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Plato’s PhilosophyHow can I know whether you meanwhat you say? Or even what you meanby what you say? Or whether you saidwhat someone said you said? Or whatyou meant when you said what theysaid you said, if you said it? These arequestions prompted by Plato’s Clitophon,a very short dialogue on which JuniorResearch Fellow Dr. Jenny Bryan iscurrently working. The questions areparticularly pertinent when consideredas authorial reflections on the problemsof writing philosophy as dialogue. Itis this aspect of Plato’s philosophy(particularly in terms of his relationshipto Socrates) that dominates her currentresearch interests.Piano TrioDuring the Cambridge Festival, a PianoTrio composed by Dr. John Hopkins inmemory of Nicholas Toller was given itsfirst performance.In the composition, various kinds ofmusical continuity are explored forboth their expressive and formal potential.Three different strands are developedand then combined and juxtaposedthroughout three movements, so thatoverall, the music moves from its mostfragmented condition towards a moresustained and lyrical conclusion. Oneof the performers of the première concertwas Gregor Riddell, who read music atHomerton between 2003 and 2006.Dr Melanie Keeneof astronomer William Herschel’s chambermusic, and will soon involve dressing-upat the Royal Society for a role-play aboutVictorian spiritualism.Desegregation in the USAForeshadowing the Future: 1957 andthe US Black Freedom Struggle, writtenby Homerton Senior Research FellowDr. David Garrow, appeared as the leadarticle in the 2009 volume of the ArkansasLaw Review.Dr. Garrow’s article was originallypresented at a 2007 symposium markingthe 50th anniversary of those events. Ittraces how that Arkansas confrontationpaved the way towards the series of1960–1965 face-offs between southernwhite segregationists and the federalgovernment that eventually culminatedin the 1964–65 enactment of the US’stwo major landmark anti-racism statutes.British Academy GrantDr. Peggy Watson has been awarded aresearch grant by the British Academyfor a project entitled: Critical Condition?Civil Society and Mental Health inPoland. During the academic year shewill make three visits to Poland tointerview politicians, union membersand NGO activists, among others, inorder to identify who makes policy withrespect to mental health care, and whatare the differing perspectives on mentalhealth issues in Poland.Familiar ScienceDr. Melanie Keene joined HomertonCollege as a Junior Research Fellow thisyear to investigate ‘familiar science’ inthe nineteenth century. She analyses howeveryday objects and habitual activitieswere used in scientific explanation andentertainment; how candles, soap, andcups of tea became the focus of elementaryinstruction and fanciful stories, and thefamily home a place teeming with scientificfacts and forces. This, she argues, is a newanalytical category that can help rethinkour understanding of a period whenmodern ideas of professional scientistsand popular science were under debate,and being formed.Dr. Keene is also heavily involved inoutreach and education work, whichhas recently included running a workshopabout Amazonian exploration andbutterfly-collection at the Natural HistoryMuseum, organising an evening concertDr David GarrowLittle Rock, Arkansas’ capital city, wasthe scene in 1957 of one of the mostfamous and important incidents in US.civil rights history when US army soldierswere deployed to protect the physicalsafety of nine black schoolchildren whowere desegregating a previously all-whitehigh school. This was made possible bythe 1954 ruling of the US SupremeCourt, striking down racial segregationin public schools.Dr Peggy WatsonResearch SeminarsIf you would like to experience theresearch at Homerton first hand, whynot come to one of our weekly ResearchSeminars? Every Tuesday evening duringfull term a Homerton academic explainssome of his/her work to a generalaudience. Everyone is welcome to comeand listen. For the latest programme,see www.homerton.cam.ac.ukDr Jasper van WezelJunior Research FellowFor the latest research news, visit http://www.homerton.cam.ac.uk/research/index.html3

UNDERSTANDING HOW YOUR GIFTS ARE USEDAs many Homertonians know, because theywill have contributed towards it, we havean established Hardship Fund in memoryof Alison Shrubsole. Fortunately we onlyoccasionally have to make heavy use of it,but when we do it often makes the differencebetween a student surviving on a course ornot. It would be invidious for me to namenames, because more often than not thecircumstances are desperate and very private.In the current financial climate we haveseveral cases where both parents have lostjobs, or where one partner has becomebankrupt as a result of the economicdownturn. Sometimes, where the familycomes under severe financial pressure,parental divorce can add to a student’sfinancial woes. It can take many years tosort out such financial disasters; meantimea student has to be supported throughto final examinations by the College.Fortunately such cases are still relativelyinfrequent, but nevertheless they oftenrequire large sums of money to resolve.Or there is the case of a student from Africawho had been resident in this country for anumber of years with her family prior to thestart of the course, while her father workedin the USA. Initially she was deemed to bea ‘home’ student for funding purposes, butan incorrect answer on a form given by herfather resulted in repatriation to Africa afterthe end of the first year. A year followedwith all the formality of a Border AgencyTribunal and countless solicitors’ letters backand forth across three continents. Eventuallya judge ruled, on the basis of her innocenceand her high academic performance in thefirst year, that she could exceptionally beallowed to return to Cambridge to completethe course. Finally somebody had seen sense.But there was a £2K ‘hole’ (per annum)in her funding arrangements as she wasdeclared ‘overseas’. This ‘hole’ College hadto guarantee to fill before she was allowedto return. I cannot tell you how grateful thatstudent was for the Shrubsole Fund.Student life today goes hand in hand with asubstantial long-term commitment to debt.One could argue that the professional classesare well capable of carrying such a burden ofdebt, but within it there is great unfairness.As a policy it assumes that all graduates willhave successful careers where they will beadequately rewarded and will equally payoff the debt in the fullness of time. Thereality, of course, can be very different.Indeed the reality of student life can beextremely unequal in term of unexpectedcosts. Students can get unto difficultiesthrough no fault of their own, throughillness or injury or family commitments.Take the student with a lone parent, andthere are quite a few of them, where theparent falls ill with cancer. The student maysuddenly find herself as the sole carer, ormay need to travel home at frequentintervals as the illness progresses. If a studenthas to take a year out, the long-term burdenof debt can increase substantially. It is notpossible for the College or the University tocreate a level playing field financially for ourstudents, but we can fill one or two of thelarger potholes.We are extraordinarily fortunate to have inCambridge the ‘Newton’ Bursary, or morecorrectly, the Cambridge Bursary Scheme,which gives over £3,000 a year to studentsfrom low income families. Homerton takesa higher proportion of students from suchbackgrounds, and our students benefitedfrom Bursary Scheme grants totalling£446,600 last academic year. Homertoncontributed another £49,168. Thegovernment Access to Learning Fund alsohelped our students in hardship to the tuneof £21,802, but this fund is melting awayand the College will have to bridge the gapin future years as the effects of the recessionbegin to bite into government funding. Ifyou would like to know more about studenthardship at Homerton or if you would liketo make a donation, please do not hesitateto contact me, Peter Warner: pmw21@cam.ac.uk, or Alison Holroyd: ah489@cam.ac.ukDr Peter WarnerSenior TutorCBE AWARDED TO PRINCIPAL OF HOMERTON COLLEGEDr Kate Pretty, Principal of HomertonCollege, was awarded a CBE in theQueen’s Birthday Honours List inJune 2009 for her services to HigherEducation. Kate has been Principalof Homerton College since 1991.Prior to Homerton she was a Fellowat Murray Edwards (formerly NewHall), holding various posts includingDirector of Studies, Tutor, AdmissionsTutor and Senior Tutor. Kate is anactive archaeologist specialising in theearly medieval period and is Presidentof the Council for British Archaeology.She was one of the University’sPro-Vice Chancellors, responsiblefor international strategy as well asoverseeing the work of the University’smuseums and libraries. Kate collectedher award from the Queen on 5thNovember 2009.Dr Kate Pretty with her husband, Professor Tjeerd Van Andel, at Buckingham Palace4

SCHOOLS LIAISON AT HOMERTONMany of you will have heard the phrase‘target and access’ during your time atHomerton. You may even have beenintroduced to Tom the Target and AccessTiger, but few fully understand what rolethis plays in College life and how it haschanged over the years. The Universityof Cambridge Area Links Scheme,established in 2000, has radically alteredthe way the University conducts its outreachprogrammes. Established in order thatColleges could ‘build effective, coherentrelationships with schools and colleges rightacross the country’, the scheme has recentlybeen extended to cover the entirety of theUK, resulting in an explosion of work andopportunities for those involved in wideningparticipation at a college level.With a history of open and fair access,Homerton was amongst the first to createthe now common position of SchoolsLiaison Officer. As a consequence theCollege was given the task of raisingaspirations and awareness in the areas ofDoncaster and Rotherham. Over manyyears and through the hard work of previousSchools Liaison Officers and the AdmissionTutor, the College has forged an effectiveprofessional relationship with schools inthese areas. On the back of this relationship,Homerton undergraduates have recentlycompleted the annual Doncaster andRotherham tour, talking to students from arecord 15 local schools about the benefits ofa University education and the unique sellingpoints of a Cambridge education. Reachingpupils from Year 10 to Year 12, the tour notonly raised aspirations but also aimed tobreak down many of the misconceptionsabout Cambridge that discourage so manypotential students from applying.As a consequence of such a solid foundationthe College recently took on the Londonboroughs of Hounslow, Richmond, andKingston. As the new Schools Liaison OfficerI have been visiting a number of schools inthese areas, giving a variety of presentationsthat aim to help and educate those for whomUniversity is a new and unfamiliar concept.Initial progress in forging the same solidlinks with schools in these boroughs hasbeen incredibly positive with one HigherEducation Organiser describing the newlink as ‘invaluable’. It is hoped that, as thisrelationship continues to strengthen andgrow, Homerton will be able to help moreand more students realise their full potentialand consider application to Cambridge. Inspite of the unfortunate economic climate,the College is always keen to expand therange of activities it offers to studentsfrom its link areas. Starting next September,the College is going to offer residentialworkshops for Year 13 students aimed atexplaining and demystifying the applicationprocess. The College will also be offeringYear 12 students the chance to shadowHomerton undergraduates in the Michelmasterm to get a feel for what life at theUniversity is like, while encouragingyounger students to contact undergraduatesthrough the new E-Mentoring scheme beingpiloted this year. Throughout all of this thecollege is indebted to the hard work andcommitment of its undergraduates withoutwhom ‘target and access’ would be ameaningless phrase.Mark WalmsleySchools Liaison OfficerHomerton Conference Centre welcomes alumni!Here at the College we are fortunateenough to have a range of first-classmeeting facilities which we offer tocorporate clients, charities, educationalinstitutions and members of the publicthroughout the year. All the Cambridgecolleges offer this service but not allapproach it with quite the endeavourwe do. At Homerton £2m per year isgenerated through residential conferences,day meetings, private dining, weddingsand team-building events (to name a few!).This income is vital to cover the presentand future costs of the College.The College is proud of its conferenceachievements and the contribution itmakes to sustaining the College now andin the future. We are keen to show offour capabilities and we are able to offerspecial packages for Homerton Alumni,whether they are for a meeting, wedding,Christmas party or providing bed andbreakfast accommodation.If you are interested in holding anevent here at Homerton you can contactthe Conference Office on 01223 747128and view our new website atwww.homertonconference.com.We’d love to hear from you!Alexandra CoxConference and Accommodation OfficerAs you might imagine, in today’s economicclimate the business doesn’t just ‘walkthrough the door’. It takes a great dealof professional marketing to create newbusiness and, by providing excellentcustomer service, over 70% of Homerton’sclients return again and again, well abovethe industry average. In 2009 HomertonConference Centre won the ConferenceCambridge award for ‘Best Welcome’ in acollege venue and in 2010 we are hoping togain a Silver Accreditation from theMeetings Industry Association (MIA).Pictured left to right: Kate Partridge (Deputy Conference Officer), Becky Parete (Conference and AccommodationAssistant), Sam Smith (Admin. Assistant) and Alexandra Cox (Conference and Accommodation Officer)5

