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68690 Kings Parade Summer03 KING’S Summer 2003 P ARADE Contents Interview: Judith Mayhew 2 Editor’s letter 3 The Masters in the 21st century 3 Parade Profile: Anne McLaren 4–5 Change of direction 6 Science at King’s 7 Books by members 8–9 What is art? 10–11 New Admissions Tutor for Access and Recruitment 12–13 Foundation Lunch 14–16 Praeposita John Barber: New Development Director 17 Here and now 18–19 nova King’s treasures at V&A 19 Events & Crossword 20 “King’s is delighted to announce the Chairman of the Policy & Resources The election was virtually unanimous, election of Dame Judith Mayhew, DBE, Committee of the Corporation of and unanimity is rare in King’s. Dame as Provost. She will take up office on 1 London. Her appointment as Judith will bring wide experience and October 2003. Dame Judith will Chairman of the Royal Opera House personal charm.’ Dame Judith said: ‘It succeed Professor Patrick Bateson, was announced in February. She is is a great honour and privilege to be who will retire after 15 years as Provost. currently Chairman of the Governors elected Provost of King’s, which has a Dame Judith is the first woman to be of Birkbeck College and a Trustee of long tradition of academic excellence elected Provost, and the first non- the Natural History Museum. The in learning and research combined Kingsman for centuries. She is a Vice-Provost, Professor Keith Hopkins, with its outstanding music.’” lawyer and has until recently been said: ‘We are all absolutely delighted. Press Release, 21 February, 2003. Interview: Judith Mayhew Judith Mayhew speaks with a soft antipodean and in the City, the image we have of people lilt, forceful but warm and informal, and who run Oxbridge Colleges is that they’re relished talking about her installation, and retired permanent secretaries and diplomats. the election process. “It was a hugely moving So initially I thought it was a bit odd. My first ceremony with a tremendous sense of thought was: why are they asking me? I’m not history and occasion. The Chapel looked a retiree.” wonderful lit just with candles; Pat Bateson She had first become aware of King’s Above: Keith Hopkins, Judith Mayhew and walked me up to the Bishop and then I knelt through its music. “At home in Dunedin, we Steve Hugh-Jones at his feet while he read some blessings and listened to the Nine Lessons and Carols and mutually beneficial strategy for prayed for me and for the College …” broadcast at Christmas, so very early on I had community affairs, providing free advocacy for But this ceremony, far from being an image of King’s Chapel and associated it Children’s Tribunals and corporate, property prescribed by ancient tradition, seems to have with Cambridge University.” Then Judith did and banking lawyers as governors and trustees been an ad hoc creation. “When we looked up some research, looked at the website and in the local community. the statutes to see what had to happen (I am a became intrigued. “King’s had a more radical “I seem to have acquired a track record of constitutional lawyer, after all!) and realised image than I had expected to find; it had a taking on male bastions,” she comments that under the legislation the installation had woman chaplain, for example, and I was (and as Provost of King’s she also becomes to be done within five days of the election, intrigued by the contradictions.” She came de facto the first woman Senior Fellow at people had to swing into action rather fast. up for a series of discussions about King’s Eton). “But,” she insists, “not provocatively, The Right Reverend John Saxby, the Bishop educational approach, research, finance and or deliberately. I have a consensual style, but of Lincoln, is also newly installed and had investments. “Steve Hugh-Jones was also I’m direct and forthright. I work with people; never been to the College before. So we were hugely persuasive!” When the call came, she I delegate and empower. I was an immigrant both ‘new boys’. The ceremony just had to be was on her way home from a concert at the and an outsider when I arrived in London inserted into the normal Saturday Evensong.” Barbican. She’d already assumed the worst. with a suitcase and a box of records. But there’s a kind of liberation about being an “This is a critical moment for shaping Higher Education immigrant; you can’t be typecast and you can move up and down the social scale. My policy and determining the role of universities in our contemporaries were a radical group of women, and we felt we could conquer the economic, intellectual and cultural life. How are we world. Many of us do achieve here.” She grew up in an academic household in going to ensure that universities