Homerton College Annual Review 2019

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COLLEGE NEWS

From the Principal Senior Tutor’s Report Bursar’s Report

From the Library 2019 News Highlights

FROM THE PRINCIPAL

Professor Geoffrey Ward

When Samuel Beckett’s best-known play Waiting for Godot premiered in Paris in 1953, one theatre critic observed that this was a two act play in which “nothing happens – twice”. As my only foray into theatre was as co-director of a Cambridge student production of Godot, albeit more decades ago than I care to remember, I have a great affection for Beckett’s crepuscular but moving meditation on the human condition.

Nonetheless I have had moments during the last year – long Beckettian moments – when I have asked myself silently if building work within and around the College would ever come to completion. Detailed planning meetings on the new Dining Hall have been taking place for three years; the always about-to-be-built yet still invisible Hall is my Godot. Meanwhile work on what we are calling North Wing has made Paupers’ Walk

live up to its name for what seems like an age, as incoming wind, rain and dust all leave their mark but remind us only of Estragon’s summary of life: “In the meantime, nothing happens”. And so last year was a year of waiting.

In reality, of course, the time that is taken to put up a building that will last is the time that is needed. I am sure that a year hence I will be writing about the opening of North Wing in this column, and reporting on the varied uses that have been found for the new auditorium, on the activities of the new visitors and organisations that have used the accommodation, on the student performances that have begun life in the light and spacious music practice rooms. Moreover, although we need the new buildings, students’ and Fellows’ lives and work take place in those spaces, but are not confined by them. The College is in one sense a bare stage, waiting for something to happen. In a deeper and more important sense it is the living, breathing and thinking community of students and scholars who tread the boards of that stage that are the real Homerton.

The Charter Choir, Christmas 2019

With the students in the forefront of our minds, we launched Homerton Changemakers in May Week, 2019. Changemakers is based on a new assumption that would for a long time would have met strong resistance in collegiate Cambridge. It assumes that although the scholarly work towards a degree is and always will be the core of the student experience, a degree is no longer enough. If our students are going to make the transition from university to the world of work, and do so confidently and successfully, they will need to acquire resilience, empathy, flexibility and other tools of personality that have not been expressly a part of their work in the library, laboratory or lecture hall. Changemakers will enable them to find those life-skills, thereby helping themselves and helping society to achieve shared goals.

In one way startlingly new, this extra dimension speaks to the essence of what a Cambridge College can be, is, and always was. The holistic dimension that turns an academic education into an education for life is one that only Cambridge (and the other place whose name always escapes

me) can supply. And dare I say it, Homerton in particular, with its real-world ethos, its tradition of training for the professions in order to serve society’s needs, is particularly well-placed to do that. The newest and largest College in Cambridge is also the one most focussed on the challenges of inclusiveness and progressive freethinking. For the student community I have lived among over the last year, Godot has long been and gone. Far from waiting for one thing, they lead multi-tasking lives that encompass a startling variety of changemaking. The student who took an MPhil in Education and asked me for a reference recently also runs an eco-friendly and sustainable clothing company. The student who was absent from College at exactly this time last year needed no permission from College for her absence. She was speaking at the United Nations in New York. Cambridge is a great university for research, but our students are what Homerton is here for. Not so much a play where nothing happens (twice) but a community and crucible for uniquely talented individuals where no thing happens twice in quite the same way n

Homerton Prizewinners 2018–19

SENIOR TUTOR’S REPORT

Dr Penny Barton

Last year we announced the wonderful new Homerton Changemakers programme, led by Dr Alison Wood. Now the programme is well underway, with an inspiring launch event in May Week 2019, and then our first summer school in late September. The summer school greatly exceeded expectations, with 50 student participants, including both undergraduates and postgrads, and an outstanding team of staff. The programme included a field trip to the Peterborough Recycling Centre – a great hit! The participants are agitating for another follow up mini-residential. One of my favourite quotes was “I feel I’ve been empowered on this programme to continue my journey in life with a Changemaker mindset. I feel I’ve acquired a Changemaker pair of glasses”.

In October we welcomed the largest number of new starters we have ever had – 191 new undergraduates, as well as a large number of PGCE, Masters and PhD students – and we are running absolutely at capacity. Of the undergraduates, 138 are from the UK, 15 are from the European Union, and about 20% of the total are from outside the EU. From next year, we will be among only 10 Colleges to offer every undergraduate subject the University offers – including Veterinary Medicine and Architecture. Medicine, added a few years ago, has been a huge success, and our first medical students are now in clinical training.

Collectively the Cambridge Colleges put in a huge effort to make sure that bright students from every sort of background consider Cambridge as an option. We spread our message through the area links scheme, visits by admissions tutors and the student liaison officers, student volunteers, summer schools and open days.

The Changemakers Taster Day

There are a number of ‘flags’ used to assess applications from students who may have come from disadvantaged backgrounds, based on factors such as socio-economic status, school profile, and other indicators such as having been in care. At Homerton we are proud of having one of the

most diverse student populations in Cambridge. Homerton has also been active in working with Target Oxbridge to encourage and support black students to aspire to top universities.

The University and Colleges are working hard in looking for ways to address inequality – both in admissions and in subsequent attainment. In 2019, Cambridge entered the UCAS Adjustment process for the first time. This means that on A level results day, students who have exceeded the grades they need for their firm university offer can try to ‘trade up’ to a university course with more stringent requirements. We were able to take almost 70 Adjustment students into the University, eight of whom we welcomed to Homerton. This is a very exciting development that opens up last-minute opportunities for applicants who may have been underestimated by their schools, or who for some reason did not shine at the interview stage.

We consider all Homerton students to be ‘our team’ and we will always do everything we can to support them and help them to succeed (within the rules of the University of course!) n

The Changemakers Summer School

BURSAR’S REPORT

Deborah Griffin OBE

Homerton is a wonderful environment in which to study and work. Our staff work tirelessly to provide surroundings and services which help our students not only to study and achieve academically but importantly to be able to relax, make friends and participate in the thousands of activities open to them at Cambridge.

As I reported last year, the Griffin bar opened at the beginning of the academic year and proved a popular place to study during the day and relax at night, with the outdoor seating being

particularly well used. We have broken ground on the sports pitch developments at St Mary’s School sports grounds to provide floodlit artificial pitches for hockey, rugby, lacrosse and football, as well as netball and tennis courts. These will be available from next academic year with the pavilion to follow in 2021. I am hoping that future student versus alumni matches can take place there.

In all developments sustainability is key. Not only do we build for the long term but we aim to reduce our ongoing carbon footprint and improve biodiversity – not always easy on an already biodiverse campus. The lighting for the sports fields has been designed to minimise interference

The Bursar, assisted by the Chair of Governors at St Mary’s School, turns the first sod for the development of the new sports fields

with at least nine varieties of bats recorded in May. We have installed swift boxes in the North Wing development currently under construction and this summer saw the installation of 12 150-metre ground source heat pumps (GSHPs) to heat and cool North Wing. Now under the lawn, you would not know they are there!

In January 2020 construction begins for the new Dining Hall, servery, kitchens and buttery. This building has a testing list of bespoke environmental targets from improving the working conditions of the catering staff to an allelectric kitchen including its own array of GSHPs. We have also started planning for the final phase of the 10-year Estates Strategy which will see a much needed new Porters’ Lodge and the removal of the kitchens behind the Great Hall to

create a centre for performances, receptions and other activities.

The accounts for the financial year to 30 June 2019 were approved by the Governing Body on 6 December. Having unwound our investment in the housing development, Homerton Gardens, income and expenditure now reflects a more “business as usual” picture. We are participating in a two-year top-up scheme to the Cambridge Bursary Scheme (CBS), the total paid to our students in FY19 being £461,000. The cost of the CBS is shared across Colleges and the cost to Homerton was £262,000. It is hoped that the pilot will result in an enhanced CBS scheme in the next year or so which will require additional funding. The full Annual Report Financial Statement is available on the College website n

FROM THE LIBRARY

Liz Osman, Librarian

It was a pleasure, but no surprise, to return after my maternity leave to a happy and well cared-for library. My thanks must go to Rosemary Austin (Deputy Librarian) for taking the reins whilst I was away enjoying some quality time with my son, Aelfric. I am also extremely grateful to the rest of the library team for their continued efforts, and to Jenna Lawrence and Sarah Burton who were invaluable whilst working secondments with us from the University Library and Judge Business School respectively.

Whilst I only returned in time to see the students revising and sitting exams, the library team have been busy all year supporting them through both the formal sessions of study skills offered, and in many more ad hoc ways at the enquiry desk. We have also been preparing for 2019–20’s new students, and our first cohort of

vets in particular. A lot of work has been done to ensure the library is stocked for their needs, including the purchase of a mounted plastic dog skeleton I have nicknamed ‘Fido’. He will mostly reside in the Director of Studies’ office and I sincerely hope that we have correctly attached his legs and tail. It proved a slight challenge with no instructions and only very passing anatomical knowledge of pets between us!

Thanks to the generosity of Dr Zoe Jaques, Rosemary Austin and I were invited to participate in an AHRC-funded project led by Zoe and Dr Eugene Giddens of Anglia Ruskin University. The project, entitled “Digital Collections in Children’s Literature: Distance Reading, Scholarship, Community”, has brought together researchers, PhD students and librarians from Cambridge and the University of Florida, home to the prestigious Baldwin Library of children’s literature, to discuss issues around digital strategies, digitisation, cataloguing and use of the collections.

In a series of four meetings, the final of which is due after the end of Michaelmas term, we have looked at areas such as widening access to excluded groups, trigger warnings and other concerns around controversial material (for instance golliwogs), the potential for crowdsourcing and best practice around creating digital collections. These have been extremely fruitful conversations, allowing us to think about our collection in different ways, and form some ambitions for the future.

The second meeting was held at Homerton, where the research team were treated to an exhibition specially curated for them by Rosemary Austin, as well as a dinner in College. I was extremely lucky to attend the third meeting in Gainesville, Florida and, whilst they could not quite rival our dining experience, I was able to view the

Cavendish College Rowing Cups

immense Baldwin Library collections and speak in depth with their curator. Our hope is that this project may receive further funding to allow the conversations to be developed into outcomes. It was extremely fortuitous, in the context of the project, that the library was gifted a generous sum by Mrs Heather Jemson (CertEd 1952) to be used on the children’s books. With College Council’s permission, the money has been allocated to begin the digitisation of a selection of

Homerton’s rare books. It is hoped that these will be available online sometime in 2020.

It has also been a busy year in the Archive, with many visitors and researchers, as well as new acquisitions to attend to. One particular highlight has been the return of two rowing cups to their former home, all thanks to eagle-eyed eBay browsing! The cups date from 1883 and 1884 when Cavendish College occupied the site.

We have also been lucky enough to be able to flesh out some history behind the rowers listed. Joseph Duncan Dathan (from the 1884 trophy) attended Cavendish College before studying for the ministry at Ridley Hall. He became a Royal Navy chaplain and was latterly Chaplain to the Marine Barracks, Chatham, until his death in January 1918. He is the only war casualty of Cavendish College listed in the University War List.

The 1883 trophy lists Frederick Thomas Gardner. He also entered the clergy following further study at Peterhouse. However, from 1893–1916 he conducted a series of expeditions across the Arctic with a Dr J. H. Salter. One such expedition, in a 52 ft. sailing boat, ended in shipwreck and rescue by an American whaler. Clearly this wasn’t enough adventure as he later served on Lord Morton’s yacht mine-sweeping off the Scottish coast during the Great War.

The Library and Archive are extremely grateful for all the donations received this year. They bring a great deal of enjoyment, excitement and colour to our collections! n

A snapshot of the Baldwin Library collections

2019 NEWS HIGHLIGHTS

Liz Osman

Dame Leah Manning

Homerton joined forces with Cambridge Past, Present and Future on Saturday 28 September to unveil a blue plaque to Dame Leah Manning, whose career of education and activism began at the College.

Born in 1886, Leah Manning trained as a teacher at Homerton in the 1900s, during which time she also became politically active, joining the Labour Party and the Fabian Society. From 1908 she focused on improving the education, health and welfare of children at the New Street Ragged School, where she taught for 10 years. The site of the school, where the plaque is now displayed, now forms part of Anglia Ruskin University. Manning was elected as MP for Epping in 1945, becoming heavily involved in policy-making for educational reform, social reconstruction and international peace. She was a lifelong champion of causes affecting women and children, advocating for women’s rights, birth control and equal pay.

Internationally, Manning’s most lasting legacy is her effort to secure the evacuation to Britain of 4,000 children from Bilbao to Britain during the Spanish Civil War in 1937, many of whom came to Cambridge.

The plaque was unveiled by Manning’s friend Stan Newens, who succeeded her as the Labour MP for Epping and Harlow. Stan charmed and amused the audience at the event with anecdotes from his encounters with

her. He remembered her enormous energy and commitment to the people of Harlow, her interest in everyone she met, and her great sense of humour.

Also speaking at the unveiling, Homerton’s own Dr Peter Cunningham said that her career stood as a model for current students. “They are actively encouraged to see themselves as ‘Changemakers’, to apply their privileged learning, their knowledge and skills in many fields, to the betterment of humanity as Leah Manning did.”

The Cambridge Blue Plaque Scheme is run by local charity Cambridge Past, Present and Future. James Littlewood, Chief Executive of the charity said at the unveiling:

“The Blue Plaque scheme aims to commemorate people and events that have made a significant impact on Cambridge, the UK or, indeed, the world. In 2018 we were very pleased to receive a nomination from Homerton College proposing a plaque to commemorate Leah Manning, one of their alumni. Bringing these plaques to fruition takes a lot more work than you might imagine, and we are very grateful to the volunteers on the blue plaque committee, Anglia Ruskin University and Homerton College. This will be the 35th blue plaque and is in the illustrious company of Oliver Cromwell, Sir Jack Hobbs, Millicent Fawcett, the discovery of DNA and Alan Turing.”

Building a culture of poetry

How many poems do you know by heart? What are your earliest memories of poetry? What emotional resonance does poetry have for you?

These were some of the questions explored by alumni, in a lively conversation led by Emeritus Fellow David Whitley, as part of September’s Alumni Reunion Weekend.

Participants discussed the poems and rhymes they remembered being shared with them as children, and talked about the ways in which poetry can be a trigger for other memories, or a source of support.

Between 2014 and 2016 David was principal investigator on The Poetry and Memory Project, which looked into the distinctive value of memorised poetry, and the relationship between memorisation and understanding.

With two Poets Laureate (Dame Carol Ann Duffy and Sir Andrew Motion) as Honorary Fellows, and a poet and specialist in poetry as Principal, Homerton is well placed to ensure that poetry is taken seriously as an interest beyond the borders of academic study. We are proud to be associated with Poetry by Heart, a poetry recitation competition for schools, and excited by the opportunity to help develop a love of poetry in the next generation Thanks to the generosity of Dr Norman Bardsley, who has chosen to commemorate his late wife, Jackie, through a gift to Homerton in her name, the College will soon be able to appoint a Poet in Residence. Through this new role, we hope to be able to foster a growing culture of poetry at Homerton.

Alumni discuss poetry with Emeritus Fellow David Whitley

The Philippa Pearce Lecture

It was the kind of bright, spring afternoon when anything seems possible, as excited children’s literature enthusiasts filled the Homerton auditorium. Those lucky enough to attend the twelfth annual Philippa Pearce Lecture were treated to an engaging and illuminating talk by former Children’s Laureate, Jacqueline Wilson, entitled “Be Careful What You Wish For!”. Like her award-winning books, Jacqueline’s words were sharply perceptive, sweetly endearing and indicative of a writer who has not lost her ability to see the world through a child’s eyes.

She began by recalling an authors’ conference she’d attended very early in her career. Slightly nervous and not knowing anyone else, she was grateful to be befriended at lunch by a woman who mentioned, in a very modest way, that she’d written “a book about a garden”. Only afterwards did Jacqueline realise that her new acquaintance was none other than Philippa Pearce, and the book, Tom’s Midnight Garden. She was bowled over by the warmth, humility and genuine interest this celebrated author had shown to “a young beginner”.

Jacqueline went on to reflect on some of her own childhood reading experiences. She recalled staying with her grandparents and finding nothing to read except an old Maria Edgeworth book which included The Purple Jar. In this short story, Rosamond’s desire to own one of the enchanting purple vessels she sees in a chemist’s shop leads her mother to teach her a rather painful lesson about making prudent choices. Jacqueline explained that, whilst she didn’t mind “traditional ‘be careful what you wish for’ tales as such”, she has always “hated this lofty adult viewpoint in which adults always know best.” For her, writing for children is driven by the desire to capture a child’s point of view: their worries, woes and wishes.

