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understanding schizophrenia / older and wiser? / new student writing The University of Magazine volume two issue two summer 2000 E D iTcontents The Magazine volume two issue two summer 2000

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22 COVER STORIES 08 MISTAKEN IDENTITY - a study of schizophrenia. Jennifer Trueland. 14 DOWNSTREAM - a short story. Jennifer Hadfield. 26 GROWING OLD: SAGACIOUS OR SENILE? - the way we were. Ian Deary.

publisher Communications & Public Affairs, FEATURES The University of Edinburgh Centre, 12 STARTER FOR TEN - Allan Little has the answers. 7-11 Nicolson Street, Edinburgh EH8 9BE A MOMENTARY VIEW - a year in the life in pictures. 18 editor Anne McKelvie 24 LETTER FROM EDINBURGH - a giant leap for womankind. Edith Pechey. assistant editors 50 A LITTLE LOCAL DELICACY - Polynesian style. John Atherton. David Eccles, Richard Mellis design

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EDiT 3 EditEd Space Shuttle Queen Margrethe of opens new Denmark honoured window on ’s past contributed

A TEAM OF researchers at the University working with specialists from NASA have made the first discovery in the UK of an archaeological site using Imaging RADAR data gathered by the American Space Shuttle. The site consists THE HONORARY DEGREE of Doctor honoris causa has been conferred upon Her of a network of previously unknown, and largely buried, Majesty The Queen of Denmark Queen Margrethe II by the Chancellor of the ancient roads surrounding headquarters of the University, His Royal Highness, The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. Lords of the Isles at Finlaggan Castle on Islay. The degree of Doctor honoris causa is awarded for personal achievement and Gary McKay, a former U.S. Naval Research Laboratory scientist distinction in public life. There is a long history of cultural and economic links between at NASA, now specializing in archaeological applications and Denmark and Scotland. The University of Edinburgh has its own particular historic link working jointly in Edinburgh’s Departments of Geography and through King James VI of Scots, who granted the Charter founding the University. Archaeology, made the discovery using data from the Space James was married to Anna of Denmark who was Queen Consort of Scotland for 13 Shuttle’s sophisticated multipolarimetric Imaging RADAR. Gary years before becoming the first Queen Consort of Great Britain in 1603. said, “As soon as we had processed the image it was so obvious that something odd was present. At first I thought it was just a natural river course, but then realized that this ‘river’ ran up and over the hills completely ignoring the local geological structure - it just had to be artificial.” The detection of these roads (invisible FT rates on the ground) promises to throw new light on the economy of the early Mediaeval Lords of the Isles. These roads are likely to provide new insights into the trade and transport systems on the Management School island and appear to suggest that mining may have played an important role in the Lordship’s economy far earlier than was previously thought. 3rd in UK For images of Islay from Space please go to: THE MBA COURSES at the University of Edinburgh Management School were www.arcl.ed.ac.uk/ islayimages/index.html recently given top ratings in a special report carried by the Financial Times. The survey was based on student views collected from a sample of graduates from 1996 and information collected from 90+ management and business schools around the world. The survey placed Edinburgh 35th out of the top 70 such schools in the world. The top three MBA providers in Britain were Business School [ranked 8th] Cranfield [ranked 34th] and then Edinburgh. In effect, this rated Edinburgh as the finest Management School in Scotland and among the top ten in Europe. Edinburgh scored particularly well for internationalism and diversity of students, course materials and teaching, and the final destination of students. “We are delighted with this recognition of our progress towards being a world class management school,” said Professor David Hatherly, Director of the School. “The competition for students at this level is always hard and such a recommendation from such an international quality paper as the FT will help strengthen our reputation.”

4 EDiT The University of Edinburgh News

Robin Harper MSP is new Rector

ROBIN HARPER MSP has been returned as the 46th Rector of the University in succession to John Colquhoun. His term of office took effect from 3 March 2000. The formal role of the Rectors of the four ancient Scottish Universities - Aberdeen, Edinburgh, and St. Andrews - is to chair meetings of the Court, the governing body of the University. In the past, Rectors have also taken an active part in many aspects of University life. The term of office is three years. Previous Rectors of the University include William Ewart Gladstone, David Lloyd George, , Alistair Sim, Magnus Magnusson, and Sir David Steel. Robin Harper, who has fought elections for the Green Party at national, European and local level since 1986, was elected Scottish Green Party MSP for in May 1999 as the UK’s first Green parliamentarian.

Corrie debugged

PHOTOGRAPHED IN one of the recently completed consultation rooms at the new Hospital for Small Animals is King Charles Spaniel ‘Corrie’ who had been brought in by her owner with a very irritating case of harvest mites or ‘berry bugs’. Harvest mites are tiny insects which live on grass and are often picked up by passing dogs. Thanks to diagnosis and treatment by the Director of the Hospital for Small Animals, Andrew Burnie, Corrie experienced a bug-free millennium.

EDiT 5 EditEd First Chinese graduate remembered AT THE INITIATIVE and with the support of the University’s General Council, a plaque to Dr Wong Fun, the first Chinese graduate of the University of Edinburgh, has been erected on the wall of the Centre for Asian Studies in Buccleuch Place. It was unveiled by the Chinese Consul General, Wang Weiyang. Born in 1828 in the Heong-San district in Kwangtung (Guangdong Province) a few miles from Macao, Wong Fun received his education with the Morrison Education Society, which had been founded in memory of the missionary Reverend Dr Robert Morrison to set up schools at which native Chinese youths could be educated to a high standard and perhaps be sent to Europe or America to complete their education. In 1847, Wong Fun left for America and, after graduating from Monson Academy, Massachusetts, he came to Edinburgh to complete his education under the patronage of, initially, Andrew Shortrede, the Scots founding editor of The China Mail, and, subsequently, the Edinburgh Medical Missionary Society. He graduated MD from the University in the summer of 1855. In his address to the new graduates, Professor James Young Simpson made special mention of Wong Fun, referring to him as “the first Chinese, I believe, who has ever graduated at a European University”. He returned to China in August 1856 under the auspices of the London Missionary Society to take up a post as medical missionary at a hospital in Canton, and died on 12 October 1878. Later this year the University is to erect a series of 25 plaques dedicated to eminent former students. They will positioned in a number of sites around the University as part of the University’s programme of events to mark the Millennium.

A vision of the future Decisive days THE VISTA Mentoring Programme, A NEW SERIES of historical videos, ‘Decisive Days sponsored this year by Diageo of World War Two’, is now available from the Foundation and United Distillers and University of Edinburgh Centre. The series is the

Vintners, has once again proved Mike Wilkinson outcome of a collaboration between David successful in matching students’ McWinnie's Lamancha Productions Ltd, an career aspirations with mentors’ independent film production company based in career experience. photograph Newington, and the History Department's Centre The programme aims to give for Second World War Studies. penultimate year undergraduate students The series opens up the question of why, and how, from various subject areas the knowledge Nazi Germany was defeated. In the course of six 30- and skills to help them plan their career to minute filmed talks, illustrated with original archive reach a high level of managerial footage, six leading historians each pinpoint a single responsibility. This year 35 students from day which, they personally believe, marked a critical the University of Edinburgh and 15 from turning point in the war. Queen Margaret University College were Each historian places the day in the overall context matched - awareness of issues for career of the war, describes in detail the events of that day, success. For the student, there is the and explains why, in his or her view, these events opportunity to work shadow, network, and were ultimately decisive in bringing about the downfall prepare for job seeking and employment; of the Third Reich. The six presenters and their and for the mentor, the chance to build on 'decisive days' are as follows: Professor Brian Bond existing skills. Pictured at the launch of (King's College London): 10 May 1940 - Churchill the 2000 programme in UDV’s former comes to power; Professor John Erickson (The building in Edinburgh is Programme University of Edinburgh): 27 March 1941 - The Director Isabel Turnbull (centre), 3rd year Yugoslav Coup; Dr David Stafford (The University of University of Edinburgh Business Studies Edinburgh): 9 May 1941 - The capture of U-110; student Kathryn McCall, and her mentor Professor Richard Overy (King's College London): 23 Sandra Newman of Citibank. January 1943 - The Casablanca Conference and the If you are interested in becoming a Combined Bomber Offensive; Dr Jill Stephenson (The mentor on the 2000/2001 programme or University of Edinburgh): 18 February 1943 - would like further information, please Goebbels' Total War speech; Professor Richard Holmes contact Isabel Turnbull on 0131 651 1538 (Cranfield University): 25 July 1944 - Operation Cobra. or [email protected]

6 EDiT The Chancellor’s Jonathon Littlejohn eye view photograph ON A RECENT visit to the University, the Chancellor, His Royal Highness, The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh visited the City Art Centre to see the University exhibition A Momentary View which was on show from January to March 2000. This striking collection of documentary photographs portrays an impressive range of activities behind the scenes at a major university. As well as depicting common-place occurrences at the University, such as Freshers week, student elections, exams and graduations, the photographers have captured many activities that normally go unseen, including sports day at the nursery and work at the University’s new Hospital for Small Animals. Amongst the more exceptional events covered are crowds at the opening of the , student sky-gazers during the solar eclipse, and the filming of ‘Great Expectations’ in the University’s Old College Quad. A selection of the photographs can be seen on pp18-21

Ian Rankin opens new Library And the winner concourse is…EDiT THE PREVIOUS - relaunched - issue of EDiT has IAN RANKIN, the best-selling crime novelist, who is the current won two major awards. University of Edinburgh/Royal Alumnus of the Year, In February, the magazine won a Gold Award in has formally opened the refurbished Edinburgh University Main the Alumni Publication category of the annual Library concourse. Higher Education Information Services Trust (HEIST) The Library, designed and built by Basil Spence, is a major 1960s Marketing Awards. This is a UK-wide competition building and the designs for the refurbishment were sensitive to the attracting entries from throughout the higher original design while taking account of the need for change. A substantial education sector. In May, there was further success sum has been spent on improving lighting, enhancing fire safety, creating when EDiT won the top award from judges in the a joint resource centre help desk, and creating a new service desk and External Magazine section of the Communicators in entry doors in the entrance concourse. The resource centre has been Business 2000 awards. This is the UK's largest and specially designed to be friendly to disabled people, and the new service most prestigious corporate communications desk, replacing the original, is better suited to the requirements of a highly competition, and allowed us to measure ourselves - automated library for the 21st century. successfully - against the commercial world.

EDiT 7 Mistaken Identity Jennifer Trueland talks to Professor Eve Johnstone about schizophrenia and a very special group of patients and their families.

chizophrenia is one of the most Scommon major psychiatric disorders and affects around one per cent of the population throughout the world. There are no tests for the condition as such - people are diagnosed on the basis of their description of their own mental experiences and according to whether they display characteristic forms of behaviour.

ONE OF THE SADDEST facts about the condition is the age at which it strikes. On average men are diagnosed age 23 and for women it’s 27. It was that, partly, which drew Eve Johnstone herself to as a medical student in Glasgow - previously she had rather fancied neurology. But meeting patients with schizophrenia changed her mind and sparked what was to become a lifelong interest. “These people were the same age as me, about 21 at that time, and they had been hit by this dreadful disorder. It seemed to have come upon them out of the . It had a real effect on me. It was one of the most bizarre and frightening things that I had ever seen,” she says. At that time perceived wisdom on schizophrenia was that it was a disorder quite possibly brought on by disturbed patterns of communication within the family. “This seemed wildly improbable to me - and nobody believes it now. You know they used to sometimes ban the mother from visiting, say it was her fault. I can imagine how I would feel if I was a mother in that situation.” Now, the prevailing wisdom is that schizophrenia, like so many other conditions, has an element of nature and nurture. What we do know, however, is that it runs in families. In the children of one schizophrenic parent, the incidence is about ten per cent, as compared with just under one per cent in the general population. When both parents are affected, the chance goes up to about 40 per cent. About ten per cent of the brothers or sisters of someone with schizophrenia will develop the disease and this figure shoots up to about 50 per cent for identical twins, who are the nearest thing we have to a genetic double. It is with the background of the knowledge of the importance of family history in predicting who will develop the disease that Eve Johnstone was inspired to undertake her current research, which involves trying to find out what changes happen shortly before a person becomes ill - the aim being, of course, to facilitate the development of therapies which might lessen or even prevent that first psychotic episode which will herald, at the very least, a lifetime’s fear of a second or more.

EDiT 9 HE OPPORTUNITY CAME up shortly after Eve Johnstone those she did sign up would drop off, particularly if they became moved to Edinburgh. The Medical Research Council was ill. But that wasn’t the case - even if she did have to spread her calling for proposals for clinical research. She wanted to do net Scotland-wide to come up with enough families. Sounding something which would be uniquely possible in Scotland, with almost matter-of-fact, she explains: “We knew there was a 10-15 its less mobile, smaller and more family-oriented society. What per cent risk, we knew we needed 20 to 30 cases, so we needed she set out to do was find young people, aged 16 to 25, with a a minimum of 200 people. To wait for people to become ill may strong family history of schizophrenia (two close relatives or sound cynical, but we cannot at present stop that illness from more), examine them and keep on examining them until they developing and the study gives us a real opportunity of either became ill or passed the age at which the disease comes extending our understanding of the basis of the illness so that on. “Genetic work is difficult in London because people are we can find treatments which will work.” more mobile. In Scotland people keep in touch with their Eve Johnstone has tremendous respect for the families who Tfamilies. They know where their sister is, how many children were approached to take part. Recruitment involved asking their cousin has.” families of known patients if there was anyone in the right age The study, which became known as the Edinburgh High Risk group, then asking the parents, then finally asking the young Project, began in 1994. Originally there were sceptics. Concern people. The majority said yes. “These people know they have was expressed that she wouldn’t find enough recruits and that schizophrenia in their family. One woman told me that whenever a new baby was born, she would look at it, The implication is that wondering if the baby would be affected. They know this research may be too late to help them, but that it might help “ individuals who are liable to others in the future.” The study, helped by substantial funding from the Medical Research Council and by generous donations from a trust, develop schizophrenia may facilitated by a grateful father of a former patient, has involved carrying out sophisticated magnetic resonance (MR) scanning be identifiable before the of the subjects’ brains to ascertain if the brain abnormalities associated with schizophrenia are present in high risk people. Tests on cognitive function are also carried out. The study onset of symptoms. concluded that people at high risk of developing schizophrenia for genetic reasons have several abnormalities of the brain before symptoms of the illness appear, brain abnormalities similar to those in patients with the disorder. The implication is that individuals who are liable to develop schizophrenia may be identifiable before the onset of symptoms. The results also suggested that the structural brain abnormalities in individuals at high risk of schizophrenia are largely due to the genetic make-up. It appears that high risk individuals with the smallest AHC (amygdala-hippocampal complex) or thalami, or both, are those who are most likely to become ill in the next five to ten years. The amygdala is increasingly acknowledged to have an important role in the recognition and expression of emotion, and the hippocampus is integral to preserved memory function - both are impaired in schizophrenia. It’s also assumed that the characteristic auditory hallucinations, the ‘voices’ of the disorder, are associated with dysfunction of the temporal lobe, part of a distributed neural circuitry that may include the thalamus.

VE JOHNSTONE has recently been awarded further substantial Medical Research Council funding over a 5 year period to study the development of schizophrenia in those from high risk families. This will involve using the new brain scanner at the SHEFC (Scottish Higher Education Funding Council) Brain Imaging Research Centre for Scotland at the in Edinburgh. It provides ‘functional’ scans - images of the blood flow in the brain in response to movement or mental acts - and will allow the Einvestigators to see what happens to the connections between the different parts of the brain as illness develops and mental acts become less organised. The continued study will mean an on-going relationship with the subjects - some of whom have now displayed lesser or greater signs of the condition, some have been actually diagnosed, and others are entirely well. Eve Johnstone’s empathy with her study subjects, their families and her patients is clear. When the first results of the project were to be published in the Lancet, the researchers felt they wanted to share them with those taking part and their families, before they were put into the public domain. With the Medical Research Council’s approval, they organised ‘soirées’ where the participants were taken through the results. “They went down very well,” she smiles.

Jennifer Trueland is Health Correspondent on The Scotsman and graduated MA Honours in English Literature from The University of Edinburgh in 1988.

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ALLAN LITTLE, the BBC’s Africa correspondent, graduated MA from the University of Edinburgh in 1982.

