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CAMBRIDGE IN AMERICA NEWSLETTER REPRESENTING THE COLLEGIATE UNIVERSITY ISSUE 24 SPRING 2013

Conserving Instruments in Cambridge’s Whipple Museum Whipple MuseuM of the history of science Whipple MuseuM of the history of science

neil young, Kenneth young, liba taub, Alan Whipple, sylvia young, ian the 18th-century “herschel” telescope (Wh.0012) young, Margaret Whipple, Graham young, helen rowe which will now be conserved

On March 15, as reported in the Cambridge News, grandchildren conservation for the collection and realized that many instruments and other relatives of museum founder Robert Stewart Whipple were very fragile and could not be kept in usable condition. The (1871-1953), ranging in age from 3 to 83, gathered in Cambridge. task of conservation is particularly difficult because of the huge The event celebrated the family’s donation of £500,000 – the variety of materials involved in this superb collection. Whipple Museum’s largest since its founding, nearly 70 years ago It is fitting that they have chosen to set up a conservation fund, – to establish a special conservation fund for the Museum’s therefore contributing to the preservation of R. S. Whipple’s original internationally renowned collection of scientific instruments. donation. The gift will allow the Museum to commission specialist Among the donors were Kenneth and Anne Young of Skillman, care for its varied and ever-expanding collection. NJ. Kenneth attended the dedication ceremony, together with other Claire Wallace and Steve Kruse, museum staff members, grandchildren Ian Young, Helen Rowe and Alan Whipple. Ian was explained: “The Whipple Museum has chosen two special objects as beneficiaries of the inaugural year’s spending. The first is a accompanied by his wife, Sylvia, and two of their children, Graham telescope (Wh.0012) made by William Herschel for King George and Neil Young. Alan was accompanied by his wife, Margaret, and their granddaughter, Daisy. Two other of Robert Whipple's grandchildren, Donald Young and Elizabeth-Anne Powell, could INSIDE not attend. The six grandchildren have memories of a wonderfully conserving Whipple Museum treasures ...... 1 kind grandfather who always had time for them. new pembroke college summer programs ...... 3 The family’s interest in Robert Whipple’s collection of scientific King’s college choir Visits the us .…...... 3 instruments and books did not end with his founding gift in 1944. college news ………...... … 4 Over the years many relatives have continued to show an interest pitt professors at cambridge, from yale and cal ...... … 18 in the maintenance and growth of the Whipple Museum. 50 new Gates scholars ...... … 19 They were aware that the original gift did not include funds for

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Above: portuguese mariner’s compass (Wh.0328)

left: photograph of robert stewart Whipple (Wh.3802)

right: the new Globes gallery at the Whipple Museum

III and then presented by the King to the Duke of Marlborough, He had a life-long connection with the world of scientific after a Royal visit to Blenheim Palace on August 17, 1786. It was instruments. His father, George Mathews Whipple, was kept at Blenheim, eventually given by the 7th Duke to Mr. J.A. superintendent of the Royal Observatory at Kew. Whipple himself Hardcastle, whose family in turn sold it to Mr. Howard Marryat. started his working life as an assistant at Kew and later left to Marryat eventually presented the telescope to R.S. Whipple on the become assistant manager at the instrument maker L. P. Casella. He occasion of the latter’s 1944 gift of his collection of antique came to Cambridge in 1898 as personal assistant to Horace Darwin scientific instruments and associated rare books to the University, (youngest son of Charles Darwin), the founder of the Cambridge to found the Whipple Museum of the History of Science. Scientific Instrument Company. Whipple rose to become Managing “Conservation work will also be done on a very rare Portuguese Director of the firm and later its chairman. His interest in the mariner’s compass made by Joseph da Costa Miranda in 1711 practice of science led him to amass an outstanding collection of (Wh.0328), purchased by R.S. Whipple in 1928 for £15.5s. This antique scientific instruments. As Whipple himself said: “I little compass is often requested as a loan for special exhibitions by other thought when I bought an old telescope, for the sum of 10 francs museums; some years ago we even had a request from the from an antique shop in Tours in 1913, that I was embarking on the Portuguese government!” slippery slope of collecting.” Professor Liba Taub has been the American-born Director and In November 1944 an exhibition was held in the East Room of Curator of the Whipple Museum since 1995; she is also Professor the Old Schools to mark the official presentation of Whipple's of History and Philosophy of Science, and a Professorial Fellow and collection of scientific instruments and rare books to the University. Director of Studies at Newnham College. She has taught at Loyola The collection was initially stored in various buildings, including University and Northwestern, and before coming to Cambridge was the basement of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Girton College and two Curator and Head of the History of Astronomy at the Chicago’s rooms in Corn Exchange Street. The growing collection moved in Adler Planetarium and Astronomical Museum. Discussing the 1959 to its permanent home, the old Perse School hall in Free Whipple’s new Conservation Fund, she told the Cambridge News: School Lane. “The Whipple Museum is not just a place to come and visit; this is The Museum’s website, www.hps.cam.ac.uk/whipple/, provides a research lab. Objects in our collection are actively studied by more background about its founder and its history. students in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Whipple MuseuM of the history of science as well as other researchers. Of course, some things naturally deteriorate over time, and this fund will allow us to halt that decline, and ensure that the collection can continue to be used, studied, and enjoyed.” Professor John Forrester, Head of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, commented: “This funding is vital for the work of the Whipple Museum of the History of Science, enabling us to protect scientific heritage that might otherwise decay and eventually disappear. It’s not every day that donations of such magnitude are made, and it’s a great cause – the protection of some priceless, and very significant, objects.” The museum includes scientific instruments, apparatus, models and other material relating to the history of science from the medieval period to present day. It is open from 12:30 to 4:30 p.m. from Monday to Friday. Admission is free and open to all. Robert Stewart Whipple presented his collection of 1,000 scientific instruments, and a similar number of rare books, to the University in 1944. Whipple Museum Main Gallery conservation display

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New Pembroke College Summer Programs: Writers and Spies

The summer of 2013 will see two exciting responsible for UK homeland security), leading literary figures such as Sir Michael additions to Pembroke College’s portfolio Professor Lord Hennessy (pre-eminent Holroyd, Deborah Moggach, Ion Trewin, of summer programs: International Security interpreter of the British constitution, cabinet and Sophie Hannah as well as Richard Beard and Intelligence and The Art of Writing. government and intelligence communities), and Fiona Sampson who head up the Both three-week programs are open to and Lord Wilson (former Cabinet Secretary program. They will also have the opportunity and appropriate for anyone from current and Head of the Civil Service). Speaking to develop their own work through undergraduates to knowledge-seeking recently, Sir Richard said: “This new Cambridge-style supervisions and seminars. retirees, and we are anticipating considerable Pembroke course brings together a uniquely Richard Beard said: “The National Academy interest from alumni based in the UK and experienced group of speakers. For serious of Writing is delighted to be working with around the world. International Security and scholars of the world of intelligence and Pembroke College to design and deliver a Intelligence will take place 30 June – 19 July security services and their interface with Creative Writing course that involves so 2013 (application deadline: 24 May 2013), government this course will be amongst the many distinguished practitioners. The aim of and The Art of Writing: 21 July – 9 August very best available anywhere. I am very the course is to provide a rigorous and wide- 2013 (application deadline: 14 June 2013). pleased to be so closely associated with it ranging approach to ways in which writers Drawing on his experience as Chief of the and it extends the initiative we have can improve their craft, with the expertise of Secret Intelligence Service, the Master of developed in Pembroke College to offer the Academy applied within the wonderful Pembroke, Sir Richard Dearlove, will summer courses of outstanding academic Pembroke setting. I’m confident that no co-chair International Security and quality.” other summer course offers such a winning Intelligence with Professor Christopher Pembroke College is working with the combination.” Andrew, one of the leading academic Director of the National Academy of In summer as in term time, Pembroke authorities in the field of Intelligence history. Writing, Richard Beard (Pembroke, 1985), will provide the elegant and serene This is a unique offering which is set to break on a second three-week program focusing on context for exceptional and exhilarating new ground in its examination of the role of The Art of Writing. The Academy is a conversations. intelligence and security agencies in a charitable foundation “committed to More information can be found on democratic society. Other keynote speakers converting promise into achievement” and our website at: www.pem.cam.ac.uk/ include James Pavitt (former Deputy Director this new course will offer the opportunity for international-programmes/summer- of the CIA), Sir David Omand (formerly writers and aspiring writers to hear from programmes/

King’s College Choir Visits the U.S. in April

From Julie Bressor, Fellow and Director of performed for at a small MPR gathering appreciative audiences. Every concert ended Development, King’s College: following the concert. with a standing ovation, from totally packed The Choir of King’s College toured five In Philadelphia, the Choir appeared in concert halls and churches; the implicit call for cities in early April: Chicago, Saint Paul (MN), Verizon Hall at the Kimmel Center, as part of an encore bringing on a performance of Philadelphia, Washington, and Princeton. The the PIFA festival. Josh Mooney (Girton 1993) Benjamin Britten's divinely simple ‘Hymn program featured works by Byrd, Bach, Verdi hosted a Cantab reception for the Choir and to the Virgin,’ a moving end to such an exciting and Britten, the final piece performed in Kimmel Center members; a wonderful time program. Off stage, we were greeted with a joy celebration of the centenary of Britten’s birth. was had by all. and warmth that made performing so gratifying. The program included Britten’s “Hymn to St. Next up was the National Cathedral in I can’t wait to get back to the US!” Cecilia,” composed while Britten was living in Washington, DC. A. Graham Down (King’s Many thanks to our colleagues at the US, as well as an organ solo by W. Parker 1949) hosted a lovely lunch at 4000 Cathedral Cambridge in America for coordinating tour Ramsay, Senior Organ Scholar and the first Avenue before the concert, with 30 people communications and events for alumni and King’s Organ Scholar from the United States. from a range of Colleges in attendance. friends. Tour photos can be found online at Parker is planning on attending Oberlin for Stephen Cleobury and the Choral Scholars www.facebook.com/KingsCollegeChoir. graduate studies next autumn. welcomed the group, and Dean Jeremy Morris The Chicago Symphony presented the offered remarks and an introduction to the “We’ve come to expect excellence from Choir at the Fourth Presbyterian Church in concert. Following the concert, British Stephen Cleobury and the King’s College Chicago. From the Windy City, we moved on Ambassador Sir Peter Westmacott hosted a Choir, and he and they did not disappoint. to Minnesota for a sold-out performance at the reception in honor of the choir at his residence. The aural and visual presence of these boys Cathedral of Saint Paul. Andrew Hansom The tour concluded with a performance in and young men from Cambridge, upholding (Hughes Hall 2011) hosted a Cambridge alumni the beautiful chapel at Princeton University, an ages-old tradition of English choral drinks reception at WA Frost in Saint Paul, where a number of Cantabs were in singing, satisfies a special craving. Even while a group of Friends of the College held a attendance. here in Minnesota, where choral singing is small dinner in honor of the visiting Fellows at Choral Scholar Joel Williams (King’s 2011) integral to the local landscape, nothing can the University Club. The performance at the noted, “What a thrilling and rewarding compare to the Choir from King’s.” Cathedral of Saint Paul was introduced by experience, from start to finish! It was Michael Barone, Minnesota Public Radio, Michael Barone of Minnesota Public Radio and an honor to perform in some of the United Host of Pipe Dreams and The New Releases broadcast live by MPR. The King’s Men States’ most prestigious venues, for highly

