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SJCR/SJAR/5/1/10/33
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GB 1859 SJCR/SJAR/5/1/10/33
Title
Special & VIP Events
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- 1903-2022 (Creation)
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2 files, paper
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(1511-)
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Includes: guest lists, menus, invitations, seating plans, notices, reply cards, correspondence and organisational details for a variety of special one-off or VIP events held in College. Includes menu card for dinner in Hall on the occasion of the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, which was donated (in 2022) by Johnian John Mounsey (BA 1953), who attended the dinner.
List of those attending Formal Hall on 24 November 2022 donated by Prof. Richard Beadle
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Events included:
- Dinner hosted by the Junior Dean in B New Court (1903)
- Commemoration of the Abolition of Slavery & the Slave Trade (1 Aug 1933)
- Passing-Out Dinner: 150 OCTU Royal Signals (20 Dec 1944)
- 100th Anniversary of William Wordsworth's Death (22 April 1950)
- Dinner in Hall on the occasion of the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II
- Dinner to Prof. CE Tilley on the occasion of the presentation of the Tilley Volume of the Minerological Magazine (30 Sep 1965)
- Luncheon to mark the erection of the Cripps Building (7 Jan 1967)
- HM Chadwick Centenary (17 Oct 1970)
- Dinner to John Sheldon (19 Jan 1974)
- Jubilee Garden Party for Queen Elizabeth II's Silver Jubilee (7 May 1977)
- Jubilee Membership of HD Catling 1889-1939
- Agricultural Ministers of the European Community visit (27 Sep 1992)
- Bursary Staff Dinner hosted by the Senior Bursar (George Reid) and his wife. (4 Dec 2004)
- Luncheon for the University conferment of Dr M Singh, Prime Minister of India (11 Oct 2006)
- Campaign Benefactors Dinner (4 July 2009)
- 25th Anniversary of St John's Innovation Centre Dinner (7 Dec 2012)
- Dinner to celebrate the completion of the Divinity School (10 Dec 2012)
- Formal Hall with the Master and 34 female Fellows dining together (record number of women at High Table, marking 40th anniversary of admission of women members of the College (Nov 2022)
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Archivist's note
Also includes lovely red menu with Chinese decoration and gold lettering for an unknown event, 1892