decision-making in growth hormone therapy – implications for patient care’, Frontiers in Endocrinology (Lausanne) 9(688) (2018); ‘Closed-loop insulin delivery in suboptimally controlled type 1 diabetes: a multicentre, 12-week randomised trial’, Lancet 392(10155) (2018); ‘Emotional and behavioral adjustment in 4 to 11-yearold boys and girls with classic congenital adrenal hyperplasia and unaffected siblings’, Psychoneuroendocrinology 97 (2018). A BARFORD. (Both joint) Getting By: Young People’s Working Lives (Murray Edwards College, 2019); ‘The depths of the cuts: the uneven geography of local government austerity’, Cambridge J. of Regions, Economy and Society 11(3) (2018). C BRETT. ‘An invisible migration? The origins of Brittany’ in Migrations et territoires celtiques: mouvement spatial et mutations culturelles, ed. G Pigeon and G Hily (Tir, 2019); ‘Girton’s Roman and Anglo-Saxon Cemetery’ in The Lawrence Room at Girton College, ed. H Van Noorden (Girton College Cambridge, 2019). J J d’A CAMPBELL. Interviewed by Claire Bowes for Witness History – BBC World Services (1 February 2018). S M COLLINS. (Joint) ‘Atom-by-atom resolution of structurefunction elations over low-nuclearity metal catalysts’, Angewandte Chemie International Edition 58 (2019); (joint) ‘Flux melting of metal-organic frameworks’, Chemical Science 10(12)

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(2019); (joint) ‘Subwavelength spatially resolved coordination chemistry of metal-organic framework glass blends’, J. of the American Chemical Society 140(51) (2018); ‘Dispersion characteristics of face modes in ionic-crystal and plasmonicmetal nanoparticles’, Physical Review B 97(24) (2018). F COOKE. (Joint) ‘Adherence to antibiotic guidelines and reported penicillin allergy: pooled cohort data on prescribing and allergy documentation from two English National Health Service (NHS) trusts’, BMJ Open 9(2) (2019); ‘Infections in people with diabetes’, Medicine 47(2) (2019); ‘Mad about malaria: Cambridge Science Festival’, Bulletin of the Royal College of Pathologists 183 (2018). S DAVIS. (Joint editor) The Modern Spanish Canon: Visibility, Cultural Capital and the Academy (Legenda, 2018). A DONOVAN. (Editor) Political Geology: Active Stratigraphies and the Making of Life (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019); ‘Critical volcanology: thinking holistically about risk and uncertainty’, Bulletin of Volcanology 81(20) (2019); (joint) ‘Volcanoes on borders: a scientific and (geo)political management challenge’, Bulletin of Volcanology 81(31) (2019); ‘Sublime encounters: commodifying the experience of the geos’, Geo: Geography and Environment 5 (2018). C DURKAN. Size Really Does Matter – The Nanotechnology Revolution (World Scientific, 2019); (joint) ‘Anomalously large spectral shifts near the quantum tunnelling limit in plasmonic rulers with subatomic resolution’, Nanoletters 19(3) (2019); (joint) ‘Recent advances in stimuli-responsive nanoagents for atherosclerosis’, Advanced Healthcare Materials (2019); ‘Cleaning transferred graphene for optimisation of device performance’, Advanced Materials Interfaces 6 (2019). F GANDY. ‘Vision… The Art of Seeing the Invisible’ in The Lawrence Room at Girton College, ed. H Van Noorden (Girton College Cambridge, 2019).

M GRAY. (All joint) ‘The depths of the cuts: the uneven geography of local government austerity’, Cambridge J. of Regions, Economy and Society 11(3) (2018); ‘Double crisis: in what sense a regional problem?’, Regional Studies 53(2) (2018); ‘Flourishing or floundering? Policing the boundaries of economic geography’, Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 50(7) (2018); ‘The shrinking state? Understanding the assault on the public sector’, Cambridge J. of Regions, Economy and Society 11(3) (2018).

rock art of the White Sea’ in Rock Art of the White Sea, ed. L Janik (Uslan Petroglyph Museum, 2018); ‘Rock art as an independent evidence of prehistoric marine hunting: the case of harpoon and float in the rock art of Eastern Scandinavian Peninsula, Russia and Bangudae, Korea’ in Whale on the Rock, ed. S Lee (Ulsan Petroglyph Museum, 2017).

