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King’s Winter 2009 Magazine for members of King’s College, Cambridge PARADE Will King’s offer green leadership? Rupert Brooke’s personal effects Educating true innovators KING’SNEWS Welcome to the New King’s book: order your copy winter edition be ordered at a special pre-publication price of £29.50. Use the order form in the brochure enclosed in this issue of King’s To talk of the physical beauty of Parade, or online at www.tmiltd.com. King’s is to say nothing new. And if you subscribe before 31 July 2010 Anyone who has spent time in the you can have your name published in a College will no doubt have shared special subscribers’ index in the book. the sensation that each day it is as The book is first and foremost an if they are seeing the Chapel anew, anthology of good writing, with contribu- as the light and the seasons change tors choosing aspects of King’s which have its demeanour. particular significance for them and explor- ,QWKLVLVVXH\RXZLOO¿QGPRUH ing them in prose, verse, photography and creative attempts to capture the illustration. For some, it is the ghosts of wonder of King’s: the College is Alan Turing or John Saltmarsh who still haunt the College; for others, the views of compiling an exciting new book about King’s which is guaranteed teachers like Tony Tanner, Edmund Leach C to inspire; it will be full of words, or Bernard Williams have stayed in the mind. Some contributors look back at John images and photographs by the Maynard Keynes and Frank Ramsey; others great and the good – and less Photographer Martin Parr in action. remember the events – and criticise – some known members of the College – of the last 20 or 30 years with the entry of all trying to express how they feel WHAT DO LORD CLARKE, the former women and the role of radicalism. about the place. Martin Parr’s Master of the Rolls and Jan Pienkowski – Some contributors are well-known: photographs will no doubt be a author and illustrator of the Meg and Mog Martin Bell, the ‘man in the white suit’, Lily major highlight of the book. children’ books – have in common? They Cole, actress, model and undergraduate, On page 4 you can also read are both contributors to A Book of King’s, Sir David Willcocks CBE, Richard Fortey, Catering Director, Jason Waterfield, and about photographer Tony Eva’s a new book about the College. geologist and writer. Others are recent h images which look at the Chapel in The book will be a compendium of graduates: Tansy Troy, teacher and travel- quite new ways. writing about the College by current and ler, Anna Trench, illustrator and writer, Education is all about new ways former members, which explores, analyses Decca Muldowney, still an undergradu- of seeing. David Good is looking and displays the remarkable range of ate. All offer written fresh, stimulating or at new ways to make education talents that the College has nurtured since unusual pieces. The Editor is Kingsman Karl ZRUNWREHWWHUEHQH¿WVWXGHQWVLQ its foundation over 550 years ago. Sabbagh. One of Britain’s leading contem- porary photographers, Martin Parr, will be WKHPRGHUQDJHZKLOH.LQJ¶V¿UVW It will be published by Third Millennium Publishing in late October 2010. The book taking ‘fly on the wall’ photos especially; black student Yaba Badoe, and all will be priced £40 on publication, but can indeed you may spot him around College. the books on page 15, offer fresh ways of interpreting the world. Have a happy winter and I hope New Fellows arrive at King’s you enjoy the issue. THIS YEAR WE have an exceptionally large in Mathematics Nathanaël Berestycki Charlotte Sankey group of Fellows arriving, and a group of (France) reinforces the team; and in Law Editor exceptionally diverse origins. Although we have appointed Brian Sloan (UK) to the many Fellows remain at King’s for a life- Bob Alexander Lectureship in Law, a post time, we are continually having to recruit for which we rely on the support of many new teaching Fellows to replace those who King’s NRMs. retire or leave Cambridge. King’s welcomed four JRFs to the Col- f Physics, Politics and Economics are each lege. They faced competition from 230 ap- being reinforced with two new Fellows, plicants and hold post until 2013. They are: Sebastian Ahnert (born in Germany) and Mairead McAuley, who is looking at The editor, Charlotte Sankey, welcomes your news and suggestions Nick Vamivakas (USA), Christopher Brooke maternity in Roman times and Rowan for articles. Please contact her at: (UK) and Sharath Srinivasan (Australia), and Boyson (KC 2003), who studies pleasure in [email protected] Guillerme Carmona (Portugal) and Wordsworth and the Enlightenment. Taw- Tel: 01223 767361 Mauricio Prado (Italy), respectively; after fique