2013 – 2014 2014 – No.38 2013 The Wolfson Review Wolfson The Calendar of 50th Anniversary events THE Wolfson Review Friday 19 December 2014: ‘Wolfson Friday 12 June: May Bumps marquee Alumni in Cambridge’ launch event Sunday 14 June: Benefactors’ Reception, January: Royal Academicians at Wolfson College Garden Party and Mary Bevan College exhibition (until 2016) Recital Saturday 10 January: Staff New Year Wednesday 17 June: 50th Anniversary party: 1960s theme Lecture Wednesday 21 January: First 50th Sunday 28 June: President’s Cup Cricket Anniversary Lecture: Professor Conor Match Gearty, introduced by the Chancellor, Saturday 4 July and Sunday 5 July: 50th Lord Sainsbury of Turville Anniversary weekend, including Thursday 29 January: London drinks President’s 50th Anniversary Lecture, reception Dinner and Garden Party Wednesday 18 February: 50th September: Henry Moore as a Anniversary Lecture Photographer exhibition Tuesday 24 February: Humanities Society Saturday 26 September: Alumni Reunion Seminar: Dr Rowan Williams (-5s and -0s) and ‘A Conversation with Thursday 26 February: Lee Seng Tee Dr Gordon Johnson’ Distinguished Lecture Michaelmas Term: Henry Moore exhibition Wednesday 11 March: 50th Anniversary lecture Lecture Michaelmas Term: ‘Cambridge in America Sunday 15 March: Lent Term Concert and Day’ and Wolfson event, San Francisco ‘Come and Sing’ Wednesday 21 October: 50th Anniversary Saturday 21 March: ‘Cambridge in Lecture America Day’ and Wolfson event, Wednesday 18 November: 50th New York Anniversary Lecture Saturday 28 March: Global Cambridge Thursday 19 November: Commemoration Germany and Wolfson event, Berlin of Benefactors’ Dinner Wednesday 15 April: 50th Anniversary Thursday 10 December: Rugby Varsity Lecture Match Friday 1 May and Saturday 2 May: Wednesday 16 December: Final 50th Wolfson Research Event Anniversary Lecture: Vice-Chancellor, Professor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz Wednesday 20 May: 50th Anniversary 2014 – No.38 2013 Lecture Tuesday 26 May: Humanities Society Seminar: Professor Sir David Cannadine The 50th Anniversary events calendar will be updated regularly at www.WolfsonEvents.com Published in 2014 by Wolfson College, Cambridge Barton Road, Cambridge CB3 9BB © Wolfson College, 2014 Cover photograph Executive Chef, Ray Palmer (1975), retired in July 2014 Photographer: Fran May The paper used for the Review contains material sourced from responsibly managed forests, certified in accordance with the Forestry Stewardship Council, and is printed using vegetable-based inks. Wolfson College Barton Road Design & print management: H2 Associates, Cambridge Cambridge CB3 9BB www.wolfson.cam.ac.uk 2013 – 2014 No.38 Wolfson Review Wolfson THE Contents Foreword: Editor 5 From the President 6 Approaching our 50th Anniversary: Bursar, Senior Tutor and Development Director 7 Articles A Eurosceptic Nation?: Benjamin Grob-Fitzgibbon 12 My journey to Wolfson: Alireza Tabatabaie 13 My life since Wolfson: Ken Yeang 14 Humour as history? First World War cartoons from the trenches: Jane Chapman 15 Teacher leadership in Portugal: HertsCam MEd students 17 The Library: Meg Westbury 18 The College Archive: Frieda Midgley 19 That’s All Folks: Ray Palmer 20 Citizen media and the fourth estate: Cindy Yeap 22 Wolfson gardens: ‘True Blue’, the Holy Grail for rose breeders: Philip Stigwood 23 Events and Societies Events 26 Lee Seng Tee Distinguished Lecture 2014: The flesh is weak: a history of pain 28 from the 1760s to the present Humanities Society 30 Science Society 31 Lunchtime Seminar Series 32 Wolfson Research Event 33 Wolfson College Student Association 34 Skills for Academic Success 35 Wolfson Music Society 36 Ballroom Dancing Society 37 Noodle Club 37 Senior Members 38 Society of Emeritus Fellows 38 Wolfson Howler 39 June Event 2014: New York, New York 39 Art at Wolfson 40 Law Society 41 Language and Culture Society 41 Christian Society 42 Wolfson Contemporary Reading Group 42 Sport Wolfson Sports 44 Table Tennis 44 Football 44 Squash 45 Cricket 45 Basketball 46 Badminton 46 Aerobics, Zumba and Pilates 47 Other Sports 47 Rowing 47 News Members’ News 50 Donations to Wolfson College 61 Philanthropy in Action 66 The Morrison Society 68 Books by College Members 69 Recent University Appointments 74 Obituaries 75 In Memoriam 80 Student Record Freshers 2013 82 Prizes and Studentships 83 Degrees Awarded 85 Membership College Officers 92 New Fellows 93 Fellows 96 Honorary and Bredon Fellows 101 Emeritus Fellows 102 Senior Members 103 College Research Associates 105 Academic Visitors 106 College Staff 109 Useful Information 110 Donation Form 111 Calendar of 50th Anniversary events back cover Foreword Conrad Guettler, Editor As we approach our 50th Anniversary, the College has become a much more colourful place with the regularly- changing exhibitions organised by our Fine Arts Committee. As the resident Wolfson community is only a small percentage of the recipients of this Review, I would like to draw your attention to the fact that everybody can now see the exhibits at www.wolfson.cam.ac.uk/fine-arts; and