KING’S PARADE January 2008 a newsletter for members of King’s College, Cambridge Editor’s Letter College news What you had to say... When I met former King’s Chaplain Patrick Magee at the Foundation Lunch Last spring the Development Office sent 3000 Non-Resident Members a survey asking what you thought about King’s and last March and learned that he was living your experience as students here. The College wanted to know in retirement with a Muslim family in about your preferences and interests and to hear your views Morocco, I asked him for his reflections. about communications and events at King’s. Six hundred and fifty These, together with the fact that Director NRMs from matriculation years 1944 to 2003 returned the survey. of Music, Stephen Cleobury, took the Choir to the Istanbul Music Each question was divided into two parts. The first part asked Festival in June have provided an excuse to show you some King’s you for a ranking and the second for your comments. You had Islamic artefacts as well as to juxtapose one iconic building with quite a lot to say and your answers have given us many ideas another. (King’s Chapel, completed in 1547, took over a hundred about how we might do some things differently. years to build; the Blue Mosque, completed in 1616, took less than One finding was that, in spite of the College running several ten…) well-publicised events for Non-Resident Members each year, many of you still did not know about them. Many of you also There’s no soft centre to this issue. The profile features Professor said that you felt you had to wait too long to see friends from Megan Vaughan (KC 2003), an African history expert who works on your year group at reunions, or that you would like to come to slavery and famine; and Leila Blacking (KC 1995) writes about her an event that welcomed families. hands-on work for the Red Cross at the end of the long Liberian In response to your requests, the events programme has been civil war. More than eighty King’s members currently live in Africa redesigned to welcome NRMs back to College once every five – King’s Parade welcomes your news and feedback. years, and we will also be running an annual family-friendly event starting in 2008. A special black tie event has been added This issue also announces some anniversaries – the King’s for years reaching the 50th, 55th and 60th anniversary of their Singers’ 40th (they are giving a concert in King’s in May), and matriculation. King’s Voices, the College’s mixed voice choir, have reached their Another surprise was that so few of you knew that you all 10th anniversary. The Boat Club’s 150th anniversary is providing automatically become members of the King’s College Association an opportunity for members to come for a dinner in June, and to upon graduation. The Association runs the annual KCA Day fit in some nostalgic rowing too. Please also send in your rowing in King’s and sponsors the publication of the King’s Register, recollections for a new book on the club – addressed to the the Who’s Who of Kingsmen – the last one was published in 1998 and records details of Members up to and including those secretary of KCBC, Matthew Tancock. matriculating in 1990. In addition to asking for a new register to Your responses to the recent email survey have resulted in a be published, you overwhelmingly favoured a password-protected reinvigorated programme of events as well as more forward online address book to keep in touch with friends. The KCA is taking on both of these projects in the coming year and will be planning. See the back page for full details, and reunion information contacting you to ensure that information about you is accurate for 2009 and 2010. both in the Register and online. This is my last issue of King's Parade. Thank you for all your In the survey you were also asked how you would like to be contributions, letters, suggestions, enthusiasm and support as this contacted by the College. Some of you prefer to be contacted publication has grown and developed over the last ten years. by post and others by email and even that depends on the subject of the communication. Increasingly, your individual With my good wishes for the future, preferences will be taken into consideration. Alison Carter Your comments provided marvellous, often inspiring insights into what you think the College does well and helpful [email protected] suggestions about what it could do better. Thank you for taking the time to let the College know what you think. Full results of the survey can be found online at: www.kings.cam.ac.uk/ development Everyone who filled out the survey was entered into a draw for either a case of College wine or dinner in the Saltmarsh Room and a night in the Rylands Suite. 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3 | college news Parade Profile: Megan Vaughan Megan Vaughan (KC 2003) is Smuts Professor of Commonwealth History and a Fellow of the British Academy. She has carried out extensive field and archival research in Malawi, Zambia and Mauritius. She tells Alison Carter about her work.

Creating the Creole Island: slavery in eighteenth- century Mauritius brings to life the complex ways in which a completely new society was formed on the once-uninhabited island (then called Île de France). Megan provides close readings of the fine human detail from legal records, correspondence and travel PHOTO: W. NOWIKOWSKI PHOTO: accounts. The island went within a lifetime from being a slave destination to being itself a place of origin. As she documents the increasingly slippery definitions of freedom, race and ethnicity in use before and after the French Revolution, she reflects back some of our contemporary concerns about multiculturalism and identity.

