Cuthbert's Chronicle, July/August 2020, Issue No.12

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Professor Elizabeth Archibald, Principal of St Cuthbert’s Society The coronavirus crisis has caused many casualties in terms of events: no Cuth’s Day, no Congregation, and alas no new building at Parson’s Field this year, though we are optimistic that work will be able to go ahead as planned next summer. It is also very frustrating for graduating students to have no formal ceremony to mark their achievements; a deferred Congregation will be held in the Cathedral next April. A virtual Finalists’ Formal has been held on Zoom, but a virtual Cuth’s Day was thought to be worse than nothing at all.

The spirit of the Society remains strong, however. Some staff have been furloughed, but many have been working tirelessly, in college or remotely, to look after our students, a number of whom remained in Durham. The system of online exams and essay submission has worked quite well, but there was naturally much concern about access to books and notes (and belongings); many students went away at Easter expecting to be back very soon. A policy of ‘no detriment’ was in place so that students have not suffered if their marks dropped because of current circumstances.

The JCR have worked very hard to keep students encouraged and entertained. With the FCO and the Exec Elena has done a brilliant job this year in very challenging circumstances – the Bailey building work, two strikes, and Covid-19. The flow of new initiatives and campaigns is impressive. The virtual JCR Awards showed how much students appreciate the Exec and all their committees, and the many clubs and societies, including the unsung heroes. Two Exec members will be Students’ Union officers next year, bringing with them the wisdom, compassion and expertise they have demonstrated in Cuth’s. Ewan Swift, this year’s Senior Welfare Officer, will be the Welfare and Liberation Officer; and Sarah McAllister, this year’s Postgraduate and Mature Students Committee Chair, will be the Postgraduate Academic Officer.

One benefit of the lockdown has been the wonderful range of culture available online. SCR and JCR members have had weekly Zoom discussions of National Theatre livestreamed plays, with insights from professors and from students active in theatre. Students, alumni and SCR members who are not in Durham are able to ‘attend’ virtual events, as are guest speakers. In a recent online Difficult Dialogue on Black Lives Matter, the guest speakers were Joel Motley in America (former co-Chair of Human Rights Watch and son of a distinguished civil rights activist) and Kevin Waite in London (Assistant Professor of American History specializing in slavery). Another Dialogue on policing is planned soon, with the recently retired Chief Constable Mike Barton, an SCR member.

Creativity flourishes in the Society even in lockdown. The SCR have posted wonderful photographs of Durham in the spring. A writing competition for students drew 30 entries in a variety of genres. The annual Art Show can be seen online, bigger and even better than in previous years. The Principal’s Prize went to a portrait of the late Wayne Turfrey, our much loved and much missed porter; we plan to hang it in the dining hall over the door where he stood for Formals.

Planning for the arrival of new students in the autumn is challenging but we are determined to provide the best possible experience both for freshers and for returning students, drawing on the boundless energy, enthusiasm and enterprise of the JCR under the incoming President, Saskia Wootton-Cane. We are sure that our motto will continue to ring true: gratia gratiam parit, kindness begets kindness.

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St Cuthbert’s Society 12 South Bailey Durham DH1 3EE +44 (0)191 334 4300 cuthberts.reception@durham.ac.uk Principal: Professor Elizabeth Archibald Email: e.f.archibald@durham.ac.uk Communications Support Officer: Katherine Dodd Email: cuthberts.alumnirelations@ durham.ac.uk Cover artwork by Heidi Januszewski BA (Hons) History and English Literature. Year 3.

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Cuth’s Art Society Exhibition

10 Jack Edwards and Social Media 12 Meet the Mentors 14 Sports and Societies Round-up 16 The Year Out Newsletter 17 Cuth’s Feminist Society 18 The Early Years of Women at St Cuthbert’s Society 20 Women’s Rugby Club 21 The Story of Houses 8 and 9 22 SCR

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Paul Sng Filmmaker In Residence.

Before I became a film director, I studied drama at Goldsmiths College, but was unable to complete my degree due to a lack of money. This experience informed my commitment to work with people from disadvantaged backgrounds and strengthened my aim to tell inclusive stories that reveal aspects of British society the world doesn’t usually see. Whilst providing entertainment, I want to also develop and reflect the cultural concerns of working class audiences.

As a documentary filmmaker, my work has been focused on amplifying the voices of people whose lives have been affected by systemic inequalities in the UK, through working in a collaborative way to enable people to tell their stories as directly as possible and represent their own truths as much as possible.

Paul Sng is a British Chinese documentary filmmaker and writer based in Edinburgh. In 2015, he founded Velvet Joy Productions to produce films about people who challenge the status quo, by working in a collaborative way to capture extraordinary aspects of everyday life. Paul’s documentaries have been broadcast on national television and screened internationally and include Sleaford Mods – Invisible Britain (2015), Dispossession: The Great Social Housing Swindle (2017), Social Housing, Social Cleansing (2018) and the forthcoming Poly Styrene: I Am A Cliché (2021).

These aims also informed the photography book Invisible Britain: Portraits of Hope and Resilience, where I commissioned and coordinated the work of 42 photographers to create images with and of vulnerable people living on the sidelines, images which challenged their often stereotyped everyday representations in the media. These images were placed alongside direct testimony.

John Grierson famously defined the documentary film as “the creative treatment of actuality”. I believe that documentarians have a duty to tell a truth and represent their subject(s) faithfully; working with real people entails having a duty of care to them. I have aspired to this in my work and am now keen to explore the storytelling constructs and indexes that making a documentary with fictional elements offers, while staying fully committed to my concerns about identity, injustice and inequality.

Given the impact of Covid19, it may be necessary to alter the scope for the film I’d originally planned to make as Cuth’s artist-in-residence, but I’m looking forward to returning to Durham as soon as it’s safe to resume work.

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CONGRATULATIONS Congratulations to our graduands who had a really challenging year, between strikes and Covid-19 and online exams. Over 140 got Firsts, a terrific result.

This cohort also made a huge contribution to the Society through the many clubs and societies (over 40 now), volunteering, and helping to run the JCR. A special thank you to our two outgoing sabbatical officers, Elena Martin and Rishi Jindal, for all their excellent work.

