CONTENTS

Officers of the Society 3 News of the Society 4 News from elsewhere 9 Honours and Awards 11 Editorial 12 The 1985 Appeal - The Master's progress report 13 The Sons of Martha - Mr F. D. Robinson 16 Personal Births, marriages, deaths 19 Obituaries 21 Societies 23 The College Sconce Cups - Dr J. H. Baker 26 Clubs 28 Blues 1984/85 34 A Pigeon among the Catz - The Revd. Dr I. D. L. Clark 35 Governing Body 1985/6 37 College Fellowships and Appointments 38 The Quincentenary Appeal and Building Fund 39 On Preferring to be Believed - Dr J. A. Norris 40 Publications and Reviews. 42 Appointments and Notes 46 Awards and Prizes 52 Photographs - More Golden Oldies 54 The Chapel Choir 1984/85 58 Up on Top - Martin Moran's ascent of the Munros 59 LL.B. Redesignation 60 News from the J.C.R 60 The Graduates' Parlour 60 St Catharine's Gild 62

Our stark cover design for 1985/86 shows the East End of the Chapel (1704); the New Hall, and 'E' and Gostlin staircases (1967), built partly with funds from the Quincentenary Appeal. Beyond Gostlin on the right of the picture, the ground floor will be built in to form the new bar and social areas for undergraduates. Extending Northwards in the foreground right will be the new Library. Thus, from September 1986, this hitherto quiet corner will become very much a new and important centre of college activity. St Catharine's College Society

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING AND DINNER-1985 The 57th Annual Meeting and Dinner of the Society will be held at the College on Friday 27th September 1985. This is an invitation to members to attend. The Programme will be as follows: 4.15 p.m. Tea in Hall 5.30 p.m. Annual General Meeting of the Society in the J.C.R. The Agenda is overleaf 7.15 p.m. Evensong in the College Chapel 7.45 p.m. Sherry 8.00 p.m. Dinner in Hall. Please note that, at the last A.G.M. the decision was made that for an experimental period of two years, dress for gentlemen at the Dinner would be: Dinner Jacket or dark suit. Saturday 28th September 8.00 a.m. Holy Communion 8.00-9.00 a.m. Breakfast Nominations for the various offices of the Society may be conveyed to the Honorary Secretary, St Catharine's College, at any time. Accommodation will be provided free in College for members who wish to stay over-night. The inclusive charge for Dinner and Breakfast will be £15.50, for Dinner only, including wines £12.50. Please return the form to the Chief Clerk with your cheque, as soon as possible. Information about members of the Society, such as engagements, marriages and deaths and general news for inclusion in the Magazine should be sent to the Editor, St Catharine's College. Notice of change of address or surname should be sent to the College Office. Please also inform the College Office if you become aware of any member who does not receive the Magazine, giving his address, to assist in the maintenance of the Register.

FOLEY NEWNS, 1st June 1985 Honorary Secretary

Please detach and return The Chief Clerk St Catharine's College Cambridge CB2 1RL I hope to attend (a) the Annual General Meeting, (b) the Annual Dinner of the Society on Friday 27th September 1985. I do/do not require accommodation in College for the night of Friday 27th September, and would like to occupy if available I shall/shall not require breakfast on the morning of Saturday 28th September (£15.50 for Dinner and Breakfast) I enclose a cheque for £ (£12.50 for Dinner only including wines)

Name and permanent address (to check with College records) IN BLOCK CAPITALS PLEASE

Post Code Years of Residence ST CATHARINE'S COLLEGE SOCIETY ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 1985 To be held in the J.C.R. on Friday 27th September 1985 at 5.30 p.m. President for 1984-85 F. D. Robinson, M.A.

AGENDA 1. Minutes of the meeting held on Saturday 29th September 1984 and matters arising (other than matters covered by this Agenda). 2. Report of the Honorary Secretary. 3. Report of the Honorary Treasurer. 4. Appeal Fund. 5. Report on the Old Members' Sports Fund. 6. Election of President and President-Elect. (1927) G. B. Gray was elected President for 1985-86. The meeting will be invited to decide on a President-Elect for 1986-87. 7. Election of three Committee Members: Retiring members are (1973) G. R. Bullock (1940) G. F. P. Mason (1946) R. L. Mitchell Messrs Mason and Mitchell are not eligible for re-election. 8. Election of Hon. Treasurer and Hon. Secretary. 9. Benevolent Fund. 10. Honoraria. 11. Date of next meeting. 12. Any other business.

FOLEY NEWNS, 1 June 1985 Honorary Secretary SEPTEMBER 1985

Officers of the Society 1984-85

President F. D. Robinson, MA.

Past Presidents J. F. Ablett, M.B.E. 1940 G. F. P. Mason, M.A., Q.C. 1925 C. R. Allison, M.A. 1927 C. P. Nicholson, M.A. 1934 S. C. Aston, O.B.E., T.D., M.A., D.L. 1927 Right Revd. C. J. Patterson, C.M.G., 1933 A. A. L. Caesar, M.A. C.B.E., M.A. 1925 Sir Norman Elliott, C.B.E., M.A. 1939 Sir Ian Percival, M.A., M.P., QC. 1925 I. M. L. D. Forde, O.B.E., M.A. 1939 J. F. Pirie, M.A., LL.B. 1922 R. M. Franklin, M.A., LL.B. 1939 H. D. R. Ridgeon, M.A. 1928 Sir Irvine Goulding, M.A., Q.C. 1929 Sydney Smith, M.A., PH.D. 1927 Denton Hinchcliffe, M.A. 1920 A. Stephenson, M.A. 1946 J. C. R. Hudson, M.A. 1931 Sir Augustus Walker, G.C.B., C.B.E., D. S. O. D.F.C, A.F.C, M.A.

General Committee 1985 1986 1973 G. R. Bullock, M.A. 1950 P. J. Boizot, B.A. 1940 G. F. P. Mason, M.A., Q.C. 1949 J. A. Norris, M.A., PH.D. 1946 R. L. Mitchell, M.A.

1987 1988 1970 T. H. Andrew, M.A. 1950 P. V. Cornish, M.A. 1947 Professor C. C. Smith, M.A., PH.D. 1960 D. J. Parry, M.A. 1946 P. D. Sutherland, M.A. 1975 P. H. Wolton, M.A. 1979 Miss F. M. W. Lee, B.A.

Secretary Treasurer 1940 T. G. Cook, M.A. 1958 D. E. Keeble, M.A., PH.D.

The Secretary and Treasurer are ex-officio members of the Committee, and the Editor of the magazine, (1943) Revd J. St. H. Mullett, the President-Elect (1927) G. B. Gray and the former Secretary (1925) Sir Foley Newns are co-opted. The year against a member's name in the text of the magazine is the year of his matriculation. The years above the names of the General Committee are those in which the members retire. 4 St Catharine's College Society Magazine News of the Society ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 1984 Minutes of the 56th Annual General Meeting of the Society held in the JCR on Saturday 29th September 1984 President G. F. P. MASON HE Master, Professor B. E. Supple, and 80 members were present. The Secretary read a list T of apologies for absence. 1. Minutes of the previous meeting The minutes of the previous meeting as recorded in the magazine were approved and the copy in the Minute Book signed. 2. Report of the Honorary Secretary The Secretary gave the following report: This is the first General Meeting of the Society since the appointment of Professor Barry Supple as Master of the College and provides an opportunity for the Society to congratulate him and welcome him warmly to our company. Those of you who attended recent functions in London and Yorkshire have already had the pleasure of meeting him. There is no need for me to give you his curriculum vitae for that is set out in the magazine, together with his generous good wishes to the Society. We have good reason to congratulate the retiring President of the College, Dr Alfred Maddock, and the Fellows on their wise choice for the Mastership. For many years, members of the Society have expressed a wish to have an up-to-date Register. Members wanted to know the addresses of contemporaries, with whom they had lost touch, to be aware of members of the College who may be near neighbours and for many other reasons. At last the new Register has been published after many vissitudes and much detailed work by those concerned in its preparation. We must thank Dr Handy who was Chairman of a small committee which worked on the final stages. The response of those who had indicated that they would like to have a copy has been good. Any of you who has not already obtained one can buy a copy for £3 at the Porter's Lodge this week-end. You will have noted that the cost is less than that originally estimated. It is good value in these days. After a gap of nearly 20 years, details on the Register depend to a large extent on information provided by members themselves. Inevitably there are errors and it quickly becomes dated. The names and addresses are on a computer so it will be much easier in the future to keep the information correct if members inform the Chief Clerk at the College Office of errors, changes of address, higher degrees and changes of surname or title. Some names have no address. That usually means that a magazine has been returned 'address unknown'. If any of you know the whereabouts of any such person please tell the College Office. Consideration was given to the problem, which will increase in the future, of women members changing surnames on marriage as there are various ways of tackling it. The method chosen is to put the name currently used in the main body of the list, for that determines the address on communications, and to put in the annex the surname current when the person was in College. A change of surname can occasionally happen to men and the same procedure applies, as some of you may have noticed in the annex to the Register. In my report last year I said that a form would be distributed with this year's magazine asking members to check the information held on them personally and possibly asking for further details. That was not done as work was concentrated on getting the Register out in time for distribution with the magazine to those who asked for it. Consideration is being given to the question whether this additional exercise is necessary at this stage. An important matter has been awaiting the production of the Register. Older members of the Society will recall that the Quincentenary Fund was started by a decision of the Society at the Annual General Meeting of 1953 in preparation for the Quincentenary Celebrations in 1973. At recent Meetings you have recommended that the Fund should be wound up and a new appeal started with a new title. The Society left the matter for guidance from the Governing Body on specific objects for the appeal and on method. The new Master and the Fellows have been very active in pondering on various ambitious schemes. St Catharine's College Society Magazine 5

In launching the Quincentenary Appeal several members of the Society, notably the late Alec Heath, gave much of their time and office facilities to the work. But times have changed, there is now less opportunity for businessmen to give their voluntary assistance in quite that manner. It looks at though the appeal will probably be launched as a joint venture by the College and the Society, the College providing office facilities and clerical work. You will be hearing more as ideas crystallize probably within the next few months. The theme running through the Quincentenary Essays was continuity with change. That theme is reflected in this year's magazine with the print of 1840 on the cover, in Stanley Aston's further selection of 'Golden Oldies' and in the demonstration of wide-ranging academic achievement and athletic enterprise of the present day, both male and female. Once again we must thank and congratulate John Mullett for producing another excellent issue. In gathering the material and in his editing he achieved a very friendly, personal touch which accords so well with the spirit of the College. He has, with the help of the contributors, continued the traditional high quality of the magazine, which is regarded by many as having great value in binding St Catharine's members together. The Editor frequently sees artists sketching in the Court. He would be most grateful if any artist, or, if he or she is shy, then any friend could make suggestions for permission to reproduce suitable drawings for the covers of future issues of the magazine. At the General Meeting in 1978 members asked if the cover design could be modernized with a change from the old printing block. Over the last four years you have had an interesting selection of cover prints. We hope the Editor, with helpful suggestions, will be able to continue this policy. The Group Dinners are always popular. The 1963-65 Dinner, held last March, was well attended and was most successful. The Master and Fellows have not yet decided on the years of Matriculation of those who will be invited to the next Group Dinner. Those concerned will be notified. There has been an interesting development on these lines. Some members who took their degrees in 1960 have expressed a wish to celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary next year with a Dinner in College, thanks largely to the efforts of C. Chantler. The College has indicated a willingness to co-operate and has offered to provide a Dinner for them, on payment but subsidized in the usual way for Old Members, on Saturday 22nd June 1985. The Bursar, James Wright, is most willing to help over any similar celebration which members of the Society may wish to organise themselves if it can be fitted in with normal college affairs. The London Branch has been most active and has given pleasure to many; the Yorkshire Branch has continued with its usual cheerful annual Dinner and news of the Channel Islands Branch is to be welcomed and encouraged. The Editor will be glad to be given details of other local activities so that knowledge of them can be spread. The Chapel Collection this evening will be devoted to the Asthma Research Council, the results of whose efforts have proved a boon to many sufferers. The Council is known to have the support of some members of the Society. We expect 144 to sit down to dinner this evening at which the new Master will be replying to the toast to the College given by our President, Judge Peter Mason. It is very pleasing to note that a high proportion of the Fellows of the College, including three lady Fellows, and four Emeritus Fellows will be present. Also among our company we can count nine former Presidents of the Society. Some of you have come from afar, Herbert Osoka from Nigeria and Dr F. M. Chutter from South Africa, both of whom wrote long in advance to make sure of the date of this Dinner. All of you who have come from both near and far are warmly welcomed to this gathering. The meeting (1) Endorsed the congratulations and welcome to Professor B. E. Supple (2) Agreed with the thanks and congratulations to the Editor, the Revd John Mullett, for producing another excellent magazine (3) Adopted the report and thanked the Secretary 3. Report of the Honorary Treasuer The Treasurer reported as follows: First we may note that subscriptions, raised from £1.50 to £2.00 per term from Michaelmas 1981, a total of £18 for life membership, have now worked their way through the undergraduate's three-year period of residence, but have produced this year an increase of only £295 whereas we have recorded a deficit of £448. The increased income from subscriptions may be roughly in line with inflation but is clearly not good enough given our intention of removing the deficit. It should be noted that the increase of subscription in 1981 coincided with the start of university cuts, which in College had the effect of reducing undergraduate numbers, so the act of increasing our 6 St Catharine's College Society Magazine subscription was partly nullified. On financial grounds I think we must increase the subscription again to £2.50 or preferably £3.00 per term, the latter giving a life subscription of £27: far from unreasonable, I think, when one considers the cost of the Magazine and the number of these which a member will receive in a lifetime. On diplomatic grounds I do not think the proposed increase open to criticism: the College is about to launch a major Appeal, but undergraduates in residence who will pay the subscription to the Society on College bills will hardly be expected to do much for the Appeal. Whereas it would have been possible to realize some of our investments to the value of £2,000 in order to pay off the accumulated deficit which now stands at £1,967, it seems after discussion that it is preferable to try to reduce this deficit progressively by raising the subscription as suggested above. This, with a return to somewhat higher numbers of undergraduates admitted, which will certainly now occur, should put our affairs on a better basis. The deficit remains in any case a partly notional concept, since the College annually makes a substantial contribution to our balance sheet. This is based on the premise that the Magazine is the sole published record of general College affairs and that the College should therefore help with costs of printing and distribution. The figure of £2,874 in the 1983 accounts for the cost of the Magazine should really be increased by £3,000 to obtain the true figure. The figure of £2,883 in the 1984 accounts relates to the printing of the 1983 Magazine, and this has to be increased by no less than £4,000, this being the College's contribution. I have before me the bill from Messrs Crampton for printing the 1984 Magazine; it amounts to £8,038, a very steep increase, from which it can be seen that the current College contribution will have to be even higher at about £5,000. On what we may call the positive side, I hope members are content with, indeed proud of, the quality of the Magazine and its wealth of useful and agreeable information. I know the Editor does an excellent and also economical job, and that our Magazine is probably superior to other comparable Cambridge products. The gathering will wish me to thank James Wright as Bursar for the continuing generous help which we received. I record my usual thanks to Mr Barton, Chief Clerk, for his efficient handling of our day-to- day affairs, and to others in the College Office who have helped. The meeting (1) Adopted the report and thanked the Treasurer (2) Agreed that the subscription to the Society should be increased to £3 a term for three years making a Life Subscription to the Society of £27. 4. Appeal Fund The Treasurer referred to the statement about the appeal in the Secretary's report. The Master said that the Governing Body had been giving consideration to the general needs of the College and to the principle of the appeal. A committee had been appointed to recommend prime objectives, which would be considered in consultation with the Society. He acknowledged with gratitude the attitude of members of the Society towards an appeal.

5. Old Members Sports Fund The Treasurer reported as follows: Members will see from the Accounts that our affairs have been roughly in line with previous years. We keep going, but only just. Last autumn a special effort was, I feel, made at our gathering, but results were disappointing. Since the accounts before you were drawn up we have naturally made a few more modest disbursements in respect of summer activities, and the present balance in the fund is only £232. Much of this is due to a very generous donation in the last few days from Mr J. R. Rossiter (matriculated 1924), of Bristol. In a letter he says that he was one-time captain of College Rugby, Hockey, Cricket, and Fives, which must have been quite an achievement. He wishes present sportsmen well, though deploring the change made a few years ago in the character of the College. I have replied with thanks and a few remarks about the notably sporty character of many of our women members. During the year we have supported a full range of sports: association football, badminton, cross-country, golf, hockey, tennis, modern pentathlon, orienteering, rowing (in addition to the support given by the Henley Fund), and swimming. I know that undergraduates are very grateful for the modest help we give to what are often very considerable expenses, for example when touring with University teams. Sir Foley and I as Trustees of the Fund are very grateful to the other Trustee, Dr Thorne, Senior Treasurer of the Amalgamated Clubs, for the help he gives us by preliminary sifting of applications and frank expression of opinion. We have not yet heard of Break Dancing in College or University, but the moment cannot be long delayed. In a year when the College's Appeal is about to be launched, I am reluctant to make any St Catharine's College Society Magazine 7 special appeal for contributors to the Sports Fund by post. But I am sure that members here present will be as generous as usual with notes and cheques. Any contribution left by name at the Porter's Lodge, or sent subsequently by post, will be most gratefully acknowledged. He quoted further details of the kind of grants that had been made from the Fund. The meeting adopted the report.

6. Election of President and President-Elect The meeting confirmed the election of F. D. Robinson, Senior Tutor, to be President for 1984-85 and chose G. B. Gray (1927) to be President-Elect for 1985-86.

7. Election of Committe Members The Meeting agreed that P. V. Cornish (1950) should be re-elected and that D. J. Parry (1960) and P. H. Wolton (1975) be elected to the Committee. 8. Election of Honorary Treasurer and Honorary Secretary The meeting was informed that both Professor Colin Smith and Sir Foley Newns had held these offices for many years and considered that there should be a change. Two members had been approached and were willing to take over; Dr D. E. Keeble, Fellow of the College and member of the Committee, as Treasurer and T. G. Cook, who was retiring from the post of Secretary of the University Department of Education, as Secretary. The meeting thanked Professor Colin Smith and Sir Foley Newns for their services and agreed that Dr D. E. Keeble (1958) and T. E. Cook (1940) should become Treasurer and Secretary respectively. 9. Benevolent Fund No request had been received. 10. Honoraria The meeting agreed to the recommendation that £60 should be given to the College Staff for their help to the Society. 11. Date of next meeting The meeting agreed that the date of the next Annual General Meeting and Dinner should be Friday 27th September 1985. 12. Black Ties at Dinner The President put before the meeting a proposal considered by the Committee that Dinner Jackets might be worn at the Annual Dinners in the future. The committee had considered the arguments for and against and was making no firm recommendation, leaving it to the General Meeting; they did not wish anyone to be discouraged from attending on the ground that he did not possess a dinner jacket, on the other hand they were not in favour of the expression, 'dress optional'. After debating the various considerations the meeting agreed that for an experimental period of two years the dress for gentlemen at the Annual Dinner should be stated to be a Dinner Jacket or dark suit. The meeting adjourned at 5.30 p.m. General Committee membership M. G. Stokell (1950) has been an enthusiastic member of the Committee since 1978, including a period when he was on business in the United States and collected some contributions from St Catharine's men to the Old Member's Sports Fund. He has now joined the Moravian Church in an administrative capacity in Tanzania. As he is unlikely to return to this country before his membership expires in 1986 he has expressed a willingness to make his place available forthwith. On the 23rd March 1985, after consultation between the President, Secretary and some members of the General Committee, who were present for a meeting of the Appeal Committee in College, Miss Frances Lee (1979), the Secretary of the London Group, was invited to be co-opted to fill the vacancy and agreed. The General Committee decided that the handing-over of the Secretaryship from Sir Foley Newns to Tom Cook should be on a date to be decided between themselves. Tom Cook was much involved during the first six months of the year as Appeal-Administrator, so the date of the hand- over was agreed to be 15 July 1985. 8 St Catharine's College Society Magazine

