EVENTS & REUNIONS FOR 2006-2007 ISSUE 4 MICHAELMAS 2006 GONVILLE & CAIUS COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE

San Francisco Reception and Concert ...... Friday 15 September New York Group Reception...... Monday 18 September Annual Gathering (1963, 1964 & 1965) ...... Saturday 23 September 1956 Golden Reunion ...... Monday 25 September

Michaelmas Full Term begins ...... Tuesday 3 October Development Campaign Board Meeting ...... Tuesday 31 October Caius Club Dinner at Oxford & Cambridge Club. . . . Wednesday 1 November Commemoration of Benefactors Service ...... Sunday 19 November Commemoration Feast ...... Sunday 19 November First Christmas Carol Service ...... Wednesday 29 November Second Christmas Carol Service...... Thursday 30 November Michaelmas Full Term ends ...... Friday 1 December

Lent Full Term begins ...... Tuesday 16 January 2007 Development Campaign Board Meeting ...... Monday 26 February Parents’ Hall ...... Thursday 15 March Parents’ Hall ...... Friday 16 March Lent Full Term ends ...... Friday 16 March Telephone Campaign begins...... Saturday 17 March MAs’ Dinner ...... Friday 23 March Caius Club Dinner ...... Friday 30 March Annual Gathering (1973 & 1974) ...... Friday 13 April

Easter Full Term begins ...... Tuesday 24 April Easter Full Term ends ...... Friday 15 June May Week Party for Benefactors ...... Saturday 16 June Caius Club Bumps Event...... Saturday 16 June Caius Medical Association Meeting & Dinner ...... Saturday 23 June Graduation Tea ...... Thursday 28 June Annual Gathering (up to & including 1955)...... Tuesday 3 July Admissions Open Days ...... Thursday 5 & Friday 6 July Annual Gathering (1994 & 1995) ...... Saturday 22 September ...always aCaian Computers that Read Minds! Nerve Cells that Regenerate! Editor: Mick Le Moignan What Next from Caius Scientists? Editorial Board: Dr Anne Lyon, Dr Jimmy Altham, Memories of May Week 2006 Professor Wei-Yao Liang

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Once a Caian… aims to celebrate Caius and Caian achievements and to share them with the wider Caian community throughout the world. I write this as the College celebrates 27% of its students gaining firsts in Tripos and is again Contents placed second in the Tompkins Table. In sport, too, the triumphs of the Caius Boat Club have just won them the coveted Clock Tower, as Martin Wade Dan White Mick Le Moignan Mick Le Moignan (1962) relates in Nine Men with Ten Heads. In this issue, we focus first on the work of three Fellows. The ground-breaking research of Joe Herbert (1976) in neurology may well transform the treatment 264 available for victims of strokes, Alzheimer’s and many other diseases. Peter Robinson (1971) is venturing into a brave new world where computers will be programmed to read our moods and act accordingly. Barry Hedley (1964) clarifies the philosophy behind the changes in financial strategy that have been implemented by the College during his time as Senior Bursar. Barry has done much to ensure the success and prosperity of our College in the twenty- first century and we wish him every happiness in his retirement. We would also welcome applications from Caians as the College looks for his successor. Des LeMoignan Richard Wicksteed Antony Barrington Brown We also invite you: to admire firsthand the pioneering work of Linda Tucker (1985) in restoring the rare White Lion to its rightful habitat by accepting her invitation to visit the White Lions in South Africa in May 2007; to take part in 8 12 14 the highly original interactive game, Perplex City, the creation of three recent Caius graduates, using the puzzle cards they have generously enclosed; and to join the Caius Wine Club having reviewed the selection of two members of the College’s Wine Committee, Neil McKendrick (1958) and KJ Patel (1989). We look back in gratitude at Edmund Gonville, an entrepreneur of genius, and a generous man who knew also how to open the purses of his friends and patrons. He was a brilliant fundraiser and I am sure would have been delighted by the way Caians and friends of the College in the twenty-first century have responded with unprecedented loyalty and generosity to our appeals for support for the College, with the result that over 600 attended this year’s May 2 New Nerve Cells for Old – Professor Joe Herbert (1976) 4 Mind Reading Machines – Professor Peter Robinson (1971) Fellows’ Butler, Rudi Martiniani with Week Party for Benefactors. The continuing regular financial support of our retired Fellows’ Butler (1966-1995) 6 Minding Our Own Business – Barry Hedley (1964) and Caius Benefactor, John Quintana benefactors is a vital ingredient in underpinning the College’s success and is 8 First Overland – The legendary journey to Singapore with at the May Week Party. greatly appreciated. photographs by Antony Barrington Brown (1951) 12 The Lion Queen – Linda Tucker (1985) invites all Caians to visit the White Lions in South Africa in May 2007 14 The May Week Party 2006 – 600 benefactors and guests enjoy a memorable return to Caius Dr Anne Lyon (2001) 16 Mind Candy – Ralph Owen (1999) Yao Liang Fellow 18 Gonville but Not Forgotten – Eleanor James (2002) 20 CaiNotes – Recent events and achievements by Caians 22 CaiMemories “A gift to Gonville & Caius College counts towards 26 The Caius Wine Club – All Caians and friends of the College are invited to join this exciting new the Cambridge 800th Anniversary Campaign” venture 28 From the Archive… …To the Present 29 CaiSport – Nine Men with Ten Heads! The Caius Boat Club wins the Clock Tower – Martin Wade (1962)

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neurons throughout life. factors such as temperament, family history learning, or forgetting, or selecting facts or Can we repair the damaged brain? One of the striking facts about and social adversity but also higher cortisol episodes for long-term memory requires new hippocampal neurogenesis is that it isn’t levels predispose both adolescents and adult nerve cells and, implicitly, the death of old constant. Firstly, it declines markedly with age. women to depression. Depression is about ones. There have been attempts to show this to Mick LeMoignan It’s been known for some time that the twice as common in girls as boys, and we find be true, none very convincing so far. hippocampus shrinks in older people, and that that girls have about 20% more cortisol in the We really don’t know; but the fact that this is associated with declining cognitive morning than boys. We wonder if this might neurogenesis occurs opens up lots of new ideas abilities. It’s also known that both processes are account for at least some of this sex- about this part of the brain. It also suggests very variable between individuals. Increasing difference. Increased cortisol, as we have seen, that the stem cells from the hippocampus that the levels of the stress hormone cortisol would be expected to reduce neurogenesis. make new neurons might be useful in dramatically reduces neurogenesis, and this is I must be frank: there is still a long way to encouraging brain repair elsewhere. It’s an one focus of my lab. Cortisol comes from the go before establishing a convincing link extraordinary fact that there are stem cells all adrenal glands, lying, as their name suggests, Joe Herbert just above the kidneys. Stress – particularly persistent or uncontrollable stress – increases cortisol remarkably. Stress – or injecting cortisol (or its equivalent in rats) – shuts off neurogenesis. Cortisol also increases with age (in some people) and preventing this, in rats, also reduces the age-related decline in neurogenesis. So, age and stress turn neurogenesis off; does anything turn it on? There are some fascinating findings. Making rats exercise (or allowing them to do so) increases the number of new cells in the hippocampus. We don’t know how this by Professor Joe Herbert (1976) happens. Jogging may be good for your brain as well as your heart. Rats that live alone don’t Cambridge Centre for Brain Repair, Department of benefit from exercise, suggesting that social Physiology, Development and Neuroscience circumstances also play a role. A couple of years ago, it was discovered The dentate gyrus under the microscope. The green cells are mature neurons, the blue ones are immature ut your finger, and in a few carry in our heads. The brain actually makes humans. In collaboration with Ian Goodyer, that Prozac (properly known as fluoxetine) and (developing) neurons (note their long processes) and the yellow are dividing stem cells making new nerve cells. days it heals. More remarkably, more neurons than it needs. Professor of Adolescent Psychiatry, we study some other anti-depressants increased if a surgeon removes part of So there’s a second process: excess neurons risk factors for clinical depression in neurogenesis. This created great excitement, between depression and neurogenesis, though over the adult brain. Only in a few areas are your liver, the rest grows to are selectively removed, a process that shapes adolescents. A bout of depression at this time which still persists: is depression associated since I work on both, I hope it materialises. these stem cells active, making new nerve cells. replace the missing bit. the adult brain and is itself influenced by all disrupts their lives, and in many cases has long- with or caused by decreased neurogenesis Now we are beginning to study how variations If we understood what was so special about CBoth are dependent on the ability of skin sorts of events (eg nutrition, stress) during standing adverse consequences for future (excess cortisol can lead to depression), or are in some of the genes associated with either the hippocampus (and those other areas that and liver cells to replicate, and thus make new intra-uterine and neonatal life. As you can mental health and career prospects. Now it the therapeutic effects of drugs like Prozac cortisol or serotonin add to overall patterns of do likewise) we might be able to encourage cells, when circumstances require it. Many imagine, there is considerable interest in the turns out that the two processes may be dependent on the increased formation of new risk for this serious illness. nerve cell production at sites where they are so tissues make new cells all the time, including factors that regulate both the supply of new linked. nerve cells? One of the puzzles about Prozac What about age? As you get older, you lose badly needed – for example, after a stroke or a the skin (which loses cells by friction etc.) and neurons and the way they are selected for Until recently, we taught our students that and similar drugs is that their biochemical brain cells. The rate of loss has various severe head injury. the gut, which needs a constant supply of new survival or disposal, and how these factors you made all your neurons before birth, so you effects on the brain occur within a few hours, estimates, but over a lifetime it’s not negligible. This is also one of the interests of my lab. cells to retain its function. During life in the differ between individuals. spent the rest of your life with the supply of but they take 3-4 weeks to act on depression. Some people lose more than others. In extreme We are growing hippocampal stem cells in womb, your brain is made in the same way. My lab has two major but overlapping nerve cells you obtained during the earliest Why so long? One explanation is that it takes cases, this results in various forms of dementia, culture and then transplanting them back into Embryonic nerve cells (neurons) divide interests. Experimentally, we study how months. about the same time (3-4 weeks) for newly- of which Alzheimer’s disease is the best known the brain. Would altering cortisol or giving repeatedly to make daughter and grand- hormones regulate the way the brain makes It took until the early 1990s for formed nerve cells to mature and make their and most common. The adrenals produce drugs like Prozac improve their subsequent daughter cells, so the number of brain cells new neurons (a process called ‘neurogenesis’), neurogenesis to be accepted as a phenomenon connections with the rest of the brain. another hormone, called DHEA. This has some growth and survival? grows from a few hundred to over 10 10. and how this interacts with other in the adult brain. The hippocampus, a part we Cortisol is normally much higher in the extraordinary properties. It is found only in If you get a feeling of suppressed At the same time, the brain develops from a neurochemicals such as serotonin, which is know is concerned with certain sorts of morning than in the evening, but this daily primates (monkeys, apes, man): no-one knows excitement reading this, then you reflect the simple tube into the complicated structure we known to be concerned with depression in memory, is one area that goes on making new rhythm is lost or blunted in about half of those why. It declines rapidly (but variably) with age optimism of the neuroscientific community, with depression. One of my lab’s findings is (a 60 year old will have about one third the faced by the awesome prospect of studying Mick Le Moignan that reproducing this attenuated rhythm in rats levels of a 20 year old). We have found that it the most complex structure in the known prevents Prozac from increasing neurogenesis. increases neurogenesis, so part of the age- world, and the knowledge that when it goes Is this why some people (about 20-30%) fail to related decline might be prevented by giving wrong, it devastates lives. respond to these drugs? Currently we are older people DHEA. DHEA, you will not be It has been said that: “neurologists are trying to understand how this happens at the surprised to learn, is also an anti-depressant. diagnosticians who astonish others with the level of the cell: does cortisol act directly on Why does the hippocampus need to make superiority of their diagnostic skills and a the stem cells in the hippocampus, or does it new neurons? This part of the brain is very virtually empty medicine bag” and “psychiatry alter the production of substances acting as susceptible to damage. A brief period of oxygen is now where medicine was before germs were ‘growth factors’ that come mainly from other or sugar shortage will damage the discovered”. It looks as if these pessimistic cells surrounding those making new neurons? hippocampus even if other areas survive. Some views may be changing. And why do these cells need to experience the of the first signs of Alzheimer’s occur here. So it A model of the human brain showing the location of the hippocampus (named because its shape is rather like a seahorse). Recent research has proved that the daily tidal wave of cortisol? might be that we need new neurons to replace The work of my laboratory is generously hippocampus continues to produce new nerve cells and that it does so more effficiently if the individual takes regular exercise and is sociable. In our clinical work, we find that not only those so easily lost. Perhaps the process of supported by the Wellcome Trust. 4 Once a Caian...... Always a Caian 5

