Churchill Review 2018 by Churchill College

CHURCHILL

REVIEW Volume 55 | 2018

CHURCHILL

REVIEW Volume 55 | 2018

‘ It’s certainly an unusual honour and a distinction that a college bearing my name should be added to the ancient and renowned foundations which together form the University of Cambridge.’ Sir Winston Churchill, 17 October, 1959

Credit: Churchill Archives Centre, The Papers of Clementine Spencer-Churchill, CSCT 5-3. Reproduced by kind permission of the Master and Fellows of Churchill College

CONTENTS EDITORIAL.................................................................................................................................................................................................. 7 FROM THE MASTER................................................................................................................................................................... 11 THE COLLEGE YEAR................................................................................................................................................................ 17 Our Highest Proportion of Firsts Ever Senior Tutor’s Report......................................................................................................................................................................... 19 A Vibrant Graduate Community Tutor for Advanced Students’ Report............................................................................................................................. 23 A Stronger Financial Year Bursar’s Report........................................................................................................................................................................................ 26 Such a Nice Place to Work Domestic Bursar’s Report........................................................................................................................................................... 29 Behind the Scenes at the Archives Centre The Director of the Archives Centre’s Report...................................................................................................... 31 A Momentous Year for Møller The CEO of the Møller’s Report......................................................................................................................................... 33 A Busy and Fruitful Year Development Director’s Report............................................................................................................................................ 36 Donations................................................................................................................................................................................................... 43 SPOTLIGHT ON…WOMEN STUDENTS AT CHURCHILL COLLEGE............ 61 Working Harder to Uncover Female Talent Recruiting More Female Students..................................................................................................................................... 63 Still a Long Way to Go! Margaret Bray.......................................................................................................................................................................................... 67 Fortunate to Have Studied in Cambridge Beth McKillop............................................................................................................................................................................................ 72 Breaking New Grounds thanks to Churchill Dr Lindsey Stevens.............................................................................................................................................................................. 75

Engineering my Own Destiny Nikita Hari................................................................................................................................................................................................... 79 COLLEGE EVENTS....................................................................................................................................................................... 83 In chronological order Bringing Together Academia and Business 25th Anniversary of the MĂ¸ller Centre.......................................................................................................................... 85 Jaw Dropping Material Travellers in the Third Reich...................................................................................................................................................... 89 Splendidly Outrageous Bill Barnett at 90.................................................................................................................................................................................. 92 From Gordon Brown to Adrian Crisp A year of fortunate events.......................................................................................................................................................... 97 Shifting the Glass Ceiling The Master in Conversation with Bridget Kendall...................................................................................... 101 Enabling Students to Excel in Physics and STEM Isaac-Churchill Physics Widening Participation Boot Camps........................................................... 105 Conveying Views with Fluency and Precision The Master in Conversation with Helen Czerski........................................................................................ 112 Sweeney Flies Again John Kinsellaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s The Wound...................................................................................................................................................... 115 Out of the Ordinary The Master in Conversation with Martha Lane Fox............................................................................... 116 A Far Better Antidote to Ageing Len Squire at 90................................................................................................................................................................................ 118 STUDENT LIFE............................................................................................................................................................................... 123 The Best Year yet for the JCR JCR Report................................................................................................................................................................................................ 125 Enriching Student Experience MCR Report............................................................................................................................................................................................ 127

A Great Year for Churchill Badminton! The Churchill Badminton Club.......................................................................................................................................... 130 A Small but Vibrant Community of People Churchill Basketball........................................................................................................................................................................ 132 Painting the River Pink The Boat Club at Churchill.................................................................................................................................................... 133 Going from Strength to Strength The Churchill Ladies’ Netball Team.............................................................................................................................. 135 Continued Support from Law Alumni The Churchill Law Society....................................................................................................................................................... 137 One of the Most Vibrant Colleges for Music in Cambridge The Churchill Music Society................................................................................................................................................. 138 Fortress Churchill The Churchill Rugby Team...................................................................................................................................................... 141 Not Really a Typical Day A Day in the Life of Jiaqing Low...................................................................................................................................... 143 Fantastic Being a PhD Student at Churchill! A Day in the Life of Matt Leming.................................................................................................................................. 147 FEATURES.............................................................................................................................................................................................. 151 Introducing Another Churchill and a Great Churchillian Elizabeth Churchill Snell........................................................................................................................................................... 153 ‘Hey, hey, LBJ, how many kids did you kill today?’ 1967 Infamous Incident at Churchill College.................................................................................................. 158 The Explorer Mindset A High Impact Leadership Development Programme........................................................................... 162 The Beginning of a New Tradition The 21 July 2018 French Fellows’ Annual Meeting................................................................................... 165 No One-Way Roads Address by Canon Rowan Williams.............................................................................................................................. 168 Utrumne est Ornatum Mark Gotham’s debut CD..................................................................................................................................................... 172

FRIENDSHIP AND FELLOWSHIP........................................................................................................................ 175 The Churchill College Association It’s Always Popular to Finish Meetings on Time Interview of Rosie Johnston – Outgoing Chair of the Association............................................. 177 It’s Your Association Interview of Andrew Stephenson, President Elect of the Association..................................... 180 Friendship and Fellowship Churchill College Association’s Chair’s report................................................................................................... 183 An Optimistic Forward Look A Brief History of the Churchill College Association (Anthony Bainbridge)................... 186 MEMBERS’ NEWS....................................................................................................................................................................... 189 WHO’S WHO AT CHURCHILL 2017–2018........................................................................................ 197 IN MEMORIAM.............................................................................................................................................................................. 225

EDITORIAL This year saw the highest proportion of Firsts ever at Churchill. This is no mean feat especially since – as the Master puts it – ‘Churchill (again) had the highest percentage of state school entrants from the UK of any of the colleges’. There is no doubt that this is due to the hard work and motivation of our students and to the hard work and support of the Tutors, Directors of Studies and Supervisors under Richard Partington’s leadership, together with the hard work and dedication of the Admissions Tutors and Widening Participation team. This year the Spotlight is on women students at Churchill, illustrated by the illuminating stories of three women who came to Churchill when the college went co-educational and the inspirational story of a current postgraduate who made the 2017 Telegraph’s Top 50 Women in Engineering list. The Senior Tutor gives us a vivid account of the College’s efforts in attracting more women students, in particular in STEM subjects. As ever the College Events showed the breadth of the college’s varied and diverse interests. These included the celebration of 25 years of the Møller Centre and a series of exciting events organised by the Archives Centre starting with the visit of Gordon Brown who came to Churchill to talk about his book, My Life, Our Times, followed by the seventeenth Stephen Roskill Memorial Lecture given by Professor Margaret MacMillan, who went on to give the 2018 Reith lecture. There was also the Churchill History Lecture Series that opened last October with Julia Boyd introducing her bestselling book Travellers in the Third Reich. Last November, Dr Gary Love spoke about the intellectual culture of Conservatism after 1945, while Dr Peter Brooke elected to speak on Duncan Sandys’s attitude towards British decolonisation. In February of this year Dr Helen Roche discussed Appropriations of Antiquity in Mussolini’s Italy and Hitler’s Germany. Our own Churchill Fellow Dr Adrian Crisp talked about the writing of his novel Colonel Belchamp’s Battlefield Tour. Doug Bateman gave us his views on the work of the Royal Aircraft Establishment at Farnborough in developing nuclear weapons and Admiral Dr Chris Parry gave an overview of War and Our World, Today and Tomorrow, highlighting trends, challenges, flashpoints and threats On her continuing excellent series In conversation with…the Master discussed with three exceptional women – EDITORIAL

all superb role models. We also learnt that our own Dr Lisa Jardine-Wright organised two very successful Isaac-Churchill Physics widening participation boot camps aimed at encouraging and enabling students to excel in Physics and STEM. And amongst all this, the college found time to celebrate Bill Barnett’s and Len Squire’s 90th birthdays. As can be expected, our students do not just excel in academic subjects but as Student Life amply demonstrates, they do us proud in many other fields: for example in sports the Churchill Badminton Team really made its mark by winning this year’s Cuppers; the Churchill Ladies’ Netball Team went from strength to strength to finish second in the league after Johns, but beat the same Johns team to win the Cuppers; the Churchill Rugby Team went from division 4 to division 2 – quite an achievement – and only lost in the Cuppers quarter finals. In music Churchill is one of the most vibrant colleges in Cambridge. The Features section introduces us to Elizabeth Churchill Snell, another Churchill and a great Churchillian; it reminds us of an infamous incident that took place on 14 November 1967 when the then US Ambassador David Bruce was shouted down by Cambridge students demonstrating against the Vietnam War; it instructs us on a new leadership course by the newly created Møller Institute The Explorer Mindset; it alerts us to the establishment of a new tradition in Churchill with the third French Fellows’ Annual Meeting that took place on 21st July; it tells us about Mark Gotham’s debut CD Utrumne est Ornatum; it carries Canon Rowan Williams’ address to mark the 50th Anniversary of the Chapel at Churchill College. A new section called Friendship and Fellowship is being introduced this year. It is devoted to the Churchill College Association. This edition carries interviews with the current Chair of the Association and the Chair Elect. It reports on what the Association did last year and enlightens us with a piece on the history of the Association. This is followed as usual by Members’ News – the many Churchillians’ achievements this past year – Who’s Who at Churchill, and finally the Review closes with ‘In Memoriam’ and tributes to some of our most prominent members.

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Again, I enjoyed reading this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pieces for the Review and I very much hope that you will too. It never ceases to surprise me how many wonderful events take place each year at Churchill. It is my pleasure and privilege to be able to give a voice to our many talented members and to share their knowledge and experiences with you all. I take this opportunity to give my thanks to the Development Office for their guidance with our alumni and especially to Elizabeth McWilliams with her help with proofreading; to the Vice-Master and Helen Johnson for their help with the meticulous Whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Who section; to Naomi Morris and Gavin Bateman for assisting Paula and me to source the best photos or providing photos on demand. And as usual my deepest and most grateful thanks to Paula Laycock for graciously taking responsibility for providing a wealth of photos which I believe brighten up the Review, and for at times turning photographer herself when no suitable photo can be sourced.

Anny King

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FROM THE MASTER

‘ Always aim high, work hard, and care deeply about what you believe in. And, when you stumble, keep faith. And, when you’re knocked down, get right back up and never listen to anyone who says you can’t or shouldn’t go on.’ Hilary Clinton

FROM THE MASTERâ&#x20AC;Ś I write this as we bask in the July heatwave, a wall of heat that would have seemed inconceivable in what seemed like the endless grey and wet days of earlier in the year. Our wonderful playing fields look scorched and bare, those playing fields that can be such a draw for prospective students. When I interviewed alumna and TV star Helen Czerski for one of my public Conversations in the College, it was clear for her just how much the playing fields had featured in her choice of College, as well as during her studies here. It is a view I often hear. I can reassure you Ultimate Frisbee survives as a Churchill activity. No league table The College continues to thrive. I will probably be the first Master who cannot tell you just how well our students have done.There is unlikely to be any sort of League Table of the colleges, at least in the familiar form of the Tompkins Table. Two factors have led to this state of affairs. Firstly, it is now very easy for students to choose for their names not to appear on the published class lists and around one quarter of the student body have opted to do this. And secondly, the new GDPR regulations, which any of you living in Europe will have heard more than enough about, mean that personal information cannot be passed on to a third party in the traditional way. So, as yet, we do not have the full statistics of how the entire student body has done, and certainly not in relation to other colleges. However, we do know that once again there have been some excellent individual performances and that, by and large, our students are fulfilling their potential. Highest percentage of state school entrants The local league table where we do have statistics relates to our admissions. The analysis of admissions for last October shows that Churchill (again) had the highest percentage of state school entrants from the UK of any of the colleges. Given that we manage to achieve this simultaneously with excellent exam results is a tremendous tribute to the work of the Tutorial, Admissions and Widening Participation teams under Richard Partington, as well as testament to the hard work and motivation of our students. Nevertheless, for some of our students, financial worries lurk in the background and one of

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our key objectives for fundraising must continue to be to secure more money towards bursaries. We know financial peace of mind is a crucial part of our students’ success. A couple of years ago we opened Cowan Court, the first new court for the College since the original buildings were opened, and which has enabled us to provide accommodation for all our undergraduates throughout their studies, whether they are pursuing three- or four-year courses. We are now turning our attention to our provision of graduate accommodation. To provide more rooms on site we are in the process of replacing an ugly ‘60s office building situated beyond the Wolfson Flats (36 Storey’s Way), whose tenants had moved out at the end of their lease, with three new houses for graduates. Meeting US alumni This spring I had the pleasure of meeting alumni on both the east and west coast of the USA (I anticipate returning to the US within the next year). Starting off in New York, I gave a talk on Leadership and Science to University alumni from all colleges and then met some Churchill alumni over dinner. I also met up with the Director of the Churchill Foundation, an organisation which has – right from the outset of the College – funded extremely talented US students to study for a one year Masters’ course at Churchill.We hope these students also feel part of our alumni family and we are working closely with the Foundation on this front. From New York I flew to Seattle, where again I gave a similar talk and hosted a dinner. My final visit was to San Francisco where I met some of the Bay area alumni over lunch. Before Christmas I also went to Paris to meet some of the European alumni at a CUDAR event discussing ethical issues in science. It is always a pleasure to meet members of our far-flung community. I am struck by the enthusiasm all these alumni still feel for the College, even if their own time here was decades ago. Indeed, listening to them I sense just how strongly the same ethos operates now as in the past: inclusivity, a lack of formality and serious attention given to academic study. It is a potent mix. The internationality of Science The mention of Paris of course brings to mind the uncertainty the whole sector faces as the date for Brexit gets ever closer. The Government’s recent announcement regarding fees for EU students in the academic year 2019–20, so that they remain as ‘home’ students for the whole of their course, is most

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welcome providing one piece of clarity in what continues to be a fairly murky landscape (at least as I write). Sitting, as I have done for the last six years, on the Scientific Council of the European Research Council, I find it heartening and simultaneously depressing to detect just how strongly our European colleagues do not want to see the UK vanish from European science (and, in this sense, ‘science’ incorporates all the disciplines and not just what is meant by science in the UK). Science is an international endeavour and knows no boundaries. This is as true now as it was when the Royal Society was funded back in the mid-seventeenth century. Humphrey Davy was even awarded a medal by Napoleon at the height of the Napoleonic Wars because science, then, transcended politics and Napoleon wanted to honour the man for his scientific contributions. That is how it should be but, unfortunately, there is a real danger that the UK will find itself somewhat isolated in the future if the current issues are not resolved. Redoubling our efforts Brexit is not the only challenge facing the higher education sector presently, and Oxbridge in particular. The UK press and politicians seem to think we are ‘fair game’ for criticism in a way the sector is not used to. Some of their criticisms may have a grain of truth, but the idea that collectively we are suppressing free speech, for instance, is very far from the truth. Furthermore the idea that Oxbridge in particular is failing to act to attempt to broaden its admissions is simply not true. Every college puts significant effort into widening participation activities, although no doubt there is more that each of us can do.That Churchill sits at the top of the league table for admissions from state schools is not in itself sufficient to demonstrate we have ‘succeeded’. We need to reach out to those from disadvantaged backgrounds and ethnic minorities more effectively. The work to do this is of long standing and ongoing. I am proud of the work the College does on this front; we certainly aren’t complacent. I fear grandstanding by politicians can often undo some of the work we do by providing a powerful message that many minority students will be made to feel uncomfortable here, regardless of the truth as far as Churchill is concerned. Nevertheless, as with our work to attract more female students to apply across the board but particularly in the engineering and physical sciences, we need to redouble our efforts.

Athene Donald FROM THE MASTER

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‘ The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.’ Martin Luther King, Jr.

THE COLLEGE YEAR Our Highest Proportion of Firsts Ever Senior Tutor’s Report (2017–2018)

Richard Partington, Senior Tutor and a Churchill Fellow, reports on a particularly good year of undergraduate results with well over a third of Firsts. He also reports that two key members of the welfare staff are leaving (the College Counsellor and the Tutorial Officer) after many years of excellent service, that student welfare – in particular in the area of sexual misconduct and harassment – is being professionalised at both University and college levels. And finally, he shares with us the three things that gives him particular satisfaction in his job. I am pleased to report that the College’s No league table this undergraduates have again performed year admirably in examinations. Our proportion of Firsts (well over a third) was our highest ever, and, looking at results across the University as a whole, it is not obvious that the reason for this was grade inflation. Overall, our results were a notch down on last year, because this year there were more II.2s (12%) than has latterly been the case (over the last three years, 9–10% has been the norm). Comparisons with the wider University are difficult, because (as the Master has explained in her report) for legal and technical reasons there are unlikely to be Cambridge College academic league tables this year (either the Tompkins or Baxter Tables), for the first time in many years. Whether there will again be tables in the future is at present a moot point.That said, as Senior Tutor I have access to a range of anonymised data that will allow me to assess whether our individual subjects are performing at, above or below the University average (which is critical for management purposes); and I am confident that Churchill’s undergraduates’ results this year place us again within the top quartile of Cambridge College academic performance. Why more II.2s this year? The Tutors, Directors of Studies and I are investigating the matter, focusing closely on individual student outcomes as THE COLLEGE YEAR

well as patterns within and across subjects. We think we probably need to sharpen certain aspects of our focus in admissions decision-making, and the provision of additional mentor-type support to some students may also help. Nonetheless, this was a good year for results. As ever, I salute our students for working so hard and keeping their heads so well, and thank our Directors of Studies, Supervisors, Tutors and welfare team for the terrific support that they provide. People leaving, people coming On the subject of our welfare team, two longBoth will be serving, deeply trusted colleagues are retiring this missed summer.Veronica McDouall has been the Collegeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Counsellor for the last thirteen years, and has served our community with compassion, expertise and wisdom throughout that time. Karin Bane has completed nearly ten years in the Tutorial Office. Many recent graduates have been helped by Karin so many times.We will miss her efficiency, good humour, dedication, quizzical air, calmness and kindness. I will greatly miss both her and Veronica personally, but am delighted to welcome Louise Ranger as our new Tutorial Officer.Veronica leaves late in the summer, and by then I trust to have recruited an outstanding replacement. In the process of reassessing our need regarding counselling, I have been helped hugely by interested undergraduates, to whom I am very grateful. I also thank all 250-odd students who took time out from revision to complete a questionnaire on welfare that informed our thinking and planning. (Just occasionally, I am impressed by my own cynicism. I guessed that people would welcome a ten-minute distraction during preexams revision, and that therefore the response rate to the questionnaire would be unusually high. I was right!) Student welfare

A more This has been prominently in the news again professionalised this year, and equally prominently in our minds approach here in Cambridge. The Universityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Breaking the Silence initiative on tackling sexual misconduct and harassment was widely reported and praised. As Chair of the Senior Tutorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Welfare and Finance Committee (the University Committee that looks most closely at student welfare issues), I have been quite heavily involved in the development of the new structures for reporting and investigation that

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underpin the initiative. Interesting, if at times depressing, work.The University now has an Office for Student Conduct, Complaints and Appeals (OSCCA), and this has professionalised the receipt of reports and the pursuit of alleged perpetrators. A specialist appointment in the University Counselling Service has increased our capacity to provide expert help to survivors. It is greatly to be welcomed that the Universityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s processes in respect of sexual misconduct and harassment have been considerably tightened up, but one unwelcome consequence of this is that it is taking rather longer than previously for cases to be resolved. This is one (arguably inevitable) tension consequent upon the improvement of processes. Another is our obligation as an institution to support both the survivor and the alleged perpetrator. Fine in theory, but in practice by no means easy. So, much remains to be worked out. But at least the direction of travel is right. Even five years ago there was a marked reluctance on the part of students to come forward when they had been subjected to abuse or harassment within the Cambridge student community. I am certain there is still under-reporting, but we are now seeing a clear and welcome shift in respect of disclosure. Particular satisfaction Three aspects of my job have given me Fantastic results in particular satisfaction this year.Two of them do the face of adversity every year, I suppose, but this year somehow I noticed them more. The first is the students who have struggled personally but whose academic outcomes in the end were really positive. In 2018 we had so many cases of students whose fantastic results, achieved in the face of real adversity, left us cheering out loud in the Tutorial offices.â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Get in!â&#x20AC;&#x2122; is not a phrase that ordinarily passes my lips, but it did on numerous occasions this June. Secondly, I reflect on the socialising and other informal interactions that take place in Churchill all the time between the different elements in our relaxed and unstuffy community: Fellows, graduate students and undergraduates. Hall and the Bar witness many engaging and jolly conversations in which shared interests are explored and working relationships softened and expanded.This is how we get to know one another.That is important to academic outcomes and, just as vitally, to all of us as people. Perhaps this is epitomised in College music, where our community build relationships with one another around another form of shared endeavour and excellence. I pay tribute to Dr Mark Gotham, our Director of Music for the last five years. Mark is heading off to a fully deserved postdoctoral appointment at Cornell, in an academic area THE COLLEGE YEAR

perfect for him. He is another person whom we shall miss very considerably: a quite brilliant individual, and a good friend to many. Cracking the 800 barrier The third thing that was a cause of personal celebration was our exceeding 800 direct undergraduate applications this year. For no very good reason, I’ve always wanted to crack the 800 barrier (we’ve been in the 700s for some years; and I never exceeded 600 at my previous College). In 2017 we finally did it. Churchill is now among the most heavily applied-to Colleges at both undergraduate and graduate levels. This is a tribute to the wonderful work of all our staff in undergraduate and graduate admissions and recruitment, to that of our many student helpers, and above all to the College’s inherent qualities and rightness, established by our founders and sustained ever since.

Richard Partington

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A Vibrant Graduate Community

Tutor for Advanced Students’ Report (2017–2018) Dr Barry Kingston,Tutor for Advanced Students and a Churchill Fellow, reports on the record number of graduate students admitted to College this year, on the Conference on Everything which year after year showcases the brilliant work Churchill postgraduates are doing in their specialised field, on the new graduate accommodation which is well under way west of the Wolfson flats and on the gift of a garden to the Churchill community made possible thanks to the generosity of a Churchill alumna – Xiaotian Fu. This year the College admitted a record number of 154 new graduate students. Of these, 38 were Home students and 116 were from outside the UK. 102 were men and 52 were women and 102 entered to study Science-based subjects and 52 entered to study Arts-based subjects. The subjects studied covered a wide range. Popular themes included Engineering, Chemistry, Physics, Computer Science and Biological Sciences but we also admitted students to study a range of Arts subjects including History, African Studies, Politics, and Criminology. The TAS office continues to be run by Rebecca Sawalmeh. Professor Hines was on sabbatical leave for part of this year and Mr Barry Phipps took on her role as a Graduate Tutor. Barry is Curator of Works of Art at Churchill College. He is also Director of Visual Art at the Møller Centre, Cambridge. He specialises in Modern and Contemporary British art, as well as having an interest in contemporary art across the Nordic regions. In addition to Mr Phipps, the graduate Tutorial team consisted of Professor Webb, Dr Leigh Denault, and myself. The Conference on Everything Churchill’s vibrant graduate community Keynote by Professor continue to excel, and examples of their Sir Colin Humphreys versatility and ingenuity were highlighted by the presentations at the annual Conference on Everything organised by the College MCR. The conference was opened by a keynote address entitled THE COLLEGE YEAR

‘Be Revolutionary: Change the World’, from Professor Sir Colin Humphreys. Professor Humphreys is Professor of Materials Science, University of Cambridge. He founded and directs the Cambridge Centre for Gallium Nitride, and he founded two spin-off companies to exploit the research of his group on low-cost LEDs for home and office lighting. The companies were acquired by Plessey in 2012. Professor Humphreys also founded and directs the Cambridge-Rolls-Royce Centre for Advanced Materials for Aerospace. His talk was stimulating and inspirational. Among our graduate community, presentations were made by Sophie Koudmani, Siddharth Swaroop, Jack Hodkinson, Dominic Celiano, Catherine Tilley, Sridhar Jagannathan, Diana Popescu, Angela Harper, Sivapalan Chelvaniththilan, Max Veit, Richard Ngo, Priscilla Garcia, and Megan McGregor. The range of topics covered was broad and examples include Sophie Koudmani’s question, ‘Are black holes heating up dwarf galaxies?’ and Srihar Jagannathan’s presentation,‘Tracking wakefulness in the fly brain’, in which he described work aimed at understanding the mechanisms behind falling asleep. Catherine Tilley’s presentation, ‘How do companies incorporate sustainability considerations into their decision-making?’ described her research aimed at exploring the way people in organisations are making decisions about social and environmental sustainability, and how organisations can change to make it easier for people to ‘do the right thing’. Jack Hodkinson’s talk, ‘Solid state conductors for next generation batteries’ described his research that is focused upon the synthesis and characterisation of novel solid-state electrolytes and explores the relationship between their atomic structure and electrochemical performance. Priscilla Garcia’s talk ‘With faith and facts: Science and Biblical interpretation amongst evangelical Christians in Brazil’ described her work examining how a group of these Evangelical Christians reconcile faith and science beyond the dichotomy faith/reason. Angela Harper’s presentation ‘Discovering novel materials for energy storage using computational techniques’ addressed the growing need for sustainable and efficient energy storage devices. Deciding on the prize for the best talk was a difficult task for the judges, but they finally agreed to award it to Megan McGregor for her talk ‘The world’s hottest superglue: materials requirements for better sealing in jet engines’. The best poster prize was awarded to Rihab Khalid for her poster, ‘How do our buildings shape our comfort practices’?

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New graduate accommodation Work is now well underway on the construction En-suite single of new graduate accommodation just west of the rooms and Wolfson Flats. This will comprise three individual studio flats houses. As with the nearby â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Pepperpotsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;, three individual houses will help break down the scale of both the architecture and the associated communities. The accommodation will provide 30 ensuite single rooms and five more studio flats. The architects are Cottrell and Vermeulen Architects. The building designers are Priscilla Fernandes and Simon Tucker, both of whom are Churchill alumni. Xiaotian Fu Garden

Xiaotian Fu is an alumna of the College, having graduated with an MPhil degree in Education in 2007. Xiaotian made a significant donation to the College for a garden intended to provide a quiet and contemplative space for College members. The garden construction is now well advanced and it is already a delightful area with a strikingly beautiful and substantial rock at its centre. The rock, one of two in the garden was flown over from the Three Gorges region of China.

Barry Kingston

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A stronger Financial Year Bursar’s Report (2017–2018)

Tamsin James, Bursar and a Churchill Fellow, reports on Churchill’s financial year. She clearly explains that the College income comes from different sources with less than a quarter coming from student fees. She tells us that the badly needed graduate accommodation is under way but that £150k is still needed to complete the project and finally reports that the Xiaotian Fu Garden is in the process of completion. This has been a stronger financial year for the College and we are anticipating a balance on our income and expenditure of around £300k. Current accounting regulations mean that the Statutory Accounts for the College, which are available on our website and on that of the Charity Commission, continue to be unhelpfully opaque. Our total income will be over £16 million this year (a rise of £2 million from last year). However, expenditure will remain very close to that figure. The College income It comes from different sources and this year is forecast to be split as shown below: Education and fees Rent and charges to members Investment Commercial Subsidiary companies Donations (unrestricted) Archives Misc.

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Less than a quarter comes from fees, which Profits of subsidiary includes the proportion of Cambridge fees companies donated for undergraduates and graduate students back to College payable to the College and, in addition, some funds from the University and other bodies to support a small number of teaching and research posts in the College. Investment and commercial income together generate more than a quarter. Investment income comes as a total return drawdown from our endowment, to smooth the annual amount. The College’s commercial income comes from its use of the main College facilities for conferences and meetings.The profits from the College’s subsidiary companies (The Møller Institute, the College Conference Company and a College property development company) are all donated back to the College. Rents and charges are negotiated annually with the JCR and MCR and the College aims to keep these below the median for Cambridge Colleges. Unrestricted donations are donations for unspecified purposes. Archives income comes from a number of charitable trusts set up to support its operations, donations and grants from other charitable foundations for specific projects. More than 50% of our income is spent on salaries and academic stipends. An eighth is spent on depreciation, with the next highest amounts being spent on catering supplies and student support (scholarships, studentships, grants and bursaries). Unrestricted donations allow us to keep the College operating without reducing the amount and quality of teaching and maintaining the facilities and services available for the students. In addition, we receive donations for specific purposes, such as student support or a named Fellowship or a new building. The new graduate accommodation We have now commenced work on the new graduate accommodation at 36 Storey’s Way. The accommodation will consist of thirty en-suite single rooms and five more studio flats for couples in three buildings which have been designed by Churchill alumni Simon Tucker and Priscilla Fernandes, in the award-winning firm Cottrell and Vermeulen Architects. Simon also designed Bondi, Broers THE COLLEGE YEAR

and Hawthorne Houses (the Pepperpots) which were built nearby in 2000– 2001.We have made substantial progress in raising funds and are now seeking the final £150k to complete a matching pledge in place at the time of writing. One house remains unnamed, the other two being named in honour of former Masters John Boyd and David Wallace.The project is due to complete in spring 2019 and will enable us to house all graduate students for the first two years from 2019–2020. Other projects The Xiaotian Fu Garden, behind the graduate hostel at 72 Storey’s Way, is in the process of completion and maturation. Plans are now being developed for the Creative Hub, an innovative and interactive working space to facilitate students from different disciplines working together on projects. Continuing the innovative collaborations so encouraged by former Senior Tutor, Dick Tizard, and utilising the College’s now unused former oil store. This is a substantial new project for which we hope to be able to raise funds, whilst continuing major essential maintenance work on the staircases, and planning for the replacement of the dining hall roof and private road.

Tamsin James

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Such a Nice Place to Work

Domestic Bursar’s Report (2017–2018) Shelley Surtees, Domestic Bursar and a Churchill Fellow, gives us a detailed report of the many operations, events and achievements of this past academic year. Shelley reminds us that this is her 10th year in a job she thought she would stay in for only four! But then ‘it’s such a nice place to work’. It seems impossible that yet another year has passed. The commercial operations

A record-breaking The commercial operation continues to turnover of excel, with a record breaking turnover £2.5 million of £2.5 million for 2017/2018. Much of this business is from returning clients and is testament to the hard work of the team in delivering excellent events. Our strategy remains to focus on what we are good at: a friendly, flexible environment within a world class learning environment. As ever we remain indebted to the College members who continually embrace the operation, never making our guests feel unwanted and always offering their support. New development underway It’s been a year now since I took over line management of the maintenance team. It’s certainly been a learning curve, although with the excellent support of the departmental management team Gavin and Michael, we seem to be progressing things well. Development is underway at the top of the site for the new graduate housing scheme, known as 36 Storeys way. The architects, Cottrell & Vermeulen, were involved in the Pepperpots, and indeed two alumni, Simon Tucker and Priscilla Fernandes are leading on this project. I have to say it is such a pleasure to work with former students, who really understand what it means to be part of this special community. Summer refurbishment At the time of writing we are preparing for our summer refurbishment programme, which will be the final leg of our rewiring project. At 5 o’clock

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this morning our outstanding Domestic Manager and I were stripping out curtains and kitchen utensils – in true Churchillian fashion, at busy times it’s ‘all hands on deck’! Cowan Court continues to attract the attention of esteemed architects and the associated press. The building is aging well and as the colour of the new wood darkens, the reclaimed panels fade. The furniture, by Eve Waldron, is standing up well and still looks pristine, with the students treating the environment with the due respect we expect. Our Porters’ Lodge has been bolstered by some new faces this year with the entire team working tirelessly to support our students and deliver excellent customer service, as well as organising the parking, managing the alarm system and keeping us all safe. Going green Collectively much of our focus this year has been on sustainability with a number of new initiatives including the introduction of a ‘grey water’ machine for food waste, fully recyclable cups and a move away from plastic straws. Our efforts were rewarded with a platinum award from the Universities Green Impact project. A tremendous achievement which recognises the efforts of all members of the community in embracing sustainable practices and embedding ‘green’ behaviour. Following the retirement of Phil ‘Spokes’ the long-standing cycle repair service which visited Churchill Road frequently we set up our own cycle repair service, offering an on-site provision with a qualified mechanic three times a week during term time. Further enhancing our sustainability credentials, Mark, our mechanic, uses parts from the bike cull, which of course keeps the prices for the customers low too. On reflection it’s been another interesting but challenging year, with some high and low points, but certainly more highs. Next year will be my tenth at the College, which is interesting given that I always thought that this was a four-year post, but then as is well known, it’s such a nice place to work, it’s hard to think about moving on.

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Behind the Scenes at the Archives Centre Director of the Archives Centre’s Report (2017–2018)

Allen Packwood, Director of the Archives Centre and a Churchill Fellow, reports on another year of extensive and varied work at the Archives Centre, from what is visible in College (exhibitions and events, commemoration of the end of the First World War to the celebration of International Women’s Day and Churchill at the Movies – in his words ‘the tip of the iceberg’, to what is done behind the scenes.

The tip of the The Churchill Archives Centre is most visible in iceberg College through its exhibitions and events. In the last year, rotating facsimile displays in the cases outside the main dining hall have illustrated topical themes from commemorating the end of the First World War to celebrating International Women’s Day to Churchill at the Movies. And our exciting range of recent events has been described elsewhere in this Review. All of this has undoubtedly helped to raise the profile of our collections, and yet it can be likened to the visible tip of a huge submerged iceberg, for it only represents a fraction of the varied work undertaken by the Archives Centre team. Indeed, the iceberg analogy may be a very apposite one, for we have just upgraded our storage facilities to include a new cold store area, housing four laboratory freezers. It is mainly being used for moving image film and film negatives, but Rosalind Franklin’s x-ray diffraction slides from 1953, which are on a rapidly degrading cellulose acetate base, are now being protected from further decay. Conservation work Elsewhere in the conservation studio, recent work has included the repackaging of diaries belonging to the late Lady Soames, Winston Churchill’s youngest daughter. This repackaging was undertaken following a major digitisation project and was the final stage of preservation before the diaries were returned to storage. A selection of artefacts from the Lascelles collection have also been rehoused including Lascelles’ leather satchel and keys from his

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box on the Royal train. For those of you who follow The Crown on Netflix, this is the real life Sir Alan ‘Tommy’ Lascelles, private secretary to Her Majesty. New collections

Life cycle of At any one time there are always several collections being processed, and at the time of records writing the team were working hard on cataloguing the papers of Dame Athene Donald, Lord (David) Howell, Margaret (Peggy) Jay, Sir John Major, Lord (Christopher) Soames, Sir Alan Walters and former Churchill Fellow, Professor Sir ‘Bob’ Edwards, the pioneer of IVF. And talking of lifecycles, our Records Manager has been throwing herself into the life cycle of our College records, supporting the implementation of departmental retention schedules, and helping us all prepare for GDPR (the new General Data Protection Regulation). While implementing their retention schedules, many departments have discovered fascinating records, which have been taken into the College archives (thereby completing said life cycle). Archives live on But archives do not die.They live on to be used in ever more imaginative ways. We have continued to develop our digital resources: supporting Bloomsbury Academic with the online edition of the Churchill papers and online resources for school students; and we have been working with Curtis Brown Ltd on a new Churchill Pictures website, containing images of hundreds of photographs from our collections (due to launch shortly). We have helped researchers to access our holdings; we have hosted visits by schools and students, including a History Matters debate; we have loaned material to exhibitions; we have facilitated access for television and radio programmes; and we have sought to engage through social media. So next time you find yourself in the Jock Colville Hall spare a thought for all that is going on, largely unseen, in those offices behind the far walls. It would not be possible without an excellent team supplemented by some wonderful willing volunteers.

