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Issue 2 | Spring 2003 Delivering a Strategy for Success Our 40th Birthday Down on the Farm in Romania ARCHES Editorial ARCHES Contents

ARCHES Features 12-13 14-15 16-17 Welcome to Issue 2 of Arches, the magazine of the University of Newcastle upon Tyne

A Strategy for Success A Bright New Dawn Reunion 2003

The role of our research at the heart Looking back to becoming a Full details of the programme for of the regional economy. University in 1963. Convocation and Reunion Weekend 2003. Many of you will be aware that in January 2003 The further investment in research infrastructure would not be allowed to do this unless we were the UK government published the long-awaited is very welcome. This is principally for science. meeting an agreed target for students from White Paper on The Future of Higher Education. We have been awarded £21.45 million based on disadvantaged backgrounds. The University has As you might imagine this will have a profound our very successful recent increase in research grant had particular success with its PARTNERS effect on our life at the University so I wanted awards. However we need similar investment in widening access programme, greatly assisted by ARCHES News to share my first reactions with you. improved teaching and student facilities. donors to our alumni fund. We therefore do have concerns about the appointment of an access 11 23 All universities will be pleased that at long last On the teaching side the government plans to regulator to oversee this area, especially if it 6-7 we have a government that has recognized the expand higher education through increasing two- increases the bureaucracy of admissions. financial problems that higher educational year Foundation degrees, which currently do not institutions face. However having made a form part of our strategy. Fortunately our bid for With very best wishes diagnosis, not everyone is happy with the additional conventional student numbers has proposed therapy. On the research side the aim is been very highly rated and is likely to be funded. to have greater selectivity with the creation of a The additional income from this would be about very small group of elite universities. The golden £1 million per annum. triangle of Oxford, Cambridge and London (University College/Imperial College) is likely to We welcome the government’s recommendations get the majority of the additional money. The on building stronger partnerships between new tier of 6* research funding will be based on universities and the regional development A Harvest of Happier Lives Research News The Alumni Profile the very best of the current 5* (ie international agencies. This is already an important issue for us in the North East, as is made clear in our main quality research in more than 50 per cent of the Students and staff work to help a special Mobile phones and modern A profile of Taiwanese Museum Arches feature on the University’s active support submitted activity) but with the added proviso farming community in Romania. student life. Studies graduate Shandy Ho. that there is a critical mass of researchers. This for the regional Strategy for Success. However we big is beautiful approach militates against all but are concerned at the government’s belief that the largest research-led universities. Even though knowledge and technology transfer is the Newcastle obtained a median 5 score in the last province of the non-research intensive Research Assessment Exercise, if the Higher universities and that funding for this should be ARCHES Regulars Education Funding Council only funded grade 5 preferentially given to them. and above we would lose £4.8 million per annum. Much of the above has been obscured by the 18-19 20-22 There is considerable emphasis in the White Paper debate about ‘top up fees’. The proposal is that Events/Listings Classnotes on the need to form consortia for research. This is universities will be able to increase these from going to place increased importance on developing their current level of £1,100 per annum to a Professor Christopher Edwards Reports on past alumni activity and Catch up with the latest news from links with other strong groups within the region. maximum of £3,000 per annum. However we Vice-Chancellor notice of future events. old friends and acquaintances. 20 Wanted

Can you help us to locate lost alumni?

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Twenty intrepid rowers from the University’s Boat Club are Our involvement in the Capital of Culture bid is providing local employers with a larger pool of ROWERS TRIUMPH celebrating a unique victory after challenging the DFDS Newcastle Gateshead enabling the University to draw upon the wealth top-quality, skilled graduates’. Seaways ship, the ms Prince of Scandinavia to a race across the of creativity which exists in the institution. North Sea from Newcastle to Ijmuiden, Amsterdam. joins the Projects already under discussion include an With the final decision due to be announced in IN RACE AGAINST exhibition/installation by film director Peter June, the Newcastle Gateshead Initiative is stepping The rowers, working in two teams of 10, completed the 492 km Capital of Culture Greenaway, an international literary festival and a up its campaign to get everyone in the NORTH SEA voyage 18 minutes and 57 seconds ahead of the ship after a City of Culture CD featuring selected musical North East region to ‘Back the Buzz’. marathon 16-hour row through the night, using twin ergo machines Shortlist performances from the year’s events. PASSENGER FERRY aboard the passenger cruise ferry. Find out about the latest developments at Shortly after the first edition of Arches was Dr Eric Cross, Dean of Cultural Affairs, welcomed www.visitnewcastlegateshead.com Boat Club Sponsorship Officer, Gill Harris, who organized the published in October 2002, the University was the news. He said: ‘Winning the bid would be an event nicknamed ‘Operation Amsterdam’ by the rowers, said: able to join in the celebrations which followed important attraction to the best students from all ‘At one stage we were only 1,500 metres ahead of the ship, and the announcement that Newcastle Gateshead over Britain, encouraging them to come to the it looked like touch and go as to whether we were going to be has won a place on the government’s shortlist region and then remain here after graduation, able to do it. We didn’t realize how hard it would be to keep to be named European Capital of Culture 2008. which in turn would boost the economy by going right through the night, and when we were nearing the finish it was quite tense, but really exciting at the same time’.

The exhausted but ecstatic rowers arrived in Amsterdam at 10 am after having rowed non-stop from 5.30 pm the previous evening, when the ship left Newcastle. Throughout the challenge, they kept their energy levels up by eating pasta and drinking energy drinks.

The principal aim of the challenge was to raise the profile of the Boat Club to help obtain the sponsorship needed to engage the services of a full-time coach to enable them to build on their strengths and compete at the highest level nationally. As exhibitions go, ‘Are you sitting comfortably’ – Paul Scott, a former Norma Lipman Research SANITARY a collection of some 40 WCs, sinks and assorted Fellow in Fine Art at the University, who, with * This year’s Northumbrian Water University Boat Race between sculptural pieces made from sanitaryware – which fellow artist–curator Lillemor Petersson collaborated Newcastle and Durham takes place on the River Tyne on had its first UK showing in the Hatton Gallery at on the exhibition with the Hatton Gallery, added: Preparing for ‘Operation Amsterdam’, from left to right, Sunday 18 May. SCULPTURES the end of 2002, certainly could not be described ‘Artists have used industrial processes creatively, are Gill Harris, Peter Tappin, Tom Earnshaw and Rob Ferry. www.societies.ncl.ac.uk/nubc/ as ‘bog standard’. and not for the purpose they were originally GRAB THE intended, for centuries. As well as drawing the crowds the exhibition, HEADLINES which was produced during the ‘WC Workshop’ – ‘Artist printmakers are perhaps the most obvious an artists’ residency project held at the premises example, using etching, engraving, lithography and of AB Gustavsberg Sanitaryware factory in the screen printing – all reprographic techniques Värmdo district of Stockholm, Sweden, in 2000 – developed for the mass dissemination of imagery Centre - a central suite of meeting rooms, Sustainability, Cancer Research and Ageing sent pun-seeking journalists into overdrive. – and adapting them for creative expression. Like Beehive Project library and social facilities where staff and and Health, will be housed in new buildings print, ceramic production through the centuries postgraduate students can exchange ideas costing over £30 million which are now ‘It’s the Loo-vre’, screamed the headline in has been largely an industrial process, but artists and develop new research concepts. under construction. Newcastle’s Evening Chronicle; while the Northern have long been employed as painters, modellers or Takes Off Echo fought back with ‘Guaranteed to inspire a designers’, he said. The rest of the money will be spent on a Other institutes to be based in existing chain reaction’. Even the national press joined in: variety of projects including the new buildings, are Informatics; Public Policy ‘Round the bend?’ said The Independent – but still If you missed the WC Workshop at the Hatton The University has been awarded Stephenson Engineering Outreach Centre, and Practice; Nanoscale Science and included the show in it’s ‘Don’t miss’ selection. Gallery but would like to see the exhibition, it will £3.8 million of government money upgrading teaching facilities in the Technology; Arts, Humanities and Social Even Tyne Tees Television chipped in with ‘Bog on be touring the UK until 2004. Look out for it at towards the estimated £39 million cost Business School, relocation of faculty Sciences; Neuroscience. The ninth institute, the Tyne’. the Bowes Museum, County Durham; Burton Art of implementing its five-year Business offices and improvements to the campus Human Genetics, has already been Gallery, Bideford; Wolverhampton Art Gallery; and Plan, which aims to boost student grounds and buildings. established at the International Centre for The Gallery’s Curator, Lucy Whetstone, insisted the Collins Art Gallery, Glasgow. The exhibition is numbers, teaching, research and Life in Newcastle but will be developed the exhibition had a serious side too. ‘Collectively, supported by the Arts Council of England National entrepreneurship. Separately to the funding announcement, further, especially in stem-cell biology the works should contribute to the broader Touring Programme. the University is creating nine powerful research. historical debate between avant-garde art and Of the £3.8 million from the Higher research institutes, operating in sanitaryware which began with the rejection of Education Funding Council for England, interdisciplinary fields to complement the The University has plans to create more Marcel Duchamp’s 1917 submission of an ordinary See the Hatton Gallery’s forthcoming £2.2 million will be spent on the creation work of the academic schools. Three of institutes once the first nine are Thought-provoking art, urinal to the Independent Artists’ exhibition in exhibitions programme at of a ‘Research Beehive’ and Postgraduate the new institutes, Environment and established. Hollow by Eva Hild. New York’, she said. www.ncl.ac.uk/hatton/programme/index.html

4 | The University of Newcastle upon Tyne Magazine | Issue 2 Spring 2003 | www.ncl.ac.uk The University of Newcastle upon Tyne Magazine | Issue 2 Spring 2003 | www.ncl.ac.uk | 5 More information about the charity project FARM FACT: FARM FACT: FARM FACT: ARCHES News Feature can be found on the ‘Running Chicken’ The Romanian Challenge Appeal is known Various fund-raising events have included The charity approached all UK universities website, www.ncl.ac.uk/running.chicken in Romania as O Noua Viata, which a charity football match, a lottery and that teach agriculture but only Newcastle translates as Our New Life. Easter egg cake sales. responded to their request for assistance.

