KING’S Autumn 2005 PARADE a newsletter for members of King’s College, Cambridge

History online Climate change King’s English Editor’s Letter College Provost to step down news On July 15, Dame Judith Mayhew Jonas DBE announced that she was taking up her entitlement to sabbatical leave With the growing consensus about the under the College Statutes and will be stepping down as facts of climate change, there seems to Provost on 31 August 2006. Dr Tess Adkins, as Vice- be greater optimism about how Provost, has assumed Dame Judith's administrative individuals, governments, institutions responsibilities whilst she is on sabbatical leave. A full and businesses can mitigate its statement appears on the website. effects. Sustainability challenges creativity in all spheres, and in this issue we have news from members of King’s whose energies are loosely directed Leo Sharpston is new British Advocate General towards saving the planet. There’s a profile of John Young, a King’s Fellow whose work on power generation spans all the Congratulations to Leo Sharpston QC (1973) who has been key technologies, a picture of how climate change will affect appointed as the new British Advocate General to the East Anglia and news from members working in China, the US European Court of Justice in Luxembourg. “I'm elated and and South America. apprehensive in about equal measure, which is probably about right ...” she said. She was nominated by the UK As a taster for the Celebration of English to be held in March Government following an open competition and 2006, King’s Parade carries a piece by Simon Hoggart, who confirmed by the common accord of the 25 Member read English in 1965, as well as reviews by current English States. Since 1992 she has combined practice at the Bar graduate students of new novels by writers King’s has with an academic career in Cambridge. As a Fellow, she produced in recent years. has taught EU law to King's undergraduates, directed A letter from Jonathan Treasure about the late sixties and studies and more recently looked after King's postgraduate early seventies published in the last issue has provoked lawyers. Over the years she has also been deeply involved correspondence from members of King’s who were students in College life, from KCMS and KCBC to Chapel and at that time of radicalism and unrest. We carry a piece on the College Council. Garden House Demonstration of 1970 from Brian Pollitt.

Do you have strong feelings about how King’s addresses you? King’s History Online Do you prefer to be called Non-Resident Members (NRMs), Members, members or alumni? Are you Kingsmen, Kingsmen Thanks to a grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund the and Kingswomen, or Kingspeople? I welcome your views on estates records of King’s are now widely accessible. Jude this, as well as your news, feedback and suggestions for future Brimmer, project archivist, has produced an on-line issues. I would also like to thank the parents and friends of catalogue and a website for local historians, genealogists younger King’s members who have supplied some of the images and anyone interested in the history of the College. for this issue. The estates records are the section of the College Archive The Archaeology and Anthropology Dinner on Saturday 6 May of most relevance and interest to the community at large; 2006 also marks the retirement of Steve Hugh-Jones. King’s they are the records of estates given to the College by Parade welcomes news and fieldwork stories from former Henry VI at the Foundation, or acquired afterwards. students in whatever fields they now find themselves. King’s lands once covered 187 estates in 30 counties from Cornwall to Norfolk, Suffolk to Yorkshire. These lands While true carbon neutrality may be a pipe dream, King’s brought their written memory with them in the form of Parade has started to engage. This issue is printed on charters and court records, in some cases going back to uncoated paper from a sustainable source, and the bio inks the 11th century. Many of these documents give details of used are “about as environmentally friendly as can reasonably local tenants, some document the inheritance of land, and be expected”. We are still searching for a carbon neutral all are of interest to those studying the local history of printer, and found the cost of biodegradable polythene those lands once owned by the College. envelopes prohibitive. I now keep a supply of saplings in the boot, so all I need is an economist to tell me how often I For more information please visit the project website – should stop the car and plant one. Answers, by email, not on www.kings.cam.ac.uk/library/archives/college/hlfproject/ postcards, please. From here interested readers can find out about the Alison Carter project, view images of documents from the Archive and [email protected] explore the estates catalogues online. Please see the website www.kings.cam.ac.uk for details of Archive Centre, all forthcoming events and concerts, or contact the King's College, Development Office. [email protected] Cambridge, CB2 1ST Development Office +44-1223-331444 King’s College [email protected] Cambridge CB2 1ST

college news 01223 331443 | 2 Cover shows a map detail from a very early manuscript of Lessingham Manor in Norfolk, with the names of local tenants in Latin. Dated 1587, this manuscript forms part of the King’s Estates Records [Ref: LES/35]. Annan House Alex Orlov: New Fellow

Passionate about the environment, Alex specialises in environmental chemistry and nanotechnology. He has been working with Prof. Richard Lambert (1972) for the last five years, and with support from BP and the EPSRC they have produced novel nano-materials to fight environmental pollution. Alex contributed to the design of a reactor in Canada, which uses both light and a catalyst to clean up contaminated water. Nanotechnology is being used increasingly in land and natural water remediation. In this case, a gasoline additive, MTBE, makes fuel more efficient – resulting in cleaner air – but leaches into the soil near fuel depots thus polluting ground water.

Alex is no stranger to environmental issues: he was only 14, and living a hundred miles from Chernobyl, when nuclear disaster struck in 1986. He recalls his father taking a Geiger counter to the market when shopping for vegetables.

A pleasing terror Juliet Annan (1974) right, and her sister “… If any of my stories succeed in causing their PAUL LOWEILLUSTRATION: Lucy de Grey, with Steve Hugh-Jones, readers to feel pleasantly uncomfortable when walking were in King’s on 1 November to along a solitary road at nightfall, or sitting over a dying dedicate Annan House, part of the fire in the small hours, my purpose in writing them King’s Parade refurbishment, in memory of their father, Provost Noel Annan. will have been attained…” Provost Montague Rhodes James (1862 – 1936) was a medieval scholar, pioneering bicyclist, and weaver of President of Ireland some of the best supernatural tales ever told. Robert HT:ROBERT KEARNEY PHOTO: Lloyd Parry brings two of his eeriest and drollest Christmas ghost stories to life – hard by the very places where they were originally conceived and performed.

Be afraid on December 3,4,10,11 at 3.30 at the Fitzwilliam Museum Founder’s Library; 7 –10 December at 7.30 in The Corpus Playroom, St Edward’s Passage. Tickets from Arts Theatre Box Office 01223 335555 The President of Ireland, Mary McAleese, gave her first official Or have Robert entertain you at home…. address to the Cambridge University Ireland Society, of which [email protected] 01223 263069 she is Patron, in King’s on Friday 10 June. The President and Dr. MR James’s Eton and King's: Recollections, Mostly Trivial (1926) is being republished and McAleese were welcomed by Rós Penguin have just reissued Count Magnus and Other Ghost Stories. Ní Dhubháin, President, and Conor McDonough (2004) President-Elect of the Cambridge These Fragments University Ireland Society, representing the 450 or so Irish Nicholas Goodison (1955) Honorary Fellow, has produced an unusual faculty and students at Cambridge. book of photographs of Ardtornish on the west coast of Scotland. An art historian, he finds beauty and proportion in unlikely objects, and King's wine his photographs are semi-abstract pictures of man-made ephemera. The result is a novel interpretation of an ancient landscape. King's has a very fine cellar - in the care of Wine Steward, Peter de Bolla and He was first invited to visit Ardtornish by John Raven (Senior Tutor Butler, Mark Smith - and many members 1956-63) and his wife Faith, whose family had bought the estate in already buy their wine from the College. 1929. “I was invited again by Faith’s first cousin Judith Abel Smith in 1958. We married in We can now arrange delivery in the UK 1960 and have been every year since. Many Kingsmen have visited over the years. I have through Amtrak at very reasonable rates. dedicated the book to Faith Raven because I would never have known the place, or married Please email or call Mark Smith for the Judith, if it hadn’t been for her. She also persuaded me to publish.” new list and the Christmas Sale list. Mark Smith 01223 331341 Copies are available from Elliott and Thompson, 27 St John Street, London WC1N 2BX. 0207

[email protected] 831 5013 www.elliottthompson.com Special price for Kingsmen: £25.00 plus £2.50 postage. college news | 3 Climate change news

Reclaiming waste water in China

“Despite plans to spend over 80 billion USD on environmental protection measures in the last 5 years,” writes Mark Elliott (1990), “around half of China's cities still have no urban waste water treatment facilities, and many of those existing are not operated properly. The result is that over 40% of the major rivers exceed the worst classification in terms of pollution. On the other hand, a good percentage of the population now have a drinking water connection, and in Shanghai the new generation of water treatment plants that we are building will produce drinking water exceeding even the stringent European standards. China's rapid urbanization, coupled with its industrial growth, have resulted in severe water resource shortages, especially in the North, so attention is Mark Elliott and son Max on the Great Wall now turning to technologies for the reclamation of treated waste water (using membrane microfiltration and reverse osmosis), as is quite Mark Elliott (1990) started his career as an engineer with North West common in countries such as the USA and Water, but now lives in Beijing. He works for Veolia Water, the world's Australia. All of this makes life interesting for us largest water company, and is responsible for all their bidding and as long as we are winning concession activities for new plant construction in China and South East Asia. contracts I will be happy to remain in China!"

