Churchill College, Cambridge to celebrate 50 years with Auction and Ball
CHURCHILL College, Cambridge is celebrating its 50th anniversary with a Charity Ball & Auction.
Churchill College, Cambridge was founded in 1960 as the national and commonwealth memorial to Sir Winston.
The 50th anniversary has been commemorated by Mary Soames, who planted a tree 50 years to the day that Churchill planted the oak and Mulberry and the college had a special launch in the Cabinet War Rooms on November 30 last year (his 135th birthday).
On Saturday July 10 the college are holding a Ball & Auction to further celebrate the momentous occasion.
Churchill College has 24 Nobel Laureates amongst those who have been members, starting with Churchill himself and most recently Roger Tsein, who was a graduate student in the College, for Chemistry, 2008.
The Churchill Archives Centre houses Churchill's personal papers and those of Margaret Thatcher - and approaching 600 of their great contemporaries in politics, the civil service, the military and in science and technology.