Those in touch
p = identified on photo
Pam Adair (now Claire Hillyard) 69 p
Stephen Blech 69
Dr
John Bloodworth
Geoff Brown p: I was one of the
year’s 'imports' from Cambridge, accompanying Peter Garratt and Franz
Sondheimer, with whom I was a post-doc for 67-8. I subsequently took up
a lectureship at Sir John Cass College, where I first met Ray White, and
retired as a Senior Lecturer from the University of Greenwich in 2002.
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.
Anthea Connor (now Parker, 69)
David Crabbe 69 p
Graham Bailey 69
Chris Cooksey p : I'm next to Mai Barrow and Alf
Layton. I was a junior technician and part of the Synthetic Chemical
Laboratory. I went on to be Experimental Officer and Technical Safety
Officer and NMR manager at UCL &c, (I had not yet learned to say
'no' then) departing in 1999. I contributed to about 70 publications
while at UCL. I subsequently worked part-time at University of
Greenwich, Science Museum, South Bank University, and currently I
consult for Citrefine International Limited. All of which gave me time
to develop my interest in natural dyes and publish lots more stuff,
e.g., see for example https://www.mdpi.com/1420-3049/6/9/736/htm
Roger Cowles p : After completing my PhD with Jack
Lewis in 1970 I joined ICI Heavy Organic Chemicals Division in
Billingham where I spent 11 years in the research department. In 1981 I
decided to take advantage of the incentives ICI were offering to get rid
of people. I moved to Alberta to work in the research department of
Syncrude Canada Ltd - who operate the largest oil sands
mining/extraction/upgrading complex in north eastern Alberta. Actually
its the largest operation of its type in the world. When I joined (1981)
the plant had only been in operation for 3 years so there were lots of
challenges. I was based in Edmonton but for a period in the mid 80's I
was a frequent flyer on the corporate plane when I had a pilot project
at the plant site. I continued in research until I retired in 2006. I
have also been involved in our professional chemists association. We
live in Alberta.
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 make gum in gallon tanks, a mnemonic device for
aldohexoses
[John Bloodworth has also contributed to recalling this] long after
we've forgotten any other Chemistry.
Roy Edens 69 p
Michael Fake 69
John Farrow 69 p: For the first 2 years at UCL I was
in Bentham Hall and in the third year in Finchley digs with John
Farmer. After finals, we travelled to the States and spent two
months working before a month touring around the US and Canada on
Greyhound buses on the recommendation of Peter Smith who was a year
ahead of us at UCL. On return, I took an MSc Course in
analytical chemistry at Bristol concentrating on chromatography. I
then joined the Laboratory of the Government Chemist at the south end of
Waterloo Bridge which provides a chemical analysis service for
government departments. I undertook chemical research into
pesticides and feeding stuffs. In 1974, the Government decided to
move the Lab to Cockermouth in Cumbria. It ended up at Teddington
but after my wife and I had left and joined the Science Research Council
which was moving from Holborn to Swindon. So I became an administrator
of science organising peer review of university research projects.
I enjoyed going around the country lecturing academics on how to get
government research funds. After various reorganisations, I ended
up working in the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research
Council. In retirement, I am an active volunteer restoring the
Wilts and Berks Canal and am a tour guide at Avebury and Ashdown House
for the National Trust.
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!
Nick Hamson 67 p: Nick also has the corresponding 1966 photo
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 did some quality support for the
Healthcare team at TNS (now Kantar Health since TNS were bought by WPP),
until getting them through their own ISO registrations. Semi-retired,
married with three graduate sons I maintain parish, old school (where
Michael Yeomans was the year below me) 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
Alex Kolombos Memories, at lunch in Wells and talking about
Shawn Doonan with a total stranger. I am in photo 3 of 11.
I was a PhD student of Ronald Nyholm who sadly died not long after I
graduated.
I keep in touch with a couple of other UCL graduates, Anna Justice and
Duncan Kelly.
I worked for BP when I left UCL, firstly as a research chemist,
inventing the Cyclar process, and then moving into ventures, planning
and business development.
Happily retired in Somerset. p
Alf Layton p: Most of the people I knew were
post-docs like myself, academic visitors and technical staff, so I'm
afraid my contribution to the photo is fairly meagre. I remember quite a
few overseas Post-docs of the period, but they seem to have been too shy
for the photo. It was interesting to have memories revived.
