ST CATHARINE’S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE 2015

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Editorial .................................................................................&

College ReportMaster’s report ...................................................................%The Fellowship.................................................................. "&New Fellows ......................................................................"(Retirements and Farewells ...........................................")Professor Sir Christopher Bayly (")&'–#!"')

LittD FBA ........................................................................#!Dr John Roland Shakeshaft (")#)–#!"') ..................#$Dr Richard Maitland Laws (")#(–#!"&)

CBE FRS ScD .................................................................. #*Senior Tutor’s Report ...................................................... $"Admissions Report ..........................................................$#Bursar’s Report ................................................................. $$Alumni and Development Report ............................. $'Chapel and Chaplaincy Report...................................$(Choir Report ......................................................................$%Kellaway Concerts ...........................................................$)Sta+ News ..........................................................................$)Graduate Research Seminars ..................................... &!Photography Competition ........................................... &"Professor Sir Alan Battersby FRS ................................&#News from the JCR ......................................................... &&News from the MCR ........................................................&'Societies ..............................................................................&*Sports clubs .......................................................................'!Alleycatz.............................................................................. '*Kitten Club .........................................................................'%Blues and Colours ............................................................')University Cricket ........................................................... (!#!"& Matriculands .......................................................... (!New Graduate Students #!"& ......................................($University Scholarships and Prizes ............................('College Prizes ....................................................................('College Scholarships ......................................................(*PhDs approved #!"&–' ................................................. ()

Society ReportSociety Committee #!"'–"( ......................................... *#The Society President .................................................... *#Report of %*th Annual General Meeting ................. *$Accounts for the year to $! June #!"' ...................... **Society Awards .................................................................*%Society Presidents’ Dinner ............................................*)The Acheson-Gray Sports Day #!"' ..........................*)Society Reception in the House of Lords ............... %!Geographers Dinner #!"& ............................................. %"Branch News ..................................................................... %"The Last and the First .................................................... %)Honours and Awards ..................................................... %)Publications ......................................................................)"Selected Reviews .............................................................)$Notices................................................................................ )%News of Members ........................................................."!%The St Catharine’s Guild .............................................. ""(

ArticlesThe Masters ..................................................................... ""%#! Years of Heller Fellowships ................................... "##Tunku Abdul Rahman (")##) ...................................... "#'Postscript from Alex Ling Lee Soon (")(') ............"$"Not Quite An Epilogue ................................................."$"College Societies during the Great War................. "$$Second World War Poets at St Catharine’s ............"$(The Right to Remain Silent:

Devon Quarter Sessions ........................................ "$*American Football and Cheerleading ...................."$)A Token of Concrete A+ection .................................. "&"Painting of St Catharine ‘discovered’

in Maccles,eld ..........................................................."&#

Notes & Dates ................................................................."&$

TABLE OF CONTENTS

The front cover shows the ‘blood moon’ during the #!"' ‘super moon’ lunar eclipse over St Catharine’s. The picture was taken at $.&'am on #% September #!"' by Simon Durrant, College Porter.

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EDITORIALAs the Magazine went to press in #!"&, the College’s all-weather hockey pitch was being renewed using a major donation towards the renovation from Peter Boizot (")'!) who funded the provision of the original pitch.

Soon after the beginning of the academic year, a message from Paul Hartle informed the College that the great Welsh poet Dylan Thomas would have reached his hundredth birthday on #* October #!"&. The anniversary was suitably marked. The College’s Welsh Senior Tutor was joined by the College’s Welsh Master in Chapel to read a handful of poems and a short prose piece about Christmas by Thomas (Dylan, not Jean).

The following week the Librarians exhibited a selection of books from the library of John Addenbrooke who gave the College "%& volumes in "*"%; somewhat surprisingly, we still have every one. Naturally, the medical sciences dominate, but the collection also shows our famous alumnus (he was also a Fellow and, brie-y, Bursar) as a man of wide interests. The ten or so items on display included a ,rst edition of Newton’s Opticks, one of the earliest printed editions of the plays of Sophocles, and a selection of illustrated works which show the emergence of medicine as a modern discipline. The Addenbrooke books are now in a purpose-made bookcase in the refurbished Ramsden Room.

Alas, the ,nal tasks associated with publication of the #!"& Magazine taking place in parallel with the above events did not go as smoothly. I apologise for the late arrival of the #!"& edition to some alumni and for an unusual number of errors, both typographical and of omission. An Errata section appears below and inadvertently omitted material is included in this edition, though that is but small comfort to those whose awards were missed in the appropriate College Report. It is, of course, not a valid excuse, but my reliable and punctilious proof reader John Shakeshaft was already becoming unwell and sadly died some months later (see obituary in this Magazine). Furthermore, a couple of promised articles failed to materialise. I hope very much that this edition is better.

A few matters of College interest were drawn to my attention during the year. Following the death of former Head of Biochemistry Professor Richard Perham in March #!"', a PhD student from the ")*!s (not a Catsman) reminisced about the Biochemistry Department Christmas Revues and Pantomimes – apparently all were performed to the able accompaniment of Jean Thomas at the piano.

In May the country went to the polls. In an article about the student vote in the run-up to the election, the Times reported that the Cambridge City Conservative candidate was approached by a porter outside St Catharine’s College who loudly castigated her for undermining the political impartiality of the College. The Times political editor cited this as an example of the di.culty of canvassing students. However, I noted that the report was in the " April edition.

Within these pages you will ,nd reports of how the College fared in the academic year #!"&–"' (once again I am indebted to Chris Thorne for all the student reports) and in Society News you will ,nd a report of the Society’s Annual Dinner during which many diners surreptitiously watched the England v Wales rugby match on various electronic devices. Also in that section, thanks are due to Librarian Colin Higgins for taking on the Book Reviews following the death of John Shakeshaft and also to all those Society members who sent interesting news snippets. We have a particularly eclectic set of articles this year. You may read about some irregular Mastership appointments, Tunku Abdul Rahman’s time at Catz written by his nephew Tunku Farik, College during the Great War, the College WWII poets, an %!-year-old graduand, Cheerleading and, if you want something more academic, the Heller Fellowships and a report from a student intern. Enjoy!

Roger Stratford

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ErrataUnfortunately a few errors and omissions occurred in the #!"& Magazine.

‘Published by the St Catharine’s College Society’ was omitted from the cover sheet.Some of the #!"& College Prizes were omitted (pages '" and '#). Those omitted are printed alongside the #!"' Prizes in this Magazine.Credits for some photographs were omitted. In particular, the Undergraduate Matriculands photograph on page &* was by Lafayette Photography and the New Graduates on page '! by JET Photographic.The Fellowship list on page "" is as at October #!"& (not #!"$) and some honori,cs were omitted.The New Graduates list on page &) is that for #!"$ (not #!"#).Some obituaries to hand at the time were omitted; they are included in this Magazine.

John Addenbrooke’s books on display in the refurbished Ramsden Room.

LOU

IS SINCLAIR

COLLEGE REPORT

DAN

IELLE BRADSH

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MASTER’S REPORTOn the whole #!"&–"' has been a steady year of consolidation and we are none the worse for that. I thank all my colleagues – Fellows and sta+ – as well as all our undergraduate and postgraduate students for their unstinting e+orts, all contributing to a strong, supportive and very sociable academic community. Again it was a pleasure to end the year by conferring degrees on St Catharine’s graduands on #% June at the culmination of three (or four) years of e+ort. It was a particularly special day for Keith Beaven (")'$) who had decided it was time to come (from the USA) to collect his degree, ') years after successfully completing Part II of the Geography Tripos; he tells his colourful story in an article in this Magazine.

As usual the Magazine is packed with information about student activities so a brief summary of the usual academic results, sport and music will su.ce here. The good news is that we have reversed last year’s very unwelcome dip in Tripos results and were one of the main 'upward movers' in the published Tompkins table (from a dismal #"st last year to "$th) but we need to regain our place in the top third, where we should be. That said, #'/ of our students gained Firsts this year and were awarded Scholarships and sent congratulatory letters. While we may be "$th over all this year, and while it is invidious to single out particular subjects, I hope I can be excused for mentioning that the largest subject cohort in the College, the ""! or so Natural Scientists, in all their many -avours, were ranked extremely highly (third of all Colleges this year; second, on a three-year average), with a very bene,cial e+ect on our ranking. English students, although far fewer, were also ranked highly (fourth overall; third, on a three-year average). The current ,rst-years performed very much better (ranked a creditable sixth of all Colleges) than their immediate predecessors, and if they keep this up we should at least maintain our position next year, and hopefully improve on it. I hear some of you say that league tables are not everything – and indeed they are not, and they deserve close analysis, and the points di+erences in ranking are sometimes very ,ne – but nonetheless they are with us and a useful safeguard against complacency. To our delight a number of our students again claimed University Prizes in a range of subjects for best performance in their Tripos – a wonderful achievement. A list appears towards the end of this section of the Magazine.

We have talented and enthusiastic musicians from all subjects, including Music, and they continue to enrich College life, as vocalists, instrumentalists and choristers. The Senior (Burston) and Junior Organ Scholars, respectively William Fairbairn (music) and Alex Coplan (computer science) deserve special mention, as of course do our two very hardworking and talented choirs – the College Choir and the Girls’ Choir – who get better and better (if that were possible!). For further details see the Choir report. Some of their music-making will be captured on a new CD, which will be launched at a concert in London in

The Master and the Senior Tutor leading the procession of !"#$ graduands out of College en route to the Senate House.

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time for Christmas. On a ,nal musical note, I was delighted to spot Peter Mallinson (#!!'), one of our previous talented music students and a major contributor to College music, prominently placed with his viola in the BBC Symphony Orchestra on the last night of the Proms.

As for sport – there was the usual high level of enthusiastic participation across the whole gamut (see Club reports), with several excellent performances. But our traditional ‘banker’, Hockey, has still not quite recovered from last year; the women won their Cuppers competition again but the men, although not disgracing themselves, brought home no silver. There was a strong showing by the College in athletics and swimming, with somewhat less strong performances in soccer, rugby, cricket and on the river – but the new boat (an eight), made possible through the continued support of the Boat Club by Herb Bate (")($), will hopefully spur on our rowers to regain their previous form. In University sport the College contributed massively, with some spectacular individual performances, resulting in "% Full Blues and "% Half Blues – dominated by hockey (four Blues), cricket (two Blues and three Half Blues) and athletics (four Blues, two Half Blues). Individually outstanding were Priya Crosby (athletics and coxing, winning the colleges Victor Ludorum cup), Harriet Hall and Alex Craig (fencing for the third year running) and Anni Bates (high jump Blue and now additionally about to ride for Cambridge in the newly established horse-race against Oxford at Newmarket in October). Alumnus George Nash (#!!%; Engineering) is seemingly invincible in international rowing, with a succession of gold medals, most recently as a member of the winning eight in the World Rowing Championships in France. Keep them coming, George!

It would be remiss of me not to mention the appearance of a St Catharine’s team on University Challenge for the ,rst time in many years! See under News in the Society section of this Magazine. In his usual introductory remarks in the ,rst round of the competition, mentioning notable alumni, it was good to hear Jeremy Paxman say (in introducing St Catharine’s) ‘…and me!’.

We have been much saddened by the deaths of three of our highly regarded Fellows (obituaries appear after the list of current Fellows) – two Honorary fellows (Professor Sir Christopher (Chris) Bayly FBA and Dr Richard (Dick) Laws CBE FRS) and an Emeritus Fellow (Dr John Shakeshaft). Chris Bayly, distinguished historian of South East Asia, died suddenly of a heart attack a month short of his *!th birthday, on ") April, whilst on one of his annual visits to lecture at the University of Chicago. His funeral at the Cambridge Crematorium on a sunny day, attended by round #!! family members, friends and colleagues, was followed by a reception, equally well attended, in the McGrath Centre. Donations in memory of Chris Bayly to the Eric Stokes Fund, established by Chris and Dr John Thompson, in memory of late Fellow Professor Eric Stokes, currently amount (with Gift Aid) to an impressive 0"%,!!!; the purpose of the Fund is to promote the study of history generally in the College, and more especially to make grants to graduates who are engaged in research on overseas history. A memorial event to celebrate the life and work of Chris Bayly will be held sometime in Spring #!"(.

A young peregrine falcon calling for food from the Master’s Lodge roof, July !"#$.

STEPHAIN

E CLARKE

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Dr John Shakeshaft sadly died of cancer at the age of %' on ( July #!"' after several months of illness. Until then he was in College for lunch on a more-or-less daily basis, and is greatly missed, not least by me personally, for his gentle personality, his unfailing courtesy, his quizzical smile, quiet dry humour, penetrating and challenging observations, razor-sharp mind, and encyclopaedic knowledge of the College. John had been a Fellow for '( years (the last "% as an Emeritus Fellow) and was Assistant Director of Research in Radio Astronomy for $$ years until his retirement from the University in "))*. He served as President of the College ("))!–&) and remarkably as Librarian for &# years. We are delighted to mark this major contribution and John’s love of books and libraries – re-ected in the reading from Carl Sagan at his funeral – by naming the hitherto ‘nameless’ (new) Library as the Shakeshaft Library. This will be formally approved by the Governing Body in October.

Dr Dick Laws (")&&), distinguished polar researcher and large mammal ecologist, died early in the year, in October #!"&, at the age of %% and it was an honour to read (from T S Eliot) at his funeral service in St Edmund’s College chapel. He was elected an Honorary Fellow in ")%# whilst Director of the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) in Cambridge (following a fascinating career in Africa; see his obituary). Upon his retirement from BAS he served as Master of St Edmund’s College (")%(–)*); inevitably St Catharine’s saw little of him during these years and he was best known to the more longstanding members of the Fellowship, but everyone enjoyed his watercolours and drawings exhibited, as a tribute to his many talents and achievements, in the Long Gallery after his death.

On a less sombre note we were delighted to note that four of our Fellows/Fellow Commoners between them clocked up a third of a millennium in years. Professor Sir Alan Battersby turned )! during the year whilst Dr Michael Message, Canon Hugh Searle and Dr Chris Thorne are by comparison spring chickens at %!. We congratulate them all most warmly and wish them many happy birthdays to come. Alan’s )!th year was marked by the unveiling of his splendid portrait, painted by Paul Brason, who also did my portrait a few years ago (also featuring the OCR window and St Catharine’s crest). Alan’s portrait now graces the Long Gallery and has attracted much favourable comment. At a most convivial )!th birthday dinner Alan spoke about his life’s journey from relatively humble beginnings to the "*!# Chair of Chemistry in Cambridge. See the item on Sir Alan later in this section of the Magazine.

As always it is a pleasure to report on the individual successes of Fellows. Professor Chris Clark, Regius Professor of History, was awarded a knighthood for services to Anglo-German relations and Professor Eilís Ferran (Law, ")%!), was appointed Pro-Vice Chancellor (for Institutional and International Relations). There was again good news for the College in the annual University promotions round: we congratulate Dr Mark Elliott on his promotion to Professor and Dr Nora Berend on her promotion to Reader in the Law and History Faculties, respectively, and Dr David Aldridge and Dr Matt DeJong on their promotions to Senior Lectureships in the Zoology and Engineering Departments, respectively. And there were again prizes and awards! Chris Clark won several further prizes for his book The Sleepwalkers and was also awarded Honorary Doctorates from the Universities of Birmingham and Ghent. Dr Hazem Kandil was awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize (‘for outstanding young scholars’), and Professor John Pyle and his research team won both the International Impact Award and the Overall Impact Award from the National Environmental Research Council. Dr Alison Banwell (Bowring Research Fellow) was awarded a three-year Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellowship and Professor Ron Martin a two-year Leverhulme Emeritus Fellowship. We congratulate all the awardees most warmly.

There have again been comings and goings in the Fellowship. We shall miss Dr Jonathan Gair, Dr Simon Layton, Dr Amanda Maycock (Junior Research Fellow) and Dr Gerd Van Dijck (Heller Research Fellow) but o+er our very warm wishes and congratulations on their new academic appointments – as, respectively, Reader in the School of Mathematics at the University of Edinburgh; Lecturer in World History at Queen Mary University of London; joint NERC Research Fellow/University Fellow in the

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Department of Earth and Environment at Leeds University; and as a ‘quantitative analyst manager’ with a major global insurance company, modelling complicated risk scenarios. We also said goodbye to Dr Edmund Godfrey (Radiology Consultant at Addenbrooke’s Hospital) and we thank him for his year of anatomy teaching to our medical students. Professor Ron Martin retires shortly from his Chair in Geography in the University and from his Professorial Fellowship at St Catharine’s, and becomes an Emeritus Fellow on " October, &" years after he ,rst joined the College as a Fellow in ")*&. Fortunately Ron will continue as Wine Steward for another couple of years before handing over to his recently appointed deputy, Dr David Aldridge. We wish all the leavers well and thank them most warmly for their contributions to the College and to the Fellowship, and we extend a very warm welcome to all the newcomers (see New Fellows section for further details).

Dr Jessica Gwynne (Fellow in Materials Science) joined us in January, and in October Dr Michael Amior (#!!&) joins us as a Fellow and College Lecturer in Economics, Dr Andrew Hillier as a Fellow in Mathematics, and Dr Charalampos (aka Haris) Psarras as a Fellow and College Associate Teaching O.cer in Law. Also coming on board in October will be two new Junior Research Fellows in Science – Dr Nagabhushana (aka Rao) Vladamani (Engineering) as a Bowring Fellow, and Dr Glenn Masson (Molecular Biology/Biochemistry), recent graduate student of this College, as a Henslow Fellow, funded by the Cambridge Philosophical Society, to whom we express our warm thanks. We were delighted to elect two new Honorary Fellows during the year, in recognition of their distinction in their respective ,elds: Professor Robert Saxton (")*#), Professor of (Music) Composition in Oxford, and Professor Sarah Springman (")*'), Professor of Geotechnical Engineering and now Rector at the ETH in Zurich and an international sportswoman. In addition Dr John Endicott (")(&), a civil engineer working in Hong Kong, was elected a Fellow Commoner; John has for many years been the stalwart convenor of the Asia Paci,c branch of the Society. He has welcomed College members to Hong Kong on more than one occasion (including a memorable evening when the centrepiece of the wonderful bu+et table was a spectacular ice-sculpture in the form of a Catharine wheel that was still holding its own, albeit diminished, by the

The display bookcase for John Addenbrooke’s books in the refurbished Ramsden Room.

LOU

IS SINCLAIR

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end of the most convivial evening. As usual I have relished meeting alumni in

College on a number of occasions throughout the year and hearing news, anecdotes and reminiscences. The well-attended lunch for Woodlark Society Members in College in December was followed in mid-January by the ,fth "&*$ Foundation Dinner (at which we recognise recent major philanthropic giving), this year kindly sponsored by Neil (")*&) and Alison Ostrer, and in June by the Benefactors’ Garden Party. The Reunion Dinners (")($–( in March; "))(–% in September) and the September Society Reunion Dinner, where every decade from the ")&!s to the present one was represented, were extremely well attended; it was great to see so many in good heart, renewing friendships and exchanging news. Alumni/Society events in London also attracted a good turnout. The ,rst of the year in October saw the second ‘Royal Society evening’ (sponsored this time

by Mark Humphries, ")%!) in splendid surroundings, with plenty of time to socialise, and two short talks (Professor Bill Sutherland (Conservation Biology) and Dr Sriya Iyer (Economics of Religion) which generated a stream of enthusiastic questions; the corresponding event this coming October will be held at the neighbouring British Academy. At the other end of the year, party spirit had set in when around "'! alumni of all ages enjoyed a reception hosted in July by Lord (John) Horam (")'*) to mark his Presidency of the Society. There will be similar events in #!"'–"(, but I also look forward to renewing old acquaintances and making new ones amongst our alumni in New York and San Francisco in December, and then in Hong Kong in April. The highlight of that visit, at which we will be accompanied by (part of ) the College choir, will be the inaugural Asia Paci,c "&*$ Dinner (generously sponsored by Professor David Cheung; ")'%) to thank benefactor Members from Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia and possibly even Colombo.

Philanthropy continues to play a crucial role in supporting our teaching posts and research fellowships, as well as the provision of student bursaries and hardship funds (outlined in the Development Director’s Report), and this year I was delighted to host a dinner in honour of our good friends Sir Michael (")'') and Lady (Morven) Heller to celebrate #! years of continuous funding of the Heller Research Fellowship in Computer Science; an article about the Heller Fellowships appears later in this Magazine. We are most grateful for this support, and are very pleased to be advertising now for the next Heller Research Fellow, to start in October #!"(. Increasingly benefactions are also speeding up much-needed improvements to our buildings and facilities. This year saw the transformational refurbishment of the Ramsden Room and the Old Lodge basement beneath it (made possible by generous benefactions from Peter Boizot (")'!) and the late Dr Robert Evans (Fellow ")&*) and Mrs Betty Evans). The Ramsden Room now more than passes muster and is much enhanced by the splendidly housed books given to the College by alumnus, later Fellow and Bursar, John Addenbrooke ("()*, Fellow "*!&) shortly before he died in "*"). The continuing annual summer refurbishment at St Chad’s was more exciting than usual this year, with the start of construction of a much-needed Porters’ Lodge,

A gold brooch bequeathed to the Master and Fellows by the late Dr & Mrs Evans for the use of the Master or the Master’s wife as appropriate. The brooch was given by Dr Evans to his wife on their golden wedding anniversary.

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generously funded by the Doty and Price families from New York. No summer would be complete without sca+olding and this year it was the turn of the stonework on the Chapel side of Main Court to be spruced up, along with the main-gate pillars, which now positively sparkle in the sunshine. For more on the building works, see the Bursar’s Report.

Our current fundraising Campaign is approaching its 0$!M target (just under 0$M still to be raised) with e+orts now concentrated mainly on strengthening the Endowment, directly or indirectly. Thereafter a major focus will be fundraising for expansion in student accommodation, to cater for fourth-year students and the increase in graduate students anticipated across the University; the Old Press Site, just across the road, which I have mentioned in previous years, would undoubtedly be the best place for this expansion. Discussions have been ongoing throughout the year and it is likely that the University will shortly agree terms that would allow four Colleges (St Catharine’s, Pembroke, Queens’ and Darwin) to take a #!!-year lease and build on the site. The advantages for us, landlocked as we are on the Island Site, are obvious, but to secure our (surely rightful!) place across the road we need to have secured a sizeable proportion of the ca. 0#!M cost of our share of the rooms, in gifts or pledges, in the near future, before the Governing Body will contemplate approving our participation in the project. This has presented something of a challenge for the Development Director, Bursar and Master over the summer, but progress has been, and is being, made. Watch this space! Meanwhile I prepare to embark on my ,nal year as Master, and the College is busy looking for my successor. The last (nearly) nine very enjoyable years have gone faster than I could ever have imagined; the next Report will be my last!

Jean Thomas

Cleaning the pillars of the main gates, before (left) and after (right).

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As at # October !"#$, in order of seniority following the Master and President. The latest year of appointment is given; note that additional years of seniority may be conferred by any previous period as a Fellow.

O!cial and Professorial Fellows Professor Dame Jean Thomas ScD FRS FMedSci (#!!*)

Emeritus Professor of Macromolecular Biochemistry; Master, DoS in Biochemistry

Dr John A Little (")%!) President, DoS in Materials Science & Metallurgy, Senior Treasurer of the Amalgamated Clubs

Dr Paul N Hartle (")**) Senior Tutor, College Lecturer in English

Professor Peter Tyler AcSS FRICS (")%$) Professor of Urban and Regional Economics; DoS in Land Economy

Dr Robert BB Wardy (")%&) Reader in Ancient Philosophy; DoS in Philosophy, DoS in Classics (on leave Michaelmas)

Professor John A Pyle ScD FRS (")%() Head of the University Chemistry Department, ")#! Professor of Physical Chemistry and Co-Director of the Centre for Atmospheric Science

Dr Patrick R Palmer (")%*) Reader in Electrical Engineering; Dudley Robinson Fellow and DoS in Engineering

Professor Eilís V Ferran FBA (")%*) University Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Professor of Company & Securities Law; Tom Ivory Professorial Fellow in Law

Professor Hans van de Ven FBA (")%%) Professor of Modern Chinese History; DoS in Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (on leave #!"'–"()

Dr Philip Oliver (")%%) Graduate Tutor, Admissions Tutor, DoS in Molecular Cell Biology & Genetics

Dr Ian C Willis (")%)) University Senior Lecturer; Cousens Fellow, DoS in Geography

Professor Sir Christopher Clark FBA ("))!) Regius Professor of History; Ostrer Professorial Fellow in History

Dr E Geo"rey Kantaris ("))!) Reader in Spanish & Portugese and Director of the Centre of Latin American Studies; DoS in Modern & Medieval Languages

Mr Michael F Kitson ("))#) University Senior Lecturer; DoS in Management Studies

Dr Rose A Melikan ("))$) College Lecturer in Law, Fellows’ Registrar

Dr Michael PF Sutcli"e ("))$) Reader in Mechanics of Materials; Harold Ridgeon Fellow, DoS in Engineering

Dr John H Xuereb MD FRCP FRCPath ("))&) University Senior Lecturer; DoS in Pathology, Dean

Dr Anthony P Davenport FBPharmacolS ("))') Reader in Cardiovascular Pharmacology; DoS in Preclinical Medicine & Pharmacology

Dr Katharine J Dell ("))() Reader in Divinity; DoS in Theology (on leave Michaelmas & Lent)

Dr Caroline Gonda ("))() College Lecturer, DoS in English, Secretary to the Governing Body (on leave Michaelmas)

Dr Nora Berend ("))() Reader in European History; DoS in History

Dr David C Aldridge ("))*) University Senior Lecturer; Dawson College Lecturer, DoS in Biological Natural Sciences, Steward

Dr Richard W Dance ("))*) Reader in Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic; Praelector, DoS in Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic

Dr Peter D Wothers ("))*) University Teaching Fellow; Rushton Fellow, DoS in Chemistry, Graduate Tutor

Professor Mark C Elliott ("))%)† Professor of Public Law; DoS in Law (on leave Easter)

Ms Irena Borzym (")))) Nicholas Handy College Lecturer and DoS in Mathematics, Tutor

Dr Abigail Brundin (#!!!) Reader in Italian; DoS in Modern & Medieval Languages

Dr Sriya Iyer (#!!!) Bibby Teaching Fellow and College Lecturer, DoS in Economics

Dr Matthew J Mason (#!!") University Physiologist; DoS in Physiology

Dr Sergei N Taraskin (#!!#) Harvey McGrath College Lecturer, DoS in Mathematics for Natural Scientists, DoS in Computer Science; DoS in Physical Natural Sciences, Tutor

Dr David Bainbridge (#!!$) University Clinical Veterinary Anatomist; DoS in Veterinary Medicine, Tutor, Admissions Tutor

Dr Harald Wydra (#!!$) Holden Fellow, College Lecturer, DoS in Human, Social & Political Sciences (Politics & International Relations), Tutor

Mr Simon Summers MBA (#!!') BursarDr Hester Lees-Je"ries (#!!() University Lecturer; DoS in

English, Tutor Dr Edward Wickham (#!!() Director of College Music,

DoS in MusicDr Gillian Carr (#!!() University Senior Lecturer; DoS

in Human, Social & Political Sciences (Archaeology & Anthropology)

Dr Miranda Gri!n (#!!*) Dawson College Lecturer, DoS in Modern & Medieval Languages, Admissions Tutor, Tutor

Dr Richard Harrison (#!!*) Reader in Earth Sciences; DoS in Geology & Mineral Sciences, Tutor, Health & Safety Fellow

Dr Je"rey Dalley (#!!*) Reader in Molecular & Behavioural Neuroscience; DoS in Neuroscience, DoS in Psychology & Behavioural Sciences

Mrs Deborah Loveluck (#!!*) Director of Development

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Dr Ivan Scales (#!!%) Harvey McGrath College Lecturer, DoS in Geography (on leave Lent & Easter)

Professor William Sutherland (#!!%) Miriam Rothschild Professor of Conservation Biology

Dr Peter Turner (#!!)) University Lecturer; Baker-Fellingham Fellow, DoS in Law

Dr Jerome Neufeld (#!!)) University Lecturer and Royal Society Research Fellow (Geophysics); DoS in Physics

Dr Robert P Smith (#!"$) Royal Society Research Fellow; DoS in Physics & Astrophysics, SCR Secretary

Professor Stuart Althorpe (#!"!) Professor of Theoretical Chemistry

Dr Matthew DeJong (#!"!) University Senior Lecturer; DoS in Engineering

Dr Fatima Santos (#!"!) Senior Postdoc Scientist; DoS in Developmental Biology

Dr Stefan Marciniak (#!"") MRC Senior Clinical Research Fellow; DoS in Preclinical Medicine

Dr Hazem Kandil (#!"#) University Lecturer; DoS in Human, Social & Political Sciences (Sociology)

Dr Michael D Hurley (#!"#) University Lecturer; DoS in English

Revd David Neaum (#!"$) ChaplainProfessor Nicholas Morrell FMedSci (#!"$) Professor of

Cardiopulmonary Medicine; DoS in Clinical MedicineDr Timothy Rogan (#!"$) Violet & Ian Campbell Fellow,

College Associate Teaching O.cer, DoS in History, Tutor*Dr Jessica Gwynne (#!"') University Teaching Fellow;

DoS in Materials Science*Dr Michael Amior (#!"') College Lecturer and DoS in

Economics*Dr Haris Psarras (#!"') College Associate Teaching O.cer

in Law*Dr Andrew Hillier (#!"') STFC Ernest Rutherford Fellow

(Mathematics)† Inducted ")))

Research Fellows Dr Alison Banwell (#!"$) Leverhulme Newton Trust

Early Career Fellow and Bowring Research Fellow in Geography

Dr Matthew Champion (#!"&) Jeremy Haworth Research Fellow in History

Dr David Waddilove (#!"&) Newton Trust Research Fellow (Law)

*Dr Glenn Masson (#!"') Henslow Research Fellow in Biochemistry

*Dr Rao Vadlamani (#!"') Bowring Research Fellow in Engineering

Honorary Fellows Sir Peter Hall (")(&)Dr KT Erikson (")*$)Rt Hon. Lord Briggs of Lewes (")**)Sir Peter Hirsch (")%#)Sir Ian McKellen (")%#)Professor Sir Peter Swinnerton-Dyer (Master ")*$–%$) (")%$)Professor Sir Graeme Davies (Fellow ")(*–**) (")%))Sir Terence English (Master "))&–#!!!) ("))#)Mr JRG Wright (Fellow ")*%–)", Bursar ")*)–%*)) ("))#)Professor BE Supple (Master ")%&–)$) ("))$)Dr Cham Tao Soon ("))()Professor Sir Michael Peckham ("))%)Dr FRleP Warner ("))))Professor Sir Jonathan Bate (#!!")Mr JD Paxman (#!!")Professor Sir Alan Battersby (Fellow ")()–)#, Emeritus

"))#) (#!!")Mr RG Smethurst (#!!")Professor DS Ingram (Master #!!!–!() (#!!()Professor Sir Richard Gardner (#!!*)Rt Hon. Sir Geo"rey Pattie (Fellow Commoner #!!') (#!!*)Professor CFW Higham (#!!%)Sir Emyr Jones Parry (#!!%)Dr NB Penny (#!!))Professor H Bedelian (#!"!)Professor PJ Barnes (#!"")Professor Sir John Baker (Fellow ")*"–#!"", Emeritus #!"")

(#!"#)Professor A Blix (#!"#)Mrs R Fairhead (#!"#)Mrs J Harris (#!"#)Mr H McGrath (Fellow Commoner #!!&) (#!"$)Mr D Harding (#!"$)*Professor Robert Saxton (#!"')*Professor Sarah Springman (#!"')

Emeritus Fellows Professor AF Beardon (Fellow ")(%) (")%*)Professor MDI Chisholm (Fellow ")*() ("))()Dr DE Keeble (Fellow ")(&) (#!!!)Professor PR Raithby (Fellow ")%$) (#!!!)Dr MA Message (Fellow ")(#) (#!!#)Dr CJR Thorne (Fellow ")($) (#!!#)Professor J Bridgwater (Fellow ")()–*! and "))$) (#!!&)Dr JA Thompson (Fellow ")*") (#!!()Dr DM Pyle (Fellow ")%)) (#!!()Professor DM Broom (Fellow ")%*) (#!!))Professor H Elder#eld (Fellow ")%&) (#!"!)Professor RJ Bennett (Fellow "))() (#!"")Dr RSK Barnes (Fellow ")*%) (#!"")Professor RP Gordon (Fellow "))') (#!"#)Professor JD Pickard (Fellow "))!) (#!"$)Professor KJ Dalton (Fellow "))*) (#!"&)Professor RL Martin (Fellow ")*&) (#!"')

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Fellow Commoners Dr GT Cavaliero (")%()Revd JStH Mullett (")%))Mr R Stratford ("))#)Mr JB Bibby ("))()Mr PJ Boizot ("))()Sir Michael Heller (#!!$)Lady Morven Heller (#!!$)Mr NF Haynes (#!!')Mr RJ Chapman (#!!')Mr GG Beringer (#!!%)

Revd Canon HD Searle (#!!%)Mr HW Bate (#!!))Mr PA Bowring (#!!))Mr MD Richer (#!!))Lord Horam (#!"!)Mr T Adams (#!"")Mr DW Peace (#!"&)Professor AG Watts (#!"&)*Mr LJ Endicott (#!"')*New and returning Fellows etc: see biographical notes

below. DoS: Director of Studies.

NEW FELLOWSMichael Amior returns to St Catharine’s as a Teaching O.cer in Economics. He studied at the College as an undergraduate and completed his MSc and PhD at UCL. He contributed to the Scottish independence debate as an economist at the Institute for Fiscal Studies, and, since then, he has worked at the Centre for Economic Performance at LSE. His research is largely empirical, focusing on the geography of labour markets and migration in both the UK and US.

John Endicott was admitted by Canon Christopher Waddams to read Mathematics but, like several others, changed after the ,rst year to read Mechanical Sciences under the guidance of Dudley Robinson and Wylie Gregory. He stayed on to complete a PhD in Soil Mechanics in ")*". John writes ‘I have pursued a career in ground engineering mostly involving designs of tunnels and underground railway stations, now well in excess of one hundred of them, as well as some work on slope stability and reclamations (such as the "#&$ ha site for the airport at Hong Kong). It was in Hong Kong about #! years ago that I took over from another engineer, George Tedbury (")($), as the local Catz representative. Since then I have arranged dinners whenever there has been a visiting Member and two performances of the College Choir at the Cathedral. We have about &! Alumni registered and sometimes numbers at table have exceeded $!. As the CEO of Maunsell Geotechnical Services Ltd, I grew the practice to over '!! sta+ working on ground engineering in Hong Kong in an engineering o.ce of over #,!!! sta+. The practice merged globally and I stepped down from CEO in #!!'. I am still actively employed by the US-listed consulting company AECOM on projects spread between India and New Zealand with some visits to the Middle East.’

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Jessica Gwynne studied Natural Sciences (specialising in Materials Science) at Robinson College before completing a PhD in biomedical Materials Science. This was followed by several years of post-doctoral research in the same ,eld but, despite enjoying research, her real passion was always for teaching. She is now a Teaching Fellow at the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, lecturing to the ,rst, second and fourth year undergraduate students. She is Head of Year for IA Materials Science and she has supervised both ,rst and second year Materials Science students for a number of years. Outside work, Jess enjoys ballroom dancing and is a keen allotment gardener.

Andrew Hillier is currently an STFC Ernest Rutherford Fellow working with the Solar Physics group at DAMTP. Andrew was an undergraduate at the University of Leeds and, after completing an MMath, he moved to Japan where he spent two years as an Assistant Language Teacher at a High School before joining the PhD course at Kyoto University. Andrew completed his PhD in Astrophysics, specialising in Solar Physics, in #!"" and then remained at Kyoto University for a further three years, moving to Cambridge in #!"&. Andrew’s research focuses on the role of magnetic instabilities in the solar atmosphere.

Glenn Masson joined St Catharine’s to research for his PhD, which was recently completed at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology, and for which he was awarded the St Catharine’s Distinction-in-Research prize. His thesis focused on using new forms of mass spectrometry to determine how intrinsically disordered proteins interact with one another and the cell membrane, in order to provide new therapeutic opportunities for cancer and malaria treatment. Prior to his PhD, Glenn received an MSc in Biochemistry from the University of She.eld which included a year working with AstraZeneca. He is currently researching how to determine protein structures de novo using mass spectrometry.

Haris Psarras studied law at the University of Athens (LLB, LLM) and was subsequently called to the Bar in #!!(. After completing the MJur at Oxford he moved to Edinburgh where he pursued a PhD and worked as Tutor in Jurisprudence at Edinburgh Law School. Following his doctorate he was appointed Teaching Fellow in Legal Theory at the University of Edinburgh. Haris joins the Fellowship at St Catharine’s as Associate Teaching O.cer in Law and he will also act as A.liated Lecturer at the Faculty. His scholarly interests lie in jurisprudence. His current research focuses on the concept and justi,cation of the authority of law. Haris has also written on EU Law Theory, the bearing of principles of justice on private law relationships and some aspects of the intersection between law and literature.

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Robert Saxton studied at St Catharine’s and at Oxford University with Robin Holloway and Robert Sherlaw Johnson respectively following guidance from Benjamin Britten and Elisabeth Lutyens. He is Professor of Composition and Tutorial Fellow in Music at Worcester College, Oxford. He has written major works for the BBC (TV, Proms and Radio), LSO and London Sinfonietta and festivals including Hudders,eld, Three Choirs and Cheltenham, and has an extensive discography. Commissions include the opera The Wandering Jew, Five Motets for The Clerks and Edward Wickham for the Proms, a song cycle for baritone Roderick Williams, a string quartet for the Arditti Quartet and a piano cycle for Clare Hammond.

Sarah Springman completed her MPhil, and part of her PhD on mechanistic analysis and design for passive lateral loading of piles for bridge abutments, while at St Catharine’s. After becoming a lecturer in the Engineering Department and initiating the Language Programme for Engineers, Sarah was appointed to a chair in geotechnicaI engineering at ETH Zürich, where she learnt German quickly to teach and research on soil-structure-interaction problems, and on geotechnical aspects of natural hazards, primarily on degrading permafrost and landslides. She is an expert on ,eld characterisation, monitoring and modelling, particularly using a geotechnical centrifuge. She was O.cer Commanding of the Sapper wing of CUOTC and competed internationally in three sports (squash – Fiji; triathlon and rowing – Great Britain) and, apparently, still holds the College marathon record.

Nagabhushana Rao Vadlamani completed his PhD in Engineering at Robinson in July #!"&. Subsequently he continued working as a post-doctoral researcher on a project funded by Rolls-Royce and TSB. Prior to his PhD, Rao worked with the Digital Mockup team in Airbus India on the safe installation of various aircraft systems in A$'! XWB. He obtained his master’s degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, where he specialized in thermal engineering. Rao’s research involves developing reliable numerical tools to build e.cient components for modern aircraft engines. He is a computational -uid dynamicist with speci,c interest in capturing transitional and turbulent -ows using high-,delity simulations. In #!"$ he and his colleagues were the recipients of the IGTI Turbomachinery Committee Best Paper Award for their work on transition in low pressure turbines.

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RETIREMENTS AND FAREWELLSJonathan Gair left at the end of the Lent Term #!"' to take up a Readership in the School of Mathematics at Edinburgh University.

Edmund Godfrey has resigned his Fellowship and writes to say that he enjoyed his time at Catz enormously but is unable to continue owing to family commitments. He is very sad to have to go.

Edward King left in January #!"' to take up a Lectureship in Portuguese and Lusophone Studies at the University of Bristol. He writes that he was very sad to leave St Catharine’s and Cambridge, but is nevertheless enjoying everything in Bristol. The book he was writing while at Catz has now been published – Virtual Orientalism in Brazilian Culture.

Simon Layton has been appointed Lecturer in Early Modern Global History in the School of History at Queen Mary College, London. He writes ‘Chris Bayly’s passing was a devastating blow for many of us. However, I am being made to feel very warmly welcomed at Queen Mary and I am to pick up where Chris left o+, notably by teaching on the -agship MA course in Global History, espousing the ‘Bayly School’ more generally to the undergraduates. I am enormously and forever grateful to St Catharine’s, which has given me a home and a vibrant intellectual community these past seven years, and has set me up for a wonderful career doing what I love.’

Ron Martin On " October #!"' Professor Ron Martin will glide with e+ortless ease from Professorial Fellow to Emeritus Professorial Fellow of the College. He will be far from retiring, however. He will immediately commence work on a major three-year ERSC-funded research project on the Structural Transformation and Long-Run Economic Growth of Cities, and will simultaneously take up a two-year Leverhulme Emeritus Fellowship to research and write a book on the British economy. He will also continue as a lead expert on the UK Government O.ce for Science’s Foresight Programme on the Future of Cities. In College he will continue as Wine Steward and as Custodian of Works of Art, two particular tasks he greatly enjoys. In short, he will be as busy as ever

Amanda Maycock has been appointed NERC Independent Research Fellow in the School of Earth and Environment at the University of Leeds. This is a tenure-track position leading to Associate Professor upon successful completion of a structured ,ve-year probation period. She says that she will use the fellowship to expand her research into interactions between atmospheric composition and climate using state-of-the-art computer models.

Gert van Dijck, whose Heller Research Fellowship ended in #!"', is working for AIG Insurance and Goldman Sachs in London. See also the article on Heller Fellowships later in this Magazine.

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Chris Bayly (Fellow #%&", Emeritus Fellow !"#!, Honorary Fellow !"#') was born #( May #%'$ in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, and died #% April !"#$ in Chicago. Professor Sir Christopher Clark writes:Professor Sir Christopher Bayly, LittD, FBA, who died in Chicago of a heart attack on ") April #!"' at the age of (), was the pre-eminent historian of India and the British empire and a pioneer in the ,eld of global history. He was also the ,rst academic ever to be knighted ‘for services to history outside of Europe’. Chris’s distinction was international, as the long list of his appointments and honours testi,es, but his career was centred on St Catharine’s College, where he was

elected in ")*! to a Fellowship and College Lectureship in History and became Director of Studies in History. In ")%", Chris Bayly was appointed to the Smuts Readership in Commonwealth Studies, and thereafter he was appointed to a succession of posts in the Faculty of History, culminating in the Vere Harmsworth Professorship of Imperial and Naval History in "))#. At the time of his death, he held concurrently professorships at Chicago, Copenhagen and Queen Mary University of London.

Chris was born in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, to a family entangled with the recent history of Empire. He remembered childhood conversations with his London cockney grandfather who had fought during the First World War in Egypt, Palestine and Turkey. His father had seen service all over the world as a merchant mariner, including on ships running copra from India. ‘So I had an early introduction to colonial and world history’, he would later say. The history Chris learned at the Skinners’ School in Tunbridge Wells and as an undergraduate at Balliol, Oxford, in ")($, was broad in its intellectual horizons but strongly European in focus. The turn towards a career in Indian history came in ")(', when Chris embarked on a long vacation journey across land to India, passing through Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan. Forced to avoid the Indian-Pakistani warzone, he traveled south to Karachi and caught a Shia pilgrimage boat to Basra. ‘I got a sense of India from the other side’, he recalled in a July #!"& interview. ‘Not dropping out of an aircraft. India in West Asia, and particularly the Muslim dimension. So that was a very formative experience’.

At St Antony’s, his graduate college, Sarvepalli Gopal and Albert Hourani guided his reading in the histories of India and the Middle East; the supervisor of his doctoral thesis was Jack Gallagher (also of Balliol), who was then overseeing a transformation in British imperial history. Chris came to Cambridge in ")*! at the invitation of Eric Stokes, Smuts Professor of British Commonwealth History, who had been at St Catharine’s College since ")($. The transfer to Cambridge was arranged, as Chris later recalled, in the strikingly relaxed way typical of those times: ‘Jack phoned Eric: “Eric, have you got a job there for this funny person called Bayly that I’ve got?” He said: “Maybe we do”, and that was it.’

Eric Stokes was to be Chris’s most important mentor. In the ")*!s, Stokes was moving away from the issues of principle and ideology that had commanded the attention of his earlier work towards an approach to Indian history that stressed the importance of landholding structures and the pressures exerted on them by British systems of revenue management. An interest in the dynamic interaction between local elites and imperial governments would also be an abiding feature of Chris’s work on India. Stokes’s unpretentious and likeable scholarly persona was another inspiration. In a touching piece for the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Chris found words for Stokes, who had died in ")%", that one might use of Chris himself: ‘His in-uence as a historian was accomplished not with domineering patronage, but through humour, self-deprecation, and intellectual inquisitiveness’.

Chris Bayly’s books don’t document results; they track intellectual journeys. ‘This book’, Chris writes at the opening of Rulers, Townsmen and Bazaars (")%$), a study that transformed historical understanding

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of the impact of British rule in India, ‘grew out of a fascination with the rich pattern of commercial life still to be found in the tangled lanes of brass-smiths’ stalls and ancient merchant houses which lay behind the water-front of the city of Benares.’ The stately waterfront mansions of the ghats of Benares were just a point of disembarkation. What interested him were the tangled lanes behind.

These steps away from the waterfront, into the recesses behind elite networks and smooth historiographical surfaces, can be traced in every book Chris wrote. Chris was acutely aware of the intricately layered quality of human societies. Again and again, he o+ers us vertiginous views through superimposed social textures. Nothing in what unfolds before our eyes is obvious, because everything is in motion. Clans and occupational fraternities coalesce into class-like structures; power changes hands: cosmopolitan oligarchs cede power to merchants, Nanakpanthi Khattris take over from their islamicised caste fellows; Kannada merchants and Chettis slip into positions once occupied by Armenians and Jews. Chris saw a piece of agency, a spark of resilience and hope, in everyone who entered his ,eld of vision.

This seething, ever-present mobility made it utterly impossible to think of India as something stagnant or passive, something to which history or empire simply happened. Chris’s eye was ,xed on those forces of self-organisation and self-reinvention that predated the arrival of the British and would survive their departure to shape the India of today.

Already in the earliest books on India, Chris had discerned parallels with peasant Egypt, small-town Meiji-era Japan, and the striving professional classes of nineteenth-century China. These expansive re-ections later fed into the two breakthrough books that shaped and deepened the new ,eld of world history – Imperial Meridian and The Birth of the Modern World, establishing Chris as one of the foremost historians of his generation worldwide. Imperial Meridian (")%)) marked a transition from highly textured work on the Indian sub-continent to a new kind of history focused on how the interactions between great imperial power complexes shaped and was shaped by processes of change within them. The most historiographically signi,cant work in this mode was The Birth of the Modern World: global connections and comparisons, #&("–#%#' (#!!$), which not only did much to establish world history as a scholarly discipline but also altered the conceptual framework of the subject by de-centring the West.

At the heart of The Birth of the Modern World is a narrative of convergence. The book opens with a powerful evocation of the diversity of bodily practices across the world’s societies at the beginning of the modern era; the nineteenth century, Bayly argues, saw the rise of global uniformities in the structures and articulations of states, religions and economic life, visible not only in great institutions but also in modes of dress and the consumption of food. The book shrinks the distance between ‘the West’ and ‘the rest’; industrialization, organization, nationalism and the development of the state are for him ultimately global processes, notwithstanding local speci,cities. The book registered moments of heightened di+erence and antagonism, but for Chris, these were always subordinate phenomena. Antagonisms -ourished precisely because societies were becoming more connected and more alike.

Chris’s account allowed for what he describes as ‘the brute fact of western domination’, but his book also stressed the limited and temporary character of that domination and insisted on the ‘interdependence’ of diverse processes of change. No one who reads this book can fail to be impressed by the subtlety and lucidity of the reasoning, the breadth of compass, the attention to reciprocity in political, economic and social relationships and the well-oiled analytical gears that enabled Chris to travel elegantly between the local and the global.

And even as he enlarged the scope of his attention, Chris continued to generate fresh insights into Indian history. Empire and Information ("))(), o+ered a compelling account of British intelligence gathering in India between "*%! and "%*!, showing how the ‘native informants’ recruited by the British actively shaped the process. In analogous fashion, The Origins of Nationality in South Asia ("))%) and Recovering Liberties (#!"") – elucidated how Indians responded as autonomous agents to western nationalism and

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liberal political and economic thought.Chris’s books bore the imprint of wide

and humane interests; they were also methodologically eclectic. As Richard Drayton, former Research Fellow at St Catharine’s College and Rhodes Professor of Imperial History at King’s College London, put it in an obituary for the Guardian: Chris Bayly had ‘an astonishing capacity to respond quickly to new perspectives and had the knack, in particular, of grafting historical ideas from one specialism to another. He read widely across the social sciences and had a magpie’s eye for something brilliant in another discipline’. Conversation was a crucial part of the gathering and comparing that drove Chris’s historical thinking: when discussions with students or colleagues got interesting, Chris would often pull

out a small crumpled notebook and start scribbling down ideas. As these observations may suggest, Chris lived in his work. Not for it, but in it. The ‘Bayly mahal’, as

he sometimes a+ectionately called the home he and his wife Susan founded when they married in ")%", was a place of conversation over work and wine, a conversation anchored in shared passions, complementary interests and pride in each other’s achievements. And C$ on Main Court, the room Chris occupied for decades at St Catharine’s College, was much more than an o.ce. Remember the eloquent objects that gathered there. The model ship his father had built. The tall eighteenth-century Venetian rosewood slippers decorated in mother of pearl – witnesses to the cultural links between northern Italy, the Ottoman Empire and China. The beautiful Gandhara head of the Buddha, "'!! years old and carved by Greek and South Asian artisans in a style native to Eastern Afghanistan – of all the things Chris and Susan had found together, this was his favourite.