The Retreat of the Elephants: An Environmental History of China. Mark Elvin. YaleUniversity Press.

This is the first environmental history of China during the three thousand years for which there are written records. Mark Elvin chronicles the spread of the Chinese style of farming that eliminated the habitat of the elephants that populated the country alongside much of its original wildlife; the destruction of most of the forests; the impact of war on the environmental transformation of the landscape; and the re-engineering of the countryside through water-control systems, some of gigantic size. He documents the histories of three contrasting localities within China to show how ecological dynamics defined the lives of the inhabitants. And he shows that China in the eighteenth century, on the eve of the modern era, was probably more environmentally degraded than north western Europe around this time. “Although Chinese culture is different from ours, Elvin believes that those differences—which he so brilliantly lays out for us—do not, in themselves, explain what happened to China’s environment.” Jonathan Mirsky (1954) Literary Review. Mark Elvin (1956) is professor of Chinese history at the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, Canberra. The book won the Stanislas Julien prize sponsored by the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres in Paris. climate change news change climate | 4 Warm Atlantic – hot Solar water heating Stuart Elmes (1990) might not describe himself as an environmentalist – but he is European summers Chief Executive of a new company, Viridian, which designs solar powered water Rowan Sutton (1987) explains that the Atlantic Ocean plays a heaters. “There are opportunities created by much larger role in controlling summer climate in Europe and the need for resource efficiency, and we can North America than previously thought. “By comparing help meet those needs.” From 2006, CO2 observations with our results from state-of the-art climate emissions in new homes will have to be models, we have shown that when the North Atlantic Ocean is reduced by 25%, and Local Authorities are warm, summers in the United States are warm and dry, and starting to use planning powers to demand droughts more frequent. Conversely, when the ocean is cool, that 10% of onsite energy use in new US summers are cool and wet. The effects on European developments should be from renewable summers are more subtle but still important. The swings in sources. So it’s time to look again at the Atlantic Ocean temperature are related to variations in a huge solar technology first developed in the 1970s overturning circulation known as the thermohaline circulation, – and deemed too costly. “We have consulted Stuart Elmes with his new solar or Atlantic conveyor belt. Modest changes in this circulation widely and listened to the needs of heating panel have important effects on summers, not just winters as developers and builders. They want previously assumed.” Even without taking man-made global something they can install easily as part of the roof, and which helps them fulfil their warming into account their computer models suggest both the side of the environmental contract. Our products will be desirable in their own right US and Europe could be in for more hot summers. "But global without government distortion of the marketplace.” Hot water accounts for between 1/4 warming is now a big additional factor," he cautioned, "and and 1/3 of the energy used in a standard house, so using a solar alternative for half of exactly how the effects will add up we don't yet know." that (which flat panel solar collectors can deliver over the course of a year) will reduce CO2 emissions accordingly. Stuart, who read engineering, relishes the challenge of Dr. Rowan Sutton is a Royal Society University Research growing the business, currently based in a small unit overlooking fields outside Fellow based at the NCAS Centre for Global Atmospheric Cambridge. Viridian received initial funding from the DTI and subsequently from the Modelling (CGAM), at the University of Reading, and lead Carbon Trust and they plan to start manufacturing panels shortly. Stuart and author of 'Atlantic Ocean Forcing of North American and Chairman Martin Davies (1981) founded the company after the success of a previous Western European Summer Climate', published in the venture, BioRobotics (see Spring 2005 issue). In July Viridian announced that it had journal ‘Science’ in July 2005. filed a second patent to protect its roof-integrated solar collector design. They are www.met.rdg.ac.uk happy to hear from any Kingspeople in the housebuilding sector interested in partnerships. www.viridianconcepts.com Green lobbying Rebecca Willis (1991) was Director of Educating industry for Green Alliance until last year. She read SPS, followed by an MA at sustainability Sussex and then did a spell in Stuart Reid (1973) reckons he was the first person to introduce glass and paper Brussels, working at the European recycling in King’s, and if the claims of his office (he’s now a Director at Cambridge Parliament. “Some people manage to Programme for Industry) are anything to go by, he has another first to be proud of. move on from their student days. But Uniquely within the University, CPI’s operation and programmes are carbon neutral. my work, as a vice-chair of the “We run 11 recycling schemes in the Sustainable Development office, including glass, bottles, Commission and an Associate of the environmental think-tank batteries and light bulbs,” he explains. Green Alliance, often seems to me to be nothing but a continual The CPI’s strapline is “catalysing refinement of a thought process that started with my SPS change for a sustainable future”, and degree, and my initiation into the determined, questioning their flagship programme – HRH the world of King’s thinking. My job involves helping government to Prince of Wales’s Business and the find workable solutions to some pretty intractable problems – Environment Programme – has at the moment, I’m trying to find ways to engage individuals to educated over 1000 public and private take action on climate change, and demonstrating that nuclear sector leaders over the last ten years. power might not be the panacea that some believe it to be. I’ve “ A growing number of senior been talking to the Home Office about community involvement Stuart Reid raising awareness about executives now recognise that in environmental regeneration, and to DfES to find ways to recycling in 1974. sustainability could also represent the make schools beacons of environmental excellence. It’s key to growth, competitiveness and profitability,” says Stuart. www.cpi.cam.ac.uk lobbying, of course, but, I hope, not the shrill threats that daily fill the newspapers – we aim to build a clear case for change, Aled Jones (1991) – also at the CPI – has been working with the Welsh government to based on sound analysis and reasoning. The kinds of skills that set up a sustainable development seminar for leaders and decision makers. “I have King’s taught me – and why I feel that I’ve never quite let go of also been working with academics from six departments to develop the Institute for my undergraduate experiences. My working life, it seems, is Aviation and the Environment. Its aim is to provide a detailed and balanced one long degree in Social and Political Sciences.” understanding of aviation’s contribution to climate change, pollution, society and the www.sd-commission.org.uk economy.” news change climate | 5 Windfarms to Sustainability in Amazonia racing cars Dilwyn Jenkins (1976) author of the Rough Guides to Peru and Brazil explains why he set up www.ecotribal.com. “As a King’s-trained anthropologist, my true passion has always been the cause of a Peruvian Amazon community, the Ashaninka, with whom I did my undergraduate research. Since those heady days of the late 1970s, I have been looking for ways to support Amazon tribal communities – to find ways for them to maintain their cultural identity and pride, protect their territory from land invasion and deforestation, and at the same time make a sustainable way of living in the world in a way that doesn’t marginalise them economically, politically or in terms of access to useful technology and goods. I have seen the frontier of Western civilisation sweep over Amazon communities in a variety of forms: missionaries, anthropologists, drug smugglers, terrorists, river traders, tourists and illegal loggers. Ecotribal is a response to the urgency of the situation and has the potential to resolve at least some of the issues by helping tribal communities access the world’s growing market for fairly- traded organic and other ethical produce.” The website also has information about trips Dilwyn organises into the remoter parts of Peru. “Ecotourism is providing the Ashaninka with a direct alternative income to the illegal logging of their mahogany trees.” www.ecotribal.com Renu Malhotra climbing the wind turbine in Tehachapi Dilwyn Jenkins, right, and Cesar