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College News

christ’s colleGe www.christs.cam.ac.uk

We are delighted to report that the matching scheme for student support, generously established by US-based alumnus Alfred Harrison (matric 1958), has now been fully funded. Thank you to all members of College who have supported this initiative. The Christ’s College Choir are once again coming to the US this summer! They last visited the East Coast in 2009 and will be visiting again throughout July. Touching down on Independence Day, they are scheduled to visit Boston, Cambridge MA, Nantucket, Falmouth, Greenwich CT, New York, Philadelphia, Wilmington DE, Baltimore, Washington DC and Arlington VA. We will be emailing all our alumni living in these areas with the details nearer the time, but to see some of the dates and venues they plan to visit now, please go to the Christ’s alumni website: www.christs.cam.ac.uk. You can also keep up to date with all the latest news from the choir on their website: www.cambridgechoir.co.uk. Keep up with all the latest College news on our social media: @christs_college on Twitter ‘Christ’s College’ on Facebook ‘Christ’s College, University of Cambridge’ official alumni Linked In group Please do drop by if you happen to be back in Cambridge. Our offices are based in V staircase in Third Court.

churchill colleGe www.churchillians.net

The College is pleased to announce that the 2012 Nobel Prize in Medicine was awarded jointly to Professor Sir John B. Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka "for the discovery that mature cells can be reprogrammed to become pluripotent." Sir John was a Past Fellow (1973) at Churchill and is a current Honorary Fellow. The College now has 28 Nobel Prize Winners among its membership. The College is saddened to report the death of Professor Frank Hahn, distinguished economist, on the 28 January at the age of 87. Frank became a Fellow of Churchill College in 1960 as a University Lecturer in Economics and apart from a period at the London School of Economics in 1967, when he remained a Title E Fellow, spent most of the rest of his career in Cambridge and at Churchill College. He was married to Dorothy for 66 years. A memorial service will be taking place later this year for which details will be released as soon as they become available. We are pleased to announce that the first Churchill Regional Groups are in their early stages of establishment in the USA. Further details can be found by visiting www.churchillians.net. If you would like to get involved, please email [email protected]. The second of our collaborative events with Clare, King’s and Lucy Cavendish takes place at Churchill and at Lucy Cavendish on Saturday 28th September as part of our Association Weekend. 1972: Conversation features alumnae from the four Colleges speaking on Science, Society and the Future of Culture and Media, offering them and all present the opportunity to reminisce on life at Cambridge in 1972. To find out more, please visit www.1972cambridge.co.uk. The Reunion Dinner for those who joined the College in 1999-2002 will be taking place on Saturday 6th July. Invitations are being sent out to you in April. During this year's Association Weekend in September, the 1963 cohort of postgraduates will be celebrating 50 years since their matriculation with a series of events. The G63 Reunion is being organized by Sir Alan Budd. If you would like to find out more, please contact Alan by emailing [email protected]. If you were an undergraduate in 1963 and would be interested in getting involved, please email the Alumni Relations Office at [email protected].

clAre colleGe www.clarealumni.com

Celebrations are ongoing for the 60th anniversary of the one of the great scientific discoveries in history: Crick & Watson’s DNA double helix structure. American James Watson had rooms in Memorial Court at Clare when he was working on this project. (Caian Francis Crick later settled in California). Their famous announcement in the Eagle Pub on February 28th 1953 was followed by the publication of the discovery in Nature on April 25th of the same year. Clare is hosting a dinner for James Watson on the eve of this 60th anniversary. Among the guests are Sir Tim Hunt (Nobel Laureate, Clare alumnus) and Rupert Sheldrake, former Clare Fellow and author of The Science Delusion (2012). Judge Business School Professor Jaideep Prabhu, Clare Fellow, gave the Cambridge Judge Business briefing in NYC on March 6th, based on his new book Jugaad Innovation: A Frugal, Flexible and Inclusive Way to Grow. Many American Clare alumni will remember Dr. Gordon Wright (Medical Sciences Fellow since 1958). He turned 96 in December and was married a few days before this milestone. Current students: Alexandra Batchelor has been awarded a Kennedy Fellowship; Holly Rees will be the J.D. Watson Scholar at Cold Spring Harbor this summer; David Wilson has won a Henry Fellowship to Yale; and Ben Liu, a Mellon Fellow, has won a Rhodes Scholarship.

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clAre hAll www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk

Many of you may have met the President of Clare Hall, Sir Martin Harris, who travelled to the U.S. in April for a series of Life Member reunion events in New York, Salt Lake City and Houston. Martin will be retiring this summer and we are delighted that Professor David Ibbetson FBA has been elected as the College’s eighth President. Professor Ibbetson says, "It is an exciting privilege to be joining Clare Hall and I look forward to leading it through the celebration of its 50th anniversary in 2016.” Looking ahead, this spring’s highlights include the annual Ashby Lecture, on 23 May, given by Lord Oxburgh FRS, former Chairman of Shell U.K. and former Rector of Imperial College on “Energy, water, food and the nine billion." Art and music continue to flourish at Clare Hall. Our annual Glass Exhibition in summer will feature work by Cambridge glass artist Charlotte Morrison and we have an array of painting exhibitions lined up to follow. The “Intimate Engagements” chamber-music series at Clare Hall has established itself as a uniquely enjoyable and stimulating contribution to musical life in Cambridge. We look forward to the final concert in the sixth series on 8 June by Duo Benzakoun (piano duet). This November we will be running our second telephone campaign with the goal of reconnecting with our Life Members worldwide and raising vital funds to support our students sir Martin harris with cambridge alumni in houston and the College. Almost 80% of our Members live outside of the UK so this campaign will enable us to strengthen our overseas relationships and hear about your time at Clare Hall. We look forward to being in touch with many of you in the U.S. during the campaign. Thank you to all of you who currently support the College; you are helping to ensure our future success. Do let us know if you are planning a visit to Cambridge; we warmly invite you to return to Clare Hall. Get in touch with us at [email protected]. As always, we look forward to hearing from you.

corpus christi colleGe www.corpus.cam.ac.uk

During the week of May 4th, the Master, Stuart Laing, his wife Sibella, and Director of Development Elizabeth Winter will be visiting New York. They will meet as many Old Members as possible, to discuss the College, its news, aims and ambitions, and to garner support for an annual bursary for a needy student funded by our American alumni. This is something other Colleges are doing and we feel that Corpus, with its strong loyalties from American alumni, is well positioned to offer a bursary to help a student who would otherwise find it difficult to come to Cambridge. On Wednesday May 8th, Guild Fellow Neil Westreich will once again be hosting a party in his stunning Chelsea apartment and all Corpus alumni and their guests are most welcome to come. The Master, his wife, and the Development Director are looking forward to meeting Old Members, celebrating all the activity of the College, in particular our extremely high rankings in the league tables, but also hearing the views and news of our alumni in the US. We would be very interested in arranging a visit to another part of the US if there is sufficient interest for this. Please get in touch with the Development Office if you are able to offer hospitality or help with arrangements; your support would be greatly welcomed. On Thursday 21st March, Corpus’s oldest and most precious book, the St. Augustine Gospels (CCCC MS 286), also known as the Canterbury Gospels, played an important role in the enthronement of the new Archbishop of Canterbury. Justin Welby, the new Archbishop, was sworn in on the Gospels. The Gospels were traditionally used for the swearing of the oath in the enthronements of new Archbishops of Canterbury, and in modern times the tradition has been restored. The Gospels have been used in the enthronements continuously since 1945. The Augustine Gospels have also been taken to Canterbury for other major occasions, including the visit of Pope John Paul II in 1982 and Pope Benedict XVI in 2010. This copy of the four gospels was made in Italy in the late sixth century. It’s believed to have been brought to Canterbury as part of the mission of St. Augustine who was sent by Pope Gregory the Great in AD 597 to convert the English to Christianity. Augustine was successful in converting Æthelbert, King of Kent, and many of his people and was consecrated as the first archbishop of Canterbury. Throughout the Middle Ages, the gospel book was kept at St. Augustine’s Abbey and venerated as a relic of the saint. After the closure of the abbey as part of the dissolution of the monasteries in 1538, the book entered the collection of Matthew Parker, the 70th archbishop, and was one of the manuscripts he gave to his old College in 1574.

DArWin colleGe www.dar.cam.ac.uk

In recent weeks Cambridge has been bombarded with snow, rain, wind, hail, fog and freezing conditions; we can only hope that Spring is on its way; however, the Darwin gardens (a hidden gem that you will remember so well) are making a real effort, bursting into life with snow drops, daffodils, crocuses and Spring blossom; the ducks are also ritually chasing each other around the grounds! At this time of year, it is a joy on the good days to wander around outside looking at the wealth of color that has been missing during the long winter. We even have areas with palm trees and cacti gracing the grounds; so even in Winter we can imagine being in a “tropical oasis”! In the last few years our students have started a Vegetable Growing Society in the gardens behind Newnham Terrace; they are just beginning to plant seeds for this year’s crop. They also keen recyclers; an old punt (Finch) has made a great planter in which to grow herbs! All the produce grown is enjoyed in gourmet meals made and eaten in Newnham Terrace. Of course, College life carries on as regularly as the seasons. The recent lecture series on “Foresight” proved very A tropical oasis, even in popular, and hosted two speakers from the USA. Author Robert J. Sawyer gave one of our best-attended lectures on winter?

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“Foresight and Fiction” exploring whether science-fiction literature gives foresight into our future. Terrie Moffitt from Duke University also gave a fascinating talk on “Foresight and Self Control”. Both can be watched on-line at http://sms.cam.ac.uk/collection/1394326. Many alumni/ae have told us how much they want to arrange their diaries to allow them to attend some of our 50th Anniversary events next year; well, the plans are now becoming more formalized. Although the dates are still provisional, we can give you pre-warning of one of the big events of the year which will be in Cambridge on the weekend of Friday, 11th July-Sunday, 13th July 2014. The weekend will start with a “Garden Party” on Friday evening hosted by the Master; on Saturday we will enjoy a day of lectures from College Fellows. Finally, on Sunday there will be a “Family Fun Day.” We are also planning a “50th Anniversary Reunion Dinner” open to all alumni/ae on Friday, 9th May. In the USA, we are looking forward to hosting dinners in both New York and San Francisco during the Cambridgein America Days. Dates for these will be advertised as soon as we have them. It remains as always a pleasure to talk to you and to read your emails and letters, so do keep in touch whatever way suits you best. Our contact point is [email protected] ; and please remember, if you are ever travelling to the UK, always look at the College events diary. There may well be something on in College while you are here, particularly during 2014!