She deals head on with the slave trade and Megan Vaughan’s work has centred on its economic preoccupations with mortality. the social history of rural communities In assessing the evidence for contemporary and their responses to slavery, famine, attitudes, she turns to a revealing account by disease and labour migration, and has M. Brugevin, the captain of the French slave always involved oral historical research. “If ship Licorne in 1787. Reporting on the causes someone tells you that the goats sold by a of mortality (to a member, incidentally, of famine victim changed into snakes when the anti-slavery lobby in Paris), he says that their new owners took them home,” she the real cause was not so much the terrible asks, “what weight do you give this kind of and prevalent dysentery as a very particular information?” This kind of question is her kind of fear. “What is most detrimental … bread and butter. Although she deals with is the prejudice, inculcated in them since slavery, famine and disease – her accounts childhood, that the whites come to their of these several grim reapers always have shores to abduct them, to take them to human voices. their own land in order to eat them and to drink their blood.” This belief, he says, We are talking in Megan’s study – her led to slaves literally dying of fear. But, rooms are in one of the medieval buildings Megan contends, the slave trade really was a behind the façade of King’s Parade, all bloodsucking enterprise. narrow doorways, sloping floors, steep stairs and twisted timbers. I’ve just been reading “In East and Central Africa there’s a long- her moving new book about slavery in standing trope, which is that rich people Mauritius, with its detailed reporting of the are sucking blood out of poor people,” she fears of slaves and traders, and I feel I’m at explains. People literally think the blood is Megan Vaughan Professor profile: parade sea in an old wooden ship. being sucked out of them. “When you ask, | 4 now, who is sucking the blood, people say it’s agents of the the fiction was that no-one was ever hungry.” She was followed government, but that they’re not sucking it for themselves but around by special branch, monitoring her interviews. “I would to send to Washington DC in a pipeline.” In the Malawi villages ask ‘Have there been any famines since 1949?’ And people where she was working recently a young man appeared with a would say yes, yes! But then others would chip in and say no, pin prick in his arm saying that people had come in the night, no – you’re not supposed to say that!” drugged him and taken his blood. “The village headman made a fuss and the government was forced into making a statement, The book is subtitled, Gender and Famine in Twentieth Century saying rather comically, ‘No self-respecting government could Malawi, and it was through gathering oral history that the suck the blood from its people’.” gender dimension came out. “Women were saying things like, ‘Oh, that was the year when all our husbands left’. And I She talks about Malawi with deep familiarity and fondness didn’t know about that.” She then addressed what she saw as – she taught at the University there for several years after the gap in the ‘entitlement theory’ of famine. Nobel laureate doing her PhD (on slavery in the 19th century) and has kept Amartya Sen’s Poverty and Famines (1981) was and is still very up her connection. But her first contact with Africa was as influential. “If you can have a famine in a place where there’s a school leaver –she did VSO in Swaziland. She grew up in actually plenty of food around, what you have to understand is London and Surrey, attending a girls how people access that food – how do they grammar school and then Atlantic gain their ‘entitlement’ to food. What these College in Wales. Her father was a “If"If you can have a famine in women were saying to me was that men and local government officer from South women had different ways of getting access Wales, her mother from the East End a place where there’s actually to food and that in a crisis, women were of London, and she and her sister the plenty of food around, what particularly vulnerable because men had first in the family to go to university. more access to the wage economy. Women “There wasn’t much scope for doing you have to understand is were more tied to their home and children African history at the University how people access that food and less mobile, and marital relationships of Kent!” she laughs. “So I did were fragile.” Megan’s working definition of – how do they gain their medieval history but worked closely famine is thus a more social one. “People with anthropologists.” In 1986 she ‘entitlement’ to food." themselves say ‘this was a period when we became Rhodes Lecturer and then, in didn’t behave normally’. What was striking 1996, Professor of Commonwealth then, and it’s the same today – when there’s Studies in Oxford. She remains an been a crisis, especially in rural areas, where Emeritus Fellow of Nuffield College. “My work has been shaped there are very strong social and economic obligations – is the by Malawi – because it’s one of the poorest and most rural real shame and anxiety people feel when they’ve been unable countries in Africa, I ended up working on poverty.” Megan to fulfil those obligations. People feel very, very unhappy. In has been a trustee for Oxfam, sat on an advisory committee a famine crisis, people do things they wouldn’t otherwise do, working on food, land and gender issues and was involved in including abandoning elderly people and children, or selling the work of The Commission for Africa, which reported in their children.” 2005. Her work has dovetailed with and informed evolving academic discourses and public perceptions of poverty and She had personal experience of the famine in Malawi in 2002. famine, its causes and cures. “The first sign I saw of it was a whole calendar year earlier. People were queuing to buy bran, which is used as a filler if “There was a period in the 1970s when Africa was a seen as you don’t have anything else. It was a sign that something continent in a crisis of food production. Now that work is was wrong.” As a European, was it hard to find food? “No, no, being heavily critiqued for misrepresenting what was actually there’s food around, but if you’re poor you can’t get hold of it.” going on.” Politically it matters whether you say there’s a food She thinks the corruption problem is insoluble for as long as shortage or a famine. You can cover it up – or decide to call it African countries are so dependent on aid. “Any mechanism a crisis and try and attract attention to it. And then, she asks, of accountability is intercepted by the aid economy. In the for it to be called a famine, do people have to die in large Malawi famine, some politicians hoarded food and then sold numbers? Now, with the HIV/Aids crisis, it’s almost impossible it at very high prices. It was corrupt – this was the national to distinguish a famine death from another kind of death. “The grain store. But on the other hand the IMF had been telling images we have come out of the big famines, mostly politically the government to sell some of it, because they thought they constructed, in the Horn of Africa, with camps and people should be operating the grain store as a market institution. starving and dying of disease. The famine in Malawi is much Now the international agencies blame the politicians and the more typical – no big camps, no food aid until late in the day, politicians blame the IMF.” no people congregating … so you don’t see lots of emaciated dying people because they are at home, that’s where they die. If Megan is closely involved in the Centre for African Studies you’re really ill and sick you stay at home.” in Cambridge, an interdisciplinary centre supporting African institutions with a visiting scholar programme, and her current She wrote The Story of an African Famine, in 1987. I read it the research includes an AHRC project with Goldsmith’s College week the report on the UK’s obesity epidemic was published, on the history of death in Africa. She’s also just given a paper bringing home the fact that obesity and famine are relative on the history of romantic love in Africa. “Not,” she laughs, terms. The fieldwork had been interesting but not terribly easy. “that it was necessarily any less depressing!”

