News
Reunion 2016
Reunion 2017
Every year we host a weekend where Alumni return
to share stories and learn new ones.
Once again, the College has
been grateful of the support of
our alumni members over the
2016-17 year. This has been
through both the work of the
Grey Association, and also
through individuals coming to the
College to give of the time in var-
ious ways to support our current
life. We are particularly grateful to
those alumni who have come and
given of their time to talk about
their careers and place of work to
current students.
Back over the weekend 31st
March to 2nd April we welcomed
alumni back to College for the
Annual Reunion held with the
Grey College Association. It was
great to welcome back Alumni
from throughout the College’s
history. As always the main event
of the weekend was the excellent
dinner in the Hall on the Saturday
evening, and we extended our
grateful thanks to Bryan Huitson
(Head Chef) and Nicola Gittins
(Front of House) and their teams
for all the hard work they put in
to make the event so memorable.
At this year’s reunion, we were
pleased to see and spend time
with a group celebrating the 40th
anniversary of graduation. As
they had mainly studied physics,
the College arranged for them
to see the Ogden Centre West,
the University’s new building
where research into Astronomy
and Cosmology is undertaken. A
reception was then held for the
group before the dinner, where
various items of memorabilia
including year group photos and
copies of the Phoenix Magazine
from the years the group were
students. This brought lots or
reminiscing and a great starting
point for conversations of what
has (and hasn’t changed) in Col-
lege over the intervening period.
The group are looking forward to
meeting up at Grey for their next
big anniversary already!
Your Stories
We’d love to hear your stories and current news let
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In future editions, we hope to
be able to include a selection of
memories of Grey College from
former students, as well as any
news about former students. If
anyone would like to contribute
to this section please send your
memories or news to grey.alumni@
durham.ac.uk. Perhaps you have
got married, changed careers or
moved house. Occasionally, spe-
cific memories may be requested
through either the monthly Univer-
sity Alumni Newswire, or through
social media. The College will only
publish anything you provide in
accordance with your wishes.
Additionally, the College is always
delighted to hear from any of our
former students at the above ad-
dress at any time, and you can use
this as a general contact address
for the college.
Further ways to keep in touch with
the College are by following us on
twitter, @grey_college, and at the
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The College had also arranged
a display of current development
work, including the final plans for
the refurbishment of Fountains
Hall, which began over the sum-
mer, and also our next project to
be able to provide a much great-
er amount of money towards
annual awards for student devel-
opment outside the classroom.
The display, as in the previous
year, also enabled alumni to view
reports from students who had
been awarded money from the
Grey College Association. These
awards meant students could:
attend the National Council for
Metal Detecting; take part in an
Introduction to Mountaineering
Course in the Rocky Mountains,
Colorado; and being part of the
American election campaign trail.
The support of these awards,
which is in addition to those
awarded by the College Trust,
really does help their personal
development.
If alumni would like to get in-
volved in supporting the College,
please do get in touch with the
Vice-Master in the first instance,
[email protected] We are
always delighted to hear from
you.
RIGHT Vice
Master Peter
Swift shakes
hand of grad-
uate and JCR
President-Elect
David Slade
website, dur.ac.uk/grey.college/
alumni