CAROL ANN DUFFY, HONORARY FELLOWCarol Ann Duffy being sworn in as an HonoraryFellow with the Principal and Steve WattsWe were honoured that the PoetLaureate, Carol Ann Duffy, came toHomerton College on 27th January2010 to be sworn in as HonoraryFellow by the Principal. It was a delightfuloccasion attended by many Fellows andfollowed by a candlelit dinner in theFellows Dining Room where animatedconversations on poetry and other matterscontinued throughout the evening. CarolAnn enjoyed herself so much that herenthusiasm stretched to proclaimingHomerton the perfect college for herdaughter Ella to attend! We hope thatday will come.Earlier in the evening, Carol Annpresented the first Elizabeth FletcherPrize 1 to Tamzin Merchant, a third yearundergraduate student of English currentlystudying on the Children & LiteratureCourse which is taught by three HomertonFellows, Professor Maria Nikolajeva,David Whitley and Morag Styles. Thetheme of the competition was childhoodand Tamzin wrote a delightful poeminspired by CS Lewis’s Narnia series.As well as a cheque, Tamzin waspresented with a signed copy of thePoet Laureate’s Collected Poems. CarolAnn had encouraging things to say toTamzin after her reading of the winningpoem and to the other young poets whosework was highly commended. Indeed, ina very informal and festive atmosphere,Carol Ann chatted to many studentsinvited for the occasion, including allthose who had entered the competitionand all those currently studying on theM.Phil in Children’s Literature, taughtby the Fellows mentioned above andLouise Joy and Abigail Rokison.We are grateful to Homerton graduate,Helen Taylor, who is personal assistantto Carol Ann Duffy, a leading light ofCambridge Wordfest and LiteratureOfficer for Cambridgeshire CountyCouncil and previously Education Officerof the Poetry Society, for facilitating ourcommunication with the Poet Laureate.We were delighted when Carol Annaccepted our offer, especially as shemade a point of doing so because of ourhistory as a College that put poetry andchildren’s literature at the heart of ourEnglish courses. This reminds us ofprevious Homerton colleagues whodid so much to promote children’sliterature and poetry, such as VictorWatson and Jenny Daniels (previousHeads of English) and Eve Bearne, aswell as an earlier generation whichincluded Elizabeth Brewer, ElizabethCook, Jessie Ball and Helen Morris. Itis fitting that we have just opened a newCambridge Homerton Centre for Researchand Teaching of Children’s Literature,headed by Maria Nikolajeva.Carol Ann Duffy has achieved that rarefeat of being both a very popular andhighly acclaimed poet for adults andchildren alike. Individual collections,such as The World’s Wife and Rapture,have struck a powerful chord with adultaudiences and her children’s poetry, fictionand fairy tales are also greatly admired.Carol Ann is amongst only a handful ofpoets who have recently published bothcollected poems for children and foradults. She has made a huge impact on awide stage in her first few months as PoetLaureate. We are proud that she wishes tobe associated with Homerton College andlook forward to many more visits.Morag StylesFellow and Reader in Children’s Literatureand Education1 The Elizabeth Fletcher Poetry Prize is in honourof a recent Homerton graduate who was tragicallykilled in a car accident, leaving a partner and baby.Her parents kindly donated money for an annualpoetry award in her memory. Reading and writingpoetry was one of Elizabeth’s favourite pastimes.NEW COLLEGE PRIZESWe have two new prizes for undergraduates as well as theElizabeth Fletcher prize for poetry. These have been givenby recent graduates in gratitude for their time at Homerton,in particular for the support they received while in Cambridge.Dr Richard Kueh, who gained a First in Theology at Homertonand went on to do a Ph.D. at another College, has set up ‘TheHon. Lord Dawson and Kueh Prize’ for the best student gettingfirst class honours in Part IIB Theology. Lord Dawson wasHer Majesty’s Solicitor General on Scotland, and Richard’suncle and undergraduate mentor. The prize will be administeredby the family and will provide £100 a year. Where no firstclass honours are awarded in Theology the prize will be carriedover to the following year. ‘The Aditya Dalmia Prize for LandEconomy’ will go to the best performing Land Economist inPart II examinations. This has been established by PratikDalmia, who studied Land Economy at Homerton andnow works in the City of London for Greenhill and Co.,the distinguished international investment bank. The prize isa personal gift from Pratik in recognition of his father, Aditya,a successful industrialist in India and member of the famouslong-established Dalmia merchant trading family. The prizewill be for £50 each year. Both of these prizes reflect thepersonal wishes of their donors, but also embellish the Collegeand encourage academic achievement. We are very gratefulfor such gifts and if you would like to know more or wouldbe interested in making a similar donation, please do nothesitate to contact either Peter Warner pmw21@cam.ac.uk,or Alison Holroyd, ah489@cam.ac.uk.6

WORKING IN THE HOMERTONCOLLEGE ARCHIVESince October 2009 it has beenmy privilege to work in theHomerton College Archive fortwo hours a week under thedirection of Dr Peter Warner.Since applying for teacher training in the1960s I have been aware of the prestige ofHomerton College. My interest increasedwhen I attended a one year course here in1989 run by Norma Anderson and RogerCole and while working here as a libraryassistant since 2000. I was fortunate alsoto be appointed by Cambridge PreservationSociety as education consultant forWandlebury Country Park 2000–2007where I carried out historical researchinto the first half of twentieth century lifeat a large country house, Gog Magog Hills.Thus my background and interests are veryrelevant to this work at Homerton.My first task was to tidy up the area andsort out items relevant to the collectionthat had gathered in boxes on the floor.I then started to look more carefully atthe contents. From that moment I wascompletely hooked. For example, acollection belonging to Miss AliceKnowles (Homerton student 1927–1929)was recently received. It was sent to us byher god-daughter Helen Holmes. Therewere official photographs of students, apersonal photograph album of her timeat the college, a metal brooch showing theHomerton coat of arms and a cloth badgefor a blazer. Also needlework samples,a lined leather pochette for tools and abook, Leatherwork for Boys and Girls.Her pieces of artwork were included, allbeautiful to look at, a charcoal drawingof a jug, bowl and vase, a colour wash ofAlice at Homerton 1927–1929A metal brooch showing the Homerton College arms and a cloth badge for a blazer and a sample of needleworkthree jugs and examples of manuscriptwriting. An original cardboard protectiveroll postmarked 27 July 1929 contained herschool matriculation certificate, Homertonfinal examination certificate and two sheetsof pass lists for the final examination atHomerton. There were also various letters,one from her ‘college daughter’ and acollege testimonial signed by Mary Allan,the Principal. Photographs of her at thestart of her life with her parents and sisterand towards the end of her life showingreunions with college friends are includedwith her funeral order of service.Each new acquisition is given anaccession number and details are recordedin the accessions register and it is placedin an acid-free envelope in a box. Theinformation is then entered into thelibrary management system (Heritage).Students have been assisting with this intheir holidays. Eventually we will linkup with the University of Cambridgearchive records. We are investigating thebest way to do this by, for example, usingthe University’s DSpace@Cambridge digitalrepository. Some of the archive material hasalready been scanned and stored in digitalform from college photographs and fromstudents’ personal journals, including mostrecently that of Beatrice Una Bone,1898–1899.It is important to keep up to date with thedigital storage technology to ensure that therecords can still be read, and re-digitizationwill probably be necessary at some point inthe future. Therefore it is essential to keepthe original material where possible and ourpresent storage area must be well organizedto accommodate all of this.The humidity and temperature of thearchive need to be kept within an optimumrange. Since I have started monitoringthese we quickly realized that, probablydue to hot water pipes, the temperatureis too warm. We are hoping to have thewater pipes lagged!Requests come frequently about relationswho studied at Homerton or have workedhere as lecturers. Alice Johnson, in theTutorial Office, enquired about hergrandfather Frederick William Rimmer.We were delighted to find that he is listedas a lecturer in music 1948–1951. He laterbecame Professor of Music at GlasgowUniversity.The archive is a very important source ofdocuments tracing the history of the collegesince its move to Cambridge in 1894. Itmust continue to keep evidence of the veryimportant changes happening today as wellas of daily life at the college and over futureyears to come. Please contact us if you haveany queries, or if you can contribute to thecollection of student and staff photographs.We are missing 1951–1970 and 1972–1987. Our email address is archive@homerton.cam.ac.uk.Rosemary BoazArchive Assistant7

