November 2011 | issue 34

Magdalene Matters the newsletter of Magdalene College MAGDALENE MAT TERS

Contents November 2011 | issue 34 Access All Areas Page 6

Fellows’ News 3

Access All Areas 6

New Events at Magdalene 8 Royal Navy in Afghanistan Royal Navy in Afghanistan 9 Page 9

The Cambridge Project for the Book Trust 12

The Cambridge Members’ News 14 Project for the Book Trust Events & Reunions 16 Page 12

COMMENT from the Development Director

Dear Member, of you to contribute to Magdalene this year and are aiming for 15% of our Members to give to the 2011/12 Annual Fund. As I watched our new fresh faced students, both We will be writing to every member later in the year and some undergraduates and BA’s, line up for their matriculation of you will also be given the opportunity to receive a call photograph in unseasonably warm autumn sunshine I was from a current student to hear about the College during our pondering on their journey for the next few years. They forthcoming telephone campaign at the end of Lent term. have yet to experience ‘Cambridge’: a bop, the bumps, the The Alumni & Development Office has gone balls, the match at Twickenham, , the through a number of changes. The new team consists , the , late night snacks at of Kevin Bentley, Deputy Development Director, Gardies – supervisions and examinations. Charles Cook, Development Officer (database & They will make friends for life at Magdalene as you did. website) and Emma Tunbridge, Alumni & Development We have introduced a number of new events which make Assistant. They have already met a number of you and are it possible for you and your families to meet old friends at always happy to help with your enquires, process requests College. I hope you will enjoy the report on page 8 about our for merchandise, take your bookings for reunions, Non- first ever Family Day and our inaugural annual Donors’ Day. Resident Guest Nights and all of our events. Please refer to We are also introducing the first Annual Donors’ Report the back page for forthcoming events as well as the website inside this issue of Magdalene Matters. I hope you will www.magdalenecambridge.com and our facebook group. find it of interest and be persuaded to contribute to this Please don’t hesitate to contact us to share your year’s Annual Fund. Every gift, large and small makes a real comments, views and questions. difference. During the last financial year over 11% of you gave a gift to the College. Some Cambridge colleges are Corinne Lloyd (2010) now persuading more than a fifth of their alumni to make a Editor and Development Director donation every year. We would also like to encourage more [email protected] Fellows’ News A new President for Magdalene – Professor Michael Carpenter (1972)

Professor Carpenter’s research interests in Earth Sciences relate mainly to the physics of minerals and functional oxides. Resonant Ultrasound Spectroscopy is the method he uses for measuring large variations of elastic and anelastic properties of crystals in response to changes in temperature and magnetic field.

He writes in the College Magazine that “the President says grace at dinner, is the first Fellow out of Chapel, is supposed to tell the Master what he can and cannot do, is invariably polite to guests, tries to keep the Fellows happy and maintains as low a profile as possible on any difficult issues. There are many social functions to attend, of course, including Guest Nights, Matriculation, Half- way and Graduation dinners, reunions and development events. Expectations for my Presidency must be kept low but the duties and challenges of the next five years will be accepted with as much calmness and good grace as can be sustained….current members of the College are fortunate to be part of a warm community with , friendships, The Fellows of Magdalene elected Professor Michael generous colleagues, banter and plenty of professional hard Carpenter as their next President, for five years from work applied to the running of the College. All Presidents October 2011. He has been associated with the College since seek to promote academic distinction and to support the arriving as a “very green undergraduate” in 1972, with only quality of experience that Fellows provide for each other a few absences over the intervening years. He became a and for College staff, undergraduates and graduate students graduate student in 1975, a Bye-Fellow in 1977, a Research alike. I would like to maintain this tradition.” Fellow in 1982, a Fellow in 1984 and finally a Professorial Fellow in 2001. We wish him the very best.

“I am delighted to be handing on the Presidency to Professor Michael Carpenter, the College’s first Natural Scientist President since Professor Peter Grubb. The President has a lot of work to do behind the scene, as a kind of cross between stage manager and shop steward. Michael has just the combination of kindliness and authority that is needed for this demanding but rewarding role.”

From the out-going President: Professor Nick Boyle (1964)

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Professor Dr Neil Jones the Behavioural Ecology and Tropical Nick Boyle (1994) has been Life-Histories in African birds and (1964) hosted appointed Literary Dr Mahajan works on Biological a conference Director of the and Soft Systems at the Cavendish from 29 to 31 Selden Society Laboratory. Dr Lucy Donkin September with in succession becomes a Teaching Bye-Fellow the cryptic title ‘Urworte’ (part to Professor Sir John Baker. Readers in History of Art. Mr Michael of the title of a poem by Goethe), might be interested to know that the Hetherington (2005) becomes a devoted to various aspects of his President of the society – Lord Chief Bye-Fellow working in the field of Late work and arranged by former Justice Judge (1959) – is also a Member Sixteenth-Century Literature and research students and colleagues in of Magdalene and that Professor Bill Mr Matthew Tointon (2001), also College to mark his 65th birthday. Cornish (1990) is a member of the a Bye-Fellow, studies Mathematics. Participants came from Germany, Society’s Council, a combination Dr Alexander Thom (2001) is the USA and Oxford to read papers from one College probably without a Teaching Bye-Fellow in Chemistry on literature, philosophy, theology precedent since the Society was splitting his time between Imperial and the future of higher education. founded in 1887. College London and Magdalene. Mr Nicholas Raymont, Assistant Professor Dr Jeffery Bursar/College Accountant, and Eamon Duffy Lewins (1985) Dr Michael Rands, Executive (1979) has been presented the Director of the Cambridge appointed to Magdalene Prize Conservation Initiative, both become the University Competition Fellow-Commoners. Professor of Durham’s (the Thomson Raymond Gillespie, is the new Academic Advisory Committee for Challenge) to the 11th Joint European Parnell Fellow whose research interests Ushaw College Library, part of the Thermodynamics Conference in are eclectic but focus mainly on the rescue project for the manuscript, Germany in June 2011. transformation of Ireland in the rare book and “heritage” collections sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. of England’s oldest Roman Catholic We welcome the following new Fellows Seminary, closed earlier this year. to Magdalene. Dr Luke Skinner He has also been appointed to an joins us as an Official Fellow in Honorary Professorship of the History Palaeoclimate Research as does of Catholicism, in the Department of Dr Emily So who becomes an Theology at Durham. The text of his Official Fellow in Architecture. Radio 4 series “Ten Popes who Shook the World” has been published by Yale DR LILY CHANG University Press. is the new Henry Lumley Research Dr Allegre Fellow and Hadida (2003) DR ALEX BUELL was awarded the holds the Nevile Best Paper Prize at Fellowship in Chemistry. Dr Claire the International Lye joins us as the Herschel Smith Association of non-stipendiary Research Fellow Arts and Cultural Affairs (AIMAC) in Developmental Biology. Conference in Antwerp, for her paper Dr Claire Spottiswoode entitled “You can win the critics and and Dr Sumeet Mahajan join have nothing to eat…” (with us as the new Raymond & co-authors Renaud Legoux and Beverly Sackler Research Fellows. François Carrillat). Dr Spottiswoode researches into

4 MAGDALENE MATTERS Fellows’ News Fellows’ News

Opening the Etruscan frontier

A Magdalene team was at the heart of fieldwork on the frontier between Gubbio and Perugia near Assisi in central Italy over the course of the summer. Once the Magdalene choir had tested the accommodation, Magdalene Choir in Italy a larger archaeological team moved in to excavate the Etruscan site of Col di Marzo, which had been placed by jonathan hellyer-jones (2002) strategically astride the frontier with a commanding view director of music back towards Perugia. Excavation not only proved that this frontier site was established during the fifth century This year’s Choir Tour to Italy was the first that has resulted BC, but had been preceded by earlier occupation in the from direct help from another Fellow. The deus ex machina- Bronze Age. Furthermore, invaluable information was like appearance of Dr Simon Stoddart’s offer brought untold uncovered of Etruscan terracing, living areas, metallurgical happiness to the and his family since Simon, using activity, working of antler/horn and processing/storage his longstanding contacts in the Perugia area, arranged for of agricultural production (peas, beans, wheat). us to give concerts in Perugia and Assisi cathedrals, in Castel Rigone (a hill-top settlement with commanding views), in a former monastic refectory in Gubbio and to accompany a tour of a ruined abbey, delighting the other visitors with music at several points in the tour. Simon also arranged accommodation in a farmhouse surrounded by fields of sunflowers, hired a 9-seater minibus for me to drive and drove his own 9-seater vehicle out from Cambridge to enable us all to be transported to each of the concert venues. The generosity of his offer was stunning, as

Three generations of Magdalene participants (from left to right): Simon was his knowledge of the area. He surprised some of us by Stoddart (1977, Fellow), Skylar Neil (2008, doctoral student), Jamie arranging for free entry to museums on the grounds that he Cameron (2011) and Ben Hinson (2009), undergraduates. had provided them with many artefacts on their shelves The members of the Choir put their backs into enjoying the The site was abandoned in the Roman period, when the rural Italian delights. We found that Montelabate provided frontier zone was absorbed into a much larger system, as us with most of what we needed for refreshment of mind and shown by the implanting of a series of local farmsteads and body with only one or two additional purchases required to by the construction of a number of kilns for the production enable the right level of relaxation after the concerts. Some of amphorae and pottery. The products of these kilns were singers showed considerable determination when it came to widely traded, employing the nearby Tiber to carry these entertaining themselves with story telling. This, apparently, products as far as Rome. The frontier, had, however, not was so successful that it was not unknown for a saga still to been forgotten. In the Byzantine period the area was very be unfolding as the sun rose in the wonderfully clear, sky. strategically placed along the road that led from Rome to Apart from the public performances that the Choir gave, Ravenna. In the Medieval period, the monasteries of S.Maria the sub-text is, as always, centred on the several other and S. Paolo di Valdiponte were constructed in the liminal elements that Choirs are about. The opportunity for foreign zone between the two cities of Perugia and Gubbio and travel is usually new for one or two. All, however, grasped shortly afterwards, the same territorial limits were defended the chance to explore the towns, to visit the museums, shops by a series of castles. Even today these same boundaries and cafés, and to appreciate the architechture. Several agreed have been preserved in the administrative borders of Gubbio that it was one of the best tours of recent years, and, as an and Perugia, and their defensive potential remerged for experience that enriches the education of all concerned, ten days during July 1944, as indicated by records in the the annual tour is unrivalled as a mixture of music and Imperial War Museum of London and cartridges and bullets relaxation, while still waving the College flag beyond our discovered during excavation. ancient walls.