Congratulations to Cuth’s student Zihan Zhou (Computer Science), one of five finalists for the newly established Student Art Competition on the theme of Diversity. Over 70 entries were received, and 21 were long-listed.

They can be seen, along with commentary by the artists, at: www.sitcfestival.org/student-art-prize/

Zihan Zhou

SAVE THE DATE: Virtual Alumni Day Saturday 12th September, more information to follow soon.

Letter from a Cuth’s Alumna: Ann Virr, BA (Hons) Psychology, 1982 I owe a big ‘thank you’ to the Society for giving me a second chance to obtain a university degree. Cuth’s welcomed me in 1979, at the age of 43. As a member of St Cuthbert’s Society I was able to travel from my home in Guisborough to attend lectures rather than having to live in a college.

I left school after a year in the sixth form to go to secretarial college. I had achieved 10 very good GCE’s at O level and was considered by my headmistress to be university material. However, for many families the prevailing thought was that sons should go on to further education whereas for daughters it was less important. In spite of my father, a son of a mining family, having achieved an Oxford M.A., this attitude was one held by my parents, no doubt supported by economic circumstances.

I went on to an intensive year studying shorthand, typing and

commercial French and German, working in the City and West London for some years before marrying.

Once married, I could no longer hold the post of Secretary to the Director.

I was demoted to the Typing Pool.

It was while I was bringing up three children that I had the urge to resume my education. We had lived in several parts of the UK, then in Jamaica and Northern Ireland.

Finally living in North Yorkshire, we frequently visited Durham and I fell in love with it. I satisfied my need for stimulation by working as a Marriage Counsellor and Cruise Bereavement Counsellor. At local colleges I studied Sociology and Psychology at A level.

After my marriage broke up in 1979 I decided to do a degree at the age of forty-three. What is more, I was one of the last people to qualify for a mandatory further education grant from the Government, which made this venture economically possible.

I applied to St Cuthbert’s Society as Ann Pound in 1979 and graduated in 1982 as Ann Virr.

It was a proud moment when my grown-up children and my new partner attended my graduation in 1982.

After a Master’s in Social Work from York, I worked as a Social Worker in Cleveland and County Durham for 10 years. I was able to put my learning at Durham to good use!

THANK YOU ST. CUTHBERT’S SOCIETY for giving me the opportunity to get a degree by admitting women!

Find out more Visit: durham.ac.uk/st-cuthberts.society/ alumni/ Email: cuthberts.alumnirelations@durham. ac.uk Tel: 0191 334 3380

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JCR News President’s Round-up If I’m honest, this year did not pan out in the direction anyone thought it would! Despite this, the JCR has been as busy as ever.

The first notable change from last year is that I’ve had the pleasure of working alongside Rishi Jindal who has been our first ever Finance and Compliance Officer. Having a second sabbatical officer has been invaluable in terms of getting the charity on track, sorting out our finances and giving the Executive Committee, Sports and Societies and myself support with our day-today tasks.

The year started on a high with the Take Time to Sign Campaign gaining praise on a university-wide level. It was key in signposting services and hosting talks to first years already in a panic in November about signing secondyear homes. Michaelmas also saw the introduction of the new Year Abroad Committee which was headed by Clarissa Atlee from Taiwan. Clarissa has managed to build the committee from the ground up in order to preserve a sense of community all over the world, while also producing delightful newsletters each term.

Another new venture which started this year was a new volunteering project, SHJRFC, where Outreach Committee and Rugby collaborated to send volunteers to run weekly after school rugby sessions in St Hild Junior School in Gilesgate.

On top of this, Outreach (under the direction of Sammy Alcock) also hosted new fundraising events, larger than we’ve ever managed before, such as Cuth’s Take Me

Out. Overall, the committee has managed to raise £4204.71 this year which is incredibly impressive.

Stanley Lowres, Maddy Wilson and Social Committee put on a fantastic Feast of St Cuthbert back in February, with ‘Pop Art’ as a new and exciting theme. Other new events such as Bertie’s Bingo have also been a great success.

While it’s a huge shame that events such as Cuth’s Day and Summer Ball have been cancelled this year, the JCR has not been idle when it comes to events online. We’ve hosted regular livestreamed Pub Quizzes which at one point were taking place 3 times a week with up to 60 people participating.

Lockdown has also sparked the creation of a new Cuth’s Language Buddies Scheme, and the annual Art Exhibition moved online seemingly effortlessly due to the hard work of Sarah McAllister and the Art Society. See page 8.

Very importantly, the JCR was able to host an online Eurovision event.

Those involved selected a country they wished to represent, and then ‘re-entered’ a historic act. These were collated into one playlist, which people watched and scored before the results were announced

by Alfie Whillis, our Music Rep, on the evening Eurovision would have taken place. Iceland’s 2020 entry ‘Think About Things’ by Daði & Gagnamagnið came out on top.

Elena Martin St Cuthbert’s Society JCR President

“Ultimately this year a lot has Outreach Cuth’s Choir changed - mostly deliberately but sometimes out of necessity.

The JCR has continued to develop and flourish, while also being able to adapt our traditions and values to new situations.”

Elena Martin JCR President

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Meet Saskia Wootton-Cane Cuth’s Incoming JCR President I’m Saskia, the incoming JCR President.

I’ve just finished a degree in history, and before taking on this role I was ViceChair of our Trustee Board and then JCR Chair. I’m really excited for this next year for so many reasons – firstly because I love Cuth’s, but also because I think this job is such an incredible opportunity to develop so many skills and work with so many different people to achieve the best outcome for our students.

Aside from the task of helping both new and returning students settle into University life during a pandemic, I hope to work closely with other Common

Rooms and the SU to create a united front on issues that affect us all, and are even more acute during this time of crisis, such as high rents. I’d also like to tackle food waste in College and review our spaces so that, when things do begin to return to normal, we are making the best use of them we can.

the best of whatever we are given to work with this year, and I’m excited to see where we go!

This year is, of course, going to look a little different to previous ones. However if there is one thing I know about our community it’s that it’s resilient, and made up of innovative, hard-working individuals, both the students and the JCR and College staff. For that reason I know we will work creatively and make

My Inside Out Experience.