It was in C$ that so many conversations happened, conversations that never failed to take Chris’s guests to new places. And I’m not referring here just to the sparks that were always falling from Chris’s forge, but also to his other gifts – gifts of unassuming and attentive friendship. Just a few days after his death, one of Chris’s former St Catharine’s graduate students, Jayeeta Sharma, wrote: ‘I will never forget how awkward I felt, as a provincial student from a little place in Northeastern India, how he helped me to ,nd my moorings, with C$ as a welcoming, warm and beautiful space for talk, laughter, and hospitality’. Words like this remind us of why Chris was admired and loved in equal measure.

After he had declined the o+er by his former students to produce a Festschrift, a conference was organized in Varanasi (Benares) in January of this year to honour his achievements. Here one could see Chris at ease and happy in the setting of the civilization that had absorbed and rewarded his attention for so many years. It is hard to imagine a more ,tting acknowledgement: it was on the stone bathing wharves (ghats) of this beautiful, thronging city that the young Chris Bayly had begun his research into the mercantile elites of northern India.

We miss Chris Bayly. We miss the books he would have written and the bottles and conversations we would have shared with him. We miss the sight of him at night, herding families of ducks (ably assisted on occasions by the Head Porter, Mr Dom Mulcrone) from St Catharine’s College down to the banks of the River. But we are thankful for the inspiration he was and is, and the College is deeply proud of this outstanding historian who taught, wrote and -ourished here for &$ years.

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John Shakeshaft was born on % December #%!% in Chelmsford, Essex, and died in Cambridge on ) July !"#$. John was elected to the Fellowship in #%)# when there were but sixteen on the Governing Body. He served as College Librarian from #%)!–!""' and President #%%"–*. He became an Emeritus Fellow in #%%&. Dr Peter Wothers writes:Like many others, my ,rst encounter with Dr John Shakeshaft was as a slightly terri,ed eighteen-year-old, sitting across a table from him during my Cambridge interview, hoping to gain a place at St Catharine’s. Years later, as a Fellow of the College, I came to realise that, with his rather unique, forthright style of ‘questioning’, many people sitting opposite him for lunch continued to feel as I

did then. John must have interviewed thousands of candidates during his long time as a Fellow here, a fact that came home to me on ,nding out that he also interviewed our current President, John Little (")*#), and emeritus Fellow Professor John Pickard in ")($. But I would like to quote from another of our alumni, physicist-turned-comedian Ben Miller (")%'), who recalls his admissions interview with John and chemistry-Fellow Paul Raithby in his popular science book It’s Not Rocket Science.

‘It started badly... Dr Shakeshaft asked me a very simple question about Newton’s second law; I freaked out under that pressure and I came out with the only thing I could think of: “We didn’t do that at my school.” This is a bit like saying that no one taught you to shampoo at Vidal Sassoon. He tried another tack and asked me something about electromagnetism; I claimed never to have heard of that either. Out of sympathy, I think, Paul Raithby took two objects from his pocket and laid them on the table in front of me: a squash ball and a piece of hard plastic. “If I told you”, he said, “that these two objects have the same chemical composition…”’ Perhaps aided by his reading earlier on the way to the interview, Ben impressed the two interviewers and later received an o+er. He continues:

‘I had achieved a life ambition: I had won a place at Cambridge to study physics. In actual fact I was mistaken; what I had in fact won was a place at Cambridge to study chemistry. For on my ,rst day in harness, I realised that my ambitions didn’t necessarily tie in with those of my new college, St Catharine’s. I presented myself to John Shakeshaft and announced my intended speciality. “Really?” he said, with some surprise. “But you gave such an elegant answer to the chemistry question. I’m afraid Paul rather had you down as one of his!” I begged to di+er. “But you didn’t even know what momentum was.” An o+-day, I explained. I lived for Newtonian physics. “Very well,” he said with a sigh. “Welcome aboard.” He didn’t look up until I was nearly at the door. “Mr Miller?” I turned with great hope in my heart. Could this be the o+er of a scholarship? “What exactly did they teach you at your school?”’

John himself had won a scholarship to read Natural Sciences at St John’s College in ")&), coming from Caterham School in Essex. After graduating he began his PhD in astrophysics under the direction of the future Nobel Prize winner, Martin Ryle (see below). Following a three-year Research Fellowship at his former college, in ")(! John became a University Demonstrator in Physics. That same year, the Revd Canon CD Waddams wrote to John asking if he might be interested in acting as the Director of Studies in Physics at St Catharine’s. The College had had associated physicists before John, but in ")(" he became our ,rst ever Fellow in Physics.

John soon came to identify himself more as a facilitator and began focussing on assisting the running of the Radio Astronomy Group, and on teaching. He led the teaching committee in the Cavendish, lectured parts of the physics course and for many years was the Senior Examiner for all parts of the Tripos – a job he felt needed to be done with proper care and attention. John soon became known for his great attention to detail (a fact to which the Editor of this magazine can attest). John was thanked by author Graham Woan in The Cambridge Handbook of Physics Formulas:

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My greatest thanks though are to John Shakeshaft who, with remarkable knowledge and skill, worked through the entire manuscript more than once during its production and whose legendary red pen hovered over (or descended upon) every equation in the book. What errors remain are, of course, my own but I take comfort from the fact that without John they would be much more numerous.

I believe it was his acute attention to detail, that made him such an outstanding College Librarian. He took on this job in his second year at St Catharine’s and continued for &# years until just after his retirement. When the new dining hall was built in the (!s, what is now the Armitage Room became the overspill library. There was also a law library in C", now the Bursar’s room. This was all far from ideal, and so, in the mid-%!s, John oversaw the construction of the ‘New Library’. With the original Sherlock Library housing books on English literature and modern and medieval languages, the New Library contained pretty much everything else. And scrupulously up-to-date it was too. I remember receiving regular snippets from catalogues, all heavily annotated by John indicating which editions the library had and asking whether I would recommend any of the other newly published texts. John also pressed regularly for those books that were no longer necessary to be weeded out. I also received in my pigeonhole newspaper articles that John thought I might be interested in. The remarkable thing was that it was not just me – John did this for all of us in the Fellowship.

John told me that it was a book that really inspired one of his other passions in life – pottery. The book was by the master potter Bernard Leach, and it detailed the materials, techniques, and form of contemporary pottery. John collected pottery for over (! years. Often attending auctions, he bought works from all over the world and soon became a most knowledgeable collector. He stopped collecting only when there was no more room – his vast collection quite literally covered every surface in his home. With typical generosity, John left his entire collection to the Fitzwilliam Museum and oversaw its careful rehousing there.

John was deeply immersed in so many di+erent aspects of College life. From my own perspective, I recall seeing John for many years at the start of the bumps course each summer. As the Custodian of the College Silver, I note that many items, purchased to meet the needs of the expanding Fellowship, are engraved ex dono JR Shakeshaft. Whilst not particularly religious himself, he nonetheless generously contributed to the adornment of the Chapel. Despite being a rather private individual, John really took being part of the Fellowship of St Catharine’s seriously. He will be greatly missed by us all – not just for the little articles and notes in our pigeonholes, but also for his quick-witted, ,ercely sharp and sometimes mischievously provoking conversation across the lunch table. Emeritus Professor Malcolm Longair of the Cavendish Laboratory writes of John Shakeshaft the Radio Astronomer:John Shakeshaft was one of the second generation of physicists who joined the -edgling Radio Astronomy Group in ")'# to carry out a PhD under Martin Ryle’s supervision. The discipline of radio astronomy scarcely existed at the time. Martin had joined the Cavendish Radio Group immediately after the War and begun the long process of disentangling the nature of the radio sky. The existence of discrete sources of radio emission was soon established and by the time John joined the Group it was known that some of these were associated with rather remarkable astronomical objects, for example, exploding stars such as the Crab Nebula and what appeared to be colliding galaxies.

When John joined the Group, the second generation of radio interferometers, optimised for surveys of the radio sky, had been designed. His task was threefold: to complete the electrical construction of the four-element interferometer, to analyse the survey records, almost all of which had to be done by hand, and to interpret the results of the survey. Rereading his PhD dissertation, submitted on Christmas Eve ")'(, the care and dedication he invested in compiling the catalogue of ")$( radio sources is very

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obvious. What became known as the Second Cambridge (#C) Survey of Radio Sources was published in ")'' with John as ,rst author.

To say that the results of the survey caused a furore in the radio astronomical and cosmological communities would be an understatement. The survey showed that there were many more faint sources than expected in non-evolving cosmological models. Battle was joined, not only with the proponents of Steady State Cosmology, but also with the radio astronomers from Sydney who could not reproduce the Cambridge results. It turned out that the intensities of the faintest sources in the #C survey had been overestimated because of the phenomenon of ‘confusion’, the presence of faint unresolved sources in the beam of the radio telescope when brighter sources were observed.

The Cambridge radio astronomers were well aware of the problem of confusion and Peter Scheuer had devised an alternative way of analysing the data which con,rmed the excess of faint sources – this was all carefully explained in John’s dissertation. There followed another survey in which John played a major role, the Third Cambridge ($C) Survey carried out a with the same #C interferometer at twice the frequency, with consequently twice the angular resolution to minimise the e+ects of confusion. This catalogue contained only &*! sources and became the precursor of the de,nitive survey of bright sources in the Northern Sky. The excess of faint sources was still there, but not to the extent inferred from the #C survey.

It is remarkable how much of the future development of radio astronomy is adumbrated in John’s dissertation and early papers. But it must have been quite a bruising experience for a PhD student to be thrust into the midst of the ,ery debates between the very strong personalities of Ryle, Hoyle, Gold, Bondi, Mills and Bolton, to mention only the most prominent of the protagonists.

Subsequently, he made important observations of the polarisation of the radio emission from the Galaxy and extragalactic radio sources and also the lowest frequency measurements of the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation, following its discovery in ")(' – the latter con,rmed the thermal nature of the radiation.

The Cavendish Radio Astronomy Group in #%$'. John Shakeshaft is second from the left in the front row. In the centre row, left to right, are Graham Smith, Martin Ryle and Antony Hewish. Peter Scheuer is fourth from the right in the back row.

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From the late ")'!s onwards, John played a key support role in fostering the many activities of the Radio Astronomy Group. He kept track of all the data on radio sources as new surveys appeared, as well as combing the literature for all the papers relevant to radio astronomy and the new disciplines of high energy astrophysics and astrophysical cosmology.

A particular service was his editing of radio astronomy papers in the course of their preparation. All of us became used to draft papers coming back from John with more red ink than the contents of the papers themselves. The annoying thing was that he was right! Many of us remember with gratitude his insistence that papers be well written in standard English with correct punctuation. He found his ideal role as editor of Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, although it was strange to many of us how the unbelievable chaos of his room in the Laboratory contrasted with the punctiliousness of his editing.

He is fondly remembered by many of us as an excellent colleague who provided essential support to our research activities. His good humour never deserted him.

Ourania’s sonIn piam memoriam John Shakeshaft

Beyond the village margins stretching weststand telescopes, majestic, silent, like huge ceramic bowls probing by radio the edges of the universe.Astronomers receiving signals painstakinglytry to decipher encoded text and punctuationas did John for thirty-three yearspressing on, feeding the expanding archive as researchers do.

Within the foundation of the Wheelhe found a family, a home, whereinhe quietly grew and -ourished for ,fty-four yearsteaching and nourishing with irenic care countless students,fostering fellowship for mind and body’s satisfaction, guarding and expanding Woodlarke’s heritage,the library most of allhis treasure chest of wisdom for forty-two years;likewise, as with a giant microscope, scrutinising, year on year,magazine data where only perfect grammar would satisfy(a misplaced digit in his funeral Service a last reminder?).

Whether probing to the farthest galaxies,or nourishing St Catharine’s children,so patient in every endeavour, so generous in time,what kindled the ,re in the depths of his own universe?We discovered just a little.In perseverance we may have sensed quite neara devoted, long-widowed mother,or admired those potter’s hands around roughest clay;or simply stirred ourselves to reach beyond the stars.

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Dick Laws (Matriculated #%'', Honorary Fellow #%(!) was born in Whitley Bay, Northumberland, !* April #%!) and died in Cambridge & October !"#'; adventurer, eminent large-mammal ecologist, conservationist, science administrator and accomplished artist. Professor Arnoldus Blix writes:Dick’s father, a former adventurer, lost his leg as a soldier in the Great War and thereafter could undertake only clerical work, while his mother, who was awarded an MBE for local political activities, had little time for the children and Dick soon developed a lust for the independent life of the outdoors which he soon started to illustrate in ink and later in watercolour.

He was educated at Dame Allan’s School, at ,rst in Newcastle-upon-Tyne and then in Windermere whence the school was evacuated during the Second World War. Dick continued his outdoor life in the Lake District as an avid Boy Scout. At school, he captained the school’s rugby team and excelled in biology, winning a Scholarship to Cambridge.

Dick came to St Catharine’s in ")&& to read Natural Sciences and developed an interest in polar research, inspired by such local polar luminaries as Colin Bertram, Lancelot Fleming and Brian Roberts. He played rugby, became a member of the Kittens Club, on occasion studied botany and anatomy, and ,nally obtained a First in Part II Zoology in the summer of ")&*. Two of Dick’s brothers were also at St Catharine’s – Peter (Exhibitioner ")$*) and Michael (Exhibitioner ")&)).

After graduation Dick secured a job as biologist with the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) and went south on an expedition under the leadership of his mentor to be, Vivian Fuchs, who landed him as Base Leader on Signy Island in the South Orkneys for two years (")&%–)) under austere

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conditions. There he was to study the biology of the southern elephant seal for which he had to build his own laboratory from the remains of a derelict Norwegian whaling station. During his tenure at Signy Island, Dick pioneered a hallmark method for age determination in seals based on annual layers in teeth which revolutionized studies of the population dynamics of mammals, and a still-used method for marking seals based on -ipper tags. This work was published (in ")'#) after his return to Cambridge in ")&) as a research student at Cats to write up his PhD thesis. However, at the end of the year he went back south again, this time to the old Norwegian whaling station at Grytviken in South Georgia, which at that time was still in operation. True to form, en route he stopped in the Falklands to carry out a comprehensive fur seal survey all around the islands. At South Georgia he also made seal censuses throughout the island and continued his collection of material from elephant seals throughout ")'"–#, constructing a population model for the species without the aid of computers or even a calculating machine – it formed the basis for a comprehensive management plan for the elephant seals on the island. This plan was implemented by the Falkland Islands Government in ")'# and was in operation with very positive results until the demise of the whaling and sealing industry in ")(&.

Returning to Cambridge in early ")'$, before defending his thesis (The reproduction of the southern elephant seal), he took the opportunity to go on a ‘leisure’ trip, this time to the Arctic, for the Fisheries Laboratory at Lowestoft studying experimental ,shing o+ East and West Greenland, Bear Island, Jan Mayen and Iceland. On his return, Dick was awarded his PhD in the autumn of ")'$. At the same time he landed his ,rst ‘real’ job with the National Institute of Oceanography (NIO) charged with the study of the great whales. To nobody’s surprise, he soon went south again – on the Norwegian-crewed whaling factory ship FF Balaena, as biologist and whaling inspector for a seven-month trip (")'$–&), spending an unbroken four months at sea. For Dick this was an epic journey, catching $!-metre, "'!-ton blue whales, at times facing mountainous seas (estimated at up to #' metres) threatening to overturn the small ‘catcher’ vessel Setter % while he was temporarily onboard. He even witnessed the decapitation of a man when the whale cannon accidentally went o+.

Upon his return Dick continued his work on large whales at the NIO as Principal Scienti,c O.cer over the next seven years until ")(". Here he was strongly involved in developing a hallmark method for aging large whales based on annual layering in the wax plugs which are found in their ears, partly working at the whale station at Steinshamn on the west coast of Norway. However, upon publication of the results, he was for once outmaneuvered by local in,ghting and did not become an author of the paper. During his tenure at NIO he did, on the other hand, manage to publish his elephant seal material from Signy Island and South Georgia in several monographs, and he was for the ,rst time introduced to the bureaucracies of international meetings of such agencies as the International Whaling Commission (IWC), later to become a large part of his life.

In ")'& Dick had married Maureen Holmes, the daughter of a former Indian Army soldier, and, becoming unhappy with the work at NIO, he accepted an o+er to become director of a Cambridge-University-inspired research programme funded by the Nu.eld Unit of Tropical Animal Ecology (NUTAE) to undertake hippopotamus management and research in the vast Queen Elizabeth National Park in Uganda. So in ")(" he established himself with wife and two young sons in a palm-log cabin with a thatched roof of papyrus reeds, where lions snored on the lawn during the night and elephants had to be chased out of the vegetable patch in the morning. At the time there were some "',!!! hippos in the park, overgrazing and causing severe erosion of the land. Dick undertook population counts and oversaw the culling of some "!!! hippos annually over a period of ,ve years, giving him ample opportunity to collect material for a once-only study of hippo reproduction and ecology while surrounded by African wildlife, often captured in paint on canvas and in black-and-white drawings.

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acceptance for a similar approach in the Murchison Falls National Park where some "!,!!! elephants were similarly overpopulating and destroying their food supplies. Here, in cooperation with the local Game Warden, Ian Parker, he studied all aspects of elephant ecology and culled a staggering #!!! elephants which were intensively studied, totally transforming knowledge of elephant biology and resulting in the classical book (with ISC Parker and RCB Johnstone) Elephants and their habitat. All the resulting meat was processed and utilized by the local African population and the ivory was sold to ,nance the project.

After his work in Uganda, Dick moved on from the wet habitats there to the dry area of Tsavo National Park in Kenya in ")(*. Here the problem was much the same: some #$,!!! elephants were overgrazing the park and the National Park Trustees considered there was a need to cull a large number of animals. The plan was endorsed by a number of conservationists and subsequently by the Kenyan Government, but there was growing local opposition, mainly from the Park Warden and tourist interests that wanted as many animals as possible. It is also conceivable that there was a communication problem over why mass culling was necessary in a park that was created to protect the elephants from poachers in the ,rst place. Anyway, Dick, who was appointed director of the programme, started out with a cull of )!! elephants, though the plan called for several thousand. However, although the initial phase of the project was very successful, opposition and intrigue grew and, when Dick himself was accused of corruption, he resigned in anger, returning to the UK in ")(% after eight years in Africa. Tragically, Dick was soon proved right by a severe drought in Tsavo in ")*!–" when an estimated *!!! elephants starved to death in the park.

Upon his return to England, by now a renowned authority on large mammal ecology, Dick soon landed a job as head of the Life Sciences Division of his ,rst employer, the FIDS, which in the meantime had become the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), now under the leadership of his old mentor,

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recently knighted, Sir Vivian Fuchs. At the time of Dick’s return, BAS was a collection of isolated units, geographically spread over the country and the research compartmentalized. He therefore immediately took it upon himself to restructure ,rst the Biology Section and subsequently, as Director from ")*$, the whole organization. Thus, when he retired as Director in ")%*, BAS was consolidated in a new building in Cambridge as a well-organized world-leading organization for polar research, with &!! sta+, two major research ships, several aircraft and ,ve Antarctic bases. In his capacity as Director much of Dick’s time was spent in international scienti,c meetings, like the Scienti,c Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR), for which he became President ("))!–&), and in ,ghts with the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) over ,nance. In fact, when Argentina invaded the Falklands in ")%# the very existence of BAS was under threat. The war, however, made Dick a valued advisor to Margaret Thatcher, who in return became a staunch supporter of BAS activities and secured its funding. Dick’s astute conduct during the crisis won him a CBE in ")%$, but debacles with NERC in this period probably cost him a knighthood.

In spite of the burdens of administration Dick still managed to get out of the o.ce and made almost annual trips to Antarctica inspecting the numerous bases, overseeing ongoing research and even carrying out seal research for himself. He published numerous scienti,c papers and the book Antarctica – The Last Frontier (")%)); he was also editor of several learned books on seals and Antarctic ecology.

He received the Polar Medal in ")*( (with a second clasp in #!!"), was elected to a Fellowship of the Royal Society in ")%! and was awarded a Cambridge ScD "))'.

Upon his retirement from BAS in ")%* Dick was elected Master of St Edmund’s House in Cambridge. This was at the time a rather laid-back religious graduate college with a strong Roman Catholic tradition, so the election of a declared agnostic as Master was bound to cause tensions. Intrigue and underhand activities were initially part of the college’s politics, but Dick persevered, the institution gained full collegiate status and the name was changed to St Edmund’s College; when he retired in "))( the infrastructure had been greatly improved and the number of students had grown ,ve-fold.

He subsequently became an Honorary Fellow of St Edmund’s, a status he had already received from his old College, St Catharine’s, in ")%#, additional to Honorary ScD from the University of Bath ("))") and Foreign Fellowship of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters in "))% – and at Coronation Island in the South Orkney Islands ((!°$%’S; &'°$%’W) a glacier is named after him.

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After last year’s sabbatical Eastern voyaging, #!"&–"' has been a more conventional – albeit not unexciting – year in the Senior Tutor’s life.

Happily, the rather grim Tripos performance of #!"& has been left behind us, with a move to the very centre of Mr Tompkins’s League Table, ranked "$th (lucky for one) of #' colleges, a ladder-like advance of eight places on last year. The strongest subjects were English and Natural Sciences, but there were solid showings in many disciplines, a scattering of starred ,rsts, and Tripos-toppers in Chemistry and Management Studies. It was especially pleasing to see the new fresher year come in sixth among all colleges, and this promises very well for the future.

A new series of St Catharine’s College Lectures was inaugurated, in the handsome setting of the McGrath Centre, and it was a pleasure to attend the ,rst (the Tom Henn Lecture), by former pupil Simon Godwin ("))&), now -ourishing as a freelance theatre director after stints in Northampton and at the Royal Court. He spoke eloquently about the challenge of the classics to contemporary directors and his recent production of The Two Gentlemen of Verona at Stratford (the ,rst in the main house for &! years – now available on DVD); since then, I have seen his productions of Man and Superman and The Beaux’ Stratagem, both at the National Theatre, and of Richard II at Shakespeare’s Globe. He directs Hamlet for the RSC at Stratford next year (Shakespeare’s Mortal Quatercentenary)." The day of the Globe Richard II was one of the proudest of my professional life, since the matinee performance was Dominic Dromgoole’s (")%#) Measure for Measure; I doubt anyone else can claim to have seen back-to-back productions directed by former students in the Globe. Dominic has been a brilliantly successful Artistic Director at the Globe and his ,nal Shakespeares will be Pericles and The Tempest in the new Sam Wanamaker Indoor Theatre in the coming season. Ave atque vale.

To wrap up the theatre talk, at Stratford this year Oscar Toeman (#!!() was Assistant Director on The Merchant of Venice and Alison Bomber (")%%) did the Voice and Text work on Othello; it’s also been a delight to see Caroline Horton (#!!!) twice on stage touring in Cambridge over the past year, once in her show Islands and the second time in a witty re-ection on the Odyssey, Penelope Retold; and Scott Handy (")%*) was cruelly murdered in the ,rst episode of the BBC# spy series, The Game. Well out of it, frankly.

I attended a fascinating St Catharine’s Lecture by Lord Maurice Glasman (")*)) on Tudor and Contemporary Politics, and excellent Shirley Society talks by Marina Warner and Paula Byrne; the society also published a beautifully produced issue of its occasional series of writing by College members, Volta.

Lent Term was particularly busy, partly because I team-taught the Part I English Renaissance paper with my colleague Hester Lees-Je+ries, supervising not only our own students but also all those from Magdalene (they teach our Medievalists). With the Governing Body’s kindly blessing, I took a few days out in early February to deliver a conference paper in the USA on the English ‘Factory’ in Japan ("("$–#$), an interest arising from my time in Kyoto and now bearing some academic fruit; I’m just ,nishing revision of the paper for publication in the Proceedings.

It’s also been a pleasure this year to welcome to College Professor Takayuki Katsuyama and his family; Takayuki-san is the Shakespeare Professor at Doshisha University in Kyoto, and has been given Visiting Scholar status at St Catharine’s this year whilst completing a book on Shakespeare and the representation of non-Christian faiths. The exchange relationship with Doshisha is one the College

" In order, at least in part, to mark this event, we plan to hold another Reunion Dinner for English alumni next year, on ") November #!"(, and to indulge in a day of Shakespearean celebration, drawing on the talents of the College’s noble tradition of critics, directors, actors and general lovers of the Man from Stratford. Keep an eye on the College website: www.caths.cam.ac.uk under alumni events.

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greatly values, and we will be welcoming another Japanese undergraduate next year, to study Politics. I have done my bit to help Deborah Loveluck with the ever-more-important tasks of building alumni

relations and fundraising (which are not the same thing), and (notwithstanding possible invidiousness involved) I can’t not express my personal thanks here for the generosity of Peter Dawson (")(") and his wife Christina, both for the continuing and enhanced support they have given to the College’s need to provide Counselling for our students and for the new Jean Thomas PhD Award, an annual full bursary for a PhD student which will encourage our best to stay with us, in the knowledge that the College can support them as comprehensively as any other (richer) institution.

It has also been a year of losses, and others will write at length elsewhere about Chris Bayly and John Shakeshaft. Although I will miss them both, it was John who made the ,rst and lasting impression on me when, at my Matriculation Dinner some && years ago, his opening conversational gambit, after being introduced to his dining neighbour (me) was ‘What are you reading?’ Me [pridefully]: ‘English’. John: ‘And what is the use of that?’ He knew how to get a conversation going.

And we’ve just started on the election of a new Master, which is interesting.Paul Hartle

In #!"& the College admitted "$' undergraduate students to read the subjects that we can service. We have no architecture, no history of art, no education and no linguistics. The statistics are as follows:

As we have over ('! applicants every year, easily increasing our applications when the University has proved less attractive, the question of selection must be addressed. We receive data from each applicant that is processed by the Cambridge Admissions O.ce. Each college receives an Excel spreadsheet full of the data for each candidate applying for a particular subject. Thus the medicine spreadsheet has )( columns of data and "(!! rows of candidates. For those students with GCSE and year-"# exam data, they are rank ordered. Extensive research has shown that those with year-"# marks greater than )$/ are more likely to get high Tripos marks. Many colleges use this as a benchmark and only interview those with more than )$/ in those subjects relevant to the subject they are applying to read. For sciences we require A*A*A, and for the arts & humanities A*AA; for those o+ering the International Baccalaureate we require *** at the higher level. Each candidate summoned to Cambridge has two interviews, historically a tutorial interview and a subject interview. Nowadays there are two subject interviews. Eventually, after much discussion, we make about "'! o+ers. Whilst this strategy is designed to prevent over-reliance upon the interview, some Fellows distrust the spreadsheets.

Extracurricular activities tell us that a good scholar can manage time well. Several alumni regret the marginalization of team sports, a result of the sale of sports ,elds of state schools and the alienation

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of schoolteachers by government ministers. Of those who arrived in Michaelmas #!"&, "!% were from the UK, ") were from the EU and ) from outside the EU; *! were female and (( were male. Many of the undergraduates need ,nancial help and the College is most grateful for the generous support of alumni.

Graduate StudentsEvery year we o+er College membership to %!–)! graduate students. About '! are registered for one-year taught courses, "( are clinical medics and vets, and the rest are PhD students. They are an international bunch with academe as their creole. In the past they would all have been given College accommodation, but, due to policy changes, we are unable to house all of them now that priority is given to &th-year undergraduates. There is little money available for Masters degrees in the arts & humanities and alumni have magni,cently contributed to help fund several bursaries for both MPhil students and PhD students. Again, we are very grateful for such generosity.

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BURSAR’S REPORTThose Members who attended recent Reunion weekends may have noticed two signi,cant changes in Main Court, the refurbished Ramsden Room and Basement, and the cleaned stonework.

The Ramsden Room. Whether you know the large ground -oor room in Old Lodge as the JCR or the Ramsden Room, anyone who visited it a couple of years ago would surely agree that it was tired and in need of a thorough makeover. The work was to include refreshing the basement, which contains the main Island Site laundry as well as showers and toilets. The Governing Body decided to allocate

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an earlier gift from Peter Boizot (")'!, Fellow Commoner "))() towards the College fabric, and a recent legacy from Dr and Mrs Evans to fund the project. Robert Evans was a Fellow ")&*–** and then Emeritus Fellow until his death in #!!'; his widow Betty died in December #!"#. We are very grateful for the support which made the works feasible.

After some debate it was agreed that the Room itself should be capable of handling four main types of functions, based on the heavy use of recent years: both boardroom and café-table style meetings; smaller lectures of say $!–&!; and receptions. After a brief competition RH Partnership, who had worked so successfully on the McGrath Centre, were selected. All architectural competitions bring out both sound and more wacky ideas – my favourite this time was a furniture lift from the basement into the corner of the Room, reminiscent of those used on aircraft carriers!

As to the decoration of the new Room, the College has been unable to ,nd pictures of the Room from before its use as the JCR in the ")*!s – do you have any? The absence of historic information was actually quite helpful in obtaining agreement to a simple classical style of décor and furniture, with some interesting features. The project began in July #!"& and ran for longer than planned due to unexpected issues in the basement. That did, however, provide plenty of time for debate in College about colour schemes and particularly the choice of carpet. There is an urban legend that one of the other ancient colleges once spent ,ve years choosing a pair of curtains; at some points this did seem to be a benchmark for our own carpet selection process! The Room required an AV system which has been concealed in a new suspended ceiling above an exciting new chandelier. Portraits of Fellows from the past are being hung in the Room – just how long can it take to clean a painting?

The basement has been transformed and student feedback is very positive. We were also able to provide storage for furniture and a graduates’ locker room close to the MCR.

The well-known furniture maker Luke Hughes provided an excellent suite of -exible furniture for the various intended uses. But for many, the pièce de résistance of the whole project is a bookcase at the western end of the Room, which now displays John Addenbrooke’s splendid collection of medical and other books, his bequest to the College, but something which has been stored for many years out of sight in the Rare Books Store beneath Hall (now there’s a subject for a future Magazine article – the Store, that is).

Stonework in Main Court. Pollution had taken its toll on the look of Main Court, and three years ago we began stone-cleaning work on the west side. In the ,rst year progress was slow, in part because the sandstone is so soft, but eventually the magic poultice formula was identi,ed and, in the last two years, work has been swift and e+ective. Some replacement of stones was also necessary, seen most easily on the Chapel steps and around the SCR bay window. The most striking parts of the new look for me are the fresh clean faces looking down on us from the SCR walls and the range of beautiful colours of stone to be found in the archway into Queen’s Lane – but come and make up your own minds.

Juggling the current demands to fund education and research with the duty of preserving our heritage will never be easy, but I hope that on your next visit to College you take the chance to look more closely at the beautiful stonework, and the Ramsden Room, and that you will agree with me that they are both projects which future Students and Fellows will deem to have been successful.

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The McGrath Centre. I have been asked on several occasions whether the McGrath Centre has contributed to the growth of our external conference business, now an important part of the ,nances of almost every college. Many of you will have seen how the Centre has bene,ted the life of the College itself, both for formal lectures and other meetings, and as a regular venue for informal occasions from memorial service receptions to exhibitions and student functions – even the May Ball 'silent disco'. The Centre is also proving a very popular space for external functions. The Judge Business School in particular is a regular user, with a large group in residence even as I write. There is no doubt that the future growth of our conference business lies in moving up-market towards a greater emphasis on executive functions, and the Centre is the cornerstone of our marketing e+ort.

Simon Summers

ALUMNI AND DEVELOPMENT REPORTIn the last twelve months, the alumni events programme run by the Alumni and Development O.ce has welcomed nearly )!! Members to events in the USA, Hong Kong, Singapore, and the UK. Particular highlights have been: the Law and Geography Dinners, which were both very well-attended; the networking event in London hosted by Garrett Curran ("))"), featuring a presentation by Dr Jerome Neufeld (#!!); Fellow, #!"") on carbon sequestration; and our Ten Years On dinner in February, when I was joined by many Directors of Studies welcoming back our Members who matriculated in #!!'. In spring #!"', I attended our annual supper parties in Hong Kong and Singapore, kindly hosted by Dr John Endicott

(")(&; Fellow Commoner, #!"') and Alex Ling (")(') respectively. Our regular programme of reunions and celebrations held in College continues in #!"( with reunions for matriculands of ")%#–& (Saturday # April) and ")(*–*! (Saturday "* September). You can ,nd full listings for reunions up to #!"* on the College website. Finally, we continue our programme of subject dinners with English on Saturday ") November #!"( and Natural Sciences in both November #!"( and November #!"*. I would also particularly like to highlight the evening reception organised by the St Catharine’s College Society at the Inner Temple on "& June #!"(, hosted by Society President Guy Beringer (")*$; Fellow Commoner, #!!%).

I am delighted to report that the St Catharine’s Campaign total now stands at 0#*.# million. The Campaign was launched in #!!) to enable the College to continue to -ourish in several key areas – Buildings, Teaching, and Student Support – and as we near our total of 0$! million we are truly amazed by the impact our Members’ gifts have had in these key areas. The pie chart on the right shows how Members have chosen to designate their gifts since the beginning of the Campaign; many gifts to the General Endowment have also been directed towards the Teaching and Student Support funds. As well as several transformative gifts this year totalling 0$.' million, donations and pledges to the Annual Fund have now cumulatively reached over 0".* million since the start of the St Catharine’s Campaign. The number of Members choosing to give to their College continues to increase, and in the last twelve months "%/ of our Members made a gift – "$/ of those for the ,rst time. In January we were delighted to welcome four new Members to the "&*$ Foundation, which recognises gifts to the College of 0'!,!!! or above and are very much looking forward to our special "&*$ Foundation Gala in Hong Kong in April #!"(, to celebrate a number of major gifts from our Members in the Asia Paci,c Region.

As a result of this extraordinary generosity, this year we have been able to support our students with a wide range of annual grants for hardship, research, travel and sports, and to invest in the College’s

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academic future by funding a new set of graduate bursaries, including the Jean Thomas PhD award. We now o+er ,ve MPhil bursaries (0"!,!!! each) and up to three PhD bursaries (0"!,!!! or 0#!,!!!pa each), and are con,dent that these awards will enable us to sustain the highest standards of academic life, both by attracting the best students from across the world, and by ensuring our students can gain the greatest possible bene,ts from their time at St Catharine’s.

If you are considering making a philanthropic gift this year, I would urge you to consider giving to St Catharine’s, which exists to educate the most able students, regardless of wealth or background. Our alumni take up leading roles in all walks of life, and by donating, you will be investing in the future of the world’s economy, arts, healthcare, science, and much more. As we look forward to #!"(, I do hope we will be able to welcome you back to a College event, and wish you all the best for the new year.

Deborah Loveluck

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CHAPEL AND CHAPLAINCY REPORTWithout doubt the most memorable service held in the Chapel this year was Choral Evensong on Remembrance Sunday in this the anniversary year of the beginning of World War I. Our preacher that evening was our very own Professor Sir Christopher Clark, recently elected as Regius Professor of History and author of an authoritative account of the events and circumstances that led to the war. In his sermon he suggested that ‘We might take note of the words spoken by Abraham Lincoln over the dead of another civil war. That our task is not to consecrate the ground already hallowed by their sacri,ce, but “highly to resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain”. Our task is not to mark what has

,nished, but rather to rise to the challenge of what is un,nished. To make ourselves and the society we inhabit worthy of the immensity of their sacri,ce.’ In an election year in which we have been reminded of the potency of nationalism he enabled us to hear within a European context the words of Jesus

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enjoining us to love one another and not to be servants but friends.Remembrance is a feature of Michaelmas Term and we continued a tradition of inviting back the

family members of alumni who died in the previous year to remember their loved ones with us as a College at All Soul’s tide.

We baptised Nathaniel Darling (#!"&) on the feast of Pentecost and married Jessica Porter (#!!&) and George Davies at the beginning of the summer before work commenced on cleaning the brick and stonework on the Chapel side of Main Court and replacing some of the crumbling stonework on the steps to the Chapel.

The Chapel community has remained in good heart with a burgeoning group of Chapel Wardens to assist with the running of the Chapel and ministry of welcome. I rarely say morning or evening prayer by myself with a faithful group of students coming either regularly or semi-regularly. This has been one of the great pleasures of the year as the rhythm of prayer in the beautiful space of the Chapel anchors the day. We sit along the south side of the chapel a+ording us at the beginning of Michaelmas and for most of Easter terms a view of the Wisdom Window by Tom Denny, the details of which still surprise after nearly two years of regular admiration. Towards the end of the summer research period we had a choir reunion at which the festivities in the bar after dinner ceded for a while to a late night Chapel singing session with a full-throated exuberance. The current choirs are in such good voice that it makes me look forward to choir reunions in years to come!

Conversation and debate characterise the Monday evening discussion groups with topics ranging from scriptural interpretation through doctrinal disputes about judgement and hell to sexual ethics – the mixed group of believers, doubters and disbelievers continue to ensure I am kept on my toes. We have also had more focused bible studies and formation groups to give the opportunity for those who wish to grow and deepen their faith as well as question and interrogate it. I also took a group of students on a study retreat to the Community of the Resurrection in Mir,eld after Easter – giving space for re-ection, time for study and the opportunity for prayer.

The College Communion services once a term followed by Chapel Suppers only just ,t into the SCR for dinner now but provide all the liveliness we have come to expect. We also held a teaching service for the Girls’ Choir termly eucharist to extend the sterling work that the Director of Music does in introducing the junior choir members to the faith and practice of the church through music.

This Easter Term we have held a sermon series on Faith in Science having ,ve guest preachers who are ordained but who did doctoral work in the natural sciences to preach on how they reconcile their faith with scienti,c research. They have continued what has proved to be a wonderfully diverse group of guest preachers this year, allowing voices from di+erent parts of the Church to be heard. They have challenged and encouraged the students and, I hope, given them a sense of the breadth of the Christian faith’s expression.

Along with these highlights the worship of God has continued with weekly Choral Eucharist and Evensong on Sundays in term, two choral mid-week services and the regular pattern of daily prayer. The Chaplaincy is never dull and I am still very much aware of the privilege and responsibility of presenting God within this community.

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CHOIR REPORTI write this in between pleasurable sessions of editing; the object of my scrutiny not being an academic paper, I’m pleased to say, but the Choir’s imminent CD release: an anthology of Christmas music, due to appear in good time for your Yule-tide stockings.

The process of recording is not just about taking an audio snapshot of an ensemble; it is a creative process, one which over the course of hours and days can enrich performances and enrich the musicians involved. Certainly the choirs at St Catharine’s – both Student and Girls’ – shifted into a new gear when confronted with microphones, and their achievement will be heard not only in the (! minutes

of music committed to the forthcoming Resonus CD, but also in the quality of the choir in the coming year.Credit for this must go in no small part to the organ scholars – William Fairbairn and Alex Coplan –

and deputies – Freddie Brown and Ben Cox – who stood in for me during a short Sabbatical I took in the middle of the year. This was not merely a question of holding the fort, but also of making daring and adventurous forays into new territories. In terms of repertoire, the choirs have been as eclectic as ever: everything from "'th century motets to the contemporary, via Bach, Poulenc and a smattering of old Edwardian favourites. The programme that the students took on their trip to Venice in the summer could thus boast a heritage almost as rich as our surroundings: Monteverdi in St Mark’s, Schütz in San Pietro di Castello, and – for most of us the highlight – Byrd in Santa Maria dei Miracoli. In providing the stimulus for this trip, and a well-appointed, well-positioned apartment, we have to thank Douglas Blausten (")*") and his wife Maxine.

No foreign trip for the Girls’ Choir this year; instead, it was our turn to host the ensemble from the Piarist School in Szeged, Hungary, which so generously welcomed us last year. Concerts in Oxford, London and Cambridge provided the opportunity to revisit a programme of folk songs from both countries, along with some impromptu dancing. The highlight of the year, however, must surely be the live broadcast on Radio $’s The Choir in March; in which the choir premiered a song by Rhiannon Randle, the soloist for which was Sarah Connolly. Sarah, along with Dame Jean Thomas, Rona Fairhead, Sophie Kinsella and Dame Mary Archer, have kindly agreed to act as Patrons to the choir, and with their support we hope to continue expanding the pro,le of the choir, as well as giving the boys a run for their money.

In short, many irons thrust into the ,re over the last year are still there: another Hungarian adventure, this time with the student choir, is scheduled for December; a London concert on % December will launch the ,rst disc of a three-disc series on the Resonus label; and plans are afoot for further interesting collaborations. The year end is not, in this instance, the end of the cycle of development which the choirs are enjoying. Watch this space.

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It is a source of pride that our regular audience members for the Kellaway Series seldom know precisely what to expect from one of our concerts. It is, naturally, expected that the quality of recitals by internationally acclaimed pianist Philip Fowke or by BBC Symphony Orchestra violist Peter Mallinson are going to be of the highest standard. But some of the repertoire o+ered will not be on even the keenest collector’s play-list. And that, in a city of such knowledgeable audiences as Cambridge, is something of an achievement.

We started with home-grown stars: a programme given by our ,nest undergraduate musicians, many of whom hold Kellaway Instrumental Scholarships. This featured three pianists, whose quality was partly explained by the second recital of the season, given by their teacher Philip Fowke. I have rarely heard the chapel Steinway played with such panache as in the sequence of show-stoppers that he o+ered as a ,nale.

The College Choir gave two concerts during the season; the ,rst a warm-up to their recording sessions (see Choir Report), the second a Passiontide meditation which included a premiere by Ben Cox (#!!*), a former organ scholar, who also conducted the performance. The choir were again involved in William Whitehead’s organ recital, a celebration of Bach’s Orgelbüchlein which included contemporary additions to the famously incomplete set of chorale preludes.

We are, of course, spoilt for traditional, Anglican-style choral music in Cambridge. What the London Bulgarian Choir o+ered, therefore, was a corrective to the view that that’s the only, or even the best, way to do it. This choir, led by the charismatic Dessislava Stefanova, makes a sound quite unlike anything you would hear in a Prayer Book evensong; and not one I would encourage trying at home. It was a thrilling event.

Edward Wickham

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Deputy Head Porter Dennis Pope (pictured left) retired in January #!"' after #" years’ service with the College. Dennis started as a Lodge Porter in June "))$ after being with the Ambulance Service for a number of years. He was recruited to the Deputy Head Porter post in January #!!(.

Phil Dean (Clerk of Works) retired in May #!"' after over "& years. He was the ,rst appointment with that title – previous posts with similar duties were Maintenance Supervisor or Manciple. Phil joined the College in #!!" after #" years with construction company Rattee & Kett.

Porter Barry Clarke left in February #!"' after seven years at Catz. Sue Musk (née Nightingale, pictured left) left in March #!"' after "( years at Catz

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The Graduate Research Seminar provides an opportunity for our graduate students and research fellows to discuss their work before an astute and very friendly audience. The diverse audience of expert insiders and interested outsiders also gives speakers an opportunity to hone their communication skills, and for the rest of us to be exposed to unfamiliar problems, methodologies and theories.

Michaelmas TermDean Holt (PhD in Chemistry) All Aboard the Pineapple Express; using catalysis to assemble drugsDr Matthew Champion (Research Fellow in History) The music of the clock: towards a history of time and sound in Late-Medieval EuropeSimon Wright (PhD in Physics) Why are we here? Investigating matter-antimatter asymmetry with the LHCb experimentEleanor Chan (PhD in History of Art) Early Modern Diagram Stylistics, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Diagram – the rise of visual aids in early science

Lent TermIsmahan Suleiman (PhD in Physiology, Development & Neuroscience) Morphogenesis of the avian neural plateVictoria Mascetti (PhD in Surgery) The interface of pluripotent stem cells and mammalian development – a Chimaera?Rudolph Ng (PhD in History) The global coolie trade between China and Latin America in the nineteenth centuryJulia Schae+er (PhD in Physiology, Development and Neuroscience) Spinal nerve segmentation during vertebrate embryogenesis

Easter TermDr Hiram Morgan (Visiting Scholar from University College Cork) Ireland in #$#(: the story of an unscheduled Habsburg visit and its rami+cationsDr Owen Holland (PhD in English) William Morris’s Utopianism: Propaganda or Pre-+guration?Dr David Waddilove (Research Fellow in Law) ‘He will judge the peoples with equity’: the Elizabethan Court of Chancery

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The College Photography Competition is held in the Lent Term each year and judged over the Easter break. The theme for #!"' was College Life and the judges were College President John Little (head judge), Miranda Gri.n and Simon Summers.

The winning picture (seen to the right) was alumnus Robert Cole (#!!*); #nd (uppermost, below) was postgraduate student Jonathan McCree-Grey; $rd (lower, below) was IT Technician Igor Chodur.

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Two special events associated with Sir Alan occurred in #!"'.

A portraitIn February a portrait of Alan was unveiled. It had been commissioned by the College as Alan is the most decorated St Catharine’s scientist to date, having been awarded the Royal Society’s Royal and Copley medals; former scientists so honoured include Faraday, Darwin, Einstein and, more recently, Sanger and Crick. See an article in the #!"# Magazine about Alan’s international medals.

Paul Brason was the chosen artist because his portrait of the Master attracted such universal acclaim – all were delighted when Paul enthusiastically accepted this second St Catharine’s commission. Alan’s is only the fourth painting of a Fellow in the last ,fty years, the others being a small sketch of Alfred Steers, Emeritus Professor of Geography, undertaken in ")%' by the acclaimed artist Michael Noakes, and two in oils, one of Peter Boizot in #!!# and the other of Bevil Mabey in #!!$, both Fellow Commoners and both painted by Suresh Patel.

At the unveiling of the ,nished portrait, Alan spoke of the visits Paul made to Cambridge and how they became ,rm friends during the sittings. ‘We both agreed early on that it would be good to have something in the portrait that connected to my scienti,c work and we wondered about using a molecular model of vitamin B"#, but that would have ,lled the entire canvas. So we decided instead to use the small molecular model you see at the bottom left of the portrait. For the chemists, this molecular model represents porphobilinogen – the substance that is a very early starting material for the construction of vitamin B"# in living systems. Interestingly this same small molecule is also the starting material from which haem of haemoglobin is built in our bodies and, in addition, it is used to build chlorophyll in green plants. So you can see that it is a rather important substance and I spent

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over thirty years of my scienti,c career working on it and on all the far more complex materials built from it. Paul and I also discussed having something set in the background related to one of my other interests. We considered gardening (a spade?), hiking in mountains (boots?), music, literature etc. until we reached -y ,shing. This sounded perfect and so, with the books, a -y reel stands on a volume of the internationally famous book on trout. The chosen location was the OCR and there we can see the connection to the College with the Wheel.’

The portrait was subsequently exhibited at the #!"' Annual Exhibition of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters in London.

$%th BirthdayIn March, a celebratory Fellow’s Dinner was held to mark Alan’s )!th birthday in #!"'. After the meal, Alan spoke about his early life in the ")#!s and ")$!s. The following extracts are based on that speech.

‘I was born in Leigh, a cotton and mining town about "' miles from Manchester. My father was a small independent builder who was able to give my mother just three pounds each week. With this she managed to keep the family fed and healthy; indeed, she was a genius at ,nancial management. I had a sister and a brother, and we lived in a small semi-detached house at the end of a row of terraced housing with no electricity.

‘I took the ""-plus examination and entered Leigh Grammar School – a very good school, especially for mathematics, physics, chemistry and English. I enjoyed my school days and my examination results were good enough for entry into the Sixth Form. However, war broke out two years earlier and this greatly a+ected my thinking. There was a large war factory in my town where electric cables for aircraft, warships, tanks and so on were manufactured. I decided to leave school to work in this factory to help with the war e+ort and, at the same time, add my wage to the small family ,nances. The school was appalled, but I stuck with it. I worked in the Control Laboratory at a weekly wage of "*/( – a little under a pound. However, soon it became clear that all the interesting work was being done by graduates and all the boring routine tests were being done by me. I was the dogsbody.

‘I had made a bad mistake and I needed to go to University, but I only had the equivalent of O-levels. So I set up a correspondence course leading to the equivalent of A-levels at that time, the Higher School Certi,cate. All my mathematics, physics and chemistry had to be learned from textbooks guided by unseen tutors. After two or three years I took the HSC examination and the results were amply good enough for university entrance.

‘However, my family could not possibly pay for me to study at a university. I had to win a scholarship and so I visited my former Headmaster at the Grammar School. After I had admitted my mistake in leaving school, he was soon on my side and suggested that I try for a Lancashire Technological Scholarship which would cover all the costs. Then his face fell on reading that the closing date was a month previously and the examination was the following Saturday. He immediately telephoned the Director of Education for Lancashire (he went straight to the top!) and the eventual outcome was that I was allowed to take the examination – fortunately I was successful. Those are two key men in my career; the Headmaster who was willing to do all he could to support me and the Director of Education who was willing to be -exible. Without them, I would probably not be with you today in St Catharine’s.

‘I was accepted by the University of Manchester to study chemistry; an excellent choice as the Chemistry Department was then one of the best in the country with Alex Todd as Professor of Organic Chemistry – he later moved to Cambridge where I joined him in ")() (later I was elected to the "*!# Chair, the one that Todd himself had held). I graduated from Manchester with First Class Honours in Chemistry and from that point onwards, my career took a more conventional academic route in sharp contrast to what had gone before.’