“The government of the time in Malawi was a dictatorship and www.african.cam.ac.uk Megan Vaughan Professor profile: parade | 5 The road to Agadir

Ten years ago, former Chaplain Patrick Magee (KC 1934) took up the offer of a Moroccan friend to live en famille in Agadir. He reports on a very successful retirement option.

My friend suggested that rather than living The population of the country is two thirds Arab alone, I join his family, and for the last ten and one third Berber; but you cannot tell the years I have lived with them in Agadir for difference. They are strongly Muslim (Sunni). Islam most of the time, returning to England now is evident, with mosques being more prevalent than and then. Agadir is a vast industrial city and churches in a modern western city; but it is in no port (with a population about that of Leeds), way oppressive. Islam is most noticeable during but has a coastline of 5 – 6 miles with the month of Ramadan, which is very strictly kept excellent beaches, which is a tourist resort. – no food or drink must be taken between the hours of sunrise and sunset. During Ramadan, I join People are friendly and warm hearted, and the family at their breakfast at 7 pm, which is my Patrick Magee (KC 1934) hospitable to strangers. Their great virtue is supper; thereafter I am given a full midday meal family solidarity, a valuable way of life which separately; and then sleep several hours! in Britain is in decline! A foreigner is presented with no great difficulties as the differences between The Moroccans are a proud people with a long people of different cultures are minimal. You need to history of independence, for they never came under know how people are thinking and feeling and fall in either the Byzantine or Ottoman Empires – and with their customs naturally. The main differences thus have no ‘hang-ups’. The only foreign intrusion lie at meal times. Food is usually cooked on the came with the French who administered the country tagine system, meat and vegetables cooked together for some forty years (but never actually occupied in a dish out of which we all eat. Instead of knives it), and are generally popular. Morocco is a good and forks, crusts of bread are used by which you bridge between the West and the Middle East; and can scoop up the juices with your fingers. (Knives I feel that the more people from both sides of the and forks are offered to foreigners!) Our main diet cultural divide can meet the less suspicion and more is fish (straight from the sea) vegetables and fruit understanding there will be. – very healthy. Islam also lays much emphasis on hospitality. Friends or relatives arriving at the house Patrick Magee (KC 1934), a Choral Scholar, read History. will always be given a meal or a bed – at any hour of Chaplain of King’s from 1946 – 1952, he was Vicar of the day or night! Kingston upon Thames, Chaplain at Bryanston, Team Tile Panel, Tunisia, XVIIIth Century Vicar of Bemerton near Salisbury from 1973 – 84 and later Presented by Professor Michael Jaffé (KC 1948) in non-residentiary Canon of Salisbury Cathedral. memory of his father Arthur Daniel Jaffé (KC 1899)

croquet single-mindedly and with superb skill. It was only when I took Snooker for intellectuals? up the game again a third of a century later (after a very satisfying ICI career) that I found out what an impact Keith had had. In his day he was Tom Banfield (KC 1962) traces his interest in croquet back to his student the Tiger Woods of world croquet, setting new technical standards that later players have had to emulate or fail. He was the world champion days. He makes the case for taking it up again in retirement. several times, and his book Expert Croquet Tactics is still in print. Sadly he Most Kingsmen will have enjoyed half-remembered afternoons and died at an early age. evenings on the croquet lawn (and sometimes even mornings in the Croquet has been described as “snooker for intellectuals” – albeit from all Long Vac), surrounded by the delightful sights, sounds and scents of the walks of life. I for one enjoy the peculiar combination of the physical skill, Fellows’ Garden. I played purely socially when at King’s, and was never demanded by accurate hand-eye coordination, with the mental planning, very good, but I always knew it was a game I could appreciate at greater necessary to build a successful break and make several hoops in one turn depth if I ever got the chance. on the lawn. And I do appreciate the fact that the ball is stationary when Two particular memories stand out from the 1960s.The first was when I hit it! The sport has enjoyed a recent resurgence following the unwitting the Visitor, the Bishop of Lincoln, had come to College in some important publicity given it by the former Deputy Prime Minister. A high proportion ceremonial role – and I was one of those inveigled into playing a short of active players are retired graduates. Britain is the current world game of croquet doubles with him after dinner. He was dressed to kill champion, having taken particular pleasure in beating Australia 19-2 along in a frock-coat and gaiters (sic), and looked as though he had just come the way. hot-foot from Barchester stopping only to pose for a Punch cartoon. Alas I do urge retired Kingsmen (and women too) to consider revisiting he was not as good a player as he imagined, though that did not prevent their youth, as I did, and join a local croquet club. Many U3A groups us complimenting him on his skill: “Oh good shot, my Lord!” run introductory sessions. 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7 | books about King’s Finding Liberia’s lost children

Liberia, Africa’s oldest independent republic, was established by former slaves in 1820; a 14-year civil war ended in 2003. Leila Blacking (KC 1995) worked as a protection delegate for the International Committee of the Red Cross in Liberia from 2005 – 2006. She writes about her mission to help reunite children with their families.

