Issue 14 . Summer 2008

About Front Court

Front Court is an informal publication produced once a year to keep members Trinity Hall up to date with what is happening in FRONT COURT College and amongst our alumni. If you Cambridge have any suggestions for the next issue (summer 2009), please contact the Editors. All our publications are now available as pdf files from our website: New Discoveries www.trinhall.cam.ac.uk/alumni/publications.asp for the Hall Editors Liz Pentlow On Friday 4th of April, Mr Stuart Johnson, an Jocelyn Poulton employee of the College’s Building and Technical Services Department, began preliminary works for The Development the Aula Bar and new JCR area. As he did so, he and Alumni Office discovered several very important collections of Trinity Hall documents in a ceiling space in the Bursary. Further Cambridge discoveries followed in other parts of the College, CB2 1TJ including stained glass windows commemorating previous Master’s of the College. tel: +44 (0)1223 332567 Dr John Pollard, Fellow Librarian and fax: +44 (0)1223 765157 so we hope as many of you as possible A Northern Event Archivist, writes of the initial finds: email: [email protected] will be able to attend and to bring partners web: www.trinhall.cam.ac.uk/alumni Following the THA’s foray into the and family. Lanercost is just north of the It is my belief that they were placed there by Midlands earlier this year, we are now A69 Carlise-Newcastle road and there is a Bursarial staff some time in the 1970s, judging We would like to thank Kiloran Howard organising an event for those living in great deal to see in the area with Hadrian’s by the dating of other items, like newspapers, (www.kiloranhoward.com) for providing the North of England and the Scottish Wall and the wonderful countryside of undergraduate effects, trunks etc, that were the majority of the photographs used in found with them.The most important items, this publication. Borders (and even further away).The event Cumbria, Northumberland, Dumfries and is planned for Summer/Autumn 2009 Galloway and the Scottish Borders on the including a patent of Philip and Mary dating Don’t forget to sign up to at Lanercost Priory in North Cumbria, doorstep – so it would also make a good from 1558, and others that looked to have www.THAlumni.net, which can also a stone’s throw from Hadrian’s Wall.The start to a weekend in the area for those greatest need of urgent remedial work, were be accessed through the College website. Priory was founded as an Augustinian from further afield. immediately sent to the Cambridge Colleges’ Please use THAlumni.net or the carrier monastery in 1169 and had a somewhat Conservation unit at Corpus.The Philip and chequered and colourful history, including Tickets will cost £15 per person, available sheet of this magazine to let us know about Mary patent, and some of the other documents any changes of address or contact details. a six month period in the early 14th from the Alumni Office next year. with seals, have now been dealt with and century when Edward I and his entourage Dr Chris Angus (TH 1967) came to stay and it became the effective returned to the College, as well as a late 19th seat of English government.The nave century ‘Gate Book’ and a ledger. Remedial of the Priory church still functions as a work will continue on the remaining items. spectacular church for a very rural parish. The Philip and Mary document is by itself One range of the monastic buildings an extraordinarily valuable find. Dr Elizabeth was for many years, home to a branch New, who talks about the manuscript of the Dacre family before becoming a Trinity Hall cataloguing she has undertaken for us later rather magnificent medieval village hall. in this magazine, is an expert on seals and Cambridge Both the hall and the church look out on tells us that few seals survive from their reign the romantic ruins of the rest of the and that the one on our patent is a particularly monastic building. handsome and well-preserved example.

The evening will start at around 6.00pm, A full listing of the discoveries is given on page meeting initially in the church.We are 6 and it is hoped that a display of the finds will then planning drinks and canapés in be arranged in due course. the ruins followed by a buffet supper in the Dacre Hall. During the evening In this issue there will be plenty of opportunity to For information on ordering this Cert no. SA-COC-1527 mingle and catch up with other alumni, first CD recorded on the new ❖ Old Library but there will also be opportunities to organ, available from October 2008, ❖ Model G8 summit explore the Priory and find out a bit visit the Trinity Hall website Designed and printed by ❖ 18 months in the Gardens Cambridge University Press more of its history. It promises to be a (www.trinhall.cam.ac.uk) www.cambridge.org/printing really good evening in a wonderful venue, ❖ Thirty Years On Stained glass window found in a Crescent Room store: the arms of Thomas Geldart ❖ Focus on Afghanistan and heraldic badges of William Bateman and Henry Latham 2 | Trinity Hall College welcomed 2008the In January FELLOWS’ News information processing. information provide anavenue quantum tofault-tolerant emergent collective behaviour thatmay tounravelHis work tries new aspectsof constituents ofasystemare important. interactions between theelementary if and collective properties occurring thecomplexity challenge tounderstand itremains a us, the matterthatsurrounds thebehaviour of scales thatdetermine attheenergy know a ofeverything’ ‘theory Dr William O’Reillythiscalendaryear. DrJanssen willbereplacingof History At Trinity HallandtheFaculty (Germany). inMainz Institute ofEuropean History Fellowshiphe heldatemporary atthe inCambridge tohisarrival Prior Andrews. a postdoctoralresearcher atOxford andSt in theNetherlandsandspenttwo years as Groningen (MA)andLeiden(Doctorate) in DrJanssen studiedhistory centuries. Golden ‘Dutch Age’ trade negotiationswiththeEU. intheir andPacific countries Caribbean hehasbeenassisting African, Recently, policy.also published onEUhumanrights interest thoughhehas isworld tradelaw, academic Hisprimary for fouryears. University ofEdinburgh where hetaught HecomestotheHallfrom the Florence. of the16thand17th systems.While physicists systems.While many-bodycorrelated quantum mechanicsof focusingonthe years, A) inPhysics forthree Research Fellow (Class Dr GunnarMöller, a specialinterest inthe with European history, field ofearlymodern working inthe historian, Dr Janssen isan Fellow-Commoner. Janssen,Dr Geert University Institutein in law attheEuropean and obtainedadoctorate educated inSydney and wasDr Bartels born Staff Fellow inLaw. Dr LorandBartels, metaphor oftheFallinarange 19th Hisnextproject istoinvestigate the itself. as arealm inwhichwe make orhearpoetry their representations ofparadiseespecially examining poetEzraPound, American B poet was ontheIrish YeatsW andthe Histhesis to completehisPhD(Trinity). and thencametotheUKCambridge and completedhismaster’s inSydney degree DrPryor graduated forthree years. English, 2008 asaResearch Fellow (Class A) in Dr SeanPryor joins Trinity HallinOctober from Andrew onpage4. ensemble Choir andofhisown period-instrument Director of both theChandosChamber andMusical Belgium; based in Antwerp, Baroque Consort Conductor oftheEuterpe Principal orchestras worldwide’; instrument Hanover Band ‘one ofthefinestperiod- Andrew is Associate Director ofthe otherpositions, October 2008.Amongst and willbecomeaFellow-Commoner in new 2008 Director ofMusicinFebruary Andrew Arthur trek from Everest BaseCamp about7days 3,500m above sealevel, a Tibetan tradingtown inNepalat Andrew Murray inNamcheBazaar, to thesummitofEverest. whoclimbed Camp andateamofdoctors volunteers whotrekked toEverest Base oxygen levels ataltitudein200healthy studyingadaptationtolow everest.co.uk), Xtreme Everest expedition(www.xtreme- he ledaresearch group ontheCaudwell Lastspring to extreme physiological states. he studieshow andmuscle cellsadapt heart where Development andNeuroscience, ofPhysiology,lecturer intheDepartment isa DrMurray Oxford University. from Natural Sciences(Biological), Murray,Dr Andrew Read more . Britannicus Orpheus joined Trinity Hallasthe Staff Fellow in Fellow inMay 2008. (TH 1957) The RtHonLord Justice Anthony Hooper in1998 undergraduate Nicky cameupto Trinity Hallasan Nicky Reeves Dr Luke Clark Dr Robert Asher 24 September2007 Glen Sharp, Hall witheffectfrom 1October2008– Trinity of elected asFellow-Commoners thefollowing wereGoverning Body, At themostrecent meetingoftheCollege’s of theiracademicachievement. themonthesemarks in congratulating I know you would like tojoinwithme in Computer Architecture. Dr SimonMoore Lectureship intheFacultyofLaw. Johnston, Mr Angus Lectureship intheFacultyofLaw. Dr Matthew Conaglen on theirrecently announcedpromotions: threeable ofourFellows tocongratulate It iswithconsiderable pleasure thatIam Promotions academical year. as StaffFellows attheendof2007–08 Milne Liebling Professor Alison 2007–08 academicalyear. Fleming Professor Colin Austin and Farewell to generally asFallen. conceive theirown work orlanguagemore athowlooking inparticular suchpoets Wallace H Stevens,W – Auden andothers poets– and 20thcentury A CSwinburne, are resigning from theirpositions both retire attheendof was electedasanHonorary Junior from Bursar (for two years) (for three years) (for three years) for his Readership for hisReadership Professor Daunton Martin also forhisSenior for hisSenior and Mr David Dr Drew If you contact detailsfor needany your further pleasecontactthe YearAlumni Office. Rep, Year Repcontact details [email protected] Frank Conley [email protected] Dr TomBigge 1964 [email protected] Dr Edward Pank 1963 [email protected] Colin Hayes 1962 [email protected] Andrew Medlicott 1961 [email protected] Julian Ebsworth 1960 [email protected] Richard Devitt 1959 [email protected] Peter Hill 1958 [email protected] His HonourFreddie Marr-Johnson 1957 [email protected] Michael Shipley 1956 [email protected] Miles Halford 1955 01225 466212 Dominic Brooks 1954 [email protected] John Russell 1953 [email protected] Dr Keith Humphreys 1952 [email protected] His Honour Angus Macdonald 1951 01235 815397 Bob Ely 1950 [email protected] Ian Romer 1949 New Year Repwanted 1948 New Year Repwanted 1947 [email protected] d’Arcy Orders 1940–1946 Miller Dr Robert 1937 [email protected] Bevis Sanford 1936 [email protected] Michael Page 1935 [email protected] Andrew Moore 1984 [email protected] Mrs Cathy Staveley 1983 [email protected] Alan Brinson [email protected] Tim Steele 1982 [email protected] Ms Sarah Webbe 1981 [email protected] Dr GeoffParks 1980 [email protected] Roger McKinlay 1979 [email protected] Christopher Grigg [email protected] Dr FionnaGrigg 1978 [email protected] Mrs LizzieIron [email protected] Andrew Burr 1977 [email protected] Highmore Robert 1976 [email protected] Nick Eastwell 1975 [email protected] Guy Brannan 1974 [email protected] Roy Warden 1973 [email protected] Geoff Gardiner 1972 [email protected] John Ellard 1971 [email protected] Tim Stevenson 1970 [email protected] Simon Jones 1969 [email protected] Poole Henry 1968 [email protected] Dr Chris Angus 1967 [email protected] Williams Martin 1966 [email protected] Sir David Bell 1965 Ne 1987 U [email protected] BradshawDr Harry 1986 G [email protected] Jervis Dr Tim 1986 U [email protected] Jackie Horne 1985 [email protected] Mrs SueZealley [email protected] Kirsten Etheridge 1997 U [email protected] Dr EricBreton 1996 G [email protected] Wilson Mary [email protected] Helen Barraclough 1996 U [email protected] Schroeder Dr Alex 1995 G New Year Repwanted 1995 U [email protected] Dr SarahBarrett-Jones 1994 G [email protected] Alastair Chapman 1994 U [email protected] Mrs LizCohen [email protected] Ms LeeDavidson 1993 U [email protected] Chaz Dheer 1992 U [email protected] Dr MarkField 1991 G New Year Repwanted 1991 U [email protected] Nick Jamieson [email protected] Shrimpton Dr Anna 1990 U [email protected] Pauza Dr Andrew 1989 G [email protected] Johnson Mrs Arwen 1989 U [email protected] Mrs HelenPowell 1988 U [email protected] Ross Cann 1987 G w Year Repwanted [email protected] Rhian Keyse [email protected] Rob Chapman 2005 U [email protected] Aly Pitts 2004 G [email protected] Hannah Mabbutt [email protected] Clare Harris 2004 U [email protected] Ms KrishnaChatterjee 2003 G [email protected] Katja Armstrong [email protected] Helen Scott 2003 U [email protected] Ms Jenny Ifft 2002 G [email protected] Paul Murphy [email protected] James Thomas 2002 U Dr ShufanLin 2001 G [email protected] Fran Denniss [email protected] Ben Rawlings 2001 U [email protected] Kat Biliouri 2000 G [email protected] Jill Goodier [email protected] Anna McKay 2000 U [email protected] Lennon Dr Andrew 1999 G [email protected] Tim Nixon [email protected] Burchell Dr Amy 1999 U [email protected] Dr Marina Terkourafi 1998 G [email protected] Richard Morrison [email protected] Dr LauraJeffery 1998 U [email protected] Dr BentGrøver 1997 G [email protected] Dan Smith 23 | Front Court later than andno withpayment assoonpossible, thiscompleted form Please return Requirements Dietary Email/telephone Address for 1999andearlier. Dinner+B&B£66.70perperson (Dinner£35.00, Name & Year Alumni Office orvisitthewebsite Cheques madepayable contactthe to Foracreditcardform “Trinity Hall Association”. I enclose£ Dressisblack tie/smart will commenceat7pmwithdinner7.30pm. arewelcome toattendtheDinner.The reception Guests (oneperperson) Saturday 27September2008 Dinner TrinityHall AssociationAnnual Reply Slip You submitthisrequestby [email protected] canofcourse you willstillreceive apapercopy asnormal. If you donotrequestanelectroniccopy, My emailaddressis I would like toreceive thefollowing publications by email(pleasetick): download the pdfpublication atyour own convenience. You willbesentanemail containingalinktothepublication onourwebsite andcanthen papercopy.instead ofthetraditional Please letusknow below ifyou would like toreceive electroniccopiesofourpublications, Trinity HallE-Publications ol ie roomsinCollege(£31.70B&B) I would like I willbeaccompaniedby I would like toattendthe Annual Dinner I would like toattendthe THA AGM @6.30pm The Newsletter Front Court/Milestones 17 September, oteAun fieTiiyHl,Cmrde CB21TJ Cambridge, to the Hall, Alumni Office,Trinity Dinner £25.00, Dinner + B&B £56.70 per person for 2000andyounger) Dinner+B&B£56.70perperson Dinner £25.00, Postcode from theMaster from Message odaaei ot hmevs athird, hold academicposts themselves, in conversation.Two ofthosestudentsnow students deep but alsothree ofhisformer ofGraham, colleaguesandfriends former it was good toseenotonly Storey Room, heldsuitably intheGraham afterwards, thedinner now holdsachairatHarvard.At James Cambridge-educated who Wood, was given on30th by the April of English, venture between theCollegeandFaculty asuccessfulcollaborative Storey Lecture, GrahamStorey.The Graham first generations, the outstandingHallfigures ofrecent ofevents of one a series inmemory This year we have in hostedthefirst or atevents they have hosted. invited tojointhemeitherintheirhomes withmany alumniandtohavefriends been we’ve been.We are delightedtohave made been madetofeelmostwelcome wherever between Hallmembers.We ourselves have and heard many timesoflastingfriendships encountered hugeaffectionfortheHall, ofEurope.We Chinaandparts haveUS, oftheworlddifferent parts includingthe to journeys during in touchwithothers welcomed many backtotheHallandbeen we have Sincethen, was already planned. toHongKong atrip the UKandbeyond; forward tomeeting many more alumniin Ilooked Claire, my wife, alumni.With but alsoby anumber of and students, staff notonlyby Fellows, to theCollege, already welcomed metandbeenwarmly Inotedthathad message, In thatfirst reflect at onmy experiences Trinity Hall. itseemsagoodmomentto Four years on, I introduced myself asthenew Master. Autumn 2004editionof onthefrontIn anarticle pageofthe Front Court Edmund de Waal’s Installation intheChapel Fellows stillbetalkingonarangeof left at11pmthatinnoothercollegewould to our Tuesday nightdinnerremarked ashe recentoutstanding young guest Fellows.A we have appointed Over thelastfew years, academic future. that we now continue tobuild onour success across theCollegeanditisimportant help complementandstimulate academic andmusic sport Successinthearts, race. intheboat (TH2002)performance James’ with seen successatUniversityTom level, we have insport, Dr Richard Baker.And will build onthesefoundationslaidby Our new Director ofMusic,Andrew Arthur, andother musical events.student concerts outstanding professional recitals aswell as hasbeenaccompanied by (TH 1980), so generously fundedby Dennis Avery inaugurationoftheorgan, the College.The over thelastfew years inthemusical lifeof This commitmenthasalsobeeninevidence excellence.commitment toartistic andmarktheCollege’s Garden, Fellows’ now inthe from sculptorGeoffrey Clarke, complementthegift to theCollege.These made avery generous donationofpieces Edmund subsequently by thispieceofmusic. setting foroneofEdmund’s works inspired ofGesualdo’sperformance when theChapelwas thevenue forbotha Edmund de Waal’s work atKettle’s Yard inamajorexhibitionof Hall tookpart lastJune TrinityStaying withthearts, hundred inBritain. figures inthearts was thisyear ranked inthetopone first now Director oftheNational Theatre,1974), NicholasHytner(TH of Englishliterature, toknow thatanotherstudent also, delighted, Grahamwould have been potter andauthor. Edmund de isaleading Waal (TH1983), Tenebrae and the the globaleconomy inthetwentieth century. echoes oftheirresearch inmy own work on Ioftenfind politics andsocialsciences. aswell asin mathematics andmedicine, aeronautical engineering, of astrophysics, from colleagueswhowork inthefields Iamcontinually learning the humanities. the sciencesandsocialaswell asin proliferate Connectionsofthissort in ages. inthemiddle Arabic andSpanishpoetry ortoanalysetheconnectionbetween films, ortoappreciate recent French Crusades, theirstudiesofthe either tofurther who are now alllearning Arabic together, Italked toagroup ofFellowsover dinner, Recently connections andtonew ideas. Conversationsway. over thetable leadto issues inananimatedandstimulating Claire tobe andIare bothmostfortunate ofHalllawyersgathering atLincoln’s Inn. 1970s whenwe metrecently atthe ofthe pleasurea great todiscussthecrises be Geoffrey Howe (TH1948)–itwas significant figures inmy final Address will One ofthemost economy since1850. relationship andtheglobal between Britain covering thechanging November 2008, mentioned in2004are completed in to theRoyal SocietythatI Historical thefourPresidential Addresses Meanwhile, provide much-needed support. Scottwhocontinue to and Rosemary and Sally andDr Avery, Walter (TH1969) Dennis anddonors long-established friends delighted toseeLesliepresent alongwith celebration intheSenateHousewe were this year’s University GuildofBenefactors generous from benefaction LeslieChung.At andina but alsoinmakingnew friends resulted notonlyinmeetingoldmembers visitstoHongKong and benefactors.The ofouralumni in thecontinuing support andwe have confidence outstanding advice, markets.We inhaving are fortunate andtheturbulence infinancial and fuel, costsoffood withtherising concern asource ofreal ofcourse, Finances are, Lodge. the momentthey enterthePorters’ made tofeelwelcome andvalued from are andvisitors prepared andpresented; foodiswell appearance oftheCollege; andinternal istaken intheexternal pride completed andrenovations continue apace; building projects have been than ever; Lane andat Wychfield are more attractive gardens at dedication ofitsstaff.The Trinity but alsointhequalityand its Fellows, notonlyin how fortunate Trinity Hallis, I have realised over thelastfouryears just

