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Souvenirs of Robinson College EastEr 2019 BI N BROOK ROBINSON COLLEGE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE Come on Binson! In conversation with: A new building for Robinson: Romance at Robinson: Focus on sport Jo Ansbro and Adrian Davies Why we need an archive now Couples who met here R 02 Contents WELCOME 03 News in brief 04 My (our) Robinson Hannah and Simon’s story Come on Binson! 05 Focus on SPORT: Sporting excellence and academic brilliance go hand-in-hand at Robinson One of Robinson’s strengths is nurturing all-rounders; men and women In conversation with… Adrian Davies who are able to lead the field in the lab, in supervisions and on the pitch. and Jo Ansbro is edition of Bin Brook celebrates the achievements of Robinsonians who Ruby Anniversary of Rowing at Robinson balance the academic demands of a Cambridge degree with sporting participation at all levels – from elite competition to playing for fun, From Granta to the Swan River: Q&A with fellowship or relaxation. Recent research by the University of Cambridge Fiona Giles confirms that sport complements academic achievement, and in our feature A Passion for Sport interview Jo Ansbro and Adrian Davies describe how their studies enhanced their sporting performance and vice versa. Matt Dickinson, who has gone on to forge a career in Opinion piece: Sports unite. Sports inspire. Sports break down barriers sports journalism, recalls how sport was the foundation of his social life at Robinson, and it seems it has even played midwife to romance; Hannah Leaf (née Penn) describes how Cupid’s arrows To further his love of sport – Fred Boyne struck from an unexpected quarter via the College Darts Society. Although spring is long gone, Sporting Achievement Award love is in the air more widely in this edition of Bin Brook, as we introduce the first in an occasional 14 Fellowship in profile: Professor Natalia Majluf series of profiles of Robinsonians who met their life partners here. ese stories, and others like them, will no doubt be chronicled in the records safeguarded in Robinson’s new archive building, 16 New Archive Building: and our founding fellows remind us here why our history matters, and why now is the right time A marriage of tradition and modernity: to make it safe. a new archive for Robinson 18 New Archive Building; In conversation with Wing Commander Peter Milloy, Fellow Archivist Sarah Westwood Development Director and Fellow 20 SolidariTee’s inception: [email protected] how it took off and plans for the future 21 Notes on art: e Art of Caring Exhibition 22 News: Alumni Events We met at Robinson: Yudan and Laurence’s story FrONt COVEr: 24 News: Alumni Netball by angus Parker (Geography, 2016) 25 News: Fellows 25 News: Staff 25 Welcome to: New College Members Editor: Norbert truszczyński. Editorial Committee: sarah Westwood, Prof rosalind Love, Dr steve trudgill, Dr Judy Weiss and Dr Christine stopp 26 Farewell: Glenys Denton retires the Editor and the members of the Editorial Committee are grateful to our contributors for the materials submitted for publication. 27 Obituaries and Tibutes Contributors provide photographs, unless otherwise stated. the opinions expressed in Bin Brook are those of the contributors and David Meade (1961-2019) not necessarily those of robinson College and its members. Roger Whiteoak (1969-2018) We are always delighted to hear from anyone who has a robinson-related story to tell. If you would like to contribute an article to Back Cover Dates for the diary Bin Brook, please email [email protected] BIN BROOK ROBINSON COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE Design : C ameron Design 01284 725292 03 NEWS in brief ROBINSON CONGRATULATIONS GOES PLATINUM "…generous, supportive, and particularly encouraging Professor Judith Lieu , a Fellow of the ambitions of her female co-workers", in eology and until recently the Lady Margaret professor of Divinity, has been elected an International Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Professor Lieu has been recognised for her outstanding achievements in academia in her pursuit of teaching excellence. (L-R): Nick Milne (College Steward), Bill McKim (Facilities Manager), Julie Allen (Housekeeping Manager ), Tom Hinch (RCSA President ), Amy Osborne (HR Coordinator ), Guy Fuller Dr Jossy Sayir was awarded the (Head Gardener), Gary Dougan (Head Chef), Alexis Moreau Best Lecturer Award for 2018– (Conference and Catering Services Manager) 2019 by the Department of Engineering for the second-year “Going green is no longer an optional extra but of vital communications lecture. Every importance for saving the planet, so we are continually year students elect their three best looking for ways to mitigate the impact of running the Professor Melinda Duer (above on the right) lecturers for the year. ere are college and