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No harm was done to any African bullfrog (nor to any child - bullfrogs are ferocious biters of anything that looks like food) in the taking of this photograph. Alison is on the extreme right of the picture
Life Before Somerville | 45 Life Before Somerville Dorothy Hodgkin expressed gentle surprise when as many as five Chemists came up to Somerville in 1951. ALISON SUTHERLAND was one of them. After Somerville she spent about half her married and working life in assorted universities before ‘retiring’ into school teaching in Orkney. Like many contemporaries she took early retirement in her 50s. Surprisingly this led to twenty eventful years on a busy livestock farm. She now lives contentedly in her own modest house with two appreciative rescued collie dogs. She has a fond memory of her daughter’s group of 1970s teenagers complaining about their over-aspirational academic parents until one lass cried out: ‘Do you mean we don’t HAVE to go to University?’ ‘At last I think I’ve really fallen on my feet’ said Uncle Jim. It was 1939, and he was in South Africa. He had recently landed the job of Superintendent of Robinson Lake, a popular resort for the white townsfolk of the Transvaal Witwatersrand gold mines. ‘What the hell more can a chap wish for? They don’t call me Lucky Jim for nothing!’ he happily wrote home. A year later my brother Doug and I, aged 10 and 8, were evacuated to Robinson Lake to spend five unforgettable war years with Uncle Jim, Auntie Milly and our 3 South African cousins aged 14, 10 and 6. ‘I am enjoying myself very much here and we’ve decided that we’re not going home’ I bluntly wrote back to our anxious parents. Robinson Lake was special. It was the huge cooling dam for the mines power station. It lay out in the dry lands of the open veld, surrounded by blue-gum trees grown for pit-props. Surprisingly in such a hot climate, the warm water was a major attraction for crowds of visitors, especially at weekends and holidays, and we were never short of company. The Lake was mysterious. We spent hours in it, day and night. Winter morning swims and long walks to catch the school train were shrouded in dense white clouds of rising steam.
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Page 4 and 5: Contents Visitor, Principal, Fellow
Page 6 and 7: 4 | Visitor, Principal, Fellows, Le
Page 8 and 9: 6 | Visitor, Principal, Fellows, Le
Page 11 and 12: The Year in Review
Page 13 and 14: Principal’s Report | 11 Robert an
Page 15 and 16: Principal’s Report | 13 success.
Page 17 and 18: Fellows’ Activities | 15 Fungi in
Page 19 and 20: Fellows’ Activities | 17 on late
Page 21 and 22: Fellows’ Activities | 19 on commu
Page 23 and 24: Fellows’ Activities | 21 by the e
Page 25 and 26: Fellows’ Activities | 23 Somervil
Page 27 and 28: JCR Report | 25 them. We have given
Page 29 and 30: MCR Report | 27 Association Bursary
Page 31 and 32: Library Report | 29 snowfalls) and
Page 33: Library Report | 31 Emilie Amt* Ang
Page 36 and 37: 34 | Report from the Head of Develo
Page 38 and 39: 36 | Report from the Head of Develo
Page 41 and 42: Members’ Notes
Page 43 and 44: President’s Report | 41 Juliet Jo
Page 45: Somerville Association Fund | 43 So
Page 49 and 50: Life Before Somerville | 47 five ye
Page 51 and 52: Somerville College Report for 1965
Page 55 and 56: Dr Alice Prochaska (Barwell, 1965),
Page 59 and 60: Members’ News | 57 Members’ New
Page 61 and 62: Members’ News | 59 Maya Bradshaw
Page 63 and 64: Members’ News | 61 of London, and
Page 65 and 66: Members’ News | 63 Serena Rendell
Page 67 and 68: Somerville MPs. From left to right:
Page 69 and 70: Esther Rantzen, CBE (1959), speaker
Page 71 and 72: 3 July: Somerville Gaudy 2010 for t
Page 73 and 74: The Principal and the Treasurer loo
Page 75 and 76: Marriages | 73 Marriages Civil Part
Page 77 and 78: Deaths | 75 Deaths Ackner Joan May
Page 79 and 80: Obituaries | 77 Obituaries Daphne P
Page 81 and 82: Obituaries | 79 My mother was ahead
Page 83 and 84: Obituaries | 81 Margaret Higginson,
Page 85 and 86: Obituaries | 83 her or hate her (an
Page 87 and 88: Obituaries | 85 Although she was bo
Page 89 and 90: Obituaries | 87 Cecile Kessler (Off
Page 91 and 92: Obituaries | 89 administration of t
Page 93 and 94: Obituaries | 91 She loved music and
Page 95 and 96: Obituaries | 93 Her strong feminist
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Obituaries | 95 series. Her greates
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Obituaries | 97 Vanessa Brand was a
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Obituaries | 99 Vanessa enjoyed tra
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Obituaries | 101 Climate Change Pro
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104 | Academic Report Academic Repo
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106 | University Prizes University
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108 | Somerville Association Office
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110 | Somerville Development Board
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Notices
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Notices | 115 For more information
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Codicil form | 117 Codicil form I:
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Somerville Literary Luncheon | 119
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Somerville Literary Luncheon | 121
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