3 | Front Court 4 | Trinity Hall Dragon Photography work rewards. would comewithsuchrich andthatthehard would besomuch fun, that Trinity Hall backin2004, anticipated, be justasstimulating.We couldnothave will Iamsure, future, dull moment.The withbarely a both Claire andmyself, The lastfouryears have flown by for by thesignificantrole played by theMCR. intellectual exchangeismadeallthericher in UK andtheUS.And Trinity Hallsuch future direction ofhigher educationinthe orthe issuesandclimatechange, green forexample, concerning, level, and graduate atbothundergraduate students, with current I hadwithGeoffrey Howe todiscussions able tomove from conversations suchas terrific start asIembarked start uponafreelance terrific as Acting Precentor at Caius offered mea andmy subsequentappointment scholarship, unique trainingoffered through theorgan together withthe Cambridge, College, atGonville &Caius My own education, of thesedisciplines! Hall whichallows metoutiliseallthree that Inow take upa position at Trinity Ittherefore seemsprovidential and inspired. diversity whichkeeps mebothfocussed itisthis intruth, can bevery demanding, lifestyle management ofthis ‘portfolio’ andwhilstthe meaning inmy life, andequal and teacherallholdgreat keyboard-player activities asaconductor, My withinmyvariety working schedule. I’ve actively striven tomaintain musician, Throughout my career as aprofessional ArthurAndrew of Music New Director h atr&Lr oea icl’ n,March 2008 The Master&Lord Howe atLincoln’s Inn, There andlong-standing are important myresponsibility work asIbegin here. I feelanoverwhelming senseof Hall foryears tocome. formusiciansrare at opportunities Trinity potential –themeanstocreate specialand has provided uswithtremendous College, in order toenhancethemusical lifeofthe givenAvery’s specifically generous donation, Dennis ofcourse, craftsmen inhisfield.And, acknowledged asoneofthiscountry’s finest fromharpsichord Andrew Garlick–widely recently commissionedadouble-manual Collegehasalso and choralsingers.The generations offuture organscholars of the trainingandmusical experience untold value –onewhichwillenhance LundhasprovidedCarsten anassetof new chapel organ by Danishbuilder The recent installation ofanexceptional exciting timesformusic at Trinity Hall. are undoubtedly has beenmade.These commitment where aserious importantly, but perhapseven more already exists, where agenuine enthusiasmformusic atacollege DrRichard Baker, predecessor, apositionfrom myI inherit esteemed environment.collegiate and practicalmusic withinsuchacordial toinfluencebothacademic the opportunity and Ifeelhonoured tohave beengiven plays University, inthelifeofthisgreat Icare deeplyfortherole thatmusic date. very naturalextensionofmy activities to a tome, appointment at Trinity Hallfeels, Somy regularly fortheMusicFaculty. teaching unbroken linkwithCambridge, I’ve alsoenjoyedwork an asaperformer, alongsidemy Sincethistime, career. the College. exciting new chapterinthe musical life of the future relish withgreat aswe enterthis andIlookforwardhere at to Trinity Hall, Director ofMusicandFellow-Commoner totake privilege uppostas It isagreat in Cambridge. a centre ofexcellencefor ‘Early Music’ Hall willdevelop auniquereputation as and itismy hopethat intime,Trinity intoplay at theCollege,and performance my ownto bring specialistfield ofresearch helpme amongstotherthings, This will, Britannicus ensemble period-instrument we shallwelcome theLondon-based 2008, announce thatfrom Michaelmas Term Iamdelightedto With thisinmind, rehearsals. public master-classesand ‘open’ tuition, ofexpert students intheform forour opportunities to create learning istousesuchevents concern My prime standards and raisingmusical expectations. high withtheaimofencouraging concerts to presenting anumber ofprofessional body,Trinity Hallremains committed musical events offered by thestudent Alongside theeclecticprogramme of allowing studentstothrive. watching, pleasure oftaking astepbackand at othertimesitwillinvolve thegreat training, demonstration and ‘hands-on’ throughof my coaching, experience sometimespassingonthebenefit levels, and encouragementonanumber of an overseeing guidance role –offering over whichIassume Music Society, as thechapelchoirandCollege’s such musical traditionsalready inplace, as ‘Ensemble in Residence’. Orpheus my wifeEllen. Imet asmany know, in theStateswhere, Fellow (1970–2008) withjustoneyear off been here ever since asstudent(1965–9)and Icameupin1965andhave my interview: came to I first Trinity Hallin1964for leaving trinityhall David Flemingon Austin Retires Professor Colin be able torepeat years hisforty-three of but itseemsunlikely anyone will Fellows, is notonlyoneofthelongestserving He hehasremained here ever since. world, ofthe parts tovarious trips and lecturing from forapart hisregular research satisfying, College by theriver was clearlymore than Butwhatwas thenavery small in 1965. through Oxford on hisway totheHall passing educated inFranceandEngland, hewas in Born Australia in1941, German. and Greek, of whichhisbestare Latin, has many otherlanguagestohiscredit, but he mother tonguemay beFrench, His Colin Austin isdistinct. fellowship, cosmopolitan Among astrikingly ayu fPsdpu fPla HisOxford papyrus ofPosidippus ofPella. work onthenewly discovered Milan andsubstantial and Menander’s papyri, editionsofEuripides’ , Thesmophoriazusae aneditionof Aristophanes’ notes inLatin), fragments of Ancient Greek Comedy(with multi-volume editionofallthesurviving are the hismostimportant and editions, dozensofarticles connections.Among andinspired linguistic manuscripts, totaldedicationtohis discoveries, by amazing life hasbeencharacterized Hisacademic Professor ofthatsubject. andforthelast10years hehasbeen 1988, became University ReaderinGreek in he young(again atadisgracefully age); a Fellow oftheBritish Academy in1983 Hewas elected succession ofdistinctions. Colin’s academiccareer hasbeena either.Studies ontheday oftheirarrival Fellow would now becomeDirector of nosuch Fellow atthetenderageof24.And –nooneisnowservice elected aResearch Colin Austin &hiswife Mishtu exuberant projects (Iwas responsible forthe forthe Collegeorindulgemyselfcricket in whenIcouldstillplay when Iwas young, Imissthedays effect ontheirlives. thinkthatIhave hadaworthwhile age, onreflection asthey a few ofthematleast, young peopleandIhopethat infuriating, ifsometimes the company ofwonderful, hasbeen Ifreely admit, delight, My great inconceivable whenIwas aFellow. first demanding situationsthelike ofwhichwere which placesmy colleagues inimpossibly move towards theiron cageofbureaucracy theworst hasbeentheinexorable women: significant ofwhichwas theadmissionof thebestandmost I have seenchange, member ofCollegecommittees. bothinthoseroles andasa to contribute spills ofthemallandwhatIhave beenable Senior Ihave enjoyedTutor: and thethrills demieux,Acting faute of Studiesand, Director (1975 todate),Admissions Tutor, In my timeasaFellow Ihave beena Tutor flow longafterhim. but hiswineswillcertainly be retiring, Colinmay which winehasbeenserved. everyfor virtually dinnerinCollegeat infact, and, Gatherings, Reunions,Annual GraduationDinners, Dinners, Matriculation down winesforevery Collegeoccasion– has beenremarkably assiduousinlaying he from lifeasateetotaller, emerging Elected tothatrole whenhewas slowly through hispositionas Wine Steward. member oftheHallsince1973–andthis contact witheveryone whohasbeena hehashadindirect second, ‘morals’.And theirhighstandard of of tongue-in-cheek, withperhaps atouch and, of erudition, theirhighstandard in theSenateHouse: what hewillneedtoclaimontheirbehalf finallypraisingthehappy for faces another, now withonefrom from thisGreek author, now withaparody Fellows) inFront Court, (andadmiring harangue ofthegraduands highlightofhisyearPraelector.The isthe inhisrole as ofdegree, forany sort Hall, with everyone whohasgonethrough the since 1988hehashaddirect contact Colin isdistinctintwo otherways: that hehasventured online. itisonlyvery recently pencil andarubber; hasbeenproducedscholarship witha Mostofhis of theLondonOlympics. edition ofMenanderisdueby thetime and Ithankeveryone andwishthem well. I shallbearound but notunder people’s feet English law. –itwillnotbeabout one thingiscertain Imighteven something but write theatre. inthe particularly more timeinLondon, Iexpecttospend after 30thSeptember. work shop –lookformeintheOxfam hard asever andIcontinue tolookfor Ellenwillwork as soon: ‘downsized’ weWe hope, shallbothberetired and, Fellow refuse totalkanother. Body orcommitteeIhave never known one how strong inGoverning thedisagreement nomatter time hasbeenthelackoffaction; The markoftheFellowship throughout my are intellectuallyflawed –toputitpolitely. decisionsofthehighestcourts notorious to convince law studentsthatcertain inability therecurrent aftersolong, not miss, Ellen andIwere weekly devotees) but Ishall CollegediscothequeasjuniorFellowfirst – rPeter Hutchinson(Fellow) Dr

