Newsletter 2007 newsletter

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final lcc newsletter 2007 for output:Lucy Newsletter v2

Wolfson College. The process of

building up a core of UTOs being a major task for a small, under-

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Prize for Education, and will be much missed.

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hard-working staff. Our students know that in the Library they can count on the willingness of the

resourced College. We have

Honorary Fellows

Librarians to search out particular

University Teaching Officers

On a happier note, our special

Bursar and her team will ensure the

Lecturer in Veterinary Anaesthesia

Fellow Claire Tomalin on her

admitted to the Fellowship two (UTOs): Jackie Brearley, Senior and Sabine Bahn, Reader in

Psychology; and in October 2007 Lucy Cavendish attracted a

Professorial Fellow – Professor Christine Howe of the Faculty of Education.

The year has alas also seen sadness among the Emeritus and Honorary Fellows on whom we rely so much for loyal support and inspiration.

congratulations go to Honorary induction as an Honorary

Graduand of the University: the joint dinner with Newnham to

celebrate this was a memorable

event. And we are grateful to our two newest Honorary Fellows,

Anne Owers and Anna Ford, who

gave stimulating talks on the work

volumes for them; the Domestic

best possible accommodation, while the kitchen staff will listen carefully to requests, providing comfort food when necessary; that Scarlet Wang, the IT Manager who arrived in the summer following the departure

after the many years service of Bill

Nelson and Tim Flood, will strive to provide up-to-date communications

So much depends too on every member of our loyal and hard-working staff...

Eileen Clifford died in May, after an

the willingness of the Librarians ... the best possible accommodation, while the

spanning almost 50 years. She

security and a beautiful environment in which to relax

as Steward, and was for a period

of the Chief Inspector of Prisons,

systems; the Porters will look after

missed for her wisdom, kindness

respectively. These are two areas

a beautiful environment in which

involvement with the College

served in many capacities, notably acting President. She will be much and abiding interest in the College, but her legacy will live on, for she has generously remembered us in

kitchen staff will listen carefully to requests; up-to-date communications,

and freedom of expression

that are much in the news at

present, and many of our Honorary Fellows are prominent in national

security, and the gardeners provide to relax – building on the work of Helen Seal, who has left us to take up a position in the

debates across such a wide range of

Botanical Gardens.

respected geneticist who was one of

I am certain that central to our self

The Bursar

November 2007, Joan Simms,

community that has always been a

possible without sound finances.

her Will. Sadly I have to note too

the death in July of Professor Anne McLaren, the internationally our Honorary Fellows. In

Emeritus Fellow, died aged 89.

She had been a generous benefactor and friend to the College, with the establishment of the Simms Schoolmistress Fellowship

– later converted into a College

pressing issues.

confidence is the sense of

None of this of course would be

feature of Lucy Cavendish. Of

On these, following the completion

course the academic success of our students depends critically on the special support they receive from their Directors of Studies and

Tutors, so ably led by the Senior

Tutor; but so much depends too on every member of our loyal and

of the Oldham Hall project and the

arrival of our new Bursar, there has been much hard work. The first

concern, however, was to improve the College’s organisational structures and channels of

communication by ensuring a better Annual Newsletter 07 | Page 5


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