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WHERE ARE THEY NOW? University Challenge – drama of the quarter finals Clare’s Olympian professor Paul Klenerman 1982 BA Medical Sciences lare’s 2012 and 1973 University Challenge Cteams met similar success in their quest Then for glory: they stormed through to the Fenced for the British Olympic quarter finals but lost out to the eventual team at Los Angeles 1984 as a winners Manchester University and Trinity College, Cambridge, respectively. Clare undergraduate This year’s team were captain Jonathan Burley (Natural Sciences), Daniel Janes Now (History), Kris Cao (Mathematics) and Professor of Immunology and Jonathan Foxwell (Natural Sciences). medical researcher, Oxford Highlights included walking to their University, trialling vaccines for places on the studio set in Manchester to Hepatitis C the Rocky theme music . Their mascot was Then Paul chose Clare because he “liked Question from 1973: the look of it” and it had a reputation for Who was the French friendliness and being good all-round. He commander at Trafalgar? l Today’s team – Kris Cao, arrived as the GB Under-20 Fencing Daniel Janes, Jonathan Burley Question from 2012: Champion, having taken up the sport “to l David Holmes and Jonathan Foxwell Etymologically unrelated, give it a go” at City of London School. “I didn’t win a single fight early on and got what short name links a David Holmes (1972): “The radical ever our opponents appeared to be doing (1972) semi-retired investment manager; thrashed by bigger kids, but must have French départment, named students of the 70s, sporting pro-Marxist too well. (It replaced our banned mascot of appointed captain of the team because he thought it was fun! I received great after a tributary of the badges to subvert this bourgeois TV pap? a box of Smarties.) found out about train times to Manchester. encouragement and attended two World Loire, with a US singer and Not quite. “The team was a well-oiled (make what Dr Alan Powers (1973) is a published Championships”. actress whose films include “Even close examination will not reveal you will of that) quizzing machine and did author on architecture and Professor in At Cambridge, “sport was still amateur The Witches of Eastwick and that our captain is actually wearing a Donny pretty well. Philip Jenkins went on to win Architecture and Cultural History at the and fencing was maybe the most amateur Moonstruck? Osmond badge, while my preference was Mastermind, while I was once banned from University of Greenwich. of all”. The team was showered with Mars Slade. playing on a pub quiz machine because I Dr Philip Jenkins (1970) is the Edwin Erle Bars because “one of the selectors knew “Nor does the photo show our somewhat was diminishing the landlord’s rake-off. Sparks Professor of the Humanities at Penn someone at Mars and got sponsorship”. inherited from the 2010 team’s choice –a Priapic mascot, kindly donated by a member “Ah, the success that a Cambridge State University. Selection for the British team for LA stuffed stoat. of the Clare kitchen staff, and used to gener- education brings!” David Holmes (1972) is a writer and became a possibility in 1983-84 and he The 1973 team’s efforts are described by ate disconcerting audience laughter when- Where are they now? Jeremy Fairhead is a prankster. received the good news by “popping down to get a newspaper from the shop opposite Magdalene”. There might have been a “phone call to our communal l Paul Klenerman: then and now RISING TALENT Harriet Muller (2001) artist house in Castle Street, which someone else answered…the days before mobiles Now It was the immunology course that ave any alumni been caught trying to explored her friends’ life-changing and emails”. Paul describes his celebration he undertook at Cambridge which Hclimb into Memorial Court? Harriet experiences and painted them. Changing as low-key, partly because of his exams convinced Paul that he wanted to be a Muller was rescued by the porter whilst Lives was published in 2010 and can be but also because the team’s chances of medical researcher, so three years at New half way up the main gate on her first night found on her website harrietmuller.com winning were remote in the face of College, Oxford followed, as well as stints at Clare and told that her swipe card would Reading Languages at Clare (under stiff competition from the French. in Switzerland, Bath and London. gain her entry. No mountaineering antics Professor Alison Sinclair) gave Harriet an Watching Chariots of Fire after the He runs a team of twelve at his were actually needed. intellectual aspect to her art which became opening ceremony at an open-air cinema laboratory in the Peter Medawar Building This episode didn’t inhibit Harriet’s essentially literature-based. She did pottery in the Olympic Village gave Paul visions of for Pathogen Research. They are currently progress to becoming a solo exhibition in the studio in Memorial Court, played the winning gold, but it was not to be. Great trialling a vaccine for Hepatitis C with artist