ST MA RY’S CO LLEGE
GRADUATION
2014
ST MA RY’S CO LLEGE
GRADUATION Gr ad uation C er emo nies
HONOURING THE GRADUATES OF
2014
The Graduation Ceremonies will take place in Durham Cathedral on Tuesday 1st July, Wednesday 2nd July, Thursday 3rd July and Friday 4th July 2014. Further details can be found on the website: http://www.dur.ac.uk/ceremonies/ congregation To help you celebrate your Graduation, Professor Simon Hackett, Principal invites all finalists and their guests to join them at the following gatherings:
JULY 1ST-4TH St Mary’s College| Durham St Mary’s College Elvet Hill Road Durham DH1 3LR Telephone Reception: 0191 334 5719 www.durham.ac.uk/st-marys.college/
Gr ad uat ion Dr inks Receptio n There will be two Graduation Drinks Receptions on Wednesday 2nd July and Friday 4th July from 6.00pm until 7.30pm. All finalists and their guests who would like to join the Principal at a drinks reception are asked to book at St Mary’s College Reception by 10am on the day or use the online sign up form https://www.dur.ac.uk/st-marys.college/current/ congregation/graduationdrinks/ There is no charge for the Drinks Receptions.
F inalists ’ E nd o f Ter m For mal This will be held in St Mary’s College on Thursday 26th June 2014 at 7.00 for 7.30 pm. The Dinner is free to all Finalists and will cost £15.60 for guests (maximum of one guest per finalist). Please complete the enclosed booking form or use the online sign up form https:// www.dur.ac.uk/st-marys.college/current/congregation/finalistformaldinner/ and return it together with any payment for guests to St Mary’s College Reception by Wednesday 4th June 2014.
Gr ad uat ion Dinners There will be two Graduation Dinners which you and all your guests are welcome to attend. The tickets are £24 each which includes pre-dinner drinks, a three course meal and two glasses of wine or soft drinks. The meals will take place on Tuesday 1st July and Thursday 3rd July at 7.00 for 7.30 pm. Please complete the enclosed booking form or use the online sign up form https:// www.dur.ac.uk/st-marys.college/current/congregation/graduationdinners/ and return it together with any payment to St Mary’s College Reception by Wednesday 4th June 2014.
A cco mmod atio n Accommodation in College can be provided for resident finalists, their parents and/ or other guests. Please complete the enclosed booking form or use the online sign up form and https://www.dur.ac.uk/st-marys.college/current/congregation/ raduationaccommodat/ return together with your payment (where necessary) to St Mary’s College Reception by Wednesday 4th June 2014.
Gr ad uat ion Booking For m Name:_______________________________________________________________ Mobile Number:_______________________________________________________
Booking form for Graduation Dinners 2014 Dinner
Attending () No. of Guests Amount to Pay
Finalists’ Formal: Thursday 26th June (free for finalists, £15.60 for guests—max. 1 guest.)
Graduation Dinner: Tuesday 1st July (£24.00 per person)
Graduation Dinner: Thursday 3rd July (£24.00 per person)
Total to pay (cheques made out to Durham University) Please state if you or any of your guests have special dietary requirements _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________
Booking form for Guest Accommodation Should any of your guests require accommodation please complete the table below. (En Suite rooms are limited and will be allocated on a first booked basis) Please indicate the number of each room required Day
£25.50
£32.00
£42.00
£50.00
(single)
(single En Suite)
(twin)
(twin En Suite)
Tuesday 1st July Wednesday 2nd July Thursday 3rd July Friday 4th July Total to pay (cheques made out to Durham University)
Total
Your Room (live in students only) Date Leaving College:__________________________________________________ Room Number:_______________________________________________________ Please only tick for the meals you wish to take to avoid wastage, you will need to present your meal card at the server in the normal way. These meals are offered at no additional charge. DAY
MEAL
MEAL
Saturday 28 June
Breakfast 8-9 am
Lunch 12.30-1pm
Sunday 29 June
Breakfast 8-9 am
Lunch 12.30-1pm
Monday 30 June
Breakfast 8-9am
Lunch 12.30-1pm
Tuesday 1 July
Breakfast 8-9am
Lunch 12.30-1pm
Wednesday 2 July
Breakfast 8-9am
Lunch 12.30-1pm
Thursday 3 July
Breakfast 8-9am
Lunch 12.30-1pm
Friday 4 July
Breakfast 8-9am
Lunch 12.30-1pm
Saturday 5 July
Breakfast 8-9am
Lunch 12.30-1pm
Please complete and return this form to St Mary’s College Reception by Wednesday 4th June 2014 .
