Friends of Classics

Jeannie Cohen
Co-founder of Friends and Executive Secretary
Jeannie Cohen was one of the lucky ones - she attended a traditional grammar school at a time when classics was available to a wide audience. After reading Mods and Greats at Oxford, she taught classics in both the comprehensive and the private sectors in London for some 20 years. During this time she was Secretary to the Joint Association of Classical Teachers for three years. These were interesting years, as the National Curriculum was being developed from scratch, and the fight was on to preserve the opportunity for teaching Classics in schools. When the opportunity arose to start Friends of Classics with Peter Jones, Jeannie leapt at the chance - and has never looked back! She now works in publishing, where the benefits of a classical education are of inestimable value.

Peter Jones
Co-founder of Friends and editor of its magazine ad familiares
Was a schoolmaster and then university senior lecturer in Classics till early retirement in 1997. He co-authored the Reading Greek and Reading Latin series for Cambridge UP, has published widely on Homer, and wrote Learn Latin (Duckworth 1997) and Learn Ancient Greek (Duckworth 1998), both based on highly popular series in The Daily Telegraph. He regularly lectures, broadcasts and writes in the press about the ancient world. He writes an 'Ancient and Modern' column every week in The Spectator.

Patrons

Sir Anthony Cleaver
Chairmanship of The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, the Medical Research Council and the Royal College of Music.

Colin Dexter
Classics teacher and author of 'Inspector Morse'

Sir Kenneth Dover
Chancellor, University of St Andrews
Professor of Greek, St Andrews 1955-76
President, Corpus Christi College Oxford 1976-86.

Sir Nicholas Goodison
Chairman, National Art Collections Fund, Courtauld Institute of Art, Crafts Council, Chairman Stock Exchange 1976-89, TSB Group plc 1985-95, Deputy chairman Lloyds TSB Group 1995-2000. Writer.

Ian Hislop
Writer and broadcaster
Editor, Private Eye

Philip Howard
The Times
Wordsmith and writer

Sir Jeremy Morse
Recently retired Chancellor, University of Bristol

Professor Erich Segal
Classical scholar and author, Wolfson College, Oxford.

Sir Tom Stoppard OM
Playwright and novelist

Baroness Warnock
Writer
Chairman GDST Education Committee1996-2001
Mistress of Girton College, Cambridge 1985-91.

Officers and Patrons