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Published by Churchill College Editors: Noelle Caulfield and Tim Cribb Storey’s Way Cambridge CB3 0DS. Tel. 01223 336197; Fax 01223 336177; Newsletter.Editor@chu.cam.ac.uk Design & layout: www.cantellday.co.uk All texts, photographs and illustrative material, except where acknowledged otherwise, are © Churchill College 2015. We are grateful to contributors for permission to reproduce illustrations and photographs.
POINTS OF CONTACT Accommodation Alumni and Past Fellows may book accommodation in College via the website: www.chu.cam.ac.uk/conferences/services/ bandb Alternatively please telephone the Conference Office on +44 (0)1223 336164 or email: accommodation@chu.cam.ac.uk Alumni Association churchill.association@chu.cam.ac.uk Alumni Relations Office alumni@chu.cam.ac.uk Sarah Fahle, Alumni Officer: +44 (0)1223 336083
Development Director John Pennant development@chu.cam.ac.uk +44 (0)1223 336197 Hilary Stimpson, Development Officer: +44 (0)1223 336240 Livia Argentesi, Development Coordinator: +44 (0)1223 331546 Churchill Review Editor review.editor@chu.cam.ac.uk Newsletter Editor newsletter.editor@chu.cam.ac.uk
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High Table Bookings If you would like to attend High Table please email us at alumni@chu.cam.ac.uk Porters’ Lodge +44 (0)1223 336000 Møller Centre +44 (0)1223 465500 reception.moller@chu.cam.ac.uk
Churchill Welcome! Meeting Churchill alumni has been one of the highlights of my first year as Development Director. I have spent this year learning from you more about our community, what it means to be a Churchillian and our ambitions for the future. Thanks for making my transition from the wild west of Canada to the dreaming spires of Cambridge less traumatic than it otherwise might have been.
With this year being the 50th anniversary
will enable us to house all the 4th year
of the state funeral of our Founder Sir
undergraduates and free up some rooms
Winston Churchill it is a particular privilege
for graduates. The project has received
to have joined Churchill College. From a
great support from alumni, Fellows and
fundraising perspective this year presents
friends over the past seven years with
opportunities to meet with major donors
684 gifts generating over £4 million.
and alumni with a whole series of events
We are continuing to raise funds for this
that recognise his contribution to the
£10.6 million project.
country. Development and Alumni office
to announce a gift of US$750,000 from
Fahle and Livia Harriman contributed with
a former Gulbenkian graduate Scholar
their support on the very successful phone
who is making a major philanthropic
campaign, student enterprise competition
gift to thank the Calouste Gulbenkian
and many alumni events with a strong
Foundation (one of the original donors to
international flavour. The international reach
the College in 1958) and Churchill College.
of our excellence is supported by our new
Funds were added to the Gulbenkian
Master, Professor Dame Athene Donald,
studentship in memory of Dr. Adam Yuval,
during the recent high profile trip to New
Berlin 1912 – Jerusalem 2003. Dr Yuval
York where she was featured as part of the
served in the Royal Army Medical Corps
University’s “Women of Success” based on a
in the western desert during WW II; served
book which she co-authored celebrating the
in the Israel war of independence and
achievements of women at the University.
served in the Yom Kippur war. His son
Raising money for the College is my
“Raising money for the College is my main priority and I have been struck by the strength of the appeal of the College to alumni and friends.”
As we go to press I am also pleased
staff members Hilary Stimpson, Sarah
Gideon Yuval was in Churchill 1967-1969
main priority and I have been struck by
as a graduate student. He told me
the strength of the appeal of the College
that his experience at Churchill changed
to alumni and friends. We set up a new
his life and he would like to make sure
Development Board. It is led by the Chair
others have the same opportunity. The
Michael Cowan (U70 Engineering) and
enhanced endowed award will be called
raising funds for the College is its priority.
the Gulbenkian Yuval Studentship to
We are already on course to surpass our
support graduate overseas students
average achievement of £1.9m per annum
at the College and help to ensure that
in the past five years and achieve a target
Churchill continues to attract the very best
of £3.69 million this year.
Ph. D students.
Construction has just begun for the new court development of rooms for
John Pennant
Churchill undergraduates and which
Development Director
CHURCHILL COLLEGE NEWSLETTER 2015 3
Chase Lindberg
CHURCHILL’S MICROSCOPISTS A through-focal series – and an introduction of the Master Chaucer’s remark about all the new corn coming from the old fields has some relevance for scientific research but we also need the exploratory element of transplantation.
of her later career crept in. Intrigued by
once again with the help of a powerful
the activities of another research group
mentor – in his case Alan Cottrell.
there, she began to apply her microscopy
Although some other Churchillian
expertise to the study of crazing in
electron microscopists (including Colin
polymers. On her return to Cambridge
Humphreys, Murray Gibson, Chris Sworn,
her reputation in this field grew rapidly –
Peter Rez, Lech Stanciewicz) got their
first working with Alan Windle in Materials
training in the Cavendish this was not
Science and then with Sam Edwards
the only way into the subject. Two Senior
when he became Cavendish Professor
Research Fellows – Rafal Dunin-Borkowski
and wanted to build an experimental
and Caterina Ducati – came through Mike
The career of our new Master, Athene
team in polymer physics. Polymers
Stobbs’s group in Materials Science, and
Donald, can be traced back like that
proved to be a great jumping-off point
an earlier Master – Alec Broers – started
of several other Fellows (Francis
for Athene to develop and apply new
with Charles Oatley in Engineering before
Crick, Hugh Huxley, Tony Kelly, Mike
ideas of optical as well as electron
going to IBM. Electron microscopy has
Stobbs and myself) to Bragg’s famous
microscopy and diffraction more generally.
