University College London Chemical and Physical Society 1967-68

This web page was started as a result of the UCL Alumni 40 year Reunion held on 11 October 2008 for those graduating 1967-69.
1969 graduates John Farrow and Frank Haslam both brought their Chem and Phys Soc 1967-68 photos.

Faces identified in the photo are listed below. Women's surnames shown in brackets are those at the time of the photo.
The year after a name is year of graduation.

If you can add names to this photo please contact the editor, Frank Haslam 69.
When naming please state part no./row no./no. in row.
If a face gets more than one name both will be shown until one is confirmed.

Frank will note your contact details in case others wish to contact you: no contact information will be shown on this page; any request for contact will be forwarded so that it is up to the 'target' to respond. Please also see the Links provided. If you have not already done so, the UCL Alumni people would like us to make contact.

Some UCL Alumni 40 year Reunion photos, 2008
Chemistry Laboratory Dinner 25th November 2011

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On what date was this photo taken by Panora? David Rycroft (68) writes "I've now looked at my 1967/68 College Diary. Under Friday 15th March 1968 I have written "Chem Phys Soc Photo 12.30." Mary Williams (Quilliam 68): I was Social Secretary of the Society, the Secretary was John Kennedy. We tried to advertise it widely, but some people were shy, sceptical or otherwise engaged. In the end, we were delighted with the turnout, especially from all the professors and lecturers. d = has died part 1 of 11 row 3: Mike Dodsworth - 2 - Peter Herbert (died at the age of 49) - 4 - John Farrow - Jeff Horton row 2: Helen Sergeant (potholer) - 2 - Mary Quilliam - 4 - 5 - Phil Ellis row 1: 1 - Rosemary Martin 67 - Dave Joy - David Goodwin

 

part 2 of 11 row 3: Phil Wills - Frank Haslam - 3 - 4 - 5 - Allan Somersall row 2: Rosemary Jones - Ross Bunce - 3 - 4 - 5 row 1: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4

 

part 3 of 11 row 3: 1 - 2 - 3 - [behind] Geoff Branston? - Terry Silk - Pete Smith - Nick Ham(p)son row 2: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 row 1: 1 - Bill van Bronswijk (Perth, Australia) - Clive Holloway? - 4

 

part 4 of 11 row 4: Derek Partridge - Michael Young row 3: Dave Puxley - Don Emerson - Tony Rood - Ian Rogers - Ray Colvin row 2: Roger Cowles - George Maitland d (Chief Technician Phys Chem Lab) - 3 - 4 row 1: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4

 

part 5 of 11 row 4: David Clow - Trevor Brown row 3: Bob Young - David Rycroft - Dave Vamplew - Dave Dodd - 5 - Bob Townsend row 2: Kathryn Knapp (Sarginson) - Alan Knapp d - John Lawrence - Pamela Adair - Roger Mullaley row 1: 1 - Dr Bob Cooper d staff i/c stores - Prof John Callomon d - Dr Stuart Walmsley

 

part 6 of 11 row 4: George Callewaert - 2 - 3 row 3: Howard Natley? - Les Smith - Kes Smith - Ray Tudor - Paul Wusteman? - Roger Pengilly? row 2: Alf Layton (Technician, became College Safety Officer) - Peter Gaston (Microanalysis Lab) - 3 - 4 - Michael Yeomans row 1: Dr Thirunamachandran d - Dr Mel Stiddard* d - Prof Jim Millen d - Prof Ronald Nyholm d * President for 1967/68

 

part 7 of 11 row 4: Neil Rowland - Richard Cottrell row 3: Dave Rule - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 row 2: Phil Normington - 2 - 3 - Dave Reece ('Dave the bin') - John Cresswell (Chem draughtsman) row 1: Prof Martin Tobe d - Prof Robin Clark - Prof Brian Johnson (went to Cambridge soon after photo) - Peter Howes

 

part 8 of 11 row 4: 1 row 3: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 row 2: Dave Crabbe - Rob McQuillan - Andrew Holmes - Stuart Baxter row 1: Roy Edens - Geoff Westlake - David Titchmarsh - Bob Wolf

