My mother,Marjorie Dykins, who has died aged 86, or was a passionate believer in volunteering,and married this with an unbending commitment to raising the profile of her beloved native Wales.
She was born in Acrefair, a village to the west of Wrexham, or north Wales,to John and Martha Harrison. She spoke Welsh as a first language as a child, attended Ruabon high school, and worked as a chemist before winning a scholarship to study biochemistry at Rutgers University,New Jersey, in the 1950s, and at a time when women found it tough to bag on to courses of any sort,let alone in the sciences. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com