Evelyn Levene (née Waldman, married
in 1968) 69
Luciana Maresca 67-69 p: Professor
Luciana Maresca of the University of
Bari, Italy, in reply to Pete Smith: "I remember you (we have a paper
together); in particular I still remember the small plastic boxes we had
to build up (and properly seal) to contain the air-sensitive tin(II)
compounds, I was preparing under Robin's supervision, to get reasonable
Mössbauer spectra. I have a copy of the photo you mention that remained
for decades rolled up in a drawer of the flats I inhabited over the
years. A few years ago I decided to frame it and since then it is in a
corridor (just out of my office) together with some other 'historical'
specimens.
I was at UCL from November 1967 till September 1969. I worked all the
time in the old building (my bench was in D17, in the basement of the
Chemistry wing). In 1969 people started moving into the new building
including my supervisor (RJH Clark) and his group; but I was about to
leave and so I stayed on in the old place.
I worked there after my graduation in Italy and I was supported by
Italian money; UCL appointed me, as others in analogous situation, as
Honorary Member of the staff.
UCL was a great experience as I realized not only at the time but also
as the years went by. Ron Nyholm had working with him people from all
over the world; I overlapped with Jack Lewis too before he went to
Cambridge."
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.
Bob Merrett 69
Geoff Mines It was good to see the photo again and
revive past memories. I was a PhD student under Prof Jim Millen
1967-1970 located in the basement D17 laboratory of the old building. As
I recall the lab housed grad students and postdocs from all the branches
of chemistry and the lab was always full of a variety of distinctive
smells (not enough fume cupboards) which I remember I seemed to carry
with me onto the tube train home! I do remember one notable incident
when a flask containing a lachrymatory chemical broke on the floor and
we had to evacuate the building floor by floor and the safety officer at
the time had to go back in fully decked out in a rubber suit, mask and
oxygen cylinder to clear up!
I got married during my last year of PhD and after UCL I did a one year
postdoc in Quebec Canada before returning to the UK and doing another
postdoc at Oxford with Harold Thompson in the Physical Chemistry
Laboratory. I then moved into school teaching and after a few changes
ended up as Head of Science at Bedford School for 25 years. During this
time I became involved in the examining side of education and was a
Principal coursework moderator for many years giving INSET around the
country and also acting as an educational consultant for OFQUAL and its
predecessors. I have now retired and am enjoying being with the
grandchildren more, living by the sea and having the opportunity to do
more regular swimming.
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.
Peter Shirley 72 - I have added several names to part 9 - we
were all first years starting in 1967 and are having a 50th anniversary
reunion at UCL on 5th September 2017 in the Nyholm Room. p
Richard Sims 69
Anthony Sinden 69
Robert Smallwood 69
Bill
van Bronswijk p: Professor
Emeritus, Department of Chemistry, Curtin University, Perth, Western
Australia: I was at UCL from 1967 to 1970, first as an SRC and then an
ICI Postdoctoral Fellow with Prof Sir Ronald Nyholm. My first project
was to build a Nuclear Quadrupole Spectrometer, which I did successfully
with the assistance of an electronic engineer. NQR did not develop into
a significant technique but I did get one paper and a review article out
of the work. From there I went into wide line 14N NMR with
Joan Mason (Open University) and infrared and Raman spectroscopy (Robin
Clark). Both collaborations were highly successful, generating 7 14N
and 4 IR/Raman papers.
I returned to Australia in 1970 to take up a lectureship at the then
Western Australian Institute of Technology, which became Curtin
University of Technology in 1987. WAIT was essentially a teaching
institution in the 1970s but it was possible to do some research and my
first publication from WAIT based research was in 1974. The Department
of Applied Chemistry was focussed on analytical chemistry in those days
but it gradually broadened its scope. In the 1980s I concentrated on the
application of computers to online data acquisition and processing and
did not return to IR and Raman spectroscopy work until the early 1990s.
I have been involved with the IR beam lines at the Australian
Synchrotron since the planning stage in 2004 and last month retired from
the Chair of its IR Program Advisory Committee. I retired in December
2007 but remain active in IR and Raman studies in forensic science and
corrosion. This week [writing 23/7/12] a new Nicolet mid/far IR
spectrometer (iS50) and IR microscope (iN10 MX) are being commissioned
to enhance and upgrade the Department of Chemistry’s facilities. I don’t
see me hanging up my lab coat and safety glasses in the near future.