 

part 9 of 11 row 4: Jim Yarrow (Stores, old building) row 3: Tom Marks (Stores, old building) - 2 - 3 - Hilary Doonan (Waller) - 5 row 2: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 row 1: Diane Davis (Connolly) - Dr Peter Pauling d - Simon Hook - Judith Hook (née Runcieman)

 

part 10 of 11 row 3: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 row 2: Luciana Natile (née Maresca) - 2 - 3 row 1: Prof Tony Legon (on staff for long time but went to Exeter and Bristol) - John Kennedy (Secy of Chem Phys Soc at time) - Dr John Bloodworth

 

part 11 of 11 row 3: 1 - 2 - 3 row 2: 1 - Marie Eichler (Secretary to Mel Stiddard?) - Lynn Bowen, Departmental Secretary row 1: Prof Peter Garratt - Geoff Brown - Anne Oyerindi (Lab Technician)

Those in touch

p = identified on photo

Pam Adair (now Claire Hillyard) 69 p

Stephen Blech 69

Geoff Brown

Anthea Connor (now Parker, 69)
David Crabbe 69 p

Graham Bailey 69

Trevor Brown 69 p: I have worked all my life as a professional musician - nothing to do with chemistry! I graduated in 1969 and then stayed on to do a Ph.D. under the stewardship of Mel Stiddard. However I decided after two years that I no longer enjoyed the research process and therefore wrote up for an M.Phil instead. I well remember the day that I told him I was going to finish early (he was great about it) and I went out and bought a car. What a liberation day! I was lucky in my career as a musician/music arranger and spent the majority of the time working in Television. Nowadays the TV scene has changed and I no longer have contacts in that area, but enjoy playing the piano in the Syd Lawrence Orchestra which is run by a close friend of mine.

Prof Alwyn Davies: Mary Williams writes: Prof Davies - he was so good with the first Czech exchange students, having us and the Czechs all up to his house for dinner. And he gave us a fascinating lecture about UCL history, with the College song:- 'In London 1826, a hundred year ago - when London was a wilderness, as everyone should know...'. He showed us Ramsay's (?) Nobel prize medal and a few days later we saw Heirovski's as well - two in one week. And I think we'll all remember All altruists gladly distil glue in gallon tanks [a mnemonic device for aldohexoses] long after we've forgotten any other Chemistry.

Roy Edens 69 p

Michael Fake 69
John Farrow 69 p

Robert Glass 69
Rosemary Guild (now Ford) 69

Prof Peter Garratt

David Griller, 69: Came to Canada and did research in chemistry for about 12 years. Switched over to business consulting where I had some previous experience. Also launched a company in distance education and one in oncology. Three children (one in the UK at the moment). Four grandchildren so far!

Frank Haslam 69 p: After UCL I migrated from the chemicals industry (Bush Boake Allen) via a postgrad marketing diploma, to market research with the Rank Organisation, then joined one of their small suppliers, Taylor Nelson Associates. 31 years later, the company had become TNS plc, the biggest market research agency in Europe. When I left at the end of 2006 it was as UK Quality Director. I did my ISO Standards assessor training and now work with the people who did our external registration assessments. This takes me all over the UK and sometimes abroad. It's nice when people I used to work with turn up in the companies I visit. I still do some quality support for the Healthcare team at TNS (now Kantar Health since we were bought by WPP). Semi-retired, married with three graduate sons I maintain parish, old school and many other websites including this one, help to research RAF & local history and try to keep fit. We live in Surrey.
Simon Hook p

Penny Isaac (now Bagshaw, 68)

Margaret James 69

John D Kennedy Professor Emeritus and Research Professor of Inorganic Chemistry, School of Chemistry, University of Leeds

Evelyn Levene (née Waldman, married in 1968) 69

Carol Mayle (now Stegmann) 69: I have not moved far and still live in North London but am in touch with no one from my year and only knew Evy Levene because I recognised her at a North London Collegiate School parents evening. I was Head of Science at NLCS and have since retired [see Staff Room Valete].
Bob Merrett 69
Richard Mullins 69

Dr Jim Parkin: Vice-Chair of the UCL London Alumni Group : "Alwyn Davies and Peter Garratt are collecting material for a history of the department in the 50s and 60s. It is partly factual and partly anecdotal so I am sure that people on this page could contribute to it. Please contact Frank Haslam 69 who will forward it to us."