by its very success now moved beyond
crystallography group. By the time she
She progressed through soft matter
these Chaucerian growing fields. In
joined the Cavendish most of the genuine
physics, the physics of food (structure
recent years, however, even this progress
crystallographers studying perfect crystal
of starch) and even to biology (structure
has been surpassed by the astonishing
structures had moved off to the Molecular
of the amyloid plaques associated with
developments in optical microscopy,
Biology Lab leaving behind a smaller
degenerative brain disorders).
particularly in biology, recognised in the
team concentrating on the application
I see intriguing parallels between the
most recent crop of Nobel prizes and
of electron microscopy to more irregular
research careers of Athene Donald and the
significantly underpinned through the
structures. This Microstructural Physics
late Tony Kelly, who got his grounding in
discovery of the green fluorescent protein
Group was led by me and Mick Brown,
Cavendish crystallography twenty years
dye by our former postgraduate, Honorary
who became Athene’s supervisor for her
earlier and to some extent paved the
Fellow and Nobel laureate – Roger Tsien. In
PhD research into the embrittlement
way for electron microscopy to develop
this distinguished company it is reassuring
processes in metals caused by segregation
there. Like Athene, Tony broadened his
to find quite a few who, like Athene, can
of impurities to grain boundaries. The
outlook by moving for a few years to the
demonstrate that microscopists can
significant progress she made with this
USA. The concepts of Materials Science
develop a broader vision!
then got her an invitation to carry on
and particularly composites which seized
the work at Cornell, but at this point the
his imagination there were brilliantly
Archie Howie (F60)
unexpected element so characteristic
developed on his return to Cambridge and
Former Director of the Cavendish
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AN INTRODUCTION FROM THE MASTER As I write this I have been in College
Churchill has just accepted our offer of an
running its own leadership events under
for around eight months. And what an
Honorary Fellowship.
Churchill2015, together with celebrating the
exhilarating and daunting period it has
The Science Museum is running its own
new wing of the building. It will be opened
been. Getting to know a very welcoming
celebration of Churchill’s life with a new
by Ane Uggla, Director of the Maersk
– but extensive – set of new faces and the
exhibition on Churchill’s Scientists. Closely
Foundation, and the second of our four
people behind them has been challenging
linked with the book by College By-Fellow
new Honorary Fellows I want to mention.
but a pleasure. I was told before I joined
Graham Farmelo, Churchill’s Bomb, it is a
The other two new Fellows are alumnus
Churchill that it was a very friendly and
fascinating exploration of how Churchill
and High Court Judge, Sir Philip Sales, and
‘unstuffy’ college, but I have realised just
interacted with scientists throughout his
past teaching Fellow, Sir Tony Atkinson
how true these adjectives are. Matthew and
life. I am particularly interested in this as I
(former Principal of Nuffield College).
I have been made to feel immediately at
am also a Trustee of the Science Museum.
home; the Lodge was done up in advance
It was delightful to meet many alumni – and
had the opportunity to meet some of you
of our arrival to make our living quarters
also family members – at the official launch
at events ranging from the Reunion Dinner
first class too. We owe our thanks to many
of the exhibition in January. Of course
in September to smaller events which I’ve
different people who worked so hard to
our fantastic archives have contributed
hosted in Brussels, New York, Boston and
assist us in getting settled.
very significantly to the exhibition, as with
Manchester. I look forward to meeting many
During these first few months I have
It has certainly been a busy few
another exhibition, this time in Paris at the
more of you in the months and years ahead.
months, not just because we are novices
Musée de l’Armée. Opening in April, a few
Finally, academically we continue to
and there is so much to learn. 2015
of us went over to attend the official event
thrive. This year we were 6th in the Tompkins
marks the 50th anniversary of the death
presided over by the British Ambassador
Table, consolidating our position in the top
of our Founder and there have been a
and the Minister of Defence for France.
half dozen colleges year on year, a tribute
variety of events to commemorate this
Our Archives have contributed over 60
to our students’ (and their supervisors’)
fact, some packaged under the broad
artefacts to this exhibition, called simply
hard work. I cannot report on any more
umbrella of Churchill2015. I attended the
‘Churchill – De Gaulle’.
Nobel Prizes this year, but Professor David
Commemoration of the State Funeral in
Again under the umbrella of
Spiegelhalter was made a Knight in the 2014
Westminster Abbey on January 30. It was
Churchill2015, together with the Centre for
Birthday Honours and many of our Fellows
the second time in a couple of months I’d
Science and Policy, the College hosted an
and students receive prizes of significant
been to the Abbey as, in November, there
event on ‘Joined up scientific advice for 21st
distinction – indeed far too many to mention
was a Memorial Service in honour of Lady
century leaders’, where we were splendidly
here individually.Sometimes I cannot believe
Mary Soames, who died in the summer. I
entertained with witty and thoughtful
what a wonderful College I have become
very much regret I never got to meet Mary,
anecdotes by Lord (Peter) Hennessey,
associated with!
who was such a good friend to the College,
Lord (Richard) Wilson, Sir Richard Mottram
but the links with the family continue
and the Right Hon Charles Clarke. Later
Professor Dame Athene Donald
strong. We are delighted that Randolph
this summer the Møller Centre will be
Master
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Introducing a Cambridge alumnus as new Director of the Winston Churchill Foundation of the USA Even before the official founding of Churchill College, American friends of Sir Winston formed the Winston Churchill Foundation of the United States, in order to ensure that there would always be a group of top American students at the College. The first three Churchill Scholars were selected in 1963. Over the years, the Churchill Scholarship has evolved into one of the most prestigious academic awards for American graduates and is considered the most academically challenging of the UK scholarships. Now there are fourteen Churchill Scholarships awarded each year for students in science, mathematics, and engineering. The Scholarship is for a 1-year MPhil or MASt. The Cambridge Master’s degrees involve a great deal more independent research than the typical American graduate student would experience at this stage, making the Scholarship of great interest to applicants. Over the past 50 years, there have been Michael has written three popular
Churchill, Emma Soames, and a number
Foundation which runs the Scholarship.
books: How the Celts Came to Britain (2005)
of American and British philanthropists.
