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• W. Thomas (Tom) Mears B.A. (1967)
Tom was delighted to be in the first TCD soccer team which won the intervarsity Collingwood Cup in 1967. This team, under captain Thomas R. (Tom) Nolan M.A. (1967) was recently honoured to receive the first TCD Hall of Fame award in a very pleasant ceremony amongst old friends at the Pavilion in College Park in 2006. He established his own business in Dundalk, manufacturing electronic instruments to monitor temperature, pressure and related parameters (www.eurolec-instruments.com). Tom is married with two children and one grandchild, and would be interested to hear from contemporaries of the same era!
• Rosalind Pritchard B.A. (1967)
Is Professor and Head of the School of Education at the University of Ulster.
• Anne Leonard B.A., M.A. (1963)
Living in London, Anne has edited two books of hilarious reminiscences by graduates who recall their time at TCD in the years between 1940 and 1975 and the role of the charismatic and now legendary Junior Dean, Dr R. B. McDowell. The Magnificent McDowell – Trinity in the Golden Era and The Junior Dean – Encounters with a Legend are available from the Trinity Library Bookshop. Anne has devoted most of her career, to charitable causes. Since 1993, she has been Chairman of Operation New World. She is also Vice-President of The British Society of Dowsers.
• Martin Ferguson Smith M.Litt., M.A., Litt.D. (1962)
Professor Martin Ferguson Smith, who was appointed an O.B.E. in the Birthday Honours List in June 2007 “for services to Scholarship”, received his award from the Queen at Buckingham Palace in October. He was accompanied by his daughter, Lucinda, and granddaughter, Ciara.
Since taking early retirement from a Chair of Classics at Durham University in 1995, Martin has lived on Foula, the remotest (and windiest!) of the Shetlands, where he combines scholarly research and writing with the care of his gardens and two Highland cows. He is best known for his work on the Roman poet Lucretius and, above all, for the discovery and publication, over a period of 40 years, of numerous ancient Greek philosophical texts inscribed on stone at Oinoanda in the mountains of southern Turkey.
• Alan Quinn M.A. (1962)
Alan retired in August 2005 following a career of 42 years in education. Starting as a Junior Research Fellow in the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine and finishing as a consultant in education and an inspector of schools with OFSTED (Office for Standards in Education, Children’s Services and Skills). In between times he taught in a wide variety of schools including service overseas with MoD, in Malta, Cyprus and The Netherlands, and as a volunteer for a semester in a Polish state school. During his career he also gained an M.Sc. in biochemistry and an M.A. in educational research and produced a number of publications and is an elected member of The Royal Society of Chemistry.
1950s
• Ann Grahame, (née Stokes) M.A., M.B. (1957)
Since retiring from active clinical practice in April, 2003 Ann has travelled extensively. She is on the Board of Government House Historical Society, and editor of The Portico. She is very active in the Rotary Club of Regina Eastview and is on the Community Services committee, Literacy Manager for Rotary District 5550, and Area Ambassador for Shelterbox. She has a daughter and a son, and two grandchildren, Finn and Paul. Sadly, her husband, Philip William Bayley Grahame, died in March, 2003.
1940s
• Ivan Goodbody M.A. (1949)
Ivan has returned from Jamaica and is now living in Aberdeen in Scotland where he holds an Honorary Research Fellowship in the School of Biological Sciences at Aberdeen University. This position enables him to complete writing papers on Caribbean marine biology. Ivan can be contacted at
ivan.goodbody@uwimona.edu.jm
• Thomas Bewley M.A., M.D. (1948)
Is alive and cheerful and has just completed a history of British and Irish Psychiatry from 1800 - 2000, From Madness to Mental Illness. Information is available from the Publisher:
www.rcpsych.ac.uk/publications.
(Photo captioned: Thomas Bewley M.A., M.D. (1948).)
(Photo captioned: 1962 – Martin Ferguson Smith M.Litt., M.A., Litt.D. (1962) accompanied by his daughter, Lucinda, and granddaughter, Ciara.)
(Photo captioned: Ann Grahame (née Stokes) M.A., M.B. (1957).)
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