CONTENTS The Society's President-Elect 1997-98 1 Editorial 2 Honours and Awards; University Appointments and Awards (Cambridge) 3 From the Master 4 Governing Body 1997/98 5 The Path to the Garden. Professor John Parker 8 The College Chapel; The Chapel Choir 10 Hong Kong. Thomas J D Travels 11 The Road to Santiago 13 Christopher Colin Smith: A Memorial Address. Dr Brian Powell 14 Carl Baron: An Obituary 16 Deaths 17 Obituaries 23 Bernard William George Rose: A Memorial Address. Sir David Lumsden 28 The College Staff 30 Publications 30 Reviews and Notes 32 Society Notes - Officers of the Society 40 Invitation to the Society Dinner, 26th September 1997 41 Society Seminar; University Alumni Weekend 42 Annual General Meetings 43 Accounts 44 Branch News 45 Extracts from the College Audit Books 1740-1840 47 Third List of Donors; Canadian and American Friends 48 Gifts and Bequests 50 From the Editor's Desk 51 Awards and Prizes; Blues 52 Matriculations 1996-97 56 Appointments and Notes 59 Engagements, Marriages and Births 63 Societies 64 The History of the Kitten Club 66 Clubs 67 The Middle Combination and Junior Common Rooms 73 Please do not Object to Objects. Dr John Bates 74 Beyond the Wall. Peter Harvey 75 Engraved Views of the College. Professor John Baker 76 The Society and Governing Body's Dinners 78 Change of Address; St Catharine's Gild 79 The cover design is taken from a photograph in The Times, 23rd May 1997. The original by Michael Powell (8 x 7") was published at the head of "The Good Universities Guide: Cambridge once again heads the The Times league table", p. 38. Reproduced by kind permission of The Times. The year against a member's name in the text of the magazine is their year of matriculation or fellowship. St Catharine's College Society Magazine 1 The Society's President-Elect 1997-98 Dr Brian Sweeney Brian Sweeney came up to St Catharine's in 1963 from Marling School in Stroud (Peter le Huray's school) to read Mechanical Sciences under Dudley Robinson. He took a Master's degree at Columbia University in New York and returned to St Catharine's to complete a doctor- ate in 1970. He joined the 1st VIII in 1965 and 1966, achieving 5th on the river for one brief Friday night, and joined the boat again in 1968. Having enjoyed the Society's London Group programme for many years he was Chairman from 1992 to 1995. Brian worked with Shell in the UK and was posted to Canada, Hong Kong, the Philippines and the Netherlands. He was Area Co-ordinator for South Asia and a member of the Management Team of Exploration and Production. In 1990 he moved to Arthur D. Little, an American manage- ment consultant, to head the Downstream Oil Industry practice in Europe and the Middle East. Three years ago he joined Rolls-Royce in New- castle where he is the Business Development Director and Marketing Director for the indus- trial business. In 1972 Brian and Jenny (one of Gus Caesar's pupils) were married in the College Chapel. They have two daughters. Kate is read- ing Geography at St Catharine's and was Captain of Boats for 1996-97 when the VIII achieved 7 bumps. Helen is reading Architecture at New- castle and is Captain of Women's Rowing there. Brian, since moving to the Tyne, has taken up rowing again. He seriously enjoys sailing, skiing and travel. This photograph was taken by Scott and Wilkinson of St Andrew's St in about 1878/79. Is this the earliest College grad- uation photograph - if indeed it does represent a gradation? Is Earle (1876) back row far left? Can readers identify the others? 2 St Catharine's College Society Magazine Editorial Amongst my piles of files in K3 is a copy of a Crawley is engaged in carving figures in stone periodical printed in English called Northern which will occupy niches above the great west Lights. You could be forgiven for guessing that door of Westminster Abbey, some niches having it might be a journal from the Shetland Isles'. Its been vacant for centuries. In the ages to come actual source is the Island of Hokkaido: I under- they will look down on kings and commons as stand Hok. in Japanese, indicates the North. they pass the portals to the Confessors Shrine. Hokkaido is severed in the north by the 45th [Giovanni Pisano (1249-1314), capo maestro of parallel whilst the British Isles are severed in the the Cathedral of Siena, lives on in that earlier south near the Lizard by the 50th parallel. We lie magnificent facade, and Dr Phillip Lindley offshore of the European land mass, Hokkaido (1985) brings to our notice that it is written that offshore