A year in the life of the Trinity Hall community 2016/17 Trinity Hall Academic Year 2016/17 2016/17 2 Trinity Hall Reports from our Officers Hello and welcome to the Trinity Hall Review 2016/17, looking back on an exciting academic year for the College community. Major milestones this year include a number of events and projects marking 40 years since the admission of women to Trinity Hall, the completion of WYNG Gardens and the acquisition of a new portrait and a new tapestry, both currently on display in the Dining Hall. We hope you enjoy reading the Review and on behalf of everyone at Trinity Hall, thank you for your continued and generous support. Kathryn Greaves Alumni Communications Officer Stay in touch with the College network: 30 TrinityHallCamb Alumni News inside Reports from our Officers 2 The Master 2 The Bursar 4 The Senior Tutor 7 The Graduate Tutor 8 The Admissions Tutor 10 The Dean 11 The Development Director 12 The Junior Bursar 14 The Head of Conference and Catering Services 15 The Librarian 16 The Director of Music 17 College News 18 The JCR President’s Report 20 The MCR President’s Report 21 Student Reports 22 Fellows’ News 24 Seminars and Lectures 26 Fundraising 28 18 Alumni News 30 THA Secretary’s Report 32 College News Alumni News 34 In Memoriam 36 2016/17 Information 38 List of Fellows 40 College Statistics 44 Fellows and Staff 48 List of Donors 50 Get involved 59 Thank you to all who have contributed to this edition of the Trinity Hall Review. Cover picture: Two generations of Trinity Hall 38 alumnae in a family photo from the photo booth at the THwomen40 anniversary event on 1 July. 2016/17 We would also like to thank the College Information photographer, Kiloran Howard. 2 REPORTS FROM OUR OFFICERS The Master’s Report A year of solid achievement The Revd Dr Jeremy Morris Master nce again we can celebrate in the 1970s, with a major addition to “This year we a year of solid achievement reflect changing employment law in have something for the College with the the 1990s, but they were always an Oopening of a new building awkward mixture of the general and at WYNG Gardens, the former the specific, and over the years they mundane but St Clement’s, providing over 70 state- have been found no longer adequate of-the-art student rooms as well as on specific issues. Furthermore, the nonetheless conference facilities; continued success application of charity law to the College, hugely important in various ways academically, socially via the Charity Commissioners, left and culturally; celebration of the 40th the old Statutes looking somewhat to celebrate – the anniversary of the admission of women; obsolete. The revision began under the advent of a promising group of new my predecessor, and was led by the complete revision undergraduate and graduate students; then Vice-Master, Professor John and the recruitment of new Fellows. Clarkson. It has been a long work, not of the College’s You will read much of the detail of this least because, in place of one set of elsewhere in the Review, and I want to Statutes, we have developed a three- Statutes.” register here praise and appreciation tier structure of College law, echoing for all of those who have contributed to that of many other colleges and of this in one way or another. the University itself – Statutes, stating broad principles; Ordinances, applying But as historians know well, sometimes the principles in general terms; and significant changes do not attract much Regulations, making detailed provision attention. This year we have something for the application of the Statutes and mundane but nonetheless hugely Ordinances. The Statutes required the important to celebrate – the complete threefold approval of the Privy Council, revision of the College’s Statutes. The the Charity Commissioners, and the Statutes were revised comprehensively University, and will only be altered in 3 The Master’s Lodge the most exceptional circumstances. the rats at bay), and the Governing debt students are incurring is almost The Ordinances required approval by Body sportingly did so for my dog, certainly unsustainable in the long run. the Charity Commissioners and the marking at last my family’s move into But what could be put in place of the University, and again alteration would the refurbished Master’s Lodge. For current system? Nothing I have seen need to be rare. The Regulations me, that has probably been the biggest so far makes me want to reconsider effectively summarise the decisions material change of the year, and I look my belief that the way forward for of Governing Body and can be forward to welcoming more of you to Trinity Hall is to continue to build up our altered at will by the Governing Body. the Lodge for future reunions and other reserves, and to extend the provision Final approval for the Statutes and social occasions. we make for student support, including Ordinances came through in early undergraduate as well as graduate But of course the Review offers a 2017, taking effect from 1 October studentships. It would be wonderful chance to look forward, as well as 2017. There will be no thunderclap, to think that we could be in a position back. The recent general election no loud adulation, no dramatic one day to guarantee full funding for all has blown open what I had thought a celebration to mark this – just a quiet those we want to admit to the College relatively settled state of affairs as far sense of satisfaction that the work has and who might otherwise be deterred as student finance goes. I do not think been completed, and that we have a from coming here by lack of means. it likely that we will ever see a return regulatory framework which is, in that But that is a long-term goal. In the to full state funding for undergraduate well-worn phrase, ‘fit for purpose’. meantime, we must press on and do education, not least because the what we can. At the same time, we Work on the Statutes enabled me proportion of 18 year olds going to face significant challenges from central to refute categorically the assertion university is now much higher than government on access and inclusion, sometimes made that the Statutes it was in the those fast-receding and the work of our Admissions team forbid the presence of a dog on days. But the future of the current is vital to the College’s future success. College grounds. Nonetheless, the loans for fees system is back on the They do truly remarkable work for the tradition endures that a dog on College agenda nevertheless. I expect to see College even as things stand. premises must be deemed to be a cat continuing debate on the question of (cats being kept traditionally to keep student finance. The current burden of 4 REPORTS FROM OUR OFFICERS BuThe r s a r ’s Spending on important Report academic programmes ver the last year I have In the year to the end of June 2017 the encountered a number College’s income at £12.85 million was O of people, mostly alumni slightly higher than the previous year from around the globe but also, (£12.3 million). Most income lines were embarrassingly, our own senior either up a little or broadly flat. ‘Other’ auditor from PEM, who have told me income is 57% lower having benefitted how much they look forward to my previously from a large currency gain annual rant about the otiose nature on the US dollar WYNG Gardens of Trinity Hall’s statutory accounts. donations following the Brexit vote. Apparently, my irreverent and ignorant Expenditure, on the other hand, was attitude to our public financial uttering up 17.1% from £12.6 million in 2016 is not held against me, but others (even to £14.8 million now. £2.1 million those in the accounting ‘business’!) of this was from restricted funds share my frustration and regard my and included an increase of over letting off steam as a breath of fresh air. £300,000 in graduate studentship Paul ffolkes Davis I am both astonished and frightened. awards (an increasingly vital activity). Bursar The latter because, this year, I don’t Stipend increases reflected greater know what to do for my next trick. College financial support within the Please don’t worry, it is not that the Fellowship and teaching associates, accounts are suddenly models of while staff salary rises were buoyed helpfulness laying out a clear and by the need to restructure kitchen and accurate picture of the College’s buttery pay scales in particular. With health, or even just its wealth, readily the new accommodation at WYNG understood by all (or, indeed, anyone). Gardens becoming operational we They are not. They continue to be an bore £423,000 of interest costs on exercise in sophistry and the attenuation the Private Placement loan we took of the value of numbers as far as they out to help pay for its construction. In relate to actual money. It is just that future years, these will be more than without the introduction of any new offset by rents coming back from its utterly pointless changes to the RCCA or use. We also incurred approximately Charities SORP in the year under review, £400,000 of one-off consolidation I have failed to manifest the energy to tilt costs in two subsidiaries, Aula Ltd and at the absurdity of it all. So, unfortunately Trinity Hall Residences 1, as a result of for my newly discovered fan base, I am the conclusion of the Science Park and going to make this short and sweet – or, WYNG Gardens projects.