The Modern Languages Fund
The Fellowship in German at St John’s College became vacant following the election of Professor Ritchie Robertson to the Taylor Professorship of German Language and Literature, associated with Queen’s College. Thanks to a generous pledge from Mr Bernard Taylor (1975, Chemistry) and the promise of matched funding from the OTF, teaching and research in German should now be secure.
In 2008 the distinguished academic and our first female Official Fellow, Professor Elizabeth Fallaize, was diagnosed with Motor Neurone Disease; she passed away in 2009. As there was no University funding for her replacement, St John’s determined to pay for her successor for ten years. Additional contributions to the Modern Language Fund will, in the first instance, alleviate this strain upon our endowment.
The Elizabeth Fallaize Fund was set up in her memory to endow a Graduate Scholarship. Her husband, Professor Alan Grafen, an anonymous donor and 30 others made gifts enabling the first Elizabeth Fallaize Scholar, Jennifer Oliver (2005, Modern Languages) to commence in 2010.
Make a Gift online to the Modern Languages Fund
Download the Modern Languages Fund donation form below (for postal donations only).