Jacqueline then considered various literary attempts to capture that world in general and the wished-for in particular. These included E. Nesbit’s Five Children and It – the inspiration for her own,

updated version, Four Children and It. Eventually she lighted on Philippa Pearce’s A Dog So Small as a shining example of a ‘Be Careful What You Wish For!’ narrative. This story of a boy who wishes for, imagines and ultimately receives a dog of his own artfully compels readers to consider “the joys – and the dangers – of living totally in the imagination” without ever becoming patronising or dismissive of the intense emotions children feel and the lessons they learn. (Lessons that many adults are still learning, whether or not they choose to admit it.)

Philippa Pearce, Jacqueline suggested, was as wise as the granny in the book who says, “People get their heart’s desire, and then they must learn how to live with it”.

Wishing has evidently been a powerful force in Jacqueline’s own life. She told us how, as a little girl daydreaming about her heart’s desire of being a writer, she imagined not only writing – but also giving talks to packed auditoriums. Sitting at the head of an excited queue and signing books must be a very regular feature of this successful writer’s life. This evening’s queue was almost certainly unusual, being an exclusively adult one. But clutching well-loved favourites as well as shiny new purchases from the Heffers bookstall, and enthusiastically discussing favourite characters and scenes, this line of eager fans was perhaps not so very different.

“The worlds of my imagination and my reality have sort of interlocked together, and I think that’s the happiest part” says Jacqueline. ‘Jacky’ is one little girl who got what she wished for, and everyone who attended the Philippa Pearce lecture, as well as countless children and adults across the world, remain incredibly thankful for that.

Lilly Posnett (BA Education with English 2013–16; MPhil in Education 2018–19)

COLLEGE LIFE

HUS President’s Report

Charter Choir of Homerton College Sport

HUS PRESIDENT’S REPORT

Lydia Devonport, President of the Homerton Union of Students

Returning to Homerton, no longer as a student, was a very unusual experience for me. Getting to know staff members and what goes on ‘behind the scenes’ was a wonderful experience that opened my eyes to what exactly the College, students, staff and alumni do to support one another.

The day I set foot in Homerton marked a new chapter of my life that had a profound effect on me. The years I spent at Homerton were incredibly formative; they taught me a lot about who I am as a person, and how to react and respond to situations around me that I’d not

experienced until I landed here. To say it shaped the course of my future is not an exaggeration, as it has now led me down a path that wouldn’t have been accessible for me anywhere else.

The students here will never cease to amaze or impress me. Even during my time as a student here, I found inspiration from the many achievements of those around me – and each year we seem to accumulate more and more successes at an exponential rate.

This summer, our students represented Homerton and the University in many different ways and across several continents. The Charter Choir embarked on their annual Choir Tour, this year to the Auvergne region in France and on their return they recorded a Christmas CD

Dave Bell (PhD Education 2018), who helped to row the Cambridge men to victory in the 2019 Boat Race

which featured compositions by past and current Homerton students. They also performed a concert at Homerton in celebration of the 250th anniversary of the College, which included choir alumni. This collaboration of alumni and current students reflects what makes Homerton so great: an environment where we can support and learn from each other.

Many of you, I’m sure, will have been cheering on the Light Blues this year when Cambridge triumphed magnificently in the men’s and women’s races. This victory was all the sweeter as we were cheering on one of our own students, who was in the bow seat of the men’s blue boat. We also had three Homerton women competing in the University development squad.

Their success will be further magnified by the completion of the new boat house which ensures that our dedicated rowers, be they potential Blues or novices, have access to the best possible equipment we can provide.

Other successes include one of our own students captaining the Blues cheerleading squad, and both Homerton cheerleading teams coming in the top three nationally. In terms of drama, we also had a student represent us at the Minack Theatre in Cornwall as the lead in the Cambridge University Gilbert and Sullivan Society’s production of Princess Ida. We also had a number of Homertonians performing and organising the University of Cambridge Asia Theatre Tour, a nonprofit, student-run organisation representing some of the best theatrical, creative and technical talent Cambridge has to offer. Throughout September they toured across the UK and East Asia performing and providing workshops in venues, schools and universities with the aim of opening up cultural dialogues through lively performances and interactive workshops.

Our students also had successes much closer to home. The 2019 Homerton May Ball, held to celebrate the end of exams in June, was a sell-out success again this year. Over a thousand guests, including a number of Homerton alumni,

attended the event to enjoy a night of live music, entertainment, bespoke cocktails and gourmet food from local Cambridge vendors. The event was organised by a committee of 20 undergraduate and postgraduate students, who put in a full year of hard work – not to mention a 24+ hour shift on the night – to bring the Ball to fruition. Particular successes this year included the introduction of a subsidised ticket class for students on bursaries, to promote accessibility, and an increased focus on making the event eco-friendly, which earned the Ball a Platinum Sustainability award, the highest tier available.

Above all, however, our students are here because they are exceptional scholars. 2019 marked some of the best results that Homerton had ever seen. Homerton was once a College which was at the top of its league for the education of future teachers; it is now a College which is at the top of its league for the education of future leaders in all possible domains n

Anna Cooper (BA Music 2017) as Princess Ida

CHARTER CHOIR OF HOMERTON COLLEGE

Dr Daniel Trocmé-Latter, Director of Music

By the time you read this, the Charter Choir will have celebrated its latest commercial release! Till all the place with music ring:

Advent and Christmas at Homerton describes itself rather well – an album of Yuletide choral music, featuring Christmas classics as well as a number of seasonal new works. These include eight never previously recorded pieces, including Greta Tomlins’s The Son of God and Malcolm Pointon’s Three short motets

The recording was made straight after the Choir’s tour to the Auvergne in the summer, where we were warmly hosted in ClermontFerrand by Fabienne Bonnet, former Bye Fellow

and Lay Chaplain of Homerton. This inevitably meant preparing some of our recording repertoire by performing it on the tour, and although that felt odd at times, nothing was quite comparable to singing the likes of Silent Night and We Wish You a Merry Christmas in the moderate heat of a Cambridge summer. Still, every choir needs a Christmas CD, and sacrifices must be made. I am listening to the recording while writing this, and I can honestly recommend it!

Returning briefly to the tour, we proceeded from the conurbation of Clermont-Ferrand and Chamalières to a village on the plateau called Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, best known for its role in the resistance movement during the Second World War. We were given the warmest of welcomes by our parishioner hosts and treated

The choir rehearse on tour in France

to the local firework display, as our visit coincided with Bastille Day. The tour ended in Moulins. If you are unsure where to find Moulins on a map, draw two lines – one horizontal, one vertical –through the middle of France, and the city is more or less where the lines intersect.

I’m grateful to Fabienne, as well as to Max Goodall, for their help in organising this tour, especially as I was technically on a research sabbatical during the first half of 2020 (though still managed to find myself in an office dealing with tour-related admin, rather than deep in a pile of library books, more often than I would have liked).

I am also extremely grateful to several others who kept College music running smoothly during my sabbatical. Douglas Coombes MBE, now one of Homerton’s newest Associate Fellows, oversaw the Charter Choir’s most high-profile events, including Ash Wednesday, the Charter Dinner, and the final services of Easter Term. He was assisted by our two organ scholars, who shared the playing and conducting between them when Douglas was not able to be around. Our Honorary Lay Chaplain, Trish Maude, continued to oversee the pastoral and liturgical aspects of choir life.

Together, they maintained the Charter Choir’s busy schedule, performing Evensong in Coventry Cathedral and a concert in the Cathedral of St John the Baptist, Norwich. In addition, Chris

Baczkowski, Senior Organ Scholar, also took on the role of President of the Homerton College Music Society (HCMS) during my absence, putting on regular concerts and organising an annual dinner and garden party.

Looking ahead, there is much to be excited about. Already this year we have sung Evensong at Leicester Cathedral and performed Fauré’s Requiem in a return visit to St Martin-in-the-Fields in London, at which several alumni were present.

Excitingly, the tenth anniversary of Homerton’s Royal Charter is almost upon us, and, with it, the Charter Choir’s tenth anniversary. On Saturday 7 March we will be celebrating by holding a reunion for all former members of the Charter Choir, to which we hope to attract representatives from the entirety of the last decade. This will consist of a special Choral Evensong to which all are most welcome. Please keep an eye on the website for further details.

As ever, alumni are most welcome at Charter Choir services and concerts, full details of which can be found on our website at www.homerton.cam.ac.uk/charterchoir. Alumni are also encouraged to follow the Charter Choir on their Facebook page, at www.facebook.com/ homcharterchoir. The latest release is available from the website for £12 (incl. postage and packing) n

SPORT

Rahul Patel, HUS Sports Officer

Rugby

Pace. Precision. Power. The three P’s of Homerton.

The Homerton Griffins have had another fruitful year of victory. Under new leadership by a young and dynamic new Captain – Jamey Chaudhry – the Griffins have soared to new heights, quickly signing new talent such as Fergus Jemphry, Connor Fairman and Lancelot, while extending the contracts of some of the veterans including Nathan Johns, Luc Francis, David Bradburn and James Mocatta.

Homerton’s rugby team domestically won Division 3 twice in the 18/19 season before winning the Cuppers bowl in a stunning 24–17

victory on the field o’dreams that is Grange Road. The Griffins also performed on the international stage winning the tri nations cup in Malta on their pre-season tour.

Having been promoted to Division 2 the Griffins continue to dominate despite an unfortunate series of injuries. Young hotshot Connor Fairman picked up a dislocated shoulder, while established superstar Jonathan Andrews suffered a hamstring injury. Andy Hughes’ knee continued to be a bother although he soldiered through setting a fine example.

On the social side Fin Macintosh has been pulling the strings from behind the curtains. Pizza Sunday has been a huge hit, with attendance through the roof and the team gym sessions have really got the blood pumping.

Another incredible year for Homerton’s finest. There has been love, there has been loss but the real winner has definitely been rugby.

Jamey Chaudhry

Lacrosse

Despite a challenging season for the team, with the loss of several of our esteemed players to the world beyond university, Homerton placed fourth in the 1st division of the College league; a big thank you to everyone who came out and

The rugby team celebrate their victory

The Homerton Griffins claim the Cuppers bowl in rugby

The Homerton lacrosse team

played! The focus next term will be on boosting numbers ready for Cuppers and continuing to grow as a team.

Phoebe Hardingham and Bea Damon Frisbee

The Homerton Frisbee team has had a mixed year in 18/19. We started out strong in Michaelmas term, coming third in the College league. In Lent we dropped to fifth place and in Easter term, suffering from a lack of players we came in ninth. However this year has got off to a fantastic start. We started in the second division but have won every game we played and look forward to further success in the first division.

Paul Wernicke

Football I’s

The 2018–2019 Homerton First XI Football team will be remembered as one of the greatest sides to grace the hallowed turf of the Geoff Ward Superdome. The year started with a change of captaincy as Griffins GK stalwart Oscar Wilson passed the reins onto mercurial ball playing centre half Sam Hoar. Alongside Vice-Captain Sam Sayer and James ‘Tumnus’ Hayes, this change of leadership group brought in a new brand of scintillating football that many of the more established Cambridge Colleges found simply too hot to handle. Despite the frequent absence of Blues prima donna Kosi Nwuba, the

mighty Griffins scored goals for fun on our way to becoming Division 2 champions. This has earned us promotion to Division 1 of the College league for the 2019–2020 season, in which we are confident of fighting for a league and cup double. Special mentions must go to Chinedum Echeta, who was nominated Player of the Season for his consistent match-winning performances, and to fresher Matt Walters for the impact he made in

The Homerton Frisbee team (above and below)

The Homerton First XI Football team

midfield. HCFC continues to grow in size as a club, with four teams competing in the Cambridge College leagues, and it has a fantastic atmosphere that encourages all Homertonians to get involved or to come and support our games. Up the Griffs! Sam Hoar

Football IVs

The IV Football team (so good there is no III team) once again had an amazingly bad performance in the 2018–19 football season finishing 6th with just one win in the season, three points in the league and a goal difference of –18. Suffice to say we remain in the bottom tier of the Cambridge University Athletic Football League.

Henry Wright

Football AFAB

This season, the Homerton AFAB Football team merged with the Emma Panthers in order to ensure we have sufficient numbers to actively participate in the league. The merger has been a great success with the team (now dubbed The Hemmerton Panthers) currently standing second in the Division 3 table (with highlights including a 9–1 win vs. Newnham, and an 8–1 win against the Pembroke 2nds). We’re confident that we’ll be up for promotion this season.

Frank Levermore

Boat Club Men’s

Michaelmas saw a huge recruitment drive for novice rowers on the men’s side of the club, resulting in two crews entering the Queens’ Ergs indoor rowing competition and the Fairbairn Cup at the end of the term. We were also represented in the novice Emma Sprints (dressed as superheroes) and Clare Regatta, which gave valuable race experience for those who had just taken up the sport. The senior squad of 12 returning rowers also entered an VIII in the Fairbairn cup. The new relationship with City of Cambridge Rowing Club expanded our fleet significantly beyond the four VIIIs owned by HCBC, which allowed for training in smaller boats giving the training schedule much more flexibility and variety.

Lent term kicked off with a pre-season training camp in preparation for Lent bumps. Unfortunately, M2 didn’t qualify for a place in the bumps chart through the ‘Getting on’ Race, however, we fielded an M1 consisting of a mix of returning seniors and

The Hemmerton Panthers (above and below)

The Homerton IV Football team

promising novice rowers from Michaelmas term. There was a great sense of camaraderie in the boat and although the results were not as successful as we’d hoped it was a great opportunity to develop sound technique for those who will take the mantle of HCBC rowing in the future. Excitement was also mounting as the new boat house began to rise slowly from the ground showing promise for things to come in HCBC’s future.

May bumps was more successful with two men’s boats competing and M2 bumping St. Catharine’s M3 on day three. M1 struggled to maintain pace after strong racing starts on each day and ultimately got spoons but lessons were learned that can be taken into preparations for 2019–20. There was cause for celebration and commiseration at the May Boat Club Dinner but overall the training and dedication of those on the men’s side this year has laid a solid foundation for the future in the newly erected boat house. It is encouraging at the beginning of the new year to see so many enthusiastic rowers returning on the men’s sides, showing that even in the face of defeat we are determined to fight on and celebrate the club’s esprit de corps.

Jonathan Birtwell-Vorderman and Alex Lemery

Boat Club Women’s

For HCBC Women the past term has been an exciting one. We have had a focus on training rather than racing this term, taking part in Senior Q-ergs and rowing under several different coaches. We currently have approximately 15 active seniors, many of whom are new to Homerton having rowed elsewhere. We have several pieces of news to share:

We are very much enjoying the use of our new boat house, and all that comes with it. Whilst the coffee machine has made early mornings a lot easier we have also had a wonderful opportunity to use CCRC’s collection of small boats and fantastic gym/erg room.

Another exciting bit of news – we have a new coach! Homerton crews have, for several years,

been coached exclusively by unpaid volunteers –under which the College has performed admirably. However, we hope that a new coach, training plan and altogether more cohesive strategy will put us on track towards greater success next term.

Our pride and joy Morgan Morrison is trialling for the Cambridge University Women’s Lightweights crew and is doing amazingly well.

The Homerton Men’s Boat Club (above and below)

The Homerton Women’s Boat Club

Next term we’re hoping to stay focused on the primary goal of rowing on the Cam. The mornings may be cold and dark but training over the Christmas vacation has gone well, and next term we’re hoping to double down and really make some gains.

Zelna Weich

Netball

Homerton Ladies’ Netball team have had a brilliant first term! We remain undefeated moving into Lent, having beaten teams such as King’s 14–5 and Downing 2nds 17–5. We had a brilliant final game of the term against Clare, winning 24–6. It’s been great to have such a regular turn out of players, allowing the team to develop over the course of the term. There has also been a wide age-range of players – from 1st years to PGCE – meaning it has also been

a great way to socialise. Captains Alex and Charlotte are very much looking forward to next term and seeing what the rest of the season has in store for the team.

Charlotte Horner

Badminton

The past year saw many changes in the Badminton club, from a large increase in members to excellent performance in the College leagues. The ladies’ team manage to secure promotion to Division 1 in the College league, whilst the Homerton I team managed to secure a solid fourth place in Division 2 against some very tough opponents. The past term, the team has shown considerable improvement and our next goal is to secure the promotion to Division 1, which is well within reach. Unfortunately, Cuppers was a great upset last year and we were knocked out in the first round against St Catharine’s College who had some impressive University players on their team and a strong aggressive play style.