The September Dinner One hundred and forty-four persons responded to the invitation to the Dinner and enjoyed an excellent meal. In proposing the health of the College the President of the Society, Judge Peter Mason, welcomed the Master to his first September Dinner wishing him every success in his Mastership to which he brought both academic distinction and charm. The President said that among the sporting achievements of present members of the College was a place in the Univesity Rugby XV, a boat in the First Division of the river and a cricket team which had beaten that of the Law Society. He referred to those who had left office to whom warm thanks was due for all that they had done, mentioning Sir Peter Swinnerton-Dyer, in whose place the tennis team would have to seek new blood, and Dr Alfred Maddock who had retired from the College Presidency. Sir Foley Newns had been the backbone and powerhouse of the Society during his Secretaryship and the Society owed him a great debt. He felt it a great honour to preside over the Society having gained so much himself from the College. He had gained from Sydney Smith an affection for Mozart, and in Tom Henn he had met a Tutor who encouraged lateral thinking in his pupils. Above all he felt that the College had given him a sense of perspective. Finally in welcoming all those attending, the President thanked the College for providing a marvellous evening. In reply, the Master said that he welcomed the opportunity to join in what he thought of as a family occasion, and to meet members of the Society. From both Senior Tutor and Head Porter he had learned very soon that there was a St Catharine's way of doing things and he was happy that this should be so. The Lodge had been, and still was being, refurbished. He hoped, once this was complete, to be able to welcome members of the Society to the Lodge during the coming year. His occupancy had so far not been without incident. The Lodge garden's pasturing a small herd of cattle had been recorded for posterity in the magazine by the Chaplain. On another occasion the garden was again in the news with the delivery of an unexploded bomb in a load of topsoil. In the College he had found a flourishing and financially sound society, a happy community with stability and an excellent spirit, and he regarded himself as most fortunate both in his present colleagues and in his predecessor. The changes which had begun in the 60s had gone on without compromising any important principles. The building programme's continuation had provided accommodation of high quality and almost all who wanted to could live in College buildings. The Governing Body aimed to hand on to their successors an institution which would continue its intellectual and social development. To the latter end it sought to increase the communal provision by building a new Library and JCR on the last available part of the Island Site. The College was faced with the possible need to increase its commitment to teaching and research as the government limited its funding of the universities. This would require an increase in the endowment of the College. Recently the Portway and Jacobson bequests had enabled provision to be made for sport and study but a sustained effort would be necessary to meet new needs. The Governing Body had had a preliminary discussion on implementing the Society's suggestion of a new Appeal. A further object of this would be provision of travel bursaries for students. The full implementation of the decision some years ago to admit women meant that now the College was a balanced community. In addition, Cambridge Colleges were moving towards selection on the basis of a well-defined sixth form course lasting six terms. These were examples of the growing pace of changes in society which were reflected in St Catharine's and where further change might be expected, though with- out this being either radical or revolutionary. T.G.C. Members attending the dinner were: Abel, R. W. (1977); Adcock, R. A. (1945); Amos, R. W. T. (1951); Andrew, J. M. Y. (1947, Emeritus Fellow); Andrew, T. H. (1970); Appleton, K. (1958); Aston, Dr S. C. (1934, Emeritus Fellow); Baker, Dr J. H. {Fellow); Balchin, Prof. W. G. (1934); Baron, Dr C. E. {Fellow); Bate, H. W. (1963); Bayliss, J. C. (1937); Beevor, A. C. (1928); Bell, J. S. (1950); Bewick, H. (1930); Boulding, J. E. (1955); Bowie, J. (1961); Britton, Miss R. {Fellow); Browne, R. E. (1945); Bryant, S. J. (1978); Boizot, P. (1950); Caesar, A. A. L. (1933, Emeritus Fellow); Caesar, J. A. (1965); Cantrell, J. D. (1964); Casson, Revd. C. (1923); Chapman, G. W. (1926); Chapman, T. F. (1964); Chaytor, E. R. (1927); Chaytor, H. C. (1927); Christian, Brother {Chaplain); Chutter, F. M. (1952); Clark, Revd. I. D. L. {Fellow); Clegg, S. J. (1976); Cohen, H. (1939); Colclough, J. R. (1935), Comline, Dr R. S. {Fellow); Cook, T. G. (1940); Dales, K. R. F. (1934); Denison, G. P. (1978); Denison, N. B. (1977); Dunbar, G. C. M. (1956); Dyos, C. J. (1980); Eagling A. W. (1927); Elgood, J. H. (1928); Evans, Dr R. C. {Emeritus Fellow); Eve, A. (1977); Fink, J. R. (1933); Floyd, C. F. (1930); Franklin, R. M. (1922); Freer, A. (1947); Goodman, C. H. (1940); Goulding, Sir Irvine (1928, Honorary Fellow); Grainger, J. H. (1936); Gray, G. B. (1927); Gray, R. C. B. (1948); Griffin, P. (1946); Gudgion, G. N. (1972); Guidon, L. H. (1951); Gresty, J. A. E. (1977);Hall, P. (1948); Hanby, A. G. S. (1945); Haynes, F. E. (1925); Herbert, Dr G. {Fellow); Hett, C. E. (1928); Hieatt, M. J. (1967); Hillman, L. B. (1970); Hudson, J. C. R. (1946); Hutcherson, S. W. (1924); Joscelyne, F. G. (1935); Kember, O. D. (1962); Kunkler, P. B. (1939); Lacey, Prof. W. K. (1940, Emeritus Fellow); Le Huray, Dr P. G. (1948, Fellow); Lock, A. E. (1953); McGowan, D. K. (1948); McCreery, M. J. (1944); McCullock, R. L. (1932); McKelvie, R. W. D. (1952); Mason, Sir Frederick (1932); Mason, G. F. P.,Q.C. (1940 President of the Society); Maybury, R. L. (1976); Merrett, F. M. (1946); Mitchell, R. L. (1946); Morris, Dr R. A. {Fellow); Morse, S. P. (1942); Moverley, J. (1968); Mullett, Revd. J. St. H. (1943); Munday, A. R. (1940); Metcalfe, J. I. (1950); Newns, Sir Foley(1928); Nicholson, C. P. (1927); Norris, G. M. (1965); Norris, J. A. (1949); Offer, F. D. (1925); Offer, M. J. (1961); Orman, P. R. (1944); Osoka, H. U. (1953); Parry, D. J. (1960); Pirie, J. F. (1939); Porcas, R. (1968); Prentice, G. (1932); Reed, J. W. (1949); Ridgeon, H. D. R. (1922, Honorary Fellow Commoner); Riley, A. F. (1977); Robinson, F. D. {Fellow); Robinson, P. J. (1959); Rose, C. J. (1962); Scott, F. W. (1934); Senior, J. (1956); Shakeshaft, Dr J. R. {Fellow); Shelford, J. R. (1930); Sheppard, Prof. N. (1940); Sheret, W. B. (1944); Shirley, J. A. (1940); Sillery, W. M. (1959); Sillery, S. G. (1964); Smith, B. W. (1947); Smith, Prof. C. C. (1947, Fellow); Smith, Dr S. (1929, Emeritus Fellow); Speake,C. J. (1959); Speake, W. P. (1927); Speake, G. D. (1938); Stanley, R. W. (1944); Stokes, M. G. (1947); Supple, Prof. B. E.(The Master);Schardt,C. W. (1968); Tanner, L. (1936); Taylor, D. (1969); Thomas, G. G. (1935); Thompson, F. Y. (1927); Thompson, G. A. (1971); Thorne, Dr C. J. R. {Fellow); Travers, T. J. D. (1978); Trundle, J. M. (1976); Trundle, Mrs S. J. (1979); Vine, R. (1978); Watney, A. S. P. (1954); Williams, S. R. (1926); Wilson, B. J. (1944); Wilson, S. N. (1976); Wittrick, W. H. (1940); Woodham, B. B. (1961); Wright, J. R. G. {Fellow); York, P. L. (1974). ! "#$%!&'()!#'%!*))+!,)-'./)-!0,12!/#)!&3*4$.! 5),%$1+!10!/#$%!6'('7$+)!01,!4)('4!,)'%1+%8! ! "#)!0344!5),%$1+!$%!'5'$4'*4)!1+49!/1!,)($%/),)-! 2)2*),%!10!/#)!:/!;'/#',$+)<%!;144)()!:1.$)/9! =#1!2'9!41(!$+!5$'!/#)!:1.$)/9!=)*%$/)! ===8.'/#%8.'28'.83>?%1.$)/9! ! "#$%!&'()!#'%!*))+!,)-'./)-!0,12!/#)!&3*4$.! 5),%$1+!10!/#$%!6'('7$+)!01,!4)('4!,)'%1+%8! ! "#)!0344!5),%$1+!$%!'5'$4'*4)!1+49!/1!,)($%/),)-! 2)2*),%!10!/#)!:/!;'/#',$+)<%!;144)()!:1.$)/9! =#1!2'9!41(!$+!5$'!/#)!:1.$)/9!=)*%$/)! ===8.'/#%8.'28'.83>?%1.$)/9! St Catharine's College Society Magazine 11 The Society President-Elect 1985/86 G. B. Gray (1927), elected last year to be our next President of the Society, came to St Catharine's with a Crabtree Exhibition after being Head Boy at Leeds Grammar School. Reading History and playing rugby (see page 56), led him on to join the London and North Eastern Railway to which he directed his working life, finally retiring as Management Training Officer of British Railways. Meanwhile, he had played for Harlequins, Hartlepool Rovers and been given a county cap for Leicestershire, before moving on to refereeing. He has been elected to be President of the Yorkshire Rugby Union Football Club for the 1986-87 season. A keen churchman, he took an active part in the General Synod of the Church of England as an elected member of the Diocese of York, and served on the General Council of the Missions to Seamen - "Rugby, Railways and Religion." He has attended the Annual General Meetings and annual Dinners of the Society almost continuously since he went down, and regularly supported regional meetings of the Society. Honours and Awards Boizot, Peter J. (1950), has been made Cavaliere Ufficiale della Republica Italiana. Davies, G. J. (Fellow 1967-77) has been appointed Honorary Professor of Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, in recognition of his work in promoting collaboration with the University of Sheffield. Day, Derek (1948), the High Commissioner for Canada, was awarded the K.C.M.G. in the 1984 Birthday Honours List. Eldred, Dr V. W. (1943), M.B.E., Head of the Fuel Performance Division of the Windscale Laboratories of the UK Atomic Energy Authority, was elected to the Fellowship of Engineering in 1984. Hurrell, Tony G. (1945), Ambassador to Nepal, was awarded the C.M.G. in the 1984 Birthday Honours List. Keeble, Dr D. E. (1958, Fellow 1964), has been awarded the 1985 Gill Memorial Award of the Royal Geographical Society for his contributions to industrial geography and planning. The presentation took place at the RGS in June. Lloyd, J. R. (1938), was awarded the C.B.E. in the 1984 Birthday Honours List for his work negotiating with the E.E.C. on behalf of the UK Brewing industry, and for charity work in the Burton-on-Trent area. McKellen, Ian (1958, Honorary Fellow 1982) was awarded the prize for 'Best Actor of the Year in a Revival' (Wild Honey) by the Society of West End Theatre in 1984 (renamed the Laurence Olivier Awards). He also played Coriolanus to great acclaim in the recent National Theatre production. Nicholson, Robin Buchanan (1953), F.R.S., Chief Scientific Adviser to the Cabinet and Vice- President of the Institute of Metals, was knighted in the New Year's Honours List, 1985. Vines, Eric (1949), High Commissioner for Uganda, was awarded the C.M.G. in the 1984 Birthday Honours List. Wittrick, Professor H. W. (1940), Sc.D., F.Eng., F.R.S., Emeritus Professor of Civil Engineering in the University of Birmingham, was awarded the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Science (Engineering) in May 1984 by the Chalmers University of Technology, Goteborg, Sweden. 12 St Catharine's College Society Magazine Editorial "... whilst the planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed laws of gravity, from so simple a beginning, endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved." With a characteristic stance between the past and the future, glancing briefly at the glory of all that lives, Charles Darwin puts down his pen on The Origin of Species. He would surely have applauded Hatton (1983) and Keeble (1981) for reporting that they have observed more than 100 species of bird life each in a single day this year, but he would be surprised that the 20th Century regard his work with such importance that they publish his youthful letters and drawings in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin Vol. I 1821-1836. This year's ''Publications" (see p. 42) announces two great books on Darwin, co-edited by Dr Sydney Smith (1929, Fellow 1939, Emeritus Fellow 1978); one of them with Stephen Pocock (1973) as Managing Editor. The reviewer of the Correspondence volume commented in the Times Literary Supplement (10 May 1985) that, "... the combination of immensity of scale with tireless attention to detail seems a particularly appropriate form of homage to the author of The Origin of Species," and goes on to equate the task of editing the Correspondence with that of designing and creating a Gothic Cathedral. St Catharine's is proud that this scholarship comes out of our common life and 'C staircase. Darwin disappoints us when earlier in his book he mentions that "a cat curls the end of its tail when preparing to spring," and then puts us off with that professorial commonplace, "I have not space here to enter on this or other such cases." It seems that the Master of Cath's is in just such a poise. Last year, when speaking at the Society Dinner about the future of both College and University, he stressed that, "We may anticipate much more rapid change." With this philosophy in mind, he has toured the land tirelessly from coast to coast, meeting a great many of you and encouraging you to see that the College is ready and prepared for the next century (cf. p. 13). Change there must be. You will see a photograph (p. 13) of the open space at the back of Bull where, the new, double-storey Library will be built. It was close to this site that young dons met in Henry VIII's reign to fashion out the Reformation of the Church and the New Learning. According to a former member of College, John Strype (1643-1737), some of the committee work for these projects took place in 'The White Horse Tavern', known as 'Little Germany.' Cranmer and Latimer might delight that adjacent to the backyard of the 'Tavern' there is to be a modern, purpose-built library, for the use of undergraduates. They might be surprised at the comparative scarcity of volumes on Theology and the Classics, but who knows what great Reformation and New Learning may not bud forth from this library site? Building work is already under way, so the yard with its fountless fountain may be gone when you next come to College. Those who have read books here in days gone by, and those trying to read them now, have reached many peaks of success in this last year, as the reader will discern. Moran (1974) can climb 412,000 feet and cover over 1,030 miles in 83 days; Armitage (1983) reaches the final of the Times Crossword Championship; Kelsall (1973) misses being the MENSA Super Brain of Britain because he was predestined to the womb later than his opponent. Laws (1944, Honorary Fellow 1982) becomes the Master of a Cambridge College; Dodds (1978) brings to Britain unexpected triumph as a member of the hockey team in the Olympics. Three men are raised by Royal Honours, to St Michael and St George in one List (a College record?). Illing (1981) tells us that St Catharine's has taken a lead in founding the University Basketball league. A long list of Blues: and a longer list of Firsts in the Tripos elevates the College from 18th to 9th place in the Times degree table. What more do the older members of the Society expect of the College? We report that "a smell of cats" was noted at a cocktail party in Ottawa, and Norris (1949), who contributed the J.C.R. report in 1952 I invited to contribute again this year, with the B.B.C., the Far East and The Afghan War (1838-1842) behind him. The end of this Long Vac Term will signal the departure of our Dean of Chapel, to Scotland; and Mr Dudley Robinson, Senior Tutor and President of our Society to his hard-earned retirement. Cool salutations would be an infringement of their dignity, but let the Society record that these Fellows, having come to our house from King's and Clare respectively, have both given their enthusiasm, as second to none, for the common life of this College and our Society. We wish them both God speed. JOHN MULLETT

As we go to print, Dr Sydney Smith's former pupils may wish to know he is at present in Addenbrooke's, recovering from surgery. He is up and getting about again, and is in good spirits. - Ed. St Catharine's College Society Magazine 13

The St Catharine's College Appeal, 1985 A progress report by THE MASTER It was with considerable pleasure and gratification that I make this report to Members of the St Catharine's College Society: first, because the Society played such an important role in initiating the Appeal; second, because the Appeal - so vital to the development of the College - has got off to such a good start; and finally, because it has enabled me to get to know far more Members of St Catharine's than I should otherwise have done. All who read these words should have received a copy of the Appeal Brochure which, together with a letter from me, was sent out in the course of late April and early May. You will therefore be familiar with the detailed reasons for launching the Appeal: the building of a new Library and JCR, the provision of more resources for research and teaching, and the enchancement of support for junior members' extra-curricular activities through grants for sport, music, travel, etc. These are worthy and important aims. And their achievement through the success of the Appeal would provide the College with a firm foundation for its development into the next century. Indeed, as the Appeal Brochure explained, the new buildings are so important to the College's future that it was decided to begin work on them this year. The Library and JCR will occupy space at the north end of the Island Site, along the line of King's Lane, adjacent to, and in the 'undercrofts' of, the residential buildings of the late 1960's. Contractors began work in June, and should complete it in time for the Michaelmas Term of 1986. Those Old Members attending the Annual Meetings and Dinners in late September of 1985 and 1986 will therefore be able to see both the beginnings and the virtual completion of the new buildings. Turning to the Appeal itself, although we still have some way to go and must depend on contributions from many more Members than have so far contributed, it must be a source of considerable pride to all Members that in less than three months the Appeal has passed the halfway mark: at the time of writing (the second week of July) the grand total of contributions and pledges has reached almost £820,000. This is a splendid achievement, and reflects the exceptional quality of the collegiate loyalty and support enjoyed by St Catharine's. Admittedly, the overall total contains some exceptional individual elements. The Appeal Committee is particularly grateful to the Trustees of the Quincentenary and Building Appeal, who 14 St Catharine's College Society Magazine transferred a large unexpended balance from that Fund to help launch the current Appeal. In addition, the whole College will applaud the very great generosity of two of its Members whose contributions have been so outstanding as to warrant mention here: J. B. Bibby (1949), who had endowed a Research Fellowship with a Fund of £200,000; and H. D. R. Ridgeon (1922), who has given a deposited covenant, worth some £100,000, to support the College's teaching. Historically, these are very rare benefactions, and our gratitude must be correspondingly great. At the same time, the College is fully aware that generosity is also measured in relation to means, and enormously appreciates all the diversity of contributions which have been elicited by the Appeal. These include individual gifts and covenants ranging from a few pounds to £10,000, and institutional benefactions from commercial companies and corporate bodies (two of our sister Colleges - Trinity and St John's - have been remarkably generous in contributing to our Appeal). By the standards of the largest, most contributions have, of course, been modest - but they are just as keenly appreciated for their own sake and for what they reflect about our Members' loyalty to St Catharine's. A list of benefactors whose contributions were made up to 15 July 1985 is printed below, and further lists will be printed from time to time. It is intended to place a book containing the names of all benefactors in the new Library. Although the progress of the Appeal has been very rapid, we still have a long way to go, and there are certainly no grounds for complacency. The most demanding effort is still to come: so far we have received almost 250 individual contributions, but the ultimate success of the Appeal must depend on positive responses from about 1000, since we are unlikely to receive as many very large benefactions in the future as has been the case so far. Yet the target of 1000 contributors is by no means unrealistic. That number would be somewhat less than the number who contributed to the Quincentenary Appeal, it would be about one-fifth of our accessible membership, and the number of donors during the first two months has been very reassuring. Nevertheless, the attainment of our target of £1.5 million will involve widespread cooperation and initiative as well as generosity. I urge all those who have signified their intention to give to do so without delay, and all those who have not yet been in touch with the College to respond to the Appeal as soon as possible. As I have had frequent occasion to tell our Members, both in individual correspondence and at the meetings held around the country, I have found my association with the Appeal a remarkable and reassuring experience. It has brought me into contact with a larger and more varied group of St Catharine's men and women than I would otherwise have met so soon after becoming Master. And it has enormously reinforced my initial impression of a College with a membership of unparalleled loyalty and unique commitment. I am sure that this is the basis of the success of the Appeal so far, and I have every hope that it will enable us to achieve all the Appeal's objectives over the coming months. Having met so many Members whose attachment to the College is so firm, I am confident that a very large number will contribute to its strengthening and development. Please support the Appeal as generously as you can.

First list of Donors Individuals Allen, E. G. Foale, Air Commodore C. H. Porter, D. J. Anderson, R. O. Francis, M. V. H. Prevezer, Professor S. Atkins, J. F. B. Franks, J. Pringle, G. Baker, Dr J. H. French, N. J. Raithby, Dr P. R. Balchin, Professor W. G. V Garrod, Dr D. R. Raper, R. B. Barnard, Mrs J. M. Gillham, Dr A. J. Rapley, Miss P. A. Bates, J. G. H. Glover, B. M. Ridgeon, H. D. R. Battersby, Professor A. R. Goodyear, K. Rippengal, D. Bayly, Dr C. A. Goulding, Sir Irvine Roberts, E. I. Beer, I. D. S. Gowans, J. A. Robinson, F. D. Beevor, A. C. Grainger, J. H. Robinson, P. F. Bibby, J. B. Grange, T. W. Rogers, R. A. Birkett, J. H. Gregory, Dr R. W. Rowe, Miss R. M. Bishopp, C. P. Griffiths, J. C. Rowan-Hamilton, Miss C. O. Blacknell, D. Guest, A. J. St Lawrence, J. Blomfield, B. C. Hadden, J. D. Sands, P. J. Boothroyd, J. Halliwell, D. G. Scott, J. A. Borland, Dr H. H. Handy, Dr. N. C. Senior, J. Brearley, D. Hardwick, J. R. Shakeshaft, Dr J. R. Britton, Miss R. A. Hatton, R. H. S. Shenkman, J. Bruce, Sir Arthur Hawkes, B. M. Silk, Miss M. St Catharine's College Society Magazine 15

Buckley, Dr D. G. Haybittle, Dr J. L. Simmonds, K. W. Bullock, G. R. Hayter, The Reverend T. H. O. Sixsmith, E. C. D. Bullough, Major S. H. Heath, J. H. Smith, B. W. Bunford, J. F. Heller, M. A. Smith, Professor C. C. Bunn, A. G. Henderson, J. G. Smith. C. E. Burgess, B. Hewlins, Dr M. J. E. Smith, Miss D. E. B. Burnham, A. B. Hobbs, J. S. Smith, M. R. A. Burrell, Lieutenant Colonel R. H. F. Hodges, T. N. S. Southwell, Canon E. M. B. Butcher, Mrs H. Hodgkins, W. R. Southworth, E. A. Caesar, A. A. L. Howard, Dr A. J. Speake, G. D. Capewell, R. R. Hull, L. W. H. Stanley, R. W. Caplan, D. Ivory, T. P. G. Steward, D. N. Casey, M. J. Jackson, Professor D. A. S. Stewart, Miss M. M. Cavaliero, Dr G. T. Jackson, P. H. Stokes, A. W. Chamberlain, Dr D. A. & Mrs J. A. Jennings, D. W. Stratford, R. Chamberlain, Miss M. Jones, A. R. M. Sutcliffe, Professor H. Chapman, Dr G. W. Jones, The Reverend D. S. Sutton, M. J. Charlwood, P. A. Jones, P. W. Swannell, A. J. Chisholm, Professor M. D. I. Keeble, A. B. Taylor, The Right Reverend R. Selby Cibula, A. Keeble, Dr D. E. Thompson, F. Y. Clark, The Reverend I. D. L. Kilroy, M. Thompson, Dr J. A. Clegg, C. J. Lambert, The Reverend J. C. A. Thompson, P. W. J. Collins, K. J. Lazda, E. J. Thorne, Dr C. J. R. Comline, Dr R. S. Le Huray, Dr P. G. Thornton, D. R. Conder, Miss J. W. Leicester, J. C. Ting, T. W. E. Cornelius, M. L. Levi, L. Tubbs, H. Cranston, B. A. L. Liddle, D. G. Turnbull, Dr R. E. Crassweller, P. H. Lock, A. E. Twardowski, T. Crombie, G. N. P. Lofthouse, J. A. Tyzack, D. I. H. Cullin, B. H. R. LLoyd, J. R. and Mrs O. Wainwright, The Reverend, B. H. Cullin, N. A. McDowall, I. D. M. Waldon, B. S. Dales, K. R. F. MacVitie, H. D. E. Walker, Sir Augustus Dams, The Reverend J. L. Marsden, K. H. Walker, D. S. Darby, Professor H. C. Marsh, The Reverend L. J. Walker, J. G. Davies, D. G. Marshall, S. G. Waller, D. Davies, E. W. G. Marwood, P. D. L. B. Walters, C. C. Daunt, T. L. A. Mason, Sir Frederick Ward, Captain A. R. Dawson, C. B. Mason, Judge Peter Webbley, C. R. Day, J. J. D. May, P. J. Webster, P. D. Dean, J. C. Merritt, D. J. Westmacott, Major P. S. Dennison, E. B. Meston, The Lord Whitworth, S. W. B. Dickinson, W. I. Mischler, N. M. Wilkinson, Canon A. B. Dorey, P. H. Moore, C. C. Wilkinson, W. K. Dowsett, L. R. Morling, N. A. Williams, A. S. V. Dowsett, M. J. Morrell, E. Williams, P. F. Efford, J. C. Morris, Dr R. A. Wilson, T. J. Elderfield, Dr H. Morrison, I. H. Wingate, Lieutenant Colonel P. J. F. Elvins, Lieutenant Colonel G. F. Moulsdale, J. M. Wolton, J. C. Emberson, A. J. Napper, C. M. Wolton, P. H. Evans, Miss C. J. Newns, Sir Foley Wong, B. K. Evans, D. W. Nicholas, D. M. A. Wood, D. A. Evans, Wing Commander D. R. J. Norris, Sir Eric Wood, R. C. Evans, Dr I. S. Norris, Dr J. A. Woodward, Canon P. C. Everard, P. M. O'Neill, P. J. Wright, Dr B. Fairbank, E. B. Overin, R. A. Wright, E. K. Fellingham, M. B. Paling, L. B. Wright, J. R. G. Figgures, A. C. Paterson, J. H. Wyeth, D. Findlay, Dr W. P. K. Perry, J. E. Young, M. Fisher, J. S. Pickles, A. R. Yourievsky, Prince Alexander Fletcher, K. J. Pickles M. H.

