Once a Caian... 9-12 Issue 12

ISSUE 16 MICHAELMAS 2016 GONVILLE & CAIUS COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE End of an Era in Caius Fundraisin g... .. .and the Start of the Next Casting Poetry on Light: Stephen Hawking D a n W From the Director of Development h i t e The Master and the Director of Development take turns to introduce Once a Caia n... in alternate years – so, twenty months into this exciting, new, personal challenge, I am writing my first Foreword. Mick Le Moignan (2004) has once again done a magnificent job, starting with a superb tribute to the achievements of Dr Anne Lyon (20 01) over the last fifteen years. I am deeply grateful to Anne for preparing me for this role and for working so closely with me since I took up the reins, to ensure a smooth handover and the continuing success of the Development Campaign. During Anne’s time you have given, or pledged to give, over £1 00 million to our College. How do I follow that? It is a hugely daunting task, but I relish the challenge and will need the support of the whole Caian community, Fellows, staff, students and all of you benefactors whose loyalty and generosity to our College is wonderfully encouraging. The College’s need for support is also as great as ever. A further phase of work on the roof of the Waterhouse Building is underway, including refurbishment of ‘T’ staircase, and the conservation of Caius Court has reached the Chapel. We hope the scaffolding will be down in time for us to welcome new and returning students! We spend almost twice as much as we receive from our students on teaching, housing and feeding them and on providing extra financial support for those who need it. Our oarsmen and women will move into their new boathouse, paid for by predecessors, with renewed determination to retain the Lents headship and regain the Mays. Four new Research Fellows will arrive, at the start of their academic careers, keen to advance the College’s distinguished reputation. The lifetime gifts we receive are vital to our continuing excellence in education and research, but as the challenges of the 21st century unfold, I believe it is increasingly important for Caians to remember the College in their Wills. The packed lists of ‘Thanks to our Benefactors’ (pages 2 6-33) show that in the last four years, we received gifts from three Caians who matriculated prior to 1920. These form part of £ 11m worth of bequests received during Anne’s time in the Development Office. In our next issue, we plan to tell you more about the most generous legacy of John Chumrow (194 8), and those of Patricia Crone (199 0) and Jonathan Horsfall-Turner (196 4), much-loved Caians who passed away recently. The 243 members of the Edmund Gonville Society, those who have told us that they have included bequests to Caius in their Wills, have pledged a further £43m to the College. I would urge all Caians to follow their example, because our history proves that these gifts can be truly transformational. James Howell (2009) Director of Development “Your gift to Caius also counts towards the Dear Worl d... Yours, Cambridge Campaign” ...Always a Caian 1 Conten ts Y Y a a o o L L i i a a n n g 2 g 6 8 Y M © a a T o r h t L e i i n a F n B i g t o z n w d i l l i a m M u s 16 e 24 36 u m , C a m b r i d g e 2 End of an Er a... – The Retirement of Dr Anne Lyon (20 01 ) In one of the first recorded instances of Cambridge’s ducks trying to raise their intellectual horizons, this 4 ... and Start of the Next – James Howell (2009), Director of Development female mallard attended a lecture in the Bateman 6 A Glimmer of Hope – Dr Amy Ludlow (2 012) Auditorium by Caius graduate student Dannielle Cagliuso ( 2015) on 8 The Importance of Being Authentic – Harry Tharp (195 5) & Lars Tharp (197 3) Sir Andrew Huxley and the design and dissemination 10 Casting Poetry on Light – Relativity by Dr Sarah Howe (2 010) of his custom 12 Chairman of the Board – David Elstein (19 61), Chair of the Development interference microscope. Campaign Board 16 Cambridge’s Treasure House – Tim Knox (2 012), Director and Marlay Curator of the Fitzwilliam Museum 18 Open Day 2016 20 Fun or Fury? – Professor Vic Gatrell (1967), on the Art of Political Cartooning 22 Once a Chorister... – by James Howell (2009) 24 Caius366 – January to June 2 016 26 Thanks to our Benefactors 34 CaiNotes 36 The Fellows’ Betting Books – Professor Anthony Edwards (1968) Cover photos by Dan White, Dave Gunn, Hayley Madden and Yao Liang. Cartoon by kind permission of Steve Bell 2 Once