Evans Rozario

Tennis

Homerton tennis has had a great year so far. During the Michaelmas leagues, our 1st team scored the highest points in their division and the highest of any team in the league. Our 2nd team also performed well, securing second place in their division. We look forward to what Cuppers holds for us in Lent!

Aryaman Reddi

The Homerton Women’s Boat Club

Homerton Badminton club

RESEARCH

Research Roundup

RESEARCH ROUNDUP

Dr Stephen Burgess leads a research group in the Medical Research Council Biostatistics Unit based at Addenbrooke’s Hospital. The group investigates how our knowledge of genetics can help prioritise development of treatments to improve health outcomes.

Several pieces of research have received media attention this year, including work linking inflammation to depression, time spent in education to coronary heart disease, and fat mass (but not lean mass) to cardiovascular diseases. Equally (if not more) important is research that does not capture the imagination of the national press, including methodological research to disentangle the causal roles of highly correlated risk factors, and to estimate the shape of the causal relationship between risk factors and diseases to investigate the presence of non-linearity or threshold effects. Along with colleagues in the Psychiatry Department, Stephen was recently awarded a Therapeutic

Target Validation grant to explore links between inflammatory processes and schizophrenia.

Junior Research Fellow Dr Ross Cole has published an article on folk music in Ethnomusicology. Forthcoming essays have been accepted at the Journal of the Royal Musical Association (on the poetics of song) and ASAP/ Journal (on vaporwave). He has been invited to speak at King’s College London, CRASSH, and the University of Oxford. He also chaired a post-performance discussion of Yoko Ono’s Sky Piece to Jesus Christ at Downing College. His first monograph is currently in preparation.

Professor Mary Dixon-Woods and her team at The Healthcare Improvement Studies (THIS) Institute worked with Menagerie Theatre Company to deliver two interactive theatre workshops at Homerton. The performances raised awareness of the importance of research and evidence to support change in healthcare delivery. The play acted as a conversation starter between the audience and researchers, opening up wide-ranging conversations about the role of evidence in improving care.

THIS Institute also hosted the inaugural THIS Space event at Homerton in September 2019. The highly interactive event brought together researchers, healthcare practitioners, and patients from across the UK. All who attended shared a common goal: a commitment

A theatre workshop delivered by THIS Institute and Menagerie Theatre Company

to strengthening the evidence base for improving the quality and safety of healthcare.

Professor Tim Eisen, Professorial Fellow in Medical Oncology, presented the results of the MRC SORCE study at the ESMO conference in Barcelona in October. SORCE is a large international study with over 1700 participants which investigated whether a newly developed drug, Sorafenib, could reduce the risk of relapse after removal of a high risk kidney cancer. The results showed that whilst there was a short term effect, there was no significant longer term effect. The search for an effective adjuvant treatment goes on.

Tim has been able to secure support from AstraZeneca for the next MRC adjuvant study in renal cancer which is now investigating whether drugs to activate the immune system (T cell checkpoint inhibitors) may be of benefit for people in this situation.

Dr Will Fawcett, Homerton Research Associate in Physics, is exploring the potential for new fundamental physics from the data produced by the Large Hadron Collider at CERN.

“The 2018–19 academic year saw the end of “Run 2” of the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s most powerful particle accelerator. During Run 2, the accelerator was ramped up to its highest ever energies, allowing more powerful particle collisions. Consequently, this extra energy potentially allows us to create new, previously unseen kinds of matter. In addition, the largest-ever dataset was collected allowing us to search for ever-rarer particle interactions.

Recently, the Higgs boson produced with two top-quarks was measured using the new data. What is fascinating about the Higgs is its interaction with other particles. After all, it is the particle that gives others their mass: the heavier the particle, the stronger its interaction with the Higgs. The top quark is the heaviest of the fundamental particles we know, indicating

the interaction between the top and Higgs to be very strong.

Measuring the strength of this interaction tests our understanding of the particle world. However, the most exciting result would in fact be a disagreement with our current predictions. That is because the interaction strength is not just sensitive to the properties of the Higgs, but also to currently undiscovered particles. Thus, finding our hypothesis does not match observations could mean discovering something new!”

On 4 July 2019, the Department of Social Anthropology and the MML Faculty hosted a workshop jointly convened by Homerton Junior Research Fellow Dr Paolo Heywood and Professor Robert Gordon (Serena Professor of Italian at Cambridge), entitled Body politics: tombs, museums, monuments, and the afterlives of dictators in Italy and Spain.

The workshop focused on the afterlives of fascist regimes in Italy and Spain, and in particular on the politics surrounding the bodies of Franco and Mussolini. Speakers included the technical and academic directors of a project to build a Documentation Centre in the village in which Mussolini is buried, as well as academic experts and public commentators on recent debates around the disinterment of Franco’s remains from the Valle de los Caidos.

Dr Louise Joy, Director of Studies in English, has just taken on the additional role of Vice-Principal.

“The research highlight of the year for me has been the publication of my first monograph, Literature’s Children: The Critical Child and the Art of Idealization (Bloomsbury, 2019). This book brings literary theory into dialogue with the philosophy of

education to provide a new account of the complex relations between literary aesthetics and literary didacticism.

I have also completed work on a second monograph called Eighteenth-Century Literary Affections, which examines the mediating role played by the category of the affections in eighteenth-century contestations about reason and passion. The book is now in press and will be forthcoming with Palgrave Macmillan in 2020.

I was delighted to be awarded the Crausaz Wordsworth Interdisciplinary Fellowship in Philosophy at CRASSH for the academic year 2019–2020. During my CRASSH fellowship I will be working on a new project called Enlightenment Progressivism: Literature, Education and Freedom, which will explore the cultural turn towards – and the accompanying resistance against –progressivism, examining the ramifications of philosophical debates about progressive education for literature and literary theory in the eighteenth century and beyond. Alongside this, with Zoe Jaques and Eugene Giddens I am co-editing volumes 1 (Origins to 1830) and 2 (1830–1914) of The Cambridge History of Children’s Literature in English, and with Jessica Lim I am co-editing a collection of essays entitled Literary Education: Women’s Pedagogical Exchange, 1690–1850.”

Dr Catherine MacKenzie, Director of Studies in Law and Land Economy, was Stan Legro Visiting Professor of Environmental Law at the University of San Diego in January 2019, and Visiting Professor of Environmental Law at Vermont Law School in the summer. She delivered the following conference papers:

“Trade, Environment and Technology: The Metrics of Evaluation”, 28 August 2019, Joint Workshop on Metrics for Socially Responsible Waste Management, Shanghai Jio Tong and Sussex Universities, 29 August 2019.

“Sovereignty Reinvented in the Context of Territorial Claims”, Kuwait International Law School, Kuwait, 2 May 2019.

“Maps, Space Rockets and Antarctica: Working in International Environmental Law” Inner Temple Inn of Court, London, 23 February 2019.

“Reimagining the Antarctic Treaty from a European Perspective”, Antarctic Symposium, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, 28 November 2018.

“The Impact of Public Choice Economics on Environmental Treaty-Making”, Workshop on Public Choice Economics, Center for Law and Economics, George Mason University, Washington DC, 2 November 2018.

Dr Ros McLellan, Fellow in Education, released the final report for a research project on which she was co-investigator: The Understanding Maths Anxiety Project, funded by the Nuffield Foundation. Working with 27,000 primary and secondary students, the project explored the perception, held even by children with high ability in the subject, that maths is harder than other subjects. This can lead to an emotional and physical aversion to maths, and a fear of failure.

The project received strong media interest, and was covered in most of the broadsheet papers.

“I had the great pleasure of appearing on BBC Three Counties Radio on their morning breakfast show where I experienced maths anxiety first hand when the presenter dropped a surprise mental arithmetic test on myself and his copresenter, pitched at the level expected at the end of primary school. Needless to say neither the co-presenter nor I managed to get all five questions correct…”

Dr André Neves is a Senior Research Associate at Cancer Research UK Cambridge. He is currently working on the translation to the clinic of a cell death imaging agent (C2Am) for positron emission tomography, a mainstream modality in clinical imaging. This novel imaging agent will allow clinicians in the future to assess response to cancer therapy in a faster, more effective manner, in comparison to current standard of care, with

potential benefits for patient outcome and significant cost savings for the NHS.

André’s work has been awarded substantial funding by the Cambridge Cancer Centre, as part of the Mark Foundation Institute for Integrated Cancer Medicine. A first-in-human clinical trial of the C2Am imaging agent is planned for the end of 2020.

Junior Research Fellow in Artificial Intelligence Dr Beth Singler spoke at the D&AD Festival, the Cog X Festival of Emerging Technology (on a panel with the writer Jeanette Winterson), and the Cambridge University Alumni Festival, where she was the most popular single speaker with her talk ‘Are we ready for AI?”

She organised the workshop Faith and AI at St George’s House, Windsor Castle, and participated in various academic conferences, including Science in Public, the British Society for Literature and Science, and the CenSamm (the Centre for Critical Studies in Apocalyptic and Millennarian Movements) annual conference.

Over the year, Beth was interviewed by New Scientist, the BBC, Forbes, CNBC, Techworld, Alpht, OneZeo and the Naked Scientists. She has published a chapter in Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science; Blade Runner 2049 and Philosophy and AI Narratives: A History of Imagining Thinking About Intelligent Machines.

“Well, what a year for research focused on Greenland,” says Homerton Research Associate Dr Jakob Thyrring. “With heatwaves resulting in massive inland ice melt off, and not to forget Trump proposing to buy the place…”

Jakob’s research highlights included the publication of four peer-reviewed research papers, and the successful collection of settlement panels from the Greenland inter-tidal zone after a year’s use. The biological data gathered will aid researchers’ understanding of warming in the Arctic coastal zone.

Paul Warwick, Senior Lecturer in Education, has been leading the UK element of the Digitalised Dialogues Across the Curriculum (DiDiAC) project, funded by the Research Council of Norway. The research is developing new knowledge to help understand how students learn in contemporary digitalised schools and across three key knowledge domains – science, language and social sciences.

The project integrates the use of a microblogging tool, Talkwall, in classrooms in England and Norway that use the ‘Thinking Together’ approach for developing productive talk for learning (http://thinkingtogether.educ.cam.ac.uk/). Using Talkwall, a teacher formulates a question or a challenge before students, individually or in groups, post messages to a shared ‘wall’ (e.g. large screen/projector). These messages can be interactively arranged, supporting the immediate visualisation of ideas. Hashtags and a short message format (max 140 characters) help to promote various important learning strategies, such as condensing information and identifying key concepts.

Outputs from the UK team to date include an international handbook chapter, a chapter in an edited book and four papers in peer reviewed journals. Dissemination into schools is ongoing n

Norwegian students try out Talkwall

by David Johnson

Photography

DEVELOPMENT

From the Development Director

Our Donors

Opposite Dame Evelyn Glennie, Dr Alison Wood and Anne Cotton OBE at the launch of Homerton Changemakers, June 2019

FROM THE DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR

Matthew Moss MVO, Director of External Relations and Development

Development

Offices – a US invention

– are ubiquitous now in UK universities and independent schools, all of which have realised the benefits of making it easy for alumni to support the institution, and to stay in touch both with it, and with each other. It occurs to me from time to time what an odd word ‘Development’ is, to describe these activities. It can mean almost anything (‘we need to keep up with developing developments in Development’) and sometimes it seems like a code word, as if the true activities of the office were nefarious and needed concealment (they’re not, and they don’t). Certainly the student body

generally does not know quite what to make of us: I was horrified to discover a couple of years ago that many students thought we were something to do with building developments, and that others thought that because we had something to do with money, that was a bad thing – presumably because these students only see money as something that other people have. Of course now that America has successfully exported this sense of the word ‘Development’ to the UK, it is busy minting a new concept, and my counterparts in the US often now have the title ‘Director of Advancement’, in which the functions of fundraising and alumni relations are combined with various sorts of external communication – projecting the reputation and values of the institution beyond its walls.

Participants in the Changemakers Summer School

In this as in much else, Homerton has been a little ahead of the game, except perhaps in its devotion to jargon.

When I arrived in Homerton six years ago I wrote on a whiteboard ‘the purpose of this office is the planned and purposeful promotion of understanding, participation and support’, and that still seems to me a fair description of our role.

‘Development’ contains the sense of improvement, and indeed Development Offices are the one department whose responsibility is to see that the institution is a little better tomorrow than it is today – in terms of opportunities for students to grow, and a sort of institutional kindness, in our ability to catch them when or before they fall, with hardship grants and needs assessments and other kinds of care.

To borrow the thoughts of Chinua Achebe on the role of writers:

“If we have any role at all, I think it’s the role of optimism…In other words, we don’t just sit and hope that things will work out; we have a role to play to make that come about.”

In terms of opportunities to grow, Homerton is suddenly at the forefront, through the brilliant Homerton Changemakers programme, which offers students a unique opportunity to develop their non-academic skills.

2019 saw its formal launch (though ‘formal’ doesn’t seem quite right for a joyous jazz-andcanapé-filled marquee and some star turns from our Honorary Fellows Ann Cotton and Dame Evelyn Glennie). In 2019 we also began a focused push to raise funds for the programme, and our generous alumni have given over £70,000 towards this sector-leading provision – including a stellar gift from Cynthia Rumboll MBE (CertEd 1958).

A terrific donation is helping Homerton cement its reputation for high achievement in sport: we can now make two Horobin Sports Awards to new graduate students each year, who are at national level in any sport – and we can help our students with the cost of travel, equipment and training incurred in pursuing sport.

And thanks to our partnership with Santander Universities UK, we can make bursary and hardship awards to help students make ends meet.

So: helping our students grow, and catching them when they fall.

All in all, 2019 saw our most successful year yet in fundraising for these twin purposes, and our whole community is hugely grateful to you n

The Changemakers Summer School

OUR DONORS

The Principal, Fellows, students and staff of Homerton College wish to thank alumni and friends who have generously made donations to the College in 2019. Every effort has been made to ensure that the list is accurate; do contact us if you believe we have made an omission.

