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Editorial ...... 4 Alumni news Society Committee 2011–12 ...... 64 College report The Society President ...... 64 The Fellowship ...... 6 Report of 83rd AGM ...... 65 New Fellows ...... 9 Reunion Weekend seminar ...... 66 Valete ...... 10 Annual Dinner 2011 ...... 66 Professor Walter Kirkpatrick (Pat) Lacey, Libya expedition reunion ...... 67 1922–2011 ...... 11 Hugh Searle – retiring Secretary ...... 68 Professor Peter Alexander Young Branch news ...... 69 (1924–2011) ...... 12 Alumni events ...... 71 Master’s report ...... 15 International table tennis in Madeira ...... 73 Senior Tutor’s report ...... 17 At the Edinburgh Fringe ...... 74 Cambridge fees and bursaries ...... 18 Nickolay’s balalaika ...... 75 College finances ...... 18 Geographers’ Dinner, October 2010 ...... 75 Development Director’s report ...... 21 Honours and awards ...... 78 The College Centre ...... 23 Publications ...... 80 Staff news ...... 25 Reviews ...... 81 Chapel and Chaplaincy report ...... 25 Notices ...... 87 Choir report ...... 28 News of Members ...... 97 Kellaway Concerts ...... 30 St Catharine’s Lecture Series ...... 32 Articles Graduate Research Seminars ...... 33 The College Library, Part Two: News from the JCR ...... 33 1730–1907 ...... 104 News from the MCR ...... 35 The rules of shittle cock ...... 114 Societies ...... 36 First World War memorial ...... 115 Sports clubs ...... 42 The College Bar ...... 121 Alley Catz ...... 52 What next? ...... 123 Kitten Club ...... 52 Meltzone 2011 – living and working Blues and Colours ...... 53 on the ice sheet ...... 127 Undergraduate Matriculands 2010 ...... 54 Thomas Turton, Bishop of Ely ...... 131 New Graduates 2010 ...... 57 Fitzbillies cake shop ...... 133 University scholarships and prizes ...... 59 An Oxford cup ...... 133 College prizes ...... 59 College scholarships ...... 60 Notes & dates ...... 136 PhDs approved 2010–11 ...... 62

The front cover shows the victorious hockey teams and the plaque from the bench commemorating their achievements.

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Editorial

There has been a welcome increase in the number Winning both men’s and women’s Cycling Cup- of contributions to the Magazine this year, both pers this year seems almost tame by comparison. from current students and from alumni. There As I write, there is again financial uncertainty are also some exceptions to the tradition that the in the world. The Bursar and the Senior Tutor longest sports reports are penned by poor per- have written in this edition about the financial formers; you may find the lengthy Hockey and position of the College, and about student fees Boat Club reports make interesting reading. More and bursaries. In addition, the Society helps with alumni have informed us of their activities, many small grants towards costs incurred by students with accompanying photographs. So many alum- needing to travel to University sports fixtures, ni have donated books they have written or ed- and for musical and performing arts projects – ited to the College library that I have had to break students are asked to report on their progress; with the custom that all such books are reviewed. see the Alumni section (one was for balalaika tui- Unusually, all the articles which I commissioned tion last year). have arrived before the deadline. In summary, we Before she retired, librarian Suzan Griffiths have a large and interesting edition. wrote an article on the First World War memo- Even the death notices might be worth more rial in the Chapel. In the intervening year, Emeri- than a glance. Two alumni were murdered in the tus Fellow John Shakeshaft and College archivist past year. A member whom we erroneously re- Lizzy Ennion-Smith have discovered further in- ported as having died in 1970 (we apologised for formation about those listed on the memorial, the error in 1971) has, we believe, now really died. including many photographs – see Articles. In We reported the wrong one of two cousins with 2010 we started to publish a series on the history similar names as having died last year; however, of the College Library, also by John Shakeshaft as the other has now also died, the matter was (who was himself senior librarian for many years). straightforward to rectify. Fred Thompson (1932) Part II is in this edition. Surprisingly perhaps, un- spoke at the Society’s East Anglia Region dinner der early library rules the playing of ‘shittle cock’ in November 2010 of his own death notice which in the library was explicitly forbidden... appeared in the 1950 Magazine; his letter point- An alumnus contacted the College to discover ing out the error began ‘Wot, no obituary!’ Fred if we had heard of the filming of Katherine of also reminisced to current students about College Alexandria due for launch in 2011. He had been in the 1930s; it is sobering to think that, had Fred asked to invest and wondered whether this was attended a similar event when he was a student, wise. The College had certainly not previously the alumnus reminiscing would have matriculat- heard of this venture. However, it does have a ed in the 1850s. We also sent commiserations to website. As far as we know, no St Catharine’s Paul Adderley’s family in December 2010 follow- thespians are involved. ing a tribute which appeared in Bahamas Weekly; Finally, I have customarily used the Editorial it turned out that the tribute was not associated to report on the annual Chariots of Fire charity with his death – Paul himself wrote back to say relay race through Cambridge which takes place ‘death not yet’. See News of Alumni. in September as we are going to press. However, Although we have no report of how 1962 ma- the College did not enter a team in 2011, despite triculands Mark Baldwin and John Cutler fared on the mixed staff/student/Fellows team doing well their cycle ride to Paris to raise funds for Bletch- in 2010. Nevertheless, Fellow David Bainbridge ley Park, we do have an article about the other instead elected to take part in a sponsored abseil cycling excursion mentioned in the 2011 edition down Great St Mary’s tower, so the September of the Wheel – Helen Lloyd’s ‘Take on Africa’. tradition of charity fund-raising has continued.

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The Fellowship

As at 1 October 2011, in order of seniority following the Master and President.

Official and Professorial Fellows Professor Dame Jean Thomas ScD FRS FMedSci Dr E Geoffrey Kantaris Director of the Centre Professor of Macromolecular Biochemistry; of Latin American Studies; DoS in Modern Master and DoS in Biochemistry & Medieval Languages Professor Ron L Martin ACSS FBA Professor Professor John D Pickard FMedSci Professor of of Economic Geography; President, DoS in Neurosurgery and Chairman of the Wolfson Geography and Wine Steward Brain Imaging Centre; DoS in Medical Sciences Professor Sir Christopher A Bayly LittD FBA FRSL and Tunku Fund Director Vere Harmsworth Professor of Imperial & Mr Michael F Kitson DoS in Management Naval History and Director of the Centre of Studies South Asian Studies Dr Rose A Melikan Keeper of Muniments Dr Paul N Hartle Senior Tutor and College (on leave Michaelmas 2011) Lecturer in English Dr Michael PF Sutcliffe Ridgeon Fellow and Dr John A Little DoS in Materials Science DoS in Engineering & Metallurgy and Senior Treasurer of the Dr John H Xuereb MD FRCP FRCPath DoS in Amalgamated Clubs Pathology Professor Peter Tyler ACSS FRICS Professor of Professor Robert P Gordon LittD FBA Regius Urban and Regional Economics; DoS in Professor of Hebrew Land Economy Dr Anthony P Davenport FBPharmcolS Reader Dr Robert BB Wardy Tutor for Graduate in Cardiovascular Pharmacology; DoS in Students, DoS in Philosophy and DoS in Preclinical Medicine & Pharmacology Classics (on leave 2011–12) Dr Katharine J Dell DoS in Theology (on leave Professor John A Pyle FRS 1920 Professor Michaelmas 2011) of Physical Chemistry Dr Caroline Gonda Secretary to the Governing Dr Patrick R Palmer Reader in Electrical Body, College Lecturer and DoS in English Engineering; DoS in Engineering (on leave Dr Nora Berend DoS in History 2011–12) Dr David C Aldridge College Lecturer, DoS Professor Eilís V Ferran Professor of Company in Biological Natural Sciences and Fellows’ & Securities Law; Tom Ivory Professorial Steward Fellow in Law Dr Richard W Dance Praelector and DoS in Professor Hans van de Ven Professor of Modern Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic Chinese History; DoS in Asian & Middle Dr Peter D Wothers Rushton Fellow, Acting Eastern Studies Graduate Tutor 2011–12, DoS in Chemistry Dr Philip Oliver Graduate Tutor, Admissions and Custodian of the College Silver Tutor and DoS in Molecular Cell Biology & Professor Kevin Dalton FRCOG FFFLM DoS in Genetics Medical Law & Ethics and Assistant DoS in Dr Ian C Willis Cousens Fellow and DoS in Clinical Medicine Geography Dr Mark C Elliott DoS in Law Professor Chris M Clark FBA Professor of Ms Irena Borzym Tutor, McGrath Lecturer and Modern European History; Custodian of DoS in Mathematics Works of Art Dr Abigail Brundin Dean and DoS in Modern & Medieval Languages

6 Dr Sriya Iyer College Lecturer and DoS in Dr Miranda Griffin Tutor, College Lecturer Economics (on leave 2011–12) and DoS in Modern & Medieval Languages Dr Matthew J Mason DoS in Physiology (on leave Easter 2012) Dr Jim N McElwaine (Mathematics) Dr Richard Harrison Tutor, DoS in Geology Dr Sergei N Taraskin Tutor, College Lecturer, & Mineral Sciences DoS in Mathematics for Natural Scientists, The Revd Dr Anthony Moore Chaplain DoS in Computer Science and overall DoS Dr Jeff Dalley DoS in Neurobiology & in Physical Natural Sciences Psychology and DoS in Preclinical Medicine Dr Jonathan R Gair (Mathematics) Webmaster Dr Stephen M Morris Secretary of the SCR and Dr David Bainbridge Tutor, Admissions Tutor DoS in Physics and DoS in Veterinary Medicine Mrs Deborah Loveluck Development Director Dr Harald Wydra Holden Fellow, Tutor and Dr Ivan Scales McGrath Lecturer and DoS in DoS in Politics, Psychology, Sociology and Geography International Studies Professor William Sutherland Miriam Rothschild Mr Simon Summers MBA Senior Bursar and Professor of Conservation Biology Steward Dr Peter Turner Baker-Fellingham College Professor Harry Coles Professor of Photonics of Lecturer and DoS in Law Molecular Materials; DoS in Physics Dr Gabriel Leon Bevil Mabey Lecturer and DoS Dr Lucy Delap Tutor, College Lecturer and in Economics DoS in History (on leave Easter 2012) Dr Stuart Althorpe Reader in Theoretical Dr Hester Lees-Jeffries College Lecturer and Chemistry DoS in English Dr Alexei Onatski Reader in Economics; Dr Edward Wickham Director of College Music acting DoS in Economics and DoS in Music Dr Matthew DeJong Acting DoS in Engineering Dr Gillian Carr DoS in Archaeology & Dr Fatima Santos (DoS in Developmental Biology) Anthropology *Dr Stefan Marciniak (Medicine) Dr Jerome Neufeld (Geophysics)

Research Fellows Dr Dina M Kronhaus Heller Fellow Dr Nicholas Long (Anthropology) (Computer Science) Dr Matthias Egeler (History) Dr Gergana Yankova-Dimova Haworth Fellow *Dr Alexei Chepelianskii (Physics) (Politics) *Dr Bernhard Staresina (Neuroscience) Mrs Livia Bartok-Partay Bowring Fellow (Chemistry)

*New Fellows etc: see biographical notes following. DoS: Director of Studies.

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Honorary Fellows Professor GdeF Lord Professor Sir Michael Peckham Sir Peter Hall (Peter RF Hall) Dr FRleP Warner Dr KT Erikson Professor AJ Bate The Rt Hon. Lord Briggs of Lewes Mr JD Paxman Sir Peter Hirsch Professor Sir Alan Battersby Dr RM Laws Mr RG Smethurst Sir Ian McKellen Professor DS Ingram Professor Sir Peter Swinnerton-Dyer Professor Sir Richard Gardner Professor Sir Peter Hall (Peter G Hall) Sir Geoffrey Pattie Professor Sir Graeme Davies Professor CFW Higham Sir Terence English Sir Emyr Jones Parry Mr JRG Wright Dr NB Penny Professor BE Supple Professor H Bedelian Dr Cham Tao Soon

Emeritus Fellows Professor AF Beardon (Fellow 1968) Professor J Bridgwater (Fellow 1969–70 and 1993) Professor MDI Chisholm (Fellow 1976) Dr JA Thompson (Fellow 1971) Dr JR Shakeshaft (Fellow 1961) Dr DM Pyle (Fellow 1989) Dr DE Keeble (Fellow 1964) Professor DM Broom (Fellow 1987) Professor PR Raithby (Fellow 1983) Professor H Elderfield (Fellow 1984) Dr MA Message (Fellow 1962) Professor RJ Bennett (Fellow 1996) Dr CJR Thorne (Fellow 1963) Professor Sir John Baker (Fellow 1970) Professor NC Handy (Fellow 1965) Dr RSK Barnes (Fellow 1978)

Fellow Commoners Dr GT Cavaliero Mr RJ Chapman The Revd JStH Mullett Mr GG Beringer Mr R Stratford The Revd Canon HD Searle Mr JB Bibby Mr HW Bate Mr PJ Boizot Mr PA Bowring Mr S McLellan (Junior Bursar) Mr MD Richer Mr M Heller Mrs GO Richer Mrs M Heller Mr J Horam Mr H McGrath *Mr T Adams Mr NF Haynes

*New Fellows etc: see biographical notes following. DoS: Director of Studies.

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Tim Adams (1980) studied tals in London before training in respiratory medi- Geography and Earth Sci- cine at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School. ences whilst at Cambridge. He spent a year at the University of California in After graduating in 1984 San Francisco. He has been involved in basic and he pursued a career in the clinical research into the mechanisms and treat- City focussed on equity ment of asthma and chronic obstructive pulmo- research, covering compa- nary diseases and has published over 1000 peer- nies involved in the capital reviewed papers, as well as editing over 50 books goods and manufacturing sectors. He worked on these topics. He has been the most highly cit- for Barclays de Zoete Wedd, Gerrard Vivian Gray ed researcher in respiratory medicine in the world and Schroders. Following the merger of Schrod- and the most highly cited clinical researcher in ers Investment Banking operations with Citigroup the UK over the last 20 years. He was elected a in 2000, Tim led Citibank’s research coverage Fellow of the Royal Society in 2007, the first res- of the major European engineering and capital piratory researcher for over 150 years! He serves goods companies. This included multi-national as an Associate Editor of three journals and is on companies such as Siemens, ABB, Schnieder Elec- the Editorial Board of another thirty. He has been tric, Atlas Copco, Sandvik, IMI and Invensys. This received honorary MD degrees from the Univer- role afforded him the opportunity to see at first sities of Ferrara (Italy), Athens (Greece), Tampere hand the how these businesses operate and to (Finland) and Leuven (Belgium). witness the impact on a number of major Europe- an businesses of the growth in emerging markets Alexei Chepelianskii com- over the last two decades. He travelled widely pleted his PhD at Orsay Uni- visiting the bank’s clients and the companies he versity (his thesis focused on researched. He was appointed a managing direc- the electrical properties of tor in 2004. Tim retired from working in the City individual DNA molecules in late 2008 and now spends most of his time and on the high frequency looking after his investments in commercial prop- transport properties of ul- erty and equities. He has been a member of the tra-high-purity heterostruc- St Catharine’s College Investments Committee tures) and obtained his Masters degree at École since the late 1990s. He is married with two sons Normale Supérieure in Paris. Since 2010, he has and lives in North Norfolk. He is a keen sailor. worked in the Optoelectronics Group at the Cav- endish where he is investigating transport prop- Peter Barnes (1966) has erties in organic solar cells using high-sensitivity been Professor of Thoracic techniques from low-temperature physics. Medicine at the National Heart and Lung Institute, Stefan Marciniak read Head of Respiratory Medi- Medical Sciences at Fitzwil- cine at Imperial College and liam College, Cambridge Honorary Consultant Phy- (1988) and was a member sician at Royal Brompton of the University’s MB/PhD Hospital in London since 1987. He read Medi- programme (1991–6). He cal Sciences at St Catharine’s and did his clinical undertook post-doctoral studies at Oxford University. Peter then worked research at New York Uni- at Hammersmith, Brompton and National Hospi- versity as a Wellcome Trust Travelling Fellow and

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completed his post-graduate medical training in Germany. His work focuses Cambridge as the Clinical Lecturer in Respiratory on understanding how the Medicine. He is currently an MRC Senior Clini- human brain forms and cal Research Fellow and a Principle Investigator retrieves episodic memo- at the Cambridge Institute for Medical Research ries – the ability to vividly (CIMR) where his laboratory studies the role of remember past experiences endoplasmic reticulum stress in disease. In addi- and events. To address this tion, Stefan is an Honorary Consultant Respira- question, Bernhard uses tory Physician at Addenbrooke’s Hospital with a functional imaging in healthy volunteers as well clinical sub-specialty in pleural medicine. as direct recordings from the brains of epilepsy patients. He currently holds a Postdoctoral Fel- Bernhard Staresina recently completed his PhD lowship from the Wellcome Trust and maintains in Cognitive Neuroscience at New York Univer- collaborations with research institutions in Ger- sity, followed by a one-year research visit to many, the Netherlands and the United States.

Valete

Bob Bennett retired from the Governing Body Richard Barnes has moved seamlessly from Of- in January 2011. He is continuing his research as ficial to Emeritus status. This ‘retirement’ allows Emeritus, based at the Geography Department. him to devote more time to his research into the His recent books Local Business Voice: The His- macroecology of seagrass faunas, spending Janu- tory of Chambers of Commerce in Britain, Ireland ary to March at the Knysna Field Laboratory of and Revolutionary America 1760–2011 (OUP, the Department of Zoology of Rhodes University, 2011) and Liverpool Business Voice: The His- South Africa, where he is an Honorary Research tory of the First Chamber of Commerce 1774–96 Associate, October to December at the Moreton (Liverpool Chamber, 2010) have opened new Bay Research Station as an Honorary Research avenues. He intends pursuing these through new Fellow of the University of Queensland, Aus- studies of changing business structures and local tralia, and over a month at the Laboratory of the economic evolution, as well as excoriating cur- Pusat Penelitian Bawah Laut (Under-sea Research rent government policies on small firms. Centre) in the Taman Nasional Wakatobi, Indo- nesia, as Senior Intertidal Scientist. When in the John Baker retired from the Governing Body in UK for the British Summer, he hopes to be in the September 2011. He writes ‘I intend to continue watchers’ hut at the Scolt Head National Nature with research and writing, and indeed I seem to Reserve, Norfolk, as much as possible. have more publishing commitments now than at any previous stage of my career. The work will Michael Johns has been appointed Winthrop Pro- no longer be carried out in Sky Hall, which I have fessor at the School of Mechanical and Chemical occupied since about 1975, but in my new garden Engineering, University of Western Australia. study (with movable shelving) which the builders have just about completed. In addition to writing Gary Libecap writes ‘One of my most enjoyable the books I have agreed to write, I hope to find and professionally-valuable experiences while at time to catalogue my own collections of manu- Cambridge for a year as the Pitt Professor has scripts, prints, photographs, and other things.’ been as a Fellow at St Catharine’s. The mix of disciplines represented at the College has led to

10 fascinating intellectual exchanges as well as the Sara Schneiderman has been appointed Assistant opportunity to meet new friends and to share ex- Professor of South Asian Anthropology at Yale periences and views. The student body and the University. questions they pose have provided new reasons to re-examine issues in economics, the environ- ment and natural resources.’

Professor Walter Kirkpatrick (Pat) Lacey, 1922–2011

Pat Lacey (1940, Fellow 1951, Emeritus Fellow 1968) was born in Glasgow, but the family very soon moved to the Manse at Buchanan on the east shore of Loch Lomond where his father was sponsored to serve as Parish Minister by the Duke of Montrose. After attending the local school, at age 14 Pat went to Shrewsbury School and, in due course, won an Exhibition to read Classics at St Catharine’s. However, Pat was still at school when war broke out and he duly enlisted, only to be sent back ‘because the war would soon be over.’ In fact he was not called up until he had spent a full year at College and some weeks back at Shrewsbury teaching to cover for a master who had already been called up. The Army sent him to an Officer Cadet Train- ing Unit after which he elected to serve in the In- dian Army on the grounds that he might at least see some of the world. He learnt the rudiments of Urdu on the way to India, and his language and teaching skills were recognized so that he spent the war there as an officer instructor. For a time he even taught Indian law and accountancy. He was demobilised in 1946 and returned to College to complete his degree. Pat Lacey as a young Fellow. For a recent Pat’s time at College is described in Memories picture, see the News section of this Magazine. of St Catharine’s in the 2006 Magazine. He got a First in Part II and was awarded both a College In his second year at Durham, Pat was elected Scholarship and a Studentship for a year with no to a Fellowship back at St Catharine’s to take commitments or responsibilities. After two terms over the Classics teaching from Dr WHS ‘Malaria’ of intensive reading, he moved to Hatfield Col- Jones (see the 2006 article mentioned above). Pat lege, Durham, intending to do research, but was had vivid memories as a young Fellow of tense immediately persuaded to lecture in place of a Governing Body meetings, with disagreements member of staff who had fallen ill. He was ap- between those Fellows who had run the College pointed to an Assistant Lectureship just one year during the war and those who had been away in after completing Part II. the services. The acrimony reached a peak during

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the Mastership election following the retire- his 1980 visit to Cambridge. ment of Professor Portway. Pat commented that His latter years were saddened by the early CP Snow did not exaggerate much in his novel death of three of his four sons (one in a motor- The Masters. cycle accident; another when his vehicle skidded Pat married and brought up his young family off the road in a New Zealand wilderness park; in Cambridge, living with his wife Iris and their the third drowned while fishing) and of his wife four boys in Fulbrooke Road. However, he found Iris in 2001. the life of a Cambridge don increasingly stressful His Auckland pupil Dr Alex Schubert (now ex- for someone like himself who could not say ‘No’ ecutive director of the European College of Neu- when asked to take on additional University and ropsychopharmacology) writes ‘I had heard from College responsibilities. So, when the opportunity Pat at Christmas and he had seemed to be failing, arose of a Chair at Auckland University, New Zea- though still active. The Master’s remark about land, he took the decision to move. He resigned his fondness for St Catharine’s is absolutely right: in 1968 and was elected the first Emeritus Fellow the connection was a source of enormous pride in the history of the College. and pleasure for him. The foot in a bigger world The move also triggered a change in the focus which it gave him was, for me, quite an inspira- of his research from Cicero to the family in Greek tion. Cambridge, with St Catharine’s at its core, and Roman social history, and led to his best- was really, I think, the pole star of Pat’s identity known book The Family in Ancient Greece. The – much more so than his war service or school sequel about the family in Rome was never writ- days, and even more than his Glasgow roots. Pat ten. As well as heading the department in Auck- actually sent a remarkable number of students land, he also served as Dean of Arts in the 1970s. on. Under his benevolent guidance, around half He returned briefly to St Catharine’s as a visiting of the Auckland department’s first class gradu- scholar in 1980 and retired in 1986, though he ates went on to do PhDs overseas – quite an continued to supervise and to research the life of amazing statistic. New Zealand will definitely be Augustus, a topic which had been stimulated by a little smaller without him.’

Professor Peter Alexander Young (1924–2011)

Peter Alexander Young (1946, Fellow Commoner read, Peter was enrolled in the choir, and so the 2006) was born in Boston, Lincolnshire on 23 seeds of his passion for ecclesiastical music were December 1924. His parents soon recognized planted; it flourished throughout his life. As an that they were bringing up a very bright boy and undergraduate he sang in the Chapel choir at they moved house so that Peter could attend the St Catharine’s College and was President of the best primary school which would prepare him Music Society. While he was living in Harrogate for Boston Grammar School. At the age of four he was a long-standing member of the Harrogate Peter’s musical talent became apparent and his Chamber Singers and until quite recently was still parents took him to see the choirmaster at their having singing lessons and singing in the choir local church. Looking at this four-year-old in dis- to keep his voice in practice at Choral Evensong belief the choirmaster thrust a Bible into his hand each Sunday at St Mary’s Church in Wirksworth. and, opening it at random, pointed to Psalm 108, He was intrigued by all things mechanical: verse 9. Peter read in his clear voice ‘Moab is my ‘Boston was a little seaport and I used to wan- washpot; over Edom will I cast out my shoe, over der around the docks and was fascinated by all Philistia will I triumph.’ the boats, pulleys and equipment that was stored Having proved to the choirmaster that he could there.’ He cycled around the country, staying at

12 Youth Hostels while he sought out and examined all sort of contraptions. He excelled at Boston Grammar School and won a scholarship to read Natural Sciences at St Catharine’s. At this time the war was dominating everything. Peter delayed his entry to Cambridge, cycled to London, called at the Admiralty, flourished his St Catharine’s award and was promptly enrolled as a midshipman at the Royal Naval Engineering College and served as an RNVR Air Engineer Officer, specializing in submarine research and the velocity of torpe- does. Peter took up his place at St Catharine’s in 1946. His undergraduate years were followed by a PhD on the thermodynamics of the copper- iron-sulphur system; he was awarded the Elmore Research Fellowship in extractive Metallurgy and collaborated in the establishment of the Ernest Oppenheimer laboratory at the newly-acquired Madingley Road site. He left Cambridge in 1954 to join the Impe- Director of the Australian Mineral Development rial Smelting Corporation at Avonmouth as a Laboratories (AMDEL) in Adelaide, set up previ- Developmental Metallurgist and travelled on ously to serve the mining and metallurgical in- company business to Spain, Iran and Pakistan to dustries of Australia. His term as Director was visit the ore deposits being mined by the parent significant in establishing the scientific credentials company Rio-Tinto-Zinc. In 1955 Peter moved to of AMDEL as a leading independent consulting Head Wrightson on Teeside as General Manager organization with a world-wide reputation. He of Research and Development. He was then pro- returned to the UK in 1968 to take up a Chair at moted to Director of Research, a lightning career Leeds University as Professor of Applied Mineral advance at the age of 31. Head Wrightson was Sciences. While there he strengthened the mining one of the constructors of Britain’s first Nucle- activities by changing the name of the Department ar Power Stations and the Directors sent Peter to Mining and Mineral Engineering and by vigor- to America to meet Eugene Wigner, the Nobel ously pursuing new avenues of research as well as Prizewinning physicist who first understood the reinforcing existing ones. Peter was a scientist in physics of stored energy in nuclear piles, later the best sense of that word. There can have been called ‘Wigner Energy’. (Peter loved to tell of the few scientists of any description who have been occasion at this time when he was resident at the able to initiate and conduct outstanding research Princeton Institute and saw Albert Einstein walk- in so many diverse fields. During his time at Leeds ing across the lawns in his carpet slippers on a he was responsible for introducing, fostering or cold snowy day.) It was uncontrolled release of reinforcing research which included blast vibra- Wigner Energy which caused the Windscale Dis- tion monitoring, column flotation, gamma-ray aster in 1957, the first major incident with a nu- on-stream analysis of coal ash content, geostat- clear pile out of control. Peter was engaged as a ics, high-grade sand extraction, hydrometallurgy, consultant. iron-ore agglomeration, underground mine envi- The following information has been provided ronments and the production of activated carbon by Leeds University: In 1965 Peter was appointed from coconut shells. He took a keen interest in

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all research activities in the Department and was in Falkirk on the design of road sweepers which able to enter into detailed discussions and debates now enjoy world-wide commercial success. on all of them – a remarkable feat which em- On moving to Parwich, Peter’s first wife had braced a spectrum of activities from mining, min- taken on the editorship of the church magazine; eral processing, chemical engineering, metallurgy, Peter assisted, using his computer skills to advan- civil engineering, geology, physics, chemistry and tage. Margaret died in 1998 and Peter continued mathematics. With such a polymath approach to edit the parish magazine until Easter 2008. and an encyclopaedic knowledge of his extensive At Christmas that year, Peter met his second publications, it was rare indeed for him not to be Margaret, Dr Margaret Spurr, retired headmis- able to suggest a reference for a point in ques- tress, Governor of Keele University and Governor tion. Peter’s teaching to undergraduates included of the new University of Lincoln. Margaret tells control systems and an enthusiastically contrived how, on Peter’s first visit, he surveyed her book- and delivered first-year computing course. He was shelves and asked her in true professorial fash- a natural teacher, able to communicate with stu- ion to take down her three favourite books and dents, a gift which he never lost and which ena- explain why. They never got past the first book bled him to engage with people of any age. – Margaret’s treasured copy of The Apple and On retirement from academia around 1990 the Spectroscope. She began to explain that it Peter was asked to appear as an expert witness was a poetry anthology written for post-war stu- in a legal case being brought by a local council dents by TR Henn. Peter roared with delight and against a quarry company for polluting the water laughter, and recounted how he had known Tom supply with calcium sulphate. Peter explained that Henn very well. He explained how he had crossed calcium sulphate is not a polluting agent; in fact swords with Tom, who had been a brigadier in it is added to water by breweries to improve the the army; Peter accused him of failing to provide quality of beer in a process known as ‘Burtonisa- decent breakfasts in College for undergraduates tion’. The breweries in Burton-on-Trent have no who also happened to be ex-service men. It was need to do this because they obtain water from not long before Peter proudly took Margaret to the underground gypsum beds where the wa- the Ramsden Dinner, to see the Henn portrait in ter is saturated with calcium sulphate. The case the Hall and to meet some Cambridge friends. was thrown out, to the great relief of the quarry Following a Solemn Service of Commitment at company which subsequently recruited Peter as Lincoln Cathedral, the couple continued to live its technical consultant. Peter then moved from at Parwich, but their union was cut short when a grand house in Harrogate to a country cottage Peter died in April 2011 at Derby Royal Hospital in Parwich. He continued to advise Longcliffe following a fall at his home. Quarry on their processes for the purification of Compiled by Margaret Spurr from a high-grade calcium carbonate and also on the variety of sources, including the Parwich setting-up and optimization of a plant for making Community Newsletter, St Catharine’s College compost. He could turn his mind to any engineer- Magazines, Leeds University obituaries ing process, including advising his brother-in-law and Peter’s friend Michael Radcliffe.

14 Master’s report

Professor Dame Jean Thomas writes Fellow in Applied Mathematics and Geophysics). The College Magazine is the only place where This is truly excellent news. Dr Neufeld has also reports of all the College activities for the year subsequently been appointed to a Lectureship in the round are gathered, together with news of at the BP Institute in the University, to be held members near and far. This year again it’s burst- concurrently with his URF, and he will accord- ing with news! ingly relinquish his College JRF at the end of the It’s been a busy year for all of us but we have academic year and become an Official Fellow. He navigated our way through it successfully – or at and Dr Morris will teach Physics to our very for- least without obvious mishap. Whilst mindful of tunate undergraduates. the debates in the press and media about various Student sporting news across the board is amply aspects of higher education we carry on aiming covered elsewhere in this Magazine so I’ll highlight to ensure that our standards remain high and that only the conspicuous successes in two areas. The we continue to provide the excellent standard of clean sweep of the collegiate hockey tournaments education and opportunities (both academic and by St Catharine’s teams was decisive and memora- non-academic) for our students that we have al- ble, and marked by the provision of a splendid new ways provided. bench, complete with commemorative plaque, It was a particular pleasure to welcome new for Main Court (courtesy of the teams and their students at their matriculation dinners in Octo- supporters). There was a similar feeling of ela- ber, and to wish the graduating class well at their tion when the men’s first and second boats both eve-of-graduation dinner in June and then on the gained their oars in the Mays, the first boat ending next day to admit them to their degrees in the the week in third place (only one place down from Senate House, acting for the Vice-Chancellor. its previous best), leaving it well placed for next The Graduation Day lunch in Main Court that fol- year. On the University sports front, St Catharine’s lowed, on a warm and sunny day, was a relaxed supplied two undergraduates for the Cambridge and joyful occasion for new graduates, family Boat for the 2011 Varsity Boat Race, two for the and friends, as well as Directors of Studies, Tu- rugby team for the 2010 Varsity Match, and the tors and Supervisors who had invested time and current captain of the University Rugby Club. (A effort in their students. former CURFC captain, Ian Beer (1951), reminded The undergraduates have done us proud this me at a Reunion Dinner that St Catharine’s has in year, clocking up about 110 Firsts in Tripos ex- fact supplied more captains than any other college aminations across all years (i.e. about 27% of – mostly some decades ago!) our undergraduates achieved Firsts), with a good As always our enthusiastic and accomplished number also collecting University Prizes (details musicians – whether or not they are music students elsewhere in these pages; see also Senior Tutor’s – continue to enrich the life of the College. The Report). Some – as you will see – also won awards choir, whose summer tour this year was to the US, in various national competitions, academic or was in good voice and very well received in New other (e.g. voluntary service awards), which is a York, Washington and Boston. (See the Director of cause of great pride for all of us. Music’s report.) The Girls’ Choir is about to embark Amongst the achievements of the Fellowship, on its fourth year and is now a well-established I have to single out the award of prestigious and component of College music and a huge success. highly competitive Royal Society University Re- There have been the usual comings and goings search Fellowships (URFs) to not one but two of on the Fellowship side. We said goodbye over the our young Fellows! – Dr Stephen Morris (Fellow in summer to Dr Sara Shneiderman (social anthropol- Physics) and Dr Jerome Neufeld (Junior Research ogist) and to Dr Leif Dixon (historian) who taught

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early modern history for us for his three years as a about our news and plans for the future. This British Academy Fellow. In October 2011 we wel- emphasises that what I say to the matriculating come a new Official Fellow, Dr Stefan Marciniak undergraduates (and graduating students for that who will teach Physiology to our medical students, matter) really is true: that there is a strong bond and two new Junior Research Fellows – Dr Alexei between the College and its large family of mem- Chepelianskii (physicist) and Dr Bernhard Staresina, bers, of whom the present ones are but the last (neuroscientist); this was a ‘Science year’ in the JRF in a long line stretching back to 1473. We thank competition. We are also pleased to welcome a all who help with various aspects of our Develop- new Honorary Fellow, Professor Peter Barnes FRS ment activities and in particular Sir Geoffrey Pat- FMedSci (1966), and a new Fellow Commoner, Tim tie (1956) who decided this year that it was time Adams (1980). See New Fellows for their details. to retire after 16 years as the excellent Chairman Two of our long-standing Fellows retire at the of the Development Campaign Group. end of this academic year and become Emeritus We greatly value the support, encouragement Fellows (happily, this means we can look forward and help of our members. Your generous response to seeing them in College as often as they wish). to the Annual Fund appeal (mainly through the Professor Sir John Baker (Fellow 1971) retires af- telephone fundraising campaign, expertly run by ter 40 years as a Fellow (during which he served, our students), this year raised around £170,000, inter alia, as Praelector, President, and finally as which will again be used to fund various student Acting Master from March 2006 to January 2007 facilities and activities, as well as hardship bursa- during the inter-regnum before I took over, for ries. I also thank those who have responded to which I remain extremely grateful). He also retires the wider College fundraising campaign, which is from his University post as Downing Professor of going to be absolutely critical (but not particu- the Laws of England after a stellar career as a legal larly easy in the current economic climate) if the historian. Dr Richard Barnes (Fellow 1978) retires College is to continue to develop and flourish after 33 years as a Fellow and from his University rather than just survive. Increasing the size of our Lectureship in Zoology, and will spend much of Endowment over the next few years will be key the year in warmer climes (in Queensland, Aus- (see the Senior Bursar’s article on College Financ- tralia and the Western Cape, South Africa) pursu- es), but in the short term we need to raise the ing his research interests in coastal marine ecol- remainder of the funds for the new College Cen- ogy. We thank them both for their longstanding tre building which is set to provide much needed and significant contributions to the College and facilities that will greatly enhance many aspects Fellowship. We also see a change of Dean for the of College life for all who study and work here. coming year, as Dr John Xuereb completes two Looking back at the year, there are again many consecutive successful five-year terms, and hands people to thank. I welcome this opportunity to over the mantle to Dr Abigail Brundin (but of thank all the Fellows and staff of the College for course remains a Fellow). We all thank him most their unstinting efforts on behalf of our students warmly for his sterling service. and the St Catharine’s community generally. I’d Alumni and Development events (see Develop- also like to thank the Officers and Committee of ment Director’s report) are now a standard part the St Catharine’s Society as well as all the Chairs of College life – and certainly of the Master’s! of Branches and other groups of alumni all over It’s always a great pleasure to meet members of the world for their efforts and support. Our special the College as individuals or in large groups at thanks go this year to Canon Hugh Searle (1956) various events in College, at various London and who retires from his post as tireless and assiduous regional events, and on excursions further afield. Secretary of the Society at the end of September, Everywhere I encounter genuinely warm feelings after seven years’ service, to be replaced by David towards the College and an enthusiasm to know Peace (1966). We thank Hugh and David both.

16 Senior Tutor’s report

Assiduous readers of this column (‘fit audience, timely event which though few’ in Milton’s phrase) will recall that, last clearly inspired our year, I discussed the latest adornments of C6, in- current undergradu- cluding a bronze medallion with busts of Charles ates, whose Tripos re- Cotton and Izaak Walton (co-authors of The Com- sults were the best in pleat Angler), which I tentatively dated to 1876. living memory, with Within moments of publication, an e-mail with at- eight Firsts – one of tachment arrived hot from the desk of Professor Sir them starred – from John Baker, doyen of scholars, whose retirement we sixteen students), both lament and celebrate this year, informing me which brought large numbers of my own former that the date should in fact be 1824 and referring students back to the College and which was fully me to an issue of The Examiner of that year, an- described in the recent Catharine Wheel. Among nouncing that ‘Mr AVERN has executed two very many fine moments, those to be treasured in- pretty medals… cut with delicacy and freedom, clude my wife Wendy straight-facedly asking and will be relished by the amateur of art as well as Jeremy Paxman his name so that she could give by lovers of the very equivocal “Sport” of Angling.’ him a badge and the two gentlemen (they know If this last remark is a piece of piscatory rights activ- who they are) of a vintage even older than my ism, then it’s remarkably ahead of its time. A fur- own, who made a point of coming up to me at ther footnote to this matter is that I subsequently the end to tell me that, despite the warm-hearted acquired a second copy of the medal, this time in Robin Telfer’s assertion in an impromptu speech silver, but with only Cotton’s image on one side, that many of those attending were there to mark which looks to me as if it may have been struck my fortieth year in College, the two of them were for the binding of a particularly lavish copy of the most certainly not. ‘Respice post te! Hominem te Angler. More possibly anon (well, next year). esse memento! Memento mori!’ (Tertullian). The past year has been a busy one, and it’s In the wider world of the Collegiate University, a pleasure to report that academic results were this has been my first year as Secretary of the Sen- again strong, with the number of Firsts higher ior Tutors’ Committee, its principal executive of- than in 2010, although the vagaries of league ficer (the Vice-Chancellor chairs) and it has been table calculation means that we slipped a tad; both exciting and demanding to be closely involved those who saw Mr Tompkins’s Table published with the drafting of the new OFFA agreement, de- in The Independent in newsprint may have been cisions on the Cambridge Tuition Fee and on our alarmed to note that we didn’t appear at all, but new Bursary Schemes. The colleges are now enter- those who hastened to the electronic version will ing into negotiations with each other (it’s like herd- have seen that we were in fact ranked eleventh of ing thirty-one cats) as to how to frame additional 29 (the paper version only listed 1–10), whereas help to be offered to both undergraduates and in the more detailed internal intercollegiate tables postgraduates in the brave new world of state- we emerged at number ten. More cheering is unfunded education which lies ahead; alumni can the fact that, on the past three years’ perform- expect to hear more – and probably be invited to ance, we average out to sixth. Of course, aca- give more – if we are to remain (as we surely must) demic matters are not all that do, and the record open to any talented student whatever their eco- of sporting and musical achievement elsewhere nomic circumstances, all of whom are entitled to recorded in this magazine remains strong. share in the intellectual wealth of this country’s A particular pleasure for me this year was the finest university (and College, of course). reunion dinner for those who read English (a Dr Paul Hartle

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Cambridge fees and bursaries

It could have come as no surprise that, with an to raise the Maintained Sector intake from UK annual deficit running into several millions, Cam- Schools from last year’s 59% to 62% (a figure bridge University decided to charge the maxi- based on the proportion of Maintained Sector mum fee permitted under the new Government students achieving A*A*A or equivalent), al- régime, namely £9k annually for Home/EU un- though we have pointed out to OFFA that this is dergraduates. The complex collegiate structure unlikely to be achieved in a single year, particu- meant that it was also necessary for all colleges to larly since past experience has been that a major agree to this, which they did, and for the Regent hike in Tuition Fees leads to a drop in applica- House to vote in its support, which it did. tions from the most economically unprivileged I doubt whether any of those of us who negoti- and risk-averse groups. ated or argued for or implemented this Fee did so In addition to the Cambridge Bursary Scheme in any uplifted moral spirit; I certainly did not, de- (details of which can be found on the Univer- spite being ex officio among the leading propo- sity website under ‘Study opportunities’, then nents in many, many committees. But the savage ‘Undergraduate’, then ‘Finance’), the colleges reduction in the Higher Education Funding Coun- are currently in discussion with the Newton cil for England Education Grant together with the Trust as to how best both to target and to fund subtler excision of one or two other items of Gov- a still more generous scheme, given the clearly- ernment support (the Historic Buildings Fund, for expressed willingness of many alumni to ensure instance), left us with no realistic alternative. The that there are no economic barriers to applying additional income from charging above the £6k to Cambridge. Whether this will be directed at minimum should amount to around £30m an- the very poorest, or at what is now fashionably nually, of which the University is obliged, by the called the ‘squeezed middle’ (there is currently terms of its agreement with the Office For Fair no bursary support for those with family incomes Access (without which the additional fee could above £42k) – or both – is still a matter for nego- not be charged) to spend about a third on access tiation, but all colleges remain firmly committed and widening participation measures. to the principle of accessibility, as well as to en- Those measures include an enhanced Cam- suring that no UK student ever has to withdraw bridge Bursary Scheme at an increased cost of from the University solely on account of financial approximately £3m, together with increased difficulties. The continuing help from alumni in expenditure on Access events, Summer Schools endowing Hardship Bursaries has hitherto always and a range of recruitment activities. The Uni- enabled us to make good on that promise. versity and colleges have also jointly committed Dr Paul Hartle

College finances

I am pleased to be able to report that the Col- Annual Income and Expenditure lege’s Endowment has recuperated after the Figures 1 to 3 show College income and expendi- slump following the 2008 financial crisis. Last ture averaged over the past six years (a useful pres- June it stood at £45.9m but this is still not enough entation because of significant annual fluctuations for security in this volatile world. In this report, I in areas such as investment income and gifts). provide more detail of our normal annual income Figure 1 shows that over this period almost one and expenditure, and what we need to do to en- quarter of our income has come from the gener- sure the future financial stability of the College. osity of Members and other friends of the College.

18 12% 20% 24% 26%

21%

19% 17% 19% 12% 11% 9% 10%

Student tuition Student residential Student catering External residential and catering Investment income Gifts to College

Left: Figure 1: College Income (annual average 2006–11). Right: Figure 2: College Income (annual average 2006–11) unrestricted gifts only.

Almost half of that giving has been restricted to is primarily due to a heavy exposure to personnel specific purposes and is not available to support costs and significant increases during 2006–9 of our annual operating costs. Principally, restricted historically-low academic salaries in a very com- donations have either been for the endowment petitive market for the finest talent. of particular teaching posts (whereby we invest In addition, income from our external confer- the gift as discussed below and are permitted to ence and banqueting business (11% of all income) spend only the investment return, e.g. to employ both covers its costs and makes a very important teaching Fellows) or for specific building projects contribution to the fixed costs of catering and ac- such as the College Centre. commodation within the College. Figures 2 and 3 consider the day-to-day financ- The remaining one-third of our income has es of the College, and so exclude from income come from the return on our endowment and those restricted donations described above. Of from unrestricted donations and legacies. These St Catharine’s total income, about one half usu- elements of income have been sufficient to en- ally comes from student fees for tuition, accom- able us to break even over the past six years, but modation and catering. The true cost of these with considerable volatility from year to year. activities, which lie at the core of the College’s While the College does not exist to make sur- mission, is significantly higher than that and rep- pluses each year, it is important that we strength- resents over 80% of our expenditure. en our financial position and reduce our reliance An important element to be recognised in plan- on unrestricted gifts to pay our annual operating ning the finances of the College is that, over the expenses. The St Catharine’s Campaign, by rais- past decade as a whole, St Catharine’s has expe- ing funds to endow teaching posts, will play an rienced increases in its operating costs above the important role in this. rise in the Retail Price Index (though less so in the past two years). The cost of educating students The Endowment has risen by 7% per annum over that period, The College’s endowment is a capital fund, which while per-capita fees paid to the College have provides a permanent source of annual income only increased by closer to 3% per annum. This through being invested in a diversified manner. It

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2% 1% 3% 12% 17% 12%

7% 12% 47% 14% 9%

16% 26% 22%

Student tuition External residential UK equities Property funds Student residential and catering Overseas equities Hedge funds Student catering Investment Fixed income Cash Other Owned property Private equity

Left: Figure 3: Expenditure (annual average 2006–11). Right: Figure 4: College Endowment at June 2011 (total £45.9m).

plays a key role in sustaining the College, by bridg- Supporting the endowment is the optimum way ing the gap between the true cost of a Cambridge to support the long-term stability of the College, education and State and student contributions. It as income earned by investing the endowment comprises both a number of funds dedicated to can be re-invested or used as necessary to meet specific purposes, and an unrestricted fund whose operating costs. A donation to the endowment income contributes to our general costs. will benefit St Catharine’s in perpetuity. The endowment enables us to ‘keep the doors The College has to balance a risk-averse ap- open’: income generated on its diversified invest- proach to investing with the need to earn consist- ment is used to underpin our educational costs, ent real returns, that both preserve the spending supplement student fees, subsidise student accom- power of the endowment for future generations modation and catering, help with maintenance and and produce a current income to meet today’s refurbishment of College properties – essentially to costs. The diversified range of investments is not cover the cost of the whole array of activities which unlike those chosen by other perpetual institu- form the core mission of our institution. tions and is illustrated in Figure 4. Over the past St Catharine’s endowment in June 2011 (before four years, the investment markets have been the losses of the Summer!) amounted to almost volatile and our property and equity investments £46 million, placing us mid-table among the 31 have fluctuated significantly in value, and con- Cambridge colleges. In order to be financially se- tinue to do so as I type these remarks. The overall cure and resilient, to maintain the current stand- endowment declined in value over 2007–9, but ard of excellence, and to compete both nationally has grown in 2009–11, thanks to a combination and internationally in the academic arena, the of additional gifts and legacies and more favour- College believes that it will need an endowment able returns. In the past twelve months, the bal- of at least £55 million in today’s money. Allowing ance of the portfolio has evolved, due to sales of for expected inflation, this implies that we need hedge funds and declines in property values, and to raise in the next few years approximately £15 additional investments in overseas equities. million for the endowment fund. Simon Summers, Senior Bursar

20 Development Director’s report

At the end of my fourth year at St Catharine’s it is £3.5m a very exciting time to be leading the Alumni and £3.67m Development team. The recent level of academic success at the College has been remarkable; we continue to flourish in music, sport and the arts, and remain a centre of excellence in terms of both education and research. Thanks to the generosity of our Members and Friends, a third of our annual income now stems from donations, legacies, and £2.125m the return on our endowment. Back in 2007, only £5m 5% of Members gave to the College. This figure has now grown to 14% and for this I thank you. College Other (including As we move into the third year of the Campaign, Teaching Officers bursaries & music) we wish to build on this success. By strengthen- (four posts) College Centre ing the tradition of benefaction to the College we Endowment can ensure continuity of excellence and opportu- nities for all who study at St Catharine’s. St Catharine’s Campaign totals as of 30 June One of the greatest pleasures of my role as Di- 2011. Overall target: £30m. Raised: £14.3m. rector of Development is the opportunity to meet Members of the College, both in Cambridge and College. In 2010–11 the Master and various Fel- further afield. The Alumni and Development lows visited Members in Boston, Geneva, Hong team has organised 38 events this year, offering Kong, Jersey, Kuala Lumpur, New York, Paris, San more chances than ever before for our Members Francisco and Singapore. Closer to home, our to meet up old friends and reconnect with the Members in the north of England were treated to an afternoon in John and Vanessa Cook’s Royal Kris-Stella Trump (2002) and guest at the Horticultural Society partner gardens near York, 2011 Boston reception for alumni, generously and in London our gatherings have included hosted by David Cooper (1957). For reports and drinks parties, the termly St Catharine’s Lunch- photographs of other alumni events, see the eon Club and the Varsity Rugby reception. Alumni News section of this Magazine. The St Catharine’s Campaign continues to at- tract support. Our goal is to raise £30 million to secure the long-term financial stability of the Col- lege by building up its hitherto small endowment, covering the costs of five teaching posts, and fi- nancing the building of the College Centre on the Island site. The Campaign was launched in 2009 and it is a testament to the goodwill of Members that we have already raised over £14.3 million to- wards our target. In particular, we are delighted to report that the building work for the College Centre is now underway, with two-thirds of the necessary funding to hand. The chart featured above shows how much money has been raised towards each element of the Campaign. St Catharine’s Magazine t 2011

Members at the 1960–3 Reunion Dinner, April 2011.

