Churchill College Review 2014

CHURCHILL

REVIEW Volume 51

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CHURCHILL

REVIEW Volume 51 | 2014

“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

My Career since Churchill

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Drama in Churchill College

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Co-education: The Problems

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Floral Churchill

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Donations 2013-14

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Alumni Relations Officer’s Report

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Condolences

Professor Anthony Kelly

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Professor Anna Craft

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Dr Richard Hey: Memories

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MEMBERS’ NEWS

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WHO’S WHO 2013-14

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New Fellows 2013-14

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Apples and Atoms: Ernest TS Walton 70

Overseas Fellows 2013-14

The John Kinsella and Tracy Ryan Prizes

Who’s Who in Churchill

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IN THE BACK

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Professor Frank Hahn’s Memorial Celebration

The First Dinner in Hall

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The Master’s Farewell: A Poem

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Lady Soames

COLLEGE EVENTS

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Dr Colin Campbell

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The MCR Photo Competition

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Clubs and Societies

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JCR and MCR Reports 2013-14

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IN MEMORIAM

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Development Report

Black Monday

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Archives Centre: Director’s Report

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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Information for alumni and past Fellows

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EDITORIAL

Our numerous and varied anniversary celebrations have made us focus in new ways on the idea of the College as a community. This 51st issue of the Churchill Review continues the theme with, for example, a brief piece on the first High Table and a special feature on the GODS.Theatrical performance, with its shared thrills and spills, is particularly conducive to a sense of “togetherness”, as well as providing uniquely funny memories of one’s student years.Also striking this year are the student society reports, breathing enthusiasm and collective enjoyment.

(And two new clubs have been formed – pool and cycling.)

On a more prosaic note, we’d like to draw your attention to the Index to the Churchill Review, originally compiled by Mark Goldie in 1991 and since then regularly updated by Archives Centre staff. It’s now available online at www.chu.cam.ac.uk/about/publications. Thanks to all concerned and especially to Natalie Adams.

And warmest thanks, as ever, to our photographers – this year, Maintenance Manager Gavin Bateman and Overseas Fellow Mike Shull; we owe special gratitude to Barry Phipps, Curator Fellow, for the cover and title-page photographs.

Alison Finch

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

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FROM THE MASTER

“I worked my way up from Research Fellow to Professor at the Cavendish Laboratory, and became the first female professor in any of the physical sciences in 1998.�

FROM THE MASTER

At the time this Review went to press, Professor Sir David Wallace was still Master of Churchill College; by the time you read this, our Master will be Professor Dame Athene Donald. We bid a fond farewell to David in that role, and extend a very warm welcome to Athene.

From David Wallace, Master of Churchill College 2006-14 The Master’s Introduction in this his final year is an extract from the speech he gave to more than 350 alumni at the Reunion Dinner on 5th July 2014.

A very warm welcome to you all. It is wonderful to see so many of you and from all around the world. For many of you, this weekend will be deeply nostalgic, and for Elizabeth and me wistful.

I wondered about looking back over the past eight years, and I was just overwhelmed by what I might choose to say.

Like the College, I must begin more than fifty years ago. On 3rd August 1960, Her Majesty the Queen appointed Prince Philip as the Visitor to Churchill College in our Royal Charter. In June 1964, with the completion of this great Hall, we were honoured by his presence at the official opening of the College.

It is both a great privilege and a mark of this place that on his ninetieth birthday, when he gave up almost all official duties, he elected to continue in that role.

On 25th June this year, he was present again for the 50th Anniversary – a brilliant and historic occasion.

So many things to remember with affection – a teasing list for your own memories!

• The Churchill Rose and the Sir Winston Churchill Rose both now at Beales!

• The Power of Words at the Morgan Library, with Boris Johnson taking over on a pedalcab!

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• The Couples event – friendships for life!

• That truly iconic image by Yousuf Karsh – get your souvenirs now!!

• The Queen’s Award for Enterprise to The Møller Centre • The papers of another two Prime Ministers and several Nobel Laureates committed to the care of Allen Packwood and his team • And, dare I say: the Masters’ trio at the 50th Anniversary Ball, lyrics

by Sir John Boyd?!

Turning specifically to the past year, we have enjoyed classic Churchillian reunions: in Beijing, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Hong Kong, Paris, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Shanghai, Vancouver. The local networks of alumni across the globe are now a great feature of Churchill. Our trip to China and a flying visit with the PM to Kazakhstan also helped to build business for The Møller Centre.

The students have again done their bit academically. At the time of writing, we don’t yet have the public Tompkins Tables; taking our average over the last five years available, we rank 5th – the next of the new Colleges is 19th.

Of course, I mustn’t give you the impression that it is all work and no play – I know that’s not why you came to Churchill! The wider student achievement never ceases to amaze: Blues and international honours in several sports, including rowing and weightlifting, and an exceptional year for music. Let’s also not forget we had current student Olympians in both Beijing and London.

The Fellowship and alumni have also gained great distinction. In the past year alone: • five members and former members of the College have been elected Fellows of the Royal Society (10% of the total from the whole Commonwealth!).

• There have been six promotions of Fellows to Professorships in Cambridge • Too many individual prizes and academic distinctions to list, but I must mention a Knighthood in the Birthday Honours for current Fellow (now) Sir David Spiegelhalter, and yet more international honours for George Steiner.

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This is an extraordinary place, full of exceptional people.

Amidst the glittering achievements there are moments of great sadness. The deaths of Mary Soames and of Founding Fellows Alan Katritzky and Anthony Kelly mark the end of an era.

Of course, it is only too easy to forget that the College’s success – indeed its very existence – is utterly dependent on the generosity of founding and subsequent donors to the College; we must not, and we never do, take this for granted.

This is a perfect occasion, therefore, on which to say thank you to all alumni and friends of Churchill. Let me give you the figures: since 2006/7, donations have totalled £13 million, with a further £2.3M pledged, including £2 million from the Møller Foundation for the Møller Centre.The new court will proceed: the fund now stands at almost £6 million, we have planning permission, and the business case has been accepted by College Council.The project will be net cash positive in 2021; without the donations it would NEVER be; and if we can raise another £1M in the current final push, it will be net cash positive by the end of 2018.

When students come, I tell them that they are the renewal of the College.

When you come back as alumni, you are the reaffirmation of the high regard in which this place is held.

When students are graduating, I tell them that they take a part of the College with them: Not furniture! Not signage! Not Library books! They take a degree from one of the great universities of the world. They take a different person, changed consciously, and unconsciously. And they take deep life-long friendships and an enduring affection for this special place.

That is what they take, what you have and why you return.

And what about Elizabeth and me? Like you, we will take all of these things, and with deep gratitude. Rest assured, we will be back – not least in my new position as President of the Cambridge Society for the Application of Research, founded

by Sir John Cockcroft. So I follow in his footsteps in another small way.

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I am delighted that Dame Athene Donald FRS has been appointed as the next Master, and I will support her in every way. We offer Athene and Matthew our very best wishes that their time here will be as fulfilling for them as it has been for Elizabeth and me.

I finish with huge thanks and appreciation to the Fellowship and to all the staff, who make this such a great place to work and study. My particular thanks on the occasion of the Reunion go to all the staff in the Alumni and Development Office, and particularly to Sharon Mather, who has helped transform the Office and has certainly put the fun back into fund-raising. To Sharon, and to Paula Halson, who finishes after more than twenty-five years, we offer our sincere thanks and very best wishes for the future.

To all of you, thank you for being part of Churchill College, and thank you for your continuing engagement with this special place. And, as ever, I end on the most serious note to alumni: at Reunions, please do not try to relive everything that you did as a student here!

From Athene Donald, Master of Churchill College 2014 – As I write this in the summer my new role seems something of an inconceivable and remote adventure. By the time you read this I hope it will still feel like an adventure, but one that I am beginning to get to grips with. I come to Churchill as no stranger to Cambridge, having spent most of my professional life here. I was a Physics undergraduate and graduate student at Girton College, after which I spent four years in the US (Cornell University) as a postdoctoral researcher. Returning to Cambridge in 1981 I joined Robinson College, where I have been ever since, working my way up from Research Fellow to Professor at the Cavendish Laboratory (Physics Department) and becoming the first female professor in any of the physical sciences in 1998.

My research initially used electron microscopy to look at metals (working closely with Founding Fellow Archie Howie during my PhD), but during my time in the US I switched to using it to look at plastics. Since then I have moved ever closer to biology in my research activities, reaching there via some years of studying foods: my research tastes are catholic! Added to which, in recent years

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I have got much more involved in reading up in the social sciences through my work as the University’s Gender Equality Champion, a role from which I will be stepping down as I assume the Mastership (although that won’t stop my interest in the area).

Recently I also relinquished my role as Chair of the Royal Society’s Education Committee, but I remain on their Council and am also a Trustee of the Science Museum as well as a member of the European Research Council’s Scientific Council. I hope these external roles will help to keep me plugged in to the world beyond Cambridge and give me opportunities to meet many alumni on my travels.

For those of you on Twitter, you can find me at @athenedonald or read my blogs at http://occamstypewriter.org/athenedonald and, from time to time, on the Guardian Science blogs.

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“We put money aside to help individuals: those who for various reasons are ineligible for Bursaries (for example, estrangement from parents) or whose families have fallen on hard times.

The Disability Discrimination Acts rightly require us to provide equal facilities for disabled students, facilities that can come at a very high price to the College.�

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Senior Tutor’s Report So far as undergraduate academic performance is concerned, this has been a year in which our position of academic strength has been consolidated. In the Tompkins Table of Cambridge collegiate undergraduate academic performance, published this summer as usual in The Independent, Churchill was placed 6th out of Cambridge’s 29 undergraduate-admitting Colleges, behind (in order) Trinity, Pembroke, Trinity Hall, Emmanuel and Jesus, who – rather annoyingly – leapfrogged us from 6th place last year, pushing us down from our previous position of 5th by one one-hundredth of a percent in the Tompkins academic “score”. I mentioned last year that, understanding the limitations of league-tables, we examine the underlying and historic data in a range of ways, particularly focusing upon the 3- and 5-year averages. The “top six” Cambridge Colleges this year, of which we are one, are now also the top six in the three-year averages, and in the same order. Moreover, this group is separated from the other Cambridge Colleges by being statistically “better” than the rest in terms of undergraduate exam results. So, for all the caveats with which one surrounds league-tables, our Tompkins position seems not be a chimera – and is therefore appropriate testimony both to a fantastic student body and to a group of colleagues secondto-none. A very good old friend rang me up the other day – after about five years in which we had both somehow been too busy to manage a rendez-vous – and asked how things were at Churchill. I heard myself saying,“Great. Just great.

It’s such a sane and professional place,” and although I have become a bit of a stuck record on this subject, it really is the case that I am reminded pretty much every day of my professional life here how lucky I was when I was given the opportunity to come to the College seven years ago.

Others doubtless are commenting upon the departure of David Wallace after eight superb years as Master. To those who teach our students and look after them in a myriad of other ways, David has been a constant source of encouragement and support. I have worked closely with some quite exceptional senior colleagues in Cambridge over the years, and David is the equal of any of

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them: an outstanding mentor, counsellor and inquisitor. I will personally miss him – and Elizabeth – greatly; but we are all looking forward with excitement to the arrival of Athene Donald, who has already spent a good deal of time in the College discussing present and future challenges with the College Officers and others; and who has, it seems to me, exactly the right qualities for Churchill: tough-minded, progressive, egalitarian, positive, humorous and seeing the bigger picture – in the wider collegiate University and beyond. I’ve been thinking a bit this year about what characterises different Colleges and, indeed, Faculties and Departments. Some differences at subject level are clearly, and unsurprisingly, subject-related: the Engineers, for instance, tend to be practically minded and the Lawyers clear-thinking; the wag would say that the Economists want to be paid more… For Colleges there are interesting attitudinal differences, not so obviously explained by subject-mix, even where the particular mix is out-ofkilter with the collegiate average – as is the case at Churchill. It’s probably fair to say that there are Colleges that are instinctively collaborative with one another and co-operative with the University’s central plans, and others that are naturally of an independent, go-it-alone mindset. This can make for entertaining discussion at University committee level! Churchill is emphatically collaborative, while trying to lead the way in challenging assumption and complacency. I hope we remain this way.

Beyond the usual successes and relative disappointments of the academic year, there is one matter that stands out in my recollection of 2013-14 as being especially heartening. This is our success in obtaining yet more funding – via alumni, directly or indirectly – for student support.We are now able to provide some fifteen undergraduate maintenance bursaries each year of around £2,000, over and above the Cambridge Bursary Scheme to which all students can apply.

For some of our undergraduates, whose family backgrounds are financially and personally challenging, this money is critical to their survival and success with us. I should add that our bursary-holders perform very strongly academically.

So my heartfelt thanks go to the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust (as ever), to BG Group and to the many Churchillians who have helped us so generously in this regard. I urge others to join them.We will invest your money well in the future of our country and the world!

Richard Partington

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Bursar’s Report This has been the busiest year since I arrived as Bursar in 1998.

Continued pay restraint and very hard work on the part of our conferences and hospitality teams both in College and in the Møller Centre have kept our finances sound, and we have put in place funding for some strategic improvements with a bond issue on the private markets. For those of you unfamiliar with this area of finance, the College borrowed a total of £11 million at a fixed rate of interest for 30-40 years from three insurance/pension firms.

We did this alongside sixteen other colleges, which kept the legal and other fees down. The money will enable us to pay off existing bank loans at various times, when it makes sense to do so; to refinance the Møller Centre’s balance sheet; and to finance the gap (narrowing, hopefully) between funds raised for the new court and the cost of construction.

Continuing on a financial theme, a number of alumni have asked me recently about what we do to support students financially and what we are seeking to do in the future. The situation with regard to fees and funding of higher education is in an almost constant state of flux, of course.

