CIVIC CELEBRATION OF SUFFOLK COLLEGE - 6 June 2006

Suffolk College is holding its annual Civic Service at St Mary le Tower Church, Ipswich, on Friday, 9 June 2006 at 1200 noon. The service, which this year has a "health" theme, gives the opportunity to celebrate the close relationship between Suffolk College, Ipswich Borough Council and the town of Ipswich, and also the support of Ipswich Borough Council for a new Further Education College in Ipswich and the University Campus Suffolk Project.

The public are invited to attend the service which will last for approximately forty-five minutes. The service will include hymns, an anthem by Suffolk College Choir, 3 short performances by Suffolk College FE Performing Arts students and a short address by Lady Judy Moody-Stuart, the Guest of Honour.

The procession will leave the Corn Exchange, Ipswich, for St Mary le Tower Church at 11.45 am. The procession, in which many of the participants will be in ceremonial dress, will include:

Local dignitaries from the Borough

Representatives from the Church

Multi-faith representatives

Senior colleagues from UEA

Suffolk College Corporation

Honorary Graduates of Suffolk College including David Barclay, Rex Garrod and Scilla Dyke

Honorary Fellows of Suffolk College

College Management Group

and staff from the Faculty of Health and Further Education Health staff

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Speaker: Lady Moody-Stuart

Judy Moody-Stuart was born in England in 1941. She graduated from Cambridge University with a degree in Natural Science (chemistry). She has worked in research at the Swedish Geological Survey, then micro-palaeontology research at the Sedgwick Museum in Cambridge, publishing five papers jointly, and lectured for three years in English composition at Istanbul University philology department. She speaks French, Dutch, Turkish and Malay.

As general editor of two published anthologies by Shell International families – Life on the Move, 1993 and Life Now, 1996 – she was instrumental in the setting up in 1994 of OUTPOST, a voluntary information network between Shell families (now in over 65 overseas locations) and an independent academic Archive Centre based in The Hague, Netherlands which collects family material and experiences of Shell expatriates. She has travelled widely with her husband when he worked for Shell, living abroad for 30 years in Brunei, Australia, Nigeria, Turkey, Holland and Malaysia.

She is a trustee of Cecily’s Fund for Zambian AIDS orphans’ education; also governor of Shrewsbury School and on the boards of The Wakefield Trust; Quaker Social Action in London’s East End; Westmeston Parish Room; Westreach Local History Society; Transparency International (UK) and the Asian University for Women, Bangladesh (vice-chairman, Support Board). She has recently retired as founding trustee from two British charities dealing interactively with personal violence and school expulsion, and continues to be interested in people on the edge of society.

Judy is married to Sir Mark Moody-Stuart KCMG, current Chairman of Anglo-American mining company and of the Global Business Coalition against HIV/AIDS. They have four children, three daughters-in-law (Mexican and British) and three grandsons. She is an active member of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), responsibilities include registering marriages.

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NOTES FOR EDITORS

If you wish to attend, or for further information, please contact:

Tracey Bailey, Promotions & Information Centre Manager

Tel: 01473 296520

Email: traceybailey@suffolk.ac.uk

Issued by Promotions. 6 June 2006.