Did you enjoy being a student? If you could choose again, which you acquire while studying is at the I think I was a bit bewildered in first subject would you study? heart of what you do as a journalist - it year. But the rest of it I loved. Almost Philosophy. Mathematics. A language. is a continual process of a assessing all my memories are positive ones - they information, interpreting, making were formative, exciting, turbulent years Did any member of staff have a judgements about what matters, what full of idealism and hope and lasting influence? doesn’t and why. expectation. And a lot of laughs. Chris Fyfe taught African history and What advice would you give to new began by challenging and over-turning students? In which extra-curricular activities many of the conventions and did you indulge? assumptions that underpin Europe’s Study for its own sake and not for the There was a general election in my first traditional view of Africa - and of the job it might get you. Study what excites year (1979) and I got involved in whole way in which history in general is you and moves you. Enjoy your student politics. I did a sabbatical year taught and studied. Until recently teachers and respect them, but don’t as Honorary Secretary of the Students’ African history meant no more than the regard them as a separate species. Make Association, which was very satisfying history of colonialism - in other words friends with them - teaching is only and sometimes hilarious. I dabbled the history of Europeans in Africa. another form of learning. And in your nervously in student journalism (not Chris Fyfe swept all that away. In his class-mates, don’t think the ones with very well) and acted a few roles in the classes you felt like a real pioneer - the most self-confidence are necessarily Theatre Society, and once directed forging new ways of thinking about the the brightest. a play. past. He was a real inspiration. Now, What advice would you give to when I report from Africa for the BBC, new graduates? What is your best memory I often wonder whether Chris Fyfe is of University? hearing or seeing my despatches and I Get a job but don’t hurry. If you haven’t I’m too shy to tell you. But my best wonder whether I’m being true to his already done it, take a year off and memories concern a small number of vision. Chris Fyfe was the colonial travel. Don’t stop reading books just people who became friends for life. I archivist in Sierra Leone before because you’ve got no more exams to think the people you meet and become independence. Earlier this year I was in pass. Never forget that you’ve had friends with at that time change your Freetown and discovered that he is still access to the knowledge of the ages - life and help define who you will be for remembered there with affection and and that you’ve been part of a tradition the rest of your life. I was blessed. respect. I hope he knows this! that nurtures the idea of the free mind. That’s not available everywhere. What is your worst memory Did your degree prepare you for the Cherish it and honour it all your life. of University? world of work? And never be cynical about the debt you Initially I felt surrounded by people When I started in journalism a lot of owe the University, or about the ideals who seemed cleverer and better employers saw a degree as a positive that inspire the people that make it educated than me. I now know this is a handicap. They favoured my what it is. common experience. You quickly learn contemporaries who, by the age of 22, What single word sums up your that overbearing self-esteem does not had already chalked up 5 or 6 years’ University experience? translate itself into good exam marks, work experience. I think that attitude though! has died now. My degree? I couldn’t put Liberating. a value on it. The intellectual discipline

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14 EDiT A SHORT STORY BY JENNIFER HADFIELD

COULDN’T BELIEVE IT when I went to Thursday Katie took me as her guest to the Dean swimming Katie’s for tea the first time and found that she baths and when we walked through the village she asked me had a House: that is, her family owned both of what games we’d play once she was allowed. I told her we’d the main floors, also the attic and the cellar, and do Medieval France in the sandstone closes, when we crossed these levels were reached by way of stairwells the bridge I showed her how we’d send Jungle Explorers which they didn’t have to share with any other down the Water of , hugging my thin sausage of towel family. The first time I went round I couldn’t between my skirt and the damp lichen on the stone so I could believe Katie didn’t spend more time on the lean over and show her without getting green on it. But none stairs. She always asked what I wanted to do of this compared with flying for Katie. She told me, “Oh becauseI her mother had told her to. Her mother had you’ll never understand, you not having staircases, and all, obviously also told her that having found out what your but I fly downstairs every morning. You can only do it when guest had in mind you steered them towards some more no-one’s looking of course and just as well, I’d only get you- suitable activity. Katie, as a result, weasled out of me the know-who riled.” What she wanted most from Dean was the most uncouth suggestions possible and encouraged the long cobbled hill from the main road to the river. “That’d be playing of them with as much noise and as many props as a record. That’d be the furthest I’d ever flown: I bet I if I got possible. So she mountaineered to the attic lashing the piece my speed up on that hill I could make it to Leith. Then I of string round her waist to the stair-rods. I, the cook at the could get a boat.” I checked the clock on the church. We had base-camp, watched on, always aware of the groaning and to get to the baths. creaking of the glacier ice and terrified that it would bring different steps; her mother’s down the hall from the front WHEN WE WENT in I had to sign my name in the guest room, to underneath the bannister where she spied on our book and that was yet another contract to perfect behaviour. activities with the same pugilistic concern for Katie’s purity as No shouting, no splashing, respect for others partaking of the leisure a mother superior in a convent school. It was just like being facilities at all times - a catechism fierce as the Word of God at Hopetoun House for my birthday every year: invisible but reminded me at regular intervals along the walls. Like her tangible thick red ropes cording off all the rooms except the mother, Katie talked religion a lot; but not like you were playroom which had the same clean coldness as an operating meant to. She said, “Oh God”, and “Jesus Christ!” and when theatre. Once Katie dared me into the front room. There were her mother heard her she hissed, “Katie: blasphemy!” with a drawers on the big chest that weren’t really drawers - they dreadful and cryptic glower. I wasn’t sure what blasphemy were just beaded to look like you could open them. Katie meant but I could tell it deserved worse than a smack by the said she had a secret compartment behind there and if I could tone of her mother’s voice, and by the way that Katie went find the hidden mechanism she’d show me treasures from her defiantly pink. Once in the changing rooms I made straight short employment as a cat burglar. But there was never time for one of the two cubicles. The room had two long benches to look properly. Her mother was always tapping around the over its tiles where Katie changed with no sense of panic or ground floor, or else that siamese that never seemed to urgency. She didn’t even make a towel tent around herself. completely retract its claws. Whenever we ventured into the Then she’d kick impatiently against my door whilst I fussed front room it was on top of the bureau: stonily blue, its sides over my swimming cap - horrible thing like a cold hand curved with value, untouchable as a ming dynasty vase. clamped over your head turning you to face Katie’s mother, Those eyes saw everything and wordlessly conveyed the rigid with the blasphemy glare. That was what it was like threat I’m telling on you. I didn’t care if I didn’t see in the secret spending time at Katie’s house. It was a clammy nervousness compartment. There were still the staircases and staircases always tugging at the little hairs behind my ears and at my were always more exciting than where they led. Whilst forehead. Katie’s costume was pink and not quite as secure staircases were unroped with no signs telling you not to around the neck and armpits as you’d like. She didn’t care: dawdle there, you still knew it wasn’t allowed. her mother never saw it on her so she was safe. Her eyebrows only showed up when they were wet - ginger - and until the I WOULD’VE PREFERRED to spend my afternoon in the free strands of hair were wet they clashed joyously with the Dean, but Katie wasn’t allowed. However, every third pink rubber cap. When she took the hat off her hair was

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EDiT 15 18 EDiT alive with dryness and static inside a witch ring of flat IN THE END I just bolted, towel and costume damp in an plastered toffee. Someone set light to your head, I always thought, armpit that was clenched with fear. And then I spent an but never dared say. evening waiting to be summoned. The summons didn’t come and I spent the night awake, and the next day with no N THE POOL I slid as decorously as possible appetite, waiting for my encounter with the blasphemy stare down the wooden ladder. I avoided the gutter and wondering what Katie’s mother was going to do to me. that ran around the pool. The worst I’d find But that summons never came, just Katie finally, one August would be dead plasters and the usual sliminess evening before we started at our new school. She still wasn’t of tiles but that was enough to make me panic. allowed to play in the so there was nothing for I also avoided the vent for warm water. You us to do but sit decorously in her playroom. She grumbled Downstream could crouch in the shallow end in front of the that by the time she was allowed to play with me there I vent and the water pulsing through felt good in wouldn’t want to and I fibbed of course I will, of course I will. But a way you knew didn’t agree with the ten I couldn’t bear the thought of her running down those stone commandmentsI on the walls: it was hot as urine. Katie told steps worn into uneven basins, hurtling full tilt towards the me this. I pretended to prefer my circuits of breaststroke, slippery mud by the river. Each time I thought about it my trying to say a polite good afternoon to the old ladies through eyes were stung by that white scar above her left cheek. She a moustache of water: half otter, half minister. When they got tired of me asking her if she was alright; she said, “What, installed the swing-hoops over the little pool Katie was do you want to play nurses?” and when she tackled me to the ecstatic. I refused to swing but as I was Katie’s guest I had to ground I yelled stop it, stop it, stop it. So I wasn’t surprised when follow her to the other pool. I was daring enough, in my new I heard her, in our new high school, telling the other girls I and reassuringly tight black swimsuit, to practise being a was an uncommon scaredycat. I wasn’t surprised when they floating mushroom. Katie was desperate to make it across the started feinting and jabbing around me, seeing if they could full line of hoops but she was always having to divebomb me make me cry. (They could.) My mother had always said Katie to hide that she couldn’t make it. And she was always would be a beauty; but dressed in cruel brown uniform with shouting look at me, look at me, O.K. nearly, I’ll do it next time, her big shoulders and the fearsome prestige of her tits you watch, watch so it was quite a rebellion when this time I curled didn’t dare look too long at the colours of the hair and skin into my blind self-centred mushroom shape mid-swoop. Katie and irises. But every time she came near me the first thing I realised it was a rebellion too. I didn’t look at her until I saw was that white scar like a Cheshire Cat’s smile. It blazed needed air so badly my body was fighting itself to get out of when she was hot and redfaced, white as her teeth. I hid in the mushroom. She was still swinging from the first hoop, the toilets for ten minutes every day after school so she kicking wildly for momentum. When she saw I was looking wouldn’t think I was trying to walk back with her. But one again she hooked her spare arm under her armpit like a day she must have walked slowly too - because when I got to baboon and yelled you look like a monkey and you smell...so the bridge in the Dean she was there, leaning over the water. loud the attendants started making towards us and she didn’t I could hear from the top of the cobbled hill the crack as she finish her sentence because she saw the attendants too and bit into her apple from lunch. Her mum had her on a diet she panicked, she just dropped hickory dickory like a mouse and she was always complaining she was hungry so I wasn’t off a pendulum. When she landed on the tiles her arm was sure why she didn’t eat it at lunchtime. But with the relish still hooked under her side. I was laughing already because she bit into it I assumed eating outdoors in public was still she was about to bounce up and down on her haunches forbidden. I snuck down the little close from the main road gibbering. I could see the blue veins on her forehead, and an to the bridge and watched her. It was a Granny Smith. She awful colour seeping suddenly onto the tiles, I could see her didn’t wipe her mouth and her chin was getting enamelled flat plastered dark hair and the pink bathing hat and she with the drying juice. All the strength in her long bully’s wasn’t bouncing up and down on her haunches. I kept shoulders and tennis thickened calves went into cracking thinking someone set fire to your head as the attendants rushed up chunks of green flesh off the apple like she was pickaxing ice and they carried her away and I think they took her to the off a glacier. She ate the stem and the core and then she spat Western General. Someone told me to get dressed and then the pips she’d prised out of the tough centre pockets into the forgot about me. I didn’t know what to do. Wait with her Water of Leith. She grabbed handfulls of twigs and hurled clothes, take them home, or what? I didn’t want to walk out them in, and then from her school bag a crisp packet, and with them because one of the commandments said ‘no with a small splosh her lunchbox. And then she just stood, stealing’ and stealing was what it would look like. It was regardless of the lichen stains on her skirt, watching the whole horrible, I was a guest without my host, it was like something freight disappear into the little rapids and down the water to out of the Bible. the docks.

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Earlier this year, a striking collection of new photographs by University photographers Tricia Malley and Ross Gillespie was on show at Edinburgh's City Art Centre. Tricia and Ross were commissioned to document the life of the University in the last year A Momentary View of the 20th century, and the images reflect the broad range of activities at the University and the people who make it all happen. 'A Momentary View' showed the public face of an institution in the heart of the city, as well as life behind the scenes. The commonplace and the exceptional, the familiar and the unnoticed were combined to celebrate an ending and a beginning.

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EDiT 21 ExhibitEd

The in Old College is the Art Gallery of the University of Edinburgh. Opened in 1975, it was named after David Talbot Rice, Professor of Fine Art at the University from 1934 to 1972. The gallery has two The Talbot Rice Gallery main spaces: the Red Gallery devoted to showing part of the University Torrie Collection of Old Master paintings and bronzes; and the White Gallery showing approximately seven temporary exhibitions per year.

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1 from Jim Harold’s Twilight Enclosures 2 Bruce McLean The Arch of Arts 1999 3 Chad McCail People Build Homes and Grow Food 1999 4 Elizabeth Blackadder Dark Pond, Alhambra Granada 1997 5 Ainslie Yule Seven Eight (Black Suspended)

Twilight Enclosures Wall Sculptures Place, Performance, Pose, Vael by Alistair MacLennan by Jim Harold by Ainslie Yule Predict, Position, Project, Political by Bruce McLean

JIM HAROLD used the University’s own AINSLIE YULE left Scotland to work in The Gallery opened the new century with Vael is ALISTAIR MacLENNAN’s collection of classical casts as the basis the south nearly twenty five years ago. a major project on the work of BRUCE response to the University’s Hope Scott for this unique exhibition. The idea of the And although in those intervening McLEAN. His quixotic energy was collection of 20th century paintings - casts having their own existence and a decades he has continued to work very exemplified by several large canvases, particularly the important group of works relationship to one another was creatively and has exhibited widely, he his performance work documented in by William Johnstone. The exhibition suggested by a large wooden has not exhibited very much in Scotland. photographs, and his interest in gave birth to a symposium and construction in the main floor of the Indeed this exhibition was his first one- education and innovation demonstrated MacLennan used items from the Hope gallery which housed the busts of four man show in his native country for more by his huge conceptual model for a Scott Collection together with other philosophers. Harold’s own beautiful than ten years. In that time, therefore, ‘Pythagorean” Primary School. This illustrative props to create an ‘actuation’ photographs and some smaller casts although his work may not have been model, constructed from cast iron, took within the Gallery. completed the installation. seen very much in Scotland, it has not the form of three giant open cubes been forgotten, nor indeed have its containing and supporting school desks central concerns changed: finding the surfaced with copper, glass and sand, significance that can inhabit a form, not and bearing engravings which put because of any association, but simply forward the artist’s visionary ideas. As because of an inherent, mysterious part of the exhibition the Talbot Rice poetry that resides in shape, texture and Gallery hosted a major symposium on colour. Sometimes this poetry is reached this educational concept. by a process of visible construction, and in this exhibition there are strange, laminated wooden objects, beautifully made, apparently almost functional, but whose function is enigma. Over the years he has been very consistent and some of these constructions are reminiscent of works that he made before he left Scotland.

22 EDiT ✱ The Matthew Architecture Gallery

The Matthew Architecture Gallery, housed in the University’s Department of Architecture at 20 Chambers Street, has a varied series of architecture-related exhibitions throughout the year, covering contemporary

all photographs contributed and historical work as well as associated disciplines such as design. The Gallery is open during term time from 10am-8pm Monday to Friday, and from 10:30am-2:30pm on Saturday and Sunday, (10.30am-4.30 pm Monday to Friday outwith University term-time). For information on forthcoming exhibitions, Tel: 0131 650 2306

3 4 ✱ The Historic Instruments Collection The University maintains Scotland’s leading collection of historic musical instruments which are on display in the in . On show are around 1,000 items from around the world, representing the instrument maker’s art over the past 400 years. Normal opening hours are from 3-5pm on Wednesdays and from 10am-1pm on Saturdays. (and 2-5pm, Monday to Friday, during the Edinburgh International Arts Festival). 5 Tel: 0131 650 2423

The Interactive Sound Laboratory, a unique, new attraction in Britain, has opened within the Historic Instruments Collection. Developed by the University in partnership with museums in Brussels, Leipzig and Paris, the Laboratory provides a British Art Show 5 Collecting Cities; 29 July to 15 September ‘hands-on’ demonstration of how musical Lip Service; instruments work using the latest interactive computer Tarpot technology. Visitors will be able to see how a trumpet works and play notes on a real trumpet using artificial lips. They will, with guidance, be shown how to play a violin, an assortment of other string instruments, and The Talbot Rice Gallery was one of seven In the summer the Gallery played host to This year’s Festival Exhibition will focus use interactive computers to explore the sounds of Edinburgh venues selected for the three exhibitions running concurrently: on the work of ELIZABETH BLACKADDER. instruments. launch of this major exhibition of COLLECTING CITIES in the White Gallery Elizabeth Blackadder is one of the best contemporary British art. This National provided an opportunity to view the known and most respected artists in Touring Exhibition was curated by the fascinating collection of paintings and Scotland and the UK and an Honorary ✱ The Russell Collection of Hayward Gallery and artists were drawings which belonged to the Graduate of this University. Linked closely Early Keyboard Instruments carefully matched to each venue. Six Edinburgh philosopher and polymath to the recent monograph on the artist by artists were on show at the Talbot Rice Patrick Geddes; LIP SERVICE in the Red Professor Duncan Macmillan, this Housed in the 18th century St Cecilia’s Hall, on the Gallery: Paula Rego in the Red Gallery; Gallery took a millennial look at disability exhibition will show some new paintings corner of the Cowgate and Niddry Street, the Russell Sarah Lucas, David Musgrave, Chad issues through the medium of seven and a carefully selected retrospective Collection is one of the world’s most important McCail and Billy Childish in the White different art projects; and TARPOT - a group of work. collections of early keyboard instruments, including Gallery; and Richard White in the Round garden about Scotland in the Round pianos and , ranging from the 16th to 19th Room. Room was a documentary exhibition centuries. The Collection is open 2-5pm on Wednesdays from the conceptual garden created for and Saturdays (except public and University holidays) and Mondays - Saturdays 10.30am-12.30pm during the the international Chaumont sur Loire Edinburgh International Arts Festival. Admission and Festival. guided tour, £1.00 (conc. 50p). Catalogues and a Guide to the Collection are on sale. Tel: (0131) 650 2423

✱ The Natural History Collection For further details, contact the Talbot Rice Gallery Tel: 0131 650 2085 This extensive teaching collection of specimens and models of all kinds of animals can be seen by prior arrangement during Easter and Summer vacations. Enquiries to the Institute of Cell, Animal & Population Biology, Ashworth Laboratories, King’s Buildings, West Mains Road, Edinburgh, EH9 3JT. Tel: Dr Pat Preston (0131) 650 5477 or Dr B.E. Matthews (0131) 650 5474.