Peter Patrikis retired in the spring after
and All-New Baseball Brainteasers (2007),
Michael will visit the College every
almost ten years in the job, during which
and he co-authored with his wife, Dimitra
November, May, and perhaps other times
time he increased the number of Scholars
Papagianni (whom he met in Cambridge),
during the year and looks forward to being
from 11 to 14 and oversaw healthy growth
The Neanderthals Rediscovered (2013),
part of the extended Churchill community.
in the endowment.
which won the Society for American
only a handful of Executive Directors of the
On June 1st, Michael Morse became the new Executive Director of the
Archaeology 2015 Book Award. He has a PhD in the history of science
Michael Morse Executive Director, the Winston
Foundation, and he is the first of the
from the University of Chicago, an MPhil
Churchill Foundation of the United States
post-holders to have an MPhil from
in archaeology from Cambridge (Jesus
of America
Cambridge. Before his appointment to the
College), and a Bachelor’s degree in
Foundation, he spent ten years working
anthropology from Princeton.
in development for science and higher
Michael grew up in New York City,
education, first at the Royal Society (where
spent fifteen years in the UK, living in
he helped launch a £100 million campaign
Cambridge, Winchester and Oxford, and
for the Society’s 350th anniversary) and
now resides with his wife and their three
then at the University of Oxford (where
children in Westchester, New York. The
he was the Development Director at
Foundation is based in New York City.
St. Peter’s College and then Director of Foundation Relations for North America).
The Foundation’s Board of Trustees includes Dame Athene Donald, Randolph
CHURCHILL COLLEGE NEWSLETTER 2015 6
MARKING A DEATH
Celebrating a life It is now fifty years since the death and state funeral of Sir Winston Churchill in January 1965. By a sad and strange co-incidence the anniversary was preceded by the death of his youngest daughter Lady Soames on 31 May 2014, and by her Memorial Service in Westminster Abbey on 20 November. It has therefore been a rather strange year and one that has been dominated by these high profile Churchill commemorations. Lady Soames was a great supporter and
happiness or joy again I shall always have
user of the Churchill Archives Centre
the memory of my first 17 years – a golden,
during her lifetime, and she did not fail us
glowing memory of pleasures, loves,
in death. Her personal papers, as well as
friendships and heavenly rapture of living at
those inherited from her sister Sarah, she
peace in the beautiful place that is my home.”
bequeathed to the College. We now begin
A few weeks later, on 30 January
the task of cataloguing them. Some of her
2015, I was back in the Abbey for the
personal belongings were subsequently
laying of a wreath at Churchill’s Memorial.
auctioned at Sotheby’s, generating
But that was at the end of a full day of
enormous media interest and rather
commemoration. The two Speakers, the
high prices. Those paintings by her father
Prime Minister, the Deputy Prime Minister
that she had loaned to Chartwell were
and the Leader of the Opposition had
secured for the Nation with the help of the
already placed wreaths at his statue in the
Acceptance in Lieu scheme.
Palace of Westminster before breakfast,
Her Memorial Service was an echo
Authority launch that had carried his
Abbey not St Paul’s, and, like his, finished
coffin, re-created its historic journey down
on an upbeat note with trumpets and the
the Thames just after lunch. The public
singing of the Battle Hymn of the Republic.
and media interest was high, in spite of the
The Archives Centre played a small role in
cold, and the College and Archives Centre
supplying Sir William Shawcross with the
made a fleeting appearance on Jeremy
following entry from the diary of the soon-to-
Paxman’s lavish BBC1 production about
be seventeen year old Mary for the reading:
Churchill’s funeral. Fortunately, he was in a
14 September 1939 – “The last day
good mood and the Director got off with a
seventeen, I can scarcely believe it! The
Winston Churchill 30 November 1949
while the Havengore, the Port of London
of Churchill’s funeral, though held in the
of my 17th year. Tomorrow I shall be
“I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.”
very light grilling. The commemorations were set piece,
One of the earliest photos of Mary, showing her c1924. It survives in her mother’s papers
years have flown – 7 and then 17 - the years
ceremonial occasions. They were moving
between seem like fleeting shadows that
and exciting in equal measure, though
passed quickly, happily.
they were not primarily educational.
to the Churchill’s Scientists exhibition at
I may never live to see another year – I
For the Churchill Archives Centre the real
the National Science Museum and the
shall never see the world again as I knew it
legacy of Churchill 2015 lies in the gift of
Churchill and De Gaulle exhibition at the
before this – bloody war. But if I were never
Lady Soames’s archive, in the new Churchill
Musée de l’Armée. Father and daughter
to know another happy day (and I know
online resources that are being created
have both now passed into history, and it
that I shall probably do that, because in the
(such as www.churchillcentral.com and
is for us to help others write that history.
human soul there is that spirit of gallantry
www.churchillarchive.com) and in our
and courage, that makes strange heaven
continued contribution to debate and
Allen Packwood
out of unbelievable hell) but if I never know
scholarship through our loan of materials
Keeper of the Archives Centre
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CREATIVE ENCOUNTERS In 2015 the College will admit its first
Here knowledge grew from the original
and photography replacing the demand
Junior Research Fellow in ‘Art as a Source
perspectives presented by the work
for illustration, art has been liberated to
of Knowledge’. The JRF is a new four-
itself. Most importantly, it did not apply
address the internal, intuitive reality of
year research fellowship for early career
to the evolution of the work, it occurred
the collective human memory. . . .
