The records society collection was administered by the UCS and provided a borrowing service to students who wished to borrow vinyl LP's. This society eventually became defunct with the vinyl LP's eventually being left in an unused gyp room. In 2008 Anne Hughes, college librarian, sorted through the records and got record dealers in to sell them. The proceeds from these sales were then used to buy music CDs for the college library.
It is known that an unofficial student newsletter called 'Clarion' existed at Clare in 1964.
The Clare Association was founded in 1923 and remained independent for many years, arranging annual dinners, usually in London, and producing a regular alumni publication, the Clare Association Annual (CAA). The committee functions of the Association were absorbed by the College Development Office in the mid-2000s, when an Alumni Council was set up. The Council comprises representatives for each matriculation year tasked with liaising between the members of their year and the Development Office, and a Fellow of the College still acts as Secretary of the Association.
Also known as Master and Fellows in College. The committee of "Master and Fellows in residence" appears to have been a separate committee held alongside the governing body. As many of the issues they discussed were similar it appears that the committee of "Master and Fellows in residence" ceased when this volume ended.
Set up in October 1985 (Minute 8 of Council of 7 October 1985)
Clare College held Fornham as one of its benefics and could present rector
Senior Lecturer in History of Art in the Department of History of Art at Oxford Brookes University.
Compiled by W J Harrison, College bursar during Henry Thirkill's mastership and a significant contributor to the College history - he published 'Notes on the Masters, Fellows, Scholars and Exhibitioners of Clare College' and 'Life in Clare Hall, Cambridge, 1658-1713'.
Baron Baker of Windrush, scientist and Professor of Mechanical Sciences, (1901-1985)
William John Harrison (1884-1969) was awarded a scholarship to Dulwich in1900 and was then admitted as scholar at Clare College in 1904 and became Fellow in 1907 after getting a First in Mathematics. The next year he was one of the three joint winners of the Smith Prize for a an essay on Mathematics. After lecturing in maths at Liverpool and then back in Cambridge he was commissioned as a Scientific Officer at Woolwich Arsenal in 1914. From 1919-1924 he continued scientific work in Cambridge and then changed direction to deal with administration of Clare College. He became Bursar, Financial Tutor and Steward and also dealt with the College Archives. This was the period when the College was run mainly by three men, Sir Henry Thirkill, Dr. W. Telfer and William Harrison who were known as the "Holy Trinity". Harrison retired in 1949 but continued his research in the Archives publishing books on the history of the College. He died in 1969.