EDiT 23 illustration PAUL BLOW

letter from Edinburgh

15 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh Oct. 23rd [1869]

My dearest Aunt,

The daughter of the Baptist minister at our kind letter was most welcome and encouraging, coming when it did in the midst of difficulties with Langham, near Colchester in Essex, professors &c. I am always glad to get the good wishes EDITH PECHEY (1846-1908) was one Yof those whose opinion I value, and it pains me of the four women who joined Sophia extremely when I find that some of those I love cannot agree Jex-Blake in applying for and insisting on with me, though I am quite sure that if they thought about it as long and carefully as I have done they would come to see that it admittance to the University of is a right and good step. You may be sure if I had not seen it to Edinburgh in 1869 to study medicine. be not only the right path, but absolutely the path of duty, I They were the first women medical should not have attempted anything which for the first year at undergraduates in a British university; least, will be attended with much disagreeable opposition besides the great dislike I have to doing anything which must bring me but, in spite of great success in their at all prominently forward. You will be glad to hear that all our studies, they were not allowed to class passed the exam which took place last Tuesday and graduate. Pechey should have had the Wednesday, and I believe I may say I did not disgrace the cause. Hope Scholarship in Chemistry in 1870 Our papers I believe were much above the average & we had very good marks in all. Now I think there is less chance of their but Professor Alexander Crum Brown refusing us admittance. The Council meets in a few days & their was barred from awarding it to her decision will do much towards deciding our fate. We have two because she was a woman; 20 years classes arranged for the first term, Physiology and Chemistry & later Philippa Fawcett was placed above we mean to do well in both. I am determined there shall be no handle for the Opposition on that score. the Senior Wrangler in the Mathematics Has Sarah returned to you yet? I have not heard from her at list at Cambridge, but her gender all since we parted: I suppose she has not felt equal to writing & I too barred the University from offering have been too busy to write to her. She made a sort of half her the award. Pechey eventually promise to come and see me before she left England but I am afraid it would not do. The winds here are so bitter & they say obtained her MD from the University of they are worse in the Spring. Bern, as well as the LRCP Ireland in I am living with another student who has a house here - Miss 1877. She worked at the Cama Hospital, Jex Blake the originator of the movement to whom we owe all; Bombay and was elected a Fellow of the and I assure you it requires no ordinary woman to be the prime mover in a movement like this. She must make up her mind to University of Bombay. She married Mr bear rudeness & coarseness from many making high profession H. M. Phipson of Bombay in 1890, of gentility. retaining her own name as Will you please give my love to Mr Cransbrough & all my Pechey-Phipson. cousins. I shall be very pleased if Emily will send me a few lines now & then to say how you all are. This letter was written shortly after the group of five had passed the Ever dearest Aunt Matriculation Examination and were with much love te awaiting the decision on their admission Yr affec niece to the University. Edith Pechey

24 EDiT EDiT 27 26 EDiT A research team in the Department of Psychology at the University of Edinburgh is searching for the secrets of a mentally and physically healthy old age. Brown paper packages tied up with string turned out to be one of Professor Ian Deary’s favourite things.

rowing Old : g SAGACIOUS or SENILE?

BOUT FOUR YEARS and so forth. That does not provide Such a parcel of data ago a colleague and I information about what the slings and in a nation unearthed a near-forgotten arrows of a half-century’s miscellaneous collection of Scottish data fortunes have wreaked on the brain. The ON MONDAY 1 JUNE 1932 all that promise to answer high scorers might always have scored children born in 1921 and attending Asome of the trickiest questions in the highly. The low scorers might always have school in Scotland sat a mental test - psychology of growing old. been practical rather than cerebral; 87,498 of them! This exercise was called Populations in the West are shifting common-sensical rather than brainy. The the Scottish Mental Survey 1932. The towards a greater proportion of older interesting people are those who held suggestion to conduct the survey people. In tandem with the better-known steady or even improved their thinking originated from the first Professor in my physical changes of age, the brain grows skills with age. And those who have slid own Department, James Drever. The old too. Some, but not all, mental skills down the slope into cognitive disability proportion of the population who missed decline, especially from the seventh are interesting too, though more out was so small that it hardly matters. decade. The quality of life in old age is poignantly. To find out the extent to The test was a version of one of Sir affected by how well mental ability is which people have altered in their Godfrey Thomson’s Moray House Tests, maintained. A healthy mind begets, to a thinking skills one must know their as used in the English 11-plus degree, a healthy and happy, not to say former level. The problem is that studies examinations. He, the Professor of serene, old age. But some people’s of old people’s intellectual functions Education at the University of thinking skills stay relatively sharp while rarely have access to mental ability test Edinburgh, was a member of the testing others’ are blunted. These differences in scores from earlier in life. Such data are of committee and the exercise was run the ageing of the brain’s functions have a value that is hard to overestimate. That under the auspices of the Scottish become a priority in recent research. is why the rediscovery of the Scottish Council for Research in Education Irritatingly, one essential datum is almost Mental Survey data will be so important (Robert Rusk was the Director at that always missing from studies trying to for this area of research. time). Scotland’s 35 Education discover why people differ in cognitive Committees, and the Directors of ageing: the way they were. It is almost Education, consented to the study. impossible to tell how much a person’s Teachers administered and scored the mental abilities have changed if one does tests. The purpose of the exercise was to not know what they used to be. A total of 101 people sat discover the distribution of the ability of the age group, and to use the data as an looking at the same test aid in formulating educational provision. questions 66 years on, I read The same exercise was repeated in 1947, HERE’S THE PROBLEM. Examine the out the same instructions, involving 70,805 people born in mental abilities of a group of older and the same time limits 1936. This was the 1947 Scottish people. Some score better than others on were maintained. Mental Survey. tests of memory, reasoning, perception,

EDiT 27 SAGACIOUS or SENILE?

AT THE TIME and for some years cohort was studied for cardiovascular Still stable after all these years thereafter, the Scottish Mental Surveys disease. Not really, I replied, because, were internationally renowned. The data without prior mental test data, WITH CURRENT RESEARCH on mental ability and demographic, information on current mental ability underway on a study that began in the educational and physical factors had could not give information about relative Scottish Council for Research in academic and practical worth. But changes in cognition as a result of disease. Education’s offices in 1932, there should researchers have a short attention span, Coincidentally, at that time, I was not be too much of a rush to anticipate and research agendas move on. As the reading a book which referred to a study results. Hundreds of people in their late eleven year olds of 1932 celebrated their conducted by the Scottish Council for 70s have been tested at the University’s half-centuries and passed through Research in Education on people born in Wellcome Trust Clinical Research retirement and into their three score 1921. I called Professor Whalley back; Facility at the Western General Hospital; years and ten, and more, the Scottish the Aberdeen cohort might indeed be many more have yet to be contacted and Mental Surveys were known to few of the worth retesting, because many of them seen in the laboratories in Edinburgh and younger researchers in the field of mental had had their mental ability tested at age Aberdeen. Nevertheless, the studies ability differences. But, during 60 years 11 years! The data were tracked down to progress in the knowledge that, because of changes and flitting to three different a safe bunker in the Council’s offices in of the Scottish Mental Surveys, there Edinburgh addresses, the Scottish St John Street, Edinburgh. exist valid mental test data on an entire Council for Research in Education Professor Whalley’s interests in population, now old, and that Scotland farsightedly retained the data from the dementia and mine in human can be the source of some first-rate Surveys. The ledgers and brown-paper- intelligence - and a shared interest in research on the determinants of tied-with-string parcels of data, recorded cognitive decline - combined well in differences in cognitive ageing. in copperplate writing, were safely envisaging and realising the potential of stacked and locked away, maturing to a the Scottish Mental Survey data. Now, a research resource of unparalleled few years on, a study of the Birth richness. Cohort 1921, funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences SOME DIVIDEND, THOUGH, has Research Council, and parallel studies in come through already. On 1 June 1998 Aberdeen are under way. People in their the Aberdonian participants in the 1932 late 70s, from the 1932 Survey, and in survey came back for a mass-retesting on Unlocking the treasure chest their early 60s, from the 1947 Survey, are the Moray House Test at the Music Hall coming back to be retested. The purpose in Aberdeen’s Union Street. At this SOME TIME IN 1996, Professor is to discover the social, educational, memorable meeting, and a smaller one a Lawrence Whalley of the Department of medical, psychological and genetic few weeks later, a total of 101 people sat Mental Health at the University of factors that assist people, over a lifetime, looking at the same test questions 66 Aberdeen called me to ask whether there to preserve their mental abilities. In other years on, to the very day. I read out the might be some mileage in administering words, to find the secrets of a sagacious same instructions as those teachers from mental tests to the Aberdeen Birth and successful old age. 1932, and the same time limits were Cohort from 1921. This medical study maintained. The results: first, that the

28 EDiT The ledgers and brown- paper-tied-with-string parcels of data, recorded in copperplate writing, were safely stacked and locked away, maturing to a research resource of unparalleled richness.

70-somethings scored quite a bit better than they did at age 11; second, that mental ability differences are pretty stable from age 11 to age 77; with some interesting exceptions, the high scorers did well and the modest remained so. This is by far the longest follow-up study of mental ability differences in the scientific literature. It is the first of many high quality publications that will arise out of Scotland’s epoch-making surveys in the first half of the last century.

Realising the potential

It is important that the full power of the Scottish Mental Survey data is realised by researchers. Professor Whalley and I have built up our research team with biologists, sociologists and experts in public health. The discovery of the Surveys has changed my whole research programme. In the field of cognitive ageing nothing like this has been available before and we owe it to the Scottish researchers of the 1930s to appreciate the legacy we have from them.

Ian Deary is Professor of Differential Psychology at the University of Edinburgh and President of the International Society for the Study of Individual Differences omniana No.9 The Peabody of the East

isitors to Old College often ask money'‚ after the Princess Teck had opened about 'The Peabody of the East when Readymoney's gift of a drinking fountain to they pass the small bas-relief Regent's Park in London to mark the gratitude of sculpture of him on the wall beside the the Parsees in India for the protection which they V doorway which leads from the foot of received under British rule. the Grand Stairway to the Raeburn, Carstares, Lee, The bas-relief sculpture by Thomas Woolner and Lord Provost Elder rooms. (1825-1892), one of the leading portrait sculptors of The Parsee businessman and philanthropist Sir the 19th century, is more a memorial to Sir George Cowasji Jehangir Readymoney (1812-1878) Birdwood (1834-1917), who presented it to the appears to have had no direct connection with the University. Born in Bombay and an Edinburgh University of Edinburgh. Born into one of the medical graduate (MD 1854), Birdwood held wealthiest Parsee families in India, he was the son professorships of anatomy and physiology and of of Jehangir Readymoney of Bombay, and financed botany and materia medica at the Grant Medical much of the University of Bombay and many other College, Bombay, and was appointed Registrar of public buildings, as did other Parsee families, the University of Bombay when it was founded. notably that of Jeejeebhoy. He was a member of Birdwood also became curator of the government the University's Faculty of Civil Engineering and museum in Bombay, and was one of the founders Senate, and a life-size statue of him by Woolner of the Victoria Botanical Gardens and the Victoria stands on the University campus. He acquired the and Albert Museum in Bombay. After his retirement nickname 'The Peabody of the East', seeing himself to England in 1902 he devoted himself to the study as the Indian equivalent to the American of Sanskrit and of Indian art and philology, and to philanthropist George Peabody who endowed the Tory party; he is credited with popularising universities and other charitable institutions in the the association of primroses with Lord USA and Europe. On 14 August 1869 Punch noted Beaconsfield's memory. that 'Parsee money‚ was better far than parsi- Peter B. Freshwater

EDiT 31 Letters

lettersParental Sacrifices The EDiT Prize Letter BOTH MY wife and I were students at As John Knox Intended Edinburgh from 1938 - 1942 and we read Flora Watkins’ article almost with disbelief. How things FLORA WATKINS’ LAMENT on the financial strains on Scottish have changed since our days. undergraduates of the late 1990s (EDiT, Autumn 1999), while reminding When were were at Edinburgh there were no me of how lucky I was, worries me greatly. And I am not reassured by grants either for fees or maintenance and we Alice Brown’s description a few pages later of the high aims of the were both wholly supported by our parents, new Scottish Parliament that that august body is really determined to neither of whom were - to use Flora’s words - promote equal opportunities for all - at least not in access to what “in “comfortably off”. my day” was thought to be the right to a good, and free, education. Sending a child to university meant I am admittedly prejudiced. When I was a boy of about 10 my considerable hardship for both our sets of mother embarrassed me by asking my primary school teacher, parents but they gladly made sacrifices for us Mrs Logie - herself a proud holder of an Edinburgh MA from the 1930s and I think we appreciated it although perhaps - if I could achieve my long expressed ambition to become a doctor. not at the time. Her concerns encompassed my intelligence and our finances. While I Am I right in thinking that the parents of wanted for nothing, we lived as a family of 3 in a ground floor but ‘n today are not prepared to make sacrifices to help ben: one cold water sink, damp walls, a toilet down the close and an their children? Most are, I’m quite sure, outside washhouse that was also my bath. My father, a driver, kept us relatively much better off than our parents were. well in food and clothes on a low income. Mrs Logie gave all the As a pensioner who retired over 20 years ago, I’m reassurance my parents needed - apparently I had the “brains”, and, staggered at the amount of money people seem unlike “in her days”, there would be a grant to keep me. They never to be earning and both parents working which worried. Neither did I. Kirkcaldy High School provided a good Scots was seldom the case in our student days. education and the lad o’ pairts went - as, we’re told, John Knox Flora speaks of “parental disapproval” of their intended - to university. Grants were forthcoming and supplemented child getting into debt - surely the remedy is in by Christmas work as a postie or sorting out phone bells for GEC and their own hands. If, for instance, they gave up their annual holiday in Florida or cruising in the summer work in the local hospital. Later electives in India (supported Mediterranean there would be no need for any by Edinburgh University Travel Scholarships) and the short vacs of debts. medical school put paid to paid work. Of course the family helped £13,880 over 4 years (accumulated debt enormously, but the state, to which my father (and subsequently I) quoted by Flora) is not a very large sum and paid taxes ensured that lack of financial resources in a working class represents about 10% of the amount two parents family did not discourage or deter a child, with the ability to match might have earned over the same period. ambition, to achieve his potential. Perhaps, as we see it, the saddest thing is that The rot set in when undergraduate loans were introduced. The then Flora seems to condone and even approve debt Secretary of State for Scotland seemed, in responding to my tirade as a way of life. Ourselves, we have always against such a retrograde move, almost to concede it could not be fair believed in Mr Micawber’s philosophy, but then to all. Or perhaps I read too much between his lines. we are so old fashioned! Now in the 1990s the Parliament guarantees equality. The Ian and Katharyn Callan melodrama of cold water but ‘n bens is a thing of the past. No able child in a single parent family in Pilton or from a low income family in PS My room in Cowan House cost £72 per term could be deterred from or denied a university education in and included 3 excellent meals each day! My their own city because of financial worries. Surely not? wife paid slightly less for her room in Masson Professor Alan Rodger Hall. BSc(Med Sci)1968; MBChB 1971 PPS It would be interesting to find out who are Professor of Radiation Oncology the oldest Edinburgh graduate couple - we have Monash University, Victoria, Australia 57 years! Ian Callan, BSc 1941 Katharyn (née Shaw) Callan, BSc 1942

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The Burden of Debt

HOW VERY sad, Flora Watkins’ article Roadhouse at ; unlike South Uist, Eigg and Raasay among on the heavy burden of debt imposed on almost everywhere else they admitted them. We did as much or as little every British student. Surely women. We had hops at KB - I can’t science as we wished. The botanists governments ought to realise that it is remember if we provided our own music botanized and bird watchers watched their duty to invest in the education of but I do remember that one of the birds (in one case comic turns, rather youth, their country’s future? Office Bearers, as Keeper of the Morals, than terns, when they came across a The present system must tend to wore a label on his chest saying ‘Morals group of us playing peevers on South force graduates into unsuitable work Kept Here’. Talking of music - the Uist’s temptingly smooth sands). Mostly, which pays well. What of those who Biologe had a tune to which it sang the though, we walked, climbed, explored want to follow a vocation in the Arts, words ‘Boyng - Boyng, Boyng, Boyng, and fished. We went to local ceilidhs; on travel the world, “climb every Boyng’; some years after I left Eigg we rescued a party of nuns who, on mountain”, start some small business. Edinburgh I discovered it was called turning round from admiring the view, The bold, the risk takers, the Over the Waves and was frequently found their way barred by an inquisitive imaginative, have no place in this money played on boats going ‘doon the watter’. Highland bull; on Raasay we played driven system. We went to all the Internationals at darts in the pub with a group of salmon I came to Edinburgh in 1939, when and yelled ‘Feet Scotland’ - netters who beat us hollow. We had the four year honours Geology course though it didn’t seem to help much more success when they took us cost £100, £25 per year. £100 was worth when the Springboks won 44-0. A mackerel fishing: we lived on our a lot more then! In those days, as a cartoon in the next edition of the catches for several days. Some of the woman, virtually all interesting jobs Evening Dispatch (or possibly the culinary experiments were interesting - a were for men only, or paid very little, so News) showed a notice reading ‘Wanted semi-cooked steamed pudding for I became and remain, a free lance writer 15 strong men, no experience necessary. twenty six made in an enamel bucket and photographer. You couldn’t do that Apply Scottish Rugby Union’. and a seagull that was boiled for hours sort of thing with a burden of debt. Most University sports teams had to remove the taste of fish, and every Daphne D.C. Pochin Mould matches on Wednesday afternoons when other taste it might have had. BSc 1943, PhD 1946 science students were immured in labs Another recollection - Rag Day when Aherla, Co. Cork doing practicals. To compensate for this, the Biologe always took part in the the Biologe had its own mixed hockey parade along Princes Street. One year team which played matches on Saturdays the society was represented by a very The Biologe against other scientific societies, fine caterpillar who laid an egg in front including the Chem Soc. We generally of the Lord Provost. She was named THE TWO letters in the Autumn played at Harrison Park next to Elsie because she was made from the edition of EDiT, recalling University Murrayfield; the changing facilities were roll of hessian that was used to screen societies, set me thinking about the virtually non-existent but the small café the Elsans® (chemical loos) on island Biologe (properly the Biological round the corner welcomed us, mud and expeditions. And that evokes a final Society). I believe that it no longer exists all, for our post-match refreshments memory. We had a bit of a domestic which seems a great pity: it gave (usually twenty-one cups of coffee, one crisis on one trip when supplies of enormous pleasure to its members cup of tea and twenty-two Blue Riband Elsanol®, the vital chemical, ran during my time at Edinburgh in the biscuits). The match that stands out dangerously low. A telegram went off 1950s. from the rest was one played against the addressed to Dougal who was due to The Biologe met in King’s Buildings College of Agriculture. Their hockey join the expedition. As he stepped off to hear talks on various biological topics. team had a double booking: rather than the McBrayne’s ferry, a can of Elsanol® I am sure these were interesting at the leave us without a game they in each hand, he was greeted by a local time but it’s our social activities that thoughtfully sent their all-male shinty onlooker saying ‘And you’ll be Dougal, have stuck in my mind. Beer and Skittles team. I’m thinking’. nights were a regular event; these were The highlight of the year was the Dr Ann Silver, BSc 1953, PhD 1961 held either at the Sheep’s Heid at Society expedition to one of the islands Cambridge or the during the Summer Vac - Unst, Hoy,

