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Dear Friends,
We're happy to report another successful year for the Trust
in terms of effective grant-making; thanks to your donations
we were able to make three awards
in 2001, to a very interesting and appropriate group of applicants.
Dr. Joana Proud from Manchester University received help towards
giving her paper
at the International Congress on Medieval Studies at Western
Michigan University; her paper was on Anglo-Saxon Books and
their Readers', which
of course we immediately felt to be exactly appropriate for
the Trust's support. We were also able to contribute towards
the conference expenses of Justin Hastings-Merriman, a PhD
student from Leeds, giving a paper at New York, about the
site of an Anglo-Saxon monastery. The third award went to
a student from Reading, finishing his PhD in financial difficulty.
These three applicants
were outstanding among a group of very strong applications
this year, and the trustees all feel that the work of the
Trust is meeting a definite need and making a real contribution
in Lynne's particular academic field. Although the grants
we can make are relatively small, they usually give assistance
just when it's needed, and are significantly beneficial not
only for the careers of the recipients, but also for the furtherance
of knowledge in Lynne's disciplines. We are privileged to
be able to do this in Lynne's name, with the donations you
made (and indeed continue to make)
in her memory.
Help in other forms for
the Trust during the year included the generous donation of
a stock of copies of the memorial volume for Lynne, published
and donated by KCLMS. This beautiful and fascinating book
Essays on
Anglo-Saxon and Related Themes in Memory of Lynne Grundy',
edited by
Jane Roberts and Janet Nelson (isbn 0 9522119 9 8) contains
a previously unpublished paper by Lynne, Aelfric's Grammatical
Theology and Theological Grammar', and a group of scholarly
papers on related themes, as well as the text of Harold Short's
appreciation of Lynne given at the thanksgiving service
in the chapel at King's in April 1998, and a moving introduction.
Award winners now receive a copy of this, and Lynne's own
Books and Grace', to accompany their cheques. The Trust is
very grateful for the continuing support of the editorial
board of KCLMS.
We're in the process of
setting up a new easily accessible web page with information
about the Trust, application details and Trust news, with
the help of the Department of English at Manchester University;
I'll send you details as soon as it's up and running.
We appointed a new trustee
during the year: Frances Bingham has been helping with the
running of the Trust since its inception and agreed to become
a trustee, so now we are five: Martin Grundy, Peter Mathews,
Nick Gallagher, Liz Mathews and Frances Bingham. We all thank
you for your continuing help and support of the Trust in memory
of Lynne.
With all good wishes for the festive season and for a happy
and peaceful 2002,
and the trustees
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