This year’s telephone campaign raised £170,000 September 2014 (1993–5) for the Annual Fund. Your generosity will enable April 2015 (1964–7) us to provide a range of services and opportu- September 2015 (1996–8) nities for those who participate in College life. These include entry bursaries for undergraduates, We will also be hosting our annual Garden Party increased funding for graduate students, and ac- for specific year groups, donors to the College cess schemes. In addition it will support College and Woodlarkians. In 2012, we invite those who sports, music, and the preservation of our rare matriculated up to and including 1957 and their books collection. There was also a generous gift guests. The occasion will start with a lecture by one of £15,500 to the College’s valued counselling of our senior Fellows at 11 am. As ever the event service. Thank you very much! coincides with the last day of the May Bumps, and The Woodlark Society continues to grow. we will be hosting a College marquee by the river, Founded to celebrate those who remember offering an excellent opportunity to watch the St Catharine’s in their Will, the Society’s member- races from the banks of the Cam. Further infor- ship has increased by over a quarter since 2008. mation can be found in the Events section of our In addition to their invitation to this year’s Garden website (www.caths.cam.ac.uk/events), in the Party, we are pleased to announce a luncheon for most recent issue of the Catharine Wheel (June all Woodlarkians and their guests in December. 2011) and on the regular electronic newsletter Attended by the Master, this will include a lecture which comes to you by email each term. and a specially commissioned archival exhibition. If you are passing through Cambridge, please Elsewhere, the Reunion Dinner programme has do call into the Alumni and Development Office: moved ahead and I thought it might be helpful we are located in A1 next to the Porters’ Lodge. for you to see the dates of Matriculation sched- In the meantime, if you feel you need anything, uled for the next few years. please contact the Alumni & Development Office 31 March 2012 (1968–71) by telephone (01223 338337) or email develop- 15 September 2012 (1987–9) [email protected], and we will be April 2013 (1972–4) happy to help you. September 2013 (1990–2) Deborah Loveluck, Fellow April 2014 (1953–9) & Development Director

22 The College Centre

The College has embarked on a major construc- Students and staff can grab a coffee and work tion project to create a new suite of rooms called at the large central meeting table or relax in the College Centre on the site of the old JCR the array of easy chairs enjoying views out to and bar between the Chapel and King’s Lane. the façade of the Chapel across the entrance David Emond, director in charge of the project at foyer. The top-lit central space is clad with oak, RH Partnership Architects, writes: plaster and bold modern fabrics. The most exciting aspect of the project is the op- t
during the Easter Term it can be set up to pro- portunity the new facility will offer students and vide additional quiet study spaces as overflow Fellows to broaden the range of activities that accommodation when the library is fully occu- can be undertaken within the College. pied. The initial brief from St Catharine’s was for a t
exhibition space. fixed seat auditorium, an ambition the College t
it can be used as part of the whole College has held for many years. Lengthy discussions with network of rooms for the May Ball, the Society the College made it clear the space would have Reunion Weekend etc. It is linked via acoustic far greater use if it could be designed to link with doors to the Hall and to the basement bar. other adjacent spaces to become a suite of rooms The Centre will have wireless networking through- and if the auditorium seating could retract to al- out and state of the art audio/visual facilities. low the floor space to be used for other College The Centre is located on the ground floor un- activities when not required as lecture theatre. der the student residences opposite the Chapel The design has been developed over the last between the library and the Hall. The College three years, to ensure maximum use is made of Centre will open out onto the re-landscaped the limited space. The range of possible uses for Chapel Court adjacent to the Hall. the College Centre is growing all the time. It is The staircase in the entrance hall of the centre expected to transform many aspects of College links directly with the new JCR at first floor level life and will provide a unique facility. There are and student residences on the upper floors. many permutations: The Centre extends down to the basement t
the space can be used for formal speeches and where a new student bar is to be created with its lectures. Retractable raked seating provides a own entrance from Chapel Court and independ- lecture hall for 160. A whole year group can ent facilities. A new staircase joins the bar area meet together in the College for the first time to the College Centre ground floor entrance hall in an environment outside the Hall. allowing both spaces to be linked as a suite of t
it can be used for screening films, concerts and rooms. performances with formal raked seating or in- The works include a ground floor extension formal seating in the round. The acoustic in the and new entrance to the library with new seating. room has been carefully designed for speech There is also a new entrance to the student resi- intelligibility and for the presentation of ampli- dences, and alterations to the high table end of fied music. The College will have a new venue the Hall to improve access generally and to create for concerts which complements and contrasts a new doorway between the Hall and the College with the Chapel acoustic. Centre entrance hall. t
the main ground floor space can be closed to The construction project is complex and diffi- form a large multi-purpose, conference-style cult. The works have been divided into eight sec- meeting room for 30 people. tions to ensure areas are taken out of use, altered t
a place to rendezvous during the day with and returned to the College at various times over friends and colleagues for informal meetings. the next 18 months to allow normal College life

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An artist’s impression of Chapel Court once the developments have concluded.

to continue as far as possible whilst the buildings out-of-hours with a minimum of shut-downs af- are radically altered. fecting the rest of the College. The buildings were constructed in the 1960s The building work in the 1960s used asbestos and have subsequently been altered and adapted board and insulation. Demolition works are being to create the library and old JCR/bar underneath carefully monitored to ensure the safe removal of the residences with an additional floor added the known asbestos as well as additional asbestos on top of the original building at the beginning uncovered during the works. of this century. These alterations imposed new The site is very constrained; the contractor structural loads onto an already complex steel plans to install a large crane in King’s Lane to al- and concrete framed building. The additional ac- low material to be lifted from Queens’ Lane into commodation added new demands to the origi- the site. This in itself will require a large mobile nal services infrastructure which is now at the crane to be positioned in the Lane. A new steel limit of its capacity. frame will be erected on the site of the old bar The project needs to add new services and to and courtyard, and the form of the new spaces adapt the existing water supplies, heating and will then gradually appear. boilers serving all the adjacent buildings and to The whole project is due for completion for the upgrade the power supplies while the buildings start of Lent Term 2013. The launch should be a they serve are in full use. All this needs to be done memorable event!

24 Staff news

Kevin Bentley left the De- Robert has made a very considerable contribu- velopment Office in July tion to the life of the College since he joined us in 2011 after five years to be- 2005, introducing many improvements to cater- come Deputy Development ing operations and expanding the College’s ex- Director at Magdalene. ternal conference and catering business. Jane Stevens (pictured) John Anderson died in May 2011 just four retired in July 2011 after ten months after retiring from working in the College years as Master’s secretary. kitchens. His was a familiar face in the College She says that, when she started at St Catharine’s, bar or outside on the steps with his pipe, and a she thought she would retire after five years, but large number of staff and Fellows attended his she ended up staying for ten. funeral service in Chapel, which was conducted Robert Lee has resigned as Catering and Com- by the Chaplain. mercial Services Manager and will leave College Maria Whelan left in July 2011 after some three in October 2011 to fulfil a long-held ambition to and a half years as Bursar’s secretary. run his own business in the North of England.

Chapel and Chaplaincy report

The life of the Chapel this past year was richly Candle. In the church, the Exsultet was sung and blessed by the presence of two ordinands training the Old Testament readings of salvation history for ministry in the Church of England. Mrs Eileen were read in darkness. With an extraordinarily Harrop from Ridley Hall and Dr Mike Kirby from exuberant and yet dignified rendition of ‘We are Westcott House contributed greatly to the litur- marching in the light of God’, the whole assembly gies and the Lectio discussion series with their en- journeyed across to our own Chapel for the end thusiasm, humour and dedication. We wish them of the Vigil and the Renewal of Baptismal Vows. both well as they enter into the final year of their ‘The strife is o’er’ (with expert drumming by our studies and prepare themselves for ordination organ scholar, Alex Aitken) took us across to the next summer. I understand that this is the first Chapel at Corpus for the first Eucharist of Easter time that St Catharine’s has offered the resource accompanied by traditional choral music, chorus- of training attachments and am delighted with es and Taizé chants. The only thing left to do was the way that the ordinands interacted with our wander back to St Bene’t’s and pop some corks Undergraduates and Fellows. All being well, we to share more informally in the joy of Easter! It should have one or more new students on place- was a delight to work with the Revd Angela Tilby, ment with us next year. then Vicar of St Bene’t’s and the Revd James Bux- The liturgical highlight must have been the ton, Chaplain of Corpus, and it is hoped that we celebration of Easter. The unusually late date of might continue to foster such creative links with the Great Feast meant that many of our students our neighbours. were in residence, and we joined forces with Cor- Tom Denny has begun work on the stained pus Christi College and St Bene’t’s Parish Church glass window on the theme of ‘wisdom’ and it is to celebrate the Easter Vigil and Pashcal Ceremo- expected that this will be installed in the summer nies on Holy Saturday. The very-well-attended of next year with a ceremony of dedication to be service began in the churchyard of St Bene’t’s held on Sunday 14 October 2012. for the lighting of the New Fire and Paschal The College is extremely grateful to Fr John

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Evans (1962) for a generous donation which Service at the beginning of each academic year, enabled me to order a set of vestments for use the first being celebrated on Monday 3 October in the Chapel. The two sets of vestments which this year. It seems fitting that the academic year were here when I arrived were well beyond their should begin and end, for those who wish to at- best and I had, until this year, been using my own tend, with acts of dedication and thanksgiving for robes for celebrations of the Eucharist. The new our academic, collegial and social endeavours. set of four simply-styled chasubles and stoles in The Revd Dr Anthony Moore the principal liturgical colours of white, red, green Chaplain and purple, were made by Watts & Co. of Lon- don and are a very fine addition to the Chapel. Commemoration Sermon One infant baptism, that of Frederick Robinson Preached by the Reverend Canon Mark Bonney (son of Jo Robinson, formerly of the Development (1975) at the Commemoration of the Founder Office team), was celebrated last year, in Octo- and Benefactors of the College on St Catharine’s ber. The marriage service of Andrew Wells (2004) Day, 25 November 2010 and Emily Parrott was held in Chapel at the end of ‘Let us now sing the praises of famous men and June this year and, because of the College Cen- our ancestors in their generation... The assembly tre building work in Chapel Court, Sarah Rhodes declares their wisdom, and the congregation pro- (1998) and Marc Brickhouse were married by me claims their praise.’ (Ecclesiasticus 44:1,15) at Queens’ College in July. It was a privilege to I must first thank the Chaplain for inviting me be asked to take the funeral of William Jenkins, a to be with you this evening – it’s a great honour, former member of the maintenance staff, at the and I will try not to be a rambling old Catzman City Crematorium in November 2010 and that of reminiscing about what it was like in my day. I John Anderson, a very-recently-retired member remember this Feast of Founder and Benefac- of the catering staff, in Chapel in June this year. tors quite clearly. I remember it enviously from Thanks are due to this year’s hardworking and my first year – singing in the choir but getting extremely supportive Chapel Clerks, Nick Wal- no dinner; I remember it sadly from my second ters and Alex Helliwell; to the Chapel Wardens, because after the service I sat on the chapel floor Matthew Ingrams, Emily Diver, Chris Apperley in floods of tears having that same day attended and Nicole Baskerville; and to all who have given the funeral of a school friend of mine who’d died generously of their time and talents to enable aged 20 of cancer. And then I remember it joy- the life of the Chapel to thrive. I am delighted to fully from my third year because I got the din- report that we raised a very splendid £1366.34 ner and the whole nine yards – and still have the in the past academic year by collecting money in menu card to prove it. the Chapel alms box. The total has been divided On this feast day of St Catharine we celebrate equally and we have donated £683.17 each to the wisdom, foresight and generosity of Robert our two nominated charities, Jimmy’s Nightshel- Woodlark, who founded the College, and many ter, which helps those who sleep rough on the others who built on that foundation literally and streets of Cambridge, and the Bethlehem Arab metaphorically. As our first reading says ‘the as- Society for Rehabilitation, a charity chosen by sembly declares their wisdom and the congrega- undergraduates who visited the centre on our tion proclaims their praise.’ visit to the Holy Land in September. It’s that word ‘wisdom’ that I want to reflect The Graduation Services, which were initiated upon this evening because I have a horrible in 2008, have continued to gain support from feeling that it’s in short supply these days. The graduands and their families (the Chapel was full ground in which it’s nurtured that needs to be in for the second year running), and it has been de- place to allow it to grow is fundamental to what cided to ‘mirror’ this event with a Matriculation goes on in this Chapel, in this College and in the

26 University, but this very ground is in danger of Leisure of course isn’t being used here in terms being subsumed by an ethos that is driven by of having more time to run around the sportsfield pragmatism and outcomes, and fails to realise the or to indulge in retail therapy, but is about the wisdom of wisdom. freedom to pursue spiritually and intellectually Wisdom is something we tend to associate what needs to be pursued; it is about ‘pursuing with age – though not all the old are wise – and the study of the law of the Most High according many younger people exercise wisdom beyond to Ecclesiasticus (38:34). their years. In Biblical terms as Ps111:10 puts it It was the wisdom and foresight of Robert ‘the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom’ – Woodlark and Co. that led them to found an in- which places the work of this Chapel and what it stitution for the pursuit of knowledge and educa- stands for at the centre of the enterprise; but the tion – and endowed place and opportunity and seeds need to be able to grow. thus leisure for that to happen. Without that When I joined the staff of Salisbury Cathedral leisure, that space, wisdom cannot grow. It’s just over six years ago a delightful and slightly not about goals, targets and outcomes – it’s not mischievous Roman Catholic brother who teaches about learning so that a job can be found, how- at Sarum College and also happens to be a Catz- ever important that is. man of an even older vintage than myself, gave In the current economic climate it’s perhaps pie me a copy of a lecture by TS Eliot to the Friends of in the sky for academics and students in Eliot’s Chichester Cathedral way back in 1951 entitled words ‘not to have to account for one’s time in The Value and Use of Cathedrals in England To- terms of public activity’ – but if wisdom is to be day. In the middle of the lecture Eliot made some apparent and have the opportunity to grow then observations on the Dean and Chapter. He said the sentiment must not be lost sight of. ‘The first obligation of the Dean and Chapter is Emblazoned above the reredos of the Chap- not in any direct relation to the faithful, still less el are the words ‘Sursum Corda’ – lift up your to the general public, but to the Cathedral itself. hearts. Words that the priest says at the dialogue Nobody ought to expect of deans and canons that begins the Eucharistic Prayer – ‘Lift up your that they should undertake anything that inter- hearts’ – ‘We lift them to the Lord.’ There will no feres with this. And it seems to me that whatever doubt, later on this evening, be some appropri- else they are deprived of, they ought not to be ate and perhaps even inappropriate lifting up of deprived of leisure: which means not having to hearts and voices as our patron and founders are account for one’s time in terms of public activ- toasted in time-honoured ways. ity.... I think that civilisation depends upon the The lifting up of hearts that we see in gold- right people having the right leisure; and that the en letters is another way of linking in with the Church should set the example for the rest of the Psalmist about where wisdom is to be found. world in this respect as in others.’ And what is The movement of our hearts towards God – the good for Cathedral Canons, I suspect Eliot would movement of our very selves; in that movement also have said, would be good for the Master, Fel- we enter into conversation with God and learn lows and students in an establishment like this. from him. No doubt Eliot was familiar with the book Ec- The words made me think of someone from ‘the clesiasticus which at ch38:24 says ‘The wisdom of other place’ who has been celebrated this year – the scribe depends on the opportunity for leisure; Cardinal John Henry Newman – his motto as a only the one who has little business can become Cardinal was ‘cor ad cor loquitur’ – ‘heart speaks wise. How can one become wise who handles the to heart’ – it was from an intimate relationship plough, and who glories in the shaft of a goad, with God that his undoubted wisdom emerged. I who drives oxen and is occupied with work, and also refer to this man from ‘the other place’ be- whose talk is of bulls?’ cause of a set of texts he wrote at a time when

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he was seeking to found a University in Ireland. surpassed her in beauty, intelligence, wealth, They’re entitled Idea of a University (London, and social status – and thus never married, but 1891) – texts I suspect that would chime with our because in her discovery of Christ she found as founders and many benefactors. They are neces- one writer has put it ‘(Christ’s) beauty was more sary for the pursuit of wisdom and would cer- radiant than the shining of the sun, His wisdom tainly have been approved of by TS Eliot, but they governed all creation, His riches were spread are in danger of becoming out of fashion. throughout all the world.’ For Newman the ideal university was neither It is said that Catharine visited her contem- a set of vocational courses nor a research insti- porary, the Roman Emperor Maxentius, and at- tute, but a community of scholars and students tempted to convince him of his moral error in in pursuit of philosophy in its widest sense – ‘A persecuting Christians. She succeeded in con- knowledge capable of being its own end’. He verting his wife, the Empress, and many pagan said ‘education must not be merely a means to philosophers whom the Emperor sent to dispute something beyond it’. As a recent biographer with her, all of whom were subsequently mar- put in words that resonate with Eliot ‘he insisted tyred. Upon the failure of the Emperor to win Ca- that the decisive attribute of a university is its tharine over, he ordered her to be put in prison; disinterested intellectual creativity and enquiry: and when the people who visited her converted, the opportunity and capacity to think uselessly.’ she was condemned to death on the breaking (J Cornwell Newman’s Unquiet Grave Continuum wheel, an instrument of torture. According to 2010 p.127) When one reads the titles of some legend, the wheel itself broke when she touched PhD theses in the annual Catz Magazine one can it, so she was beheaded. be tempted to comment that there’s quite enough The life and example of St Catharine reminds seemingly useless thinking going on – but I say us that the pursuit of wisdom may not mean an that facetiously since I would defend these intel- easy life. Thinking uselessly and having leisure can lectual pursuits to the hilt, because there wisdom actually be hard work: but today we rejoice and will be found and nurtured. give thanks for those who enabled these things It might be fanciful, but I dare to think that to flourish here – we lift up our hearts in thanks- our patron St Catharine is among the wise. Not giving – thanksgiving to the source of all wisdom because she apparently announced to her par- the one and only living God, who is Father, Son ents that she would only marry someone who and Holy Spirit. Amen.

Choir report

From Middle Eastern chant to electro-acoustic something of a trademark. At the end of the year, fusion, from gamelan-inspired polyphony to Me- the girls collaborated with Egyptian singer Merit dieval discant, the repertoire of the St Catharine’s Ariane Stephanos and composer Jonathan Green Choirs has never been so wide-ranging. The year to create a new work, threading together Medi- began with a flourish of drums and gongs as our eval and Middle Eastern chant through computer Girls’ and Student Choirs combined forces with manipulations, in a quite unique and mesmerising York 24, a chamber choir from York University, way. Premiered as part of The Hours project (see and two gamelan orchestras, for a performance Kellaway report), the work can be heard on the of the Missa Gongso by Neil Sorrell (1964), him- new St Catharine’s Choir disc, The Thread of my self a St Catharine’s alumnus. Song (see below). For the Girls’ Choir at least, working with This was the third year of the Girls’ Choir, which musicians from different cultures is becoming draws together 22 children from local schools for

28 weekly rehearsals and a service, and the range of their work continues to expand. December saw them in an (almost) snow-bound and student- protest-besieged St John’s, Smith Square, for a performance in aid of The Children’s Trust; in June they had their first taste of television fame when they were included in a Look East report publi- cising The Hours and that same month the Choir participated in a schools’ concert in King’s College. The Girls’ Choir provides an important resource for engaging the community in musical activities, and it was particularly pleasing to see on stage during Schools’ Recital at King’s College. the King’s performance children from Cambridge- shire and Tower Hamlets, backed by student and itinerary included Washington DC (St Paul’s, K professional singers from Cambridge and London. Street, and the National Cathedral), New Hamp- The Student Choir recruited a number of new shire (the Monadnock Festival), Boston (St Paul’s members at the start of the year, which meant Brookline) and New York (St Thomas’s, Fifth Av- that the learning curve for the ensemble as a enue), with services in at least two of the most whole was a steep one. But, as a fine perform- splendid buildings the American Episcopalian ance of Bach’s challenging Singet dem Herrn at Church has to offer. To be in Washington DC on the end of Lent term attested, the choir managed the Fourth of July was an added bonus and, while the curve admirably, and the outlook for the the July heat was not ideal for musical perform- next two years is promising. The year highlight, ance, the lakeside digs in Jaffrey, New Hamp- though, was undoubtedly the choir’s tour to the shire, were greeted with even more enthusiasm East Coast of the United States in early July. The as a consequence.

Members of the Choir awaiting fireworks on 4 July.

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The lasting memorial to a successful year comes works for the Girls’ Choir by Jonathan Green. The in the form of a new recording – The Thread of my title of the recording is drawn from a new work Song – which was recorded in January and March, by Christopher Fox – Sing a New Song – a piece and which features a typically eclectic mix of intended for use by school choirs, and designed to works. From the 17th century we feature a handful bring together children and experienced singers. of short, sacred chamber works from Sir William In its melding of texts from different cultural and Leighton’s Teares and Lamentations of a Sorrowful faith traditions, and the opportunity it affords for Soul, and these are interleaved with contemporary collaboration between singers of different abilities, works – most of them commissioned especially for it represents the perfect summation of our work the Choir. These include Sally Beamish’s Magnificat with the choirs at St Catharine’s. and Nunc Dimittis, works by Gabriel Jackson and Dr Edward Wickham alumnus Nigel Hess (1971), and two experimental Director of Music

Kellaway Concerts

The 2010–11 Kellaway Concert Series benefited Schumann’s Quartet in E flat. Joe Conway, in his greatly from the wealth and high standard of mu- review entitled Candlelight Delight for the online sical talent contributed by St Catharine’s students, student newspaper TAB, remarked on the ‘mag- past and present. The range of the repertoire of- nificent musicality’ of Conrad Steel’s solos and fered something for everyone, with a mixture of ‘memorably beautiful playing’ from Fra Rustumji well-known classical pieces such as Chopin’s Im- and Imogen Tedbury on violin and viola respec- promptus as well as a little contemporary classi- tively. In summary, Mr Conway stated he was cal music and jazz. ‘charmed by the quiet dignity of the chapel … The first concert in Michaelmas Term fea- and by a delightful programme of early romantic tured the Mill Quartet, (St Catharine’s own or- chamber music … played by some of the most gan scholar, Freddie Brown (piano) and English accomplished young musicians around.’ student Conrad Steel (cello), along with two This year the Kellaway Series included a number other Cambridge students) in a performance of of excellent duo performances, again with signifi- cant contribution from St Catharine’s musicians. The Mill Quartet. Duo Figaro (alumnus Peter Mallinson (2005) (vi- ola) and Lucia d’Avanzo (violin) from the Royal Academy of Music) performed the rarely-heard Johann Wenzel Kalliwoda duet, Op.208/1, which proved to be a tuneful and witty excursion into the repertoire of a composer that music critic David Hurwitz described as the ‘symphonic miss- ing link between Beethoven and Schumann’. In Lent Term St Catharine’s undergraduate Rosie Breckon (piano) and fellow student and cellist Di- ana Statham performed Chopin’s Cello Sonata, Op.65, one of the last works to be published during Chopin’s lifetime and considered by some to demonstrate Chopin’s mature form of expres- sion. Returning to grace the Kellaway Series with another wonderful performance, Rosie Ventris selected the lesser-known (except in viola circles) Viola Sonata by Rebecca Clarke, accompanied by pianist Tom Blach. Prominent solo performances included pianist Kausikan Rajeshkumar, whose expressive flair for playing Chopin Impromptus was demonstrated in the supple way he treated the many embel- lishments and ornaments. Saxophonist alumnus Alastair Penman (2006) overcame temporal and instrumental divides by playing an arrangement of Bach’s Cello Suite, No.1 on the saxophone. The Hours: The Clerks. Conveniently this suite is written within a two and a half octave range, which fits into the stand- this year was The Hours, a twenty-four-hour col- ard range of the saxophone. Alastair handled lage of recorded sound and live performance de- the difficulties that often arise when performing vised by Jonathan Green and St Catharine’s Music these works on saxophone by dealing effectively Director Dr Edward Wickham. It began with Lu- with double stopping and finding natural points minaria, sung by St Catharine’s Girls’ Choir, and to breathe so as not to disturb the flow of the finished twenty-four hours later with a live con- music. The rest of his programme provided much cert of Taverner’s Missa Gloria Tibi Trinitas, sung entertainment, particularly Barry Cockroft’s Ku by the Clerks directed by Dr Wickham himself. Ku, a quirky piece that calls for the saxophonist During that period, we experienced performanc- to imitate an irate chicken! Adding variety to a es from a variety of choirs representing different predominantly classical concert series Sara Mitra faith groups, including Jewish, Hindu and Islamic (1999), a former choral scholar at St Catharine’s, singers – and a late-night Compline service at- returned to perform a mixture of jazz staples such tended by the most diverse congregation that the as Irving Berlin’s Cheek to Cheek and a selection chapel has perhaps ever seen. of original songs from her debut album, April Lydia Cracknell Song, released November 2010. The concert was well attended, with many commenting on the The Hours: Two players from Sangetha, an way the Chapel acoustics complemented ampli- ensemble made up of members of Cambridge fied romantic jazz. Sub-Organist of Westminster University Hindu Cultural Society and Cambridge Abbey, Robert Quinney, gave a wonderful organ University Indian Classical Arts Society. recital in Lent Term with a programme that in- cluded Bach Sonatas and Mendelssohn Preludes and Fugues, and which displayed the Chapel or- gan to good advantage. Finally a number of larger ensembles enabled concerts such as Contemporary Catz, organized by music student Andrew Hadfield in conjunction with the Kellaway Series, to make use of the Chap- el space and present some contemporary classical music, such as Reich’s Double Sextet. The piece requires the first part to be pre-recorded; this re- cording is then played back while the second part is performed live by the same sextet (see also the Music Society report in this Magazine). The finale St Catharine’s Magazine t 2011

St Catharine’s Lecture Series

The St Catharine’s Lecture Series (formerly on the lives of Gwen Raverat and Frances Corn- the Amalgamated Societies Lecture Series) was ford. Anne brought along a selection of books for proud to host an inspirational array of speakers perusal, and read extracts from Cornford’s poetry this academic year. Michaelmas Term opened books and Raverat’s Period Piece: A Cambridge with Dr John Shelton Reed and a talk entitled Childhood. Holy Smoke (drawn from research for his book of In May, Dr Jim McElwaine gave an eye-opening the same title), on the history of barbecue in the talk on The Dynamics of Avalanches. Dr McEl- American South. The talk gave an enlightening waine’s fascination with avalanches began when narration on the ritual, cultural and gastronomic he was buried by one during a climbing trip as traditions of barbecue, illustrating just how differ- an undergraduate. The lecture was accompanied ent the North Carolina barbecue is from our Eng- by some incredible footage of different types of lish ideas. Dr Reed brought a slideshow of images avalanches, as well as a video of an amazing ex- showing the development of global barbecue perimental study of avalanche behaviour, featur- practice, from the medieval hog roast through to ing a Japanese dry ski-slope and 550,000 ping- present-day American barbecue restaurants. pong balls. For the second event of the year, the Lecture The last event of the year was the Tom Henn Series and the College Law Society joint-hosted Memorial Lecture. This year we were very pleased alumnus Isabella Sankey (2004), now Director of to welcome Giles de la Mare, former director of Policy at Liberty (the National Council for Civil Faber & Faber and grandson of author and poet Liberties). She spoke of her experiences at Liberty Walter de la Mare. Giles gave a witty and touch- and of her views on the challenges facing funda- ing account of his 50 years working in publish- mental freedoms. ing, with many an anecdote and some valuable For the final lecture of Michaelmas, our own thoughts on the future of the industry. Dr Sriya Iyer gave a thought-provoking lecture on Sadly, this was also the last lecture for the Se- how economists think about religion. The event ries in its current format, and for its current com- summoned a good crowd, reflecting Dr Iyer’s mittee. The College regrets suspending the Series popularity and interest in the unavoidable ten- for the academic year 2011–12 due to pressure on sions between economics, politics and religion. space as a result of the building works associated The talk cast light on the ways in which some with the College Centre. It will, however, return of modern society’s approaches to religion in an in a new format the following year and, although economic context are still alarmingly archaic. the current committee will all have graduated, The first speaker of the Lent Term was Dr Jens we wish our successors the best of luck and hope Scherpe of Gonville and Caius, on Changing they enjoy their time on the Series as thoroughly One’s Legal Gender. The lecture offered an in- as we have done. We do intend to honour our triguing insight into the legal implications of not commitment to the Tom Henn Memorial Lecture only gender change but gender definition. It drew in 2011–12 if at all possible. Further details will a wide audience including lawyers and anthro- appear on the College website. pologists, and sparked much ongoing discussion Emma Wilson among members of the JCR. Retiring committee members: Anne Harvey gave the final lecture of Lent with Alexander Helliwell, Shir Li Fan, Thomas Sharp, Darwin’s Grand-daughters, a delightful reflection Emma Wilson.

32 Graduate Research Seminars

The graduate research seminar provides an op- Dictionary, and a Rebellion in China (See also portunity for our graduate students and research News of Members.) fellows to discuss their work before an astute and t
Jake Phillips, PhD student in Criminology: Pro- very friendly audience. Because this mixed audi- bation Officers and their successes ence includes not only expert insiders, but also intelligent and interested outsiders, this is also an Easter Term 2011 opportunity for speakers to hone their communi- t
Mark Ozawa, MSt student in International cation skills, and for the rest of us to be exposed to Relations: Trust and European-Russian Energy unfamiliar problems, methodologies and theories. Trade: The Case of Natural Gas Partnerships t
Sundeep Lidher, PhD student in History: Col- Michaelmas Term 2010 oured Colonials in Britain: The evolution of t
Alexander Wragge-Morley, PhD student in immigration policy in Britain 1945–62 History and Philosophy of Science: Ethics and the early Royal Society Musical luncheons t
Hamish Yeung, PhD student in Materials Sci- A complementary series of informal graduate ence: Inorganic-organic frameworks: from gas- musical luncheons also took place for the second tronomy to gas storage year. The nature of the music is heterogeneous, t
Sunil Purushotham, PhD student in History: reflecting the disparate tastes and talents of the The Camp and the Citizen: Origins of Postco- graduate community of St Catharine’s. The format lonial Sovereignty in India is informal: everyone curious is welcome to drift in t
Nick Long, Research Fellow in Anthropology: or out (so long as the drifting is reasonably quiet). Provincializing Success As with the seminars, performances are held in the SCR with lunch, soft drinks and wine laid on. Lent Term 2011 In November 2010, Owen Holland (unplugged t
Professor Gary Libecap, Pitt Professor of Amer- in so many ways!) addressed the folk tradition ican History and Institutions: The Tragedy of with voice and guitar. In February 2011, Niamh the Commons Gallagher played Irish fiddle accompanied by t
Owen Vaughan, PhD student in Physiology, Lucy DeLap on the small pipes. In May 2011, Development & Neurosciences: The Placenta: Andrew Hansford (piano) played Haydn’s So- Not Just Afterbirth? nata in B minor, Debussy’s ‘Bruyères’ (No.5 from t
Wei Kang Tchou, PhD student in Chinese ‘Préludes’ Book 2) and an improvisation on vari- Studies: Robert Morrison: a Translator, his ous Gershwin songs.

News from the JCR

The JCR is a place for people to learn about the Chan made ‘Tea and Coffee’ even more popu- representation of interests and at the same time lar this year, and their massage programme was a major provider of services in College. These are hugely successful. Daniel Balding is filling the the responsibility of the JCR committee, and I newly created position of Sports and Societies Of- have had the pleasure of working with the out- ficer. His efforts earned record turnouts for Cup- going committee in Michaelmas 2010, and the pers Volleyball and Crocquet in busy Easter Term new committee in 2011. and plans to get all freshers signed up for sports Our new Welfare Officers Max Levine and Ellie early next Michaelmas are already in place. Even

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The Garden Party at St Chad’s.

though it will be hard to make an already excellent rent review that previous committees had been Freshers Week even better, Sarah-Beth Neville‘s working on, and made rents in College fairer; Amy and Nic Lowden’s plans for next year look very Chichester, as Treasurer, played a key role in this promising. Ben Davies took over from Heather success. Josh Weston took over as Vice-President Dixon as Facilities Officer and he has been help- and has been on the JCR committee for three ing out with many events and organised a coffee years now, previously as Access Officer. Without machine for next year’s JCR. His work will become his help and insight many of the activities the JCR even more important next year as the College organises would be impossible. The efforts of all Centre is built. We keep Becca Roberts as our committee members are rewarded with the grati- Green Officer, who improved the recycling system tude of the student body. in the library significantly this year. Charlie Cady- We thank College and in particular the Master, would stayed on the committee as External Of- the Senior Tutor, the Senior Bursar, the Dean, Pro- ficer and is representing Catz to CUSU. We ended fessor Gordon, the Porters, the Junior Bursar, the the academic year with a splendid party in Chad’s Librarian and Kathy Malley for all their support. Garden, smoothly organised by Alex Hunter and On a personal note, I wish to thank both commit- Ravi Shah, our Ents Officers. Hopefully, this will tees and the previous JCR President, Ben Lewis, become a major event every year after being such for the great time I had working with them. a roaring success. This year we finished the room Walter Mair, President

34 News from the MCR

The past year has seen graduate students join- evening and provided the perfect setting for a ing St Catharine’s from all over the world and photograph on main court. Summer formals were we wanted them to feel as welcome as ourselves popular in 2010, so they will be repeated in 2011. when we first arrived. To that end, we began Aside from the social aspects and event-plan- the year with a great variety of social events in ning, we also tried to integrate with the JCR this Freshers Week. Building on the good work of last year with a view to improving undergraduate- year’s committee, the Dean again allowed the graduate relations. As building begins on the new graduates to hold a Freshers Week bop. Along College Centre complex this summer, we wanted with the games night in the newly refurbished to ensure good communication existed between Russell Street accommodation and the Parent- JCR and MCR as space now has to be shared. Child formal dinner, this event was one of the With the old bar demolished, the graduates of- best received during the week. fered the use of the MCR as the interim bar. As a Following Freshers Week, we kept the gradu- result, the College agreed to provide the gradu- ates entertained with a fancy dress Halloween bop ates with a newly refurbished MCR the following in the College bar which was well attended and year. Another consequence of the building work brought out some amazing costumes. Michaelmas was a postponement of the biannual May Ball, Term ended with the Christmas Formal, a brass which was scheduled to take place in the summer band played Christmas carols throughout the din- of 2012. To offer the students some sort of May ner which was very well received. Post-prandially, Week entertainment, the JCR, MCR and College a swing band performed in the bar attracting even staff agreed on a St Catharine’s June Event. Con- the most reluctant dancers to the floor. During tinued good relations with the Senior Bursar, Si- Lent Term, graduates were invited to our annual mon Summers, allowed for fruitful co-operation Burns Night formal, with a ceilidh in the hall after- when discussing next year’s room rents, resulting wards. This year, Niamh Gallagher, our then social in the minimum necessary increase. secretary, performed with her band for the event. As we hand over to a very enthusiastic new As Lent came to a close, we introduced a new committee, we reflect back on what we hope was formal dinner to the MCR calendar on St Patrick’s a great year for every graduate student in Col- Day – after the themed dinner, a bop all in green lege. We are very happy to be a part of the grad- for our students to enjoy in the bar. We began uate community of this College, which has a well- the final academic term of the year with the Easter deserved reputation as one of the most pleasant formal, followed by music and dancing in the bar. in Cambridge. Moreover, being able to contribute The middle of June saw our yearly Midsummer to the collegiate atmosphere of Cambridge has Dinner, for which a funk band played in the bar made this year particularly special for us. after dinner. The lovely weather made for a great Tom Ashmore and Sophie Lappe, Presidents

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Societies Amnesty Economics Society Over the course of this year the Catz Amnesty Interna- The Annual Dinner of the Economics Society has become a tional group has met regularly to write letters on behalf successful feature of College life and in February 2011 the of individuals, communities and organisations at risk. pre-dinner talk was given by John Horam (1957, Fellow Writing letters has been shown to be an effective form of Commoner 2010), himself a St Catharine’s economist, a action as, combined with others from around the world, former Member of Parliament and Government Minister, these letters place international pressure upon officials and now Chair of the Alumni Society. John called his talk and can lead to significant improvements in the situa- It’s the economy, stupid after the slogan used by James tions of victims of human rights abuses. We have also Carville, ex-President Clinton’s campaign manager during had a number of film showings in order to raise awareness his successful run for the Presidency of the USA. John’s of, and engagement with, human rights issues amongst theme was that a lot of politics was actually about eco- members of the College. Catz Amnesty members have nomics, which meant that economics was not only impor- also taken part in events organized by the University Am- tant, but it was vital that it be taught well, and that econo- nesty group, including the ‘cage’ protests. In Michael- mists addressed the big political issues. He was concerned mas, this protest was on behalf of prisoners of conscience that economics had become too abstruse, too mathemati- in Burma, including Aung San Suu Kyi, who was later cal and too divorced from the big public issues. To illus- released. In Lent we were campaigning for the release trate this he compared the University Economics Tripos of Shaker Aamer, the last British resident in Guantana- when he took his Finals (1960) with today. Then there mo Bay, who has been detained without charge or trial was much more history and much less mathematics. He for nine years. Catz Amnesty members have also been pointed out that one of the great Cambridge economists, involved with organising a number of events within the Alfred Marshall, had defined economics as ‘the study of University, such as a talk by journalist Andy Worthing- human behaviour in the ordinary business of life’. A scien- ton about the future for those continuing to be detained tific approach could only take you so far; it was important without charge at Guantanamo Bay. I’d like to offer my to study economic history. John also pointed out that the great appreciation and thanks to all those who have been leading Cambridge economists of his day – Meade, Kaldor, involved with Amnesty at Catz this year, for their hard Silberston, Matthews, Vaizey, Berrill – had been very much work, time and commitment. involved with public policy issues. He had sat round a ta- Rep: Alice Robinson ble in the Cabinet Office with Sir Kenneth Berrill (Fellow 1950–62, Bursar 1953–62, Honorary Fellow 1974–2009). Chess John was therefore strongly in favour of the plan, outlined This was a successful year for the revitalised Catz Chess, in a recent Catharine Wheel, for the establishment of a allowing two competitive teams. I again captained the St Catharine’s Centre for Economics and Public Policy. The first team, which managed this year to reach the quarter College had a strong economics tradition and this would finals of Cuppers, and is currently 2nd in the extremely build on it in a fruitful way. In questions, there was gen- competitive second division. The second team captained eral support for John’s views from Fellows, postgraduates by Alexi proved to be a good base for chess enthusiasts and undergraduates. Subsequently the need to reform the who wished to gain experience and they enjoyed some teaching of economics was raised by a prominent econo- good results throughout the year. Though the year start- mist, Roger Bootle, the managing director of Capital Eco- ed with a painful thrashing by the City III team made up nomics, in his column in the Daily Telegraph. of three players who were younger than 14, the Catz team were able to turn things around. Notable victories Entrepreneurs Society over Clare, St John’s and Caius really boosted the morale This is the first year of the Society’s existence and, to my of the team, and, at the time of writing, promotion pos- knowledge, it is the only college-based society of its kind sibilities still remain open. With the departure of many in the University. Despite its infancy, the Society has sur- Chess regulars at the end of this year I hope the Catz passed original expectations and the uptake of what we Chess team will continue to grow and hopefully one day have to offer has been most pleasing. We have some am- match Trinity I and Churchill I in terms of performance. bitious plans for next academic year already in place. Next years captains, Adam Kirton and Adam Wright, The Society aims to provide a student hub to inspire, made significant contributions this year. As the departing support and connect students of St Catharine’s. We aim president, I would like to thank everyone who contrib- to inspire a new generation of business leaders, and of- uted to Chess this year and in the past. fer industry insights to support students’ career choices. President: Arun Jayapaul The focus has not just been on entrepreneurship per se, but also developing students’ knowledge of various

36 PhotoSoc: Zlin, Czech Republic, by Tom Juric (2nd year Engineering student). sectors and related skill-sets. We have done this by run- Fairtrade Society ning workshops and talks offering access to a network As the first officially Fairtrade Cambridge College, Catz of resources that will hopefully provide students of the has a long history of supporting the fairtrade cause. Fair- College with skills and also connect them with industry trade is so easy to support, and makes a massive differ- professionals, College alumni and firms. This year we ence to the lives of producers around the world. have hosted talks from PwC, RBS, Bentley Motors, Pin- This year we have hosted a broad range of activities, sent Masons and Catz alumni Peter Chapman (1989), including some exciting new events. We have contin- Richard Nicholls (1984), and Daniella Betts (1996). It is ued and expanded our weekly fairtrade stall; including particularly enjoyable to welcome back past students of special Valentine’s Day gifts which proved very popular. the College who have a depth of commercial experience Hall has also expanded its range of fairtrade goods. In as discussions often follow about their times at Catz and Michaelmas, we held our first ever fairtrade fair, sell- career paths thereafter; we also invite them to dine with ing a selection of fairtrade Christmas gifts and serv- us at Formal Hall after the event as a thank-you, no doubt ing complimentary fairtrade wine and desserts. This providing opportunity for some reminiscing. event was very well attended, and all donations went Next academic year we plan to continue with our lecture to CatzSAFE. series (I encourage you to get in contact if you feel that you Lent term brought Fairtrade Fortnight, an internation- could work with us in some capacity, however small), and al fortnight set aside for promoting fairtrade activities. also to launch the ‘Catz Entrepreneur of the Year’ Award. For this, we decorated the bar with fairtrade bunting, The latter involves a competition whereby we hand out £5 and held a Fairtrade Film Night to watch Black Gold, a to a maximum of 30 applicants who then compete, within documentary about coffee farming in Ethiopia. Our most a short timeframe, to see who can turn their £5 into the successful event was the sell-out Fairtrade Formal which greatest sum. The winner will then be crowned with the marked the end of Fairtrade Fortnight – it was a fantastic title and receive a monetary prize. Hopefully this will bring night, with delicious food and a great atmosphere. Watch out the enterprising talent of the College’s students. out for next year’s event, and the return of our mouth- President: Jack Williams watering fairtrade chocolate pudding.

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The Fairtrade Society thanks all those who came to our compelling talk on the Natural History of the Teenager, events, and who have worked so hard to facilitate them. arguing that this is the developmental stage that sets hu- Please continue to look out for the stall outside hall, and mans apart from our animal relatives. The academic year come along to our events. concluded with a very well attended ‘garden’ party, in the Rep Miriam Knights Lower Octagon, which saw the committee transformed into a catering company for the morning. Film Society In Michaelmas we welcomed the freshers with the first The Society’s focus has remained ensuring a balance be- ever John Ray JamboRAY. Despite the questionable pun, tween popular blockbusters and more niche indie and the evening’s offerings of cheese, wine and a second hand foreign films. In any case, it remains as ever the task of book sale went down well. This was closely followed by a the Society to show as many different kinds of film as talk from Professor Arnoldus Blix, a visiting academic from possible, and to show at least some films which would the University of Tromsø, Norway, who discussed Arctic otherwise not be easily available to the students. animals and their adaptations. It was a real pleasure to Showings this year have ranged from the hugely host Professor Blix given that he is a world leader in his popular The Hangover and Kick-Ass, through to more field, and his talk was peppered by personal anecdotes low-key fare such as The Devil’s Backbone and Princess and photos of the animals in question, ranging from the Mononoke. The year ended with a short series of upbeat cute and furry to the horrifically gory. Michaelmas con- films during Exam Term, including the recent Toy Story cluded on a high with a talk from Dr Nick Lane, who dis- 3. Overall, it has been a hugely successful year for the cussed the origins of complex life on Earth. We were espe- society, with high attendance to most films, and a large cially lucky to have Dr Lane this year, his talk being closely amount of interest from both undergraduate and post- preceded by the announcement that he was the winner of graduate members of the College, particularly the new the 2010 Royal Society popular science book of the year first year students. This was Dom & Mikey’s final year award for his recent best-seller Life Ascending. leading the Society, and it will be taken over by Rosie Lent term saw us welcoming Dr Fatima Santos, the Howard-Williams & Mo Nagdy from next Michaelmas, College’s new Fellow in developmental biology, who who hope to show more foreign and horror films (and introduced us to her research in epigenetics in a wide- presumably some foreign horror!). ranging talk that was of interest to novices and specialists Presidents: Dominic Preston and Mikey Walker alike. At the Society’s annual dinner we had the pleasure of handing the presidency over to Georgie Ward and Isa- Hyperbolics bel Gibson. The year culminated with the post-exam gar- This year has been very successful for the Hyperbolics. Af- den party. We are certain they will continue John Ray’s ter an unusually high intake of freshers studying maths in success and wish them the best of luck for next year. 2010, the society has grown much larger. There have been Presidents: Faye Rodgers, Josh Weston and Claire Simon several social events in each term, including the annual pub lunch in Freshers Week, followed by a tour of the Centre Medical Society for Mathematical Sciences for the new students. Lent Term It has been an exciting year for Catz Medsoc! The new 2011 saw the first of a planned series of lectures by Part III website (www.catzmedsoc.web.officelive.com) has been and PhD students about their areas of interest and research a great success with over 2000 visits over exam period topics. This was very successful with a high attendance, alone. We have provided academic resources such as past and we hope to continue to hold such events next year. The papers and essay plans, and also included information Hyperbolics Annual Dinner also took place in Lent 2011, about the course and upcoming events. Thank you to where the new committee was elected for the society. We the people who have contributed material to the website were also joined by several alumni (who spoke at the din- already. We hope it will continue to be helpful to future ner) and Fellows, making it a very enjoyable evening. East- Catz medics and vets. er Term saw us host a garden party to celebrate the end of The annual dinner took place in March with speakers exams. We hope to be able to continue to hold social and Tim Greet, an equine surgeon from Newmarket, and Oliver academic events which will develop the knowledge of the Wiseman, a consultant urologist form Addenbrokes. As al- maths students at St Catharine’s in the coming years, and ways it was a memorable event with talks covering medical we look forward to another successful year. and veterinary topics followed by an excellent dinner. Thank President: Jenna Pearce you to the speakers for fascinating talks and to Professor John Pickard for kindly funding the pre-dinner drinks. John Ray Society Other events this year include the pub crawl in Freshers This year has seen the John Ray Society go from Week, a Medsoc formal, the Christmas Party, the Elec- strength to strength. In Easter Term 2010 we welcomed tives Evening, the Part II Options Evening and the end-of- St Catharine’s own Dr David Bainbridge, who gave a year Medsoc Garden Party. There has also been some new

38 PhotoSoc: Sunlit Study, by Emma Wilson (2nd year English student).

Medsoc stash using the Medsoc logo designed last year. some who have never performed in public before. With It is our pleasure to announce the incoming Medsoc its success in encouraging more members of College to be presidents: Joshua Bleakley and Becky Ollerenshaw. We involved in music, I hope the Chill in the Chapel recital have thoroughly enjoyed our time as presidents and we series continues to flourish. wish Josh and Becky all the best for next year. Good luck Contemporary Catz, a contemporary music group to those leaving sixth year and to those beginning clini- formed last year directed by Andrew Hadfield (3rd year cal school! music), presented an ambitious concert in Lent Term. The Presidents: Lydia Kerridge and Tom Seddon highlight was Reich’s Double Sextet, performed in Britain for only the second time. For this piece, the ensemble Music Society hired out Churchill’s recording studio to put together a Over the last few years, St Catharine’s College Music Soci- backing track (1st sextet) which was then played back in ety has gone from strength to strength. Last year, besides concert with live music over the top (2nd sextet). With the traditional concerts, we staged an opera and a musi- fast driving rhythms all the way through, this project took cal, both composed by students, making it a very hard many weeks to put together. Alongside this in the same year to follow. However, the Music Society has continued concert was a new sextet by Andrew Hadfield which re- to grow, putting on more events, including more perform- ceived its premiere. Due to the success of the concert, ers and attracting larger audiences than ever before! the ensemble was asked to repeat it at one of the Kettle’s In its second year, the Chill in the Chapel recitals have Yard recitals – to a second sell-out audience. become a large and popular event. The organisers, Grace Over the last year the College orchestra has per- Bayley and Rosie Breckon, persuaded musicians of what- formed three concerts. At the end of Michaelmas there ever standard, instrument or style to perform to an audi- was a rather festive Christmas concert with mince pies ence that averaged well over 50 people. With everybody and mulled wine. Despite this event being at the end relaxing in the chapel on beanbags and cushions, and of November, well over 120 people came to sing carols with hot chocolate being served, these popular, infor- and listen to pieces such as Delius’s Sleigh Ride and the mal events have included a large number of performers, Vaughan-Williams Fantasy on Greensleeves.

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In Lent Term the orchestra joined forces with Pembroke In a final note, thanks should be given to vice-presi- College orchestra to put on an ambitious programme dent Lydia Cracknell (3rd year music), who did a sterling which included Danse Macabre by Saint-Saens and the job behind the scenes to make sure that everything ran Symphony No. 8 in E minor, The New World, by Dvorak. smoothly. Saloni de Souza (4th year philosophy) and Josh The whole concert took place in Pembroke chapel con- Granshaw (4th year engineer) put a huge amount of work ducted by Andrew Hadfield. The event was something into making sure that each event was sufficiently supplied of an accomplishment and was very well attended; it will with food and drink. Josh also ran the website. hopefully lead to opportunities for similar big works to be I have really enjoyed being president this past year, as performed in the future. well as treasurer before that. I am really proud of the Mu- Unfortunately, the fun May Week Concert had to take sic Society and hope that in future it remains as important place indoors this year due to heavy rain. However, this to College life as it is now. It has been hard work at times, did not dampen the spirits of the performers who to- especially on concert days, but I have received lots of help gether helped to create one of the best-sounding such from the committee. I wish Rosie Breckon, the new presi- concerts for a number of years. With a range of music dent, all the best for next year! from Abba to Les Miserables, William Tell Overture President: Andrew Hadfield to Pomp and Circumstance, there was music to suit all tastes. Once again Andrew Hadfield conducted, but SAFE (St Catharine’s College Southern African shared the role with Rosie Breckon (2nd year music) and Fund for Education) Sally Bridgewater (3rd year music) neither of whom had CatzSAFE is a College charity that raises money to sup- ever conducted before. SCATZ, a non-auditioned choir, port educational programmes in Africa. All the money also took to the stage under the direction of Tom Sharp that we donate is raised from our own fundraising in Col- (2nd year law) and Sean Dingley (MMus), to perform lege and kind donations from certain College groups. This some Disney songs such as the Bare Necessities. Despite year we have run bake sales, and raised charitable dona- having to take place in the Main Hall the atmosphere tions from the May Week concert and Fairtrade Formal. was still great with almost 200 people being crammed The Chapel Donations Fund and the JCR have also kindly in. The event also raised £180 for the College charity, donated significant amounts of money. Next Michaelmas, CatzSAFE. we are planning to hold a raffle and a series of sponsored

PhotoSoc: St Vitus’ Cathedral, Prague, by Tom Jurik (2nd year Engineering student).