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by jake curtis (2005)

“At Cambridge, we provide world leading high-quality university education for the brightest and best, regardless of background.” This statement forms the welcome to the University’s admissions policy. Unashamedly elitist, it demonstrates the commitment for both discovering and nurturing excellence that has granted our institution world renown.

A Cambridge education is still prized broadcast: even if you are bright and able in my school to think that within the ever more competitive passionate about your subject, the Cambridge is and always has been employment market. Its intensive connections and culture required to there precisely for people like them. academic tuition and dynamic social perform strongly in the application environment develop skills crucial in process turns Cambridge into a closed Consequently, I ran Higher Education the modern workplace. As members shop for all but those who are elite in events in the school to set out of the University, we should be their educational background, rather the overwhelming benefits that proud of this. Yet at a time when than their ability. going to university provides. In an the political agenda is dominated by environment where many teachers competing efforts to demonstrate Having helped with access initiatives sanctimoniously pointed out that if a commitment towards the aim in my time studying History at the new tuition fees were in place of an egalitarian, socially mobile Magdalene from 2005 to 2008, I when they were young, they wouldn’t meritocracy, it is arresting that the would counter this with various have considered applying, I felt it fact that the UK has in Cambridge examples of the great effort that was crucial to counterbalance this the top ranked University in the goes into ensuring fairness in the notion by making pupils aware of world seems to engender little pride application process, including the the variety of measures that exist to in wider society. The university is massive investment of interviewing help them gain a University place. Yet still subject to the same old forms of five prospective students for every while visiting speakers seemed to offer attack. Why? Simply because while space available. Yet the perception some encouragement, I recognised many accept the University is elitist, remains. And – like all pernicious self- that it was only through visiting few believe it to be meritocratic; fulfilling prophesies – by propounding somewhere like Cambridge that the while many accept this to be a “world this myth, bright, enthusiastic pupils pupils could firstly gain a small taste leading high-quality university”, few from traditionally non-academic of the wonderful environment on believe it to be for the “brightest and backgrounds get put off from offer, whilst secondly appreciating best, regardless of background.” applying. As a recent study by the the commitment of the University to Social Mobility Foundation showed, ensure the place would be within their How can an institution claim while just 14% of potential reach, if they displayed the passion and that background is not a factor in applicants from non-traditional potential necessary. admissions given that five schools backgrounds cited financial reasons have provided as many of last year’s as an obstacle, 48% said that the It was then when I approached the JCR intake as the next 2,000 or that a notion that it “wasn’t the place Access Officer, Phyllida O’Neill, and mere 40 pupils on Free School Meals for people like us” influenced their the Admissions Tutor for Recruitment, – the education system’s definition of decision. As a participant in the Teach Silke Mentchen, about the possibility economic deprivation – have gained a First scheme that seeks to address of returning to Magdalene with a place at either Oxford or Cambridge educational disadvantage by getting group of Year 10 Gifted and Talented last year? It becomes difficult to argue passionate graduates straight into pupils. Despite some initial reluctance with the notion that the headline the classroom, I was determined – and the Health and Safety concerns grabbing statistics consistently that I should encourage the most which put paid to my idea of a punt

6 MAGDALENE MATTERS trip to show off the best views of the out of full-term – before partaking As the sun of Cambridge turned to town – the school got behind the trip in an ice cream on a sunny ‘Beach’. the traditionally cloudy Birmingham and on the 19th of July at 8 am, 14 We then rushed through the town sky, all the boys sleepily thanked bushy tailed youngsters were ready for towards our next appointment at the me for taking them on the trip. And Our Day Out. We made our way from Scott Polar Research Institute, where some displayed something more inner-city Sparkhill in Birmingham to the exhibition and explanatory talk than that: a genuine gratitude – not the university town of Cambridge. proved most engaging for the pupils. just that Ms Mentchen and I had As we left the museum, there was a organised the trip – but that in so Having arrived at College, Ms slight bewilderment when the group doing we displayed a belief that they Mentchen led us on a brief tour around grasped how Scott’s inability to return could, on their own merits, get there the College grounds, where the pupils safely from the Pole was at least in part for themselves one day. That was the displayed a curiosity about the fine caused by his sacrificial determination change in perceptions I had hoped for; portraits in formal hall, the Latin to keep hold of all the scientific the one that will enable the mission of inscribed on the Bibliotheca Pepysiana, discoveries he had gained on his the Cambridge Admissions policy to and the peculiar Pets’ Cemetery in journey, at the expense of many days’ become reality. the Fellows’ Garden. She then gave us travel. Yet they also understood my an informative presentation outlining thinly veiled motive behind this choice I would encourage any reader equally the application process in the Parlour, of museum: the drive and ambition committed to this mission to get in answering questions concerning tuition demonstrated by Scott should be an touch with Silke Mentchen to discover fees and the extent of different courses example to all adolescents as they further initiatives the College is setting available. Afterwards, we enjoyed a survey the exciting possibilities open to up towards this aim. delicious meal generously provided them. Aim for the summit (just maybe by the College in Ramsay Hall – I plan your journey a little more like am sure the food gets much better Amundsen, and a little less like Scott!)

spots left on it. Geographically at attended by fellows, admissions least, the university had covered staff and current undergraduates the land, looking for bright young as well as about 400 students from students needing encouragement when about 60 schools in the area. it came to thinking about their life Schools visits to Magdalene, as Jake after school. The area that is linked describes, happen regularly and are to Magdalene is the region around successful aspiration raising tools. The Liverpool, the Wirral and North Wales. College is serious about making our The College has a range of events university’s education accessible to in place to reach out to prospective all students who will benefit from our applicants: We have Open Days unique academic environment and we The university is committed to the idea and see individual applicants, give welcome visits from schools whether of widening participation. advice via e-mail and organise a they are in our special link area or not. As a whole, the 29 undergraduate road show in Liverpool where we colleges have divided up the map of hire Goodison Park, Everton’s Ms Silke Mentchen (2005), Great Britain and Northern Ireland football stadium, for a day of Admissions Tutor for 7 MAGDALENE COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE to ensure that there were no blind lectures, talks and Q&A sessions recruitment New Events at Magdalene by corinne lloyd (2010), development director

When I arrived at Magdalene in September 2010, introducing a number of new events involving the College and the Fellowship, as well as strengthening the existing Alumni Relations programme, quickly became a priority.

I wanted to create more opportunities to thank our many supporters in addition to the already successful reunions (organised by the indefatigable Mr Michael Keall, the Alumni Secretary), the special interest events and international gatherings. We held our first ‘Buckingham Society’ luncheon followed by a choice of afternoon activities in June this year and were delighted to welcome over 40 members and their guests. The Buckingham Society has been created for those members who have indicated to the Alumni & Development Office that they have kindly made provision for the College in their wills. Members who intend to remember the College with a gift or have already made some arrangements are encouraged to join the Society.

Magdalene also hosted its inaugural Family Day in July; Afternoon tea in the Pepys’s Cloisters members were able to relax in the Fellows’ garden while their children (or, in some cases, grandchildren) enjoyed Members. Professor Helen Cooper (Professor of Medieval the puppet show performances during the course of the and Renaissance Literature) held a lecture on “Hamlet and afternoon and having their faces painted. Everyone delighted the Invention of Tragedy”; Dr Tom Spencer (Director of in the Jazz band and the afternoon tea! Studies and University Senior Lecturer in Geography) spoke about “Water, water everywhere – what next for Venice?” In September the College held its first annual Donors’ Day to and Dr John Coull (Rolls Royce Senior Research Fellow and thank members’ for their financial support during the past Joint Director of Studies in Engineering) lectured on “The year. The programme on offer contained a variety of lectures Challenges of Jet Engines”. The keynote lecture was held by demonstrating the diversity of some of our Fellows’ research Mr John Simpson CBE (1963) BBC Foreign Correspondent interests and a talk by one of our many distinguished and Honorary Fellow, followed by afternoon tea in the Pepys Cloisters.

One of our guests, Mr Braham Myers (1939) wrote to me just this week to say: “It was the most enjoyable occasion as well as the most informative – the lecture I attended by Professor Cooper was one of the best I have ever heard and John Simpson was ... thrilling, if (inevitably) somewhat depressing. In addition, what a splendid tea!”

We hope to welcome many more of our members will attend next year’s Donors’ Day on Sunday, 23 September. Everyone who makes a gift to the College during this current financial year will receive an invitation to attend. Please contact the Alumni & Development Office if you have any questions John Simpson addressing a packed Ramsay Hall about making a donation.

8 MAGDALENE MATTERS New Events at Magdalene ANNUAL DONORS’ REPORT 2011

from the master

When I meet members of the College around the world at alumni events, I am always touched by their loyalty for their College. They remember their years at Magdalene, the friendships they formed, often just as strong now as then, and acknowledge the difference the College made to their lives. Their message to me is that we must make every effort to sustain this unique environment, which is both physical and intellectual, so that future generations of students, regardless of their financial resources, can continue to grow and thrive at Magdalene.

