Churchill College Review 2013

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REVIEW Volume 50

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CHURCHILL

REVIEW Volume 50 | 2013

“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

CONTENTS

EDITORIAL

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FROM THE MASTER

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THE COLLEGE YEAR

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My Career since Churchill

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Winston Churchill: New Perspectives 94

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Floral Churchill

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Archives Centre: Director’s Report

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Development Director’s Report Donations 2012-13 STUDENT LIFE

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FEATURES

From our Overseas Fellows

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Senior Tutor’s Report Bursar’s Report

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JCR and MCR Reports 2012-13 Clubs and Societies

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The MCR Photo Competition COLLEGE EVENTS

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Art in Churchill College

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The John Kinsella and Tracy Ryan Prizes Churchill’s Boatmen

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IN MEMORIAM Condolences

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Professor Sir Robert Edwards

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Professor Frank Hahn

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Professor David Olive

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MEMBERS’ NEWS

WHO’S WHO 2012-13 New Fellows 2012-13

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Overseas Fellows 2012-13

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Who’s Who in Churchill

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IN THE BACK

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Information for alumni and past Fellows

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EDITORIAL

After all our recent anniversary celebrations (the founding of the College and the admission of women), there is another milestone to add to the list, less momentous but still saying something about ourselves as a community: an anniversary issue of the Churchill Review, this being the 50th volume. Warm thanks, as ever, to the team who helped to produce our 2013 Review: Noelle Caulfield, Hilary Stimpson and the rest of the Development Office staff, and many others, not least this year’s contributors. Special gratitude is owed to our photographers Barry Phipps and Gavin Bateman. We hope you will enjoy this quinquagenarian issue, in which a particular emphasis is placed on the image of our Founder.

Alison Finch

Review Editor Alison Finch, Fellow of Churchill 1972-93 and 2003 – ; current position: Senior Research Fellow and Honorary Professor of French Literature, University of Cambridge

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FROM THE MASTER

“Mary Soames is a most welcome friend of the College – the embodiment of the high value we place on our close links with the family of our Founder.”

FROM THE MASTER

Much to relate this year, albeit some tinged with very sad losses.

Pride of place goes again to students. Results were in absolute terms the best ever, with more than 140 winning College Scholarships (for Firsts, or distinctions or merits as Part III students). The College was 5th of 29 in the Tompkins table.

Men and women enjoyed outstanding May Bumps, with two eights winning oars and the Boat Club the Pegasus Cup, averaging three bumps over the five boats.

The Scholars of the Winston Churchill Foundation of the USA were in strong evidence, as also at the Conference on Everything run by the MCR.

A lighter moment: Mark Carberry and Jeffy Li with Lady Wallace and Sir David, at a short recital by professional musicians, during a visit to Fujian province to sign an agreement including executive education programmes at the Møller Centre

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It is a great pleasure to thank Mark Miller for his wonderful contribution as Director of Music Making. The many formal occasions which the choir graced have added much to our reputation. We congratulate Mark on his appointment as Senior Lecturer in Chemistry at Durham and welcome Mark Gotham as his successor.

The passage of time always brings some sadnesses. At Council we record our condolences on the passing of a member of the College. I mention two: Bob Edwards (Fellow from 1974) and Nobel Laureate (2010) for his pioneering work with Steptoe on in vitro fertilisation, which has brought the fulfilment of parenthood to more than four million families; and Frank Hahn (Founding Fellow). Frank was personally responsible for attracting a remarkable series of economists as Overseas Fellows, five of whom were or became Nobel Laureates. The high regard in which Frank is held by alumni is reflected in the continuing support for the Hahn Fellowship Fund, which is vital to underpin our Economics teaching. We hope it is a consolation that spouses of deceased Fellows continue to enjoy the community of the College through the Christina Kelly Fund.

The award of the Nobel Prize in 2012 to former Fellow and now Honorary Fellow Sir John Gurdon for his work in cell research and cloning brings the total number of Nobel Laureate members of the College (including Overseas Fellows and of course our Founder Sir Winston) to twenty-nine. We also congratulate Ray Goldstein on his Ig Nobel Prize (the College’s first!) for his beautiful work on the shape of the pony-tail.

We are always pleased to record achievements of alumni at College Council, so do continue to let us know about them. They are listed in this Review. [Ed.: See below, Members’ News.]

We celebrated two ninetieth birthdays. Elizabeth, colleagues and I were delighted to join well-wishers in London at a dinner for Lady Soames. Mary is a most welcome friend of the College, whose presence at events is appreciated so much; she is the embodiment of the high value we place on our close continuing links with the family of our Founder. And we offered many happy returns also to Christine Bondi; many alumni will recall with great affection the warmth of personal welcome they received from Lady Bondi and Sir Hermann.

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There is much on the Archives Centre in the article by Allen Packwood. I mention here only the digitisation of the Churchill papers by Bloomsbury and our delight that the Brown Archive Trustees have selected the Centre as the repository for Gordon Brown’s papers. This will bring the Prime Ministerial collections to four, and is likely to present particularly interesting challenges since some of it will be in “born digital” form. The death of Lady Thatcher resulted in much activity for the Centre, not least for the Channel 4 documentary by Jon Snow. Elizabeth and I were in the Far East at the time and witnessed the remarkable coverage there.

The Møller Centre marked its 20th anniversary with a special dinner, which brought senior members of the Møller family to the College. We were thrilled that they announced commitment of a further £3 million towards expansion and remodelling of parts of the building. The following morning the Chapel overflowed for a moving service of remembrance to mark the life of Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller; beyond the building itself, his legacy is enshrined in the Møller Centre’s culture of “with constant care”. [Ed.: See the 2012 Review for full coverage of this.]

In our major trip this year we met alumni in the Emirates, Singapore, Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong, and visited clients of the Møller Centre. It wasn’t all work, as the photograph shows.

Without embarrassment I repeat from last year: with the contribution from the Møller Centre and from commercial conference activities in College, allied to careful cost control and husbanding of resources, we have again returned a surplus, building up reserves which will be more important than ever in what will surely be a challenging future.

I am delighted to record deep appreciation for the continuing generosity of alumni, particularly towards the New Court, where the total donated is now £5.7 million. I hope that we can narrow the gap to the revised cost of £8.8 million before we close the campaign in 2014. Planning for the building is now well under way.

I know that all alumni will join me in thanking most sincerely all who have contributed to the College’s success. And I congratulate her and the College

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on the appointment of Professor Dame Athene Donald as Master from 1 October 2014.

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“Sir Winston has become an enduring subject for portrayal in the arts and by the media.�

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Senior Tutor’s Report In the Tompkins Table of Cambridge collegiate undergraduate academic performance, published in The Independent in July, Churchill was for the second year running placed 5th out of Cambridge’s 29 undergraduate-admitting Colleges, behind Trinity, Pembroke, Trinity Hall and Emmanuel, and ahead of Jesus, Queens’ and Christ’s – good academic company to keep.The next-placed “modern” foundation was Fitzwilliam, in 20th position.

Churchillians reading this will understand both the limitations of league-tables and the reason why we continue to reflect upon them.We seek to mitigate the former by examining the underlying and historic data in a range of ways, including 3- and 5-year averages. This confirms that we are now pretty much camped among the top quartile of Cambridge Colleges, having moved out of the mid-table region where we usually sat in the 1990s and early 2000s. In the end, for all the caveats that one must hedge it with, careful league-table analysis is the only means by which we can be reasonably sure that we are admitting students of the greatest merit and potential, and properly teaching, guiding and supporting them – in an environment that allows them to flourish.

Why does all this matter so much? It matters because, in the end, the thing that distinguishes a College or a University from any other organisation, structure or group is that it is primarily focused upon high academic endeavour. Examination results are only one measure of this and arguably not the most important. But they are the platform on which most of our students’ future careers rest, at least initially, and it is undoubtedly the case that their graduating from Churchill with, ideally, Firsts or II.1s provides them with the greatest choice around future direction. So, in judging ourselves by our students’ performance in examinations, we test our commitment to our essential purpose and to our students’ longterm welfare. I should add that, while no similar league-tables exist with regard to Cambridge’s Masters and doctoral students, we are as alert to outcomes for our own graduate students as we are to those of our undergraduates.

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A few lines ago I listed admissions, teaching, guidance and support as the things underpinning student academic success. Which of these is critical? They all matter.We continue to attract more graduate applicants than almost any other College and this year we received just under 700 undergraduate applications – more than we have received in over two decades and competitive at the highest level in Cambridge. This popularity among applicants reflects both the outstanding financial support we are able to provide – in part through the Winston Churchill Foundation and the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust – and very hard work on the part of our staff as well as the student helpers who are so important to the success of our Open Days. Admissions and Schools Liaison have been transformed since the mid 2000s. Generous alumni donations have seriously helped in this regard and large gifts concerning mathematics and Wales have resulted, among other things, in our hosting every year the University’s “STEP” Easter School for aspiring state-educated Mathematics entrants and in the secondment of Dr Jonathan Padley, our Widening Participation Officer, to the Welsh government further to encourage and support Welsh Oxbridge entry.

As Senior Tutor, I am conscious that I have benefitted hugely from having two, successive, superb admissions ‘teams’ working with me in my time in the College, bridged by the continued presence of Liz Neal, our peerless Admissions Officer.

It seems to me that putting together and supporting the right groups of colleagues – each of whom has different and complementary perspectives and technical know-how – is as vital in Direction of Studies and Tutorial support as it is in recruitment and selection. Our Directors of Studies have a strong sense of shared purpose and direction and are full of innovative ideas. I know that in their turn they think very hard about their “teams” of supervisors. The Tutors are bound by great esprit de corps and their commitment to their students is remarkable and (to me) humbling.They are terrifically supported by Karin Bane and Stephanie Cook in the Tutorial Office, and backed on the pastoral front by our wonderful Nurse and Counsellor, by our Porters, who are exceptionally focused where welfare support is concerned, and by the College’s wider Domestic staff. The latter are our eyes and ears. Both DoSs and Tutors rightly put me on my mettle: I need them to. The final “team” to whom our current academic success is attributable is, of course, the students themselves. Their formal input into College committees is both very welcome and, at times, gamechanging. But it is their informal engagement with the College as an institution and with one another – providing collective guidance, encouragement and

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support – that is, in my view, the most important thing. As the person ultimately responsible for the College’s academic performance I salute their individual achievements. But what makes me proudest is how they back one another – and other students in Cambridge. My counterpart at another College was talking to me recently about pastoral support. He mentioned in particular one (unnamed) student who had been experiencing significant personal difficulties.

“It was her Churchill mates who really looked out for her,” he remarked. Great thanks to those people and to all our students for looking after their friends.

Richard Partington

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Bursar’s Report For a Bursar, there is nothing more pleasing to report than that the College’s finances are in sound order. It is too early to report on the out-turn for the financial year which ended on 30 June 2013, but by the time this is published I am certain that a substantial surplus will have been reported for the third year in succession.

The two major contributors to this current financial well-being are the restraint on pay which all College staff and Fellows have participated in over the last four years and the continued strength of our commercial businesses.

We are investing in the future growth of both our commercial businesses with a further twenty bedrooms planned at the Møller Centre in the next year, the ongoing refurbishment programme for the bedrooms in the courts and the investment in more staff focussing on sales and service delivery in events management at the College.

As the fund-raising for the New Court draws to a close, we have been working at full tilt with the design team on the detailed design of the building, which will be located next to the tennis courts. The work is being overseen by a College working party which includes Architecture Fellows, staff, students and other members of the Estates Committee. We hope to submit the application for planning permission by October 2013 and have been busy consulting all the statutory bodies as well as our neighbours.The lead architect,Tom Emerson of 6A Architects, presented the current state of the design to the Governing Body in June and it was warmly received. The timing for the project depends largely on when the planning permission is granted and when the fund-raising phase closes, but we hope to start by 2015. The latest computer images of the court are shown below; these do not do justice to the proposed cladding, which is weathered oak. One of the earliest pointers to the constraints on the design was that the College bricks are no longer made: the choice of this material will give texture to the building and a sympathetic contrast to the original courts.

The design has evolved in a number of ways. The court will still be filled with trees inside to help with shading; it will have three storeys and a partial basement for plant and storage.There will now be sixty-six bedrooms and nine

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snack kitchens, a laundry and a meeting room.The staircases have been reduced to two, each with a lift in the core, because of the needs for disabled access and circulation around the building. The landings will face into the tree-filled inner court and the corridors are staggered. All the bedrooms will be well insulated and shaded but with natural ventilation as well. They are a generous size and each will have its own shower room. (The demand for en-suite rooms from students is far greater than we can currently meet.)

The New Court will enable us to house all the fourth-year undergraduates who wish to live in College and will free up some of the staircase rooms again for graduate students.

At the same time as developing the New Court plans, we have been finalising the plans for the rebuilding of one of the graduate hostels on Storey’s Way and extending it to house fifteen students.We hope to start work by October 2013 and complete it for the following academic year.This summer we have renovated and re-wired a further three staircases on East Court and have continued with our programme of renovation of graduate hostels.

We are also working on plans, with our partners at King’s College, Selwyn College and the Leys School, for replacing the boathouse.This is a longer-term project and the first feasibility study was carried out three years ago. We hope to get on site within the next two years.

The Møller Centre’s plans reflect the growing strength of its Executive Education business, which now accounts for nearly half its turnover. The Executive Education programmes are overseen by the Education subcommittee of its Board; the team are currently seeking accreditation for some of the programmes from the University’s Board of Professional and Executive Education. Although there are some open programmes delivered at the Centre, most of the Executive Education programmes are specifically designed around and for each client, and although they have academic content they are “practioner-led”. The additional twenty bedrooms will give more flexibility for housing these programmes, most of which are delivered to overseas companies and organisations. The two extensions will mirror the existing building and the Centre will continue to operate throughout the construction phase. The business is also taking the opportunity to improve the kitchens and dining

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spaces and to provide some much-needed centralised office space.The College is very grateful to the A. P. Møller Foundation for its generous pledge to the Centre towards the cost of the extensions and consequential improvements to the current building. The profits from the Møller Centre provide an important contribution to the cost of running the College and providing support for students and academic work.

Meanwhile, the College’s conference business has continued to grow and is now delivering record returns to the College to support the College’s running costs and fund continuing improvements to the buildings. The mix of business has changed considerably over the last few years: there are now multiple events taking place in the College in vacation and a range of day meetings during term time, the emphasis being on minimal disruption to College members. The Cambridge Society for the Application of Research and the Granta Decorative and Fine Arts Society continue to hold meetings in term-time as they have done at Churchill for over thirty years.They have been joined by the Cambridge Business Breakfast Club, and various University departments holding departmental “away-days”, for example. During the current summer vacation (2013), the visitors have included the Royal Society of Chemistry, the Ordnance Survey (hosting a UN conference here), and, in mid-vacation, the summer school organised by Rebecca and Peter Clarke (U61) of Cambridge Programmes, bringing teenagers from Hong Kong and elsewhere to College for an intensive three-week academic programme.

Concurrently, the College is running a history summer school for teachers from a university in China. Then, in September, we will be again welcoming a number of scientific, biomedical and computing conferences. Throughout the vacation, numbers of rooms are also being let to bed-and-breakfast visitors, according to availability. So, contrary to the expectations of most people outside the College, we are not all on vacation for the summer! At Christmas, the College has become a favoured venue for Christmas parties for some of the rising stars among the Cambridge technology companies.

The College is immensely grateful to those alumni who serve as external members on the Investment Advisory, Finance and Audit Committees and the Møller Centre Board. Their input into decision-making in the College is always appreciated and their knowledge and expertise have led us to take probably braver decisions (for example about financing and extending the Møller Centre) than we might do otherwise. This year saw the retirement of David Dutton

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(U62), who had served as a Møller Centre Board Director for more than twentytwo years and supported the growth of the business very actively over this period.We are delighted that Chris Potts (G81) has joined the Board in his place.

The College is reviewing its strategy for the next ten years across all aspects of its activity.These include the College’s role in the greater “Churchill” world.We have been building our relationships with the next generations of the family, who have been universally supportive, particularly of the work of the Archives Centre.

In turn, Allen Packwood has given much support and “glue” to the relationships between all the various Churchill organisations and, with the College’s blessing, has helped establish the Churchill Centre (a membership organisation) as a coordinating body.The Winston Churchill Memorial Trust has continued to support UK undergraduates at Churchill with specific bursaries.

Although there is now a degree of stability in terms of undergraduate fee income to the College, we do believe that this may change again in the future. We continue to build bursary provision and to fund-raise for student support in general.The split of the graduate fee between the colleges and the University is a subject of protracted negotiations at the moment, and Advanced Student support remains an important objective. The College’s mentoring scheme for Advanced Students is evolving, and the College is striving to maintain a balance between the number of one-year Masters students and those undertaking PhDs. The Fellowship has been occupied, at length, over the last nine months with the process of selecting our next Master to take office when Sir David Wallace retires in September 2014. The size of the Fellowship made the consultation process and selection prolonged and complicated, but at the time of writing the Fellowship’s decision is with Downing Street and we await the public announcement eagerly.

Over the last year, we have said farewell to a number of long-serving staff, in particular the Head Chef Martin Hayden and the Boatmen Jim Cameron and Chris Lloyd. [Ed.: See below, College Events.] All three had worked more than thirty years for the College. The team in the kitchens is now headed up

by Mark Slater, who came to Churchill from St Edmund’s and is building on the reputation of the College’s catering with even more innovative and tasty ideas, ably supported by the rest of the chefs.

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If you are interested in holding a meeting, private dinner or reunion, family event or conference in College, please contact the Conference Manager, Carol Robinson, on 01223 331577. We would be delighted to show you the facilities we can now offer (which also benefit the College students and Fellows). If you are in College for an event and wish to know more, please do not hesitate to contact Carol or Shelley Surtees, the Domestic and Conference Bursar.

Jennifer Brook

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Archives Centre: Director’s Report The Archive on Stage and Screen (and radio too!)

Winston Churchill was no stranger to the world of theatre, radio and film. As a young man he liked to frequent the music halls, in middle age he was wined and dined in Hollywood by William Randolph Hearst, and as an old man he corresponded with Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh. He even turned his hand to writing film treatments for Sir Alexander Korda, though was notably less successful as a dramatist than as a speechwriter, journalist or author.

The attraction of Sir Winston to stage and screen was clearly mutual, as Churchill has become an enduring subject for portrayal in the arts and by the media. This year has seen the Archives Centre involved in a number of such projects. When conservator Sarah Lewery and archivist Katharine Thomson started to look through the contents of Churchill’s wooden record cabinet they not only gained an insight into the great man’s musical taste (mainly marching bands and music hall, with a lot of Gilbert and Sullivan), they also unearthed some rare private recordings of Churchill speaking and thus the raw material for a Radio 4 Archive Hour programme. Churchill’s Secret Cabinet, presented by Andrew Roberts with expert contributions from Peter Martland and Piers Brendon, was broadcast on Saturday 6 July 2013, and was the culmination of several months of preparatory work, cleaning, digitising, identifying and cataloguing the fragile shellac, lacquer or vinyl discs.

Not content with radio, we also did our best to break into television. Andrew Riley contributed to Maggie and Me, Jon Snow’s memoir of Margaret Thatcher, filmed some time ago but broadcast just after her death. Meanwhile, at the time of writing (July 2013), the Director is still nervously awaiting the screening of his interview for a television programme on Churchill’s role in the First World War: a documentary for which the Centre also provided many images of contemporary photographs and documents.

But perhaps the highlight of our year was the hosting of Rohan McCullough’s one-woman show My Darling Clemmie, a moving portrayal of the Churchill story through the eyes and words of his wife, with a wonderful script by Hugh Whitemore, and a triumphant and riveting performance by Rohan in which she

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stood alone and dominated the stage for ninety minutes. She said afterwards that she was very nervous about playing at Churchill College, and to an audience that included Celia Sandys, Sir Winston’s grand-daughter, but those nerves were clearly well channelled into the emotion of the performance.The success of the day owed much to Sophie Bridges, Noelle Caulfield,Tim Cooper, Philip Cosgrove, Francesca Alves and Carol Robinson, who worked hard to beg, steal and borrow the necessary props to support Rohan, and to ensure a good audience.

Philip Cosgrove, one of our archives assistants, has a particular interest in the theatre. It was Philip who developed the programme and the display to accompany Rohan’s performance. He also spent some time researching stage and screen in the Archives Centre collections and put together a splendid display that made a change from our normal political exhibitions. Here were letters from David Niven, Cary Grant and Peter Sellers, and a wonderful photograph of a glowering Richard Burton dressed as Winston Churchill, and posing in the style of Churchill’s iconic 1941 portrait by Yousuf Karsh. An accompanying medical report assessing Burton’s fitness to play the part of Churchill in the television programme The Gathering Storm noted his “moderate inflammation of liver”. Was this just Burton getting into character? Of course, Churchill maintained that he had taken more out of alcohol than alcohol had taken out of him, but both Churchill and Burton were men who were easily satisfied with the best, and both were great actors on the international stage.

Projects like these introduce the holdings to a wide audience and can lead to all sorts of spin-off research. They are also great fun to do.

Allen Packwood

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Development Director’s Report (1 July 2012 – 30 June 2013)

Once again the most generous donors to Churchill are old Churchillians, and the number of you giving back is increasing year on year. We are hugely appreciative of your support and hope that you will continue to be part of the Churchill community long into the future. It brings a great sense of satisfaction and pride to so many of you who are involved in various ways with helping the College and its students thrive in today’s competitive and challenging world.

Gifts in 2012/13 The College has raised a total of £3,915,391 in philanthropic support during this financial year.This includes a £3M pledge from the A. P. Møller and Chastine McKinney Møller Foundation in support of the extension to the Møller Centre.

50th Anniversary Appeal: New Court Much progress has been made on refining the design and the planning process for the New Court (see Bursar’s Report, above) and we have now raised a total of £5.7M in gifts and pledges towards our revised target of £9.5M. To date there are nine individuals participating in the 50@50 campaign which invites donors to sponsor a room in the New Court at a cost of £50,000. Help us reach our target by joining that group of individuals – or perhaps you would like to participate with a collective gift by year-group or subject. Being a Patron at this level means that your support will be commemorated on a plaque outside your room in the New Court and your name will also appear on the College’s Benefactors Board. Donors will also receive an invitation to a College Feast or special Benefactors’ Dinner. Please do get involved and make a positive difference to future Churchill students.

The Hahn Fellowship in Economics It was with great sadness that we mourned the loss on 29 January 2013 of Founding Fellow Frank Hahn. Frank was an economist of international stature whose attachment to Churchill College was both assiduous and prolific. At the start of the 50th Anniversary Appeal we launched a fund to endow a Junior

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Research Fellowship in Economics in Frank’s name. To date we have a total of £573,925 in gifts and pledges towards our target of £1M. Please do get in touch with the Development Office if you would like to donate to this fund or other bursary funds at Churchill College.

Legacy Giving John F. Kennedy told the following story: “The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow-growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied, ‘In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!’”

Giving a gift in Will to Churchill College is like planting a tree. One day we may have a veritable forest! Please do consider a legacy gift so that we may secure the College’s well-being in perpetuity.

I am pleased to report that the membership of the Winston S. Churchill 1958 Society continues to grow, with nine new members being admitted at the annual lunch on 20 March 2013. It was a great pleasure to welcome Sir Winston’s grand-daughter Emma Soames as our special guest on this occasion.

Those who pledge gifts in Will to Churchill College are invited to become members of the Winston S. Churchill 1958 Society which meets every year at Churchill for an exclusive drinks reception and lunch. Members also receive invitations to other College alumni events. Please do contact the Development Office if you would like further information about joining this special group of donors.

Special Events On 12 March we hosted another special 50th Anniversary event which comprised an exhibition of related material from collections in the Churchill Archives Centre and dinner with guest speaker Lord Watson to mark the College’s unique status as the national and Commonwealth memorial to Sir Winston Churchill. As you will know, much of the fabric of the building is the result of gifts in kind from members of the Commonwealth.We were delighted to welcome to the College various representatives from Commonwealth countries as well as representatives from the Cambridge Commonwealth Trust and Cambridge Commonwealth Society. At the end of this Report is the image of one of the commemorative postcards (taken by Livia Argentesi of the Development Office); the postcards

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carried this quotation from Sir John Colville:“I took to persuade all the members of the Commonwealth to make a contribution in kind […] with beautiful woods from Australia, New Zealand, Canada and South Africa, copper from Rhodesia, carpets from India and Pakistan.”

Also during March we were pleased to organise an exhibition of photographs

by Sam Laughlin, entitled Churchill College: Architecture as Monument, details of which can be found online at: www.chu.cam.ac.uk/about/art/exhibitions/ architecture_as_monument.php In the last year we were extremely proud to launch the publication of four more titles in the Churchill College series: Canon Noel Duckworth: An Extraordinary Life; Flying Roast Ducks: Recollections of Sir Hermann Bondi 1983 – 2005; Graffiti: Artworks and Poems from Churchill College and Corbusier comes to Cambridge: post-war architecture and the competition to build Churchill College. These are available to purchase online through the College website or in person at the Porters’ Lodge.

Future Plans A word about plans for next year……

Churchill College was founded to a great extent by benefactions from UK business and industry, and we hope to build on that great foundation by forging stronger links in this area. So in addition to alumni relations and individual giving we plan to develop our links with industry and the corporate sector with a view to seeking sponsorship and recruitment opportunities, including work experience placements and internships, for Churchill students. If you can be of any assistance through your company or employer, once again please do get in touch. There may also be opportunities to enhance your gifts to College via a matched-giving scheme through your employer. Payroll giving is also an easy and tax-efficient way for you to support Churchill.

Another exciting project that we hope to launch in 2014 is an enterprise competition. In line with the College’s founding mission, we plan to promote and encourage entrepreneurship, enterprise and mentoring in the science and technology sectors via Churchill College for the benefit of Churchillians by running a competition for the best business proposition, for which we would award a cash prize of £1,000 for the outright winner, with smaller prizes for

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the winners of the various categories and the runners-up in those categories.

Categories could include: (i) Technology (ii) Software services (iii) Social enterprise. Churchillians – students and alumni – will be encouraged to submit business proposals for development. (Teams may apply as long as one member is a Churchillian.)

The judging would be carried out by the Churchill Enterprise Board comprising alumni and Fellows.

