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Enlightenment in the digital age FT Magazine editor John Lloyd looks to the future

Precious Time Jennifer Trueland meets Professor Alexander McCall Smith Lessons from the American intelligence community Professor Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones investigates

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08 Precious time Jennifer Trueland meets Professor Alexander McCall Smith, creator of the bestselling No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency 12 Enlightenment in the digital age FT Magazine editor John Lloyd looks to the future 18 Lessons from the American elcome to the new issue of Edit. My thanks to all of you who returned intelligence community W Professor Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones the questionnaire enclosed with the Summer 2003 issue. As you’ll see, we’ve already implemented a number of changes, giving the magazine a fresh new look investigates while, at the same time, keeping the features that have made Edit such a success over the last decade. 16 gallery I hope you continue to enjoy the magazine, but please do let us know what you 22 letters think of it. You can send your comments to: Edit Editor, Communications & Public Affairs, The University of Edinburgh, 7-11 Nicolson Street, Edinburgh EH8 9BE, 24 informed or email [email protected] 24 Clubs and Reunions 26 Calling former members 27 Forthcoming events 28 Scholarship profile 29 Looking back to the future Clare Shaw 30 World Service Editor, Edit 35 billet 36 Postal Election Nominations The Billet contains the General Council’s business papers, and news about its activities

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Alumnus of the Year

The University of Edinburgh/ The Royal Bank of Scotland Group Alumnus of the Year 2003 is Duncan MacLaren, Secretary General of Caritas Internationalis – one of the Chancellor presentation for largest international aid and development agencies in award winners the world. The inaugural Chancellor’s Awards Genetics and Biomedicine and Duncan MacLaren was were presented by HRH Prince Director of the Scottish Centre presented with the award, Philip, The Duke of Edinburgh for Genomic Technology and at a ceremony on 3 December at a dinner held in the Palace of Informatics. in McEwan Hall, by Sir George Holyroodhouse in August. Mathewson, Chairman of The Professor Deary’s principal The awards recognise excellence research interest is human Royal Bank of Scotland Group. in vital academic areas such as cognitive abilities, especially the Mr MacLaren studied for teaching and research and are origins of individual differences the MTh in Theology and awarded to members of staff on and the effects of ageing and Development at the University the basis of innovation, relevance, medical conditions. His best- creativity and personal dedication. of Edinburgh in 1992, whilst known research programme Nominations were sought from serving as Executive Director studies several hundred Scottish across the disciplines covered of the Scottish Catholic octogenarians known as the by the University, and the awards Lothian Birth Cohort 1921. International Aid Fund. made on the recommendation of He was chosen as Alumnus the Principal and Heads of Colleges. In the wake of the completion of the Year in recognition The winners were Professor Ian of the Human Genome Project of his contribution to the Deary, Professor of Differential in 2003, Professor Ghazal’s global community through Psychology in the School of research explores the phenomenal exceptional service to Philosophy, Psychology and opportunities for the medical and international aid agencies. Language Sciences, and Professor scientific communities to reduce Peter Ghazal (pictured recieving human suffering by revolutionising his award), Professor of Molecular the diagnosis of disease. clashing with teaching and periods current problem ofexaminations The new structure willrelieve a based onthree terms. t divided across two semesters rather of Edinburgh’s academicyear willbe Fr Our timesarechanging han the current structure, whichis om September 2004the University spin-outs Edinburgh from show Smart to w spin-outcompanies University L Ingenza Ltd,LinearB Ltd, DEMSolutions Axiope Ltd,CriticalBlue The awards were madeto: to provide additionalfunding commercial success,and t The awards recognise ideas Lifelong Learning,JimWallace. Minister for Enterprise and by presented with their awards The ninecompanieswere Awards.Smart:Scotland companies atthe 2003 commercialisation ideas.” people to lookfor anddevelop and commitmentofmany at the University, andthe effort of the qualityofourresearch aw Innovation, said:“These Edinburgh Research and and University the at of Corporate Services successes, NigelPaul, Director Commenting onthe t Rhetorical Systems Ltd, from Micro-electronics Ltdand including Wolfsonwinners, we ceremony, presentations In advance ofthe award Cell Sciences(UK)Ltd. Simulistics LtdandStem R hat have highpotential for he University ofEdinburgh. he University UX Biotechnology Ltd, enewable Devices Ltd, on 40%ofthe awards made

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Books for Baghdad

Last year the University launched its Baghdad and distribute them Books for Baghdad appeal to collect to the Iraqi universities. books for the Iraqi universities whose The campaign team hope that holdings were subjected to looting some Edinburgh alumni may be and vandalism following the collapse able to contribute to this campaign of the Saddam regime. in the following areas: medical and The aim of the appeal, launched veterinary science; engineering; in partnership with the Sunday computer science; physical Herald, is to collect between 50,000 sciences; biological sciences; to 100,000 items in English to mathematics; management and restock Iraqi universities’ libraries. business studies; social sciences; Major donations have been received linguistics; English language and from Edinburgh University Press, literature; Islamic and Middle Taylor and Francis, Routledge Eastern Studies. Non-humanities Publishers, Elsevier Science Books and non-social science books International, St Jerome Press and should be recent (post 1990) Cannongate Press in Edinburgh. because of the rapid advances Sizable individual donations of in these areas. books have also been made to the Individuals wishing to contribute appeal. The British Council has can contact Dr Ian Revie at undertaken to receive the books in [email protected]

New phase for University activities in America

The development of Edinburgh’s A busy schedule included reorganised to function solely as network in America entered a new meetings with influential alumni, an alumni group. Fundraising will phase during the summer, when a meeting of the North American be undertaken by the University of Principal Timothy O’Shea, Development Committee, and a Edinburgh USA Development accompanied by Joanna Storrar, private viewing of the “The Legacy Trust, an independent organisation Development Director (North of Genghis Khan” exhibition at Los incorporated in Virginia. Angeles County Museum of Art. America), spent a week meeting Joanna Storrar said: “There is a This was followed by a special US-based alumni. huge reservoir of goodwill towards lunch where former and current As well as providing a focus for the University in North America. We Directors of the AFUE were raising the profile of the University had a wonderful response from our presented with awards to alumni who are very keen to help and its fundraising campaign to recognise the important American alumni, the trip also us raise our profile and to raise contribution they have made to funds. We look forward to working marked the formation of a new the University’s alumni community with them to develop an active and structure for the American Friends of in the US. The AFUE has been sustainable programme.” the University of Edinburgh (AFUE). www.ed.ac.uk/news/ebulletin. Visit itat around the world andmuchmore. current research, alumninews from andstudentachievements, staff published monthly, news of carries t K he University online.The he University eep up-to-date Smith and Robert Skidelsky.Smith andRobert The 2001 were winners Sid andPeterBainbridge Ackroyd. Beryl Graham Swift, James Kelman, Lessing, Doris Murdoch, WilliamGolding, Fo included D.H.Lawrence, E.M. y thepublished during previous (or work ofthat nature) fiction andthe bestbiography annually for the bestwork of are Prizes awardedMemorial The JamesTait Black novel his toprize Jonathan Franzen for The judgesawarded the fiction awardliterary inthe world. – thought to bethe oldest 2002 JamesTait BlackAward oftheannounced the winners In September the University announced Black winners James Tait Fr Uglow for t he biography to prize Jenny ear. Previous have winners iends whomadethe Future rs te r,

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Boat Race Battle The 2003 Edinburgh-Glasgow Universities Boat Race, which took place in May on the River Clyde at Glasgow Green, saw victory for the Edinburgh teams in four out of a total of seven races. Edinburgh won a closely fought Women’s Race, although the Glasgow men’s first eight took first place in the flagship race. The event was again sponsored by Walter Scott & Partners. The 2004 Boat Race will take place on Saturday 15 May.

A collaborative initiative has been be able to participate in the Strong case set up between the Universities programme and benefit from the of Edinburgh and Florida enabling specialist skills of both institutions. students to benefit from an for forensic Both Universities hope that if the e-learning programme in forensic initial collaboration on the Masters science and medicine. links course is successful, it could lead The course will enable forensic to new and exciting opportunities in experts to share knowledge and the provision of forensic science and research and build up key skills medicine education and training. for use in crime detection, Professor of Pathology David investigation, prosecution and Harrison, from the School of prevention. Molecular and Clinical Medicine, Forensics is big business on both welcomed the link with the sides of the Atlantic, employing University of Florida, saying: several thousand scientists, plus “This is an exciting development many more in related disciplines as the Forensic Medicine Section who require an understanding of at Edinburgh approaches its forensic medicine and science for 200th anniversary.”

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CREATOR OF THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING time NO.1 LADIES’ DETECTIVE AGENCY, PROFESSOR ALEXANDER McCALL SMITH, TAKES TIME OUT TO TELL JENNIFER TRUELAND ABOUT HIS WORK. If Edinburgh had a competition for The books are about Precious Ramotswe, a Botswana woman (although she’d probably prefer to be called “lady”) a literary corner, Alexander McCall who decides to set up as a detective after the death of her Smith’s address would certainly father. In the first five novels, Mma Ramotswe’s agency deals be a contender. with anything from unfaithful husbands and wives to finding out which finalist in a beauty pageant has a moral character Situated where the leafier part of Polwarth melts into and deserves to win. Merchiston to the south west of the city centre, it’s home to more than one illustrious author. All the cases are solved using a judicious mix of common sense, intuition and an innate feeling for what is morally 09 Asked if he lives near Harry Potter creator JK Rowling, right, washed down by copious cups of bush tea. So you McCall Smith says matter-of-factly: “She lives round the can’t help feeling that an academic career grappling with corner. I sometimes see her walking along the road to questions of right and wrong must have been a good collect her daughter from school. preparation. “I suppose there’s quite a lot about “And that’s Ian Rankin’s house over there,” he adds, responsibility in human action,” he muses. “Some gesticulating out of the window to the home of the of these issues come out.” author of the Rebus novels – who is also a University McCall Smith first met the inspiration for Mma Romotswe of Edinburgh alumnus. in 1980 when he had been seconded by the University McCall Smith himself has been best known around the of Edinburgh to teach in Swaziland. Staying with some University as professor of medical law. He also holds friends in Botswana, he saw “a large woman in a red a number of influential positions on UK organisations, dress, chasing and killing a chicken”. The idea came including the vice chairmanship of the Human Genetics to him that he’d like to write something about a cheerful Commission. But he is increasingly garnering fame of Botswana woman, but it wasn’t until 1997 when he actually a more international nature as a writer. got down to it, writing a three-page short story. When on holiday in France, he turned it into a novel, which His series about the No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency, based was published by Polygon. in Botswana, has sold millions of copies and won him fan letters from across the world – including America’s First Lady, Laura Bush.