Generous Government grants covered costs. It replaces the Government see the College relying increasingly on fees and maintenance for many of us funding we have received until now the goodwill and financial support of during the second half of the twentieth for teaching, leaving Magdalene and its members. century, and the issue of incurring Cambridge with a significant shortfall. debt in order to study at University did Our endowment is small compared to The names of our donors during our not arise. Today, we are reverting to a many other colleges, just as that of the last financial year, large and small, system which prevailed in Cambridge University pales by comparison with are listed on the pages that follow. for hundreds of years – those who can other world class institutions. We have attempted to illustrate how afford to pay do so, while those who the money has been allocated and cannot must rely on scholarships or We are deeply grateful to those how the College is looking after its bursaries from their College. That is members who have contributed to the resources. I welcome this step towards why we are focusing our fundraising Magdalene Campaign during the last both accountability and transparency this year on bursaries, scholarships financial year. A Campaign which and I hope that, in return, all of and on teaching and research. was launched in 1993 with the aim you will respond, whether you have to raise £20 million has now been contributed in the past or not, by The real cost of a Cambridge reached thanks to the extraordinary making a gift to your College. undergraduate education runs generosity of our members, friends currently at more than £17,000 per and the Cripps Foundation. This is annum. The £9,000 in fees we will a time for celebration but also for be receiving from students will only reflection as we face an increasingly go some way towards covering our uncertain future, a future which will

1 MAGDALENE COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE Giving to the College

We are delighted to report that the Magdalene Campaign target of £20 million has been achieved thanks in part to the tremendous benefaction from the Cripps Foundation and the continuing generosity from our Members and friends. The fundraising for the Chesterton Road Phase II building project is also complete. Our original aim to add £20 million to the College’s Endowment has not yet been met and will remain one of our fundraising objectives together with a focus on College Teaching, Research and Student Hardship, primarily through single donations and regular giving.

The College is very grateful to all those who have contributed during 2010–11, Total Donations received during the financial year 2010/11: especially during these trying economic conditions. During the course of the year, we received donations of £736,450 in total, an increase from 2% last year’s figure of £602,947, which exceeded expectations. 23% The total donations received by the Alumni & Development Office have 37% been broken down into five key areas: General Purposes, Student Support, Teaching and Research, Buildings and 5% Gardens, and College activities (such as sporting clubs and access visits).

We welcome donations for General 33% Purposes as they enable the College to direct extra funds to areas in greatest need or unexpected expenditure. Students are at the core of everything General Purposes Buildings and Gardens we do at Magdalene. Your gifts support Student Support College Activities all aspects of student life at the College, Teaching and Research through bursaries, assistance from the hardship fund and travel grants, not to mention a wide variety of funding structure in Higher Education Donations to support the Buildings and extracurricular activities. will almost certainly result in reduced Gardens fund allow us to maintain our funding. You will see from the beautiful surroundings, from the ancient Teaching and Research has been graph above that this area has not buildings of First Court and the Pepys identified as one of our priorities in attracted a great deal of support in Library to more modern developments, terms of fundraising for the coming the past. However, 23.6% of our such as Cripps Court. It is essential that year as the supervision system will students received a First last June, we provide up-to-date facilities while be coming under increasing pressure placing Magdalene ninth in the 2011 also taking care to preserve the original as the forthcoming changes in the Tompkins Tables. fabric of the College.

2 MAGDALENE MATTERS Donors’ Report 2% College 7% Income for 2010/11: 22% Tuition Fees: 22% Research: 3% Finances 3% Members Rents: 18% 30% Members Catering: 10% The principal sources of income for Commercial Conferences: 10% the College now not only arise from Endowment: 30% 18% tuition fees, Members’ rents and Net Donations after Development catering charges, but also income from Office Expenses: 7% 10% 10% commercial events and conferences Other Income: 2% and, of course, Member donations.

The College uses these revenues along with the income from its Expenditure for 2010/11: accumulated endowment to fund the costs of the supervision system, to Teaching, Tutorial and provide subsidised accommodation Admissions: 30% and catering to its members and to Research: 6% maintain and develop its buildings Scholarships, Grants and and facilities. Student Facilities: 6% Accommodation for Members: 26% A summary of the College’s financial Catering for Members: 13% activities for the 2010–11 financial Commercial Conferences: 13% year is provided here. Investment Management: 3% Other: 3%

£100,000,000 College Assets: £90,000,000 The College manages its endowment to £80,000,000 provide the highest return dependent £70,000,000 upon the associated risks. Given that the endowment is only two-thirds of £60,000,000 the size of that of most other colleges, £50,000,000 the College has a secondary aim to grow the endowment. The only other £40,000,000 principal assets are the College’s buildings and grounds. £30,000,000

£20,000,000

£10,000,000 Working Capital 0 Buildings and Grounds Endowments £-10,000,000 Pension Deficit 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011

Further information is available from www.magd.cam.ac.uk

3 MAGDALENE COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE MAGDALENE COLLEGE LIST OF DONORS

1st july 2010 – 30th june 2011

The Master, Fellows and Scholars of Magdalene College wish to thank and honour those who have generously made donations to the College during the last financial year.

1931 1946 Mr Christopher R Simpson Mr John F Green Lieutenant-Colonel Frank M Beale (d) Mr Philip O Beale The Reverend Peter C Yerburgh Mr Ian H Hutchinson Mr James D Cargill Mr Terry James 1933 Mr Michael L Herzig 1951 The Reverend R D Jenkins Dr Maurice Goldhaber (d) Mr Anthony C W Lee Mr John H Allsopp Mr James E A Knowles The Reverend John How Mr Keith S Lysons Mr James H Burrell Mr Richard J Phillips Mr Ronald H Merrett (d) Mr Kenneth J Mr John F Porter 1935 Mr Max Phillips Mr Thomas J G Edmondes (d) Canon Timothy E Yates Colonel Michael H Cobb (d) Mr Gordon Silk Mr Felix Jaffé Professor Sheppard S Frere Sir John K Wood Dr Ian M Jessiman 1956 Mr Richard J B Walker CVO (d) Mr Timothy G Kirkbride Dr Mark H Ball 1947 Sir Michael J Turner Mr Wilfrid M Caldwell 1936 Dr Samuel G Bayliss Mr John A C Cann Mr Henry T Close-Smith (d) Mr Sherban G Cantacuzino CBE 1952 Mr Andrew C Green Professor Frank J Lelièvre Professor Terence R Lee Professor Robert C Elston Mr Michael J L Hardy Mr Francis H Terry Mr Patrick J Lloyd Professor Joel E Gordon Mr Patrick M Harris Mr Robert I H Lloyd-Jones (d) Mr Andrew P R Mapplebeck Mr Randal Hibbert 1938 Mr Anthony J Nicholson Dr Denis C L Savage Mr Justin F Kelly Mr Eric L Allsup Mr Joe Palmer Mr Christopher B Sykes Mr Thomas P H Lachelin Mr Hugo C Baring Mr John D Platt The Honourable Mr Justice Leonard Professor William Tordoff 1953 Mr Charles Pope 1939 The Reverend J Y R Tucker Mr Nick Bennett His Honour Judge E V P Reece Mr Braham J Myers Mr Jeremy N Davis Mr Anthony M H Simpson Sir Anthony F Tuke (d) 1948 Dr Thomas F Hering Mr Timothy M Wilson Mr Roger Goodenough Dr John P James 1940 Sir Antony Jay * Major Dennis F Morgan 1957 Mr Hugh C Fickling (d) Mr George M Pilkington (d) Mr George M Nuttall Mr Edward L Bell Mr Paul P Nicholls (d) Mr Arthur F Sharp Mr Alan H Pattillo Mr David J H Birt Mr Sandy White Dr David Blaxell 1941 1954 Dr John B Boyling Dr Felix J Buckle 1949 Mr Nicholas H Baring CBE Mr Brian P Davis Mr Gavin R Perceval-Maxwell (d) Dr Christian K R Brinckmann Professor Grubb * Mr Gerald D Fox The Reverend E A Quin Mr John K Buckenham Mr Michael J Hallett Mr Charles S Gibbs Mr Michael J Emms Emeritus Professor Michael Mr Michael F Godsal 1942 Mr Philip P Harris J K Harper Mr Oliver H Gosnell Mr George E Heath (d) Mr Ronald J Jenkinson Mr David H Jennings Mr Hugh Hollinghurst Mr William P P Hite His Honour Judge Mr Peter J Morley-Jacob Mom Sarisdiguna Kitiyakara Mr John Smalley R E I Pickering Mr Victor N Petty Mr Jeremy G A Lyon The Reverend Dr H John M Turner Mr Alec Samuels Group Captain Hugo R Simpson Mr David L Pope Lieutenant-Commander Mr Adrian Sycamore Dr Reynolds * 1943 R Y C Sharp Mr Francis J Willy Sir Michael K Ridley KCVO Mr Ronald D J Botting Dr Geoffrey A Shippey The Reverend Canon Mr Nicholas A Ridley Mr John G W James Mr Bartle J C Woodall David Yerburgh Mr Richard S G Sale Mr Robert F MacLeod Mr Anthony W A Spiegelberg DL Mr John R Pope MBE 1950 1955 Mr John J Saxby Mr Wilfrid I Abel Smith (d) Mr John D W Birts 1958 Mr Colin Craven Dr Robert D Blacklidge Major-General Nicholas G P Ansell 1944 Mr David L Gardiner Mr Charles A W Blackwell Dr Angus Armstrong Squadron Leader Donald Chapman Professor Robert Mr James R Chesterton Mr Philip E Carne Dr Edgar J Feuchtwanger D D Gibson Mr Dias (d) * Mr James A Cran Mr Carol Hogben Mr Brian W Hungerford The Reverend R J Dixon Mr Derek W Curtis Dr Michael G Rinsler Dr Michael C Johnson Mr Ian M Evans MBE Mr Peter D Falk Mr John R Pretty Mr John A Fixsen Mr David S Fletcher 1945 The Reverend P S Pullin Mr Gascoigne * The Reverend Dr Michael Mr John C Yandle Dr Nigel C R W Reid (d) Mr John A Glasbrook C Freeman

