Official opening
- Central buildings are completed and Dining Hall opened
- First dinner in the Dining Hall (26 March)
- College opened by the duke of Edinburgh; Prime Minister present (5 June)
- First cohort of undergraduates graduate
- East Court completed
- First May Ball
- Churchill Association (for alumni) formed; membership 3 guineas p.a.
- GODS, student dramatic society, formed
- Black Monday mayhem leads to abolition of annual Winston birthday dinners
- First Honorary Fellow elected: Sir Winston
- First female Fellow Commoner appointed: Helen Clover (New Hall, History)
- Second funding appeal sent to the original donors
- The Founder gifts one of his paintings, Still Life with Flowers
- Independent Chapel Trust founded, to build and run a chapel
- C. P. Snow, Fellow, appointed deputy Minister of Technology in UK government
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Jim Potter decided he wanted to learn to play bass guitar, so he found three others to form a rock group: Paul Barton, Colin Clemens, and me. The ‘Shades of Night’, as we called ourselves, played for two years. The highlights of our musical career were being support band for Long John Baldry and Screaming Lord Sutch.
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.