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10 Although the book was well-received, So we’ll take that as a “yes”, then. Makutsi,” he says, referring to Mma it took time for his work to become Although it’s difficult to equate the Ramotswe’s assistant, who, despite as hugely popular as it is today – tall, white, very British-looking, highly scoring 97% in her examinations at he’s rarely off the bestseller lists. educated, male McCall Smith with Botswana Secretarial College, found But it was in America that they really Mma Ramotswe, who is female, all the jobs went to the pretty girls. made a breakthrough. “It’s been black, has no further education “She’s had quite a hard life,” says organic, they call it a publishing and is, as he charmingly puts it, McCall Smith. “But she goes to a phenomenon,” says McCall Smith, “traditionally built”. “Yes, I think Mma dance class and meets someone… explaining that Random House, a Ramotswe came up with that term,” and it turns out he has a lot of cattle major publisher, is now on board. he smiles. “I get ladies who are (which is Botswana shorthand for “It’s been quite unsettling. I have traditionally built themselves coming being well off).” He practically chortles found that I’ve been catapulted into up and thanking me for it.” at the thought of making something prominence. I get some very fancy good happen to a character of whom invitations, particularly in the US. Hardly surprisingly given the he obviously feels fond. I go to a lot of events. It’s remarkable demands on his time, from this seeing places and meeting people.” academic year, McCall Smith has cut But then, he seems to like most of his hours at the University and is now his creations and to adore Botswana, Perhaps the reason Americans part-time. A quick glance at his diary, where his work has been very well- love the books so much is their which includes numerous overseas received. “I feel really privileged to straightforward morality, which trips as well as book readings and write about these people. I’m proud seems to hark back to a simpler lectures in this country, makes one and I’m humbled by it. It sounds time. McCall Smith believes it’s easier wonder how he can keep it up. corny, but it’s true.” to set Mma Ramotswe’s conundrums in Africa because morality is more vivid there. “Moral problems are more “I enjoy my work at the University, working with the straightforward in Africa. If people students and my colleagues,” he says, “but I have got have very little, then the moral issues can be very clear. There’s a moral one foot in another world. Being part-time means that and spiritual direction. But in our I can divide my time – and it gives me the opportunity society, the moral waters are much more muddied.” to help the University when I am in that other world.” He hopes people take two main messages from his books: that there’s Do his students read his novels? So what would Mma Ramotswe say a lot of good in Africa, which is rarely “Yes, a few of them have spoken to about his current hectic life? “She’d reported, and that fiction doesn’t me about them,” he says. say ‘you’re chasing shadows, sit under have to focus on the pathological. a tree for a bit’,” he says. And drink McCall Smith has actually written He certainly doesn’t practise what some bush tea? “Almost certainly.” more than 50 books, including he calls “Scottish miserablism”. specialist tomes such as Forensic Alexander McCall Smith will be the But having said that, his novels have Aspects of Sleep, children’s novels after-lunch speaker at the General a rather individual take on what is just and a new series of “entertainments” Council Lunch on Saturday 14 and what is moral. Mma Ramotswe about a Professor Dr von Igelfeld. February – see page 40 for rarely seems surprised at what Next year we can also expect to see more details. humans get up to and she doesn’t the first in a new series, based in Jennifer Trueland is a freelance rush to judge. She also has a strong Edinburgh and about a Sunday journalist. She graduated in English sense of rightful retribution. For philosophy club. The heroine will from the University in 1988. example, one man, who has since be one Isabel Dalhousie – perhaps grown rich, stole a radio in his youth. a Scottish Mma Romotswe? Mma Ramotswe comes up with a fitting response – he has to make it But fans of the Botswana books will up to the victim of his theft, including be delighted to hear that the sixth in giving money for a child with Aids. the No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series, called The Night-time Dancer, So is this McCall Smith himself will also be out next year. McCall talking? “The author doesn’t stand Smith is happy to give a few hints in a position of total neutrality to his about what’s to come. “Something or her characters,” he says carefully. nice is going to happen for Mma

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by John Lloyd We cannot use the word that ‘before the 18th century enlightenment too easily. was over, Scotland would The Scottish enlightenment was generate the basic institutions, an extraordinary phenomenon, ideas, attitudes and habits of whose scope surpasses most mind that characterise the Scots’ too modest modern age. Scotland and the understanding of it. Its most Scots would…open a new era recent historian, the US scholar in human history’. Not many Arthur Herman, wrote of it (The (Scots) people know that. Scottish Enlightenment, 2002) Herman believes that the Scots revolutionary because they gave and the humanities – especially enlightenment thinkers, who theoretical shape and practical philosophy and linguistics. The included philosophers, economists, guidance to new movements – as, University’s ambition to house the lawyers, divines, medical scholars, above all, in Adam Smith’s early Informatics’ disciplines in one large chemists and geologists, taught description and endorsement of building in the heart of its campus the world to think both socially capitalism in theWealth of Nations. is a recognition that proximity helps and historically in ways it had synergy and cross-fertilisation – just not before. For the half century The University’s search for as the relatively restricted society between about 1740 and 1790, enlightenment in the linked fields of Edinburgh’s professional and Edinburgh really was the heart of of computer science which make intellectual community in the 18th Christendom’s intellectual life: it is up Informatics is different – the century allowed its leading lights 13 obvious why the University is now largely enclosed societies of the to argue and stimulate each other seeking to re-invoke it with pride, 18th century are, in the 21st, across boundaries which would and to yoke its achievements to its linked together in a global web. have remained otherwise own search for pre-eminence in the Knowledge has increased impermeable. field of Informatics. exponentially. Specialisation is all. But we can understand the present Another is openness. The Scots But here comes the caution against a little better if we measure it enlightenment sprang from a too great ease of association – a against the past, so long as we deeply religious society – one necessary caution, if the University respect the large differences while which could be, and remained is to get the most out of the doing so. for many decades, intolerant and parallel. The 18th century bigoted by modern lights. But of its enlightenment was a vast and One common feature is an appetite time, it was sometimes shockingly broad intellectual exploration, both for crossing boundaries, and for experimental: Presbyterianism, into existing knowledge and into bringing into the study not just the though punitive, also had the seeds unknown speculative territory. computational sciences, but of a radical democracy embedded It was a series of descriptions of disciplines as distinct as within it because of its suspicion of society and economy which were engineering and physics, medicine earthly monarchs. The recent union THE UNIVERSI TY of EDINBURGH MAGAZINE

with England had spurred the Frances Hutcheson and Lord 14 Scots to match the industry and Kames, William Robertson and wealth of its neighbour-cum- William Patterson, Robert Adam partner: the relatively huge English and Adam Ferguson was influential economy provided new fields for because it gave new ways of Scots talents, and the talented understanding trends and Scots who stayed attracted the movements and events yet to attention and the participation of happen, so Informatics aspires But the applications are not the large parts of educated Europe. to revolutionise the way in which stuff of fantasies. In medicine; in both knowledge is gathered food production; in environmental Informatics is one way of and understood, and in which control; in education; in transport describing the human mind and machines and appliances work – the gains for a world facing the discovering how it works. The and communicate. problems of a larger population science of artificial intelligence, than it can presently sustain in which Edinburgh was a world The most evident common outweigh the nebulous nightmares pioneer and remains the European denominator is practicality. Smith, of popular science fiction. Adam and a world leader, was an attempt when he proposed the division of Ferguson, in his Essay on the to develop ever more intelligent labour, was perfectly aware that the History of Civil Society, wrote that machines, which would then take nail-making factory which he used ‘the boasted refinements… of the over more and more of the tasks as an example of efficiency (where polished age are not divested of which required human labour, every worker performed a limited, danger’. No more are the and which gave to humans a range endlessly repeatable task) would refinements, or new applications, of new devices and possibilities. bring a different kind of monotony of the information age: but we have These include ‘intelligent’ homes in and drudgery to that which already even less choice in developing what existed: but he, and Hume and which appliances would respond to the human mind can envisage than others, believed the rational spoken commands, or to intelligent did the mid-18th century illuminati. ordering of societies was worth the deduction of needs or dangers. loss. They thought – and they were A few of these have been realised: The enlightenment to which right – that these principles when more remain possibilities. Edinburgh’s science can contribute turned into applications would can bring as much relief to human benefit a larger number of people Edinburgh will remain at the suffering as did its greater forebear. than the few who had access cutting edge of these sciences If neither can be divested of to wealth and comfort. and applications only if it embeds dangers, these dangers speak itself in networks of knowledge to the use of a human, rather than Talk to the practitioners in the and development. If the 18th an artificial, attribute – that of sciences which make up century enlightenment was an conscience, in making not cowards Informatics, and you will find men example of an intelligentsia that and women who understand the of us all but kin of mankind. To could revolutionise the way in suspicion, sometimes amounting serve that – another insight of the which people thought about the to fear, which surrounds their Edinburgh intellectual revolution world, the economy and even work – the potential which many – would be worth all the effort, and themselves because they could laypeople see for their work more, which the University is now comprehend almost all of human to bring forth monsters from devoting to its new ventures. science, the 21st century search for Frankensteinian fantasies. intelligence in machines works in a A computer has beaten the John Lloyd is currently editor of corner of human intellectual word chess grandmaster (Gary The Financial Times Magazine. endeavour. But work in this corner Kasparov): though chess is one He graduated in 1967 from the can spread its practical outcomes of the easiest of mind games to University of Edinburgh with a through disciplines and branches teach a computer to play, the fact degree in English Literature. of industry and creative work which that a machine can match the presently know nothing of brilliance and unpredictability of Informatics. Just as the work of one of the game’s kings sends a David Hume and Adam Smith, premonitory shiver down the spines. ANNUAL REPORT

The University of Edinburgh’s Annual Report for the year August 2002 to July 2003 is now available. In it you will find 0307 a full report of the highlights of last year including the University’s successes in research and commercialisation, fundraising, financial information and lots of useful facts.

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TALBOT RICE GALLERY JANICE McNAB 17 January – 21 February MERLIN JAMES: Easel Paintings 6 March –8 April TREASURES FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF The University Of Edinburgh The work of Janice McNab shows isolation and The works in the exhibition are in the tradition of EDINBURGH'S FINE ART COLLECTION Old College, South Bridge stillness. People, objects and interiors are western easel painting. Beginning to map out the 24 April – 29 May Edinburgh EH8 9YL transformed in her paintings through cropping and perimeters of the artist’s practice, the paintings are Hope Montagu Douglas Scott was a member of the Tel: 0131 650 2211 abstraction, forcing the viewer to consider narrative diverse and unpredictable – varying in degrees of Younger family of Scottish brewers and wife of the Email: [email protected] and meaning. Her subject matter has varied from abstraction and representation, apparently resistant grandson of the 5th Duke of Buccleuch. Her art www.trg.ed.ac.uk an almost politically driven study of individuals who to stylistic coherence – yet concerned precisely collection was bequeathed to the University of have suffered from chemical sensitivity to discarded with what it is that unifies them as the artist’s own. Open: Tues – Sat, 10am-5pm Edinburgh in 1988 and falls into three groups: objects related to the leisure industry, empty Merlin James was born in Cardiff in 1960. He has works by notable international artists Picasso, Admission Free television sets and broken props. The exhibition exhibited widely in recent years, including solo Bonnard, Max Ernst, Van Dongen and Utrillo. 20th There is a lift with wheelchair will show a new series of work by McNab and exhibitions in New York and Bergamo. The present century Scottish painting including work by Gillies access to both floors of the make reference to her contextual research. semi-retrospective survey, however, of paintings and and Davie. The later part of the collection consists White Gallery. works on paper, is his first public-venue show of of a large group of works by William Johnstone, the round room such scope. innovative Scottish abstract painter. THE GEORGIAN GALLERY LOUISE HOPKINS 17 January – 21 February Permanent Collection The work of Louise Hopkins is a challenge to round room VIRTUAL OBJECT LESSONS ELLEN MUNRO 6 March – 8 April The Talbot Rice Gallery houses our normal understanding of painting. Using www.objectlessons.lib.ed.ac.uk the University’s permanent everyday printed surfaces she strives to contradict Working with a wide variety of materials including Take a virtual tour of the exhibition which was collection in the Georgian Gallery. and confuse our reading of imagery with over fabric, threads, paint and light the artist will create recently shown at the Talbot Rice Gallery in 2003. painting and concealment, fixing and replacing a new intervention for the round room. Ellen Munro The Torrie Collection consists of View high quality images and find out more about cognition of maps, floral print, news paper text is currently completing her Master Degree at Old Master bronzes and paintings the University's rich and diverse collections. Don’t and sheet music. Edinburgh College of Art. collected in the late 18th and miss Robert Barker’s Panorama of Edinburgh, a early 19th centuries by Sir James Her work has subtle beauty and mystery as the phial of Alexander Fleming’s penicillin, the only Erskine of Torrie. viewer contemplates her intricate painted and authentic painted portrait of John Knox and Charles Admission Free drawn lines revealing and hiding their image. Darwin's class card. 1 Tank 1, river, 2003 JANICE McNAB 2 Partly erased map, 2003 LOUISE HOPKINS 3 For Thomas Jones, 2003 MERLIN JAMES 4 No-eye-deer, 2003 ELLEN MUNRO 5 Georgian Gallery 6 Object Lessons 1 5

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THE HUTTON ENQUIRY REVEALS THAT THE BRITISH INTELLIGENCE SYSTEM IS IN SOME DISARRAY. MANY PEOPLE BELIEVE THAT FEAR OF IRAQ’S WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION WAS THE PRIME CAUSE OF OUR RECENT WAR AGAINST THAT NATION, AND THE DISCOVERY THAT MI6 WAS SOMEHOW INVOLVED IN THE PROCESS THAT “OVER-EGGED” OR “SEXED-UP” THE EVIDENCE ON THE MATTER HAS BEEN A SHOCK.