similarly for colourful photographs of the Wolfson Gardens, go to Peter DowlingPeter www.wolfson.cam.ac.uk/gardens The College website, under the ‘Academic Life’ heading, also gives full details of all the many lectures and seminars held at Wolfson. Many of these have been recorded and are available as podcasts so that our readers can listen to them wherever they may be: www.wolfson.cam.ac.uk/podcasts I mentioned last year that we strive to put together a representative list of ‘Books by College Members’ but I remain certain that we are missing out on many because we haven’t heard about them. Our listing of books obviously does not include journal articles, but I am pleased to report that we will soon create a web page presenting an ongoing list of refereed papers published by the Wolfson community. The criteria for inclusion are necessarily fluid, but essentially we are looking to include our members’ best or most interesting papers. So please do tell us about your publications! Having become involved in organising the Wolfson College Chamber Singers’ trip to France, I now realise how much effort goes into organising all the various Wolfson events and activities that take place at College and around the world in any given Term. The range of activities in College varies depending on how active a given Club or Society is – but this is not surprising given the way our student body changes every year. All at College owe a great debt of gratitude to the many students, members and staff who get involved in one way or another. And that includes me as Editor; I am grateful to everybody who has contributed to this Wolfson Review. My special thanks must go to the Alumni & Development team for all their support in verifying facts, assembling diverse information, careful proof-reading and sourcing photographs, and to Kim Allen, Sue Sang and Michelle Searle for collating the Foreword student, visitor and University lists. [email protected] www.WolfsonEvents.com 5 From the President Professor Sir Richard Evans considers the business of College governance. As I reach the midway point in my term of office as President – prescribed in the College Statutes as a non-renewable stint of seven years – it seems a good time to take stock. Looking through the following pages, it is clear that Wolfson is a lively, energetic and increasingly self-confident place, buzzing with activities and ideas. Sometimes our colleagues in Oxford (‘The Other Place’) write off Cambridge Colleges – which have less individual power in our more centrally-administered University than in their more decentralised environment – as little more than dormitories, but anyone reading this Review will soon be disabused of any such notion. We offer not just somewhere to live, but also somewhere to engage in a huge range of activities – sporting, cultural, artistic, musical, social and intellectual. We aim to provide a second home, especially to students whose time at Cambridge is their first stay overseas, but we also provide a whole lot more, as the many articles and reports in this edition of the Review make clear. Each Cambridge College is a charitable body with its own set of Statutes, which have to be voted through by the Governing Body of the College and approved by the Privy Council and the Queen. The Statutes provide a framework of basic rules of governance for the College and allocate functions to the Governing Body and the Council, lay down the terms and conditions of offices, and deal with similar fundamental matters. Over the past decades, the Statutes have been revised several times, but in some areas, such as financial and investment management, they have failed to keep up with modern practice, while in others anomalies and contradictions have appeared as a result of the successive amendments that have been introduced. Officers So over the past year we have been busy drafting a wholesale revision of the Statutes, shortening and simplifying them, removing anomalies and bringing them into line with today’s world of higher education. I am glad to say the arduous process of revision is now complete, and the new Statutes are being forwarded to the Privy Council for approval. I hope this will enable the College to function smoothly and effectively over the coming decades as a democratic institution where the rights and privileges of all its members are effectively defended in law. 6 The Wolfson Review 2013–2014 Approaching our 50th Anniversary In 2015, Wolfson College with reach its 50th Anniversary. As we approach this historic moment, three College Officers report on this year’s developments. Christopher Lawrence, Bursar The Finances The value of the College’s investment portfolio passed the £15m mark for the first time in 2013 as a result of good investment growth © Louis Sinclair and capital additions. The regular income from the endowment and invested reserves plays an important part in the financial health of the College, not least in terms of our ability to support students with scholarships, bursaries, travel/conference grants and hardship grants.