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IN
TOUCH
1930s
Benjamin Carruthers (MBChB 1938)
was a Senior Partner in a large general
practice in Wirral, retiring in 1979. He is Founder
President and a member of the Kyrle Probus
Club of Ross on Wye for retired and semi-retired
professional businessmen.
Elizabeth Gidney (née
Bushell) (BA Hons
English Language &
Literature 1938)
has
written The Golden Ball
and The Golden String:
A Schoolmistress's
Memories of Life and Work
in Palestine 1939-1945,
a
book about her Palestine experience
teaching in Jerusalem and Haifa in the
closing days of the British Empire, published
by Woodfield Publishing and available
from Amazon.
1940s
David Farrand Goodman (BEng Civil
Engineering 1944)
is retired and enjoying
travelling, history and archaeology.
Dr Sheila Jennett (née Pope) (MBChB 1949,
MD 1967)
is Emeritus Professor of
Physiology at the University of Glasgow. After a
variety of clinical posts in England, she moved
to Scotland in the 1960s with her late husband
and Liverpool classmate, neurosurgeon
Professor Bryan Jennett (MBChB 1949, MD
1960).
She has three sons and one daughter
and has enjoyed the hobby of sailing on the
Clyde and West Coast with her family.
She is the co-editor of the Oxford Companion
to the Body
(2001)with Professor Colin
Blakemore and Editor of Churchill Livingstone's
Dictionary of Sport and Exercise Science and
Medicine
(2008).
1950s
Gordon James Collis (BSc 1956, BSc Hons
Chemistry 1957)
recently completed 15 years
service with the Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen &
Families Association (SSAFA) Forces Help, an
association which helps ex-service personnel,
and the Royal British Legion as volunteer
welfare caseworker.
Constantinos Ioannides (BArch Hons
1955, MCD 1956)
retired in 1991 as
Director of the Department of Town
Planning and Housing in Cyprus, then
he worked as a planning consultant
until 2005. He is now mostly retired and
is a member of the committee for the
assessment of the environmental impacts
of various projects for the Ministry of
the Environment.
Anthony John Keay (MRCVS 1951)
is retired and has been happily married for 55
years. He has had an enjoyable professional life
in both private practice and in service with the
Ministry of Agriculture in New Zealand
supervising the Quarantine Stations. He also
enjoyed four months in India studying exotic
diseases and working at the UK Ministry of
Agriculture in Worcester during the foot and
mouth outbreak in 2001.
David Francis Mowle (BSc Hons Chemistry
1951)
is retired but keeps busy working on the
history of Slyne-with-Hest Village, he is also Life
Vice-President of the Alpine Garden Society.
William Bernard Supple (BA Hons
Economics 1957)
spent 30 years teaching,
mainly in schools in Liverpool. He is now happily
fully occupied looking after children and
grandchildren and enjoying playing tennis,
gardening and ornithology.
William Taylor (BA Geography 1958, CertEd
1959)
is a retired teacher and Vice-President
of the Lancashire Family History and Heraldry
Society and speaks regularly on family history.
He is also Chairman of the Blackburn and East
Lancashire Friendship Centre.
Alan Wynne (BA Hons French 1958)
is
retired and living in Cumbria. He celebrated
his Golden Wedding Anniversary in 2010.
1960s
David John Ball (MCD 1966)
uses his
professional skills as a designer and artist
to support charitable organisations and the
Diocese of Gloucester and is building up an
artists' practice.
Eric John Birch (BSc Hons Geology 1961)
has retired as Head of Science at Leek High
School in Staffordshire. He is a Life Member
and Captain/President of Leek Rugby Club.
Dr Mohamed Zakaria El-Dars (PhD
Architecture 1964)
is Professor of Architecture
at the University of Al-Azhar in Cairo and has
an architectural practice, PAC (Planners
Architects Consultants).
Peter Gutteridge (BA Hons History 1961)
is an Organist and Choir Master at St Gabriel's
Church, Stoke Gabriel in Totnes, Devon.
Andrew John Hawker (LLB 1965)
is a retired
solicitor in commercial law who has had a
lifelong involvement with the Scout movement,
and holds the Bar to Silver Acorn Award. He
is Vice-Chairman of the Second Air Division
Memorial Trust of the United States Army Air
Forces (USAAF).
Harry David Hill (Bsc 1966, BSc Hons
Geography 1967)
is a former Deputy Head
in a rural comprehensive school and is now
a retired part-time gardener.
Philip Joseph Keating (MBChB 1960)
spent 36 years service in the US Army and is
a Vietnam Vet retiring as Colonel. He lives in
Savannah, Georgia in the US and is an amateur
­ and occasionally professional ­ thespian.
Peter Harvey Locke (BVSc 1969)
is President
of the British Veterinary Association. He has
been in full-time general practice for the last 40
years, establishing the Woodcroft Veterinary
Group and is very proud of his daughter Helen
(BVSc 2009) who is the fifth consecutive
generation to join the profession.
Edward Richard Neafcy (BA Geography
and Economics 1964)
has written amateur
Irish interest pieces for the Irish Genealogical
Foundation and is also an interviewer for a
dating agency.
Russell Peter Newton (BSc Biochemistry
1967, BSc Hons Biochemistry 1968, PhD
1971, DSc 1996)
is Emeritus Professor at
Swansea University, retiring in October 2008.
He still retains an interest in four ongoing
biochemistry research projects.
Kenneth Maurice Spencer (BA Hons
Geography 1963, MA 1968)
is a retired
Professor from the University of Birmingham
and was awarded an OBE in the Queen's
Birthday Honours List in 2008 for services to
higher education and to the community
in Birmingham.
Fredric William Taylor (BSc Hons Physics
1966)
is Halley Professor of Physics at the
University of Oxford and is the University of
Oxford representative on the Court of the
University of Liverpool.
1970s
Dr Roger Allen (BA Music 1974, BMus
1975)
is Fellow and tutor in Music at St Peter's
College Oxford. In July of this year he came
back to Liverpool to perform at the Liverpool
Cathedral in Two cities, One Voice: an evening
with the choirs of Liverpool Cathedral and St
Peter's College, Oxford in aid of the Liverpool
Cathedral Foundation.
Howard Cartwright (BA Hons Social Studies
1973, MCD 1975)
is a consultant for housing
projects in Staffordshire and Chair of the British
Water Polo Committee.