Queens' College Record 1977 COVER ILLUSTRATION: the Old Library Queens' College As at March 1977
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Queens' College Record 1977 COVER ILLUSTRATION: The Old Library Queens' College as at March 1977 Visitor HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN Patroness HER MAJESTY QUEEN ELIZABETH THE QUEEN MOTHER President DEREK WILLIAM BOWETT, M.A., LLD., Ph.D. (Manchester) Fellows Edwin Arthur Maxwell, M.A., Ph.D., Life Fellow, formerly Senior Bursar and Director of.Studies in Mathematics. James Arthur Ramsay, M.B.E., M.A., Ph.D., F.R.S., Emeritus Professor of Comparative Physiology, Life Fellow, formerly Vice-P res ident and Director of Studies in Natural Sciences. The Rev. Henry St John Hart, M.A., B.D., Reader in Hebrew and lntertestamental Studies; Hebrew Lecturer and Director of Stud ies in D ivinity. Sir Harold Walter Bailey, M.A., F.B.A., LL.D. (h.c.) (Perth), LLD. (h.c.) (Australian National University), D.Litt. (h.c.) (Oxon), Emeritus Professor of Sanskrit, Life Fellow. Sir Arthur Llewellyn Armitage, M.A., LLB., LLD. (h.c.) (Manchester), Life Fellow, formerly President. Douglas Parmee, M.A., Tutor for Research Students and Director of Studies in Modern Languages. John Holloway, M.A., Litt.D., D.Phil. (Oxon), D.Litt. (Aberdeen), Professor of Modern English. Maxwell Marsden Bull, M.A., M.D., B.Ch., Director of Studies in Medicine. Henry Cohen, M.A., Ph.D. (Dunelm), Assistant Director of Studies in Engineering. Anthony Colin Spearing, M.A., Director of Studies in English. James William Longman Beament, M.A., Sc.D., F .R.S., F .R.S.A., Drapers Professor of Agriculture. James Martin Prentis, M.A., M.Sc. (Eng.), Ph.D. (London), Senior Bursar and Assistant Director of Studies in Engineering. Norman Francis Hughes, M.A., Acting Junior Bursar and Assistant Director of Studies in Natural Sciences (Earth Sciences). Kenneth Ewart Machin, M.A., Ph.D., Senior Tutor and Assistant Director of Studies in Natural Sciences (Physics). Ajit Singh, M.A., B.A. (Punjab, Chandigarh), M.A. (Howard, Washington), Ph.D. (Berkeley, California), Director of Studies in Economics and Politics. Brian Albert Callingham, M.A., Ph.D. (London), Assistant Director of Studies in-Medicine. James Diggle, M.A., Ph.D., Librarian and D irector of Studies in Classics. Peter Jaffrey Wheatley, M.A., Ph.D., Director of Studies in Natural Sciences (Chemistry). John Tiley, M.A., B.C.L (Oxon), Director of Studies in Law. John Edward Carroll, M.A., Ph.D., Director of Studies in Engineering. Percy Wragg Brian, C.B.E., M.A., Sc.D., F .R.S., Professor of Botany. Peter Gonville Stein, M.A., LLB., Ph.D. (Aberdeen), F .B.A., Regius Professor of Civil Law; Vice-President. The Rev. Brian Leslie Hebblethwaite, M.A., Dean of Chapel, Tutor and Director of Studies in Philosophy. lain Richard Wright, M.A., Tutor, Keeper of the Records and Assistant Director of Studies in English. John Timothy Green, M.A., Ph.D., Dean of College and Director of Studies in Mathematics. David Barry Sattelle, M.A., Ph.D., Bye-Fellow; Assistant Director of Studies in Natural Sciences (Biology). Thomas Henry Coaker, M.A., Ph.D., Steward and College Lecturer in Natural Sciences. Jonathan Simon Christopher Riley-Smith, M.A., Ph.D., Director of Studies in History. Christopher John Baker, M.A., Ph.D., Tutor and Assistant Director of Studies in History. William Andrew Phillips, M.A., Ph.D., Tutor and College Lecturer in Natural Sciences. Gerald Roland Muff, M.A., Bye-Fellow; Domestic Bursar. Brian William Napier, M.A., Ph.D., LLB. (Edinburgh), Tutor and Assistant Director of Studies in Law. Richard James Overy, M.A., Praelector and College Lecturer in History. Kevin John Gray, M.A., Ph.D., Tutor and College Lecturer in Law. Robin Douglas Howard Walker, M.A., Ph.D., College Lecturer in Natural Sciences. Roderick Arthur Smith, M.A., Ph.D., Research Fellow (Engineering) . Andrew Duncan Cosh, B.A., Assistant Director of Studies in Economics. John Clive Ellory, M.A., B.Sc., Ph.D. (Bristol), College Lecturer in Physiology. Stephen Geoffrey Wildman, M.A., Research Fe llow (History of Art); Director of Studies in History of Art. James Charles McKeown, B.A., Research Fellow (Classics). Xavier Blanc-Jouvan, M.A., Agrege des Facultes de Droit, Licencie~s-Lettres (Paris), Goodhart Professor of Legal Science. Peter Raynor MacDonald Steele, M.A., Ph.D., College Lecturer in Pathology. Honorary Fellows Sidney Smith, Litt.D., F.S.A., F.B.S. The Very Rev. Henry Chadwick, D.D., Mus.B., M.A., Hon.D.D. (Glasgow), F.B.A., Dean of Christ Church in the University of Oxford. Sir Thomas Padmore, G.C.B., M.A. Sir Harold Walter