How did the over-egging and times as much on intelligence as sexing-up come about? Does it the whole of Europe combined, mean that the British intelligence and more on intelligence than service is no longer able – or Russia spent on its entire military. inclined -- to tell the unvarnished Since the attack, the intelligence truth when the chips are down? budget has undergone a further Have we lost one of our unique, 15 per cent increase. The efficacy prized assets? of all this spending is open to question. It could be argued that Lessons from America are the assurance of escalating sometimes advanced in facile financial support has made the or opportunistic ways, but it is CIA and the rest of the intelligence just possible that we can learn community intellectually soft and something from the sad tendency institutionally flaccid. of American intelligence to succumb to the wiles of the The confidence man’s tools of confidence man. trade -- hyperbole, exaggeration, public relations, propaganda, The CIA has long been indebted deception -- have been in evidence to the confidence man. In his in US intelligence history over the different guises, the intelligence past 150 years. Yet, as Lincoln confidence man has publicised observed, “you can not fool all and sometimes conjured up one of the people all of the time.” scare after another in order to boost spending on the CIA, FBI and the “community” of sister agencies. In 2001, even before September 11, America spent five Lessons from the American In teli l gence Co mm unity

20 Certainly, it was a mistake to try expansionism was the support of to the wind, however, in the Wen to fool Lincoln. He dismissed the President Bill Clinton. Clinton had Ho Lee case, in which, as the result Gorbals-born Allan Pinkerton from an underlying respect for the CIA of “racial profiling,” an American his intelligence service for that stretched back to the 1960s. scientist of Chinese extraction was exaggerating Confederate strength. For in 1969 the future president, falsely accused of betraying the Eighty years later, British Director of then a Rhodes scholar in Oxford, technology of US mini-atom Naval Intelligence Rear Admiral John had appealed to the CIA to help him bombs to Beijing. Godfrey noted that, in all branches avoid military service and possible of US intelligence, there was a exposure to combat in Vietnam. If such racial prejudice prevailed, “predilection for sensationalism.” The request suggests that Clinton what were the hopes for Such evidence is testimony not just was already sold on the agency. international intelligence co- to healthy skepticism, but also to the operation? President Clinton, at enduring nature of the observed The outcome of the post-Cold War least, showed some commitment phenomenon, intelligence hyperbole. intelligence debate may to a certain to this principle. He issued a extent be summed up as the directive promising that the United The wiles of the confidence man reward of failure. For example, in States would “share information, have left a deep imprint on US January 2000, the National Security as appropriate, while ensuring full intelligence history. His success Agency’s computers crashed and protection of sources and methods.” stems in good measure from a America had to rely on GCHQ for United Nations peacekeeping cultural tradition. In 1857, Hermann 72 hours. NSA chief Michael V. forces benefited from this. There Melville popularised the concept Hayden said more money would were, however, obstacles to the in his novel The Confidence-Man, fix the problem. Elaborating, he UN’s fulfilment of its potential. a satire on social mores in the era said a lot more money. His One was the abiding belief, within in which Pinkerton achieved fame campaign and those of other the UN, that spying is a dirty as a private detective. Some of expansionists paid off. Although business and that it should not be Melville’s observations could have the Washington Post in May 2000 allowed to contaminate the noble served as a primer for the 1950s reported that the once-again-secret UN dream. There was also strong CIA. For example, the CIA’s Big Lie intelligence budget had increased domestic US opposition to the idea technique relies on the principle for the fifth year in a row, both the of a UN intelligence service. behind Melville’s fictional “World’s House and the Senate intelligence Charity” scam -- if you are going committees concluded that 9/11 stimulated spooky greed to tell a lie, tell the truth most of the intelligence was underfunded. The and provoked a renewed debate time, and then make it a big one. Senate committee said its “number on racial matters. Expansionists The collapse of Communism in one priority was the recapitalisation in the White House and in eastern Europe was at first a boost of the National Security Agency.” Congress blamed the intelligence to the CIA. “Victory” mania took hold lapse on a shortage of money, in America, with the CIA praised Currently, the intelligence thus complementing the work for having helped to overcome the community faces a “political of boosters within the intelligence Soviet Union. More plausibly, one correctness challenge.” This dates community. Others had different could argue that the CIA’s “Health back to 1991, when a CIA “Glass thoughts. National security adviser Alteration Bureau” and other “dirty Ceiling Study” found that 45 per Condoleeza Rice thought a crucial tricks” were a godsend to Soviet cent of the CIA’s female personnel FBI memo warning about Al Qaeda propaganda and prolonged complained of sexual harassment, plans has been missed because Communism’s miserable lifespan. and of being denied promotions. there was “a lot of chatter in the But the problem for the CIA was not In 1995, CIA director John M. system”. This is reminiscent of skepticism about its former mission Deutch promised to “make the historian Roberta Wohstetter’s but the very fact that it was believed glass ceiling the glass floor”. classic interpretation of what – for, if it had accomplished its goal, Meantime, the CIA was showing went wrong at Pearl Harbor: it now seemed sensible to disband it. increasing sensitivity to racial In the parlance of SIGINT, or One factor in the survival of the CIA issues, and a more open attitude Signals Intelligence, intelligence and in its ultimate return to to gays. All this seemed to be cast had failed to distinguish the vital Lessons from the American In teli l gence Co mm unity

21 signals from the noise of millions To lay the surprise assault at the The challenge to the American of daily electronic communications. door of the CIA and the rest of the intelligence community must be Or in the today’s parlance, US intelligence community is, however, understood in a context of intelligence had plenty of data, problematic. The episode was an expectations. Like the police, who but “had not connected the dots”. attack waiting to happen. No can solve only a minority of crimes amount of moralising about yet still provide a comforting Socially conservative critics saw extremists can undermine the fact illusion of protection and security, another failing in the system, that widespread terrorism reflects intelligence agencies largely have political correctness. They argued a deep-seated sense of injustice – a psychological role to play. that over-sensitive attitudes had the IRA, Irgun, the Mau-Mau and To shower the CIA or the new prevented officials from narrowing Hamas never operated in a vacuum. Department of Homeland Security their lists of terrorists to focus on with tax-payers’ money is to drop young Arab men. But then, there Intelligence agencies cannot, as a pennies into the wishing well – it was the contrasting charge that general rule, predict where and may make you feel better, but only US intelligence was too insular to when the river will burst its banks. if you are superstitious. Money learn about foreign languages and Like generals who are good at cannot buy that quality now cultures. Notoriously, when the CIA fighting the last war, they can urgently needed by American tried to take a leading role in the devise systems to cope with the intelligence, cosmopolitanism. effort to root out the Al Qaeda last surprise attack. But surprise network in Afghanistan and to attack is deliberately non-systemic. How many of these pitfalls has arrest or kill bin Laden, it turned out Pearl Harbor and 9/11 will never British intelligence avoided? that the agency had no capability be repeated. The next nasty In the light of American experience, in Pashto or other local languages surprise may have nothing to do here are some questions that invite – in spite of having helped train with Al Qaeda. It does not take a discussion. Is our intelligence local, Al Qaeda-sustaining Taliban pessimist to conjure up alternative community in the hunt for new fighters in the 1980s. scenarios, now that eight powers jobs now that the Cold War is over? can wage nuclear war and others If so, is that compatible with telling are lining up to emulate them. the truth to the politicians who “task” it, or will job-creation lead to threat-creation? Is it reassuring or otherwise that our spooks are now PR-minded? Will HM Government reward intelligence failure and solicit what the Americans call “intelligence to please”? How appropriate to our security needs are the current ratios of black, brown and yellow personnel in the intelligence agencies?

Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones is Professor of American History at the University of Edinburgh.

The revised, paperback edition of his 2002 book Cloak and Dollar: A History of American Secret Intelligence (Yale University Press) is out in the UK now. THE UNIVERSI TY of EDINBURGH MAGAZINE

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a question of identity the edit I related to Catherine Laughlin’s letter (Edit, volume 3, prize letter issue 2). At least more people know where Scotland is compared to Wales; I'm Welsh-born British and Australian by choice. choosing the right target... British Australians refer to England when they mean Ruth Wishart (Edit, volume 3, issue 2) Britain and may be confused that Wales is a separate country. European, Asian, American and is wrong to consider Euan Blair to be African Australians also don't know where Wales is. educationally privileged because he was In addition, I’ve heard English people referring to “one of the 39%” who went to Bristol Welsh towns as being part of England! Few know University from “the non-state sector”. the difference between Britain, United Kingdom or He attended the London Oratory School, the British Isles. which is a state school in the London I'm becoming less comfortable about the modern Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham. (Australian) use of the terms like ‘ethnic’ and ‘culture’, The Blairs’ home is in a different London because apparently I don't have any of these! borough, so their postcode had nothing Sarah Berry, by email to do with where Euan went to school. If Ms Wishart is attacking privilege, then where is scotland? she must choose the right target. There Catherine Laughlin’s letter, A question of identity, are many parents who do not get their brought a wry smile to my lips. Delving into my offspring into the schools of their choice memories of 40 or more years ago, I remember the in their home borough or in the catchment German girl who told me that she thought the nicest part of England was Scotland. Another, this time elderly, area where they live, so how did the Blairs German, when I remarked to him that I came from manage to get both Euan and his sister Scotland, said: “You fought on our side in the war, didn’t into prestigious state schools in a you?” It turned out that he had confused Scotland with neighbouring borough? Finland. Well, he got the latitude about right. It works both ways. Here in the Netherlands, there Eric Brown (1961-65) are quite a few people with Scots names, like Stuart Lincolnshire or McGillivray and others, sometimes with archaic spellings. I was introduced once to a lady called McGillivray and so I said: “Ah, you are Scots.” The Editor would like to highlight a correction to It turned out that her ancestor had come over here Ruth Wishart's article which stated “Glasgow University in the 16th century, as near as she could make out. actually has more students from down south than does Edinburgh”. This is not the case and we would like to JP Ward, the Netherlands apologise for this error. edit wants to hear your views on the issues raised by contributors. The writer of the most distinctive letter to the next issue will win a prize for their efforts. All letters are welcome and should be addressed to The Editor, edit, Communications & Public Affairs,The University of Edinburgh Centre, 7-11 Nicolson Street, Edinburgh EH8 9BE. letters Email [email protected]

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looking deeper consider the practicalities I thought I would drop a quick note to say I entirely We both did BSc Hons at Edinburgh and have approve of the recently announced changes to always been proud of the University's high admissions policy. I don't know if you are getting any standards. It was especially precious to me to adverse reactions, but as a graduate of the University, go there coming from Zimbabwe. I am extremely pleased to see that you will look deeper I am (still) a Science teacher and Head of Biology than just exam grades when selecting future students. at a comprehensive school and my husband is a Relatively modest grades achieved by students who farmer. Like many of our Edinburgh friends, we have have not had an expensive and intensive education worked hard to send our children to independent may indicate greater talent than straight A grades school to give them the best chance of getting the from someone who has had these benefits. exam results they need to get to Edinburgh and My recollection of the students I met was that very other leading universities. We are the alumni the often the most dedicated were those who had come in University is asking to donate funds and we are the ‘hard way’, especially as mature students. They may shocked and insulted by this policy which is not have had top grades but they benefitted a great discriminatory against our children. Do you not deal from their time at Edinburgh, and enriched the want them because their parents are graduates? University by their presence and experience as well. Please consider the practicalities of the policy to Please don't be talked out of this move by people real people, and what is said in Ruth Wishart’s or groups with vested interests. article, which looks superficially so politically correct. Archie Flockhart, by email I have taken down the posters advertising Edinburgh always displayed round my laboratory and will not an encouraging liaison promote it again to my A level students until I have As one Editor to the other, I send congratulations an assurance that Edinburgh welcomes applications on your appointment to Edit. Your questionnaire is from all students whatever their background. an exciting venture which should enable you to initiate Mrs Lucy Lloyd new ideas in response to reader demand. Wearing my graduate’s hat I will complete my own copy. it’s all in the delivery I note that you publish twice a year. Perhaps readers Dr Sandeman’s letter (Edit, volume 3, issue 2) would be interested to note that our Association brought back memories. I too was in the Usher Hall publish the Edinburgh University Journal twice yearly. when Alistair Sim charmed and cheerfully controlled We actively encourage liaison between Edit and us all. If I remember correctly his topic was ‘Words’. the Association. The written text didn’t amount to much but his Valerie D Robertson BEd MEd delivery and personality made it seem as if his Editor, EU Journal message was profound.