On the undergraduate side, UK and EU undergraduates are eligible for fee loans for the entire £9,000 of fees for each year of their course. However, the loans for maintenance or living expenses come nowhere near the amount needed to live and eat even in a Cambridge college, where we charge for only thirty weeks’ rent in a year. We estimate that even with our short rentals, a student needs about £7,000 a year to live reasonably comfortably, and the normal student maintenance loan is only about £4,500 a year.

When the fees rose, the Collegiate University (Cambridge and its colleges) put in place a means-tested universal scheme, the Cambridge Bursary Scheme, to which all UK and EU undergraduates can apply.This gives grants of up to £3,500 p.a. regardless of which college you apply to. Churchill College does contribute to these, as a fixed percentage of our fee income, regardless of how many students we have in receipt of a Bursary. The rest of the money comes from the University and currently from the Isaac Newton Trust. The Trust’s contribution will finish in 2016 and we will have to bridge the gap. So Churchill

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College contributes already about £85,000 a year to the scheme and that is likely to increase by another £45,000 in two years’ time. Currently more than 110 students get a Cambridge Bursary at Churchill College each year.

In addition we have negotiated some bursaries specific to Churchill students, from kind donors.The largest of these groups is the twelve bursaries each year from the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust, for UK undergraduates. We also have the Judge David Stokes QC Law Bursaries, BG Group Bursaries and the James Barton Bursary. Undergraduates from outside the EU can also seek assistance from the Cambridge Trusts.

For Advanced Students, we put aside about £50,000 from general income and about £130,000 from restricted income each year to part-fund studentships.

Many of our Advanced Students come from outside the UK. We partially support about twenty-three students in total each year with grants ranging from £1,500 to £13,000.

On top of this, we also put money aside to help with individuals: those who for various reasons are ineligible for Bursaries (for example, estrangement from parents) or whose families have fallen on hard times, or whose PhD is overrunning and whose funding has run out. We help undergraduates and Advanced Students with the cost of participating in sport or music at University level (we also fund College clubs and societies to the tune of £55,000 a year). Increasingly we find ourselves being asked to help with costs associated with taking unpaid internships in the vacation, which are becoming a quite significant precursor to job hunting.

There is also a raft of worthy things students wish to do: thanks to the generosity of those who gave to the Tizard Fund, this is one area where we can help.We also put aside money each year for those attending academic conferences. We have a few special funds for students in certain subjects.

In total, the College paid out to students over £730,000 in student support last year, including contributions from the Winston Churchill Foundation of the USA (graduates) and University (Cambridge Bursaries), and of this total more than half came from College resources.

However, we know that there are a number of areas of need for the future, and the priorities we have identified are:

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• Additional funding for sport and music. Those playing sport or music at the highest level in the University or outside, apart from in some very well funded teams, can incur costs of more than £1,000 in a year, and the College currently can fund only £350 maximum.

• Funding to support disabled students. The Disability Discrimination Acts rightly require us to provide equal facilities for disabled students, but these facilities can come at a very high price to the College. Most students with a disability have very different needs, and we have to adapt accommodation every time to their particular needs. If necessary, we also provide transport, a base for carers, special IT equipment and software, among other things.

Their travel costs tend to be a lot higher also.

• Studentships to support UK Arts Masters students at Churchill College.

Increasingly, those wishing to do a PhD in the arts are expected to have a Masters degree. There is very little funding available for these, and our UK students are increasingly in debt when they finish their undergraduate degree.

• Undergraduate bursary funds. The College has to bridge the gap once the Isaac Newton Trust stops its contributions to the Cambridge Bursary Scheme, which it pledged for the first five years of the scheme. To generate £130,000 a year income to support the scheme, we need to raise capital of just over £3 million.

In the meantime, we are advancing at a rapid pace on building projects. 64 Storey’s Way has doubled in size and now provides fifteen comfortable, warm, well-furnished Advanced Student rooms. We have Wi-fi coverage over the whole central area of the site and will start on the flats and hostels shortly.

The Møller Centre extensions and improvements are rising out of the ground.

We go out to tender for the new court project in early August and hope to be digging out the basement by January 2015.

We have just received planning permission, with King’s College, Selwyn College and the Leys School, to rebuild the combined colleges’ boathouse. All being well, we hope to start construction late in Michaelmas Term and complete in summer 2015. In the meantime, we have to find temporary homes for our boats.

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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 the 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 about extending the Møller Centre) than we might do otherwise. Last year Chris Potts (G81) joined the Board of the Møller Centre.We are looking for an external member for the Audit Committee.

The College has been reviewing elements of its strategy for the next ten years.

This has included looking at the role of the Møller Centre with the College; the future developments in North-West Cambridge and the College’s role in the post-doctoral research community; the subject balance and other matters relating to our Advanced Student community; and where we go next in terms of fund-raising.

This summer, with the closing of the 50th Anniversary appeal, Sharon Mather took early retirement as Development Director, and we hope to have her replacement in the seat by the end of the year. Sharon had a standing ovation from over 350 alumni and partners at the 1960s Reunion Dinner in July. Also, our long-serving College senior plumber, Graham Hull, has finally hung up his spanners.

The person who will be missed most by generations of visiting Fellows in particular (and this Bursar) is Paula Halson, who also took early retirement as Registrar in July. Over the last twenty years she has been the linchpin of the Fellowship administration, and has an amazing memory for all the Fellows who have passed through our doors. Noelle Caulfield’s role now covers not just being the Master’s PA but also being the Fellowship Secretary.

Jennifer Brook

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Archives Centre: Director’s Report A Leap of Faith Alastair Campbell may have famously declared of the Blair Labour Government that “We don’t do God”, and Churchill may have described himself as a buttress, supporting the established Church from the outside, but it is clear that the relationship between politics and religion is more multi-faceted, complex and nuanced. This was certainly the conclusion of the two-day conference Faith in Politics which was staged by the Archives Centre in November 2013. Arising out of a dialogue with alumnus Michael Lewis, who generously supported the event, the conference sought to examine the various interfaces between faith and politics, from the religious convictions of political leaders to the role of faith communities in shaping policy, through the impact of religious fundamentalism to a comparison with practice in Europe and the United States.

There was a keynote presentation, followed by a lively question-and-answer session with The Rt Hon Baroness Warsi, Minister for Faith and Communities, and provocative presentations by Lord Deben and Peter Tatchell (among others). By the time this piece appears in print I have faith that recordings of the main sessions will be available on the excellent new College website.

Another leap of faith for the Archives Centre has been the adoption of new technology to deliver access to its holdings. The Churchill Papers collection is now delivered on-line straight to the laptops of our researchers. Images of the documents are freely available to those within the physical bounds of Churchill College and the Archives Centre. Meanwhile, our commercial partner Bloomsbury is busy selling the digital edition to other universities and libraries around the globe, thereby massively increasing access to this core collection.

The inclusion of the Churchill Papers collection on the UK Register of Documentary Heritage, part of the UNESCO Memory of the World Programme, was a timely reminder of the significance of this material, while the award of a Wellcome Trust grant for the cataloguing of the papers of Nobel Laureate Sir Aaron Klug is allowing us to open up another important collection.

Not all things can be left to faith, and the team within the Archives Centre has started to explore the likely future shape of our service: looking at how we

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will preserve, catalogue and provide access to electronic records, and how we might be more proactive in supporting teaching and research within the College and University.

As Director of the Archives Centre I put my faith in the excellent professional Archives Centre team, in our Archives Committee and Archives Trusts, and in our growing network of Patrons, friends and supporters. Thank you all.

Allen Packwood

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Development Report (1 July 2013 – 30 June 2014) This year saw the biggest attendance at a Reunion Dinner ever! It was gratifying to see so many Churchillians back in College and still playing an active role in the College community. It is in large part due to the moral support and financial commitment of its alumni that Churchill College continues to flourish and offer its students the best Cambridge experience.

Gifts in 2013/14 The College has raised a total of £2,193,765 in philanthropic support (cash gifts and pledges) during this financial year.This total includes the first generous pledge instalment from The AP Møller and Chastine Mc-Kinney Møller Foundation.

50th Anniversary Appeal: New Court We were delighted to obtain planning consent for the new court of student accommodation in April 2014. The building work is set to commence late in 2014, with a completion date of Spring 2016. Fund-raising for the new court has continued throughout the year and the balance in the account at the end of June stood at £5,744,647 towards the £10 million cost of this exciting project.There are a number of pledges and applications to grant-making trusts outstanding, so we are hoping to increase the final total to nearer £7 million.

Legacy Giving In June 2014, consultation sessions with alumni were held in London and Cambridge to discuss motivation for leaving a gift in Will. The wide-ranging discussion also covered how to improve communication of information about leaving a legacy to Churchill, as well as about the importance of legacy gifts.

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 events. Please do contact the Development Office if you would like further information about joining this special group of donors. www.chu.cam.ac.uk/alumni/get-involved/giving-college/legacy

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Special Events There were a number of Churchillian gatherings around the world this year, details of which are included in the Alumni Relations Officer’s Report.

We held two special events this year, the first of which, on 1 May, was an event organised by architect Rod McAllister, in association with the Cambridge University Land Society (CULS) and Churchill College. CULS is an informal alumni society which, like Churchill College, was established over fifty years ago. As part of the CULS extensive events programme and the College’s 50th anniversary celebrations, a “supercrit” took place at Pilbrow and Partners in Clerkenwell. (“Supercrits” invite some of the world’s greatest architects back into the studio to present one of their most famous projects to a student audience and a panel of international critics.) Professor Mark Goldie gave an introductory talk based on his book Corbusier Comes to Cambridge: post-war architecture and the competition to build Churchill College, which set the historical context and was followed by renowned architects and architectural historians re-presenting the designs of the original firms that competed to design Churchill College. It was a fascinating event which attracted a great deal of interest and was featured in the Architects’ Journal on 16 May. (See below, College Events.)

The second was a very auspicious occasion for the College when, on 25 June, HRH The Duke of Edinburgh was guest of honour at a dinner to celebrate his official opening of the College in June 1964. In tandem with this event, an innovative exhibition of College archive material and an installation recreating a 1960s student room with original furniture and contemporaneous artefacts was organised. (See below, College Events.) This was a most fitting and momentous occasion to draw to a close the College’s 50th Anniversary celebrations.

Finally, we should like to highlight a couple of “green” and very tangible gifts made to the College this year. Head Gardener John Moore and his team do a sterling job keeping the grounds and gardens looking beautiful, and, judging by the feedback we get in the Alumni and Development Office, this is greatly appreciated by alumni, students and visitors alike. To enhance the College landscape further, Mr Michael Lewis (U64) has donated funds for more trees to be planted in the grounds and Dr Frank Maine (G60) has provided funds for a new greenhouse and to support the cultivation of orchids. Look out for more

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HRH The Duke of Edinburgh in Churchill College on 25 June 2014 on these stories in The Churchill Newsletter next year, and if you are a fan of orchids please do get involved at chu.cam.ac.uk/alumni/get-involved/alumni-groups.

If you have particular interests and would like to support other activities in the College please do let us know at development@chu.cam.ac.uk or telephone 01223 331546 – we would be very pleased to hear from you.

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Following Sharon Mather’s retirement at the end of July, with the imminent close of the 50th Campaign, the College has been searching for a new Development Director and it is hoped that the new incumbent will be announced in the autumn.

The Alumni and Development Office

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Donations 2013-14 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 2013 to 30th June 2014. (N.B. Gifts made after this date will be acknowledged in next year’s Review.)

Lord Hanson Foundation Professor R E W Adams 1979 Dr J W J Akroyd 1997 Mr D Alafouzos 1998 Mr C Alexander Mr A Allen Mr A Alt Mr N A Altmann 1991 Dr R A Ancliff 1986 Dr P J & Dr R A Ancliff 1987 Ms G Antoniou 2010 Mr M Arena Mr C M L Argent 1962 Mr T Armitage 1982 Dr D Armstrong 1971 Professor K J Arrow 1964 Mr D M Asbury 1968 Professor N W Ashcroft 1961 Dr H Ashraf 1989 Mr L Ashton 1994 Professor M Atzmon 1996 Mr R Auerbach Professor J A Bagger 1977 Mr A M F Bailey 1986 Dr N E Baker 1979 Dr A J Ball 1990 Mr J A Ballard 1964 Dr S E Barber 1981 Mr S Baynes Ms M Bennathan Professor Emeritus L Berkowitz 1974 Dr D J Bernasconi 1992 Dr R Beroukhim 1991 Mr K Bhargava 1981 Dr T A Bicanic 1990 Mr L E Bigler1967 Mr P T Bird 1975 Mr A Bird Dr R J Black 1987 Ms C E Blackmun 1974

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Dr A Blackwell 1981 Dr R D Blank 1978 Professor A Blumstein 1983 Mr and Mrs P J Blythe 1973 Mrs W Blythe 1973 Mr T J Bond 1982 Dr G S Booth 1968 Mrs E Booth 2001 Dr S Boss 2006 Mr and Mrs G Boss Mr P G Bossom 1970 Professor E L Boulpaep 1978 Mrs I Boyer Dr I L Bratchie 1976 Mr M R Brazier1995 Ms C R Brett 1991 Mrs D Brezina Mrs K H Brierton 1994 Mr and Mrs B O Brierton 1994 Mrs Gwendoline Brinded Mr M A Brinded CBE 1971 Rt Hon Lord and Lady Broers Mrs J Brook 1999 Ms T M Brown 1973 Dr A J Brown 1988 Mr J E Bruce 1971 Dr J H Brunton 1964 Ms B Bryant Dr W G Burgess 1988 Mr Robert B and Mrs Ginger Callahan Ms A Calvert 1982 Mr C Campbell 2008 Mrs A A Canning 1975 Mr W J Capper 1961 Mr R D Carew-Jones 1971 Mr A Carlisle Mr I Carnaby 1967 Dr V A Carreño 1990 Rev C Carson Dr P A Catarino 1988