a Caian... very member of the Caius give more than they can comfortably afford Founders, every November, to a community enriches it. We all and she has always insisted that every gift to Commemoration Feast and Lecture in benefit from our association Caius should be acknowledged promptly and association with the Service in the Chapel. with the College and we all recognised appropriately. As the level of gifts rose, Anne suggested contribute to it, in ways great To this end, she introduced a number of to College Council that donors of more than Eand small. Very few Caians in our long history events at which the College could express its £500,000 (now £1 million) might be have made such an extraordinary impact as gratitude to benefactors at various levels. honoured by being installed in the Chapel as Dr Anne Lyon (20 01), whose 15-year tenure Her approach is quite distinctive: most Gonville Fellow Benefactors. To date, 18 have as Director of Development (latterly for fundraisers organize events in order to solicit been elected to this honour; four more, Dr Principal Gifts) has boosted the Caius gifts, whereas Anne’s events are generally Harold Carter (1971) and his wife, Ms Tess finances by well over £100 million. held to thank those who have already given. Silkstone, Dr Jon Denbigh (1961), and Of that sum, £60 million is in lifetime The May Week Party, first held in 2002, Professor John Saunders (196 7) will join their gifts, of which £49 million has already been has become one of the highlights of the ranks in November. received and £ 11 million is firmly pledged. College calendar. For the first few years, ALL In the first five years of her tenure as More than £45 million has been promised as who had made gifts in the previous twelve Director of Development, Anne bequests, which are typically 50% greater months were invited, but by 2008 the masterminded a plan to fund a massive new when ultimately received by the College. The Fellowship has expressed its gratitude for this remarkable achievement by appointing Anne to be the College’s first female Emeritus Fellow, a richly deserved accolade. A special farewell event is being held to thank Anne for her exceptional service to Caius and to wish her a long and happy retirement. For Caians based in London, Anne’s departure from the Development Office was marked by a gathering in the State Room in the Speaker’s House at the House of Commons. Perhaps even more significant than the huge increase in the College’s Endowment is the exponential growth in the number of Caians making regular donations to the College. In 20 01, between 2% and 3% of Caians were donors: this annual participation rate has increased every year since then. Now, at over 26%pa, it is higher than any other Cambridge college. In the past three years, Caian benefactors have taken Caius to the top of the college league tables for both funds raised and percentage participation. Caius is the only college to have led both tables at once since records began in 20 01. The key to Anne’s remarkable success as a fundraiser lies in the way she has strengthened the involvement and the emotional ties between Caians and the numbers had risen to over 600 and a modest accommodation block on land in West College. minimum gift level had to be applied. Cambridge that had been left to the College ‘People give for a multitude of reasons,’ The Court of Benefactors was established in 1498 by Dame Anne Scroop, the last she says. ‘Some feel they are paying back for in 1998, as part of the College’s 650th surviving member of the Gonville family. The benefits they have received; others see it as a Anniversary Appeal, by one of Anne’s building included 75 student rooms, all with sound investment to help the next predecessors, Julie Deane (198 4) to recognise en suite bathrooms, eight Fellows’ sets and a generation to have the best possible those making more substantial gifts. magnificent Conference Centre, named in education. But they all say the same thing: Membership of the Court of Benefactors is honour of Professor Dick Cavonius by his that they are enjoying the process much now awarded to those whose lifetime gifts to widow, Rita Cavonius (2004). more than they expected and that they and Caius total at least £20,000. Founders are The conventional way of funding such a their partners really feel part of the Caius appointed in recognition of gifts amounting major project would have been to apply to community.’ to more than £250,000.

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