RM Strang, BSc [For.]1950, PhD [London]1965. THE UNIVERSI TY of EDINBURGH MAGAZINE

24 Clubs and Reunions

Edinburgh at the heart of Europe Edinburgh University Brussels Society launches with a bang

Smiles all round for the launch of EUBS: including Gabriel Goldberg (far left), Donald MacInnes (third from the left), Gavin Hewitt (third from the right) and Simon Zekaria (second from the right)

The University of Edinburgh and Ambassador to Belgium, Gavin “We wanted to recreate the Brussels appear from many Hewitt, gave warm speeches fantastic spirit we were fortunate perspectives to be a match made in (liberally garnished with true Scottish to experience,” said Zekaria at the heaven. A renowned university with humour) at the reception, before launch. Goldberg also added that worldwide reputation for excellence, the evening was rounded off it is a society aiming for an active and a broad expatriate community with a vigorous ceilidh – hastily membership. “Everybody who in a city driving change at the heart choreographed to (near) perfection wants to actively contribute to of Europe. after two days rehearsal! EUBS development will be able to participate and help the society On 26th June 2003, the two came EUBS is a society hoping to tap into at some level,” he said. together in one place and one time. the considerable links of Brussels, It is fortunate that the launch of After months of fact-finding and as political capital of the EU, to the society coincides with one correspondence, Edinburgh alumni connect the University to the city of the most influential and dynamic Gabriel Goldberg and Simon Zekaria and to Europe. It is a non-political, periods in Scottish political history. co-organised, under the patronage open-forum society based on the Devolution and the creation of the of Scotland Europa, the launch sharing of ideas and the liberal new, avant-garde Scottish Parliament of Edinburgh University Brussels learning for which the University at Holyrood is bringing Scotland Society (EUBS) at Scotland House is famous. Through partnership into a new and brave political reality in Brussels. The event was a great with other Scottish associations, – and it is a reality shaping the success, with over 80 graduates Goldberg and Zekaria – joined by nation’s place in Europe. of all ages and backgrounds, alumna Claire Schonbach – hope from sectors including industry, to organise events, public debates Watch out for EUBS events – journalism, consultancy, government and lectures to promote the and if Edinburgh alumni ever find and law, coming from far and wide University’s position and Scotland’s themselves in the Belgian capital, all over Belgium to share drinks and place in Europe. Not forgetting of be sure to check us out and share memories of the Scottish capital. course the many social meetings, a couple of the nation’s famous beers with us..! Donald MacInnes, Chief Executive where the alumni can be found in the of Scotland Europa, and British many fine watering-holes of the city! Simon Zekaria, MA 2001 to y The possibilitiesare endlessandlimited onlyby or midweek? Evening, allday orfullweekend? facilitiesUniversity orsomeone'shome?Weekend Edinburgh? London?Paris? Town orcountry? t v about the date, asitwillinfluencethe typeof Choose aDate, Time&Venue Get Started aReunionOrganising –abriefguide Tel Longniddry, EastLothian EH320SB CockleSquare,Ashrig, Aberlady, Contact 5th July2004,OldCollege,Edinburgh 1 Tel Broxburn, West Lothian EH525PB Birdsmill House,Birdsmill, Contact of Physicians Edinburgh &Surgeons, 28th-29th May2004,Royal Colleges 1954 Tel EastLothian EH394QY Berwick, 8 MacnairAvenue, North Contact Edinburgh of Surgeons, 5th July2004,Royal College 1944 Email Saskatchewan, S9A0T3,Canada 521 100th Battleford, North Street, 27 Contact Canada Banff, 7th-9th September 2004, 1 Email Contact v September/October 2004, 1 Email Glenrothes KY76PX Milton House,Milton ofBalgonie, Contact Summer 2005,Edinburgh 1 hings asschoolholidays into consideration. enues available; also,you may have to take such our budgetandyour ambition. enue tbc 956 Classics 959 MBChB 956/57 3 Chemistry

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26 Calling former members...

Calling all former University musicians...

Were you a member of the University Wind Ensemble (now Wind Band) in its earlier days? Old Blowers, the alumni association of Edinburgh University Wind Band, aims to put former band musicians in Children’s contact to organise re-union events and catalogue the Holiday Venture history of the band to date. In order to celebrate 40 years of a short history of the early CHV, past members were this year years and is looking at ways of invited to join the current students expanding this and of supporting at their Annual Ball. Two tables of the present group. We are also alumni attended and were made exploring alumni website to feel very welcome. We were possibilities. greatly impressed by the If you have received a CHV organisation, the dedication and, questionnaire, please return it! above all, the professionalism of If you were a member of CHV today's society members, but we and would like to be in touch, were totally unprepared for the please contact May Cruickshank amount of interest expressed in (née Meiklejohn), 20 Alnwickhill learning about the society’s history. The band itself, now its 22nd Gardens, Edinburgh, EH16 6NF. There gradually dawned the slightly year, continues to thrive with Tel: 0131 664 7909 or email uncomfortable realisation that we over 100 members, two annual [email protected]. were the history! Following the ball, concerts and an annual a small local group has completed overseas tour! (most recently to Dublin). We are very interested in learning about the band’s previous members and exploits Edinburgh Global and look forward to hearing Partnerships from our former players. Visit www.oldblowers.org for E.G.P, formerly H.E.L.P (Scotland), have. If you would be interested further information. is currently working to set up an in joining our alumni and receiving Pictured: Edinburgh University Wind alumni club for past volunteers, our newsletter please send your Band - Museum of Scotland Concert, hoping to inform you of our details to: EGP, 60 The Pleasance, Easter 2003 (prior to Dublin tour) development as an organisation Edinburgh, EH8 9TJ. and to hear any feedback you may Fo 0207 221 6861 (evening andweekend). 0207 307 5630(day), r above shouldcontactRosalind Topping: Those wishingto attend either ofthe Cost: £36per head 6.30pm for 7.00pm P St Fr Burns Supper2004 University Edinburgh ca west Victoria, Paddington andvarious points th Cost to beshared onanagreed basisat tie are required into for the Club. entry in the barat7.30pm for 8pm.Jacket and Caledonian Club.Noneedto Meet book. are invitedAll members to dineatthe St Caledonian Club,9Halkin in each quarter Thursday ofthe lastmonthFirst Dinner Quarterly to on aclearday, views that stretch 25miles churches, palacesandmonumentsand, ontheperspective capital’s famous streets, t of the structures in mostvisuallystriking on the LondonEye. Aswell asbeingone there theDuring afternoon willbeaflight th willenjoyCouncil andClubmembers and hopesthat those attending General meeting andlunchon26June2004 a programme ofevents to follow the chosen to meetinLondon.Itisorganising is delighted that the GeneralCouncilhas ClubofLondon The EdinburghUniversity of London Club Edinburgh University be available induecourse. Details ofbookingarrangementswill f In the evening, there willbea dinner t formed over 800workscomprises ofart buildings.Thecollection century finestandlargest18th one ofthe country’s housed innewly-restored House, Somerset t Those whowould prefer willbeableto visit or everybody atanearby venue.or everybody he world, the anew LondonEye offers he past 35 years by Sir Arthur Gilbert. byhe past35years SirArthur Collection.Thisisbeautifully he Gilbert [email protected], ont Street, London, SW1 ont Street, e endofthe evening. Transport to

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ypani, aGreek composerandconductor, share auniqueexperience ofartistic motswe andTheNo.1Ladies’ Detective ency, willgive the after-lunch address. rkshop willbe conducted by Dimitra ax: 0131 6502239 ebsite: www.dev.ed.ac.uk r further information on r further l: 0131 6502240 Chambers Street, Street, Chambers 27 informed THE UNIVERSI TY of EDINBURGH MAGAZINE

28 Scholarship profile

New scholarship Student Profile

for China Name ‘Jacky’ Jianrong Chen

Students from China can now Age 25 benefit from a scholarship initiative Previous occupation Software engineer funded by alumni in Hong Kong, working on government commercial and supported by the Edinburgh administration systems including e-commerce University Association (Hong Kong). The scholarship, awarded Born and Brought up Guangzhou, China annually, provides assistance What made you choose The University of Edinburgh? towards the fees of a one-year I decided that I wanted to develop expertise in parallel computing. I did some postgraduate course. research and discovered that Edinburgh is one of the best places in the world to Only residents of China (minimum study the subject. The Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre (EPCC) has one of the biggest supercomputers in the world. It was important to me to find a university three years) are eligible to apply offering a combination of academic, practical and commercial aspects of the for the award, which is offered on subject, with expertise in all these areas – which Edinburgh does. a competitive basis to students What difference has the scholarship made to you? of outstanding merit and research Coming from China, it is expensive to study in Edinburgh. It is fantastic that my potential. fees are paid for me as this cuts my expenses by half and makes things a lot easier for me financially. I was really lucky to get the scholarship as I had to The first student to benefit from compete against a lot of good candidates. the scholarship, Sandy Lai, recently How will you benefit from doing the course when you go back? completed an MSc in Computer I think that having studied at one of the top universities for Informatics will be a Science and has now returned major selling point on my CV when I go back home. Edinburgh is a leader in the home to start a new job in Hong field of grid technology, the successor to the internet. I will be able to bring new Kong. The most recent student to skills in this latest technology back to China and I’m sure this will greatly improve take up the scholarship is Jianrong my career prospects. Chen (right). What are your first impressions of Edinburgh? I think Edinburgh is one of the most beautiful cities I’ve ever seen. I’ve only been here for a month, but I’m really enjoying the life here. The people are very friendly too. It is very different culturally from China so it’s a totally new experience for me. I would highly recommend it.

More legacy pledgers join Carlyle Circle New way to give More and more alumni and friends are pledging You can now give on-line to The Edinburgh legacies to the University. With 70 new pledges in the last Campaign by logging on to www.enlighten.ed.ac.uk year, membership of the Carlyle Circle, which recognises legacy pledgers, has now reached 500. All members Prize Draw receive regular invitations to University lectures and Please help us update your details. We are currently events as a thank you for their support. Anyone interested updating our database of alumni to make sure that we in leaving a legacy should contact Martin Hayman on keep you informed of the latest news and the services 0131 650 2240 or email [email protected] we can offer to help you to stay in touch with old friends. Fill in your details using the enclosed questionnaire and you will be entered in a prize draw, with the lucky winners receiving a case of champagne donated by Great Grog www.greatgrog.co.uk Looking back to the future informed 29

With a long history that It is for that reason that as a Union We have been working with the stretches back to 1889, we value our life members. I know General Council to offer more and that many of you will already be life better facilities to our life members. The Edinburgh University members and I would like to invite We are also looking at ways of Union is a place where you back, be it for a drink in the improving communication with our many of you will have Union bar to see what has changed life members through the channels or perhaps for your wedding, as of the General Council. This is an spent time during your many have done before. All four opportunity that I hope to be able student years. As a past Unions are available for life to tell you more about in the future. members; this includes the sports student of Edinburgh you If you would like to know more facilities at Kings Buildings, the about life membership of the are also a past member Nightclub at Potterrow, the Cabaret Union, please write to me at the Bar at Pleasance or the wide variety of the Union. I hope it has Potterrow Students Centre, of facilities in Teviot Row House. a place in the hearts and 5/2 Bristo Square, Edinburgh, minds of many of you, The Union also benefits from the EH8 9AL. You can also email experience of our life members with [email protected] or telephone as it does in mine. representation on the Committee of us on 0131 650 2649 for more I once spoke to a student whose Management and the Finance information. father had been at Edinburgh. He Committee. These committee showed me the board in Teviot’s members offer a range of expertise Sportsman’s Bar, with the names of and experience that is often not Neil Benny all the winners of the historic boat available in the student body. Vice President Services 2003-04 race drinking competition, and said “that was my dad’s team”. Even if it is ability at speed drinking we all leave our own mark on the Union. THE UNIVERSI TY of EDINBURGH MAGAZINE

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Abbreviations NGU - non-graduating undergraduate JYA - junior year abroad