5 | Front Court Masters in Glass

This short article is by way of a postscript to John Pollard’s account of the excitement of recent ‘findings’ in hidden corners of the Hall. In particular I want to add a few details to John’s descriptions of the panels of stained glass. Information from written archives and from the memory archives of Jonathan Steinberg has already been brought into play in identifying the glass, and no doubt more information will be added as time goes on. The Philip and Mary patent before Conservation As someone carrying out research in the area of stained glass, albeit medieval glass, it was a Archival Discoveries continued particular pleasure for me to learn of the existence of these panels. The surprise discoveries that are mentioned sorting and re-filing the Tutorial records, on the front page include – which have been moved from the Bursary The panels, of high quality work, are basement to more suitable accommodation commemorations of successive Masters of 1. A patent of Philip and Mary dating at Wychfield, has had to be suspended. the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. from 1558 granting the advowson of the They display coats-of-arms of Charles Jenner Huntingdonshire ecclesiastical benefices As if that wasn’t enough, as hinted on the Fust, Henry Sumner Maine,Thomas Charles of Fenstanton, Gazeley, Hemingford, front cover recent weeks have brought Geldart and Edward Anthony Beck, and give Wethersfield and Stukeley to Thomas more discoveries! In the Crescent Room the dates of their office-holding. Since in the Thirlby, Fellow of Trinity Hall and area, a quantity of stained glass (most of case of Beck there is no end date, it is likely Bishop of Ely.According to Warren’s which would appear to have been in the that the glass was installed during his term as Book, he passed them on to the windows of the lecture room which Master which ran from 1902 to 1916. Each College in 1560. occupied the site of the present Reading shield is surrounded by small, beautifully Room of the Jerwood Library) was found painted, heraldic badges of William Bateman 2. Quantities of smaller patents, deeds and and the following week three splendid and Henry Latham.There are two additional leases with seals dating from the late Trinity Hall silk flags on poles with a panels on which are painted, in a more medieval to the early modern period. crescent finial, were discovered.These were elaborate style and in darker colours, the presented to the Trinity Hall Boat Club coats-of-arms of Bateman and Latham. 3. The College ‘Gate Book’, listing in 1927 and experts from the Fitzwilliam undergraduates punished by being Museum have pronounced them to be in The date of the panels and their shape confined to College, which covers remarkably good condition, though a little suggest that they came from the west end the period from the late nineteenth conservation work will need to be carried of Latham Court, previously known as the until the early twentieth century. out.The flags were hung in the Dining Thornton building. Further evidence suggests Hall for Graduation Day and the Reunion that they once formed part of what is now 4. Three Bursary accounts ledgers dating to be enjoyed by all. the ground floor reading room of the present from the1740s. Dr John Pollard College library.This area was originally a lecture hall but was transformed into study 5. Other miscellaneous College records, bedrooms in the early years of the twentieth including grants of modification to century before becoming part of the library. the College Statutes made by the Privy When it became a reading room, window Council during the nineteenth and openings were blocked up, bookshelves twentieth centuries. installed, and the stained glass put into a store-room. It was from there that the 6. Correspondence relating to the gift of College’s Head of Buildings and Services, the Farren painting of ‘Degree Day’, Russell Waller brought the panels to light. now on display in the Porters’ Lodge. David King, a Norwich-based expert in stained 7. A large quantity of more recent Bursarial glass, and Terry Devlin, master glazier, have records, including P.A.Y.E.files from the seen the panels which are now in need of 1960s.The Archives contain very little repair.The process of providing a considered material on the College staff so these at opinion on how best to restore and re-use at least tell us who were members of staff least some of the glass and an estimate of the in that period. cost, is now underway. It is hoped that, funds The Philip and Mary Patent after allowing, the panels can be re-set into suitable The Assistant Archivist, Mrs Margaret Conservation window openings, and former Masters thus

Trinity Hall Trinity Farrar, is busily at work cataloguing the remembered appropriately. Photographs: Mr Melvin Jefferson of the Cambridge Colleges’ | 6 finds, which means that her work on Conservation Consortium Claire Daunton so theCollegetoday isacutelyaware ofthe about thecontinued preservation ofbooks, Just asBatemanwas concerned Trinity Hall. placeinthelifeof holds suchanimportant It iseasytoseewhy theOldLibrary to the18thcentury. regulations relating totheCollegedown books–andadditional library original Bateman’s statutes–includingalistofthe containsacopy ofBishop Statute Book.This istheMaster’s manuscripts most important Oneofthe an oldservant oftheCollege. perhaps lease landtoacertain ‘pensioner’, theFellowsby ElizabethIinstructing to includingalettersigned in theOldLibrary, documents from thearchives are alsokept of St Martin Tours aLifeof Trinity Hall’s oldestmanuscript, skill!)and more enthusiasm thanartistic (although drawn by someone withrather packed withvivid illustrations Philosophy, copy ofBoethius’scentury Consolationof early 15th These includethefamous of somethetreasures housedwithin. andseendisplays undulating floorboards, withitschainedbooksand Library, will no-doubthave enjoyed ofthe tours studentsandstaff Fellows, Many alumni, the of ‘jewelTrinity inthecrown’ Hall. Indeeditisoftenjustifiably termed of years. reaching backoverscholarship hundreds and symbolises acontinuity oflearning sightandonewhich afamiliar Trinity Hall, of sitsattheheart The OldLibrary Manuscripts intheOldManuscripts Library Pages fromthe Past: Master’s StatuteBook rte nc00 Some inc1050. written in theOldLibrary Book More detailedwork onthe proved tobeperhapsthemostfascinating. whichhave manuscripts ‘dull-looking’ neglectedandoften but itisthe formerly interesting, are of course the OldLibrary The finelydecoratedmedieval booksin existed. record manuscripts ofOldLibrary nofull list, from apart atypescript and, typesofbooks these focusedonparticular on-going andtheFitzwilliam Museum’sghost stories) scholaraswellmanuscript asauthorof notably by MRJames (arenowned hadbeencompiled, Hall manuscripts Some earlierlistsandcatalogues of Trinity which hadnever previously beendescribed. anumber of housed intheOldLibrary, andarchivescataloguing allthemanuscripts The initialstageoftheproject involved inearnest. to begin enabled Phase1ofthe in 2007someofthefundsraised April to a Telephone and Campaignlastyear, generosityresponded withcharacteristic them forfuture generations.Alumni andbetterpreserving accessible toscholars booksandarchives more manuscripts, the intentionofmaking Trinity Hall with Special Collectionsand Project, Archives the Collegehaslaunched For thisreason magnificent aninheritance. responsibility aswell ofso asprivilege (which MRJames todescribe) failed Cambridge Illuminations Cambridge Old Library Project Master’s Statute Old Library, rjc,but project, the OldLibrary. find much tointerest himstillpreserved in andhewould nodoubt to value itsbooks, the way inwhichhisCollegecontinues Bishop Batemanwould bepleasedwith Itishopedthat catalogue willfollow. andaprinted within thenextfew months, cataloguing) willbemadeavailable on-line (two beautifulPersian booksawaiting ofthe Descriptions Western manuscripts which deserves tobemore widelyknown. are aremarkablethe OldLibrary collection of themanuscripts law, of 18thcentury Italianadventures20th century by way to hagiography From 10thcentury identity offriends. toprotectchanged hisaccountfurther the notleastbecausehesometimes fascinating, made inpreparation forpublication are theannotations ofthe20thcentury; turn inSicilyatthe recount hisexperiences Jones’s volumesTrinity Hallinthe1870s. whowas at Festing Jones, Henry alumnus, byproof another copiesofbookswritten marked-upto theirspinelabels!)are infact (according Twomanuscripts’ ‘typewritten himself. andilluminatedby Larman written World severalWar, ofwhichwere finely theFirst astudentduring George Larman, of collection donatedby orinmemory includea moreare modern.These far intheOldLibrary Some manuscripts oftheCollegeLibrary’. remote corner may findaplaceinsome . . leave behind. that booksIshall ‘the few manuscript requesting ineachvolume, inscription Hall isevidenced by theratherpoignant to should make acontribution Trinity thattheseunpublished workshis concern and volumes inhisown are hand, written ofDickens’suntil hisdeathin1755.All aFellow from 1705 Dr FrancisDickens, by a collectionoflegaltractswritten with thelaw highlightedby isfurther Trinity Hall’s traditionalconnection interestdoubt beofgreat tolegalscholars. editionofthetextandwillno- modern itisnotcitedina in thepublic domain, but notpreviouslythe pastcentury recorded by theCollegewithin legal text.Acquired copy ofthe medieval isalate13thcentury manuscript exciting after thefounder’s death.Another several decades aspreviously thought, not, exemplar statutessealedby Bateman–and asasetof compiled by thesamescribe has forexampleshown ofitwas thatpart apractical Novae, Narrationes Dr ElizabethNew

