News from the Registrar
The Roll continues to thrive with good attendances at its regular events and enthusiastic support for specific initiatives. You should have received the Roll Leaflet within the Development Newsletter giving details of this year's events, the first being the Roll Buffet Lunch and Annual General Meeting on Saturday 9 July. Miss Karen Pierce CMG (1978), Director, Afghanistan and South Asia, and Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office will give her talk entitled: 'Fairy Cakes and Generals: where does diplomacy fit into modern conflict' at 2.30 p.m. after the AGM. If you haven't received a leaflet, do let me know, or check the Roll Diary of events webpage for details.
The Girton Project continues to expand under the enthusiastic and dynamic Chairmanship of Professor Deryn Watson (Morgan,1964), and the Project Steering Group are presently working on the second volume of the Girton Project Journal. This volume will report on the findings of last year’s ‘Life after the Main Career’ Workshop, attended by about 80 people, and led by Elizabeth Hughes (1964). All of the presentations of that Workshop were of a very high quality. Professor Watson had analysed the 300 plus responses to the Roll survey on ‘retirement’ carried out in 2008; Professor Kay-Tee Khaw, (1969) spoke on Health aspects, Professor Anthea Tinker on social aspects, and Lord Eatwell on financial and pension aspects. The day also included a number of short communications and break-out groups that discussed specific topics. At the end of the day Katharine Whitehorn summed up, and Catherine Tilley, (Thomson, 1983) made some suggestions on the next steps.
I will be retiring as Registrar of the Roll at the end of September, 2012, and College will be considering over the next two years what arrangements to put for Alumni after that date. There are many more opportunities for Girtonians to return to College or to interact with College today than in the past. We would like to know what you find useful, what else you would like College to offer, and what could be dropped or appears to you to be duplication of effort. If you have any views on future arrangements then it would be great to hear from you: either write or email me, the Mistress, the Development Director, or any other member of the Fellowship.
Eileen Rubery
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