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Dermot Gleeson Optima issue 4 • spring / summer 2003 CONTENTS The Master’s message 2 Varsity News the current state of play in For me, as a member of the immediate post-45 war Fitz and University sport generation, tertiary education offered a highly At last! attractive and positive way forward. Attractive A Fund for Modern Languages because it represented a free-thinking, less restrictive 3 Special Feature lifestyle and an opportunity to do so many of the Katy Watson spends a year in things seemingly denied to my parents. Positive Mexico, and muses on more because it provided the opportunity to extend my than Mariachi Bands knowledge, my capabilities and vision; essential (at least it seemed to be) to the gateway for a better 4 Topped Out Fitz’s building programme future. Provided my O-level and A-level standards reaches a pinnacle were up-to-scratch, I was safe in the knowledge that a maintenance grant would be available and 6 Views from the top sufficient to support my day-to-day living expenses. Dermot Gleeson and his views (Tuition fees were provided by government!) on political thought I suppose my vision of the University lifestyle 7 The Master, Tony Steadman and the Bursar celebrate A Vision of the Future came primarily from my exposure to the films of the the Topping Out of Gatehouse court with a beer Michael Frantzis re-traces his time and certainly “Doctor in the House” with Dirk path from Fitz to architectural Bogarde and Kenneth More, had a strong influence photography in Brasil on my innocent mind. Despite the restrictions of the Certainly “Doctor in the House” had a 8 Take a Bow! time – a nation recovering from the War and all that strong influence on my innocent mind. Alan George from the – there was an enormous optimism. Newsreels were Fitzwilliam Quartet, and why full of exciting new inventions and discoveries – of body. Students really don’t change, they are as good they keep coming back to Fitz. the type – Dunlop announces a tubeless tyre! Rover as ever and in some ways better. Certainly, their 9 Richard Hooley develops a gas-turbine! End of tuberculosis in sight! concern for the less privileged, their love of art, Fitzwilliam’s Director of Law And all this national optimism helped to propel us drama and music, their participation in sport and leaves for London, but not with- forward. Films such as “Lucky Jim” with Ian other College activities, and their attitude towards out a little nostalgia Carmichael, “I’m all right Jack” again with Ian academic work surpasses that of my generation. 10 Ray Kelly, Carmichael and Peter Sellers, “Room at the Top” with But, I see the need for greater support and care than who’s forgotten more than most Lawrence Harvey and the divine Simone Signoret we required. The modern undergraduate has far of us know about Fitzwilliam, parodied the status quo and led us to believe – dare I greater financial burdens to bear and is certainly opens a window on his memories say it – in the Brave New World just around the more aware of the stress imposed by the modern 11 Sur-prize! corner. We were confident that Science and academic approach. I would like our College to take The highs and highs of teaching Technology would support this change; we were heed of these pressures and find ways to reduce in Nepal, by Steve Farndon enamoured with the academic process and all the them. We have always been the College of access. advances that a degree would provide, not only to For us, the current Government castigation is Rear View the Journal of yesteryear the individual but also to national prosperity. meaningless. I believe from what I hear from our I remind you, I began with “for me” because this Members over an extensive period, that we have a 12 Events at Fitzwilliam very rosy view is very much a personal recollection, reputation as a College that truly cares about its Emma Camps gives us a taste of but one I know resonates with my friends from the students and offers support when it is most needed the delights to come same period. Of course we were aware of the misery – the vulnerable years. It is my wish to sustain that and despair so obvious throughout reputation and enhance it. much of the world but somehow we My very best wishes to you all and I look forward felt that the rapid progress in to seeing many of you (and your families?) in Science, Technology and Political College for one of those unforgettable dinners or Thought would solve these lunches (Saturday lunch is highly recommended). problems. Nevertheless, when I am Why not e-mail me with your views and let me know asked – as I frequently am by a how you are getting along. I