ost of us have felt angry govern how we communicate with others and and frustrated when a affect our performance. And as ordinary human computer fails to do what Mental State Inference beings, we’re highly skilled at judging the mental we want. It’s usually our states of other human beings, mainly by looking own fault, for asking it the at them and listening to them.” Mwrong question or giving it the wrong Mind Computers, of course, cannot see or hear, instruction, but it’s tempting to complain (as but they can be linked to video cameras and we may occasionally grumble about our other microphones. The information recorded can be lifetime companions): “My computer doesn’t translated into data which the computers can understand me!” Reading absorb and utilise. Peter Robinson and his We look at the faces of strangers and instantly assess what they are thinking or feeling. Now computers What if our computers really did can be programmed to do the same. research students have pioneered the use of understand us? What if they could actually read video input and output as part of the user our emotional states in the same way as our interface. The task is to analyse facial friends and families judge our moods, and react Machines expressions and other clues, so as to recognise accordingly? Some will scoff and say this is complex emotions that may develop and change science fiction gone mad, a nightmare scenario by Mick Le Moignan (2005) rapidly. in which Big Brother will seek to intrude into Mick Le Moignan At first, they used professional actors to every aspect of our private lives. On the other portray simple emotions and videotaped them. hand (the less paranoid one!), improved Then they worked out which combination of 20 understanding and communication between tiny facial movements and other changes at 24 users and computers could be hugely beneficial. “feature points” on the face expressed particular Research into this field, readers will be states of mind. The system allows variations in delighted or alarmed to know, is already well individual appearance, such as having a round or advanced. Caius Praelector and Professor of thin face, spectacles or a beard. Computer Technology, Peter Robinson (1971) is Peter Robinson freely acknowledges his at the forefront of these important team’s debt to the work of another Cambridge developments and was recently invited to scientist, Professor Simon Baron-Cohen, Director showcase his work at the prestigious Summer of the Autism Research Centre, who in 2004 Science Exhibition of the Royal Society in published “The Mind-Reading DVD” which London. identifies facial expressions for 412 different The Exhibition is a wonderful event which mental states. Sufferers from autism or takes place every July. Twenty or so of the most Asperger’s Syndrome are said to be “mind-blind”, exciting and innovative science projects in the meaning that they have difficulty in reading the country are invited to demonstrate their latest emotions of others, so a computerised video research to interested members of the public A 1909 publicity card in which Florence Lawrence, Rana El Kaliouby, pictured above, drove around camera capable of performing that function for and groups of school students who may be a star of the silent cinema, shows the range of Cairo, lost in heavy traffic, recording her reactions them would be of enormous value in helping emotions she can portray. for analysis. thinking of applying for a science degree at them to live a normal life. university. Peter Robinson’s former research student, This year’s exhibits included Mars Rana El Kaliouby, is working at the The Kidsgrove Times exploration, predicting tsunamis, sustainable Peter Robinson demonstrates with a young volunteer how a computer linked to a video camera can Massachusetts Institute of Technology to energy for buses, controlling a bird flu accurately read the emotions she portrays. develop a headset version of such a device.

pandemic, studying body-clocks, designing Mick Le Moignan (Another research student, Quentin Stafford- hydrogen engines, measuring the distance to Fraser (1986) invented the WebCam while the edge of the universe and seeing why working on video in the user interface. Sadly, mosquitoes bite some people more than others. they thought it was too obvious to patent...) So competition for the audience’s attention The mood-reading device may also benefit was very strong, but the idea of mind-reading motorists. A major Japanese car manufacturer computers and the ingenious way in which it has asked Robinson to develop a dashboard was demonstrated really caught people’s camera and computer which will evaluate the imagination. emotional state of the driver and then make Peter Robinson has been working on the appropriate modifications to the behaviour of interface between people and computers for on-board equipment such as route finders. many years. He is not so much interested in Devices like these should be installed in vehicles creating the virtual environments of computer within five years. So Big Brother might just turn games and the like, where users inhabit a out to be more caring than domineering, synthetic world, as in translating aspects of the although he may still think he knows best! real world into information which computers There is clearly a long way to go, but can understand: commercial applications tend to speed up “We express our mental states, including academic research.What if websites were able emotions, thoughts and desires, through facial to assess the mood of their users and aim their expressions, vocal nuances and gestures.We do adverts accordingly? The next time you scream this all the time, even when we’re interacting abuse at your computer, it may decide this is the with machines such as computers or cars. Our The Mind-Reading Computers stand at the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition drew thousands of perfect moment to sell you some tranquillisers mental states shape the decisions we make, interested observers and participants, including Peter Robinson’s parents (far right). 46 years on (see photo opposite) Clifford Robinson still enjoys watching his son at work! or a holiday! 6 Once a Caian...... Always a Caian 7

Exhibit 1 Exhibit 2 Exhibit 3 The College Endowment 1988-2006 UK: Cumulative Wealth of Equities, Caius Portfolio Structure Gilts & Cash (Yield reinvested) 120000 Minding Recovery under way and new building 100000 almost complete £10m drop – purchase Heavy spending on Cockerell Cockerell, Gonville Court 80000 Building