DoWninG colleGe www.downingcambridge.com

The Senior Bursar, Susan Lintott, and the Development Director, Gabrielle Bennett, made successful visits to Boston and California in November 2012. In Boston, Susan met David Collis (1973), Professor at Harvard Business School whom she invited to return to Downing to talk to our current students, which he duly did to great success on 16th January in The Howard Theatre. Susan was also able to see David Ballinger (1978) at his firm downtown. In Los Angeles and southern California Gary Blankenship (1968) was an incredibly gracious host to Susan and Gabrielle and they were also able to visit Keith Schofield (1957) and his wife Kay and Mark Chee (1986). In San Francisco they were delighted to see Bernard Mayes (1950), John Higham (1961), Peter Ratcliffe (1966), Richard Michelmore (1973), Dennis Dornan (1975), Jonathan Clay (1978), Joseph Liebeschuetz (1979), Jeremy Woan (1980), Paul Croft (1981), Paul Spencer (1983), Rickmer Kose (1995), Marjin Ford (1995), Ed Olson-Morgan (2001), Kristin Smith (2002) and former Fellow Kim Silverman at a dinner kindly hosted by Jeremy Woan at the St. Francis Yacht Club. They were also able to catch up with Scott Wornow (1984) in San Jose. As many know, Barry Everitt steps down as Master of Downing later this year and 2012 also marked the 25th anniversary of the end of John Butterfield’s term as Master. On 26th February a reception and private view was held at The Queen’s Gallery in the presence of HRH The Duke of Edinburgh in support of The Everitt Butterfield Research Fellowship in Biomedical Sciences, named in honor of two of the College’s most beloved Masters. Over $1.5 million is required to fund the fellowship in perpetuity to support the early career of an exceptionally talented young researcher, who will go on to make significant contributions to medicine. In April 2013 Barry Everitt visits Hong Kong for the last time as Master, accompanied by the Development Director, to meet and be entertained by the Hong Kong alumni. He will also make a final visit as Master to the United States in September. We are delighted to announce the election of Professor Geoffrey Grimmett to be the 17th Master of Downing College. He will take office at the beginning of October following the retirement of Professor Barry Everitt who has been Master since 2003. Professor Grimmett is Professor of Mathematical Statistics and currently a Fellow of Churchill College. His research interests lie in the field of probability and statistics; he competed at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal as a member of the Great Britain Men's Foil Team and now enjoys playing the harpsichord and hiking in deserts and mountain ranges around the world. He is married to Rosine and has a son, Hugo, who is studying for a D.Phil. at Oxford. As always, our US based alumni are encouraged to stay in touch with news and updates at [email protected] or +44 1223 334850. professor Geoffrey Grimmett

eMMAnuel colleGe www.emma.cam.ac.uk

Dame Fiona Reynolds, Master, is on leave for 2012–13 but is already discussing plans for travel and getting to know our Members in the USA. In the meantime, the Emmanuel Society has held meetings in Chicago, New York and Washington in recent months. If you would like to attend, or can help, please contact the Emmanuel Society Office ([email protected]). To receive early notice of these meetings, please ensure the Office has your e-mail address; this will also enable you to receive the College’s email newsletter, which is also available at www.emma.cam.ac.uk/collegelife/newsletter. See also the Emmanuel in America group on Facebook, and follow us on http://twitter.com/ EmmaCambridge. The annual Gomes Lecture and dinner, which celebrates the College’s close connections with the USA and Harvard and honors the late Professor Peter Gomes (who was an Honorary Fellow and Minister at the Memorial Church in Harvard), were held in College in February. We were privileged to have as the speaker Sandy Nairne, Director of the National Portrait Gallery, who spoke on “Art Theft: Reality and Fiction.” The text will be published in the next issue of the College Magazine. The donors, Cynthia and Kenneth Rossano, attended, together with their daughter Penelope. The College has recently selected three final-year students or recent graduates from a very competitive field to go to Harvard in 2013–14 on Herchel Smith Scholarships. We have welcomed to Emmanuel many similar scholars from Harvard and Williams College (Massachusetts), and this year’s Lionel de Jersey Harvard scholar is currently planning the annual Harvard dinner, at which the speaker will be Baroness O’Neill of Bengarve. Many Members in the US have generously contributed to the College’s New World Fund. Some were contacted as part of the telephone campaign in December and January, and the students who made the calls very much enjoyed their conversations. Thank you for giving them your time and

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for your very welcome and encouraging support of Emmanuel. Please let us know when you are next in the Cambridge area as it would be good to see you in College; a little warning to the Development Office (+44-1223-330476; fax +44-1223-762793; e-mail [email protected]) is always helpful.

fitZWilliAM colleGe www.fitz.cam.ac.uk

Big changes are afoot at Fitzwilliam. The Governing Body has elected Mrs. Nicola Padfield MA, Dip Crim, DES as the next Master, AnDreW houston to take office on October 1, 2013. Professor Robert Lethbridge, Master, said: “The College is delighted and I am confident that Nicky Padfield, who understands Fitzwilliam from within, will take the College from strength to strength in all aspects of its life and work. The election of the first woman as Master is a significant moment in our history.” Many of you will know Nicky personally as she has been a College Tutor for many years as well as Director of Studies in Law. She has been a Fellow since 1991 and is Reader in Criminal and Penal Justice in the Faculty of Law. Nicky’s passion for Fitzwilliam is evident and we look forward to working with her in the next phase of the College’s development and to planning her first US visit. At the reunion in Washington DC in February, the Master was able to say goodbye to a significant group of our US alumni and his diary is packed with alumni events for his last six months in office. His plans for retirement include a return to full-time research, writing and lecturing. He has recently been made Commandeur dans l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques for services to French culture and scholarship. We are also delighted to announce the new Chandaria Fellowship in Philosophy. Dr. Shamil Chandaria (Natural Sciences and Economics 1984), entrepreneur and philanthropist, joined the ranks of Fitzwilliam's Benefactors last year when he funded the refurbishment of graduate accommodation in Neale House. Professor Michael Potter said: Mrs. nicola padfield "Shamil Chandaria's wonderful benefaction recognizes the value of the philosophical training that the Cambridge Philosophy Tripos offers. In coming years the College's philosophy students will, I am sure, be grateful for the superb teaching that his gift has enabled. And I am looking forward to having a first-rate philosopher as a colleague." Dr. Louise Hanson, currently Stipendiary Lecturer in Philosophy at both Brasenose College and Christ Church, Oxford, takes up the Fellowship on September 1. Fitz teams continue to dominate in Collegiate sport: the men’s football 1st team won Cuppers; the women’s football team are League champions and reached their final; and the rugby team were runners-up in the Cuppers Plate. In Lent Bumps, the Women’s first boat was the only one in its division to be awarded blades. And finally … the 50th anniversary of Fitzwilliam on its present site will be marked by an exhibition “Building Fitzwilliam College 1963-2013: An Architectural Journey” running from 26 June to 11 October. The exhibition will look at the ways in which architect Sir Denys Lasdun’s original vision has been interpreted and transformed by successive architects and imaginative landscaping. Please do come along if you can.

Girton colleGe www.girton.cam.ac.uk

Last autumn, the Mistress, Professor Susan J. Smith, and the Development Director, Elizabeth Wade, were delighted to meet a number of the College’s US-based alumni at events in New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles. Also, our thanks go to Dr. Angela Stent (1966) for hosting a gathering in Washington last summer for Dr. Kamiar Mohaddes, Director of Studies in Economics, and to the enthusiastic group of alumni providing the driving force behind our fledgling alumni network in New York, which started earlier this year. This year will see a number of Fellows visiting North America including Dr. Sabesan Sithamparanathan, Tucker Price Research Fellow in Electrical Engineering, and Chaplain, The Rev. Dr. Malcolm Guite. The Development Office always aims to get in touch with as many alumni as possible when someone from the College is visiting but do please check our website for up to date information: www.girton.cam.ac.uk/alumni-a- supporters In September 2013, Girton’s Chapel Choir is coming to the USA on tour. On September 22, the Choir will fly in to Indianapolis, where they will sing in Christ Church Cathedral – and be reunited with their former director, Dr. Dana Marsh, who is now Director of Music at the Cathedral. The Choir will then perform in Chicago on September 24-25 before heading over the border to Toronto. Further details will be circulated in due course. We launched our major new fund raising initiative, A Great Campaign, in March 2012. We aim by 2019, the 150th anniversary of our foundation, to have achieved financial sustainability for the first time in our history. Donations – received from alumni across the world - have now passed the £5 million mark. Our campaign aims to fund three key areas: teaching and research, the living and learning environment and our general endowment. If you are interested in obtaining more details, please do get in touch with the Development Office or visit the website: www.girton.cam.ac.uk/supporters/a-great-campaign Finally, do remember that if you happen to visit the UK, please call into Girton if you can. There is always plenty to see, including our new Ash Court facility (with 50 en-suite student rooms), the new public art by Paul Monchaux, and the latest addition to the People’s Portraits exhibition. With the University now beginning to develop out to the North West, visitors over the coming years may even be surprised to find the College repositioning itself more at the geographical center of events. Please do let us know in advance and we can then endeavor to make your visit as memorable as possible. the Mistress and alumni in san francisco

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GonVille & cAius colleGe www.cai.cam.ac.uk

The intervention of Hurricane Sandy prevented US Caians from meeting the new Master, Sir Alan Fersht, when he visited New York last October. This was a great pity as Sir Alan had decided to make the United States his first overseas visit, less than a month after his installation as Master, but it was clearly more important not to put any Caians at risk from the resulting floods. Sir Alan will be returning to the US this November and a reception is planned in New York on Tuesday 5th. The Master will be accompanied by the Director of Development, Dr. Anne Lyon, and the Deputy Director of Development, James Howell. Caius Boat Club has continued its winning ways. In the Lent Bumps M1 managed to retain the headship of the river. This means that Caius have held the headship of the Mays or the Lents no fewer than twenty times, out of a possible thirty, over the last 15 years. Following on from this success, our men then defeated Balliol College, Oxford at the Olympic rowing facility at Eton Dorney to hold onto the prize as the top Oxbridge crew. There cannot be a better way to celebrate this success than to provide the oarsmen and women of Caius with a new boathouse. new design for the caius Boathouse The old building, designed by William Fawcett in 1879, is slowly subsiding into the river and permission has been granted to replace it with a new design, fit for the next hundred years. Dr. Anne Lyon, the Director of Development, and the Honorable Dr. John Lehman, President of the Caius Foundation and Captain of Boats 1966-67, will be hoping to approach former members of the Boat Club for support for this project. April 2013 is the 60th anniversary of the publication of the structure of DNA by Caian Francis Crick and James Watson of Clare College. The College is celebrating this anniversary with the unveiling of a memorial to Crick, set into the floor of the Great Gate, and a program of talks from guest speakers including Nobel laureates James Watson and Sydney Brenner. Caius also plans to permanently endow a Francis Crick Lectureship at the College. We are always delighted to welcome our US alumni back to their College and hope to see many of you here during the coming year. For further information, please contact the Development Office (+44 1223 339676 or [email protected]).