Renu Malhotra (1986) graduated and moved to California where she became a windfarm technician with FloWind Corporation, Institutional hot air the only company operating the vertical axis (“egg-beater”) style of wind turbine. “Initially I drove a big truck around the Joe Tatton-Brown (1961) has identified a major source of wasted energy – communal Altamont hills, shooing away cows gathered around the control heating systems. He is a Corgi-registered plumber, and has been monitoring local cabinets for shade, and looking out for black widow spiders authority blocks where gas central heating is controlled centrally, left running night and hidden among the controls for warmth.” day and flats tend to be too hot. "These communal systems use 2 to 2.5 times more energy per unit than an individual controlled system does." Of the 90,000 dwellings in “In response to the energy crisis of the late 70s, California had his own borough of Kensington and Chelsea, 4600 (5% of dwellings) are flats with spearheaded the development of large windfarms with its tax communal heating systems. "These flats alone probably use 10% of the borough's incentive legislation in the early 80s. They paid generously for domestic gas, and significant savings could be made. While no energy company really the energy produced based on the price of oil as it was wants to sell less gas, they could provide a chart to compare an individual property’s projected during the crisis years, but the 10-year old machines energy use with national ‘slim, medium or fat’ averages. The second step, of course, is had limited life remaining and a new generation vertical axis to install a condensing boiler and thermostatic radiator valves!" turbine was developed. This was a three-bladed turbine made [email protected] with single-piece, constant cross-section fibreglass blades, sprung into place during installation.” Renu was test engineer for the prototype turbine, located in beautiful high mountain desert at Tehachapi – about 100 miles north of Los Angeles, an The cycling campaigner area of huge Joshua Tree cacti. But ultimately time ran out. Martin Lucas-Smith (1997) is much involved with Cambridge Cycling Campaign. “There were issues with the new wind turbine and the rates “Although 25% of people cycle to work in Cambridge, this is low by some continental paid for electricity plummeted when the original contracts standards. Providing for cycling is of benefit to all, including motorists, for whom expired. The California windfarms experienced an extended every cyclist is potentially one less car in the traffic queue in front of them. This year, slump and several key players filed for bankruptcy during the we successfully campaigned to have the city centre cycling ban rescinded mid 90s, including FloWind.” experimentally – cycling through pedestrianised areas was previously only permitted “My experience collecting and analyzing data on the wind before 10 am and after 4 pm.” But problems remain. “Law-breaking by some cyclists turbines led to an opportunity to do the same on a Formula reduces the degree to which the public support improvements to cycling.” While at Atlantic (similar to UK Formula 3000) race car. After three King’s Martin was KCSU Green Officer. “ King’s was willing to consider change, but seasons on a race team travelling to events around North was at times constrained by the most surprising of problems. We had a Yellow Bin America, Canada and Mexico, I was tapped on the shoulder by scheme (paper was collected by bedders on alternate days) which the College was the engine builder, Hasselgren Racing Engines, who needed happy to extend beyond Webbs’ Court, but ironically so much paper was being help mapping the engines at the track for a growing number of collected that the City Council wouldn’t take any more!” customers.” [email protected] climate change news change climate Martin is currently Webmaster at the Geography Department, and also stood as | Green Party Parliamentary Prospective Candidate for Cambridge. 6 Climate Change in East Anglia Climate change and rising sea levels threaten the East Anglian coast, but Tim O’Riordan is optimistic. He sees it as the test case coastline for a new approach to living with nature’s limits.

The East Anglian coast has been of the existing cliff edge is valued at more than half extensively studied by Cambridge what it was a year ago. Aldeburgh is limbering up for geographers, most notably J. a huge fight to save its historic old town and musical Alfred Steers in the 1950s. This is links. Many expensive marinas on the Suffolk river Tim O’Riordan at Happisburgh a soft, beautiful littoral, the locale valleys are silting up and there is no money for fresh for dozens of species of migratory dredging. The pips are certainly beginning to squeak. waterfowl, and justifiably designated as an Area of My work is to try to find a genuinely sustainable solution Outstanding Natural Beauty. Coastal processes shape to all of this. We have time to respond. Most of the the shoreline and the immediate hinterland sediment serious erosion is at least a quarter of a century away. moves down from the Humber and in from the So it is timely to look creatively at the repositioning of North Sea. The coastal currents sort the sand and coastal settlements into genuinely sustainable shingle into offshore sandbars, on shore spits and communities. This means designing – with the residents mud flats, and beaches of varying width and depth. – ways of managing the coasts so they fit more naturally But the North Sea is dangerous, the coastline is into rising tides as well as meeting the new planning naturally sinking because of a post-glacial tilt to the requirements of living with the limits of nature. A fresh southeast, and sea levels are rising. Geographers have planning framework, just being put into place, provides also noted a world-wide phenomenon of deepening a basis for participatory relocation, involving all of the littorals and narrowing beaches. For the most part, residents, planners and a host of users and landowners. there is nowhere for the coast to migrate to. This I have begun this process for Happisburgh and plan to impediment is known as “coastal squeeze”. The move it down the coast into Suffolk. construction of sea walls, sediment traps (groynes), The major blockage is the unwillingness of the defensive structures (revetments) as well as coastal government to provide any compensation for any of development mean that natural realignment inwards this activity. Flood defence and erosion protection are is all but impossible. discretionary arrangements. There is no legal Climate change outcomes are genuinely unpredictable. requirement to defend an endangered coastline, or to But if the Arctic ice sheets thin out, if coastal storms pay any compensation either for loss of future intensify, and if temperatures rise, then there will be economic prospects or for blight of property value. more and more coastal erosion and less and less beach Social justice considerations and the dynamics of the replenishment. Trying to deal with this by coast offer scope for a fresh look at this. Where constructing more sea walls will worsen the position. coastal redesign actually enables further coastal Sea walls get extensively undermined, and the safeguard to be more reliable and natural, then it is reduction of coastal sediment release and associated cost effective to put into place new coastal wetlands movement means that the beaches no longer protect and thoughtful settlement relocation, so that the vulnerable shorelines as a “free” service. abandoned cliffs are allowed to let their sediment The government is recognising this, as are many clothe the shoreline down current. Hence, one The parish of distinguished coastal geographers. Essentially, it will location’s loss is another’s beach gain. Happisburgh shown not be possible to defend all the current East Anglian We are still working with the government on this. It adjacent to Lessingham coast without huge costs of replenishment by moving is possible that a successful compromise can be on the 1587 map in sediment from the North Sea by barge and pumping forged, beach by beach. East Anglia offers the test King’s Estates Records it onto the stripped shoreline. But case coastline. Canute did not try to stop the sea; he this is not a “sustainable” solution. It wanted to show his people that it was futile to do so. costs as much as a million pounds a We can follow his motive but better his example. time and may all be removed in one Tim O’Riordan (1965) is a retired Professor of violent night of storms. Environmental Sciences at the University of East Yet important settlements and Anglia and a Member of the UK Sustainable historical artefacts lie endangered. Development Commission. He is a Fellow of the Happisburgh on the North Norfolk British Academy and received his PhD from the coast, a village of some 200 souls, is

University of Cambridge in 1967. He was a member in East Anglia change climate

already experiencing severe property of King’s College during his postgraduate years and | blight. No house within kilometres played much music in the College. 7 Parade Profile: John Young John Young (1977) Fellow and Hopkinson and ICI Professor of Applied Thermodynamics talks to Alison Carter.

In the foyer of the approaching 90%. But half of that 10% loss is due to Engineering Department, the presence of the water droplets. “Every extra John Young points out a percentage point of efficiency represents a huge painting by Cuneo amount of money,” John explains. “If your turbine is commemorating the 2% more efficient than your competitors’, they simply opening of the Baker don’t sell theirs.” Engineers started tackling the PHOTO: ALEX WHITE Building in 1952. A wetness problem in the 1920s, but the key was to youthful Duke of concentrate on how the droplets formed in the first Edinburgh, the eponymous place. “It’s a nucleating, two-phase, transonic flow, Professor Baker and many and the theory is quite complicated!” To try and sort it be-gowned and be- out, John stood back from the turbines themselves spectacled academics are and analysed the effects one by one. “The maths was shown leaning forward tricky because the equations were all jumbled up and excitedly over the railings it was difficult to focus on the underlying physics … to admire the steam But that work was not about designing turbines, it was turbines exhausting into about fundamental thermofluid mechanics. Part of me the condenser pit below. prefers the fundamentals and then the engineering In a world threatened by voice says you’ve got to put this together to make global warming, something useful.” increasing the efficiency “I’m supposed to say I loved Meccano, and indeed I of power generation is at did!” he laughs. Any early interest in engineering and the heart of many engineers’ work, and John Young John Young science came mainly from his father, a motor body has spent much of his career helping to improve the stylist who had worked with Alec Issigonis on the efficiency of steam and gas turbines, aero-engines Mini. But his mother too had been a draughtswoman, and solid oxide fuel cells. His research projects have and was proud of her work during the war. The family been funded by Rolls-Royce, PowerGen, Alstom, and moved from London to Birmingham when John was ABB, with industry acquiring several of his computer five and his father’s job took him to Longbridge. An modelling codes. “If you’re working in academia and only child, he went to King Edward’s, a direct grant then industry actually wants something, and will pay school. He tells me that his two daughters, Caroline you money for it, it does indicate that you might be and Susanna, are doing something convinced he was a useful.” “Engineers got us into this mess geek. “I did maths, Take, for example, the with the industrial revolution, and physics and chemistry problem of the engineers will get us out – and it’s because I would have microscopic water about time politicians realised this been hopeless at droplets which and started promoting large-scale anything else, but I was condense in a steam also quite sporty!” he turbine. Around 70% of carbon sequestration schemes protests. He enjoys the world’s electrical rather than sanctioning a few more describing the power is generated by 2 megawatt windmills which do “accidental” start to his steam turbines, which nothing except spoil the career. “My form nowadays have master announced that countryside.”