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n 2000, just as the stock market was College had shown only modest returns over can sustain annual spending, while preserving Exhibit 4 Exhibit 5 peaking, I rejoined the College as the past decade or so, as a result of an its real value over time. This is not quite the % Allocation by Asset Class Cumulative Total Return 2000-2005 Senior Bursar. 61/2 years later, I am investment policy skewed heavily towards same as simply maximising long-term retiring from that position, although property and bonds, as well as substantial investment return, as the need for annual I will continue teaching in the MBA spending on the new Library and Gonville extractions places particular difficulties on the Caius Iprogramme at the Judge Business School. Court. Endowment in times of capital market During my time as Bursar, the College has The other three objectives I had downturn. Average implemented a number of major changes, formulated were: Revenues, Fundraising, and We were swayed from the outset by the University Endowment which I believe have put us on a sound Costs, of which more anon… Soon after my considerable body of research showing that in financial track for the future. The College appointment, at my first General Meeting of the long term, returns on equities had beaten FT All Share Endowment shows this best: by the end of Fellows, a fifth objective was added: financing gilts, as in Exhibit 2, with property typically June 2006 it had been grown to almost £115m a new building at 5 West Road. somewhere in between. from its £85m level at the stock market peak Once in post, then, “minding our own So why not put “everything” in equities? Real AssetsCash & Global Private Hedge Fixed Equities Equity Funds in 2000. In addition, almost £10m had been business” began with me concentrating on The problem, of course, is volatility – so the Income invested in the construction of the new Investment. We worked with endowment answer is diversification. This was neatly building nearing completion at consultants, Cambridge Associates, who helped summed up for us by David Swensen, the 5 West Road. us to formulate the clear objective for our almost legendary endowment manager from In private equity and hedge funds, we educational endowments, frequently ranking sustainable spending power of the This strengthening of our finances, shown Endowment of optimising the rate at which it Yale, on a visit to Caius at an early stage in our invest in a range of managed funds, to gain in the top 5%. Endowment – which we calculate to be 4.5% in Exhibit 1, has allowed the College to thinking: you must spread across asset classes diversification in terms of strategies, Nor did we neglect the other objectives, of the average value of the endowment in the undertake a strategic review of its operations Dan White that offer equity-like returns, but whose “vintages” (in private equity) and territories. which in fact interlock. Given the likely three previous years. The College established and begin cautiously to increase spending in variation correlates with equities as little as In these assets, there is a huge range of continuing pressure on the College fee, a revised structure of management key areas, such as partially restoring the possible. In practice, Swensen advocates a “five performance between poorly performing increased Revenues will depend largely on committees, supported by management number of Research Fellows, adding new asset class” approach, adding tangible assets, managers and the best. Here, we now work increasing third party conference and catering accounts. This enabled us first to agree a communal facilities for undergraduates at private equity/venture capital and hedge or with Partners Capital, founded by former trade. This will receive a major impetus with differentiated series of target cost reductions, Harvey Court and for graduates at our absolute return funds, to the more partners from management consultants Bain the new building. We now have a professional (some important areas, such as “satellite” court in Harvey Road – and conventional equities and fixed interest. Using & Co. They apply the detailed analytical and Conference Manager, Laura Oliver, booking Admissions/Access initiatives, were actually beginning a new, unexpected and largely this approach, he has famously averaged over implementation skills for which that firm is top quality conferences in vacations (our first increased), and then to implement them unwelcome ten-year programme of Health & 17% return p.a. at Yale since he went there in rightly famous, to help us make the best new client to book was McKinsey). The successfully in practice, so that our spending Safety expenditure in the Old Courts 1987 – with never a down year. possible selections after much comparative building also formed the launch platform for has roughly equalled the sustainable amount (previously exempted as ancient, listed We have adopted this approach at Caius due diligence. the College in professional Fundraising, since in each of the last three years. buildings). and it is now pretty much fully implemented, We now have fifteen equity managers the weakening of the Endowment in the 90’s Our determination to “mind our own This remarkable turnaround has required limited only by the time it inevitably takes to (including four tracker managers covering caused by the Cockerell and Gonville Court business” is reflected in the formal overall teamwork of a high order, from the entire build up a soundly diversified position in seven markets), five hedge fund managers (all investments made it clear that this building financial objective we have agreed: “to ensure body of Fellows as well as the College staff. private equity. The progress made is illustrated running portfolios of sub-funds) and should be paid for by new money. This goal that the College’s primary educational, It had its roots in a curious mnemonic with in Exhibit 3. With respect to tangible assets, we commitments to fourteen private equity has been amply accomplished by a research and religious functions are managed which I had equipped myself in March 2000 as were already well placed, as the College has funds. The remarkable level of diversification combination of over £9m raised by our Fellow cost-effectively and supported by robust and a candidate, when submitting with some always seen property as a good long-term that results is illustrated by the “Marimekko” Development Director, Dr Anne Lyon, well-managed financial resources, which will trepidation to an inquisition by the College diversification. In fact, property has been chart, Exhibit 4, which depicts the overall appointed in 2001, and her crack team, and a sustain the enterprise in perpetuity.” Council. “RFIC” – I’d fixed it in my mind by superb over the last few years and we have target structure of the portfolio. further £5m raised by the sale of lodging In leaving now, I am confident that, thinking of a Rugby Football Investment Club – taken advantage of this to sell some properties Of course, the acid test of all this is how houses that are no longer needed. provided the College maintains momentum and because of its improbability in that on the margin and rebalance towards the other well the portfolio performs. Exhibit 5 shows Last, but by no means least, Cost with the “RFIC” objectives – sound context, it was always easy to remember to asset classes: we were gently buying into that we have easily beaten equities in “down” Management. There is little point in raising Investment, continued Fundraising, effective talk about Investment returns and real equities, hedge funds and private equity, for years, but have generally done as well or endowment levels and returns unless the Cost management and the development of spending power preservation as the first and example, through the long shallow “bottom” in better in “up” years – and we have performed College is also able to manage its costs conference Revenues – this tough objective most important objective. Here, I knew the the market through 2001–03. significantly better than our peer group of US effectively, so that they balance with the will continue to be met. 8 Once a Caian...... Always a Caian 9

by Mick Le Moignan The only good reason for (2005) First “not buying a copy for your son’s or husband’s birthday is that he will then want a Land Rover Overland for Christmas! ”

Six itinerant British subjects in Turkey after ten months on the road: Tim Slessor, Adrian Cowell, Pat Murphy (1951), Antony Barrington Brown (1948), At Henry’s last reunion: (left to right) Nigel, BB, Pat, Adrian, Henry and Henry Nott (1951) and Nigel Newbery. (seated) Tim

The book “First Overland” is available at £12.99 from Kit for the “assault on Burma” laid out at Brooke Bond’s Julia tea estate in Assam. Henry, Adrian, Pat, Antony Barrington Brown (1948) – “BB” www.signalbooks.co.uk Telephone: +44 (0)1865 724856 “Sir Suit”, Tim, Nigel, BB All-seeing Nepalese temple

f you are planning to travel overland Foundation to pay a similar amount towards a birthday is that he will then want a Land roles, practised the basic survival skills of also filmed the magnificent, tartan-clad band local people abandoned it as impossible to across half the planet, you must first study of mineral resources in Burma. A young Rover for Christmas! cooking, camping and getting on with each of 120 pipers that was a proud part of the maintain; this was where the Expedition had have the foresight to be born in the BBC producer by the name of David The Caian members of the Expedition other and had their first taste of the curiosity new Pakistan Army! decided “to boldly go” where very few had right year. Like Alexander the Great, Attenborough was so impressed by their naïve were Antony Barrington Brown (1948), (“BB”), of the natives. They stayed a few days in India yielded wonderful photographs, of gone before and scarcely a soul would follow. Marco Polo and Genghis Khan before “pitch” that he gave them £200 with which to generous supplier of the photographs for this Beirut, then a sort of Mediterranean Paris, the Sikhs’ Golden Temple at Amritsar, Jamma In the event, to the amazement of the them,I the six intrepid members of the Oxford buy a clockwork film camera and some film feature, Pat Murphy (1951), the navigator, both to enjoy themselves and to send off the Masjid in Delhi, the Taj Mahal, but also BB’s inhabitants of Myitkyina, they completed the and Cambridge Overland Expedition to stock. Harraps paid an advance of £240 on whose skill in handling the delicate first batch of reports to sponsors and requests trade-mark, intimate, joyful scenes of the lives crossing in three days, largely thanks to the Singapore of 1955-56 timed their effort to the promised book. Apart from those, there negotiations for practically unprecedented for assistance and supplies further down the of ordinary people, potters at work, children Land Rovers’ remarkable ability to drive perfection. was no more sponsorship in cash, but 83 visas won him a diplomatic career with the road. They had the benefit of a dedicated and at play, glimpses of reality. Above all, in India straight through rivers. (Hints: remove fan Three Caians, two Cath’s men and one companies donated supplies of camping gear, Foreign Office, and the late Henry Nott efficient back-up team handling matters in they scored a major diplomatic coup, belt, keep foot down and be very lucky!) unfortunate from the Other Place succeeded food, petrol and other equipment – and they (1951), whose driving and mechanical skills the UK, but communications were not as easy becoming only the second vehicle allowed to There would be many more adventures in traversing the notorious Stilwell Road, the had major support from Land Rover and were vital in keeping the two Land Rovers on as they are today and there was a formidable drive up the breathtaking, brand new road before the triumphant drive into Singapore, only road from India through Northern Brooke Bond, whose local offices welcomed the road and in good repair. Tim Slessor and amount of paperwork to be completed at that was still being cut through the crossing the rebel-infested Shan States with Burma. A couple of years later, with the help them like the celebrities they rapidly became. Adrian Cowell, St Catharine’s men who went every stage of the journey. Himalayan foothills on its way to Kathmandu. the dubious privilege of a Burmese of the monsoons, the jungle reclaimed its own It is impossible here to give anything on to distinguish themselves as documentary They pressed on through the deserts of The dark and light blue Land Rovers were government escort and plunging through 100 and no-one has ever been able to follow in more than a flavour of this epic journey, but film-makers, and the sole Oxford Syria, Iraq, Persia and Pakistan, often on united again in Calcutta but then plunged into miles of jungle between Thailand and their Land Rovers’ tyre-tracks. The journey has happily the book, First Overland,by Tim representative, Nigel Newbery, were unmade or non-existent roads. The Land Rover even more difficult terrain, the river-riddled Malaysia, where the road would only be become a legend: the BBC marked the fiftieth Slessor, is available again from Signal Books of respectively the Expedition’s writer, business carrying the geographers went to the Thal, to lowlands of Bengal. Near Darjeeling, they had completed three years later, but by forcing the anniversary by showing (in colour for the first Oxford. An early reviewer from The Times manager and quartermaster. BB points out do some important fieldwork on irrigating the what BB recalls as their most dangerous Stilwell Road they had achieved what most time) newly edited versions of some of the Literary Supplement described it as “altogether that before the expedition they were not desert to turn it into productive farmland. The moment, crossing an eighty-foot chasm on a informed observers had assured them was remarkable film they sent back. delightful… written with humour and friends, but chosen for their abilities, to which self-styled “artistic” crew in the other vehicle rickety suspension bridge built for ponies. impossible. It was a glorious success, which If timing was one of the keys to their beguiling gusto.” Motor magazine capped he attributes their success. drove on in search of film and photographic The Stilwell Road from Ledo in Assam to the Expedition members savour to this day. success, preparation was another. They that, calling it simply: “the best travel book I They left London on 1 September 1955 opportunities and journalistic “scoops”, such Myitkyina in Burma was built at enormous persuaded the Royal Geographic Society to have ever read.” According to David and returned on 21 August 1956. Driving as the story they sold the Manchester cost in in 1943-4 by the US 14th Army under “First Overland” by Tim Slessor, priced £12.99, contribute £100 towards a study of irrigation Attenborough, the only good reason for not through France, Germany, Austria, Yugoslavia, Guardian, about a thriving factory in Lahore General Stilwell as a supply route to Chiang is available from www.signalbooks.co.uk in the Thal Desert in Pakistan and the Ford buying a copy for your son’s or husband’s Greece and Turkey, they settled into their making bagpipes for export to Scotland. They Kai Shek’s army in China. After the war, the Telephone: +44 (0)1865 724856 10 Once a Caian...... Always a Caian 11