40 activities, as well as more of our delicious bake sales. my mind. Though not reviewed by any of the University We try to support a range of charities, some we have newspapers, we had a great deal of positive feedback supported for many years, others are new to us. In from those who came to see the play, and it’s certainly Michaelmas we donated the money which was raised in something I will look back on in future years with a feel- 2009–10, donating £1200, including £400 each to Ceci- ing of pride. ly’s Fund and to the African Prisons Project. This latter The other play the Shirley Players put on this year was charity was set up by a British student who spent his gap Henna Night by Amy Rosenthal, a short play following year volunteering in Luzira Prison, Uganda, and works the conversation of two women: Judith and Ros. Judith to improve conditions in Ugandan prisons. Our dona- leaves Jack, her ex-boyfriend, a desperate message on tion went to support the foundation of a ‘Condemned his answer phone informing him that she has just bought Orchestra’, which allowed prisoners facing the death sen- a packet of henna and some razor blades, and, depend- tence to learn a musical instrument, in an attempt to en- ing on her mood the next day, she will either slash her courage the government to abolish the death sentence. wrists or dye her hair. What’s more, she says, she might This year (2010–11) we are once again donating £1200 be pregnant. But it is Ros, Jack’s new partner, who hears to three different charities. the message, and it’s she who rushes to Judith’s bedsit. CatzSAFE thanks all those who have donated money – The play is witty and touching and disarmingly real in every penny goes to a good cause. We would very much places, and I loved performing it alongside Ellen Lickman. like to continue increasing the total amount we donate As it was a May Week show, it was beset by all the usual each year – so please come and support our events next problems – a lack of rehearsal time, other commitments, year! and, ultimately, a poor turn out on the audience front. Rep: Miriam Knights It’s never fun to feel your hard work has been a waste or isn’t appreciated, but putting this play on was one of the Shirley Players highlights of my year – I would urge anyone to see it, or It has been something of a difficult year for the Shirley at least read it. Players, though ultimately a rewarding one. After initial Over all, my time as president of the Shirley Players has difficulties securing performance rights for our annual been a lot of hard work, but I think I, and all those in- Fresher’s Play, it was finally staged in Easter Term of 2011. volved with the Society, have got at least as much out of it Scary Play was one of those written in 2007 for that as we’ve put in, if not more. I hope whoever takes up the year’s National Theatre New Connections cycle, which mantle next year has as fantastic a year as I have had. advertises itself as ‘new plays for young people’. When I President: Anna Delves told people the name of the play, I was frequently asked whether I had written it – flattering, (though that honour Shirley Society belongs to Judith Johnson), but also refreshing to be di- A large audience of students and academics enjoyed recting something so new that it was unheard of. The ac- an evening with the poet Christopher Reid who read tion follows ten-year-old Kal and his mates (Mal, Ro, Tilly from his award-winning collection A Scattering and an- and Boff) during a sleep-over round Kal’s to celebrate his swered questions on his poetry and life in writing. The birthday. As the night draws in, the kids indulge in an age literary show-and-tells continued, and students from old pastime: scaring the living daylights out of each other. St Catharine’s and beyond have been keen to share their Kal tells the story of a local house, said to be haunted by favourite passages and own writing under a given theme. the ghost of a man who once lived there with his age- A key element of the Society has been its creative writ- ing mother and his pet monkey. As a boy, Kal’s Dad and ing magazine, Volta, which is edited by Zeljka Marosevic, his mates snuck into the very same house, only to come and is always hand-made and produced in a limited edi- screaming out again when they found something abso- tion run. At the beginning of the year, the second edition, lutely terrifying in the upstairs bedroom. Kal challenges under the theme ‘Art’ was launched with great success. his friends to do the same, and with varying degrees of A piece of art-work in itself, the magazine was illustrated reluctance, they disappear into the night. Unfortunately, by Emma Smith (2nd Year English) and featured poetry, I can’t use that little synopsis to encourage you to see prose and essays written by St Catharine’s students and our performance, but I can tell you how thoroughly I – students from other colleges. The third issue has just been and everyone else involved (I hope!) – enjoyed the ex- launched, with the theme ‘Questions’; once again, the perience. I was very lucky to be working with a talented editor was pleased and impressed by the large number of group of actors – Peter Blair, Ellie Chan, Amy Chichester, submissions and the enthusiasm for participation in the Elly Flanagan, Rebecca Park, Joe Harper, Adam Kirton, Shirley Society’s projects. The magazine launch included Alice Robinson, Amber Thiara and Salome Wagaine – readings, videos of which we intend to put on the soci- talented not only as actors, but in their ability to adapt ety’s blog www.theshirleysociety.blogspot.com. to changes of venue, script, and, on various occasions, Presidents: Zeljka Marosevic and Eliot D’Silva

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Steers Society The highlight of the Steers Society calendar was, as The 2009–10 end of year Garden Party was held on a ever, the Annual Dinner in which we were fortunate sunny afternoon in the gardens of Chads. A number of enough to welcome back Harvey McGrath (1971, Fellow Fellows attended and it was a perfect afternoon in which Commoner) as our guest. Mr McGrath is currently Chair- the first Steers Society Sports Day was born, with wheel- man of Prudential plc and Chair of the London Develop- barrow racing and other fun-packed games. I hope eve- ment Agency, and his speech emphasised the applicabil- ryone is still treasuring their medals! ity of Geography to any career and the possibilities that At the beginning of the academic year 2010–11 we are out there to be explored. We thank Mr McGrath for met up with the new intake of fresher Geographers and coming back to dine with us and his inspiring speech. took them for lunch as well as a social evening bowling, At the dinner Natalie and I passed on our titles to the in which everyone’s competitive nature came out. A dis- new president and social secretary, Ellen Slack and Holly sertation information evening was also given to the sec- Garnett respectively. We wish them all the best in the ond years by the current third years to get them to start future and thank everyone for a brilliant year to be part thinking about areas of interest and to provide people to of the Steers Society. talk to within that area. President: David Duhig, Social Secretary: Natalie Cox

Sports clubs Association Football the debutants settled, we managed to score four without Catz first team, having lost several key players from a reply. Two goals coming from the energetic Dan Balding squad that narrowly avoided relegation the previous year, and one apiece from John Fitzpatrick and Gideon Barth were always going to find the new season difficult. After sealed the win and ended the season on a high. heavy losses to Emma and Homerton early on, perform- Even though the season wasn’t a good one by Catz ances steadily improved as the new-look team started to standards, there were several players who deserve a find its feet. A difficult draw in Cuppers against last-year- special mention. Franco Ewbank who kept us in games finalists Downing followed. In a hard-fought game with countless times with some great saves – a vocal presence few chances for either side, it looked as though the game in goal who marshalled our often makeshift back four was going to extra time, but two well-taken late goals expertly when regular centre back Joe Kirk was injured. from Downing knocked us out. After such a good per- Brendan Moroney who worked tirelessly each and every formance it was a big blow, especially given Catz excel- game and really led by example. Constantly disrupting lent previous record in Cuppers. opposition attacks, Brendan was a nightmare to play The following week, the team made amends and against and his consistent performances meant he was bounced back with a great win against Fitz. After going the deserving winner of the player-of-the-season award. down to an early goal, a man-of-the-match performance Another player, Darcy, has seamlessly made the transi- from Brendan Moroney inspired a Catz comeback. Goals tion from the kitchen to centre forward. In his first season from Charlie Cadywould and two from Darcy (the new with SCCAFC, he has led the line strongly and, despite Simmo – see Staff News in the 2010 Magazine) capped limited service, ended up our leading goal scorer. off a wonderful display where Catz looked assured in Captain: George Hill possession and tough in defence. Frustratingly, there wasn’t another game where everything came together Athletics quite as well. Too often Catz started strongly only to fade Michaelmas 2010 saw a fresh supply of talent enter the away towards the end of the game and concede costly Catz Athletics squad, with a rag-tag team of ‘have-a-go’, late goals. In the end, despite a brave last push for sur- ‘specialist’ and ‘annoyingly good at everything’ members vival, we couldn’t do enough and were relegated. Our from all years turning up to do their bit for the wheel – final game of the season was against Girton who were and what an effort! Those of you who have ever been a also to be relegated. Knowing that losing would mean fin- part of a Cuppers athletics competition may know how ishing bottom of the League, there was still pride to play things generally work, but for those who haven’t had the for. That said, the game was played on the morning after pleasure it goes like this… a lively SCCAFC annual dinner and, with several regular Whilst one might love to have a couple of specialists in first team players unavailable, first caps were awarded to every event, it’s never going to happen. Instead teams of- many of the squad that day. We got off to a poor start ten rely on the efforts of College members willing to give when centre-back turned goalkeeper Joe Kirk was beaten up part of their day just to come down, have a go and try at his near post. However, once the collective nerves of to leach every point possible. In this way, the difference

42 between placing top and coming last can boil down to College spirit and unity. And which College do you know with more of those than our very own? Unfortunately a reality of being at Cambridge Univer- sity is the academic work and, even at the beginning of term, it can sometimes force people to drop out on the day. It’s unfortunate, but no one is to blame. This was the case for most of the female team resulting in a squad of only two – Jemima Lane and Eleanor Flanagan. But the latter of this pair turned out to be rather nifty on the field, being beaten in the high jump and long jump only by the University women’s captain, and putting an equally solid PhotoSoc: Stairway to Heaven, Portugal, by effort in the triple jump (as did Ms Lane). Thus Elly was Tom Jurik (2nd year Engineering student). taken to a higher plane and now trains with the CUAC (of which she has recently been elected secretary). Although Balding, Owen Drage, Daniel Caplain, Dave Allwood, Nic the girls competed in only three events, they managed to Lowden and James Taylor – as well as to Richard Brown secure a stunning 6th place for Catz out of the 17 Col- who blitzed the 400m, being beaten only by a Blues run- leges competing! ner, Miles Horn who came 2nd in 800m, Oliver Diestal For the men, however, numbers were not quite such an who valiantly took on the gruelling 5k race, and Josh issue (although we could always have done with more). Radvan who came straight to the track from the National This year we have been rather fortunate to have two Pentathlon Championships to compete in a spectacular world class athletes as freshers – Christian Preece, a GB final 4x100m relay, seeing a fantastic end to the com- duathlete (cycling and running), and Josh Radvan, a GB petition. When all points were calculated we came 2nd, biathlete (swimming and running) who won the World only 6 points behind King’s. This difference, I am told by Championships in Michaelmas Term! Both these two per- Dr Thorne, was almost entirely due to the bonus points formed excellently in their events (1st in 1500m and 2nd in earned by the Blues decathlete captain of King’s. Gut- 3000m respectively). As emphasised above, doing well in ting as this may be, the performance overall remains the this game is not just about the few talented individuals in a greatest effort I have ever seen from a Catz athletics select few events, but relies on having people compete in squad and I think we can expect great things in the future the full range. In only four events did no Catz member take from the men’s team. part and in every other we performed exceptionally, often It was equally successful for the girls with Elly leading having to take on numerous University squad athletes in a strong women’s team also to a well deserved 2nd place, the process, and sometimes actually beating them! falling only to Newnham (which both the multi-eventing In the end Catz placed 3rd overall behind the mighty CUAC athletics captain and president represent). Again King’s athletics squad (1st) and Peterhouse (2nd), the lat- Catz managed to field a massive team with many mem- ter of whom on the day outnumbered us in the stadium, bers staying throughout the day to compete and support. demonstrating that quantity is as formidable an oppo- Indeed we received praise from the organising body for nent as quality. Many names could be mentioned for the tremendous effort and size of our squad. Special commendation, but four rise to the top: David Allwood, mentions go to Hannah Darcy who ran over 7.5 km in Sebby Barfoot and Nicholas Camps for staying the entire several events throughout the day’s competition, and to day to compete in four events each, despite being a water Becky Hulbert and Emily Brady who came straight from polo player, gymnast and crazy Frenchman respectively, Cuppers water polo to compete in many events. and Owen Drage, a fresher whose 2nd place perform- Finally it gives me great pleasure to announce that the ance in high jump earned him a spot on the University Victor Ludorum Cup for 2010–11 was awarded to Owen team and who subsequently took first place in the Alver- Drage for his high jumping exploits. I have no doubt that stone-Centipedes (second team Varsity) match. we will take what we have achieved this year and con- The Easter Term competition however was on a com- tinue to rise in strength, numbers and enthusiasm and I pletely different level to that of Michaelmas! In the gents’ look forward to seeing a Catz team on top next year. team we saw two athletes (the maximum allowed to Captain: Seb Barfoot score) in every event apart from the hammer throw. In fact in some events there was such enthusiasm to com- Boat Club (Men) pete that three athletes were entered, effectively com- The 2010–11 campaign was one of the most successful peting against each other in a bid to score the points for in living memory for the men’s boat club, culminating in Catz. Special mention again goes to those individuals both the 1st and 2nd VIIIs winning their blades in the who competed in multiple events – Jamie Salter, Daniel May Bumps.

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The year, as always, started slowly, with the main em- With the Lent disappointments in mind, the squad be- phasis on recruiting a new troop of talented and enthusi- gan the Easter Term with a renewed focus. This made a astic novices. Under the guidance of lower boat captains difference to the racing performances, with the 1st VIII Alex Booth and Will Graham, the squad prepared for immediately asserting themselves as one of the fastest Fairbairns, only for this to be in vain when a frozen river crews on the river, following a 3rd place finish in Champs caused it to be shifted by five hours, rendering half of the Head (rowed into a 35mph gale) and a dominant four- squad unavailable. A heroic organisational effort meant an length victory over LMBC in the 99s Regatta final. De- VIII was still fielded, but it was a completely scratch crew spite all the distraction from exams, confidence was high and hence came in far down the order in 48th place. across the board heading into May Bumps. The men’s senior squad spent the term laying the The 3rd VIII were looking to reverse a run in which they foundations for the year with extensive gym training in had fallen 13 places in just 4 years. This was emphatically the new College facilities. This was complemented with achieved with a quick bump on First and Third IV on the some water training, including sending a top IV to Fours’ first day. Whilst this was followed by a bump by Clare III Head on the Thames, and producing a senior VIII capable on the third day, two strong row-overs allowed the crew of a creditable performance in the Winter Head, and a to stay level, stopping the rot. A solid performance by a top-ten finish in the rescheduled senior Fairbairns race crew who had only managed two outings in the final line- in January. up prior to day one! Lent Term was a case of what could have been. Early The 2nd VIII were bolstered by the return of two fel- indications were very promising, with the 1st VIII coming lows, Dr Wothers and Dr McElwaine, to join Dr Scales 4th in the Newnham Short Course and 3rd in the Robin- and two 1st VIII returners for their campaign. Their his- son Head, and the 2nd VIII coming 3rd and 5th respec- tory was even worse than that of M3, down 14 in four tively in the second divisions. years, but this left the crew in a low enough position to The 3rd VIII, despite competing only once before strike. First and Third III were downed just before Grassy bumps, produced a gutsy row into a large headwind Corner, with LMBC III following in the same place on day to become the first Catz M3 crew in Lent Bumps since two. Selwyn II resisted a little longer, being hit on the 2003. They followed this up with bumps of Jesus IV and entrance to Ditton, before Emmanuel II offered no re- Downing III, and narrowly missing out on an overbump sistance on the final day, with M2 bumping in the gut on Queens’ IV which would have brought them a per- to secure their first blades since 2003 in a stylish fashion. manent place on the river. However, this was a very The 1st VIII had narrowly missed out on blades in promising performance from a crew composed mainly of 2010, but had already shown their relative pace com- first-year rowers. pared to the crews around them. Led by Captain of Boats The 2nd VIII followed up their head race success with Harry Moss, and welcoming back returning Blue Dan Rix- victory over two crews a division above them at Pembroke Standing and Goldie Josh Pendry, they showed the 99s Regatta before succumbing to the eventual winners in the result was no fluke by bumping LMBC into Grassy Corner quarter-finals. This pace was carried into the Lents, dis- on day one, a very quick bump for the top of the first patching Girton II and LMBC III in less than 90 seconds in division. Jesus made them work a little harder on day two, the first two days. However, a heartbreaking row on the the bump being made on the exit of Ditton, before Pem- Friday brought this run to an end when, despite having an broke fell outside the Plough on Friday. First and Third overlap on the reach, they failed to bump a fast Hughes were bumped halfway down Plough Reach in front of the Hall 1st VIII who had double-overbumped in front of them. large crowds on Saturday, securing the first set of blades The crew regrouped to row-over on the final day to deny for Mays M1 since 1998. Caius III blades, but the final result was disappointing for a This excellent set of Mays performances set up a po- crew comfortably faster than almost all their opposition. tentially historic year next year, with the 1st VIII now 3rd The 1st VIII came into bumps looking to avenge their fi- on the river and looking to obtain the College’s first ever nal day disappointment of 2010, and secure a place in the headship. It is definitely an exciting time to be involved top division in the process. However, all was not to go to with the boat club, and I am hopeful of an even more plan. The first day was a disappointing row-over after the successful 2011–12 campaign. two crews ahead bumped out quickly, and it went from Blades-winning crew lists: Men’s 1st VIII: Bow: Miles bad to worse on the second day when, taking a bump- Horn; 2: Chris Kerr; 3: Dave Allwood; 4: Harry Moss; 5: ing line to hit Selwyn into Ditton Corner, the crew went Alex Mack; 6: Dan Rix-Standing; 7: Finn Grimwood; Str: straight on and got stuck on the outside of the corner, Josh Pendry; Cox: Alex Booth. Men’s 2nd VIII: Bow: Ivan allowing First and Third II to cruise by for a bump. Whilst Scales; 2: Jim McElwaine; 3: Jed Kaniewski; 4: Ben Dar- the bump back was swift, and Selwyn were satisfyingly lington; 5: Peter Wothers; 6: Oliver Smith; 7: Will Hayes; caught on the reach on the final day, ‘up one place’ was Str: Simon Wright; Cox: Priya Crosby. not the result in mind at the start of the campaign. Captain: Simon Wright

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Boat Club (Women) W2 started on station 14 in the W3 division and went 2010–11 has been a slightly mixed year for the ladies of up three places, narrowly missing out on a bump on the SCCBC. Having lost all our University-standard rowers, the third day and being forced to row over. Sadly, their coach Lents campaign, sadly, did not see our best results – W2 did Courtney Wilkinson was rowing for her own college and not get on and W1 claimed the dubious honour of spoons. was unable to attend the races herself. However, there However, within the first two terms there were moments was an amazing amount of support for the girls from the of excellent rowing by the crews. W1, in particular, can be rest of the Boat Club on the bank. proud of giving both Trinity Hall and Lady Margaret a very Finally, W1 started on station 13 and gained a bump spirited chase on the first and second day of Lents, espe- the first day, rowed over the second day and were bumped cially when the boat had some serious health problems to the final two days. Surrounded by an array of incredibly contend with. In particular, we must mention the promising strong crews, W1 are rightly proud to have maintained novices who, with the excellent coaching of Pippa Kennedy such a position on the river, and to have improved so and Emma Cooper, helped to enliven the senior boats and massively from our Lents efforts. build on the foundations laid in Michaelmas. All the crews really gain strength from the support and The May bumps, however, were a slightly different encouragement from the towpath of members past and story. Moving into the season with three boats regularly present and the huge cheers on the Saturday of the Mays on the river with a good number of experienced seniors, when we pass the alumni marquee at Osier Holt along the ladies gained new life under new coach, Siggi Martin- the gut are always greatly invigorating. son. With a rigorous training programme (including ladies The mixture of novices and returning seniors in the end circuits on Jesus Green, much to the amusement of locals) produced a Boat Club that we are proud of. All in all, the SCCBC women went from strength to strength. Unfortu- ladies half of SCCBC move into next year stronger and nately, due to prior commitments of several rowers, W3 more cohesive. did not attend the getting-on race but made some excel- Captains: Jemma Kehoe and Sarah Martin lent progress under the watchful eyes of Catz Lightweight Blue Chris Kerr, leaving many girls keen to continue their Cross Country involvement next year. The cross-country season began this year with the ad- The success story of the ladies, however, is definitely dition of not one, but two runners with an established W2. Despite rowing with at least one sub most days, pedigree on the world stage. Both Christian Preece and

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Josh Radvan are youth world champions in their respec- and Chris Kerr, and perhaps next year could see Catz tive sports of duathlon and biathlon, so hopes were high. go one better in Cuppers. For me, however, it’s time to Hints of this potential were seen in early Michaelmas move on and pound the pavements of London, perhaps with Preece running well in the Freshers Run, but it was in preparation for another marathon attempt. not until the Cuppers competition in November that we Captain; Tom Livermore were able to see what a full strength team could do. As usual the venue was the (frozen) grounds of Wandlebury Cycling Park. The scoring team this year included our two star Catz went into the 2011 Cuppers race with the formi- freshers alongside Chris Kerr and myself. Kerr, tradition- dable task of defending the men’s team title, a task made ally more comfortable with an oar in his hands than with more difficult by the absence of several strong riders from spikes on his feet, surprised everyone (except perhaps the 2010 squad. CUCC was once again the most success- himself) by finishing top of the Catz pile. Strong runs ful university cycling club in the country on BUCS points in the freezing conditions from all the runners in claret this year, making Cuppers a very well-fielded event. and rose hoops, saw the Catz team pipped into second Moreover, this year King’s brought the largest team yet, place only by an exceptionally strong Jesus team. Off the counting 12 men, including the gold-BUCS-medal-win- back of this success Catz saw its top four Cuppers run- ning Toby Weatherall. ners compete in this year’s Varsity matches for either the On race day, 12 March, Toby delivered on his promise IIs or the IIIs XC teams. Sadly, however, the hard ground as the bookies’ favourite, finishing the Newton time trial of Wandlebury saw the return of Preece’s ankle injury course in 12:42 and grabbing the individual title. King’s which had kept him out since his world championship seemed to be well on their way to victory. However, there triumph in Edinburgh. was a dark horse in the pack. Catz’s very own James Dix- The rest of the season was notable for the consistent on clocked 12:51, second only to Weatherall and ahead injury problems keeping runners out for key League fix- of Downing’s Full-Blue Dan Ahearn. Jerry Zak followed tures. Meanwhile Kerr returned to his natural environ- with individual 6th and 15 points while Finn Grimwood’s ment on the river. It was not until near the end of the solid time of 14:23 earned him 9th place and 12 points for season and the Coe Fen Relays that we were able to enter Catz. A strong performance from boaties Ben Darlington a full team again. Unfortunately however our first year (11th), Harry Moss (13th) and Will Graham (16th), with athletes were unable to distinguish Coe Fen from Cold- the CUCC second team rider Michael Bennett in 18th ham’s Common – an easy mistake for a geographer to place gave us three riders in the top ten and seven in the make. A frantic dash across town saw them arrive just in top twenty, compared to King’s two and four, respec- time to take up the baton for the second leg; naturally tively. Also riding in Catz colours were Jed Kaniewski, my slow time in the first leg can be put down to sound Tom Jurik, Mike Coldwell and Jake Broughton-Venner tactics, giving them more time to get to the start. who performed well on bikes of varying quality, add- Thus the excellent Cuppers result was to prove the ing one point each to the Catz tally. The grand total for highlight of our season, but no doubt next year, if Preece men came up to 76, annihilating King’s by a margin of 26 and Radvan can stay injury free (and turn up in the right points and leaving the Cuppers title in its rightful home, place), the Catz cross-country team will have a strong nu- St Catharine’s College. cleus. Add to this cameos from Gerald Mear, Alex Hunter The 2011 Cuppers race had another surprise in store. The Catz women – Alexandra Messerli, Priya Crosby and The Editor on the new bench in Main Court, Jess Szekely, earned 42 points and stole the women’s which commemorates the Hockey teams’ team trophy from Selwyn who, although faster, only clean sweep of titles. fielded two female riders on the day. The girls’ success rounded up a day of domination for Catz cycling – a ti- tle defence accomplished with another title added to the collection! Swapping an oar for a bicycle paid off for James Dixon who earned his Half Blue in the successful 2011 Varsity match where Cambridge regained the Varsity trophy. Well done to the whole team on making 2011 the best year for Catz cycling in recent memory. In the Olympic year of 2012, Catz will have two Cycling Cuppers titles to defend! Results: Men’s Cuppers champions, Women’s Cuppers champions. Captain: Jerry Zak Hockey (Men) Any improvement on Catz Men’s Hockey’s phenomenal success in 2009–10 was always going to be a tough ask this year, especially with no fewer than six stalwart 1st XI players having departed during the summer. Thank- fully Catz Hockey’s strength lies in its depth as last sea- son’s all-Catz Cuppers final showed, so the shoes of Catz legends past were easily filled by a promising mix of up- and-coming 2nd XI stars and a fantastic intake of fresher talent. Special mentions should go to Mark O’Shea who, after three years as a leading second-team player, earned himself a regular spot in the 1st XI this season, to player of the season Henry Delacave whose work rate hasn’t dropped once from his first to his last game this year and to top goal-scorer Charlie Bennett, whose skills have added an incredible threat in the St Catharine’s for- ward line and will surely take him places during his time at Cambridge. The victorious Hockey teams. Catz set their sights high at the start of the year, taking on the Squanderers (University 3rd XI) in a friendly during Salter, James Taylor, Charlie Bennett, Charlie Cadywould, the first week of term. With many new team members Henry Delacave, Nigel Parkes and Alex Hunter. In a thrill- having only been introduced on the day and a number of ing game Catz went 3–0 down in the first 15 minutes to players missing, a win was by no means expected; how- two vicious Jesus strikes and a penalty stroke; however, ever Catz walked out 2–1 winners after a brace of superb boosted by the huge Catz crowd they fought back to take deflected goals by Henry Delacave. From this point it was a 4–3 lead at half time with goals from Bennett, Parkes clear that Catz could expect to have a decent chance of and Hulse. A tense second period followed with Jesus emulating the previous season’s triumph. equalising late on from a rebounded penalty corner and The League in Michaelmas was won with only one even extra time was not enough to separate the two sides defeat against Old Leysians, a physically bigger and far locked at 4–4. Penalty strokes were to decide the result, more experienced side of regular East League hockey Catz running out 5–4 winners after converting all five of players. Catz eventually pipped Leysians to the title on their penalties. goal difference. The Lent League was almost an exact Thanks must go to all those who supported the team replica, again won on goal difference from Leysians after in the Cuppers final, the crowd certainly made the dif- narrowly losing 3–2 despite having a depleted side due to ference on the day and it is great to see Catz support- a number of Catz players representing the University 2nd ers always outnumbering the opposition on such occa- and 3rd XIs in their varsity matches the next day. A 14–0 sions. Also we must wish the best of luck to those who demolition of Emmanuel was perhaps the highlight of the are leaving us: Nigel Parkes, Chris King, Jeremy Hulse, Lent League campaign. Mark O’Shea, Tom Hoad and Pete O’Malley, who will Following last year’s Cuppers success, Catz were this all certainly be missed. However with five of the 16-man season invited to face the Oxford League champions Ex- Cuppers final squad being freshers, next year looks prom- eter College in ‘Supercuppers’ at Southgate Hockey Club ising once again for Catz Hockey and we look forward to as part of the warm up to the Blues varsity match. In a defending our modest four trophy haul. We are now un- display of total dominance St Catharine’s ran out 8–0 beaten by any Oxbridge college in 33 games, a run which winners with goals from eight different players – some- spans three seasons and which we hope will continue. thing to brighten an otherwise disappointing day for Captain: Graeme Morrison Cambridge hockey. So with the League and Supercuppers titles wrapped Hockey (men’s second team) up all that remained was the defence of the Cuppers title. Following the unprecedented success of the men’s 2nd XI Having reached the final with 16–2, 5–0 and 3–0 wins last year in reaching the Cuppers Final, I had the unenvi- over Churchill, St John’s and Robinson, a grudge match able task of leading the team to similar heights this year. against Jesus – knocked out by Catz in the semi-finals last Unfortunately this was not to happen, with us going out year – beckoned. A full squad of 16 took to Wilberforce in the first round. A game that we were unfortunate to Road at the end of Lent Term: Graeme Morrison, Daniel lose having been 1–4 down at half time, we pulled back Balding, Ben Davies, Michael Woodford, Andy Argyle, to 4–4 before conceding late in the second half to lose Chris King, Mark O’Shea, Jeremy Hulse, Joe Bond, Jamie 4–5. That did mean, however, that our attentions could

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turn to the League and the hopeful promotion from the hockey ever-growing, team lists approaching 20 were be- depths of division 4 that has eluded 2nd team captains ing reached and I feel it was a mixture of our intimidating for many seasons. numbers, ‘every other’ warm-ups and skill that left the As some of you may know the men’s hockey Leagues other teams standing on the pitch, baffled and ultimately are divided into two seasons during Michaelmas and beaten. Lent. In the Michaelmas Term we put out some strong With a win of 5–2 against Girton, Catz mixed hockey performances combining past Cuppers finalists with in- had secured itself a place in the semi-finals. Feeling that experienced freshers in the guise of Johny Wilson and Joe we needed a bit more of a challenge, the semi against Duncumb beating teams in our division with relative ease Emma was set to be played immediately after the boys’ including a 7–3 smashing of Anglia Ruskin (yes that is cor- final, with no time for the goalie to even de-kit. Despite rect – Catz 2s beat a whole university!). Unfortunately this, a convincing 4–0 win was achieved and would have when the crunch tie came against Magdalene, we were been reached earlier had my impromptu ‘three cheers’ hit by a number of injuries and unavailabilities, which left with ten minutes to go worked out (as planned, obvious- us down to the bare bones and we were defeated. This ly… I definitely knew that it wasn’t the end… definitely). meant that a win against John’s 2nd team was needed Unfortunately the other teams in the draw had not to take us to the top of the table above John’s, who in- been quite so organised when arranging their 9.00am cidentally had played no games all term, obtaining three matches (or perhaps they were intimidated by the Catz walkover victories. A 6–1 win at the beginning of Lent did domination thus far), so the final had to be postponed to the job, only to have our hopes of promotion scuppered the Easter Term, and, with only a week or two to go be- as Johns received another walkover and so topped the fore exams, the date and opposition for the final were set: division by goal difference. Sunday 22 May, Catz versus Jesus (yet again). With glori- So into Lent Term, as the 1st XI cup-winning machine ous light pink stash being donned, the team, the Catz was trundling along, the 2nd team knew exactly what we mascot and supporters gathered at Wilby with one aim: had to do – win every game and get promoted. And that to score some goals. Not wanting to peak too soon, Catz is exactly what we did; with the promotion effectively found themselves 2–0 down at half time but, with sup- sealed in the penultimate game with a hard-fought 4–2 port from the side-lines growing, the team returned to victory over the skilled and experienced Magdalene side the pitch to take on Jesus in the second half, fresh legged that had been our downfall the previous term. and ready for the challenge. Goal by goal Jesus slowly Thank you to everyone who played, but in particular succumbed to the domination of the Catz mixed hockey Mark O’Shea and Nigel Parkes, our creativity in the mid- machine. At 3–3 and with only a few minutes left of the dle, with the former voted player of the season and the game a fourth goal was snuck past the Jesus keeper and latter finishing as our top goal-scorer; and Chris King, there the score stayed until the final whistle was blown. our rock as centre back, sometimes travelling back from Victory and another Cuppers title was ours. his clinical rotations to play for us. All of them graduate It was a well-deserved result and a great end to what this year and will sadly not be at Catz next year. I thank has been an incredible year of mixed hockey, thank you them for their fantastic support of Catz Hockey and in to all who played, supported or umpired. I hope the suc- particular the 2nd Team this year. Also thanks must go to cess continues for many years. Chris Orwin, who is away next year on his year abroad, Captain: Georgie Ward but was one of few players to play in every match this year. I would also like to thank Hannah Darcy and Geor- Hockey (Women) gie Ward, who were more than happy to play for a men’s Catz women’s hockey has had one of our best seasons team, having already played one, or in many cases two, in recent memory having won both the 1st division and games that day already. Cuppers. The year started well with a small but strong So after eleven games, nine wins and two defeats, I intake of freshers including Victoria Mascetti, our very hand the captaincy over to James Taylor, a first-year who own Blues hockey player, to build on a strong team from joined late in Michaelmas Term but was brilliant for us for last season. the rest of the season. In Michaelmas, due to a combination of opposition 2nd X1 Captain: Ben Davies teams being too scared to play us and frozen pitches, we played only two matches, winning both to leave us Hockey (mixed) top of the table and progress to the second round of Determined to improve on last year’s result and return Cuppers. Notably we beat Downing 10–2, as reported Catz mixed hockey to its former glory days last seen un- in Varsity newspaper, which made Victoria Mascetti the der the captaincy of Mark Lunt, the year started off with top scorer in the League after playing just one match, some convincing wins of 8–0 and 7–0 against Pembroke where she remained until close to the end of the sea- and the Clinical School. With the enthusiasm for mixed son. Returning to Cambridge after Christmas we had

48 more matches to play during Lent Term, and we started To be captains this year has been an honour and a strongly by beating Robinson 6–0. However, we then pleasure; we are incredibly proud of Catz women’s hock- hit our first hurdle, losing to a strong Clare team in the ey for the achievements throughout the year. We hope League, but this turned out to be the inspiration that we that next year will be just as much fun and hopefully as needed to make a comeback and we beat them the fol- successful and are sure that Georgie Ward will do an ex- lowing week in our second round match of Cuppers with cellent job as captain. a score of 5–1. Following on from this success we played Captains: Frances Connerton and Lydia Toy Pembroke in the League and beat them 11–0, further improving our goal difference which proved to be vital Lawn Tennis for our League success. Our final League match of the As with last year, Cuppers began in the Lent Term to season was against Jesus, and we knew that if we won avoid squeezing a whole tournament into an already this then we would win the League. Unfortunately our busy exam term. After a convincing win against Selwyn, side was considerably weakened because of our Univer- Catz I had a difficult match against Johns I, the second sity hockey players being unable to play due to Varsity seeds, which put us out at an unfortunately early stage. commitments, so we lost this match by a goal, which The nature of the competition meant that Catz continued meant that the League title depended on other teams to play matches in the Plate tournament and strong victo- not being able to beat our impressive goal difference. ries, spurred by the addition of a number of strong fresher Luckily this turned out to be the case and we won the players, against Wolfson I and Robinson I rounded out a League over John’s and Clare who had the same number fairly successful year. Catz II did well in the early stages of of points as us but were unable to match our goal dif- the tournament, though solely from walkovers and ended ference of +44. the year with a tough, but enjoyable, match against Jesus With our League victory secured we now had the I in the later stages of the tournament. task of winning Cuppers to ‘do the double’ in our sights. Outside the Cuppers tournament, there have been Our final match of Lent Term was against Emmanuel in many days spent taking advantage of the Catz courts to the semi-finals, played the day before the Hockey Club practice or simply to take minds off the looming exams. annual dinner. We won this 3–1 meaning that we were The organization of an externally-run weekly training through to the final and able to celebrate in style. Be- session helped our players, some of whom who had never cause of the very cold winter and lots of postponements, played before, to improve their game, and is hopefully the other semi-final between John’s and Jesus was not something that will continue in future years. Acheson- played until midway through exams and, as a result, our Gray Day saw current students playing some informal final was pushed back until the week before May Week. matches, with some alumni picking up a racquet to join During this break we had the annual Acheson-Gray Day in, in a relaxing and enjoyable day in the sun. match where we continued our strong winning streak Captain: Gavin Hayes and beat the old girls’ side on a lovely sunny day, which helped the current students win the day overall. Netball This left us only one thing to win, and with both the Following from the enthusiasm and success of previous men’s and mixed teams already Cuppers champions, the years, women’s netball has proven to be a popular sport pressure was on us to beat Jesus in a Cuppers final (for the yet again. The start of the year saw a large number of ea- third time) to finish the season in style. With one of our ger first years take to the courts and along with many of strongest line-ups, training earlier in the week, a planning the existing players, Catz had enough to enter two teams session the night before and an army of supporters on the into the League. day we were well prepared and this all paid off with bril- It was a slow start for the first team as everyone ad- liant performances from everyone and a confident 3–0 justed to the new team dynamics. Despite convincing win giving us victory and the Cuppers title. wins against the Medics and Emmanuel, some early losses It is difficult to single anyone out as everyone has had saw the team narrowly demoted into the second division. a fantastic season with great levels of commitment and Lent, however, proved much more successful, with only outstanding performances but special thanks must go to two losses reflecting the excellent quality of netball and Hannah Darcy for her never-ending enthusiasm for all team work displayed in the games. things Catz hockey and Cat Bell-Webb as our most com- Cuppers was, as ever, an extremely competitive yet en- mitted fresher. Congratulations also to those who rep- joyable day of netball. It saw a number of dedicated play- resented the University – Lydia Toy, Emma Eldridge and ers from both the first and second teams brave the cold to Hannah Darcy for the Bedouins, Katie Lockwood for the play a series of games, failing to make it through to the af- Nomads and Victoria Mascetti for the Blues. There is only ternoon matches by the loss of a single well-fought game. one leaver this year, joint captain Lydia Toy, who has been Well done to everyone who has played and made Catz a stalwart in goal and who will be missed very much. netball so enjoyable this year. In particular I would like to

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thank a number of players who will be leaving us but who they would rather risk losing a proper game of rugby have made significant contributions to all of the teams than go home with a prideless ‘win’. during their time at Catz: Alys Holland, Charlotte Breen The match on Acheson-Gray Day was surprisingly and Heather Dixon. Good luck to you all! competitive against an Old Boys’ team full of big, uni- Captain: Georgie Ward versity-standard players, and a returning Blue. The well- contested match and hugely enjoyable meal and post- Orienteering match socialising have whetted our appetite for the next Following the enthusiasm shown in 2010, this year’s Catz season and AG Day. Orienteers, a squad of 12, went one better than the 13 Catz rugby players continue to excel at university level. did last year, in placing third (equal on points with sec- Matt Guinness-King and Ben Martin both achieved Blues ond-placed Clare, but with a lower-placed best runner in the Varsity Match at Twickenham. The former of these than they had) in Cuppers. The competition was held, also has the honour of captaining the Blues next season on a very hot day in late April, at an interesting venue as they attempt to avenge this year’s defeat. John Fitz- – the West Cambridge site, in and amongst the new patrick played for the under-21 team before suffering an Cavendish/Veterinary School buildings and grounds. injury that ruled him out for the rest of the season, and Unfortunately the captain had been injured (no doubt Andrew Clegg trained with the under-21 squad and Col- in one of his many hockey matches) and could not com- leges XV teams despite similar disruption, and Andrew pete, but other hockey players turned up trumps on the Hadfield played for the Colleges XV. day, with Daniel Balding the College’s best-placed man At the Annual Dinner the Player of the Season Award (in 4th place); Adele Della Mura did almost as well in the went to Sebby Barfoot; the Best Newcomer Award went women’s race, placing 5th. to Andrew Savill; and the Dudley Robinson Clubman Captain: Nigel Parkes Award was shared by Andrew Hadfield and Will Haining. The goal of achieving promotion from Division 3 next Rugby year falls on the shoulders of next season’s newly elect- After being prevented from fielding a team in the sec- ed officials, whom will be capably lead by Alex Hunter. ond-half of the last season (punishment for misdemean- Hopefully this effort will be aided by a strong intake of ours during the Rugby Club 2009 Christmas Dinner), rugby-playing freshers. the members of SCCRUFC were keen to get back on the Captain: John Fitzpatrick pitch. It was apparent early on that it would not be an easy task to rebuild the squad to a level that befits the Squash traditions of rugby at Catz. This was emphasised before Finding no evidence, on their arrival in October, of any the first game of the season when, rather than going existing College Squash organisation, a group of freshers through the finer points of the game, it was the job of ‘refounded’ the Club, and entered a team in Cuppers. the more experienced members of the club to ensure that Sadly, the team did not register any victories, but hopes those who had never played rugby before knew how to are high for 2011–12. score a try and that passing the ball forward was not Captain: Zish Jooma allowed. Our cause was not helped by the lack of com- petitive scrummaging, a particular strength of our team, Swimming throughout the season due to the lack of front-rowers Swimming Cuppers this year had both a heats and finals on other teams. round. Catz performed strongly in their heats on Friday, It would have been easy to fold, as many teams in our taking 1st, 2nd or 3rd place in seven out of the 14 events, situation may have done, and not bother getting a team and winning three of them. An electric atmosphere was out every week. However, the team spirit and will-to-im- provided by the huge number of Catz supporters who prove that typifies Catz sport shone through. With each turned up at poolside and the cheering certainly felt Catz game, despite setbacks against some more experienced dominated! The finals were decided on an event basis, teams, the team improved greatly, both collectively and so the top four swimmers in each event would swim in as individuals. This came to a head in the last game of the an A final on Sunday, and the next four swimmers com- season against Girton. The game was keenly contested peting in a B final. The strength of the Catz team was and would have ended in our favour, were it not for a shown by the team making eight A finals and four B fi- hat-trick of tries from their Blue. A walkover could have nals which meant that, with the exception of only two been accepted before the game by the team, as Girton events, Catz swimmers were in either an A or a B final, would not have been able to field a team without the which is an achievement in itself. In the finals on Sunday, technically ineligible Blue. However, as even a win would Catz faced tough opposition, as some teams had up to not save Catz from relegation, the boys demonstrated four Blues swimmers able to compete in relays. However their love of the game and competitiveness by deciding the Catz women came home on top, winning the overall

50 women’s title for at least the second year in a row. The new intake brought the composition of the Catz team up Catz men came 6th, meaning that overall Catz came to three men’s Blues and two women’s Blues. third – a brilliant result. I would like to thank everyone This level of experience proved invaluable at Cuppers who volunteered for Cuppers swimming; we were able when we faced a difficult group, but we came out top to put forward a strong team even at short notice and I thanks to a win over Jesus, a close-fought 2–2 draw with hope that next year we will be able to achieve an even Christ’s, and a large win over an under-strength Clare better result. team. Catz then easily defeated Selwyn in the semi-final, Captain: Henrietta Dillon but faced tough competition from Trinity. Having clawed our way back from 0–2 down, the match finished 4–4, Water Polo pushing us into extra time. Catz scored in the first half Last year, the newly re-founded Catz team won the third of extra time, and were then able to hold out to win the division of the League, earning promotion to the sec- game 5–4, so winning this year’s Cuppers! ond division. This year, the League system was slightly Next year I hope we will be able to continue the suc- changed to give us more matches. Catz finished with a cess of the team as we move into the top division of the record of five wins, one draw, and one loss to the Leys college League, and look to defend our Cuppers title. School who also defeated all the other college teams. Thanks again to everyone who played this year, and to Catz were the second-highest-scoring college team in all those who have supported the team. Hopefully I will the entire competition. The team this year took in several have more good news to report next year. new players, to build on the success of last year, and this Captain: Matthew Ingrams

The Water Polo team.

