The College at 60

Abstract

![][1] I have been a part of the College for 45 of its 60 years. What has it meant for me? On my first visit to Princes Gate, I was introduced to Robin Pinsent and immediately invited to join the morning meeting of the extremely friendly and committed Research Committee. The agenda — basically the Oral Contraceptive study, the late-running results of the last National Morbidity Study and the plans for the next one — was much the same. When I joined the Committee a decade later. So was the camaraderie. Princes Gate was full of London doctors rushing in, changing the world, and rushing out. Those from abroad came for the day (or night); read the papers in the leather sofas, chatted to Margaret Hammond in the library, passed the time of day with James Wood, … [1]: /embed/graphic-1.gif