4 MAGDALENE MATTERS Donors’ Report Mr Colin E Funk Mr Brian N Lock Mr Garell S Redfearn Mr John F C Heatly Mr Gordon S Guild Mr Robert Mercer Mr Godfrey S Room Mr Roderick A McFarlane Mr Maxwell G Hebditch Mr Brian W Pomeroy CBE Mr Frederick B Rossiter Mr Nigel H Morley-Smith Colonel H O Hugh Smith Mr Roger L Preston Mr John A Scholfield Mr Peter J Munday Mr Stephen C Knight Mr Oliver H Russell Mr James R Sharp Dr Francis N Parr Mr Neil McMillan Mr Jonathan B S Sams Mr Richard H R Shearer Mr Adrian M Pollitt Mr Aelred J Morgan (d) Dr Michael C Saunders Mr Robert C Solomon Mr Edward J Pybus Mr Richard A M Purver Mr Joe Scott Plummer Professor Gary F Waller Mr William I Walkden Mr Peter P Salinson Dr Andrew F Sheer Mr Thomas M Warne Professor Michael D Wheeler Professor Neil M Stratford Mr Anton B Shellim Mr Jocelyn T H Thomas Mr Christopher B Tetlow 1967 1968 The Reverend P J van de Kasteele Mr Vignoles * Sir Nicholas J G Blake QC Sir Paul J J Britton CB Mr Robin A F Wight Professor David C Brydges Mr Michael E A Carpenter Mr Brian G Woodrow OBE 1963 Mr Roger P Cheever Mr Simon D Chater Mr Richard C Abnett Mr Allan F Colver Dr Peter Drury 1959 Mr Richard D Bell Mr Richard J Coward Mr Richard E Hardie Mr Christopher F J Berry Mr John D Birney Mr Timothy J Eyres Mr David J Hetherington Dr Julian D Blake Mr John F Clarkson Mr John A S Bristol Mr Alan K Cox Mr Graham H Butler Dr Thomas A Cummins Mr Timothy W H Capon Mr Patrick W L Findlater Mr Christopher J Davison Mr Richard H M Hamersley (d) Our Donors Mr Robert S Firth Mr Andrew P G Holmes Mr Anthony Goodfellow Mr Bernard A P Hunt Dr Roger A Hawkey Dr William A Knight (d) During the last financial year, 886 Members made a gift Mr Peter E Hawley Dr Jeremy C Lade to the College, comprising 11.12% of our addressable Mr Robert S Hill Mr Andrew P Lewis Mr David W Hussey Mr Henry J Roche alumni. We are hoping to persuade more of you to make Professor Leslie G Jaeger Mr Richard P Stratford a gift to the College during this current financial year so Mr Edward B Lynch Mr David H White that 15% of Members give to Magdalene every year. Mr Richard C M Pumphrey Mr Anthony M Whittome Dr Rodney P A Rivers Some Cambridge Colleges are achieving participation rates Mr Anthony J Sadler CBE 1964 of over 20% of alumni making a gift, which is beginning Mr Brian A Smouha Mr James R J Braggins to compare favourably to some American institutions, Mr David Tebbs Mr Lionel J I Browne Mr Oliver F Walker Mr Deakin (d) * although Princeton is way ahead with half of their alumni Mr Michael B Wood Mr Richard S T Ferro body making a gift every year. The Very Reverend Dr David S Forman Professor David Gordon 1960 Mr Peter L Graham “In view of the upcoming Mr Giles H T Andrews Mr Christopher R C Jacques increase in tuition fees, it is Mr Nicholas A Bourne Mr Michael A F Macpherson even more important to ensure Mr Jonathan H M Dudley of Pitmain Dr John Emerson Dr John B Murray that talented students from Mr David G Hemming Brigadier N P S O’Connor modest homes are not deterred Mr John P Hunt Mr Christopher W Poupard by financial pressures from Dr Hyam * Mr Timothy J Price Mr Clifford W Jolly Mr Rodney Steel applying to universities like Mr Peter J Maydon Mr Mark H Wadsworth Cambridge. Providing hardship Mr Richard J H Meade Mr Giles E F Wright bursaries to such students Mr David J Polgreen Mr Henry J C Pulley 1965 will be an essential tool for Mr Kenneth L Saxby Mr Andrew R Bean Magdalene if it is to attract Mr Robin G Sturdy Mr Robert H Blackadder the best talent to the College, Mr David H Tyreman Mr Richard A M Cohen Mr Richard W Wright Mr Peter H Davidson and I am happy to pledge Mr Michael J Davis my continued support to the 1961 Mr John H Fielding Student Hardship Programme.” Mr Oliver D Christopherson Mr Martin H Flash Mr Tony Colman Dr Stephen C Gregory – Philip Carne (1958), Former Group Chairman – Mr Clive W Crawford Dr Ian C Lovecy Johnson & Johnson Mr Ian B Crockett Mr Miles W Mark Mr Donald M Green Dr Henry N C Mawson Mr John W Hackman Dr Duncan L D Mitchell Dr Victor R Holland Dr Kevin O Thompson “Receiving an award from College has completely changed Mr John A Lumley Mr Henry L Wilson my Cambridge experience. Not only have I been able to Mr John D Mole Mr John P D Pattrick 1966 play an active role in College life without worrying about Mr Dermot S H Sparrow Professor William R Allen CBE the cost of living expenses, I have also been able to use my Mr Charles F C Spencer Bernard Dr Michael D Beary holidays to travel and further my studies, for example by Mr David R Steeds Mr James D Buxton Professor Roger E Thomas Mr Julian Cazalet going on an archaeological trip to Sicily. This wouldn’t have Lord Flight been possible without the support I have received from the 1962 Mr Robert A Leivers Goulandris family, and for that I am incredibly grateful.” Mr William A Blackburne Mr Herbert H Maxwell Mr Edward P Eagar Commander Graham D Pay – 3rd year Undergraduate Student, Classics Mr Colin G C Grant Mr Martin E Pettman

5 MAGDALENE COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE Mr Peter A H Hyams The Honourable Andrew Colville 1976 Mr Patrick Stoner Mr John G Pettit Professor David K C Cooper Mr Robert W Baxter Mr Marcus P S Thompson Mr Michael Read Prof Neil Dalton Mr Guy B Davison Mr Timothy J Weaver Mr Stephen J Richards Mr Ethan Hack Mr Edward M Douglas Dr David A Smith Mr Paul Harrison Mr Nicholas A Draper 1981 Mr Dugald Stewart Sandeman Mr Richard T Hudson Mr George R N Ellis Mr Joseph B Bannister Mr Nicholas J W Tavener Mr Nicholas P Kaye Mr Thomas R Faire Mr Edward A P Benthall Dr Mark Wilson Dr Charles G Mackworth-Young Mr Matthew K Fosh Mr David W Clayton Mr Donald I N McKenzie Mr Timothy C Hasler Mr Rajen K Dodhia 1969 Mr Timothy C Monckton Mr Andrew J Hutton Mr Lincoln E Frank Mr Gordon D Arthur Mr David J Newman Dr Jonathan C Jobling Mr Thomas B Holliday Mr Charles O E Bowen Mr Frank Nicholson Mr Graham D Phillips Mr Stephen E H Howard Mr Adrian J Bruce Dr Nigel J Robson Professor F J Pott Mr Lionel J Mason Mr Jeremy F Burdett Mr Peter M Rodney Mr William A G Ramsay Mr Nigel P Morris Mr Stephen S Cobb Mr George R Sandars Mr Charles C H Rickett Mr Oliver J Nicholson Dr Frank R Crantz Mr Paul G Sheppard Mr Martin A F Shenfield Mr Timothy G Orchard Dr Jeremy H C Davis Mr Norman E Trapé Mr Edward G R Speed Mr Edward C R Paice Mr Nicholas J Desmond Mr James F Thornton Mr John A Saker Mr Andrew R F Fenning 1973 Mr Christopher P Thorpe Mr Richard C Williams Mr Peter C Fletcher Mr Geoffrey I A Chapman Mr James D Wellesley Wesley Mr Ing Loong Yang Mr Philip W George Sir Charles St John J Colthurst Mr Alastair R Handcock Baron Michael E D de Styrcea 1977 1982 Sir Richard D S Head Mr Nigel H Gallaher Mr Philip L G Allen Mr John S Bourdeaux Mr Jeremy F Helm Mr Michael K Green Mr Manu Bhaskaran Mr Robert Chartener Mr Charles P Helmore Mr Jonathan R H Hale Mr Christopher H Bowen Mr Charles D Crole Mr Michael E P Lloyd Mr Mark Hankin Mr Geoffrey J Craddock Mr David M Grace Mr Patrick R Maguire Mr Ian D Hutchinson Mr Neil C Crawford Mr Nigel R Hill Dr Roger M Marchbanks (d) Dr Peter M Kingston Mr David A Farndale Mr David J Holloway Mr Richard P Parry Mr Robert B C Ogilvie Dr Peter H Glover Mr Christopher R Hoyle Mr John C S Sandbach Mr Christopher M S Pearson Mr Mark P Hammond Mr Anthony G King Mr Martyn J Waring Professor Richard B Peiser Mr Timothy J Jackson The Reverend Dr A Megahey Mr Jonathan D Shanklin Mr Alexander T M Shiel Mr Simon C Mitchell 1970 Mr Matthew J Shaps Mr Dermot Spurrier Mr Michael M J O’Sullivan Mr Richard D Balme The Reverend C J Skilton Dr Stoddart * Mr Richard A Pickering Mr George F Barbour Mr Martin R Taylor Mr Robert M Wise Mr Benet C Wace Mr Mark A Bingley Mr Stephen M Willis Mr Graham R Walker Mr Michael J Butler 1978 Mr David I Wilson Mr Michael L Dineen 1974 Mr Michael Brodtman Mr William J R Wilson Dr Nicholas R Dunn Mr Peter Bennett-Jones Mr Nicholas M M Burnell Mr Christopher Gosling Mr Peter D Bruce Mr Jonathan D Byrne 1983 Mr Jeremy M Harding Mr Jeremy D Cotton Mr David E Gill Mr Jonathan R Benford Mr Terry Hitchcock Mr Michael J A De Graeve Mr Simon P Robert-Tissot Mr Ian P Benton Mr William Holmes Mr Bryce L Holland Jr. Mr Alistair G Schaff QC Dr John B Constable Professor Ian H Kunkler The Reverend I Howarth Dr Colin G Steward Mr Stephan C Ford Mr John W Marrin QC Mr William R H Inglis Mr Henry W Tuck Mr Rory Graham Mr Antony R D Melville Mr Duncan J F Innes Mr Michael F Utley Mr Alistair W D Greer Mr Ian J Prowse Mr Peter T Kindersley Dr Rupert O Wace Mr David R Jennings Mr James Roundell Mr Oliver R C Larminie Mr Mark D M Jones Professor David E Simpson Dr R M Levenson 1979 Mr Alexander J B Morris Dr Robert J Stockley Mr Timothy T Lindsay The Reverend G W Dobbie Dr Christopher Pieroni Dr Jonathan P Stoye Mr Colin W D McLean Mr Andrew J Edwards Mr George W Pothecary Mr Timothy J Moon Mr Martin G S Gibson Mr Rupert J Preston-Bell 1971 Mr Luis F Parajon Mr John D Grossart Mr Philip C Richardson Dr Billinge * Mr Andrew M Sheaf The Reverend G M St J Hoare Dr Richard Seymour Dr Konrad J W Bund Mr Benjamin W Staveley Mr Michael D Keane Mr Julian G Smyth-Osbourne Mr Timothy P B Charge Mr Peter R Styles Mr James D Miller Mr David C Taylor Mr Giles R M Elliott Mr Charles L T The Honourable Anthony Monckton Mr Peter J Finn Temple-Richards Mr Michael H Rutledge 1984 Dr Patrick J Ford Mr Edward D B Way Mr Christopher J Vermont Dr Philip J Agg Mr Richard P J Foster Mr Simon P C Whitaker Mr Thomas M Walker Mr Steven M Brown Mr Robert H Gladstone Mr Christopher M Wright Mr John M Williams Mr Simon J Bryan QC The Honourable Thomas A Hewlett Dr Stephen M Dunning Dr John A J Horberry 1975 1980 Mr Brian W Gilchrist Mr Henry A Jones Professor Jonathan L Brown Group Captain Keith Chapman Mr David J Jones Mr Alastair R Marlow Mr Thomas H Butcher Mr Denis H Clough Mr Nicholas J London Dr Richard G Menzies Mr William M C Grant Mr Stuart A Fraser Mr Jeremy D Mackenzie Dr Rory O’Donnell Mr Iain A D Low Mr Ian C Kroch Mr Parasaran Mohan His Honour Judge R J Simpkiss Mr Simon A Mackintosh Mr Alastair D K Marshall Mr Lawrence P Rao Mr Malcolm J Singer Brigadier Andrew C Mantell OBE The Reverend Dr S A M’Caw Dr Robert I Wainwright Mr Eamonn S Vincent Mr Mark W Nicholls Mr Timothy J McCarron Mr Alan E Walker Mr Mark L Walker Mr Rupert H Orchard Mr John A D McConnel Dr David R Williams Mr Charles C T Pender Dr Stephen J O’Connor 1985 Mr Preben Prebensen Mr Ross G Reason Mr Dominic E M Armstrong 1972 Mr William H Salomon Mr Alan E Rogers Dr Donald F Bur Mr Keith N Atkey Mr James A Scruby Mr Thomas A C Rogerson Mr Alistair W Darby Mr Timothy J W Barnard Mr David R Simpson Mr Neville J Shave Mr Raoul S J Dowding Dr Peter S Baxter Mr Mark J Turvey The Reverend C G Spencer Mr Paul Drohan

