11772 Arches 13 Covers 15/02/2010 11:20 Page 1 The Newcastle University Alumni Association Magazine Issue 13 / Spring 2010 Donation Form Please fill in the form and return to: Development and Alumni Relations Office Newcastle University King’s Gate Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RU Tel: + 44 (0) 191 222 7250 Fax: + 44 (0) 191 222 5905 www.ncl.ac.uk/development Please send me further information about: making a gift to the 1834 Fund leaving a gift to the 1834 Fund in my Will making a regular monthly gift to the University Life is precious. leaving a gift to the University in my Will Help us to protect it. corporate giving For 175 years, Newcastle University has produced some of the The Medical Issue If you would like to make a donation now to the University please fill in the details overleaf world’s most talented and passionate doctors. From the bench Celebrating 175 years to the bedside, the work of our graduates has helped transform Health in the future healthcare in the North East of England and beyond. Thank you for supporting Sean Scully Newcastle University Through the 1834 Fund, we’re raising money to invest in our next generation of doctors, clinicians and scientists. Scholarships will be available to the brightest and most promising students, regardless of background. You can make an immediate difference by donating to the 1834 Fund, or remembering the Medical School in your Will. Please complete and return the attached form, or visit our website at www.ncl.ac.uk/1834/fund 11772 Arches 13 Covers 15/02/2010 11:20 Page 2 Visit: Arches Contents www.ncl.ac.uk/alumni Arches Events Development and Alumni Relations Office Newcastle University King’s Gate Newcastle upon Tyne Donation Form NE1 7RU I would like to make a donation to support: Telephone: + 44 (0) 191 222 7250 Fax: + 44 (0) 191 222 5905 Events E-mail: [email protected] Contents • I enclose a cheque/CAF voucher for Website: www.ncl.ac.uk/alumni £ The Development and Alumni Relations Office For our full events programme, and reviews postal or e-mail addresses, using the contact (please make payable to Newcastle University) Or (DARO) organises a number of alumni events and photos from previous events, please visit details at the bottom of the page, so we can • I would like to make a donation by credit/debit card and reunions each year, and all graduates are our website at www.ncl.ac.uk/alumni/events ensure that your event invitations arrive with encouraged to attend where possible. Please keep us informed of any change to your you in plenty of time. Please debit my card the sum of £ Credit card number Event reviews Events Diary 2010 Debit card number 28 February: 11 March: Stan Calvert Cup 2010 House of Lords MB BS Alumni Reception. 04 Newcastle University faces Northumbria in Hosted by Lord Walton of Detchant (MB BS Expiry date / / Start date / / the seventeenth Stan Calvert Cup – over a 1945; MD 1952; DSc 1972; Hon DCL 1988), by Issue number Card security number thousand competitors in 60 fixtures and invitation only, London. 22 different sports. Card type (the last 3 digits on the back of your card) April, date to be confirmed: q MasterCard q Visa q CAF q Switch/Maestro Join us at the main event from 4:30pm at GOLD Network Event in London. q Delta q Solo Gateshead International Stadium. Tickets are Contact details Tour of South East Asia On 15–17 May 2009, available at Newcastle Sports Centre and the 29 April: Name Newcastle University hosted its first conference in Union Society, as well as on the gate, priced at Alumni Event at RINA, London. Singapore, accompanied by tours to its new medical £4. See www.ncl.ac.uk/alumni/events for Address and marine campuses in Malaysia and Singapore. more details. Date to be confirmed: 12 10 Staff from Newcastle University – including Pro- Walton Salver 2010. Vice-Chancellor for Engagement, Professor Paul 3 March: Newcastle alumni golf tournament and Younger; and representatives from the Business Insights Public Lecture by Professor sports day. School, School of Marine Science and Technology, Postcode Contributors: Dan Howarth; James Johnston; Lorna Chris Day, 175 years of the Medical School Taylor; Tania Angelopoulos; Alexis Forsyth; Dave 04 – 06 Arches Feature Arches Feature Medical School and Development and Alumni in Newcastle – Past, Present and Future 18 June: Telephone Number Coverdale at The Courier; Karen Bidewell, Sarah News 10 –11 14 –15 Relations Office – were joined by Newcastle Success. Annual Donor reception. Cossom, Louella Houldcroft and Kath Wade at the alumni, supporters and partner businesses, including Press Office; Ruth Plummer; Ian McKeith; Eileen Kaner; Keep up to date with the latest Public lecture open to all from 5:30pm, in the On campus, by invitation only. A quiet revolution He who will charm Keppel Offshore & Marine. For a full review and Email Michael Whitaker; Jerry Paterson; Steve Erdal; Chris news, straight from campus Medical School’s David Shaw Lecture Theatre, Foote-Wood. James Johnston examines the photos, visit www.ncl.ac.uk/alumni/events/recent on campus. More info: 18–19 June: for a thousand years Relationship to the University: pivotal role of women in medicine, www.ncl.ac.uk/events/public-lectures Convocation 2010. Acknowledgements: Many thanks to Martin Cox, A tribute to our former Chancellor, q Graduate Arches Feature and its development since the male- Reunite! 