The Board will meet to consider proposals from Churchill entrepreneurs on an ongoing basis, and those entrepreneurs whose ideas were deemed suitable would be offered mentoring from a Board member, or other expert alumnus/alumna, if required. The initial free mentoring can cover a wide range of aspects of developing the ideas and the business proposition, e.g. legal, financing, business development, business planning. This would be invaluable at this early stage of development. These proposals would then be assessed as to whether they are short-listed to participate in a “Dragon’s Den”-style pitching event. The proposals could then be progressed to the next stage for seed or growth funding via Board members, although this is not the purpose of the competition, nor appropriate in every case.

Please do get in touch with me if you would be interested in getting involved by becoming a Board member, a mentor, or indeed sponsoring the prize. I hope to report back on our first competition in next year’s Churchill Review.

We are always pleased to hear from you, and you can contact the Development Office to discuss ways of giving or getting involved: by telephone on 01223 336197 or by email at development@chu.cam.ac.uk.

You can also visit the College website www.chu.cam.ac.uk for further information about how you can support Churchill College or to learn about forthcoming alumni events and other special events.You can also subscribe to our regular eBulletin.The next edition of the Churchill Newsletter will be published in June 2014.

Sharon Maurice

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Donations 2012-13 We are very grateful to all the following who have chosen to support Churchill College. All those listed below have made a gift during the period 1st July 2012 to 30th June 2013. (N.B. Gifts made after this date will be acknowledged in next year’s Review.)

Mr J Adamcheski-Halson Mr P P Adams 1996 Professor R E W Adams 1979 Mr J L N Aitken Mr D Alafouzos 1998 Mr A H Almihdar 1964 Mr A H Almihdar 1968 Mr N A Altmann 1991 Amazon Associates Dr N L Anderson 1971 Dr M M Ansour 1973 Mr C M L Argent 1962 Mr T Armitage 1982 Dr D Armstrong 1971 Mr D M Asbury 1968 Dr H Ashraf 1989

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Mr L Ashton 1994 AstraZeneca Sir Anthony Atkinson 1963 Mrs J Bacon (Rushton) 1974 Mr N Bacon 1974 Mr A M F Bailey 1986 Dr A J Ball 1990 Mr J A Ballard 1964 Ms J L Bent 1989 Professor H C Berg 2012 Professor L Berkowitz 1974 Dr D J Bernasconi 1992 Dr R Beroukhim 1991 Mr J E Berriman 1967 Mr K Bhargava 1981 Dr G W Bibby 1962

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Dr T A Bicanic 1990 Bill Brown Charitable Trust Mr P T Bird 1975 Dr R J Black 1987 Ms C E Blackmun 1974 Dr R D Blank 1978 Dr P Blenkiron 1982 Professor G Bonanno 1980 Mrs E Booth (Lambert) 2001 Dr G S Booth 1968 Dr P A Booth 2000 Dr S Boss 2006 Mr P G Bossom 1970 Sir John Boyd 1996 Lady Boyd Mr M R Brazier 1995 Ms C R Brett 1991 Dr A Brezianu 1984 Mrs D Brezina Mr B O Brierton 1994 Mrs K H Brierton (Pratt) 1994 Mr M A Brinded 1971 Mrs J Brook 1999 Dr A J Brown 1988 Ms T M Brown 1973 Mr J E Bruce 1971 Dr J H Brunton 1964 Dr J H Bryce 1979 Dr W G Burgess 1988 Ms A Calvert 1982 Professor D K Campbell 1966 Mrs A A Canning (Jarrett) 1975 Mr W J Capper 1961 Mr I Carnaby 1967 Dr V A Carreño 1990 Revd C Carson Dr P A Catarino 1988 Dr C-C Caulfield 1987 Mr J B M Cavanagh 1972 Mr J Cavanna 1972 Mr T A Cave 1971 Dr D A Chaplin 1984 Charina Endowment Fund Miss H Cho 1995 Mr D B Christie 1996 Mrs S J J Christie (Chou) 1996 Dr S P Churchhouse 1985 Mr C Claoué de Gohr 1975 Professor B Clarke Mr P M C Clarke 1961

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Mrs S M Clements (Burton) 1981 Mr W Cloots Mr C Cockcroft Miss J D Cockcroft Professor J R D Coffey 1988 Mr D L Cohen 1993 Mr B L Collings 1980 Professor G Constable 1974 Mrs J N Corbett (Banfield) 1997 Mr R I Coull 1983 Mr M J J Cowan 1970 Dr J R Crabtree 1965 Mr M A Craven 1985 Mr N Crews 2000 Mr T J L Cribb 1970 Mr P D Crutchett 1970 Cryptomathic Limited Mr A Cullen 1975 Mr T S Culver 1963 Professor T W Cusick 1964 Dr N Cutler 2011 Mrs D H Daft Mr D N Daft Daft Family Foundation Mr N Davidson Mr A R Davies 1992 Mr H A J Davies 1972 Mr R J Davies 1962 Mr R M Davies 1969 Professor S T de Grey 1963 Ms A N Dean 1997 Dr N W Dean 1965 Mr D R Deboys 1999 Mr F J Deegan Mr N J Denbow 1964 Dr D Dew-Hughes Mrs C Dixon (Strutt) 1994 Mr R H T Dixon 1985 Dr R M Dixon 1978 Mr K R Doble 1981 Mrs L A Doble (Kendall) 1979 Mr A P Docherty 1966 Dr M Dorn (Troutman) 1992 Mr P A Dornan 1982 Mrs B Doyle Mrs K V D Dresdner 1972 Dr C Ducati 1999 Mr A P Duff 1979 Dr I B Duncan 1961 Mr D M M Dutton 1962

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The Reverend J M Dyer (Lloyd) 1979 Mr J R Elder 1994 Dr R T Elias 1984 Dr G Evans 1968 Mr P F F Fan 2001 Mr W J Farrant 1982 Mr J R Farrell 1980 Professor J A Fay 1980 Dr M Ferme 2000 Dr J N Fields 1971 Mr J E Filochowski 1969 Dr A L R Findlay 1972 Mr D M Fineman 1991 Mr A D E Ford 1971 Dr S J Ford (Masters) 1992 Dr G J Forder 1965 Mr D O Forfar Dr C Fraser 1976 Mrs E D French (Medd) 1978 Mr P C French 1978 Mr M R Frith 1969 Mrs C R Froomberg (Varley) 1974 Mr P R A Fulton 1970 Dr F G Furniss 1973 Professor D M Gale 1975 Mr E C Garner-Richardson 1978 Mr N A W M Garthwaite 1970 The GE Foundation Sir Peter Gershon 1966 Mr J M Gibbs 1993 Professor J F Gilbert 1972 Professor M B Giles 1978 Mrs A M Gill (Bradshaw) 1976 Mr S L Gill 1976 Professor O Gingerich 1985 Mr R Giniyatov 2004 The Right Reverend J W Gladwin 1961 Dr D H Glass 1963 Professor A L Goldberg 1963 Dr M A Goldie 1979 Mrs J E Goodland (Terry) 1974 Mr P M Goodland 1973 Dr P D Goodwin 1996 Dr P Gopal 2001 Dr C Goulimis 1977 Dr J de Villiers Graaff 1964 Mr A P J Gray 2000 Ms E Gray 2005 Miss R H Gray 1998 Dr D J Graziano 1979

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Mr S T Green 1961 Dr D R Grey 1966 Dr J Grzeskowiak (Ellison) 1973 Dr N E Grzeskowiak 1973 Sir John Gurdon 1973 Dr R J Guthrie 1969 Mr A P Hall 1993 Mr J L Hall 2001 Mrs T A Hall (Prosser) 1982 Mr M Hammler 1979 Dr S P Harden 1987 Mr M E Harper 1967 Mr P T W Harrington 1991 Mr B A Harris 1980 Dr T L Harris 1994 Mr G F Hart 2000 Professor J Hart 2007 Professor G M Heal 1963 Professor A F Heavens 1977 Mr K A Herrmann 1978 Dr C M Hicks 1989 Mr J J Higgins 1984 Mr J A Higham QC 1971 Dr P Hilton 1967 Mr M S Hoather 1994 Dr J W D Hobro 1991 Dr D S Hoddinott 1963 Dr P D Hodson 1979 Dr R W Holti 1974 Mr M P Honey 1992 Honeywell Hometown Solutions Mr J Hopkins Mr T F How 1969 Dr I Howe 1963 Mr C Howell 1997 Mr M J Hubbard 1994 Mr J C R Hudson 1971 Mrs I Hull (Clark) 1978 Mr A J Hutchinson 1968 Professor H E Huxley 1967 Mr J Ingle 1972 Mr T C W Ingram 1966 Mr A C Innes 1987 Dr P T Jackson 1962 Mr B Jafar 1997 Dr D H Jaffer 1976 Dr L Jardine-Wright 2012 Dr A Jenkins (Leech-Wilkinson) 1981 Mr R G Jewsbury 1970 Mr A R John 1975

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Mr G T Johnson 1961 The Reverend J Johnson 1965 Dr M A Johnson 1972 Dr M W Johnston 1986 Ms R Johnston 1973 Ms V C Jolliffe 1973 Mr T H Jones 1972 Dr C N Jones 1978 Dr R I Jones 1978 Mr I Jones 1981 Mr A W S Jones 1985 Mr W Joseph Professor T Kailath 1977 Professor P A Kalra 1976 Dr F S Karababa 2002 Mrs E Karsh Dr M A Keavey 1967 Mr W O Kellogg 1977 Professor A Kelly 1960 Mr O Kennington 1996 Dr S G Martin 1977 Mr T A Key 1965 Mr J R R Kimmitt 1981 Mrs A N King 1994 Mr D E W King 1961 Mr N G Kingan 1961 Mr W M Kinsey 1970 Professor D B Kittelson 1966 Dr E A Kohll 1961 Mr A Kramvis 1971 Mrs S A Kramvis (Newcombe) 1972 Professor L Krause 1976 Dr S J Kukula 1984 Professor B W Labaree 1975 Mr A J Lake 1985 Mr H S Lake 1965 Mr A J Lambert 1993 Dr D C Lancashire 1964 Ms K Langer Mr P Larson Professor S B Laughlin 1991 Mr I M Lawrie 1987 Dr G J Le Poidevin 1971 Mrs S Lee Dr C E Lee-Elliott 1987 Dr W E Leich Furlong 1977 Mr A E Leigh-Smith 1961 Mrs C Lemen (Simons)1999 Dr J Lemmerich 1992 Mr D S Levin 1968

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Dr A M Lewis 1983 Dr W Lewis-Bevan 1979 Dr E T Libbey 1966 Dr H Lillehammer 2010 Mr R M Little 1993 Dr R K Livesley 1960 Mr D W Llewellyn 1964 Mr L P M Lloyd-Evans 1967 Mr G H Lock 1966 Mr P N Locke 1966 London School of Economics Professor R V E Lovelace 1994 Mrs M Lovell Professor R M Loynes 1962 Mr J P Lucas 1989 Mr N J Luhman 1984 Professor D E Luscombe 1964 Dr O D Lyne 1989 Mr T F Mabbott 1977 Professor A V P Mackay 1970 Mr D A Mackenzie 1999 Dr N S MacLeod 1979 Dr J Mapes 1961 Mr C P S Markham 1965 Mr H F A Marriott 1963 Professor J H Marsh 1974 Ms S Maurice 2006 Mr P McCarthy 1995 Mr J M McGee 1969 Mr M J McIntyre 1999 Dr T McManus 1965 Mrs D Megson Dr N C Megson 1968 Mr P Merson 1969 Dr K J Meyer 1972 Microsoft Corporation Mr G P Middleton 1985 Mr R J Miller 1983 Dr M Miller 2000 The Reverend Dr P G Miller 1985 Mr A J Milne 2000 Mr N R E Miskin 1966 Professor K Mislow 1975 Mrs H O Mkushi (Balogun) 2002 Mr M R G Mkushi 2001 Dr P J Mole 1971 Professor M Monnot 1994 Professor G G Morgan 1974 Morgan Stanley Smith Barney Global Impact Funding Trust, Inc

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Morison International Mr K D Morris 1985 Mr S D Morrish 1989 Professor W H Munk 1962 Mr S G Narracott 1988 Professor D M G Newbery 1966 Mr G R Newman 1973 Professor K Nolan 1972 Dr D J Norfolk 1968 Mr M S Norwich 1966 Ms G Nurse 1987 Mr M Nussbaum Mr T R Oakley 1977 Dr P E J O'Connor 1980 Dr C O'Kane 1996 Dr S Oldfield 1974 Professor R J Oldman 1961 Dr C J Otty 1977 Mr M M Otway 1967 Mr A Packwood 2002 Mr C H Palmer 1994 Mrs J A Pardoe (Hendrie) 1982 Mr M J Pardoe 1982 Dr P J Parsons 1989 Mr R Partington 2007 Mr B J Patel 1987 Dr A J Pauza 1993 Mrs S Pearce (Bailey) 1976 Mr D A Pedropillai 1983 Mr C B Peres 1994 Professor E B Perrin 1991 Mr S M J Peskett 1961 Mr J R Peters 1990 Dr C K L Phoon 1985 Mr C S Pocock 1970 Mr J M Pocock 1969 Ms S L Poland 1977 Professor T D Pollard 1983 Mr A D Ponting 1990 Professor G Possehl 2001 Mr D Potts 1970 Mrs G M Potts (Black) 1972 Mr G C Pyke 1963 Professor R B Pynsent 1963 Dr S-X Qin 1984 Mr D P Raftis 1991 Major General Charles Ramsay Mr A V Ramsay 1967 Mr W J Ramsay 1994 Mr M K Redhead 1966

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Mr M K Rees 1974 Mr J J H Reilly 1984 Mrs D Resch (Christian) 1998 Professor D J Reynolds Dr D E Reynolds 1975 Dr R A Reynolds (Dixon) 1975 Professor P Rez 1970 Professor W Rindler 1989 Dr R H Rives Mr D Roberts 1992 Dr T L Roberts 1965 T Robinson Mr B H A Robinson 1991 Professor I Robinson 1973 Mr S M Robinson 1976 Mr G K Rock-Evans 1963 Dr E Rose Mr A H Rosenberg 1968 Mr T Roskill Mr S D Rothman 1982 Mr A J Rowell 1986 Rushbrook Charitable Trust Mr P Russell 1977 Professor D B Rutledge 1973 Mr M T Rutter 1982 Professor M J Rycroft 1960 The Hon. Mr Justice Sales 1980 Mrs J E Salmon (Mathie) 1976 Mr R H N Salmon 1962 Mr G K Sampson 1965 Professor M J Schuldiner 1999 Dr D M Schwartz 1966 Mr M H Schwarz 1980 Dr E R D Scott 1965 Dr I R Scott 1971 Miss A C M Scott-Bayfield 1993 Dr C D Scrase 1983 Mr G R A Sellers 1970 Mr N R Seymour-Dale 1964 Mr R J Shaw 1988 Dr B O Shorthouse 1960 Dr D Sigman Mrs Suzanne Sigman Professor S D Silver 1994 Mr W Silverman 1962 Dr C J Slinn 1970 Mr C W Smick 1993 Mrs A C Smith (Slater) 1978 Dr M C Smith 1977 Mr R P Smith 1992

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Mr M A Smyth 1967 Professor F J Sottile 1985 Professor R C Spear 1965 Mr S D Spreadbury 1999 Mr R G Stamp 1994 Mr I M Standley 1978 Professor M J R Stark 1973 Mr E M J Steedman 1984 Professor D L Stern 1994 Dr K L H Stevens 1972 Mr A L Strang 1969 Dr M A Stroud 1962 Dr R J Stubbs 1986 Susan And Elihu Rose Foundation Mr C E Sweeney 1979 Mr R Syred Mr R J Tarling 1963 Mr C J Tavener 1961 Dr D A Taylor 1967 Mr W G Taylor 1971 Mr I Temperton 1992 Dr P H Tennyson 1976 Mr D K S Thomas 1981 Mr G V Thomas 1961 Mrs I A Thompson (O'Hara) 1977 Mr A F Thomson 1961 Mr S J S Thornhill 1995 Professor D J Thouless 1961 Professor M D Thouless 1978 Mrs S F Tickle (Hanley) 1994 Mr B J Tidd 1994 Mr G R Tillman 1984 Mr F E Toolan 1963 Dr C Tout 2000 Toshiba Dr D R Tray 1993 Dr P N Trewby 1965 Dr M E Trout Dr W Y Tsang 1981 Miss C P Tubb 1999 Ms J Turkington 1987 Mrs C L Turner (Adcock) 2003 Mr P A Turner 2003 Mr A J Tylee 1988 Dr G S Tyndall 1975 Dr S Tzotzos Dr S Uchikoga 1997

Mr M A Upton 1962 Miss N Vadgama 2003 Mr J E Vantyghem 1972 Mrs S B Wadsworth (Large) 1987 Mr J M F Wadsworth 1987 Mr J C Wainwright 1980 Mr R M Walker 1963 Walkers Charnwood Bakery Sir David Wallace 2006 Lady Wallace Dr J P Wangermann 1986 Mr P F Ward 1999 Dr I Wassell 2006 Mr J Waters 1964 Professor C Watkins 1970 Professor A J Webber 1990 The Wellcome Trust Mr R C Wenzel 1972 Dr W Wheatley (Cooper) 1993 Mr T P Whipple 2000 Dr S E Whitcomb 1973 Professor D J White 1994 Dr A S Wierzbicki 1980 Anthony H Wild 1968 Mr J H Wilkinson 1963 Dr S F Williams 1984 Mrs S V Williams (Gould) 1974 Mr I S Wilson 1970 Mr N Wilson 1965 Ms D Winslow Nutter Winston Churchill Memorial Trust Dr D R Woodall 1962 Mr A R Woodland 1972 Mrs I Woodland (Waghorne) 1972 Mr E A Workman 1968 Mr A C Worrall 1986 Mr N E Wrigley 1963 Dr M-Q Xia 1988 Mr B Yates 1962 Professor I Yates 1992 Dr C Yeung 1998 Dr B Yuan 1998 Dr M V Zammit-Tabona 1968 Mr H Zelson

+ 26 anonymous donations

Please inform the Development Office if your gift has not been recognised in this list. We will ensure your name appears in the next issue of the Review.

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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.

Dr E Allan Mrs J K Bacon 1974 Mr N Bacon 1974 Dr G Bielstein Mrs B Bielstein Sir John Boyd Lady Boyd Mr J H Burton 1961 Mrs M Burton Mr M A Craven 1985 Dr A J Crisp Professor T W Cusick 1964 Mr M G Dixon 1964 Mr D M M Dutton 1962 Mr G Farren 1966 Mr P R A Fulton 1970 Mr N A W M Garthwaite 1970 Mrs P Green Mr S T Green 1961 Mr S Gupta 1983 Mrs D Hahn †Professor F Hahn Professor A Hewish Mr J Hopkins Professor A Kelly Mrs M Ker Hawn 1989 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 J G Potter 1963 Mr M A W Prior 1974 Mr M K Rees 1974 Mr A T Richardson 1978 Mrs B Richardson Mrs N Squire Mr R Salmon Mrs B Salmon Mr D Stedman Mr V Stedman Sir John Stuttard 1963 Lady Stuttard Dr M Tippett Sir David Wallace Lady Wallace Dr A J Walton 1960 Dr A H Wild 1968

For further information and advice on how to make a gift to Churchill College please visit www.chu.cam.ac.uk/alumni/development.

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Local Churchillians’ lunch group formed and active

Cambridge Churchillians’ lunch, 7 June 2013 This purely social group of over forty people (so far) enjoys informal lunches, mainly on the first Friday of every second month in Cambridge. Since formation in 2012, we have used the Galleria, the Hawks’ Club and La Mimosa as venues, with ten to fifteen people each time. We extend our welcome to any Old Churchillians who are visiting Cambridge at the appropriate time. We are also planning to join a High Table or a Formal Hall once a term starting in the academic year 2013-2014, so that partners and people for whom lunchtime is difficult can come. For further information, please contact Meredith Lloyd-Evans (L P M Lloyd-Evans 1967-1973) at mlloydevans@biobridge.co.uk, 01223 566850.

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“We squeezed our way into a good spot on Grassy Corner to cheer on Churchill as it bumped its way to the Pegasus Cup, despite jealous jeers from Clare in their fancy blazers.�

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JCR Report 2012-13 President: Ellie Sweet For me, one of the most important events of the past year was the celebration of the fortieth anniversary of the admission of women to Churchill College.

Churchill hosted a formal dinner in April to celebrate the event – many thanks to Lorna, the MCR Families Rep, and James Adamcheski-Halson for organising it. Although the speeches given by certain alumnae reminded us that there is a long way to go in achieving gender equality within the University and the wider world, it really was a celebration of Churchill College’s core values: that we are constantly striving to be progressive, forward-thinking and inclusive.

It is these values that make Churchill such a special place to be. With undergraduates coming from a wide range of backgrounds and a high percentage of international students, there really is no “typical” Churchillian – everyone here has their own unique qualities to offer. Thankfully, the increased tuition fees implemented this year haven’t changed this; the first-year students have still enthusiastically participated in numerous extra-curricular activities, which you’ll read about on the coming pages.

As usual, it’s been a busy year for the JCR Committee. I was Women’s Welfare Officer before becoming President, so the year began by organising Freshers’ Week with the rest of the Welfare team.We stuck to the Churchill tradition of having a jam-packed Freshers’ Week schedule, leaving no time for the freshers to feel homesick and ensuring that they settled in quickly. It was a huge amount of fun, if somewhat exhausting!

Since then the committee has put on a variety of events – one highlight was “Pet a Puppy”, which was organised by the Welfare team in the midst of exams.

It was hugely successful at relieving exam stress, putting a smile on our faces and raising money for Guide Dogs UK. We also raised money for our chosen

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JCR charities, FLACK and the Latika Roy Foundation, with our annual JCR Pantomime. [Ed.: See below, GODS Report.] This year it was “A Churchill Carol”, a hilarious Churchill College-themed spoof on the Dickens classic.

Finally, the annual JCR Garden Party was also a huge success. The combination of a BBQ, tonnes of ice-cream, inflatables, live music and thankfully some sun meant that turnout was even larger than it had been in recent years.

At times it has been difficult to engage interest in certain aspects of the JCR’s work: for example, attendance at Open Meetings often decreases during the year.

But despite that, we had lots of students run for election to the JCR in February, forming an enthusiastic new committee full of ideas for the coming year. Our Access Officer, Ed, is working on an “Access Bus” to visit schools in our target areas, and we’re looking to write a new Alternative Prospectus as well.

Sadly I won’t be at Churchill next year to see all these exciting plans come to fruition as I’ll be off in China for my year abroad. Jenny Steinitz, previously Deputy President, will take over as JCR President for the rest of my term, and I’m confident she’ll do an excellent job. I’d also like to take this opportunity to thank those who have helped the JCR Committee with its work throughout the year: Sir David Wallace, Richard Partington, Jennifer Brook, Shelley Surtees, all the fantastic Porters, the previous JCR President David Neal, our sponsors PwC and college staff in general, who are always a pleasure to work with.

The JCR Committee is always happy to hear from alumni, so if there’s anything at all you’d like to talk to us about, please don’t hesitate to get in touch.Whether it’s organising careers events, getting involved with JCR campaigns or suggesting charities for the JCR to support, we’d love to hear from you. I hope this short summary has given you an idea of what an excellent year it has been here at Churchill College, and has brought back fond memories from your time here too!

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MCR Report 2012-13 President: Jordan Ramsey I’m happy to report it’s been an exciting year for the Churchill MCR. We renovated the MCR Bar last summer with help from College and have spruced up the rest of the room a bit, the most popular addition being the table football.

We started with a great Freshers’ Week, complete with a hostel crawl; meeting neighbouring colleges; a fresher falling in the river during a punting trip; and a much too eventful Matriculation Dinner.The fun hasn’t stopped and the freshers have continued to be active in the MCR community.

The MCR held a number of successful events this year, including academic seminars; “formal dinner” swaps with other colleges; a photography competition; mentoring “formals”, hosted by the SCR; Burns Night; MCR formals; and many, many others. Following last year’s tradition, the MCR Bar (nicknamed Vicious Penguin) held a rum-tasting and tequila-tasting that ended with everyone sampling a worm or two. The MCR Bar had many active freshers and veterans volunteering to bartend this year and a new drink special appeared – the Maple – reflecting the strong Canadian presence in the MCR. In particular, Guest Nights have all sold out yet again this year and we’ve been experimenting with the format. On the river, we participated in an intercollegiate punt race (which meant another fresher falling into the river), and were able to squeeze our way into a good spot on Grassy Corner to cheer on Churchill as it bumped its way to the Pegasus Cup, despite jealous jeers from Clare in their fancy blazers.

Perhaps the most exciting thing to happen to MCRs in general was the vote of no confidence in the Cambridge University Graduate Union President. After a tense year, many long email threads, meetings, accusations, and a petition, the GU President was overwhelmingly forced to resign. Hopefully now the GU can pick up the pieces and start to function again.

Other news: graduate student accommodation became an important issue again this year. The University’s policy of increasing graduate student numbers each year has meant that we are displacing more and more PhD students in their second and third years to make room for new students.These veteran students are an important part of the MCR community, and it was a devastating blow to see half of those applying for College rooms next year refused accommodation.

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We are working with College and have launched a student accommodation survey to find a way to help ameliorate the situation. Through the good times and the bad, the Churchill MCR has stuck together and is stronger than ever this year.

Clubs and Societies Badminton Jaakko Heiskanen (Captain) The Churchill Badminton Club performed admirably this academic year. In Michaelmas, we managed to move up a division after winning five of our six matches. In Lent Term, we suffered a bit due to the injury of some of our players and a drop in numbers of regular players, but we nevertheless won two of the five matches we played. We also participated in the Cuppers, although we were knocked out in our first match. All in all, it was a successful year. Hopefully with an influx of new players next year and through maintaining a regular squad we can build upon these achievements.

Boat Club David Roche (Overall Captain) This has been an exceptional year for Churchill College Boat Club, and our success in May Bumps was a fitting end to it. Having last year lost the Pegasus Cup (which tallies up points for bumps won and lost) we have come back with a bang to win the trophy for “most successful college crew� and keg of beer that comes with it!