OVERSEAS STUDENT PROJECTSEach year a number of students are awarded travel grants from Pilkington Travel and the Gates CambridgeTrusts. Here are two examples of the excellent work done overseas by our students.A view of Siloam from the public footpath. Hannah had the walls rendered and painted during the tripReturn to Siloam:My Journey to Kibera, KenyaWe are all extremely fortunate to be, or havebeen, Homertonians. We are fortunate tostudy, or have studied, at one of the bestuniversities in the world. But it is not untilwe remove ourselves from the Cambridgeworld that we realize just how lucky we are.In July 2009, with the help of a PilkingtonTravel grant and the Gates Cambridge trust,I returned to volunteer at Siloam children’shome in Kibera, Kenya – the largest slum inAfrica. I worked for three months at Siloamin 2008 and raised a substantial sum ofmoney which, among other things, was usedto initiate a large-scale building project.Specifically, I oversaw the construction ofclassrooms and girls’ and boys’ dormitories– complete with bunk beds! One tellingquote that is imprinted in my mindexemplifies how important this project wasfor the children living at Siloam: Ababu, a14 year old boy asked me “Is there one bedfor one child?” I have never seen anyone sohappy when I answered “Yes.”During my more recent trip, I wantedto assess the safety and suitability of thebuilding works that I had initiated at thechildren’s home one year earlier. The safetyof the children living at the home was ofcourse a priority for me. Although theworks appeared to still be in good workingorder, I spent my time overseeing thestructural reinforcement of the secondstorey at the orphanage. This will ensurethat the home will be safe for the 70children that live at the home and the 300children that attend Siloam primary school.In addition, I oversaw the installationof skylights – which transformed theclassrooms from dark, eye-strainingenvironments to places where learning andteaching may occur. And so, although mycontribution was a minor one, I believe thatprojects such as these help us to rememberthe responsibilities we have as citizens of theworld, and as able educated Homertonians.Hannah PinchamMPhil in Education and Psychology 2008–2009Hannah and one of the children at Siloam8

Teaching Music in theWest Bank, PalestineWhen I finally touched down in BenGurion airport, Tel Aviv, nothing couldhave prepared me for the months thatwere to come. I travelled to the bustlingcity of Ramallah in the West Bank whereI worked at the Al Kamandjati foundation.The foundation was conceived by RamziAburdewan, who grew up on the Al-Amarirefugee camp, Ramallah, and was picturedthrowing rocks at Israeli soldiers. Bychance he discovered music and managedto get a scholarship to go to Angers,France to study at the Music Conservatory.His idea was to establish music schools forPalestinian children, favouring the mostdestitute children, those living in therefugee camps, to give children anotheroutlet for their feelings, to give them asocial base and to teach them to worktogether. He said that he wanted thesechildren to achieve something, that hisdream was that these children have away of expression, a way of living, thatthey can participate in the building of aPalestinian cultural future. So the charityworks in various refugee camps in theWest Bank, the Gaza Strip as well as inthe camps of Lebanon.When I first arrived, one of the othervolunteers told me about one little girlthat he had been teaching the previousyear. He said that this student’s teacherswere worried because when she was askedto do drawings at school she drew gunsand bloodshed. Then she started to learnthe ’cello and spent hours in the centreevery week. After some time, her drawingswere less violent, and one year on, herteachers noted a complete turn-aroundin both her drawings and in her classparticipation. It seems hard to believeand somewhat clichéd when you haven’tbeen here, but now after having workedwith some of these children it makes sense.Though relatively few of the students goabroad to study and become professionalmusicians, spending a few hours a weekdoing something different, one-on-one,being given some attention and findinga new outlet for emotions that many ofthem are too young to even comprehend,is really what the charity is about.I taught music appreciation to tinychildren of 4 or 5 years old, teaching themto clap basic rhythms, basic movement andto sing short songs, I also taught musictheory to the older children, using theKodaly solfege technique (do, ray, me,fa, so, la, si), the central philosophicalobjective being that “Music belongsto everyone and is necessary for healthyhuman development”. However, themajority of my time was teaching theoboe. One of my pupils, whom I taughtup to three times a week, because heworked so hard and took such pride inhis playing, was 16 year old Tarik. Hewent from not even knowing what anoboe was to being able to play as well,if not better, in a matter of weeks thansome of my students that I had taughtfor months, on far superior instruments,in far more comfortable surroundings.On days off I visited other sites inIsrael and throughout the West Bank. Iwitnessed with my own eyes the treatmentof Palestinians by the settlers in Hebron,the settler violence against olive pickersand the ongoing results of the 1948Nakba and the 1978 Establishmentof the State of Israel. I woke up everymorning looking out over Kalandiacheckpoint, (the checkpoint you needto pass to get from the West Bank intoJerusalem, and where the technology usedis the same as at the Berlin Wall). Yet, Imet some of the most positive, smiling,warm, friendly people I have ever metbut who have been through hell and backand who still find the strength to carry ondespite living under Occupation. There canbe little doubt that peace in this region is along way off, but by encouraging creativedevelopment in these young people, AlKamandjati is doing its own little bit forthe future of Palestine and for hope.For a further example of how the charitybenefited some of the local young people,see this article from the New York Times:http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/02/arts/music/02luth.html?_r=2&pagewanted=1Harriet Armston-ClarkeBA Oriental Studies undergraduate 2007–2011Harriet with the orchestra9

HUS Executive Committee 2009–2010HOMERTON UNION OF STUDENTSThis year has again been one of changefor the students of Homerton College.The confirmation of Homerton’s RoyalCharter marks the culmination of manyyears of work by all in College and I’ve nodoubt others will cover it in this publicationfar better than I can. I shall continue thetradition started by my predecessors andconcentrate on what’s been happening forthe students of Homerton.The formation of a new union for graduatestudents has given them greater representationwithin College than ever before and hascreated greater unity between undergraduatesand graduates. For PGCEs the change hasbeen beneficial as they are now representedby both unions, which hopefully better suitstheir needs. Peter Farah has been a greatPresident for the Homerton MCR and apleasure to work with in smoothing thetransition between one union and two. It isalso worth noting that without the work ofCasta Jones, last year’s HUS President, noneof this would have been possible.Some things do remain constant, however,such as the continued success of HATS,putting on a mix of classic drama andmore modern experimental pieces suchas the upcoming Boat in the HomertonOrchard. HATStands continue to entertainthe students and staff with their Christmasshow Winter Wonderland selling outquickly and showcasing the very bestof Homerton talent, alongside somemore unusual dance pieces from theHomerton football and rugby teams!Our list of successful student societiescontinues to grow with GODS, theballroom dancing society, being a greatexample of how keen Homerton studentsare to try new things. The diversity ofsocieties within Homerton reflects thediversity of the student body and theirinterests. Homerton students also like to getinvolved in the wider University. We havein our midst a number of University sportsplayers as well as journalists and peopleactive in the University student union.Finally, the HUS Executive team thisyear has achieved a great deal andrepresented the students of Homertonadmirably. Great campaigns on women’shealth and safe drinking from the Welfareteam as well as a successful Green Weekfrom the Environmental Officer werevery well received and increased awarenessof important issues within the student body.It has been a great experience to workwith such an enthusiastic group of peopleand they have made this year a veryenjoyable one. If anyone has any questionsabout the student union or wishes to help ussupport the students of Homerton Collegein any way then please do get in touch onhus-president@homerton.cam.ac.uk.Luke ShepherdHUS President 2009–2010Homerton College Graduands queue outside SenateHouse to receive their awardHomerton students enjoying a day on the river10

MCR – GRADUATE STUDENTS UNIONThis last year has been particularly excitingfor Homerton’s graduate community asit saw the formation of the Homertongraduate union, traditionally referred toat Cambridge colleges as the MiddleCombination Room (MCR).The graduate student body at Homerton hasbeen steadily growing over the past few yearsand is currently one of the largest amongstCambridge colleges. Recently, there has beena predominant feeling amongst graduatesthat they lacked representation in college.Last year a group of Higher Degree students,spearheaded by our HUS representative,successfully argued the need for therestructuring of the HUS to form separategraduate and undergraduate unions. Thanksto the support of college and the sabbaticalHUS president, the split was effectivelyimplemented at the end of Lent term last year.The MCR is run by volunteer graduatestudents in their spare time around theirdegrees and hence is by nature moreinformal than a union. We have set up thepositions so that any graduate, irrespectiveof their degree, is able to get involved.A big portion of our time this first year wasabsorbed in getting the MCR on its feet. Yetour events officer organised two verysuccessful fresher’s weeks, an early one forPGCE students who arrive before most newgraduate students and the usual Octoberone for the whole MCR. Furthermore, therehave been numerous formal exchanges withother colleges, which have proven popularwith graduate students.Our main goal this year was to bringtogether a delocalised graduate community,as a substantial portion of our graduates liveoff campus. Our Vice-president has beenbusy since summer refurbishing our commonroom to make it a focal point for all thegraduates living on and off campus. Thecommunication officer has established aweekly email newsletter and she is in theprocess of populating our website. It ishoped that the website will be an effectivereference point for all current or evenprospective students and it already features aweekly updated calendar of relevant events.One of the challenges we are currentlyworking through is to ensure the PGCEsare well represented in the MCR, as theircourse load means they are often away fromcollege. This year we have two enthusiasticPGCE representatives. They are currentlytrying to establish a protocol for the bestway to welcome and engage with fellowPGCE students and to elect a representativeto voice their concerns.Although the academic year is nearing theend, the MCR still has a lot cooking. We arecompiling a questionnaire for next term tohighlight any graduate issues. The welfareofficers are planning midnight coffee breaksduring the exam period to ease the stressstudents are under during this time. Inaddition we are planning a supervisors’ formalhall and a graduate conference to encouragethe exchange of ideas amongst Homerton’smulti-disciplinary research community.In all, our college has been experiencingmany changes this year. The formation ofthe MCR will undoubtedly have a positiveimpact on student life at Homerton and thisyear’s committee is doing a notable job tothat end. Although most people will agreethat Homerton is one of the better collegeswith regards to student life, we are alwayslooking for ways to add to it. If you haveany suggestions, or indeed any questions,I would be happy to hear from you atpresident-mcr@homerton.cam.ac.uk.Peter FarahMCR President 2009–2010EMERITIOn 19th November, 2009, theday on which the College receivedofficial notification that the Queenwould be granting a Royal Charter,two of our members, John Hammondand Peter Raby, were sworn in toEmeritus Fellowships.On 15th March, 2010, three daysafter the arrival of the Charter,another four, John Beck, BarryJones, Ian Morrison and JohnMurrell were also sworn in toEmeritus Fellowships.Left to right: John Murrell, Ian Morrison, BarryJones and John Beck became Emeritus Fellows ofHomerton College on 15th March 2010.11