A HARVEST OF HAPPIER LIVES

Agriculture students and staff at Newcastle are the driving force in a unique project to sustain a remarkable farm in Eastern Europe.

A derelict farm in the small, Romanian town of University-appointed farm manager and students Head of the School, Dr Alan Younger, added: Siret may seem an unlikely place to find who are encouraged to visit the farm as part of ‘Some of these orphans have such poor students and staff from Newcastle University. their studies. communication skills that they sit in the corner Yet they are the driving force of a remarkable of a room and rock from side to side for much of project that will yield not only vegetables and For the farm to become self-sufficient, it will need a the day. We want to de-institutionalize these eggs but happier lives for local orphans. variety of enterprises including the production and people so they can take their place in society.’ marketing of free-range eggs. Students have worked Through their sweat and toil in Siret – and back with orphans to refurbish some of the farm Animal science lecturer Dr Jonathan Guy said that on Tyneside, where they have been raising funds buildings and build new hen houses. once the orphans had learned to look after through gruelling charity events – the University chickens, they would be taught how to market volunteers aim to make the farm a self-sufficient Back on Tyneside, students and staff took part in the eggs to local shops. business that can teach the orphans useful skills the BUPA Great North Run half-marathon from and integrate them back into society. Newcastle to South Shields last October to begin ‘The aim is to provide them with the opportunity raising the £3,000 needed to buy 1,000 chickens to learn some basic animal husbandry skills as well The project is carrying on the good work started and a year’s worth of feed. as numeracy and communicating with people, by TV’s ‘Challenge Anneka’ programme 12 years which should act as a good springboard for their ago, when Anneka Rice sent a team of volunteers The event was followed in February by a nine-mile future’, said Dr Guy. to refurbish Romania’s biggest orphanage at Siret, tractor-pull from Tynemouth to The Monument in near the border with Ukraine. Newcastle city centre, when money was collected ‘We are also very keen that the students benefit from bemused pedestrians, motorists and even from this experience. We hope that many of our The orphanage is now closed but many of its traffic wardens along the route. future students will become involved in the former residents, now young men and women, Siret Farm project during their degrees and give are so institutionalized that they live alone and Students involved in the project recently gave a something back to people less fortunate than have not been able to find jobs or become presentation to other students in the Faculty. themselves.’ integrated into society. Lisa Thomas told how she spent part of her 2002 summer holidays making nest boxes and training Donations and sponsorship money can be The farm had fallen into disuse after the collapse the orphans to prepare for the arrival of the sent to of communism and was acquired two years ago chickens. ‘I worked in the chicken shed, with some Dr Jonathan Guy or Dr Alan Younger by the Birmingham-based charity Romanian of the orphans, communicating by notes and School of Agriculture, Food and Rural Development Challenge Appeal, which launched an appeal for a diagrams because we could not speak each King George VI Building partner in the project. The University’s School of other’s language’, she said. University of Newcastle upon Tyne Agriculture, Food and Rural Development stepped Newcastle upon Tyne forward and now manages the farm on the ‘One 19-year-old had cerebral palsy. I used hard- NE1 7RU charity’s behalf. boiled eggs to train him to collect eggs without cracking them. He got the hang of it eventually Phone 0191 222 6867 When fully operational, Siret Farm will produce and seemed really pleased with himself’, said Lisa, or e-mail [email protected] crops such as cabbages and potatoes for sale a third-year student who took part in the BUPA Cheques should be made payable to under the expert guidance of a Great North Run. ‘Romanian Challenge Appeal’.

produced premiums for the supply chain by POTATO Review’s popularity quickly grew among POTATO BOB assuring consumers they were purchasing top British growers and today it boasts many overseas quality British produce. subscribers. He recently stood down as sole An Asian Jewel King’s College graduate Bob Meredith (BSc proprietor and publisher but still makes regular Agriculture 1955) has received the British Potato contributions to the magazine that is now entering British Asian graduate Judge Abbas Mithani Industry Award for 2002. Bob read Agriculture at its thirteenth year. (LLB 1978) has been honoured as an King’s before going on to receive a Colonial Office ‘Asian Jewel’ at the Asian Jewel Awards at Probationership for postgraduate studies at Bob said: ‘The King’s course and fieldwork continues Birmingham’s International Conference Centre, Cambridge and the Imperial College of Tropical to provide me with sound basic husbandry an event attended by some 1,400 Midlands Agriculture in Trinidad. Thereafter, he worked as principles on which to assess technological movers and shakers. It was an evening an agronomist in Northern Nigeria, undertaking advances over a whole range of disciplines that celebrating a half-century of ongoing research on groundnut, sorghum and cotton make up modern agricultural practice. That, achievement in the UK’s Asian communities crops. On his return to the UK, he joined the combined with the studies at Cambridge, led me and recognizing 12 individual ‘Asian Jewels’ in into biometrics and my career work at the animal feeding-stuffs industry of Unilever before particular amongst the many worthy ‘development’ end of R & D. I shall always moving to the former Potato Marketing Board nominees from Midlands businesses and appreciate that King’s training had a significant (PMB) in 1971 as deputy head of research and organizations. development (R & D). Later he took overall impact on that career.’ Louise Allcroft with a DNA design bracelet. responsibility for both communications and R & D. computer programmes, which enable them District Judge and Recorder Abbas Mithani received Bob’s main satisfaction is that POTATO Review Bob Meredith receiving his award. to produce a series of coloured peaks which the Legal Excellence Award. Having arrived in the Among his many achievements in the potato continues to be the journal for the ‘potato DESIGNER DNA identify each individual from millions of UK aged 13 and going on to become the youngest industry, Bob oversaw innovative and high-profile After retiring from the PMB in 1990, Bob identified professional’ and has subscribers in 52 countries other people. Then, using a series of bespoke law undergraduate in his year at Newcastle publicity campaigns and events leading to a a gap in the market for a specialist potato-related worldwide. Louise Allcroft (MSc Medical Genetics 1995) techniques, this information is transformed University aged just 17, Judge Mithani became steady increase in potato consumption and better publication. POTATO Review was born and under has found a novel way to turn DNA into a into a coloured barcode which is used to the first Asian articled clerk at his West Midlands targeting of the emerging catering sector. He also his direction the publication soon became renowned Bob is always happy to hear from those unique designer gift. produce a totally unique ‘DesigNAgift’. The firm before setting up his own practice managed the introduction of an early assurance for delivering practical technology-transfer-led interested in his work at his memorable idea has been a hit with the range of unique specializing in insolvency, corporate and scheme that identified high-quality potatoes and articles. e-mail address [email protected] The enterprising Newcastle University graduate DNA gifts available from the company commercial litigation. In 1999 at the age of 41 he is co-founder of the Sunderland-based continuing to grow. became a District Judge, one of the youngest biotechnology firm Complement Genomics. appointments at the time to that position, going In its latest venture under the name Louise said: ‘The course at Newcastle on to become a Recorder of the Crown Court in DesigNAgiftsTM, Louise and her team are University fuelled my interest in human 2001. He is also an Honorary Professor of Law at producing a range of luxury gifts incorporating genetics. Through these studies, I gained both Birmingham University and is an author of, and the DNA profiles of individual customers. the theoretical and practical working contributor to, many legal works and publications. As DNA is unique to each individual, the knowledge of this exciting and rapidly RECOGNITION FOR simple idea is that an object such as a piece expanding field. My co-founder Looking back at his time at Newcastle University of jewellery, designed with a customer’s DNA (Dr Neil Sullivan) and I are delighted with Judge Mithani commented: ‘I can say with all YOUNG WRITER pattern, might be the ultimate in exclusive the reception our new product has received honesty that I found my time at Newcastle to be designer gifts. from the press and public alike. It seems the very enjoyable and rewarding. I owe a lot to the concept of DesigNAgiftsTM (has really lecturers and staff at the University where I was Talented young writer Ben Rice (BA English 1995), who appeared in the A DNA sample is obtained from the customer captured the imaginations of people all over well looked after and thoroughly enjoyed my first Classnotes section of the first issue of Arches, has recently been included in through a simple, painless swab inside the the world.’ exposure to the legal world. My experience there the prestigious Granta list of the 20 Best Young Writers in Britain under the mouth. The company analyses the DNA using was invaluable to me in my later life as a age of 40. Ben is one of the youngest fiction writers to appear on the list which state-of-the-art machinery and sophisticated www.complementgenomics.co.uk commercial lawyer.’ is published just once a decade. It is a remarkable achievement on the back of a single publication Pobby and Dingan, which won the 2001 Somerset Maugham Award for best debut novel.