Following on from a large efflux of experienced rowers last year, we knew we had our work cut out to recruit a new generation of novices for the Boat Club. Our

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annual Boat Club barbecue was successful in generating a queue of hungry mouths to feed, but the challenge, as always, was to transform this into getting crews on the water. It is due to the hard work of our Lower Boats Captains that we managed to put together three novice men’s VIIIs and two novice women’s VIIIs for Michaelmas Term. The commitment and dedication of these new members was first-class, and Churchill were achieving fantastic novice results right from the off, including winning the Queen’s ergs competition and the Emma Sprints.

At the beginning of Lent Term we introduced a Winter Training Camp to mix up the senior and novice crews.This consisted of several water outings coached by our very capable alumni, as well as some brutal erg tests. From here the crews were set.The grit and tenacity continued throughout Lent Term, despite the early mornings and frosty conditions. Importantly, each crew had for support its own dedicated team of coaches (to whom we all owe a great deal of thanks) who quickly shaped nine individuals in the boat into one crew.

In the week preceding Lent Bumps, Churchill achieved a fantastic result with all three crews (M3, M4 and W2) qualifying through the getting-on race. Overall, Churchill had a strong Bumps campaign, with nearly all crews bumping up at least once. M1 managed to turn around a steady slide in Bumps rankings since 2007, and W1 managed to bump back into the First Division. However, the one thing holding this new generation of CCBC rowers back was experience – and with one set of bumps now under the belt the focus was already on the May Bumps.

Easter Term began with our residential training camp at Molesey, which gave each rower what was probably the equivalent water-time of a whole term on the Cam! This was quickly converted into results all round. M2 became a bit of an unstoppable force on the Cam, winning pots in a number of regattas. M1 and W1 had some notable successes on- and off-Cam – M1 winning the 99s regatta,W1 winning pots and Nottingham (on a 2k regatta course) and second place at the Peterborough Regatta. The Lower Boats both struggled with the inevitable exam term crewreshuffles, and so were somewhat unknown quantities going into the May Bumps.

May Bumps was an undeniable triumph for Churchill. The new line-ups of M3 and W2 both qualified through the getting-on race.These crews were quick to dispel the equipment malfunctions (and ejector crabs) of the Lent Campaign, and by Saturday the CCBC flag was dusted off and proudly flown twice for

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blades. M2 were unfortunately held off their deserved blades by a painfully slow Fitzwilliam crew, but ended the week on a superb +3. M1 and W1 both started in the second divisions, surrounded by very fast crews. The crews were undeterred, however, and rowed the races which we had been training for, resulting in bumps back to the First Division for both crews.The CCBC alumni were very well represented on the bank, and the wall of noise as we rowed past the crowd was phenomenal – thank you all those who made it down.

Of course, this is the year that we have to say goodbye to our boatmen – Jim Cameron and Chris Lloyd.Together they have a combined service to CCBC of over sixty years, and they have obviously touched the lives of many.We certainly couldn’t exist without them and the Mays Dinner was a perfect setting to celebrate their contribution to Churchill.They will be missed and we wish them all the best in their retirement. The Cameron-Lloyd trophy for Best Overall Churchill Crew has been introduced this year in celebration, in its first year being awarded to W1. [Ed.: See below, College Events.]

This has been a turn-around year for Churchill College Boat Club, and this is solely due to the sweat and hard work of our rowers, coxes, coaches and supporters of the Club. I would like to encourage any ex-members of the Club who may have fallen out of touch to get back in contact (dr385@cam.ac.uk) – we would love to hear from you! I would also like to give a special mention to the unique spirit and friendships formed this year which have provided the foundation on which all good crews are built. May this continue into next year and beyond.

Cricket Chris Wong (Captain) Churchill College Cricket Club enjoyed one of its most successful seasons in recent history, with a first Cuppers semi-final appearance for three years and Churchill’s Paddy Sadler captaining the University Blues. A spirited cup run combined with an expanding fixture list against a variety of local clubs and touring teams produced a healthy total of five wins from eleven games.

Highlights included two nail-biting successful run-chases against Trinity and Clare in the Cuppers competition and a thrilling finish in the annual friendly against

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the Mallards, who came away victorious as well as stuffed after a memorable spread at tea-time!

Training attendance and general enthusiasm were impressive throughout the year, whilst it was great to see players often sharing a post-match drink with visiting teams. The return of the joint Cricket & Netball End of Season Dinner proved a memorable, loose and enjoyable evening at which James Moore was announced as the incoming Club Captain.

The season’s overall highest wicket-taker title was shared between mediumpacer Andy Wiggett and leg-spinner Chris Wong with fifteen wickets apiece, with Wong also claiming “overall highest run-scorer”, having compiled a total of 339 runs. Wiggett in particular stepped up to enjoy an impressive season, proving a menace to even the best batsman with his prodigious away swing and probing accuracy with the new ball.

That man Wiggett also claimed the much-desired “purple cap” for leading Cuppers wicket-taker with nine wickets (in a tribute to IPL customs), whilst James Moore won the equally sought after “orange cap” for leading Cuppers run-scorer with 110 runs.

Finally, thanks must go to groundsman Graham and senior treasurer Dr Colmcille Caulfield whose work has been so crucial to the running of the club.

With just a few players leaving next season, and hopes for a star-studded fresher intake high, Churchill remains in a solid position to push for further success next season and perhaps even take the final step towards that long-awaited Cuppers glory.

Football (men’s) Ashley Mould (Captain, CCFC 1st XI) While putting in a string of encouraging performances in the league early in Michaelmas, Churchill College Football Club 1st XI were unable to find the killer instinct to convert draws into wins. Despite admirable flair and determination throughout the team, this pattern continued. The result was a

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respectable mid-table finish, and a loss in the third round of Cuppers on penalties. Our player of the season Tom Rolph was part of a talented cohort of first-years who joined CCFC this year and will no doubt bring the club success in years to come. Next year, they will be led by Chris Pearson: a veteran of the club and winner of the Golden Boot in the 2012-13 season.

The 2nd XI found the winning touch easily early in the season, finishing sixth in Division 3 despite playing one fewer game than some of their nearest rivals.

Endowed with a wealth of midfield talent, yet sometimes short in other areas due to the needs of the 1st XI, their fortunes show the need for new blood next year.

CCFC 3rd XI, absurdly beginning the season in Division 7 despite finishing second from bottom in Division 5 the previous season, started the season determined to exhibit the quality of which they were capable. Captain Jake Hoskyns drew some heroic performances from his young and on occasion undermanned side. Narrowly missing out on promotion this year in third place, they will begin the 2013-14 season as favourites for promotion.

GODS Laura Gilbert (President) It has been a great year for GODS, and a particularly funny one. Throughout the three terms, the society’s involvement with comedy has been on-going: Churchill Improv (the new official name of our improvised comedy division) gave performances at the College’s Spring Ball and the May Week Garden Party, took part in two staged Battles of the Improvs against the Cambridge Impronauts (upon our very own Wolfson Hall stage – the current score is one-all, so the battle continues…) and began establishing a name for themselves outside Churchill by performing at Robinson, Hughes Hall and Jesus May Ball. In Michaelmas Term, following last year, the Society continued their involvement with the JCR Christmas Pantomime, an adaptation of A Christmas Carol, with the crew and the play’s directors Faye Cruikshank and Neil Wilkins all being members of GODS (the latter also wrote and ended up performing in the production himself, in a wonderful feat of last-minute role-filling).The Wolfson Hall was filled with Yuletide merriment, and just under £400 was raised for the JCR charities FLACK and the Latika Roy Foundation. (The former is an organisation which produces a magazine created

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and sold by homeless people in the Cambridge area, providing both employment and a boost in the sense of self-worth and confidence of those affected; the latter is a Northern-Indian based NGO which supports disabled children and young people by providing very fully for their needs, including schooling, work-training for young adults, physiotherapy, and helping teach parents how best to look after their children.) In Lent Term, the traditional Freshers’ Show was staged, an ensemble whodunit by Neil Harrison named, appropriately, Whodidit. It was a great success and one in which the first-year performers exhibited wonderful flair, comic timing and speed at costume changes. We hope that they will continue to share these talents in the Wolfson Hall in the future.Though Easter Term is usually rather a quiet one for Churchill drama, we also managed to put on an end-of-year show: a “devised” (a word which is here used to mean “frantically made it up as we went along during rehearsals”) production of Oliver Twist staged in the Recital Room during May Week, carrying on a Dickensian motif established earlier in the year.

Our little theatrical experiment proved that attempting to create an hour-long play in under two weeks, during a period when the cast are periodically spending entire nights gallivanting at balls and where only two people involved had actually read the book said show is based on, can still, miraculously, produce something which can make a room of people laugh and collect money for SOS Children’s Villages. It has been an incredibly fun three terms to be involved in GODS, and here’s to a new year of theatrical revelry!

Origin of the GODS John White (U65, Mechanical Sciences [Engineering]) writes: “With reference to the Report in the latest Churchill Review by Colin Rothwell (2012, pp. 5557), I do not recall the GODS standing for anything! I was in the original stage crew for the first GODS production in the Wolfson Hall when it opened in 1965. It was due to be opened by the then Prime Minister Harold Wilson, but he was diverted by a certain Mr Smith declaring UDI the day before. [Ian Smith, who declared independence for Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe).] The GODS were recruiting in Freshers’ Week as the combined Churchill/New Hall/Fitzwilliam Dramatic Society, so they could hardly have called themselves the CADS or the ChADS. I thought GODS was chosen just as a theatrical reference. The lighting crew, including me, under Baird Oldrey, had been busy wiring up temporary lighting bars as the proper ones had not arrived, which meant the best part of a week up a ladder. As far as I can remember the first production was The Cherry Orchard. I don’t really remember much about the performance

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except that it involved a flat with a large sheet of net (to do with a vision) and some deep green filters on some lights, which Baird seemed to like.The GODS was certainly in existence before 1965, as a work colleague of mine, George Johnson (U61 or 1962?) had been a member and had a big hand in designing the lighting set-up in the new hall. We had a good reputation as a college dramatic company in Cambridge, which was necessary to persuade audiences to travel up the Madingley Road. Many of my college friends were in the stage crew, which was once known as the best in Cambridge. We specialised in blackout scene changes, though I did nearly brain Mephistopheles in Dr Faustus with a 12-foot table-top when we put it on in 1967 in the ADC as part of a festival. In our time Christopher Frayling was a prominent member.”

Lacrosse Arnor Hakonarson (Captain) Following a generous grant by College, I was able to purchase the required playing equipment and re-found the Churchill College Mixed Lacrosse Club. Although a mixed club by name, we struggled a bit with numbers for games and played most of them with six to seven boys only. However, that was a setback we easily overcame to have a glorious season. In Michaelmas, we secured a promotion, finishing second place in the 3rd Division with a total of 4 wins to 1 loss, which turned out to be the only loss of the year.With the promotion, Lent had us facing much stronger opponents, but we rose to the challenge and finished second place in the 2nd Division with a score of 2 wins 2 draws, looking at another potential promotion. All in all I am very happy with the season, not least because the majority of the team had never touched a crosse before this year.

Lawn Tennis Frederik Flöther (Captain) After coming within a match tie-break of winning the Cuppers final last season, the Churchill College Lawn Tennis Club was determined to make amends this year. Captain Frederik Flöther was particularly optimistic, since most of the top players returned, having gained the experience of what it means to play in a final, and two strong freshers joined the squad.

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The Cuppers campaign got off to a great start. The Churchill second team dismantled Darwin, losing only a single match, and proceeded to beat fourth seed Girton, a squad with a Blues player, before finally bowing out to Queens’.

Meanwhile, the first team was seeded second and had a bye in the first round.

A single-minded march to the final followed, including consecutive victories against Queens’ II, Christ’s, St John’s and Emmanuel; in the process, only three rubbers were dropped against St John’s deep squad, while the other teams were overwhelmed without the loss of a single match.

Jesus was out for revenge in the final, having been ousted by Churchill in last year’s semi-final; however, one could see in the eyes of all Churchill players that they would fight to the last to avoid another heartbreak. On a sunny Saturday morning, Churchill was quickly up 4-1, once again subduing the opposition with irresistible resolve. Fittingly, it was down to the two freshers, Blues player Neil Cordon and “Mister Consistent” Nathan Nakatsuka, to be locked in a race to be the first to deliver the decisive fifth rubber. As Nathan delivered the coup de grâce – just a few minutes before Neil wrapped up an impressive 6-3, 6-0 win – Frederik jumped onto the court in delight and the team celebrated. Just as fittingly, shortly after Churchill had triumphed, impatient rain drops that had been waiting in the clouds began beating the earth and thus brought the curtain down on a highly memorable campaign.

The Club is very grateful to the College for financially supporting the teams as well as to everyone who played in Cuppers this year, in particular the champions of the first team (from left to right):

Nathan Nakatsuka, Frederik Flöther (captain), Frederick Green, Jamie Tittle, Alastair Kwan, Kamran Tajbakhsh, Neil Cordon

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Music [Ed.: The Master has already paid tribute to Dr Mark Miller’s role as Director of Music-Making (see above, From the Master). We were sorry to see Mark leave for a new position at Durham University; Durham’s gain is our loss! We all wish him well. There follows a joint report by Mark and Music Sizar Moira Cox on the musical activitites of the College in the last two years – a tale of development and success.]

Moira Cox, Music Sizar Mark Miller, Director of Music-Making Over the last two years, Churchill Music Society has grown in the size of its membership and in the number of events held. An average of five concerts per term have taken place in the Music Centre’s Recital Room, with additional performances being hosted in the Chapel and even in the Dining Hall.

Student members have continued to lead the Society both in performance and behind the scenes. Regular events include the annual Freshers’ Concert and the twice-yearly Music Bursary Holders’ concerts, presenting the instrumental and vocal talent of current student members. Termly College Choir concerts with characteristically eclectic programmes have continued, juxtaposing items as contrasting as Ernst Toch’s energetic Geographical Fugue for spoken chorus and Samuel Barber’s serene Agnus Dei. The Choir has brought together musicians from all constituencies of the College (JCR, MCR, SCR, staff and local alumni) under the direction of Fiona Beresford (2011), Joe Donlan (2012) and Jonathan Schranz (2013). An exciting new venture for the Choir has been joint concerts with our sister College, Trinity, in Oxford. The first of these centred on Vivaldi’s Gloria sung by 50 voices with chamber orchestra, hosted at Churchill in the resonant acoustics of the Chapel in Michaelmas 2011. Churchill then travelled to Oxford in Lent 2013 for a joint performance of Mozart’s Requiem with full orchestra, Trinity’s Solomon Lau and Churchill’s Joe Donlan taking the podium in turn.

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Carols Service, which has packed the Chapel to capacity in the last two years.

The Chapel Choir played a poignant role in the memorial services for Sir William Hawthorne, former Master, at Great St Mary’s; for Dr Richard Hey, Founding Fellow; and for Mr Maersk Mc-Kinney Møller, Honorary Fellow and founder of the Møller Centre. Thanks to generous responses to the Chapel’s 40th Anniversary Appeal, the Chapel Trust is delighted to have endowed a permanent Organ Scholarship for the College, named after Elizabeth Cockcroft, wife of the first Master and one of the earliest supporters of Chapel music.The first holder of the post, Natural Scientist Edward Lilley, was appointed in October 2012.

Members of the College and Chapel Choirs collaborated to present a series of madrigals in the surprisingly good outdoor acoustics of North Court as part of a one-off Hill Colleges Arts Festival with Murray Edwards and Fitzwilliam Colleges in May Week 2012. The outdoor a cappella venture was repeated at the Churchill JCR Garden Party in May Week 2013.

Some of Churchill’s female voices joined forces with their counterparts at King’s, Clare and Lucy Cavendish Colleges as part of the celebrations for the 40th anniversary of admission of female undergraduates to those colleges.The concert took place in King’s Chapel under the baton of Graham Ross, Director of Music at Clare College. Each college also contributed a solo instrumentalist, and Churchill was represented by alumna Penny Driver, whose sensitive rendition of movements from the Bach cello suites resonated beautifully in the vast chapel.

Churchill Music Society has continued to play a leading role in the Orchestra on the Hill, a joint ensemble of students from Churchill, Fitzwilliam, Murray Edwards and other Hill colleges.The weekly rehearsals take place in Churchill’s Recital Room, while performances rotate between the three main contributing colleges. Concerts have included a performance of Saint-Saëns’s Symphony No. III ‘The Organ’ with Churchill’s Edward Lilley at the organ, and a rendition of Vaughan Williams’s Mystical Songs with baritone soloist and Churchill music student Adrian Ball, as well as two annual Composers’ Concerts which premiered new works by Cambridge students in Easter terms 2012 and 2013.

Orchestra on the Hill will support Churchill College Choir in Michaelmas 2013 in the first of what is hoped to be many collaborative concerts to celebrate the rich variety of music at Churchill.

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The Music Society has been fortunate to host some first-rate professional recitals, with highlights from the past two years including a three-concert series by Martin Hughes and Philip Jenkins covering the complete Beethoven violin and piano sonatas, and a solo recital by internationally acclaimed violinist Tim Fain (son of Gordon Fain – former Overseas Fellow – and Margie Fain), showcasing the music of Philip Glass. Recent Cambridge graduates have also returned to entertain at a professional level, a prominent example being a trumpet, piano and baritone saxophone recital ranging from Bach to original jazz compositions given by Karys Orman, James Brady and Chris McMurran.

Churchill’s ever-growing reputation for jazz has been further reinforced by the popular Jazz in the Bar events in Michaelmas and Lent terms, with performances from some of Cambridge’s leading jazz, reggae and funk bands as well as improvised sessions featuring some of Churchill’s finest jazz musicians, led by Harry Morgan.

In collaboration with retired Senior Tutor Dr Alan Findlay, the Music Society was proud to welcome back some of the College’s professional musical alumni for a dazzling recital celebrating the 80th birthday of Churchill’s most influential musician, long-standing Fellow Hugh Wood, in October 2012. Lowri Blake, Adrian Bradbury, Penny Driver, Graham Waterhouse (all cellists), Lynsey Marsh (clarinet) and Stephen Gutman (piano) entertained a packed Recital Room with works by a variety of composers including the birthday boy himself.The musical treats continued afterwards at dinner, with a witty arrangement of Happy Birthday for four cellos by Graham Waterhouse, complete with compulsory audience participation.

The Centre for Intercultural Musicology at Churchill College (CIMACC) has hosted both concerts and an international symposium in the Recital Room under the new Directorship of Professor Valerie Ross, By-Fellow at Churchill in Michaelmas 2011, expertly assisted by Mr Tim Cribb from the Fellowship.

The breadth of musical culture that CIMACC brings to Churchill is staggering.

The most memorable event was CIMACC’s contribution to the University’s 2012 Festival of Ideas: the Recital Room resounded to Malaysian music spanning several genres, presented by the Universiti Teknologi MARA Performing Group.

The culmination of this concert was the premiere of a new cross-cultural work

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Shanter”, delivered by the Master. CIMACC was delighted to welcome to the concert Mr Wan Zaidi Wan Abdullah, Malaysian Deputy High Commissioner to the UK; Associate Professor Dr Mohad Anizu, Director of Education Malaysia for the UK; and Mr Khairil Azman Abu Bakar,Warden of Malaysia Hall, London.

The Music Sizar and Director of Music-Making are indebted to the Music Society Committee, whose members have worked enthusiastically to sustain an increasingly busy programme of events. Special thanks are due to Karys Orman, whose Sizarship in 2011 included the initial part of the two-year period covered by this report and who has continued to make major contributions to College music. The Music Society extends a warm welcome to Mr Mark Gotham as the new Director of Music-Making from Easter 2013.

Ultimate Frisbee James Richardson (Captain) Churchill Ultimate Frisbee has had a successful year, claiming several of the trophies on offer. We started Michaelmas with two mixed-ability teams who finished in the top half of the league. In Lent, we entered a first and second team, and our first team, Churchill Chillies, won the Second Division and Winter Cuppers. In Easter, we continued our good play and our promoted team won the student league, though was unlucky to finish third at Summer Cuppers.The high standard of our College team meant that five Churchill players represented the University team in the Varsity match and at Student Nationals. We have a strong case to be considered the top college team and we hope to continue playing well next year.

A blast from the past: Ladies’ Football, 1987-88 Alison Müller, née Sweeney (U84, Modern Languages), writes from Germany, where she now lives: “While I was at Churchill I was an enthusiastic member of the women’s (then: ladies’) football team, so I always look forward to hearing news about the current team. I was very surprised to read in the 2011 Review (p. 40) that the Cuppers final this year ‘was the furthest Churchill Women’s Football’ has ever got and would like to put the record straight (or maybe a

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new ‘era’ started when the name was changed to Churchill Women’s Football, I don’t know…). Anyway: in my final year we actually managed to win Cuppers (see the photo, which was taken before the final, so no cup on it!) after a nailbiting semi-final against St John’s.That season, we didn’t lose a single match and had an excellent goal difference of +36. I also played in the first ladies’ football match against Oxford, which was held in Oxford in 1986 and was not a blues sport at that time. We (unfortunately) lost 3:4.”

[Editor’s note: This year we don’t have a contribution for Ladies’/ Women’s Football. As for the title, that’s a matter of choice – it’s up to the players!

“Women” versus “Ladies” – an issue for debate...]

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The MCR Photo Competition The theme of this year’s MCR photo competition was Environment and Sustainability. We reproduce here the three winning photos.

First Prize: Leilia Dore, A Fragile Friendship

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Runner-up: Will Hamilton, On the Slopes of Mount Kenya

Second runner-up: Halima Hassan, Double Rainbow

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COLLEGE EVENTS

“In the year ahead we expect a swap of one Chadwick Beast for a different Chadwick Beast.”

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Art in Churchill College The Hanging Committee 2011-13 It is fair to say that over the past two years the Hanging Committee has been on something of a roll, propelled mainly by our Curator of Works of Art, Barry Phipps. Over the previous few years, the staging in the Jock Colville Hall of exhibitions of paintings and prints by distinguished artists had been partly facilitated by the presence of semi-permanently mounted large white boards right round the Hall. In 2011 we reluctantly accepted that, with the 50th Anniversary celebrations over, the grandeur of the Hall should be restored by removing our boards. Undaunted, we decided that two or three exhibitions should continue to be staged each year but in different media or other locations.

The first, along the main concourse, was a set of large, atmospheric, landscape images by the leading Scandinavian photographer Per Bak Jensen, which had previously been on show in London.That was followed by two sound-installation pieces in the Chapel by promising Cambridge artist Jo Miller. Next came “Chairs

by Wegner”, an ambitious exhibition curated by Barry Phipps in the Jock Colville Hall, consisting of about thirty different pieces of furniture by the great Danish designer Hans Wegner, to coincide with the twentieth anniversary of the Møller Centre. And in Easter Term 2013 Barry curated, again in the Hall, an exhibition of recent sculptures and immense sculptural drawings by Nigel Hall RA, which occurred simultaneously with the arrival, at the front of the College and on longterm loan, of the impressive recent work by Hall, “Southern Shade I”. And 2013/14 will see three more exhibitions that are neither paintings nor prints. In fact, the one recent exhibition in a traditional medium was a short but substantial display of John Piper prints, staged in the Chapel by the Goldmark Gallery on behalf of the Development Office.

Notable improvements have been made to the College’s own art collection.

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among whose previous sitters have been John Mortimer, Seamus Heaney and Stephen Hawking. The work, currently on display in the Fellows’ Dining Room, dwarfs in size previous Masters’ portraits and calls for some innovative thinking by the Hanging Committee regarding future hanging of portraits of Masters.

For a year or so we had on loan an even larger painting by the prominent contemporary Danish artist, Tal R, but unfortunately someone had the gall to buy it! In its place we now have on loan a sizable, subtle painting by Ian McKeever RA. A smaller McKeever and a head by David Bomberg are also on loan, as is an array of paintings and prints by Albert Irvin RA currently gracing the Møller Centre. Even more new prints than paintings are on, or about to be on, our walls through a mixture of purchases by the Committee and well-judged gifts. These include series of prints by Phillip Sutton RA, David Kindersley and Brian Clarke, as well as about two dozen prints, by generally well-known artists, now adorning walls in the Sheppard Flats. In addition we have two prints by Patrick Caulfield and individual works by Tony Bevan RA, John Hoyland RA and David Nash RA. A totally unexpected gift came in the will of a former Overseas Fellow, who bequeathed us a fine abstract print by the early American modernist sculptor Louise Nevelson. In the year ahead we expect the loan of at least one new outdoor sculpture, a swap of one Chadwick Beast for a different Chadwick Beast, prints of several major photographs by Karsh and conceivably several paintings by Sir Winston himself.

Acquiring new works and staging exhibitions are the most obvious highlights of the past two years. But, in addition to routine activities such as moving, cleaning and restoring works in our collection, there have been other achievements. After trying for years with successive, short-lived webmasters to have an Art at Churchill section on the College website, our current webmaster, Naomi Morris, has with a minimum of fuss now established one for us. We also have a new and improved picture-store which, along with the catalogues of the collection, is now controlled by our Curator. Our Librarian Mary Kendall deserves our heartfelt thanks for having taken charge of catalogues and stored works for many years. The College has approved a detailed Collection Policy drawn up by the Hanging Committee: we trust that now not only will the Committee know what it’s doing but the rest of the College will too. We almost had a Henry Moore at the front of the College again! Where successive Masters had failed, Barry Phipps succeeded in sweettalking the Henry Moore Foundation into offering us a loan for three years of

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a fine reclining figure. When, however, they remembered to inform us just how much the loan would cost, reluctantly we felt obliged to decline. We staged an informative public lecture, “On Contemporary Danish Art”, by a leading Danish art critic, Lisbeth Bonde. Our Curator and members of staff, with more minor contributions from other Committee members, helped bring to fruition John Kinsella’s delightful book Graffiti, a verse collection in which each poem appears opposite an image of the College work of art that triggered it. Membership of the Hanging Committee continued to be refreshed yearly. Noelle Caulfield replaced Sophie Bridges as Secretary. I finally found a willing younger successor, Adrian Barbrook, to take over as Chair. I have to say though that his first decision was questionable; he asked me to remain on the Committee. I readily accepted before he had second thoughts. Despite that, I’m confident the Hanging Committee will continue to be active, informed and cohesive.

While the visual arts have been thriving in College, we should pause to note the losses suffered by the Cambridge art world through the deaths of three good friends of art in Churchill. Two of Cambridge’s most respected sculptors died, first Mike Gillespie, whose works Spiral and War we own, and then Christine Fox, whose Crescent Moon Bull stands on the Master’s lawn.

Subsequently Michael Harrison, until recently Director of Kettles Yard, died.