Charitable Foundations and Companies Arthur Andersen & Co St John's College, Cambridge Bank of Credit and Commerce International SA The Sudborough Foundation Catering by County Ltd Trinity College, Cambridge Vickers Da Costa Ltd 16 St Catharine's College Society Magazine The Sons of Martha MR F. D. ROBINSON SENIOR TUTOR AND PRESIDENT OF THE ST CATHARINE'S SOCIETY (Dudley Robinson has taught engineering in the College for more than thirty years. He has served consistently in one office or another, being remembered by some unfortunate individuals as the Dean who successfully stalked those whose mind was to climb in or out). At school, Rossall, I was a failed mathematician; that is I had two shots at the Oxbridge Scholarship examination and managed not even an Exhibition. Since then I have tutored with pleasure many real mathematicians and now fully recognise that their intellectual powers are an order of magnitude more powerful than those of the ordinary mortal. So sometime in June, 1937, my housemaster wrote to Clare, where I was accepted, without any interview, to read the Mechanical Sciences Tripos for the same October. In those days, it was all as easy as that. The snag was that you had to pay for yourself and it was typical of my Father, an engineer, that he devoted one-tenth of the entire capital on which he had to live to keep me at Cambridge. At Cambridge engineering was then relatively as important as it is now, read by one in ten of the undergraduate population. The buildings were those which still stand adjacent to Coe Fen and smelt pleasantly of a mixture of Burma teak from the lecture theatres, steam and hot oil from the heat laboratory and dust from the magnets in the electrical department. Even as late as '37 not a radio valve intruded into an engineering world still devoted to civil, mechanical and power electrical engineering. Except on the railways, reciprocating steam engines were obsolescent but we were still taught Reuleaux diagrams for slide valves and details of great triple expansion steam engines. In the heat laboratory, apart from feeling warm, you could listen to an enthralling Prokofiev-like symphony as the pistons and valve-gear of ponderous steam engines, built in Edwardian times to outlast the century, clashed their way through their stately cycles to the background song of heavy air-injection diesels and hot-bulb engines. "Predestination in the stride of yon' connecting rod," sang McAndrew, and that set the atmosphere. There was only one petrol engine in the department, an M.G. P-type, on which Paul Dykes was developing his piston-ring research which eventually won him a distinguished prize. The Lecturers seemed to me very competent engineers; they presented a real world of professional engineering first and then tied in mathematical or graphical theory as far as possible, but eventually the emphasis was always on first principles. The staff seemed to possess more physical skills than we do nowadays. Thus it was normal to see the Materials lecturer make a very fine green-sand mould during his lecture, to enter a Mechanics of Machines period to find a drawing of a milling machine accurately draw in coloured chalk, in every detail, on the blackboard. No lecturer would have entrusted his engines to hands other than his own. Engines were started, controlled and stopped by the lecturer. The Laboratory staff only cleaned machinery, and the three main Laboratories shone like the engine- room of a Cunarder. I left Clare in June '40. May Balls were cancelled. There were dragon-teeth tank traps opposite the Leys (it being assumed that German tanks would follow the main road); entirely alone with one round in one ancient rifle I had guarded Marshall's air field; a different country surrendered at the end of each examination and the visible pattern of defeat could be seen in the tired and bewildered remnants of young soldiers evacuated from Dunkirk, clustered in the hot summer nights under the peaceful elms of the Backs until the shattered units could be sorted out. There followed five years of war, during which the Japanese showed me some engineering not taught at Cambridge, like carving an airfield out of jungle with just buckets and spades. Three years of peacetime industry working for Sir Harry Ricardo, one of Cambridge's greatest engineers, saw me back at Cambridge as a Demonstrator in Thermodynamics in the Engineering Department in '48. Materially things had not changed much. Rebuilding had not begun but, in fact, the Department, the University and the Colleges were on the eve of two decades of the greatest expansive period of their history. The subsequent effect of this rapid increase in the size of scientific departments and the slower growth rate of the Colleges was to upset the pre-war balance of University Lectureships and Fellowships. Four years after my appointment the average number of engineering Fellows per College was under unity, while in the Department over a score of Teaching Officers languished without Fellowships. Since returning I had supervised entirely for Clare and it was thus an extremely pleasant surprise when Donald Portway, recently retired from the Department and still Master of St Catharine's - he was the first engineer to hold a Mastership in Cambridge - in the summer of '54 St Catharine's College Society Magazine 17 asked me to direct studies in engineering at St Catharine's and then caused me to be elected into a Fellowship some six months later. I think that Donald approved of me because, after the Berlin airlift, when war seemed a possibility, I had joined the R.E. wing of the Corps and thus held a T. A. Commission. This was a turning point in my life. St Catharine's was then small in its Fellowship of fifteen, was modest, frugal, athletic, without social pretensions, and above all friendly. It was blessed with Fellows who had selflessly worked for their College and quite transformed it from its very minor status of 1920. Each Fellow welcomed unreservedly a new member of their Society and made him feel part of the College history. I have loved every brick of St Catharine's since then and the debt I owe the College can never be repaid. With Donald as Master, engineering was highly regarded by the College. Though I was the only engineering Fellow and though the annual intake of undergraduates was about sixteen, supervision presented few problems because one could easily get the services of excellent lecturers who had no Fellowship. The Master negotiated with the late Roly Pemberton, chairman of the Permutit company, who presented us with the remarkably generous gift of two engineering Fellowships, even now the only Fellowships paid for by donated money. The College is most grateful for such generosity. When Donald Portway retired, the flow of engineers actually increased. Christopher Waddams, himself a mathematician, took over the Admissions and showed enthusiasm for increasing the engineering side. He had a flair for spotting that a would-be mathematician was not Leibnitz reincarnate, and he would then channel him to the engineering side. When Christopher took over, the academic ability range of our intake was wide. In those days there was an Engineering Studies course which, though not of Honours status, carried exemption from subsequent professional examinations. It was designed to train good engineers from among those whose mathematical performance was weak. After all, it was argued, Watt and Parsons were not dab hands at the integral calculus. A certain amount of specialisation was allowed and curiously a whole paper was devoted to industrial management, when that subject was never even mentioned in the Honours course. Now we have a whole Part II devoted to management. Many excellent engineers did graduate from the Studies course, but as well it attracted a rich assortment of colourful characters who were set to enjoy a genteel drift through Cambridge. Among these gentlemen double-barrelled names proliferated, together with a sprinkling of German barons, Commonwealth princes, scions of major industrial firms and inevitably men whose brains were largely in their Rugby boots. St Catharine's had its share, and splendid they were, but under Christopher we soon admitted only Honours men. Perhaps regrettably the Department abolished the Studies course in the 'fifties. With Professor Rich as Master, the College systematically expanded its Fellowship at the rate of one each year and it was an immense acquisition to the engineering strength when Wylie Gregory was elected into a second Permutit Fellowship in 1962. We have always, fortunately, agreed on our engineering policies. We have both felt that a supervisor should be able to cover each subject that an undergraduate reading a general engineering course had to study up to the end of the second year, so we have not specialised in our teaching. We have therefore had to use a minimum of inexperienced research students. The advent of Wylie settled the teaching pattern of engineering in the College for almost the subsequent twenty years. Of course there were perturbations during this period. The tragic death of Christopher Waddams lost to us the most favourable and understanding Admissions Tutor we have had on the engineering side. Subsequently the numbers of engineering admissions dropped first to fourteen and then to the present pattern of twelve. Though matters were stable in the College the Engineering Department was changing rapidly. Buildings expanded, Professors proliferated, staff increased and diversified. The theoretical and mathematical standards were continually raised, perhaps at the sacrifice of involvement in practical engineering. First the Studies course was abolished. Everyone read for Honours: either the Normal course, three years of non- specialisation with a single Tripos at the end, or the Fast course, effectively the Normal course crammed into two years followed by a specialised Part II. In St Catharine's we tended only to put the very high-fliers into the Fast course. Though the Normal course was itself exacting, it left a man time to come to terms with himself and to look around at those other fascinating occupations that Cambridge seductively offers. To get a First in the Normal course was no mean intellectual achievement, but unfortunately some Colleges began initially putting all their candidates into the Fast course and only allowed hopeless cases later to change to the Normal so that it became customary among many Dons, especially those who knew nothing of the subject, to refer to the "Slow" Tripos and eventually the bad name caused that particular dog to be hanged. In 1970 the Tripos was overhauled and subsequently everyone was required to take a modified Fast course with a Tripos, Part I A, Part IB, and Part II at the end of each year. Again academic standards had 18 St Catharine's College Society Magazine been raised but at the cost of increased pressure on undergraduates and time to expand on a theme. That arrangement has lasted until the present time when once again a major rearrangement is being implemented. It has now been recognised that undergraduates are being overloaded, that too much is being taught too quickly even to the best young minds in Britain. But more than that, the basic reason for the present alterations is the increasing pace of developments in electronics and what is loosely called "Information Engineering" which includes microprocessors, computing and - older readers will be relieved to hear - some old-fashioned drawing. The increased time devoted to electronics means abbreviated syllabuses of the traditional engineering subjects of Structures, Mechanics and Thermodynamics. Thus the new Tripos reflects the national trend to "high technology" (I always thought that the Forth Bridge, the Queen Mary and a Rolls Royce Merlin engine were high technology) and a decline in heavy industry. It is a tragedy that if you are an Engineer you tend to be both inarticulate and busy: consequently, we have to listen to the chatterings of intellectuals, journalists and the self-styled experts of the media without being capable of convincingly proving that most of their outpourings is rubbish. In the new Tripos more effort will be made to educate our undergraduates to express themselves, on technical matters, clearly and to prove their points. Few true Engineers actually want to sit gossiping on committees or boards, but it is valuable to be able to drive a coach and horses through their recommendations. In the last five years the engineering teaching in the College has again been fortified, first by the election of Rachel Britton, who brings us the computing expertise we now need (and who is a splendid acquisition to the choral activities) and more recently by that of Scott Steedman, whose field is civil engineering, specialising in soil mechanics, a subject in which Cambridge may reasonably claim international pre-eminence. Over these years the numbers of engineering candidates admitted has been a little disappointing because standards are now so high that we have been able to select only about twelve entrants each year, though I am delighted that we have fifteen acceptances for next year - if sad that I cannot teach them. A marked feature of these last years has been the number of quite brilliant men we have produced. Last year one in five of our engineers achieved first-class honours, we have an engineering Research Fellow, and another pleasure has been the six able men and a more than able lady (she is a triathlon star) staying on to complete their Ph.D. The true distinction of a College lies not in its buildings and facilities but in the quality of its Fellows and graduates. We keep no formal record of what careers our Engineers follow after they graduate, but from time to time news filters through of someone constructing the sharp end of a tunnel a hundred metres below London traffic, or making Shell yet richer, or enabling the rest of us to survive by supporting our exports in odd bits of forgotten French colonies. Engineers are reticent, inarticulate, not good at putting emotions to paper, or indeed feeling that they should, but at College reunions, public and private, remarkable achievements are casually related during the swallowing of a pint. The overall picture is of service to mankind and a consequent conclusion that the St Catharine's Admissions Tutors do their job well. But before they graduate we do know of our Engineers' contributions to College life. There is no activity in which they do not engage. When they can spare time from their perpetual love affair with the Boat Club (one was President of a winning Cambridge Eight) there are still some left over to participate in the more violent sports or to add organisation to the Orchestra and Choir. In the intervals of thinking great thoughts, appropriately all Engineers do something. Look at Sherlock Court lawn. It was levelled by Engineers using the latest surveying equipment and the bumps prove it. The future of Engineers in the College causes me no concern: we have three Fellows remaining, all experienced and enthusiastic. Good though past and present has been, I feel the best is yet to come. The application list, certainly in quality, is at its strongest and many of our brightest minds stay on for research. The situation in the Engineering Department is more fluid and my old-fashioned prejudices suggest that there is continually a shift towards mathematical modelling and theory with less emphasis on character and intuition, but perhaps that is untrue, and if true, perhaps as it should be. Kipling called us "The Sons of Martha" after that bustling lady who did all the hard work and got few thanks, even from our Lord* - "It is their care in all the ages to take the buffet and cushion the shock. It is their care the gear engages: it is their care the switches lock." England - not, I think, Scotland - has always taken her Engineers for granted so it is indeed fortunate that for most Engineers the job comes first and the financial gain second. For myself, *Theologians unacquainted with the genealogy of engineers will find her in Luke X.38f. - Ed. ! "#$%!&'()!#'%!*))+!,)-'./)-!0,12!/#)!&3*4$.! 5),%$1+!10!/#$%!6'('7$+)!01,!4)('4!,)'%1+%8! ! "#)!0344!5),%$1+!$%!'5'$4'*4)!1+49!/1!,)($%/),)-! 2)2*),%!10!/#)!:/!;'/#',$+)<%!;144)()!:1.$)/9! =#1!2'9!41(!$+!5$'!/#)!:1.$)/9!=)*%$/)! ===8.'/#%8.'28'.83>?%1.$)/9! 20 St Catharine's College Society Magazine Deaths Arnold (1934). On 6 March 1985, in Gozo, Alfred Arementiere Kemmel Arnold, M.B.E. Ballance (1920). On 19 April 1985, peacefully in a Birmingham hospital at the age of 90, Howard Wentworth Ballance, for many years Biology master and Careers master at King Edward's Schdol, Birmingham. Barnard (1933). Suddenly, in March 1985, the Revd. A. R. Barnard, Asisstant Master of Pocklington School, 1962-81. Barrett (1935). On 1 May 1985, in Bishop's Stortford, John Barrett. Bonny (1927). On 9 December 1984, Ronald Frederick Bonny, of Cromer, former District Engineer for British Rail at Norwich. Booth (1924). On 12 September 1984, Alfred John (Jack) Booth of Edgbaston, Birmingham, formerly a Solicitor in Swindon for many years. Bradshaw (1931). On 6 April 1985, after a short illness, Ronald Frank Bradshaw, former Headmaster of St Alban's Grammar School for Boys 1938-68. Brooks (1943). On 25 June 1985, Joseph Herbert Brooks, MBE. Buhner (1931). On 6 January 1983, Brian Francis Bulmer. Byfield (1924). On 9 December 1984, in hospital, the Revd. Francis Reginald Stoneman Byfield. Clark (1966). On 16 March 1982, at the tragically early eage of 36, of leukaemia, John Lamplough Clark (see Obituaries). Corbett (1932). On 14 March 1984, in a London Nursing Home, Arthur Dennis Corbett. Cox (1930). On 20 January 1985, peacefully at home in Milton Abbas, Hubert Jack Cox. Cumming (1924). On 29 May 1984, in hospital, Hugh Cumming. Edwards (1927). On 24 July 1983, at home in Aberdeen, Alfred John Meldrum Edwards, a former Headmaster, who was actively engaged in sports journalism to the day before his death. Feehan (1946). On 20 April 1982, the Revd. Fr. Patrick (Paddy) Joseph Feehan. Foinette (1928). On 23 August 1984, at Gloucester Hospital after serious illness, Ernest Henry Foinette, former Science Master at Worthing School. Hamblin (1939). On 10 January 1984, Dr Henry Paul Hamblin. Hiscocks (1936). On 13 November 1984, in a Leicester hospital, Frederick George Hiscocks. We were informed by a colleague at Oakham School for many years, J. L. Barber (1933). Houston (1929). On 28 May 1983, in Jersey, Channel Islands, Major Arthur Desmond Houston. Jennings (1935). On 24 August 1984, of a heart attack whilst skiing in Australia, Professor Joseph Newell Jennings (see Obituaries). Kennedy (1920). On 27 January 1985, former MOH for the City of Ottawa, Roger Anthony Kennedy. Kirkbride (1942), In March 1984, Alec Bradley Kirkbride. Leachman (1930). On 1 November 1984, Gerald Henry Theodore Leachman. Lowther (1948). In August 1984, Professor Gordon Readman Lowther of the Department of Anthropology (and, in a limited appointment with Social Science) at York University, Toronto. McKay (1923). On 26 June 1984, in hospital, the Revd. Leslie Jack McKay, for 31 years Vicar of Christ Church, Bedford. Marsh (1923). In April 1985, Robert Duncan Marsh. Marshall (1939). On 9 September 1984, James Herbert Evan Marshall. Masterman (1942). On 29 May 1985, Douglas Michael Alexander Masterman. Meaken (1918). On 28 February 1985, in Newcastle-upon-Tyne Hospital, Donald Meaken, aged 84 years. Meara (1930). On 2 Janaury 1984, Bernard Gordon Meara. O'Donnell (1943). On 22 October 1984, suddenly of a heart attack, at the De La Salle Community, Highgate, London, Brother Francis O'Donnell, FSC. Petrie (1960). On 13 November 1984, at a tragically early age, Brian Petrie (see Obituaries) Redman (1930). In 1984, William Norman Redman. He spent most of his professional life working as an actuary in Edinburgh and retired to Evesham 10 or 12 years ago. He leaves a son and two daughters. Price (1930). In July 1983, Oliver Francis Price. Reed (1918). On 23 October 1983, at Aldbourne, Wiltshire, the Revd. William Henry Grist Reed, MRCS, LRCP. He was ordained in 1950, having retired from the Indian Medical Service in 1949 as a Lieutenant Colonel. Reeve (1940). On 5 October 1984, after a painful illness, George Hewett Reeve. Sparke (1942). On 16 September 1983, in Charing Cross Hospital after a heart attack, Allen Norman Sparke. Stearn (1920). On 17 September 1984, the Revd. Alfred John Steed Stearn. Turvey (1921). On 29 July 1984, at Mount Vernon Hospital, Rickmansworth, the Revd. J. Gordon Turvey, MBE, of Radlett. J. G. T. worked for English Electric at Stafford and Rugby, was Field Director of the National Association of Boys Clubs, and was ordained in 1966. Vaizey (Kenward Research Fellow, 1953). On 19 July 1984, in hospital after a heart operation, Right Hon. the Lord Vaizey (John Ernest), Professor of Economics at Brunei University 1966-82. Author. Life Peer 1976. (For full obituary, see 'The Times' 20 July 1984). Wood (1926). On 19 November 1984, suddenly, Albert William Wood, CBE, Civil Servant, Assistant Secretary, Board of Trade, 1966. St Catharine's College Society Magazine 21 Obituaries JOHN LAMPLOUGH CLARK John Lamplough Clark (1966) came up to St Catharine's from Wits University with a B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering. While studying for his M.A. he won a golf Blue. After graduation, he attended the Cranfield School of Management where he gained his M.B.A. He was also a graduate member of the South African Institute of Mechanical Engineers. In 1980 he was appointed Deputy Managing Director of Gallo (Pty) Ltd. He died of acute leukaemia at the tragically early age of 36 on 16th March 1982 and leaves a wife and two children.

JOSEPH NEWELL JENNINGS Joseph Newell Jennings matriculated on the 4th of November 1935. He had been elected to an exhibition in Geography. In June 1936 he was placed in the first class of the qualifying examination and was awarded a College prize. In 1937 he was in the first class of part one of the Tripos, and also in part two in 1938. He received College prizes in both years, and was given the title of scholar of the College. He was admitted as a research student in 1938 to work under Dr H. Godwin, but owing to the outbreak of war in 1939 he was allowed to intermit. He took his B. A. in 1938, his M.A. in 1945, but he took the degree of Ph.D. in 1972 under the new regulations that allowed the degree on presentation of published work. He was at Oldershaw school in Wallasey, but was a Yorkshireman by birth (Leeds). Before and after the war he did much field work, especially on the Broads where he made important observations derived from the bores he put down through the peat and other superficial deposits. It was this work that led to the recognition that the Broads were man-made. The Royal Geographical Society's Research Memoir of 1960 was written by five authors, of whom Jennings was one, and demonstrates the significance of his researches. In the Long Vacation of 1937 he was with the Cambridge expedition to Iceland, and in 1938 with the Imperial College expedition to Jan Mayen. During the war his service was mainly in Training Camps; in an O.C.T.U. at Ilkley 1940-41, a year in Iceland until the Americans took over; and later in Training Camps at Nostell Priory, Catterick, and the Educational Unit at Welbeck Abbey; he saw no active service, on account of a minor breakdown in the early war years. He was Captain when he was demobilized. In 1946 he was appointed to a lectureship at Leicester where he stayed until 1952. He did much to develop geography in the post-war period, especially when the Leicester department moved into a new building which benefited greatly by his advice. At Leicester he emphasized strongly the importance of field work in geomorphology. He left Leicester to take a Readership (in 1953) and later a Professorial Fellowship, in the Department of Geography of the Australian National University (Canberra). The following lines are taken from the obituary notice written by Professor Spate in the Canberra Times:-"Australia has now no glaciers, but Jennings (whose first love was glacial geomorphology) did much towards the understanding of the past glaciation in the Snowy mountains and Tasmania; Lake George, almost on his doorstep, was another interest, but his most abiding passion became the geomorphology of limestone areas, and especially Karst landscapes and caves. On these he was a world authority; his book on Karst is a standard. He was president of the Australian Speleological Federation, which he helped to found, and recently achieved the distinction of Honorary Fellowship of the American National Speleological Society, an honour very rarely bestowed on other than American citizens ... Jennings' significance in the development of geomorphology in Australia can hardly be over-estimated: he was always ready to try innovations in method, and always meticulous in their application ... In all he did, he displayed extraordinary zest and vigour; his enjoyment was not for himself alone, and students whom he led and inspired went on to highly successful careers in universities both in Australia and overseas." He was an excellent teacher, and took great trouble in helping the serious enquirer. He retired early so that a younger man could take his place, but until his very sudden death from a heart attack whilst he was actually skiing near Encumbene (N.S. Wales) on 24th August 1984, he continued his researches. To quote Spate again "Trite as the expression may be, it is none the less true that no manner of death could be more fitting for a man whose life for thirty years was devoted to the study of the Australian environment." In March 1941, he married Betty Priest, who with his son and two daugthers still live in Australia. I saw him on several occasions when I was in Canberra in 1967 and again in 1971. As an undergraduate I knew him well, and remember many lively supervisions when he was apt to 22 St Catharine's College Society Magazine exclaim in a very north country accent if he had missed some point or other " A-ah, my brain is so rotten." It certainly was not. He was a modest man, and all his life he was genial and extrovert and always a good friend. He was, as Spate wrote, a Yorkshireman and proud of it and he loved Australia and was liked by all with whom he came in contact. His work was fully recognized in Britain and in 1976 he received the Victoria Medal, the premier research award, of the Royal Geographical Society. A few years earlier he was awarded the Back Grant of the Society. He also held the Clarke Medal of the Royal Society of N.S. Wales. J.A.S I am very grateful to Mrs Jennings, Professor Oskar Spate and Mr Roy Millward for giving me much help in writing this obituary.

