St Hugh's College, Oxford - Chronicle 1964-1965

ANNUAL MEETING OF THE ASSOCIATION OF SENIOR MEMBERS rrHE thirty-ninth Annual Meeting of the Association of Senior Members 1 was held in the Mordan Hall on Saturday, 4 July 1964, at 3 p.m., the Principal in the Chair.

One hundred and forty-one members were present.

The Principal called on the meeting to stand in memory of eighteen members who had died during the years 1962-4.

The Principal made special mention of Miss Shaw, who had died during the year and paid a tribute to her.

In her news of the S.C.R. the Principal reported that Miss Eva Major, Bursar, had been given an M.A. by decree and elected to an official Fellowship, with effect from Michaelmas Term 1964. Mrs. Warnock had become Estates Bursar. Miss Adam and Miss Sweeting were still at the ends of the earth, and, as they returned to us, Miss Lunt would disappear to the United States to take up a post-doctoral research fellowship at the California College of Technology, Berkeley. Miss Bickley had this year founded the Henry Rowlatt Bickley Memorial Lecture on 'Italy, Past and Present', and it was hoped that the first lecture in 1965 would be on Italian art.

The Principal drew the attention of senior members to the changes in the College buildings: the new Mordan Hall, in which a number of concerts had already been held and in which the new portrait of Professor Headlam-Morley was now hung; the stage in the Mordan Hall which had been a generous gift from an anonymous donor; the Fulford Room as an extension of the library; the new Principal's Lodgings; the perimeter wall around the site, to incorporate the houses in the late-leave system. A snack bar was being planned as an addition to the present building in the North forecourt, and for this a grant had already been allocated by the University Grants Committee. The new building would be in occupation by October 1965. In order to expand our numbers, we were keeping all the rooms in College houses for undergraduates, instead of using some for graduates as in the original plan.

Miss Lemon was re-elected Editor of the Chronicle.

Mrs. Laybourne had given the College ÂŁ5o for an object of beauty for the library or the dining hall. After some discussion Miss Ashcroft, seconded by Miss Young, proposed that an object in silver or silver plate be bought.

Miss Busbridge suggested that the A.S.M. might like to play a greater part in running its own affairs, and proposed that it should elect its own committee. Since this would involve an alteration in the Bye-laws, she proposed that a committee be set up to discuss the matter. The meeting nominated members for an exploratory committee of nine members.

Miss Wells asked members if they would express a view on the desirability of economizing by sending the address list only to those members who requested it. It was suggested that the address list be printed every four years instead of every three years. It was also suggested that a supplementary list, recording changes of name and address, could be published more frequently than the main list. This matter was referred to the new committee.

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