Leaving a gift in your will

[SOUND EFFECT OF THE SEA]

[TITLE] 
University of St Andrews
Making Waves
The Campaign for St Andrews

[MUSIC]

[TITLE] 
The Chancellor's Circle
Part of the Making Waves Campaign at the University of St Andrews

[TITLE] 
What's your St Andrews story?

>> GAIL INGLIS (née McColm, MA 1968) My St Andrew story starts with falling into the Step Rock pool. It's below the cliffs in St Andrews, but it doesn't really exist anymore, but it was fed by seawater, and I fell in at four years old.

And I remember my mother saying, "Don't worry. You'll come here to the University in years to come and you'll love the place."

I loved it so much here. St Andrews opened up my whole world. And this is where I learned that this was a place where anybody could do anything. 

My subjects were Medieval and Modern History. But the good thing about St Andrews is we were encouraged to go to other classes and learn other disciplines.

Like lots of students, I met my future husband here.

When we graduated in 1968, we were married at St Salvator's Chapel.

After graduating, I trained as a secondary school teacher and I taught at Madras College here in St Andrews. 

And coming back for the Making Waves campaign was very special. Just seeing what was happening to the buildings where I'd actually taught and how it's being transformed into New College.

As a student, I got really involved in Scottish country dancing while I was here. And I was a member of the Celtic Society and I have lots of memories of coming to the Highland Balls.

Sadly, in 2017, my husband Peter died. Then I had to rethink my future and what I was going to do with it. Having been a teacher and a magistrate, it was time for a new career. So, one of the things I do now as well as continuing to teach dancing is to teach instructors. And I come back to St Andrews most summers to summer school.

I've always given to Wardlaw Scholarships and to some of the smaller appeals. But when Peter died, I felt inspired to leave a gift in my will to the University on behalf of us both.

We wouldn't have had the interesting and fabulous lives we've had, the traveling, the wonderful careers. None of that would have happened if we hadn't been at St Andrews.

St Andrews is a very special place for me, for my late husband, and for all the family. And I have shared with you my Saint Andrews story.

[TITLE]
At present, 515 members of the Chancellor's Circle have remembered the University with a gift in their will.

[TITLE]
Will you leave a legacy as part of your St Andrews story?

[TITLE]
University of St Andrews
Making Waves
The Campaign for St Andrews