7 | Front Court Conferences at Trinity Hall

The Conference & Banqueting Department has undergone some dramatic changes in the past 6 months. The introduction of a computerised booking system has seen the department become the central point for all room bookings in the College. Argent Developments

Artists impression of the King’s Cross development In addition to handling all the booking requirements for Fellows, students and Trinity Hall context and looking at both successes in alumni we are turning our attention to containing it and its problematic rise outside external events. Forum hospital settings in some countries.A diffi- cult, even controversial, subject that elicited Cambridge colleges are enjoying a steady BUILDINGS FEATURED many questions. increase in business for conferences, dining SIGNIFICANTLY IN THE 2007–2008 and social events. Conference Cambridge, If this last year’s series has touched the marketing service representing all TRINITY HALL FORUM SERIES. upon the disciplines of medicine, art, Cambridge colleges processes more than architecture and planning, talks in the 2,000 enquiries per year. 45% of these In October, alumnus, art historian and critic series for 2008–2009 will move to the enquiries are for dining.Trinity Hall is Dr Richard Cork (TH 1965), presented an general areas of economics and politics, well known within the University for its eloquent and beautifully illustrated paper engineering and the law. fine dining, but its reputation is not widely concerning art in hospitals, considering known outside University circles.The both the healing powers of art and its The first in the series, to be held on Conference Office in conjunction with physical presence on walls, enhancing Monday 13 October 2008, will be given the catering team is launching a fine hospital buildings.The paper took a long by Harriet Lamb (TH 1979), Executive dining programme to showcase the perspective, starting with medieval places Director of the Fairtrade Foundation. talents of our kitchens. of healing and ending with new facilities She will be speaking on ‘The Business at St Thomas’s hospital in London. of Fairtrade’. As well as our new booking system it is envisaged that the Conference Office In January, architect and alumnus of our The Lent Term meeting will be held will launch its own website over the next young neighbour Trinity College,Tim on Monday 26 January 2009 and will few months.The majority of corporate Makower, partner in the architectural prac- be given by Dr Chris Williams, currently events are booked via the web and because tice of Allies and Morrison, Peter Bishop, at the University of Bath, who has also of this it is essential to have first page planner and head of Design for London worked for Ove Arup, and will consider Google presence.To achieve this, a and developer Roger Madelin of Argent Engineering as Art and Design. website will be developed to be more Developments, joined forces.They gave a fas- conference specific. cinating account of their collaborative work In Easter Term, on Monday 11 May, on the King’s Cross development.We heard Professor David Feldman, Rouse Ball The facilities that Trinity Hall has about complicated planning negotiations and Professor of English Law in Cambridge to offer make it unique within the learnt about the huge range of issues and and currently chairman of the Law Faculty, college community.The department opinions that had to be taken into account will speak about his work as Judge on the is working closely with Conference when preparing the master plan for the site, Constitutional Court of Bosnia, particularly Cambridge to improve our market especially considering the different types of on matters relating to human rights. presence and establish Trinity Hall as development there. Green issues were also the venue for select events. discussed in some detail. Each brought to the Seminars are open to Fellows, alumni and Alison Walker discussion points from their own academic graduate students of the College and other and professional background.The discussion members of the University, as well as to Alison Walker arrived as Conference & was well chaired by Trinity Hall’s Director interested friends of the College.All take Banqueting Manager at Trinity Hall from of Studies in Architecture, DiHaigh, director place on the second Monday of term and Homerton College, where she had been the of design at Design for London, who was commence at 6.15pm. In each case a small Conference & Accommodation Officer for instrumental in bringing our speakers dinner follows. Places for dinner are strictly 2 years. She is joined by Marcella Blomsma together. It was a memorable evening. limited by space and must be booked well who came to the Conference Office in March in advance. Contact details to register an in a part-time role.To contact Alison or In May, Dr Derek Brown, of the Health interest in attending any of the seminars, Marcella to book guest rooms, dinners, weddings, Protection Agency, based at Addenbrooke’s, and to make a booking, are email etc, email [email protected]

Trinity Hall Trinity gave an admirably clear presentation of [email protected] or phone 01223 332540. | 8 MRSA, the superbug, setting current prob- Claire Daunton lems concerning MRSA in their historical way.We andbetween asked theJCRforhelp, THRUFC captainifwe couldhelpinsome Iasked lastyear’sWhen my dadtoldmethis, out ofthequestion. therefore any money is forleisure andsports spent mainlyonfoodandbasiceducation, money they cangetholdofis charities.Any have much money andhave towork with but they don’t look afterthesechildren, doesthebestthey canto the orphanage was oneproblem forthem.There sport – decidedthatrugbywasand ofcourse the Mydadsaidyes, were living onthestreets. their parents sothey hadlefttheirhomesand kids hadbeenabandonedorwere abused by Mostofthese streets andthe useofdrugs. andkeepdo somesport them coach children from 6to17years oldto toseeifhecouldhelpthem an orphanage hewas contactedby A coupleofyears ago, dedicates hislifetotrainingyoung lads. have passedandheisnow retired and Sincethenmany years rugby inMexico. My dadwas Mexicanever thefirst toplay By CarlosMonroy Aceves (PhDStudent2002) rugbyMexican Trinity Hallhelps Adam Brown UCcahn,animpressive record! CUBC coaching, consecutiverace wastheforty-first year inwhich Donaldhasbeeninvolved with 2008 Donald Leggett(TH1961)helped coachboththeBlueBoatandGoldie.The even iftheresults didn’t go Cambridge’s way thisyear. fantastic achievement proud thattheCollegeshould bevery of, the women.A Stephanie Jacquot(TH2006)and for thethird timeElselijnKingma(TH2004) and withColinScott(TH2003&2007) representing the men, boat races, Three ofourrowers earned placesintheirrespective blueboatsfor thisyear’s Trinity HallintheBlueBoats away from the from away The orphanagerugby teamintheirnew shirts were experiencing. thenegative thingsthatthey from away to lifttheirself-esteemandkeep them are playing very well andthatithashelped Hesaidthatthekids in theirnew shirts. oftheboysmanager andsomephotographs I received anemailfrom theorphanage Now thegoodnews… Isaidyes.course put the andof THRUFC logo onthem, ordered andasked theirshirts ifthey could money tobuy shirts.They themsomerugby clubandtheJCRwethe rugby raised to have andlooked supported afterhim. proud Iamsovery a young boy aged11. been adream of Adam’s sincehewas “T says ofthisachievement – Hisproud mother 100m Freestyle. Great Britainthissummerinthe Adamwillbeswimming for Brown. of Trinity Hall’s SeniorPorter Kim son will be19year old Adam Brown, Taking intheOlympics atBeijing part Beijing Olympics his has for Great Britain. both the RoadCyclingcompetition, Pooley (TH2001)whowillcompetein rowing intheMen’s andEmma IV, whowillbe successful BlueBoat, President oflastyear’s (TH 2002), Also atBeijingwillbe Tom James A dream cometrue.” earlier thanwe ever dreamed isfantastic. andtogetthere 4years dedication, butwell worth Adam’sIt hasbeentough, from Cambridge. is having impactsofar suchagreat It isgoodtoknow that Trinity Hallrugby old kittothem. maybe we cansendthe old oneistooold, rugby clubisbuying new kitbecausethe don’t have tobenew –ifyou know thata andsocksaswell.They get someshorts ball andalsomaybe we canhelpthem they needadecentmatchrugby rugby kit), the photo(inwhichthey are intheirbest you canseefromagain inthefuture.As this possible andIhopewe canhelpthem Thank you toall thosewhohelpedmake amazing achievement! Ithinkthatisan your inasport. country abused by your parents torepresenting being from living onthestreet, nothing, goingfromrugby but absolutely imagine MexicoisnotNew Zealandin Ok, team. have very goodchancestostay inthe two ofthem and according tomy dad, haveU-19s team.They beenshortlisted, 4 ofthemhave beencalledtothenational but even better... news... That isgreat away

9 | Front Court The Cambridge in Bradford, Pennsylvania, and ‘My Saloon’ As well as our hosts themselves, we met in Corfu, near Buffalo – both far enough some great characters along the way. My American off the beaten track to ensure that we were favourite was Father Sean Clerkin, head the first British visitors in years (or perhaps of the Theatre faculty at Erie’s Gannon Stage Tour ever) – and revealing that having a novelty University, and possibly the coolest priest in accent really can get you a lot of free food! America. Prior to our trip he’d encouraged speeding to get there (“just make sure I spent most of my undergraduate years Not all of America’s surprises were so someone else within your sight is going faster running from one rehearsal to another, so endearing – the town of Pigeon-Forge than you”) and responded generously to it came as no surprise to anybody that I in the Smoky Mountains, which reminded our request to sell programmes (“you can decided to put off real life for a while after me of Blackpool but without the sea (ie sell anything short of sex”). Finally he secured graduating by taking part in a theatre tour. people literally sitting in deck-chairs and his place as my new best friend by being I was lucky enough to get a place on the watching cars go by...); gun-counters in the only person to bring a nun to see the 2007 Cambridge American Stage Tour, supermarkets; and of course the driving show – fulfilling a personal ambition of an annual project which sees 16 budding culture – even locals who claimed to adore mine in the process(!) theatremakers embark on an entirely the countryside seemed to know nothing student-run trip around the eastern USA. about how to explore it on foot! But it Nuns aside, my own memories of the trip As Stage Manager I spent August making was all part of the adventure – and any are dominated by the joys and perils of papier maché flowers and emailing venues psychological scars we suffered in Pigeon- being a driver. Only over-21s could be in preparation for our production of The Forge were remedied by the fantastic insured, meaning that three of us took Winter’s Tale. Having packed everything people we met elsewhere.At three of the responsibility for a vehicle each and had into suitcases, on 1st September we venues we stayed with local families, none to drive it the entire way. Despite having a embarked on a month-long adventure, of whom disappointed us. In Nashville, licence I hadn’t driven for over three years, taking the show to schools, universities a 16 year old theatre student produced so was fairly nervous.This got worse before and theatres, with a little bit of leisure a set of car keys (much to our surprise as it got better as the first drive (in a seven- time thrown in as our reward. he looked a good few years younger) and seater beast, on the wrong side of the road) took us back to his family home,‘not far took us into downtown Memphis,‘the This year’s tour started in Tennessee and away’, which turned out to be twenty second most dangerous city in the USA.’ took us northeast through Kentucky, minutes by Interstate. In Maryland our At midnight. Many hairy moments followed Ohio, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts, host was an English Professor who makes as we navigated downtown New York (by before heading south again to New York puppets and stringed instruments in his accident), got forced off the road by cows City, Maryland,Washington DC and finally spare time – fascinating though this was, in Virginia and got lost repeatedly with only into Virginia. Like many foreign visitors, I was relieved not to be the one sleeping Googlemaps print-outs to help us. But we went to BB King’s Blues Bar, Niagara among the grinning wooden clown faces 3,000 miles (and only one very minor Falls and the White House, saw ‘Rent’ in the basement-come-toyshop! And in the bump) later, I was far more confident and on Broadway and bought cheap iPods in tiny village of Washington,Virginia (whose genuinely sad to say goodbye to the car. Wal-Mart. But we also experienced the population is less than the capacity of its vast and beautiful countryside that the theatre), I was accommodated in an 18th Somewhere, amongst all of these States has to offer, and found some hidden century plantation house, with a Real adventures, we were of course putting treasures out in the sticks. Memorable American Porch that became the envy on a show. My role involved helping with stop-offs include ‘Grandma’s Tea Shop’ of the entire travelling company. lighting get-ins, running the technical rehearsal and then (depending on the facilities available) cueing the show itself. The challenge of being in a new venue each day was of course heightened by our eagerness to go and explore rather than spending all of our time rehearsing – and

