Our First Alumnus
Today, York St John is 175 years old. It’s supposed to be 175 years and one week old, but things didn’t work out quite as intended on May 10, 1841. The college, then at Monkgate...
Category: Alumni Stories
Reunion Stories
Undoubtedly the favorite part of my volunteering role in the Heritage Room is leading reunion groups of alumni around the campus. The interactions that inevitably ensues between alumni and me provide many laughs, poignant...
Giving Prostate Cancer The Finger – Alumni Stories, Iain Craigen
Hi, and thank you for pausing to read this… My name is Iain, and along with my two lifelong and very good friends, Jamie and Matt, we graduated (from what was then known as)...
A blossoming York St John Romance – Alumni Stories, Thais and James Dean
It’s Valentines Day this coming Sunday, so we thought we’d share a heart warming story with you, from two our Alumni, who fell in love at York St John, and were married just last...
My Amazing Family and Me – Alumni Stories, Jesse Toksvig-Stewart, and Kat Willott
Jesse Toksvig-Stewart and Kat Willott are graduates of York St John University, having both studied a Degree in Television and Film Production. In our latest alumni stories blog, Jesse explains how after graduating from...
The Man Who Wrote Lassie – Alumni Stories, Greg Christie
When Greg Christie discovered by accident that the most American of all novels “Lassie Come Home” was actually written by a Yorkshireman he knew he wanted to write the life story of Hunslet boy...
87 years old but still going strong – Alumni stories, Brian Cane
Unlike most alumni I was not a student at St John’s, but a member of staff. Canon Philip Lamb appointed me in 1957 to develop a Chemistry Department from scratch. In the sciences,...