postdoctoral researchers working in the field
a posteriori — that is, from the work.
of Art as a Source of Knowledge, with a focus
This was a most surprising and gratifying
Analogies are tools, and as such they are
on the visual arts. It has been established
by-product of sculptures evolving with,
accepted conventions; they are by their
thanks to a donation by the Canadian
and from, Art History.
nature, repeatable, measurable and
sculptor, Jeffrey Rubinoff. He is also the
predictable. Metaphors exist beyond
founder of the Jeffrey Rubinoff Sculpture
The knowledge gained was transcribed
logic in the realm of intuition; they are
Park on Hornby Island, British Columbia,
into “Insights” that were introduced for the
the basis for truly original thought and
where he has lived and worked since 1973
basis of discussion in the first Company
are by their nature unique. Metaphors
and produced over 100 sculptures.
of Ideas Forums with the hope that they
are self-contained truth, and they
could be hammered into full-fledged ideas
cannot be used as analogies.
The Jeffrey Rubinoff Sculpture Park* was founded in 2004 to address
by open argument. The ideas were then
the perpetuity issues of the collected
expanded into three papers written by
Rubinoff poses the question, “Can art
sculptures of the artist. In 2008 the
the artist for the forums that followed:‘Art
become the fulcrum for the reconciliation
Park began a yearly forum entitled the
Beyond War: Discussion About Prehistoric
of science with history to lever the value
‘Company of Ideas’. This grew into the
War and the History of Art by Artists’
of conscience beyond the plasticity of
Yale University Forum of 2011, chaired
(2010), ‘Through the Lens of the Endgame’
morality?” This question “has the potential
by the historian Jay Winter (Charles J.
(2011), and ‘Existential Realities of Post-
to imbed the Junior Research Fellowship
Stille Professor of History) and Jeffrey
Agriculture’ (appropriately subtitled ‘Art as
deeply within the wider university”. And
Rubinoff. A long-term relationship with
a Source of Knowledge’) in 2012.
indeed College Council has approved
the historians Peter Clarke (Professor of
In ‘Existential Realities of Post-
a Sculpture Park Forum followed by a
Modern British History, Cambridge, from
Agriculture’ Rubinoff discusses the sources
Churchill College Conference addressing
1991 to 2004) and Maria Tippett (former
of modern History and Art History in
the question of the “Defence of the
Senior Research Fellow at Churchill) and
the German Enlightenment and of art
Genome” for the year 2017.
Art Historian James Fox began at that
as a source of knowledge through the
Forum. Fox is currently editing a book,
perception of such thinkers as Baumgarten,
Rubinoff Fellow in Art as a Source of
which includes articles by a number
Kant, Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel.
Knowledge. Vid’s DPhil thesis at the Ruskin
of Cambridge academics, on Jeffrey
Vid Simoniti will be the first Jeffrey
School of Art, Oxford, is entitled ‘The
Rubinoff’s work. Sir David Wallace (former
In Rubinoff’s own writing on Evolution
Epistemic Value of Contemporary Art,’ and
Master of Churchill College) attended the
of Mind:
seeks to answer the traditional philosophical
2014 Forum, where the possibility of a
question of how works of art can be a source
permanent link between Cambridge and
Evolution of mind results from the
of knowledge, with an emphasis on cases
the Sculpture Park was discussed, and
engagement of truth with both analogy
from recent Art History: conceptual art, the
the Junior Research Fellowship in Art as a
and metaphor.
educational turn and sci-art.
Source of Knowledge was the result. Before the opening of the Park,
Science has created conventions for
Rubinoff had abandoned the world of art
truth using analogies to model material
dealers and galleries where, he argues,
reality. For much of their history, artists
“novelty was essential to commodification”,
have been bound by their innate
Barry Phipps will be contributing an
and returned to, “the refuge of my Art
analogical ability to portray external
essay entitled, ‘Making, Placing, Setting’
History lineage to seek and evolve genuine
reality. By science externalizing models of
to the forthcoming book about Jeffrey
originality”. He continues:
underlying structures of material reality
Rubinoff’s work.
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*See rubinoffsculpturepark.org
No 1. from Series 9
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MASTER CHEF Did you watch Master Chef on BBC1, broadcast on 23 April as part of Churchill2015? Twostarred Michelin Chef, Michael Curtis, took over the College kitchens to make the programme, aided by our Head Chef, Mark Slater. The guests were members of the Churchill family, led by our new Honorary Fellow, Randolph Churchill, who, as you see, stepped in as Head Waiter, supported by Allen Packwood and Prof. David Reynolds, representing the Archives. The five-course tasting menu was designed to test the contestants to the maximum. Here’s the starter course so you can test yourself. There followed Tartlette of Quail with Onion Confit, Slow Braised Beef Cheeks with Celeriac Puree, Spinach and Shallot Puree, Apple Served Four Ways, and Raspberry Mousse with Pistachio Puree, Macaroons, Popping Candy and a Raspberry Sourbet. As part of a prize we’ve offered to the Arthur Rank Hospice for their current fund-raising, our Chefs will reproduce the whole menu for the lucky winners.
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Crab tortellini with lemongrass and ginger sauce This pasta recipe may be a little fiddly, but the delicate flavours make it well worth the effort.
