Selwyn welcomed back students who had matriculated in 1965 and 1975 for a reunion dinner on Saturday, April 11th. The event coincided with the first rowing of the women's Boat Race on the Tideway in London, and alumni and current students gathered in the College bar to watch the women's and men's races. There was a disappointing outcome in both competitions for Cambridge, but Selwyn was proud to have one of its students taking part in the historic women's event. Hannah Evans rowed at stroke in the Cambridge boat, and her achievement was applauded at the dinner. The Master of Selwyn, Roger Mosey, congratulated Oxford on their win, but added: "Today the result doesn't matter as much as the event itself. It's a great day for women's sport, and we're thrilled that a Selwynite was part of it."
Hannah will continue her studies for a PhD in Physics. She is working on the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, and will be heading to Geneva now the demands of Blue Boat rowing are over.
Meanwhile, some of the media coverage of the event noted that some at Selwyn have not always been supportive of women rowers. It was reported that "as late as 1962, the captain of Selwyn College at Cambridge was moved to write to the university's women's boat club to chastise them for perpetrating something that was 'a ghastly sight, an anatomical impossibility and physiologically dangerous.'" You can read the full story about the long battle for equality at http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/rowing/32130222
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