hoMerton colleGe www.homerton.cam.ac.uk

Homerton is at a time of change – the end of one era and the start of another. Our Principal for the last twenty-two years, Dr. Kate Pretty, will retire this summer and her replacement, Professor Geoffrey Ward, will take over in time for the coming academic year. Our Senior Tutor of twelve years, Dr. Peter Warner, is also retiring, and the College will say farewell to both of them at a grand Garden Party on 15th June. Professor Geoff Ward is currently Chair of English and Creative Writing at Royal Holloway College, London. American literature and modern poetry are two of his specialities: his books include Statutes of Liberty (1993) on the New York School of poets, and The Writing of America (2002). He has lectured in many countries including the USA, and has broadcast work on American writers for BBC Radio 3. Closer to his new home, he is on the Editorial Board of the famous literary journal Cambridge Quarterly. Geoff will bring great strength to Homerton’s English teaching, and his breadth of interests in the arts will be a major stimulus for us. We also have a new Bursar, Deborah Griffin, who won her OBE for services to Womens’ Rugby at Twickenham; she is passionately interested in developing sport at Homerton and in the University of Cambridge. Those of you who watched that quintessentially English event this Easter, the Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race, will appreciate that the cox in the Cambridge boat was a Homerton student, Henry Fieldman, studying Psychology and Education. Sadly for us, Oxford won, but it is great to see a Homerton student in such a high-profile event. Deborah has already initiated a number of changes; this Easter the HUS Junior Common Room has been converted into a fitness center and half of the Griffin Bar has been reserved as a new JCR with an office adjoining. She is planning to extend the Cavendish Bar into a central reception area next to the Dining Hall with a glass panelled octagon – if the planners will allow. These changes are designed to enhance the core of the College and make it even more vibrant socially. This year we are again extending our telephone campaign to the US. High on our list of priorities is the funding of masters students, largely because sources of funding for MA courses in the UK have dried up. At her request, a Kate Pretty Fund has been set up in memory of our retiring Principal to support graduate students at Homerton who would not otherwise be able to afford the fees, particularly for those going on to do a Ph.D. We hope that all those students who attended Homerton under Kate will want to give something to support her objective. After thirty-three years at Homerton, Peter Warner will take over from Ian Morrison as “Keeper of the Roll” – keeping in touch with our alumni. Alison Holroyd, has moved on to Murray Edwards College where we wish her every success; consequently we will be appointing a new Development Director, to work closely with our new Principal. At the same time we have appointed a new Conference Officer, and with the retirement of Mr. Dhiru Karia, also this summer, a new College Accountant. It is indeed all-change at Homerton; a new era has begun.

huGhes hAll www.hughes.cam.ac.uk

The President of Hughes Hall, Sarah Squire, was delighted to visit New York and Washington DC in April. The President was joined in New York by Hughes Hall Fellow Dr. Mark Turin, who is currently based at Yale, at an alumni event organized by Hughesians Widge Devaney (1994, LLM) and Sonali Pathirana (1998, MPhil). Dr. Turin, who recently hosted a successful series for BBC Radio 4 on endangered languages, kindly gave a talk at the reunion event about language endangerment and cultural diversity, entitled “Collect, Protect, Connect:

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Documenting Voices of Vanishing Worlds.” On her visit to the US the President also visited Washington DC where she met with alumni for dinner at the University Club. Earlier this year students and Fellows at Hughes were lucky enough to meet not only the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge on their recent royal visit to Cambridge but also the new Chancellor of the University, Lord Sainsbury of Turville, when he visited Hughes Hall. The new Chancellor is also a “Visitor” of Hughes which gives him a particular interest in the progress and welfare of the college. In January we were honored to host the first-ever Cambridge Graduate Course in Medicine Society (CGCM) Medical Alumni Dinner in conjunction with Lucy Cavendish and Wolfson College. The candlelit evening brought together staff, alumni and current students from all three colleges, enabling old friends and colleagues to reminisce and reconnect. More recently we had our Annual Boat Club Dinner which saw much cause for celebrations as the Boat Club rejoiced in the news that they had received not one but two new rowing boats, kindly donated by President Sarah Squire and Dr. William Squire and Dame Veronica Sutherland. We were also extremely proud of our American rowers, Niles Garratt (BA, History) and Ty Otto (MPhil, Nuclear Energy), for their great effort in the recent Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race. We are always really pleased to hear news from our US alumni and to welcome them back to College at any time. If you are planning a visit then please do contact us at [email protected], as we would be delighted to show you round. Finally, if you haven’t already ordered yourself a copy of our award-winning college book Hughes Hall 1885-2010 written by Honorary Fellow Prof. Ged Martin, there are still copies available to order at: www.hughes.cam.ac.uk/book president sarah squire and Dr. Mark turin

Jesus colleGe www.jesus.cam.ac.uk

As a result of the restoration of the Sutton Organ to its former glory thanks to a generous benefaction, Jesus College now possesses a unique instrument, reflecting – through the spirit of the casework, the 17th century pipes from Durham, and the reinstatement of the original specification – an important period of English music of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The organ is due to by blessed by the Bishop of Chelmsford at a service in early May. We have also been lucky enough to receive the very generous donation of a concert-standard Steinway piano for the Chapel. Along with the Hudleston organ, the newly restored Sutton organ, the Rawlinson chamber organ, and the harpsichord, the College now has – in the words of our Director of Music, Mark Williams – one of the finest collections of keyboard instruments in one room in England. At the time of writing, the Jesus College Choir is in India to perform for, and work with, slum children in Mumbai as part of an ongoing project with the charity Songbound, which aims to change the lives of deprived children through music. This year’s Sculpture in the Close Exhibition features the work of, among others, Miroslaw Balka, Theaster Gates, Damian Ortega, Doris Salcedo and Harland Williams. The College is well known for these marvellous exhibitions of contemporary sculpture. The exhibition is open daily until mid-September, so for those planning to visit Cambridge before then, it is certainly well worth paying a visit to the College to see these striking sculptures for yourselves.

KinG’s colleGe www.kingsmembers.org

From Julie Bressor, Fellow and Director of Development: The Choir of King’s College toured several US cities in early April, including Chicago, Saint Paul, Philadelphia, Washington and Princeton. See page 3 for more information on the tour. You may also visit the Choir’s facebook page for photos and more information: www.facebook.com/KingsCollegeChoir Of course there is a great deal of other College news, but space limits us to a few snippets. The Choir recently released our new label's second compilation, Mozart/ Requiem Realisations. This double CD is an exploration of the history and influence of Mozart's famous Requiem; it is available at your favorite record store or through the Shop at King’s (www.shop.kings.cam.ac.uk). This follows the 2010 Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols, released in November. We have seen many NRM’s and Friends at recent events, including Easter at King’s, anniversary and subject events, and the 1972 celebration. Forthcoming events include the Munby Conference and the May Bumps event and KCBC dinner in June. You can keep current with all of our events and news by visiting www.kingsmembers.org. Thanks to all who were able to speak with a caller during our annual Spring Telephone Fundraising Campaign – your support makes a great deal of difference to King’s, and the students appreciated the time you spent with them on the phone (we had several midnight to 2am BST calling shifts!). The Boat Club has had a very good year, including a historic M1 Fairbairn Cup win in December and blades for M1 in Lent Bumps. KCBC has high expectations for the Easter Term; to follow the teams, visit www.kingsboatclub.com. Provost Ross Harrison completes his term this summer, and Mike Proctor begins as Provost in October. Mike and I expect to visit the eastern US in December 2013. In the meantime, we look forward to hearing from you or seeing those of you who are visiting Cambridge in the coming months; keep in touch via [email protected] or phone +44 (0)1223 331313.

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lucy cAVenDish colleGe www.lucy-cav.cam.ac.uk

Lucy Cavendish College President Professor Janet Todd has recently visited Singapore at the invitation of the Scholars’ Programme at the National University of Singapore. Professor Todd gave a lecture at the University on Jane Austen: “Bliss it was on that lawn: Jane Austen and the Private Moment” and discussed the Cambridge collegiate system with faculty and students. While in Singapore, Professor Todd was also asked to represent the University as Deputy Vice-Chancellor in a series of meetings with institutions of higher education. The Vice-Chancellor, Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, particularly asked her to explore possible collaborative opportunities in the humanities. She had very productive meetings at Nanyang Technical University, Singapore Management University, as well as at NUS. Professor Todd commented, “I had a wonderful time in Singapore; people were hugely hospitable and very keen on making or cementing ties between their institutions and Cambridge.” Professor Todd was also in Singapore on behalf of College and enjoyed meetings with several in singapore, prof. Janet todd and natsuko hirakura, LCC alumnae and friends of the College. She was delighted to make contact with a number of Visiting scholar at lucy cavendish last year people who took a kind interest in the College and with whom she hopes to develop a longer connection. Lucy Cavendish College has once again hosted some fascinating talks by leading female figures including Ffion Hague, Professor Susan Sellers, and charity campaigner Camilla Batmanghelidjh. The talks were extremely well attended and prompted lively debate. The program of Thursday Evening Talks continues in the Easter Term. Dr. Tiffany Bergin will be leaving Lucy Cavendish College in the summer to take up a tenure-track position as Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Kent State University in Ohio, in August 2013. “I have really enjoyed my time at Lucy Cavendish College. The fellows have been so welcoming, and it has been a privilege to teach such interesting and talented students. I am particularly grateful to have met Dr. Emanuela Orlando, another research fellow at the College, as she and I have since organized an international conference together, and have collaborated on a research article. We will continue this collaboration transatlantically next year. I will miss the many friends I have made at the College, and hope to come back to visit often.” Dr. Bergin would be very happy to connect with Lucy Cavendish College alumnae in the Northeast Ohio area. (She was featured in the “Don’s Diary” column of CAM magazine no. 68, Lent 2013). Congratulations to Amanda Richter who was part of the Cambridge team taking part in the Jessup World Moot Court Competition. Amanda’s team won the Preliminary Rounds and the best Memorials, and consequently went to Washington in March representing the UK (and Cambridge) in the world's largest and most prestigious court competition.

MAGDAlene colleGe www.magdalenecambridge.com

The highlight of the year so far at Magdalene has been the stephen BonD admission and the installation of the new Master, Dr. Rowan Williams. Dr. Williams – or to give him his full title, Lord Rowan Williams of Oystermouth – was welcomed to much fanfare by Fellows, students and staff in a brief admission ceremony on the 17th January followed by his installation on Sunday 20th January. The Master and the Development Director, Mrs. Corinne Lloyd, are hoping to see many of our Members at this year’s Annual Dinner in New York on Friday 25th October, which will be preceded by a dinner in Washington D.C. on Thursday 24th October. Please save the date! Further details will follow in due course. The former Master, Mr. Duncan Robinson, and the Development Director were delighted to meet some of our Members for the first time at the recent Magdalene Dinner hosted by Mr. Robert Chatterton-Dickson (1981), the British Consul- General for the Mid-West, and his wife at their residence in Chicago. The Annual Dinner in New York was a pleasure as always and we are grateful to Mr. Robert Chartener (1982) for his continued efforts in making it such a success. More thanks the Master, Dr. rowan Williams, with scholars of Magdalene are due to Mrs. Diana Coatney (1991) and Mr. Alex Schultz (2000) in California college on the day of his admission for kindly assisting with the organization of a dinner in San Francisco and making great efforts to get the more widely scattered Magdalene crowd together for what was a really enjoyable evening! Dr. Williams and Mrs. Lloyd are planning to visit the West Coast during 2014 so watch this space. By the time of going to press, the Magdalene Telephone Campaign will have come to a close. Our Members and friends in the USA have always been generous in their support towards Magdalene, and we hope that the Campaign, as part of the Magdalene Annual Fund 2013, will prove popular with you all. Please remember that every gift, large or small, makes a real difference. We welcomed five American graduate students this year from Harvard University, George Washington University, Wellesley College, UCLA and the University of Wisconsin – Platteville, all of whom are reading for MPhil and MST qualifications in a number of subjects ranging from Politics and Economic & Social History to Jewish-Christian Relations. We very much hope that you will be able to attend one of our forthcoming events. Please make sure of an invitation by giving us your up-to- date contact details via email: [email protected]

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MurrAy eDWArDs colleGe www.murrayedwards.cam.ac.uk