ailment, separately undiagnosable without a washing and made to descend, following the brain damage, we feared. Get real doctor, quick! Clockwise (from top left): Boarding the car ferry to Path. Lab. Fortunately, the mantle of Dr Caius stairwell wall with his hand. Unfortunately he Actually, it is quite a problem to locate a cross the Ganges First must have fallen upon my bewildered misremembered the layout, which side was the doctor, if any there be, in a strange town, in Land Rover crossing a river under its own power shoulders, for despite my efforts we six first descent, and stepped off into the void. total darkness, having no word of the language, mid-stream with fingers crossed travelled 32,000 miles over eleven months First stop the bottom step. A shriek, then whatever it was. Pat, our linguist (competent without a single day’s delay for sickness. Just silence. only in Europe, though) and navigator, breakfast in the desert in Iraq Overland two days for an accident. It happened like this: The rest of us got a Tilly lamp going in the obviously the man for the job, was despatched massive columns of the Temple of Jupiter, Ba’albek, Once upon a time there was only one two- main room and rushed out to find Henry a into the night. We waited. And waited. At last, Lebanon storey building in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, and crumpled heap, completely covered in blood. mirabile dictu, there reappeared Pat with a bridge proving that “the bamboo bends but does Accident that still only half built, intended for the As 'doctor' all turned to me for instant small swarthy man who could communicate not break” manager of the new sugar factory. We were on diagnosis and remedy. Having established that with Pat in pidgin German and claimed to be a breath-taking views on the newly-built road to our way home. The headman let us camp in it he wasn’t dead after all and that when laid out doctor – we assumed of medicine. To whom, as Kathmandu (two images) overnight. Quite a cushy billet it seemed, with (no, not like that) all his limbs seemed to point to a ‘true professional’ I of course deferred. The by Antony Barrington stuck in the Chindwin “we did very well until we even a “bathroom” upstairs with real water out in the right directions, we set about swabbing consultation went as follows: got to the middle!” Brown (1948) of a tap, and electric light. However, the whole away the blood, which took some time. My Should Henry have one of our two place was bare jagged concrete. The stairway prognostications were many and dire: he could precious morphia shots, treasured for nine “possibly our most dangerous moment”, crossing a wooden suspension bridge built for ponies; was composed of two dog-leg flights to the have broken limbs, most likely collarbone, months already? The doctor thought yes, but n the highest traditions of Medicine for upper landing outside the washroom. No cracked his skull, brain damage, internal injuries having removed the ampoule from it’s aseptic another bridge almost too far which this College is so renowned, handrails of course. – definitely well on the way out. But all we capsule, decided not to inject. Should Henry through the car-wash since I was the only scientist (sic) in the After supper we went up in turn to cleanse could find was a nasty abrasion on the have anything to drink? Cocoa, perhaps? Yes Stilwell’s military highway, a decade on team, I was appointed ‘doctor’. My the grime and dust after the rough drive forehead, a back comprehensively skinned, and indeed. Some was produced. Is that too training consisted of a very brief through the Khyber Pass and onwards towards a wound in his lower lip where his teeth had hot/warm enough? Yes, fine. Sugar? This much? the mountain train to Darjeeling claiming priority on the shared roadway briefingI at the just-built Fenners medical centre Kabul. Henry, our lead mechanic, was last up been driven through it. All that blood had More? That’s just right. I was reluctant to offer and a perusal of Health and Disease in the after finishing his tasks. At ten o’clock the lights come from so small a gash. it through Henry’s damaged lips, so I passed it (Centre left): David and Goliath in the desert Tropics. From this, I learned only that diarrhoea suddenly went out when the power station After half an hour he was beginning to to the doctor. He drank it, thanked us for our (Centre right): perfectly timed photograph of a and vomiting are the symptoms of every shut down for the night. Henry finished come round, mumbling incoherently. Must be hospitality, and left. perfectly aimed fishing net. 12 Once a Caian...... Always a Caian 13 Yao Liang Richard Wicksteed Since their discovery in the 1970s white lions were removed from the wilds of Timbavati, and bred in captivity to be used for so-called The “canned hunting”, a bizarrely cruel practice whereby rare wild animals are hand-reared and Lion held captive specifically for trophy hunting. Wealthy foreigners pay six-figure sums to shoot by Mick Le Moignan them in small enclosures and take their heads and skins home as trophies. (2005) After a fierce debate, the ANC government Queen announced, earlier this year, its intention to outlaw such practices and to ban trophy fter a first degree from Cape (lion) and “vati” (to come down from the hunting in Game Reserves like Timbavati, which Town University in English and heavens). This area is the ancestral home of the adjoin the National Parks. However, the new Psychology, Linda Tucker (1985) White Lion, a rare genetic variant of the law has not yet come into effect, leaving the spent much of her time at Caius dominant golden lion species. It was declared a remaining captive lions in extreme danger. The studying dream symbolism and sacred site by African kings, possibly as long as Global White Lion Protection Trust hopes to Asymbolism in medieval texts. She never 400 years before South African President Paul negotiate the eventual release of many of them dreamed how one of the most powerful Kruger protected it as part of the National Park into the wild, but the breeders, who are furious symbols in the world would become the central that bears his name. If a white lion mates with about the shutting down of their lucrative cause and inspiration of her life. a golden lion, the offspring are usually golden, industry, may not co-operate. South Africa was going through some of the but if two white lions mate together, they In 2001, the White Lion Trust rescued a worst years of apartheid; the country teetered produce white cubs. According to Shangaan, white lioness named Marah from a canned Linda’s book can be ordered online from: on the brink of civil war.When Linda completed Swazi and Zulu beliefs, if the white lion dies out, [email protected] or www.yourbooks.co.za hunting camp after a fierce court battle. The her two-year MA course as an affiliated the whole continent of Africa will be doomed. Linda Tucker (1985) on a recent return to Caius. or by telephone: +27 217 017 302. lioness then produced three white lion cubs, student, she felt powerless and stayed away. In most cultures where the lion is known, it which she raised alone in a concrete cell at a Mireille Vince Richard Wicksteed Modelling work in Paris led to other jobs in stands for pride, respect, honour, justice and Guy Oliver zoo, while further legal wrangles continued. marketing, advertising and fashion, but nothing leadership. It is also a guardian, carved, painted At last, on Freedom Day this year, when very fulfilling. and emblazoned on doors, gates and heraldic South Africans commemorate Nelson Mandela’s The changing political climate in South coats of arms all over the world. Now, however, long-awaited release from captivity, Marah and Africa and the release of Nelson Mandela the white lion is in desperate need of protection her three cubs were reintroduced to their encouraged her to visit friends and family again. – not from other animals but from human endemic area, the White Lion Trust’s 600 The turning point came on 10 November 1991, hunters. hectare property next to the Timbavati Reserve. when her open-topped Land Rover broke down The white lion has been extinct in the wild To Linda Tucker’s enormous delight, Marah at night in the middle of Timbavati (the African in Timbavati since 1993, but they are still bred and her cubs settled into their new ancestral bushveld region neighbouring the Kruger in captivity and some have been sent to zoos as home faster than anyone could have imagined, National Park) and she was surrounded by a far afield as Las Vegas, Tenerife, Australia, New beginning hunting the very first night and pride of 24 lions. To her amazement, an African Zealand, China and Japan. There are four in rapidly developing the skills that will ensure woman carrying a baby on her back appeared Britain, in the Midlands Safari Park. This is a their survival. Further good news is the recent from the darkness and walked straight through temporary measure that may ensure survival, discovery of two other white lion cubs born in the ranks of lions, gently shooing them away but as Linda points out: “a species can only truly the wild nearby. After twelve years of extinction from the Land Rover. This was Linda’s first be said to survive if it is able to live in its own in the wild, the Global White Lion Protection meeting with Maria Khoza, a shaman known as original ecosystem.” Trust is doing all it can to ensure that these the Lion Queen of Timbavati, and the baby on In 2002, she founded the Global White Lion Linda and her partner, lion ecologist Jason Turner, carry a white lion Linda makes friends with magnificent creatures can flourish again in their her back was her grandchild. Protection Trust. (In conservation, she says, Africa’s great lion priest: Credo Vusamazulu Mutwa. cub to safety. newborn Marah. place of origin. It was not an instant conversion: Linda every issue is global.) The Trust’s objectives are returned to the comparative glamour of the first to return the white lions to their endemic Richard Wicksteed advertising world and it took three years for her range, thereby restoring the balance of nature, INVITATION – to join the WHITE LION EXPEDITION, May 2007 to digest the extraordinary event, but then she and secondly to revive the lost cultures of To celebrate these heart-warming successes after years of determined campaigning, Linda returned to Africa, found Maria Khosa and asked Africa. is inviting all Caians and friends of the College to join Caians resident in South Africa for her to be her teacher. Maria agreed, The Trust runs educational programmes an informal get-together at Timbavati in the first week of May 2007. An unforgettable commenting: with schools in impoverished communities, to week of activities will include visits to the white lions in the wild, the ancient gold-diggers’ “It’s taken you a long time to wake up!” give children some pride in their place of origin route and many other bushveld areas of interest. It was the beginning of the most enriching and to help them to understand they have a Comfortable, reasonably priced accommodation for up to 80 visitors is available at a experience of Linda’s life, and of a learning valuable heritage, which they can help to Safari Lodge across the Klaserie River. The total cost, including all meals, accommodation, curve that continues to this day: protect. The White Lion is used as a day outings and transport in South Africa, but excluding air travel to Johannesburg, will be “I hadn't anticipated that my study of motivational symbol to generate pride, self- approximately 10,000 Rand (£900) per person. Places will be allocated on a “first come, ancient symbolism would be the key to worth, leadership and courage. first served” basis. unlocking the knowledge systems of ancestral There are still, however, powerful opponents If you would like to reserve a place or receive further details of this very special event, Africa. The exciting thing about symbolism is of such idealistic thinking. The South African please contact Linda directly as soon as possible, preferably by email, at: that it’s constant across ages, cultures and pro-hunting lobby is well-entrenched: they [email protected] or at: continents. The lion is the King of beasts argue that lion-hunting is not only a national The Global White Lion Protection Trust whether you’re European, Egyptian, African or tradition but a vital industry turning over more PO Box 85040, Emmarentia 2029, SOUTH AFRICA Chinese.” than 400 billion Rand a year, the loss of which Tel /Fax: +27 11 4822977 Website: www.whitelions.org The name Timbavati comes from “simba” would have huge commercial implications. Linda meets serious-faced Aslan. 14 Once a Caian...... Always a Caian 15 May Des LeMoignan Des LeMoignan 2006 Week ome moments in a lifetime years a Fellow of Caius, an exhibition of benefactors was a vital ingredient in develop an independent existence paintings by Adrian Taunton (1958) in the underpinning that success. of their own and live on in the Michaelhouse and last but not least the Lord Tugendhat also drew attention to