Michael not only developed Kettles Yard into a museum and gallery of international standing but also masterminded a successful plan to develop it substantially further. I can only hope that the University’s decision to add expensive icing to Michael’s cake does not delay for unacceptably long the full re-opening of what should be a deserved tribute to an imaginative and meticulous curator and a much respected, helpful man.

Colin Fraser (retiring Chairman)

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The John Kinsella and Tracy Ryan Prizes On Thursday 20 June 2013, in the Master’s Lodge at Churchill, the Master presented the John Kinsella and Tracy Ryan prizes to this year’s winners. The renowned poet John Kinsella is a Title E Fellow of Churchill, and his wife Tracy Ryan is also a writer of distinction. The Poetry Prize is awarded for an original verse composition in any form of not more than 500 lines, and “The Other Prize” is awarded for an original, unperformed play; both prizes are open to those in statu pupillari in the University of Cambridge. Prizes were won this year by Mr Joseph Minden (King’s) and Mr Harry Buckoke (Homerton). Harry Buckoke’s play will be produced by the Marlowe Society in the Michaelmas Term 2013. We reproduce below Joseph Minden’s fine winning poem, “Going Postal”, part of which he read out at the prize-giving ceremony.

The Master and Poetry Prize winner Joseph Minden

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The Master and “The Other Prize” winner Harry Buckoke

Going Postal The yorks have front wheels rivet-straight so steer from behind, lean into the weight like when you hang out from a boat against the wind. Collect from where they sort the drifts of mail off the troughs: swivel out the full sleeve, and Eric’ll tell you about bar codes (to scan quantity: don’t overfill).

After that, there’s primary, roads 1 2, 3 and 4, and sky road, which is mainly Scotland.

The trolleys form arcades; the function of the space depends on how they’re ranged.

I’ve grown fond of how their cages catch the light and line it up, low and level – across the tops of all of them you see the shuttered drum of the machine: it sifts the inbound stuff and flicks it round the loop, it leaps like fish. The way these trolleys pivot makes me think of doors in floorplans, geometry of entry, so the lino here’s a blank of unrecorded draughtsmanship.

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If you’ve ever seen those clocks which seem to write the time across the air, with a ticker like a metronome but strobing out 04:10 with LEDs – I’d say it’s quite like that, a blur but somehow sense is made.

With us all running parallel, surface tension makes the link and mail gets through, just how a drop holds slide and cover slip together, both the focus and the glue.

Ask Pat: she comes back every year for Christmas.

First thing is that machine, maw crammed up to a chick’s gawp, frothing at the mouth with post the belt drags in a backwards avalanche and drops.

Pat explains, once the stuff’s gone intestinal, somewhere in the coil and re-coil of the perspex gut each postcode’s lasered up, or if illegible an optic antenna’ll send a snap to Swansea where a human eye is peeled to scan for it.

From here it’s bearable, but if you’re there for hours, the sour heat from off the rubber forces down your throat the paper scurf the friction has exfoliated. Still, you’re there, mouth dry as eggshell, and endlessly you watch these letters making white squares that hang static in the slant of flight across the chute: and every time the rollers catch them out, sten them with malevolence into the waiting crates (though you believe this once they’ll get away, and more will follow till a flock of them will lift the warehouse off and journey south; or better, one will just stay still right where it seems to hang, and, by defiance of the laws of physics, spanner the works, cause the mechanisms of the world to jam, reconfigure its innocuous white status as an incandescent raygun beam, and shear the whole machine in two, and stop the noise) and there’s your waiting face behind, mouth negligently open just enough to catch the acrid puff of dust.

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Worst of all is when the managers empty sacks too fast into the alts and shift them over: then, I’ve got to have my back bent for hours, taking mad handfuls of letters like pixellations, laying them on the ramp of the conveyor, culling them for ones too small or big, and keeping fingers spry in case of hypodermic needles.

Look, here comes Rosie, who says if you go now, you can have ten minutes for a fag.

That’s rare.

Shame about the weather.

Rain like sacks of cloud are being whipcracked, enough wind to make thin iron billow.

Pat opens a ball of light under darkness in the tin lean-to, till the smoke rushes off her palms, her face divided by the leakage from the flame.

In County Clare, in Summer, trains with windows you could open to a pane of unreflected space would take us up to barns squat over broods of shade.

They kept us from the rain, except for where a thread of water would get through the roof and stitch itself along the axis of the cone the daylight made; the water and the light brought in by the same puncture, which together flawed the impermeable air, and spread a denser shade into the slickening mud.

Since then, I’ve always loved the sound made by the rain on corrugated iron.

Pat recedes amongst the casuals, sheaves between her hands.

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Alright, now, says Eric – I want you over at foreign packets.

Airmail bags a slack flock of windsocks.

When you reach for the one package sunk to the bottom of the sack, and it’s too far, you need to pull the sack up by the scruff, but it closes with a shutter’s twist, rucked tight. It’s like a plastic rose or whirlpool gargling the threat of static.

Kevin, malcontent, eternal fount of gobsmack and vitriol holds court.

When each bag is full, throttle it with one of these serrated ties – you need your gloves, the teeth which ratchet through and lock it have a cutting edge. Rip the excess off and stack it like a carcass on the york. If I see FRAGILE on a box I’ll drop kick it: what on earth do people think that it achieves? A feather bed, some pink mood lighting for your brittle bollocks, fragrant pillow, magic carpet?

Astonishing, the things that people buy.

Germans gobble pharmaceuticals.

Hundreds daily, coming from an internet enabled fenland bungalowcum-super big Boots.

My rolling eyes can’t even match the incredulity of that word’s central double-o.

Fair enough, teutonic cache has to come from somewhere, else shit Polish stock suffices. But just don’t make me stack it.

At least don’t wrap it in this outfit of black tape which makes it stick to every other packet.

Anyway, it’s getting heavy now: all of this landfill-in-waiting has to be en route to Heathrow before ten.

I’ll get Eric to send over people.

A crowd assembles

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Berto – eh! naughty boy! what – Geoff – be careful, it’s a fucking wonky wheel Andrew – fine, but got a hacking cough Ralph – boop! Suzanne – Italian’s going well but it’s a Michael – Grimsby Town don’t stand a Martin – why does Ralph go boop boop all the Berto – mischief you got planned, eh? Geoff – hang on a Ralph – boop! Paul – I used to run the PO by the labour club in Kit – a fully trained computer Berto – textiles Andrew – architect for Martin – sixteen years as a recruiter, business failed. Suzanne – what’s 01930?

Kevin – goes in NY. Done. Let’s go.

Mike – have you got money yet? Andrew – no.

Mart – no. Kit – no. Paul – and Ralph, Berto, Suzanne and Geoff aren’t casuals, so Kit – I spent the weekend ringing up but it’s a Christmas shitstorm nationwide: no one paid, eighteen thousand on the phone to one small office east of Slough, a clutch of staff and odds impossible, like Butch and Sundance hemmed in by Bolivians facing down four walls and then oblivion, against the tidal roar of endless calls.

I sat two hours on the line and all that time the only point the ringing stopped was when the phone was picked up to be dropped.

Office. Polystyrene ceiling tiles.

Man in suit. Conciliatory smiles.

As you may know, we’ve had some database irregularities; we’re on the case, but it’s my job to offer our regrets that I’m a shit lier that though the nets of our spreadsheets are wide we are not sure exactly who we still owe money, or exactly what we owe to anyone.

We know, obviously, that you’re not here for fun, that our response has been somewhat uneven.

As you can see on this poster of the seven pillars of management wisdom, mutual respect is integral: for us, the casual workforce forms a vital and dynamic part of our I make myself sick

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employee base. What we’re offering is this voucher for a cash lump sum. Bring it to a post office and we’ll give you three hundred pounds immediately to tide you over I can’t bear to look at myself in the mirror. When the books are straight, you’ll pay back the difference.

Are we redeemed? We hope that that this makes sense.

Back at foreign packets work goes on.

Shifting out from where the water cooler stands, a thirty second destination for the bored, the restless, the unthirsty, Jack comes over with his gutrot glare to loaf with Kevin for a bitch, to spit venom, talk about the scumbag temps.

Dullest bunch of cunts we’ve had, they stink – roll in, like you, for four weeks of the year and look, like this fat fuck, as if their spine’s the cleavage of their arse’s afterthought.

Eyes wet with piss-glisten, uric lubrication, intrigue of a skull full of machinating shit, bent on wringing out the last citrus excuse for toilet trips at fifteen-minute gaps.

I deal in profiling, am an acute judge of character, I scurf it off ten cups of coffee daily, drink it in at my tenacious eyes, black, because it, only, swallows all the light. I’ve read the book about the FBI and what all psychos seek: manipulation, domination and control.

And one word of advice – anger clouds your judgement. When you take revenge, take a deep breath first. Look them in the eyes and stick the knife in slowly.

If you remember nothing else from here remember that I told you that. So, Kevin, if you had to pick one bona fide nut one truly psychopathic prick who would make the cut?

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– I’d nominate knock knee’d Tony, there’s no stress which couldn’t cave him, make him plead for clemency, confess to any crime you’d care to claim was product of some plot of his. – But worry is to blame with him, neurosis not psychosis, he’s adrift in midstream of his tattered nerves.

Any bet would be quids in on Frank, he deserves attention, has the lunatic’s fixation – salus populi suprema lex esto, best to stop him while he’s only feeding pips and raisins, general birdfood, to his girlfriend, nip the impact of his madness in the bud.

– But who could cleave to sanity in here, resist inanity’s lobotomy.

It’s a mystery to me. – Must be our rigorous analysis sustains us.

But Ivan! No, of all of us his brains are furthest shot.

Upstairs in the restaurant, Ivan draws shadows around him, looks black pools at the plate, laughs, speaks, I speak, and my teeth are small enough that you can see the darkness of my mouth emerge. The raw skirts of my nostrils itch.

Potatoes, mayonnaise. Reinsteigern: when you make a flea an elephant.

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In German I can talk a waterfall, the spume of hypertension, palpitation, English is just shorthand for aphasia.

I don’t trust anyone, alone in my constriction and the straining in my neck.

They see you once and think they know you, know that you are on the run. I don’t want to have to show to them how strong I am.

My eyes are tired, unslept and hounded by the practice of evasion: both the flight from inner violence which gathers into action, and the flight traced by the look you learn when running from the act. Between two sources of the need to flee my stare has lost its ease, become the holding bay of gagged or absent guilt, which weigh the same, and always mean a presence at your back.

I have my history.You can die every day, that’s why I don’t save money.

Now Steve comes in, hunched up with arms left sagging loose in hangdog impassivity to eat his peanut butter sandwiches.

Sometimes I work sixteen hours square in winter, nip home for a snooze and keep my socks on so my feet warm up like bulbs.

My granddaughter, at seven, cannot sleep because of seizures due to sickle cell anaemia, I watch her eyes flicker like bulbs at night as I look after her.

Though now her ma, my daughter, ’s having fits as well, prognosis bad, and I have snapped a wrist that will not fix because my bones are brittle from the drugs I take for high blood

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pressure. It’s not a sob story, just everything diminishing, like noise against the tympanum which my weak cochlear nerve cannot transmit.

After we have eaten join me at the meter, I know each weight and price. I’ll show you.

It’s peaceful work despite the rush, the rest: all rubbish bound for the machine. Better with the franked mail and the flats where we stack loose letters like vertebrae which flex with pressure from the thumb. Unlike the cheap glass in the spine, or fault in the wrist where bone, split and drifted in the cast, will never set flush or be tapped straight.

You come to see how blood can run so poisoned, bear its nourishment and its morbidity; you see how even still, the hollowness of this anaemic light can be endured, but that is all. When you clock off at ten, step out, look up, breathe in, walk home, nothing is cured.

Difficult to penetrate the nest of static in the ear. It’s the blind who lead the blind in here.

I’m glad I’m deaf.

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Churchill’s Boatmen 2013 saw an extraordinarily successful May Bumps for the Boat Club, awarded the Pegasus Cup for the most successful club in the May Bumps. Alas, this was also the year we said goodbye to Churchill boatmen Jim Cameron and Chris Lloyd, who both retired at the Boat Club Dinner. Jim was Boatman from 1981 to 15 June 2013, and Chris Assistant Boatman from 1990 to 30 June 2013. A group of alumni have bid to sponsor a new four, to be named Cameron Lloyd in their honour. Below are photos of the crews and of Jim and Chris, together with a piece by Trevor Cave about them, based on conversations and an interview.

Jim came as deputy boatman to Doug Larkin in 1981, intending it as an interim job. Thirty-two years later, he feels he is “getting used to it”. He had been an apprentice shipwright at Scots, Greenock and worked as a draughtsman at

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Marshalls. He took over as boatman in 1986 and after five more years, Chris replaced Andy Silk as Jim’s deputy.

Chris has rowed with distinction since school days and still does. He was a Henley finalist and is life-president of Xpress BC. He was coaching for Christ’s, his College, and made small bets with other coaches over whether Christ’s would bump Churchill. Chris kept winning the bet, and was persuaded to come to coach CCBC in 1979. He has enjoyed it very much as he has found us a “particularly nice crowd”. He added that “it’s been so much fun as we do what we have to do and the bursars do just what they should”. Did he like Jim as a boss? – “He must, as he buys me the odd drink,” quipped Jim. Jim said that with four clubs, the work piles up sometimes. Clubs need the same thing at the same time and often can’t understand that someone else has asked first. Jim and Chris did not feel divided loyalties between the clubs, but it’s “interesting that we attend Churchill dinners more than others”. It helped the rapport too that they saw CCBC crews more often and Churchill pays suppliers very quickly. Chris recalled their best weekend when King’s, Churchill and Selwyn had dinners on consecutive nights.

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During races, Chris has launched crews regularly but Jim has always remained at the boathouse to make urgent repairs. Chris had never known anyone with Jim’s patience at rebuilding wooden blades. Once, said Jim, there were twelve blades shattered plus a pile of bits. He had often rebuilt three feet of wooden boat overnight. “Life has got easier with plastic – if you take three feet off a boat now, the boat goes back to the manufacturer to be remoulded.” Chris said Bumps themselves were a blur but some incidents stand out, such as floods at the boathouse that left a high mark a yard up the wall.

A few individual members left their marks too, notably “Wimp” in the 1980s.

Richard Jones rowed at Henley for CUBC. He gave Chris his rowing kit, which “made me look like a potato in a sack”. Jim noted special memories of the women making Head of River. Kat Elliot had found a “lucky” coin on the boathouse floor the first day and bumped, so wanted to find one every day. Jim “araldited it to the floor”.They retain several photographs of memorable crews.

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In retirement, Jim plans to “sit and get even fatter with a see-food diet. I see food and eat it.� He will also come and watch Bumps for the first time. He enjoys reading, mainly crime fiction. Chris aims to continue in rowing and will be happy to coach. As a long-time publican of the Free Press and Cambridge Blue, he was tempted by a new licence too, but chose to rest on those laurels.

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This section of the Review presents short pieces of both general and Churchillrelated interest. Two Overseas Fellows, Anne Charmantier and Jeffrey Evans, give us insights into evolutionary ecology and (a subject of perennial interest in Churchill) the relationship between engineering and the humanities and social sciences. Churchill alumni Tina Ball and Meredith Lloyd-Evans write about their careers since graduation, with the bonus of a recapitulation by Meredith of our University Challenge triumph (now sadly rather far in the past: come on, current students!). We have, too, a special feature: Winston Churchill: New Perspectives. Our Founder continues to grip the imagination of public and scholars alike. Readers may have seen The Wipers Times, a “factual drama” written by Ian Hislop and Nick Newman about two First World War soldiers who created a satirical newspaper (broadcast on BBC 2, 11 September 2013); in one unexpected vignette, Churchill briefly appears in the trenches to encourage the writers of that subversive journal. And new books about him come out every year. Our own former Archives By-Fellow Graham Farmelo has just published the 576-page Churchill’s Bomb: A Hidden History of Science,War and Politics, sparklingly reviewed in The Guardian by Churchill Fellow Piers Brendon (21 September 2013). In this issue of the Review, Professor David Reynolds, Fellow of Christ’s and a stalwart of our Archives Committee, writes a compelling run-down of recent works on Churchill, while our main feature, by recent Archives By-Fellow Warren Dockter, gives a detailed account of a side of Churchill that will be new to many: his approach to Islam. We end the section, as last year, with photographs of Floral Churchill taken by our Maintenance Manager Gavin Bateman.

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From our Overseas Fellows Evolutionary ecology and wild populations My profession as an evolutionary biologist leads me, when not in front of a computer crunching numbers, to climb ladders and mountains in often wonderful landscapes, with the main aim of observing, capturing and ringing birds of various species. Most importantly, I undertake this repeatedly every year in the same study sites in order to maximise chances to observe the same birds, and their descendants, over time. Expressed in this way, my job description does not sound very serious or scientific. Yet in fact, the collection of data on birds in the wild, initiated by field ornithologists such as Huijbert Kluijver (1902/3-1977 – no-one, it appears, knows his true birth year) or David Lack (1910-1973) in the late 1940s has allowed, in the past two decades, some fundamental progress in our understanding of animal ecology and evolution.

As much as I usually dread the frequent social question “What is the use of your research?�, I decided to contribute this piece as a tribute to the many British people who have collected data for what are probably the best informed individual-based datasets in the world. I hope to convince my readers here of the great scientific value of studies recording life-histories of birds in the long term. This will hopefully serve as a token of my appreciation for a wonderful, peaceful and productive stay in Churchill College in 2012-2013, which contributed to putting together an edited book on Quantitative Genetics in the Wild (now in press with Oxford University Press).

An individual-based monitoring in a wild population consists of marking every individual that can be captured with a unique identifier, usually a leg-ring in the case of birds, and then recording morphology, behaviour and life-history events (for example date and place of birth, age at first reproduction, reproductive events, death) until the animal can no longer be seen, or is dead. Initially, such records were used to study population dynamics and demography, using mean population estimates to understand processes such as density-dependent regulation. However, the great value of these long-term datasets currently lies in the detailed individual information which allows us to investigate the origin of variation between individuals in a host of measured characteristics. Studying this variation, and in particular disentangling its environmental and genetic origins, can contribute to answering a very diverse set of questions in evolutionary ecology.

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What are the causes and consequences of behavioural differences between individuals? How important are maternal effects to determine the phenotype of their offspring? (A phenotype is an observable characteristic of an organism, resulting from both genetic and environmental influences.) How are traits correlated and does that affect their potential evolution? Why do animals senesce (or age), and why is senescence rate different across individuals? How do organisms cope with brutal environmental change such as global warming? How do extravagant ornaments evolve in males?

My research as an evolutionary biologist centres on these issues. I will now consider two of the above questions and provide examples to illustrate how analysing avian long-term data can contribute to answering them.

How do organisms cope with brutal environmental change such as global warming?

One of the greatest challenges faced by mankind over the next decades is to understand and predict the consequences of global change on the world around us. The increasing human population and the expansion of its activities are causing environments to change at unprecedented rates, affecting biodiversity to such an extent that we are actually facing a sixth mass extinction. In order to mitigate these effects and allow natural populations of plants and animals to adapt, we need to contruct prospective scenarios of biodiversity trajectories.

In these scenarios, populations can respond in four ways to a drastic change in the environment such as global warming: (1) they can decline and maybe become extinct; (2) individuals can disperse to a more favourable environment; (3) they can display plasticity, that is, each individual will adjust its behaviour to adjust to the new environment; or (4) the population can evolve: that is, selection pressures can lead to a change in the genetic composition of the population, thereby allowing adaptation to the novel conditions experienced.

Elucidating which processes are occurring in natural populations is an essential step in predicting whether (and at what pace) these populations will adapt to the drastic global changes we are presently experiencing.

For almost a decade now, I have been working on birds of the tit family in France and the UK to address this question. Across Europe, these populations have shown a dramatic advance in their timing of reproduction. Tits have become a model species to study changes in phenology (the timing of events in an organism’s life) across their range, because they breed readily in nesting boxes,

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and can therefore be easily studied in a range of habitats and countries. Great tits (Parus major) studied in Wytham Woods (Oxfordshire) since 1947 have shown a fourteen-day advance in their timing of laying in the last half-century. This advance in their phenology has allowed the great tits to adjust the chicks’ food demand to the food abundance in the forest, since their main prey, caterpillars, have also shown a fourteen-day advance in phenology over the same period. In this case-study, we used the long-term records on great tits to understand the origin of this phenological advance. Statistical analyses of more than 10,000 reproductive events recorded in Wytham Woods shows that the change is due to strong individual plasticity rather than evolutionary adaptation of the population. This means that each individual female has the capacity to adjust her breeding time to the phenology of the forest every year, based on cues that she collects in early spring. More recent research conducted in great tits and blue tits across different study populations of Europe shows that this plastic capacity is variable across space, and that some populations of the same species do not succeed in tracking the changes induced by global warming. Elucidating the origin of these diverse responses will contribute to predicting which populations of birds are more at risk of decline when facing climate change.

Why do animals senesce, and why is senescence rate different across individuals?

In many animal species, old individuals show a senescent decline in their reproductive performance, or an increase in their probability of dying. In some species, very old individuals even stop reproducing altogether. From an evolutionary viewpoint, senescence is difficult to explain, because natural selection favours individuals with the highest reproduction and survival capacities. Using individual records on mute swans (Cygnus olor) collected in Dorset since the late 1960s, we tested the Antagonistic Pleiotropy theory of ageing, which posits that the loss of performance in late age is a consequence of early investment in reproduction. The repeated records on the Abbotsbury birds showed that the age at first reproduction for a mute swan could vary considerably (from two to twelve years old), similarly to the age at last reproduction (from two to twenty years old). More crucially, birds that started breeding at an early age stopped reproducing earlier than the late-starters. One key aspect in this study of swans was that the long-term pedigree allowed us to show that the link between the age of start of reproduction and the age of final reproduction was actually genetic, thereby confirming a true evolutionary

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trade-off. Such theories are more classically tested in laboratory conditions on model species, yet these conditions can be too beneficial (for example ad libitum food) to reveal trade-offs. For this reason, it is fundamental to measure senescence in natural populations, although this is very demanding in terms of field effort over a long period.

My stay in Churchill College as an Overseas Fellow gave me the time and space to gather ideas and perspectives on our efforts in collecting data on marked individuals in wild populations of animals, and to reflect upon the immense contribution of such efforts to our understanding of fundamental processes in evolutionary ecology. This work has, as I said earlier, led to a published book entitled Quantitative Genetics in the Wild, to appear in the spring of 2014. My gratitude goes to the whole College staff who offered me an unforgettable happy interlude in my early career.

Anne Charmantier Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Montpellier, France

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The Role of Humanities and Social Sciences in Engineering Education Engineering is the application of natural science and mathematics by which properties of matter and sources of energy are made useful to people. With this brief working definition, how does the following sound for the ideal attributes of an engineer?

An engineer: • raises vital questions and problems, formulating them clearly and precisely; • gathers and assesses relevant information, using abstract ideas to interpret it effectively, and comes to well-reasoned conclusions and solutions, testing them against relevant criteria and standards; • thinks open-mindedly within alternative systems of thought, recognising and assessing, as need be, their assumptions, implications, and practical consequences; • communicates effectively with others in figuring out solutions to complex problems These certainly are ideal attributes for an engineer but are actually attributes of a critical thinker.1 Traditional engineering education emphasises mathematics and natural sciences, but the role of humanities and social sciences in engineering is not well understood and appreciated by many students and faculty staff. At the core of liberal learning, that is, learning that implies free and broad inquiry with intellectual discipline, are humanities and social sciences along with mathematics and natural science. The humanities include subjects such as art, history and literature while social science includes subjects such as economics, political science, sociology and psychology. For an engineering student educated predominantly in areas of maths, science and engineering, the vital questions become maths, science and engineering questions. The relevant information to be gathered becomes maths, science and engineering data.

Having been trained in the methods of solving engineering problems, the engineer may not think open-mindedly about the alternatives but rather the

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engineer’s thinking may be constrained by his or her education predominantly in mathematics and natural sciences. Alternatively, an engineer whose education includes substantial grounding in humanities and social sciences is likely to recognise the impact of the engineering decisions not only upon the more narrowly framed maths, science and engineering questions but upon the more broadly framed questions informed by social sciences and the humanities.

Take, for example, the issue of sustainability. Leadership in sustainability is arguably in the domain of engineers. One model of sustainability, termed the triple bottom line, is illustrated in Figure 1. Notice this model requires an equal balance of environmental, economic and social impacts. Does the current curriculum of an engineering student prepare that student to ask and answer the appropriate questions with regard to environmental, economic and social impacts?

Figure 1: Sustainability2 Humanities and social sciences are a valuable part of a balanced educational experience because they contribute to understanding the context of problems and development of skills in critical thinking. Engineers need to consider the context of problems as they design solutions, and so the quality of solutions depends in part on the richness of the engineer’s understanding of context. An engineer’s thinking must be systematic and guided by analysis and assessment of relevant information.

The public distinguishes a professional from a technician by the professional’s well-understood ethic of service to and value by society. Professional engineering therefore implies grounding in appropriate knowledge-bases including maths, natural sciences, engineering sciences, humanities and social

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sciences, as well as refinement through practice. This concept of a professional is broadly shared among other professions such as law and medicine. The education needed to produce a professional engineer is graphically represented in Figure 2. This graphic attempts to capture this central idea that engineering education must include technical depth and breadth that is built on the foundations of mathematics, natural sciences, humanities and social sciences.

Figure 2: Educational Foundations for Engineers3 (Evans et al. 2007) The twentieth century has seen a major expansion in the maths and science components of a student’s engineering education. This is expected when considering the enormous changes in science and technology of the last 100 years or so. Consider how the education requirements (US data) for various professions have changed over time as shown in Figure 3.The disturbing fact is that, over 100 years ago, four years of university education were required for a degree in engineering and that has held constant. The lack of change in education level is particularly noticeable in comparison with other professions such as law, medicine and architecture.

Figure 3. Educational requirements to enter a profession4

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So what is an engineering educator to do? In the US, the American Society of Civil Engineers is working with the professional boards of licensure to “raise the bar” by effecting a change in educational requirements from the current four-year engineering degree (baccalaureate) to require also a master’s degree (or equivalent). The concept is that the first four years would provide a broad foundation in mathematics, natural sciences, humanities, social sciences and engineering sciences and the additional education would be to provide the necessary technical depth.