1943 Mrs Kathleen Hayward

1944 Miss Margaret Rishbeth

1946 Mrs Zoe Coombe

1947 Ms Christine Andrews Lady (Dorothy) Franklin

1948 Dr Brenda Buchanan FSA

Mrs Jane Farley

Miss Elizabeth Rainsbury

1949 Mrs Mary Dowse

Mrs Coral Harrow

Mrs Molly Payne

1950 Mrs Mavis Blow

1951 Mrs Sheila Duncan

Mrs Patricia Stockdale

1952 Mrs Shirley Haslam

Mrs Heather Jemson

Mrs Evelyn Parker

1953 Miss Brenda Liddiard

Dr Alison Littlefair

Mrs Elizabeth Tunnicliffe

1954 Mrs Pauline Curtis

Mrs Carol Hammerton

1955 Mrs Ellen Ackroyd

Mrs Wendy Darr

Mrs Christine Grainge

Mrs Gillian Hewin

Mrs Doreen Hobbs

Miss Gwendoline

Lancaster

Mrs Rachel Lewington

Mrs Jane Matthews

Mrs Wendy Oakley

Mrs Hazel Thornley

1956 Mrs Alice Severs

1957 Mrs Gillian Figures

Mrs Christine Lincoln

Mrs Josephine Sutton

Mrs Rosemary Viner

1958 Mrs Ann Banner

Mrs Diana Hadaway

Mrs Jill Hicks

Mrs Angela Hulme

Mrs Vivien Ivell

Mrs Beryl Izzard

Mrs Wanda Kielbinska

Mrs Judy Manson

Mrs Rachel Macdonald

Mrs Cynthia Rumboll MBE

Mrs Patricia Stott

Mrs Dorothy Waite

1959 Mrs Dora Beeteson

Mrs Carole Evans

Mrs Christine Frost

Mrs Ruth Jerram

Mrs Diana Lucas

Mrs Annmarie Mackay

Mrs Rosemary Rees

Miss Gill Rogers

1960 Mrs Rosemary Allan

Mrs Sylvia Avgherinos MBE

Mrs Jean Clarke

Mrs Sue Dickinson

Mrs Jenifer Freeman

Mrs Rosemary Hill

Mrs Val Johnson

Mrs Christine Kershaw

Mrs Jennifer McKay

Mrs Christine Parkyn

Mrs Jacqueline Swegen

Mrs Janet Valentine

Mrs Hillary Young

1961 Mrs Jan Campbell

Mrs Marilyn Clare

Dr Olivia Craig

Mrs Anne Hulse

Mrs Joy Kohn

Mrs Susan Lovett

Mrs Sue McFarland

Mrs Caroline Sykes

Mrs Jean Thorman

1962 Mrs Carol Bowen

Mrs Diana Dalton

Mrs Lynn Dowson

Mrs Marion Foley

Mrs Carole Girdler

Mrs Carole Nolan

Mrs Gwendolyn Williams

1963 Mrs Jean Addison-Fitch

Mrs Andrea Caish

The Revd Dr Anthea Cannell

Mrs Christine Macpherson

Mrs Kate Ryder

1964 Mrs Celia Jones

Mrs Elizabeth Maycock

Mrs Maggie Meredith

Mrs Linda Morrison

Ms Christine Purkis

Mrs Sue Rescorla

Mrs Jill Taylor

Mrs Jane Woodford

1965 Miss Sue Bates

Dr Tricia Cusack

Mrs Wendy Dunnett

Mrs Annie Illingworth

Mrs Dorothy Nicholls

Mrs Anne Perrin

Mrs Sue Pinner

Lady Ann Ricketts

Mrs Ruth Watkin

Mrs Janet Webb

Mrs Dilys West

1966 Mrs Ann Bates

Mrs Elaine Beale

Mrs Jean Carnall

Mrs Bryony Carter

Mrs Margaret Crowe

Mrs Wendy Farmer

Lady (Marilyn) Ferscht

Mrs Margaret Funnell

Mrs Judy Martin-Jenkins

Mrs Judith Queripel

Mrs Margaret Robbie

Mrs Sheila Stephens

Miss Lorraine Welch

Mrs Linda West

Mrs Jan Wilkinson

1967 Mrs Marjorie Caie

Mrs Miriam France

Mrs Avril Growcott

Mrs Marion Pogson

Mrs Pat Saxton

Mrs Netti Smallbone

Mrs Althea Stevens

1968 Mrs Valerie Hart

Mrs Lesley Marriott

Mrs Robyn Mitchell

Mrs Lynne Parsons

Mrs Pemma SpencerChapman

Mrs Marilyn Stansfield

Mrs Alison Syner

1969 Mrs Anne Bambridge

Mrs Tricia Coombes

Dr Vicky McNeile

Mrs Anna Munro

Mrs Merilyn Parker Armitage

Ms Anne Reyersbach

Ms Hilary Stokes

Mrs Sarah Taylor

1970 Mrs Patricia Bradley

Ms Fiona Cook

The Revd Sheila Crowther

Mrs Cynthia Garvey

The Revd Claire Heald

Mrs Glenys Lambie

Mrs Mary McCosh

Mrs Denise Mitchell

Dr Roz Sendorek

Mrs Denise Shakespeare

Mrs Helen Wood

Mrs Mary Wyatt

1971 Mrs Patty Darke

Mrs Denise Few

Mrs Sally Mabon

Mrs Mal Reid

Ms Helen Sandle-Baker

1972 Ms Catherine Beavis

Mrs Sarah Flynn

Mrs Margaret Howell

Mrs Fiona Karlin

Ms Anne Kennedy

Ms Jane Lewin Smith

Mrs Helen Malcolm

Mrs Caroline Melrose

Mrs Valerie Mills

Mrs Penny Riley

Mrs Annie Ryder

Mrs Angela Swindell

Mrs Marilyn Thomas

Mrs Maureen Weston

1973 Miss Stephanie Beardsworth

Mrs Rosalind Broyd

Mrs Jill Fish

Mrs Sheila Martin

Mrs Elizabeth McLean

Mrs Dilys Murch

Mrs Denise Prosser

Mrs Sue Strassheim

Mrs Heather Wilkinson

1974 Mrs Elizabeth Rose

Mrs Vera Sklaar

1975 Mrs Alyson Baker

Mrs Judith Davidson

Mrs Helen McRoberts

1976 Mrs Judy Clarke

Mrs Joan Gibson

Ms Jill Grimshaw

Ms Sarah Jacobs

Miss Amanda James

Mrs Ann Kirkby

Mr Tony Little

Mrs Ann Muston

Mrs Jo Newman

Mrs Alison Roberts

Mrs Zena Tinsley

1977 Ms Clare Benfield

Miss Sheila Berry

Mrs Jane Bishop

Mrs Lalli Draper

Ms Jane Edwards

Mrs Ceri Harding

Mrs Ann Jackman

Mrs Helen Mitchell

Mrs Louise Mursell

Mrs Clare Myers

Mrs Jane Pearson

Mrs Lesley Thomas

1978 Mrs Vicki Addey

Mrs Marianne Billitt

Mrs Ruth Briant

Mrs Sandra Burmicz

Mrs Annette Cameron

Mrs Clare Danielian

Mrs Mary Powles

Mrs Elizabeth Thomas

1979 Mrs Amanda Renwick

Mrs Brenda Thompson

The Revd Joan Hicks

Mrs Oyinkan Ade-Ajayi

Ms Karen Ready

Mrs Deborah Moss

Ms Elizabeth Dickinson

Mrs Rachel Bond

1980 Ms Victoria Brahm Schild

Mrs Jo Broughton

Mrs Sarah Holmes

1981 Miss Anna Chapple

Mrs Cordelia Myers

Mrs Sarah Palmer

Mr Graeme Plunkett

1982 Mr Mark HanleyBrowne

Mr Brian Howarth

1983 Mrs Alison Brinklow

Mrs Joan Kedward

Mrs Karen Miranthis

Miss Emma Rawson

Mrs Frances Surridge

1984 Ms Alison Mesher

Mr Peter Ventrella

1985 Dr Kirsty Byrne

Mrs Karen Coombs

Mrs Julia Harker

Mrs Sally Jaspars

Mrs Anna Williams

1986 Mrs Keren Cooke

Ms Nansi Ellis

Mrs Virginia Eves

Miss Samantha Taylor

1987 Mrs Alison Allen

Mrs Kim Chaplin

Mrs Michaela Khatib

Mrs Elizabeth McCaul

Mr James Thomson

1988 Mr Phil Coldicott

Mr Arjun Kumar

Mrs Katie Mayne

Mr Andrew McNeil

Mrs Sarah McWhinnie

Ms Phillipa Rushby

Ms Adrienne Saldana

Mr Giles Storch

Miss Jen Svrcek

1989 Miss Lucy Bradley

Dr John Dodsworth

Mr Carl Howarth

Mrs Charlotte Irving

Mrs Penny Lee

The Revd Wendy Wale

1990 Mrs Naomi Baynes

Mrs Nicole Cohen

Mrs Karen George

Mrs Fiona Gruneberg

Mr Ian Hodgson

Mrs Sharon Holloway

Mrs Sophie Morley

Dr Susi Pinkus

1991 Mrs Joy Bensley

Mr David Chapman

Miss Claire Corkran

Miss Helen Diggle

Mrs Elizabeth Sartain

Miss Lisa Tiplady

1992 Mrs Claire Brooks

Mrs Mariclaire Buckley

Mr Simon Camby

Mr Patrick Derwent

Mrs Sarah Haines

Mrs Louise Hawksley

Miss Caroline Mander

Mrs Nicola Pitzey

Mrs Diane Rawlins

Miss Wendy Smith

1993 Dr Steven Chapman

Miss Manjit Hayre

Mrs Helen Morgan

Mrs Jane Riordan

1994 Mrs Torie TrueBhattacharyya

Mrs Emma Vyvyan

1995 Mrs Carol Carlsson

Browne

1996 Mr Ian Bettison

Dr Andrew Holder

Mrs Serena O’Connor

Mr Christopher Shephard

1997 Mr Matt Buck

Mrs Amy McDonnell

1998 Mr Alastair Chipp

Mrs Elisabeth Hackett

1999 Ms Erin Bond

Dr Neil Hennessy

Mr Paul Jones

Mrs Shamsa Khokhar

Mrs Laura Penrose

Mrs Louisa Shipp

Miss Lydia Williams

Mrs Zoe Yeomans

2000 Mrs Susan Aldred

Mrs Abigail Deeks

Miss Katharine James

Dr Tom Kitchen

Mrs Jo Della Maestra

Mrs Cheryl Smith

2001 Mrs Grace Baines

Mr Laurence Ball

Mrs Lesley Crooks

Miss Lidia Fesshazion

Mrs Amy Fleming

Mr James Frecknall

Mr Andrew Jenner

Mrs Nadine Lloyd

Mrs Judy Moore

Mrs Kimberley Rayson

Mrs Sandra Stapleton

2002 Ms Rachel Ayres

Mrs Katy Coles

Mr Sam Farmer

Mr Sutherland Forsyth

Mrs Carys Gladdish

Mr Chris Kellaway

Dr Rajalakshmi Lakshman

Mr David Lawrence

Miss Sian Mawditt

Mr Remi Moynihan

Miss Krista Pullan

Ms Alison Richman

Mr Tim Scott

Dr Lisa Sessions

Mrs Rhiannon Wynne-Lord

Mrs Angela Woodruffe

2003 Mrs Rachel Bardon

Ms Susanna Bellino

Miss Amynah Bhanji

Miss Katherine Bluck

Mr Raymond Cilia

Mr Gregoire Hodder

Mrs Anne Howell

Mr Jonathan Levine

Mr Can Liang

Dr Feilong Liu

Mrs Elizabeth Mansfield

Mr Daniel Roberts

Dr Tovah Shaw

Mr Jean-Paul Skoczylas

Mr Tristan Stone

Miss Stephanie Tillotson

Mr John White

2004 Mr JD Chen

Mr Simon Cooper

Mrs Emily Davies

Mrs Bridget Donovan

Miss Natasha Gray

Mr Richard Hopkins

Mr Ravi Raichura

Miss Jennifer Sneyd

Mrs Nina Sever

2005 Dr Enyi Anosike

Miss Stephanie Baxter

Mr Nicholas Bebb

Mrs Lisa Beacom

Mr Nick Clark

Mrs Janice Frankham

Mr Andy Gard

Mrs Rebekah Perry

Dr Oliver Rupar

Mrs Liz Sharp

Mrs Jessica Shingfield

Ms Nadia Syed

Mrs Emma Turner

Mr Gerry Zhang

2006 Mr Luke Shepherd

Miss Aniko Adam

Dr Theresa Adenaike

Mr Andrew Blackburn

Mr Thomas Dix

Mr Vlad Hanzlik

Dr Joshua Jowitt

Mrs Chrissie Kelby

Miss Esther Mulholland

Miss Chloe Orchin

Mrs Dawn Pavey

Mrs Lynne Richardson

Mrs Liza de Uphaugh

2007 Mrs Claire Byrne

Miss Jessica Dewes

Mrs Tracey Harjatanaya

Mr Tom Horn

Mr John Keene

Miss Teresa Li

Mr Michael Lynch

Miss Nic Pollard

Mr Joseph Randall-Carrick

Mrs Chikako Woodgate

2008 Mr Tom Baker

Mr Justin Bynum

Mr Luke Clarke

Mrs Heather Coleman

Mr Michael George

Mr Christopher Grey

Mr Matthew Linsell

Mr James Lugton

Ms Elaine Mo

Miss Amy Munro-Faure

Mr Ikenna Obiekwe

Mr Gershwinder Rai

Mrs Emily Roberts

Mrs Sarah Talland

Mr Kenichi Udagawa

2009 Mr Adarsh Bala

Mr Nigel Beckford

Dr Tumas Beinortas

Miss Sophie Bell

Mr Daniel Beresford

Mr Bhavin Bhatt

Mr Iain Cameron

Ms Shruti Chaudhri

Mr Jonny Edge

Miss Alice Esuola

Dr Jack Euesden

Miss Christine James

Mr Christopher Morgan

Mrs Sue Morley-Souter

Dr Jonathan Rackham

Mr Paul Shewell

Mr Michael Thorp

2010 Mr Henrique Barbone

Miss Emma Bowell

Mr Nahum Clements

Miss Alex Courage

Mr Richard Craven

Mr Gabrielius Glemza

Mr Paul James

Miss Sian Jones

Miss Rosie Keep

Miss Suzie LangdonShreeve

Dr Dirk Mersch

Dr Shawn O’Donnell

Mr Richard Peach

Mrs Jessica Taylor

Miss Megan Trimble

Miss Yuanjia Yin

2011 Mr James Chicken

Miss Kathryn Dillon

Mr Rafe Fletcher

Mr Jack Hooper

Mr Ted Levermore

Miss Helen Lyttle

Mrs Cordelia North

Mr Thorben Schaefer

Miss Angela Stevens

Mr George Sykes

Miss Abigail ThurgoodBuss

Mr Syed Wafa

Mr Rune Webb

2012 Mr Amjad Ali

Mr Joshua Cozens

Mr Henry Fieldman

Ms Louise Holyoak

Mr Tim Hubener

Dr Sylvester Juwe

Ms Samantha Kellow

Ms Eleni Leontidou

Miss Danielle Poole

Mr Douglas Porter

Mr Theepan Tharmarajah

Mr Dmytro Tupchiienko

Miss Krisztina Zaborszky

2013 Mr Marc-Jullian Hensel

Mrs Marian Mahoney

Mr Hachimi Maiga

Mr Edmond Tam

Ms Sarah Tiffin

2014 Mr Nigel Ironside

Mr Edward Kent

Mrs Andrea Saunders

2015 Mr Hamid Abbasov

Mr Adam Dobson

Mr Vincent English

Miss Sarah WitkowskiBaker

Dr Zamir Zulkefli

2016 Miss Mille Fjelldal

Mr Mitchell Hayden-Cook

Mr Bonbien Varga

Friends of Homerton

Mrs Julie Abrams-Humphries

Mrs Alexandra Annett

Mr Dominic Barber

Dr Norman Bardsley (in memory of Jacqueline Bardsley, née Lockhart)

Mrs Frances Barrett

Ms Caroline Bell

Mr John Blythe

Professor Robert Burn

Miss Patricia Cooper

Mr Norman Donkin

Mr Timothy Edwards

Mr David Fletcher

Mr Gordon Gaddes

Mr Fabio Galantini

Mr Roger Green

Mrs Laura Harnak

Mrs Clare Harvey

Dr Lesley Hendy

Mr John Iliffe (in memory of Dorothy Violet Iliffe, née Bannister)

Mr James and Mrs Leslie Lemonick

Mr Duncan Loweth

Dr Anthony Metcalfe

Mr Anthony Mitton

Mr Matthew Moss MVO

Mrs Helen O’Hara

Ms Sue Prytherch

Dr Peter Raby

Ms Tessa Robinson (in memory of Bridget Robinson)

Ms Marilyn Tullys

Dr Peter Warner

Mr Victor Watson

Dr David Whitebread

Ms Rhiannon Williams

Ms Margaret Wood

1768 Society

Mrs Victoria Addey

Mrs Rosemary Allan

Dr Enyinnaya Anosike

Ms Catherine Beavis

Miss Sheila Berry

Mr Ian Bettison

Mr Andrew Blackburn

Dr Brenda Buchanan

Mr Matthew Buck

Mrs Sandra Burmicz

Dr Kirsty Byrne

Mrs Marjorie Caie

Mr Simon Camby

Mrs Jan Campbell

Mrs Kim Chaplin

Dr Steven Chapman

Ms Shruti Chaudri and Mr Iain Cameron

Mr Nick Clark

Mrs Nicole and Mr David L Cohen

Mr Phil Coldicottt

Mrs Heather Coleman

Miss Pat Cooper

Mr Richard Craven

Mrs Pauline Curtis

Mrs Diana Dalton

Mrs Clare Danielian

Mr Patrick Derwent

Mrs Marguerite and Mr Norman Donkin

Mrs Lynn Dowson

Mrs Sheila Duncan

Mr Jonathan Edge

Mr Vincent English

Mr Mille Fjelldal

Mr Sutherland Forsyth

Mrs Miriam France

Mrs Karen George

Mrs Carole Girdler

Mrs Christine Grainge

Miss Natasha Gray

Mr Roger Green

Mrs Fiona Gruneberg

Mr Mark Hanley-Browne

Mrs Ceri Harding

Mrs Julia Harker

Miss Manjit Hayre

Dr Neil Hennessy

Mrs Jill Hicks

Mr Gregoire Hodder

Mr Ian Hodgson

Ms Louise Holyoak

Mr Richard Hopkins

Mr Tom Horn

Mr Brian Howarth

Mr Carl Howarth

Mrs Anne Howell

Mr Tim Hubener

Mrs Ann Jackman

Mr Paul James

Mrs Celia Jones

Mr John Keene

Mr David Lawrence

Mr Jonathan Levine

Ms Jane Lewin Smith

Mr Can Liang

Mr Matthew Linsell

Mr Tony and Mrs Jennifer Little

Mrs Susan Lovett

Mrs Diana Lucas

Mr Michael Lynch

Mrs Christine Mcpherson

Mr Hachimi Maiga

Mrs Lesley Marriott

Mrs Jane Matthews

Mr Andrew McNeil

Mrs Helen McRoberts

Mrs Sarah McWhinnie

Mrs Maggie Meredith

Mrs Pamela and Dr Anthony Metcalfe

Mrs Karen Miranthis

Ms Elaine Mo

Mr Matthew Moss

Mr Remi Moynihan

Mrs Ann Muston

Mr Ikenna Obiekwe

Mr Douglas Porter

Mr Ravi Raichura

Mrs Diane Rawlins

Miss Emma Rawson

Mrs Rosemary Rees

Lady Ann Ricketts

Miss Gill Rogers

Mrs Elizabeth Rose

Mrs Kate Ryder

Mrs Andrea Saunders

Mr Luke Shepherd

Mrs Netti Smallbone

Mrs Cheryl Smith

Mr Tristan Stone

Mrs Jessica Taylor

Mrs Lesley Thomas

Mrs Brenda Thompson

Mr James Thomson

Mr Michael Thorp

Mr Rune Webb

Mrs Dilys and Mr Peter West

Mr John White

Dr David Whitebread

Ms Rhiannon Williams

Mrs Helen Wood

Cavendish Circle

Dr Norman Bardsley

Ms Victoria Brahm Schild

Mrs Annie Illingworth

Mrs Sophie Morley

ALUMNI

News from the Branches

Alumni Weekend

Alumni News

Retired Senior Members’ Association

Book Review

NEWS FROM THE BRANCHES

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Homerton Wessex Alumni

Yet another very successful lunch was held in early October at Monk’s Yard, Ilminster. We were in a different room from previous gatherings, which had a fabulous roof window over our single large table making it a very bright, sociable and friendly occasion. We welcomed Jill Evans (1980–84) and Liz Gibbs (1963–66) who were both attending for the first time. Sadly, Coral Harrow (1949–51) had suffered a fall and was in Yeovil Hospital so she was sorely missed – the first lunch that she has not been able to attend since the group’s inception, over 40 years ago.