guarantee a reply. member “Why should I support the College?” (and rightly so too) my thoughts return to my earlier days The Master with some lucky ladies (or is it the other way around?) and my own experiences. The life at the Valentine’s Dinner in February blood of the College is the student [email protected] Varsity News To visit the Cambridge University Sport Website, go to: www.sport.cam.ac.uk To visit one of the Fitzwilliam College Sports Websites, go to the Student Tony Jorden (1967) at Twickenham in 1968 in the Varsity Rugby Team varsity news / varsity mml fund • 2 Societies Page at: Tony Jorden at Twickenham in 1968, pictured) shows www.fitz.cam.ac.uk/ no signs of waning! students Records of Blues achieved at Fitzwilliam are very good until the mid 1980’s. If you obtained a Blue after that Martin Purdy and Jason Reilly (lifting Martin) at Twickenham in 2002 time, or know someone who does, please e-mail Carol To participate in one Cambridge was the overall victor in the Annual Varsity on [email protected] Games in February this year – the University defeated of the Past versus Oxford 33-18. The win was obtained with the help of Present matches/rows more than a dozen Fitzwilliam students who played on at the Reunion this Varsity teams. Chee Tung Leon played Varsity year, e-mail Emma at Badminton, Claire Foister competed in Netball (pictured) and Duncan Sharp captained the University’s [email protected] Small Bore team. This capped off an excellent year for (mixed hockey, Fitz students in Varsity, as Martin Purdy (pictured being women’s and lifted by Jason Reilly) clearly shows. The image of his men’s football, catch in the Varsity Men’s Rugby Match warranted a two-page spread in the Cambridge Evening News (both he men’s rugby, women’s and Claire also competed in the Varsity athletics Claire Foister (top left) and the Varsity Netball and men’s rowing) match). Clearly, the tradition of sport at Fitz (such as Team after their win against Oxford At Last! A Fund for Modern Languages In April 2003 over 110 Modern and Medieval Linguists Dr John Leigh, Director of Studies in Modern and descended on Fitzwilliam for the biggest MML function Medieval Languages said: “This Fund is a wonderful Fitzwilliam had seen for a decade. Guests came from development for Linguists at Fitz. The students all over the world to catch up with old friends over appreciate enormously the assistance they’ll receive as dinner, and view the changes (or lack thereof!) in the a result. I do hope our former Linguists will do College since their time as undergraduates. whatever they can to support us”. They also had the opportunity to hear first-hand of the launch of the new Modern and Medieval Linguists You can make a significant difference to the success Fund. The Fund is the first at Fitzwilliam to be of the MML Fund by filling out the relevant section in Dr John Leigh at the MML Dinner specifically intended for Linguist students. the centre pages. in April this year Although more than two dozen Linguists study at Fitzwilliam every year, neither the College nor the Cost of a Linguist’s textbook: students themselves receive any financial support from £50 the Faculty. This is despite the fact that many Linguists Cost of a study trip abroad: are unable to finance the minimum £500 necessary to £500 fund a study trip to the country of their chosen language, in preparation for their aural exams. In All students for one year to order to ensure that this vital aspect of students’ take a study trip abroad: studies is not overlooked, the College aims (by the £5,000 start of the academic year in 2004) to raise enough A quarter of the College’s goal: money to fund a short course abroad for every Linguist £25,000 at Fitzwilliam prior to their aural. This means raising a minimum £100,000. The split of languages amongst current MML students Fitzwilliam College is an Exempt and Statutory Charity (Inland Revenue No. x11732) Special Feature A World Away In 2002-3, three MML students at Fitzwilliam have had the opportunity to spend ‘a year abroad’ – a year studying at a University, or finding full-time employment in a country where the language is one of those they have been reading at Fitz. Katy Watson is studying Spanish and Italian and is currently spending her year abroad in Mexico. She writes about how she has found the location, the language, and the latino approach to life … Sangria versus Sol and it is the speed, the music or the décor of the bus, it tortillas versus tacos, always brightens my day! touristy Benidorm versus Talking of travelling, Mexico offers an abundance tropical beaches – faced of beauty.
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