We had registered the children disarmed after the ceasefire, and then used poster and radio campaigns, and our network of Red Cross volunteers, to trace their parents.

I was now left with the “unsolvables”: amongst them, Sharpshooter, the child soldier who for eight years, had fought and killed in three wars in three countries (Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, and Liberia). He was now 16 years old. He frequently wet his bed at night, and cried to go home. Then there were the children still living with former militia commanders, who often refused to allow them to return to their real families and Leila with 16 year-old Beatrice and her daughter, Patience, reunited with her family concealed their identities: in Liberia. During the civil war, many young girls were separated from their parents and the protective environment of their village. Many were raped, and many became eight year old Amelia single mothers – mostly abandoned by the fathers of these children had been given to the notorious General known as Zig Zag three years Ragged ex-fighters posturing on the bonnets of previously, as a gift in clapped-out cars; war-weary women in broken plastic exchange for sparing sandals returning to their burnt villages with their life’s her family. She could no possessions in small bundles on their heads; heavily longer remember her real armed UN soldiers eyeing the streets. I had arrived in name, but leaving her in Liberia. Zig Zag’s custody was absolutely not an option. I worked with UNICEF in Eritrea in the aftermath of the war with Ethiopia, and for the UN in the refugee camps in the deserts of Western Sahara, but I was “There were times when I felt that unprepared for Liberia. It had been one of the most advanced countries in West Africa until the war. Now, my work was almost futile in the face we were starting from less than zero. People had lost of such complete devastation. But in their homes not just once, but three or four times, those dark moments, I would draw many heading in desperation to Ivory Coast, only to be forced to flee to Guinea when the Ivorian war erupted. on the inspiration that Liberians themselves gave me, through their My brief, ostensibly simple, was to reunite children with their families. Most had been separated during the last enormous resilience, and it is that round of fighting in Liberia’s 14-year civil war, which resilience that is helping to build finally ran out of steam in late 2003. The easy cases had their country again.” mostly been solved in the months following the war. | lost children finding Liberia’s 8 might reveal a new clue – a village name, the date of a battle, a former girlfriend.

There were bitter disappointments as each new lead dwindled into another dead end: then when we finally tracked down a woman believed to be Amelia's mother – after a year of searching – she had died two months previously in childbirth. With all our leads exhausted, we had to turn to foster care as a last option.

But there were also breakthroughs: we had been told that Sharpshooter’s parents had long since been killed in the war, but then, in a village at the other end of the country, a man saw a photograph of a child he thought The ICRC often had to build the bridges first before being able he recognised but had assumed was dead: he was to get vehicles through to inaccessible places Sharpshooter’s uncle. Taking Sharpshooter home to his I became a combination of detective, social worker, village was one of the highlights of my mission. and negotiator: Zig Zag initially refused to disclose any details of Amelia's history, much less release There were times when I felt that my work was her into our care. In our countless meetings with almost futile in the face of such complete devastation. him and his former (often still armed) fighters, I But in those dark moments, I would draw on the scavenged each sentence for the tiniest detail which inspiration that Liberians themselves gave me, through their enormous resilience, and it is that resilience that is helping to build their country again.

Monrovia, Liberia’s capital and home to over half of its 3 million people, had been without running water, sewerage or electricity since 1990. I had already left for my next mission in southern Colombia when Liberia’s first streetlight was finally switched on again in July 2006, and the work goes on. Light is again taking over from darkness.

Leila Blacking worked for the UN before joining the ICRC, and had also worked as a journalist in South Africa. She is now the ICRC’s UK spokesperson. www.icrc.org “ I studied History but probably spent equal amounts of time doing non-academic activities – university sport (Modern Pentathlon) as well as KCSU and KCMS, and reading in Chapel. I did try to make the most of my time at King’s, but you don’t realise until long after you leave Cambridge how privileged you are to be there. The work in Liberia built on what I had been doing with children in Eritrea with UNICEF – mostly raising awareness about problems with HIV/ AIDS, landmines and female genital mutilation.”