The quirky story centres on the disappearance of Pobby and Dingan, the imaginary friends of eight-year old Kellyanne Williamson, and the Melesse was one of three innovators to receive an award from the National unforeseen consequences of their disappearance. It is set in Lightening Ridge, Ethiopian Science and Technology Council for the breakthrough he made in the New South Wales, the opal mining capital of Australia. improvement of a mould board plough, which is light and simple with good performance. The plough has been in use by farmers in different parts of the Ben has now published a second novella entitled Specks in the Sky, and both Award Winner country and commercialized by the Akaki spare-part and hand-tools industry. stories are being adapted for feature films by Film Four. During 15 years of research Melesse was able to develop 10 prototype designs that were accepted by farmers, five of which have been commercialized. Newcastle University alumnus Melesse Temesgen (MSc Agricultural Engineering 1987) has been honoured with a National Award for Speaking at the award ceremony, President Girma Woldegiorgis said the Outstanding Achievement in Science and Technology by the President innovations of the awardees were exemplary in motivating other researchers of Ethiopia at a ceremony in Addis Ababa. and inventors in various fields.

A RECORD-BREAKING YEAR SCIENCE IT’S GOOD TO TALK BREAKTHROUGH Modern students who don’t possess a mobile communicate by telephone. Sharing landlines and phone risk being cut off from university life, payphones was viewed as impractical, causing new research reveals. annoyance and frustration. Having their own phone A team of scientists at the University, gives them the privacy which communal landlines along with collaborators at Oxford, A heartfelt thank you to all those alumni who have helped us to raise an Newcastle University anthropologist Natasha do not usually offer.’ Harvard and Michigan State universities, Standen, who carried out the study for her PhD has examined the molecular structure amazing £230,000 this year for the Alumni Fund, the largest amount raised thesis, surveyed, interviewed and observed more The research found that although students used of two bison bones aged more than than 1,000 Newcastle University undergraduates their phones frequently, most budgeted carefully 55,000 years old – a major through the annual phonathon since the programme began in 1998. aged 18 to 24. and made many calls during the most inexpensive breakthrough which could bring about times of the day. changes in evolutionary theory. She found that 66 per cent owned mobile phones and that each week a student would make an The research, funded by The Wellcome average of 15 calls, costing an average of £19.16 Trust and the National Science Foundation, per month in total. The use was highest among first has the potential to be applied to much years, and lowest among those in the third and older fossils to gain the most accurate Over 200 current students applied to be part subsequent years. of this year’s phonathon team, hoping to play information ever about the genetic make-up of ancient species and may their part in raising money for the University Natasha said: ‘The percentage of students using eventually be able to find the answers to and their student peers. mobile phones is similar to the proportion of the long-standing evolutionary puzzles, even general UK population. Students just use them in a perhaps the connection between dinosaurs Many of the students eager to work for the different way. The way university student life is and birds. programme had benefited themselves from structured means that having a mobile phone is Alumni Fund support through hardship grants, perfectly suited to it. Students are constantly Dr Christina Nielsen-Marsh, a member of bursaries and access to equipment in the mobile, frequently travelling across campus to the research team, said: ‘Although 55,000 Disability Support Service. lectures and seminars, or to study periods in the years sounds a long time, it is not going Library, and their halls of residence or houses are back far enough to tell whether a species Over an intensive eight-week period prior to spread across the city. The mobile phone provides has really evolved. We hope to go back Christmas, more than 2,500 alumni were them with a link to their course mates and their further in time and analyse older fossils to contacted by the phonathon team, generating friends, regardless of time or place’. gifts totalling just over £230,000. Particularly see how species have evolved over millions of years.’ heartening was the generous response of donors ’Until the mobile phone came along, Newcastle who had given to the Fund in previous years and University students, especially first years in halls were happy to renew their support for the of residences, often had problems trying to second, third, fourth, or even fifth time!

Of course, the phonathon is about much more Shamini Ragavan, student caller. than raising funds and putting them to good use. Our student callers thoroughly enjoyed the chance to talk to alumni about their experiences ‘Although it is only 10 years since I graduated, ‘I am a scholarship student myself and had I not of university life and the opportunities it has led it seems that the world of higher education is received a bursary from the University I would which uses a compressed air stream to fire steel, understand why it worked – but our research is to since graduation. It also provided the team now quite a different and financially much harder never have come to Newcastle. I fully understand Medieval Blacksmiths glass or ceramic beads at high intensity to build designed to improve that understanding.’ with an opportunity to answer queries about the place for students, and it’s good that the Fund the importance of the Alumni Fund and how it Inspire New Research more stress into metals. Fund or the University more generally, and to offers people like me an opportunity to put can assist someone to live his or her dream’. The aerospace industry has used the technique inform alumni about the benefits and services something back in’. Shamini Ragavan – Student caller Dr Brian Shaw, of the Design Unit Gear for many years for treating highly stressed parts Technique Technology Centre, where a new laboratory available to them. Peter Briggs – Alumni donor Third-year Master of Laws student to prolong their operating life, and peening is also BSc Theoretical Physics 1993 dedicated to research into the shot peening of increasingly being used in both the motor sport Alumni Fund Manager Wendy Taylor commented: If you are interested in finding out more about automotive gears and transmission systems University researchers are building on a and performance production car industries. ‘The generosity of alumni donors, and the affection ‘The phonathon was definitely the most satisfying the Alumni Fund or would like to make a technique used by medieval blacksmiths to opened recently, says the process made metal up so many of them hold for the University, never and enjoyable job I have ever had. To be helping donation, please contact Wendy Taylor on hammer increased strength into the metal to 60 per cent stronger. ‘We also hope our work will improve the UK’s ceases to impress me. Our current students face fellow students was good enough, but to have the 0191 222 8470 or they used to make armour and swords. many difficult challenges, not least financially. opportunity to speak to alumni in this, my final e-mail [email protected]. He said: ‘In medieval times, blacksmiths would international competitiveness. Countries like They, and the University as a whole, are fortunate year, was really educational and useful’. Shot peening – so called because it is the hammer away to produce a high performance China may be able to produce gear boxes cheaper to have the support of so many of those who Dean Morley – Student caller Further information can also be found via the modern-day equivalent of the use of the sword so that it could cut 10 heads off rather but if we can make them better it will help retain have gone before them’. Third-year Social Studies student website at www.ncl.ac.uk/alumni/fund blacksmiths’ ‘ball peen’ hammer – is a process than one before it needed sharpening. They didn’t industry in this country’, added Dr Shaw.

A Strategy for Success ‘In terms of volume and national and international standing of research, the University is by far the largest component of the region’s research base.We are therefore well placed to provide the backbone of research to support each of the Centres of Excellence that are to be established under the Strategy for Success.’

Professor Christopher Edwards Vice-Chancellor

Newcastle University is playing a key role in Microsystems; New and Renewable Energy; Process underlines the direct relevance of the University’s expected to trigger a technology revolution that safety at the same time. Process industries are NorthSTAR (North Science and Technology the establishment of five regional Centres of Industries; and Digital Technology and Media. research activities in life sciences to the will change our lives in many different ways. already the biggest single generator of wealth in Application Resourse) charged with transferring Excellence in the North East. The Centres are Although each Centre has a primary physical pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries. At Newcastle, for example, scientists are developing the North-East region and constitute one of the knowledge and technology from the research supported by all five of the region’s universities location within the region it is not intended, or Among a network of University connections the devices ranging from a tiny biosensor that can major employers. The need to strengthen the role base. NorthSTAR will seek to maximize the as partners in the North East’s Strategy for likely to be the case, that all research activity will Centre enjoys particularly close links with the warn of an impending heart attack, to quantum of the region’s universities in enhancing the commercial value generated from the region’s Success, a new and innovative initiative which take place at a single location. Instead, emphasis International Centre for Life, home to the Northern dots and wires which could one day be used to commercial effectiveness of the sector is therefore technological assets by interfacing with the identifies a leading role for the universities to is being placed on fostering good integration and Genetics Knowledge Park and the University’s own build computers the size of pinheads. paramount. Newcastle’s new Responsive Processing Centres of Excellence and providing services such play in building a ‘knowledge-based economy’ enhancing the relationship of the parts to the Institute of Human Genetics. Major investment and Laboratories will play a role in achieving this aim, as commercial expertise and access to finance within the UK in line with government policy whole with a view to delivering economic benefit the expansion of research facilities are enabling New and renewable energies are an increasingly facilitating research that combines technical and to potential customers. objectives. right across the region. giant steps to be taken in a number of life science important area of business with the desire to know-how with expertise in control and fields including research in human genetics, human move away from fossil fuels. The University’s monitoring techniques and mathematical Strategy for Success is an exciting opportunity for Strategy for Success has been developed and is The principal function of the Centres will be to vision and brain disorders, biogerontology and researchers are playing a lead role in the UK’s first modelling of processes. the University to work alongside its regional co-ordinated by One NorthEast, the regional ‘condition’ technologies arising from the regional oncology. large-scale New and Renewable Energy Centre partners with the aim of developing the economic development agency for the North East of England. research base into a form that enables them to (NaREC) at Blyth in Northumberland. Devices for The Digital Centre of Excellence is establishing vitality of the North East and transforming its It aims to exploit the region’s research base to be utilized for commercial purposes. Each Centre Elsewhere, the University is breaking ground in harnessing energy from the sea and wind will be bases in all five universities. Newcastle University future potential. generate innovation, competitiveness and growth in is being constituted as a Company Limited by entirely new areas of research such as put through their paces at NaREC, which will has a strong academic research and teaching base the North East, thereby laying the foundation for Guarantee with aims and objectives that are nanotechnology. Here, our impressive new facilities provide a world-class test capability unequalled in in computing and informatics enabling it to make Alumni interested in developing links with any of the region’s future economic prosperity. In particular, informed by the overall Strategy for Success. and a large body of research staff drawn from Europe. Our involvement reflects the University’s an essential contribution to the Digital Centre. the activities embraced by Strategy for Success are it identifies an approach to cluster development Our existing research strengths at Newcastle across a range of disciplines have made Newcastle widely recognized research strengths in marine It also already houses the North East Regional warmly encouraged to contact the Regional based on establishing five new Centres of Excellence University mean that we are well-placed to the hub of the Nanotechnology Centre of technology and a wide range of the e-Science Centre which has been created with the Development Office at the University by that are supported by a research exploitation contribute to all five Centres. Excellence. In establishing these facilities the environmental sciences. aim of setting up a regional network of companies e-mail: s.d.o’[email protected] company (NorthSTAR) and guided by the University has been the major beneficiary of the which can benefit from large amounts of extra Regional Science and Industry Council. In the case of Life Sciences, the University already Department of Trade and Industry’s prestigious The focus of much of the University’s research computational power. Alternatively contact Gillian Durkin, Strategy for has a long track record of research activity with a award to the region of funding for a University activity in relation to process industries also has Success Project Executive, One NorthEast, The key component of Strategy for Success in commercialization focus – reflected in a number of Innovation Centre in Nanotechnology. an environmental theme. Research in chemical In conjunction with the establishment of the five Bioscience Centre, International Centre for Life, terms of University involvement is the businesses having been ‘spun-out’ by Nanotechnology is an exciting new field of and process engineering aims at reducing the Centres of Excellence, One NorthEast is working Times Square, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 4EP. establishment of the five Centres of Excellence in bio-entrepreneurs at the University. Meanwhile our research akin to microtechnology, but dealing environmental impact of factories of the future, with regional partners including the University to Telephone 0191 211 2560 Life Sciences; Nanotechnology, Photonics and extensive network of industrial collaborations with objects 1,000 times smaller in scale. It is while cutting production costs and improving establish a new exploitation company named www.strategyforsuccess.info