In March, the College was delighted to announce that Dame Barbara Stocking had been elected as its fifth President. Dame Barbara is one of the College’s most distinguished alumnae and, in February this year, stepped down as Chief Executive of Oxfam GB where she provided strong leadership within the organization, including the Oxfam International confederation, and across the international development sector. She was also a member of the Steering Committee for Humanitarian Response, and a member of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations’ High Level External Committee on Millennium Development Goals. In December 2010 she was appointed as a non-executive board member by the Cabinet Office. With a significant track record of leadership within the NHS before joining Oxfam, Dame Barbara was awarded a CBE for services to health in 2000 and made a Dame for humanitarian service in 2008. She was elected an Honorary Fellow of the College in 2010. Reflecting on her new role within her undergraduate Cambridge College, Dame Barbara said: “It is a huge privilege to take up the Presidency of a College that not only offers the excellence of a Cambridge education, but that also puts a genuine emphasis on seeing women grow and develop to achieve their full potential and exceed even their own Dame Barbara stocking expectations. This College gave me the confidence and self-belief to make a contribution on the global stage and I am immensely grateful for that. I want to help today’s talented young women play their part shaping our future as tomorrow’s thinkers and leaders. There is still much to be done for women to achieve true equality in the world, whether in the UK or internationally, and I am very excited to have this opportunity to continue to contribute to empowering women to reach the highest levels.” Dame Barbara will take up her post in College on the 15th July 2013. Also in March, we celebrated the third annual International New Hall Society Day with a Formal Hall in College attended by over 110 alumnae and guests. Alumnae also met up in smaller groups around the UK and all over the world, including gatherings in France, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and Hong Kong. Two groups had been planning to meet up in the USA, in Denver and Boston, but had to postpone due to snowstorms! In April we welcome a number of our donors to College for a garden party to thank them for their support, and we are already looking forward to Family Day on the 7th July and Alumnae Weekend from the 27th – 29th September. A trip to meet our USA alumnae will be a priority for our new President, as we firm up commitments in her diary over the coming months, and we look forward to bringing you further news in due course.

neWnhAM colleGe www.newn.cam.ac.uk

From Penny Hubbard, Development Director: In 2010 Roll Committee member Tracy Smith wrote in the Roll Letter of her vision of Newnham’s alumnae community. She saw every woman who comes to Newnham as forming a stich in its fabric and imagined that fabric spread around the world as a network. Each time an alumna connects with Newnham in any way her individual stitch lights up. Our US alumnae have been busy lighting up the fabric over the last six months and we celebrate your strengthening connection with the College. Our new Principal, Carol Black, received a warm welcome in Washington DC from Elizabeth Cropper (NC 1963) and Heather Wolfe (NC 1993), both members of the US Alumnae Committee; Carol enjoyed cocktails with our alumnae in New York City kindly hosted by the Committee’s Chair, Margaret Campbell (NC 1966); and a group of West Coast alumnae were treated by Audrey Richards (NC 1959) and Jane Perera (NC 1982) to a delicious lunch in Carol’s honor. Guests ranged from Peggy Musgrave (NC 1942) to the more recent Catherine Bidart (NC 2004). Jane reports: “The memories were almost all good (bathroom memories excepted) and the gardens evoked the sweetest of them.” Carol was grateful to receive ideas for the College’s communications strategy and website. Committee member Jennifer Delaney (NC 2000) organized lunch in a restaurant for a group of New York alumnae before the CAM Day, Saturday March 9th. Please continue to send us your news. Congratulations to Professor Mildred Dresselhaus, a Fulbright Scholar at Newnham in 1951, who received the 2012 award of the American Rosalind Franklin Society, which celebrates our alumna Rosalind Franklin and her important contributions to science. (Prof. Dresselhaus, emerita of MIT, was awarded an honorary Doctor of Science degree by Cambridge in 2011). Four of our US community are returning for our biggest annual reunion at Commemoration: Bronwen Gates (NC 1963) from Michigan, Rosalind Seneca (NC 1963) from New Jersey, Dorothy Thadani (NC 1963) from Oklahoma City, and Committee member Antonia Von Gottberg (NC 1988) from Boston. We are delighted that Zoe Trodd (NC 1998), who taught at Columbia and is now Professor of American Literature at Nottingham University (the largest department of American Studies in Europe), will lead one of Newnham’s seminars aimed at inspiring women to the top. Zoe, a former Kennedy Scholar, will talk to students about the prestigious Kennedy Scholarships, available at Harvard and MIT. They are more than purely academic prizes, being intended as a spur to closer trans-Atlantic relations. Our US Committee continues their own support for trans-Atlantic relations, generously funding the US Travel Award at Newnham again. Two exceptional candidates were shortlisted for the $4,000 prize and we are very grateful indeed for this continuing initiative. For news about the winner, go to newnhaminamerica.org. Thank you to all who connect, in whatever way, thereby “lighting up the fabric” of Newnham in the USA.

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peMBroKe colleGe www.pem.cam.ac.uk

On 5 December 2012 Sir Richard Dearlove hosted a reception for Pembroke Members at the Princeton Club of New York. 43 people attended the gathering, including Emeritus Fellow Michael Kuczynski and Nami Morris, the College's Deputy Development Director. The evening was a great success and Pembroke would like to thank Bill McCowen (1957) for his help securing such an impressive venue. The College Choir will be performing in Boston, New York, Newport RI, and Providence in July and we will be sending out further information about this tour shortly. We would like to congratulate Ben Wescoe (2010), who won the 2013 President’s Putter in January. An annual knockout golf tournament between members of the Oxford and Cambridge Golfing Society, the competition was first held in 1920. Ben is only the second American - and sixth Pembrokian - to win the competition. Although the weather in Cambridge has been distinctly gloomy, several American graduate students have shone through the murk. Grant Wilson (2012), formerly of the University of Pennsylvania, was selected at bow for this year's Blue Boat. Grant is reading for an MPhil in Nuclear Technologies and we look forward to him rowing for PCBC 1st VIII in the May Bumps. Talented middle-distance runner Mark Nelson (2012) won the 2013 Pembroke Mile, run between the sports pitches and the Mill Pond, in a time of 6:23* -- ten seconds ahead of his closest competitor. Mark, who was selected as Oklahoma State University's Outstanding Senior in 2012, is reading for an MPhil in Nuclear Energy. Fordham University graduate Peter Morrissey (2012) won the 2013 Brian Riley Declamation Prize. Peter, an MPhil Politics student, impressed the judges with his witty and thoughtful essay, “Catalonia, Flanders and Scotland; is Europe in for a series of successful secessions?” In Fellowship news, the College has been very fortunate to welcome two renowned US-based academics as holders of its Visiting Professorship in International Finance. During Michaelmas, Avanidhar Subrahmanyam, Professor of International Finance at UCLA, held the post. He was succeeded in Lent Term by Andrew Karolyi, Professor of Finance at the Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell. If you would be interested in organizing an event for Pembroke Members in your state or city, we would like to hear from you. Please contact Sally March in the Development Office at [email protected] or on +44 1223 339079. * OK, we admit, it's actually a little longer than a mile…

peterhouse www.pet.cam.ac.uk

Work on the Whittle Building is making good progress. They have poured the concrete for much of the basement and a crane is on the site, looming over Fen Court. Small windows have been cut into the wooden fence and there is a regular stream of staff and students going to take a look! In the center of Gisborne Court a small wall has been built to finalize the choice of bricks and pointing to match as closely as possible the Cambridge yellow bricks of the original buildings. Gifts towards the Brewster Room continue to come in. We have been delighted and touched to receive a number of leadership gifts; those donors can expect to receive an invitation to the opening we are planning for the summer of 2014. If you are planning a trip to Europe, come and see for yourself the progress we are making! We would be delighted to see you. If it is during term time you will be most welcome to dine, and we can usually arrange for a Fellow to bring anyone accompanying you in as their guest. With enough notice it may also be possible to reserve one of the Fellow’s Guest Rooms for you. The Boat Club is thriving; both M1 and W1 are doing very well. M1 is probably the fastest boat we have had on the river for many years. If you are in the UK on May 15 you should definitely come and watch them in the Bumps! We are also very proud to have been represented in the Light Blues boat by Milan Bruncvik rowing at No. 2.

Queens’ colleGe www.queens.cam.ac.uk

Event News: Our 2013 program of events including full details and booking forms is now up on the Alumni section of the College website: www.queens.cam.ac.uk/alumni/2013-events. Anniversary Celebration Invitation Dinners will be held this year for those who matriculated in 2003, 1993, 1983, 1973, and 1963, and a lunch for those who matriculated in 1953 and before. Please help us to ensure that as many matriculants attend your Reunion Dinner as possible and make your celebration dinner an evening to remember. The President and his wife were thrilled to entertain over 60 Queens’ alumni and their guests at a brunch held in New York City on 14 April. This popular event attracted members of all ages with matriculants from the 1940s upwards. Development News: We have made a significant start to achieve our aim of raising £30million by 2023. Generous gifts from Queens’ alumni include: New Fellowships established in 2012 Pang Kam Ping Fellowship for a University Teaching Officer in Medical Science funded by Dr. Joseph Pang (1969). El-Erian Fellowship in Macroeconomics funded by Dr. Mohammed El-Erian (1977) and Mrs. Jamie El-Erian. Two new Fellowships to be established from the legacy of Anthony Lyster (1949).

New Student Bursaries established in 2012 The Professor Ajit Singh Graduate Bursary supporting a student studying for a PhD in Economics funded by Professor David Beatty OBE (1965). Queens’ members are invited to add to and help endow this fund in honor of Professor Singh. The Munro-Greaves Graduate Bursary in Pure Mathematics funded by a gift from Ms. Joanna Munro (1981) and her husband. A gift from Dr. Jamie Shotton (1999) to help Computer Science and Engineering undergraduate students study at Queens’ regardless of their financial means.

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The Queens’ Estate Stephan Farrant (1956) has made a gift to Queens’ to relight the College Chapel. Work is nearing completion to redevelop the Porters’ Lodge and the Round. Photographs of building work may be seen at www.queens.cam.ac.uk/alumni/round-project Thank you: Queens’ is proud of the generosity of its members and is deeply grateful to our Alumni donors. Your commitment is crucial to the future of this College and we would like to thank those donors who supported Queens' in 2012, a list of whom can be found here: www.queens.cam.ac.uk/alumni/donors-to-queens Keeping in touch: Thank you to all those Members who have updated their contact details. Please let us know of any changes so that we can keep you informed with event invitations and college news: www.queens.cam.ac.uk/alumni/update-your-contact-details Our website also has a list of Members with whom we have lost contact: www.queens.cam.ac.uk/alumni/list-of-lost-members. If you can put us back in touch we would be grateful to hear from you; please email [email protected] Please join our thriving Queens’ College Cambridge Members LinkedIn group.