Allen Packwood

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A Momentous Year for Møller The CEO Møller’s Report (2017–2018)

Gillian Secrett, a Churchill Fellow, is the CEO of Møller. In her report she tells us that the Centre celebrated its 25th year in 2017. Gillian goes on to explain why the Møller Institute was established this year, what the James Mac Gregor Burns Academy of Leadership will mean to the newly created institute, how Møller is focusing on being increasingly sustainable as a business, and how the new leadership course ran with great success. As an organisation, our purpose is, ‘to inspire people to be the best they can be, to accelerate the performance of the organisations which they serve as well as to have a positive impact on society and the environment’. This year we celebrate our 25th Anniversary and our own development as we officially became the Møller Institute in January 2018. It signifies the important work we are doing with leaders and aspiring leaders to develop their practical capabilities and behaviours to transform their organisations and help them to thrive in uncertainty. Bringing together business and academia

Running leadership Our transformation into the Institute is a development long-held strategic ambition to reflect and programmes position the global potential and impact of our work. The Møller Institute encompasses all that we do in the fields of leadership development and executive education; whilst the Møller Centre brand continues to represent the professional care and support that we give to our clients who use the Centre as a residential facility. Both the Institute and the Centre represent the vision of our founder Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller: to bring together business and academia. Clients host their own events and programmes here at the Centre and enjoy the vibrant Churchill College community. This year we have hosted programmes and events for organisations such as Bayer, Shell, Johnson Matthew, Aveva, Domino,Abellio Greater Anglia, Cambridge Assessment, Cambridge University Press and Cambridge Institute of Sustainability Leadership and the University of Cambridge Institute of Manufacturing Engineering. We have run leadership THE COLLEGE YEAR

development programmes for the Marshall Group, McKinsey and Company, Sun Yat Sen University, Porsche, Hugo Boss, and for the international young leaders attending the British Council Future Leaders’ programme. The James Mac Gregor Burns Academy of Leadership Also coinciding with our 25th Anniversary, this year has certainly been a rewarding and incredibly memorable time in our history as we invest to grow. In October we established Møller as the home of the James Mac Gregor Burns Academy of Leadership, brought to us by its founder and custodian, Professor Georgia Sorenson, with its associated scholars and membership of the International Leadership Association. This has given us a solid base from which to research and develop insights, tools and frameworks to support our practical leadership development programmes. Being increasingly sustainable as a business Since 2016 we have been focusing on being Building increasingly sustainable as a business as we sustainability into integrate our contribution to the Sustainable our leadership Development Goals into our strategy. In programmes May this year we achieved the new standard for Environmental Management ISO14001 and we have enhanced our push towards more efficient consumption of energy, materials, and food as well as the disposal of waste. We are also committed to building the sustainability agenda into our leadership development education where appropriate, and we are constantly educating our engaged and supportive staff to champion our sustainable objectives. The Explorer Mindset Open Programme This year our investment in our people and premises to meet clients’ needs and to grow a strong future revenue stream to support the education of students in College has kept us fully engaged. This growth will be delivered through our expansion as a key provider of leadership development and executive education. This growth has included the successful launch of our first open programme this year, The Explorer Mindset. With 18 international senior leaders from global brands across sectors, the two-module programme with executive coaching, received excellent feedback.

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We are now recruiting a similarly high calibre of participants for the next programme in November together with delegates for the new Business Coaching Certificate Programme, the Executive Coaching Diploma and a programme for ‘leading lawyers in a complex world’. The extended venue facilities, bedrooms, new kitchen, back of house areas and offices give us plenty of room for growth and innovation. The calibre of the team is exciting and our order book is poised well for growth in the year ahead. We greatly appreciate the continued support of the College Fellowship and colleagues who get involved in our work.We welcome and encourage Churchill alumni to connect with us and if any alumni would like to know more about what we do at Møller then please get in touch. (www.mollerinstitute.co.uk).

Gillian Secrett

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A Busy and Fruitful Year Development Director’s Report

Fran Malarée, the Development Director and a Churchill Fellow, reports on a year full of events in this country and abroad, on a new initiative and the latest fundraising campaign. It’s been a busy and fruitful year for the alumni and development office. As we move forward to ensure we can continue to offer the best and brightest the opportunity to come to Churchill we’ve been working hard to try and increase the amount of support we can offer current students. Events in 2017–18 In terms of our events’ programme it’s been an incredibly full year. In September 2017 we celebrated the Cockcroft family’s links to the College with a series of events during the Alumni Association Weekend. We were delighted to receive the personal papers of Sir John Cockcroft, the first Master’s, into the Archives.

200 alumni and We had an interesting series of talks during guests enjoyed the the weekend and over 200 alumni and guests Association dinner enjoyed the customary Association dinner. As usual we are grateful to Chair Rosie Johnston and all the members of the Association Committee. We also have had a programme of events overseas, including an event in Hong Kong hosted by Fellow Sir Mike Gregory, a reception in Singapore kindly hosted by Susan Lim and Deepak Sharma, dinners in San Francisco and New York, and an event in Paris hosted by the Master, who also spoke at one of the University’s ‘Global Cambridge’ series of events. In 2018, the Master spoke for alumni at a Cambridge in America event in both Seattle and New York on ‘Science and Leadership’.

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We are greatly indebted to all the alumni who support College events overseas or help us in organising them. Special mention to KK Chan (G86) who has organised more than one event for the College in Hong Kong in the last year! The Churchill Business Network Closer to home, we launched the Churchill Business Network this year, which kicked off with a talk at the Oxford and Cambridge Club featuring Sir Peter Gershon (U66) and Steve Churchhouse (G85). In April we were delighted to have Simon Henry (U79), Chris Campbell (U08) and James Butler (U66) speaking at the Institute of Directors on corporate governance and the Lloyds insurance crisis, the latter expertly recounted by James Butler. We are grateful to Greg Lock (U66) for hosting these events. If you have ideas for the next Churchill Business Network event please don’t hesitate to contact the development and alumni team. Fundraising We have had a productive year for fundraising too. We now have only £150,000 to go, at the time of writing, to reach our target for the graduate accommodation at 36 Storey’s way. We’ve been grateful to the Development Board for hosting events to help reach our target. Two of the three new houses, which will house 35–40 graduate students, are to be named after Sir John Boyd and Sir David Wallace. As I wrote in the last edition it’s essential to offer the most accommodation possible to graduates to continue to attract the best students to Churchill. Thank you to all those who’ve donated to this very important project. In addition, we’ve also focused on undergraduate bursaries this year. Along with the graduate housing this was our priority in the recent telethon. We’re on course to reach a fantastic total thanks to new pledges and gifts from over 300 alumni. We are focusing on bursaries as Churchill has one of the greatest number of students needing a full Cambridge Bursary. Additionally, we have been fundraising for the Winston Churchill bursary which gives extra support to those with parental income under £20,000 per year. In the telethon we were grateful to Adrian Hobden (U72) for once again offering to match any gift to bursaries or the Student Support fund 1:1. Also

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many thanks to John Kelly (U72) for creating a new undergraduate endowed bursary fund, the John and Michelle Kelly fund, and to Robert Douglas (U67) for adding to the Douglas family bursary to fund two arts and humanities students. I’d like to record thanks to the alumni and development team for delivering such a vibrant programme of events and new communications with alumni. We’re also pleased that Amazon Associates have added a new Amazon Women in Innovation bursary to offer support to two female students in STEM subjects each year. You can find out more about all our projects and all our activities on our website at www.chu.cam.ac.uk Lastly, I am delighted that at this end of this financial year, over £3.4 million have been pledged for the College. We are grateful to all our donors and supporters, however modest the gift, as all support makes a difference and helps us to ensure Churchill’s academic excellence combined with access to Cambridge continues.

Fran Malarée

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Supporting our students As mentioned previously we are constantly striving to ensure we have enough bursary provision for our undergraduates, so that no student is deterred from applying to Churchill because they are fearful of debt or the overall cost of their education. As well as the endowed bursaries we have referred to, any amount can be donated to our general undergraduate student bursaries. We have two major initiatives for Bursary funding. We have excelled as a College around student bursaries. Churchill has approximately 100 undergraduates receiving Cambridge Bursaries, the majority receiving a full bursary (£3,500/year). Many of those have family incomes lower than £35,000 per year – we are proud that we have been able to offer extra support to these students and will continue raising funds for bursaries to do so. Funding the Cambridge Bursaries currently costs the College £200,000 per year from unrestricted funds, though there are a growing number which are now funded by specific bursaries which are endowed (for example the Lock Bursary fund). To endow these bursary funds fully would cost £8.75million; therefore the more donations we can attract to student support funds, the better, either as general donations to the student support fund or as endowed funds for named bursaries. Adding more donations to the Student Support fund helps students in any subject by helping us to fund our Cambridge Bursary commitments, and hardship grants to all students in need We are also committed to funding top-up bursaries, through the Winston Churchill Bursaries which are for those students receiving a full Cambridge bursary and whose parental income is less than £25,000 per annum. The topup bursaries, of £1,500–£2,000 per student, can make all the difference for recipients as they are able to focus on academic work rather than earning money through the Easter vacations. We aim to raise at least £50,000 per year to fund these bursaries. We also are fundraising for studentships to support graduates. There is unfortunately very little funding available from Research councils for advanced

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students in the arts and humanities. We also wish to ensure we do not lose our brightest undergraduates to other colleges who can fund their research. Therefore we aim to endow studentships, and any contribution to the general endowment funds to support graduates is most welcome. The minimum cost of fully funding a postgraduate is around £18,000 per year minimum, and more than this in science subjects. The endowment sums required are therefore around £1million per studentship. This is an excellent way of ensuring an academic career does not become the preserve of the wealthy once more. Giving to Churchill Any gift of whatever size makes a difference. If you have any questions about donating don’t hesitate to email us on development@chu.cam.ac.uk

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‘ Altruism is innate, but it’s not instinctual. Everybody’s wired for it, but a switch has to be flipped.’ David Rakoff

DONATIONS Donations 2017–18 We are very grateful to all the following alumni and friends who have chosen to support Churchill College. All those listed below have made a gift during the period 1st July 2017 to 30th June 2018. (N.B. Gifts made after this date will be acknowledged in next year’s Review.) Participation rates are given for each year group and are calculated based on both one-off gifts and regular gifts. 1960 Participation rate: 15.1% Dr J A Haines Professor J A M Howe Professor A Howie Dr R K Livesley** Dr F W Maine* Dr T Rice Professor L J Sham Dr B O Shorthouse 1961 Participation rate: 21.6% Mr E W Addicott Mr R W Barlow Mr J H Burton Mr W J Capper Mr P M C Clarke Mr M R Cooper Dr I B Duncan Mr S T Green** Mr M E S Handley Mr M Howden Mr G T Johnson** Mr D E W King* Mr N G Kingan** Dr E A Kohll** Mr T R Latton Mr A E Leigh-Smith** Mr J C Lewis Professor I McCausland Professor R J Oldman** DONATIONS

Mr S M J Peskett** Professor M Pilling Dr R B Roden Mr C J Tavener* Mr G V Thomas Mr A F Thomson Professor D J Thouless Mrs M Thouless 1962 Participation rate: 12.9% Mr C M L Argent* Dr G W Bibby Dr J Connor Mr R J Davies** Mr D M M Dutton** Mr J A Edwards Mr M R P Hayles Mr R Helmer Dr P T Jackson** Professor R M Loynes** Mr R H N Salmon Mr W Silverman Dr M A Stroud** Mr M A Upton* Mr H E Williams Dr D R Woodall** Mr B Yates** 1963 Participation rate: 18.1% Dr R V Aldridge

Mr J C Barlow Mr R Barras Dr J H Brunton** Sir Alan Budd Dr G A Butlin Mr W H Cowell Mr T S Culver* Professor S T de Grey** Mr P B Goldstein Dr C A Haigh Mr D P Hawker Professor G M Heal Dr D S Hoddinott Dr W S Howells Mr H F A Marriott** Mr A G N McLean Dr M M Menke Dr D C Pinder Mr M J Platts Mr G C Pyke** Professor R B Pynsent** Mr G K Rock-Evans** Mr J C Q Rowett Mr R J Tarling* Mr G R Taylor Mr F E Toolan** Mr R M Walker** Mr D G Watson Dr E D Williams Mr N E Wrigley** 1964 Participation rate: 6.9% Mr J A Ballard* Professor T W Cusick** Mr N J Denbow** Mr M G Dixon Dr G A Gelade Dr M J Green Dr R W Gubisch Professor S Iwasaki Professor R Jackman* Dr D C Lancashire Professor D E Luscombe** Mr A D McLaren Dr C J Myerscough Mr N R Seymour-Dale** Mr J Waters**

1965 Participation rate: 9.2% Dr N H Buttimore Dr J R Crabtree** Dr N W Dean** Mr M T Deans Mr J R Edwards-Moss Dr G J Forder Mr C Harvey** The Reverend J Johnson Mr T A Key** Mr M J Kingsley Mr H S Lake* The Rt Hon The Lord Colin M Low Mr C P S Markham** Mr H R Marshall Jr Dr B Martin Dr J H Musgrave Dr T L Roberts** Dr E R D Scott* Professor R C Spear Dr P N Trewby** 1966 Participation rate: 7.8% Professor R C Backhouse Dr R C Barklie Mr A P Docherty** Mr P L Flake Dr D R Grey** Mr J Hazelden Mr M J Horne Mr T C W Ingram** Professor D B Kittelson Dr E T Libbey** Mr G H Lock* Mr P N Locke** Mr N R E Miskin** Professor D M G Newbery* Mr D B O'Callaghan Mr M K Redhead* Dr D M Schwartz** 1967 Participation rate: 11.1% Professor I Addae-Mensah Mr J E Berriman Mr L E Bigler* Mr I Carnaby* DONATIONS

Dr A J Cole Mr R H Douglas Mr R T Eddleston Mr G R A Gomberg Mr M E Harper** Dr P Hilton* Dr M A Keavey Mr R G Larkin Dr L P M Lloyd-Evans** Mr D E Mason Professor R Old Mr M M Otway** Dr E W Powell Mr A V Ramsay* Mr T D Richmond Mr M R Slack Mr M A Smyth Mr W L Stow Dr A G Tristram 1968 Participation rate: 10.1% Mr W R S Baxter Dr G S Booth** Mr M J Bowden Dr R J Crispin Mr M F Dixon Dr G Evans** Mr I M Gardiner Mr A J Hutchinson** Mr S J S Ickringill Mr R Maslin Dr R G G Mercer Dr D J Norfolk** Mr A H Rosenberg** Mr A L Smith Mr C R Whiteley Dr A H Wild Mr E A Workman** 1969 Participation rate: 8.5% Mr R M Davies** Mr F J P Doherty Dr J G Farrington Mr C N Fraser Mr M R Frith** Dr D M Jones Mr M Kirby-Sykes DONATIONS

Professor D C A Mant Mr J M McGee** Dr T J Mead Professor D T Meldrum Mr P Merson** Mr J M Pocock** Professor R Radner Mr D A Robinson Mr R F Squibbs Mr P L Stanton Dr P V Wright 1970 Participation rate: 9.8% Mr J D Banks Mr P G Bossom* Rear Admiral T Chittenden Mr N J P Cooper Mr M Cowan Mr T J L Cribb* Mr P R A Fulton** Mr N A W M Garthwaite** Dr M T Hyldon Dr R L C Kay Mr W M Kinsey* Professor A V P Mackay** Professor B R Martin Mr C S Pocock* Mr D Potts Professor P Rez* Mr G R A Sellers** Dr C J Slinn Mr N D Ward Mr I S Wilson** 1971 Participation rate: 11.1% Dr N L Anderson Dr D Armstrong* Dr R H Atkinson Dr R D Bremner Mr M A Brinded Mr R D Carew-Jones Mr A D E Ford Professor A Gillespie Dr J I Grayson Dr P E Highfield Mr J C R Hudson** Mr A Kramvis

Dr H Larsen Dr M A Ledwich Dr G J Le Poidevin* Dr P J Mole** Mr L M Peden Dr I R Scott** Mr J A Shields Dr J G Vernon Mr G P F Vincent Dr J M Wenn 1972 Participation rate: 10.5% Professor Emeritus K Bardakci Mr N A J Blades Mr H W Brockbank Mr H A J Davies* Dr R Elsdon* Mr W J Hoff Mr J Ingle** Dr M A Johnson* Mr T H Jones** Professor J Kelly Professor J T Kent Mrs S A Kramvis (Newcombe) Dr W E Munsil Dr T L L Orr Mrs G M Potts (Black) Mr C M E Riley Professor J Rosenberg Mr W G Taylor* Mr J D M Tickell Mrs S M Walton (Mackinney) Mr R C Wenzel** Mr A R Woodland** Mrs I M Woodland (Waghorne) 1973 Participation rate: 10.5% Mr J G Bennett Dr R P Cleaver Ms M S Dixon Dr C A Elliott (Mills) Professor J Elliott Dr F G Furniss* Mr P M Goodland* Dr J Grzeskowiak (Ellison)* Dr N E Grzeskowiak** Professor Sir John Gurdon*

Mr I G Hatfield Ms R Johnston** Ms V C Jolliffe** Dr D R Kendall Ms T F Mainstone Mrs S Makoieva (Wilson) Professor C J McMahon Mr G R Newman Professor I Robinson Professor D B Rutledge** Mr A C Schofield Dr I L Smith Professor M J R Stark** Dr S E Whitcomb 1974 Participation rate: 6.2% Mrs Julie Bacon (Rushton) Mr N Bacon Ms C E Blackmun* Mr P R Clarke Mrs J E Goodland (Terry)* Dr J P Hale Dr R W Holti** Professor J H Marsh** Professor G G Morgan Dr S Oldfield* Mr M A W Prior Mr M K Rees** Professor H G Wind 1975 Participation rate: 7.6% Mr P W Bennett Mr P T Bird* Mrs A A Canning (Jarrett)** Professor C Claoué de Gohr Mr A Cullen** Mr M F Dawson Mr D P D’Cruz Professor D M Gale Mr N J Hazell Mr A R John Professor K Mislow Mrs S Pitt (Irwin) Dr D E Reynolds* Dr R A Reynolds (Dixon)** Professor B Stroustrup Dr G S Tyndall DONATIONS

1976 Participation rate: 9% Dr I L Bratchie* Mr D J Burrows Professor D Epel Dr C Fraser Dr D H Jaffer* Professor P A Kalra* Professor L Krause* Dr F Lamb Dr P J Littlefair Mr A Moore Dr C E Morris Mrs S Pearce (Bailey)* Mrs L S Robinson Mr S M Robinson Dr C N Ryecart Mrs J E Salmon (Mathie)* Mr A H Taylor Dr P H Tennyson Professor U Tuzun 1977 Participation rate: 9.9% Dr P W Blair Dr P J Carlson Mrs C Cleaver (Martin) Mr M J Forshaw Professor M R J Gibbs Dr M G Goodman Dr C Goulimis** Professor A F Heavens* Professor S C Inglis Dr S Jaffe Professor T Kailath Mr W O Kellogg Dr S G Martin** Professor D Leech-Wilkinson Mr T R Oakley** Ms S L Poland* Dr I C H Pullen Ms K T Siwicki (King) Mrs L F Stead (Bibby) Mrs A Suzuki Mrs I A Thompson (Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Hara)** Mr R C Weeks

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1978 Participation rate: 9.4% Dr R D Blank Professor E L Boulpaep Dr T Cooper Ms S N Coppersmith Dr R M Dixon** Mrs E D French (Medd)* Mr P C French** Mr E C Garner-Richardson (Richardson) Mr K A Herrmann Mrs I Hull (Clark)* Dr C N Jones** Dr R I Jones* The Hon. Mr Justice Lewis Dr H F Luckhurst Professor V Luis-Fuentes Mr A T Richardson Mrs V G Robinson (Rickitt) Mr D S N Saul Mr I M Standley** Professor M D Thouless Dr D Waterson 1979 Participation rate: 10.8% Mr S J Aspden Dr N E Baker Mrs J M Blair (Bell) Dr J H Bryce Mrs L A Doble (Kendall)* Mr A P Duff** The Reverend J M Dyer (Lloyd)** Mr A Farrow Mr A J Foster Mr P B Frean Dr C E Fuller Professor R J Gilbert Professor M A Goldie** Dr D J Graziano Mr S P Henry Dr P D Hodson** Dr W Lewis-Bevan Ms J B E Mawson Mr P M Rodgers Dr W J M Rothwell Mr M W Rudin Mr S M Smith Mr C E Sweeney*

1980 Participation rate: 6.9% Mr B L Collings** Mr J R Farrell** Dr D C Goodrich Mr B A Harris** Professor R P Mason Mr S Parker Dr J Potter The Hon. Mr Justice Sales Mr M H Schwarz** Mr P R J Smith Mr J C Wainwright Dr A S Wierzbicki** 1981 Participation rate: 7.8% Mr K Bhargava** Dr A Blackwell (Jenkins)* Mr M W Cattermole Mrs S M Clements (Burton)* Dr E J Ditzel Mr K R Doble* Mr M L Ellis Dr C A Harper* Dr J A Horrell Mr I Jones* Dr J R R Kimmitt Mr P A Manley Dr C A McGill** Mr M J Percy Professor D O Rockwell Dr W Y Tsang** Ms H A Vyse (Ellis) 1982 Participation rate: 7.9% Mr T Armitage* Mr M K Asardag Mr T J Bond Ms A Calvert** Dr S Dinsdale Mr M W Ellis Mrs T A Hall (Prosser)* Dr J C Horton Professor J A Lake Mr K Morooka Mr S D Rothman** Mr M T Rutter**

Dr N J Skelton Professor S Stidham Mr M Y Watterson 1983 Participation rate: 7.3% Professor A Blumstein Dr J J Bonsell Miss J L Bryant Mr R I Coull** Dr Y Dong Professor R E Ellis Dr D W Goodman Dr C M Hughes Dr M D Jacobson Dr A M Lewis Mr R J Miller** Mr N J Naclerio Professor T D Pollard Dr C D Scrase* Dr R G Shenoy Dr P A Stott 1984 Participation rate: 4.5% Dr D A Chaplin Dr A H Crossman Mrs G M Dambaza (Bruce) Dr R T Elias* Dr S J Kukula** Mr R L Patterson Dr S-X Qin Mr J J H Reilly** Mr J A Stark Mr E M J Steedman** Mr G R Tillman** 1985 Participation rate: 7.8% Mr A I Blyth Dr S P Churchhouse** Mr A C B Clegg Mr M A Craven** Mr A C Dean Mr R H T Dixon** Dr R K Jain Mr S Jennaway Mr A W S Jones** Mrs S H Knighton (Spear) DONATIONS

Mr A J Lake** Dr S Lim The Reverend Dr P G Miller** Mr K D Morris** Mr D P O’Brien Mrs L K Rothwell (Pollock) Dr W O Soboyejo 1986 Participation rate: 4.5% Mr A M F Bailey** Dr K K Chan Dr D C Dankworth Dr M W Johnston** Professor W H Munk Dr K E Sherwin Mr R J Thomas Dr J P Wangermann Mr A C Worrall* 1987 Participation rate: 9.1% Dr R J Black** Ms V S Connolly Dr J N Glickman Dr S P Harden* Dr J R Hobdell Mr A C Innes* Mr R H Khatib Mr I M Lawrie** Dr C E Lee-Elliott** Mrs C H Narracott (Crocker) Ms G Nurse** Dr K M Pang Mr B J Patel** Dr V J Pinfield (Rothwell) Mrs I J Tooley (Bush) Mr S M Tooley Ms J Turkington** Mr O M van Nijf Mr J Wadsworth** Mrs S B Wadsworth (Large)** 1988 Participation* rate: 7.1% Ms C R Brett Dr A J Brown** Dr W G Burgess** Dr P A Catarino** DONATIONS

Professor J R D Coffey* Mr P C de Boor Professor A Jenkins Ms E Li Wan Po Dr H Müllejans Mr B Mulvihill Mr S G Narracott* Mr S Sollé Mr R R Turnill Mr A J Tylee Dr M-Q Xia 1989 Participation rate: 6.8% Mrs H C Arrowsmith (Oxtoby) Dr H Ashraf* Ms J L Bent Mrs S C Galloway Dr C M Hicks** Mr J R Larsen Mr J P Lucas** Dr O D Lyne* Dr G E Morales-Espejel Mr S D Morrish* Dr H S Obhi Dr P J Parsons* Professor W Rindler Dr A W Stephenson Mr X Tolchinskii (Tolchin) Dr S H Zaman 1990 Participation rate: 5.9% Dr A J Ball** Dr T A Bicanic* Dr V A Carreño Mr P Chown Dr J Kanagalingam Mr R T Milner Mr J R Peters* Mr A D Ponting** Mr I K Richards Ms H Richards-Jones Dr R M Taylor Mr P G Thwaite Dr P J Wilson

1991 Participation rate: 5.8% Dr R Beroukhim* Ms C R Brett Mr D M Fineman* Mr C M Glencross Mr P T W Harrington** Dr J W D Hobro** Mr A O Hold Dr A L Karimu Mr J A Lowe Professor E B Perrin Dr K Pichler Mr B H A Robinson** Mr J R Sawtell 1992 Participation rate: 5.7% Mr S J Aitken Dr D J Bernasconi** Mr L R Brown Mrs C A Folley Mr M P Honey** Mr C E Martin Dr M A Morse Mr J W Palmer Mr D Roberts** Mrs L Rodgers (Yates) Dr S J Savory Mr R P Smith** Mr I Temperton** Dr S E Wunsch* 1993 Participation rate: 8.8% Mr A M Aicken Mr A J Barefoot Dr A J Crisp Mr C J A Down Mr J M Gibbs** Mrs J Gwilt (Smyth) Mr A P Hall* Mr A J Lambert* Mr R M Little* Dr A J Pauza** Miss A C M Scott-Bayfield** Mr T J Shipman Mr C W Smick** Mrs L Smith (Bayley)

Mr S P Smith Mr T V Tat Dr D R Tray** Mr A D Twiss Ms V Vukmanovic (Roberts) Dr A J Wakefield Mr M J Wakeford Mr M H Wallis 1994 Participation rate: 9.6% Mr L Ashton** Mr B O Brierton* Dr K H Brierton (Pratt)* Dr M A Demian Mrs C Dixon (Wookey) Ms M F Fahey Dr T L Harris** Mr M S Hoather** Mrs A N King Dr H J Knowles Professor M H Kramer Professor R V E Lovelace** Mr A C Matthews Mr C H Palmer Professor J R Powell Dr A K A Pryde Mr W J Ramsay Mrs J Sandercock (Newman) Professor S D Silver** Mr J Singh Mr R G Stamp** Professor D L Stern** Mrs S F Tickle (Hanley)** Professor D J White 1995 Participation rate: 3.9% Mrs K Anastasi (Prodromou) Professor A J Barr Ms L C Berzins Mr M R Brazier** Mr S P Bridge Dr D Joinson Mr P McCarthy** Mr H Vukmanovic

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1996 Participation rate: 6% Dr C Burt Mr D B Christie* Mrs S J J Christie (Chou)** Dr R I Hammond Dr D J Goodings Mr S J Harris** Dr Z Hollowood Mr A P C Jones Mr O Kennington Dr E Merson Mrs E Norton (Lilley) Dr C Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Kane** Mrs K E Sydow 1997 Participation rate: 3% Dr P Cowans Mr C J Groombridge Mr C Howell* Dr A Madhok Mrs A Martin (Colabella) Dr O J D Martin Mr I R Thomas 1998 Participation rate: 5.6% Mr D Alafouzos** Mr W J A Courtenay Dr P Desyllas Dr C E Finlayson Dr R K Hansen Dr M Islam Dr A P Jardine Mr J Justus Mr N I Khawaja Mrs D Resch (Christian)* Dr C Yeung** Dr B Yuan 1999 Participation rate: 4.4% Dr V S Abhayawardhana Dr E K Bartsch Mrs J Brook** Mr D R Deboys* Dr C Helliwell (Powell) Dr A C Lawrence DONATIONS

Dr B S R Lishman Mr D A Mackenzie** Dr C Tubb* Mr P F Ward** 2000 Participation rate: 5% Dr P A Booth* Mr R Botero Robledo Dr F Brossard Professor K Chatterjee Dr K C C Cheung Mr N Crews** Dr E DeMarrais Dr M Ferme Mr G F Hart Mr M A Khan Dr L Lake Mr A J Micallef Mr A J Milne* Mrs R Pellet (Orr) Dr N Taylor Dr C Tout Mr A A Weiss Mr T P Whipple** Dr C S Witham 2001 Participation rate: 4.6% Mr A Bannard-Smith Mrs E Booth (Lambert)* Mr L S Goddard Dr P Gopal Dr S R Griffiths Professor S Hervik Mr M R G Mkushi Dr E J Rees Professor L Riddiford Professor J Truman 2002 Participation rate: 4.5% Dr U Akuwudike Dr A Bapna Dr H Chappell Mr A J Chappelow Mr C E Hack Dr E Krylova Mrs H O Mkushi (Balogun)

Mr P D Nery Mr A Packwood Dr S E Rose 2003 Participation rate: 2.8% Mr B Greenhalgh Professor J Lewandowski Miss S C Mackinder Mr A Pointon Dr O Salgado-Ramirez Miss P L Welsh Ms B Zygarlowska ('Wroblewska) 2004 Participation rate: 2.9% Dr P M M Achintha Mr B E G Bezine Mr I Hyung Dr V E Maybeck Mr T P F Robson Mr A Sarhadi Dr R S Thompson 2005 Participation rate: 5.5% Dr A Adeyemi Dr M Chalupnik Miss G L Dixon Dr D Feng Ms E Gray Mr M I Kerr Mr P Mak Mr S Ortega Mr M J Raskie Mr T E B Rose Mr B K Y Shin Dr J S Silvia Mr A J Woodland 2006 Participation rate: 4.7% Dr L Augusthus Nelson Dr S Boss** Ms X T Fu Dr B J G A Kress Dr E Leffler Mrs S Mather (Maurice) Dr A Taylor*

Ms H Wang Dr I Wassell* Mrs C T Willmoth (McElroy) Mr Z Zhang 2007 Participation rate: 4% Mr D Brannan Dr A Collins Mr D Gavshon Brady Dr S Jones Mrs H McClure Mr R Partington** Dr A Quider Mr S Richards Dr E Russell 2008 Participation rate: 4.4% Mr R Chanin-Morris Mr A Cruickshank Miss J Dunne Mr J Dyer Miss A Fries Mr A Georgiou Mr N Jackson Dr C Lam Ms H Lee Mr B Spatocco Mr C H Tan 2009 Participation rate: 4.6% Ms F Beresford Miss A Edge Dr S Hill Dr S Jain Professor K Janoyan Miss F Ng Dr S Scellato Mr A White Mr D Wong Dr T Y Wong Dr K Wood 2010 Participation rate: 3.8% Mr M Cohen Mr J S Corry DONATIONS

Mrs Y Ding Dr A Elmezeini Mrs A Glover (Mirza) Miss E Lau Dr H Liu Mr K Nilakant Dr T Puchtler Dr C Rothwell 2011 Participation rate: 5% Dr X Bian Mrs A Cabico Dr N Cutler Dr Y Flory Mr D X Hu Miss X Hu Mr R Mears Dr K Misiunas Dr R Orendorff Dr T Roberts Professor V Ross Ms A Truhlar Dr H Yang Dr J Zhu 2012 Participation rate: 2.6% Mr D Barber Mr J Blackburn Miss M Gimenez Fernandez Miss A Hamilton Dr M Horvat Dr L Jardine-Wright* Dr R Sidortsov 2013 Participation rate: 1.8 % Mr C Chang Professor J C Evans Mr E Mooring Ms S Ok Dr J Toner 2014 Participation rate: 0.7 % Professor Dame Athene Donald Miss B E Husic

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2015 Participation rate: 1.5% Dr M Donald Mr J Ibrahim Miss D Karunarathna Dr J Keller 2017 Participation rate: 1.1% Ms F Malaree Mr B Reddy Friends of the College Alumni Group of Hong Kong Mrs R Bardakci Dr K Barkshire Mr H Battcock Dr J Bergman Mrs J Blackburn Reverend C Carson* Mr C Cockcroft Ms E Cockcroft Mr J P Cockcroft J Cockcroft Miss J D Cockcroft* Mr D N Daft* Mrs D H Daft* Mr T Dean Mrs Dean Mr F J Deegan** Mrs V Dixon Dr E Doyle Professor S L Dyson Mr D Ellis Mr D Grace Mrs Grace Ms C Hamill Mr R Hopkin Mr J Hopkins* Dr A Jones Mrs S Lee Ms V Mabon Mr S Mackinder Mr M McCarthy Mrs M McCarthy Mrs J Mislow Professor W W Ng

Mr L Pollock Dr J Principato Mrs A Pyke Professor D J Reynolds** Mrs B Richardson Ms C Roskill Mr N Roskill Mr T Roskill** Mr J Rothschild Professor P Russell Mrs P Scott Mr D Sharma Professor M Shull Professor G Sorenson Dr M E Trout* Mrs M E Trout* Dr C Vout Mr W Wing Yip**

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The Arthur & Gillian McLean Stewardship Fund Battcock Charitable Trust Bill Brown Charitable Trust** Bisset Trust Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region, Inc. Daft Family Foundation* The Gatsby Charitable Foundation The GE Foundation The Hart Charitable Trust John Younger Trust Mentor Graphics Foundation Rushbrook Charitable Trust* The Sir Winston Churchill Archive Trust Wellcome Trust* Whitcomb Family Charitable Fund

* Donors who have been giving for 5 or more consecutive years ** Donors who have been giving for 10 or more consecutive years Legacies have also been received by the College from the following Estates: The estate of Ms B M Jennison The estate of Mr B M N Oldrey The estate of Mrs F Smith The estate of Professor D J G White