12 | The University of Newcastle upon Tyne Magazine | Issue 2 Spring 2003 | www.ncl.ac.uk The University of Newcastle upon Tyne Magazine | Issue 2 Spring 2003 | www.ncl.ac.uk | 13 FACTS AND FIGURES 1963 2002 ARCHES Editorial 4,402 students 15,270 students (including 2,281 1,000 staff international students) 4,308 staff

On 1 August 2003 the University of Newcastle to emphasize continuity rather than change. upon Tyne celebrates its fortieth birthday. Writing in The Journal on 31 July 1963, the new However, unlike other ‘new universities’ born in Vice-Chancellor focused on the Parliamentary Act the 1960s, Newcastle was already one of the which brought the University into existence on oldest higher education institutions in the UK at the following day. ‘What the Act does not alter is the time it became a university. In the words of the direction and momentum of the University Mr Charles Bosanquet, who became the first based on 131 years of achievement. A University Vice-Chancellor after serving 11 years as the is a society bound together by a communion of Rector of King’s College, ‘We claim that we will be memories and hopes, expressing its aims in 100 years old the day we are born!’ This was no regulations which are the written form of policy.’ exaggeration as the University could trace its origins back to the foundation of the College of Despite the feature in The Journal, David Dingwall Medicine in 1834 in the Manors area of the city. recalls that media coverage was fairly limited in During most of the intervening period King’s August 1963. ‘There was little reference in the College, as it was named after 1937, had formed newspapers which at the time were reporting much the larger part of the University of Durham. stories such as the Christine Keeler Affair, the Great Train Robbery and Beatlemania.’ The peculiar fact that the new University of Newcastle upon Tyne was engineered through a In many respects the creation of Newcastle division of the old University of Durham meant that University was as much an historic moment for a whole generation of students enjoyed the unique the city of Newcastle as it was for the University. experience of studying at two different universities The report in The Journal on 31 July captured this over the duration of a single degree course. quiet sense of pride in its opening sentence. ‘Tomorrow, August 1, Newcastle will become a Nevertheless, as David Rawlinson (LLB 1965) university city, even though the man in the street recalls, institutional change seemed less will see few indications of this momentous Merz Cort in 1964, the first building to open at the new University. momentous at the time than it did in retrospect. transition.’ It was a point expressed in the only ‘I studied Law from 1962. Probably like a number recorded ceremonial that took place on 1 August of contemporaries I came to Newcastle in a sense when the Lord Mayor of Newcastle paid a formal by mistake, applying originally to Durham but, in visit during the first meeting of Senate to Tony Higgins (BA German 1967) is the absence of a law faculty there, having my congratulate the University on its new status and Chief Executive of UCAS and therefore application referred on to the Newcastle faculty present the Vice-Chancellor with an inscribed spends his working time channelling students then situated on the top floor of the Percy Lindisfarne silver salver to mark the event. into his alma mater amongst other UK Building. From then on Durham really had no universities. In 1963 he was a keen rugby relevance to me. The LLB course from 1962 was player in the first year of intake at the University. under new regulations which anticipated the transition the following year to the new University. ‘I was one of the first students to be enrolled There was no contact I can recall with Durham, by the University in 1963 to study German either academically or socially, and I think I visited and Swedish. I didn’t go to the Freshers’ Fair there once in my three years at Newcastle. In 1965 and arrived in Newcastle on the Saturday I was given the option of either a Newcastle or before term started. I discovered when I went Durham degree and chose a Newcastle one on the to my hall, Eustace Percy Hall, that the Rugby basis that it was where I went to University. Club were holding trials that afternoon. Interestingly, out of my Law year of 39, only nine I caught the number 19 bus to get to chose this Newcastle option – the view of some of Cochrane Park, only to find that I was going A Bright New Dawn the others being that the tradition of Durham the wrong way around on a circular journey. might give their degree more “weight”.’ I had to get off, cross the road and catch the The inauguration of the first Chancellor in King’s Hall. bus going the other way around. On arrival at Peter Gore (BDM 1964) remembers that 56 out Cochrane Park I discovered that because I had ‘As from1 August 1963 (the appointed day), King’s College ceases to be the larger part of the of 58 dental graduates in his year also chose the Celebrations at the University itself were largely not been at Freshers’ Week I was not University of Durham and becomes the University of Newcastle upon Tyne.This is, I consider, Durham degree ‘... probably sticking with what held off until the occasion of the ceremonial registered to play in the trial and so I only they knew best’. Yet David Dingwall (BSc Civil installation of the Duke of Northumberland as came on late in the second half as a belated recognition of a status earned by 131 years of achievement, and by the growth in Engineering 1965) reports that his entire class the first Chancellor of the University in April substitute. I seemed to do quite well the numbers and range of studies which has kept Newcastle amongst the largest university took the Newcastle option following the urging of 1964. The Duke was a fitting choice for an old however, and was picked to play for the first their course tutor, Professor Cassie. institution that was still a little cautious of its 15 on the following Saturday against Percy institutions in the United Kingdom in the last 30 years’. new and independent identity. While the Duke’s Park. I played at centre and scored the Given the sensitivities associated with the change uncle, Lord Eustace Percy, had served as the well- University’s first and second try in its history it was perhaps unsurprising that the celebrations loved Rector of King’s College between 1937 and and was written up in The Sunday Times the Mr Charles Bosanquet to mark the establishment of the University were 1952, his father and grandfather had both served following day.’ Vice-Chancellor of the University of Newcastle upon Tyne (1963 – 68) (Rector of King’s College 1952 – 63) fairly low key and public pronouncements tended as Chancellors of the University of Durham.

