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(Photo captioned: W.Thomas (Tom) Mears B.A. (1967) with STEM officer Marie-Louise Lambon)

(Photo captioned: Patricia Cleveland-Peck M.A. (1967).)

• Jane Stephenson B.B.S. (1973)

Jane has been living in Wicklow since 1995 having returned from the US and London. Having worked on the Olympic Organising Committee in LA in 1984 and for the Evening Standard in London running business events, upon her return to Ireland she set up Seminars.ie, an events and seminar company promoting inspirational speakers in Ireland. Jane was recently short-listed for the Image Entrepreneur of the Year Award. She has two children, Patrick Coast, who has finished his second year studying Economics and Politics at TCD, and Emma Coast, who has just finished school.

• Alan Vaux B.A., Ph.D. (1973)

Alan is Professor of Psychology and Dean of the College of Liberal Arts at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. Born and raised in Dublin, he notes that he might never have attended college if his calculus teacher at School, Mr. (Pip) Graham, had not required the entire class to fill out college applications one day. He has been published widely in the field of community psychology and was elected a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and of the Association of Psychological Science. He notes his greatest accomplishment as marrying Mary Rebecca Rosenberg in 1986.

• Henry Murdoch M.B.A., Barrister-at-law (1972)

Henry has been reappointed in London to the Council of the City & Guilds Institute for a further four year term to 2012. He was appointed in 2008 by the National Qualifications Authority of Ireland to an independent study group on the implementation and impact of the National Framework of Qualifications.

He is currently the Chairman of the National Rehabilitation Hospital which recently lodged a planning application for a new €200m hospital in Dun Laoghaire. He is on a panel of Assessors for the Financial Regulator, is a member of Tenancy Tribunals and Mental Health Tribunals and is a nonexecutive director of Skillnets Ltd. He retired as Assistant Director General with FAS in 1999 but he says that there is life after retirement!

• Paulyn Marrinan Quinn SC B.A., Barrister-at-Law, (1972)

Paulyn was appointed by the President in September 2005 to serve as Ireland's first Ombudsman for the Defence Forces. Paulyn established the Conflict and Dispute Resolution Studies Post Graduate Diploma in 2001 in Trinity and has lectured and trained in this area extensively at home and abroad.

• Peter Humfrey B.A. (1970)

Peter is Professor of Art History at the University of St Andrews. He will be making a visit to Trinity next academic year as an external reviewer of the School of Histories and Humanities.


1960s

• David Norris M.A. (1968)

Trinity in the 1960s was a great place to be and very much smaller than today. As a frequent visitor to debates in the Phil, Hist, other societies, ‘Green Week’ and other events, David is glad to see many of the traditions survive from his day.

Although not teaching in Trinity any more, he still does his James Joyce one man show which he has performed all over the world. David is also very much involved in the Seanad and was heavily engaged in the Cluster Munitions Treaty, putting motions through both the Foreign Affairs Committee and the Seanad. He also persuaded the Seanad to invite the Dalai Lama to speak .

• Patricia Cleveland-Peck M.A. (1967)

Patricia Cleveland-Peck (née Cross) works as a freelance writer. She has written some 14 children's books, three adult non-fiction books, a couple of radio plays and had her first stage play performed in 2004. She has just finished her first adult novel. As a 'day job' she writes for the travel sections of national newspapers and magazines. Married in 1963, she has three adult children and one grandchild. She and her husband Dennis live in the country in Sussex in a cottage with five acres of land where for many years they have kept a small flock of sheep, chickens, ducks and bees and have grown vegetables and fruit. They can now justifiably class themselves tired old greens.

• Colin Hill M.Litt. (1967)

Colin graduated from TCD in 1967 with an M.Litt. in 18th Century Irish history. Starting from an advertisement he found in the Careers Advisory Service at Trinity, he began his 41-year career as a film editor with the BBC in London, and then with ABC News in New York. In 1966, Colin married Margaret Purdon Coote of Mallow. They have four children, and have resided happily in Princeton, New Jersey since 1976.

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