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Donations to the Winston Churchill Foundation of the United States 2017–18 We are very grateful to all the following who have chosen to support Winston Churchill Foundation of the United States. All those listed below have made a gift during the period 1st July 2017 to 30th June 2018. (N.B. Gifts made after this date will be acknowledged in next year’s Review.) Dr B S Abella 1992 Dr K Abkemeier 1990 Mr V S Abrash 1986 Mrs J Adrian Mr R J Adrian 1969 Dr N L Anderson 1971 Dr J A Bagger 1977 Dr C F Batten 1999 Dr M Baldonado (Wang) 1990 Dr C E Beasley 1999 Dr V L Beattie 1988 Dr K M Beck 2009 Dr L K Benninger 1969 Dr C R Bergom 1998 Dr R Beroukhim 1991 Mr L E Bigler, Jr. 1967 Mr J Biondo Mrs R Biondo Dr L Bloom 1985 Dr A Bluher (Wilson) 1983 Mr G S Boebinger Dr D S Bomse 1975 Dr J M Bossert 1996 Dr D M Bott 1990 Dr J A Boyan 1991 Dr M Brenner 1965 Mrs D L Brice Mr J J Brink 2001 Mr D D Burrows Mrs N Burrows Mr D Butters Dr V Callier 2006 Mr R S Chivukula Dr A M Cody 2003 Dr P A Cole 1984 Dr S N Coppersmith 1978 Dr T W Cusick 1964 DONATIONS

Mrs M J DaPuzzo Mr P J DaPuzzo Dr D C Dankworth 1986 Mr P C de Boor 1988 Dr N W Dean 1965 Dr A B Declan 2001 Mr D Declan Dolby Matching Gifts Dr J W Downie 1983 Dr R O Dror 1997 Dr A C Durst 1996 Professor R Dutch (Ellis) 1986 Mr B Dyer, III Dr P R Eisenhardt 1978 Dr G Ellison 1987 Dr S Ellison (Fisher) 1987 Dr L R Falvello 1976 Dr W F Feehery 1992 Dr J N Fields III 1971 Dr D A Fike 2001 Mr C Finch 2014 Ms D Foster Mr D I Foy 1969 Mr D Fried 2014 Dr S Friedman Mr M J Gabelli Mr P A Gerschel Dr J N Glickman 1987 Dr L M Gloss-Lessmann 1988 Dr D C Goodrich 1980 Google Matching Gifts Dr N W Gouwens 2003 Dr Y H Grad 1996 Dr I N Gray 2004 Dr K E Gray 1965 Dr D J Graziano 1979

Dr D Green 1994 Ms D L Grubbe 1977 Dr D A Guaspari 1969 Dr R W Gubisch 1964 Dr N R Guydosh 2001 Mr R J Hall 1971 Dr J R Hampton 1995 Ms A Hasenstaub Dr J L Higdon 1975 Dr D A Hinds 1998 Dr S P Hmiel 1980 Dr C Hohmann 1967 Mr R A Hutchinson 1981 Ms C Hwang Dr J M Johnson 1993 Dr R D Johnson 1988 Ms S R Jones 2008 Mr T H Jones 1972 Dr Y Kahn 2009 Dr E W Kaiser 1964 Dr K M Kalumuck 1974 Mr W B Kanders Mrs A Katz Dr E R Katz 1966 Dr J R Kennedy, Jr. 1987 Dr J T Kent 1972 Dr D B Kittelson 1966 Dr J E R Kolassa 1985 Dr D K Krug 1999 Mrs S Leaf-Herman Dr W A Leaf-Herman 1984 Dr L J Lee 1999 Mr S Lee Dr A D Levine 2000 Dr S R Levinson 1970 Dr D Liben-Nowell 1999 Mr J L Loeb, Jr Dr N M Loening 1997

Mr N R Love 2005 Hogan Lovells US LLP Ms M McPherson 2014 Medtronic Dr J E Mehren 1997 Dr D E Mesler 1982 Dr D A Meyer 1979 Microsoft Matching Gift Ms S E Miller 2015 Professor D A Mix Barrington 1981 Dr P C Monaco 1989 Mrs P Monaco Dr E Q Mooring 2013 Dr M A Morse Motorola Foundation Dr K T Mueller 1985 Professor L J Mueller 1988 Dr W E Munsil 1972 Dr T K Murphy 1978 Mr N Naclerio 1983 Dr D B Neill 2001 Dr V R Nenna (Mitchell) 2004 Dr G R Newman 1973 Dr K K Niyogi 1986 Dr A B Nobel 1985 Dr M Okumura 1979 Dr J C Olson 1986 Dr P Patrikis Mr A Pekker 2001

Dr L M Phinney 1990 Dr C K L Phoon 1985 Dr W W Phoon Ms M Quong Dr E Rains 1991 Dr J P Reilly 1972 Dr J W Reyes (Wolpaw) 1994 Dr D P Riordan 2002 Dr M O Robbins 1977 Dr M K Rosen 1987 Mr A H Rosenberg 1968 Dr B M Rubenstein 2007 Dr E R Russell 2007 Mrs G Russo Mr T A Russo Dr J M Sabloff 1996 Dr H Sadofsky 1984 Dr V G Sankaran 2002 Dr S J Scherr 1980 Dr H O Scott 1975 Dr J Seeliger (Chuang) 2000 Mr M Seidman Dr K Sharp 1993 Dr S J Shefelbine 1997 Dr M Shulman 2002 Dr J S Silvia 2005 Dr E H Simmons 1985 Dr K Siwicki 1977 Dr D R Speth 1972

Dr T M Squires 1995 Dr D B Stern 1981 Mrs K Stern Dr D M Thomson 1994 Dr P M Todd 1985 Dr D F Torchiana 1976 Dr Y Tseng 2003 Dr R R Tupelo-Schneck 1997 Dr S Vadhan 1995 Ms S R Varshney Mr A Vavasis Mrs T Vavasis Mrs D Vigil Braidwood Dr J P Wanderer 2003 Dr C Wang Erickson 2007 Dr P S Ward 2005 Dr K E Warner 2009 Dr K A Weiskopf 2007 Dr D H Wesley 2000 Dr J J West 1994 Dr S E Whitcomb 1973 Mr J Wing Dr D J Wright 1972 Dr D R Wright 1982 Dr S E Wunsch 1992 Mr J P Yesinowski 1971 Mr R P Zimering 1995 + five anonymous donors

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Members of the Winston S Churchill 1958 College Society We are very grateful to all the following who have chosen to support Churchill College by leaving a gift in Will. All those listed below have been formally admitted to the WSC 1958 Society at the annual gathering of members and have given permission for their names to be listed. Mr M R Adams 1980 Dr E Allan Mrs J K Bacon 1974 Mr N Bacon 1974 Dr A F Bainbridge 1964 † Mrs B Bielstein Dr G Bielstein Sir John Boyd Lady Boyd Mr J H Burton 1961 Mrs M Burton Dr S Churchhouse 1985 Mr M A Craven 1985 Dr A J Crisp Professor T W Cusick 1964 Dr N W Dean 1965 Mr M G Dixon 1964 Mrs V Dixon Mrs J M Donora 1980 Professor S B Dunnett 1969 Mr D M M Dutton 1962 Mrs S Elliott Mr G Farren 1966 Dr A-M T Farmer 1980 Dr H Farmer Mr P R A Fulton 1970 Mr N A W M Garthwaite 1970

The Rt Rev J W Gladwin 1961 Mrs J E Goodland 1974 Mr R Gregory 1979 Mrs P Green Mr S T Green 1961 Dr S K Greene 1983 Mr S Gupta 1983 Mrs G A Guthrie Mrs D Hahn † Professor F Hahn Professor A Hewish Mr S Higginson 1982 Dr D S Hoddinott 1963 Mr J Hopkins Ms V C Jolliffe 1973 † Professor A Kelly Mrs M Ker Hawn 1989 Mr R G Larkin 1967 Mr M A Lewis 1964 Mr G S Littler-Jones 1965 Mr G H Lock 1966 Mr P N Locke 1966 Dr F W Maine 1960 Mr J R Maw 1964 Mrs M Miller Dr S A Mitton 1968 Dr J H Musgrave 1965 Mr A Peaker 1964 Dr C G Page 1965

Mrs S Page Mr J G Potter 1963 Mr M A W Prior 1974 † Mr G C Pyke 1963 Dr P J Reed 1961 Mr M K Rees 1974 Dr S-J Richards Mr A T Richardson 1978 Mrs B Richardson Mrs V Robinson 1978 Mrs B Salmon Mr R Salmon 1962 Mr R M Shaw 1972 Mrs N Squire Mr D Stedman Mr V Stedman Miss R C Stott 1987 Sir John Stuttard 1963 Lady Stuttard Dr M Tippett Mr F E Toolan 1963 Dr P N Trewby 1965 Sir David Wallace Lady Wallace Dr A J Walton 1960 Dr A H Wild 1968

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â&#x20AC;&#x2DC; No country can ever truly flourish if it stifles the potential of its women and deprives itself of the contributions of half of its citizens.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Michelle Obama

…WOMEN STUDENTS Working Harder to Uncover Female Talent Recruiting More Female Students

Richard Partington, Senior Tutor and a Churchill Fellow, explains what Churchill College has been doing these last two years to recruit more female students, particularly in STEM subjects. Having positive messages about women scientists – amongst them the career of our Master Dame Athene Donald – is one of the many ways to attract more women students to Churchill. Another powerful way is to try to address the gender disparity during the admissions process whilst maintaining the College’s high standards. And it’s starting to work! A very welcome consequence of the arrival in Churchill of Professor Dame Athene Donald DBE as Master has been the placing more strongly on our collective agenda of the issue of female recruitment, especially in STEM (Science,Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) subjects.Athene knows as much about this as pretty much any person living or dead, I suspect. It is one of her passions, and the focus she has brought has pushed me as Senior Tutor, and my colleagues in admissions, recruitment and widening participation, to think and work harder about and on this issue. The gender disparity

70% of STEM Please allow me to quantify the problem. subjects by statute As many of you will know, although women attend university in the UK in greater numbers than do men, men outnumber women in STEM subjects. In Churchill, with 70% of our students being admitted in STEM subjects by statute, we face a particular problem. Typically, only around 26% of our applicants are female, which makes seeking parity of numbers in respect of gender at entry incredibly difficult to achieve. The College has been averaging around 31% female entry across the last decade, with occasional highs of 35% and a low of 28%. By golly, we noticed the latter in Hall at Matriculation dinner a couple of years ago! The disparity stood out a mile.

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In the face of that minor disaster, Athene and I resolved to find out more. We had some very interesting focus groups with students (overwhelmingly female students) in which they advised us about their own experiences. Some had been massively encouraged to study STEM subjects at school, while at other schools some had, shockingly, been actively discouraged. There seemed to be no pattern around this. Whether, as a young female scientist, you were encouraged or discouraged seemed to be a question of pot luck. Positive messages about women Women students stressed the need for us to have plenty of positive messages about, and images of, women on the College website and in the prospectus. There were certainly some, but we needed more. They also stressed that emphasising the Collegeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s artistic dimensions was likely to attract female scientists as well as students in the Arts and Humanities. Interesting. We have latterly built a cohort of younger female Fellows in Churchill, especially in Natural Sciences, and they occupy a high profile at open days and on other recruitment-focused events, but this has not obviously brought more female applications to the College. 64

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One way in which we reacted was to commission The Female a series of films for the website, which were very Lead kindly created for us by BAFTA award-winning alumna Sally Angel. Would-be female applicants have commented favourably on these, and we must create more. We also created a new page on the College website focusing on the news of women in Churchill, with links to the films. In collaboration with the organisation The Female Lead, we wrote to many hundreds of girls’ schools, sending them a large coffee-table book, also entitled The Female Lead, in which many women of note (including Athene) wrote about their experiences and careers. This was very well received. Seeking to ameliorate gender disparity Another approach has been to focus upon selection. Did we need to work harder to uncover all of the available female talent in admissions? Perhaps. I certainly stressed to the Admissions Tutors and Directors of Studies that, because women were seriously under-represented in the Churchill application-field, a key dimension of fairness in selection was, without compromising on standards, to seek to ameliorate that disparity wherever we could, and especially in the admissions ‘pool’, where we can select among applicants who (foolishly, but we don’t blame them) originally applied to other Cambridge Colleges. Aiming higher In Governing Body we agreed that we would seek 35% with highs quickly to move our average female undergraduate of 40% entry to 35% with highs of 40%, from our previous average of 31% with highs of 35%. In the first admissions round since our initiative to do more in respect of female recruitment began, we saw female applications rise modestly to 27%; but, with good work in the pool, we then admitted a year group that was 36% female. That’s more like it; and academic results have remained strong overall, which is vital. Recently we have looked at the wider University picture in a more analytical way. Based on gendered patterns of application across all Cambridge subjects, and bearing in mind our own STEM-heavy subject mix, 40% female entry ought to be possible in Churchill. Sustaining that would be a real achievement, given where we have been positioned, but we have to strive for it.

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I suspect that the key to getting towards that target is to sustain our shift to 36% and hope that such change produces a virtuous effect in which we look more ‘female’ to potential applicants and in due course naturally become more female. Women-friendly recruitment material can’t do any harm, of course, and may be actively helpful. But being institutionally determined to make a change and keep it going is my own best hope for success in this area. It’s easy to lose focus, as, except in the dreaded 28% year, the College doesn’t seem to be suffering from such an acute gender disparity when one is in it. That is, the gender disparity is not always as noticeable as one might expect. This might be explained by a comment I once heard made by one of our female undergraduates to a potential female applicant at an open day: ‘Yes, it’s true there are lots of boys in Churchill. But in practice you don’t really notice, as about half of them never leave their rooms.’ From the mouths of babes…

Richard Partington

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Still a Long Way to Go! Margaret Bray

Margaret Bray (U72) – one of the first women to be admitted to Churchill – read Maths and Economics and then became a Churchill Fellow. Here she gives us a vivid account of her times at Cambridge: fun times at Churchill, but dreadful lecturing in the Cambridge Maths Department. From Cambridge she went to Oxford for postgraduate studies. She remembers her somewhat difficult times in the Stanford Business School where she was the only female lecturer. Back to Cambridge, she became Director of Studies in Economics at Churchill; she taught in the Cambridge Faculty of Economics and found it increasingly difficult to juggle a full-time position, with directing studies and caring for two children. She now holds a senior position in the LSE. Until 1972 there were 22 men’s colleges and 3 women’s colleges admitting undergraduates to the University of Cambridge. (The postgraduate Darwin College admitted men and women from its foundation in 1964.) The disgraceful consequence of the collegiate structure was an upper limit of 10% on the proportion of women students in the University. The University has a long history of institutional sexism. There was resistance to the foundation of women’s colleges in the nineteenth century. Academics were able to refuse women access to science practicals, and some did so. Women could sit exams and get certificates, but not get degrees. This continued until the extraordinarily late date of 1948 when women were admitted as full members of the University. The event is not noted in the timeline on the University website, although its fiftieth anniversary was suitably celebrated. A fundamental change In 1972 a fundamental change started: the formerly men’s colleges Churchill, King’s and Clare opened to women students and fellows. By 1988, when Magdalene admitted women, SPOTLIGHT ON…

Under representation of women in STEM subjects

there were no exclusively male colleges. There are still substantial difficulties: women are under-represented at the most senior level in Cambridge, as in most universities. There are subjects where the proportion of women continues to be small. This is particularly so in the STEM subjects (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) in which Churchill specialises. Many universities have a long way to go in supporting diversity, particularly for people of colour, and those from deprived backgrounds. I was part of the first cohort of women students at Churchill. My decision to apply to Cambridge was a late one. The new universities sounded more fun, and tradition did not appeal. However I wanted to do a degree in maths and economics, and Cambridge was one of the few universities where that was possible. After a girlsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; school I wanted a mixed college. The newness of Churchill was appealing. I thought, rightly, that it would adapt with less fuss, and certainly less publicity, than the ancient colleges. Life at Churchill So, what was it like? There were around 40 women in that first year. We were all on womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s staircases, a good idea because we were such a small fraction of the College, and we rapidly got to know each other. We were immensely conspicuous, the wide windows which are such a feature of Churchill made us all the more so. A little group of women sat in our staircase kitchen that first day, and groups of men appeared across the courtyard looking at us. I got to know many people rapidly, both students and Fellows. Yes, we were a minority, and thought of ourselves as pioneers, but we also expected to see rapid change. And on one level we were right, the proportion of women students in the University increased rapidly. Socially it was largely fun. Having felt like a freak at school because I was more interested in maths than miniskirts, I felt normal. However, the maths was a shock. Lecturing at Cambridge The lecturing was largely terrible. The lecturer stood with his, (always his) back to the students transcribing notes from his notes onto the board. We then copied the notes down from the board. With the possible exception of the apparent geniuses from Trinity, who sat ostentatiously in the front row,

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nobody understood what was said whilst in the lecture. The whole process was rendered obsolete by the invention of the printing press, but it was essential to go to lectures because, together with past exam papers, it was the only way to find out the details of what was on the syllabus. I was not supervised or lectured in maths by The only one in my a single woman, there were no role models school doing double for women mathematicians. However I maths came from a family with a multigenerational history of university education for both men and women. Both my parents were Cambridge graduates, my father in maths. So doing maths at Cambridge was imaginable. But I came from a girls’ comprehensive school where a tiny number did single maths A-level, no one apart from me did double maths, and the school had never sent anyone to any university to do a maths degree. I was painfully aware at the application stage that there were schools, largely boys’ schools, that regularly sent students to do maths at Cambridge, where maths was taught by Oxbridge graduates who knew how to groom their students for the entrance exam and interview. However much material is provided online this continues to be an issue with the STEP exam, now taken at the same time as A-levels. Admissions at Churchill Later, as a Fellow, I became aware of how far Churchill aimed to take into account students’ backgrounds when making admissions decisions, searching for talent rather than training. But it is inherently hard to do. There is now an awareness of the lack of diversity in the University as a whole, and particularly in maths. Substantial efforts are put into outreach, visits from schools, summer schools that bring potential students to Cambridge. But judging from my experience at LSE we need to work much more effectively with students making the often difficult transition from school to university. This is a particular issue in mathematical subjects, where there is a huge jump from school to university level and this week’s material is impossible to understand if you didn’t understand last week’s. It is all too easy to get to a point where nothing is understandable. Mathematical subjects are risky; a problem for schools assessed by grades and less confident students.

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Maths and Economics

David Kendall’s I expected the maths to be difficult and it lectures were was. I had to work hard. But ultimately it was memorable fine and I enjoyed it. Applicable maths, that is maths applied to things other than theoretical physics, was fascinating, and extremely helpful when I subsequently moved into economics. David Kendall’s lectures on Markov Methods were memorable, and important to my PhD. I particularly remember one on the maths of bird migration. David’s daughter Bridget is now the first female master of Peterhouse. I moved from maths into economics after two years. That was difficult in other ways. There were substantial disagreements within the economics faculty on how economics should be done. That is the nature of economics, healthy and important. It was a fraught time, with an oil crisis, inflation at 25% and unemployment at 5%. The lights went out due to the miners’ strike. I spent a lot of time as an undergraduate trying to understand exactly how the different paradigms worked, and how they related to each other. I eventually realized that in the nature of things my questions were unanswerable, or at least not answerable in purely intellectual terms. Economics is shaped by and shapes events and politics; passions run high. Life at Oxford and beyond

Wrong age, gender, I moved as a postgraduate to Oxford, where height and wrong I had the huge privilege of being supervised accent by Joe Stiglitz and Jim Mirrlees. Later both received Nobel prizes. I met and married Michael Akam, a biologist. We went together to California, to Stanford, I to the Business School and Michael to the Biochemistry Department. I was one of two women on the ninety-strong faculty of the Business School, a position so extreme that it made the situation at Churchill look easy and even normal. Michael and I had a very brief discussion as to whether he should try to join the business faculty wives’ club. It was relatively easy as a student to disappear into the crowd. It was impossible at the Business School. I had good colleagues, and the other woman, social psychologist Joanne Martin, had very valuable insights into the issues women face in such situations. We are judged more quickly and the judgements, for better or worse, are more extreme. Teaching was difficult. I was the wrong age – younger than many of my students, the

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wrong gender, had the wrong accent, and, at 1.6 metres, the wrong height. All things that we now know push student evaluations downwards. I also needed to exert some authority – co-ordinating and sometimes controlling discussion among 60 students. A hard thing for a young woman to do, and there was no training, and no formal support. Back to Cambridge From Stanford Michael and I returned to Cambridge and the arrival of our two children. That is a crunch point for many women’s careers and I was having major health problems, both physical and mental. I hung in there, with huge support from Michael and friends. At the time the only nursery with any association with the University was the Joint Colleges Nursery founded and run as a parents’ co-operative. I was treasurer at the time we raised loans from Colleges to fund a purpose-built building, another demand on my time. Being in the Cambridge Faculty of Economics was becoming increasingly difficult. The faculty politics were wearing. And whilst I enjoyed the contact with students, being Director of Studies at Churchill made it impossible to keep my hours of supervising within the official limit. College dinners were at the same time as the children’s bedtime and I was exhausted. I sensed disapproval that I was not going to dine.When the offer came from the London School of Economics of a more senior position, initially part time, I took it. Sexist suggestions The inevitable question at this ‘me too’ moment is – was I sexually harassed? There were from time to time verbal suggestions which I ignored; they were not pursued. There were no consequences for my career. I found what might now be termed microaggressions much more difficult. Economics teaching sometimes starts with ‘a consumer is choosing between two goods, apples and oranges, which have prices…’. What was I to make of the suggestion, in a lecture, that the goods should be peaches and women, that women are a good to be consumed at a price? I was genuinely and probably visibly shocked. There were very few women in the room. I had no idea how to handle the situation and sat there in miserable silence. Was I simply displaying prim intolerance of a joke, and a dreary lack of a sense of humour? I think, I hope, that things are different now.

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Fortunate to Have Studied in Cambridge Beth McKillop

Beth McKillop (U72) – one of the first women admitted to College – read Chinese at Churchill. She is a Senior Research Fellow at the Victoria and Albert Museum. Here she reminisces about her time as an undergraduate at Churchill College coming from Glasgow – at a time when there were two camps in Chinese studies in Cambridge – about her life-long interest in Chinese and about being one of the very few women in the University then. In the 45 years since I arrived at Churchill from my home town of Glasgow, as one of the first cohort of female students, I’ve occasionally experienced a flashback reminding me about the momentous changes I experienced between 1972 and ‘75. Teachers and friends marvelled at my good fortune in arriving to study Chinese just as the University was beginning to change its approach to recruiting female students. I myself felt that the move to Cambridge was a mixed blessing. Despite living on a staircase with other women, the University generally was ‘pale and male’ and I felt an awkward outsider. A life-long interest in Chinese history Somehow, I overcame homesickness and selfGaining confidence doubt and drove myself through the Chinese and developing Studies curriculum. Many, many hours of research habits language laboratory practice and ‘dictionary bashing’ were required, and my social life certainly suffered. But the teaching and the curriculum were exciting, and my life-long interest in Chinese history and society took root. Later in life, I understood that I was indeed fortunate to have studied in Cambridge. I gained confidence and formed research habits that have stayed with me throughout my career. When I became a curator at the British Library, I had responsibility for describing and researching books and manuscripts from China and Korea; at the Victoria and Albert Museum I led a large, diverse curatorial department working with outstanding 72

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collections of art from the Middle East, South Asia and East Asia. My last years at the V&A were spent as Deputy Director with responsibility for all the museum’s collections in every discipline and material. Learning on the job I began my library and museum career in 1981, after returning to the UK from an exchange scholarship at Peking Languages Institute and Peking University, where I witnessed the dying embers of the cultural revolution and the fall of the gang of four. Professionally, I learned on the job, supported as much by British Library and V&A colleagues as by informal help from teachers and lecturers in Asian Studies departments around Britain. Piet van der Loon of Oxford tutored me in Chinese bibliography. Bill Skillend, for many years Britain’s only professor of Korean studies, later taught me to read and write Korean, at the School of Oriental and African Studies. I applied the study habits, and the patterns of thinking, I had learned in Sidgwick Avenue as I questioned sources, evaluated evidence and expressed opinions. Coming to Churchill in 1972

Did not make the Coming to Churchill from Scotland in 1972, I most of what was had no understanding of my chosen subject, on offer nor the Cambridge way of studying it. The Churchill experience was a stretch because I had already obtained a general humanities degree at Glasgow University, and did not understand the role of the college. Indeed, before my arrival at Cambridge, I had never given a moment’s thought to collegiate universities, nor to the best way to navigate the Cambridge system. Partly because of my personality, and partly because of the mismatch between my subject and my college, I feel now that I did not make the most of the resources on offer to me. My director of studies was an Indologist, but I had committed to studying China and there was little connection. I wanted to focus on modern Chinese history, but there was no one in the Faculty of Oriental Studies to teach me, so I was accommodated by the long-suffering Martin Bernal, who guided me and my one fellow student through 19th and 20th century Chinese history. Two camps in Chinese studies at the time The early 1970s was a time when China and the world outside its borders were slowly beginning to open to each other, but the economic reforms of

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the 1980s and the explosive growth that followed were far in the future. Long years of Cold War thinking had divided Chinese studies in Cambridge and elsewhere into camps: the Faculty of Oriental Studies and Needham’s great project, Science and Civilisation in China, had little interaction during my undergraduate years. A love for languages People often ask me what inspired me to Testing the study Chinese, and I answer truthfully that boundaries of my I loved studying languages and wanted to own curiosity begin from scratch at university, tackling a language not available in the UK school system. It seems now a strange logic – to devote one’s mind and energies to understanding a country one has never visited. For my 19-year old self, though, this was the great attraction of studying Chinese at Cambridge. I wanted to experience ideas, places, books and ways of thinking that were as far as possible from those of the West of Scotland. In seeking a distant university and a yet more distant subject, I was testing the boundaries of my own curiosity and proving to myself and my family that the world beyond Britain and Europe was within our grasp. Cambridge was a difficult stage in negotiating the various identities of my life. As a daughter, I know how proud my parents were that I went up to Cambridge – their confidence in my abilities was well-founded. As a late-20th century woman, I took it for granted that I was the equal of my male fellow students.As a new member of the University I was outraged that the question of apportioning places on the basis of gender should even arise. It was very clear to me that Cambridge was slow to adapt. Overall, I experienced the University as a complacent, self-satisfied institution which tolerated rather than welcomed me. It’s good to know that women in Cambridge have come a long way since then.

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Breaking New Grounds Thanks to Churchill Lindsey Stevens

Dr Lindsey Stevens (U72), read medicine at Churchill. She was one of the first women offered a place when Churchill went co-ed. She was the first woman JCR president. She recounts how she became an ‘honorary boy’ in a boys’ school to prepare Chemistry, Biology and Maths – subjects needed to do medicine at university. After medical school she became one of the first two women ‘Housemen’ to work for the Professor of Surgical Science at her hospital. She went on to be the 10th female Consultant in A&E in the UK. She has fond memories of her life in College and is thankful to Churchill for the many opportunities it gave her, the different skills she acquired, the confidence she developed and the many experiences she had – all of which prepared her for life. An ‘honorary boy’ I went to a small girls’ school in Norfolk where sciences were not taught above what would now be called double science at O-level, and the assumption was that we did not need degrees or careers. The local boys’ school allowed me to become an honorary boy, paying £12 a subject a term to study Chemistry, Biology and Maths. Being taught by competent teachers in an atmosphere where it was expected that the pupils would go to university was revolutionary for me. My presence also had its advantages for the boys – my honorary status did not extend to corporal punishment so I became the cigarette mule sparing the smokers the cane! Applying to Churchill

I taught myself Medicine required Physics, Chemistry and Physics O level Biology As then. Because of my lack of Physics, only Cambridge would take me without an extra year called the 1st MB, on condition I passed Physics O-level

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and the Cambridge Entrance exam. I applied to Churchill as it was a scienceheavy College and I thought Medicine was a science – the longer I practise the more I realise classifying it as an art is completely right! I taught myself Physics O-level and took the seventh-term Entrance Exam, rejoining the girls’ school to take it; the headmistress did not sign the entry papers and I owe my career to her secretary, an old girl, who was furious, forged her signature and sent them off. After the Entrance Exam, I moved to London to work as a lab receptionist at Guy’s Hospital. My best friend in the lab subsisted in Camberwell with an alcoholic husband, two hyperactive boys and rats from the butcher’s shop below. For a child from a conservative rural area it was transformative. I have never recovered from the imposter syndrome that followed receiving a phone call from Churchill offering me one of the first places for women. A wonderful peer group When I reached Churchill, I was stunned by the intelligence and knowledge of my peer group – students like Mark Stitt (now a professor of molecular plant physiology) who not only looked like Marx but had read him! My life was immensely enriched by living in a 24/7 community where undergraduates, postgraduates and Fellows mixed freely, where my friends ranged from Classicists to Engineers and I learnt constantly from those around me, untrammelled by the restrictions of being in a medic-only traditional Medical School. A highlight was being involved in the Gods, the theatrical group lead by the inspirational Fellow, Tim Cribb. The friends I made at Churchill still enrich my life; they are people of open minds and open hearts who work indefatigably for others, push the boundaries of learning and knowledge and create wonderful things.

The incredible At the time I insufficiently appreciated the system of supervision quality of the Med Sci Tripos, with lectures given by groundbreakers in their field and the incredibly valuable system of supervision. But I did value the room to grow given by its unique flexibility, taking my Part II in Social and Political Sciences – a macrocosm to balance out the microcosm of basic medical sciences.

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Personal development Churchill also gave me the tools to consider the political questions which been sparked in London; left-wing debate raged between and within Stalinist, Trotskyist, Maoist and Labour groups. My next-door neighbour on our women-only staircase, a Communist, took me along to a meeting of the College Broad Left – a loose grouping of Communist, Labour, Liberal and non-aligned socialists and it was this group which persuaded me to stand for the JCR Committee first as NUS secretary, then as President – the first woman of a co-ed College to be so. Inter alia we campaigned against rent rises, apartheid and far-right groups and for nursery provision, opening the College facilities to the town, representation on the College Finance Committee and human and trade union rights. Unsurprisingly the College didn’t drop the rents despite a rent strike! However, it moved on all the other parochial issues – as always ahead of its time. I took the skills I learnt from the JCR onwards, first as President of my postChurchill Medical School SU, then as Deputy President of the University of London Union and President of the Health Student Section of the National Union of Students and then on into the workplace. The world of work Churchill’s gender-blind attitude was in sharp contrast to the world of work. Interview comments included, ‘Do you think we should stand up when you come in the room?’ (Clinical Medical School), ‘it would be jolly nice to have a woman as an SHO wouldn’t it Brian but one would never employ one as a colleague’ (Orthopaedic SHO) and ‘what would you do if something fell off the wall?’ (ITU SHO).

Self-worth provided My medical school had quotas on women’s by Churchill entry and had never employed a female House Officer (now called F1). Thanks to Ros, an Oxford graduate, who challenged this at interview, she and I were the first two women ‘Housemen’ to work for the Professor of Surgical Science. That first post and the academic credibility and self-worth provided by Churchill gave me the foundation to progress through my career. I have now been a full time Consultant and Honorary Senior Lecturer in Emergency Medicine (the 10th woman to be so appointed in the UK) for SPOTLIGHT ON…

over 32 years during which time I have been Director of Service and several specialty Training Programmes and worked with the Government, Royal Colleges and third sector organisations on areas as diverse as Domestic Violence and Major Disaster Planning. Throughout my career, I have enjoyed working with trainees the most â&#x20AC;&#x201C; I feel as though I have hundreds of children out there, nowadays predominantly women! Prime amongst them are three fantastic children of my own; my daughter is, wonderfully, a doctor.

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Engineering my Own Destiny Nikita Hari

Nikita Hari, a PhD student in Electrical Engineering, made the Telegraph’sTop 50Women in Engineering list on 23 June 2017. Nikita was a gold medallist and University topper for both Master’s and Bachelor’s in Technology. She was awarded the Nehru Trust Cambridge University Scholarship, together with a FfWG (Funds for Women Graduates) Research Grant and a Snowdon Trust & Google Scholarship to conduct her research in machine learning for GaN power electronics. In this piece Nikita recounts her journey from being a teenager fascinated and intrigued by everything engineering to her decision to study Engineering; she explains what her research entails, what her dreams and vision are and what it meant to be on the Telegraph’s top 50 Women in Engineering list. As a teenager, being in love with Physics and always fiddling around making stuff, Engineering came as an obvious choice to me. The intrigue, fascination and excitement to fathom the mysterious ‘electric shock’ I received as a kid motivated me to take up electrical engineering as my specialisation; starting off with an undergraduate degree, then moving on to do a master’s and now pursuing a PhD in the same area. Nikita’s journey Like most stories, my journey is a story of passion and purpose, of struggle and success, of dedication and determination to engineer my destiny. My journey is of terrible downs – of sorrows, disappointments and tears, and terrific ups – of success, joy and laughter. Engineering to me is about creatively solving world’s problems through exploration, collaboration, empathy, innovation and creation. Nikita’s Research The world deals day in and day out with electrical power conversion – trillions of adjustments is made every second to deliver electricity from

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wall outlets to power any electronic device. Meeting the energy These are made possible by systems that do demands of the 21st the converting – called ‘Power Electronic century Converters’, conventionally built using silicon. On average, these converters are only 90 percent energy-efficient and the rest is lost as heat, costing us billions every year. So there has been a big push for the development of new material-based devices to meet these challenging demands of 21st century. My research work aims to address this problem by exploring a better way of converting this ‘power’ using devices made of the novel material ‘Gallium Nitride’ which are expected to jump-start the next generation of smaller, faster, denser, cheaper and hence, efficient power converters. I employ machine learning techniques to better understand and work with these devices thus enabling innovation and commercialisation of these novel power devices. Getting hold of the devices through Non-Disclosure Agreement, finding the right direction and funding for my research, establishing collaborations with machine learning experts, working effectively with my collaborators spread across the globe from MIT, University of California, San Diego, Indian Institute of Technology-Chennai, India and thus having to navigate a PhD without a proper supervisor were the most challenging times of my research life! Best moments One of my best moments in the UK was Proud to be on when on 23rd June 2017 I was put on the the prestigious list of the ‘Top 50 Women in Engineering in Telegraph’s list the UK’ by the Women’s Engineering Society, the Telegraph & UNESCO. I felt incredibly humbled and honoured to have made into this prestigious list of 50 amazing women engineers in the UK. I’m also very proud and privileged to be the first student from the University of Cambridge & the first Indian citizen to have made it into this amazing list of rising female star engineers. Coming from a conventional Indian background, I’m delighted to be represented as a global role model for young girls, which I understand is a great responsibility as well. Breaking stereotypes and shattering glass ceilings to engineer my own destiny will, I hope, inspire many young girls to take up this exciting field of engineering and research.