CONVOCATION AND ALUMNI REUNION WEEKEND 2003 Friday 6 June – Saturday 7 June

The University welcomes alumni, students, staff and guests to join with us for any of a range of events taking place across campus and beyond during Convocation and Alumni Reunion Weekend 2003. Gateshead Millennium Bridge and Baltic: The Centre for Contemporary Art. The Sage Gateshead.

project through its unique degree course in folk Buffet Lunch Convocation (with a presentation by Drinks Reception and Reunion Dinner FRIDAY and traditional music will be explained. In the BOOKING Hatton Gallery Hatton Gallery and King’s Hall context of the European Capital of Culture 2008 Professor Christopher Edwards, A booking form is enclosed for alumni readers of 1.00 pm – 2.30 pm 7.30 pm Alumni Association AGM bid, this will be a wonderful opportunity for Vice-Chancellor) Arches.To request additional booking forms please telephone + 44 (0) 191 222 7250 or visit our Council Chamber, Armstrong Building alumni to take a behind-the-scenes look at a key Herschel Building A buffet lunch is available in the Hatton Gallery The Reunion Dinner returns to the King’s Hall, website at www.ncl.ac.uk/alumni/events/reunion 5.00 pm – 7.00 pm component in the evolving cultural and artistic 4.00 pm – 5.30 pm preceded by a drinks reception in the Hatton profile of the region. between 1.00 pm and 2.30 pm. Why not take the where you can book online. Final details, time to enjoy the final-year show of the BA in Gallery. Our caterers have devised a special including venues, campus maps and parking The AGM is open to all alumni whether actively The meeting of Convocation, which will be www.gateshead-quays.com/sage/index.html Fine Art graduates while eating your lunch. four-course menu for the Dinner. Wine can be information will be sent in mid-May to those involved in running branches or interest groups chaired by Jack Jeffery CBE (BSc 1953; MSc 1960), Reservations for the lunch must be made in booking in advance. within the Alumni Association, or simply is the annual meeting at which alumni receive a pre-ordered for the table at the Drink’s Reception interested in hearing more. The meeting will be Coffee in the Herschel Foyer advance with tickets priced at £10 per head report from the Vice-Chancellor on the state of or purchased at the table. You can either book chaired by Dominic Pinto (BA Politics 1978), 10.30 am – 11.00 am including a glass of wine. Access to the Hatton the University. Convocation is an important individually or with friends (groups of seats can ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Chairman of the Alumni Association. Gallery itself is free of charge. forum that provides you with the opportunity to be reserved on request). Why not contact a few Contact Your Friends Online Visit to Baltic: The Centre for hear at first hand about the challenges being of your contemporaries to return to campus If you want to contact friends from your time at Alumni Ceilidh Contemporary Art on Gateshead Alumni Fund Donor Lunch faced by the University and the ways in which together (see ‘Additional Information’). Tickets Newcastle to see if they are attending, why not those challenges are being tackled. Convocation sign up for and search our online directory, King’s Hall Quayside Bedson Building cost £28 per person (including VAT). Places are allows you to have a voice on issues of policy at NUGrad? Over 5,000 alumni are already signed up 7.30 pm – 12.00 pm 10.45 am – 12.45 pm 1.00 pm – 2.30 pm limited, so please book early. the University. Tea will follow in the Herschel for the directory at www.ncl.ac.uk/NUgrad Foyer for those attending Convocation. Once Alternatively, the Development and Alumni Join us for a special Reunion ceilidh in the Alumni can book for a special visit to the To be hosted by the Vice-Chancellor and the again, Convocation will be broadcast live online to a Relations Office holds a further 55,000 address King’s Hall. Our ceilidh band will provide the music Gateshead Quayside, including a guided tour of Chairman of the Alumni Association. MENU virtual audience around the world. Please book early details and will be happy to forward messages on with a special caller for those who don’t know the the new Baltic: The Centre for Contemporary Art. Drinks in the Hatton Gallery for a live link-up slot, as these slots are limited. your behalf. steps. A light buffet is included in the ticket price Last year we were unable to gain access to the Tour of the Music Facilities and a cash bar will be provided. Tickets cost £8 building itself, so this will be a splendid 2.30 pm – 3.45 pm Chicken, Calvados & Cream Cheese Terrine Disabled Access per person. Places are limited, so please book early. opportunity to visit the building with an expert Convocation Lecture served on a Bed of Rocket with Caramelized Disabled access provision is not uniform across guide. There is no charge for the visit, but places Sir Thomas Allen CBE Onion Chutney A second opportunity to tour Newcastle’s music campus. Please contact DARO for advice on will be limited due to tour party restrictions at The Performer: Creator or Recreator? facilities as described in more detail above. or disabled access issues on + 44 (0) 191 222 7250. SATURDAY the Baltic, so please do book early. Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building University Lecture 6.00 pm – 7.15 pm Sweet Potato, Carrot & Courgette served on a www.balticmill.com Bed of Rocket with Caramelized Onion Accommodation Reunion Weekend Lecture Herschel Building Special rates have been negotiated at several Convocation Lecture will be given this year by the Chutney Lucy Bird, Director of Marketing and Development, 2.45 pm – 3.45 pm hotels in and around Newcastle for alumni Tour of the Music Facilities world-renowned and local-born baritone The Sage Gateshead. Professor Philip van der Eijk on the wishing to spend the night of Friday 6 and/or 11.15 am – 12.45 pm Sir Thomas Allen CBE (Hon MA 1984). He will be Northumbrian Roasted Rack of Lamb with a Herschel Building History of Medicine Saturday 7 June. Check out our website for full speaking on the subject ‘The Performer: Creator or Rosemary & Herb Crust served with Port and 9.30 am – 10.30 am details at ww.ncl.ac.uk/alumni/events/reunion Music is growing from strength to strength at the Recreator?’ Sir Thomas Allen has an enormous Redcurrant Sauce University with our research top-rated at 5* in The history of medicine is a major area of Alternatively, to request a full list by e-mail, We are privileged to be joined by Lucy Bird from international reputation as an opera singer and the most recent Research Assessment Exercise research activity at the University bringing or fax or mail, please call the office on The Sage Gateshead who will speak on the has starred in productions at all the world’s major (RAE) and our students benefiting from state-of- together researchers from a range of academic + 44 (0) 191 222 7250 or exciting project taking shape on the Gateshead operatic centres as well as in numerous Aubergine Duxelles the-art new facilities. Why not see for yourself disciplines. Professor Philip van der Eijk is e-mail: [email protected] Quayside. The Sage Gateshead will be at once a productions at the Royal Opera, Covent Garden. with a special tour that includes an introduction Professor of Greek at the University and will He is a regular guest artist with the leading Individual White Chocolate Truffle Torte with magnificent Norman Foster building; an University Memorabilia Shop on exciting new developments in music at provide an introduction to this fascinating American and European orchestras, and a Strawberry Sauce and Forest Fruits outstanding facility for all kinds of live music and Alumni returning for Reunion 2003 can benefit Newcastle, such as the launch of England’s first subject. much-acclaimed recitalist worldwide. Among for the work of its resident musicians and a from a special Reunion Weekend discount of ever folk music degree programme? numerous recent engagements he performed to a Northumbrian Cheeseboard pioneering centre for music education and www.historical-studies.ncl.ac.uk/ 15 per cent on all goods. The shop will be open global audience in the televised special concert at discovery. The University’s involvement with the www.ncl.ac.uk/sacs/about/music research/medicine_history.asp between 10.00 am and 5.00 pm on Buckingham Palace to mark The Queen’s Golden Tea, Coffee & Mints Saturday 7 June. Jubilee in June 2002.