EDiT 33 ...letters The Cosmop shop MY WIFE and I were interested in the letter from Philip Cowan (Autumn issue) in which he gave some details about the origins of the Cosmopolitan Club. We were both active @ in the club during the fifties, for some of that time being Secretary and President respectively. Perhaps that linkage UoE between our courtship and Cosmop, as everyone called it, may partly explain the ‘golden mist’ that covers our Introducing the University recollections of those years. But there is more to it than that. of Edinburgh Collections Student living conditions were austere by current standards, exams had to be passed and scholarship committees had to be satisfied but essentially they were You don’t build a reputation like happy, carefree years because our generation never doubted that jobs and good careers would follow graduation. There the University’s for no apparent was still a postwar optimism that world problems were reason. In fact, we believe that it’s soluble by political reform (the end of the Empire), by our devotion to quality and rational applications of Science and, of course, good will. We saw Cosmop as an introduction to a ‘world view’ of informed excellence for the last 400 years and ethical ‘ high thinking’ to which we could contribute. that has gained us this position. Cosmop met on Sunday evenings during term, first, at a splendid room on Queen Street and later at a less spacious It’s a position we are proud of room near to Greyfriars Bobby. We tried to get and one we will do everything to distinguished speakers on topics like colonial liberation, respect. Especially these days, nuclear weapons and population growth. Discussion was nearly always very lively, perhaps more so than the speakers with more and more emphasis expected but, by overwhelming consensus, polite and open on quality, the University remains minded - political harangues were out. There were occasions when this liberal consensus was sorely tested, particularly in committed to excellence above 1956 during the Anglo-French invasion of Suez and the everything else. Take a look at Soviet invasion of Hungary. The Arts were not ignored and any item from the unique securing a talk by Compton McKenzie was regarded as a great coup. There were also student talks; we recall one by a University of Edinburgh Burmese post-graduate on Buddhism. Following the meeting Collections, for example. there was coffee, usually at a café where the proprietor had to agree to tables being rearranged to suit our continued We only source from the best discussion. After coffee, girls were escorted back to their suppliers, whose devotion to ‘digs’ although streets were very safe compared to today. producing the finest matches our There were occasional extra ‘bright ideas’ like climbing Arthur’s Seat in the snow. own. So when you take home There were other ‘fun’ events ... Cosmop’s Christmas any item from the Collections, dance was always a great success. At Easter, along with you can be assured that it is a similar societies in Glasgow and St Andrews Universities, we organised a four day East-West Conference at a comfortable University exclusive, because ‘country house’ where, while ostensibly discussing some we're never prepared to settle for suitable ‘high minded’ topic like ‘world food problems’, we got to know each other better. Some life time friendships second best. and marriages resulted from this international mix, for example, I came from Jamaica and my wife-to-be (née Kamala Naidoo) came from South Africa. The atmosphere at these conferences may be judged from one episode. The Available at The University of first speaker at a morning session was Dr. Barney Woolf Edinburgh Centre, 7-11 Nicolson from the Genetics Department. As the audience filed into the lecture room they were dismayed to find the blackboard Street, Edinburgh EH8 9BE, Scotland covered with mathematical equations and the lecturer trying or order over the to squeeze in more at the bottom left corner. When the phone on + 44 (0)131 650 2089 rather subdued audience was seated Barney reminded us that it was April Fool’s Day!! or online at We have visited Edinburgh many times since 1959 but www.giftshop.ed.ac.uk have lost touch with our Scottish friends from Cosmop; we are thinking of Hamish Henderson, Moira Wilson and Johnny Gregg. Hopefully, one of them might see this letter! H.G. Coore, BSc 1956, MB ChB 1959 Birmingham

collections shop ...letters. @ Getting Physical UoE I WAS greatly interested by Catherine Semeonoff’s letter (Autumn 1999) with its account of meetings of the ‘English Lit’ society in the 1930s. As a ‘Fresher’ embarking on an Honours course in English in 1936 I felt it incumbent to join the society. The first meeting was held in some gloomy hall (my memory is of a basement); three gloomy senior students read gloomy T-shirts, hooded tops, contemporary poems that were quite incomprehensible to clothing me. At one entitled ‘Sheets’ a young lad in the back row track bottoms, polo shirts either fainted or had a fit - I did not wait to find out, left precipitately and never returned. and @sweatshirts. Totally different was my experience of the Physical UoE Society, to which I was introduced by a friend studying Physics. The meetings were held in the old Nat. Phil building in Drummond Street on Wednesday afternoons, starting with tea attended by members of staff and students mixing informally and followed by a talk by either an expert in the field of Maths or Science or a research student. Even Caps, fleece hats, cufflinks, to a lay person like me these talks were invariably accessories interesting. Then came the business meeting, like those umbrellas, portfolio bags, described by Mrs Semeonoff, full of points of order and scarves and ties. debating technicalities. Prominent in this field were Francis @ Dick, Andrew Purdon, Nancy Walls and Marjorie Tong. UoE From the first I was co-opted to the catering committee, and by my fourth year rose to be convener! The teas cost 6d each and we were expected to provided three kinds of sandwich, a bun and slices of cake. Even so I managed to make a profit, which was expended in a grand Burns Supper. Teddy bears, quaichs, Like the ‘Eng. Lit.’ we also played mixed hockey in the Meadows against other societies, went on hikes over the pewtergifts flasks, mugs, Pentlands, had picnics at Edgelaw Reservoir and held debates with other societies. I remember one particularly pens, mouse-mats with the History Society for which Freddie O’Brien and UoE@ John (?) Bowman were prominent. and paperweights. My other affiliation was with the Musical Society, introduced by Jim Macgillivray who had abandoned an English Honours course to follow a musical career as an oboist. (He later donated his collection of early woodwinds to the University). The main activity of the society was preparing for the annual concert. I was a humble member of the choir and Available at The University of greatly enjoyed the choral works we produced, among them Dyson’s Canterbury Pilgrims and a Mozart Gloria. But I was Edinburgh Centre, not a natural musician and had difficulty in following a part if I had no strong singer to follow. On a foggy night one 7-11 Nicolson Street, November we were to sing an eight-part madrigal and it was not until we filed on to the platform that I discovered that Edinburgh EH8 9BE, Scotland the three other second altos were missing. Dr Greenhouse Allt, who was conducting, spotted my panic and sang my or order over the phone on part along with me. Our only other activities were mixed hockey matches and +44 (0)131 650 2089 or online at an annual party. I have a vivid recollection of Professor Tovey perched on the edge of a chair with a bun in one www.giftshop.ed.ac.uk hand and a cup of tea in the other, looking bemusedly from bun to tea and back again as if not sure what was expected of him. May G. Williamson, MA 1940 Edinburgh

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Edinburgh University Archaeology Alumni Club of London Association In October 1999 Dr Stuart Blackie, a consultant Arrangements are progressing to establish the pathologist, completed his three-year term of office University of Edinburgh Archaeology Alumni as President of the London Club. He was warmly Association (EUA3). In order to gauge interest in congratulated by the members for almost such an Association it would be helpful if our doubling the size of the Club’s membership and alumni, or other interested parties, would take a instituting wide-ranging improvements to the few minutes to fill in a questionnaire about needs, Club’s social programme. He has been succeeded expectations, interests and opinions on the by Mr Norman Rose, Director-General of the The University of Edinburgh proposed Association. Business Services Association, who promised to Alumni Association of New The questionnaire can be found on the build on the many successes of his predecessor. South Wales Department of Archaeology web site at The new President believes that the Club must http://www.arcl.ed.ac.uk/alumni/index.html use its effort and imagination to grasp the The Association’s AGM and annual dinner took where a list of proposed facilities can also be opportunities that will present themselves as we place on 27 October 1999 at an Italian restaurant found. (Paper copies of the questionnaire are also enter the new millennium. The Club has enjoyed with 26 alumni and partners attending. Dr Ven available on request.) remarkable success with large, prestigious events Yee Foo (MSc 1967) was elected President and Ms If you are an Archaeology alumnus of the which have attracted many young graduates as Lorna Mackellar (MA 1972) became the University of Edinburgh living in south Scotland new members. There is now a well established Secretary/Treasurer. and are interested in assisting to set up the annual programme comprising a Burns Supper in The dinner was enjoyable and certainly Archaeology Alumni Association please contact January, a theatre outing in March, an Annual memorable since the last one was held 12 years [email protected] by email or by letter to: Dinner in May, an informal Dining Out in June or ago in 1987. The group published the first issue of Ian Morrison, Alumni Association, Department of July, a major reception to attract new graduates in its quarterly newsletter in Archaeology, The University of Edinburgh, September, and the AGM with a buffet and http://www.edalumni.com in December with The Old High School, Infirmary Street, following event in October. printed copies sent to alumni not using Edinburgh EH1 1LT All correspondence and enquiries should be Internet/email. The alumni are delighted that directed to: [email protected] Professor Sir Stewart Sutherland, Principal and Vice-Chancellor, kindly sent greetings for the newsletter to all alumni in New South Wales. The Alumni in Atlanta next annual dinner will be held in A survey of alumni in Georgia indicated that October/November. Focus in the coming year will alumni are keen to get together and to keep in be on business networking and increasing the touch with the University, and would be happy to membership from 44 at present to a target of 75. participate in any events which would enable them For further information, please email Ven Yee Foo to do this. on [email protected] To this end, the group recently held a social evening which included a slide show on recent Law Alumni On-Line building developments at the University, and the opening of the Scottish Parliament. This It is well worth visiting the new-look Edinburgh encouraged much discussion, from the Queen’s Law School web pages (http://www.law.ed.ac.uk/). ‘PC’ heather-coloured dress and her inevitable The Law pages have been redesigned to provide a handbag, to a comparison between the new Small range of information invaluable to students, past Animal Hospital in Edinburgh and the one at the and present. Use them to find links to the latest University of Georgia in Athens, GA. Of course, it electronic research resources - Scottish, UK or did everyone’s heart good just to see the McEwan international - to make contact with staff, or even Hall and Arthur’s Seat again in full colour. to check out the weather forecast. One section has Mme Pamela Lintingre MA 1967 There was also a visit to Atlanta in the summer been given over to news on alumni. Brief prepares to welcome alumni in by Mr Ray Footman, the University’s Director of biographical and contact details are arranged by France to the ‘Auld Alliance’ Communications and Public Affairs. Mr Footman year group to make it easier for graduates to make addressed the alumni group in the replica Burns contact with their friends. Many alumni with Cottage built in Atlanta in 1910. cyber sense have already signed up with the Law France In October, it is hoped that there will be an pages. An on-line form will be available soon, but With over 500 University of Edinburgh alumni alumni presence at the Stone Mountain Highland in the meantime, if you would like to be included, currently living in France, one might imagine that Games, with a booth for alumni to meet, to pick the Law School will be happy to post an old- an alumni club here would be one of the most up information about the University and to buy fashioned paper subscription form to you. Please active and vibrant! It had however lain dormant souvenirs. For further information, please email contact Myra Reid, email [email protected] or for quite some time. Fortunately, and in great part Harriet Hoskyns-Abrahall on write to her at The , The due to the determined initiatives of the Alumni [email protected] University of Edinburgh, Old College, South Services Manager in Edinburgh, Maureen Clowe, Bridge, Edinburgh, EH8 9YL.

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all photographs contributed Emmanuel College Chapel Windows Project, University of Queensland, Australia Mr Angus Edmonds (left) and Dr Tom Bell in front Emmanuel College, founded by the Presbyterian Church in of the Associated 1911 as the first university college of the University of Institutions window Queensland, Australia, has enhanced the beauty of its chapel in recent years by installing a number of stained glass windows. The culmination of the project was the installation of a set of stained glass windows above the entrance to the chapel depicting the coats of arms and insignia of a number of institutions with which the College has links. The design for the top set of windows includes the coats of arms of the universities from which the seven Principals of the College first graduated: Glasgow (2), Cambridge, Sydney, Queensland, Melbourne and Edinburgh. Not only is the current Principal, Mr Angus Edmonds (MA 1966, Dip Ed 1973) an Edinburgh graduate, but one of the two founding fathers of the college, The Rev Dr James Gibson, was also a graduate of the University of Edinburgh. He graduated with an MA in the 1880s, and was then awarded a Doctor of Divinity by his alma mater in 1935. Another Edinburgh alumnus and the contact for our alumni in this part of the world, Dr Tom Bell (BSc 1969, MB ChB 1973) was able to represent the University at the ceremony to mark the completion of the windows project last year. The ceremony included a welcome by the Emmanuel College Pipe Band and an address by the Governor of Queensland.

the club is making a comeback. And in response assistance will be gratefully followed up. Championships which were held last November to a mailing to all alumni in France, a Efforts are currently underway to establish a in Auckland, New Zealand. Donald McIntosh reassuringly large number have expressed an legal standing for the association, after which it and Martin Sinclair, both BSc 1988, took the interest in participating in a revival of the club. will be possible to organise the various events Gold for Scotland in the Mens 3-Positions Small- In the presence of Professor Geoffrey Boulton, and activities which most interest potential bore rifle pairs event, with India taking the Silver Vice-Principal (International Relations) of the members. According to information available, and England the Bronze. University, a first meeting was arranged, not in a interest centres mainly around the organisation of Three other members of the club participated conference hall, but in much more congenial social events to develop contacts with other in the championships, Cliff Ogle (BSc 1977) surroundings, the only Scottish pub in Paris, the alumni, the development of networking representing Northern Ireland, and Susan Bell Auld Alliance. However, even the Vice-Principal opportunities for professional reasons, provision (MA 1995) and Patricia Littlechild (MB ChB had not been able to reschedule the World Cup of graduate employment advice, contact with 1989) representing Scotland. rugby match which crowds had come to watch Erasmus students, academic discussion groups, The Edinburgh University Alumni Rifle Club on the pub TV and which inevitably made every and visits to places of interest. was formed in 1986 and is based at the Centre effort to upstage the meeting in hand! French For further information, please contact for Sport & Exercise at . It shares the resident and Scottish Internationalist, Gregor Development & Alumni Services on rifle range with the student Rifle Club. Since its Townsend, had sent his apologies - he was busy [email protected] formation, it has become one of the top clubs in elsewhere. the UK and members have gone on to represent Despite the periodic cries of “Allez les bleus!”, it their country at various competitions up to World was really encouraging to discover that alumni Championship level (no Olympics yet!) and have had travelled from Biarritz, Montpellier, Edinburgh University Alumni won many national and international titles Chamonix as well as the Paris region to attend a Rifle Club and medals. reunion. Moreover, many indicated that they Alumni interested in joining the club should would be keen to participate actively, whether as Two members of the Edinburgh University make contact through the Scottish Small-bore committee members, newsletter editor, events co- Alumni Rifle Club won a Gold medal in the Rifle Association, Tel: 01324 720440, Email: ordinator or as secretary, and these offers of Commonwealth Shooting Federation [email protected]

EDiTEDiT 4139 Friday 1 to Sunday 3 September Events & Reunions 2000 Reunion Programme

