To fit everyone in for the following morning’s Chapel service, only students performing musical items attended. Several students also took part in a presentation from the College’s history, wearing costumes from relevant periods. Dr David Coles, Bishop of Christchurch and Warden of the College, preached the sermon, reflecting on the part College House had played in the lives of its students, and the experience and joys of College living which had been gained.
Old Housemen and women were also able to mark College House’s 150th Celebrations at drinks functions, and by revisiting the old and new University and College sites. Past students attending ranged in age from their late teens to late eighties, every yeargroup from the start of the 1930s to the end of the 1990s being represented. The Principal, Dr Andrew Stockley, noted “College House’s strength is its sense of community – not only shared by its current students, but by the previous generations of students who have lived and studied here, who have built up the traditions, and helped shape the College as we know it today”