GORDON READMAN LOWTHER On 19 August 1984, York University (Toronto) lost one of its most remarkable and devoted faculty members, Professor Gordon Lowther (1948), of the Division of Social Science and the Department of Anthropology. He read successively for the Geography Tripos and then the Archaeology and Anthropology Tripos at St Catharine's. Ten years as Curator of Anthropology and Archaeology in the McCord Museum, McGill University (1954-64) were followed by a few years lecturing in East Africa before joining York in 1970. Expeditions to many parts of the world followed, but perhaps his most notable work was done with George Schaller, on carnivore behaviour and its relation to social organisation in man. His contribution to knowledge in evolutionary theory was of great significance.

In memory of this brilliant lecturer, 'The Gordon Lowther Memorial Fund' has been established by York University. The purpose of the Fund is to provide interest income to support an annual or biennial University Lecture, known as the Lowther Lecture, in those areas in which Gordon worked, namely evolutionary biology, ethology, anthropology and philosophy. Contributions to the Fund, for which income tax receipts will be issued, may be made payable to York University (Gordon Lowther Memorial Fund) and sent to the Development Office, Suite A, West Office Building, York University, North York, Ontario, M3J 1P3.

BRIAN PETRIE Brian Petrie was born on 22nd June 1941, educated at Dauntsey's School, read English under Tom Henn, between 1960 and 1963 and died tragically young on 13th November 1984. From St Catharine's, Brian went on to take a second B. A. degree in the History of Art at the Courtauld Institute in London, and to a teaching post at Reading University. Brian was an extraordinary scholar whose career was devastated by multiple sclerosis at a moment of rich personal development. His scholastic strength lay in a characteristic tenor of mind, blending philosophical speculation, which he relished, with a love of learning. His published writings included: a monograph, Claude Monet, Phaidon Press, Oxford 1979, and numerous articles, notably Puvis de Chavannes and French Symbolist Painting (Studio May 1972) and Boccioni and Bergson (Burlington Magazine, March 1974). He was a lively lecturer, played the piano with fire and enthusiasm, and it is tragic that a man for whom conversation and strenuous exercise meant so much should have suffered a disease which increasingly denied their possibility. His mind was speculative and sceptical and in its prime when illness overtook him. Brian Petrie faced this appalling challenge to his optimism with stoic bravery, working and writing whenever he could, to the last.

EDWARD MARGETSON RUSHMORE Edward Rushmore, son of our former Master, F. M. Rushmore, died in Zimbabwe on 27 September 1984. Rushmore went to Rhodesia to study agriculture and became a leading breeder of Poll Hereford cattle. He also did pioneering work in Sire Recording and evaluation of beef stock, and was respected far and wide as a great motivator in his chosen field. His interment was attended by his farm labour force and their wives, who made their final tribute by singing a hymn in Ndebele. HOUSEHOLD STAFF Percy John Rooke known as 'Jack' to his many colleagues died suddenly on 28 December 1984. His enforced early retirement through illness in 1976 was a cruel blow and a great loss to the Catering Department. He joined the College as an apprentice in 1935 and subsequently entered the Navy on the outbreak of war where he served until his return in 1945. In 1957 he was appointed Kitchen Manager and held this post until 1976. Jack worked behind the scenes conscientiously over many years, and it is fitting that a record of his faithful service to the College should be recorded in this magazine. St Catharine's College Society Magazine 23 Societies Bridge The college managed to field four teams this year, and it is a Captain: Vincent Croft pleasure to note how keen all the players were, irrespective of their ability. However, the second and third teams managed to go no further than the first round of Cuppers in the Michaelmas term, despite the 'spiritual' guidance of Brother Christian, the college chaplain, in the third team. The Lent term saw Catz. 4 fighting hard, managing to beat Robinson 1 who had earlier proved to be the downfall of Catz. 2 in the first round. However, in the third round both Catz. 4 and Catz. 1 were defeated against Clare 2 and Clare 1 respectively. The latter was an unfortunate draw to come so early on in the knockout competition, as Clare 1 were second favourites. Still, the match was close, with Gavin Dixon and Richard Nichols playing admirably, and it was surprising to find, after the final scoring, that we had not won the match. With three aspiring first years (the above and Alun David) in the first team this year, the next two years should mean certain victory in Cuppers Bridge for St Catharine's. Chess This year the college has been lucky in having an influx of several Secretary: Chris Jewell promising first years, who have formed the backbone of two good college teams. The first team performed particularly well, winning six of its eight matches and only missed promotion to Division III by two points. The second team in Division VI was less successful, but, as this team consisted almost entirely of first years, their performance augurs well for the future. Many thanks to everyone who played, and best wishes to Chris Ward, who is taking over as Secretary of the society. Film Society The Film Society had a good year, recovering successfully from President: Simon Bishop a somewhat shaky time in 1983-84. A small profit was made, despite the need to compete with other, better-equipped film societies, and with videos. A full programme of films was shown, with the major lesson of the year being the need for efficient publicity. A balance had to be achieved between "commercial" films which made money, and more "artistic" films which were less financially viable. The new Film Society President is Mr Andrew Findlater, and, hopefully, under his leadership, the Society will go from strength to strength. Geography Society Yet again, the college geographers demonstrated considerable President: Ron Manton culinary flexibility, making the Freshers' tea party into a particularly pleasant occasion. Continuing a recently initiated vogue towards a greater diversity of speaker meetings, the society invited Dr D. J. Gregory (Fellow of Sidney Sussex College) to open the year's proceedings with an offering entitled The Future of Human Geography'. In this thought-provoking lecture, Dr Gregory examined some of the more knotty issues surrounding the development of a humanistic manifesto for the subject. A more light-hearted piece, delivered by Dr D. R. Stoddart (Fellow of Churchill College) gave insights - "of Lear-like proportions" - into the history of the Cambridge Geography Department. Following this, we were treated to two travelogues from College geographers, both polished performances, including some spectacular slides of Papua New Guinea (Judy Bell, Robin Mearns) and the U.S.S.R. (Charlotte Leonard). Finally, Tim Kelly (postgraduate at St Catharine's College) gave a highly relevant talk on the employment generation effects of the Computer Electronics Industry. The Annual Dinner was well subscribed to say the least, and we were particularly gratified since it offered us the opportunity of having Professor R. J. Chorley (Professor of Geography, University of Cambridge) as guest of honour. His wonderfully anecdotal speech provided a perfect end to a most successful evening. As is usual, my successor was announced during the dinner, and best wishes go to Robin Mearns for next year. Finally, I should like to give sincerest thanks to Dr Keeble and Dr Martin for their consistent support throughout the year. John Ray Society The John Ray Society has had another successful year, President: Robert Bailey providing members of St Catharine's and the University with a Secretary: Jim Hendry number of interesting talks, encompassing a broad spectrum of topics. Subjects covered over the course of the year include: Predictions of future climates; Observations of sun spots and their possible effects; An 'inside 24 St Catharine's College Society Magazine view' of the aerospace industry; A controversial and alternative theory for how life has evolved on the earth - the Gaia Hypothesis - eloquently proposed by Professor James Lovelock, and the Easter term saw a debate on Science and Religion, a popular and contentious subject. An excellent dinner was held at the end of the Lent term, an occasion fast being established annually, during which the President and Secretary for the coming year were announced. I would like to wish Paul Wilkin, as President, and Chris Ward as Secretary, the best of luck for the coming year. Law Society It has been a very successful year for the Law Society. We began President: with a very entertaining freshers' squash which all the lawyers in Rachel Sandby-Thomas in college attended. We have had four speaker meetings with Secretary: creditable attendance at all of them, though some would say Melanie Farquharson that this was due more to Rachel's bullying tactics in the Law Library than to innate keenness amongst the college lawyers. In the Michaelmas term we heard talks on the policing of the Miners' Strike, on crime and justice in Miami and on careers in the Army Legal Corps. In the Lent Term we were given a talk on sentencing, which was particularly helpful for those who had chosen Criminology as an option for Tripos. The annual dinner was a great success, with a very entertaining speech from Mr Collier of Trinity Hall, and port kindly provided by Dr Baker and Mr Ivory. The evening was very lively and was later described by Mr Collier as "magic". We are very grateful to Dr Baker, Dr Thorne and Mr Ivory for their staunch support throughout the year. Medical Society The year started off with a very successful introduction of the President: Andrew Illing first years (new record: 6 out of 11 are women) into the Society with the squash and book sale, However, "Biochemistry - Stryer" and "Essential Reproduction - Everitt and Johnson" both came a close second to a very palatable punch concoted by Jim Gardner. Two members of the society have been involved in medical studies abroad during their holidays. Max Pitcher went to India and gained invaluable pathological experience, whilst Mark Appleby went on a Catz expedition to Papua New Guinea and was involved in the nutritional study of some of the hill tribes. The college was also represented at the University level with Max Pitcher on the Medical Society Committee and Andy Illing on the Veterinary Society Committee. The Medical Society Dinner this year was unfortunately without Dr Comline (due to a broken femur) and Dr Message (on sabbatical) but we were fortunate to have Dr Grundy as guest speaker again, giving a humorous recap of the top 10 drugs. Best wishes go to Richard Anderton, next year's President.

Music Society The Music Society has run a series of lunchtime concerts each President: P. Jane Trowell term this year - our thanks to the Revd. Dr Clark for the use of the Secretary: chapel. We also presented four concerts in the Octagon in the Veronica J. C. Henderson Michaelmas term, beginning with Paul Mottram's solo piano recital. This was followed by the very enjoyable Freshers' Concert on November 11th, organised by Ian Coleman, while on November 18th we had the pleasure of hearing David Watkin's performance of the Elgar Cello Concerto. We rounded off the term with another informal concert on December 2nd. In the Lent term, the Orchestral Concert on January 19th, conducted by Simon Woods (Clare), attracted a large audience with a highly varied programme: Copland; Fanfare for the Common Man; Bruch: Violin Concerto (soloist: Max Pitcher); Faure: Elegie (soloist: Veronica Henderson); and Gershwin: American in Paris. The other major concert of term took place in Little St Mary's on March 12th and incorporated works by Vaughan Williams, Handel and Bach. Our thanks to Owen Rees for organising this and the series of organ recitals on Monday evenings. The Music Society also presented a concert on March 10th including Chamber works by Mozart and Beethoven, and a new quartet by Paul Mottram. The activities of the Music Society continued in the Easter Term with another successful series of lunchtime concerts. In April, Alison Wells and Kate Durran returned to give a recital in the Octagon, which included sonatas by Brahms and Beethoven. The year ended with an (unco-ordinated) bang - certain notorious Fellows being lured into a St Catharine's College Society Magazine 25 performance of Haydn's Toy Symphony, the grand finale of the May-Week Concert. Chaos reigned under the able baton of Ms Veronica Henderson. The Senior Tutor elect (trumpeter Dr Baron) has now been typecast as an affluent member of the New York mafia; Dr Thorne showed his paces with the football rattle; Professor and Mrs Supple performed on Nightingale and drum in masterly fashion; Miss Rachel Britton produced cuckoo sounds at all the wrong pitches, whilst Dr le Huray sat, bemused, in the middle of it all. Before that, the audience had imbibed Bach's 4th Brandenburg Concerto, Sullivan's Overture to "Patience", strawberries, cream and wine, and the Bluebird, co-ood by the college/chapel choir. A good end to the year - congratulations to the Committee, and their stalwart President, Jane Trowell. Shirley Society The majority of our guests in a busy year chose to speak about President: Jo Ellis the literary life, or literary methods in general - though each with Secretary: Gary Snapper a different emphasis. Ronald Blythe opened proceedings with a talk about his varied life as writer, critic and literary agent. The largest audience of the year was attracted by David Lodge, who described some of the processes involved in the writing of his novels of academic life; by contrast, A. N. Wilson offered us disingenuous advice on 'How to Write a Novel', which was thought-provoking as well as amusing. Victoria Glendinning, like Wilson, decided not to talk about her biographical work, but instead, tackled with great dignity the controversial issues concerning the roles of the literary journalist and the academic critic. Ruth Rendell, the distinguished crime writer, discussed both the advantages and limitations of genre writing. There were two Readings: Russell Hoban read from, and discussed, a novel about the Orpheus myth, which he is currently working on. The only poetry reading was held in conjunction with Third World Action Week: three Chilean poets, in exile and writing in London, read some of their poetry - in Spanish and English - and discussed the relationship between art and politics in Chile. This was the most unusual, and one of the most interesting meetings of the year. Finally, Richard Ellman, the great authority on Joyce, gave a riveting talk - a series of anecdotes entitled, 'Biographical Adventures I had When writing about Joyce.' Michael Bogdanov, Stanley Wells and Andre Deutsch were unable to attend their meetings, but we hope they will be speaking next year instead. We have also arranged for Mary Warnock, Julian Barnes, Sue Townsend, Russell Twisk, Jeremy Treglown and Marilyn Butler to visit the society. On the magazine front, in an attempt to solve the editorial and financial problems of both 'The Wicked Ant' and 'Ampersand', the society has decided to join forces with 'Ampersand': the new improved version produced its fourth issue in the Easter term. There was a shortage of money for drama - but we managed to sponsor two productions in the Octagon during the Lent term: an opera - 'Dulcima' - by Giles Chaundy, and 'Menials', a set of adaptations of short stories. Finally, thanks to our honorary presidents - Dr Paul Hartle and Dr Glen Cavaliero - and to Dr Jon Bate, for their support during the year, and to the committee members for all their co- operation and dedication.

MORTAR BOMB delivered with top soil to the Master's Lodge garden, c. September 1984. 26 St Catharine's College Society Magazine The College Sconce Cups DR J. H. BAKER In 1979 an elderly lady wrote to the College to enquire about the significance of a St Catharine's 'sconce cup' which she had recently been shown. It was made of pewter, bore the College arms and the date 'October Term 1880' and was inscribed with twelve names: W. E. Cockshott, C. H Collins, E. Corfield, E. G. Cull, W. Hemingway, F. P. Hill, W. H. Hunt, E. M. Snow, W. N. Tetley, A. Leigh Lye, H. Rimington and W. J. Watson. The capacity was estimated at two quarts. The lady reported it as being in the possession of a descendant of one of the men named, but its present whereabouts is unknown.1 She asked whether such cups were a form of souvenir for the men concerned, and what form sconcing took at St Catharine's. The College was unable to answer her questions, since the custom of sconcing appeared to have ended before the time of living memory. Moreover, an authority on University lore in the 1820s asserted positively that sconcing was then 'wholly confined to Oxford'.2 The one fact which could be ascertained from the records was that the twelve were not an occult society (such as the Apostles) but the freshmen of October 1880.3

'Sconce Cup October 1883'

The matter again came to the attention of the College antiquaries in 1983, when Herr Udo Bode of Hamburg sent details and photographs of a three-handled pewter sconce cup which he had recently purchased in Hamburg. The cup was made by Munsey of Cambridge. It has a red glass base, bears the College arms on one side, is inscribed on the second side 'Sconce Cup October 1883', and on the third side has fifteen names arranged as follows: R. W. PHILPOTT H. C. BOURNE F. L. KEY F. E. GODDEN T. J. PREECE G. H. C. HARRISON L. S. ROBINSON A. W. IRELAND R. G. ROE H. G. JOHNSON C. R. SELFE J. T. JOLLEY J. H. SWINSTEAD J. W. JONES R. C. WILTON Again the names are those of the freshmen in the term mentioned.4 How the cup came to rest in Hamburg is anyone's guess, though it may be relevant that J. T. Jolley after going down spent a short time as Reader in English at the University of Greifswald, Pomerania. St Catharine's College Society Magazine 27

Following this second discovery, a search was made in the more obscure purlieus of the College, and this brought to light a third sconce cup. It is of a different pattern from the other two, being two-handled and made of silver plate, with a plain glass base. It is inscribed 'Sconce Cup 1870' beneath the College arms, but bears no names. An added inscription in the rim states that it was presented to the College in memory of J. B. Bilderbeck, M.A., Honorary Librarian of the College. Bilderbeck was a mathematical scholar (First Senior Optime in 1874), and is known to College bibliophiles as the author of Early Printed Books in the Library of St Catharine's College (1911), though he was better known to his contemporaries as captain of boats, a fine singer and a pillar of the Olla Podrida Club.5 The cup dates from his freshman year, 1870, and is therefore the oldest specimen known at present.

'Sconce Cup 1870'

The archaeological evidence thus suggests that each year, or perhaps each term, a sconce cup was made for the new undergraduates collectively and (by the 1880s) engraved with their names. The three handles on the cups of 1880 and 1883 strongly suggest that they were used as loving cups, passed along the table. But what was their precise purpose, and how was the ultimate ownership determined? The second question can only be answered by guesswork. Bilderbeck was obviously the star of his year, and it is not unlikely that the cup was disposed of by vote to the most popular or successful undergraduate of the group. The first question can be answered more confidently, with historical evidence. In 1935 Major H. B. Luard (late Indian Medical Service) wrote to Dr W. H. S. Jones about his undergraduate days (1881-1884). In the letter he recalls:6 A feature of dinner was the big pewter three-handled sconce belonging to each term, which had to be filled with beer and passed round the table by anyone inadvertently talking "shop", and in default of a delinquent each of us would order a sconce in turn for good fellowship. It is comforting to discover, therefore, that sconcing at St Catharine's did not have the disgusting connotations of the Oxford practice. Our sconce cup was indeed a loving cup, and it has its modern counterpart in the three-handled cup which is still circulated in hall on St Catharine's day.

1 When the writer tried to contact the lady again in 1983, he was informed that she had died. 2 Gradus ad Cantabrigiam; or New University Guide to the Academical Customs and Colloquial or Cant Terms peculiar to the University of Cambridge (1824), p. 96. 3 Excluding three former non-collegiate students and one migrant from Clare, none of whom were in their first year. 4 Including two former non-collegiate students, but omitting a third (W. Allin). It is not clear why Philpott's name is placed first, unless it is an addition. 5 The story of this interesting club will be related in a subsequent issue. 6 A History of St Catharine's College (1936), p. 337.

ADDITION TO OBITUARIES It is reported as we go to press that Mrs Muriel Silk at one time keeper of the College portraits died on Friday 19th July 1985. 28 St Catharine's College Society Magazine Clubs

Alley Cats The last year has again been packed with activity. We have President: F. Horner welcomed seven new members, congratulating especially Miss Secretary: G. Potter Gardner for keeping 'in the pink' for so long. The initiation also gave spirit to the first year trio whose enthusiasm in the Pickerel was admirable. A wine-tasting evening was arranged with the Hermes (Selwyn), the Idlers (Pembroke) and the Valkyries (Queens' Ladies) and was very enjoyable. Jo Le C had a few funny turns, but was richly rewarded by a ticket to the Hawks Club. Two cocktail parties have been held, both in the Rushmore Room, with fancy dress a requirement. Each was very successful, although the one in the Lent term caused a certain amount of consternation in college. Thanks to all who cleared up. Many thanks and good luck to all those who are leaving and to those taking over, especially to TC without whose leadership this year could never have been so entertaining.

Association Football Having lost a number of key players from last year, the early part Captain: Jim Gardner of the Michaelmas term was spent busily rebuilding a team. Secretary: Jon Prentice Despite some very discouraging early results, spirit remained typically high and first joy came with a battling win over Trinity Hall 4-3. Still in some danger of relegation, the league side continued to develop, first years Richard Whitwell, Jeff Davitt and Phil Brackin improving with every game. Tim Dyer at last regained his scoring touch and with Dave Browne tidy in goal, Catz ended the term with a flourish to finish fourth in division one. In the Lent term, Cuppers training began in an optimistic mood with the return to the squad of Alan Marshall and Gary Baker (Blues) and Graham Bell (Falcons). Dogged by appalling weather, the first round match against Trinity Hall was postponed countless times. Eventually, in a fierce battle in which Catz came close many times (Marshall hitting the post). Trinity Hall won 1-0. Obviously disappointed, the team set about salvaging some honour in the Plate knock-out. Good wins over Christ's and Jesus saw us through to the semi-finals, at which point the competition was finished due to the end of term! Problems on the pitch in no way overshadowed the festive spirit of the Football Club dinner. Ron Manton scored early with a fine joke and Dr Thome's late effort was much appreciated. Indeed, a good time was had by all. Many thanks to Ron Manton and Rob Kelsey for captaining the 2nd and 3rd teams respectively, and to Jon Prentice for his role as Club Secretary. Congratulations to Alan, Gary and Graham on their University Colours and best wishes to next year's Captain, Jon Prentice and Secretary, Jeff Davitt.