1941 MB ChB Reunion ALUMNI Lunch Friday 1 September 2000, Raeburn Room, - midnight. Guest Speaker: Dr Frances Dow, Celebrate & Reunite Old College, 12.30pm. Contact: Dr Dean of the Faculty of Arts. 2000 Margaret J P Fleming, 17 Graham Park ALL CONTEMPORARIES (1947-1951) Road, Gosforth, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE3 WELCOME. Hot buffet supper and dancing 4BH. to music of the Forties. Ticket price: £19.00. Send SAE for details and tickets to: Mrs 1950 BSc (Veterinary Frances Dawson, I Peregrine Way, Wimbledon Common, Medicine) London SW19 4RN 22-25 September 2000 Contact: Mr Graham Wight, Easter Rubislaw, 31/6 Hermitage Drive, Edinburgh, EH10 6BY 2001 Reunion 1950 MA (Geography) Saturday 2 September 2000, Raeburn Programme Room, Old College, 12 noon. Contact: Mr John R Barclay, 11 Gardens, 1956 MB ChB Edinburgh, EH10 4DX Tel: 0131 229 3084 13 and 14 July 2001, Crowne Plaza Hotel, Email: [email protected] 80 High Street, Edinburgh. Contact: Dr Rose Clark, 8 Oxford Terrace, 1960 MB ChB Edinburgh, EH4 1PX 1 - 3 September 2000, Peebles Hydro Contact: Dr Thomas M Kennedy, Four 1961 BDS Winds, 7 Hillside Crescent, Langholm, 40th Anniversary Reunion DON’T MISS your final chance to book for ALUMNI 2000 and join in the Dumfriesshire DG13 0EE Email: Thursday 17 May and Friday 18 May 2001, University’s weekend of millennium celebrations from 1 - 3 September [email protected] Edinburgh. Programme includes tour of new Edinburgh Dental Institute, pub lunch, and 2000. A full programme of events and activities has been organised, from 1964 MA (Geography) Reunion Dinner. the Friday through to the Sunday afternoon. 13 - 15 October 2000, Riccarton, Edinburgh Contact: Mr William Mercer, Carrington Mill, Contact: Mrs Anne Campbell, South Lodge, by Temple, , EH23 4SJ Buckhatch Lane, Rettendon Common, Tel: 01875 830388 Highlights of the weekend include: Chelmsford, Essex, CM3 8EP 1961 MB ChB ● Welcome Reception in the Playfair Library. 1965 MB ChB 40th Anniversary Reunion ● Grand Gala Dinner at the Edinburgh International Conference Friday 25 - Sunday 27 August 2000, Peebles 2 - 4 September 2001, Dunkeld House Hydro. Contact: Dr Lucile MacLeod, The Hotel, Perthshire Centre, with guest speaker the Rt Hon Baroness Young of Old Haining, Woodlands Park, Livingston, EH54 8AT Contact: Dr Ivor Davie, 26 Kingsburgh Road, Scone (MA 1970). Formerly Chief Executive of the Royal Society for Edinburgh, EH12 6DZ Email: the Protection of Birds, Baroness Young is now Chairman of English 1980 MB ChB [email protected] November 2000, Peebles Hydro Nature and was appointed Vice-Chairman of the Board of Governors Contact: Dr Carolyn Thompson, 11 1951 BSc (Agriculture) of the BBC in 1998. Discounted price for reunion tables. Row, Edinburgh, EH3 5LS Contact: Dr Ian S Robertson, 33 Braid Email: [email protected] Farm Road, Edinburgh, EH10 6LE ● Scottish Parliament Forum, introduced by Vice Principal Alice Brown and chaired by Sally Magnusson (MA 1978). Panellists will 1990 BSc (Maths & Statistics) 1951 MB ChB be: Dennis Canavan (BSc 1967) (Independent Labour), Member for Saturday 23 September 2000, Edinburgh Contact: Dr John S Patterson, 9 Scotland Contact: Miss Diana Holgate, 3F2, 1 Tay Street, Edinburgh, EH3 6PP Susan Deacon Falkirk West; (MA 1987, MBA 1992) (Labour), Minister Street, Edinburgh, EH11 1DZ for Health and Community Care; David McLetchie (LLB 1974), 1970 MA Member for Lothians and Leader of the Scottish Conservative Party; 1994 - 95 MBA Reunion (Economics/Economic History) 21 and 22 October 2000 Contact: Mr Roderick Gunkel, Orchardlea, (Dip Legal Practice 1981) (Liberal Democrat), Deputy to Contact: Susanna Teinila, Chemin des Callander, Perthshire, FK17 8BG the Minister for Enterprise and Lifelong Learning; and Laurelles 56, 1196 Gland, Switzerland (MA 1986), SNP Spokesperson on Enterprise and Lifelong Learning. 1980 MA (Architecture), History Graduates’ Dip (Arch) 1980/1981 ● Presentation ’Here is the weather forecast’ by Heather Reid Association Reunion Lunch Contact: Mrs Elizabeth Acheson, Tyndrum, (BSc 1991, MSc 1992). Saturday 2 September 2000, The Playfair Acre Road, Muirhouses, Bo'ness, West Library, Old College, 12.30pm Lothian, EH51 9SX ● Exhibition of work of Elizabeth Blackadder (MA 1954, Dr hc 1990). As this event is taking place during the ALUMNI 1991 MB ChB 2000 weekend, it is hoped that many History Contact: Dr Joanna Hadoke, Grange graduates will be able to attend. Partners are also And with talks, tours, exhibitions, a jazz evening and much, much more, Distillery Cottage, Burntisland, KY3 0AA welcome, and the event is not confined to there is something of interest to everyone. We are delighted that all of the members of the History Graduates’ Association. For contributors to the weekend’s programme are either alumni, current members further details, please contact Camilla Cowie, 20 of staff, or students. This really is a weekend by alumni and for alumni. Blacket Place, Edinburgh, EH9 1RL. Following the lunch, Professor Robert Anderson, current Head of For a copy of the full programme, and to register for the weekend, please Department, will give a brief talk on the past, contact the ALUMNI 2000 bookings hotline: present and future of the History Department in the new Kirkpatrick Library, William Robertson Building, Tel: +44 (0) 131 650 2240 Fax: +44 (0) 131 650 2239 George Square at 3pm. Email: [email protected] 1950 Faculty of Arts Development & Alumni Services, The University of Edinburgh, Old “Golden” Reunion College, South Bridge, Edinburgh, EH8 9YL Friday 1 September 2000, Royal Overseas League, 100 Princes Street, Edinburgh, 8pm

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1920s - 1930s Dean of Science & Engineering and Associate Visiting Fellow, Center for International Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Academic), retired from Studies, Princeton University. 1996-97 Dr Christina C Miller BSc 1920 PhD 1924 full-time employment at Queensland Visiting Fellow, Fondation National des Recently celebrated 100th birthday. University of Technology (QUT) in July 1996. Sciences Politiques, University of Paris. Mrs Isobel L Nicolson née McIntosh MA 1932 Since then, has had a number of part-time Mrs Morna Hill Tindal MA 1961 Volunteer MBE awarded for services to the community appointments and a consultancy at QUT. narrator for student and special services for of Plockton. Dr Bridget M Wilcken née Buchanan MB ChB the NSW Royal Blind Society. Pioneer 1940s 1956 Still working 10-plus-hour days, in Volunteer for SOCOG (Sydney Organising Dr Henry D Powell MB ChB 1944 Visited genetic metabolic medicine, and just Committee of the Games). Technical Official Malawi for 3rd time in November 1999 to completing a term as President of the Human in NSW Amateur Swimming Association. help in orthopaedic department, responsible Genetics Society of Australasia. Mr George W Simpson MA 1961 LLB 1963 for 6 million people. Dr Norman J King BSc 1957 PhD 1960 OBE Retired March 1998. Professor Dame Barbara E Clayton MB ChB awarded for services to the Environment and Professor David I Newble BSc 1962 MB ChB 1946 PhD 1949 Has been awarded the Gold Health. 1965 Recently appointed to Foundation Chair Medal for Distinguished Merit by the British Mr I M T Sandison BSc 1957 Retired - but in Medical Education at University of Medical Association. Chairman of Tayside Panel, Prince’s Scottish Sheffield School of Medicine. Professor Emeritus John A Ewing MB ChB Youth Business Trust. Dr Alan R Procter BSc 1962 PhD 1965 Mr Michael J Barry LLB 1963 36 years 1946 Although retired from university Dr Douglas C Barker BSc 1958 PhD 1961 Consultant in Technology Management and media/theatre. Founder/Director, research and teaching career, still works Retired from MRC but continuing as Director Future Studies. Adjunct Professor at Wessex Actors Compay. Independent part-time treating patients. of Studies and Fellow of Christ’s College, University of British Columbia. producer/director/writer(drama/ corporate). Vineyard owner/wine maker. Dr Dennis A Lamont MB ChB 1948 Still Cambridge during terms. Rest of the time Mr David L Simpson BL 1962 A.M. Simpson & enjoying general practice and the spent at Barfap Farm, Argyll. Son celebrated its centenary in January 1998; development of medicine despite three Mr James M Noble MA 1958 Chairman, son and grandson both University of Government of Saskatchewan in June 1996, angioplasties, one CABG and two lumber Tweedale Sports Council. (Ex Officio) Edinburgh alumni. after 31 years of service. Started own microdisectomies! member of Border Sports Development Mr Joseph A McLaughlin BL 1963 After a company, consulting in forest-related The Rt. Hon. Lord Mackay of Clashfern MA Group. career in tertiary education, education activities, including educational, recreational 1948 LLB 1955 Installed as a Knight of the Mr David F Pappin MA 1958 Dip 1959 administration and latterly as secretary of and travel projects. Thistle when Her Majesty was in Edinburgh. Retired. After Dinner speaker. Member of Glasgow Chamber of Commerce (1990-98), Mr Robert A MacCallum BSc 1965 Retired Miss Margaret Downes MA 1949 Recently MCC. President of Stoke Cricket Club. now works as a consultant in Central / after 33 years with Shell International. had a month’s holiday in New Zealand, President Estates Golfing Society. Honorary Eastern European countries advising on Miss Louisa L Maguire MA 1965 Raised £80 travelling through North and South Islands. Secretary London Scottish FC. Member of problems of transition to market economy by running a pastel picture show at Walton Heath & Rye Golf Club. conditions and WTO and EU accession. Mr Ian MacNab MA 1949 Retired from post of Christmas 1998, for the new Dick Vet Small Senior Depute Director of Education for Dr Jeffrey C Stone MA 1958 Retired in Mrs Joyce Simpson Walton LLB 1963 Retired Animal Hospital. Highland Region in 1990. Now farming Kildun September 1998 and subsequently awarded from legal practice March 1998. Mr Phillip S Brook MA 1967 Worked in export Farm at Dingwall, Ross-shire. an honorary position as Research Fellow of Dr C Christopher Smith MB ChB 1963 positions until 1985 in the food and toy the Department of Geography, University of Dr Peter J McEwan MA 1949 PhD 1963 2nd Twinning days of early retirement with a industries, including being based in Aberdeen. edition Dictionary of Scottish Art and return to university to do something Singapore for 2 years. Founded own import Architecture to be printed this year. Mr William R Black BSc 1959 Dip 1960 different! export company in 1985, aided by the 1950s Retired August 1998, having been Principal Mrs Helen J Gillespie BSc 1964 Recently languages studied when at Edinburgh! Teacher of Physics for almost 30 years. retired from 25 years of full-time teaching Mrs Christine J McKenzie née Mackay MA Dr David Birch MB ChB 1950 Chairman of Mr Iver B Frigaard BSc 1959 Retired 1st July and is now enjoying supply teaching. Has 1967 Sheep and beef farming with visitor Board of Directors of Vale House, a 20 bed 1998 from post of Fylkesagronom with three children, all of whom are parents now, accommodation on New Zealand’s private hospice for Alzheimer’s Disease Fylkesmannen I Buskerud in Drammen, and has five grandchildren. southernmost coast. Rare dolphins, sealions sufferers. Norway. Mr J Malcolm Gourlay BCom 1964 Following and penguins and Jurassic petrified forest are Dr Barry A Rapier MB ChB 1950 Living on a Mr Alan P Liebing BSc 1959 Dip 1960 the £496 million takeover of Clyde Petroleum among the attractions. Come and stay with small island - nothing unusual or startling Developing multiplexed hybrid car that does Plc in February 1997, has become involved in us when in New Zealand! ever happens. Involved in limited private 100mph 0-60 seconds and 100mpg in city a number of private and listed companies as Mrs Barbara O Barker Acheson BSc 1968 practice since retiring from government traffic with expected 400 fold reduction in a non-executive Director including the After 20+ years in Berkshire, raised 3 children service. city pollution, patent applied for, Swiss firm Chairmanship of Paladin Resources Plc. (all now graduates in arts subjects!) taught Mr William G Myles MA 1951 BCom 1951 handling development. Also, may have Dr Christopher S Haw BSc 1964 MB ChB science, then Technical Editor in computer Emigrated with wife, from Aberdeen to cracked the elusive “Theory of Everything". 1967 Chairman of Victorian Branch of field, bought a farm in Devon - not an SSSI Melbourne in February 1991 - thoroughly Mrs Jane A Mayers née Wilson MA 1959 Australian Orthopaedic Surgeons. yet. Plans to manage it with rare breeds of enjoying life there. Is Vice-President of the Having presided over the birth, short life and Mr Neil MacGillivray MB ChB 1964 MSc 1999 sheep and cattle and restore old barns as Chess Club. Recently visited UK and premature death (inability to secure its Graduated MSc by Research, with distinction, craft workshops/environmental centre. Switzerland, but did not get to Edinburgh. financial stability) of The Pelican Centre, nr from the Faculty of Arts, in December 1999. Dr Kenneth J Gill BSc (M) 1968 MB ChB 1971 Ainslie J Nairn BL 1952 After retiral from legal Glastonbury, Somerset, is continuing private Former classmate from the 1964 MB ChB Appointed Commanding Officer, 243 (The practice now available as consultant on work as a Jungian psychotherapist. class, Dr Christopher H Cameron, also Wessex) Field Hospital (V) from 1 January Scottish titles of honours and heraldry. Mr Robin C Sutherland BSc 1959 Retired graduated MSc by Research, with distinction, 1999. Mrs Julia M Lawrence née Edwards MA 1954 from NoSWA at end of December 1998. Has from the same Faculty, on the same day, Mrs Jennifer G MacKewn MA 1968 Handles the public relations and assists with taken on part-time employment with despite otherwise divergent careers. Organisational Development Consultant and the fund raising for Nairobi Children’s Dinardo’s. Professor William G Ritchie MB ChB 1964 trainer of physiotherapists. Has two sons, Hospital which is a charitable organisation. 1960s Selected Chairman of Dept of Radiology, one grown -up and one 14. Also writes for a Kenyan travel magazine, and Hospital July 1998. Clinical Mr John R Kelly BSc 1960 Employed by ERJV Dr Adam C McBride BSc 1968 PhD 1971 OBE does other journalism related work. Professor of Radiology, Medical School, Little France. awarded for services to understanding of Mr John H Greene MA 1955 LLB 1957 Vice- University of Pennsylvania. mathematics in schools. Mrs Doreen F Pruden née Steven MA 1960 Chairman, Ayrshire and Arran Health Board. Dr Donald C Smith PhD 1964 Spent three Passed professional exams as translator. Mr Daniel McLean MA 1968 After graduating Chairman, Stoddart International Group months last summer in Edinburgh, part of Translates monthly newspaper distributed to MA (Hons), Dip Ed, taught for 4 years in Pension Fund. which was taken up doing research and schools across Canada (from French); further education in Scotland. Moved to New Rev Alan J Roy BSc 1955 BD 1959 Retired end writing of articles on 19th Century Scottish translates educational materials into French Zealand in 1972 and taught in 3 secondary of September 1999 after ministries in Zambia churchmen for the New Dictionary of for bi-lingual schools and other institutions. schools until retiring in 1994 as Deputy (11 years), Dundee (21 years) and Aberuthven National Biography (). Rector, Kings Hill School, Dunedin. Mr Alexander W Russell MA 1960 Retired in with Dunning (6 years). Professor Lawrence Evans MB ChB 1965 October 1998 as Deputy Chairman, HM Dr David C Snashall MB ChB 1968 Appointed Mr Alastair J Fordyce MB ChB 1956 Since Appointed National President, Medical Customs and Excise. Now engaged in Chief Medical Adviser UK Health and Safety ‘retiral’ became a luthier, and engaged in Council, United Medical Protection in 1998. strategic consultancies and projects for the Executive 1998. construction of classical and flamenco Cabinet Office and the University of Bath Rev Dr James M Francis MA 1965 BD 1968 Ms Andrea K Valdez BSc 1968 An IT guitars. Business School. Book published in April 1998 ’Tentmaking: professional and a sculptor. Exhibited with Professor Emeritus Ronald Gardiner MA Perspectives on Self-Supporting Ministry’. Mr Norman L Achilles MA 1961 1994-96 Open Studios in November 1998 and ’Art 1956 BSc 1958 After services as (inaugural) Mr Murray T Little BSc 1965 Left the Select’ at Battersea Arts Centre.