Photo by Jess Crawford Jess Photo by I believe we rose to this challenge, reducing a tech that took around an hour at the 1 first venue to a record 11 /2 minutes by the end of the tour.The show went really well in most places, although we did wonder how much our audiences knew about Shakespeare when one lady asked the director whether the references to Alice in Wonderland (one of our design influences) had been his idea, or whether they were in the original script….

There was one truly disastrous venue – New York City – where, for reasons beyond Trinity Hall Trinity

| The company in Washington,Virginia our control, the show did not happen. 10 Photo by Emma Caird attend Model G8Summit inJapan Hall studentsTrinity oti h rn,halfoftheminperiod lost intheBronx, involving students, 16poshBritish tour, anecdoteofthewhole the mosthilarious kill –andthishiccupalsoprovides possibly that you have to anunexpectedafternoon worse placestofind however, There are, The company atNiagaraFalls British Delegation atModelG8 delegations have on. agreed whichall to produce afinalcommuniqué, innovative solutions toglobalproblems and challenge ofeachsummitistolookfor shifting eachyear tothehostcountry.The withtheburden oforganisation structure, G8 itdoesnothave administrative aformal Like thereal of theG8negotiatingprocess. year in isanannualYokohama, simulation whichmetthis ModelSummit, Summit.The back inMarch totake intheModelG8 part students from eachoftheG8nationsgathered agroup of the deployment police, ofany riot andwithout With somewhat lessfanfare, initiatives ornot. headline-seeking will engulftheleaders’ with themedialefttodecidewhetherthis ofprotestwire willbegin, theusual storm Ontheothersideofbarbed problems. environmental andsocial economic, fortwo days oftalksontheworld’sisland, Japan’s mostnortherly met onHokkaido, This July oftheG8countries theleaders were envious ofcourse ofthosefacilities, cupboard inthe ADC dressing room.We hundreds oftimesbiggerthanCAST’s tiny dream of–prop andcostumestores thatweTheatre departments couldonly we saw University Throughout thetour, thought we were time-travellers?! of alocalnovelty –Iwonder ifthey we’d becomesomething district, ‘roughest’ one mightexpectinNYC’s notoriously Far from theintimidatingreception went thatway” tobemetwith round acorner locals were helpingusout–we’d come the so withinhalfanhourofourarrival andlocatethem, split from thegrouptotry Somewere lateandothers running dress. w eoitos Unlike thereal G8where own negotiations. our itwas timetobegin were makingforG8, diplomatsabout thepreparations they British Having heard from wereministers introduced. where the various an openingceremony, andwith visiting theircountry’s embassy, The conference beganwitheachdelegation our policypositionsandnegotiatingstrategy. just acoupleofdays tofinishcoordinating now we had agenda withourJapanese hosts; andnegotiatingthe draftpapers preparing of preparation hadalready beendonein gooddeal ofourdelegation.A members we setofftorendezvous withtheothersix three timesasdenseandinJapanese) as large, excepttwice of theLondonunderground, Tokyo (justlike adiagram railway network, amapofthegreater 30 minutes interpreting Minister.After Prime appointed British whohadbeen Wenzlaff (TH2007), Iflew toJapan withKarsten delegation, Model SummitasaministerintheBritish Having inthe beenselectedtoparticipate or “oh Godhere’s somemore”. “your friends society continue tothrive. set ofSesameStreet andeven visitedtheoriginal Gymnasium, stayed thenightinaHighSchool Disease, narrowly avoided Lymethe county’, ‘dry how toacquire learnt alcoholin Park, CAST Ihave played charadesinCentral to theatre tour.Thanks an international inspires agroup ofstudentstomount andtheneachsummerit academic year, forthewhole – thatcupboard liesdormant fromcreated thisentire nothing experience but equallyitmademeproud that we had please visitwww.feedtheducksproductions.com Edinburgh Festival this August –formoredetails Jenni willbeproducingtwocomedy musicals atthe Model Summit. generously inthe sponsored ourparticipation who Studies, and theCentre ofInternational andIwouldKarsten like tothank Trinity Hall been able totake). all aid(astepworld have leaders notyet deforestation andacommitmenttountie including anew commonpositionon Summit achieved someinteresting results IntheendModel sleeping patterns. as Gordon Brown thatheeven adoptedhis gettingsoinvolvedwith Karsten inhisrole on, allsidescouldagree formula written increasingly protracted inthesearch fora thetalksbecame oftheweek, In thecourse development anddefenceinteralia. finance, groupslooked at whilst otherministerial atthisyear’sthe toppriority G8Summit), focused onclimatechange(whichwas tobe HeadsofState the otherdelegations.The from of negotiationswiththeircounterparts Each ministermetforsuccessive rounds thesummit. communiqué during we hadtoproduce thefinal advance, most ofthedeclarationsare in agreed Karsten negotiating atModelG8 Thomas Hartley (TH2003&2007) Thomas Hartley Longmay thisfantastic . Jenni Halton(TH2004) 11 | Front Court 1977 matriculation photograph

Thirty years on – streetwise Londoners, which I decided the bathroom smells – “that loo paper (Izel) was due to the British public schools mass and cleaning fluid, and sweat/smelly socks”. memories of the first producing male undergraduates.The only women they had met were their mothers, Not that any of us were Domestic Goddesses women in Trinity Hall some aunts and their cleaners.” (Judith – where did we wash our clothes? There are Harris, Hebrew & Arabic, Oil Trader vague memories of “coin-operated machines Thirty years ago! I have such vivid turned Domestic Goddess). in a basement where the new library is” but memories – of Gina crouching on the lawn otherwise it must have been the bras in the painting Patrick’s toenails when they should “Steve remembers the year when the girls basin/over the radiator routine. Nor were have been revising; of Janine guffawing arrived as being the first time they’d met we nest-builders. Despite the ready supply at Anne Louise munching a carrot, noisily intelligent women (of their own age).They of potential partners and the cocooning and suggestively in the old library; of passing felt that they were (and were thought of as) potential of those cosy in-house double sets, through the Porters’ Lodge to check for a bit slow, since they were the last year for few of us set up a permanent ménage.I messages in the now-extinct pigeonholes; whom entry had been reasonably easy”. remember being very impressed by Zinnia of my tutor wheeling his bike through Bidgood’s (English, and then?) purchase of Front Court and awkwardly avoiding my But if the boys were awed so were the girls. a slow cooker for our shared set in the first eye (shyness? inadequate essay?); of climbing year, but rather appalled by the idea of ever down the ladder to clamber into a punt.... “I remember thinking I would never be putting it to use. short of a date, but was also very shy about Gilded memories – but my email straw going to the bar/hall etc because of how Brains and Beauty – certainly there were poll of contemporaries revealed some male the culture was. I didn’t think I’d have some. John Collier did claim that since all pithy reminiscences of a very real social anything to say, so I went and hung out the female applicants for Law had A1,A1, experiment for the College, for the girls, with the thespians instead” (Jill Meager, A, he offered places on grounds of beauty. for the boys already there:“I remember the English,Actress, Leadership Coach). There seems to be a folk memory about sense of being in a film, or on a film set. Yet none of us seem to remember any Phyllida’s (Law, Lawyer, Magistrate) very Coming from Manchester,Trinity Hall was overt sexism.The College made very tight jeans, Gina’s (English, Music Agent impossibly pretty.” (Sarah Bates, Law, Banker little apparent preparation for the advent turned Jeweller) eyes, famous for the brown turned Financial Guru). of women to this all-male bastion.The depths “that you could drown in”, Libby’s top of S staircase was, exceptionally, all (English,Art Agent) Pre-Raphaelite aura, The Fellows had made a brave and eclectic female but the rest of us were mixed up Isla and Debbie’s (Law, Entrepreneur) lavish choice of women and, despite the 1960s at random with the men,Anne Louise blonde hair and of course Anne Louise’s social revolution, we all seemed to feel (History, Consultant in Palliative Medicine) enigmatic, gamine beauty, immortalised keenly the distinctions of north/south; being the sole woman on a staircase full of by James Runcie’s reminiscences in The town/country; public/grammar school; football fanatics Ian, Ken and John. Hidden Hall. boy/girl. No special concessions were made to female Sport, dining clubs and revelry were all put “Coming from a northern grammar school, vanities either.A few full length mirrors at risk by the arrival of women – or so it I think the social shock (meeting those appeared, but washing facilities were limited was feared.Yet Judith’s petite figure and London day school pupils...) was greater and enduring memories linger of “queuing commanding way (so appropriate for the than the shock of joining a previously all for hours with Tom Conti (the Colin Firth- oil trading floor in years to come) fitted male institution in the late 1970s.” style heart-throb of our day, who was the rowing club specification for a cox visiting Jill) for the only bathroom on our (obviously a female niche role); the always- “Polite but nervous young men who staircase” (Janine Edge, Philosophy & Law, immaculate Jan (Law, Lawyer) swam for the Trinity Hall Trinity

| seemed very diffident compared to Lawyer turned Renaissance Woman) and University and The Mourning After Club 12 would have been nothing without Sarah’s which we have chosen to live. Doubtless vile cocktails “I am proud of the chagrin a legacy of those pioneering years at d’amour – pastis and gelatin served from Trinity Hall, yet we did not feel unique a condom”. or exceptional at the time – with what could we compare? But the “under the So where was work in all of this? “The microscope” experience of breaching the tutorials were a bit brusque – lots of pulling male world of Trinity Hall certainly stood your socks up and not making excuses” us in good stead as the vanguard women and I remember many hours in libraries in the banks/ law offices/ companies of and lecture halls.Yet we did so much else 1980s Thatcher’s Britain. and our other activities were for pleasure rather than padding our CVs. So – the enduring legacies of those three special years at Trinity Hall, so long ago? None of us women has, to my knowledge, A fondness for the place, a lasting sense of achieved the celebrity status of our belonging and “the friendships made … My father still remembers arriving with my contemporary Andrew Marr whom we so real and so current”. trunk when I first booked in at the misjudged shockingly.“We thought he Porters’ Lodge.The Senior Porter took was just an English nerd in a polyester Catherine Stewart (Economics, business woman) him to one side and said “Well Sir I want anorak”.Yet,this year, 30 years on and is Chairman of Interel Cabinet Stewart, a you to understand that there are very few as we reach the age of 50, many of us are leading EU Public Affairs consultancy in rules here, but, I have to tell you, that if reflecting on our fulfilling and complex lives Brussels. She is married with two children they walk on the grass, we will have to in the professional and personal worlds in and lives in Brussels. come down very heavy on them!”

