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April '03.Indd News & views for staff and Fellows of Jesus College Easter 2003 @jesus Spring has Tying the knot SMS online! Edmund Adson What can the sprung... at Jesus. who? Nurse do for p2 p4 p2 p2 you? p4 To your chariots! A place in history awaits... Ashley Meggitt - IT Manager 1961. Although he hadn’t trained for over a year he came through to win asked my colleagues in the IT de- and thus maintained his record of I partment if they had every heard having never lost a 1500m or mile race of Herb Elliot. Apart from Rob (an - fantastic. athletics afi cionado) the question gen- erated some interesting answers such Ah yes, this is all very interesting but as ‘wasn’t that a character from the where is it leading us. Well, the enthu- Sage Garden’ and ‘Yes thanks I’ll have siastic trip through this little traveled a cup of that if it’s going’. Herb Elliot, byway of College history, is an attempt as everyone outside the IT department to catch you in the act of wondering if knows, was the world record holder you too might join Herb Elliot in the and Olympic Gold medallist at the College archives as someone who ran 1500m. He is regarded as one of the for Jesus - so to speak. This isn’t as far fi nest 1500m and milers the world has fetched as you might think - already ever seen and, believe it or not, he was there are a number of the College staff a Jesus College student. OK, so he is an and Fellows who have achieved this, Australian as well but we shouldn’t let and they’ve done it through the annual that blemish spoil things - he was bril- Chariots of Fire relay race. liant. Amateurism at that time (1960) 1998 Chariots of Fire Team was so strict that he found it increas- In September 1998 the College entered ingly diffi cult to both train and hold 5 teams, spurred on by the Master at occasion with a big show of support down a full time job, which he needed the time, Professor David Crighton, by entering as many teams as possible. to sustain himself and his young fam- who competed in the race himself. To Although it would be great to win the our surprise the College ‘A’ team won collegiate cup again in this special year , “it is... the taking part the Collegiate Cup and received the it is - as many of those who have run in that counts.” trophy from a delighted Sir Arthur the Chariots of Fire know - the taking Marshall, who founded the race. Since part that counts. ily. So at the age of 22 he hung up then the College has entered a least his running shoes. It was at this point one team every year, although we have So why not contact either Paul Stearn that he arrived at Jesus College to read never regained the cup (came a close ([email protected]) or Phil Natural Sciences (sponsored by Shell, second in 1999). Shepard ([email protected]) his employers at the time). Herb was an and run, stagger, or crawl your way into obvious choice to represent Cambridge This year will be Sir Arthur Marshall’s history. University in the Varsity Match mile in 100th and we would like to mark this EDITORIAL We would welcome feed- back about @ Jesus - what Spring has sprung Rob Spragg you like or don’t like about it, topics you would like his edition provides news of wildlife in before Easter. Paul covered in future issues, Tand around the College this springtime. Stearn has also spotted ideas for future articles. a Coaltit, which alighted One exciting recent development was the briefl y on the peanut If you want to write an appearance of a Water Rail (rallus aquaticus), feeder attached to the article yourself, either as in an area of Gardener’s new, three- a one-off or as a regular the Woodland tier bird table. Look contribution, please let us Walk between Coaltit out for updates and know. the cricket- pictures from the bird table in future editions. outfi eld and Email: the stream that With the arrival of spring come the returning borders Jesus migrants, such as the swifts you may newsletter@ Green. This have spotted hawking above the College. jesus.cam.ac.uk Water Rail is exciting not Incidentally, did you know that swifts spend because rails are uncommon, but because around 95% of their lives in the air, even they are very secretive birds spending most of ‘roosting’ there? Other visitors to look out their time feeding amongst the reeds, hardly for are cuckoos, chiffchaffs, house martins, ever breaking cover. Water Rails have a very swallows and spotted fl ycatchers. IN BRIEF distinctive and unusual call, often described as a pig-like squeal. The Woodland Walk is Pilkington particularly attractive Teaching Prize The Head Gardener reports that many of the at the moment, nest boxes dotted around College are in