This year, I participated in an experience I will never forget. The ‘Inside Out’ programme is one that is truly unique, challenging conventions of traditional undergraduate study. Established in Philadelphia in 1997, Inside Out is comprised of ‘Inside’ students (people in prison) and ‘Outside’ students from the university examining issues relating to crime and the criminal justice system.

Lessons take place inside the prison during the ten-week programme. A guiding principle of the programme is that all students are treated equally, with each student’s unique perspective on different issues welcomed to facilitate well-rounded discussion. Students are also given the same reading lists and assignments throughout the course.

Crucially, the programme is founded on confidentiality, so whilst I am unable

to share specific conversations, I would like to share what a transformative experience Inside Out was.

I vividly remember how I felt on the first day: excited, but mainly anxious. Not only were we due to enter a prison, we were to learn in a classroom with people who are incarcerated there. But Inside Out’s beauty, for me, is in its humanity.

The course leaders and the methods they employ are focused on putting the human experience at the forefront of the sessions. Within minutes, my anxiety dissipated, and I realised that it was founded upon the labels socially prescribed to the Inside students and not them as individuals. The programme facilitated a reflection on my own perceptions and my ability to quickly be complicit in the labelling of my fellow students.

I was Cuth’s first Working-Class Students’ representative and am now Postgraduate and Mature Student Committee chair, so liberation is at the heart of the work I do. By completing Inside Out, I was able to check my own privileges and acknowledge the hurt caused by my own experiences of

discrimination, both being a part of the LGBT+ community and working-class.

Given the current political climate, it is paramount that we can understand the effects of labelling, structural violence and systemic discrimination and act on it whenever possible. Inside Out gave me the privilege of listening to the narratives of individuals I would have otherwise never heard. Through this, it has inspired me to carry on my work and ensure marginalised voices are platformed, amplified and listened to. I would like to thank the programme and its instructors for facilitating my own self-discoveries and exposing me to the power of others’ often-unappreciated narratives.

JACK SIMMONDS Working Class Student Rep. Postgraduate and Mature Student Chair.

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Cuth’s Art Society Exhibition Sarah McAllister, Art Society President 2019-2020 Each year the Cuth’s Annual Art Exhibition gives an opportunity for everyone in Cuth’s to demonstrate their artistic talents and to see the work of fellow students and SCR members. For Art Society, it is what we most look forward to, even though it usually involves a very hectic couple of days. With the current situation preventing us from holding the exhibition at Cuth’s, we were still determined to make sure in some form or other the event could go ahead.

We therefore decided to hold a virtual exhibition which would be unveiled to Cuth’s the day that the exhibition should have opened. From the point of view of the person who usually spends days organising all the logistics behind the exhibition, it is without a doubt easier to organise an online exhibition rather than running up and down the Bailey, printing, framing and hanging the art to make sure everything goes ahead without a hitch.

No online exhibition can make up for the fact that we couldn’t all be in Cuth’s enjoying the strawberries and cream whilst listening to the musical performances, but the exhibition proved to be a great success.

This year we received forty-nine entries from both students and SCR members, which is the highest number we have received in a considerable amount of time. Unsurprisingly Durham proved to be a popular subject amongst the entries, the Cathedral appeared in multiple submissions alongside Finchale Priory, the Botanical Gardens and the Wickerman located at Low Burnhall Woods. Nevertheless, the exhibition had a huge range of subjects amongst the entries. Erlla Caramba-Coker’s entry reflected the current political situation drawing attention to the

theme of equality and wished ‘to symbolise the importance of equal treatment as human beings regardless of the coat that covers out multifaceted interior’. Abisha Gautam similarly used her piece “Fire is catching, if we burn, you burn with us” to reflect on 2020 as we have witnessed devastating bushfires and disease in conjunction with a movement for equality and justice. There was also a range of artistic mediums including oil pastels, biro drawings, photography, mixed media, digital art and textile work. The advantage of holding an online exhibition also meant that we were able to include a short video of SCR member Gillian Banks’ piece “Thoughts and Feelings 2020”, which featured bunting flags which were stitched with some thoughts and feelings experienced through lockdown.

In the evening we came together on a Zoom call to announce the winners of the three prizes. The Principal’s Prize was awarded to Clarissa Atlee’s “Wayne”. The portrait was of our beloved porter Wayne who sadly passed away last year and the piece was simply described as ‘Wayne – a man who was very important to Cuth’s’. Sophie Morton was awarded the VicePrincipal’s Prize for her “Women in Stripes”, which stood out amongst the entries as a dynamic piece of digital art. Finally, in the absence of the People’s Choice Award and given the outstanding photography entries we received this year, the Photography Prize was introduced and awarded to Beth Sutherland for her “Busy Below the Chandeliers”, a snapshot of the movement of tourists under the chandeliers in the Hall of Mirrors in the royal Palace of Versailles. The art exhibition can be viewed on Cuth’s Art Society’s Facebook page, or is available via the Exhibition Google Drive: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/13YgjrxIC0qFqDkj4HujwxbxwfUZ9Fjyi?usp=shar-

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St Cuthbert’s Society JCR Invitation to apply: Charity Trustee Since 2016, the JCR has been a Charitable Incorporated Organisation, which is administered by a Board of Trustees. The Board oversee the day to day running of the JCR, helping to ensure it meets its charitable aims and allowing it to enhance the student experience of every member through events and activities.

The JCR currently works to provide social and recreational activities to members, alongside peer-led welfare support and outreach activities across the North East. Being a Trustee allows you to ensure these projects achieve their maximum potential.

As an external Trustee I enjoy sharing my wider experience to help guide and direct members of the JCR Committee. Whilst not a Cuth’s alumnus, I feel that I have learnt quickly how the JCR functions and enjoy supporting its aims and objectives as a charity. It is great as a Trustee to guide and direct the tasks of executive officers, be that in reading contracts for the Ball, checking accounts or setting the strategic direction of the Trust.

Sean Barnett, Chair

Being a Student Trustee allows me to support the JCR whilst also developing my professional skills and ensuring the student body can achieve its maximum potential in social, recreational and charitable events.