Signs of hope: after being prime targets for looters during the war, shopkeepers can finally stock their shelves again finding Liberia’s lost children finding Liberia’s

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Voices, andDirectorofMusicatKing’sCollege Simon Brown(KC 1977) tenors!– particularly thechoir compositions writtenbymembers of new andavarietyof solos andchambermusic, feature ensembles, instrumental close-harmony for often theirmusical talents,soourconcerts Voices are constantly lookingfor outlets new King’s Weekin theMay Members of Concert. most cordial, jointogether eachyear andthey Relations choirs between are thetwocollege service. audition), andoftensingsat theFounder’s Day for members encouraging to potentialnew performs at theMatriculation Dinner(important LongMelford, Suffolk. KVregularlychurch of inthebeautifulparish it singsacarol service and (especially) Elveden, andevery otheryear including Lakenheath, Mildenhall,Thetford nearbyparishes connection withagroup of Chapel, Windsor. Ithasalsodeveloped aclose St Edmunds cathedrals, andat StGeorge’s King’s Voices at Ely andBury hassungservices Radio). 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King’s Voices, theCollege’s mixed-voice choir, King’s Voices old –10years Music News John Butt(KC 1979) isDirectorofKing’s , now www.chambermusicians.org.uk [email protected] Nick. contribute recollections any of would like tohearfrom anyone who mightlike to amusical biography,tribute and intheform of Cambridge willpublish, ontheirwebsite, a of until1981.TheChamberMusicians concerts King’s 1976-1979andperformed inKCMS 2007.Hewas aPhDstudentatin April Nicholas Toller (KC 1976) Remembering Nicholas Toller in London. discovered ona bookstall were1896 when they remained unknownuntil paradise. Thepoems to with itsfinaljourney thesoulandends of withthebirth begins Philip Ledger. Thepiece that we init,”says play wonderat God’s creation are fullof andthepart Traherne Traherne 1636-74).“Thepoemsof (c. 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Members from 1961 – 1965 gathered for the Non-Resident Members’ – because he would like to be out! And of Ibrahim Tahir – who Dinner on Saturday 22 September, welcomed by the Provost, Ross alas has been delayed 24 hours by a plane – showing me how I, Harrison. The combination of great wine, great food, the company of and my future wife, could climb into the College around the back old friends and the Choral Scholars singing Schubert’s Mondenschein gate – at great risk of falling into the river. Something he had a and Strauss’s Traumlicht went a long way towards creating a good great deal of practice in.” (More fond laughter.) evening. Dennis Stevenson (KC 1963) proposed the College and “Women have dramatically changed and humanised the College Stephen Hugh-Jones (KC 1964) replied. for the better,” he said, and to get a feel for what was happening Dennis Stevenson started by raising the question of protocol. An now he had gone onto the website and found the KCSU minutes. old friend, after telling him he had been idiotic to agree in the first “They are a rattlingly good read! But some things never change place, had advised the time-honoured formula of self-deprecation, ... a recent motion to replace the Morning Star with the Financial followed by sentimentality and then copious praise of the College. Times was defeated, for example, and as the Provost would Simple. He had actually accepted, he told Members, in order no doubt be aware, while I am sure they would all love him, to ‘have a good look’ at Ross Harrison, the new Provost. This, there was widespread quasi – 1968 disapproval of their lack of however, turned out to be unnecessary, as he remembered only involvement in his election. Some things, however, strike me as after arriving at the dinner that he and Ross had actually shared a very different. I don’t suppose that we had a ‘love officer’ on the dormobile from London to Athens as students. “So I know he’s a JCR Committee!” Then, saying a huge thank you to everyone who good thing.” had made the evening possible, and expressing his pleasure at Dennis (Lord Stevenson of Coddenham CBE, a crossbench peer, the standard of food and service, he proposed the health and Chairman of the Appointments Commission, HBOS plc and long life of the College. Aldeburgh Music Ltd) went on to say that he had absolutely no idea Steve Hugh-Jones replied reassuringly. “King’s is still the same why he had been chosen to propose the College, having been a old place despite the fact that the Hall is back to front, and that wholly undistinguished student who felt nothing but regret for not women have been admitted.” He then turned to statistics. “I having made better use of his time at King’s. Laughter ensued. As have discovered that 35% of us are semi-retired – it’s a sobering to the second, sentimental part, it had proved initially difficult but thought for people from the swinging sixties. I suppose we’re all then memory had stirred… grey panthers now! But seriously, some things have changed … “There was the we have opened a new shop on King’s Parade, removed all the wonderful John asbestos from gas fires, and got some new punts… Oh, and by Raven, who told the way, we’ve also had a new Provost and a new Bursar! me I didn’t have On the financial front, King’s was the first college to submit to do any more new-style RCCA accounts, and we have a surplus this year. We of the syllabus had a 50/50 gender balance for the first time in 2005 and still as long as I made lead the way on access. But this has some implications for both up my own, and exam results and student support. King’s came top in terms then the equally of value added (measured as the difference between first and wonderful Bob final year scores) but our overall position on the league table is Rowthorn, who not as good as it should be. King’s has the highest number of as a young students needing help with fees, which is putting pressure on the Don, fought my Supplementary Exhibition Fund. We also have the highest number 1961 corner against of EU students. And