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Alley Catz

The Alley Catz had a successful year, with some very enjoyable events including a Christmas dinner with the Kittens and our annual dinner in College at the end of Easter term. There have also been weekly socials which provided a great opportunity for Alley Catz from different years and sports to get to know each other better and to meet peo- ple from equivalent societies in other colleges. We have been lucky to welcome many second years this year as 2010-11 has been a strong sporting year, as well as some freshers towards the end of the year. It has been a great pleasure for us to act as presidents and we would like to thank all the Alley Catz for making it so enjoyable. Presidents: Frances Connerton and Lydia Toy

Kitten Club

Swapping with the fine young ladies of Cam- Boat Club had one of its most successful years bridge is the staple of the Kittens social calendar; in recent memory, with both M1 and M2 win- and this year was no different, having had dinner ning blades. I’m sure the whole Catz community with societies from Churchill, Emma, Corpus, and will be behind the rowers next year as they aim Christ’s among others. Particular highlights were for their first ever headship of the river. Cup- of course, the intra-College swaps with the Al- pers were also won by both the water polo and leycatz and Whiskers, as well as meeting with the cycling teams and 2nd place was achieved in ath- fresher girls for the first time. letics. Although tough years were experienced A Kitten loves nothing better than to see our by the rugby, football, and cricket teams, club College sporting teams succeed, especially at spirits are high and, hopefully with a good intake Cuppers. This year was a particularly success- of talent next year, these teams will get back to ful one for many sports, no more so than the their rightful places. Hockey Club which won every single competi- Individually, many Kittens and Catz members tion entered this year – women’s and mixed excelled for University teams across a wide range competitions, two five-a-side competitions, at of sports as mentioned elsewhere in this Maga- least three League titles and a magnificent three zine. Cuppers trophies. Congratulations SCCHC. The Head Kitten: John Fitzsimons

52 Blues and Colours

Full Blues Other University Representation Association Football: Emma L Eldridge Association Football (Falcons): G Hill Boat Race: G Nash, D Rix-Standing Association Football (Eagles): Olivia Stancombe Hockey: DC Balding, Victoria L Mascetti, Athletics (Alligators): Hannah Darcy, G Morrison Eleanor RL Flanagan Modern Pentathlon: J Radvan Athletics (Alverstone): OT Drage, ME Horn Rugby: MM Guiness-King, BP Martin Athletics (Field Events and Relays): OT Drage, Swimming: Henrietta Dillon Eleanor RL Flanagan Boat Race (Goldie): JDD Pendry Half Blues Bridge: Sarah J O’Connor Cycling: JA Dixon Cross-Country (Spartans): CL Kerr, C Preece, Gymnastics: S Barfoot J Radvan Ice Hockey: Kirsty L Brain, Alefiya Jafferji, Cross-Country (Barbarians): T Livermore T Jurik, L St Pierre Darts: S Barfoot, MA Coldwell, M Pender-Bare, Lacrosse: TC Hoad D Speed Modern Pentathlon: Hannah Darcy, Hockey (Wanderers): JA Bond, JOS Hulse Henrietta Dillon Hockey (Squanderers): J Salter Real Tennis: Charlotte K Breen Hockey (Nomads): Katie E Lockwood Skiing: H Delacave Hockey (Bedouins): Hannah Darcy, Table Tennis: HHM Yeung Emma L Eldridge, Lydia FM Toy Water Polo: Julia R Heckenast, Rebecca Hulbert, Lacrosse (Kingfishers): Amelia Duncanson M Ingrams, D Leigh Lawn Tennis (Grasshoppers): H Delacave Mountain Biking: MKA Bennett, SD Hurrell Rugby (Colleges): AC Hadfield

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Undergraduate Matriculands 2010

Abedian, Edward Arash (Cardinal Vaughan School, Case, Sarah Josephine London) History (Ellesmere Port Catholic High School) Medical Sciences Aberman, Eleanor (Bridgwater College) History Chichester, Amy Louise Katherine Aitken, Alexander (Akeley Wood School, Buckingham) (Whitecross High School, Hereford) Land Economy Music Chick, Elizabeth Alexandra (Stanwell School, Penarth) Allen, Catherine (Bacup and Rawtenstall Law Grammar School, Rossendale) History Christy, Jill Chantal (Methodist College, Belfast) Alloway, Richard Marcos (St Paul’s School, London) Medical Sciences Natural Sciences Clover, Coralie Susan (Folkestone School for Girls) Altmann-Richer, Lisa Klara Amelia Classics (Haberdashers’ Aske’s School for Girls, Elstree) Collins, Hugh (Exeter School) Computer Science Medical Sciences Cox, Samuel (Richmond-upon-Thames College, Anikevicius, Ignas (Vilnius Lyceum, Lithuania) Twickenham) Mathematics Natural Sciences Crosby, Priya (Norwich High School for Girls) Antcheva, Ioanna (Lycée International de Ferney-Voltaire, Natural Sciences France) Politics, Psychology & Sociology Dalton, Sara Louise (Bingley Grammar School) Argyle, Andrew (Bournemouth School) Engineering Natural Sciences Arnold, Naomi Elizabeth (Bishop Ramsey CE School, Delacave, Henry (Norwich School) Natural Sciences Ruislip) Natural Sciences Diestel, Christian Oliver (Christianeum, Hamburg) Arran, Matthew Iain (Landau Forte College, Derby) Natural Sciences Mathematics Dodd, Alexander (Tiffin School, Kingston-upon-Thames) Bakinezos, Dimitrios (Campion School, Athens) Medical Sciences Engineering Drage, Owen Thomas (Tavistock School) Barth, Gideon Alexander (Leeds Grammar School) Veterinary Medicine History Duffy, Michael (Bishop Walsh School, Sutton Coldfield) Baynham, Rosamund (Prince Henry’s Grammar School, Law Otley) Modern & Medieval Languages Duncumb, Joseph William (Worthing Sixth Form College) Bell Webb, Catherine (George Heriot’s School, Medical Sciences Edinburgh) Medical Sciences Eichwede, Isabel (Malvern College) Politics, Bennett, Charlie George (Cherwell School, Oxford) Psychology & Sociology Land Economy Elderfield, James Alexander David (King’s School, Blair, Peter (Hereford Sixth Form College) Engineering Worcester) Natural Sciences Blausten, Hannah (City of London School for Girls) Flanagan, Eleanor Rachael Louise (Loreto History Grammar School, Altrincham) Land Economy Blukis, Roberts (Riga State Gymnasium No.1, Latvia) Hague, Matthew (Magdalen College School, Oxford) Natural Sciences Medical Sciences Bonner, William George (Northampton School For Boys) Harper, Joseph (Spalding Grammar School) English Mathematics Hayes, William Thomas (Whitgift School, Croydon) Bridgewater, Sally Helena Engineering (St Mary’s Comprehensive School, Ilkley) Music Healiss, Emma Elizabeth (Blue Coat School, Liverpool) Broomhall, Jayne Lynn (Walton High School, Stafford) Law English Heckenast, Julia Rita (Westminster School, London) Broughton-Venner, Jacob (Greenshaw High School, Natural Sciences Sutton) Mathematics Ho, Victor Ka Leung (Concord College, Shrewsbury) Brown, Rosie Jane (Bolton School (Girls’ Division)) Economics Theology Hocking, Katherine Christine (Meden School, Mansfield) Bunting, Catherine Elizabeth (Queen Elizabeth’s Medical Sciences Grammar School, Ashbourne) Natural Sciences Hong, Peishan (Bromsgrove School) Mathematics Cahill, Helen (Mander Portman Woodward, London) Horn, Miles Edward (Hampton School) Natural Sciences Natural Sciences Howell, Katharine Reid Caplin, Daniel (Manchester Grammar School) (Ivybridge Sports and Community College) Geography Modern & Medieval Languages Hughes, Georgina Clare (Harlington Upper School, Carter, James (St Paul’s School, London) Engineering Dunstable) Mathematics

54 Hunter, Alexandra (King’s High School for Girls, Warwick) Modern & Medieval Languages Hutchings, James Edward (Bishop’s Stortford College) Engineering Igwe, Adannaya (Tiffin Girls’ School, Kingston-upon- Thames) Medical Sciences Ismailov, Adilzhan (Abbey Tutorial College, Birmingham) Economics Jaeggi, Helena (St Albans High School for Girls (Senior School)) Geography Jarrett, Kieran (Backwell School, Bristol) Mathematics Joles, Robert Ej (Royal Grammar School, Colchester) Geography Jooma, Zishan (Dartford Grammar School) Natural Sciences Jordan, Rebecca (North Devon College, Barnstaple) Natural Sciences Kearney, Abby (Lancaster Girl’s Grammar School) Archaeology & Anthropology Kelly, Jessica (King Edward VI Five Ways School, Bartley Green, Birmingham) Archaeology & Anthropology Kennedy, Charlotte (Cheadle and Marple Sixth Form College) English Kent, George Classics Kermode, Tess Catherine (Guildford High School for Girls) Economics Ketley, Toby (Verulam School, St Albans) English Kidd, Sarah (George Heriot’s School, Edinburgh) History Kirton, Adam (Audenshaw School, Manchester) Anglo- Saxon, Norse, & Celtic Lane, James Nicholas (Winchester College) Natural Sciences Lane, Jemima Catharine (Dame Alice Owen’s School, Potters Bar) Veterinary Medicine Leigh, David (Eton College, Windsor) Politics, Psychology & Sociology Liu, Chen (Malvern Girls’ College, Great Malvern) Economics Lowden, Nicholas (Weald School, Billingshurst) Mathematics Lu, Meichen (Shandong Experimental High School, China) Chemical Engineering MacLeod, Catherine (City of London Freemen’s School, Ashtead) Asian and Middle Eastern Studies Malinowski, Marcin (VLO, Warsaw, Poland) Natural Sciences Manthorpe, Hector (Dame Alice Owen’s School, Potters Bar) Archaeology & Anthropology May, Lara Elizabeth (Wycombe Abbey School, High Wycombe) History Mayer, Patrick (Camden School for Girls, London) English Meikle, Erin Louise (York College) Geography Morley, Madeleine Amber (Southbank International School, London) English St Catharine’s Magazine t 2011

Nagdy, Mohamed (Kingsbury High School, London) Sinnett-Smith, Jane (Sir Roger Manwood’s School, Economics Sandwich) Modern & Medieval Languages Neville, Sarah-Beth (George Watson’s College, Snow, Renata Maria Hansford Edinburgh) Law (Li Po Chun United World College of Hong Kong) Niblett, Samuel (Bishop Wordsworth’s School, Salisbury) Veterinary Medicine Natural Sciences Spiro, Miranda Millie (South Hampstead High School, Norton, Alastair James McCoy (Saint Paul’s School, London) Theology Concord, USA) Politics, Psychology & Sociology Storeng, Hans Christopher (Sullivan Upper School, O’Neill, Thomas (Devonport High School for Boys, Holywood) Law Plymouth) Natural Sciences Stringer, Antonia (Alexandra Park School, London) O’Sullivan, Bohannon English (St John Payne Catholic Comprehensive School, Surani, Yasmin Miriam (Hills Road Sixth Form College, Chelmsford) Modern & Medieval Languages Cambridge) Natural Sciences Page, Stephen (Park View Community School, Durham) Sweeney, Christopher (Queen Elizabeth’s Mathematics Grammar School, Horncastle) Natural Sciences Palyutina, Karina (Bellerbys College, Brighton) Sweeney, Luke (Bishop Stopford School, Kettering) Computer Science Economics Panju, Leila (Watford Grammar School for Girls) Taylor, James William Henry (Dulwich College, London) Economics Modern & Medieval Languages Papworth, Amelia (School of St Helen & St Katharine, Thiara, Amber Kaur (Bradford Girls’ Grammar School) Abingdon) Modern & Medieval Languages Engineering Park, Rebecca Clare (Tiffin Girls’ School, Kingston-upon- Volhard Dearman, Saskia Thames) Engineering (South Hampstead High School, London) Pendry, Joshua Daniel Dunsdon (Charlton Park School, Archaeology & Anthropology Cheltenham) Natural Sciences Wade, David Christopher (Northgate High School, Podgorney, Christopher (Burleigh College, Ipswich) Natural Sciences Loughborough) Engineering Wagaine, Salome (North London Collegiate School, Poole, Helena Ngaire Stella Edgware) Philosophy (City of London School for Girls) Walters, Yasmin Leigh Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (King Edward VI Five Ways School, Bartley Green, Preece, Christian (Manchester Grammar School) Birmingham) Medical Sciences Geography Warters, Ciaran (St Wilfrid’s Catholic High School Radvan, Joshua (Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe) & Sixth Form College, West Yorks) Law Land Economy Watson, Sophie (Collyer’s Sixth Form College, Horsham) Ren, Zhongyu (EF International Academy, Torquay) Veterinary Medicine Natural Sciences Watts, Natasha (St Swithun’s School, Winchester) Rimmer, Isabel Thyrza Geography (West Kent College of Further Education, Tonbridge) White, Joseph Samuel Baldwin (Aquinas College, Geography Stockport) English Saban, Edward John (Sandon School, Chelmsford) Wilson, Jonathan James (Portora Royal School, Natural Sciences Enniskillen) Veterinary Medicine Savill, Andrew (Radley College, Abingdon) Wong, Tiffany Charlotte (Sevenoaks School) Law Medical Sciences Woodford, Michael (Balcarras School, Cheltenham) Schnittker, Christian Hugo (Malvern College) Economics Engineering Schuster, Swetlana (Couven-Gymnasium, Aachen, Wright, Adam Daizhen (Reading School) Natural Sciences Germany) Modern & Medieval Languages Wroth, Emmanuela Maria (Lumen Christi College, Shiroki, Gleb (Tallinna Oismae Vene Lutseum, Estonia) Londonderry) Modern Languages Natural Sciences Xue, Niannan (Teesside High School) Singarajah, Daniel Paul Vijayakumar (Wilson’s School, Chemical Engineering Wallington) Mathematics Yan, Ka Yin Matthew (Tonbridge School) Natural Sciences

56 New Graduates 2010

Abrams, Jonathan (St Catharine’s) Medicine Critch, Aaron Joseph Battocchio, Francesco (Università degli Studi di Trento, (Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada) Italy) Engineering Archaeology Bilkova, Veronika (Charles University, Czech Republic) Croft, Oliver (Manchester) Materials Science & Law Metallurgy Blades, Carlene Joanna (West Suffolk College) Education Dale, Charles Elliott Cornish (Exeter) Borel, Melodie Jeanine Marie (Université Lyon I Social Anthropology (Claude-Bernard), France) Physiology, Development & Darcy, Hannah (St Catharine’s) Veterinary Medicine Neurosciences Darlington, Ben James (Warwick) Latin American Studies Brain, Kirsty Lianne (St Catharine’s) Physiology, Dingley, Sean (Cardiff) Music Development & Neurosciences Dyson, Joseph (Sheffield) Chemistry Brien, Patrick (Leeds) Molecular Biology Fare, Jane (Lincoln) Music Busco, Paolo (Libera Università Internazionale degli Felder, Kathrin Anne (Humboldt-University, Berlin) Studi Sociali Guido Carli, Rome, Italy) Law Archaeology Carmody-Morgan, Poppy Sarah (Aberystwyth) Flores, Joana Vieira (Karolinska Institutet, Sweden) Planning Growth & Regeneration Stem Cell Biology Choudhary, Gaurav Galbraith, Mhairi Tennant (St Catharine’s) Medicine (Poeple’s Education Society Institute of Technology, Gerstgrasser, Matthias (Universität Wien, Austria) Bangalore, India) Management Studies Pure Mathematics & Mathematical Statistics Claude, Pauline (Montreal, Canada) Girman, Jan (Queen Mary University, London) Biological Anthropology Materials Science & Metallurgy Corke, Rebecca Lauren (St Catharine’s) Grabarek, Aleksandra Agnieszka Veterinary Medicine (Queen Mary University, London) Costa de Beauregard, Anne Latin American Studies (École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France) Modern & Guinness-King, Matthew (McMaster University, Ontario, Medieval Languages Canada) Management Studies

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Haine, David Lyndon (St Catharine’s) Rittman, Timothy (Nottingham) Clinical Neurosciences Veterinary Medicine Schick, Nina Dolma (University College, London) Hall, Georgina (St Catharine’s) Veterinary Medicine South Asian Studies Hansford, Andrew (Bristol) Music Schoenberger, Paul Christopher Hengel, Erin Mary Moores (London School of Economics) (London School of Economics & Political Science) Economics History Holland, Owen James (St Catharine’s) English Scott, Patrick James (Sussex) Politics Khosa, Amritpal Singh (University College, London) Shu, Sheng-Chi Timothy History (National University of Singapore) Asian & Kilberg, Andrew Gareth Irving (Princeton, USA) History Middle Eastern Studies Kim, Kwanlae (Seoul National University of Technology, Sims, Peter (Warwick) Physics Korea) Micro- & Nanotechnology Squire, Oliver John (Leeds) Chemistry Koc-Menard, Sergio (Carleton University, Canada) Steur, Marinka Jacoba Johanna (Wageningen University, Management Studies Netherlands) Medicine Kotwica, Aleksandra Olga (Edinburgh) Medicine Taha, Diaaeldin Magdy Mohamed (Cairo, Egypt) Lahr, Patrick (Frankfurt, Germany) Pure Mathematics & Pure Mathematics & Mathematical Statistics Mathematical Statistics Tchou, Wei Kang (Bucknell University, USA) Asian & Lazarovitch, Ronen (Otago, New Zealand) Law Middle Eastern Studies Leung, Cheuk Yin (Hong Kong) Engineering Van Loock, Sander Erik Jan Mark Lim, Chai Hoon Nicole (University College, London) (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium) Law Chemistry Vasconcelos, Goncalo (Imperial College, London) Mack, Alexander Nicholas (Manchester) Economics Management Studies Martin, Alberto (Universidad Pontificica Comillas, Spain) Villard, Antoine (École Normale Supérieure de Lyon) Management Studies Modern & Medieval Languages Mascetti, Victoria Louise (University College, London) Vincent, Benjamin William (Gonville & Caius) Geography Medicine Wandel, Michal Piotr (Warsaw, Poland) MRC Lab McLaughlan, Claire (Nottingham Trent) Zoology Waring, Sophie Jane Elizabeth (Imperial College, Messerli, Alexandra (Edinburgh) Polar Studies London) History & Philosophy of Science Mielke, Manuela (Heidelberg, Germany) Psychiatry Waskiewicz, Katarzyna (Essex) Economics Morgan, Kevin Patrick (Trinity College, Dublin) Law Watkinson, Frederick David (King’s College, London) Muego, Fraser John (Stirling) Law History Murphy, Deirdre (University College, Cork, Ireland) Weiller, Claire (Swiss Federal Inst of Tech, Zurich) Medicine Technology Policy Murray, Alexander John (Bristol) Molecular Biology Williams, Ramone (Emory University, USA) Nakano, Takafumi (St Andrews) Applied Mathematics & Translational Medicine & Therapeutics Theoretical Physics Woodcock, Hannah Marie (St Catharine’s) Medicine Nguyen, Ngan Thi Thu (St Catharine’s) Economics Wright, Daniel Paul (Homerton) Education Ooi, Chen Yen (Wisconsin, Madison, USA) Engineering Wyspianska, Beata Sylwia (King’s College, London) Ottem, John Christian (Oslo, Norway) Pure Mathematics Pathology & Mathematical Statistics Yang, Xin (Imperial College, London) Engineering Peters, Nial John (St Catharine’s) Geography Yotova, Rumiana Vladimirova (Leiden, Netherlands) Law Powell, Samuel (Durham) Education Zakharova, Natalia Pushparatnam, Adelle (Girton) Social & (Russian Federation Academy of Science) Development Psychology Management Studies Richter, Florian Karl (Technische Universität Wien, Zuber, Krzysztof Wladyslaw (St Catharine’s) Engineering Austria) Pure Mathematics & Mathematical Statistics

58 University scholarships and prizes

The Rex Moir Prize for Engineering: Chen, R The Clifford Chance CJ Hamson Prize for The TR Henn Prize for English: Delves, AR Comparative Law: Morgan, KP The William Vaughan Lewis Prize for an The Cavendish Prize for Part IB Physics: Outstanding Dissertation in Geography: Pungas, T Duhig, D The Thoday Prize: Rodgers, F The Philip Lake Prize for Best Physical The Institution of Civil Engineers Baker Prize: Geography Performance: Garside, P Sampson, FW The William Vaughan Lewis Prize for an The Mineralogical Society Prize for best overall Outstanding Dissertation in Geography: performance in Mineralogy and Petrology: Garside, P Severin, H The Amalendu Dev Memorial Prize for the The Departmental Award for Biochemistry: best Physics Research Review of 2010/11: Tkachenko, O Kang, KH The Armourers & Brasiers’ Prize for Materials The Glennie Prize : King, C Science: Weston, JD The Institution of Civil Engineers Baker Prize: The ECS Wade Prize for Administrative Law: Lindley, BA Williams, JR

College prizes

All those obtaining First Class Honours are Hutcherson Prize for Outstanding Tripos Performance: awarded a Scholarship to the value of £100 and Chen, R a Book Prize to the value of £100. The College John Addenbrooke Medical Studies Prize: Cole, K prizes are given as a further honour. V L M Lairmore Prize for Physics: Cole, RH William Balchin Prize for Geography: Cox, NR Sean Mulherin Prize for MML: Anderson, AR Martin Steele Award for Dramatic Arts: Cox, NR Arthur Andersen Prize: Ang-Kok Wah, S Alan Battersby Chemistry Prize: Dalsania, A Mennell Prize for Politics, Psychology & Sociology: John Addenbrooke Medical Studies Prize: Darbyshire, R Antcheva, I Lacey Prize for Classics: De Souza, SM Ray Driver Prize for Chemistry: Arhangelskis, M Stephen Hinchliffe Dissertation Prize for Geography: Drury-Johns Mathematical Prize: Arran, MI Duhig, D St Catharine’s Graduate Prize for Distinction in Dudley Robinson Engineering Bursary: Edwards, M Research: Banwell, A Arthur Andersen Prize: Fan, SL Jarrett Prize for Asian & Middle Eastern Studies or Wilshaw Bursary for Modern Languages: Galbraith, DA Theology: Barsoum, F Gus Caesar Prize for Geography: Garside, P Karen Kerslake Memorial Prize for Music: Breckon, R Stephen Hinchliffe Dissertation Prize for Geography: Stephane Francis Prize for Veterinary Medicine: Garside, P Brinsmead, H Alfred Steers Fieldwork Award for Geography: Peter le Huray Prize for Music: Brown, F Garside, P Nicholas Prize: Brown, F Corrie Prize for Theology: Gellatly, C James Brimlow Prize for Chemistry: Bullock, PTB Dudley Robinson Engineering Bursary: Gilbert, A-R Stephane Francis Prize for Veterinary Medicine: The Higham Award for Archaeology: Gizbert, T Burns, M Kemp-Gooderson Prize for Law: Hayes, G Jarrett Prize for Asian & Middle Eastern Studies or Christopher MacGregor Award for English: Holland, O Theology: Bussandri, G-M Gus Caesar Prize for Geography: Holmes-Williams, CG Jeremy Haworth Prize for Mathematics or Engineering: Bishop Browne Prize for Reading in Chapel: Howell, KR Chen, R Adderley Prize for Law: Hutcheon, D Gooderson Award for Law: Hutcheon, D

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Arthur Andersen Prize: Jayapaul, AP Engineering Members’ Prize: Podgorney, C Jeremy Haworth Prize for Mathematics or Engineering: J S Wilson Prize for Natural Sciences: Pungas, T Kaniewski, J Belfield Clarke Prize for Biological Sciences: Sayers Prize for Economics: Karyda, C Rodgers, FH The Weaver Prize for Choral Music: Knights, M Alexandria Prize for Engineering: Sampson, FW Tasker Prize for Modern Languages: Lanaghan, M D W Morgan Prize for Outstanding Tripos Performance: St Catharine’s Graduate Prize for Distinction in Sampson, FW Research: Layton, S T R Henn Prize for English: Steel, C Kemp-Gooderson Prize for Law: Lazarovitch, R Engineering Members’ Prize: Stevens, CG Alexandria Prize for Engineering: Lindley, BA Belfield Clarke Prize for Biological Sciences: T W Armour Prize for Mathematics: Mazeliauskas, A Tkachenko, O Master’s Sizar: Mazeliauskas, A Mennell Prize for Politics, Psychology & Sociology: St Catharine’s Graduate Prize for Distinction in Warner, H Research: McMurray, L D O Morgan Prize for Veterinary Medicine: Watson, S John Addenbrooke Medical Studies Prize: Lauterpacht Prize in International Law: Williams, J Mir Mohammad Sadeghi, A Figgis Memorial Prize for History: Worcester, S Kemp-Gooderson Prize for Law: Morgan, K Bruno Laurent Memorial Prize for Chemical New Prize for Music. Engineering: Moroney, B The family of Karen Whitehead (née Kerslake, 1981) have Engineering Members’ Prize: Morrison, G donated a prize in memory of their daughter who died on John Addenbrooke Medical Studies Prize: 1 December 2008. The Karen Kerslake Memorial Prize Nesaratnam, N will be awarded for outstanding contribution to College Richard Hardy Award for Biological Science: instrumental or vocal music. Nesaratnam, N

College scholarships

Senior Scholars Sampson, FW: Engineering Tripos Pt IIA Ang Kok Wah, S: Economics Tripos Pt IIB (Dr John Gostlin (1626)) (Robert Skerne (1661)) Stevens, CG: Engineering Tripos Pt IIA Arhangelskis, M: NST Pt III: Chemistry (Skerne (1745)) (Dr John Gostlin (1626)) Bussandri, G-M: Oriental Studies Tripos Pt II Stevens, E: NST Pt II: Zoology (Thomas Hobbes (1631)) (Thomas Jarrett (1887)) Tkachenko, O: NST Pt II: Bio Chem (Skerne (1745)) Cole, RH: NST Pt III: Physics (Skerne (1745)) Wilson, AC: NST Pt II: Zoology (Thomas Hobbes (1631)) Dalsania, A: NST Pt II: Chemistry (Skerne (1745)) Wright, SRM: NST Pt III: Physics (Skerne (1745)) Holmes Williams CG: Geographical Tripos Pt II (Sir John Cleypoole (1613)) Scholars Kang, KH: NST Pt II: Physics (Skerne (1745)) Amarsi, AM: NST Pt IB (Skerne (1745)) Kaniewski, J: Mathematical Tripos Pt III Anderson, AR: Modern & Medieval Languages Tripos (John Cartwright (1674)) Pt II (Henry Chaytor (1954)) Karyda, C: Economics Tripos Pt IIB Anikevicius, I: NST Pt IA (Skerne (1745)) (Robert Skerne (1661)) Antcheva, I: Politics, Psychology & Sociology Tripos Pt I Lindley, BA: Engineering Tripos Pt IIB (Lady Katharine Barnardiston (1633)) (Dr John Gostlin (1626)) Arran, MI: Mathematical Tripos Pt IA Mazeliauskas, A: Mathematical Tripos Pt II (John Cartwright (1674)) (John Cartwright (1674)) Barsoum, F: Asian & Middle Eastern Studies Tripos Pt IB Mir Mohammad Sadeghi A: NST Pt II: Bio Sciences (Thomas Jarrett (1887)) (Thomas Hobbes (1631)) Blair, P: Engineering Tripos Pt IA Moroney, B: Chemical Engineering Tripos Pt IIB (Dr John Gostlin (1626)) (Dr John Gostlin (1626)) Bland, J: NST Pt IB (Skerne (1745)) Morrison, G: Engineering Tripos Pt IIA Bond, J: Economics Tripos Pt IIA (Robert Skerne (1661)) (Dr John Gostlin (1626)) Breckon, R: Music Tripos Pt IB (Mrs Payne (1610))

60 Brinsmead, HR: Veterinary Final Pt III Jayapaul, AP: Economics Tripos Pt IIB (Moses Holway (1695)) (Robert Skerne (1661)) Brown, FJ: Music Tripos Pt II (Mrs Payne (1610)) Joles, REJ: Geographical Tripos Pt IA Bullock, PTB: NST Pt IB (Skerne (1745)) (Sir John Cleypoole (1613)) Bunting, C: NST Pt IA (Thomas Hobbes (1631)) Jordan, R: NST Pt IA (Thomas Hobbes (1631)) Burlton, T: Land Economy Tripos Pt IB Laan, A: NST Pt IB (Skerne (1745)) (Robert Skerne (1661)) Lanaghan, MKA: Modern & Medieval Languages Tripos Burns, MR: Veterinary Final Pt II (Moses Holway (1695)) Pt IB (Henry Chaytor (1954)) Cahill, H: NST Pt IA (Thomas Hobbes (1631)) Lazarovitch, R: LLM (Mrs Payne (1610)) Caplin, D: Modern & Medieval Languages Tripos Pt IA Livermore, T: NST Pt III: Bio Chem (Skerne (1745)) (Henry Chaytor (1954)) Lonsdale, TB: Computer Science Tripos Pt IB Chalmers, CA: English Tripos Pt I (Mr Spurstow (1646)) (Sir John Cleypoole (1613)) Lu, M: NST Pt IA (Skerne (1745)) Chan, E: English Tripos Pt I (Sir John Cleypoole (1613)) Malinowski, M: NST Pt IA (Skerne (1745)) Chen, R: Engineering Tripos Pt IB Marosevic, Z: English Tripos Pt II (Dr John Gostlin (1626)) (Sir John Cleypoole (1613)) Christy, JC: Medical & Veterinary Sciences Tripos Pt IA Mayer, P: English Prelim to Pt I (Moses Holway (1695)) (Sir John Cleypoole (1613)) Cole, KI: MB Final Part III (Moses Holway (1695)) McTigue, JD: Engineering Tripos Pt IIA Cox, NR: Geographical Tripos Pt II (A A L Caesar (1980)) (Dr John Gostlin (1626)) Darbyshire, R: MB Final Part II (Moses Holway (1695)) Morgan, KP: LLM (Mrs Payne (1610)) Day, FV: NST Pt IB (Skerne (1745)) Nagdy, M: Economics Tripos Pt I (Robert Skerne (1661)) de Souza, SM: Classical Tripos Pt II Neal, AE: Geographical Tripos Pt IB (Lady Katharine Barnardiston (1633)) (Sir John Cleypoole (1613)) Dixon, H: NST Pt II: Plant Sciences Nesaratnam, N: Medical & Veterinary Sciences Tripos (Thomas Hobbes (1631)) Pt IB (Moses Holway (1695)) D’Silva, E: English Tripos Pt II (Sir John Cleypoole (1613)) Niblett, S: NST Pt IA (Skerne (1745)) Durrant, TM: Asian & Middle Eastern Studies Tripos Olivier, JPT: MBA (2010) (Thomas Hobbes (1631)) Pt IB (Thomas Jarrett (1887)) O’Neill, T: NST Pt IA (Skerne (1745)) Elderfield, JAD: NST Pt IA (Thomas Hobbes (1631)) O’Sullivan, B: Modern & Medieval Languages Tripos Fan, SL: Economics Tripos Pt IIB (Robert Skerne (1661)) Pt IA (Henry Chaytor (1954)) Freitag, D: Epidemiology MPhil (2010) Owen, RA: NST Pt IB (Skerne (1745)) (Moses Holway (1695)) Papworth, A: Modern & Medieval Languages Tripos Gallagher, N: History MPhil (2010) Pt IA (Henry Chaytor (1954)) (Lady Katharine Barnardiston (1633)) Paul, RN: Economics Tripos Pt IIA (Robert Skerne (1661)) Garside, P: Geographical Tripos Pt II Pearlman, ES: Medical & Veterinary Sciences Tripos Pt IB (Sir John Cleypoole (1613)) (Moses Holway (1695)) Gellatly, C: Theology & Religious Studies Tripos Pt IIB Perks, NJ: NST Pt III:Geological Sci (Skerne (1745)) (Mrs Julian Stafford (1627)) Petty, L: English Tripos Pt I (Sir John Cleypoole (1613)) Gerstgrasser, M: Mathematics Master of Studies Podgorney, C: Engineering Tripos Pt IA (John Cartwright (1674)) (Dr John Gostlin (1626)) Gizbert, T: Arch & Anth Tripos Pt IIB: Bio Anth Povey, CS: NST Pt IB (Skerne (1745)) (Lady Cocket (c.1635)) Preece, C: Geographical Tripos Pt IA Grebarek, A: Latin American Studies MPhil (Sir John Cleypoole (1613)) (Lady Katharine Barnardiston (1633)) Pungas, T: NST Pt IB (Skerne (1745)) Green, L: Asian & Middle Eastern Studies Tripos Pt IB Quigg, V: English Tripos Pt II (Sir John Cleypoole (1613)) (Thomas Jarrett (1887)) Reinmann, S: MBA (2010) (Thomas Hobbes (1631)) Harper, J: English Prelim to Pt I Rimmer, IT: Geographical Tripos Pt IA (Sir John Cleypoole (1613)) (Sir John Cleypoole (1613)) Hayes, G: Law Tripos Pt IB (Mrs Payne (1610)) Rodgers, FH: NST Pt II: Genetics Herring, EWP: English Tripos Pt II (Thomas Hobbes (1631)) (Sir John Cleypoole (1613)) Rogers, B: NST Pt IB (Thomas Hobbes (1631)) Howell, KR: Geographical Tripos Pt IA Schraemli, J-J: Statistical Science MPhil (2010) (Sir John Cleypoole (1613)) (Skerne (1745)) Hutcheon, D: Law Tripos Pt II (Mrs Payne (1610))

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Schuster, S: Modern & Medieval Languages Tripos Pt IA Ward, G: NST Pt IB (Thomas Hobbes (1631)) (Henry Chaytor (1954)) Warner, H: Politics, Psychology & Sociology Tripos Pt I Severin, H: NST Pt IB (Skerne (1745)) (Lady Katharine Barnardiston (1633)) Sinnett-Smith, J: Modern & Medieval Languages Tripos Watson, S: Medical & Veterinary Sciences Tripos Pt IA Pt IA (Henry Chaytor (1954)) (Moses Holway (1695)) Siroki, G: NST Pt IA (Skerne (1745)) Watts, N: Geographical Tripos Pt IA Sleight, CE: Mathematical Tripos Pt II (Sir John Cleypoole (1613)) (John Cartwright (1674)) Weston, JD: NST Pt II: Materials (Skerne (1745)) Smith, W: Classics MPhil (2010) Willett, HV: NST Pt IB (Skerne (1745)) (Lady Katharine Barnardiston (1633)) Worcester, S: Historical Tripos Pt II Steel, C: English Tripos Pt II (Sir John Cleypoole (1613)) (Lady Katharine Barnardiston (1633)) Sutcliffe-Braithwaite, F: History MPhil (2010) Wray, MC: NST Pt IB (Thomas Hobbes (1631)) (Lady Katharine Barnardiston (1633)) Wright, AD: NST Pt IA (Skerne (1745)) Sweeney, L: Economics Tripos Pt I (Robert Skerne (1661)) Wright, T: Theology/Divinity MPhil (2010) Tonooka, C: Historical Tripos Pt II (Mrs Julian Stafford (1627)) (Lady Katharine Barnardiston (1633)) Wroth, EM: Modern & Medieval Languages Tripos Pt IA Tyrakis, PA: NST Pt III: Bio Chem (Skerne (1745)) (Henry Chaytor (1954)) Wang, L: Economics Tripos Pt IIA (Robert Skerne (1661)) Xue, N: NST Pt IA (Skerne (1745))

PhDs approved 2010–11

Antoniades, C: The development and optimization of King, MS: Structural and functional studies of mitochondrial biomarkers for Huntington’s and Parkinson’s disorders NADH: ubiquinone oxidoreductase (complex I) Askeland, CH: John’s gospel: the Coptic translations of its Mallinson, HF: Measuring and predicting the Greek text performance of RFID-tagged objects Carr, KL: The effects and efficacy of weed cutting Mant, RC: The control of encrusting organisms within management in lowland rivers drinking water treatment works Castles, F: High flexoelectric liquid crystals Moran, A: Sites of Diaspora: The Irish musical aesthetic in Christopher, TE: Magma studies at Mt. Etna Birmingham Cieplak, PA: The Rwandan genocide and its aftermath in Pitkin, SL: Pharmacological characterisation of the apelin photography and documentary film receptor and its ligands in the human cardiovascular Conway, TM: Solubility and bioavailability of iron from system dust in Antarctic ice cores Raissi, M: Essays in macroeconomics Digout, AE: Artful diplomacy: Nicholas I’s New Hermitage Rana, P: Exploration of corporate social responsibility in the age of the public museum (CSR) in food manufacturing companies England, NW: Automated analysis and validation of open Rodriguez Medina, L: Centres and peripheries in political polymer data science: the case of Argentina Gazzoli, PM: Anglo-Danish relations in the later eleventh Rye, CJ: Spatially distributed modelling of regional glacier century mass balance: a Svalbard case study Gee, C: Choice under uncertainty and behavioural Scahill, CM: Specification and morphogenesis of economics Drosophila renal tubules Hopkin, MD: Enabling technologies applied to Sidda, RL: Artificial intervertebral discs: mapping of heterocyclic synthesis mechanical properties and the effects of microstructure Iskander, E: Coptic media discourses of belonging: Speed, DC: Exploring nonlinear regression methods, with negotiating Egyptian citizenship and religious difference application to association studies in the press and online White, DE: Processing and rheology of Marmite® Jones, KL: The chemokine receptor CCR5 and its ligands Woodman, OJ: Pedestrian localisation for indoor MIP-1α, MIP-1β and RANTES in human cardiovascular environments disease Zeckoski, R: Water quality modeling for the Kennet Kim, DJ: Clinical and engineering models of brain and Avon Canal, a navigational canal in an inland compliance and deformation associated with catchment neurological disorders Zieritz, A: Variability, function and phylogenetic significance of unionoid shell characters

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Society Committee 2011–12

President: Professor Reavley Gair (1959) Re-elected 2009: Kelvin Appleton (1958) Vice-President and President-Elect: Elected 2009: Richard Whitwell (1984) Professor Tony Watts OBE (1960) Re-elected 2010: Dr Jonathan Gair Chairman: John Horam (1957) (1995, Fellow 2004) Hon Secretary: David Peace (1966) Elected 2010: Dr Lucy Delap (Fellow 2006), Hon Treasurer: Dr John Little (1972, Mrs Heather Powell (1981) Fellow 1980) Elected 2011: Dr Anthony Davenport Editor, Society Magazine: Roger Stratford (Fellow 1995) (1960, Fellow Commoner 1992) Branch Chairmen (Ex Officio): Brian Duffin Editor, Society Website: Mike Diplock (1982) (1973), Judge Alan Pardoe (191), Clive Brunswick (1953), David Sanders (1969), Elected Members Professor John Moverley (1968) Elected 2008: Dr Chris Thorne (Fellow 1963, Co-option: Tony Engel (1961) Emeritus Fellow 2002), Keith Cocker (1972)

The Society President

Professor Reavley Gair writes After completing National Sevice as a Midship- man in the Royal Navy, I matriculated in 1959. I read English with Tom Henn as Director of Stud- ies. In my final year I was recalled to the Navy during the Cuban crisis. Despite the attempted intervention by the then Chancellor, Lord Tedder, the Admiralty would not rescind the order, prob- ably because I was a Carrier fighter director. In the event, however, the recall was cancelled. At almost the same time, I was offered an Assistant Professorship at the University of New Brunswick in Canada, before I had taken my Part II. I went to Canada for a year and taught both in all departments throughout the university. in Fredericton and in Vancouver at the University I took early retirement in 1998 and became a of British Columbia. I returned to St Catharine’s Magistrate in Newcastle upon Tyne and the CO for a PhD during which I supervised Part I English of the Maritime Volunteer Service in the North of and lectured at Madingley Hall. I was then head- England. I have written studies of Shakespeare’s hunted to the University of Wales in Cardiff, but contemporaries and on the structure of play- was bribed by the offer of a salary some ten times houses; I remain a scholar and am working on a what I was being paid in Wales to return to East- new study of Shakespeare. I am also chairman of ern Canada. I taught English there with frequent the Society branch in the North. research periods and lecture tours in the UK. I was I am married to Madeleine, whom I met at Dean of the Residence system and later Director Homerton, and we have two children; our son of Teaching with the mandate to enhance teaching Jonathan is a St Catharine’s Fellow.

64 Report of 83rd AGM

The President, David Peace (1966), took the Accounts Chair at the 83rd Annual Meeting of the Society In proposing the adoption of the Accounts for on 24 September 2011, with about 45 members 2010–11 the Treasurer, Dr John Little, reported in attendance. that the value of Society investments had in- The Minutes of the 82nd meeting were approved creased modestly from £132,721 to £135,122, – proposer Keith Cocker; seconder Bill Schardt. representing a balance in the restricted (Rob- ert Hardie) account of £80,656 and £54,466 in President’s Report the general account. These assets were invested The President said that during the year he had at- in the Charities Property Fund, and had gener- tended about half of the 20 Society social events ated dividends of £9,497. Fewer applications for held during the year plus all of those arranged grants from students had been received leading by the Alumni and Development Office in Cam- to a drop in allocations from £4000 in 2010 to bridge and London. A new branch was due to £2500 this year. Grants from the Old Members open in Northern Ireland. He warmly thanked Sports Fund to individual students who were in all branches and the ADO for their efforts. In re- University sports squads amounted to £2090 – a viewing Committee business he outlined the sup- sum of £365 being added late to the published port that had been given to students, and sug- figure of £1725. The Accounts, duly seconded gested that the student levy might be increased by Professor Tony Watts, were accepted and ap- in the future. He thanked John Horam for lead- proved. (Any member not present at the meeting ing the Committee’s search for someone to suc- wishing to have a copy of the Accounts should ceed Hugh Searle as Secretary. He noted that 125 contact the Society Secretary.) members and 37 guests were expected to attend the dinner – a sign of the continuing steady sup- College Development port for the Reunion that had been seen in recent The Development Director reported that work years. He urged members to complete the feed- on the College Centre had begun in July and was back forms and be generous in support of our due to be completed in December 2012 at about nominated charity. the same time as a new stained glass window in the Chapel also was expected to be completed. Editor’s Report She thanked members for their continuing gener- Roger Stratford said that, by contrast with 2010, ous support. A full report from the Development this year had seen an encouraging increase in Director can be found elsewhere. items submitted by members and students. Some make exciting reading. There are more reports of Elections meetings and marriages of members across the In the elections the following persons were ei- world. Also, unusually, all articles commissioned ther confirmed in, or elected to, office nem by the editor have been received. There has also con: Professor Reavley Gair (1959) as President; been an embarrassing number of members do- Professor Tony Watts OBE (1960) as President- nating books to the College library, and it may Elect – proposer: Duncan McLeish; seconder: not be possible in the future to review all such Derek Turnidge; John Horam (1957) as Chairman books in the Magazine. In general, to accom- – proposer: Stephen Mendell; seconder: Lester modate increased contributions, some items may Hillman; David Peace (1966) as Secretary – pro- have to be omitted. At the same time, the Bur- poser: Tony Engel; seconder: Francis Warner; Dr sar has agreed to fund a modest increase in the John Little (1972, Fellow 1980) as Treasurer – number of pages. proposer: Martin Stanton; seconder: John Oakes;

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Dr Anthony Davenport (Fellow 1995) to replace ceived from the Chairmen of the Midlands, East Hamish Symington (1999), resigned, as a Com- Anglia, North and Wessex branches. mittee Member – proposer: John Moverley; sec- onder: Tony Watts. Other Business The President informed the meeting that the Dennis Potter (1961) suggested it would be inad- Committee had co-opted Tony Engel so that he visable to increase the student levy at the present could advise on whether the Society needs trus- time. His comment was noted, but it was report- tees or a change in insurance cover. ed that the JCR President had been consulted and had opined that current students would not ob- Branch Reports ject to a review as the levy was small and had not Summary reports (see details elsewhere) were re- been adjusted since the 1980s.

Reunion Weekend seminar

Fellow Lucy Delap gave a seminar entitled Know- nate in popular memory. I showed some slides, ing Their Place and writes: which ranged from depictions of servants in com- I was delighted to have the chance to talk to So- ic newspapers, to dignified personal portraits, to ciety members about my recently published book, 1960s pornography, to impersonators of servants Knowing Their Place, at the 2011 Annual Reunion at English country houses. This allowed us to dis- Weekend. The subject of domestic service is one cuss the cultural presence of domestic servants, that most people, whatever their age, find fasci- and our discussion moved from Mrs Mopp (‘Can I nating, and often feel that they have a personal do you now, Sir?’) to Downton Abbey. The ques- connection to. This lecture proved no exception, tions and comments which followed offered some and the discussion was exceptionally lively. I spoke fascinating anecdotes about family memory, the about why I had undertaken the project, sparked spatial and architectural legacies of servant keep- by my discovery of an extensive correspondence ing, the careers of governesses, the sentiments of between mistresses and servants in the pages of respect and care in the servant-employer relation- a feminist periodical, published in 1911. I found ships, and the ups and downs of employing clean- that servants were articulate, vocal participants in ers in the twenty first century. It was a thoroughly the ‘servant question’, and not the marginalised enjoyable afternoon, and I thank all who partici- figures haunting sculleries that tend to predomi- pated with such energy and insight.

Annual Dinner 2011

The late summer sunshine offered a bright wel- David Peace, reminded members that, since its come to members and their guests returning to foundation in 1923, the Society had always been College for their annual reunion dinner on 24 Sep- run by volunteers dedicated ‘through love of this tember attended by 125 members and their 37 place’ to the task of spreading the collegiality guests. We were once again delighted to have of St Catharine’s beyond the College site and of the Master and other members of the Fellowship maintaining members’ contact with the College with us. Before dinner the Master and the Society itself. He thanked the officers and committee, chairman, John Horam, made a brief presentation the outgoing secretary, the Magazine editor, the to Hugh Searle, on his retirement as secretary. branch chairmen and their committees for their Proposing a toast to the College, the president, enthusiastic and dedicated support during his year

66 in office. He urged members to make maximum worked so tirelessly in support of the College and use of the website and the Magazine in order to the promotion of fruitful alumni relations around keep up to date with events and keep in touch the world. It was always a great joy to welcome with each other and the College. He commended members back to College, not least on this the the recent development of the Careerlink scheme annual reunion weekend of the Society. She was and the attempts to link up with Worcester – our delighted to see that this year an alumni choir had sister college in Oxford – as well as entertaining been formed to lead the singing at Evensong – a us with amusing quotes from past issues of the sign of the enduring strength of the musical tra- Magazine, including in conclusion these memo- dition of the College. The Master mentioned a rable words from Tom Henn: ‘looking back over few of the highlights from College life in the past the years it seems to me that St Catharine’s has year (see reports elsewhere in this edition of the stood for a peculiar friendliness, a willingness to Magazine). sustain the dialogue between teacher and taught, In closing proceedings, the president handed which has been commended to all good universi- his emblem of office to Professor Reavley Gair; ties since Plato. For that friendliness, for loyalty and members were invited to adjourn to enjoy and courtesy, and for much else, I am grateful.’ further refreshments in the SCR, in the Christo- Replying, and in proposing the toast to the pher Waddams Room (once again – albeit tem- Society, the Master first thanked the president porarily – in use as the College bar), and the mu- for his speech and all who, through the Society, sic of the Southside Jazz Band.

Libya expedition reunion

Peter Judge (1959), David Sayburn (1958), Si- Gaddafi in the mid-1970s for some years on an mon Allison (1959) and David Barnes (1958) to- oil concession deep in the Libyan Sahara some gether with Dickie Phelps (Sidney) and Ian Bruce 300 miles south of the Gulf of Sirte. David writes (Magdalene) held their own reunion within the ‘Remarkable experiences, dreadful conditions, Society Reunion Weekend to remember the but I had free rein to drive across the Great East- Cambridge University Libya Expedition 50 years ern Erg and to go up in single-prop Pilatus planes ago, when they trucked across the desert in the sitting next to the pilot doing grid searches for pre-Gaddafi days studying oases and having people lost in the desert. Gaddafi was raving enormous fun. even then, of course, and the things he imposed Unfortunately Society president David Peace on us were disgusting. However, I did have half (1966) was unaware of the reunion until break- an hour alone with Mohammed Ali, new World fast on Sunday. He would have liked to have Heavyweight Champion, in Tripoli just after the joined them for reminiscences as he worked for Rumble in the Jungle… but that’s another story.’

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Hugh Searle – retiring Secretary

neutral, but I was pleased that, when the vote to accept partners had been carried, he placed himself next to my wife in the ‘body of the kirk’. She had a good time. I hope he did. Hugh matriculated to read English at St Catharine’s in 1956 and became an Angli- can priest in 1962. He was a full-time Chaplain to the Prison Service from 1964 to 1978, which no doubt stood him in good stead when deal- ing with St Catharine’s alumni. He was then ap- pointed Priest-in-charge at Barton and Coton, and became Vicar of Barton and Rector of Coton in 1984. I am sure that his pastoral skills were of the highest order. Interestingly, Robert Wood- lark was Rector of Coton from 1471 to 1474. In 1997 Hugh was appointed a Canon of Ely, and he was persuaded to become Secretary of the St Catharine’s Alumni Society in 2004 a year or two after his retirement from Barton and Coton. In 2008 he was elected a Fellow Commoner of My first reaction on meeting Hugh Searle was the College, an honour richly deserved. utter relief. I had somewhat precipitately (per- There is a lot to being secretary of the Society haps being flattered) agreed to a suggestion from which even the most assiduous member does not my old friend and St Catharine’s alumnus, Peter see. Hugh has done it all with grace, good hu- Temple-Morris, to allow my name to go forward mour and skill. The swan may have seemed to be as the new Chairman of the Society. I was duly swimming serenely on the surface, but the feet elected (there being no other contestant for the were paddling hard underneath. post) but approached my first meeting having His greatest achievement has been to raise no idea who my other officers or committee col- the profile of the Society in the College. This he leagues were and no idea what they did or what I has done by coming in to College at least once a was supposed to do. week – lunching (and often dining) in Hall, liaising As an experienced chairman, I know a good sec- closely with the Alumni and Development Office, retary when I see one. Hugh guided me through attending concerts and lectures, and participat- my first meeting with skill and aplomb. He was ing in ‘high days and holy days’ on a regular basis. also extremely kind, which he need not have As an ambassador for the Society he has been been, given the circumstances of my election. I second to none. As a result the Society has flour- realised that the Society had the ideal secretary. ished and is now vigorous and healthy. It is a trib- The most controversial issue which we tackled ute to Hugh that the Society/ADO combination when he was secretary and I chairman, was the is more active now than almost any other alumni proposal that spouses should sit in Hall at the support organisation in the University. annual dinner. Traditionally they had been en- He has our profound and grateful thanks for a tertained separately by the Master’s wife, but job truly well done. now that the Master was a woman it was looking John Horam pretty out of date. As secretary, Hugh was rightly Chairman of St Catharine’s Alumni Society

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East Anglia significant buildings, and a talk from an author- In November 2010 the second biennial Dinner ity on the history of Lynn (Dr Paul Richards). The with Current Students was held in the OCR. Or- visit was attended by 30 members and guests. ganised in conjunction with the Presidents of the Tony Watts (1960) MCR and JCR, it was attended by 11 alumni and 11 current students (6 postgraduate, 5 undergrad- West Midlands uate). Students and alumni were interspersed, and The West Midlands Branch held two successful the students moved three times between courses, events in 2011. The first was In March when we to enable the two groups to meet as many of each had lunch together in Kenilworth and members other as possible. David Peace (1966), the Society also had the opportunity to tour the Castle be- President, gave a short talk on what it was like forehand. Dr Chris Thorne (Emeritus Fellow) was to be a student in the 1960s; Sophie-Charlotte our guest and gave an excellent update on the Lappe (2008), Co-President of the MCR, talked College as well as looking back on interesting about what it is like to be a student now. The times in the past. Our President, David Peace, highlight of the evening, however, was a lucid and was in attendance and also addressed us in a very entertaining talk by Fred Thompson (1932), now entertaining manner. The attendance was good aged 97, on being a student in the 1930s. and the food and drink of a high standard. It was In January a Wine Tasting was held in the Col- an extremely enjoyable occasion. lege, led by Professor Ron Martin, who is the Col- The second event was a visit to Chipping Camp- lege Wine Steward as well as the College Presi- den in June. Our host was David Evans (1953) dent. The theme was Pinot Noirs and Rieslings who opened up his beautiful house and gardens from around the world. Organised by Libby Tilley, to us and the day included visits to the Hart sil- the event was attended by 39 members and ver workshop and the Arts and Craft museum as guests. By popular demand, the Wine Tasting is well as lunch at one of the local hotels. Chipping now firmly installed as an annual Branch event. Campden is a beautiful place with so much his- In March we visited Bletchley Park. Organised tory and once again this proved a very enjoyable by Rachel Rowe, this included a guided tour of the event. The visit was supported by Wessex Branch site, an opportunity to visit the various museums, and I particularly thank Clive Brunswick for his and a talk by a World War II evacuee. The visit help and support. was attended by 47 members and guests, which John Moverley (1968) we think is a new record for one of our events. The thirteenth AGM of the Branch, held in the The North College in March, was preceded by a talk from We held a Branch Dinner in March in the function Rachel Rowe and Iain Burke entitled An Arctic room of a local hostelry. One of our members, Odyssey: Volcanoes and Ice. The AGM was fol- Garth Willson (1957), gave a talk entitled: Real- lowed by the Annual Dinner, held in the SCR. Or- ity and delusions in sports and riot protectors ganised by Peter Tee, the dinner was attended including the Emperor’s magic clothes for motor- by 21 members and guests, including Professor cyclists: results from bonking experiments and Sir John Baker and the Society President (David studies. Just in case anybody is mystified by this, Peace), both of whom gave short speeches. Garth has had extensive experience of designing In July 2011 a visit was made to the Hanseatic protective clothing for motorcyclists and for vari- buildings in King’s Lynn. Organised by Dr Jonath- ous sports, and also for riot police. He brought an Dossetor, the visit included a guided tour of the a large quantity of protective clothing along to town, entry to a number of the most historically illustrate his talk.