by the age of 30, a career that started piano and flute, and is now very nostalgic Britain was eliminated from the team some success, as reported in the news at the age of 3 with the gift of her first about her time at College. She was the event in the qualifying rounds by Italy recently. He also has a clinic at the John easel. first member of her family to graduate who won a bronze. Radcliffe Hospital and teaches Indeed, she has now sold hundreds of from Cambridge. Despite being an Olympian “there was postgraduate students as a Fellow at paintings and is also variously a published Her most recent exhibition at the not a lot of fuss about it at Clare”. He did Brasenose. author, art teacher, artist-in-residence at a Hampstead School of Art was entitled lend his GB dressing gown to Louise Fryer Clare was “the formative time” he says. “I centre for eating disorders, art therapist The Seven Mu'Allaqat, Three Important (1982) to walk across Old Court to realised that you could discover things as for teenagers, boxer, actress, Gospel choir Translations, to be published this year by E staircase for her showers. He fenced for opposed to learning them. It was the best director, belly dancer, and radio chat-show Parliament Hill Press. Oxford against Cambridge as a university experience.” host. Harriet has just moved to Bournemouth postgraduate and won six Blues in all. Free time is spent with his wife and Harriet used to illustrate her father’s “for the sea and the light” and wants to be After the World Student Games in 1985, two children , fencing occasionally at the books. Dr Ralph Muller was a leading found in the future “in the sun, surrounded l Harriet Muller with he “retired” from international Oxford club and playing saxophone for a authority on worms and human diseases. by paint in my studio”. She is also open to her most recent exhibition competition as he felt he had reached his local band The Immposters. Inspired after his death in 2008, she commissions. peak and work commitments began to Paul has tickets for the Fencing at the impinge. London Olympics, but no spares…
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In every issue of Clare News, we ask SIX QUESTIONS: DR ALICE WELBOURN ON AIDS AWARENESS one of our alumni six questions about Most people still assume that their work. ONE the face of HIV is black or male Why did you chose to work in HIV? Because I was diagnosed with HIV in 1992 or gay or ill or poor. I don’t fit when I was expecting a baby. This was into any of these boxes. So I am Dr Alice Welbourn before the medication, which now keeps able to challenge people’s (1979) was elected as me alive, healthy and fully productive, was assumptions about what HIV is developed. and what it isn’t. HIV is just a bug Clare’s 2012 Alumnus of So in those days my diagnosis was a death sentence. Because of this and because the in my body, yet there is still so the Year and spoke to baby would have had at least a 30% chance much stigma and discrimination second year students of having HIV too, I was advised not to have out there about it. the child. at their Halfway Hall I couldn’t tell any but a very few close dinner in February. family and friends because of the stigma that existed (and still exists) around HIV. Their support was immense but it was still devastating. FIVE She has been I decided that, since I was lucky enough to What are you campaigning on right now? HIV-positive for twenty have that crucial support, I would do what I So many things! There have been some could to try to make that support the norm huge scientific advances. Anti-retroviral years and takes daily rather than the exception. medication is extraordinary. If someone is stable on treatment, like me, it is now really medicine to survive. hard to pass HIV to someone else, even TWO without condoms. How common is HIV in the UK now? With medication, we women can She is author of Few people realise that there are now more even have babies safely, with normal Stepping Stones, a women than men with HIV in the world. delivery, 99% HIV-free. So 30 years into this Even in the UK, one third of all 82,000 pandemic, an “AIDS-free generation” is training package on adults with HIV are women. Even if within our grasp. people realise they may be vulnerable to But the body-blow is the global financial gender, HIV and HIV (and that includes anyone who ever has crisis and lack of political will to continue relationship skills, now unprotected sex), they assume that now the funding the medication. This can cost about medication is there it’s no longer an issue. US$200 per person per year, and can keep widely used across But even though many people with people with HIV – and their children – cancer thankfully now feel able to be open happy, healthy, in education or jobs, paying Africa, Asia and Latin about this, most people with HIV still dare taxes and contributing to their countries’ America. not share it openly. That’s because the economies. stigma is so great that they fear they will be This is a miniscule investment for the judged