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10 | 2005 events 2005 events aos(04,Jon May (2002). Jacobs (2004), Justin Tom Oliver (2002), Matt Main(2003), Front row: AlexCook(2000). Rhys (2001), Bidder (2002), Gerrish Oliver Yasoja Gunawardena (2003,Captain), Katira 2003, Tarang Jonny Price (2002), Pete Griffin(2003), row: Back first roundCuppers match against Fitzwilliam2nds: the King’s College Cricket Club1stXI-Victorious teamof Sports KCA andLydia Keynes Day Glynde PlaceReception Davidson (1972)withhelpfromtheDevelopment Office. Russian lunch –arranged by KCA Director Caroline talks–anda enjoyed aday fullof Keynes orLydia, whom knew many of 150 King’s membersandguests, Legendary cricketLegendary Philip Radcliffe Dinner 4 and IanAnderson left)Margaret Pinder(1978) Nicholas Marston (2001, usx inMay. Sussex, East atGlyndePlace, East, those basedintheSouth John Barberatareception for guests joinedtheProvost and Over 80Membersandtheir no problem… course, of Now, inthosedays. Brünnhilde notsoeasy, asMime. obviously, Adcock, theCollege. the Fellows of Wagner’s productionof an imaginary attendance attheGoverning Bod elw withhelpfromtheDevelopment Office. Fellow, The event organised was by Nicholas Marston(2001), andMargaret Pinder(1978)andIanAnderson. 2003), 1985)andTom Winpenny (Organ Scholar,Scholar, James Gilchrist (Choral Fitzwilliam StringQuartet, given by The music by PhilipRadcliffe, of concert 130membersandguestsenjoyed a Before dinner, “ ehtdmeig n diitain Hemade He hatedmeetingsandadministration. ” 5 David Isitt(1946)onPhilipRadcliffe. 28 April 14 May 18 June y bearab 6 Men’s second boat remember! Chiara Ferrara (2004,Vice-Captain). Division for thefirsttimeinKing’s Women’s Rowing andStCatztoget intotheFirstMay —asfar Bumps asanyone history can Queens’ Darwin, We bumped EmmaII, rowingLegendary 1 HT:MATT BRYANT PHOTO: Ring le by casting from among 2 7 HT:ALISONCARTER PHOTO: HT:CHRISBRAITHWAITE PHOTO: ls(03 Captain). Elks (2003, Cathy Massiou (2000)Stroke: Anna Sanjana (2002)7: Francesca Gassmann (2003)6: Julie Critchfield (2004)5: Katy 4: Kelli Rudolph (2002), 3: Chiara Ferrara (2004), 2: (Women’s Captain2004-2005) Kiera McNeice(2003) Bow: (2003), SophieBarnett Cox: :HnitaGret who knewLydia well. HenriettaGarnett, 7: down after27years. outgoing KCA secretary Nigel Bulmer(1965)stepping KCA and President of Nick QC(1963left), Purnell 6: hiscareer. helped by of Keynes at thestart Sussex)hadalsobeen University of International Relations, of SirHans(EmeritusProfessor and David Sweden (1963). SirHans Singer Professor (1934) Laurence Bard (1968), 5: gave a lively talkonKeynes theEconomist. Geoff (1955). Harcourt SirIanLloyd (1945)andGeoff 4: Lydia isduetobepublishedin2007. Her biography of spoke onLydia Lopokova. dancecriticat theGuardian, Judith, Keynes Milo andAdrianWood (1964). JudithMackrell, 3: helped by Keynes inthe30s. hadbeen anémigré statistician, ErwinRotbarth, father, Tom Rivers (1959,left)gave amoving talkabout howhis 2: Nick Hutton(1974)isthenewKCA Secretary. 1: www.fitzwilliamquartet.org to York tohearthemplay. befriended themfollowingavisit who Dmitri Shostakovich, close personal association with became well knownthroughtheir theyfirst Founded in1968, Lucy Russell. (1968), AlanGeorge Jonathan Sparey, Andrew Skidmore, From left: The FitzwilliamStringQuartet lfDavies (2004). Olaf Mark Hancock (2003), Grey Baker (2003), (2004), Vince Tang du Toit (2001), Pieter Phillip Bridge (2003), ShengQi(2004), (2003), Reavley Stuart (2004), EdHeydon From bow: PHOTOGRAPHY CHAFFIELD SHAW May Week Concert 20 June

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I thought I ought to to indulge in sport – I at least have kept faithful to that rule. But “ look back to when they were also forbidden to frequent taverns – a rule which I Henry VI founded the certainly broke – and it was also provided in the College’s statutes place, see what he that they must all sleep in separate beds – a rule which many of us intended and think about kept trying to break although I was never very successful – as some how we measure up. … here can testify. … We may not remember much of what we Lectures were to be learned here in the Tripos but I think we do all remember much of regularly attended what we learned that was perhaps more important: the value of between 6am and 8am – learning; the vital importance of liberalism and tolerance in an that rule I think we all failed. Both Fellows and Scholars were increasingly illiberal and intolerant world, and, above all, the value forbidden from indulging “in a profusion of hair” – well, some of of lasting friendships. us have certainly kept that rule. Scholars were forbidden to ” possess money – a rule which Government policy now upholds on From the speech by Wilf White (1982) proposing the College. King Henry’s behalf. They were forbidden to adopt modern dress or

Bank of England Reception 19 October Stanley Glasser, (1955) composer Mervyn King (1966), Honorary Fellow, hosted a reception at the Museum of the Bank of England and for 180 King’s members (and several casually placed waxworks of olde banke tellers). “I am ethnomusicologist, extremely proud to be the first Kingsman to become Governor of the Bank of England and talking to Beverley complete his degree. Neither Montagu Norman nor Cameron Cobbold, both of whom were Rowe (1954) Governors, actually graduated – a distinction they share with Henry Blofeld, the cricket computing commentator.” Several Kingsmen wondered briefly whether the distinguished cricket commentator consultant. had in fact been leading a secret life as Governor of the Bank. Not so; but the two aforementioned Kingsmen had been in post, between them, for nearly 40 years from 1920 to 1961. Sarah Florence Left to right: Richard Spearman QC (1971), Jane Teather (1972) and Lars Wood (1992) McBride (1972). whose new book Richard has acted for newspapers against, amongst others, Naomi Campbell and features in the David and Victoria Beckham and for individuals such as Arnold Schwarzenegger. King’s English “What a relief to see a picture taken at a party that doesn’t show anyone with eyes section, and closed and mouth wide open! What a fantastic venue!” (JT.) Jane runs her own Jonathan Rippon information design consultancy and has recently become one of the first women (1992), who works associate members of MCC. “It was great fun. Jane looked exactly as she did 30 years ago, with the same in television distinctive colour hair; cf. Spearman and McBride! I’m Non-Exec of a few businesses and forlornly trying to 2005 events

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Nicola Barker Clear Harper Perennial 2005 the imagination. “The limpet never moves an inch,” explains Reverend Morris, one of the seven Anglesey islanders whose “I’m totally superficial, see? I’m inherently trivial,” overlapping stories comprise the plot, “but, over time, whole insists Adair Graham MacKenny, the metrosexual oceans will wash over it.” narrator of Nicola Barker’s Booker nominated novel. Since the subjects of his ruminations range from Whether to make sense of life physically or emotionally, that is, Jesus Christ to Dizzee Rascal, via Kafka, maintaining according to geography or to some internal topography, is a his emphatically italicised triviality proves to be no moot point of Hughes’s debut, which manages to strike a tone mean feat. Like her mouthpiece, Barker seeks to both elegiac and contemporary. Intersecting symbolic axes revive ideas grown stale and “mothballed” by locating provide the means of orientation for his intergenerational them, not in the university or salon, but underneath characters, all of whom appear in some way lost, and for whom the perspex box in which David Blaine was suspended he displays a nuanced sympathy. Skinner, the English New Age over the Thames for 44 days in 2003. hippy, follows horizontal ley lines to get home, whereas for Reverend Morris, the path is “vertical, slanting downwards into One dark night on the Embankment, Adair begins a thoroughly time”. All seven stories revolve modern courtship of Aphra, an unlikely (and married) shoe around the Tower itself, a human fetishist with “eyes the shade of a city pigeon”. Against the point of fixity around which the backdrop of their almost-affair, and catalysed by the spectacle landscape is composed. of Blaine, Adair fulfils his own small potential for heroism. The theme of self-achievement and metamorphosis finds its If harmony is sought in a correlation expression in figures as diverse as Jack Schaefer’s ‘Shane’ and between inside and outside (Gruffydd Harry Houdini, but given Adair’s limitations, his story remains a Felin conceives his role as to evidence kind of self-conscious portrait of the artist as a young “God’s breath” by turning the sails of narcissist. his windmill) the discrepancy between them is a constant source of pathos. Sharing a desire to comprehend the intense projections of When Jack Cucu’s father returns from animosity and love that Blaine’s public declaration of the war in Burma with more than a touch of malaria, and a still- transparency inspires, Clear’s protagonists find themselves pressed uniform, it is “this outward fastidiousness that had made hotly debating global capitalism, the holocaust, the Arab-Israeli his inward unravelling seem so terrible.” conflict and Black Civil rights, over expensive vino and soda bread. Barker’s zeitgeisty characters are satirically drawn, but Despite Hughes’ many comic juxtapositions, the pervasive in general the book comes out in sympathy with their questing mood of The Tower is one of melancholy, where the barmaid of idealism. Whether the reader feels that the crane The George is “beautiful at night beneath the barlights, but the dangling Blaine’s box over the water can also bear daytime was cruel and it was always afterwards and they were the weight of such political and metaphysical always gone.” speculation – whether, as Adair wonders, the glue is Rachel Malkin (2003) strong enough – may be a matter to settle over another bottle of red. Tristan Hughes (1996) came to King’s as a graduate student. Published the year after Barker was named a Granta Born in Atikokan, Canada, he ‘Best of British’ novelist, Clear has been widely was brought up around received as her best work to date. Llangoed, Ynys Môn, where he currently lives. Rachel Malkin (2003)