1930s Mrs Gabrielle Fraser née Holt-Wilson MA 1954 Runs Dr Sonia Wolfe-Coote née Fitch BSc 1962 Past retirement Professor William Watt MA 1930 PhD 1944 Book published the only U3A Portuguese Group in the UK. age but still working full-time and currently editing a book by Routledge, London, in March 2002 entitled ‘A Christian Mrs Mary C Fraser MBE née Hiddleston MA 1954 BEd 1956 on 'The Laboratory Primate' for Academic Press/Elsevier. Faith for Today’. Truly enjoying retirement after over 40 years in teaching. Would love to hear from any of the old crowd: David Young, David Maule, Ruth Ellis, Jane Brown, Marjorie Smith et al. Mrs Jean Gilliland née Matthew BCom 1936 Awarded Mr Archibald Macpherson LLB 1954 Currently writing a Certificate of Higher Education from the Department novel about Scots POWs in Germany in WWII, in Gaelic. Dr Ian Campbell BSc 1963 Recently retired as Director of of Continuing Education, University of Oxford in March Undergraduate Programme, School of Environment, Mrs June F Moody-Stuart née Birkett MA 1954 Recently University of Leeds. 2003 at age of 87. completed editing and annotating the letters of General Rev James M Ritchie MA 1936 BD 1950 Awarded MPhil Robert Stuart (East India Company) to Henry Dundas, Dr Hamish Long BSc 1963 PhD 1966 Retirement activities in July 2003 at age of 86. later Viscount Melville, written between 1755 and 1799. include: Handicap Secretary for Castle Par GC; playing the Clarsach; church bell ringing in St Mary's, Haddington; Tai Rev Dr Ian M Fraser MA 1939 BD 1942 Book published Dr Robert Smith BSc 1954 Finally moved back to Scotland Chi; and learning Gaelic. by Action of Churches Together in Scotland in January after 43 years working in England. Dr Niall O’Loughlin MA 1963 Director of the Arts Centre, 2003 entitled ‘Ecumenical Adventure’. Also ‘One Body, Dr Derek Anderson MB ChB 1955 Awarded FIMC Many Cells’ published by the World Council of Churches. Loughborough University. Book published recently on 20th by RCSEd in September 2002. century Slovenian music, ‘Novejsi glasba v's Sloveniji’. Mr Thomas Hamilton MB ChB 1956 PhD 1968 Awarded 1940s Mr Douglas Addison BArch 1964 Retired, which means Centenery Medal for services to Australian community as more time for cruising, painting and golf. Has sailed his Mr John Molloy MA 1940 Awarded the International Poet Chairman of St John Ambulance (WA) Services. Ketch to France and Spain. Are there any other sailing of Merit award 2002. Two poems entitled ‘Mayhem in Mr Dennis Chisholm BSc 1957 Reader in Church of Scotland alumni in Dorset? Manhattan’ and ‘Enemy Alien’ were listed in Best Poems and volunteer with HIV/AIDS related organisations including and Poets of 2001 and 2002 books respectively. Mr Christopher Cumming BSc 1964 Dip 1965 Retired. Project Mercury in Dumfries and Waverley Care in Edinburgh. Busy with short term consultancy work in the Indian Dr H John Powell MB ChB 1941 ‘Scalpel and Spanner Mrs Kathleen C Fitch née Goldsack MA 1957 Member of Sub-Continent and catching up with reading. – A Doctor Remembers’ published September 2003. Board of Visitors at the Yarl's Wood Immigration Removal Dr Alexander Davison BSc 1964 MB ChB 1966 Retired as All proceeds to the Methodist Rescue & Development Centre, which has been recently reopened after a Funds and Nigerian Healthcare Project. Consultant Renal Physician, St James’s University Hospital disastrous riot and fire. Leeds in August 2002. Former President of the European Mr Alan J Lees MA 1949 LLB 1951 Devotes spare time Dr Thomas Scott MB ChB 1957 Moved to Adelaide to be Renal Association (EDTA). to music, performing, orchestral conducting and composing. close to daughters. Has 10 grandchlidren - 6 boys and 4 girls. Has been fortunate to have a number of compositions Rev Shirley A Fraser MA 1964 BD 1990 Works part-time published in the UK and USA. Mrs Irene Graham née Martin BCom 1958 Involved in with Friends International, encouraging churches to welcome voluntary work including School Governor and Chairman the growing number of international students in Edinburgh. Rev Dr John Mackenzie MA 1949 BD 1952 Completed for of Appeals Panels for Essex CC and Aberdeenshire CC. Dr Carola Hicks née Brown MA 1964 PhD 1968 Biography publication in 2003, ‘When Stars and Stripes Met Hammer Has 3 grown up children and one grandson. and Sickle’ published in hardback in 2001 and paperback in 2002 of Dr Margaret Abel MB ChB 1958 Worked professionally in the artist Lady Di Beauclerk (an ancestress of the Princess Mr Alexander MacNab MA 1949 Would like to set up a South Africa (Eastern Cape and Kwazulu Natal). Time now of Wales) entitled ‘Improper Pursuits’. network as an alternative to a class reunion. Would love shared between caring for elderly parents, being on hand to hear from anyone who graduated with Hons MA in Professor John MacKinnon MA 1965 Book published for grandchildren and occasional brief turns in Kwazulu by Farleigh Dickinson University Press, in 2002, entitled Geography 1947-1949. Contact details: Kildun Farm, Natal rural hospitals. Dingwall, Ross-shire, IV15 9TR ‘Love, Tears & the Male Spectator’. Mr James Noble MA 1958 Chair, Tweeddale Sports Council. Mrs Leila Moshiri née Naghavi MA 1965 Retired and 1950s Rev Dr Holmes Rolston PhD 1958 Awarded Hon DL May working from home as a freelance translator; dividing 2002, Davidson College, NC. Recipient of the Templeton time between UK and second home in France with trips Dr William Birch MB ChB 1950 Recently celebrated Golden Prize, 2003. to Iran and other parts of the world in between. Wedding with Winifred A Lloyd LRCPyS Edin 1950. Chairman of the Oxfordshire Alzheimer’s Society Branch. Mr John Wild BDS 1965 Elected Chairman of the District 1960s Courts Association which represents Scottish Justices. Mr Charles D Cooke 1950 Still pottering in his workshop - working as a technical volunteer with Technical Aid to Mrs Euphemia P Lee née McGonigal MA 1960 moved with Miss Judith Williams MA 1965 Recently retired and hopes the Disabled, the only veterinarian on the team! husband, Robin, to Jamaica 4 years ago. Now mainly involved to use time for travel and resume drawing/painting as in teaching ESL at University of West Indies and privately. well as see more of her friends. Mrs Janet D Buchanan-Smith CBE née Lawrie MA 1951 Given up active farming owing to difficulties in the industry. Mr David Robbie MA 1960 Retired and living happily Mrs Christina M Caba née Fitz Roy BSc 1966 English Still active politically and fundraises for handicapped adult with wife, Ann, in Staffordshire, pursuing leisure interests Instructor at Izmir University of Economics, a new private and child organisations. in history (local and family) and horticulture, and being university in Turkey that teaches all its subjects in English. an active father and grandfather. Mrs Carol E Jeffrey née Wilson BSc 1951 since retiring has Mrs Elspeth A Cummings née Fraser MA (SS) 1966 Retired been travelling, mainly to Uganda, Kenya, South Africa, Tunisia Mr Norman Achilles MA 1961 Retired from US Dept of teacher. Now a JP, Lay Magistrate, Board of Visitors HMP & Egypt and in 2003 visited Lesotho, Botswana & Namibia. State after 30 yrs as Diplomat concentrating on US-Asia Maghaberry and SCF Schools Speaker. issues. Visiting Fellow at Princeton and equivalent at Mr Alexander R Cram BSc 1952 Semi-retired from own Sciences PO in Paris. forestry consultancy firm. Demitted appointment in 2002 with Army Cadet Force as Hon Colonel of the 2nd Bn Dr Raufu Balogun BSc 1961 BSc 1962 Recently retired The Highlanders ACF but still chairs the Reserve Forces from Oberfemi Awolowd University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria as & Cadets shooting competition. Professor of Zoology. Dr William Munro MB ChB 1952 Dip 1962 Continues Dr Rosemary Booth née Fraser MB ChB 1961 Semi-retired. to run seminars on stress prevention and management Enjoying continuing working as a Counsellor attached to in the public and private sectors. two general practices and occasional facilitator of medical students' group. Mr J Fraser Oliver MA 1952 Honorary Secretary of the Edinburgh Spanish Circle, which celebrated its Dr David Clegg MB ChB 1962 DTM&H 1966 Recently 70th Anniversary last year. visited Zambia to volunteer at a rural hospital. Dr Edward Tod JP OBE MB ChB 1952 Still editing medical Professor Donald Gillies MA 1962 Professor Emeritus journals, appearing in civil actions as an expert witness and and Adjunct Professor, School of Graduate Studies, part-time Chief Executive of Association of Primary Care Trusts. Ryerson University. Associate Director of Graduate Program in Communication and Culture. Professor Michael Banton C.M.G. PhD 1954 DSc 1964 Dr David B Stevens MBE MB ChB 1969 Still nuts Author of ‘The International Politics of Race’ 2002. Mr Leslie T Whyte BSc 1962 After retiring moved to about motorbikes. Awarded an MBE in June 03 for Burgundy, France. Lives in a renovated fermette 30 minutes services to motorsport medicine on the Isle of Man. Mr David G Blair MA 1954 Currently engaged in writing from Chablis and other notable Burgundy wine villages. reflections, lessons learnt and pointers for the future. and actingin anindependentfull-length film. in Washington DCarea. producing Currently writing, Wilner Dr Geoffrey Scotland inathletics,following footsteps. herfather’s happyshenowrepresents wife did)andparticularly his daughter graduated from Edinburgh (asheandhis train andtutor Veterans Athletics Competition. Delighted timeto busyinbusiness butfinds professionally very Mr AndrewGWebb andTheWest’.Jefferson annual symposium,thisyear onthetopic ‘Thomas in ‘SummerontheLawn’, ofVirginia’s theUniversity III Dr Shelton HShort of defence products andnationalnauticalcharts. TauntonHydrographic Office incharge ofproduction Salmon Mr William andSpanish. German r contributor to theOxford Hasalso SpanishDictionary. 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1980s Dr Stuart Paterson MB ChB 1984 Working as a GP contact with a few friends from the Applied Linguistics in sunny Perth (the Australian one). Still mad keen course but would love to hear from others who shared Mrs Barbara A Lee née Millar-Craig BVM&S 1980 onplaying Scottish and Irish traditional music. happy memories of a hectic MSc year in 1988. Recently moved to Wanaka, the most beautiful part of New Zealand. Working part-time in Invercargill to keep Mr Thomas Taylor BSc 1984 Recently joined Apache Professor Dr Dan Shen PhD 1988 Deputy Director, retired husband supplied with essentials like fishing gear!! Design Solutions, a startup in the electronic design Humanities Division, Peking University; Director, Centre automation industry. Married with a 5 year old daughter. for European & American Literatures, Peking University. Mr William McCrae BSc (SS) 1980 Moved to Perth, Australia in August 2001. Not wanting to waste the Professor Patricia S Wu MB ChB 1984 Married to John Ms Evelyn M Simpson MA (SS) 1988 Lives in Zurich, opportunity, we live at the beachfront. Has taken up Lewis (PhD, 1990). 2 daughters - Catriona, 8 and Emma, Switzerland. 2nd child, Callum, born 31st August 2002 surfing and scuba diving. 4. Works as an endocrinologist with Kaiser Permanente (Victoria is now 3). San Diego and on clinical faculty at UCSD. Dr David Francis Urrows MMus 1980 Re-appointed to Mr Martin Sinclair BSc 1988 Life has changed with the teaching staff of Hong Kong Baptist University in Mrs Amanda Lang née Hogg LLB 1985 After 20 years, the arrival of first child, Iain, last March. Now discovering 2001, teaching Composition and Music Analysis. back to full time study! the delights of fatherhood. Mrs Violet Aleco née Nour MSc 1981 Full-time student Dr Mukesh Patel MSc 1985 PhD 1991 MD and CEO Dr Elizabeth Smyth MB ChB 1988 Consultant in breast for a doctoral programme in Nursing at the University at a GIS product company, Setu Cybertech, based in surgery Aberdeen Royal Infirmary. Honorary Senior 32 of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Ahmedabad, India. Remains on Board of Applitech Lecturer in surgery University of Aberdeen. Solution UK Limited. Mrs Jessica Christian Stiller née Christian BA 1981Joint Mr Kamel Ben Abderrazak MSc 1989 Chosen to be Author (with husband, Charles Stiller) of ‘Iona Portrayed: Mr Jayasiri Premaratne MSc 1985 Established a seed responsible for the New Seed Technology Testing The Island Through Artists’ Eyes, 1760-1960’. company and an Agricultural Consultancy firm in Sri Laboratory in the Tunisian central area - Sousse. Lanka named Agrolinks & Landmark Agro Seed. Dr John de Banzie PhD 1981 Appointed Head of Biology Mr Cameron Bishop MA 1989 Recently qualified as Department, Northeastern State University in 2002. Dr Katherine Varvill BSc 1985 Looking after two young a solicitor. Also married Catriona Kay on 11th October children and occasionally spends time wondering what 2003 near Ramsey. Mrs Fiona J Eggelhoefer née Campbell BSc (SS) 1981 to do when they are at school but currently no plans! Has lived in SE Asia for the majority of time since leaving Dr Stephen Donaldson BSc 1989 PhD 1993 Recently Still scuba diving, mountaineering, sailing and travelling. university and spent the last nine years living and working assumed global responsibility for R&D microbiology in Singapore. Mr Peter A Wedderburn BVM&S 1985 Continues to run at Procter & Gamble. a busy companion animal veterinary practice in the Dublin Ms Helen Girran née Lammie MA 1981 Manager Miss Tansy Forrest MLA 1989 Living in Surrey. Working area and resident vet on Irish breakfast television every for Development of Start-up Enterprises at Business as senior landscape architect for Symonds Group. week, which keeps him on his toes. Link in London. Also studying for MSc in Economic Miss Fiona Gemmell MA (SS) 1989 Just completed Development. Married with 5 year old daughter. Ms Tanya D Woolf MA 1985 Married Gus June 2002. a year out back packing in Australia and New Zealand. Mrs Elizabeth G Mackenzie née Nairn BSc 1981 Rev William D Brown BD 1986 Currently Chairman Miss Sheila Graham BSc 1989 Recently returned from Busy travelling to sailing venues around Britain with of Children 1st. 4 years in Australia and currently living in London. two daughters, who represented Team GBR in Tasmania Mrs Lesley George née Meldrum BSc (SS) 1986 Currently for the Mirror World championships. Dr Deborah Kerr BSc (M) 1989 MB ChB 1991 Just in Brazil on an assignment with husband and 15 month returned from 2 year career break accompanying husband Dr Alasdair Brown BSc 1982 PhD 1986 Currently old daughter. who was working in Naples. Now have two children under working as Technical Manager for petroleum engineering Mrs Susan G Miculka MA 1986 Recipient of Amtrak’s four and about to start to look for part-time work. consultancy company based in Houston. 2002 President’s Service & Safety Award in the category Miss Sheena Stone MA (SS) 1989 Started up consulting Mr Goetz Eggelhoefer BCom 1982 Regional Head of Champion of the Rails. This recognizes individuals for business, Stone Marketing and PR, having left Caithness of Global Market for SE Asia, Bank of America. their contribution to enhancing the safety or quality of Glass. Has been based in Singapore for past 9 years. passenger rail services. Mr Nicholas G Woodger BSc 1989 Vet Investigation Officer Mrs Isabel Ortiz-Canavate née Campbell MA 1986 for Veterinary Laboratories Agency. Gained Royal College Currently living in Britain due to husband's job. Started of Pathologists Diploma last year and first child, a girl, MEd in Educational Administration with the Open Keira Louise, born December 2002. University earlier in the year. Mr Philip Sawyer MMus 1986 Organist of St Mary’s 1990s Collegiate Church, Haddington, East Lothian. www.sawyermusic.co.uk Ms Thea Bredie-Aird MSc 1990 Set up Horsham Montessori School in 1996. Grew to full day care Professor George Shepperson CBE Form Prof 1986 in 2001. Converting to Horsham Montessori Ltd this Dr hc 1991 Awarded Honorary Degree of Doctor of year, in preparation for opening second school in 2004. Letters, University of Malawi at Zomba, Malawi. Mr Stephen J Chaundy MA 1990 Married Mariselle Rev Spencer D Shelmire BD 1981 Busy Mr George Apperson MBA 1987 Recently married Martinez at Christ Church Vienna on 26th April. Continues helping to raise funds for suffering Christians Miss Annie Harris Massie of Charlottesville, VA, USA. as principal tenor at the Volksoper, Wien. Will be making in Zimbabwe. He is also fundraising for self-help Currently living in Southeast USA. his debut at the Norwegian Opera, Oslo as Don Ottavio projects for unemployed Christians in Bulgaria. Miss Claudia Harding MB ChB 1987 Married to John, a GP. in “Don Giovanni” February 2004. Appointed as a consultant surgeon in Chester in June 2001. Ms L Friedman-Shedlov JYA 1990 Recently started a new Ms Claudia Ingham MSc 1987 Currently teaches Physical job as an archivist for YMCA of the USA, at the University Mr Nigel A Hawkes MSc 1982 Ordained Deacon, Church Science & Biology at an Arts Magnet School. Also of Minnesota. of England, June 2002 and now serving in 5 rural instructs horseback riding students. If UoE alumni are parishes in Oxfordshire. Mrs Rachel A Greenfield née Spalton BMus 1990 Married in the Portland, Oregon area, she would be interested to Brian with 2 children, James and Letitia and living on a Mrs Pauline Kaye née Waight BSc 1982 Has been in hearing from them. busy dairy farm in Leicestershire. Teaches a thriving music working for the Medical Research Council in The Mr David McGrath MBA 1987 Has set up Sigen Ltd, teaching practice and involved in the community - church Gambia for three years. Scotland's first commercial fuel cell company. organist, parish choir, local primary school. Interested in Mr Narayanan R Unnithan MSc 1982 After retirement, www.regentech.com or www.sigen.co.uk hearing from music graduates 1989-91. engaged in philanthropic activities. Working with a Ms Sarah Newman MA 1987 After a varied career as Rev Matthew Ross LLB 1990 BD 1996 Currently Acting charitable organisation for rehabilitation of children a parliamentary researcher, lobbyist, BBC policy adviser, Depute Clerk to the General Assembly of the Church suffering from cognitive and communicative disorders research director, producer of television programmes of Scotland. like autism, mental retardation, learning disability, etc. and web editor, most recently wrote a microhistory of the Mrs Katharine L Whitear née Banks MA 1990 Currently Mr Robert Vigers MPhil 1982 Established own company, Moorgate area of London. Married with one daughter, living in Germany and working with ‘Youth With A Mission’. SVA Property Auctions Ltd. Currently hold five/six auctions Isabella Alice Wood, born 22 January 2003. Married with 2 children, Amy and Rick. per year. Miss Caroline Russell BCom 1987 Married Mehmet Alguel Mr Christopher Dixon BSc (V) 1991 BVM&S 1992 Along Mrs Irene H Arnold née King MA (SS) 1983 Back in in 2002. with wife, Nicola Halliwell, recently celebrated fifth year the UK after 3 years in the USA with husband's job at Dr Anestis Symeonides PhD 1987 Senior Political Analyst, of own company in Hong Kong and the arrival of their NATO HQ in Norfolk, Virginia. Still married to Bruce with Political Section US Embassy, Athens. Two daughters. second child (Sebastian Joshua Dixon). 