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Mr T A Cave 1971 Mr G M Chambers 1982 Mr H K Chan 1979 Mr S Chang Dr D A Chaplin 1984 Professor K Chatterjee 2000 Ms Y Cheyney Mr P Chown 1990 Mrs S J J Christie 1996 Mr and Mrs D B Christie 1996 Dr S P Churchhouse 1985 Mr P M C Clarke 1961 Mr D Clasen Mrs S M Clements 1981 Miss J D Cockcroft Lady Cockell Professor J R D Coffey 1988 Mr B L Collings 1980 Professor G Constable 1974 Dr A Cooper 1982 Mrs J N Corbett 1997 Mr R I Coull 1983 Dr J R Crabtree 1965 Mr M A Craven 1985 Mr N Crews 2000 Mr T J L Cribb 1970 Mr A Cullen1975 Mr T S Culver 1963 Professor T W Cusick 1964 Dr N Cutler 2011 Mr Douglas N Daft AC and Mrs Delphine H Daft Mr R Davey Mr A R Davies 1992 Mr H A J Davies 1972 Mr R J Davies 1962 Mr R M Davies 1969 Miss E Davis 2008 Mr R Davis Mr R J Davis 1972 Miss S A-M Davis 2003 Mrs E Dawson Mr P C de Boor 1988 Sir Evelyn de Rothschild Dr N W Dean 1965 Mr John Deans Mr D R Deboys 1999 Mr F J Deegan Dr L Denault 2011 Mr N J Denbow 1964

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Dr R M Dixon 1978 Mr R H T Dixon 1985 Mr and Mrs K R Doble 1981 Mrs L A Doble 1979 Mr A P Docherty 1966 Mr P A Dornan 1982 Dr C Ducati 1999 Mr A P Duff 1979 Mr and Mrs G Dunlop Mr D M M Dutton 1962 The Reverend J M Dyer 1979 Professor S L Dyson Mr A Eade Mr R T Eddleston 1967 Dr H K Edelberg 1986 Mr R Edey Mr J R Elder 1994 Dr R T Elias 1984 Dr S E Ellison 1987 Dr R Elsdon 1972 Dr G Evans 1968 Mr P F F Fan 2001 Dr A-M T Farmer 1980 Mr W J Farrant 1982 Mr J R Farrell 1980 Dr M Ferme 2000 Dr J N Fields 1971 Mr J Filochowski 1966 Dr A L R Findlay 1972 Mr D M Fineman1991 Dr R M Fisher 1978 Dr G J Forder 1965 Dr C Fraser 1976 Mrs E D French 1978 Mr and Mrs P C French 1978 Mr M R Frith 1969 Mr P R A Fulton 1970 Dr F G Furniss 1973 Professor D M Gale 1975 Mr G Garrison Mr N A W M Garthwaite 1970 Mr D Gates Sir Peter Gershon 1966 Professor M R J Gibbs 1977 Mr J M Gibbs 1993 Professor J F Gilbert 1972 Mrs M Gilbert Professor M B Giles 1978 Mrs A M Gill 1976 Mr and Mrs S L Gill 1976

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Professor O Gingerich 1985 Mr R Giniyatov 2004 Professor A L Goldberg 1963 Professor M A Goldie 1979 Mr J Gooding Mrs J E Goodland 1974 Mr and Mrs P M Goodland 1973 Dr D C Goodrich 1980 Dr P D Goodwin 1996 Mr and Mrs A Gornall Dr C Goulimis 1977 Mr A P J Gray 2000 Ms E Gray 2005 Dr D J Graziano 1979 Mr S T Green 1961 Mr R Gregory 1979 Dr D R Grey 1966 Dr N E and Dr J Grzeskowiak 1973 Dr J Grzeskowiak 1973 Professor Sir John Gurdon 1973 Mr L Guthart Mrs F Guthrie Dr R J Guthrie 1969 Mrs T A Hall 1982 Mr A P Hall 1993 Mr M Hammler 1979 Mr T Hancock Dr S P Harden 1987 Dr C A Harper OBE 1981 Miss V Harper Mr M E Harper 1967 Mr P T W Harrington 1991 Dr T L Harris 1994 Mr B A Harris 1980 Professor J Hart 2007 Mr G F Hart 2000 Professor G M Heal 1963 Professor A F Heavens 1977 The Reverend G Hegarty 1974 Mr K A Herrmann 1978 Dr C M Hicks 1989 Mr J J Higgins 1984 Mr N Higgins Mr J A Higham QC 1971 Dr P Hilton 1967 Mr M S Hoather 1994 Dr J W D Hobro 1991 Dr P D Hodson 1979 Mr A O Hold 1991 Dr R W Holti 1974

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Mr M P Honey 1992 Mr J Hopkins Dr I Howe 1963 Mr C Howell 1997 Mr J C R Hudson 1971 Mrs I Hull 1978 Mr A J Hutchinson 1968 Mr S J S Ickringill 1968 Mr J Ingle 1972 Mr T C W Ingram 1966 Mr A C Innes 1987 Professor R Jackman 1964 Dr P T Jackson 1962 Mr B Jafar 1997 Dr D H Jaffer 1976 Dr L Jardine-Wright 2012 The Honorable Bernard Jenkin MP Mr R G Jewsbury 1970 Mr A R John 1975 Mr G T Johnson 1961 The Reverend J Johnson 1965 Dr M A Johnson 1972 Ms R Johnston 1973 Dr M W Johnston 1986 Mr J S Jolley 1969 Ms V C Jolliffe 1973 Mr A W S Jones 1985 Dr C N Jones 1978 Mr I Jones 1981 Dr R I Jones 1978 Mr T H Jones 1972 Mr F Judd Mr J Justus 1998 Professor T Kailath 1977 Professor P A Kalra 1976 Professor A R Katritzky 1959 Professor D Kelsey 1984 Dr D R Kendall 1973 Mr O Kennington 1996 Professor J Keown 2001 Dr S G Martin 1977 Mr T A Key 1965 Professor J T Killen FBA 1961 Mr D E W King 1961 Mrs A N King 1994 Mr N G Kingan 1961 Mr W M Kinsey 1970 Professor D B Kittelson 1966 Mrs L M Knox 1972 Dr E A Kohll 1961

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Mr and Mrs A Kramvis 1971 Mrs S A Kramvis 1972 Professor L Krause 1976 Dr S J Kukula 1984 Dr T C Lacalli 1968 Mr H S Lake 1965 Mr A J Lake 1985 Mr A J Lambert 1993 Mr R G Larkin 1967 Mr P Larson Professor L J Lau 1983 Mr I M Lawrie 1987 Dr G J Le Poidevin 1971 Dr C E Lee-Elliott1987 Mr A E Leigh-Smith1961 Mrs C Lemen 1999 Mr M Lewis 1964 Dr A M Lewis 1983 Dr W Lewis-Bevan 1979 Dr G R G Lewison 1961 Dr E T Libbey 1966 Mrs M Libby Mr S Linnett Ms S Linnett 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 Professor R V E Lovelace 1994 Mrs M Lovell Mr A Lownie Professor R M Loynes 1962 Professor C Lu 2012 Mr J P Lucas 1989 Dr H F Luckhurst 1978 Dr R W A Luke 1981 Professor D E Luscombe Litt D, FBA 1964 Dr O D Lyne 1989 Mr T F Mabbott 1977 Professor A V P Mackay OBE 1970 Mr D A Mackenzie 1999 Dr N S MacLeod 1979 Dr F W Maine 1960 Mr A Manson Mr C P S Markham 1965 Mr H F A Marriott 1963 Professor J H Marsh 1974 Mr A Marshall

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Mr C Martin Mrs S Mather 2006 Dr V E Maybeck 2004 Mrs A M Mayne 2001 Mr and Mrs L Mayne 2001 Mr P McCarthy 1995 Mr D McDonough Mr J M McGee 1969 Mr J P McIntyre 1971 Dr T McManus 1965 Mr P Merson 1969 Mr E Merson 1996 Dr K J Meyer 1972 Mr G P Middleton 1985 The Reverend Dr P G Miller 1985 Mr R J Miller 1983 Mr A J Milne 2000 Mr N R E Miskin 1966 Professor K Mislow 1975 Mr M Mitchell Dr P J Mole 1971 Mr K D Morris 1985 Mr S D Morrish and Dr H Ashraf 1989 Dr Iain Morrison Mr R Murley Mr B Myers Mr and Mrs S G Narracott 1988 Professor D M G Newbery CBE FBA 1966 Mr G R Newman 1973 Dr D J Norfolk 1968 Dr K J E Northover 1968 Ms G Nurse 1987 Mr T R Oakley 1977 Mr T Oates 2013 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 P Owen Mr A Packwood 2002 Mr C H Palmer 1994 Dr P J Parsons 1989 Mr R Partington 2007 Mr B J Patel 1987 Dr A J Pauza 1993 Mr A Peaker 1964 Mrs S Pearce 1976 Mr D A Pedropillai 1983

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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 Dr E W Powell 1967 Mr C Preston Mrs V Pulbrook Mr G C Pyke 1963 Professor R B Pynsent 1963 Dr S-X Qin 1984 Mr D P Raftis 1991 Major General Charles Ramsay CB OBE Mr D F Ramsay Mr A V Ramsay 1967 Mr J Ramsay Mr M Ramsay William Ramsay Mr M K Redhead 1966 Mr M K Rees 1974 Mr J J H Reilly 1984 Mrs D Resch 1998 Professor D J Reynolds Dr D E Reynolds 1975 Dr R A Reynolds (Dixon) 1975 Professor P Rez 1970 Mr J Rhodes Professor L Riddiford 2001 Mr A Riley 1974 Professor W Rindler 1989 Dr R H Rives Mr D Roberts 1992 Dr J D Roberts 1970 Dr T L Roberts 1965 Mr and Mrs S M Robinson 1976 Mr B H A Robinson 1991 Mr G K Rock-Evans 1963 Professor D O Rockwell 1981 Mrs L Rodgers 1992 Mr A H Rosenberg 1968 Professor J Rosenberg 1972 Mr T Roskill Mr N Roskill Mr S D Rothman 1982 Mr A J Rowell 1986 Mr P Russell 1977

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Professor D B Rutledge 1973 Mr M T Rutter 1982 Professor M J Rycroft 1960 Mr A Sachak The Hon Mr Justice Sales 1980 Mrs J E Salmon 1976 Mr R H N Salmon 1962 Mr G K Sampson 1965 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 Mrs G Sheldon Professor K Shell 1995 Professor M Shull Professor K Siddle 1982 Professor S D Silver 1994 Dr J H Silverman 1984 Professor Q Skinner Mr C W Smick 1993 Mr R P Smith 1992 Mrs E Snell Professor R M Solow 1983 Professor F J Sottile 1985 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 Mr Stephenson Professor D L Stern 1994 Professor I N Stewart FRS 1963 Mr A Stewen Mrs R Stokes Mr A L Strang 1969 Rt Hon Dr Gavin Strang 1964 Dr M A Stroud 1962 Mr C E Sweeney 1979 Mr R J Tarling 1963 Mr C J Tavener 1961 Dr A Taylor 2006 Mr W G Taylor 1971 Mr I Temperton 1992 Mr I R Thomas 1997 Mr D K S Thomas 1981 Mrs I A Thompson 1977

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Mr A F Thomson 1961 Mrs D Thorland Mr S J S Thornhill 1995 Professor D J Thouless 1961 Professor M D Thouless 1978 Mr P G Thwaite 1990 Mrs S F Tickle 1994 Mr B J Tidd 1994 Mr G R Tillman 1984 Mr A Titcombe Mr D Titterington Dr J Toner 2013 Mrs M Tong Dr R M Tong 1971 Mr F E Toolan 1963 Dr D R Tray 1993 Dr P N Trewby 1965 Dr and Mrs Monroe E Trout Dr W Y Tsang 1981 Dr C Tubb 1999 Ms J Turkington 1987 Mr and Mrs P A Turner 2003 Mrs C L Turner 2003 Mr A J Tylee 1988 Professor M Tyree 1969 Mr E A Udren 1977 Mr M A Upton 1962 Miss N Vadgama 2003 Mr J Vaux Mr and Mrs J M F Wadsworth 1987 Mrs S B Wadsworth 1987 Mr R M Walker 1963 Sir David and Lady Wallace 2006 Mr P Walsh Mr A Walton Dr J P Wangermann 1986 Mr P Ward Mr P F Ward 1999

Dr I Wassell 2006 Mr J Waters 1964 Professor W B Webb 1980 Professor A J Webber 1990 Mr R C Wenzel 1972 Mr M Westerman Dr W Wheatley 1993 Mr T P Whipple 2000 Dr S E Whitcomb 1973 Dr A S Wierzbicki 1980 Anthony H Wild PhD 1968 Dr S F Williams 1984 Mr C Williams Mr A Williamson Dr A E Willis 1988 Mr I S Wilson 1970 Mr N Wilson 1965 Mr R S F Wingrove 1969 Mr A J B Wood Dr D R Woodall 1962 Mr and Mrs A R Woodland 1972 Mr A C Worrall 1986 Mr I Wright Mr N E Wrigley 1963 Mr N Wrigley Dr S E Wunsch 1992 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 L Zhou 2003 Professor Wei Zhou 1987

+ 21 anonymous donors

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 Mr W A Bartlett 1985 Dr G Bielstein Sir John Boyd 1996 Lady Boyd Mrs J Brook Mr J H Burton 1961 Dr A J Crisp 1968 Professor T W Cusick 1964 Mrs J M Donora 1980 Mr D M M Dutton 1962 Mr G R Farren 1966 Mr P R A Fulton 1970 Mr N A W M Garthwaite 1970 Dr G A Gelade 1964 Mr S T Green 1961 Dr S K Greene 1983 Mr R Gregory 1979 Mr S Gupta 1983 Professor A Hewish 1961 Mr J Hopkins Mrs M E Ker Hawn 1989 Mr M Lewis 1964 Mr G H Lock 1966 Mr P N Locke 1966 Dr F W Maine 1960 Dr B Martin 1965 Mr J R Maw 1964 Mrs M Miller Dr S A Mitton 1968 Dr J H Musgrave 1965 Mr J G Potter MBE MA FCIS 1963 Mr M A W Prior 1974

Mr R H N Salmon 1962 Mr David Stedman Mr Victor Stedman Miss R C Stott 1987 Dr M Tippett 1995 Mrs S B Wadsworth 1987 Sir David Wallace 2006 Lady Wallace Dr A J Walton 1960 Professor A J Webber 1990 Dr W G Welland 1970 Anthony H Wild PhD 1968

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

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Alumni Relations Officer’s Report It’s been an exciting year and I couldn’t have picked a better time to join the College. Whether you live in Cambridge, the UK or internationally, I hope you’ve managed to attend an alumni group event or come back to College for a special dinner. It feels as though there hasn’t been one quiet moment and we aim to continue the hard work into 2015 in order to provide you with ample opportunities to engage with the College.