Trinity Hall: Welcoming the modern woman

Thirty years on and where are we now? cox!) as well as women’s football, and (just to to be the best that we can be.We come to Trinity Hall’s women are, quite simply, break down gender barriers a little bit more) prove the strength of our academic rigour, showing the boys how it’s done.The every Tit Haller knows that only real men our commitment to the College societies hypothesis behind the social experiment play netball! With regard to academia more that are our passions and ultimately, our that first brought women to Trinity Hall women than men were given places for the right to equal status and respect. has been proved beyond question, and the first time in 2002, a change which has girls are here to stay! become a trend as women not only keep up The distinctions are still there north/south; with the pace of our male predecessors, we town/country; public/grammar school; Today women participate widely in clubs and ourselves are setting that pace. boy/girl, though perhaps not felt as sharply societies at both a College and University as in 1977.Yet it cannot be denied that we level, with women’s sport being particularly We no longer need to preen ourselves to have come a long way – women have taken prominent in Trinity Hall where we boast, succeed, nor do we come here in order to the driving seat.Watch out boys, not long aside from sports traditionally considered to find a mate.Women come to Trinity Hall from now you might just find yourselves left be “for women”, an all-women rugby team, not as decorative ornaments, making the in our dust! women’s boat club (where we do more than College yet more impossibly beautiful, but Caroline Organ (TH 2007 and Women’s Officer) Front Court Front

Trinity Hall girls off to a May Ball, 2008 | 13 A year (and a bit) in the life of the Gardeners

The last 18 months have been some of the busiest that Trinity Hall Gardeners have possibly ever known.The new accommodation at Wychfield has been completed and the gardens planted but then there was the unexpected redevelopment and redesign of the Fellows’ Garden.The process has been incredibly exciting, if a little stressful trying to balance the demands of redevelopment with maintenance of existing gardens, but we’ve managed it. Here’s how the last 18 months turned out. December January February

December 2006 – The Master and Mrs January 2007 – At Wychfield the new February 2007 – Throughout the Daunton were rudely awoken one night accommodation was nearing completion Wychfield building works the gardening between Christmas and New Year by one but with four very distinct new garden team helped with quality control of the of the large horse chestnuts falling over. areas to be planted, our work was yet exterior landscape.The head gardener spent to come. lots of time in meetings with architects, Thus began one of the busiest years in landscape architects and builders. the life of Trinity Hall gardeners. At the Central Site the clear up began of the horse chestnut and the health of the Plant orders, quotes for mulch and remaining trees was looked at. re-cobbling front court, drawing up plans for the new Fellows’ Garden all had to be Following the retirement of a long-serving carried out alongside regular maintenance. member of the team, new part-time New football goals were purchased, members of staff joined us at what was bringing a little bit of normality.And yet to become a busy and exciting time. these took up more time than expected as funding applications to the Football Association hit snags. March April May

March 2007 – The Governing Body April 2007 – Plants for the new May 2007 – With over 100 new residents at approved the Fellows’ Garden plans. accommodation had been ordered but Wychfield, more waste is being generated. Excitement was growing as the realisation because of building delays, 6,500 plants A new bin store was built by the gardening dawned that the gardening team had the were about to turn up and needed to be team, hidden in the undergrowth! It boasts opportunity to develop a new garden for housed.A temporary ‘Nursery’ was created glass, paper, cardboard, plastic bottle and can the central site, something that had not on the Wychfield Hard Courts where the recycling facilities. been done for centuries! At Wychfield, plants could be cared for until planting. It benching for the purpose built greenhouse was hard work keeping everything alive and The Fellows’ Garden plans were starting to was measured and tree pits marked out. healthy until planting began in the autumn. prove a headache as we learnt that Trees near Dean House were felled causing It may have rained a lot last summer but temporary removal of the gateway was not some issues as the Huntingdon Road the hard courts gave limited protection possible. Everything would have to come in gate was the only way in and out, as from the sun in between showers and the and out through a 1 metre wide gate! builders were still working on the Storey’s drying winds whipping across the sports Things could be craned in over the walls Way entrance! field. It was a whole new way of gardening! but once inside the garden everything still had to be moved by hand. Also a new sculpture,‘Twelve’ by Jonathan Trinity Hall Trinity

| Clarke, was installed at Wychfield. 14 shrubs forthegardens. shrubs to assistinthegrowing onofplantsand whichwillbeused and apolytunnel, bothanetted toconstruct opportunity rest ofthesiteandthis gave usthe handed over to usinadvance ofthe wasthat was tobecomeournursery A smallarea ofthenew build site clear boundary. helped defineeacharea andgave thema the difference was immense.Yew hedges look more like gardens.Turf was laidand Wychfield andsoonthegardens beganto September 2007 June 2007 September new accommodation. in placetomarkthecompletionof At Wychfield anew Milestone was put up.inevitable andclearing repairs The June event alsobrought withitthe to thewiderpicture. Garden plansinrelation our Fellows’ Hecameanddiscussed management. and aco-ordinated approach toits create aunified feeltothelandscape to Road, onto theriver andQueens’ forthecollegesbacking Myers, Robert drawn upby thelandscapearchitect June – Recently aplanhasbeen – Plantingbeganat against it. to lifewhilsttheplantingstands out out inthestoneandLodgecomes areit rainsavast brought ofcolours array However when intheLodge. masonry to thenumerous andstylesof colours selected foritsneutralityincomparison grey sandstonewasof theLodge.The Master’s was new laidatthefront terrace Garden continued asthe the Fellows’ October 2007 October Garden. redevelopment oftheFellows’ no outward signs–andsobeganthe had aninfectionofwhichthere were willow Ittoo by theriver toppledover. theratherlargeandbeautiful removed, chestnuts wasthe lastofhorse being as Unfortunately chestnuts were felled. At CentralSitetheremaining horse new sheds. built purpose 3 years andintoourfantastic thathadbeen our homefor porta-cabins move however, We outofthe did, until itwas finishedinSeptember2007. aswe were unable toaccessthesite planted, what thegardens would looklike once The gardening teamwas onhandtoexplain July Andrew Marr (TH1977). Andrew Marr by BBCcorrespondent accommodation was opened July 2007 – The development of development – The – The new Wychfield – The growth they puton. received toreduce the asummerprune Many ofthewall atCentralSite shrubs deal ofpatience. is achieved linesandagreat usingstring require ofaccuracywhich ahigherdegree the backof Wychfield andin Avery Court whereas thebox at hedging ‘free hand’ andbeechwhichare cut are hornbeam hedges Lotsoftheboundary Wychfield. the many hedges bothatCentralSiteand Work beganontheannual taskofcutting renovation of Wychfield Housestarted! out we hadsomemore move inasthe the new accommodation begantomove August 2007 needed work. most trees were healthy andvery few tree ontheCollegesites.Thankfully thehealth ofevery single to determine out tree surveyThe triennial was carried to creep in. looked ratherbleak aswinterbegan thegarden whilst progress couldbeseen, Garden thepathswere dugoutand November 2007 November August – Just for asthebuilders – IntheFellows’ 15 | Front Court December January February

December 2007 – At the beginning of January 2008 – With the trees in, hard February 2008 – The greenhouse at the month the Fellows’ Garden began to landscaping of the Fellows’ Garden was Wychfield was up and running, so we resemble a battlefield as 14 tree pits were done. Slopes were graded, subtle changes began to sow seeds for summer bedding dug, measuring around 1.5m cubed each. were made to levels and the paths dug out. plants.Very soon the greenhouse looked full Locating services running through the Two large lorry loads of mulch arrived at to bursting as if it had always been there. garden was rather difficult as nothing was Wychfield and were spread over the new where it was meant to be on the maps. beds to help retain moisture in the soil. It The paths in the Fellows’ Garden were We worried about ‘taking out’ the Granta became almost a game as we counted 20 laid to create an interesting circular walk Network that links the entire University, shovels of mulch to a barrow, then how round the garden.We also took delivery of but luckily we didn’t hit anything. But many barrows we had done.After about 50 five specially commissioned hand made 27” then, as the dense fog that plagued us barrows each we lost count but that was wide pots.They were made by Whichford during December set in, the trees arrived! probably a good thing with 100 cubic Pottery in Warwickshire and have the The Garden began to take shape. metres to shift! Trinity Hall crescent emblazoned on them. March April May

March 2008 – It was time to start showing April 2008 – The bulk of the planting in May 2008 – The Fellows were able to off the fantastic new gardens at Wychfield the Fellows’ Garden was carried out and enjoy an uncharacteristic hot spell from as we held a National Gardens Scheme within a couple of weeks the garden started newly sited benches around the Fellows’ open day.A great deal of preparation was to fill up, eagerly awaiting the warmer Garden but this weather threatened to dry put into the event with numerous heated weather for everything to burst into leaf. everything out so we brought forward debates over how much to charge as an the installation of seep hoses, which irrigate entry fee and what cakes to serve amongst At Wychfield general maintenance was the newly planted borders. other things! The weather was beautiful being carried out as a sense of calm and we raised over £1,000 for charity. returned to the site following the departure With the plants blooming and growing, Comments ranged from ‘Just lovely’ to of the builders.The greenhouse was a hive the Fellows’ Garden was officially opened. ‘The best garden I’ve been to in a long of activity as potting on and planting out time’.We hope to open several times occurred.The area that had been the new next year. accommodation builders’ yard was levelled out and grass sown.The left over top soil was moved to form a mound alongside the tennis courts, as somewhere to view sporting activities from.

The last 18 months have been extremely busy, not only with the two large scale projects to complete but also the everyday maintenance.The shrubs had to be cut back, weeds had to be pulled up and grass had to be cut amongst many other jobs.Throughout the last year and a half the support from both inside and outside the College has been immense and really helped keep us all going. But now comes the hardest part! Whilst we have carried out the initial changes, we will now work with the plants and conditions we have to carry on developing the gardens for the future benefit of the College. Trinity Hall Trinity