3 children - Michael (13), David (12) and Rachel (8). Full time Mum / homemaker, part-time carer. Dr John Cook MA 1988 Provided voice-over commentary, Mr Andrew Flynn BEng 1991 Currently working with sleeve notes and extras for recent DVD release of Director Christian Vision helping to develop its transmission Mr Philip J Coutts MA 1984 Recently appointed Chief Peter Watkins’ famous 1964 BBC film, ‘Culloden’, with the services to its present position as a major international Sub Editor of the Scottish Daily Mail following the closure co-operation of the Director himself (British Film Institute, broadcaster. Married to Tracy (a screenwriter). of Business AM newspaper. January 2003). Co-author of forthcoming study of Watkins’ Mr Daniel R Marsh MA 1991 Working for the Garden and Mrs Margaret Godfrey MA (SS) 1984 Dip 1985 Currently life and career. Leisure Group and living in Draycott, Somerset. Married working with a team of academic support advisers with Mr Andrew J Hanson Dip 1988 Resigned last year as to Caroline and spending most of their time renovating staff and students. Teaching Fellow at Napier University Managing Director of HMZ/Harper Mackay Architects the cottage but always finding time for a beer or two! for a further 5 years and looks forward to developing work and formed Confederate Architects practising in Notting Mr Mark Miller JYA 1991 Lives with girlfriend, Angela and with colleagues recruiting an increasingly diverse group Hill. Elected on to the council of the RIBA Strategic of students. enjoys hiking and mountain biking. Belongs to a Buddhist Planning Group. meditation group. Dr Callum Henderson BSc 1984 PhD 1990 Working with Ms Lisa Miner JYA 1988 Employed as Physician Assistant recovering drug addicts. Completed sponsored cycle Mr Vwiekpamare D Onocha MSc 1991 Director of Ecology in dermatology. Active in Scottish country dancing and in the State Ministry of the Environment, Delta State, Nigeria. across Rwanda to raise £5000 for widows and orphans. step dancing. Mr Jonathan L Lane BSc 1984 Recently joined Harris Dr Elspeth Paterson BSc (M) 1991 MB ChB 1993 Currently Mrs Julia O'Brien née Hall MA 1988 Married to Michael working as a doctor (obs and gynae) in rural Pakistan, Corporation as Quality Manager for their expansion into O'Brien with 1 daughter, Lily, born September 2001. Europe. Lives on Lake Constance, and works in Austria where women's health is very poor. The current world among the mountains. Ms Sarah Ransome MSc 1988 Currently working in the situation makes life very difficult for everyone in the country. Southwest as a reporter/producer for the BBC. Is still in Mr Anastasios Fytizas Mr Anastasios and 2year oldtreasure, Craig. nowlivinginBrighton withwifean FIAin2002, Anita Mr AndrewCunningham with Sapporo International Church later thisyear. S Organisation). OMF International (aninternational Christian Carson Miss Laura Boxtree, andSidgwick&Jackson. 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Mr Anson Martin BEng 1997 Living and working in Mr Taha Barma MA 2001 Started with Schroders Solomon Shanghai, China on a 2-year secondment with Tyco Smith Barney last year with the Energy Markets Team in Electronics as Business Development Manager (Asia). the European Investment Bank. Married Gayle Robertson on 6th September 2003. Miss Lara Baxter BCom 2001 Tax Trainee with Wilkins Ms Emma J McKean MA 1997 Currently teaching Modern Kennedy. Awarded the ATT (Association of Tax Studies at Alloa Academy. Technicians) Lexis Nexis Prize for attaining the highest Dr Laura Miller BSc 1997 Moved to Nebraska, USA for job total mark in its national taxation examination. as post-doctorate for USDA. Got married January 2003. Miss Anna L Bedford MA 2001 PhD scholar and Assistant Mrs Hannah Orr née Smith BVM&S 1997 Hannah & Nigel to the President at St. Mary’s College, Maryland, USA. Orr (MEng 1995) celebrated birth of first child, Samuel Taught a 3rd year undergraduate course at the college Peter Orr on 18th March 2003. Mr Seong Kim MBA 2000 Works for same in the summer – the youngest ever upper-division faculty company as Kevin Oh and Junichi Kogure, to do so, at age 23 years. Marrying Josh Davis at Airth Mr Piers Pepperell BVM&S 1997 Still large animal vet. Castle, Scotland, in December 03. Working on a programme for the BBC combining veterinary General Cologne Re. at LA, Tokyo and Seoul work and country cooking, called ‘From Stable to Table’. branch respectively. It's great experience to Mr Bradford Berger MSc 2001 Recently had a book work with these guys at the same company. published based on his Master’s Thesis ‘Extinction 34 Ms Tracey I Rammell BEng 1997 Became Chartered Dynamics and Evolution of a Survivability-Based Multi-Level Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers in 2002. Food-Web Model’ in Volume 16 of the International Journal Married in February 2002. Divorced in February 2003. Mr Ewan Mcintosh MA 1999 Currently teaching the students of Modern Physics B; with colleague Dr Christopher Boultu Mr Keith J Scott BEng 1997 Currently working in South of tomorrow as a French teacher at Musselburgh Grammar at Heriot-Watt University. School. Engaged to Morgone from Le Haire, France. Wales. Has been married to Lisa for 2 years and they Miss Katherine Eagles MA 2001 Returned to university recently had their first child, Iona. Miss Laura Rennie BSc 1999 Recently returned to study Broadcast Journalism. The course lasts until May Mr Robin Soetermeer BCom 1997 Currently working to university to study veterinary medicine. Direct entry and she has already made her debut on Virgin Radio! into second year. for a German car manufacturer and studying personnel Miss Elizabeth Elliott MA 2001 Currently studying for management. Miss Emma Swainson BSc 1999 Currently a year into a PhD in English Literature at the University. Arabic language training, living in Jordan and attending Mr Thomas M Stengel NGU 1997 Recently moved Miss Anja Fiedler MA 2001 Recently completed an MA to Belgium. the University of Jordan in Amman, prior to a posting in the Middle East with the FCO. in Politics and Administration at the College of Europe Mrs Rachel Armstrong née Fawcett BD 1998 Currently and is now working there as an assistant tutor. working and living in Edinburgh. Married to Simon and Miss Sarah Tweedie BSc 1999 Ran the 2003 London Marathon for MS. Mr Justin Kastner Dip 2001 Recently completed a PhD had beautiful baby boy, Nathan, in July 2001. at the University of Guelph on nineteenth-century food Mr Antoine Bouin NGU 1998 Has been working in Mr Ari Alibhai MA 2000 Recently awarded Bedingfield safety related disputes. Has moved back to the US. Scholarship to finance BVC from Gray’s Inn. Has secured Tanzania for the last 4 years, a wonderful experience Miss Katherine Keen MSc 2001 Marrying Mr Richie but is looking forward to moving to a different country. pupillage which commenced September 2003 with Hollis Whiteman Chalmers. Sands, a graduate of Napier & Heriot Watt Universities, Miss Elizabeth Bramlett MSc 1998 Recently undertook on 8th May 2004. a career change from internet developer to teacher 2000s Miss Mariam Orkodashvili MSc 2001 Lives and works of high school sophmores (age 15-17) at a prestigious in Georgia delivering lectures at Tbilisi State University. private school in the USA. Miss Louise Armitstead MA 2000 Living in London and writing for the business section of the Sunday Times. Mr Panajotis Papadopulo MSc 2001 Has been working Miss Susan Cheyne BSc 1998 Currently in Indonesian in the International Payments Department of Probank Borneo working towards a PhD at Cambridge University, Miss Caroline Aspinwall BSc 2000 Currently living in S.A. in Athens, Greece since June 2002. collecting behavioural, social, ecological and vocal data London whilst undertaking a PhD in microbiology of on gibbons undergoing rehabilitation with a view to photosynthetic prokaryotes at UCL. Miss Rose Astor MA 2002 Living and working in Paris returning them to the wild. for foreseeable future and working on a documentary. Miss Ines Fialho Brandao MA 2000 Graduated from New Currently working for the Bridgeman Art Library. Miss Catherine Cosgrave LLM 1998 Currently on one-year York University in Near Eastern Studies/Museum Studies. leave from work to travel around New Zealand. Returned to Portugal permanently in July 2003. Miss Tamsin Blyth BSc 2002 Won the British Pharmacology Society Award for the best Pharmacology Ms Claire Foullon 1998 Recently worked as a Postdoctoral Ms Rebekah Gronowski née Zerfahs BD 2000 Currently student last year. Now studying Veterinary Medicine. Research Assistant in the Department of Solar Physics, studying for MSc Archaeology at the University. Involved Royal Observatory of Belgium. in local community affairs and wider issues of drugs Dr Jonathan Goulding MSc 1998 In Melbourne from awareness and rehabilitation, disabled access to buildings August, 2003 working in A&E, returning to UK in 2004 and transport and Scottish politics. for Oxford SHO Medicine rotation. Miss Laura Hutchings MA 2000 After graduating, planned Miss Nicola Hendry BSc 1998 Currently working for South and executed a motorbike and sidecar expedition from Ayrshire Council as a Community Education Worker - one London to Beijing via Iran, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan Post Grad Diploma later! Living with Paul and daughter and Kyrgyzstan. Two of team of six were also Edinburgh Kimberley and currently completing out-building project! graduates, Rory Fyfe and Sarah McVittie. Mr Jeremy Hopkins MA 1998 Currently based in Southern Ms Catherine Kane BA 2000 Woman Connect is a Somalia - war-torn and without a government for 12 years. national project working with Women’s organisations in England to provide access to the internet and overall Job is challenging but great fun and extremely interesting. Mr Roberto Righi MSc 1998 Currently working at development of the women’s voluntary sector. Website - the Department of Psychology (UEMG/Funedi). Also Mr Jens Kuderer LLM 1998 Admitted to the Bar (District www.womenconnect.org.uk Court Stuttgart) last year. coordinates a mental health project in Minas Gerais Mr Stephen Marks MA 2000 Now in third year Doctorate (City: Sarzedo). Just started working as a Lecturer in Dr Paola Magrini LLM 1998 Currently Consultant in the on Clinical Psychology Course. Would be happy to be a postgraduate scheme at the same university. RED area of the Department for Innovation & Technology, contacted by undergraduates interested in a career Misses Edinburgh and its people and culture. Italy. Area of expertise: e-government. in clinical psychology. Miss Ruth O'Donnell MA 1998 Currently taking a year's Miss Eleanor Maxwell MA 2000 Selected for Bertelsmann Miss Lauren Brown MA 2002 Currently in Beijing for a sabbatical to improve languages and travel in South America. Fellowship - one of 5 successful candidates worldwide. year to teach English and has joined two fellow University Mrs Sarah Ross née Paxton BD 1998 Completed MTh The Reinherd Mohn Fellowship - enables her to spend of Edinburgh graduates at a school called Guo Mao. (Ministry) and now studying for MSc/Dip Childhood Studies. a year in Europe/Asia/US working on executive project Mr Charles Campbell JYA 2002 Graduated from the Mr Robert J Currie LLM 1999 Assistant Professor at – defined by Chairman + CEO which will be presented University of Chicago in June 2003. to Bertelsmann AG Executive Board. Dalhousie Law School, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Miss Sarah Hart MA 2002 Moved to London, started He and wife Donna now have two children: Meg (3 1/2) Mr Alasdair Mitchell BSc 2000 Recently returned from working for an international development charity and and Katherine (born Jan 03). Rob can be reached at 3-month sabbatical in Whistler, Canada, training to become hopes to apply for a Masters in development studies [email protected]. a snowboard instructor. If anyone even has an inkling to in a few years time. Dr Marcio Fernandes Currently working as a Lecturer do something like that, he can highly recommend it. Change your life. Miss Miranda Lindsay-Fynn BSc 2002 Recently qualified at UNIMEP, a Brazilian University. as RYA Yachtmaster. She crossed the Atlantic in spring Mrs Tatyana Gupta née Tsakounova BCom 1999 Married in Miss Rizana Mohamed Mahroof MPh 2000 Currently 2003 from Cape Town to Martinique via St Helena & March 2002 to Kapir Gupta. Completed PhD Autumn 2003. working on stored-product entomology at the Department Ascension. (5900 nautical miles). She is currently in the of Entomology at Kansas State University. Miss Lisa Haggart MSc 1999 Married Andy Hower on Mediterranean skippering yachts. 28th December 2002 and living in Greenwich, London. Miss Lucy Monhemius BSc 2000 Recently obtanied an MSc Miss Maha Mahyuddin BEd 2002 Currently serving Currently working as a freelance consultant. Andy works in Conservation at UCL. Since then, has worked for the Bat government as payback for scholarship (in Malaysia). in publishing and photography. Conservation Trust, and as a Ranger for two local councils. Would love to return to Edinburgh for future studies. Mrs Dawn Hartmann née Mackay MA 1999 Married Miss Sadie Speers MA 2000 Working in theatre, mainly Mrs Malin Masterton BSc 2002 Currently studying ethics a Canadian on 18th January 2003 and planning to move West End touring venues as a technician/stage manager. for one year so that in January 2004 she can start a PhD to Vancouver in 2004. Plans to use graduate qualification Taking time off to go back to college - has just got back in bioethics in Uppsala. from working in New York. in multi-media. Dr Helen McBreen PhD 2002 Worked as a Research Mr Christopher Johnson MA 1999 Completed first version Mrs Elisabeth Stenhouse née Grant BD 2000 Recently Associate at CCIR before moving to Osaka, Japan to of ten minute video showcase under stage name Ivan accepted as a candidate for ministry in the Church of continue entrepreneurial research with a two year old Inversion and the Headstanding Song in February 2003. Scotland. Japanese start-up, Digital Fashion Ltd, designing cutting Miss Caroline Martin BSc 1999 Currently in Stratford-Upon- Dr Syaiful Anwar PhD 2001 Head of Soil Conservation, edge software for the fashion industry. Exciting job and Avon with the RSC playing Lucy in ‘The Lion, the Witch and Jakarta - closely watches tropical rain forest extraction as fantastic cultural experience. the Wardrobe’. Also appearing in two BBC dramas. extraction without careful operation could cause soil and Miss Gemma Perkins MA 2002 Currently studying for forest degredation and, in turn, dessertification to occur. a PGCE at Jordanhill. 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mpa. Theircommitmentto, andworkfor, meetings with the Principal andthe meetings withthePrincipal 35 billet The General Council will meet in Room Mr Neil R Hynd, BArch 1969, LVO, Mrs Patricia Spark, MA 1953 G175, School of Law, Old College, on FRIAS, FSA Scot Proposed by F Marion Firn, BCom 1963 Saturday 14 February 2004 at 10.30am. Proposed by Peter Freshwater, MA Seconded by Sheena Margaret 1964, MCLIP, FSA Scot Gordon-Rogers, LLB 1968 SUMMARY AGENDA Seconded by Alan M Johnston, MBA 1989 Trained as a medical social worker 1. Result of the Election of Members Currently serving the University Business andwas a VSO in Africa in my youthful of the Business Committee Committee as a co-opted member, I now past. Married, and while bringing up 2. Minutes and Matters Arising from the welcome this opportunity to serve a fully two daughters, recent graduates of 36 Last Meeting of the General Council elected term. My experience within the different universities, I did voluntary held on 28 June 2003 Scottish Executive and other public work interspersed with continuing committees gives me a useful perspective education classes. Latterly, for nine 3. Report of the Business Committee on the University, its development and years, I worked in a hospital community 4. Motion its contribution to Edinburgh city life. care team. 5. Dates of future meetings of the Mr Charles Frederick Yeaman Lawson, Ms Diana Webster, MA 1971, Dip Lib, General Council BSc 1963, CA, FSI MCLIP 6. Presentation by the Principal of Proposed by Neil R Hynd, BArch 1969 Proposed by Ann M Sutherland, MA 1960 the Annual Report of the University Seconded by Alan M Johnston, MBA 1989 Seconded by Muriel J F Smith, BEd 1973 7. Any other competent business Fred Lawson gained scholarship from Worked in EU Library, Royal Scottish 8. Adjournment Cargilfield to Glenalmond. Rescued Charities Museum and National Library of Scotland, Queen after St Andrews kidnap. Started becoming Head of Map Library in 1999 – A full Agenda is given on pages 37 to 39. Lawson Securities. After stockbroking, he the result of six lectures on map history at worked for Coutts, Bahamas. Completed EU inspiring a passion for early maps. With MEET OLD FRIENDS - MAKE NEW FRIENDS: Munros. Stood for Westminster, Holyrood less to juggle as family grows up, I have SATURDAY 14 FEBRUARY 2004 and Europe. Trustee Bield Housing, Editor more time to offer. Rotary Bulletin, learning Spanish, HCEG Mr Ian Wotherspoon, MA 1969, MBA, 10am to 10.30am: Coffee, tea and biscuits golfer. Married to Susan, 2 daughters, PhD, FSA Scot, MCMI in the Moot Court Room, School of Law, 3 grandchildren. Old College Proposed by Peter Freshwater, MA Mr Lorimer David Maurice Mackenzie, 1964, MCLIP, FSA Scot 10.30am: General Council Meeting in Room MA 1964 G175, School of Law, Old College Seconded by Dr Richard S Denison, Proposed by William Alastair Paterson MBChB 1965, FRCGP, DCH, DORCOG After the meeting: Lunch in the Playfair Weatherston, MA 1957 Library Hall (see page 40 and inside of rear A graduate in Scottish Historical Studies, Seconded by A M Bell, BL 1961 cover for details) Ian Wotherspoon has spent much of Thirty-seven years in public service in his life in Asia and the Pacific where he UK and Europe provide me with a large worked in change management and POSTAL ELECTION experience of the diversity and challenges finance. He is now a volunteer manager CANDIDATES FOR POSTAL ELECTION OF of higher education. I still act in an advisory with Barnardo’s Scotland in Edinburgh. MEMBERS OF THE BUSINESS COMMITTEE capacity on enterprise education. I wish to His interests include the University’s put this experience at the disposal of the past and present connections and The following nominations have been University and General Council. received for the election of five members influence abroad. to serve until 31 July 2008: Mr John Geoffrey Sharps, MA 1958, A Voting Paper is enclosed and Dr Frances Dow, MA 1969 BTh, MEd, MLitt, CPsychol, AFBPsS, should be completed and returned FRGS, FRSA in the pre-paid envelope addressed to Proposed by Peter Freshwater, MA Development & Alumni. Please tick the Proposed by James Morrison Noble, 1964, MCLIP, FSA Scot box on the envelope flap to indicate that MA 1958 Seconded by Professor (Emeritus) your Voting Paper is enclosed. Details R E Asher, DLitt 1992, BA, PhD, FRSE, Seconded by John MacArthur, MA 1958 of candidates appear on page 36. FKSA, FRAS Aformer member of the Business Committee, A graduate and member of staff for nearly a life member of the Graduates’ Association, 30 years. I was Dean of Arts and Vice- of the Union, and of the Library, I welcome Principal. I currently serve on the Marshall and pledge my full support for the Court’s Scholarships Commission and the Council commitment to the Nolan Public-Life for the Regulation of Healthcare Standards and Principles (Selflessness, Professionals. I am committed to the Integrity, Objectivity, Accountability, highest academic standards and to Openness, Honesty, and Leadership). fostering the alumni community worldwide. The Convener referred to the w hewarmly behalf ofthemembers, of theUniversity, Tam Dalyell MP, andon meeting to bechaired by thenewRector attention to thefactthatthiswasfirst HedrewCommittee, gave hisreport. Mr Freshwater, Convener oftheBusiness ofthe BusinessCommittee 2.2 Report were2003 approved. The Minutes ofthemeetingon8February 2.1 Minutes Arisingfromthe andMatters meeting withprayer. the Chaplainto theUniversity, opened the The Rev. Russell Fountain,deputisingfor and 65othermembers. Convener oftheBusinessCommittee; General Council;MrPeter BFreshwater, ofthe Dr AnnMatheson,Secretary Medicine; of Medicine&Veterinary Sciences andCommunityHealth,College Sciences,SchoolofClinical Departmental & Reproductive of Division Head ofthe Professorthe Chair; Andrew ACalder, Present: MrTam Dalyell, Rector, in 2. Minutes Arisingfrom andMatters 1. 2004 ON 14 FEBRUARY COUNCIL MEETING THE GENERAL FULL AGENDA FOR 2003 and June/July 2003, alsoavailable andJune/July 2003, 2003 r haddecidedto defer the Public Affairs meetings ofCouncil,Communications& andJune time-scale between theFebruary its designtreatment. Becauseoftheshort the University the University onthesubjectin commended articles Group, atitsMay meeting. TheConvener AdmissionsStrategy of theUniversity's by and hadreceived anexcellent presentation admissions, strategy onstudent University's to The BusinessCommittee hadcontinued 2004. next meetinginFebruary edesign of elcomed himto theGeneralCouncil.

