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visitors. We were honoured by the presence of the Archbishop of Canterbury and Mrs. Ramsey, of Mrs. Wells, and Mr. Damon Wells whose generosity had made the renovation possible, and Mrs. Kenneth Dale Owen, at the Thanksgiving Service which the Archbishop conducted in the Chapel on the 19th June. The College Appeal now stands at £99,600. It gives me particular pleasure to acknowledge the College's great debt to its alumni. Since I became Master they have subscribed, or promised, approximately £300,000 to their old College. Of this two-thirds comes from the United States, where the chief donors have been the McGowin family, Damon Wells and his mother, and another who wishes to remain anonymous. So once again the new world has been called in to redress the balance of the old.* A year from now I hope to be in retirement having by then passed my 70th birthday. My wife and I will be extremely sorry to leave Pembroke. We have become very attached to it during the six years we have lived in the Master's Lodgings. The Lodgings, incidentally, the very attractive house in which we have lived, is one of the most agreeable residences occupied by any Head of House in Oxford or Cambridge. It is not as big, nor as grand, nor as picturesque as some, and the garden is not as extensive, but as a friendly, easily managed house of dignity and some splendour, it is, in our opinion, unsurpassed. And we shall be sorry to leave our many friends in the College. But we shall be glad, at last, to do exactly what we want to do. These notes were about to go to the printers when we received the grievous news of the sudden death of our Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon. A tribute to Alistair Campbell and to his services to the University, to Balliol College and to Pembroke appears elsewhere in this issue of the Record. We mourn the loss of a very distinguished scholar who entered fully into the life of the College and who will be greatly missed. The sympathy of all of us in College goes to his widow and to his three sons. G.W.P. THE COLLEGE SOCIETY THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING The Annual General Meeting of the Society was held in the Weatherley Room in the College at 6.45 p.m. on Friday, 5th October, 1973 immediately before the Annual Dinner. The Master * As this goes to press we have just received a very substantial covenant of £10,500 from an Old Member in this country.