Alumnae news
Celebrate your news and achievements with your fellow alumnae
Do you have any news or projects which you would like to share with your fellow Newnhamites? Whether you have written a book, are directing a play or holding an event which other alumnae can become involved in, do let us know by emailing
roll@newn.cam.ac.uk with details.
Memorial service for Jean Guy MD FRCR DHMSA to be held on 25th April 2012, at St Andrew by the Wardrobe, London, 1.15pm
A memorial service for Dr Jean Guy (NC 1960) will be held on Wednesday 25th April and will be an opportunity for her many friends and colleagues to commemorate her life and many achievements. Directions and details of the church can be found here.
Jean's funeral was held in Lavenham on February 29th and she was buried nearby in the churchyard of Preston St Mary, places she loved very deeply. An obituary can be found on the Lavenham Church website.
If you have any queries about the memorial service please contact Jean's son, Richard Guy.
Juliette Losq's work shown in AVA: The Collection until 17 March
Juliette Losq (NC 97) is one of the the artists featured in the latest exhibition at the All Visual Arts gallery, based in King's Cross. The collection is open from 10-6, Tuesday to Saturday until Saturday 17th March. Visit the AVA website for further details.
Dr Gemma Simmonds CJ on BBC Radio 4's Sunday Worship, Sunday 22 January
Dr Gemma Simmonds CJ (NC 1977) will be preaching from Clare College Chapel for BBC Radio 4's 'Sunday Worship' at 8.10am on Sunday 22 January. The service will reflect on the idea that Mary, mother of God, challenges Christians of all traditions to question their understanding of the universal church. The service is for the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity.
Professor Jane Humphries awarded the Ranki Prize
Jane Humphries (NC 1967, Economics) has been awarded the prestigious Ranki Prize for her book
Childhood and Child Labour in the British Industrial Revolution. The Prize is awarded biennially by the North American Economic History Association for an oustanding book in European economic history. Her work is a unique account of working-class childhood during the era of industrialisation and draws upon more than 600 autobiographies written by working men of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. For further details about the book please visit the Cambridge University Press
website.
Valerie Thornhill's novel, In Restoration, nominated for book prize
Valerie Thornhill (NC 1954, Modern Languages) was one of nine shortlisted authors nominated for the fiction category of the Summer Collection of the People's Book Prize. Sponsored by the Publishers' Association, it was founded by established authors, including Beryl Bainbridge and Frederick Forsyth, to promote works by new writers ignored by the large publishing companies. For more information, see the People's Book Prize
website.
Muriel Wheldale's legacy lives on at old school
In response to our ‘newsflash’ informing Roll Members that Newnham was to feature in the BBC programme: ‘Botany a Blooming History’ Catherine Davies (NC 1977) sent this interesting news:
“I shall look forward with special interest to this programme, and have forwarded the information to my friends in King Edward VI High School for Girls in Edgbaston, where you might be interested to learn that botanical developments are still happening. We are working together on a small project to create a medieval herb garden in the school, carved out of a space in the quadrangle overlooked by the headmistress's office. Our project is mostly about medicinal herbs, but we have also given it a wider remit to include other useful plants, notably dye, textile and household plants. The plan comprises four raised beds of nine herbs each, with additional containers of plants which will be portable for use in living history events or the classroom. The beds are surrounded by gravel paths and the enclosure is fenced on three sides by hurdle hedges made of rowan and hazel rods. The garden can be viewed from the hard landscaping or walked around for closer study. The doctrine of the humours can be illustrated with herbs from each bed, so the design comprises a mnemonic form to a certain extent, though this cannot be consistent for all the herbs as so many are 'hot and dry'. The project is the work of the Living History Group of KEHS and KES; I designed it and sourced the plants, and helped to build it.”
Baroness Coussins on the Education Bill
To read Baroness Coussins's contribution to the House of Lords debate about the Education Bill on Tues 14 June, please click
here.