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NEWS FROM THE JCRThe past year for JCR Committee has been as busy as ever. True to form there was continued success on the charities front thanks to e+orts of Amelia Scho,eld and Saliha Shari+, the charities o.cers. Catz remains one of the most active colleges in this respect with new and old initiatives receiving widespread College support. At the start of the year, Catz students were the most generous participants in the RAG Blind Date charity event, an outstanding achievement given our modest size. Whether Catz is Cambridge’s romantic hub or just a lonely-hearts club we can’t say. However, our dedication saw us beat other colleges such as Kings and Trinity in a stunning contribution of over 0",!!! to the cause. Amongst the many di+erent initiatives pioneered this year was the Catz Gives $ pledge. This is a campaign which invites St Catharine’s students to pledge to give '/ of their future income to good causes after they graduate, with mystery donors promising additional amounts. More information can be found on the website catzgives'.strikingly.com.

Following the crisis that hit Nepal in late April, the JCR ran a Nepal Earthquake Relief collection that raised over 0"(! in its ,rst week. The amount was then brought up to 0#"! by a generous non-College sponsor. Through di+erent events during the year, a further 0#"% was raised for Cambridge Hub and a further 0"&! for the charity Mind.

The JCR Committee also pioneered a new position, that of Academic A+airs O.cer. This new post, initiated and now held by Emma Copley, provides an additional strand to the support system for students during their time at Cambridge and complements the work of the JCR Welfare Team. The holder now sits on the Education Committee and coordinates with Directors of Studies as well as students to aid their communication and devise strategies to enable students to take full advantage of all the academic opportunities the University has to o+er.

One of the longest projects and greatest achievements of the past year has been the successful removal of the gendered dress code for Formal Hall. This was recently accepted by the Governing Body and will enable students to dress in the appropriate clothing they feel comfortable in as opposed to the previous gendered dress code. The initiative was presented to College by Charlie Northrop (MCR) and the new dress code was successfully introduced with further help from the JCR President Eli Bond, Scott Warin and Arnav Kapur (JCR Vice Presidents), and MCR Presidents Ellie Chan and Natasha Watts. As the ,rst college in Cambridge to adopt such a dress code, the initiative has sparked wide support and interest from both local and national press, with other colleges likely to follow suit next year and featuring in a Hu,ngton Post article. We’re delighted with the new inclusive policy and would like to thank the Fellowship for all their support, in particular Dr Elliott (the Dean) whose help with the precise wording of the dress code was all-important.

Sports and Societies have also had another typically successful year, the highlight of which was a fantastic Varsity Sports Day with Worcester, our sister college in Oxford. This was organised by Leah Grace (Sports and Societies O.cer) and was an all-day a+air with rugby, hockey, football, lacrosse, tennis and netball; it saw more than $! Catz Students competing at Worcester in Oxford. Although Catz triumphed in the hockey, tennis and mixed netball, some hard fought draws and narrow losses meant that Worcester came away overall victors. All the more reason to set the record straight when we hold the event here in Cambridge next year! Leah must also be congratulated on her organisation of Catz ,rst ever ECG heart screening event which enabled students both from Catz and other colleges to have their hearts examined and checked for abnormalities. The event was very well-received and provided a great opportunity for Catz athletes and non-athletes alike to ,nd out more about the health of their hearts at no cost! New Sports and Societies O.cer Andy Rees also organised a College-wide gym survey which prompted an unprecedented number of responses. In response to the survey, the JCR has now secured

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funds to improve the gym to make it a more versatile and friendly space for all JCR users next year. The welfare team have continued to build on the success of past years in Michaelmas introducing

the ,rst Consent Workshops (written and coordinated by Eli Bond) for all fresher students. The Consent Workshops, which were held at a number of colleges, gained widespread support both within the University and in the national news, with more colleges hoping to sign up next year. During the stress of exam term, Georgina Sergi and Eli Bond (Female Welfare O.cers) worked on o+ering ‘stress-busting’ events. Our fortnightly Mindfulness sessions saw a turnout in excess of $! students, and the weekly Yoga classes, run for free in the McGrath centre, were equally popular.

A successful proposal presented to the Governing Body by the JCR and MCR Presidents obtained permission to hold an inaugural St Catharine’s College Garden Party. After a lot of work and planning, the JCR organised this in May Week; it was for the whole Catz community including the JCR, MCR, Fellows and sta+. It was a lovely day in the sun, with over $!! in attendance. A red-carpeted main court hosted live music, a giant chessboard, Pimms, Champagne and an array of tasty dishes to celebrate the end of exam season in style. The party was only made possible by the work of Entertainment O.cers, Clarry Taylor, Charlie Briggs, Iona Charlton and Harry Elliot, alongside our Treasurer, Shreyas Gopal. It was a wonderful event and I would like to thank College for their permission. Receiving a positive response on all fronts, we are hopeful that the event will be held again the year after the May Ball in #!"*. Particular thanks must go to Simon Summers (Senior Bursar), Charlotte De Buriatte and the catering team and Richard Malley for all their assistance and support.

It has been a characteristically busy and exciting year for St Catharine’s College JCR, which has many plans already in the pipe-line for Michaelmas #!"' and beyond. I have enjoyed my time immensely as JCR President and have high hopes that the next academic year will be just as fruitful. My thanks once again to all the JCR Committee and to others within the Catz community who have o+ered the JCR so much of their time, support and advice this year.

Eli Bond (President)

NEWS FROM THE MCRThis was a back-to-basics year for the MCR. We found ourselves with a bigger intake than ever in October, and so we were determined to address the rapidly evolving needs of our immensely diverse and rich community of graduates, and to ensure we did what we could to integrate them into the College community. As our community continues to grow, it is becoming increasingly important to ensure that new graduates experience the bene,ts of the close-knit and enthusiastic group that makes Catz the fantastic place that it is. After an immensely successful and expansive year in #!"$–"&, we came to the helm determined to consolidate bonds within College, and create some truly solid and collaborative relationships. Following on from the fantastic work of the previous year’s committee, we once again invited fourth year undergraduates to become Associate Members of the MCR. We were delighted that &! fourth-years chose to join our ranks, which has again inspired many of them to stay on for postgraduate study, and forged many strong friendships.

Galvanised by the success of this new connection with the JCR, we have spent much of this year looking at issues common to the JCR and MCR. This new perspective has brought about some really fruitful outcomes, not least our new gender-neutral Formal Hall dress code. Special mention must go to Charlotte Northrop, our Formal Hall O.cer, and to Mark Elliot, the Dean, who have worked tirelessly from the beginning of the academic year to ensure that everyone’s concerns were met and that this fantastic

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innovation was implemented with appropriate sensitivity to the traditions of Formal Hall. Charlotte, with Eli and Arnav from the JCR, drafted, re-drafted, and ultimately produced a dress code that now discriminates in only a sartorial sense. We hope that many colleges will follow our example in the years to come.

Another, less sensational but no less important, innovation came in the form of our very own commemoration of Magna Carta: a fully elucidated Bedders’ Charter. The work of housekeeping within all College accommodation is utterly invaluable, and a good relationship with your bedder is arguably one of the hidden gems of life at Cambridge. Working with Sharon Goodchild, Head of Housekeeping, we have produced a comprehensive list of bedders’ duties, both for our new students and for our bedders themselves, in order to facilitate a good relationship from the moment our new students arrive.

We were pleased to expand our already comprehensive Formal Hall repertoire with the ,rst Heritage Talk, provided for us by Fellow Professor Sir Chris Clark. This talk gave our new students a chance to see one of Catz best in action, and to eat in the SCR, the historic former dining hall. Professor Clark gave us a breathtakingly comprehensive potted version of his best-selling Sleepwalkers book, which was followed by a delicious French supper concocted by the College catering sta+. Following the success of this event, another is in train for the coming academic year. Also in the preliminary stages of planning are a green formal, a cross-dressing formal to celebrate our new dress code, and a bigger swap with Worcester College, Oxford. In the meantime, our Food & Drink O.cer, Sarah Förster, brought us ,rmly into the twenty-,rst century by replacing our traditional sherry pre-prandials with prosecco and raspberries. Whilst this move has proved to be perhaps the most controversial innovation of the year, it has also sparked a fruitful dialogue about the merits of di+erent beverages which promises to fuel pre-dinner conversation for many years to come. The sherry is dead, long live the sherry.

The traditional calendar of MCR events had commenced with a lively Freshers’ Week calendar including the ubiquitous but much-beloved Wine & Cheese evening, Pub Golf and a Rubik’s Cube Bop, which the committee worked tirelessly to pull o+. Our Burns Night Formal and Ceilidh Bop, the established jewel in the MCR social calendar, was particularly spectacular this year thanks to the diligence of Social Secretaries Amanda Kennedy and Blaine Landis, who not only managed to secure the Cambridge University Ceilidh Band on the busiest Saturday of the year, but also really showed us how to ceilidh with -air! Sunday treats, ,lm nights and particularly our casual, weekly Sunday night Mini Seminars continue to be a huge success, with further plans for an all-day Mini Conference well under way! The social life of the MCR really continues to thrive.

All this, of course, could not have been achieved without the continuing support from people across College, not least the graduate tutors, Dom and the porters; Martin, Lynne, Tony and all the Hall sta+; Richard Malley, Phil Dean and the maintenance guys; Kathy Malley, and Sharon and housekeeping. Our thanks, as ever, to our Committee (pictured, right): Treasurer Sebastian Steingass, Secretary Josh McTigue, Computer O.cer Ryan Gri.ths, Welfare O.cer Rudolph Ng, External O.cer Fedir Kiskin, Green O.cer Rocio Lopez, and to Charlotte, Sarah, Amanda and Blaine, for their enduring enthusiasm and willingness to tackle whatever the bewildering world of graduate politics has to throw at them. It has been a pleasure to work with everyone in College, and to lay down the foundations for a close, inclusive and vibrant MCR as it continues to grow.

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Careers Society The Catz Careers Society built on its already successful model for the academic year #!"&–"', adding a number of speaker events and student workshops to the Annual Dinner which takes place each February. These six speaker events proved to be very popular with students.

In Michaelmas Term, we welcomed: Mary Monfries, a tax partner at PwC; Catherine Leech, a personal injury lawyer; and Lawrence Thackwray (#!!(), currently on the Civil Service Fast Stream, working in the Ministry of Defence. David Peace (")((, Fellow Commoner #!"&) also provided freshers with an introduction to the St Catharine’s College Society at the beginning of October.

In Lent Term, we welcomed three alumni: Andrew Jack (")%'), section editor of the FT; Rona Fairhead (")%!), Chairwoman of the BBC Trust; and Andrew Scadding (")(*), CEO of the Thai Children’s Trust. They spoke about their careers and provided current members of College with advice and insight into their ,elds. A workshop, entitled Finding a Career that Fits, aimed at those not yet decided on a career path, was run at the end of Lent Term by Keith Cocker (")*#) and Wendy Hirsh for #' students in the McGrath Centre. The workshop was a great success, and many students commented on how useful they found it, in giving them a better sense of their own values and how this could help shape their search for a future career.

The Annual Dinner in February was once more an evening enjoyed greatly by all. Now in its fourth year, we welcomed professionals from a wide range of sectors for the traditional four-course dinner in Hall. The evening began with a champagne reception in the McGrath Centre, followed by an overview of the St Catharine’s College Society by David (its Secretary), and a chance for each of the guests to give a short introduction and synopsis of their career. This year we tried to expand the opportunities students had for networking by printing business cards with contact details for each student to give to guests they met and wanted to stay in contact with. As has been the case every year, the limited student places on o+er were oversubscribed within minutes; such enthusiasm is a testament to the popularity and value of the event for current students.

All the events and services which we provide for the College are only made possible by the generosity and goodwill of alumni, family and friends, and we would like to extend our thanks to all of those who helped throughout the year. Thanks must also be extended to David Peace and Tony Watts (")(!, Fellow Commoner #!"&), without whom so much of what the society does would not be possible, and also to the student committee. Pippa Stevens (#!"#), Harriet Macleod (#!"$), Belinda Saunders (#!"$) and Katya Warwick (#!"&) have put a huge amount of time and e+ort into all of our events, and I am extremely grateful for their support.

President: Laura Spenceley

Christian UnionCatz Christian Union is a group of Christians from di+erent backgrounds and churches. We aim to bring Christians together and to share the message and love of Jesus in Catz. We are a part of the University-wide Christian Union known as CICCU. We have various weekly meetings including prayer meetings and a College Group, where we worship and read the Bible together as well as encourage one another and organise College events. We put on various events for students to explore Christianity for themselves. These included a ‘Text-a-Toastie’, where people ordered a toastie of their choice and asked a question about Christianity, and a garden party with various stands displaying di+erent aspects of the Christian Faith. We also organised Church breakfasts in partnership with the Chaplain to help freshers ,nd out about the di+erent Churches in Cambridge. We have been encouraged this year to see many students getting involved in Christian Union and engaging with Christianity. It has been a wonderful experience and we hope to see Christian Union continue to grow.

Reps: Iain Ross and Lucy Gimson

Engineering SocietyIn normal engineering style, St Catharine’s College Engineering Society started the year by presenting our new freshers their very own Catz hard-hats. This was to enable us to outclass other colleges at the infamous ,rst-year structural project, which Catz have won for the previous two years. On top of this, SCCES continued to ensure its engineers did not just see the four walls of the lecture hall, by having a golf-theme pub crawl that saw us visit seven di+erent college bars, as well as a meal at Sesame during Freshers’ Week.

Finally, to celebrate all the achievements of our undergraduates, graduates and engineer Fellows, we had our black-tie annual dinner at the end of Lent Term. This was followed with the traditional game of ‘Bear, Ninja, Cowboys’ to select the new President – Ben Clayton.

President: Amy Chodorowski

John Ray SocietyThe John Ray Society has hosted a number of interesting lectures throughout the year from a variety of subject areas. The ,rst talk was given by Catz alumnus Stan Boland (Physics ")*%) on the subject of technology start-ups, after his wealth of experience from leading three tech businesses and creating ('! high-value jobs. We also welcomed Professor Daniel Wolpert, who gave a lecture on the complex nature of the brain’s control of movement, especially under conditions of uncertainty.

In Lent Term, Catz Fellow Dr Jerome Neufeld spoke about the -uid dynamics of CO2 sequestration, a topic

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which is becoming increasingly important as we begin to store CO2 in deep saline aquifers as a mitigation strategy for dealing with increased CO2 emissions and global warming. Catz alumnus Dr Martin Stanton (")'*) gave an interesting seminar on setting the cell membrane potential, a topic of particular importance to the neuroscientists and physiologists.

The John Ray Society and Chemsoc joined to welcome Sir Martyn Poliako+ (from the Nottingham periodic table videos). He gave a lecture on utilising solvents in new ways in the area of green chemistry. Our ,nal talk of the year was given by Lord Robert Winston. This was a somewhat unconventional lecture, involving a slideshow of Renaissance artwork, and discussing how artists portrayed various genetic abnormalities, such as dwar,sm, acromegaly and Down’s Syndrome.

On a smaller scale, we put on an Internships evening, where third-years described their summer work experience to second-years and gave tips on how to apply for internships and lab placements. There were also subject evenings, where people in the older years gave their advice and opinions on their subject choices to people in the years below. We had plenty of social events, beginning the year with an evolution-themed NatSci pub crawl in Freshers’ Week. We hosted a book sale in Michaelmas, with the usual copious amounts of snacks, wine and apple juice. Chris Kerr very kindly donated his chemistry textbooks to the John Ray Society for the book sale, and we will donate the money raised (0"'!) to charity. One of the highlights of the year was the annual dinner. At the dinner, we handed over to the new presidents, Becky Martin and Emma Copley. After exams, they hosted a great garden party on Sherlock Court, with delicious food, Catz apple juice, prosecco and Pimms. It was a relaxed few hours for people to sit in the sun and chat with other NatScis.

Presidents: Bethany Christian-Edwards, Maddie Winder, Robert Trivasse

Law SocietyMichaelmas #!"& saw the return of the Annual Law Society Trip to London, which was kindly sponsored by Fresh,elds. The day began with a trip to the United Kingdom Supreme Court – unfortunately there were no Justices about for a quick chat! We all enjoyed seeing the building where some of the pivotal cases in the British Legal System get decided – and even got to sit in the Justices’ seats; who knows, some of the Catz lawyers may end up there some day? Following this, we made our way to Fleet Street where we had a session with Fresh,elds on being a commercial lawyer, and they enticed us in with a lovely dinner close by. It was a most enjoyable day for all who took part! We were very fortunate this year in Lord Kerr, Justice of the Supreme Court and former Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland, accepting our invitation to be the guest speaker at our Law

Society Annual Dinner. It was interesting to hear about his work at the Supreme Court, as well as some of the more amusing anecdotes from his time there. Our Lecture Series continues to be successful. This year speakers have included Charles Harpum, who spoke about the Lawrence v Fen Tigers case, and ex-Catz lawyer Arron Walthall (#!!"), who spoke about his time in Bermuda as part of the Pegasus Scholarship.

President: Rhiannon Lockwood

MedSocA highly successful year for the Medical Society had an important theme: a dialogue between the preclinical and clinical medics. This was initiated at the ,rst event of Michaelmas Term, the ‘Electives Evening’, in which the ,nalists shared their experiences as medical students abroad. Later in the term, Mr Stephen Price, a consultant neurosurgeon at Addenbrooke’s, gave a unique insight into his fascinating speciality. We learnt about the nature of the daily work of a neurosurgeon as well as how to become one. In addition, the ,fth-year medics gave several ‘Clinical Talks’ in which they discussed interesting and unusual cases they had encountered during their studies. These talks gave the preclinical medics an opportunity to explore the diverse range of medical specialities and to appreciate the importance of their early scienti,c training within the Tripos framework, linked to decision-making in clinical scenarios.

The ‘Pizza Nights’ of the Michaelmas and Easter Terms proved to be popular and valuable social occasions for the members of the MedSoc community. This year’s Annual Dinner was held in the SCR during Lent Term and was attended by medics and vets from all years as well as a good number of Fellows. On this evening, we had the privilege of hearing our Medical Guest of Honour, Professor Peter Barnes (")((, Honorary Fellow #!""), speak on Accelerated Ageing and Multimorbidity. Professor Barnes, the author of over a thousand peer-reviewed publications, has been the most highly cited respiratory researcher in the world over the last twenty years. Our Veterinary Guest of Honour, Fellow Dr David Bainbridge, gave an entertaining talk on the art of writing books aimed at a lay audience based on his experience as the author of several acclaimed works of popular science. The ,nal event of the year was the MedSoc Barbecue, which was held on Jesus Green as the Easter Term drew to a close.

I would especially like to express my gratitude to Catz Fellow Professor Nicholas Morrell, who has generously o+ered much of his time and invaluable expertise in overseeing the activities of the MedSoc. Indeed, the enthusiasm of both student members and Fellows is directly responsible for the achievements of the society.

President: James Wilkinson

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Music SocietyIt has been another busy, varied, and exciting year for the Music Society. The regular acoustic open-mic nights, Chill in the Chapel, have remained popular, and provided a wonderful opportunity to showcase the astonishing amount of musical talent at Catz.

The ,rst major event of the year was the Christmas concert, given to a packed Chapel, featuring a wide-ranging programme including Toploader and Tchaikovsky, Nat King Cole and the Nutcracker, and festive medleys galore. Catzapella treated us to a particularly noteworthy performance comprising a potted history of Christmas carols, and have continued to grow from strength to strength over the course of the year, which culminated in a series of joint performances with Newnham Voices.

Lent Term saw the Music Society host ensemble Pro Victoria, an exciting new early-music vocal group, for a concert of Lent and Passiontide music, including Tallis’s Lamentations of Jeremiah. The group were very well received by the unexpectedly large audience. The end of term saw the presidential handover, which is now held by mathematician and organisation enthusiast, James Dougal.

Easter Term was the busiest of the year, with the society playing host to Stimmung, a celebration of Film, Music, Poetry, Art, and Dance. The evening culminated with a performance of Stockhausen’s rarely performed avant-garde vocal composition of the same name, given with aplomb by the Facade Ensemble. In addition to this, the traditional May Week concert proved as popular as ever, with an afternoon including extracts from Les Miserables, Pomp and Circumstance, and, most importantly, industrial quantities of Pimms, strawberries, and cream.

President: James Bartlett

Shirley PlayersFollowing its revival in late #!"$, the Shirley Players had another successful year at the fringes of the Cambridge amateur dramatics scene. Though our output for this year consisted only of one production, Fairest Creature by our very own Ciaran Chilingworth, it was nevertheless (and if we do say so ourselves) a triumph. For this production we were lucky enough, following the success of last year’s production of TS Eliot’s Murder In The Cathedral, once again to be allowed to perform in the College Chapel, for which privilege we are eternally indebted and grateful to the Chaplain for his generosity, support and patience.

President: Douglas Tawn

Shirley SocietyThis has been a year of upholding time-honoured traditions and inventing new ones. Following the former Presidents’ successful revival of the creative writing magazine Volta, the society has produced another edition this year, with contributions from members inspired by the theme Night. The magazine was launched and the

title announced in November #!"&, at an exclusive society formal complete with candles and personalised menus, which we hope will prove the ,rst of many annual Shirley dinners. With illustrations by the Senrab Collective, as well as by Shirley co-President Ruth Hobley, this year’s edition of Volta was released in June, at the society’s May Week picnic in Grantchester.

Following in the footsteps of Don Paterson, Lavinia Greenlaw and Michael Symmons Roberts, to name but three, the award-winning poet Jo Shapcott visited the society in March #!"', delivering a wonderfully engaging reading of some of her most recent writing, as well as poems from the earlier collections Of Mutability and Tender Taxes. We were delighted to be able to host two other speakers this year, whose interests and specialisms ranged widely. Novelist and mythographer Marina Warner visited the society in November #!"&, enchanting us with a discussion of her recent research into the history of the fairy tale. In January #!"', meanwhile, the biographer Paula Byrne joined us to o+er an insight into her current project, exploring the potential uses of literature in treating mental health di.culties; Paula’s talk was of particular interest in relation to the College’s Mindfulness initiative. It was a privilege to be able to host such interesting and varied talks by these eminent speakers, and the society is immensely grateful to them for ,nding time in their busy schedules to share their thoughts and words with us.

Although the assertion is rarely quali,ed with anything as mundane as an actual date, the Shirley Society prides itself on being the Oldest Literary Society in Cambridge. Shirley is ultimately set apart from the rest of Cambridge’s (admittedly thriving) literary society scene, however, by its weekly Show & Tell meetings, at which members from di+erent subjects and years gather to share and discuss writing – their own or other people’s – relating to a particular given theme. This year’s meetings have ranged from the festive and food-related Mulled Wine and Mince Pies, to a curmudgeonly moratorium on Valentine’s Day entitled Absolutely No Sonnets. The co-Presidents would like to thank the society’s members for humouring their obscure and whimsical themes, and for the vital part they have all played in keeping this delightfully convivial tradition alive.

Presidents: Ruth Hobley and Rachael Hodge

Steers SocietyOnce again the Steers Society has had a great year, and we were delighted to welcome another excellent cohort of enthusiastic geographers. At the beginning of Michaelmas Term we held the traditional safari-themed expedition around a number of Cambridge watering holes. This was a great opportunity for the incoming ,rst-years both to get to know the other geographers and to begin to develop an understanding of the Cambridge landscape. Later in the term we had a meal before the Christmas break.

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In Lent Term we held the dissertation advice evening, using the excellent presentation equipment in the McGrath Centre. After presentations from the Fellows, the undergraduates were given an insight into how the third-years’ dissertations were progressing after their ,eldwork over the summer. This year topics included an investigation into the collective memory of the First World War in Tanzania, sustainable-,sheries management in Belize and tree-coring for evidence of masting events in Poland.

In February we welcomed back Nick Brown (")*%) to our annual black-tie dinner held in the SCR. Currently Chief Operating O.cer at London Underground, since graduating from St Catharine’s in ")%" Nick has held many prestigious management positions. His very interesting post-dinner speech re-ected this, spanning topics from the Dubai Metro to Boris Bikes, and we were very fortunate that he was able to spare his time to meet with the society.

President: Robert Pellow

SPORTS CLUBSAssociation FootballThe #!"&–"' season was mostly one to forget. The squad had lost a number of experienced ,rst-team players the previous year; having only just avoided relegation from Division ", it was clear from the start that this would be a very tough year. The other major change for the start of this year was the decision to drop the Catz $rd team from the League, due to dwindling interest (the previous year a number of games had been forfeited). We hope, however, that this is only a temporary withdrawal.

For the "st XI, the season did not get o+ to the best of starts. A couple of early season injuries left the squad very thin. Defeat on the ,rst weekend to Jesus was followed by a very tightly fought contest with Trinity Hall, which ended in a "–! loss – this result against one of the weaker teams in the League proved to be costly. Low on con,dence, the team headed into a run of ,xtures against some of the top teams in the League, with heavy losses incurred against St John’s, Selwyn and Pembroke before our Cuppers match against Girton. Against this Division # opponent, we hoped to get our ,rst win of the season, but despite one of the most spirited performances, leading #–! and $–# at times, we went down to an undeserved last minute &–$ defeat, leaving us without a win all term. Rejuvenated after a long Christmas break, we knew that at least two wins were necessary to retain our position in the top League of college football, but despite more con,dent performances, it was not to be. Relegation was con,rmed at the second-to-last weekend of the season, with a $–! loss to Downing. The last game of the season, despite having had the potential to have been the proverbial relegation six-pointer, ended up becoming a dead rubber against King’s, but it was pleasing nonetheless to earn a $–# victory to lift us o+ the bottom for the ,nal League table.

The #nd XI had a mixed season, also struggling to really get going. Despite encouraging turnouts, performances were modest, leaving the team -oundering towards the bottom of the Division '. By the end of the season, the two teams had picked up only seven points between them, a tally which did not seem justi,ed given a lot of

the performances all year. Despite the lack of success on the ,eld, the players and everyone involved with the club had an enjoyable year, with socials more than making up for the less enjoyable games at weekends. Next year the target will obviously be to bounce both teams back into reputable divisions.

Captain: Stuart Cummings

Athletics It was another good year for both new and returning members. The year began with Cuppers in October #!"&, when the College made an uncharacteristically slow start. The men’s team members usually placed about ,fth in each discipline, including promising fresher Gareth Goh with his alarming-looking hurdling; overall the men thus placed ,fth. The women, as usual, did better, with many high placings (,rst Becky Martin – pole vault, second Anni Bates – high jump, Kiara de Kremer – javelin, Emma Cullen – shot, third Helena Bolton Jones – hurdles, Rhiannon Lockwood – discus, Rebecca Martin – $!!!m, fresher Kloe Storrie – javelin). University captain Emma Cullen ran in the relay, which Catz won comfortably, but otherwise saved herself for later triumphs; without her extra contribution Catz women lost narrowly ("#*–"$&) to Emmanuel. A little later, on Oxford soil at the Freshers’ Varsity Match, representing the College were Ben Cottam, who won the pole vault, Kloe Storrie in the javelin and Gareth Goh, competing in both the ""!m hurdles and the long jump. All three helped CUAC to a win for both men and women against the dark side.

Winter conditioning was important throughout the colder months, and helped to secure another victory against Oxford at the indoor IVFEAR match in March. St Catharine’s once again made up a signi,cant proportion of the Cambridge team with Ben (pole vault), Anni (high jump), Gareth (hurdles), Phillip Crout, Priya Crosby and Rebecca Moore (distance relays), Kiara (javelin), Becky and Rebecca Hulbert (pole vault). Special congratulations also to Emma who broke the match record in the (!m and was part of the &x(!m and &x#!!m teams which also both broke match records.

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The successes in IVFEAR were followed by the much-anticipated week in Tenerife for this year’s warm-weather training. The training and preparation in Tenerife clearly paid o+ for several athletes including Anni Bates who later in April jumped a personal best, and Blues height of ".('m for Achilles at the LICC match. This also becomes the new all-time College high-jump record, which she hopes to take higher next season. In the Summer Term, Catz had athletes at the British Universities and Colleges championships, where Becky Martin came "&th in the pole vault, Priya Crosby ,nished )th in the #!!!m steeplechase and Phillip Crout had a fantastic race to ,nish &th in the '!!!m.

The highlight of the year undoubtedly was the Varsity Match, this year hosted on home turf at Wilberforce Road, Cambridge. A &–! victory over Oxford speaks for itself and with "# members of St Catharine’s competing for one or other of the teams, the College was certainly pivotal in this landslide win. Special mention goes to Phillip Crout who ran a superb race to smash the much-vaunted Oxford competition in the '!!!m and to Priya Crosby who won the steeplechase; both achieved Blues times, Priya thus adding to her collection of Blues in several sports. Emily Brady won the pole vault for the Blues team, as did Kiara de Kremer and Becky Martin for the women’s second team, the Alligators. But once again it was our captain, Emma Cullen, who stole the show; in her last year at Cambridge she beat both the "!!m and #!!m Varsity Match records, narrowly missing the win in the #!!m (by two hundredths of a second) to fellow CUAC sprinter and previous women’s captain, Alice Kaye. The ,nal match of the season was against Harvard and Yale. Here Oxford and Cambridge combine to compete as ‘Achilles’ against some fantastic athletes from across the Pond. From St Catharine’s Philip Crout, Priya Crosby, Emily Brady and Anni Bates represented Cambridge. It was a great match with ten records broken. Harvard-Yale thoroughly deserved their win in both men’s and women’s matches.

It has been an incredible year of Athletics both for the University and the College and despite the loss of so many College athlete stalwarts this year (Rebecca Hulbert, Emily Brady, Emily Goodband, Emma Cullen, and Helena Bolton-Jones) we look forward to a bright future. Anni Bates will follow on from Emma Cullen as University Women’s captain, keeping St Catharine’s at the heart of University Athletics, while Gareth Goh takes over as College captain and hopes to return the College to its rightful place by winning Cuppers in #!"'–"(.

Captain: Anni Bates

Badminton (Men)After the very successful #!"$–"& season, Catz Men’s Badminton had a lot to live up to. After a promising start, the ,rst team was sadly substantially reduced by injuries, leaving us short of players for the remainder of the ,rst term. Although our second team players did a stellar job,

by standing in at the last minute, we were unfortunately relegated at the end of the ,rst term. However, with the team almost fully recovered to full strength by the beginning of Lent Term, the ,rsts took the second division by storm, thrashing every team we came across, to top the table and earn our rightful place in the ,rst division again. In Cuppers, the Men’s team played some amazing matches before ,nally losing out to Wolfson in the third round. The Mixed team, on the other hand, made it to ,nals day and, after beating Girton in the semi-,nals (yes, we ,nally beat Girton!), went on to win the title.

The second team, despite numerous new recruits, struggled to ,eld a full team in Michaelmas, dropping down to Division ' before maintaining a comfortable position in the middle of the table in Lent Term. The very enthusiastic third team maintained their position in the seventh division throughout both terms, with numerous players also stepping up when called upon, when needed, by the ,rst and second teams.

Maintaining tradition, Catz once again remains one of the most enthusiastic badminton clubs in the University with abundant training sessions booked each week, giving everyone a chance to play as often as they wish. Fielding four men’s teams, everyone had the chance to play in the League, have loads of fun and play some amazing badminton. Thanks to everyone who made it such a great season!

Captain: Steph Potten

Badminton (Women)#!"&–"' has been another enjoyable and successful year for Catz Ladies’ "st Badminton team. In particular it has been exciting to see our newest members learn from the skills and knowledge of more experienced players. This allowed considerable improvements by team members over the course of the year culminating in a strong performance by all pairs during the Cuppers competition. The team has held its place in the bottom half of Division ", winning a total of #$ games, some of them by very close margins. Next year the team hopes to build on this success, under the direction of the new captain Katherine Newton.

Captain: Rachel Marshall

Boat Club (Overall)It would be fair to say that this year has very much been one of transition for the club. With many of our experienced oars-men and women graduating the previous year, the club has had to work hard to bring many new athletes up to a competitive level in a very short period of time. Although it never ceases to amaze me how quickly the club was able to develop the six novice boats we had in Michaelmas Term, unfortunately the lack of experience is telling in many of our results this year. However, there have been many great developments in the club over the past twelve months, which should lay the foundations for successful years in the future.

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January saw "' club members attend our inaugural international training camp in Seville, Spain. This was a huge success, and we made many new Spanish friends whilst on a fantastic regatta course running through the heart of the historic city. We look forward to returning in #!"(. Our o+-Cam experiences continued through the year, with crews representing the College at both the Men’s and Women’s Head of the River Races in London, and the Head of the Nene in Peterborough. This year was also the ,rst for several years that the club has sent a crew to Henley Royal Regatta. The crew of Chris Eddy, Chris Quarton, James Wagsta+, Robert Trivasse, Beth Cullimore-Pike (cox) and Alistair Nelson (coach) competed in the Prince Albert Cup for academic coxed fours.

At University level, the club can proudly claim to be most successful. All three of our trialists earned their seats and the right to compete against Oxford. Priya Crosby (cox, CUWBC Lightweights), Alistair Nelson (cox, CULRC) and Sarah Lucas (bow, CUWBC Lightweights) all returned to College with silverware. The latter also represented Cambridge at Henley Women’s Regatta, in the lightweight single sculls.

I must also extend our greatest of thanks to our alumni, supporters, and in particular our sponsor Argus Fire through Herb Bate (")($), for continuing to support the club; the funding has enabled us to purchase a brand new Filippi eight for our men’s squad. Along with the appointment of a new men’s head coach and two coaches for our novice squads, the club will be in good order for the coming year. Soon, the club will also begin a fundraising campaign in partnership with the College Alumni & Development O.ce, to raise money to replace our aging men’s and women’s coxed fours. Although we must bid farewell to a number of our athletes this year, as Scott Fitzgerald said in The Great Gatsby ‘Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.’ I hope that #!"'–"( will bring the club good fortune, and I look forward to once again seeing SCCBC climbing the (often slippery) bumps ladders. In Lent Term we will be holding our biennial alumni dinner and row, and I hope many of our former members and supporters will join us in celebrating our club. It has been a true pleasure to captain the club this year and ,nally I must thank the outgoing committee for all their hard work. For the wheel!

Overall Captain: Jonathan McCree-Grey

Boat Club (Men)The men’s squad this year has had some notable successes as well as a few disappointments. We had a strong group of novices in Michaelmas Term who, through hard work and braving the early morning river, placed $rd in the Novice Fairbairn’s Cup with the second novice boat coming &th in their Division. The senior men also placed a respectable "#th and *th (,rst and second boat respectively). This term also saw SCCBC run its ,rst training camp; we took a group

of senior rowers and coxes to Seville in Spain for ,ve days of rowing on their gloriously wide river. It proved to be a valuable training opportunity – the huge amount of fun and the warm sunny days in January weren’t too bad either.

Lent Term led to a number of talented novices moving straight into the "st Boat and saw us compete in two o+-cam races. Peterborough Head of the Nene was a new experience for the entire crew; a really valuable and enjoyable day, saw us place &th in a gruelling 'k head race. We also took a crew to the Head of the River Race in London in March for the ,rst time in a number of years – it was quite awe-inspiring to see $'! crews on the Thames and a really memorable row.

As the days grew longer and warmer the men of SCCBC took to the water for the ,nal term of the year, all of the crews trained incredibly hard and so it was very satisfying to enter four crews into the May Bumps. Sadly, the crews were collectively bumped more times than we would like; however, there were numerous personal achievements that the crews can be proud of. Overall, I am extremely pleased with the dedication and e+ort put in by everyone this year. Looking ahead we have a committed group of rowers next year who can build on the work done this year; we also have the exciting prospect of both a new boat and coach both arriving in September to take us to new heights.

Mens’ Captain: Robert Trivasse

Boat Club (Women)Graduation last year took many of our more senior rowers so this year the women’s squad was in a process of rebuilding. Fortunately we have some really good novices coming through, which means that we are currently setting ourselves up for the next couple of years. The results of both Lent and May Bumps did not give the squad its just deserts. Everyone trained hard and gave their all, but unfortunately this year the outcome was most unwelcome. Spoons in the Lents for W" was most disappointing, but luckily we narrowly avoided double spoons with an amazing row-over in the face of repeated overlap as Jesus took out Selwyn from behind. The results from Mays mean that W" are still in the ,rst division and in a very exciting position for next year, from which we can hopefully drive our way back up the table!

As far as squad depth is concerned, in Michaelmas we had a racing four and a ‘social’ four. Lent Term saw two eights and Easter Term saw three (two boats from the senior squad and a ‘champagne boat’ made up of Whiskers and AlleyCatz). Unsurprisingly only two boats got on, with the same results for both W" and W# (each down three). The Lents W" crew went again this year to compete on the Tideway in the Women’s Eights Head of the River Race. We ,nished a respectable #'#nd beating a number of universities and ranking slightly higher than our men’s crew (who came #'&th!) – Catz solidarity again! Although

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the results were not as impressive as in the past, it was a great experience for everyone involved, especially those who had only learnt to row in Michaelmas. The ,rst boat also went to Peterborough to race the Head of the Nene, beating several other colleges.

Last year’s captain Sarah Lucas (#!"") rowed for CUWBC, beating Oxford in the Women’s Lightweight boat, along with its cox Priya Crosby (#!"!). Sarah then competed at Women’s Henley, qualifying in her lightweight single scull. She won her ,rst race in a time equal to the course record – an amazing feat! Unfortunately she lost in the next race, but an outstanding performance nonetheless.

Captaining this year has been both challenging and rewarding. At the start of this year the senior squad was especially small (in number if not in heart) but they have -ourished along with the novices and hopefully we have laid the foundations for the squad to grow and thrive into the strong women’s squad that the Club deserves. Of course this would not have been achievable if it wasn’t for the support of our fantastic alumni and College, our brilliant Boatman (to whom I am yet to give a problem he cannot solve) and to our W" coach, Georgie Plunkett, who has stuck by us and helped us make the progress we have this year. The #!"&–"' results are really not representative of the e+ort our wonderful girls have put in this year and I look forward to next year when we have an opportunity to really show everyone what Catz is capable of.

Womens Captain: Beth Cullimore-Pike

Card and Board GamesThe ‘relaunch’ of a dying Card Games Society as the new Catz Card and Board Games Society was met with great enthusiasm, much to my delight, with over a dozen regulars meeting several times a term, to while away evenings in both cheerful co-operation and light-hearted rivalry. Designed partly to introduce a range of colourful and engaging games to a Catz contingent (woefully starved of anything more fun than the drawn-out agony of a game of Monopoly), we have had some great moments over the year – racing camels, -eeing sinking islands, exploring haunted ruins, working together to survive hellish deserts, to name but a few of the more memorable games; and of course, betraying friends and foe alike at every turn.

President: Michael French

CricketThe College had a disappointing season: four games played, four games emphatically lost. If you were hoping the SCCCC season might provide some cricketing joy to match England’s destruction of the Aussies, then unfortunately you will have been disappointed.

Starting with a match against a strong Fitz side, the Catz season began well with captain Mills winning the

toss. Williams and Diesel put together a ,rm partnership with Sam Hart adding ,reworks as he continually chopped accurate bowling to the fence. Despite good bowling by Thompson, Mills and Diesel, the sea of University Cricket stash was the foreboding warning of the inevitable: a loss by three wickets.

The next game was a repeat of traditional college rivalry, as we took on the Red Boys of St John’s. This was to be our ,nal game of Cuppers #!"'. John’s batted ,rst but not until after a #!-minute search for a new ball (the Captain had left his in his room). Catz bowled well and took early wickets, putting John’s under the cosh at the outset. Standout bowling performances came from Mills who took four wickets, Diesel and Gopal whose accuracy and occasional quicker ball kept our bowling economical: Johns were kept to a low "&$. When Catz batted, it became apparent that the Johns forte was bowling, as they ripped through our upper order. Even Diesel’s ‘sick’ mate from Anglia Ruskin couldn’t help us as he returned quacking to the pavilion a little more golden than before having lasted a single delivery. In the end our "!# was not enough to ful,l our dreams of Cuppers glory – these now lay scattered in a million pieces over the John’s well-cut wicket.

Next was our closest game: a tightly fought a+air against the Law Society who lost the toss and were put in bat. They opened in ,ne Geo+rey Boycott style as their opening pair scored at only about one run an over. But after $% overs they had built up a score of "(%. Despite another strong start from in-form batsman Cummings, backed up by Diesel, Mills, Hart and especially Lello who top scored with *!-odd, we fell short again, but only by # runs.

Completing a classic season for SCCCC, Catz opened its doors to alumni from far and wide on Acheson-Gray Day, the celebration to a popular alumnus who gave much to Catz sport during his time at College. The game started in what was becoming a bit of a tradition: another forgotten new ball. SCCCC started slowly against the pace of the alumni bowling but the occasional ‘pie’ allowed us to make positive headway. Several batsmen reached scores of $! or more, so SCCCC grew excited at the prospect of our ,rst victory. However, heavy rain brought the game to a conclusion and so we were left with a typically English, underwhelming and unimpressive ending: a drawn match and a tray of soggy cucumber sandwiches (although rumour has it that Matt Diesel is still trying to discover a winner by applying the Duckworth-Lewis scheme for matches with only one innings).

Despite the trials and tribulations of the season, SCCCC has been a club enjoyed by all who took part. Given our record for the last two seasons, the pressure on next year’s captain to beat the low--ying heights reached recently by SCCCC will be minimal. I wish him well.

Captain: Tim Mills

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Cross-CountrySCCCCC (notice the extra C to distinguish the club from that for cricket) this year organised a regular series of informal runs of about six or seven kilometres, often ending with cake! We also had a ‘Christmas running swap’ with Christ’s College Running Club, which included fancy dress and mince pies. Aiming to get more Catz people running, whatever their ability, we mainly run for pleasure rather than for competition.

However, several ran in University athletics or cross-country events, with Arnav Kapur, Harriet Gribbin and Iona Charlton backing up the excellent second-placings by Phillip Crout and Rebecca Moore in cross-country Cuppers held in November. Phillip then ran for the University in the cross-country Varsity Match at Roehampton, but his fear of mud got the better of him while Rebecca missed this competition with injuries restricting her to racing mainly on level surfaces. Later in the season both these two excelled on the (relatively) -at – with Philip gaining his athletics Blue and coming fourth in the '!!!m in the British Universities track championships. Rebecca won the Boundary Run half-marathon, in which Iona also ran. Rebecca also received the Hawks Club’s Sir Arthur Marshall award, recognising her several years of running successes.

Captains: Laura Paterson and Oliver Titheridge-Stone

FencingCatz fencers had another year of success, in fact greater than last year. Ed Stroud was part of the University men’s ,rst team which won both the Varsity and BUCS Team Championship Finals. Harriet Hall (last year’s University captain) and Alex Craig (the current University captain) were again part of the Varsity-winning women’s ,rst team, who also won the BUCS Team Championship Finals (again against Oxford as opponents) for the ,rst time in around seven years. Victoria Merrell (Mascetti) was part of the University women’s second team, which dominated their Varsity match, and also came second in their League, just behind a very strong Nottingham club.

Captain: Alex Craig

Hockey (Men)In October a largely unchanged squad returned to the freshly laid pastures of Catz Astro hoping to continue their ,ne form of the previous year. However, our dreams for the ,rst term were cruelly shattered on the very ,rst weekend against a side from the Leys as strong as ever. Veteran squanderers Mike Woodford and Andy Argyle were sorely missed at the back, and a $–! defeat resulted. Regrettably, this tough start may have crushed some budding fresher talent and despite a valiant e+ort to secure a &–$ win the following weekend and then the easiest win of the season against a Girton side who, true to form, failed to turn up, the damage was already done. A shaky win saw us through to the second round of Cuppers but the rest of the results,

including notably a draw with rivals Jesus, were only enough to secure us a mid-table ,nish.

We made a bright start in Lent Term with a &–# win over Jesus ensuring we hold bragging rights over them for this year. After this high, history was set to repeat itself with an unfortunate second-round Cuppers ,xture against a combined Fitz/Trinity team laden with Blues and Wanderers – even a sensational opening goal from our own Blue Kieran Gilmore could not prevent a *–# loss against the eventual Cuppers winners. A midweek game against Downing, who had won the League the previous term, coincided with the ban on those selected for University teams playing college sport, leaving us vulnerable against a team not reliant on University players; I was thus forced to watch, as chance after chance failed to make up for their one goal scored dead on half-time. A long break, midway through Lent Term, allowed us to regroup; although again consigned to a mid-table ,nish, we certainly found our form (and had some fun!) towards the end of the season with wins '–" and %–" over Pembroke and Churchill showing promise for next year under the captaincy of Matt Diesel.

Over the summer, Catz went some way towards re-asserting their dominance over the lesser colleges. Three teams were entered for John’s sixes, one of them winning the tournament and ,nally getting us some silverware. Catz then also entered two teams in Bath Summer Hockey (more than Cambridge University Hockey Club managed to enter). In addition to having a lot of fun, we again picked up a prize, winning the second division plate.

This season has been the last for many Catz hockey regulars from the past few years, all of whom have made a great impact and been a pleasure to captain and play alongside. Although there are too many to name them all, a special mention is deserved by Ben Davies, who will be missed after a full six years, as will be adopted regular Scott McKechnie. Finally thanks to Michael Carbonell, who captained the Gents XI in this, his ,nal year.

Captain: Sam Cole

Hockey (Women)After such a successful season last year, there were high expectations for the Catz hockey girls. Regarding the League, the ,rst issue that the team faced was that some of our players were just too good! The loss of Hettie Cust, Cat Cox, and Charlotte Frost to the University Blues side – girls who could not have deserved blues blazers more – meant that the team struggled at ,rst. But it was able to maintain its dominance in the League with the help of several keen freshers. Julia Simons was a solid rock in defence, and Anna Faulkner joined forces with Iona Charlton and Lucy Walsh in mid,eld to deliver the ball through to the attackers. The team therefore performed extremely well in both the Michaelmas and the Lent Leagues, losing just three matches in total, and ,nishing second and ,rst respectively.

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The highlight was beating Murray Edwards *–" in the last match of Lent Term. Cuppers simply rea.rmed Catz’s dominance both on and o+ the hockey pitch. The fanatical Catz crowd on the sidelines put Murray Edwards supporters to shame, while some slick hockey on the pitch resulted in a ,nal score of "–! to Catz.

Sadly we will be losing a few regular faces on the hockey pitch next year, including Hettie Cust, Christine Viney and Katy Davidson; it is safe to say that the season would have been very di+erent without them. However, each year brings new freshers who are always keen and often more than able to ,ll the gap left by departing players, and so this is certainly not the end of Catz’s dominance of college hockey.

Captain: Juliet Michel

Lacrosse (Mixed)A good intake of freshers made this year’s mixed lacrosse a lot of fun for all involved. In both terms we ,nished comfortably mid-table in the second division, but demonstrated on a number of occasions that we could compete with the teams at the top of the League and even in the ,rst division as well. In Cuppers we had some great performances in a very di.cult group and were unfortunate not to get any further in the competition. The fresher contingent should continue to improve, so the future is looking good for next year’s Captains Rosie Tian and Danny Christie.

Captains: Lucy Gimson and Matt Diesel

Lawn Tennis (Men)The Catz ,rst tennis team had a mixed year, with a decent result in the Michaelmas League but a disappointing second-round exit in the Lent Cuppers Tournament. Taking over the captaincy from Johnny Hyman, who was in Spain on his year abroad, I had big plans for the year. Two freshers, Nikhil Sharma and Henry Hall, keen tennis players from Eton, bolstered the numbers. They both went on to play University tennis, Nikhil training with the Blues for most of the year and Henry with the University seconds. The other members of the Catz ,rst team this year were Jack Hollywood, Owen Drage, Leah Grace and Lizzie Nelmes.

The Michaelmas League ,xtures, in which each college team has four players to compete in six matches (two doubles and four singles), saw Catz in Division " and beginning by beating Churchill &–# on their rather exposed, windy courts. In the ,nal two ,xtures we su+ered two consecutive '–" defeats to Jesus and John’s who had teams ,lled with University-standard players. A notable performance in the Jesus ,xture came from Owen Drage who won an impressive singles in a tense "!–' championship tie-break.

The Cuppers tournament in the Lent Term involved teams of six players and matches with six singles and three doubles. Our ,rst match was against St Edmunds and, with

youth on our side against this graduate college, we easily overcame them *–! with two matches called o+ due to rain. We then faced Downing who had had a bye through the ,rst round. Jack Hollywood won a good singles match ((–", (–$) as did Henry Hall and myself. Unfortunately the doubles matches were our weakness; we lost all three to put Catz out of Cuppers in a (–$ defeat. Although this was disappointing, the standard of College tennis was impressive and I am positive for next year, when the captaincy is to be held by Henry Hall, who was voted MVP (most valuable player) in the second-team Varsity match.

Under Captain Ian Doughty, Catz #s ,nished 'th in Division ' of the college League with one win, two draws and two losses. Players included Andreas Merk, Daniel Hanna, Kevin Joyce, Louis Williams, Fin Allen, Alex Arotsker and Anna Rogers, all keen but with varying levels of tennis experience.

It has been extremely enjoyable captaining St Catharine’s tennis and the Acheson-Gray-day match was a nice way to round o+ the year. Thanks go to Karen Cass for organising the alumni team; although the rain tried to scupper plans, good matches were played on the grass and all weather courts.

Captain: Nikhil Joshi

Lawn Tennis (Women)The summer season for St Catharine’s Women’s tennis team has been a successful, albeit short, a+air. As there is no League competition during the year for Women’s tennis, all focus is on Cuppers. The Cuppers team is made up of four players who play four singles matches and two doubles matches. After receiving a bye in the ,rst round, Catz Women faced Peterhouse in the quarter-,nals. Despite some concerns re rustiness, the team outclassed their opponents, winning all their matches. Our semi-,nal match looked to be tougher, as we were drawn against reigning champions Emmanuel. Unfortunately, after some long and competitive matches, Catz women were beaten &–# by the team who then went on to defeat Downing in the ,nal. This was nonetheless a great experience for all players, with many enjoying their ,rst taste of grass-court tennis. A special mention goes to Lizzie Nelmes, next year’s Captain, who was undefeated in her Cuppers campaign.