42 EDiT InformEd Ms Moira Vaughan MA 1968 Embarked on Dr Lewis T Waters PhD 1970 After specialise in Corporate Finance, firstly as a Department Chairperson, Department of 4th career (after teaching, international graduating, was appointed Director of Urban manager in the Corporate Advisory Service History, Drake University. Invited to join the student officer, physiotherapy) in Studies at the National Capital Planning Dept of Ernst & Whinney and for the last 12 executive board of the Historical Society, an rehabilitation of visually impaired, hoping to Commission, Washington DC. Left to join years in the Corporate Finance Dept of international professional assocation of work in Scotland Peace Corps and worked in SE Asia for 2 Standard Chartered Asia Limited, now as historians. Published a book on Scotland, Ms Ilona Aronovsky MA 1969 Co-author of years. Returned to DC as Director of Systems Managing Director. and an article on working in the Scottish “Indus Valley - KS2 History” pupil activity Planning for the City and worked in energy Mr Ian P Bankier LLB 1975 Specialised in Record Office. pack on the ancient Indus Civilisation, and environmental consulting. Joined US Corporate Law, moved into industry via own Dr Linda E Williams née Potts BSc 1976 Now published 1996, which has been cited as Department of Energy and now works as independent management firm. Director of Deputy Headteacher of secondary school in approved resource in new guidance on energy and international development four public companies and other substantial County Durham. Still keen on mountain- primary history issued by the QCA (England). consultant in DC. private concerns. eering, golf and running. Also associated with the harappa Website Dr Laurence J Bauer MA 1971 PhD 1975 Mr Gregory Cafetzopoulos MPhil 1975 Ms Shiona M Airlie MA 1977 Contributed two (http://harappa.com). Awarded a personal chair in Linguistics at Qualified in educational planning and articles for the new Dictionary of National Mr Ian Lamb MA 1969 Recently became Victoria University of Wellington, New administration of education (1985, Pareis, Biography. Zealand. Under contract to write a new Manager, Finance and Business, of newly IIE). Appointed General Director of Planning Mrs Margaret Sell née Hendry BSc (SS) 1977 textbook for the Edinburgh Textbooks on the created electricity transmission company in the Greek Ministry of Education, May 1998. Professor of Veterinary Bacteriology since English Language series, edited by Professor Transcend Networks Pty Ltd, in Tasmania, In December 1998 obtained a BA (First Class Oct 1992. Dean of Faculty of Veterinary Heinz Giegrich of the Department of English Australia. Honours) in Humanities (Open University). Medicine, University of Maidiguri since 1995. Language and published by Edinburgh Mr John G Langlands BSc 1969 Working from Father Roger W Guiver MA 1975 Parish Priest University Press. Mr David A Stewart BSc 1977 After 18 years a home base in Edinburgh as Senior of Saint Thomas, Brambles Farm, working for British Telecom, three children, Dr Peter W Harland PhD 1971 DSc 1996 Chair Geologist with ACA Howe International Ltd, Middlesbrough, but at present living at single again (divorced). Having a quiet, in Chemistry, University of Canterbury, which is a company specialising in mineral Swany Farm, Glaisdale, Whitby. happy life in the Cotswolds. exploration, mineral resources, exploration Christchurch, New Zealand. Mr Richard G Philip MSc 1975 OBE awarded Mr Nicolas E Sunderland BSc 1977 Job goes and evaluation. Ms Morelle I Smith MA 1971 ‘Deepwater for services to veterinary science overseas. well. Hobby is organic production with 5 Terminal’, a collection of poetry published by Mr Hugh McPherson BSc 1969 Relocated Mr David J Anderson MA 1976 OBE awarded hectares and 20 sheep. Active squash player, ‘diehard’, March 1998. own company from near Edinburgh to for services to museums. plus some golf. Relatively happy with life. Tarbert, Isle of Harris, showing it is possible Rev Dr William Campbell PhD 1972 Dr John E Hesketh PhD 1976 Took up the Dr Michael D Winter BSc (M) 1977 MB ChB to run a high-tech business in such a Appointed Reader in Biblical Studies at the Chair of Mammalian Molecular biology in the 1980 Appointed as Medical Director of location. University of Wales, 1st October 1999. Department of Biological and Nutritional Lothian Primary Care NHS Trust. Dr Phyllis L Pitt-Miller MB ChB 1969 Head of Mrs Bibiana Munyaradzi BSc 1972 In charge Sciences at the University of Newcastle upon Mr N Stuart Black BA 1978 With wife, Donna Department of Clinical Surgical Sciences, of quality assurance in a company that Tyne on 1st November 1999. McClure, snowboards in the winter and University of the West Indies - Aug 1996- produces and sells tobacco seeds in Mr Ian Jackson MA (SS) 1976 Was promoted windsurfs in the summer. 1999. Zimbabwe. in June 1999 and is now Business Dr Caroline E Gardiner MA 1978 Appointed Mr Roger L Price MA 1969 MSc 1976 Since Mr D D E Nicolson BSc 1972 Retired at 48 to Development Manager in British Telecom’s Professor to run the new Department in Arts August 1981, has been administering look after growing menagerie. Irreverent as Workstyle Consultancy Group. The Group Management, South Bank University, business programmes and teaching ever but mellowing (still don’t know what I works with corporate clients to introduce London. communication skills at Nyenrode University want to do when I grow up). Four more years new ways of working. - the only privatised university in Holland. in Stratford then off to the west coast Mrs Mary L Pitcaithly née Hall LLB 1978 Rev Robert M Jones BVM&S 1976 Appointed Chief Executive of Falkirk Council Mr George M Smuga MA 1969 Dip 1970 seeking a castle or “camus fearna", or both. Redundancy 1 September 1997. Moved to from 10th September 1998. Appointed Headteacher of the Royal High Mr David G Venner BSc 1972 After 25 years present position (Pastor/Baptist Minister) Mr Stephen Atkins BMus 1979 Senior School in June 1998 after nine years as in project management (for Countryside April 1998. Headteacher at North Berwick High. Commission and local authorities) retrained Manager in Hong Kong’s largest primary Dr Paul F Van Look PhD 1976 Was appointed school. Currently involved in research on Mr Andrew G Webb BCom 1969 BCom 1970 in rural skills and is enjoying working to Director, Department of Reproductive Scots medieval liturgical music and is Happy to send sample of language learning outdoors, as own boss. Health and Research in November 1998 by Dr studying for the degree of MEd with the system for businessmen learning German to Dr Rohan H Wickramasinghe PhD 1972 Gro Harlem Brundtland, the World Health University of Nottingham. anyone interested, or explanatory brochure. Consultant on Environmental Protection and Organisation’s Director. Landscaping to ’s Central Cultural Miss Caroline S Blunden MA 1979 Now Dr Edmund W Patterson BSc 1976 PhD 1982 1970s Fund (i.e. principal archaeological sites). dealing in and arranging exhibitions of Diagnosed with progressive MS in 1992 and Mr Graham C Bathgate MA 1970 Continuing Also, advising Mayor of on matters contemporary chinese painting. Cultural opted to take ill health retirement in 1998. to enjoy very hectic life in Tokyo teaching relating to environmental protection. Atlas of China written with Mark Ewin, English and organising school unions and Heavily involved with MS Society in Scotland Phaidon, 1983, was updated 1998. Professor Rosemary A Crow MA (SS) 1973 activities as President of the Tokyo Chapter and Edinburgh South. PhD 1978 Still a Professor of Nursing Science Dr Irwin S Goldstein PhD 1979 Promoted to of Japan Association of Language Teaching. Dr Patrick G Scott PhD 1976 Recently added at Surrey and busy working in Clinical Professor. Continues to present papers at Also trying to use nearly 30 years of travel to the post of Associate University Librarian for Research. various national and international write articles. Special Collections to work as Professor of conferences and to publish in various Dr Christopher G Pollock BSc (M) 1973 MB Mr Donald T Campbell BSc 1970 Moved back English at the University of South Carolina. journals in philosophy. ChB 1976 Returned to the Romantics and to engineering and planning consultancy and Mr Paul D Seeley BMus 1976 Freelance Chamber music galore! Mr J B Hepburn BSc 1979 MSc 1995 Setting a manager of a local office for a major Pianist and Piano Teacher. Awarded up a business - ’Aquavision’ - taking Mr Ian L Williamson BSc 1973 As well as Norwegian consultancy. Involved in several Fellowship Diploma in Music Education from agriculture towards sustainability. water rehabilitation projects in Bosnia construction work in the North East of Trinity College of Music in 1999. Researching Dr Malcolm Irving BSc 1979 Recently moved financed by a Norwegian development aid Scotland, employer has been involved in the Franz Lehar for PhD on part-time basis at to Wellington, New Zealand. programme. Falkland Islands so has been “commuting” University of Liverpool. there for the past 10 years Mr Alan C Rose BCom 1979 Following 8 Mr Timothy R Davis BSc 1970 Became Dr Deborah Symonds MLitt 1976 Elected Quality Manager for Rolls Royce Australia in Mr Alexander G Young MA (SS) 1973 Moved years at Shell, graduated with an MBA from November 1998. to Kyle Academy in August 1996. Professor Alexander Forrest BSc (M) 1970 Ms Jane E Bachner-King BA 1974 Living in MB ChB 1973 Appointed Professor of Austin, Texas. Mom of two: 19 yr old and 14 Forensic Toxicology at the University of yr old. Loves job as gets to talk about food all Sheffield from 1 November 1998. day! Mr Neil G Kerr BCom 1970 Now roving Mr Terence M Parker MSc 1974 Has taken Europe improving international paints early retirement and expects to take up warehouse and distribution systems. First 2 offers of lecturing and producing a booklet photographs contributed (of 3) children at, or going next year to EU! on marketing. Mr Nicholas Rowell BArch 1970 Working on Dr Michael A Patton MB ChB 1974 MSc 1976 £400M PFI project for DSS - Redevelopment Appointed Professor of Medical Genetics Nov of two sites in Tyne and Wear to produce 1998. £150M new office HQ for DSS whilst current Miss Jacqueline D Stokes BA 1974 Uses operations maintained. French, acquired at Edinburgh, every day and Mr Alexander D Stevenson MA (SS) 1970 Russian to aid understanding of students’ MBA 1987 Took early retirement from South problems. Teaches Computer Engineering to Lanarkshire Council at the end of November Eastern European immigrant women and 1998. Seeking full-time or part-time work (to occasionally politicians and multinationals, finance the cost of pilot’s licence!). especially Japanese. Mr Richard D Winter BCom 1974 After Mrs M Tong née Cowie MA 1970 Since 1997, Mr C Frederick Y Lawson BSc 1963 Chairman of Edinburgh Ramblers; Munroist; Treasurer, working with Deloittes in Nairobi and has helped husband Dr Richard Tong with his Scottish Rights of Way and Access Society - safeguarding your rights of way in Scotland. company Tanayom Consultings Corporation. Edinburgh, arrived in Hong Kong in 1985, to

EDiT 43 World service discoveries of (amongst other drugs) Viagra! Coordinator of West Asia North Africa working for Hewlett Packard as Field Dr Carmel Lee-Hsia Heah PhD 1981 Teaching (WANA) Seed Network. Married with two Application Engineer in Semiconductor Test at a university in Singapore. Lived in Canada children. Group. 1990-99. Has two children, Emily and Mr John C Dargie BSc 1984 Has been Mrs Fiona H Buxton née Shaw MA 1986 Now Jonathan. working for Scottish National Heritage since living in London and studying for an MBA at Mr James T Macdonald BSc 1981 Moved to December 1995 - first in Aviemore, now in London Business School. Is married to become Chief Executive of Wesleyan Golspie as Natural Project Officer in North Edward Buxton (Chemistry graduate, 1985) Financial Services Group, having been Highland. and has a two year old son. Managing Director of Rover Cars UK. Mrs Angie Kay née Ball BCom 1984 Dr Gillian M Cannon BSc 1986 After leaving Mr David Nussbaum MTh 1981 Appointed Secretary of Institute of Charity Fundraising Edinburgh, married Andrew Gow in 1989. (non-executive) Chair of Traidcraft, the Managers (North West), Chair-elect for 1999- Obtained MBA in 1992, had twins, John and Christian based Fair Trade organisation. 2000. Pleased to hear from other alumni in Catriona, in 1996, and 1998 had third child, Continues to work as Finance Director of fundraising field. James, and obtained PhD. Currently working Oxfam, and with Kathy to bring up four Mr Wycliffe N Okwara MSc 1984 Experience in sales and marketing for a pharmaceutical children. at UoE has brought the realisation that company in the USA. Ms Eileen C Walker BSc 1981 Heads up the Western Kenya has an enormous livestock Dr Andrew G Coyle PhD 1986 Trustee : Mergers and Acquisitions team at Deloitte production potential. Has identified areas of Prisoners Abroad. Consultant to UNHCR. and Touche in London but still uses agriculture utilisation and practical European Director of Human Rights ECPT. pharmacology degree, since also has application of veterinary medicine as a future Mr Andrew J Galli MSc 1986 In September of responsibility for the Pharmaceutical Sector investment for own business. Operates an 1998 sold Red Hawk Fiber Optics to Cable Group nationally. agro-vet shop. Future plan is to manufacture Design Technologies Corporation. Stayed on protein concentrate feed for livestock. Mr John S Bremner BD 1982 Returned to UK as President of Red Hawk / CDT and works in in 1998 after 6 years with the Waldensian Miss Helena M Petre MA 1984 Editor at Gaia the further acquisition of fiber optic Dr Hazel D Farkas MB ChB 1962 Retired Church in Italy. Books. Founder of Wild Women’s Institute companies. from full time practice of psychiatry in (women and words group) and poet. Has Mr Gavin B Inglis MA 1982 Moved to US in Mr Eric F Johnson MSc 1986 Completed work state, January 1999 and enjoying performed in poetry tent at Glastonbury 1993. Would be thrilled to hear from anyone on first novel “The Ten Grandmothers". warmth of climate and people in Festival 1997 and 1998. Qualified Dreamwork who knew him well enough to care to get in Looking to publish it shortly. Williamsburg, Virginia. Time for church Therapist 1996. activities, grandchildren, newcomers touch. Mr Simon A King BSc 1986 Currently on Dr Kenneth W Simpson BVM&S 1984 Baby - gardening and tennis clubs, sightseeing Dr Rebecca A Johnson MPhil 1982 Recently secondment to the US with Zeneca Rory Bruce Simpson - born 27th November and travel. awarded a $500,000 research grant from US Pharmaceuticals in Wilmington, Delaware. 1998 National Institute of Nursing Research for Miss Clare P Phillimore BSc 1986 Studying study “Relation of Ethnic Elders: Decisions Dr Ivor G Chestnutt BDS 1985 Appointed as for Diploma at London Bible College. Columbia Business School (New York) and is Senior Lecturer and Honorary Consultant in and Sequelae". Mr Robert S Storrie MBA 1986 Working with now a Partner at strategy consulting firm Dental Public Health, University of Wales Dr Brian P Kinghorn PhD 1982 Appointed Bechtel on the High Speed Rail link. Booz, Allen & Hamilton, specialising in the College of Medicine. energy industries. Twynam Chair of Animal Breeding Mr Richard W Whitecross MA 1986 LLB 1988 Ms Joyce I Crawford MA 1985 Has two Techologies November 1995 at Twynam Since graduating in 1986 read for LLB. Mr Donald G Taylor BCom 1979 Started office daughters, Kirsty aged 4 and Frances aged 1. Pastoral Company (Australia). Following traineeship worked in a major law furniture company in 1991, $6 million in sales Husband stays at home to look after the Dr Barbara J Newman PhD 1982 Two firm before returning to study for an LLM. in 1998, selling throughout North America. children. Still enjoying badminton, started playing at children, one boy and one girl. Presently Now engaged in research for PhD in Legal Mr John H Foldes MA (SS) 1985 Married Pollock Halls in 1976! Married with one living in Champaign as husband is there for Anthropology and planning to undertake Angela in 1991 and has two children. Working daughter. one year. fieldwork in Bhutan, Nepal and India. as Finance Director in European Miss Sarah J Blair MA 1983 Twenty years Miss Mary Joan Connors MLitt 1987 Working Manufacturing Group based in Neuss. 1980s after entering Edinburgh, career is now part-time, also an adjunct Faculty member at Children almost fluent German speakers. Dr Mark T Bigwood BDS 1980 MB ChB 1989 speckled with interesting changes but none the University of Miami and Nova Third son, Leo, born 1998. Growing old so exciting and satisfying as full-time Mrs Louise G Gibb née Evans BSc 1985 First Southeastern University. In the final process disgracefully in the west country. Playing in a parenthood. son, Samuel Peter Gibb, born 1 May 1998. of completing an Ed S (educational seven piece rock band and mending old cars. Mrs Catherine A Czechmeister née Crosby Scott G Hawkins Esq MBA 1985 Member, specialist) degree. Has given up smoking - lifetime greatest BSc (SS) 1983 MSc 1991 Appears on “Pet Board of Directors of Law Firm; Policy Co- Ms Pamela J Dobbie née Martin BSc 1987 achievement. Vet” on Irish TV every week. Has written ordination, higher education, Bush for Second daughter (Kiera Louise) born 5th Dr Yiannis Liritzis PhD 1980 Appointed book on pet care for young people, Florida Governor Campaign. June 1998. Now self-employed sports and Professor on tenure, of Archaeometry in Dept published Sept 1998. Has two children, Anna Miss Fiona J Macleod MA 1985 Moved to remedial massage therapist following of Mediterranean Studies, University of the and Ella. Brussels - taking a break from journalism and voluntary redundancy November 1997. Aegean, Rhodes Island, Greece. 25 years of Mrs S Feldberg née Warr BSc 1983 Currently hopes to improve languages before Mr Stuart A Faed BSc 1987 Qualified with continuous collaboration with the Dept of living in Hampshire with two young children; travelling. Home base remains Edinburgh. KPMG in 1992, audit manager now working Physics (Dr R B Galloway). Dozens of papers working part-time as Open University Tutor in Miss Dorothy L Macmillan MA 1985 Since in Fife; married with 2 sons. have been written! Ecology. May 1998, a Sub Contract Manager for Mr Eliga H Gould MSc 1987 Book published Mrs Yvonne C Malcolm née Trotter MA (SS) Mr Ralph G Findlay BSc 1983 Finance Marconi Electronic Systems. in March 2000 by University of North 1980 Recently gave up working in insurance Director of Wolverhampton and Dudley Dr Fiona C Mactaggart MB ChB 1985 Spent Carolina Press: The Persistence of Empire: broking world to look after family. In Brewers plc, brewers of Banks’ and the last six years in sunny Queensland, British Political Culture in the Age of the addition, now carrying out general secretarial Camerons beers. Australia training in Psychiatry and having American Revolution. work in connection with husband’s business. Miss Caroline E Grabowska MA (SS) 1983 twins. Returning to Edinburgh to complete Mrs Jacqueline Harris née Meade BCom Mrs Antonia Swinson Reid MA 1980 New PhD research published in book form by the Psychiatry training and re-establish old 1987 Had a son, Robert Gregor, December book published set in Scotland/London, ’The centre of Latin American Studies, Warsaw friendships. 1998. Now working from home on a Cousin’s Tale’ published by Hodder and University 1998. The book is called : “The Mr Malcolm J Mead BSc 1985 Chartered consulting basis, part time. Stoughton. ethnicity of second generation Polish Engineer and Member of British Computer Mr Craig A Jeffrey BDS 1987 Completed short Mr Michael A Smith BCom 1980 Client immigrants in Montevideo” (it is published in Society. service commission in Royal Army Dental Manager, Coutts & Co, Manchester. English). Mr Iain C Richardson BSc 1985 Promoted to Corps 1989-96 (postings included Germany, Mrs Dorothy L Bartlett née Smith BA 1981 Mr Allastair J McGillivray BCom 1983 Director, Manufacturing Strategy & Planning, Cyprus, Gulf War and Bosnia). 1996-98 LLB 1983 Lecturer in law at Stevenson’s and Migrated to Australia in May 1998. Working Eli Lilley & Co, effective January 1999. Principal Dental Officer for Queensland Napier. Married to Dr J Bartlett (Senior as a Management Consultant with Citibank Mrs Ruth E Wadsworth née Church BVM&S Health (Bundaberg Region) Australia. About Lecturer in cancer research). Two children, Ltd in Sydney. Celebrated 10th wedding 1985 Now has two girls, Amy and Philippa. to join RAF Dental branch. Alastair and Jennifer. Still a committed anniversity in October 1998. Has worked part-time since Amy was born Mrs Nicola C Longden née Arcedeckne- Christian. Mr John R Owen BSc 1983 Co-founder of the and hopes to do so again when Philippa is Butler MA 1987 In 1996, became a master of Mr Gordon J Birrell BCom 1981 Moved from Capital Markets Company, a fast growing older. wine, one of just 230 in the world. Now the Medical Research Council, Edinburgh to international firm specialising in Capital Mr Peter A Wedderburn BVM&S 1985 Moved works as a wine consultant to both Corney Australia to work in bioscience at the Markets consultancy. to Ireland with wife Joyce in 1991. Runs own and Barrow wine merchants (with a branch in University of Western Australia. Working to Mrs A Asamoah Wood MPhil 1983 Married vet practice in Dublin. Edinburgh) and also to bars and restaurants. start up research team in the Western 1972; no kids; gained Landscape Mrs Susan E MacGillivray née Williams BSc Australian Institute for Medical Research Mrs Licia D Albanese MPhil 1986 Working for Architecture MPhil 1983. Married again 1996. 1987 Enjoying working and living in Glasgow. which has recently opened. ORACLE Corporation, the database company. A life of experience - the angels could be Remarried to Nei Almeida and has three Baby boy, Matthew, born 28 June 1998. Mr Robert A Dunn BSc 1981 Head of British jealous! sons. Mr James E Miculka MSc 1987 Appointed to Telecom Radio Structures. Mr Zewdie Bishaw MSc 1984 Working in Dr Zoe F Butler BSc 1986 PhD 1991 After two Amtrak Partnership Program Coordinator to Mr David W Gordon BSc 1981 Senior seed unit of International Centre for years working for Hewlett Packard in manage new program. Program consists of Scientist within Discovery Chemistry Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas Boehlingen, Germany, relocated to USA, still placing National Park rangers on trains Department at Pfizer Research, Kent, (ICARDA) as Seed Systems Specialist and throughout the US to provide onboard

