Homerton Roll News, 2012 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------
Events Reunion 2011
of the college and seeing all the extensive changes. Many of our intake who were still teaching would have liked to see inside the Education block as the outside looked so amazing but sadly that wasn’t possible on the day.
Forty Years In, 1971-74/5 Owing to a technical glitch, this report wasn’t received in time for the last edition of Roll News. th
The 40 Anniversary In 1971-74/75 cohort met up for the Alumni Reunion the weekend of 23–25 September, 2011. The first surprise for all of us was the changes to the college. Where were the extensive grounds? (All now built on with several new accommodation blocks and conference and library facilities.) Where was the black and white drama studio? (long pulled down) and the 60s ‘modern’ library block? (ditto!) Secondly, some of us had anticipated the fun of wandering along the corridor in just a towel to the communal showers and baths…no such luck, the student rooms all have their own en suite facilities nowadays….you don’t know what you are missing! However the College is now mixed so I guess the communal showers had to go once boys arrived!
Left to right: Julia Olisa (née Sherwood), Denise Few (née Wilson),Sally Wilkinson (née Meredith), Helen Sandle-Baker and Rachel Bampfylde (née Scorer).
By Saturday afternoon, we felt quite at home and some of us were even ready, as we had forty years ago, to jump on our bikes and cycle over the railway bridge to go into Cambridge (using, of course, the new cycle lanes!) A few of us were even mad enough to go punting late afternoon, thanks to the absolutely beautiful weather which we were lucky enough to enjoy all weekend. A Wiv reunion dinner happened in one house on the Saturday evening (Wiv having long ago been sold). Others went out to dinner in the City. th
We talked about coming back to the 50 In Anniversary Reunion in 10 years’ time but would like far more of our intake to turn up for that, we were disappointed that not more of us were there, it was such fun. Ginny Spittle 1971-74 On the left, working from the bottom upwards: Ginny Spittle, Chris Wilcock, Felicity Crowe (née Lambert), Mary McCosh (née Wiltshire) On the right, working from the bottom of the photo upwards: Ros Dobbin (née Woodsend), Elizabeth Le Voi (née Manley), Rosemary Smyth (née Sutcliffe) and Elizabeth Atkinson (née Lewis)
Eleven of us turned up to the Friday Night Formal Hall and we appeared to have organised ourselves to have booked in as two sub groups. On the Saturday, we met for coffee before the business part of the day in the lecture theatre and by lunch our numbers had swelled to 22. Jeane Gruchy (née Sibbit) had bought photocopies of our 1974 exit College Photo and over morning coffee we all attempted to put full names to everyone in the photo. The agreed highlights of the Reunion for those attending were catching up with old friends, the tour
Reunion 2012 Sixty-Five Years In, 1947-49 The sun always seems to be shining when we meet up at Homerton in September and the Reunion in 2012 was no exception. Thanks to Mavis Smith (née Roberts) our co-ordinator, eight sprightly ex students from the 1947/49 intake arrived for the special gathering. It was sixty-five years ago that we all first met up, but as we shared similar memories, we were soon well into our reminiscences as well as the coffee and biscuits. College was a very cloistered community in the days just after the war and our futures stretched 11