we all need to think hard about what ‘access’ the demands really means at a world-class university – how local and how of the then Senior Tutor. And I was also reminded, seeing fellow global will our students be in the future? Thanks for coming – it’s guest Peter Covey-Crump, of the time he asked me in a very nice really good to see so many familiar faces. The night is still young way when my quartet would next be playing Bartok in my rooms – and so are we!” 12 a monthbefreeze driedandliningtheshelves coffee wouldwithin the grape-shaped buds of tropical rain, Ithoughthowstrange itseemedthat Walking alonethrough the trees intheteeming coffee co-operative run byex-guerrillasoldiers. tourist sites.Ididmake triptoa onesolitary more appealingthanexploringthetraditional with crazy twelve yearoldswas somehowmuch onto foundations inexpertly orhandprinting dirt behind theproject led metofeel that shovelling for justthree weeks, but theidealsandenergy inthisintensecommunity inconsequential staying where Ifelt globaleconomicsrule thegame. very majority, who desperately needliteracy inaworld education isreal, thisisabigdealtotheMayan of total privatisation touniversitygo andthethreat of wherecommunity school.Inacountry lessthan1% whose dream is tosetupatruly free all-inclusive manager was anex-exiled-university lecturer ‘El Nahual’inXela,Guatemala. Jaime, thecentre “I volunteered inasmallcommunity centre called My Ferris Travel Grant [email protected] email thesecretary, Tancock. Matthew write toKCBC, 842King’s Cambridge, or College, Dinner orhave recollections for publication, please you are interested incomingtotheAnniversary If your timeat King’s. memories of boat club, sowe wouldlove tohearfrom you with the KCBC isalsohopingtoproduce of ahistory First status. Mays First toconsolidate division their Mays andW1try Bumps tocheerusonasM1seekreturn tothe from 25thin2002.We hopeyou canbeat theMay high intheLentBumps,upto11thonriver The men’s 1stVIIIare currently at afifty-year bepossibleit may tohave someraces onSunday. you canget your crew together,in thecelebrations. 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of As at A-level, but made strenuous, cancer and after a total laryngectomy sincere efforts to ensure that, from operation woke up voiceless. But with those, it picked those with academic intensive speech therapy, I have a new potential rather than advantages secured voice. Soprano, alto, tenor and now a by coaching or connections. It does the fine Chaliapinesque bass – though with same today.” a somewhat limited range. From a trio to a serial vocal quartet! Though retired, Hats off to Contact the Elderly I’m back in the pulpit to cover gaps, and have the added incentive of knowing that, according to several ladies in my former congregation, the new voice is ‘rather sexy’.” [email protected] John Dorken and Carol Brougham in Kyrgyzstan King’s outpost in Kyrgyzstan King’s people must meet unexpectedly all the time – but perhaps not often in Kyrgyzstan. John Dorken (KC 1962) and Carol Brougham (KC 1976) found themselves thrown together in August on an overland journey from Islamabad along the Karakoram Highway through China to Samarkand and Bokhara. John now helps run a charity, Medical Aid and Trevor Lyttelton (KC 1954) received Relief for Children of Chechnya www. his MBE from HRH the Prince of Wales marcch.org. for whom he had done a in August. He accepted the award sponsored trek in the same area in 2002. on behalf of all Contact the Elderly’s Carol, who read physical anthropology dedicated volunteers. Trevor set up the at King’s, now works as a GP in inner charity in 1965 and King’s graduates Clifford Hughes ... now a fine city Newcastle. “I try to make the most have contributed substantially over many Chaliapinesque bass of my holidays by travelling as much as years, turning it into a major national possible to out of the way places – have voluntary service now reaching out to Gravitas been to Outer Mongolia but have still thousands of isolated elderly people At the General Assembly of the to reach Timbuktu.” John pointed out nationwide. another King’s connection. “En route International Society on General www.contact-the-elderly.org we visited Taxila – a city that flourished Relativity and Gravitation in July, Malcolm MacCallum (KC 1963, former under several civilisations from the sixth More trios in quartets century BC to the fifth century AD, the Fellow) was elected Secretary for a excavation of which was led by Sir John Clifford Hughes (KC 1956) wrote: further 3-year term. A professor in the Marshall (KC 1927) between 1913 and “Having first broadcast as a treble, age School of Mathematical Sciences at 1934.” 12, I was an alto choral scholar at King’s; Queen Mary, University of London, he then I became, in the words of the will have been Secretary for 15 years. Find out more: Scotsman Critic at the 1974 Edinburgh Letter in the Observer www.maths.qmul.ac.uk/~mm Festival ‘Scotland’s foremost lyric tenor’. Tom Ashton (KC 1992) wrote, 30 A trio! Or put it another way ... I left September: “Will Hutton is undoubtedly King’s to teach, but then, like so many of British Council in Japan right that a privileged social background my King’s contemporaries (Neil Howlett, Jason James (KC 1983) wrote: “Just to can help you win a place at Oxbridge, but Christopher Keyte, Bob Tear and Lindsay let you know I have unexpectedly (and his article is illustrated by a picture of I hope temporarily) decamped from Cambridge’s King’s College, where this is Heather) I couldn’t resist the attraction King’s to become Director of the British emphatically not the case. When I went of a singing career. In 1988, I trained as Council in Japan. Any Kingspeople there in 1992 from a Nottinghamshire a Church of Scotland ordinand, becoming passing through will be welcome to make comprehensive, it was primarily Minister of St Mary’s Haddington in East contact.” with others from similar schools and Lothian. A trio of voice-centred careers: backgrounds. The college selected Teacher, Singer, Preacher. At the turn of [email protected]