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We visited Auckland Castle in May. The castle is series of maps of the USA showing the statisti- a historic seat of the Bishops of Durham, and has a cal distribution across the USA of a number of noted series of Zurbaran paintings depicting Jacob themes, including those who thought that they and his sons, which were at that time thought like- ‘lived in the South’, the cotton industry and such ly to be sold by the Church of England. divers topics as ‘beer drinking’, religion, cremato- In April we took the opportunity of seeing our ria, not to mention (but he did!) the distribution President Elect, Reavley Gair, starring in a very of those serving grits with their barbecue. His enjoyable production of A Nightingale Sang in sociological, historical and frequently amusing Eldon Square which took place at a local com- comments on the maps as they went by gave us a munity centre. The play, by CP Taylor, was set in new vision of the meaning of the American South wartime Newcastle. and information about other parts of the USA as Bill Schardt (1968) well. The meal had a Southern theme option in- cluding some rather doubtful ‘Southern Maca- London roni Cheese’ (due to a slight error on the Chair- The annual dinner and AGM were held at the man’s part in conveying to the hotel the recipe Royal National Hotel in February; 37 members in John Reed’s book Holy Smoke – A History of and guests attended. It is disappointing that North Carolina Barbecue), Pecan Pie and a glass numbers continue to decline, but we are grateful of Southern Comfort (made in Dublin for the UK for the ‘hard core’ support of our regulars. The market). In all 34 Members and their guests at- years of. matriculation of those who attended tended and we were delighted that David Peace, ranged from 1950 to 1994. We are searching for the Society President could join us again. ways to broaden support in the future, alongside The joint June meeting with the West Midlands the splendid efforts of the Alumni and Devel- Branch is covered under their Report. opment Office to develop its relations with the At the April luncheon, Keith Haskell (1958), many St Catharine’s alumni who live and work a former British Ambassador to Brazil and Peru in London. gave a talk about his Adventures of a Diplomat, See Alumni Events for Lester Hillman’s report a light-hearted look at his experiences in this role of the July meeting at St Pancras International. including some amusing insights into what hap- Hugh Searle (1956) pp Heather Powell (1981) pened when things went wrong. His talk was very enjoyable and at question time Keith took some Wessex serious questions on the present Middle East In October 2010, at a luncheon at Andover, the crises reflecting his time in the Diplomatic Serv- speaker was John Shelton Reed, Emeritus Profes- ice in Libya, Lebanon and Syria and his personal sor of Sociology at North Carolina University. experience of meeting Gaddafi on a number of John Reed is a former a former Visiting Fellow occasions. 41 members and quests were present. of St Catharine’s College, a former Visiting Pitt These included the College Society President, Professor of History at Cambridge, a former Visit- David Peace, giving the Branch his very welcome ing Fellow of All Souls, Oxford and a judge at the support for a fourth time, including our joint World’s Barbecue Championships at Memphis in meeting with the Midlands Branch at Oxford last May. He is an expert on USA Southern States his- year. Also giving us his regular support was Geoff tory and his subject was What’s Southern about Stokell, a Past President of the Society the American South. He defined the South by a Clive Brunswick (1953)

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Reception at Geneva, May 2011 meet more members of the Catz Family and to The Master and Development Director Deborah share lively memories of our time at Cambridge. Loveluck attended a College reception in Gene- Philip Le Brocq (1959) and va, Switzerland on 15 May 2011. The event took Jurat Mrs Sally Le Brocq OBE place at La Perle du Lac, a restaurant situated in a park on the edge of Lac Leman, beloved by Visit to Stillingfleet, July 2011 both the academic and financial communities, The day was warm, bright and gentle when a and providing wonderful views of the city. Some group of us, about 30-strong, gathered to enjoy fifteen people attended, with matriculation dates the beauties of Stillingfleet Lodge Gardens near spanning almost sixty years, from the late forties York. It was a lovely occasion. John Cook (1960) onwards. Correspondingly occupations ranged and his wife Vanessa were the most charming and from ‘les retraites’ through to those fully en- attentive of hosts who treated us to a brief history gaged professionally in careers which spanned of the whole project which has occupied their time business, academia, international and intergov- (principally Vanessa’s, John told us) for the last 40- ernmental agencies, and charities; A fitting ec- lecticism which reflect positively on both the College and Swiss Romande. Nationalities, whilst UK-centred, were equally wide-ranging. I’m sure the reception will stimulate further contact be- tween College members resident in Switzerland, and that a repeat event will be planned in the next year or two. Paul Everard (1959)

Jersey meeting, June 2011 A select group of St Catharine’s alumni met in June 2011 for dinner at a stunning seaside venue – the Royal Channel Islands Yacht Club, St Aubin, Jersey. Deborah Loveluck addressed us briefly but pungently about the latest developments at our College and we were especially delighted to hear that the proposed College Centre behind the Chapel has been given planning approval. Some of us knew each other well, being long-term Jersey residents, but the presence of Sara Devitt, a new- comer, and Carole-Ann Turner, who had flown over from Switzerland, gave the gathering a more international flavour. Advocate Alan Binnington was a happily familiar face from the island, but sadly Paul Matthams could not be present as he had a stomach bug. In true Catz gallant fashion Top: Jersey (from left to right): Alan Binnington he sent his wife Anne cheerfully to represent him! (1977), Philip Le Brocq (1959), Deborah We look forward to the next gathering in Jersey Loveluck (2007), Sara Devitt (1988) and Carole- and appreciated the chance for our partners to Ann Turner (1987). Bottom: Stillingfleet Lodge.

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and the Society Flag seen here at St Pancras Old Church must have a sporting chance with Altius, having been to the North Pole and back courtesy of Rupert Edis (1990)

20.12 hrs A highlight of the evening came at 20.12 hrs when a toast was proposed by Society President David Peace (1966). To the College and Society it also and uniquely crystallised assembled good wishes to George Nash (2008), the College’s Olympic rowing hopeful to whom a card has since been sent.

The College (and Scott’s) wheel rolls briefly Wheels within wheels into St Pancras – perhaps a first. Left to right: There were insights into the history of the iconic Gavin Dunbar (1956), John Oakes (1961), Dick hotel, just reopened as the St Pancras Renaissance. Martin (1963), Lester Hillman (1970), Frank It was the work of Sir George Gilbert Scott born Macey (1961), Haro Bedelian (1961, Honorary 13th July 1811. His bicentennial was commemo- Fellow), David Peace (1966, Society President), rated just a few days earlier in Westminster Ab- John Horam (1957, Society Chairman), Rose bey. The brass memorial in the nave was designed Mingay (sister in law of Ray Mingay), Mike by George Edmund Street and features Scott’s Adams (1970), John Langford (1961), Kate coat of arms prominently: argent three Catherine Martin and Ray Mingay (1956). wheels sable within a bordure engrailed gules. Lester Hillman (1970), resplendently decked out odd years. They took on a dilapidated farm house in claret or perhaps it was Scott ‘gules’, was encour- and brought it to life again; a couple of acres of land aged by David Peace and John Horam to organise with a pond have been transformed into an imagi- the event having spent the best part of four dec- native mixture of formal and informal gardens. The ades on the projects here. Thanks also go to John tea was super; the College President, Ron Martin, Oakes for ensuring publicity and a near capacity spoke briefly about St Catharine’s, blessedly not audience for the tour which featured the nearby asking us for money, but the message was heard, ‘German Gymnasium’. The Gym has links to the and we all enjoyed the visit and silently hoped that birth of the modern Olympic movement and the something similar might be repeated. evening marked the anniversary of the commence- Lionel Wickham (1954) ment of London’s last Olympic Games in 1948.

One year and seven minutes to the Olympics Memorial to Sir George Gilbert Scott, St Catharine’s College Society London Group cel- Westminster Abbey. ebrated the one year countdown to the Olympics on Friday 29 July 2011 at St Pancras International. Just seven minutes away by ‘Javelin’ the station is the Central London gateway to the 2012 Games at Stratford. Following a tour of the Station the visit concluded with a reception in the delightful St Pancras Old Church, a few yards away but a millennium back in time. ‘Citius, Altius, Fortius’ goes the Olympic motto International table tennis in Madeira

Hamish Yeung (2004) reports on a sporting visit Needless to say, we quickly learnt the value of to the ‘Atlantic Pearl’, July 2011. seat belts! The first two days there were spent acclimatis- Well, I suppose what immediately sprung to my ing in the hotel pool and the practice hall, as our mind was the cake, the wine and the ‘Flanders and competitors arrived and the atmosphere built up Swann’ song about the wine. Apparently Cristiano steadily. We caught up with the other UK teams, Ronaldo grew up there, but if I’m perfectly hon- from Nottingham, Imperial, Kings and Kent, and est, I didn’t even know where Madeira was, how on the eve of the first match day we took part in big it was or even what country it belonged to. the Opening Ceremony at the Madeira University That all changed in April, when I was selected Rectory. After parading in to rapturous applause to go there to play in the 5th European Universi- we listened to various speeches and stood for ties Table Tennis Championships later on in the the anthem of the European Universities Sports year. I had been lucky enough to play in the same Association, then we were treated to a fantas- competition the previous year in Kazan, Russia, tic display of traditional music, flag dancing and where the Cambridge team came 9th. A respect- tambourine dancing by the university students. able position, but we knew we could have done The next day, competition commenced with better, so naturally I jumped at the opportunity to the group stages of the Team Event. Cambridge do it again. This year promised an equally intense had been drawn with Karlsruhe, Ljubljiana and competition between the top student athletes Coimbra from Germany, Slovenia and the host from across the continent, many of whom boast- nation, Portugal, respectively. Our first match ed international caps and world rankings. It was against the Germans went well: we each gave a to last the best part of one week and would be a solid performance to win 3–0. The next match hectic but varied schedule of practice, matches, against the Slovenians, two of whom were world ceremonies and interviews, and of course leisure ranked, was more difficult and although we time and a little sight-seeing. It would be a chance showed some moments of inspiration the final to rekindle old friendships, see familiar faces and score was a 3–0 defeat. The other results in our meet new companions. It would be a rare op- group meant that in order to guarantee progress portunity for me to play table tennis at a level to the knockout we needed to beat Coimbra, that, due to the commitments of my PhD study, I who finished four places above us last year and rarely get the chance to. And the location didn’t whose support from the Madeiran crowd had sound too bad, either: a small Portuguese island been growing all afternoon. We duly stepped up in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, 500 km off the coast of Africa called Madeira. We were greeted by the organising team from Madeira University Students Union, who very helpful throughout our stay, making the logistics of getting between the hotel, university, sports hall and canteen swift and almost effortless. I would describe it as ‘smooth’, but that was one thing it wasn’t: due to the mountainous nature of Madeira we often found ourselves tossed around the minibus like a box of small white celluloid balls in a tumble dryer as the roads wound up, down and around the pretty streets of Funchal. St Catharine’s Magazine t 2011

to the challenge and 3–0 was again the score- After two more days of Individuals Competition line, in our favour, ensuring our continued par- and picking up a few tournament t-shirts as ob- ticipation the following morning. ligatory souvenirs, we attended the Closing Cere- And so, as the sun rose over the East of Funchal mony, at which we were wined, dined and enter- into a clear blue sky, we began preparing for a tained in traditional Madeiran style. It had been Quarter Final against Rzeszow, Poland, who had a great experience all-round and I’m very glad I thrashed our fellow countrymen Imperial in the could be a part of it. The people, the climate, the group stages. It was to be our hardest challenge scenery all make Madeira such a wonderful place yet; three relatively unknown British students- to be – I hope I can return someday to explore cum-table tennis enthusiasts versus a team of more of the island. But until then I have photos, internationals who had won Silver and Bronze in Madeira cake (which actually is more dense and the last two years’ championships. Unfortunately treacley than I’d imagined) and wine (the effects we couldn’t repeat the heroics of the last round, of which are identical to what I imagined!) to and lost 3–0. The competition was eventually bring back pleasant memories of my time on that won by another Polish University, Jozef Rusiecki, little island in the Atlantic, 500km off the coast and although we were out, we felt good about of Africa. our performance. We’d exceeded expectations in I’d like to thank the St Catharine’s College Old being the only British team in the last eight, and Members Sports Fund for providing valuable fi- lost only to teams who medalled. nancial assistance for this trip.

At the Edinburgh Fringe

Rosie Brown reports on her participation in the gained a huge amount of experience! Edinburgh Festival Fringe After rehearsals in Kent, performances opened The St Catharine’s College Society very kindly in Edinburgh on 15 August. There were 20 of us gave me a grant towards my performing in the altogether, including eight cast members, four Edinburgh Festival Fringe this summer. I had the band members and various crew. We lived in two most amazing time, met some lovely friends and comfortable flats and thankfully my grant helped cover rent and living costs. The show was called Jet Set Go! – the cabin crew musical which first premiered at the Fringe a few years ago and was a real hit! It is a comedy musical about the lives of the transatlantic cabin crew of larger-than-life characters. I played the bubbly blonde Welsh air stewardess, Hayley, who gets to sing the very cheeky Valley Song towards the end of the show about her past conquests including the story of how she met Barry, Garry, Sally and Danny! It was all very enjoyable, but also very challenging. Each day we promoted the show on the Royal Mile, posing in various cabin- crew-esque positions, dancing and singing! I learnt valuable lessons about teamwork. Each of us invested personal money in the pro- duction which I believe created a strong sense of

74 commitment to the show. We sold out nearly every David Levesley reviewing for Broadway Baby. He night and received some fantastic reviews. Musical said ‘Jet Set Go is possibly the finest tincture for Talk gave us 5*, saying we were a ‘cast iron musi- serious theatre’ and ‘perfectly, utterly, completely cal, seamlessly done’. We also received several 4* fun, and does everything with a massive smile’ a reviews including a very complimentary one from neat round up of my Fringe experience.

Nickolay’s balalaika

Nickolay Murashkin writes who are not doing Music as their primary subject. Originally coming from Russia, I learnt to play This help was invaluable for the continuation of the balalaika, a folk instrument which resembles my musical training. It also definitely adds to the a three-string triangular guitar, during my school inter-disciplinary profile of the College and to its time and I was part of the folk-instrument orches- cultural diversity. Furthermore, I have performed tra back then. I have since lived in France, Japan, mini-recitals at festive events in Cambridge dedi- and the UK, and always had my balalaika with cated to Maslenitsa – the Russian equivalent of me. However, I did not always have the funds for Mardi Gras. regular tuition. I look forward to meeting other amateur Catz Consequently I would like to praise the Soci- musicians who benefit from the Society’s support ety’s support of musical tuition for Catz students and, especially, to attending their concerts.

Geographers’ Dinner, October 2010

Eighty College Geographers, spanning eight from that category, and that Roy Millward (1937), decades from the 1930s through to those still un- sitting to my right, is indeed the oldest present dergraduates, gathered in College on Leif Ericson tonight; I congratulate him on his outstanding Day (when the Norse landings in Vinland are tra- contribution to the great urban history tradition ditionally celebrated). Some of those present had at the University of Leicester and in particular to not met since the Memorial for Gus Caesar (1933) WG Hoskins’ great series on the Making of the in 1995 and it was suggested that the forthcom- English Landscape, which brought together geo- ing centennial of ‘Gus’, on Saturday 22 Novem- graphical and historical understanding in such a ber 2014, might offer a fitting opportunity for a uniquely brilliant way over half a century ago. future Geographers’ event. The following is the What, faced with the challenge of an event speech by guest of honour Professor Sir Peter Hall like this, can one say? It occurred to me that age (1950, Honorary Fellow 1988) is indeed an issue, and that it might be instruc- Master, Fellow Fellows (if that’s the right tive as well as amusing to compare the world of phrase), Fellow Geographers, Ladies and Gentle- Cats geography sixty years ago, when I first ar- men: I was honoured to have your invitation, but rived here, with the world of today. One personal also somewhat apprehensive. Had I been identi- circumstance was and is relevant, in this age of fied as the oldest living Cats geographer, resem- endless discussion about academic standards in bling the old gentlemen recorded in the College our schools: I arrived, naturally apprehensive, Magazine as leading blameless lives in old recto- from a northern grammar school, lacking any un- ries, and did this serve as a sign that (as they used derstanding of comparative standards. All I did to say on boating lakes) my time was up? I was re- know was that my best school friend Tom Wh- assured to hear a moment ago that I was very far iteside (PhD student 1956–9), who came from a

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background so deeply deprived as to be unim- him the board; looking at it with horror, he said aginable today – mother dead, father gassed in ‘Thank God’ and sat down. World War One, living in a slum and barely hav- This Cromwellian style extended to decision- ing clothes to stand up in – always beat me to the making. Another good friend, a wonderful Cock- top place in the form, equally brilliant in maths ney character called Les Williamson (1951), got a and in languages. We parted at 18, he to Bristol, soccer blue and decided that he’d like to stay up I to Cambridge; later he came to Cats on a post- another year to repeat the performance. Unfortu- graduate scholarship, from there he went on to nately, in a sparkling speech at the end of a rather translate and edit Newton’s manuscripts and to good dinner like the present one, he’d delivered become Professor of the History of Mathematics a masterly piece of self-analysis in which he con- in this University. In 1983, when I was elected Fel- fessed to a lack of moral fibre. At the critical meet- low of the British Academy, a letter arrived next ing of the Governing Body the Master personally day saying Congratulations and Welcome; elected vetoed his application, saying ‘The man has no eight years earlier as the youngest-ever FBA; he’d moral fibre! Says so himself!’ Les went on to a again pipped me to first place. At that point I fi- great career in advertising. nally had the answer to my youthful dilemma: our Another wonderful character was the Senior school, abolished in the comprehensive revolution Tutor, Tom Henn (1919, Fellow 1926–69), one of the 1960s, had indeed been a kind of poor boy’s of the world’s leading experts on the works of Eton, where we were taught by brilliant scholars WB Yeats. In the long years of scholarship, the who’d been drawn into their jobs during the Great Yeatsian mysticism had powerfully infused his Depression. One, an ex-communist turned Trot- own consciousness. When an undergraduate skyite, interspersed lessons on class factions in the read an essay on Spenser’s The Faerie Queen, he English Civil war with advice on what to do when disconcertingly commented that he’d personally the revolution came: ‘Get on to the rooftops and discussed the poem with the author a few nights behind a chimneypot! Pick off the Czarist gendar- previously, which quite put the student off his merie before they get you!’ stride. He also invited John Vaizey for a weekend After that, Cambridge at first seemed a lit- in his country place in Ireland, telling John that tle dull – and certainly drab. The physical qual- he’d fished on the lake for two hundred years; ity, austere and depressing beyond belief now, John, I recall, rather feebly protested that he was is well conveyed in a book like David Kynaston’s previously engaged. Austerity Britain; get someone to give it to you Then, of course, there was James Alfred Steers for Christmas. In the courtyard, still covered in (1917, Fellow 1925–66). He was an amazing fig- decades of grime, we queued at the Buttery for ure, impeccably clad in a three-piece suit com- our minuscule rations of tea, butter and sugar. plete with watch chain, polished shoes complete The only enlivening element was provided by the with spats, and a pork pie hat. Perhaps due to his personalities of some of the Fellows – immortally impressive height, he always seemed impervious caught, a little later on, by a good friend of mine, to normal mundane concerns: once, when what the late John Vaizey (Research Fellow 1953–6), in appeared to be the entire American Air Force flew a novel called Barometer Man; you can still find a over the rooftops for a about twenty minutes, he secondhand copy on Amazon. At the very top was simply continued to lecture while the class, having the then Master, Donald Portway, a no-nonsense downed pens, progressively collapsed into collec- Roundhead kind of character whose proudest tive hysteria. But Alfred played a critical role in my boast was that the wife of another College head life, when John Vaizey launched an ill-fated (and, had once mistaken him for a delivery man. Once, most likely, ill-conceived) campaign to promote faced with a minor nightmare when no scholar me as his successor in the Kenward research fel- was present to read the grace, the butler handed lowship. The climax was to be an intimate Sunday

76 lunchtime sherry party in John’s rooms, to which stress on its practical applications. Small wonder Alfred was invited together with a select group then that so many of those students, both those of John’s students. Fate intervened in the form that remained in academia and those that ven- of the publication the previous day of the results tured into the world outside, carried that mission of the Economics Tripos, in which the students – with them into the worlds of planning, transport, they included Gavin McCrone (1954), later a lead- central and local government, and many other ing regional economist and adviser to the Scottish places. You could truly say that he left his memo- Office, and Brian Barder (1954) who went on to rial everywhere. an outstanding diplomatic career – did brilliant- More than half a century on, what has changed? ly and took John out to celebrate. The result, at Everything and nothing. We have had the quanti- noon next day, was that the only people not suf- tative turn of the 1960s, to which Gus’s students fering from shattering, near-death-state hango- made such a major contribution, the Marxist turn vers were Alfred and myself. With a supreme fi- of the 1970s and the structuralist turn of the nal effort, John asked Alfred whether he’d like a 1980s, and the cultural turn of the 1990s. Among drink. A whisky and soda, was the response. That all these twists and turns of academic fashion, I proved to be the end. With superhuman effort, don’t think I’m mistaken in thinking that Cam- his hand visibly shaking, John managed to get a bridge geography, and especially Cats geogra- modicum of whisky into the glass. But the soda phy, demonstrated a commendable stability of was another matter. John delivered a stream on to purpose and method, a conservatism of fashion Alfred’s spats and, paralysed in horror, was com- if you like, tackling the topics that Gus introduced pletely unable to stop. So I went away to a career with the methods that Gus taught: good, solid, in London, which overall I didn’t regret. empirical analysis. Some here tonight – David Gus Caesar (1933, Fellow 1951–80), the cen- Keeble (1958), Ron Martin (Fellow 1974), Bob tury of whose birth we’ll celebrate in 2014 in I Bennett (1967) – all illustrate this great tradition hope an appropriate way, was not remote at all. in their different ways. Successive waves of Cambridge geographers were Above all, they show the strength of not one subjected to the weekly ordeal, in which – politely but two great traditions of Cambridge human ge- but remorselessly – he deconstructed their es- ography: the economic and the historical. More says, laying bare their non-sequiturs and similar and more, it seems to me on reflection, we need failures in logic. ‘Hold on, old lad’ – his invariable to understand contemporary issues of economic opening – ‘you’ve given us the conclusions before geography – the north-south divide, the plight the evidence’. Nearly sixty years after, whenever I of deindustrialised cities and towns, the concen- write, I always have to justify myself silently if for tration in them of deep and concentrated pock- some good reason I have to do that. Amazingly, ets of multiple deprivation, the challenge of re- as many have pointed out, in today’s world Gus equipping them for the new knowledge economy might well never have made tenure in any uni- – in terms of what’s now fashionably called path versity: he published little, and his strength was dependence: the incredibly strong economic and all in the rigour of his teaching. But what rigour! social constraints that history imposes on people Year on year he supervised waves of geographers and places, and the ways in which just a few of who later became some of the world’s leaders in them manage to escape from these chains. That’s the subject – above all, perhaps, the golden gen- a worthy and also a hugely exciting challenge to eration that came in 1951, numbering among a new generation of Cats geographers, some of them Michael Chisholm, Peter Haggett, Gerald whom are with us in the hall tonight. Let me end Manners and Ken Warren. And that is merely one by toasting our great tradition, past, present and year, albeit special, among so many. Above all, his future. To Cats geography and to Cats geogra- passion was to teach economic geography with a phers, let us raise our glasses.

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Honours and awards

Alison Banwell (2008), a research student at the disc In the mists attracted praise from the critics Scott Polar Research Institute, was the Overall internationally, the BBC Music Magazine stating Winner of the Dow Sustainability Innovation ‘her playing is altogether of an extraordinary Student Challenge 2010–11. The prize aims to calibre’. See also News of Members. acknowledge outstanding work in the field of sustainability and Alison won it for her work on Dr Maurice Glasman (1979) has been made a glacier melt and run-off in Greenland and the life peer as Baron Glasman of Stoke Newington Nepal Himalayas. She also gave a presentation and of Stamford Hill in the London Borough of on her work at the prize ceremony in May 2011. Hackney. Lord Glasman was much in the news in 2011 as the leading policy adviser to the Labour Promise Campbell (2007) won the 2010 London Party, featuring in full-page articles in the Schools Black Child Outstanding Achievement Observer in January, the Guardian in February at Higher Education award. The award was and the Telegraph in July. presented by MP Diane Abbott at the House of Commons. The London Schools and the Professor Robert Gordon (1964, Fellow Black Child is an initiative run by Diane Abbott 1995) has been elected a Fellow of the British who each year holds a conference to discuss Academy. The citation reads ‘Professor Gordon the education of black children and an award has worked extensively on both Testaments, and ceremony to celebrate high achievement. has a special interest in the ancient translations of the Old Testament. He has published a Dr Lucy Delap (Fellow 2007) was awarded number of books and has edited or co-edited one of the University’s Pilkington Prizes for several other volumes. He published a selection excellence in teaching. of his articles in 2006 under the title Hebrew Bible and Ancient Versions. He is a member of Ivana Gavrič (1998), pianist and Instrumental the editorial board of Vetus Testamentum, the Award Holder during her time at St Catharine’s, journal of the International Organization for the was named Newcomer of the Year at the BBC Study of the Old Testament, and was its Book Music Magazine Awards in April 2011 and was List editor from 1997 to 2010.’ invited to perform at the ceremony. Her debut LSBC award ceremony; left to right, the Jamaican Alison Banwell receiving her award from Julian High Commissioner to the UK, Diane Abbott MP, Beresford-Pierse of the Dow Chemical Company. Promise Campbell and Baroness Howells. Paul Griffin (1946) again won the Seatonian Prize in 2010 with a poem on the subject ‘Thou hast made him a little lower than the angels’. Paul was also the winner in 2001 and 2007. This seems to beat Tom Henn’s ‘record’ – he won the prize in 1957 and 1966. The Seatonian Prize is awarded by the University of Cambridge for the best English poem on a sacred subject; the subject is specified for each year. The Prize is open for competition among all members of the Senate, and all persons who possess the status of Master of Arts at Cambridge.

Professor Nicholas Handy (1960, Fellow 1965, Emeritus Fellow 2004) received the 2011 American Chemical Society Award in Theoretical Chemistry at a symposium held in his honour at the ACS meeting in Anaheim, California, in March 2011. The citation reads ‘For the formulation, development, implementation, testing, and applications of state-of-the-art methods in molecular electronic structure theory’.

Ben Lehner (1997), group leader at the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) in Spain, has been awarded the 2010 Federation of European Biochemical Societies (FEBS) Anniversary Prize. The prize recognizes outstanding achievements in the field of Biochemistry and Molecular Top: Ivana Gavrič at the BBC Music Magazine Biology by a scientist under the age of 40. Ben Awards. Bottom: Professor Nicholas Handy at heads the Genetic Systems Laboratory and his the ACS meeting in March 2011. research focuses on understanding the principles and evolution of genetic systems. a ‘standout journalist in an outstanding field’, adding ‘Her empathy for the world beyond Dr Steve Morris (Fellow 2007) and Dr Jerome Westminster gives her writing an extra dimension Neufeld (Fellow 2009) have been awarded Royal often lacking in political insiders. There is an Society Research Fellowships (for five years, overriding humanity to her work, whether she extendable to eight) against strong competition. is covering the death throes of the last Labour government or the birth pangs of the coalition.’ Professor John Pyle (Fellow 1986) has been elected a Fellow of the American Geophysical Dr Chris Thorne (Fellow 1963, Senior Tutor Society. 1995, Emeritus Fellow 2002) was awarded the 2010 Jubilee Medal by the British Trust Jenni Russell (1979), the Guardian and Sunday for Ornithology for his long-standing work at Times columnist, won the 2011 Orwell prize for Wicken Fen where he has trained over 20 bird- political journalism. The judges praised her as ringers and made substantial contributions to

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the monitoring of the bird population there. Last Investigator of the Year. Adam also won a year he logged over 750 hours at the Fen and national prize at the University of Edinburgh handled nearly 700 birds. Academic Training in Undergraduate Medicine (ATRIUM) conference in November 2009 for his Dr Peter Wothers (1988, Fellow 1997) was work on neuroinflammation in autism. awarded the Royal Society of Chemistry President’s Award for his outstanding Jerry Zak (2007) was awarded a Skaggs-Oxford contribution to public outreach. Scholarship to start in 2011. The scholarship involves a joint five-year program of study in Adam Young (2009), a student of Clinical biology or chemistry at the Kellogg School at the Medicine, won the 2010 Peter Brookes award Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California, given by the Psychiatry Department, and the and biochemistry at the University of Oxford. It College helped to fund a trip to Copenhagen finishes with the award of both PhD and DPhil in October 2010 so that he could attend degrees, and presents a great opportunity to the Congress of the European Academy of gain exposure to both American and European Paediatrics where he won the award for Young research environments.

Publications

Recent publications by or about College Buller, Norman (1950) Powder on the wind. Members, donated to the College Library Hove: Waterloo Press. 2011. [83pp]

Archer, Jeremy (1974) A grand alliance. London: Cavaliero, Glen (1964, Fellow Commoner 1986) Jeremy Archer, 2010. [48pp] Towards the waiting sun. Salzburg: Poetry Salzburg, at the University of Salzburg. 2011. Atenstaedt, Robert (1988) The medical [98pp] response to the trench diseases in World War One. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Cohen, Jack (1961) Amanuensis. Netanya: Elders Publishing, 2011. [250pp] of Zion Press, 2009. [259pp]

Atkinson, Simon (2000) Returning science Copp, Michael (2000) Ford Madox Ford: to the social – Making sense of confusion: a Impressions of War. London: Cecil Woolf, 2011. case for honest reflection (The Shrivenham [44pp] Papers, no. 10). Shrivenham, Wiltshire: Defence Academy of the United Kingdom, 2010. [40pp] Culliford, Larry (1968) The psychology of spirituality. London: Jessica Kingsley, 2010. [256pp] Atrill, Simon (1999) with Farbey, J. and Sharpe, R.J. The law of Habeas Corpus. 3rd ed. Oxford: Elliott, Mark (Fellow 1999) et al., eds Effective Oxford University Press, 2011. [255pp] judicial review: a cornerstone of good governance. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. [452pp] Brundin, Abigail (Fellow 2000) and M Treherne, eds Forms of faith in sixteenth-century Italy. Elliott, Mark (Fellow 1999) Beatson, Matthews, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2009. [260pp] and Elliott’s Administrative law: text and materials. 4th ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. [744pp]

80 English, Sir Terence (Honorary Fellow 1992, Morgan, Robert (1960) and Moule, P., eds Master 1993–2000) Follow your star: From Christ alive and at large: unpublished writings of mining to heart transplants – a surgeon’s story. C.F.D. Moule. Norwich: Canterbury Press, 2010. Milton Keynes: Authorhouse, 2011. [243pp] [219pp]

Fleming, Laurence (1949) On Torquemada’s Redpath, William (1961) Poems. Lexington, sofa. London: Black Spring Press, 2005. [197pp] Massachusetts: Barberry Press, 2010. [101pp]

Fleming, Laurence (1949) The heir to Longbourn. Strachan, Geoffrey (1955) trans. The life of an London: Dexter Haven, 2009. [215pp] unknown man by Makine, A. London: Sceptre, 2010. [250pp] Fleming, Laurence (1949) The summer at Lyme. London: Dexter Haven, 2010. [194pp] Supple, Barry (Master 1984–1993, Honorary Fellow 1993) Six days in Poland. Whittlesford: Fleming, Laurence (1949) The will of Lady Asher, 2010. [91pp] Catherine. London: Dexter Haven, 2010. [176pp] Sutherland, William (1964, Fellow 2008) et al. Hickling, Ralph (1952) Childbirth today: too Bee conservation: evidence for the effects of many caesars, not enough joy? Applecross: interventions. Exeter: Pelagic Publishing, 2010. Ralph Hickling, 2010. [182pp] [139pp]

Kilner, Andrew (1959) Achieving excellence in Turner, John (1949) Historians and theologians management: identifying and learning from in dialogue. Warrington, England: Church in the bad practices. New York: Business Expert Press, Market Place, 2011. [210pp] 2010. [140pp] Warner, Francis (1956, Honorary Fellow 1999) MacLaren, Roy (1955) The fundamental things Armageddon and faith: A survivor’s meditation apply: a memoir. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s on the Blitz, 1940–45 (Madingley Lecture, University Press, 2011. [285pp] Saturday 19 February 2011). Cambridge: University of Cambridge Institute of Continuing Martin, Ron (Fellow 1974) & Boschma, R., eds The Education, 2011. [47pp] handbook of evolutionary economic geography. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2010. [559pp]

Reviews

The Medical Response to confined geographically; and related to the conditions the Trench Diseases in under which fighting took place and not to the weaponry World War One used. Although all soldiers would have been affected, this Robert L. Atenstaedt book is mainly concerned with those of the British Army, Cambridge Scholars Publish- hundreds of thousands of whom became sufferers, with a ing, 2011 consequent major impact on the conduct of the war. On Trench Diseases are unusual one hand the text provides a detailed account of how, in that they were: unknown at against varying levels of scepticism, the diseases came the outbreak of WWI; contract- to be recognized as ‘real’ and serious. On the other it ed only by combatants; very recounts, not only how the need for effective treatment

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increased dramatically with time, but also how that need editors’ contributions. Matthew Traherne’s subtle read- was met. The book represents a significant insight into ing of Torquato Tasso’s late work reveals a productive en- the evolution of modern military medicine and it is to be gagement with liturgical language; and Abigail Brundin’s hoped that the author will undertake a comparable study authoritative piece presents the Florentine Academy as a in relation to the German Army, preferably with an in- space of vibrant intellectual debate. This is apt, since the dex. book as a whole is characterised by rich scholarly dia- MAM logue, and is assembled with the intellectual generosity, rigour and dynamism one would expect from its editors. The Law of Habeas Corpus MHG Judith Farbey, R.J. Sharpe and Atrill, Simon Powder on the Wind Oxford University Press, 2011 Norman Buller 3rd edn Waterloo Press, 2011 Talk of writs in the law seldom Norman Buller has dedicated his makes the lay person’s heart fourth collection of poems to race. But if any writ can quicken St Catharine’s ‘in lasting grati- the pulse, it must be the writ of tude’. The College should feel habeas corpus. It is bound up honoured, for the author is a ma- with justice in the common law ture and gifted poet whose work because it orders that a person be brought into the cus- reflects intelligently and often tody of the court for the lawfulness of their detention to wittily upon the interactions between human beings and be examined, hence the link between habeas corpus and the social and physical forces which condition them. He is notions of liberty. That link, and the references to liberty adept at the portrayal of the formative experiences of such which Thomas Jefferson made in drafting the American writers as Louis MacNeice, Robert Graves and Marina Ts- Declaration of Independence, have caused American vetayeva, as well as of painters such as Walter Sickert and scholars to write extensively on habeas corpus. For com- Gwen John. These are the poems of a widely read and cul- plex reasons, rather less has been written by scholars in tured man. Two sections headed ‘What the Preacher Said’ the Commonwealth, so this volume is especially valuable. display a more reflective gift. While ‘A Professor Asleep’ In it, Simon Atrill joins Farbey and Sharpe, the editors, as may be a piece of compassionate observation worthy of a contributor. The volume describes how the practice sur- Graves himself, these ‘preacher’ poems with their incisive rounding habeas corpus in Commonwealth countries now language and varieties of religious imagery go deeper still. differs markedly from that in the United States, and the Norman Buller’s poetry is good for many readings. differences may be expected to grow as the English prac- GC tice, at least, becomes further shaped by European influ- ences. The book has been fully updated to take account of Towards the Waiting Sun the Human Rights Act 1998 and relevant case law. Glen Cavaliero PGT Poetry Salzburg, 2011 It was a particular pleasure to Forms of Faith in read this seventh volume of Sixteenth-Century Italy poems from Glen Cavaliero, be- Abigail Brundin and Matthew cause collections of poems are Treherne, eds becoming as rare as renaissance Ashgate, 2009 men, one local poet (Christopher This attractively presented vol- Hill) being the exception. Ox- ume is the result of a conference ford University Press drowned in 2007 which gathers work of its poetry list, Carcanet and Bloodaxe seek unpublished scholars from the UK, the US, poets, and Arts Council grants to small publishing houses the Netherlands and Italy, in have dried up. This volume follows The Justice of the History, Literature, Art History Night and Ancestral Haunt, a title I associate with Yeats. and Music. Heralded by the editors’ lucid Introduction, Rather than being a typical collection or anthology with the individual chapters examine the specifically Italian poems ectopically ordered, this book has four sections, a expression of the intellectual and theological influences device used in The Justice of the Night. The poems have brought about by the Reformation upon artistic produc- been arranged in sequence, but it is certainly not a Book tion. Several preconceptions about this complex moment of Hours or a Missal. Themes of churches, beached, emp- in Italian cultural history are questioned, not least in both ty, dissolving or run by locums, recur throughout. Each

82 section has as its title one of the poems of that section. Ford Madox Ford: The first, Dissolution, starts with a flood alert reminis- Impressions of War cent of Boscastle, the fate of a pilgrim’s chapel and the Michael Copp great line: ‘For life is dear and to be loved in style’. The Cecil Woolf, 2011 second section, Unlucky Numbers, is a retrospective look Michael Copp has already con- at relationships and poor dear Anthea who gets a poem tributed two booklets to Cecil disclaiming any love or furtive youthful fumbling. Here Woolf’s ‘War Poets’ series: and There is section three, and poems wander across the here he discusses the poems of topological landscape that delights their author with visits an especially interesting liter- to friends and their memories. The final section, Spring- ary figure. Ford first made his board, starts with a dark meeting with that man whom reputation by collaborating in Everyman tried to bribe. Poems travel northward through a couple of novels with Joseph Conrad; later he was to much-loved, broadly-paved Edinburgh to the Hebrides, become a distinguished novelist in his own right, and a marvelling at the cryptogram of space and rock. Finally literary editor of discernment and influential flair. Copp that Welsh goddess Rhiannon takes us into the dark. now provides an informative assessment of Ford’s work Some of the poems have reference to friends or include as a poet of war. Perhaps because he served as an officer snippets of everyday life and it was good to be introduced behind the lines and never in the trenches, Ford’s free- to the author of Seven Types of Ambiguity, the dangers of verse poems focus less on physical conditions than on the metaphor in poems. Scholars might ask if this collection impact of warfare on individuals. Written on the spot, is of the Cambridge oeuvre, to which I would reply ‘There the poems are low-keyed, matter-of-fact and full of ‘a are many hymnbooks to be sung from in Cambridge.’ sense of futility and sadness, but also one…of barely sup- Glen has a sharp eye and measured wit, interposing the pressed anger at so much waste’. Out of tune with their present into favoured experiences. Alexander Pope in his times, the poems sound a prophetic note today. great essay gave us many aphorisms on poetry, but Glen GC gives us this: ‘Do you want to be yourself Effective Judicial Review: that mature man of myth a Cornerstone of Good Then listen to the poem Governance It will show the way’. Christopher Forsyth, Mark PO Elliott, Swati Jhaveri, Anne Scul- ly-Hill, Michael Ramsden, eds Amanuensis Oxford University Press, 2010 Jack Cohen As the title indicates, this volume Elders of Zion Press, 2009 concerns judicial review of gov- The author grew up in the East ernment action, one of the cru- End of London, took his first cial mechanisms for upholding the rule of law and protect- degree at Queen Mary Col- ing citizens against abuses of public power. The volume is lege, London, and came to based on the proceedings of a conference convened jointly St Catharine’s in 1961 as a grad- by the Faculty of Law of The Chinese University of Hong uate student to work for his PhD Kong and the University of Cambridge Centre for Public in chemistry. He became a Pro- Law in December 2008. The conference attracted an im- fessor of Pharmacology in the US pressive array of speakers from around the world and from and Israel, and now occupies his diverse backgrounds, and the volume reflects this depth retirement by writing and painting. He describes this book and breadth of expertise. Leading scholars, judges and le- ‘as a work of fiction. All characters, scenes and dialogs are gal practitioners have contributed essays on a range of top- the products of the author’s imagination.’ Written in the ics, including the conditions of judicial independence, the first person, it consists of a series of vivid episodes from the scope and functions of administrative justice, and the theo- life of a boy growing up in a Jewish family in East End who retical foundations of judicial review. A particular strength eventually gets to be a graduate student at St Catharine’s. of the book is its international nature; essays explore the Interspersed through Chapters 6 and 7 are ‘nightmare’ se- legal and political traditions in a range of jurisdictions, in- quences of how it might have felt to be transported to one cluding Australia, South Africa, the United States, India, of the German ‘death camps’. In the preface, Cohen refers and New Zealand, as well as the UK, and there is an ex- to his ‘solitary struggle’ with the writing, and the reader tended section on judicial review in China and Hong Kong. cannot but feel respect for his efforts. This is a timely and impressive contribution to the field. JRS RM

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Follow Your Star: From what Sir Terence has to say about his Mastership. He was Mining to Heart evidently surprised by his election to an office he had not Transplants – A Surgeon’s actively sought, and he admits that the world it brought Story him into seemed in some ways strange. But although he Terence English does not disguise his frustration at some of the proceed- AuthorHouse, 2011 ings and attitudes of the Governing Body, his identification Throughout most of the Col- with, and affection for, the College are manifest. Advised lege’s history, the Fellows of by Sir Peter Swinnerton-Dyer to remember that ‘the Col- St Catharine’s have elected one lege exists largely for the benefit of the undergraduates’, of their number as Master and, he devoted much time to getting to know the students, even though they have looked and even became a member of the Kittens Club. His wide further afield in recent decades, they have generally cho- experience of the world and broad range of human sym- sen full-time academics already in Cambridge. Sir Terence pathy were appreciated also by many alumni. This helped English’s background was different (although he had be- him to make a major contribution to fund-raising and to come an Honorary Fellow in 1992). When elected Master the activities of the Development Office. in 1993, he had just completed a notable three-year term Although most of the book deals with the author’s pro- as President of the Royal College of Surgeons and had fessional and public activities, it does not neglect more returned to practising cardiac surgery at Papworth Hos- personal aspects of his life. We learn of his love of cars, of pital, where he had gained an international reputation by the 4x4 rallies he has taken part in (one from London to establishing a pioneering and very successful programme Cape Town while he was Master), and of his other strenu- of heart transplantation. ous outdoor pursuits, often with some of his four children. As he tells us in this memoir, Terence English is from Nor are difficult subjects evaded. He frankly avows the a well-established South African family. His paternal profound and conflicting emotions that led to, and were great-grandparents arrived in Cape Town in 1834 after produced by, the ending of a marriage of thirty-five years a three-month voyage from Britain, and his grandfather and his related re-marriage. This honesty seems of a piece married an Afrikaner whose family had been in the Cape with the strength of character he displayed in establishing since the seventeenth century. A great-uncle had made a the heart transplant programme, and in resisting pressure, fortune in the gold and diamond mines of the Rand and even from such powerful personalities as Sir Roy Calne his father, who died when Terence was eighteen months and Kenneth Clarke, to accept views he did not agree old, was a mining engineer. So it is not surprising that, with. As striking as the independence of his thinking and when he left his boarding school, Terence was attracted courses of action are the energy and determination with to the same path and, after some work experience as a which he pursued his goals. The title of this memoir cap- diamond-driller in Rhodesia, studied mining engineering tures the first but ‘follow’ seems inadequate for the sec- at Witwatersrand University. However, during his course, ond; perhaps ‘drive towards’ would be more apt. he ‘thought I might be a better doctor than an engineer’, JAT and so came to London to study medicine at Guy’s Hospi- tal. A year later, he dropped out to go mining in Canada, The Will of Lady Catherine but again had second thoughts and managed to persuade Laurence Fleming Guy’s to readmit him. Thereafter, his commitment was Dexter Haven, 2010 wholehearted and, in choosing to specialize in cardiac Imagining the afterlives of Jane surgery and in pioneering heart transplants, he set him- Austen’s characters is a game self ambitious and demanding goals and pursued them that began with Austen herself with courage, persistence and (obviously) great skill. and continues to the present The story is told factually but personally, and is enlivened day, with players including Joan by detailed accounts of some of the incidents experienced Aiken and Emma Tennant. Lau- along the way and deft portraits of many of the person- rence Fleming’s spirited trilogy alities encountered. Naturally, the chapter on the estab- (The Heir to Longbourn, The Will lishment of the heart transplant programme at Papworth of Lady Catherine and The Sum- makes particularly riveting reading, not least because of its mer at Lyme) offers a good-humoured account of what frank description of the difficulties and opposition that had happened after Pride and Prejudice, weaving in characters to be overcome, for hundreds of people to be given many from Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion. extra years of often vigorous life. It is not surprising that Mr Bennet’s grim joke to his wife about the entail (‘Let us the author looks back on these years as ‘undoubtedly the hope for better things. Let us flatter ourselves that I may most satisfying of my professional career.’ Readers from be the survivor.’) comes true, freeing him to make a sur- St Catharine’s are likely also to be especially interested in prising second marriage to the divorced Maria Rushworth

84 (her brother, Edmund Bertram, refuses to baptise their off- which takes in the worst horrors spring, incurring general disapprobation). Even the most of the Leningrad blockade, the apparently unpromising characters (Mary Bennet, Mr Soviet march on Berlin, and late Rushworth, the conveniently widowed Lydia Wickham) Stalinist repression. Shutov finds find their way to happiness – though not Mr Collins, whose echoes of his own life in Vol- ambitions to inherit Longbourn are thwarted. A particular sky’s devotion to the memory pleasure of the middle volume is the transformation of the of a woman called Mila, and in ‘sickly and cross’ Miss de Bourgh, released at last by Lady a constantly recalled (though Catherine’s death into a happy life of social usefulness, misremembered) passage of cousinly friendship and champagne punch. Chekhov. But Shutov’s search CG for resolution ultimately found- ers on his anger and on the va- The Fundamental Things porous nature of memory. A scathing critique of Russia Apply: A Memoir past and present disguised as a simple romance, this is an Roy MacLaren eloquent and haunting story, consummately translated McGill-Queen’s University from the French by Geoffrey Strachan. Press, 2011 CH The author describes this book as ‘a political memoir … clothed The Handbook of in an autobiography’. He was Evolutionary Economic born in Vancouver in 1934, read Geography history and literature at the Uni- Ron Martin and Ron Boschma, versity of British Columbia from eds 1952 to 1955, and came to St Catharine’s from 1955 to Edward Elgar, 2010 1957 as an affiliated student to read English, with Tom Geographers are keen to point Henn as his supervisor. There are some entertaining an- out that paying attention to ecdotes of this time, including one of ‘an ambitious foray where things happen is central with [Sylvia Plath] in the back row of the Arts Cinema’. He to understanding how processes was then offered a post in the Canadian Foreign Service, unfold. Over the last twenty which opened the way to a long and distinguished career years, space and place have become increasingly impor- in diplomacy, business and politics, concluding in his ap- tant in studies of the economic sphere of social life, and it pointment as High Commissioner for Canada in the United seems that a growing number of economists, including the Kingdom and Northern Ireland from 1996 to 2000. Be- Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman, have ‘discovered’ the rele- sides an insider’s account of Canadian politics in the latter vance of geography. However, as the editors argue in their half of the 20th century, there are skilful pen sketches introduction, both economic geographers and economists of travels to many of the World’s capitals for meetings have tended to overlook the role of history in theories of involving many of the World’s leaders. MacLaren sums up how economies evolve over time. The Handbook addresses his reflections on life as the indispensability of a sense of these issues by collecting the thoughts of a diverse group humour; the need to remember that there is nothing new of distinguished scholars on the aims and conceptual foun- under the Sun, and to prize moderation. dations of a new evolutionary economic geography. This JRS emerging area of inquiry draws on ideas from complexity theory, path-dependence theory and Darwinian evolution- The Life of an Unknown Man ary theory, to further our understanding of the develop- Andreï Makine, translated by Geoffrey Strachan ment of economic processes in space and time. Sceptre, 2010 We are currently faced with many baffling economic Andreï Makine’s latest novel is a typically melancholic problems in the solution of which evolutionary economic lament on loss, recollection, and history. Shutov is a geography has much to offer, namely a distinctive way of middle-aged Russian novelist living in Paris, an appar- viewing the economic landscape, new insights into eco- ent simulacrum of his creator. Abandoned by his lover, nomic dynamics, and an appreciation of the importance he returns from exile to a carnivalesque St Petersburg, of history. where he meets Volsky, an old man equally discomfited IS by post-Soviet changes. Volsky tells Shutov his life story,

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Christ Alive and At Large: Six Days in Poland Unpublished Writings of Barry Supple C. F. D. Moule Whittlesford, 2010 Robert Morgan and Patrick In July 2010, Professor Barry Supple FBA, former Master Moule, eds of St Catharine’s, travelled to Poland for seven days with Canterbury Press, 2010 his son Tim. Their aim was twofold. The first was to see ‘There is no serious reason for the places – most importantly Wlodowa and Suchowola thinking the Bible (either Testa- in the district of Bialystok – from which his grandfather’s ment) to be infallible. Indispen- families had emigrated around 1900. The second was to sable indeed it is, but there is visit some of the sites associated with the destruction by no serious argument to suggest the Nazis of Polish Jewry, including Majdenek, Sobibor that it never errs’ (p.111). Many and Treblinka. On returning to England Barry wove his of the moral and ecclesiological issues which currently journal notes into this brief and poignant narrative of an strain relationships with and within the churches of the encounter with a traumatic past. It is difficult to be precise Anglican Communion are founded on the interpretation about why people make journeys to see ancestral places. of scripture. Varying conclusions result from the differing It may be linked to questions about identity, or a quest methods of engagement: literal, liberal, loose, fundamen- for a deeper understanding of those family connections talist, prejudicial, reasoned, angry or tempered. This inti- that transcend death. But for someone whose family hails mate encounter with the writings of ‘Charlie’ Moule, for from Poland, the country that during the Second World 25 years Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity, is at once War became the graveyard of fifty per cent of the Jews refreshing and timely. alive in the World, the journey was bound to bring pain Thoroughly Anglican and properly Evangelical, Moule’s as well as enlightenment. Barry and Tim’s encounter with thought and belief structure is rooted in his understand- those sites where millions of human beings were insulted, ing of the New Testament, though his is no dry text or beaten, starved, tortured and killed is recounted here code. Scripture, for him, is a point of contact with a living, in a stark prose that is all the more moving for its reti- risen Christ: ‘the Bible is not so much a compass or a chart cence and refusal of sentimentality. Even more poignant as instructions for finding the Pilot’ (p.144). are Barry’s accounts of those nondescript Polish country AMM towns where Jews had once lived in thriving communi- ties whose traces are now all but erased, both from the Poems landscape and from local memory, a problem accentu- William M. Redpath ated by the fact that those mainly low-income Poles who Barberry Press, 2010 happen to inhabit the areas most blighted by the Holo- The impulse to write a poem caust tend to lack the cultural resources they would need comes in many guises, and fre- to respond creatively to the terrible memories associated quently its occasion is of a pro- with them. Particularly impressive are the candour and saic nature. William Redpath subtlety of Barry’s writing, which interweaves personal informs us that ‘these poems experience with historical narrative and shrewd readings began in a creative writing classroom setting, where of the present-day setting. This is a book about the pain- my gifted high school students and I would think up an ful but essential task of remembering horrors that elude agreed-upon topic or idea, or set no topic at all and spend our understanding. twenty minutes developing a poetic sketch, which then CC we all would share, Our understanding was to develop later our own poems into a more finished presentation Bee Conservation: form, which I have done’. His subjects range alphabeti- Evidence for the Effects of cally from ‘Annoyance’ to ‘Teddy Bears’, their treatment Interventions quirky, inconsequential, often humorous; at times they Lynn Dicks, David Showler & delight one with an unexpected flash of beauty. All in all William Sutherland this collection provides a wide variety of human experi- Pelagic Publishing, 2010 ences and responses to a constantly evolving contempo- Bill Sutherland is the Miriam rary world. Rothschild Professor of Conser- GC vation Biology in the University and, with co-authors from the Department of Zoology, has written the first in a new series

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From left to right: Alexander Donald McDonald Adam Fudakowski, holding a bottle of home- (1984), Victoria Jane Holgate (1988), Philip made vodka brew, and Katherine Tween (2003). Brackin (1984), Helen Tebay (1987), The Bride: Tween:Fudakowski Mrs Scotty Hawkes (née Clare Emma Scott, On 28 August 2010, Katherine Tween (2003) married Adam Fudakowski (Queens’ 2003) at Ad- 1987), The Groom: Mr Ian Hawkes (not from am’s family home in the village of Koscielisko in the Tatra St Catharine’s), Andrew Morton (1988), Helen mountains of Poland over the bank holiday weekend. In Vickery (1987), Rachel McDowell (née Webster, true Polish style, the wedding went on for three days. Trinity College, 1988), Mark Warshaw (1987), There were 320 guests and over 300 bottles of home made vodka brew were drunk (one of which Adam holds in the Louise Fletcher (née Rutter, Sidney Sussex 1988). photograph attached). The 2003 Catz alumni who attend- ed were:Jamie Brockbank, Jamie Martin, Simon Collins, Marriage ceremony could take place in the Chapel in Nathan Lang, Alun Turner, Holly Bateman, Louise Garvin, College. Unfortunately the planned building work meant Rachel Trafford, Victoria Brayshaw and Tim Pererra. that this was not possible, but, exceptionally, permission Thurman:Butcher On 26 June 2010 at Whitwell Church, was obtained for the ceremony to be conducted by the St Lawrence’s, Derbyshire, Katy Thurman (2001) married St Catharine’s chaplain, the Revd Dr Anthony Moore, and Chris Butcher. Alice Tighe (2001) was a bridesmaid. accompanied by the St Catharine’s Choir, in the Chapel of Queens’ College. With the collaboration of the Head Por- Wells:Parrott On 25 June 2011 in the College Chapel, An- ter, the wedding party processed through the Main Court drew Wells (2004) married Emily Parrott. St Catharine’s and out of the Back Gate on their way to Queens’. alumni attending included Andrew’s grandfather Fred Beringer (1951), mother Siân (1981), father John (1976), Rogers:Kirkbride On 6 August 2011, with church cer- two uncles, a cousin and many College friends. The Mas- emony and reception held at Wynyard Hall near Durham, ter also attended and the Chaplain conducted the cer- Luke Rogers (2005) married Amy Kirkbride (2005). The emony. Andrew’s other grandfather, the late WJA Wells event was attended by a number of St Catharine’s alumni (1945), was also a member of the College. and alumna Helen Craig (2005) read the College Grace before dinner. Williams:Tunstall On 14 August 2010 at St Simon Zelotes Church, Upper Chelsea, Adam Williams (2002) married Scott:Hawkes On 13 May 2011 at Lulworth Castle, Dawn Tunstall (2002). The ceremony was followed by a re- Dorset, Clare Emma (Scotty) Scott (1987) married Ian ception at the Hurlingham Club where a large St Catharine’s Hawkes. Scotty writes ‘It is lovely that we still know so crowd was present to share in the celebrations. many St Catharine’s members more than twenty years after we were students there.’ Silver Wedding Selig:Caplan On22 October 1985, David Adam Selig Taylor:Frank On 23 July 2011, Rebecca Taylor (2000) (1980) married Helen Caplan at Watford Town Hall. Oth- married Peter Frank at St Bartholomew’s Church, Colne. er Catz people present included Adam’s brother Michael Martyn Rawles (2001) played the organ and Harriet Raw- (1977). les (2000) sang, and a number of St Catharine’s members attended. Golden Wedding Searle:Lüscher. On 25 March 1961, at St Paul’s Church, Onslow Square, London, Hugh Searle (1956) married Liselotte Lüscher of Menziken, Switzerland.

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Deaths Badiozaman (1949) On 8 June 2003, Raja bin Raja Mohar Angell (1953) The College has learned of the death on 14 of Kuala Lumpur, otherwise known as Raja Tun Mohar Raja December 2007 of Charles Leslie Angell. Charles was a Badiozaman (great-grandson of Sultan Abdullah Muham- naturalised Australian, born in Budapest, Hungary. After mad Shah II, the 26th Sultan of Perak). Raja Tun Mohar three years at the University of Budapest he transferred came to St Catharine’s from Raffles College in Singapore to the University of Sydney and graduated with an MSc and read Economics followed by a postgraduate diploma in in 1951. After two years on the staff of the Chemistry Agricultural Economics at Oxford. He went into the Malay- Department of Sydney University and then the School of an civil service and worked behind the scenes after Malaya’s Applied Chemistry of the New South Wales University of independence in 1957 to build the country’s international Technology, he moved to the UK and carried out research stature through diplomatic missions. He served under three under Dr Norman Sheppard (1940) at the Department Prime Ministers – Tun Abdul Razak, Tun Hussein Onn and of Colloid Science in Cambridge. It was because Norman Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad. In the private sector, he was Sheppard was a member of St Catharine’s that Charles for many years chairman of Malaysian Airlines. applied to join. Charles was awarded an Oliver Gatty Stu- dentship in 1953. (These studentships are for whole-time Barlow (1932) In March 2004, Jack Naylor Barlow of study and training for research in the fields of Biophysi- West Kirkby, Wirral. Jack came to St Catharine’s from Up- cal and Colloid Science and are open to graduates of all pingham School and read Economics. His son Bill writes universities, preference being given to graduates of uni- that he spent much of the war as a Gunnery Officer at versities outside Great Britain.) He was awarded his PhD sites all over the UK, but by May 1944 he had transferred in 1955. to Movement Control where he first assisted in the D-Day preparations and then served as Railway Traffic Officer Arundale (1938) On 15 January 2011, Arthur Bruce for Scotland. After the war the family returned to Wirral, Arundale of Fetcham, Surrey. Arthur won an Exhibition to where they remained for the rest of their lives. Initially Jack St Catharine’s from Brentwood School to read English. He was employed as a sales representative with Roneo (office was called up for war service in his second year and was equipment) and then with Peter Lunt & Co., soap manu- later awarded a special wartime degree. He joined the facturers, both in Liverpool. In 1966 he made a complete Naval coastal forces based first at Scapa Flow and then career change and trained as a teacher, taking a post as the Mediterranean, where he captained a gunboat and a schoolmaster at Mostyn House, a preparatory boarding was mentioned in despatches. According to reports in school in Parkgate, Wirral, teaching a variety of subjects College Magazines, he worked on the railways becoming but especially geography and history, staying there until Assistant District Commercial Manager, Eastern Region, retirement in the early 1980s. His hobby was the history British Railways, in 1955 and later Commercial Superin- of transport and he wrote for Classic Bus magazine; he tendent for the Midland and North Wales Division after a was their oldest contributor and much valued by the edi- period at the Chief Operating Superintendent’s Office in tor for his recollections going back as early as 1919. York. He moved to Edinburgh as Divisional Manager and then left British Rail in 1969 to become Managing Di- Brull (1952) On 21 March 2011, Pierre Sigmund Marie rector of Distillers Distribution. His brothers Hugh (1941) Bernard Brull of New York. Pierre came to St Catharine’s and David (1954) also came to St Catharine’s as well as from Beaumont College, Windsor, and read Law. He was his nephew Michael (1987). an oarsman and won the Junior Sculls in 1953. According to past College Magazines, in 1959 he took a Master’s in

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Business Administration at Columbia University and then Clarke (1952) On 8 April 2011, Michael Francis Clarke worked for the Standard Oil Company as a financial ana- of Crediton, Devon. Michael came to St Catharine’s from lyst. He also served six months on active duty in the US Wyggeston Grammar School and read Geography. After Army and became a member of the Reserves. Later he graduating he took an MPhil at City University. Accord- became Vice President for Investor Relations at the Bank ing to College records he was a Tutor at the University of of New York and then ran his own company PB Holdings. New South Wales, Australia, in the early 1960s and then undertook research in hydrology at the Department for Bunn (1930) On 10 February 2010 just after his 100th National Development, Canberra. He was appointed a birthday, Arthur George Bunn of Poole, Dorset. Arthur Lecturer in Earth Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, won an Exhibition to St Catharine’s from Rutlish School, until his retirement in 1984. His wife Jane says that he Merton, and read Natural Sciences. His career was spent enjoyed the Geography reunion in 2010. serving in the Indian Civil Service and he was awarded a CBE in the 1954 Birthday Honours for services with the Collie (1949) On 21 July 2011, Professor Michael John Central Board of Revenue in the Pakistan Ministry of Fi- Collie of Nottingham. Michael came to St Catharine’s nance. According to an obituary in the Pakistan Society from Ashby-de-la-Zouch Boys’ Grammar School and read Newsletter he served in the Civil Service of Pakistan from English According to past Magazines, after graduating he partition until his retirement in 1961 when he was Director lectured at the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, before of the Finance Services Academy in Walton near Lahore. becoming an Associate Professor in the Department of English at Mount Allison University, Sackville, New Bruns- Bunn (1944) On 3 March 2011, John Alfred Daniel Bunn wick, Canada. In 1965 he moved to the Department of of Guildford, Surrey. John came to Cambridge from the English at York University, Toronto, remaining there until City of Norwich Secondary School and read Geography. he retired back to Norfolk (UK) in 1990. The 1980 Maga- His son Robert writes ‘His career was in publishing, mainly zine notes the publication of his book The Alien Art. A in London, finishing with Lutterworth Press in Guildford Critical Study of George Gissing’s Novels. Michael served where he was the Book Editor for 17 years. He enjoyed on the Society Committee in the late 1990s. His daughter his visits to College reunions in recent times and last at- Ursula (1979) is an alumna. tended such a function about five years ago.’ He left a bequest to the College. Crampton (1949) In April 2011, Edmund Patrick Thur- man Crampton (1949) of Cambridge. Patrick came to Burgess (1966) On 25 October 2010, David Charles William St Catharine’s from Blackpool Grammar School and read (Sonia) Burgess of London. David came to St Catharine’s Geography. He then took a BD degree at Trinity College, from Castleford to read law and, after completing articles, Dublin. For many years he was an Education Officer in moved to London where, in 1975, he and Robert Win- Nigeria and, according to past College Magazines, he stanley (1967) set up their own law firm. Winstanley con- was headmaster of the Government Secondary School, centrated on criminal work while David soon developed Katsina, in the 1970s before being appointed Principal a high reputation in immigration law, his actions on be- of Barewa College, Zaria, ‘the oldest, largest and most half of asylum seekers over more than 20 years leading to prestigious school in the Northern States of Nigeria, if not changes in the law. One such major change was the right Nigeria as a whole’ and then Chief Education Officer at of asylum seekers to appeal against a refused entry with- Kaduna. He published Christianity in Northern Nigeria out first having to return to their native country; another in 1979. He was a regular donor to the College and at- was the suing and conviction in 1991 of the then Home tended several reunion dinners in recent years. Secretary, Kenneth Baker, for contempt of court in allow- ing a deportation despite a judge’s order to the contrary. Deacon (1950) The College has learned of the death of This was described as the most significant constitutional Peter Michael Webster Deacon of Kent. Michael came to case for more than 200 years. David also took on cases St Catharine’s from the Lodge School, Barbados, and read involving gender changes, his interest in this area reflecting History and Law. His nephew Dr Clifford (Deacon) Cop- his own transgender nature, of which he had been aware persmith contacted the College for details of his uncle’s since his college days. Increasingly with time, his social life degree while researching the family history and informed was as a woman named Sonia, although in 1985 he mar- us of his death. Dr Coppersmith writes ‘After a career ried a Tibetan refugee and fathered a son and daughter. with the Texaco Oil Company and work in the West In- David/Sonia died after falling under a train at King’s Cross dies, Michael retired due to medical disability, returned to underground station during the rush hour. A murder trial at the UK and passed away around 1985’. the Old Bailey of someone accused of involvement is ex- pected shortly. See also Guardian 1 and 2 November 2010, Eldon (1949) On 7 February 2011 after having been 9 January 2011, and The Times 8 November 2010. in a coma since 2005, the Rt Revd Bishop Michael

90 Hartley Eldon of Nassau, Bahamas. Michael came to Chigwell School, Essex and read English. He was secretary St Catharine’s from Queens College, Nassau, and read and then president of the Shirley Society. He joined the Theology. Michael was the 11th bishop for the Bahamas staff of the West Essex Gazette and moved to the Ox- and the Turks and Caicos Islands, and was the first Ba- ford Mail in 1963. In 1969 he joined the Guardian and re- hamian to become Bishop of Nassau (& the Bahamas), mained there until his retirement, though he continued to a diocese created in 1861 by Queen Victoria’s letters contribute to the paper long after. Obituaries remark that patent. After graduating, he prepared for ordination at he was a stickler for grammar and spelling, and for preci- St Stephen’s House, Oxford, and returned to the Baha- sion in journalism – ‘the kind of journalist who gives jour- mas in 1954. He served in Bassau and Grand Bahama as a nalism a good name’ according to a former editor of the parish priest, and then as Archdeacon of Grand Bahama Guardian. See obituary in Guardian 15 December 2010. before his elevation to the episcopate as Suffragan Bish- op of New Providence in 1971. The Bahamas government Field (1935) On 29 December 2010, Major John Hen- appointed him the first chairman of the College of the ry Seguin Field of Heathfield, Sussex. John came to Bahamas, over which he presided for 20 years. During St Catharine’s from Oundle School and started reading that time, he saw the college evolve from a community- Medicine, but changed to a general degree including orientated institution to the threshold of becoming the psychology, military studies, history and Spanish. He University of the Bahamas. He was appointed a Compan- was captain of the University small-bore shooting team ion of the Order of St Michael and St George, and the in 1937–8. After graduating, he joined the Royal Artillery government of the Bahamas awarded him the Bahamas and then the Royal Army Service Corps. He was in France Order of Merit. in charge of staff cars in 1939–40 and was evacuated from Calais on the last boat. He served in Africa through Ellis (1960) On 11 November 2010, Christopher John the war, but in 1945 returned to the UK – to a tank trans- Ellis of Cheltenham. Christopher came to St Catharine’s porter unit in East Anglia. After serving in Egypt 1953–6 from Queen Elizabeth’s Hospital School, Bristol, and read and then overseeing sea transport in Sheerness and An- Mathematics and Mechanical Sciences. His son Peter glesey, he left the army in 1959 for work in the City. He writes ‘He played rugby while at College and was also found this an unsatisfying career and in 1963 he retrained a keen member of the University Gilbert and Sullivan as a special-needs teacher and taught at Chailey Heritage Society, established during his time at Cambridge. In his School in Sussex until he retired in 1987. As a hobby, he career, he worked as a business analyst and database bought dilapidated properties and renovated them him- consultant. He was an exceptionally talented program- self. His son Michael (1967) was also at St Catharine’s. mer, being a founder member and chief technical officer for Oracle UK until his retirement. Latterly he spent some Garnham (1941) On 21 April 2011, Robert Harry Gar- years in Ireland before finally settling in Gloucestershire.’ nham of Malvern, Worcestershire. Bob won an Exhibi- tion to St Catharine’s from Boston Grammar School and Embiricos (1932) The death of George Leonidas Embiricos read Natural Sciences. His brother Peter (1944) was also was reported in the 2010 Magazine, but unfortunately at St Catharine’s. his College records were confused with those of his cous- in (see below). George Leonidas came to St Catharine’s Gilbert (1940) On 18 March 2011, John Robert Gilbert from Harrow School and read Economics. Contrary to the of Colwyn Bay, North Wales. John won a Scholarship report in the 2010 Magazine, he was in College for the to St Catharine’s from Epsom College, Surrey, and read full three-year course and took his degree in 1935. Modern & Medieval Languages. His daughter Anne writes ‘My father was a keen chess player and, if any Embiricos (1938) On 21 February 2011, George Aris- records of the chess club remain for the period he was tides Embiricos of Geneva, Switzerland. George came to at St Catharine’s, you may find his name there. He was St Catharine’s from Makris College, Athens, and, after some called up during the war and served in the Intelligence private tuition in England, read Economics for one year, but Corps as a code breaker at Bletchley Park. He was a tax then had to leave because of the war. His wife Maria writes inspector his entire working life from 1947 to retirement ‘Among his hobbies George enjoyed sailing expeditions, on in 1981.’ According to the College Magazine, he won the one occasion reaching the North Cape and St Petersburg. Naumann cup at the Metropolitan Chess Club in 1948. He was an erudite, knowledgeable and cultured man – an avid reader of literature, poetry and philosophy, and a keen Godwin (1944) On 2 August 2010, Robert Charles God- collector of Art. He was a man of the Renaissance’ win of Harpenden, Hertfordshire. Bob won a scholarship to St Catharine’s from Rutlish School, Merton, and read Ezard (1957) In December 2010, Edward John Ezard Mechanical Sciences. 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Handley Page before joining Marshall in Cambridge. In followed by an apology the following year. After gradu- 1958 he moved with his family to Harpenden when he ating, Geoffrey became a librarian and worked for Liv- joined de-Havilland. He was involved in pioneering aer- erpool Corporation. By the 1970s he was Sub-Librarian ospace developments and remained with the company at the University of Southampton researching the use of through the Hawker Siddeley takeover and later with an ICL 1901 computer for listing its archives and manu- British Aerospace, rising to become their Director of Tech- scripts. He edited books about records left by ships’ cap- nology. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Aeronautical tains and customs officers in the 18th century (reviewed Society. Bob was a quiet and modest man and, according in 1974 and 1995 College Magazines). to the 1996 St Catharine’s Directory, spent his retirement pursuing his vintage car interests (Bugatti in particular). Haydock (1939) In April 2009, Bryan Milnes Haydock of Virginia Water, Surrey. Bryan came to St Catharine’s from Halnan (1938) On 19 July 2011, Geoffrey Albert Halnan St Edward’s School, Oxford, and read Modern & Medi- of Fareham, Hampshire. Geoffrey came to St Catharine’s eval Languages (French and German). He was cox of the from the Perse School, Cambridge and read Engineering. 1st VIII. According to College records, he served in the His widow Connie writes ‘He was a member of the Home Royal Artillery during the war and then studied account- Guard while an undergraduate. Although accepted for a ancy, becoming a partner at Waterworth, Rudd & Hare, commission in the Royal Corps of Signals in July 1943, he chartered accountants of Blackburn. He retired in 1986. was ordered by the War Ministry to teach Mathematics to RAF Cadets so that they would have sufficient skills to Hellyar (1942) On 18 June 2011, John Edward Hellyar become pilots. In 1947 he became an Experimental Of- of Herne Bay, Kent. John came to St Catharine’s for an ficer with the Admiralty and in 1960 he was appointed RAF University Short Arts Course having joined the RAF as a Scientific Advisor to the Admiral on the British Navy straight from Simon Langton School, Canterbury, in staff in Washington DC. Subsequently in the Royal Na- 1939. In 1946 he wrote to the College asking if he might val Scientific Service he helped develop many projects return to do a full degree but, sadly, his lack of any Higher including: “… triumphs in the development of the POLA- School Certificate qualifications and the over-subscription RIS programme and … outstanding contributions to SEA- for places after the War made it impossible. WOLF and WM40.” After his retirement in 1980 he took a special interest in Crofton Old Church of St Edmund’s, Hopkins (1957) On 5 November 2010, suddenly and Stubbington. As a founder member of the Friends of unexpectedly, Richard George Julian Hopkins of Lower Crofton Old Church he helped in various aspects of the Bentham, Lancaster. Richard came to St Catharine’s from restoration of the building and successful revival of the Kingswood School, Bath, and read English. He played services and congregation.’ His brother Keith (1938) who cricket and hockey for the College and was a leading light died in 2006 was also at St Catharine’s. in Shirley Society drama productions. After a Postgradu- ate Education course, he taught at schools in Basingstoke, Hampson (1942) In January 2010, George Norman Buckenham (Suffolk), Grange-over-Sands, Witherslack Hampson of Tunbridge Wells, Kent. George came to and Kendal, specialising in English and History, drama St Catharine’s to read Archaeology and Anthropology, and sport. He retired in 2006. His widow Bette writes but his studies were interrupted by the war during which ‘Richard was a humble, giving man who usually avoided he served as an officer in the Royal Artillery. He returned the limelight, although he did enjoy his amateur dramat- in 1946 and took the ‘Devonshire Course’ for the colonial ics. When he died, I was touched by the number of his old administrative service. According to College Magazines of pupils who wrote to tell me how much they had loved him the late 1940s and the 1950s he was a District Officer in – I think, perhaps, that is the most fitting tribute of all’. the colonial administrative service at Nyeri, Kenya, during the period of the Mau Mau rebellion and was awarded an Irving (1950) On 20 April 2011, George Anthony Irv- MBE in the 1955 New Year Honours. That year he moved ing of Westerham, Kent. George won an Exhibition to to Nairobi as Administrative Liaison Officer (Intelligence) St Catharine’s from Dulwich College and read Natural to the Government and then in 1958 he transferred to Sciences and Medicine. He spent his career as a General Kitale as the District Commissioner. He published a book Practitioner. on Kikuyu Land Law and Customs. George was a regular donor to College funds. Jervis (1949) On 21 July 2011, Frederick Robert Anthony Jervis of Henley-on-Klip, Republic of South Africa. Robert Hampson (1944) On 17 October 2010, Geoffrey Hamp- Came to St Catharine’s from Belmont Abbey, Hereford, af- son of Southampton. Geoffrey came to St Catharine’s ter serving in the Royal Signals in Malaysia. He read English, from Fleetwood Grammar School and read History. His winning the Essay Prize in 1952 and rowing in the 1st May death was erroneously reported in the 1970 Magazine Boat. According to College records he was Area Manager

92 for Hope & Sons in Kenya and Tanganyika until 1966 and Lacey (1940, Fellow 1951, Emeritus Fellow 1968) On 24 then Marketing Manager for H Wrighton. From 1971 to July 2011, Walter Kirkpatrick (Pat) Lacey of New Zealand. 1990 he was Development Manager for F Sage, South Af- See the College Report section of this Magazine. rica, and then Marketing Manager for the Aluminium Fed- eration of South Africa until his retirement in 1995. Lowe (1931) On 9 February 2011, Basil John Assheton Lowe of Esher, Surrey. Basil came to St Catharine’s from Johnson (1951) Early in 2011, Commander Russell Pepin Rossall School, Lancashire, and read Economics. He played Hemming Johnson of Ulverston, Cumbria. Russell came both rugby and cricket for the University and, after gradu- to St Catharine’s from the Nautical College, Pangbourne ating, played rugby for London Welsh from 1934 (captain as a Naval cadet and read Mechanical Sciences. According in 1937, 1938 and 1946) and cricket for Surrey. During to College records, he was in the Royal Navy for 55 years, the war he was a Captain in the 4th Battalion Grenadier entering as a cadet and retiring as Commander. He Guards Armoured Division and landed in Normandy in served as an engineer in submarines and general service, 1944. After the war he joined his father’s accountancy and was also associated with the shipbuilding industry as firm in the City and qualified as a chartered accountant. a Project Officer at the Barrow-in-Furness shipyards. He was awarded the OBE in 1984. Lowe (1996) In 2010, Rupert Anthony (Tony) Wil- liam Lowe of Okehampton, Devon. Tony came to Kneisel (1950) On 15 August 2009, Ernst John Kneisel of St Catharine’s as a PhD student researching in Botany af- Belleville, Ontario, Canada. Ernst came to St Catharine’s ter graduating from Reading University. He also took the in 1950 as an affiliated student, having taken an AB in Diploma in Spanish in 1998. He was awarded his PhD in Political Science at Harvard in 1947 and worked for an 2001, the subject of his thesis being ‘the supernumerary investment bank in New York City. On a trip to Europe in segment system of Rumex acetosa. L. (Polygonaceae)’. 1950, he and his wife visited a friend at Cambridge, Harry Johnson, a lecturer in economics who persuaded Ernst to Marsden (1950) The College has learned that Michael apply for a place to read economics. St Catharine’s was Marsden of Montreal, Canada, died on 21 October 2009. chosen because Kenneth Berrill (Fellow 1950–62, Hon- Michael won an Exhibition from Dame Allan’s School, orary Fellow 1974–2009) was a friend of Johnson. Af- Newcastle, in 1948 and came up in 1950 after National ter gaining his BA in 1952, Ernst returned to Harvard to Service to read Geography. According to past Maga- work for a PhD, then had jobs with New York insurance zines, he took a postgraduate course at McGill University, and banking companies. In 1958 the couple opted for Montreal, after graduating from Cambridge and in 1958 a complete change of lifestyle, and moved back to his took part in an expedition to Arctic Canada with alumnus wife’s home-town close to Lake Ontario, Belleville, where JB Bird (1947). He joined Sir George Williams University, her father owned a large hotel. It was agreed that Ernst Montreal, in 1963 as a part-time lecturer in geography would look after the food and beverage side of the ho- and was appointed Assistant Professor of Geography tel, and his wife the accounts. In the years that followed, there two years later. He was promoted to Associate Pro- they brought up four children, and Ernst became deeply fessor in 1970, a position he held at Sir George Williams involved with local politics, in particular the industrial de- and, after its 1974 merger with Loyola College, at Con- velopment of the town, and the establishment and ad- cordia University, until his retirement in 1995. ministration of a College. In the early 1980s, his wife died and he became a self-employed ‘consulting economist’. Martin (1958) On 26 April 2010, John Ronald Frank Mar- tin of Ashford, Kent. John came to St Catharine’s from Kotila (1987) On 12 May 2010, the Revd Professor Heikki Sevenoaks School, Kent, and read Estate Management. Tapani Kotila of Helsinki. Heikki graduated as Master of He was Secretary of the Livestock Auctioneers Associa- Theology from Helsinki in 1984 and came to St Catharine’s tion. Ronald Martin (1933) was his father. as a PhD student three years later. The subject of his dis- sertation was the commemoration of the dead in the writ- Mason (1926) On 17 August 2010 at the age of 103, Ken- ings of St Augustine. He became an Associate Professor in neth Mason of Burgess Hill, Sussex. His son James (1965) Dogmatics at Helsinki University in 1996 and in the Uni- writes ‘Ken came to St Catharine’s from Bedford Modern versity of Joensuu in 2000. In 2003 he was elected Profes- School on a Kitchener Scholarship. He read English and His- sor in Practical Theology at Helsinki University. He had the tory and represented the College in hockey, rugby and ath- ability to combine his academic responsibilities with close letics as well as playing hockey for Bedfordshire on the left attention to the ideas of colleagues and students. Heikki wing. In 1933 he joined the staff of Hurstpierpoint College was also a theological expert of the Lutheran Church of in Sussex where he taught until his retirement in 1973. 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charge of hockey he coached several future internationals Murphy (1948) On 30 June 2011, John Raymond Mur- including Sir Derek Day (1949), one of a number of Ken’s phy of Burlington, Ontario, Canada. John came to pupils who came on to read history at St Catharine’s. From St Catharine’s for a postgraduate Agriculture course after 1935 to 1947 he commanded the school’s Officer Training graduating with a BSc from Reading University. According Corps and was awarded a military MBE in recognition of to College Magazines, after taking a Masters degree in his services in wartime (following instructions from the War Business Administration, he became President of Pennwalt Office in 1939 to “produce officer material for the armed of Canada Ltd (industrial chemicals). During his nine-years services”). Many former pupils and colleagues gathered at presidency the company was featured in the book The his funeral to remember an outstanding schoolmaster and Hundred Best Companies to Work for in Canada. Interest one of the great legends at the school.’ in personnel matters led John to become vice-president of Drake Beam Morin-Canada Inc., a company providing re- Mawhood (1942) On 28 November 2010, Philip North employment assistance to redundant employees. In the Mawhood of Dawlish, Devon. Philip won a scholarship 1980s he was instrumental in the formation of a Canadian to St Catharine’s from Harrow Grammar School and read Chapter of the St Catharine’s College Society and became Modern & Medieval Languages. Desperate to be in action, its president in 1990. He was always very active in the he joined the University Air Squadron and then interrupted Society. His brother Lloyd Murphy (1938) was also at his studies to join the RAF. Wartime training in Rhodesia St Catharine’s. The 2002 Magazine records the diamond and Egypt saw him become a pilot with No. 3 Squadron, wedding of Lloyd and the golden wedding of John. surviving a fire in his Tempest aircraft whilst stationed in Berlin. After demobilisation he joined the Colonial Service Nicholson (1941) On 22 November 2010, Brian Fisher and served 15 years as an administrative officer in Tangan- (Nick) Nicholson of Wellington, Somerset. Nick came yika, becoming District Commissioner of Ukerewe District to St Catharine’s from Stockton Secondary School and in 1956. After Tanganyika became an independent state initially read History. His studies were interrupted by war he worked for UNESCO setting up the African Training service and he served as a Captain in the Royal Artillery and Research Centre in Administration for Development, in Italy and Greece. Returning to Cambridge in 1946, he CAFRAD. Returning to the UK Philip gained a PhD from changed to reading Geography and also played in the 1st the University of Sussex with his dissertation Decentrali- XV rugby, 1st XI cricket and 1st VI tennis. After graduat- sation in tropical Africa; the cases of Cameroon and Tan- ing, he trained as a teacher and spent his whole career at zania. Based for 20 years at the University of Birmingham Wellington School, Somerset. He became Head of Ge- specialising in comparative government and political de- ography and was the master in charge of cricket, serving centralisation in developing countries, Philip carried out also for a time as boarding housemaster. He was an avid consultancies in Africa, the Far East and island states. Be- collector and thus a familiar figure at local auctions and tween 1976 and 1978 he was appointed the first Professor antique shops, seeking a bargain. His greatest find was of Local Government at Ahmadu Bello University in Niger- discovered in a local shop – a small drawing which turned ia and, in semi-retirement, he became an Honorary Fellow out to be a Rembrandt; Nick put this up for sale and the at the University of Exeter. A gifted linguist, he described proceeds funded a larger family home. himself as a life-long amateur actor and yachtsman. Oakley (1967) On 29 July 2011, Anthony James Oak- Mischler (1939) On 10 September 2009, Norman ley of London. Tony won a Scholarship to St Catharine’s Martin Mischler of Bungay, Suffolk. Norman came to from Borlase’s School, Marlow, and read Law, winning St Catharine’s from St Paul’s School, Kensington, and read the Adderley Law Prize and staying on after graduating History and was a Cricket Blue in 1947. He was Chairman to read for his LLB. Tony was a Fellow of Trinity Hall from of Berger Jenson & Nicholson Ltd and its parent company 1979 to 2002 and lectured at Cambridge from 1975 to Hoechst UK, and was awarded the Officers Cross of the 2002. He specialised in the Law of Trusts and wrote sev- Order of Merit, Federal Republic of Germany, in 1985 eral authoritative books on the subject. He also worked for Gray’s Inn, where he engaged in major commercial Mohar (1949) See Badiozaman (1949). litigation with particular reference to all aspects of trusts and had an extensive litigation and advisory practice in Mousell (1940) The College has learned of the death of the areas of private trusts, wills and probate. Tony spoke Charles Bruce Mousell of Wimbledon in January 2009. fluent Spanish and was an expert in Spanish Law; he Bruce came to St Catharine’s from Harrow School and read drafted trust deeds in Spanish for use in offshore jurisdic- Economics, but left for war service after his first year and tions such as the Bahamas which are utilized by Spanish- did not return after the war. He served with the 8th Army speaking clients, and advised on succession issues in most in North Africa and the Gurkha Rifles in Greece. According other Western European jurisdictions. to College Magazines, he was in Aden after the war.

94 Ogden (1960) On 8 January 2011, very unexpectedly, Parker (1935) On 17 January 2011, Eric Vinter Parker of (John) Steven Ogden of Southampton and, more re- Lincoln. Eric came to St Catharine’s from City School, Lin- cently, Windermere, Cumbria. Steve won a Scholarship to coln, and read Modern & Medieval Languages. He rowed St Catharine’s from Harrogate Grammar School and read in the 1st VIII. After graduating he became a Manage- Natural Sciences, staying on after graduating to research for ment Trainee at Metal Box and joined the Royal Naval a PhD in Chemistry. He was then elected to a Research Fel- Volunteer Reserve. He was mobilised in August 1939 into lowship at St Catherine’s College, Oxford. In 1975 he was anti-aircraft gunnery and was one of the first radar of- appointed to a Lectureship in Inorganic Chemistry at South- ficers by December that year. He supported the Norwe- ampton University and retired there as Reader in 2008. He gian campaign of 1940 as a skiing school radar operation was internationally known for his research on high tempera- instructor. He then served as Commanding Officer at ture and vapour phase molecules and reactive intermedi- the radar stations on Fair Isle 1941–3 and the Shetlands ates. He published in excess of 150 research papers and his and Scapa Flow in 1944. After a spell at the Admiralty fundamental contributions to matrix isolation research were 1945–6, he returned to Metal Box Head Office, first as recognised by the award of the Royal Society of Chemis- PA to the Managing Director and then as a Head of De- try’s Corday-Morgan Medal and Prize in 1977 and by a DSc partment overseeing design, planning and contracts. from Cambridge in 2005. Steve was also an enthusiastic, popular and able teacher; he published the undergradu- Randall (1950) On 26 April 2011, Allen Arthur Stephen ate text, Introduction to Molecular Symmetry in 2001. He Randall of Lowestoft, Suffolk. Allen won a Choral Exhibi- was a violinist in the Southampton Concert Orchestra and tion to St Catharine’s from Brentwood School and read a founding member of the Gorphwysfa Climbing Club. Sev- Mathematics followed by the Postgraduate Certificate in eral of Steve’s St Catharine’s contemporaries were present at Education. His brother, also an alumnus, the Revd Canon a memorial of music and reminiscences in April 2011. John Randall (1949), writes ‘Allen sang regularly in the Chapel Choir and took part in the activities of the Col- Page (1949) On 29 July 2011, Michael James Page of lege Music Society. Graduating in 1953, his Mathemat- Northwood, Middlesex. Michael came to St Catharine’s ics degree laid the foundation for a career teaching the from Merchant Taylors School and read Rural Estate subject in secondary schools. He held a variety of posts Management. He became a Chartered Surveyor and, including some years as Head of Department. During his after three years with Nightingale Page & Bennett of retirement years in Lowestoft he read for a degree in Phi- Kingston-upon-Thames, he entered the family build- losophy at the University of East Anglia.’ Of this, Allen ing business, Page and Sons Ltd. He was a director of himself wrote in 2001 ‘UEA awarded me First Class Hon- the company from 1954 until his retirement in 1989. His ours, which shows that I did quite a bit more work than I brother Gordon Page (1953) is also an alumnus. did at St Catharine’s fifty years ago!’

Pahl (1956) On 3 June 2011, Raymond Edward Pahl of Reeves (1952) On 17 June 2010, Robert Reeves of Fleet, Bishop’s Castle, Shropshire. Ray came to St Catharine’s Hampshire. Robert came to St Catharine’s from Liver- from St Albans School to read Geography. He went on to pool Collegiate School and read Modern & Medieval doctorate work in Sociology at the London School of Eco- Languages. He was treasurer of the Boat Club and in the nomics at the same time as being a tutor for the University Cardinals. After graduating, Robert did national service of Cambridge Board of Extra-Mural Studies. He was ap- working in intelligence and training as an interrogator pointed to a Lectureship in Sociology at the University of after which he obtained a BSc in Economics from Lon- Kent in 1965, and promoted to a personal chair in 1972, don University. His son Martin (1988) writes ‘My father from which he retired in 1995. Besides being Head of De- loved his time at St Catharine’s where he made life-long partment at Kent during the 1970s and 1980s, he was friendships; he always spoke fondly of Tom Henn (and heavily committed elsewhere as a leading member of the his dog). He worked in education but found it more re- International Sociological Association and co-founder of warding to set up his own business writing and selling the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, educational software. His language training came in among many other activities. His best-known book Divi- handy as he taught himself machine code and computer sions of Labour, 1984, studied the varieties of work on the programming. He was very proud that I also managed to Isle of Sheppey. In the early 1970s he started buying Old attend St Catharine’s and that I was fortunate enough Master drawings and then modern British art; eventually to meet my wife Joanna (née Whiteley, 1988) there. He it was an extensive collection, part of which he gave to reminisced of climbing over gates and in through fellow the British Academy to which he was elected in 2008. He students’ windows in the days before students had their also gave individual pictures to the Fitzwilliam Museum own keys and was also delighted to read of the success of and to the College as reported in the 2009 Magazine. See any College member whether in literature or on the river. also The Times 30 June 2011 and Guardian 26 July 2011. Truly a man of St Catharine’s.’

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Richards (1954) On 4 September 2010, John Thomas original backers of Pizza Express which they ran for some Gordon Richards of Cardiff. John came to St Catharine’s thirty years. One day in the early years of this venture, from High Pavement School, Nottingham, and initially water overflowed from their Fulham Road premises into read Economics, changing to Archaeology & Anthropol- the basement and ‘Ted’, the enraged proprietor of the ogy in his second year. According to College Magazines, illegal casino gaming club sited there, emerged. Ted and he was twenty years on the staff of Cardiff University, Ronald became firm friends and Ronald joined the estab- retiring from his post of Senior Lecturer in Education in lishment, assisting in the application for a gaming licence 1994. In retirement he produced several books, includ- to make the setup legal. In the 1980s the casino was sold ing Wales on the Western Front (1994), Cardiff: A Mari- off for a good price, but Ronald and Peter continued to time History (2005) and Maritime Wales (2007). He was develop Pizza Express until the business was finally sold awarded an Honorary Fellowship by Cardiff University in in the late 1990s. 1986 for achieving international distinction in his field. Teague (1950) The College has learned of the death in Ries (1971) In September 2010, Professor Frank William 2009 of John David Teague of Derby. John won a State David Ries of California, USA. Frank came to St Catharine’s Scholarship to St Catharine’s from Blackpool Grammar from Webster College, USA, and read History. After School and read Modern & Medieval Languages. Accord- graduating he returned to the USA and researched for ing to College Magazines, he played soccer for the Col- his PhD in Theatre at Indiana University. He spent his ca- lege in 1951–2 and by 1958 was teaching at the Abbey reer at the University of California at Santa Barbara where School, Ramsey, Huntingdonshire. he was one of the most popular and widely recognized teachers on the UCSB campus, introducing generations Topping (1945) On 7 August 2010 after a long illness, of undergraduates to the History of Dance by employing Kenneth Topping of Thornton Cleveleys, Lancashire. Ken his unique blend of lecturing and the reconstruction of came to St Catharine’s from Arnold School, Blackpool, historical forms of dance. The UCSB Senate granted him and read Economics and History. His wife Sheila writes the Distinguished Teaching Award in 2004. He served ‘After graduating, Ken returned to the North West and for several years as the Chair of the then Department of made a successful career in teaching. He became Head Dramatic Art and for several more years as Director of of Division of Modern Studies in the Faculty of Humani- the Division of Dance within the Department. His con- ties at WR Tuson College, Preston, after spending much temporary Mike Taylor (1971) writes ‘At St Catharine’s he time and energy encouraging PTAs especially at Black- was involved in Cambridge theatre though his great love pool Grammar School for Boys. His leisure involved rugby was dance and it’s no surprise that he made a career out union coaching and refereeing, jazz (Cleo Lane, John of it. As an accomplished dancer himself, choreographer, Dankworth) and golf. In retirement he was honorary historian and lecturer, he must have been a great inspira- treasurer of the Blackpool Retired Teachers’ Association tion to his pupils. In College he was always friendly and for 13 years and a friend of the Grand Theatre and Civic very entertaining. Trust. Our younger daughter was christened Catharine in honour of the College.’ Simpson (Visiting Professorial Fellow 1993–4) On 10 January 2011, Professor Alfred William Brian Simpson. Turnock (1958) On 10 May 2011 following a road acci- Brian came to St Catharine’s as Professor of Law at the dent, Professor David Turnock of Leicester. David came to University of Michigan. He had an MA and Doctorate St Catharine’s from Wigan Grammar School and read Ge- from Oxford where for a time he was a Fellow of Lin- ography, achieving a double first and winning the Philip coln College. He was Professor of Law at the University Lake Prize. He was awarded a Senior Scholarship and of Kent from 1973 to 1985 and also held professorships at stayed on for his PhD. After post-doctoral work at the the University of Chicago, and the University of Ghana. University of Aberdeen for three years, he moved to the His many other awards include an honorary degree from University of Leicester in 1969 and remained there until Kent, Honorary Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford, Fellow his retirement in 2003. An enduring academic and per- of the British Academy and Fellow of the American Acad- sonal interest was Eastern Europe and he led charitable emy of Arts and Sciences; in June 2001 he was appointed efforts to restock university libraries in former communist Honorary Queen’s Counsel. block countries. He was very modest about his research, but published hundreds of papers and over 20 books, Simson (1950) The College has learned of the recent contributions which were recognised by the Royal Geo- death of Ronald David James Simson. Ronald came to graphical Society which awarded him their Edward Heath St Catharine’s from Fettes College and read Mechani- Prize in 1989 for fostering European understanding. His cal Engineering. After graduating, Ronald worked in the son Graham (1986) is also an alumnus. City. Together with Peter Boizot (1950), he was one of the

96 Ward (1942) On 16 March 2007, Anthony Herbert Ward first for a year’s VSO in Nigeria, and then worked in IBM’s of Fallbrook, California. Anthony came to St Catharine’s Training Department before moving to become Head of from Rutlish School, Merton, with a state bursary in En- IT at the Berkshire NHS Trust, always finding time to con- gineering. He resided Michaelmas Term 1942 to Easter tinue with his sporting pursuits. He represented his home Term 1944 and was allowed his final year (1944–5) for county Suffolk at hockey and spent over three decades National (War) Service. A reference written for him by between Slough and Reading Hockey Clubs. He met his the College shortly after he left noted he was a ‘good wife Sue playing tennis. Perhaps the highlight of his post- character, pleasant personality, and sound judgement, Cambridge cricket career was playing in the same team as and is the type who can accept responsibility, and can be his son Ben. In later years he became a serious golfer. He relied upon to do a good job’. was on a golf course when he had his first heart attack, but insisted on carrying on and winning. Weaver (1950) On 26 November 2010, Keith Edward Weaver of Todmorden, Yorkshire. Keith won an Exhibi- Williams (2000) In August 2010, Gareth Wyn Williams of tion to St Catharine’s from Clitheroe Grammar School, Cheltenham. Gareth received his first degree from Bangor Lancashire, and read Geography. He was a keen cricketer University and studied for a PhD at Manchester before and played for the Lancashire under-nineteen team in coming to St Catharine’s to read Part III Mathematics. He 1949 before coming up to Cambridge and playing for the worked for the Government Communications Headquar- College. After National Service with the Royal Artillery, ters at Cheltenham, but was on secondment to MI6 when he started teaching at St Mary’s College, Blackburn, and he was found murdered in a flat in Pimlico where he had stayed until his retirement in 1996. He obtained an MA in been staying. Religious Studies from Lancaster University in 1994. His widow writes that he always spoke with great affection of York (1976) In August 2011, Stephen Douglas York of his time at St Catharine’s. Dubai. Stephen came to St Catharine’s from Dulwich College and read Law. He played rugby and rowed for Webster (1949) On 5 December 2010, Anthony James the College, winning an oar in 1978. He started his ca- Webster of Leigh-on-Sea, Essex. Anthony came to reer as a solicitor at Slaughter and May before moving to St Catharine’s from King Edward VI School, Chelmsford Masons, where he became partner in their Hong Kong and read English. According to a College Magazine, he office in 1988. Later he moved to Hammonds in London was teaching English at Southend High School in the and, from there, worked for a number of different firms 1960s. including running his own practice before joining Hogan Lovells in Dubai as a consultant last year. He was a highly White (1962). On 23 August 2010, Gregory White of regarded disputes lawyer and was recognised as a leading Windsor, Berkshire. Greg’s contemporary Jon Lewis (1962) international arbitration specialist. He became a Fellow of writes ‘Greg came to St Catharine’s from Northgate Gram- the Chartered Institute of Arbitration in 1993. A funeral mar School, Ipswich, to read Geography under Gus Cae- tea was held in College on 24 August 2011. sar. He excelled at all sports, played hockey and cricket for the College for three years, was captain of cricket in 1965, Young (1946, Fellow Commoner 2006) On 14 April 2011, and played for both the Wanderers and the Crusaders. Professor Peter Alexander Young of Ashbourne, Derby- While at St Catharine’s he went on two major overseas ex- shire. See the College Report section of this Magazine. peditions and four sports tours. After graduating he went

News of Members

The following Members are mentioned in the News Robert Atenstaedt (1988); Simon Reay Atkinson (2000); pages. As has become customary by the request of Philip Augar (Fellow and Bursar 1987–9); Members, the news items themselves are printed in date Richard Ayoade (1995); Jeremy Beckwith (1980); order of Society Membership rather than alphabetical Peter Boizot (1950, Fellow Commoner 1996); order. Sally Bridgewater (2010); Hannah Brinsmead (2005); Gilly Carr (Fellow 2006); Paul Adderley (1947); Ian Andrews (1949); Michael Copp (2000); Larry Culliford (1968); Gurth Archer (1959); David Asdell (1945); Thomas Drury (Master 1920–6); John Evans (1962); Stanley Aston (1934, Fellow 1943, Bursar Katherine Fudakowski (née Tween, 2003); 1962–78, Society President 1974–5); Ivana Gavrič(1998); Peter Godwin (1976);

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Janet Grauberg (1985); Lillian Greenwood (1984); Molly Aston, wife of Stanley Aston (1934, Fellow 1943, Peter Hall (1950); Rebecca Hall (2000); Bursar 1962–78, Society President 1974–5) died in Feb- Scott Handy (1987); David Harding (1979); ruary 2011 at the age of 95. Many alumni may remember Mike Harfoot (2003); Joanne Harris (1982); her from the time when Stanley was a Fellow and a Tutor Philip Harris (1941); Graeme Hollier (1969); before becoming Bursar in 1962. He was an then Emeri- Caroline Horton (2000); Ronald Jeffels (1948); tus Fellow from 1982 until his death in 1992. Pat Lacey (1940, Fellow 1951, Emeritus Fellow 1968); Alfie Maddock (1948, Fellow 1959–84, Professor Pat Lacey (1940, Fellow 1951, Emeritus Fellow Emeritus Fellow 1984–2009); Osman Mahgoub (1991); 1968) wrote in January ‘A Christmas card showing the Matt Male (1990); Keith Martin (1987); College under snow reminds me of the Lent Term 1947 Sir Ian McKellen (1958, Honorary Fellow 1982); when I was an undergraduate feeling the cold after five Bob Morgan (1960); Graeme Morrison (2008); years in the Indian Army. The College ran out of coal, George Nash (2008); Ali Negyal (2001); the only heating then on G staircase. I was in G6 and, Sean O’Harrow (Fellow & Development Director in a brief February thaw, all the snow on my roof fell 2002–7); Catherine Pickstock (1988); through the skylight of the bedsitter in G1 and made a Christian Preece (2010); Josh Radvan (2010); big pile on the table. The Dean moved the resident out, Patrick Richmond (Chaplain 2001–7); and no coal has ever moved as fast as the pile he had in Felix Sampson (2008); Dave Standfast (1969); a corner of his room. [This story appears in Pat’s Memo- Graham Stevens (1969); Michael Stevens (1960); ries of St Catharine’s in the 2006 Magazine. Ed.] I am in Kang Tchou (2010); Chris Thompson (1981); touch with a younger contemporary Brian Wilson (1946) Katherine Tween (2003); Natasha Watts (2010); who matriculated straight from school when we who had Edward Wickham (Fellow 2006, Director of Music); started during the war had been demobilized. He has Steve Wiggins (1969); Brian Wilson (1946); lived in Auckland much longer than I have, since he came John Yellowlees (1969). out as the engineer in charge of the underwater struc- tures of the Auckland Harbour Bridge, which was built in Thomas Drury (Master 1920–6). Whilst on holiday in the 1950s. I very much enjoy reading the Magazine while Wales, Chris Thorne (Emeritus Fellow) met an Australian realizing that things have changed – and for the better descendant of Thomas Drury who was Bishop of Sodor – since I was an undergraduate, and even since I left Col- and Man, and then Bishop of Ely before interrupting his lege to come to Auckland in 1968.’ Sadly, Pat died in July retirement to become Master of St Catharine’s aged 73. 2011; see the College Report section of this Magazine. It seems one item omitted from the various biographies is that Thomas was 6’ 8” tall and must have been an im- Associate Member Alison Harris, the widow of Philip pressive figure around the College, no doubt needing to Harris (1941) who died in 1989, writes to say that it is stoop to enter many a staircase at that time. a treat to receive the Magazine as it reminds her of the excitements of College. Alison attended a Society Dinner recently and found herself sitting with her husband’s col- league David Asdell (1945) who had been present at the Harris’s wedding in the College Chapel in 1946. Alison and Philip spent much of their life in Africa, but returned to Cambridge in the 1960s during which time Alison helped set up the Granta Housing Society and served as a Magistrate on the Cambridge Bench.

The Bahamas Weekly contained a tribute to Paul Adder- ley (1947) in September 2010 and this caused the Uni- versity to inform the College that he had passed away. We sent commiserations to his family and received a re- sponse from Paul himself saying ‘death not yet’. Clearly, as Mark Twain would have said, reports of Paul’s death were greatly exaggerated.

