216057 Jesus cover single pages.qxd:201795 Jesus cover 2005 17/4/09 14:16 Page 1 jesus college • cambridge one hundred and fourth annual report 2008 216057 Jesus cover single pages.qxd:201795 Jesus cover 2005 17/4/09 14:16 Page 2 eric north photography 216057 Jesus text.qxd:XXXXX Jesus text pages 17/4/09 13:58 Page 1 jesus college • cambridge one hundred and fourth annual report 2008 216057 Jesus text.qxd:XXXXX Jesus text pages 17/4/09 13:58 Page 2 Calendar of college events 2008–09 9 January 2009 Reunion Dinner (1963, 1964, 1965) March 2008 Glanville Williams Society Reception 20 March 2009 M. A. Dinner (2002) 27 March 2009 Reunion Dinner (1973, 1974, 1975) 13 June 2009 Marquee at the paddock, Fen Ditton 27 June 2009 Annual Fund Donors’ Garden Party 27 June 2009 Anniversary Dinner (1979, 1989, 1999) 1 July 2009 Society of St Radegund Dinner Invitations to all the above events will be posted or emailed to those concerned. If, however, you wish to attend any of these events but do not receive anticipated postal or email notification, please contact the Development Office (tel: 01223 339301) or visit the alumni events section of the college’s website (www.jesus.cam.ac.uk) where details are also posted. M.A. dining Members of M.A. or similar status are invited to dine at high table free of charge twice a year and to bring a guest at their own expense. The Master and Fellows very much welcome the opportunity to maintain contact. Because of staffing arrangements there is no dining on Saturdays but it is usually possible to accommodate visitors on Sundays during term. The other available days are Tuesday, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays. It is always advisable to book in good time by phoning the manciple’s office on 01223 339473. COPYRIGHT This publication is protected by international copyright law. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or used in any form or by any means – graphic, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or information storage and retrieval systems – without the prior permission of the copyright holders, except in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. 216057 Jesus text.qxd:XXXXX Jesus text pages 17/4/09 13:58 Page 3 contents Message from the Master 5 Articles College History: Continuities and Discontinuities 7 Archbishop Cranmer at Jesus College: A questioning note 14 The Science and Human Dimension Project 19 The Cambridge International Symposium on Economic Crime 21 Jesus on the Silk Road 23 The Hudleston Organ 27 20,000 Lives – Telling the Story of Jesuans Past 30 Years Ago 32 College News People 36 Art 42 Bursary 43 Chapel 44 Chapel Music 47 Development Office 48 Old Library and College Archives 48 Society of St Radegund 52 Other News 52 Degree Day 2008 53 College Societies 61 College Sports Clubs 67 Jesus College Boat Club Trust 78 Jesus College Fellows and other Senior Members 80 Awards 85 Tripos Results 89 Approved for Ph.D.s 90 Members’ News People 92 Births 94 Marriages and Civil Partnerships 95 Books and Articles by Members and Old Members 96 Other Gifts to the College Libraries 99 Bequests and Other Gifts 100 College Events 103 Jesus College Cambridge Society 108 Obituaries Fellows and former Fellows 111 Old Members 118 Return Forms Records Update CDs from Jesus College Jesus College Cushions Jesus: The Life of a Cambridge College Annual Fund 216057 Jesus text.qxd:XXXXX Jesus text pages17/4/0913:58Page4 nigel luckhurst 216057 Jesus text.qxd:XXXXX Jesus text pages 17/4/09 13:58 Page 5 message from the master | Jesus College Annual Report 2006 5 Message from the Master In this last year there have been many exciting things happening in the college, some of which are described later in this Annual Report. Earlier in the academic year we were delighted to launch the publication of Jesus: The Life of a Cambridge College, edited by Peter Glazebrook. We were fortunate to find we had not simply a recently retired Fellow with time on his hands but a retired Fellow of deep learning with extensive knowledge about the college’s history. Peter had an additional quality – a profound devotion to the college. All those things shine through in this book and we congratulate him on his achievement. He of course chose the subjects (there are 45 essays by many different Fellows and Jesuans, young and old) and then recruited all the contributors, inspiring us, chivvying us, and in no small way helping us. I am sure I was not the only one to get my offering returned with little red pen amendments or comments – a bit like a supervision essay. The book reveals all the hidden worlds of the college, unravelling them for us rather like a set of Russian dolls. Reading the various essays is like being in the company of a whole series of immensely well-informed