roBinson colleGe www.robinson.cam.ac.uk

Lord Lewis, first Warden of Robinson College, gave the inaugural Pegasus Society Seminar on Saturday 23rd March 2013. He spoke in detail about the founding and construction of the College and paid tribute to everyone who had been involved in the process. After his talk, Lord Lewis answered questions from members and guests about the naming of the College, its official opening, and working with Sir David Robinson and his team of expert advisors. Other members who were involved in the founding of the College were also present and added their memories and anecdotes, amongst them Henry Woolston, Chris Hughes and Mary Stewart. More than 60 people attended the seminar, including many alumni who were amongst the pioneer students at the College. The Seminar was followed by the Society’s AGM and annual Dinner and it kept members and guests talking all evening and long after dinner in the bar, despite steady snow falling outside (or perhaps the snow encouraged them to stay even longer, knowing it was a chilly dash along Long Court back to their rooms later!). The Society intends to hold a seminar annually from now and details of the 2014 subject and booking details will be available on the College website in due course; please keep a look out for this and for many College alumni events on www.robinson.cam.ac.uk/alumni2/viewnews.php. For any US-based alumni visiting London over July Fourth, the annual Robinson Reception will take place on 3rd July at the Liberal Club in Whitehall. Use the link above for more details and booking. The Reception is open to all Robinson members and their guests and is free to attend; it is a chance to mingle with fellow Robinsonians over champagne and canapés and catch up with College news and old friends. If you matriculated in 1983, 1988, 1993, 1998 or 2003 you should also have heard from the Robinson Development Office about your forthcoming reunion dinner on 28th September 2013, which will coincide with the University’s Alumni Festival offering a program of lectures and tours around Cambridge. We very much hope you may be able to make a nostalgic trip back to Robinson and Cambridge to enjoy this special occasion with your friends and peers. If you have not received your invitation, please find details on our website at www.robinson.cam.ac.uk/alumni2/viewnews.php, or contact [email protected]. If you are visiting London or Cambridge at a time that does not coincide with an event, please contact the Development Office (on the email address above) if you would like an update in either city, or a tour around College, and we will always try to accommodate such requests to fit with our visitors’ schedules.

st. cAthArine’s colleGe www.caths.cam.ac.uk

From Deborah Loveluck (2007), Fellow and Development Director: On behalf of the Master and Fellows of St. Catharine’s, I would like to thank Members of the College based in the US for their generosity since the beginning of St. Catharine’s Campaign in 2009; your gifts and pledges today stand at approximately £2.5 million. There are many charitable causes which you may wish to support, but please consider continuing to make St. Catharine’s a priority. St. Catharine’s graduates contribute immensely to national and international life, to our economic and cultural strength, and to the advancement of knowledge. I would like to thank Michael Davies (1979) and Chris Jones (1979) for hosting College supper parties in December, in Boston and New York. I am visiting the US again in April with historian Professor Chris Clark, author of The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914, just published in the US to great acclaim. Past and present Members of the St. Catharine’s College Boat Club braved the elements on 16 March for the official opening of the newly refurbished boathouse, for which we are continuing to seek support. The fundraising and re-design is being led by our long-term Boat Club sponsor, Herb Bate (1963). We are delighted that the new building in Chapel Court – the McGrath Centre – named in recognition of the major contribution made by Harvey McGrath (1971) will be opened by the Chancellor of Cambridge University on 19 June. This modern, multi-purpose building houses an auditorium, a new JCR and bar, and an informal study area, bringing together function and space to socialize and learn. St. Catharine's is enormously grateful to its members who have donated the full £7.2 million for the building as part of the St. Catharine's Campaign. The College reunion program is continuing, with future scheduled dates as follows: Reunion Date/Matriculation Years 6 April 2013: 1972-1974 28 September 2013: 1990-1992 5 April 2014: 1954-1959 13 September 2014: 1993-1995

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The College hosts an annual Garden Party on June 15 for Members who matriculated between 1951 and 1958, donors to the College and Members of the Woodlark Society (those who have remembered St. Catharine’s in their wills). As ever, the event coincides with the last day of the May Bumps. We will be hosting a College marquee by the Cam, offering a fantastic opportunity to watch the races. If you are passing through Cambridge, please call into the Alumni & Development Office: we are located in A1 next to the Porters' Lodge. In the meantime, please feel free to contact the Office by telephone (+44 1223 338337) or email ([email protected]) and we will be happy to help you.

st. eDMunD’s colleGe www.st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk

St. Edmund’s has some good news to share: the College has been fortunate recently to receive over £829,000 from the estate of Fellow Commoner Professor Toby Jackman. The capital is to be held as a permanent endowment, with income used to fund up to two Toby Jackman Research Fellowships. Toby was born in California in 1925, to an American father and a Canadian mother, although he spent much of his life in Canada. This is the largest legacy that the College has ever received. In September, the College signed a legacy agreement with another American, Prof. Leland Smith Burns, which will ultimately result in another large legacy for the College and will be used to support scholarships for members of the Anglican communion to study and undertake research at St Edmund’s. In order to recognize those alumni and friends who notify the College that they are leaving a legacy to St. Edmund’s in their will, the College has recently established the “Edmond Nolan Society.” Please let us know if you have included a legacy to the College in your will so that you can join this Society. Also, to thank all those who have regularly given their support to the College's fundraising projects, St. Edmund’s is launching “The 1896 Society”; the name commemorates the date when Father Edmond Nolan established the embryonic St. Edmund’s House. In sporting news, one of our current American students, University of Wisconsin alumnus Steve Dudek, was one of two St. Edmund’s students rowing for the second time against Oxford in the Boat Race on Easter Sunday, 31 March. We remain indebted to all the St. Edmund’s alumni and friends who continue to support the College through their advice and help, or through a gift to the College. We extend our warmest thanks to you all for your support and interest in St. Edmund’s and its future. We hope to organize an event in the US next year, to mark the final year of Prof. Paul Luzio’s Mastership. In the meantime, if you travel to the UK, we do hope your schedule will allow you to return to St. Edmund’s, where a warm welcome awaits you. Over the summer there will be several events in College at which alumni are especially welcome, including the College Garden Party on Sunday 16 June and the May Ball on Friday 21 June. Finally, as part of the Alumni Festival (formerly known as the Alumni Weekend) the College will be hosting a concert and dinner on Saturday 28 September. We would love to hear your news. If you have any comments or questions, please do contact the Alumni and Development Office on [email protected]

st. John’s colleGe www.joh.cam.ac.uk

The Master, Professor Christopher Dobson, met with Johnians at a drinks reception at the Racquet & Tennis Club in New York City in March. Over 30 alumni and their guests met at the Club to enjoy this spring event. Development Manager Julia Thaxton was also travelling in the area at this time and met with Johnians in Washington DC for a reception at the St. Regis Hotel shortly after heading up to Toronto to host an event for Canadian Johnians. Julia plans to travel to Washington State, Texas and Illinois later in the year; check your inbox for details. The College has appointed Jennifer Egan (1985) as an Honorary Fellow. Jennifer won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her novel A Visit from the Goon Squad in 2011. The College was honored that the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, Professor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, delivered the Linacre Lecture in late April. The Vice-Chancellor spoke on the subject of “Improving the Health of the World” to a full house in the recently redeveloped Divinity School. As always, the summer months are packed with events in College. Johnians based in the US who will be in the UK are always very welcome to join us. In April the Development Office launched a new-look interactive website for Johnians. Alumni can now update their details online and find out comprehensive information about our activities. Later in the year online events booking and forums for careers and networking will be launched. You can also find us on Twitter, @stjohnscam, as well as on Facebook and LinkedIn. Please ensure that we have your preferred email address so that we can keep you up to date about College news and events.

selWyn colleGe www.sel.cam.ac.uk

The year 2012 – 2013 has turned out to be a year of milestones for Selwyn. Cripps Court is in the middle of a long-awaited and much needed refurbishment; we welcomed the first year of undergraduates under the new £9,000 fee; and the Master, Professor Richard Bowring, will be retiring from office on 30 September 2013. Professor Bowring became Master in 2000 and has served the College with energy and vision throughout an important phase in its development. We have also had several milestones in sport and music, both of which are flourishing at the College. Although the Light Blues were defeated at the Women’s Varsity Boat Race, we were delighted to have very strong representation from Selwyn on the team. Vicky Shaw (SE 2009) rowed for Cambridge in the Blue Boat, while American Alexandra Kamins (SE 2009, Gates Scholar, Emory alumna) was in the Lightweight Boat and Lizzy Johnstone (SE 2007) was a reserve.

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Selwyn Men’s Football team won the Cuppers Plate Championship, beating Christ’s College 4-3 in a nail-biting final. Two members of the team, Chris Hutton (SE 2010) and Ben Tsuda (SE 2012), played for the victorious (score 3-2) Cambridge University Association Football team in the Varsity Match on 30 March. Ben, from Shrewsbury, Mass., is doing an MPhil at Selwyn, coming to us from Harvard where he played varsity soccer. The Cambridge Student newspaper wrote: “At last the talented playmaker Ben Tsuda…was showing his ability on the ball. It was his gorgeous reverse pass that brought about the Blues' second [goal].” Selwyn’s organists have also been recognized recently by the Royal College of Organists. On Saturday 9 March, Oliver Hancock (SE 2010), Timothy Parsons (SE 2011) and Ian Tindale (SE 2008) received their FRCO (Fellowship of the Royal College of Organists) in Southwark Cathedral. It is the top diploma available anywhere in the world for organists and Selwyn is extremely proud of them. Finally, if you haven’t visited our new website, please do so at www.selwynalumni.com. One of the most recent additions is a new Virtual Tour of Selwyn, which allows you to re-visit your favorite haunts from the comfort of your armchair through 360-degree panoramic images. We hope it will bring back many memories! As ever, if you have plans to visit Cambridge or London, please do let us know. We would be delighted to welcome you back to College or drop down to London to say hello.

siDney sussex colleGe www.sid.cam.ac.uk

Sidney Sussex College is delighted to announce the election of Professor Richard Penty MA, PhD, FREng, as its 27th Master to succeed Professor Andrew Wallace-Hadrill in July 2013. Professor Penty is currently a Fellow and Vice-Master of Sidney Sussex College and a distinguished electrical and electronic engineer. After reading engineering and electrical sciences as an undergraduate (with a First in Part IA, Part IB and Part II) and post-graduate student at Sidney, Professor Penty was elected to a Junior Research Fellowship at Pembroke College, Cambridge. He subsequently moved to Lectureships in Bath and Bristol Universities, culminating in the Chair of Photonics in Bristol, before returning to Cambridge where he has been Professor of Photonics since 2002. His current research interests include optical data communications, MMF systems (digital and analogue), high-speed optical communications systems, optical amplifiers, and optical switching. He was elected to a Fellowship of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2012. The College looks forward to welcoming Richard, his wife Victoria and their children to the heart of Sidney. In other news, Dr. Yannis Galanakis, Fellow in Classics at Sidney and University Lecturer in Greek Prehistory at the Faculty of Classics, has been awarded the prestigious Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) Samuel H. Kress Lectureship for 2014-2015. The AIA has also honored Sidney’s outgoing Master, Professor Andrew Wallace-Hadrill, with the Felicia A. Holton Book Award for his publication Herculaneum: Past and Future. Several Sidney Fellows have also visited the USA recently. Professor Christopher Hill visited San Francisco, taking part in an invited Round Table on Foreign Policy Analysis at the International Studies Association Annual Conference. He also discussed his forthcoming book, The National Interest in Question: Foreign Policy making in Multicultural Societies, at the Brookings Institution, Washington, DC, and Rider College, New Jersey. Professor Michael Lamb was recently honored by the American Psychology-Law Society in Portland, Oregon, receiving the Award for Distinguished Contribution to Psychology and Law. Meanwhile, Dr. Tom Simpson, Junior Research Fellow in Philosophy, is currently spending time as a Visiting Scholar at the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at MIT where he is continuing his work on the notion of trust. Informal alumni drinks were recently held in New York at Connolly’s on 47th between Madison and Fifth. We are hoping to arrange another event in New York later this year; if you would like to help or to find out more information, please contact Mollie Cherson (2010) at [email protected]

trinity colleGe www.trin.cam.ac.uk

Thank you to all of you who have contributed to the Annual Fund via our brochure appeal or our Telethon. You may have been one of the many members with whom our calling team of current students had the opportunity to speak during our Telethon in April; thank you for taking the time to talk to them and share your stories of Trinity. We hope you will have had the chance to read the Alumni Relations & Development Office Annual Report for 2011-12 which was circulated to Trinity Members in February. Our annual List of Donors was included, together with details of how your support is making a difference to the College. The Fountain was recently sent to all Trinity members and is also available to view on the Trinity Members Online website. This issue includes an interview with Lord Deighton KBE, Chief Executive of the London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, and an article from Edward Stourton about the wartime exploits of J.W. Hopkins MC. The autumn edition of The Fountain will be published in September and the 2013 Annual Record will be sent to all Trinity members in December. To submit your news for inclusion in the Annual Record, please visit the Trinity Members Online website http://alumni.trin.cam.ac.uk/. Our events program for 2013 is available on the Trinity Members Online website http://alumni.trin.cam.ac.uk/. The Trinity Family Day will take place on Sunday 14th July and the Annual Members’ Luncheon will be held in College on Sunday 29th September. This year there will be Annual Gatherings for those who matriculated in 2002-2003 (6th July), 1992-1993 (20th September) and 1962-1964 (25th September). Please visit the Trinity Members Online website for further details.