College Events At the end of September 2013, as always, Association Weekend was held at College. Alan Budd (G63) was the ringleader in organising the 50th reunion of the 1963 matriculates and inviting them to return to College for a special drinks reception and High Table. The Friday night featured a wine-tasting from the Fellows’ cellar, and we were delighted to welcome Dr Caroline Harper OBE (G81) as the special guest speaker at the Annual Dinner. There was intense competition between staff and alumni during the Association Golf Day at the Cambridge Meridian Golf Club, and participants returned to College later in the day to attend the prize-giving ceremony.This was a particularly special Association Weekend as the Saturday afternoon featured “1972: Conversation”, the second part of the College’s joint collaboration with Clare, King’s and Lucy Cavendish Colleges.The event, celebrating the admission of female undergraduates, consisted of conversations on science, society and the future, and on culture and media, and several Churchill alumnae took part in the panel discussion. We were delighted to welcome back to College so many alumni, and we do hope you will join us for the next Association Weekend.

We had an astonishing 355 guests for the Reunion Dinner in July 2014, having invited alumni and past Fellows from 1960-1970. (See photograph.) The unofficial festivities began on Friday night as many alumni arrived early to dine at High Table and spend an extra night in College (we were told accommodation had greatly improved since the 1960s!). On the Saturday, guests were invited to view a special exhibition of College Archive material relating to the 50th anniversary of Churchill College. The exhibition included rare newsreel footage and an installation of an original student room from the 1960s.

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were treated to a beautiful evening during which to socialise and drink champagne on the Jock Colville Lawn. The Dining Hall looked beautiful, set for so many guests, and it was a jovial evening filled with food, drink and reminiscing.

The event was hard work, but well worth the effort, with the many smiling faces on Saturday evening (and Sunday morning!), and we hope all those who attended enjoyed visiting College and with old friends. Please visit our flickr account: www.flickr.com/photos/churchillians to see photos from the event.

A few weeks after the Reunion Dinner I travelled north to attend the annual drinks reception in Edinburgh. This year, as the Master had commitments in Cambridge, Lord Christopher Monckton (U70) graciously offered to host the event. I was delighted to meet more Churchillians, and it was a wonderful opportunity for alumni living in Scotland to meet, converse, network and hear from Lord Monckton about what’s been happening at the College.

I’m pleased to report that a number of alumni independently organised groups to return to College to dine at High Table throughout the year. If you’re interested in dining in College, please visit our FAQs page: www.chu.cam.ac.uk/faqs/2/3/ or see the back of the Churchill Review for more information.We’re always delighted to welcome you back to Cambridge, and if you’re near College during the day please pop into the Alumni Relations Office and say hello!

Alumni Groups We now have ten alumni groups and are working to establish a few more in the UK and around the world. I’m delighted that you want to stay connected to your peers and College and use these groups to make new friends, socialise, fund-raise and network. Alumni group leaders are keen to grow membership and hear your opinions on the types of events that interest you. Please visit www.chu.cam.ac.uk/alumni/get-involved/alumni-groups to find an alumni group near you, contact a leader or find out more about our common interest groups.

To give you a flavour of what you might have missed and what is to come…

The Master, Sir David Wallace, visited Asia in April and was welcomed by many Churchillians thanks to events organised by alumni group leaders. Drink receptions and dinners were held in Hong Kong, Shanghai and Beijing and

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provided a wonderful opportunity for alumni to learn more about the current state of the College and say goodbye to Sir David.These groups are very active, so please do get in contact if you’re visiting the area.

The Churchill College Group of Australia and New Zealand held its inaugural event in Sydney in April. They are currently planning a newsletter and an event in Melbourne in January 2015.

The Churchill BIFS (Belgium, Italy, France and Switzerland) hosted a dinner in Paris, attended by Sir David, and continue to be active in Europe.

In January 2014 the New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania group met for brunch at the Churchill Tavern in New York and discussed research interests and event ideas. They hope to host a day of lectures and lunch in New York in the future. In April, the Bursar visited Boston, Massachusetts and held an informal lunch with alumni in the area.The event was so successful that alumni have now formed an official group. Similarly, a very well attended dinner in San Francisco in May, attended by Sir David and Development Director Sharon Mather, spawned an alumni group. Several members attended a theatre performance together in June and the group is busy planning future events.

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In 2014 there was a visit to the Military Intelligence Museum at Chicksands (UK) and several pub gatherings in London. We hope to organise more events throughout the United Kingdom in 2015 – please visit our events page regularly to find out more: www.chu.cam.ac.uk/alumni/events.

Communications I hope you’ve all now had the opportunity to view our new website www.chu.cam.ac.uk/alumni and think it’s as wonderful as we do! Please do take a moment to create your alumna/alumnus profile, update your contact details, scan our events page and read all of our news. Livia Argentesi works hard to deliver an exciting news e-bulletin each month and keep you up to date through a variety of social media platforms.We hope you remember your time at College fondly and feel as though College has remained a part of your life well past graduation.

Dr Sarah Fahle

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“Charlie and the Churchill College saw its première: the story of a boy from poor stock winning a tour round a Churchill College set in a dystopian future. He discovers that the Master has been keeping Winston Churchill cryogenically imprisoned in the Archives Centre.”

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JCR Report 2013-14 President: Ellie Miller In my time as President, I have often found myself in tricky situations where the pressure to deliver has been strongly felt. It is probably an occupational hazard, but never has this responsibility felt as weighty as it does now, as I write this report. To summarise the achievements and vitality of a student body of 485 spanning many and various subjects and countless extra-curricular tastes in a paltry 500 words is quite a big ask. While it would be impossible to catalogue all that has gone on at Churchill this year, I hope to give a sense of how 2013-14 felt.This year the JCR have pushed their collective achievements to new heights, both as a committee and as a student body. Churchillians have studied, written, campaigned, run, skipped and jumped their way to making the college a fantastic place to be.

Change has seemed to be the byword of the year.With the arrival of the news about our incoming Master – the highly respected physicist Dame Athene Donald – a constitutional turnover was also taking place within the JCR, as new officers were instated and the constitution updated. While the LGBT position was made more inclusive, a new position, Women’s Officer, was created to aid better communication of women’s rights issues across College and with university-wide campaigns. Further campaigns our students have been involved in have included the Living Wage Campaign, which aims to bring better and fairer wages to our staff. Set against the backdrop of flourishing student activism across Cambridge and universities nationally, Churchill is, it is safe to say, once more living up to its motto of Forward.

Sporting achievements yet again came thick and fast to Churchill. While the College’s small-grants system (which contributes towards the expenses of sporting excellence at a University level) gave out a record number of payments, our students endured the extremes of bitterly cold rowing mornings and sweltering days on the tennis courts in order to represent our College at the highest levels.

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While it may have been impossible to better the Pegasus-winning results of last year, the Boat Club did us proud in their stunningly pink lycra, while Churchill was well represented at University-level men’s and women’s rugby, cricket, tennis and lightweight rowing.

Arts and drama fared equally well, again a testimony to the incredible breadth of talent the JCR produces year upon year. Not one but two college plays were produced and performed this year, with students packing out the Wolfson.The annual JCR pantomime was also put on, and what the actors may have lacked in thespian ability or even line-learning was made up for by the outstanding writing skills of GODs. Our Arts sizars have also been working hard, producing for the first time in College a student-curated art exhibition. The theme was, fittingly, the overlap between art and science.

All in all, a great year. I feel honoured to have been part of such a bright and talented cohort.

MCR Report 2013-14 President: Jacquelyne Poon This year has been a great one for Churchill MCR members. In Michaelmas, we kicked off the start of term with several welcoming events for the Freshers. In the following months, an enthusiastic crowd attended the academic seminar series, where speakers from both MCR and SCR communities alternated to present their work. We also had a great turnout for the Conference on Everything, and it was inspiring to see the wide scope of research being undertaken by students in this College. In Lent Term, MCR members even made an exciting behind-the-scenes visit to the Fudge Kitchen! As the academic year drew to an end – and the summer months began – MCR members celebrated with a barbecue and will also be visiting the Botanic Gardens for a show. It’s been an altogether splendid year!

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Clubs and Societies Badminton Calum Williams (Captain) The Badminton Club has been a major success in 2013-14. For the first time in many years we reached the finals of the Cuppers tournament at the Cambridge Regional Centre, but were eventually knocked out by a seeded team. We maintained our League 3 position, narrowly missing out on promotion to League 2 in both terms. In contrast to previous years, students showed a keen interest in badminton and normally the training sessions were very busy. Because of this, a 2nd Team was created which was entered into League 9 in Lent Term (their ability means they should quickly rise up the league table). We now train in the new University Sports Centre, which has modern facilities and is much closer to the College grounds than previous venues.This both encourages turnout and helps the players to improve their skills. Next year, with continued generous support from the College, we hope to gain promotion to League 2 with our 1st Team and promotion to higher leagues with our 2nd, to reach a later stage of Cuppers and generally to nurture the club to develop a higher status. In summary, we’ve had a superb year, and long may the success continue!

Basketball Kamran Tajbakhsh (Captain) The 2014 basketball season was the most successful ever in Churchill’s history!

As expected, we were able to retain our position in the 3rd Division through Michaelmas and Lent.We made the Cuppers tournament, but weren’t expected to get beyond the first round. A great team effort allowed us to defeat the number 4 seed, Gonville and Caius, and we followed it up with a dramatic win over Christ’s in the Elite 8 (Quarter-Finals). In the Final Four (Semi-Final), we lost to eventual champions Wolfson. Nonetheless, the success of this season is a testimony to the commitment of our players, and we look forward to repeating this level of success in the years to come!

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Boat Club Dave Roche (Overall Captain) Off the back of the Pegasus Cup win last year, Churchill obviously had a fearsome reputation to live up to as May Bumps approached. However, we have shown ourselves more than deserving of this reputation, and Churchill is rapidly cementing its status as one of the strongest clubs on the river.

The term began with our annual training camp at Molesey Boat Club in London.

Whilst previous years have been beset by spring hail and lightning storms, this year produced a wonderful week of blazing sunshine.The aim of the week was to carry on the momentum from Lents, and to begin the process of gelling our crews for Easter Term, under the guidance of our capable Chris coaching pair, Burfiend and Williamson (both Chris-es!). The week was a huge success, and meant Easter Term was off to a strong start.

Seats in the top men’s boats were always going to be particularly competitive this year, given such a strong squad coming out of Lent Term. As well as the return of our triallists, the allure of evening rowing in the sun is hugely useful in tempting ex-M1 rowers out of retirement. In all, we had five men’s crews out training this term, which is a huge result for the club, and testimony to the success of our novice drive at the beginning of the year. I am certain each member of our M2 could have found himself in M1 in any other year, and so I’m confident of the success of the men’s squad for years to come.

Whilst the men were fortunate in their numbers this year, the women had to train up several new faces from novice to Mays rowers. Under the adept leadership of our Ladies’ Captain Barbora Janulikova, however, the rate of improvement of the women has been absolutely phenomenal. This was clearly demonstrated by their strong showing at Nottingham Regatta (the first off-Cam racing for several of the women), and each one has shown herself more than deserving of her seat in the crew. They go into Bumps in a strong position, and I am expecting them to do very well.

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Will Brown – all of whom learned to row at Churchill College Boat Club. We are all hugely proud of what they have achieved this year, and there was plenty of pink support from the Henley riverside and banks of the Thames.

The committee for 2014-15 has now been elected, with Jeremy Parker stepping up to the role of Overall Captain. Over the summer we also begin the construction work on the new Boathouse, to be built on the current location. Having seen the designs, I am certain that it will look absolutely fantastic, and will be fitting for a Club which is once again becoming one of the top performers on the river.

Forward!

Cricket James Moore (Captain) The Cricket Club had a successful season in the longer form of the one-day game, with notable wins against Woozlers, Artists & Apothecaries and Jesus. A special mention has to go to Chris Wong for his magnificent century in the first match of the season – the first century for a Churchill side in five years. This year we also celebrated the fiftieth year at Churchill of Graham, the College groundsman. We welcomed back some familiar faces in the annual fixture against the Mallards, with a Club BBQ in the evening and a rare victory in the fixture for the current students.

