Official opening

• Central buildings are completed and Dining Hall opened
• First dinner in the Dining Hall (26 March)
• College opened by the duke of Edinburgh; Prime Minister present (5 June)
• First cohort of undergraduates graduate
• East Court completed
• First May Ball
• Churchill Association (for alumni) formed; membership 3 guineas p.a.
• GODS, student dramatic society, formed
• Black Monday mayhem leads to abolition of annual Winston birthday dinners
• First Honorary Fellow elected: Sir Winston
• First female Fellow Commoner appointed: Helen Clover (New Hall, History)
• Second funding appeal sent to the original donors
• The Founder gifts one of his paintings, Still Life with Flowers
• Independent Chapel Trust founded, to build and run a chapel
• C. P. Snow, Fellow, appointed deputy Minister of Technology in UK government