Woman Cox of the Rowing Club 1975

Item

Format

jPEG

Title

Woman Cox of the Rowing Club 1975

Identifier

VHG0078

Depiction

A group of people in the vicinity of a boat occupied by a woman

Description

During the 1972 GIBS / JIBS (Freshers) Week, the male Captain of the Rowing Club was asked by a student in the audience if women were welcomed in the club, and his reply was yes. One of the female Science students, Chrissie Killeen, who was petite, said she was interested, and she was installed as the cox of the Senior Men’s Senior Eight Team – she was the first female cox at the Henley Regatta.
The picture shows female and male students getting a briefing near a rowing boat at the jetty beside the University’s Boat Club. Seated in the boat is Catherine Caulfield – a Physics student. Chrissie Killeen is standing erect on the right of the group, wearing a light-coloured jacket.

People

Chrissie Killeen

References

Private communication: Gerry Morgan via email in Mar., 2024

Contributor

event

Rowing Club gathering

Bibliographic Citation

Gerry Morgan, S.G. Jennings, ‘Woman Cox of the Rowing Club 1975', Visual History Retired Staff Collection, University of Galway Digital Collections, Asset Id 14642, Archival Record Id VHRS

Spatial Coverage

Temporal Coverage

Period

1970s

Category

b&w
group
on-campus
outdoors

Keywords

Rowing

Language

English

Publisher

University of Galway Library

Rights

This image may be used for non-commercial purposes under CC BY-NC-SA
see https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/