Kirstin McCann, Student Trustee

We are currently looking for someone with a financial or legal background to join the Board and welcome applicants who have financial or legal expertise at any level. Additionally, we are keen to find women in these fields to broaden the range of viewpoints and opinions on the Board. If you feel you have the skills to support and assist the JCR in achieving its charitable aims, please consider applying to be a Trustee! For more information, including how to apply, email: nominationscommittee@ cuths.com

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Jack Edwards Why using social media to share my experience at Durham University changed my life

By Jack Edwards, BA (Hons) English Literature When I made the journey up to Durham for Freshers’ Week, the predominant emotion I recall is terror.

Trembling with anxiety, I remember musing that each tree whizzing past the rain-speckled window was a reminder of the increasing distance between myself and the Sussex market town I’d always known. I was a first-generation university student in my family, with very little knowledge of what to expect from higher education … and even less culinary capability.

Professor Archibald has reminded me in jest that my first remark to her was that I was, and I quote, ‘a bit of a muppet’ and therefore quite concerned

regarding my survival.

The internet had failed to equip me with the advice I’d desperately sought, due to a dearth of information regarding university in general, but also Durham more specifically. I think the only insight into what my accommodation would be like was provided by the Durham Singapore Society, who conducted a tour of St Cuthbert’s Society from the bench in House 12’s garden but didn’t enter any of the buildings. Instead, they simply speculated what the rooms were probably like since none of them were actually in Cuth’s.

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I decided to make it my mission to break this barrier by showing other panicking students what they could expect, and picked up my Canon G7X to introduce my first ‘university vlog’.

When I pressed upload on the video I’d filmed documenting my first week at Cuth’s, I had no idea it would change my life. That video alone has now been viewed by 365,000 people, contributing to the total of 16 million views my YouTube channel has since amassed.

Around 350,000 people currently follow me across my social media - including Instagram, Twitter, and, of course, TikTok. Across these platforms, I aim to make university less intimidating and more accessible for those who, like me, were quaking in their boots.

In my time at Cuth’s, I’ve been lucky enough to collaborate with brands such as Specsavers, Canon, Disney, Samsung, Canon, and Unidays. I’ve also hosted a number-one podcast called ‘The Wooden Spoon’ which focused on changing the way we understand failure, and presented educational content at BBC Bitesize.

I have founded my own stationery brand ‘Ink Outside the Box’, and been interviewed by Sky News, The Guardian, Fox News, and The Telegraph. I’ve even been invited to share my insights on using social media for good by the House of Commons, The White House, and the World Food Programme. Most excitingly of all, my biggest ever dream has become a reality, as my debut

book “The Uni-Verse” will be published

by HarperCollins in August 2020.

People often ask me what the ‘secret’ to social media success is, and I struggle to find an answer other than simply being your authentic self and sharing your real, lived experiences.

Primarily, I wanted to provide the advice and resources I longed for three years ago - I never could have anticipated that so many people would be in the same boat. I’ve formed a community of aspirational young people who are incredibly supportive and have helped me to create the content they couldn’t find elsewhere.

Now it seems, in the words of Roy Scheider in Jaws, we’re going to need a bigger boat.

Community has always been at the heart of this for me, just as it is in Cuth’s, and I’m constantly reminded how much more powerful we are together, both on my own personal platforms and in this college. Over the lockdown, Cuth’s students have been taking part in virtual pub quizzes, film discussions, and even recreating some of the traditions we unfortunately missed, such as the much-anticipated Sports and Socs Formal, all by utilising our digital dexterity and moving the world online. When schools first began to close, I brought together 18 academics to collaborate on a shared platform called ‘The StudyTube Project’ which sought to provide escapism and education in these

unprecedented times. Social media has the capacity to bring people together, unite us through common experiences, and establish community even in times of isolation.

The best thing is that the internet is democratic. You don’t need to have the most expensive camera or the most advanced editing software to reach an audience: if you have a message worth hearing then the world will listen. If you want to build a personal brand online, then the best way to do so is to be yourself, experiment with everything that fascinates you, and find a niche organically. Think about how you can have a positive influence through social media, and how your wealth of experiences could benefit someone else, or even a whole community of people. Don’t do what everyone else is doing, do what you love. If you can reassure, encourage or support just one person out there, then you’ve achieved something.

I’m now embarking on a gap year to focus on applying for a Master’s course in English Literature, after my first attempt this year resulted in an email which started with the word ‘unfortunately…’ - never a good sign! I’ll be travelling as much as the post-pandemic world allows, and hopefully enrolling in a screenwriting course. I’m going to continue documenting my next steps on social media, sharing both the highs and the lows, and I’m weirdly excited to go back to being the inexperienced ‘muppet’ encountering everything for the first time.

“Being part of Cuth’s is something I will never take for granted or forget.

It’s been the most enormous privilege to be part of such a welcoming, supportive, wonderful community, and I’m grateful to be graduating from Durham University with not only a degree but also a second family. Wherever we may be, we are St Cuthbert’s Society.”

Jack Edwards

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Mentors are an important part of the Cuth’s Community. Mentors are people with connections to the Society who give up their time voluntarily to help and encourage students to get the best out of their time at Durham. Mentors offer a point of contact for students that is not their peers or a member of their academic department. Mentors generally check how students are settling in and point them in the right direction if they need help and support.

Fiona Gameson A long time ago, before any of my mentees were born, I made the arduous journey half-way round the world, from New Zealand to Oxford. This was before the days of email, Skype, face-time, ZOOM! Yes, there was such a time.

Talking to my parents at home was a miserable business: standing in a draughty public corridor, beside a very noisy vending machine that dispensed chocolate bars when you wanted UHT milk, and on a very poor phone line where I could hear the roaring of the oceans between me and home, and more often than not the echo of what I had just said rather than my Mum and Dad. In truth, it was not my parents I missed; it was the cat and dog I really wanted, and they were not great on the phone.

Luckily, I had loads of family and friends on this side of the world, and for the first two terms at college I was taken out for tea, or invited to a meal, by someone at least once a week. That was great, and it certainly meant I didn’t have much time to get homesick. Before the end of my second term I had a large group of college friends and, more significantly, a boyfriend (later husband). I enjoyed my time at college, both the academic work and the socialising, but I still had periods of feeling a bit ‘far away from home’. I got the flu, I had an argument with my supervisor, I had to survive the English

winter, need I say more? I certainly didn’t have a mentor; they didn’t exist at Oxford in those days.

