St Catharine’s 2013 St Catharine’s Magazine !"#$ The magazine of the St Catharine’s College Society Photo credits: Cover: Stephanie Clarke; 5/7/98/99 (top left and middle left): Phil Mynott; 6: James Tilley; Printed in England by Langham Press 9: Virginia McNay; 16: Susan Wiltshire; 17: John Ltd (www.langhampress.co.uk) on Holman; 27/59/97/99 (top right and bottom)/100/117: elemental-chlorine-free paper from Tim Rawle; 35 (left): Adele Broccardo; 35 (right): sustainable forests. Hugh Collins; 39: Lorenzo Santinelli; 49: Lafayette Photography; 52: JET Photography, The Cambridge Designed and typeset in Linotype Syntax by Studio; 108/109 (bottom): Jamie Tilley Hamish Symington (www.hamishsymington.com). Table of contents Editorial ............................................................4 Society News Society Committee 2013–14 ...........................60 College News The Society President ......................................60 Master’s Report ................................................6 Report of 85th AGM ......................................61 The Fellowship ................................................11 Accounts for the year to 30 June 2013 ...........66 New Fellows ...................................................14 Society Awards ...............................................67 Retirements and Farewells ..............................16 Society Presidents’ Dinner ...............................67 Professor Nicholas Charles Handy FRS Acheson-Gray Day .........................................68 (1941–2012) ...............................................17 Branch News ..................................................68 Professor George deForest Lord Honours and Awards ......................................73 (1921–2013) ...............................................21 Publications ...................................................74 Senior Tutor’s Report ......................................21 Reviews ..........................................................75 Admissions Notes 2013 ..................................22 Notices ...........................................................80 Development Director’s Report .......................23 News of Members ..........................................88 Chapel and Chaplaincy Report ........................24 The St Catharine’s Guild .................................95 Staff News ......................................................26 News from the JCR .........................................27 Articles News from the MCR .......................................28 The McGrath Centre .......................................98 Graduate Lunchtime Seminars and Recitals .....30 New Stained-glass Window in the Chapel ....101 Choir Report ...................................................30 Neville Burston (1948) ..................................103 Kellaway Concerts ..........................................32 Reverend William James Jay (1843) ..............106 Societies .........................................................33 The College Boathouse .................................107 Sports Clubs ...................................................36 Cambridge Afro-Asian Expedition Alleycatz .........................................................46 1961–62 ...................................................110 Kitten Club .....................................................47 Keep Calm and Earn a PhD ...........................112 Blues and Colours ...........................................48 News from the JCR, 1964 .............................114 Undergraduate Matriculands 2012 .................48 St Catharine’s (a poem) ...............................115 New Graduates 2012 ......................................51 Latrinae ........................................................116 University Scholarships and Prizes ...................53 College Prizes .................................................53 Notes, Dates & Contacts ...............................117 College Scholarships .......................................54 PhDs approved 2012–13 ................................57 The front cover shows the new McGrath Centre, with an auditorium, supervision rooms and a basement bar. 3 St Catharine’s Magazine t 2013 Editorial Magazines of the past two years have contained find quickly, so I have brought it forward again tantalizing glimpses of the plans and progress of – though not quite to its former top-priority posi- the McGrath Centre; this edition has the open- tion. In this edition it appears immediately after ing ceremony with pictures of the building and the Master’s Report. the transformed Chapel Court – improvements My attention was caught by a misprint in a well worth waiting for. In addition, two other 2012 College Christmas Dinner menu; the final enhancements to the fabric of the College are course was listed as ‘Coffee and Mice Pies’ – covered – the refurbishment of the College Boat- quite appropriate for Cats. house and the installation of a new stained-glass Roger Stratford window in the Chapel. Photographers have pro- vided an abundance of riches for the editor to Online Magazines choose from to illustrate these articles. Every edition of the Magazine is available online As usual, there are full reports of the academic thanks to the work of alumnus Mike Diplock (1982) and sporting distinctions of our current students, several years ago. However, online Magazines are and a full News section with stories from alumni readable only by registered Society members, not and others. As well as the articles mentioned by the public at large. Registration is available above, there is one from a group of Catsmen free of charge to any College/Society member via of the early 1960s who, as students, embarked www.caths.cam.ac.uk/society/register. I receive on an expedition to Africa and Asia – they have occasional complaints about having to register finally written their report. ‘just to look something up’ or about not being able The Society has elected the Master to be its to tell a potential applicant (for example) to look at President for 2013–14 – its 90th year. From the previous year’s edition ‘on the web’ and some when the Society was first formed until 1933, contributors of articles have complained that they the President was automatically the Master, but cannot pass an online reference to colleagues to that year the Rules were changed and the Presi- look at their article in context. dent was thereafter elected at the AGM. Thus, Following discussion both in the Committee although Dame Jean is the sixth Master to serve and at the AGM (see the report of the 85th AGM as President, she is only the third to be elected to in the Society section of this Magazine for more the post, the other two being Donald Portway details), it was decided that the Magazine from in 1958 and Teddy Rich in 1972. She is the first 2014 onwards should be produced in two ver- female Society President. sions – one ‘complete’ as now (i.e. identical to the Professor Nicholas Handy (1960, Fellow 1965, printed version) published online to members via a Emeritus Fellow 2004) died as we were going password; the other version, redacted if necessary to press last year, too late for the sad event to to remove private or personal material, made avail- be properly marked in the 2012 Magazine. By able to the general public. Efforts will be made, as way of obituary, the eulogies from the very-well- time permits, to ‘work backwards’ redacting earlier attended Memorial Service held in November editions to produce public versions. The existing 2012 are included in this edition. complete versions will, of course, continue to be The list of Fellows was moved in the 2012 available to members via password as now. edition from its position as the very first item to Members might care to note that all years of the end of the College Report among other lists the Magazine are already available to the public (matriculands, prizewinners, scholars etc.). It has in printed form because the Magazine is regis- been remarked that this had the effect of making tered with the British Library as a published mag- such an important reference list more difficult to azine in the public domain. 4 COLLEGE REPORT St Catharine’s Magazine t 2013 Master’s Report 2012–13 has been another good year for the Our musicians (not all reading Music) continue College on several fronts, and I thank all my to enhance the College’s cultural life and to con- colleagues – Fellows and staff – as well as all tribute outside the College. Our two enthusiastic our undergraduate and postgraduate students and highly proficient organ scholars (Alex Aitken for their unstinting efforts and contributions. I and Alex Ying) have been superb, the Choir main- make no apology for beginning with a mention tains its consistently high standard and is always of the academic achievements of our under- a joy to listen to, and the Girls’ (8–14 year olds) graduates, which in several subjects were truly Choir drawn from local schools is now well estab- excellent and overall were sufficiently strong for lished. The performance of the Monteverdi Ves- us to retain our ranking (9th) relative to other pers, for which the Chapel provided the perfect Colleges (see Senior Tutor’s Report). 27% of setting, was for me this year’s musical highlight. our undergraduates (107) became (or continue (See the Choir Report for further details.) as) Scholars, having achieved Firsts, and again Sport is alive and well as usual. Fortunes have a good number also claimed University Prizes