Obviously, the best engineers are life-long learners and those from the best universities will be successful (because of or in spite of their education).

However, there is a wide variety of institutions providing engineering education to a wide variety of students and it is incumbent upon educators to produce engineers well equipped to serve society in the twenty-first century.

The ability to function as a professional engineer requires broad educational preparation if problems are to be properly identified and solved, and solutions evaluated and accepted, by society. An engineer cannot be aloof from the people that he or she serves; nor from the social context in which engineering needs are expressed and works must function. Currently, undergraduate engineering education is strongly grounded in math and science in support of engineering and professional studies.These two components of an engineer’s education are only part of the four components of liberal learning that also includes humanities and social sciences. In order to serve society effectively, engineers must embrace an engineering education that is strongly grounded in humanities and social sciences as well as mathematics and natural sciences. Churchill College, with its balance of mathematicians, scientists, engineers, humanists and social scientists is well positioned to provide its students with the necessary broad education and perspective. As the website notes about Churchill College:“While it focuses especially on science, engineering and technology, its teaching and research also reflect the intense interest in the arts and humanities of Sir Winston himself, whose own Nobel Prize was for literature.”

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Illinois who co-authored a paper with me on this topic that served as a basis for the post-prandial presentation and Review write-up.

Jeffrey C. Evans Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania 1 From Richard Paul and Linda Elder, The Miniature Guide to Critical Thinking Concepts and Tools, Foundation for Critical Thinking Press, 2008 via Criticalthinking.org.

2 Evans, J. C., Oswald, M. R., Daniyarov, A. S., and Kulish, C. A. (2013), “Using Innovative Topics to Attract Future Engineers: Liquefaction and Sustainability Modules for Engineering Camp”, Proceedings of the 2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Atlanta, GA, June 23-26, 2013.

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Evans, J. C. and Lynch, D. and Lange, D., “The Role of Humanities and Social Sciences in the Civil Engineering Body of Knowledge”, Proceedings of the 2007 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Honolulu, Hawaii, June 24-27, 2007.

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Russell, J.S., Stouffer, B., and Walesh, S.G. (2001), “Business Case for the Master’s Degree:The Financial Side of the Equation”, Civil Engineering Education Issues 2001, Hancher, D.E. (ed.), ASCE Press: Reston,VA, 49-58.

My Career since Churchill Making a Difference I was one of the first women admitted to Churchill in 1972, coming up from the newly opened City of Stoke-on-Trent Sixth Form College. After two years, I changed from being an arty Classicist with a love of Latin poetry to an Experimental Psychologist with a degree in Natural Sciences. Churchill gave me the opportunity, and the quiet support, to rethink where I wanted to go in my life. I got extra tuition to help me understand the scientific approach, and this has formed the basis for my working life subsequently.

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After gaining experience by doing odd jobs, like working in a therapeutic community, researching disruptive behaviour in schools and working on an adventure playground, I trained as a Clinical Psychologist in the early 1980s, in the South East Thames region. On qualifying, I moved to Sheffield and I have lived in the city and worked in the NHS ever since. What I enjoy about the job is the opportunity to apply psychological theory in practice, to try to make a difference in people’s lives.

I’ve specialised in working with people with learning disabilities who also have mental health problems, or whose behaviour challenges services. I developed the first clinical practice guidelines on this topic for publication by the British Psychological Society in 2004, reviewing the literature systematically and describing effective assessment, psychological formulation and interventions.

My current job as a Consultant Clinical Psychologist is Clinical Director for the Learning Disability Service in Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS Foundation Trust.This means I have the role of leading, managing and developing the service as well as working clinically. For me this is the best of both worlds: it is always varied and there is always a new challenge and something new to learn.

Outside work I’ve raised two children, Patrick and Hannah.We live near the centre of Sheffield, and I’m still a governor at the comprehensive school they attended.

Tina Ball (U72, Classics and Natural Sciences)

Business and Intellectual Challenges – and University Challenge I left Churchill in 1973, to go off to the University of Guelph, Canada, for a postgraduate diploma at Ontario Veterinary College.The students clearly knew about my lack of sportiness (I’d made it to Churchill’s 2nd Bridge Four), since they persuaded me to be ice-hockey goalie in their practice team, a task for which I was ill-suited and probably provided more laughs than they’d had for years. Four years in vet practice in the UK convinced me that catching excitable cows, squeezing dogs’ anal glands and neutering tomcats was not the life for me, despite becoming the tortoise and goat specialist for one practice. A friend offered me a job in the Animal Health industry, where my Cambridge-nurtured brain flourished for eight years, not in research but in vet product technical

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support, planning and managing field trials, dealing with data and regulatory authorities, toning down the wilder assertions of the PR and publicity agents and representing the company at conferences, ending as a Director at the UK company and coordinator of European vet pharmaceuticals development. This was all a tremendous confidence- and skills-building experience and set the scene for a fascination with how bench research innovations become real-life products, and all the stages from understanding markets to grappling with intellectual property issues that go into the innovation chain. After a short time in BTG (British Technology Group), when it was still responsible for commercialising the UK’s publicly-funded research discoveries, and an even shorter time in a general technology consultancy not far away from here, I set up my own bioscience innovation consultancy, BioBridge, in Cambridge.

April 1st 2014 marks the twenty-fifth birthday of BioBridge. In that time, we have worked for companies, universities and governments on strategic and practical projects, often at the very leading edge of new exploitation possibilities for biosciences, from biotechnology for animal and food-crop production, through bioartificial organs and tissue engineering, to the more recent activities in biotechnology for industrial applications – ‘green’ chemistry, bioenergy, bioremediation, etc. – and making use of marine bioresources. The analytical and synthetical skills Cambridge taught me have been invaluable. Based in Cambridge and working from home, I have what I consider an excellent and enviable work-life balance, without neglecting real opportunities for intellectually stimulating and absorbing work that has tangible benefits for my clients. I’ve developed a network across the different areas of interest of well over 100 associates with whom I can form teams for projects too large or complex for me to handle on my own, such as the Global Benchmarking Survey we did recently for the International Animal Health Federation; my work and involvement in conferences and workshops takes me round the world, most recently to Canada, Belgium, Germany, Norway, Austria, Ireland, and soon to Brussels for the European Forum for Industrial Biotechnology in September, where I have organised a workshop on marine biotechnology and new medicines. It’s not all consultancy: I was the local organiser for Japan 2001, a large-scale science, arts and mutual-understanding festival; I get the chance to mentor and advise entrepreneurial students through several of Cambridge’s schemes (CUE, CfEL and others); in 2011, I was the Inaugural Policy and Enterprise Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies, Durham University, contributing to the Biofuels, Science and Society Theme, and took up an invitation to the SCR at

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St Mary’s College, which hosted me during the fellowship term, a relationship I treasure; and recently David Jenkins and I have started an informal Churchillians lunch group, meeting every couple of months at the Hawks’ Club and other places in Cambridge. [Ed.: See above, The College Year.] I’ve even been accepted as a volunteer horticulturalist at the University Botanic Garden, working half a day a week with the team in the Alpine and Woodlands section. My next task is to don waders and help dredge out the streams and ponds – a good but odorous change from re-potting and propagating! Who knows what the next twenty-five years may bring? I do know, however, that the grounding at Churchill and in Cambridge has generated the capacity for hard work, the sociability and the resilience and flexibility to seek intellectual challenge that will hopefully carry me through to my nineties! **** As some of our readers know, in 1970 Meredith led the winning Churchill team for University Challenge. Here he gives us an account of those exciting days and of their follow-up in 2002.

The University Challenge team from 1970, with (left to right) Malcolm Keay, Gareth Aicken, presenter Bamber Gascoigne, John Armytage and Meredith Lloyd-Evans. Bamber is holding the sculpture by Arthur Dooley which was the series prize and is now in the Buttery.

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We didn’t go into University Challenge thinking we would win, more with a “cando” enthusiasm. Our strengths were complementary and we split the gaps between us – I remember reading Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase and Fable more or less cover-to-cover. The finals, best-of-three, were nail-biting – I’d been flown up from Cambridge in a 4-seater plane after re-sitting my Pharmacology exam at Senate House, not having eaten at all that day, and was given a double Bloody Mary on arrival by Douglas Terry, the producer at Granada’s studios in Manchester, on the strength of the tomato-juice content being food. The vodka blew away my performance in the first game! By game 2 we were on form again; but game 3 was neck-and-neck with Christ’s until the very end, when we were all so nervous I couldn’t remember the common name of the plover, ‘peewit’, and Christ’s forgot the cities of the Hanseatic League.We were just ahead at the end.

I still have some strong memories of the series. Granada say they lost the films, and I always wonder if anyone has videos of any of the matches we were in – it would be great to relive those moments and be alarmed by the clothes Granada put me in, including a gold lamé see-through shirt , which I recall was not very nice on my nipples (though the purple Paisley shirt I wore for the finals was my own, made by my Mum). Our efforts brought £640 into the College JCR funds, a huge sum in 1970, which the committee was determined to spend on arming rebels in Mozambique until a rebellion in the Wolfson Hall forced them to spend it closer to home, on facilities for schools, children’s playgrounds and other items.

When University Challenge Reunited came round in 2002, we played Fitzwilliam College, the 1973 champions. I found I could still get into my Paisley shirt and took it with me to wear, though my wife had said she’d divorce me if I wore it on-camera – Jeremy Paxman was very surprised to see her walking towards me with her wedding ring in her hand! The biggest difference between 1970 and 2002 was that, back then, I pressed the buzzer if there was the slightest inkling I might know the answer, and relied on my brain to pull it out – in 2002 I waited until I was absolutely sure, and that was microseconds too long. We were very evenly matched against Fitz, losing by only a few points and holding them off from going to the next round, which was a minor triumph in the end, to add to the fun we had had.

Meredith Lloyd-Evans (U&G67, Medical Sciences (Veterinary Medicine) and History of Art)

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Winston Churchill: New Perspectives Booking Winston Of the books about Winston Churchill there is no end. Nor any sign of the beginning of the end, or even the end of the beginning. The protean figure who has given his name to this College will be the subject of fascinated debate for years to come. Biographies continue to appear aplenty and Finest Years: Churchill as Warlord, 1940-45 by Sir Max Hastings (Harper, 2009) is one of the best. Combining a journalist’s eye for the revealing story with broad historical sweep, Hastings tells Churchill’s war via “the impression he made on others – generals, soldiers, citizens, Americans and Russians” in pacey, readable prose.

Finest Years is a work of skilful synthesis. By contrast Christopher M. Bell in Churchill and Sea Power (Oxford University Press, 2013) mines the archives.

Following in the path pioneered by Captain Stephen Roskill, founder of the Churchill Archives Centre, Professor Bell traces the whole of Churchill’s long engagement with the navy, from his time as First Lord of the Admiralty before the Great War, through the great conflicts of 1939-45 to his final battles against Roskill and other naval historians to ensure the favourable verdict of history.

Although a detailed academic study, Bell’s book offers much stimulating analysis – for instance on whether Churchill’s backing for the strategic bombing of Germany weakened vital air support in the Battle of the Atlantic.

In recent years Churchill the writer has attracted attention. My own study In Command of History: Churchill Fighting and Writing the Second World War (Penguin, 2004) explored the composition and impact of his formidable six volumes of war memoirs. Recently Professor Peter Clarke in Mr Churchill’s Profession: Statesman, Orator,Writer (Bloomsbury, 2012) has looked at how Churchill made his living from writing and especially how he wrote and re-wrote his History of the English-Speaking Peoples over a period of two tumultuous decades from the mid-1930s. In an erudite and witty study, Clarke interweaves the literary story with an account of the rise and fall of the “English-speaking” ideology during Winston’s lifetime.

Churchill as wordsmith is also the subject of The Roar of the Lion:The Untold Story of Churchill’s World War Two Speeches (Oxford University Press, 2013) by Professor Richard Toye. He takes on national mythology about Churchill’s wartime speeches galvanising and unifying the nation, offering a more nuanced picture of popular

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reactions and also reflecting on both the power and the limits of rhetoric. Style was no substitute for content and Toye shows how Churchill’s generally shrewd and honest portrayal of the war was central to his success as a speechmaker.

Like other recent historians of the Second World War, Richard Toye also probes perhaps the most cherished British “myth” about those years – that the nation was as one in a common cause. In fact Churchill faced plenty of criticism and, despite his autocratic tendencies, he took pains to address it in Parliament.

British people in 1939-45 had many views about what the war was about and what the peace should achieve. As Toye says, “heterogeneity and heterodoxy were not signs of societal weakness” – on the contrary they were precisely what the country was fighting for against Nazidom. One might even say that, paradoxically, the greatest tribute to Churchill’s success as a democratic war leader was being kicked out of Number 10 in 1945.

David Reynolds Professor David Reynolds (Christ’s College) is a member of the Churchill Archives Committee. His latest book is The Long Shadow: The Great War and the Twentieth Century (Simon & Schuster, 2013).

“Men of a Martial Nature”: Winston Churchill and British Indian Muslims As an early-career historian, I was honoured by Allen Packwood’s and Laurence Sanders’s invitation to give a talk sponsored by the Archives Centre and the Churchill College History Society. While much of my research during my ByFellowship has focused on the role Jock Colville played as Private Secretary during Churchill’s last government (1951-1955), the majority of the research I have undertaken in the Archives has concerned aspects of Winston Churchill’s relationship with the Islamic world.This topic has been a delightful and rewarding one, often illustrating sides of the great man’s thinking which have rarely been glimpsed, particularly regarding his associations with Muslims in British India.

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Winston Churchill’s tumultuous relationship with India is typically seen in the context of his campaign to deny increased autonomy and independence to India during the 1930s. Many historians have linked Churchill’s resistance to Indian Independence and the India Act of 1935 to his romantic, Victorian conception of the British Empire, allowing his belief in the “civilising effects of British rule” to serve as his primary, if only, motivation for opposing Indian home rule.While Churchill’s romantic view of the British Empire undoubtedly played a role in his motivation to keep India within this Empire, taken alone it does not sufficiently explain what motivated him to undertake such a politically ruinous stance. Despite this, the standard narrative tends to engage with Churchill’s relationship with India by depicting a fiercely imperialist Churchill whose policy “rested on the simple concept that British power in India must be preserved without qualifications” against the meek and well-intentioned Mahatma Gandhi, whose policy of ahimsa (non-violence) helped make Churchill seem even more fanatically imperialist. This approach is problematic, however, because it is predicated on the notion that Churchill understood British India only in an aesthetic way, as a static and monolithic extension of the Empire, and that he was so convinced of this view of British India that he was willing to marginalise himself politically. Furthermore, often portraying Churchill as a hater of all Indians, this approach ignores important considerations regarding Churchill’s view of minorities in India, especially India’s Muslims.

Churchill’s relationship with India’s Muslims is far more complex than the traditional narrative indicates. Far from lumping all of India’s groups together as non-differential imperial subjects, Churchill distinguished between the different ethnic and religious communities of India. Like most of his contemporaries, Churchill often separated India’s groups into Muslims, Hindus, and the depressed classes (those of tribal origins or lower Hindu castes); and like many of his contemporaries, Churchill typically favoured the Muslims due to their status as a “martial race”. This was a recurring theme throughout Churchill’s speeches during the 1930s when he referred to Muslims as “men of martial nature”, members of a “fighting race”. It was most obvious in a speech at the Albert Hall on 18 March 1931 when Churchill declared,“While the Hindu elaborates his argument, the Moslem sharpens his sword.” Moreover, Churchill held on to this idea of courageous and loyal Muslim soldiers through World War I and after. In his note on “the importance of fair dealings with Moslems of India”, he recalled that: “During the Great War the Moslems of India

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Churchill playing polo with Muslim players confounded the hopes of their disloyalty entertained by the Germans and their Turkish ally and readily went to the colours; the Punjab alone furnished 180,000 Moslem recruits.� Clearly, he was impressed with what he saw as Muslim Indians’ martial nature, but more importantly by their loyalty. However, for Churchill this notion of respect for Muslims went far deeper than a Victorian belief in shared warrior respect and would eventually help form parts of his

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Churchill and Feroz Khan Noon thinking on Indian Independence and later the creation of Pakistan. The evolution of Churchill’s thinking about Indian Muslims can best be understood by examining four elements which coalesced to form the basis for his relationship with them.

The first of these elements was the strange combination of Churchill’s Victorian education and self-education while he was in India. Many of Churchill’s early letters back to Britain reveal that he went to India with the prejudices of a Victorian education firmly intact. However, as he began to digest Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire and Winwood Reade’s The Martyrdom of Man, Churchill’s thinking became increasingly influenced by atheism and Darwinian notions of survival. In a letter home to his old headmaster at Harrow, J. E. C. Welldon, Churchill explained the futility of Christian missions to India because “the Asiatic derives more real benefit from the perfect knowledge of his religion than from partial comprehension of Christianity”. For Churchill, Christianity, Judaism, Islam and Buddhism all served the function of civilising the regions in which they were practised and each religion best served this purpose in its particular region. However, traces of Churchill’s Victorian education remained visible. For instance, it is notable that each of these “civilising” religions (in Churchill’s estimation) was monotheistic. In Churchill’s mind, the shared

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traditions of Christianity, Judaism and Islam helped reinforce the notion that the Indian Muslims were somehow more civilised than their Hindu counterparts because of Hinduism’s polytheistic nature. This amalgam of Victorian education and self-education created a mindset for Churchill in which all monotheistic religions were culturally valuable and polytheistic ones were remnants from a bygone era.

The second element which formed the basis of Churchill’s relationship with Indian Muslims was his relationship with his father, Lord Randolph Churchill.

Lord Randolph was relatively progressive as Secretary of State for the India Office, and he even worked for a time with the political radical Wilfrid S. Blunt (who would later befriend Winston) to represent the Indian Muslim population better. After a trip to India in 1883, Blunt encouraged Lord Randolph “to make himself, in Parliament, the champion of Islam”. Moreover, the influence of Lord Randolph Churchill on his son has been explored and confirmed by a large number of historians; Churchill himself even said that he had taken his politics “almost unquestioningly from his father”. In fact, one of Churchill’s favourite quotations was from his father, to the effect that British rule in India was “a sheet of oil spread over, and keeping free from storms, a vast and profound ocean of humanity”.

The third element of the basis for this relationship between Churchill and Indian Muslims rests on Churchill’s view of the Ottoman Empire, because the Ottoman Sultan served as the Caliph of Islam. Therefore, Churchill (along with many nineteenth-century Conservatives) believed that maintaining good relations with the Ottoman Empire was tantamount to maintaining peace in India among the Muslim population. For this reason, Churchill took a very positive view of the Ottoman Empire. He threatened to fight for it in the Greco-Turkish war of 1897, and lobbied the Cabinet for an Anglo-Ottoman alliance on its behalf prior to the First World War on the grounds that the two largest “Mohammedan powers in the world” would make good allies.

The fourth and most important element of Churchill’s relationship with Indian Muslims was his experiences on the North West frontier when he was stationed in India. While Churchill privately questioned the wisdom of the forward policy that brought him there in the first place, he wrote home of the bravery and skill of many Muslims and Sheiks in the 11th Bengal Lancers, the

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35th Sikhs and the 31st Punjabi Infantry. According to military historian Douglas Russell, Churchill’s “letters and writings never refer to those on the same side as the British forces with disrespect and are almost completely devoid of racial epitaphs and common slang”. Churchill later recorded his thoughts in his My Early Life: A Roving Commission: “Although I could not enter fully into their thoughts and feelings, I developed a regard for the Punjabis [...] If you grinned, they grinned. So I grinned industrially”. These feelings of camaraderie were not limited just to the battlefield. Churchill also praised the skill and tenacity of native Muslim and Sikh Polo players. In a letter of 12 November 1896, Churchill told his mother that he would send pictures of the event and that she would be able to see him “fiercely struggling with turbaned warriors”. The “turbaned warriors”, Churchill later recalled, were the “famous Golconda Brigade, the bodyguards of the Nizam himself”. Underlining the importance of sport for Churchill’s experience, he argued that natives should be eligible for the Victoria Cross because “in sport, in courage, and in the sight of heaven, all men meet on equal terms”. It is also remarkable that Churchill’s praise and respect found its way to his enemies on the North West frontier. Churchill recalled that the tribes on the North West Frontier were “a brave and warlike race […] Nor should it be forgotten that the English are essentially a warlike people”. And: “It would be unjust to deny the people of the Mohmand Valley the reputation for courage, tactical skill, and marksmanship which they have so well deserved.”

These elements can be seen coalescing in Churchill’s early writings on the North West frontier. While aspects of the evolution of Churchill’s thought on Indian Muslims can be traced in his field reports in the Pioneer and the Daily Telegraph and in his first book, The Story of the Malakand Field Force (1898), this evolution was most clearly evident in his article for Military Review “The Ethics of Frontier Policy”. In this article, Churchill, still firmly clutching on to British imperialism as a civilising force, argued for a sort of proto-version of “winning hearts and minds”: “The wise policy would, therefore, seem to be confined to securing lines of approach, by training the local tribesmen, constructing strong posts, and building roads and railways […] to gradually expose the frontier tribes, by development of trade and a system of subsidies, to the softening, enervating influences of civilisation”.

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seize on ideas and relationships that reinforced these foundations. For example, he was heavily influenced by Katherine Mayo’s book Mother India (1930), which historian Richard Toye has described as having “a profound anti-Hindu bias”, and which concluded that mounting divisions and aggravations between Muslims and Hindus would end in a cataclysmic civil war and that the British presence in India was all that prevented such a catastrophe. However, the most important alliances which would help shape Churchill’s defence of British rule in India were his various friendships with prominent Muslims such as the Aga Khan, Baron Headley (president of the British Muslim Society), Waris Ameer Ali (a London judge), Feroz Khan Noon (a future Prime Minister of Pakistan) and even M.A. Jinnah – the so-called “father of Pakistan”.

While the Aga Khan and Baron Headley connected Churchill to important proIslamic groups such as the British Muslim Society, the greatest influence on Churchill’s thinking regarding the Muslim population of India was probably Waris Ali.Waris Ali and Churchill became good friends whose correspondence lasted into the post-war years, and they worked closely together on the Indian Empire Society, which later became a part of the Indian Defence League.Waris Ali used his connections in India to keep Churchill informed of Muslim opinion on the ground in India, and continually sent Churchill information which Churchill would then use in the House of Commons as evidence of the necessity of British rule. For instance, on 12 April 1931, Waris Ali wrote to Churchill regarding the Cawnpore Massacre saying that the Cawnpore riots were a “well thought-out […] programme for […] the terrorisation of the Muslim minority into submission and surrender of their demand for effective safeguards in the future constitution of India”. Within a month Churchill addressed an audience in Kent thus: “Look at what happened at Cawnpore […] A hideous primordial massacre has been perpetrated by the Hindus on the Moslems because the Moslems refused to join in the glorification of the murder of a British policeman.” Furthermore, the aspects of Churchill’s position which might be characterised as concern for the Muslim minority were informed by Ali and were evident in his portrayal of the Indian Congress Party, of which he later said that it “does not represent India. It does not represent the majority of people in India. It does not even represent the Hindu masses. Outside that Party and fundamentally opposed to it are 90 million Moslems in British India who have their rights to self-expression.” Churchill himself implied that Waris Ali had influenced his position, saying to Ali that he had “availed himself fully of [his

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letters and articles]” and that he planned “to recur to him” if he needed more help in Parliament.

Despite these relationships, enough evidence remains from the traditional narrative to argue that not everything Churchill said about Muslims should be taken at face value, and that he picked up the banner of minority rights for the Muslim community only when it suited him politically. For instance, Churchill’s disparaging comments about Islam in his book The River War (1899), and the fact that he confessed to the War Cabinet in 1940 that he “regarded the HinduMoslem feud as the bulwark of British rule in India”, indicate that there was certainly more to Churchill’s views of Muslims, especially those of India, than an altruistic spirit. For it is no secret that Churchill was a shrewd politician and a cunning strategist. But it would be a mistake to argue that minority rights for the Muslim community did not enter into the ethical equation for Churchill.

After all, he still clung on to his belief that the British Empire was a civilising force which brought benefits to those it ruled. It is remarkable that Churchill dropped his line of criticism of Islam in the second edition of The River War and sought to help Jinnah establish Pakistan after the Second World War. Churchill’s position on Indian Independence was, then, not just an abstract concept of romantic imperialism, nor merely a cunning geopolitical strategy, nor even solely about civil rights and justice for Muslim minorities in India.

Rather, it was a combination of all three. In Churchill’s mind, the Empire’s role as a civilising entity would be reinforced by protecting the Muslims’ minority rights, and that, he thought, could be done only under British authority, which Churchill believed acted much as his father had said: a sheet of oil calming the water of a vast and profound ocean of humanity.

Warren Dockter Junior Research Fellow, Clare Hall, Cambridge

Photographs are from the Broadwater Collection, reproduced by kind permission of the estate of Winston Churchill, courtesy of Curtis Brown, London.

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Condolences The College extends deep sympathies to the families and friends of the following: Professor Wendell S Williams (Visiting Scholar 1966), who died on 20 November 2010 Professor Dr Willem Albert Wagenaar (Overseas Fellow 1991), who died on 27 April 2011 Mr Chi-Bin Chien (G81), who died on 2 December 2011 Professor Jonathan Bareham (U64), who died in 2012 Dr Thomas Rex Sweatman (G66), who died on 22 March 2012 Professor Maria Petrou (G76), who died on 15 October 2012 Dr Sean Barrett (U&G95), who died on 18 October 2012 Professor Hendrik Gerard van Bueren (By-Fellow 1975), who died on 21 October 2012 Professor Jacques Barzun (Past Fellow 1963), who died on 25 October 2012 Professor David Olive ( Junior Research Fellow 1964, Fellow 1965-71), who died on 7 November 2012; see following appreciation Mr Daniel Bunting (U68), who died on 21 November 2012 Dr Walter Nicholson (G66), who died on 23 November 2012 Professor Erwin Hiebert (Overseas Fellow 1984), who died on 28 November 2012 Mr Timothy Langley (U63), who died on 1 December 2012 Professor Klemens von Klemperer (Overseas Fellow 1973), who died on 23 December 2012

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Mr Anthony Kemmer (U68), who died on 24 December 2012 Mr Christopher Cooper (U87), who died in late 2012 Professor Frank Hahn (Founding Fellow), who died on 29 January 2013; see following appreciations Dr Donald Gibson (G63), who died in February 2013 Professor Anthony Legge (U66), who died on 4 February 2013 Mr Brian Merrony (U61), who died on 15 February 2013 Mr Alan Wilkinson (Schoolmaster Commoner 1963), who died on 6 March 2013 Professor John Gumperz (By-Fellow 1986), who died on 29 March 2013 Baroness Margaret Thatcher (former Prime Minister and donor to the Archives Centre), who died on 8 April 2013 Professor Sir Robert Edwards (Fellow and Nobel Laureate), who died on 10 April 2013; see following poem Mr Ian Gibbons (U&G64), who died on 23 May 2013 Mr David Korn (G08), who died in June 2013 Mr Henning Larsen (Møller Centre Architect), who died on 22 June 2013 Professor Hugh Huxley (Past Fellow 1967), who died on 25 July 2013

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In 2013 funerals were held in the Chapel at Churchill College of two Fellows who died that year: Professor Frank Hahn and Professor Sir Robert Edwards.