44 EDiT InformEd interpretive and educational programs of the Provence", San Francisco Opera, Orchestre Active in third world development issues, cultural and natural history of the United Symphonique Neuchatelois, Philharmonie majority of work at present in Brazil, but States. Gasteig Munich, Fete des Vignerons 1999, applicable world wide. Mr Robert S Preston MBA 1987 Recently and Northlands Festival, Caithness, among Mr George E Nowotny LLM 1989 George E appointed MD of AXA investment managers others. Nowotny IV born 3rd October 1995. James D in NY. Robbie, age 2, (Roberton Sheffey Mrs Annamaree W McCaffrey née Welsh Nowotny born 7th April 1997. Preston IV) recently ate haggis and loved it!! BDS 1988 Married (1993) and has one child Mr Carl Christian Schou BSc 1989 Worked Dr Peter Balla MTh 1988 PhD 1994 1994 PhD (Molly). since 1991 in the North Sea. Married to Dr Thesis was published by Mohr-Siebeck in Rev Dr David W McHardy BD 1988 BD 1990 Kirsten C Schou, PhD graduate from Leeds Tubingen (1997), then by Hendrickson Principal Teacher of Religious, Moral and University, with two children. Publishers in the US (1998). Title: Challenges Philosophical Studies at Inverurie Academy Mrs Jane H Sladdin née Chalmers BMus to New Testament Theology. and Associate Lecturer in World Religions 1989 Married 1993. Baby boy born August Ms Karen J Black née Turton BSc (SS) 1988 with the Open University. 1998. Currently living in Somerset. Did Postgraduate in Careers Guidance at Mr Samuel Nyogire MSc 1988 Has a private Mr Andrew B Thain BSc 1989 Working on Napier University. Now Careers Advisor for primary school in Uganda, and invites and offshore in Operational Performance Fife Careers in Kirkcaldy. Married to Sandy in practising and retired teachers to come and Improvement, following a range of technical Professor H Keith Moffatt BSc 1957 1993, no kids (yet!) but dotes on 2 pet offer the school voluntary service, during and supervisory posts in production Director of the for gerbils called Coffee and Cream. Lives in which time we could exchange ideas! Invites operations, well services, project delivery Mathematical Sciences in Cambridge. Has Kincardine-on-Forth. any alumni or students on holiday to visit. and new-field start-up. received an unusual honour in France: an Would provide free accommodation and engraved Napoleonic sword from the Mrs Fiona H Campbell née Brown MA 1988 Mrs Ruth Waring née Williams BCom 1989 traditional meals. Ecole Polytechnique, where he has taught Married, working for Scotland’s only working Married husband Graham Waring in for seven years as a (visiting) Professor square-rigged tall ship, Jean de la Lune: Mrs Susan M Oliver MEd 1988 Writing up September 1995, and has a two year old son, de Mécanique. The first Briton to have registered in Leith and sailing the Western thesis for PhD (Children’s Dance) at Moray Matthew. Works for French transport received this Honour in the 200-year Isles and Canaries with fare-paying guests. House. Also, doing choreography of stage company Gefco as UK Operations Manager, history of this famous Grande Ecole, Keith Lives in Leith. musicals for various arts groups - made European Road Freight and lives in has also been elected a Foreign Member Miss Susan E Coulthard MA 1988 Awarded “Fringe” debut with Godspell in August 1998. Leamington Spa, Warwickshire. of the French Academy of Sciences. the United Nations Medal for Peacekeeping Dr Lauren B Sickels-Taves PhD 1988 Keith’s love of France started with a for service in Bosnia. Working as the architectural conservator at 1990s Dr Caroline J Campbell BSc (M) 1990 MB ChB school exchange between George Miss Suzanne C Doran MA 1988 Since Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village, 1992 Has been asked to oversee the setting Watson’s College and the Lycee Henri IV graduating, has worked in production and teaching historic preservation at Eastern up of a 600-bed community hospital in in Paris in 1953, when he lived ’en famille’ journalism and information management in Michigan University, USA. Two books were Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. Married 21 for two months in the Boulevard Raspail. Edinburgh, London and N America, then published in 1999: ’The Use of and Need for January 1999 to Dr Adrian Armstrong, the “It was a mind-blasting experience” he returned home to Northern Ireland, setting Preservation Standards in Architectural senior research officer with the Natal Game said, “and I never looked back”. up own small business, then moved into Conservation’ and ’The Lost Art of Tabby Parks Board. marketing and business development. Since Redefined: Preserving Oglethorpe’s November 1998 has worked as Head of Architectural Legacy’. Miss Nithia Devan MBA 1990 Looks after in an independent feature “The Quarrymen". marketing and communications for Business Development Dept for the RUC Ms Jane S Thomas MA 1988 Organised a Mr Joseph S Turner MA 1990 Called to the Athletic Association Ltd, one of Northern conference (based at Edinburgh University Speedline Technologies Asia, a US based MNC which sells assembly equipment for Bar at Gray’s Inn 1997; now working as a Ireland’s leading sports and business Pollock Halls) for the International Naval Barrister at the Fleet Headquarters. organisations. Confederation of Architecture Museums in electronics manufacturing. Working in Singapore is challenging and has made Mr John H Woods BSc 1990 Left science in Miss Anne L Henly BSc 1988 After five years summer 1998. contact with several people from MBA class September 1997 for proper job (IT). PhD viva working as a navigator on a seismic survey Mrs Catriona Watson-Brown née Dawson of 89/90 in Singapore. Is in touch with the in March 1998. Handed in finished PhD vessel in the oil industry, has moved to MA 1988 Left the BBC April 1998 and went newly-formed Edinburgh group here. thesis, January 1999. Aberdeen and is a freelance photographer, freelance as an editor / project manager also studio photography (portraits and working mainly on educational books and CD Miss Hannah C Dixon MA 1990 Obtained a Mr Eneko Agirre MSc 1991 Built a spelling commercial). Roms (foreign languages & ELT). Practitioner qualification in Reflexology, July checker / corrector for Basque. It is a 1998; now takes private clients. commercial version integrated in Microsoft Mr Neil Hume BVM&S 1988 Son born Mr John D Wilson MTh 1988 Completed Office. 10/01/99, George William, a brother for translation of the Bible into the Southern Yali Mrs Sue A Dolquist MTh 1990 Rev Dan & James Alexander. Started a new job in language of Irian Jaya in October 1998. Sue Dolquist welcomed their third child Mrs Lila W Balisky MTh 1991 In addition to Pickering in May 1998. Currently involved in training and coaching Diana Victoria in August 1997. Her brothers, teaching at the Evangelical Theological Nathaniel (7) and Timothy (4) enjoy their College in Addis Ababa, has assisted in the Mr David A Laing BSc 1988 Married to Sarah missionaries in cross-cultural church sister. establishment of the Women’s Ministry (née Duthie, a fellow alumna), living in planting. Dr John S Ennis MB ChB 1990 Further Learning Center in Ethiopia. Very grateful for London but still find plenty of excuses to Mrs J Helen Woods née Corns MA 1988 Son, the value of the MTh earned at New College. travel to Scotland - Burns, rugby, walking, Michael John Woods, born 15th June 1996 . qualification: MRCGP. Fellowship in skiing, fishing, shooting. Left teaching in July 1997 to become full time Department of Community Health Sciences. Mrs Alison J Bathgate née Ross MA 1991 child-carer. Second son, Andrew James Mr Robert M Frame MA 1990 Married to Adjutant of Royal Scots. About to Miss Christina S Maclachlan BSc 1988 move to Northern Ireland. Teacher at Orwell Married May 1998. Woods, born 14th August 1998. Working as Project Manager with Antenna Audio, an audio interpretation company with Park School, Ipswich, Suffolk. Mr Laurence W Mallon BMus 1988 Various Mrs Lucy Gitonga née Darwin MA (SS) 1989 office in . Would like to hear Miss Lesley J Durrans BSc 1991 Married in freelance engagements as Principal /Manager of Limuru Girls’ Centre, a from former colleagues and friends from May 1999. Currently working for agricultural pianist/repetiteur/conductor. In the last two vocational training college for young women University days. Work tel is: 0131 220 5206 feed company and continuing studies in years has been engaged by the “Festival in difficult circumstances. Married to Victor, a graphics designer, with 3 children. Miss Helen K Ironside LLB 1990 Dip 1991 poultry. Seeking permanent residence in International D’Art Lyrique D’Aix-en- South Africa. Mr Iain G Harrison BSc 1989 Son, Thomas Previously a solicitor with Dundas & Wilson, James Fyfe Harrison, born on 14th August Edinburgh and subsequently with Wilde Dr Jehu J Hanciles MTh 1991 PhD 1995 PhD 1998. Sapte, London, has given up practice and is from CSCNWW (Faculty of Divinity) in 1995, now a Legal Recruitment Consultant with thereafter taught for 3 years at Africa Mr Mark E Hoskyns-Abrahall BSc 1989 Reynell, London. University (Zimbabwe). Visiting Scholar at Married to Fiona (née Gordon, 1988 Fuller Theological Seminary, working on a graduate) and has two children. Senior Mr Nigel M Leishman BSc 1990 Graduated MSc in Air Transport Management 1991. book entitled ’Euthanasia of a Mission: Crisis Manager within Audit and Business Advisory and Challenge.’ Services with Pricewaterhouse Coopers. Worked for 3 years in Middle East for express courier company DHL. Joined aircraft Mr Jonathan M Harris LLB 1991 LLM 1993 Mrs Judith A Jere MSc 1989 Promoted to the manufacturer Airbus Industrie in Toulouse Married and working as a Journalist for a Principal Poultry Research Officer and France 1995. Appointed Director, Customer national business magazine in Toronto, Commodity Team Leader for Livestock Marketing in 1998. Now married and living in Canada. Research in the Department of Agricultural the heart of French countryside. Research. Mr Andrew P Mahaffy BEng 1991 Became Mr Michael F McCullough BSc 1990 Moved Chartered with Institute of Marine Engineers Dr Deborah J Kerr BSc (M) 1989 MB ChB 1991 back to Geneva, to seek new opportunities and Institution of Structural Engineers and Left the Royal Navy in August 1998 after 9.5 away from Central England. Now or never! started own consultancy in 1998. years. Married to Gelise, with 1 boy called Bryn. Dr Charlotte M Methuen BD 1991 PhD 1995 Rev R A R MacLeod MBA 1989 Passed Always happy to hear from fellow graduates. Ordained Deacon in the Anglican Church Mr Michael J Smith BEng 1994 Gained Commando course to become Chaplain of 40 [email protected]. 28th May 1998. Ordained Priest 1999. A commando, Royal Marines, 30th September Chartered Engineer status September Mr Craig H Smeal MA 1990 Has completed book, ’Kepler’s Tubiyan Stimulus to 1998. 1998. Cycled from Lands End to John several international advertising campaigns Theological Mathematics’ published 1998 by O’Groats for charity in May 1998 and Mr Gordon J Macmillan MA (SS) 1989 PhD since gaining Equity Card, most recently Ashgath. raised £1,500 for the Anthony Nolan 1993 Established partnership, Edinburgh Adidas for France, Holland and Spain. Also Dr Christopher J G Peaker BSc 1991

Bone Marrow Trust. photographs contributed Development Consultants, March 1998. completed first main acting role - a principal Following doctorate at Cambridge and then