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Nikita’s vision My vision is to innovate, transform and empower society and revolutionise education through technology. I aspire to provide a platform through my initiatives for youngsters to become positive change-makers for society. Ten years from now, I imagine myself teaching science to under-privileged children and empowering girls through education across the globe. Though my father and brother are entrepreneurs – I never imagined myself to become an entrepreneur too and venture into the start-up world – my entrepreneurial journey started off accidentally (it probably is embedded in my DNA!). But I quickly realised the importance of converting one’s passion into a purpose through social tech start-ups. Helping others, especially young girls

Making a positive Over the years, I have realised that our impact passion is worthwhile only if we can use it to help others, be part of a bigger mission to change the world for the better. In an age of racism, fascism, sexism & terrorism devouring humanity, the world needs us youngsters to act – we need to pledge to have a compassionate heart that seeks & strives to make a positive impact in this world for a safer & sustainable tomorrow. I love mentoring young people, especially young girls through outreach programmes and invited talks such as at Cambridge Girl Power conferences, Cambridge Science Festival, Soapbox Science and working with girl students to encourage them to take up STEM subjects and make them understand that science knows no gender. I’m an invited ambassador for the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering which looks to address the tragic ratio of engineers in the UK. Once I have finished my studies, I will expand and strengthen my mentoring and outreach activities in India, will be establishing a women-for-women mentoring scheme and other initiatives to inspire and empower girls and young women.

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â&#x20AC;&#x2DC; We live in this world in order always to learn industriously and to enlighten each other by means of discussion and to strive vigorously to promote the progress of science and the fine arts.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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Bringing Together Academia and Business 25th anniversary of the Møller Centre

Tim Hill, Head of Marketing at the Møller Institute, takes us back 25 years to when the Møller Centre was created, reminding us why it was created and telling us about the Møller Institute launched this year at the 25th anniversary year of the Centre to mark its contribution to the development of global leaders. When Danish shipping magnate Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller talked to Churchill College with a view to thanking Britain for protecting Denmark during WW2, the foundations for the Møller Centre were laid. Opened in 1992 and therefore celebrating its 25th anniversary in 2017, the vision from the start was to bring out the best in people so the wider world might benefit. The Churchill connection follows Churchill’s personal protection of Denmark during WW2. The Møller Centre The Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller Centre for Continuing Education, opened by Her Majesty Queen Ingrid of Denmark in 1992, was built with a donation from the Møller Foundation made to Churchill College, also recognising the College’s tradition of excellence in the fields of science, technology and engineering. In the years since, the Centre has been widely recognised as a pioneering enterprise and a beacon of customer service and best practice. Through its leadership development and executive education programmes it has extended the reach and reputation of Churchill College around the world. The Centre’s profits are covenanted back to Churchill College to help grow international leaders of the future, and the Møller team have delivered over £10m to the College since its foundation.

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The Møller team has been publicly recognised Three Golds at the as a centre of excellence, honoured with a M&IT Awards Queen’s Award for Enterprise, International Trade in 2012 and, in 2017, won an unprecedented three Golds at the M&IT Awards being voted Best UK Management Training Centre, Best Conference Staff and Best Academic Venue. The Møller Institute Through its executive education programmes, the team have been privileged to host many of the world’s senior leaders and most revered thinkers in the relatively young field of Leadership Studies.The Møller Institute was launched in 2018 to embrace the importance of developing global leaders and to acknowledge the significance and global impact of the work delivered by the Møller executive education team since 2003. The work of the Møller Institute represents the vision of its founder Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller, to bring together the worlds of business and academia for professional and executive education. The teaching team help leaders to accelerate the performance of their teams and create a positive impact on the organisations they serve, society and the environment.

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As a memento of the 25th anniversary, the Møller team published a book, Leadership Perspectives, featuring 25 leaders, from the past, present and future talking candidly about what they believe to be the greatest challenges facing leaders over the next 25 years. The book includes insights from Sir Ranulph Fiennes and Sir Clive Woodward alongside Churchill College leading figures such as former Master Professor Lord Broers, alumna Sally Angel and student Angharad Devereux, and is available to download or order a hard copy on the Møller Institute website. https://www.mollerinstitute.com/executiveeducation/book-request/ A series of events were held during the Møller’s 25th year, thanking and supporting key stakeholders including clients, associates, alumni, suppliers, College Fellows and leadership scholars.

A series of events were held to mark the 25th anniversary

Practical Leadership Symposium One such event was a Practical Leadership Symposium, featuring a panel session in September 2017 which discussed leadership issues for the next 25 years. This brought together around 100 clients, associates, employees, Churchill College and Cambridge community along with the Alumni and Council of the James MacGregor Burns Academy. The Burns Academy is a group of leaders and scholars from the USA and was formally incorporated as the research arm of the Møller Institute at the symposium. This partnership will continue the great work of James MacGregor Burns, the American historian, political scientist, presidential biographer and authority on leadership studies. The esteemed panel at the symposium included Professor Dame Athene Donald, Master of Churchill College; Ambassador Professor Lord Alderdice, former Speaker of the Northern Ireland Assembly; Claus Grube, former Danish Ambassador to the EU and UK; Patrick Hoffmann, Founder and Chairman of Cambridge Development Initiative; Michael Seelman, Former Chief of Internal Communications FBI; Katherine Tyler Scott, Chair, International Leadership Association; and Ruth Berry, Møller Associate and Coach. Speaking at the panel event, Robert Marshall, Group Chief Executive of Marshall Group, a long-term client of the Møller Centre, officially launched the 25th anniversary year. Mr Marshall commented, ‘I have always been struck by COLLEGE EVENTS

the Møller Centre’s founding principles from Mærsk McKinney Møller and his amazing vision of bringing together academia and business.The Centre is very fortunate, by design of course, to be associated with one of the great colleges of Cambridge, a new college, in many ways liberated from old traditions and forward-looking – an enormous asset to Cambridge.’ Concluding the 25th Anniversary launch event, Gillian Secrett, CEO of the Møller Institute said; ‘The context in which we lead today is in many ways unprecedented. The “megatrends” that affect our future are ignored at our peril. The impact and pace of demographic and social change, the scarcity of resource, the inequalities in our society, the complexity of our external environment and the impact of technology will all shape our future. Leaders will need to understand multiple perspectives. Our contribution in this is to work with our clients, developing leadership behaviours that influence engagement, performance and culture to deliver positive impact for individuals, organisations, society and the environment.’

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Jaw-Dropping Material Travellers in the Third Reich

Professor Mark Goldie, an Historian and a Churchill Fellow, gives us a vivid review of Julia Boyd’s new book Travellers in the Third Reich (London: Elliott and Thompson, 2017). He reminds us that Julia has a strong connection to Churchill College as she resided there from 1996 to 2006 when Sir John Boyd was Master. He comments on her many accomplishments as an historian and also remarks that one of Julia’s travellers, Barbara Runkle, has also a strong connection to Churchill herself, as the later wife of Churchill College’s second Master Sir William Hawthorne. Rarely have I read such jaw-dropping material. We are used to regarding Nazi Germany as the most unspeakable regime imaginable. How extraordinary therefore to find waves of holiday makers, business travellers, conference attenders, and students visiting Germany in the 1930s, apparently blithely indifferent to the nature of the regime. An accomplished historian

A knack for digging This is the fourth book by Julia Boyd, who rich material out of graced the College when Sir John was Master. archives Julia has several terrific accomplishments as an historian: a vivid prose style, an eye for apt quotation, and a knack for digging troves of rich material out of archives. In the case of modern history, ‘archives’ need not mean formal repositories; it can mean what is in people’s attics. How stunning to unearth an unknown snapshot of the Fuhrer, smiling in the company of the Matthews family from Bournemouth, that has since sat on their mantelpiece. The book moves chronologically, from the heady Weimar era through to the remarkable testimonies of two Englishwomen, married to German aristocrats, who lived through the War and managed, just, to survive the Allied bombs raining down on them. COLLEGE EVENTS

Barbara Runkle There is an interesting Churchill College connection, in that one of Julia’s travellers was the twenty-four-year-old Barbara Runkle, later wife of our second Master Sir William Hawthorne, who was studying voice and piano in Munich. She was more politically savvy than most. In 1936 she wrote: ‘I’ve grown to be a great enemy of National Socialism – oddly enough for practically the same reasons that turned me against communism; they’re amazingly similar, which makes it seem almost unbelievably stupid that the next war will be between Germany and Russia’. In the following year she was roused to frustrated fury when she attended a meeting of the great Jew-baiter Julius Streicher: for all his repulsive lies, ‘he is a superb demagogue, who absolutely fascinates his audience’. But Runkle is an outlier in Julius’s sorry tale. Dachau Take the responses of visitors to that regular tourist attraction, that model of the new society, Dachau concentration camp. How splendid it was for the Nazis to give those ‘dregs of humanity’ – wasters, idlers, degenerates, buggers, rapists, Bolshies (depending on your taste in social misfits) – a fresh start, some discipline in their lives. One of the more bizarre witnesses to Nazism was the Revd Frank Buchman, founder of Moral Rearmament: ‘I thank heaven for a man like Adolf Hitler, who built a front line of defence against the antiChrist of Communism’; ‘that far-seeing seer may show us the way’. Puzzled disbelief Explanation is the tough part. Often Boyd Many visitors were throws up her hands in puzzled disbelief. impressed by Nazi Plenty of people were impressed by Nazi Germany dynamism, leadership, and national purpose. Many were blinded by the antisemitism rife in their own society. It was said that surely German resentment against the Jews, who got ‘all the plums’, was understandable. As for American racism, among the most intriguing comments were those of African Americans. Archie Williams, gold medallist at the Berlin Olympics, remarked that in Germany ‘I didn’t have to ride in the back of the bus’. The black academic William Du Bois, professor of social science at Atlanta, had a grant to visit Germany to examine ways to improve ‘Negro’ education. ‘It would’, he wrote, ‘have been impossible for me to have spent a similarly long time in any part of the United States, without some,

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if not frequent, cases of personal insult or discrimination. I cannot record a single instance here.’ While the anti-Jew laws appalled him, he pointed out that whereas German Jews suffered under explicit laws, in the US ‘the Negro is persecuted and repressed’, often in open violation of the laws. Widespread sympathy

The Fuhrer Looming large was the notion of Germany was found to be as the bulwark against Bolshevism.There was charming, courteous also widespread sympathy for Germany’s and sincere grievances in the face of the vengeful terms of the Treaty of Versailles. And there was anti-war sentiment. British and German veterans regularly met up, Nazi flags mingling with Union Jacks, in hopes of world peace. Those who actually met the Fuhrer routinely found him charming, courteous, and sincere. ‘Surely a leader who does not smoke or drink, who wants women to be modest and who is against pornography cannot be all bad’. The Revd Henry Percival Smith’s lather of admiration for Hitler’s ‘personal integrity’ did not prevent him becoming archdeacon of King’s Lynn after the War. Lulled by syrupy travel brochures But all these explanations elevate the outlooks of visitors to a level of awareness which many did not achieve. They simply loved German scenery and hospitality, gave no thought to politics, and casually – politely – deferred to the local status quo. But before we cast the first stone, it is worth remembering today’s global beach resort enclaves, sequestered from their surrounding societies by high fences, and from holidaymakers’ consciousness by syrupy travel brochures. ‘All the old enchantment is there, much that is new will impress you tremendously. Everywhere you will meet with that comfort, kindliness and good fare that are the first essential of an enjoyable holiday.’ Thus, the Thomas Cook brochure for Germany, 1939.

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Splendidly Outrageous Bill Barnett at 90

On 19 November 2017 the College celebrated Bill Barnett’s ninetieth birthday. Here Paula Laycock, a Churchill By-Fellow, who has known Bill since 1988, gives us an account of the evening and the many tributes paid to Bill for his distinguished career as a historian, his many achievements and in particular for his pivotal role in shaping and building the Archives Centre, and bringing both the Churchill and the Thatcher papers in the Centre. This is followed by the now obligatory poem by Professor Archie Howie in celebration of Bill’s career. It seems rather appropriate that a celebration Creating the to mark the birthday of Correlli (Bill) Barnett Archives Centre should have taken place on the anniversary of and making it the Gettysburg Address. As Allen Packwood what it is today remarked in his tribute to Bill, for someone whose correspondence was dated by historical events – Trafalgar Day, Waterloo Day, Marengo Day – this seemed to be quite fortuitous. Indeed, the celebration on 19 November 2017 provided an ideal opportunity to understand better the crucial role that Bill played in the creation and transformation of the Archives Centre into the world-leading repository it is today. Speakers at the celebration, that was opened by Archie Howie with a rendition of a poem specially penned for Bill, included John Boyd, Alec Broers, Adrian Crisp, Mary Kendall, David Newbery, Allen Packwood and Bill’s former PA, Josephine Sykes, with a tribute by Joanna Hawthorne-Amick on behalf of the Hawthorne family. Bill’s early life and career In his introduction, David Newbery spoke of Bill’s early life and career. Bill was born on 28 June 1927 in Norbury, Surrey, and was educated at Trinity School, Croydon (then a direct grant grammar school). He served his National Service with the British Army in Palestine from 1945–48 before going up to Exeter College, Oxford to read Modern History, where his specialist subject 92

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was Military History and the Theory of War. Bill married Ruth Murby in 1950 and after graduating in 1951 worked for the North Thames Gas Board from 1952–57. Signs of Bill’s future literary career path were already becoming evident, however, starting in 1957 with the publication of a novel, The Hump Organisation. One of Bill’s two daughters, Clare, has since remarked that the novel was in fact a satire on a similar organisation, and that it was suggested by the powers that be there, that her father had no future in the gas industry!

A freelance historian It was at this point that Bill became a freelance historian.A co-authored book on The Channel Tunnel in 1958 was followed by The Desert Generals, published in 1960 shortly after Bill and Ruth moved to Norfolk. The Swordbearers: Supreme Command in the First World War followed in 1963. By 1972 Bill had already completed the first of the acclaimed Pride and Fall quartet – The Collapse of British Power – to be followed by The Audit of War (1986), The Lost Victory (1995) and The Verdict of Peace (2001). By the time that Bill came to the College as first Keeper of the Churchill Archives Centre (1977–95) he had already published seven books. Six more books were destined to be published during his time there. Bill and the Archives Centre Bill’s references were impressive. He came to the College largely on the recommendation of Stephen Roskill, the official Naval Historian (F 61–82). David Newbery noted that Stephen, in his support, described Bill as ‘the leading historian of conflict’. Another Cambridge heavyweight, Jack Plumb, described Bill as a ‘true scholar’, and therefore well placed to make the Archives a centre of research. It was with this support and these credentials that Bill launched the Archives Centre.

Bill’s tenacity gave Not all was plain sailing, but Bill’s achievements us the Churchill and were great.Alec Broers recalled the difficulties the Thatcher papers the College had faced in securing the Churchill Papers, of Bill’s tenacity in working with the National Lottery to obtain the necessary funding, and his skill in dealing with the Churchill family, not all of whom had wanted the papers to come to the College. He also paid tribute to Bill’s achievement in securing the Thatcher archives, another major achievement and for which the College owed Bill a huge debt of gratitude. Allen Packwood spoke of the key role that Bill had also played in bringing in collections of military leaders and other major figures. COLLEGE EVENTS

Bill’s outspokenness A particular theme of the celebration was that of Bill’s outspokenness. Adrian Crisp remarked that Bill’s books had questioned the validity of many of the sacred myths of modern British history. Adrian also recounted a story he had read in the biography of Sir Roger Bannister, the first four-minute miler, distinguished neurologist and recent Master of Pembroke College, Oxford, and a contemporary of Bill’s at Exeter College, Oxford. Recalling the JCR at Exeter, Bannister had written: There was a large leather-bound Suggestions Book where members made all kinds of requests and comments from the serious to the absurd. The right-hand page was left for the President of the JCR to comment. He rarely found it necessary to add anything other than ‘noted’. However, I remember one contribution several pages long by Correlli Barnett. This earned the reproach: ‘May I suggest you save your literary gems for your Tutor and not take up valuable space in the Suggestions Book’. Bill’s sense of fun Alec Broers then set a theme that was echoed by all the other speakers – that of Bill’s innate sense of fun. Mary Kendall

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recalled his practical jokes, of the ‘blast of verbal energy’ with which she would be greeted when he entered the room, and, a common reminiscence, his cheery greeting of ‘Wotcha’, a greeting that Josephine Sykes said would be guaranteed to raise her spirits on a bad day. Josephine also recalled Bill’s sense of fun, and shared the fact that even Bill could sometimes be lost for words. She recalled a visit to the College by Margaret Thatcher: It was on a Sunday and Bill had asked if any of the staff were happy to come into work. Nobody was going to miss the opportunity to meet Mrs T, so we all turned out. Bill was uncharacteristically shy and brought Mrs T into our office where he said, with a flourish: ‘This is the photocopier.’ After a pause, she said: ‘Is it British?’ ‘No’, said Bill, ‘it’s a Mitsubishi’. Bill’s many awards Bill is a world-renowned historian and his life’s work was justly recognised when he was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1997. Other literary awards have included the Screenwriters’ Guild Award for the Best Documentary for his work as co-author on the groundbreaking BBC television series The Great War; the Royal Society of Literature Heinemann Award for Britain and Her Army and the 1991 Yorkshire Post Book of the Year Award for Engage the Enemy More Closely. Bill was awarded the Chesney Gold Medal of the Royal United Services Institute for Defence Studies in 1991 for his services to military history, and in 1993 he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Science by Cranfield University. Bill retired as Keeper of the Archives in 1995, having set the Archives Centre on a solid financial footing. He became a Title D Fellow in 1996, and then spent a period as Development Fellow from 1997–2001. His latest book, Leadership in War: From Lincoln to Churchill, was published in 2014. Listed as a ‘controversial study’ it perhaps epitomises Bill’s approach to his life and his work, an approach that was appropriately described by Alec Broers at this, Bill’s 90th birthday celebration, as being ‘splendidly outrageous’.

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Bill Barnett hits 90!

The fighting of the human race ensures Some former battle marks each dawning day In dear Bill’s diary the list endures Shows how for him the past can hold its sway. Its Narva or Occana day just now Ypres the first would take the whole weekend Still longer fights his system can’t allow Two hundred days can Stalingrad append? In auditing the course of each event, The countless errors ruthlessly exposed; The many officers, whose lives were spent, Their name and college from dog tags disclosed. The prism of technology Bill brought A novel light on history imbibed. Our loss of empire galvanised his thought Collapse of power and industry described. ‘Engage More Closely’ as his books relate Which surely some young readers will beguile Our minds old memories can stimulate With many flashes of his feisty style!

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From Gordon Brown to Adrian Crisp A Series of Fortunate Events

This has been a year of exciting events for the Churchill Archives Centre; some long-planned and traditional, others ad-hoc and innovative, juxtaposing the largescale with the intimate. Here Allen Packwood, the Director of the Archives Centre and a Churchill Fellow, gives us an insightful summary. The Rt. Hon. Gordon Brown The visit of former Prime Minister Gordon Neoliberalism â&#x20AC;&#x201C; a Brown sprang from a wonderful moment flawed response of opportunism. Having seen that he was to increasing engaged on a tour to promote his book, My globalisation Life, Our Times, we seized the moment and offered him a Cambridge venue. The resulting talk in the Wolfson Lecture Theatre saw the Labour politician forsaking the lectern and striding the stage as he reflected on his public life and sought to draw lessons for the future. He mixed anecdotes (such as Amy Winehouse comparing Nelson Mandela to her husband, as both had spent a very long time in jail) with a serious argument about the need for a new national conversation around identifying and reasserting our shared values. He argued that neoliberalism had been a flawed response to increasing globalisation, and had contributed to inequality

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and isolationism. Brexit was a symptom of this, and the next generation needed to think anew about the link between economics, politics and ethics in order to find new ways to make interdependence work. After fielding questions on the state of the union with Scotland, Brexit, the legalisation of drugs, party political funding and the current condition of the Labour Party, Mr Brown signed almost a hundred books before speeding off to his next engagement. We look forward to the arrival of his papers, and his return to see them in situ. The Stephen Roskill Memorial Lecture The seventeenth Stephen Roskill Memorial Lecture took place on the last day of January. While the talk had been long planned, there was still a cold frisson of uncertainty for the organisers, as the speaker braved Toronto snows to fly in from Canada on the morning of her talk. The title of the address was Reflecting on the Great War Today and we could not have hoped for a more relevant or captivating speaker than Professor Margaret MacMillan, author of Peacemakers: the Paris Conference of 1919 and Its Attempt to Make Peace, and the former Warden of St Anthonyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s College in Oxford. Our timing was perfect: Margaret had just been made a Companion of Honour and announced as the 2018 Reith lecturer. She certainly did not disappoint.

Pointing out Could something like the Great War ever happen in the twenty-first century? She worrying signs of pointed to worrying signs: highlighting rising the 21st century populism, a backlash against modernity and multiculturalism, international tensions, and powers prepared to breach the normal conventions of international relations. In just 45 minutes she managed to summarise a huge literature and to convey the complexity and nuance of the ongoing historical debates about the causes and legacies of the 1914â&#x20AC;&#x201C;1918 war; a conflict that destroyed empires, gave birth to revolutions, unleashed nationalisms and irrevocably changed the societies of all the major combatants. Her message was clear: while history does not repeat itself, there is much we can learn from studying how the supposedly civilised and sophisticated European powers allowed themselves to be dragged into such a catastrophe. 98

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The Churchill History Lecture Series The Archives Centre is always getting requests to host talks, so why not bring them together under the umbrella of a lecture programme? And so much the better if we can do it in partnership with the College History Society. Such was the logic that led to our first Churchill History Lecture Series.

The nature of fascist We opened on 30 October 2017 with Julia dictatorships – a Boyd introducing some of the characters recurrent theme and stories that made her bestselling book Travellers in the Third Reich such a compelling read. It was a joy to hear Julia describe her discoveries (some of them made in the Churchill Archives Centre) and to reflect on the wealth of different perspectives she had unearthed. Why did only some people record the brutality of the Nazi regime? Why did some fail to see, or in some cases choose not to see, what was going on around them? The nature of the fascist dictatorships was a theme that we returned to on Thursday 8 February, when Dr Helen Roche discussed Appropriations of Antiquity in Mussolini’s Italy and Hitler’s Germany. In a beautifully illustrated talk Helen demonstrated how Fascist Italy drew on ancient Rome and Nazi Germany on Sparta; arguing that in both cases the new regimes were able to build on pre-existing movements and tendencies, already widespread in society, and which were in part responses to the modern creation of both countries. In November 2017, we had two Acknowledging the complementary talks by two former siege of Calais Archives By-Fellows (both of whom had been in receipt of the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust Archives Grant). Dr Gary Love spoke about the intellectual culture of Conservatism after 1945, while Dr Peter Brooke homed in on one particular Conservative, Duncan Sandys, and looked at his attitude towards British decolonisation. In February, there was another change of tone, with a look at the writing of historical fiction, as Churchill Fellow Dr Adrian Crisp talked about the writing of his novel Colonel Belchamp’s Battlefield Tour, set in part in Calais in 1940. Adrian analysed his motivations for writing, including his desire to see the siege of Calais properly acknowledged, and explained how he had used his medical knowledge to inform key passages. Personal experience also fuelled the next talk, in which Doug Bateman gave an insider’s perspective on the work of the Royal Aircraft Establishment at Farnborough in developing nuclear COLLEGE EVENTS

weapons. Members of his family, including maintenance manager Gavin, were on hand to learn for the first time about his hitherto secret career. The talk was superbly illustrated with slides and film clips saved from destruction by Doug. Then, on 8 March, Visiting Fellow Admiral Dr Chris Parry gave us an overview of War and Our World, Today and Tomorrow, highlighting trends, challenges, flashpoints and threats. The rather depressing analogy on which he ended was with the fall of the Roman Empire. We hope that we will live to fight another day!

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Shifting the Glass Ceiling

The Master in Conversation with Bridget Kendall Paula Laycock, a Churchill ByFellow, reminds us that the seventh invitee in the Master’s series of public conversations with women in leadership position was Bridget Kendall, former BBC Diplomatic Correspondent and the first female Master of Peterhouse. Bridget, who speaks fluent Russian, was also the BBC’s Moscow Correspondent during the collapse of Communism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. She has interviewed President Putin twice and maintains a close interest in Russia and East/West relations. She is the daughter of former Churchill Fellow, David Kendall (F62–07), a statistician and mathematician. Bridget Kendall’s interest in Russia goes back to her school days. The English education system required specialisation early on for those who wanted to take up a third Language besides French and Latin for O-levels. Even though it meant abandoning some of the basic sciences, she embarked on an intensive course to learn Russian from the age of 14. The Russia years This in turn led to a university course in The importance Russian, and a chance to spend a year in the of looking beneath Soviet Union in the mid-1970s on a British the surface Council Scholarship. Once in the Soviet Union, based in a provincial city far from Moscow, she found the contrast between her comfortable and safe upbringing in Cambridge and the challenges of living and studying behind the Iron Curtain both humbling and life-changing. She discovered that people had little concept of how markedly their world differed from the West, and that as a foreigner she was under constant surveillance, with her Soviet student roommates under instructions to report on her. Undaunted by the fact that life under a Soviet Communist regime was corrupt, dysfunctional and full of deprivation, the food bad and the hygiene poor, she soon realised that this rare chance to be parachuted into such an COLLEGE EVENTS

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unfamiliar and almost alien world was fascinating. She adapted her hairstyle and clothing so as not to stand out as a foreigner. She learnt not to be taken in by appearances and in particular to be wary of Soviet students who were well dressed and therefore probably came from families with access to elite privileges. Faced with the gap between the harsh realities of Soviet life and the ludicrous claims of official propaganda, she quickly realised the importance of looking beneath the surface, something which was to prove invaluable to her later career as a journalist.

Witnessing events On returning from Russia, she completed at first hand her undergraduate degree at Oxford and embarked on postgraduate studies in Russian literature, including two years at Harvard in the United States on a Harkness scholarship. In 1981 she returned to the Soviet Union for a second year, this time to Moscow. By now it was becoming clear that the country was on the cusp of change: the economy was barely functioning, the countryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s aged leader Leonid Brezhnev was ill and unlikely to survive much longer, and the frustration of the population at the shortages and constraints which plagued their lives was palpable. Acutely aware that the Soviet Union was probably facing a crossroads and about to enter a period of possible turbulence, she decided that her next step should be to find a way to witness events at first hand, rather than pursue the more detached and theoretical path of researching and analysing events as an academic. A career in journalism seemed a good option. So she applied to join a BBC graduate training scheme and launched into what was to become a long career as a BBC journalist. The BBC years Her appointment came at a time when the BBC was beginning to consider giving female employees more prominent roles. This was partly in response to a 1985 report by Monica Sims, Women in BBC Management, which had revealed that there was a glass ceiling when it came to promoting women. Female BBC employees might move up through the ranks to some extent, but not when it came to being promoted to run departments or act as senior managers. Bridget Kendall recalls that she was lucky to benefit from the changing culture, taking on senior radio production roles and then winning a competitive board to be sent to Moscow as BBC Moscow correspondent in 1989, just months before the Berlin Wall came down.

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Nonetheless, she acknowledges that there Intimidation was some cultural hostility at the time and bullying towards the promotion of women. While some male colleagues and bosses were supportive and even offered advice as informal mentors, not everyone was so welcoming. There were incidents of intimidation and bullying by some, and unashamed prejudice by others. At one evening reception at a London embassy in the mid-eighties, she was approached by a veteran British newsreader who asked her what she did. On hearing that she worked for BBC radio, he said: ‘Hmm. I think women’s voices are too high to carry any authority. I don’t think they should have them on the radio.’ In recounting this episode now she acknowledges that voice pitch can be important to convey authority, and that the pitch of her voice lowered over the years, perhaps partly in response to increased confidence and a recognition that what you look like and how you sound can influence the perceptions of others. But she explains that the prejudice shown by this newsreader also has to be seen in the context of the time, and that it should not be forgotten that within just a few years, attitudes towards women in the workplace were changing rapidly. One incident that revealed this came in the early 1990s. By this time she had established a reputation as a BBC Moscow correspondent to be taken seriously. She received a visit from a senior news editor who was passing through Moscow, having just retired from the London newsroom. At the end of his visit, he said he had something he wanted to tell her and confessed that in the newsroom he had spoken out against appointing her as Moscow correspondent, believing that she did not have the stamina or the experience to meet the demands of the job. But now, he said, her performance had proved him wrong and he asked her to accept his apologies. Being tough Looking back on those years, Bridget Kendall says that at certain points she did feel she had to prove to everyone, including to herself, that she was as tough as her male counterparts as foreign correspondents, something which took strength of character, determination and tenacity. She recalled visits to war zones in places like Chechnya and Tadzhikistan, sometimes unaccompanied, and on one occasion having to spend the night with villagers, because she was trapped behind enemy lines. Later, as BBC Diplomatic correspondent, she frequently found herself on assignment in trouble spots, including a trip COLLEGE EVENTS

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to Afghanistan and Helmand province where, like many foreigners at the time, she flew into the British base by helicopter because the roads were too dangerous. Her recollection of such reporting assignments was not, however, to remember them as frightening or worrying. On the contrary, she emphasized that it had been an exciting and rare privilege to be able to report from the frontline in such a range of conflicts.

A trail blazer Bridget Kendall admits that she was a trail blazer, one of the BBCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first female foreign correspondents to be posted overseas. She sees the qualities of determination, curiosity and ability to look beneath the surface as the key to cementing her reputation as a respected journalist and thereby being seen as one of the role models who played some part in contributing to a change in mindset. Contemporary discussions on equal pay at the BBC and elsewhere indicate that the shift in attitudes and practice is still a work in progress. Her advice is that change needs to start from the inside, from women themselves. As she recalled of her early days reporting from Russia: â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;It was sink or swim. I had to learn to be more assertive.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Paula Laycock

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Enabling Students to Excel in Physics and STEM Isaac-Churchill Physics Widening Participation Boot Camps

Dr Lisa Jardine-Wright, Director of Studies in Physics, Tutor and a Churchill Fellow, tells us about the very popular and successful Isaac-Churchill Physics widening participation boot camps that she has organised last January and August together with a Symposium for GCSE and A-level teachers. The university STEM (Science,Technology, Engineering & Maths) landscape : ‘Statistical Facts’ The number of full-time undergraduates in a year taking a degree course in 2009–10 in • Physics =~4,000 of these ~850 were female (21%), 89.5% were white, 10.5% BME. • Mathematics ~10,000 of these 4,200 were female (42%), 76% white, 24% BME. • Electronic and Electrical Engineering ~7,500 of these 900 were female. 70% white, 30% BME. http://www.iop.org/publications/iop/2012/file_54949.pdf In 2017–18, the number of students accepted onto a degree course in • Physics ~4,800 of these ~1,150 (24%) were female. • Mathematics ~9,000 of these 3,300 (37%) were female • General and Electronic and Electrical Engineering ~10,600 of these 2,000 (19%) were female. 2017–18 data from UCAS Compared with its bedfellows of Engineering and Mathematics, Physics therefore has some work to do in improving the diversity of the undergraduate community. The paucity in gender diversity has been known for 25–30 years and many interventions have been made over this time period to increase the percentage of women A-level physicists above an unwavering 20–22% COLLEGE EVENTS

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of the cohort. A long list of piloted interventions, such as changes in school syllabus, formulation of exams and outreach initiatives, have failed to make any significant change in this percentage. And the reality is that the diversity of students taking A-level physics must change before we can change the undergraduate landscape. However, what can we do to maximise access to a university education in Physics for the current diverse cohort of school students, who are taking the relevant A-levels? Physics boot camps

The second cohort of students outside the Cavendish Laboratory on the 5th January 2018.

Giving students In January this year, Churchill College hosted confidence and two Isaac Physics residential boot camps for experience year 12 and 13 students (aged 16â&#x20AC;&#x201C;19) who were taking both A-level Maths and Physics at school. The aim of these boot camps was to provide intensive workshops that would kick start students into raising their attainment at A-level (or equivalent) by providing them with access to specialist physicists and all of the free resources of Isaac Physics. Our aim was not to recruit students for Cambridge, but to provide students, whose grades were not A*/A, with the facility to gain confidence and experience. To be eligible to attend students had to be studying at a state school in England and fulfil at least one of the following criteria: 1. Be first generation of their family to attend university. 106

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2. Be eligible for one or more of free school meals, Pupil Premium, Education Maintenance Allowance and/or 16â&#x20AC;&#x201C;19 bursary during secondary school â&#x20AC;&#x201C; indicators of household income. 3. Attend a school or college (or live in an area) with a low rate of progression to higher education. If their home or school postcode is POLAR3 quintile 1, 2 or 3 then this criterion is met. 4. Attend a school or college with a below-average A-level (or equivalent) point score or live in an area with a high level of socio-economic deprivation. In addition to fulfilling these criteria students were required to complete a small piece of homework before they received their confirmed invitation. Despite our strict criteria, 295 students Tired but committed attended the two boot camps more than 45% of whom were women and more than 55% were BME (Black Minority Ethnic). What did we ask the students to do? Focus on Physics. The one full day that they spent with the team started at 9:15am and finished at 8:30pm. We had breaks and breakfast, lunch and dinner in Churchill but every other session focused on Physics. Students were aware from the very outset that this was a boot camp, not a holiday camp. By the last session they were tired but committed and we forged on.

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Student feedback What did we achieve with such intensity? There are many anecdotal conversations that we can recount from this experience, for example, two girls who came to thank us because their Physics teacher had left and had not really been replaced (Physics teachers remain in teaching for typically 4.2 years). Our exit survey has many illuminating comments: female students in particular reported a gain in confidence as a result of this experience. I believe that Churchill College should also take a lot of credit for the students’ positive experience – from the quality of the accommodation, food through to its welcoming and helpful staff and the open ‘unstuffy’ atmosphere of the communal spaces. ‘From attending the boot camp, my interest and passion for Physics grew immensely as I learnt from and worked with expert physicist who treated problems I found difficult like they were a piece of cake. Observing their skill has inspired me to indulge in deeper problem-solving questions and apply techniques and methods I learnt over the weekend into my own studies. I also gained a lot of confidence and felt welcome and safe; as it was my first time away from home, I was afraid it would be very unfamiliar but the overall experience was beyond amazing.’ – White-Asian female student attendee. ‘Physics became my easiest subject after the boot camp, it just makes so much sense now and all of the concepts which we learned before in college seem incredibly simple, and I have gained a much deeper understanding of Physics and feel incredibly passionate about studying it to a higher level. I just wish that more of my friends knew about it and went, because it was such an amazing opportunity. The biggest effect the boot camp had for me was realising how important it is to understand things from the very first principles, rather than just know the equations and carry out calculations like a computer.’ – White (other), Female student attendee. ‘I gained more confidence in my ability to do Physics. It was amazing studying there, to be in a room where everyone was focused on Physics, it has only fuelled my dreams more to go to a top university and study science.’ – White British, female student attendee. ‘Really enjoyed the opportunity to ask questions on topics I didn’t fully understand (and questions I was previously stuck on) and they were explained really well.’ – Female, African student. 108

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Figure 1: Distribution of schools sending students to the boot camps.The different coloured stars represent the two boot camps.