Professor Sir Robert Edwards, 1925-2013 Professor Edwards’s achievements were celebrated in the 2011 Churchill Review, following on the award of the Nobel Prize for his pioneering work on in vitro fertilisation.All the national newspapers carried obituaries of him, and Louise Brown, the first “test-tube” baby, attended his funeral.

Bob, a modest and principled man, brought what has been described as “a humane revolution which has changed and fulfilled the lives of millions of people”. We reproduce here a poem written for Bob by Charlotte Professor Sir Robert Edwards Higgins, for a recent conference held in Churchill (15-16 December 2012): “Futures in Reproduction: Celebrating the Award of the 2010 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine to Professor Sir Robert Edwards”. Charlotte is a young poet and writer from Northern Ireland who studies English at Christ’s College. She has been winner of the Poetry Society’s Foyle Young Poet of the Year competition (2010) and of SLAMbassadors (2011); she has performed at numerous venues, including Buckingham Palace and the Southbank Centre (National Poetry Day Live). Charlotte read out her poem at Bob’s funeral.

Five Million Imagine giving a couple who can’t have children the best gift they could ever imagine being given.

Imagine telling them that you can help them have a child and give them all that brings, give them family and hope, the important things — Like perfect tiny hands and eyes that sparkle like cut glass

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and inborn curiosity and soft skin and 3 am cries for bottle feeds and first words you can hear the world in Like the stumbling wonder of first-time steps, growing into their personality, and the babbling hours when they can’t stop talking the first time they come home from nursery Like holding their hand on the first day of school when their smile shines as bright as their shoes do Like the lump in your throat when they head off to uni, half-proud that they no longer need you that way Like the very first date with the partner you know is the one that they’ll end up with some day, and the wedding day snaps as they both cut the cake and your mouth and your eyes and your heart smiled Like the light in their eyes in the hospital room the first time that they show you your grandchild.

Like having a child who is happy and healthy and yours, who is one in a billion – And now imagine telling that to not one couple – but five million.

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Professor Frank Hahn, 1925-2013

Professor Frank Hahn

Frank Hahn, a founding Fellow of Churchill, was a striking presence in College: he could be outspoken, even outrageous, but he was genial, funny, good-hearted and unswervingly dedicated to the ideals of intellectual honesty and the highest academic standards. Colleges need people who are prepared to speak out and ruffle feathers if need be: they make for a healthy and lively community, and Frank was an integral part of what made the young College a thriving body. Frank remained highly sociable into his retirement, fond of good conversation and a good laugh; he is missed in Churchill.

Here are extracts from two internet postings, put up at the time of his death, that give a flavour of Frank the economist and the man: “To evaluate Frank Hahn’s contributions to economics would be to evaluate mid- to late twentiethcentury economics itself. No easy task”. And, from a former supervisee: Frank Hahn was my tutor [supervisor] at Cambridge in the 1960s. Once a week, with one other student, I met with him in his rooms in Churchill College where he critiqued our weekly essay. My co-student was the son of a very wealthy Italian industrialist who drove out to Churchill in his Alfa Romeo. I have three un-erasable memories of these meetings: 1) Dr Hahn’s returning my very first essay with the words “This is without doubt the worst essay I have read in my entire life.” Try doing that today. 2) Whenever he had to use the words rich and poor, his turning to my Italian co-student on the word “rich” and to me on the word “poor”. 3) The two blue airmail letters always on his desk, one addressed to Professor Paul Samuelson, the other to Professor Robert Solow. I don’t know if he wrote to them every day or every week on the day of my tutorial, but this was the high point of the Cambridge Capital battle and Dr Hahn found himself very much in the middle, not the most comfortable place to be.

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Others will review his intellectual achievements, which were deep and wide, but there can be no doubt that the profession has lost one of its greatest characters.

There follow the Times obituary by Professor Ken Binmore, and appreciations of Frank by his close Churchill colleague Professor David Newbery and by Professor Geoff Harcourt.

Professor Frank Hahn Larger-than-life economist whose passing marks the end of an era The passing of Frank Hahn marks the end of an era. In the time of such Cambridge luminaries as Marshall and Keynes, British economists led the world, but the mantle of leadership had passed to America by the 1950s, and Cambridge had become an ineffectual talking shop. However, a new generation of young economists led by Frank Hahn kept the United Kingdom in the running by abandoning the literary style that had been the norm since Adam Smith. Instead, they found their inspiration in the rigorous analysis made possible by the mathematical modelling introduced by American economists like Arrow, Samuelson and Solow. Hahn and his emulators thereby created an intellectual culture in British economic theory that remains dominant to this day.

Hahn’s enduring legacy will be the definitive book General Competitive Analysis that he wrote with the Nobel laureate Ken Arrow. Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations famously explained that we should not look to the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer or the baker for our dinner, but to their regard for their own self-interest. The “invisible hand” of the market then adjusts the prices at which goods are sold until the demand for dinners is efficiently balanced by the supply of meat, beer and bread. Markets in which the invisible hand works as Adam Smith described are said to be perfectly competitive. Arrow’s and Hahn’s book offered a mathematical model of a market that makes it possible, for example, to ask why some markets are perfectly competitive but others are vulnerable to the kinds of “conspiracy against the public” of which Adam Smith warned. It turns out that the necessary requirements for perfect competition are much stronger than is usually appreciated.

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However, it is usually in vain that intellectuals like Hahn protest that the world is more complicated than sound-bite versions of the latest economic enthusiasms allow. He spent much of his later life explaining that mathematical models are only as good as their assumptions. If a mathematical model assumes that markets are complete when it matters that they are incomplete, or that transactions are cheap and instantaneous when it matters that they are long and costly, then the model will obviously be useless. But practical men of business like their worlds to be simple, as we painfully learned yet again in the recent credit-crunch. Even Hahn’s proof that Robert Solow’s famous growth model does not work with more than three goods failed to stem its unconsidered use in guiding developmental policy. Hahn therefore had little direct influence on public policy and perhaps it was as well that he had no such ambition. He must be remembered as an Alfred Marshall rather than a John Maynard Keynes.

Hahn was born in 1925 of Czech parents in Berlin. The family relocated to Prague in 1934 and again to London in 1938. His schooling in England left him with a deep admiration for everything English, but he never managed to suppress the middle-European exuberance that he must have learned from his parents and the intellectual circle that attended their salons in pre-war Prague.

The result was a larger-than-life character, whose robust sense of humour was disconcertingly expressed in the manner of a traditional English gentleman.

Americans were sometimes struck dumb by his manner, and his colleagues grew accustomed to being regaled with an assortment of esprits d’escalier when travelling in his wake.

Hahn wrote his thesis in 1951 with Kaldor and then Robbins at the London School of Economics (LSE) in the time of Coase and Hayek. He came into his own when appointed to a Lectureship at the University of Birmingham, where he formed a lifelong friendship and alliance with the equally brilliant but wholly unworldly Terence Gorman. It was while on leave from Birmingham in 1956 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) that he was fully converted to the new movement in mathematical economics.

He was appointed to a Chair in Economics at LSE in 1967. Gorman having been appointed to a parallel chair in what was by now the focal institution in British economics, they set about changing the face of their subject, not only by bringing

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the new wave of ideas to their students, but by filling them with the same enthusiasm and vigour that they felt themselves.There can be few senior British economists who owe no intellectual debt to either Hahn or Gorman during this period.

Eventually, Gorman was called to Oxford and Hahn to Cambridge, where his talents were too often dissipated in internal politics of little interest to outsiders, but where he played the grand old man of economic theory with dignity and aplomb, resplendent with numerous honorary degrees and fellowships of foreign academies. The only academic honour that escaped his reach was a Nobel prize.

In the early years of Hahn’s retirement, he luxuriated in a sinecure at the University of Siena, where he added the role of bon viveur to his other accomplishments. In his later years, Hahn returned to his home in Cambridge with his devoted wife Dorothy, herself an economist of no mean ability.

The story of their whirlwind courtship summarises Frank Hahn’s whole attitude to life. On being introduced to Dorothy at some war-time economics event, he fell in love at first sight.When they met the very next day at a Lyon’s Corner House café, he proposed marriage and was accepted on the spot.The resulting marriage was as close as a marriage can be. It was a source of perennial regret that their union was not blessed with children, but it is hard to see how he could have made such a spectacular success of his academic career without her acting as his rod and his staff, both in his private and his public life.

Professor Ken Binmore, FBA

Frank Hahn It is with a great sense of loss that I record the passing of Frank Hahn, who died after a short stay in Addenbrooke’s Hospital on 29 January 2013 at the age of 87. He was an economist of international stature whose attachment to Churchill College was both unstinting and fruitful.With his inspirational intellect, Frank attracted both young economists in Cambridge and the future Nobel laureates from the United States, encouraging and entertaining all around him with constructive attacks on received, sometimes simplistic theory. At the same

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time he was willing to battle other economists both in Cambridge, in Whitehall and around the world for their theoretically illiterate attacks on the beautiful and logically consistent General Equilibrium theory, about which he co-authored a definitive text with the visiting Overseas Fellow and Nobel laureate Kenneth Arrow in their 1971 General Competitive Analysis. Although he bestrode the international stage like a colossus (and was President of that leading theatre the Econometric Society in 1968-69), in Churchill he was a familiar, loveable and provocative presence from its founding in 1960.

Frank Hahn was born on 26 April 1925 in Berlin, Germany: as he puts it, the son of Central Europeans, whose father retained fond memories of the old Austro-Hungarian Emperor. He moved to Prague in 1931 and left for England in 1938. He was educated at Bournemouth Grammar School from the age of 13, for which he retained an abiding enthusiasm, doubtless because it represented freedom after by then Nazi-threatened Czechoslovakia. He became a navigator in the Air Force in the Second World War, and then resumed his interrupted higher education at the London School of Economics, marrying Dorothy Salter in 1946 and obtaining a lectureship at Birmingham in 1948. He was subsequently elected Reader in Mathematical Economics at Birmingham before taking a post as a Lecturer in Economics at Cambridge in 1960, the year that Churchill College was opened and took in its first Fellows.

Frank was a Founding Fellow, Director of Studies and College Lecturer in Economics from his arrival in 1960 until he departed for a chair at the LSE in 1966.The College then elected him to a Title E Fellowship (E for Extraordinary, which certainly fitted Frank perfectly). He returned to a Chair in Economics in Cambridge in 1972, and to a Professorial Fellowship in the College, until his retirement from Cambridge (but not from Siena, to which he moved) in 1992.

He then became an active Title D (pensioner) Fellow and was indeed dining the night he was taken ill.

My first encounter with Frank Hahn was when he lectured to us on mathematical economics as final-year economists in 1964-65, and then as a turbulent young theorist in Keynes’s Political Economy club, presided over by Keynes’s protégé, the Lord Kahn of King’s. Selected undergraduates were invited to that club to hear faculty members present papers, and were then called on for the terrifying task of making intelligent contributions to the debate. Although

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I was not supervised by Frank, he was clearly in touch with Jim Mirrlees and Charles Goodhart, my supervisors at Trinity, for when Francis Cripps (my supervision partner) and I did well in Finals, he persuaded the College to preelect us both directly to teaching Fellowships to replace his teaching when he left for the LSE. Clearly Frank was very persuasive, as I unexpectedly found myself, almost on my twenty-second birthday, called to his house and asked whether I would accept that challenge. I explained that I had taken a two-year ODI Fellowship to the Treasury in Tanzania, but would negotiate with them to reduce it to one year so that I could return to teach and direct studies in October 1966. Francis’s commitment to Thailand meant that he was not able to take up his College Fellowship until the following year. Shortly after the meeting at Frank’s house, I was sitting next to John Cockroft at High Table in Churchill, as Frank made rather loud comments about my future colleagues (I did not then know that they expected such). Fortunately for the College’s finances, I was appointed as a totally untrained Assistant Lecturer in the Cambridge Faculty of Economics and Politics (as it was then called) while working in Dar es Salaam, and returned to take over Frank Hahn’s Churchill students as a College University Teaching Officer, largely paid for by the University.

Frank had left a set of notes – a series of one-liners – describing each of the students I inherited from him; now these shrewd epithets are sadly lost, but I do recall the note about a very transient Prince whom he described as “perfumed, rides horses”. Frank may have been teaching at the LSE, but he continued to live in Cambridge and to interact closely with the College, most productively by inviting a steady stream of the world’s most distinguished economists to visit as Overseas Fellows. In short order we had Peter Diamond, Kenneth Arrow, Bob Solow and Gerard Débreu (all subsequently awarded the Nobel prize), Herb Scarf, Roy Radner, and many others who lived, dined and interacted with us in the College. Ken Arrow and Bob Solow continued to visit and work with Frank, while Peter came to give the Churchill Lectures in Economics that Frank founded.

The late 1960s were exciting if fraught times in the Cambridge Faculty of Economics. The battle between the “post-Keynesians” and the neo-classicals was in full swing, exemplified by the now totally arcane two-Cambridges (MIT and UK) capital controversy. Frank collected around him the bright young Turks of Cambridge – Chris Bliss, Jim Mirrlees, Geoff Heal, Partha Dasgupta, Joe Stiglitz

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(while he was briefly here as a Junior Research Fellow at Caius), Tony Atkinson (the first undergraduate at Churchill to be elected to a Chair in Economics), and myself. Together with more senior economists such as James Meade, Michael Farrell and David Champernowne, we confronted the old guard, led by the Lord Kahn and Joan Robinson, who claimed to inherit the mantle of Keynes. When Frank returned to the chair in Cambridge in 1972, he decided to abandon the exclusive Monday Political Economy Club at King’s (founded

by Keynes, invitation only, in order specifically to exclude “unsound” faculty) and set up a rival Churchill Economic Theory seminar also on Monday evenings (but with dinner provided). It triumphed and rapidly displaced its rival, which retreated to a non-competitive time and then wound itself up.

Frank’s intellectual energy knew no bounds, and he was an economist held in the highest regard internationally. As a mark of that international reputation, he was elected President of the Econometric Society in 1968-69 – the leading international body of economists. In that capacity, he launched a strong critique of the inability of General Equilibrium theory to contain a role for money. He rapidly gathered a group of young and enthusiastic economists who greatly benefited from his intellectual rigour (in both economics and clarity of expression in the English language that he perhaps appreciated the better for its being a second language). He decided to launch a research programme to redress some of the shortcomings of General Equilibrium theory – its lack of a theory of unemployment, money and market adjustments. While very much the agenda of the earlier Keynes, this was to be more rigorously grounded in a coherent theory of imperfectly informed agent behaviour.

The resulting project, known informally as the Risk project, was supported by a series of grants from the then Social Science Research Council and ran until 1991. It attracted an amazingly impressive group of young researchers such as Eric Maskin (a subsequent Nobel laureate), David Kreps, Oliver Hart, Mark Machina, Lou Makowski, Douglas Gale, Ben Lockwood, Jonathan Thomas, Paolo Gottardi, David Canning, Bob Evans, Paul Seabright, Luca Anderlini, Costas Gatsios and David Kelsey, as well as many members of the Faculty. The Risk Project also attracted distinguished visitors, such as Bob Solow, Ken Binmore, John Geanokopolis, Herakles Polimarchakis, David Easley, Sandy Grossman, Menachim Yaari, and Steve Morris. Most of the researchers funded under this project went on to distinguished academic careers, many in the United States,

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although Paul Seabright moved to Toulouse in France. Some fortunately stayed in Britain (where those who left Cambridge all became professors).

Frank’s weekly internal Risk seminars were typical of his idiosyncratic but effective research style – known as ‘Quaker’ meetings without a formal agenda but where the spirit moved participants to speak – if they were quick enough to seize the chalk. Newly minted post-docs could hold forth before visiting Nobel laureates, rapidly gaining insights, experience and confidence that stood them in good stead later on.These Quakers were intensely productive, producing a steady stream of green discussion papers that in those pre-pdf times were posted around the world, signalling the vigour of the Hahn enterprise. In 1989 the project published Economics of Missing Markets, Information, and Games (edited

by Frank) that summarised much of the contribution of the group (and made a not unreasonable sum of money to support future research). In 1992 his colleagues presented him with a suitably weighty Festschrift on his retirement from Cambridge: Economic Analysis of Markets and Games: Essays in Honor of Frank Hahn. Of course, Frank could not retire from active economics, and promptly took a post in Siena, to which he would invite his colleagues for stimulating conferences in the glorious Certosa outside the city walls in a monastery on a Tuscan hill – a wholly suitable place for Quakers to meet, though with the gastronomic delights to tempt a pope (Frank always had a secret yearning to be a prelate, a Lord, or at least a rural dean).

Another of Frank’s initiatives was to establish (and secure funding for) the Churchill Lectures in Economics, which enjoyed lectures from Peter Diamond, Paul Milgrom (of spectrum auction fame), Douglas Gale and Ariel Rubinstein, all subsequently published by Cambridge University Press. It was another example of how he saw the College as a co-partner with the Faculty and the University in supporting research while providing a congenial location for the intense personal interactions that the galaxy of brilliant economists he gathered together unleashed.

I have already remarked how he pursued two young and untried economists to bring them into the College at a tender age as his first replacement, and he continued to attract bright young economists to join the College, often as the first step in a dazzling subsequent career. He was delighted when first Douglas Gale and then David Kelsey became Junior Research Fellows (both moved quickly

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to become professors); subsequently Daniel Sgroi joined the College first as a Junior Research Fellow before becoming a teaching Fellow. Junior Research Fellows in economics are relatively rare in Cambridge, partly because in the past the natural career path normally involved a lectureship fairly soon after the PhD, partly because economists are so much more critical of each other than those in other subjects, whose students invariably walk on water. But Frank appreciated that time to pursue research, without the pressures that a full-time Faculty appointment requires, could be of immense value for an economist at the start of his or her career.The Risk project supported many such, often in partnership with the college where they supervised – and the combination of young and enthusiastic researchers rubbing shoulders with their seniors at Quaker meetings and then passing on that enthusiasm to undergraduates at Churchill in turn prompted many of them to pursue glittering academic careers.

Professor David Newbery

Frank Hahn 1925-2013: A Tribute I was sad to hear that Frank Hahn had died. He and I were colleagues on and off at Cambridge from the early 1960s. We had many clashes (and three semipublic debates about approaches to economic analysis), he thought me a bit of a dill (Oz for thick), but I was fond of him and had great respect for him as an important intellectual influence in the Cambridge Faculty and beyond. He has never been adequately replaced since his retirement in 1993.

In this tribute I concentrate on his understanding of and contributions to the economics of Keynes.These start with his LSE doctoral dissertation, “The share of wages in the national income. An enquiry into the theory of distribution”. It was published only in 1972 (by Weidenfeld and Nicolson), over twenty years after its submission, partly because of Frank’s unsureness about its worth, partly because of the influence of his mentor, Terence Gorman, who had stringent views on what should be published.

His dissertation is a highly original contribution to Keynesian macro-theories of distribution. Frank amalgamated IS and LM analysis, more generally, Keynes’s aggregate demand and supply analysis, with the then state-of-the-art theories of the firm and entrepreneurial behaviour. He related the short-period level of

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overall activity to the share of wages in the national income, exploiting the implications of the differences in the marginal propensities to save of wageearners and profit-receivers. The intersection of the two relations determined simultaneously, mutually, the equilibrium levels of the distribution of income and the level of activity. While there are details of the analysis to which exception could be taken, I wrote at the time that his version was in some ways the most satisfying we have. (I used to tease Frank that it was the best thing he ever did, that it had been downhill all the way since.)

As well as his many articles (which he divided into serious economic analysis and what he dubbed blah blah, in which he reflected on broad conceptual and philosophical as well as theoretical issues), Frank was associated with (at least) three major treatises: the 1964 survey of the theory of economic growth in The Economic Journal, written with Robin Matthews, the role model for survey articles ever after; the 1971 definitive volume on modern general equilibrium theory written with Ken Arrow; and the 1995 courageous critique from within of modern macroeconomics, written with Bob Solow. (It is no accident that his co-authors were also amongst his closest friends.) All three treatises were relevant to his evolving understanding and evaluation of Keynes’s contributions. Increasingly he came to accept that general equilibrium theory was not the appropriate approach with which to tackle Keynes’s insights. Early on (1965) he wrote the definitive account of why it could not include money in any meaningful way, that Keynes’s insight that the monetary and real aspects of the processes at work in capitalism had to be integrated from the start of analysis could not be captured within a general equilibrium framework where money is at best a ticket. Indeed Frank was eventually to say that general equilibrium’s major contribution was a negative one: to make precise the conditions that had to hold for what he perceived to be Adam Smith’s conjecture that greedy people in a competitive environment could bring about a sort of social optimum. These “conditions” were so special that they robbed general equilibrium of any significant role in descriptive analysis.

Frank’s great love of mathematics led him always to strive for precision in analysis, hence his attraction to general equilibrium. But increasingly he recognised, as did his friends and contemporaries, Bob Clower and Axel Leijonhufvud, that for the economics of Keynes to be properly developed, the Marshallian approach in which Keynes was steeped was the correct way forward. That is to say, on this path it may be better sometimes to be “vaguely

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right rather than precisely wrong”, the Wildon Carr maxim that Gerald Shove in 1942 applied to Marshall’s Principles fifty years on. A most succinct statement

by Frank of this view is in his courageous 1982 Birmingham lectures, Money and Inflation, published by Blackwell, in which he criticizes the new classical macroeconomics of the Lucasians. He wrote in the Preface (xi) that he had been forced to make at times “plausible” rather than “clinching” arguments.

Frank had a deep understanding of the nature of money and its link to an inescapable environment of fundamental uncertainty in which all major economic decisions had to be made. (He said he would forgive Joan Robinson all her other sins, as he saw them, because she too had such a deep understanding of this.)

With his colleagues he built on this base analysis of the implications of missing markets for the processes at work in the economy. Earlier on he had made an astute analysis of the implications for accumulation and growth theory of the same insight in a series of articles that have bequeathed “the Hahn process” to posterity. With Bob Solow he investigated the implications of imperfectly competitive market structures within the Keynesian system, developments that have increased our positive understanding as well as contributing an incisive critique of the results of modern, non-anti-Keynesian macro-analysis.

Frank had very clear views on the links between theory and policy and was extremely modest about what could be claimed – hence his considerable ire towards those who claim that their policies are based on coherent theoretical structures which show that their predicted results will follow from implementing their advocated policies. Nevertheless, with Robert Neild and then with the 364 British economists, he went after the ill-informed and damaging policies implemented by Geoffrey Howe as Chancellor of the Exchequer in the early 1980s, policies enthusiastically approved of by Margaret Thatcher.

Frank Hahn was a serious intellectual who thought deeply and was willing to change his mind. He had extremely high standards that he applied even more harshly to himself than to others. He has left an indelible mark on the thinking of serious members of the profession and I doubt if we will see his like again.

Professor Geoffrey C. Harcourt Former Reader in Faculty of Economics, Cambridge; Australian School of Business, University of New South Wales, Australia

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Professor David Olive, 1937-2012 We print here an appreciation of Professor David Olive, CBE, FRS, FLSW, by his sister-inlaw Rodie Sudbery. Professor Olive (16 April 1937 – 7 November 2012) was a Fellow of Churchill College in Theoretical Physics, 1965-71, and recipient of the Dirac Medal, 1997 (pictured).

David Remembered I first met David in January 1959, when he visited Wall Nooks, our Derbyshire home. In the diary I kept at that time he is described as being “v. massive, stocky built and tall.” We Professor David Olive sisters were all quite shy in those days, and David seems to have acquitted himself rather better than us on the first evening; an “awkward meal” is recorded “with him and Ma talking, and occasionally Pa; us three silent as the grave.” He must however already have been able to convey his enthusiasm for his subject; the entry for the next day includes: “I read David’s Einstein book. Didn’t understand it at all.” (This was probably Einstein’s account of general relativity, and I doubt I got very far with it, but at least I was inspired to give it a try.) During the visit he came to church with us on the Feast of the Epiphany; and in April 1963 he and Jenny were married in that same church with me and my younger sister as bridesmaids, wearing pale blue.

My diary further tells that on the day after my abortive attempt to fathom Einstein, “David made up a question for me to do. He had to help me but I was doing it the right way and had only made a silly slip.” I can remember nothing about that question now, but it sounds as though it was pitched at an enticing level for a fifteen-year-old, and it does serve as a very good example of how David, despite being a person with a fair amount of reserve, had to a high degree the instincts of a born teacher and communicator.

Three or four years later, when I was struggling with some of the mathematics I encountered as an undergraduate at Cambridge, David very kindly gave me

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some explanatory sessions on linear algebra. After one of them, he told Jenny how he had been temporarily baffled by my request for help with runk. I was referring to rank (as possessed by a matrix); David’s Edinburgh ear was acutely sensitive to our Northern rendering of this particular vowel, and he would sometimes make teasing references to Jenny’s hundbug.

Six years ago I went to a lecture given by David in York: a disarmingly delivered ramble (accompanied by slides) around many personalities adjacent to his own career.The underlying structure was scarcely perceptible (except perhaps when he signalled a digression with the words “I admire this man,Yoichiro Nambu, so much that I just had to include him, but he doesn’t really come into my story”); but he concluded with an extraordinary and fascinating anecdote about Heisenberg in World War Two which took us back to the start, because the Smatrix, the subject of David’s earliest research, actually saved Heisenberg’s life.

General Groves had sent a US agent posing as a physicist whose mission was to assassinate Heisenberg at a conference held in Zurich; but after sitting gun in pocket through a talk on S-matrix theory delivered by Heisenberg, the agent concluded that Heisenberg’s current research was totally harmless, and unlikely to lead to the making of an atomic bomb.

