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Membership
Who?
Donation
Recognition
Honorary
Leavers
£20 via final battels
Keble ‘brick’
(that’s a foam brick!)
Red
Young Alumni
(0-5 yrs)
Small Regular gift
(e.g. £25 per year)
Keble ‘brick’
+ Keble red brick pin
Blue
Alumni
(5+ years)
Regular gift
Keble blue brick pin
Dinosaur
All Alumni
10+ yrs continuous
regular gift
Keble dinosaur pin
‘Thank you for my beautiful blue brick
pin. I am delighted to become a “founder
member” of the Talbot Society, and I look
forward to an occasion when I might wear
my badge with pride!’
-Revd Peter Ridley (1958)
The importance of regular giving to help Keble sustain core activities
and plan ahead effectively cannot be overstated. Following discussion
with our Year Group Representatives in March this year we are
delighted to launch the Talbot Society to recognise and thank those
who make regular contributions to support the College and Keble
students, regardless of the amount. Regular donors to the Talbot
Fund will become Talbot Society members – the table below sets out
membership details.
Membership and thanks (for donations to end July 2013):
Launching The Talbot Society
If you are not already a member of the Talbot Society we hope that
you will consider making a donation to Keble this year. We have
written to all existing donors in each category over the summer and
look forward to seeing you wearing your pins and dinosaurs at the
next College event!
If you would like to know more about any of our fundraising initiatives
or would like to discuss how you can help, please do get in touch.
Old Members and regular visitors will be familiar with the
dinosaur graffiti on the rear wall of Newman Quad facing
onto Blackhall Road. One of the longest lasting pieces
of outdoor graffiti in Oxford, Keble is home to two large
dinosaurs. The caption “REMEMBER WHAT HAPPENED TO
THE DINOSAUR!” is next to the white dinosaur. The blue
dinosaur, a later addition, replies…”I DID, AND LOOK WHAT
HAPPENED TO ME”.
The original white graffiti is believed to be the work
of delegates at the Drapers’ Conference in the early
1970s, as a reply to the St John’s Destroy Keble Society,
and is signed KPG (Keble Protection Group). When
construction of the Arco building necessitated the removal
and rebuilding of that section of wall, the head of the
white dinosaur was carefully redrawn by a group of
undergraduates in 1993.
Year Group Rep Andrew Dalkin (1974) came up with
the bright idea of creating Keble Dinosaurs to thank our
longest-serving donors to the Talbot Fund. We have 375
Dinosaurs to date and look forward to awarding many
more gold dinosaur pins over the coming years.
The Keble Dinosaur
Camilla Matterson
Deputy Director of Development
Jenny Tudge
Director of Development
