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One of the few The article in LSE Connect (summer 2012) about the LSE Alumni Association of Nigeria states: “there were few organised alumni activities in the past three decades”. In 1959 I inaugurated an LSE graduate reunion in Lagos. The previous year I had married George Carlyle of the Colonial Administrative Service, the last financial secretary before Nigerian independence in 1960, and while working in the Lagos Secretariat I came across half a dozen LSE graduates, Nigerian or British. This was unusual, as most were Oxbridge, as was my husband. One graduate was not Colonial Service but the deputy director of the British Council in Lagos. When I suggested an LSE reunion he was enthusiastic, as it would promote Britain. Conveniently, the British Council had the resources – money and office staff – to arrange one in the form of a reception in Lagos. Some 100 attended, mostly African and virtually all male, including many from a considerable distance by air. We had a great party. Beryl Carlyle (née Turnell, BA Modern and Mediaeval History 1949), Gillingham, Dorset, UK
I write as another relict of LSE’s Cambridge days. Some especial memories are: attending R H Tawney’s history groups in his cramped accommodation at Peterhouse; hearing Laski fill the largest lecture hall in Mill Lane, with undergraduates of both universities, plus GIs and Polish soldiers; nearly killing Bertrand Russell who ignored my bicycle on King’s Parade; founding a Conservative society to inflame the left-wing majority at Grove Lodge; and participation in a Cambridge Union debate with my old school friends from Jesus on the merits of “a liberal education in a modern society”. May I propose the adoption of a tie incorporating the arms of Cambridge University and the colours of LSE. David G C Allan (né Saul, BSc Economic History 1946, MSc 1950), Twickenham, London, UK
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