Service 2009/2 - Somerville College - University of Oxford

Organ Music
Hymn
SOMERVILLE COLLEGE
COMMEMORATION
SERVICE
Saturday 13 June 2009
2.30pm
Chapel
Lord of all hopefulness,
Lord of all joy,
whose trust, ever child-like,
no cares could destroy,
be there at our waking,
and give us, we pray,
your bliss in our hearts, Lord,
at the break of the day.
Lord of all eagerness,
Lord of all faith,
whose strong hands were skilled
at the plane and the lathe,
be there at our labours
and give us, we pray,
your strength in our hearts, Lord,
at the noon of the day.
Lord of all kindliness,
Lord of all grace,
your hands swift to welcome,
your arms to embrace,
be there at our homing,
and give us, we pray,
your love in our hearts, Lord,
at the eve of the day.
Lord of all gentleness,
Lord of all calm,
whose voice is contentment,
whose presence is balm,
be there at our sleeping,
and give us, we pray,
your peace in our hearts, Lord,
at the end of the day.
Jan Struther (1901-53) Trad.Irish, harm Erik Routley (1917-82)
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Remain standing for the
College Bidding Prayer
read by the Principal
Let us pray for God’s people throughout the world, of every race and creed,
and for our Sovereign Lady, Queen Elizabeth, and all the royal family.
Let us also pray for all ministers of God’s holy word and sacraments; for
the High Court of Parliament and for all those who hold office of state in this
country and those afar; for Her Majesty’s Government and Opposition, and for
them that are called to serve in formulation and administration of policy,
national and local; for all the judges and magistrates of this realm: that all and
every one of them, in their several callings, may serve truly to the glory of
God, and the edifying and well governing of his people, remembering the
account that they must make.
Let us pray for all the people of this realm, that they may live in the true
faith and fear of God, and in charity one to another.
And, that there may never be wanting a succession of persons duly
qualified for the service of God in church and state, let us ask his blessing on
schools, colleges and universities; that therein true religion and sound learning
may for ever flourish.
Let us pray for this University of Oxford and especially for the good estate
of Somerville College, that receiving students of all faiths it may continue to
give opportunities to each and all for learning that tolerant sympathy and wide
charity which are among the most precious possessions of life, and that this
chapel may be a house of prayer for all peoples.
With praise let us remember those whose pioneering spirit and foresight
made possible the establishment of this place of learning, and those whose
determination and endurance brought it within the University and thereby
advanced the higher education of women.
To these our prayers let us add our unfeigned praises for mercies already
received, particularly for the advantages afforded in this College by the care
and liberality of its founders and benefactors.
Our founders such as were: John Percival, Rachel Vernon Harcourt,
Mary Ward, Henry Pelham, Thomas Hill Green, George Kitchin, and John
Magrath.
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Our benefactors, such as were: Eleanor Smith, Helen Taylor, Amelia
Edwards, William Bousfield, Mary Ewart, Rosalind countess of Carlisle,
Constance Ann Lee, Sarah Smithson, Rosa Hovey, Margaret Irene Seymour,
Emily Kemp, Winifred Holtby, Emily Geldart, William Morris viscount
Nuffield, Katharine Woolley, Leonard Woolley, Alice Horsman, Beatrice
Lewis, Angela Bull, Edith Haynes, Rose Graham, Elizabeth Robinson,
Catherine Fulford, Winifred Cobbe, Mary Snow, Monica Britton, Alan Hodge,
Emmeline Nanson, Marjorie Brett, Amy Bull, Marjorie Ball, Kathleen Bigland
Walker, Kathleen Stahl, Myra Verney, Wilhelmina Hogan, Gwendolen Mary
Boyd, Miriam Violet Lovelock, Marie Bentivoglio Baldeschi, Flora Anderson,
Elma Mitchell, Clara Read, Margaret England, Gillian Brown, Anne
Whiteman, Janet Seligman, Eleanor Shaw, Gillian Dickinson, Nora
Wooldridge, Edith Varley, Ann and William Messenger, Una Cormack,
Daphne Osborne, Ursula Everest, Francesca and Mary McManus, Barbara
Johnston, Diana Josephson, Dorothy Jean Dawson, and Mervyn Jones.