6 MAGDALENE MATTERS Donors’ Report Dr Hugo E R Ford Mr Adam S Heath Mr James C J Weeks 2002 Mr Andrew Galloway Mr James R Howells Miss Alexandra J L Wren The Master Mr Mark J Grainger Mr Simon W Johnson Mr Jonathan E Allcock Mr David A Hodges Mr Timothy L Kevan 1995 Mr Jonathan P Andrews Mr Adam C Kerr Mr Adam J S Lyons Dr Philip C Dixon Mr Matthew D Bullivant Dr Lewins * Dr Sheena L McKendrick Mr John A Elcock Mr Arthur L Cary Mr Aidan P Maguire Mr Giuliano P Procida Mr Robert H Ellson Miss Gemma L Donaldson Mr Oliver H Rowe Mr Martin B Storey Dr Alexander F Jeans Mr Chris M Fish The Reverend A J B Symes Mr Andrew B Kingston Mr Giorgos Georgopoulos Colonel Robert J Thomson MBE 1990 Mrs Aimée La Gorce-Jeans Miss Gillian R Jackson Mr Mark R Wakeford Mr Leighton T Bohl Dr Kim R Locherer Miss Jennifer C Meech Mr Charles P Whitworth Mr Robert R E Hartley Mr Rory E Mullan Dr Andrew C Morley-Smith Sir Derek Oulton * Miss Rowan O’Neill Mr Keith Ong 1986 Dr Daniel J S Roberts Dr Meera Ranganathan Mrs Samantha Smith Mr Euan J Ambrose Ms Arabella C F Slinger Dr Jeremy M Rawson Mr Peter O Smith Mr David J Barker Dr Hilary A Snaith Mr Niall C Taylor Mr Nicholas J A Bulbeck Dr Simon J A Williams 1996 Ms Laura J Whittle Dr Jonathan K Cox Mr Stanislas C P Bénéteau Mr Robert D Williams Mr Nicholas S Cronkshaw 1991 Mr Christopher M Brooks Mr Min Zhang Mr James P H Entwisle Miss Shalini Agarwal Mr Martin Dean Mr Jason N Galbraith-Marten Professor Richard M Allen Dr Stephen W Hainsworth 2003 Mr Timothy J Gibbons Dr Abdulla S Baabood Dr David O Jones Dr Atkins * Mr Richard J Hodges Mrs Catherine J Baker Mr David A P Lloyd Mr Steven R J Clarke Mr Mark C Howard Mr Ian P H Diamond Miss Vikki Madias Dr Helen Lee Mr Matthew J Kimpton-Smith Dr Meen W Gui Dr Peter D Nellist Dr Michael C Scott Mr Richard O Lucas Dr Ciara Masterson Mr Christian B U Perwass Dr Keith M Martin-Smith Dr Brian G Romanchuk 2004 Mr Bruce G A Middleton Mrs Fiona M Wigan 1997 Mrs Adele Behles Mr Henry Pang Mr David J Boyle Dr F Fulminante Mr Michael J Patton 1992 Mr Patrice Clausse Miss Sobia Hamid Mr Nicholas J Squire Mr Dean J Atkins Dr Alastair D G Donald Miss Natasha C Y Lee Mr Simon J Thompson Miss Victoria S D Barber Ms Constance R S Emerson Miss Anitha Thillaisundaram Mr Giles P D Toosey Miss Elizabeth A Chubb Mrs Fitzsimons * Mr Curtin Winsor III Mr Nicholas J S Clark Mr Richard A Limentani 2005 Mr Matthew J Dawson Dr Pat Marsh Miss Victoria L Beckett 1987 Dr Christopher R S Daykin Mr Daniel B Moult Mr Ryan A Bourne Dr Anthony R Armstrong Mr Martin N Haycock Dr C C Augur Pearce Miss Sophia Burton Mr John P M Bowtell Mr Ian J Metcalfe Dr Thomas A J Pritchard Mr Matthew J S Byford Mr John N Brent Mr Ross T Phillips Miss Emily M Cook Mr Alessandro C Burge Dr Stefan Schmitz 1998 Miss Amy Gunning Mr Alexander J Clarke Mr Amarjit J Singh Mrs Lauren B Blatherwick Miss Elizabeth A Johnston Dr Cunich * Mr Michael Small Mr James E Catton Mr Bertram Kloss Mr Charles E Darby Mr Alexis G Stirling Chevalier Rafael H M de Miss Hannah E Latham Mr Rory Delaney Esq. The Reverend P J Taylor Weryha-Wysoczanski Mr Tristan T Matthews Mr Ian D Ferguson Mr Christopher C Wheaton Miss Agapi Fylaktou Ms Mentchen * Mr Damian R Fessey Mr Michael D Winterbotham Mr Matthew J T Hoggarth Mr William A E Parker Mr Rupert J H Higgins Mrs Rachel E Wright Miss Naomi A L M Kerbel Mr Jai N Patel Lieutenant-Colonel P F Hill Mr Peter P G MacDonald Miss Jenna Patel Dr Hughes * 1993 Mrs Katharine Vigus Mr Andrew E Pay Mr Martin D MacConnol Mrs Rachael H Bradford Mr George A T Pender Mr Alexander J McLachlan Mrs Catherine E Bragaza 1999 Miss Ailsa L Redhouse Mr Andrew G Peterken Mr John J Hammill Mr Christopher S Asselin-Miller Miss Fiona E Roberts Mr Rupert V P Reece Mr Noam D Handler Mr Brendan M Goss Mr Richard Royal Mr Robert F Seabrook Dr Gunter Klatt Mr William A Hooker Miss Stephanie C Sgoda Mr David C B Soanes Mr Kevin R McGerty Mr Christopher D Laws Miss Sarah N Tosdevin Mr James R Stevenson Mrs Laura A Moorhead Mr Alan W L Leung Miss Jennifer C Withers Mr Ian R Porter Dr Tara E Stewart 1988 Mr Huw E Roberts Mrs Olivia E Stone 2006 Mr Andrew E Axon Miss Emma C Tomlinson Mr Luke Webster Ms Myrna Carlebur Mr Charles R W Bond Miss Faye C A Dorey Mr Andrew C W Dixon 1994 2000 Miss Rachel L Falconer Mrs Clare J Harvey Mrs Dorothy M Brannan Mr Thomas P Cropper Miss Sinead L Flanagan Mr Philip T Irwin Mrs Rhiannon E Chisholm Mr Feng Guo Miss Isabella A Gage Mr Oliver Lippold Mr Timothy A Clarke Dr Anna R Henderson Mr Jason P Hafler Mr Jonathan L Midgley Mrs Siobhan Cox Dr Javed I Khokhar Miss Sarah A Hubbard Mr Neil K Panchen Mr Timothy J E Cox Miss Catherine M D Lunn Miss Claire M Kearns Mr David L Rodin Mrs Emma L Dorn Mr Miguel Sierra De La Guardia Mr Alistair Mills Mr Nicholas P R Steel Mr Richard F Edge Miss Jennifer A Scott Mr Rajko Vujatovic Dr R K Jacklin 2001 Miss Nilima Shah Mr Stephen M H Wong Dr Jones * Dr Eleanor R Bennett Mr Benjamin T Tucker Mr Richard D Youngman Mr Allan J Mulholland Ms Julie H Cooke Mr Thomas C Wilson Mr Brian N O’Donovan Dr Edward J Costar 1989 Dr Dafydd R Owen Mr Jonathan M Gee 2007 Mr Paul R Allen Mr Charles K Scobie Miss Tessa E Hails Miss Samantha E Ardin Mr Ian E Beaton Mrs Sarah H Stevens-Cox Ms Kasturi Moodaliyar Mr Thomas W Bramall Mr Michael J Elliff Dr Stuart Watson Mr James R H Morton Ms Sharon L Christy Mr Wichien Harnpraween Dr Henry A Nash Miss Charlotte Jago

