A full College of the University
- The Trustees transfer the endowment to the College, enabling it to be designated a full College of the University of Cambridge
- The College now liable to contribute to the intercollegiate fund
- The College already reaches its original target size of 600 members
- Charter formally amended to allow the possibility of admitting women
- Fellows’ wives permitted to dine not only on Ladies Nights
- First alumni reunion held
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I was admitted as a postgraduate married student at Churchill College in 1965. This photo of myself and my wife Ranjita Datta was taken in 1966 on the open field between just introduced first block of flats for married students at the background and Churchill College building during 1966. Incidentally we were the first ever occupiers of married students’ flats arranged on an emergency basis before the formal opening of the flats. This was because Cambridge had a spell of severe cold weather in early 1966 and my wife became very ill with flu when we were living in a dig. The college doctor who came to see her decided to take her to the college sick bay. At that time the college was only for male students so her admission to college sick bay was another exception and perhaps she was only female patient in sick bay in the duration when college was exclusively for male students.