S GRIMSHAW. (Joint) ‘The role of tip leakage flow in spiketype rotating stall inception’, J. of Turbomachinery 141 (2019); ‘A pneumatic probe for measuring spatial derivatives of stagnation pressure’, Proceedings of ASME Turbo Expo 2019, Track 5 Controls, Diagnostics and Instrumentation (2019).

A KERSHENBAUM. (All joint) ‘Lifetime changes in vocal syntactic complexity of rock hyrax males are determined by social class’, Animal Behaviour 153 (2019); ‘Tracking cryptic animals using acoustic multilateration: a system for longrange wolf detection’, J. of the Acoustical Society of America 145 (2019); ‘Heterospecific recognition of referential alarm calls in two species of lemur’, Bioacoustics (2018).

M GUITE. ‘In Every Corner Sing’: A Poet’s Corner Collection (Canterbury Press, 2018).

K L LEE. (Joint editor) International Law Reports: Volumes 179 to 184 (CUP, 2019).

J HENDRY. ‘The meanings of belief’, Think 18(52) (2019).

A G LIU. (All joint) ‘Anatomical and ontogenetic reassessment of the Ediacaran frond Arborea arborea and its placement within total group Eumetazoa’, Palaeontology (2019); ‘Integrated records of environmental change and evolution challenge the Cambrian Explosion’, Nature Ecology & Evolution 3 (2019); ‘Viewing the Ediacaran biota as a failed experiment is unhelpful’, Nature Ecology & Evolution 3 (2019); ‘Petrological evidence supports the death mask model for the preservation of Ediacaran soft-bodied organisms in South Australia’, Geology 47(3) (2019).

K HUGHES. (All joint) ‘Myoclonus and hypercalcemia in a dog with poorly differentiated lymphoproliferative neoplasia’, J. of Veterinary Internal Medicine 33 (2019); ‘Pathology in practice: necrotizing (gangrenous) mastitis in a Lleyn cross ewe caused by Staphylococcus aureus’, J. of the American Veterinary Medical Association 253(7) (2018); ‘Notch2 controls nonautonomous Wnt-signalling in chronic lymphocytic leukaemia’, Nature Communications 9 (2018); ‘The multifaceted role of STAT3 in mammary gland involution and breast cancer’, International J. of Molecular Sciences 19(6) (2018). L JANIK. (Joint) ‘Community art: communities of practice, situated learning, adults and children as creators of cave art in upper palaeolithic France and Northern Spain’, Open Archaeology 4 (2018); (joint editor) ‘From line to colour: social context and visual communication of prehistoric art’, Open Archaeology 4(1) (2018); ‘The unique and the common: the

J MANN. ‘Nature, God, and human society in Piers Plowman’ in Natur in politischen Ordnungsentwürfen, ed. A Höfele and B Kellner (Fink Verlag, 2018); ‘Beginning with the ending: narrative techniques and their significance in Chaucer’s Knight’s Tale’ in Romance Rewritten: The Evolution of Middle English Romance. A Tribute to Helen Cooper, ed. E Archibald, M Leitch and C Saunders (Boydell and Brewer, 2018).

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H F MARLOW. (Joint editor) Ecology and Theology in the Ancient World: Cross-disciplinary Perspectives (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019); ‘The anguish of the earth: ecology and warfare in the First World War and the Bible’ in Ecology and Theology in the Ancient World: Cross-disciplinary Perspectives, ed. A Hunt and H F Marlow (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019). K MOHADDES. (All joint) ‘Oil price volatility, financial institutions, and economic growth’, Energy Policy 126 (2019); ‘The dynamics and determinants of Kuwait’s long-run economic growth’, Economic Modelling 71 (2018); ‘Rising public debt to GDP can harm economic growth’, Economic Letter – Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas 13(3) (2018); ‘Kuwait’s macroeconomic performance in the global context’, Arab J. of Administrative Sciences 25(1) (2018). A C ROBERTS. (All joint) ‘Hippocampal interaction with area 25, but not area 32, regulates marmoset approach/avoidance behavior’, Cerebral Cortex 29 (2019); ‘Glutamate within the marmoset anterior hippocampus interacts with area 25 to regulate the behavioral and cardiovascular correlates of hightrait anxiety’, J. of Neuroscience 39(16) (2019); ‘Fractionating anhedonia by over-activating area 25 of primate subgenual anterior cingulate cortex’, Neuron 101 (2019); ‘Trajectories and milestones of cortical and subcortical development of the marmoset brain from infancy to adulthood’, Cerebral Cortex 28 (2018).