Our Cuppers campaign didn’t go quite so well. Plagued by injuries, we lacked the depth to field a truly competitive side, with games against Magdalene and a strong Christ’s side ending in defeat. However, this shouldn’t dampen what has been a thoroughly enjoyable season, and we’ll be looking forward to next year under the leadership of Oli Richer and Matt Rees as Captain and Vice-Captain respectively.

Cycling Club Evan Griffiths (President) As at the end of 2013-14, in this year when, memorably, the Tour de France visited Cambridge, Churchill College now officially has a Cycling Club! As seems to be the case in the rest of the UK, cycling as a hobby and sport has increased

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in popularity in College, and now seems to be a good time to do something with the collective enthusiasm for bombing around on two wheels, and make a club out of it.

With a bit of College funding behind it, the challenge for the Club will be to bring in plenty of new members at the start of the academic year. The aim for the first term will be to organise weekly group rides for all levels of rider.We’ll see how things go from there!

Football (men’s) Nick Waller (Captain) Churchill College Football Club is one of the largest societies in Churchill, with three male JCR teams and an MCR team. The season started off well for the first team with a couple of early wins; however, it faltered as broken collarbones and pulled muscles injured some key players.The team finished the season well, though, and narrowly missed out on promotion to the top tier of college football. Both the second and third teams had decent campaigns, although the second team were unfortunate in being relegated from the Third Division. The MCR team enjoyed a great season, culminating in an outstanding Cup victory, with a 4-0 win in the final.

GODS Ted Hill (President) It’s been a lovely and jolly year for GODS. It all kicked off with our Michaelmas production of The 39 Steps, performed over two nights in the Wolfson and then once again in Lent at the Union during an arts festival. The play was awarded four stars by student newspaper The Tab, and massive congratulations go to director Dori Levi for putting on a great show. Michaelmas Term ended with the JCR panto, with which GODS were heavily involved: Adam Rudrum and I wrote the script, it was directed by Laura Gilbert, and the tech was carried out

by Anne Barrowan and Katt Parkins. Between GODS and the JCR, Charlie and the Churchill College saw its première: the story of a boy from poor stock winning a tour round a Churchill College set in a dystopian alternative future. He

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discovers that the Master has been keeping Winston Churchill cryogenically imprisoned in the Archives Centre. This was a resounding success and raised a lot of money for JCR-supported charities. Lent Term saw the annual freshers’ play – this year’s freshers undertook the challenging task of adapting The Brothers Grimm Spectaculathon into a production about a Cambridge student.

Producer Damien Aries invented some excellent cameos featuring trees and fairies – my highlight of the play. We began the year continuing with last year’s improv comedy workshops; however, interest levels began to drop, so we stopped them. We did, though, perform a couple of improv shows in Michaelmas, and in Lent we initiated the “Churchill Smoker”, a comedy night in the bar, which we intend to move to the Wolfson when it’s more established. I hope that next year is as action-packed as this one!

See below, Features, for our special feature “Drama in Churchill College”.

Gym Ben Coumbe (President) The Churchill College Gym Society has gone from strength to strength in recent years with increased membership and rising investment in new equipment. Previous presidencies have focused on the purchase of new equipment within the free weights area; the next year will focus on consolidating the current equipment within the gym to make it fit for the next decade. This consolidation will be pursued in conjunction with our partners, The Møller Centre.The gym will also pursue “outreach” work to make it more accessible to a wider population of the student body, particularly the free weights area. An exciting time to be a member of Churchill Gym.

Music Sean Telford (Music Sizar) Churchill College Music Society (ChuMS) has been very active this year, putting on a variety of events. We’ve continued our recital series performed by both College members and guests, who have included Jessica Lawrence-Hayes, Patrick Milne, James Brady and Luca Calatroni. The College Choir’s concerts

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have been the main events each term, with a performance of Handel’s Messiah in collaboration with Orchestra on the Hill in Michaelmas, a joint concert with Churchill Jazz in Lent, and an entertaining evening of Disney and Tippett to finish the year. A joint service with Robinson College has been the highlight of the Chapel Choir’s musical calendar, with Advent Carols and Remembrance services proving memorable occasions.

Music at Churchill has not been confined to the Chapel and Recital Room; newly-formed Churchill Festal Brass has opened College feasts with resounding fanfares, and termly “Jazz in the Bar” has been as well received as ever. An exciting new project this year has been the development of a CD (due for release by the start of the new academic year), with contributions from all the main student ensembles and a special appearance from alumna Lynsey Marsh, principal clarinet of the Hallé Orchestra, performing a work by Hugh Wood, composer and Life Fellow of Churchill.

Pool Kam-ting Tsoi (Captain) The Pool Team was newly formed this year, and we’re hoping to attract yet more enthusiastic pool players. League matches were held throughout Michaelmas and Lent and we won half of the matches, placing us fourth in our division (2B). Given that we’d not had much practice, we played extremely well in Cuppers, where we made it to the last eight, losing to Christ’s 1, a Division 1 team.With an influx of new players and more practice sessions in the coming year, we have a chance to be promoted in the League!

Tennis Kamran Tajbakhsh (Captain) Having won Cuppers the year before, Churchill Tennis were looking to defend their title in 2014. The introduction of the Winter League was a great opportunity for new players to represent the College in tennis, and Churchill were successful in staying in the top Division. Our 2014 Cuppers campaign started off well, with a slightly weakened team still showing enough skill to

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reach the semi-finals. However, with exams looming, we were forced to field a rather under-practised team against St John’s.With six University 2nd/3rd team players, their depth was too much for Churchill, and we went out in the semis.

Next year, we’re aiming to take back our Cuppers title!

Ultimate Frisbee Roland Turnell-Ritson (Captain) The Ultimate Frisbee club has had a fantastic year. We entered two teams in the Michaelmas College League, and Churchill Alpha went on undefeated to win the competition. Churchill Beta finished in the top half, in eighth position.

The term culminated in Winter Cuppers, with the teams finishing a near-perfect first and third.The semi-final was a Churchill derby, and it took an upwind break at sudden death for Alpha just to come out on top.

In Lent, Churchill Chillies just missed out on the League title, being outnumbered

by Homerton in a windless final. Our other team, Churchill Chuckers, who struggled for players all term, finished sixth. We also entered a team in the inaugural Indoor Cuppers, which took place in the new University Sports Centre. This was not quite so successful, as we were unable to link up well, and the team finished lower down the field.

Finally, in Easter, we coalesced into a single team, and went on undefeated to take both the League and Summer Cuppers titles. It was a fitting end to a great season.The progress of the team over the year was staggering, with all the new players learning quickly. They are now in a strong position to take over from the old guard, and repeat the success next year!

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And finally... a less glorious anniversary Frank Dobson (U64, English; By-Fellow, 1964) writes: “The sixties were exciting times at Churchill, especially for a grammar-school boy from Northumberland, and I loved every minute of it. I thought a piece about ‘Black Monday’ might be a good read.You have probably heard of ‘Black Monday’: November 30th 1964, Sir Winston’s last birthday. It was not our proudest moment, but accounts of it have become exaggerated over the last fifty years, so maybe it would be good to put the record straight.” Here is Frank’s tale, which captures something about the College in those early days.

Black Monday It is fifty years ago now, but I still remember that November 30th 1964 was a Monday. It was the last week of my first term at Churchill, and that particular day was the 90th, and as it turned out the last, birthday of Sir Winston, the College’s Founder.

I had come up as a grammar-school boy, having taken the entrance exam in the tiny library of Bedlington Grammar, situated in the Northumberland coalfield and known only for being the alma mater of Bobby Charlton, the footballer. To my utter amazement I was now at Churchill. It was like a dream – sometimes it still is – for I was studying English with the most inspirational teacher I have ever met, Dr George Steiner. I was saying “good afternoon” to the famous critic F. R. Leavis as he walked in Storey’s Way. I was playing for the First XI football team, captained by a lovely lad from Brighton, Johnny Garland (he sadly died from a brain tumour six years ago). Having hardly ever been out of Northumberland, I was making friends from all over the country and the world.

I was even drinking sherry and listening to Dean Martin records with a “canny lad” (Geordie for “pleasant chap”) from Iraq called Hamid Jafar. I was loving every minute of it, and this is the thing: in spite of my prior worries that a stateschool boy might not fit in at a Cambridge college – everyone was so friendly.

Public school peers turned out to be just the same as grammar school boys.

At that time Churchill, like me, was “the new boy” of Cambridge. We felt different from the other, older, colleges, which didn’t quite know what to make of us. There was no tradition to direct us and so Cambridge came to expect

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something unusual, modern, “sixties” even, from the “Madingley Road Tech”, as we were sometimes unkindly called, and we rarely disappointed.

We had the legendary Canon Noel Duckworth, a former prisoner of war and a stalwart of the Boat Club. I had a whisky with him one afternoon and he said how much he loved Northumberland, which pleased me.We had the notorious staircase 41 where Marianne (“As Tears Go By”) Faithfull visited her boyfriend, Ian Curtis, and then went on to marry John Dunbar, another Churchill student.

There was the whisper one Sunday afternoon in November 1964 that Paul McCartney was strumming his guitar in 41. Yes, Churchill had more than a bit of glamour then, which the other colleges envied, although they wouldn’t admit it of course.

Monday November 30th 1964, then, began as cheerfully as you could imagine.

Roy Orbison’s “Pretty Woman” was crackling out on Radio Caroline from my little transistor radio. A cooked breakfast was brought into the little sittingroom by our landlady, Mrs Hames, at 216 Histon Road, the rooms I shared with John Taylor from Middlesbrough. First-years were always housed in “digs” then, as the College buildings were still quite small, and the thinking must have been that two Northerners would get on well together – and so we did. At 10 o’clock I had my last supervision of the term with Dr Steiner, or “George” as we fondly referred to him, on staircase 11 and received my Christmas “vac” reading list – “vac” was a new word I’d learned and intended to use to impress my family back home. At 2.15 p.m. we had the final League football fixture of the season, a League 2 match with Corpus.We won 1-0 but weren’t promoted to Division 1 till the following year.

And so to the big event of the term – a formal dinner in honour of Sir Winston’s 90th birthday. Suited and gowned, we were served sherry at 6.45 in the Buttery, followed by dinner and more wines, and then port, which I’d never tasted before. The lights dimmed, one of Sir Winston’s famous wartime speeches was played, and we sang “Happy Birthday” to him.

It was after dinner that things began to go wrong. To this day I am sure that the Fellows had the very best intentions when they threw open their rooms for postprandial drinks. But by 11 o’clock the convivial atmosphere had changed. Things were now getting out of hand and several students were becoming the worse

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for wear. I still have a very vivid memory of standing outside staircase 41 when an empty beer keg thrown from above bounced at my feet on the concrete. At that I decided it was time to go home, and headed out past the Porters’ Lodge where Mr Piercy (Head Porter) and his assistant Mr Biggs asked me anxiously if the parties throughout College were likely to finish soon. It had been snowing heavily and I trudged back to my digs, cutting through Fitzwilliam’s grounds.

Next morning the full extent of the revelry was obvious. A door had been ripped off, paintings had been damaged, the cloakroom had been vandalised, broken glass lay on the floor – it was awful. “A glooming sadness” pervaded the chilly morning with a silent but perceptible sense of communal shame.

Churchill, “the new boy”, had disgraced itself.

While no one, to my knowledge, was ever disciplined, the Churchill November 30th birthday dinner was permanently removed from the College calendar.That day in ’64 became known as “Black Monday”. The Fellows and students who were there that night used to shake their heads whenever it was mentioned and refuse to talk about it. A veil had been drawn.

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The MCR Photo Competition The theme of this year’s MCR Photo Competition was Geometrical Figures around Cambridge. We reproduce here the three winning photos.

First Prize: Smita Gopisetty, Square View

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Second prize: Karolis Misiunas, Untitled. Karolis says: “The photo does not have a name, but I think the ‘study centre’ in the photo captures one aspect of life at Churchill well.”

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Third Prize: Sumaiya Mamun, Stairway to Success

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The anniversary commemorations roll on: we held a 50th Anniversary exhibition, “Remembering our genesis: 50 years since the opening of Churchill College, June 1964”, in the JCR 20 – 28 June and again 3 – 7 July 2014. The exhibition was a joint project between the Archives Centre and the Development, Conferences and Maintenance Departments, and displayed, inter alia, a mock-up of a 1960s student room, complete with the original Robin Day furniture and and old gramophone; the record of Sir Winston’s only visit to the site in October 1959 and his speech expressing his hopes for the College; and newsreel footage and audio recordings of the splendid official opening on 5 June 1964.

Also noteworthy this year was a four-page spread (“Churchill College re-examined”) in the 16 May 2014 issue of The Architects’ Journal on the recent re-run, in London, of the 1959 architectural competition for Churchill College.

The article mentioned in passing our planned new court.

And we now have the new sculpture by Lynn Chadwick mentioned in last year’s Review. College Curator Fellow Barry Phipps writes: The College’s Sculpture Collection The Hanging Committee would like to draw members’ attention to recent changes to the College’s sculpture collection. A new work, Sitting Figure (1962)

by Lynn Chadwick, has arrived and is situated on the Master’s Lawn. It can easily be viewed from both the SCR itself and the passageway leading to it from the Buttery. Crescent Moon Bull (1998), by Christine Fox, which previously occupied that location, has been relocated to North Court. Sitting Figure has been kindly loaned as a replacement for Alerted Beast I (1990), which was recalled by the Chadwick Estate for a forthcoming exhibition of Chadwick’s work. The vacant plinth at the front of the College will be filled in due course by a large work by a major contemporary sculptor.

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A note about Lynn Chadwick: Chadwick is widely regarded as one of the giants of twentieth-century sculpture. His work spans fifty years and includes over a thousand pieces. He first came to prominence when he was one of the twelve semi-finalists for the Unknown Political Prisoner International Sculpture Competition in 1953 and he went on to win the International Prize for Sculpture at the 1956 Venice Biennale. Many honours and awards followed, and Chadwick’s work is a cornerstone of all major international art collections. In Autumn 2003 a retrospective exhibition of his work was held at Tate Britain, London.

