Building nears completion
- Death of the Founder, Sir Winston
- Governing Body votes to rescind men-only clause in its Charter
- Bevin and Bracken Libraries and Wolfson Hall opened by the Lord Chancellor
- The Library includes an archives room
- Wolfson Flats completed
- Prime Minister Harold Wilson cancels visit owing to Rhodesia crisis
- Original West Court abandoned, leaving vista to playing fields open
- Wolfson Foundation provides £300,000 for (reduced) final residential court
- First Churchill Association annual dinner, in London
- Copy of William Orpen portrait of the Founder (hanging in Hall) gifted by the Trustees
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4 November: Arrival of the Barbara Hepworth sculpture “Squares with two Circles” and erection on the rear lawn.
I arrived in 1965 as one of ten Churchill Scholars, the first full group of American graduate students following smaller startup groups in 1963 and 1964. Sir John Cockroft, the Master, and Lady Cockroft invited us all to a sherry party to get acquainted. Four of us had brought our wives with us to Cambridge, and we eight quickly became friends. Soon we got to know other Churchill couples, initially Canadians who, like us, were strangers in a strange land, but also couples among our wonderful British hosts.
The Wolfson flats were not completed, but the college found us a great flat on Gilbert Road. Unlike the other Churchill Scholars, who mostly were spending one year at Churchill, I had come for three years to do my PhD with Richard Eden in the Cavendish. I shared an office there, just off Free School Lane. We had a car, but parking there was impossible, so I cycled across Jesus Green and back every day. I don’t remember it raining, but the streets were always wet.
But I also frequented the college – especially the buttery – and enjoyed Churchill student life as well. We four American couples met for dinner in hall weekly until the wives decided they preferred their own cooking. We guys joined in football games – both “soccer” and US football – on the college fields.
It was the start of three life-changing years.
I arrived in 1965 as one of ten Churchill Scholars, the first full group of American graduate students following smaller startup groups in 1963 and 1964. The Master, Sir John Cockroft, and Lady Cockroft invited us all to a sherry party to get acquainted. Four of us had brought our wives with us to Cambridge, and we eight quickly became friends. Soon we got to know other Churchill couples, initially Canadians, Aussies, and Kiwis who, like us, were strangers in a strange land, but also couples among our wonderful British hosts.
The Wolfson flats were not completed, but the college found us a great flat on Gilbert Road. Unlike the other Churchill Scholars, who mostly were spending one year at Churchill, I had come for three years to do my PhD with Richard Eden in the Cavendish. I shared an office there, just off Free School Lane. We had a car, but parking there was impossible, so I cycled across Jesus Green and back every day. I don’t remember it raining, but the streets were always wet.
But I also frequented the college – especially the buttery – and enjoyed Churchill student life as well. We four American couples met for dinner in hall weekly until the wives decided they preferred their own cooking. We guys joined in football games – both “soccer” and US football – on the college fields. It was the start of three life-changing years.