| The Gardening Team 16 Dynasties served in the RNVR in the Kaiser’s War.As from my teachers and parents. During the Navy had no vacancy, we all joined the an open day at Wye, I sought the advice at Trinity Hall Cambridge OTC, where we even manned of one of the lecturers who benignly a defence post at Oakington when invasion counselled me in the broader benefits Three generations of a four generation was thought to be imminent. a Cambridge degree would give me! dynasty recently met in College for dinner. Peter Foster matriculated in 1937, with My Father had been a cox, and I too Having now decided to apply to his grandson Will Staunton arriving 54 years followed in his footsteps and coxed the Cambridge,Trinity Hall seemed the obvious later. In between these two, Philip Foster Clinker Fours, when Lancelot Fleming choice.This was not just due to my uncle, was actually at the Hall twice: from 1967–70 was our coach, and succeeded in beating grandfather and great grandfather having studying Natural Sciences; and then as an Corpus II, Queens’ I and Selwyn in 1937. been at the Hall but also due to its unique ordinand in training at Ridley Hall doing a character, location and academic credentials. two year degree in theology from 1976–78. As I awaited my call up I had time to Trinity Hall boasts many dynasties, but here obtain my BA degree, after which I served I matriculated in 1991 reading Land are a couple of perspectives from the as a sapper landing with the advance guard Economy. In common with virtually all Foster/Staunton family – of my Field Squadron of Guards Armoured of you reading this article, spending three Division in Normandy on Day + 14. years at Trinity Hall proved to be an Peter Foster (TH 1937) excellent decision. I made many good I was invited by the members of the PCC After I was discharged I again joined friends and enjoyed the broad academic of the Church of St James, Hemingford the Hall to obtain my architectural nature of my course (it’s not all colouring Grey, to celebrate 55 years as their architect qualifications, by which time I was tractors!) I also met my beloved wife Su in at a dinner at Trinity Hall. Dr Ray Latimer, married to the daughter of the famous the JCR at a freshers’‘bop’ at the start of the Church Warden, knew I was a Hall man Norwich architect, George Skipper. my third year. I graduated with a first (with and I could invite guests, which I quickly distinction) initially to pursue a career as a did, for my late Father (TH 1896), my son To the Hall I owe much, and hope that Chartered surveyor. Philip (TH 1967) and grandson William there may be future generations of my Staunton (TH 1991) were also Hall men, family at the College. After attending the recent dinner for and it seemed appropriate that we should my grandfather at the Hall I was spurred all celebrate together. Will Staunton (TH 1991) into renewing old friendships.As a As a seventeen year old school boy result Richard Proudlove (TH 1991 I came from Eton to the Hall in 1937 wondering what to do next, the notion mathematician) came to stay.Whilst to read Art and Architecture. Here I met of continuing a family dynasty at Trinity sitting in the garden our eldest son Jamie many friends. Some were killed in the war, Hall was pretty far from my thoughts. In (5 years old) was heard to ask him what others survived, but we all found ourselves, fact for sometime I had been absolutely number comes before infinity.The reply when war was declared, obliged to join the determined to apply to Wye College was not heard for Richard’s choking on Forces. I volunteered for the Navy on the (London University) to read Agricultural his lager, but he did say that perhaps the day war was declared as my Father had Business Management, against all advice dynasty at the Hall is not over yet! Front Court Front

Revd Philip Foster,William Staunton, Professor Martin Daunton (Master) and Peter Foster | 17 Three billion To a mature tree-planter and still counting. . . Congratulations, venerable Shaun! Dear father, Hall man, tutor, friend and don. In an unoccupied moment, Jack Lindsay Now Wychfield folk can come to look upon (TH 1952) took the opportunity to work this Ginkgo celebration on the lawn. out that on Sunday 19 February 2008, Dr Shaun Wylie, Fellow in Mathematics How long exactly since this man was born? from 1937 to 1958, member of the Not one, not two, but wow! 3,000,000,000* Enigma code-breaking team at Bletchley, productive, good, consid’rate seconds gone. A life of excellence, but humbly worn. and Honorary Fellow from 1980, was to celebrate his 3 billionth second! And fifty years or so ago, you strove to teach your son – on lofty staircase Q, To commemorate this auspicious occasion, beside the Cam and Latham’s copper beech – a small party of family and friends gathered “amo, amas, amat” – the verb of love. at Wychfield where a Gingko Bilboa has Less awkwardly, more often, shown by you Three generations of Trinity Hall Fellows in been planted in honour of Shaun Wylie, (and him) in deed than claimed in native speech. mathematics: Dr Tadashi Tokieda,Dr Shaun celebrated in a poem Malcolm Wylie Wylie and Professor Tom Körner (TH 1967) wrote for his father. * Use the common description of this number, rather than the original British version.

Afghanistan – a personal reflection on some daunting challenges

Going to Afghanistan in January 2002 Since 2002 and the last time that I was after my first short visit in 1971, I found in Afghanistan in 2007, there has been a country transformed from one with lush much progress on the development grape fields to a land almost totally devoid front but unfortunately the security of greenery. It had gone from a country situation has been on a downhill track. where girls aspired to be medical doctors For example, some of the visible changes to one where girls were deprived of even that one noticed were the fields around basic education. In late 2001,Afghanistan Kabul, which had been heavily mined, Ashok Nigam with a shura emerged as a state that was devastated had been cleared and were now covered without many parallels in modern history. with grape vines.The road from Kunduz On a more formal stocktaking, 6 million The twenty five years of conflict brought on in the north to Kabul that I travelled in children are now in primary and secondary from outside the country and the internal 2005 is well paved, better than in many education compared to the few hundred fighting among the warlords, including South Asian countries.Afghanistan’s thousand under the Taliban. In 2001, six years of Taliban rule, had left the perennial horticulture was once again UNICEF was debating on how to educate country with a heavily destroyed physical back with plenty of high quality fruits. girls who had been barred from going to infrastructure.The Afghanistan that I saw in The satellite dish made from spare metal school by the Taliban and had to rely on 2002, albeit only in the villages neighboring parts that I had seen in the outskirts the few home schools that existed. By 2007, Kabul, was one with high levels of poverty of Kabul in 2002 receiving television 35 percent of the children in schools were – some have characterized the country as channels from Pakistan had been replaced girls. Five million Afghan refugees have being closer to the 16th century than the by a proper satellite dish receiving returned and 12,200 km of roads have 21st; such was the level of devastation. multiple channels. been rehabilitated.Three rounds of elections have been held – though there is much more to having a truly democratic state than holding elections.There has been a smooth transition to a new and revalued currency. In 2001, the dominant method of moving money around the country was the ‘hawala’ system (cash transfers by money lenders in the informal economy). Now, slowly and gradually the banking system is supplanting it.

But many daunting challenges remain –

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United NationsDevelopment Operations withUNICEFas currently Associate Director, Heis Generalof theSecretary to Afghanistan. Deputy totheSpecialRepresentative Institutional Development and &Governance Assistance Missionto Afghanistan asDirector, from 2005–2006withtheUnitedNations Dr Ashok Nigam(TH1977)workedinKabul long time. assisting the Afghan peopleforavery community must remain committedto theinternational responsible foritssituation, the geo-politicsthatwas part ingreat it isthatgiven Afghanistan’s and history one lessonthatIwould concludewith, Ifthere is the development ofanation. to I was witnessingandcontributing truly Ifeltthat andexciting. both challenging sector in Afghanistan.Working there was There ismuch work tobedoneinevery Copyright Guardian News &MediaLtd2007 © Original article by JessicaOriginal article Shepherd 19 | Front Court THA EVENTS The Committee had decided not to hold THA COMMITTEE MEMBERS a London Event in 2008, but to branch There have been, and will be, a number out for the first time and hold an event in of significant changes this year. Martin The Annual Dinner for 2007 was held in a region other than London or Cambridge. Williams (TH 1966), our Financial Officer, Hall on 22 September and was splendidly First choice fell to the Midlands, where has been involved with the THA in one well attended, with a notable contingent there is a substantial population of alumni, capacity or another since the 1970s, and once again from the late 1990s onwards. and the plan was to hold a reception in understandably feels that he has earned his The assembled company was treated to an Birmingham preceded, for those who ticket of leave, deciding to stand down this inspirational speech from the President; Sarah were interested, by a go-karting event at year. His contribution both as Financial Webbe quoted her young daughter, being the excellent track nearby. For reasons not Officer in recent years and in all kinds of shown Trinity Hall for the first time, as saying yet clear, but which will be researched other ways, notably in influencing the new “It’s not very big, is it?”, to which Sarah carefully, this plan did not attract sufficient structure for the THA Committee, cannot added:“We may not be very big, but our numbers; so the event was converted be overstated.We shall miss him hugely influence in the world is huge.” Prolonged instead into a private dinner for some on the Committee and wish him an acclamation ensued.At moments like these 19 members, guests, and representatives exceedingly well-earned rest. the affection for our College is palpable. of the College at the Opus restaurant in Birmingham. Speaking about the dinner Barry Lewis (TH 1959), having retired as The AGM was held immediately the President said: Secretary after 30 years, remained a member before dinner, or more strictly before of the Committee for a further three years, pre-dinner drinks, having been moved from “[it] proved a most convivial gathering, but he too will be standing down at the next its traditional July date. Members attended proving yet again that if you put some Trinity AGM, and likewise will be greatly missed. in black tie and evening dress, lending Hall alumni together the result is always a notably stylish and amiable tone to interesting but very likely to be entertaining, proceedings which, no doubt with the amusing and instructive too. People left asking prospect of drinks in view, were conducted when we could do it again – the mark of a at a brisk pace and no less constructively good evening.” for that. It was agreed by all that the experiment of moving the AGM to the There is no doubt that alumni welcome dinner date had been a success, and we this attempt to reach out to them, especially shall keep it that way. those who seldom if ever attend events in Cambridge or London.We shall learn from the Birmingham experience and continue to hold gatherings in different parts of the country over the years ahead. Martin Williams In 2009 there will once again be a London Event, and we have gone for a ‘big drawcard’ venue in the form of the House of Lord’s which, through the kind sponsorship of Lord Howe (TH 1948), has been booked for 15 May next year. Please note the date 2007 THA Cambridge Dinner for this exciting occasion now!

Barry Lewis Trinity Hall Trinity

| 1967 celebrate 40 years since matriculation at the 2007 Cambridge Dinner Dr Marina Terkourafi 20 Graduating Students

Marina Terkourafi (TH 1996) will also be THE ‘VISIBILITY’ OF THE THA women’s education project in Senegal. retiring as member representing the Grads, The Committee has been seeking ways Fergal McCool, a second year engineer, and we thank her too for her enthusiastic to make the existence and purpose of the is volunteering on a school building support of the Association. Association more apparent to members programme, also in Senegal.Tom Barlow, of the College. Sarah Webbe writes a third year engineer, is taking on a water Meantime, Chris Angus (TH 1967) and elsewhere in this article about the ‘THA provision project in northern Thailand Michael Womack (TH 1966) have already Awards’ that the Association has instituted and Shona Chan, a second year medic, is been co-opted.They will bring much to this year.The observant will hopefully have working in a remote health clinic in Nepal. the Committee and we welcome them spotted a handsome THA notice-board All will write up their experiences in a most warmly. outside the Porters’ Lodge, the first time formal report to the THA on their return. we have had a permanent space of this kind.And we now make a practice of THA President Sarah Webbe (TH 1981) sponsoring the pre-dinner drinks at commented: the Graduands’ Dinner in late June, emphasising that students are automatically “We are hugely encouraged by the number members for life, and for free! In such and variety of public-spirited and interesting ways, little by little, we hope to build up proposals we received this year. Clearly, the idea an awareness that the Association is part of doing something useful in society appeals to of what it means to have been at the Hall, the student body in Trinity Hall.These projects and something that lasts for ever. stood out in terms of scope, preparation and potential to make a real contribution to the communities they will serve.We look forward THA Awards to hearing how they get on.” Dr Chris Angus The Trinity Hall Association has made four inaugural THA Awards under its The THA,your alumni organisation, exists to new bursary scheme announced last year. enhance the wider community of Trinity Hall. The scheme was devised by the THA All members of College are now automatically to stand alongside the College travel members of the Association, for free, from awards but specifically to support or enable matriculation.The THA Awards are one of participation in projects of humanitarian or a number of initiatives for current student community benefit in the UK or overseas. members supported by the THA. The awards are open to all current students but the majority of applications this year Sarah Webbe (THA President) and Colin Hayes were from undergraduates and four have (THA Secretary) can be contacted through the been successful in this year’s round. Over College Alumni Office. the coming summer, Henriette Guyard, Front Court Front

Michael Womack a second year anthropologist, will join a | 21 calendar of events

2008

20 September Reunion for those who matriculated in 1954, 1955, 1956 & 1957 26–28 September University Alumni Weekend 27 September Year Reps Conference THA AGM & Annual Dinner in Cambridge (Alumni & Guest) The THA AGM will take place before the Annual Dinner at 6.30pm Guests enjoying dinner after singing at the 7 October Michaelmas Term commences Choir Reunion in April 2008 13 October TH Forum:The Business of Fairtrade with Harriet Lamb (TH 1979) 16 October Organ Recital by Andrew Arthur – Music by Buxtehude and Bach 22 October Leslie Stephen Lecture by Claire Tomalin 22 November Milestone Lecture Trinity Hall and Cambridge in the 21st Century – Effectiveness as the By-word Professor Michael Kelly,Trinity Hall Professorial Fellow 5 December Michaelmas Term Ends