HATS (HOMERTON AMATEUR THEATRICAL SOCIETY)This year HATS has gone from strengthto strength. Starting off a new traditionfor HATS we had our Freshers’ Show inMichaelmas; it was a great success. TheImportance of Being Earnest was thechosen play of the Freshers’ Director,resulting in a very entertaining eveninginvolving Freshers from both Homertonand other colleges.HATStands has continued as the mustseeshow in College and the event ineveryone’s diary. The winter HATStandswas as enthralling as ever with an arrayof performers from singers to dancersand, of course, the rugby team singingwell-known pop classics! Homertonwriting talent has come to the foreagain with David Stevenson’s FootlightsHarry Porter nominated play Dawn ofMan being performed in the auditoriumto large and enthusiastic audiences. Newwriting is being developed further bynext year’s HATS committee throughthe establishment of the HATS NewWriting Association. Boat was a mesmericdevised piece which was performed inHomerton’s Orchard. Like Dawn ofMan it was conceived, written andperformed by Homerton students.Henna night, performed at the CorpusPlayroom, was a heart-warming pieceof theatre. There has also been a zanymusical, Nunsense, about nuns attemptingto save their nunnery through the mediumof song and dance.HATS has been proud to offeropportunities for individuals insideand outside Homerton. Skylight, a playby David Hare, was a thrilling two-handerwith a production team and cast bothfrom outside college and within. Theproduction was well received and builtfurther upon our ongoing partnershipwith the Corpus Playroom.We have also supported a productionin a professional setting, The MarloweShowcase, at the Arts Theatre in London.The Showcase comprises twelve of the finestacting talents, in Cambridge, performingin front of a theatre industry audience.Of those actors selected to be part of TheShowcase, four were from Homerton:Josh Higgot, Robyn Hoedemaker, EllieRoss and Sophia Sibthorpe.On behalf of the outgoing committeeI would like to thank all those whohave helped us this year, includingthe Homertonian alumni who havesupported us.Sam PallisHATS President 2009–2010THE GRIFFINS CLUBAnother year of successful year of college sport has goneby with Homerton teams continuing to impress as theymake their mark around town.Homerton Men’s Rugby started theirseason positively, climbing Division 3after hard-fought wins over Sidney andChurchill. Solid opposition from Robinsonand Emma ended hopes of promotion inthe league, but a terrific 50–15 win over2nd Division Pembroke in Cuppers helpedHomerton through to the tournament’squarter finals, where they were narrowlybeaten by the combined teams of Corpus,Clare and King’s. A strong Homertonsquad now looks set to win the 7stournament for the second year running,and the team should look forward to avery promising future.Homerton’s Mens RugbyThe women’s rugby team have continuedto shine thanks to the coaching of secondyear Rob Howard, and the enthusiasmof the team. Of the five games playedthis year they have won three but playedfantastic rugby in the other two nonethe less – the most notable of thesematches has to be the rather hung-overwin against Magdalene!Men’s Football have shown once againthat they are not a team to be messedwith. As numbers continue to grow,we now field four full teams who haveall played well this year. Most notablythe men’s first team are hoping for apromotion to the first division nextterm after their performance this year.They have also reached the cupperssemi-final and will be playing Downingin the all-important match next term.The annual Leyton Orient match willbe taking place in Homerton next term,although the date has not yet been fixed.The women’s football team wereunfortunately knocked out of cuppersquite early on but have as yet not lost aleague match. They still have Girton andJesus left to play, but have been traininghard all term and this has shown on thepitch; hopefully this will continue next term!Exciting news in the Hockey as the men’steam were recently promoted to the thirddivision after they came top of the fourthdivision in the league with a win againstSidney Sussex. They have now finishedfor the year but will be fielding a teamin John’s sixes during May Week. Thewomen are still combining with Caiuscollege but the “Ho-Caius” (as theyhave been dubbed) have played wellover the year.The ladies Badminton team got throughto the cuppers quarter final and althoughthey lost to Trinity they played well. Theyare currently in the second division butare hoping for promotion back to thefirst division by the end of the year, withtwo matches left to be played. Homertonare also still currently in the mixedcuppers and are due to play the secondround soon.A new addition to the Griffins communitythis year has been the Homerton Poolteam, who are currently in the firstdivision and are mid-table. They haveplayed all year and have been holdingregular sessions in the bar on a Wednesdaywhen the pool table is free.12

Other teams include the women’s netballteam who have played excellently thisyear. They are still in the second divisionand narrowly missed out in a place inthe finals of cuppers last week. Men’sbadminton have been playing well and themen’s basketball have branched off fromPembroke to form their own team, they toohave been playing very well so far this year.That’s about it really from the Sports sidefor now but I will leave you with a specialmention of those Homertonians who havebeen representing our university this year:Alistair Argo (Pool, he also won the Openand the Masters games, making him thetop university player); Corina Balaban(Tennis); Helen Bellfield (Football, Rugby,Cricket); Charlotte Brearley (HockeyCaptain); Chloe Davies (Hockey); SebDunnet (Rugby U21s); Briony Jones(Basketball); Jon Rackham (Rugby U21(A)s); Laurence Shaw (Pool); Rachel Smith(Hockey); Sorrel Wood (Rugby).If you are interested in receiving moreinformation about the Griffins clubthen please feel free to get in touch athus-griffins@homerton.cam.ac.ukLaura BevinsHomerton College GriffinsPresident 2009–2010HOMERTON COLLEGE BOAT CLUB2009 to 2010 has once again been another successfulyear for Homerton College Boat Club. It has seenanother set of hard earned results from both the men’sand the women’s sides of the club but it has also been ayear of change with increased contact with the alumniand a new boat for the women!The 2009 May bumps were generally asuccess all around and there was muchmerriment at the dinner on the last day.The men continued to make the most ofthe new Cambridge Racing Shell, whichhas now been named Stevie Stephensonafter Philip Stephenson’s father, going upanother two places in the bumps charts.The men’s second crew also rowed well,securing themselves another three places.The women also climbed another twoplaces, bumping on the second and lastday, and although they went down oneplace, the women’s second crew alsobumped on the last day so there wasmuch for us to celebrate.October saw the start of a new academicyear and a new committee for HCBC butbefore they arrived HCBC held its firstalumni dinner. This was a great successand for my part I was very excited to meetsome of the first ever HCBC rowers! Weare hoping that with the success of thisdinner we will be able to hold anotherin September 2010, so if you think youmight be interested then please do get intouch and we will add you to our alumnimailing list.Anyway, back to the rowing. Michaelmasterm saw an unusually low intake ofnovices but this did not prevent thecrews coming together and doing wellin the Queens’ ergs competitions, withthe fastest women’s time coming fromHomertonian Flo Carr. Also in theMichaelmas term, the senior women’s fourwon their category in the CantabrigianWinter Head competition, and both themen and the women rowed well in thesenior Fairbairns. The small number ofnovices did not faze the club, however, aswe still fielded four Homerton Crews forthe Lent bumps races. Unfortunately thewomen’s second boat did not manageto get onto the bumps but, thanks tothe hard work of the crew last year, themen’s seconds did not need to race in thegetting-on race.In the bumps themselves, the men’s firstcrew unfortunately slipped by two placesbut will be racing shortly in the Head ofthe River Race as their main focus of theterm. The Men’s seconds also slipped bytwo, as they were chased by a very fastEmma crew and another fast Christ’s boat.The women narrowly missed out on bladesto a determined Robinson crew, but theystill managed to move up three places andwill be hoping to continue their hard workinto the May term.One of the most exciting events of thisyear has been the arrival of the brand newwomen’s first boat Pascalle, named by theparent of a current student who kindlydonated the money needed to purchase theboat. We were very excited to christen thenew boat with three bumps and hope thatit will continue to serve the crews well inyears to come.The success of the boat club this year hasbeen hugely dependent on the generosityand kindness of the coaches as well as thehard work and determination of the crews.Without the support of the alumni ourclub would not exist. Although we hopeto continue to improve our links with thealumni, we are still very grateful for thehelp we receive. We are hoping to hold a“back to rowing day” at some point forany alumni who are keen to get back in aboat. Details will be sorted shortly but ifyou think you might be interested thenplease do get in touch, hcbc.secretary@googlemail.com.Laura BevinsBoat Club Captain 2009–201013