Captain: Leah Grace

Rugby (Men)SCCRUFC began the season fresh from its promotion to the second division in the League. With a good intake of freshers to replace last year’s leavers, the season got o+ to the best possible start with a &$–! win over Pembroke. A win against Emmanuel, but also a couple of losses, followed. The return match against Pembroke proved to be the match of the season. Catz played with its usual forward strength and fast attacking backline only to be let down by a faltering defence. This meant that when the referee called

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last play, Catz were # points down. Following a turnover and a couple of forward drives, a scything back move led to a try in the corner and victory for SCCRUFC. Then another last-minute win, against Homerton, secured a mid-table ,nish for the season and a further year in division #.

There was a slightly confusing start to Cuppers when both St John’s #nd team and St Edmund’s conceded; this left Catz playing Robinson for a place in the semi-,nal! After a cagey start to the match, the superior power in the Catz team, and our Blues combining in the backs, meant that we came out the winners $&–#!. In the semi-,nal, a Catz team weakened by injury and by commitments to Varsity matches in other sports, could not cope with a St John’s team containing ,ve Blues, losing *"–' to the team that went on to win the competition.

Throughout the year several players represented the University at various levels. Special mentions go to Ben Wylie who started for the U#"s at Twickenham, and to Dan Dass and Andy Rees who both came o+ the bench for the Blues.

Captain: Ben Cottam

Rugby (Women)College women’s Rugby in #!"&–"' did not achieve the dominance seen in #!"$–"&, but the team competed in the college League and in Cuppers seven-a-sides. Despite the support and training from James Lamming, Ben Cottam and one of the University rugby coaches, John Naylor, there were no wins to report. This year it took a long time for the sport to take o+ with the freshers, but now there is a strong contingent for next year, so we are hoping that Annie Loveday (the new Captain) will be able to lead us once again to victory.

Captain: Iona Charlton

SwimmingThe St Catharine’s swimming team entered Cuppers #!"' with the aim of continuing the tradition of the previous two years: top of the table! The competition opened with the '!m individual events and the "!!m Individual Medley. As these races drew to a close, St Catharine’s was lying third, amongst the #! colleges competing. Several of our team swam their races in personal best times, an impressive achievement considering we held no formal training sessions during the year. Following a short interval and team talk, we entered the relays set on winning as many races as possible. Cheering from the team supporters certainly helped us as we moved swiftly into second position. Some narrow wins against Trinity and Christ’s left us uncertain where we stood in the overall competition. The results were announced in reverse order, and we were delighted to take second place – only twelve points behind Trinity. We look forward to next year; an opportunity to enjoy the great team spirit and perhaps also to regain our swimming dominance!

Captain: Clemency Britton

Sur#ng#!"& was momentous for the founding of Catz Surf Club – the oldest and best college sur,ng club! Armed with a list of keen freshers and a generous College sporting grant, we set about transforming Catz students into bona-,de beach bums. Film nights hosted in the JCR, the delivery of stash tie-dyed into wavey perfection and shameless self-promotion across multiple social media platforms, gave the club suitable momentum. The culmination of the year was a trip to Cornwall post-exams, where ten members rented a minibus, crammed it full of burgers and beer, and headed to the beach. We begged, borrowed and scrounged sur,ng equipment to keep costs down, and had a great time in the waves. The beginners made great progress, with several standing up after a single day (and only one blood injury…). The more experienced surfers tore up the waves; and then back to the beach for a cider and a chill.

Next year, big plans are afoot for University Surf Soc – expanding into other colleges, to hopefully set up a college sur,ng League, meaning bigger and better trips with real competition (Oxford have been in touch regarding a future Varsity Match).

Captain: James Digby

Ultimate FrisbeeThe multi-college New Thundercatz Ultimate Frisbee team had another enjoyable season under the captaincy of Alex Riley (St Catharine’s) and Lizzie Pearmain (Magdalene). The team includes Caius, Girton, Trinity Hall, Fitzwilliam and Magdalene as well as Catz, and plays College League matches every weekend, and Cuppers tournaments at the end of every term. We had a good intake of new players this year, with most having never played Ultimate before, so everyone improved a lot over the season.

Ultimate is a self-refereed sport, with ‘Spirit of the Game’ (fair-mindedness, respect, positive attitude and adherence to the rules) being most important, to make the game work and be as enjoyable as possible. We were therefore very happy to win the Spirit prize as well as coming ""th in the Michaelmas Term’s college League. That term’s Cuppers was fortunately held indoors this year (after the stormy conditions endured last year) this allowed many new players to experience the faster-paced game of indoor Ultimate. Thundercatz did excellently, winning its group and coming %th overall. After a fantastic start to Lent Term, and despite a few postponed matches due to poor playing conditions, we came "#th in the college League.

It was also a great year for socials, the highlight being a large multi-team MCR formal at St Catharine’s on the evening of the inaugural college League hat tournament.

Captain: Alex Riley

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Water Polo With our new hats on our heads, this year’s Catz water polo team were ready to play! Michaelmas college League saw two wins and one loss (winning '–$ against Emmanuel, losing #–( against Magdalene, walkover win over Caius as they could not ,eld a team). In Lent Term we lost #–( against Trinity, drew one (Trinity Hall) and won two matches (walkover wins against Caius and Emmanuel).

This resulted in second place in Division # of the college League, just four points behind Emmanuel. Cuppers was held at the beginning of Easter Term; we won one match and lost another by a very small margin meaning that we lost our place in the ,nals. Next year’s team will be in the very capable hands of Vytautas Peciukenas, who played in every match this year.

Captain: Emma Tarrant

ALLEYCATZThe Alleycatz had a very successful year, combining sporting excellence with sociable prowess and we have really enjoyed being Presidents of such a well-rounded society. The women of St Catharine’s have participated in a wide range of sports throughout the University and, whilst victories were not always inevitable, commitment and fun were never in doubt. Individual members have excelled this year with many Blues being awarded and victories over Oxford achieved. Emma Cullen led CUAC to Varsity victory, with Anni Bates securing her high jump Blue on the way; Cat Cox, Hettie Cust, and Frostie all earned Blues for hockey when defeating the Other Place, Frostie also enjoying a Varsity win for women’s rugby in the same weekend. Charlotte Frost – multi-athlete supremo. Alex Craig captained the University fencing club to victory, she and Harriet Hall each earning their Blues for an impressive third year running.

Several Alleycatz tried their hand at rowing, combining with the Whiskers in a Champagne Boat for May Bumps. Barges were crashed into, blades were broken and blisters spread like wild,re, but with Alleycatz Presidents Cara and Iona as Coach and Captain respectively, the boat progressed at alarming pace. Unfortunately it was unable to reach the standards required to actually compete in the Mays, but we hope this initiative will continue next year, and with perseverance and a little more experience, the girls will ‘get on’ to the Mays proper in future.

The Alleycatz continue to enjoy a close relationship with the Kitten Club, sharing a joyous Christmas Dinner and we greatly hope the joint alumni dinner will take o+ next year with the groundwork having been put in place. Until then, contact with old Alleycatz is always encouraged; get in touch at caths-alleycatz@lists.cam.ac.uk!

With the new jumpers being sported around College and our new slogan clinging onto emails, we’re hoping the Alleycatz will continue to blossom under the guidance of Harriet Macleod and Juliet Michel – to support and encourage the sportswomen of St Catharine’s whilst remaining fun-loving on a Sunday night!

Presidents – Hettie Cust, Iona Charlton and Cara Eldridge

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KITTEN CLUBThis year has seen the Kitten Club shun the traditional drinking society culture and return to its roots as a sports society. A number of incidents within College and across the University led members to re-ect upon what it means to be a Kitten and to remember that the ‘object of the club shall be to promote social contact between members of the club and other persons interested in sport’. As such the Kitten Club have undertaken a number of new initiatives to promote sport within the College, improve the image of the club and hopefully work towards its long term survival. The production of a weekly sports report, Kitt-Bag, sent to all students, sta+ and Fellows of College has been highly successful. In addition, the monthly Kittens Monday Quiz Night, or KMQN, has been very popular and raised over 0"!! for charity. The Kitten Club Garden Party continued for another year and proved highly popular despite the weather.

Spanning a breadth of clubs and sports, a Kitten is never far from one of his own when representing the College or University. This year Kittens were in University teams in rugby, hockey and cricket, as well as the less traditional sports of lacrosse and American football. Additionally, the University cycling, rowing, athletics and tennis teams have all been in,ltrated by Kittens. But despite his best e+orts, Mills is yet to gain a Blue in ‘chatting’ but, like any Kitten, he continues his pursuit with great determination.

Closer to home, members have participated in College sport with great enthusiasm and passion. With each Kitten playing a number of di+erent sports, the current makeup of the club is not dominated by a single one and is a true testament to the multi-talented nature of Kittens. SCCRUFC reached the semi-,nals of Cuppers, SCCHC had a mixed season having been knocked out of Cuppers in the early rounds by the team that went on to win the tournament, while SCCAFC said they had fun. Full season reports for all sports are listed separately in this magazine. While some teams may feel the season was disappointing in comparison with previous years, it is important to remember that performances were well above those expected of a college the size of Catz – a credit to the Captains and to the players, who are always willing to turn up for a match.

As the end of another successful year arrives, it is time to bid farewell to a number of stalwarts of the club who will go on to join the ranks of the Old Boys – Carbonell, Davies, Hart, Thompson, Artingstall, Lowson, Wylie, Holt, Cottam, Gray-Stephens, Cooper, O Williams, L Williams, Amin-Nejad – big names that will be missed. But the river -ows on and, as new Kittens replace the old, I am sure that the traditions of the club will continue and we will have another unforgettable year under the leadership of James Digby as Head Kitten and Tim Mills as Secretary.

Head Kitten – James Lamming

The Kitt-Bag, a new weekly sports report.

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Full BluesAthletics: Annabel Bates, Priya Crosby, P Crout,

Emma G CullenCricket: D Chohan, BA Wylie Fencing: Alex Craig, Harriet T HallGolf: OJ Williams Hockey: Victoria L Mascetti (for #!"$–"&), Catriona L Cox,

Hettie Cust, Charlotte E Frost, K GilmoreLacrosse: Sophie H Abbott Netball: Izzy BellPowerlifting: J ThompsonRugby Union: DR Dass, A ReesWater Polo: Emily Grader (for #!"$–"&),

Rebecca Hulbert (for #!"$–"&)

Half BluesAthletics: Emily Brady, Rebecca HulbertBadminton: Steph PottenBasketball: Elena LocheCricket: Sophie H Abbott, Charlotte J Kenealy,

Christine VineyCross country: P Crout Fencing: Ed Stroud Lacrosse: SM Cummings (also for #!"$–"&) Lightweight Rowing: Priya Crosby, Sarah L Lucas,

A Nelson Open Water Swimming: Clemency Britton (for #!"$–"&)

Real Tennis: Emily Brady Revolver: A Amin-Nejad Rugby Union: Charlotte E FrostSwimming: Priya Crosby (also for #!"$–"&)Table Tennis: J Bleakley (for #!"$–"&)Taekwondo: Charlotte J Kenealy (for #!"$–"&)

Other representative honours Athletics (Alligators): Helen R Bolton-Jones,

S Kiara de Kremer, Emily L Goodband, Rebecca Martin Athletics (Alverstone): BN Cottam, G GohAthletics (Field events and relays): Annabelle Bates,

BN Cottam, Priya Crosby, P Crout, Emma G Cullen, S Kiara de Kremer, G Goh, Rebecca Hulbert, Rebecca Martin, Rebecca SA Moore

Fencing: Henny Dillon, Victoria L MascettiGolf Dinner Match: OJ Williams (for #!"$–"&) Hockey (Wanderers): WA Fullwood Hockey (Squanderers): SJ Cole, M DieselHockey (Nomads): Molly Buxton, Lisa CM Sweering Hockey (Bedouins): Juliet Michel, Margaret R YoungKorfball: P Blair (for #!"$–"&)Lacrosse: Alexia Boreham (for #!"$–"&) Lawn Tennis (Grasshoppers): H Hall, N Sharma Lawn Tennis (Ladybirds): Leah Grace Rugby Union (Under &'’s): BA Wylie Rugby Union (Tigers): Iona Charlton

BLUES AND COLOURS

Emma Cullen leads the University Women’s Athletics Team.

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UNIVERSITY CRICKETFor those unfamiliar with recent developments in Cambridge University cricket, it should be explained that, for most ‘,rst class matches’ CUCC combines with Anglia Ruskin University to ,eld an ‘MCC University Centre of Excellence’ team, to play against counties (and also against the other ,ve University Centres of Excellence, including the Oxford centre that jointly involves both Oxford University and Oxford Brookes University). For traditional Varsity Match competition against Oxford however, CUCC stands alone. But there are now not one but three cricket Varsity matches against the old enemy – a #!-over game (home or away alternately), followed by a '!-over game at Lord’s, and then a four-day game (home or away). Blues are awarded by Cambridge for participation in the second and/or third of these games, which take place in late June and early July each year.

Cambridge University women’s cricket has seen enormous strides recently. The University women’s team plays a full programme of matches, participating in the annual inter-university competition organised by BUCS, and also playing the likes of MCC and Army Ladies. Like the men, there is more than one Varsity match: a #!-over game (home and away) and a '!-over game at Lord’s played on the same day as the men’s game. Half-blues are awarded to all those women playing at Lord’s, with the opportunity for Full Blues to be won, based on individual performance. This year the two Lord’s games were played in the presence of a packed St Catharine’s alumni double-box ($( persons) in the Tavern Stand – probably the ,rst such group from any college.

In #!"' Catz provided two men (Darhan Chohan and Ben Wylie) for the Blues match at Fenner’s; with Ben playing also in the other two Varsity matches. He was voted ‘man of the match’ in the #!-over game, scoring $* and taking $ for #! in a Cambridge victory. The men’s Lord’s match was, sadly, lost; but matters were redeemed by a clear victory in the four-day game (won in fact in three days), Ben scoring #( and taking $ for "&.

The Catz women excelled this year, with Christine Viney, Charlotte Kenealy and Sophie Abbott all earning Half-Blues at Lord’s (although the game was lost). Christine is the University’s opening bowler, but unfortunately had to miss the #!-over game due to an examination clash; Charlotte and Sophie did, however, play in this match – a Cambridge win.

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West London) Medical & Veterinary SciencesSimpson, Tom (The Queen Katherine School, Kendal)

Engineering Sirvinskaite, Giedre (Kedainiai Atzalynas Gymnasium,

Lithuania) Natural Sciences Slater, Jack (Colchester Royal Grammar School)

GeographySmith, Ben (Sir Thomas Rich's School, Gloucester) Natural

Sciences Stakes, Tom (Sandbach School) Engineering Steene, Elliot (Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School,

Hertfordshire) Land Economy Stojalnikova, Violeta (Vilnius Lyceum, Lithuania) Natural

Sciences Storrie, Kloe (Farnborough Hill) Medical & Veterinary

SciencesSutton, Fabien (Kettering Science Academy) Natural

Sciences Szuda, Agnes (Radnoti Miklos Grammar School, Hungary)

GeographyTaylor, Clarry (Oxford High School) Human, Social and

Political ScienceThomas, Ed (Stamford School) Natural Sciences

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NEW GRADUATE STUDENTS 2014Aksu, Ayhan (University of Amsterdam (Netherlands))

AssyriologyAlloway, Richard (St Catharine's) ChemistryAndrade, Edward (St Catharine's) Clinical MedicineArran, Matthew (St Catharine's) Applied Maths and

Theoretical PhysicsBattersby, David (University Of Bristol) ChemistryBeeson, Jessica (Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford) Medical

Science (Cardiovascular Res)Blukis, Roberts (St Catharine's) Earth SciencesBro, Naim (Homerton College, Cambridge) Sociology

Brock, Michael (University of St Andrews) EngineeringBrody-Barre, Andrea (New College of Florida (United

States)) Modern Society & Global TransfCardim, Danilo (The Federal University of Sao Carlos

(Brazil)) Clinical NeurosciencesChai, Ray (Imperial College London (University of

London)) BiochemistryClaus, Laura (Robinson College, Cambridge) Management

StudiesCogbill, Rhiannon (St Catharine's) Polar StudiesCox, Caitriona (St Catharine's) Clinical Medicine

Tian, Rosie (St Mary's School, Calne) Medical & Veterinary Sciences

Varadharajan, Sriya (Dame Alice Owen's School, Potters Bar) English

Walters, Fergus (Shrewsbury Sixth Form College) Natural Sciences

Wand, James (Chilwell Sixth Form) Human, Social and Political Science

Warwick, Katya (Henrietta Barnett School, Hampstead Garden Suburb) Human, Social and Political Science

Watson, Callum (Balfron High School) MathematicsWebster, Rebecca (The Broxbourne School) TheologyWeller, Adam (Reading School) Natural Sciences

Wells Dion, Basha (Notre Dame High School, Norwich) Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic

White, Rhiannon (London Academy, Edgware) English Williams, Hannah (St Aidans & St John Fisher, Harrogate)

Psychological and Behavioural Sciences Wilsmore, Phoebe (Redborne Upper School and

Community College) Natural Sciences Wong, Eunice (Cardi+ Sixth Form College) Medical &

Veterinary SciencesYeung, Alex (Colchester Royal Grammar School) Natural

Sciences Yeung, Eric (Melbourne High School, Australia) Law Yip, Daniel (Redborne Upper School and Community

College) Asian & Middle Eastern Studies

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Davey, Sonya (University of Pennsylvania (United States)) Geographical Research

Demay, Francois (University of Science and Technology, Lille (France)) MedImmune @ Medicine

Discher, Janine (Universitat zu Koln (Germany)) LawDiver, Emily (St Catharine's) Education (PGCE-MEd)Everall, Isobel (University of York) Biological Science @

SangerFantham, Marcus (Trinity College, University of Oxford)

Photonics System DevelopmentFeatherstone, Peter (University of Bath) Applied

MathematicsFoets, Thomas (Utrecht University (Netherlands))

Biological Science (Biochem)Frost, Charlotte (St Catharine's) Veterinary MedicineFu, Zhe (University College London) EngineeringFuller, Sophie (Christ Church College, Oxford) European

LiteratureGraham, Lauren (St Catharine's) Veterinary MedicineGrande, Ricardo (Universidad del Pais Vasco/Euskal

Herriko Uninert (Spain)) Pure MathematicsGuez, Thibault (École Polytechnique (France)) Advanced

Chamical EngineeringHuethwohl, Philipp (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

(Germany)) EngineeringJohansson, Patrick (State Conservatory of Music and

Dance – Cologne (Germany)) MusicKajita, Yui (Doshisha University (Japan)) English Studies:

Modern LiteratureKaufmann, Shaun (Homerton College, Cambridge)

EngineeringKeefer, Arthur (Covenant Theological Seminary (United

States)) DivinityKemp, Alexander (St Catharine's) Veterinary MedicineKenealy, Charlotte (St Catharine's) Modern European

HistoryKim, Jin (Architectural Association School of Architecture)

Planning Growth + RegenerationKoblitz, Arndt (University College London) Scienti,c

ComputingLai, Rachel (Royal Holloway, University of London)

Education (Thematic route)Lebdioui, Abdelkader Amir (Queen Mary, University of

London) Development StudiesLello, James (St Catharine's) English Studies: CriticismLeonard, Philip (University of Liverpool) Advanced

Computer ScienceLi, Hao (Tsinghua University (China)) EngineeringLiang, Xue (University of Liverpool) Finance and

EconomicsLim, Xin Ya (University of Liverpool) Social &

Developmental PsychologyLogarajah, Santhya (St Catharine's) Clinical MedicineLopez de la Lama, Rocio (Universidad Peruana Cayetano

Heredia (Peru)) Conservation Leadership

Luke, Jerry (Cardi+ University) Early Modern HistoryLumby, Casper (University of Edinburgh) Mathematical

Genomics and MedicineMaier, Theresa (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

(Germany)) PhysicsMak, Jonathan (University of Glasgow) EngineeringMarand, Jeremy (University College London)

Environmental PolicyMeleard, Chloe (Université Paris II Panthéon-Assas

(France)) LawMenzel, Julia (University of Regensburg (Germany)) Pure

MathematicsMoll, Carlo (Ludwig-Maxmilians-Universität München

(Germany)) Modern European HistoryMoore, Rebecca (St Catharine's) Clinical MedicineMooring, Grace (University of Sussex) Geographical

ResearchMuscat, Matthew (Boston University (United States))

Criminological ResearchNiblett, Sam (St Catharine's) ChemistryNorman, William (University of Edinburgh) Anglo-Saxon

Norse and CelticOerton, Erin (University College London) Biological

Science (BBSRC DTP)Okazawa, Yasuhiro (University of Essex) HistoryO'Neill, Tom (St Catharine's) Physical Sciences: NanoOppenheimer, Joshua (Icahn School of Medicine at

Mount Sinai (United States)) Business AdministrationRaninga, Ravi (University College London) Materials

ScienceRees, Jessica (University of Leicester) Epidemiology

(Cardiovascular)Robertson, Shelise (Deakin University (Australia))

Medieval and Renaissance LiteratureRodrigues, Rodrigo (Federal University of Goias (Brazil))

ImmunologyRuss, Julian (University of Frankfurt (Germany)) EconomicsSmith, Adam (University of Leeds) PhysicsSparke, Eden (University of York) International Relations

& PoliticsSteinmüller, Patrick (Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-

Universitat Bonn (Germany)) Applied MathematicsStroud, Edward (University of Durham) Theology +

Religious StudiesStrycharczyk, Joshua (St Catharine's) Veterinary MedicineTan, Rachel (University of Warwick) Public PolicyThomson, Jordan (McMaster University (Canada))

Business AdministrationUsachova, Katsiaryna (University of Edinburgh)

BiochemistryViney, Christine (St Catharine's) Veterinary MedicineVuppala, Kaushika (National University of Juridical

Sciences (India)) LawWade, David (St Catharine's) ChemistryWang, Xue (St Catharine's) Clinical Medicine

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Altmann-Richer, Lisa: The Graeme Minto Prize for Management StudiesBellamy, Victoria: The William Vaughan Lewis Prize for GeographyCase, Sarah: The Kermode Essay Prize in Medical SciencesCorke, Rebecca: The Animalcare Prize (best overall contribution, academic, organising, etc)Fletcher, Emma: The William Vaughan Lewis Prize for GeographyGlover, Harry: The North Carolina State University Prize for Chemical EngineeringHaria, Savan: The Archibald Denny Prize for Civil, Structural and Environmental EngineeringMcLeod, Laura: The John Hickman Prize for Equine StudiesWagsta", James: The Perham Prize for Biochemistry

UNIVERSITY SCHOLARSHIPS AND PRIZES

COLLEGE PRIZESAll those obtaining First Class Honours are awarded a Scholarship to the value of 0"!! and a Book Prize to the value of 0"!!. The College Prizes are given as a further honour. Abbott, ACJ: The VLM Lairmore Prize in PhysicsAhmad, S: The Posener Memorial Prize in Modern & Medieval LanguagesAltmann-Richer, LKA: The Arthur Andersen Prize for ManagementAltmann-Richer, LKA: The Hutcherson Prize for Outstanding Tripos PerformanceAsh, S: The Lauterpacht Prize in International LawBale Barker, F: The Jarrett Prize in Theology or in Asian & Middle Eastern StudiesBates, A: The Daniel Owen Morgan Prize in Veterinary MedicineBellamy, V, Rogers, A: The Gus Caesar Prizes in GeographyBellamy, V; Fletcher, E: The Stephen Hinchli+e Dissertation Prizes in GeographyBleakley, J: The Stephane Francis Prize in Veterinary ScienceBolgar, P: The Ray Driver Prize in ChemistryChlebikova, A: The James Brimlow Prize in ChemistryDarling, NT: The William Balchin Prize in GeographyDigby, J: The Corrie Prize in Theology

Wang, Yiran (University of Exeter) Finance and EconomicsWeller, Howard (University of Nottingham) Business

AdministrationWharton, David (Princeton University (United States))

Physical Sciences: NanoWhite, Joe (St Catharine's) English Studies: Modern

LiteratureWicky, Basile (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology

(Switzerland)) ChemistryWilliams, April (Loughborough University) Latin American

Studies

Wong, Mo Dick (University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong)) Mathematical Statistic

Xia, Hongyan (University of Birmingham) Advanced Computer Science

Yate, Joseph (St Catharine's, Cambridge) Veterinary Medicine

Zhang, Yun (Nanjing University (China)) Education (Thematic route)

Zobel, Mareike (Magdalene College, Cambridge) Modern Society & Global Transformation

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Dunlop, A: The Engineering Members’ Prize in EngineeringFielding, N: The Sean Mulherin Prize in Modern & Medieval LanguagesFrost, JN: The Bel,eld Clarke Prize in Biological SciencesGlover, HW: The Bruno Laurent Memorial Prize in Chemical EngineeringGoh, G; Hassard, CJ: The Kemp-Gooderson Prizes in LawHall, HT; Sedgwick, LT; Sowerby, S; Spurrell, J: The Ivo Forde Prizes in HistoryHaria, S; Palmer, T; Clayton, BAJ; Yeung, YK, Simpson, T: The Bir,eld Memorial Scholarships in Engi-

neeringHaria, S; Palmer, T; Clayton, BAJ; Yeung, YK; Simpson, T: The Jeremy Haworth Prizes in Mathematics

or in EngineeringHobley, RE: The DW Morgan Prize for Academic ExcellenceHobley, RE; Pinnington, NP: The TR Henn Prizes in EnglishHornett, AJ: The Lacey Prize in ClassicsJoyce, K; Case, SJ; Christy, JC: The John Addenbrooke Medical PrizesLim, CH; Simon, A; Holt, D: The St Catharine's Prizes for Distinction in ResearchMorley, BS; Hung, JMC; Minter, PDTW; Menzel, J; Hemmert, T; Edey, D; Baker, DI; Benzing, F:

The Drury-Johns Prizes in MathematicsNanda, S: The Sayers Prize in EconomicsParish, HG: The Mennell Prize in Politics, Psychology & SociologyPaterson, LE: The Tasker Prize in Modern & Medieval LanguagesPawson, JD: The Alexandria Prize in Engineering Price, L: The Cuthbert Casson Prize in TheologyRosen, AS: The Richard Walduck Prize for HistorySedgwick, LT: The Figgis Memorial Prize in History Trenins, G: The John Spencer Wilson Prize in Natural SciencesTrenins, G: The RS Briggs Prize for Outstanding Tripos PerformanceWagsta", J; Trenins, G: The Alan Battersby Prize in Chemistry or in BiochemistryWatson, CS: The TW Armour Prize in MathematicsThe Higham Prize in Archaeology, The Palmer Prize for Classics, The Adderley Prize in Law, The Jacobson Prize in Law, The Peter Le Huray Prize in Music and The Robert Comline Prize in Systems Physiology were not awarded.

Other awardsThe following include academic awards not directly relating to Tripos performance, awards with academic and non-academic components, and awards recognising a signi,cant non-academic contribution to College life. Addison, GW: The Master’s SizarBadenach Nicolson, BA: The Weaver Prize for Choral MusicBale Barker, F: The Nicholas Prize for LeadershipBell, E, Lam, J, Phillips, J: The Richard Hardy Awards for Biological ScienceBrowne, CR: The Gooderson Memorial Grant for Legal PracticeChurch, C; Marshall, RK: The Balchin Travel AwardDarling, NT: The Alfred Steers Fieldwork Award for GeographyDenni", J: The Doty Fieldwork Prize for GeographyDilucia, N: The Bishop Browne Prize for Reading in ChapelDilucia, N: The Mooting Prize

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Senior ScholarsAbbott, Alexander: NST Pt II: Physics (Skerne ("*&'))Ashman, David: NST Pt II: Chemistry (Skerne ("*&'))Baker, David: Mathematical Tripos Pt III (John Cartwright

("(*&))Bale Barker, Faith: AMES Tripos Pt II (Thomas Jarrett

("%%*))Chlebikova, Andrea: NST Pt III: Chemistry (Skerne ("*&'))Christy, Jill: Medical Sciences Final MB Pt I (Moses Holway

("()'))Cooper, Jonathan: NST Pt III: Chemistry (Skerne ("*&'))Davidson, Jonathan: NST Pt II: Chemistry (Skerne ("*&'))Edey, David: Mathematical Tripos Pt III (John Cartwright

("(*&))Fielding, Natasha: MML Tripos Pt II (Henry Chaytor (")'&))Flynn, Patrick: NST Pt II: Materials Science (Skerne ("*&'))Frost, Joseph: NST Pt II: Genetics (Thomas Hobbes ("($"))Gandhi, Siddharth: NST Pt III: Physics (Skerne ("*&'))

Glover, Harry: Chemical Engineering Tripos Pt IIB (Dr John Gostlin ("(#())

Harper, Joseph: English Studies MPhil (Sir John Cleypoole ("("$))

Hemmert, Tobias: Mathematical Tripos Pt III (John Cartwright ("(*&))

Hovan, Ladislav: NST Pt III: Chemistry (Skerne ("*&'))Hung, Johnathan: Mathematical Tripos Pt III (John

Cartwright ("(*&))Kongsuwan, Nuttawut: NST Pt III: Physics (Skerne ("*&'))Matthews, Simon: NST Pt III: Geological Scie (Thomas

Hobbes ("($"))Nguyen, Dat: Economics Tripos Pt IIB (Robert Skerne ("(("))Thompson, James: NST Pt II: Chemistry (Skerne ("*&'))Trenins, George: NST Pt II: Chemistry (Skerne ("*&'))Wagsta", James: NST Pt III: Biochemistry (Skerne ("*&'))Wootten, Matthew: NST Pt II: Chemistry (Skerne ("*&'))Yelverton, Benjamin: NST Pt II: Physics (Skerne ("*&'))

COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIPS

Edwards, HCP: The Martin Steele Memorial Award for TheatreHarris, JM: The Wilshaw BursaryKajita, Y: The Christopher Macgregor Memorial Prize for English LiteratureLeith, F: The Karen Kerslake Memorial Prize for College MusicPrice, L: The Drury Memorial Exhibition for Anglican Ordination Training for #!"&–"' The Jacobson Scholarship in International Law was not awarded.

Other Awards &%'(These awards were inadvertently omitted from the #!"& Magazine.The following include academic awards not directly relating to Tripos performance, awards with academic and non-academic components, and awards recognising a signi,cant non-academic contribution to College life. Elliot, T; Pellow R: The Doty Fieldwork Prize for GeographyFrost, JN: The Richard Hardy Award for Biological ScienceFrost, JN: The Master’s SizarHarris, JM: The Wilshaw BursaryHarper, J: The Christopher Macgregor Memorial AwardHorner, EE: The Gooderson Memorial Grant for Legal PracticeHunter, A: The Martin Steele Memorial Award for TheatreLando, MF: The Jacobson Scholarship in International LawNevin, AJ: The Bishop Browne Prize for Reading in ChapelRoss, I: The Alfred Steers Fieldwork Award for GeographyYing, AYL: The Nicholas Prize for LeadershipYoung, DTM: The Weaver Prize for Choral MusicThe Mooting Prize, The Karen Kerslake Memorial Prize for College Music and the Drury Memorial Exhibition for Anglican Ordination Training were not awarded.

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ScholarsAhmad, Samir: MML Tripos Pt II (Henry Chaytor (")'&))Allen, Fin: NST Pt II: Chemistry (Skerne ("*&'))Allison, Conrad: Economics Tripos Pt IIA (Robert Skerne

("(("))Altmann-Richer, Lisa: Management Studies Tripos

(Thomas Hobbes ("($"))Artingstall, Samuel: NST Pt III: Chemistry (Skerne ("*&'))Bates, Anni: NST Pt II: HPS (Thomas Hobbes ("($"))Bell, Elizabeth: NST Pt IB (Thomas Hobbes ("($"))Bellamy, Victoria: Geographical Tripos Pt II (A A L Caesar

(")%!))Bentley, Laura: NST Pt II: Zoology (Thomas Hobbes ("($"))Benzing, Frederik: Mathematical Tripos Pt II (John

Cartwright ("(*&))Blakunovs, Sergejs: NST Pt IA (Skerne ("*&'))Bleakley, Joshua: Veterinary Sciences Final Vet Pt III

(Moses Holway ("()'))Bogachev, Ivan: NST Pt IA (Skerne ("*&'))Bolgar, Peter: NST Pt IB (Skerne ("*&'))Butterworth, Adam: NST Pt IB (Skerne ("*&'))Case, Sarah: Medical Sciences Final MB Pt I (Moses Holway

("()'))Chillingworth, Ciaran: English Tripos Pt II (Sir John

Cleypoole ("("$))Clayton, Benjamin: Engineering Tripos Pt IA (Dr John

Gostlin ("(#())Corke, Rebecca: Veterinary Sciences Final Vet Pt III (Moses

Holway ("()'))Dai, Jingwen: Land Economy Tripos Pt IB (Robert Skerne

("(("))Darlling, Nathaniel: Geographical Tripos Pt IB (Sir John

Cleypoole ("("$))Dass, Daniel: Economics Tripos Pt I (Robert Skerne ("(("))Digby, James: Theol & Rel Stud Tripos Pt IIA (Mrs Julian

Sta+ord ("(#*))Dillon, Henrietta: Veterinary Sciences Final Vet Pt III

(Moses Holway ("()'))Dunlop, Arthur: Engineering Tripos Pt IA (Dr John Gostlin

("(#())Faulkner, Anna: NST Pt IA (Skerne ("*&'))Friedman, Corall: MML Tripos Pt IA (Henry Chaytor (")'&))Garlick, Daniel: NST Pt IA (Thomas Hobbes ("($"))Goh, Gareth: Law Tripos Pt IA (Mrs Payne ("("!))Gopal, Shreyas: Economics Tripos Pt I (Robert Skerne

("(("))Hak, Ondrej: NST Pt II: Chemistry (Skerne ("*&'))Hall, Harriet: Historical Tripos Pt II (Lady Katharine

Barnardiston ("($$))Hall, Henry: MML Tripos Pt IA (Henry Chaytor (")'&))Haria, Savan: Engineering Tripos Pt IIB (Dr John Gostlin

("(#())Hart, Jonathan: Medical Sciences Tripos Pt IA (Moses

Holway ("()'))Hassard, Chloe: Law Tripos Pt IA (Mrs Payne ("("!))

Hobley, Ruth: English Tripos Pt II (Sir John Cleypoole ("("$))

Hodge, Rachael: English Tripos Pt II (Sir John Cleypoole ("("$))

Hornett, Abbey: Classical Tripos Pt II (Lady Katharine Barnardiston ("($$))

House, Robert: NST Pt III: Chemistry (Skerne ("*&'))Houston, Louise: Land Economy Tripos Pt II (Robert

Skerne ("(("))Jain, Lyric: Engineering Tripos Pt IA (Dr John Gostlin ("(#())Joyce, Kevin: NST Pt II: Pharmacology (Thomas Hobbes

("($"))Kamrad, Stephan: NST Pt II: Biochemistry (Skerne ("*&'))Kemp, Matthew: NST Pt IB (Skerne ("*&'))Kilda, Dainius: NST Pt III: Physics (Skerne ("*&'))Knowles, Stuart: NST Pt IA (Skerne ("*&'))Kratt, Frederick: Geographical Tripos Pt IB (Sir John

Cleypoole ("("$))Lam, Jonathan: NST Pt IB (Thomas Hobbes ("($"))Loizou, Kyriacos: Management MPhil (Thomas Hobbes

("($"))Lowson, Andrew: Chemical Engineering Tripos Pt IIB (Dr

John Gostlin ("(#())Lucas, Sarah: NST Pt III: Geological Scie (Thomas Hobbes

("($"))McLeod, Laura: Veterinary Sciences Final Vet Pt III (Moses

Holway ("()'))Menzel, Julia: Mathematical Tripos Pt III (John Cartwright

("(*&))Minter, Paul: Mathematical Tripos Pt IA (John Cartwright

("(*&))Morley, Ben: Mathematical Tripos Pt IB (John Cartwright

("(*&))Nanda, Chreya: Economics Tripos Pt IIA (Robert Skerne

("(("))Nelmes, Elizabeth: Medical Sciences Tripos Pt IA (Moses

Holway ("()'))Ng, Jeson: AMES Tripos Pt IA (Thomas Jarrett ("%%*))Ng, Sheung Hei: NST Pt IB (Skerne ("*&'))Palmer, Timothy: Manufacturing Engineering Tripos Pt IIB

(Robert Skerne ("(("))Parish, Hannah: Hum, Soc & Pol Sciences Tripos Pt I (Lady

Katharine Barnardiston ("($$))Paterson, Laura: MML Tripos Pt IB (Henry Chaytor (")'&))Pawson, Jonathan: Engineering Tripos Pt IA (Dr John

Gostlin ("(#())Peel, Rebecca: NST Pt IA (Thomas Hobbes ("($"))Phillips, Jonathan: NST Pt IB (Thomas Hobbes ("($"))Pinnington, Natasha: English Tripos Pt I (Sir John

Cleypoole ("("$))Price, Laurence: Theology for Ministry Pt I (Mrs Julian

Sta+ord ("(#*))Ramchandani, Benjamin: Computer Science Tripos Pt IA

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PHDS APPROVED 2014–5Ashra#an Bonab, M: A comprehensive mitochondrial DNA and Y chromosome analysis of Iranian

populationsBattocchio, F: Manufacture and characterisation of spunbonded nonwovensBian, Y: Studying the roles of Notch during adult Drosophila midgut homeostasisBorel, MJM: Spike phase control of mouse hippocampal pyramidal cellsBrain, KL: Antioxidants protect against fetal growth restriction and o+spring cardiovascular dysfunction

in adulthood following ovine hypoxic pregnancyBrien, P: Postnatal regulation of proliferative capacity in skeletal and cardiac muscleCardinale, I: Beyond constraining and enabling: on how social structure orients action in organisationsDocherty, FM: The role of HEY# in pluripotency of human embryonic stem cellsFelder, KA: Girdle-hangers in 'th- and (th-century England. A key to early Anglo-Saxon identitiesGallagher, NA: Irish civil society and the Great War, ")"&–")"%Holland, OJ: William Morris’s Utopianism and the politics of mundane interventionKim, JY: Spin transport and magnetism in ferromagnet/semiconductor systemsKotwica, AO: Dietary nitrate and the modulation of energy metabolism in metabolic syndromeLindley, BA: The use of reduced-moderation light water reactors for transuranic isotope burning in

thorium fuelMcLaughlan, C: Cultivation of invasive zebra mussels (Dresissena polymorpha) for the improvement of

reservoir water qualityMasson, GR: New insights into the dynamics of phosphoinositide signalling through hydrogen deute-

rium exchange mass spectrometryMeyer, HM: A ,bre-cavity based photonic interface for a single ionNedic, S: Zinc oxide nanowire ,eld e+ect transistorsOoi, CY: Experimental study and computational modelling of the biomechanical properties of arteriesPeters, NJ: Monitoring Erebus volcano’s active lava lake; tools, techniques and observations

Rogers, Anna: Geographical Tripos Pt II (Sir John Cleypoole ("("$))

Rosen, Asher: Historical Tripos Pt I (Lady Katharine Barnardiston ("($$))

Sedgwick, Laura: Historical Tripos Pt II (Lady Katharine Barnardiston ("($$))

Sharma, Nikhil: NST Pt IA (Skerne ("*&'))Simmons, William: Computer Science Tripos Pt IA (Mr

Spurstow ("(&())Simpson, Thomas: Engineering Tripos Pt IA (Dr John

Gostlin ("(#())Spurrell, Jacob: Historical Tripos Pt II (Lady Katharine

Barnardiston ("($$))Stakes, Thomas: Engineering Tripos Pt IA (Dr John Gostlin

("(#())Sveiczer, Attila: NST Pt II: Chemistry (Skerne ("*&'))Tait, Emily: English Tripos Pt I (Sir John Cleypoole ("("$))Tawn, Couglas: English Tripos Pt II (Sir John Cleypoole

("("$))

Tezhik, Gregory: Economics Tripos Pt IIA (Robert Skerne ("(("))

Watson, Callum: Mathematical Tripos Pt IA (John Cartwright ("(*&))

Weller, Adam: NST Pt IA (Skerne ("*&'))Wells Dion, Basha: ASNC Tripos Prelim to Pt I (Samuel

Frankland ("()"))Wilsmore, Phoebe: NST Pt IA (Thomas Hobbes ("($"))Yeung, Alexander: Engineering Tripos Pt IA (Dr John

Gostlin ("(#())Yip, Daniel: AMES Tripos Pt IA (Thomas Jarrett ("%%*))Young, Marco: English Tripos Pt I (Sir John Cleypoole

("("$))Young, Margaret: NST Pt II: Biochemistry (Skerne ("*&'))Zardilis, Argyris: Computational Biology MPhil (Thomas

Hobbes ("($"))

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Ray, KM: Asymptotic theory for Bayesian nonparametric procedures in inverse problemsRittman, T: Connectivity in biomarkers in neurodegenerative tauopathiesSale, MJ: Tumour cell responses to acute and chronic MEK"/# inhibitionSareh, P: Symmetric descendents of the Miura-oriSigle, DO: A study of plasmonic coupling in nanometre-sized gapsSilveira, AF: Polycentricity and the adaptive capacity of river basin governance systems: insights from

the River Rhine and the Pearl River (Zhujiang)Squire, OJ: In-uence of changes in climate and land use on isoprene emissions and tropospheric ozoneSultan, DSI: The capture of CO# from process streams using solid sorbentsSutcli"e-Braithwaite, FA: Class, community, and individualism in English politics and society, ")()–

#!!!Szucs, Z: An orthotopic mammary epithelial cell transplantation model and prognostic molecular imag-

ing of early breast cancer formationTimmins, WN: Out of character? The voice of the T and Christian identity in RomansTorres-Pereira, CMC: Behavioural and physiological characterisation of responses to learning and train-

ing in dogsWandel, MP: Anti-bacterial defence of the host cytosol by cell-autonomous immunityWeiller, C: Business model innovation in an emerging ecosystem: electric vehicle di+usionWright, SRM: Measurements of CP asymmetries in rare electroweak penguin decays at LHCbWyspianska, BS: Targeting BET proteins in leukaemiaYang, X: Controlled IGBT switching for power electronics building blockYotova, RV: International public policy and the settlement of disputes: in search of a general principle

of lawZhou, Y: Insect adhesion on rough surfaces and properties of insect repellent surfaces

SOCIETY REPORT

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SOCIETY COMMITTEE 2015–16President: Guy Beringer QC (")*$, Fellow Commoner #!!%)Vice-President and President-Elect: Professor Sir John

Baker (Fellow ")*")Immediate Past President: Lord Horam (John Horam,

")'*, Fellow Commoner #!"!)Chairman: David Sanders (")())Hon Secretary: David Peace (")((, Fellow Commoner #!"&)Hon Treasurer: Dr John Little (")*#, Fellow ")%!)Editor, Society Magazine: Roger Stratford (")(!, Fellow

Commoner "))#)Society Webmaster: Howard Cole, College Computer

O.cerElected (Ordinary) MembersRe-elected &%'): Dr Anthony Davenport (Fellow "))')Elected &%'(: Dr Ivan Scales (Fellow #!!%)Elected &%'*: Dr Abigail Brundin (Fellow #!!!), Dr John

Wells (")*(), Hugh McNeill ("))()Re-Elected &%'*: Richard Whitwell (")%&)Re-Elected &%'&: Dr Chris Thorne (Fellow ")($, Emeritus

Fellow #!!#), Keith Cocker (")*#)

Branch Chairs (Ex O!cio): David Wood (")%!), Mrs Heather Powell (")%"), Clive Brunswick (")'$), David Sanders (")()), Professor John Moverley (")(%), Dr Jonathan Dossetor (")(#), Professor Reavley Gair (")')); Mrs Eleanor Roberts (")%'), Andrew Jenkinson (")(#), Prof Stephen Mennell (")($), Malcolm Bailey (")*!).

Tenure: President-Elect, President, Immediate Past President – " year in each position; Chairman (% years maximum), Secretary, Treasurer – each eligible for re-election annually. Elected (Ordinary) Members – & years with the option to stand for one further & year term; Branch Chairs, Magazine Editor, Society Webmaster – ex-o.cio. All elections at the AGM other than Branch Chairs (chosen locally).

THE SOCIETY PRESIDENTGuy Beringer was born in Singapore and went to school at Campbell College, Belfast. He came up to St Catharine’s in ")*$ to read history.He was following in the footsteps of his father, Fred Beringer, who read engineering at the College in the early ")'!s. Like his father, Guy won two rugby blues as a hooker in the very successful Cambridge teams of ")*' and ")*(. Many years later, Guy’s daughter Louisa read medicine at St Catharine’s and coxed the University Ladies Lightweight boat in their race against Oxford at Henley – a rare tri-generational achievement in University sport. This led to a meeting after a College dinner with Dudley Robinson who recalled the sporting e+orts of Fred, Guy and Louisa from

,rst-hand knowledge spanning the three generations.Guy pursued a career in the law and joined Allen & Overy in ")*%. He became a partner in ")%' and

was Senior Partner of the ,rm from #!!! to #!!%.Guy also continued with his rugby career after leaving Cambridge and played for London Irish (where

he played in the ")%! cup Final and later captained the club) and Ulster (where he played against the All Blacks at Ravenhill in ")*)).

In #!!%, Guy retired from the law to pursue his interests in other ,elds. He is currently Chairman of UK Export Finance, the government department which is the UK’s export credit agency. He is also Chairman of the Legal Education Foundation (one of the largest charitable foundations in the ,elds of legal education and public legal education). He also chairs City Music Limited which is a small company providing support for choirs and music in the workplace.

Guy has been involved in supporting the College for many years and was elected a Fellow Commoner in #!!%. He has been a long-standing member of the Development Committee and also ran an informal

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lunch club for old members in the city for many years.Guy is an Adjunct Professor at Imperial College Business School. He is an honorary QC and an

Honorary Bencher of Inner Temple. He is a keen choral singer and has sung for many years in his church choir as well as in amateur operatic productions at Glyndebourne and Sadler’s Wells.

Guy met his wife, Margaret, whilst at Cambridge and she is a Girtonian hockey blue. Guy has three daughters and four grandchildren.

To mark his year as Society President Guy is hosting a Reception in Inner Temple Hall on "& June #!"(. See also Notes & Dates at the end of the Magazine.

REPORT OF 87TH ANNUAL GENERAL MEETINGThe Society President Lord Horam of Grimsargh – John Horam (")'*, Fellow Commoner #!"!) – took the Chair on #( September #!"' with about &! members in attendance, and welcomed them to the %*th Annual General Meeting of the Society.

The Minutes of the %(th meeting were approved nem con: Proposer Brian Sweeney (")($), seconder Guy Beringer (")*$, Fellow Commoner #!!%).

ElectionsIn the election the following members were either con,rmed in, or elected to, or re-elected to committee membership nem con: Guy Beringer QC (")*$, Fellow Commoner #!!%) as President, having been elected the previous year; Professor Sir John Baker (Fellow ")*", Honorary Fellow #!"#) as President-Elect; David Sanders (")()) as Chair; David Peace (")((, Fellow Commoner #!"&) as Secretary; Dr John Little (")*#, Fellow ")%!) as Treasurer; Dr Anthony Davenport (Fellow "))') for a second and ,nal four-year term as Ordinary Member. Proposer Brian Woodham (")("), seconder Keith Cocker (")*#).

O!cers’ ReportsPresident’s Annual Report: Lord Horam summarised the work of the Branches and of the central Committee during the year. Walks, lunches, talks, meetings, parties, steam rail journeys, concerts, theatre visits, dinners and so on had taken place, all managed by alumni, in: Norwich’s Theatre Royal, Lincoln Cathedral and Castle, Dublin, O+church (Warks), Manchester’s Bridgewater Hall, Cheshire’s Delamere Forest, the Theatre Royal Newcastle, the Wensleydale Steam Railway, Lanercost Priory, Glasgow’s Pollock Country Park and House, Sandy Park Exeter for rugby, Dartmoor, Esseborne Manor near Andover, Hampshire Golf Club, Middle Wallop Flying Museum, the Hepworth Gallery Wake,eld, and Calke Abbey. The President thanked all Branch Chairs and their Committees, expressed his appreciation for all those who had attended the events, and asked members to give special help in areas where numbers and distances were very challenging, particularly in our Wales, our Yorkshire-Humberside, and our Ireland Branches. [Details of these regional events, with contact details for the Branch Chairs, can be found below.]

Centrally, in April the Society had held its ,fth Presidents’ Dinner in London; in June Lord Horam had held a Reception in the House of Lords; in the same month we arranged the ,rst Society box at Lord’s for the one-day Varsity cricket matches; this weekend’s Reunion was of course a highlight; in June #!"( the Society President, Guy Beringer, is hosting a reception at the Inner Temple in London.

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the freshers; and a record number of grants had been given to students from Society funds for help in sport, music and performing arts, team travel and internships. Fuller details can be found at below.

The President himself had spoken at a number of branch events, had attended the Presidents’ Dinner; and had hosted the House of Lords Reception. All were well attended and much appreciated and enjoyed.