harshly. I only decided to go public returns on offer. Yet we now face a huge about my HIV, to raise awareness about it, global political funding crisis – for malaria She is married to once my older children had grown up and and TB prevention and treatment also. Clare alumnus left home. But it’s still been hard for them Moreover, over 50% of the 34 million adults and for my wider family. with HIV globally are now women and this Dr Nigel Padfield (1963) rate is growing. And young women are and lives in Devon. especially vulnerable. It’s really a crisis of THREE human rights and power imbalances. So what have you done in your work? l Dr Alice Welbourn and her When first diagnosed I was supported husband Dr Nigel Padfield (1963) Alice is pictured holding by colleagues to develop a training SIX the Alumnus of the Year programme on gender, HIV communication and gender-based violence. I have also been I don’t fit into any of these boxes. So I am Yet HIV, like cancer, TB, divorce or many What about your own health? and relationship skills, called Stepping involved at the global policy level with the able to challenge people’s assumptions other events in life, can happen to anyone. I am really well on my medication. Last Award – a bronze Stones, which has now proliferated and is in United Nations, trying to change things about what HIV is and what it isn’t. HIV is Most of these are met with compassion now summer I swam a kilometre every day on use by many communities around the world from the top as well as the grassroots. just a bug in my body, yet there is still so but HIV isn’t yet. holiday and I walk up hills faster than most sculpture called in many different languages. much stigma and discrimination out there So I hope that by talking about my own of my friends. It could be the same for all of Isadora by Angie Harlock My PhD at Clare was a great background about it. experiences – and those of the amazing us with HIV. for this. It was on the social construction of FOUR Many people still ask me “how did you people with HIV I have had the privilege The people dying globally are doing so Wilkinson (1974). authority in relation to gender, age, and Why does speaking out about your status get it?” They can look in any textbook for to meet around the world, with far more because of fear of testing and lack of access to goods and produce. help your work? the answer – they don’t need me to tell challenges than mine, I am able to raise medication, fuelled by stigma and lack of Many of the issues around HIV for women Most people still assume that the face of HIV them. Often sadly they are either trying to awareness of the enormity of the issue and political will. That’s why I keep doing this are fuelled by poverty, gender inequities is black or male or gay or ill or poor. ascribe a label of “blame” or “innocence”. the immense human tragedies. work.
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osieFaulkner(2007Veterinary JMedicine)waspartofthe2010 SWIMMING CambridgeUniversitySwimming TeamthatswamtheChannelin8 hours51minutes,beatingOxfordby Great Britain 11minutes.Theteamwontrophies fortheFastestRelayoftheseason triathlete andtheFastestMixedRelay(beating thefastestmen’steam). JosiealsowonherBlueas rishaGreenhalgh (Medicine 1977) Captainofthe2010Varsity-winning Tholds the unique distinction of Water-Poloteam.Thetrainingregime having captained both the Cambridge includesfoursessionsperweekatthe and Oxford Swimming teams. LeysSchool.“You’renotallowedto She qualified for a full Swimming Blue hangontothesideofthepool!“ for Cambridge in 1979 (one of the first TheBluesalsoreachedthefinalsof females to do so) by winning a team theBritishUniversitiesandColleges gold medal in the British Universities Sportcompetition,placingthemas freestyle relay in a record time. thefourthbestuniversityteaminthe After university, Trisha took up UK. triathlon, competing for Great Britain in Normallyahalf-Bluesport,Josie’s 1986-87, including a team gold medal in achievementsascaptainwonherfull the 1987 European Ironman Triathlon. Bluestatus.Inlastyear’swinover Over the years she has won a handful of Oxford,shescoredfourgoalsina9-6 UK Masters gold medals in several victoryand2012alsohaswitnesseda events. LightBluevictory. Cycling from Land’s End to John ClareCollege’sSwimmingand O’Groats has been a recent adventure WaterPoloclubwasreformedby and she does a daily 22-mile cycle ride Josiein2009.Clarewentontowin to work. The last time she came to theWaterPoloCuppersin2010(ina Cambridge with her husband, they jointteamwithTrinityHall). cycled from London. Notcontentwithswimmingand Trisha is Professor of Primary Health waterpolo,Josiealsocompetesfor Care at Bartholomew’s Hospital and the theUniversityasatriathlete. London School of Medicine. In 2001, she was awarded an OBE for her work in evidence-based medical care. She gave the speech at Dr Gordon Wright’s 90th birthday dinner at Clare on behalf of over 1000 of his past students. Gordon regularly had to tell her off when she was a student, for example for climbing Memorial court (pictured).