are properly funded? Dunedin; her mother was a radical and forceful headmistress who shaped national King’s will take a leading role in fostering this debate.” educational policy, but who also raised three children alone after losing her husband The election had been held in the Chapel She took the King’s call on her mobile when Judith, the eldest, was five. “My on the previous Thursday. Judith, her sense phone, sheltering from the rain in a doorway education at Otago Girls High School was of theatre already noted by several students, near a deserted St Paul’s Cathedral. There strict, based on the Scottish model of arrived at King’s in a sleek Daimler (her was a wistful, filmic feel to her description of discipline and hard work.” The same school husband’s) and had chosen a bright red suit the City and the way she sighed: “… my part produced Ethel Benjamin, the first woman (it would look striking against all the black of London.” solicitor in New Zealand and the first robes). “For obvious reasons I wasn’t But she’s an immigrant, and London is woman lawyer in the British Empire. Like allowed in the Chapel during the election, her adopted city. She came to the UK from Judith, Benjamin also read Law at Otago, but I spent a very enjoyable hour talking to New Zealand in 1973 and taught Law for back in the 1890s; Judith later produced a King’s students and couldn’t imagine three years at Southampton University, television programme about her life. learning I’d actually become Provost in before joining the Law Faculty at King’s As the Times City Diary put it in February, front of a more appropriate group.” College, London. During the thirteen years “Her fondness for music and impossible jobs There were no photographs of this historic she spent there, rising to the position of is widely known”. So how is Judith going to occasion in the Chapel – the informal shots Sub-Dean of the Faculty, she developed combine being Provost of King’s with her were taken later by Christopher, her (with the Sorbonne) the first genuinely joint Chairmanship of the Royal Opera, her role on husband. “After the solemn high ceremony Law degree in Europe, acquiring on the way the Board of the Natural History Museum there was a mad party in the Vice-Provost’s the managerial and administrative skills and her other significant appointments? And rooms. As an outsider, the sense of welcome needed for negotiating educational policy at how does she see the job? “I started life as an I had was overwhelming. The photo shows an international level. academic, and I’m committed to re-joining the sense of relief everyone else felt too. I Since then she’s taken on a variety of roles the academic community. And I’m think Keith Hopkins and Steve Hugh-Jones in the public and private sectors. As Chairman streamlining my portfolio! This is a critical look like two reprobates who know they’ve of the Policy and Resources Committee of the moment for shaping Higher Education policy landed me in it! I think they were terribly Corporation of London she has aimed to and determining the role of universities in relieved simply to have got a Provost.” ensure that the City acts positively to facilitate our economic, intellectual and cultural life. What had attracted her to the job? “I had a the regeneration and economic development How are we going to ensure that universities letter, out of the blue, from Steve Hugh-Jones of the poorer boroughs surrounding it. As are properly funded? King’s will take a asking me if I would consider applying. For special adviser to law firm Clifford Chance, leading role in fostering this debate.” praeposita nova praeposita Alison Carter | people like me who work in the private sector her role has been to put together a coherent 2 Editor’s The Masters in the 21st Century For many Fellows the recent election of a new Provost Letter was their first taste of the heady world of college Welcome to the new King’s elections. Armed only with CP Snow’s The Masters, Parade; it was time for a little Robert Foley went forth. gentle evolution. Members of King’s – resident and Mention the election longer to manage intimately the lives of the of the Head of a fellows and students, but to steer the College non-resident – remain the Cambridge college to through the troubled waters of declining inspiration for, and focus of, the anyone of a certain resources and rising expectations. The luxury magazine, and we welcome age and education, of the closeted fellowship was less important and they will say to the electorate of fellows than the sheer your letters, news, “Ah, The Masters by ability of the Provost to take the College contributions and involvement.
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