guides accompanying you around Jesus College. The combination gives a perspective not only over space and time, but also across both institutional life and the fascinating, and sometimes extraordinary, personalities that have played their part in it. Add to this the delightful and cleverly chosen photographs and we have a truly outstanding achievement. Rather like a mosaic, the richness of the individual pieces together with the pictures makes a complex but unified whole. In this Annual Report Peter Glazebrook provides a new and interesting perspective on the college, identifying what, in effect, were five different colleges that existed in various stages of our long history. This year we have been especially fortunate in having a wonderful new organ installed in the chapel. A new friend of the college, James Hudleston, has generously enabled us to commission an organ from the firm widely regarded as the finest in the world today, Orgelbau Kuhn of Zurich. They have built this, their first organ in the UK, to the highest standards and specifications. It was not an easy space in the chapel, either physically or with regard to the historic nature of the building, and they have by unanimous consent done a superb job. Full technical details of the organ are given in an article by Dan Hyde, our director of chapel music, in this Annual Report. When all the organ pieces arrived from Switzerland and were laid out on the chapel floor, it looked as though we needed to get onto the IKEA helpline, but we all marvelled at the complex building operation that progressed smoothly throughout the summer vacation. The college is grateful to Dan for his huge part in the project. The Hudleston organ is already meeting with great acclaim from the musical world and without doubt will attract organ scholars from across the country. In June a superb inaugural recital, attended by the Vice-Chancellor, Fellows, students and many guests, was given by James O’Donnell, a Jesuan and former organ scholar, now organist and master of the choristers at Westminster Abbey. The Hudleston organ has secured the future of our chapel music, which is going from strength to strength, and is providing wonderful encouragement and incentive to our choirs. In February we celebrated the centenary of one of our most distinguished Jesuans, Jacob Bronowski, a man of extraordinary versatility who made very important contributions both to literature and to science. He came up to Jesus in 1927 to read mathematics, 216057 Jesus text.qxd:XXXXX Jesus text pages 17/4/09 13:58 Page 6 6 message from the master | Jesus College Annual Report 2008 becoming a wrangler and going on to do a Ph.D. But he immersed himself in many other things, developing strong literary and artistic interests, which he pursued enthusiastically alongside his distinguished mathematical studies. He became literary editor of Granta, and founded and edited a new avant-garde literary magazine called Experiment. Bronowski went on to a career of exceptional distinction, publishing and broadcasting prolifically on a vast range of subjects: all of us above a certain age will remember the highly successful and compelling 13 part BBC TV series The Ascent of Man – a Personal View. The college awarded him an Honorary Fellowship in 1967. He once wrote: ‘I grew up to be indifferent to the distinction between literature and science, which in my teens were simply two languages for experience that I learned together.’ How we wish there were more of us in the world who are indifferent to the distinction between literature and science. The highly successful Science and Human Dimension Project, a Jesus College initiative under the direction of John Cornwell who writes about it in this Annual Report, encapsulates much of what Jacob Bronowski stood for. I have written previously about the increasingly international character of both the graduate student body and the fellowship, and of the college’s leading role in the University in strengthening collaborations with China. The University is now also engaging more with India; a new professorship has been created, financed by the Government of India and various Indian companies: the Jawaharlal Nehru Professorship of Indian Business and Enterprise at the Judge Business School. Building on our reputation for establishing new international collaborations, the college has played a leading role in the Cambridge Central Asia Forum through the leadership of Dr Montu Saxena, who writes about the involvement of Jesus College with the Silk Road in this Annual Report. This year we have hosted a number of distinguished academics and other visitors from Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan and several of our Fellows have visited Central Asia on new academic collaborative projects.