THE PEMBROKIAN Pembroke College Development Office Newsletter
Spring 2000 Issue XIII
THE FIRST NEWSLETTER OF THE NEW MILLENNIUM!
Avant Garde - Designer make up !!!!
LIZ KENDALL (`89) Both east and west of Cairo Liz is well known as a pop singer, model and actress and also Arabic scholar. Our pictures show her in action as a model having been "spotted" at the American University of Beirut where she gave a lecture earlier this year. Some of the other pictures were not suitable for a family magazine such as ours! She has now returned to teach Arabic at Pembroke and quite likely will add a new dimension to the Senior Common Room. December will see Dr Kendall back on the catwalk in Beirut, as soon as her teaching commitments for the term are over.
EDITORIAL This is the final copy of The Pembrokian which I shall edit. At the end of February, I shall have completed the period of my appointment as Pembroke's Development Director and I intend to take early retirement shortly afterwards. I am pleased to say that Mary-Jane Hilton has agreed to return to Pembroke from the beginning of March 2000. The greatest pleasure of the last three years has been meeting so many Members, all of whom have welcomed me and offered much advice and help. I would sincerely like to thank all of you. It has also been a pleasure to see the finances of the College so much improved. The effect has been improved buildings and a better time for our students here at Pembroke. My theme in The Pembrokian over three years has been to prepare you for the changes which are inevitable in Higher Education. Students will be required to pay much more while at university and university finances will increasingly depend on fund-raising from former students. This culture shift is difficult to accept in the UK but I think it is inevitable. However, from the student point of view, there will be large benefits. Universities will no longer be driven by Government but by the students paying for the courses they want. My best wishes. RAY ROOK Development Director