7 MAGDALENE COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE Miss Suzanna E Martin 2009 Mr D Gilbertson Mr Morris * Mr Chin * Mr D Hudson All those who make a gift Miss Annie Spencer Miss Emily Winstanley Investec to the College during the Miss Jennifer T Stark Mr Nicholas Kessler financial year (from July 2010 Professor Leslie Klenerman 2011 until June 2012) will be 2008 Mr Robert Dacre Professor E Lowe invited to attend the next Miss Elisabetta Benini Mrs Lloyd * Novae Group plc Donors’ Day on Sunday 23rd Ms Mary E Cahill Mr William Parry September 2012. Please do Mr Sebastian Lomas Friends Redburn Partners LLP see the article on page 8 Mr Luke A McMullan Mr John Braybrook Miss Kate E Siddiqui of Magdalene Matters for Miss Harriet E Patterson Mr Richard Callender St Matthew’s School further information. Mr Jack A Pinnock Cambridge Academy of Mr A B W Taylor Mr Max R R Smithwick Organ Studies Turcan Connell Ms Rhiannon E Wescott The Coulthurst Trust The Val A Browning Foundation Miss Hannah E Wildsmith The Donner Canadian Foundation

Buckingham Society list of Members

The Buckingham Society was established to recognise those of our Members who have made arrangements which will benefit Magdalene after they have gone. The Society will hold its next luncheon followed by an afternoon programme on Saturday, 9 June 2012. Do let the Alumni & Development Office know if you ought to be added to the members’ list.

Mr Douglas B Abbott, 1943 The Right Honourable Mr Norman A Kirke, 1949 Mr Michael K Scott, 1957 Dr David W Abecassis, 1970 Lord Ezra *, 1936 Mr Michael J Knight, 1958 Dr Richard H Seebohm, 1954 Mr Mark R Adamson, 1983 Dr Andrew Fairley, 1945 His Honour Dr C Kolbert *, 1968 Mr Andrew M Sheaf, 1974 Mr John H Allsopp 1951 The Reverend J L M Farmborough Mr John M Kolbert, 1960 Mr Anton B Shellim, 1962 Mr Kenneth H Arbuckle, 1944 MBE, 1946 Mr Harry J Laurence, 1951 Dr Geoffrey A Shippey, 1949 Mr Maurice J R Armytage, 1952 Mr Colin E Funk, 1958 Mr Timothy A Lebus, 1969 Mr Arnold J Shone, 1956 Mr Derek E Ayres, 1949 Mr John J S Garrick, 1980 Dr J D Lewins *, 1985 Mr Nigel Slater, 1962 Mr Kimball Bailey, 1975 Mr Martin G S Gibson, 1979 Mr Jeremy D Lunn, 1953 Mr Simon R Smallwood, 1955 Mr John G L Bainbridge, 1938 Mr Julian A Gizzi, 1975 Mr Ian MacDonald, 1944 Mr Michael N Snowman, 1963 Mr Peter C Baker, 1960 Mr John E Goldsworthy, 1949 The Reverend C H MacGregor, 1938 Professor Sarah M Springman Mr David L Bankes, 1937 Mr Peter L Graham, 1964 Mr Ian S Mant, 1946 OBE, 1988 Mr Robert W Barber, 1954 Mr William M C Grant, 1975 Mr Richard H W Marten, 1961 Mr John K Spry, 1980 The Reverend J R P Barker, 1958 Mr Howard E Green, 1964 Mr John R V Mason, 1943 Mr Benjamin W Staveley, 1974 Mr Stuart D Barr, 1990 Mr Jeremy B Greenhalgh, 1967 Mr Timothy J McCarron, 1980 Mr John R Stevens, 1957 Mr Colin V G Basford, 1951 Mr Joseph Grimberg, 1952 Mr Ian H McCorquodale, 1956 Mr John B B Stewart, 1950 Mr Edward L Bell, 1957 Dr S Halper * 2001 Mr Kevin P McNamara, 1967 Mr John G Sugden, 1946 Mr Graham R Bell, 1991 Mr Richard Hamilton, 1958 Mr Norman V Meeres, 1931 Professor Sir Malcolm K Sykes, 1944 Mr Peter Bennett-Jones, 1974 Dr T N Harper *, 1989 Mr Murray Mitchell, 1953 Group Captain A R Thompson * Mr Edward A P Benthall, 1981 Mr Philip P Harris, 1949 Mr Mark D Moorman, 1987 2001 Professor David N Best, 1966 Mr Richard D Hewlett, 1950 Dr Charles W R D Moseley, 1981 Professor William Tordoff, 1947 Dr M D Billinge *, 1971 The Honourable Thomas A Mr D J H Murphy *, 1957 The Reverend Dr H John Mr John D W Birts, 1955 Hewlett, 1971 Mr Braham J Myers, 1939 M Turner, 1942 Dr Michael Brooke, 1968 Mr Randal Hibbert, 1956 Mr Anthony J Nicholson, 1947 Mr Harold A R Turner, 1948 Mr Jeremy J G Brown, 1954 Captain Anthony D Hignett, 1956 Mr Barry P Nicholson, 1948 Sir John B Ure, 1953 Mr John K Buckenham, 1949 Mr Timothy E B Hill, 1956 Dr Rory O’Donnell, 1971 Mr Francis A B Valentine, 1956 Mr Ian J Burton, 1961 Mr Terry Hitchcock, 1970 Mr Timothy G Orchard, 1981 Mr W Vincent *, 1937 Mr Andrew E Buxton, 1954 Air Vice Marshal David A Mr David F Oxley, 1959 Mr Chris I von Christierson, 1969 Mr Howard H Campbell, 1940 Hobart, 1989 Mr Mario V Pampanini, 1974 Mr Michael G Wadham, 1962 Mr John A C Cann, 1956 The Reverend R V Hodgson, 1947 Mr Ian M Paton Mr Graham R Walker, 1982 Mr Philip E Carne, 1958 Mr Carol Hogben, 1944 Mr Alan H Pattillo, 1953 Dr James M Waller, 1959 Mr Nigel H Carruthers, 1949 Mr Andrew P G Holmes, 1963 Mr Malcolm L Pearce, 1984 Dr John D Walsh, 1948 Mr Norman W Chaplin, 1945 The Reverend Canon John Mr Richard J Phillips, 1955 Dr Alan J Walton, 1988 Mr Robert Chartener, 1982 How, 1934 Professor Maurice W M Pope, 1944 Mr Arthur F Warren, 1941 Mr Michael W Chester, 1952 Professor John D Hudson, 1953 Mr Ian J Prowse, 1970 Mr David F Weatherup, 1980 Mrs Diana Coatney, 1991 Dr R Hyam *, 1960 Mr Henry J C Pulley, 1960 Mr John R White, 1955 Mr Richard J Coleman, 1980 Mr Leonard F Isaac, 1944 Mr Peter J Pursglove, 1983 Dr John B Whittaker, 1956 Professor David K C Cooper, 1972 Mr Terry James, 1955 Mr Richard A M Purver, 1958 Mr James W Woodthorpe, 1981 Sir Colin R Corness *, 1951 Captain Charles C B James, 1957 Professor J Raven *, 1990 Mr Alan P Wright, 1966 Dr Adrian J Crisp, 1968 Emeritus Professor John R G Mr Christopher T A Ray, 1943 Mr John C Yandle, 1945 Mr John H Davidson, 1961 Jenkins, 1948 Mr Ross G Reason, 1980 Professor George S Yip, 1966 Mr Brian P Davis, 1957 Mr David R Jennings, 1983 Mr Peter M H Robinson, 1949 Professor Glen Dudbridge, 1959 Mr Roy A Jennings, 1942 Mr Peter F C Roden, 1961 Mr Anthony J H Durham, 1942 Captain James W Johnsen, 1979 The Right Honourable the Lord * Indicates that the donor Mr Derek M Edge, 1943 Dr William J Jordan, 1967 Ryder of Wensum OBE PC, 1968 is a Fellow Mr Giles R M Elliott, 1971 Mr John M Kalmanson, 1946 Mr Alec Samuels, 1949 Dr Claude E Evans, 1978 Mr T G M Keall *, 1989 Mr Gregory W D Saunders, 1980 (d) Indicates that the donor Dr Frank A Kirk, 1963 Mr Christopher D W Savage, 1948 is deceased

Whilst we endeavour to ensure that these lists are accurate, we apologise if any name has been omitted. Please do let us know if this is the case. Royal Navy in Afghanistan

by john darcy (2002)

“HLS is clear; beware insurgent activity to the North and East; approach from the Southwest”. The radio transmission comes from the Joint Tactical Air Controller (JTAC) in the Forward Operating Base (FOB) at which we are about to land. It is the middle of the night; still 35°C, no moon, no cultural lighting, and even with our Night Vision Goggles (NVGs) all we can see as we descend rapidly through the Afghan sky is dusty blackness. Manoeuvring the aircraft sharply in the descent, we conduct a quick landing brief taking account of the suggested landing direction combined with our need to land into wind to assist aircraft performance.