Nicola Barker (1985) read English, and lives in London. Places where they recycle... “I’m not sure that I still qualify for the ‘young King’s The reviewer Rachel Malkin novelists’ paddock – hard at work on my eighth book as I (2003) has studied at UCL am.” and at Edinburgh, and is now in the third year of a PhD at King’s. She works on Tristan Hughes The Tower Parthian 2003 the idea of the ‘ordinary’ as a third term between Tristan Hughes is a relatively new voice in Welsh letters. romanticism and scepticism Following a Rhys Davies Short Story Award for A Sort of in contemporary American Homecoming in 2001, this year sees the publication of his most thought and writing. recent novel The Strange Journeying of Johnny Ifor Jones. Hughes is unlikely to resent the national(ist) designation, since his first

King’s English:King’s & news reviews book, The Tower, engages explicitly with the power of place on | 12 Will Eaves Nothing To Be Afraid Of Picador 2005 News There’s an epicentre at the heart of Will Eaves’s acclaimed Philip Purser (1943) has written Lights in the Sky, published in second novel, Nothing To Be Afraid Of. As the cast and audience January by Severn House. Set in World War II, it features a British for the Young Vic’s 1999 production of The Tempest take their pilot whose task is to fly into enemy territory and retrieve escapees fleeing from the Nazis. “The hero is, or has been, at King’s, places, an earthquake strikes London. Eaves’s tremor, like floundering around in the featured discipline of your current issue, Shakespeare’s storm, spares the characters from Engineering. At a reunion lunch around 1990 I had the great good luck physical injury, but the psychological aftershocks of to be seated next to Tony Tanner.” this evening will reverberate through the lives of the Eugene Stelzig (1966) worked with Tony Tanner in his second year. double-acts lined up on either side of these footlights: “I still fondly recall him as the most brilliant English professor and Martha Hutchings, who stars as the beautiful critic. In the summer of 1997 I managed to make contact with him, Miranda; and Martha’s self-doubting sister Alice, a and he took me to lunch in the Senior Combination Room - a place I’d frustrated actress whose body-shape confines her to never previously set foot in.” Professor of English at SUNY College at reviewing the performance from the stalls; Robert Geneseo, NY, his most recent publication is “Patriarchal Pressures: Ladd, the maestro in Prospero’s magic cloak; and Portraits of Fathers in Darwin’s and Nabokov’s Autobiographies,” Life Leslie, an old drag artiste stuck in Caliban’s shoes. Writing, Vol. 2, No. 1 (2005). Patrick Parrinder (1967) was a Fellow & College Lecturer in English While the show goes on, a manmade catastrophe 1967-74. Currently Professor of English at the University of Reading, follows the natural disaster; Leslie, drowning his anger at he is textual editor for 9 volumes of the Penguin series of H. G. Wells Robert’s vanity, gets drunk in the interval, and Alice salvages her titles. The most recent is The Sleeper Awakes, for which he wrote the own theatrical ambitions and the production by taking on Introduction. His new book Nation and Novel: The English Novel from its Caliban’s part. Thrown, with Alice, into this incestuous Origins to the Present Day will be published by Oxford in March 2006. company, the reader sees cracks opening up within and between Charles Nicholl (1968) read English. His bestselling biography these lives, and peers, like Miranda, into “the dark and Leonardo da Vinci: the flights of the mind came out in paperback this backward abysm of time”, to find the faces behind their masks. year. The Reckoning: The Murder of Christopher Marlowe won the James Gradually, the cast discover themselves and each other; so Tait Black Prize for Biography and the Crime Writers’ Association ‘Gold Dagger’ Award for non-fiction. Alice’s new lover, Nick Glass (Trinculo), uncovers the traumatic memory that she and Martha share. Nick’s Svengali father – Wendy Lesser (1973) has just published her first novel, The Pagoda in Tony Glass is both a hypnotist and a theatrical agent – is key to the Garden, set partly in Cambridge. The Editor of the Threepenny Review, her latest publication is Nothing Remains the Same: Rereading and both that mystery and to the obscure enmity that pairs Robert’s Remembering (Houghton Mifflin, 2002). preening with Leslie’s pain. [email protected] Eaves – whose plotting emulates Shakespeare’s miraculous Lisa Hopkins (1980) is Professor of English, Sheffield Hallam coincidences and enigmatic loose ends – has the story-telling University. “I was very pleased to see that there is to be a celebration tact to make us curious, and solicitous, for these actors and of Tony Tanner, by whom I was taught as an undergraduate from their secrets. His novel will intrigue anyone fascinated by the 1980-3.” Lisa has three books out this year: Beginning Shakespeare tricks that theatre, and theatre people, can play on the mind. with Manchester University Press; Shakespeare on the Edge: Border- Crossing in the Tragedies and the Henriad, Ashgate, and Christopher George Yeats (1998) Marlowe: An Author Chronology, Palgrave. Sarah Florence Wood (1992) writes: “I was so pleased to read about Will Eaves (1986) was born in Bath in 1967 and lives next year’s celebration of King’s English and Tony’s remarkable in London. The Oversight (2001) was shortlisted for contribution to the study of English and American literature. I often the Whitbread Best First Novel Award. He is the Arts remember the scrawled note he sent me the day before finals began: Editor of the Times Literary Supplement. he knew how terrified I was, and the note said, simply, ‘Courage!’” Her book Quixotic Fictions of the USA, 1792 –1815, is published by Oxford and New York: OUP 2005. Sarah has been a Lecturer in The reviewer George Yeats (1998) whose undergraduate and American Literature at Sussex University and is now working on a postgraduate studies have been at King’s, is currently in the third year novel. of a PhD on Hamlet’s afterlife in Victorian literature. Jay Basu (1994) wrote the script for the new film Song of Songs with Places where they recycle... director Josh Appignanesi, (1994). The film won the Special Commendation at the Edinburgh Film Festival. “It’s a prize they created for us because we split the jury! It’s got Natalie Press (My Summer of Love) in it and is about a brother and sister from an orthodox Jewish background who get involved in an intense relationship.” Jay’s first novel The Stars Can Wait was published in 2002. books and reviews | 13 14 | Forty years on... Simon Hoggart (1965) – andcameback40years later read Englishin1965 Simon Hoggart on... years Forty thing tosaytwo awedyoungmen. from ourownfailure tograsptheplay. Itwasa kindly which Iamsurewastrue,though onadifferentlevel not sureIeverunderstood Twelfth Night He wascharming, andaskedwhatwewerestudying. appointment, andafellowstudent andIdid,fortea. end ofhislife.Itwaspossibletovisithim,by And EMForster wasstillalive,thoughverynearthe unimpressed bythededicationofstudentshetaught. quickly backtoDublin.Iseemrecallthathewas Donoghue whodidn’t careforCambridge andwent Pat Parrinder, andforone formidableyear, Denis supervisor wasJohnBroadbent,wholaterleftforUEA, American studiesinthiscountryowestohim.My never forgethowmuchthepresenthighstandingof bitterly regretteddeath,wasinhisprime,andwemust have becomealmostlegendarysincehisearlyand figure whoseems to available. Tony Tanner, a remarkable teaching There wassome schoolboys. with otherpublic much ofhissocialtime oppressed, spending world’s poorand representative ofthe He wasnotyeta his first novel, was alreadyworkingon Salman Rushdie,who reading Englishwas most famousofthose prowess.) Theundergraduatewhobecamebyfarthe not muchofthatatKing’s. We wereproudofourlack stamp-collecting -orsport(thoughofcoursetherewas activities, whetherdrama,politics,journalism,music, needed togetby, andspenttherestofourtimeonother down. Thepeoplewhowantedfirsts reallydid strive prettyhardtodosolittlethatyougotsent the 1960s,butonotherhandyouhadto say thatacademicstudywasoptionalbackin It’s hardworkforherandfriends.Iwon’t King’s, andshe’s readingEnglishtoo. better time:mydaughterhasjuststartedat invitation couldnothavecomeatamuch English atthecollege–40yearslater. The King’s tocomparetheexperienceofreading Pete deBollaaskedmetocomeback but I’dsaythataround90%ofusdidwhatwe work, sometimesseeminglyaroundtheclock, , wetoldhim.“A verydifficult play. I’m Grimus . 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Change of direction Student of the Year Fuel cell award Elizabeth Akehurst (Blow 1972) came Russ MacMillan (2001), who graduated to King’s for Part III of the Maths this summer, won a SET Student of the Tripos but has been painting since the Year award in September. The SET 1980s. She has a show at New Hall in awards recognise outstanding January 2006. She took her first degree achievement in science, engineering and at the University of Kent, Canterbury, technology by undergraduates at UK and they now have a number of her universities. Russ won the GKN Award paintings in their collection. Her work for the Best has been shown in galleries across the Mechanical South East, in Norfolk and Edinburgh, Engineering and represented at art fairs in Dublin, Student, judged by Glasgow and London. the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, for his project ‘Analysis and Automation of a DEFRA Blood Test Programme’. The winning student in Paul Stonehart (1959) was awarded the each category received a trophy and Francis Bacon Medal and Prize for Fuel £500. Russ, who has recently joined the Cell Science and Technology by the MoD’s Science and Engineering Fast Royal Society of Chemistry of London Stream said: “A huge part of my in August 2005. success was down to the general support and hard work of my colleagues at King’s.” Russ is currently Labour of love seeking backing to commercialise the prototype robot in partnership with Peter Strafford (1956) writes: “My DEFRA. [email protected] own affection for the Romanesque style began with the Round Church in Cambridge in the1950s. Many years later King’s people are welcome at the New … the idea of a book about Romanesque Hall Private View on Sunday 8th January Society for Theatre churches in France was born. It was a 2.00 – 4.00 Research labour of love – and quite different from the work I used to do as a journalist. My Ian Herbert (1958) has been elected the wife, Jackie, and I went to churches all new Chairman of the Society for over France, almost always in attractive Understanding Islam Theatre Research. He edited the last old towns and villages; and then went Arzu Merali (1989) read English three editions of Who’s Who in the back again to many of them to take and co-founded the Islamic Theatre and is Founder and now better photographs.” Human Rights Commission in consultant editor of Theatre Record.A 1997. “I was always a human meeting point for all interested in the Peter spent 35 years on The Times as rights campaigner, and became history and technique of the British foreign correspondent (Paris, Brussels, New York). Romanesque Churches of increasingly frustrated by the theatre, the Society offers its members France: A Traveller’s Guide is published by ignorance and prejudices annual publications, the journal Theatre Giles de la Mare Publishers Ltd at £15.99. against Muslims — particularly Notebook and a series of public after the Rushdie fatwa.” She lectures. The Society’s president is is a journalist and co-author of Timothy West. a series of IHRC reports, based on www.str.org.uk interviews with British Muslims and supported by the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust, entitled “British Song Prize Muslims’ Expectations of the Government”. Reports are already Andrew Kennedy (1995) won the 2005 available on citizenship, discrimination Rosenblatt Recital Song Prize, awarded and schools. Further reports on as part of the Cardiff Singer of the university life, hijab, the media and World competition. Andrew is also a Muslim contribution to British society Radio 3 New Generation Artist. are forthcoming. members’ news