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164 members attended Royal Society in David Sharp (KC 1983) is a Principal at London on 19 September, welcomed by the Charteris plc where he advises clients on Provost, Professor Ross Harrison (KC 1975). commercial and IT issues associated with large Professor Barry Keverne (KC 1985, Fellow programmes and carries out due diligence in Behavioural Science) chaired the meeting exercises for investors in technology businesses. and introduced keynote speaker Professor Azim “I enjoyed the King’s London event but suggest Surani (KC 1994, Fellow in the Physiology that some food would be a useful addition for of Reproduction) who spoke about his work on next time!” [email protected].” stem cells, as featured in the Spring 2007 issue Bryn Williams (KC 1983) is now Practise of King’s Parade. Leader in Tech/Media/Comms Executive Search Jonathan Morgan (KC 1991) and Leila Blacking (KC 1992) firm Hoggett Bowers, working with clients like Vodafone, BSkyB, Qualcomm and LinuxMobile Leila Blacking (KC 1992) is now based in (Samsung, Panasonic, NTT Docomo et al). He London as the spokesperson for the International meets King’s alumni in related fields including Committee of the Red Cross, having worked in Hermann Hauser, Tim Duffy, Chris Scoggins, Paul Liberia, Eritrea and Iran. She has written a piece Ryan, Justin Watts, Stephen Haggard and Chris for King’s Parade on her work in Liberia – see Kerwin. [email protected] page 8. Jonathan Morgan (KC 1991) said “A bit like Leila, I’ve also lived all over the place since Left to right: There was a panel discussion on leaving King’s: Fulham, Clapham, Islington, the issues involved in bringing technology to Highgate. Having worked in banking for several market with David Roux (KC 1979) Co-Founder, Silverlake Partners, Ms Teri Willey, Chief years, I recently joined CQS, a hedge fund, to Executive of Cambridge Enterprise, Deborah focus on credit research and private company Wince-Smith (KC 1973) President, Council on equity investments. Happily settled with Competitiveness and Dr Hermann Hauser (KC my partner, Delphine, and our 13 month old 1973) Honorary Fellow, Co-Founder, Amadeus daughter Margaux, King’s Parade can be one of Capital Partners Ltd. the first to know that our second is due at the Laurence Bard (KC 1968) and Nicholas Coutts end of March. [email protected] (KC 1975). Back row: Halley, of comet fame.

Laurence Bard (KC 1968) works for a specialist firm of chartered tax advisers, Shaws, now the largest independent firm in the country. “As a tax adviser, it was interesting to hear the panel’s view that the prospect of UK tax credits really acted as an incentive for companies to undertake research and development. In contrast, I have helped many companies continue their Left to right: Stephen Smith, Justin Watts, David Sharp and Bryn Williams (all KC 1983) development work through the tax credits – but Sophie Raudnitz and Sarah Wood they had started activities, and built them Stephen N P Smith (KC 1983) read Natural up, in complete ignorance of the incentives. Sophie Raudnitz (KC 1992 née Sheringham) Sciences and is now involved in a number of [email protected] really enjoyed catching up with old friends at the businesses including alternative energy research, Royal Society event. Living in Northamptonshire Nicholas Coutts (KC 1975) said “As an biotechnology, data services and electronics, with her husband and their two boys, she is on a entrepreneur, the idea of a panel to discuss after exiting a quantitative hedge fund business career break from teaching English and is putting entrepreneurship was interesting, although more in 2003. He is currently seeking funding for a her energy into navigating the political minefield time is needed for a more useful discussion about bio-informatics project and takes an interest in of the Pre-School Committee! security and defence issues. how the College can share in the value created by [email protected]. entrepreneurs who have benefited from being in Sarah Wood (KC 1992) “I’m a founding College. I am currently involved with a number of director of Unruly Media, a viral marketing Justin Watts (KC 1983) has a PhD in early stage technology companies, one of which agency and software house, which tracks the Engineering and is now an IP partner at is a technology developed from a PhD in natural most buzzed-about videos in the blogosphere Freshfields. “It was an interesting and enjoyable language analysis by Mark Perkins (1975). (www.viralvideochart.com) and distributes evening, and the technical content dealt with an Mark set up KESIG, King’s Entrepreneurs Special branded video content across UK and European area that’s highly topical. It was great to see some Interest Group.” publishers. It was a great evening at the Royal old friends and a shame the evening couldn’t have [email protected] Society – I think this comes across well in the been longer.” [email protected]. [email protected]