HOMERTON COLLEGE MUSIC SOCIETYHCMS has continued to grow over thecourse of 2009/10. Beginning right backbefore the start of Michaelmas term with aset of musical exhibitions at the Reunionweekend, and running through to the endof Lent term, the society has provided highquality performances while encouraging asmany students as possible to get involvedwith college music.This year saw the establishment of anew choir at Homerton, the CharterChoir – named in reference to the college’sreceipt of the Royal Charter. Run byworld-renowned Mozart expert Dr DavidBlack, the choir has so far sung services inSt. John’s College chapel and St John theEvangelist Church on Hills Road, as wellas performing regularly at Formal Hall.The choir was initiated with a view toestablishing a choral tradition in college,and to this end its first year has been anunequivocal success.Michaelmas term was brought to a closewith the HCMS Winter Concert, andperformances by the Charter Choir,Pandemonium (the steel pan band)and the College Orchestra. The CharterChoir performed Adiemus by KarlJenkins, The Snow by Elgar and aselection of Christmas carols underthe expert direction of Anna Purkiss,Megan Wood and Eleanor Cocker. Thenthere were pieces by Mendelssohn andRheinberger, as well as the beautiful Sureon this shining night by Samuel Barber.Pandemonium rounded up the first half ofthe concert with Caribbean arrangementsof Silent Night and music from The LittleMermaid. The second half of the concertfeatured the Homerton College Orchestraperforming Schubert’s stormy EighthSymphony, the ‘Unfinished’.A number of recitals have taken placein college over the course of the year.In the latter half of Michaelmas term,Harry Dadswell and Helen Etheridgeperformed Carl Reinecke’s ‘Undine’Sonata for Flute and Piano as well asBeethoven’s ‘Pathétique’ sonata andGiulio Briccialdi’s Carnival of Venice.In Lent term there were recitals by upand coming singer/songwriter Edie Lobo,and multiple performances by HoJO,the Homerton Jazz Orchestra, both inHomerton and at other colleges. TheHCMS Spring concert at the end of Lentterm featured the Charter Choir and theCollege Orchestra and included musicranging from Mozart’s beautiful AveVerum setting to Beethoven’s mightyFifth Symphony.It’s been an exciting year for collegemusic, with a number of new initiativescoming into fruition, resulting in greaterexposure for musical activities atHomerton. I look forward to seeingmusic at Homerton build on the successesof this year and develop in the future.Raphael HetheringtonHCMS President 2009–2010RETIRED SENIOR MEMBERS ASSOCIATIONA Tale of Two YearsIt was the best of times, it was theworst of times… As for CharlesDickens, so for us this year.There have been good, even excellent,things to reflect on and be thankful for.We have solved (possibly) the question oforganising convenient times for meetingsand events and having inexpensive mealsin College. Holding the AGM at the same14time as the Alumni Weekend and lunchingwith returning students was clearly asuccess and the same arrangement willbe followed this year. Michael Younger’sseminar this term on ‘The Future ofEducation in Cambridge?’, followedby lunch in the Great Hall, was wellattended and extremely well received.We have been fortunate enough to recruitnew blood to our ranks in the healthyform of Bev Hopper, Peter Raby and IanMorrison. We extend a warm welcome,thank them for lowering the average ageof the RSMA, and look forward to theircontribution to the life of the association.We have successfully raised the fundingand initiated the process of selection forour Bursary, which will be offered forthe first time this year to a Homertongraduate intending to become a teacher.Originally labelled the ‘FoundationBursary’, we have decided to change thename to the more appropriate ‘CharterBursary’, more accurately identifying itwith the granting by the Queen of a RoyalCharter. The pleasure of this significantand happy moment in the history of thecollege is mixed with great sadness at theloss of six of our colleagues, includingJohn Hammond. Their obituaries standas evidence of the degree to which theyplayed their part in laying the foundationof the reputation for excellence, whichhas enabled Homerton to reach its exalted,and well deserved, new status.For each of them we can only hope thatit will be true to say, as Charles Darnayexpressed it:‘It is a far, far better rest that I goto, than I have ever known.’Time alone will tell whether for thosewho work in the new Homerton it willbe true to say:‘It is a far, far better thing that Ido,than I have ever done’Professor John Murrell MBEChairman. Homerton RSMA

OBITUARIES OF FORMER COLLEAGUESJoan Clark (1916–2009)Senior Lecturer in Education, 1971–1981Joan Clark died peacefully at home onApril 26th 2009, aged 92. Joan had livedin Stapleford since 1971 when she joinedthe staff of Homerton College as SeniorLecturer in Education. She was particularlyinterested in children’s religious education,as, prior to her appointment to Homerton,she was Adviser for Religious Educationin Cambridgeshire. Joan worked withstudents preparing to teach in primaryschools and is remembered as a supportiveand sympathetic tutor who was muchrespected by the students.As the teacher training programme changedshe became especially involved in theLanguage and Literacy courses. She wasvery interested in Children’s Literature,having been a Librarian earlier in her career.As part of her work she encouraged studentsto write and to make their own books.At this time and after her retirement inthe early 1980s, she was an Ely DiocesanBishop’s Visitor to Church of Englandschools. She brought her extensiveknowledge and experience and was quiteoutstanding in this role. She also gaveyears of service as a school governor of theCommunity Primary School in Stapleford.Since then she remained as active as shecould in St Andrew’s Church, Stapleford,organising the Tuesday Bible Study Groupwhich met in her house right up until shedied. Underlying her approach to peoplewas Joan’s unobtrusive, genuine and deepChristian faith.Trish MaudeBye FellowTony Crowe (1935–2009)Senior Lecturer in English, 1963–1993Tony Crowe died peacefully at home onNovember 1st, 2009, aged seventy-four,after a long illness. He was born in 1935,and educated by the Christian Brothersat St Joseph’s, Blackpool, an experiencethat gave him a special empathy with theJames Joyce of Portrait of the Artist asa Young Man. He won a scholarship toSt Catherine’s College, Cambridge, in1953, where he read English under thewise and liberal direction of Dr TomHenn. Teacher training followed at theCambridge Department of Education.One of his placements was at one of thenew comprehensive schools in TulseHill. Tony was a strong advocate of thecomprehensive system, and accepted a jobat Tulse Hill, from where he moved to theJohn Ruskin school at Croydon. Then,in 1964, he accepted a job in the EnglishDepartment at Homerton, partly attractedback to Cambridge by the encouragementof Brian Jackson, of A.C.E., for whom helater taught many popular courses.Although he arrived fresh from sixyears teaching in London, during whichhis interests in film and theatre hadalready been explored practically, hecharacteristically decided to seek moreexperience as to how children acquirelanguage, and worked one afternoon aweek with Valerie Harbird at BabrahamJunior school. This was to become alife-long study, fed by a sabbatical in 1975at the London Institute with Harold Rosen,and by personal experience as a father toLucy and Joseph. Another sabbatical in1982 took him to France with Judith andhis children – in the long-serving LandRover, towing a trailer tent – where hestudied at the Sorbonne and imbibed agood dose of structuralism, which in duecourse made its way into his Media courses.Part of a formidable English department,Tony could teach everything – perhapshis favourite author was Dickens, and hisfavourite novels Great Expectations andHard Times. He took responsibility forthe Secondary Postgraduate course inEnglish, and this became a flagship course.He was deeply committed to the well-beingand training of these students, and wasinvolved in a great many innovations,including, with John Murrell, freshmethods for interviewing and selection(based around responses to a segmentof one of his favourite films, Ken Loach’sKes.) As in many of his ventures, he formedvery close associations with a number ofschools and teachers, and the work hisstudents were involved in at Parkside overthe years was especially remarkable. It gavehim great pleasure that when he retired in1993, one of his postgraduate students,Gabrielle Cliff-Hodges, took his place.Gabrielle remembers Tony as ‘an extremelyinfluential P.G.C.E. tutor. He was closelyattentive to our progress and alwaysintellectually stimulating. He taught us tothink about English teaching from learners’perspectives, to care that we read literaturealoud well or that our work on languagewould arouse pupils’ curiosity’. Tony drewcontinuously on his deep knowledge ofliterature, drama and film, and helpedto develop the study of the latter withSaturday film courses, and with muchinput into the construction of GCSEcurricula in Media and Film Studies.Again, this first-hand knowledge of issues,and practitioners, was immensely usefulin the course he put together in Media as anoption for Curriculum Studies in the B.Ed.Tony was an inspirational teacher. Hewas warm, caring; immensely supportive;imaginative; unassuming, gentle in manner,but at the same time absolutely certainabout his aims and methods, as well ashugely knowledgeable; unstinting in theeffort he put in before a class or lecture;15

his feedback was rigorous but encouraging,sometimes longer than the piece of workhe was commenting on. And he waswholly committed and protective towardshis students, especially his post-graduates:he was a great trainer of teachers, eagerto provide them with the very best modelsand materials. His reading lists andsupplementary materials were generous,expansive, beautifully selected, and alwayspractical. The Xerox might have beeninvented just for Tony. Viv Brands’s pulserate would quicken when Tony cameinto the reprographics room, stubbedhis cigarette out in the sink and advancedon the photocopiers with armfuls of blackand white photographs….Stella Hurley was at Homerton in the60s, and was one of many ex-studentswho wrote to Judith about Tony.“When I arrived in Cambridge as avery unsophisticated student from thebackwoods of northern England, I feltquite intimidated by some of the supremelyconfident and self-possessed individualsI met. What a joy to find I was in Tony’stutor group, and discover a man withoutpretentions, a genuine honest man ofcomplete integrity.I remember with gratitude his sensitiveapproach to novels and poetry. One of thetexts was To Kill a Mockingbird – I alwaysassociate it with Tony…I always felt therewas more than a touch of Atticus Finchabout him. He knew what many of myschool teachers never realised, that a fewpositive words of praise achieve far morethan criticism. Tony’s humanity anddedication came across quite gently. Theintegrity of his philosophy has had a greatimpact on me, and I’m certain hundreds ofother students fortunate enough to workwith him.”Tony believed fervently in the value ofeducation, in the need to make it as rich aspossible, and available to everyone: greatexpectations. He set an extremely highstandard, and his enthusiasm was infectious.He had a lovely sense of humour, and aninexhaustible supply of references, examplesand stories. We send our sincere sympathyto Judith, and to Lucy and Joseph.Dr Peter RabyEmeritius FellowJohn A. Hammond(1935–2009)Head of Biology, Senior Tutor,1965–1995John Hammond was a Suffolk Lad,who became a Homerton Man. Bornin Rendlesham in 1935, he went to thelocal one-room village primary schoolfrom which he won a scholarship toFramlingham College. From there he wentto work for a short time as a meteorologistbefore completing his National Service inthe Royal Air Force. By the end of thosetwo years he had realised that he wantedto teach and in 1955 he began a teachertraining course at the College of St. Markand St. John, which was at that timesituated in London in the King’s Road,Chelsea. After successfully completing thetwo-year course, he was selected to take anewly instituted third year specialist coursein science teaching.At the end of that year he was appointedas a Biology Master at a prestigious andold foundation London County CouncilGrammar School, Emanuel School, inWandsworth. He taught Biology therefor the next seven years, becoming aHousemaster, coaching sport and servingas an officer in the RAF section of theCombined Cadet Force. He was also verymuch involved in the foundation of theDuke of Edinburgh’s Award Scheme.Correctly predicting that as a non-graduateteacher his career would be limited, heattended evening classes at the then RegentStreet Polytechnic, firstly gaining A-levelsand then going on to complete a BSc(Honours). His lecturers soon spottedhis academic and teaching potential and hewas offered a part-time evening lectureshipon the completion of his degree.In 1965 he was appointed as one of onlya handful of men on the staff at HomertonCollege, which was then one of the newlydesignated ‘Colleges of Education’ offeringa three-year certificate in teacher training.Over the next forty-four years he servedthe ever-changing College at every leveland in every capacity, ranging fromLecturer, Head of Department, SeniorTutor, to Staff Trustee.His love for his subject and his desireto improve his own knowledge neverdiminished, and despite a more than fullworkload at Homerton, he managed tocomplete a part-time M.Ed at ChelseaCollege, London. Typically, when hewas given a year of sabbatical leave, hechose to use it to study for a CambridgeM.Phil. In achieving this, he became thefirst Homerton College member to beawarded a higher degree by the Universityof Cambridge, a fact of which he wasjustifiably, but quietly, very proud.His specialist enthusiasm and expertisewere not confined to his work atHomerton. He played an active role inthe local Flora and Fauna PreservationSociety; the Cambridge Natural HistorySociety, of which he became President; andhe was a council member of the WildlifeTrust. As such, he played a seminal role inthe evolution of Natural History, as it wasknown in the 1970s, to the currently widerEnvironmental Education.Similarly, at Homerton he was themoving force behind many innovations,not least of which was the Junior YearAbroad programme. His enterprise indeveloping this course, which offeredsuitably qualified students from overseasthe chance to study in Cambridge, meantthat by the time he finally retired, hehad not only extended the reputationof Homerton internationally, but hadalso obtained for the College a totalincome in tutorial fees alone in excessof one million pounds.His commitment to Homerton continuedlong after official retirement. He was astalwart supporter of the HomertonRetired Senior Members Association,believing it to be important to maintainthe link between the Homerton that wasand the new Homerton. He served asChairman for ten years, the maximumperiod allowed by its constitution.He also continued in his role as Keeperof the Roll, editing the Homertonian,arranging reunions and travelling, always16