Mary Quilliam (now Williams, 68) p

Prof John Ridd
David Rycroft 68: I came to Glasgow (Chemistry) in 1974 and retired in 2005 (but am now an Honorary Research Fellow and retain the email address and webpage). I think the people I knew best from the previous [1969 graduating] year were Mike Young and Trevor Brown (at one stage I was in a flat in Chalk Farm along with Trevor, Pete Smith, and another). I attended the 40 year reunion in 2007.

Richard Sims 69
Anthony Sinden 69
Robert Smallwood 69

John Walker 69
Geoff Westlake 69 p
Philip Wills 69 p: After getting my chemistry degree, I obtained an MSc in Biochemistry, also at UCL. My first appointment in 1970 was as a Biochemist (later designated Clinical Scientist) at West Park Hospital Pathology Dept. in Epsom, Surrey, later moving to Epsom District Hospital (good for Derby Day!). The job interfaced between the laboratory and medical staff, advising on blood and other body fluids results, interpretation and further investigations as well as diagnostic development. 1974-5 I worked for Technicon - a US analyser manufacturer and also at Bart's Hospital. In 1975 I moved back into the NHS and worked in four hospitals in SE London as a Clinical Scientist reaching Principal Grade. I gained Fellowship of the Royal College of Pathologists and made sure I got CChem and MRSC along the way which was based on a working life in Chemistry. I was made redundant in 2006 just before my 60th but it worked out OK. Divorced with three graduate daughters, I live in SE London. In March 2011 I met up with Trev Brown, Mike Fake, John Farrow, and Mike Young.

Michael Yeomans 70 p
Michael Young 69 p

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Those graduating 1969 not in touch: can you help us to trace them?

p = identified on photo: d = have died

Best, Alfred George 69 Bowes, Quentin Nigel 69 Bunce, Ross John 69 Dodsworth, Michael 69 p Farmer, John Norman 69 Hart, Keith Alisdaire 69 Hickie, Michael Graham 69 Highet, Tessa 69 Holmes, John Leslie 69 Hopkinson, William Humphrey 69 Horton, Jeffrey 69 p Howes, Peter 69 p Inkson, Robert William 69 Jackson, Diana 69

King, David John 69 Lawrence, John Thomas Charles 69 p Lester, Andrew 69 Mincovitch, Susan Gail 69 Mullaley, Roger 69 p O'Sullivan, David Michael 69 Parsons, Chistopher Robert 69 Platt, Ian David 69 Segal, John Anthony 69 Somersall, Alan Calvin 69 p Titchmarsh, David Malcolm 69 p Tovell, Nicholas John 69 Webber, Hugh Charles 69

Those who have died Buckley, Colette Aimee 69 d Giles, Phillip L 69 d 2011: his family are in touch Herbert, Peter Wynne 69 d p

Some staff who taught the 1969 graduates, not in the photo

Dr Derek Banthorpe d
Dr AG Loudon
Prof Alan MacColl d

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Some UCL Alumni 40 year Reunion photos, 2008

from 89 Gower St towards what was Dillons

Gower Street towards Euston Road

 

 

UCH (now UCL Cruciform Building) from UCL: GPO (now BT) Tower on left, from the Quad

 

from the Portico

 

Portico roof

 

Entrance to Flaxman Library from the Portico .... not available in our day

 

Flaxman Library with returned sculpture

... overseen by Jeremy Bentham

 

 

Jeremy, in the South Cloisters

Corridor from the North Cloisters to what was the Chemistry Department

 

Bel Mooney, English 69 - one of the speakers after the Dinner

 

L-R: John Farrow 69 - Anthea Parker (Connor 69) - Dr Jim Parkin - Mary Williams (Quilliam 68) - Geoff Westlake 69 - Penny Bagshaw (Isaac 68)

