700th Anniversary Campaign Launch

26th September 2009

All Exeter Old Members, Parents and Friends were invited to join us for a midday reception with drinks and canapés to launch the College’s 700th Anniversary Campaign. To celebrate this occasion, a number of other events took place in Exeter throughout the day, including several talks by Fellows and Old Members, a buffet lunch and displays about the College’s past and future.

Over 200 people joined us throughout the day, including matriculands from the mid 1930s through those who came up in 2006, Fellows past and present and Friends of the College. The actual “launch” took place at a midday Champagne reception in the Fellows’ Garden with speeches from the Rector and Chair of the Campaign, and a toast by Honorary Fellow and Old Member Sir John Laws.

There Association Dinner took place the same evening and was also very well attended.

Event Details and Schedule

In addition to the launch reception and lunch, there were three talks in the programme. These lectures all proved proved quite popular, and they are listed below with links to their transcripts. The audio recordings should be available shortly.

‘Walter de Stapeldon, Bishop of Exeter and Founder of Exeter College’
by John Maddicott (Emeritus Fellow, Medieval History)

‘Beauty or Beast? The Woman Warrior in the German Imagination’ (transcript)
View the presentation as a pdf
by Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly (Fellow, German Literature)

‘From Gough to Google: The Marvel of Ancient Maps’
by John Leighfield (1958, Literae Humaniores)



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