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trinity hAll www.trinhall.cam.ac.uk

Spring has been slow to arrive this year, but the lighter evenings have brought with them much needed and much missed blue skies and sunshine. Cambridge looks spectacular. The Trinity Hall events program for the next 12 months has an international flavor: the Master was recently in Sydney and Singapore, and will be visiting Hong Kong in September. You will be pleased to know that we have not forgotten America: we are currently planning an event in New York for Spring 2014, likely to be April, and we will keep you all posted of arrangements as soon as all details are confirmed. The memorial service for Dennis Avery (TH 1980, Honorary Fellow and president of the Trinity Hall Association 2003 – 2006) will take place on Saturday 1 June 2013 at 2:30 p.m. in the Chapel, followed by a reception in the Master’s Lodge. Details of the service are available on the website; if you wish to attend, please let us know. Over the last few years, a major refurbishment program of College staircases is being undertaken. It is a huge project, with P, G and A now complete. This year sees a break in the schedule to allow the refurbishment of the Dining Hall. Work will start in early July when the Hall will enjoy a complete redecoration, a rejuvenation of existing furniture and new chairs, and a re-hanging of those familiar portraits of Masters and Fellows. Dr. Jonathan Steinberg (Trinity Hall Emeritus Fellow and Professor of Modern European History at University of Pennsylvania) has written an informal guide to the portraits in the Hall which will be published to coincide with the completion of the Hall project. In preview of this guide, our website will feature occasional extracts and illustrations, and we leave you with words from Dr. Steinberg: “These Cambridge and Oxford colleges give us an identity too. We become part of that invisible fabric we call ‘our college’. We become ‘Hall men and women’ and share in the inheritance which our founder, portrait by James thornhill of sir nathanael lloyd, Bishop William Bateman, and his successors passed on to us, and we in turn pass on to the next Master of trinity hall 1710 – 1735, which dominates generation. A place like Trinity Hall fulfils that wish in all of us to leave some remembrance of the college’s Dining hall. our transitory time in this world, to remind others that we too once lived and loved and had an eye for beautiful things. In a wonderful essay on Benjamin Jowett, the famous Master of Balliol College, Oxford in the nineteenth century, Leslie Stephen, a Hall man and a great biographer, put the proposition perfectly: A man who is swallowed up in a corporate body, which will outlast him, acquires a kind of derivative immortality. His own life is only an element in the more permanent life. His work could be carried on by his successors, as the buildings which he helped to erect would remain for future generations.” We remain indebted to all the Trinity Hall alumni and friends who continue to support the College through their advice and help, or through a gift to the College. We extend our warmest thanks to you all for your support and interest in Trinity Hall and its future. – Jocelyn Poulton, Development Director Tel: +44 1223 332563. Email: [email protected]. Web: www.trinhall.cam.ac.uk.

Wolfson colleGe www.wolfson.cam.ac.uk

From Karen Stephenson, Fellow and Development Director: There is excitement in College as we launch our much-anticipated film about Wolfson, named, of course, “Ring True.” A year in the making, the film tells the story of the College from its humble beginnings, with one building and funds to last for ten years, to the present day. Wolfson members, from the Chairman of the original Board of Trustees through to current students, Fellows and alumni, all take part to paint a picture of Wolfson then and now, as we look forward to our 50th Anniversary in 2015. Copies of the limited edition DVD (in US format) are available for a small cost; you can buy online at www.wolfson.cam.ac.uk/alumni/merchandise, or contact Kate Hampson at [email protected] for your copy. We are also very much looking forward to working towards our goal of £5m ($7.5m) for our 50th Anniversary Fundraising Campaign. The Campaign has our students at its heart, and we aim to raise the funds to increase scholarship and bursary support, conference grants, academic prizes and student accommodation and facilities. We are thrilled with our Campaign logo, conceived by George Bickers, one of the talented students on our Development Committee; the most straightforward ideas are often the best! I am delighted to share it with you here. Many thanks to our designer and Wolfson Senior Member Binney Hare (originally from Boston, MA) for her creativity in bringing George’s idea to life. We are planning a wide range of events for 2015, including a series of 50-minute lectures on “The last 50 years in…”. A number of Fellows, including the President, have already volunteered to give lectures on their subject in College and it would be marvellous if we could include podcasts of similar lectures throughout the world on our website during the 50th Anniversary year. Do please let me know if you would like to be involved. And, as always, my last word must be one of thanks. Our alumni in the US continue to be the largest group giving back to their College, and for that I am enormously grateful. Thank you so much for your support: it really does make an immense difference.

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Pitt Professors at Cambridge, From Yale and Cal

The distinguished procession of eminent continuing my explorations in the visiting scholars from U.S. campuses to materiality of meaning.” Jeff’s latest books Cambridge, taking up the post of Pitt are Trauma: A Social Theory (2012) and Professor of American History and The Dark Side of Modernity (2013). Institutions at the University of Cambridge, continues apace. Following historian and biographer Alan Brinkley (Columbia) in 2011-2012, profiled in CAm Newsletter no. 21 (Autumn 2011), this academic year 2012-2013 has brought Jeffrey C. Alexander (below),the Lillian

In 2014-2015 it will be the turn of Economics. Barry Eichengreen (above), who has been called “the best modern economic historian in the U.S.,” will visit from Berkeley. This past February 28th he delivered the Clare Distinguished Lecture In 2013-2014 Cambridge will welcome in Economics and Public Policy, talking Yale historian David W. Blight (above), about the internationalization of the well-known to American viewers as a Chinese currency, “Renminbi Inter- “talking head” on historical documentary nationalization – Good for China? Bad for programs on PBS-TV and elsewhere and us?” Says Tony Badger, Professor of Chavenson Saden Professor of Sociology to NPR listeners, especially regarding History and Master of Clare, “He made his at Yale, where he is also Co-Director of the slavery and the Civil War. He is Class of reputation with a brilliant book, Golden Center for Cultural Sociology (CCS). 1954 Professor of American History and Fetters, on the Gold Standard and the Jeffrey Alexander works in the areas of Director, the Gilder Lehrman Center for Great Depression and has been much in theory, culture and politics. An exponent the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and demand for his work on financial crises.” of the “strong program” in cultural Abolition, at Yale. He earned a B.A. at Barry Eichengreen is George C. Pardee sociology, he has investigated the cultural Michigan State in 1971 and an M.A. in and Helen N. Pardee Professor of codes and narratives that inform diverse 1976, then a Ph.D. at the University of Economics and Political Science at the areas of social life. He is Co-Editor of The Wisconsin, Madison, in 1985. He taught University of California, Berkeley. He was American Journal of Cultural Sociology. high-school history in his hometown of formerly Senior Policy Advisor at the He earned a B.A. from Harvard in 1969, Flint, Michigan, then at North Central International Monetary Fund (Washington, cum laude and a Ph.D. from the University College (IL) and at Harvard, followed by D.C.), fellow of the Center for Advanced of California, Berkeley, in 1978. He has thirteen years at Amherst, and joined the Studies in the Behavioral Sciences (Palo taught at UCLA, Berkeley, and since 2001 Yale faculty in 2003 as professor of Alto), and fellow at the Institute for at Yale. Regarding his current research, history. He is a frequent speaker, book Advanced Study (Berlin). He writes a Prof. Alexander comments: “Expanding reviewer, and teacher at summer institutes. monthly column for Project Syndicate and the research program generated by civil His latest book is American Oracle: The periodic columns for Estadao Sao Paulo sphere theory, I am developing a concept Civil War in the Civil Rights Era (2011) (Brazil), Finanz und Wirtschaft of ‘societalization’ to explore financial which analyzes how the Civil War was (Switzerland), Handelsblatt (Germany), crisis, church pedophilia, and media phone viewed, studied, and interpreted at the time and Eurointelligence. He has been named hacking. Continuing the cultural sociology of its centennial, fifty years ago. Prof. one of the 100 most important public of democratic politics, I am researching Blight’s HIST 119: The Civil War and intellectuals by Foreign Policy Magazine. ‘Why Obama Won’ in his last presidential Reconstruction Era, 1845-1877 video For more about the Pitt Professors, see campaign. I am preparing a book-length course is available on Open Yale courses CAm Newsletter no. 11, October 2006, at treatment of ‘iconic consciousness’, at http://oyc.yale.edu/ history/hist-119 www.cantab.org/publications.

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50 New Gates Scholars from U.S. Campuses Arrive at Cambridge in October