As we near ground level we are at the aircraft flares significantly to in the back is crouched down in the maximum speed, the door gunner decelerate in preparation for landing, doorway, his body mostly outside the and aircrewman are manning the “0.3, 045°”….“Visual”. The dimmed aircraft as he calls out the position of aircraft’s weapons and both pilots lights of the tiny FOB appear through the enormous dust cloud billowing up are straining to get ‘eyes on’ our the darkness and in the courtyard we behind the aircraft, kicked up from landing site (LS). The aircraft can just make out the makeshift LS: 4 the power of the rotor blades. In one commander calls out distance and infrared (IR) chemical sticks marking a continuous movement the aircraft is direction to the LS from the GPS. “1 box. The aircraft commander calls out brought onto the ground, just as the mile, 030°..….0.6, 025°, speed back”, heights and speeds, the aircrewman ... continued

9 MAGDALENE COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE dust cloud catches up and overwhelms see you soon” from the JTAC over personnel also fill many medical, everything. For a moment everyone is the radio. First FOB of the night done, administrative, tactical, logistic and blind, but there is no time to wait. The seven more to go. Another night during Command positions and Naval Air crewman quickly sends out the soldiers a tour of Afghanistan. Squadrons (NAS) have maintained and kit we have flown in and ushers a continuous commitment to in those waiting to fly out. The pilots Afghanistan operations over the last discuss the departure plan, given the Speed is of the essence as an 4 years. 1 in 5 British helicopters in significant threats mentioned ahead of aircraft soon attracts attention, Afghanistan is RN and up to 120 us. After only a couple of minutes we ground and aircrew are deployed at are good to go. Speed is of the essence even at this time of night and any one time at Camp Bastion as part as an aircraft soon attracts attention, we are a sitting duck. of the Commando Helicopter Force even at this time of night and we are (CHF) or the Airborne Surveillance a sitting duck. As much engine power and Control Squadrons. Prior to the as we have available is applied to lift Many people believe that the Royal disbandment of the Harrier GR9 the aircraft cleanly from the ground. Navy (RN) confines itself to the aircraft following the Strategic Defence Very quickly the dust cloud is back and Seven Seas either on the surface or and Security Review of 2010, Naval jet everyone is blind again. Full power is below it, so the phrase “Royal Navy pilots flew many missions in support held and using the aircraft instruments in Afghanistan” can lead to a raised of Coalition troops in Afghanistan. the helicopter is brought vertically up eyebrow or two. In fact this summer The Royal Navy therefore, has been until the crew can see over the top alone around 3,500 Naval personnel at the forefront of Afghanistan of the cloud. A sharp 180° turn and served in Afghanistan – 40% of all operations for quite some time. we rapidly accelerate away from the UK Forces deployed there. Between danger area. There can be no dawdling April and October, 3 Commando As a pilot on 846 NAS I serve as part as it is not uncommon to receive Brigade Royal Marines, the Navy’s of CHF; a unit containing 4 flying incoming fire. As we climb up a quick elite amphibious infantry, had Squadrons, a Headquarters and a glance is thrown down the back of the the UK lead role on the ground in complement of fully deployable support aircraft to check everyone is ok. The Helmand Province, as they have sections. CHF is highly versatile, able soldiers look exhausted. “Cheers fellas, done on previous deployments. Naval to operate in arctic, jungle and desert

10 MAGDALENE MATTERS conditions as well as from ships in its with our specific ‘dust’ technique, in The ‘Whys and Wherefores’ of role as the UK’s specialist amphibious which we maintain a visual reference Coalition tasks in Afghanistan can be assault force. The ‘Junglies’ (a name with the ground as we land even as the a complex subject and each member given to the personnel within CHF aircraft becomes engulfed in sand. By of the team holds their own opinion. following success in the jungles of not doing so one can lose positional However ideological debate is left Borneo in the 1960s and by which they awareness, which is dangerous. aside in the aircraft, when everyone are still known) are highly committed Slick crew co-operation within the focuses solely on our primary and not only in Afghanistan but also on aircraft is crucial; there is no room for crucial role: supporting the troops. multinational exercises or amphibious complacency especially since a crew Every member of CHF works at the operations that take place, including can be in the aircraft for several hours top of their professional game to standing by to support NATO efforts at a time in demanding conditions. preserve life and equipment each day off Libya earlier this year. However, combining hard work so that our support can continue. My with humour and friendly banter is 3 tours of Afghanistan so far have The Sea King Mk 4 helicopter has common throughout the military and been both rewarding and challenging. been at the forefront of Commando the ‘Junglies’ are no exception. Reward comes from working hard to aviation since the Falklands War. help support the troops who carry out Able to operate in all weather by day The demanding Afghan environment dangerous tasks in difficult conditions and night it can carry troops and takes its toll on the aircraft and one every day. The challenges come from internal cargo or heavy loads slung is constantly operating the helicopters operating in high threat areas in which underneath the aircraft. Designed to on the edge of their performance rotary aviation assets are frequently conduct amphibious operations from envelopes. The extreme summer heat, targeted and also from the potential ships, the bulk of the operational the high terrain and the harsh flight dangers that can arise from flying in work in recent years has been in the manoeuvres that are required on each inhospitable environmental conditions. deserts of Iraq and Afghanistan. On sortie all ask a lot of the aircraft. The I can say with certainty that so far I operations we ‘Junglies’ are largely engineers work very hard to ensure have enjoyed my time on the front line found low over the Green Zone in the aircraft stay operationally effective and am very proud to serve with my Helmand Province, moving troops and so, in spite of its age, the Sea fellow ‘Junglies’ as part of CHF and and equipment between the FOBs or King constantly proves its worth as a the Royal Navy’s Fleet Air Arm. dropping off heavy loads. Our training reliable multi-role platform. means we are not limited to any one particular task and we support the troops in any way we can. We prefer to operate at night, when temperatures are cooler and we have the added protection of darkness. The absence of cultural lighting in Helmand means the nights are exceptionally dark and with little or no moon it is only possible to see the ground from 100 feet and often less, even with NVGs. This can prove challenging when approaching small, dusty landing sites in high threat areas. It is in such conditions that the ‘Junglies’ have made their name by routinely conducting such operations night after night. We use Display Night Vision Goggles (DNVG), which provide us with flight and navigational data via a monocle fitted to our NVGs. This enables us to see relevant information during flight without us having to look at cockpit instrumentation. Each landing is conducted in accordance

11 MAGDALENE COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE The First Twenty Years of the Cambridge Project for the Book Trust

by professor james raven (1990)

This year sees the 20th anniversary of the foundation at Magdalene of The Cambridge Project for the Book Trust. Since 1990, the Trust has raised more than £1 million in grants and donations for conferences, publications and post-doctoral fellowships, exhibitions and other activities in international bibliographical studies and book history.

Most have taken place in the College. The Trust’s founding for a major two-volume publication by Oxford University Director is Professor James Raven who established it as Press, The English Novel, 1770–1829, revolutionizing our a registered educational charity shortly after his arrival understanding of the production of English fiction in the at Magdalene as Director of Studies in History. In the Romantic period. Among Trust-sponsored translations into Trust’s anniversary year he has returned to Magdalene as English of neglected European studies of book history is a Visiting Fellow. Otto Walde’s Storhetstidens Litterära Krigsbyten (1916), a classic Swedish history of literary booty seized during ‘It’s difficult to believe that this is the Trust’s 20th the Thirty Years War, and featuring a number of volumes anniversary year’ says Prof. Raven, who remained Director currently held in the College’s Old Library. after his move to Oxford in 1996. ‘The Trust continues to publish and support international scholarship in the history ‘Intellectually stimulating, exhausting but also great fun’ is of authorship, publishing, librarianship and reading. Our Prof. Raven’s verdict on the first 20 years. Annual dinners latest volume of essays, Books between Europe and the have been outstanding successes with a wide range of Americas (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), is the sixth such speakers including Bamber Gascoigne (Honorary Fellow) publication by the Trust. And once again, under our slogan and Jean Alexander (aka Hilda Ogden, who, as a librarian “Not the Usual Suspects”, we bring together leading scholars in Liverpool before her acting days, is a committed from all over the world working on related topics but within campaigner for the future of public libraries). The Parlour different disciplines’. has hosted smaller but no less important events over the years including a symposium to celebrate the life and work of Samuel Jackson Pratt (1749–1814), a popular ‘Intellectually stimulating, exhausting but also author, dramatist and bookseller. And was it a record great fun’ is Prof. Raven’s verdict on the first when 9 Fellows of the British Academy joined those already squashed in the Monks Rooms to hear Prof Renato Pasta 20 years. of the University of Florence give a pioneering account of Enlightenment bookselling?

At Magdalene the CPBT has supported seminar series, As James Raven recalls, the Trust’s first international academic and public conferences, and four major conference held at Magdalene in 1992, ‘The Practice and collaborative bibliographical projects, and has funded Representation of Reading’ (later published as a best-selling public lectures and research visits by overseas scholars. Two book by CUP), reintroduced the college of Pepys and his awards from the Leverhulme Trust supported research library to a global bibliographical audience. Seminars

12 MAGDALENE MATTERS The First Twenty Years of the Cambridge Project for the Book Trust

continued under the same title for several years. ‘More than since antiquity. Lost Libraries: The Destruction of Great 300 people attended that first conference and for the main Book Collections Since Antiquity was published by Palgrave sessions – no Cripps Court in those days – we had to borrow Macmillan in 2006 (and its latest translation is into Turkish). St Johns’s Pythagoras Building behind Buckingham Court to fit everyone in’. Two years later, in Benson Hall, ‘Designing One-day conferences have included ‘Literary London’ and the Reading Space’ proved one of the most controversial ‘Publishing the Law’, debating the printing, publishing of the Trust’s conferences, featuring lively debate between and reception of legal texts in Britain and North America. (among others) Dominique Perrault (architect of the Another continuing Trust project began a pen-and-ink life Bibliothèque de France), giving his first public lecture in on the tables of the Old Library. Now adopting the latest Britain, and Kjetil Thørsen (Norwegian architect of the digital modelling techniques, ‘Mapping the Print Culture of UNESCO library at Alexandria). Organised tours of newly Eighteenth-Century London’ is charting the exact location built college libraries in Cambridge accompanied a major and commercial neighbourhoods of leading past sites of exhibition of modern library architecture that enthused the book production. national newspapers. In 1996 the Trust’s conference (also later a book) pursued the theme of freely distributed print (or ‘junk mail’) since the eighteenth century, with speakers Listed with the Cambridge University Development coming to Magdalene from Italy, Canada, the Ukraine, Office, the Cambridge Project for the Book is a Japan, Russia, the US, India, Kenya and China. registered educational trust, and is committed to expand and develop both bibliographical In 1997, with a growing reputation, the CPBT agreed to host scholarship and public interest in the History of the the international congress of the Society for the History of Book. Its Director is Professor James Raven and Authorship, Reading and Publishing. The College was just its Trustees welcome suggestions for new ventures able to contain the 400 people (from 28 countries) attending in bibliographical scholarship and the public five parallel sessions and 118 papers given over three understanding of the history of the book. For more days. A few years later, a further Magdalene conference details see www.cambridgebook.demon.co.uk examined the impact of the loss of great book collections

