Joy Bright, a switchboard telephonist at Sussex for 17 years from 1980, died on Wednesday (15 May) at the age of 69. Joy had been suffering from cancer for the last six years and died at the Martlets hospice in Hove.

As well as being a keen cyclist, canoeist and photographer, Joy also had a harris hawk that she trained and flew on campus.

Telephonist Pam Lammiman said that she was "just very nice, a very unobtrusive sort of person". Diane King from Estates, who had known Joy for many years, agreed: "She was a lovely person, very helpful and extremely good at what she did."