photo!” Society the Royal at King’s | 15 Events and concerts 2008 January Wednesday 19 June Foundation Lunch Easter at King’s 15 to 22 March 2008 Tuesday 15 Saturday 7 Year Representatives Meeting in London April 25th Anniversary Dinner (Year 1983) Stephen Cleobury director Sunday 27 Saturday 19 Economists’ Dinner Saturday 14 Artists include: King’s College Choir, Academy of Ancient Music, Schubert: Die Winterreise Saturday 26 Historians’ Dinner The May Bumps – final day BBC Concert Orchestra, Catherine Bott, James Bowman, William Kendall, Andrew Kennedy, Philharmonia Chorus, Tenebrae. 8.30 pm King’s Hall KCBC 150th Anniversary Dinn Richard Lloyd Morgan baritone May Wednesday 18 Monday 17 and Tuesday 18 March Bach St Matthew Passion Bill Lloyd piano Thursday 1 The King’s Affair £15 Wednesday 19 March The King’s Singers 40th Anniversary Sunday 22 8pm King’s Chapel Singing on the River Cecil B DeMille The King of Kings February The King’s Singers Film with live organ improvisation by David Briggs Tuesday 24 Saturday 9 King’s College Choir Thursday 20 March Annual golf day Dante Quartet in Residence A programme for Ascension Day. Renaissance music for Holy Week by candelight King’s Hall, 8.30pm Palestrina, Britten, Sweelinck, and Geoffrey Saturday 28 Friday 21 March Proust and Fauré: The Eternal Moment Poole. KCA Day – Theatre at King’s Wagner Good Friday Music Quartet music by Ravel, Fauré and Franck. Premiere of a new work by Bob Chilcott (KC Dvorák Stabat Mater Readings from Proust and Mallarmé 1973) July £15, £10 (unsighted). Booking details £30, £25, £20 (£5 unsighted) Saturday 22 March Saturday 5 Messiaen Trois petites liturgies below. KCA Family Day in the Fellows’ Garden Saturday 10 Poulenc Organ Concerto Wednesday 20 Praelector’s Lunch – Year 2001 Composer’s Concert: Judith Weir September Full details on King’s web site www.kings.cam.ac.uk/chapel 8.00 pm King’s Chapel Saturday 10 Saturday 27 Or from Gillian Perkins, 01223 350544 Endymion, King’s College Choir Dante Quartet with King’s Choral NRM Dinner – Years 1971 to 1974 [email protected] Stephen Cleobury conductor Scholars University Alumni Weekend Easter at King’s booking opens 1 February John Browne Stabat mater (from Eton Choir 8.30pm King’s Hall Cambridge Corn Exchange Box Office Tuesday 30 Book) Visions of Italy King’s London Event James MacMillan Tuireadh Puccini Crisantemi, Britten Quartet no 3 La Provost’s Seminar. Tye Missa Euge Bone with instrumental Serenissima, Oxford and Cambridge Club interludes, specially composed by Judith Verdi Quartet and a new work by Roxanna Weir for this concert Panufnik inspired by Dante October £20, £16, £12. (£5 unsighted) £15, £10 (unsighted). Booking details Booking details below. below. Saturday 11 Legacy Lunch March Saturday 17 Spring Reunion Years 1991 to 1993 November Saturday 8 Saturday 22 Women’s Dinner Saturday 31 1441 Foundation Dinner (by invitation) 60th, 55th and 50th Anniversary Dinner Saturday 15 to Saturday 22 (Years 1948, 1953 and 1958.) Saturday 29 Easter at King’s (details in box) Procession for Advent

Messiaen Complete Organ Works – Events and reunions 2009 a centenary celebration Where in King’s? 6.30 Free admission March Sunday 8 Saturday 2 February Women’s Dinner Booking for events La Nativité May Stephen Cleobury (KC 1982) Director of Music Praelector’s Lunch – Year 2002 Contact: Amy Ingle Spring Reunion – Years 1987 to 1990 Development Office Saturday 1 March Livre d’orgue 60th, 55th and 50th Anniversary Dinner – [email protected] Oliver Brett (KC 2004) Years 1949, 1954 and 1959 01223 331443 Saturday 26 April June www.kings.cam.ac.uk/development/events Diptyque, Les corps glorieux 25th Anniversary Dinner – Year 1984 Ashley Grote (KC 2001) September Booking for King’s concerts Saturday 3 May Saturday 26 Cambridge Corn Exchange Box Office Apparition, Verset, Monodie, L’Ascension NRM Dinner – Years 1975 to 1978 Monday – Saturday 10.00 - 18.00. Daniel Hyde (KC 2000) Wheeler Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QE Saturday 10 May Events and reunions 2010 Prélude, Le banquet céleste, Offrande, Messe de la Pentecôte Box Office 01223 357851 (01223 329074 FAX) Peter Stevens (KC 2006) May Tickets for Dante Quartet Concerts Saturday 17 May Praelector’s Lunch – Year 2003 Méditations sur le mystère de la Sainte Trinité Spring Reunion – Years 1994 to 1996 £15, £10 (partially sighted seats), Tom Kimber (KC 2007) 60th, 55th and 50th Anniversary Dinner – £5 for students under 25. Thursday 22 May Years 1950, 1955 and 1960 King’s Porters’ Lodge one month before each Livre du Saint Sacrement concert. Tom Winpenny (KC 2003) June Telephone 01223 331100. (7.30 pm) 25th Anniversary Dinner – Year 1985

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