Ingredients
Preparation method
FOR THE CRAB RAVIOLI MOUSSE
1. For the crab ravioli mousse, place the scallops, egg yolk, cream and brown crab meat
• 40g/1½oz scallops • 1 free-range egg yolk • 25ml/1fl oz double cream • 40g/1½oz brown crab meat • 1 tsp finely chopped ginger, blanched three times • 125g/4½oz white crab meat • cayenne pepper • lemon juice, to taste • salt and freshly ground black pepper • 1 pink grapefruit, peeled, cut into segments • 2 tbsp basil cress FOR THE BASIL OIL • 10g/¼oz fresh basil • 100ml/3½fl oz olive oil
into a food processor and mix until smooth. 2. Remove the mixture from the food processor and spoon into a bowl suspended over ice. 3. Stir in the ginger and white crabmeat. Season with salt, freshly ground black pepper and a pinch of cayenne pepper. Add a few drops of lemon juice. 4. For the basil oil, heat the oil to 80C/175F (use a thermometer to check this) and add the basil. Infuse for a few minutes and then blend in a food processor until smooth. Pass the mixture through a fine sieve and set aside. 5. For the basil purée, bring a pan of lightly salted water to the boil, add the basil leaves and cook for 1-2 minutes, or until soft and tender. Drain and refresh in iced water. 6. Pat the basil dry on kitchen paper, blend in a food processor until smooth and pass the mixture through a fine sieve. 7. For the ravioli pasta, place the basil purée, basil oil, egg, egg yolk, flour and salt
FOR THE BASIL PURÉE
into a food processor. Switch on the processor and slowly add the water until well
• 500g/1lb 2oz basil leaves
combined. Remove the dough from the food processor, knead briefly until smooth,
• salt and freshly ground black pepper
then wrap in clingfilm and chill in the fridge for 30 minutes.
FOR THE PASTA • 20g/¾oz basil purée (see above) • 20g/¾oz basil oil (see above) • 3 free-range egg yolks • 1 free-range egg • 250g/9oz plain flour • 1 tsp salt • 2 tsp water FOR THE LEMONGRASS AND GINGER SAUCE • 75g/3oz unsalted butter • 75g/3oz shallots • 25g/1oz fresh ginger • 50g/2oz fresh lemongrass • 5g/⅛oz white peppercorns • 5g/⅛oz coriander seeds
8. For the sauce, heat a heavy-based saucepan until medium hot, add the butter, shallots, ginger and lemongrass and fry for five minutes. 9. Stir in the peppercorns and coriander seeds and fry for another two minutes. 10. Add the brown crabmeat and crab carcasses and fry for five minutes. 11. Pour in the fish stock and bring to the boil then simmer for 20 minutes. Pass the mixture through a fine sieve into a clean saucepan. 12. To finish the sauce, add the butter, salt, freshly ground black pepper and lemon juice. Whisk until well combined. 13. Split the crab mousse into four equal portions. 14. Roll the pasta out thinly using a pasta machine or rolling pin. Using a pastry cutter, cut the dough into 10cm/4in circles. 15. Place a spoonful of crab mixture onto a pasta circle, fold the top over to form a semi-
• 75g/3oz brown crab meat
circle, press down lightly to seal then wrap the edges of the semi-cirlce around your
• 250g/9oz crab carcasses
index finger and join together.
• 250ml/9fl oz fish stock • 300g/11oz unsalted butter • ½ tsp salt • pinch ground white pepper • 1 tsp lemon juice
16. Bring a saucepan of salted water to the boil, add the pasta and simmer for 4-5 minutes. Drain. 17. To serve, place the tortellini into serving bowls, pour over the sauce and scatter with pink grapefruit and cress. Drizzle with a little basil oil
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Jerome Bon
Altitude attitude Echoing around the huge rock pillar of the Dent du Géant or the steep ice of the Tour Ronde north face: “I’m safe”; “Off belay”; “Taking in”; “Climbing” – the phrases we shout to each other in turn, the guide and me, to control each other’s safety on every pitch. An Alpine route may have a dozen pitches
touring between mountain huts, and
to keep fit enough to enjoy ski-touring. I
and, including the approach walk or
ascending some of the peaks in between.
extended this regular exercise.
scramble from ski lift or mountain hut, a
We would look at nearby summits and
single route (often at a high altitude over
routes over rock or ice, but they were
around Chamonix and Zermatt, with a
4000m) usually takes all day or more.
not for us – they were the province of
mountain guide who finds the route, takes
What do I get for all this effort? Some
the summer mountaineer. I knew that
the lead, and advises on points of technique.
amazing views: upwards, out across the
the mountain guides who led the ski
I need to climb in a safe and controlled
surrounding peaks of the Alps, and often
trips also worked in the summer with
manner, yet keep up a steady pace to
down through a lot of space beneath
smaller groups, usually just one or two
achieve the route times in the guidebooks.
my feet; the dawn colours across the
clients, finding their way up mountains
This has enabled me to climb some of the
mountain landscape as the sun rises and
and on routes much more difficult than
classic rock, ice and mixed routes which I
we set out across a glacier very early in the
those I climbed on skis. My rock climbing
otherwise would not feel confident about
morning. These are experiences like no
experience until then was limited to a two-
even attempting. So I now look forward
others and (for a convert to the magic of
day course over ten years earlier, which
each summer to a couple of weeks of
the mountains) well worth the effort.
I had not followed up. My experience
challenge and excitement in the beauty of
on ice was minimal. So I took some
the mountains.
When I retired from heading an NHS Department of Medical Physics four years
mountaineering courses over the next few
ago, I decided I needed to start some new
summers in Switzerland and Chamonix.
activities, get a complete contrast from
Alpine routes tend to be long and may
the indoor working life I was leaving, and
have a long approach walking across a
make good use of the time freed up. I was
glacier, so fitness is important. Fortunately,
already a keen ski-tourer, going to the
I‘d already settled into regular long-
Alps every spring with half a dozen others,
distance (up to half marathon) running
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So far, I’ve climbed mainly in the areas
David Williams (U63)
Passage from India In 2005 I was invited to India with an
theatre, in its wholeness. For me all in
actors had a greater language to draw on.
open brief to create a show with Indian
the cast are equally important, and such
Shakespeare himself has one foot in the
actors. Such opportunities are once in a
things as setting, costume, location,
ancient and one in the modern.
lifetime. It was while traveling that I saw in
definition are best found through
In Europe we are trapped in the latter.
