CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGE · CAMBRIDGE The Letter Michae lmas 2011 · No. 90 The Letter (formerly Letter of the Corpus Association) Michae lmas 2011 No. 90 Corpus Christi College Cambridge Corpus Christi College The Letter michaelmas 2011 The College is most grateful to Christopher Hill (m 1960) and Michael Gwinnell (m 1964) for generously supporting this issue of The Letter. Editors The Master Oliver Rackham Peter Carolin assisted by Simon Heffer Contact The Editors The Letter Corpus Christi College Cambridge cb2 1rh [email protected] Production Designed by Dale Tomlinson Typeset in Arno Pro and Cronos Pro Printed by the BPC Group, Cambridge on 90gsm Pacesetter Silk (Forest Stewardship Council certified) The Letter on the web www.corpus.cam.ac.uk/old-members/alumni-news News and Contributions Members of the College are asked to send to the Editors any news of themselves, or of each other, which should be included in The Letter, and to send prompt notification of any change in their permanent address. Erratum The title of John Hatcher’s address on the Black Death inThe Letter no. 89 p. 15 should have read ‘For the souls of the departed in the mortality of the year of the Lord 1349 and after’. Cover illustration: Leckhampton House from the garden. 2 michaelmas 2011 The Letter Corpus Christi College Contents The Society Page 5 Domus 9 Addresses and reflections 50 years ago... a new type of College society 12 Leckhampton: idealism and fairness 14 Changing the balance of admissions 17 War and Law: Iraq, Chilcot and beyond 23 Utopia and death in the Ulu 33 ‘to the daily preparation of death’ 39 The importance of benefactions to colleges 45 Then and Now 48 The Fellowship News of Fellows 52 Visiting and Teacher Fellowships 53 A Visiting Fellow’s Year 54 A Teacher Fellow’s view 56 Fellows’ publications 57 The College Year Senior Tutor’s report 62 Leckhampton Life 63 The Libraries 65 The Chapel 66 College Music and Chapel Choir 69 Bursary matters 71 Development and Communications Office 72 College staff 74 Post-graduates Postgraduate numbers 76 Approved for Ph.Ds. 77 continued on page 4 3 Corpus Christi College The Letter · Contents michaelmas 2011 Prizes and awards 79 Societies Amnesty International Group 84 Fletcher Players 84 Green Committee 86 Lewis Society of Medicine 87 Nicholas Bacon Law Society 87 Northern Ireland Society 88 Pelican Poets and Writers 88 RAG 89 Sports clubs The Corpus Challenge 90 Badminton 92 Cricket 93 Cross country 93 Hockey 94 Football 95 Lacrosse 96 Rowing 96 Rugger 99 Squash 99 Old Members Letters 100 News of Old Members 103 Old Members’ publications 105 Corpus Christi College Association 106 Beldam and MacCurdy Dinners 107 Privileges 108 In memoriam 110 End piece Great choice 124 Return form Donation Form 125 4 michaelmas 2011 The Society · The Letter Corpus Christi College The Society(as on 1 October 2011) Master Mr Stuart Laing, MA Fellows Professor Craig D Mackay Astronomy Dr Christopher JB Brookes (Tutor for Advanced Students) Pure Mathematics Dr Richard A. McMahon (President) Engineering Professor Christopher J Howe, ScD Plant and Microbial Biochemistry Dr Ruth Davis Ethnomusicology Professor Alison G Smith Plant Biochemistry Professor Paul C Hewett(Food and Wine Steward) Cosmology and Astrophysics Dr Nigel E Simmonds (Dean of College) Jurisprudence Professor Mark Warner Theoretical Physics Dr Patrick NR Zutshi Keeper of the University Archives Professor Jonathan G Haslam, FBA History of International Relations Dr Christopher M Kelly (Keeper of the College Picture, Fine Furniture and the Lewis Collection) Classics Dr David Greaves Computer Science Professor Simon Godsill Statistical Signal Processing Professor Emma C Wilson French Literature and the Visual Arts Dr Hugh PC Robinson Neuroscience Professor Andrew C.Harvey, FBA Econometrics Dr Paul A Kattuman Economics Dr David A Sneath (Graduate Tutor) Social Anthropology Dr Anna N Williams Patristic and Medieval Theology Professor David J Ibbetson (Warden of Leckhampton) Civil Law Dr Christopher FR de Hamel, FSA (Donnelley Fellow Librarian) Dr Keith A Seffen(Tutor) Engineering Dr James A Warren (Tutor) Philosophy and Classics Dr Juliet LH Foster (Tutor and Schools Liaison Officer) Social and Developmental Psychology Ms Elizabeth Winter, MA (Development and Communications Director) Dr Melanie A Taylor (Tutor and Tutor for Admissions) English Ms Sarah Cain, MPhil English Professor Christopher Colclough Development Economics and Education Dr Michael Sutherland Physics Dr Pietro Cicuta Physics Dr Barak Kushner Modern Japanese History The Revd James Buxton(Chaplain) 5 Corpus Christi College The Letter · The Society michaelmas 2011 Dr Marina Frasca-Spada (Senior Tutor) History and Philosophy of Science Dr Shruti Kapila History Dr Paul Beattie Earth Sciences Professor William C McGrew, FRSE, FAAAS Evolutionary Primatology Mrs Susan Ainger-Brown, FCMA (Second Bursar and College