Also for the faithful service and good example of those who in their
lifetime wisely governed the College or taught within its walls, such as were:
Madeleine Shaw Lefevre, Agnes Maitland, Emily Penrose, Margery Fry,
Helen Darbishire, Janet Vaughan, Barbara Craig; Charles Heberden, Herbert
Fisher, Gilbert Murray, Edwin Craig; Edward Caird, Charlotte Green, Arthur
Sidgwick, William Geldart, Marcus Tod, Alexander Lindsay; Clara Pater,
Eleanor Grace Powell, Mildred Pope, Alice Bruce, Jane Willis Kirkaldy, Hilda
Lorimer, Vera Farnell, Beatrice Stonedale, Maude Clarke, Charlotte Young,
Agneta Beauchamp, Enid Starkie, Isobel Henderson, Anne Cobbe, Rosemary
Woolf, Lucy Sutherland, May McKisack, Ruth Garstang, Wilma Crowther,
Lotte Labowsky, Evangeline de Villiers, Dorothy Hodgkin, Margaret Hall,
Jennifer Loach, Mary Lascelles, Mildred Taylor, Norma Dalrymple-
Champneys, Rosemary Syfret, Elizabeth Anscombe, Mary Proudfoot,
Elizabeth Armstrong, Nancy Waugh, James Logue, Agatha Ramm, Nan
Dunbar, Anne de Moor, Joan Turville-Petre and Eva Richards.
Finally, let us praise God for all those who, having lived in faithful
endeavour, are departed this life, and pray that we may have grace to direct our
lives after their good example; that this life ended, we may, with them, find
eternal rest. All these our prayers and praises let us humbly offer to Almighty
God saying as we have been taught:
Our Father …
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Anthem
Greater Love hath No Man
Canticles 8, St John 15, I Peter 2, I Corinthians 6; Romans 12 John Ireland (1879-1962)
Reading
1 Corinthians 13
read by Pauline Adams
(Modern History, 1962, Librarian & Fellow, 1971-2009)
Hymn
The King of love my shepherd is,
Whose goodness faileth never;
I nothing lack if I am his,
And he is mine for ever.
Where streams of living water flow,
My ransomed soul he leadeth,
And where the verdant pastures grow,
With food celestial feedeth.
Perverse and foolish oft I strayed,
But yet in love He sought me,
And on his shoulder gently laid,
And home, rejoicing, brought me.
In death’s dark vale I fear no ill
With thee, dear Lord, beside me;
Thy rod and staff my comfort still,
Thy cross before to guide me.
Thou spread’st a table in my sight;
Thy unction grace bestoweth;
And O what transport of delight
From thy pure chalice floweth!
And so through all the length of days
Thy goodness faileth never:
Good Shepherd, may I sing thy praise
Within thy house for ever.
H. W. Baker (1821-77) Irish Melody (Petrie Collection)
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Address
Jane Robinson (English, 1978)
Anthem
Gaelic Blessing: Deep Peace
Trad. Gaelic John Rutter (1945–)
Prayers
Commemorative prayer, read by the President of the Somerville Association
O God of the spirits of all flesh, we praise and magnify thy holy name
for all the members of this College who have loved and served thee here
on earth and are now at rest, especially for thy servants recently dead:
[here she shall name those who have died in the past year, as on p.8];
and we beseech thee that, encouraged by their example, and
strengthened by their fellowship, we also may be found meet to be
partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light. Amen.
Bring us, O Lord God, at our last awakening, into the house and gate of
heaven, to enter into that gate and dwell in that house, where there shall
be no darkness nor dazzling, but one equal light; no noise nor silence,
but one equal music; no fears nor hopes, but one equal possession; no
ends nor beginnings, but one equal eternity in the habitation of thy glory
and dominion, world without end. Amen. John Donne (1572-1631)
O Lord, who has taught us that thou wilt require much of those to whom
much is given; grant that we whose lot is cast in so goodly a heritage
may strive together the more abundantly by prayer, by good works, and
by whatsoever means thou shalt ordain, to extend to others that which
we so richly enjoy; and as we have entered into the labours of others, so
to labour that in their turn other people may enter into ours, to the
fulfilment of thy holy will and everlasting salvation. Amen.
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Hymn
He who would valiant be
’Gainst all disaster,
Let him in constancy
Follow the Master.