www.ihrc.org | 15 16 | emails and letters Geoffrey Plow (1975) this affliction? living inmy room? Andwho elsesuffers from undusted, lurking, 12 achieved? know howmany Dothey chose allthoserecords? knowwhat Dothey effect they Who mid-1970srock orthodoxy. else was at theforefront of more alluringthanBebopDeluxeandThinLizzywhatever that was far otherlate ‘60sstuff of andall sorts Grateful Dead, The Pete Atkin, andfound Fairport Convention, Languages, booksonEnglishandModern avoiding thesnares of asIremember, library, stairs inthecollege went upasetof music for theKing’s record library? You selectorsanonymous of redeveloped orcalledintoquestioninthe1970sby formed, otherKingspersonsI wonderhowmany hadtheirmusical tastes afflictionVinyl issue. Stephen writesmoreabouthistimeatKing’s inthenext Stephen Vahrman (1966) hemighthave added. quite confusingat times,” “Butalso theFrench Revolution. wrote Wordsworth of heaven,” but tobeyoung was very “Bliss was itinthat dawntobealive, life. owneveryday thepage andintomy I was studyingleapedoff theEnglishpoets thewritingsof thelate sixties, social momentof radical Inthat alltoobrief radical change.” badly inneedof emotionally-crippled peopleunfittobreathe life intoasociety highly competitive process that produces over-specialised, operative teachingandlearning experienceintoanindividualised, “Examsturnwhat shouldbeaco- explanation. we saidbyway of Thisiswhat Cambridge studentshadtornuptheirTripos papers. The Radical recall Emails andletters erylkdt aeatne.Nextyear’s KCA lunchis dearly liked tohave attended. which Iwould theBumps, marquee of onthelastday ButIseethat itclashedwiththeBoat Club’s after it. Keynes events Day before and the delightfulprogramme of have loved toattend theKCA lunchand Iwould engagement itwere not for anotherunavoidable if One smallcomment: Clashes Bev Rowe(1954) your pages torecord it. unnoticedbyanyone andsoIhopeyougone canfindroom in Thisevent seemstohave Dora Carrington. the sister-in-law of NoelCarringtonandso Shewas thewife of Charleston Trust. uncannily matching the herowncentenary, of short days ten Shediedaged 99, Carrington was cremated at Worthing. Onthe10thDecember2004Catherine Bloomsbury. trace of few afterattending days asadevent that really isthelast theCharleston Trust a I read your of noteaboutthecentenary Last trace Daily Telegraph of 27 May 1969, reported that reported several 1969, 27May of ” vinyl recordsvinyl are also rule thatuniversitiesdonotspeakillofdeadalumni…” King’sCollegehasbeendrylybreakingtheunwritten University’s School Aren’t toDieFor. Itbegins:“For45yearsnow, Cambridge Phillips on31Octoberentitled:MerelyDeparted:ObitsatThis (Ed.) TheWall StreetJournalpublishedanarticlebyMichaelM John Marvin(1951) hope willcontinue. which I that Iappreciate theobituariesinAnnualReport, stimulation you provide in Thankyou for the as didanotherchoral scholarChrisZealley. Singers theBirmingham withwhom Isanginthelate 1950s- of who was theleadinglight NowIseeJohn Crowder, 1919-1990. Register theCollege really notedthenamesonfirst page of Before Ihadnever article thePhilipMayne had acareer inICI. cametoKing’s andthen I was educated at Christ’s Hospital, Your sparked aboutPhilipMayne connectionsinthat my article Idle recollections King’s Parade hasbeenshortlistedforanaward… (Ed.) Yes, aclashlookslikely asBumpsare14–17June...and (1950) Bryan Porteous Parade. congratulations andthankstoallconcernedwith But theBumps? of clashwiththelastday it again will thisisalsotohave a‘theme’ If scheduled for 17thJune. rdp.kcsu.org.uk Red Pie Dragon Old news: www.srcf.ucam.org/~kcbc King’s Boat Club College www.varsity.cam.ac.uk Varsity www.kcsu.org.uk The Alternative Prospectus online Citizen King www.kcsu.org.uk KCSU www.kings.cam.ac.uk The prospectus following web addresses: studentnewspapers andsocietiescanbefound at the KCSU, alternative prospectus, now? Linkstothecurrent prospectus, Do you want toknowwhat it’s like tobeastudentat King’s Horse’s mouth , the new King’s thenew isavailable studentnewspaper , King’s Parade AndIwouldlike toadd . King’s Turbulent times Conflicting interpretations of the late sixties and early seventies abound. Brian Pollitt (1959) left Cambridge for Cuba in 1963 and worked for five years on rural surveys, returning to Cambridge in 1967 (shortly after the death of Che Guevara) to write up his fieldwork. For him, a defining moment occurred in early 1970.

