As a lifelong member of Homerton and the University of Cambridge, you are entitled to a number of benefits. You are most welcome to visit Homerton and use our College Library, Dining Hall, Buttery and Bar. Subject to availability, you can also book overnight accommodation at preferential rates, and book function rooms for private dinners and events.
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For further information about alumni benefits, please email alumni@homerton.cam.ac.uk
Welcome! Anniversaries are on our mind this year. In September we’re celebrating the 150th Anniversary of Alice with Wonderland Week – a medley of events for researchers, alumni and the general public (see inside). And though it’s five years since our Royal Charter as a full College of the University, we’re thinking of how to mark our 250th Anniversary in 2018! We rather enjoy being both old and new at the same time, and baffling the uninitiated by being both the newest and the biggest Cambridge College (see back cover). Lewis Carroll would have enjoyed that nonsensical but factual phenomenon, one feels. The 2015 Boat Race was an event whose anniversary future generations will doubtless remember: the first time the women’s boats raced before the same audience, on TV and on the riverside, as the men. Thanks to a superbly generous donation, a Homertonian was playing a leading role – Daphne Martschenko (inside and front cover) is the first holder of our Horobin Award, which enabled her to come from Stanford University, USA to study with us this year and to compete in the great race. Daphne will continue with a PhD at Magdalene, and carries our best wishes with her. Matthew Moss Director of External Relations and Development
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The Homertonian is published once a year to keep members informed with College and alumni news. Do contact us in the Development Office: Telephone 01223 747066; Email alumni@homerton.cam.ac.uk. All our publications are available to read online on the Homerton College website: http://www. homerton.cam.ac.uk/alumni/publications.
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Thank you to all of our contributors and to those who supplied images. The views expressed in this newsletter do not necessarily represent the views of Homerton College, Cambridge. Cover photograph: Stephen Bond. Design and print management: H2 Associates, Cambridge. Editors: Francis Dearnley and Matthew Moss
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