A joint Stephenson & John Snow marriage

Lucy and I met when I was JCR President of Stephenson College in 2012. Lucy was the Charities Officer for John Snow and they wanted to organise an open mic night for both colleges. I helped her to arrange the event. It was a great success, raising lots of money for the men’s health charity, Movember. The Waterside was full, and this evolved into the Queen’s Campus Festival of Talents in subsequent years.

We actually got together later that year, and I invited her to our Burns Night Formal and like any great Durham couple it was sealed with a kiss in Klute. I knew she was special when I forgave her for leading a band of renegades on Snow Day to toilet paper my beloved Locomotion 1.

We have always maintained the old rivalries at home, although on reflection I note one room is painted blue, but there is no red in our house. However, I still end every mini set back with: “it could be worse, I could be in Snow.”

We ‘astonished the world’ when we recently got married in our current home of Leicester where I work as a junior doctor and Lucy is a research specialist for the Youth Sports Trust. We couldn’t get married without some wedding stash and some extra college touches which we thank both colleges for. The site of our parents drinking a Danger Ranger/Snow Job was a particular highlight. We will always be thankful for our time at Durham, the things we learnt and the friends we made.

We ‘astonished the world’ when we recently got married in our current home of Leicester where I work as a junior doctor and Lucy is a research specialist for the Youth Sports Trust.

It is with a great sense of pride that I welcome you, our alumni community, friends and supporters, to this edition of Dunelm magazine.