Date for your diary: Thursday 2nd April 2020

For the next gathering we are having an exciting change from our usual format. Jane Hancock (1973–76), is the wife of the Right Reverend Peter Hancock, Bishop of Bath & Wells. We are having the usual lunch in a private room in The Crown, in the Market Place in Wells, but after this, the Hancocks have kindly invited us across the moat, for a tour of the Palace and Gardens, followed by afternoon tea in the Bishop’s Drawing Room. Of course, anybody is welcome to join us for all, or part of the day. If you are not currently on the Homerton Wessex list but would like to participate in this event, you will be most welcome. Please contact Vicki Addey (vicki@addey.co.uk / 01935 815816) for further details.

Homerton London Alumni

A group of the Homerton London Rollers supported the Homerton Charter Choir when they performed at St-Martin-in-the-Fields in November and this was followed up by an afternoon tea at St Martin’s in December. The London Rollers also met up at the V&A Museum of Childhood in January, when Homertonian Carolyn Bloore told us about the history of the museum.

The group plans to meet again in April at the main V&A site in south Kensington when Carolyn will tell us more of the museum’s history. Our summer event will be a visit to Fulham Palace. For details of these events please contact Stephanie Beardsworth (stephanie.beardsworth@btinternet.com).

Homerton Oxford Alumni

The Oxford group attended an organ recital at Queen’s College on 4 March, and enjoyed lunch at The Quod restaurant. For details of future events, please contact Lucy Barnett (glebecottage@gmail.com) n

London branch get together

Oxford branch get together

Wessex branch get together

ALUMNI WEEKEND

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Torrential rain welcomed the first arrivals to Alumni Reunion Weekend, on the evening of Friday 27 September. Rushing soggily between the Porters’ Lodge and the Combination Room to reunite drinks reception attendees with their name badges, it appeared that the weekend was in danger of being a wash-out. But Saturday brought sunshine, and the annual celebration of former students was back on track.

Nearly 200 alumni and their guests returned to stroll the grounds, assess the changes and see for themselves how, despite its evolving ambitions and ever-improving facilities, Homerton’s essential warmth, friendliness and individuality remains unaltered.

Attendees ranged from those whose time at Homerton began immediately after the Second World War, to those who left only last year. There was a particularly strong turnout from year groups marking anniversaries in 2019 –those who joined or left the College in 1959, 1969, 1979, 1989 and 1999. The 1959 cohort added to the party atmosphere by bringing their own Prosecco and a bespoke cake from a local bakery, provided by Diana Lucas (née Barber).

The timetable for the weekend squeezed in two three-course dinners, one two-course lunch, one spectacular afternoon tea, several drinks receptions, various speeches and addresses, a

choral concert, a tour of the Fitzwilliam Museum, a discussion of poetry and memory, guided tours of the College and the unveiling of a blue plaque.

Dr Alison Wood, Academic Director of Homerton Changemakers, gave an address introducing alumni to the extra-curricular programme, and emphasising its connection with Homerton’s educational heritage.

Next year’s Alumni Reunion Weekend will take place on 25th and 26th September 2020. We look forward to seeing many of you then.

A particularly warm welcome is extended to alumni whose time at Homerton began or ended in 1950, 1960, 1970, 1980, 1990, 2000 or 2010.

Angela Payne (nee Mortimer) is keen to ensure good representation from the class of 1960, and invites anyone thinking of attending to contact her on angela.mulberryfarm@gmail.com or 01359 244244 n

ALUMNI NEWS

We are delighted to share the following news of our alumni. Please do get in touch (alumni@homerton.cam.ac.uk ) if you would like to include an update in the next issue.

1950s

Congratulations to Mary Prince (née Bruce) (CertEd 1957–59), who received an MBE for services to young people with dyslexia in Kingston upon Thames in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List 2019. Mary’s husband, Colin, wrote:

“I met Mary in my third and fourth years at St John’s, and we were married in 1961, both dedicated to careers in education. It became clear that Mary was especially fascinated by children of ability, but who were completely unable to handle their ‘word blindness’.

She spent much of her teaching concerns and experience in inspiring youngsters to realise their potential, concentrating centrally on children with reading and writing difficulties. This gave birth to her several work books and sheets for teachers and children. Teachers, past pupils, LEA officers, inspectors and parents have written of her continued and passionate commitment to this dedication.”

Many congratulations to Wendy Cannon (née Norrington) (CertEd 1949–51) and her husband

David, who celebrated 65 years of marriage, as well as David’s 90th birthday, in 2019.

1960s

Jennifer Cole (née Medcalf) (CertEd 1962–65) followed an eclectic teaching career ranging from Canvey Island to a prep boarding school in Ascot.

“After becoming a member of the BDA, I gained a B.Ed from Kingston University in 1996 followed by an M.Ed from Sheffield University in 2000. Retiring in 2001 to Devon from Sunningdale I became a Link Ed tutor giving part time education to any out of school pupil under 16 whether ill, pregnant, expelled or on remand!

In 2005 we relocated to Melbourne, Australia, surrounded by sand, sea and vines.”

Christine Purkis (BEd 1964–7) has branched out into writing for adults, after publishing several books for children.

Exploring the life of a 19th century Welsh pig farmer who nursed with Florence Nightingale at Scutari, Jane Evans is published by Y Lolfa.

“My aim was to tell stories of the women, particularly the working class women, who made a huge contribution to the Crimean war. I have been to many events, including book groups held by fellow Homertonians, and would always be happy to speak to more such gatherings.”

Wendy and David Cannon, 1954

1970s

Jane Brooke (née Peacocke) (CertEd 1971–4) was appointed Vice Dean and Canon Missioner at Chester Cathedral, with responsibility for education and “looking outwards” to establish links between the cathedral and city and diocese.

Helen Malcolm (née Samuels) (CertEd 1972–75) worked as a teacher for three years before starting a family. She did not return to teaching, but once her three children were old enough she worked for some years as an activities organiser in an old people’s home. Later she gained a TEFL qualification and volunteered at the University of Bedfordshire chaplaincy helping overseas students with their English. She also developed her artistic gifts and repurposed the large scale ‘seasons’ artwork she had made at Homerton as a wall hanging.

Sadly, in 2010 Helen began to show signs of cognitive decline and has since been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. Nevertheless she remains cheerful and enjoys seeing her six grandchildren and taking part in church activities. She is still in touch with several of her Homerton peers.

1980s

Fiona Fraser (née Bodie-Smith) (BEd 1979–82) has finally taken the advice she’s spent a lifetime sharing with students, and decided to take the plunge.

“In my 34 years in professional life after Homerton, as an English teacher, Department Chair, Dean of Faculty and Assistant Head of School, I’ve spent a lot of time talking to students about being willing to take risks as they learn and that true education is being a lifelong learner.

In 2015 my husband (Alastair Fraser, Christ’s) and I, took leave from our respective jobs and set sail from Texas to explore the Caribbean in a 43 foot sailing boat. Always a desire of Alastair’s, as he is

an experienced sailor and navigator, this was never on my bucket list.

We returned to working life and invested in a forever boat and, for two winter seasons now, have been sailing seven months of the year in the Caribbean on our 54 foot monohull, Busco Viento. Some might say I’m living the dream! I’m certainly walking the walk of what I’ve talked over the course of my career. It’s challenging, at times frustrating, can be physically taxing, but I’m learning about my own resilience, willingness to learn new skills, and am proud that I am living my mantra. Oh and there’s also those stunning sunsets, myriad blue waters and just the occasional cocktail!”

Dr Emma Till (BEd 1986–90) was awarded her PhD by the University of Winchester in October 2018. She is now Senior Lecturer in Primary Education at the same university.

“My thesis, which was entitled Being a Geographer: Towards an Understanding of Primary Teachers’ Constructs of Subject-Specific Identity,

The Busco Viento at sea

combined my continued interests in geography and primary teaching, which were ignited during my years at Homerton.”

Dr Ruth Wills (BEd 1987–91) is an Associate Lecturer at Liverpool Hope University, and a Visiting Fellow of the University of Winchester. Her first academic book, Learning Beyond the Objective in Primary Education: Philosophical Perspectives from Theory and Practice, was published in 2019.

1990s

Simone Rudolphi (PGCE 1990–91) says: “For the last few years I have reinvented myself as a photographer and photographic artist. Academically I progressed this with an MA in Photography at the exceptional Northern Centre for Photography, Sunderland.

My series, The Value of Everyone: Encounters, featured in the Changing State group exhibition at the Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art with two pieces from my travels to Syria in September 2017 being shown in a travelling exhibition “Hope is Maybe” in Germany from Munich to Berlin.

Susanna Pinkus (BEd 1990–94) has been appointed to the position of Head of Learning Skills and SENDCo at Harrow School. She is a judge on the National SEND Awards and continues to write about family matters in the media (www.drsusannapinkus.com). She is also

loving working with her latest addition, a cavapoo puppy, who is in the process of becoming a school therapy dog.

Kit Owen-Smith (PGCE 1996–97) is starting an MA in Philanthropic Studies at the University of Kent. He has also been promoted to Senior Supporter Relations Executive at Tearfund, and was appointed as chair of the charity Love Russia in January 2019.

Olivia Sparkhall (née Walsby) (PGCE 1998-99) has recently published the first ever Anthology of Sacred Music by Women Composers, to make it easier for churches, cathedrals, choirs and choral societies to perform compositions by women.

“A few years ago I noticed that, although there are plenty of female composers of sacred music, no sacred music by women was ever sung by choirs at my local Cathedral. I had a look through some scared anthologies and found that there were hardly any women composers in them; many had none. I mentioned this to a friend and we decided to do something about it.”

2000s

After leaving Homerton, Andrew Malcolm (BA Education with Mathematics 2004–7) gained a PGCE while teaching in a Luton high school, then worked in Alternative Provision for some years. He was awarded a professional doctorate in 2015 for a thesis entitled “Alternative provision as an educational option: Understanding the experiences of excluded young people”.

Andrew now works in the School of Applied Social Studies at the University of Bedfordshire and represents the High Town ward on Luton Borough Council. He initiated the High Town Festival which has run successfully since 2013. He is also portfolio holder for Finance and chairman of London Luton Airport Ltd. He is married to Jane, and they have two boys.

Woody, the school therapy dog

Congratulations to Jacqui Howard (BA Education 2004–7; PGCE 2007–8), who married Allen Saunders, Senior Custodian at the Faulty of Education, on 20 July 2019 in Suffolk.

Congratulations to Philip Arkinstall (PGCE 2005–6), who married Rachael Frances Seago on 14 April 2019 in Chippenham, Wiltshire.

Caroline Webb (née Hibell) (BA Education 2001–4; PGCE 2004–5) and Tim Webb (BA Education with Geography, 2001–4; PGCE 2004–5) welcomed their first child, Rory William on 19 December 2018 at the Rosie Maternity Hospital, Cambridge.

Andy Lewis (BA Education and Religious Studies, 2002–5; PGCE 2005–6) was asked to write a textbook for the new GCSE in Religious Studies in 2015. He has since gone on to write the accompanying revision guide, two workbooks and a Key Stage 3 textbook on Judaism.

He says: “I am sure my lecturers, Janet Scott and Mary Earl would be pleasantly surprised! I remain so proud of my time at Homerton, and just wanted to share some good news.”

Helena Thompson (BA Geography, 2008–11) married Serguei Mouratov in September 2017, and gave birth to a wonderful baby boy, Constantine Arthur Mouratov, in January 2019.

George Jenkins (BA Classics, 2011–14; MPhil Classics 2014–15) married Ruth Beddow (BA Geography 2010–13; PGCE 2013–14; MEd 2016–18) in 2018.

Ellie Thompson (née Méechan) (PGCE 2012–13) and her husband welcomed their first child, Rosie Annabelle, in December 2017. “To ensure I get the best out of the balance between being a mum and a teacher I reduced my working week to part time and I’m loving every minute.” n

Rory Webb

Jacqui Howard marries Allen Saunders

Helena Thompson marries Serguei Mouratov (above); Constantine Mouratov (below)

RETIRED SENIOR MEMBERS’ ASSOCIATION

Dr Peter Warner, Chair of the RSMA and Keeper of the Roll

What makes Homerton an exciting place is that, between things and people, it is always changing. As a parttime Tutor I visit the College two or three times a week in term and enjoy that regular contact, but this summer I was away from Homerton and only returned for the RSMA AGM on a wellattended Alumni Weekend. In July work was starting on the new ‘North Wing’ at the back of the College and you could see the skeleton of its steel frame being erected, but when I returned in September the roof was on and the windows in place. The vista was startling, but seemed to complement the long run of buildings facing onto Harrison Drive. I noted the use of similar brick

and flint panels to match the Ibberson Building of 1914 behind it– a nice touch.

Of course building work, particularly where it joins onto pre-existing structures, causes havoc. Paupers’ Walk was barely recognisable as half of its width was taken up with acro-props and ineffective screens to keep out dust and noise. On the other side of Paupers’ Walk old plaster had been ripped away to reveal miraculously intact leaded-light windows dating from the early 19th century. What an amazing piece of Homerton archaeology! Many of us RSMs have fond memories of the Old Combination Room, but that was not its original function. Built as three interconnecting classrooms in 1903 with 50 new student rooms above, it represented the first building phase of Homerton College on its Cambridge site. It was designed to allow for increased student numbers up to a total

Surviving stained glass from the classrooms of 1903

of 200. Today (November 2019) there are 1,352 students at Homerton. The classrooms, in line with educational thinking of the time, were high, light and airy, very similar to the London Board schools where Homerton teachers were undertaking their training. High square lattice windows with touches of stained glass at the top ran around three sides with a splendid triple-gable window at one end opposite the entrance. It must have led to a memorable first impression for visitors and humble freshers.

In 1936 these three classrooms were converted into the College Library, previously housed in a very cramped room then renamed ‘Macaulay’. But the classroom windows, close together and down to waist height were incompatible with new bookshelves and panelling designed by Gordon Russell. Also there was a need for quiet study space without disturbance from students running down Paupers’ Walk - to and from the Gym. So the lower part of the windows on two sides were boarded over. When the new octagonal ‘Black and White’ Library, with its splendid curved iron staircase, was built in 1967 and the old library was converted into the Combination Room, no one thought to open up the windows again. The Gordon Russell panels gave a snugness to the room – the wood absorbed nicotine from many staff who smoked in retreat there. And so the beautiful old windows of 1903 were forgotten until their chance discovery this summer.