mind. For those who have moved sterling efforts of the first and second Men’s the recent launch of the Cambridge 800th Des LeMoignan Des LeMoignan Scenes from a memorable May Week Party: on, there is a corner of the VIIIs, recorded in full on page 29. Anniversary Campaign and the connection Anne and Richard Lyon with Simon, Briony memoryS where it will always be May Week in Addressing the guests after lunch, the between it and the College’s own fund and Charlotte Bax, the Master with Guang Cambridge. Master introduced himself as “Christopher raising efforts. The two are closely co- Cheng Li and Elisabetta Brollow, Lord The sun shines from a blue sky on to a Hum (2006) – the most recent Caian of all.” ordinated so that a gift to Caius counts Tugendhat addressing the guests in Gonville Court, tours of the sinuous New Building and pandemonium of punts, a light, refreshing He said that in his comparatively short towards the University’s target and will be the Cockerell Library, the Second Men’s VIII breeze ripples the reflections in the river of experience of the College, he had observed in recognized by it accordingly. celebrating their well-timed Bump opposite long green lawns, overhanging willows and particular “a powerful sense of loyalty and He was pleased to see that more Caian Caius Meadow, David Heap showing his stone bridges. The drudgery of revision and community shared by Caians of every benefactors than ever before had returned to punting prowess and the Master welcoming benefactors on the lawns of Harvey Court. the torture of exams are both over and the generation.” Resident members and those celebrate both the achievements of today’s results not yet known. There is music and much further afield combined to create “one students and their own contribution to the Mick Le Moignan laughter and maybe love in the warm, community, interdependent and tightly knit.” work of the College. The one drawback of scented air. Your closest friends are all The generosity of benefactors, large and such enthusiasm was the inevitable strain around you and the cherries you bought in small, had made a tremendous difference to placed on staff and resources. Until this year, the Market Square to share with them taste Caius in the recent past and he hoped Caians anyone who had made a gift in the previous Des LeMoignan sweeter and more intense than anything you would continue to respond warmly to the four years had been invited to the Party, but Mick Le Moignan can imagine. College’s need to strengthen such vital areas it was now clear that in future years, May Week 2006 was as wonderful and as research, teaching, student facilities and invitations would have to be limited to glorious as anyone could have wished, the fabric of the great, historic buildings benefactors who had made gifts in the storing up memories and nostalgia for entrusted to us by past generations. previous twelve months. another generation of bright-eyed young Lord Tugendhat (1957), the Chairman of Already, nearly 15% of Caians were Caians. Increasingly, though, these days it is the Development Campaign Committee, making a regular, monthly, quarterly or not only the young who have all the fun. welcomed Sir Christopher to his first May annual gift to the College in accordance with More and more people are choosing May Week Party and thanked him for making their means; Lord Tugendhat hoped that Week as the ideal time to revisit the scenes such a strong commitment to development many more would choose to express their of their salad days and renew associations so early in his tenure of office. If Caius was gratitude and support for Caius in this very with their friends and their College. to maintain its current extraordinary levels of tangible and positive way. He looked forward The Caius May Week Party on the final performance in many fields, academic, to seeing the Old Courts crowded once again Saturday of the Bumps has become a focal sporting, social, charitable and artistic, the with enthusiastic Caian supporters at the point of our celebrations. This year, nearly continuing, regular financial support of its May Week Party on Saturday 16 June 2007. 600 Caians with friends or partners came to enjoy the occasion, setting a monumental Yao Liang challenge for Executive Head Chef, Tony Smith, and his team, who had the task of providing first a drinks reception on the lawns of Harvey Court, then a sumptuous buffet lunch in the marquee in Gonville Court and finally tea in the garden of the Master's Lodge. As well as convivial reminiscing with old friends, the guests were taken on tours of the magnificent new building nearing completion at 5 West Road and our splendid College Library next to the Senate House. We were also treated to a musical recital by baritone Johnny Herford (2003) and pianist Francesca Massey (2002) in the Bateman Auditorium, a film celebrating the remarkable life and achievements of Professor Philip Grierson (1929), seventy 16 Once a Caian...... Always a Caian 17 Mick LeMoignan

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he people of Perplex With almost 40,000 registered recruited several of his friends from Caius: fiction with characters who communicate which claims its product is good for the brain! PerplexCity which may well be useful in City need our help! players, mostly in Britain and the USA, Adam Martin (1998) read Computer with the players and a plot that is influenced Readers looking for Cambridge parallels will be solving the final conundrum. The Receda Cube, a and a further 200,000 or so who Science, worked for IBM and then founded his by puzzle solving and feedback from the highly amused by a visit to the Perplex City High points scores are rewarded with powerful artefact that participate occasionally, this is an own games company. He was lured away from players. The story is not the brainchild of one Academy website. further information and a leaderboard is is the cornerstone of Alternate Reality Game (ARG) that has writing a book to join Mind Candy as Chief person: like a TV soap opera, there is a For anyone who wants to join in, the first maintained so that players can follow each Ttheir civilisation, has been stolen and buried become very big business – and there are Technology Officer. production team of seventeen, including five step is to start solving puzzle cards, which can others’ progress. The website is frequently somewhere on Earth. They have asked us to Caians at the heart of it. Paul McCormick (1998) came to Caius to writers led by Naomi Alderman, winner of this be bought in book shops, games stores and updated so that newcomers can easily catch find it for them and have offered a reward of When Mind Candy was formed in 2004, read Mathematics and went on to take a Ph.D. year’s Orange Award for New Writers. online at £2.50 (or $4) for a pack of six. There up with the plot, get to know the characters £100,000. Dan and his brother Adrian, (a Trinity graduate in Biostatistics. He now works as Project PerplexCity is a virtual ‘alternative world’ are 256 cards with puzzles ranging in difficulty and join in the search for the Receda Cube. According to Dan Hon (1998), Chief who is Mind Candy’s Director of Play), were Manager, with responsibility for the puzzle which interacts with our own principally on from the very easy red cards to the extremely The three Caians at Mind Candy (all of Operations Officer of Mind Candy, the involved from the outset, together with CEO cards. the internet but also via occasional live stunts tricky silvers. Examples of silvers include whom insist they have no idea where the company co-ordinating the search efforts on Michael Smith, formerly of Firebox. Dan had Dave Blake (1998), another Computer involving actors playing agents of Perplex breaking a commercial-quality code and even Cube is hidden) expect it to be unearthed and Earth, “The society of Perplex City is very been interested in ARGs since 2001, when Scientist, helped to develop software for City’s sinister ‘Third Power’. Hundreds of proving one of the great unsolved problems in the £100,000 prize claimed some time before different from our own: they value intelligence Microsoft’s The Beast enlivened Part II of his PerplexCity, but has now moved on to websites represent PerplexCity organisations: mathematics, the Riemann Hypothesis. Each Christmas. What next for PerplexCity? and creativity!” The most highly-prized skill of Law Tripos. This diversion later enlivened more Deutsche Bank. there is an online newspaper (advertising card has a scratch pad with its own Hollywood agents are looking at film and all is the ability to solve puzzles. In order to than his studies when one of the players PerplexCity takes its inspiration from Perplex City companies), a record label with identification number: players log on, give this television options, there are likely to be a help them to find the missing Cube, we must became his wife! While training as a solicitor, Masquerade, the 1979 book by Kit Williams music available on the internet, a publishing number and the answer to the puzzle and number of high profile merchandising spin- develop our own abilities in this area: hence Dan started working with Microsoft on a that started a treasure hunt lasting more than house (which has just brought out a book receive a points reward according to the offs (a board game is already in the pipeline) the free pack of six puzzle cards included with sequel. So when the chance came to run two years. But this venture is much more than written by 37 players), individual weblogs, degree of difficulty. The backs of the puzzle and, of course, a new season of the game with this issue. PerplexCity, he jumped at it and soon a treasure hunt: it is a massive interactive podcasts and even an ice-cream company cards fit together to form a large map of new puzzles, plot, characters and prize money. 18 Once a Caian...... Always a Caian 19

espite giving his name to the Portraits of Dr Caius abound, but the front page of Varsity, the Society no longer The most recent commemoration of our Hall which later became College has no picture of Gonville. His statue appears on the student’s union website. first founder is the Edmund Gonville Society. Gonville and Caius College, stands on the Great Gate with Bateman and Presumably, the College’s budding debaters are Appropriately enough, in a College named our first founder is often Caius, but this springs from the imagination of now frequenting the Union instead! after benefactors, membership is offered only overlooked.We proudly call Gonville but a sculptor who lived five hundred years after A slightly more unusual manifestation of to those who declare their intention to leave a Dourselves “Caians”, our highly successful Gonville died. A closer representation of him Gonville appreciation is ‘Ye Ancient Order of legacy to the College in their wills, a tradition student boat club has dropped the ‘G&’ to may possibly be the fine image of his name- Gonville Loungers’, a sort of gentleman’s which reflects Gonville’s own generous legacy. become CBC, and even the College’s official saint, St Edmund, in the medieval altarpiece he breakfast club which met to lounge by the Above all, since 2003, we commemorate annual journal of record ignores him. ‘Caius is thought to have commissioned at Thornton Gate of Humility at one of the clock of our first Founder by electing Gonville Fellow Blue’ and ‘Caius College’ have taken over not forgotten! Parva in Suffolk. weekdays ‘to observe how strange creatures ye Benefactors in recognition of great Cambridge consciousness, while Edmund Few organisations within the College name Lord hath made’. This organisation inflicted a munificence to the College. They are admitted Gonville barely rates a mention. by Eleanor James (2002) themselves after Gonville. While the shorter to dreadfully coloured tie on its members, a in the College Chapel in a ceremony during