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On the following day David looked at the notes I had taken during the lecture, making at the end a noncommittal and faintly gratified sound; I apologised for my scrawly handwriting, and he said “It’s not as bad as mine.” David had what some would call a mathematician’s handwriting: small, cramped, and not outstandingly legible. Having suffered many complaints about its size, he probably felt some satisfaction when he was able to make the following very David rejoinder (deciphered by us with difficulty) concerning a section which he had overlooked on a York expenses form. He wrote: “After microscopic examination I found the box for my signature so here it is.”

As a teacher, I think David would always have been involved and responsive.

One student’s comments on an undergraduate lecture course of his included: “He obviously loved his subject, and got quite proud and jolly at some points”; and his many graduate students must have benefited from what one close colleague described as “his imaginative but rigorous and clear-thinking approach to research”. The anecdotal talk given in York was the only lecture of David’s I ever attended, but I did enjoy reading in their published form two that he gave as tributes to Dirac (almost certainly the physicist who had the strongest influence on David’s own work).Technically I was left behind, but I could follow the essential drift, and I very much appreciated the vivid immediacy of the writing, the succinct outlining of challenging possibilities for further study, and David’s delight in the neatness of one all-encompassing conceptual model based on an aesthetic principle. He emphasised the important part played by overall coherence within the beauty of scientific truth, and I would say the lectures themselves have this coherence. He spoke of the courage and searing honesty required for the aesthetic approach as pursued by Dirac, alongside hard work, dedication and exceptional vision; the general view of David seems to be that he too possessed these qualities. One obituary commented: “the predilection for clarity, precision and depth which characterised all of David’s work made him a worthy recipient of the Dirac Medal”; he and Peter Goddard were awarded this prestigious honour jointly in 1997 for their crucial and seminal contributions to theoretical physics.

In the photograph that shows David receiving the Dirac Medal, his beloved old briefcase can also be seen, renovated by him with pieces of plastic cut from a Fairy Liquid bottle, screwed in place over various holes. David thought the best description of Dirac’s attitude to pure maths was that it was very DIY; and

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David himself was a deft practitioner of do-it-yourself, expert at contriving ingenious repairs and modifications around the home – such as the flattened baked-beans can nailed over the asbestos panel on the ironing board (after the dangers of asbestos became better known), or the small nut and bolt with which he replaced a defective rivet in the handle of our Wall Nooks breadknife (he was rather disappointed when none of us noticed what he had done).

To his friends and colleagues David was a person who was regarded with respect and affection, a man who developed his inspired ideas with elegance and lucidity, a brilliant but unassuming thinker whose insights have become part of the fabric of modern theoretical physics. To the family he was a figure of gravitas and foibles, a great lover of music and of Marmite, with an offbeat sense of humour, and a predisposition towards unusual turns of phrase – when my other sister was busy with Christmas decorations, he wondered: “Can Cluty work a hammer?” And if Jenny bought cosmetic products whose labels carried the assurance “Not tested on animals”, he would gleefully state, “Tested on you instead.” Utterances like these appealed particularly to our mother, who had a very deep affection for David; when his health (and her memory) had begun to give cause for anxiety, she would ask after him repeatedly, saying in distress: “He’s such a dear boy.”

In the realms of the practical, David’s regard for good tools was coupled with a tender attachment to various objects that had ceased to serve their purpose.

(The garage of his and Jenny’s Swansea home contained several old washingmachines.) He was averse to waste in any form – he collected the rubber bands dropped by the postman in the road outside and had the knack of amalgamating small pieces of soap into one usable lump (his verb for this was “comblomble”).

He would tirelessly gather plums, damsons and blackberries from the garden, which he made into chutney, stored in giant Marmite jars (ideal containers, because their plastic lids don’t corrode). He was always ready to try his hand at cooking, and would approach it in a pragmatic spirit – when he was a student, his first omelette included oatmeal among its ingredients, because he reasoned that something besides eggs would be needed to give the correct granular consistency.

I remember a morning in their Churchill flat when David had overslept, and was hurrying out to meet some of his colleagues for coffee in College; he couldn’t set off until he had rapidly consumed a slice of bread spread with his

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favourite breakfast substance. “I must have my Marmite,” he said. He was extremely interested in all quirks of human behaviour, and would comment on them with a mixture of wry detachment and ruminative relish (his almost imperceptible Edinburgh accent adding its own flavour to his observations). He liked to recount slightly shocking facts about public personages, and would be amazed and amused by our ignorance thereof – widening his blue eyes as he exclaimed “But it’s well known!”

I think of him whenever I use the breadknife he mended so skilfully, and each time I wash my hands with my own comblombled nugget of soap. He has left an unmendable hole in the family. Sage and rosemary were planted on his grave; we remember him as someone who was quietly wise, and profoundly dear.

Rodie Sudbery

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Austin, Geoff (U62) is currently Professor of Geophysics at the University of Auckland and Vice-President of the Royal Society of New Zealand.

Fell, Anthony (U63) is currently Director of an EU Liaison Office of an industrial group working in Brussels.

Miller, John (U63) retired as Director of Air Products plc in June 2001. He has been a Magistrate on the North Surrey bench since February 2002.

Toolan, Francis Eugene (U63) retired from gainful employment in 2006. Prior to retirement he had worked for thirty-two years for a large oil service company, Fugro NV, which is based in the Netherlands, as a director and chief operating officer responsible for offshore geotechnics and airborne geophysics.

He is now chairman of the Oxford Transplant Foundation, which raises funds to expand and enhance the facilities at the Oxford Transplant Centre at the Churchill Hospital. His wife, Christine, had a kidney transplant there in 1994 but sadly died of heart failure in 2011.

Williams, David (U63): after retirement from the NHS in 2009, his life has re-oriented around the home, family and sporting activities – running, climbing and skiing. And he feels much better as a result.

Wood, Adrian (U63) has been resident in Switzerland since 1969, working for Novartis and its predecessor companies. He retired in 2007. He is married with two children and two grandchildren.

Wrigley, Nigel (U63) is still working in the field of geosynthetics, but is sailing as often as possible.

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Hoerhager, Axel (U65) has just retired from the European Investment Bank, where he headed the Vienna JASPERS Technical Assistance Office, a joint venture between the EIB and the European commission to assist in the appraisal of long-term investment projects in new member states relating to transport and environmental infrastructures.

Hilton,Andrew (U67) is the Founder and Artistic Director of Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory in Bristol. In July 2013 he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Letters by the University of Bristol for services to theatre in the city.

Merson, Peter (U69) and Rowena will hopefully complete their ride around the coast of Britain on a tandem in the week before the Alumni Weekend.They set out in July 1973 and ran out of time before cycling the Kent, Essex and Suffolk coasts. They cycled around Kent in July this year and hope to cover Essex and Suffolk in September.

Musgrave, Jonathan (G65): in May 2012, as part of the celebrations of the Diamond Jubilee of Her Majesty The Queen, he was invited to give a public lecture on “The Legacy of Leonardo’s Anatomical Studies” in Bristol City Museum. In June he received a letter – and an impressive certificate – from the Honorary Secretary of the Anatomical Society informing him he had been elected a Fellow. The honour came as a complete but pleasant surprise.

Rez, Peter (U70): conducted early research on electron scattering in electron microscopy; later branched into radiation physics for biology and medicine, urolithiasis, biomineralisation, biophysics theory for materials. Best known for role in campaign against airport body scanners.

Dresdner, Katherine (G72) read Philosophy at Churchill College, where she believes she was the only American woman in the first small group of female students matriculating in September 1972. She rowed in the first Churchill Women’s Eight and Four; she persuaded the College to give the women their own rowing coach, decent equipment, and a room where they could change their clothes in Churchill’s Boathouse. After Churchill, she obtained her Juris Doctor degree. From 1980, she had a career as a civil trial attorney, handling complex litigation while raising her daughter Kate. In the 1980s she was often the only female civil trial attorney appearing in State and Federal courthouses. She suffered

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a period of involuntary retirement from law due to sustaining a closed head injury when a teenage driver hit her car. The head injury sent her back to childhood skill levels: she had multiple surgeries, a long rehab and had visual and vestibular problems; she could not read, spell, do maths, drive a car, turn her head without getting dizzy, or make decisions. She was advised by many top neurologists that she should accept that she was totally disabled and would never practise law again, and to learn how to compensate. She refused to accept this advice; working very hard, she recovered her skills and revived her legal career. For the past six years she has been General Counsel for a non-profit environmental group.

Katherine now works in partnership with the Director of the Environmental Law Clinic at Columbia University Law School, with non-profit organisations and land trusts challenging inappropriate land-use development plans and working to preserve open space and farmland in Princeton and the Hopewell Valley in New Jersey. She had a recent significant legal victory in the New Jersey Supreme Court, where she successfully wrote and argued an appeal against the dismissal of her legal challenge of a private equity real estate developer’s land-use plan. This developer owns and manages a large number of properties in twenty-five states across America.The developer has abandoned its plan for 800,000 square feet of commercial development on a 360-acre site in rural Hopewell Valley.The site has important surface water resources that need protection: the water resources provide drinking water for thousands of people in central New Jersey. The site has old growth woodlands, wetlands and grasslands that provide habitat for a number of endangered and threatened species. Katherine is now negotiating a multimillion-dollar deal to purchase over 250 acres of that site for preservation.

(Her experience on a University expedition to Malta in 1973, where the team studied and published their findings about the behaviour of octopus in its natural habitat, continues to inform her legal work.) Her daughter is now completing her BA degree at Wellesley College and wants to become an attorney!

Feltblower, Antony (U72) is now semi-retired from General Practice, but still actively involved in his new clinical commissioning group and expanding his GP expert clinical negligence work. Jane and Antony are looking to spend even more time with their six, soon to be seven, grandchildren.

Hasenpflug, Jerome (U73): since 2010 he has been General Manager of Esprit du Vin, a business unit of Palm Bay International, one of the USA’s premier wine import companies. Esprit du Vin specialises in estate-bottled European wines,

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particularly French appellations, from small boutique estates whose production is often organic or bio-dynamic. As General Manager he recruits and evaluates producers for the company’s portfolio, as well as supervising a sales team across the major markets in the USA. Jones, Carol (U73) directed plays for the GODS – John Ford’s Cuban Missile Crisis, The White Devil; assisted in production of others (for example The Splendour and Death of Joaquin Murieta; Arturo Ui; and so on). Student Rep; Folk Club.

Ndebele, Njabulo (U73) was inaugurated on 16 November 2012 as Chancellor of the University of Johannesburg.

Hill, Susan (G74) (nee Gregory): Consultant Neuroanaesthetist, University Hospital Southampton, 1995 – present; Chairman, European Diploma in Anaesthesiology, Part I (2010 – present). Recently awarded the Humphry Davey Medal for services to the Royal College of Anaesthetists (2012).

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Has been taking access to HE in creative arts part-time over last two years.

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Has taken up cello again. Busy juggling two lively boys and family, music and art, but is at last doing the two things she loves most (having tried a lot of other careers since graduation!).

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Gupta, Abhijit (G93) is Associate Professor of English, Jadavpur University, and Director, Jadavpur University Press.

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Brossard, Frederick (G00) is currently a visiting scientist in the Cavendish Laboratory.

Faragher, Ramsey (U&G00), after five years in the Defence industry (including his fifteen minutes of fame – a six-page spread in Top Gear magazine as “The real-life Q”), is now back at the University, this time in the Computer Laboratory, working on intelligent indoor tracking systems and other aspects of machine learning.

Gray, Andrew (U00) is currently producing history documentaries.

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Latunde-Dada, Seyi (U01): although he works as a physicist, is now an avid artist and writer of poems and short stories.

Jones, David (U02): up until recently, he worked for six years for the statistics department of the Welsh Assembly Government. He has recently gone on a secondment to work in statistics in Estyn (the Welsh equivalent of Ofsted).

Rajantie, Arttu (former Junior Research Fellow, 02) became Professor of Theoretical Physics at Imperial College London on 1 August 2013.

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Council Congratulations During the academic year 2012-13, the College Council congratulated the following: Lawrence Alexander (current U) on being awarded, at the CU Air Squadron annual awards dinner, the Dillingham Cup for the student who has made the best overall contribution to the squadron at the end of his or her first year of membership Dr Phil Booth on his appointment as Leventis Lecturer in Eastern Christianity in the Faculties of Theology and History at Oxford from 1 October 2012 Richard William Bowman (U04) on his election to a Research Fellowship in Physics at Queens’ College Cambridge from 1 October 2012 Sir Alan Budd (G63) on being awarded Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire in the New Year Honours List Dr Colm Caulfield on his promotion to a Readership effective from 1 October 2013 The College’s Chariots of Fire team, who won the Inter-Collegiate Cup on Sunday 16 September for the third successive year. The team comprised Dr Colm Caulfield, Dr Hannah Rowland, Mike Vella, Dr Adrian Barbrook, Tim Roberts and Peter Miller Churchill College Boat Club on being awarded the Pegasus Cup for being the best performing club (most bumps) in the May Bumps Churchill Women’s First Boat, who won the Queen’s Erg (indoor rowing) Competition, and Stacey Powell, who was the fastest novice in the Women’s section Alison Davies (current U) on being awarded, at the CU Air Squadron annual awards dinner, the Campbell Cup for the best all-round proficiency, leadership and potential for service in the RAF, and the Regiment Trophy for contributing the most to ground training and regiment activities during the last year

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Mrs Paula Halson on the publication of her book Flying Roast Ducks: Recollections of Sir Hermann Bondi 1983-2005 Professor Peter Jackson (Past Fellow 70) on being elected a Fellow of the British Academy Mr John Kinsella on the publication of his book Graffiti: Artworks and Poems from Churchill College Dr Julien Landel (G09) on being elected to a Stipendiary JRF at Magdalene College, Cambridge Matt Leach (current U) on being elected Captain of the Cambridge University Hare and Hounds, the running club (a full Blues sport) Mr Clive Lewis (U78) on being appointed a Justice of the High Court and assigned to the Queen’s Bench Division in June 2013 Dr Hallvard Lillehammer on his appointment to a Professorship in Philosophy at Birkbeck, University of London from 1 September 2013 Dr Neil Mathur on his promotion to a Professorship effective from 1 October 2013 Dr Mark Miller on his appointment to a Senior Lectureship at the University of Durham from Easter 2013; Dr Mark Miller and the Chapel Choir on their performance of the Anthem for Seafarers, conducted by the composer Malcolm Archer Mr John Moore (Head of Grounds and Gardens) on his successful completion of his RHS Masters in Horticulture Professor Sir Stephen O’Rahilly (Past Fellow 92) on his award of a knighthood in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List, and on his admission to an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Law by the University of Dublin in recognition of his contributions to research in human metabolic diseases

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Mr Allen Packwood and the Archives Centre staff on the announcement that the papers of Gordon Brown are to be deposited in the Archives Centre, and on being awarded a grant from the Wellcome Trust of £81,000 toward the archiving of Sir Aaron Klug’s papers (the grant would include payment for an additional archivist to work on these papers for two years); the Archives Centre for the inclusion of the Archives of Sir Winston Churchill on the United Kingdom Register of Important Documentary Heritage, which is part of the UNESCO Memory of the World Programme; and Mr Allen Packwood for the extremely successful exhibition held at the Morgan Library in New York, Churchill and the Power of Words.

Dr Ben Phalan on his election to a Zukerman Research Fellowship at King’s College, Cambridge from 1 October 2012 Aaron Pixton (Churchill Scholar 2008) on winning the Clay Research Fellowship as the best graduate in Mathematics and on his election to the Harvard Society of Junior Fellows Professor John Robertson on being awarded a Fellowship of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Professor Dame Carol Robinson (Honorary Fellow) on being awarded Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the New Year Honours list Sam Rodriques (new Churchill Scholar) on being elected a Hertz Fellow* Dr Hannah Rowland on her award of funding for the final year of her Junior Research Fellowship from the Department of Zoology and the Zoological Society of London Mr Paddy Sadler (current U) on being picked for Scotland’s cricket squad in their match against Hampshire Aman Sinha (new Churchill Scholar) on being elected a Hertz Fellow* Mr Michael Smyth (U67) on the publication of his book Canon Noel Duckworth: An Extraordinary Life

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D J Strouse (Churchill Scholar 2011) on being elected a Hertz Fellow* Dr Minna Sunikka-Blank on her promotion to a Senior Lectureship effective from 1 October 2013 Dr Andrew Taylor on being granted the title of Affiliated Lecturer in the Department of English from 1 October 2012 Professor Mario Vargas Llosa (Honorary Fellow) on being admitted to the degree of Doctor of Letters (honoris causa) by the University of Cambridge Dr Joseph Watters (U&G90) on his New London Architecture Award for best housing development Mr Peter Whiteley (U08) on his SET Award (Science, Engineering & Technology Student of the Year); his award was the Babcock Award for the Best Mechanical Engineering Student, judged by the Institute of Mechanical Engineers, for his work on “Bearing failures in wind-turbine gearboxes” Dr Emily Wingfield on her appointment to a Lectureship at the University of Birmingham from January 2013 Professor Eric Wolff (U75) on being awarded a Royal Society Research Professorship from 1 June 2013 at the Department of Earth Sciences

* The Hertz Fellowship is a prestigious USA doctoral fellowship.

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New Fellows 2012-13 Dr Theresa BIBERAUER (Title A Fellow) Theresa Biberauer is a Senior Research Associate in the Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics and Associate Professor Extraordinary at her South African alma mater, Stellenbosch University. She did an MPhil in English and Applied Linguistics and a PhD in Theoretical Linguistics at the University of Cambridge (St John’s College) before embarking on a Junior Research Fellowship (Newnham) and a series of AHRC- and ERC-funded research projects. Her doctoral research focused on some of the structural peculiarities of Afrikaans, a language which is often (incorrectly) described as “the youngest language in the world” and which is also typically (again, incorrectly) thought to be a simplified clone of its European parent, Dutch. Her current research on the ERC-funded research project “Rethinking Comparative Syntax” (see www.mml.cam.ac.uk/dtal/research/recos) is concerned with the very large question of what the building blocks of human language are and the extent to which it is possible to identify universals in this domain. More specifically, the project aims to establish whether detailed consideration of the findings of the past 50-60 years of typological and generative (Chomskyan) research in the light of the current “biolinguistic programme” can lead to an explicit theory of why human languages take the forms they do.

Dr Helen CURRY (Title A Fellow) Helen Anne Curry is University Lecturer in the History of Modern Science and Technology in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science. She has a PhD in History from Yale University, where her research focused on the histories of biology and biotechnology, agriculture, and environmental change. She is currently working on a book, Evolution to Order: Genetic Technologies and American Agriculture. The book traces the history of several early technologies of genetic modification, including their development as research tools in genetics and evolutionary biology, their application as novel methods of plant breeding, and their celebration in American popular culture as a means of engineering life.

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Dr Theresa Biberauer

Dr Helen Curry

Dr Neil Davies

Dr Thomas Davies

Dr Richard Durbin

Professor Emily Grundy

Dr Aurelia HonerkampSmith

Dr Lisa Jardine-Wright

Dr Paolo Luzzatto-Fegiz

Dr Mikail Rubinov

Mrs Gillian Secrett

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Dr Katherine Stott

Dr Patrick Varilly

Dr Emily Wingfield

Dr Neil DAVIES (Title A Fellow) Neil Davies is a lecturer in the Department of Earth Sciences, specialising in field-based sedimentary geology. He did his PhD at the University of Birmingham (2003), investigating the palaeoenvironments of Old Red Sandstone deposits in southern Norway. He subsequently worked on post-doctoral projects at Birmingham (2003-07) and Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia (2007-11). From 2011to 2013 he was Lecturer in Sedimentary Geology at Ghent University in Belgium. A prominent theme of his current research investigates the interactions between biotic and abiotic processes in sedimentary environments, including how the evolution of terrestrial vegetation impacted on the landscapes and sedimentary record of Palaeozoic river systems.

Dr Thomas DAVIES (Junior Research Fellow) Thomas Davies was both an undergraduate and graduate student at Queens’ College, University of Cambridge. He completed his BA in Archaeology and Anthropology in 2008, and is currently finishing his PhD thesis in Biological Anthropology. His research focuses on human skeletal adaptation and the interpretation of behaviour from skeletal remains. His PhD thesis developed a new method and approach with which to examine skeletal variation in the limbs and was applied to the study of mobility across diverse hunter-gatherer and agricultural populations. His postdoctoral work focuses on the study of adaptation and variation among prehistoric Upper Palaeolithic humans in order to develop our understanding of the stress, culture and biology of these early colonising individuals.

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Dr Richard DURBIN (Senior Research Fellow) Richard Durbin is a Senior Group Leader and joint Head of Human Genetics at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute. He received a BA in Mathematics and a PhD in Biology from Cambridge University. After postdoctoral research in neural networks at Stanford University, he joined the genome project at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in 1990, then the Sanger Institute when it was founded in 1992. His initial focus was in bioinformatics, contributing to the analysis of the human genome sequence and leading the development of biological data resources including ACeDB and Pfam, while also making theoretical and algorithmic contributions to biological sequence analysis.

Currently he co-leads the 1000 Genomes Project to produce a deep catalogue of human genetic variation by large-scale DNA sequencing, and the UK10K collaboration to extend sequence-based genetics to samples with clinically relevant phenotypes. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2004.

Professor Emily GRUNDY (Title C Fellow in Demography) Dr Aurelia HONERKAMP-SMITH (Sackler Junior Research Fellow) Aurelia Honerkamp-Smith received her PhD in Physical Chemistry from the University of Washington in Seattle, USA, where she worked with Professor Sarah Keller to characterise critical fluctuations in lipid bilayers. She is currently a post-doctoral researcher in Professor Ray Goldstein’s lab in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics in Cambridge. She is using fluid mechanics and microscopy techniques to study the interactions between fluid flow, lipid membranes and cytoskeletal proteins.

Dr Lisa JARDINE-WRIGHT (Title A Fellow) Lisa Jardine-Wright studied for her MA and MSci in Physics at Trinity College, Cambridge and gained her PhD in Theoretical Cosmology under the supervision of Prof George Efstathou at the Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge. Her research focused on the formation and evolution of spiral galaxies like the Milky Way from the Big Bang to the present day. After her PhD she continued as a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute and began her career in science communication and outreach. She was awarded a BA Media Fellowship at the Financial Times in 2004 and continues to write book reviews for the Times Higher and Science, and act as a consultant for BBC News Magazine. In conjunction with her research, from

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2004 to 2007 Lisa acted as the astronomy consultant for the £15 million redevelopment of the astronomy galleries and planetarium at the Royal Observatory Museum in Greenwich. Lisa is a Director of Studies in Physics at Churchill and currently lectures on 1A Maths for Natural Scientists. She also acts as Head of Class for Part II Physics, but her dominant role is as educational outreach officer for the Cavendish Laboratory, which involves designing programmes and activities for students aged 11-19 with the aim of encouraging interest and widening participation in physics in Cambridge and across the UK. Dr Paolo LUZZATTO-FEGIZ (Junior Research Fellow) Paolo Luzzatto-Fegiz graduated with a BEng in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Southampton in 2003. After a summer working with the ATLAS Magnet Team at CERN, he completed an MSc in Applied Mathematics at Imperial College in 2004, and an MS (2007) and a PhD (2011) in Aerospace Engineering at Cornell University. He subsequently worked as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Cornell and as a Devonshire Postdoctoral Scholar at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. His interests include vortex dynamics, fluid stability, and waves in stratified fluids. At Southampton, Paolo was awarded the Graham Prize for best experimental project in the School of Engineering Sciences, together with the Royal Aeronautical Society Prize for highest first-class degree. At Cornell, he received a Graduate Fellowship, as well as the Bolgiano Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award. His doctoral work received the 2011 Acrivos Award of the American Physical Society for the outstanding dissertation in Fluid Dynamics at a US university.

Dr Mikail RUBINOV (Junior Research Fellow) Mikail Rubinov conceptualises large-scale human brain anatomy and activity as a complex network of brain regions and interregional associations. He uses brain-imaging – such as magnetic-resonance-imaging – data sets and computer simulations to model healthy and diseased instances of this network. He aims to quantify local and global properties of this network, to understand relationships between the structure and function of this network, and to detect neuropsychiatrically diseased instances of the network reliably.

Mrs Gillian SECRETT (Title G Fellow) Gillian Secrett’s primary role is CEO of the Møller Centre, a residential executive education centre whose mission is “to support its clients to acquire

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knowledge for professional development and personal and business success”.

This includes the production of tailor-made leadership programmes for senior executives as well as providing the environment within Churchill College in which these “learning interventions” take place. She is also a member of the Board of Executive and Professional Education, University of Cambridge. Gillian is a qualified business coach, having trained with Meyler Campbell and the Coaches Training Institute of California. She has a BSc (Surrey) and is a Chartered Director, having qualified with the Institute of Directors Diploma in Company Direction.

Dr Luke SKREBOWSKI (Title A Fellow) Luke Skrebowski works on the history and theory of modern art, with a particular focus on the contested character and critical implications of Conceptual Art. He joined the History of Art Faculty at Cambridge in 2010, after receiving his PhD from Middlesex University in 2009 for the dissertation “Systems, Contexts, Relations: An Alternative Genealogy of Conceptual Art”. He also holds Masters from Middlesex and London and earned his undergraduate degree from King’s College, Cambridge. His work has appeared in the journals Grey Room, Art History and Tate Papers. He is currently at work on an edited volume entitled Aesthetics and Contemporary Art (Sternberg Press, 2011).

Dr Katherine STOTT (Title A Fellow) Katherine Stott attended Churchill College as an undergraduate in Natural Sciences, matriculating in 1990. She did her PhD in the Department of Chemistry in the field of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectroscopy, during which she developed a new clean and efficient methodology for observing the nuclear Overhauser effect in small-to-medium sized molecules. She then moved across the road to the Department of Biochemistry where she was employed as a postdoc by the Cambridge Centre for Molecular Recognition in the high-field NMR facility, and as a teaching By-Fellow at Newnham College, before joining the Chromatin research group headed by Professor Jean Thomas. She now manages the Biophysics Facility in the Department of Biochemistry, where she collaborates with groups university-wide wishing to apply NMR and other biophysical techniques to problems in structural biology that are pertinent to the understanding of cancer and other diseases.