Now the plan is to open up at least two of them either side of the doorway into Paupers’ Walk giving access to the newly built North Wing. Soon they will once again be part of the Homerton experience just as they were over a hundred years ago. To me this constant metamorphosis of an institution both structurally and functionally is fascinating. As the College continues to grow in student numbers and intellectual strength so this relationship between buildings and people becomes ever more complex and interesting. Of course a College is primarily

about people, but at any one point in time there is a romantic connection between people and buildings that endures for a lifetime in memory.

The RSMA has the longest memory of anyone in College and we accept our role as guardians of College folklore and building history. We have recently established a Heritage Group as a subset of our Committee to gather information from our older members and commit their memories to the College Archives in perpetuity. Ever conscious that we lose three or four older members each year – but at the same time gaining five or six newly retired members - there is no time to lose. The College is going through so many changes as I write; little gems of history are easily forgotten unless they are written down and preserved for posterity. As retired members of the College we take pride in the metamorphosis of Homerton to which we have in some small part contributed. It is a pleasure therefore recording it for the enjoyment and interest of generations to come n

The lower part of the windows with panelling removed

BOOK REVIEW

Homerton – Our Secret History

Homerton – Our Secret History, was written by Peter Warner, Emeritus Fellow and former Senior Tutor, to mark the 250th anniversary of of the first Trust Deed of Homerton Academy, established in London in 1768.

How do you spend your Tuesday evenings?

If you were a pious young man in the City of London in 1730, chances are your weekly destination was the King’s Head Tavern in Swithin’s Alley, next to the Royal Exchange.

Inside: coiling tobacco smoke, the scent of gin and ale, and – through the candlelit gloom, crowded around a table in the corner – fourteen gentlemen in knee-length coats and breeches laying the foundations of what would become our very own Homerton College.

The question of how these very different dissenters – among them a tobacconist, a silk throwster, and a shopkeeper – went on to create an institution that, over 250 years on, still remains a centre of learning ‘sacred to nonconformity’ (in the broadest sense) is the subject of Peter Warner’s Homerton: A London Academy in the 18th Century, the first volume of a new history of Homerton that finally reveals the full complexity and eccentricity of the College’s earliest years.

Homertonians old and new – particularly those initiated by drinking wine from the Homerton Horn – will no doubt relish the fact that their College was effectively founded in a pub. Yet as Dr Warner (longtime Senior Tutor and current Keeper of the Roll) explains, for decades our subversive history –perhaps the most extraordinary of any Oxbridge College – was deliberately concealed so as not to ‘rock the boat’ when Homerton sought to integrate itself within the wider University. ‘Homerton by its very nature was always a highly political institution’, he says, but earlier

College historians were careful not to make this history sound ‘too political’ for fear of making ourselves unpopular. As such, Homertonian luminaries like Henry Mayo, radical editor and member of Samuel Johnson’s literary circle, and John Pye Smith, campaigner against slavery and the Corn Laws, lived on for decades only in volumes of minute books and pamphlets buried deep in the Homerton Archives, awaiting Dr Warner’s rediscovery.

That Homerton has long had this genius for combining radicalism with restraint is another revelation contained in Dr Warner’s book: a vital trait that allowed us to adapt to changing circumstances and weather political storms. East London, we learn, is strewn with the remains of other Dissenting Academies from the 18th century forced to close for reasons of subversion or financial ruin, but Homerton – through a mixture of ingenuity, leadership, moderation, and the talent of its students – managed to survive, and even thrive, in a period when the government needed little excuse to shut down ‘dissident’ institutions.

Current students, meanwhile, will find much that resonates with our contemporary political world – a cultural climate where identity politics was not a modern development, but the norm, and where students stayed up until the early hours debating the latest events and ideas. One student, William Walford, writing in the 1790s at the time of the French Revolution, wrote that the arrival of the newspaper ‘was generally the signal for fresh encounters…carried on until the necessity of sleep put a temporary pause to the hostilities.’ It is easy to imagine similar scenes playing out in ABC these past three years.

Tantalisingly, says Dr Warner, ‘there remain papers in the College Archive unexplored… the next generation of scholars…will find real treasure therein…’ As we await his second volume, one hopes these words will inspire future

undergraduates to go digging. History can say as much about where you are going as where you have come from. These themes of our past –educational excellence, political radicalism, bold adventure, and artistic imagination – are just as relevant now as they were then, but it is one thing to dwell on these abstract notions, and quite another to realise them. However we choose to utilise our rediscovered history, we must make practical efforts to show that it matters: not just raising a glass, as it were, in honour of our founders, but cherishing their nonconformist and freethinking spirit n

Francis Dearnley (matriculated 2010) studied History and was President of the Homerton Union of Students 2013–14. He was a Researcher and Chief of Staff for George Freeman MP at the Houses of Parliament 2016–19, and has just completed a book about Europe and Westminster.

MEMBERSHIP

Principal and Fellows

Student Achievement

Blues Awards

Graduates

New Members

PRINCIPAL AND FELLOWS

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Principal

Professor Geoffrey Ward FRSA

Fellows

2002 Dr Penelope Barton Senior Tutor

Dr David Clifford

Mr David Whitley

2005 Mr Philip Stephenson

Dr Elaine Wilson

2006 Dr Louise Joy Vice-Principal

2007 Dr William Foster

Dr Simon Wadsley Secretary of Council and Governing Body

2008 Dr Theophilus Hacking

Dr Rosalind McLellan

Dr Olivier Tonneau

Dr Peggy Watson

2009 Dr Melanie Keene Graduate Tutor

2010 Dr André Neves

2011 Dr Thomas Graumann

Professor Simon Gregory

2012 Dr Katherine Boyle

Dr Juliana Cavalcanti

Ms Deborah Griffin OBE Bursar

Dr Myrto Hatzimichali

Dr Daniel Trocmé-Latter Director of Music

2013 Dr Pauline Goyal-Rutsaert

Dr Georgina Horrell

Dr Yan Yan (Shery) Huang

Dr Julia Kenyon

Dr Timoleon Kipouros

2014 Dr Christopher Brooke

Dr Joel Chalfen

Professor Douglas Easton

Professor Timothy Eisen

Dr Paul Elliott Admissions Tutor (Sciences)

Dr Zoe Jaques Dean

Dr Francesca Moore

Mr Matthew Moss MVO Director of External Relations and Development

2015 Dr Chibeza Agley

Dr Anthony Ashton

Dr James Blevins

Dr Siddhartha Kar

Dr Jochem Kroezen

Dr Mark Manford

Mrs Elizabeth Osman Librarian

Mr Paul Warwick

Dr Rachel Williams

2016 Dr Paolo Heywood

Professor Simone Hochgreb

Dr Clare Oliver-Williams

Dr Maja Spanu

2017 Dr David Belin

Dr Stephen Burgess

Dr Ross Cole

Professor Mary Dixon-Woods

Dr Susanne Hakenbeck

Dr Elizabeth Hook

Mr Aaron Westfall

2018 Dr Kamal Munir

Dr Beth Singler

Dr Samuel Strong

Dr Alison Wood

2019 Professor Karen Coats

Professor Ravindra Gupta

Dr Kathelijne Koops

Ms Ines Lee

Dr Clare Lestringant

Mr James Manwaring

Dr Miles Stopher

Dr Carmen Ting

Honorary Fellows

2007 Mrs Ann Cotton OBE Founder and President of CAMFED

2010 Dame Carol Ann Duffy DBE Poet Laureate

2011 The Rev’d Sir Ralph Waller Director of the Farmington Institute, Pro-Vice Chancellor of the University of Oxford

2013 Dr Katharine Pretty CBE Principal of Homerton College 1991–2013

2014 Professor Sir Andrew Motion Poet Laureate 1999–2009

2016 Professor Dame Sally Davies DBE FMedSci FRS Master of Trinity College, University of Cambridge

Dame Evelyn Glennie CH DBE Percussionist

Sir David Harrison CBE Former Chair of Trustees of Homerton College

Ms Meg Rosoff FRSL Novelist

2017 Professor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz FRS Vice-Chancellor Emeritus of the University of Cambridge

2019 Professor Jane Shaw Principal of Harris Manchester College, Pro-Vice Chancellor of the University of Oxford

Dame Sue Black DBE FRSE FRCP FRAI Pro-Vice Chancellor for Engagement of the University of Lancaster, President of the Royal Anthropological Institute

Emeritus Fellows

2009 Dr Peter Raby Former Vice-Principal

2010 Mr John Beck

Dr Ian Morrison

2011 Professor David Bridges

Mr Stephen Tomkins

2012 Commodore Gale Bryan Former Bursar

2013 Mr Dhiru Karia Finance Tutor and Former Finance Officer

Dr Peter Warner Keeper of the Roll and Former Senior Tutor

2014 Miss Patricia Maude MBE

Professor Morag Styles

Mrs Elizabeth Anne Thwaites

2015 Dr Peter Cunningham

Professor John Gray FBA Former Vice-Principal

Mr Michael Younger

2016 Ms Christine Doddington

Dr John Hopkins

Dr Molly Warrington

2017 Professor Richard Hickman Artist-in-Residence

2019 Professor Maria Nikolajeva

Mr Stephen Watts

Mr David Whitley

Bye-Fellows

2013 Dr Neville Dean

Dr Linda King

Dr Louis Kovalevsky

Dr Richard Williams

2014 Mrs Jane Warwick

2015 Mr Bob Dillon

Dr Meredith Hale

Dr Joanna Haywood

Dr Richard Jennings

Dr Sohini Kar-Narayan

Dr Catherine MacKenzie

Dr Susanna Rostas

2016 Dr David Kent

Mr Dario Palumbo

2017 Dr Karen Forbes

Dr Anna Hughes

2018 Dr Robin Bunce

Dr John Fawcett

Dr Elsa Lee

Dr Eileen Nugent

Mrs Mary Anne Wolpert

Research Associates

Alessandra Bonfanti

Will Fawcett

Alexander Gagatsis

Alejandro Giorgiadis

Rajna Golubic

Nick Green

Anika Haque

Matthew Holmes

Stephanie Jong

Elise Laperrousaz

Victor Laserna

Ian Moffat

Hanna Najgebauser

Nicolas Nikis

Ekaterina Ostaschenko

Dieuwerke Rutgers

Estelle Strazdins

Pau Sureda

Jakob Thyrring

Kärt Tomberg

Elspeth Wilson

Sunny Vagnozzi

Jie Yang

Omar Khassal (BA Geography 2017) Table Tennis Blues recipient

STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT

Each year Homerton makes a number of awards to students in recognition of academic merit and outstanding achievement. The following were awarded in 2019 and the College congratulates the recipients.

UNDERGRADUATE PRIZES FOR FINALISTS

The Foundation Prize awarded to students graduating with a starred First Class result

Goncalo Araujo Regado

Cameron Booker

Pavan Murali

Hugo Ventham

Vernise Wong

The Horobin Prize for the best First Class result in the Education Tripos

Daniel Hissey

The Aditya Dalmia Prize to the student graduating with the best First Class result in the Land Economy Tripos

Vernise Wong

The Lord Dawson/Kueh Prize for the best First Class result in the Theology & Religious Studies Tripos

Kathleen McCulloch

The Simms Benefaction awarded to the student graduating with the best First Class result in the History Tripos

Eric Robinson

The David Thompson Prize awarded to students graduating with a First Class result

Alexander Bailey

Robert Beckett

Alexa Belsham

Matthew Brace

Tara Davy

Chukwunedum Echeta

Eugenio Fenoaltea Pieche

Alexandru Catalin Filip

Alexander Gikas

Christian Hines

Maulik Jain

Bill Jia

Natalie Jobbins

Sara Kachwalla

Tsveta Kamenova

Ho Ching Anson Lam

Poppy Lindsley

Annabel Manley

Thomas McGrade

Carolina Monck

Jennifer Moran

Iago Moreno

William Palmer

Suroor Rahimtoola

Ayeisha Vaze

Oscar Wilson

Chun Ho Kenneth Wong

Zigan Zhen

Jin Zheng

The Shuard/Simms Prize for students graduating with a First Class result in the Education Tripos

Aaliyah Bates

Fernanda Deolarte Ruiz

Caitlin Dobson

Irma Franz

Parissa Moghanchi

Ceri Moss

Isabel Towell

College Academic Achievement Award for students who have been awarded a University Prize

Kathleen McCulloch

The Peter Warner Prize awarded to the student who has made the most academic progress over three or four years

Irina Shmeleva

The Senior Tutor’s Prize to the student who has made an outstanding contribution to the musical life of the College

Christopher Baczkowski

ACADEMIC PRIZES AND SCHOLARSHIPS FOR UNDERGRADUATE CONTINUERS

The Santander Second Year Scholarship awarded to the highest performing students in Tripos in five subject areas

Emmanouil Angelidakis

Juliet Martin

Alec Thompson

Helena Trenkic

Emily Williams

The Bridget Robinson

Studentship to reward academic excellence in Maths or Music (in memory of the late Bridget Robinson)

Maël Laoufi

The George Peabody Scholarship awarded to students who achieved a First in Part I of the Education Tripos

Lucy Champion

Anna Haas

Lucie Richardson

Amelia Tan

Daniel Trickov

Jenny Wang

The Mandawewala Prize awarded to the student with the best First Class result in Part IIA of the Engineering Tripos

Samuel Coleman

The David Thompson Scholarship awarded to continuing students who received a First Class result

Sasha Abrahams

Ariwan Kai Addy Suhairi

Nadia Bahemia

Angelus Blank

Robert Brown

Lance Burn

Samuel Burry

Oliver Carr

Constance Chamberlain

Isabel Clancy

Jun-Ling Clarke-Ng

Jonathan Collins

Isabella Copplestone

Eleanor Coverdale

Daniel Cronin

Rowan Hall Maudslay

Joseph Johnson

Robert Johnson

Alexandra Jones

Kai Junge

Ziyi Kang

Rafaella Keavney

Dongchan Lee

Jintai Li

Roderick MacSween

Swathi Manivannan

Weston Metzler

Julius Mex

Georgina Moore

William Moss

Oliver Nick

Yoav Nir

Neal Patel

Evans Rozario

Samuel Schaefer

Yi Song

Dilan Thiara

Bridget Tiller

Vincent Tse

Pavel Turek

Isabella Weber

Vijja Wichitwechkarn

Archie Williams

Zuzanna Witkowska

College Subject Prize awarded to students judged to have reached the highest First Class standard in the Prelim Exam to Part I of the English or History Tripos

Ilaeira Agrotou Georgiou (English)

Rebecca Hawkins (History)

Cameron McQuater (English)

Jonathan Beswick Prize (essay prize) awarded to a student of Mathematics

Vincent Tse

ACADEMIC PRIZES FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS

The Homerton College

Charter Graduate Award awarded on academic merit to a student embarking on a new course of graduate study

Harriet Banks

Jack Birch

Elizabeth Figueroa-Juarez

Stephanie Hill

Daniel Hissey

Rui Wang (Jean Ruddock

Charter Scholar)

The Thougan Al Hindawi Scholarship awarded to a student entering a Master’s level course of study in Education

Rebecca Myers

College Master’s Prize awarded to graduate students who achieved a distinction overall

Judith Adcock

Arjun Ashoka

Laura Beatty

Daniel Crittenden

Annie Fitzsimmons

Rachel Hill

Eloise Johnson

Zuri Lee

Rachel Lubbock

Tessa McKeown

Emma Monteiro

Oscar Mustard

Pedro Pimenta Bossi

Francis Retter

Emily Rushton

Adam Sear

Laura Scott

Kate Stockings

Jacqueline Vyrnwy-Pierce

Jeremy Welborn

Jasmin Wharmby

PRIZES FOR CONTRIBUTING TO COLLEGE LIFE

The Barton Prize awarded to the graduate student who has made the most outstanding contribution to College life

Jack Griffiths

The Westall Prize for the most outstanding contribution to College life

Olivia Norris

Oscar Wilson

Horobin Sports Award to graduate level students who have reached international standard in any sport

David Bell

Mary Carson

MUSIC AWARDS

The Accompanist Scholarship awarded to Angelus Blank

The Pointon Prize awarded to a student of Music who has made the most distinctive contribution to the musical life of the College Natalie Jobbins

The Roger Green Senior Organ Scholarship awarded to Christopher Baczkowski

Junior Organ Scholarship awarded to Matthew Walters

Choral Scholarships awarded to

Amelia Calladine

Oliver Carr

Anna Cooper

Amy Elder

Madeleine Green

Charlotte Horner

Elizabeth Howe

Emily James

Natalie Jobbins

Olivia Kumar

Noah Poulson

Nicholas Ross

Thomas Slater

Michelle Taute

Isabel Walker

BLUES AWARDS

‘Blues’ are awarded in recognition of sporting excellence in representing the University of Cambridge. During the 2018–2019 academic year, Blues were awarded to the following Homertonians.