programmes in the English police force’, J. of Vocational Behavior 108 (2018). J RUNDE. (Joint) ’Theorising the digital object’, MIS Quarterly 43 (2019). E SALA. (All joint) ‘Association between CT-texture-derived tumor heterogeneity, outcomes, and BRCA mutation status in patients with high-grade serous ovarian cancer’, Abdominal Radiology 44(6) (2019); ‘Single dose radiotherapy disables tumor cell homologous recombination via ischemia/reperfusion injury’, J. of Clinical Investigation 129(2) (2019); ‘CT imaging features defining key differences between serous borderline ovarian tumors and low-grade serous ovarian cancers’, AJR 210(4) (2018); ‘MR imaging of rectal cancer: radiomic analysis to assess treatment response after neoadjuvant therapy’, Radiology 287(3) (2018). H R SHERCLIFF. (Joint) Materials: Engineering, Science, Processing and Design (4th edition, Butterworth–Heinemann UK, 2019). S J SMITH. ‘James Clyde Mitchell’, Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the British Academy 18 (2019); (joint) ‘Wellbeing at the edges of ownership’, Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 49(5) (2017).

S ROBERTSON. ‘A brief history of search results ranking’, IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 41(2) (2019).

P C J SPARKS. ‘The Game of Senet, Recreation and Death in Ancient Egypt’ in The Lawrence Room at Girton College, ed. H Van Noorden (Girton College Cambridge, 2019).

T ROULET. ‘Media reporting of misconduct and the investment banking industry during the financial crisis’, Human Relations (2019); (joint) ‘Stressed at work? Mentoring a colleague could help’, Harvard Business Review (2019); (joint) ‘How companies can adapt during times of political uncertainty’, Harvard Business Review (2019); (joint) ‘Mentoring for mental health: a mixed-method study of the benefits of formal mentoring

M STRATHERN. ‘Friendship and Kinship: Comparatism and its Theoretical Possibilities in Anthropology’ in Regimes of Comparatism: Frameworks of Comparison in History, Religion and Anthropology, ed. R Gagné, S Goldhill and G Lloyd (Brill, 2019); ‘Five Fish Hooks’ in The Lawrence Room at Girton College, ed. H Van Noorden (Girton College Cambridge, 2019) ‘Portraits, characters and persons’, Social Anthropology/

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Anthropologie Sociale 26(2) (2018); ‘Opening up relations’ in A World of Many Worlds, ed. M de la Cadena and M Blaser (Duke UP, 2018); ‘Afterword: becoming enlightened about relations’ in An Anthropology of the Enlightenment: Moral Social Relations Then and Today, ed. N Rapport and H Wardle (Bloomsbury Academic, 2018). D J THOMPSON. ‘Hermione Grammatike’ in The Lawrence Room at Girton College, ed. H Van Noorden (Girton College Cambridge, 2019); (joint) ‘P. Count 2 continued: a Ptolemaic population register from the Arsinoite nome’ in Hieratic, Demotic and Greek Studies and Text Editions, ed. C J Martin, F A J Hoogendijk and K Donker van Heel (Brill 2018); ‘Ptolemy I in Egypt: continuity and change’ in Ptolemy I and the Transformation of Egypt, 404–282 BC, ed. P McKechnie and J A Cromwell (Brill, 2018). S TOFARIS. ‘Commercial construction of exemption clauses’, Lloyd’s Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly (2019); ‘The negligence liability of local authorities for failure to protect children from abuse: where to draw the line?’, Professional Negligence 34 (2018); ‘Duty of care in negligence: a return to orthodoxy?’, Cambridge Law J. 77 (2018). H VAN NOORDEN. (Editor) The Lawrence Room at Girton College (Girton College Cambridge, 2019); ‘The ecology of the Sibylline Oracles’ in Ecology and Theology in the Ancient World: Cross-disciplinary Perspectives, ed. A Hunt and H Marlow (Bloomsbury, 2019); ‘Hesiod transformed, parodied and assaulted: Hesiod in the Second Sophistic and early Christian thought’ in The Oxford Handbook of Hesiod, ed. A Loney and S Scully (OUP, 2018). S WILLIAMS. Unmarried Motherhood in London, 1700–1850: Pregnancy, the Poor Law and Provision (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018). J WILLS. (All Joint) ‘The origin of heterogeneous nanoparticle