Hasan works on dispersing graphene Printed on recycled paper by several years without a Fellow teach- flakes from natural graphite; John Duncan Labute Printers ing German we have appointed Godela on structures in geometry and physics, and Weiss-Sussex (Germany); in Anthropology Elizabeth Murchison who works on trans- missible cancers in Tasmanian devils. we welcome back Perveez Mody (India); 2 | editorial KING’SNEWS Food fit for a Queen Grantchester Meadows. The starter was organic salmon and artichoke, or local Cambridge Bleat goat’s cheese. The coffee was of course Fairtrade, and accompanied by petit fours. The guests at the lunch were all long-serving employees of the University. The Queen was met at the Gate House by the Provost, the Vice-Chancellor of the University, Professor Alison Richard, and the Lord Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire. She walked around the First Court, past cheer- r e t x a ing schoolchildren from King’s College B n a c School, and staff, students and Fellows n u D of the College. She was led into the Hall, where she was treated to music from the The Queen with HRH Prince Philip, Chancellor of the University, and the Vice King’s Choral Scholars. Chancellor Alison Richard. After lunch, the royal party moved on to Senate House for a formal ceremony to WHEN THEY HEARD that the Queen and mark the 800th anniversary of the Univer- Duke of Edinburgh were to come to lunch sity. The Queen received a Loyal Address in November the King’s Catering Depart- and responded by praising the ‘enormous ment had two things on their minds: to contribution that Cambridge has made to provide a faultless operation in serving up the life and well-being of this country’. lunch to the 205 guests and to create a She also sealed the final box in a set of menu with meaning. archive boxes containing 800 ‘Letters to Catering Director, Jason Waterfield, and the Future’ written by Vice-Chancellors his team decided to create a meal with of partner universities, members of the an ethical note. The centrepiece was beef University and local children. from Red Poll cattle, now a rare breed, The 800th celebrations will end with a which are reared on local Cambridge winter finale in the New Year. See more at commons, including the King’s-owned www.800.cam.ac.uk Have you been a catalyst for the future? OVER 450 of you donated to the Annual cant impact. Also it importantly Fund 2009 and succeeded in raising a huge increases the College’s participation rate £190,000 despite the financial climate. (the percentage of members who give in Thank you very much to all of you who the year). The higher our participation rate, donated. Students arriving and returning the more leverage we have in obtaining in October directly benefited from your funds from trusts, foundations and other generosity: your gift may be the catalyst sources, so your gift is doubly useful! that sparks the next ground-breaking Thank you for being a catalyst for the Dante Quartet plays again innovation for HIV prevention, musical first future. THE DANTE QUARTET, which celebrates or internationally-celebrated scholar. its 40th birthday this year, is entering its For the first time, we asked all King’s Annual Fund: fourth year in residence at King’s. It is one members to make a gift to the Annual facts and figures of the finest quartets in the UK, known for Fund 2009 which provided for the College’s the emotional intensity of its performances most urgent educational needs: student > 650+ gifts made and imaginative programming. support (bursaries), student supervisions > Most popular gift value: £20 The Quartet performs three concerts a year and teaching, and student accommodation > £190,000+ raised at King’s. Central to its philosophy is reach- and facilities. We called 600 of you and > Be one of the first to donate to the ing out to the community, holding master wrote to the rest, and you gave well over Annual Fund for 2010. Visit www. classes for both students and children. The 650 gifts amounting to over £190,000. kingsmembers.org, call +44 (0)1223 2009/10 season features music by Haydn, While we received several extremely 331313 or write to the Development Smetana and Sibelius and Dvorak. Look out generous gifts, the most common value Office, King’s College, CB2 1ST. for a fuller feature about the Quartet in a of donation was £20. The cumulation of future issue of King’s Parade. many more modest gifts makes a signifi- 3 | news KING’SNEWS NEWS IN BRIEF Galbraith, Bird and Fortune do it again exclusive performance that included new material, at > A recording of A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols has the London Event last October on the theme of the been added by the US Library financial crisis.