St Mary’s College| Durham St Mary’s College Elvet Hill Road Durham DH1 3LR Telephone, Reception: 0191 334 5719 www.durham.ac.uk/st-marys.college/
F inalists ’ F ormal Thursday 26th June 2014 at 7.00 for 7.30 pm. Menu Starter Artichoke and goats’ cheese tart with a beetroot chutney and mixed leaf salad
Main Course Herb-coated chicken breast served with a fondant potato, wilted cabbage, glazed carrots and jus Honey roasted butternut squash risotto cake with a soft free range poached egg and hollandaise sauce (v) served with seasonal vegetables
Dessert Citron tarte served with fresh raspberries and vanilla cream
Gr ad uat ion Dinners Tuesday 1st July and Thursday 3rd July at 7.00 for 7.30 pm. Menu—1st July Starter Warm tart of asparagus and Gruyère with confit baby tomatoes and rocket pesto (v) Main Course Herb-crusted rump of lamb, buttered fine beans and young carrots with red wine jus Mediterranean vegetable Wellington, sautéed green beans, caramelised shallots, tomato and truffle butter sauce (v) served with wild garlic mash Dessert Vanilla panna cotta with balsamic strawberries and lemon shortbread
Menu—3rd July Starter Sweet potato and goats’ cheese Beignet with Niçoise salad (v) Main Course Pan-fried salmon on buttered spinach with crab and chive crushed potato, chantenay carrots, white wine and tarragon cream Butternut squash ravioli with sun blushed tomatoes, asparagus salad and lemon grass foam (v) Dessert Raspberry brulée tart with crème fraiche sorbet
All Graduates, guests and friends are invited to attend our open air performance of Macbeth A brave military hero... A noble and devoted
ing the plays UNCUT with five actors, the number Shakespeare’s own company used when touring the provinces. The productions are played with characteristic briskness - Shakespeare was, after all, unequivocal about how long his plays take to perform. And each is inspired by performance techniques of Elizabethan touring troupes such as live music and song, an inclusion of the audience in the proceedings, contemporary references and a robustness of style.
subject to his King... A popular leader respected by those who serve him and trusted by the King himself... Macbeth's outstanding achievements and qualities ensure that he has a bright future ahead of him. Three mad witches he meets after a battle The design of Illyria’s staging has been taken diconfirm no less - or rather two of them do. The rectly from sixteenth century engravings of touring third prophesies more than a mere meteoric rise in troupes. his fortunes: she states that he will become King himself. One brief, crazy suggestion sows a seed of ambition, causes the unravelling of a great man, “Illyria’s five actors are the direct and incites a chain of treachery, murder and deheirs of Shakespeare’s wandering struction.
players.” (Dr Reaveley Gair, Eliz-
In their 23rd year Illyria is STILL the only outdoor touring theatre company to have clocked up no abethan scholar ) less than 4 international awards. Renowned all over the world for their clarity, quality and ingenui- Hot and cold drinks will be available for purchase ty, Illyria once again takes on the greatest of Shake- at the event but please bring your own seating/ speare's tragedies. Expect a gripping story and the picnic rug, warm clothes and picnic food. dazzling swordplay for which Illyria is renowned. Illyria has a deservedly unparalleled reputation for the clarity and authenticity of its Shakespearean style. Each play is performed in the open-air with only a handful of props and no scenery - as almost all Shakespeare's plays were originally conceived. The seemingly impossible is achieved by perform-
Please book your tickets via email (carole.laverick@durham.ac.uk) Please include the following details: name, telephone, how many tickets (adults/ children)
Please note this event will only be cancelled in the event of a hurricane, when the performance will be rescheduled. TICKETS ARE NON-REFUNDABLE.
Pr incip al’s F arewell Congratulations to all 2014 Graduands!
many wonderful memories of St Mary’s College, of the University and of Durham itself and that, as you make the transition from Graduands to Graduates to Alumni, you will keep in touch with me and with the College. It will be lovely to hear about your many and varied achievements in your future lives.