13 MAGDALENE COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE MAGDALENE FESTIVAL OF Three New THE IMAGE 2011–2012 Magdalene Lords! Oscar- The third Magdalene Triennial Festival opened on Thursday 20 October and runs winning until the end of March 2012. The theme of this year’s interdisciplinary programme screenwriter is THE IMAGE and this term’s events which are open to all are as follows: Julian Fellowes Thursday 10 November, 5.00pm of Intellectual Property Law in (1967) Festival Lecture I: Medical Imaging Cambridge. enobled Past & Present earlier this Chair: The Master of Magdalene, Thursday 24 November, 5.00pm year as a Mr Duncan Robinson Conversation IV: The Image of life peer and now also known as Festival Lecturer: Professor the Earth Baron Fellowes of West Stafford, Adrian Dixon Chair: Dr Tom Spencer has won several prizes at the In the first of the prestigious Magdalene When the early balloonists floated annual television Emmy awards Festival Lectures, Professor Adrian above the ground, the idea of seeing held in Los Angeles in September. Dixon, the Master of Peterhouse, will the earth from above was finally The creator of the phenomenally talk about the image in the context of realised – “A giant organism, successful Period Drama, medicine. How do we try to picture mysteriously patterned and unfolding, ‘Downton Abbey’, won awards the way in which the body works? like a living creature” – and in this for ‘Outstanding writing in a Professor Dixon’s research is at the conversation, our panel of scholars mini-series, movie or dramatic forefront of developing the latest considers how such possibilities have special’ and ‘Outstanding mini- scanning techniques. changed our view of our own planet, series or movie.’ Downton from pioneer aerial photography to Abbey has gripped millions of Saturday 12 November, the latest satellite imaging. Speakers people around the globe and 2pm–3.30pm include the well-known historian and has become the most successful Saturday Symposium I: How to writer of The Age of Wonder, Richard British costume drama since write Images Holmes. the 1981 television serial version Chair: Dr M E J Hughes of Brideshead Revisited, and In this symposium, four modern All Day Symposium, Saturday in 2011 it entered the Guinness authors (including thriller writer Ms 21 January, 9.30am–6.30pm Book of World Records as Michelle Spring, and poet and scholar Symposium II: The Medieval Image the ‘most critically acclaimed Dr Clive Wilmer) will explore with the in the Twenty-First Century television show’ for the year, audience how verbal images are used in Chairs: Dr M E J Hughes and becoming the first British show writing. Tea will be served at 3.30pm. Dr Michael Hrebeniak to win this particular accolade. ADVANCE BOOKING REQUIRED Lord Fellowes studied English Thursday 17 November, 5.00pm – REGISTRATION FEE £20/£8/£0 and was a member of Footlights Conversation III: Who Owns including lunch, refreshments during his time at Magdalene. your Image? and reception. Chair: Professor Bill Cornish Howard There has been much debate about the Please note that detailed information Flight publication of pictures taken without about all the events in Michaelmas and (1966) a permission. In this ‘Conversation’ we Lent term as well as an application former ask: Do we own our image or is it form for the Symposium can be Member of public property? When is publishing a downloaded from the College website Parliament photograph an invitation of privacy? www.magd.cam.ac.uk. Simply follow for Arundel What role does the Law have in the link ‘Magdalene Festival of the and South determining good taste? This panel Image’ on the home page. Please Downs 1997–2005, was raised of distinguished legal experts will contact the Alumni & Development to the peerage as Baron Flight, be chaired by the Emeritus Professor Office for a hard copy. of Worcester in January 2011.

14 MAGDALENE MATTERS ... continued Lord Flight has had a long, distinguished parliamentary Magdalene career and has served as the Shadow Economic Secretary; the Shadow Paymaster General; Shadow Chief Secretary to the Described Treasury and as Special envoy to the City of London during First published in 1982 and now revised to take account his last year in the Commons in of important changes since then, in Magdalene Described 2004–05. He has been a member the College Archivist, Dr Ronald Hyam, provides a vivid of a number of Select committees, guide to the College’s constituent courts and gardens. has written a book, contributed A brief account of the site since 1428, and the College’s to another ‘The City in Europe changing fortunes, sketches the historical background for and the World’ (2005) and holds the architectural description of a fascinating series of a number of Directorships. Lord building. These span the fifteenth century to the twenty- Flight studied Economics at first.Magdalene Described is enlivened with notes on Magdalene College and won heraldry, stained glass, inscriptions and over sixty the Power Exchange Scholarship photographs, many of them specially commissioned. to the University of Michigan The booklet is available for £5 plus p&p from the Alumni and Development Office in 1969. or the Porters’ Lodge if you are visiting the College.

Richard Please contact Emma on 01223 332104 or [email protected] Spring to order your copy. (1969) served as Member of Parliament (MP) for The Love of a Woman Bury St Edmunds This new collection of poetry The Love of a Woman by from 1992 to 1997 and for West Rosarita Cuccoli (1994) has been described as a book Suffolk from 1997 to 2010. about ‘hopefulness and the avoidability of decadence’, He retired from the House of and is prefaced by renowned poet Professor Andrew Commons in 2010 and entered Parkin (Pembroke, 1958). From the press release: the House of Lords in January 2011 and is now known as Baron “Rosarita Cuccoli’s verses describe at the same time the Risby of Haverhill. Lord Risby depth and tenderness of love emotions, straightforwardly served as a PPS to a number of and without concessions, and the specific historical phase Ministers and was a shadow in which the underlying story takes place. The Minister at Culture Media and emotionally and intellectually charged verses that Sport, Foreign Affairs and the compose this collection convey, unpretentiously and Treasury, and Vice Chairman of almost imperceptibly, the portrait of an epoch. the Conservative Party 2005– 2010, responsible for business The love of the woman, however, emerges through these poems as the triumphant links in the City of London. He antidote to decadence. The shallow predator is the loser, although he is not doomed is currently the Chairman of either. These verses are a cry for respect for what all human beings, whether the British Ukrainian Society admittedly or not, ultimately need: a truthful and steady relationship to rely on and Deputy Chairman of Small through life.” Business Bureau Limited. Lord Risby studied Economics at Rosarita Cuccoli, an Italian-born Parisian author, came to Magdalene in 1994 to Magdalene and was a very active take an MPhil in International Relations and went on to do a PhD in History. She member of the Tennis Club. has worked as a research fellow for NATO and the UN. This is her third book, published in June this year by Pendragon Publishing.

15 MAGDALENE COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE Forthcoming Events

12 November 2011: Non-Resident 17 February 2012: Non-Resident 9 June 2012: The Annual Members’ Guest Night. This will be Members’ Guest Night. Buckingham Society Luncheon. hosted by a group of Fellows and include pre-dinner drinks. Please book 25 February 2012: A ‘Subject’ 1 July 2012: Annual Family Day via the Alumni & Development Office. Reunion’ Dinner will be held at for Magdalene Members and thier Magdalene to celebrate the new families 25 November 2011: Non-Resident Faculty of Human, Social and Members’ Guest Night. Political Science. 5 July 2012: Magdalene Association Lunch. 28 NOVEMBER 2011: Parnell 3 March 2012: Magdalene Dinner Lecture by Professor Ged Martin in Edinburgh. 23 September 2012: (1964). Join Professor Martin at The Annual Donors’ Day 5.15 pm in the Sir Humphrey Cripps 10 March 2012: Non-Resident Theatre, as he offers a revisionist Members’ Guest Night. Please note that other events may be view of Charles Stewart Parnell. Full added to this list. Always check our details on the website. 28 April 2012: Non-Resident College website www.magdalene Members’ Guest Night. cambridge.com on the ‘Events’ 8 December 2011: Varsity Rugby pages and read the updated listings Match at Twickenham. There 19 May 2012: MA Day for all those in Magdalene E-Matters. are two packages on offer for our who matriculated in 2005. Please members. Please contact the office or contact the Alumni & Development To register your interest in any visit the website for full details. Office to update your address details. of the above events, please email [email protected] 28 January 2012: Non-Resident 26 May 2012: Non-Resident Members’ Members’ Guest Night. Guest Night Reunions in 2012

Saturday 24 March: Senior Combination Room. Dinner for those who This is followed by Evensong matriculated in 1985–1987 in Chapel and then pre- Saturday 4 May: dinner drinks in the Cripps Lunch for those who Gallery at 7.15pm or Pepys matriculated in 1954–1958 Cloisters, with dinner being Friday 14 September: served in Hall from 8pm. Dinner for those who matriculated in 1988–1990 Reunions will take Friday 21 September: place in 2013 for the Our three Rugby Blues, Will Briggs (3rd year Medicine student Dinner for those who following years: at Magdalene, right), Frank Sanders (also a 3rd year Medicine matriculated in 1991–1993 Up to 1955, 1994–1996, student, left) and Hugo Cobb (2nd year History of Art student, 1997–1999, 2003–2004 centre) are in contention for places in the squad for the 130th Invitations will be sent out Varsity Rugby Match on Thursday 8th December 2011. Tickets for 3 months in advance. Please Those who matriculated £25 are available from the Alumni & Development Office. Contact note that the programme in 2006 will be invited to 01223 332104 or [email protected]. usually begins at 4.30pm take their MA in person with tea and coffee in the or in absentia.

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