When I came to Durham 14 years ago I discovered what a good system was in place in this university, with a mentor for every first-year student. I soon got to know about St Cuthbert’s Society and I thought that I could relate to how some of the students might feel. Since then I have been a mentor to a large number of young people studying all manner of courses and from all manner of backgrounds - local, home counties, European, American, Chinese, even from Nepal. It has been mostly a joy and always interesting to meet such a variety of people and to try to make their experience of university life as rewarding as mine has been.

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for everyone. A mentor is much less radical - we are there to listen, to advise, to get students to think for themselves about how to solve problems, face up to worries, handle the work/life balance, deal with friends and unfriends. I never think I have the answers, but I often know the right questions to ask so that they can find the answer for themselves. I’ve been there, done that, and would wear the T-shirt if there was one. I’ve been a university student, and a university teacher; I’ve seen varying ways of doing things in four different universities, and, though I can be tough if it seems right, I can also be very sympathetic. And, should they feel in need of a pet rather than a parent, I have a cat too.

Edward Cheesman I answered a call from Cuth’s to supply mentors in October 2018. I was already in the SCR, and I read music at Cuth’s 1986-89, so I felt pleased to be able to put something back into the college community.

Fiona Gameson

It’s a little drastic marrying someone to find your ‘support team’, not a solution

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The mentors can play an important role with first-year students in helping them settle into University life. For many of them it is the first time they have been away from home, and it can be quite a challenge for them. I find that seeing my students at our house in Pimlico (just across Prebend’s Bridge from Cuth’s) gives them an element of homeliness which is an asset. The mentor is not in a judgemental position, just acting as a friend and adviser, someone they can turn to for help in adversity.

Fiona Ellis I am an ex-Chair of Cuth’s College Council and a sometime member of University Council. That is how I got to know the University and Cuth’s in particular. By the end of my term on College Council I had become so fond of Cuth’s that I wanted to find another way to stay useful and connected. The mentor opportunity was exactly what I needed; it would bring me closer to students too which wasn’t so easy from Council.

I enjoy meeting students from a range of backgrounds and nationalities. Many are studying subjects that intrigue me and of which I know little. Some students are bursting with ideas that just need a gentle bit of help with a route through University hurdles; if I can be their guide I am delighted.

Problems that loom large to a student, especially in the first year, can often be quickly sorted by a mentor. Students should never be afraid to ask for help.

John Farrington I am an alumnus of St Cuthbert’s Society, reading Economics and Economic History here back in the 1960’s (ouch!).

My time here as an undergraduate was both absorbing academically and very enjoyable, and has made a lasting impression on my life. I embarked on a non-academic career in business and industry, working for Procter and Gamble, the world’s largest consumer goods company – a global organisation that offered an amazing range of work and people contacts across the world, and whose UK headquarters was located in Newcastle. So I found myself working and living not far from here. When I retired, I decided to re-connect with Cuth’s, and attended an Alumni Weekend Conference in 2006. At that event the Principal invited me to come along for lunch the following week and talk about tutoring opportunities in the Society. This looked interesting, and I was hooked!

I enjoy the contact with young people – the amazing diversity of backgrounds, skills, ethnicity, and personalities, but all so full of enthusiasm and optimism. I am learning all the time. I also enjoy the Cuth’s Community, the SCR, the vast range of people, expertise, talks, socials, and above all the warmth and friendliness of the place, along with the beauty of the City and its surroundings. It is a real privilege to be a small part of all this.

We encourage students to see us as a reassuring source of help and advice – separate from the more formal academic authorities – and thereby maybe a little more approachable.

“I felt able to go to my mentor for basically anything, whether it be for academic or personal reasons or simply for a catch-up coffee!

We still keep in touch, even in my final year.”

Heidi Januszewski.

(History and English Literature Year 3)

get asked a whole range of questions from accommodation problems, financial worries, course difficulties, to seeking advice on how to obtain vacation jobs, career opportunities, and much more. As mentors we don’t have all the answers, and are careful to direct students to appropriate sources of expert help as necessary. Above all, we are here to encourage students to get the most out of their time here, both in their studies and in their personal development. Some students make use of us quite a lot, others not at all, which is as it should be.

These are just a few of the many Cuth’s Mentors who give their time and energy to help incoming students. If you would like to read more please see the dedicated web pages: https://www.dur.ac.uk/ st-cuthberts.society/undergraduates/studentdevelopment/mentors/ For more information about being a mentor at Cuth’s please email Dr Jon Warren for details: cuthberts.vp@durham. ac.uk

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July 2019

Adam Clark, JCR Sports and Socs Chair 2019-2020

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2019/2020 has been a funny old year with plenty to celebrate as well as plenty of unavoidable disruption.

As you may have seen in the last edition of the Cuth’s Chronicle, our Boat Club were finally able to purchase a shiny new boat which they named in memory of Wayne Turfrey, who sadly passed last summer.

After many years in slow, heavy, wooden boats, Cuth’s would finally be able to train and compete at a level appropriate for our ability. The weather had other ideas. The rain kept falling and the banks kept flooding, cancelling almost all of the big races.

Nevertheless, we can expect big things in the coming years. That’s not all: with Covid-19 grinding the whole country to a halt, the College Sports leagues were no exception. As almost all the leagues had to end early and none of the Floodlit Cup Finals took place, the points table became slightly redundant.

However, in spite of all this, Cuth’s still registered big victories. Women’s Rugby polished off the other colleges in the league for a third year in a row, and also made it into the Cup Final, knocking out rivals Van Maidens who had pipped them in the final last year. Men’s Rugby battled through to the semis in the Cup where they narrowly lost to Collingwood.

The turnout for that game was huge, with Cuth’s outnumbering Durham’s biggest undergraduate college quite comfortably.

Women’s Football had their first season in the Premiership, finishing in third place with games in hand on the teams above

and it was a similar story for their Futsal subsidiary.

Both Men’s and Women’s Hockey were promoted into the Prem, with the men’s team winning the league with two games in hand, and the Men’s Basketball team were also promoted into the Prem. In the first full year of Durham College Running league, Cuth’s won every event and finished a very long way ahead of everyone else.