In conclusion Lord Horam said the Society was in a most healthy, active and vibrant state and that he was very pleased that after more than )! years it was continuing to prove itself relevant to members and to the College; and he knew that it was so recognised. He reminded members that the Society is for all who have been admitted to the College in an academic capacity. He thanked the Alumni and Development O.ce for its help and ,nally he paid tribute to the hard work of the committee members themselves, including the Branch Chairs, who give so much of their time to running this alumni-led Society. He was also most grateful to Professor Dame Jean Thomas for supporting us so fully both as Master and also as Society President; and he was delighted that Guy Beringer would be his successor.

Treasurer’s Report: the Presentation of the Accounts: In proposing the adoption of the Accounts for #!"&–' the Treasurer, Dr John Little, reported as follows: Income showed a healthy rise of some 0#'!! due to a small rise in student numbers and an increase in our dividend income, whilst expenditure was slightly lower than the previous year and this contributed to an increase in our operating surplus to 0"!,($!. This allowed us to increase our grants awarded to College students and, indeed, we made an award to all those who applied. With this current healthy level of surplus we hoped to ensure that the publicity for our grants would be known by all the student community so that we could help those in most need. After our contribution to the Alumni O.ce was taken into account we were still able to make a small pro,t of 0#"$! and, with the values of our CPF shares rising, we found that we brought forward a balance of 0"),(#) which led to a healthy balance carried forward to next year of nearly 0#!!,!!!. The Secretary summarised the Society’s wide range of grants to students during the year. The Accounts were adopted nem con. Proposer Tony Watts (")(!, Fellow Commoner #!"&), seconder Richard Grieve (")($).

Editor’s Report: The Magazine Editor, Roger Stratford, noted there had been a small delay in the publication of the #!"& Magazine and also that a few errors had crept in. The demise of John Shakeshaft, a long term friend, Fellow and chief proof-reader, was a great sadness but this year’s publication was on schedule and there appeared to be an especially wide collection of interesting articles, with the result that the forthcoming edition might be a little larger than normal. He thanked Dr Chris Thorne for handling the student contributions and the Librarian Colin Higgins for organising the book reviews, and also reported that the redaction of Magazines for public website release was continuing: full copies of all years since ")#* were available online to registered members; redacted versions from ")%% were available to the public.

College DevelopmentThe Development Director, Deborah Loveluck, summarised the alumni events organised by the College during the year, the continuing success of the College Campaign and the uses to which the funds were being put. A full account is available in the College Report section of this Magazine.

The Reunion Weekend SeminarProfessor Ron Martin’s talk to our Society in the McGrath Centre more than ful,lled its title: The College Cellar and the Changing World of Wine. Ron started by making it clear that the cellar was not a drain on College resources; it made a pro,t, largely earned from conferences, which was added to other College fund raising. Then, with the aid of excellent visuals, he provided members with a comprehensive account

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of the College’s ‘liquid assets’, the situation that he inherited when he became Wine Steward in "))! (superb wines and less than superb storage conditions), his huge respect for his predecessor Dr Sydney Smith whose knowledge and dedication had been so signi,cant, the challenges he faced as global markets developed, and the changes he had made as the Cellar’s ,nances were restructured. Ranging across the planet he summarised the rise of New World production, the globalisation of the wine industry, the increasing occurrence of fraud, England’s own superb o+erings, the current experts to follow for those who want quality (and not necessarily at high prices) and his personal favourites; and it was at this point in particular that many could be seen urgently scribbling! The revelation that what later became known as the champagne method of production had ,rst been discovered, published and implemented in England gave most of us particular satisfaction. In the questions that followed members discussed with him their own favourites and interests, and the pros and cons of corks, screw caps and – something that he mentioned and that few of us had met – glass stoppers. Running out of time, we regrettably had to end this most fascinating of talks. Display material from the talk is available on the Society website in ‘Reunion Seminars’ under the ‘About Us’ tab. Members left with an increased interest and for further discussion over tea in the SCR, to the accompaniment of our own members’ Southside Jazz Band in Main Court.

ExhibitionDuring the Reunion Weekend College Archivist Lizzy Ennion-Smith had compiled displays of material covering the College’s experiences during WWI, abroad in the ,eld of con-ict and also at home in the College itself, and fascinating and of course tragic it proved to be. Situated in the Antechapel it was visited by many members and we are grateful to Lizzy for her work.

Society O,cers !"#'–#$ ready for dinner. From left David Peace (Secretary), Guy Beringer (President-Elect), the Master (Immediate Past President), Lord Horam (President), John Little (Treasurer), David Sanders (Chairman). Note the newly-cleaned stonework of the pillars.

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EvensongAs in recent years members worshipping at Evensong were uplifted not only by the familiar rite and hymns but also by the splendid singing of the College’s Girls’ Choir – young girls from local schools in this the only college-based girls’ choir in the UK – this year ably directed by Choir Administrator Patrick Johansson and accompanied by Junior Organ Scholar Alex Coplan. Led by the Revd David Neaum, Chaplain of the College, and with readings by our outgoing and incoming Presidents, the congregation provided lusty singing and robust responses in a service that admirably served their spiritual needs before proceeding to the more temporal pleasures of the Reunion Dinner.

Annual Dinner &%')Our pre-Dinner Reception was held this year in the McGrath Centre where the generous provision of canapés and wine improved still further the convivial spirit of the occasion. With more than ")! members and partners or guests our numbers were impressive and we knew that the Hall would be full. After half an hour of mingling we moved into a superbly prepared Hall for what turned out to be a memorable Reunion Dinner in more ways than one. The quality of the food, the wine and the service always make this Society Dinner an exceptional experience, but this year there was an extra ingredient: nervous excitement, anticipation and tension among a substantial number of members because England were playing Wales in the Rugby World Cup! This being the #"st century, mobile phones could be seen held guiltily under the tables as members followed the match during the evening. Noise levels, rivalry and joviality rose accordingly and much fun was had – and by all accounts High Table was no exception. Given that the result was certain to be very close (in fact it was decided in the last few seconds) Lord Horam, with presidential discretion, wisely delayed the speech-making until after the ,nal whistle.

John Horam then addressed the gathering as our outgoing President and, noting diplomatically that he was surrounded by Celts (ethnically the victors as it happened), he o+ered suitable congratulations and sympathies to all in the Hall. Continuing, he described the wide range of attendees from around the country and the world, with matriculation dates from ")&' to our Junior Organ Scholar who had just ,nished his ,rst year. The impressive range of over two dozen Society events had all been fully subscribed, and we had as usual played our part in helping today’s undergraduates with some of their extra-curricular activities using our ever-increasing system of grants from members’ funds. He could say – even as a politician – that we were an extremely strong alumni society and probably the most successful in the University. He thanked the Society O.cers for their unstinting and meticulous work as volunteers, the Alumni O.ce for its great support, and all the sta+ of the College including, of course, those who were providing our meal and had served us so well. Finally he thanked the Master who had been a constant supporter of the Society – so much so that she had even come to hear him give a political talk – and who had presided with grace, charm and good humour over a hugely successful period in the history of the College and of the Society, where she had also been President. He had been delighted to serve as President this year and also before that for eight years as Chairman because St Catharine’s had given him two major things. First a remarkable education: he had read Economics from ")'* to ")(! and, as fellow Catsman Lord Glasman (")*)) had pointed out the other day, that had been the period when all the dazzling stars of Keynesian economics were working away in Cambridge. He and his colleagues bene,tted uniquely from their tuition. The second thing the College gave him had been brought home when he had had a casual conversation with a very recent Cambridge student who had been at Trinity. When John commented that the time at Trinity must have been great, the student replied that it was OK, but he had spent all his time at St Catharine’s because it was ‘so much more friendly’. Wholly endorsing that view and valuing the special friendships he himself had made there and trusting that all present felt the same, our President asked everyone to charge their glasses and toast the College.

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The Master then rose to speak on behalf of the College. It was surely coincidental and totally unconnected with a very recent event that she began by noting her Welsh background with a marked sense of pride; and surely the applause and cheers that followed from certain quarters of the Hall were no more than a polite response. Continuing, Professor Dame Jean Thomas summarised the academic, sporting, musical and other achievements of the College (see her full report in the early pages of this Magazine) and also described the once-in-centuries opportunity that had arisen by the University recently o+ering long leases on the Old Press Site the other side of Silver Street. St Catharine’s and three other colleges were interested and working together on this, but the funding was daunting as some 0#!m would be needed by our College alone. Concluding with thanks to all, and recognising especially the high value that the College places on the Society and on the volunteers who run it, she invited everyone to stand as she proposed a toast to the Society. A few minutes later Lord Horam handed the emblem of o.ce to Guy Beringer QC (")*$, Fellow Commoner #!!%) wishing him much pleasure as Society President in the year ahead. Members were then invited to adjourn for further refreshments in the College Bar, where the South Side Jazz band was to play until curfew at "#.$!.

David Peace (!"##, Fellow Commoner $%!&), Society Secretary

ACCOUNTS FOR THE YEAR TO 30 JUNE 2015Income #!"' #!"&Donations ",('* &#!Subscriptions %,!'' *,%#!Dividends and Bank Interest ),)"# %,*%&

"),(#& "*,!#&ExpenditureGeneral &,"$% ',"*(Grants &,%'( &,($$

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Operating Surplus "!,($! *,#"&

Suggested Contribution Alumni O.ce %,'!! %,'!!Operating Surplus/(De,cit) after Contribution #,"$! (",#%()

Increase/(decrease) in value of investments "*,&)% "",")*Net Surplus/(De,cit) for the year "),(#) ),)"#

Balance brought forward "*%,(!( "(%,()'Balance carried forward ")%,#$' "*%,(!(

The Old Members’ Sports Fund, a separate Society Fund, sits administratively with College Funds, but all awards are made by the Society. They amounted to 0',$%# during the year ended $! June #!"' ($! June #!"&: 0&,"$"). The total amount in the Fund at $! June #!"' was 0"$(,*&# ($! June #!"&: 0"#&,!*&). The investment income available to spend during #!"&–"' was 0&,)($.

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SOCIETY AWARDSDuring each year the Society does what it can from its accumulated funds to help students with special ,nancial needs. We make sure that we do not duplicate funding available from other sources – from the College or from the University for example – and so we currently o+er grants in the following areas, with each annual sum shared between eligible students or groups:

The Music Tuition Fund, for those not reading Music as a degree subject: up to 0"!!! per year available.The Performing Arts Fund, for students wanting to improve their personal skills in theatre, dance etc. (but not for funding speci,c productions): up to 0"!!! per year available. The Travel Grants Fund, for College Clubs and Societies to support UK and overseas tours, with priority given to applicants who will link up with alumni in the areas visited: up to 0#!!! per year available.The Old Members’ Sports Fund, for extra or unusual expenditure for students chosen to represent the College or University at any competitive sport: up to 0&!!! per year available.The Internship Bursaries Fund, for students already in receipt of Cambridge bursaries and who have acquired a Long Vacation work experience project, unpaid, with an approved not-for-pro,t organisation (charity, media, arts, heritage, etc.): each bursary limited to 0'!!; approval only after the results of other funding applications are known; '!/ of grant paid in advance and '!/ after a report at the end of the project. This year the College generously o+ered to match Society Internship awards, and so students could in e+ect receive a maximum of 0"!!! each if approved.

During #!"&–"' the Society, through its award panels consisting of Society and College O.cers, was pleased to make:

four awards totalling 0#!!! to support singing, theatre and -ying trapeze tuitionone award of 0'!! to support a Boat Club overseas training campeight awards for work experience (internships in medical research, biodiversity, a Slovak government project, and charity work in Tanzania and India) totalling 0$!#'.(( awards totalling 0''$# to individuals to help with sports activities – American football, athletics, badminton, cheerleading, cricket, cross country, fencing, hockey, lacrosse, mountain biking, modern pentathlon, netball, polo, rowing, rugby, running, sailing, skiing, swimming, tennis, volleyball and water polo.

David Peace (!"##, Fellow Commoner $%!&) Society Secretary

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Our ,fth Society Presidents’ Dinner took place on "& April in the Edward VII Room of the Oxford and Cambridge Club, London. Before starting we held a period of silence to remember Martin Taylor (")'', President in ")))) and Sir Derek Day (")&%, President in "))() who had both passed away during the year.

A dozen Presidents Past, Current and Elect had enthusiastically agreed to attend what they knew to be one of the most convivial evenings of the year. Regrettably one had had to withdraw due to temporary ill health and there was also a no-show, but the remaining ten did not seem to ,nd it hard to enter into the spirit of the occasion. Much merriment complemented our earnest discussion on the ways of the world and our pride in the College, the Society, and all things associated with them. Whether College or Society would have welcomed our views the next morning history does not relate, but all agreed that this evening each year is a valuable way of maintaining contact and providing an overview from those who had given time to represent the College in such a signi,cant way. Attending were: Brian Sweeney (")($, President in "))*), Geo+rey Stokell (")'!, President in #!!!), Donald Broom (")(", Emeritus Fellow, President in #!!'), Brian Woodham (")(", President in #!!(), John Oakes (")(", President in #!!*), David Peace (")((, President in #!"!), Tony Watts (")(!, President in #!"#), Dame Jean Thomas (Master #!!*, President in #!"$), this year’s President John Horam (Lord Horam of Grimsargh, ")'*), and President-Elect Guy Beringer (")*$).

David Peace (!"##, Fellow Commoner $%!&), Society Secretary)

SOCIETY PRESIDENTS’ DINNER

THE ACHESON-GRAY SPORTS DAY 2015The "'th AG sports day took place on Saturday #% June. The traditional date of the ,rst weekend in the Easter Term was altered to enable a College dinner to accompany the sports day. The earlier date is in the College quiet period and such frivolities are beyond the gift of the Dean.

Flaming June would normally prevent rugby or football, but showers earlier in the week softened the ground at our new rugby pitch. The rugby match involved the College and the Fries Platoon, the latter being dominant. Cricket was attempted despite the drizzle and haar, but ,nally abandoned with Stuart Cummings left hanging on a ,ne score. College hockey has not been in quite its usual dominant form this year and it was no surprise that the alumni won all three matches. It is a credit to enthusiasm that other sports were played – tennis, netball, badminton, squash and croquet. The former students triumphed in every sport, notwithstanding some discussion about the missing netball results. It might have been expected that the former students would have had di.culty ,elding teams but it was more of a problem for the students, many of whom returned to College for this event. Some of our Blues sportsmen and women were otherwise occupied.

Driven indoors by the rain, the new bar o+ered sanctuary before dinner. Before we ate there was a ,ne speech by James, the brother of Charles Acheson-Gray, a speech by Tony Engel (")(") on the value of sport and another by John Oakes (")(") with some additional words by Professor Broom (")(", Emeritus Fellow). The revelry was brought to an end with an elevated rendition of Jerusalem, the anthem of the Women’s Institute.

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SOCIETY RECEPTION IN THE HOUSE OF LORDSThe Society President, Lord (John) Horam, held a Reception for Society members in the Cholmondeley Room and Terrace of the House of Lords on an evening in June #!"'. About "%! members attended including the Master, Dame Jean Thomas; the College President, Dr John Little; Dr Peter Wothers; the Development Director, Mrs Deborah Loveluck; Lord Naseby and Lord Temple Morris.

Lord Horam welcomed members and reminded them that Jeremy Thorpe had said that the House of Lords proved that there was life after death. He personally preferred the comment of Benjamin Disraeli who, on becoming the Earl of Beacons,eld, said ‘I am dead, but in the Elysian ,elds’. Whatever view one took, Lord Horam pointed out that St Catharine’s College was now well represented in the Lords, having no less than four members.

Lord Horam also mentioned that "% June #!"' was the #!!th anniversary of Wellington’s victory at Waterloo. After the battle the College gave places to some of Wellington’s o.cers and later, in "%&*, the Duke slept in the Master’s Lodge when accompanying Prince Albert and Queen Victoria on their visit to Cambridge. The Master then updated the guests on the current activities in the College before the evening ended with a tour of the Palace.

The Development Director, Lord Horam, the Master, Mr Ricky Mendes (#%$*),Lord Naseby (#%$&), and the Deputy Development Director at the Lords Reception.

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November #!"& saw over a hundred Cats geographers spanning eight decades of studies celebrate a remarkable College link. More than twenty had matriculated in the last three years, o+ering a rare opportunity to meet the newest members of a global community.

Professor Ron Martin in his opening remarks paid tribute to Sir Peter Hall (")'!, Honorary Fellow ")%%), who had died recently. A giant of urbanist thinking, the Telegraph & August #!"& described him as ‘Britain’s leading post-war planning intellectual’. Sir Peter, addressing the previous dinner in #!"!, had laid the ground for this reunion. Fittingly it was taking place on World Town Planning Day and #!"& marks the ('th anniversary. Planning and related pursuits continue to fascinate Cats geographers with environmental sciences and remote sensing amongst the current undergraduate interests.

A tea-time gathering showcased leading research with College geographers globally poles apart. That this, and polarities in the national economic landscape, could be vividly presented was thanks to the new McGrath Centre. It is already a landmark destination and Harvey McGrath (")*") was able to be present in a week which saw the Centre mark its ,rst '!! days since opening in June #!"$.

Gus Caesar, another giant in the St Catharine’s landscape, was remembered. He was born in ")"& so the dinner marked his centenary and a witty and a+ectionate tribute to Gus was given by Professor Mike Bradford (")(&). A warm welcome was extended to Miss Pat Caesar, Gus’s daughter, who had led a splendid gathering at the Society weekend in September.

On Sunday morning a few hours later, pulpits throughout the land resonated with the words of Matthew, if not quite Chapter ##.#", and the favoured text from Gus with its booming reminder to generations of students to return borrowed books. ‘Render unto Caesar…’

Lester Hillman (!"'%)

GEOGRAPHERS DINNER 2014

East Anglia Branch The committee has met three times in College in the last year and the following events were arranged.

In November, the branch has had a visit to the Theatre Royal in Norwich and #) people saw La Traviata. There was a meal arranged before the opera for the party, and about "# people stayed overnight in Norwich. We had very positive feedback from this visit, and have arrangements in hand to repeat the occasion when Glyndebourne on tour returns to Norwich this November when the opera will be Mozart’s The Abduction from the Seraglio.

Professor Martin led another wine tasting in January and we sampled ‘Top English Sparklers and Powerful South American Reds’. #$ came to this event, for a very successful evening. Professor Martin combines a depth of knowledge of wines with great communication skills and, because of course there is no sales element to the tasting, we really do get a superb and genuine education in ,ne wines. We try to hold this event before term starts, as it makes accommodation in College easier, but this didn’t prove possible this year.

In March we had our AGM, this time a lunchtime event. Before the AGM we were lucky to have our President, John Horam, talk to us on the subject Where is our Country going? This was only a few weeks before the election and John was able to give us an insider’s view of a lot of topical issues that were ,lling the newspapers at the time. See also Midlands Report.

In May we returned to Lincoln for a second visit. In #!"& we had a visit and tour of Roman Lincoln

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kindly organised by Ralph Timms (")("). However Magna Carta was not on display in #!"& and the castle was also closed for repairs. This year a new display of Magna Carta and the completion of the castle repairs drew us back to Lincoln, and Ralph again organised the visit, which was attended by #& persons. We were not disappointed and furthermore the "%th century gaol in the castle has been superbly renovated as well. In the gaol, it all looked familiar in a funny sort of way, not because of our past misdemeanours, but because almost every period gaol scene on ,lm or television has been ,lmed in this authentic building. In the afternoon there was a choice between a Cathedral roof tour or a Cathedral tower tour ($$% steps). The latter gave a view worth the climb, and on a clear day one can see both the coast and the Peak District.

In June some of our branch were able to join the London branch to watch the Varsity cricket match at Lords. The Cambridge Society of London (Chairman David Peace) usually has a box of $( seats. When David, also our Society Secretary, advertised a second box of $( places for St Catharine’s Society we had the fastest take-up of any visit we have planned – all $( places were gone in two days.

Jonathan Dossetor (!"#$) (society.eastanglia.chair@caths.cam.ac.uk )

Ireland BranchAbout #! Catzpeople live in the Republic of Ireland, but many more ("!!+) are based in Northern Ireland. In spite of that imbalance, Andrew Clarke (")(*) and I – both Dubliners by adoption – have been taking steps to set up an Ireland branch of the Society. Over dinner in the Kildare Street and University Club, of which Andrew is currently chairman, we teamed up with Patricia McVeigh ("))%) and Diarmuid Hannigan (#!!!) to form a sort of informal steering committee. Our ,rst initiative was to organise a St Catharine’s table at the Oxford & Cambridge dinner in Dublin in April. The dinner, held in the Merrion Hotel which now occupies a row of Georgian houses in one of which the Duke of Wellington was born, was dedicated to celebrating the bicentenary of the Battle of Waterloo. At the Catz table, besides the four of us, were Ronnie Smartt (")'&), Anthony Harvey (")**) and Anthony’s wife Kate Younger (who comes from just next door to Catz at Queens’).

Stephen Mennell (!"#() (society.ireland.chaircaths.cam.ac.uk)

The view from the top of Lincoln Cathedral.

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London BranchIn July the London Group returned to The Globe to see Measure for Measure – Dominic Drumgoole’s ,nal production in The Globe’s outdoor space. The $! members and guests had a special evening; it was marvellous that one group included three generations with links to the College.

Details of future events are on the Society website; please contact me if you would like to book for yourself, family and friends.

Heather Powell (!")!) (society.london.chair@caths.cam.ac.uk)

Midlands BranchIn February, a record number of $' took part in a visit to O+church, a beautiful village on the River Leam in South Warwickshire. The visit began in the morning when the group assembled outside the Parish church for a brief introduction to the village and its history. The origin of the name ‘O+a’s Church’ relates to its connection to O+a, who was King of Mercia from *'* to *)( and, at the manor house of O+church Bury, there was a forti,cation of O+a’s deriving from the Saxon word burh or forti,ed place.

We then vsited the church and received great hospitalty from members of their Parochial Church Council includng a guided tour, refreshments and music. The church is a notable building constructed with local red sandstone. Whilst there is no trace of the original O+a’s church, the current building, constructed from "#th century onwards, contains Norman elements and traces of an Anglo-Saxon cemetery were found about "%*'. A stone co.n is on display in the current church, but there is no direct evidence that this dates from Saxon times. A local legend says that if you go to the top of the church and jump o+, King O+a will rise from the ground and catch you!

Afterwards, we walked the short distance to the Stag where we had a private room for lunch. It has an excellent reputation for the quality of its food and warm welcome and we were not disappointed in any way. Indeed it proved an ideal venue for us. Afrer lunch, we were then addressed by Society

The Midlands Branch meeting at O-church.

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President Lord (John) Horam, a Fellow Commoner of the College and a working Conservative Peer. He spoke to the title of Where is our country going? and posed such questions as: Should there be more English devolution, along the lines of Scotland? Will UKIP do well at the general election? What are the main parties o+ering? Will there be another coalition? Have we got the economy heading in the right direction? Can the European Union be reformed? Will the UK stay in? Given the forthcoming general election, his talk was well timed and much appreciated by all present.

At its conclusion everyone agreed on how enjoyable it had been and a great chance to catch up with existing friends and make new ones. The event, as all Midland ones, was open to all members and partners. We always o+er a special welcome to those joining us for the ,rst time and so, if you live in the Midlands or close by, we will be very pleased to see you at future events.

John Moverley (!"#)) (society.midlands.chair@caths.cam.ac.uk)

North West BranchIt has been a quieter year in the North West with two Society events this year. We returned to Manchester’s Bridgewater Hall in October for a Hallé Concert. Branch Chair Eleanor Roberts (")%') arranged access to discounted tickets and hospitality in the Corporate Bar for members, who enjoyed hearing Dvorak’s Symphony No.( and Paul Lewis playing Brahms Piano Concerto No.# as well as the socialising!

In June we proved the rule that you should always go ahead with a picnic regardless of an unpromising weather forecast as a damp morning turned into a beautiful afternoon in Delamere Forest. We were guided on a walk through the woods by David Clarke (")*&), the picnic only slightly marred by our choosing the same day as a regional Airedale Terrier owners’ club – which made conversation a little di.cult!

Activities planned for next year include a wine-tasting evening, a trip to the Everyman Theatre and a return visit to Delamere – perhaps without the Airedales this time…

Eleanor Roberts (!")*) (society.northwest.chair@caths.cam.ac.uk)

The Northern Branch meeting on the Wensleydale Railway.

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Northern BranchIn October a group of us saw an RSC matinee performance of Two Gentlemen of Verona at the Theatre Royal, Newcastle. The star of the show was ‘Crab the Dog’ played by a very clever lurcher called Mossup, who gave a brilliant performance. After the show we visited a local hostelry where we bene,tted from the learned comments on this rather strange play from our distinguished Chairman, Professor Reavley Gair (")')).

In May some of us met at Bedale station for lunch and then took a trip to Redmire and back on the preserved Wensleydale Railway. The scenery was excellent, and the geological features were explained by one of our members, Ian Evans (")("). As soon as we arrived at Redmire we had to catch the train back, but there didn’t seem to be anything much there to detain us!

Some of us attended an evening performance of The Tempest at Lanercost Priory, near Carlisle, in June. The Priory is now a parish church, but it is big enough to be a modest cathedral and it provided a dramatic setting for this very enjoyable performance.

Bill Schardt (!"#)) (society.northern.chair@caths.cam.ac.uk)

Scotland BranchThe Scottish Branch held only one event during this period: a number of us spent a sunny Saturday in Pollok Country Park in Glasgow in March. The main focus of the visit was the Burrell Collection, an accumulation of over %,!!! objects, artefacts, paintings and tapestries amassed by Sir William Burrell over a period of %! years. A shrewd and prudent businessman and collector, he chose carefully what he purchased, and the collection contains many globally unique and important pieces, a large proportion of which are in pristine condition.

In ")&&, Sir William gifted his entire collection to the City of Glasgow – with a number of conditions. The collection had to be freely accessible, and housed in a rural setting away from the damaging e+ects of the city’s pollution. No such site had been identi,ed by the time he died in ")'%, but in ")(* Pollok House and its estate was also gifted to Glasgow City Council, and this provided an excellent rural setting (at that time) for the Burrell Collection. A building was constructed speci,cally to house the collection which ,nally went on display in ")%$.

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We were all very impressed at the quality and breadth of the collection and the many interesting pieces to see, and our guide’s enthusiasm and knowledge kept us all inspired and interested. The building itself, with its sandstone and other natural materials, and its areas of natural light and relative darkness, provides an excellent variety of conditions to protect and display the Collection’s objects. Unfortunately, despite its relatively young age and modern design, the roof is leaking in all sorts of places, and the building is festooned with bits of tarpaulin hanging from the ceiling and strategically placed buckets on the -oor, and quite a number of the Collection’s paintings and other objects have been removed for safe keeping. It is expected that the building will close sometime within the next year for a long period of roof reconstruction.

We also enjoyed a very pleasant lunch half a mile away at Pollok House, now a National Trust property, where we ate in the Edwardian Kitchen Restaurant. Afterwards, some of us went back to the Burrell to have a further look around, some went into Pollok House, and some headed o+ to other engagements or to watch the closing stages of the concluding day of the Six Nations Rugby.

David Wood (!")%) (society.scotland.chair@caths.cam.ac.uk)

South West BranchDuring #!"&–"' the South West branch held two events.

For the ,rst time this year we attended a sporting event with great success. In February about $! members and guests enjoyed a bu+et lunch in the grandstand restaurant at Sandy Park, home of the Exeter Chiefs, followed by an exciting Premiership derby clash between Exeter and Bath Rugby. With both sides vying for a play-o+ place the match was a sell out and lived up to pre-match expectations. Our group was evenly balanced with supporters of both sides in attendance, but as chairman my non-partisanship prevents me from extolling the achievement of Exeter in winning their ,rst encounter with their local rivals since joining the top echelon of rugby! This event attracted a number of new attendees for the SW branch and re-connected some members who last met in a supervision room. This could well become an annual ,xture in the branch programme.

In early September we held our annual garden party on the edge of Dartmoor. This event is particularly welcomed by those who are unable to travel to the Society’s Annual Reunion in Cambridge. Unfortunately the late summer weather meant that the garden was enjoyed from inside the house along with the Pimms and cream teas! Numbers were up on recent years and, with a range of '( years between attendees at either end of the age spectrum, we hope to attract even more next year as there is likely to be someone who will be able to share your memories from whatever era! As people made their way to their cars the sun came out for a beautiful Devon sunset!

David Sanders (!"#") (society.southwest.chair@caths.cam.ac.uk)

Wales BranchI have to report that the modest start made at the #!"& National Eisteddfod was not sustained in the way that I expressed in the last St Catharine’s Magazine – great oaks did not from little acorns grow! Various commitments prevented my following up the very few speci,c leads kindly suggested by some of you. A very open ended invitation to all Welsh alumni to meet me at this year’s Eisteddfod, or indeed to come up to our hill-top mid-Wales small holding for fantastic views, some refreshment, modest exploration of its wildlife and discussion of future events, elicited no more than six apologies. And therein lies the nub of my problem in trying to arrange any all-Wales event to attract even a modest dozen or so alumni. From my own isolated eyrie, and a lifestyle which goes with it, depending on the pleasures of the natural world rather than social contact or entertainment, I have little idea of what might appeal to others.

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To make a success of the Wales Branch I need to hear more from those of you who are Welsh residents about activities, events or informal gatherings which you would be willing to support in your own area and to provide me with enough information and contacts for me to take forward its organisation and communicate with fellow Alumni. So do drop me a line; I look forward to hearing from you and hope to be able to o+er a more up-beat Wales Branch report next year.

Andrew Jenkinson (!"#$) (society.wales.chair@caths.cam.ac.uk)

Wessex BranchThe Branch held three events during the year.

In October $) Branch members and friends attended a lunch at the Esseborne Manor Hotel near Andover. After lunch Dr Richard Holt (")%$) (pictured, left) gave a talk: Beyond Reasonable Doubt: Catching Athletes Cheating with Drugs in which he talked about his research in this ,eld. It was amazing to hear that in a survey the greater percentage of athletes would be prepared to cheat if they thought they would not be found out and even more surprising that many would still take illegal performance enhancing drugs, even if it would shorten their lives. Richard continued by talking about the drugs themselves and methods of detection and commented on a number of past and current cases. At the request of many who

heard his talk he was kind enough to allow us later to circulate to those present details from some of his papers on the subject.

In March #% members and friends attended a lunch at Hampshire Golf Club near Andover. Our original speaker was unfortunately unable to come due to illness and at short notice John Dennis (")'"), our speaker for later in October, was kind enough to bring forward his talk entitled A Bishop, a Bike and some Beer. John gave an interesting and amusing talk about his experiences in the Ministry ending as Bishop of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich which is the second longest title for a bishop in England. This led to some di.culties when signing o.cial documents. Along the way he lived in a varied range of parishes with elements of past social history: back-to-backs in Yorkshire, the condemned cell in Leeds, leafy suburbs of London and dockers in the Isle of Dogs.

In June we attended a guided tour of the Museum of Army Flying at Middle Wallop, followed by lunch. This event started with co+ee, followed by a guided tour of the museum which included details of the history of army -ying beginning with the ,rst observers in static balloons. This was followed by lunch and a further opportunity for people to look round the museum at their own pace. "( Members and friends attended.

Clive Brunswick (!"*() (society.wessex.chair@caths.cam.ac.uk)

Yorkshire & Humberside BranchThe Yorkshire and Humberside region met at the Hepworth Gallery in Wake,eld in October and a dozen or so members and wives joined in an interesting guided tour of the gallery and then a few stayed on for a meal at a local hostelry. The Yorkshire Branch at the Blues Brothers.

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In April, we arranged a visit to the Bronte Parsonage in Haworth and then a lunch in the town but numbers were not su.cient to justify the journey and a similar lack of numbers cancelled the June visit to Saltaire, where a walking tour of the industrial village, a visit to the Hockney Gallery and a meal afterwards failed to lure enough Catz alumni to make the day a success.

Most recently, a small band of brothers met at Calke Abbey to watch a re-run of the fabulous Blues Brothers movie shown on a calm August evening, outside, in the shadow of the house and, in true College style, picnics were shared. Jerry Wallwork (")(%), David Charlton (")*!) and Malcolm Bailey (")*!) and spouses did not wear pork pie hats nor dress as nuns.

Malcolm Bailey (!"'%) (society.yorkshire.humberside.chair@caths.cam.ac.uk)

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A St Catharine’s gathering in the Long Bar, Ra.es Hotel, in August !"#$.Standing behind: Timothy Jones (!""*), Jennifer Morris (!""*), Kenneth Tan (#%%*), Jeson Ng (!"#').Standing front: Ming-Ying Teng (#%%&), Yi Wen Chua (#%%(), Elaine Ng (#%(').Seated: Caroline Johnson (#%((), Andrew Briski (#%("), Professor Eilís Ferran (Fellow #%(&) with her husband Rod Cantrill and son Oliver.

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Last year our Secretary stole the ,nal ball of the men’s one-day Varsity match at Lord’s (the ball that impudently soared over the Ground and up into his Cambridge Society of London suite). This year the College Society itself scored a ,rst: we were, as far as we knew, the ,rst alumni society from any college to organise its own box to watch the matches. On #* June some $( members and guests spent the day in the St Catharine’s College Society Suite in the Tavern Stand for a superb day of superb sport, only marginally marred by the ,nale. With bookings opening on a grey weekend in February it had been a nervous experiment, but in fact it was sold out within "# hours and there was a waiting list. It was a really good day with much pleasure and congratulations from everyone, so we’ll do it again next year. The only thing left is to ,x the result…

THE LAST AND THE FIRST

Professor David Armitage ('$+*), the Lloyd C Blankfein Professor of History and Chair of the Department of History at Harvard University, has been awarded an Honorary LittD by the University of Cambridge.

Professor Jonathan Bate ('$,,, Research Fellow '$+*, Honorary Fellow &%%'), Provost of Worcester College and Professor of Literature at Oxford, was knighted in the #!"' New Year Honours for services to literary scholarship and higher education. Professor Bate is a biographer, critic, broadcaster, novelist and scholar of Shakespeare, Romanticism and Ecocriticism. He is a Governor and Board member of the Royal Shakespeare Company, Vice-President (leading the Humanities) of the British Academy and from #!!*–"" sat on the Council of the Arts and Humanities Research Council. He was awarded a CBE in #!!( in the Queen’s %!th Birthday Honours.

Professor Chris Clark (Fellow '$$%), Regius Professor of History at Cambridge, was knighted in the #!"' Queen’s Birthday Honours ‘for services to British German relations’.

Dr Nik Cunni"e ('$$*) and Professor Jim Woodhouse ('$-$) were awarded Cambridge University Pilkington Prizes in #!"' for excellence in teaching. Both read Mathematics at St Catharine’s, but their research interests have since diverged: Dr Cunni+e now teaches at the Department of Plant Sciences, and Professor Woodhouse at the Department of Engineering and the School of Technology.

Sir Terence English (Master '$$(–&%%%) received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation at their #!"& meeting in San Diego and also the #!"& Ray C Fish Award for Scienti,c Achievement in Cardiovascular Disease from the Texan Heart Institute in Houston.

Andrew Fraser-Urquhart ('$+-) of Francis Taylor Building has been appointed a Queen’s Counsel.

Joe Frost (&%'&) won the #!"' Christopher Welch Scholarship for research at Oxford University. He will use it to study for his DPhil at the Weatherall Institute under Professor Hal Drakesmith ("))!) who encouraged Joe to apply for the scholarship.

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Professor Charles Higham ('$)$, Honorary Fellow &%%+), Professor of Archaeology at the University of Otago, New Zealand, was awarded the #!"& Mason Durie Medal by the Royal Society of New Zealand. The medal is awarded to a pre4eminent New Zealand social scientist whose research has made an international impact. The citation indicates that the medal was awarded to Charles ‘for his eminent research which has concentrated on social change in Southeast Asia that led to the foundation of the earliest states, with particular reference to Angkor. No other archaeologist has done as much to aid current understanding of the prehistory of Thailand and adjacent regions.’

Dr Hazem Kandil (Fellow &%'&) was awarded a #!"& Philip Leverhulme Prize for outstanding scholarship.

Professor John Love ('$-'), Emeritus Professor in Guided Wave Photonics in the Physics Education Centre of the Australian National University, has been awarded the degree of Doctor of Science (ScD) by the University of Cambridge.

Andrew O’Connor ('$$') of Temple Garden Chambers has been appointed a Queen’s Counsel.

Dr Nicholas Penny ('$+&, Honorary Fellow &%%$), Director General of the National Gallery, was knighted in the #!"' Queen’s Birthday Honours ‘for services to the Arts’.

Professor John Pyle (Fellow '$+-), the ")#! Professor of Physical Chemistry and Co-Director of the Centre for Atmospheric Science, received, together with his research group, the International Impact and Overall Impact awards from the Natural Environment Research Council.

Professor Robin Stowell ('$-+), Emeritus Professor of Music at Cardi+ University, was conferred with a Fellowship of the Royal College of Music (FRCM) in March #!"' by HRH the Prince of Wales. The Fellowship was in recognition of both his academic work and his achievements as a performer. He made his solo debut as a violinist at the Purcell Room in ")*& and has performed throughout the UK as a soloist and chamber musician. He was also, for many years, a member of The Academy of Ancient Music, The English Concert and other period-instrument ensembles.

Professor John Veit-Wilson ('$))) was awarded the Social Policy Association’s Special Recognition Award in July #!"& for his lifetime’s scienti,c, public and organisational work on income adequacy and minimum income standards. He was a founder member of the Child Poverty Action Group in ")(', retiring as Vice-Chair of the Board in #!"$, and played an active research advisory role in international policy formation including an adequate European Minimum Income Directive. John is Emeritus Professor of Social Policy at Northumbria University, a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and Honorary Fellow of the Joint University Council, and is a guest member of sta+ in sociology at Newcastle University.

Professor Robin Stowell receving his FRCM.

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Professor Jim Woodhouse ('$-$). See Nik Cuni+e ("))$) above.

Ian Wright ('$,,), Director-General of the Food and Drink Federation and lately advisor to Nick Clegg, has been awarded a CBE for political and public service.

University AppointmentsProfessor Eilís Ferran ('$+%, Fellow '$+,), Professor of Company and Securities Law in the Faculty of Law, and chair of the Law Faculty, has been appointed a Pro-Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge. Five Pro-Vice-Chancellors are responsible for taking forward the University’s strategy and policy development, and supporting the Vice-Chancellor in his or her role in providing leadership to the University. Each post covers an area of strategic importance to the University – Professor Ferran is responsible for human resources and for oversight of the University’s international a+airs.

Professor John Pyle FRS has been appointed Head of the Department of Chemistry.

Dr Mark Elliott has been promoted to a Professorship and Dr Nora Berend to a Readership.

Dr David Aldridge and Dr Matt DeJong have been promoted to Senior Lectureships.

Recent publications by or about College Members, donated to the College Library

Baldwin, Mark (")(#). The Enigma Machine, Bletchley Park, and the Battle of the Atlantic. Cleobury Mortimer, Shropshire: M&M Baldwin, #!"& ()&!.'&%(&")

Bowring, Philip (")(!, Fellow Commoner #!!)). Free Trade’s First Missionary: Sir John Bowring in Europe and Asia. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, #!"& ()&".!%"!)#)

Broom, Donald M. (")(", Fellow ")%*). Sentience and Animal Welfare. Wallingford: CABI, #!"& ("*).$)Domestic Animal Behaviour and Welfare, 'th edition. Wallingford: CABI, #!"& (($(.!%$)

Cumming, Iain (")')), and Moreton, John F. James Braid and his Four Hundred Golf Courses. Droitwich, Worcestershire: Grant Books, #!"$ (*"#.#)

Egeler, Matthias (Fellow #!"!). Perspektiven aus dem Reich der Toten: Gedanken zu einem etruskischen Felsengrab, der Religionsästhetik und der historischen Religionswissenschaftigher. Würzburg: Ergon-Verlag, #!"& ($)!.##)

French, Robert (")(*), and Simpson, Peter. Attention, Cooperation, Purpose: An Approach to Working in Groups Using Insights from Wilfred Bion. London: Karnac, #!"' (('%.&!##!"))

PUBLICATIONS

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Hall, Cli"ord (")(&), ed. The Twisted Web: Perspectives on Poverty in Poetry. Christ Church, Barbados: Cli+ord Hall, #!"" (%#".)) Francis Bacon: A Fragment of a Life. Holmes Beach, Florida: Gaunt, #!"# (")#.BAC) Harris, Joseph (Fellow #!!$). Inventing the Spectator: Subjectivity & the Theatrical Experience in Early Modern France. Oxford: Oxford University Press, #!"& (*)#.!)&&!)!$)

Higgins, Colin. Cataloging and Managing Film and Video Collections. Chicago: American Library Association, #!"' (!#'.$)

Holden, Patrick (")'*), and Gilbert, John. Agility: Schritt für Schritt. Mürlenbach: Kynos Verlag, #!!# (($(.*!%)Lively Limericks, Ribald Rhymes. Tetbury, Glos.: Beverston Press, #!"' (%#".*.HOL)

Kandil, Hazem (Fellow #!"#). Inside the Brotherhood. Cambridge: Polity Press, #!"& ()(#)

Hardie, Jeremy. Variety is the Spice of Life: The Worlds of Eric Midwinter. London: Third Age Press, #!"' ()!*.#!#)

Moran, Martin (")*&). Higher Ground: A Mountain Guide’s Life. Dingwall: Sandstone Press, #!"& (*)(.'##)

Spooner, Derek (")(#). Wild Looe. Penzance: Alison Hodge, #!"& ()"&.#$*)

Sutherland, William J. (Fellow #!!%), et al. Farmland Conservation: Evidence for the E-ects of Interventions in Northern and Western Europe. Exeter: Pelagic Publishing, #!"& ($$$.*()

Thomas, Patrick (")*!). Remembering the Armenian Genocide. Llanwrst, Conwy: Gwasg Carreg Gwlach, #!"' ()'(.(#!"'&)

Heydon, Dyson, Leeming, Mark J., and Turner, Peter G. (Fellow #!!)). Equity: Doctrines & Remedies. Chatswood, New South Wales: LexisNexis Butterworths, #!"' ($&(.!')

Goode, David, and Warner, Francis (")'(, Honorary Fellow ")))). Blitz Requiem: Full Score. Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire: Colin Smythe, #!"$ (*%$.#))Blitz Requiem: Vocal Score. Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire: Colin Smythe, #!"$ (*%$.#))

Hooley, Tristram, and Barham, Lyn, eds. Career Development Policy & Practice: The Tony Watts Reader. Sta+ord: High-yers, #!"' ($$".*!#)

Werner, Valentin von (#!""). The Present Perfect in World Englishes: Charting Unity and Diversity. Bamberg: University of Bamberg Press, #!"& (&#')

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Free Trade’s First Missionary: Sir John Bowring in Europe and Asia Philip BowringHong Kong University Press, #!"&John Bowring left school at the age of thirteen, to work for his father, an Exeter wool merchant. In his spare time he taught himself literature and languages – a hyperpolyglot, he would later claim to know #!! languages, and speak "!!. Driven by a precocious intellect, he became a major literary and political ,gure in the "%#!s and $!s. Bowring was appointed British consul at Canton in "%&), and Governor of Hong Kong in "%'&. There, as elsewhere, he left a legacy of liberal ideas, though his high-handedness may have been one of the causes of the Second Opium War ("%'(–"%(!). His talents and achievements were spread so widely that his name, perhaps, has been eclipsed by those with a narrower focus. This book brings Bowring’s life and disparate achievements together, with a particular emphasis on his role in promoting free trade, and his much criticized career in Asia.

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Domestic Animal Behaviour and WelfareDonald M. Broom and Andrew F. FraserCABI, #!"'

Sentience and Animal WelfareDonald M. BroomCABI, #!"&Donald Broom has been a prominent ,gure at St Catharine’s for many alumni, but few outside academia are likely to be fully aware of the contribution he has made to the realm of animal welfare. Domestic Animal Behaviour and Welfare, now in its ,fth edition, co-written with Andrew Fraser, summarizes his work.

For practicing veterinarians, ,elding daily queries from anxious clients, knowledge of the normal behaviour of pets, farm animals, and horses is vital to picking up hints of ill-health, and providing early intervention. A normal cat,

for example, may spend over (!/ of each day sleeping, but an adult horse recumbent for longer than half an hour may well be in trouble. Broom and Fraser’s work is a mine of information on the minutiae of behavioural characteristics, making it an essential read for anyone aspiring to work closely with animals. It is a well-written textbook, perhaps best-utilised as a reference work. That said, there are certainly snippets to interest those with a four-legged family member: how many of us are aware that a dog will tend to wag its tail to the right when greeting its owner, but to the left when meeting a strange dog?

Broom’s other recent publication, Sentience and Animal Welfare, is less textbook, more philosophical insight into the topics of emotion and consciousness. As Broom points out, ‘(m)embers of the European Parliament report that they receive more letters about animal welfare than about any other topic’. After taking the reader on an in-depth scienti,c dissection of the evidence for sentience in the creatures around us, Broom presents a set of moral questions as to where we draw the line: a fully functional person, or animal? A severely brain-damaged human? A fertilised embryo? While some readers may ,nd these topics uncomfortable, the ongoing debates on the ethics of embryonic stem cell research and assisted dying mean that these questions are pertinent to all. In summary, this book will interest anyone who has ever pondered what exactly it means to be human. In doing so we may realise that we are not so di+erent from our animal cousins after all…

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James Braid and his Four Hundred Golf Courses Iain Cumming and John F. Moreton Grant Books, #!"$This is a delightful book for golf lovers, an enlargement of a volume ,rst published in "))(. In the years since, many golf clubs have celebrated their centenaries, and new evidence has emerged about the number of courses linked to James Braid, the ,ve times Open Champion. Cumming and Moreton detail the eighty-,ve full courses that Braid designed, most notably the King’s and Queen’s at Gleneagles, the ,fty-,ve courses that were converted from nine to eighteen holes, and all the other courses where he acted as a consultant for alterations, bunkering schemes and potential plans.

Braid’s philosophy of course design cannot be bettered, and has stood the test of time: holes should present variety of length, demands on the player, styles of bunkering. The size of the green should be governed by the length

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of approach – the shorter the shot, the smaller the green. This book carefully details the ways that Braid’s philosophy was carried out, and enhanced so many courses. Modern equipment does mean that, for top golfers, several of these courses are now considered short, but for ordinary mortals they remain ,ne tests of golf. Dipping into this book entices one to want to go and play some more of them.

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Perspektiven aus dem Reich der Toten: Gedanken zu Einem Etruskischen Felsengrab, der Religionsästhetik und der Historischen Religionswissen-schaftigherMatthias EgelerErgon-Verlag, #!"&Perspectives from the Realm of the Dead is based on a detailed analysis of the Hypogeum of the Volumnus family, an Etruscan rock tomb found in Perugia, central Italy. Egeler uses this underground tomb, constructed in the $rd century BC, to query the relationship between religious aesthetics and systematic theology. The book is an intensely specialist work, but one which asks important questions about the anthropology of religious aesthetics, especially those concerning the afterlife, and adds to the body of literature concerning one of the most important funerary monuments of ancient Etruria.

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Attention, Cooperation, Purpose: An Approach to Working in Groups Using Insights from Wilfred Bion Robert French and Peter SimpsonKarnac, #!"'In this short work, French and Simpson explore group dynamics, and the components that are most important for practical group work. The book goes through each of the major elements of group behaviour, partly represented in the wording of the title. Each chapter has a healthy sprinkling of case studies, o+ering the reader a varied writing style, which is both engaging and clarifying. Overall, this book is inviting and accessible for anyone interested in identifying times when teamwork can e+ectively advance business aims.

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Inventing the Spectator: Subjectivity & the Theatrical Experience in Early Modern FranceJoseph Harris Oxford University Press, #!"& In this perceptive account of the intricate relationship between the rise of the modern sense of self and the theatre, Joseph Harris provides an insight into more than simply the dramatic culture of early modern France. O+ering a nuanced account of the world which produced, and ,rst received, the Cartesian self, the book progresses through an exploration of the rise of ‘regular’ dramaturgy, to the writings of speci,c theorists such as Corneille, La Mesnardière, Abbé Dubos, and Rousseau. In so doing, it provides the reader with a vivid understanding of the way illusion and the suspension of disbelief was actually intended to feel. Harris demonstrates that the concept of rule-driven dramaturgy was not governed by abstract notions, but by a desire to construct theatre that was tailored, like perspective, to the capacity of the human eye. The result is a compelling challenge to our modern understanding of realism and lifelikeness, both in the theatre, and more broadly.

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Cataloging and Managing Film and Video CollectionsColin HigginsAmerican Library Association, #!"' This is a comprehensive manual for curators of ,lm collections: part cataloguing guide, part primer on the history and mechanics of motion pictures. It will help library cataloguers to compile precise descriptions of the content, format, creators, cast and crew of ,lm in both physical and digital form. Many samples of the elements which make up cataloguing records are provided. Though the principal concern is with the cataloguing of ,lms on optical disc using RDA, the most recently developed bibliographic standard, earlier formats and standards are not neglected. Libraries supporting cinema papers, or those with educational or recreational holdings, will bene,t greatly from this guide. It’s just a shame that the price set by the publisher may operate to limit demand.