Figure 2: Priority local area districts for intervention and support (levels 5 & 6) are shown in red and orange in this figure. East Anglia shows a number of districts that fall into these categories.

Students came from all over England (the Isaac Physics funding for face-toface events is for England only) and many had not used Isaac Physics before (35% of those responding to our survey – which means that this activity has also provided them with a new resource and additional support when they return to school). When looking at the schools represented by the 295 attendees we noticed a striking lack of participation in the East Anglia region. The Department of Education has now classified local area districts on a scale of priority for intervention from 1 – needs little intervention – to 5 and 6 that are a priority for intervention and support. Isaac Physics employs widening participation fellows in 8 (+2) universities around the UK; York, Central Lancashire, Manchester, Liverpool, Bath, Exeter, Portsmouth, Oxford and soon to include Lincoln and University of East Anglia in Norwich. Our aim is that our coverage of these priority areas will spread with local engagement and further targeted intervention. Following the success of these boot camps we made three further offerings in 2018: COLLEGE EVENTS

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• 29th–31st August & 31st August–2nd September:Two boot camps for students (320 places in total) • 12th–14th July: A symposium for GCSE & A-level teachers. The aim of the student boot camps is to give year 12 students a running start at their new stage 2 physics material, but also enable them to consolidate their first year given that public AS-level exams no longer exist. Teachers are the key to student success and engagement with programmes such as ours. To this end, we want to support teachers in school in priority areas that face challenges in teaching Physics and Maths to their students. Isaac Physics is hosting a FREE two-night residential symposium for teachers of Physics and/or Mechanics at Churchill College. This will be an opportunity for them to take time out of school to solve, with our team, the range of questions on Isaac Physics, from Mastery to synoptic physics problems. It is open to teachers of Physics (GCSE or A-level) and to teachers of A-level Maths (Mechanics). Isaac Physics covers the cost of food and accommodation. For state schools in areas of low progression to higher education, we have offered to pay supply cover costs (up to £200) to enable teachers to be released from schools – a significant hurdle to begin to work with teachers in schools in areas of low progression. Our aims are to introduce delegates to a network of like-minded teachers who can support each other while helping them to embed our resources and facilities into their teaching so that we can reduce their workload in school (we automatically mark and report on homework for all freely registered teachers). Can we make an impact? What prevents students from going on to physics or technological degrees? The reality is grades and performance at A-level in particular. News items and discussions1 have raised the question of universities lowering their entry requirements for students from disadvantaged backgrounds. One need not enter into such a debate if our approach is undertaken. A recent user study and work in collaboration with UCAS has shown that continuous Isaac usage raises students’ aspirations and acceptance to university compared with cohorts matched in GCSE performance, ethnicity, gender, school and other key demographics. Our data 110

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also shows that students not only think that their confidence has improved but statistically, as a cohort, their grades do too. Isaac Physics, working in collaboration with partners such as Churchill College, has the facility to provide extra specialist subject support and resource for such students so that they can raise their grade and enter their chosen university on a par with their peers.

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Conveying Views with Fluency and Precision The Master in conversation with Dr Helen Czerski

Credit: Alex Brenner

On 24 January 2018, the Master was in conversation with Helen Czerski, a physicist at University College London, author, science broadcaster for the BBC and an alumna of Churchill College. Professor Archie Howie who supervised Helen for the Natural Sciences Tripos gives us a flavour of the conversation and the great enthusiasm, quick thinking, forthrightness, fluency and precision with which Helen answered the Master’s and the audience’s questions. Our alumna Helen Czerski (U&G97) is considerably younger than the highflying ladies previously interviewed by the Master Professor Dame Athene Donald. Any apprehension about a possible shortage of material however might have been dispelled by the sight of the lively 15 minute private warmup conversation that took place on stage before the show started. The pedestrian pace of words employed here cannot match the lively tempo that was maintained throughout but is captured in the recording available at https://www.chu.cam.ac.uk/about/events/conversations/dr-helen-czerski/ Helen’s background

It seems that Helen’s mother, briefly a physicist A liking for foreign but later a mathematician and computer languages programmer, was the more practical and science-minded of her parents. Her father, a refugee from Poland, instilled a liking for foreign languages. Going to an all-girls school in Manchester where quite a lot of them did science certainly helped Helen in that direction but, to include languages in her GCSE, she deliberately chose to do ‘only’ double science. Proceeding to Cambridge and Churchill College, though far from automatic, did not involve the detailed researching of all available possibilities more usual today. At a Churchill open day, Helen was impressed by our large sports field, student kitchen facilities and the large room windows. After 112

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arrival here, her tendency to keep an open window resulted in a wasps’ nest appearing under the window seat. She got involved with the architects in discussions about refurbishing of the students’ bathrooms, strongly opposing the idea that we should adhere to the 1960’s style. A First in Physics

Oceanography and Helen emerged from the Natural Science the environment Tripos with a first in Physics but without a strong idea on what to do next. She was not turned on by cosmology or other big physics and despite the breadth of the earlier part of the course had not encountered her eventual love oceanography. Her horizon was broadened through a year spent partly in Toronto as a physicist assisting chemistry researchers in atmospheric science, and partly on volunteer work in New Zealand. The experience of an undergraduate project in the fracture and explosives group in the Cavendish then brought her back to Cambridge for a PhD. Although she had no taste for the Ministry of Defence aspect of such work she was happy with the opportunity to build her own big bang kit. The fascinating topic of bubbles came up through contact in the Cavendish with Alan Walton an older Churchillian. Through science ship cruises to measure bubble phenomena, this finally opened the wide door to oceanography and the environment. Helen’s invitation to come for a BBC audition came out of the blue. Her career took off despite several hilarious sessions with make-up artists. The image of her face being made up on only one side was unfortunately not preserved for the Churchill archive. One piece of advice – don’t be too focused – you’ll get too self-conscious. Answering audience’s questions

Mixed gender teams The question session started with one about work best together Genetically Modified Organisms which Helen took as one of several examples of exciting technology that should be welcomed while maintaining rigorous scrutiny of the applications. Next ‘did she have a crisis in confidence at any stage?’ Here the answer was pretty definitely ‘no’ although she did confess to an early tendency to shyness which she learnt to overcome.A lady with two daughters wondering about why medicine and biology were regarded as more suitable careers for women than physics or engineering was advised to ignore this COLLEGE EVENTS

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and encourage them ‘to do their own thing’ with the benefit of the large number of role models now available. The politicisation of science, raised in another question was recognised by Helen as a dangerous generator of ‘hype’ which, despite simplification or even error, might nevertheless in cases of overwhelming importance like climate change encourage the right decisions. Questioned about the wisdom of doing a PhD, she thought that the current academic model was a century out of date but is now rapidly changing to lead to a far wider range of careers. ‘Can we declare victory on the women in science issue?’ Here her response was that it’s not a zero sum game and that mixed gender teams are now seen to work best though another 50 years might be needed for real equality to be reached. Nevertheless she pointed out that the powerful natural human force of tribalism operates far beyond gender inequality. Quick-thinking and forthright, Helen Czerski conveyed her views with fluency and precision. As one of her occasional supervisors in NatSci, I would be delighted if I could believe that any of this was down to me!

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Sweeney Flies Again John Kinsella’s The Wound

Tim Cribb, a Churchill Fellow, gives us a brief description of the launch of John Kinsella’s latest book of poems, The Wound, which took place in College. It was very well attended and as an attendee myself I found the reading both excellent and riveting. On March 13th, the Recital Room saw the launch of John Kinsella’s latest book of poems, The Wound, specially commended by The Poetry Society and published by Arc, who sent representatives for the occasion. The launch echoed the book’s two parts. The first re-imagines the Old Irish poems on the madness of King Sweeney, changed into a bird as punishment for attacking a bishop – a gift for John, whose poems always include birds, so the first half is a mad flight round Oceania, witnessing its environmental wounds and desolations. This was read by members of the Marlowe Society, which premiered his first play, Crop Circles, in the Wolfson in 1998. Performance lit up the black comedy of the poems, clearly appreciated by a responsive audience. The second half was set in Europe, in renderings of Hölderlin, read by John himself. Copies at the reception afterwards flew off the shelves!

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Out of the Ordinary

The Master in conversation with Martha Lane Fox Professor Alison Finch, a Churchill Fellow, recounts how on 9 May 2018 Martha Lane Fox – businesswoman extraordinaire, philanthropist and public servant – came to Churchill to participate in one of the Master’s‘Conversations’, the dialogues with distinguished women who have made it to the top. Distinguished, Martha Lane Fox is. In 1998 she founded Europe’s largest travel and leisure website, lastminute. com, with Brent Hoberman. Awarded a CBE in the 2013 New Year’s Honours for ‘services to the digital economy and charity’, she became a crossbench peer in the House of Lords in March 2013 – its youngest female member. These ‘Conversations’ with the Master are called ‘Give me Inspiration!: The Paradigm Shift’. Martha Lane Fox was indeed inspirational, and exemplifies that shift in expectations of women.You sensed a remarkable combination of the steely, the sharp-witted and the humane. Formidably fluent and articulate, she spoke in a lively yet understated way, her delivery a mix of the chatty and the focused; she came across as engaging, funny, unpretentious and brave. Martha Lane Fox talked about her family, telling us inter alia that her own mother had started a business. Her father too had been very supportive; altogether, her upbringing had, she felt, given her confidence. She had taken her undergraduate degree at Oxford, of which she painted a not wholly favourable picture – citing, for instance, tutorials with another student in which she was asked not a single question: the other student was male. How, asked the Master, had she got interested in technology? Answer: she was interested in puzzles. What was it like to set up the company? It was, replied Martha Lane Fox, fuelled by tequila! More seriously: no one then believed the internet would be used to buy things; she was convinced it would. The ‘Conversation’ covered a range of issues: how much fuss should a woman make if passed over for a man?; the role of imagination not just in the arts but

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in scientific advances; how to help those in leadership roles; the part China and other Asian countries are likely to play in the future; the unpredictably vile instrument that Twitter has become, and the difficulty of controlling it – though controlled it must be. In the Q&A session at the end, questioners included our own Fellow Ross Anderson, Professor of Security Engineering, and alumna Sally Angel, outstanding film-maker. Among the topics were the House of Lords, cybercrime, climate change, and the perils of diplomacy-by-Twitter. (The phrase ‘Orange Peril’ was used.) If you missed this fascinating Conversation, and indeed others in the terrific series established by the Master, you can catch up via the College website: https://www.chu.cam.ac.uk/about/events/conversations/

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A Far Better Antidote to Ageing Len Squire at 90

Mary Beveridge, Registrar 1984–91, tells us about the many tributes to Len during the lunch given in College to mark his 90th birthday. She recounts how Len’s career took him from teaching Maths in the army to his work at the Royal Aircraft Establishment in Bedford and after a change of career direction to Queen’s University Belfast and, finally to Cambridge in 1963. He came to Churchill as a teaching fellow in 1968. Len was made a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical society in 1975 and a Doctor of Science of Cambridge in 1984. Mary’s account is followed by a tribute by Professor Malcolm Bolton. Len Squire celebrated his 90th birthday on Sunday 24 June 2018. To mark the occasion, a lunch was held in the Fellows’ Dining Room, presided over by the Master and attended by members of Len’s family, academic colleagues, past and present members of the College staff, and spouses. There were family photographs recalling Len’s younger days, one of Archie Howie’s poems, and many reminiscences. Introducing the tributes to Len, David Newbery gave a brief outline of Len’s career before his election in 1968 to a teaching Fellowship at Churchill. Malcom Bolton then took up the story.

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Len’s education The Second World War resulted in a Teaching himself shortage of school teachers, which delayed applied maths Len’s education but did not, as Malcolm explained, dim his enthusiasm for mathematics. When he finished school, Len was called up for National Service and was selected for the Army Educational Corps, where he found himself providing maths training to senior NCOs. He also came into contact with research being done in engineering and decided that he wanted to work with aircraft. However, applied maths was required for the honours degree course at Bristol – so Len set about teaching himself. After graduating in 1952 he spent two years as a research student and, when the funding ended, applied for a job at the Royal Aircraft Establishment in Bedford where his work on flow visualisation enabled him to convert his MSc thesis to a PhD, published in the Journal of Fluid Mechanics. Aircraft research was at an exciting stage in the 1950s when the first supersonic planes were being designed, and Len and his colleagues at the RAE developed a trans-sonic wind tunnel to test the new models of many planes, including the one which eventually became known as Concorde. A change of career direction This took Len to Queen’s University Belfast and, in 1963, to Cambridge where, in 1968, he was elected Fellow and Director of Studies in Engineering at Churchill. He was also a TAS (Tutor for Advanced Studies) and, in addition to teaching and research, took part in many other College activities, and was a strong supporter of the Chapel. He also participated in some of the more practical aspects of College life. Gavin Bateman paid tribute to Len’s years of service as a member of what is now the Estates Committee, and to the time he has devoted to helping the College reduce its energy costs. Len’s many skills In January 1974 one of the high-level Dining Hall windows spectacularly blew in, minutes before students arrived for evening Hall – an event recalled in the opening lines of Archie Howie’s poem: A gale once blew a mighty gust With students keen for Hall lined up Shards from our upper windows bust And gouged the tables where they’d sup! COLLEGE EVENTS

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Len and Will Hawthorne, the then Master, Len’s aerodynamic checked the wind speed pressure design for expertise the proposed replacement windows and, as Archie’s poem says, Safe windows now we proudly show. When the architects of the Møller Centre were trying to work out how to prevent a possible similar disaster with a glass door, Len’s aerodynamic expertise was once again called upon and, once again, provided the solution.

Len is also a keen theatre goer and Tim Cribb recalled how his engineering skills helped to resolve an apparently insoluble problem of how to erect scaffold poles for a GODS’ production without drilling holes in the floor of the Wolfson Hall. Replying, Len thanked his colleagues for their support, and remarked that attending College events and engaging today’s generation of very young, very bright undergraduates in discussion is a far better antidote to ageing than doing the crossword or Sudoku.

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He Enjoyed it and Did Well

A tribute by Professor Malcolm Bolton After finishing his delayed schooling in 1947, Len was immediately called up, reporting to Yeovil barracks in the afternoon after finishing his last HSC exam in the morning. He was selected for the Army Educational Corps (smart move by the army!) and sent to Buchanan Castle for 3 months. He enjoyed it and left as sergeant Squire when he was posted to the Army Air Transport Development Centre at RAF Brize Norton. As a 20-year-old sergeant, Len was faced with teaching senior NCOs with rows of medal ribbons the calculation of centres-of-gravity. His teaching must have been good since he was promoted to Warrant Officer. Meanwhile the sergeantsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; mess had brought him into contact with aeronautical engineers and Len resolved to follow this path himself. First, he wanted to read Maths at Bristol University but found that he needed Applied Maths to get on the Honours course. So, he set about studying it from books, and he started at Bristol in October 1949. Again, he enjoyed it and did well. On graduation in 1952 he joined Prof Leslie Howard FRS as a graduate student working on three-dimensional boundary layers. Lenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s work was of interest to the Aerodynamics and the Fluid Dynamics Committees of the Aeronautical Research Council. After 2 years, Len submitted his research for an MSc and applied for, and got, a job at the Royal Aircraft Establishment. His examiners subsequently recommended that the new work he then did on flow visualisation could be regarded as converting his MSc thesis to a PhD. It was also published in the esteemed Journal of Fluid Mechanics. Len had arrived at the RAE in 1954 at a most exciting time, when planes were first being designed to go supersonic and the three-foot square tunnel at RAE was the only one capable of doing the model testing. Consequently, Len joined a large group of 9 scientific officers plus a support staff of experimental officers, technicians and draughtsmen. He recalls testing and reporting on many designs at the RAE, and he attributes his inculcation in aeronautical research to the afternoon tea-breaks during which the whole team was encouraged to share their latest findings. Within 6 years Len rose to lead the wing section and was responsible for much pioneering work on the optimum geometry of the wings of supersonic aircraft.

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Len then decided to pursue an academic career, first at Queen’s University Belfast and then here at Cambridge from 1963 where he ultimately rose to become Reader in Aeronautical Engineering. (Chairs were extremely scarce 30 years ago.) He became a Fellow at Churchill in 1968, acting as DoS in Engineering and supervisor in Maths and Mechanical Engineering. While his aerodynamics research continued in the Department, in support of Rolls Royce amongst others, it also took in the flight of badminton shuttlecocks. The same expertise was occasionally pressed into service in College, such as when both Len and Will Hawthorne independently checked the assumptions underlying the redesigned Wolfson Hall windows that had blown in during a storm. Long after he had retired Len maintained his professional interest in fluids and heat transfer, working with Gavin Bateman to analyse the College’s heating system and reduce our energy consumption. It is tempting to draw a line between Len’s enjoyment of the sergeants’ mess at Brize Norton, the friendly Department of Mathematics at Bristol, the afternoon tea-breaks at the RAE, and the SCR here! ‘He enjoyed it and he did well!’. And so, we congratulate this most sociable man on his 90th birthday and thank him for his 50 years of service to the College, conducted without pomp and circumstance but with characteristically dry west country humour lacing the engineer’s enthusiasm, the experimentalist’s observation and the mathematician’s analysis.

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â&#x20AC;&#x2DC; Through art and science in their broadest senses it is possible to make a permanent contribution towards the improvement and enrichment of human life and it is these pursuits that we students are engaged in.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Frederick Sanger

STUDENT LIFE The Best Year yet for the JCR JCR Report (2017–2018)

Ashley Brice, a third-year student in Natural Sciences, is the JCR president. Here he reports on the many achievements of the JCR Committee and on its innovations, for example the introduction of a meat-free Monday which provoked ire among some Churchillians, but achieved its objectives of awareness-raising towards environmental issues. I am happy to say that this year has been the best yet for the JCR in my humble unbiased opinion. The usual events we organise, such as Freshers’ week and the JCR Garden Party, went on without a hitch and were supplemented by some other amazing events hosted by the new JCR Committee. Freshers’ week Freshers’ week successfully inducted everyone into Churchill College life, with Freshers’ activities including a pub quiz (written by yours truly), film nights and the obligatory Cambridge introduction to punting and rowing.This was all run by our former welfare officers who did a brilliant job throughout the start of term in settling everyone into the busy life of a Churchill student. After serving as treasurer on last year’s Committee I decided to seek more power and was elected president in November taking over from the beloved Patrick Deady. Michaelmas also saw the JCR overwhelmingly vote for 4 new positions on the JCR Committee: Women’s and Non-Binary Officer, Black and Ethnic Minorities Officer, Disabilities Officer and Mental Health Officer. The JCR’s social calendar The now annual Christmas super formal was another soaring success and a wonderful way to end the term, with over 400 people attending the formal and

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with entertainment from various student bands and a silent disco. Although stressful to organise as it was my first event as JCR president all the pieces fell into place to create a great night. Since their introduction last year, super formals have become a cornerstone of the JCR’s social calendar alongside Churchill’s Lent term Spring Ball. A new JCR Committee Lent term saw the election of a new JCR Committee with Freshers making up nearly the entire Committee and filling the new positions. They have done an excellent job of continuing the JCR’s work and have put on many new events during Lent and Easter term. A highlight of this was Churchill Cigar, a welfare comedy night in exam term which had everyone on the floor for over an hour. Exam term also saw various free food events (always appreciated by students) including a ‘street party’ for the royal wedding. The drama for the JCR this year was in the implementation of a meat-free Monday trial at dinner in hall. This stoked various people’s ire, although definitely achieved the aim of increasing awareness of environmental issues amongst members of Churchill College.This was thanks to the enthusiasm of our Green officer, Cornelia Bentsen.The JCR also passed motions to support divestment and gender neutrality. The garden party The year finished with a flourish – the garden party was enjoyed by all. We luckily had good weather – that is three years in a row of sunshine for the garden party during my time at Churchill. The JCR enjoyed a performance from the Churchill Jazz Band and a tasty BBQ courtesy of catering. A special thanks to our Ents officer, Stephen Hughes, for helping organising the events and livening up the College atmosphere all year round. As always, the Committee would like to thank Shelley Surtees (Domestic Bursar), Richard Partington (Senior Tutor), Tamsin James (Bursar) and David Oakley (Catering Manager).

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Enriching Student Experience Churchill MCR Report (2017–2018)

Malavika Nair, a second year PhD student in Materials Science, is President of the MCR. In her report she mentions the many activities of the MCR starting with Freshers’ Week and continuing all the year round with the Great Churchill BakeOff, ChuTalks and of course the termly Guest Night which continues to grow in popularity. She concludes that for her the MCR experience has enriched her student experience with ‘its diversity of people, cultures and thoughts’. From the perspective of an outsider, the role of the college in a graduate student’s life seems mystifying. There is neither any academic supervision provided by the college, nor are the students meaningfully obligated to it. Yet, we feel this undying loyalty for our college as we are donned in our graduation gear and bid our friends adieu. Arguably, this sense of fraternity is wholly developed from the positive MCR experience of many advanced students. As for the Churchill MCR, here’s the round up of all we have been up to this academic year to make sure all our members can look back on their time here with misty eyes. Welcoming Freshers With boxes of pizza towering over students and enough wheels of cheese to run a carriage, the MCR Welfare Team welcomed in our newest members early in October with our tried and tested Freshers’ Week events. Freshers’ week saw the revival of both classics like the Parents’ Wine and Cheese Night, Curry and Quiz and the (in)famous MCR hostel crawl alongside new additions of Welfare Tea and Movies at the Wolfson to appeal to a wider range of interests. Though Churchillians may be known for their MCR students excel academic brilliance in their departments, it in many fields not should come as no surprise that we also excel just academic studies in many other arenas. Our stellar baking skills were put to the test for the Great Churchill Bake-Off, where chocolate cakes, STUDENT LIFE

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Victoria sponges and innovative donuts were all pitted against each other, only to be beaten by the traditional apple pie baked by Laura Baldwin. The artistic flair hidden amongst us was also brought out during the Photography Contest run by our academic officer.Thomas Choi’s winning shot on this year’s theme, ‘Jump’, can be seen crowning the MCR Bar alongside our Platinum Award in the NUS Green Impact Challenge, spearheaded by the MCR Green Officers. MCR Events The academic officer also runs the highly successful weekly ChuTalks series, where members are offered the chance to present their work to their peers and discuss it over wine and cheese after the talk. The ChuTalks series also invites SCR members to share their work with the MCR as part of our efforts to widen the MCR–SCR networking, alongside the termly MCR–SCR Mentoring Common Table. On the theme of common tables, the MCR has continued its tradition of hosting exemplary formal dinners. We began the year with Burns’ night, where our very own MCR Secretary Jack Hodkinson sang Robert Burns’ ‘A Man’s a Man for A’ That’ as part of his toast to the lassies.The Toast and Reply were followed by merriment and mirth as diners danced the night away to a Ceilidh band. Churchill MCR’s most celebrated event, however, remains the termly Guest Night whose popularity continues to grow year on year, thanks to the efforts of the Internal Social Secretary and the Vicious Penguin bar team. Churchill College was transported ‘Back to the 80s’ this Michaelmas, experienced the ‘Luck of the Irish’ on St Patrick’s Day this Lent and prepared for the summer to come with a ‘Tropical’ Easter Guest Night. This year, Churchill also began the tradition of hosting a Families’ formal, joining our efforts to integrate partners and children of Churchill MCR members into College life. Such events are expertly hosted by the MCR Welfare team charged with the task of providing an easily (and anonymously) accessible source of support for students, no matter the issue. During term, the MCR Welfare team hosts events for all: from the monthly Welfare Tea/LGBTea plying students with some much-needed caffeine, cake and conversation to the fully subsidised ChuYoga sessions run every week.

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Student engagement Improving student engagement by offering variety and diversity in events allows graduate students to feel comfortable in approaching the MCR with all matters, and to highlight that every student is an invaluable part of our community. Naturally, it only follows that the closer that students can be to the hub of all MCR activities, the easier it is for our advanced students to adopt Churchill as a significant part of their Cambridge identity. As an undergraduate, the full Churchill experience is now guaranteed for all three to four years of the degree. As part of the MCRâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s commitment to achieving the same for its graduate students, we are pleased to see the generous donations to the Graduate Accommodation Project, whose success will see more advanced students living on-site and integrating with our community. The Churchill MCR is comprised of nearly 400 advanced students from all walks of life, corners of the globe and academic disciplines. So, although College may not directly guide the journey through my degree, I for one am yet thankful for the MCR as they continue to enrich my student experience with diversity of people, cultures and thoughts.

Malavika Nair

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A Great Year for Churchill Badminton! The Churchill Badminton Club

Daniel Warburton, a 4th year undergraduate reading Natural Sciences, is the captain of the Churchill Badminton Club. Here he explains what the club offers and recounts the many achievements of the club this year including being in the Cuppers final for the first time and winning it! The Churchill Badminton Club is an expanding society that offers College members the opportunity to play both casual and competitive badminton during weekly sessions and inter-college matches. We are currently based at the University Sports Centre, a ten-minute cycle ride from the College and run both casual sessions and team training sessions once a week. We provide spare racquets and shuttlecocks so there’s no need to shell out! A fun sport Our casual sessions are open to all College members. Badminton is the type of sport that’s fun to play at all ability levels, so the casual sessions are an excellent way for anyone to de-stress. For those who enjoy more serious play, the club partakes in the intercollege leagues that run through Michaelmas and Lent terms. There are two leagues (Open and Ladies) that allow all the colleges to enter teams to compete against each other. The Men’s Badminton Team

The Open League consists of eight divisions while the Ladies’ League has three. Three years ago, Churchill had two teams in the Open League ranked in divisions 4 and 8. Now our first team has secured a place in the top division with the seconds rising to division 5. If that wasn’t enough, this year we founded a ladies’ team who have already been promoted to the second division of the Ladies’ League.

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Cuppers The most exciting part of college-level badminton is Cuppers. This is a straight knockout tournament between the college teams that runs during Lent term. University-level players are permitted to play in this tournament, so it gives college players the chance to play against (and maybe beat) higher level opposition. It was in this year’s Cuppers that Churchill badminton really made its mark. With our new ladies’ team, we were able to enter all three (Open, Ladies and Mixed) tournaments for the first time. Our mixed team made the quarter finals, losing to a strong Trinity side. The ladies faired even better. In their first ever Cuppers tournament, they made it to the semi-finals, narrowly losing out to Selwyn – the division 1 champions.

The Ladies’ Badminton Team

The Churchill first team were desperate to finish our already stellar campaign on a high. Our goal was to match last year’s Cuppers run which saw us lose to the ever-dominant Jesus College in the semi-finals. To get there this year we had to fight our way through Peterhouse, Pembroke and Queens. We did just that. Wins of 3–0, 2–1 & 2–1 saw us through to semi-finals/finals day. In a repeat of last year’s semi-final, we were up against Jesus. Except this time, we took the fight to them, and were rewarded with a 2–1 victory and our first time in the Cuppers final! The final was against Trinity College. Churchill played out of their skin and won 3–0! What a way to finish a great year for Churchill badminton!

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A Small but Vibrant Community of People Churchill Basketball

Matthew Han is a third year Politics and International Relations undergraduate and the captain of the Churchill Basketball Team. Here he tells us about the team and the many joys playing basketball brings to the team in general and to him in particular. While we may not be at the top of the league (indeed we are exactly ‘average’, standing in the middle of the league), we boast ourselves on our shared sense of commitment and fun in playing the game of basketball. Our weekly schedule consists of a two-hour training session at the University Sports Centre indoor courts, followed by a weekly collegiate game at Kelsey Kerridge Sport Centre.These games are just at the right level of competitiveness. In my three years of playing experience here, at least one game every season has ended in a buzzer beater! At the end of each term we also compete in the Cuppers’ games where our next term’s collegiate ladder position is determined. Generous College support for the team, through club funding, has been crucial for us to exist as a society, allowing us to book practice courts, purchase balls, compete in the college tournament and occasionally make our uniforms that all build the sense of team spirit and basketball community at Churchill. What I consider to be very special as a member of this club is the fact that it allows me to meet all kinds of people – from freshers to research fellows. On the court these distinctions become immaterial. But, the most rewarding part is getting to know them off the court. Either seeing them in the dining hall or saying hello as you walk past in the library, for me the fact that you can make friends so easily through sport is what has been the happiest and meaningful part of being a member.This is particularly special given we all come from different walks of life, both in terms of culture and academic interests. Basketball at College is not only a very rewarding sport but also an opportunity for me to discover the diverse community of people that Cambridge is a home to and make human relationships that I otherwise would have missed.

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Painting the River Pink The Boat Club at Churchill

Vicky Lee, a third year HSPS (Human, Social and Political Sciences), is overall Captain of the Churchill Boat Club for 2017/18. In her report she tells us that this year the College has the strongest boats that Churchill has seen for years. She is hoping that the grit, hard work and sheer determination of the Churchill rowers will this year give them a chance to paint the river pink. As I write this, the Boat Club has just finished a solid week of intense training on the Cam. We are now looking towards putting in some solid miles before our May Bumps campaigns at the end of term. With some of the strongest boats Churchill has seen for several years, it looks to be a promising campaign, and, after the disappointment of Lent Bumps being partially snowed off, there are certainly scores to settle. Rowing in temperatures which dropped well below freezing, with a wind chill of minus 14 degrees, and battling into the snow was a challenge for all those involved, but a show of determination showed our first boats rowing over comfortably.

Credit: Giorgio Divitini

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to row several months ago. In fact, every current rower at Churchill learnt to row at the club. With three representatives trialling for the University squad this year, including a rower in the winning womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s spare pair, the Boat Club is proving that it can be a solid foundation to performance at the top end of the sport. As ever, we rely hugely on our alumni who generously donate their time and energy to coaching us. Without this, we would be unable to improve, and certainly unable to look at bumping up come Mays. This term we will have three menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s and two womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s boats out competing on the river and rowing in the May Bumps. Our first boats are also taking their racing off the River Cam, with planned races at Bedford and Peterborough regattas for some side-byside racing experience. It is an exciting time to be a member of the most popular sports team at Churchill. With our new boathouse providing us with an excellent training facility and our coaches supporting us from strength to strength, I hope this term will allow us to show the rest of the river what Churchill can truly do, and, finally, give us the chance to paint the river pink.

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Going from Strength to Strength The Churchill Ladies’ Netball Team

Holly Platt-Higgins is a second year undergraduate studying English literature and the captain of the Ladies’ Netball Team. Here she recounts how the team went from strength to strength this year to finish second in the league after John’s but how they beat the same John’s team to win the Cuppers. The Churchill Ladies’ Netball team has gone from strength to strength this year. We started the season in the league’s second division but with training, unfailing commitment and incredible team spirit, we managed to work our way up and earn our place in league one by the end of Michaelmas Term. The intake of Freshers this year was a treasure trove of sporting success and the squad benefited immeasurably from a range of new players across the court. In our shiny new kit, players old and new rose to the challenge of our first game in league one against Queens. Game play was exceptional from everyone and our season was off to a tremendous start as we secured a comfortable 18 –11 win. Storming the League From that point onwards, the team, with newIncredible wins found vitality, went on to storm the league. throughout the term Although we are a college renowned for having a largely male student body and a limited supply of girls to choose from, what we lacked in numbers we made up for in determination. We went on to secure incredible wins throughout the term, against colleges like Downing, Sidney Sussex and, most impressively, a 36–5 win against Murry Edwards. After narrowly missing out on the win against John’s, we were placed second overall in the league at the end of a busy Lent term. However, these girls were not done; not even close. Ladies’ Netball Cuppers soon came around and we were determined to set the record straight. Cuppers 2018 After beating Caius in the quarter finals and Murry Edwards in the semis, we were back to face John’s, on their home turf, in the final of Cuppers 2018.With

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their array of blues players and reams of supporters on the sidelines we felt ourselves very much the underdogs of the competition; John’s were unbeaten in eighteen months and most people were still surprised that Churchill even had a team out. A single goal down at half-time, with the Giving everything score as 11–10, we regrouped: yes, we were we had the underdogs and they were unbeaten, but we had worked so incredibly hard to move up through the league and play in the final, we decided, we owed it to ourselves. Every single girl on court gave everything they had to those fifteen minutes and it was an honour to play beside them and to earn our victory together in the final. Churchill had never won Cuppers before our match against John’s and this achievement is such a testament to the dedication and talent of the girls who played this year. It has been a privilege to captain this team and I’m incredibly proud of our season and the integrity with which we’ve played. Congratulations ladies, what a journey it’s been!

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Continued Support from Law Alumni The Churchill Law Society

Patrick Deady is a third year Law student and the President of the Churchill Law Society. Here he gives us an interesting account of what the society organised for its members this academic year. This year, the Society has organised several events with leading law firms. In Michaelmas term, representatives from Herbert Smith Freehills delivered a workshop on the firm’s work and what they look for in applications for internships and graduate jobs. Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Slaughter and May each hosted a society dinner. Trainees, associates and a partner attended each dinner offering students a fantastic opportunity to learn about the firms and ask questions in an informal setting. As ever, the highlight of the year for Law students was the annual society dinner which took place in Lent term. The dinner was attended by Law students, long-serving law supervisors and Professor Matthew Kramer, Churchill Law Fellow, and Bobby Reddy, Churchill’s new Director of Studies for Law. The Society was delighted to welcome Churchill Law alumni, Mark Watterson, partner at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, and Sir Philip Sales who continue to support the Law Society and Law students at Churchill. Sir Philip, a Lord Justice of the Court of Appeal, was this year’s guest of honour. In 2016, Sir Philip sat on the Divisional Court in the Miller case where the Court had to determine whether the government was entitled to use its prerogative powers to give notice for the UK to cease its membership of the European Union. Sir Philip gave an after-dinner speech which was extremely interesting and informative. The Society is very grateful to the Law firms that hosted events this year and to Bobby Reddy, Mark Watterson and Sir Philip Sales for their continued support. The Society looks forward to organising more events next year.

