Sponsorship and Alumni Relations

Milly Dickinson

A storied athletic career as a light blue, Milly has multiple blues XC and track performances, numerous BUCS semi-finals made, a Southerns medal,  and an (unratified) U21 world record in the chunder mile. Unsurprisingly, the latter was such an impressive performance it had a Keen alumni begging her to appear at the world championships, with the only hurdle being the U21 part. These performances have been matched by an equally intrepid committee career featuring as head social sec, club captain, orienteering liaison officer, and barking at O*ford sec for CUHH and press and pub and competition sec for CUAC; her commitment to the club so radical that she engineered a hostage situation to ensure the BUCS B-team received their medals. In fact, Milly has organised so many meets she is only a starter’s gun away from being a head official (which she definitely hasn’t already told you about). The skills she has learned developing such an impressive running CV will certainly contribute to being an all-time great alumni and megacross officer, but it is her charisma that will result in this not being a tough year financially. This charm has won over various alumni, world champions, current natscis, and men handy with maps. In recent times, she has decided that welfare “will do,” but this has not stopped her from continuing to be a massive lad, with an isle of man performance that will be talked about for decades to come. Clearly applicable to her status as alumni officer, it resulted in the donation of numerous illiquid (liquid) assets to various club members, and if she is willing to go as far to get alumni donations as she is to get on a Monegasque yacht or ensure everybody’s lunch box is full, it is sure to be a great year to be the club’s bank account.

Lawrence Hollom

In 1748 Thomas Running invented the sport of running when he tried to walk twice at the same time. Shortly after, Lawrence gave the exciting new sport a go and has been doing it ever since. With all of those years behind him, the old man has accumulated a whopping 170 parkruns at the time of writing. However, it was upon joining the Hare & Hounds when his running career started building momentum in earnest. From his humble beginnings in the 2016 Mob match right the way through to scoring in the 2023 Blues’ match, Thames H&H nearly ran out of ink when listing all six (yes that’s two degrees worth) varsity squads he has competed for on the race programmes. All of this can only lead one to the logical conclusion that this is one experienced Harey.

After a successful innings as Men’s Captain last year, leading both the Mens’ II’s and Blues squads to victory, Lawrence will be returning to the committee, along with ex-club captain Milly, to share the challenging role of Sponsorship & Alumni. But as emphasised in his AGM speech, he is well-prepared for the position given his experience of once being an alumnus himself during his sabbatical in the City doing finance before returning to Cambridge for a Maths PhD. Let us hope that he can apply his financial and mathematical savvy to extract, sorry – I mean, kindly

ask for donations from the Harey alumni community.