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Lively Limericks, Ribald RhymesPatrick HoldenBeverston Press, #!"'It is a truth surreptitiously acknowledged that the best limericks are unprintable – which confronts the anthologist with a dilemma. The present one admits on the dust-wrapper that ‘the good ones I’ve seen / So seldom are clean / And the clean ones so seldom are comical.’ Moreover, when printed in bulk even the wittiest limericks can pall. Patrick Holden rises to the challenge with a judiciously spacious lay-out and by engaging the services of two experienced cartoonists (Oliver Preson and Bill Stott) to provide some sparky illustrations to these ‘Ribald Rhymes and Saucy Verses’. Also, the inclusion of variant versions encourages the reader to appreciate a limerick’s literary possibilities, and that while a jaunty rhythm may be instrumental in propelling the argument towards an incisive conclusion, it is the third and fourth lines which are the vital elements in such a process. But that reader should be careful: the composition of limericks can become compulsive and before you can stop yourself ‘There was a young student at Catz / Who sat his exams wearing spatz / Awarded a Third / He exclaimed How Absurd…’ and so on. Readers are invited to provide a closing line for themselves.

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Inside the BrotherhoodHazem KandilPolity Press, #!"&Ever wondered why some devout Muslims become Islamists while others do not?

Hazem Kandil’s most recent book is a systematic sociological study of the recruitment, cultivation, indoctrination, and retention pathway practiced by Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood. Kandil attempts to unmask the Brotherhood’s ‘rituals and beliefs’ through interviews and the participant-observer method. This vividly captures how the Brothers quash dissent, encourage conformity, build community, shun deserters, and engage in magical thinking concerning the organisation’s ‘destiny’. The book also explores the Brotherhood’s political evolution under Nasser, Sadat, and Mubarak – culminating with its abrupt rise to power, and precipitous fall, in the wake of the #!"" Arab Uprisings. It also contains an intellectual history component, examining how the doctrines and legacies of Hassan al-Banna and Sayyid Qutb have been reinterpreted by each generation of Brothers.

Kandil’s book should be read by academics, policymakers, and current a+airs readers, because it succeeds in taking the reader inside the head of Egypt’s Islamists, examining what makes them tick, and the logic behind their seemingly contradictory behaviours and actions. Kandil is no neutral observer of the Brotherhood. This book is a scathing critique of various media whitewashings of the Brothers’ actions. This is not necessarily a criticism. I applaud Kandil’s use of scholarship as advocacy. He seeks to shed the light of truth into the Brotherhood’s practices so as to inform global policy formation concerning the political, social, ideological, and cultural threat the Brotherhood poses. This is a laudable mission.

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Variety is the Spice of Life: The Worlds of Eric MidwinterJeremy Hardie London: Third Age Press, #!"'It seems wholly appropriate that a biography of Eric Midwinter should be written by an Emeritus Professor of microbiology: Eric’s life is replete with irony, paradox and the unexpected.

Jeremy Hardie begins his excellent book with Eric’s boyhood in a close Mancunian family, and his initial academic success in being the ,rst boy from his school to win a place at Oxbridge. Eric built on this foundation with a double First in History, an MA in Education from the University of Liverpool, a Doctorate from the University of York, and a Visiting Professorship at Exeter. Many would regard this as a successful career in itself, but for Eric it was a single skein in a richer tapestry.

Many of Eric’s friends have remarked on the unconventional orientation of his working life. Instead of seeking an ascent through political honours to eternal rest in the Upper Chamber, Eric, like one of his Victorian heroes, moved e+ortlessly from one ,eld of public administration to another, always leaving legacies of intellectual innovation and pragmatic improvement. His abiding passion has been the subject of public and community education and values, from infant school to retirement. Eric worked for many years with Michael Young, the social scientist, and in collaboration with him and with Peter Laslett, whose lectures Eric attended as an undergraduate, established in ")*& the University of the Third Age, which now numbers almost one thousand community groups across the UK.

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entertainment, in which he vies with his music hall legends in his own performances, from The Midnight Howlers to becoming a regular act at the Savage Club, and as an after-dinner speaker and raconteur. There are also conundrums: how did such a busy man contrive to visit every important cricket ground in England without learning to drive? How was the time found to publish more than '! books? Closing this biography one is left marvelling at the extraordinary range and distinction of the achievement of College alumnae.

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Higher Ground: A Mountain Guide’s LifeMartin Moran Sandstone Press, #!"&Higher Ground is the autobiography of Martin Moran, one of Britain’s most experienced and pro,cient mountain guides. Formerly a Geographer at St Catharine’s College (m. ")*&), Moran subsequently quali,ed as a Chartered Accountant in ")%!. However, his boyhood love of mountains soon led him to leave this job to focus on training to become a British Mountain Guide. After quali,cation, Moran and his wife Joy moved to the remote, but spectacularly positioned, base of Lochcarron, North-West Scotland, to open a new mountaineering school. Martin has since guided clients all over Scotland, the European Alps, Norway and the high Himalaya.

Although we learn about the author’s childhood and formative years, and of his family life, these are here largely to help create the framework within which the majority of the book is set. The subtitle is the clear emphasis of the story line. With such a wealth of experience, spanning four decades, it is impressive how Moran manages to recall such tiny details about the various climbs and experiences that he describes. Perhaps more remarkable is that humour, interest and excitement are never far away.

Martin Moran is living his life to the full in the mountains, and this book is about his life-long compulsion to enable others to share his same sense of wonder. If you have ever felt drawn to the mountains, either physically, or via an armchair, this book is for you.

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Wild LooeDerek SpoonerAlison Hodge, #!"&This beautifully produced pocket guide focuses on the glorious diversity of a small area on the edge of the ocean: the coastal town of Looe in Cornwall, including the nature reserve of Looe Island. It looks at the rocky shore; the tidal estuary of the West and East Looe rivers; the ancient, semi-natural woodlands of the river valleys, and the ,elds and hedgerows of the coastal paths. It highlights the natural history of these environments, their protection, their protection and conservation.

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Farmland Conservation: Evidence for the E"ects of Interventions in Northern and Western EuropeWilliam J. Sutherland, et al. Pelagic Publishing, #!"&Farmland Conservation is the third publication in the series ‘Synopses of Conservation Evidence’, following earlier volumes on bird and bee conservation. The series is part of an on-going e+ort to make biodiversity conservation more evidence-based. This synopsis covers evidence for the e+ects of conservation interventions for native farmland wildlife, from a list developed collaboratively by a team of thirteen experts. Interventions considered are restricted to the evidence captured on the companion website (www.conservationevidence.com), a free, authoritative information resource designed to support decisions about how to maintain and restore global biodiversity. The project, which includes the books, website, and the journal Conservation Evidence, aims to collate and summarise evidence from the scienti,c literature about the e+ects of conservation interventions, such as methods of habitat or species management. For this volume, and impressive *&# individual studies have been analysed. The book is written for people who have to make decisions about how best to support or conserve biodiversity: land managers, conservationists, farmers, policymakers, researchers and others, and is available in paperback, hardback and as a freely-downloadable pdf.

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Remembering the Armenian GenocidePatrick ThomasGwasg Carreg Gwlach, #!"'The Armenian Genocide was the Ottoman government’s systematic extermination of its minority Armenian subjects inside their historic homeland, which lies within the territory constituting the present-day Republic of Turkey. The total number of people killed has been estimated at between %!!,!!! and ".' million. The details of this war crime are still comparatively unknown in the West, and the source of some diplomatic tension: the Turkish state still refuses to acknowledge the nature, and extent, of the killings. In this moving and powerful account, Thomas draws on eye-witness material from a wide variety of sources, and argues that it remains profoundly important to acknowledge and remember this ,rst major genocide of the twentieth century.

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Meagher, Gummow & Lehane’s Equity: Doctrines & RemediesDyson Heydon, Mark J. Leeming, and Peter G. TurnerLexisNexis Butterworths, #!"' Equity, the ,rst paragraph of this book states, ‘can be described but not de,ned’. It is a body of law developed in order that ‘many of the injustices of the common law’ might be ‘softened and modi,ed’, and to provide remedies ‘where at law they were either inadequate or non-existent’. However, Meagher, Gummow and Lehane does incalculably more than merely describe its subject-matter: over the course of more than a thousand pages, it also subjects the various doctrines and remedies of Equity to close and incisive analysis. The ,rst edition was published in ")*', its aim being to provide the ,rst comprehensive examination from an Australian perspective of the general doctrines and remedies of Equity. It went on to establish itself as a leading text not only in Australia but in the wider common-law world. This latest edition, prepared by the Hon Justice Dyson Heydon, the Hon Justice Mark Leeming and Dr Peter Turner, addresses numerous developments over the last twelve years; all the chapters have been revised, and there is a wholly new chapter on the developing remedy of equitable compensation. Lord Neuberger, the President of the UK Supreme Court, said of an earlier edition of Meagher, Gummow and Lehane that ‘no better treatment of the topic exists’. Practitioners and students will doubtless ,nd this new edition a valuable addition to their libraries.

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Blitz Requiem: Full Score, and Vocal ScoreDavid Goode (music), and Francis Warner (words)Colin Smythe, #!"&I had the privilege of being in the chorus of the London Bach Choir (with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by David Hill) for the ,rst performance of the Blitz Requiem. This took place on September #(th, #!"$ in St Paul’s Cathedral in London, itself a great symbol of the Blitz of ")&!–&". As the audience stilled, and the silence of anticipation ,lled the vast space of St Paul’s, the chilling sound of an air raid siren was heard as the opening to this daring new work.

David Goode has produced a masterful score for full orchestra, choir and soloists, bringing alive in a very modern way Francis Warner’s striking text. Warner’s text largely springs from his own experience as a small boy caught up in the Blitz, and includes very personal reminiscences, such as his mother giving birth under the kitchen table during an air raid, and the stark image of the death of innocents in a school playground. The piece follows the traditional pattern of the Latin requiem mass – Absolve and Kyrie, Dies Irae, Sanctus, Agnus Dei, Responsorium and In Paradisum.

The Blitz Requiem is a true successor to Britten’s War Requiem and will, I am sure, be performed many times in the years to come, as we look back on the Second World War with the hindsight of gratitude to those who made the ultimate sacri,ce to secure our freedom today. Indeed the piece is dedicated to ‘Those who saved us’. As the thrice-repeated refrain of the Requiem prays, ‘May souls in peace rest beyond reach of time, Healed from the horror of their parting hence. On these may light perpetual, sublime, Shine and deliver from all past o+ence.’ (Requiem Aeternam).

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Career Development Policy & Practice: The Tony Watts ReaderTristram Hooley and Lyn Barham, ed.High-yers, #!"'The world of career guidance, or career development as it later became known, can, as Tony Watts notes, become ‘structurally marginal’ – not insigni,cant but undoubtedly a+ected by the competing in-uences on each generation of education and training systems and policies, changing community values and economic pressures, and of course, the world of work itself.

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DeathsAdams (")'&) On "# March #!"', John Howard Adams of Farnham, Surrey. John came to St Catharine’s from Sedbergh School and read Mechanical Sciences. His daughter Gillian Stewart writes ‘John had a very successful career in the motor industry. He married young, whilst still at University, and with a young family moved to Farnham in Surrey where he bought the Tourist Trophy garage. Cars were his life and he enjoyed much success racing Jaguars. He was fortunate enough to enjoy a range of hobbies and pastimes some of which included his love of boats, skiing, stamp and coin collecting, model making and games. A very practical man, he could turn his hand to anything and enjoyed the challenges of renovating his homes. Two marriages brought seven children, ten grandchildren and one great-grandchild.’

Allen (")&)) On $ February #!"&, Michael George Allen of Musselburgh, near Edinburgh, and formerly Hemingford Grey, Huntingdonshire. Michael came to St Catharine’s from Bedford School after National Service in the RAF and read Natural Sciences with a Diploma in Agriculture. He played rugby for the College. He worked ,rst in Malaya, managing a rubber plantation for Dunlop, but, before starting a family, he and his wife returned to the UK in ")'% mainly to avoid frequent bouts of malaria. In ")(!, he became a ,eld researcher for May & Baker in Scotland before moving to East Anglia in the ")*!s as manager of the Technical Department of Shell Agro-Chemicals. He retired in ")%% and later moved back to Scotland to be near his children (who had been born in Scotland) and their families. His son Tony (")*%), also a St Catharine’s alumnus, writes ‘My father enjoyed his last twenty plus years in the company of his grandchildren, the superb beaches of East Lothian and Musselburgh races.’ Michael’s father Chas (")#)) was also an alumnus.

Babe (")($) The College has learned of the death in #!!! of Thomas (Thom) James Babe. Thom Babe came to St Catharine’s from Harvard University on a Marshall Scholarship and read English. While here he directed plays for the Shirley Society including Waiting for Godot. After graduating he returned to America and made his career as a playwright. For a time he was resident playwright at the Public Theatre in New York.

Bailey (")%&) See Metcalf.

Bayly (Fellow ")*!, Emeritus Fellow #!"#, Honorary Fellow #!"&) On "% April #!"', Professor Sir Christopher Alan Bayly of Cambridge. For obituary, see the College Report section of this Magazine

Bennett (")'') On "" December #!"&, Michael John Bennett of London. His daughter Fiona Lesley writes ‘Michael won an Exhibition to St Catharine’s from Nottingham High

School and came to Cambridge after National Service in the RAF. He read Natural Sciences and Chemical Engineering. His career began as a plant manager with ICI and then a design and development engineer with Humphreys and Glasgow. In ")(* he moved to New York as Vice-President and Sales Manager with H & G International. In ")() he joined Chem Systems International as Managing Director and consultant, returning to the UK to build their European technical and consulting practice. In ")%( he returned to the USA as President and CEO of Kline and Company. In"))" he resettled in London, setting up and leading MMA International, a highly successful transaction advisory service. Throughout this distinguished career and into his retirement Michael was a friend and mentor to many and an important ,gure in the Royal Institution for Chemical Engineers.’

Bingham (")'') On " May #!"', Stephen Denis Bingham of Stamford and London. Stephen came to St Catharine’s from Ampleforth College, York, and read History. According to College records he was Managing Director of Johnson & Johnson, Benelux, ")*&–%( and then Managing Director of Sodastream for three years before moving to a similar post at Serotomic Ltd. He was a trustee of St Joseph’s Society for the Elderly Poor and was awarded an OBE in ")%(.

Bonsall (")$() On #( November #!"&, Sir Arthur Wilfred (Bill) Bonsall of Cirencester, Gloucestershire. Bill came to St Catharine’s from Bishop’s Stortford College and read Modern & Medieval Languages. After graduating, Bill was recruited to war-time code-breaking activities at Bletchley Park and then, after the war, to Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) in West London, moving with them to Cheltenham in ")'#. He rose through the ranks to become Director in ")*$. He retired in ")*% and took up the cause of preserving Bletchley Park for posterity, emphasizing that it was not all about breaking Enigma. He was awarded a CBE in ")'* and knighted in ")**. See also the Times "( December #!"&, the Telegraph ( December #!"&, the Guardian ) December #!"&, the Independent "* December #!"& etc. Bill’s sons John (")(#) and Joseph (")(() are also alumni.

Bromhead (")'&) On #! August #!"&, John Newton Bromhead of Bromsgrove, Worcestershier. John won a Canon Warren Scholarship to St Catharine’s from Oakham School and read Classics and Theology. The Revd Canon Peter Woodward (")'') writes ‘John and I had much in common, sons of clergy, educated at Oakham School, studied Classics, enjoyed sport and both bene,ciaries of a closed Canon Warren scholarship from Oakham to St Catharine’s. (John researched this scholarship – see #!!% Magazine). Sport and the Classics were major interests for John all his life. At St Catharine’s he was in the Cupper-winning College hockey team. He excelled in many sports notably cricket, rugby and ,ves. Tennis, squash and sailing

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he also enjoyed. He was still playing golf and table tennis in the last year of his life. As a Librarian at Birmingham University he did major work for Sports historians by bringing together the materials in the National Centre for Athletics Literature and helping other academic libraries see the value and relevance of sports history. He interviewed famous athletes, among them Harold Abrahams, and was consulted in the making of Chariots of Fire. He was made an honorary member of the National Union of Track Statisticians and was among the earliest members of the British Society of Sports History founded in ")%#. As a member of Droitwich Golf Club from")(( he wrote a substantial book on its history, published in its centenary year "))*. His background in the Classics led to a fascination with Greece – happy holidays there and membership of the Birmingham Greek Club. He married Margaret in ")(# and had the joy of two talented daughters and ,ve talented grandchildren who all share his interest in sport.’

Browne (")&') In December #!"&, Roger Edward Browne of Stamford, Lincolnshire. Roger came to St Catharine’s from Norwich School. His widow Judith writes ‘Roger read English under Tom Henn for two years and in his ,nal year read Law. He took part in many sporting activities including rugby (Sixty Club), cricket (secretary of the College Cricket Club) and hockey, and became a member of the Hawks Club. After graduating, Roger quali,ed as a solicitor, becoming senior partner of a ,rm in Stamford. For some years he was Under-Sheri+ of Rutland. One of his three sons, David (")%$), is also an alumnus.’ Roger wrote an article in the #!!% Magazine about his time at St Catharine’s.

Budd (")$*) On #! January #!"', Henry James Budd of Malta. Henry came to St Catharine’s from Eltham College, London, and read Mechanical Sciences. According to College records he was a Flight Lieutenant in the RAF Volunteer Reserve and spent his career as a company director and farmer. His son David (")(%) is also an alumnus.

Bunting (")'$) On "# May #!"', Revd Jeremy John Bunting of Hasling,eld, Cambridge. Jeremy came to St Catharine’s from Tonbridge School and read Theology. After a period at Worcester College, Oxford, in ")') he was appointed Curate at St George’s, Bickley, Kent, and in ")(# Curate at Little St Mary’s, Cambridge. After two years as a Visiting Fellow at the General Theological Seminary, New York, in ")(% he returned to the UK to become Rector at Stock Harvard, Essex. In ")%* he was appointed Vicar at Hampstead Garden Suburb. His nephew Nigel writes ‘Jeremy retired in "))& to Hasling,eld where he enjoyed his garden and frequently attended services at Little St Mary’s – almost a full circle.’

Busby (")&') On % December #!"&, Gresham Lawrence Busby of Reigate, Surrey. His widow Eileen writes ‘Gresham joined the RAF in April ")&' and was on the Short General

Arts course at St Catharine’s just a month before the war ended. After the course, he was posted to RAF Credenhill before attending the RAF College at Cranwell where he gained his wings and passed out as the highest cadet on his course. He continued -ying at RAF Valley and was demobbed in ")&*, turning down the o+er of a six-year commission. He joined Commercial Union and then the English, Scottish and Australian Bank which later merged with the Australia and New Zealand Bank where he became Senior Manager of Personnel. He retired in ")%( and enjoyed #% years of very happy and well-earned retirement.’

Butcher (")*!) On # February #!"', Raymond Leslie Butcher of Upminster, Essex. Ray won an Exhibition to St Catharine’s from Palmers School for Boys, Grays, Essex, and read Veterinary Medicine. After a year he was awarded a Wellcome Scholarship. He was in the College football ,rst XI. He spent his career as a partner in a veterinary practice in Upminster, Essex, but became known worldwide in veterinary circles. He was President of the British Small Animal Veterinary Association and Vice-President of FECAVA (Federation of European Companion Animal Veterinary Associations). He was an Advisory Director of the World Society for the Protection of Animals and was involved in developing humane methods of stray dog control (as part of rabies prevention programmes) in parts of Eastern Europe, India and Nepal. He received awards for service to the veterinary profession from the Small Animal Associations of France ("))(), Britain ("))*) and Hungary (#!!!) and was made an honorary member of the British Veterinary Nursing Association in "))(. He was presented with the WSAVA (World Small Animal Veterinary Association) Waltham Award in #!!! for outstanding service to the veterinary profession. He retired due to ill health in #!"$.

Chambers (")'") On ## November #!"$, John Walter Chambers of Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. This obituary was omitted from #!"& Magazine in error. John came to St Catharine’s from De Aston School, Market Rasen, and read Modern & Medieval Languages followed by the Overseas Services Course which he passed with distinction. His daughter Jennifer (")%*) writes ‘Having spent his national service prior to coming up to Cambridge in Hong Kong, John returned there after graduating as an administrative o.cer in the overseas civil service. He served in various government departments including social welfare, and health and welfare. He held the post of Secretary for Health and Welfare before retiring from the Hong Kong government in ")%% to take up a position as Secretary General of the Provisional Hospital Authority where he was instrumental in setting up the highly successful Hong Kong Hospital Authority. He was awarded an OBE in ")%* and a CBE in "))!. After leaving Hong Kong, John retired to Cheltenham in Gloucestershire. John had a long and happy

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marriage to his wife Isabel (née MacDonald) and had two daughters, Jennifer (")%*) and Deborah. He had a passion for books, travel and music and participated in various choirs and orchestras in Cambridge and throughout his life.’

Chapman (")(#) On $" August #!"&, Graham Peter Chapman of Lancaster. Graham won a Scholarship to St Catharine’s from Trinity School, Croydon, and read Geography followed by a PhD. Professor Michael Chisholm (")'", Fellow ")*(, Emeritus "))() writes ‘Graham started his academic career in Geography at Edinburgh University, teaching statistics and quantitative methods, an interest he maintained thereafter, especially complexity theory. He was lured back to Cambridge, and a Fellowship at Downing College, on condition he developed an interest in the Indian sub-continent, Graham fell in love with the people and the geography. He went on to a professorship at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, and then to Lancaster University. Combining ,eld experience with an analytical and original mind, he created the role-play Green Game, adopted by the World Bank for instructing aid and other workers in the realities of impoverished peasant life. The breadth of his research and teaching interests is evident in numerous publications. Original, fearless, enthusiastic and stimulating, Graham’s goodwill and zest for life were infectious. He is survived by his wife, Anna Gerd, and their children, Nicklas and Christina.’ See also the Guardian # October #!"&.

Cooper (")%') On #% February #!"', Robert Charles Cooper of Caracas, Venezuela. Robert came to St Catharine’s from St George’s School, Hertford, and read Mechanical Sciences. According to College records he worked as a manufacturing consultant for Scienti,c Generics Ltd for two years before moving to the Caledonian Mining Company. He obtained an MBA from Stanford University, California, in "))&.

Cummins (")'#) On * May #!"', Commander Ashley Ellman Cummins RN of Melksham, Wiltshire. Ashley came to St Catharine’s from Tonbridge School as a Royal Navy Cadet and read Mechanical Sciences. According to College records, he was in the Navy from ")'" to ")%', retiring with the rank of Commander. His daughter writes that he and his wife Pauline had three children, the eldest of whom is named Catharine, and that he had very happy memories of Cambridge, going on to spend his honeymoon there in ")(" and mentioning the College in his will.

Davies (")&)) On # February #!"', Ernest Walter Geo+rey Davies of Beckenham, Kent. Geo+rey came to St Catharine’s from West Monmouth School and read Natural Sciences and Medicine. His son Peter writes ‘For Geo+rey, whose father was an optician, ophthalmology was his aim. After house jobs he had a short service commission in the RAF in his speciality. Following residency at Moor,elds

he joined their research department. He was appointed consultant at Kings College Hospital and was a pioneer in laser treatment for retinal detachment and diabetic retinitis, becoming accepted as one of the foremost experts in his ,eld. Throughout his career he was dedicated to teaching and shared his enthusiasm both in this country and in Iraq and Pakistan. His retirement gift from his colleagues at Kings was a bicycle which he rode in the London Brighton BHF race for "( years. He also enjoyed restoring antique furniture and maintaining his church in Bromley – he was still climbing roof ladders at the age of %!!’

Davies (")(#) In September #!"&, John Roger Howell Davies of Swansea. Peter Robins (")(#) writes ‘John (JRH) came to St Catharine’s from Ystalyfera Grammar School to read Geography, and after Part I he changed to Law Part II for his third year. He played rugby for the College all three years. He subsequently taught in a number of colleges and schools, before ,nally settling as Geography Master at Chichester High School in Sussex where he lived for some #! years. Upon retirement, he returned to his beloved South Wales and his home town of Pontardawe where he lived until his death. He was one of a group of eight friends who featured in two photographs in the Easter #!!' Catharine Wheel under the heading '" years on; the ,rst at graduation in ")(', and the second at the College reunion in #!!'. The remaining members of the group attended his funeral in Swansea and propose to meet for their '!th anniversary at the Society AGM in College in September #!"', where a toast to our absent friend will be made. John was very pleased to have attended the inaugural Wales Branch event which was organised by Andrew Jenkinson in the summer of #!"& at the Llanelli Wales National Eisteddfod. He was particularly pleased and proud to be able to meet a Welsh Master of St Catharine’s!’

Day (")&%) On * March #!"', Sir Derek Malcolm Day of Etchinghill, Kent. Derek came to St Catharine’s from Hurstpierpoint College, Sussex, after National Service in the Royal Artillery; he read History. He was goal-keeper for the bronze-winning Olympic UK hockey team in ")'#. He joined the Foreign Service after graduating (he said he probably got one of the posts left when Burgess and Maclean defected!) and, after postings in Tel Aviv and Rome and a brief spell back in London, served for four years as information o.cer in the Washington embassy. Back in London in ")(( he wrote speeches for parliamentarians and was appointed private secretary to foreign secretary George Brown. When the Foreign and Commonwealth O.ces were combined he served its ,rst Secretary of State, Michael Stewart. In ")*# he was posted to Cyprus and was there when the Turks invaded. In ")*) he was a representative for Rhodesia even though we had no formal relations with that country. He served as High Commissioner for Canada from ")%& until retirement in ")%*. He was awarded CMG in ")*$

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and KCMG in ")%*. He was President of the St Catharine’s College Society in "))(. See also the Telegraph "* March #!"'.

Dewing (")&*) The College has learned of the death in April #!"& of Hugh Michael Dewing of Lymington, Hampshire. Hugh came to St Catharine’s from Radley College and read History, returning in ")'' to study for the LLB. According to College records, he became a solicitor.

Dolman (")'%) On "! February #!"', Julian Henry Dolman of Pershore, Worcestershire. Julian came to St Catharine’s from Sherborne School and read Law. His widow Sue writes ‘Julian was a seventh-generation solicitor, commencing in his family ,rm in Cardi+, and moving to the Midlands where he established a very successful planning law practice in Stourbridge. He was mentioned in Debrett’s People of Today in "))% as one of the foremost planning lawyers and was made a Freeman of the City of London. He retired from his partnership in #!!), but, by popular demand, continued as sole planning consultant until shortly before his death aged *'. During his second marriage he moved to the countryside where he learned how to lamb, keep bees and became a licenced molecatcher. Shortly before his death he saw the publication of his historical novel Explorations about an ancestor who was murdered in South Africa in the "%'!s.’

Dowsett (")&") On "% October #!"&, Leonard Robert Dowsett of Potters Bar, Hertfordshire. His son Bob (")*#) writes ‘Len came to St Catharine’s as a Crabtree Exhibitioner from the City of London School and read Natural Sciences. Being wartime, there was no time to play cricket, his favourite game, or rugby (as the College then had ,ve Blues and ,ve in the CU #nd XV), so he played football, ,ves and squash for the College and Eton Fives for the University. He was the ,rst undergraduate to join the new Cambridge University Naval Division. He trained as a Fleet Air Arm pilot in Canada and -ew Hellcats from escort carrier HMS Ruler in the British Paci,c Fleet, on one occasion crash-landing in the sea. After the war, he worked for Geigy, Switzerland, becoming their UK Managing Director, Industrial Chemicals. His team, in collaboration with initially Esso, later Shell and Castrol, developed ‘synlubes’ – wholly synthetic engine oils for jet aircraft. The lubrication of Concorde engines was even more demanding, so the Government asked Geigy to collaborate with BP. This led to a completely new class of base -uid with better heat stability. He then joined Steetley plc and subsequently Federated Chemicals plc both as Managing Director. He later helped smaller chemical companies, both public and private, providing technical or ,nance advice. He was also a keen golfer.’

Fordham (")'&) On "* January #!"', Michael Russell Fordham of East Yorkshire. His son Simon writes ‘Michael was the ,rst university graduate in our family. He was born

in Cambridge and became Head Boy of Cambridgeshire High School before going to St Catharine’s to read English after a National Service Commission with the Royal Artillery. He always spoke most enthusiastically of his time at St Catharine’s and of his friends at the time. He rowed, fenced, and played rugby and cricket for the College. He worked at Loughborough University in the early days of starting up the sporting excellence programme. Later, he became a signi,cant ,gure in English Cricket Coach Selection and Development via Bradford University Management Centre, as well as running the Negotiation Module for the BBC’s Internal MBA programme for many years. He was a gifted teacher and mentor, and a dedicated family man with a great sense of humour who never lost his joy for learning, education, sport and social history. Typically, almost to his dying day, he was a keen and highly-respected Governor of his local Primary School.’

French (")&$) On #& February #!"', Professor Michael Joseph French of Lancaster. Michael came to St Catharine’s from Rutlish School, Merton, and read Mechanical Sciences. After an MSc in Mathematics from London University he was eventually appointed the founding Professor and Head of the Engineering Department at Lancaster University. Their notice of his death says ‘The undergraduate course he set up at Lancaster embodied radical ideas: extensive use of design-build-test projects in place of formal laboratories and a broad start to the course before students chose a specialist ,eld of engineering. That these features of the course have endured to this day and latterly have been imitated elsewhere, is witness to Michael’s forward thinking. Sadly, he died just one week before the new Engineering Building on the campus was due to be formally opened.’

Garraway (")&&) On $! December #!"&, Allan George Weldon Garraway of Boat of Garten, Invernesshire. Allan came to St Catharine’s from the Leys School, Cambridge, to read Engineering, but was evacuated to Pitlochry. He served in the Royal Engineers and then, in ")&), trained as a locomotive engineer at the British Railways Doncaster works. After training, he served as assistant to the Eastern Region superintendent. He was involved with the Talyllyn (the ,rst railway to be taken over by enthusiasts) and then in ")'" was one of the volunteers who rescued the Ffestiniog. In the mid-")'!s he gave up his career in British Railways to become manager of the Ffestiniog. He retired in ")%$ as the longest serving general manager in the company’s "$!-year history (founded "%$#, steam from "%($). In retirement he supported his local steam railway, the Strathspey. He rowed whilst at College and in retirement with the Inverness Rowing Club, recording "!)" outings on the Caledonian Canal in everything from single sculls to VIIIs between ")%) and #!!#. He was awarded the MBE in ")%$. See also the Times "" February #!"', Telegraph "* January #!"', Scotsman * January #!"' etc.

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Harris (")&#) On ( January #!"', Donald Francis Harris of Shrewsbury. Donald won a Scholarship to St Catharine’s from Haberdashers’ Aske’s School, Hampstead, and read History. His studies were interrupted by war service which he spent in the RAF in Malaya; he was deeply moved when helping to bring out survivors from Japanese PoW camps. After graduating, he taught in Canada and Malaya, then returned to the UK in ")** to become Head of History at Meole Brace School, Shrewsbury. He discovered that a family from Shropshire had sailed with the May-ower and consequent researches led to a doctoral thesis which resulted in Donald being awarded a PhD at the age of *& by Birmingham University. See also the Guardian #' February #!"'.

Hartland (")'") On #* November #!"&, Stanley Hartland of Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire. Stanley won a Scholarship to St Catharine’s from Woodhouse Grammar School and read Natural Sciences followed by Chemical Engineering; he graduated in ")'' with a double First. His son Andrew writes ‘Whilst at St Catharine’s he sang in the Chapel Choir and played soccer and cricket for the College. After three years working at the Atomic Energy Authority, Risley, he moved to the Nuclear Technology Department at Imperial College, London, as a lecturer. In ")(" he moved to Nottingham University as a Lecturer in Chemical Engineering and there was awarded both PhD and DSc degrees. In ")*" he took up a Chair at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, where his main research interests were the implications of interfacial phenomena in industrial processes. In ")*& he was awarded the Moulton medal of the Institution of Chemical Engineers for the best paper published that year.’ He retired in "))) and moved back to the UK to be near his family.

Harvey (")&%) On ) December #!"&, Marshall Richard Harvey. Marshall came to St Catharine’s from City of London School after National Service in the Royal Navy and read Mathematics. His brother Laurence (")$%) and nephews Anthony (")**) and Peter (")*)) were also alumni.

Hazelton (")'$) On $ July #!"&, Revd John Hazelton of New Zealand and formerly Durham. John won a State Scholarship to St Catharine’s from Bedford Modern School and read Mechanical Sciences. He was awarded an Exhibition in ")''. He stayed on after graduating for Theology Part II which he passed in ")'*, winning the Bishop Browne Prize. His widow Margaret writes ‘: John was ordained in ")(" and, after serving a curacy in Twerton on Avon, was inducted as vicar of Pitcomb with Shepton Montague. Whilst there, he began research on AN Whitehead, theologian, philosopher and mathematician. He was awarded an MLitt (Bristol) for his thesis on Whitehead’s philosophy. After the closure of St Hild’s College where he was a theology lecturer, he had a year’s

sabbatical during which he completed a BPhil (Newcastle) on the application of Whitehead’s theories to secondary school mathematical teaching.’

Hewat (")'!) In #!"&, Angus Davidson Hewat of Chichester, Sussex. Angus came to St Catharine’s from St Edward’s School, Oxford, and read History and Law. He won the Victor Ludorum cup in ")'# for the most consistent athlete after St Catharine’s had won Athletics Cuppers in ")&), ")'! and ")'".

Hewett (")($) In #!"&, Robert John Hewett of Norwich. Robert came to St Catharine’s from Bexley Grammar School, Kent, and read Archaeology and Anthropology. According to College records, he took a quali,cation in librarianship and became a teacher.

Hicks (")'&) On #' October #!"&, John Grahame Hicks of Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. John came to St Catharine’s from Cheltenham Grammar School after National Service in the RAF and read Economics. He was scrum half for the College rugby team and played for the Lions in ")'(. His main career was with Dunlop, ICI and Reliance, Europe. According to his widow Pat, he travelled extensively worldwide with these jobs and then in retirement following the Lions rugby team.

Hilton (")($) The College has learned that John Anthony Hilton of Orwell, Cambridgeshire, died recently. John came to St Catharine’s from Caterham School and read Oriental Studies, changing to Archaeology & Anthropology for his ,nal year. He spent his career working for the British Council.

Jackson (Fellow ")*"–() On #& July #!"', Dudley Anthony Stephenson Jackson of Wollongong, Australia. Dudley left St Catharine’s to take up a Chair at Aston University and then in ")%$ he was appointed Professor of Economics and Head of Department at Wollongong University in New South Wales. He was a proli,c writer and authored seven books as well as many papers in reviewed journals. He retired in #!!#.

Joseph (")(*) On "' September #!"&, Richard (Dick) Philip Joseph of Ystalyfera, Wales. His contemporary Pete Hedges (")(*) writes ‘Dick came to St Catharine’s from Ystalyfera Grammar School having won a BP scholarship to study Mechanical Sciences. A member of the last cohort of the ‘normal course’, Dick also co-founded the Hobbit Society, formed to indulge in the social side of College life. Dick later gained an MBA from London Business School and moved into management, latterly working as a consultant based in Shrewsbury. He was a devoted family man, sharing his love of music and travel with his children: Philip, William (#!!#), Sarah and Jack. On retirement he indulged his passion for

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historic railways, becoming a volunteer signalman for the Llangollen Railway. Sadly his pride in this achievement was cut short following a diagnosis of Multiple System Atrophy, forcing him to spend his remaining years in a nursing home. His lifelong passion for current a+airs and books however stayed with him until the end.’

Langham (")'!) On "$ April #!"&, Bernard Leonard Langham of Ascot, Berkshire. His son Mark (")*)) writes ‘After evacuation during the war Bernard returned to Salesian College in Battersea to win (with help from teacher Noel Gabriel) an Exhibition to St Catharine’s; he took up his place in ")'! after two years national service in Aden. He read Natural Sciences Part I (with tutor Doc Evans), gaining a ,rst, followed by Part II Chemical Engineering. He was the ,rst person in the family to get to university at all, let alone to Cambridge; and he was really thankful for and loved his time at St Catharine’s and Cambridge – academically, socially with friends and people he met from all backgrounds and subjects, plus the squash and tennis he took up enthusiastically. The experience stayed with him all of his life; whilst his degree supported a successful consultancy career: at Johnson’s Wax (where he met his wife Shirley), Reckitts and, latterly, Watneys before winding down with some golf and some maths tutoring to pupils living near to him in Ascot, Berkshire. He was a huge support and inspiration to, and much loved by, his family – wife Shirley, children Mark, Catharine, and grandchildren Henry, Joanna.’

Laws (")&&, Honorary Fellow ")%#) On % October #!"&, Richard Maitland Laws of Coton, Cambridgeshire. For obituary, see the College Report section of this Magazine. His brothers Peter (")$*) and Michael (")&)) were also alumni.

Lee (")&)) On ) October #!"$, John Michael Lee of Alderley Edge, Cheshire. John won an Exhibition to St Catharine’s from Wolverhampton Grammar School and read Classics.

Lovatt (")$)) On "( November #!"&, Stanley Eric Lovatt of Horley, Surrey. Eric came to St Catharine’s from Whitgift School, Croydon, and read English and History. According to College records he was a member of the Weems Club, a K-staircase dining group. He was also secretary of the University Athletics Club and won a Blue. He passed through Sandhurst after graduating and was commissioned into the Dragoon Guards where as a captain and tank commander he advanced across Europe until the German surrender, but also found time to represent the Army at athletics. After the war he taught at Seaford College and Bec Grammar School before a ,nal appointment at Raynes Park.

MacLaren (")%)) On #% February #!"', Vanessa Catharine MacLaren of Toronto and Ottawa, Canada. Her father Roy

MacLaren (")'') writes ‘a graduate of the University of Toronto, Vanessa read History of Art at St Catharine’s and, after further study in Canada, was for a number of years in the museum directorate of the Federal Department of Canadian Heritage.’

Meakin (")$)) On ( March #!"', Frank George Meakin of Gravesend, Kent. Frank won an Exhibition to St Catharine’s from Gravesend Grammar School for Boys and read Geography. He rowed for the College, but his studies were interrupted by the war and he served in the Royal Engineers. He returned after the war and graduated in ")&(. He joined his father-in-law’s farming business in Kent and spent his whole career as a fruit and hop grower in that county. His son William (")(&) and granddaughter Hannah ("))&) also came through St Catharine’s.

Menzies-Kitchin (")'#) On "" September #!"&, Alexander James Graham Menzies-Kitchin of Newbold-on Stour, Warwickshire. Alexander came to St Catharine’s from Marlborough School and read Engineering. His daughter Penelope writes ‘While at St Catharine’s he rowed for the College and built sets for the Footlights. After graduating he worked in the Northern Territories of Canada in the Uranium mines, but returned to the UK in ")'% and married Clare; they went to Bermuda for four years where Graham worked on engineering projects. During his time in Bermuda he went on an expedition sponsored by the Smithsonian to rediscover the Black-Capped Petrel known locally as the Diablotin. He founded the JMK Trust (jmktrust.org) with his wife after the death of their son, James in "))(. Latterly he was a cabinetmaker and antique restorer of exceptional talent, and a passionate and inspiring gardener.’

Metcalf (")%&) The College has learned of the death some years ago of Sarah Jayne Metcalf (née Bailey) of Altrincham, Cheshire. Sarah came to St Catharine’s from Stockport Grammar School and read English.

Monument (Head Porter ")*)–)$) On " December #!"&, James Monument of Cambridge. Jim was Head Porter from ")*) to "))$ and was, of course, well-known to almost all alumni of that period. As a tribute, the "))$ May Ball was entitled Monumental and featured Jim on the poster.

Morgan (")'$) On ") March #!"' Rodney Howard Morgan of Swansea. Rodney came to St Catharine’s from City of Bath School and read Natural Sciences. The College has no information about his subsequent career. Records indicate that his brother was also an alumnus.

Neighbour (")&") On #! January #!"', Oliver (Tim) Wray Neighbour of London. Tim came to St Catharine’s from Eastbourne College and read Architecture. After war service as farm labourer, in ")&( he joined the sta+ of the British

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Museum (later the British Library) where he remained for the whole of his career. In ")'" he was appointed Assistant Keeper in the Music Room and in ")*( Music Librarian. He became a wide-ranging music scholar and published many books and articles. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in ")%#. A collector of original music manuscripts, he donated his collection of over #!! to the British Library in #!!*. He spoke most of the western European languages plus Russian. See also the Daily Telegraph #& February #!"'.

Pearson (")'#) On ) October #!"&, Leonard Pearson of Guisborough, Cleveland. His son Steve writes ‘Leonard Pearson spent his &!-year career with ICI as an industrial chemist at the company’s petrochemical complex at Wilton on Teesside. Len was born in Spennymoor, County Durham, and moved to Billingham, Stockton on Tees, when still a boy. He studied at night classes to gain his BSc from London University. ICI then sponsored him to gain his PhD in Chemistry at St Catharine’s College. He was promoted through management positions to become the general manager of one of the largest petrochemical plants in the world. He was very proud when in ")%" he became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. He was similarly proud to return with his family to Cambridge in #!!%, visiting the Cavendish Laboratory and St Catharine’s.’

Penfold (#!!") See Williamson.

Perret (")&&) On "' April #!"&, Joseph Douglas Perret of Bodenham, Herefordshire. Doug attended St Philip’s Grammar School, Birmingham, before coming up to St Catharine’s as an RAF Cadet. He resided for the Easter Term and Long Vacation ")&& and then enrolled on the RAF Short Course in Science in September ")&&. The College has no information about his subsequent career.

Pike (")'&) In August #!"&, Stephen Pike of Totnes, Devon. Stephen came to St Catharine’s from St John’s School, Leatherhead and read English. He taught at Newton Abbot Grammar School before becoming Head of English at King

Edward VI Comprehensive School, Totnes, in ")(*. His son Matthew writes ‘Stephen gave his life to teaching English in Totnes, Devon. He also created many projects in the wider community including a ,lm festival, a new community centre in a church and a celebration of the centenary of Charles Babbage, with giant puppets, street parades and ,reworks. He was a friend of many great writers and ,lm makers. Stephen’s values were shaped indelibly by Cambridge, in particular by the in-uence of Douglas Brown and FR Leavis. He remained committed to the life of the imagination and the defence of humanist values in a materialist, anxious time. Stephen is remembered with great a+ection by his family; his beloved wife Margaret died ten days after him.’

Reed (")&)) On "# August #!"', John William (Bill) Reed of Sturminster Newton, Dorset. Bill came to St Catharine’s from Barnstaple Grammar School and read Agriculture. From ")'& he became an agricultural o.cer in Nyasaland and in ")(& returned to the UK to run a poultry business for #! years. From ")%& he was for ten years in ,nancial services. His daughter Catharine Boyd-Moss writes ‘As an undergraduate, Bill rowed for College in the ")&) Fairbairns and coached the #nd VIII in ")'#. He sang with CUMS and was a member of Emmanuel Congregational Society. Bill served his community in many ways. He was a Charter member of the Blackmore Vale Lions Club, serving two terms as President and also a year as the District "!'D Governor ("))$–)&). He was very active in encouraging fellow agriculturalists, be they ex-Colonial service or no, to join the Tropical Agricultural Association. He supported every (Marnhull, Dorset) village cause in whatever way he deemed appropriate, particularly befriending any newcomers. He was a keen and knowledgeable bird-watcher, enjoying a ,nal trip to Cayman with his family in March #!"'.He enjoyed life to the full, with remarkable determination, pride in his family and ,rmly rooted Christian faith.’

Rogers (")')) On "" June #!"', Christopher John Howden Rogers of Bath. Chris came to St Catharine’s from Reading University and took the Diploma in Agriculture. After a spell abroad, in ")(* he returned to his old school, Monkton Combe, as a Biology Teacher and was there for the remainder of his career. He was a house-master for over #! years and retired in "))(, though he continued working for the school’s alumni o.ce until shortly before his death.

Rowe (")(%) On #( July #!"', Christopher Murray Rowe of Tiverton, Devon. Christopher won a Choral Exhibition to St Catharine’s from Bishop Wordsworth’s School, Salisbury, and read English. His widow Andrea writes ‘Christopher played rugby and rowed for the College. After graduating he trained as a teacher at Exeter University where he also sang as a bass lay clerk in Exeter Cathedral. He taught ,rst at Norwich School and was also a bass lay clerk at Norwich

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Cathedral. He produced many plays and coached school rowing. He then became Head of English at QEH Bristol where he was instrumental in founding the new theatre, producing many innovative performances inside and in the grounds. He retired through ill health in "))( and moved to Yorkshire, where Andrea, his wife (a Girtonian, whom he met in St Catharine’s Chapel) was CEO of a national charity. He started a PhD at Leeds University in #!!% on an obscure "*th-century publisher, Humphrey Moseley, and amassed a rare and de,nitive collection of the books which Moseley published. Sadly, illness prevented him completing the thesis. Andrea retired and they moved to Tiverton, Devon, in #!"!, where they had a beautiful Georgian townhouse and garden which overlooked the River Exe.’

Saunders (")(*) On ' February #!"', Clive Douglas Saunders of Southsea, Hampshire. Clive won a Choral Exhibition to St Catharine’s from Bishop Wordsworth’s School, Salisbury, and read Law. He fenced for the University in his freshman year, rowed in the bumps and was President of the College Law Society. He practised as a solicitor for more than forty years and retired as a partner of the ,rm Blake Lapthorn in #!"&. He died of cancer peacefully at home in Southsea. He had remained in close contact with many contemporaries: Charlie Merrett (")(*), Dr Gardner Thompson (")((), Colin Cohen (")((), Dr Robin Andrew (")(*), Alan Saunders (")(*) and Richard Bonney (")(*), most of whom attended his funeral, which was conducted by his brother, also an alumnus, the Revd Canon Bruce Saunders (")(').

Shakeshaft (Fellow ")(", Librarian ")(#–#!!&, President "))!–$, Emeritus Fellow "))*) On ( July #!"', John Roland Shakeshaft of Cambridge. For obituary see the College Report section of this Magazine.

Sheppard (")&!) On "! April #!"', Professor Norman Sheppard of Norwich. Norman won an Exhibition to St Catharine’s from Hymers College, Hull, and read Natural Sciences, staying on after graduating for a PhD in Chemistry. He worked with Sir Gordon Sutherland on natural and synthetic rubber for the war e+ort. After an Assistant Professorship at Penn State University, USA, ")&*–%, he returned to Cambridge to become a Fellow of Trinity and work at the Colloid Science Department as an Assistant Director of Research in Spectroscopy. In ")(& he was appointed the Founding Professor of Chemical Physics at the University of East Anglia where he set up undergraduate teaching programmes and researched electron energy-loss spectroscopy. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in ")(* and served on the Council ")%&–'. He retired in ")%(, but continued to serve as President of the Faraday Division of the Royal Society of Chemistry.

Sheridan (")'$) On #* June #!"', Alan Mark Sheridan of London. Alan came to St Catharine’s from de la Salle College, She.eld, and read English. He spent ,ve years in Paris as English assistant at Lycée Henri IV and Lycée Condorcet. Returning to London, he brie-y worked in publishing before becoming a freelance translator. He translated works of ,ction, history, philosophy, literary criticism, biography and psychoanalysis by Jean-Paul Sartre, Jacques Lacan, Michel Foucault, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Robert Pinget and many others. He was the ,rst to publish a book in English on Foucault’s work. His partner David Urmston writes ‘In addition to his translations and published novels Alan wrote a biography of Michel Foucault Michel Foucault The Will to Truth (")%!) and of André Gide André Gide A Life in the Present ("))%). He also completed an as-yet-unpublished novel Other Times, Other Places. In #!!& Alan was awarded the Prix du Rayonnement de la Langue Francaise by the Académie Francaise.’

Silberston (Research Fellow ")'!–$) On #$ March #!"', Professor (Zangwill) Aubrey Silberston. Aubrey was a Kenward Research Fellow at St Catharine’s. After serving in the war in the Royal Fusiliers, he worked for Courtaulds before joining the St Catharine’s Fellowship. Afterwards he was appointed a University Lecturer in Economics at Cambridge and became a Fellow at St John’s until ")*" when he moved to Nu.eld College, Oxford. In ")*% he was appointed Professor of Economics at Imperial College, London, and was Head of the Department of Social and Economic Studies there, ")%"–*. He served on many Committees and Boards including the Monopolies Commission, the Board of British Steel, the Departmental Committee on the Patents System, the Royal Commission of Environmental Pollution, Economic Advisor to the CBI etc.

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Smith (")'*) On "$ November #!"&, Harold Smith of En,eld, Middlesex. Harold came to St Catharine’s from Oglethorpe’s Grammar School, Tadcaster, and read Geography. The College has no information about his subsequent career.

Stevens (")$") On "" September #!"&, Frederick Edward Stevens of Felmersham, Bedfordshire. Fred won an Organ Scholarship to St Catharine’s from Dulwich College and read Modern & Medieval Languages followed by a MusB. He taught at Giggleswick School ")$'–) and joined Aldenham School in ")$), but was called for War Service ")&!–(, rising to the rank of Major in the Royal Engineers and being mentioned in despatches. He returned to Aldenham School for a year and then joined Bedfordshire Education Authority where he worked for thirty years. His daughter Rebecca Puentener writes that he was their Music Organiser and Inspector. She also indicates that he was a regular churchgoer and always played the organ for services and other village events.

Stockton (")')) The College has learned of the death of Mitchell Lawrence Stockton of Sevenoaks, Kent. Mitchell came to St Catharine’s from Sir William Borlase’s School, Marlow, and read Mathematics. The College has no record of his subsequent career.

Thompson (")$)) On $ December #!"&, the Revd Canon Donald Frazer Thompson of Leamington Spa. Donald came to St Catharine’s from Kingswood School, Bath, and read English. His studies were interrupted by war service from Easter ")&!, but he returned in ")&' to complete a war-time two-year degree. Christopher White (")'$) writes ‘Donald was my vicar at St Aidan’s, Leeds, where I served my second curacy. He was an Honorary Canon of Ripon cathedral.’

