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)...
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Busy Day In The Heritage Room
A couple of Wednesdays ago the Heritage Room was a busy place! In addition to booking myself on a one-hour tech session on the use of QR and AR codes, and planning on going...
Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?
Not so long ago, an enthusiastic Old John contacted the Alumni Office, hoping to arrange a reunion. It’s 25 years since he left York St John and, full of hope and excitement, he wanted...
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...
Blood and Water – Alumni Stories, Beth Daley
Graduating with my Masters in Literature Studies and Creative Writing from YSJ in 2006 was just the beginning of the story. In more ways than one. My final fiction piece for the course was...
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,...