As for Lucy Cavendish, she leaves
to see the transformation of the
Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge
generations of students and a bevy of
fledgling college into the flourishing
after several years of ill health, and is
women academics deeply grateful for
society which is Lucy Cavendish College
survived by her daughter, Susan James
her vision and support. Phyllis Bowden
today.
and three grandchildren: Jacob, Patrick and Rosamund.
was indeed the right person in the right place at the right time. Happily she lived
Lady Bowden died on January 6 2011 in th
A Celebration of the life of Phyllis Hetzel 1918-2011, Third President and Honorary Fellow of Lucy Cavendish College. The President, Fellows past and present,
daughter, and one of her grandsons read
of Phyllis, then sang `Music for a while`
and Members of Lucy Cavendish College
extracts from Phyllis` autobiography
by Purcell and `Frulingsglaube` by
together with Fellows and friends from
Told for my grandchildren concerning
Schubert, accompanied on the piano
Newnham College joined Phyllis` family
her youth and first marriage. Baroness
by Ilga Pitkevica. Phyllis’ years at Lucy
and friends at an event to celebrate her
O`Neill of Bengarve, former Principal
Cavendish College were described in
life in Warburton Hall on Saturday 7 May
of Newnham College, spoke of her
detail by Dr Jane Renfrew, Fellow of
2011.
undergraduate days there and also,
Lucy Cavendish. The Celebration ended
more especially, of her more recent roles
with the playing of one of Phyllis`
The President, Professor Janet Todd,
as Keeper of the Roll and on the Garden
favourite pieces of music, Concerto in D
welcomed everyone to the occasion
Committee. This was followed by Ranjit
minor, BV1043 for two violins, strings and
and spoke of the debt the college owed
Mathrani`s reminiscences of her civil
continuo introduced by her daughter,
to Phyllis for winning the battle to get
service days. In the musical interlude
Susan James. This was followed by a
Approved Foundation Status for Lucy
Katy Edgcombe, (mezzo-soprano), a
delightful tea party.
Cavendish in 1984. Then Sue James, her
Fellow of Newnham and a good friend
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Obituaries Dr Mindele Treip 1928-2010
the epic: the Renaissance tradition to
Social Anthropology in 1970 at New
Paradise Lost’ She was elected Senior
Hall, looking at the family structure in a
Dr Treip, who was an Emeritus Fellow,
Research Fellow in 1995. She served
Dominican village, and then continued
died on 13 August 2010. She was born
on many College Committees, but
her research into the pre-Emancipation
in Canada and was awarded her PhD
will be particularly remembered for
period in Dominica.
at Harvard in 1956. She became a
her contribution to the Constitution
Calouste Gulbenkian Research Fellow
Committee, of which she was Secretary
She was offered dining privileges
in 1968, and became the first College
for many years.
at Lucy Cavendish in October 1971,
Lecturer in English in 1971.She became a Governing Body Fellow in 1974. She
when she was lecturing and giving Dr Teresa Spens 1919-2011
was an authority on the work of John
supervisions in the department of Archaeology and Anthropology, and
Milton, and her books included ‘Milton’s
Dr Spens, who was an Honorary
was made an Honorary Member of the
punctuation and changing English
Member of the Combination Room, died
College (now Honorary Member of the
usage’ and ‘Allegorical Poets and
on 17 June. She obtained her PhD in
Combination Room) in February 1972.
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