Our biggest team successes came in Pool, however. The season ended early with the A’s 2nd in the Premiership only to Ustinov who they were yet to play; they also had 2 players ranked 2nd and 3rd individually. The B’s finished 9th, making them the best B team in Durham, and the C’s won division 1, making them the best C team in Durham. The D’s held in Division 2 quite comfortably, and there was great attendance in the two teams in the Friendly Ladder. All of this saw Pool win Sports Club of the Year in the annual JCR Awards.

Away from sports, the Feminist Society had a busy year, putting on a series of interesting and engaging events to mark 50 years of women in Cuth’s, including a Women in Stem panel in the Palatine Centre with some of the university’s top female academics, a crossover with Men’s Rugby where ex-rugby player Chris Hemmings was invited to Cuth’s to discuss toxic masculinity, and many other events including pub quizzes as well as their usual Thursday evening meetings.

Our Big Band took this year’s Society of the Year Award after President Alice Law and Music Rep Alfie Whillis took the group to being one of the top Big Bands in the University. They performed in JazzSoc’s gig ‘Roaring into the 20’s’ and were given the second spot in the lineup, following only Durham Uni Big Band,

who are a nationally acclaimed group.

They also managed to play 7 different gigs throughout the year despite Easter Term being cancelled (their busiest term) including Winter Balls and fundraisers for St. Cuthbert’s Hospice.

Art Society once again produced beautiful masks for the Dining in the Dark Formal as well as putting together the Summer Art Exhibition which had a multitude of high quality pieces.

Cuth’s Ripped-Off Society made it into the national news for their hard work in campaigning and canvassing for more affordable rent prices, as well as helping to set up many other Ripped-Off Societies in other colleges.

We had several new societies start up this year including Men’s Futsal, Yoga, and a Combined Orchestral Society with Chad’s and Hatfield which will start performing next year. The most notable new society however would have to be ABBA, the All British Biscuits Appreciation society, a group that met up regularly to eat biscuits we all know and love, and socialise in a more relaxed, alcohol-free environment. It’s been a huge hit this year and hopefully will continue to flourish in the future.

This is by no means everything that is happening in Cuth’s sports and societies, but hopefully it gives you an idea of the amazing range of activities people in Cuth’s get up to and some of their achievements. The nature of our inclusive and open Society means that as some societies disappear, fresh and exciting ones are always popping up, so no doubt next year there will be plenty more to talk about!

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The Cuth’s Year Out Newsletter

by Clarissa Atlee When I was begging the Mandarinspeaking doctors to not hack my ear open; or surfing by mountains instead of working; or motorbiking through Asian countrysides … Durham felt very far away. Paradoxically though, even when the world of Durham formals and lectures and sports and Cuth’s Bar began to feel more alien than unknown Mandarin characters, I knew that Cuth’s still had my back.

The Year Abroad and Placement Committee was set up for the first time this academic year, to make sure that all year out students knew Cuth’s was still there, and that they could still access both university and college support. I was leading the committee from Taiwan. Four of the other committee members were also on years abroad (in Russia, South America and France), whilst two were in their final years at Durham, having previously been on a placement and Erasmus exchange.

It was really important that even though we were all on unique journeys miles away from the Bailey, we knew that other Cuth’s students were all undergoing similar experiences and

challenges. Different time zones can make keeping in touch hard; I thought that a project which people could contribute to as little or as much as they wanted to whilst being away from Durham was best suited to the hectic lifestyle of a year abroad or placement.

The idea for the Cuth’s Year Abroad and Placement Newsletter initiative was born.

Once the new committee was elected, Silvia Saccardi (who had called in for her interview early in the morning from the Bolivian Amazon, accompanied by the sound of cockerels, whilst it was evening for me and afternoon for FCO Rishi in Brooks) immediately got stuck in with the job of the newsletter.

Neither of us had edited a newsletter before – and we had both made the decision to lug our ancient laptops with us on our year abroad, not quite realising how slow they could be once asked to download an image, or change the colour of a textbox. With lots of frustration and tested patience, we soon settled into a routine of editing a monthly newsletter.

The newsletter couldn’t have been what it was without all the Cuth’s

students who contributed. The lifestyle of a Peruvian teacher or an Argentinian NGO worker is very different to that of a London L’Oréal intern in the Luxe Division … and despite being on the same continent, Parisian interns and Russian students face very different sets of trials and errors!

We read about student life in China, a funny poem about Taiwanese visa admin, and short stories about race issues in Germany and amusing European language mix-ups. When the United Nations finally recognise Taiwan as a country, or when your grandchildren ask you what coronavirus lockdown was like around the world, you can tell them that the Cuth’s Year Abroad and Placement Newsletter had it first!

The newsletter hasn’t only achieved its original aim of bringing Cuths students together. It has recorded and celebrated the similarities and differences in our unique stories.

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Cuth’s Feminist Society Over recent years, Cuth’s Feminist Society, more commonly known as “FemSoc”, has become increasingly visible. Being recipients of the “Society of the Year” title by the JCR last summer reflects just how much the society is valued not only by those who attend our events, but by the college community at large. This award recognised how FemSoc had reached such a wide and varied audience, and had cultivated a stimulating and inclusive environment. FemSoc usually put on events every Thursday evening in Brooks Bar, which include discussions, socials, charity fundraisers and film screenings.

We continue to strengthen our college presence and learn from other feminists, both outside of and within the university community. In October we welcomed our first guest speaker: Lauren Blackwood, a specialist in diversity, equality and inclusion.

Lauren delivered a phenomenal workshop, entitled ‘Microaggresive Behaviour and Emotional Labour’ for Black History Month.

This discussed the shared experiences of BAME students in Higher Education institutions, including discrimination and microaggressions, and how this can translate to impacts on mental health.

We learnt about how universities can decolonise their curriculums, but also reflect upon their histories, and how they can better support students from minority groups. It was an extremely insightful and engaging experience and we would love to have Lauren back in Durham again.

Following this, FemSoc collaborated with Cuth’s Men’s Rugby Club to co-host a talk and workshop from Chris Hemmings, a journalist, an ex-‘rugby lad’ and author of the book ‘Be a Man - How macho culture damages us and how to escape it’.