Back in comfortable Cambridge in late 1967, I found it The second element of controversy concerned the way in difficult to assimilate the nature and aspirations of a which individuals not arrested at the time were student body much changed from the one I had left in subsequently identified. Eight had been arrested on the 1963. The ‘New Left’ had emerged, unified by opposition spot but the rest were charged when identified by the to US foreign policy in general and to the war University proctors. This caused unease not least because in Vietnam in particular. Less clear ideological the demonstration had been held outside University positions could be perceived among other premises. More damaging was the lack of credibility of the students who were also labelled ‘radical’ but proctors’ claims that these were the only individuals they who eschewed – indeed opposed – any formal had been able to identify: they included all four past and organization. But student agitation in present chairmen of the university Socialist Society as well Cambridge concerning ‘oppressive’ gate hours as other prominent figures on the Left. or lack of ‘participation’ in determining the The committal proceedings were held in Cambridge with the exam system left me cold. I spent my days graver charge of ‘riotous assembly’ added for all defendants. considering the preoccupations of Cuban There was broad opposition – predictably notable in liberal peasants and of peasant roles in the making of King’s. I found the issues sufficiently serious to drop my revolutions more generally. The concerns of academic scribbles and to immerse myself in the Brian Pollitt privileged Cambridge students, by contrast, organization of a ‘Free Greek Week’ in May 1970 to coincide seemed trivial. with the committal proceedings. The charges against two defendants were dropped since they were agreed to have My attitude changed, however, with the response of been simple bystanders, and the others duly appeared at the national and University authorities to the demonstration District Assizes in Hertford at the end of June. at the Garden House Hotel on 13 February 1970. The military coup in Greece in 1967 had damaged that The judge was Mr Justice Melford Stevenson, notorious for country’s image as a tourist destination and Cambridge his right-wing views and harsh sentencing record. But the was chosen to promote a ‘Greek Week’ culminating in a jury disappointed the prosecution by refusing to convict the gourmet dinner at the Garden House Hotel. The seven individuals charged with unlawful or riotous assembly prominent advertising provoked some 500 protesters to who had not been arrested at the time. Eight were given take part in a rowdy demonstration that did much more prison or borstal sentences from nine to 18 months (with than spoil the occasion for the diners. deportation orders – one was later quashed – for a Brazilian and a South African student). He famously stressed that the Nationally the authorities had become increasingly sentences would have been more severe had he not been concerned about student unrest, particularly after anti- satisfied that those appearing before him had been “under Vietnam War demonstrations at the US Embassy in the evil influence of senior members of the University”, London. With hindsight, it became clear that some of whom had appeared as witnesses for the defence. demonstrators arrested or identified at the Garden House While the Crown prosecution missed one of its primary Hotel had been chosen for exemplary punishment to end targets – prominent figures in the Cambridge student Left – such reprehensible student activism. Two aspects of the the severity of the sentences deterred any significant judicial procedures were particularly controversial. The student involvement in rowdy street demonstrations for first was the deployment of the arcane common law years. In Cambridge itself there was an arguably more offence of ‘unlawful assembly’ to charge 17 individuals constructive outcome. At a series of University-wide (including both students and a Fellow of King’s) arrested meetings, King’s research student Martin Jacques (1968) or identified at the demonstration. and others successfully argued that Cambridge students In medieval times ‘unlawful assembly’ had been a useful lacked any representative body able to confront the device to keep unruly peasants in their place, being defined University authorities: these meetings concluded with the as one in which a gathering of three or more persons could creation of the Cambridge University Student Union and give an individual of ‘reasonable firmness’ reason to believe with the election of its first office-bearers. that a ‘breach of the peace might occur’. It was not Brian Pollitt (1959) read economics. He was Chairman of CU necessary for a breach of the peace actually to occur and Communist Party 1960-62 and 1968-69, and President of the still less that an individual charged with this offence Cambridge Union Society in 1962. Until 1996 he was Senior actually to have committed one: simple presence at an times turbulent Lecturer in Latin American Studies at Glasgow University, | assembly so defined was sufficient grounds for prosecution. where he is now Honorary Senior Research Fellow. 17 Picture background: Two thousand people took part in the ‘Free Greek Week’ demonstration in May 1970, the largest Cambridge had seen since the 1930s. 18 | development news

PHOTO: EADEN LILLEY 1979 substantial increase initsendowment. inthelatestHarvard ratings –Cambridge must achieve a theworld’s great universities –secondonly to remain oneof but onedriven byawareness that to This isanambitiousgoal, campaign launchedthisSeptembertoraise £1billionby2012. Itprovides thefocus forUniversity’s the 800thanniversary. 2009marks the As allCambridge alumni have beeninformed, goalscanbeachievedCambridge … theUniversity. King’s own £50millionfundraising goals andexplains how they fitwiththoseof setsout Development, Director of John Barber, Cambridge isseekingtoraise £1billion by 2012. Campaign 800thAnniversary The Cambridge “ Weekend Non-Resident Members’ Development News King’s wouldlike tosecure itsfuture byraising £25millionto ambitions aregreater. King’s…but educationalneeds and been fundedthrough theChapelFoundation. Achoristership has also refurbished three King’s Parade rooms. King’s studentsand enabled theSEFtogive grants toathird of Your donations have fundedtwelve studentbursaries, legacies. annual giving programme andleave substantial theCollege make donations regular through our by ourcurrent students, You respond generously tothetelephonefundraising at alllevels. Thank you toallKing’s members who contribute toourfundraising £1millionayear… average of King’s have members beengiving an will raise duringtheseven-year campaign. they pastperformance, onthebasisof predict, amount colleges thisisthe Inotherwords, thetarget is£300million. share of Thecolleges’ given willcounttowards toacollege thetotal. soanything Campaign isacampaignfor Cambridge, Collegiate The800th What for goes theUniversity for goes too. thecolleges worktogether.…when colleges samizdats subversive are They edgy, Prospectuses. Ifound theAlternative all, bestof but, up asanundergraduate in1980or1981, you came nestling inyour pigeon-holes if handbooks that wouldhave been I found theStudentUnion ‘A lecturer issomeonewho . lcue”.Letmeread you what the “lectures”’. these better get alongtooneof we’d thesedays, ‘Yeah oneof other, toeach saying with cigarette smoke, theairthick bottle-ladentables, front of studentsslumpedin showhairy cartoons The talks insomeoneelse’s sleep.’ Fellowship). purchases andtoendowaLibrarian conservation, Library andArchives (£3.5mfor Fund(£2m); Supervision Research Fellowships (£4.5mendows5); endows 10); University Teaching Officer/Professorial Fellowships (£3m TeachingCollege Fellowships Officer (£3mendows3); Postgraduate Research Studentships(£4mendows10); Student Bursaries ExhibitionFund(£5m); &Supplementary endow allthefollowing educational needsandlibrary provision: eeaeorevs Iamconfident we shallachieve thisgoal. generate ourselves, andthe momentumwe fromgain Cambridge’s 800thcampaign, thepublicity King’s will ourmembers and friends, of support With the succeeded inmeetingever sinceitsfoundation. great challenge –like hasfaced others and theCollege Raisingitwillbe a ourvisionfor thefuture. ambitiousness of together withthe ourhistoricallegacy, cost aswell asvalueof reflecting theenormous £50 millionisindeedavery large sum, pound. every …and King’s isworth scholarships). choristerships andchoral Music, (£12m endowsDirectorship of Choir Chapel (£10mendowscapitalrepairs andmaintenance); Gibbs Building(£3mfor preservation andenhancement); £25millionwillendow thefollowing: buildings. these mostbeautiful andmostexpensive of the biggest, With King’s Chapelwe have quitesimply towards maintenance. sothegovernment nothing contributes virtually property, Cambridge’s grade 1listedbuildings are college of Many areallexpensiveheritage tomaintain… Choirandarchitectural King’s Chapel, 1980 fahighstandard andcost...£10a of Rooms are exist for poolandsnooker ... strong point–but ampleopportunities isnotKing’sexistent! ...Organised sport every weekend anddisciplineisnon- … ‘There almost are parties College Alternative Prospectus aboutKing’s. says 1981 Year representatives The Year Representatives list is now almost complete. They have all kindly volunteered to be a first point of contact for members wishing to contact each other or to arrange year-based events and have agreed to have their email details published. Those members on the list without emails can be contacted in the usual way via the Development Office.