for the language, she could recognise anddistinguish different voices, especially thosethat were mobile, and so pin down troopmovements. She also read tapes from theEnigma machine and was able to pinpointcritical pieces that linked with her audioreceptions. The German family in Oxfordnoted that her colloquial German wasimproving fast and wondered whereshe could be using it.After the German surrender she monitoredremaining German units in Czechoslovakia,then moved to Germany and acted as atranslator for many of the war crime trials atNuremberg. By 1946 she was back at Girton,now reading Anthropology and Archaeologyfor Part II. On graduation she trained at theRoehampton Froebel Institute and thentaught in Bethnal Green before spendingfive years as a child-care officer in Reading.1956 was a significant year for Barbara.She was initially involved in arrangingbilleting for Hungarian military personneldriven to Britain by the uprising. Shewanted further involvement with thembut, when that proved impossible, shetook a British Council post as head ofVictoria College, Cairo, only to becomecaught up immediately in the Suez Crisisand to find herself imprisoned and thenexpelled from Egypt. She returned to herHungarians, acting as senior instructorfor a group employed as miners inWales. The following year she was backin Africa, taking a post as senior mistressat Tripoli College, Libya, where sheremained for six years. She returned fora move into higher education, joiningLeeds University as a Nuffield ResearchFellow, working on teaching material inFrench for primary schools. Thisexperience led to her final and mostlong-lasting appointment, as SeniorLecturer and Warden–Tutor at HomertonCollege. There she remained for seventeenyears, retiring in 1983. Most of heracademic work there was in French,with only a small demand for German,but she also had the considerableresponsibility of arranging studentaccommodation both in College and forthe large proportion of students living‘out’ with landladies in the City. Thislast duty, requiring great tact and muchnegotiation, left Homerton students fromevery discipline deeply in her debt.Mr Peter SparksFellow, Girton CollegeSylvia Williams (1934–2010)Lecturer in Chemistry, Acting DeputyPrincipal, 1964–1992Sylvia Williams started working at theCollege in 1964 as a member of theacademic staff teaching Chemistry. In 1990she was appointed Acting Deputy Principal,and also served on the Board of Trustees asa Staff Trustee from 1990 to her retirementin 1992. Following her retirement, MrsWilliams continued to work with the Collegethrough her involvement with In-serviceTraining, and the Centre for OverseasDevelopment of Education (CODE).Sylvia had little time for educationaltheorising and, as far as I know, never putpen to paper to set out her own educationalphilosophy. She was nevertheless a teacherwith a very clear, passionately held and, inthe context of Cambridge academicism,often controversial educational visionrevealed most vividly in her practice.First, she believed that people learnednot just from books or from instructionbut from experience – and that whatwas learned from experience deservedrecognition, valuing, indeed accreditationby academic institutions, as much as anyother form of learning.By extension she valued the learning whichwas associated with work and workinglives of all kinds. She valued the technical,vocational, presentational, administrativeand entrepreneurial skills which peopleacquired during their working lives on apar with, and possibly above, other moretraditional academic learning. She wasangered by the lower status attached tosuch learning in educational settings andeven more by the lower esteem which, inCambridge in particular, was attached topeople whose skills were of this kind orwhose occupations were based on theirexercise. She was at least as proud of theskills which her own sons Nick and Chrisdemonstrated in their respective world ofIT and management consultancy as of theirmore conventional academic achievements.It was these and related commitmentswhich led Sylvia to engage creatively with anumber of educational initiatives that hadtheir roots in what might be regarded as the‘progressive’ initiatives of the ManpowerServices Commission and the Departmentof Employment through, in particular, the1980s: the Certificate of PrevocationalEducation, the Technical and VocationalEducation Initiative and then the Enterprisein Higher Education Initiative – many ofthese in partnership with the EngineeringCouncil as well as leading figures in thelocal and regional business community. Shetook over the Old Sanatorium (then on theedge of Homerton car park and in a ratherramshackle state) and turned it into a HIVE(Homerton In-service in VocationalEducation) of high-quality innovativeactivity with far-reaching impact.But Sylvia’s quality as an educator wasmost vividly expressed through the way sherelated to students (most of them mature)and the colleagues she worked with.Whether in Cambridge or Ethiopia (shemanaged the Homerton/Kotebe link forseveral very successful years) or later inBangladesh, she gave people a new beliefin themselves and in the value of the skillsand talents which they had, but which hadhitherto been unrecognised. She showedthem how they could acquire new skillsand higher aspirations and she createdsituations and working relations whichallowed them to develop them. Peoplegrew in confidence and self-belief underher influence. ‘Go on’ she would say – tothe office secretary, the out of work teacher,the ‘failed’ student, the engineer seeking acareer change, the anxious Ethiopianscience lecturer in his barren laboratory orthe Bangladeshi teacher-trainer tasked withproducing a new resource book, “You cando it”. “Yes”, they replied in the face ofSylvia’s evident conviction... and they did!This was the mark and the achievement ofa true educator.Professor David BridgesRetired Senior Member(Formerly Principal Lecturer in Education& Vice Principal)18

This photograph was taken in 1973 by Vaughan Grylls and was exhibited with the following caption: The artist wishes to thank the Principal, staff andstudents of Homerton College Cambridge for their largess in making this pun-sculpture possible.Do let us know if you think you appear in this photograph.Vaughan, who taught at Homerton from 1971-1973, returned in 2009 to take photograph an ‘A’ shape which was then exibited alongside the 1973 ‘S’ with thefollowing caption: The artist wishes to thank the Principal, staff and students of Homerton College Cambridge for extending the original pun-sculpture intoan essay. Most of those pictured are waving their own essays! Vaughan himself appears in the bottom right of each image.These photographs will appear in Vaughan’s forth coming book, Cambridge Then & Now to be published by Batsford in 2011.19

HOMERTONROLLKEEPER’S REPORT 2009–10IntroductionFor all at Homerton this past year has been ayear of contrasts. We had record attendancesat the Reunion and were blessed withbeautiful weather. This made for a joyful day.However, it is with sadness, we record thedeaths of six former lecturers. Each broughta particular contribution to College life,with John Hammond continuing to supportCollege as Keeper of the Roll until 2004.John came to the September Reunion fora brief time, meeting some former students,and his photograph was published in theRoll News. We were able to give John acopy shortly before he died.The Homertonian is one of the ways inwhich College maintains its links with itsformer students. Yours is one of 10,000posted from College. We also give oneto each student completing their timeat College. The Homertonian focuseson College News. There are articles byFellows, Retired Senior members and bystudents, writing about the life and workof the College. The Roll News, publishedeach November, contains informationabout the Roll and its members. Thislater date enables us to include reports andphotographs from the September Reunion.We must again thank Dr Janet Bottomsfor all her hard work as the Editor. Bothpublications are on the Website, anotherway to keep in contact with College.MembershipThere are 11,712 members on the Rolldatabase with 9800 active members.Therefore we have nearly 2000 ‘lostsheep’. Their names are listed on thewebsite. Do help us to find them.Reunion 2009Some 290 attended the Reunion on Saturdayand 140 the Dinner on Friday evening, bothrecord turnouts. The College really buzzedwith so many former students, and husbands,meeting again. We had more members fromthe 1980s and onwards, and these youngerRoll members did enjoy getting back togetheragain. Dr Peter Warner, Senior Tutor, gave anexcellent talk on ‘New Images of Homerton’,and the Music Society’ s concert was muchappreciated. This was the first time theSociety has contributed. Also new was theBoat Club dinner on the Saturday evening.Ann Muston, a recent Committee member,had searched the archives for the names offormer crews. Some 400 were invited to theDinner, hosted by Ann, by Philip Stephenson,Senior Treasurer, and Laura Bevins, BoatClub President. It was good that 35 attended,and as a result the Boat Club funds are muchhealthier. Thank you to all who made thisevent so successful.ActivitiesDr Peter Warner and Dr Peter Raby received£480 from the Roll Committee to scan visualmaterial and photographs in the archives.This has provided a rich and easily accessedresource for displays and exhibitions,including the prints in Paupers’ Walk.There were 132 former students and 4Senior Members at the Leavers’ Dinner heldon 19th February 2010. The Senior Tutorwelcomed these ‘returners’, emphasisingtheir continuing links with College andCambridge. This was a very enjoyableevening, with many meeting for the firsttime since graduation. In May 2009, 31attended the Cambridge lunch, including3 Fellows and 9 Retired Senior Members.Trish Maude gave a very stimulatingtalk entitled ‘Observing Children Moving’illustrated by a DVD. We were not requiredto move, but to observe and answerquestions about the children’s movement!For the first time, we invited local Rollmembers to the Tuesday seminars andFormal Halls, one in November and one inFebruary. We were delighted that seventeencame to the November event and fourteenin February. At the latter the CollegeCharter Choir sang a number of itemsduring dessert. Roll members were delightedto be invited and to sit at High Table.Links with BranchesDuring 2010, Dr Peter Warner, SeniorTutor, visited the Oxford Branch, SteveWatts, Fellow and Admissions Tutor, theManchester Branch, and I have been to theNewcastle and Wessex Branches. LocalBranches are a good way to keep in touchwith College, especially for those who arenot able to come to Reunions.FinanceDuring the last financial year, the Roll hada small deficit but this was covered by ourreserves. Dhiru Karia, the Roll Treasurer,looks after our finances very efficiently. TheCollege Trustees provide financial supportfor Roll events including the Reunion,and for the printing and posting of theHomertonian. This is much appreciated.Roll OfficeAll of us must thank Alison Holroyd. Untilrecently Alison was the Roll Secretary andshe has done much to improve the serviceto members. She continues to be with usbut is taking on more of a developmentrole for the College as well as overseeingall Roll matters. From 1st February, wehave been joined by Cathy Bogg as theRoll Assistant. Both Alison and Cathy arepart-time, but with the increased numberof hours we aim to improve our service toRoll Members even more.Finally, I wish to thank all the Rollmembers for their support, and also theCommittee members for their hard work.Dr Ian H MorrisonKeeper of the Roll, Emeritus Fellow20