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ClubisaheroofMark’s,asisAmerican HecompetedfortheLightBluesinthe l Picturedrightis arkDyble (2008)ranthefourth runnerTysonGay,whomhedescribesas“a longjumpaswellasthe100m,200mand AnthonyGershuny – then Mfastest100monrecordat sprinter’ssprinter”. thesprintrelaysontheoldcinderstrack andnow Cambridgewithapersonalbestof10.83 MarkgraduatedwithaFirstinBiological inCambridge(“coldandwindywithno seconds. AnthropologyandisnowdoingaMaster’s shelter”).FortunatelyforAnthony“my HecaptainedtheUniversityAthletics atOxford,wherehehasalreadycompeted runningwasallnaturalandIdidn’thave teamtoarecord-breakingvictoryover againsthisLightBluealmamater. todotoomuchtraining,unlikesprinters Oxfordin2011,with17outofthe20 Thesecondfastesttimeeverforthe oftoday”. eventswonbytheLightBlues. 100mbyaCambridgestudent(10.7 Collegerugby,hockeyandrowing Trainingfortwohoursaday,hewonthe seconds)wasrecordedbyClarealumnus alsooccupiedsomeofAnthony’stimein BlueRiband100meventinallthreeofhis AnthonyGershuny (1972)asafreshman. additiontohismedicalstudiesunderDr Varsitymatches,aswellasallthree Theyearbefore,aSelwynstudentran GordonWright.Anthonyisnowaclinical 4x100mrelaysandthe200masafresher. 10.6seconds. oncologistinLondon,specialisingin Markalsocaptainedthecombined AnthonycameuptoCollegewiththe bowelcancer. OxbridgeteamagainstthecombinedYale fearsomereputationofneverhaving AnthonyranforThamesValleyHarriers andHarvardathletesinlastsummer’s beenbeatenasaschoolboy(hewasat afterCambridgebutnowkeepsfit l PicturedbelowisMark matchatWilberforceRoad. Haberdashers’Aske’s)andforhaving throughwalking,tennisandtaking Dyble(left)winningthe HaroldAbrahams,thegreatOlympian setaNationalSchools200mrecordof21.7 photosinbeautifullocations,including 100mvOxfordandinsetat andalsoaformerPresidentofCUAthletics seconds,aged17. theMasiMaraandRwandanmountains. theMaster’sBluesDinner
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eordie Ting hilst at Clare reading for a PhD G(2010)isthe latestinalonglineof W in Chemistry, Beth Ashbridge distinguishedClare (2006) captained the joint golfersandwonhis Cambridge and Oxford Blueinthe2011 Tennis team against Varsitymatchatthe RoyalCinquePorts Harvard and Yale in 2008 GolfClub.Geordie l Geordie Ting during a month long tour of North lostonegame,won America as part of the Seabright Cup. anotherand,attheend,wasasproudas Having also won a squash Blue in punchtopullonhisBluesblazer. HailingfromSingaporeandplayingoff 2006, she led the Light Blue Tennis team scratch,Geordiewantedtoparticipatein l Brian Chapman (seated second from to victory in her third year Varsity match seriousgolfinCambridgelargelybecause left) with Ted Dexter (future England ofthefixturelist.“Wehavetheopportunity at Roehampton, thereby ending a long cricket captain) seated centre series of Dark Blue wins. toplayatgreatclubslikeSunningdale, “My time at Clare was wonderfully WaltonHeath,andRoyalSt.George’s. TheconnectionbetweentheCambridge schoolburneddowntwomonthslater(“not andWhitmorewentontobecomecaptains 1961WalkerCupwhenhisopponentsin memorable, from our magnificent gardens, UniversityGolfClub(CUGC)andclubs myfault”),spentaglorioussummermixing oftheRoyalandAncient. thefoursomeswereJackNicklausandDean to helping out with undergraduate aroundEnglandisremarkable.Tobepartof golfwithwatchingEdrichandComptonbat AlsoinCollegeatthattimewasMurray Beman. supervisions and Freshers’ Induction lectures. thefabledhistoryoftheCUGCissomething forMiddlesexandEngland. Grindrod(1954),whowastheBluescaptain Brianandhispartnerlost6and5(“could Highlights included attending Iwillalwaysbegratefulfor.” AtBradfieldCollege,hewasencouraged inBrian’ssecondyearandlaterSouth havebeenworseover36holes”). “GettingaBlueinmyfirstyearwas toplaybyhishousemasterwhohadbeen AfricanAmateurChampion. In1962,Brianreachedthesemi-finalofthe two Clare May Balls and many cosy definitelysomethingreallyspecial.Ihadto anOxfordBlue. BrianwonhisBlueasafreshmanat AmateurChampionship(“Ishouldhavewon evenings in the MCR before putinalotoftimeandeffortintotraining, AfterNationalServicewiththeRoyal Formbyandwentontowinsome50singles it”)andalsoplayedforGreatBritainvthe formal dinners. butitwaswellworthitintheend”. Artillery,hecameuptoClarewhichwasthe matchesduringhistimeatClare.