Year Name E-mail or address 1942 Eric Lyall - 1943 Michael Kaser [email protected] 1944 Kenneth Mellor - 1944 Robert Hutton - 1982 1948 David Chipp [email protected] 1949 Keith Hall [email protected] 1950 John Kaser - 1951 Michael Gale One King’s Bench Walk, Temple, London EC4Y 7DB week.’ Finally, the Alternative King’s is still the same community it 1955 John Bird [email protected] 1955 William Plowden [email protected] Prospectus ends; ‘At King’s, the was twenty years ago. It is still the 1955 Nicholas Monck [email protected] atmosphere is very relaxed.... Every College where every peculiarity and 1956 William Martineau - peculiarity and perversion is fully perversion is fully catered for! 1956 Julian Ashby - 1957 Stewart Hamilton - catered for!’ Non-resident Members, let ” 1957 Michael Garner - me welcome you back to King’s. Let me From the speech by Wyn Evans (1980) 1957 Christopher Elston [email protected] assure you that nothing has changed. Fellow, replying for the College. 1959 Thomas Rivers [email protected] 1960 Christopher Birt [email protected] 1961 Michael Latham - 1962 Alan Bilsborough [email protected] 1962 Keith Clements [email protected] 1963 Peter Ansorge [email protected] Golf Day 1964 David Calvert-Smith [email protected] 1965 Nigel Bulmer [email protected] The inaugural King’s Golf Day took place at a 1966 Howard Gannaway [email protected] cool, breezy but sunny Frilford Heath Golf 1966 David Haselgrove [email protected] Club, near Abingdon, on Thursday 12 May. 1967 Leslie Hatton [email protected] 1969 Andrew Luce [email protected] The day was primarily about celebrating our 1970 Brian Vernon - common connection with King’s and making 1970 Robert Lo [email protected]. new friends but there was a competitive 1971 Henry Gewanter [email protected] 1972 Linda Douglas [email protected] aspect. We played in groups of three on an 1972 Sally Millership [email protected] individual and team basis. The winning team 1973 Geraldine Terry [email protected] was the redoubtable trio from 1969 of Nyren 1973 Leo Sharpston [email protected] 1973 Catherine Side [email protected] Scott Malden, Brendan Hemming and Andrew 1973 Martin Reavley [email protected] Back row: John Crimmins (1967), 1974 Nicholas Hutton [email protected] Robert Lo (1970) David Kiggell (1957), Luce and the winning individual was Rob Sherwin. There were also prizes for ‘nearest 1975 Geoffrey Plow [email protected] Nick Hobson (1955), Julian Ashby (1956), 1975 Marcus DeFrettes [email protected] Richard Laycock (1950), the pin’ (Charlie Loke) and ‘longest drive’ 1975 Louise Forward - Brendan Hemming (1969), (Chris Marsden), the latter by virtue of being 1976 Gerard Herring [email protected] Humphrey Maud (1955). the only golfer in the group who was able to hit 1976 Neil Maybin [email protected] 1977 Jeremy Lefroy [email protected] the fairway on the relevant hole! 1978 Mel McClure [email protected] Front row: Charlie Loke (1953), Robert Lo. 1980 Rory Phillips [email protected] Rob Sherwin (2004) Chris Marsden 1980 Steven Yianni [email protected] (1964), Nyren Scott Malden (1969), Next golf day 16 May. Details on back page. 1981 Kathryn O’Brien [email protected] Andrew Luce (1969) 1982 Victoria Jolliffe [email protected] 1982 Sally Barber [email protected] 1982 Wilf White [email protected] 1983 Claire Starkie [email protected] The 1441 Foundation 1983 Christopher Scoggins [email protected] 1983 Paul Aylieff [email protected] academia and business, industry, the 1985 Alison Falconer [email protected] professions and the arts, the 1441 1986 Graham Knowles [email protected] Foundation held its inaugural dinner on 1987 Richard Wainwright [email protected] 1988 Ian Hamilton [email protected] Saturday 2nd July. At a ceremony in 1989 Sian James [email protected] the Provost’s Drawing Room, the 1990 Dan Roman [email protected] Provost expressed the College’s thanks 1990 Richard Kaye [email protected]

PHOTO: GOOD DAVID 1991 Jane Little [email protected] to John Bury, Tony Doggart, Michael 1991 Alexander Knight [email protected] Mathews, David Sainsbury, Nicholas 1992 Thomas Elias [email protected] Michael Mathews (1960), Nicholas Stanley, Stanley and Jeffrey Wilkinson and admitted them 1993/94 Paul Nicholson [email protected] John Bury, Gabriel Horn (1958), The Provost, 1994 Sarah Drayton [email protected] to membership of the Foundation. The 1441 Tony Doggart (1958), David Sainsbury (1959), 1994 Kate Packham [email protected] Jeffrey Wilkinson (1951). Foundation will meet twice each year, the dinners 1995 Graham Cormode [email protected] being funded by its members; the next will be on 1995 Suzannah Daykin [email protected] Established to create a formal bond between the 1996 Alice König [email protected] 13 May 2006. College and its major benefactors, encourage 1997 Matthew Coakley [email protected] 1997 Lucy Ryan [email protected] support for King’s, and promote contact between John Barber, Director of Development. 1998 David O’Hara d.j.o’[email protected] news development | 1998 Helen Rooker [email protected] 19 1998 David Shariatmadari [email protected] Events Devoto Spring 2005 solution

2006 Events 2006 Choir and concerts CONGRATULATIONS and the bottle of Saturday 11 March Saturday 18 March 5.30 pm Friday 14 April 7.40 pm King’s claret to Mandy Abel (1980) who also wrote: “This crossword kept me Celebration of English The Foundation Concert Francis Grier Passion King’s College Choir awake!” (for members who read English) BBC Singers Cambridge University Chamber King’s College Choristers Tuesday 28 March Orchestra Foundation Lunch Years 1957 – 1960 Endymion Ensemble Brahms German Requiem Saturday 15 April 7.30 pm Thursday 9 March Friday 24 March 7.30 pm Mozart Davidde penitente Womens’ Dinner. St. John’s Smith Square After dinner speaker: Susie Orbach Box Office: +44 (0) 207 222 1061 King’s College Choral Scholars Saturday 29 April www.sjss.org.uk Academy of Ancient Music Society of King’s Economists Dinner King’s Easter Festival 2006 Sunday 16 April 5.15 pm Saturday 6 May Wednesday 12 April 6.30 pm Messiaen Les corps glorieux Archaeology and Anthropology Dinner Bach St Matthew Passion Thomas Trotter organ Tuesday 16 May King’s College Choir Full details and box office King’s Golf Day William Kendall Evangelist, information available in January. The work of King’s fellows Dillwyn Knox and Mark Rowlinson Christus Alan Turing at Bletchley Park during the Gog Magog Golf Club, Cambridge www.kings.cam.ac.uk/chapel/ Enquiries to robertlo@nabarro- James Bowman, Roderick Williams Second World War is well known. For the Academy of Ancient Music choir/concerts wells.co.uk record, the others mentioned in the Thursday 13 April 8.15 pm For further information contact crossword are: Wednesday 14 – Saturday 17 June Annabelle Lawson piano Gillian Perkins 01223 350544 or François Viete (1540-1603), mathematician Bumps Anna Smith violin [email protected] and cryptanalyst to Henry IV of France; Saturday 17 June KCA Reunion Day Alexander Holladay cello Parker Hitt, US army officer circa First The theme will be Henry VI Timothy Orpen clarinet World War, telecipher pioneer; Nigel de Grey, British Admiralty officer Messiaen Quatuor pour la fin du temps Saturday 1 July responsible for deciphering of the Buffet Lunch ‘Zimmermann telegram’ in 1917; Years 1990 – 1993 Mugwump prize crossword, Winter 2005 Fritz Nebel (1891-1967), German military officer, deviser of the ADFGVX field cipher; Saturday 8 July Maksymilian Ciezki, leading member of the Non-Resident Members’ Dinner Polish group involved in breaking German Years 1983 – 1986 Enigma in the 1920s/30s; For further details on any of the Whitfield Diffie (b 1944), US-based above events please contact computer scientist, inventor of public-key [email protected] cryptography or call 01223 331443 Cryptography update Clifford Cocks (1968), together with Malcolm Williamson and James Ellis, who all worked at In accordance with the 16 across, GCHQ, are credited with first finding the many answers have had 4 down mathematical solution to the problem of public- removed. key distribution – now known as the RSA asymmetric cipher. The full story appears in Across Simon Singh’s The Code Book. “Cocks did not fully appreciate the significance of his discovery. He 2 Spatula distorted King’s elocution (7,7) was unaware of the fact that GCHQ’s brightest 9 Company worker may be obliging (11) minds had been struggling with the problem for 10 South-western city to host sauna (9) three years, and had no idea he had made one of 11 A chatting up leads to hooking up (9) the most important cryptographic breakthroughs of the century.” Discovered in 1975, the British 13 GSOH, Joanne, significant other back Down work remained classified until 1997. in London (8) 1 Appreciates a loco squint (9) 15 Singer often seen with child (7) 3 Dictator, however you view him (3) Visiting King’s? 16 Tokyo earthquake receives dignified 4 New casino talks restricted by 16 across (10,5) Main switchboard: 01223 331100 response and global agreement (5,8) 5 Underground pipe (4) 19 A kind of weapon against HR? (4-9) Parking: Richard Nash, Head Porter. 6 Records score (5) [email protected] 20 Source of milk care of company 7 Small picture of trendy group (5) Guest rooms and High Table: head (7) 8 Bother a short story writer at bomb site (8) Hilary Perrott, Vice-Provost’s PA, 21 Worship sin returned in boat (8) [email protected] or John Buckley, 12 Rambling hike or something with more corn? (6) Accommodation Officer: 24 Writer who pens advisory article: 14 Vote for the English seeds (6) [email protected] leave New York relation (5,4) 01223 331421. 17 Gets back modern miracles (8) 26 Fiona wobbled around hotel, bearing High Table and wine sales: 18 Visit Tyneside with two Spanish cuts of beef (9) sharp curves (9) Mark Smith, Butler. [email protected] 22 Excuse a party on island (5) 01223 331341 27 Some dire, cosy, confused genre! (5-6) 23 Go off treat (5) Events: 29 Refuse and storage space, as posted Development Office: 25 Oddly assail a land mass? (4) 01223 331443 events 2006 events (8,6) 2005 © Provost & Fellows of & Fellows 2005 © Provost College, King’s Cambridge. Printing,Designed and printed by Cambridge of the printing business Press. University Cambridge www.cambridgeprinting.org | 28 Chaotic, timeless cartoon mammal (6) Chapel Services Information line: 20 01223 331155 Entries to the Editor by 1 March 2006