HOMERTON ROLL COMMITTEEChair: Dr Kate Pretty [Principal]; Keeper of the Roll: Dr Ian Morrison; Editor of theRoll News: Dr Janet Bottoms; Teaching Staff Member: Dr Peter Warner [Senior Tutorand College Archivist]; RSM: Mrs Carole Bennett; College Finance Officer: DhiruKaria; President of HUS: Mr Luke Shepherd; The Vice-president [External] of HUS:Miss Bec Wilkinson; Past student members Mrs Lucy Barnett [Allen; 1961–1964],Mrs Jean Carnall [Barrie; 1966–1969], Mrs Dorothy Elven [Kemp; 1950–1952],Mr Dominic Norrish [1994–1998] and Mrs Diana Lucas [Barber; 1959–1961].HOMERTON ROLL MEMBERSHIPThe Homertonian is sent to every memberof the Homerton Roll for whom we havea current address. Please help us to keepin touch by letting us know of your newaddress, telephone number and email;our on-line update form is availableat http://www.homerton.cam.ac.uk/homertonians/updatedetails.html.In order to keep costs down we aresending an increasing number ofinvitations by email, so do let us knowyour email address if you think we do nothave it. We also welcome new members.If you know of a Homertonian who wasin residence before 1980, is not a memberof the Roll and would like to join, pleasecontact the Keeper of the Roll, Dr IanMorrison. Life membership for theseformer students is still £15.00 and coversthe cost of the annual mailing. All otherservices, including the annual publicationThe Homerton Roll News, are providedon a break-even basis.Our current database of College members(with the exception of former HSHSstudents) is shared with the CambridgeUniversity Development Office. Thesemembers should receive copies of CAMMagazine, which is published three timeseach year. You are also entitled to a CAMCard, which identifies you as a member ofthe University, and allows you to visit theColleges on the Backs without paying anentrance fee. Discounts are available insome shops, including the CambridgeUniversity Press Bookshop. If you wouldlike a CAM card please contact CARO on01223 332288, or at http://www.alumni.cam.ac.uk/benefits/camcard/.SURVEY TO MEMBERSWhen in Cambridge, members are entitledto use certain College facilities. Please bringyour CAM card with you when visitingCollege. Unfortunately, College has had toincrease its security measures recently. Itwould also be very helpful if you let usknow that you are visiting College so thatwe know to expect you. You can use:• The Dining Hall, Buttery and Bar;• The Library for reading purposes withprior notification; it is not possible toborrow books;• Members can attend the AlumniFormal Halls which are held during theMichaelmas and Lent terms. The FormalHall is linked to the research seminar at6pm. Please contact Alison Holroyd inthe Roll Office if you would like toattend an Alumni Formal Hall.Information is available on the websiteat http://www.homerton.cam.ac.uk/homertonians/eventsdiary.html.Dr Ian MorrisonKeeper of the RollMs Alison HolroydDevelopment & Roll OfficerMrs Cathy BoggRoll & Alumni AssistantTel: 01223 747270 / 747280Email: roll@homerton.cam.ac.ukWebsite: http://www.homerton.cam.ac.uk/homertonians/index.htmlHomertonians can keep in touch withthe College on Facebook: become a fanof our alumni page, ‘Homerton CollegeCambridge Alumni’, and receive updateson latest events and College news.We have recently undergone a change in our database and we now share this with theCambridge University Development Office. In this Royal Charter year we would liketo strengthen our links with everyone who has studied at Homerton. The College andthe University have teamed up to carry out an extensive survey of what our alumni findimportant in maintaining their contacts with Homerton. This survey will be sent to youin the coming months. In addition to updating your details, we would like to hear whatUniversity or College Societies you were involved in and how you would like to beinvolved in the College in the future.THE HOMERTONROLL NEWSThe Roll News is a newsletter for membersof the Homerton Roll. It concentrates onnews sent in by members of the Roll, newsabout Branches and reports of the Reunion.It includes death notices and obituaries.We also welcome longer accounts fromHomertonians of their work, travels,publications, awards and achievements.The Editor, Dr Janet Bottoms, really doesencourage articles under the generalheading of ‘After Homerton’.By publishing in November, we are ableto include so many more of your updates,and also accounts of the Reunion. Theclosing date is 30 September. You justhave time to include Reunion reminiscencesand photographs. Do keep us busy; it isYOUR news.The Roll News is available to purchaseand we will send it out to you inNovember; it is also available on-lineat http://www.homerton.cam.ac.uk/homertonians/rollnews.htm.Where AreThey Now?We do not have the current addresses forabout 2000 Roll Members. We publish alist of our ‘lost sheep’ on the Homertonianpages of the College website, at http://www.homerton.cam.ac.uk/homertonians/lostsheep.html. They are listed by year ofentry to Homerton College. If you know thewhereabouts of a contemporary listed, pleasecontact us at roll@homerton.cam.ac.uk.JOHN HAMMONDMEMORIAL EVENTThe Reunion programme this yearincludes a Memorial event for JohnHammond, former Keeper of the Roll andEmeritus Fellow, who died in December2009. Many of you will know John fromhis constant presence at the Roll Reunionweekend, even after he had retired asKeeper of the Roll. A Memorial event isplanned on Sunday 26th September. Aswe go to press we are unsure of thedetails. If you would like to attend thisevent, do please let us know your emailaddress and we will keep you informed ofthe details. Please indicate your likelyattendance in the box provided.roll@homerton.cam.ac.uk21

BRANCH CONTACTS AND NEWSDuring the year, there aregroups of Homertonians meetingtogether around the country.So if you are unable to make itto the Cambridge Reunion, youmay find that there is an activegroup near you. Each group hasa local secretary/organiser.CambridgeAnthea Wicks – 01223 234706wicks.hmc.eeur@lineone.netLondonErica Hirsch – 0208 941 1084ericahirsch@hotmail.comJean Carnall – 0208 788 0118jdcarnall@tiscali.co.ukManchesterMargaret Blott – 01745 570913mblott_8@yahoo.co.ukNewcastleElise Wylie – 01914 885106elise.wylie@gmail.comOxfordDr Dorothy Evans – 01865 240209fidevans@talktalk.netWessexCoral Harrow – 01258 820517coralharrow@waitrose.comYorkshire/DerbyshireChris Cox – 01142 314488c.j.cox@sheffield.ac.ukCambridge AreaHomertoniansWe are pleased to have around fortyHomertonians in our Cambridge group.Members have enjoyed termly meetings ineach others’ homes and gardens sometimesfor lunch, coffee or time with a visitingspeaker. We are considering holding anevening meeting in the Summer term toenable those working full-time to joinus. Notices will be sent out giving datesof future meetings and these will also beon the web site. The next meeting willbe on Wednesday, 31st March in theafternoon at my home. New membersare very welcome.Anthea Wicks (née Pearey)1958–1960London BranchAs well as events celebrating theUniversity’s 800th anniversary, theLondon Rollers have met twice duringthe past year. Excellent museum visitsto Sir John Soane’s and the BritishMuseum sandwiched between lunch andtea proved highly successful. It was goodto have such a large turnout with manymembers joining us for the first time.Once again Dr Peter Warner was able toprovide us with such interesting insightsinto the museums over lunch and we weredelighted that he was able to join us.A few of us braved the rain for pre-Christmas tea at the Foundling Museumcafé which proved a delightful venue.We then moved to the Crusting Pipe inCovent Garden for our pre-Christmasdrinks where the uninviting weatherperhaps explained the much lower thanusual turnout. The mulled wine provedmost welcome as we enjoyed livelyconversation and an excellent meal.We plan to put the meeting back untilafter Christmas this year and hope thatthe date will be much more convenientfor everyone.With over 90 members on our lists wecan only keep in touch by e-mail so doplease make sure that we always have anup to date e-mail address. Plans for oursummer event, in June this year, are inhand, together with a special celebrationin the autumn to mark the college’s newstatus as a full member of the university.Details will be circulated early in thesummer term and we look forward toas many as possible joining us.Erica Hirsch (née Straw)1965–1968Jean Carnall (née Barrie)1966–1969ManchesterHomertoniansAt the AGM in October 2009 the Branchpresented a picture of Homerton in thesnow to Margaret Mackie in celebrationof her 90th birthday. (Not that you’d everguess her age if you met her!)The weather forced us to cancel ourJanuary luncheon but we shall hold it onSaturday, 17th April 2010 at the CathedralVisitor Centre. Mr Steve Watts, CollegeFellow and Admissions Tutor, will be ourhonoured guest.The son of a Homertonian brought us abeautiful picture of College which hadbelonged to his mother, Ruby Talbot,(Smith 1938–40). We decided that thePresident should have it during her year ofoffice so that it would stay within theBranch. So Sheila Duncan (1951–1953)will have the pleasure of caring for it untilthe next AGM.Margaret Blott (née Davies)1949–1951Newcastle uponTyne BranchThe North East group continues to meettwice yearly. We are very much lookingforward to our Spring meeting at the home ofMary Dowse. Dr Ian Morrison, Keeper of theRoll, is very kindly visiting us and and will beenlightening us on Homerton’s activities andprogress. Later we will take lunch at theBadger Inn, Ponteland. During that day wewill make arrangements for the Autumnmeeting. Hopefully the Theatre Royal willfigure in our plans for that occasion.There will be many other opportunies forvisits to wonderful venues in the wider area.The Northumbrian Cambridge Associationwas able to contact Cambridge alumni in22