use, not with many bluebells Dr Geoff Parks has been always by their intended inhabitants – blue tits appearing amongst awarded one of this year’s have invaded a woodpecker box, for instance. the cow parsley (hay Pilkington Teaching Prizes. Since the last issue, the writer has noticed, fever sufferers beware These are awarded by the amongst other things: a Green Woodpecker Spotted Flycatcher during May when the Trustees of the Cambridge (picus viridis), near the hockey pitch; a pair cow parsley will fl ower). Foundation in recognition of Goldfi nches (carduelis carduelis), near the Also, you don’t have to very keen-eyed to of excellence in teaching. Victoria Road gate; and a Mandarin Duck (aix notice the Wisteria fl owering nicely in First and The prize will be presented galericulata), which paid us a brief visit just Chapel Courts. to Geoff by the Vice- Chancellor at a special awards ceremony in July. We offer our congratulations to Porters, porters everywhere... Geoff on the award of this Frances Willmoth grates and cleaning knives. He eventually be- prestigious prize. came Porter, with more general responsibility istorically speaking, that is – the holders of for the knives: those belonging to the students’ Hthis ancient offi ce seem to be cropping up table had to be displayed to the Steward once a increasingly often in enquiries addressed to the mPulse.NET quarter, and if students used them in their own College Archives. Some of these enquiries will rooms the Porter could charge 2d a dozen for Sending an SMS via be easy to answer in the future, as Mrs Rachel cleaning them. Catley retired to Great Chester- mPulse.NET saves you mon- Wroth has recently carried out a major study of ford in 1841 as rather a prosperous man. ey and supports the College. nineteenth-century college servants and has just presented us with a digest of the information Benjamin Diver was one of six brothers (and The College has recently she has collected about Jesus employees. Here another half dozen other relatives) who all signed up with mPulse.NET. are a few extracts: worked in various colleges. One, John Diver, For each SMS sent the Col- was Cook at Jesus, and helped clear Benjamin’s lege receives a small referral William Harvey, Porter in 1815, was paid more name when he was unjustly accused of stealing fee. Register online and you than three pounds extra each year for looking silver from the Buttery in 1839. Benjamin was can send low cost text mes- after the College’s lamps and three shillings extra Porter here by 1841; he was still alive in 1851 but sages from any PC! for providing evergreens to decorate the Hall at had died by 1854. Meanwhile, he was involved Christmas. in running the University Servants’ Sports Club, www.jesus.cam.ac.uk/ and was interested in fi shing: his copy of The fl y internal John Catley was taken on as resident under- fi sher’s entomology has recently come up for porter in 1823, with such duties as cleaning Disability Rhona Watson : IN PROFILE Discrimination Act QUINCENTENARY LIBRARIAN The Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) comes into effect in 2004. The law concerns staff, Fellows, students tion. Soon afterwards we started a complete and members of the public. We are history re-classifi cation of the books and making major required to make reasonable efforts to came to Jesus College just over 10 years ago improvements to the bookstock. ensure that people with disabilities can I from the Marshall Library of Economics. visit, work and live in the College and have access to the facilities that able Coming from a busy departmental library to a present and future relatively quiet college environment was quite a bodied people enjoy. change. At that time the War Memorial Library More recently I have been involved in the intro- (on A & B staircases) was nearing the end of its duction of the University Library’s Newton cata- In the case of the College this includes life and did not have space to accommodate me or logue based on Voyager software and MARC21 my computer. An offi ce was fi tted up for me and coding. This has meant a two-year planning and • Access to and into the College the old two-pin plug was replaced so that our fi rst development process and the systems are still be- grounds ever computer could be installed. Jill Richardson ing adjusted and refi ned. MARC21 is the new • Access and parking for wheelchairs continued to run the library for six months while international standard coding language which and cars driven by disabled Members I started to prepare the library’s fi rst automated provides a means of describing anything from and visitors catalogue.
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