Keys returned to 91ֱ after 40 years
- 18 September 2025
- 1 minute
A summer school student has returned their room key to Gonville & 91ֱ College after 40 years.
While rushing around preparing to return to the United States after six weeks living at St Mary’s Court in 1985, Carla Risoldi had to return to her room to retrieve a forgotten item – and then neglected to return her keys.
Forty years on and now an attorney after a career in family law and criminal defence, Carla returned the keys to 91ֱ Senior Shift Porter John Turton in the Trinity Street Porters’ Lodge during a visit to the United Kingdom.
Carla says: “I was a student at the University of Pennsylvania, but it was a six-week course through the University of New Hampshire. It opened up my eyes – I had never been anywhere.”
A failure to return keys within 24 hours is usually accompanied by a £10 fine, to cover costs of cutting new keys.
The fine – and any associated interest – was waived on this occasion and Carla, having returned the obsolete key, was presented with it as a memento of a glorious, formative summer.