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One of the Most Vibrant Colleges for Music in Cambridge The Churchill Music Society

Sam Buckton, a Natural Sciences (Biological) student who graduated this year, has been Music Sizar for the past two years. Here he reflects on a momentous year that saw three flagship events amongst other notable highlights, a musical collaboration with other colleges – in particular with Murray Edwards. He ends his piece by telling us that the Music Society is entering a new era with the departure of Dr Mark Gotham – a very successful Director of Music Making at Churchill for many years – and the arrival of Rebecca Doherty, the new Music Sizar. The past academic year has been a dynamic, entertaining and varied one for the Churchill Music Society, but also tinged with sadness as we said goodbye to Churchill’s Director of Music-Making Mark Gotham, someone who has been hugely influential in shaping the music scene at Churchill College and beyond, and a pleasure to work with as Music Sizar. Mark’s tenure finished in style with the Inter Alios choir’s second performance at London’s St Martinin-the-Fields, amongst many other memorable events. Three flagship events ChuMS had three stand-out flagship The Music Centre events this year. The first, rounding off the – a fantastic asset Michaelmas Term concert series on 1st to the College December, marked the 150th anniversary of the premiere of Brahms’ Requiem with a concert entitled ‘Unfinished Business’, featuring excerpts from the Requiem and Schubert’s Unfinished Symphony performed by the Inter Alios choir (the relaunched Chapel Choir, including both Churchill and Murray Edwards representatives) and the Orchestra on the Hill. The second was a concert in March to mark the 10th anniversary of both the Music Centre – whose rehearsal/concert spaces and recording facilities have been a fantastic asset to the College – and the Churchill Jazz Band. ChuJazz not only performed to mark their anniversary, but also brought their slick, stylish set to the Garden Party in June. The final flagship event was the return of the Inter Alios choir to the world-renowned London venue of St Martin-in-the-Fields in April, performing a repertoire of

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favourites such as Mozart’s Ave Verum Corpus and Bruckner’s Locus Iste plus several of Mark Gotham’s own compositions. I recommend listening to Mark’s CD of his choral works, Ultrumne est ornatum, which is on sale outside the Porters’ Lodge: one of Mark’s many legacies at Churchill. Other highlights

The musical talent of But there have been many other highlights Churchill students from ChuMS’ weekly concert series. Some professional recitals deserve a special mention: this year we’ve been privileged to host the renowned Spanish harpsichordist Yago Mahúgo; saxophonist Jo Fooks and Caxton Swing as part of the Cambridge Jazz Festival; cellist and Churchill By-Fellow Noah Turner Rogoff; and the Trans-Nebraska Players on tour from the US to perform flute, cello and piano trios by Haydn and Martinů. The concert series has equally showcased the musical talent of current Churchill students. This year’s Music Bursars included some skillful cello and recorder players, while pianist Sam Bradford and singer-songwriter Jos Eckert also contributed performances. As for ensembles, we heard the Baroque Music Ensemble and witnessed a reunion of the Churchill College Wind Quintet, this time bolstered by Emeritus Fellow Professor Simon Laughlin on bassoon.

A rare congregation of four generations worth of Music Sizars (plus Director of Music-Making) at the formal celebrating Mark Gotham in Easter Term. From left to right: Sean Telford (Sizar 2014–15), Joe Westwood (2015–16), Mark Gotham, Sam Buckton (2016–18) and Rebecca Doherty (2018–?). STUDENT LIFE

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Musical collaboration Music at Churchill often expands beyond Close ties with the weekly concert series and the college Murray Edwards itself. In particular, Churchill has been open to musical collaborations with other colleges and societies. The Michaelmas Term memorably kicked off with an evening of Persian music from the Hazar Tanbour Ensemble, co-hosted by the Cambridge University Persian Society, while the Hill Chorus – featuring singers from across the Hill Colleges – performed John Rutter and David Grant’s light-hearted operetta The Reluctant Dragon at the end of Easter Term. And ties have of course been particularly close between Churchill and Murray Edwards via the Inter Alios choir, including not only services at the Chapel but also fortnightly ‘Humanist Happenings’ at Medwards: these peaceful secular events feature choral music, poetry and a short address – all organised around a topical theme. Meanwhile, open mic nights have provided opportunities for students to try their hand at performing in the more informal setting of the Buttery. A new era of music I’ll be passing on the Music Sizarship to Rebecca Doherty next year after an immensely enjoyable two years in this role in what must surely be one of the best-equipped and most vibrant colleges for music in Cambridge. I have no doubt that Rebecca will do a fantastic job, particularly as she is (unusually for Churchill’s Music Sizars) a Music student! Indeed, next year will mark the start of a new era for music-making at Churchill as Mark Gotham moves on to fresh pastures in the US; we look forward to seeing who will step into Mark’s shoes to help keep our College’s musical life pulsing.

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Fortress Churchill

The Churchill Rugby Team George Downing is a second-year undergraduate studying Chemical Engineering and the Captain of the Rugby Team at Churchill. In his report he recounts how the Team went from division 4 to division 2 – quite an achievement – and only lost in the Cuppers quarter finals. He concludes by saying that he is extremely proud to have captained such a side. A new league structure Churchill College rugby has reached new heights this year. In previous years the rugby league was structured with three divisions each with eight teams. This allowed for one promotion or relegation at the end of each season. For the past eight years Churchill rugby has struggled to get a team and has not been promoted out of the bottom division. This season a new league structure was introduced with five divisions each consisting of four teams. This meant there was opportunity to be promoted three times by the end of the season.This was a fantastic opportunity for the Churchill team.With a 22man squad and some extremely talented freshers we were looking hopeful towards this year. Due to our previous years’ performance and our lack of blues players we started the season in division 4.

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From division 4 to division 2 Our first game against Pembroke proved to be a shakier start, we were a new team with lots of talent finding out what worked and what didn’t. With our defence lacking Pembroke scored 15 points; however, we still had a comfortable win of 39–15. Our other two matches in division 4 were easy wins ending in a promotion with a goal difference of 94. Our promotion gave the lads a great morale boost and our performance picked up massively. We smashed the other teams conceding only 5 points and scoring 145. This lead to our promotion to division 2. This promised to be a harsh division: we knew that Fitz, the previous college to be promoted (from division 3 to division 2), had been relegated without a win. Our first match was cancelled due to Emmanuel forfeiting because of a lack of players.Then came one of my proudest moments in my rugby career. We were to face Girton at home in our second match of the league. They were big, skilful and fast. It was a tough match with both sides giving it their all, but we came up on top with a 19–12 win proving our ‘fortress Churchill’ was unbreakable. Unfortunately, we could not quite recover from the injuries sustained in this match. So, turning up on Downing pitches with barely 15 players we lost the match. However, we ended our league season in division 2, climbing our way from division 4. Cuppers Then came Cuppers, Churchill has had a history of underperforming in the cup competition due to our lack of blues players. This year we were determined to change that and be proud of our placing. The beginning of the cup started easily with us playing teams from the lower divisions. However then came our match against Downing. The only team to have beaten us in the league and we had to play them for a space in the quarter-finals. We were at home with ‘fortress Churchill’ to defend and defend we did with an outstanding win. Unfortunately, we lost in the quarters away at Girton. But all I can say is that I am extremely grateful and proud to have been captain of such a side.

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A Day in the Life of… Not Really a Typical Day A Day in the Life of Jiaqing Low

Jiaqing Low, a Fresher reading Law at Churchill, is from Singapore. Here she gives us an account of a day in her life. She remarks that being an international student – reading Law in a predominantly STEM college – who prefers walking rather than biking to the faculty makes her ‘a rare species’. She vividly recounts her early bafflement at lectures and supervisions but carries on by saying that she’s now learnt the art of note taking at lectures and preparing for supervisions. She concludes by stressing the importance of looking ‘Forward to what the future holds’. When I responded to the call to write ‘a day in the life’ piece for the Churchill Review, Sara Cox’s opening line in her advertisement for Acuvue contact lenses ‘Perhaps you might have heard this before…’ was the only thing ringing in my head. You see, I’m not your ‘typical’ Churchill student. In fact, I could probably be considered a rare species for several reasons: I study a humanities subject (Law) in a predominantly STEM college, I’m an international student (Singapore), and I don’t bike (more on that later). So, if you are interested in finding out how a typical – or not so typical – day in my life is like, do read on. Morning routine 7.45am – Time to rise and shine, and I reluctantly drag myself out of the warmth of my blankets. I leave my room by 8.30am to commence my 20-minute walk to the Law Faculty at the Sidgwick site. I’m one of the few Churchill students who do not bike but walk. This has earned me more than a few incredulous stares and exclamations of ‘you what?’ from other Churchillians. But here’s why: when I first came to the College, I was overwhelmed by the unfamiliar, busy roads, so I hesitated to

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get myself a bike. Then I eventually worked myself into a routine and found that the brisk walk and the chilly morning air would kick start my body for the day ahead.Walking eventually grew on me, so I didn’t feel the need to bike. Morning lectures 9.00am – The first of two hour-long lectures of the day commences. Initially, I found lectures to be an overload of information. Everything that the lecturers said seemed crucial, and I scrambled to write them all down. I would come out of lectures a little dazed and overwhelmed, and it sometimes felt like I was floating towards the exit of the lecture hall, rather than walking. But as the year progressed and my general understanding of law deepened, I started to identify key principles and see the bigger picture. The puzzle pieces began falling into place, and before long, I was able to discern the key points in lectures and take notes with targeted ease. 11.00am – I am done with lectures for the day, and I head to the Law library to get some work done before lunch – little things like filling in the gaps in lecture notes or covering small bits of supervision reading. Time for lunch 12.00pm – The intense growling of my stomach, stark against the pindrop silence of the library, reminds me that it is time to seek sustenance. Depending on what my plans for the day are, I either return to College to eat in the dining hall or head to town. Having lunch in town is one of the opportunities I have to interact with Law students from other colleges outside the context of academic studies. My favourite haunt is the dumpling stall in Market Square; there’s nothing quite like sinking my teeth into a steaming hot, succulent dumpling, especially on a frosty winter day. But on some days, I pass up dumplings in favour of Churchill’s dining hall, since the noodle bar is open – soft udon noodles, stirfried vegetables and crispy fried beef soaked in a Thai green curry gravy is equally, if not more, tempting. Am I making you hungry? Working in College 1.00pm – I return to my room in College, where I continue to work. ‘Work’ for a Law student mainly consists of reading for supervisions and writing

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essays, and the occasional application for events hosted by solicitors’ firms and barristers’ chambers. Career planning starts early for a Law student; employers already begin to assess their future employees from when they are in their first year. Preparing for supervisions was an uphill task at first.There were reams of tiny print in the textbooks, lengthy and roundabout reasoning in-case judgements, mind-blowing arguments in journal articles. And every little detail seemed so important to my inexperienced eyes, so I struggled to even finish the reading on time, let alone truly understand the content. But as with the lectures, things started to look up once I had an understanding of the bigger picture. I learnt to tell which parts of a 50-page long judgement I had to read in detail, and which parts I could skim. Supervision time 4.00pm – I head to another college for a supervision. I have been told by fellow supervisees that, especially in the early days, I had the best reactions when anyone in the group shared a good point. My eyebrows would raise instinctively, my eyes would go wide and I would look at the speaker in jawdropping awe. I don’t recall being quite so comical, but I do remember the feeling of amazement that followed from hearing a well-argued critique of the law or having my own observation of a possible ambiguity affirmed by my supervisors. I really do appreciate the supervision system here at Cambridge. It is incredibly rewarding to have the opportunity to bounce ideas around in a protected setting that is formal enough for everyone involved to take it seriously, yet casual enough that no one feels intimidated into not sharing their thoughts. This is especially valuable in studying Law, since so much of it rides on ideas and argument. Dinner time 6.30pm – I am back to College for dinner at the dining hall. I usually eat with my College friends – in our groupchat, we’ve probably sent ‘Dinner at 6.30?’ more than any other message. Like any fresher, one of my worries entering University was whether I could find friends, especially as an international student in a foreign country. But I STUDENT LIFE

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soon realised that my worries were unfounded – Churchill has such an open and welcoming culture, and everyone is happy to mix around and hang out with one another. I made my first friends at the most unexpected place – at the freshers’ week consent workshop – and picked up several more along the way in similarly unconventional situations. I now have a firm clique of close friends that have been an invaluable support network for me, as I braved Week 5 blues and a particularly crazy week back in Michaelmas where I had 4 supervisions and 3 essays due. End of the day 7.30pm – I’m back in my room, where I continue to work. At some point, I give myself some leisure time; call home, listen to music, go onto YouTube and Facebook, etc. The day usually ends at 11.00pm. So, there you have it, a typical day in my life. Writing this was not as easy as I thought it would be – my typical day felt so typical, so mundane, so unexciting; and I angsted over how I could present my everyday grind in a way that would be interesting and read-worthy. If we examine our lives in closer detail – like how writing this piece gave me the opportunity to – we’ll easily be surprised at how engaging and fascinating the life we lead is. Through everything we get up to in our time spent at Cambridge and Churchill, we are all creating our exclusive role and contributing uniquely to the long tradition that is the University and the College. Perhaps it is a bit too early for me to comment meaningfully on how I’m getting along, but if there’s one thing I’ve learnt here, it is to always look Forward to what the future holds.

Jiaqing Low

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A Day in the Life of… Fantastic being a PhD student at Churchill! A Day in the Life of Matt Leming

Matt Leming is a Churchill PhD student from the US and the MCR Computing Officer. Here he gives us an account of one day in his life; from waking up, taking the bus to meet his supervisor at Addenbrookes, discussing some ideas with him, coding all day, going back to Churchill for a quick session in the gym, then grabbing a (whole) pizza and chatting with Malavika, the MCR President, in the Buttery. ‘Woke up, fell out of bed Dragged a comb across my head Found my way downstairs and drank a cup And looking up I noticed I was late’ The work of a PhD student at Cambridge is more like a 9-to-5 job than anything else. Depending on the day, I either work in Addenbrookes Hospital or the Downing Site in Central Cambridge. My work in the Psychiatry Department is focused on MRI analysis – a field called functional connectivity, which essentially models brain activity as fully-connected networks. In practice, I code all day (my previous degree in America was in computer science), and this is mostly done on my laptop, meaning that I can essentially work from anywhere. Even so, on days like today, I need to meet with my supervisor, who is usually stationed in the hospital. ‘Found my coat and grabbed my hat Made the bus in seconds flat’ Our meetings are rarely scheduled. Usually, I bang on his door, talk about what I’m doing, and ask him questions if I’m having a snag in the research. One skill a PhD student learns is reading and managing their supervisor. For instance, if mine approved of something I was doing, he would have me draw STUDENT LIFE

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it out on a whiteboard to facilitate the conversation. If he disapproved, he would look down and not say much for a while before lightly debating the smaller points. This time, he clearly disapproved about a particular direction I wanted my project to go in. We debated for a bit, came up with a few ideas that made us both happy, and then I went to work for the rest of the day. Type, type, type. At about 6:30, I wind down, get on the U-bus, and head to the Churchill gym. Choosing Churchill When applying to Cambridge, I chose Churchill because I was a computer scientist entering a neuroscience degree; Churchill being 70 percent STEM and having a large proportion of computer scientists, I wanted to stay around my tribe of people. On any given day at Churchill, you may run into an array of research companies in some conference displaying whatever new gizmo they want labs to buy. The graduate student bar usually has mathematicians, computer scientists, and particle physicists trudging around in pyjama bottoms, cracking jokes, wondering where their lives are going, complaining about their degrees, or discussing cartoons. I bartended in my first semester, when a long-haired bartender with a thing for white shirts and vests (carrying out a PhD in nanotechnology) taught me that the presentation of a cocktail is just as important as the taste. It is fantastic. The Vicious Penguin There’s no institutional memory among the Churchill graduate community, so if there’s any inside joke older than four years (and there are many), no one really knows where it came from. STEM students love that kind of thing. The Vicious Penguin is based on a niche picture book that sits behind the bar about a penguin that conquers the world. No one really gets it, but everyone runs with it for some reason. On the MCR Committee, the two emeritus positions are called the ‘Ale and Quail Officers’, whose official responsibilities are to do duties of an Ale and Quail nature. Around the buttery, there’s a group of MCR and older JCR students that are usually there having a good time and playing a card game called Tractor. I sat down with them to learn it one time – they were playing with three decks – and the rules for it were

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too convoluted for me to keep up, even with a cheerful student explaining everything to me in detail. ‘This game was brought in by a friend of ours from China who died two years ago…by that, we mean he graduated.’ Following the gym, I sat down and ordered a pizza. Churchill is the only Cambridge college I know of that serves entire pizzas. With us Americans making up so much of its graduate population, Churchill has a unique demand for this sort of thing. I sit down with Malavika, a second-year PhD student in materials science who happens to know everyone and everything at Churchill. She’s usually talking about something interesting. Even if I don’t know anyone in the buttery on a given day, however, it usually works to just start talking to people. As it was getting late, I began the trek home (I live off-campus), during which I called my parents back in America. ‘Somebody spoke’ Getting home, I brushed my teeth. In contrast to my undergraduate days, my PhD work stays at work. I finished the day by watching a Marvel series on Netflix for an hour… ‘…and I went into a dream’.

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‘ It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.’ Andre Gide

FEATURES Introducing Another Churchill and a Great Churchillian Elizabeth Churchill Snell

Elizabeth Churchill Snell is a Canadian Patron of the Churchill Archives Centre. She is a member of the Churchill family by blood on her mother’s side. The connection with her namesake, Sir Winston, has nurtured a lifelong interest in researching history, and a passion for British politics. She is the author of a book about the early history of the Churchill family entitled ‘The Churchills: pioneers and politicians: England, America, Canada’ (1994), as well as other related articles and booklets on early Churchill monuments and the Churchill family’s finances. Her love of history and politics remains unabated, or as she would put it: ‘Am I political or what?’ – Here she is interviewed by Archives Centre Director and Churchill Fellow, Allen Packwood. AP: Am I right in thinking that your love of history can be traced back to your childhood in Canada? ECS: Absolutely.The Nova Scotian house in which I grew up was on the site of Fort Sackville which long, long before had been given by the King of England. Later it became the first outpost from the Halifax Citadel (1749) along the first road (the Sackville River) into mainland Canada.

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It was my reforming, imperialistic, Churchillian mother who saved this 18thcentury building from people who were intending to tear it down, persuading my father to spend for nearly ten years on its heritage. But I am thrilled to say that Scott Manor House on Fort Sackville is now open to the public. See http://www.scottmanor.ca/home-1.html. AP: And what about that Churchill name, where does that come from? ECS: My mother, an only child, was the last in a direct line of ten generations of Churchills in North America who originally came from Dorset in England, thus I, the first child, was christened ‘Churchill’. As a young girl, I soon learned that my great, great grandfather Ezra had been elected to the Nova Scotia Legislature (the first in Canada) in 1855, 1859, 1863 – and later appointed a post-Confederation Senator in Ottawa c. 1867. Many years later I was given a little (but mighty) red booklet 1000 Facts About Halifax, Nova Scotia ‘The Great Harbour’. It was copyrighted at Ottawa, and printed in Nova Scotia, 1943. It happened that the booklet had been assembled because Churchill, the British Prime Minister, his wife and daughter were departing on 14 September 1943 back to the U.K. from the port of Halifax in the battleship ‘Renown’ after attending a conference in Quebec.The last paragraph in the little red book says, ‘Hon. Ezra Churchill [my mother’s great grandfather] an extensive ship builder of early days was a kinsman of the British family.’ Prime Minister Churchill’s private secretary later reported that his ‘Chief’ would like two copies of 1000 Facts sent to him at 10 Downing Street in London. AP: I gather it was your marriage to James Snell that brought you to England and led you take up your pen? ECS: After James, around 1979, had done some Canadian and first American housing and a few successful years’ contract in Chile, South America, the Agent General for Nova Scotia in London seemed to be his next business (and political) step, with which I concurred. Besides, our daughter Jaime was loving her time at Newnham College in Cambridge and we were Commonwealth and still had the vote.

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Donald Smith found us a site in Devon high up in ‘an area of outstanding natural beauty’ where the hunt went through. Architectural plans had been drawn prior to the war and we were told if we adhered to the original plan, we could re-build. AP: And that was what led you to start working on the early history of the Churchill family in the West Country – researching your common roots with Sir Winston? ECS: Most of the time James would be back in Canada or in his other offices overseas so after the Devon house got built, I began writing Churchill. One event that happened so delighted me I remember still today. It was a gathering of the U.S. International Churchill Society in South England. I took a bus, arrived late with heavy doors closed to a huge babble of people all sitting around tables probably with names at their placings, a tremendous table of speakers in front of the room and single me frightened to move. After a while a man showed asking me, ‘Are you a Churchill?’ A vacant seat was found and the Speaker stood up to explain his mother, The Lady Soames, distressingly was not well that day and he was filling in for her. At the end of the meeting Nicholas Soames suggested every guest line up and come past to shake hands and give their names. All did so but he remained seated at the table. There was one exception: Nicholas, who stood up for me! We spoke about my research and after I passed, he sat down again. When my typing was coming close to completion, James was in Devon with me and Jaime was coming down from Cambridge. She breezed in saying, ‘I’ve got the title. It’s The Churchills: Pioneers and Politicians. England. America. Canada. No one suggested then or since anything else. There was ‘a National Trust Estate book launch’, BBC radio interviews all over the place, a ceremonial placing of a copy beside my favourite historian, A. L. Rowse, in the Long Library of Blenheim Palace, and many similar ceremonies elsewhere, including the Imperial War Museum and the Library of the House of Commons. FEATURES

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Many libraries from Plymouth, Boston, New York, Washington, U.S., to church yards such as Cheboque in Nova Scotia and, outstandingly, today the new Central Library in Halifax have my book. All of this was very timely: exactly 40 years after Churchill’s 80th birthday and 41 years after his retirement from the House of Commons. After my first Churchill book had come out so successfully, I was much ready to move on to Dorset to dig up the very earliest Churchills.The earliest verifiable Churchill family memorials are in Minterne. Here are commemorated three generations: Sir John Churchill (died, c. 1659), the first Sir Winston Churchill (1620–1688) and General Charles Churchill (1656–1714), younger brother of the famous John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough. My research brought me into close contact with Lord Digby of Minterne Magna (former Lord Lieutenant of the county of Dorset). His sister, Pamela, had married the son of Winston Churchill and this new Churchill connection only fanned the flames of my sleuthing. Much later on she had married Averell Harriman of U.S. who arrived in 1941 sent by President Roosevelt to meet with Churchill with the message ‘we can do everything to keep the British Isles afloat’ as the German army just had captured France. In 1993, Pamela became Madame Ambassador to France from Washington after the death of her Harriman husband. It was wonderful fun to get to know her, and other members of the family, like Peregrine Churchill. They always encouraged me in my research. Lord D. arranged a meeting with James, Jaime and myself to come over from Devon to look at a flat he had for rental which we leased in 2000. I, from then to now, have never, never regretted a single moment we spent there, and it was only because of James’ declining health that we broken-heartedly departed in 2012. AP: And dare I ask, are you still political? ECS: I, like my Churchill mother, and Sir Winston have always been partially and proudly Conservative. Personally, I am very happy living in this period, in this world. Once when I was back in Halifax with James when he was not well, I was invited to come over to meet Prime Minister David Cameron. I thought I should not go because of James but asked that, if it was questioned, 156

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Mrs Elizabeth Churchill Snell presenting some of her research to the Churchill Archives Centre, 2013 that he be told it was not because of Brexit, nor his departing politics. My One Big Regret, was missing him. I would have like to meet such a decent British Prime Minister. It is delightful to be able to report that Allen Packwood, now Director of the Churchill Archives Centre, Cambridge University, has made me the first ‘Individual Canadian Patron’. So now my name is on the wall of a building that houses the papers of four British Prime Ministers (Churchill, Thatcher, Major and Brown). It all sounds like a fairy tale. AP: Thank you so much for all you have done to support the work of the Archives Centre. I am delighted your books are in the library to help inform future generations of Churchill scholars.

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‘Hey, hey, LBJ, how many kids did you kill today?’ 1967 Infamous Incident at Churchill College

Credit: Abbie Rowe, National Park Service, Harry S. Truman Library & Museum

Professor Mark Goldie, an Historian and a Churchill Fellow, recounts here the infamous incident involving Ambassador David Bruce (US Ambassador to the UK) which took place at Churchill College on 14 November 1967.The 300 demonstrators – all Cambridge students but not from Churchill – were protesting against the war in Vietnam and they prevented Ambassador Bruce from speaking at the Churchill Socratic Society. Goldie reports an interesting remark by Bruce to his son who was a student at Harvard in 1967 and demonstrating against Dow Chemicals that ‘he had every right to protest but no right to obstruct free speech’. During the years of student rebellion in the 1960s Churchill College was scarcely a hotbed of radicalism. But one incident stands out. On 14 November 1967 a demonstration took place against the US Ambassador in protest against the Vietnam War. The next day The Times reported that Mr David Bruce had to be escorted into and out of College in the face of 300 demonstrators. Fifty police were deployed. The ambassador had originally planned to stay overnight but was advised to return directly to London. Bruce’s diary has been published and his entry for that day is given below. A most seasoned diplomat David Bruce (1898–1977) was one of the USA’s most seasoned diplomats. During the Second World War he commanded US undercover operations in Europe. He was Under-Secretary of State in 1952–3, then ambassador to France and Germany, before his unusually long stint in London, 1961–9, during which time he was a foreign policy advisor to successive Presidents. The British, especially on the political Left, regarded him as too cosy in high society and with Tory grandees. (Before travelling to Cambridge on that November day he had lunch with the former Conservative Prime Minister Alec Douglas-Home at Buck’s Club. ‘Ate partridge.’) In fact, Bruce had liberal credentials, leaning to the Democrats, and, during the 158

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McCarthyite era in the 1950s, had repeatedly helped supposed Communists obtain visas. His son, a student at Harvard in 1967, was demonstrating against Dow Chemicals, which produced the napalm used to strafe the Vietcong. Two weeks after his bruising encounter at Churchill College, Ambassador Bruce wrote to his son saying he had every right to protest but no right to obstruct free speech. Another consequence of the Churchill debacle was his advice to Vice-President Hubert Humphrey not to visit Britain, fearing it would damage his preparations to run for President in 1968; (he ran, and lost to Richard Nixon). The Churchill incident The Churchill College incident was one of a series on British campuses. In October 1967 students at Warwick University took up the chant used by American protestors against their President, ‘Hey, hey, LBJ, how many kids did you kill today?’ The following February students at Sussex University threw paint over an embassy official and burnt the American flag. All this culminated in one of the largest incidents of civil violence during the decade, the attack by thousands of demonstrators on the American Embassy in Grosvenor Square in October 1968. The Churchill event took place in the Wolfson Hall under the auspices of the Socratic Society, which invited speakers to talk on matters of public moment; it was open to all College members and their guests. It was a peculiarly tricky time for the College, for it had no Master. Ambassador Bruce mentions Lady Elizabeth Cockcroft’s appeal to the audience for calm. She had been widowed just two months previously, when the first Master had died suddenly of a heart attack, in the midst of a Cold War fracas that surrounded him. The meeting was hosted by the student chair of the Society, Anthony Bainbridge, who was naturally disconcerted – frightened – by the ‘ranks of screaming, gesticulating protesters’.

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known three weeks in advance. The Chief Constable had come to discuss dispositions. College Council authorised a police presence, but there was no suggestion of cancelling the meeting. College Council report After the fracas,the College Council appointed Only one a small group to examine the incident. Their recommendation report was remarkably relaxed. They were in College clear that the demonstrators were not from Council report Churchill; that they had been noisy but that no damage was done; that such a disturbance was likely to be exceptionally rare; and that there was nothing that could be done to seal off the College from outsiders. A suggestion of banning external guests at future meetings was rejected. Nor is there any sign of a report to the University Proctors (who had no jurisdiction within the College). The only recommendation was that, if trouble were expected, a senior rather than junior member should preside. One Fellow thought this approach too lax and managed to get one phrase deleted from the draft report: that the demonstration, though noisy, ‘never became ugly’. Another Fellow, by contrast, thought that the police presence was ‘greatly in excess of what was needed’ and hence provocative. Ambassador Bruce’s own account suggests a more threatening and aggressive occasion than is apparent from the College’s post mortem. Even so, his tone seems one of exasperation more than visceral outrage, which is rather confirmed by Anthony Bainbridge’s recollection of his ‘old-style American courtesy and dignity’. Different means Dons tended to use different means than demonstrations to express their no less angry opinions about the Vietnam War. In January 1967 two Overseas Fellows, mathematicians from Cornell and Stanford, wrote to The Times, saying that ‘aggression and tyranny are not the exclusive property of any one faction in the Cold War, and they are not least to be opposed when one’s own nation is at fault’. And in 1972 Jack Pole, historian of America, and later Vice Master of the College, pulled no punches, also in a letter to the Times: the Nixon administration is ‘wholly impervious to considerations of humanity’; there can only be ‘outrage’ at the policy of air bombardment ‘now renewed

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with unprecedented violence’, which ‘seems equal to any of the war crimes for which high-ranking German or Japanese officers were executed after the Second World War’.

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(…) The interrogation was hot and heavy for about an hour and a half, and almost every question was directed at some supposed criminal act committed by the Americans in South East Asia. There were a good many denunciations of our immoral attitude toward the defenceless people of North Vietnam and the Viet Cong. At one point the hubbub was so great that Lady Cockcroft arose, faced the audience and told the speakers they ought to be ashamed of themselves. Loud cheers resulted. American students joined the fray. One golden-bearded individual announced he intended to tear up his draft card. When I asked whether he had ever received one, the answer was ‘No’. The general tone adopted by the interrogators was uniformly bitter. (…) Extract from David Bruce’s diary

Sources. Diary entry: Raj Roy and John Young, eds., Ambassador to Sixties London: The Diaries of David Bruce, 1961–1969 (Dordrecht, 2009), pp. 336–7. On Bruce: Nelson Lankford, The Last American Aristocrat: The Biography of David Bruce, 1898–1977 (Boston, 1996); John Young, David Bruce and Diplomatic Practice: An American Ambassador in London, 1961–1969 (New York, 2014). Anthony Bainbridge’s recollections: Churchill Review (1996), p. 48. College post-mortem: College Archives, CCAS 5/3/1. The Times, 26 January 1967, p. 11; 30 December 1972, p. 15. FEATURES

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The Explorer Mindset

A High-Impact Leadership Development Programme Cathy Butler, Director of Executive Education at the Møller Institute, reports here on the Explorer Mindset Programme. This is the Møller Institute’s first Open Enrolment Senior Leadership Development Programme, the two modules of which were successfully delivered in November 2017 and April/ May 2018 for 18 global leaders from across diverse sectors – from healthcare, defence, technology, food production and pharmaceutical to education and media. This immersive, intense and high-impact Increasing speed programme was creatively designed by a small of complexity and team of Møller Institute Educators to address, uncertainty and ‘re-frame’ some of the greatest leadership challenges, or alternatively as we see these, ‘opportunities’. Namely that the ever-increasing speed of both complexity and uncertainty and other elements of what has been called ‘the fourth Industrial Revolution’ actually imply that we, and our organisations, can have a different and hopefully even better future. This better future can be thrived in, we believe, at individual, team and organisational levels only if leaders are able to develop the cognitive, emotional and behavioural attitudes and skills, what we call an ‘explorer mindset’ that will allow them to navigate well, wisely and opportunistically through complexity. A tailored programme The programme team therefore developed a tailored diagnostic to provide personal insights to leaders and on which to base the programme. This tool focuses on a number of explorer characteristics, such as personal resilience, tolerance to ambiguity, the tendency to be optimistic and opportunityfocused, the right level of risk appetite, strong innovation leadership, being prepared and goal-oriented and finally the ability to empathise and take others’ perspectives. Programme themes amongst these behaviours focus on areas such as high-performing teams, sustainability and the bottom line, organisational purpose, growth and value creation. The two programme Modules were described as exciting and fast-paced and rated highly by the participants. We adopted 162

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a multi-dimensional approach to learning, ranging from using coaching approaches, experiential learning, working on leadership challenges, learning from leadership insights as well applied project work and executive coaching. Woven in and underlined as important, we also offered a holistic well-being programme addressing both the physical and mental aspects of health. Being based in the wonderfully inspirational residential setting of the MĂ¸ller Institute located in the Churchill campus, we provided a memorable location for this full immersion for the global leaders. Churchill Alumnus You can imagine that we were extremely pleased to have Churchill alumnus representation on the programme in the form of Colin McGill, who graduated from Churchill College with a double first in 1984, now with a high-achieving and long career in the global energy business at BP. Colin is responsible for the front-end project management of a portfolio of oil and gas development projects in the Eastern Hemisphere of more than $10bn.

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Colin McGill shared his thoughts on the Applying some of the programme, ‘I heard about the programme course back in BP at a visit to the Møller Centre as part of the Alumni Weekend in 2017, and partly was intrigued to attend because my daughter had found her own Møller Institute ‘future leaders’ programme’ experience transformational. For me, the highlights of the programme have been talking to people from outside the oil industry and realising that at the core, most of our issues were similar – how to get the best from our people. I have already applied some of the course back in BP.’ How did it feel being back learning again at Churchill College, we later asked Colin? ‘It was fascinating to come back to Churchill College – lovely to be back and very familiar, but also weird that my friends were not there, though I did meet up with my former Director of Studies, Archie Howie.’