Your graduation ceremonies will take place in Durham Cathedral from 1st to 4th July 2014. As well as representing the College at your graduation ceremonies, I would also like to invite you, your friends and family members to our special I look forward to celebrating with you dinners and drinks receptions in College during Graduation Week. where we will celebrate all the hard work that has led to your achievements. I will be hosting these events and I hope My very best wishes and that we can celebrate the end of your gratulations to you all. time at the College as a student and also acknowledge the support and encour- Simon agement your family has given you over the three or four years you have spent in Professor Simon Hackett, Principal Durham. I have a particular bond with your year group, since most of you came to St Mary’s at the same time as I did as the new Principal, three short years ago. I also recall talking to many parents and other family members on Freshers’ Sunday when you first arrived here. You have all made contributions in various ways to the life of the College – whether in terms of involvement in the Junior Common Room, arts and drama, sport or one of the many other activities that make St Mary’s one of the most lively Colleges in Durham. Can I take this opportunity to thank you for all you have done and for helping to make Mary’s a great College in which to live and work. I hope that, as well as your degree certificates, you will take away with you
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My very best wishes and congratulations to you all.
Pr es id ent’s C ongr atulations Graduation week is fast-approaching and, as Simon has highlighted, St Mary’s will be putting on some events to celebrate your time here as a student. I can say from last year that graduation week was one of the best weeks in my four years at Mary’s and it become an Alumna or Alumnus of our can even end in some parents making an College, it is hoped that you will continue to appearance at Klute. stay in contact and get involved with our Whether you have been here three or four many alumni projects. years, you will all have made great I look forward to celebrating with you in the contributions to this fantastic and historic first week of July and once again thank you College and I thank you immensely for that, for everything you have done for our JCR and on behalf of the JCR and future students. It is College. the people who make this place so special and you have all been a massive part of that. Matt Obviously, we hope that this is not the end of your contribution to our College. As you
Matt Watson, JCR President
I t’ s the peo ple who ma ke this place so spec ial an d you ha ve a ll been a ma ssive part of tha t.
St Mary’s College Society
Ancilla Domini First of all, congratulations on the completion of your degree. These past few weeks perhaps have been a rollercoaster of emotions as you have come to the end of your undergraduate studies here in Durham. Those of us who are fortunate to have been a part of this college know it to be one of the very best in Durham not only for its academic status but for the quality of communal life. Some of my closest life-long friends are those I met at Mary's. I hope that will be true for you, too. When you came up to Durham you were asked to pay a small subscription to become a member of St Mary's College Society. Now, on graduating, this becomes a reality; you are a member of the Society (SMCS). The Society is that ever-increasing body of alumni, who are still members of St Mary's College community wherever they live. You will, of course, be keeping personal contact with your friends. From the earliest days of the College the Society has been a means to enable students to maintain links with the wider community of alumni. We organise an annual residential reunion in September in College, as well as regional get togethers in various parts of the country. Increasingly, we are trying to co-ordinate our residential reunions with those in other colleges. Do try to book one into your diary before too long. Some of you may have first hand experience of the financial help we try to give students via book grants from the Society Book Fund. Others may have had assistance with travel plans from our Society Travel Bursary. We have current students on our committee but there are spaces for new graduates, too. At the AGM in September we will be filling vacancies. If this is a way you would like to have immediate continuing involvement with College please do not hesitate to get in touch with me in good time before the Annual Meeting. The committee meets once a term. Whether you want to be hands on or think you may not have time for that degree of commitment, you will be able to read about our activities via our newsletter which is circulated twice a year. Most of all we wish you well in the next stages of your personal journey whether that takes you into employment or further study, here in Durham or elsewhere in the world. Long may St Mary's alumni make a significant contribution to national life. And please remember to let us know of any of your special achievements. Canon Elizabeth Fisher President SMCS
Jo in th e Fr iends Sch eme The 'Friends of St Mary’s’ programme is an entirely new concept for the College launched in 2014. Through the programme we aim to join all our students, alumni and external supporters of college into one community of Friends. By Signing up as a Friend you will:
Receive our College Magazine - Members of the programme will receive a digital copy of our termly Friends of St Mary’s Magazine along with various newsletters and other information about concerts, lectures and events which we send out to our alumni and Friends.
Receive Event Invitations - Members will receive targeted emails with details of College news and upcoming events all around the country. They will also be able to register for special Friends of St Mary’s Formals held here at College.
Have a standing invitation to visit St Mary’s - Friends of St Mary's will always be welcome back at College and can arrange a free College tour for themselves and their guests on any weekday between 9am -5pm (some weekend booking may be possible by direct request).
There is no charge to sign up to the scheme, however sign-up is not automatic and Friends must register using the online form by following the link below:
https://www.dur.ac.uk/st-marys.college/alumni/friends/
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Reception Emily Hale Email: reception.stmarys@durham.ac.uk 0191 334 5719
Alumni Relations and Development Officer Imogen Hampson-Smith Email: i.r.hampson-smith@durham.ac.uk 0191 334 5972
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