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Paul, son of Wendy Stevens (Watson) on 5 September 1998. They were married by Paul's father, the Rev David Stevens (Keble). Stella Strawbridge (Hassid) and her husband were bell-ringers. Patricia Crampton (Wood) writes, 'My husband's illness has kept me busy in Wiltshire (no bad place to be), with little time for my own work for the past two years or so, but results of the last two translations have been very happy: The Final Journey won the TSB Birmingham prize (Senior Group) 1997, the first time the prize has been won by a translated book. In January 1999 it won the Marsh Prize for best translated book for young people. No Roof in Bosnia was selected as the British Honour Book for Translation 1998 by British IBBY. It was also a runner-up for the Marsh Prize in 1999.' Jeanette Cockshoot (Johnson) as well as being active in the West Oxford U3A Local History group and serving on the Committee of the Friends of North Hinksey, has recently been elected to the Parochial Church Council for the Church of St Lawrence, North Hinksey. June Lancelyn-Green (Burdett) is Editor of Ness Gardens Newsletter. Margaret Lyddon's (Wilkinson) husband, Ken, died on Christmas Day 1997. Sheila Ottley 'having successfully completed the story of her mother's family, has now been prevailed on to start work on that of her father's. It is producing some fascinating characters. They include the great-uncle who built and ran a full-scale theatre in a Yorkshire mining village, entered a lion's cage for a dare and emerged safely; the great-aunt who, pronounced at twenty to be dying, married, raised four children and died at ninety-one; and the great-uncle who for some reason of his own, for years lived exclusively on treacle-and-bread. She has been fortunate enough to find approximately fifty family photographs to use as illustrations and, by some patient detective work, has been able to put names to all of them—a reminder to put names and dates on photographs as soon as they are printed. Jane Sampson (Robinson), Dr—see article page 67. Brenda Hall (Henderson) is 'continuing to practice as free-lance indexer, working mainly for the Netherlands Institute for International Law. She still teaches and demonstrates floral art and plays golf regularly. Stuart and she now have eight grandchildren so family life is very busy.' Mary Feaver (Harvey) has been a voluntary guide at Chichester Cathedral since May 1999. Hazel Rossotti (Marsh), Dr is retired from her Tutorial Fellowship at St Anne's. Mimi Ponsonby's (Kenny) Course on English Pronunciation "How
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