British Council has established in Taiwan and Perhaps the skill to do both simultaneously has An Evening at forthcoming activities taking place. been lost over years of responsible practise! Half-price Hotels Deal Honorary Graduates The Royal Institution The next morning a tour of the Medica School A special webpage for alumni in Taiwan is at was amazing, and included the Anatomy Teaching for Alumni The Chancellor of the University, the Right Professor Fred Schneider of Cornell University, www.ncl.ac.uk/alumni/contact/branches/ Centre, the Information Technology (IT) Room Over 100 alumni and guests attended a special Alumni can now take advantage of a fantastic Honourable Christopher Patten CH, will confer who is an international expert in computer international/taiwan.html and the Clinical Skills Laboratory. The learning reception held on 19 November at The Royal half-price hotels deal with Hotel Express the following Honorary Degrees at a ceremony on security, is to become Doctor of Science (DSc). Institution (RI) in London. Home to the oldest process has been revolutionized by the use of IT International. By becoming a Hotel Express Friday 9 May 2003. technology, where each student can access the independent research body in the world, alumni University of Newcastle upon Tyne member, alumni Sir Bobby Robson CBE, Manager of Newcastle web and university teaching material to work at were able to view the RI’s museum of exhibits Alumni Networking can take advantage of 50 per cent discounts at Dr Herbert Loebl OBE (BSc Electrical Engineering United FC and former Manager of England, is to their own pace and save what they need. relating to the major scientific discoveries of thousands of luxury hotels throughout the world. 1949, PhD History 1985), who is the retired founder become Doctor of Civil Law (DCL). leading RI members during the past two in New York The system allows access from any computer so of Joyce-Loebl Electronics and Scientific Instrument that students can continue with their academic centuries, including the discovery of sodium and Annual membership of Hotels Express costs Group, is to become Doctor of Science (DSc). Sir Bobby Robson commented on his award, ‘I am work whilst completing a student internship in potassium by Humphry Davy, electro-magnetic £34.99, of which 20 per cent goes directly to the delighted to accept this honour from Newcastle any hospital in the region. Their contacts with the induction by Michael Faraday and the liquefaction University’s Alumni Fund, supporting student- Fiona Reynolds CBE, Director-General of University, who are not only Newcastle United’s system are monitored to provide feedback to tutors. of hydrogen by James Dewar. orientated activities at the University. Whether you The National Trust, is to become Doctor of Letters closest neighbour in the city, but also another of need a hotel for a visit to Newcastle or a trip to (DLitt). this region’s “premier league” organizations’. The Clinical Skills Laboratory was equally The highlight of the evening was a chance for Australia you will be helping the University and impressive and many of the onlookers wished alumni to receive a special illustrated talk within saving money for yourself through Hotels Express that this type of facility had been available during the famous Faraday Lecture Theatre from our membership. Members receive a membership card their training. After the tours Professor Jordon special guest speaker, the award-winning architect and hotel directory detailing the thousands of provided an outline of the current curriculum for and alumnus Sir Terry Farrell (BArch 1961). As well hotels participating in the offer. MB BS training and future developments. It was as touching on his fascinating Masterplan for satisfying to learn that the recent assessment of redeveloping the University’s own central campus Further details of the offer can be found on the the Medical School’s teaching and research had in Newcastle, Sir Terry also treated alumni to a insert enclosed in this issue of Arches and on the been so positive. retrospective on his career as an architect, which Alumni Association website at Newcastle alumni Christopher Kay (BSc MechEng 1973), www.ncl.ac.uk/alumni/services has included high-profile projects such as Seoul Katherine Sheeran (BA Psychology 1991), Carlo Alberici Airport in South Korea and Charing Cross Station (BA Economics 1997) and Sallie Locke (BA Ancient History If you wish to take immediate advantage of this and the MI6 Headquarters buildings in London. 1995) at the event. exclusive offer, then simply call 0870 120 8686 The talk was complemented by a special with your credit card details quoting reference NUA temporary exhibition mounted at the RI by On Thursday 20 February a select band of or alternatively please send cheques and postal orders made payable to ‘Hotels Express Ltd’ to Terry Farrell and Partners and it provoked many Newcastle University alumni joined with alumni PO Box 187, Ilkley LS29 OWT. interested questions and comments throughout from 21 other UK universities and business the evening. schools for a special business networking evening at the British Consulate General in New York, The reception was attended by the Vice-Chancellor, USA. The event was hosted by Mike Cohen, the Chairman of Convocation and the Chairman Deputy Consul General and Director of Trade, and was organized by a consortium of local alumni of the Alumni Association, who each spoke briefly chapters from the institutions invited to participate. during the evening. Forthcoming 9 July 2003 13 September 2003 Chemical Engineering 50th Anniversary – This MB BS 1983 Reunion – Further information at Newcastle alumna Katherine Sheeran, née MB BS 1962 reunion grouping. Alumni Events event will include a dinner at the Civic Centre Roberts (BA Psychology 1991) attended with her www.yearof83reunion.co.uk and a visit to the School. Alumni interested in husband and reported: ‘I found the event very or contact Rachel Crabb via DARO. Alumni Event in Taiwan Two presentations from year members completed attending should contact Janice Trewick on +44 worthwhile. Not only was it a good networking the morning at the Medical School before we 5 May 2003 (0) 191 222 7234 opportunity, but there were three other Around 60 alumni and guests attended a decamped for lunch to the old RVI Consultants’ Alumni Reception in Washington DC – A or e-mail [email protected] 3 July 2004 Newcastle alumni there that I had not met reception for alumni at the Westin Hotel in Taipei Dining Room. This was another nostalgic and special reception for alumni and guests is being MB BS 1984 Reunion – before, and it was great to hook up with them’. on 2 December. The event coincided with a visit enjoyable occasion. In the afternoon we were held at the British Embassy in Washington DC on 11 July 2003 Contact Dr Peter Mattinson for details via DARO. to Taiwan by Professor Madeleine Akins, taken on a fascinating tour of the Quayside Monday 5 May 2003. The Vice-Chancellor and MB BS 1973 Reunion – Contact Dr Michael Best Pro-Vice-Chancellor, who attended the reception developments by Marion Anderson. Then it was staff from the University will be in attendance. for details via DARO. and spoke to alumni about exciting recent Medical Class of ‘62 back to Gosforth Park where people were Contact the Development and Alumni Relations Possible Events developments at the University and opportunities disciplined, with some difficulty, into position for Office (DARO) if you would like to attend. 15 August 2003 for alumni to support the work of their alma mater. Thirty-six MB BS graduates and their partners a group photograph before settling down to a Alumni Golf Tournament – The Alumni Golf 6 – 9 March 2004 attended a most enjoyable reunion on the splendid and convivial dinner. Our wonderful 6 – 7 June 2003 Tournament for the Walton Trophy will take place Ruby Reunion of ’64 Dental Alumni in Our thanks are extended to Hsin-Yuan Lai weekend of 19 October 2002 at Gosforth Park after-dinner speaker was Lord Walton of Convocation and Alumni Reunion Weekend at Close House. Contact DARO if you would like conjunction with the Founders and Benefactors (MPhil Law 1999) and his colleagues at the Hotel. The event was organized by Detchant, who amused us with nostalgic medical See pages 16 – 17 for full details of the to attend. Weekend. Contact Geoff Braunton for further British Council in Taiwan who provided invaluable Margaret Hudgson. tales of Newcastle circa 1957–62. programme, including the Convocation Lecture assistance with the organization of the evening. which will be delivered by the internationally 3 September 2003 details at [email protected] Geoff Evans, Director of the British Council in The reunion commenced informally on Friday We all hope to meet again within the next five years. renowned opera singer Sir Thomas Allen CBE. MB BS 1993 Reunion – This reunion will be held Taiwan, was also able to attend and said a few evening at Gosforth Park Hotel. It was noticeable Reunion parties and individuals interested in at the Gosforth Park Hotel. Forthcoming Events are listed at words about the new alumni network which the that there was more talking than drinking. Dr Janet Gale (MB BS 1962) joining us should contact DARO. Contact Tina Woods for details via DARO. www.ncl.ac.uk/alumni/events