uptake by cells’, Nature Communications 10 (2019); ‘In vitro detection of in vitro secondary mechanisms of genotoxicity induced by engineered nanomaterials’, Particle and Fibre Toxicology 16(8) (2019); ‘Investigating FlowSight® imaging flow cytometry as a platform to assess chemically induced micronuclei using human lymphoblastoid cells in vitro’, Mutagenesis 33 (2018); ‘Three-dimensional models for in vitro nanotoxicity testing’ in Nanotoxicology: Experimental and Computational Perspectives, ed. A Dhawan, D Anderson and R Shanker (Royal Society of Chemistry, 2018). Music G WILSON and J WEST. (Both joint) Palestrina Missa sine nomine, motets by Ingegneri, Girton College Chapel Choir, Historic Brass (Toccata Classics, 2019); Manuel Cardoso Missa secundi toni, motets by de Brito, Magalhães, Morago, Girton College Chapel Choir, Historic Brass (Toccata Classics, 2018). J WEST. (All joint) Hieronymus Praetorius motets in 8, 10, 12, 16 and 20 parts, Alamire, His Majestys Sagbutts & Cornetts (Inventa Records, 2019); In Chains of Gold: consort anthems of Orlando Gibbons, Magdalena Consort, Fretwork, His Majestys Sagbutts & Cornetts (Signum Classics, 2019); Mikołaj Zieleń ski Communiones 1, 2 and 3 voces, La Tempesta, Warsaw (Musica Humana, 2019). Exhibitions B GRIFFIN. (Co-curator) The Rising Tide: Women at Cambridge [exhibition, 14 October 2019], Cambridge University Library (2019). L JANIK. (Both co-curator) White Sea Rock Art: Skiing, Whaling and Polyphonic Story Telling [exhibition], Ulsan Petroglyph Museum, Korea (2018); The Land Where the Sun Never Sets: Rock Art of the White Sea [exhibition, 24 October 2018 – 10 February 2019], Uslan Petroglyph Museum, Korea (2018).

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Alumni Publications Publications by alumni of the College in 2018–19 include: ARNOLD, C (1979 Gladwyn Arnold). Pandemic 1918: The Story of the Deadliest Influenza in History (Michael O’Mara Books Ltd, 2018). BINNEY, R (1962 Chanter). The Number One Book of Numbers: Exploring the Meaning and Magic of Numbers (Rydon Publishing, 2018). DELAMONT, S (1965). (Joint editor) The Lost Ethnographies: Methodological Insights from Projects that Never Were (Emerald Publishing, 2019); A Woman’s Place in Education: Historical and Sociological Perspectives on Gender and Education (Routledge, 2018); (joint editor) Qualitative Studies in Education (Routledge, 2018).

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DEVESON, A (1959 Richards). (Joint) The Victoria History of Hampshire: Cliddesden, Hatch and Farleigh Wallop, ed. A Deveson and S Lane (Institute of Historical Research and Victoria County History, 2018). FREEMAN, A (1967 Rubie). Can These Bones Live? The History of a Non-Conformist Family from Western Europe and England between 1573 and 1928 (Aurélie Freeman, 2018). GIBSON, J (2009). (Joint editor) Reformation Worship: Liturgies from the Past for the Present (New Growth Press, 2018). GOLDING, J (1987 Saunders). The Curious Crime (Lion Children’s Books, 2018).

HADJIAN, A (1995). Secret Nation: The Hidden Armenians of Turkey (I B Tauris, 2018). KNIGHTON, R (2013). Writing the Prison in African Literature (Peter Lang, 2019). KONING, A C (1972). End of Term (Arbuthnot Books, 2018). LOVEGROVE, J L (1952 Bourne). (Joint) Victorian Music: A Social and Cultural History (Edward Everett Root, 2018). NICHOLLS, J (1954 Thomas). Family Ties (Stephen Christie, 2016). RODRIGUEZ, J (1960 Green). The Feather Boy and Other Poems (Puncher & Wattmann, 2018).