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be heldinthenewconference suite hold aLondon meetinghadbeen February andinLondon onSaturday February February 2004 inEdinburgh were 2004 February General Council General The No.1Ladies’ Plans for holdingthe 37 billet NEW BEGINNINGS The construction on this site has been very Research and the Centre for different in that the Infirmary component Cardiovascular Science, which has a has been constructed as a private finance Wellcome Trust Cardiovascular Research 2.5 Presentation by Professor Andrew initiative, costing £180M. The hospital is Institute. These three have been put A Calder, Head of the Division of owned and run by the Consortium, and together in the belief that these are our Reproductive & Departmental Sciences, the Lothian University Hospitals NHS Trust three stars in the firmament of Edinburgh School of Clinical Sciences and effectively rents the premises from that medicine and research. The Institute is Community Health, College of Medicine Consortium. That has been controversial. costed at £52M, and I am delighted to say & Veterinary Medicine The Chancellor’s Building was built with that not only are we nearly there with the 38 a direct grant of approximately £50M from research fundraising, which has been I am delighted to be able to welcome the Scottish Higher Education Funding principally driven by Professor Sir David you here to Little France to the new Council. In addition, the University has Carter and the past Dean of Faculty, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, our new recently been re-organised into three Professor Colin Bird, but the University has home. If I have a theme for you this Colleges. Our College is the College of given the green light to the construction morning, it is the theme of change. The Medicine & Veterinary Medicine with of the entire Institute as planned. Medical School in Edinburgh is proud to Professor John Savill as the Vice-Principal I hope you will have a chance to enjoy the acknowledge the links in its origins with and Head of College. The Faculty of facilities of the Chancellor’s Building, which the University of Leiden. It was from Medicine has disappeared after 276 years, we think is really a wonderful facility. In the Leiden that four of Herman Boerhaave’s and the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine has foyer there are three splendid portraits of pupils came back to Edinburgh to join disappeared as well. The College is made Sir James Young Simpson, Lord Lister and with Alexander Monro (Primus) to up of four Schools, and there are also four Dr Andrew Duncan, remembered in establish the Medical School in 1726. directorates that cross the Schools. Edinburgh in the context of the Andrew Next month we will have the graduation The very first building to accommodate Duncan Clinic. The commission to create of the first cohort of students who have the Infirmary was in Robertson’s Close, the tapestry, ‘To a Celtic Spirit’, by the been through the new Edinburgh Medical before moving to a purpose-built infirmary artist Alan Davie, with funds from the Curriculum. The philosophy of the new in Thomson’s Yards. This hospital served Morton Trust led to the re-opening of the curriculum is for core knowledge but a for a considerable time until it was Dovecot Studio within Donaldson’s School much greater emphasis on clinical and replaced in 1870 with the Infirmary, for the Deaf. I thought it appropriate to communication skills. with which I am sure we are all familiar, finish my talk by mentioning the tapestry and which we rather sadly parted company Together we have very nearly 1,200 because in a sense it symbolises the with just over a month ago. The Veterinary medical students and more than 500 tapestry of all the different components School was originally a private institution veterinary students, with an additional that come together to form our objectives set up by William Dick in 1832 in St 1,000 postgraduate students in research in medical and veterinary education: the Andrews Square. The University began and taught degrees. In the Research scientists, the clinicians, the laboratory offering degrees in veterinary science Assessment Exercise (RAE) we have technicians and the patients. That tapestry in 1911, and Summerhall was built and continued to enjoy the highest possible is something that we are enormously opened in 1917, with formal affiliation rating, and in the most recent exercise in proud of in Edinburgh. We have a very with the University in 1934, and the 2001, hospital-based clinical medicine got great opportunity to do very good work establishment of the Faculty of the 5* rating, shared with only two other here, and I think that ‘To a Celtic Spirit’ Veterinary Medicine in 1964. medical schools in the UK. So, there is a is quite a good title for this, because In the old Royal Infirmary there was a huge emphasis on research. We take the what we will continue to try and do is to continued need to try to improve the fabric view in Edinburgh that in both medicine embody the great Scottish traditions for and the accommodation. The Infirmary and veterinary medicine we teach these education, for compassion and for service had all sorts of little additions and things clinical subjects in a research-rich to the community. squeezed into every conceivable nook and environment. We now have eight cranny in order to continue to function interdisciplinary research centres, with A full text of Professor Calder’s because there had been a great an annual SHEFC funding budget of just presentation, along with questions and expectation going back decades for over £36M. They form a critical mass of answers, is contained in the Annex a new Royal Infirmary. What did happen properly trained, research-driven clinicians to the Billet. and scientists, who work together in an eventually was the construction of what 2.6 Any other competent business was to be phase 1 of a new Royal integrated way within the clinical setting Infirmary on Lauriston Place, which here in the Royal Infirmary and in the Vet No matters were raised. remains. The Eye Pavilion remains, but School, supported by the very latest 2.7 Adjournment the rest of the site has been sold off. technology. There will also be a new The Motion by the Convener of the The Western General Hospital will continue Institute for Medical Cell Biology here at Business Committee that, for the purpose to be a very important component of the Little France, which will bring together the of considering matters which may be Medical School. The Lauriston Building Centre for Reproductive Biology, which has transmitted to the General Council by the will remain as a Lauriston Clinic, the Eye within it the Medical Research Council University Court or any other business of a Pavilion and, for the time being, the Sick Human Reproductive Sciences Unit, the MRC/University Centre for Inflammation competent nature, the Business Committee Children’s Hospital and Summerhall. be empowered to act on behalf of the objectives oftherevision have been: oftheGeneralCouncil.The 2003) Arrangements’ (February ‘Constitutional Committee hasrevised Section5ofthe Standing advice oftheConstitutional Preamble 4. Motion ofthe BusinessCommittee 3. Report to Council, andthatthismeetingbeadjourned meeting withabenediction. The Rev. Russell Fountainclosedthe Committee, wasapproved. that Ordinance. be amendedwithoutamendmentof OrdinanceNo.198,University andcannot in Section4.4isanextract from Arrangements’ change inthe‘Constitutional Council’s attention isdrawn to afurther A Proposed by theBusinessCommittee tabled atthemeeting. Arrangements’,‘Constitutional allas creation ofanewSection8to the Arrangements’,‘Constitutional andthe the amendmentofSection5 Motion dditional Constitutional Matters