“Isank RestofEurope.Familyandworkputanend The Blues’ tennis set-up was outstanding, Brian Chapman (1955)learnedtoplay leadinggolfcollegeofthetime,havinghad puttsatcrucialtimes”hesays. toseriouscompetitionbuthehasbeena featuring winter-long indoor training with national golfbysneakingoutofthehouseand sixoutoftenBluesin1953. HeplayedinthreeUniversitymatches,in memberofHoylakeandtheR&Aforaround tryingtohitgolfballsovertheoaktreein TherewasatleastoneClaremaninevery hissecondonepartneringPeterCooper 50years. coaches and fixtures played at clubs such as thegardenontothe“9-hole,ratherdecrepit UniversityGolfteambetween1947and (1956)whowentontocaptaintheBlues Heworkedintheoilandengineering Wimbledon and Queen’s”. course”thatlayalongside. 1962.The“1953Six”wereIASBiggart,MFH in1959. industriesbeforestartinghisown A Geordie from Gateshead, Beth was an HejoinedPortersPark,hislocalclub,asa Twigg,WRAlexander,JWhitmore,DSBlair BrianthenrepresentedEnglandinthe businessandisnowhappilysettledinthe undergraduate at University College, Durham and juniormemberin1947and,afterhisprep andAMBarnie-Adshead.BothAlexander HomeInternationalsandplayedinthe wildsofLancashire. is currently a Research Fellow at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York. She now plays hard court tennis at the famous Flushing Meadows at Femalefirst the weekends and also enjoys indoor squash in the NY Women’s Leagues. captainingtheteaminherthirdyear CRICKET (althoughtheVarsitymatchthatyearwas rainedoff). Beth (far left) as l ShefoundedtheClareLadiesSix-a-Side captain of the ateDunham(1988)wasthefirst teaminhersecondyearandledthemto Seabright Cup Team womantowinafullcricketBlue, Cuppersgloryin1991. at the Greenwich K largelyforbeingpartoftheYoungEngland Katefoundthathermathematicsdegree Field Club, squadaswellasrepresentingMiddlesex leftherwithafternoonstoplaysport: Conneticut duringherCambridgecareer. badminton(half-Blue),hockey,football, Growingupwithacricketingfatherand squashandtennis.AfterCollege,she twobrothers(oneofwhom,GuyDunham, captainedMiddlesexSeniorsforfouryears precededheratClarein1983),thesport aswellasherclubinthePremierLeague wasawayoflife.Sheaskedtobedropped andwontheNationalKnockoutCup.Kate offattheLadies’Clubonedayonthewayto thentookupgolfandiscurrentlyworking theMen’sandthatwasthat.Kateplayedfor onreducinghersixteenhandicap. GunnersburyLadiesforseveralyearsbefore ShequalifiedasaCharteredAccountant arrivingatClare. atDeloitteToucheafteruniversityandis SheopenedthebattingforCambridgefor nowthePlanningandAnalysisManagerfor threeyearsinwhatwasahalf-Bluesport, CompassGroupbasedinSurrey. l Kate Dunham pictured second right, middle row
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UPDATES UPDATES A message from Clare’s Clare centenarian
Noel Hartley Development Director (1930) reached his 100th birthday on Fran Malarée is the new Development December 12, Director and a Fellow of Clare. She was 2011. He is previously Development Director and immensely proud Fellow at Girton College, where in ten of his Clare days: years she raised nearly £25 million. She he played squash has undergraduate and postgraduate l Noel Hartley and tennis, degrees from the London School of rowed in the 4th Boat, climbed for the Economics, and is a keen football player, University Mountaineering Club and rower and tennis player. read sciences as an Exhibitioner, tutored by Harry Godwin. He served as a captain On joining Clare I have been impressed by l Sarah Ling in the Royal Electrical & Mechanical its considerable academic achievements, Engineers during World War Two and then the beauty of its architecture, the excellence New business contacts taught at various schools and in further of its musical offering, the variety of College l Anne Turberfield education, introducing biology as a for students and alumni intellectual, social and sporting life, and the l Fran Malarée subject to the curriculum. The new Business Contacts service for spirit of co-operation which exists at all tuition fees, and fund the supervision “I retired in 1971, so I’ve been retired students (and alumni) is developing levels between