Full Blues

Temi Adeyemi Football

Patrick Bird Golf

Nathan Johns Cricket

Omar Khassal Table Tennis

Morgause Lomas Hockey

Reuben Morris Squash

Kosi Nwuba Football

William Taylor Hockey

Half Blues

Eve Hull Swimming

GRADUATES

The College congratulates the following students on completing their studies at Homerton and on being awarded their qualifications.

Bachelor of Arts

Thomas Adamson

Natural Sciences Tripos

Matthew Adesina Classical Tripos

Simanta Adhikari

Engineering Tripos

Saskia Allan Modern and Medieval Languages Tripos

Chloe Victoria Annetts

Education Tripos with Music

Eleanor Rose Ansell Psychology and Behavioural Sciences Tripos

Goncalo Araujo Regado Mathematical Tripos

Christoper Baczkowski Historical Tripos

Alexander Bailey

Engineering Tripos

Zoe Monique Pamela Barnes

Modern and Medieval Languages Tripos

Ruth Mary Barry Theology for Ministry Exam

Aaliyah Bates Education Tripos with English and Drama

Olivia Alice Scott Batho Natural Sciences Tripos

Robert Stanford Beckett

Natural Sciences Tripos

Alexa Belsham

Engineering Tripos

Vicent Beltran Beltran

Natural Sciences Tripos

Thomas Edmund Bennett

Natural Sciences Tripos

Oliver Bilbie Natural Sciences Tripos

Lucy Binsted

Natural Sciences Tripos

William Zebedee Blackburn

Anglo Saxon, Norse and Celtic Tripos

Cameron Daniel Booker

Mathematical Tripos

George Boughton

Geographical Tripos

Matthew Brace Natural

Sciences Tripos

Jack Briggs Geographical Tripos

Rosa Emily Burgoyne

English Tripos

Isabelle Burroughes

English Tripos

Clara Butler Natural

Sciences Tripos

Irrah Patricia Melena Carver-

Jones English Tripos

William Raphael Albert

Collinge Asian and Middle

Eastern Studies

Tiberiu George Copaciu

Computer Science Tripos

Bethan Corker

Natural Sciences Tripos

Eleanor Savannah Curzon

Green Historical Tripos

Samuel Damon Historical Tripos

Martha Eleanor Daniels

Human, Social and Political Sciences Tripos

Tara Louise Davy

Land Economy Tripos

Caitlin Samantha Day

English Tripos

Fernanda Deolarte Ruiz

Education Tripos with Modern Languages

Lydia Devonport Anglo Saxon, Norse and Celtic Tripos

Alavya Dhungana

Natural Sciences Tripos

Caitlin Beth Dobson Education Tripos with English

Joseph Duncan-Duggal

Natural Sciences Tripos

Hollie Anne Earlam

English Tripos

Eliza Eastwood Human, Social and Political Sciences Tripos

Henry George Eaton-Mercer

Classical Tripos

Chukwunedum Echeta

Chemical Engineering via Engineering Tripos

Joel Matthew Essam

Natural Sciences Tripos

Georgina Evans Linguistics Tripos

Eugenio Fenoaltea Pieche

Chemical Engineering via Engineering Tripos

Alexandru-Catalin Filip

Computer Science Tripos

Sophie Maria Bondonno

Foote Modern and Medieval

Languages Tripos

Luc Francis

Natural Sciences Tripos

Irma Franz Education Tripos

with English

Kai Gaskin

Psychology and Behavioural Sciences Tripos

Alexander Gikas

Classical Tripos

Tamsin Liane Golding Yee

History of Art Tripos

Cristina Gomez Gomez de la Torre Education Tripos with Modern Languages

Rohan Gupta

Land Economy Tripos

Eun Mi Ha

Natural Sciences Tripos

Naman Karl-Thomas Habtom

Desta Historical Tripos

Matthew Arran Taplin Harding

Natural Sciences Tripos

Christian Hines

Natural Sciences Tripos

Daniel Thomas Hissey

Education Tripos with History

Wenjin Huang Economics Tripos

Khushi Hunt Human Social and Political Sciences Tripos

Marat Iangurazov

Engineering Tripos

Sean Irving Natural Sciences Tripos

Maulik Deepak Jain

Economics Tripos

George Samuel James

Natural Sciences Tripos

Zhi Ji Psychology and Behavioural Sciences Tripos

Bill Zong Jia Engineering Tripos

Natalie Frances Jobbins

Music Tripos

James Alfred Jones

Music Tripos

Sara Sohel Kachwalla

Land Economy Tripos

Tsveta Ivaylova Kamenova

Natural Sciences Tripos

Maryam Khalifa Law Tripos

Alvee Khan Human, Social and Political Sciences Tripos

Muhammed Aqib Ullah Khan

Human, Social and Political Sciences Tripos

Annika Koljonen Human, Social and Political Sciences Tripos

Kyung Mo Koo

Engineering Tripos

Anastasia Kopytina Economics Tripos

Chi Ching Mark Lam

Land Economy Tripos

Ho Ching Anson Lam

Natural Sciences Tripos

Yin Ming Boris Lam Law Tripos

Victoria Lampitt

Historical Tripos

Georgia Lavin Historical Tripos

Sue Lynn Lee Engineering Tripos

Shu Hui Leow

Natural Sciences Tripos

Zi Khang Lin

Mathematical Tripos

Poppy Maeve Lindsley

Classical Tripos

Annabel Elizabeth Manley

Economics Tripos

Emily Jane Mason Modern and Medieval Languages Tripos

Grigori Dobri Matein

Natural Sciences Tripos

Ella Rose Maton-Lewis

Law Tripos

Kathleen Mary McCulloch

Theology and Religious Studies Tripos

Luke Padraic McGee

Economics Tripos

Thomas McGrade Modern and Medieval Languages Tripos

Miral Mir Education Tripos with History

Annia Mirza Law Tripos

Carolina Isabel Monck

Natural Sciences Tripos

Jennifer Elizabeth Moran

Modern and Medieval

Languages Tripos

Iago Moreno Alvarez

Human, Social and Political Sciences Tripos

Ceri Moss Education Tripos with English and Drama

Pavan Murali

Mathematical Tripos

Maximilian Nagy

Mathematical Tripos

Tsz Wing Ng Education Tripos with History

Christos Nikolaou

Human, Social and Political Sciences Tripos

Olivia Grace Norris

English Tripos

Isabella Akuzie Oreffo

Education Tripos with English and Drama

William Gavin Palmer

Natural Sciences Tripos

Oliver Lang Parkin

Mathematical Tripos

Sally Peacock

Geographical Tripos

Olabimpe Popoola

Historical Tripos

Noah Poulson Music Tripos

Jessica Prissy Prabhakaran

Natural Sciences Tripos

Suroor Rahimtoola

Land Economy Tripos

Chloe Richardson Education Tripos with English and Drama

Eric George Robinson

Historical Tripos

Ina Theresa Rock

Psychology and Behavioural Sciences Tripos

Leticia Marne Salmon

Historical Tripos

Tamsin Charlotte Georgia

Sandiford Historical Tripos

Xinye Sha Mathematical Tripos

Xinqi Shang

Natural Sciences Tripos

Najib Sharifi Chemical

Engineering Tripos

Esme Sharry Geographical Tripos

Irina Shmeleva

Engineering Tripos

Samuel Silvester Computer

Science Tripos

Malin-Octavian Stanescu

Mathematical Tripos

Valentina Steiner Asian and Middle Eastern Studies

Harry Stuart

Economics Tripos

Eleanor Juliet Swire

Human, Social and Political Sciences Tripos

Jovan Tasev Mathematical Tripos

Michelle Bernadette Taute

English Tripos

Glen Kian Chong Tay Law Tripos

Georgina May Taylor

Linguistics Tripos

Sarah Temesgen

Natural Sciences Tripos

Aidan James Thomas

Geographical Tripos

Emma Margaret Thompson

Psychology and Behavioural

Sciences Tripos

Pak Ho Tong Undergraduate

Mathematical Tripos

Ayeisha Colbridge Vaze

Geographical Tripos

Ben van Vlymen

Economics Tripos

Hugo Ventham

Mathematical Tripos

Isabel Rose Walker Modern and Medieval Languages Tripos

Sarah Grace Walsh

English Tripos

Gabriel Guanchao Wang

Law Tripos

Xuezhou Wang

Natural Sciences Tripos

Anouk Sophie Wear

Human, Social and Political Sciences Tripos

Vere Whittome

Engineering Tripos

Katherine Williams

English Tripos

Joanna Jay Wilson

Natural Sciences Tripos

Oscar Edward Wilson

Natural Sciences Tripos

Chun Ho Kenneth Wong

Land Economy Tripos

Vernise Yun Lin Wong

Land Economy Tripos

Arin Wongprommoon

Natural Sciences Tripos

Dominik Young Law Tripos

Zigan Zhen

Natural Sciences Tripos

Jin Zheng Engineering Tripos

Leonid Zlotnikov

Computer Science Tripos

Postgraduate Certificate in Education

Claire Louise Abraham

Syeda Nudrat Ahmed

Ahmed Amer

Emily Rose Amos

Bethany Grace Andrews

Sophie Alexandra Antony

Joni Mariella Rose Ashford

Alisha Assomull

Cayen Bailey

Nicola Louise Bailey

Amy Charlotte Barker

Sarah Jane Barrett

Emily Emad Amin Bassaly

Rohan Christopher Bate

Carlotta Belluzzi

Mollie Josephine Berry

Simon Christopher Bevan

Bryony Sue Billson

Meghan Louisa Bird

Aimee Javen Tannis Bloss

Joseph Brockman

Emily Faye Brook

Cameron Brown

Mark Christopher Bryan

Olivia Caroline Mary Buchanan

Georgina Bull

Lucy Bullman

Tessa Fay Burke

Megan Elizabeth Butt

Valery Charachon

Jessica Charles

Emily Chilton

Imogen Hannah ClarkeHalewood

Shane Colclough

Chelsea Cole

John Cornell

Pauline Jeanne Marie Courtois

Lauren Emma Cox

Zoe Cranmer

Sauda Bello Dambatta

Robyn Elizabeth Darcy

Louisa Maria Dascalescu

Thomas Jarvis Day

Annabel Zoe Deakin

John Delahunty

Sam Denham

Joseph Dennehy

Aliabbas Dhanji

Laurie Dickason

Anne Elisabeth Dickinson

Elise Alexandra Dixon

Rosina Kim Dorelli

Madeleine Louise Rachel

Downes

Guy Doza

Helen Dutton

Paige Melissa Dyson

Marguerite Clare El Badini

Ashley David Ellis

Hannah Ellis

Niall Joseph Finn

Stephanie Clare Flack

Erin Foley

Daniel William Lewis Darren Folkes

Daniel James Louie Foster

Abigail Kate Fowler

Amelia Clare Gall

Elinor Frances Galvin

Joshua Benjamin Gardiner

Stefania Maria Gargioni

Eleanor May Gell

Benjamin James George

Freya Grace George

Kevin Alexander Glasgow

Rosie Goldsmith

Katie Goodall

Annie-Mai Grace

Neil Graham

Ailsa Gray

Channon Amy Gray

Melissa Hannah Green

Sarah Louise Haddow

Callum James Harding

Grace Hardy

Nicholas John Harrison

Abigail Valerie Harter

Chelsea Hartman

Emma Ruth Heron

Paige Valerie Hickson

Aiden James Hollins

Lydia Isabel Hopwood

Alicia Claire Alexandra Hussey

Elise Jacob

Ryan Steve Johnson

Alice Elizabeth Jones

Charlotte Elizabeth Jarvis Jones

Isabella Katarina Kallan

Matt Keating

Lucy Keeling

Joanna Kelen

James Kelly

Rashid Ali Khan

Christopher King

Jonathan Ralph Kingsley-Mills

Aaron Colin Kirkland

Merkara Lindsey Kitchen

Jan Knight

Gregory Laing

Samuel Lane

Ksenija Laskova

Felicity Lewis

James Samuel Lewis

Yuzhe Li

Jamie Linale

Clara Love

Eleanor Kate Lowe

Rebecca Mack

Chloe Madden

Francesca Mary Jane Makey

Ethel Mann

Zoe Elizabeth Martin

Lily Masters

Emily Matson

Alice Matthews

Sean Aidan McIntosh

Charlotte McLeod

Nicole Meakin

Leigh Miller

Lauren Francis Mills

James Moore

Amelia Beth Morris

Zara Nargis

Kate Louise Nicholson

Ellie North

Alexander Jose O’Halloran

Oluwateniola Oladehin

Caroline Stacey O’Riordan

Isobel O’Riordan

Francesca Louise Osborn

Catherine Page

Imogen Pagendam

Simaran Panesar

Hannah Payne

Alice Elisabeth Pelaprat-Mason

Amy Jayne Megan Pickett

Emily Joyce Plunkett

George Douglas Prinn

Robert Steven Purdham-Cook

Sohaib Qureshi

Fern Ramsdale

Adiba Rasulova

Charlotte Read

Hannah Louise Lindley Reed

Coral Emily Reeves

Helen Kate Maria Reilly

Emma Roberts

Oliver James Conway

Robotham

Beth Amber Sadler

Sabeela Saeed

Hannah Sheath

Hannah Shuter

Abigail Grace Sibson

Emily Charlotte SieminskiHaydar

Grace Smith

Felicity Gabrielle Auroura Sparks

Alice Mae Spencer

Catherine Stanley

Janice Stanley

Andrew Philip Staplehurst

Thomas Suchoruczka,

Rebecca Emily Talmy

Jaya Kaur Tamber

Petra Mary Tayler

Sophie Taylor

Fenella Thomson

Joanne Travell

Jordan Twinn

Kyla Rosa van der Heijden

Rebecca Mary Vicary-Smith

Naomi Clare Walker

Sonia Wing Yan Wall

Richard Walmsley

Beth Adel Warburton

Amy Warke

Yolanda Bossini Warwick

Sebastian Weiss

Miranda Lara Louisa Wild

Henry John Wilkinson

Charlotte Williams

Lily Annabel Wood

Lorna Lood

Michael David Woodrow

Megan Young

Yixuan Zhang

Master of Education

Luke Thomas Adam

Judith Ann Adcock

Molly Anne Adkins

Laura Ballantyne

Alexander Mackey Ballard

Martha May Beardsworth

Laura Helen Beatty

David Bennett

Emma Charlotte Blake

Helen Barbara Briggs

Emma Joanne Carson-Doughty

Theodora Yung Ting Chen

Benjamin Lewis John Couchman

Hazel Catherine Cox

Daniel Lewis Crittenden

Anna Bryony Dickson

Olivia Niamh Doherty

Laura Rose Evans

Robert Flack

Grace Franckel

Conor James George

Bryony Katherine Goodliffe

Elizabeth Ann Gresham

David Thomas Guinea

Catherine Hall

Emily Hanson

Rachel Katherine Hill

Claudia Emily Hindle

Laureen Hodge

Ellen Catherine Margaret Hurley

Eleanor Jacobs

Eloise Laura Harriet Johnson

Emily Margaret Jones

Scott Jordan

Hara Natalia KaminiotiDumont

Darren Kelly

Katharine Jane Kent

Philippa Elizabeth Kerby

Rohit Kishor

Alissa Farah Lamb

Janet Irene Lee

Hannah Elizabeth Legg

Rhys Lewis

Rachel Louise Lubbock

Emma Louise Moneteiro

Sara Nieto Encinar

Marcus Nisbet

Helena Osborne

Jonathan Poward

Gillian Prina

Oliver Fionnbharr Quayle

Charlotte Frances Reidy

Francis James Vincent Retter

Matthew Clifford Rihan

Sally-Anne Roden

Natasha Jane Rolt

Emily Kathleen Rushton

Esther Lucy Anastasia Ryan

Laura Jane Scott

Adam Douglas Sear

Flora Julia Owen Sheldon

Anna Spanring

Alexander James Springett

Marianna Stammeijer

Kate Stockings

Philip Stuart Stythe

Ashleigh Tutchener

Jasmin Wharmby

Sophia Wichtowska

Catherine Anne Wilson

Zia Palvasha

Master of Law

Mohamed Samy Samir Samy

Vincent-Alexandre Fournier

Tessa Alice Verberne McKeown

Oscar Mustard

Anita Maria Caroline Schiele

Dhanishka Marie Anjali Seneviratne

Master of Corporate Law

Pratiksha Ashok

Master of Finance

Po-Hua Chiang

Master of Music

Ellissa Easita Sayampanathan

MBA

Olivia Finlayson Coffey

Bhuvadej Meesamanyont

Samuel Alexander Murray

Master of Studies

Samantha-Jane Ainslie

Applied Criminology, Penology and Management

Peter Atherton

Applied Criminology, Penology and Management

Ruth Megan Bloomfield

Applied Criminology, Penology and Management

Helen Elizabeth Booker Dearnley

Applied Criminology, Penology and Management

Annie Fitzsimmons

Genomic Medicine

Mark David Greenhaf

Applied Criminology, Penology and Management

Joanna Hargreaves

Applied Criminology, Penology and Management

Daniel James Hayman

Applied Criminology, Penology and Management

Chantel Marie King

Applied Criminology, Penology and Management

Claire Marie Lee

Genomic Medicine

Laura Ann Lowe

Applied Criminology, Penology and Management

Charlotte Louise Mann

Applied Criminology, Penology and Management

Nicola Jayne McKay

Applied Criminology, Penology and Management

Joanne Eileen Mitchell

Applied Criminology, Penology and Management

Miika Matti Mölsä

Applied Criminology, Penology and Management

Alberto Andrés Nanzer

Applied Criminology, Penology and Management

Elspeth Ann Owen

Applied Criminology, Penology and Management

Neil James Papworth Genomic Medicine

Kate Parsons

Applied Criminology, Penology and Management

Pedro Pimenta Bossi

Applied Criminology, Penology and Management

Joanne Claire Piper Genomic Medicine

Stephanie Samantha Plummer Applied Criminology, Penology and Management

Katie Potts

Applied Criminology, Penology and Management

Marjo Hannele Reinikainen

Applied Criminology, Penology and Management

Alina Roser

Genomic Medicine

Almaleena Suomala

Applied Criminology, Penology and Management

Sarah Taylor

Applied Criminology, Penology and Management

David John Vaughan

Applied Criminology, Penology and Management

Jacqueline Vyrnwy-Pierce

Advance Subject Teaching

Caryl Mair Rees Watkins Applied Criminology, Penology and Management

Master of Advanced Studies

Arjun Ashoka Physics