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The Beginning of a New Tradition 21st July 2018 French Fellow’s Annual Meeting

Dr Yannick Champion (French Fellow 2000) and Dr Frédéric Thibault Starzyk (French Fellow 2004) – the organisers of the French Fellows’ meeting – give us an account of the Third Annual Meeting of the French Fellows that took place at Churchill College on 21st July. The meeting, now an annual event on the third weekend in July, marks the beginning of a new tradition in Churchill College. After initial discussions in July 2016 on relationships and cooperation within the French Fellowship, the 2nd meeting in 2017 laid the ground for an annual meeting at Churchill College. 21st July 2018 was the starting point for a more structured day with a series of presentations followed by discussions. The French Government Fellowship The Vice-Master, Professor Ken Siddle, opened the day by giving us recent College news and Dr Jean Arlat, Scientific Counsellor at the French Embassy in London, reported about different actions and events involving the UK and France. Ken and Jean confirmed their strong support for the French Government Fellowship, which is now attributed yearly to two or three French academics for collaborations with Churchill Fellows or University academics to pursue research on a range of wide-ranging topics. The French Fellowship has existed for more than 40 years within the framework agreement signed in 1966 between Churchill College and the French Embassy, following the initial idea of Jock Colville. Past French fellows would like now to create a hub within the alumni community of the College to build on their stay in Cambridge, promote and advertise the annual Fellowship, organise bilateral scientific events and initiate new collaborations. This year’s seminar programme It showcased a large spectrum of scientific research. According to the newly established tradition, the current French Fellows presented their work: Dr Nicolas Bierne explained his views on hybridisation in animals and transmissible cancers, from both the theoretical and experimental points of view; Dr Mathieu Vandamme talked about concrete viscosity, a rather challenging issue for civil engineering, and how using phenomenological modelling developed

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for condensed matter can address these issues. Past Fellows chose two very different topics in which the UK is particularly active: in gene analysis, Dr Emmanuelle Genin (2010) presented the project on the genome sequencing of the French population, part of the ‘France Médecine Génomique 2025’ plan. Statistical analyses of genes with territorial correlation are under systematic consideration for future identification or understanding of various diseases; Dr Pierre Vanhove (2016) gave a very pedagogical overview of a theoretical physics approach to gravity, from classical gravity, quantum gravity to string theory. Pierre was very convincing in the necessity to introduce quantum mechanics and then string theory description to understand black holes. The discussion around this singularity of Coalescence of two black holes and Einstein’s relativity theory naturally detection of gravitational wave (from ended with a tribute to Stephen P.Vanhove’s seminar) Hawking. High table on Friday evening was a great occasion to meet again with College members. On Saturday, the French Fellows were delighted to meet the Master, Dame Athene Donald, and were very thankful for her interest in the French Fellowship. The day concluded with a special dinner in the Fellows’ dining room. The French Fellows are grateful to the College for the organisation, in particular to Carol Robinson for organising rooms and lodging, and want to express special thanks to Anny King (Churchill Fellow and Emeritus Director of the Language Centre, University of Cambridge) for her constant and friendly commitment, and to Paula Laycock (former Registrar and College Records Officer) for her long-standing support of the Fellowship. Our fruitful and friendly discussions with the Vice-Master, Ken Siddle and with Jean Arlat, Scientific Counsellor of the French Embassy, are a great pleasure every year.

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From left to right, top to bottom: Christophe Thébaud 2012, Nicolas Bierne 2018, Jean-Christophe Thalabard 2014, Ken Siddle (Vice-Master), Jean Arlat (Scientific Counsellor, French Embassy in London), Pierre Vanhove 2015, Eric Parent 2013, Paula Arimondo 2016, Emmanuelle Genin 2010, Marie-Pierre Gaigeot 2008–9, Anny King (Churchill Fellow),Yannick Champion 2000, Jean-Marc di Meglio 2011, Frédéric Thibault-Starzyk 2004, Paula Laycock (By-Fellow and College Records Officer), Mathieu Vandamme 2018

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No One-Way Roads

Address by Canon Rowan Williams In last year’s review we published a piece on the 50th Anniversary of the Chapel at Churchill College written by Dr John Rawlinson, Chaplain to the Chapel. On that occasion, Canon Rowan Williams, Master of Magdalene College and Former Archbishop of Canterbury, gave the following address to mark the anniversary. Dr Mark Gotham, Director of Music-Making, kindly transcribed the address. In the name of the Father, and the Son, and of the Spirit. Amen. ‘A village called Emmaus, about 7 miles from Jerusalem…’. Some of those making the trek from the Porters Lodge to the chapel in Churchill may very well have felt from time to time that the Sabbath day’s journey between Emmaus and Jerusalem is being re-enacted regularly. It seems at times as if the chapel was built with a great cordon sanitaire around it to prevent the intellectual life of the University proper from contamination by superstition. Well, these days at least, it’s not quite 7 miles between the buildings of the college and the chapel. But has the distance closed in any other way, I wonder? That surely is one of the questions we’re bound to ask, celebrating this wonderful half-century of work and witness and celebration here. And perhaps it’s worth, in answering that question, looking back at what else is going on in 1967, when some of us were quite young, and many of us were not even thought of. The 1960s, as we’re constantly reminded, was a period of optimism, of growth; a sense that history was going in a sensible direction. And that optimism showed itself in several different ways – an optimistic approach to higher education, the great blossoming of new universities, new university courses; a whole new vision of what higher education might be in an institution like Keele, for example, with its foundation year for everybody to make sure that everybody had a common intellectual culture as they approached their work. A sense that the gift of higher education could at last be extended to an unprecedentedly wide public. And there was of course the ‘white-hot technological revolution’ promised by Harold Wilson’s government in 1964 – the sense that the advance of technology was irreversible and positive, once again opening doors and

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windows in all directions. There was also in 1967 another kind of revolution going on – youth culture coming into its own. Overall, a sense that if we simply gave peace a chance, everything would indeed be all right in our world, and that people could be called to their better selves; to joy, reconciliation, harmony; a pleasure-oriented, pacific world. It wouldn’t have been entirely surprising in 1967 if people felt that the road led inexorably, irreversibly, away from Jerusalem – away from those disturbing, twisted images of obedience and pain; of authority, darkness, failure and an apparently magical reversal and resurrection. And in the ‘60s there were plenty of sociologists prepared to tell us that the advance of secularism was irreversible. Yet, even in retrospect, that seems a rash judgement. 1967 was perhaps the high watermark of optimism, of the positive spirit. We think that 2016 and 2017 have been rather bad years in some respects (but let’s not go there); yet 1968 was pretty bad: beginning with the intensification of the hideous conflict in Vietnam, with the Tet Offensive in January ‘68, the year unfolded with the assassination of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy, two of the greatest icons of hope in that era. Within twelve months of the opening of this chapel, the climate must already have seemed a little different. And as the years have gone on, we have come to be increasingly and rightly mistrustful of optimistic stories. Conflict was coming more sharply into focus in the late ‘60s. What seemed to be hidden, what seemed to have been overcome, became resurgent, murderous, threatening once again. There was, after all, no one-way road away from the cross. Those two friends of Jesus, making their way to Emmaus after Easter, trying to leave behind them the sheer confusion, the fear, the pain that they had all shared, they must have been tempting models for many people. ‘If only we could…but now we can’t.’

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One of the most remarkable features of the last 24 months or so has been a sense, widely shared, of the ghosts of the 1960s rising up again. We have seen in the United States a resurgence of open racial violence that many of us would think would have been done with for ever. We have seen tensions and fears in East Asia, not in Vietnam this time, but throughout the region. We have seen a polarisation of political and public discourse, unprecedented for many decades. There is a sense that – as one American friend of mine put it – everyone is ‘running for the corners of the room’. Just today you can find online a survey in which we’re told that the American population believes that it is more divided than it has been since the years of the Vietnam War. The ghosts of the ‘60s are abroad: the unlaid ghosts of conflict, of disappointment, and the clear sense that no, we are not on a one-way road. But in 1967, the building of a chapel – the building of a chapel with such artistic confidence and integrity – was a powerful sign, and a defiant reminder that in history there are no one-way roads. Roads circle, and intersect, and seem to return again and again to that which is literally, physically at the centre of this building. Humanity cannot run from the cross – the cross of its own suffering and failure, the cross of rejection and violence, the cross which is the act of a God who steps into the middle of that violence. (…) We have, finally, two options: we can work very hard (and we do work very hard) at all those illusions that pretend we can in fact manage ourselves and our world; or we can embrace our limits and our failure, in awareness of the hurt we do and the hurt done to us, and work from there. And what the Christian gospel says is that when that embrace is honestly made – when people become aware of the limit and vulnerability of their humanity and of the community of their neighbours – something begins to turn in the economy, the balance, of the whole universe. When we see beyond those moments of illusion that keep trying to tell us we’re on one road to control and power, peace and harmony, when we stop flirting with those mythologies that tell us there might just be an end to the confusion and complexities of human history as we know it, and an easy entry

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into the golden age to come, we need simple and stark reminders of what we can and can’t do as humans. And for all the mythology that surrounds his name, the man in whose honour this college is dedicated, Winston Churchill, was not the man for illusions of that kind. His stoic, unsentimental, sometimes ironic honesty, his candour about struggle and suffering in hard times, is one aspect of his legacy that ought not to be forgotten, certainly not in this place. We need, all of us, some space, some place in the world to make sense of our limits and our dependence: a place like this in fact. A place with open doors, with windows out onto the natural world, a place where the cross hangs there centrally and inescapably. But not a place where you have to sign a form of membership at the door, where you have to declare yourself instantly for or against a whole range of things. Simply a place where honesty is possible. (…) Well, whether the gap has closed at all between the Chapel and the rest of the College physically is something we can mission with tapes in inches, kilometres or whatever. Whether the gap has closed in other ways is much harder to gauge. And yet, when we turn around from the doors of the Chapel and find mysteriously that the physical bulk of the chapel is indeed a bit nearer than it used to be, we may well think that in the last half century we’ve had the opportunity to become a bit more honest. Not much more successful, not much more kind or visionary or even realistic; but it’s much harder to deny the kind of world we’re in, the kind of beings we are as humans. That’s a start. Because in that honesty about our humanity, our inability to cope or conquer and manage, in that lies our hope, not because God delights in our weakness, but because God delights in our truthfulness. (…) In the name of the Father and the Son and the Spirit. Amen

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Utrumne est Ornatum Mark Gotham’s debut CD

Dr Mark Gotham is a College Lecturer and Director of Music-Making at Churchill College, and a Churchill Fellow. Here Mark tells us about his exciting new project – his debut CD, Utrumne est Ornatum. Mark is grateful to Churchill College for kindly supporting the disc. The cover art features photography taken by Dr Mark Miller of the chapel’s stained glass. The ‘Inter Alios’ choir launched the disc in May at their annual concert in association with the Brandenburg Choral Festival at St Martin in the Fields. Utrumne est Ornatum means ‘decorated or not’. It is the last line of a compelling poem by Charles Anthony Silvestri which I set on the disc. Silvestri a living poet who’s well known to the choral world for a many musical settings of his words. Utrumne est Ornatum encapsulates the essence of his reflective text, and it resonated with me as an expression of my own music sufficiently profoundly for it to have emerged as the title not just of the piece, but of the whole disc! A ‘composer-theorist’ I identify as a ‘composer-theorist’, taking that Most of my works term to indicate not just that I work in both are inspired by fields, but that my composition is informed structural ideas by my music theory research and vice versa. Most of my works are inspired by structural ideas and I suppose that ‘decorated or not’ captures something of that: structural designs…‘decorated or not’… As a ‘composer-theorist’, I often field that strangely elusive question: is composition research? I’m not going to attempt to answer that in this short piece but can at least give a sense of how they relate in one example work from the disc.

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Isomorphic Fantasy Isomorphic Fantasy is based on an equivalence between pitch and duration intervals: the longer the temporal gap between notes (the slower they appear to move), the bigger the pitch gap (think of that moment in ‘happy birthday’ before the person’s name or the start of ‘somewhere over the rainbow’). The inspiration for this came from an iconic article by Jeff Pressing in which he observes that this kind of isomorphism holds between some of the world’s most widely used scalic and rhythmic patterns. For instance, the successive pattern of intervals 2,2,1,2,2,2,1 which generates a sequence like 0,2,4,5,7,9,11,12 turns out to be very common, both as a basis for constructing pitch scales (like the major scale) and rhythms. Whether or not these connections are historically or culturally meaningful, I found the structural idea compelling and wrote the piece on that basis. The resulting piece is rich in mixed metres (groupings by 5s, 7s etc.), a narrower subject I’ve worked on academically (see for instance, http://www.mtosmt.org/issues/mto.15.21.2/mto.15.21.2.gotham.html). Stylistically, it draws on a range of styles from the traditional ‘Aksak’ (‘limping’) music of the Balkan regions, to a method of interplay between voices that’s redolent of early-Renaissance compositional practice, to something quite different altogether at the end. So that’s a little insight into one work on the disc and one way in which the composition and theory connect for me. If you’d like to read more, I provide commentary on each of my scores, and am just in the process of selfpublishing the lot on IMSLP (https://imslp.org/wiki/Category:Gotham,_Mark). That is partly in celebration of this CD release, and also as part of a wider commitment in my work to open source…but that’s a story for another time…

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‘ Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead. Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.’ Albert Camus

FRIENDSHIP AND FELLOWSHIP The Churchill College Association

It’s Always Popular to Finish Meetings on Time Interview of Rosie Johnston Outgoing Chair of the Churchill Association I thought it might be a good idea to interview Rosie Johnston (U73), the outgoing Chair of the Association and I was right, as Rosie gives us a very interesting, informative and lively account of her time as Chair. She tells us why she became Chair, what her priorities were, her many accomplishments as Chair, her regrets and what she’s most proud of. Her main piece of advice to the incoming Chair: finish meetings on time. AK: How long have you been Chair of the Association? RJ: Since the AGM in September 2014. My predecessor Nigel Bacon (U72) oversaw the introduction of a fresh constitution for the Association which restricts Chairs to a single term of four years each. Wisely, in my view, to get the best energy out of us all. AK: Why did you become Chair of the Association? RJ: In 2011, my old Boat Club friend Trevor Cave asked if I might like to join as a 1970s’ decade rep. I am grateful to him: the Association Committee is a happy experience and has brought me wonderful new friendships. Soon I became deputy Chair, leading in due course to full Chair. AK: What were your priorities as Chair? RJ: My first priority was to expand diversity and I am pleased that, while allowing anyone to stay for re-election who wanted to, many vacancies have been filled by women.

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The main priority for any Chair is to extend opportunities for friendship among Association members in as many ways as possible. This means spreading the word that Association membership is free, automatic and for life for everyone in the JCR, MCR and SCR, past, present and future, from the day they arrive in College. In other words, our Association is for the common rooms as well as alumni and I am delighted to see increased JCR, MCR and SCR involvement in what we do. AK: What have you changed or introduced during your time at the Association? RJ: Expansions in the Association’s activities during the past four years have been because of the enthusiasm, effort and support of my excellent Committee, the College catering staff and our Alumni Office, in particular Elizabeth McWilliams. Our biggest gathering is the annual Association Weekend, coinciding with the University’s Alumni Festival in late September. On Friday night, as an alternative to High Table, we have a sell-out wine-tasting supper where Dr Paul Russell leads us through samples from the College cellar while we enjoy a relaxed meal. On Saturday, Sir Mike Gregory has instigated a regular get together for the College’s engineers, and croquet is available in addition to the golf. Perhaps our most significant change has been to lower the price of the annual Association Weekend Dinner below £40, with prices further reduced for members who matriculated 25 or fewer years ago, and even cheaper tickets for MCR and JCR. A new donation fund helps subsidise these cheaper tickets and we are impressed by how enthusiastically older members have supported this. Diners can dress less than formally if they like, while ‘black tie’ is also welcome. Both are popular. In 2014, several members from the College’s earliest days mentioned to me that their memories of the College should be recorded before it is too late. Younger members are equally keen to share their experiences. Thanks in particular to Committee members Graham Thomas and Jayne Donora, the Association has forged a liaison through Paula Laycock with Allen Packwood and his staff to expand the Archive Centre’s existing Oral History project. It now includes alumni of all ages, including (thanks to Sam Ainsworth) the MCR and JCR. We have small teams of interviewers and subscribers, the blessings 178

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of the Master, College historian and other staff, and enthusiasm to record as many reminiscences as possible. One of my predecessor’s initiatives was common interest groups and in 2011, I set up (and still facilitate) the College writing group, which continues to produce happy writers and lasting friendships.Thanks especially to Committee members Graham Thomas, Jayne Donora, Cathy Elliott and Alix Pryde, our Association outings have ranged from Bletchley Park (twice), HMS Belfast, the Henry Moore Foundation and Blenheim Palace to family events in London including Kew at Christmas, a picnic and play at Regent’s Park and a visit to the Science Museum. Thanks again to Cathy Elliott, we have enjoyed Oxford get-togethers including High Table at our sister college, Trinity, for two years and look forward to developing reciprocal events. AK: Do you have any regrets? RJ: I had hoped to develop a careers’ mentoring initiative for the benefit of younger members but time has not been on our side. AK: What are you most proud of doing for the Association? RJ: Last year the Association Weekend fell close to the 50th anniversary of the passing of our founding Master, Sir John Cockcroft. With magnificent support from the Master and all College staff, the whole Weekend was devoted to celebrating Sir John’s life and work, including a celebrity panel, tours of the New Cavendish laboratories and Mark Goldie’s tour of the Ascension Burial Ground where we were present, with members of Sir John’s family, at his grave. Our Association Dinner was attended by 276 paying diners, around twice the usual number, keen to hear our speaker, Professor Jim Al-Khalili. AK: Any piece of advice for the incoming Chair? RJ: To enjoy his time as Chair as much as possible. It has been a privilege for me to be with such an outstanding Committee and I am sure they will support Andrew warmly and thoroughly too. And to finish meetings on time – that’s always popular! AK: Thank you Rosie for such an informative, interesting and, dare I say, humorous account of your years as Chair of the Association.

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Interview of Andrew Stephenson Chair Elect of the Association Having interviewed Rosie Johnston, the Chair of the Association, I thought it might also be good to interview the Chair Elect, Andrew Stephenson (G89). I learnt that he’s been involved for only four to five years with the Association and has been Deputy Chair for the last two years. Here he tells us how he got involved, what the strengths of the Association are – with the only weakness being the lack of time that mitigates against having more people on board – and that he wants to try and get more people to come to the Association’s events, get more people involved. AK: Can you tell me why you decided to become Chair of the Association? AS: I think it is one of these things.You never make a conscious decision initially. It’s a series of slow steps. And the first step was just generally wanting to be involved.You reach a point in life when you realise how much you’ve benefited from everything that everyone else has done for you – football coaches, ice hockey coaches – all these volunteers, all these people who put their hearts and passion into setting things up for you, in helping you. And you suddenly realise that all these things would not exist if people didn’t contribute. AK: So, when did you start? AS: First of all, I came to the reunion dinners, that was the starting point. You start with the reunion dinners and you meet people and you really enjoy yourself. So, you think ‘I should get more involved’.Then you find out that they need some people to help out with this or that. Once you’re on board you realise that the chair is usually carrying all the load and doing all the work. Some people travel long distances to help but I live only about 15 minutes away from College so for me it’s easy to help. I offered to deputise and then I was told they needed another chair and that the term is four years. People were very supportive and encouraged me – they told me that I would be a great

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chair and with the typical Churchillian spirit, they told me ‘Don’t worry, we’re all here for you.You’re not on your own! You’re part of the team.’ AK: What do you think the role and duties of the Chair are or should be? AS: I think there are two parts to it. There are the things you need to do to make it run as it is – there are many things that need to be done – organising the dinners, the events, chair a few meetings – all these things are well defined. And then I think it’s up to you to ask the community if they’d like to add some functions, there’s room to add things that might help the organisation develop and grow. And let me tell you, most ideas come from other people, so you need to listen as in many ways you function as a filter. It’s important to be there and have people talk to you and listen to their ideas and their feelings and their wishes, have an open mind, let ideas germinate in your mind and try and see what is possible taking into account resources and timing etc. In some contexts, you only need to tweak something that’s already there to make it better. In other contexts, ideas may come to you during a meeting but it’s better to let them crystallise in your mind before making a move, bringing them up and asking for feedback. AK: What do you think the strengths and weaknesses of the Association are? AS: The strengths of the Association are the great camaraderie people feel, the love for the College that people have. For all of us when we came to Churchill, the College by necessity became our home, people became our family. You have something in common, you have the same general warm feeling towards the College and Cambridge and your time there. And the support of the College is wonderful. It is very committed to the Association and very helpful and it recognises the benefits of having an Association. Any weakness of the Association? When you recall these things, it’s not really a weakness as such. You have to decide what kind of organisation you want to have – do you want to have something very formal, very traditional, very structured or do you want something more responsive to things as they change and to people as they change? We rely on volunteers and people are very busy – that’s the weakness because we only have 24 hours in a day, so there’s never enough time.

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AK: Any future plans for the Association? AS: Hopefully more people coming to our events, more people getting involved, because that way the Association will be even better. As you know Churchill is the most under-represented in terms of its alumni. It has the lowest participation of alumni. I would expect the opposite based on the sorts of people I’ve met. We seem to have a lost generation out there. I understand why because for me it’s a bit like when you leave home, when you leave your parents. You call them perhaps a few times and go and see them a couple of times a year – you graduate, you start work, you have a family, you’re so busy, you have no extra time and it’s only later when you can make your own time that you might then get involved. You hear all the time people coming to the Association for the first time, having a great time, having fun and saying ‘I wished I started earlier!’. It would be good to make people get involved earlier. At our last meeting we made the decision to try and raise people’s awareness about the Association because there are many people out there who do not know about the Association. So, we should have events that start the process of making people aware that the Association exists, that it is their Association. We have a great network but, in any network, there are gaps, so I want to try and fill in the gaps in the network. I want to try and reach this missing generation because I know that if they come to our events they will really enjoy the experience and I also know that they will get a lot of satisfaction and joy if they get involved. AK: Any other thoughts? AS: This is an appeal for those reading the Review who have come to this page in the Review – come to an event of the Association, any event. Look on the Churchill website, look at all the events on offer and try and come to one of them. Alternatively, if you want to suggest an event near you because you know there are Churchillians living near you, by all means contact me or the Alumni Office. But please come to an event, any event, contact us, make your voice heard. It is your Association and we know that the best ideas are going to come from you. AK:Thank you Andrew.That was fascinating!

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Churchill College Association Chair’s Report (2017–2018) Rosie Johnston (U73), the Chair of the Churchill College Association, after stating the purpose of the Association, gives us an interesting account of what the Association did last year – its usual events and new ventures. The Association has existed from the College’s early days and exists to promote good fellowship among resident and non-resident Members and to encourage non-resident Members to maintain links with the College and with each other.All College Members are automatically members of the Association from the day they arrive in College and there is no membership fee. For a full list of the Association Committee and of your Member benefits, please visit https://www.chu.cam.ac.uk/alumni/association/ The Association Weekend The Association’s most exciting get together is the Association Weekend. It coincides each year with the University’s Alumni Festival in late September and last year we took the opportunity to use it to celebrate the life and work of our Founding Master, Sir John Cockcroft, almost exactly fifty years after

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his death. With the help and support of the Cockcroft family, in particular Sir John’s son Chris, the Master and just about everyone on the College staff, we laid on a stellar programme including tours led by Lisa Jardine-Wright and Malcolm Longair of the New Cavendish Laboratories, a panel of international speakers including Dame Sue Ion and Professor Rolf Heuer, a gathering of the College’s engineers led by Sir Mike Gregory, another excellent wine-tasting supper on the Friday evening led by Fellows’ Wine Steward Paul Russell, Mark Goldie’s tour of the Ascension Burial Ground where Sir John lies buried, a sculpture tour led by Barry Phipps, golf and croquet, and our annual Dinner where Professor Jim Al-Khalili was our speaker.The annual Association Chapel Service was led by Sir John Cockcroft’s daughter, Rev Canon Cathy Milford. Other events We get together in other ways too. This year has seen us at pub meets in London and on trips to HMS Belfast on the Thames and to the Henry Moore Foundation in Hertfordshire. Recent events in Oxford, starting with a pub meet and a tour of Blenheim Palace, have developed into what we hope might become a new tradition of Churchill Association Members enjoying High Table at our sister college, Trinity in Oxford. Family events in London are another new venture this year, ranging from The Little Shop of Horrors and picnic together at the Regents Park theatre, to a Science Museum visit and Christmas adventures at Kew. The writing group continues to thrive with members developing their writing confidence, whether they aim to write for pleasure or to find publishers and agents. Over feedback and discussions about writing craft, and especially over coffee and the College’s delicious home-made biscuits, lasting friendships are made. Our Boat Club is unique in using alumni of all decades to coach and support our young crews and this pays off in success on the river. The oral history project The Association side of the Oral History project has continued to develop. In conjunction with the Archives Centre (where Paula Laycock, whom some of you may remember as Paula Halson, has been interviewing past and

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present staff for some time), and with the blessing of the Master and College historian Professor Mark Goldie, we now have in place teams of interviewers and transcribers, a small fund to pay for transcriptions and four approved recording machines, and are ready for action as never before. Mark Goldie’s questionnaire is available if you would prefer to reminisce in writing. Please get in touch if you would like to be involved. Forthcoming events At the time of writing we are planning for the 2018 Association Weekend, which will be another belter. On Friday 21 September (2018) at 6pm, Sir Christopher Frayling (U&G 65, current Fellow) will talk about Mary Shelley on the 200th anniversary of the publication of her extraordinary novel, Frankenstein (The Modern Prometheus). That will be followed by High Table or a wine-tasting supper in the Fellows’ Dining Room. On the Saturday, Sir Mike Gregory and College engineers will get together, there will be opportunities for croquet and golf, and in the afternoon, in the Jock Colville Hall, historian David Lough (author of No More Champagne: Churchill and his Money) and Allen Packwood (Director of the Archives Centre) will discuss ‘the elusive secrets of Churchill’s leadership style’. Our AGM at 6pm is traditionally no more than half an hour long and you are all welcome. Last year’s Dinner was delicious and outstanding value; tickets this year will be cheaper than ever. Anne Morrison (U78) is to be our Dinner speaker, having recently completed her term as Chair of BAFTA. Sunday’s Chapel Service will be followed again by Mark Goldie’s tour of the Ascension Burial Ground, where perhaps (it is said) more IQ is to be found per square foot than anywhere else. Please keep an eye out on the College website and E-bulletins for further details and booking. We look forward to seeing you – please come and say hello!

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A Brief History of the Churchill College Association Anthony Bainbridge (U64) read Engineering followed by a PhD at Churchill. Here he gives us a brief history of the Churchill Association with its ups and downs. He tells us that thanks to the College ownership of the Review in 1991 and the dedication of recent chairs, the Association is doing well with healthy growth, local groups being created, a thriving Committee and good representation from the Common Rooms. Birth of the Association We do not know whose idea it was that an Association be formed, open to all present and past members of the College â&#x20AC;&#x201C; on payment, the first version of the Constitution tells us, of a life membership fee, but gestation soon led to action. The first Association dinner was held on Saturday 27th November 1965 at the Royal Commonwealth Society in Northumberland Avenue, with the Master as principal guest. The first General Meeting was held in the Wolfson Hall on Sunday 12th June 1966 with Arnold Thackray in the Chair and the Bursar Major-General Jack Hamilton as Secretary. The Master, the Vice-Master (Ken McQuillen), Canon Duckworth and 18 other members were in attendance. Several names on this list might ring bells for alumni with long memories. At the first reunion on that June day members demonstrated that they had lost none of their old skills on the croquet lawn; the fellows team was rescued from defeat only by the hitherto unsuspected skills of the Master. The cricket match against the College proved such a draw that attendance at the first AGM suffered, but this merely served to inaugurate the feature that has been evident ever since, to wit, that AGMs must be completed within at most twenty minutes, and with little need for voting. A cocktail party on the Masterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lawn rounded off an enjoyable event. From the Record to the Review At that time there were 183 members; the College council had agreed to the system of opting out (hardly surprising, given that most resident members,

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then as now, tend on graduation to disappear pretty quickly, leaving not a rack behind.) As a result of this decision some 120 members were expected to join that summer. The joining fee was 3 guineas. The income in that first year was £576, with a credit balance of £252. In those days the Association paid the greater part of the costs of publishing what was initially called The Record and became in 1966 the Review. The Association appointed the editor, and for a while the chairman of the Association was also the editor of the Review; from 1984 the editor was appointed by the College Council. Early editions always contained a transcript of the minutes of the last AGM. The Committee occasionally tried to flex its muscles: for example, in 1969 it drew the attention of the College authorities to the danger to visitors of the humps which had been installed in the private road. Difficult times for the Association In 1975 it was agreed that any matriculated member of the College could become a member of the Association by paying an annual subscription of £1 or a life membership fee of £15. But during the 1970s the Association was at a low ebb. One loses track of the number of times the phrase ‘concern was expressed’ shows in the minute book.The great majority of members on going down chose not to join; the level of fee was changed several times, with the conflicting aims of encouraging members to join by making it more affordable or benefiting the Association by drawing in more cash. It was reported in 1979 that about 200 copies of the review had been returned to the College marked ‘Address unknown.’ Jack Hamilton noted: ‘For far too long there has been either total ignorance of the Churchill College Association or wholesale confusion about its aims and objectives.’ The recipe was varied to attract attention, for example by moving the date of the annual dinner from June to September. One gets the impression that the Committee were becoming dispirited. We have a splendid and slightly waspish note by Ken McQuillen, Vice-Master and Review editor for three years in the ’70s, urging past and present members to keep in mind the benefits of remaining in touch with their college, and observing that many members, in returning their completed forms, showed an inability to distinguish between graduation and matriculation. There was an ‘urgent duty’ ,he said, ‘to try to get the present junior members of the College involved in the Association’, and he lamented the diminution of corporate spirit, which seemed to be a consequence of the increasing numbers in the College. FRIENDSHIP AND FELLOWSHIP

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It was minuted that the decision of the College Council in 1971 to change from ‘opting out’ to ‘opting in’ had been disastrous – only eight graduands had applied for membership at the end of the previous academical year. Dick Tizard suggested that members of the College should be required to become members of the Association during their residence and should be charged the £1 membership fee compulsorily; other speakers too called for ‘drastic action’. A great step forward 1978 brought a great step forward, without which the Association might well have folded. In a letter to all members printed in the 1978 Review the Secretary Diarmaid MacCulloch announced that it had been agreed that the Association become an integral part of the organisation of the College, and that all resident and non-resident members should automatically belong to it, from the date of their first admission. The Association rewrote its Constitution to reflect the new position. The Association nonetheless stumbled through the 1980s, the Committee appealing loud and long for new blood, especially female blood. It might almost be said that the Association sank out of sight so far as the Review was concerned; a half-page listing the Committee membership and a few key dates was all the reader might find. But in 1991 the College again came to the rescue by assuming responsibility for publishing and distributing the Review, whose format became thereby more authoritative, becoming in fact a substantial Journal of Record. Thanks to the College ownership of the Review and to the commitment of successive chairs, recent decades have been more fruitful and less problematic for the Association. By 1998 Hywel George was able to contribute an article to the Review (in the first edition resplendent in its blue covers) reporting an optimistic forward look. It is apposite too to say that by then the College had appointed a Development Fellow Correlli Barnett and a Development Secretary Jenny Baker; this must have greatly helped to integrate development with alumni support activities, in effect the current position. The Association now shows healthy growth; more local groups form themselves each year, the current Committee thrives, with good representation from the common Rooms, and fresh ideas emerge to create new opportunities.

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MEMBERS’ NEWS Amunts, Alexey (past By-Fellow) has been appointed programme head for Biology of Molecular Interactions by SciLifeLab, a collaboration hub for the top research institutions in Sweden, providing the country’s largest life sciences infrastructure. Cantello, Joanne (U89) celebrated the 5th birthday of her agency Wolfsong Media, one of the leading talent and literary agencies in the field of adventure, exploration and travel. Coyle, Diane (Fellow) was awarded a CBE in the 2018 New Year’s Honours for services to economics and the public understanding of economics. Professor Coyle was also appointed as the inaugural Bennett Professor of Public Policy. Czerski, Helen (U&G97) has been awarded the 2018 William Thomson, Lord Kelvin Medal and Prize for her contributions to championing the physics of everyday life to a worldwide audience of millions through TV programmes, a popular science book, newspaper columns, and public talks. Davies, Christine (U&G78) has been made an Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Physics for her world-leading achievements in particle physics research and her sustained record of outstanding academic leadership. Davies, Roger (G75) was elected President of the European Astronomical Society in June 2017. Dholakia, Kishan (U85) was awarded the R W Wood Prize of the Optical Society (OSA) for 2016 and the Institute of Physics Thomas Young Medal and Prize 2017. Donohue, Laura (G94, Past By-Fellow) won the Palinex Civil Liberties Prize for her most recent book The Future of Foreign Intelligence (OUP). Elias, Brian (U67) is a professional composer whose piece ‘Cello Concerto’ was premiered in the 2017 Proms.

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Evans, Jeffrey (Past Overseas Fellow) was named a Fellow in the American Society of Civil Engineers in 2014, and elected to Life Member status in 2016 in recognition of long-time contribution and commitment to the Society and the profession. Evison,Alison (U83) was elected President of the Confederation of Scottish Local Authorities (COSLA) in June 2017, only the third woman to hold this post. Goldstone, Clement (U67) was awarded an Honorary Fellowship from Liverpool John Moores University in 2016 for outstanding contribution to the Law. Hatherall, Richard (U91) was part of the team awarded the Guinness World Record for the longest team kite surf (736 miles) in August 2015. Inglis, Stephen (G77) was awarded a CBE in the 2017 New Year’s Honours for services to Health Protection. Krylova, Katya (U02) published her second book, The Long Shadow of the Past: Contemporary Austrian Literature, Film, and Culture (Camden House), in June 2017. Lindberg, Garry (G60) was appointed a member of the Order of Canada by the Governor General of Canada in June 2017 for his work on Canada’s space programme. Minett, Graham (U69) has published three crime novels with Bonnier Zaffre (the most recent published in March 2018, entitled Anything for Her) and is working on his fourth. Myerscough, Colin (U&G64, Past Fellow) published a series of 3 novels as J.M.Collin (Troubador) in October 2017, the first set within a fictional Cambridge College. Quider, Anna (G07) was elected President of The Science Coalition, a US non-profit comprised of about 60 top US research institutions including MIT, Harvard, and Princeton, whose focus is on communications and initiatives that grow US federal government investments in scientific research.

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Saha, Krishanu (G01) was listed in the Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering Journal as a Young Innovator in 2014, and received a 2016 Brain and Behaviour Research Foundation NARSAD Young Investigator Award. Sanders, Jeremy (G69) was awarded a CBE in the 2014 Queen’s Birthday Honours for services to Scientific Research. Simmons, Elizabeth (G85) became the Executive Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs at the University of California, San Diego, in September 2017. Stroustrop, Bjarne (G75) was awarded the 2018 Charles Stark Draper Prize for Engineering from the US National Academy of Engineering for conceptualizing and developing the C++ programming language.

Erratum In the 2014 Review on p. 97, Dr Len Squire discussed the acceptance of the first woman student at Churchill, Dr Swati Sen-Mandi. The article incorrectly stated Dr Sen-Mandi was from Sri Lanka. We would like to clarify that she is in fact from India and apologise for this error.