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Before the General Council Lunch on Officers Chairman: His Royal Highness The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, KG, KT Secretary: Ann Matheson, OBE, MA, Dip.Scottish Studies, MLitt, PhD, Hon DLitt 2005 Registrar: Joanna Storrar, BA, MBA, Acting Director of Development and Acting Secretary of the Development Trust ex-officio

General Council Assessors on the University Court: 40 Before the General Council Lunch on Margaret Tait, BSc 2005 28 June 2003, left to right: Robin Blair, MA, LLB 2007 Mr Alan Johnston (Vice-Convener of the Business Committee), Dr Michael Shea, Gavin Scott, BCom, CA, MBA 2007 CVO, DL, who gave the after-lunch address, Mr Tam Dalyell (Rector), Professor Andrew Business Committee: Calder (Head of the Division of Reproductive & Departmental Sciences, School of Clinical Convener: Peter B. Freshwater, MA, MCLIP, FSA Scot 2004 Sciences and Community Health, College of Vice-Convener: Alan Johnston, MBA, CChem, FRSC, CBiol, FIBiol 2004 Medicine & Veterinary Medicine), Mr Peter B Freshwater (Convener of the Business Committee), and Dr Ann Matheson A Convener of Academic Standing Committee: (Secretary of the General Council). John Manson, BSc, MS(Calif), PhD 2004 F Convener of Standing Committee on Finance and Services: The February 2004 Ian Smith, MA, DipMS, MIMIS 2004 General Council Lunch P Convener of Public Affairs Standing Committee: Ann Sutherland, MA 2004 C Convener of Constitutional Standing Committee: Sheila Kirk, BA, LLB 2005

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‘A’ denotes a member of the Academic Standing Committee, ‘C’ a member of the Constitutional Standing Committee, ‘F’ a member of the Standing Committee on Finance and Statistics, and ‘P’ a member of the Public Affairs Standing Committee: Following the statutory meeting, members of the General Council, other Chancellor’s Assessor: alumni, partners, family and friends are The Rt Hon. Lord Cameron of Lochbroom, MA, LLB, QC, FRSE, FRIAS ex officio cordially invited to the General Council C Sir Kenneth Scott, KCVO, CMG, MA 2004 Lunch on Saturday 14 February 2004 in the Playfair Library Hall, Old College. P Neil Hynd, LVO, BArch (co-opted) 2004 Professor Alexander McCall Smith ADavid Burton, BSc 2005 (above) will give the after-lunch address. P Helen Campbell, MA 2005 FT Finlay Marshall, MA, FFA 2005 Tickets at £13 include pre-lunch sherry and a three-course meal in the Playfair F Ian Miller, OBE, LLB 2005 Library Hall. Table wines will be AR E Asher, FRSE, DLitt, BA, PhD 2006 available for purchase. Tickets can P Michael Conway, MA 2006 be obtained from: CRalph Parkinson, MA Geography (Hons) 2006 The General Council Office, CGraham Rule, BA, FRAS, FRSSA, FRMetS, FSA (Scot) 2006 The University of Edinburgh, PRoger Windsor, MBE, MA, BSc, BVM&S, MRCVS 2006 Charles Stewart House, C George Allen, BL 2007 9-16 Chambers Street, FWilliam Bowie, BSc 2007 Edinburgh EH1 1HT A Carole Clarke, MA 2007 If you would like to attend the next AGavin Douglas, RD, QC, MA, LLB 2007 General Council Lunch, please complete F Anne Paterson, BSc 2007 and return the form on the inside of the rear cover no later than Monday Assistant to the Secretary: Jean Gibson 9 February 2004. The February 2004 General Council Lunch

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