A W nchester
Jun or Fellow
Featuring Amanda Chain
It is a cold November day when Amanda and I meet
in a café in Mayfair. After three years at Winchester,
she has headed for London, where she is doing
graduate work in archaeology. “Winchester showed
me how you never stop learning,” she explained.
“I realized there were still things I wanted to study.”
The first thing I wanted to know was how a 22-yearold graduate from the University of Pennsylvania,
not to mention a champion national rower,
wound up in Winchester.
It all goes back to Albert Gordon, she explained:
an American who stumbled across Winchester College,
fell in love with it, sent his sons there, and set up
the Winchester Fellowship to fund a succession of
American graduates to spend a year at Winchester.
36 The Wykeham Journal 2014
The Wykeham Journal 2014 37