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Members in the News Churchill alumnus Justin Champion (U&G1980) has been awarded the 2018 Medlicott Medal for outstanding services to History. Justin was an undergraduate and postgraduate in History at Churchill from 1980 to 1987. Justin is Professor of the History of Ideas at Royal Holloway; recent President of the Historical Association; an expert on radical ideas during the English Revolution and English Enlightenment; a regular broadcaster of historical documentaries; and a pioneer of ‘public history’ through his Masters in Public History at Royal Holloway, which sends graduates into the heritage, arts museums, and media sectors. Previous winners include Mary Beard, Margaret McMillan, Michael Wood, Melvyn Bragg, Peter Hennessy, Martin Gilbert, Ian Kershaw, Simon Schama, Neil Cossons and Antonia Fraser. Churchill alumna, Rachel Macfarlane (U85) read History at Churchill. She came to us from Queen Mary’s Sixth Form College, Basingstoke. She is currently Principal of Isaac Newton Academy, Ilford, a school of which she was the founding head – has been appointed Director of Education Services for Hertfordshire, with effect from April 2018. Rachel mentors headteachers in London and is also Senior Lecturer at the London Centre of Leadership and Learning at the Institute of Education. Takehiro Aoki is a Churchill PhD student who along with other Cambridge students (all MBA students) beat 19 teams from top universities around the world to win the first prize of 3,000 USD at the Yale Healthcare Case Competition (YHCC), an annual international competition organised by the Yale School of Management in the US. Aoki’s trip for the case competition was supported by Churchill College Tizard Fund.

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The YHCC focus is on finding solutions to challenging problems in the healthcare and biotechnology industry. The Cambridge Team presented their unique business idea – aimed at those with diabetes or pre-diabetes – which combines a free wearable device, genetic profiling, and machine learning. This idea was designed to integrate advanced technologies with a view to address unmet medical needs in healthcare. Takehiro Aoki recollects this experience with pride and comments ‘it was our teamwork that enabled us to win this prestigious award’.

We are delighted to announce that the following people have been elected as Honorary Fellows on Friday 16th March 2018: Professor Oliver Hart Julia King, Baroness Brown of Cambridge Professor Nicola Spaldin

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Helen Johnson, Fellowship and Master’s Secretary I am delighted to have joined Churchill College as Fellowship and Master’s Secretary. Having worked for the Department of Chemistry in Cambridge for over six years, as PA to two senior Professors, I have a strong understanding of the administrative processes of the University and am enjoying seeing the other side of academic life at Cambridge. I studied Contemporary Media Practice at the University of Westminster, with a focus on photography and stop-motion animation. After graduation, I began work as a camera operator for a live shopping channel, which I thoroughly enjoyed, however after two years of long shifts and unsociable hours, I decided to return to administration, having held short-term positions in this field before and during University to help fund my education, and found a position at the Department of Chemistry. I enjoyed this line of work so much that I remained at the Department for over six years until joining the College in December 2017. This lifestyle change also allowed me time to follow my other passion, music. I am currently lead vocalist for two local rock bands, with an album and several EPs under my belt, and I keep up my media interests by also acting as photographer and video producer for much of the bands’ promotional material. I spend almost every weekend and evening performing at gigs and festivals across the UK, and when not performing, I fill my time practising with the bands, writing and recording new songs and trying to act in music videos! I feel privileged to have joined such a remarkable and beautiful College and have been overwhelmed by how welcoming and supportive everyone has been. I look forward to meeting and getting to know the Fellows over the coming years.

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New Fellows 2017–18 Dr Lorna Ayton Title A (Official) Fellow Lorna is a member of the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics in the Waves research group, where she focuses on asymptotic approximations for high-frequency sound generated by solid bodies in unsteady subsonic flows. Currently her work concentrates on applications to rotor-stator interaction inside aeroengines. Lorna is a College Lecturer in Mathematics and previously held a Teaching By-Fellowship at Churchill College from 2013–14. Dr Andrea Grant Title A (Official) Fellow Andrea is a social anthropologist with an interest in media and religion in East Africa. Her PhD research explored the rise of the new Pentecostal churches in Rwanda after the 1994 genocide, and the reconstruction of the local music industry. She is currently involved in two new collaborative research strands: examining media and gender in Uganda, and looking at the Rwandan diaspora in Kenya. Prof Timothy Ibell Title C (Professorial Fellow) Professor Tim Ibell received his BSc (Civil Engineering) from the University of Cape Town and his PhD in Structural Engineering from the University of Cambridge. After five years in industry and as a postdoctoral fellow, Tim joined the Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering at the University of Bath, where he was subsequently promoted through to Professor, Head of Department and Associate Dean for Research in the Faculty of Engineering and Design. Tim was President of the Institution of Structural Engineers (IStructE) in

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2015, and he is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. His research includes the use of fabric to form extraordinary concrete structures and the monitoring of loadings, structural behaviour and user experience in buildings to drive better design. He has a passion for education in structural engineering design, and he won the University of Bath’s main teaching award in 2008 while Head of Department. In September 2017, Tim took up the Sir Kirby Laing Professorship of Civil Engineering at the University of Cambridge. Dr Jonathan Padley Title A (Official) Fellow Jonathan Padley is a researcher in English children’s literature from the eighteenth century to the present day. His work explores margins; in particular, the marginalisation of authors, characters and texts. Alongside children’s literature, Jonathan is interested in interdisciplinary dialogues between literature, media, music, science and theology. He has published broadly, including on transgressive creation in Shelley’s Frankenstein, bibliographical anomaly in Tennyson’s English Idyls, and Christological imaging in Tolkien’s Middle-earth mythos. As one of Churchill’s Admissions Tutors, Jonathan is responsible for undergraduate admissions and recruitment to the College. He is Director of Studies in Education at St Edmund’s and teaches children’s literature for the Faculty of Education. In addition to academic work, Jonathan is committed to widening participation in higher education and is the University’s Area Link representative to his native South Wales. From 2013 to 2015, he was seconded to Welsh Government to co-lead the research and policy implementation which gave rise to Wales’ Seren Network, to which he still regularly contributes. Dr Wei Qian Title B (Junior) Research Fellow Dr Qian completed her PhD in ETH Zürich under the supervision of Wendelin Werner, before moving to the University of Cambridge in April 2017. She was also a Swiss National Science Foundation (NSF) Fellow from April 2017 to September 2018.

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Wei Qian’s research focuses on two-dimensional random objects such as the Brownian loop-soup, the conformal loop ensembles, the Gaussian free field, the Liouville quantum gravity and so on. These objects are good candidates for describing the scaling limits of various models coming from statistical mechanics. She aims to understand better the properties of these objects and the relations between them in order to get further understanding of the physical systems behind. Dr Bobby Reddy Title A (Official Light-Load) Fellow Bobby Reddy is currently a University Lecturer in Corporate Law, lecturing in company law and corporate governance at the Faculty of Law, Cambridge. After graduating from the University of Cambridge, Bobby trained as a practising lawyer at Slaughter and May, before joining global law firm Latham & Watkins LLP, becoming a partner in 2012. He specialised in public and private mergers and acquisitions, private equity, investment funds, regulatory, cross-border transactions, and company representation, dividing his time between the London and Washington D.C. offices. Subsequent to leaving Latham and Watkins LLP, Bobby acted as a senior consultant to the charitable corporate governance think tank, Tomorrow’s Company, before joining the board as a director and trustee. Dr Elizabeth Soilleux Title A (Official) Fellow Liz Soilleux is the Preclinical Director of Studies for Medicine at Churchill, a University Lecturer in the Department of Pathology and a practising clinician, in that she is an honorary consultant in haematopathology, molecular pathology and autopsy pathology at Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge. Her research interests lie in immunology and haematology, particularly the analysis of T-cells in diagnostics, related both to lymphoma and to immunological/inflammatory conditions. She is also interested in the application of novel mathematical algorithms to various aspects of diagnosis, 202

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including digital image analysis and the analysis of large datasets, with the aim of improving objectivity of diagnosis and efficiency of workflow, perhaps with future automation of aspects of diagnostic histopathology. Dr Phillip Stanley-Marbell Title A (Official) Fellow Phillip Stanley-Marbell is a University Lecturer in the Department of Engineering where he leads the Physical Computation Lab. His research focus is on exploiting an understanding of properties of the physical world and the physiology of human perception to make computing systems more efficient. Prior to joining Cambridge, he was a researcher at MIT, from 2014 to 2017. He received his PhD from CMU in 2007, was a postdoc at TU Eindhoven until 2008, and then a permanent Research Staff Member at IBM Research – Zurich. In 2012 he joined Apple where he led the development of a new system component now used across all iOS and macOS platforms. Dr Christopher Braithwaite Title A (Official) Fellow Christopher Braithwaite attended Cambridge as an undergraduate in Natural Sciences, matriculating in 2004. He then began a PhD in the SMF group sponsored by De Beers and Rio Tinto to look at the shock properties of geological materials.While this was laboratory based, the research output fed directly into a large-scale modelling effort being run by a number of the world’s largest mining concerns. In 2009 he began work as a research associate in the group, investigating a wide range of phenomena. Christopher was appointed to an Early Career Lectureship in 2016. Christopher has an active interest in the shock behaviour of granular and geological materials. He has also been involved in a number of smaller projects for a variety of sponsors, including the early efforts the group made into the area of space penetrators. Christopher has also offered and supervised a number of undergraduate projects for final-year students.

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Dr Stephen Cox Title A (Official) Fellow Dr Stephen Cox attended Cambridge as an undergraduate in Natural Sciences, matriculating in 2006. In 2010 he studied for a PhD under the supervision of Professor Angelos Michaelides at University College London, where he used computer simulations to investigate heterogeneous ice nucleation. From 2015 to 2017 Dr Cox undertook postdoctoral research with Professor Phillip Geissler at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where he established an interest in the theory of ion solvation and electrolyte solutions. He was awarded a research fellowship from the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 in 2017, and is currently a visiting research scholar in the Department of Chemistry. Prof Diane Coyle Title C (Professorial Fellow) Diane Coyle is an economist specialising in the economics of new technologies, economic statistics, and digital markets and competition policy. She was previously Professor of Economics at the University of Manchester and Co-Director of Policy at Manchester. She has had a number of public policy roles, and is currently a member of the Natural Capital Committee and a Fellow of the Office for National Statistics. She is chair of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research, a member of the Royal Economic Society Council, and a trustee of the Centre for Economic Policy Research and Pro Bono Economics. Communicating economics is a passion. Diane is a contributor to the free online CORE economics curriculum and the associated textbook The Economy. She also programmes the annual Festival of Economics in Bristol, which started in 2011. Her books include GDP: A Brief but Affectionate History, The Economics of Enough: How to run the economy as if the future matters, and The Soulful Science (all Princeton University Press). Diane founded the consultancy Enlightenment Economics, where she has worked extensively on the impacts of mobile telephony in developing countries and is contributing editor in a small publishing joint venture, Perspectives, with the London Publishing Partnership.

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Dr Yael Loewenstein Title B (Junior) Research Fellow Yael Loewenstein is a Junior Research Fellow in Philosophy. In July 2017 she received her PhD from the University of Arizona under the supervision of Professor Terry Horgan. In addition to being a Fellow of Churchill, Yael has a tenuretrack appointment at the University of Houston. Yael specialises in metaphysics and the philosophy of language, and has focused especially on the metaphysics and semantics of counterfactual conditionals. Much of her research explores the relationship between counterfactuals and indeterministic causation. She has also published work on the metaphysics of free will and moral responsibility.

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Professor Alexander Holroyd Title F (Overseas) Fellow, Lent and Easter Term 2018 Alexander E. Holroyd is a mathematician working in probability theory, with occasional forays into combinatorics, computer science and statistical physics. A broad goal of his research is to understand the emergence of large-scale phenomena from small-scale random events, and particular interests include phase transitions, cellular automata, and randomised algorithms. He received his PhD at Queens’ in 2000 and has held positions at the University of California in Los Angeles and Berkeley, the University of British Columbia, and Microsoft Research in Redmond, as well as a current affiliate position at the University of Washington in Seattle. Professor John Marshall Title F (Overseas) Fellow, Lent and Easter Term 2018 John Marshall is Leonard and Helen R. Stulman Professor of History at The Johns Hopkins University. He is a British historian and an historian of political thought. He was awarded a bachelor’s and master’s degree from Cambridge University, where he was also a Junior Research Fellow and a By-Fellow. He has a master’s degree and a PhD from Johns Hopkins. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He has written two books on the English philosopher and political theorist John Locke. Reviewers called his Locke: Religion, Resistance, and Responsibility ‘essential reading’, ‘an impressive achievement and a major contribution to the understanding of Locke’s moral and religious thought’, an ‘important work in the history of social, political, and philosophical thought’, and ‘at once textually acute and theoretically grand…a superb and detailed study’. Declaring also that his John Locke, Toleration and Early Enlightenment Culture was ‘an outstanding contribution to the history of religious toleration’, a ‘magisterial tome’, an ‘immense contribution’, a ‘tour de force’, and ‘A powerful piece of scholarship – brilliantly conceived, breathtaking in scope, and rich in historical insight…surely destined to become a classic’.

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Professor Michael Thouless Title F (Overseas) Fellow, 2017–18 Michael Thouless was first elected to an Overseas Fellowship in 2011. He is the Janine Johnson Weins Professor of Engineering, and an Arthur F Thurnau Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, and the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. He obtained his BA in Engineering from Churchill College, Cambridge in 1981, and then did graduate work in materials science at the University of California, Berkeley, working on the creep rupture of ceramics. He was awarded his PhD in 1984. In 1988, he moved to the Physical Sciences Department at IBM as a Research Staff Member, where he developed a research program on interface mechanics and the mechanical properties of layered materials. He then moved to the University of Michigan in 1995. Recently, he has been working on fracture-fabrication techniques for nanoscale devices, creep and wear in nuclear structures, and design strategies for protection against blast and impact. He was awarded an ScD from Cambridge University in 2009, and is a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining. He was previously an Overseas Fellow at Churchill College in 2011.

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By-Fellows 2017–18 Prof Ian Carter Visiting By-Fellow Ian Carter studied in England at the Universities of Newcastle and Manchester, and in Italy at the European University Institute in Florence. Since 1993 he has taught political philosophy at the University of Pavia, Italy, where he currently directs the Master programme in World Politics and International Relations. His main research interests include the concepts of freedom, equality, and rights. He is currently working on the concept of the person and its implications for basic equality and distributive justice. Mr Stephen Davison Professional By-Fellow Steve is Head of the Public International Partnerships section within the Strategic Partnership Office at the University of Cambridge. Steve has been a member of the University since 2008 when he joined as a Political Research Analyst. He went on to become Political Affairs Adviser before building and leading a new Public Affairs Team. He took up the role of Head of Public International Partnership following the formation of the Strategic Partnership Office in 2017. Prior to joining the University of Cambridge, Steve worked in Westminster as Head of Environment for Policy Connect: a UK think tank. He is a Senior Officer of the League of European Research Universities, a Senior Officer of the International Alliance of Research Universities, and a founding member and former chair of the Russel Group Political Affairs Network. Dr Gian Guzman-Verri Visiting By-Fellow Gian Guzmán-Verri is an invited professor of physics at the University of Costa Rica and a resident associate at Argonne National Laboratory (US). His research focuses on condensed matter physics, particularly on phenomenology and microscopic theory of transition WHO’S WHO 2017–18

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metal oxides. While in Cambridge, Gian will be working with the group of Professor Xavier Moya (DMSM) on developing new theoretical frameworks for multicaloric effects in ferroic materials. The goal is to construct a platform that may yield new physics and useful cooling devices by combining theory and experiment. Gian received his PhD in Physics (2012) from the University of California, Riverside under the supervision of Professor Chandra M Varma; and did a postdoc at Argonne National Laboratory under the supervision of Peter B Littlewood. Dr Tom Hurst Archives By-Fellow Tom Hurst is an Archives By-Fellow and recipient of the John Antcliffe Memorial Fund Grant (2018). He is currently completing his PhD at King’s College, London. Tom’s research is concerned with Margaret Thatcher’s prime ministerial speechmaking, 1979–90. Tom’s postdoctoral research will consider the political career of John Hoskyns, 1974–79. This will include his contribution both to the creation of Stepping Stones, and to the wider Conservative Party policy agenda. Tom works fulltime as Head of History at a school in North London. Dr Christopher Knowles Archives By-Fellow Dr Christopher Knowles studied history as an undergraduate at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, from 1971–74.After a career in electronic publishing and computer software, he resumed his academic studies at the Centre for Contemporary British History (CCBH) at the University of London in October 2005. He is now a visiting research fellow at Kings College London and will be taking up his position as Archives By-Fellow at Churchill College, Cambridge, in April 2018. His principal area of interest is the Allied Occupation of Germany after the Second World War. His PhD thesis on the subject was awarded the annual prize of the German Historical Institute, London, for 2014. His book Winning the Peace: The British in occupied Germany, 1945–1948 was published

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by Bloomsbury Academic in January 2017. He has a particular interest in the relevance of the past to the present and how a better understanding of history can contribute towards improving the quality of public debate on contemporary issues. Ms Svetlana Lokhova Archives By-Fellow Svetlana holds an MPhil and BA (Hons) in History from the University of Cambridge. Her interest in espionage history began whilst studying History at Cambridge University. Her groundbreaking Master’s dissertation remains the definitive account of the founder of the Soviet intelligence service, Felix Dzerzhinsky. She is responsible for a number of the most important archival discoveries made in recent years. She has spoken about the Mitrokhin archive on US Public Service Radio, Radio Free Europe, the BBC and ABC (Australia). She was until recently a Fellow of the Cambridge [UK] Security Initiative jointly chaired by the former head of MI6, Sir Richard Dearlove, and Professor Christopher Andrew, former Official Historian of the MI5. Svetlana’s first book, The Spy Who Changed History, was published by Harper Collins on 14 June 2018. Professor Gary Love Visiting By-Fellow Gary Love is Associate Professor of Modern British History at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim. He has a PhD in History from the University of Cambridge (2010) and an MA in History from the University of Hull. While at Churchill he will also be a Visiting Scholar at the Faculty of History during both the Michaelmas and Lent terms (2017–18). Love’s research focusses on the history of British politics, intellectual cultures, and media history in the twentieth century. His current work focuses on British Conservatism. Love is also the project manager and lead researcher on

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a major new collaborative project entitled ‘Conservatism at the Crossroads: Conservative Thought and the Renewal of Democratic Politics in Britain and Scandinavia, 1930–63’. He was chosen by NTNU to be one of twentyfive young scholars to participate in the University’s ‘Outstanding Academic Fellows Programme’ during the period 2017–21. He will also be a Harry Ransom Center Research Fellow in the Humanities at the University of Texas, Austin, USA, in 2018. Dr Rear Admiral Chris Parry Visiting By-Fellow After reading Modern History at Jesus College, Oxford, Chris Parry served as an aviator and warfare officer in the Royal Navy until 2008. As well as sailing every sea, he experienced regular operational tours and combat operations in Northern Ireland, the Gulf and the Falklands. He subsequently commanded the destroyer HMS GLOUCESTER, the Amphibious Assault Ship HMS FEARLESS, the UK’s Amphibious Task Group and the Maritime Warfare Centre. He also had five senior Joint and UK Ministry of Defence appointments, with responsibility for the policy, effectiveness and future operational development of all three armed forces. Since 2008, he has been heading his own strategic forecasting company, advising governments, leading commercial companies and banks about geopolitical and strategic issues, future trends and systemic risk. He completed a PhD in 2017. Dr Noah Turner Rogoff Artist By-Fellow Noah Turner Rogoff is Associate Professor of Music in the College of Fine Arts and Humanities at the University of Nebraska at Kearney, where he has taught since 2008. He began playing the cello at the age of four, furthering his early studies at the Music Institute of Chicago and later at Meadowmount in New York. He holds degrees in cello performance from Northwestern University and the University of Minnesota.

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He has won top prizes in several competitions and has performed as a recitalist and chamber musician across the United States and at venues in Canada and Brazil. Noah is a founding member of the Frahm-Lewis Trio. He is the cellist of the Trans-Nebraska Players. During his time in Cambridge, Noah will be researching the work of British cellist Christopher Bunting (1924– 2005), particularly his two-volume Essay on the Craft of Cello-Playing, likely the widest and deepest twentieth-century work on cello technique. Professor Kevin Ruane Artist By-Fellow Kevin Ruane is Professor of Modern History at Canterbury Christ Church University. He has written and published widely on many aspects of post-war international history, including books on the Vietnam War, Anglo-American Relations, and European unity. His most recent book, published by Bloomsbury in 2016, is Churchill and the Bomb in War and Peace, and he is presently completing – with co-author Professor Matthew Jones of the LSE – a study of Anthony Eden and the settlement of the French war in Indochina in 1954. Beyond this, his next project is a book on the personal and political relationship between Winston Churchill and Anthony Eden, from the 1930s to the 1950s, a study which will be aided, and enhanced, by his by-fellowship at the Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College. Dr Matthieu Vandamme French Government By-Fellow Matthieu Vandamme received his PhD from the Civil and Environmental Engineering department at MIT (Cambridge, Mass.) in 2008, for a study of the creep properties of cementitious materials by nanoindentation. He is also an engineer from Ecole Polytechnique (France) and from École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées (France), and received an M.S. in solid mechanics from École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées in 2002. He was awarded the 2016 EMI Leonardo da Vinci Award from the American Society of Civil Engineers. Since 2008, he has been working at Laboratoire Navier (ENPC, CNRS, IFSTTAR) at École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées. He performs Materials WHO’S WHO 2017–18

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Science applied to materials relevant for Civil and Environmental Engineering (i.e., cementitious materials, coal, clay-based materials…). More precisely, his main interest lies in the mechanics and physics of porous solids. Dr Emanuel Viebahn Visiting By-Fellow Emanuel Viebahn is an Academic Visitor at the Faculty of Philosophy and a Visiting By-Fellow at Churchill College. He is a lecturer in the Department of Philosophy, at Humboldt University, Berlin. Emanuel completed his DPhil in Philosophy at Oxford in 2015, and also holds a BPhil in Philosophy (Oxford) and a BA in Philosophy and German Literature (Humboldt University, Berlin). Emanuel’s main research areas are the philosophy of language, metaphysics and the ethics of communication. In Cambridge, he is primarily working on theoretical and ethical questions about lying. Other current research projects concern issues in the philosophy of time and in metasemantics, semantics and pragmatics. Dr Alan Wager Archives By-Fellow After graduating from Nottingham University and the University of Sussex, with undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in Politics and Social Research Methods respectively, Alan Wager recently completed an ESRC-funded doctoral thesis examining cross-party co-operation in Britain, between 1945 and 2000. Through this time, he taught British Politics at Queen Mary, University of London, and was a researcher on projects at the LSE and the University of Manchester. He produced crossnational and comparative book chapters on the Liberal Democrats and UKIP within their European party-family context, as well as on the use of leadership and statecraft theory to understand the history of Conservative leadership. Alan has written blog posts on aspects of his research for The New Statesman, The Huffington Post, The Conversation and LSE Public Policy.

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Professor Shigenori Wakabayashi Visiting By-Fellow After obtaining his first degree in English Language and Literature at Waseda University, Tokyo in 1984, Professor Wakabayashi taught English at a high school for eight years. He then started his graduate studies at Essex University where he obtained an MA in Applied Linguistics in 1993. He moved to Cambridge and obtained his MPhil. in English and Applied Linguistics in 1994 and PhD in 1997. He returned to Japan and taught formal linguistics, applied linguistics and psycholinguistics at Gunma Prefectural Women’s University until 2005, when he moved to his current post at Chuo University, Tokyo, where he continues to teach in those same areas. His academic interests lie in generative and psycholinguistic approaches to second language acquisition, especially modelling adult non-native speakers’ morpho-syntactic knowledge and its use based on empirical data within the framework of Generative Grammar. Teaching By-Fellows: Mr Benjamin Barrett Dr Steven Herbert Mr Graeme Morgan Dr Peter O’Donnell Dr Andrew Peel Postdoctoral By-Fellows: Dr Jess Beck Dr Francesco Boselli Dr Cameron Brick Dr Na Cai Dr Alice Denton Dr George Farmer Dr Paul Kirk Dr Javier Martinez Jimenez Dr Fabien Massabuau Dr Clara Novo Dr Rune Nyrup Dr Anne Marthe van der Bles Dr Catherine Vreugdenhil WHO’S WHO 2017–18

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Who’s Who in Churchill College This is the list of Fellows as it was on 1 October 2017; also included are Fellows and By-Fellows who joined the College in the course of the academic year 2017–18. Fellowship Categories: Fellows and By-Fellows Honorary Fellows: honorific positions bestowed on outstanding figures who have normally had a prior connection with the College; Benefactor Fellows: a title bestowed by the Governing Body on major donors to the College; Title A (Official): our main teaching Fellows and senior College Officers;Title B (Research): Junior Research Fellows are early career researchers, usually immediately postdoctoral; Senior Research Fellows: well-established researchers, usually with positions in the University or associated institutes; Title C (Professorial): holders of a Cambridge University Chair (but professors who opt to continue with a teaching stint may remain in Title A); Title D (Emeritus/Emerita): Fellows who have retired from their University position;Title E (Extraordinary): academics or other persons of distinction whom the College wishes to include in its number but who may not be resident in Cambridge; Title F (Overseas): Fellows staying in Churchill as academic visitors and normally collaborating with Churchill Fellows in the same subject, for periods ranging from a term to a year; Title G (Supernumerary): those who do not belong to any of the above categories but who are performing an important function in the College. Teaching By-Fellows: assisting in specific areas of teaching need (usually postdoctoral status; may also be Fellows of another College); Academic By-Fellows: visiting researchers nominated by the Archives Centre or by a Fellow of the College; Professional and Møller By-Fellows: having professional links particularly relevant to Churchill; Staff By-Fellows: non-academic staff members with senior managerial positions in the College; Postdoctoral By-Fellows: drawn from the University’s 3500-strong postdoctoral community. Master Donald, Professor Dame Athene, DBE, FRS

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G73; H07 U64; H10 U64; H10 H10 B(SRF)03–4; C04–09; H12 F74; H12 F77–78; H12 H15

Soyinka, Professor Wole Vargas Llosa, Dr J Mario P, DLitt Churchill, Mr Randolph

Literature Mathematics Biographer Microbiology Chemistry

Literature Literature Great-grandson of Sir Winston U80; H15 Lord Justice of Appeal H15 Møller Foundation B(JRF)67–69; H17 Philosophy A89–93; H17 Physics U63; H17 Architect C00–11; H17 Literature U76; H17 Engineering H17 Architect U80; H17 Physics F12; H17 Computer Science A61–65; H17 Physics A75-81; H18 Economics A87-94; E02-17; Materials Science H18 and Engineering U88; H18 Materials Science

Sales, Rt Hon Lord Justice Philip, QC Uggla, Mrs Ane Maersk McKinney Blackburn, Professor Simon, PhD, FBA Bradley, Professor Donal, CBE, FRS, FInstP, FIET, FRSA De Grey, Professor Spencer, CBE, PhD, RIBA, RA Jacobus, Professor Mary, PhD, FBA, CBE Mairs, Professor Christopher, CBE, FREng Mullins, Mr William, FRIBA Nelson, Professor Jennifer, PhD, FRS Stroustrup Professor Bjarne, PhD Thouless, Professor David J, PhD, FRS Hart, Professor Oliver, MA, PhD, FBA Brown of Cambridge, Baroness DBE, PhD, FRS, FREng Spaldin, Professor Nicola, PhD, FRS

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Investment Adviser Investor and Mentor Chairman, Non-Executive Director Widow of Don Pinchin (G73)

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Crisp, Dr A J, MA, MB, BChir, MD, FRCP Kramer, Professor M H, PhD, LLD, FBA King, Mrs A N, MA, FRSA Brendon, Dr P, MA, PhD, FRSL O’Kane, Dr C J, MA, PhD Robertson, Professor J, MA, PhD, FIEE Boksenberg, Professor A, MA, PhD, FRS, CBE Barbrook, Dr A C, MA, PhD

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Kinsella, Professor J, MA, PhD Yuan, Dr B, PhD Brook, Mrs J M, MA, MBA Kraft, Professor M, MA, Dr. rer. Nat, ScD Sirringhaus, Professor H, PhD, FRS DeMarrais, Dr E, PhD Van Houten, Dr P, MA, PhD Tout, Professor C A, MA, PhD

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Rees, Dr E J, MA, MSci, PhD Holmes, Dr M A, MA,VetMB, PhD, FRCVS Surtees, Mrs S J B, MA Oates, Mr T, MA, CBE Simoniti, Dr V, PhD O’Brien, Dr C, PhD Savory, Dr S PhD Young, Dr A PhD Sloman, Dr P PhD Ali, Dr J M, MA, MB, BChir, PhD, MRCS

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Chemical Engineering Veterinary Medicine; Tutor Domestic Bursar Cambridge Assessment History of Art History Engineering Engineering; Dean Politics Medical & Veterinary Sciences Engineering Innovation and Outreach Engineering Pure Mathematics Engineering Archaeology Physics History Physics Molecular Biology Psychology French Bursar Logic and Computation Development Director Biographer and Historian Applied Mathematics Biophysics Physics Social Anthropology Engineering Pure Mathematics Law Electrical and Computer Engineering Education; Admissions Tutor Mechanical Engineering History Mathematics

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Ruggiero, Dr M T, PhD Savage, Dr L E, PhD Winpenny, Dr E M, PhD Farmer, Dr G D, PhD Courtice, Dame V A Polly, DBE, LVO Brick, Dr C, PhD Van der Bles, Dr A M, PhD Barrett, Mr B MMath Beck, Dr J, PhD Boselli, Dr F, PhD Cai, Dr N, DPhil Davison, Mr S, MA Denton, Dr A, PhD Kirk, Dr P, MSc, PhD Martinez Jimenez, Dr J, DPhil Massabuau, Dr F, PhD Morgan, Dr G H, PhD Novo, Dr C L, PhD Nyrup, Dr R, PhD, ScD O’Donnell, Dr P J, MA, DPhil Vreugdenhil, Dr V A, PhD Vandamme, Dr M, PhD Love, Professor G, PhD Rogoff, Dr N T, MA Viebahn, Dr E, MA, MSc, DPhil Wager, Dr A, PhD Ruane, Professor K J, PhD Parry, Rear Admiral Dr C J, CBE, MA, PhD Herbert, Dr S, PhD Guzman-Verri, Dr G, PhD Wakabayashi, Dr S, MA, MPhil, PhD Knowles, Dr C W, MA, PhD Carter, Prof I, MA, PhD Lokhova, Ms S, MA Peel, Dr A, PhD Hurst, Mr T W, MA Rawlinson, Rev Dr J

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Chemical Engineering History of Art Neuroscience Psychology Sustainability Leadership Social Psychology Social Psychology Pure Mathematics Anthropology Biological Physics Bioinformatics Head of Public Affairs, University of Cambridge BF (Postdoctoral) Immunology BF (Postdoctoral) Genomics BF (Postdoctoral) Classics BF (Postdoctoral) Nanotechnology BF (Teaching) Computer Science BF (Postdoctoral) Epigenetics BF (Postdoctoral) Philososphy BF (Teaching) Mathematics BF (Postdoctoral) Applied Mathematics BF (Visiting, French Materials Science Gov) BF (Visiting) History BF (Artist) Music BF (Visiting) Philososphy BF (Archives) Social and Political Science BF (Archives) History BF (Visiting) History BF (Teaching) Engineering BF (Visiting) Materials Science and Engineering BF (Visiting) Linguistics BF (Archives) History BF (Visiting) Political and Social Sciences BF (Archives) History TBF Chemistry BF (Archives) History Chaplain Chaplain to the Chapel at Churchill College

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CONDOLENCES Mr Nicolas Blades (G72) Mr Jon Vantyghem (U72) Mrs Annis Windsor-Pleydell (U75) Dr Ian L. Smith (G73) who died on 31 May 2007 Mr Christopher Tallen (U86) who died on 4 August 2010 Mr Nicholas Lamb (U77) who died on 18 January 2015 Professor Richard Adams (former By-Fellow) who died on 2 June 2015 Dr Joseph Shub (U65) who died on 22 February 2016 Professor Ingram Olkin (former Overseas Fellow) who died on 28 April 2016 Mr John Beard (U64) who died on 18 October 2016 Mr Michael Bray (U64) who died in November 2016 Professor Erik Christiansen (former By-Fellow) who died in 2017 Mrs Kim Jenner (nĂŠe Barber) (U76) who died on 18 January 2017 Professor Zbigniew Grabowski (former Overseas Fellow) who died on 28 January 2017 Professor Gary Steigman (former Overseas Fellow) who died on 9 April 2017 Professor Jean Cuisenier (former Overseas Fellow and French Government Fellow) who died on 23 June 2017 Professor Abiola Irele (former Overseas Fellow) who died on 2 July 2017 Mr Angus Higgins (U09) who died on 23 July 2017 Mr Neil Palmer (U89) who died in September 2017 Sir Alcom Copisarow (former Archives By-Fellow) who died on 2 September 2017

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Mr Frank Dobson (U64, former By-Fellow) who died on 4 September 2017 Professor John Knott (former Vice-Master) who died on 2 October 2017 Professor Emeritus Kurt Mislow (former Overseas Fellow) who died on 5 October 2017 Mr David Wheeler (U75) who died on 29 October 2017 Mr Peter Hayes (U62) who died on 4 November 2017 Dr John Armytage (U&G67) who died on 24 November 2017 Mr Geoff Pyke (U63) who died on 25 December 2017 Major General Charles Ramsay CB OBE (Archives Centre donor) who died on 31 December 2017 Mr John Borthwick (G63) who died in 2018 Mr Hugh Jones (U69) who died on 20 January 2018 Mr John R E Hooper (former Fellow) who died on 23 January 2018 Mr Iain Forbes-White (U66) who died in February 2018 Dr Alex Kfouri (G66) who died on 2 February 2018 Mr Michael Coghlan (U69) who died on 15 February 2018 Professor James Howe (G60) who died on 1 March 2018 Mr Richard Denenberg (G69) who died on 6 March 2018 Mr Frank Kemp (U66) who died on 10 March 2018 Dr Michael Bomford (U&G62) who died on 16 March 2018 Dr Jost Lemmerich (former Fellow) who died on 21 March 2018 Professor P L Thibaut Brian (former Overseas Fellow) who died on 2 April 2018 Mr Kevin Chang (U12) who died on 7 April 2018 Professor Brian Cherry (former Fellow) who died on 27 April 2018 Professor James Thorp (former Overseas Fellow) who died on 2 May 2018

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Mr Tim Drake (U71) who died in June 2018 Mr Robert Watton (U70) who died on 5 June 2018 Mr Alex France (U73) who died on 9 June 2018 Mrs Elizabeth Stokes (College supporter) who died on 21 June 2018 Mr Paul Samuel (U82) who died on 30 June 2018 Mr David Pearson (U74) who died on 10 August 2018 Miss Alison Walker (former secretary to the Tutor for Advanced Studies) who died on 26 September 2018 Dr Frank Maine (G60) who died on 29 September 2018

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