India and Indian actors the potential for a
rehearsal, not determined before. I start
production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
with the play, cast a company and then
months in a residential theatre retreat in
I had held back from producing it in the
evolve the production approach and
Southern India in humble but exquisite
UK for reasons I could not quite articulate.
design. In India I assumed I would work
conditions. In Europe we may be fortunate
After months and miles of travel, research
with actors in English. I then saw how
with institutions and professional
and casting workshops in ten cities,
remarkable and ancient the non-English
structures, state subsidies, engaged paying
two months of rehearsal with actors
theatre is, and I felt I had to embrace this.
audiences. But artists in India work in
from a wide variety of backgrounds and
Thus we ended up with a multi-lingual
more focused conditions in which the
performance traditions working in seven
production, natural to India. I could never
daily creative process is valued in itself.
languages, and a tour of India in outdoor
have pre-imagined that.
There are no tight rules about when a
Third, approach. We rehearsed for two
spaces that we created, I knew that there
Second, cast. It had become a
rehearsal has to take a break, yet no one
was no way back to the way of directing
frustration to me that the actors I was
wears outdoor shoes or brings food and
Shakespeare and making theatre that I
meeting in the UK were largely trained
drink into the rehearsal space, and there
had known in the UK.
in a similar way: Stanislavski basis, good
is no rehearsal without physical, vocal and
on text, fairly musical, a little bit physical
mental preparation. It is cleaner.
What made the difference?
etc. I yearned to make theatre based on
First, process – and process shapes result.
a wider range of skills and approaches.
open approach described, we were able
In the UK a new Shakespeare production
The Indian actors brought to Shakespeare
to evolve a production that suited us and
is talked about primarily in terms of who
their connections with ancient traditions
in which we could thrive. I was overjoyed,
is acting the major roles and how it is set
– physical, musical, ritualistic. UK actors
although not totally surprised, when it
(Merchant of Venice in Vegas, Julius Caesar
might find it easier to access realism and
proved to be a success with audiences all
in an African Republic etc). I respect that
speak text but when it comes to physicality,
over the world.
but find it restricting and superficial for
the supernatural, the formal, the sexual
myself. I try to see Shakespeare, and all
and the violent I found that the Indian
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In these conditions, with the cast and
Tim Supple (U81)
Slow Boating in Britain
The Voyage of the ‘Alexandra’ I am an Australian social psychologist.
But you can’t just take off into
When I was a By-Fellow in 1995, a
uncharted territory without knowing
productive and enjoyable time, my wife
where you are going. We deployed the
Sandra and I stayed in one of the Sheppard
passage-planning skills acquired during
Flats. We have been back on a number
our ocean-going sailing. The rental rules
of occasions. In fact, whenever we go to
explicitly stated that the boat had to be
Britain, whether for business or pleasure,
tied up alongside at dusk, a consideration
we make a point of staying in College to
we took into account. Pre-ordered basic
catch up with old friends. The last time
supplies had been installed in the galley,
was three years ago and most definitely for
but had to be replenished every couple
pleasure – the subject of this piece.
of days. A quick consensus was reached
We are Sydney yachties and in our
among the crew about the desirability of
spare time cruise up and down the
having lunch and dinner ashore at one of
Australian East Coast. Our life-long love
the many canal-side pubs. A list of such
affair with all things nautical tends to
establishments and their locations was
influence what we find of interest on our
set out on a spread sheet, with estimates
travels. In Britain we certainly visited and
of place and time of arrival each day.
treasured the libraries, art galleries and
Computer literacy can be quite useful
Though the regions we passed through
chapels during our various sabbaticals.
for solving real life problems, something
were full of history they were largely
But what also intrigued us was Britain’s
one does not often get a chance to do
untouched by recent development.
extensive network of man-made inland
in academia. Having established our
waterways. In Cambridge we marvelled
stomach maintenance schedule, we next
two knots gives you plenty of time to take
at the boats plying the canals – peculiar-
devised a scheme to nourish the mind. We
in the scenes on and off the water, and
looking to our ocean-going eyes because
listed all the historic villages, Great Houses,
if you hit anything you can do very little
these vessels are very long – between
churches, heritage sites (like the World War
damage. We did between 8 and 10 miles a
60 and 70 feet – yet extremely narrow –
II Hack Green secret nuclear bunker and
day, depending on the number of locks we
usually not more than 7 or 8 feet in the
the Cadbury Creamery at Knighton), and
had to negotiate. We conquered 93 locks
beam. These improbable dimensions are
included them in the spread sheet. Finally,
and travelled 106 miles in fourteen days.
of course directly related to the width of
Alexandra’s fuel tank had to be refilled
And last but not least, we wrote a book
the canals, many only just wide enough to
every couple of days; similarly the water-
about our adventure. It should appeal to
carry two-way traffic.
tank; and the holding tank for the toilet
anyone with a general interest in canals
Weekends at Cambridge were often
Our progress was stately. “Speeding” at
had to be discharged – so we entered
and waterways; those attracted to ‘safe’
spent at the Meadows at one of the pubs
these too on the spread sheet and the
adventure holidays; thosecontemplating
overlooking the river, drooling over these
various places along the way that provided
a boating excursion on the British canals;
vessels. But we never had enough time
fuel, water, and discharge services.
