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2017 ST CATHARINE’S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE St Catharine’s Magazine 2017 ST CATHARINE’S MAGAZINE 2017 St Catharine’s College, Cambridge CB2 1RL Published by the St Catharine’s College Society. Porters’ Lodge/switchboard: 01223 338 300 © 2017 The Master and Fellows of St Catharine’s College, Fax: 01223 338 340 Cambridge. College website: www.caths.cam.ac.uk Society website: www.caths.cam.ac.uk/society – Printed in England by Langham Press some details are only accessible to registered members (www.langhampress.co.uk) on (see www.caths.cam.ac.uk/society/register) elemental-chlorine-free paper from Branch activities: www.caths.cam.ac.uk/society/branches sustainable forests. TABLE OF CONTENTS Editorial .................................................................................4 I Bet You Haven’t Heard of Fellrunning ................... 49 2015 Matriculands ............................................................50 College Report 2016 Matriculands ...........................................................52 From the Master .................................................................6 New Graduate Students 2016 ......................................55 The Fellowship.................................................................... 7 University Scholarships and Prizes ............................57 New Fellows ......................................................................10 College Prizes ....................................................................57 Retirements and Farewells ............................................11 College Scholarships ......................................................58 Reverend John St Hilary Mullett .................................11 PhDs approved 2016–7 ................................................. 60 Senior Tutor’s Report ...................................................... 13 Admissions Tutors’ Report ............................................14 Society Report Bursar’s Report .................................................................16 President’s Report ...........................................................62 Alumni and Development Report ..............................17 Society Committee 2017–8 ...........................................63 Library Report ...................................................................18 The Society President 2017–8 ......................................63 Chapel and Chaplaincy Report...................................19 The Society Reunion 2017 ............................................ 64 The 2016 Commemoration of Benefactors Society Awards ................................................................ 68 Sermon ...........................................................................20 Acheson-Gray Day.......................................................... 69 Choir Activities, 2016–7 .................................................. 21 The Society Box at Lord’s, 23 June .............................70 Kellaway Concerts, 2016–7............................................22 Society Presidents’ Dinner ............................................70 Staff News ..........................................................................23 Branch Reports .................................................................70 Jenni Sidey .........................................................................23 Honours and Awards ......................................................74 St Catharine’s and the International Publications .......................................................................76 Chemistry Olympiad ..................................................24 Selected Reviews ............................................................. 77 Glen Cavaliero’s 90th Birthday ....................................24 Notices.................................................................................81 Professor Sir Alan Battersby’s Medals .......................25 News of Members ...........................................................93 The St Catharine’s Lectures ..........................................25 Associate Membership ................................................. 99 Photography Competition ...........................................25 St Catharine’s Guild ...................................................... 100 Graduate Research Seminars ......................................26 STEM in Song ....................................................................26 Articles News from the JCR ..........................................................28 Early Maps ........................................................................102 News From The MCR ...................................................... 31 250th Anniversary of Addenbrooke’s Hospital... 106 Societies ..............................................................................33 The David Attenborough Building ......................... 109 Sports Clubs ......................................................................36 25 Years a Catz Porter ................................................... 110 Alleycatz..............................................................................45 John Bacchus Dykes (1843)..........................................111 Kittens ..................................................................................45 John Purvis (1909) and Harry Otty (1908)...............115 Worcester College Sports Day ................................... 46 Overland to India in 1962 .............................................117 Blues and Colours ............................................................47 Trekking Nepal’s Langtang Valley in March 2017 . 121 Rifle Shooting in Cambridge ...................................... 48 An unexpected hoard .................................................. 125 Notes & Dates .................................................................128 The cover picture shows Jenni Sidey, Fellow in Engineering, in her Canadian Space Agency uniform (See p23), superimposed on a picture of the Catharina Crater on the Moon. (Picture of Jenni © Canadian Space Agency.) 3 ST CATHARINE’S MAGAZINE 2017 EDITORIAL It seems that the dream of St Catharine’s acquiring the Old Press Site and perhaps linking it to the Main Site by tunnelling under Silver Street (as Emmanuel College under Emmanuel Street) is finally dead – killed by planning restrictions and only leasehold being available. Following the decision not to pursue the scheme, serious consideration is being given to expanding student accommodation elsewhere. See the Bursar’s Report. As you may have noticed from the cover, one of our fellows is training to be an astronaut. The cover shows Jenni Sidey in her astronaut uniform superimposed on a picture of the Catharina crater on the moon. Before he and his family moved in, the Master asked if there were any ghost stories associated with the Master’s Lodge. The College Archivist could not find any. The only hauntings on record date from the 1920s and are associated with Sky Hall above the Sherlock Library and a ground-floor room in the southwest corner of the Main Court. It is not clear if this is Old Lodge or, more likely, the Society Secretary’s and Editor’s office on C staircase! In October 2016, after his first week in office, the Master wrote ‘The week’s great excitement in the Lodge was the opening of the safe in the Lodge Parlour. The keys had been lost and the contents were unknown. I arranged for a safe breaker to come in and open it. Alas, all hopes of finding a hidden stash of jewels or gold were dashed; there were just a few children’s scribbles.’ Also in October, the College once again assisted in the filming of the TV series Grantchester, this time for the Christmas Special edition. The rear gates of College were used and Queens’ Lane covered in a generous dusting of realistic artificial snow (pictured right), some of which trod through into College. The cast and crew shared lunch with us in Hall and there were opportunities for selfies with stars James Norton and Robson Green. The Bursar remarked that it was a financially worthwhile booking. I have to apologise for missing many names from the list of matriculands and using the wrong matriculation photograph in the 2016 edition. The online edition is correct and this edition contains lists for both 2015 and 2016 matriculations. Once again I thank the Librarian, Colin Higgins, for handling book reviews and Chris Thorne for liaison with students. Finally and sadly, as we go to press, we learn of the death of Honorary Fellow Sir Peter Hall (1950); an obituary will appear in the 2018 Magazine. Roger Stratford 4 CHRIS Watts EPORT R COLLEGE ST CATHARINE’S MAGAZINE 2017 FROM THE MASTER On 30 September 2016 I was admitted as the 39th Master of St Catharine’s College raser -F so that as I write my first report for the Society Magazine I will have been in post for just one year. tafford S The process of appointing a new Master varies from college to college. My UENTIN own engagement with St Catharine’s started sometime in the Summer of 2015 Q when a Catz fellow had a ‘word’ with me. This was not the first time that I had been approached by a college, but on this occasion it was the right time and, in my perception, it was the right college; I wrote a covering letter, produced a CV and sent it in. After a couple of months I found out that I was on a shortlist of six and that I needed to spend a day in College meeting various groups culminating in a presentation to the Fellowship followed by dinner. This took