Athletics With a strong University nucleus ably assisted by other Captain: B. A. Carr enthusiastic College members, Catz swept into Cuppers final with six outright victories and many B-string wins in a crushing heat success. In terrible conditions, however, we lost a closely contested and controversial final by just one point - our best result for several years. The ladies team, although sparse (numbering only five), did extremely well to win their heat, but lack of depth told in the final where, despite good wins by newcomer Allison O'Neill, we could only manage fourth place. College contribution to the University team remains considerable. Allison O'Neill, Brian Carr, Pete Fulcher and Paul Bristow were all selected for the combined Oxford and Cambridge tour to America at Easter. The summer season was very short, culminating in the Varsity match on the 18th May. In a near repeat of last year, the Ladies won and the Men lost in hard fought battles with Alverstone losing heavily. Full Blues were awarded to Brian Carr, and reawarded to Paul Bristow and Peter Fulcher who was also awarded a trophy for the most outstanding performance on the day. Alastair Williamson and Duncan Magrath competed well for Alverstone, but an unfortunate foot injury prevented Allison O'Neill from taking part. St Catharine's College Society Magazine 29

Badminton After last year's success in winning Cuppers, a total of over 40 Captain: Russell Walters people played for the college this year. The numbers were such that a third men's team was introduced, providing an opportunity for everyone interested to play. Whilst the men's third team and ladies' team were not so successful, the second team should get promotion from the fourth division, although this has not yet been confirmed. The first team showed the way by winning division one of the league, thanks to the regular turnout of the Blues' squad members, backed up by some very capable play, mainly from first years. The Cuppers trail has been equally successful, beating Emma in the final, not having lost a match in any round. This year's tally is impressive, with Joy Tilly leading the University Ladies to their first win in the Varsity match for six years. Bob Baddeley, elected next season's men's secretary, and Rus Walters also got their hall-Blues, whilst Jon Prentice narrowly missed out, played tor the 2nd team. My thanks to everyone who played to make this such a successful season which I hope everyone has enjoyed and I hope we can look forward to a similar one next year.

Basketball This year has seen the formation of a University basketball Captain: A. D. Illing league and St. Catharine's College has been a major contributor to its foundation. The team shows, a lot of promise, and, with more organised practices, will be challenging for the title next year.

Boat Club Happily the revival of the Boat Club not only continued but Captain: James Witter gained momentum this year. On the University scene, James Secretary: Duncan Wills Witter rowed Bow in the Blue Boat which put up a valiant fight against another impressive Oxford crew. This was probably the fastest Cambridge eight for ten years and at the time of writing it has reformed in preparation for the Grand Challenge Cup at Henley Royal Regatta. John Kinsella narrowly missed his Blue this year, rowing No. 6 in the Goldie, but found consolation in a two-week trip to Brazil to row against Oxford! Encouragingly, both Duncan Wills and David Rainbow were selected for the C.U.B.C. Granta eight, a University development eight which competed in the Head of the River Race. In the Fairbairns, the 1st VIII had a disappointing result, largely due to rowing over at too low a rating. After training hard in the Lent term, they were unlucky to be bumped by two fast crews, Magdalene and L.M.B.C. II before producing two creditable row overs. With the return of Witter, Kinsella and Greenway in the Easter term, the 1st May VIII was the fatest for several years and was amongst the top few crews on the river. It recorded three bumps, rising to tenth in the first division, hitting Christ's I, Selwyn I and Fitzwilliam I. Special mention to Bill Tracy, the cox, who skillfully evaded Churchill I around Grassy Corner when they had a large overlap on the 1st VIII on Friday night. An enthusiastic 2nd VIII, stroked by John Renard, made three bumps and was prevented from winning oars by crews bumping out ahead. Also noteworthy was the IV/Cardinals boat which retained the headship of the sixth division rowing no less than seven times! It is important that the impetus gained over the last three years does not dissipate, and I would encourage any old members willing to coach/tub etc. to contact next year's captain, Duncan Wills. Finally, a vote of thanks to Dudley Robinson, who retires this year as Senior Tutor, and who has been a firm supporter of the Boat Club over the years. 1st May Colours: J. Dawes, G. Chambers, N. McDougall, A. Greenway, D. Wills, D. Rainbow, J. Witter, J. Kinsella, W. Tracy.

Ladies Boat Club This has been a year of mixed fortunes for the Ladies Boat Club. Captain: Tracy Pilcher A Lent term marred by injuries and an untimely frozen river saw a rather inexperienced first eight enter for the bumps - our "achievement" of dropping merely one place overall should not be put down. In the previous Michaelmas term our novice crews fared somewhat better and demonstrated enthusiasm and commitment which bodes well for the coming year. Both eights won through to the quarter-finals of the winners shield in the novice regatta and were then only beaten by the two eventual finalists. Putting the Lent term behind us, we were able to look forward to the May Bumps. The term 30 St Catharine's College Society Magazine started well, and the first boat eventually made three bumps, reaching 16th position on the river. The second boat, starting with an overbump, also did well, and earned a permanent place on the river. Congratulations go to Fiona Shand and Kate Stevens for doing so well in university trials, Kate narrowly missing a place in Blondie. My thanks to all who perserved despite all, particularly to Fi, Pic Bovill and Simon Reynolds for their invaluable patience and assistance throughout the year. First May Four: Cox: D. A. Senior, Str. F. Shand, 3. S. Jones, 4. T. V. Pilcher, Bow: W. Richardson-Hardon.

Cricket In a season where the College 1st XI reached the semi-final in Captain: C. D. Scholefield Cuppers and defeated the Old Members for only the second time in thirty years, we must reflect however on our undoubted potential to have done better. We perhaps fell down because of an ominous lack of depth in our batting, rather unfavourable weather conditions coupled with a few cancellations which quite severely thinned out our early fixtures, and ultimately sheer misfortune. For the third successive season, Richard Purslow dominated the College batting - in particular by following the century which he scored against the Old Members last year with a sparkling 76 this year. His new opening partner, Dominic Miles, also collected a half-century in this game, and went on to bat consistently well throughout the season. Andrew Golding and David Browne made valuable contributions with the bat - most noticeably when, batting together, they proceeded to dispatch the South Woodford bowling attack to the four corners of the ground to achieve a half-century each. Fine bowling performances by David Kohn, David Browne, Gary Baker, Barry Saint, Andrew Golding, Percy Wykes and even occasionally by Charles Scholefield made our full side both well balanced and with potential for greatness. Our Cuppers run began against an enthusiastic but pitifully weak Churchill side - our score of just less than 200 doing our batting ability a great injustice. However, a good performance in the field allowed us to cut through the opposition for less than half our score. A batting collapse in the quarter-finals against Downing left us with only 120 runs to bowl at for the allotted 40 overs - but another superb performance in the field ensured a narrow victory over this currently very talented sporting College. Our semi-final draw against a St John's side including two university Blues players was to provide a repeat of the quarter-final batting disaster and although the opposition lost nine wickets in pursuit of our 136 runs - due to some fine bowling and fielding - the target we set always seemed inadequate, allowing St John's to clinch victory with just five balls to spare and so win their place in the now traditional Cuppers final against Magdalene. My thanks go to the secretary, Gary Baker, and the 2nd XI captain, Jonny Taylor, for his outstanding administrative efforts and great feats behind the stumps in the 1st XI. I can only hope that Gary Baker and his secretary Barry Saint will have an equally enjoyable and successful season next year.

Cross Country Having been demoted from the First Division last year, the Captain: Nick Lawrence runners of the college had strong determination to rectify this. This was done, St Catharine's coming second to a strong Trinity team. The league was run over five races, ranging from a six by three mile 'muddy' to the Selwyn four by one-and-a-bit relay! Our success can be partly attributed to the good turnout at each race. Consistent running by Mark Rigby and Alistair Williamson, always among the front runners, also helped. The College did not fare so well in Cuppers, although Allison O'Neill won the ladies' race and Paul Bristow came second in the men's. Ian Chippendale managed to get placed in the Varsity 5th team. Perhaps the most memorable event of the year was the Hyde Park Relays. Simon Cope, Phil Brackin, Nick Lawrence and 'old boy' Dave Horrell faced the best of the country's University and College runners and came 109th out of 113! Having finished rather late, we found the coach had left without us! Thanks must go to all the people who turned out for the races even in the snow; namely those mentioned above and Steve Topping, Paul Silcock and John Renard.

Darts Club Darts proved to be one of the major participation 'sports' of Captain: David Kohn 1984-5 with over 25 players representing our two teams at one time or another. The first team, when able to field a full-strength St Catharine's College Society Magazine 31 side was as formidable as any, but unfortunately lack of consistent form and line-up, and severe drink-related problems (we lost almost all our 'beer legs') prevented us from mounting a serious challenge for the title. The second team, often fielding complete novices, and also experienced players playing like complete novices, achieved some good results, but not many. Nevertheless, a good time was had by all, and many first years got their first taste of the darts big time. Gary Hibbard was unlucky to be beaten in the final of the University singles, and went on to play in the victorious Varsity match. A college singles competition was held with the title going to the Club Captain.

Hockey The highlight of this season was undoubtedly the men's Cuppers Captain: Rick Purslow run. Fielding the strongest side since the "Golden Years" of the late 1970's, with six university players, the college cruised to the final, notching up a 5-2 thrashing of Magdalene along the way. Spurred on by Cambridge's most vocal supporters, we recovered from a 2-0 deficit against St John's in the final only to lose 3-2 to a late goal. The team's strength undoubtedly lay up front, where fresher Saboor Ghauri combined well with a revitalised Steve Grove, supported by vintage play from Martin Robinson and Guy Pitcher. Congratulations to the last two who represented the university in the Varsity game at Lord's. Unfortunately, we could not repeat this success in the league. Skilful manipulation of the rules from the league secretary and a timely 8-0 victory over Trinity Hall saw the first team maintain a First Division place. Meanwhile, the seconds annihilated appalling opposition in securing the Third Division title. Many thanks to all the regular college players. Good luck to next year's captain, Dominic Miles, and secretary, Alex McDonald.

Ladies' Hockey The Ladies' 1st XI was one of the strongest for many years with Captain: Gill Potter the nucleus of last year's Cuppers-winning team joined by Secretary: Judy Bell several outstanding first years. In the Michaelmas term, we improved on our runners-up position in the 1983/84 league, topping the table throughout by winning six out of our seven games. Our excellent goal difference owed much to the sharp finishing of Caroline Gaskin, Gill Potter, Ruth Lupton, Ann Mills, Jo le Couilliard and Judy Bell, which made us strong favourties for Cuppers. Despite a long lay-off for snow, and injury to our star player, Allison O'Neill, Catz made an impressive start to Cuppers, beating Clare 7-1. Victories over CCAT, John's and Girton took us into the final against Newnham which, with the support of the more vociferous elements of the College, we won 3-0. Congratulations to Gill Potter, Ruth Lupton, Ann Mills and Allison O'Neill for their performance in the Varsity match, and thanks to Janet Stewart, Janice Dolan, Morven Smith, Caroline Throup and Julia Currie who were always willing to play, often at short notice. With a winning first team, and a thriving second team run this year by Janice Dolan and Morven Smith, Catz can look forward to another successful season under the new captain, Ruth Lupton.

Kitten Club The individual success of members of the Kitten Club has President: A. Marshall outweighed the general success of college teams, despite the effort Secretary. R. Steeds members like Browne and Purslow have made in the latter. By the end of the year there were 21 members of the Club, of which 9 are Blues. So, in spite of the College struggling to produce teams, the Kittens are still thriving. Congratulations should go to the football Blues, Marshall and Baker, the hockey Blues, Robinson and Pitcher, as well as to the Blues of Coulcher (Captain of Boxing) and Bristow and Carr (both in athletics). Special mention should be given to James Witter who received a Blue for rowing and commiserations to those who narrowly missed out because of injury or misfortune, namely George, Kinsella and Golding. Bad luck to Steeds who failed to get a Blue just because no- one would get injured in the rugby. The sporting success of the Kitten Club have been equalled only by the overall increase in alcohol consumption. In addition to our regular Monday evenings in the 'Spread', we have been involved in various other social events. These included a hockey match against the New Hall Dolphins in which we relied on nimbleness to overcome the physical disadvantage, thus enabling us to win a closely fought contest. We were also once again severely out-drunk by the Fitz Onions, in spite of a brave effort by the President, in a meeting with other sporting clubs at Grange Road. 32 St Catharine's College Society Magazine

The lappings this year were as arduous as ever. A particular note should be made of the efforts of Martin 'Bald-Eagle' Robinson and Jim 'Garlic-Breath' Gardner for their remarkable feats of drinking before, during and after the lappings. Our cocktail parties contained the usual thrills and spills of such events. We held our Michaelmas Term Party in the Rushmore Room. Our Lent Term party took place in the Air Squadron building to the accompaniment of a Jazz Band. In clearing up the Air Squadron, the Secretary went out of his way to prove there really is more bovver with a hovver, and embarrassed himself in the process. The President is raising funds to buy a car after being thwarted in his plans by the Casanova of Magdalene Wyverns at the Six Clubs Meet, while the Treasurer, M. George, has retreated in disgrace after being found in possession of a pint of shandy during a game of 'Heysham.' This game went down well with all but George on a club pub crawl after its introduction from Oxford by Robinson. The first initiations of the year brought in five new members. Gardner, initiated in the first term, gave much-needed sustenance to the only second term initiate, Bell, in the form of his Cypriot brandy. From both the first to the third initiations, the pedigree of the Lancaster lads shone through from the only new first year member, Whitwell, to his old chum, Gardner. Over the year, the Club was joined by nine new members. For the Barbecue in the Easter term we were blessed with a beautiful evening, and a very enjoyable dinner rounded off the year for the Kittens. To conclude, the year has been one in which the idea of the Kitten Club as a club has been much reinforced, and I hope present members have enjoyed the year as much as the President and myself have done. Best wishes to next year's President and Secretary, Gary Baker and Dave 'Monster' Browne, who I am sure will keep the Kittens purring through these troubled times for Catz sport.

Netball New life has been installed into college netball this year, thanks Captain: Melanie chiefly to the resuscitating powers of the captain, Melanie Farquharson Farquharson. The club now has 12 playing members, including Sectretary: Charlotte Leonard several new members from the second and third years, who have now 'come out of the woodwork.' Having suffered relegation to the second division last season, emphasis has been on building up a new, enthusiastic team. All the matches were more closely fought than our two wins suggest. To this we can add triumph of introducing a club photograph for the first time in living memory. Social events included the annual cocktail party and several matches against the Rugby Club, who have finally brought their netballing talents out of the closet. Those of us now leaving the team hope very much that this year's enthusiasm will continue - and warrant a photo next year too. Many thanks to all who played.

Orienteering The past year has seen a continuing popularity of orienteering in Captain: Nick Lawrence the College, with nine members of the college being members of the University Club. The few numbers of local events during the year resulted in rather longer trips, including runs in the New Forest and the North Yorkshire Moors. The College was very successful in Cuppers, producing no less than six teams on a day when all other fixtures were cancelled due to large falls of snow. Catz came third overall, but the emphasis of the sport in Catz remains participation rather than winning. St Catharine's were well represented in the Varsity Match with Suzanne Harding and Nick Lawrence representing the University. Thanks must go to all who support the sport in college, especially the listed diehards - Simon Cope, N.L., Mark Richer, Louis Bezodis, Phil Brackin, John Renard, Paul Silcock, S.H., Mark Rigby and Dr Chris Thorne.

Rugby Despite a poor intake of rugby players in the first year - only Captain: Alun Thomas three had seen a rugby ball before - the college first team has done well. We finished the league season with a record of five wins, five losses and a draw, the best league record for at least four years. Unfortunately, the newly promoted second team had to fold due to lack of interest; it was, however, resurrected for a cup game in which it lost to a John's team. The first team's cup side beat King's but lost narrowly to Downing. Individual honours this year have gone to Rick Steeds, who gained his LX colours and played for the university first team on several occasions, and to Dave Browne who gained his LX St Catharine's College Society Magazine 33

II colours and played for the LX's. Commiserations must go to Mike George who, but for a shoulder injury, would surely have represented the university in the varsity match. All in all it has, despite the shortage of players, been an enjoyable and successful year. My thanks go to Tim Robson who was club secretary and my best wishes go to Duncan Magrath and Johnny Taylor, next year's captain and secretary.

Squash Once again, the College was able to field four men's and (just) Captain: Jerry White two ladies' teams. In the Michaelmas Term, the first V, headed Secretary: David Roberts by Jerry White and strengthened by freshers Rick Whitwell and Rob Baddeley, easily gained promotion to Division 3, winning 6 of their 7 matches. The 3rd V also gained promotion to Division 8, whilst the other two men's teams finished midway in their respective divisions. Considering the dire lack of depth on the women's side, the 1st V did very well to finish fifth in Division 2. With three first years in the first V, there is a good base for a strong ladies' side next year. In Cuppers, the men were unfortunate enough to face St John's (with three Blues) in the second round. The ladies, helped by Ann Mills, reached the quarter-finals, beating a strong Queen's side on the way, before losing narrowly to Trinity Hall. Jerry, Rick and Rob were all Ganders Trialists, and Ann Mills gained her half-blue in Cambridge's 5-0 win over Oxford. David stood (unsuccessfully) as University Squash Secretary - thanks to him for his work as secretary and good luck as Captain for next year. Best wishes also to Rick Whitwell as the incoming Secretary.

Swimming This year saw three college members representing the University Captain: Lesley Norton swimming team. Judith Miller (also the University Women's Swimming Captain), Lesley Norton and Erica Parry all won their respective races at the Varsity Match at Crystal Palace. At the National Student Swimming Championships in Cardiff, both Judith and Erica swam. Erica performed exceptionally well in winning her backstroke race, as well as winning a trophy as the best overall Welsh female swimmer. Judith qualified for a Blue when the relay team came second at the British University Swimming Championships. The women excelled themselves at Cuppers this year. As usual, Catz women won both relays, and with an even better performance than last year from Sarah Springman - coming first in both the Individual Medley and Freestyle individual races - the college easily won the women's trophy. Lil Greenwood deserves a special mention for her spirited performance in the other two individual races. Catz men entered an enthusiastic, if not wholly successful team, and helped the college to gain fourth place overall.

Table Tennis With last year's first team intact, good things were expected from Captain: Amar Dash the table tennis team this year. However, the absence of key players and improved opposition saw us lose more matches than we expected, and we finished only halfway up the league. The second and third teams were both made up of first years and had varying degrees of success. The second team narrowly missed out on promotion from Division III, while the third team escaped relegation from Division IV. In Cuppers, our full-strength side won one round easily then were knocked out 5-4 in a cliffhanger vs. Emmanuel. Dave Browne was unbeaten in all matches he played. Next year's captain, Steve Trevanion, takes over a side losing Amar Dash and David Kohn, first-team regulars for three years, and will struggle without new players. Good luck to him.

Lawn Tennis This year's tennis programme was unfortunately marred by rain Captain: R. Steeds and opposition unwilling to play in the face of exams. However, Ladies' Captain: the college put out three regular men's teams, with particular Beverly Gardner success in the second and third teams due to our considerable Secretary: D. Magrath strength in depth. The first six won matches against Jesus, Trinity, Pembroke and Trinity Hall, and will remain in the lower half of the first division. Caroline Gaskin carried on the Catz tradition of having a woman in the men's first team and indeed was extremely successful in almost all of her matches. The prospects for next year look good, providing players can steady themselves and produce the 34 St Catharine's College Society Magazine regular standard that we needed this year. Both the second and third teams should be promoted to higher divisions, congratulations going to Kohn and Purslow for their play The college fought well in Cuppers to reach the semi-finals, following a bye and beating Selwyn 5-4 and Jesus 5-4. We lost to Downing in the semi-finals only by a 5-4 margin in a match which could easily have gone our way - pleasing considering that college's success in Cuppers over recent years. The women's tennis this season has also enjoyed some success, although again the programme was interrupted by rain and reluctant opposition. The Cuppers season was more rewarding as the women's team only narrowly missed retaining the title. In another closely fought semi-final, the college lost to Emmanuel, who then went on to dismiss Trinity 5-0 in the final. Again, the prospects for next year look very promising, with virtually no change in the existing team necessary. Good luck to the new men's tennis captain, D. Magrath, and the new secretary, R. Whitwell, and I hope next year's season is as successful as it now promises.

Water Polo The Catz Water Polo team had their best season for some time Captain: Simon Bishop this year. They finished towards the top of their league, and, in Cuppers, lost 3-7 to the eventual winners, St John's, have beaten Caius. This success was due mainly to the ability of the college to consistently raise a team - this has not been the case in recent years. The team was based around a few "old hands" such as Mr Simon Gallimore, who played his last game in the league after 10 years of sterling service. Hopefully, the upward trend in the college's fortunes will continue next year. Since only half of the Cambridge colleges have Water Polo teams, the departure of the Catz team from the scene would be regrettable.