Juan Jose Basagoiti Mancera Applied Mathematics

Mauricio Doniz Hernandez Applied Mathematics

Master of Research

Michalis Michael

Future Infrastructure and the Built Environment

Elisabeth Annie Avis O’Flaherty Rottenberger

Medical Sciences

Doctor of Medicine

Brijesh Srivastava

Master of Philosophy

Dinara Asadulina

Education

Kelsey Louise Barolak

Education

David Bell

Education

Karen Anne Bentall

Education

Jack Michael Birch

Public Health

David Andrew Brierley

Education

Scott Andrew Caizley

Education

Gabriele Cecchetti

Music

Cheimaras,Nikolaos Anargyros

Classics

Olivia Crispin

Modern British History

Ana Duclaud Igartua

European, Latin American and Comparative Literature and Culture

Xin Fang

Education

Max Bourland Fincher

Medieval and Renaissance Literature

Nina Gerlach

Public Health

Keno Sun Montano Haverkamp

Development Studies

Jeenan Kaiser

Public Health

Aikerim Kargazhanova Education

Zuri Lee

Education

Haozhe Li Education

Zhuoxin Li

Education

Alexander Charles Lenygon Lister

American History

Hassan Maimouni

Health, Medicine and Society

Eoin Bernard McSweeney

International Relations and Politics

Annina Michaelis

Management

Tomomi Morishita

Development Studies

Alstone Mwanza

Conservation Leadership

Jack Myers

American History

Matias Nestore

Education

Benjamin John Nourse

Architecture and Urban Design

Ekiomoado Agnes Olumese

Health, Medicine, and Society

Natalia Pardo Lorente

Genomic Medicine

Warinporn

Phantratanamongkol

Biological Science

Lilly Posnett

Education

Robin Jasper Potter

International Relations and Politics

Rebecca Amy Purton Education

Shamma Qarin

Biological Science

James David Quarterman History of Art and Architecture

Lucy Jade Riseborough Education

Dillan David Zachary Saunders Developmental Biology

Richard Shen

Machine Learning, Speech and Language

Malbert Smith

Public Policy

Xiaopei Su Veterinary Science

Isabel Marie Thomas

Education

Samuel Oliver Thompson Advanced Chemical Engineering

Kwan Ho Tung

Biological Science

Pamela Van Den Enden

Uribe

Basic and Translational Neuroscience

William Michael Van Der Weyden Management

Jeremy Welborn

Advanced Computer Science

Oscar Westerblad History and Philosophy of Science

Juliette Ruth Wise Education

Luyu Yang

Real Estate Finance

Doctor of Philosophy

Jou-An Chen

Education

Zheng Shan Chong

Biological Science

Francesco Ciriello

Engineering

Luther John Davis

Medical Science

Andrew William Day

Biochemistry

Sorcha Forde Pathology

Ulrika Cecilia Frising

Biological Science

Arfa Husainali Karani Physics

Onajite Kousin-Ezewu

Clinical Neurosciences

Sarah Kay Madden Pharmacology

Patrick Garrett Olsen

Education

Siddharth Pandey

Education

Keval Dipan Patel

Engineering

Emma Kay Richardson

Medical Science

Richard Martin James Shakeshaft

Education

Ruth Sims

Physiology

Michael Skansgaard

English

Aaron Daniel Trowbridge

Chemistry

NEW MEMBERS

The College welcomes the following students, who have joined Homerton in 2019.

Undergraduate

Oluwatobi Adelana

Computer Science Tripos

Olga Adhikari

Asian and Middle Eastern Studies Tripos

Rati Aftab

History and Politics Tripos

Goncalo Borges Simões de Albergaria Dias

English Tripos

Olivia Rose Allen

Geographical Tripos

Shaikha Hamad J.H

Al-Thani

Asian and Middle Eastern Studies Tripos

Caitlyn Amey

Psychological and Behavioural Sciences Tripos

Phupha Amornkijja

Engineering Tripos

Emil Jordan Ares

Natural Sciences Tripos

Abigail Lucy Ashthorpe

Natural Sciences Tripos

George Max Asseily

Engineering Tripos

Jessica Anne Bailey

Education Tripos

Srinidhi Balakrishnan

Human, Social and Political

Sciences Tripos

Oscar Benjamin Baldwin

Medical Sciences Tripos

Danielle Josephine Ball

Historical Tripos

Freya Bark

History and Politics Tripos

Alfie Barrishi

English Tripos

Gemma Barton

Natural Sciences Tripos

Natasha Isobel Bloomfield

History and Modern

Languages Tripos

Chloe Bond

Education Tripos

Marco Brezzi

Mathematical Tripos

Alice Louise Brown

Natural Sciences Tripos

James Stephen Burrows

Natural Sciences Tripos

Yuze Cao

Natural Sciences Tripos

Elizabeth Castell

Human, Social and Political

Sciences Tripos

You Sun Cha

Economics Tripos

Anna Helen Chadwick

Human, Social and Political

Sciences Tripos

Yee Wo Charles Chan

Engineering Tripos

Nazh Chendi

Medical Sciences Tripos

Tsz Kin Mark Cheng

Medical Sciences Tripos

Tze Lin Chew

Mathematical Tripos

Matthew Chong

Natural Sciences Tripos

Sai Hou Chong

Natural Sciences Tripos

Lucas John Churchill

Historical Tripos

Lucy Sasha Cole

Natural Sciences Tripos

James Ballantyne Combe

Geographical Tripos

Teofisto Escutin Consistente VI

Natural Sciences Tripos

Mia Emily Cook

Education Tripos

Thomas Paul Monaghan

Crabtree

Human, Social and Political Sciences Tripos

Scarlett Croft

English Tripos

Ines Cropper De Andres

Education Tripos

Alexander Cumming

Historical Tripos

Priyanka Das

Economics Tripos

Rushikesh Dasoondi

Natural Sciences Tripos

Yasmine Deflaoui

Psychological and Behavioural Sciences Tripos

Intizar Demir

History and Politics Tripos

Xiaoxi Deng

Natural Sciences Tripos

Daniel Hanchen Ding

Economics Tripos

Isaac Samuel Dixon

Computer Science Tripos

Joshua Dranesas

Law Tripos

Cara Dromgoole

English Tripos

Chiamaka Ebodili

Land Economy Tripos

Mark Phillip Englander

Computer Science Tripos

Connor Fairman

Natural Sciences Tripos

Nicholas Finch

Natural Sciences Tripos

Aaron Fokinther

Classical Tripos

Bartosz Formela

Natural Sciences Tripos

Eleanor Patricia Forsdyke

English Tripos

Katarina Frankopan

Historical Tripos

Jacob Peter Francis Gawel

Natural Sciences Tripos

Rebecca Gell

Human, Social and Political Sciences

Daria Ghezzi

Geographical Tripos

Alice Emily Grundy

Historical Tripos

Lena Sophie Guertler

Linguistics Tripos

Yuxuan Guo

Mathematical Tripos

Eshan Gupta

Economics Tripos

Atalanta Sawdon Harkavy

Law Tripos

Callum Harrison

Natural Sciences Tripos

Iona Sophie Clare Harrison

Natural Sciences Tripos

Charo Celsie Havermans

History and Modern

Languages Tripos

Farsan Bernard Timothy Hawes

Mathematical Tripos

Joseph Helm

English Tripos

Benjamin Teyte Hendry

Land Economy Tripos

John Paul Higgins

Computer Science Tripos

Ella Jessica Laura

Hordern

Veterinary Sciences Tripos

Zoe Chrisostomi Harley

Hosier

Education Tripos

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IN MEMORIAM

Obituaries

In Memoriam

OBITUARIES

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JEAN LYDIA HOLM

Lecturer in Religious Studies and Head of Department at Homerton College 1969–1986

A prolific writer on religious studies and religious education, Jean was one of the first academics to advocate the teaching of other religions in parallel with traditional school Christianity in England. In the words of Professor Paul Morris:

“Jean was one of the pioneers of this new direction. She authored one of the first textbooks for teachers where she presents a practical and straightforward guide to teaching religions within the framework of the national guidelines: Teaching Religion in School: a practical approach (Oxford University Press 1975).”

Other important textbooks included: The Study of Religions (Sheldon Press 1977), Study of Religions: issues in Religious Studies (Sheldon Press 1986), Making Moral Decisions: themes in Religious Studies; Sacred Place and Attitudes to Nature; themes in Religious Studies (1994), all aimed at teachers of Religious Studies in British classrooms. This work endured; seven years later Sacred Place and Making Moral Decisions were republished. Consequently she became recognised as the authority in her field.

In his funeral address, Professor Morris concluded that:

“Jean’s legacy is her important contribution to teaching about religions to students … around the English-speaking world. She brought the work of Religious Studies experts directly into the classroom via her publications. In a quiet and ultimately civilised way (albeit with a slightly wicked sense of humour!) she lived what she taught and wrote about – a personal curiosity, engagement and respect for religiously and culturally diverse others – grounded in the recognition that this was not always easy but always ongoing and supremely important.”

Generations of students at Homerton benefited from her expertise and carried her teaching with them all over the world.

While I am most grateful to Jean’s friend and colleague Peggy Morgan for forwarding Professor Morris’ obituary from New Zealand, I would like to finish with some memories of my own. As an eager junior lecturer at Homerton on part-time one-year contracts, I remember her kindness and gentleness as a very senior member of staff in that rather forbidding matriarchy. Even when the lot fell on me to organise the Christmas Gathering (God help me!), she resisted direct intervention and simply offered her kindest ‘advice’– which really could not be ignored! She had a lightness about her which disguised an extraordinary warmth and depth of wisdom. In retrospect I suppose there was a saintliness about her which I was too young to appreciate – not surprising given her extensive knowledge of world religions.

She died in August 2018 in Auckland, in her beloved New Zealand, aged 95.

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JANE MARION LESSER (NÉE MICHAELS)

CertEd 1965–68

Jane was an extraordinarily accomplished and talented person. In addition to her teaching certificate from Homerton (1965–68) in maths and art, she went on to receive an Associate degree in Computer Science and a Landscape Architecture diploma in the USA, where she and her husband of almost 50 years, Henry, lived for most of their married life.

There, she had successful careers in computing and non-profit administration. She also won several prizes for her stone sculpture and wood carving. She was a busy volunteer for numerous organisations, most recently working alongside Henry for their local library in California’s Bay Area, where she loved walking along the ocean.

Jane passed away suddenly in March 2019, aged 72. She is deeply missed by Henry, her family and her many friends.

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FELICITY MAY BRADFORD PATTERSON (NÉE AVERY)

BEd 1974–77

Born in Durban, South Africa, in 1939, Felicity attended Maris Stella convent school, before beginning work as journalist at the Mercury newspaper. Moving to London in the early 1960s, she worked in the Fleet Street offices of the Manchester Guardian and the Manchester Evening News.

After her marriage ended, Felicity had a change of career, and undertook a BEd at Homerton. Following her graduation she returned to South Africa, where she taught at Turret College, a subversive educational operation which illegally taught O and A levels to black students. She continued to teach English privately until the last few years of her life.

In the early 1990s Felicity volunteered as a peace monitor, working with peace committees under the National Peace Accord, which was established to support the peaceful transition to democracy post-apartheid.

Felicity died in Johannesburg on 19 February 2019. At her funeral service friends paid tribute to her intelligence, integrity, humour and positivity, as well as her lifelong love of language and literature, and her loyalty as a friend.

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IN MEMORIAM

We were saddened to receive news of the deaths of the following Members.

Mrs Jacqueline Bardsley (née Lockhart) CertEd 1960–62

Died 27 April 2019

Mrs Juliet Brooks (née Prior) CertEd 1953–55

Died August 2019

Mrs Joanna Carlton (née Clark) CertEd 1957–59

Died September 2019

Mrs Margaret Ann Dowding (née Stewart) CertEd 1954–56

Died 15 March 2019

Mr David Leonard Drinkell PGCE 1978–79

Died 26 September 2019

Mrs Margaret Edith Catherine Foster (nee Weeks) Cert-Ed 1948–50

Died 10 December 2019

Miss Elspeth Mary Gray CertEd 1949–51

Died 23 March 2019

Mrs Virginia Martin (née Forge) CertEd 1959–61 Died March 2019

Mrs Joan Morries (née Eaton) CertEd 1944–6

Died September 2019

Mrs Lucy Moss (née Coleman) CertEd 1948–50

Died 22 December 2018

Miss Constance Marilyn Sutcliffe CertEd 1949–52

Died 19 December 2018

Mrs Sally Doreen Gwendoline Townend (née Bolwell) (CertEd 1955–57) Died 15 November 2019

Mrs Evelyn Audrey Wilson (née Brown) CertEd 1952–54

Died 13 October 2019

RESPICE FINEM

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Alumni of Homerton are able to book accommodation at the College at a discounted alumni rate. Outside of term time, you can book a single room by emailing alumni@ homerton.cam.ac.uk.

During term, we cannot guarantee a room will be available, as the needs of current students must take priority. However, if you enquire 5 to 10 working days in advance, we should be able to advise you on availability. Unfortunately, during term time, we cannot accept bookings further in advance.

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Alumni are welcome to eat lunch in Hall at their own expense; no prior notice is necessary. Please be aware that you will need to pay in cash for your meal.

Alumni are also entitled to dine at Formal Halls where space permits. If you would like to dine, please contact the Development Office (alumni@homerton.cam.ac.uk or 01223 747251); the Formal Hall price for alumni is currently £18.50, with non-alumni guests costing £22.50. Formal Halls are on Tuesdays in term time. If you wish to attend, please let us know by the preceding Wednesday.

On occasions, alumni will be invited to dine at High Table; these occasions will be advertised in advance.

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Benefits provided by the University of Cambridge

The University Alumni Relations Office can provide you with a CAMCard which grants privileges and discounts to alumni when visiting Cambridge. The card provides membership to the University Centre and entitles you to discounts from Cambridge University Press, Cambridge Wine Merchants, local hotels, bars and restaurants. The CAMCard also entitles you and up to three guests free entrance to all Colleges when they are open to the general public (but not during closed periods). Please note that fewer guests are permitted at King’s College, St John’s College and Queens’ College (see their websites for details). A full list of benefits can be found on the College website: www.homerton.cam.ac.uk/ alumni/alumnibenefits n

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HOMERTON CAREERS CONNECTIONS

Homerton Careers Connections aims to give students a helping hand in embarking on their chosen career by putting them in touch with Homerton alumni who have experience in relevant fields. It is a great opportunity for alumni to help today’s students with their real-world knowledge, experience and insight. To register, please contact alumni@homerton.cam.ac.uk