Frank Haslam 69 took that photo

UCL LONDON'S GLOBAL UNIVERSITY
40 Year Reunion 2008 Attendee List, as of 02.10.08

First Name Surname Former surname Department Graduation Year Christine Abbott Benbrook English 1970 Phillip Acott   Phys And Astro 1967 Roger Allard   Greek And Latin 1967 Roger Allen   History 1967 Susan Allen Williams History 1967 Peter Applegate   Geological Sci 1969 Jennifer Applegate       Penelope Bagshaw Isaac Chemistry 1968 John Blythe   Chemical Eng 1969 Mary Bonar Bretell Laws 1968 Howard Brabrook   Economics 1968 Teresa Cattell-Hollox       Frederick Chinery   Bartlett School 1969 Rosalind Clow Bradshaw Psychology 1969 David Clow   Chemistry 1968 Hazel Cookson Douglas Psychology 1968 Michael Coyle   Mathematics 1969 Marilyn Crocker Buttle Bot & Micro 1969 Doreen Duthie Place Bot & Micro 1968 Jennifer Edwards Cork Economics 1969 Carolyn Elliott   Hebrew 1967 Robert Ellis   Geography 1968 Richard Fred Evans   Geography 1968 John Farrow   Chemistry 1969 Gladys Glascoe Zonena English 1969 Philip Glascoe       John Hale   Geography 1968 Anthony Hammond   Laws 1969 Heather Harrison   Zoology 1969 Peter Harrison       Frank Haslam   Chemistry 1969 Maureen Hibbs   Psychology 1968

First Name Surname Former surname Department Graduation Year Rosemary Hill Briggs History 1968 Richard Hollox   Bartlett School 1967 Samuel Joda     1967 Sue King Fitt Bot & Micro 1969 Catherine King       David Lamming   Laws 1968 Dave Lawrence   Microbiology 1969 Peter Logan   Slade School 1968 Sarah McAlister Stone Psychology 1967 Bel Mooney   English 1969 Anthea Parker Connor Chemistry 1969 Jim Parkin       Thomas Pastor   Med School - UCL 1968 Lyn Pykett   English 1969 Heather Rhodes   Human Comnc Sci 1969 David Rubin   Laws 1969 John Sienkiewicz   Geography 1969 Teresa Sienkiewicz   Geography 1969 Gillian Taylor   French 1968 Helen Taylor   English 1969 Susan Vaile   Bartlett School 1968 Elizabeth Valentine Cornish Psychology 1968 Clare Vickers   French 1968 John Walton   Economics 1968 Peter Warn   Geography 1969 Geoff Westlake   Chemistry 1969 Peter Wigley   Geological Sci 1969 Caroline Wigley       Mary Lynn Williams Quilliam Chemistry 1968 Frank Wright   Geography 1968 Kathleen Yates   Scandinavian Studies 1967 David Young   Chemical Eng 1969

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Chemistry Laboratory Dinner 25th November 2011

Prof Alwyn Davies

Prof John Ridd

Head of Department Prof Ivan Parkin, with Prof Robin Clark

Les Smith - Simon Hook - Ray Tudor - Alwyn Davies - Pete Smith - Mike Young - John Farrow
- all except Alwyn Davies were in the Chem & Phys Soc photo

(John Rees) - John Farrow - (Prof Ivan Parkin, bow tie) - Pete Smith - Mike Young

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Some links

UCL Chemistry Department
UCL Chemistry Lecturers - History
UCL Alumni

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With thanks to John Farrow for the UCL Chemistry BSc 1969 list information
images: Haslam, unless otherwise specified
identifiers: Penny Bagshaw (née Isaac), Graham Bailey, Geoff Brown, Trevor Brown, Robin Clark, David Clow, David Crabbe, Peter Garratt, Frank Haslam, Simon Hook, John Kennedy, Jim Parkin, David Rycroft, Peter Smith, Brenda Snaith (née Muggleton), Geoff Westlake, Mary Williams (née Quilliam), Mike Young
page started 18 Oct 2008: last updated 10 May 12
edited by Frank Haslam