An early training as an architectural draughtsman, together with his practical skills in welding, gave him the basis for his individual approach to sculpture. His work was constructed from welded iron rods to form an exoskeleton which delineates the planes and establishes the stance of the piece. With this unique and singular language he evolved a range of his own archetypal figures and beasts. Throughout a long and distinguished career Chadwick’s work kept relevance and individuality.

Lynn Chadwick was born in Barnes, London in 1914 and died at his home, Lypiatt Park, Gloucestershire, in 2003, aged 88.

There follows a copy of the College’s Sculpture Guide for those of you who wish to explore our stimulating collection of outdoor works.

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1 NIGEL HALL RA SOUTHERN SHADE I, 2010

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The Master’s Farewell A Poem The following poem by Professor Archie Howie was read out at the farewell dinner for the Master and Elizabeth Wallace, held on 11 June 2014. A few of the references it contains are kindly explained by the author and by the current Vice-Master, Professor Ken Siddle.The title: apparently the Master has presided at some dinners at which the number of toasts has been confusingly large. (We did not, incidentally, toast all the figures named in Archie’s poem.) Verse 1: William Wallace was a thirteenth-century Scottish hero, one of the leaders during the Wars of Scottish Independence. He was executed as indicated in the poem. Ken remarked: “Although David shares none (well, almost none) of the warring tendencies of his forebears, he has most certainly been a wonderful champion of Churchill College.” Verse 2: This refers to the (comparatively) large portrait of the Master commissioned by the College.Verse 3: The Master was occasionally – unfairly – accused of “Stalinism” at our meetings if he did not count all the “yes” votes when support for a particular motion was clearly overwhelming, but asked only for those voting against, or abstaining, to raise hands. (A sensible procedure in a large Governing Body like Churchill’s.)

Please join me in 7 toasts!

In Scotland Yard long centuries have passed Since Wallace hung, then drawn and quartered was.

You, in one piece, head on for home at last With ballot box not sword to fight the cause!

Too big to nestle easily among Our former Masters on the Fellows’ stair Tai’s take on you already drawn and hung Now surely quartering would not be fair!

You’ve wrestled with our Governing Body A monster that the Master cannot tame To get things done you’ve followed Stalin’s way And teased by raising Lady Thatcher’s name!

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Who sowed in Chinese minds these Cambridge dreams So bankers come to visit beyond count?

The banker-poet Xu-Zhimo it seems: A plaque in Møller’s Centre we should mount!

Elizabeth and you roamed Anglian trails, Not just on wine you sought her calm counsel Midst Master’s strain she kept you on the rails And so for both of you ring Churchill’s bell!

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The First Dinner in Hall 26 March 1964 On 26 March 2014, the Fellowship celebrated the College’s first dinner in Hall.

For that occasion, Professor Mark Goldie wrote: When does a College begin? Perhaps when the project is announced to the world. Perhaps when the first students arrive. Yet both those happened before there were any buildings. A College is its people but it is also its built form.The central buildings, dominated by the great Dining Hall, were officially opened by the Duke of Edinburgh in 1964, and the first dinner in Hall took place that year on 26 March.

The Hall is the beating heart of the College. It is the symbolic centre, especially in a secular institution that, unlike ancient colleges, has no chapel at its core. What’s more, the Hall is probably the largest in Oxbridge, at 22 metres square and 11.6 metres to its highest point.The three great concrete barrel vaults are among the largest in Britain, and the sixty soaring window mullions, each weighing two tons, draw our eyes upward towards the lunettes. The wood panelling is British Columbian, the copper for the light casements came from the Central African Federation. The north and south aisles have fluted brick acoustic walls.

True to the austere aesthetic of the bare materials – concrete, brick, wood – the College avoids the old tradition of covering the walls with portraits.

There’s just one single exception: the portrait of the Founder.The grandness of the Hall is owed to one more reason: the assumption, still true in 1964 but soon abandoned throughout Oxbridge, that every night the entire College would sit down together for formal dinner, begowned. Cultures change: but the legacy is a magnificent and adaptable space, which does indeed allow the whole community every so often to come together.

Mark Goldie, March 2014

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There follow three photos: a black-and-white one of the 1964 occasion, with a key (sadly incomplete: senior Fellows and the Archives Centre did their best); one of the 2014 occasion, again in black-and-white for comparison, and with key; and the same photo in colour.

Inaugural Dinner in Hall at Churchill College High Table (back row, standing) ?, Denis Armstrong, ?, Raymond Alchin, ?, ?, Kenneth McQuillen(?), ?, ?, Tony Hewish, ?, Francis Crick, ?, Sir John Cockcroft, Lady Cockcroft(?), Richard Keynes, John Morrison, John Killen, Dick Tizard, ?, Peter Squire, ?, Tony Kelly, ?, ?, ?, ?

High Table (front row, seated) ?, Graham Allen ,?, Joyce Wells (Mrs Martin Wells), ?, ?, Denis Armstrong, Len Harvey, ?, ?, ?, Capt S W Roskill, ?, ?, Frank Hahn, Richard Adrian, Natasha Squire (Mrs Peter Squire), ?, ?, ?, ?, Michael Hoskin, Richard Hey, Martin Wells, ?, Sir Edward Bullard Extreme left, table next to entrance General Hamilton, ?, David Kendall [end]

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50th Anniversary Dinner High Table (back row, standing) Dr Sian Dutton, Dr Xavier Moya, Mrs Noelle Caulfield, Dr Mark Goldie, Mr Hywel George, Mr Matthew Bartlett, Ms Sara Wallace, Sir David Wallace, Prof Malcolm Bolton, Dr Barry Kingston, Mrs Nathalie Kingston, Mrs Anny King, Mrs Paula Halson, Mr Mike Laycock, Dr Maria Tippett, Prof Peter Clarke, Prof Marcial Echenique High Table (front row, seated) Prof Neil Mathur, Dr Colm-cille Caulfield, Dr Christopher Hicks, Prof Nigel Leader-Williams, Dr Len Squire, Dr Fares Jabr, Dr Thomas Davies, Lady Elizabeth Wallace, Mr Richard Partington, Prof Anthony Kelly, Dr Carole Fraser, Dr Colin Fraser, Mrs Jo Livingston, Dr Elizabeth DeMarrais, Prof Alison Finch, Prof Tony Hewish, Ms M. Louisa Echenique

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Table (far left) Danning Li, Dr Wei Wei Cai , Mr Clemens Kaminski, Dr Jethro Akroyd, Mr Houston Miller, Mrs Barbara Laughlin, Dr Demeter Kiss, Dr Jean-Christophe Thalabard, Mme Christine Thalabard, Dr Daniela Dragomirescu, Professor Simon Laughlin Table (nearest) Ms Jacqueline Poon, Prof Sir Mike Gregory, Prof Danny Ralph, Dr Nick Cutler, Mr Tim Cribb, Dr Steve Xerri, Prof James Norris, Dr Luke Skrebowski, Dr Alex Webb, Dr Terese Lovas, Prof Markus Kraft, Mr Nigel Slater, Dr Minna SunikkaBlank, Dr Daniel Opalka, Mr Barry Phipps

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Apples and atoms between Cambridge and Dublin: Celebrating Ernest T S Walton, 190395, Nobel Laureate Professor Ernest Walton was a Fellow Commoner at Churchill in 1972 and became an Honorary Fellow in 1989. Jointly with Churchill’s Sir John Cockroft, he received the Noble Prize for Physics in 1951, awarded for their pioneering work on the transmutation of atomic nuclei by artificially accelerated atomic particles. (An event is planned for next year to celebrate Cockroft’s contribution.)

On 15 November 2013, Apples and Atoms, a sculpture by renowned sculptor Eilís O’Connell, was unveiled in Trinity College Dublin, where Ernest held a Chair from 1946 to 1974, to commemorate his life. Ernest’s son Alan Walton writes: “The work comprises two parts: the sculpture itself – which recalls the CockcroftWalton experiment – and surrounding apple trees, which recall Ernest’s love of gardening. There is an accompanying explanatory panel (first image) and the base of the sculpture carries an inscription (final photo). I gave a short speech [below] and a letter was received from Christopher Cockroft which was read out [also below].”

Readers may consult Trinity’s Press Office release: www.tcd.ie/Communications/news/news.php?headerID=3356&vs_date= 2013-11-18 From Alan Walton This is a very special occasion for the Walton family: Marian, Philip and Jean and myself. We feel greatly honoured that that the College [Trinity, Dublin] has chosen to recognise the contributions made by our father Ernest Walton not only to the world of physics – both here and in Cambridge – but also to remember him as the person he was – and to do so through a sculpture. We were delighted to have been involved in choosing Eilís O’Connell as the sculptor to undertake the commission. The result is stunningly successful.

Eilís O’Connell has told us that she was particularly inspired by the spheres that formed part of the original Cockcroft-Walton apparatus and which are so striking in photographs of the accelerator.These were used to measure the voltage across the accelerator tube. This was a critical part of the experiment, for it allowed

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Einstein’s famous equation E = mc2 to be confirmed experimentally. In the original apparatus the spheres were 75 cm in diameter and made of aluminium – nothing like as beautiful as these stainless steel ones.

Curved surfaces are ubiquitous in high voltage engineering. When the electronics giant Philips built their first commercial Cockcroft-Walton generator, it incorporated a total of twenty-one spheres and doughnut-shaped toruses. When our father and Bobby Elliott built a van der Graff in this very building in the late 1940s it included two hemispheres joined by a cylinder. So these spheres not only celebrate the original Cockcroft-Walton accelerator but pay homage to future generations of accelerators. Nearer home, the electrical circuit which Cockcroft and Walton devised to power their accelerator is still in everyday use in devices requiring high DC voltages, such as X-ray machines and photocopiers. If you own an old-fashioned TV you have a Cockcroft-Walton accelerator in your living room, but one that uses electrons to create images on the screen rather than protons to split atoms!

The atom was split on 14th April 1932. In a letter sent to his girlfriend Freda on 17th April, Ernest wrote: “Last Thursday was a red-letter day for me. Not only did I get a letter from you but Cockcroft and I made what is in all probability a very important discovery in the lab. We found that we were able to smash up the nuclei of some light atoms and that these give out rays very similar to the rays given out by radium. It opens up a whole new field of work which may go a long way towards elucidating the structure of the nucleus of an atom.” This letter shows none of the reticence that so characterised our father. Indeed, he seems to have realised this himself, for he goes on to say: “I am afraid I have spent a very long time talking shop but perhaps you will excuse it this time as it is very improbable I will ever get the chance of doing experiments again which are of such fundamental importance.” And so it worked out for both men. The same can probably be said of all Nobel laureates – except for the few who go on to win a second Nobel.

The four of us primarily remember our father as a family man. One of his great loves was gardening. Every Saturday afternoon – come rain or shine – he would head off down the garden to – as the season demanded – prepare the ground for vegetables, cut back raspberry canes or tend the apple trees. Our summers were largely spent picking raspberries! In the autumn apples would be picked

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and stored in wooden trays stacked in an outhouse. Every winter evening he would choose an apple which he carefully split and peeled with a penknife kept in his jacket pocket (along with a length of string, a magnifying glass, and a folded metal ruler – and that’s just for starters!). Now you might think he would choose to eat the pick of the crop. Not him! He always chose one that was bruised or otherwise damaged on the grounds that “it should be eaten first”.

By the time he got around to eating the pick of the crop they too had gone off.

Within the wider physics community an apple tree has a special resonance, for it brings to mind the apple which fell on Newton’s head and which allegedly led him to formulate his Law of Universal Gravitation. How appropriate, therefore, to have apple trees planted alongside the spheres. But apple trees mean something more to our family. Our maternal grandfather Charles Wilson was a Methodist minister. In those days ministers moved on to a new Church every three years. This didn’t stop him planting apple trees in every manse garden, knowing that although he wouldn’t benefit from them future generations of ministers would.

Eilís, you have written that “A man is not only defined by his academic achievements but by the memories he leaves behind in others.” When we meet people keen to share their memories of Ernest’s time in TCD they almost invariably recall him primarily as a gifted teacher who could explain difficult concepts in terms that could be understood by the listener. His lectures were meticulously planned and accompanied by appropriate demonstration experiments. He even earned the respect of large classes of boisterous engineers!

Advertisements aimed at encouraging students to become teachers often emphasise that the fruit of their labour will be appreciated for a couple more generations. Just like Charles Wilson’s apple trees.

Eilís, if I had to try to sum up my personal response to your work in a few words I would probably quote Hamlet and say: “It holds as ’twere a mirror up to nature”. Thank you for honouring our father in this way.

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From Christopher Cockroft, on behalf of the Cockroft family It is with the greatest of regret that members of the Cockcroft family cannot be with you for the Opening of the Sculpture in Honour of Professor E. T. S. Walton. Several of us would have loved to come to Dublin to join in the honouring of our father’s partner in “The April 1932 Splitting of the Atom Experiment”. Sadly, other commitments have prevented us from attending.

We are delighted that Trinity College has decided to honour Professor Walton, joint 1951 Nobel Prize winner, for his work. There is no doubt that Ernest Walton played a key part in the experimental partnership that led to the successful splitting of the atom in 1932: whereas our late father’s deductions from Gamow’s theories laid the seeds of the experiment and his connections with the Metropolitan-Vickers Company provided key equipment, Ernest Walton’s skills as a mathematician and as an experimental scientist made sure of their success; it was a good partnership.

We feel that Eilís O’Connell’s sculpture Apples and Atoms will be a very fitting tribute to Professor Walton, for it reflects both the apparatus created for the 1932 experiment and his love for gardening.We wish you all well on this occasion.