2009, including many members of theHomerton group. This has increased theirmembership to about 250 people andwidened its age spectrum. I was fortunateto attend their Spring walk and a Summercruise up the bracing river Tyne. There wasa wonderful jazz band from the Universityof Newcastle and an excellent meal. Theprogramme for 2010 looks splendid.We would very much welcome new membersto our very friendly and hospitable group.Elise Wylie (née Wood)1958–1960Oxford BranchThe members of the Oxford HomertonBranch continue to thoroughly enjoy eachmeeting. We are always pleased towelcome friends and, of course, visitorsfrom other branches. During 2010, weplan to have our usual three meetings, inwhich we have opportunity to socialisewith each other, to visit specific places ofinterest, or to welcome speakers to ourmeetings at the lovely home of ourmember Sonia Hewitt, and her husbandRon, at Toot Baldon, near Oxford.Our plans for 2010 included a talk inMarch by Dr Peter Warner which bought usup to date with news of Homerton – verymuch appreciated by all of us. In May, weare going to have a visit to the newlyreopenedAshmolean Museum in Oxford.Further possible plans for the future includea visit to the Bodleian Library to beconducted by Peter, the husband of ourmember, Christine Jackson; a visit toCheltenham, hosted by our member, AlisonHall, to include a visit to the HolstMuseum; a visit to Abingdon to make atour of the Alms Houses; and, on one ofour social occasions, to have a talk given bya friend of our member, Muriel Fraser.So, our programme is a very interesting andenjoyable one and we are always delightedto welcome ex-Homertonians and theirrelatives or friends to any of them. Ourown members come to enjoy meetingswhenever they can, many of them still beingoccupied with their full-time posts or theirfamily commitments! Homerton ensuredthat we all became very active people!It has been a good year for us and we lookforward to a similar type of programmefor each year. If you would like to visit us– and even to join us! – please contacteither Mrs Sonia Hewitt, (at The ManorHouse, Toot Baldon, Oxford OX44 9NG,Tel: 01865 343398) or Dr Dorothy Evans,(Flat 8, Diamond Court, 153 BanburyRoad, Summertown, Oxford OX2 7AA;Tel: 01865 515341).Dr Dorothy Evans1945–1947Yorkshire andDerbyshire BranchOver the first year since it was re-formed,the Yorkshire and Derbyshire Branch hasswelled to a membership of nearly thirtyex-Homertonians, spanning a total ofseven different decades. Our meetings todate have thus been a very interestingmixture of reminiscences.2010 should see a further three outingsacross the region, starting with a rescheduledguided tour of York Minster (andthen lunch/shopping) in early Spring, withfurther events to come in better weather.Last summer’s meeting in the grounds andrestaurant of Chatsworth House wasparticularly well attended, and a fun dayout for us all, basking in the fine weatherand beautiful surroundings.If there’s a venue near you that you’d likethe Branch to visit, let us know. If you’dlike to join the e-mailing group, just tokeep up with what we’re up to next, youcan contact the Branch Secretary, ChrisCox, who’ll be happy to talk to you.Chris Cox1992–1996Wessex BranchOur news from the Wessex Branch is thatwe currently have 54 members on ourroll. We’ve lost 2 recently, but gained 2new ones!On 31st October 2009, 25 members ofthe Wessex Branch met up for lunch at theMonks Yard at Horton Cross near Ilminsterin Somerset. This was an interesting placeas it’s a farm that has been converted into astylish restaurant. It was a lovely sunny dayand we all enjoyed ourselves.Wessex Branch gathered in October 2009On Saturday 20th March 2010 we metup at The King’s Arms in East StourCommon in Dorset, & 31 gathered foran enjoyable lunch & a chat! Dr IanMorrison joined us to tell us about theRoyal Charter and other College News.Coral Harrow (née Hemsley)1949–1951CALLING ALL HISTORIANS, AND LANDSCAPE HISTORIANSAlthough it is some time now since wetaught the Landscape History course atHomerton, it still seems to evoke manyhappy and hilarious memories. Whetherstories involving hapless minibus driverslost on Dartmoor or scary adventuresdown castle dungeons, when LandscapeHistorians get together there is usually a‘Do you remember when...?’ followed bypeals of laughter. When I first came toHomerton specifically to teach theLandscape History course in September1980, it already had something of areputation under Jack Ravensdale’stutorage. The balance between scholarshipand fieldwork was crucial, and followedvery much in the Leicester Universitytradition of W.G. Hoskins. Being deskbasednow and rarely getting the chance totake students out to look at the historicenvironment, I really miss the practical/visual dimension that to my mind is suchan important stimulus to understandinghistory ‘all around you’.So if you did the landscape course andwould like to share with me in some veryfond memories of the last thirty years, pleasejoin me on the Friday or Saturday of theReunion. We had planned to do a fieldtrip,but it would have been so disruptive to themain event and our glorious charter year,that I had to cancel the minibus! We willsave that idea for another year perhaps.Dr Peter WarnerSenior Tutor23

HOMERTON ROLL ANNUAL REUNIONFriday 24 to Sunday 26 September 2010PROGRAMMEFriday 24th September19.30 for 20.00 Dinner in the Great HallSaturday 25th SeptemberMembers of the Homerton Roll and their familiesare invited to visit the College for the day.Special Anniversary groups – meetingsindependently arranged.9.30 Registration; Coffee available11.15 Principal’s Address in theAuditorium12.15 Reception, followed by(approx) lunch with wine14.00 Tours of the College andGardensRSM Annual General MeetingDr Peter Warner will give a talkentitled “January 1894 to March2010 – an illustrated history ofHomerton in Cambridge”15.00 Tours of the College andGardensMusic16.15 Tea – open to all attending19.30 for Saturday Dinner20.00 The Fellow’s Dining Room(numbers will be limited to 80)Sunday 26th September12.00 Memorial event for JohnHammond, former Head ofBiology, Senior Tutor, Keeper ofthe Roll and Emeritus FellowPlease return the booking form and appropriateremittance by Friday 3 September 2010.The University’s Alumni weekend will beheld from Friday 24 to Sunday 26September 2010. A full programme of theUniversity’s events can be obtained from:Cambridge Alumni Relations Office (CARO)1 Quayside, Bridge Street,Cambridge, CB5 8ABTel: +44 (0)1223 332288Email: alumni@foundation.cam.ac.ukhttp://www.alumni.cam.ac.uk/SPECIAL ANNIVERSARIESorganised for this ReunionPlease contact the people named below for more information on your Special Reunion this year.If your year is not mentioned and you would like to help organise a Special Reunion, pleasecontact Cathy Bogg on 01223 747280 /747270 or by email at roll@homerton.cam.ac.uk.DIAMOND GIRLS GOING Contact: Brenda Buchanan (Wade)1948–1950 Tel: 01225 311508DIAMOND GIRLS IN Contact: Dorothy Elven (Kemp)1950–1952 Tel: 01223 324215GOLDEN GIRLS GOING Contact: Elise Wylie (Wood) Tel: 0191 488 51061958–1960 Email: elise.wylie@gmail.com& Sue Prideaux (Aldred) Tel: 01823 480736Email: sj_prideaux@yahoo.co.ukGOLDEN GIRLS IN Contact: Angela Payne (Mortimer) Tel: 01359 2442441960–1963 Email: angela@mulberry-farm.co.uk40 YEARS ON Contact: Pat Saxton (Hemmings) Tel: 01223 3599831967–1970/71 Email: patsaxton8@googlemail.com& Rosemary Thackray (Davies) Tel: 01223 368301Email: et@ethome.fsnet.co.uk40 YEARS IN Please contact Cathy Bogg, Roll & Alumni Assistant1970–1973/1974 Tel: 01223 747280Special Request Contact: Vicki Addey (Sutherland) Tel: 01962 8843551978–1982 Email: Vicki@addey.co.uk30 YEARS OUT Contact: Ann Muston (McDonald) Tel: 01223 2764121976–1980 Email: ann@amuston.com or apm@theleys.net30 YEARS IN Please contact Cathy Bogg, Roll & Alumni Assistant1980–1984 Tel: 01223 74728025 YEARS IN Contact: Caroline Marcus Tel: 020 7485 49621985–1989 Email: caroline@marcusgordon.co.uk21 YEARS IN Contact: Andrea Jarman-Peebles (Jarman)1989–1993 Please contact Cathy Bogg, Roll & Alumni AssistantTel: 01223 747280HISTORY REUNIONDATES FOR YOUR DIARY30 September 201055 Copy deadline for the 2010 Homerton Roll News24 September 201055 Annual Reunion Dinner in College25 September 201055 Annual Reunion in College26 September 201055 John Hammond Memorial Event in CollegeNovember 201055 Alumni Formal Hall in College (please see thewebsite for further information)25 February 201155 Recent Leavers’ Dinner in CollegePlease contact Cathy Bogg, Roll & Alumni AssistantTel: 01223 747280 Email: roll@homerton.cam.ac.ukFebruary 201155 Alumni Formal Hall in College (please see thewebsite for further information)7 March 201155 Items for inclusion in the 2011 Homertonian tobe submittedMay 201155 Cambridge May Event19 June 201155 Event for Younger Alumni in College30 September 201155 Copy deadline for the 2011 Homerton Roll News23 September 201155 Annual Reunion Dinner in CollegeData Protection Statement: All information is securely held in the Roll & Alumni Office and will be treated confidentially and with respect for the benefit of the College. All ourinformation is shared with the University Development Office who in turn make information available to the University departments, their office in the United States, recognised alumnisocieties, sports and other clubs registered with the University, and to agents contracted by the University for purposes directly related to the interests of the University and/or its alumni.Information may be used for direct marketing purposes which include alumni activities, the sending of the Homertonian, notification of alumni events, fundraising and the alumniemail forwarding service. This information may be communicated electronically.The information will not be disclosed to external organisations other than those acting as agents for the College. If you do not wish your information to be used in this way pleasecontact the Development & Alumni Office.24