students, fellows and staff. It JD Watson scholar system, all activities the College funds longer than I worked”, he said when quickly. The Development Office puts is a stimulating environment, and one in thanks to its endowment, support from Clare News went to visit him. students in touch with alumni in the which students at all levels, and of all Last summer, Anne Turberfield (2009 mutant strain of the model organism donors and conference income. professions or companies in which they backgrounds, have opportunities to thrive. Natural Sciences) spent nine weeks of Caenorhabditis elegans. However, this role is about more than are interested, for advice on the phone or Clare is a pioneer in the area of access, her holiday researching developmental Accommodation for the research students fundraising – we encourage you all to get by email. starting from the momentous decision to regulation of microRNA at the Cold (28 people from around the world) was in Queen’s honour involved in many different ways, from being Recent successful contacts include admit women forty years ago, ending Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) in forest cabins; volleyball matches were career contacts, to supporting events, to Sarah Ling (2nd year Classics) who was centuries of educational inequality. We will New York. organised between labs as well as kayaking Current Clare visiting the College to reunite with old put in touch with Simon Robinson (1974) celebrate this anniversary with a series of She did so as the inaugural recipient of at the beach and a visit to a Broadway show. postgraduate friends. The expertise of alumni is a at Slaughter & May, whilst Owen Churton events from October this year, and with a the J D Watson Undergraduate Scholarship, James Watson (1951) himself entertained student Damian valuable resource for College, and there (2008) spoke to Brigadier Rod Croucher special edition of Clare News. Clare established by Clare College in conjunction students to pizza at his house. Platt was are many opportunities for all alumni to get (1970) about a choice of Army regiment continues to champion access today under with the Watson School of Biological When not pursuing research, Anne plays awarded an MBE involved. for his forthcoming Sandhurst entry. the leadership of the Master, Professor Tony Sciences at CSHL. The scholarship enables violin for the Cambridge University in the Birthday I am very much looking forward to Please contact the Deputy Director, Badger, and has the best programme for one Clare student each year to participate at Symphony Orchestra as well as Clare Honours last year, meeting as many alumni as possible soon, Rowan Kitt, on [email protected] if you access in Cambridge. the Watson School. College Music Society and also participates for his work in The challenge for the future is to continue both in the UK and overseas or back in Anne worked in the Hammell Laboratory in ballet and ballroom dancing. She would the shanty towns are able to help. Damian Platt to fund the access programme, build up College. If you return to visit, you will always studying systematic RNAi screen on a like to do a PhD after graduating. of Rio de Janeiro. l with his father more bursaries to deal with increased find a warm welcome. In the New Proposals sought for Year’s Honours Julian (1960) list, there was a Alumnus of the Year 2013 KCB for Alexander Allan (1969) Suggestions for candidates for next year’s formerly chairman of the Joint award would be gratefully received by the Intelligence Committee, and a CBE for Development Office. Dr Andrew Sentance (1977) for services The award is for charitable work or to Economics. philanthropy, exceptional contributions to a community, outstanding dedication to the care or development of others, or Marriage first an act of heroism. In the previous Quartet of new publications edition of Clare News, we asked Inheritance tax reduction Among alumni and Fellows who have Dr Sheldrake is also currently conducting who were the published books recently are Dr John Guy two lines of research, namely the form of From April 2012, if you leave 10 per cent first members (1967 and Fellow), Graham Lee (1999), Dr trees and telephone