CLARE ASSOCIATION ANNUAL 2015-16 ANNUAL CLARE ASSOCIATION CLARE ASSOCIATION ANNUAL 2015 - 16 THE CLARE ASSOCIATION ANNUAL 2015 - 2016 CONTENTS Page EDITORIAL ....................................................................................................................... 3 COLLEGE NEWS ............................................................................................................. 4 NEW FELLOWS ............................................................................................................... 5 COLLEGE PRIZES ................................................................................................ 7 CHAPEL & CHOIR NEWS ................................................................................. 11 STAFF NEWS....................................................................................................... 14 MASTER & FELLOWS An informal listing ....................................................... 15 BENEFACTIONS & GIFTS ................................................................................. 18 ACCESS & OUTREACH..................................................................................... 22 THE CLARE ASSOCIATION .............................................................................. 26 Report from the Alumni Council The Lady Clare Fund “OLD CLARE” NEWS ........................................................................................ 29 OBITUARIES ....................................................................................................... 34 NOTICES .............................................................................................................. 92 Send contributions for the next Annual to [email protected] or to The Development Office, Clare College, Cambridge, CB2 1TL 1 ILLUSTRATIONS (all coloured) Page Illus 1a Snow falling in Old Court ...................................................................................49 1b Snow on the Bridge .............................................................................................49 1c Sunset over Old Court .........................................................................................49 Illus 2a A winter evening in Old Court ............................................................................50 2b Snowdrops along the Avenue ..............................................................................50 2c View of the Bridge through branches ..................................................................50 Illus 3a Flowers along the Avenue ....................................................................................51 3b The Avenue ..........................................................................................................51 3c Flowers in Memorial Court .................................................................................51 Illus 4a Flowers along the Avenue ....................................................................................52 4b People walking along the Avenue ........................................................................52 4c Clare Bridge .........................................................................................................52 Illus 5a Flowers along the Avenue ....................................................................................53 5b The gate leading to the Fellows’ Garden .............................................................53 5c Close up of Daffodils ...........................................................................................53 Illus 6a Bunting for Gala Day ..........................................................................................54 6b Students walking past the Forbes Mellon Library ...............................................54 6c Close up of the gate artwork by the Fellows’ Garden .........................................54 Illus 7a Our banana tree bearing fruit ...............................................................................55 7b Tree outside entrance to Memorial Court ............................................................55 7c The Latin inscription above the Memorial Court entrance..................................55 Illus 8a The Scholars’ Garden ..........................................................................................56 8b The Avenue in summer ........................................................................................56 8c A punt gliding under Clare Bridge ......................................................................56 Illus 9a Berries by a lamp along the Avenue ....................................................................57 9b New succulent plants grown in King’s alongside Clare’s southern face .............57 9c View of Clare from King’s college ......................................................................57 Illus 10a View of the western face of College from the Avenue ........................................58 10b Bushes along the Avenue .....................................................................................58 10c Autumn coloured tree in the Fellows’ Garden .....................................................58 Illus 11a Rainbow over Old Court......................................................................................59 11b Sunset as seen from a window in the southern face of Clare ..............................59 11c The Scholars’ Garden ..........................................................................................59 Illus 12a Dark winter sky taken from Clare Bridge ...........................................................60 12b Ice on the DNA sculpture in Memorial Court .....................................................60 12c Frozen cobweb in the grass .................................................................................61 Acknowledgements: Photographs by Hannah Sharples, Development Associate (Communications) Outside cover image by Peter Knewstubb, Clare Fellow and former Editor of the Annual. 2 EDITORIAL This year marks a change in the production of The Association Annual, the responsibility for which has been taken over by the Development Office. We would like to take this opportunity to thank Peter Knewstubb (1950) for his excellent work on this publication over the last twenty years. His dedication, interest and hard work have really left their mark on the Annual. We are sorry to see him step down as editor but we hope that he enjoys the extra time that this decision affords him. We have kept the established order, beginning with College News and College Prizes before moving on to a report from the Chapel and Choir. News about College Staff follows next, including a physical triumph in the form of our Conference Assistant running the marathon. An updated list of the Master and Fellows is included, along with reports on Benefactions and Gifts, Access and Outreach, the Alumni Council, and The Lady Clare Fund. The selection of photographs this year has been chosen to showcase each month of the year, in order to give a visual insight into ‘Clare through the Seasons’. Finally, the Annual ends with ‘Old Clare’ News and the obituaries that have been sent to us during the year. This will most likely be the last Annual in its current format as we intend to restructure it for the next academic year, alongside the College Annual Report which shares much of its content with this publication. If readers have strong views on certain aspects of the Annual, we would welcome comments. These can be emailed to [email protected]. Hannah Sharples Development Associate (Communications) 3 COLLEGE NEWS In January 2016, the College was delighted to welcome the Chancellor of the University, Baron Sainsbury of Turville, to Clare. Lord Sainsbury came in his capacity as Visitor to meet members of the College community, and it was his first official visit since becoming Chancellor of the University in 2011. The office of Visitor is an historic one and now largely ceremonial. The Visitor’s role is outlined in the College statutes, which state that the Visitor has the power ‘…to correct, and if appropriate, punish any irregularity in the Master or Fellows.’ As the Master Lord Grabiner QC noted in his speech, we are pleased that he did not deem it necessary to exercise this power! Once again Clare received the Gold Award for the work that the College does for Green Impact. Clare also received more awards than any other College or Faculty Department in the University, winning 2 out of the 3 Special Awards. 4 NEW FELLOWS Since the last edition of this Annual, we have welcomed 4 new Fellows to Clare, and a short introduction to each of them is included below: Dr Matthew Kenzie read Physics for his undergraduate degree at Durham. He then did his PhD at Imperial, which for the most part was at CERN. He worked on the discovery and subsequent properties of the Higgs boson in its decay to two photons using the CMS experiment. After his PhD Matthew worked as a fellow at CERN for two and half years before moving to Clare and Cambridge, where he is a particle Physicist and Research Fellow for the LHCb Experiment at CERN. He is currently working with the LHCb collaboration with a particular focus on the matter-antimatter asymmetry problem. He studies the context of matter-antimatter asymmetry using observations of charge-parity- violation in heavy B mesons decays. To this end his main research topic is measurement of the CKM angle gamma. Dr Matthew Dunstan completed his undergraduate degree in