There’s no discouragement
Shall make him once relent
His first avowed intent
To be a pilgrim.
Who so beset him round
With dismal stories
Do but themselves confound
His strength the more is.
No foes shall stay his might;
Though he with giants fight,
He will make good his right
To be a pilgrim.
Since, Lord, thou dost defend
Us with thy Spirit,
We know we at the end,
Shall life inherit.
Then fancies flee away!
I’ll fear not what men say,
I’ll labor night and day
To be a pilgrim.
John Bunyan (1628-88) &
English Folk Song
Percy Dearmer (1867-1936) arr. Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
All say — May the Lord meet in mercy all who seek him, and comfort
those who suffer and mourn; and may the Lord give his people, of every
land and of every tongue, the blessing of peace. Amen.
Organ Voluntary
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Somervillians who have died since 5 July 2008
Norah Margaret Allen née Rossington (1928) 21 February 2009 (aged 98)
Mary Katharine Arthur née Meredith (1948) 19 November 2008 (79)
Irene Brown née Goodman (1939) 6 November 2008 (87)
Joan Dillon Browne (1930) 15 January 2009 (96)
Brenda Bunton née Sargent (1945) 15 December 2008 (81)
Jessie Roca Bunnin nee Lim (1965) 14 March 2009 (66)
Barbara Burton (1949) 6 January 2009 (78)
Yvonne Margaret Cory née Hales (1944) 5 October 2008 (80)
Vera Doris Crane née Hoar (1940) 8 May 2009 (87)
Jean Agnes Darmon née Southerst (1943)
22 August 2008 (c.83)
Katharine Mary Hope Dean née Mortimer (1964) 15 July 2008 (62)
Nesta Dean née Jones (1940) 10 October 2008 (86)
Joan Durham née Lowbury (1939) 8 November 2008 (88)
Abigail Jenny Frost (1970) 1 May 2009 (57)
Prudence Marion Elizabeth Garland-Collins (1943) 21 October 2008 (83)
Sandra Grossmith née Allan-Hallett (1937) 7 December 2008 (89)
Christine Mary Grosvenor née Daykin (1947) 16 May 2009 (80)
Ursula Ruth Quixano Henriques (1933)
19 November 2008 (c.94)
Elizabeth Margaret Hofmann (1962) 9 October 2008 (65)
Patricia Margaret Hutchinson (1944) 11 November 2008 (82)
Valerie Doreen Langweil née Potts (1943) 10 February 2009 (83)
Daphne Levens née Hanschell (1929) 9 April 2009 (98)
Jean Lloyd née Brooksbank (1945)
9 September 2008 (c.81)
Marcelle Alpheda Maria MacNamara née Von Schoenberg (1978)
11 April 2009 (50)
Ruth McCreery née Coates (1955) 14 January 2009 (72)
Maryam Mehrfar née Raissi (1986) 3 August 2008 (40)
Jean Marian Murphy née Smith (1940)
28 October 2008 (c.86)
Ruth Jeanie Lucille O’Brien née Spalding (1932) 26 February 2009 (95)
Alison Mary Peck née MacInnes (1936) 3 January 2009 (90)
Eve Ranzetta née Dickinson (1955) 25 August 2008 (71)
Eva Edith Richards (Fellow 1965-70; Hon.Res.Fellow 1970-2009)
24 April 2009 (86)
Diana Gabrielle Rountree née Buckley (1933) 22 August 2008 (93)
Margaret Noel Samson née Williams (1949) 8 July 2008 (77)
Anne Eleanor Scott-James (Lady Lancaster) (1931) 13 May 2009 (96)
Pamela Simpson née Johnson (1950) 7 August 2008 (76)
Rachel Winifred Thompson née Lewis (1944) 13 January 2009 (82)
Gillian Faith Tinsley née Higham (1942) 7 September 2008 (84)
Ruth Edith Trilling (1942)
7 April 2009 (c.84)
Michelle Tweddle née Vipond (1981) 4 February 2009 (45)
Phoebe Van Oss née Herbert (1950) 16 December 2008 (76)
Catherine Vernon (1969) 4 October 2008 (57)
Agnes Mary Alison Weir née Walker (1944) 19 April 2009 (82)