Blues 1984-85 Full Blues Association Football Hockey G. Baker G. D. C. Pitcher A. P. Marshall M. N. Robinson Athletics Lawn Tennis P. J. G. Bristow Caroline Gaskin B. A. Carr Rowing P. J. Fulcher J. S. Witter Badminton Swimming Joy C. Tilly Erika J. Parry Boxing N. B. Coulcher Cross Country P. J. G. Bristow B. Allison O'Neill Half-Blues Badminton Judo R. W. Baddeley E. P. King R. I. Walters Orienteering Cricket Suzanne T. Harding Ruth Lupton Sailing Cross Country Jenny R. Fray Sarah M. Springman O. G. Garside Eton Fives R. M. Southern G. Baker Squash Fencing Ann E. Mills Nicole C. Bovill Swimming Gymnastics Judith E. Millar (By Courtesy of Cambridge Evening News) Caroline E. Throup Lesley A. Norton Hockey N. Blane Coulcher (1982), light middle weight, Ruth Lupton captain Cambridge University Amateur Boxing Ann E. Mills Club, with his winner's trophy. Cambridge beat B. Allison O'Neill Oxford by 5 bouts to 4, 8 March 1985. Gillian F. Potter St Catharine's College Society Magazine 35 A Pigeon Among the Catz (The Revd. Dr I. D. L. Clark came to the College as Chaplain in 1976 after spending ten years in India at Bishop's College, Calcutta. Fellow in 1977, Dean of Chapel in 1979, he served the college also as a Supervisor in Medieval History and as a Tutor. This sermon was preached by the Dean of Chapel on his final Sunday in Full Term, Trinity Sunday 1985.) It is an open secret, no longer hidden from his closest friends or indeed from the College as a whole, that the Dean of Chapel has taken a very major step. A turning-point in his life has been reached. He has bought a small portable Washing Machine, and life can never be quite the same for him again. Some of you have already been privileged to inspect it in B 3. There is even a school of thought, small but persistent, which mutters darkly that he is becoming rather a bore on the subject. On this Trinity Sunday I am tempted to preach about my little Washing Machine. It is, I think you would agree, an almost ideal model of the Godhead; at least if you have that sort of mind. It has three consecutive programmes. Into it are loaded soiled garments; and such according to Holy Scripture we mortals are. The warm soapy flood which engulfs us and in which we soak is an image of the boundless love of God not altogether unfamiliar in some forms of Christian piety. Then we are actively washed: zonked about by powerful swirling machinery, this way and that, in the suds. That bit is the Incarnation. Finally, we are rinsed in the clear clean water of Spirit before emerging back into the world of reality. Three Programmes, One Washing Machine, as St Athanasius would have said, had he thought of it. We may choose our own favourite brand of washing-powder (Anglican, Methodist, R. C. or whatever) but surely the Tub stands unmistakably for the Church Universal, within which the divine activity of the triune Godhead is encountered as a cycle of Soak - Wash - Rinse? That, I suspect, is the idiotic sort of sermon which is being preached from pulpits up and down the country this Trinity Sunday. Trivialising the Awesome and the Holy. Offering a neat mechanical domestic model of a mystery before which the only proper response is silence. Being twee and cosy about a Reality which, if it exists at all, lies far beyond language and imagination and comprehension. A Reality which judges a Dean of Chapel not by what he does not say about it, but rather by the appalling gibberish which he does sometimes presume to utter. England is virtually the only country in the world where Trinity Sunday is observed (a curious late-medieval Sarum aberration). Most other Christians have the sense just to shut up. The English have always rather enjoyed biting off more than they can chew and then muddling through in a welter of mixed metaphors. As a Scot, I shall shortly be packing my bags and returning permanently to that more pragmatic land, on the other side of Hadrian's Wall, where they do not bother too much about Trinity Sunday. I shall of course miss some (but not all) features of Cambridge. Over the past nine years there has been an enormous amount of companionship and discovery and fun, hovering around this place. I hope that others, in a similar posture in the 512 years of the College's existence have been able to say the same. I, for one, am profoundly grateful. For some of us it has all found its focus and its meaning, dimly but persistently, at the heart of the Eucharist; in bread and wine broken, poured and shared together by those who would have it so. A 'community'; if perhaps no longer as cohesive as it used to be. But I have found myself going back, again and again, to the first sermon I ever preached in this Chapel. It was on the theme, "Your God is too small". The reference was to a book which was popular in my own student days. On the cover was a toddler in the nursery amongst his toys, spelling out the word "GOD" with his lettered building-blocks. What I tried to say then was that (as I see it) Christianity is about growing up, discovering who we really are, accepting truth about ourselves, and affirming it positively and thankfully. It is about encountering the mysterious side of Reality and admitting that we do not have all the answers, or even the insight to ask most of the right questions. It is about the honest acceptance of doubt and ambiguity as part of the texture of Faith, precisely because it is part of the texture of ourselves as human beings. It is about resisting the allure of a party line. It is about catching glimpses of a Reality which is away out beyond the concepts and symbols of the Sunday School. Out beyond the mindless choruses in which some Christians wallow; and, if the Choir will forgive me, out beyond Byrd and Tallis too! In that sermon I ventured to remark that whereas one might think that Cambridge, between the age of 18 and 22, ought to be quite an exciting place for discovery and growth, there sadly seem to be a lot of churches and groups which specialise in keeping students (and others) locked into the Sunday School. Keeping God small and cosy and safe; a jolly little God who will answer prayers if we are 'good'. A God who seems to prefer 'Christians to be kept well away from the real world of 36 St Catharine's College Society Magazine uncertainty and ambiguity, doubt and anxiety. It caused enormous offence! Everybody thought they were being got at. R.C.s, C.U.s, E.F.G.s,L.S.M.s. Possibly even the Land Economists, but it took them longer to work it out. Actually, the only person I was really getting at was I.D.L.C. Certain things were going cold and dead inside him even then; and he was determined that this Chapel should, if at all possible, be a place where people (himself included) could 'grow up', catch glimpses, affirm themselves, encounter others with respect. Never must it be yet another place where the infantile "God of the Washing Machine" was peddled. For a number of us here this particular party is now over. Time to step outside! Some of you have no choice about it: graduation, unthinkable a few years ago, has caught up with you. My own case is a little different, but a sermon is not the place for boring you with that. Suffice it to say that sometimes in middle life there is much to be said for jumping overboard without a life-jacket, to see if you can swim. If you cannot, the joke is on you. If you can, you have the last laugh. There is a time for standing back from things you have become too accustomed to, and which you take for granted. That goes for Colleges. I am afraid it sometimes also goes for Holy Mother Church. Do not be alarmed! The Dean of St Catharine's (unlike his opposite number at Emmanuel) is only stepping outside for air. In the last resort, the Church does point me towards things which I know to be true, and that has been its function throughout history. It points me towards a man with wounds in his hands and feet and side, whom I gladly call Brother because he somehow got things right while I usually got them disasterously wrong. It urges me to listen to the Wind that blows through the things that move and excite me, and a still small voice which I sometimes hear if I shut up. It points me towards a paradoxical goodness and holiness and beauty at the heart of a world of violence and perversity and ignorance. On this Trinity Sunday I am prepared, if you want me to, to tie up that bundle of perceptions and call it "GOD". I am prepared to worship it, too; but that is my business, not yours! Meanwhile, what we can do about it together is to break bread and pour wine with those who will join us, as we have been instructed. Sometimes the very things you love most can best be appreciated from a slight distance away. Cambridge, and those who built it, have always professed rather a 'thing' about 'perspective'. True freedom, for the Christian, must include the possibility of saying 'No thanks' even to that which in his heart of hearts he knows can never ultimately be denied. For one of us present, that means the other side of Hadrian's Wall. The Romans knew what they were doing when they built it, not to keep us Scots out, but rather to keep you English in. "Not Angels but Anglicans", as St Augustine of Canterbury said, though St Gregory the Great got the credit for the apercu. But do not forget that the Pennine Way ends more or less in my back- garden in Yetholm. I shall always be pleased to see anyone who may wander across the Cheviot Hills, that glorious wilderness, to my side of the Wall. I do not mean that just literally (those who know me best know that I regard literalism as the curse of Christian faith). Take it metaphorically. We all have a wilderness to cross; a Wall of self-affirmation to surmount; a safe Institution to leave behind for the unknown. Whether we are going out, or going home, one thing is certain: we cannot remain here at St Catharine's indefinitely.

(Ian Clark will indeed be pleased to see, or hear from, members of the College. His permanent address will be: 4 Yewtree Lane, Yetholm, Roxburghshire, TD5 8RZ; Tel. 057-382-323. He will also have a safari base in Edinburgh: for the moment, 10 Eglington Crescent, EH 12 5DD; Tel. 031-225-7040. Beds, of a sort, are usually available in Yetholm. The penalty, which has seen off a number of Catz Persons, is the dreaded curry-packed Shepherd's Pie).

Ecclesiastical Appointments Bonney. On 30 June 1985, in Durham Cathedral, M. P. J. Bonney (1975) was made Deacon by David, Lord Bishop of Durham, to serve the parish of St Peter, Stockton-on-Tees. Burman. On 1 July 1984, in St John's Church, Weymouth, W. G. Burman (1948) was ordained Priest by the Bishop of Salisbury. Langan. On 23 June 1985, in the Church of St John the Baptist, Southend, M. Langan (1972) was ordained Priest by the Bishop of Bradwell, to serve the parish of St Peter and St Paul, Grays, and the Grays-Thurrock Team Ministry. Probert. On 30 June 1985, E. C. Probert (1977) was ordained Priest. Way. On 7 July 1985, in Norwich Cathedral, C. G. Way (1952) was ordained Priest by the Lord Bishop of Norwich. St Catharine's College Society Magazine 37 Governing Body 1985-86 (as at 1 October 1985) Professor B. E. Supple Master. Professor of Economic History DrR. S. Comline President and Director of Studies in Medicine and Veterinary Medicine. Dr P. G. le Huray Director of Studies in Music Dr J. R. Shakeshaft Librarian and Director of Studies in Physics Dr M. A. Message Director of Studies in Anatomy Dr R. W. Gregory Tutor and Director of Studies in Engineering Dr C. J. R. Thorne Tutor and Director of Studies in Biological Sciences Dr D. E. Keeble Tutor and Director of Studies in Geography Dr N. C. Handy Steward and Director of Studies in Applied Mathematics Professor C. C. Smith Professor of Spanish Dr A. F. Beardon Director of Studies in Pure Mathematics Professor A. R. Battersby, F.R.S. Professor of Chemistry Dr C. A. Bayly Director of Studies in History Dr J. A. Thompson Dean and Assistant Director of Studies in History Dr J. H. Baker, F.B.A. Director of Studies in Law and Custodian of the Works of Art Dr R. L. Martin Tutor for Graduate Students and Assistant Director of Studies in Geography Professor M. D. I. Chisholm Professor of Geography Mr R. J. Tarling Director of Studies in Economics Dr P. N. Hartle Tutor and College Lecturer in English Mr J. R. G. Wright Bursar, Domestic Bursar and Director of Studies in Classics Dr R. S. K. Barnes Secretary to the Governing Body and Director of Studies in Biological Sciences Dr M. Silver Dr G. Herbert College Lecturer in German Miss R. A. Britton Tutor and Director of Studies in Engineering Dr C. E. Baron Senior Tutor, Financial Tutor and Director of Studies in English Dr R. A. Morris Praelector and College Lecturer in French Dr J. A. Little Director of Studies in Metallurgy Mr T. P. G. Ivory College Lecturer in Law Dr P. R. Raithby Tutor and Director of Studies in Chemistry Mr R. S. Steedman Mr P. Tyler Director of Studies in Land Economy Dr R. B. B. Wardy Director of Studies in Philosophy Dr H. Elderfield Tutor and Director of Studies in Earth Sciences Dr R. F. Hess 38 St Catharine's College Society Magazine College Fellowships, Appointments, etc. Elections On 19 October 1984 Alfred Gavin Maddock, M. A., Sc. D., had the title of Emeritus Fellow conferred on him. On 16 November 1984 Robert Wardy, B. A., was elected into an Official Fellowship for three years with effect from 1 October 1984. On 18 January 1985 Mark Rothwell Ogden, B.A., was elected into a Research Fellowship for three years with effect from 1 October 1985. Theodore Gordon Shepherd was elected into a Research Fellowship for three years with effect from 1 October 1985. Duncan Martin Tanner was elected into a Research Fellowship for three years with effect from 1 October 1985. Philip Lindley, B.A., was elected into a Research Fellowship for three years with effect from 1 October 1985. On 8 February 1985 Robert Francis Hess, Ph.D., was elected into an Official Fellowship for three years with effect from 1 October 1985. Appointments, etc. On 18 January 1985 Philippe Joseph Sands, B.A., LL.M., was re-elected into the Alex Jacobson Fellow Commonership in International Law for one year with effect from 1 October 1985. John Roland Shakeshaft, M.A., Ph.D., was re-appointed Librarian for seven years with effect from 1 October 1985. Rosemary Anne Morris, M.A., Ph.D., was re-appointed Praelector for two years with effect from 1 October 1985. Richard Stephen Kent Barnes, M.A., Ph.D., was re-appointed Secretary of the Governing Body for two years with effect from 1 October 1985. On 8 February 1985 The Reverend Brother Christian David John Pearson, SS.F., M.A., was re-appointed Chaplain for one year with effect from 1 October 1985. On 8 March 1985 Jonathan Leigh, M.A., of Cranleigh School, was elected into a Schoolteacher Fellow Commonership for the Michaelmas Term 1985. Alan Dures, B. A., of Culford School, was elected into a Schoolteacher Fellow Commonership for the Easter Term 1986. Carl Edward Baron, M.A., Ph.D., was appointed Senior Tutor for five years with effect from 1 October 1985. On 26 April 1985 Gertraud Herbert, M.A., was appointed into a special College Lectureship in German. John Albert Little, M.A., Ph.D., was appointed Senior Treasurer of the Amalgamated Clubs and into a Tutorship, both with effect from 1 October 1985. On 12 July 1985 Paul Robert Raithby, Ph.D., was appointed into a Tutorship for 1 year from 1 October 1985.

College Fellowships The St Catharine's Society will welcome the appointments noted on this page: Dr Robert Hess, an Australian, graduated as an optometrist in 1970. He obtained his Ph.D. in visual perception from the University of Melbourne in 1976, and was Meres Senior Scholar of St John's, Cambridge from 1978-82. Since 1982, he has been a Wellcome Senior Lecturer to the Physiological Laboratory, and was a Research Fellow at Clare Hall for 1984- 5. His research interests involve vision research, with a special interest in clinically relevant problems. Phillip Lindley graduated from Downing in 1980, and has since been writing on "The Monastic Cathedral of Ely, c. 320 to c. 350: Art and Patronage in Medieval East Anglia." He intends doing research into late medieval English sculpture. St Catharine's College Society Magazine 39

Mark Ogden, after gaining a Double First in Modern Languages (French and German) from Gonville and Caius in 1979, returned there in 1980 to start a Ph.D. thesis on the late 18th-century German writer, Holderlin, specifically on the problem of Christ in his work. From 1983-84, he was Lecturer in German and European Thought and Literature at CCAT, Cambridge. He hopes to complete his thesis in 1985 and will then pursue his wider research interest in the literature, philosophy and Theology of late 18th century Germany. Dr Ted Shepherd, a Canadian, graduated with distinction in Mathematics and Physics at Trinity College, Toronto, and recently obtained his Ph.D. in Dynamical Meteorology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is currently at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, where he is engaged in research concerning strongly-nonlinear wave, mean-flow interaction in geophysical fluids. Dr Duncan Tanner gained a First in Modern History and Politics from Royal Holloway College, London, in 1979, before moving to University College, London, to work on the electoral development of the Labour Party, 1906-22.

The Quincentenary Appeal and Building Fund The accompanying statement of accounts for the year 1 July 1984 to 30 June 1985 shows that income during the year (derived from existing and new convenants, donations, dividends, interest and recovered tax) amounted to £18,231. This brings the total since the Appeal was launched in 1955 to £406,501. On behalf of the Master and Fellows the Trustees again express their thanks for the continued and generous support given to the Fund by Old Members. During the year the following became subscribers or renewed previous convenants, made donations or left legacies: S. Pickering, V. Forbes Smith. During the course of the year the Trustees decided that it would be appropriate, in the light of the new Appeal, to begin the process of winding up the Quincentenary Appeal. They agreed to transfer to the new Appeal the Balance of £75,464 held by them as at 30 June 1985. The Quincentenary Appeal will remain in existence until all outstanding covenants have been exhausted, the balances each year being transferred to the new Appeal, but no new convenants or donations will be solicited. The successive reports in this magazine and, even more, the transformation of the College buildings are eloquent testimony to the outstanding dedication and generosity from which the College has benefited over the years as a result of the Quincentenary Appeal and the efforts of all who participated in it.

THE QUINCENTENARY APPEAL CASH STATEMENT FOR TWELVE MONTHS 1ST JULY 1984 TO 30TH JUNE 1985 1984 Receipts 1985 1984 Payments 1985 Balance at Bankers brought forward 5,250 Repayment of Loans 5,000 56,697 Deposit Account 67,233 Balance at Bankers carried forward 8,351 Subscriptions under Covenant 7,287 67,233 Deposit Account 80,464 6,036 Interest 6,613 908 Income Tax recovered 3,881 491 Donations 200 Bequest 250 18,231

72,483 85,464 72,483 85,464

BALANCE SHEET AS AT 30TH JUNE 1985 Accumulated Funds and Loans Assets 372,484 Accumulated Fund 30 June 1984 388,270 Cash at Bankers 30 June 1985 15,786 Cash Receipts as above 18,231 67,233 Deposit Account 80,464 388,270 406,501 Less Advances to Governing Body 1966 101,050 1973/74 193,588 1978 25,000 1980 11,399 331,037 Balance with the Managing Trustees 75,464 10,000 Interest Free Loans 5,000 67,233 80,464 67,233 80,464

Notes: No account has been taken of:- (a) Payment under Covenant other than those banked during the period to 30 June 1985. (b) Income tax repayments on payments under Covenant and Taxed dividends beyond amounts actually received. (c) Donations and Bequests promised. REPORT OF THE AUDITORS TO THE TRUSTEES We have examined the above Balance Sheet and Cash Statement with the Books and vouchers of the Quincentenary Appeal Fund. In our opinion the accounts present a true and fair view of the transactions for the period ended 30th June 1985 and of the resultant balance. SPICER AND PEGLER 16 July 1985 Chartered Accountants 40 St Catharine's College Society Magazine On Preferring to be Believed DR J. A. NORRIS (The author came up in 1949 and is now Head of the BBC's Eastern Service, which broadcasts in eight Asian languages to audiences between Tabriz and Tenasserim, Karakoram and Cape Comorin: Persian, Pashto, Urdu, Hindi, Nepali, Bengali, Tamil and Burmese.) Among the obiter dicta of Dr Leavis, if I remember rightly, there is a dismissive reference to the English Tripos as he first knew it. He thought it good only for producing solvers of the Times crossword puzzle and (dreadful fate) journalists. He had little time for the Quiller-Couch tradition. Feet on the fender, a good book in the lap and cakes and ale at the elbow were equally to be despised. The only play allowed was the play of a discriminating intelligence upon the words on the printed page, for ever sorting and sifting, refining and assaying like George Eliot's Mr Casaubon. That at least is how it seemed to this inveterate journalist and solver of the Times crossword puzzle, who once read every single edition of "Scrutiny" and, asking for bread, received many a stone. But I suspect that few of the rank and file of the Cambridge English School identified themselves exclusively with either side in the quarrel. Why should they? It was a feud between dons, and the rank and file had jobs to go to in the world outside. They would take with them a little of the best from each faction's theories and attitudes. And so one might be a better journalist for having sat at the feet of Leavis one day and Kenn the next, or a more inspiring teacher for having read "Q" on "The Art of Writing" as well as "The Great Tradition" and "The Common Pursuit." In my book, Malvolio and Sir Toby Belch were both good Cambridge men. The Editor of the Society's Magazine is wisely determined not to let it always look inward and backward to happy days on an affectionately remembered island site. Rather he wants it to be leavened with material which will show how the College and its ethos reach out into the wider world. If the College is to be more than an increasingly comfortable and convenient hostel it must have an influence on individual lives and careers. Each college has its own variation on the Cambridge theme, a few passages remembered at intervals throughout a working life. The tune comes into one's head at strange times and in strange places. A chance meeting of Caths men in Teheran just after Suez causes a diplomat and a foreign correspondent to put business aside and raise a glass to the Fellows who are about to elect a new Master, and to one Fellow in particular. And each as he works may fleetingly wonder whether Tom Henn would have admired that turn of phrase or Chris Waddams that thoughtless remark. Those whose careers take them abroad or into the business of communications and the media lead in many ways enviable lives. To spend one's twenties overseas as a foreign correspondent, covering wars and trials, triumphs and disasters, conferences and catastrophes, is certainly more exciting than most post-graduate experiences. To do it while the sun is setting on an empire profoundly affects one's outlook and attitudes. It becomes a particularly valuable part of one's education. I mention the experience because such influence as I have on the BBC's External Services would be much the poorer without Cambridge just after the war and Reuters in the mid fifties. From Cambridge came a preference for clarity and the confidence to confront the facts as they are. From Reuters came the technique of communicating information as quickly, accurately and objectively as possible to all kinds of readers around the world. It used to be said that an Englishman's word was his bond, so that a bazaar merchant in Central Asia would exchange goods for an oral promise to pay and ask for no other security. Nowadays there are fewer opportunities for that kind of test of character. But an Englishman's (more correctly a Briton's) word is still his bond in another very important way. What the BBC says to the world is by and large believed and eagerly awaited day by day because it does not come from a tainted source. At all times but especially at times of crisis people will tune to London to find out (from broadcasts in their own languages as well as in English) what is going on in the world at large and even within their own borders. That credibility is a national asset, jealously protected by people in my position from the earliest days. The Empire Service of 1932 has become the World Service of today, with broadcasts in English round the clock. The first foreign language transmission went out in January 1938, largely in response to Italian and German propaganda beamed to the Arab world. That was the beginning of the Arabic Service, and a crucial test of the BBC's credibility in the Arab world occurred during the preparation of the first Arabic news bulletin. One school of thought in the Foreign Office had advocated editing for political effect - a little judicious interpolation here and a modicum of suppression there according to the circumstances. But the BBC, backed by another and wiser school of thought in the Foreign Office, wanted above St Catharine's College Society Magazine 41 all to be believed as the make of its own independent editorial decisions on sound journalistic principles. And so the first Arabic bulletin reported among other things the hanging of a young Arab in Palestine for breaches of the security regulations. The news item cast a shadow over the inauguration of the Arabic Service. The British Minister in Jeddah (Reader Bullard) called on Ibn Saud on the following day and found him with tears in his eyes because the British had carried out the sentence of death on that young Palestinian Arab. He and his Ministers had heard of it from the BBC. This may seem quixotic until one weighs two kinds of external broadcasting against each other. Joseph Goebbels dispensed what I call blitzkrieg propaganda. If the lie that was believed today could help the Panzer divisions and the Stukas to win today's battle it was justified. Who cared if the audience disbelieved in a fortnight's time? His was a short-sighted policy, and in Cologne last year I found a good illustration of the policy's stupidity. I met a man who was a small child in Germany in 1944; he told me that he and his father used to hide under a blanket in a back room and listen to the BBC, even though they risked the death penalty by doing so. They had given up listening to the Goebbels version long ago. They had believed us when we reported Britain's defeats, and now they believed us when we reported victories. Goebbels, meanwhile, was telling them that victory for Germany was just round the corner. The other day I was reading the diaries of Sir Robert Bruce Lockhart, who was in charge of the Political Warfare Executive during the Second World War. The editor of the diaries considered the following remarks of the BBC's Chief European Editor at the time to be high and mighty: "... We must give the truth as we see it, not from some bogus propaganda angle. If our case is genuine and honest, the news will present it without being doctored..." Quite so. Not high, not mighty, but precise. Let others poison the wells if they will, but let them not expect to be believed for long or at all once they drop the poison into the water. Which brings me back to Cambridge and one of the ancient emblems of the University Press: "Hinc lucem et pocula sacra." The fenland light may be hard and the water ice cold, but their bracing effect lasts a lifetime.