2009 Graduates from across the world q Michael Whitaker, Pauline Davidson and Suzanne Chris Patten, who stepped down Open to all graduates, on campus. q Friend Other Chollerton in the Faculty of Medical Sciences; Hajni dominated 1800s returned to campus on 20 June for our annual 07–09 last summer 6 March: Domokos; Nicole Hayes; Elizabeth Farnhill; Karen alumni celebrations. The festivities began with Bidewell; Sam Wood, Catherine McDonald; Melanie Newcastle University Cross Country, 19 June: Gift Aid Reed; the staff at the Press Office; and The Courier. Health challenges in the Walton Salver golf tournament at Close House Past vs Present. 175 years of the Medical School reunion. If you Gift Aid your donation, the University can reclaim the tax you Arches Feature have already paid on it. Please increase the value of your donation at Arches Interview – won for the third consecutive year by Mike Booth Current students square up against alumni in Very special thanks to Shirley Tindle, Lindsey Crawford the next 25 years no extra cost to you by signing the declaration below. 12 –13 (MEd 1990) – before returning to campus for a this race across the Town Moor. Contact Kris August, date to be confirmed: and the team at Stanmore; Alexander Wilson, Dave Three Medical School professors 16 –17 range of different activities. The Vice-Chancellor I want Newcastle University to treat all donations I have made for Coverdale, Dave Whitfield and the team at Infinite look at how we can face the 175 years of Axon for more information: GOLD Network Event in Newcastle. Design, and all the staff in DARO, who have helped to Serious about gave his annual address to Convocation, before this tax year and the six years prior to the year of this declaration, challenges of cancer, dementia and [email protected] and all donations I make from the date of this declaration until I no- make this magazine possible. medicine at Professor Norman Myers delivered a fascinating alcoholism over the next 25 years Stripes tify you otherwise, as Gift Aid donations. I will inform you if my cir- lecture on barriers to solving environmental issues. cumstances change. Picture credits with thanks: Alexander Wilson, Newcastle Arches chats to Irish artist and John Asher, Sean Scully, North News and Pictures, Geographers celebrated 80 years at Newcastle, and Contact us iStockphoto (front & back covers; pages 4; 6; 7; 8 Arches looks back at the graduate Sean Scully, widely the annual alumni football match was contested Signed Date and 9) Newcastle University Print Services, Neil Wasp breakthroughs and events that renowned as the world’s greatest between London-based Newcastle Old Boys FC and If you need any further information on any of our events, have any suggestions for future events, or and The Courier. have led Newcastle to become living abstract painter their North East rivals, Garnett Bohemian FC. The would like to recommend a venue, please contact our Events Officer, Maria Szpitun, by e-mail at: The University will reclaim 25p of tax on every £1 you give on or one of the UK’s foremost after 6 April 2008 and the Government will pay the University an weekend culminated in a night of Northumbrian- [email protected] or by phone on: 0044 (0)191 222 3638. medical schools additional 3p on every £1 you give. You must pay an amount of themed food and entertainment at the Great Income Tax and/or Capital Gains Tax at least equal to the tax that North Museum. You can also visit our website at: www.ncl.ac.uk/alumni/events the charity reclaims on your donations in the appropriate tax year. If you pay income tax at the higher rate, you must include all your Gift Aid donations on your Self Assessment tax return if you want to receive the additional tax relief due to you. Arches 2 The Newcastle University Alumni Association Magazine 35 11772_UN Arches_13 INSET_PRINT 15/02/2010 11:16 Page 3 Foreword Dr Miriam Stoppard (MB BS 1961; MD 1966; Hon DCL 2004) The 2009–10 academic year is an important one for Newcastle as it celebrates the one hundred and seventy-fifth anniversary of the first lectures at the College of Medicine and Surgery in Newcastle.