![]() ![]() I would have been equally proud of her if she'd turned out to be a veterinary surgeon, but some things you do in life capture the public's imagination more readily. She was always good at science-related subjects. "She was a very hard-working and committed student, though a bout of glandular fever put her back in her studies in the sixth form," her old head recalls. The library card in its cover bore her name several times, but no others since. When she returned to the school a few years ago she looked out the same book. There she bent, voraciously, over a copy of Gypsy Moth Circles the World by Sir Francis Chichester. ![]() ![]() "She could usually be found with her small group of friends or by herself in the library," Leach recalls. MacArthur was at Anthony Gell from 11 to 18 years of age. "People ask me if she's still the same person and I reply 'Certainly not' because if she had remained the same after all the years and experiences she's been through it would be rather worrying," he says. ![]()
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