St Catharine’s 2011 St Catharine’s Magazine !"## Designed and typeset in Linotype Syntax by Hamish Symington (www.hamishsymington.com). Printed in England by BPC Ltd on elemental-chlorine-free paper from sustainable forests. Photo credits: Cover (top)/45/47/51/52/57: JET Photographic; 5: Emma Wilson; 21: Wendy Hartle; 22: Jamie Tilley; 24: RH Partnership Architects; 55: Lafayette Photography; 87: Scott Gilbert; 89 (right): Jean-Luc Benazet; 114: Gillian Sandford: 135: James Livingston. Table of contents Editorial ............................................................4 Alumni news Society Committee 2011–12 ...........................64 College report The Society President ......................................64 The Fellowship ..................................................6 Report of 83rd AGM ......................................65 New Fellows .....................................................9 Reunion Weekend seminar .............................66 Valete .............................................................10 Annual Dinner 2011 .......................................66 Professor Walter Kirkpatrick (Pat) Lacey, Libya expedition reunion ................................67 1922–2011 .................................................11 Hugh Searle – retiring Secretary ......................68 Professor Peter Alexander Young Branch news ...................................................69 (1924–2011) ...............................................12 Alumni events .................................................71 Master’s report ...............................................15 International table tennis in Madeira ...............73 Senior Tutor’s report .......................................17 At the Edinburgh Fringe ..................................74 Cambridge fees and bursaries .........................18 Nickolay’s balalaika .........................................75 College finances .............................................18 Geographers’ Dinner, October 2010 ...............75 Development Director’s report ........................21 Honours and awards .......................................78 The College Centre .........................................23 Publications ....................................................80 Staff news ......................................................25 Reviews ..........................................................81 Chapel and Chaplaincy report .........................25 Notices ...........................................................87 Choir report ....................................................28 News of Members ..........................................97 Kellaway Concerts ..........................................30 St Catharine’s Lecture Series ...........................32 Articles Graduate Research Seminars ...........................33 The College Library, Part Two: News from the JCR .........................................33 1730–1907 ...............................................104 News from the MCR .......................................35 The rules of shittle cock ................................114 Societies .........................................................36 First World War memorial .............................115 Sports clubs ....................................................42 The College Bar ............................................121 Alley Catz .......................................................52 What next? ..................................................123 Kitten Club .....................................................52 Meltzone 2011 – living and working Blues and Colours ...........................................53 on the ice sheet .........................................127 Undergraduate Matriculands 2010 .................54 Thomas Turton, Bishop of Ely .......................131 New Graduates 2010 ......................................57 Fitzbillies cake shop ......................................133 University scholarships and prizes ...................59 An Oxford cup .............................................133 College prizes .................................................59 College scholarships ........................................60 Notes & dates ...............................................136 PhDs approved 2010–11 ................................62 The front cover shows the victorious hockey teams and the plaque from the bench commemorating their achievements. 3 St Catharine’s Magazine t 2011 Editorial There has been a welcome increase in the number Winning both men’s and women’s Cycling Cup- of contributions to the Magazine this year, both pers this year seems almost tame by comparison. from current students and from alumni. There As I write, there is again financial uncertainty are also some exceptions to the tradition that the in the world. The Bursar and the Senior Tutor longest sports reports are penned by poor per- have written in this edition about the financial formers; you may find the lengthy Hockey and position of the College, and about student fees Boat Club reports make interesting reading. More and bursaries. In addition, the Society helps with alumni have informed us of their activities, many small grants towards costs incurred by students with accompanying photographs. So many alum- needing to travel to University sports fixtures, ni have donated books they have written or ed- and for musical and performing arts projects – ited to the College library that I have had to break students are asked to report on their progress; with the custom that all such books are reviewed. see the Alumni section (one was for balalaika tui- Unusually, all the articles which I commissioned tion last year). have arrived before the deadline. In summary, we Before she retired, librarian Suzan Griffiths have a large and interesting edition. wrote an article on the First World War memo- Even the death notices might be worth more rial in the Chapel. In the intervening year, Emeri- than a glance. Two alumni were murdered in the tus Fellow John Shakeshaft and College archivist past year. A member whom we erroneously re- Lizzy Ennion-Smith have discovered further in- ported as having died in 1970 (we apologised for formation about those listed on the memorial, the error in 1971) has, we believe, now really died. including many photographs – see Articles. In We reported the wrong one of two cousins with 2010 we started to publish a series on the history similar names as having died last year; however, of the College Library, also by John Shakeshaft as the other has now also died, the matter was (who was himself senior librarian for many years). straightforward to rectify. Fred Thompson (1932) Part II is in this edition. Surprisingly perhaps, un- spoke at the Society’s East Anglia Region dinner der early library rules the playing of ‘shittle cock’ in November 2010 of his own death notice which in the library was explicitly forbidden... appeared in the 1950 Magazine; his letter point- An alumnus contacted the College to discover ing out the error began ‘Wot, no obituary!’ Fred if we had heard of the filming of Katherine of also reminisced to current students about College Alexandria due for launch in 2011. He had been in the 1930s; it is sobering to think that, had Fred asked to invest and wondered whether this was attended a similar event when he was a student, wise. The College had certainly not previously the alumnus reminiscing would have matriculat- heard of this venture. However, it does have a ed in the 1850s. We also sent commiserations to website. As far as we know, no St Catharine’s Paul Adderley’s family in December 2010 follow- thespians are involved. ing a tribute which appeared in Bahamas Weekly; Finally, I have customarily used the Editorial it turned out that the tribute was not associated to report on the annual Chariots of Fire charity with his death – Paul himself wrote back to say relay race through Cambridge which takes place ‘death not yet’. See News of Alumni. in September as we are going to press. However, Although we have no report of how 1962 ma- the College did not enter a team in 2011, despite triculands Mark Baldwin and John Cutler fared on the mixed staff/student/Fellows team doing well their cycle ride to Paris to raise funds for Bletch- in 2010. Nevertheless, Fellow David Bainbridge ley Park, we do have an article about the other instead elected to take part in a sponsored abseil cycling excursion mentioned in the 2011 edition down Great St Mary’s tower, so the September of the Wheel – Helen Lloyd’s ‘Take on Africa’. tradition of charity fund-raising has continued. 4 COLLEGE REPORT St Catharine’s Magazine t 2011 The Fellowship As at 1 October 2011, in order of seniority following the Master and President. Official and Professorial Fellows Professor Dame Jean Thomas ScD FRS FMedSci Dr E Geoffrey Kantaris Director of the Centre Professor of Macromolecular Biochemistry; of Latin American Studies; DoS in Modern Master and DoS in Biochemistry & Medieval Languages Professor Ron L Martin ACSS FBA Professor Professor John D Pickard FMedSci Professor of of Economic Geography; President, DoS in Neurosurgery and Chairman of the Wolfson Geography and Wine Steward Brain Imaging Centre; DoS in Medical Sciences Professor Sir Christopher A Bayly LittD FBA FRSL and Tunku Fund Director Vere Harmsworth Professor of Imperial & Mr Michael F Kitson DoS in Management Naval History and Director of the Centre of Studies South Asian Studies Dr Rose A Melikan Keeper of Muniments Dr Paul N