The Record 2006 - Keble College - University of Oxford

The College at Large
The Keble Trust held interviews and made a new appointment
for St Benedict, Bordesley in Birmingham. This is being
reviewed by the Archbishop of Canterbury’s office as the
vacancy had lapsed more than nine months. The Advowsons
interviewed and appointed the Revd Susan Cook to Chipping
Ongar with Shelley in Sussex.
With the College’s right of presentation in suspension, the
following new appointments were made by the Dioceses: the
Revd Neil Batcock as Priest-in-Charge of Blakeney, Cley,
Wiveston, Glandford, Letheringsett with Bayfield in Norfolk;
the Revd Malcom Ingham to Elton, Stibbington and Water
Newton in Peterborough; the Revd Wilma Roest to St Mary,
Balham as Priest-in-Charge. The Revd Ann-Marie Stuart will
be licensed as the Acting Team Rector of the Golden Cap Team
Ministry in Sherborne.
Year Groups
This year, two more groups of Old Members have had Reunion
weekends in the College: in April the 1957–62s and in July, the
1968–72s. A lively programme of activities was provided on both
weekends, lectures and tours on Saturday during the day with a
Gaudy Dinner on Saturday evening by way of celebration. Many
Old Members wrote after these events to say how much they had
enjoyed them, how they had turned the clock back by meeting up
with friends and how pleased they were to see the changes which
had been made in College.
The celebration of 50 years since matriculation has become a
‘tradition’, and in September the 1956s came back for a very
enjoyable lunch.
A significant number of new Year Group representatives have been
recruited, and the College is grateful to these teams for their help
and advice in planning the Reunion weekends; for support in the
fundraising initiative which took place leading up to the Reunions
and the interest they take in their cohort. The effort that they have
put in is reflected in the (even) longer list of donors to the Talbot
Fund this year. The College would like to formally thank them all
for giving time and energy to help in this essential work – without
it, the College would not be able to meet many of the objectives
that it has. Camilla Matterson, in the Development Office, would
be pleased to hear from anyone who would like to become more
involved: Camilla.matterson@keble.ox.ac.uk (01865 272794).
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