1940s 1970s Philip HOBBS (BA Accounting & Finance 1986) Christine ENGLISH (BA Scandinavian Alvin MILNER (BSc Mathematics & Suzanne ADVANI née DINNING (BSc would like to contact Simon CHAPLOW. Please Studies 1973) has set up her own company 1980s Statistics 1988; PhD Statistics 1991) Physiological Studies 1995) married Jack MESSING (BDS 1946) would be delighted to Evelyne KNIGHT née MACKENZIE to conduct medical research. moved to Victoria, Australia to take up a Andrew, a diabetes research fellow in the contact Philip via DARO. hear from any 1945 – 46 graduates from the (BSc Geography 1979) would like to hear news position as Senior Biometrician with an Newcastle Medical School and they had a Sutherland Dental School via the Development from any other 1979 geography graduates. Mary FARRELL née ANDERSON (BSc agricultural research organization in baby boy in August 2001. John ALEXANDER (BA Geography 1980) and Alumni Relations Office (DARO) Please contact via e-mail at: Speech 1975) is married with children and October 2002. 1990s works as a speech and language therapist has had a commission in the Royal Air Force Kate ASKEW (BSc Physiological Sciences [email protected] Jonathan DEAKIN (BA Combined Studies 1998) Regiment since graduating and is married 1999) spent one year travelling. She did a with adults with learning difficulties. Mary MONRO (BSc Agriculture & Food would like to hear from university friends. with two children. PGCE at Ripon and York College and is now 1950s Marketing 1985) retrained to be an Please contact via e-mail at: Charles HARVEY (BA History & Politics a teacher. William YOUNG (BSc Botany & Zoology 1955, 1980s Ruth AUSTEN née ROWNTREE (BEng osteopath and graduated from the British [email protected] 1973) moved to London in 1977 where he DipEd 1957) would like to contact David Foti NASSOPOULOS (BEng 1988) would like to continues to work in the careers service. Chemical Engineering) is currently working School of Osteopathy in 1999. Andrew BARROW (MSc Computing BRICKNELL who studied for a PhD in Chemical contact Jake CHAMBERS (Economics & for Northampton Borough Council in the Science 1996) is living in Reading and Engineering in the late 1950s. English), Frances Jane DELLIPIANI (BEng 1989; Alumni wishing to contact former classmates are Professor Pali HUNGIN (MB BS 1975; MD pollution department of Environmental Claire NIGHTINGALE née NATTRASS works in Luton as an IT Consultant. encouraged to search our online alumni directory 1996) has been appointed as the first Dean Health. (BDS 1989) is married with a young son. MEng Electrical & Electronic Engineering of Medicine at the University of Durham Richard BASTEY (BSc Biochemistry 1999) called NUgrad at www.ncl.ac.uk/NUgrad She is a member of the choir for the 1991), John PARFITT (MEng Civil Engineering since 1963. He was awarded an OBE for Angela CATTERMOLE née CONWAY (BA Newcastle Gilbert and Sullivan Society. has joined the Cobra group and is starting 1960s 1991) and Aamer QURESHI (BEng services to research in general practice in German 1982) made a career change and up his own marketing company called ‘Star Tim BOND (BSc Mechanical Engineering 1967) qualified as an accountant in 1996. Promotion’. Microelectronics & Microprocessors 1988). Contact DARO for your registration number. 2000. David NOBLE (Chemical Engineering would like to contact William ROBERTS (BSc Please contact Foti via DARO. E-mail: [email protected] 1984) is Engineering, Maintenance and David HYLAND (LLB 1978) was awarded Rachel CRABBE née MONTGOMERY Rachel BENNETT (BSc Agricultural & Metallurgy 1967). Please contact Tim via DARO. Technical Services Manager for American an OBE in June 2001. (MB BS 1983) is working as a GP in Leeds Environmental Science 1994) is living in Crystal Sugar, a farmer owned co-op and is married with two sons. Bedfordshire and works as Head of Equine, producing sugar from sugar beet based in Allan JAMES (MEd 1971) has completed Animal Care and Dog Grooming at a small Minnesota, USA. He is married with two BA, BSc and MA degrees since retiring. Fidelma DOWNS née GILL (BA English college. 1987) is married with three children and daughters and recently completed a double master’s degree in Management and Alan KEY (BA German 1974) worked for qualified in personnel and training. Adam BROWN (BSc Biological Sciences Business Administration. six years as a head teacher at Snaith School 1998) won the Periodical Publishers ARCHES Classnotes in East Yorkshire before moving to Abbey Raymond HADLEY (MPhil Town & Association Excellence in Advertising Award Christopher PURDON (BSc Marine Grange High School in Leeds. Country Planning 1984) was promoted in 2001 for the best interactive campaign. He Biology 1983) gave up full-time 2000 to Principal Planning Officer in City was also a finalist at the New York festival employment in August 2001 and moved to Christine MACPHERSON née ANDERSON Planning Group in the City of Westminster. for the print advertising category. Cardiff and set up his own consultancy firm. (BA German 1972) married Duncan MACPHERSON (BA 1971) and is running Jane HAWDON (MB BS 1984) has three Adrian BROWN (MB BS 1994) has Paul RHODES (BSc Agriculture 1986) has her own PR Consultancy firm. children and works as a consultant established a charity with colleagues to set up his own British Fresh Meat delivery neonatologist and clinical director for reduce maternal mortality in developing company, Meatzu Ltd. Richard MONTGOMERY (MB BS 1978) is Women’s Health. countries named Maternity Worldwide. currently a consultant trauma and www.maternityworldwide.org Donald LEE (BSc Zoology 1956) is the John HILL (BSc Electronical Engineering Robert SKELTON (BSc Chemical Kathryn ROHLFING née JACQUES (BA orthopaedic surgeon at James Cook Tim HEWITT (BSc Soil & Land Usage 1940s Chairman of the Northern Branch of the 1968; PhD Electronic Engineering 1971) Engineering 1960) was promoted to Senior History 1987) married in 1990 and has University Hospital, Middlesbrough, and an 1989) married Laura KERRIDGE (BA Harriet CARTER (BSc Agriculture 1999) Institute of Biology, a council member of has taken early retirement after working for Lecturer in Chemical Engineering at three children. She graduated with an MA in John CLOW (MB BS 1949) has been honorary lecturer at Newcastle and History 1989) in 1996, has two children left Newcastle and taught and travelled in the Yorkshire Agricultural Society and editor British Aerospace for 12 years. Cambridge in 2001. Social Work in 1992 and became a probation involved in Christian work since his Teesside Universities. and currently works on a vehicle crime unit Nepal for five months. of The Biology of Nematodes, published in officer in 1998. retirement and lives in Sheffield. 2002 by Taylor & Francis. Thomas LOWE (MB BS 1967) retired from Jeffrey SMITH (BSc Mechanical based in Southend-on-Sea. Jennifer NICHOLSON-MORTON née Russell CHARNOCK (BEng Civil full-time practice in November 2001. He is Engineering 1968; BSc Mining Hilary RUSSELL née STABLES (MB BS James GEDDES (BSc Civil Engineering Malcolm LISTER (BA Town & Country HAMPSON (BA Spanish & Latin American Andrew HOLMES (BSc Surveying 1987) Engineering 1990) was married in 1996 the Chair of the Community Hospitals Engineering 1969) is on the Board of the 1980) completed postgraduate training as a 1949; PhD Civil Engineering 1953) is Planning 1958) retired in 1992 but takes Studies 1970) teaches adults Spanish has published five books on various business and now lives in Newcastle. He received his Management Board in North British Geological Survey and on the Council psychoanalytic psychotherapist last year currently publishing a series of books on the on some private consultancy. lessons and travels regularly to Spain with topics. chartered status in 1997. Northumberland. of Keele University. He is also the President and is married with two children. old colours of British regiments. her husband. Rosemary MARSH née SAUNDERS (BA of the Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, Simon HOME (BSc Agriculture 1987) Joy COLQUHOUN (BSc Microbiology Fine Art 1958) is currently Vice President Virginia MEMBREY (BA Social Studies and is on the advisory board to Leeds Josephine SCRIVEN née ECCLES (BSc Jack MESSING (BDS 1946) retired from a Jane NOLAN née BRAHAM (BA English launched his own business offering 1992) is married and working in the (Europe) of the World Federation of Friends 1962; Cert in Applied Social Science University Mining Department and a Fellow Speech 1980) works part time as a speech visiting professorship at Malta University a Language & Literature 1973) has received technical support services to the food pharmaceutical industry. She ran the 2002 of Museums. 1963) is highly involved in voluntary work of the Royal Academy of Engineering. and language therapist and has two children. few years ago but still pursues clinical an MBE for services to her company and to manufacturing industry in 2001. London marathon. for various groups including local village interests via meetings at the Royal Society UK exports. She is now on a north-eastern committees and a Quaker committee. Patrick SUTOR (BA General Arts 1968) is Sara VAILE née CANT (BA Classics 1989) Nic DAVISON (BA Accounting & Financial of Medicine. board for The Regional Development Agency. Anthony ILLGER (MEd 1982) retired from doing consultancy work in planning after got married in July 2002 and has been an Analysis 1995) is moving to work in Poland. teaching in July 2002 to spend time 1960s Derek MORGAN (BDS 1961) has been taking early retirement from local acting head of department at a museum John ROBERTSON (BSc 1974) married enjoying hobbies and interests. Anna DEKKER (MPhil Landscape Design elected President of the Rugby Football government. and art gallery in Birmingham. Rosemary AHMED (MB BS 1964) has Anne ROBERTSON née DOYLE (MB BS 1994) is currently working as a Landscape reached retirement age and returned to Union. He captained Durham while a dental 1975) in 1978 and they have four sons. He Thomas LANE (BA Combined Studies Architect for Gateshead Council. 1950s Roger WITTS (BA Latin 1969) is currently William WALKER (PhD Theoretical work at her own practice on a part-time student and won nine England caps during has followed a career in Financial Services 1983) completed an MSc in Engineering self-employed as a lecturer, proof reader, Physics) is working for Logica as an IT basis. 1960-61 playing at No 8. His interest in since graduating and has lived in Glasgow Product Design at South Bank in London. Andrew DILKS (BSc Chemistry with John EDWARDS (BA Music 1958) retired copy editor and family history researcher. Consultant and is living in St Albans with in 1999 after 40 years of teaching in the for the past 20 years. He is now married with two children and is Applied Chemistry 1996; PhD Physical university rugby was maintained as coach, three children. UK, Singapore and New Mexico. Geoffrey CLAYTON (BA Scandinavian currently working as a journalist on Building Chemistry 1999) completed a two-year manager and chairman of British David YOUNG (BSc Electrical Engineering Studies 1967) has four children and is Judith WILLIS née SUTCLIFFE (BSc magazine. training scheme with British Sugar and was Universities for many years. Remarkably, 1967) worked for many years with British William HOLMES (BSc Agricultural learning Welsh. Zoology 1973) was the regional winner of appointed Development Chemist. Derek is actually the second alumnus of Steel/Corus, but is now retired and works as Chemistry 1956) has retired from the the TES/Pfizer Primary Teacher of Science Christopher MADELEY (BA French 1980) ‘Medicals’ to become Rugby Football Union a part-time consultant engineer. nutrition and management industry and is Roger ELPHICK (BSc Civil Engineering Award in 2000. has published various papers related to 1990s Amy DIXON née TAYLOR (Cert in living near Kings Lynn. 1965) was awarded an OBE for services to President following Danie SERFONTEIN Japanese Studies. Education 1999) got married in Mexico in highways and transportation in January. (BDS 1958) who was President in 1992 – 93. Stephen WILLIS (BA Scandinavian Studies Rupert ABRAHAMS (BA Ancient History August 2002. John KEWLEY (BSc Electrical Engineering 1970s 1975) has worked for Manchester libraries Bryony MARSHALL née WHITE (BA & Archeology 1995) successfully 1958) has retired after working as Deputy David FLETCHER (BSc Civil Engineering David POLLARD (BA Land Use Studies for 27 years and has been a co-editor of English 1981; PGCE 1983) is married with completed the Grand National course at Matthew DOHERTY (BA Geography Chairman/Chief Executive for Manx 1965) retired in 1998 and is now involved 1968) retired as Planning Director for Kenneth ALLISON (BSc Geography 1970) three editions of Walford’s Guide to three children. She is a full-time teacher and Aintree in the Foxhunters Steeplechase 1999) works for Salford City Council as a Electricity Authority for 11 years. in voluntary work. Cornwall County Council in summer 2001. retired from Sema Group in February 2000. Reference Material. is involved in extra-curricular drama. in 2002. Planning Officer.

