Dora Kemp
1966-2014 Archaeology, 1990 Dora died peacefully in her sleep from complications following an otherwise successful five-month battle with Leukemia.
Dora grew up in Canada and gained her BA in Classics and Archaeology from the University of King’s College, Halifax. She joined Lucy Cavendish in 1990 to read for her MPhil in Archaeology. After Lucy Cavendish, Dora joined the newly formed McDonald Institute of Archaeology becoming Production Editor for the Cambridge Archaeological Journal and Production Manager for its monograph series. She produced 80 volumes of monographs, journals and Institute Reports, plus freelance work in design, copy-editing, illustrating or indexing for other
institutes, societies and publishers. She also became a Research Fellow at Corpus Christi College. A talented singer, she sang regularly with the Lucy Cavendish Singers, the choir of Christ’s College, and the Cambridge University Music Society, where she served as Librarian. She also played lead soprano roles in The Mikado and Iolanthe with the Cambridge Gilbert and Sullivan Society. Dora was hugely popular and is missed by countless friends who were always cheered by her positive outlook on life.
Patricia Long
1923-2014 English Literature, 1975 Patricia Mary Long (Pat) died peacefully at home in London, aged 91, on 11 December 2014. After suffering a stroke in 2007, her last four years were spent battling vascular dementia. To those who knew her, Pat brought love, humour and decided views in conversation. She was the sort of person who, on meeting for the first time, was not someone you could forget or ignore. Born in Belfast in 1923 to English parents, Pat moved to Glasgow where she attended Hutchesons’ Girls’ Grammar School. At the outbreak of war, she joined the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force, in a supporting role processing intelligence at bases as far apart as Derbyshire and Northumberland, before being posted to Bletchley Park. During this time, she met John also serving in the Air Force and their mutual admiration of Thomas Hardy turned to romance, leading to marriage in March 1948.
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In 1975, John was appointed Principal of the Community School in Tehran and Pat, aged 52, took the opportunity to return to further education, gaining a place at Lucy Cavendish College. Pat gained a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature and joined John overseas in Mallorca, where he was Headmaster of the Baleares International School. Pat taught at the school, and after John died in 1986, she retired and returned to England, firstly to Cambridge and then Battersea. Pat joined the Victorian and the Twentieth Century societies, and for many years enjoyed a busy London social life, visiting art galleries, the theatre, the opera and cultural holidays.
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