The event attracted a large and diverse audience, and focused on how toxic masculinity can damage men and boys, and how such patriarchal expectations frequently hurt women and girls too. The conversations born from this talk were passionate, and very thought-provoking.

In recognition of 50 years of women in Cuth’s, FemSoc hosted its first ever panel event. Focused on Women in STEM at Durham, we invited four highly esteemed female academics to share their experiences of working and researching in often male-dominated fields: Professor Charlotte Clarke, the newly appointed Executive Dean of Social Sciences and Health; Professor Ruth Gregory, an expert in mathematical and theoretical physics; Professor Jacqui Rammage, the Executive Dean of Science; and Dr Qing Wang, an Associate Professor and International Coordinator within the Engineering Department. The event proved to be a fascinating and inspiring evening - the insights shared by the speakers were profound, and their hopes for the further progress of women in the sciences were truly exciting.

FemSoc’s year ended (unfortunately prematurely due to Covid-19) with a bang: a charity pub quiz for International Women’s Week. The quiz was a great success: the rounds ranged across history, English and science, and of course we had to add in some feminist facts too! Some great prizes were won and over £100 was raised for our chosen charity, Imkaan. Imkaan is a women’s organisation dedicated to addressing domestic violence, forced marriage and ‘honour-based’ violence against black and minority ethnic girls in the UK. FemSoc have also welcomed several

collaborations this year, including with Hatfield’s FemSoc and Cuth’s LGBT+Soc. These events were informative and fun, and created a space in which important questions could be asked, such as: ‘What is heteronormativity?’, ‘Should “coming out” be necessary?’ and ‘How do we challenge people’s perceptions of “norms” of sexualities?’. We also held a discussion titled “Trans Inclusivity”, where attendees talked about how mainstream feminism can often exclude the experiences of Trans people, and the ways in which we can help amplify their voices. These types of discussions are essential in a society such as FemSoc, and we hope they make people feel supported and listened to. We believe such events help to foster a welcoming and inclusive environment at Cuth’s, and we hope to work closely with the JCR minority reps in the future.

People often initially come to FemSoc for our discussion events, which over the year have focused on: climate change, the help and harm of feminist activism, motherhood and fertility, global women’s movements and the portrayal of women as ‘unfunny’.

We endeavour to make these discussions as accessible as possible, regardless of how much prior knowledge or experience a person has on the topic. A central goal of FemSoc is to be a learning environment: where people can listen, reflect and digest.

Attendees can contribute as much or as little as they like, and it’s as much a social community as it is one of education and activism. Although many of the FemSoc Exec have now finished their degrees, and have to sadly say goodbye to their muchloved positions, the new generation of Cuth’s FemSoc are ready and waiting, and it will be exciting to see what they have in store! Beth Sutherland

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The Early Years of Women at St Cuthbert’s Society

by Barbara Keen (Brazier) and Jean Bryson (Sanderson) 1969-1972 Barbara Keen (Brazier)

Cuth’s in 1968/69 was an allmale student body of 300+ in an overall university population of 3,000+. Cuth’s was fiercely proud of its own identity, traditions and uniqueness, and considered itself to be different from, and superior to, ordinary

colleges. The Principal Leslie Brooks had a reputation for looking for something different when recruiting students, taking in ‘waifs and strays’, which contributed to that special nature of Cuth’s; I trust that he did not consider our group of women to be waifs or strays!

In reflecting back now after 50 years I had no sense of being intimidated at Cuth’s or being looked on as alien. I felt very much a novelty at the beginning of that first term, for example at lunch in the dining room when it was just an overwhelming presence of men, and one or two women were hugely outnumbered. The dinners were slightly different as the men invited girlfriends in when there were spare places. We felt we were fully integrated members of the Society when we were

“In reflecting back now, after 50 years, I had no sense of being intimidated at Cuth’s or being looked on as alien.”

Barbara Keen

trained and allowed to work behind the bar in the JCR. As well as other first years and Geographers, Jean and I made friends with a number of the male residents of No 8 so we were not lonely. It would be hard to think of ourselves as ‘role models’. The world did not stop because we were now student members of Cuth’s, nor did a bright new shiny world of sobriety and equality immediately emerge.

We, as that first small group of women in 1969, became a part of St Cuthbert’s Society and women have been a part of St Cuthbert’s Society ever since. It is my experience that once you become part of Cuth’s then Cuth’s becomes a part of you; some of those friendships that you made last a lifetime, as can that relationship with St Cuthbert’s Society.

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St Cuthbert’s Society helped me to learn to be the best that I can be. The name Durham undoubtedly opened doors for me and for that I am immensely grateful.

I have had a successful career, and have also worked as a Magistrate for 30 years and as a member of the Police Authority. I am blessed with children and grandchildren and with a loving husband of 47 years (NB duration of marriage to date not age of husband), who I conveniently picked up along the way at a Cuthbert’s Informal dance. I have much to be grateful to Cuthbert’s Society for. I wish St Cuthbert’s Society the very best in the years to come, although for me its very best years were from 1969 to 1972, and its greatest gift to me was in voting to accept women into the college.

Claire Taylor-Harris I attended the 50 years of Women at Cuth’s event in November (I was at Cuth’s 1998-2002) with my dad who spoke at the event (he was President 1969-70). It was such a lovely event and wonderful to go with my Dad. I just wanted to say thank you.

I look forward to attending other events like this when we are allowed to do so!

Many thanks again, Claire Taylor-Harris (with Peter Taylor)

Jean Bryson (Sanderson) I remember Cuthbert’s with affection because it honed some valuable skills for life and was character-forming in many ways.The Principal’s wife, Mrs Brooks, mindful of the harsh reality of digs, made sure that there was a ladies’ common room so that we could retire from (in her words) ”the hurly burly of College life”. Thus 8A South Bailey became our daytime home for the next three years.

Men entered only by invitation and by agreement of the group.

1969 had an Indian summer. We punted on the river and sunbathed the whole way through October. By November and into the New Year it was all change. We had the worst snowfalls that I had ever seen; the River Wear froze over. I have vivid memories of a third-year student walking the whole way across the frozen river under Kingsgate Bridge. Not to be outdone another student walked across the parapet of the bridge. You will note that I have not given names to protect the reputations of these men who are now solid citizens.

We were very privileged to have had a university education at Durham. In 1971 only 2% of the population had a degree.