and arm-chair travellers intrigued by
or money to rent one. Invariably, after
To avoid repetition on the return
journeying through a region of England
the third beer, we resolved that one day
leg, the route we chose was the Four
replete with historical significance. Here
we would make the time and borrow the
Counties Ring. It involves many locks, a
are the details:
money to do a cruise on a Narrow Boat.
new experience for us. The Ring passes
And so it came to pass that in late 2010
through the Trent and Mersey Canal, the
we boarded a plane in Sydney, took a
Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal,
bus to Stoke-on-Trent, met up with our
the Shropshire Union Canal, and the
the contents, please contact me by email
fellow-travellers Andy and Jenny, and were
Middlewich Branch of the ‘Shroppie’. The
at (s.bochner@unsw.edu.au)
ushered aboard the Alexandra, our floating
fourteen days we allowed were about
home for the next fortnight.
right to cover these distances comfortably.
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Slow Boating in Britain: The Voyage of the Alexandra, paperback, 200 pages. If you want detailed information about
Stephen Bochne (BF95)
Hospital New Deal It was a dream come true in the spring of 2005, when I entered the University of Cambridge. I was eager to begin my Master of Studies in Community Enterprise at Cambridge Judge Business School and become a member of Churchill College. I already had a career in my family’s automobile dealerships, including founder and owner of Childre Ford in Sandersville, Georgia, USA. Also, I was the chairman of my local hospital board, Washington County Regional Medical Center (WCRMC), a county-owned, not-for-profit hospital in rural Georgia. My hope was that the Master of Studies in Community Enterprise would offer me the opportunity to conduct research on strategic planning and implementing organizational changes that would improve the operations of our
Next, we sought to understand the
hospital. The research focused on strategic
divergent needs of these diverse groups.
planning, organizational design and
This important stakeholder analysis led
change management.
the hospital to expand services by opening
At the conclusion of my studies at
clinics for surgery, pediatrics, family
Cambridge, the hospital board asked me to
care, and sleep studies. Additionally,
become the CEO of WCRMC to implement
we developed a managerial accounting
the strategic plan and operational changes
system to analyze the financial viability for
required to navigate the challenging
each new and existing service.
environment of the USA health care system.
Operational changes were also
My hope was that the Master of Studies in Community Enterprise would offer me the opportunity to conduct research on strategic planning and implementing organizational changes that would improve the operations of our hospital.
I began my role as CEO (which was my
required for the hospital to reduce
first job in a hospital) by leading WCRMC
cost and improve patient quality. A key
towards its organizational change. First,
initiative to achieve these improvements
we concluded ‘why’ change was necessary
was the implementation of the hospital’s
to survive in the evolving health care
first Electronic Medical Record System
landscape. Second, we identified ‘what’ we
(EMR). The EMR enabled better efficiencies
to Cambridge. I have been appointed a
needed to change in order to successfully
while providing data for better clinical and
Fellow of Social Innovation at Cambridge
complete the strategic plan. Finally, through
business decision making.
Judge Business School’s (CJBS) new
our organizational learning, we proceeded
The strategic plan for WCRMC not only
Centre for Social Innovation. As a Fellow
with ‘how’ to make the operational changes
included becoming a viable hospital but
of Practice, I will be returning to CJBS
in a fair and equitable manner – while
also encompassed attracting a strategic
to conduct research with faculty and to
continuing to serve all patients without
partner. We were successful, and on
lecture and mentor students. I am looking
regard to their ability to pay for services.
January 1 we became part of a larger
forward to my reconnection to Cambridge
hospital system.
and Churchill – now, ten years later, my
We began by identifying WCRMC’s key stakeholder groups that include the
After serving 13 years as chairman
hospital’s patients, physicians, employees,
and CEO of WCRMC, my journey is
board, volunteers, creditors and donors.
complete and my path has led me back
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second dream is coming true! Jimmy Childre (PG05)
Building the new court Finally, we have started construction of the new court. Thanks to the generosity of our alumni and Fellows we have been able to fund half the project and a private bond issue is enabling us to bridge the gap.
The contractors, SDC, started on site in
mechanical ventilation systems is very
March and have already done most of the
frustrating. And the gently curving outside
groundworks, drainage and foundations.
walls have created some interesting issues.
The basement under one side of the
On the positive side, the long lead up to
court is dug and the walls are in place.
the construction has also given us the
At the time of writing, work has paused for
chance to visit three furniture factories and
exams but we are on track to complete the
factories manufacturing bathroom pods.
building in July 2016, in time for the start
The recycled oak boards which will clad
of the next academic year.
the building have already been delivered
Interesting problems we have had to negotiate have included how to keep the
from Brittany. The contractors will be forming
building height as close as possible to that
demonstration sections of walls and
of the other courts – acoustic separation
windows next to the site, as part of their
in a timber framed building has increased
training and quality control procedure and
the height of the three storeys, and the
that will give the College’s architects the
ground slopes upwards as you head across
chance to make small changes if needed.
the site. The Conservation Officer and the
By October, the timber frame, floors
College felt that it was important that the
and bathroom pods should be in place
building did not sit too much higher than
and the roof will go on in November.
the existing courts. Another problem was
During the next Easter Term, there will only
that the Environmental Health Officer
be interior fitting out to do, so work will be
of the City Council was not happy with just
able to continue through the exams.
triple glazing of the windows but required
We will continue to put pictures of the
us to install forced ventilation on the
emerging building on the College’s website
Madingley Road side of the building; in an
each month.