Bailey, M.A., F.B.A., LL.D. (h.c.) (Perth), LLD. (h.c.) (Australian National University), D. Litt. (h.c.) (Oxon). Professor Sir Arthur Llewellyn Armitage, M.A., LLB., LLD. (h.c.) (Manchester), Vice-Chancellor of the University of Manchester. Lord Allen, G.C.B., M.A. Alfred Charles Tomlinson, M.A., Reader in English Poetry in the University of Bristol. Sir George Stanley Waller, O.B.E., M.A., Judge in the Court of Appeal. Robert Neville Haszeldine, M.A., Sc.D., F .R.S., Principal of the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology. Theodore Morris Sugden, M.A., Sc.D., F .R.S., Master of Trinity Hall. James Arthur Ramsay, M.B.E., M.A., Ph.D., F.R.S. The New Development and the College Appeal Seen at close quarters, progress on the new buildings Once this target has been attained the remaining may appear to be very slow. Indeed, many of the residential rooms, which form FF staircase, will be enquiries that are received as to what is happening completed and with them Phase II itself. reveal that to the casual observer there seems to be There is at present no more news of the likely no progress at all. A re-reading of the President's progress of Phase III, which will include the multi report in last year's Record shows that in fact quite purpose hall, intended for general use for drama, a lot has been achieved since it was written. For meetings, exhibitions, dances and the like. Phase III example, we tend to take the lawn in Cripps Court will also include new squash courts and a covered for granted and forget that twelve months ago it car park. had yet to be sown. The main structure of Phase II In the older part of the College, the main work was still under construction but it is now hard to completed last year was the central heating of think of it as other than it now is. Fisher Building. The next major task will be the Lapses of memory aside, probably the main restoration of the Old Kitchens and Pump Court reason for apparent lack of progress is that activity area for other use when the New Kitchens come has been concentrated at ground floor level and into operation. This work will not be part of the mainly within the area of the New Kitchens. The Cripps Foundation benefaction and will be financed external work that has been undertaken, such as out of the College Appeal. The task will be substan asphalting roof slabs, has been unobtrusive. Apart tial and costly, present estimates being £115,000, from glazing, which is about to start, the New and may well have to proceed by easy stages. Kitchens are now weather-proof and the installation Turning to the Appeal, the target of £250,000 of electrical and ventilation services is well advanced. still eludes us, for the present total stands at Experience shows that predictions in this matter £243,220 as compared with £238,739 last year and are invariably rash but there is good reason to hope £232,242 the year before. However, the College can that furnishings and the installation of equipment have nothing but gratitude towards those Queens will be completed in the next few months. Outside men and other friends of the College who have in the cloister on the sou th side of the court the helped us to achieve this total. What disappointment final stretch of York stone slabs is now being laid we do feel is directed entirely to the manner in and soon the paving will be complete. which rapid inflation has decreased the real worth Work on the floor and wall finishes of the new of this sum to the College. As I have suggested Dining Hall will proceed as soon as it has been above, although the Appeal has made it possible to cleared of the new kitchen equipment now stored meet fully the College's commitments in relation to there pending installation. There are grounds for Cripps Court, it will not be possible to finance the optimism, in that the prediction that the New Hall restoration of the Old Kitchens and Pump Court will be in use by about the end of the present area out of the proceeds of the Appeal. A revision calendar year has stood unrevised for some time, of that part of our plans, or at least of the time expected progress having been achieved. With this scale on which we had envisaged their completion, target in mind, all the new furniture for the Dining will be one of the problems we shall have to face in Hall has already been ordered. the near future. J.M .P. The Society Our Honorary Fellows have been much in the news, R. N. Haszeldine, another distinguished chemist, earning further distinction. Sir Philip Allen has who has been appointed Principal of the University been made a Life Peer, Sir George Waller has been of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology.