217103 NL COVER 13-02-09 16:12 Page 1 TRINITY HALL NEWSLETTER MICHAELMAS 2008 The Trinity Hall Newsletter is published by the College. Printed by Cambridge University Press. www.cambridge.org/printing Newsletter Thanks are extended to all the contributors. MICHAELMAS 2008 The Development and Alumni Office Trinity Hall, Cambridge CB2 1TJ Tel: +44 (0)1223 332563 Fax: +44 (0)1223 765157 Email:
[email protected] www.trinhall.cam.ac.uk Trinity Hall Newsletter MICHAELMAS 2008 College Reports ............................................................................ 3 Trinity Hall Association & Alumni Matters ............................ 45 Trinity Hall Lectures ................................................................. 57 Student Activities, Societies & Sports ...................................... 71 The Gazette ................................................................................ 89 Reply Slips & Keeping in Touch ........................... Cream Section Section One College Reports www.trinhall.cam.ac.uk 3 From the Master Trinity Hall has always been known as one of the most friendly and convivial of Cambridge colleges; now it can justly claim to be one of the youngest, most dynamic and cosmopolitan. The academic year opened with the arrival of eleven new Fellows, reducing the average age of the Fellowship, correcting the gender balance, and covering a wide range of College Reports nationalities from Macedonian to Australian. Academic subjects ranged from law through philosophy, theology and English literature to biolog- ical sciences and physics. Regardless of subject and origin, they very soon became part of the community of Trinity Hall, which has always been so inclusive and welcoming. It was also a year for departure, with the retirement of two of our most senior and long-serving Fellows. Colin Austin arrived in 1965 as a Junior Research Fellow, and retired as Professor of Greek, a pre-eminent author- ity on Greek comedy, and of course our wine steward for 35 years.