our conference centre. It’s something that staff received a prestigious Suffrage Science Award on twelve awards, three for every one of the four years of the and students alike have got on board with…”, says International Women's Day at e Royal Society. MEng programmes. Dr Sayir is a Director of Studies in Alexis Moreau , the College’s Head of Conference e Suffrage Science scheme was initiated by Engineering, Teaching Fellow in Engineering, and and Catering Services. After achieving a Gold Award Professor Dame Amanda Fisher, Director of the Engineering Admissions Coordinator. last year, the College has raised its game still further Medical Research Council's London Institute of to reach the highest accolade of a Platinum Award. Medical Sciences, in 2011. Professor Duer has led Tiara Sahar Ataii , a ird Year Modern and Robinson has also won an Environmental pioneering research into the molecular structure of Medieval Languages undergraduate, was chosen as Improvement Award, which recognises one special bone, and the underlying chemical changes in the one of the four winners of the 2019 Vice- activity or action that is making a difference to the tissue of blood vessels that cause them to harden as Chancellor's Social Impact Awards, in recognition life of the College. Robinson has been recognised for we age, leading to heart disease and stroke. She is of her work in founding SolidariTee and tackling the its unique water source heat pump installation, which one of twelve women working in Engineering and refugee crisis. On Tuesday 5th February in the Upper extracts heat from the water in Bin Brook running Physical Sciences who were recognised at the Hall of Emmanuel College, the Vice-Chancellor through the College. is system integrates that extra ceremony for their work in helping and inspiring Stephen Toope presented an award to Tiara, who heat source into the overall heating system deployed fellow females in the same field. Professor Duer is returned briefly from her year abroad to attend the in College. at heat- exchange pump solution a Fellow in Natural Sciences (Chemistry) and ceremony with an award. You can read more on providing self-sufficient heating has been developed Deputy Warden. Tiara’s charitable work on page 18. by Robinson’s alumnus Mark Hewitt (Architecture, 1982) . We are enormously grateful to Mark for helping the College work towards achieving its sustainability goals. MAY MADRIGALS SILVER JUBILEE Following its commitment to sustainability, the College has installed a number of solar panels on its For the past 25 years, Robinson has celebrated the coming of spring with madrigals sung from the Tower buildings, supplied all staff with refillable water by the Choir. is year, on the silver anniversary of this tradition, Robinson’s residents awoke to the sound bottles, considerably reduced to almost zero the of Renaissance, Baroque and Victorian madrigals, including e Silver Swan by Orlando Gibbons, Now is transfer of waste to landfill, thus turning food waste the Month of Maying by omas Morley, Linden Lea by Vaughan Williams, Fair Phyllis by John Farmer, into fuel and introduced progressively more effective and is Joyful Eastertide by Charles Wood. e first May Day madrigals were sung in 1994. It has always food management policies throughout the College been a great way of beginning the day. and its conference centre. robinson.cam.ac.uk 04 MY (Our) ROBINSON Hannah and Simon’s story At the time of writing this article, my husband and I have eight days to go until the due date of our first child. Simon and I met on my very first day at Robinson, after I caught sight of him and went a bit weak at the knees at the college Fresher’s Fair. If his looks alone weren’t enough to draw me to him, the fact support, through teachers, staff and friends, and it’s where that he was Captain of, and recruiting for the Robinson for the first time I really felt confident enough to push myself. College Darts Society certainly was. I have northern roots so To push myself academically, believing my opinions to be spent much of my childhood throwing arrows with my valid enough to be worth forming and worth sharing. To family in various pubs across Yorkshire. So it’s impossible for push myself professionally, using my curiosity to pursue work me to overstate just how much of an impact Robinson has experience, which led to interviews, which led to securing a had on my life, as it is where I met the love of my life and job at AMV BBDO, the UK’s largest advertising agency, father of my soon-to-be first child. where I have been lucky to work for almost a decade now. To push myself socially: I was terrified that I wouldn’t find I had all of the well-trodden insecurities and anxieties about people I would “click” with at Cambridge, but whilst at both applying to and studying at Cambridge.
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