LMH Principal Professor Stephen Blyth, Fiona Blyth, and incoming Development Director Anna Bates recently returned from a trip to the East Coast of the USA, where they met alumni in New York, Washington DC and Boston.
As well as meeting individually with alumni and supporters, Professor Blyth was delighted to meet over 60 friends of LMH at drinks receptions across the three cities.
Professor Blyth updated alumni on life at LMH and talked about his main priorities, including championing academic excellence, continuing to increase access and reduce barriers to a collegiate education, and strengthening the College’s finances. Talk of LMH’s endowment led to discussions with alumni about financial iniquity between colleges at Oxford, and the impact this has on the academic aspirations of both students and Fellows at LMH. These conversations highlighted the vital role alumni play in the College’s future through continued philanthropic engagement.
Keeping in touch with LMH’s overseas alumni is important to the College, and we look forward to a return visit to the USA in the future. Our alumni also have an open invitation to return to LMH whenever they are in Oxford.
Professor Blyth, Fiona and Anna are very grateful to all of those involved in organising the trip and to local alumni for extending such a warm welcome during the visit.