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A Great Campaign This academic year saw A Great Campaign exceed the two-thirds mark in its mission to raise £50 million in permanent endowment with the aim of securing the financial future of the College. By the summer of 2019, thanks to the generosity of over 3,500 alumni and friends, over £21.9 million had been donated to grow the endowment capital, and a further £14.7 million pledged in legacies. This is a testament to the tremendous affection and goodwill of our wider community, and we send our warmest thanks to everyone who has supported the College. The impact of your support for A Great Campaign is already evident at Girton. The spendable annual investment income generated from gifts totalling £21.9 million (some £875,000 under the College’s current total-return spending rule) is available in perpetuity to support Girton’s strategic goals. Eight Fellowships with responsibilities in teaching and research have been permanently endowed in English, Modern and Medieval Languages, History, Law, Economics, Mathematics, Clinical Medicine, and Physical Sciences. Donations have also enhanced the quality and breadth of student experience at Girton by helping to fund bursaries and scholarships, provide hardship grants, and increase allround educational experiences through the artist-in-residence masterclasses, sports provision and the new ‘Thrive’ programme which includes study skills, life skills, even pet therapy! As we celebrate the College’s 150th Anniversary this year, we hope, with your help, to reach our target of £50 million by the Campaign end in 2022. This will give Girton the financial flexibility and stability to determine its own destiny. We hope too to be able to announce key milestones and Campaign achievements in 2020. The Campaign’s core aim remains the building of a permanent endowment sufficient to enable financial sustainability. However, the 150th Anniversary phase focuses on the people who are at the heart of Girton’s unique and transformative educational adventure: • Our Undergraduates, who comprise many nationalities, cultures and backgrounds. They are here on academic merit and because they want to learn. Girton’s fundamental commitment to diversity and inclusiveness means that we must be able to support the many bright young applicants who cannot otherwise afford to take up the offer of a place at the College. Undergraduate bursaries help bridge the gap in living costs for over 135 students each year; however, we need to secure endowment for a further 20 full undergraduate bursaries over the next five years as part of our commitment to the Cambridge Bursaries Scheme. Thanks to your support 15 of these bursaries have been endowed already, ensuring that excellence in diversity will continue to thrive at Girton.

• Our Graduates, whose research helps solve the problems of our complex and ever-changing world. The superb new accommodation at Swirles Court in the North West Cambridge development at Eddington presents an opportunity for Girton to grow its graduate school which, we hope, will eventually achieve parity with undergraduate numbers. To this end, we need to attract the best applicants from around the world, and are working to endow a number of graduate scholarships. With your help, original thought will continue to thrive at Girton. • Our Fellowship, who bring inspiration, encouragement, knowledge and wisdom to students each day of their educational journey. The Cambridge collegiate system, with its emphasis on supervisions, is widely acknowledged as world-leading, and the ability to attract and invest in the world’s most talented academics is key to its continued success. To ensure that the highest calibre of educational offer is maintained at Girton, we need to endow five further teaching posts. We have already completed funding for one of these – a Fellowship in Physical Sciences named after Dr Christine McKie – and continue to raise funds for Fellowships in Applied Mathematics and in a number of subjects with an international theme. With your help, inspirational teaching will continue to thrive at Girton. If you have benefited from your studies at Girton and have not yet joined A Great Campaign, please consider doing so now, as we celebrate our 150th-anniversary year; this will enable the future generations of Girton students, educators and researchers to flourish. We shall be very grateful for your gift, at whatever level suits your circumstances. Gifts may take the form of cash, shares or financial instruments; alternatively, you could remember Girton in your will. Please note that the College is a registered charity; giving can therefore be tax-efficient. Those living in the UK, USA, Canada, Hong Kong and certain European countries can find information on tax-efficient giving at www.girton.cam.ac.uk/supporters/giving/tax-matters Donations can be made using the form overleaf or online at: www.girton.cam.ac.uk/giving For more information about A Great Campaign, or to talk to us about a specific fund or gift, please contact the Development Office on +44 (0)1223 766672 or email us at development@ girton.cam.ac.uk.

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Lists

Obituaries

In Memoriam

Births and Marriages

Roll of Alumni

Student Reports

College Reports

Fellows' Profiles

Jane Martin Poetry Prize

Lawrence Room Book

Social Hub

Honeysuckle Walk

Forty Years of Men

Girton150: Honorary Fellows and Anniversary Lectures

Girton150: Festival Weekend

Jean Lindsay on Manners

Dons of the Old School

Senior Tutors in Conversation

Architect of the Future

A New Generation of Girton Historians

Asian Business Award

Balzan Prize

Girton in Novels

Delia Derbyshire, Pioneer in Sound

Amy Ida Louisa King, Girton's First Black Student

Hertha Ayrton, Ground-Breaking Scientst

A History of Girton in Ten Pioneers

Profile: Dame Karen Pierce

A Letter from the Mistress