Who was this man who gave his name to Yao Liang say but rather more difficult to spell Caius combination of salmon pink, old gold and the service for the Commemoration of the fourth oldest, third largest and second most reaps the rewards, poor Gonville remains sadly forest green. The Loungers had been adjourned Benefactors preceding the Commemoration distinguished College? We know that he was under-commemorated. However, the Gonville since a meeting in the 1960’s when “the date Feast. the Rector of the parish of Terrington St Boat Club has been established for the Bufties for the next meeting was not agreed because I do not wish to play down the efforts of Clement when he was granted letters patent in among us to come back and represent the the agenda item ‘Any Other Business’ was Dr Caius to re-endow a Gonville Hall which 1348 to found his college of 20 scholars. The glorious past of College rowing. The Revd Jack never reached”. It was, however, agreed at the was, by that time, ‘much reduced’, but I exhort so-called ‘Cathedral of the Marshland’ was McDonald (1995), David Tait (1996) and Katie reunion meeting in 2004 that the group should you not to forget the efforts of the man who started during his tenure (although much Symons (2000) run the GBC, whose members meet again in 40 years’ time! The Gonville had the vision to lay the foundations of the altered in later centuries). hold annual dinners and days out at the Loungers present then concluded their institution we know and love today. Perhaps Edmund’s College began as the Hall of the Bumps to cheer on their Caius Boat Club breakfast by drinking champagne and lounging next time we Caians(!) wander into Chapel or Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, but in cousins. GBC raced in the alumni regattas of at the Gate of Humility. come back for an Annual Gathering, we should common parlance was referred to as Gonville 2002 and 2003 and won both times, clearly A more lasting memorial to Gonville was spare a moment to thank both our founders, Hall. Professor Christopher Brooke (1945) scaring the competition, since the event has created in the nineteenth century, when the the humble Edmund Gonville as well as the speculates that Gonville was “a really not been held again! custom was to name new streets on College honoured John Caius. remarkable character, combining in quite an Another exception is the Gonville Hall land after notable members of the College. exceptional way the qualities of a devout parish Debating Society, one of the oldest student Gonville Place and roads named after Harvey, Anyone who wishes to receive GBC and CBC priest and founder of religious houses (of which societies in Cambridge, which last filed a Glisson, Lyndewode, Drosier and others are still news is asked to email their details to Joanna the college was one) with being entrepreneur, report in The Caian 1999-2000 edition. Despite on the map today but Caius Street is no longer Wood ([email protected]), and they will be financier, land agent and legal consultant’. He a ‘gladiatorial’ year in 1996-97 and making the to be found. added to the GBC mailing list. was both wealthy and influential. It was recently discovered that he was the Countess of KerrInstitute Hamilton Titmus, Chris Pembroke’s man of affairs in complicated conveyancing when her College was founded. In fact, he seems to have been a central figure in sorting out the legal problems associated with several colleges which sprang up in the middle of the fourteenth century. We know enough of Dr Caius to draw a vivid sketch of his character. He was a busy, successful, energetic physician, his head sufficiently turned by Renaissance ways to change the spelling of his name from Keys to Caius. A firm believer in the importance of anatomy, he made sure Cambridge medics studied it at first hand by providing them with corpses to dissect. An influential doctor in the City of London, he made a fortune and then The Gonville Loungers reunited and still lounging in March 2004: (Back row, left to right) Sandy Roberts spent it on doubling the lands and endowment (1960), Charles Gallimore (1960), Andrew Kennedy (1961), David Hoskin (1960), Henry Day (1962), David Yandell (1962), Jeremy Barham (1960) and Martin Wade (1962). (Front row, left to right) Dale Hjort (1962), of our College. John Powell-Jackson (1960), David Bell (1962) (NB exemplary lounging!) and James Fiddes (1961). Caius loved the symbolism of his Gates, Photo by David Russell (1961) Yao Liang where students arrived through Humility, Yao Liang gradually acquired Virtue and Wisdom and then left with Honour. He despaired at what he saw as the drop in standards of students’ and fellows’ behaviour during his lifetime, but gave everything he had to enhance their lives and work. Caius was irascible, combative and determined to be remembered, planning meticulously his own fine memorial in the Chapel. Beside this rumbustious Renaissance man, the adroit but self-effacing Gonville, who set our ball rolling and then slipped away, is Medieval Retable at Thornton Parva depicting St The Gonville coat of arms which now David Bell’s well-worn Loungers tie, Rules card and the hard to pin down. Statue of Edmund Gonville above the Great Gate Edmund (detail) forms half of the College crest 1956-60 Minute Book 20 Once a Caian...... Always a Caian 21 David Skidmore Marlow lunchers Mick Le Moignan Dan White CASE Circle of Excellence (left to right): Brian Helliwell (1944) Awards Jim Hirst (1955) CASE is the international Council for the Jack Hartford (1934) Advancement and Support of Education. Its Sir Keith Stuart (1957) mission is to support educational institutions Roland Gauntlett (1951) around the world by enhancing the effectiveness of their alumni relations, communications, marketing and fund raising teams. Their prestigious annual Circle of Excellence awards are open to universities and colleges Notes worldwide. This year, we are delighted to announce that Dan White has been awarded a Silver Medal in the Photographer of the Year category for the photographs he took at Caius in the Spring Term of 2005, which were published in Issue 2 of Once a Caian… Cai As a Pulitzer Prize winner, Dan is no stranger to receiving honours for his Caius Club Centenary Marlow Lunch photography, but we would like to congratulate Next year, the Caius Club, which was founded For many older Caians, it can be quite a blow generously hosted a lunch party in May 2006, him on this latest recognition and thank him for during the Mastership of E S Roberts, will when either their own or their partner’s health at their riverside house in Marlow, which was Professor Stephen Hawking (1965) generously allowing us to use his work in our celebrate its Centenary. John Brooks (1959) the problems mean that it is no longer possible for attended by Jack Hartford (1934), Brian College publications. We are delighted that he Honorary Treasurer, hopes that members of all them to travel back to Cambridge for Annual Helliwell (1944), Roland Gauntlett (1951), Jim The Copley Medal of the has accepted an invitation from the Master and ages will make a special effort to come to the Gatherings and other Caius events and Hirst (1955) and Mick Le Moignan (2005), the Fellows to come back to continue his Annual Dinner in College on Friday 30 March reunions. College’s Deputy Director of Development. Jack Royal Society photographic project at Caius in the coming 2007. As usual, the Caius Club will host their Mindful of this problem, we hope to and Roland were particularly pleased to make Barry Hedley (1964) writes: academic year. Bumps Event in Caius Meadow on the last day organise a number of occasional luncheon and one another’s acquaintance, as they discovered Fellows and guests at dinner in College on of the May Bumps, Saturday 16 June. dinner parties around the country (and later they have lived in the same street for many 5 June 2006 were privileged to be the first to Dan White The London Branch of the Caius Club is overseas) for small groups who would like to years, without ever realising their Caius hear that Professor Stephen Hawking (1965) Haukur Heimisson (2004) about to take the holding a Dinner later this year, on Wednesday meet and get to know other Caians who live in connection. had been awarded the Copley Medal – the plunge in mid-Channel 1 November 2006, in the Princess Marie Louise their area. Wherever possible, a Fellow of the Any Caians who would like to take part in Royal Society’s oldest and most prestigious Room at the Oxford & Cambridge Club in Pall College or a member of the Development similar occasions in the future, either as hosts award. The medal is given annually for Mall. The dress code is Black Tie and the event Office will attend, to bring the latest news from or guests, are warmly invited to contact Sarah outstanding achievements in research in any Oxford v. Cambridge will begin at 7 for 7.30 with a Champagne Caius. Preston in the Development Office. (Tel: 01223 branch of science, and alternates between the Cross-Channel Swimming Reception. Partners are welcome, the cost is Sir Keith Stuart (1958) and Lady Stuart 339676; Email: [email protected]) physical sciences and the biological sciences. £65 per person and numbers are limited to 55, The medal is of silver gilt and a gift of Relay Race so anyone who would like to attend is advised £5000 accompanies it. It was first awarded in David Skidmore (1958) writes: to contact the Chairman, David Howell Jones 1731, and during its long history it has been I am not sure how the College chooses its star (1957) to reserve places as soon as possible on awarded to such luminaries as Charles Darwin, undergraduate of the year, but someone who Tel: 020 7430 0473. Albert Einstein and Jean Foucault. The Fellows’ gets a First in Engineering, rows for the College pleasure at Stephen’s magnificent achievement and then pushes himself to the absolute limit of was further enhanced by his gracious endurance to complete this gruelling swim for Hong Kong Visit presentation of wine to those present! the victorious Cambridge University relay team The Master, Sir Christopher Hum, and the seems to me to be worthy of some recognition. Director of Development, Dr Anne Lyon, David Skidmore (1958) coach of the victorious Despite four-foot waves, wind against tide, travelled to Hong Kong to meet Caians there Cambridge Cross-Channel Swimming Relay team, nausea, cold and exhaustion, Haukur Heimisson and to attend the April meeting of the Hong with Haukur Heimisson (2004) off Cap Gris Nez. (2004), whose family comes from Iceland, David also distinguished himself earlier this year Kong Caian Lunch Club and the Far East launch by winning three medals for swimming at the Dan White battled ashore at Cap Gris Nez to record an of the Cambridge 800th Anniversary Campaign. World Medical Games in Italy excellent official Cambridge time of 10 hours The Master, who was the British Ambassador to and 22 minutes for the crossing, 28 minutes China until last December, was delighted to faster than Oxford. To put this achievement into meet so many Caians and enjoyed sharing his perspective, a Royal Marines Commando team knowledge and experience in this nation of which set out at the same time took 20 hours! incredibly rapid economic and social change. The six members of the team swim for an Caians attending the Caian lunch were: Tim hour each, so every one of them had to climb a Bardwell (1979), Ian Holliday (1979),Wei-En Lee Caians in Hong Kong: (from left to right): Andrew Lockhart, Nick Sallnow-Smith, Anne Lyon, Christopher personal mountain twice. As coach to the team, Hum, Danyll Wills, Arun Nigam, Ian Holliday. (1987), Andrew Lockhart (1987), Arun Nigam I was immensely proud of all the swimmers, (1964), Stephen Roith (1976), Nick Sallnow- Caians attending the 800th Campaign The Master and Dr Lyon also enjoyed who were fit, determined and genuinely Smith (1969), Richard Wallace (1973) and Launch included: Guan-Hock Chua (1983), meeting Ian Billington (1988), Michael courageous, but I took a particular delight in Danyll Wills (1973). The Hong Kong Caian Lunch Siew-Eng Chua (1984),Vivienne Fung (1990), Humphries (1972), Raymond Leung (1986), seeing a Caian swimmer lead the team home Club is organised by Nick Sallnow-Smith (1969) Arun Nigam (1964), Nick Sallnow-Smith (1969), Guang Cheng Li (1990),Weibei Li (1992), so magnificently. Whatever else Haukur may do and anyone interested in joining should contact Tansy Tang (1988), Richard Wallace (1973) and Paul Rhodes (1996), KL Wong (1990), and with his life, I suspect he will face few Nick at [email protected]. Danyll Wills (1973). Lok Yim (1992). challenges quite so daunting. 22 Once a Caian...... Always a Caian 23 CaiMemories It never rains.... Four contributors to CaiMemories attended Leslie Harfield (1948) the Annual Gathering on The reference to Wilfrid Holland (1946) in a weak spot in the roof and burst through 4 July 2006 and were the article on Legacies in the Spring issue of into the Chapel just alongside the seat which photographed together in Once a Caian... by Dr Anne Lyon (2001) Paddy Hadley (1938), our Precentor, was Gonville Court by the President, Professor Yao stirred memories of my days in the Chapel vacating. Given his “gammy” leg, Paddy Liang (1963): (left to right) Choir while Wilf was Organ Scholar. I recall, moved with a speed which we would not Jeremy Kilner (1949), among other things, his keen sense of have thought possible. Leslie Harfield (1948), humour. Wilf, meanwhile, had been about to Stephen Taylor (1951), and One Sunday Evensong in 1950, when Wilf improvise something by way of a concluding John Coward (1947). was overseeing the first year of his successor voluntary, but without hesitation he broke but still sharing the playing, a violent into the Hornpipe from Handel’s “Water thunderstorm raged over East Anglia. The rain Music” to play us out! was so persistent that the drainpipes from the Chapel roof gutters could not cope with John Coward (1947) sent the same story, the volume of water and a build-up adding that one aspect of Wilfrid Holland developed behind the top of the Chapel walls. that he particularly admired was his ability, The Dean, Revd Eric Heaton (1945), had when conducting the chorus, to bridge the just pronounced the blessing and was about gap between the music students and the to leave the altar step when the water found others. Yao Liang Stephen Taylor (1951) The boat behind was gaining on us fast. The A recent CaiMemory recounted the next bend needed stroke side to work extra Memories marvellous story of a clash between equally hard to avoid too much rudder, but I noticed overenthusiastic Caius undergraduates and a fountain of water gushing over the rudder Police after a Bumps supper in 1953. I well Professor Andor Gomme (1956) which seemed to be at almost 90 degrees. remember variations on this story For me, the memoir of Lord McNair (1906) he wasn’t simply a great man and a Lord, he The boat behind us was now within striking spreading round College. But nine Caians by his grandson, Dr Jimmy Altham (1965) was Arnold. Arnold was also my father’s distance. We gave her ten (twice) and the may dispute the suggestion by Godfrey Ash brought back some fond memories... I was Christian name, and my family was not one in crowd on the towpath were shrieking (1950) that Caius boats failed to distinguish a W.M. Tapp Fellow at Caius for three years which children grew up addressing their encouragement, at least that’s what I themselves that year. between 1956 and 1959 and after almost parents by their first names: I thought my THOUGHT it was! I’m sure it was in 1953 that having made half a century I still recall Lord McNair father was rather a great man too, and for me Suddenly it was all over. We had bumped Cai a bump on the first two nights, on the third with especial warmth and pleasure – there was something hallowed in his name, the boat ahead, and I turned round to night, despite Cox’s best efforts we joined an though to me he has remained “Arnold”, as which until this time had for me been his congratulate the crew. On stroke side in the almighty pile up of boats on a bend in the the following story will explain. alone. But when Lord McNair started calling engine room, one man had been holding aloft river with a splintering crash. Cox had a full I already knew from my father (ex- me ‘Andor’ – the odd nickname by which I the remaining inboard half of his oar ever view of the disaster, and went as white as a Cambridge and also an academic) that it had have been called since before birth – I since the pile up, while the other had lost sheet. All I could see, as stroke, was a boat always been the tradition among fellows of a realised that it would be a real snub if I three quarters of his blade! from way down river approaching fast. college – indeed among academics generally continued with ‘McNair’. I had simply to bite The fourth night? Well, we rowed over in ‘Row on, man!’ I shouted. Cox gave a look – to call one another, irrespective of age the bullet and address him as Arnold; when I splendid isolation, but nine men still felt they which said, ‘you’re mad!’ but we managed to difference, by surname alone. I wasn’t of did so, his shy smile suggested he was very had distinguished themselves! push off again and got started after a fashion. course in the least fazed to be addressed as pleased. ‘Gomme’ but it took a little nerve to stop So I too am pleased that a set is named mumbling and speak to distinguished senior after him and pleased also to be reminded of dons as ‘Fisher’ or ‘Wigglesworth’ or the fine portrait by Phyllis Bliss: a speaking Jeremy Kilner (1949) ‘Needham’. In addition to being very likeness, except that in College he wasn’t a distinguished and very senior, ‘McNair’ was great speaker. Unlike Peter Bauer (1934), “The Bedders’ Tales” in the last issue the Senior Tutor, and asked him to convey our also a Lord, and I was young enough to be in whose photograph on page 8 of Issue 3 reminded me that after the Lent Bumps apologies to Miss Small, who had recently awe of a title. Still, ‘McNair’ it had to be. He brought him vividly to mind again, another Supper in 1952 we had a rather messy party been appointed Housekeeper. He said: struck me as being not only very gentle and very kindly man (he was Peter from the start in one of the downstairs rooms in St “My boy, don’t worry! I was speaking to kindly, but also rather shy, and accepted it I think, though of course not a Lord until Michael’s Court. Miss Small only last week, and she told me without a blink. However this was at a time much later). One of the things that really As Secretary of the Boat Club, I thought it her ladies liked to be able to say to each other when younger fellows – of whom there were puzzled me about this issue however is that I would be prudent to offer our apologies to the that their gentlemen could make more mess then quite a few at Caius – preferred using can’t remember the gun, despite my having bedmakers, so I spoke to E K Bennett (1914), than your gentlemen!” one another’s Christian or forenames; and had the remarkable privilege, for the last year some of our elders, including Lord McNair, or more of my time at Caius, of occupying took to this also, at any rate towards their the suite at the top of the Gate of Virtue. Professor Andor Gomme unveiling a blue plaque juniors. Now here for me was another block, How on earth can I have missed it? for his grandfather in Dorset Square, Marylebone. 24 Once a Caian...... Always a Caian 25 CaiMemories (continued) CaiMemories Keith MacDougall (1954) The last issue featured a delightful article In our day all such trips overseas were Magdalene bridge on a long, journey to the by Jeff Alderson (1954) about his trek to spiced with adventure and all was relatively land of carpets, dust-devils, mountains and the Andes. He wrote that our expedition, D.I.Y. We climbed to over 18,000 ft and charming people, sadly now much misled and the Cambridge North Persian Expedition of collected for the Natural History Museum – confused. And so 1956, was highly organised and sponsored, discovering a new species of butterfly and which indeed it was, up to a point. Our naming it after Bruce Anderson. We lived ‘For some we loved, the leader was Bill Norton, son of Colonel among nomadic tribes and were even toasted loveliest and the best Norton of 1924 Everest fame. The party by Prince Pahlavi (brother of the Shah of That from his Vintage rolling, also included Bruce Anderson (1954) who Persia) in Coca Cola, having medals pinned on Time has prest, sadly died young, after an outstanding our breasts before we had scaled a single Have drunk their cup, a round ministry in Lancashire parishes. Others mountain! or two, before were John Harding of Trinity, a great The expedition reunion took place on And one by one crept mountaineer who is the only person to 20 June 2006 – 50 years exactly from the day silently to rest.’ have skied the high altitude route from one when two light blue jeeps pulled away from end of the Pyrenees to the other, and David Cook (St John’s), a regular Army officer who was asked by the War Office to photograph all the bridges we crossed on our route to Tehran, driving two ex-WWII jeeps and Caius Rugby Club with (standing extreme left) David Hindmarsh (1954) and (standing extreme right) Ronnie Thomson (1955). trailers (painted Cambridge light blue, of course). The last member, Julian Mustoe (Magdalene) is still at it, sailing around the world single-handed, re-tracing the route of Charles Darwin and the Beagle. As for myself, I’m afraid my business and farming careers in Norfolk seem less than adventurous. But my book “Middle Marsh” lurks somewhere in the College Library among more academic tomes. A very light read! Keith McDougall (1954) and Bruce Anderson (1954) cook up at base camp in Northern Persia.