This fall 50 newly minted Gates Scholars from U.S. colleges and universities (or with U.S. hometowns) will matriculate at Cambridge. They are part of the twelfth contingent of Gates Scholars, 90-strong, from 22 countries around the world, who will embark on graduate work there. U.S. colleges and universities with first- time Gates Scholars include Binghamton Univ. (NY), Case Western Reserve (OH), Christopher Newport Univ. (VA), DePauw (IN), Franklin W. Owen College of Engineering (MA), Greenville College (IL), Lewis & Clark (OR), Naropa (CO), Salisbury Univ. (MD), San Juan College (NM), Univ. at Buffalo (NY), Univ. of Maryland – College Park, San Juan College (NM), Univ. of New natalia chapovalova Daniel Jimenez Mexico, Western Illinois Univ., and, and Worcester Polytechnic / WPI (MA). Evelyn Boettcher, from Tulsa; U. Penn., Alessandra Colaianni, from Baltimore, Profiles of each of these Scholars- Harvard; PhD, Politics and International MD; Duke, Johns Hopkins School of designate follow, below. More details on Studies. “I will arrive at Cambridge in the fall Medicine; MPhil, Social Anthropology. each individual, including personal after studying in Inner Mongolia, China…I “Ever since I started medical school I have statements about what they’ve done and what am committed to applying my studies to a been fascinated by ethical and they hope to accomplish at, and after, career in public service.” anthropological aspects of medicine.” Cambridge (from which the quotes below are excerpted) can be viewed at www. Erica Cao, from Chesterfield, MO; (Ms.) Amrita Dani, from Newtown, PA; gatescambridge.org/our-scholars/new- Princeton; MPhil, Music Studies. “I envision Harvard; MPhil, Education. “I will explore scholars.aspx the increasing use of music in hospitals and how the arts and creative thinking can teach If you know someone who might be a rehabilitation settings both to alleviate students to engage across difference… I hope worthy candidate for a Gates Cambridge suffering and for therapeutic interventions to to translate my experiences as a student and Scholarship, please encourage him or help overcome various neurological teacher into a career in education policy.” her to investigate and apply. Application conditions and sensory impairments.” procedures can be found at the Gates Christopher Devine, from Ramsey, NJ; Hannah Carlan, from Monroe, GA; New website: www.gatescambridge.org/apply/ Harvard; MPhil, Clinical Science York University; MPhil, Social Anth- (Translational Medicine and Therapeutics). ropology. “My future research will continue (Ms.) Nouran Abdelfattah, from Egypt; “[My studies] will prepare me to become a to explore the relationship between Worcester Polytechnic Instititute (WPI); leader in ‘bench to bedside’ medicine and conversational structures and tropes in Hindi, MPhil, Clinical Science (Translational focus on regenerative therapies for patients including joking, and the way speakers view Medicine and Therapeutics). “I intend to with diseases such as ALS and spinal cord themselves and their social world.” contribute to the growth of translational injury.” research and become a leader in the oncology Natalia Chapovalova, from Pleasantville, field.” NY; Binghamton University; MPhil, Polar (Ms.) Christy Edwall, from Minnetonka, Studies. “My ultimate goal is improve health MN; Greenville College (IL); MPhil, English Genevieve Barrons, from Bellingham, through the integration of traditional and Studies. “My research will pursue the WA; Univ. of British Columbia; MPhil, western medicine, thereby fostering health perception of ‘mad poets’ in 18th century Education. “For the past three years, I have care systems that are accessible to discourse; private and public modes of spent summers in Malawi… My goal is to underrepresented populations.” writing (and suffering) madness; translation, return to Malawi and create a school.” especially of the psalms; hymnody; and Jose Ciró Martinez, from San Juan, PR; religious enthusiasm.” Paul Bergen, from Cooper City, FL; Williams College; PhD, Politics and Auburn; PhD, Pathology. “I hope that my International Studies. “My proposed research Krzysztof Franaszek, from Gaithersburg, research and involvement at Cambridge will project seeks to dissect the numerous MD; Univ. of Maryland – College Park; provide additional groundwork to save the intersections of nationalism, Islamism and MPhil, Biological Science (Pathology). “I lives of those afflicted by Salmonella and monarchism in the construction of statehood have spent my research career working in similar pathogens around the world.” in Morocco and Jordan.” molecular genetics, on programmed

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ribosomal frameshifting, which I will continue to study at Cambridge.”

Wesley Hazen, from Farmington, NM; San Juan College (NM), New Mexico State Univ.; MPhil, Criminology. “After Cambridge I plan on attending law school to study business law and later joining and establishing rehabilitation and reintegration programs for incarcerated individuals.”

Isaac Holeman, from The Dalles, OR; Lewis & Clark College; PhD, Management Studies. “My work suggests that technologies do not cause predictable, uniform health outcomes… Cambridge’s Judge Business School is an ideal home for this research.”

Daniel Jimenez, from Chantilly,VA; MIT; MPhil, Engineering for Sustainable Ms. Devinn lambert and Kelvin Mei Development. “[The] MPhil program at Cambridge will support my mission of bridging the gap between engineering Sciences). “The Scholarship will provide me Kelvin Mei, from Flemington, NJ; Rutgers; solutions and the people who need them most the opportunity to expand my study of MPhil, Physics. “Having worked with data around the world.” molecular biology and biochemistry…I will from the Large Hadron Collider throughout pursue a position in academia and conduct my undergraduate career, I will work on a (Ms.) Dominique Kunciw, from Berlin, research related to renewable energy different aspect of experimental physics: MD; Salisbury Univ.; PhD, Chemistry. “I production.” actually building hardware for the next plan to pursue a research-oriented career in collider.” drug development with an emphasis on (Mr.) Holden Lee, from Taiwan; MIT; MAst, finding cures for diseases prevalent in Pure Mathematics. “Besides being a math (Ms.) Saalika Mela, from Pakistan; Univ. of underdeveloped countries, especially professor, I want to be a writer. To me, Chicago; MPhil, Education. “The MPhil will diseases with antibiotic resistance.” mathematics and writing have a lot in instruct me in various leadership techniques common: they both call on us to be precise, and how they may be adapted to progressive Rachel Kurchin, from Rochester, NY; Yale; and to ask and answer the ‘why’ questions in Islamic schools, and will prepare me to take MPhil, Materials Science and Metallurgy. the world.” the employment offer I have been made at “I’m pursuing the MPhil in order to gain such a school.” perspectives from a broader range of Jerry Lee, from San Diego; Stanford; MPhil, scientific fields to inform my understanding Epidemiology. “I hope to become a physician- Nicholas Murphy, from Berkeley, CA; of the science behind renewable scientist, eventually developing and Pomona; MPhil, Biological Science technologies.” standardizing the treatment of cardiovascular (Pathology). “I will pursue an MPhil disease with stem cell therapies.” conducting research on the Trypanosome that David Kurz, from Princeton, NJ; Princeton; causes African Sleeping Sickness…I look MPhil, Biological Science (Zoology). Elijah Foo Keat Mak, from Singapore; forward to simultaneously contributing to the “[S]tellar faculty, dozens of excellent University at Buffalo; PhD, Psychiatry. scientific community and global health.” conservation NGOs, and the mentorship of “While administering neuropsychological Dr. William Foster will provide an incredibly assessments for dementia patients, I became (Ms.) Lindsey Murray, from Warsaw, MO; stimulating context for my maturation as a fascinated by the global challenge to halt the Michigan State Univ., Univ. of Missouri; conservation scientist.” disease. I decided that fighting against MPhil, Criminological Research. “I would neurodegenerative disorders would be my life like to concentrate on NATO’s training of (Mr.) Bo Shiun Lai, from Vancouver, BC, endeavor.” Afghan police and security forces, the rise of Canada; Univ. of Chicago; PhD, Pathology. their forensic capabilities, and sustaining them “At Cambridge, I will work in Dr. James William Marks, from Hollywood, FL; once NATO support departs.” Ajioka’s toxoplasmosis laboratory. My Harvard; MPhil, Materials Science and project will help decipher the molecular Metallurgy. “I hope to be able to transfer Justin Park, from Berkeley, CA; UC- pathways involved in stress response.” much of my work in the lab to practical Berkeley; MPhil, Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and applications in the clinic to help improve Celtic. “I intend to continue researching (Ms.) Devinn Lambert, from Howell, NJ; access to quality, affordable healthcare Anglo-Saxon hagiography, the representations Rutgers; MPhil, Biological Science (Plant solutions worldwide.” of slaves and criminals, and the connections

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between hagiographic texts and Carolingian never lose sight of the real patients I’m trying mentorship experiences, I look forward to law codes.” to help.” getting involved with educational outreach at Cambridge.” Erin Plisco, from Aberdeen, NC; Tara Suri, from Scarsdale, NY; Harvard; Christopher Newport University (VA); MPhil, Multi-Disciplinary Gender Studies. “I Mariel Williams, from Fort Smith, AR; MMus in Choral Studies. “I am excited to seek to build on existing scholarship mapping Univ. of Arkansas; MPhil, Human immerse myself in a culture that places such the policing of prostitution in the British Evolutionary Studies. “I look forward to a high value on choral music and music Empire with a view to understand the becoming a university professor and education, steeped in a timeless tradition that contemporary legacies of colonial discourses.” researcher in paleoanthropology…I intend to has thrived for centuries.” be an advocate for thorough and unbiased Jason Tabachnik, from Beachwood, OH; scientific education.” Michelle Quay, from Irvine, CA; Univ. of Case Western Reserve; MAst, Applied Naomi Woo, from North Vancouver, BC, Chicago, UCLA; PhD, Asian and Middle Mathematics. “I hope to become a condensed- Canada; Yale; MPhil, Music Studies. “I want Eastern Studies. “I will begin work in Persian matter physicist focused on the development to use performance as a means of informing literature to open up a cross-cultural dialogue of new materials.” and enriching musicology, treating works of more complex than the filtered images of Iran music as experiences rather than merely as we receive abroad.” Mohammad Usman, from Bronx, NY; texts.” DePauw Univ. (IN), Naropa Univ. (CO); Ethan Rubin, from Brookline, MA; Boston MPhil, Urban Planning, Growth, and Christina Woolner, from Kitchener, ON, Univ.; MPhil, Education. “I intend to study Regeneration. “[O]btaining this degree would Canada; Univ. of Notre Dame; MPhil, Social how supportive social environments can be greatly advance me toward my goals of Anthropology. “After my MPhil I plan to deliberately cultivated in a variety of schools, serving my community by improving the continue to doctoral studies, and an eventual with the explicit aim of integrating character policies that govern it.” career as a peace studies educator and education into the daily lives of students.” ‘engaged’ social anthropologist focused on Collin Van Buren, from Lasalle, IL; Western war and peace.” Shaina Saint-Lot, from Albuquerque, NM; Illinois Univ., Univ. of Toronto. PhD, Earth Univ. of New Mexico; MPhil, Development Sciences. “I will study how mass-extinction Studies. “My future plans are to work in events have affected past ecosystems by community development in underserved examining ecomorphology, diversity, countries by establishing sustainable and disparity, and other metrics of taxa within strong foundations for local economic growth.” these ecosystems.”

Rebekah Scheuerle, from Austin, TX; Univ. Kaitlin Veenstra, from St. Paul, MN; Univ. of of Texas – Austin; PhD, Chemical Notre Dame; MPhil, Architecture and Urban Engineering. “I aspire to apply the skills I Design. “I will examine how historic buildings acquire at Cambridge to develop affordable, can impact the environment and surrounding efficient, and novel therapeutics that can community, uniting my design background improve healthcare globally.” with independent research toward redefining truly sustainable architecture.” Matthew Shafer, from Augusta, GA; Yale; MPhil, Political Thought and Intellectual Ilana Walder-Biesanz, from Portland, OR; History. “I hope to produce serious theoretical Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering contributions that will shape the discursive (MA); MPhil, European Literature and catherine Bingchan xie contexts of real-world policy debates and Culture. “I hope to eventually combine my Catherine Bingchan Xie, from Canada; activist movements.” interests in engineering, philosophy, and Caltech; MPhil, Clinical Science. “I am literature. This could be an academic or a committed to becoming a physician-scientist, Rachel Silverman, from White Plains, NY; political endeavor.” translating my findings into more effective Stanford; MPhil, Public Health. “[My] healthcare and providing people with the interests lie at the intersection of global health Eric Washkewicz, from West Orange, NJ; knowledge and treatments to battle and economics, particularly regarding efficient U.S. Naval Academy; MPhil, Energy diseases.” and equitable resource allocation, priority Technologies. “I hope to research means of setting, and incentive structures to maximize integrating alternative and renewable energy the CAm Newsletter is published by ‘value for money’ in health policy.” into a national energy grid, before returning to Cambridge in America the fleet.” 292 Madison Avenue, 8th floor, Kaitlin Stouffer, from Potomac, MD; new york, ny 10017 Princeton; MPhil, Medical Research. “I hope Leah Weiss, from Moreland Hills, OH; telephone: (212) 984-0960, to pursue an MD/PhD so that as a scientist I Harvard; MAst, Physics. “In addition to fax: (212) 984-0970, email: [email protected], Website: might help further our understanding of research I am passionate about science www.cantab.org complex diseases, but as a physician I might education. Building on previous teaching and

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