Sub-sub-sub-series 10 - Foundation Dinner

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SJCR/SJAR/5/1/10/10

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GB 1859 SJCR/SJAR/5/1/10/10

Title

Foundation Dinner

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  • 1934-2022 (Creation)

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4 files, paper.

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Includes: menus, table plans, notices, invitations, reply cards and lists. Also includes seating plan for first Foundation Dinner in December 1934.
1936 menu and seating plan donated by Dr Peter Tinkler, from the library of John Eric Tinkler

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Accruals expected

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The items are arranged chronologically. The series is incomplete.

  • Folders 1-2 (1934-1992) are stored in 123/COLLEGE
  • Folders 3-4 (1994-2017) are stored in 228/DEEDS

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Foundation Dinner is held the 8th Friday of Michaelmas Full Term.

Note

As the first College Statute decrees that the Foundation of St John's consists of the Master, Fellows and Scholars. John Boys Smith, Master 1959-1969, recalled that the notion of a special dinner for all members of the Foundation emerged in 1934, in discussion with Martin Charlesworth, then Director of Studies in Classics. Boys Smith acknowledged earlier roots. In 1925 the lawyer and Fellow Percy Winfield had suggested that the Scholars might be congratulated and acknowledged through invitations to one of the College feasts. The then Master, Robert Scott, however disagreed, but Scott died in 1933. The Council gave permission for the first Foundation Dinner, which was held in the Combination Room on 5 December. [AM Nicholls, The Eagle 2011]

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  • Box: 123/COLLEGE
  • Box: 228/DEEDS