(Photograph by courtesy of BBC Copyright)

R. D. A. Dodds (1978), Olympic Bronze Medallist at Los Angeles 1984, was a member of the British Hockey team (above) voted Sports Team of the Year by BBC Television. He is pictured left in this part of the group. S. Kerly holds the BBC trophy. Jeremy Taylor (1979) (right) appeared before the Queen Mother and the Prince and Princess of Wales in the Royal Variety Performance, November 1984, as a member of'Harvey and the Wallbangers'. The performance was notable for his rendition of Rossini's 'William Tell Overture' on the trombone, with magical and piano accompaniments! 42 St Catharine's College Society Magazine Publications Andrew, M. R. (1964), Two Early Renaissance Bird Poems, (edited with Introduction and notes by Malcolm Andrew), London and Toronto University Press, 1985. Balchin, Prof. W. G. V. (1934), The Cornish Landscape, London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1983. Baldwin, M. W. 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(1930) has translated the following works into English from Brazilian Portuguese: Maira, by Darcy Ribeiro (Vintage Books, 1984, translated by Goodland and Thomas Colchie), a novel dealing with the fearful plight of an Indian community today, built up on a foundation of authentic anthropological observations by a leading anthropologist/ politician, and Macunaimas by Mario de Andrade (Random House, 1984) a Brazilian literary classic, built up on a basis of Amerindian folk-lore. Gore, C. G. (1968), Regions in Question. Space, Development Theory and Regional Policy, London, Methuen, 1984. Hartcup, G. R. M. (1938) and Allibone, T. E., Cockcroft and the Atom, Bristol, Adam Hilger Ltd., 1984. (Reviewed in 1984 Magazine.) Henig, M. (1960) (ed.) Religion in Roman Britain, Batsford, 1984, and A Handbook of Roman Art, Phaidon Press, 1983. Leeson, C. R. (1944), Leeson, T. S. (1944) and Paparo, A. A., Atlas of Histology, 2nd. ed. 1985, and Textbook of Histology, 5th ed., 1985, Philadelphia, W. B. Saunders. New, P. J. (1959), "Fiction and purpose in Utopia, Rasselas, The Mill on the Floss and Women in Love," 1985. Pearson, Brother Christian (Chaplain), "Line upon line: here a little, there a little." Some Letters of Martin Luther (Offprint from Brooks, Peter Newman, (ed.) Seven-Headed Luther, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1983). Price, G. L. (1960), "Universities Today: between the corporate state and the market" from Universities Quarterly, Blackwell, January 1985. Ritchie, F. N. (1937), Harold Acton, a Bibliography, Florence, 1984. Smith, S. (1929, Fellow 1939, Emeritus Fellow 1978) and Burkhardt, F. (eds.), The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Volume 1, 1821-1836, Cambridge University Press, 1985, and Burkhardt, F. and Smith, S. (eds.) A Calendar of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin 1821-1882, New York and London, Garland Publishing Inc., 1985. (Managing Editor Stephen Pocock (1973)). Spate, Prof. O. H. K. (1930), Monopolists and Freebooters, (The Pacific since Magellan, Vol. 2), Canberra, Australian National University Press, 1983. (We expect to include a review of the complete publication in our 1986 edition - Ed.) Strachan, W. J. (1921), Henry Moore: Animals, London, Aurum Press, 1983, and Open-air sculpture in Britain, A. Zwemmer/Tate Gallery, 1984. Turner, The Revd. J. Munsey (1949), Conflict and Reconciliation: Studies in Methodism and Ecumenism in England 1740-1982, Epworth Press, 1985. Warner, F. (1956), Moving Reflections, Gerrards Cross, Colin Smythe, 1983, (Reviewed in 1984 Magazine) and Collected Poems 1960-1984, Colin Smythe, 1985. Warner, P. A. W. (1936), Horrocks: The General who led from the Front, London, Hamish Hamilton, 1984. Wilkinson, A. B. (1951, Chaplain 1961-7), Parish Group Study Guides: 1. Would you believe it? Basic Christian Belief 2. More ready to hear (than we to pray), Prayer and Worship. 3. Christian Choices, Moral Issues, Mowbray, 1983. We thank again our authors, Fellows, former Fellows and Members of the College who have contributed their own works to enrich the College Library. We regret we have space only to review a very few of the contributions. The Librarian is grateful for the donations to the College of a number of other books from members of the college and this year-we may mention in particular, Browne, Sir Thomas, Hydriotaphia, Urne-Buriall, or, A Discourse of the Sepulchrall Urnes lately found in Norfolk, London, 1658. (Presented by Mrs Margaret Cohoe in memory of her brother, John Meredith James 1946), and Justinian I. Institutiones Imperiales: cum Casibus longis... Venice, Printed by the heirs of Octavianus Scotus, 1522 and Bracton, Henricus de. Henrici de Bracton de Legibus et consuetud-inibus Angliae Libriquinque..., London, Richard Tottell, 1569, (Copy signed by Sir George Croke, Justice of the King's Bench). (Bequest of Cyrus Levinthal 1926). St Catharine's College Society Magazine 43 Reviews THE CORRESPONDENCE OF CHARLES Eds: Frederick Burkhardt and Sydney Smith DARWIN Volume 1, 1821-1836. Cambridge University Press. 1985. £30. The publication of the complete correspondence of Charles Darwin is long overdue, but the delay is amply justified if it has meant waiting for Frederick Burkhardt and Sydney Smith who, with their team of assistants and associates, have achieved in the first volume a work of such meticulous authenticity that the whole enterprise promises to become a monument not only to Charles Darwin himself, but also to everything that is best in sensitive, editorial expertise and professional skill. The volume covers Charles Darwin's formative years from the boy of twelve to the young man, aged twenty-seven, who has just come back from his voyage round the world. Some might regret the absence of juvenilia which, if any exist, would throw more light on his early development and the later health problems which have led to so much controversy. Perhaps more material will emerge, but even without it there is a wealth of fresh information which will, no doubt, lead to the construction of new theories and the modifications of old ones. As other volumes come out, hopefully in the not too distant future, we will be able to read many more unpublished letters between him and an enormous number of correspondents from an astonishing variety of walks of life, and we can be confident that they will be as truly authentic as modern scholarship and technology can make them. Dr Sydney Smith gives a foretaste of revelations that will appear from the printing of the exact text of the letters in his review1 of Antony Flew's book 'Darwinian Evolution'.2 1 New Scientist no. 1541, 11th May 1985, page 40. 2 Palladin, 1985. This particular letter throws new light on the timing of the development of his species theory. Unfortunately, the expurgations and alterations of some of his original writings by earlier editors in deference to the religious and other susceptibilities of living relatives when they were first published, have not been fully corrected in later and more objective works - notably those of his grand-daughter, Nora Barlow, (Charles Darwin and the Voyage of the Beagle, Darwin and Henslow, The Autobiography), although they have in fact done much to put the record right. However such excitements are for the future. Let us enjoy Volume One now, which takes Charles Darwin from boyhood through his formal education at Shrewsbury, Edinburgh and Cambridge to the crucially important five-year voyage round the world aboard HMS Beagle, ending soon after his arrival home and his entry into the scientific community of the country. The letters add vivid and personal colouring to other factual and fictional descriptions of the social and family life in the nineteenth century, as well as revealing much detail of the development of his own mind and character. To pick on just one facet - we already get a picture of his remarkable facility for making friends and building relationships on which so much of his future work depended. The editors have succeeded in producing a book in which their own arduous work never obtrudes through the subject matter and thus nothing comes between the reader and the letters themselves. It is a great achievement, worthy of the great man himself. Successive volumes will surely be hailed with the same enthusiasm as this one. Congratulations to Cambridge University Press too. Seven hundred printed pages of such excellence for a mere £30 is value for money these days. Erasmus Barlow May 1985

HORROCKS Philip Warner London, Hamish Hamilton, 1984, 195 pp. Another very readable book from P. A. W. Warner (1936), of particular interest to all old members who served in Horrocks' 30 Corps in Africa and Europe. Arguably the most magnetic British Corps commander of the war, Horrocks, the soldier's general, probably a better tactician than a strategist, led from the front: this book brings out particularly the warm personal qualities of a man who combined steely determination in the field with human compassion for his men, whose life had panache in peace and war and enough personal experiences for an adventure story. Long after the war, during the College building period of 1964-7, Horrocks, then a director of Bovis, the building contractors, was a welcome visitor to College, courteous, good-humoured, 44 St Catharine's College Society Magazine

discerning, always interesting. Teddy Rich, then Master, remarking how much we had admired his stately, handsome dignity during his 14 years in the ceremonial office of Black Rod, once asked him what Black Rod said as he bowed to the Lord Chancellor; "Not in the first three, my Lord". A great leader, a great character, a great man, whose human warmth and charm is well caught by Warner. S.C.A.

TUNKU: A PICTORIAL BIOGRAPHY 1903-57 Tan Sri Dato Mubin Sheppard Pelanduk Publs., Malaysia, 1984, 166 pp. This biography, which covers the life of Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra (Matric. 1922, BA 1926, Hon. LL.D. 1960, Hon Fellow 1960) down to Malaya Independence Day on 31 August 1957, when Tunku became Prime Minister of the new State, is a fascinating story of a life moving from a childhood in a setting at once exotic, stern and romantic, via student days in Cambridge and the Inner Temple, through the dangers and difficulties of Japanese war-time occupation, through political struggle to culminate in high achievement. The section on Tunku's years at St Catharine's recalls the more carefree undergraduate life of the twenties, in which a modicum of work was combined with sporting activities, an enjoyable social life and fast cars; and, in the latter connection, to judge from the record, it seems that Tunku was not unknown to Proctors and police. Among many pictures of contemporary life the biography reproduces a photograph of the College Soccer team 1924-5, in which Tunku played. As occasion offers, Tunku comes back to College, an ever-welcome visitor of personal charm and rich interest: and even as these words are written, he is entertaining the University Soccer team, on tour to Thailand and Malaysia, managed by Dr John Little and containing two St Catharine's Blues. Long may this two-way association continue. S.C.A.

COLLECTED POEMS 1960-1984 Francis Warner Colin Smythe He has a lyric gift, and a lucidity of language, which is used with variety and with an intensity that can surprise, particularly when the poems are most personal. A volume of poems that will give much pleasure to many readers. J M Y A

CONFLICT AND RECONCILIATION: John Munsey Turner Studies in Methodism and Ecumenism Epworth Press, £25.00 in England 1740-1982 A fully documented and exhaustive study of lines of communication and separation between Methodism and the Church of England from Wesley to post Covenant, the 1980's. Turner roots his book in sociology and economics at the start and ends it warning us of "the increased threat to those incalculably precious to God from social and psychological engineering." He tells us the seed thoughts of this study were sown when I was "reading history at St Catharine's College, Cambridge." It represents, therefore, a life of digested experience. The reviewer finds himself justly rebuked on page 213 when as one of the 152 Anglican Clergy who voted in favour of "The Scheme" for unity in 1972 he failed to bring with him the necessary 75% majority and helped to cause that "numbness of grief to expectant and eager Methodists. The Archbishop of York comments in his Foreword that "trenchancy, forthrightness and mastery of detail come through the printed pages." Alan Wilkinson (our Chaplain, 1961-67) made a contribution towards the chapter on the 19th Century. The textbook is a unique study and will long be a standard reference book, but Methodists and Anglicans who yearn towards a more relaxed relationship will find it worthy of leisure time and refreshingly pungent. J. St. H. M.

THE CAMBRIDGE ARMORIAL ed. C. Humphery-Smith and others (1985). 144 pp. £15. This handsome volume depicts in colour the armorial bearings of the University and colleges of Cambridge, the Regius professors, and the Perse and Leys schools, with ancillary line drawings, and notes on the origins and associations of the arms. It replaces the much smaller work by Oldfield, which has long been out of print.1 The information about the older colleges is mostly St Catharine's College Society Magazine 45 well known, but is here brought together in a convenient form. More original is the treatment of the sixteen newer foundations not included in Oldfield. In this short review it is appropriate to mention only details of interest to St Catharine's College. It is noted on p. 12 that Addenbrooke's Hospital uses the arms of John Addenbrooke: but unfortunately there is no blazon or discussion, and so the College archivist will have to continue to deal with a stream of enquiries on the subject.2 On the same page there is mention of the spurious "arms" of the American servicemen's "Bull College" (1945), which is usually treated as a satellite of King's.3 And on p. 13, attention is drawn to the armorial hat-trick found on Dr Gostlin's portrait - Gostlin quartering the Regius professorship of Physic, the University (as vice- chancellor) and Caius College (as master). (The authors do not comment, but it is dubious whether a vice-chancellor, as opposed to the chancellor, may legally join the University arms with his own.) The main item of interest, however, is the section on the College arms (pp. 65-67). A few years ago the reviewer represented the College at a conference dinner in hall which was attended by several heralds. The distinguished officer of arms who spoke first gently chided the College for spurning the arms of its founder (as displayed in the S.C.R. bay window) and using a saintly device of no authority. Fortunately the reviewer had read Jones,4 and in replying to the toast was able to answer that the present arms were entered by Clarenceux King of Arms at the last heraldic visitation (1684), whereas the Woodlark arms in the window were generally reckoned to be spurious. This view of things is also found in Oldfield, and now in The Cambridge Armorial, though neither book traces the Woodlark coat beyond Browne (1902). Bishop Browne was probably responsible for the adoption by the College, around the turn of the century, of the arms of "Woodlark" impaling "St Catharine".5 The minutes of the "Amalgamation Club" for 1903 refer to a letter from him on the subject, and we know that the arms were used thereafter on blazers, menus and fixture-cards. They seem to have been abandoned on advice from York Herald in 1934.6 But what none of the writers seems to have noticed is that the now despised Woodlark coat dates back at least to 1615, when it appears in the manuscript account of the University prepared by John Scott, herald-painter, for the king's visit. No one has yet taken up the challenge to discover whether Scott was merely exercising his inventiveness, or whether the Woodlark arms have some earlier foundation. The reviewer has at least begun to wonder whether the heraldic dinner-guest, if wrong in law, may not have been near the historical mark. To return to The Cambridge Armorial: it can be recommended for interesting light reading and reference, and as an ideal present for any lover of Cambridge. A member of the College who buys a copy may simultaneously benefit the appeal by ordering it through the College, which will then receive £2.50 on each order so placed, in addition to the £2.50 personal discount to the purchaser if purchased from the College. (Orders should be addressed to the Chief Clerk at the College Office, and should include a cheque for £12.50, payable to St Catharine's College). J. H. Baker 1 R. W. Oldfield, The Arms of the University and Colleges of Cambridge (1931). 2 The arms are carved on a floor-slab in the ante-chapel: probably the only contemporary evidence for them. 3 The College has a carved wooden plaque with these insignia, rescued by Dr Aston, and was recently given some coloured decals with the same device. 4 History of St Catharine's College (1936), pp. 47-48. 5 It is not known when these arms were placed in the bay window, which was itself built in 1868. 6 Jones, op. cit., p. 47.

A TRIBUTE TO FREDERICK DOUGLAS FIELD-HYDE (1921) The Field-Hydes were an influential Cambridge family, particularly in the musical field. Most notably, Margaret Field-Hyde became a soprano of international repute. Two former St Catharine's men, Lord Soper (1921, Honorary Fellow 1966) and Walker J. Strachan (1921) have contributed to this memoir, which is a tribute to Frederick Field-Hyde. It features accounts of Field-Hyde's days in Cambridge, both at the Perse School and at St Catharine's. The book is available from: J. D. Walters, 35 Grovelands Crescent, Fordhouses, Wolverhampton, West Midlands. It costs £5.50 (inc. postage) and cheques should be made payable to Old Tettenhallians' Club. 46 St Catharine's College Society Magazine

CAMBRIDGE PHYSICS IN THE THIRTIES ed. John Hendry Adam Hilger, 1984, xiv +210 pp., £17.50. Here is a picture of the Golden Age of the Cavendish Laboratory. John Hendry has assembled several accounts of the work, personalities and life in the Cavendish Laboratory in the early 1930's. About half the contributions are based on lectures given before in various places, the others are new. Hendry has collected them in groups, Three Famous Experiments in 1932, Cambridge Physics and the Cavendish, Underlying Themes and Change and Continuity. Each section is preceded by the editors own very stimulating text. One cannot read this book without gaining some feeling of the excitement of this heroic period. A.G.M.

Appointments and Notes Adams, M. (1970) is to become an investigator with the Commission for Local Administration in England (the Ombudsman). He writes, "The region I will be covering is bounded by Cornwall, Berkshire, Lincolnshire and Shropshire ... It includes Cambridgeshire, so I might be in a position to look up old haunts before long." Adley, A. G. (1925) see Offer, F. D. Akhtar, S. (1978) has decided to try for Postdoctoral work in Canada and/or read Theology at a Canadian University, having completed his Ph.D. at the University of Calgary this year. Allen, M. G. (1949) has recently celebrated 25 years with Shell Chemicals. He is Manager of the technical department of the Agricultural Division, based in Ely. Allen, M. J. (1960) has been elected to a Fellowship at Churchill College. Alston, R. P. (1925) see Offer, F. D. Andrew, Dr M. R. (1964), currently Senior Lecturer in the School of English and American Studies at the University of East Anglia, has been appointed to the Chair of English Language and Literature at the Queen's University, Belfast. Armitage, D. R. (1983), currently reading English at St Catharine's, was cheated of full success for the fourth time in the London 'A' regional final of the Collins Dictionaries Times Crossword Championship, held in the Park Lane Hotel, London, in June. Again, a single error was his downfall (this time, "spar" for "spur" which was not a spelling mistake as last year's was, but rather an ill-considered solution). The Times reported that David Armitage, 'finished a good five minutes ahead of the field...' The winner completed four puzzles in an average of just under 13 minutes each. Arthur, J. C. (1981) has been awarded the William Barclay Squire Essay Prize, 1984. Bailey, D. A. (1954) has returned to the United Kingdom from Malaysia and is based temporarily in Cambridge. Baldwin, Dr M. W. (1962) has been asked to repeat the 1984 Vernon-Har court Lecture which he delivered at the Institution of Civil Engineers at eight regional centres (see Publications). Barnes, P. J. (1966) has been appointed Professor of Clinical Pharmacology at the Cardiothoracic Institute, University of London. Bate, A. J. (1977, Research Fellow 1983) has been elected into a Staff Fellowship at Trinity Hall and appointed a College Lecturer in English at Girton College from 1 October 1985. Belkin, M. (1961) is now Director of the Maurice and Gabriela Goldschleger Eye Institute (Research Department) in the Tel-Aviv University School of Medicine, where he is involved in neuro-biological research. Although it is 20 years since he was at St Catharine's, Michael Belkin confesses that he suffers "chronically from nostalgia to Cambridge", but finds that most of his conferences are in the USA, not Europe. Bellerby, J. M. (1969) moved last year from Bicester to Faringdon (Oxon). He is now on the staff of the Royal Military College of Science at Shrivenham, which has recently become part of the Cranfield Institute of Technology. Bennett, Prof. R. J. (1967), currently Lecturer in Geography in the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Fitzwilliam College, has been appointed to the Chair of Geography at the London School of Economics and Political Science, University of London. Benton, G. (1963) is lecturing on China in the Anthropology Department of the University of Amsterdam. Berrill, Sir Kenneth (Fellow 1950-62) has relinquished his Chairmanship of Vickers da Costa to become Chairman of the Securities and Investments Board of the Bank of England. Binnington, A. R. (1977) see Perry, J. E. Birkett, J. H. (1961) writes that he is working as Group Personnel Adviser with Tarmac, the construction group. He recently came into contact with two Tom Kings - one, the Employment Secretary, who visited Tarmac to have a look at their YTS scheme, and the other to whom he lost in the final of the company squash final! Bonney, M. (1975) see Marriages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Historical, Pt II O'Brien Mathematics, Pt II Entwisle, M.J. Natural Sciences, Pt II (Met & Mat Sci) Morris, M. R. Natural Sciences, Pt II (Met & Mat Sci)

Elected to Scholarships Sinclair, A. G. M. Archaeology & Anthropology, Pt II (Arch) Dawes, J. L. Engineering, Pt IA Jackson, D. M. Engineering, Pt IA David, A. M. English, Prelim, Pt I Hill, Miss K. A. English, Prelim, Pt I Brummell, P. Geographical, Pt IA Gardner, J. M. Geographical, Pt IA Renard, J. P. Geographical, Pt IA Baker, G. Geographical, Pt IB Horner, Miss E. J. Geographical, Pt IB Russell, Miss D. Law, Pt IA Southern, R. M. Law, Pt IB Baddeley, R. W. Mathematics, Pt IA Lunt, J. B. Mathematics, Pt IA Bostock, R. S. Mathematics, Pt IB Harper, Miss A. C. Mathematics, Pt II Burdett, A. C. Medical Sciences, Pt IB (Vet) D. O. Morgan Scholarship Lumb, Miss A. Modern and Medieval Languages, Pt I Posener Scholarship Coleman, I. G. Music, Pt IA Forbes, Miss A. J. Natural Sciences, Pt IB Owen, S. M. Natural Sciences, Pt II (Chemistry) Richer, M. D. Natural Sciences, Pt II (General) Tilly, M. D. Natural Sciences, Pt II (Met & Mat Sci) McGuinness, S. J. Oriental Studies, Pt I

Re-elected to Scholarships Roussopoulos, K. Engineering, Pt IB Topping, J. S. Engineering, Pt IB Armitage, D. R. English, Pt I Tippleston, C. E. Law, Pt IA Brackin, P. N. Natural Sciences, Pt IA Davitt, J. J. Natural Sciences, Pt IA Garside, O. G. Natural Sciences, Pt IA Pyle, D. M. Natural Sciences, Pt IB

Retained Scholarships Franks, R. A. Engineering, Pt IA Hurley, A. N. Engineering, Pt IB Aldrich, T. M. Historical, Prelim, Pt I Jain, S. K. Medical Sciences, Pt IA Chippendale, I. C. Natural Sciences, Pt IA

Elected to an Exhibition Dunkley, C. Philosophy, Pt IB

Retained Exhibitions Nichols, R. S. Economics, Pt I Blight, Miss J. L. English, Prelim, Pt I Edwards, Miss A. J. English, Prelim, Pt I Fairweather, Miss A. N. English, Pt I Tunstall, D. V. English, Pt I Mellor, Miss A. C. Geography, Pt IB Roberts, Miss C. M. Historical, Prelim, Pt I Carruthers, Miss K. J. Modern and Medieval Languages, Prelim, Pt II Cawthray, Miss H. A. L. Modern and Medieval Languages, Prelim, Pt II Sargen, G. Natural Sciences, Pt IA Ward, C. B. Natural Sciences, Pt IA St Catharine's College Society Magazine 53

College Prizes Armitage, D. R. English, Pt I Baddeley, R. W. Mathematics, Pt IA Baker, G. Geographical, Pt IB Beacham, K. D. Engineering, Pt II Bostock, R. S. Mathematics, Pt IB Brackin, P. N. Natural Sciences, Pt IA Coleman, I.G. Music, Pt IA David, A. M. English, Prelim, Pt I Davitt, J. J. Natural Sciences, Pt IA Dawes, J. L. Engineering, Pt IA Entwisle, M. J. Natural Sciences, Pt II (Met & Mat Sci) Finn, R. D. English, Pt II Gardner, J. M. Geographical, Pt IA Garside, O. G. Natural Sciences, Pt IA Harper, Miss A. C. Mathematics, Pt II Hill, Miss K. A. English, Prelim, Pt I Horner, Miss E. J. Geographical, Pt IB Jackson, D. M. Engineering, Pt IA Jones, Miss C. C. M. Mathematics, Pt II Lunt, J. B. Mathematics, Pt IA Morris, M. R. Natural Sciences, Pt II (Met & Mat Sci) Owen, S. M. Natural Sciences, Pt II (Chemistry) Pyle, D. M. Natural Sciences, Pt IB Renard, J. P. Geographical, Pt IA Richer, M. D. Natural Sciences, Pt II (General) Roussopoulos, K. Engineering, Pt IB Russell, Miss D. Law, Pt IA Sinclair, A. G. M. Archaeology and Anthropology Pt II (Arch) Tabor, Miss A. B. Natural Sciences, Pt II (Chemistry) Tilly, Miss J. C. Natural Sciences, Pt II (Met & Mat Sci) Tippleston, C. E. Law, Pt IA Topping, J. S. Engineering, Pt IB

Named College Prizes Adderley Prize for Law Sandby-Thomas, Miss R.. M. Alexandria Prize for Engineering Anderson, N. G. Belfield Clarke Prize for Biological Sciences Burdett, A. C. Forbes, Miss A. J. Corrie Prize for Theology Not awarded Drury-Johns Mathematical Prize O'Brien, A. S. Figgis Memorial Prize for History Purslow, R. K. Geography Members' Prize Brummell, P. Sayers Prize for Economics Not awarded Jacobson Prize for Law Southern, R. M. Tasker Prize for Modern Languages Not awarded

College Graduate Prizes Mathematics Achucarro, Miss A. Stephane Francis Award (Veterinary Medicine) Elliott, J. Clinical Veterinary Medicine Baker, S. J.

