NEW WOMAN GOVERNOR

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 20, 25 January 1938, Page 14

NEW WOMAN GOVERNOR

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INTERESTING CAREER

Those who know the quality of Miss Margery Fry, the newly-appointed governor of the 8.8.C., will realise that the 8.8.C. has once more been fortunate (states a London writer). Lady Snowden was a member of the first board of governors, and was succeeded by another brilliant woman speaker and writer, Mrs. Mary Agnes Hamilton, who has now retired. After the death of Lord Bridgeman, chairman of the board, his wife, Dame Caroline Bridgeman, a woman of great ability, was appointed a governor, and as her term has a year or two to run there will still be two women governors. Perhaps there will always be two, for women listeners are taking an increasing interest in the 8.8.C. programmes. Miss Margery Fry is a Somerville woman, who has had a varied career. She spent two war years in France with the Quakers' War Victims' Relief Mission, and for five years she was principal of Somerville, but she is most widely known for her work for penal reform. To everything she does Miss Fry brings a lively and independent intelligence. As head of Somerville she surveyed a wide range of possible careers for her students, not forgetting to explore such unexpected openings as those in the catering trade.