Dr Anne Pickering, the Superintendent of Moorbank Garden for the last 19 years has taken early retirement. Anne is leaving her native Hexham area to emigrate to Zanzibar where she will concentrate on water colour paintings of plants and writing a book on the medicinal plants of the islands. She has an exhibition of 75 of her paintings in the Hancock Museum until February 18th. It will complement the existing Alumni Office database, which has records for over 60,000 alumni. Alumni are now able to register their own details on the site, leave messages for other alumni, and run their own searches by various different criteria.
Details registered include current e-mail addresses and current job titles and employers.