Fundraising for the Learning Resource Centre In June, I joined Graeme and Martin as they took on the challenge to cycle from John's to York and back again in a day, raising £700 towards the new Learning Resource Centre. In September, members of our Senior Common Room raised just under £500 through a wine-tasting evening. Fundraising for the Learning Resource Centre is only part of our work. It’s our job to make sure the College Record goes out on time, and is relevant and newsworthy enough to make you want to keep reading. We hope you like our new
look: we are now in our second year working with local designers Littlewolf. As always, comments and suggestions for content are very much welcomed. We also run the St. John’s College website and all our social media,
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Twitter and Facebook – in which we try to give a sense of some of the goings on in College life. We have a Flickr account (linked from our website) and would be delighted to receive photos of John’s, past and present, should you be so inclined.
graduated in 1986, 1996 or 2006 – next year is your year, and we’d love to hear from you!
Reunions have been another major focus for us this year. Gone are the days when the Alumni office used to help facilitate only the traditional Five Years On reunion – this year we welcomed our largest gathering to date, the Sixties Reunion. Painstakingly organised by Alan and John, we were delighted to host this friendly group of alumni in July. After hosting our first Ten Years On reunion last year, the classes of both 2005 and 1995 decided they
As well as College-based reunions, we also took the Johnian spirit further afield, holding our second annual St John’s London Convocation in early July. We invited a panel of successful alumni in diverse careers to host a Question Time type interview in which we discussed the impact of education on the world of work and reflected their world of work and what lessons we could learn for future generations. The Principal also gave a ‘State of the College’ address in which he shared College news and successes, as well as plans for the future. The next Convocation will be held on 7th July 2016. Please see our website for more details.
weren’t to be outdone, and the last few weeks have seen both these years return to College and rush gleefully along the corridors once more. Next year we’ll be hosting our first Thirty Years on Reunion for 1986 graduates, as well as a Reunion for those who graduated in the 80s/90s. If you
The Convocation interview panel consisted of several John’s Eagles. Launched in 2013, the Eagles scheme is an easy way for people to connect and give back to College, should they wish. We now have over 40 people across many professions, who have volunteered to offer
Alumni and Development Update
Alumni and Development Update
informal careers advice and support to our current and recent graduates and postgraduates. If you would like to help in this way, please do get in touch. As a natural extension of the Eagles Programme, this year we’re looking to put on a series of lectures, led by alumni and friends of College, to help give an insight into a particular career or another area which would be valuable to students. If you are an alumni, or indeed a parent and feel you have something you could share in this way, please do contact us. Finally, a quick thank you to everyone in the team for all the behind-the-scenes work which helps make so many things possible. We’ve been supported admirably by interns past and present: Carys Harper, Michael Main and Luke Tattersall last year with Nikolaus Krahe, John Grocott and Stephanie RedfernJones taking up the reins this year. We must also not forget the Conference Assistants, housekeeping and catering staff who all pull together to help keep delivering an ever-growing programme of events. After over a year of covering maternity leave, I now hand back the role of Development Manager to Charlotte Gilham-Grant. I will continue to work closely with
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