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Dr Patrick VARILLY (Junior Research Fellow) Patrick Varilly is a post-doc in the Department of Chemistry, working with Daan Frenkel. His main current research interest is in self-assembly. He and Daan Frenkel are exploring how to coax colloids to assemble spontaneously into pre-programmed arrangements by cleverly coating them with DNA. Before you walk, you need to crawl, so they are focusing on understanding theoretically how simple DNA-coated colloids interact with each other, and slowly building up to more complex structures. Previously, Patrick was an undergraduate in Physics at MIT, where he worked on research projects in population genetics and in computational quantum field theory. Following a year as a visiting student at ENS in Paris, he carried out his graduate work in Berkeley under David Chandler, focusing on understanding and modelling the hydrophobic effect (the tendency for oil and water to separate), with an eye towards biological applications. Broadly speaking, his research leverages computer simulations to address problems of scientific and technological importance.

Dr Emily WINGFIELD (Title A Fellow) Emily’s undergraduate and graduate career was pursued at Lincoln College, Oxford. She received a First Class BA Hons degree in English Language and Literature (2003), followed by a Distinction for the MSt in English Literature 650-1500 (2007). Her DPhil (2007-10), which was fully funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, examines the manuscript and print contexts of Older Scots romance. Emily’s postdoctoral work develops her research interests in Older Scots romance and book history. She is currently completing a monograph (to be published by Boydell and Brewer) on the literary representation of the Trojan legend in Scotland from c. 1375 to c. 1513, and plans to complement this with an edition of The Scottish Troy Book. She held a Junior Research Fellowship at Churchill College from 2010 to 2012.

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Overseas Fellows 2012-13 Professor Douglas ARNOLD (Overseas Fellow, Lent and Easter Terms 2013) Douglas Arnold is McKnight Presidential Professor of Mathematics at the University of Minnesota and Leverhulme Visiting Professor at Cambridge. He obtained his PhD from the University of Chicago in 1979. He recently served as President of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics after seven years as Director of the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications. Douglas’s research interests include numerical analysis, partial differential equations, mechanics, and the interplay between them. He focuses on the development and understanding of methods for computational simulation of physical phenomena, ranging from deformation of structures to the collision of black holes. Douglas is a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the American Mathematical Society. He was the first winner of the Sacchi Landriani Prize, has held a Guggenheim Fellowship, is designated a Highly Cited author, and is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.

Dr Anne CHARMANTIER (French Government Overseas Fellow, August 2012 – January 2013) Anne Charmantier is an evolutionary biologist working for the CNRS in Montpellier, France. She studied ecology and evolution in Montpellier (PhD in 2003) and subsequently conducted post-doctoral research at the Edward Grey Institute in Oxford while being a Fellow at Wolfson College. Her primary research interests are in understanding between-individual variation of lifehistory and behavioural traits in natural populations. She studies the evolutionary mechanisms underlying variation in these characteristics, with a special focus on the role of environmental degradation. This degradation can be internal (the decrease of individual fitness with age due to senescence); or external (changes in the environment, including those induced by man). She conducts analyses based on long-term datasets collected in wild bird populations, in particular blue tits (Cyanistes caeruleus) and mute swans (Cygnus olor).

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Professor Jeffrey EVANS (Overseas Fellow, Michaelmas Term 2012 and Lent Term 2013) Jeffrey Evans is a Civil Engineer interested in all things related to our subsurface environment. He has focused his research on contaminated land remediation and containment of ground water and subsurface contaminants. His coauthored book, Hazardous Waste Management, is widely used in the US and worldwide. While at Churchill, in addition to collaborative research with Cambridge Engineering Colleagues, he will be completing a book on Ground Improvement Engineering. He is currently Professor and Chair of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, PA. He holds engineering degrees from Clarkson University, Purdue University and Lehigh University.

Professor Emmanuel GARNIER (French Government Overseas Fellow, 2012-13) Emmanuel Garnier was born in 1967 in France. His undergraduate and graduate studies were pursued at the University of Besançon. Currently, he is senior member of the Institut Universitaire de France (Paris) and Associate Professor in the University of Caen (CRHQ UMR CNRS). He obtained his Habilitation degree in History in 2010. His research work concerns the history of climate, health and the environment. His current projects for the FP 7 EU and the Agence Nationale de la Recherche are concerned particularly with extreme events and their effects on ancient societies. He was also invited as an expert on climate change by the Académie nationale de médecine, the CNRS and the parliamentary and senatorial commission of inquiry after the Xynthia storm.

He is currently leading six national and international scientific projects by means of a team of young researchers.

Dr Aihisa Inoue (Overseas Fellow, Materials Science, Michaelmas Term 2012) Professor Peter SCHMID (Overseas Fellow, Michaelmas Term 2012) Peter Schmid is a research director with the French National Research Agency (CNRS) and Professor (PCC) of Mechanics at the Ecole Polytechnique in Palaiseau near Paris. He completed his undergraduate and graduate studies in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the Technical University, Munich,

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obtained his PhD in Mathematics from MIT, and joined the Applied Mathematics Faculty at the University of Washington in Seattle before taking up his current position in France. His research interests lie in computational fluid mechanics, in particular in hydrodynamic stability theory and flow control. He focuses on the description and targeted manipulation of flow behaviour with many applications ranging from instability control to acoustic noise reduction, from improved combustion processes to designs with reduced flow sensitivities.Tools from control theory, model reduction, system identification and optimisation are routinely employed to accomplish these diverse objectives.

Professor Douglas Arnold

Dr Anne Charmantier

Professor Jeffrey Evans

Professor Emmanuel Garnier

Dr Aihisa Inoue

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Who’s Who in Churchill This is the list of Fellows as it was on 1 October 2012; also included are Fellows and By-Fellows who joined the College in the course of the academic year 2012-13.

Fellowship Categories: Fellows and By-Fellows Honorary Fellowships: an honorific position bestowed on outstanding figures; Title A: our main teaching Fellows and senior College Officers such as the Senior Tutor and Bursar;Title B Junior: Research Fellows, usually immediately post-doctoral;Title B Senior: Research Fellows, usually advanced in their careers; Title C: Fellows who hold a Cambridge University Chair (but any such Fellows who opt to continue with a full teaching stint remain Title A); Title D: Retired Fellows (“Emeritus/Emerita”); Title E, “Extraordinary”: Academics or writers 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 of time ranging from a term to a year, by invitation);Title G: “Supernumerary” Fellows (those who do not belong to any of the above categories but who are performing an important function in the College).

Teaching By-Fellows: academically highly qualified (post-doctoral status; may be Fellows of another College) and assisting in specific areas of teaching need; Academic ByFellows: visiting researchers elected by the Archives Centre or by Fellowship Electors (the Churchill Committee that elects to most non-teaching Fellowships); Professional or Møller By-Fellows: those who have industrial or other professional links particularly relevant to Churchill (maximum number 4); Staff By-Fellows: non-academic staff members with senior managerial positions in the College administrative structure.

Master Wallace, Prof Sir David, CBE, FRS, FREng

Theoretical Physics

Honorary Fellows Soames, The Lady (Mary), DBE Gurdon, Professor Sir John, DPhil, DSc, FRS Ndebele, Professor Njabulu, MA, LLD (Hon) Gilbert, Sir Martin, CBE, DLitt Tsien, Professor Roger, PhD

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Green, Professor Michael, PhD, FRS Holmes, Professor Richard, OBE, FRSL, FBA Nurse, Sir Paul, PhD, FRS Arrow, Professor Kenneth, PhD Robinson, Professor Dame Carol, PhD, FRS, DBE Soyinka, Professor Wole Vargas Llosa, Dr Mario, PhD

Mathematics Biographer Microbiology Economics Chemistry Literature Literature

Benefactor Fellow Cowan, Mr Michael, MA

Alumnus (U70)

Fellows in order of precedence Broers, Rt Hon Lord Alec, PhD, ScD, FRS, FREng

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Microelectronics

Boyd, Sir John, KCMG

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Modern Languages

Livesley, Dr R K, MA

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Engineering

Kelly, Professor A, ScD, FRS, FREng, PhD, CBE, DL

D

Materials Science

†Hahn, Professor F, MA, PhD, FBA

D

Economics

Howie, Professor A, PhD, CBE, FRS

D

Physics

Hewish, Professor A, MA, PhD, ScD, FRS

D

Radio Astronomy

Steiner, Professor G, PhD, FBA

D

Comparative Literature

Campbell, Dr R C, MA, PhD

D

Statistics

Brunton, Dr J H, PhD

D

Engineering

Dixon, Dr W G, MA, PhD

D

Applied Mathematics

Schofield, Professor A N, MA, PhD, FRS, FREng

D

Engineering

Newbery, Professor D M G, MA, PhD, ScD, FBA, CBE D

President of SCR; Economics

Craig, Professor E J, MA, PhD, FBA

D

Philosophy

Westwood, Dr B A, MA, PhD

D

Computing Service

Whittle, Professor P, MA, PhD, FRS

D

Mathematics

Tristram, Dr A G, MA, PhD

D

Pure Mathematics

Palmer, Professor A C, MA, PhD, FRS, FREng

D

Petroleum Engineering

Thompson, Professor J G, MA, FRS

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Pure Mathematics

Squire, Dr L C, MA, ScD

D

Aerodynamics

Hoskin, Dr M A, PhD

D

Pre-History

Abrahams, Dr R G, MA, PhD

D

Social Anthropology

Cribb, Mr T J L, MA

D

English

George, Mr H, MA, CMG, OBE

D

Bursar 1971-90

Finch, Professor A M, MA, PhD

B (SRF) French

Findlay, Dr A L R, MA, PhD,VetMB

D

Physiology

Gough, Professor D O, MA, PhD, FRS

D

Astrophysics

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Echenique, Professor M, MA, DArch, BLet, OBE

C

Architecture

Warren, Dr S G, MA, PhD

D

Organic Chemistry

Ryall, Dr R W, MA, PhD

D

Pharmacology

Fraser, Dr C, MA, PhD

D

Social Psychology

Gaskell, Dr P H, MA, PhD

D

Physics

Barnett, Mr C, MA, DSc, CBE, FRSL

D

Military History

Wood, Mr H B, MA

D

Music

Milne, Professor W I, MA, FREng

C

Engineering

King, Dr F H, MA, PhD

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Praelector; Computer Science

†Edwards, Professor Sir Robert G, MA, Hon ScD, CBE, FRS

D

Physiology

Goldie, Dr M A, MA, PhD

A

History

Bolton, Professor M D, MA, PhD, FREng

C

Engineering

Ashburner, Professor M, MA, PhD, ScD, FRS

D

Genetics

Mascie-Taylor, Professor C G N, MA, PhD, ScD

C

Biological Anthropology

Siddle, Professor K, MA, PhD

C

Vice-Master; Biochemistry

Hurst, Mr H R, MA

D

Classical Archaeology

Dawes, Professor W N, MA, PhD

C

Engineering

Green, Dr D A, MA, PhD

A

Physics/Radio Astronomy

Allen, Mr M J, MA, OBE

D

English Literature

Gregory, Professor Sir Michael, MA, CBE

C

Manufacturing/Management

Norris, Professor J R, DPhil

C

Mathematics

Amaratunga, Professor G, PhD, FREng

C

Engineering

Knowles, Dr K M, MA, PhD

A

Materials Science

King, Professor Dame J E, MA, PhD, CBE, DBE, FREng

E

Materials Science

Walters, Dr D E, MA, PhD

D

Statistical Consultancy

Webber, Professor A J, PhD

A

German

Chatterjee, Professor V K K, MA

C

Pathology

Laughlin, Professor S B, MA, PhD, FRS

C

Neurobiology

Jennison, Miss B M, MA, MBE

D

Physics, Education

Crisp, Dr A J, MA, MB, BChir, MD, FRCP

D

Clinical Medicine

King, Mrs A N, MA

G

Linguistics

Kramer, Professor M H, PhD, LLD

A

Law/Philosophy

Brendon, Dr P, MA, PhD, FRSL

D

History

Soga, Professor K, PhD

A

Civil Engineering

O'Kane, Dr C J, MA, PhD

G

Genetics

Robertson, Professor J, MA, PhD, FIEE

C

Engineering

Boksenberg, Professor A, MA, PhD, FRS, CBE

D

Astronomy

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Barbrook, Dr A C, MA, PhD

A

Biochemistry

Kinsella, Professor J, MA, PhD

E

Poet

Yuan, Dr B, PhD

A

Chinese and Linguistics

Brook, Mrs J M, MA, MBA

A

Bursar

Kraft, Professor M, MA, Dr. rer. nat.

C

Chemical Engineering

Sirringhaus, Professor H, PhD, FRS

C

Physics

Grimmett, Professor G R, MA, ScD, DPhil

C

Mathematics

DeMarrais, Dr E, PhD

A

Archaeology

Van Houten, Dr P, MA, PhD

A

Politics

Tout, Dr C A, MA, PhD

A

Astronomy

Mathur, Dr N D, MA, PhD

A

Materials Science

Gopal, Dr P, MA, PhD

A

English

Webb, Dr A R, PhD

A

Plant Sciences

Harris, Dr P A, LLM, PhD

A

Law

Kendall, Miss M, MA

A

Librarian

Packwood, Mr A G, MPhil, FRHistS

A

Director, Archives Centre

Thornton, Professor J M, PhD, CBE, FRS

E

Computational Biology

Bracewell, Dr R H, MA, PhD

A

Engineering

Miller, Dr M A, MA, PhD

A

Chemical Physics

Hicks, Dr C M, MA, PhD

A

Engineering

Fawcett, Dr J, MA, PhD

A

Computer Science

Schultz, Professor W, PhD, FRS

C

Neuroscience

Kingston, Dr I B, PhD

A

Tutor for Advanced Students; Pathology

Thomas, Ms M F, MA

B (SRF) Screen Media and Cultures

Ozanne, Dr S E, PhD

A

Biochemistry

Englund, Dr H M, MA, PhD

A

Social Anthropology

Richer, Dr J, MA, PhD

A

Physics

Caulfield, Dr C P, MASt, PhD

A

Mathematics

Reid, Dr A, MSc, PhD

A

Geography

Ducati, Dr C, PhD, RSRF

B (SRF) Materials Science

Pedersen, Professor R A L, AB, PhD

C

Regenerative Medicine

Wassell, Dr I J, PhD

A

Engineering

Ludlam, Dr J J, MA, PhD

A

Mathematical Biology

Taylor, Dr A W, MA, PhD

A

English

Maurice, Ms S D, BA

A

Development Director

Sunikka-Blank, Dr M M, PhD

A

Architecture

Boss, Dr S R, PhD

A

Chemistry

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Hines, Professor M M, MA, PhD

A

Liang, Dr D, PhD

A

Engineering

Ralph, Professor D, PhD

C

Operations Research

Kennicutt, Professor R C, MSci, PhD, FRS

C

Astronomy

Singh, Dr S S, PhD

A

Engineering

Goldstein, Professor R E, PhD, FRS

C

Mathematics

Wickramasekera, Dr N, PhD

A

Mathematics

McEniery, Dr C M, PhD

A

Physiology

Spiegelhalter, Professor D J, PhD, OBE, FRS

C

Winton Professor: Statistics

Partington, Mr R J, MA

A

Senior Tutor; History

Cavalcanti, Dr T, MA, PhD

A

Economics

Russell, Dr P, PhD

A

Mathematics

Phipps, Mr B J, MA, MSt, MPhil

G

Curator

Knight, Mr N V, MSc

A

Economics

Frayling, Professor Sir Christopher, MA, PhD

E

Historian, critic and broadcaster

Stevens, Dr M, PhD

A

Zoology

Leader-Williams, Professor N, BVSc, PhD, ScD, MRCVS C

Social and Developmental Psychology

Geography

Lillehammer, Dr H, MA, MPhil, PhD

B (SRF) Philosophy

Wingfield, Dr E, DPhil, MSt

A

Linterman, Dr M A, PhD

B (JRF) Biological Sciences

Monson, Dr R, PhD

A

Dean; Cell Biology

Denault, Dr L T, PhD

A

History

Rowland, Dr H M, PhD

B (JRF) Zoology

Ron, Professor D, MD

C

Davies, Dr W H, DPhil

B (JRF) Philosophy

Salager, Dr E, MSc, PhD

B (JRF) Chemistry

Smith, Dr N P, FRCS, MA, MB, BChir

A

Paediatrics

Cutler, Dr N, MA, PhD

A

Geography

Lu, Dr C, PhD

B (JRF) Physics

Varilly, Dr P S, PhD

B (JRF) Chemistry

Rubinov, Dr M, MB, BS, BMedSci, PhD

B (JRF) Psychiatry

Luzzatto-Fegiz, Dr P, PhD

B (JRF) Aerospace Engineering

Durbin, Dr R M, PhD

B (SRF) Human Genetics

Biberauer, Dr T, MA, MPhil, PhD

A

Linguistics

Secrett, Mrs G

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Director, Møller Centre

Davies, Mr T

B (JRF) Biological Anthropology

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Honerkamp-Smith, Dr A, MSc, PhD

B (JRF) Physical Chemistry

Jardine-Wright, Dr L J, MA, MSci, PhD

A

Physics

Stott, Dr K, PhD

A

Biochemistry

Grundy, Professor E, MSc, PhD

C

Geography

Skrebowski, Dr L, PhD

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History of Art

Curry, Dr H, MA, PhD

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History and Philosophy of Science

Charmantier, Dr A, MSc, PhD Evans, Professor J C, MS, PhD Garnier, Professor E, PhD Inoue, Dr A, DEng

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Schmid, Professor P J, PhD Arnold, Professor D N, MS, PhD

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Evolutionary Biology Civil Engineering History Engineering and Materials Science Applied Mathematics Mathematics

Abdi, Dr E, MPhil, PhD

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Engineering

Akroyd, Mr J W J, MA, MEng

TBF

Chemical Engineering

Ali, Dr J, MB, BChir

TBF

Medical & Veterinary Sciences

Benton, Dr A, MSci, MA, PhD

TBF

Computer Science

Bianchi, Mr A S, MA

TBF

Spanish

Church, Mr L, BA

TBF

Computer Science

Gagne, Mr C, MPhil

TBF

French

Hendrick, Dr A, PhD

TBF

Biology of Cells

Hubbard, Dr K E, BA, PhD

TBF

Biology

Hunter, Dr M, PhD

TBF

Earth Sciences

Kneebone, Dr E, PhD

TBF

Classics

Rubinstein, Ms H, BA

TBF

Psychology

Tasker, Dr A, MB, BChir, MRCP

TBF

Medical Sciences

Bostock, Dr M, BA, MSci

TBF

Chemistry

Dantzer, Dr B, MSc, PhD

TBF

Biology

Fair, Dr A, MA, PhD

TBF

Architecture

Opalka, Dr D, PhD

TBF

Chemistry

Ross, Dr O, MA, PhD

TBF

English

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Professional

Former Møller Centre Board Member

Archibald, Professor J, PhD

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Biochemistry

Bittleston, Dr S, BSc, PhD

Professional

MD, Schlumberger Cambridge Research

Collaer, Professor M, MA, MS, PhD

BF

Neuroscience and Psychology

Derosas, Professor R, MA

BF

History

Dockter, Dr A W, MA, PhD

BF (Archives)

History

Dutton, Mr D M, BA

Professional

Economics

Eriksson, Dr M, MSc, PhD

BF

Plant Physiology

Farmelo, Dr G, PhD

BF

Biographer and Historian

Ghidini, Dr M, PhD

BF

Materials Science

Gotham, Mr M

BF (Artist)

Director of Music-Making

Halson, Mrs P, BA (Hons), Assoc CIPD, FRSA Staff

Registrar and Human Resources Bursar

Inderwildi, Dr O, MSc, PhD

BF

Low Carbon Energy

McMeekin, Mrs S, BA (Hons)

Staff

Finance Manager

Oates, Mr T, MA

Professional

Cambridge Assessment

Parker, Dr G T, MASc, PhD

Sharjah

Environmental Engineering

Rouquette, Dr S, PhD

BF

Mechanical Engineering

Siepel, Professor A, MS, PhD

BF

Computational Biology

Stuttard, Sir John, MA, DLitt

Møller

Chartered Accountant

Surtees, Mrs S

Staff

Domestic and Conference Bursar

Thomson, Professor M J, MSc, PhD

BF

Chemical Engineering

Xia, Professor J, MEng, PhD

BF

Engineering

Young, Professor W R, MA, PhD

BF

History

Rawlinson, Rev Dr J

Chapel Trustees’ Chaplain to the Chapel at Appointee Churchill College

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The Churchill College Association Chair: Mr Nigel Bacon (U74) Vice-Chair: Ms Rosemary Johnston (U73) The Association exists to promote good fellowship among resident and nonresident Members of the College and to encourage non-resident Members to maintain links with the College and with each other. All Members of the College are automatically members of the Association and there is no membership fee.

We are beginning to establish Churchill Alumni Association international and UK regional groups. Please visit the College website www.chu.cam.ac.uk for further details.

Reunions A Reunion Dinner (for those who joined the College in the years 1960 – 1970 inclusive) will be held on Saturday 5th July 2014. Invitations will be sent out by the College during the Lent Term to those for whom we have an address on our database. If you have recently changed address or plan to move in the near future, please contact the Alumni Relations Office at alumni@chu.cam.ac.uk Future Reunions July 2015 2003 – 2006 July 2016 1983 – 1987

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News and Contacts We are always pleased to hear about the careers and achievements of Churchillians and welcome your contributions. Please write to or e-mail the Alumni Relations team at the College: alumni@chu.cam.ac.uk. The postal address of the College is: Storey's Way, Cambridge CB3 0DS. Contact Details Porters’ Lodge: +44 (0)1223 336000 (Please note that all High Table enquiries must go through the Alumni Relations Office and not the Porters’ Lodge.)

Alumni Relations Office: Alumni@chu.cam.ac.uk +44 (0)1223 331546/336240 Conference Office: Conferences@chu.cam.ac.uk +44 (0)1223 336233 Development Director: Development@chu.cam.ac.uk +44 (0)1223 336197 Editor of the Newsletter: Newsletter.Editor@chu.cam.ac.uk Editor of the Review: Review.Editor@chu.cam.ac.uk Praelector: +44 (0)1223 331672 Registrar & Human Resources Bursar: Registrar@chu.cam.ac.uk +44 (0)1223 336221 Senior Tutor and Admissions Tutors: +44 (0)1223 336208 College Fax: +44 (0)1223 336177 College website: www.chu.cam.ac.uk

Members’ Benefits DINING PRIVILEGES After graduation, Alumni of the College may dine at High Table, joining current members of the Fellowship.They are entitled to up to four dinners per calendar year at College expense excluding wine. Following the introduction of a wine charge to current and former members of the Fellowship at High Table, from January 2014 a nominal charge of £9.00 per head will be applied to all categories

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of non-resident member wishing to take drinks with their meal.This will provide a pre-dinner drink and two glasses of wine during the meal.

Past Fellows and Past Overseas Fellows are eligible for four meals per month and six guests per quarter at College expense.

Past By-Fellows are entitled to up to four High Table dinners per calendar year at College expense.

For all categories of Past Fellow: wine is not included with your meal. You will be charged following the event for wine taken during the meal.

Dinner is at 7.30 p.m. Members should gather in the Senior Combination Room (SCR) from 7.15 p.m. Members should introduce themselves and their guest(s) to the presiding Fellow. If invited by a Fellow to join the company after dinner, other drinks taken in the SCR should be signed for by writing your name on the list. If the Fellow in question retires for the evening, you are kindly asked to vacate the SCR and visit the main College Bar. All non-resident members will be charged for any drinks taken in the SCR. High Table To dine at High Table, please email alumni@chu.cam.ac.uk or telephone +44 (0)1223 331546/336240. At least one Fellow must be present to preside; otherwise High Table will not take place. In the event that your meal is cancelled, you will be contacted by the Alumni Relations team.You may use the Dining Hall self-service facilities at any time and pay by cash. Please note that there is no High Table on any Saturday, nor on Sundays outside Full Term. Unused member entitlements may not be carried forward to the next year.

ACCOMMODATION Alumni Alumni are entitled to stay in College guest rooms throughout the year (subject to availability) at their own expense. Alumni may book up to two rooms at a special rate per visit. Additional rooms will then be charged at the commercial rate.

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Those who graduated in the previous 12 months and are Scholars (that is, gained a First Class in their final year) may stay for up to four nights in the year following their graduation (consecutively or spread over a number of visits) at College expense. They may then stay for additional nights at their own expense.

Past Fellows and Overseas Fellows As a former Fellow of the College, you may stay in College free of charge on four nights over the academic year (1 October to 30 September), and stay at other times at your own expense (subject to availability). A special rate is available to Past Fellows and Overseas Fellows.

Past By-Fellows As a former By-Fellow of the College you may stay in College at your own expense throughout the year (subject to availability). A special rate is available to Past By-Fellows.

Bookings Accommodation bookings should be made by contacting the Accommodation Office on +44 (0)1223 336164 or by email at accommodation@chu.cam.ac.uk.

Special rates are also available for Churchillians at the Møller Centre; a maximum of five rooms per year can be booked at this rate. Please contact the Møller Centre directly on +44 (0)1223 465500 or email Moller.Reception@chu.cam.ac.uk.

Taking the MA and Other Degrees Information about Congregations (dress, procedure, etc.) is sent to members when they qualify for their degree. The College holds a lunch for graduands at College expense on the day of most congregations, and guests may attend at their own expense.

Retrospective Admission to MMath and MASt Degrees for Part III Students successfully completing Part III of the Mathematical Tripos in Easter Term 2011 and subsequent years will now be admitted to a Master of Advanced Studies degree if they come from outside Cambridge or a BA/MMath if they

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successfully complete four years' undergraduate study (including Part III) at Cambridge. The University has also announced that many students who took Part III in previous years will be able to be admitted to these degrees retrospectively. Please check the College website for details.

Weddings and Christenings Alumni are especially welcome to hold their wedding or children’s christenings in the Chapel. Enquiries can be made either to the Chaplain, Rev Dr John Rawlinson, or through the Alumni Relations Office. Fees are payable to defray the costs of weddings in the Chapel, and alumni are entitled to a reduced rate.

Forthcoming Events 2014 20 February: The Roskill Lecture 19 March: WSC 1958 Society Lunch 5 July: Reunion Dinner 1960 – 1970 26 – 28 September: Churchill Association Weekend; 8th Annual Association Golf Day Future Publications May 2014: The Churchill Newsletter December 2014: The Churchill Review

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