EDiT 45 World service qualifying as a Chartered Accountant in 1998, August 1999. Diploma and currently studying for ICD University and Open University tutoring on now with Grant Thornton Corporate Finance. Mrs Alison R Taylor née Armstrong MA 1992 Certificate (verified by UoE). Working in Diploma in Social Work Courses. Please get in touch! Married Richard Taylor on 26th September Relationship Marketing at Safeway HQ, using Mr Nathan A Cunningham MA 1995 Married Miss Susannah Robb MA 1991 LLB 1994 Now 1992. loyalty card data to build profitable customer Julie, July 1997; moved to Southern relationships. working in PFI Department, Structural Mrs T E K Wallis-Smith née Wallis BEng 1992 August 1997; started working for Platinum Finance of Bank of Scotland, having qualified Has two young children. Miss Wendy K Boyd MA (SS) 1994 Dip 1995 Technology (IT management tools-QA as a Chartered Accountant in 1998. Teaching architecture part-time at University Analyst), September 1997. Attends the Dr Dominic Watt MA 1992 Worked for a year of East London. Recently changed practices Master’s Seminary part-time (working Dr Julia A Smith BCom 1991 Conducting at a teaching training college in Germany, to Tim Ronalds Architects - Project Architect, towards MDiv degree). research with Dr James Foreman-Peck in the then returned to the UK to do a PhD at the working on Hackney Empire Theatre, London. Institute of Economics and Statistics at the University of Newcastle. Now a Research Miss Elena F Galiano MA (SS) 1995 Living in . The work examines the Fellow on a research project at the University Miss Tanera M Bryden MA 1994 Currently Rome, working as a “Johnson’s baby”.. determinants of entrepreneurship in France of Leeds. living and working in London. Exhibiting / Meanwhile investigating the opportunity to and the UK. practising painter. move to the UK...... Mr Ernest R Aubee MSc 1993 Appointed Dr Fiona S Stewart PhD 1991 Although still Senior Programme Manager for Action Aid in Dr Steven Joseph Clapcott MSc 1994 Mr Rahul Handa BCom 1995 Qualified as a operating as consultant, currently carrying The Gambia. Also appointed a member of Finished Doctoral Thesis in November 1998 Chartered Accountant and became member out a PGDIP study in Hydrographic Surveying the board of directors, Methodist Mission and was awarded a PhD by Liverpool of the Institute of Chartered Accountants at University of Plymouth to augment Agricultural Programme. University in July 1999. Is now working as a after completing a three year contract with Geological qualifications. Also relocated post doctoral Research Fellow in the Arthur Andersen in August 1998. Accepted Dr Christine J Bishop née Kay PhD 1993 Chris business to UK from Norway Department of Zoology at Oxford University. offer to continue with Arthur Andersen and (1989-92) and Dan (1992-94) Bishop met at His field is mouse genomics. promoted to Executive within the Corporate Mrs Pauline M Walsh née Murphy MA 1991 Edinburgh University, married and moved to Finance division in Scotland. Married Philip Walsh BVMS MRCVS(1993) in New Zealand. Now living in Perth, WA, with Mr Peter J Dalgliesh MA (SS) 1994 Married July 1994. Now has one son, Jack, born two little girls, and working at Woodside Kate Ormond on 24th April 1999. Miss Rachel Holland BSc 1995 Completed a October 1997. Enjoying life and work in Energy. Dr E S Louise Faber BSc 1994 Obtained PhD post-graduate Diploma in Psychology. Wales. Dr Kevin T Corley BSc (V) 1993 BVM&S 1993 from Bristol University in 1998. Post-Doctoral Miss Kerry L Jackson MA 1995 Has been Dr Kathryn Cunningham née Dunlop MB ChB PhD 1997. Engaged to Jennifer Stephen 1999. Research Fellow at Australian National living in Mexico since graduating and has 1992 Married David Cunningham 27/02/98. Currently in USA pursuing further critical University, Canberra, Australia. married a Mexican. Three University friends Miss Laura A Davidson MA 1992 Barrister training. Mr David A Harker BEng 1994 Completed travelled for the wedding in Guadalajara. (Tenant) in London. Nightingale Research Dr Steffan Corley MA 1993 PhD 1998 Works MSc at Newcastle University, now working as Mr Lughano J Kusiluka MPhil 1995 Lecturer Scholar at Trinity Hall, Cambridge. Honorary as a Research Scientist at Sharp Laboratories research associate. in Veterinary Medicine, Sokoine University of Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for of Europe in Oxford. Married Rebecca Bryant Miss Kristina E Knopper MSc 1994 Since Agriculture. PhD candidate in Molecular (also an Edinburgh graduate MA & PhD in October 1998 working at the University of Epidemiology of CBPP and CCPP in Tanzania Philosophy) in 1997 and completed PhD in Maastricht’s Language Centre as a director of at the Royal Veterinary and Agricultural 1998. studies and language trainer in English, University, Copenhagen. Miss Philippa M Hill MA 1993 Managing Pan- responsible for training and development. Mr Ben McNally BSc 1995 Lured away by the Highland 2000, an arts in education project Miss Katharine F Lockett MA 1994 At Kress prospects of GAM starts, has regretfully left involving young people across the Highlands Institution for Paper Conservation at the the world of academia - and transformed in a celebration of culture and change. Strans Centre, Harvard Art Museums in from “Dr Latex” to “Bolly Boy”. Mr Timothy G Howe BMus 1993 MMus 1994 Boston working on their private collections Dr Richard R Moeller PhD 1995 After Married Hayley Murphy (MA Hons French & as well as private works of art on paper. teaching for two years in Las Vegas, , German 1994) in October 1998. Ms Stavroula Moshogianni MSc 1994 Baby USA, obtained position as a Professor of Political Science at the Metropolitan State Dr Michael V Mendler PhD 1993 Appointed boy, born on April Fools Day 1998. College of , USA. Wife is an Reader in Computer Science, Sheffield Miss Ruth A Nicol BSc 1994 Studying for a Obstetrician practising in . University, on 1st February 1999. PhD with the University of Highlands and Miss Cathy Ratcliffe BSc 1995 New post as Mr Osmond Mugweni MSc 1993 Will be lead Islands looking at Employment Creation and Research Assistant in Department of delegate to the World Science Conference to the Environment of the Scottish Rural Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the Ms Alison D Craig BCom 1980 Graduated be held in Hungary in June 1999. Islands. Based in Perth. European Institute of Oncology in Milan, Italy. 1980, qualified as a Chartered Mr David Richardson MA 1993 Married to Miss Jessica M Nightingale MA 1994 Miss Denise J Rosborough MA (SS) 1995 Accountant, moved into management Ruth Ritchie BEd (Hons) on 27/3/99. Operating mim-credit (microframe) schemes Flew to Port Shepstone, South Africa to consultancy. After 13 years with KPMG Graduated from Queens University with PhD for resettled villagers in the rural areas of commence a 19 month contract with an and 1 year with PA Consulting, quit job to in History 1998. Moved to Dublin - studying central Cambodia. interdenominational church as a youth go freelance as a Dressage Trainer in for the Anglican Ministry and Ruth is Dr Timothy W Rideout PhD 1994 Left worker. 1997. Now trains individuals with their teaching. Bartholomew last summer with a colleague own horses and loves it! Also has a Ms C Ross MBA 1995 Moving to London to Miss Imogen C Russon BSc 1993 Presently and launched the XYZ Digital Map Co Ltd, gorgeous 1 year old daughter and work in marketing, possibly for distance- taking a work sabbatical on a round the specialising in large scale town plans, wonderful husband (also a Management starting with Edinburgh. learning management education company. Consultant) - what a wonderful life! world ticket for 6-12 months Miss Caroline J Saunders BCom 1993 Worked Mr Martin S Ritchie MA 1994 Took up a new at Carnaud Metalbox for 2.5 years and now position as Events Manager with BT Scottish Financial Crimes Studies, College of Law, works at Imperial Tobacco in Nottingham. Ensemble June 1998 - a new and exciting University of Florida. Bought a derelict house two years ago and challenge which has included setting up the Ensemble’s first UK tour of cathedrals and Mrs Justine Geyer née Crowe BSc 1992 Had a have done it up. Interests: travelling, trekking churches in December 1998. baby daughter, Anna Geyer, on 22nd April and rock climbing. 1998. Miss Deborah J Smith MA 1993 Has worked Miss Rebecca K Thompson MA 1994 Started ’hanging space’ art gallery in April 1998 Mrs Katheryn Gibbons née Ure BSc 1992 in Cambridge since 1993. Currently a showing young, contemporary artists. Married Mr Russell Gibbons, a senior manager at the examination board. Due to Brasserie Chef at the Golf and marry Alex Howes. Mr Wai C Wong BCom 1994 Took career Country Club, near Edinburgh in June 1998 Mr Matthew T Aitken BEng 1994 break 1998 to be a ski rep with Crystal Holidays in France. Currently Assistant Dr Stephen J Leslie BSc (M) 1992 MB ChB Management Grade, RF Design Engineer at Company Secretary of Chelsea Village (owns 1994 Recent Trans-Africa overland trip by Mitel Semiconductor. Designing front end Chelsea Football Club). landrover from Edinburgh to Capetown via IC’s for Digital Satellite set top box tuners. Middle East, Jan - June 1998. Mr Ian W Baxter MA (SS) 1994 Completed Dr Ana M Echevarria Arsuaga PhD 1995 New book published: ’The Fortress of Faith: The Miss Siobhan A McGrath BMus 1992 PhD in Heritage Management and juggling attitudes towards Muslisms in fifteenth- Teaching in Jebel Ali PS, Dubai, UAE. joint career in University administration and heritage research/consultancy. century Spain’, Leiden: Brill, 1999. Mr David McNierney MBA 1992 Named Vice- Mr Johan Berg LLM 1995 Employed as an President of the Tenfold Corporation Miss Adrianne N Bender MSc 1994 MSc 1995 Awarded James Arthur Fellowship by advisor at the Norwegian Ministry of Justice Telecommunication Group. Tenfold is a fast Dr Gerard De Groot PhD 1984 Recently Graduate School of Arts & Sciences at New and the Police. growing software and services company that published ‘A Noble Cause? America and York University. Currently finishing Ms Andrea Chow BSc 1995 Married 1999. builds large-scale, survival-dependent the Vietnam War’. It examines the military, dissertation in 19th century Scottish solutions in extremely short time frames for a Dr Morten Christiansen PhD 1995 Started political and social aspects of the war in historical fiction. Look forward to seeing old fixed price. new position at Southern University one volume, and has been praised as ‘the friends in Edinburgh this summer. Dr Lindsey Menzies BSc 1992 Gained PhD (Assistant Professor of Psychology) in best single volume history of the Vietnam from Glasgow University in December 1997. Mr Stephen J Blakeway MSc 1994 Now January 1999. War.’ It is currently the 10th most popular working in community animal health and Dr Kathryn Newell MB ChB 1992 Married Dr Mrs Helen M Cooper née Williamson MA book with San Diego based amazon.com welfare education with VETWORK UK. Mark Kroese (MB ChB 1992) at Ashkirk 1995 Dewsbury Education social work is shoppers. Parish Church in the Scottish Borders, Miss Karen J Bold BSc 1994 Completed CIM part-time. 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46 EDiT InformEd Dr David S Sharrock PhD 1995 Birth of first Working for Geo/Environmental Consultant MSc Development Studies, graduated child in July 1998: a gorgeous baby girl called in the Midlands. September 1999. Aislynn Louise. Mr Thomas A Glover Wilson BSc 1997 Spent Mr J Khoury 1998 Hasn’t quite cracked the Mr Greig J Taylor BSc 1995 Currently a year living with his girlfriend (from Santa film industry yet, but is going to go to Brazil completing a PGCE (FE) and serving with 1st Cruz - where he spent his third year) in to make a documentary on the nightclubs Battalion, The Royal Gurkha Regiment. Bordeaux, teaching English and loving it. Has over there. Mr Gregor P Townsend MA (SS) 1995 MBE been in London for several months now and Mrs Penda Lamb née Asquith 1998 Married awarded for services to Rugby Union is forging an entertaining and lucrative career on 8 August 1998 at Chapel Haddlesey, photographs contributed Football. in the financial IT industry. Yorkshire, to Andrew Lamb, also a 1998 Mrs Caroline A Welch née Shaw LLB 1995 Ms Kathryn E Windsor MA 1997 Moved to graduate, and now lives in Scotland Married Keith Welch on 5th September 1998 - Paris 1997. Has worked as an Au Pair and as Miss Larissa M O Litchfield 1998 Starting as met in Brewster House, Pollock Halls 1991. a Bi-lingual Secretary. Having a fantastic time freelance corporate video maker for arts meeting lots of people. Highlight of year Mr Neil A Benson BSc 1996 Spent two years organisations and charities. Preparing to must be participating in the opening working for an HR consultancy; now a make anthropological documentaries in the ceremony of the World Cup. Hopes to move Management Consultant based in Edinburgh. Mr Edward K Miller MA (SS) 1968 future. shortly. Mr Patrick J Burke BVM&S 1996 Working in Completed PhD in Folklore at the Miss Anna Louise McConnachie 1998 Mr Ian G Barnes 1998 Doing postgraduate general practice in Somerset. Spends free University of Texas. Now a full-time Working as a Process Development Engineer study on the MRes course at Edinburgh time drinking cider, ferret racing and morris- performer of Scottish music throughout for Procter and Gamble in Egham, Surrey. University. Undertaking a personal research dancing. North America, and host of a folk music Mr Alan Roy McHardy 1998 Teaching programme on KUT-FM, Austin. Currently project using chlorine-36 cosmogeric dating Miss Gillian M Cuthill MA 1996 Working at Geology to A level & GCSE students at recording 5th CD with Brian McNeill to constrain the ages of rock platforms on The as Touring private field centre in Lochranza, Isle of producing. Most recent CD “The the Isle of Mull, West Scotland. Exhibitions Officer. Arran. Friends welcome to stay. Edinburgh Rambler” has been licensed for Miss Rachel E Bulbulian 1998 Spending 12 Mr Paul R Napper 1998 Began three-year Ms Ursula J Fearn MSc 1996 Project Co- European distribution by Greentrax months travelling in Australia working on contract with Reed Personnel Services to ordinator of Ladywell Friendly Bank, one of Recordings of Cockenzie, Scotland. conservation schemes. the West Lothian Neighbourhood Friendly train for IPD qualification. Miss Fiona M Cameron-Moore 1998 Six Networks. Year 2 of Diploma in Nutritional Miss Claire R Newbon 1998 Working for months with Independent has been Therapy from Institute of Optimum Nutrition accountancy firms. Started working for Christie’s, London. Has participated in interesting but finding the ’mobility’ needed (London). KPMG. impressionist sales and is hoping to work in difficult. Close touch with other alumni of Old Master Department. Ms Emma A Goldberg BSc 1996 Studying for Mr Duncan I Christison LLB 1997 Gained 1998 at weekends in London. an MSc in Conservation at UCL. The one-year Diploma in Legal Practice (Distinction) from Mr Paul Hubertus Leonardus Nillesen 1998 Mr Oliver B C Campbell 1998 Is having a course is quite a challenge and by the end Aberdeen University. Presently working in MSc in Economics for Development - Oxford great time staying in Edinburgh, maintaining shall have proved my mettle. Edinburgh with corporate/commercial law University. Consultant - London Economics as a student lifestyle and looking for work in TV firm. of September 1999. Mr Scott A Gray BCom 1996 Living in and film. Has worked on a 35mm film for a Clapham, working for Andersen Consulting. Mr John A Conway BD 1997 Working as a local production company. Looking to Mr Richard W Orange 1998 Sold Gas for Mr Grant MacPhee BSc 1996 Studying for a Priest at St Mary’s Episcopal Cathedral in the eventually work on scientific documentaries. Scottish Power then qualified and started west end of Edinburgh. Enjoying life. teaching English in Spain. Next ...... ? PhD in Applied Mathematics at Strathclyde Mr C Catto 1998 At University of Warwick University, Glasgow. Mr Marcus P Dill MA 1997 Currently working doing PGCE in Science (secondary). Mr T Paul 1998 Travelling in Asia. Mr Bruce Marsland MSc 1996 Book on for a film financier in London and making Mr Robert W Proctor 1998 Studying for short films in spare time. Misses Edinburgh Mr Alexander J Conway 1998 Embarked on language teaching published by CUP in 1998. World Tour with fellow graduates Graham certificate of postgraduate studies in History

and the space it gave me - London’s just not expressed are those of the contributors. Now working on language issues for Nokia in Menzies and Paul Reynolds. of Art (prior to PhD if funding is available) at Finland. the same! Cambridge University (Clare College). Mr Iain Dobson BSc 1997 Currently helping Mr M Copeland 1998 From September 1998 - Miss Allison McLaren BEng 1996 Working on Law Student - London. Miss Huma Raza 1998 Worked on a environmental projects with Scottish Power other people to get jobs in Aberdeen and photographic exhibition, ’Talking Pictures’, Mr Glenn A Cosby 1998 Seeking employment Plc, a far cry from electrical engineering! hopes to start studying towards a photographs of South Asian women’s in Barcelona and hopes to improve Spanish. Having a great time and looking to progress professional accountancy qualification. lifestyle and culture in Edinburgh (29 January in the field in the future. Mr Hamish D Duncan BVM&S 1997 Married Miss K Datwani 1998 Doing a 1 year diploma - 1 May 1999). Hard work but thoroughly course at Christie’s, in the Fine and Mrs Adela C Mitchell MSc 1996 Teaching Rachel Reynolds, also an Edinburgh enjoyable. Decorative Arts. English as a foreign language in Edinburgh graduate, on 31st July 1999. Mr Robert W Rea 1998 Commenced studying and Paris, alongside Clinical Aromatherapy. Dr Magda C Elliot MB ChB 1997 Paediatrics Miss Georgina L Doughty 1998 Taking a year for DPhil in Plant Genetics in October 1998 at out. Had a summer placement with Mobil Ms Jane M Thom BSc 1996 Set up business in London. Planning to work in Africa 2001. the University of York. North Sea Ltd. Currently working with the with partner and hopes to expand it. Ms Frankie A Fathers MA 1997 Paintings Mr Richard Reeve MA 1998 Studying for an Geology Group at the Hawaii Volcano based on Chinese calligraphy are to be MSc in International Relations at the London Dr Thomas G Velek PhD 1996 Birth of son, Observatory. Avery Ray Velek (first child), 30th May 1998. displayed in the British Council Headquarters School of Economics. Miss Joanna K Eeles 1998 Ran the New York in Beijing. Her work will also be exhibited in a Mr Lindsay Robertson 1998 Left NCR and Mr Ewan Walker BSc 1996 Married, 19th Marathon 1st November 1998 for MacMillan mixed show in London in May 1999. joined Andersen Consulting. Is presently June 1999, to Catriona Wallace who is a Cancer Research. Raised £3,000 and finished Dr Sarah L Gorman MB ChB 1997 Working managing a card services project for a Polish physiotherapy student at QMC. in 3 hours 34 minutes. part-time as a GP trainee and also studying bank. Mr Alistair M Wilkie MSc 1996 After a very Miss S Firmin 1998 Currently studying in part-time for an MSc in Sociology of Health Mr W Snook 1998 Hopefully about to begin successful six-months teaching in the and Health Care. Florence and teaching English there. Solomon Islands returned to Edinburgh and 18 months of helicopter pilot training, Dr Jane Gibson 1998 Took up consultant post working in the Scottish Office Geographical Mr Vasilis P Milingos MSc 1997 Currently possibly in view to flying the new Apache in 1997 as Head of the Fife Rheumatic Information Services as a GIS Consultant. doing Military service in the Greek Army Attack Helicopter. Diseases Unit. Birth of second child Angus. (Division of Informatics) due to end April Mr Gordon Stove BSc 1998 Chief Executive Ms Ina F Barnes MA 1997 Doing a one-year 2000. Eilidh is 3. postgraduate at Oxford in Museum of own radar information technology Miss Fiona Girdler 1998 Studying for a PhD Ethnography. Miss Alison C Mitchell LLB 1997 Passed company. Going very well. Global Patent graduate conversion chartered accountancy at Newcastle University doing research in pending. Miss Claire Boffey LLB 1997 Due to be exams in 1998. Move to Grant Thornton, breast cancer. married on 15/06/00 to Richard Moir. Passed Miss Polly Anne Sutherland 1998 Doing a Farnham. Joined Aldershot and Farnham Mr James A Gustard 1998 Developing British second level ICAS exams and progressing computer course to gain an RSA 3 certificate, hockey club, playing 2nd XI. Airways world class electronic commerce well at work. Spent a couple of months going to the gym every day and doing a child platform. working abroad through job. Ms Catherine M Nelson-Shaw MA 1997 care fund processing course. Started at Boots, September 1997. Positions Miss Joanne Hamill 1998 Moving from Mr Richard A Buchanan BSc 1997 Graduated Mr Christian C Velten 1998 Worked in a include Boots the Chemists Consumer PR Faculty of Medicine to Faculty of Science and with an MSc in Analytical Chemistry from the psychiatric hospital, then left for central and Halfords Business Development. Engineering at the University to take up University of Huddersfield, November 1998. Africa, April 1999. Currently working in product management at Senior Admin/Deputy Faculty Officer post. Returned to the University of Huddersfield in Boots the Chemists. Dr Renata Viera 1998 Teaching Artificial December 1998 to work at the Centre for Miss Geraldine Harrison 1998 Internship for Intelligence and Human Computer Thermal Studies. Mr Piers G Pepperell BVM&S 1997 the Liberal Democrats until 6th May 1999. Interaction in Sao Leopolde, Brazil. Continuing veterinary career in large animals, Hopes to continue and wants to work in the Dr Mehmet A Buyukkara PhD 1997 Was Mr Duncan J Wilson 1998 After six months helping to start up England’s smallest zoo in Scottish Parliament as a Researcher. appointed Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Ilabiyat voluntary human rights work in Colombia, Somerset. Also keen member of Somerset Miss N Heron 1998 From October 1998 to (Theology) at the Canakkale Onsetizmart Operatic Society playing a lead role in 101 will start a Masters degree in Sweden. University, Turkey in September 1998. August 1999 travelled in Australia and Dalmations - the Musical. Thailand. From September 1999 undertaking Miss Helen E Campbell LLB 1997 After Mrs Sarah Louise Roberts née Aldridge BEng MSc in Industrial Relations and Personnel graduating spent 14 months working and 1997 Married February 1999; started MSc in Management at the London School of travelling in Australasia. 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Mealto remember

“I was not fazed by raw fish and octopus in coconut cream, sea urchins, or the Palolo reef worm”

A Little Local Delicacy

PLAIN SUBURBAN house in Auckland cranberry sauce, roast beef and lamb - but all together? may not seem a particularly exotic place And then my host, with a twinkle in her eye, directed to have a memorable lunch, but the my attention to the one remaining dish, the ‘pièce de circumstances were a bit unusual. We résistance’ served in a beautiful cut crystal bowl - corned had just disembarked for the day from beef straight out of the tin and raw onion! theA P & O liner ‘Oronsay’ on our way to Fiji and the Polynesian island of Samoa. (It used to be called After lunch my uncle took me for a drive over the ‘Western’ in those days. Remember the Welsh rugby harbour bridge. “One or two things I thought you quip? - ‘It’s a good job we are only playing Western ought to know,” he said. “This extended family Samoa and not the whole of it.’) business, can be a bit of a pain. Let me pass on some advice. When you get to the Islands put on a party. My wife’s auntie wanted to be the first to introduce Invite the lot of them. Don’t skimp on the booze. me to Polynesian hospitality: to meet the extended They’ll expect you to make a speech. Tell them how family and savour some of the island delicacies. As guest happy you are to meet them. Explain that as they know of honour I was conducted around the table. Each dish what you look like, and you know what they look like, was given a name and a brief description of what it they can now all clear off.” contained. I was not fazed by raw fish and octopus in coconut cream, sea urchins, or the Palolo reef worm that Good advice? - or bad? I do not know. But we are still spawns in the moonlight one night in the year. I knew here and frequently have taro and corned beef for lunch. about breadfruit and taro even though the latter had been described to me as looking and tasting like boiled concrete. I knew about chop suey, sweet and sour, egg fu JOHN ATHERTON, MB ChB 1964 yong, baked fish, curry, suckling pig and turkey, Apia Samoa

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