Underwood (")&$) On "% October #!"&, Stanley Gurney Browne Underwood of East Molesey, Surrey. Stanley came to St Catharine’s as a Royal Navy Cadet and read Law. His studies were interrupted by war service, but he returned in ")&% to complete his degree. He coxed the College VIII ")&)–'!, had a trial cap in ")'! and was elected Chief Cox of the Cambridge Coxwains Society. He joined the London Rowing Club in ")'$. By ")') he was coxing for Leander and turned to coaching in ")*'. From ")'% he was a partner in a ,rm of City solicitors and Clerk to the Worshipful Company of Broderers of London.

Vincett (")&&) On #' February #!"', Lionel Peter Vincett of Chelmsford, Essex. Lionel came to St Catharine’s from Reigate Grammar School and read Mechanical Sciences. After a spell in the Royal Engineers, his career was spent in the County Engineer’s and Surveyor’s Departments of Surrey, Essex and Somerset County Councils. Subsequently he became a lecturer in Civil Engineering at the Mid-Essex Technical College (later Anglia Polytechnic University),

specialising in Geotechnics. His leisure activities included sailing (he was Commodore of the Blackwater Sailing Club in the ")%!s), the countryside, and water-colour painting. Lionel was a regular donor to College funds. His son John (")*") is also an alumnus.

Williams (")&!) On $! October, Frederick Harry Paston Williams of Crowthorne, Berkshire. Frederick came to St Catharine’s from the Imperial Service College, Windsor, and read Mechanical Sciences. His son Colin (")*!) writes ‘Frederick was born in Allahabad, India, and studied Civil Engineering at St Catharine’s on a two-year wartime course prior to being commissioned with the (th Airborne Division where he saw action in France during the second world war. Invalided out of the army, he joined the Transport and Road Research Laboratory in the tropical section where he travelled extensively providing advice to various Government Highways Departments. In ")(* he was seconded to the Pakistan Public Works Department as an advisor prior to being seconded to the Asian Institute of Technology in Bangkok in ")() as a Professor. In ")*& he moved to Abidjan, seconded to the African Development Bank, where he stayed until his retirement in ")%". He spent his retirement between his house in Crowthorne and his holiday home in his beloved Devon.’

Williams (")&$) On * March #!"&, Peter Herbert (Percy) Williams of Cromer, Norfolk. Percy came to St Catharine’s from Lewes County School for a wartime Arts and Geography course, but was commissioned into the RAF for war service. In ")&* he chose to continue his studies at St Catherine’s, Oxford. In ")'! he began teaching at Wirral Grammar School, Birkenhead, until he was appointed Head of Geography at Paston Sixth Form College, Norfolk, in ")(*. He became Deputy Headmaster there in the late ")*!s and Vice-Principal in ")%&.

Williamson (née Penfold, #!!") On * August #!"', Heather Elisabeth Williamson of Cambridge. Heather came to St Catharine’s from New College, Pontefract, and read Biological Natural Sciences. She gained a double ,rst and was awarded College Prizes for both Part I and Part II, and a College Scholarship. She stayed on for the Postgraduate Certi,cate in Education and then taught in local Cambridge schools. She was a teacher at St Ivo School when she died of a rare encephalitis following a stomach bug. Her widower is Andy Williamson (#!!").

Witham (")'&) On #! August #!"#, Henry Connery Witham of Chelmsford, Essex. Henry came to St Catharine’s from Felsted School, Essex, and read History. He was for many years Headmaster of Widford Lodge Preparatory School, Chelmsford, Essex – the school which his father had founded in ")$'.

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The following Members are mentioned in the News pages. As has become customary by the request of Members, the news items themselves are printed in date order of Society Membership rather than alphabetical order.David Adams (")((), Alex Aitken (#!"!), Keith Alexander (")()), Richard Amos (")'"), David Bainbridge (Fellow #!!$), Jonathan Bate (")**, Honorary Fellow #!!"), Peter Boizot (")'!), John Boulding (")''), Aimee Brame (#!""), Michael Brookbank (")'!), Angus Buchanan (")'!), Adam Buddle ("(*%, Fellow "(%'–)"), Callum Bungey (#!"#), Phil Carling (")((), Ellie Chan (#!!)), John Chapman (")()), Derek Ching (")''), Chris Clark (Fellow "))!), Jacqui Cole (Research Fellow ")))–#!!'), Michael Conzen (")($), Ralph Court (")()), Alex Cranston (#!"&), David Cruttenden (")(*), JRH Davies (")(#), Thomas Drury (Master ")#!–(), Steven Dyke (")*#), Eric Ellis (")$$), Tony Emanuelli (")()), Jon Epstein (")($), Ian Fletcher (")(#), Lilian Greenwood (")%&), Peter Hall (")'!, Honorary Fellow ")%%), Scott Handy (")%*), Tim Helliwell (")*"), Henry Hempleman (")&"), Patrick Holden (")'*), John Hooper (")(%), Steve Jackson (")('), Graeme Jones (")%%), Paul King ("))'), Roger Knight (")((), Andrew Lenox-Conyngham (Chaplain ")%(–)"), John Lightfoot (Master "('!–*'), Alex Ling (")('), Ralegh Long (#!!&), Charlie Lutyens (")()), Roy MacLaren (")''), Khalid Mahgoub ("))"), David Martin (")''), Stephen Mennell (")($), Eric Midwinter (")'#), Michael Morris (")'*) – Lord Naseby, George Nash (#!!%), Chris Newbery (")()), Ted Parker (")("), Jonathan Paget (")((), Jeremy Paxman (")(), Honorary Fellow #!!"), Tony Pearce (")'#) , Curtis Reubens (#!"$), Steve Richardson (")()), Peter Robins (")(#), Ivan Scales (Fellow #!!%), John Shakeshaft (Fellow ")("), John Stone (")($), Henny Tarasewicz (née Freeman, #!!#), Martin Taylor (")''), Gareth Thomas (")(#), David Thompson (")(%), Derek Thwaites (")'"), SteveTinton (")(*), Sandy To (#!!%), Harry Wallace (")'#), Yasmine Walters (#!"!), David Watkin (")%&), Callum Watson (#!"&), Phyllis Weliver (Visiting Scholar #!"$), Alan Wilkinson (")'", Chaplain ")("–*), James Wright (Fellow ")*%–)", Honorary Fellow "))#), Ben Wylie (#!"#), Mike Yolland (")(&)

John Lightfoot (Master '-)%–,)) See Graeme Jones (")%%)

Adam Buddle ('-,+, Fellow '-+)–$') was an early botanist. His Fellowship was terminated in "()" when he refused to pledge an oath of allegiance to William and Mary. He died in "*"' and the tercentenary of his passing was marked by an exhibition of the College Library’s ,ne collection of early botanical books, including those associated with two members of St Catharine’s whose in-uence lasts to the present day: John Addenbrooke and John Ray. The beautifully illustrated books on display were also interesting for the light they shed on the nascent discipline with multiple in-uences: scienti,c and medicinal curiosity, colonial expansion, and garden design, among others. In addition, a plaque has been installed in the Main Court next to some buddleia – a -owering shrub named after Buddle by Linnaeus in "*'$.

Bishop Thomas Drury (Master '$&%–-) See Derek Ching (")'') and Ivan Scales (Fellow #!!%).

Congratulations to Eric Ellis ('$**) who celebrated his "!!th birthday in November #!"&. His sporting record as a long-distance runner in the ")$!s is well documented, it seems, but College records are rather more sparse.

The College has learned that Associate Member Barbara Hempleman has died. She was the widow of Henry Hempleman ('$(') who died in #!!(.

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Peter Boizot ('$)%) featured prominently in the BBC& programme Spicing up Britain screened in March #!"'. It was about the changes to restaurants in the period following WWII. Peter founded Pizza Express and the programme contained recent interviews as well as some contemporary material from the ")'!s.

Michael Brookbank ('$)%) See Tony Pearce (")'#)

Angus Buchanan ('$)%) is Professor Emeritus in the History of Technology at Bath University. In ")(& Angus was instrumental in setting up the Centre for the Study of the History of Technology at Bath and he sent the Editor a copy of the '!th Annual Report of the Centre, now renamed the History of Technology Research Unit. In an annex to the report, Angus summarizes the work of the Centre/Unit over the past half century.

Professor Sir Peter Hall ('$)%, Honorary Fellow '$++) who died in #!"& (see obituary in the #!"& Magazine), has had a railway locomotive named after him. You know you have really arrived when this happens to you.

Richard Amos ('$)'), who died in #!"&, bequeathed his collection of Bach scores to the College. His son Mark writes ‘The bequest includes all of the Barenreiter volumes except the Addenda and Supplements which were published later as father felt some of the scores in these were of dubious authenticity.’ The College Director of Music, Edward Wickham, remarked that a complete Barenreiter was a terri,c resource and very welcome.

Derek Thwaites ('$)') wrote with news of his diamond wedding (see elsewhere in the Magazine). Derek says that, after gaining an Honours degree in Mathematics from London University, he came back to St Catharine’s in ")(" to read Law under Dick Gooderson. He travelled from Bedford to Cambridge during term time for supervisions Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays for three consecutive years and spent many hours on other days in the Squire Law library. During the subsequent &! years, Derek as MD turned round many companies in various industries and also visited and assessed entrants

for the weekly Granada television programme Flying Start, later appearing as a judge with presenter Anthony Wilson when thousands of pounds were awarded each year to encourage innovative companies to invest and expand. In retirement Derek and his wife Doreen make ,lms with the Bolton Movie Makers Society. Derek has also been a member of the Magic Circle for over '! years.

Alan Wilkinson ('$)', Chaplain '$-'–,) writes to say that the third edition of his book The Church of England and the First World War has been published. It was ,rst published in ")*%.

Tony Pearce ('$)&) kindly agreed to review a book donated to the College Library about Eric Midwinter ('$)&) – see Book Reviews in the Magazine. Tony writes ‘Eric and I met by chance when we were both serving in the British Army of the Rhine and then discovered we were both going up to St Catharine’s to read History. We shared supervisions and played football together for the College. We meet twice a year for lunch with Michael Brookbank ('$)%) who was Captain of College Football in his last year.’

Harry Wallace ('$)&) died in #!"$ and he appeared in the death notices in the #!"& Magazine. We omitted to note that he was awarded an MBE in #!!' for his charity work founding and running the Liverpool CAFOD shop.

John Boulding ('$))), whose death we reported in the #!"& Magazine, left a substantial sum to the College in his will.

Derek Ching ('$))) marked St Catharine’s Day #!"& by placing a white rose on the grave of Thomas Wortley Drury (Master '$&%–-) in Ripon Cathedral yard. Drury was Bishop of Sodor and Man ")!*–"", Bishop of Ripon ")""–#! and then Master of St Catharine’s and Canon of Norwich until his death in ")#(.

Roy MacLaren ('$))) writes ‘I was particularly interested in the article in the #!"& Magazine about St Chad’s and the Great War. My father, a seventeen-year-old gunner in the Royal Canadian Artillery (he had lied about his age), was badly wounded at Passchendaele in early November ")"*. After initial treatment in the ,eld (partly by kindly and solicitous German prisoners of war) and at a forward hospital at St Omer, he was carried across the channel for further treatment at the First Eastern General Hospital in Cambridge (housed in temporary huts on the site of the current University Library), with which the smaller hospital at St Chad’s worked closely. In later years my father would sometimes point out to me rather wryly that he too had been at Cambridge.’

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David Martin ('$))) writes ‘Few battles loom as large in British history as Waterloo, the #!!th anniversary of which we celebrated on "% June #!"'. Yet, till now, none of the monuments on the battle,eld so much as mentioned the British army. Key to the battle, according to Wellington, had been the defence of the farm buildings at Hougoumont, which, badly damaged in the ,ghting, were now in severe need of restoration. So an agreement was made by which, in return for UK help with the overall work, permission was granted for a memorial to the British army on the site. I was fortunate enough to be invited to set up and chair a committee to produce the memorial. It made for a rather challenging couple of years. What should it say? Nothing the public would easily understand if the sculptural establishment had their way. It should, they said, be ‘of today’. This was code for a conceptual work which might, or, more probably might not, be self-explanatory. “And please”, said the Belgians, “it should have nothing to do with war or battles”. To our surprise we found many of them believed the actual battle had been won by Napoleon. The message they wanted about the battle was that it was just the start of the process to build peace in Europe which led to the creation of the EU. Waterloo was won in a day. Getting the monument we wanted, illustrating the key event in the defence – the closing of the gates – took over two years. But when Prince Charles ,nally unveiled it, we all felt it had been worth it.’

Martin Taylor ('$)), Society President '$$$), whose death was noted in the #!"& Magazine, left a substantial legacy to the College speci,cally for maintenance of the fabric.

Patrick Holden ('$),) writes ‘On a recent trip to Egypt I visited St Catherine’s (sic ) Monastery in Sinai. It houses both the second largest library after the Vatican and also a great icon collection. Amongst the icons for sale was a copy of the famous St Catherine icon. It was on an easel and painted in oil on wood ‘hand painted by the monks themselves’. It measured *!cm x '!cm but was not for sale. Of course it was and I acquired it. I should like to donate it to the College if it is acceptable.’ The Master accepted and the icon is in the Chaplain’s Room where it may be seen at the frequent meetings held therein, and, of course, also by casual visitors.

Michael Morris ('$),), now Lord Naseby, writes that he has successfully piloted his Private Members Bill (to help Mutual Insurers and Friendly Societies raise capital) through both the Lords and Commons. He thinks this is probably the ,rst time a Catz graduate has overcome the challenges presented by this tortuous process. ‘I have been active in Parliament since I was elected for the new marginal seat of Northampton South in February ")*& with a majority of "*). I managed to hold the seat until the tidal

David Martin (second from left) at the unveiling of the monument at Waterloo, !"#$.

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wave of "))* saw the Conservatives lose over a hundred seats, so ending my Commons career. I was never a Minister as I was told I had rebelled too often. However I suspect my willingness to vote against my Government if I felt the issue really important helped me to get all-party backing to be elected the '%th Chairman of Ways & Means and Deputy Speaker. The role of Chairman of Ways & Means goes back to the Restoration of the Monarchy when senior Members of the Commons felt the Speaker had become too close to the incoming Monarch. They decided to elect one of their own senior MPs to oversee the expenditure of money (Ways & Means). It is for this reason that, even to this day, the Budget and Finance Bill is chaired by the Chairman of Ways & Means and not the Speaker. Fortunately for me there is also a tradition that the Chairman of Ways & Means is appointed to the House of Lords. So Rt Hon. Michael Morris MP became the Rt Hon. the Lord Naseby PC. I was told there were already four Lords Morris including a Lord Michael Morris; the choice of Naseby re-ected my lifelong support of the Parliamentary cause in our Civil war – the turning point of that war was the defeat of the king at Naseby and ,nally all the wounded from both sides were taken to my old constituency in Northampton.’

Ted Parker ('$-') is Emeritus Professor of Radio Communications at the University of Kent. He writes ‘In view of the sad news about John Shakeshaft (Fellow '$-'), you might like to see the attached photograph, which, although taken in #!!(, shows him just as I

remember him while I was at St Catharine’s half a century or so ago. He never seemed to change.

Ian Fletcher ('$-&) writes ‘Since my o.cial retirement in #!!) I have continued to deliver postgraduate courses and to supervise PhD students in the Faculty of Laws at University College London. I now bear the combined job titles of Emeritus Professor of International Commercial Law and Senior Research Associate. In March #!"$ I was appointed Queen’s Counsel (honoris causa).’

Gareth Thomas ('$-&) sent a photograph (overleaf ) of Peter Robins ('$-&) and JRH Davies ('$-&) – JRH is on the left. The three of them were members of the ‘gang of eight’ who appeared in the #!!' Catharine Wheel in two photographs &! years apart. Sadly JRH died this year – see Notices in this Magazine. Gareth writes ‘I was particularly close to John, and we shared a love of singing ballads and folk songs. He was the main vocalist with a powerful and engaging delivery; I was mainly the accompanist. Although we were not in high demand for entertainment, we were captured on ,lm at the ")($ Nurses’ Ball. Peter Robins and I were Veterinary colleagues in St Catharine’s; probably ")(# was the ,rst year that the College admitted two Vets in one year.’

Stephen Mennell ('$-*) writes ‘On St Patrick’s Day, my wife and I had breakfast at one of the Dublin Airport hotels with my long-time friend and occasional academic collaborator, John Stone ('$-*), who was passing through en route from Barcelona back to still-frozen Boston. (John said he hadn’t bothered to dig his car out of a snow drift for a second time in the winter: it could stay where it was

The icon of St Catherine, donated to the College by Patrick Holden.

Ted Parker and John Shakeshaft.

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until the thaw, around April.) John and I were supervision partners in Economics and both of us then -ed to become sociologists. Unlike my eclectic self, John has stayed in the area of race and ethnic relations, in which he is a world authority. After taking his DPhil at St Antony’s College, Oxford, he taught successively at Columbia, Oxford, Goldsmiths, George Mason and now Boston University, where he has relinquished the chairmanship of the department but still continues in harness. In May, another old friend, Michael Conzen ('$-*) was in Dublin to attend a conference on historical maps at the Royal Irish Academy, and we caught up over dinner one evening. Michael went straight from Catz to the USA, and has never returned (so to speak). After his doctorate in historical geography at Wisconsin, he taught brie-y at Boston University (where John now is), before moving to the University of Chicago

where he has remained ever since. Michael had come to Dublin from Israel, where he was enjoying an eight-week Fellowship at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. Just a day or two before that, he had been sightseeing in the company of yet another close friend from our year, Jon Epstein ('$-*), who was on a walking holiday with members of his London synagogue – small world.’

Mike Yolland ('$-() and Jonathan Paget ('$--) were amongst a goodly party of the ‘The Volunteers’, a cricketing group who held their '!th Anniversary Match at Longstowe, some eight miles west of Cambridge, in July #!"'. These Volunteers were a deliberately pan- (or even non-) collegiate group of undergraduates of modest cricketing ability, but of a non-conformist turn of mind, who, during the ")(!s, played matches against Cambridgeshire villages. Their '!th anniversary match and the accompanying celebrations were, by all accounts, a most successful a+air.

David Adams ('$--) writes to tell of the existence of the Catz Golf Society. ‘The society is a loose a.liation of old Catharinians of the ")('–% Matriculation vintage who enjoy a half-decent round of golf followed by a better-than-half-decent lunch. We were formed some ,ve years ago and our geographical centre of gravity is SE England although we boast members from as far a,eld as Wales – Phil Carling ('$--) and Yorkshire – Steve Jackson ('$-)). At present there are some twenty members and we would certainly welcome other like-minded souls. We meet twice a year – once in May when we compete for the Hobsons Trophy and once in October when we do a test run on a potential venue for the May get together. So far the Hobsons trophy has been won by a di+erent member in each year it has been contested. This year’s winner is Steve Tinton ('$-,); the attached photograph shows the smiling victor at Royal Wimbledon GC.’

The Catz Golf Society – see David Adams.

JRH Davies and Peter Robins –see Gareth Thomas.

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Roger Knight (")((), the former Surrey cricket captain, has been appointed President of the MCC from October #!"'. In the past he has held the posts of MCC Secretary and CEO and was awarded honorary life membership of the club following the award of an OBE in the #!!* New Year Honours List for services to sport.

David Cruttenden ('$-,) sent a Christmas letter from Zimbabwe at the end of #!"&. He wrote ‘The perennially grubby local politics have plumbed new depths in the last few months with a vitriolic campaign led by the president’s wife culminating in the removal of the Vice-President and her replacement by a man known as the crocodile. It is assumed that the purpose is to secure Mugabe’s position for the rest of his life and to protect his family thereafter. The purge has been very far reaching – whether it will result in show trials to complete the Stalinist image remains to be seen. More importantly we wait to see if anything will be done to arrest the alarming decline in the economy and to improve the lot of the ordinary people who are in dire straits. Neither the crocodile nor Grace Mugabe are particularly popular. She requires constant and substantial retail therapy. Although known to the politically correct as the ,rst lady she is more widely referred to as the ,rst shopper, Gucci Grace or even dis-Grace. Concerning currency, as a precursor to the collapse of the Zimbabwe dollar, the Reserve Bank printed bearer cheques. These were bank notes in all but name but could not be described as such as the president would not permit the printing of high value notes because he felt they were an admission that the economy was in trouble. How right he was! Since the switch to the US5 there has been a problem of change as no US coins are in circulation. Change is given in Rand coins or sweets, biros, eggs or other low value items. In another world ,rst we now have ‘bond coins’ which are tokens which the Reserve Bank ‘guarantees’ are worth their face value in US cents – only in Zimbabwe of course. Since the Reserve Bank is itself e+ectively bankrupt, the local populace is somewhat sceptical of these new tokens – perhaps it would have been better if they were made of chocolate.’

John Hooper ('$-+) writes to say that his book The Italians is to be published in January in the UK by Penguin and in February in the US by Viking. It was nominated by Kirkus Reviews for the #!"' Kirkus Prize, which they describe as one of America’s richest literary awards.

Chris Newbery ('$-$) writes with news of his ")() contemporaries ‘Following their successful trip to Dusseldorf in November #!"#, Chris Newbery, Tony Emanuelli, John Chapman, Ralph Court, Steve Richardson and Charlie Lutyens, accompanied by their wives, were treated to a regal reunion reception weekend by Keith Alexander and his wife, Bronwen, at their

lovely country home outside Kelso in the Borders. Their programme of walks, visits and meals, some cooked and served by them, was much enjoyed by all. In May #!"', we met again, this time at the country cottage of John and his wife, Caroline, near Holt in Norfolk. Again we were treated to a series of visits to houses and gardens, reached via labyrinthine, hedge-enclosed lanes. John and Caroline cooked some fabulous meals. Highlights of the weekend were Saturday lunch at the nearby house of David Thompson ('$-+) and his wife, Mary Rose, and a boat trip to Blakeney Point to see seals and nesting terns. John is currently producing Sky TV’s Christmas o+ering of Fungus the Bogeyman, starring Timothy Spall. We look forward to that and visiting Steve and Nobue and the environs of Haslemere in #!"(, especially the threatened trip to Goodwood Races.’

Jeremy Paxman ('$-$, Honorary Fellow &%%') appeared on the front page of the Times in November #!"& because he had been proposed as a candidate for the next Mayor of London. However, the former Newsnight anchorman said in response to the story that he had decided not to run for the post ‘for all the éclairs in Paris’. See also Ellie Chan (#!!)).

Tim Helliwell ('$,') has been a Consultant Histopathologist in Liverpool since ")%&. He is now Clinical Director for Cellular Pathology in Liverpool Clinical Laboratories, Honorary Professor of Pathology at the University of Liverpool and has been elected as Vice President of the Royal College of Pathologists (#!"&–"*) with particular responsibility for matters pertaining to Learning.

Steven Dyke ('$,&) writes ‘Having retired after a varied working life, I now live in Hoylake on the Wirral peninsula. I spent over twenty years in the museum profession in Sunderland and Darlington, and nine years as a bookshop proprietor in Ilkley. Further diversity came from working for British Rail in south London, a Liverpool-based housing association and a community trust in West Kirby.’ See also Notices in this Magazine.

Professor Sir Jonathan Bate ('$,,, Honorary Fellow &%%') has written Ted Hughes: The Unauthorised Life and the book has been nominated for the Samuel Johnson Prize for non-,ction. It was in the news because the Hughes estate refused Jonathan access to unpublished material on the grounds that Hughes had stated that he did not wish to have a biography written about him.

James Wright (Fellow ")*%–)", Honorary Fellow "))#) reached the French-Swiss frontier on Sunday ") April #!"', thus completing, with a friend appropriately named Walker, a double traverse of France on foot, from the

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Channel to the Mediterranean (Ouistreham, the port of Caen, to Cassis), and from the Atlantic to the Alps (Port-du-Pavé, north of La Rochelle, to just east of Pontarlier). The walk took (( days, spread over seven annual visits, and covered ",*&$ kilometres at an average speed of &.( kph. For unknown reasons, the routes chosen passed through some of the ,nest vineyards in France, but, regrettably, no statistics appear to exist of the number of bottles of wine which perished in the endeavour!

As this Magazine goes to press we hear that Lilian Greenwood MP ('$+() has been appointed Shadow Transport Minister in Jeremy Corbyn’s Shadow Cabinet.

David Watkin ('$+() is now Head of Strings at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. According to an article about David in the Scottish Herald ‘Watkin is what you might call a lateral-minded musician. He conducts and he coaches young people, but most Scottish audiences will know him as a superb cellist: he was a soloist, chamber player and principal cello of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra until an auto-immune condition forced him to stop playing just over a year ago. For many instrumentalists, such a blow would be spirit-destroying … but he is full of a drive and optimism that can’t be feigned. “I’ve always been a musician ,rst and a cellist second,” he says. “Maybe losing the cello wasn’t so bad because it’s only ever been one avenue of musicianship for me.”’

The Revd Canon Andrew Lenox-Conyngham (Chaplain '$+-–$') writes to point out that he was in fact an undergraduate of Corpus, not St Catharine’s [apologies for that error. Ed.] and to say that he is actively campaigning for the reinstatement of St Jerome in the Church Calendar. ‘I was appalled when I saw that he had been demoted,’ he says. He thinks a possible reason for the demotion is that St Jerome was not a very nice person, but in Andrew’s view ‘niceness and sanctity have nothing to do with each other’. See the Church Times of $" October #!"& and the Times of $" December #!"&.

Scott Handy ('$+,) See Ralegh Long (#!!&).

Graeme Jones ('$++), now a Senior Lecturer in Organic Chemistry at Keele, writes ‘I now live at the Old Vicarage in Uttoxeter, Sta+ordshire, where Thomas Lightfoote was Rector. Shortly after we moved in I was surprised to discover that his eldest son, John Lightfoote, was Master of St Catharine’s "('!–*'.’ Most histories of the College spell his name without the ,nal ‘e’.

Chris Clark (Fellow '$$%) is the Regius Professor of History at Cambridge and he was featured in an article in the Sunday Times in December #!"& which drew attention to his television series Deutschlandsaga on ZDF (the

German equivalent of the UK’s BBC). Chris says he was astonished to be asked. It is, of course, all because of his book The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in #%#'. The series was apparently very popular, and featured Chris driving round Germany in a ")*" VW Beetle, explaining German history to the Germans.

Khalid Mahgoub ('$$'), who works in Beirut for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, wrote to the College just before Christmas #!"&. ‘Our funds are dwindling and I’m racing with time with my team to deliver Winterization assistance to #!,!!! Syrian families before mid-December. Last winter we assisted all families that lived at elevations above '!!m; this year we are assisting only those families that live above "!!!m. It is scandalous because, even here in Beirut at the coast, it is freezing cold at night. I can’t imagine how refugees in mountainous areas in tents will cope. It is depressing. Even though there is political instability in Lebanon with no President for the last six months and the parliament keeps extending its mandate without any elections and refugees constitute more than #(/ of the population and terrorism and threats of terrorism, still things seem to function perfectly smoothly somehow. I am beginning to believe the anarchist notion that there is no need for the state.’ However, in August #!"', Khalid wrote again ‘It is the summer of discontent in Beirut. Rubbish has been removed from the centre, but the suburbs remain absolutely ,lthy and choked by hills of plastic bags. I have been watching the demonstrations (organized by the Lebanese social movement You Stink) from my balcony; like the Roman emperor Nero I watch while sipping a nice chilled Lebanese rosé wine. When a demonstration is scheduled, going home from work is a nightmare with the roadblocks and tra.c jams.’

Paul King ('$$)) directed and scripted the excellent ,lm Paddington which was released in #!"&. The Senior Tutor writes ‘Paul graduated with a First in English before embarking on a career in comedy (twice winning the coveted Perrier Award) and as a director, both of The Mighty Boosh for television and more recently in ,lm. Paddington acquired momentary notoriety for being initially billed by the BBFC as “with mild sex references” – because Hugh Bonneville wears a dress. O tempora! O mores! Paddington ! is in the works: X-rated, I expect’.

Jacqui Cole (Research Fellow '$$$–&%%)) featured in Noteworthy Chemistry in the Newsletter of the American Chemical Society for her work in developing a -uorescent system insensitive to temperature variation. The problem with -uorescent substances is that they dim signi,cantly as the temperature rises; overcoming this is a useful advance.

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Henny Tarasewicz (née Freeman, &%%&) writes that she is still managing to get in some running. She has run a couple of half-marathons and was pleased with her times, all things considered – she is expecting her second child and looks forward to getting back to running after the birth. The family has recently moved to Surrey.

David Bainbridge (Fellow &%%*) has been much in the news as a result of his book Curvology: the Origins and Power of Female Body Shape. There was much discussion in the national dailies and the Cambridge News, and his talk at the Hay Festival (in which he asserted that intelligence in a woman was the most attractive quality for men) led to counter examples.

Ralegh Long (&%%() was featured in the Guardian’s New Band of the Week feature in February #!"'. ‘Inspired by English mysticism and the glories of nature, Ralegh Long registers at the more esoteric end of the male singer-songwriter spectrum.’ According to the article, he sits at the piano and ‘sings in a breathy whisper.’ Ralegh’s tutor, Paul Hartle, comments that this is his second pop-star pupil; the actor Scott Handy ('$+,) was a member of rock band Ice Cold in Alex in the late ")%!s and early "))!s.

George Nash (&%%+) was a member of the triumphant World Rowing Championships Men’s Eight in France for the second time in three years. The crew beat Germany to claim the world title, and this victory con,rms their place at the Olympics next year in Rio.

Dr Helen Scales, the wife of Dr Ivan Scales (Fellow &%%+), turns out to have a family connection with the College; her great-great-grandfather was Bishop Thomas Drury (Master '$&%–-).

Sandy To (&%%+) of the Department of Sociology at Hong Kong University has published China’s Leftover Women: Late Marriage among Professional Women and its Consequences, a book which explains the reasons behind the failure of many women in China to get married. It also discusses the consequences for the future make-up of China’s population at the dawn of modi,cation of the one-child policy, and compares the situation in China with that in other countries.

Ellie Chan (&%%$), Callum Bungey (&%'&), Alex Cranston (&%'() and Callum Watson (&%'() are representing St Catharine’s in the #!"'–( University Challenge series on BBC#, having won through the elimination rounds which select #% teams from about "&! or so. Ben Wylie (&%'&), the reserve, also travelled to Manchester for every broadcast, but is sadly not pictured. Quizmaster Jeremy Paxman ('$-$, Honorary Fellow &%%') is also an alumnus, of course. Catz has had teams through to the broadcast stage at least eight times since our ,rst showing in the original series in ")($, including ")*" when Paxman was not selected (we might perhaps have done better that year if he had been). Catz has yet to win the trophy.

Alex Aitken (&%'%), having taught for a time at Akeley Wood School, is now Head of Academic Music and Organist at Stowe School, and Assistant Musical Director at the National Youth Music Theatre.

Yasmine Walters (&%'%) was raped whilst on her medical elective in Samoa. She wrote an article for Varsity about her experience to raise awareness and to draw attention to the attitudes to such crimes in di+erent cultures. The full article may be found at www.varsity.co.uk/comment/%%"#/.

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Aimee Brame (&%'') is a graduate student working for Fellow Anthony Davenport. She attended the State of the Art meeting of the Intensive Care Society in London in December #!"& and won the prize for the best Research Paper. This is good news for Aimee as Intensive Care is her speciality and she hopes to obtain a post as consultant.

Curtis Reubens (&%'*) applied ‘on a whim’ to enter the Sky# show King of the Nerds, according to the Cambridge News. Each week one contestant is eliminated from an initial ten by tests of intellect, ingenuity, knowledge of

pop culture etc. We await with interest to see if Curtis eventually triumphs; apparently he was labelled ‘the pupil most likely to become an evil genius’ while at school.

Phyllis Weliver (Visiting Scholar &%'*–() worked while at Catz on her monograph Mary Gladstone and the Victorian Salon, #(&)–#((*: Music, Literature, Liberalism. College support enabled her signi,cantly to advance the project and she has recently been awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship to ,nish the book.

THE ST CATHARINE’S GUILDThe Guild was formed in ")() on the initiative of the then Master, Professor Rich, and was originally based entirely upon alumni taking Christian communion. In #!!* the Governing Body agreed that, in order to embrace other faiths and beliefs, the original purpose of the Guild be rede,ned ‘to encourage members of the College, wherever they may be, to remember the College according to the tradition and spirituality of their faith, on or around #' November (St Catharine’s Day) and to inform the Chaplain that they have done so’.

Please let the Chaplain know if you keep St Catharine’s Day. Drop a note to the Chaplain at College (address inside the back cover) or email chaplain@caths.cam.ac.uk and include your matriculation year and details of the church or other institution at which you celebrated if appropriate. The Chaplain will then be able to pray for you by name on St Catharine’s Day the subsequent year. Any other news is also welcome and will be passed to the Editor.

This year we pray by name for the following who remembered the College in #!"& at the places listed:

Graham R Blackburn (")'%), Llanbedr Ystrad Yw, Crickhowell, Powys

Douglas Calder (")'*), St Alban’s, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands, West Indies

Simon Chinery (")%!), Our Lady of the Angels, Saltash, Cornwall

Elizabeth Collison (née Jennings, ")%%), Our Lady & St Joseph R.C. Lymington, Hampshire

Larry Culliford (")(%), St Andrew and St Cuthman in Steyning, West Sussex

David Cruttenden (")(*), Christchurch Borrowdale, Harare, Zimbabwe

Bevis Cubey (")'(), St Cuthbert’s Lorton, Cockermouth, Cumbria

John Dennis (")'"), Winchester Cathedral, Winchester

Ian Fallon (")()), All Saints, Claverley, Shropshire

Ian Fletcher (")(#), St Michael’s, Tilehurst, Reading, Berkshire

Ian Goodfellow (")'%), St Andrew’s Witchurch, Tavistock, Devon

Ivor Halliwell (")'&), St John the Evangelist with St Catharine, Bovey Tracey, Devon

Lucia Higgs (née Li, ")*)) Church of the Holy Apostles in Pimlico, London

Lester Hillman (")*!), The Guild Church of St Katharine, Cree, London

Neil Johnson (")'*), St Mark’s, South Teddington, Richmond

Graham B Jones (")'#), St Andrew’s Colyton, East Devon

J Roger Jones (")*!), St. Peter’s Church, Llanbedr Ystrad Yw, Crickhowell, Powys

Matthew Lineburger (#!"$), USASJB Langdale (")'(), St Mary’s,

Culworth, OxfordshireBrian Midgley (")'*), St Mary’s Halford,

South WarwickshireAnthony Minchin (")'(), St Cyr’s,

Stonehouse, GloucestershireRobert Morgan (")(!), St Andrew’s,

Sanford-on-Thames, OxfordshirePeter Openshaw (")((), St Wilfrid’s,

Ribchester, LancashireCharles B. Palmer (")($), St Paul’s

Howell Hill, Ewell, SurreyChristopher Powell (")%'), St Francis

House, Guildford

Bill Reed (")&)), St Gregory’s, Marnhull, Dorset

Christopher Rose (")(#), All Saints’, Ealing, London

Derek Smith (")*!), St Barnabas, Limassol, Cyprus

Peter G Stevens (")*#), St. Michael and All Angels, Tennenhall, Wolverhampton

Alan Stokes (")(&), St Devenick’s Church in Aberdeen, Scotland

Geo+rey Stokell (")'!), Wantage Methodist Church, Oxfordshire

Mike Town (")()), St. Patrick’s Church, Patterdale, Cumbria

John M Turner (")&&), St John’s Methodist Church Horwich, Bolton

Philip Watson (")('), St Michael and all Angels, Witton Gilbert, Durham

CNH White (")'$), St Agatha’s, Gilling West, North Yorkshire

Alan Wilkinson (")'"), Chichester Cathedral, Chichester

GF Willett (")&(), St Mary’s, Goldington, Bedfordshire

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THE MASTERSWith the retirement of Professor Dame Jean Thomas imminent in #!"(, the Editor thought it might be interesting to review some of the more irregular Mastership elections and appointments throughout the history of the College. The following information is not new; except where noted it is all gleaned from the two histories of St Catharine’s by WHS Jones and the book of Quincentenary Essays edited by Teddy Rich in ")*$. A reprint of the main Jones history is available from the Cambridge University Press for about 0$!.

The election of a Master is governed by the College statutes. These have changed over the years, but some basic principles remain: the Fellows of the time elect the new Master; a majority of all Fellows eligible to vote is required; there is a time limit (which has varied from as little as three days to the current period of six months or so). If the Fellows fail to elect someone within the time limit, then the Master is appointed by the ‘Visitor’ who is a sort of ombudsman set up by the statutes to resolve internal disputes. In the case of St Catharine’s, the Visitor is the Crown in the person of the Lord Chancellor at the time. As will be seen from this brief review, the statutes have been -outed on several occasions.

Even the founder Robert Woodlark seems to have ignored his own founding statutes which laid down that the Master must have a degree in Divinity. Woodlark seems to have appointed – or perhaps instructed the Fellows to elect – at least one Master without an appropriate degree.

In "'&*, the then Master, Reginald Bainbrigge, resigned because he disapproved of the new ecclesiastical regime – essentially Cranmer's Book of Common Prayer. Edwin Sandys was elected and swiftly reformed the College, revising the statutes to remove o+ending references, most of which involved the Virgin Mary and other ‘papisms’, in time for the "'&) inspection of the University to ‘root out papacy.’

By "''$ Mary was on the throne and Sandys was imprisoned in the Tower (several Cambridge academics were subsequently burnt at the stake or otherwise executed, but Sandys was released at the behest of Mary and moved abroad). Mary used Stephen Gardiner (Master of Trinity Hall and Mary’s Bishop of Winchester) as her agent to engineer the installation of her favourite, Edmund Cosyn, as Master of St Catharine’s.

Five years later Elizabeth was on the throne and Cosyn, who was also Vice-Chancellor of the University at the time, resigned both as Master of St Catharine’s and as VC. This time the Fellows held a genuine election and John Mey became Master. It seems that he had survived the turbulent years of the ‘Terrible Tudors’ in Cambridge by being a ‘willow’ rather than an ‘oak’, rather like the Vicar of Bray.

On the death of Mey in "'**, Queen Elizabeth sent a ‘letter of recommendation’ to the College that Edmund Hownde, her Chaplain, be elected Master. This could hardly be refused. Apparently Hownde was a melancholy character and eventually committed suicide while visiting his parish in Dorset in "')%.

The subsequent election was tense and a shambles. There were six Fellows. The three senior Fellows voted for John Overall, the three junior Fellows for Simon Robson. The senior Fellows declared Overall Master and the junior Fellows responded by appealing to the Vice-Chancellor of the University. After four days of inquiry, Robson was declared the winner – it is not clear on what grounds. Robson was in o.ce for only a week, after which the Queen and Archbishop Whitgift intervened and Overall was reinstated. Possibly the junior Fellows appealed to the VC rather than the Visitor because they realised the Crown would favour Overall.

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We now pass over two relatively uncontroversial elections to arrive at the death of the Master Richard Sibbes in "($'. The senior Fellow, John Lothian, was a Scot and had been elected a Fellow by special Royal dispensation because the statutes of the time speci,ed that Fellows must be English! Lothian hatched a plot to elect fellow-Scot Robert Creighton as Master. On the Sunday after Sibbes's death he told Creighton that, if he wanted the Mastership, he had to ride to London and obtain the necessary dispensation from Charles I. Creighton arrived back in Cambridge on Tuesday evening with a letter from the King. Sadly, this was only a recommendation and not the required command. In the meantime, the other ,ve Fellows, who knew nothing of the plot, had had their vote and elected Ralph Brownrigge. Lothian urged Creighton to ride back to London and obtain the required Royal command

while he (Lothian) would do his best to delay the installation of Brownrigge. By this time, rumours of the existence of a letter from the King were rife and Brownrigge was getting cold feet. However, all the Fellows except Lothian (who maintained his silence) persuaded Brownrigge that they were indeed just rumours and he allowed himself to be admitted as Master with the appropriate ceremony in the Chapel. When the King heard of it he was not best pleased and wrote suspending Brownrigge, thus bringing the whole a+air into the open. The University Chancellor of the time, Henry Rich, Earl of Holland, requested that the Masters of the other colleges sort it out. The a+air dragged on for weeks and was only resolved when Creighton became disillusioned with the 'twisted and interfering business' and withdrew all claim to the Mastership.

In "(&' Brownrigge, while University Vice-Chancellor, preached a controversial sermon which o+ended the church elders; he was ousted from his Bishopric of Exeter, imprisoned in London and allowed to return to Cambridge only to sort out his a+airs. The Masters of Clare and Trinity were also relieved of their Masterships that year following six others who had been removed in "(&&. Fellow William Spurstow was apparently popular with the other Fellows and might well have been elected Master had the College been allowed to have an election. Instead he was appointed Master by the Assembly of Divines. Jones reports that Spurstow was embarrassed to ,nd himself Master, not as the result of an election, 'but at the bidding of an alien body of ecclesiastics.'

Some four years later in "(&), Spurstow was himself in trouble, along with six of the Fellows, for refusing to take the Commonwealth Oath. The College was thrown into confusion – the accounts for "(&% are unsigned, those for "(&) signed by only two Fellows and those for "('! not even audited. Later in "('! John Lightfoot was appointed Master by order of Parliament. Some ten years later, after the Restoration, Lightfoot proposed that Spurstow be reinstated, but Spurstow, now comfortably settled in the country, refused on the grounds of old age. Lightfoot thereupon applied to the King who con,rmed him o.cially in the Mastership.

Thereafter, Mastership elections seem to have proceeded without undue controversy for some "'! years until "*)). Lowther Yates had been elected in "**) when initially three of the ,ve Fellows voted for themselves leading to no-one achieving the required overall majority. However, at a second vote, sanity prevailed and Yates was elected. Twenty years later when he died, the Fellows proved more obstinate. The senior Fellow, Joshua Waterhouse, voted for himself and received one other vote. These two votes turned out to be more than anyone else could claim and Waterhouse declared himself elected, the statutes notwithstanding. The three Fellows who had not supported him promptly appealed to the Visitor. With well-timed opportunism, surely not unnoticed by the Visitor, one of the

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Fellows, Joseph Procter, quickly obtained for himself the degree of Bachelor of Divinity, thereby making himself eligible for the Mastership (a Divinity degree was still a requirement at the time) and with the support of another Fellow, Burrell, they made their case. The Visitor declared the election of Waterhouse invalid and the time elapsed since Yates's death gave him the right to nominate, so he nominated Procter. This, perhaps not surprisingly, led to an ongoing feud between Procter and Burrell on the one hand, and the rest of the Fellows on the other. There were several appeals to the Visitor to resolve matters of di+erence and the Visitor always came down on the side of Procter and Burrell (of course!).

The most infamous controversial election is the one which blighted the College’s reputation for half a century and for which St Catharine’s for a time was unjusti,ably notorious. Jones and the Quincentenary Essays discuss the "%(" election at length – worth reading if only to compare with CP Snow’s The Masters. The basic story is that there were two candidates, both of them senior Fellows, Charles Robinson and FJ Jameson. There were ,ve Fellows voting (though there should have been nine because, only a year or so before, new statutes had come into force which incorporated the four Skerne Fellows hitherto excluded – it is not known why this new statute was ignored). At that time, Fellows could not marry, though the Master could. Robinson was engaged to be married and was preparing to resign his Fellowship and take up a living in nearby Barnwell. However, it seems Jameson was not aware of this even though Robinson had made no secret of it. The two junior Fellows had decided to vote for Robinson, but, the evening before the election, they had a discussion and changed their minds. They therefore voted for Jameson; the other three, including Jameson, voted for Robinson, despite Robinson having previously repeatedly urged Jameson that he should vote for himself as was the custom in such elections. For some time all was sweetness and light until Jameson belatedly discovered Robinson’s marriage, upon which he made a great scandal while Robinson was away on honeymoon, broadcasting around that Robinson won the election only because he voted for himself. Robinson o+ered to stand down, but even Jameson agreed that the election should stand. Jones (who was elected a Fellow towards the end of Robinson’s Mastership and so had ,rst-hand experience of the e+ect) writes ‘The scandal caused … was probably the greatest disaster that ever happened to any college…’. Robinson was Master for nearly ,fty years and his presence a constant reminder of the ‘Robinson vote.’

Johns, Drury and Rushmore did much to restore the College’s reputation after the Robinson debacle, but, according to documents in the College archives, a minor mistake led to the Visitor having to appoint a Master in ")$$. Rushmore died in June of that year and the Fellows met to elect a successor a month later. The candidates Jones (Senior Fellow) and Chaytor (Senior Tutor) were excluded, but the other Fellows decided that perhaps some prestigious external candidates ought also to be

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considered and adjourned the meeting sine die. Under the statutes they were not allowed to do this – having met for an election, the result had to be announced within &% hours. The Visitor was, however, most cooperative and agreed to appoint whomsoever the Fellows agreed upon. In the event the Mastership was o+ered to several external candidates, among them Professor Inglis (Engineering), the Bishop of Hereford and author John Buchan, all of whom turned the o+er down. It was thought the small remuneration which went with the o.ce was a major reason. In the end the popular Chaytor was appointed in October ")$$, it being noted that he had the necessary private means!

Donald Portway was elected to succeed Chaytor in ")&( – the ,rst Master to be appointed following repeal of the statute which required a degree in Divinity; Portway was an engineer. According to Fellow Pat Lacey in his Memories of St Catharine’s (#!!( Magazine), Governing Body meetings in Portway’s time were tense because those who had run the College through the war often disagreed with those returning from the services. This came to a head as the election of a new Master loomed in ")'( on the retirement of Portway. The obvious candidates were senior Fellows (Brigadier) Tom Henn and Professor Alfred Steers. Pat, the daughter of Fellow Gus Caesar, was a teenager at the time and recalls both candidates lobbying her father intensively. Gus had loyalties to both and, she says, opted out by taking sabbatical leave in the USA while the election took place. Al,e Maddock’s widow Margaret reports that Al,e was proposed for a Fellowship, but the proposal was blocked because existing Fellows did not want a member of the Governing Body whose Mastership vote they could not predict (Al,e was duly elected later). Dudley Robinson (a junior Fellow at the time) indicated that Gus himself was suggested as a candidate, but was thought too young. In the end, Edwin (Teddy) Rich, a graduate of Selwyn who had been elected to the St Catharine’s Fellowship in ")$!, was put forward as an ‘outside’ compromise candidate and, no doubt with the "%(" debacle in mind, the Fellows eventually elected him. There were persistent rumours well into the ")(!s – for example, that Stanley Aston changed his mind which led to a Henn/Steers tie.

As we go to press, the candidates for the #!"( election are being shortlisted…

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Masters of St Catharine’s College"&*$ Robert Woodlark*"&*' Richard Roche"&%! John Tapton"&%* John Wardall"'!( Richard Balderston"'!* Thomas Greene"'#) Reginald Bainbrigge"'&* Edwin Sandys*"''& Edmund Cosyn*"'') John Mey*"'** Edmund Hownde"')% John Overall*"(!* John Hills"(#( Richard Sibbes*"($' Ralph Brownrigge"(&' William Spurstow*"('! John Lightfoot*"(*' John Eachard*"()* William Dawes*"*"& Thomas Sherlock*

"*") Thomas Crosse"*$( Edward Hubbard"*&" Kendrick Prescot "**) Lowther Yates"*)) Joseph Procter"%&' Henry Philpott"%(" Charles Kirkby Robinson")!) Claude Hermann Walter Johns*")#! Thomas Wortley Drury")#* Fredrick Margetson Rushmore")$$ Henry John Chaytor")&( Donald Portway")'* Edwin Ernest Rich")*$ Peter Swinnerton-Dyer")%& Barry Supple"))$ Terence English#!!! David Stanley Ingram#!!* Jean Olwen Thomas * Indicates an entry in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

20 YEARS OF HELLER FELLOWSHIPSSir Michael Heller (#%$$, Fellow Commoner !""*) writes:In "))& Sir Terence English phoned me ‘out of the blue’ and we shortly afterwards met in my then o.ces in New Bridge Street, London EC&. At that meeting Terence advised that the University Printing Works on the other side of Silver Street – the Press Site – was going to be vacated and sold, and it would be advantageous for the College to acquire it. Although that conversation did not lead to anything positive, I did say that Morven and I would be interested in funding a Research Fellowship and guaranteeing it for three years. Following a discussion about the subject of the Fellowship, I said that the College should suggest the subject and if we were happy with it we would proceed.

Sir Terence came back several weeks later with the proposal from the College that the subject of the Research Fellowship should be the History of the Jews in Germany up to ")!!. However, we said that our preference would be Computer Science which was subsequently accepted by the College and that took us into "))'. The ,rst Heller Research Fellowship was advertised that year.

John Bates (#%%)) writes:I was proud to become the ,rst Heller Research Fellow at St Catharine’s. At the time, having recently completed my PhD at the Cambridge Computer Laboratory, I wanted to focus and expand on the research I was pursuing and the Heller Fellowship provided a great platform for this. Little did I know then that the research was also laying the groundwork in establishing new commercial technology areas, such as ‘complex event processing’ and ‘big data streaming analytics’.

After the Heller Fellowship I became a University Lecturer at Cambridge. However, I then turned to the ‘dark side’ and left academia to found my own company – Apama – to commercialize some of my ideas. Apama found market

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success applying real-time analytics in the ,nancial services industry – enabling the rapid development of algorithmic and high frequency trading strategies for over #'! investment banks and hedge funds. After serving as President and Chief Technology O.cer, I sold Apama to a US-based NASDAQ-listed company called Progress Software.

