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St Catharine’s 2010 St Catharine’s Magazine !"#" Designed and typeset in Linotype Syntax by Hamish Symington (www.hamishsymington.com). Printed in England by Burlington Press on elemental-chlorine-free paper from sustainable forests. Photography credits: Cover Lori Pinkerton-Rolet; 5 Stephen Bond; 7/101–108 Hamish Symington; 21 James Tilley; 24/127 Gillian Sandford; 25 Maria Whelan; 26–8 Emily Hallinan; 30 Lydia Cracknell; 54 Lafayette Photography; 57 JET Photographic, The Cambridge Studio; 63/94 David Warrington; 72/95 Lester Hillman; 73 (Tokyo) Shawn Clankie; 73 (Yorkshire) Hugh Searle; 121 Edward Leigh. Table of contents Editorial ............................................................5 Alumni news Society Committee 2010–11 ...........................64 College report The Society President ......................................64 The Fellowship ..................................................8 Report on the 82nd Annual Meeting (2010) ...65 New Fellows ...................................................11 Partners and the Society Dinner ......................66 Postdoctoral Associates ...................................13 Reunion Weekend Recital ...............................67 Valete .............................................................13 Annual Dinner 2009 .......................................68 Visiting Scholars ..............................................14 Branch news ...................................................69 John Malcolm Young Andrew .........................14 Visit to Worcester College, Oxford .................72 Bevil Guy Mabey ............................................15 Tokyo, July 2010 ............................................73 Master’s Report ..............................................17 Visit to the home of Joanne Harris ..................73 Senior Tutor’s Report ......................................19 Doxbridge Hockey Tour to Dublin...................74 Development Director’s Report .......................21 Awards for Music Tuition 2009–10 .................75 Staff news ......................................................24 Career Link .....................................................76 Chapel and Chaplaincy Report ........................25 Vacancy for Secretary .....................................76 Choir Report ...................................................29 Honours and awards .......................................77 Kellaway Concerts ..........................................29 Publications ....................................................78 Sursum Corda – from myth to reality ..............31 Reviews ..........................................................79 The St Catharine’s Lecture Series ....................33 Notices ...........................................................84 Graduate Research Seminars ...........................34 News of Members ..........................................93 A History of St Catharine’s College .................35 News from the JCR .........................................35 Articles News from the MCR .......................................36 The College Library, Part One: 1473–1730 ...100 Societies .........................................................37 Sudan 40 years on ........................................109 Sports Clubs ...................................................41 Animal Welfare Science: Developing Blues and Colours ...........................................49 a Discipline ................................................114 University Sports Shorts ..................................50 To Florence with family .................................117 Undergraduate Matriculands 2009 .................53 To Cats by Chance ........................................120 New Graduates 2009 ......................................56 One for Bob – remembering Bob Kerr ...........123 University Scholarships and Prizes ...................58 St Catharine’s made me… ............................125 College Prizes .................................................58 From a diary with daily mottos .....................125 College Scholarships .......................................59 PhDs approved 2009–10 ................................61 Notes & dates Notes & dates ...............................................128 The front cover shows the climax of the opera Sursum Corda. 3 Editorial The review of the style and presentation of the unique?) result of Hockey Cuppers. We can also Magazine, which we undertook last year as a lay claim to the only undergraduate in the Blue result of the enforced change of size, seems to Boat which beat Oxford this year – all the others have met with general approval; I had several were postgraduates, so I am told. positive comments and no negative ones. Alumni may have noted the article on Bull Col- Both College and Alumni activities appear to be lege featured in the Lent 2010 CAM Magazine, increasing and improving year on year, but it gets information for which was largely gleaned from no easier to persuade participants to write about material in past editions of the St Catharine’s the events. Chris Thorne’s strenuous efforts to Magazine. The same edition of CAM also fea- squeeze reports from students do not necessarily tured a picture of a mysterious ‘door to the other result in complete coverage. For example, there town’ (reproduced below) which some may have was a May Ball in the year covered by this edition, recognised as our door in Queens’ Lane, subtly but no report was forthcoming. Sadly, we suspect presented by photographer Stephen Bond. Sadly that societies meet and clubs play sports which I have no reports of sinister happenings beyond never get reported at all. Nevertheless, I am sure this portal. that you will find that what is reported is well John Shakeshaft was 80 in December 2009 worth reading this year – particularly note Ben and at a celebratory dinner he spoke of his Cox’s opera about St Catharine and the (possibly St Catharine’s links. He had been taught 5 St Catharine’s Magazine t 2010 mathematics by Catsman Jack Foister (1912), of car, train, and ferry. Professor Peter Tyler had whose son Alan (1952) and grandson Steven to take a rather circuitous return journey from (1988) were also alumni (Steven being taught by Puerto Rico (San Juan – New York – Miami – Ca- John to complete the cycle). See also the 1990 racas – Madrid – Milan – London). Several stu- Magazine for information about the Foisters. dents could not get back to Cambridge in time While on holiday near Hay-on-Wye I read for their examinations, some of which had to be again The Hay Poisoner by Martin Beales, who rescheduled. died this year. The book casts doubt on the con- Philip Oliver (Admissions Tutor) drew my at- viction for murder in 1922 of alumnus Herbert tention to Bernard Mandeville’s Fable of the Rowse Armstrong (1887). Beales spoke to the Bees, written in the early eighteenth century College Law Society in 1995 and John Baker tells when the Master and Fellows of St Catharine’s me that he asked him if he thought Armstrong College were focused upon the building of Main was innocent; Beales replied ‘No. Just wrongly Court. The work was subtitled Private Vices, convicted’. Publick Benefits and Mandeville used the social In 2009, St Catharine’s was the highest-placed organisation of the hive to illustrate how avarice college team in the Chariots of Fire charity relay and self-interest might be of advantage to soci- race through the streets of Cambridge (see 2009 ety as a whole. Further, he attacked the worth Magazine). In 2010, a team comprising staff, of education and thought that the wealthy ex- Fellows and a student was second to Churchill. ploited it. At the time of publication the poem However, another almost-all-Catz team consist- was attacked and Bernard was prosecuted for ing of Kevin Bentley (Development Office staff), immoral tendencies. It was a satire on the politi- Peter Galek (2002), Nigel Parkes (2005), Owen cal managers of the time, but his doctrine that Vaughan (2005) and Richard Hall (2005) plus prosperity is increased by expenditure rather Michael Hall (twin brother of Richard, but sad- than thrift and his views on education seem ly not a Catsman) came ninth overall and were rather appropriate today. considerably faster than the Churchill team. Nigel Once again, I appeal on behalf of the College ran the course twice – he was the student in the Archivist for any early photographs of the College official Catz team as well. and its sports teams etc. Any material is grate- The Master returned from the far east just in fully received, but items from before 1950 are time before the ash cloud from a volcano in Ice- particularly welcome. There has been some good land closed much of Europe’s air space in April fortune in this area. In February 2010 a spring- 2010. Others were not so fortunate. The Univer- clean of the reprographics room at the Geogra- sity’s Vice-Chancellor was marooned in China. phy Department led to the discovery of a folder The College Chaplain, Fellows Geoffrey Kantaris of photographs of St Catharine’s freshmen from and Richard Barnes, plus Maša Amatt of the 1940 to 1974. Those for 1944 and 1945 show Alumni Office were not able to be back for the several men in uniform. Presumably the folder start of the Easter Term. Fellow Harald Wydra, was taken to Geography for some reprographics stranded in Madrid with his family of five, strug- purpose many years ago and then forgotten. gled to make it back in 48 hours by a combination Roger Stratford 6 COLLEGE REPORT