telepathy. of your net estate to charity, your both at Clare to Andrew Preston (Fellow) and Dr Rupert His son, Merlin (2008), has followed his Inheritance Tax Rate can drop from 40 per marry. Sheldrake (1960). father closely: they had the same rooms in cent to 36 per cent. It was, Former Fellow Rupert Sheldrake’s latest Old Court (A4), they both won the Greene For more information on this (and according to book sold out before its launch. The Science Cup, were College scholars and spoke at the l Peter Wright and our information, membership of Clare College’s Samuel Delusion, which looks at morphic resonance Dilletante Society 48 years apart. Merlin is Dorothy Manders Peter Wright Blythe Society, please contact the Deputy Clare’s musicians, supported by the Master and Ruth Badger, worked with English was conceived in his rooms in Old Court now doing postgraduate research in South (1971) and Dorothy Manders (1972) on Development Director, Rowan Kitt, on Touring Opera and the Royal College of Music in the Michaelmas Term, to give back in the early 1970s, where he did his America. May 3, 1974. [email protected] or on 01223 333218. Alzheimer and dementia sufferers in Cambridge the opportunity to compose and thinking at night whilst playing a clavichord For more information on Rupert’s work, perform a song cycle. The final concert was held in the West Road Concert Hall. (“quieter than a piano”). see sheldrake.org.
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UPDATES A LIFE IN THE DAY The Avenue: The Acting Master, Clare, Spring By Terence Moore (Fellow) Professor
Yellow, white, a dash of blue, Paul Cartledge Daffodil, daisy, scylla too. Iron gates, black and gold, Clare’s colours wrought in bold. ats – and mortarboards – off to Tony HBadger, the real Master of Clare. Our Avenue’s dressed herself for Spring, What follows is a composite description of Nothing to wear but her very best. an imaginary day in the life of his current We who walk her, in silence sing, locum, to whom 'Acting' all too often seems Praising her beauty, being blessed. an all too painfully accurate description. For Tony's is a very hard act to follow... My little dog’s day might begin with a The Avenue: working – I hardly dare venture ‘power’ – breakfast. Clare, Late Spring Around a baize-clad table in the Godwin That Spring dress’ all tattered and torn, Room in the southwest corner of Old Court Scruffy, bedraggled, withered and worn, from 8.15am sit the Bursar, the Senior Tutor, Gone the yellow, the white, the dash of the Development Director, the Steward – blue, and the (Acting) Master, notionally ‘in the Till summer comes undress must do. chair’. These are the College’s ‘officers’. Topics Our Avenue must bear nature’s pace. freely discussed under Chatham House rules We who love you in patience wait, might range from the (stellar!) quality of the Waiting whilst you re-grow your grace, food produced by the Kitchen staff to the Knowing summer you will re-create. Coalition Government’s latest scheme for enhancing (as they see it) the quality and nature of our ‘access’ programme. In the morning – when not trying to carry out his normal allotted ‘stint’ as the Classics Faculty’s endowed A.G. Leventis Professor of Greek Culture – the (Acting) Master might credit: Howard Rice Howard credit: find himself meeting with, say, David Miliband MP – an encounter engineered and facilitated by the University’s Director of External Affairs and Communications, who just happens also to be a Fellow of Clare. Over lunch –‘working’ of course – the (Acting) Master might be having a one-on-one with the University’s Head of l The Acting Master, the International Strategy Office (you’ve Professor Paul Cartledge guessed it, another Clare Fellow), discussing the various institutionalised academic links Clare enjoys overseas – with Yale and Student Investment Fund. vinous beverages (imbibed in suitably elsewhere in north America (the real Master (Nick, as many will know, was a longtime In the afternoon, tempting though it might feel to try to snatch a controlled quantities). chairs the board of Trustees of the Kennedy Fellow of Clare, some time Senior Tutor, as quick Mediterranean-style siesta, the (Acting) Master would in hard fact If we are especially fortunate, the (Acting) Foundation), with the city of light (no, not well as a war-hero in Greece and a first-rate merely change chairs - to chair the Council or the Finance Committee Master then gets to introduce from among Eindhoven, but Paris), with the Iberian Classical historian.) our number a speaker, typically but not peninsula, with China (the University’s In the afternoon, tempting though it (each of which sits twice a term). always one of the younger members of the Joseph Needham Professor of Chinese might feel to try to snatch a quick Fellowship, someone rather nearer than History, Science and Civilization is a Fellow Mediterranean-style siesta, the (Acting) Gardens – of the College. concerned – Fellows only, no guests, and so some of the rest of us to the start of a of ... yes, Clare). Master would in hard fact merely change Come the early evening, it is let us say a another corporately self-affirming and glittering career up the academic ladder. Or he might be presiding over a meeting chairs – to chair the Council or the Finance Wednesday at the start of a new term, and enhancing ritual, presided over by (I almost She might be regaling us on, oh, the of the trustees of the Nicholas Hammond Committee (each of which sits twice a term). so the due season for the formal admission, wrote 'graced by' - well, he does read a structure of Edward Gibbon’s magnum Foundation, which is dedicated to These are two of the major engines of in Chapel in a short but telling ritual grace both before and after the meal) the opus, to take a recent instance. But decline, facilitating and improving the supervisory College life, driving forward policy on the orchestrated smoothly by the Dean, of new (Acting) Master. let alone fall, are not of course on our – or at and pastoral care of students and helping widest possible fronts from academic Fellows – who might be joining our society After the meal in Hall Fellows repair to last not on the (Acting) Master’s – agenda, them on their way to the world of work and strategy to accommodation provision from at least several corners of the globe. the Senior Combination Room to, well, or even consciousness. even careers, for instance through engaging and maintenance to conservation of Wednesday dinner itself is a closed ‘combine’ – that is, enjoy a dessert of fruit Onward – and upward. Floreat Collegium them in running the extremely successful the fabric and grounds – not least the affair so far as the senior members are and sweetmeats washed down by various de Clare.
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CLARE IN FOCUS FORTHCOMING EVENTS The Cholmondeley Room at the House of Lords All events will take place at Clare, unless stated was the venue for the oversubscribed London May 12 Clare alumni dinner in Samuel Blythe Society Luncheon. February, hosted by Lord June 29 Geoffrey Filkin (1963). The Choir will sing Evensong at Tours of the House Westminster Abbey. preceded dinner, followed by a speech from Peter June 30 Wright (1971), Editor of Alumni Day. The Mail on Sunday. July 11-16 Clare College Music Society is touring France. A very successful Alumni August 4-15 Dinner was held in Clare Choir will tour Australia. February for those who matriculated between September 14 1972 and 1975. To start Reunion Dinner 1988/89. our series of events marking the 40th September 21 anniversary of the entry of Reunion Dinner 1998/99. women to Clare, a special reception was held in the November 14 Roger Raphael Masterclass series (Schubert Lodge before the dinner Ensemble). for the 1972 year group. December 3-17 Clare alumni tour of Eygpt. The annual Benefactors’ Feast in the Great Hall in March 23, 2013 January was preceded by MA Congregation (2006 matriculation) a wonderful concert in the For further information please contact the Chapel and followed by Development Office on +44 (0)1223 333218 or time in the cellars. From [email protected] left are Andy and Dominie Walters (both 1975) and Elizabeth and Adrian Buckmaster (1967). CONTACT US Clare News very much welcomes news, information and views from alumni
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