All those who matriculated in 1966 are invited back to College on Thursday 3rd and Friday 4th September to celebrate their diamond reunion.
We are looking forward to welcoming you back! B&B is available and bookable using the code ALUMNI1966. Please note: you will need to input this code before checking availability. If you would like to come to the reunion but need help with the booking costs, you are welcome to apply to the Senior Members Fund for financial assistance (applications to Jackie Watson: jacqueline.watson@some.ox.ac.uk)
Proposed programme:
Thursday 3 September:
11am Arrival, check-in for those staying over, and tea/coffee and pastries in Mary Somerville Room (former JCR)
12pm Pre-lunch drinks
1pm Lunch in Hall
2pm Talk on 1960s Oxford, over tea and coffee
3pm Tour of recent buildings in College and of the Royal Observatory Quarter (the old Infirmary site next-door) to see University developments there, and the site of Somerville’s new building
4.30 Share a Somerville memory’, over tea and cake. Graduate students will have a ‘retro-tea’ in Margery Fry (Graduate House) with current MCR members
6.30 Drinks in the Mary Somerville Room, with 1960s music
7pm Buffet dinner in Hall. The MSR will continue to be available in the evening afterwards.
An exhibition covering Somerville 1966-70 will be available in the Mary Somerville Room throughout, which will be open all the time for people to stop off for a coffee and a chat.
Friday 4 September:
11am Highlights of the College Art collection (for those who stay over, after breakfast…)
12am Coffee and finish
Adding to your year group booklet – a request for EVERYONE
It has become a tradition since this event started in 1959 to produce a booklet to accompany Golden Reunions, so that people can find out about those in their year group they have lost contact with, whether they can come to the Reunion or not. You would have received your booklet a decade ago and it is a really important part of the College archive. This year, members of your year group organising the reunion have asked for entries in the original booklet to be updated.
You will have been emailed with the original booklet when you received the first email invitation in April. Please could you send any additional information to Honey Hinkson (development.assistant@some.ox.ac.uk) by 1st July.
Any additional photographs are very welcome (from then or now!), and you will receive the updated booklet ahead of the reunion, so that you can plan ahead…
- You could write about any aspects of life since Somerville: home and family, any community involvement, travels or moves, changes or developments of your interests and opinions. As always, this is not all about amazing successes in life, but about those things that have been important to you. All lives and experiences are fascinating to read about!
You can purchase a copy of the 1966 matric photo on the Gillman and Soame website here.