George Aspden (1946) Unlike my fellow-students, George Kerpner round and invite us to choose, and when one Goldberg variations. It was the first time I had (1946) and Don Drury (1946) I have no evening I suggested it was his turn to choose, heard the whole of this set of variations played recollection of seeing a car hanging from his answer was: “I’ve already chosen all of on harpsichord, one of my favourite King's College Chapel. Like Ken Gale (1946) them!” We often tried, sometimes successfully, instruments: previously we had heard only I do recall the chamber pot, which was on a to get him to play the grand piano which he selections. It was a memorable evening. Some pinnacle of the Divinity Schools in Trinity had in his rooms in St. Michael's Court; more time after I left College, I got my own LP record Street where it remained for some time. often than not he used to say: “I don't get of this music. I believe those in authority shot it down enough time to practise.” But always towards Every year he took the members of his with an air rifle.What I most remember is the end of the evening he would say: “And now, tutorial group in pairs as his guests to Caius Rugby XV with Arthur Smith in pale blazer. seeing a tin kettle hanging by the handle I think, a little Bach to finish.” There is one performances at the Arts Theatre, where I from one of the three end spikes of the Friday evening I shall never forget: I arrived to remember seeing (and hearing) Cosí fan tutte. David Hindmarsh (1954) lightning conductor on the tower of King's find myself the only one there. It must have As it began, he passed me his own copy of the A Celebration of Arthur Smith (1954) and Then, in 1955, Ronnie Thomson arrived in reasonably he had not recognised him during College Chapel nearest the Senate House. been shortly before exams, when everyone was libretto in Italian, since it was one of my Ronnie Thomson (1955). the College. He represented the University in the game.