of the Asiatic. The 15th Edition of Giovanni "would not know how to carve ugly or Northern Lights contains a collection of seven base things even if he wanted to'". Dr Lindley articles written over a number of years and now also reminds us that when Pietro Torrigiano, reprinted together as a celebration issue. The who was originally commissioned to make a author, Professor Willie Jones (1952). titles this tomb for Lady Margaret (venerated at St John's collection of essays "Out of Men's Hands". His College), created the splendid tomb for Henry subjects are seven artists and craftsmen of VII and his wife Elizabeth of York in West- Hokkaido. minster, "the Italian sculptors, it seems, brought The potter, Mr Sakata, "has no tools which to England not only a radically new style but also look like tools. He just picks up and uses any a markedly different way of working. For the spare bit of metal or wood that happens to be first time, the design and execution. were the lying around: an old length of wire, a kitchen responsibility of one artist"*.] We are all the tech- knife with a broken, rusted blade." Mr Doi nicians of our own life span. worked in the fields with horses, but had always Those of you who have read this journal for had trouble with his feet, and at the age of 40 twenty, forty or sixty years may be surprised this became totally disabled. "His horses now gallop year. In 1987 we recorded twenty-seven deaths; forever, in their hundreds of thousands, across now in 1997 no less than sixty-six. The pages (17 endless steppes of paper. ." He is a master of - 23) are a commentary on lives lived from East shodo, Japanese calligraphy. Since the author is to West. The techne of each remains for us to from St Catharine's one is not surprised to come ponder, always unique. A characteristic of St across a reference to W B Yeats' Lapis Lazuli, Catharine's must surely be the extraordinary and to Sir Isaac Newton's statue in Trinity diversity that has come "Out of Men's Hands" Chapel "strange seas of thought alone." We read and out of our humble premises. You will read on of Mrs Sumi and her loom and her indigofera on with delight of members of College: walking plants, and Mr Asahara, the glass blower, who across Malawi (1332 km) for 50 days to like "the God of Genesis" "enters his work with raise £12,000 for a children's hospital ward; his breath". Thus Willie Jones clothes one by one representing Britain at Ohio in the triathlon; his chosen craftsmen. He pointedly reminds us studying in Beijing and writing a prize-winning first that techne (texvn) means both craft and art, study on "The transmission of Western Science and thus he develops his theme that nothing can into China; being at sea in the Antarctic with separate the "procreative bond which joins the the glass above the waterline smashed to maker and the work made" to be forever one. smithereens by the force of the waves; of a Many of us who are engaged with pen and venerable Fellow of the College winning a sports paper, desk and computer, schoolroom, hospital trophy; and 'the last shall be first', of Susan or the economy don't think of ourselves as tech- Brierley (1996) in the second term of her first nical staff, yet most of us from St Catharine's are year achieving the top mark in the 1997 Varsity engaged in creative skills in techne. Whatever Gymnastics. form our techne takes, nothing can sever the JOHN MULLETT procreative bond we build during our lives. Returning from the East to West along the 1 Northern Lights. Vol XV, published by Hisashi Urashima, Minami-5, Nishi-17. Obihiro. Hokkaido 080 Japan. Fax 50th parallel to the British Isles, we may find 0155 36 7930 ourselves in Cambridge. Near at hand are the 2 Gothic to Renaissance - Phillip Lindley, p. 37 premises of Rattee and Kett where Mr Tim 3 ibid, p. 71 (See Reviews p. 35) St Catharine's College Society Magazine 3 Honours and Awards Battersby, Prof. Sir Alan R (Emeritus Fellow 1992) has been awarded the Hans Herloff Inhoffen Medal and Prize for 1997 from the Technische Universitat Carolo-Wilhelmina. Braunschweig, Germany. He is the fourth recipient of this prestigious international prize which is awarded once annually. This is the first time the award has been made to a British scientist. Brown, Dr Guy C (1986) has been awarded the Wellcome Trust's Prize for Popular Science Writing. Living Energy is to be published by Harper Collins shortly. Bridgwater, Prof. John H (1956. Fellow 1993-) has been elected President of the Institution of Chemical Engineers for 1997-98.