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The John Kinsella and Tracy Ryan Prizes This year’s Prize winners and runners-up were: Poetry prize winner: Caitlin Doherty (St John’s), Our Party. Caitlin’s poem is to be sold by an independent publisher.

Runners-up: Joel Lipson (Gonville and Caius), The Old Man of Bones; Joseph Persad (Queens’), Patience & the Molten Universe; W Travis Helms (Magdalene), Elegiac Distich The “Other Prize” winner: Thom May (Fitzwilliam), war war brand war Highly commended runners-up: Saul Boyer (Downing) and Poppy Damon (Homerton), Broken Glass

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“For the GODS ambition was never a problem. Its productions earned a high reputation on the student drama scene, and there was a lively two-way traffic between the GODS – some of whose actors were in ADC productions – and the old town-centre colleges whose star actors (including Douglas Adams in a small role) braved the wilds of the Madingley Road to appear in Churchill shows.”

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This section of the Review presents short pieces of both general and Churchillrelated interest. We start with a piece by one of our Overseas Fellows, Professor Michael Shull, of the Department of Astrophysics, University of Colorado, Boulder. Mike has been with us all year (2013-14) and here contributes not only a gripping article, “The Edge of the Visible Universe�, but also, as a gifted photographer, some lovely photographs for our Floral Churchill section. This is a good moment to mention also the fortieth anniversary of our French Government Overseas Fellowship scheme: on 20 July 2014 the College and the Scientific Service of the French Embassy joined together to stage a symposium in Churchill that saw contributions from many former and current distinguished French Government Fellows. The scheme, along with our usual Overseas Fellowships, has over the years enhanced the intellectual life of the College.

Churchill alumni Mrs Stephanie (Hanley) Tickle and Dr Ralph Lee write about their careers since graduation, giving us insights into the life of the vet and the multiple skills it calls for (Stephanie), as well as into a career that spans BP, the Christian faith in Ethiopia, the learning of difficult languages, and recently the award of the MBE (Ralph). There follows a multi-authored feature, Drama in Churchill College, whose contributors appear in roughly chronological order of their residence in Churchill. This feature was inspired by recent correspondence in the Review about the GODS and also (yet another anniversary alert) by the fortieth year of existence of the GODS. Then we move to further thoughts about co-education: an anecdote from Dr Len Squire about the very earliest days of co-education in Churchill; an article by a Princeton historian, Professor Nancy Malkiel, on the processes that led to university-level co-education arriving almost simultaneously in Ivy League universities and in Oxbridge; and sobering comments from Professor Mark Goldie, warning against communal complacency and accompanied by a provocative painting by former Artist By-Fellow Barrie Hesketh.

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From our Overseas Fellows The Edge of the Visible Universe We live in a vast universe of planets, stars and galaxies spread throughout space and time since the beginning of the observed Hubble expansion of galaxies.

Underlying this expanding structure, and our ability to understand it in terms of the Big Bang origin, is the fundamental limitation that light travels at a constant and finite speed c = 300,000 km/s. As we look outward into space, we look back in time, observing distant galaxies as they appeared in the past.

Figure 1 illustrates this concept, with concentric circles representing the lookback times (and distances) achievable in deep images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope as part of its Ultra-Deep Field projects.

Figure 1. Schematic diagram showing the distances and cosmic look-back times reached by two generations of Hubble Deep Fields, images of faraway galaxies viewed as they were billions of years in the past. Concentric rings denote ever more distant portions of space observed by the visible and infrared detectors.

The epoch of first galaxies is currently beyond our view, but it may be observed with the 6.5-meter diameter James Webb Space Telescope, scheduled for launch in October 2018.

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In 1492, Columbus demonstrated what many suspected: the Earth was not flat, and it did not have an edge.Astronomers now face similar issues, some of which are discussed here: (1) Does the Universe have an edge? (2) Does this edge mean a finite age? (3) How far away can we see? (4) What lies beyond the edge?

To address these questions, I will introduce some terminology that illustrates how astronomers infer distances through galaxy redshifts.

Galaxies are large systems of stars and gas, with a great range of sizes, shapes and masses. In 1929, Edwin Hubble found that distant galaxies were expanding faster the farther away they lie. The linear proportionality, v = HoD, between the recession velocity (v) and distance (D) of a galaxy is known as the Hubble Expansion Law and its significance is profound. Distant galaxies, nearby galaxies, and the matter that formed them were once located close together at an initial time approximately 13.8 billion years ago. Through the Hubble relation, astronomers speak interchangeably of distance, recession velocity, and redshift of a galaxy, and it is the latter parameter that will be discussed in this article.

The redshift of a galaxy (denoted by the letter z) was originally defined as the fractional increase in the wavelength of light arising from the Doppler shift in frequency and wavelength produced by its recessional velocity.

At low velocity, one can relate the redshift to v/c, the galaxy velocity expressed as a fraction of the speed of light. For example, a redshift z = 0.02 corresponds to a shift in galaxy colours to 2% longer (redder) wavelengths. The galaxy is inferred to be moving away at 2% the speed of light, about 6000 km/s or 13.4 million miles per hour. As telescopes became more powerful and able to discern more distant galaxies, the record redshifts grew to higher values, z = 0.05 or 0.10. In 1963, astronomers in Cambridge and Caltech discovered quasistellar objects (quasars) at redshifts z = 0.158 and 0.37. Quasars are believed to be the active nuclei of galaxies harboring supermassive black holes. During the subsequent decades, the record-holding redshifts of galaxies and quasars have increased hand-in-hand with advances in telescopes and detector technology.

With large telescopes located on remote mountain tops in Hawaii or Chile and in low-Earth orbit, astronomers are now able to see ancient light from galaxies up to 13 billion light-years away. Figure 2 shows a small patch of sky imaged with the Hubble telescope. Nearly every point of light is a distant galaxy, a few of them at enormous distances and quite old. Many of the stars that produced

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Figure 2. The Hubble Ultra-Deep Field, long exposures taken in several colour filters, discovered the most distant galaxies in the Universe out to redshifts z = 8 or 10, some 13 billion years ago. A few of the high-redshift galaxies (green circles on left panel) are shown in postage-stamp images on the right. this light have long since died.We are seeing the light after its long journey across intergalactic space, only now sweeping by the Earth and collected by our telescopes.These high-redshift galaxies are seen as small, amorphous patches of starlight, with a red appearance because their light is redshifted by cosmic expansion and their shorter (bluer) wavelengths are absorbed by intergalactic hydrogen gas. As we understand the cosmology of our expanding universe, the new-found galaxies at redshift z = 8 emitted their starlight 650 million years after the Big Bang and they are 13.1 billion years old.The highest redshift galaxy candidates lie at z = 10 and are 13.3 billion years old.

As of April 2014, the highest recorded redshift for a quasar is z = 7.085, and the highest verified redshift for a galaxy is z = 8.6. However, the Hubble Space Telescope has now found over 100 faint objects with redshifts z = 8 to 10 inferred from their colors. These discoveries were enabled by advances in optical and infrared detectors known as CCDs (charge-coupled devices) joined

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with the light-gathering power of ground-based telescopes of 8-10 meter diameter. Only 2.4 meters in diameter, Hubble has made many of these discoveries, pushing the discovery frontier for galaxies back to redshift z = 10.

Its small aperture is compensated for by its special location in low-Earth orbit, above the confusing effects of the atmosphere. Figure 3 shows a recent discovery of a small, distant galaxy at redshift z = 11, whose dim light was amplified by gravitational lensing as it passed through a dense cluster of galaxies.

Frontiers rarely last, at least not in science. The next large space telescope is already under construction, a joint venture between NASA and ESA (the US

Figure 3. A possible galaxy at redshift z = 11 found by Hubble Space Telescope through the effects of gravitational lensing: amplification in galaxy brightness when its light passed through a dense cluster of galaxies.

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and European space agencies). Known as the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), this 6.5-meter telescope is optimised for observations in the infrared.

After launch in October 2018, JWST will be deployed to a cold, dark location 1.5 million kilometers from the Earth where the sensitive telescope optics can be shielded from the heat from the Sun and Earth. JWST will push the frontier for distant galaxies out to redshifts z = 15, a time 13.5 billion years ago when early galaxies were forming and bathing the Universe in first light.

In a speech given at Churchill College on October 17 1959, Sir Winston Churchill commented on the future of lunar rockets and space travel: As with many vehicles of pure research, their immediate uses may not be apparent. But I do not doubt that they will ultimately reap a rich harvest for those who have the imagination and power to develop them, and to probe ever more deeply into the universe in which we live.

The last few years have brought spectacular discoveries about the beginnings of our Universe, back to the first fraction of a second of the inflationary epoch.

The observations by Hubble, and soon by JWST, should fulfil the expectations expressed by Churchill. I would like to express my personal gratitude to Churchill College and the Institute of Astronomy for supporting this stimulating year in Cambridge as an Overseas Fellow and Sackler Visiting Lecturer.

Michael Shull Department of Astrophysics, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA

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My Career Since Churchill My Family and Other Animals I graduated in July 2000 and started work in general veterinary practice the same month. I had managed to secure the elusive “mixed practice” (all species) job that every veterinary graduate aspires to in a quiet village near Cheltenham.

I found my feet neutering pets and vaccinating ponies until the 2001 FMDV (Foot and Mouth Disease Virus) outbreak brought an abrupt halt to all normal countryside activities.To broaden my horizons I enrolled as an Official Vet doing farm inspections. By luck I managed to stay “clean”; this meant that all the farms I visited were clear. If a farm was confirmed as positive the vet was deemed “dirty” and thenceforth assigned slaughtering duties. Gloucestershire was hardhit by the outbreak and the hours worked were long: I remember a thirteenhour non-stop shift on Easter Sunday that year. However, it was the numerous plumes of black smoke rising from the pyres of burning carcasses that I will always remember most vividly as I watched them one evening from a hill-top usually considered a natural beauty spot.

Large animal work thinned rapidly after that, as a considerable number of the local farms chose not to restock, so later that year I moved to a small animal hospital in Gloucester. Here I worked as part of a much bigger team – it was a great opportunity to learn from an assortment of more experienced colleagues in a bright and happy atmosphere. Coinciding with this came my first housepurchase, marriage and a round-the-world trip. It was a fun time.

Luck ran out in 2004 when the company my husband had been working for went bust. He managed to find a suitable job again straightaway in the Birmingham area, but the distance proved non-commutable, so by 2005 it was time for me to move on. I took a career-step backwards into a quieter practice and used the time to consolidate my knowledge and skills. This fitted well around the upheaval of the move and the double dose of pregnancies and maternity leaves that followed. During this time I looked around for my next step, investigating joint venture partnerships, senior vet roles and selfemployment, but nothing could be moulded around family life the way I needed and I turned down several opportunities.

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Stephanie with Rosie the cat The call came in 2011 when I was head-hunted by a recruitment agency on behalf of a small corporate firm.They had purchased a nearby neglected practice and were about to make a significant investment in refurbishing the premises, but they needed an experienced and business-minded vet to manage and run the clinical side of things. I was offered my choice of hours, so I accepted and started in 2012. At the beginning the practice was little more than a shell with a few local clients, but I and my new team quickly built things up (sometimes literally!), and after only eight months we entered and passed the RCVS practice standards (a bit like an OFSTED but for vets). My boss must have been

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impressed, as by the end of the year I had been promoted to the role of Clinical Director for the whole Birmingham group.

My current job-role brings a lot of variety. There is obviously the clinical work, and I have a large base of loyal clients who followed me when I moved. I do a lot of work with rabbits, a species not on the curriculum when I was a student, but unfortunately there is currently no way for me to achieve a formal postgraduate qualification in this field. I’m also responsible for the recruitment and clinical training of my staff, and for maintaining high standards of care for our patients and clients. I’m involved in the decisions we make regarding issues such as sales, marketing, pricing and debtors, and in formulating our company policies on a range of areas such as neutering, parasite control and antibiotic use. There is never a dull moment!

Looking to the future, I would like to spend a period of time working abroad, specifically Australia or New Zealand, and maybe even to foray outside the veterinary industry if the right chance arises. I’m always open to exploring new opportunities!

Stephanie Tickle, nee Hanley (U94,Veterinary Medicine)

Between Ethiopia and the UK I left Churchill after completing my MEng in Chemical Engineering in 1988. For a month before I started work at the BP Research Centre in Sunbury-onThames, I visited Ethiopia with a friend who was a development consultant and who sought to give young people exposure to the developing world. I have to confess that although I came to enjoy my work at BP very much, I became hooked on the idea of working in Ethiopia. After two years at BP, I was offered leave of absence to teach Chemical Engineering for two years at Addis Ababa University. I started in September 1990, an academic year which was to be tumultuous for Ethiopians.The department was small and getting smaller, since most of the staff came from Eastern Bloc countries and they were seeking to return as their own countries faced monumental change. I had a “meteoric” career, being appointed Head of Department by February of that academic year – but this should be qualified with the knowledge that there were only three staff, and only I had a Masters! It soon became clear that the Communist

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government of Ethiopia was not to last long. My students were all conscripted into the army, and by the end of May a new government arrived through military conquest of the whole country. Despite the turmoil, I made the choice to remain there and to do what I could. The chaos was very short-lived: life was back to normal for many within a few days of the takeover, and by September all the students were back. We crammed a year-and-a-half’s teaching into one year – everyone worked so hard to achieve this.