I moved to Boston in #!!' and ran a division of Progress Software, eventually becoming the Corporate Chief Technology O.cer. In #!"$ I left Progress to form the big data analytics business for a German-based public company called Software AG. I currently serve as their Chief Marketing O.cer and Global Head of Industry Solutions.

I have also recently published a book called Thingalytics which is about smart big data analytics for the Internet of Things. The Internet of Things is the next industrial revolution in which people and real-world objects are digitized and incorporated into applications using networked sensors. Thingalytics is about making environments smart by responding to patterns in the streaming sensor data – such as optimizing the amount of fuel used by a container ship by adjusting its course and speed so it arrives at the optimal time in a port.

Thank you to Michael and Morven Heller for endowing this amazing Fellowship.

Michael Norrish (#%%%) writes:In the thirteen years of my career since I left Cambridge, the debt I owe the Michael and Morven Heller Fellowship has become increasingly clear. The years that follow a PhD are crucial when establishing oneself in the academic world: they provide an invaluable opportunity to broaden one’s research after the often narrow focus of the thesis. This was certainly what happened to me: I was able to leave my thesis topic behind (temporarily at least), and to explore a number of other research directions.

Those three years as a Junior Research Fellow saw me create a strong link with a di+erent research group (including Keith Wansbrough, my successor as Heller Fellow) within the Cambridge Computer Laboratory, and I took that new link with me to Canberra, Australia. Simultaneously, the extra mental space a+orded me by the Fellowship meant that I could also work on the technology underpinning both this new research and my thesis work. I continue to work on that same technology, and it is used in my discipline area to this day. It was the Heller Fellowship that laid the foundation for this ongoing work.

Having done my PhD at St Catharine’s, I also deeply appreciate the way the Heller Fellowship let me continue and strengthen my connection with the College. I am still in Australia, at NICTA’s Canberra Research Laboratory, but I have managed to visit the College a number of times since #!!#. I certainly look forward to more such visits!

Keith Wansbrough (!""*) writes:In #!!$ after a year’s post-doctoral work at the Computer Lab I was awarded the Michael and Morven Heller Research Fellowship, and moved to St Catharine’s.

My research at the time centred on building formal models of practical computer systems – in particular, understanding computer network communication and improving its reliability. This lay at the challenging intersection of computer science theory and practical software engineering – two ,elds remarkable for their lack of overlap.

In two years I made considerable progress, and we presented our results at major conferences on both sides of this divide. Subsequent work has further developed the tools we created, and has applied them in areas beyond communication such as concurrent programming languages and processor

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memory models. In all cases the group is closing the gap between theory and practice, building rigorous foundations and ,nding new insights.

My career took a new turn in #!!' when I moved to industry to apply my skills on the practical side. Metaswitch Networks develops software that powers today’s global networks and cloud systems – from e.cient internet routing to scalable voice and video messaging. Underpinning all of this is a deep understanding of communications and distributed systems, and the experience I’ve brought from the research community has been valuable. I’ve also learned the truth of the saying ‘in theory there’s no di+erence between theory and practice, but in practice there is’. The gap is indeed large, and I believe more cross-fertilisation would bene,t both communities.

The Fellowship gave me a boost at a turning point in my career, and it also gave a boost to an important project at a critical phase. Even ten years later I believe the bene,ts can be seen in both, and I am grateful to the Hellers for the opportunity they provided.

Dina Kronhaus (!"")) writes:I began my Research Fellowship at St Catharine’s College in October #!!(. The Fellowship was an exciting opportunity for me to work on neuroimaging problems, based jointly in the Wolfson Brain Imaging Centre (WBIC, based at Addenbrooke’s hospital) and the Computer Laboratory. My research was focused on understanding the neural basis of depression and how best to trigger emotional responses in subjects during experiments that are simple enough to perform in a scanner. One of my major research outputs was the development of a novel research paradigm for embedding cognitive tasks in the background of emotional stimuli (moving faces expressing di+erent emotions). These stimuli in themselves were a signi,cant research output. However, the real utility of these stimuli became apparent when collaborating with Professor Phillips’s group (Pittsburgh) where these stimuli were used as the basis of many experimental projects. I have also collaborated with other groups, most notably Professor Surguladze (London). For example, these stimuli have been used in studies to identify the genetic basis underlying emotional responses, unipolar and bipolar disorders and with veterans su+ering from post-traumatic stress disorder. In Cambridge, I collaborated with Dr Acosta-Carbonero and Dr Nestor from the Wolfson Brain Imaging Centre to investigate how thickness of white matter tracts in the brains of patients su+ering from mild Alzheimer’s may predict the severity of subsequent dementia. I also developed my contacts with Professor Cross from the Music and Science Centre investigating links between music and emotion.

I am most grateful to Michael and Morven Heller for their ,nancial support and taking an active interest in my research. In particular, I would like to thank them and the Master for the -exibility I received during my three periods of maternity leave. Finally, in June #!"' I am excited about returning to work in the Music Faculty at Cambridge supported by a Wellcome Trust career re-entry fellowship. In this project I will be exploring how listening to emotional music a+ects cognitive performance.

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Gert van Dijck (!"#!) writes:I had the honour to become the ,fth Michael and Morven Heller Research Fellow in Computer Science in October #!"#. This Fellowship gave me the unique opportunity to work on one of the most exciting evolutions in computational neuroscience. In particular, I have been building advanced statistical models, using the spontaneous spike patterns from individual cells, to infer the cell type. This is a crucial step in understanding the connectivity between and within di+erent brain regions. I managed to build and publish highly accurate models for cell type

identi,cation in the Cerebellum and explored the technique in the Ventral Tegmental Area. This research was in close collaboration with the group of St Catharine’s Fellow Dr Je+ Dalley at the Department of Experimental Psychology and the Uchida Laboratory, Center for Brain Science, Harvard University.

In the meantime I changed my gown for a suit, as I have taken up a position in the City as a quant at the American International Group (AIG). This might look like an unbridgeable gap, but in fact my current work is sourced heavily from the many techniques I have learnt during my academic research. At AIG, I have been developing advanced statistical models and leading projects on client retention and loss estimation. Recently, I joined the front o.ce of Goldman Sachs in London as a Securities Quant Strat.

In fact, I became extremely excited about the ,nancial markets and as a result, on top of my heavily loaded work week, I started studying again. This resulted in my passing part I of the FRM (Financial Risk Manager) examination in May #!"'. I hope to become a certi,ed ,nancial risk manager by the end of #!"'.

I am very grateful to Michael and Morven Heller; my most exciting and highest impact research was performed during my Heller Research Fellowship. It led to the foundation of models which I hope will be continued to be used by the academic community and it extended my expertise in statistical machine learning which I will further exploit in my professional development.

TUNKU ABDUL RAHMAN (1922)The following article is based on a presentation prepared by Tunku Farik Ismail (#%()) in October !"#' for a meeting of the Kuala Lumpur Branch of the St Catharine’s College Society. Sadly the meeting had to be cancelled when the Chairman fell ill. The photographs are from the Malaysian National Archives and are printed with permission; some are very poor quality.

Many of you will know Tunku Abdul Rahman as the ,rst prime minister of Malaysia. Malaysians know him as ‘Bapa Kemerdekaan’ (Father of Independence) – the man who won independence from the British. However, to me, he was ‘Tok Tam’ – my granduncle. First and foremost, he was an intelligent and educated man who spoke three languages -uently – English, Malay and Thai. His life before being a Malaysian politician is usually passed over, but in this article I wish mainly to present some details of Tunku’s life at St Catharine’s where he spent three important years of his life in the pursuit of a degree.

Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra Al-Haj ibni Almarhum Sultan Abdul Hamid Halim Shah was born in Alor Star, Kedah (then belonging to Siam), on % February ")!$ to Sultan Abdul Hamid, the #'th ruler of the Kedah Sultanate, and Che Manjalara, the Sultan’s fourth wife. He was the Sultan’s seventh son, and his elder brother was my grandfather. He was therefore a Kedahan prince by heritage. Until he went to England in ")#!, he was known as Tunku Putra and was called Putra by his father until his death, whereas his mother and siblings called him ‘Awang’ because his dark skintone was similar to the boys who worked in the rice ,elds. Cholera and malaria were common in Kedah at that time and at least

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three of Tunku’s siblings died from cholera. He himself su+ered from intermittent attacks of malaria until he went to England in ")#!.

Tunku’s formal education started when he was six at the only Malay elementary school in Alor Star; however he was bored and often ran away from class. His mother then sent him to a small English school when it was opened by Mohamed Iskandar. In ")"$, Tunku’s eldest brother Tunku Yusuf returned from the British Military Academy at Sandhurst in England. Realising that his younger brother was making no progress with his studies, he brought Tunku with him to Bangkok with their mother’s agreement. Tunku was enrolled at Debsirin School where lessons were taught in Siamese. However, when his brother Tunku Yusuf died in ")"' of pneumonia, he was sent back to Kedah and went in ")"( to Penang Free School, my old secondary school. It was there that a number of talented teachers inspired him to take a keen interest in his studies and he twice obtained a double promotion. Currently, one of the houses in Penang Free School, Tunku Putra House, is named after Tunku.

Tunku Abdul Rahman made rapid progress at the Free School and, when he was "(, his half-brother the Prince Regent Tunku Ibrahim created a scholarship to send him to Cambridge. Tunku was sent to England in a )!!!-ton cargo vessel that carried only twelve passengers because the First World War had ended just a year previously and passenger ships were scarce. The ship stopped at Port Swettenham in Singapore to take on cargo and that is where my granduncle boarded. However, Port Swettenham was very swampy and he contracted a fresh infection of malaria before he sailed. He had barely recovered from bouts of high fever when he arrived at Tilbury on " June ")#!.

Life in CambridgeTunku was taken to the small village of Little Stukeley where he lived with the Revd Edgar Vigers, the elderly Rector of the Parish. The Rector’s wife was a chain smoker and it was here that Tunku acquired the habit of cigarette smoking. Rural England was an entirely new experience for the young Kedah prince and at ,rst he spent most of his time in the company of three Siamese boys who were also living there.

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However, he soon took up playing football with the village boys and played regularly as a right-winger for Little Stukeley. No one in the village had heard of Malaya and they called him ‘Bobby’.

The Revd Vigers was not a good teacher and after about a year Tunku realized he was making very little progress. It was then arranged for him

to move to Cambridge and live with Basil Atkinson, an experienced tutor who prepared Tunku to sit for the entrance examination to Cambridge known as ‘Littlego’. He sat and passed the entrance exam in the summer of the following year, securing high marks in all papers but one – in the English paper he thought the international language mentioned referred to English instead of Esperanto. Tunku was soon informed that he had been accepted as an undergraduate at St Catharine’s and had been allotted a sitting room and bedroom in "" Grange Road, one of the college’s registered Lodging Houses. He remained there for the next three years. The entry in the College Admission Register reads: September #%!!. (Tunku) Abdul Rahman, son of (Sultan of Kedah) Abdul Hamid. Born in Alor Star, Kedah, Malay States, ( February, #%"*. Admitted as Pensioner.

As a new undergraduate, he was required to call on the Dean to receive a brief summary of the University regulations, one of which was wearing his gown when attending dinner or lectures and whenever in town after dark. He also had to return to his lodgings by "! o’clock every night or pay a ,ne of one penny for each minute he was late.

The Kedah Regent had instructed Tunku to study Law at Cambridge so that he could make use of it in the Civil Service when he returned. However, after reading the syllabus for the Honours Degree in Law, Tunku decided to adopt a compromise, and he entered his name for a Pass (or Ordinary) Degree comprising two years reading Law and a ,nal year reading History.

My granduncle quickly conformed to the social habits of other young men of good family sent to Cambridge at the time, which included wearing ultra-baggy -annel trousers. He was a gregarious person, with both English and Siamese friends. He also visited the head cook in the College kitchen and taught him how to prepare rice and curry in the Malay style. Tunku enjoyed playing a number of sports, especially football and tennis. His name was entered for the Freshmen’s Soccer trial, but the organisers dropped him when they noted that he had not played football at a public school. Later he often played right wing for the College second eleven. In the summer, he played tennis.

Like every other undergraduate, Tunku used a bicycle as a means to get around, carrying his gown and notebooks in the basket attached. However, in June ")#$, Tunku went to the London Motor Show

Wearing a St Catharine’s blazer.

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in Olympia and placed an order for the latest Riley sports car: the price was 0''!. He cabled his mother for the money and she sent it, also by cable, enabling him to complete the purchase before the end of the show. The car was delivered to his lodgings in Cambridge a few days later. It had an aluminium body and red wings. Few undergraduates owned cars in ")#$ and Tunku became widely known both

to University o.cials and to the local Police. The latter issued summonses to him from time to time for speeding in the narrow streets of the town. My granduncle is one of the reasons undergraduates are not allowed to keep cars today.

As a graduate student (and the ,rst LLM student) at St Catharine’s in ")%( I myself was allowed to keep a car in Cambridge, but I had to apply for the permission to do so and also for a licence from the Motor Proctor. I was interviewed by Dr Ron Martin, the then Tutor for Graduate Students, and he reminded me that all the red tape was a consequence of Tunku’s exploits. Although my car was not a Riley, I had to disclose the fact that it was an equally -ashy red German sports car and I had to promise not to accumulate summonses from the local Police.

In the ")#!s the University authorities strongly disapproved of ballroom dancing. There was only one dance hall in Cambridge called ‘The Rendezvous’ which was often raided by the Proctors and any undergraduates found there were ,ned or punished in some other way. Tunku was fond of dancing and he discovered that the The #%!* Riley Sports Tourer.

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nearest alternative dance hall was at Bedford, some thirty miles away. Having a car made it easy for Tunku to get there and he became popular with the dance hostesses. He perfected his Foxtrot and learnt to dance the Charleston.

While he was still a student at Cambridge, Tunku Abdul Rahman applied to the Inner Temple for permission to study law as an external student, with a view to becoming a barrister after graduating. He told the authorities at Cambridge that he had done so and, when he wished to attend a social engagement in London during term time, he applied for an exeat (a pass to be absent from Cambridge for the night), giving as his reason that he had to ‘eat his dinners’ at the Inner Temple. In reality, he often ate elsewhere in the company of friends, not lawyers.

Tunku sat for examinations in Roman, Criminal and Constitutional Law, Contract and Tort at the end of his second year in ")#& and obtained a Pass in all subjects. In May ")#' he sat for the History examinations. On the morning scheduled for his ,nal paper he sat in his lodgings, concentrating on last-minute revision, believing that this paper was to be taken the following day. A friend cycling by saw both the familiar sports car and a bicycle outside and hurried in to tell Tunku of his mistake. Tunku rode his bicycle at top speed to the examination hall but he was too late and was refused admission. When the results were published, Tunku was informed that, although he had passed in the other papers, he must take the whole History examination again in six months’ time.

Tunku decided he would head down to London for those six months and applied to the Inns of Court for admission to the Inner Temple. In November, he drove to Cambridge to con,rm his entry and to obtain the History examination timetable. To his dismay he discovered that one paper in the History syllabus in the new academic year had been slightly altered. Candidates were required, as before, to describe the life of one of three world-famous people but the names of the individuals had been changed. The new names were Julius Caesar, Napoleon and the Prophet Muhammad. Tunku hurried to He+ers bookshop, bought a volume on the life of the Prophet and studied it in his London -at. However, when in due course he presented himself at the hall half an hour before the examination, he was once again refused admission because he had not informed the examiners in advance which of the individuals he wished to write about. He pleaded with the invigilators and was ,nally admitted. He satis,ed the examiners as a not-for-Honours candidate in the Degree Examination in Law and History, and was entitled to place the letters BA after his name.

Tunku then returned to Alor Star, ,ve years after he had left. However, he was asked to return to London to study for the Bar examination. Sadly he failed Part One after three years at the Inner Temple (though he passed four out of the ,ve papers) and then ,nally returned to Kedah. It is this period in Cambridge and London which earned Tunku his reputation as a ‘playboy’.

After EnglandIn ")$", Tunku Abdul Rahman was appointed a Cadet in the Kedah Civil Service and transferred to Kulim as Assistant District O.cer. Between

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")$" and ")$), Tunku held the position of District O.cer of Padang Terap, Langkawi, Sungai Petani and ,nally Kulim. He was Sungai Petani’s most popular District O.cer.

In ")$), after he had been transferred back to Kulim, Tunku decided to return to London to resit the Bar Examination. He passed Part One, but was soon called back to Malaya due to World War II to resume his duty as District O.cer of Kulim. During the Japanese occupation, Tunku was removed from his position of authority and the Siamese were put in charge.

After the war, Tunku applied for "% months’ study leave and travelled back to England to resume his law studies. When he had passed all his exams, he sailed back to Malaya in January ")&). He was instructed to report to the State Legal Advisor for duty as a deputy public prosecutor. His work was routine and he spent his days reading case ,les.

Tunku accepted the chairmanship of the Kedah branch of UMNO (United Malays National

Organisation), the political party formed by Dato’ Onn Bin Jaafar. When Onn stepped down as UMNO president in August ")'", Tunku was one of the nominees for the post and won the vote against two other candidates. He then left his legal career to pursue politics.

As president of UMNO, Tunku spearheaded the alliance between UMNO and the Malayan Chinese Association (MCA) in ")'", followed by an alliance between UMNO and the Malayan Indian Congress (MIC) in ")''. His Alliance Party won a sweeping majority in the election of ")'' and my granduncle became Chief Minister of Malaya.

In January ")'(, Tunku led a mission to London to negotiate for independence, in the end securing immediate self-government for Malaya and the promise of independence by August ")'*. That promise was kept, and Tunku became independent Malaya’s ,rst prime minister. At midnight on $! August ")'*, he stood at the -agpole in Stadium Merdeka, Kuala Lumpur, when the Union Jack was lowered for the last time and the new Federation -ag was raised. Tunku read aloud the Proclamation of Independence. My granduncle raised his right arm and, in the heat of the moment, proclaimed ‘Merdeka’ (Freedom) seven times instead of the intended three.

The formation of Malaysia was one of Tunku Abdul Rahman’s greatest achievements. In ")(" he made a speech at the Foreign Correspondents Association of Southeast Asia in Singapore, proposing a federation of Malaya, Singapore, Sabah, Sarawak, and Brunei. On "( September ")($, with the federation of all these states except Brunei, Tunku Abdul Rahman was formally restyled Prime Minister of Malaysia. However, Singapore’s Lee Kuan Yew (head of the People’s Action Party) clashed with Tunku, and on ) August ")(' Singapore became independent from Malaysia upon expulsion from the Federation.

Tunku Abdul Rahman passed away on ( December "))! at the age of %*. In his lifetime he received at least ten honorary degrees from various universities, including an honorary Doctorate of Law from Cambridge in ")(! when he was also made an Honorary Fellow of St Catharine’s, and an honorary doctorate from Oxford in ")*!.

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Lee Kuan Yew, the ,rst Prime Minister of Singapore, is mentioned towards the end of the above article. Alex Ling Lee Soon ('$-)) knew Lee Kuan Yew through his father Tan Sri Ling Beng Siew during the formation of Malaysia; later they became close friends during their student days at Cambridge. When Lee Kuan Yew died in March #!"', Alex paid tribute by composing an unique eulogy in #( stanzas touching on Lee’s role in the formation of Malaysia and later in the transformation of the island republic from a small regional trading hub with no natural resources into one of the world’s foremost international ,nancial and commercial centres. Alex says ‘The importance of history lies not only in what happened, but in what people thought and said about it.’ He penned the eulogy with that in mind and, though rather too long to reproduce here, it was published in full in the Borneo Post in April #!"' – see www.theborneopost.com/#!"'/!&/"#/farewell-to-a-giant-statesman/

POSTSCRIPT FROM ALEX LING LEE SOON (1965)

Keith Beavan (#%$*), BA Hons (Cantab) at long long last, writes:At the June #!"' pre-graduation dinner the Master, Professor Dame Jean Thomas, remarked that the US term ‘Commencement’ was more appropriate than Cambridge’s ‘Congregation’ for the BA conferment. Very true for the #!-or-so-year-olds dining and about to begin their careers. Not quite so for me, a mere ') years late in receiving the degree.

The delay from the ")'( Geographical Tripos Part II examinations to actual conferment of the honours degree resulted from the rather picky requirement that all bills be paid o+ before the ceremony. And my debt to the enabling buttery credit system for tobacco and alcohol bordered on the astronomical.

My friend Trevor Tyson (")'$) – now Senior Emeritus Lecturer in Geography at Melbourne University, Australia, – was in the same dire ,nancial straits through the same indulgences, so we went to work as wharfees on London’s Isle of Dogs, where the father of another friend, Colin Fitch (")'$), owned a river site. That in itself endangered our post-undergraduate life at inception, since our ,rst-night visit to a local docker pub was met with very antagonistic suspicion. Called to account for our unwanted presence, we tremblingly informed our hostile interrogators that we were destitute Cantabridgeans. Fortune was fair since the pub’s clientele were avid supporters of our alma mater in the Boat Race. If luck had cast us into the company of supporters of the other place’s crew, this tale would probably be over right here.

Three months later we had earned su.cient to cover all our debts, me with some 0"' over, just about the amount required to pay for the actual conferment ceremony. However, I had already been hired by the Economist. The dilemma: formally acquire the degree, which was now not a requirement for my ,rst job, or indulge in a very large party to celebrate emancipation. Obviously no real choice was involved.

About six years later I became nostalgic. I had left the Economist, been BBC correspondent in the West Indies, worked for Reuters in New York and joined the United Nations (originally for three months which somehow expanded to $! years) where by then I had become a Spokesman for the Secretary-General. In all resumés I had, without the slightest feelings of guilt, claimed acquirement of a Cambridge BA. I believe that any prospective employer would have been informed that ‘Mr Beavan is of a standing to take his BA degree’, undoubtedly read in the US as a quaint Britishism for my actually having the putative academic quali,cations. Anyway, nobody ever queried me on it.

So, early in the ")(!s, I informed the College that I would that year be coming to get the degree. ‘Not so fast,’ the conferers replied. ‘Technically you are still on the books as an undergraduate and are liable

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to a per caput tax for each of "% (or so) terms from ")'( since you have (somewhat wildly theoretically) remained on the College books.’ In less-than-a3uent circumstances I decided I could continue to live on in the status ‘being of a standing...’

Three years ago, having ripened to a benevolent %!, the nostalgia took hold again, so I made renewed contact, suggesting that, out of respect for my thinning, silver locks, there might be a waiver of the approximately &'! per caputs now in the ledgers or alternatively conferment of an honorary degree. The alternative was sni+ed at, but the Master (as could be expected from a fellow Cymric descendent) was apparently amused and the date for a degree freebie was agreed upon, allowing me to receive it in company with the current graduating class.

But this was not to be without further drama. The ,rst date had to be cancelled because of a hip replacement; the second because of a senior moment when I woke up to a worrisome cousin’s telephone call asking where on earth my wife and I were. ‘Preparing to leave on the evening plane,’ I replied. ‘The evening plane left on yesterday’s eve,’ he snorted. Oh well.

Eventually I arrived with wife Beth, aged, but still a graduand. First impression – what are all these females doing here? Not only a female Master but seemingly as many other females as males graduating. In my day females were a kind of reverse contraband. You could get them inside the walls, but smuggling them out demanded our ingenuity and sometimes alpine skills on the part of of the women. It seems a bit ironic that the only single-gender colleges today are a couple of female exclusives. The other colleges surely gain by now being co-ed.

Dom, the Head Porter, who kindly took me under his wing, informed me of other changes, notably that climbing in after curfew was a thing of the past, with most residents now having keys. In my day, passes were required after "!pm. Not that we ever got one. Climbing back in was a more satisfying option, after avoiding the preying Proctor and his two college-servant ‘bulldogs’, chosen as the fastest movers for the chase and capture of ‘the gentlemen’ illegally out of college at night. My Director of Studies, the geographer AAL Caesar, was Dean in my last year and he wagered me a bottle of sherry he would catch me on the night of the Jazz Club Ball, which he knew I would attend without a pass. The aforementioned Trevor Tyson and another friend, Sri Lankan Hiran Dias (")'$) – Professor Emeritus of Geography, Bangkok University – worked out a stratagem. Trevor would, at a synchronized time, go to the back gate (the most popular climb-in site) and create a racket to lure the lurking Gus (Caesar) there. At the same time Hiran, who had a second-storey room overlooking Trumpington Street, tossed down knotted sheets so I could clamber in. Mission accomplished and one bottle of sherry less on the buttery account.

Gus was a fabulous teacher, focused solely on educating his current -ock while ignoring the ‘Publish or Perish’ dictum. He wrote no books but was so renowned as a teacher that he rated a two-column obituary in the Times.

I was a bad example as far as lectures were concerned; too many other social, acting (Cats Kittens) and athletic (mainly rugby) activities, plus bridge games late into the dawn (I avoid bridge these days by a well-rehearsed overbidding technique which drives away the most insistent demands to make up a four). I shocked my pre-graduation dinner companions by confessing to going to only eight lectures in three years – six in my ,rst year and one each in the two others. The six were before I realized that going to lectures was not compulsory, the last because Gus had somewhat testily said it would be nice if I attended at least one of his lectures, so I reluctantly went to just one. I’m not sure why I went to one in the second year. Must have got lost.

But… I never missed a supervision; the unique, and obviously expensive, but so e+ective, method of education in these parts. Gus taught me to think. And I had wonderful friends (all taking ,rst-class degrees) who took exhaustive notes and shared these without cost.

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emailed ‘Thank God. You are no longer a family embarrassment’ while my son, PhD, sent ‘Don’t care about the degree; can you remember what time your -ight back is?’ My wife, double MA, has said little but maintains a very obviously superior demeanour while I expound on my experience to friends, including the late awareness that I was wearing odd socks at the ceremony. (If that is broadcast our poor Praelector will be ,ned a couple of bottles of port for dereliction in bringing along an improperly dressed graduand. Since I was also so concerned about being able to get up from my knees on the cushion before the acting Vice-Chancellor that I forgot the obligatory bow, he probably already owes a tun.)

To conclude: Many, many thanks to my young fellow graduands, the Master, the Praelector and other dons, and Dom, for making me so welcome and giving this geriatric and his wife such a wonderful few days. So many of the new graduates, apparently believing that I was a contemporary of Robert Woodlark, insisted on introducing me to their parents at the garden party, though I have a suspicion that they were saying ‘Mom, Dad, you thought I was bad... take a look at this one.’

And especially to Elaine Hurrell who patiently arranged everything (twice, with the missed plane).I am now ,red up to coming back for the MA. The Master and I had hoped it would be during her

tenure since she thought the time elapsing for the taking of it rested with the matriculation date not that of graduation and therefore the two-year requirement passage would even now already have been met. Unfortunately, while that is the time frame, starting at matriculation, it is also decreed that at least two years must also have elapsed since the BA was conferred. When I emailed Elaine that I hoped I would live two years longer to meet that requirement she succinctly replied ‘That would be very helpful.’

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Lizzy Ennion-Smith (the College Archivist) writes:To follow on from last year’s article about the use of St Chad’s as a Red Cross Hospital during the Great War, this year I have been looking into the activities of the students who remained at St Catharine’s for part of the period. Many students volunteered for the army at the start of the War, and conscription was introduced in January ")"(, but there were still students wanting to come up. Either they were not quite "%, and thought it sensible to matriculate and study until being called up (and it was possible to join the ‘B’ Company of the Cambridge University O.cer Training Corps if you were under "% or over the conscription age), or they were overseas students, often from Asia. &# students matriculated in the year ")"$–"&. War was declared in early August ")"&, so many students who might have been expected to arrive at College in October never came. #( students matriculated in ")"&–"', and the same number again in ")"'–"(. But in ")"(–"*, numbers dropped to "#. They began to rise again in ")"*–"%, to "%, and then $# in ")"%–"), by which time the end of the War was in sight. In ")")–#! the number of matriculands rose dramatically, to "!".

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Matriculation photograph, featuring FM Rushmore in military uniform, October #%#).

Few Fellows were around to teach during the War; many of those who remained in Cambridge, such as FM Rushmore, were heavily involved in the Cambridge University O.cer Training Corps. Some Fellows took on more than one o.ce; Revd WT Southward was Tutor, Lecturer in Theology and in Music, and Chaplain.

With so few students, many College clubs and societies simply ceased their activities. A note in the Boat Club Minute Book for October ")"& reads: ‘This term started under the most unhappy circumstances owing to the war. Freshmen were not quite so numerous and the members of other years were considerably in the minority when their numbers are combined with last year.’ The minutes begin again in February ")"), when it is noted that an e+ort was being made by FM Rushmore to restart rowing, with a boat sent to the March ")") CUBC races. College games were much reduced too, but Professor Steers, the noted Geographer who came up in ")"(, recalled that some rugby was played on the University Field on Grange Road. The College swimming pool, a small tank ten by ,ve or six yards, on the site of today’s John’s Building in Sherlock Court, was not, as far as memories serve, used during the War.

The College Music Society lasted into ")"', but its May Week Concert of ")"' was a subdued event. The minutes record that owing to the War it was a sombre a+air, unlike the previous year when ‘Quartettes [were] sung under the archway during the interval’ and, owing to the ,ne decorations and quantity of refreshments, the interval lasted over an hour. In ")"' the ‘evening was divested of all festivity which would be out of place at such a time’. The concert ,nished with Last Post – a poem by WE Henley about the Boer War, set to music by Charles Stanford in ")!!. The Music Society would not meet again until $ February ")"), when a concert in the Chapel was discussed.

One Society that did -ourish throughout the War was the Debating Society. The ,rst debate of Michaelmas Term ")"& proposed the motion: This house is of the opinion that Europe will emerge from the present war physically, morally and in every way improved. It was carried "* to "", with $ abstentions. Later in the term the following proposition was o+ered: Though earnestly desiring the speedy defeat and adequate punishment of the German nation, this House would deplore any attempt to reduce Germany to a position of comparative insigni+cance among the powers of Europe and the world in general. This was

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A view of the College just before war broke out.

carried "$ to ). Perhaps the cosmopolitan atmosphere of Cambridge before the War, with students from all over the world in attendance, meant anti-German feelings were moderated, certainly in the early stages of a War that was initially expected to last only a few months. For part of the War, the Debating Society was presided over by two of the overseas students: Ibrahim Rashad, an Egyptian who came up in ")"* to study Agriculture and later Economics; and JA Brito from Colombo, Sri Lanka, who studied History. To ensure a good audience the Society usually joined with one or two other colleges, and Fellows were invited. On several occasions there were ladies present, provided chaperones could be found. The ,rst such documented occurrence was on "& November ")"*, when Mrs Southward expressed the thanks of the ladies for being invited. On & December, the meeting was held in the dining hall for the ,rst time, debating the motion: The barrier existing between the female and male members of the university should be removed. Five ladies delivered speeches during the debate, two from Girton and three from Newnham. The motion was carried by $" to (, and during the closing remarks and vote of thanks it was hoped that further debates including women would occur. It is somewhat ironic that just four years later, when a vote was taken in the University on whether to award degrees to female students, it was defeated. Debates ran throughout the War, with many motions having a ‘war’ theme.

Little is known of what happened to other societies during the War. May Balls began again in ")#!, and the Midnight Howlers (a revue society known for College-inspired humorous songs) was formed in ")#". The Shirley Society ,rst met in this year too, and the John Ray Society formed shortly afterwards. Most of the sporting clubs, and the Boat Club, restarted in ")") or ")#!, when numbers began to rise as old students returned and new students arrived again in signi,cant numbers.

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SECOND WORLD WAR POETS AT ST CATHARINE’SMichael Copp (!""") writes:When I was compiling my anthology, Cambridge Poets of the Great War (Associated University Presses, #!!") I was disappointed at not being able to ,nd anyone from St Catharine’s who had written war poems. However, with #!"' marking the *!th anniversary since the end of the Second World War, I have managed, with more success this time, to identify seven men who wrote war poems about this later con-ict. The poems that the St Catharine’s men wrote vary markedly in quality. All the poets listed below published at least one volume of poetry, and among them Davie, Dickinson and Bayliss stand out as the most accomplished. These last two also appear in various anthologies of Second World War poets. The poems that Horace Wyatt included in his book, Jersey in Jail #%'"–'$, cannot be claimed to be great poetry, but they do re-ect the historical circumstances of Wyatt’s war experience. The book as a whole is a noteworthy and valuable document of the severe hardships that the Jersiais had to endure under the ,ve years of repressive occupation by the Germans. The really worthwhile parts of the book are the nine ‘Unposted Letters’ that Wyatt wrote charting the miseries that he and the rest of the population had to endure, supplemented by the accompanying drawings by another trapped inhabitant of Jersey, the distinguished artist and book illustrator, Edmund Blampied.

Donald Davie ('$&&–$)) Educated at Barnsley Holgate Grammar School. Came up to St Catharine’s in ")&! to read English. Sub-Lieutenant, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, ")&"–&(. Poet, critic and anthologist, he held senior university appointments in Dublin, California, Cambridge, Cincinnati and Essex. Professor of Humanities, Vanderbilt University, Tennessee, ")*%–%%.

MidnightMay &th #%'$Thunder gathers all the sky,Tomorrow night a war will end,Men their natural deaths may dieAnd Cain shall be his brother’s friend.

From the lethal clouds of leadThickening hatred shall descendIn fruitful rain upon the head:Tomorrow night a war will end.

Thunder, mock not Abel’s cry:Let this symbolic storm expendThe sum of man’s malignity!– And Cain shall be his brother’s friend.

There are no words to be said:Let the future recommendThe living to the luckless dead.Tomorrow night a war will end.

Patric Dickinson

Reported MissingWith broken wing they limped across the skycaught in late sunlight, with their gunner dead,one engine gone, – the type was out of date, – blood on the fuselage turning brown from red:

knew it was ,nished, looking at the seawhich shone back patterns in kaleidoscopeknew that their shadow would meet them by the way,close and catch at them, drown their single hope:

sat in this tattered scarecrow of the skyhearing it cough, the great plane catchingnow the ,rst dark clouds upon her wing-base, – patching the great tear in evening mockery.

So two men waited, saw the third dead face,And wondered when the wind would let them die.

John Bayliss

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Horace Wyatt ('+,-–'$)() Educated at Malvern College. Came up to St Catharine’s in "%)' to read Mathematics. Head of Engineering at Sea,eld Park College ")!"–")!'. Spent the whole of the Second World War in German-occupied Jersey.

Thomas Rice Henn ('$%'–,() Educated at Aldenham School, Hertfordshire. Came up to St Catharine’s in ")") to read Modern and Medieval Languages. Worked for Burmah Oil Co., ")#$–#'. Fellow of St Catharine’s, ")#(–(). Joined the Welch Regiment, commissioned in ")&!, a Brigadier on the General Sta+ in ")&'. Served in France and Italy.

Jon Manchip White ('$&(–&%'*) Came up to St Catharine’s in ")&$ to read English. Served in the Royal Navy and the Welsh Guards. Member of the Foreign Service ")'#–'(. In ")(* appointed Associate Professor in English Literature at Texas University, El Paso. Poet, novelist and writer on Ancient Egypt.

Edward Loring Black ('$')–&%%)) Educated at Bishop Vesey’s Grammar School. Came up to St Catharine’s in ")$$ to read English and History. A schoolmaster before joining the Royal Air Force. Served in India as a Flight Lieutenant. Writer on English Language and Literature.

Patric Dickinson ('$'(–$() Born Nasirabad, India. Came up to St Catharine’s in ")$$ to read Classics and English. Golf blue. Served in Artists’ Ri-es, ")$)–&!, invalided out after a severe accident. Worked for the BBC as producer and poetry editor, ")&#–&%. Critic, dramatist, poet, translator and broadcaster. Professor of Rhetoric, City University of London, ")(&–(*. Cholmondeley Award for Poetry, ")*$.

John Bayliss ('$'$–&%%+) Educated at Latymer Upper School. Literary editor of Granta. Came up to St Catharine’s in ")$* to read English. Flight Lieutenant, Royal Air Force, serving in India. Assistant Principal, Colonial O.ce, ")&(–&). Editor for publishers Macmillan & Co., ")&)–'#. With Northern Rhodesia & Nyasaland Publications Bureau in Lusaka, ")'#–').

THE RIGHT TO REMAIN SILENT: DEVON QUARTER SESSIONS Marianne Brooker (2011) writes:The Devon Quarter Sessions records form a complete and unbroken series which dates from "')# until the courts were abolished in ")*", and is the only uninterrupted series of such records in the country. A grant enabled a cataloguing scheme to be developed to provide a detailed listing of the boxed Sessions records dating from "*$& to "*&*. For two days a week over the three-month long vacation between ,nishing my undergraduate degree in English in #!"& and beginning an MPhil in Eighteenth Century Studies, I assisted Dr John Booker, a volunteer palaeographer and archivist who has taken over the cataloguing of later documents since the close of the year-long funded project.

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well as an understanding of how to handle, store and read eighteenth-century manuscripts and o.cial documents. I also received some informal teaching in seventeenth century secretary hand.

Having just graduated with a degree in English, suddenly not being able to read induced a very particular kind of shock. It took a long fortnight of scanning the twists and -icks of handwriting with my ,ngers along coiling parchment before these documents meant anything to me at all. The making or breaking of meaning lay in the ‘accidentals’ of any given hand or manipulation of a stock turn of phrase; I had a sudden sympathy for those academics who had just made their way through my hurried exam scripts.

I was responsible for working through documents from "*'"–$, the majority of which were recognisances (bonds to ensure the appearances of defendants, prosecutors and witnesses at court) and presentments (a JP statement against the defendant outlining the case to the court) which followed – by and large – a predictable form.

A great many cases related to accusations of assault (often battery until ‘Life was disposed of’), prostitution (of women of ‘ill Name, Fame and Conversation’) and theft (of cattle, chattels and any number of pesky, obsolete nouns). But there were also cases of those who spoke ‘profane oaths’ ‘wickedly, maliciously, and seditiously’, frequent calls upon men to assist in the maintenance of ‘bastard’ children, and many accusations of the ‘slocking’ or enticement of an apprentice out of another man’s service. I read about women ‘drinking, tippling, whoring and misbehaving’ who escaped conviction when tried by local men. Once I was the ,rst person to break open a #'!-year-old letter. And I read about vagabonds and pirates.

‘Wrappers’ would detail the whole range of court bureaucracy, while ‘notices’ and ‘examinations’ would provide real insight into judicial process: excuses from those who couldn’t partake in jury duty (often because of gout), detailed coroners’ reports, and convoluted defences. I could follow single cases from their inception in a JP’s parlour to the verdict sheet, which often sent thieves to the colonies or exacted large ,nes. And as the months rolled round the quarters (Epiphany, Easter, Midsummer, Michaelmas) crime-prone names and parishes would pop up again and again. As I struggled to make out faded, shaken words, I noticed print just begin to move in and Latinate phrases and syntax just begin to move out. These texts, in their material fragility and long-neglected, strung-together bundles, gave a sense of mid-eighteenth-century life as it was lived by real people in a way I had not encountered before.

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scanning for key details with haste and without trouble, and picking up on textual nuances and deviations from the pro forma where they occurred. I remained fascinated by illiterate signatures, odd turns of phrase and cracked red wax seals wherever they popped up. I had planned to spend a short time archiving and quickly move on to an independent research project, probably gathering data about female violent crime. But as the summer moved on and the long commute became hotter and busier, I found myself wanting to carry on reading, to follow cases through to their completion and to cross the ,nish line into distant "*'& (unfortunately, I didn’t quite manage the latter). I was intrigued by archival habits and precedents, and with how these fragments found their way onto a searchable, open-access online catalogue. The project o+ered me a unique insight into local history, while the centre o+ered practical support as I set up an exhibition of rare books at a local estate. More than that, it was a timely reminder that when reading is hardest and most eye-straining the narrative is often of the most importance.

American Football is the fastest-growing sport in the UK, and the university football scene is expanding rapidly. The Cambridge University Pythons (CUPAFC) is a relatively new club, having existed in its present form only since #!"". However it has a strong winning ethos and competes against – and regularly beats – teams from universities with a much larger football programme.

This season, the team was ~(!/ rookies, and the team’s fortunes were uncertain. But a large Catz contingent bolstered the ranks: PhD student Richard Alloway, #nd-year James Digby and fresher Daniil Mirosh all joined, encouraged on by Catz Bar Manager and special team coach Craig Driver!

The year saw wins against the Kent Falcons, ARU Rhinos, Canterbury Chargers, UEA Pirates, Essex Blades and (woohooo!) the Oxford Lancers. Some of the matches were tough, gritty games played out in freezing downpours; some were relatively easy (the Canterbury match especially was a highlight, with the game being called o+ at half time with the score '%–!!). With only one loss to our name (against a tough Oxford Brooks Panthers side) and the best defensive record in our division, we won the East Conference Championship, and progressed into the ‘Southern Bowl’ where the ,nely-honed Surrey Stingers put an end to our winning streak (by ‘,nely-honed’, I mean ‘massive’).

The ‘Varsity Bowl’ match against Oxford was de,nitely one of the highlights. It was held under the -oodlights at Grange Road, in front of hundreds of supporters. The Cambridge Cougars (the university cheerleading team) took part, whipping up the support of the crowd – sort of – and the match was reported live over CamFM and streamed on YouTube. The atmosphere was electric, and the game was played hard and fast. Oxford are traditionally the weaker team, but refused to give any ground without a ,ght. Rich Alloway tucked his -owing locks into his helmet and smashed away their linemen, James Digby danced through their defence for a (#-yard touchdown, and Daniil Mirosh threw his Russian bulk at their running o+ence. The game was won "(–!, and the team celebrated through their bruises in true Pythons style.

American football is an exciting sport to play in Cambridge; donning the full pads and helmet feels absolutely awesome, and the team spirit is immense (both on the ,eld and in Fez). We’re a successful team, losing only two matches this year and winning our conference, and there’s every reason for this success to continue next season. It is also unique among high-contact sports in that both men and women can play: it is not ‘mixed’ as such, it just refuses to discriminate based on gender, and the girls who play for us train just as hard, run just as far and take just as many hits as the guys.

Plus, after a hard-fought match, Craig might just slip you a free drink in the bar…+gopythons! – James Digby and Richard Alloway

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When you tell someone that you do cheerleading, often the ,rst thing they ask is ‘So do you have pom poms?’ or ‘Do you cheer at sports games?’ but these stereotypes are a far cry from competitive cheerleading, which involves performing an individually choreographed routine against other teams of a similar level of skill. Each routine is two and a half minutes long and, in any order, comprises stunting (where a base group of one to four people lift or throw another person, the -yer, into the air), a pyramid section (where the stunt groups join together), tumbling (gymnastics skills), jumps (such as pike and straddle), and a dance section, all scored separately by a panel of judges. Routines range from level one to six depending on the di.culty of the stunts and tumbling, and all-girl and co-ed teams (men can make up over half of the people in the top teams!) compete separately. One can also compete in partner and group stunts (shorter routines of stunting only) or in dance routines in various styles.

In the UK, cheerleading is growing in popularity at a rapid pace: there are now ,ve companies organising several weekend long competitions a year, almost all universities have a cheerleading team, it is taught now at many schools, and there are a host of all-star teams (not based at school or university), some competing at levels equivalent to the best of the USA (and competing there internationally). Plus, Team England managed an impressive (th place at the international competition this year.

The University of Cambridge Cheerleading team, ‘The Cambridge Cougars’, was founded in #!!), since when it gone from strength to strength, with over '! people coming to try-outs for the past season for a #'–$! person team. Over the years we have had various group stunts and dance teams compete alongside the main team, and have supported the American football, cricket and rugby teams at respective varsities with some side-of-the-pitch stunting. As is to be expected of a university club there is an active social side to the team, with regular dinners, ,lm nights and swaps with other sports teams.

The University cheerleading year starts at the Freshers’ Fair, where we eagerly recruit new members (by contrast with many university sports, you don’t have to have any previous experience) after which we hold a couple of taster sessions then try-outs. Everything has to move quite fast: with only eight-week terms and roughly '! counts of eight to choreograph and learn (no two people will do the same thing throughout the course of a routine), there is a lot to cover before the ,rst competition! We have two to three training sessions a week, all compulsory – if one person from a stunt group is missing, no one in that group can practise. We normally spend over an hour stunting and learning the stunt section, and spend the rest of the time practising jumps, learning dance and perfecting gymnastics moves. We compete twice a year, in the spring, but sadly after this we are limited to a few fun sessions (including the popular ‘bring a boy’ sessions) before the stress of exams takes over. We have achieved great success in competitions over the years, with regular top three placings and currently an unbeaten Varsity record against Oxford since our ,rst meeting three years ago, something not a lot of teams in Cambridge can boast.

I myself have been a member of the Cougars for ,ve years and have been president twice, in my second year and the end half of the past year. It’s safe to say that I love the sport, and my time at Cambridge would have been very di+erent without it. I could promote cheerleading endlessly. It is excellent exercise, working many muscle groups and improving -exibility and cardiovascular ,tness. It encourages teamwork, dedication, trust, and a real sense of purpose, as everyone in the team is vitally important – if someone is not there, someone else will be a+ected (especially if the one who’s missing needs to catch someone!). I’m sure it’s partly due to this that I have some brilliant friends from cheerleading, who I will cherish dearly for the rest of my life. Those two and a half minutes on the competition -oor are some of the best of the year for me: a true physical and mental workout, exhilarating and fun, and a major reason that I and many others on the team come back year after year.

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A TOKEN OF CONCRETE AFFECTIONFellow Geo-rey Kantaris, Director of the Centre of Latin American Studies, writes:There is an intriguing passage in a book on concrete and kinetic poetry published in ")(%, which reads as follows: ‘There are now so many kinds of experimental poetry being labeled “concrete” that it is di.cult to say what the word means. In an article in The Lugano Review (")((), the English critic Mike Weaver, who organized The First International Exhibition of Concrete and Kinetic Poetry in Cambridge in ")(&, distinguishes three types of concrete poetry: visual (or optic), phonetic (or sound) and kinetic (moving in a visual succession)’ (Concrete Poetry: A World View, Indiana University Press). The ‘First International Exhibition of Concrete and Kinetic Poetry’ mentioned here turns out to have taken place in our very own Rushmore Room, from #% November to ' December ")(&, organized by Stephen Bann, Reg Gadney (")(#), Philip Steadman and Mike Weaver. The St Catharine’s Society Magazine from ")(& has this brief mention in the archives of the Shirley Society: ‘Reg Gadney gave an introductory explanation of Kinetics, in the glowing presence of one of his “Light Mobiles”’.

While little documentation remains, we do know that over ninety works were shown at the week-long exhibition, and that these were poems (often in the form of mobiles, pop-ups, and other poetic/kinetic sculptures) sent from all over the world, but with a predominance of Brazilian works authored by some now-famous names such as Augusto de Campos, Haroldo de Campos, Pedro Xisto and members of the Noigandres group. Brazil was, prior to the dictatorship in March ")(&, experiencing an explosion of artistic innovation that accompanied the new spirit of social and industrial modernization. It is no coincidence that the ,rst concrete poetry manifesto was entitled The Pilot Plan for Concrete Poetry, and that ‘Plano Piloto’ was the name of the scheme to build a completely new capital city, Brasilia.

Half a century after this pioneering exhibition, the Centre of Latin American Studies (CLAS) put on a commemorative retrospective of Concrete Poetry, curated by Brona6 Ferran working closely with Stephen Bann, and displaying rarely seen material from Bann’s personal collection. The opening '!th-anniversary event took place on #% November #!"& in CLAS, at which Professor Stephen Bann gave a fascinating talk recounting the background to the original exhibition, prefaced by some words from Phil Steadman. A follow-up Symposium, Concrete Poetry – International Exchanges, was held on "& February #!"', accompanying an exhibition at Kettle’s Yard on the poetry and art of Ian Hamilton Finlay (the well-known Scottish concrete poet) curated by Stephen Bann.

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One typewritten manifesto-poem in the commemorative exhibition describes the contemporary ‘Epoch’ in the following terms, and can give a sense of the vivid avant-garde spirit of the time: ‘Everyday images becoming acronyms: | poetry to be seen without words (semiotics). | painting which is only structure (serial geometri,cation) | pictures becoming blueprints | noise (industrial) elevated to the category of music | the electronic computer as a musical investigation’ (crudely translated from the Portuguese, Grupo Poema Processo, ")(*). The concrete poets themselves, however, would be the ,rst to say that no art form is ever just the expression of social or economic developments, but constitutes a critical re-ection on them. The original meaning of poetry, poiesis in Greek, means ‘making’, an action that transforms and continues the world, and concrete poetry while being in touch with the contemporary industrial, mass media and computational paradigms, also takes poetry back to its roots by remaking the world, and causing us to rethink the relationship between words, images and objects.

PAINTING OF ST CATHARINE ‘DISCOVERED’ IN MACCLESFIELDResearch by Anna Rhodes, a student at the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures at the University of Manchester, has revealed that a picture in the West Park Museum in Maccles,eld represents St Catharine. Anna writes ‘When the painting came into the Museum’s collection in "%)% it was titled The Virgin Mary Releasing a Soul from Purgatory at the Intercession of King David. This had never been questioned and the panel was displayed throughout much of the last century with this interpretation. My research shows the painting to actually depict Saint Catherine and the burning philosophers and to originate from the Nuremberg region of Germany.’ Those familiar with the story of our St Catharine will recall that the Emperor Maxentius had the philosophers who failed to refute Catharine’s arguments burned. Anna continues ‘It became apparent that the panel was very unusual and deserved to be conserved and put back on display.’ The "'th century panel is the Museum’s oldest painting.

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