Trinity Hall Law Reception at Lincoln’s Inn, 2009 March 2008 13 January Lent Term Commences 26 January TH Forum: Engineering as art and design with Dr Chris Williams 2 February Commemoration of Benefactors 13 March Lent Term Ends 21 March MA Congregation and Reunion for undergraduates who matriculated in 2002 21 April Easter Term Commences 11 May TH Forum: Constitutional Court of Bosnia with 2001 lining up for their MA degree Professor David Feldman 15 May THA London Event at the House of Lord’s 10–13 June May Bumps 12 June Easter Term Ends 17 June June Event 25 June General Admissions (‘Degree Day’) 27 June Reunion Dinner for those who matriculated in 1958, 1959 & 1960 September THA Event in Lanercost, Cumbria

Tea for 1970–1972 in the Fellows’ Garden 19 September Reunion Dinner for those who matriculated in 1961, 1962 & 1963 at the September 2007 Reunion 25–27 September University Alumni Weekend 26 September Year Reps Conference THA AGM THA AGM & Annual Dinner in Cambridge

The THA AGM will take place on Saturday Website 27 September at 6.30pm. Proxy forms will All the details of College events will be posted on the College website be sent to everyone with email before this (www.trinhall.cam.ac.uk/alumni/events.asp) along with information for booking date, but if you would like to receive a places and provisional guest lists. It is also a useful way of finding out what is hard copy, please contact the Alumni happening in College, as there is a regularly updated News and Events section Office on 01223 332 567. keeping alumni and students informed. Trinity Hall Trinity | 22 Issue 14 . Summer 2008

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Front Court is an informal publication produced once a year to keep members Trinity Hall up to date with what is happening in FRONT COURT College and amongst our alumni. If you Cambridge have any suggestions for the next issue (summer 2009), please contact the Editors. All our publications are now available as pdf files from our website: New Discoveries www.trinhall.cam.ac.uk/alumni/publications.asp for the Hall Editors Liz Pentlow On Friday 4th of April, Mr Stuart Johnson, an Jocelyn Poulton employee of the College’s Building and Technical Services Department, began preliminary works for The Development the Aula Bar and new JCR area. As he did so, he and Alumni Office discovered several very important collections of Trinity Hall documents in a ceiling space in the Bursary. Further Cambridge discoveries followed in other parts of the College, CB2 1TJ including stained glass windows commemorating previous Master’s of the College. tel: +44 (0)1223 332567 Dr John Pollard, Fellow Librarian and fax: +44 (0)1223 765157 so we hope as many of you as possible A Northern Event Archivist, writes of the initial finds: email: [email protected] will be able to attend and to bring partners web: www.trinhall.cam.ac.uk/alumni Following the THA’s foray into the and family. Lanercost is just north of the It is my belief that they were placed there by Midlands earlier this year, we are now A69 Carlise-Newcastle road and there is a Bursarial staff some time in the 1970s, judging We would like to thank Kiloran Howard organising an event for those living in great deal to see in the area with Hadrian’s by the dating of other items, like newspapers, (www.kiloranhoward.com) for providing the North of England and the Scottish Wall and the wonderful countryside of undergraduate effects, trunks etc, that were the majority of the photographs used in found with them.The most important items, this publication. Borders (and even further away).The event Cumbria, Northumberland, Dumfries and is planned for Summer/Autumn 2009 Galloway and the Scottish Borders on the including a patent of Philip and Mary dating Don’t forget to sign up to at Lanercost Priory in North Cumbria, doorstep – so it would also make a good from 1558, and others that looked to have www.THAlumni.net, which can also a stone’s throw from Hadrian’s Wall.The start to a weekend in the area for those greatest need of urgent remedial work, were be accessed through the College website. Priory was founded as an Augustinian from further afield. immediately sent to the Cambridge Colleges’ Please use THAlumni.net or the carrier monastery in 1169 and had a somewhat Conservation unit at Corpus.The Philip and chequered and colourful history, including Tickets will cost £15 per person, available sheet of this magazine to let us know about Mary patent, and some of the other documents any changes of address or contact details. a six month period in the early 14th from the Alumni Office next year. with seals, have now been dealt with and century when Edward I and his entourage Dr Chris Angus (TH 1967) came to stay and it became the effective returned to the College, as well as a late 19th seat of English government.The nave century ‘Gate Book’ and a ledger. Remedial of the Priory church still functions as a work will continue on the remaining items. spectacular church for a very rural parish. The Philip and Mary document is by itself One range of the monastic buildings an extraordinarily valuable find. Dr Elizabeth was for many years, home to a branch New, who talks about the manuscript of the Dacre family before becoming a Trinity Hall cataloguing she has undertaken for us later rather magnificent medieval village hall. in this magazine, is an expert on seals and Cambridge Both the hall and the church look out on tells us that few seals survive from their reign the romantic ruins of the rest of the and that the one on our patent is a particularly monastic building. handsome and well-preserved example.

The evening will start at around 6.00pm, A full listing of the discoveries is given on page meeting initially in the church.We are 6 and it is hoped that a display of the finds will then planning drinks and canapés in be arranged in due course. the ruins followed by a buffet supper in the Dacre Hall. During the evening In this issue there will be plenty of opportunity to For information on ordering this Cert no. SA-COC-1527 mingle and catch up with other alumni, first CD recorded on the new ❖ Old Library but there will also be opportunities to organ, available from October 2008, ❖ Model G8 summit explore the Priory and find out a bit visit the Trinity Hall website Designed and printed by ❖ 18 months in the Gardens Cambridge University Press more of its history. It promises to be a (www.trinhall.cam.ac.uk) www.cambridge.org/printing really good evening in a wonderful venue, ❖ Thirty Years On Stained glass window found in a Crescent Room store: the arms of Thomas Geldart ❖ Focus on Afghanistan and heraldic badges of William Bateman and Henry Latham 2 | Trinity Hall College welcomed 2008the In January FELLOWS’ News information processing. information provide anavenue quantum tofault-tolerant emergent collective behaviour thatmay tounravelHis work tries new aspectsof constituents ofasystemare important. interactions between theelementary if and collective properties occurring thecomplexity challenge tounderstand itremains a us, the matterthatsurrounds thebehaviour of scales thatdetermine attheenergy know a ofeverything’ ‘theory Dr William O’Reillythiscalendaryear. 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Britannicus Orpheus joined Trinity Hallasthe Staff Fellow in Fellow inMay 2008. (TH 1957) The RtHonLord Justice Anthony Hooper in1998 undergraduate Nicky cameupto Trinity Hallasan Nicky Reeves Dr Luke Clark Dr Robert Asher 24 September2007 Glen Sharp, Hall witheffectfrom 1October2008– Trinity of elected asFellow-Commoners thefollowing wereGoverning Body, At themostrecent meetingoftheCollege’s of theiracademicachievement. themonthesemarks in congratulating I know you would like tojoinwithme in Computer Architecture. Dr SimonMoore Lectureship intheFacultyofLaw. Johnston, Mr Angus Lectureship intheFacultyofLaw. Dr Matthew Conaglen on theirrecently announcedpromotions: threeable ofourFellows tocongratulate It iswithconsiderable pleasure thatIam Promotions Professor Colin Austin and Farewell to academical year. as StaffFellows attheendof2007–08 Milne Liebling Professor Alison 2007–08 academicalyear. 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Front Court is an informal publication produced once a year to keep members Trinity Hall up to date with what is happening in FRONT COURT College and amongst our alumni. If you Cambridge have any suggestions for the next issue (summer 2009), please contact the Editors. All our publications are now available as pdf files from our website: New Discoveries www.trinhall.cam.ac.uk/alumni/publications.asp for the Hall Editors Liz Pentlow On Friday 4th of April, Mr Stuart Johnson, an Jocelyn Poulton employee of the College’s Building and Technical Services Department, began preliminary works for The Development the Aula Bar and new JCR area. As he did so, he and Alumni Office discovered several very important collections of Trinity Hall documents in a ceiling space in the Bursary. Further Cambridge discoveries followed in other parts of the College, CB2 1TJ including stained glass windows commemorating previous Master’s of the College. tel: +44 (0)1223 332567 Dr John Pollard, Fellow Librarian and fax: +44 (0)1223 765157 so we hope as many of you as possible A Northern Event Archivist, writes of the initial finds: email: [email protected] will be able to attend and to bring partners web: www.trinhall.cam.ac.uk/alumni Following the THA’s foray into the and family. Lanercost is just north of the It is my belief that they were placed there by Midlands earlier this year, we are now A69 Carlise-Newcastle road and there is a Bursarial staff some time in the 1970s, judging We would like to thank Kiloran Howard organising an event for those living in great deal to see in the area with Hadrian’s by the dating of other items, like newspapers, (www.kiloranhoward.com) for providing the North of England and the Scottish Wall and the wonderful countryside of undergraduate effects, trunks etc, that were the majority of the photographs used in found with them.The most important items, this publication. Borders (and even further away).The event Cumbria, Northumberland, Dumfries and is planned for Summer/Autumn 2009 Galloway and the Scottish Borders on the including a patent of Philip and Mary dating Don’t forget to sign up to at Lanercost Priory in North Cumbria, doorstep – so it would also make a good from 1558, and others that looked to have www.THAlumni.net, which can also a stone’s throw from Hadrian’s Wall.The start to a weekend in the area for those greatest need of urgent remedial work, were be accessed through the College website. Priory was founded as an Augustinian from further afield. immediately sent to the Cambridge Colleges’ Please use THAlumni.net or the carrier monastery in 1169 and had a somewhat Conservation unit at Corpus.The Philip and chequered and colourful history, including Tickets will cost £15 per person, available sheet of this magazine to let us know about Mary patent, and some of the other documents any changes of address or contact details. a six month period in the early 14th from the Alumni Office next year. with seals, have now been dealt with and century when Edward I and his entourage Dr Chris Angus (TH 1967) came to stay and it became the effective returned to the College, as well as a late 19th seat of English government.The nave century ‘Gate Book’ and a ledger. Remedial of the Priory church still functions as a work will continue on the remaining items. spectacular church for a very rural parish. The Philip and Mary document is by itself One range of the monastic buildings an extraordinarily valuable find. Dr Elizabeth was for many years, home to a branch New, who talks about the manuscript of the Dacre family before becoming a Trinity Hall cataloguing she has undertaken for us later rather magnificent medieval village hall. in this magazine, is an expert on seals and Cambridge Both the hall and the church look out on tells us that few seals survive from their reign the romantic ruins of the rest of the and that the one on our patent is a particularly monastic building. handsome and well-preserved example.

The evening will start at around 6.00pm, A full listing of the discoveries is given on page meeting initially in the church.We are 6 and it is hoped that a display of the finds will then planning drinks and canapés in be arranged in due course. the ruins followed by a buffet supper in the Dacre Hall. During the evening In this issue there will be plenty of opportunity to For information on ordering this Cert no. SA-COC-1527 mingle and catch up with other alumni, first CD recorded on the new ❖ Old Library but there will also be opportunities to organ, available from October 2008, ❖ Model G8 summit explore the Priory and find out a bit visit the Trinity Hall website Designed and printed by ❖ 18 months in the Gardens Cambridge University Press more of its history. It promises to be a (www.trinhall.cam.ac.uk) www.cambridge.org/printing really good evening in a wonderful venue, ❖ Thirty Years On Stained glass window found in a Crescent Room store: the arms of Thomas Geldart ❖ Focus on Afghanistan and heraldic badges of William Bateman and Henry Latham