Adrian DOLAN (BSc Geography 1999) Sarah LAVENDER née BATES (BSc Richard SMART (Business Management attained a Duke of Edinburgh Gold Award in trained to be an Air Traffic Controller for a Agricultural & Environmental Science 1998) qualified as a Chartered Accountant Easter 2002 and also won an environmental year in Bournemouth then moved to 1996) graduated from the Open University with Price Waterhouse Cooper, before fellowship through HSBC to study turtle Heathrow for further training and is now in September 2002 and is pursuing a joining the Royal Bank of Scotland as a populations in Brazil. Shandy Ho qualified. vocational training course in brewing. Corporate Relationship Manager and is currently involved in an internet venture. Dean CORNISH (BA French with Spanish I started working for the Education and Exhibition Department of the Emma DOUGLAS (BEng Mechanical Fiona LLOYD (BSc Agricultural & 2001) left university and spent some time (MA Museum Studies 1995) Engineering 1999) is due to finish her Environmental Science 1997) returned in Cral STEELE (PhD Chemistry 1997) has teaching English to foreign students in National Palace Museum (NPM) in Taipei,Taiwan, on 8 March 2002. I am Marine Engineering Officer training in April 2002 from working on a dairy farm in New been appointed Senior Operations and Spain and at private schools in the UK and primarily responsible for Museum Education Programmes planning, 2003 and will then be appointed as Deputy Zealand for a year. Technical Support Advisor at British Nuclear is currently working for legal publishers. including Adult and Children Educational Activities. In addition, I also have Marine Engineering Officer. Fuels plc. responsibility for interaction between museums island-wide by organizing Paul LYNCH (BA Politics 1995) recently Claire DALEY (BSc Statistics 2001) has seminars relating to museum management, and also for helping to set up Claire DUNCAN (PGCE 1997) started returned from active service for the Royal Patrick TARBIT (MEng Electrical & Electronic completed a PGCE in Mathematics at the worldwide museum link for the Global Information System Project, teaching in Mwanza, Tanzania in August Marines in Afghanistan and is getting Engineering 1992) married Elizabeth HOWE Cambridge University and is working as a 2002 and has previously taught in married to Juliet Hart in August 2003. (BSc Zoology 1992) in 1998. teacher in Liverpool. which gives local people access to cultures of the world. Melbourne, Australia. Colin MALLETT (MA Fine Art 1996) is Dennis TAYLOR (MA Music Composition Nicholas EVANS (BSc Plant Science 2000) The NPM collects, preserves, and promotes the essence of Chinese art and Ian GAUNT (BEng Mechanical Engineering exhibiting annually at the Manchester 1999) has been made a member of the is working for a charity in Malawi on 1991) left university and lectured in Academy and working on a sculpting project Association of Brass Band Adjudication and crafts. Accumulated over a thousand years by Chinese emperors and royal tropical agriculture. He is also studying for Zimbabwe then returned to the UK and for a private estate. has had an entry in The Dictionary of families, its collections include ceramics, porcelain, calligraphy, painting, and an MSc in Natural Resource Management. completed an MSc at Cranfield University. International Biography 2001. ritual bronzes. In addition, the Museum also possesses many fine examples of Lynn MANN (BA Combined Studies 1995) Anna GILBRIDE (MB BS 2001) is currently jade, lacquer wares, curio cabinets, enamel wares, writing accessories, Susannah GRANT (BA Spanish with is now married and does voluntary charity Mark THOMPSON (BEng Marine a house officer in surgery in Middlesbrough carvings, embroidery, rare books. The quality of its collection remains French 1991) has worked abroad using her work. She is the regional co-ordinator of Technology 1998) left university and languages since leaving university and Christian Dance Fellowship of Britain. worked for the MOD for four years and in and is getting married in April 2003 to unparalleled in the field of Chinese art. The NPM was first established in currently works for a wine importer firm September 2002 started an MSc in Defence David LEWIS (BDM 2000). 1925 at Beijing and finally relocated to Taipei after 1949. The Museum is travelling and testing wines. Margaret MELING (MA European Union Systems Engineering. now one of the most important museums as well as research institutions in Joy IRVING (BA Law 2000) moved back to Studies 1994) is currently a member of the the world, and it is a ‘must-see’ for foreign visitors. Lynne GREENWELL née GAIR (BSc North East Regional Assembly. Emma WAITE (PhD Fossil Fuels & Newcastle to start as a trainee solicitor Midwifery 1998) has completed an MSc in Environmental Geochemistry 1999) has after travelling. Medical Ethics at Imperial College, London. Minna MOORE EDE (BA Combined done two postdoctorates since completing In order to generate public and media interest, I organize various cultural Studies 1996) completed a PhD at Oxford her PhD and is now settled in Edinburgh Chloe JONES (BA Psychology 2000) has activities related to each exhibition. Cultural performances, press conferences Helen HARMONY née MARSH (BA University last year. working for a small diagnostics firm. started research at Leeds University into the and advertisements are used in order to draw public attention. So far, I have attitude of disengaged youths towards hard Linguistics 1995) gained a certificate in been involved with two major exhibitions entitled The Culture, Practice, and TEFL and went to teach in Istanbul where Karen NEALE (BA Architectural Studies Tobias WHITE (BSc Physics 1995) drugs. she met her husband. They are now living in 1991) was awarded a Winston Churchill abandoned physics to work in a record shop Art of Tea and Emperor Ch’ien-lung’s Grand Cultural Enterprise. These Los Angeles. Memorial Trust Fellowship in 2001 for after graduating and in 2000 entered the Sarah KING (BA Combined Studies 2001) exhibitions were the NPM’s two main annual projects in 2002. Tea drinking ‘Artists journey through UNESCO World film industry and worked on the production did temping work before joining Mencap in and related ceremonies are considered native to China, and are believed to David HART (BA Combined Studies 1990) Heritage Cities and Sites’. of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. their events department. She is enjoying have influenced many other cultures around the world. The NPM has a wide works for the South African Heritage the London lifestyle. variety of tea vessels in its possession which were used personally by Resources Agency and is responsible for Kathryn OTTAWAY (BSc Zoology 1998) is Stella WHYTE née REES (BSc Agricultural Chinese emperors. Emperor Ch’ien-lung (1711 – 8) played a key role in establishing a national inventory of heritage a co-owner of Mayoka Village, a backpacker’s & Environmental Sciences 1990) is Benjamin LEWIS (BA History 2000) is resources in South Africa. lodge, in Malawi which is going from married with two children and lives on a marrying Rebecca TRAFFORD (BA English establishing the museum’s collection. He amassed masterpieces and antique strength to strength. three-acres smallholding in Shropshire. 2000) in August 2003. objects, including paintings, calligraphy, documents and other artefacts that Sarah HENSON (BA Fine Art 1990) form the basis of the NPM s collection. China entered its most prosperous married in August 2002 and has exhibited Joanna PADGET (BSc Agricultural & Stuart WILLIS (BA Music 1995) worked as Christopher MEAYERS-NORKETT (BSc era during his reign, though it was also a period fraught with corruption. her paintings regularly since completing a Environmental Science 1996) is living in a music teacher for four years and now Agri-Business Management & Marketing Postgraduate Diploma in Painting at the Hampshire and works for the Royal Navy. works in a music store in Harrogate. He is 2000) is currently working for Scottish I had a really wonderful time while I studied in Newcastle upon Tyne. I loved Royal Academy Schools in 1994. married to Claire. Courage on a fast-track management Jessica PLUMB (BA Music 1999) worked development programme. the campus and city very much, though I do regret that I didn’t join campus Elizabeth HENSOR (BSc Marine Biology for Northern Rock for two years and then clubs such as the Horse Riding Club. Newcastle University was recommended 1998) completed a PhD last year on the completed a PGCE in Music at Reading Philip NEWTON (BSc Animal Science by an English friend who studied Chinese in Taiwan, so I knew the University environmental effects on anti-predator University. 2000) has passed exams for a Certificate in behaviour in freshwater fish. had its own museums and galleries, which would greatly enhance my studies. Mortgage Advice and Practice and has Kirsten REMER née REYNOLDS (BSc Although I found it very hard to cope with the British English accent in the qualified as a mortgage specialist. Emma HESLEWOOD (BA History 1997) Countryside Management) has two beginning, I received a lot of help from my classmates in lunch gatherings. graduated from the University of Leicester children and works part time teaching Clare ORMEROD (BA Fine Art 2001) is My director, Peter Davis, and my tutor, Andrew Newman, also assisted me with an MA in Museum Studies in 2000. leisure and tourism-related GNVQs and currently a full-time artist and has exhibited through the courses. The museum courses in Newcastle were combined with She is a keeper of social history at the ARCES. Mohammed YAJI (MSc Irrigation 1991) Harris Museum and Art Gallery in Preston. works in the Department of Agricultural work in London. theory and practice, and lectures were given by experienced museum William RICHARDS (BSc Plant Biology Engineering at the University of Maiduguri curators and staff who gave us a good overview of the museum world. What Mark HOOPER (BSc Mathematics & 1995) has a son and recently purchased in Nigeria. He is pictured with John Gowing Timothy PLATT (BA Combined Studies) I liked the most were the regular museum tours. The entire experience was formed Skibike Ltd in October 2002, Statistics 1998) is emigrating to New land near Durham to practice, demonstrate of the University’s School of Agriculture, perfect for an overseas student like myself, not only for museum studies but Zealand in summer 2003. and teach permaculture design on a larger Food and Rural Development at the AGM of participated in the second world championships scale. the West African Society of Agricultural of skibiking in 2002 and was the President also as a visitor. Emma JOWITT (BA Combined Studies Engineers. of the British Skibike Team in 200. 1993) studied for an MSc in PR and Sally SAMUEL née HAWORTH (BA Social I still keep in touch with some of my coursemates and I am planning to visit Marketing and is now a full-time PR worker. Studies 1995) worked in London for three Richard USHER (MEng Chemical & the UK once again this coming summer. years after graduating as a recruitment 2000s Process Engineering 2000) is currently Christopher LANIGAN (BA Politics 1992) consultant, then moved to Manchester in working with ABB on a number of projects. plays in an indie-rock band who released August 1999 to continue in recruitment. Louise COATES (BSc Environmental Still enjoying DJing and has had some www.npm.gov.tw their third album in March 2002. She was married in August 2001. Science & Agricultural Ecology 2000) recent success.

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