Treasurer) Mr Paul Warren, MA (Bursar) Dr Andreea Weisl-Shaw Modern and Medieval Languages Dr Sarah Fine Politics and Sociology Dr Pernille Røge History Dr Philip Bearcroft,FRCP, FRCR Clinical Medicine Dr John Carr Natural Sciences Dr Jonathan Heffer Engineering Dr Helena Mentis (Microsoft Research Fellow) Human-Computer Interaction Dr Emma Spary History Dr Andrew Spencer (Praelector Rhetoricus) History Dr Alex Taylor Natural Sciences Professor Peter Cane (Arthur Goodhart Visiting Professor) Legal Science Dr Judy Hirst Chemistry Dr Thomas Land(Donnelley Research Fellow) Philosophy Mr Akshay Rao MSc Physics Mr Paulo Amaral MSc Bioscience Life Fellows Professor John C Roach Dr Michael K Tanner Professor Ray I Page, LittD Dr David W Dewhirst The Revd Roger W Morgan Dr Peter Eggleton Dr John T Dingle, ScD Professor Nigel E Wilkins Professor Hew FA Strachan, FRSE Dr Fred W. Ratcliffe, CBE Professor Peter B Carolin, CBE Professor Haroon Ahmed, ScD, FREng Professor Sergio Pellegrino, FREng Professor Jean-Pierre Hansen, FRS Professor William Horbury, FBA Miss Diane Dawson, MA Dr Brian Hazleman, FRCP (Graduate Adviser) Professor Paul Davies Professor Sir Paul Mellars, ScD, FBA, FSA Professor John Hatcher, LittD Professor Oliver Rackham, OBE, FBA, FSA (Keeper of the College Plate and the College Records) Dr Mara I Kalnins Professor Christopher M Andrew 6 michaelmas 2011 The Society · The Letter Corpus Christi College Honorary Fellows Professor Sir Tony Wrigley, FBA Professor Haroon Ahmed, ScD, FREng Lord Chilver of Cranfield, DSc, FRS The Rt Hon Sir Martin Nourse Dr Gamani S Corea Sir Peter Marshall, KCMG Lord Sutherland of Houndwood. KT, FBA, FRSE The Rt Hon Sir Murray Stuart-Smith, PC, QC, MA Sir Richard Armstrong, CBE, FRSE Professor Colin B. Blakemore, ScD, FRS Sir Ronald Hampel Dr Joe Farman, CBE General Lord Ramsbotham of Kensington, GCB, CBE Dr John C Taylor, FIPA Dr Richard Henderson, FRS Sir Alan Wilson, FBA, FRS Mr K. Natwar Singh, MA Mr Shaharyar Khan, MA Admiral Sir James Burnell-Nugent, KCB, CBE The Rt Hon Sir Terence Etherton, PC, QC, MA Sir David Omand, GCB Professor Karol Sikora Sir Mark Elder Professor Sir Paul Callaghan, FRS Sir Hugh Roberts, GCVO, FSA Guild Fellows Mr Neil Westreich, MA Mr Michael Gwinnell, MA Ms Shawn Donnelley Mr Richard Wright Mrs Laura Young 7 8 michaelmas 2011 Domus · The Letter Corpus Christi College Domus We had plenty of positive feedback to our new format Association Letter last year, so we plan to continue with this new model. This issue contains a separate section on Fellows’ news, relieving me of the need to summarise all too briefly the considerable achievements of the senior members. Overall, I hope you will agree that the Letter succeeds in its primary objective of being our publication of record, while at the same time informing College members of the wide variety of intense activity that characterises Corpus life. But we are still rather short on Old Members’ views, which we should like to put right. Let me renew the invitation to send your news to Oliver Rackham, Peter Carolin or myself – probably easiest by email to [email protected] As a wonderful example of the genre, I draw your attention to Peter Ryde’s letter about the 1958 May Week operetta p.( 100). Also in the Letters section you will find the announcement of the formation of The 1828 Club, for oarspeople (a word not acknowledged by my spell-check, but necessary, I think), to take place in summer 2012. Leckhampton’s 50th and other celebrations Our cover image of Leckhampton commemorates its foundation 50 years ago – an event celebrated on a fine July Sunday. Former and current members of the community mixed happily together and, festooned with balloons, the perpetually pensive ‘Sam’ joined in the spirit of the occasion. The event is reported on pp. 73–74 and, on the pages immediately following this Domus section, the back- ground to the foundation is described and an assessment made of its significance. I mentioned last year, under the Alumni heading in Domus, the unusual gathering of Corpuscles in ministerial and other Government positions. We celebrated this by giving the Name Day Feast the theme of ‘Corpus in Political Life and Government’ – not exactly a title to stir the blood, but one which did allow us to gather distinguished guests from this field, headed by Owen Paterson, the Northern Ireland Secretary. Other celebrations or ceremonies followed their usual pattern during the year. The Rev Angela Tilby gave the Mere Sermon p.( 39) in April; this turned out to be a happy choice of preacher, since after four years at St Bene’t’s Angela Opposite page: has now moved to Oxford. The relationship between the College and St Bene’t’s ‘Sam’, Henry Moore’s seated figure, attired for is a particularly close one, and we shall miss Angela’s ministry. We are Patrons of Leckhampton’s 50th birthday the living, and are working with the Diocese in helping choose the next incumbent.