Other College Awards Nicholas Prize Stewart, Miss J. R. Bishop Browne's Prize for Reading Last, R. C. Gooderson Memorial Fund Sandby-Thomas, Miss R. M. Yates, A. P. Richard Hardy Award Not awarded Martin Steele Award Parry, J. N. The John Hamlin Travel Awards Mearns, R. J. Wills, Miss J. M. The Westcott and Pennell Memorial Award Stewart, Miss J. R. The Robert Barnes Bursary Turner, Miss J. L. M. Fellowship-Endowment and Tutors' Fund Sandby-Thomas, Miss R. M. Williamson, A. D. B. Senker, Miss C. R. Yong, Miss D. S. L. Thornton, Miss J. R.

Portway Fund Awards Brummell, P. Littlemore, Miss S. J. Allen, V. J. C. Edge, S. J. Parry, J. N. Anderson, N. G. Green, Miss E. H. Porter, Miss D. Armitage, D. R. Greenway, Miss A. H. Baker, G. Hurst, D. G. 54 St Catharine's College Society Magazine

Study Fund Ungless, M. Walters, R. I. Sinclair, A. G. M. University Prizes Anglia Prize Archaeology and Anthropology Sinclair, A. G. M. Emeleus Prize Chemistry Owen, S. M. Andrew Hall Prize Geography Brummell, P. William Vaughan Lewis Dissertation Prize Geography Chia, Miss P. K. P. Wiltshire Prize Natural Sciences Pyle, D. M.

Entrance Awards Scholarships 1985 Jones, Miss K. C. Bexley Grammar School in History Smallwood, M. A. L. Douai School, Reading in Engineering Exhibitions 1985 Braithwaite, I. D. Goffs School, Cheshunt in Engineering Lloyd, A. J. King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Boys, in Natural Sciences for Engineering Choral Awards 1985 Durran, James Francis John Edinburgh Academy Henderson, Judith George Watson's College, Edinburgh Koos, Joanna Leah Joely Chetham's School of Music Lebrocq, Mark Edward Brayn Eastbourne College Smith, David Neil Epsom College Instrumental Award 1985 Haxworth, Jessica Rhiannon Oxford High School, GPDST

DINING RIGHTS OF OLD MEMBERS The College has extended the dining rights of Old Members of M. A. status and above from three to five dinners at High Table (during Term) in each year. Old Members who wish to make use of this entitlement should ensure that they sign on in the Porters' Lodge with their year of matriculation no later than 1 p.m. on the day they wish to dine (Monday to Friday) or on Friday, if they wish to dine on Saturday or Sunday. A note with information on the dates of Term and the arrangements for dining can be obtained either from the Secretary of the Senior Combination Room or the Chief Clerk.

Photographs - More Golden Oldies We continue our recent series, if not in response to clamorous request at least in the hope that they will continue to give the pleasure and interest which our recent selections appear to have given to all age-groups; in the hope, too, that they will continue to stimulate old members to send along their own photographs of College life - sporting, intellectual, academic - to swell the growing collection in the College archives. We are particularly short of photographs from 1946 onwards, no doubt because those who figure on them naturally like to hang on to them themselves. We would, however, welcome further gifts which would be as gratefully received as those which have already come to us. For our selection this year, we have a "fifty-years on" (more or less) theme. The great majority of those shown on the sporting photographs are still happily with us, possibly somewhat "feeble of foot and rheumatic of shoulder": but there was a time when ...! Our particular thanks go to F. D. Offer (fifth along on the back row) for the photograph of the 1927 May Ball. How good looking the lads and lasses were in those days! S.C.A. St ahrn' College Catharine's oit Magazine Society 5 ST CATHARINE'S COLLEGE MAY BALL 1927 5 56 St Catharine's College Society Magazine

ST CATHARINE'S COLLEGE HOCKEY XI 1931 J. A. Shaw R. A. Brabner G. A. Alderson T. W. Morray R. M. Bate A. W. Abramson R. H. S. Hatton P. S. Osborne C. H. Wykes (Captain) A. R. Snelus W. J. D. Cooper

ST CATHARINE'S COLLEGE RUGBY XV 1928-29 T. E. Drakes G. E. Valentine N. E. Browning H. M. L. Johnstone P. S. Osborne I. Custerson G. B. Gray H. R. Moulton G. W. Chapman T. Woodfine D. C. Riddy W. G. Morgan W. D. B Hopkins H. M. Bowcott H. H. McCleery J. Roberts R. W. Smeddle (Captain) Winners of the Inter-Collegiate Knock-out Competition Bowcott, Morgan and Roberts played for Wales; Smeddle for England St Catharine's College Society Magazine 57

ST CATHARINE'S COLLEGE ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL XI 1941 E Seago E. Collinson G. Edlington R. P. Tasker L. R. Dowsett W. A. Munday J.A.Shirley S. T. Lunt H. F. Chamings L. A. de Smith (Hon. Sec.) (Capt.) R. L. G. Seidel G. Maung

ST CATHARINE'S COLLEGE ATHLETES 1929 J. A. Shaw A. W. Wheeler T. E. Drakes A. W. McCanlis E. H. Foinette F. W. B. Kittel T. Morray E. H. Windley E. H. Jones S. R. Williams J. P. Wallace L. G. Smith K. Mason M. S. Eggleshaw (Hon. Sec.) (President) 58 St Catharine's College Society Magazine Chapel Choir 1984-85 Senior Organ Scholar: Owen Rees Secretary: Mike Entwisle Junior Organ Scholar: Ian Coleman Treasurer: Mel Farquharson The Choir Tour of Summer 1984 was undoubtedly a resounding success. It began on "enemy territory" with a weekend of services in Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford - an ideal opportunity for some practice before heading for the Continent. After Evensong on Sunday, the Choir set off for Dover in three minibuses to a resounding cheer. The fact that the tour proper began with them driving in convoy the wrong way down a one-way street did not seem to matter - it was only Oxford after all! The following afternoon the Choir arrived jaded at the REME base in Detmold. A sumptuous meal in the Officers' Mess was rewarded with an informal and enjoyable concert. Having given several concerts in Detmold and nearby Bielefeld over the next few days, the party moved on to Heidelberg, where a concert was given, mostly it seemed for the benefit of Italian students on a "cultural exchange." The next stop was Herrischried with accommodation in a children's home. Services were sung and a concert given in the local church, with the Choir being given the flattering impression that they were the best thing that had happened in Herrischried for months! From Herrischried, the Choir moved to Tubingen, where they publicised their concert themselves, handing out leaflets in the streets and 'busking' their way around town. The concert was very successful, attracting quite a crowd. One concert in rainy Lucerne and a hair-raising trip over the St Gotthard pass brought them to the Italian part of Switzerland and accommodation in a monastery perched high on a hillside looking down to Lake Lugano. Services in Lugano Cathedral and a concert in the town were met with warm appreciation by the Italian audiences. Marvellous weather tempted the Choir to stay but, having recorded the Byrd Five-Part Mass at a local radio station, they started for home, and subsequently learnt that the recording was broadcast on Christmas Day. Our thanks must go to all those involved in the organisation of the tour, to John Butt for his brilliance in conducting us, to Dr le Huray for his sterling work both on the musical side of the tour and in driving his "P. G.-mobile", and to the Revd. Dr Clark and Brother Christian for their work backstage. The now traditional Choir tour reunion dinner, at the end of the Michaelmas term, was also the occasion at which we recorded our second disc, containing music by Britten, Howells and Walton. The conductor for the recording sessions was the now semi-legendary John Butt, to whom we owe a great debt for his invaluable work with the choir over the last few years - not least for his one-man late night comedy shows on tours! Little St Mary's Church was again the venue of a successful Lent term concert, held in conjunction with the Music Society, the Choir continuing the Bach tradition of these occasions by performing a Bach Cantata, and also singing the Mass in G minor by Ralph Vaughan Williams - a piece which appeared on our first record, some three years ago. Not content with Germany and Switzerland in the summer, the choir went off to sing a concert at the Tourcoing Arts Festival in northern France, just after the end of the 1985 Lent Term. Their French hosts put them up in a city-centre hotel, fed them, and provided the transport to and from Cambridge. Everyone found the two-day break after a hard term most refreshing - and the only complaint to be heard was that wine was not served with breakfast! There was an official lunch with members of the Arts Committee, and a formidable reception in an imposingly Gothic City Hall, given by the mayor. The French were fed with a musical diet of Byrd, Purcell, Stanford, Messiaen, Durufle and Harris - and to judge from the ovation, no-one had indigestion! This year's summer tour is to Ireland, in the last two weeks of August, with engagements in Belfast, Bangor and Portrush (and Bushmills, on our day off!) in the North, and Limerick, Bantry House, Cork, Kilkenny and Dublin in the Republic. As always, we look forward to seeing any old (or not so old!) members of Catz who care to cross tracks with us across the water. A new record is just out - incidentally - bearing a charming aerial drawing of the college on the sleeve, kindly donated by its creator, Mr George Murray. It includes Britten's, Missa Brevis, his Festival Te Deum, Harris's exotic 'Faire is the heavene', and settings of the evening canticles by Walton and Howells. The issue may be ordered direct from Dr Peter le Huray at St Catharine's; price £5.50, which includes postage and packing. It's rather good! Try it. Melanie Farquharson St Catharine's College Society Magazine 59 Up on Top Martin Moran (1974) completed one of the most exacting mountaineering feats ever accomplished in Britain when on 13 March he stood on the final 277th mountain over 3,000 feet high in the Scottish Highlands after a non- stop 83 day climb, averaging more than three Munros each day, whatever the weather. This was the first winter ascent and the fastest ever completion of all these summits (collectively known as the 'Munros' after the man who first surveyed and tabulated them in 1891). While up at St Catharine's, Moran was a keen climber. He read geography and, as Gus Caesar remarked, this was 'a proper feat for a geographer.' He qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1980, but the lure of mountaineering proved too strong and he decided to train as an International Mountain Guide. He has now gained his carnet and hopes to work as a guide and instructor. He and his wife, Joy (who accompanied him on some of the ascents and provided him with supplies) are moving up to North West Scotland to start his business. Martin Moran on the final summit - Sgurr Martin's climbing travels had already taken him to Eilde Mor (near Ben Nevis) after his Alaska and twice to the Himalayas, so why the Munros? He remarkable achievement of climbing all explains it thus - "a major challenge, indeed perhaps the the 277 Scottish Munros within the 90-day most difficult mountaineering undertaking that could be season - the first time this has ever been done. envisaged in the British Isles. To achieve this feat I must average three summits, 14 miles and 5,000 feet of climbing every day, which would be a respectable schedule in mid-summer, never mind in the depths of winter..." Full ascents during summer have been repeated several times, but a winter ascent had, until now, been only a dream, taking into account the severity of the Scottish winter. Diverse hills such as A'Mhaigdean (15 miles from the nearest road across a river notorious for floods), all the remote high Cairngorms, plateau summits and the Coolin Main Ridge would be achievement enough on a fine summer's day, but would seem almost impossible in the winter of 1985 - a particularly hard winter with fierce winds stopping ski-lifts in February and driving hardened climbers off high ground. As Moran's former Headmaster comments, "Anyone who has climbed even some of these mountains in winter appreciates the effort of will needed to go out, day after day." During this remarkable achievement which started on December 21st, he climbed a total of 412,000 feet - an equivalent of 14 Everests - and walked 1,030 miles, facing winds of 100 mph and chill temperatures of -35° C on the Cairngorm plateaux, battling through waist-deep snow in Kintail, and surviving an avalanche on Ben Wyvis. Understandably, he was mentally exhausted by the end, but physically kept in remarkably good shape. His training as a geographer ensured that he was never badly lost! One of the best things about the ascent is that it raised funds for charity. As Martin Moran explains, "My attempt is firstly a personal goal but I also am hoping it will raise substantial funds for the charity 'Intermediate Technology,' under the banner, 'Summits for Survival.' I.T. funds and administers a wide range of small-scale, low-cost technology projects in rural communities throughout the developing world. Inspired and founded by Dr Schumacher, it is closely identified with the ethic of self-help, providing-the basic techniques and methods which people can apply to improve their productivity and ensure their long-term survival." Current projects include small- scale hydro-electric power generation for villages in Nepal, and water purification plants in Mozambique. Martin Moran would welcome any contribution to help achieve his target of £10,000. All donations or enquiries should be directed to:

I.T.D.G./Summits for Survival Freepost (SM) 9 King Street Covent Garden LONDON WC2E 60 St Catharine's College Society Magazine

NOTICE To: All Members of College who hold the degree of LL.B. The LL.B. degree has recently been upgraded to 'LL.M.' Under a newly approved University statute, any person who satisfied the examiners for the LL.B. examination before 1 October 1982 may apply for the redesignation of his degree as Master of Law. If you are in this position, and wish to have your LL.B. redesignated LL.M., please write to the Praelector of the College, stating the year in which you proceeded to the LL.B. degree. In due course you will receive a certificate of redesignation. The records of the University will preserve a distinction between those who avail themselves of these new arrangements and those holders of the LL.B. degree who later are successful candidates for the LL.M. degree by dissertation under the old regulations.

NEWS FROM THE J.C.R. This year was perhaps more exciting than most for the J. C. R. The Autumn saw a sustained protest by St Catharine's undergraduates against the proposed changes in maintenance grants, with about 100 people involved in a demonstration on Senate House Lawn. Less successful was an attempt to change the distribution of payment of kitchen fixed charges, which attracted widespread support from the J.C.R. but failed to win the vote of the Governing Body. This apparent divide between senior and junior members is probably due most to lack of student representation on the Governing Body, an issue which the new J.C.R. Committee is aiming to tackle. Generally, relations between senior and junior members remained amicable. A change which may come as somewhat of a shock to Old Members has been the election of a Women's Representative onto the J.C.R. Committee. It was felt that in such a traditionally male dominated society as Cambridge University, the special problems of the (large) female minority are often ignored. The growing involvement of Catz women in both College and University institutions will hopefully remove the need for such a specialised post in the future. Finally, I should like to thank all those who have given me their valuable support during this year, and to wish every success to Sean McWhinnie. Jayne Cox J.C.R. President J.C.R. Committee 1984/85: President Jayne Cox External Representative Neville Walker Vice-President Andrew Woods First Year Reps. Jo Thornton Treasurer Mike Smith Carrie Priest Secretary Janet Stewart Social Secretary David Fell

THE GRADUATES' PARLOUR Nineteen eighty-five began with a major revamping of the organisation of Graduate Parlour affairs. It was decided at a general meeting in January that rather than elect two "co-presidents" of the M.C.R., the responsibilities should be shared by a "mighty triumvirate" in the shape of a President, Treasurer, and Secretary. The reticence of the Graduate Body at the first large social event this year was overcome at the resoundingly successful "Cocktail Party" which resulted in conversation and drinks overflowing on the patio outside the Christopher Waddams Room. Tuesday evening dinners have also met with some hesitance, although those who do attend can be assured of an excellent meal including sherry, wine, port and madeira. The suggestions book has produced a fertile crop of comments - critical and otherwise - and many ideas have been taken on board. A video is at present on hire for a trial period and it is hoped to show requested films at regular intervals. The promised refurbishment of the Parlour during the summer vacation augurs well for the future and we wish next year's committee every success. Michele Lowe, President Andrew Hoch, Treasurer Doron Cohen, Secretary St Catharine's College Society Magazine 61

ST CHAD'S (48 Grange Road) with the new buildings (1978) and below THE OCTAGON which is used for music, drama, and available for social events. 62 St Catharine's College Society Magazine The American Friends Further donations, totalling $ 1,000, have been received in the course of the year to assist with the funding of the American Friends Research Fellowship. The contributions came from Professor S. A. Asdell, Mr Maurice Benavitch, Dr Colin E. Hackett, Dr David Jacobson, Professor Stanley J. Kahrl, Mr Cyrus Levinthal, Dr and Mrs James B. Longley, Mr William M. Redpath, The Maurice R. Robinson Fund, Inc., Dr J. W. Scott and Professor Denis Twitchett. In addition we have received $1,000 allocated by the Directors from general funds at their disposal. The Master and Fellows are deeply grateful to the individuals named and to the American Friends as a body for this further generous support. J.R.G.W. Gifts and Bequests 1983-84 The College has received gifts and bequests during the past year from the following: The Arthur Andersen Foundation - at the suggestion of Mr R. J. Chapman (1955). The Estate of Mr Cyrus Levinthal (1926) - copies of Justinian's Institutes (1522) and Bracton's De Legibus (1569). Dr C. K. Wildenthal (1968) - for the Hardy Memorial Award. Mr L. E. Steele - for an Award in memory of his son Martin Steele (1973). Messrs H. W. Bate (1963), A. R. Burnham(1963), B. G. Mabey (1935), D. W. Morgan (1963), C. F. Newman (1963) and D. J. Roberts (1963) - a set of oars for the Boat Club. The Master and Fellows welcome the opportunity to express their gratitude publicly. Information concerning other donations will be found in the sections of the Magazine concerned with the Quincentenary Appeal and Building Fund, the American Friends, the Appeal 1985, and publications. A number of gifts have also been received towards an award in Engineering about which a report will appear in next year's Magazine.

THE REGISTER Copies of the Register of Members of the St Catharine's College Society can be obtained on application to the Chief Clerk, St Catharine's College, with a cheque for £3. Members are reminded that the Register contains the names of all persons who have attended the College in statupupillari with their addresses and matriculation dates up to 1 April 1984, and that they are all members of the Society. It also includes the names of Fellows of the College. Those who were not previously in statu pupillari in the College are Honorary Members of the Society. As stated elsewhere in this magazine, members are kindly requested to inform the Chief Clerk at the College Office of changes of address, surname or title so that the record can be kept up to date and copies of the magazine correctly addressed.

St Catharine's Gild At the 1969 meeting of St Catharine's Society a number of members agreed to establish a Gild, and Teddy Rich (then Master) undertook the office of Secretary. The only 'rule' was that on Sunday next before St Catharine's Day (25 November), 'members should make their Communion, each according to his own beliefs, with the College in mind.' In recent years more than a hundred cards have been received annually, from members of the Gild in, literally, every continent other than Antarctica. This is a great source of strength and encouragement to those who worship in the College chapel in our own generation. We would ask you to cut out the slip on the opposite page, and send it on or after 25 November to:- The Chaplain (Br Christian, S.S.F.) St Catharine's College Cambridge, CB2 1RL St Catharine's College Society Magazine 63 St Catharine's College Society

ACCOUNTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30TH APRIL 1985

INCOME AND EXPENDITURE ACCOUNT 1984 Receipts 1985 1984 Payments 1985 2298 New Members' subscriptions 2917 2883 Society Magazine 2577 184 Investment Income 210 55 Gratitudes 55 18 Donations 10 10 Donation 448 Deficit for 1983/84 carried to Balance Sheet Surplus for 1984/85 carried to Balance Sheet 505 2948 3137 2948 3137

BENEVOLENT FUND 254 Balance brought forward 254 254 Balance carried forward 254

OLD MEMBERS SPORTS FUND 232 Balance brought forward 212 330 Grants to individuals and clubs 300 292 Donations 344 212 Balande carried forward 271 18 Deposit a/c interest 15 542 571 542 571

BALANCE SHEET AS AT 30TH APRIL 1985 1984 Liabilities 1985 1984 Assets 1985 2314 Part paid subscriptions by undergraduates 3108 Investments at Cost 700 Due to Bankers 399 6680 Openheimer Fund Management Practical 399 212 Old Members Sports Fund 271 1500 Genearl Funds Investment Trust Ltd. 254 Benevolent Fund 254 902 25p Ordinary Shares 902 Cash at Bank 599 212 Deposit a/c 271 General Reserve Deficit 1 May 1984 1967 1967 Less Surplus 1984/85 505 1462

3480 3633 3480 3633

Audited and found correct: R. W. E. BARTON Market value of investments at 30th April 1985 F. D. ROBINSON Oppenheimer Fund Practical £2805 18 June 1985 General Funds Investment Trust Ltd £9120

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ST CATHARINES GILD - SUNDAY24 NOVEMBER 1985 I received the Holy Communion in Church, at on Years of residence

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