John Walker 69
Hugh Webber 69: I was at UCL 1966-1969. Sadly I know understand
that I did not make enough of the facilities London in general could
offer, artistically and competitively. I only managed one trip to the
Royal Festival Hall, no theatres, a few films and football matches.
Coming from a small Devon town I found London too big, I was a country
boy at heart. Going home I was always happy with plenty of countryside
and the sea.
At the end of 1969 I took a job as a materials research scientist at
the Royal Radar Establishment (RRE), Malvern (finally privatised as
QinetiQ). I started growing single crystal semiconductor materials
such as lead telluride, zinc vanadium selluride and nickel
disulphide. I gave up on the latter when I blew the door off a
supposedly explosion proof cabinet. International collaborations
included working at Bell Labs and the Naval Ocean Systems Centre
(computing), both in the USA. I ended up in project management, looking
after groups researching tracking applications and speech research.
However, after family, my real love in life is small-bore target
shooting. My biggest achievement was to shoot for and captain an England
team in Home Countries matches. I am now an International Shooting Judge
and was a technical official at the London Olympics.
Geoff Westlake 69 p: After graduating I joined
Courtaulds R&D in Coventry in their nylon/polyester fibre pilot
plant as I specifically asked not to be in a laboratory! In December
1970 I started as Production Supervisor at the Wellcome Foundation Ltd’s
pharmaceutical factory in Dartford Kent. After 15 years during which I
had progressed to factory unit management, I transferred to their
Research site at Beckenham. There I headed up the product development
Project Management unit, moving on to take responsibility for all
R&D IT services. I was made redundant in 1996 and got a job with
Norton Healthcare, then part of IVAX Pharmaceuticals, as their IT
Director. I have been retired since 2002 after being made redundant for
the second time. Along the way I studied for a postgraduate DMS and for
a time was a MCIM and FRSC. Pastimes are dominated by golfing and golf
admin, but have also got into genealogy. I enjoy regular travel and
being a grandparent to my own family and my step family.
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: After six years in UCL’s
Chemistry Department, I redirected my career toward finance, qualifying
as a chartered accountant. My initial roles were in the
professional sector culminating in an equity partnership in Grant
Thornton. From there I joined a publicly-listed industrial
minerals company to become their Group Finance Director. Following
take-over of that company, I joined Westminster School, to develop the
new role of Finance Bursar, from which I retired in 2014. My
voluntary roles have included a period on the Council of Plymouth Marjon
University and I am currently a member of the Institute of Cancer
Research (University of London), serving on two of their
Committees I am also a Governor of a Community College in
South Devon and an Honorary Life Member of the Institute of Directors,
having served two terms on the Institute Council. My other interests
include art, music and period homes as well as the great outdoors, which
finds me gardening or (when time permits!) walking to appreciate the
beauty of South Devon where my wife, Ira, and I have made our home.
Those graduating in Chemistry in 1969 not in touch: can you help 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
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
Somersall,
Allan Calvin 69 p d 2015
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Some staff who taught the 1969 graduates, not in the photo
Dr
Derek Banthorpe d
Dr
AG Loudon
Prof
Alan MacColl d
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
|
And then the book ...
UCL Chemistry Department 1828-1974
- with profiles of 1974 staff extended to 2013
Alwyn Davies and Peter Garratt have succeeded
brilliantly in capturing the dynamics of a successful
department and the careers of its many colourful characters
Professor Sir Malcolm Grant, former UCL Provost and President.
Paperback, 300 pages in full colour, ISBN 978-1-900814-46-1
£12 including postage.
Available to purchase through the UCL
College Shop or via UCL's
Online Store |
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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, John Bloodworth,
Geoff Brown, Trevor Brown, Robin Clark, David Clow, Chris Cooksey,
Roger Cowles, David Crabbe, Peter Garratt, Frank Haslam, Simon
Hook, Duncan Kelly, John Kennedy, Alex Kolombos, Alf Layton, Luciana
Maresca, Geoff Mines, Jim Parkin, Fred Pearce, David Rycroft, Peter
Shirley, Peter Smith, Brenda Snaith (née Muggleton), Bill van Bronswijk,
Geoff Westlake, Mary Williams (née Quilliam), Mike Young
page started 18 Oct 2008: last updated 25 Jan 19: 20 Feb 21
edited by Frank
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