Maebritte Jeffels, widow of Ronald Jeffels (1948) who died in 2008, writes to say that Ronald’s tutor was Tom Pat Lacey (1940) with some of his family on the Henn. Approximately 15 years after Ronald had gradu- occasion of his 90th birthday. ated, Tom visited the family in Victoria, British Columbia,

98 when he was visiting the area to receive an honorary theologian Michael Stevens (1960) and visited Gurth degree from the University of Victoria. Tom’s son and Archer (1959) in the Bahamas shortly before Gurth died. daughter also visited at different times. Father John Evans (1962) has made a donation to the Col- lege Chapel for a new set of vestments in the four liturgi- An excellent and very full article about Alfie Maddock cal colours that are used. The four chasubles with match- (1948, Fellow 1959–84, Emeritus Fellow 1984–2009) ing stoles are Gothic in design and made from Venetian appeared in the magazine Chemical Educator in 2010 wool mixture with a wide pillar orphrey of gold brocade. (volume 15, pages 237–42). The abstract reads ‘Alfred The Chaplain comments that the vestments are very fine G. Maddock (1917–2009; “Alfie” to his friends) was indeed and he has written to John to express his thanks. among the last survivors of the select group of British It is hoped that the Chapel Choir might meet John when scientists who participated in the birth of nuclear energy. they visit the USA in July 2011. Educated as a chemist, during World War II he joined the team of Frédéric Joliot’s collaborators who were trans- Larry Culliford (1968) writes that, on the strength of his ferred to Canada. There he acquired expertise in the book, The Psychology of Spirituality, the editors of the chemistry of uranium, protactinium and plutonium. From magazine Psychology Today asked him to contribute a that time on, his interest extended to all fields relevant to regular blog on their website with the byline ‘Spiritual chemistry and radioactivity. For half a century he was a Wisdom for Secular Times’. Larry says he aims to post leading authority on radiochemistry.’ three or four blog entries a month.

Ian Andrews (1949), whose death we reported in the Peter Godwin (1976) has written another book about 2010 Magazine, had made a bequest to the College. Zimbabwe, carrying forward his story as told in Mukiwa; The Bursar received an unexpected and most welcome a white boy in Africa and When a crocodile eats the sun. cheque from his executors. It is entitled The fear: the last days of Robert Mugabe and it received good reviews in the press following its release Peter Boizot (1950, Fellow Commoner 1996) has re- in 2010. ceived a lifetime achievement award for his contribution to the restaurant industry from Peach Factory, a media David Harding (1979), the founder, chairman and head of and networking enterprise which provides analysis and research of Winton Capital Management, has pledged to information about the UK eating and drinking market. donate £20 million to the Cavendish Laboratory to set up Peter is the founder of Pizza Express. and fund The Winton Programme for the Physics of Sus- tainability. His gift, the largest donation to the Cavendish Sir Peter Hall (1950) was featured in the Daily Telegraph since its creation in 1874, will create a new programme in November 2010. The occasion was his eightieth birth- for the physics of sustainability, applying physics to meet day and the article was about his latest productions and the growing demand on our natural resources. Accord- how he had no plans to retire or even to take things easy. ing to CavMag, the magazine of the Cavendish, David The same theme was taken up by the Times in a full-page commented ‘Winton is a scientific research centre using article in June 2011. See also Rebecca Hall (2000). empirical methods to analyse data. The financial markets may be our laboratory, but just like the Cavendish we Sir Ian McKellen (1958, Honorary Fellow 1982) took a are driven by research’. David was awarded one of the break from filming in New Zealand (where he is playing Chancellor’s 800th Anniversary Medals for Outstanding Gandalf in The Hobbit) to return to Cambridge to play Philanthropy in March 2011 at a ceremony in Cambridge Don Antonio in The Syndicate by Eduardo de Filippo at attended, amongst others, by John Shakeshaft (Emeritus the Arts Theatre. A double-page spread in the Cambridge Fellow) and Professor Sir John Baker (Fellow). News celebrated his return to Cambridge 50 years after graduating. Jeremy Beckwith (1980) umpired a cricket match at Lords in April 2011. He says that he is aware that many Catsmen Bob Morgan (1960) writes that he retired as a University have played at Lords, but he wonders if he is the first to Reader in New Testament Theology and Vice-Principal umpire there. of Linacre College, Oxford, in 2003, but remains Priest- in-charge at Sandford-on-Thames where he is in his 25th Chris Thompson (1981) was a member of the Cambridge year. Bob notes that the College unwittingly set him on an men’s crew in the 2010 alternative (American) Boat Race. He academic path when Christopher Waddams and Winton writes ‘Several hundred Cambridge alums from the Wash- Thomas persuaded the Governing Body to grant £100 to- ington DC area turned out on 25 September for a spirited wards sending Bob to the Goethe Institut in Germany af- resurrection of a decades-old tradition: the Cambridge-Ox- ter Part III of the tripos. Bob recently met a contemporary ford Boat Races on the Potomac River in Washington DC.

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Four in our boat were over fifty, and several of us had not Keith Martin (1987) was elected as the first Professor of handled a blade for more than a decade. While the pres- Ophthalmology at the University of Cambridge in Octo- ence of senior hands connected us to the Race’s illustrious ber 2010. recent past, it also meant ibuprofen was definitely our per- formance-enhancing drug of choice. My own rowing ex- Robert Atenstaedt (1988) has been appointed Associate perience was limited to the Cambridge Town Bumps – that Director of Public Health for North Wales and Honorary event bringing together rag-tag teams of over-summering Senior Lecturer at the School of Medical Sciences, Bangor poverty-stricken grad students like me with inebriated local University. See also Births in this Magazine. pub teams in the nearest thing to stock-car racing on the Cam. The Oxford men’s boat, on the other hand, had an Catherine Pickstock (1988) gave the Hulsean Sermon at average age of twenty-something, with several Blues and the University Service at Great St Mary’s Church in March Henley gold-medal-winners, and, according to rumour, an 2011. She began with a prayer for St Catharine’s College Olympian on board. The Cambridge men’s boat led Oxford and for Emmanuel College where she is now a Fellow. impressively from the river bank to the starting line but un- She explained how some important concepts are difficult fortunately could not quite keep up the challenge after that. to put into words and often need description using refer- Nevertheless, finishing fewer than two lengths behind Ox- ence to experience via several senses. For example, the ford a mile later was still a highly-creditable performance.’ goodness of Jesus might be referred to as warm and lov- ing but also as a rock. Catherine is Reader in Philosophy Joanne Harris (1982), author of best-sellers such as and Theology in the Faculty of Divinity at Cambridge. Chocolat, spent a week in Togo, West Africa, in support of the charity Plan’s education projects. Plan is a global Matt Male (1990) was featured in a Cambridge News ar- children’s charity working in the world’s poorest countries ticle about how Cambridge had changed over the past to help them build a better future. Joanne was particu- ten or twenty years. Matt was back in Cambridge attend- larly supporting the education of girls in Togo. ing a wedding and, on Saturday evening, he and other wedding guests were confronted by drunken youths in Lillian Greenwood (1984), the College’s newest MP, the St Andrews Street area. He was reported as saying featured in What’s Brewing, the CAMRA newspaper, that he thought the policy of allowing very large pubs in January 2011. She was pictured pulling a pint in the had led to the centre of the city feeling more like Leeds or House of Commons Strangers’ Bar where a Castle Rock Manchester on a Saturday night. beer brewed in her constituency of Nottingham South was on tap. Osman Mahgoub (1991), who works for the United Na- tions Refugee Agency, writes ‘Following the end of my Janet Grauberg (1985) writes ‘Life is frantically busy for assignment to Mashhad in December 2010, I took a short me in the Department for Education, working to sup- assignment as the head of the UNHCR office in Ahwaz in port Sarah Teather in her reforms to the education of the south west of Iran near the Iraqi southern borders and children with special educational needs and planning then joined the North Africa emergency team in Egypt, new improvements to the provision of early education stationed in Alexandria to help asylum seekers and refu- for the under-fives, as well as supporting Michael Gove gees fleeing from the Libya conflict crossing into Egypt in his school reforms. In my spare time I’ve taken over and Tunisia. In June 2011 I was re-assigned as a protec- as Chair of Trustees of The Kilburn Festival – an annual tion officer in Tanzania where I am stationed in the west arts and music festival in my local park where the whole of the country in small town called Kasulu near Tangan- community comes together. My administrative skills are yika lake (where the fried Telapia fish is legendary). I am being put to good use marshalling an enthusiastic band extremely busy heading the Protection Unit in addition to of creative people into some sort of shape. It’s good fun supervising the Resettlement Team. We have two refugee and keeps my feet on the ground.’ camps hosting more than 100,000 refugees from Congo and Burundi. After the relatively easy life in Iran, it is dif- Philip Augar (Fellow and Bursar 1987–9) has been ap- ficult to get used to the hardships of field life in Africa.’ pointed a non-executive board member in the manage- ment committee for the Home Office as part of a govern- Richard Ayoade (1995) was featured in full-page articles ment scheme to involve private sector expertise in the in both the Cambridge News and the Daily Telegraph in management of Whitehall. March 2011 to mark his debut as a film director with the general release of his film Submarine which proved a hit Scott Handy (1987) is playing the lead (Antonio) in the with audiences at the Toronto and London film festivals. Royal Shakespeare Company’s Merchant of Venice at Until recently, Richard was probably better known as Stratford during the summer of 2011. Moss in the television comedy series The IT Crowd. He

100 also won the Perrier Award for comedy at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2001.

Pianist Ivana Gavrič (1998) gave a very successful sell-out debut recital at the Wigmore Hall in 2010. See also Honours and Awards in this Magazine. Ivana’s hands have attracted some attention in the last few years, as she was a hand double for the Oscar-winning actress Juliette Binoche (pictured above with Ivana), in Anthony Minghella’s film Breaking 1969 Geographers Dave Standfast, John and Entering. She was invited by Minghella to perform Yellowlees, Steve Wiggins, Graham Stevens and on the soundtrack of the film, recorded at Abbey Road Graeme Hollier after the Geographers’ Dinner Studios. Her hands were also used in an episode of Mid- on 9 October 2010. somer Murders, and Ivana plays a role of a pianist in the BBC2’s adaptation of The Line of Beauty. The Revd Dr Patrick Richmond (Chaplain 2001–7) made headlines in the daily papers in July when he spoke at the Simon Reay Atkinson (2000) writes that he was released Anglican Church’s National Assembly to suggest that the from the Royal Navy to undertake research for his PhD (he Church would be dead in twenty years. The number of will submit in Michaelmas 2011), but remained attached adult churchgoers has halved over the past forty years and to the Naval Staff. He has been appointed to be the UK the average age of congregations is now 61. Patrick is now Chief of Defence Staff Liaison Officer to the Australian Vicar of Eaton, Norwich, and a member of the Synod. Department of Defence, an appointment which, he says, he would not have been in a position to ‘win’ without the Sean O’Harrow (Fellow and Development Director support, encouragement and research he was able to do 2002–7) writes to say that he is now Director of the Uni- while at St Catharine’s and the Engineering Department. versity of Iowa Museum of Art, USA. Simon came to St Catharine’s as a senior Naval Officer and gained an MPhil in International Relations in 2001 Katherine Fudakowski (née Tween, 2003) was married and then registered for a PhD in Engineering in 2007. in August 2010 (see Marriages). She writes ‘My husband Adam studied engineering at Queens’ and we met at the Michael Copp (2000) presented a paper entitled Ver- Cambridge University Air Squadron where we were both sions and Animadversions: Pound and the Imagist Circle learning to fly the Grob Tutor aircraft. We now live in at the XXIV Ezra Pound International Conference held in London where I am a barrister specialising in employment London in July 2011. law and Adam is a director of NanoClave Technologies, a company which manufactures medical sterilization de- Rebecca Hall (2000) who dropped out of College before vices.’ completing her degree in order to pursue a career in act- ing, plays Viola in the 2011 production of Twelfth Night Mike Harfoot (2003) is a postdoctoral scientist working directed by her father Sir Peter Hall (1950). She was the jointly at the United Nations Environment Programme’s cover feature in the February 2011 edition of the fashion World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC) magazine Harper’s Bazaar. and the Computational Ecology and Environmental Sci- ence group at Microsoft Research, both based in Cam- Caroline Horton (2000) won the prize for Best Solo Per- bridge. His research involves biogeochemical cycles and former at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2010 with her show atmospheric chemistry, through human harvesting from You’re not like the other girls Chrissy. natural systems and farming to climate policy and market instruments. Ali Negyal (2001) was one of the ten finalists in the Daily Telegraph competition for a place on the International Hannah Brinsmead (2005) writes that she worked for an Scott Centenary Expedition which will trek to Captain equine charity in Luxor, Egypt, in the Summer of 2010 Scott’s last campsite and join descendants of the original (her final year as a veterinary student). She says that team for a memorial service in 2012. she learnt a lot and was able to help a little, and she ex- pressed her thanks to the College for helping out with the cost of the trip.

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all the sensors in the cars during races to check that the aerodynamic elements of the car are operating correctly and to help the more senior aerodynamicists decide on the best setup for the cars. Felix writes ‘I’ve always been a huge F1 fan and had aspirations to work in the industry from a young age, so this is certainly a fantastic oppor- tunity for me. Another Catz engineering student (and a good friend of mine), Graeme Morrison (2008), is also working for a Formula One team, though just for the summer. He’s working for McLaren, so there is quite a bit of rivalry between the two of us at the moment! I A Mercedes Formula One car. See Felix Sampson. imagine it’s not very common for two Catz Engineering students (out of just eight in my year) to find work in Gilly Carr (Fellow 2006), who gave the lecture at the So- Formula One!’ ciety reunion in September 2009 on World War II in the Channel Islands, was on the Channel 4 and BBC news Sally Bridgewater (2010) was runner up in the Redstone programmes in November 2010. She also had a double Cambridgeshire Young Person of the Year competition page spread in the Guardian. The media attention was for her commitment to helping young people. Since the result of the discovery of a folder containing records 2009, she has volunteered months of her time to help of islanders’ wartime activities and the University publish- abandoned children in South Africa and disabled children ing an online video about her Channel Island research. in India. In Cambridge, she is a listener for the Linkline service for students at both Cambridge and Anglia Ruskin Dr Edward Wickham (Fellow 2006, Director of Music) universities. has been awarded a Wellcome Trust Arts Award. These awards are to promote the understanding of science Christian Preece (2010) won the under-19 World Du- through arts projects and Dr Wickham’s project is a vocal athlon Championship in 2010 just before coming to work (in collaboration with composer Christopher Fox) St Catharine’s. which explores auditory streaming – the phenomenon whereby, in complex environments (such as the College Josh Radvan (2010) won the under-21 World Biathlon Hall) hearers process different auditory signals in differ- Championship in October 2010. ent ways. Kang Tchou (2010) writes ‘In Easter term, I gave a talk on George Nash (2008) was called into the Great Britain Robert Morrison in the Graduate Research Seminar series squad for the 2011 World Rowing Cup in Switzerland. He and this led the librarian, Colin Higgins, to discover in the and Oxford’s Constantine Louloudis won gold in the pairs College Library a volume from the very rare Dictionary of event at the 2011 under-23 world championships in Am- the Chinese Language which Morrison compiled. There sterdam in July. George has been given a year off from his are fewer than fifteen complete copies of the dictionary Engineering course to train for the 2012 Olympics. in the world and Catz have a part of one.’

Felix Sampson (2008) is also taking a year out. Having Natasha Watts (2010) climbed Mount Kilimanjaro in completed three years of the Engineering tripos, he has September 2010 to raise money for the charity Help for taken a student placement with Mercedes GP Petronas Heroes. Kilimanjaro, the highest mountain in Africa, is (the Mercedes Formula One team) at Brackley, North- also the highest free-standing mountain in the world at amptonshire, near the race track at Silverstone. He will 5,895 metres above sea level. Natasha joined a charity return for the fourth year in October 2012. His work in group with the company Actionchallenge to complete the aerodynamics department of Mercedes is aimed at the seven-day climb. Help for Heroes is a British charity developing new bodywork and aerodynamic surfaces for which supports wounded servicemen and women; it is an the 2011 and 2012 Mercedes F1 cars. He is also involved extremely efficient charity with 100% of donations going with the race support team, looking at live aero data from directly to rehabilitation and support projects.

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The College Library, Part Two: 1730–1907

4: The Sherlock Bequest To the Glazier (Haselum): 10.16.8; To the Smith Much the largest benefaction to the Library since (Fuller): 6.18.4; To the Mason (Bottomley): 1.16.6; the foundation was that by Dr Thomas Sherlock To the Painter (Ivers) and Bricklayer: 1.12.7; To Mr (adm.1694, Fellow 1698), Master from 1714 to Essex: 300.19.1” and in 1763 Mr Woodward, the 1719, and later Bishop of London. Sherlock gave carver, was paid £2.10.0 for shields, and Mr Iv- £600 in 1756 for the renovation of the Library, ers 12s for lettering the shields, some of which together with his books, numbering about 2100, are still in place on the book cases. The Sherlock which arrived from Fulham Palace after his death bequest brought with it a substantial number of in 1761, also land, the rent from which would pay duplicates of books already in the Library and in £20 a year to a ‘library keeper’, £4 a year for his February 1770 there was an auction sale of 294 rooms, and money for the purchase of new books. of these in the ‘Tuns Great Room’, the Three Tuns It is likely that the receipt of this major benefaction, Inn then being a Public House at the corner of the together with lack of other funds1, led to abandon- Market Place and St Edward’s Passage. The total ment of the plan to complete the fourth side of proceeds were £29.1s.2d, with an average price Main Court, with a new library. This scheme had close to 2s (24d) per book. again been under active consideration2 in 1753, Initially the post of Library Keeper/Scholar was with the purchase of tenements on Trumpington tenable for up to eight years and was, in principle, Street in 1754, following Mrs Mary Ramsden’s open to all members of the University of two- bequest in 1743 which provided money for the years standing. In practice, no one has ever been Ramsden Building (now A and B staircases) com- appointed from outside the College and, from pleted in 1765. The Main Court was consequently 1800 to 1891, there was one tenure of five years, opened to Trumpington Street, the fine front rail- three of four years, and the rest usually two or ings were erected, a grove of elm trees was planted sometimes three years. The Sherlock Estate Ac- (they were felled in 1921) and a Porter’s Lodge was count Book3 does not give names of Library built there by 1770, enabling the main entrance to Keepers after 1880, and the subsequent Govern- be transferred to its present position. ing Body and Bursar’s records are incomplete so The Library was remodelled and refurbished not all holders of the post now called Sherlock, or between 1756 and 1763 to what is essentially Junior, Librarian are known until 1933. Currently, the present form of the Sherlock Library. The ac- an appointment is made annually from among counts of 1755–56 include sums of £100.0s.0d to the junior members of the College, to administer Mr [James] Essex (architect of the Ramsden Build- library fines and cover books, the job description ing) ‘towards the Bishop of London’s alterations’ no longer being that of Bishop Sherlock’s day, and £6.9s.9d to a carpenter (Hinkin) ‘for work when it was enjoined, inter alia (see Appendix B), on the roof over ye library’; those for 1758–59 that “he use not the Library for any Sports, not include “Expenses attending the Library: To the suffer Scholars to walk there, play at Ball, Shittle Carver (Woodward) at several times: 27.11.9; To Cock (sic) or misuse the Library, and that he him- Mr Hilliard & Co for locks etc & Carriage: 2.18.9; self use not the Library at Candle Light.” Until the rebuilding of 1965–67, the Sherlock Li- 1 W.H.S. Jones, A History..., 33. brarian traditionally occupied Sky Hall, as presum- 2 E. Carter, The History of the University of Cam- ably did the Library Keepers from the start of this bridge, (London, 1753), 199: ‘the College is now pur- office in 1762. chasing several tenements in Trumpington Street… In 1771, St Catharine’s became the first college in to make room for a new building wherein are to be Apartments for the new fellows and scholars, with a Library in front’. 3 Archive LIB1

104 An extract from the Will of Thomas Sherlock.

Cambridge to have a printed catalogue, Catalogus 1660–1745, Richard Luckett (m.1964, Fellow Librorum in Bibliotheca Aulae Divae Catharinae 1970–78) noted a decline in the scholarly standing Cantabrigiae, for which the printer Mr Archdea- of the College after Thomas Sherlock resigned the con charged £20.4s.6d. It was prompted by the Mastership in 1719, and suggested (p.134) this as Sherlock bequest and prepared by Charles Pres- the reason for the presentation in 1779 by the dis- cot (adm.1762, Fellow 1767 – he was in fact born tinguished Shakespearian editor, Edward Capell5 in the Master’s Lodge in 1745, being the son of (adm.1730), of his magnificent library of English Kenrick Prescot, Master 1741–79). This catalogue poetry and drama to Trinity College6 rather than lists 3613 titles alphabetically with class-marks, to his alma mater. David McKitterick, the Librar- but little attempt was made to identify the very ian at Trinity, discusses the matter in his history of large number of pamphlets, sermons, etc. bound the Wren Library7 and attributes the gift instead together as single volumes. The range of subjects to the facts that Capell’s younger brother, Robert, was still dominated by classics, theology and phi- was a Fellow at Trinity, and that Capell himself losophy, but political tracts, sermons, history, bi- had close ties to John Hinchliffe, the Master there ography, geography and antiquities were now well from 1778. Perhaps because of these ties, Capell represented, together with law and medicine. A was, quite exceptionally, able to persuade Trinity manuscript shelf-register, labelled Classical Cata- College as a condition of his gift to agree to keep logue on the spine, was prepared at the same time, his collection together as a separate whole and to and has numerous additions and amendments. An prohibit any loan from it. Such a collection would interleaved copy of the 1771 catalogue contains certainly have transformed the standing of our Li- hand-written acquisitions for a further hundred brary, but there can be little doubt that it has been years or more, although a ledger4 reveals that, dur- ing the whole period 1784–1809, only £55.12s.4d 5 For a biography, see W.H.S. Jones, The Story…, 163. was spent on books – enough for about 45 in all – 6 See W.W. Greg, Catalogue of the books presented and in eight of those years nothing was bought. by Edward Capell to the Library of Trinity College, Cambridge, (Cambridge, 1903). There are about 370 In his Quincentenary Essay, Church and College, items, some of them multi-volumed. 7 D.J. McKitterick, The Making of the Wren Library, 4 Archive L13 Trinity College, Cambridge, (Cambridge, 1995), 78.

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reprints the extensive evidence received by the Commissioners in response to their questions, in- cluding that (p.359) from the Revd Henry Philpott8 (adm.1825, Fellow 1829–45, Master 1845–61), dated 22 November 1851. On the Library, most of the points made will be known to readers who have got this far, but a few are worth mentioning: t
The books are not arranged in classes according to subject matter, it being found impossible to make that arrangement satisfactorily in a Library which is receiving continual additions [because each addition was numbered in sequence]. t
The room in which the books are placed is am- ply large for the purpose, and it is light and well ventilated: no part of it is fire-proof. t
The books are arranged on shelves and in com- partments, in the same manner as the books in the University Library, each compartment being designated by a letter of the alphabet, and the several shelves by corresponding numbers. Each book is marked, both on the title page and on Title page of the 1771 Catalogue, the first the back, with the letter of its compartment, the printed catalogue of any library in Cambridge. number of its shelf, and the number of the place which it occupies on the shelf. The same marks much more accessible to scholars over the past being entered in the catalogue opposite to the 230 years at Trinity than it would have been at title of the book, there is no difficulty in finding St Catharine’s. Nevertheless, the Library does hold it at once from the catalogue. some significant and important books, and details t
The average annual sum expended in the pur- of a selection of them are given in Appendix C. chase and binding of books during the last seven years has been £61.12s.10d. 5: The Nineteenth Century t
Undergraduates (but not Sizars) are charged a The Cambridge University Commissioners of 1852 Library Tax of 6s/year9. reported on the state of college libraries as follows t
The number of volumes and MSS. in the Library ‘We found that in every instance…the Fellows had is about 7660. free access to their respective Libraries and were allowed to remove books from them to their own 8 W.H.S. Jones, in A History…, 190, rates Philpott as chambers; the Undergraduates were generally al- ‘perhaps the greatest man St Catharine’s has ever pro- lowed to make use of them through the agency of duced’. He was Vice-Chancellor of the University for three separate terms, and Chairman of the Cambridge their Tutors; and that the Members of other Col- University Commission 1878, besides being Bishop of leges as well as literary strangers experienced no Worcester. difficulty in making use of them for purposes of 9 Receipt of this tax appears in the Bursar’s Accounts special research and inquiry…but the funds which (Archive B/1/1, p.40 and p.218) between 1866 and appear to be provided for their support and pro- 1893, but these are not complete for other dates. Pre- sumably the tax was eventually subsumed with other gressive augmentation are usually small, and there items. 6s in 1870 corresponds to about £14 in 2010, is generally therefore a considerable deficiency of so might have purchased about one book per year per modern books for the use of Students’. The report student.

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Considerable additions hav been made of late in 1810 by Wilhelm von Humboldt, with its empha- years to the collection of modern books, and of sis on scientific research rather than just teaching, books connected with the usual subjects of aca- had transformed the very idea of a University. But demical instruction and study.’ reform was afoot, spurred by the Prime Minister (Lord John Russell), the Prince Consort, who was The comments from other colleges revealed wide elected Chancellor of the University in 1847, and variations: at Magdalene ‘under certain condi- Sir Robert Peel. After much controversy, in which tions undergraduates are admitted to the use of Philpott was a strong advocate for change, it was the library. Keys are given to those of them who agreed in 1848 to set up two new triposes, namely are deserving, and who are desirous of the privi- moral sciences (including moral philosophy, politi- lege, and they are allowed in the daytime to sit cal economy, modern history and law) and natural and read there’, while at Gonville and Caius the sciences (anatomy, physiology, chemistry, botany Master could not tell how much was spent on their and geology), in all of which subjects there were library each year, since ‘the Bursar’s account-book professors. The consequent reawakening of the will not inform us’. The largest college library at this University from its previous intellectual slumber time was Trinity with 35,000 volumes, followed by led to the growth of teaching and research in St John’s with 26,000, and Queens’ 25,000, down many new areas and eventually to the Cambridge to Corpus 4,500 (excluding the Parker Library). of today. Inevitably, the range of subjects covered It is also of relevance to note Philpott’s list of by college libraries, St Catharine’s amongst them, ‘lectures given in my College’: “For students in was broadened to match. their first year of residence – On Euclid, Arithme- An aspect of student life at Cambridge to which tic, and Algebra, and Plane Trigonometry; Also we have so far given little attention – largely be- on one or more books of the Greek Testament, cause of lack of evidence – is ‘Where did Under- and on one or more of the Classical Greek and graduates get Their Books?’ As regards the 19th Latin authors. For students in their second year century, David McKitterick has discussed the mat- – On Conic Sections, the Differential and Inte- ter in an essay10 of this title. He points out that gral Calculus, the elementary parts of Mechanics some of the major resources taken for granted by and Newton’s Principia; Also on the Greek Testa- current students were not then fully available to ment, and on one or more of the Classical Greek them, since undergraduates were banned com- and Latin authors which have been fixed for the pletely from the University Library until 1854; up Previous Examination of the year; For students to 1875 they were allowed in for only two hours a in their third year of residence – On the higher day; and from 1875, every morning. Faculty and parts of Pure Mathematics and Natural Philoso- Departmental libraries were few in number; before phy; And on the subjects of examination for the 1879, when the new Divinity School opened, with degree of B.A., which the students of that year its own specialist library, there were such librar- are preparing to attend.” ies attached only to the University Observatory, These lectures reflected the long-held belief that the Botanical Garden, and the Regius Professor of study of just the two subjects, mathematics and Modern History. By 1890, there were also librar- classics, provided the best-possible mental training ies of Moral Science, Music, Anatomy, History, for every student, whatever career he anticipated. Physics and Chemistry, but the English Faculty was They also indicated how far behind the times the not even founded until 1919, and Classics did not Universities of Cambridge and Oxford had fallen, get its own library until 1933. The establishment since the Scottish Universities had already, many years earlier, established courses in medicine, sci- 10 In a chapter of J. Smith & C. Stray, eds, Teaching and ence, law, philosophy, economics and sociology. In Learning in 19th-Century Cambridge, (Woodbridge, addition, the foundation of the University of Berlin 2001).

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term for books, a similar sum to that for their year’s (26 weeks of residence) expenditure on groceries. The pain could be eased by selling the books back at the end of the course and many of the book- sellers guaranteed such repurchases, so that there was, in effect, a well-developed system of hiring books. The final resort was to borrow books from one’s tutor or teacher, a practice which continues to some extent to the present day. In 1871 the property at No.70 Trumpington Street was bought by the College, and a house, No.69A, at the western end of the stone-mason’s yard belonging to the Tomson family at No.69 (now Ben Hayward’s cycle shop, with G staircase above), was rented12. This enabled a swimming-bath to be constructed in an old cellar where I staircase now is, and use of the house (situated where J staircase now lies) to provide an undergraduate Common Room and library, together with accommodation for a College servant13. This library was started by the transfer of appropriate books from the existing Library but it grew by the ongoing purchase of re- A page from Confessio Amantis by John Gower, cently published textbooks, probably as a belated a manuscript on vellum, 15th century. response by the College to the 1852 Commission- ers’ remark about ‘a considerable deficiency of of these libraries corresponded to the transfer, to- modern books for the use of students’. wards the end of the century, of lecturing from col- On 12 January 1874 the Master, C.K. Robinson, leges to faculties and departments, and the takeo- wrote14 to W.M. Fawcett, who had in 1868 been ver by the University of the organization of much responsible for building the bay at the eastern end of the undergraduate teaching. of the old Hall, gothicizing the windows and pan- So what did the students do? Some fortunate elling the Hall, to say that ‘The College has deter- ones, particularly those at colleges with large li- mined to some other new buildings, including a braries, borrowed books through the agency of Library, Treasury & a few College rooms, on the their tutors or other Fellows. McKitterick quotes site of our Queens’ Lane and Silver Street property. from a book of memoirs11 of Trinity in the 1820s It has further been determined that such building which relates the intense competition for new shall be an exact reproduction of an existing an- loans after Lady Day (25 March), the quarter day cient building in all its external features, – the in- for the return of borrowed books, ‘Immediately ternal arrangements to be altered and adapted to the doors flew open, in rushed the torrent, fifty Collegiate purposes. I am instructed to ask you if perhaps wanting the same identical book’. In other you are willing to undertake the erection of such cases, they had by necessity to purchase their own copies. In the 1850s, for example, undergraduates 12 This is our supposition, although no record has been at Magdalene were advised to allow up to £10 per found in the accounts of any regular payments to the Tomsons. 13 Spalding’s Directory of Cambridge gives the manci- 11 J.M.F. Wright, Alma Mater, 2 Vols, (London, 1827), ple, Mr P.E.Challice, as the occupant in 1887. Vol.1, 183. 14 See Archive GB 1/1.

108 building on the above condition. I ought to add that though several ancient buildings have been under consideration, no actual and final selection has yet been made.’ It is not entirely clear what the College had in mind but this scheme was very short-lived since, only two months later, the Fellows decided instead to build a new Master’s Lodge, with its façade based on that of an existing ancient building, namely Sawston Hall, which was completed by Fawcett in 1876 at a cost of £9,000. E.E. (Teddy) Rich (Fellow 1930–57, Master 1957– 73) notes15 that this remarkable haste was almost certainly connected with the appointment in Janu- ary 1872 of a Royal Commission to enquire into the revenues of colleges, and its report in 1874 recommending that colleges should be compelled to allocate some of their assets to the needs of the University. There was a further intriguing twist, in that the Commission of 1877 which brought this recommendation into effect was presided over by Philpott (Master 1845–61) and one of its two sec- retaries was G.F. Browne16 (Fellow 1863–65). The next mention of a new library came in 1892. It was preceded by the purchase in 1891 of No.69A Trumpington Street and the western end of Tom- Title page of The pityfull historie of two loving son’s yard. There followed a Governing Body deci- Italians by John Drout, printed in London 1570. sion17 on 25 April 1892 for the ‘Library Estate to This is thought to be the only remaining copy in purchase Tomson’s ground for a new Library, at existence. the cost of £2,200’ [this was an internal transfer of the cost]. An architectural plan18 for a Library, Since this property was bought with Library Funds, dated 21 April 1892 but with no indication of the the house was named the Sherlock Building19 and draughtsman, shows what was intended. The the undergraduate library in it became the Sher- proposed site was the yard just purchased, with a lock Library. The remaining part of the Tomson two-storey building extending to the west, having property, at the eastern end of the site, was pur- a library on its upper floor. No later mention of this chased in 1894. It should be pointed out that most building can be found and, for whatever reason, it of the difficulties in establishing precisely what did not progress further. A Minute dated 21 July happened, and why, stem from the fact that the 1892 reads ‘Agreed to lay out the garden in front practice of regularly taking formal Minutes of de- of the house and take down the North Wall’, hence cisions at Meetings of the Governing Body did not opening the garden up to the rest of the College. begin until years later, on 27 October 1913.

15 In his Quincentenary Essay, The Nineteenth Century, 19 There is a drawing of this in W.H.S. Jones, A His- 217–8. tory…, 40, and part of it appears in the background 16 For a biography, see W.H.S. Jones, The Story…, 164. of a number of team photographs in the Archives, but 17 Archive GB/1/1 it would be good if a photograph of the building as a 18 Archive XXIX / 6. whole could be found.

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A major bequest was the library of Thomas Jar- rowed Books, be kept in the Library, and that Pens rett (adm.1823, Fellow 1828, Regius Professor of and Standishes of Ink be kept fit for Use, so that the Hebrew 1854–82) which numbered about 875 Master of the College and the Fellows of the An- items including 101 Bibles in many different lan- cient Foundation of Catharine Hall, entering at any guages, from Amharic to Yiddish, via Coptic and Time with their own Keys, may register with their Swahili. Jarrett was a distinguished linguist but, own Hands what Books they may have occasion writes Jones20, ‘His really remarkable powers were to take and use out of the Library: and that at the dissipated by his versatility and lack of concentra- Times of his Attendance, as prescribed in Rule the tion’, which may be a lesson for us all. second, he send to the Master and to any of the Suzan Griffiths and John Shakeshaft said Fellows such Books as they may want at the Order, and enter the same into the Register Book Appendix B: Rules and orders for Catharine Hall with the Mark of their Class, Shelf and Number. Library 5. That in the Times prescribed as above for his Rules and Orders for the Library Keeper of Ca- Attendance he shall open the Library to any Fellow tharine Hall Library on the foundation of Bishop of private Foundation of the College or any Fellow Sherlock, appointed by the Master and Fellows of Commoner of the same that they may enter and Catharine Hall and approved of by the King’s Pro- borrow any Books from thence, they writing their fessor of Divinity, and the Master of St John’s. Name in the Register Book or leaving a Note of Hand acknowledging the same. 1. That being chosen Library Keeper and entrusted with a Key, he be faithful in his Office and answer 6. That he lend no Book to any Person not a Mem- the Trust reposed in him by consulting the Good of ber of the Society without Leave of the Master or the Library, and taking Care no damage be done one of the Fellows, and that he take Care to re- unto it, and that if any Damage be done he inform ceive a Note from the Borrower expressing what the Master or his Locum Tenens. Books he borrows.

2. That he attend his Duty every Morning in Term 7. That within a Week after Christmas, Lady, Time, and on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays Midsummer and Michaelmas Day he demand all out of Term between the Hours of ten and twelve Books borrowed and replace them: and that within except on Sundays and Holidays, and such Days as a Fortnight after Michaelmas Day he survey the there is a Concio ad Clerum [University Sermon] whole Library and inform the Master and each Fel- at St Mary’s. low of the old foundation what Books are missing.

3. That he reside in College and be not absent 8. That he allow no Scholars of the College to use above thirty Days at one Time, nor above ninety in the Library, or to stay there, or to borrow Books, the whole year, nor at all without having obtained without express Leave from the Master, his Locum Leave of the Master or his Locum tenens, and pro- tenens, or such Scholar’s Tutor. vided a sufficient Substitute to be first approved of by the Master or his Locum tenens: and that upon 9. That he accompany such Strangers as desire of breaking this Rule in any Part the Place of Library him to see the Library, and that he suffer not the Keeper be ipso facto vacant. Library to be left open when he is absent, though in his own or any other Chamber in the College: 4. That he take Care of the Register Book, which is that he use not the Library for any Sports, nor suf- to be provided for the Purpose of registering bor- fer Scholars to walk there, play at Ball, Shittle Cock, or to misuse the Library, and that he himself use 20 W.H.S. Jones, A History…, 186. not the Library at Candle Light.

110 10. That for each Offence committed against any of the above Rules (except the third, for which the Penalty is therein expressed) he be admonished by the Master, and after the third Admonition from the Master his Place of Library Keeper be ipso facto vacant.

11. That he keep a copy of these Rules and Orders by him.

Appendix C: Some notable items

Sources MR James A descriptive catalogue of the manu- scripts in the library of St Catharine’s College, Cambridge, 1925, lists 18 manuscripts given to the College in the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. JB Bilderbeck Early printed books in the library of St Catharine’s College Cambridge, 1911, lists 75 books printed before the mid-sixteenth century, their donors and names in- scribed in the books. In about 1980, Avril Pedley (Assistant Librarian) identified 569 books printed between 1477 and 1600, including 40 from the Chaytor and Jarrett donations. Thirteen of these Title page from Historia plantarum … , Vol. I, have records on the ESTC (English Short-Title Cata- by John Ray, printed in London 1686. Given logue) database and a further 340 books printed in to the library by Samuel Hoadley, the father of the seventeenth century have been added to this Benjamin Hoadley (m.1691, Fellow 1697–1701). online database in recent years. In 2001 Dr Jenny Sheppard of Lucy Cavendish College identified 13 books and manuscripts with evidence of binding of its donation to the College by James Sotheby prior to 1500. (adm.1671) in 1702. The edges of the leaves are Listed below are details of 20 of particular inter- gilded and the red morocco binding has good- est. quality gold tooling. Various decorative initials within the text including, in Genesis, seven ellipti- Manuscripts cal medallions with gold grounds of the days of Bible: Latin: Vellum, double column of 57 lines, Creation. 13th c., probably English hand. Given by Bishop Sherlock, 1761. Binding: brown leather, 16th c., Historia Alexandri etc: Vellum, 26 lines to a page, central medallion of Abraham sacrificing Isaac. Ini- 13th-c. English hand. Original binding, wooden tials W.L. stamped above it. boards which have lost their covering and back, marks of two clasps. An individually tailored Bible: Latin: Vellum, double column of 58 lines, Solander case has been provided for protection. It 13th c., probably of French origin. Bound early contains eight items including Magister Gregorius, in the eighteenth century probably at the time Narracio de mirabilibus urbis Rome. Bound with

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Historia Alexandri, this manuscript was a guide daughters of the Revd Francis Procter (adm.1831, for pilgrims to Rome, giving information about Fellow 1842–47) . churches, and their reliquaries, art treasures and The Venerable Bede, Ecclesiasticae historiae gentis a guide to ancient Rome. Many printed editions Anglorum, Book V, were published from 1472 onwards. A copy of a Antwerp: Ioannes Gravius, 1550. translation (The Marvels of Rome, transl. John Os- This, the greatest work of the greatest medieval borne, 1987) is held in the Sherlock Library. English historian, was one of the first histories to be printed, although manuscripts of his work Marcus Tullius Cicero, Laelius: Vellum, 15th-c. had been taken by Anglo-Saxon scholars and Italian hand, of parts of Cicero’s works. Present- missionaries to Germany before his death in AD ed in 1850 by CW Goodwin (adm.1834, Fellow 745. This copy came from the Sherlock gift. 1840–47). On the inside of the back cover there is John Drout, The pityfull historie of two lov- a child’s sketch, possibly also from the 15th c., of a ing Italians, Gaulfrido and Barnardo le vayne: castle and bowman. which arived in the countrey of Grece, in the time of the noble Emperoure Vaspasian and John Gower, Confessio Amantis: Vellum, 15th c., translated out of Italian into Englishe Meeter by double columns of 47 lines. Binding brown mo- John Drout...anno 1570. London: Henry Binne- rocco of 18th c. Two miniatures f.4b The dream man, 1570. References: STC 7241.5 Rebound, of Nebuchadnezzar, f.8b The confessor and peni- new endpapers, heavy cropping. Presented to tant. Given by William Bohun (adm.1701) of Bec- the library by CW Goodwin (adm.1834, Fellow cles, 8 December 1740. He wrote ‘Sir, my Father 1840–47). Goodwin notes ‘this copy is unique. set a great value upon this book...I think it will A reprint (of 25 copies only) was made in 1844 be much safer in your College library than in my under the superintendence of J. Payne Collier’. study and may serve to put you in mind I was The discoverie of witchcraft: wherein the lewde once of that College’. dealing of witches and witchmongers is notablie detected, the knaverie of coniurors, the impi- Books etie of inchantors...hereunto is added a treatise Ranulph Higden, Polychronicon with William upon the nature and substance of spirits and di- Caxton’s continuation vels all lately written by Reginald Scot. London: London, 1482. Woodlark’s donation included Poli- William Brome, 1584. Description: xxviii, 560p, cronica cum aliis cujus, a different version. xvi; 19.5 cm (4vo in 8s). Notes: References: STC Claudius Ptolemy, Liber geographiae cum tabulis no.21864. Venice, Jacobus Pentius de Leuco, 1511. Two cop- Raphael Holinshead, The first and second volumes ies are held in the College Library, B 1 77 is im- of the Chronicles London, 1587. Provenance: perfect, missing the title leaf, the whole of quire Addenbrooke donation. A and several maps, whilst maps of Asia have Geraldus Mercator, (1512–1594). Atlas sive cos- been damaged and repaired. He originated the mographicae meditationes de fabrica mundi concept of latitude and longitude to describe Amsterdam, Judocus Hondius, 1623. This work position and his work dominated the subject for is the first collection of maps to which the name fourteen centuries. The geography described Atlas was applied. Mercator’s fame rests chiefly the principles of map-making and included an on the projection known by his name. This was atlas of the known World. first used by him for a world map in 1569: it Dive Catharine virginis per Petrum Chalybem made navigation by dead reckoning easier, ena- heroica vitae description [with lives of other bling the sailor to lay off a compass course on saints]. Nurenbergae: Fridericus Peypus, 1515. the chart in a straight line. This copy is listed in Presented to the College by the Misses Procter, the 1698 Library catalogue.

112 Francis Bacon, The Historie of the reigne of King of plants which brought order out of chaos, and Henrie the seaventh Printed for George Latham, was not superseded until the work of Linnaeus 1637. Provenance: Thos Neale donation. on taxonomy fifty years later. Provenance: Gift Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle from Samuel Hoadly, father of Benjamin Hoadly (1624?-74), CCXI sociable letters written by (adm.1691, Fellow 1697–1701). the thrice noble, illustrious, and excellent Antony van Leeuwenhoek (1632–1723), Arcana princess, the lady Marchioness of Newcastle, naturae detecta…. Lugduni Batavorum, Cor- London, William Wilson, 1664. MS corrections nelium Boutestein, 1696. With the help of authorized by the author, presentation copy. home-made microscopes with magnification Repaired December 1991 by M. Brunwin, as much as 200×, van Leeuwenhoek made re- rebacked in brown calf, new pastedown. markable discoveries in the anatomy of man, In 1698 catalogue. References: Wing (2nd ed.) the higher animals and insects. His researches N872, James Fitzmaurice, PBSA 85:3 (1991), disproved the then widely held view of sponta- Margaret Cavendish on her own writing. neous generation. He confirmed Malpighi’s dis- Robert Boyle (1627–91). The sceptical chymist or, covery of blood capillaries and cells, and gave Chymico-physical doubts and paradoxes... Ox- the first account of bacteria. This copy is bound ford, Henry Hall, 1680. This work established with Continuatio epistolarum. Provenance: Ad- chemistry as the modern science it is today in- denbrooke donation. stead of an adjunct of alchemy and medicine. Jean-Jacques Manget. Bibliotheca chemica curiosa Boyle explained that matter consisted of atoms Geneva, Chouet et al., 1702. The most complete and combinations of atoms and that every phe- collection of alchemical texts ever published, nomenon was the result of these bodies in mo- containing 140 treatises. Provenance: Adden- tion. Provenance: Thos. Neale donation. brooke donation. John Ray (1627–1705, adm.1644, later a Fellow Isaac Newton, Opticks: or, A treatise of the re- of Trinity College). Historia plantarum spe- flections, refractions, inflections and colours of cies hactenus…London, Mariae Clark, 1686, light by Sir Isaac Newton, Knt. Printed for W. Vol.I; 1688, Vol.II; Sam Smith and Benj. Wal- and J. Innys, printers to the Royal Society, 1718. ford, 1704, Vol.III. John Ray has been described Includes a final advertisement leaf. Opticks was as the Father of Natural History, on account Newton’s second major book on physical sci- of his books on botany and zoology. Historia ence. First published in 1704, this edition is dat- plantarum introduced a system of classification ed 1718. Provenance: Addenbrooke donation.

A pen and ink drawing of the Library in the 1930s by Hanslip Fletcher. This would have been its appearance during the 19th century and until 1946. St Catharine’s Magazine t 2011

The rules of shittle cock

Item 9 of the Rules for a Library Keeper (1761) On ye non-pair. Both teames shall chuse one to states: “That he accompany such Strangers as de- governe ye game. Sware not at him, saying Um- sire of him to see the Library, and that he suffer pire, art blind, on paine of one bottell of sacke; if not the Library to bee left open when he is absent, he bee ye Chaplin, two bottells. though in his own or any other Chamber in the On ye Shittel. Let him bee keppt in ye care of ye College: that he use not the Library for any Sports, Shittell-Sizar or of his deputie whom ye Master nor suffer Scholars to walk there, play at Ball, Shit- may from time to time appointe. This Shittel to tle Cock, or to misuse the Library, and that he him- have feathers of Goose or Ducke, not eceding self use not the Library at Candle Light.” one palme in length. It is believed that the following was penned in On Gaming. If bettes bee laid on ye winning of appropriate language as a reaction to the above ye game, one tenth of ye stake to ye Bursar for ye by Colin Smith (1947, Fellow 1968, Emeritus Fel- building of St Cedde’s Hostelrie. low 1990 until his death in 1997). Divers Remarques. If there bee ball plaiers in ye Librarie, or women, or bedmakeres, or per- Rules for Plaieing of Shittle Cock chance such dolefull soules as bee reeding of (from a copy in the archives of St James’s College; their Bokes, chase them thither straightway. See early 17th century?) Mr Wm Shakespere in his Lothario, Princ of Siena. On ye Court. This game bee plaied in ye open, What he sayeth in Act IV part ye 5th. If ye pen- ye wether being ameenable; but by ancaunt rite sioners, or commoners, or schollers, should cry (from ye time of ye visitation of Her Majestie Eliz- ‘Hold! That Shittel was out by an ell’, paie no at- bath of greatful memorie) also in ye Colledge tention; but if ye Chaplin or ye Master say so, then Librarys, ye whether not permitting. If Beares marry, so bee it. Any man who maketh a weeke bee keppt therin, tis best to insure they bee well pleasauntrie about ye name of Shittel, saying (for chayn’d. Stronge drinks and meats bee not serv’d example) [erasure] bought on Turdsday, shall give therin to plaiers nor spectatours without ye book- one bottell to ye companie and paie two groates master allowe it in wryting. for St Cedde’s. Wigges bee not worne, and long On ye nett. If none there bee in ye Librarie, tis allow’d haire bee tied with a ribband. Spurres to bee left to mayke a wall or barryer with ye larger tomes. Bokes at ye Great Doore of ye Librarie; also horses, pot- of Lawes are ye biggest and most convenable. maids, ostlers &c.

Tomes for mayking ye Barryer.

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The First World War memorial panels in Chapel.

In 2009 the last known College in November 2009 and offered copies of surviving UK service veter- pictures and letters relating to her grandfather’s ans of World War One died time in College, his time in the trenches and the and the media coverage friends he made there. A letter from Carter to his prompted several relatives father a week before he was killed in action on of St Catharine’s casualties 18 September 1918 near Epehy some 30 miles in this conflict to contact east of Amiens is reproduced overleaf. (A tran- the College Library and Ar- script is appended to the end of this article.) The chives for information. Mrs action that day caused the Cambridgeshire Regi- Katie Bennie, granddaughter of Bertram Carter ment to lose a great many men. (pictured) born 27 December 1891, visited the Panels in the Chapel record the names of the war

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dead for both the First and the Second World Wars as the Commonwealth War Graves Commission and they are remembered in the November Com- Debt of Honour register to provide brief notes on memoration service. The names are also listed on those listed in the Chapel. Further details have the College web pages (select College Life and then since been added from student record cards, the Chapel) and the memorial for WWI is pictured on archive database, the Magazine, The war list of the previous page. Brief biographical details for the University of Cambridge: 1914–1918, ed. GV those listed on the panels are noted at the end of Carey, 1921, and the potted biographies of War this article. Dead in the Rolls of Honour included in issues of Professor Steers, in his 1982 Magazine article The Cambridge Review published during WWI. St Catharine’s College in, and immediately after, St Catharine’s men who were admitted during the First World War, wrote that he came into resi- this period may have only kept a few terms, or dence in 1916 and that the number of students in not have been matriculated, or not even have College at the outbreak of war in 1914 was about come into residence, before volunteering or being 150. There were 26 admissions recorded in 1914– called up for war service, so records of their Col- 15 and 1915–16, 12 in 1916–17 and 18 in 1917–18, lege involvement are very limited. A disturbing and after the war total numbers in College were discovery has been that one name, that of Walter over 200. He also described the living conditions in James Flaxman, given by Carey as a War Death, a College where the only lighting in undergraduate was omitted from the Memorial. A pencilled note rooms was by oil lamps and candles. on his College record card states ‘Killed in action’ The College Library offered work experience to but no paperwork relating to the preparation of several secondary school pupils in the summer of the WWI Memorial has survived, so it is unclear 2009 and they began to collate the information how this omission occurred. He is in the list be- recorded in admission and matriculation lists, the low, in italics. The dates after each name give the 1907 register of members and online sources such years of matriculation and residence.

116 First World War Deaths 18 Sept. 1918, and buried in CWGC Epehy Wood Farm Barker, Robert Arnold 1914–15. Military service from Cemetery. 1915. Capt. Sherwood Foresters. Died 13 Oct. 1918 of Cartwright, Charles 1904–07. Educated at Denstone Col- wounds received in action [MC – Military Cross]. lege. Choral scholar, and played for the College in both the Bartlett, Lionel Arthur 1903–06. Lt. Queen’s Own. Killed Rugby Football and Cricket teams. Joined up at the out- in action 22 July 1916. break of war and commissioned as 2Lt. Bedfordshire Regt. Belcher, Gordon 1904–07. Exhibitioner in Classics, Captain Killed in action 19 Apr. 1916. of Cricket Club and President Amalgamated Clubs. Col.- Cayley, Francis Digby Edward 1913–14. Agriculture and Sgt. Cambridge University Rifle Volunteers 1907. Assistant forestry. 2Lt. King’s Royal Rifle Corps Unit. Killed in action master at Brighton College and Lt. of OTC. Capt. 3rd Royal in France 29 Sept. 1915. Berkshire Regt. Killed in action in France 15–17 May 1915 Clark, Gerald Maitland 1899–1902. Educated at Bradfield [MC]. College. Scholar in Classics. On staff at Bradfield College Bird, Percy Charles Hilton 1911–14. Educated in Bishop’s from 1903 and officer in OTC. Major Northampton Regt. Stortford. Law, rowed for the College in 1913 and 1914. Mentioned in despatches. Killed in action 14 July 1916. 2Lt. Norfolk Regt. Killed in action Mesopotamia 5 Apr. Clarke, Maurice Tredway 1902–05. Classics. Captain 1916. Assoc. Football and Lawn Tennis. Colours for May Boat, Boultbee, Arthur Elsdale 1915. Exhibitioner in History, Rugby Football and Cricket. Pte. 10 Battalion, Canadian kept one term only. Commissioned in Northampton Regt, Infantry. Killed in action 23 Apr. 1915. Dec. 1915, and became attached to Royal Flying Corps, Conan-Davies, Brynmor Iwan 1910–14. History. Lt. Dec. 1916, Lt. Killed in action 17 Mar. 1917. Worcester Regt, attached to York and Lancaster Regt. Died Buckley, Edward 1905–08. Exhibitioner in History, a 23 Nov. 1918 of pneumonia contracted on active service. prominent athlete and sportsman (cricket and rowing), L/ Corbett, Herbert Vincent 1912–14. History, allowed BA Cpl. Cambridge University Rifle Volunteers 1907. Became 1915 due to military service. Capt. Cambridgeshire Regt, a master at Worksop College and commanded the OTC. attached to Essex Regt. Killed in action 17 Oct. 1918. Gazetted Capt. York and Lancaster Regt at outbreak of war, Driffield, Herbert George 1901–04. Educated at Mon- and fought on the Western Front, being severely wounded ckton Coombe. Mathematics, a keen cricketer. Became a in Oct. 1915. Died in action at Lens 30 Sept. 1917. schoolmaster. 2Lt. Queen’s Own (West Kent Regt). Died 1 Cain, Richard Claude 1910–11. History. Capt. Royal Air Aug. 1917 of wounds received in action 22 Apr. 1917. Force. Killed in flying accident 18 July 1919 [DFC]. [In the Flaxman, Walter James 1909–1912 was admitted to the College and University records his name is spelt Caine, but University from Andover Grammar School as a non-colle- the CWGC and the College memorial give it as Cain.] giate undergraduate, a category set up by statute in 1869 Carter, Bertram 1913–16. See above. Educated at St Pe- to cater for poor students who could not afford the usual ter’s College, Peterborough, where he had been a chorister college fees, and came into residence as such in 1908. His in the Cathedral. Agriculture. He trained the College choir. name appears in our Admissions Register in 1908 (date Joined up Jan. 1916 in the Suffolk Regt and was promoted unspecified but presumably during the Michaelmas Term), to Cpl. Commissioned 2Lt. Cambridgeshire Regt, Mar. and he was in residence in College from 1909–11, reading 1917, and Lt., Aug.1918. Arranged many camp concerts Modern Languages, and then in 1911–12 as a BA. In the and became known as ‘The Singing Soldier’. Killed in action Army he became 2Lt. RASC and died on active service in

Barker Bartlett Belcher Bird Boultbee Buckley

Cartwright Clark Clarke Driffield Gill Gray

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Mesopotamia 27 May 1917; his name is on the CWGC Lee, Herbert Victor 1908–11. Modern Languages. 2Lt. Basra Memorial. He is listed by Carey and was included on Suffolk Regt. Died 17 Nov. 1916 of wounds received in ac- the Honours Roll of Andover Grammar School (now John tion. Hanson Community School), but is not on our Memorial. Lemmey, Frederick George 1893–95. Mathematics. Lt. Gill, Kenneth Carlyle 1912–14. Educated at St John’s Royal Scots. Killed in action 14 July 1916 aged 44. School, Leatherhead. Theology. Decorated as a Temporary Lewis, Julius Heinrich 19 0 9 –11. S g t . 8 t h B a t t a l i o n , R o y a l F u - Lt. 1st Cambridge Regt for gallantry on patrol duty when siliers. Died 03 May 1917. [Carey lists him, but not his death]. severely wounded. In 1916 was attached to the RFC and in McNaught-Davis, James Walden Fortune 1912–14. Histo- 1917 became instructor and Captain in the Royal Air Force. ry, boxed against Oxford in 1913 and 1914 and won each Died 23 Oct. 1918 of wounds received in action [MC]. time. Military service Michaelmas 1914. Lt. South Wales Gray, Edmund Trevennin 1914. Educated at St John’s Borderers. Killed in action 17 Jan. 1915. School, Leatherhead, where he was both Captain and [pic mcnaughtdavis Head of School. Came up with an Exhibition in Classics. Mann, John William 1907–10. Mathematics. Music Soci- 2Lt. 15th Durham Light Infantry. Killed in action in France ety 1910, picture 1983 Magazine p36. 2Lt. 7th Battalion, 22 Oct. 1915. The Buffs (East Kent Regt). Died of wounds received in ac- Griffiths, Charles Ridley 1915, Exhibitioner. 2Lt. Royal Fu- tion on 22 Aug. 1918. siliers. Died 1 May 1917 of wounds received in action. [The Mayo, William Charles 1905–08. Came up with a Schol- Memorial gives the initials as CSR Griffiths, but no trace of arship in Classics. Pte. Cambridge University Rifle Volun- anyone with these initials can be found in the College or teers 1907. Lt. 9th Sherwood Foresters. Killed in action in University records, or in Carey’s War List.] Gallipoli 12 Aug. 1915. Gullick, Arthur Louis 1904–07. Educated at Felsted School. Milner, Dermod Ross 1909–12. History. Chaplain HM History. Captain, Football and Tennis. After graduating, Hospital Ship ‘Garth Castle’, Royal Navy. Accidentally spent some years in Russia. Lt. The Buffs (6th East Kent killed at Archangel 17 Sept. 1919. Regt). Killed in action 3 Oct. 1915, one of five brothers Moore, Gillachrist 1912–14. Educated at the Oratory serving with the Forces. School. 2Lt. 2nd Royal Sussex Regt. Killed in action in the Hill, Reginald Percy 1916. Military service 1916. 2Lt. Roy- First Battle of Ypres 7 Nov. 1914. Son of Sir Norman Moore al Field Artillery. Died 25 Aug. 1918. [Not in Carey’s War (m. 1865, Honorary Fellow 1909), a distinguished physi- List.] cian and Irish scholar. Hughes, Harold 1913–14. Educated at Christ’s Hospital Phillips, Thomas 1915. Due to come up in Oct. 1915 and Archbishop Holgate’s Grammar School, York. Entered from Lancaster Grammar School, of which he was Cap- College to train for Holy Orders, a keen athlete and sports- tain, with an Exhibition in Classics, but instead enlisted in man, colours for rowing in 1914, member of CUOTC. Com- the King’s Own (Royal Lancaster Regt). His name is not missioned in Dec. 1914, 2Lt. Royal Field Artillery. Invalided in our Admissions Register or in Carey’s War List, nor is home in Oct. 1915, but returned to the Front in July 1916. there any College record card for him. He does, however, Died 23 Apr. 1917 of wounds received in action. appear in The Cambridge University Calendar for the Jolley, John Andrew Benjamin 1914. Educated at the Perse Year 1915–1916 under St Catharine’s College as ‘Admit- Grammar School, Cambridge and came up with an Exhibi- ted but not matriculated’, also similarly in the volumes for tion in Classics. 2Lt. 5th Lincolnshire Regt. Killed in action the following three years as e [Phillips, Thomas], where in Flanders 11 Oct. 1915. the e indicates him as an Exhibitioner, and the square Kirkus, Cuthbert Hayward 1899–1902. Educated at Sed- brackets as On War Service. He served two years at the burgh and came up with a Scholarship in Classics. Captain Front, then was attached to the RFC as a Capt. and died of Boats, President of Amalgamated Clubs 1902, Rugby 19 Aug.1918 from severe burns received in a flying ac- Football Colours. After graduation became a stockbroker cident, as announced in The Cambridge Review Vol.40, on the Liverpool Exchange. In 1916, enlisted in the Artists p10, 1918–19. Rifles and was then gazetted to the Royal Garrison Artil- Preddy, Edward Frederick Spencer 1912–14. Mathematics. lery, later Capt. Killed in action 31 July 1917. Capt. Royal Garrison Artillery. Killed in action 8 Dec. 1917.

Gullick Kirkus Lee Mann McNaught-Davis Pritchard

118 Pritchard, Richard 1904–11. Law/History. Captain Ten- OTC. Lt. East Yorkshire Regt. Died 10 Apr. 1917 of wounds nis Club 1907. Pte Cambridge University Rifle Volunteers received in action. 1907. 2Lt. Devonshire Regt. Died 22 Aug. 1916 of wounds Stokes, Robert John 1907–10. History. 2Lt. King’s Royal received in action. Rifle Corps. Killed in action 20 Aug. 1916. Pudumjee, Nusserwanjee Sorabjee 1911–14. Law/History. Swift, William 1913–15. Modern Languages. Military Military service Michaelmas Term 1914, Pte. Royal Fusi- service Easter Term 1915. 2Lt. Lincolnshire Regt. Killed in liers. Drowned when SS Persia was sunk by a U-boat off action 1–3 July 1916. Crete 30 Dec. 1915. Tall, John Jeffrey 1912–14. 2Lt. Devonshire Regt Killed in Rawes, Joscelin Hugh Russell 1914. Educated at the action 17 Feb. 1918. Grammar School, Bury St Edmunds and Perse School, Theobald, Reginald 1914. Admitted as Exhibitioner, but Cambridge. Due to come up in 1914 with an Exhibition, enlisted Oct. 1914. Lt. Suffolk Regt. Killed in action 10 Apr. but was commissioned in Sept. 1914 in the Bedfordshire 1918 [MC]. Regt. Later promoted Lt. and killed in action 7 June 1916. Unwin, Ernest Frederic 1900–03. Exhibitioner in Clas- Rigby, George 1910–13. Mathematics. Lt. York and Lan- sics, Captain 2nd Boat. Joined the Army Service Corps in caster Regt. Killed in action 1 July 1916 [MC]. 1904 and in 1913 became Capt. RFC Reserve. Transferred Ross, William Stuart 1911–14. Exhibitioner in Classics. to the RFC at the outbreak of war, later becoming Major Pte. Royal Fusiliers, Lt. Border Regt. Killed in action 23 July and Squadron Commander. Died 22 Mar. 1916 of injuries 1917. received in a flying accident 31 Jan. 1916. Ryan, Alexander Charles Thomas Kroenig 1912–15. Lt. Ward-Price, Leonard Stanley 1912–14. Exhibitioner, read Middlesex Regt. Killed in action 24 Oct. 1918. [In the Ad- for Diploma in Agriculture, rowed and played rugby foot- missions Register, his name is given as Alexander Charles ball for the College, boxed for the University. Enlisted Thomas Kroenig-Ryan, but he took his degree under the in Oct.1914 as Cpl. King Edward’s Horse, was commis- surname Ryan.] sioned in the 2nd Life Guards and went to France with the Scott, William Francis 1909–12. Geography/Modern Lan- Royal Horse Guards. Very badly wounded in May 1915 guages. Enlisted 1914 as Pte. Queen Victoria Rifles, and and after some months in hospital was posted to the Re- was commissioned as 2Lt. Somerset Light Infantry in June serve at Windsor. Finding this uncongenial, he joined the 1915. Killed in action 1 July 1916. Royal Flying Corps and was soon promoted Capt. and Smart, William Ellis 1913–15. Educated at Bradford Gram- flight commander. Killed in action 25 Mar. 1917. In his mar School. Classics. Military service after Michaelmas memory, his brothers George and Henry Ward-Price gave 1915. 2Lt. Yorkshire Regt. Killed in action near Cambrai £1500 in 1954 to improve the College playing field. 11 Oct. 1918. Watts, Henry Leonard 1903–06. Educated at Allhallows Smith, Douglas George 1914–15. Modern Languages. School, Devon. Classics. After graduating, took a diplo- Military service Easter Term 1915. Lt. King’s Shropshire ma in French Literature at the Sorbonne, then became Light Infantry. Died 16 Aug. 1917 of wounds received in a master at Felsted School, Essex. Commissioned at the action [MC]. outbreak of war in the 9th Essex Regt, and promoted to Southwell, Frederick Edmund Glanville 1908–11. Classics, Capt. in Jan. 1915. Killed in action 20 Oct. 1915 while played chess against Oxford in 1910 and 1911. After grad- company commander. uation taught at Hymer’s School, Hull and commanded the White, Francis Reginald 1911–14. Theology. 2Lt. Royal Engineers, attached to RFC. Died 23 Jan. 1917 of wounds received in action. Williams, Howard Glynne 1913–14. Educated at Denstone College. Prominent in athletics while at College. Military service Lent Term 1915. 2Lt. King’s Royal Rifle Corps. Served in France and Salonika. Died 5 Jan. 1917 of injuries received on active service. Wormald, Oliver Edward 1911–14. Theology. Mili- Rigby Ross Smith tary service Michaelmas Term 1914. Capt. Suffolk Regt,

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The Cambridge Review, published weekly during term Feb. 1917 of appendicitis. over this period, with a Roll of Honour of recent war Added in 1939: Hostis amicus – Jagenberg, Leonard Hu- deaths. bert 1913–14. In Aug. 1914 joined the Royal German Navy t
Pictures: Barker: 1914 Matriculation photograph; Bar- Flying Corps. Died 7 Oct. 1914 with his flying instructor tlett: 1905 Lent Boat photograph; Belcher: 1905 As- in a flying accident in Kiel. [Our thanks to Simon Reay At- sociation Football photograph; Bird: 1914 Lent Boat kinson (2000) who carried out extensive research on this photograph; Boultbee: 1915 Matriculation photograph; in 2002.] Buckley: 1907–8 Rugby photograph; Cartwright: 1905 Literary Society photograph; Clark: 1899 Matricula- Sources tion photograph; Clarke: 1905 Lent Boat photograph; t
College Archives XL/32 Admissions at St Catharine’s Driffield: 1903 Association Football photograph; Gill: Hall from the end of Easter Term 1837 to 1922. 1912 Association Football photograph with Jesus Col- t
Year-book and register of S. Catharine’s College, Cam- lege, Oxford; Gray: 1914 Matriculation photograph; bridge, compiled by WT Southward, RR Conway, FM Gullick: 1906 Lawn Tennis photograph; Kirkus: 1899 Rushmore. Cambridge, 1902. Matriculation photograph; Lee: 1911 Hockey photo- t
Register of S. Catharine’s College Cambridge, 2nd is- graph; McNaught-Davis: 1913 Rugby photograph with sue, compiled by WT Southward, CJ Lay, FM Rushmore. Pembroke College, Oxford; Mann: 1910 Amalgamated Cambridge: the University Press, 1907. Clubs photograph; Pritchard: 1908 Hockey photograph; t
Alumni Cantabrigienses: a biographical list of all known Rigby: 1913 Magi Society photograph; Ross: 1913–14 students, graduates and holders of office at the Uni- Hockey photograph; Smith: 1914 Matriculation pho- versity of Cambridge, from the earliest times to 1900, tograph; Southwell: 1911 Hockey photograph; Stokes: ed. by J and JA Venn. Cambridge: the University Press, 1911 Gazeka Club photograph; Unwin: 1900 Matricula- 1922–1954. tion photograph; Watts: 1906 Lawn Tennis photograph; t
The war list of the University of Cambridge: 1914–1918, Williams: 1913–14 Hockey photograph; Wormald: 1912 ed. GV Carey. Cambridge: the University Press, 1921. Cricket photograph. t
Commonwealth War Graves Commission http://www. We are grateful to Professor Sir John Baker and Elizabeth cwgc.org. Ennion-Smith for their help with this research. t
Cambridge University Calendars (for appropriate years) Suzan Griffiths (Assistant Librarian 1990–2004, Librarian which, among much other information, list the full 2004–10) and John Shakeshaft (Librarian 1962–2004) names of those in residence at the various colleges.

Transcript of Carter letter Dear Dad, fire, when everyone drops into shell holes, and Nothing very alarming has happened during takes up whatever cover presents itself. To ex- the last few days. We were a day or so in support pose oneself once MG fire has been opened is after our adventure over the top, and since then decidedly risky; I hope never to come under such have been at rest some ten kilometres behind deadly fire as that the other day. Men dropped all the front line. The men certainly needed a rest, round me like ninepins; my soap dish caught the the poor bounders could hardly hobble along, one that was intended for me. I hope to send it and were altogether in pitiful plight through and the bullet to Rushton as a souvenir. Shell fire long marching, lack of sleep and continual nerve is not pleasant, but up to the present I have been strain. shock proof. Did I tell you of the shell that burst To go over the top is a wonderful experience; it in my trench, knocked out two and shell-shocked is all part of a long-prepared plan and one hardly another, and left me alone sound but partially in- realises in these days of open warfare that the terred. So you see, life is precarious and perhaps moment has come. It is difficult to describe one’s all the sweeter because it is. feelings – it’s a matter of ‘Come along boys,’ and News up to date is not altogether encouraging over they go until Fritz opens M[achine] G[un] on our part…

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Lizzy Ennion-Smith (College Archivist) writes As you read this the College bar will have been demolished and will have moved to its original position in College. The demolition of the bar (and its surroundings) to make way for the Col- lege Centre development led to questions about the history of the College bar. Has the College always had a bar? Where has it been located over the years? Fortunately the JCR minute books and the Governing Body minutes provide rich sources of information for many aspects of College life, including the history of the bar. Far from being a long-standing feature of the College, the bar is a recent addition. Proposals for investigating the establishment of a bar were discussed by the JCR in April 1949 and shortly afterwards a motion was approved by 67 votes to 1 that the matter should be carried before the Governing Body for consideration. Unfortunately it is not possible to tell from the minutes what prompted the raising of this issue. Beer was one of the foodstuffs not rationed during World War II so the proposal was not linked the end of ration- ing, which, for some products like flour, began in 1948. Perhaps in the post-war period of austerity Top: The JCR in Old Lodge (now the it was hoped that drinking in College would be Ramsden Room), showing the door to the Bar cheaper than frequenting city-centre pubs or per- across the corridor. Bottom: Development of the haps it was simply something happening at other new Bar, 1986. Colleges and St Catharine’s was following suit. The proposal for a JCR bar was put before the Encouragement to use the bar is seen in many Governing Body in June 1949. The minutes note sets of JCR minutes, along with the suggestion ‘There was considerable discussion on this sug- to encourage Fellows to make use of it too. By gestion which did not meet with unanimous ap- October 1952 the bar was making a weekly loss proval.’ However, in the end, it was agreed by and there was a suggestion that it may have had majority vote that approval should be given for to close. This did not happen, and it continued to the establishment of a bar. An initial sugges- function in Old Lodge until it moved in 1986 as tion for locating the new bar in the cellar under part of the further development of Chapel Court. G staircase was rejected and the position of Old The new development, which consisted of a new Lodge 1, next to the JCR (now the Ramsden Library, JCR and bar, was opened on 27 Septem- Room), was agreed upon. The bar was opened ber 1986. on 21 November 1949 by the Master. When the bar moved, the MCR moved into the Early use of the bar was low. It had originally vacated space, via a short stay in the Armitage been planned to employ a barman but in Janu- Room while the Old Lodge room was re-decorat- ary 1950 it was being run by the JCR Committee. ed. Originally the MCR had been on the ground

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floor of the old E staircase, a room granted for Lodge. The MCR will again lose its home due to its use by the Governing Body in 1960 but de- building works and will share accommodation molished as part of the major building works of with the JCR as it did during the 1960s works, 1965–6. The MCR moved to the Christopher though this time it will be in B2. Waddams Room in the new buildings in 1967 af- Pictures of the bar in its original position in Old ter temporarily occupying the JCR TV Room dur- Lodge are sadly absent from the College Archives ing the building works. so any pictures or reminiscences of the bar and As demolition work begins for the construction MCR in their various locations would be welcomed of the new College Centre, the bar has moved by the Archivist who is always keen to receive ma- again, this time back to its original position in Old terial relating to the history of the College.

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122 What next?

In March 2011 I found myself asking ‘Now that I’ve cycled 25,000km across Africa, what am I going to do next?’ Not your average pondering over coffee in the morning. Not unless you’ve just spent the last 20 months travelling from Cambridge to Cape Town through 24 countries on a bike. The realization that I had finally made my destination was less amazing than the more daunting prospect of not knowing what I was go- ing to do now. This was a question I had asked myself before… The idea to cycle through Africa arose from an innocuous game of softball one sunny summer afternoon. A softball game during which I in- curred a knee injury. An injury that took two op- erations over two years to repair. That’s two years of relative inactivity. With lots of time to think, I found myself asking, ‘Unless I want to waste away the best years of my life working in an of- fice, what am I going to do?’ My answer to that question was to quit my job as an engineer and cycle 20,000km across Africa. It turns out that when I do little, I think big. It also turns out that I rather underestimated the number of kilometres I would end up cycling. Ready to set off again. So, on 20 July 2009 I wheeled my fully-loaded bike off the ferry in St Malo, France, not know- cycling through pretty villages on quiet roads and ing where I was going to sleep that night, except alongside rivers until I was tired, when I could just that it would be in a tent; and not knowing which stop wherever I liked? I had time to read and I way to go, except if I headed south I couldn’t go had time to visit cathedrals and castles. Time to far wrong. I didn’t even have a map. Well, that’s enjoy a drink of red wine in the evening or cof- not true exactly – I had three maps covering the fee with croissants for breakfast. Definitely better whole of Africa, but they weren’t going to help that working in an office. Smiling, because, for me right then. But fortune favours the brave, so I the time-being, life was one big holiday. I smiled boldly struck up conversation with the other per- on through Spain’s searing heat and took a ferry son wheeling a bike off the ferry. He showed me to Morocco. And south of Morocco is desert. to a campsite and remarking ‘A gift to get you When I planned the ride, I thought crossing the off to a good start on your ride,’ he handed me a Sahara would be the toughest part. The reality large road atlas of France. was that an overland journey to Cape Town was I cycled with a smile all the way to the Pyren- beyond my comprehension and, although I had nees. Smiling, not only because I had a map (even a route mapped all the way, I hadn’t honestly then I still managed to get lost), but because I thought about the practicalities beyond the first couldn’t think of anything else I would rather be few months to the Sahara. And crossing a desert doing. What better way to spend my days than seemed like a major challenge when considered

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two weeks’ food. With no-one except an occa- sional fisherman, for once we felt truly alone with nature. That’s one thing about Africa – you can think that you have found a quiet spot to camp, but be sure that within the hour, there will be children from the nearby village hidden in the bush curiously peering at you or a passing hunter waving as he follows a well-known but unseen path across the land with an ancient-looking rifle slung over his shoulder. The Niger river was different. Where there are no people, nature thrives. From beautiful birds with shimmering blue feathers that glide effort- The pirogue built for Helen. lessly across the surface of the water, to eagles that soar effortlessly in the thermals high above. from the sofa at home. From crickets and frogs that provide a symphony So finding a smooth tarmac road running along of sounds to fall asleep to once the sun sets, to the Atlantic coast all the way from Morocco, large fish that sometimes jump out of the water through the disputed Western Sahara and on to and make you think ‘crocodile’. From chimpan- Nouakchott, the Mauritanian capital, shouldn’t zees staring silently from between the branches have come as a surprise. With gas stations of- of the wall of green bush lining the riverbank to fering omelettes and coffee, tajine and coke, hippos bathing in the river which look remarkably cold water and washrooms every 100km or so, like rocks until their ears twitch and they see the it turned out to be probably the easiest 1,000km boat – with a giant noise somewhere between a of the journey – aided by a strong tailwind. I had horse snorting and a whale spouting they sub- thought I might be lonely, but again I was wrong. merge leaving you unsure where they will surface I had the good fortune to meet another cyclist. next. From spiders that hop along the water’s Lars was also going south. surface when you shoo them out of the boat with Cycling day-in, day-out can be a challenge. the end of your paddle to snakes that slither and Mentally. The legs you train just to keep pedalling. glide through the river with their heads looking That is mindless. But the mind needs stimulation. out like little periscopes. From warthogs, duiker Yes, cycling can be boring. The desert may be one (small deer) and vervet monkeys to a continuous seemingly-endless, barren tract of stony hammada onslaught of mosquitoes, sandflies and tsetse and windswept sands; the mind however is one in- flies. Yes – not everything in nature should be finite tract of endless images and ideas, which can nurtured. grow from an innocuous seed into beautiful flow- The Niger river took us to Mali. And Mali is ers. Now, if two adventurous spirits can independ- where myself and Lars went our separate ways. ently think up the idea to cycle through Africa, get My way was now to Timbuktu. Not by bike, but on their bikes and pedal onwards, imagine what by public transport. Bush taxi, bus and 4x4. Once they can think up together... They think to paddle a fabled city of wealth and the centre of Islamic a boat down the Niger River. learning, Timbuktu is now just a dusty town on So that’s how I came to spend my 29th birth- the edge of the encroaching desert. This is one day paddling down the upper reaches of the Niger hourglass that cannot be turned over and soon river in Guinea, in a pirogue. A six-metre pirogue Timbuktu shall be lost to the sands of time. that we had paid a local fisherman to build for It was by bike that I then pedalled through the us, which would fit two people, two bikes and rest of West Africa. Through friendly Ghana, tiny

124 Togo and Benin famed for voodoo, slaves and lift. You have to remind yourself that no truck is female Dahomey warriors. Through Nigeria that coming. You passed the only truck two days ago. I feared would be corrupt and dangerous. But It was broken down. But just when you think your in Nigeria, a traveller who embraces the culture tired arms can push no more, you see the steep- and its people will be rewarded with friendship est hill yet. But you are now at the bottom of the and generosity that can be hard to accept at face valley, where a river flows. And where road and value when everything you had assumed about river meet, there is life. And a friendly face which the country told you that nothing comes for free. will take the back of your bike and help you push. Through Cameroon with it’s muddy, rocky lung- They are going the same way and have hands to busting tracks through thick overgrown forest up help. Nothing is requested or accepted in return. If into the cool, crisp air of the beautiful highlands, you need help, and help can be offered, it will be. with deep orange earth tracks winding along That is the Congo. Everyone helps each other. the green hillsides with endless views and mist- Thus with a helping hand I made it to the covered valleys. Through Gabon until the tarmac smooth tarmac, pedalled to the capital and road ends abruptly and a signpost directs you crossed the river to Kinshasa in the Democratic right, down a deep-rutted, deep-sand track to Republic of Congo. the ‘Republic of Congo’. When an adventurous spirit has cycled through The Congo has the continent’s best and worst West Africa, paddled the Niger river and arrived roads. The best road is smooth tarmac running in the DRC, it doesn’t seem ridiculous to cycle from the president’s childhood home in the north across the country to East Africa. Across a coun- to Brazzaville, the country’s capital on the banks try almost devoid of infrastructure and the worst of the Congo river. The worst roads are all the roads on the continent. It took three weeks to others. The worst roads generally cannot be cy- traverse half the country. cled. You have to push and drag and sweat and Eventually I looked out over the crystal clear strain. You have to persevere when your body is Lac Fwa, with the surface gently rippling where screaming to stop and wait for a truck to get a water from the underground source slowly rose St Catharine’s Magazine t 2011

Get a lift. Hyenas that you think you can hear outside your tent in the moonlit night make you crouch with the only weapons you have – a pen- knife and pliers from your toolkit. Better than a bike pump though. When you emerge in the morning and see your lone tent surrounded by prints, you know you weren’t just being para- noid. Scorpions that like the warmth from your shoes that you left outside your tent so you are really glad you remembered to shake them out before putting them on. Not like that time when you thought you had a stone in your shoe only to the surface and spread outward. Unfortunate- to find that it was a spider. Jackals that you never ly, though, at a place where tourists are unknown see, just the damage they have wrought on your but diamonds definitely are, your presence will be tent to steal your food. So your 30th birthday viewed as highly suspicious. And so it was with dinner is dried bread when you’d hoped for choc- some disappointment that I departed and went olate. But not all wild animals are dangerous to instead to Lusambo on the banks of the Sankuru the cyclist. Wildebeest, zebra, warthogs, impala, river. Once the provincial administrative centre gazelle, eland, giraffe. They will all graze quietly in Belgian days, the colonial buildings are now on the plains. This is Africa. crumbling and the gardens grow maize. Where But as I cycled through Botswana and Namibia Timbuktu is being lost to the desert, Lusambo is and down the western cape of South Africa, being lost to the forest. drawing ever nearer to Cape Town and the end In a country where most people have little, time of my journey, my thoughts turned once again to is a luxury everyone can afford. But there is only the future. so much time a cycle tourer can spend sitting and So back to the original question, when I arrived waiting, and talking and laughing, and eating and in Cape Town, ‘Now that I’ve cycled 25,000km sleeping. Especially when their visa expires soon. across Africa, what am I going to do next?’ I reluctantly left the DRC and pedalled on This time, the question was answered by Lars south so that I spent Christmas at Victoria Falls. when he contacted me to ask if I wanted to join But more amazing than these spectacular water- him on another adventure. My answer to Lars falls, was the fact that when I turned on a tap in was a definite ‘Yes’. And so the answer to my the hostel, water came out. Hot water. Zambia question was, ‘Work over the summer as an engi- was tarmac roads and supermarkets and running neer and then cycle 5,000km through America’. water. Zambia was a little less Africa and a little It turns out that when you’ve thought big once, more Europe. I found myself craving fufu, but I you’ll always think big. I also suspect that I’ve could only find deep fried chicken and chips. rather underestimated the number of kilometres I Where central Africa had tough roads and of- will end up cycling. ficials to contend with, southern Africa had wild Helen Lloyd (2000) animals. Elephants that, despite their size, are If you would like to read more about Helen’s hard to see from the road until you are so close cycle to Cape Town, she wrote regularly through- that you startle them and they turn to face you out the journey on her Take On Africa website: with trunk in the air and ears flapping aggres- www.takeonafrica.com. To read more about sively. Pedal faster. Lions that you know could be what Helen is doing now and the Great Divide near and, when you are told of one on the road ride through America, go to Helen’s Take On… ahead, you know that they are. Stop pedalling. website: www.helenstakeon.com.

126 Meltzone 2011 – living and working on the ice sheet

‘What? We have no coffee?’ The two of us had recently been dropped off by helicopter with four others into the middle of nowhere on the Green- land Ice Sheet. Here, we were to live and work for nearly three weeks, isolated from the rest of the world. The sky was clear and the sun was out, but the air temperature hovered around 0oC and a cutting katabatic wind blew from the top of the ice sheet in the east, through our ‘wind- proof’ jackets, and down to the coast to our west. Encouraged by the need to keep warm, we had speedily put up our personal tents and three mess tents (the ‘kitchen’, the ‘workshop’ and the ‘of- fice’). By late afternoon, we had sorted the kit into the relevant places in the relevant tents; we had set up the stove; we had dug through the snow to get water; the kettle was boiling; now Small icebergs in Ilulissat Fjord. all we needed was the coffee. But someone had forgotten to pack it. Three weeks without coffee? That early-June morning, we had flown to the Our heads throbbed, our hands shook and our ice sheet from the small coastal town of Ilulissat, moods sank into our felt-lined boots. Disko Bay, west central Greenland. Meaning ‘ice- bergs’ in the native language, Ilulissat has around Surface lakes on the Greenland Ice Sheet 4,000 people and is remarkable for its brightly viewed from the helicopter. coloured wooden buildings, and thousands of dogs owned by the local fishermen. The dogs are used for sledding to good fishing waters in the winter but in the summer they are chained up; bored, restless and barking. The dogs are fed fish (mainly halibut), giving the town its distinc- tive smell. To the south is Ilulissat Fjord, at the head of which is one of Greenland’s biggest and fastest moving outlet glaciers, Jakobshavn Isbræ. As it shudders forwards, thousands of icebergs calve off the front each year and fall into the fjord, some the size of dolphins, others more like aircraft carriers. It is a spectacular sight and it is no wonder that Ilulissat Fjord was added to the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2004. For the last few decades, local people and visiting scien- tists have witnessed one of the world’s most no- ticeable effects of climate change. In July 2010, the glacier front broke up, retreating one and a half kilometres in a few days. This break up has been happening for the last decade, although St Catharine’s Magazine t 2011

ourselves on the Greenland Ice Sheet. We were there with Marco Tedesco and his graduate stu- dent, Patrick Alexander, from City College New York, Christine Foreman from Montana State University, and our fearless mountain guide, Eryka Thorley, who is very good with ropes. We were there to measure patterns of melt across the ice sheet and water flow through snow and along channels etched into the ice. We were particular- ly interested in how depressions on the ice sheet surface fill with water to form large lakes. Analy- sis of satellite imagery shows that such lakes form each year; they grow in the early summer, some of them reaching over a kilometre across. In the mid to late summer they often shrink or disap- pear altogether. We wanted to monitor precisely how such lakes fill and how deep they get, and identify the mechanisms by which they drain. We had also speculated, partly based on previous work by others, that when the lakes drain, they Ian with one of the truck-container-sized ice may deliver large volumes of water into the ice blocks plucked from the fracture during the sheet that could, temporarily at least, decrease drainage of Lake Ponting. the coupling between the ice and the underlying bed causing the ice sheet locally to bulge up and not always this dramatically, so that the glacier flow more quickly. For this reason we also wanted has retreated nearly ten kilometres since 2001. to monitor continuously and accurately the posi- The glacier has also been speeding up; in 2001, tion (latitude, longitude and elevation) of several it flowed at seven kilometres a year, but by 2010 points on the ice sheet surface using differential it was moving closer to fifteen. There are two Global Positioning System (dGPS) techniques. schools of thought to explain the changes. The So on 9 June 2011, we left Ilulissat and flew first is that increased melting due to higher air to a site that we were convinced from looking at temperatures over the ice sheet has allowed more satellite images would be ideal for our study. It water to flow down cracks and holes and reach was about 70 kilometres from Ilulissat (45 min- the ice sheet base. Here it reduces the friction al- utes by helicopter), around 15 kilometres from lowing the glacier to slide more rapidly. The sec- the ice sheet edge and close to 900 metres above ond is that higher ocean temperatures and chang- sea level. It turned out to be a perfect spot for ing ocean currents have brought warmer waters our work, as well as one of the most stunning to the fjord. This may have increased the rate of places on Earth. Surrounded by gently undulat- melting on the underside of the floating glacier ing terrain of snow and ice, we could just see tongue causing it to thin and break up more eas- the tops of mountains in the distance. The skies ily. In turn, this would release the pressure on the were brilliant blue for much of the time, and ice further inland allowing it to accelerate. Both the constantly changing cloud formations could of these hypotheses have some support from have kept artists and poets busy forever. Over ground, ocean and satellite measurements and the weeks, we got to know the other four team they are the subject of ongoing work. members as we shared camp duties, set up in- It is against this backdrop that we found struments and collected data. We radiated out

128 from our camp each day, sometimes for 2–3 km, trussed up in harnesses jangling with ice screws and carabiners, roped together like beads on a string in case anyone disappeared into a crevasse or a hole under the snow. We advanced slowly as we probed for these hidden dangers, skirting around those that we found. As the days went by, progress was slowed further by the need to avoid large patches of icy cold water that devel- oped within the melting snow. Towards the end of our trip it was impossible to dodge these slush zones completely as they had become so numer- ous and extensive; we ended up simply wading Alison and Marco investigate the biggest of the through them, sometimes waist deep. We were six moulins which formed on the fracture during also hindered by the weight of our back packs, the drainage of Lake Ponting. which contained not only scientific equipment but also layers of clothing, emergency bivouacs, walled canyon that had previously been choked extra food, distress beacons and satellite phones with snow. We followed the edge of the ravine that we had promised on our risk assessment until we dared go no further and peered over forms to carry at all times. the edge. A large powerful waterfall was cas- Gradually, we set up our seven GPS stations cading into the ice sheet via a giant moulin (the around two large surface depressions, installed term used by glaciologists for a hole in a glacier). water pressure sensors near the deepest parts of From the analysis of the pressure sensor data and the basins to record lake filling and draining, and knowledge of the shape of the basin, we now put other sensors above, within and beneath the know that the lake took about two days to reach snow to measure melting and water flow. We had its maximum depth of around three metres and 24 hours of daylight of course, and quickly learnt peak volume of about two hundred thousand cu- to tell the time from the direction of the sun gyrat- bic metres (enough to fill 80 Olympic-sized swim- ing around us, higher to the south around midday ming pools). The lake likely drained via a series and lower towards the north reminding us to crawl of slush flows along the canyon that unplugged into our sleeping bags at the end of each day. As the existing moulin, which must have survived we expected, the two basins gradually filled with the winter. The lake drained slowly over 24 hours water and we named them Lake Half Moon (after and, at its maximum, the discharge of water feed- the shape it had taken on) and Lake Ponting (after ing the moulin was about three cubic metres per Herbert Ponting, the great photographer on Rob- second. This must have been sufficient to gener- ert Falcon Scott’s final Antarctic expedition; a trip ate the night time rumblings. This might all sound that had taken place exactly 100 years before our quite dramatic, and we thought it was too at the own rather more modest adventure). time, but the best was yet to come… During the early hours of 17 June, we were Two days later during the early afternoon of disturbed by things going bump in the night; 19 June we were having a late lunch in camp. more specifically, a series of long, low whoomph For several days we had witnessed Lake Ponting, sounds like distant thunder but which came from about one and a half kilometres away, grow into deep beneath us. The following morning we saw what was now a thick sky-blue ribbon, tapering that Lake Half Moon nearby had shrunk in size, at the edges and cutting across the bright white its surface had fallen by about a metre, and water of the ice sheet. But quite suddenly it began to was now flowing out of the lake along a deep ice- shrink, magically disappearing like a hallucination.

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the ice sheet at a rate of around 25 centimetres per second. Once it reached the bed, the remain- ing water drained from the lake at an accelerat- ing rate. As the fracture formed, blocks of ice up to three metres high and ten metres wide would have been plucked from the ice sheet, and we saw these littering the floor of the former lake. We also found six large moulins along the frac- ture made by water flow concentrating in certain places along the crack once it had connected to the bed. The biggest of these was around ten Ian and Alison celebrate returning to camp at metres wide and still had water thundering into midnight after an eight-hour excursion to see the it when we reached it. aftermath of the Lake Ponting drainage. After nearly three weeks of excitement on the ice sheet we were reluctantly ready to leave. It The thick ribbon became a thin band then a tiny took a few days to bring our instruments back thread and then it was gone. During the final dy- to camp, collapse our tents and pack our things ing moments of the lake, ice blocks the size of into the boxes they had arrived in. The helicop- truck-containers swirled around on the water like ter retrieved us and whisked us back to Ilulissat pieces of soap around an emptying plug hole. which felt warm, peculiarly dry underfoot, and Within the hour we set off to former Lake Pon- was fused with colours and smells that we had ting to retrieve the pressure sensor and see what been deprived of for three weeks. And there was had happened to the lake. We now know that coffee. Never has coffee tasted so good. the lake took about six and a half days to reach Our trip was a success. The data we collected its maximum depth of nearly six metres when its are some of the first of their kind. We are still peak volume was one and a half million cubic processing the GPS data but preliminary analysis metres, equivalent to 600 Olympic-sized swim- suggests that the lake drainage events, particu- ming pools (or 15 Royal Albert Halls). It drained larly that of Lake Ponting, did indeed cause the suddenly, emptying in just two and a half hours. ice sheet to move more rapidly than usual for a At its maximum, the discharge of water leaving short while. So we are able to add small pieces the lake was nearly 600 cubic metres per sec- to the jigsaw of knowledge concerning ice sheet ond, about ten times the average discharge of hydrology and the links to ice sheet dynamics. the River Thames. On the floor of the former We feel privileged to have had the opportunity lake we found a new fracture, about 600 metres to travel to Greenland and to have undertaken long, ranging in width from a centimetre or so work in this beautiful, wild and inaccessible place to several metres. The weight of the water must and we are grateful not only to the Natural Envi- have produced this fracture. Analysis of the pres- ronment Research Council but also St Catharine’s sure sensor data shows that the water during the College, the Scandinavian Studies Fund, the BB initial phase of drainage could have been swal- Roberts Fund and the University of Cambridge lowed up by a vertically propagating crack 600 for supporting our work. metres long, with an average width of 30 centi- Ian Willis and Alison Banwell metres, reaching a depth of around 1000 metres. Ian Willis (Fellow 1989) is Director of Studies We know from previous radar measurements in in Geography. Alison Banwell (2008) is a the area that the ice sheet is about 1000 metres PhD student in glaciology. Both are based at thick so these dimensions are plausible. The frac- St Catharine’s and in the Cambridge University ture must have progressed towards the bed of Scott Polar Research Institute.

130 Thomas Turton, Bishop of Ely

Peter Meadows, manuscript librarian at the Uni- versity Library, is the editor of Ely: Bishops and Diocese 1109–2009, published as part of Ely Cathedral’s 900th Anniversary Celebrations. As part of his researches for this book, he investi- gated St Catharine’s alumnus Thomas Turton and has kindly written the following article. The College archives contain a letter of 5 November 1806 from King George III dispensing with stat- utes to enable Turton to be elected as a Fellow notwithstanding his being too young.

Thomas Turton (1780–1864), son of a prosper- ous landowner from Hatfield, South Yorkshire, came to Queens’ College, Cambridge, in 1801, and migrated to St Catharine’s in 1804. He was Senior Wrangler in 1805, a Fellow in 1806, Tutor in 1807, and was elected Lucasian Professor of A portrait by an unknown artist of Turton as a Mathematics in 1822. He was ordained in 1813, young man, which now hangs in the Bishop’s becoming Rector of Gimingham, Norfolk, 1826– house at Ely. 33, and Somersham, Huntingdonshire, 1827–42. In 1827 Turton moved from the Lucasian chair to the Long Gallery, 65 in the two drawing rooms, the Regius Professorship of Divinity, and in 1830 13 in the dining room, and 87 in six bedrooms was appointed Dean of Peterborough. He twice and dressing rooms. Others were undoubtedly in benefited from the patronage of the Tory Prime store. Turton wrote to Lady Buxton in July 1855: Minister Sir Robert Peel. In 1842 he became ‘I have been plunging into dark closets, etc., and Dean of Westminster; three years later he was dragging out things which had not seen the light appointed Bishop of Ely. His administration of Ely of day for long enough. This has enabled me to was along traditional lines, and he is regarded as re-arrange my pictures, so as to produce a some- the last of the ‘old style’ bishops. what grand appearance.’ The effect at Ely House, Turton loved music. A tribute after his death de- designed by Sir Robert Taylor in the 1770s, must scribed him as ‘passionately fond of the violin, on have been rather oppressive. There were 21 pic- which he was an accomplished player’. He com- tures in the two libraries, six in the housekeeper’s posed music too; but only two workaday hymn room, 57 in the two drawing rooms, and nine in tunes and a tedious setting of the Magnificat and the Bishop’s bedroom. Nunc Dimittis are known to have been published. Turton’s taste was wide-ranging, from Old Turton was an assiduous art collector. After his Masters to contemporary landscapes, and por- death 425 oil paintings were sold by Christie’s. It traits of poets, painters, writers and playwrights. was extraordinary that a Cambridge don, dean Many paintings were copies of great works. It and bishop could have built up such a collection. is hard to judge of their quality from the inad- Turton hung his huge collection in the Palace at equate attributions and brief descriptions in the Ely and at Ely House, Dover Street, London. The sale catalogue. No one now can seriously believe 1864 sale catalogue lists his paintings room by that Turton had an original Leonardo, The Vir- room. In Ely Palace there were 68 paintings in gin of the rocks. It sold for £12 10s. There were,

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in the delightful imagination that our meeting on Thursday will be the most exquisite we have ever had. After so long an absence, the thought of seeing you, and having you in my arms, and saying all the kind things that affection can sug- gest – is nearly overwhelming ... we shall have three hours together – how nice!’. They seem to have worried about propriety. In 1855 he wrote ‘I know we shall both of us trust to be preserved from wrong. We must then endeavour, to the ut- most of our power, to sanctify our affection, by prayer and supplication, for each other’. Turton was always fearful about his health. In The bust in the Long Gallery. 1855 he wrote ‘To get through the winter, I man- age as well as I can. This has been the case with however, occasional gems, such as Procaccini’s me from early years’. He had evidently needed Virgin and Child with St John and angels, which medical treatment: ‘After some pretty sharp was sold to the National Gallery of Scotland in medical appliances, I am now looking forward to 1995 for £600,000. an interval of more favourable health ... You must The catalogue shows that Turton’s arrangement therefore imagine me working on with a mind, if of his pictures was eclectic. Not one of his rooms not exactly buoyant, very cheerful.’ was devoted to an age, a style, or an artist. In the He rarely ventured a political opinion, but on lower drawing room at Ely, for instance, grand 8 April 1859, on the eve of the general election, landscapes and views by Ostade, Poussin, Claude, he wrote: ‘Retired as I am from the bustle of the Canaletto and Salvator Rosa vied with self por- world, I cannot but feel anxious for the future im- traits of Velasquez, Rembrandt and Rubens, vari- mediately before me. I am sorry to say that Lord ous Virgin-and-childs, the Miraculous Conception, John Russell is the origin of all the evil. Why did and the woman of Samaria by the Carracci. he, some years ago, bring forward the question What was probably quite unknown until a cen- of Reform? Nobody wanted Reform. Persons in tury after his death was that, late in life, Turton the quiet, respectable classes of society dislike fell in love with Elizabeth, dowager Lady Buxton, the very thought of it. With the present House of of Shadwell Park, Norfolk, and she with him. Commons, the country is flourishing – improving Turton’s papers were destroyed after his death, – why not let it flourish and improve?’. but many of his letters to her have survived (in Their last meeting seems to have taken place the University Library). Elizabeth married Sir at Ely on 30 September 1863, when he wrote her John Buxton, who died in 1841 at the age of a touching little note: ‘My dearest love, Don’t 53. Their eldest child, Sir Robert, came of age in stay in the Cathedral till you are chilled. Come 1850. Mark Girouard described Lady Buxton as ‘a to me and have a glass of Madeira before dinner. character who might have come out of Trollope, Yours affectionately T. Ely.’ He died at Ely House a dowager both formidable and slightly absurd, in January 1864, and was buried beside his old moving through life in an aureole of good works friend Thomas Musgrave, Archbishop of York, and admiring clergymen’. in Highgate Cemetery. In his will he left most of From the letters it is clear that they met in 1849, his money to charities and societies, among them but the circumstances are unknown. The first sur- SPCK, the National Society, Charing Cross Hospi- viving letter, in 1854, opens ‘My dearest love, my tal, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, Bury St own dear Elizabeth’, and continues ‘Indulge me Edmunds Infirmary and Bedford Infirmary.

132 Fitzbillies cake shop

Alison Wright, the daughter of James Wright (Fellow 1978, Honorary Fellow 1992), and her husband Tim Hayward have re-opened Fitzbil- lies. They had to submit a business plan to Pem- broke and purchase the Fitzbillies name from the previous owners. There was stiff competition from others who wished to offer the Chelsea buns by mail-order, or to move the shop else- where. However, following refurbishment, Fit- zbillies re-opened in time for the August Bank Holiday, 2011.

An Oxford cup

A cup awarded by the Cats Boat Club for win- ning the Light Pair race in April 1892 was being thrown out by the Dragon School in Oxford. It was rescued by Derek Phillips who noticed the College name and duly contacted St Catherine’s, Oxford. The Bursar there realised that the cup in fact originated in Cambridge and, in due course, it made its way here. Mr Phillips had no idea why the cup was in the Dragon School. A little research by the Editor and the College Archivist elicited that the alumni whose names appear on the cup, FE Hicks and B Wilton, were both ordained and served the Church of England in Yorkshire and Cheshire. There seemed to be no Oxford connection. However, the records show two alumni named Francis Edward Hicks, one in the 1890s and another in the 1920s. It seems very likely that the latter was the son of the former. The son was apparently notorious for climbing on the roofs – an activity which, no doubt, gave him appropriate experience when he came to lead a Himalayan expedition. Records show that he was indeed based in Oxford in the 1950s and so may well be instrumental in placing the cup in the School. Maybe he taught there.

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