era when one part of government is taxing us on our energy consumption and we
Jennifer Brook
were trying to build an environmentally-
Bursar
friendly building, being forced to add
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GUEST ROOMS RENEWED In the summer of 2014 we refurbished the Fellows Guest Rooms. These four bedrooms, tucked away at the top of the staircase near the Cockcroft Room, were in dire need of some love and attention. It’s not clear when they last enjoyed that, but there was a bit of a 1980’s feel about them. The bathrooms looked old and tired and
from their Chiltern range, based on mid
furnishings, we settled on plain, timeless
the later addition of showers over the
20th century archive designs. Ercol also
fabrics. GB1 is in slate grey, GB2 in moss
baths had left plumbing exposed. There
produce the award-winning Treviso desk,
green, GB3 in dark brown, and GB4 in teal
was an urgent need to rewire. A great
designed by Matthew Hilton, and we fitted
blue. Marimekko cushions and accessories
number of our guests need to work whilst
that in all four rooms to double as both
were then selected for each of the rooms in
they are here, so good Wi-Fi and functional
desk and dressing table.
contrasting and complementary colours.
desk space were at the top of our wish list,
Mindful that the former redecoration
We think the results are delightful! Each
swiftly followed by excellent showers and
had lasted about thirty years, and with
room is comfortable and functional and full
individually controlled heating. Hitherto,
a wary eye on the Bursar, we wanted to
of its own individual character. If you come
the controls for heating these rooms had
be certain that this refurbishment could
on a visit, choose your colour!
been located in the Master’s lodge, and
endure the test of time in both decoration
our Masters are so hardy that guests from
and furniture. After much discussion
Shelley Surtees
overseas might find the rooms inadequate
with the Estates committee about soft
Domestic Bursar
sanctuaries when seeking refuge from inclement British weather. Also, given that these rooms accommodate our most prestigious visitors, it was important to ensure that we ended up with something not only comfortable and functional but aesthetically pleasing. We accordingly consulted several designers and suppliers, all of whom came back with suggestions that were excellent, but more suited to a hotel or conference centre, and hence more corporate that we wanted to achieve. So, armed with our wish list, we consulted a number of Fellows and undertook the project ourselves, hoping to achieve truly bespoke rooms of which we could be proud. With the help of our Art Curator, Barry Phipps, we identified the pieces of original furniture which were of significance. Some were beyond repair, but those which could be were restored. To match the surviving originals, we went to Ercol, a British company who have been producing hand-made furniture since the 1920s. For the main pieces we selected
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TAKE A LOOK After twelve months of research, planning and development, the College launched a new website last year. Nearly 6,000 existing pages were reorganised, outdated contents removed and Alumni and Conference microsites absorbed; new content was created, and hundreds of new photographs were commissioned.
In addition to this thorough overhaul of
alumni events, graduations and College
content, the fundamental design of the
open days is now much easier – with
site has been changed. Reflecting growing
many of them now selling out for the first
trends in how people access the internet,
time. A new Student Hub section provides
the new site uses a ‘responsive’ design to
current students with online resources,
make it accessible and easy to use on both
information, news and events in one place,
desktop computers and mobile devices.
and a new alumni directory helps past
Together with consistency of layout
students stay in touch.
and navigation, this was an important
The content management system
part of our aim to provide a better user
has been changed too. Now users with
experience. As a result, the number of
little knowledge of web programming
visits from mobile devices has increased
languages can edit the website, so it can
by over 60%. The nature of the site now
be administered and edited by a variety
evidently corresponds to the current states
of staff members across departments,
of the information and social media, and
helping to ensure the site is constantly
to the minds of those using them.
kept up to date.
We’ve also added a number of new
But a website is never finished!
features. An online events calendar, news
We continue to develop new content
sections and aggregated social media
and features. Recent additions include
feeds allow the College to highlight and
sections on the history of the College and
promote its work and the activities and
on the College’s grounds and gardens.
achievements of its members more
If you have any suggestions or feedback
effectively. New online administrative
or ideas for content, please do contact me
functionalities, such as event and
via the website, or drop by my office in the
accommodation bookings, online
Admin corridor.
payments, donations and College account invoicing, have helped improve many of
Naomi Morris
the College’s office processes. Booking for
Webmaster
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Churchill College Association Weekend, AGM and Dinner 25-27 September 2015 As Chair of the Churchill College Association,
generously agreed to give the after-dinner
I am delighted to invite you to this year’s
speech. This gives a second chance to
Association Weekend between Friday 25 and
meet her and to hear her reflections on her
to see the beginnings of the new court as
Sunday 27 September 2015. All members of
first year with us.
well as meet friends, old and new. The
the College are welcome (JCR, MCR and SCR
Allen Packwood has kindly agreed to
Chapel service on Sunday morning. This is an excellent opportunity
Weekend coincides with the University’s
past and present). Please feel free to bring
give the afternoon lecture on Saturday. As
Alumni Festival with its range of exciting
along friends and family.
Director of the Churchill Archives Centre,
activities too.
Our annual Dinner on Saturday
Allen is the man Churchill experts come to
I will be delighted to welcome you
evening is the main event. This year, in
for help and we are delighted to mark the
personally – please feel free to come and
response to requests, we have cut the
fiftieth anniversary of our Founder’s death
say hello.
price to £29.40 per head for the food with
in this way.
wine available separately at £6.50 or £15
A wine-tasting and light supper for
per bottle. Our Master, Professor Dame
£8.50 per head will be available on Friday
Athene Donald, will preside and has
evening and the Weekend closes with a
Rosie Johnston (U73) Chair
Diary of events Association Weekend
Stewardship Event
Association Weekend
25-27 September 2015
4 November 2015
23-25 September 2016
Stokes Bursary Event (for Law alumni)
WSC Legators Society Lunch
15 October 2015
17 March 2016
Edmonton Scholars Reunion
Reunion Dinner (1983-1987)
23 October 2015
2 July 2016
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