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UCL Conservative Society Alumni Club
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Women's Dining Club
The Women’s Dining Club is informal, friendly and welcoming, with women of varying ages and occupations drawn together by a continuing interest in UCL’s activities and concern for its future. They include UCL alumni, as well as past and present members of UCL staff.
We aim to enable past and present women students and members of staff with varying interests to meet and share experiences at informal dinners; encourage continued interest in UCL and support its activities; and help undergraduate students in financial difficulty.
Membership
We are always looking to welcome new members. Membership is open to ALL women graduates of UCL, also past and present UCL women staff who wish to retain their long standing connection with UCL. We look forward to you joining us.
Contact: Diana de Deney, Club Secretary, Tel +44 (0)20 7229 6199
Upcoming Events
AGM and Buffet, Wednesday, 15 May 2013, 6.45pm
The evening will start with the Annual General Meeting at 6.45 pm in the Haldane Room followed by a buffet supper at 7.45 pm in the Terrace Restaurant.
Booking form and further details
Recent Events
WDC Spring Guest Buffet - ‘Nature, nurture or neither? The view from the genes’, 6 March 2013
We were delighted to welcome Professor Steve Jones, Emeritus Professor of Genetics, UCL, who spoke to us at the end of a very busy day in which he had given several similar talks to highlight his forthcoming book. Steve described The Serpent’s Promise (due out on 2 May) as a re-write of the Bible written as if it were science. The first slide showed a bronze statue of a chimpanzee sitting on a pile of books, including one by Darwin and another with a page displaying the phrase “Eritis sicut deus” (and ye shall be as God), from Genesis when the serpent is enticing Eve to eat from the Tree of Knowledge. This statue by Hugo Reinhold was first exhibited in 1893 at the Great Berlin Exhibition and one can be found in the Institute for Evolutionary Biology at Edinburgh University, where Steve was an undergraduate and postgraduate student. Full report
WDC Autumn Buffet Supper, Thursday, 22 November 2012
The UCL Women Dining Club’s autumn buffet on 22 November 2012 was preceded by a very interesting visit to the Wellcome Collection in Euston Road, where a guide took members and their guests round the Life and Death themed exhibition. She also gave us a short introduction to the fascinating winter exhibition which contains a collection devoted to the iconography of death assembled by Richard Harris of Chicago.
Professor David Price was the speaker after the buffet which was held in the Terrace Restaurant. As UCL’s Vice Provost (Research) he is responsible for the college’s research performance and for implementing four ‘Grand Challenges’. David, who came to UCL from Cambridge in 1983, later became the professor of mineral physics and has made outstanding contributions to the physics of the earth's core. Full report
WDC Guest Night Dinner, Women in politics, Wednesday, 22 February 2012
On 22 February 2012 Therese Coffey, who first entered Parliament in 2010 as Conservative MP for Suffolk Coastal, gave a spirited address entitled ‘Women in politics’ at the WDC spring guest dinner.
Therese received her PhD in Chemistry from UCL, qualified as an accountant and worked for Mars Drinks UK, finally as finance director. After leaving in 2009, she became a full time European candidate and later joined the BBC as a property finance manager. Full report.
WDC Autumn Buffet Supper and visit to the Learning Theatre at UCLH - Thursday, 24 November 2011
On 24 November 2011 members of the UCL Women’s Dining Club met in the UCH Education Centre before being taken on a guided tour of the Sir Ronald Mason Learning Hospital, opened in 2010. This hospital combines state of the art simulation technology and teaching.
Our guide showed us round the hospital’s Clinical Simulation Theatre used by both trainee and experienced surgeons. Through a one-way viewing mirror colleagues and trainees can observe others perform a variety of medical procedures under various situations using leading edge mannequins (sim-men) operated by out-of- sight trained technicians. Full report.
WDC and CDC Joint Dinner - Tuesday, 18 October 2011
AGM and Buffet - 11 May 2011
Spring Guest Dinner - 19 April 2011
On 19 April we were enormously honoured that Terry Waite CBE was our guest speaker in the Old Refectory.
Terry Waite, an exceptional humanitarian, writer and lecturer, spoke about ‘Survival in solitude. An account of five years totally alone’ with great humility, understanding, and often humour, on his time and experiences as a hostage in the Middle East at the end of the 1980s and beginning of the 1990s. Full report.
UCL Conservative Society Alumni Club
The Alumni Club exists to assist and advise the UCL Conservative Society. It is designed to help former members keep in touch and meets for an annual dinner. Society alumni are welcomed at all our events. Membership of the club is free, but you need to have been a member of the society in the past. Please visit the Alumni Club website for further details.
Contact: conservative.society@ucl.ac.uk
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Forthcoming Events
For information on forthcoming events email: Jill House, j.house@ucl.ac.uk; +44 (0)20 7679 4231
