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Perham/I/1
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- 1969–1975 (Creation)
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55+72+128pp, in three folders. paper
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Programmes, correspondence, budgets and other papers relating to the College May Balls for 1969 to 1974. 1968-75 and no date.
RNP was Chairman of the SJC May Ball Committee, while his colleague on the Fellowship, John Leake, served as Senior Treasurer. These papers cover many aspects of Ball organisation, providing summary accounts, insights into the work of senior and junior members of the Committee, deliberations with the Steward, Denys Armstrong, and other College officers, the selection of music and the hiring of marquees. The 1973 Ball took place in particularly wet weather, and the collection includes several subsequent letters complaining of a poor standard of service, with the Committee's responses.