Dancing Club during their first few weeks of their Fresher
year Jim Lawson (BEng Mechanical Engineering 1964)
and Avril Lawson (née Colvin) (BA Hons English
Language & Literature 1963, Certificate in Education
1964) are celebrating 46 years of marriage.
Department Store, to go dancing. However, Jim had
sprained his ankle at the University Judo Club that
morning so we had to spend our first date at
the cinema!"
activities, travelling abroad and exploring the British Isles.
(BSc Hons Cell Biology &
Biochemistry 1996, MPhil
Medicine 1998, PhD 2003)
and David Auffret
(MEng Civil & Environmental
Engineering 2000, MBA
Development and
Industrialisation 2001)
met thanks to their mutual
love of volleyball and are
now celebrating their
11th year as husband
and wife.
his third year of his MEng,"
said Antonia. "Our first date
was in a club in Nottingham
during a volleyball tournament
for the BUSA (now BUCS
British Universities &
Colleges Sport) games."
three children. They still
love volleyball and playing
tennis, rollerblading, hiking
and travelling.
and Sheila Barr (née Culbert) (BA
1957, Cert Ed 1958) met at their friends'
engagement party at the Playhouse.
They got engaged after Donald spent a
year in farm practice in Cornwall and
were married two years later.
their six children and 18 grandchildren.
occasions," said Donald. "A group of
contemporaries from both arts and vet
faculties have held annual reunions in
different parts of Britain and we have
been able to attend on four occasions,
the last being in 2002. Our children
have fond childhood memories of
Liverpool and two have made
recent return visits so at least
some of the grandchildren
know that the real Liverpool
is not in New South Wales!"