More late 60’s memories (thanks to Barry Fildes). Downtown Faction included Rod Clements of Cuth’s, later a founder member of Lindisfarne; Rod was Chairman of Cuth’s Social Committee 1968/69

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St Cuthbert’s Society Women’s Rugby Club Eleanor Radcliffe – Club Captain 2019/2020 In order to celebrate fifty years of women at St Cuthbert’s Society, an article of appreciation for one of the most successful all-female clubs is necessary. SCSWRFC have had an extremely successful three years as an independent Cuth’s club, 2020 being our third year in a row of winning the intercollegiate cup! Katie Moran, team captain for 2019/2020, explains this through the extreme dedication we have as a team compared to other colleges. We are one of the only teams who train consistently, rain or shine, meaning we have some of the best college players there are. This also means that we are able to field a team every weekend; we have not had a single walkover in the last two seasons. Also, lots of our players go on to play for DU Rugby at some point and some even continue playing after University. This shows the love for rugby that starts in our own Society and continues throughout every player’s life.

Women’s Rugby has a somewhat new place in St Cuthbert’s Society, being officially only three years old. Before 2017, female rugby players in Cuth’s were part of Cuthle, comprising players from Castle and Mary’s too. Cuth’s alumna Maddey Watson anticlimactically explained that there really was not too much of a difference in playing for Cuthle and Cuth’s, except for the satisfaction of finally

being able to wear the famous Cuth’s green on the pitch. Ostensibly, this may seem pretty mundane but, in my opinion, this is indicative of the Cuth’s spirit. In going independent, we were able to maintain the same level of success as we had in a team that was representing three different colleges. In doing this, the team spirit and camaraderie that I now see in our players, alongside an ardent love and respect for Cuth’s, was able to flourish and grow.

We are an incredibly inclusive society, welcoming players from all backgrounds and experience levels. In fact, most of our players start their time in SCSWRFC as beginners, including myself! First-year Caitlin Bonpun, our incoming Club Captain, highlights that her discovery of rugby and the community of kind and strong women in Cuth’s has been one of her favourite things in her time at Durham so far. At the other side of this spectrum, fourth-year Beth Sutherland, only joined SCSWRFC in her final year but says that it was definitely the best thing she did in her last year at Durham. Despite being an extremely young society, we have established a strong sense of family in our team. Having a dedicated Exec, amazing coaches and a true sense of companionship, we have been able to be extremely successful in representing female rugby at Durham University, despite this being a male-dominated sport.

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I could talk all day about what it is that makes the women in this society so amazing, strong and empowering. But I will end this short acknowledgment of the successes of SCSWRFC, with the notion that we are proud to be whoever we want to be. We can be academics and athletes, as long as we stay true to ourselves. And I can say with certainty and pride that it has been an honour to be the club captain of Cuth’s Women’s Rugby and I can’t wait to see what the next fifty years of women at Cuth’s hold.

The Story of Houses 8 and 9, Seven Centuries of Continuity and Change Dr Bob Banks It is now almost 60 years since the University allocated 8 and 9 South Bailey to St. Cuthbert’s Society, to increase its residential space. House 9 had previously been home to the Women’s Union, but the ground floor had already become Cuth’s library before the Women’s Union amalgamated with the erstwhile exclusively male Durham Union.

After the completion of internal alterations to create study bedrooms, the remainder of House 9 was adopted by Cuth’s in 1963, to be followed a year later by House 8.

Sixty years is a significant fraction of Cuth’s history, but the properties represented by these otherwise anonymous houses have their own histories extending back to medieval times.

The story of Houses 8 and 9 and their surroundings includes a microbrewery, a ‘pleasure garden’, watchtowers, animal pens, a Count’s House (and a building that is not actually the Count’s House but a garden cottage), an icehouse, castle walls, coach houses and stables. There are some notable residents too, Helena Rosa, a former owner of House 9, was made the first Honorary Freewoman of the City in 1919 for her work on behalf of DLI prisoners of war.

Dr Bob Banks (Chair of Cuth’s Fellows) has explored the rich history of 8 and 9 South Bailey in his fascinating article which can be found at: https://www.dur.ac.uk/st-cuthberts.society/alumni/chronicle/

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Senior Common Room St Cuthbert preferred a remote and isolated way of life, so it seemed strangely apt that his feast day came just as the UK was entering lockdown.

St Cuthbert’s Day celebrations at the Cathedral were all cancelled, so rather than packing several of the pews at the front of the nave for the festal evensong, members of the Society found ourselves cut off from each other and confined to our own homes.

Cuthbert would probably have turned down a broadband connection to his cell on Inner Farne, but here at the Society and the University as a whole, we have embraced new ways to interact electronically. Some of the changes have suddenly enabled us to involve alumni in local events; for example, thanks to Zoom we have had participants from as far as Canada and the United States in some of our discussion forums. We are all looking forward to being able to gather in person again, but I hope that we will be able to preserve the best of the developments that have emerged from the present crisis

by streaming and recording more events in the future.

The unusually fine spring weather made the ration of outdoor exercise the high point of each day for many of us during the strictest period of the lockdown.

Durham and the surrounding countryside were particularly uplifting in May, and the natural desire to share special moments and places led to the compilation of an online album of photos from lockdown walks by SCR members and alumni.

The project grew to include contributions from far afield. A few of the images are reproduced here and we plan to archive the full collection for long-term preservation and viewing.

As I write, a virtual Cuth’s Week is just beginning. The online Art Exhibition was a joy to browse and had a record number of contributions from both Common Rooms. In the coming days, SCR members will be contributing online talks and even a streamed piano recital. We are quite used to the annual JCR-SCR

Doug Scott, The A1(M) at noon on 26 April

cricket match being scuppered, but it’s usually by rain rather than a pandemic.

The Vice Principal will be hosting a cricket-themed quiz instead, so rivalry form the Sam Stoker trophy will live on.

We in the SCR wish all members of the Cuth’s community and their families good health and stability until it is safe for us to meet again.

Dr Mark Miller, SCR President scr.president@durham.ac.uk

John Farrington, The Tyne on 6 May

Christopher Somerville, Wild garlic at Lyatt Mark Miller, Observatory Hill on 21 May

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