This feat was made more notable by the furiously revising; I was feeling the Antony Barrington Brown languages. Not only did he foster On a winter’s afternoon early in 1955, the 400 metres throughout his years at Caius Despite having these two very fine appearance of an article in Varsity need to relax after revision. Invited my musical and linguistic I was lying in a bath after a college rugby and did not play much rugby, as I recall, wingers, we did not progress beyond the (anonymous, of course) by the author of the to choose, I asked to hear Bach’s education in this way: one match listening to my portable wireless. At except for Caius. However, he flourished as a semi-final of the Cuppers. The rest of us

enterprise, explaining exactly how it was Yao Liang summer, without my asking, he the same time, another Caius freshman was rugby player later on for London Scottish found it hard to give them the chance to done. Apparently he had done the climb for got me a grant from the Okey playing his first match for Scotland at and, in due course, was picked for Scotland make the most of their abilities. a bet (£5, I think) which he never collected, bequest, thus enabling me to Murrayfield against the Welsh. Scotland had on the opposite wing. Arthur went on to captain both Scotland as his friend had been too drunk to spend a complete vacation term already lost about fourteen games on the I have checked with the Scottish Football and the British Lions. He died at a very young remember making it. studying in Perugia, which helped trot and, with only a few minutes to go, Union and have had it confirmed that they age, and I remember seeing his obituary with On a more serious note, I shall never forget me enormously with my studies. Wales were leading by two points. Arthur played together for Scotland on eight the caption “Possibly the greatest wing three- my tutor, Stanley Dennison (1945). He was Time has passed; 78s and Smith, our fellow Caian and the Scottish occasions, four of them at Murrayfield. On quarter of all time.” Arthur was also a scholar, very musical, and on Friday evenings he kept fibre needles have given way to LPs and right-winger, collected the ball in his own one of these occasions another Caian, Chris researching some aspect of the earth’s open house for anyone in the College who diamond styli; tape cassettes have passed on; twenty five (yards, this being the 1950s) and Richards (1953) (a rugby-playing Scot), after magnetic field. He had already graduated at wished to come and listen to his collection of but I can never play my CD of Bach’s Goldberg eluded the whole of the Welsh defence watching the match, turned up in the Glasgow before coming to Caius. Despite his classical records, providing us with liquid George Aspden (1946) remembers his Tutor, Variations without remembering this man to scoring under the posts to give Scotland changing room to speak to Arthur and was great success as a rugby player, he remained refreshment. He would pass his catalogue Stanley Dennison (1945) with great affection. whom I owe so much. victory. amazed to find Ronnie there as well. Quite modest, warm and approachable. 26 Once a Caian...... Always a Caian 27 Yao Liang Dan White Champagne Launois Blanc Riesling. The tasting panel was mightily impressed. Food combination: a great aperitif but versatile, de Blancs Grand Cru £16.00 goes with white fish, scallops, lemon chicken, Launois is a small, family-owned house based in Le handles garlic and vinaigrettes well. Mesnil, the top Grand Cru village for chardonnay. The wine has a few years bottle age, adding some La Vieille Ferme Rouge luscious toasty flavours, behind which lurk hints of 2005 Côtes du Ventoux £5.00 ripe pear. Bone dry, calmly fizzy and outrageously under-priced. The Vielle Ferme wines come from Domaines Food combination: anything savoury in pastry, Perrin, the famous family-owned estate, farmed The with mushrooms or melted cheese. organically since 1967. Their flagship wine is the top Chateauneuf-du-Pape – Chateau de Lindauer Brut Sparkling Rosé £6.99Beaucastel. This Grenache-based red has plenty of juicy Caius New Zealand provides the perfect cool climate for raspberry fruit and lovely structure. Mont Ventoux’s sparkling wines and Lindauer is widely regarded as relatively cool climate brings nice acidity and some the best value New World fizz. Lively, bubbly and lively green pepper notes. Very purple, very French Bordeaux Glasses (57cl.) or full of fun, loves to be taken punting on the Cam. and great value. Can be served lightly chilled. Champagne Flutes Tastes of rhubarb. Delicious. Food combination: good with charcuterie, fine on Set of 4 – £16.00 Food combination: smoked salmon, light curry. its own, has the snappiness to counter fatty meat Strong and stylish, made from tempered like lamb. glass to a design approved by the Chablis 2005 Jean-Marc Brocard £9.00 Sommeliers Association of France. Engraved WineWine ClubClub La Vieille Ferme Blanc M. Brocard has won many awards for his super- with the College crest. traditional wines. This has a lovely straw-gold 2005 Côtes du Luberon £5.00 colour, a strong chalky smell, snappy green-apple White Rhone wines are a hidden treasure, little- Cut-glass Decanter (75cl.) ll Caians and friends of the College are cordially invited Merchants will make a donation to the College of 5% of their total fruit, and plenty of the stony flavour Chablis is known outside France but loved by wine buffs £40.00 to join the Caius Wine Club. Join by returning the receipts from wine sales to members, whether orders are placed famous for. A benchmark wine and a great vintage. around the world. The fruit is rather bruised, the A high quality, uncut crystal square enclosed order form with an order for any of the remotely, by email, phone or letter, or in person at the King’s Parade Food combination: Chablis works with most white style reserved, like Chablis, but with a different decanter, chosen for the timeless simplicity wine dishes, but many believe it’s best enjoyed on currently advertised wines or Caius-branded glassware. shop. The enclosed order form will be accepted as proof of range of flavours. A blend of several Rhone grape of its design. Engraved with the College crest its own. Members will receive regular updates by mail or email, membership. varieties, dominated by Grenache Blanc, which and name. detailingA new and current wine offers. Anyone who would like to join Prices are per bottle. Orders must be in cases of twelve bottles offers a cool minerality. A little Viognier brings a Y

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Caius Men’s crew at Head of the Charles, Boston, USA, left to right: Ian Vigrass, Tom From the Archives... Gray, Marco Caflisch, Muiris Moynihan, Becky Willis, Hansjorg Hufnagel, Dom Legg, Charlie Shawcross, Will Calvert. Hugo Mallinson Sports

or once, hyperbole is unneeded; occasional well-deserved the bare facts are quite enough. celebration. Their reward is to On 17 June 2006 the Caius First see their name and logo VIII rowed over as Head of the associated with one of the River for the 10th time in great sporting successes of

Fsuccession (five Lents and five Mays). The Boat Cambridge today. Cai Club has now won 18 headships since the Perhaps the only negative is Mays of 1998 and in three of the past five the Boathouse – a building of noble antiquity years has won the triple championship of the but increasingly inadequate to provide the Fairbairns, Lents and Mays. For Caius oarsmen needs of a modern boat club. In this area, Caius

of my generation, who remember struggling in Brendan O’Donoghue is in danger of falling behind several other the second division, it seems almost incredible Colleges, who have recently invested in new, that Caius should dominate the river as it does state-of-the-art facilities to encourage their today. young oarsmen and women. The Caius showers As I stood on Caius Meadow on the final are very old now, the changing rooms are day of the May Bumps, I took great pleasure in cramped, the gym doubles as boat storage and Caius First Men’s VIII, Lent Bumps 2006, from Bow watching this fine Caius crew lead the first to Cox: Dom Legg, Will Calvert, Muiris Moynihan, there is nowhere remotely comfortable to sit division. Admittedly, I was a little sad to see Tom Gray, Hansjorg Hufnagel, Marco Caflisch, Oli and analyse outings. These thoughts, perhaps the “Vicky Wade” (unbeaten as the Men’s First de Groot, Charlie Shawcross, Becky Willis. surprisingly, bring me to the subject of the Boat since they took the Mays headship in Clocktower! 2002) make way for the “Christopher Hum”. By ancient tradition, a College winning five Pride, however, was soon fully restored when consecutive headships is entitled to build a the “Vicky Wade”, this time with the Second Nine Clocktower on its boathouse. Only five other VIII on board, bumped Trinity right in front of Colleges have achieved this and it is a joy to The Centenary History of the Caius Boat Club (1828-1928) curiously makes no mention of the College Servants Boat, but in the us, thus securing their place in the first division see Caius join this select group of Colleges, 1907-8 season, the “below stairs” oarsmen were victorious, while their student counterparts languished in seventh place. and winning the second boat headship. Clearly each of which remains strong on the river as she does not like following other boats! well as in Tripos. We should not be surprised to I am often asked why Caius is in such a Men find academic strength and sporting success dominant position on the river and how we have run in parallel; they are not mutually can sustain it in the future. I believe this exclusive, as they might have been years ago. ...to the present success can be attributed to a mix of rowing Bright young school leavers apply to Colleges talent, good equipment and strong with Ten with a reputation in academic and non- management by the club’s officers, who have academic fields; they are attracted to rowing, combined these resources so effectively. We which is not available at many schools, and yet have been blessed with an excellent Senior is part of the Cambridge experience. There Treasurer in the Revd Jack McDonald (1995), Heads! were three firsts in the Caius Men’s First VIII whose unwavering commitment, support and this year and their predecessors also achieved training have been so inspiring for the crews. highly creditable academic results. Tony Baker, our boatman for 29 years before The opportunity to build a new Clocktower he retired in January, has also been a key figure Caius Boat has triggered plans to improve the Boathouse but, in the end, it is the students themselves as a facility for students, while preserving the who deserve the highest praise. They have to best of ES Roberts’ elegant Victorian building. be well-organised, dedicated and able to juggle Club wins the Several alternatives are to be put to the the requirements of Tripos and demanding College Council in due course and we all hope training schedules which form the platform for that future Caius rowers will have the racing success. Clock Tower Boathouse they deserve. Doubtless, benefactors Sponsorship is also important. Allen and will be asked to help, but we should all be Overy supported Caius loyally for seven years proud to support an endeavour which will help The Caius First Men’s VIII rowing over as Head of the River in the May Bumps 2006: (left to right) Becky Willis (Cox) Dave and now Linklaters have generously stepped in by Martin Wade (1962) future generations to celebrate the College’s Billings (Stroke), Oli de Groot, Tom Edwards, Brian Cullen, Marco Caflisch, Ian Vigrass, Charlie Shawcross, Dom Legg (Bow). to fund kit, training expenses and the President of Caius Boat Club successes as we are able to do today.