So the two years came to an end, and in September 1992 I returned to BP, finished my professional training, and remained uncomfortable, not because I had a bad job, but because I felt that it was not taking me in the direction in which I felt I should go. The beginning of 1995 started with my moving to Glasgow, to their unusual Engineering Faculty which has within it an Institute of Development Studies.There I studied for a PhD in Engineering and Development and met my wife Sarah: we married in June 1997.As my studies came to an end, what for me was a wonderful opportunity arose – higher education was to expand in Ethiopia, and there was a need for lecturers in Bahir Dar, in the north of Ethiopia at the source of the Blue Nile, a part of the country closed off to foreigners for decades because of the civil war. Christian faith has always been at the centre of my life, and this led also to a unique opportunity to live in a place where the culture is deeply Orthodox, but a form of Orthodoxy little influenced by the Greek culture that formed Christianity in the West. This time round I decided to learn the fiendish language of Amharic, and later also studied Ge’ez, the classical Ethiopic language used in the church. Bahir Dar was just wonderful – Sarah and I loved living there; the University had many challenges, but after eight years there was a flourishing Department of Chemical Engineering that I felt happy to leave. War with Eritrea had led to some troubled years in Bahir Dar, and with knowledge of the language I volunteered to be a consular warden for the British Embassy, a post which led to our working out an evacuation plan for expatriates in Bahir Dar, which fortunately was never implemented! We wanted to return to the UK for several reasons: I had decided through these eight years that I wanted to understand more of the Orthodoxy of Ethiopia, and wanted to pursue further studies at SOAS in African and Asian Christianity; we had also adopted two children, Georgeana in 2002 and Sebastian in 2004, and it seemed a good time to legalise their adoptions in the UK. In 2006 I started a year of fascinating study of Syriac language, early eastern Christian texts, monasticism, and with a focus for me on the Christianities of

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Ethiopia, Syria and Georgia – all Christianities formed outside the Roman Empire and outside the cultural influences that gave rise to Western Christianity. Good fortune then led to funding to pursue a PhD in the study of religion, on which I embarked in 2007.Wonderfully for us as a family, this led to field-work back in Ethiopia, and we returned to Addis Ababa in September 2008, where I took a post at the Holy Trinity Theological College of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. Here I teach patristics, Greek and various other things, engage with traditional Ethiopian scholars and have the luxury of conducting research on Ethiopian Christianity, which will probably keep me occupied for the rest of my working life! Here too Sarah has found her vocation as an artist, and our children study at Sandford International School, a special school for them, as they mix both with internationals and Ethiopians in a school which will prepare them well for integrating into schools in the UK. During these years I have continued to volunteer as an embassy warden, helping to look after the British community, and helping consular staff at the Embassy keep in touch with what is going on in Ethiopia. This voluntary work led to the delightful surprise MBE in the 2014 New Year’s Honours List, for which I am very grateful.

As I write, we plan to return to the UK in July 2014, and I am looking for an academic post in the UK where I can teach and continue research on Ethiopian Christianity. This will be another exciting chapter in our lives that we look forward to with relish!

Ralph Lee (U&G84, Chemical Engineering)

Drama in Churchill College Drama has flourished in Churchill almost from the origins of the College: this year is the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the GODS in 1964.Tim Cribb, retired Fellow in English and, post-retirement, still spearheading performance initiatives in College, has seen generations of GODS come and go, and has been an always encouraging and active adviser and organiser. He used to take a travelling troupe to perform in Wales, and collaborated with poet John Kinsella (Extraordinary Fellow) to set up the John Kinsella and Tracy Ryan Prizes, one of

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which is for drama. (See above, College Events.) Bringing together numerous Churchill-related strands, Tim writes: The theatre in Wales was the Theatr Ardudwy, which was part of Coleg Ardudwy in Harlech, linked to the WEA. Jo, the daughter of John Barnes [late Fellow, Archaeology and Anthropology], was the first manager of the newly built theatre, and it was John who suggested to me that I might like to ask her if she would take an off-shoot of Cambridge University Players, a group founded out of the BATS in Queens’ back in 1961, which regularly performed at the Minack for twenty years. The off-shoot of Cambridge University Players was mainly Churchill (and New Hall) people, including Simon Dentith (now a professor at Reading); the distinguished landscape photographer Simon Warner; and Judy Adams (New Hall President of the GODS at that time: Simon and Judy later married and their son, Leo, is a top international CGI designer for the Met, ENO, Berlin… you name it… and it was Steve Xerri who stimulated his interest in online graphics when he was little). [See Steve Xerri’s and Steve Watts’s shortly following article.]

A key person for the Harlech project was Gruff Jones (Gruffudd Jones, U70, English), from Wrexham, who died in the summer of 2013, and who was a prominent theatre person in Wales after graduating (he wrote for the Welsh-language equivalent of Coronation Street, for example). Steve Xerri translated Molière's Don Juan with him for the production at Harlech and Steve Watts acted in it. A later production at Harlech was by Simon’s sister, the famous director Deborah Warner.

And John Kinsella: there is a connection with the GODS, though more with the Marlowe. John asked me to direct his first play, Crop Circles, which we put on in the Wolfson through the GODS, but drawing on Marlowe acting resources as well. For the Marlowe, he also wrote a series of Plough Plays, based on Mummers plays, and we did two of them in Grantchester Orchard in the summer of 2011, together with the Cambridge Molly Dancers (a Morris group).

Going back to very early days indeed, Edward Hill (U64, Architecture) writes: I read with interest the article by John White in the latest Churchill Review (2013) about his stage-crew memories of the first GODS production in the

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Wolfson Hall in 1965. Perhaps I can fill in a few gaps. The first production was not The Cherry Orchard but The Flowering Cherry – a very different piece altogether. It was written by Robert Bolt, who was best known for A Man for All Seasons. The protagonist, played by Robert Crick, dreams of owning an orchard in Somerset and the large sheet of net to which John refers was used to give a half-glimpse of an idealised orchard. The director was the late David Stokes, who went on to become an eminent judge and in whose name a legal scholarship has been established at the College. I had a small part as a smarmy insurance salesman and also designed the set. Having since then had a long career as an architect, I can mark this as the first time I ever saw a drawing of mine turned into something tangible.

Before the Wolfson Hall opened, I recall a GODS production in the Buttery in December 1964 featuring Richard Bethell-Jones in a short Chekhov play, and yours truly in The Lover by Harold Pinter opposite a girl from New Hall whose name, I am ashamed to say, I cannot recall. The GODS at that time was a joint Churchill / New Hall society, both colleges, of course, being single-sex.

Other early GODS productions in the Wolfson Hall in the 1960s included The Bacchae, Lysistrata, The Critic and Dandy Dick. I have particularly fond memories of the last two, both I think directed by Christopher Frayling, in which I played Mr Puff and the Vicar respectively.

Great to read that fifty years on the GODS continue to flourish.

And from Sir John Stuttard (U63, Economics): I was interested to read John White’s contribution in the latest Churchill Review (2013, pp. 47-48) on the origin of the GODS. While I cannot add anything as to the origin of its name, I can confirm that the GODS existed before the Wolfson Hall was completed in 1965.

I spent much of my three years at Cambridge, to the chagrin of my Economics Director of Studies, Frank Hahn, acting in as many as fourteen theatrical productions. One of these was Deathwatch by Jean Genet which, according to my Heffer’s diary, was performed by the GODS at Whittingham

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Lodge on 27 February 1964, almost exactly fifty years ago. Four short plays were performed that evening and I attach a copy of the programme, as some of the names in the casts will be familiar to the Review’s readers.

Deathwatch was produced by Paul Morrison (U63), a fellow undergraduate economist, who went on to become a well-known TV and film director.The cast included David Stokes (U63), who played the part of a prisoner in a condemned cell. He later trained at the bar, becoming a QC and then a judge at the Old Bailey. Sadly David died in 2005, following which his friends contributed to a Memorial Bursary which provides funds for Law undergraduates at Churchill. It is administered by Law Professor and Churchill Fellow Matt Kramer and by the Development Director. As someone who once acted as a criminal while at Churchill, David would be amused to learn that recipients of the Stokes awards are invited to the Central Criminal Court. They are then obliged to stand in the dock of Number 1 Court before being presented with their cheques by the Recorder of London, the senior judge at the Old Bailey.

Steve Watts (U70, English) and Steve Xerri (U70, Modern Languages) write an entertaining account of the GODS in the early 70s: The GODS: the early years In the last years before women were admitted to Churchill, sharing the GODS Dramatic Society with New Hall helped maintain sanity. It also meant that its productions had some terrific female leads (chief among them Judith Adams), and that it didn’t have to be afraid of tackling epic plays such as Mother Courage. It could even carry off female-to-male cross-dressing in a sparkling production of As You Like It . Male-to-female cross-dressing wasn’t ruled out, though, even when not strictly necessary: who can forget, in A Woman of No Importance, the imperious Lady Hunstanton of Piers Evans (aka Ammonia Twinsets) in full Victorian fig? “Going mixed”, though, was always going to help a drama society, and the GODS profited in this respect from the College’s pioneering liberalism, with Churchill women such as Glenda Davies making a vivid contribution to productions.

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the boards alongside them could manage the magisterial beard of mature student David Banks or the genuinely grizzled appearance of the then College chaplain Richard Cain. Ursula Scott, a resident of Storey’s Way and stalwart of Cambridge theatre, gown as well as town, kindly passed on her secret method of applying rouge to simulate the broken veins of age, using scrunched-up hard loo-roll (this will be meaningless to the Andrex generation); and many an actor (among them Hussain Khan, who refused to cut his luxuriant and fashionably long black locks to play an old English colonel) benefited, if that is the word, from an ingenious and low-budget trick with hairgrips and tennis shoe-white applied with a toothbrush.

That was a bold transformation, but for the GODS ambition was never a problem. They offered Shakespeare (of course), but also Kyd, Marlowe, Brecht, Beckett, Dylan Thomas, Yeats, Soyinka and Pablo Neruda. The society’s productions earned a high reputation on the student drama scene and there was a lively two-way traffic between the GODS (some of whose actors featured in ADC productions) and the old town-centre colleges whose star actors (including, in a small role, Douglas Adams) were prepared to brave the wilds of the Madingley Road to appear in Churchill shows.

The Wolfson Hall can be an unforgiving space, seemingly better suited to conference presentation than drama (perhaps even a bit too comfortable?), but it could be and was recast as a theatre of epic proportions. Here again, Churchill’s unusual constitution came to the society’s aid, with what might be thought of as an arty preserve drawing on the talents of a plethora of engineers and architects to realise with confidence the most demanding directorial requests.

So it was that we saw the Wolfson stripped of drapes, sometimes with the added thrill of telegraph poles positioned in the auditorium itself, loud with song, fierce with swordplay and replete with scene-stealing dogs and a bear, of which it is reliably reported that the unseen actor within the suit – this being the age of glam rock – insisted that he be given gold Roxy Music eyeshadow before he would deign to put on the bear’s head and take to the stage: it is rumoured that strong drink played some part in this ritual. Not all of these things happened in the same play, of course (that would have been some show), but GODS productions enjoyed without question Cambridge’s best post-getout parties – and in the Bevin Room, itself an unlikely disco.

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If the Wolfson wasn’t challenging enough, there was always Fountain Court in New Hall to half-cover with an aluminium stage in order to present Brecht’s Edward II – particularly exciting with an added thunderstorm. Life in the GODS wasn’t always easy, but never dull.

There were sometimes lively discussions about proposed make-overs of the Wolfson with one particular very protective Lady Superintendent. Even she, though, was won over into contributing old unwanted curtains to make costumes on the cheap for Tim Cribb’s large-scale production of Henry IV. Theatre, it seemed, really did draw people together.

It was in keeping with the College’s open ethos that the GODS put on a series of panto-like productions at the end of Easter Term, written by the cast and taken out in a ramshackle collection of cars to local junior schools, or sometimes staged in the atmospheric mini-amphitheatre of the copse behind the Chapel, with the young audiences bussed in for the occasion.This was, as well as a distant echo of contemporary “devised theatre” practices, a wholly “Churchill” reaction against the élitist fripperies of May Week and an attempt to do something for the wider Cambridge community.

Of course, not everything the GODS put on was a triumph, and even the triumphs could be a hair’s breadth from disaster, such as the threatened collapse of a steeply raked false stage in The Jew of Malta or the nearmurderous falling out of that production’s co-directors (all made up afterwards, of course, when the emotional heat generated by most productions had cooled). But there were some very enjoyable catastrophes too, with whole rows of seats shaking with suppressed guffaws as things went from bad to worse. Once we nearly lost an eminent historian long before his ennoblement, as Sir Diarmaid MacCulloch turned puce with stifled hysterics at the unintentional comedy of a performer (whose name, luckily, has disappeared into the mists of time) turning in a truly perfect embodiment of the Art of Coarse Acting, involving an absurd routine with a ball of string, with which he thought to embellish Shakespeare.

The GODS combined, in its name and its practice, grand aspirations and giggles from the cheap seats – not a bad definition of theatre.

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Finally, Barrie Hesketh (Artist Fellow Commoner [By-Fellow], 1979) sends photographs of a production of The Insect Play by Karel Čapek that he directed on his first visit to the College. Čapek (1890-1938) was an early 20th-century Czech writer best known for his science fiction, including the novel War with the Newts and the play RUR that introduced the word “robot”. Janáček’s celebrated opera The Makropoulos Affair is based on one of his plays. The Gestapo named Čapek, an outspoken anti-Fascist, Czechoslovakia’s “public enemy number two”. The Insect Play, which he wrote with his brother Josef, is a satire in which insects stand in for various human characteristics. “I am sorry,” writes Barrie, “not to have scribbled notes about who appears in the photos. I remember we used scenery from another show. The Insect Play was rather more to the end of the Michaelmas Term – on the back of one of the photos I have written ‘Nov 79’ and in a corner are the words ‘Mark Proctor, Queens’ – it might be Praster – presumably he was a friendly student with a decent camera!

To begin with there was a general feeling from the cast that the story was rather naïve – but then, half-way through rehearsals, Russia went on the offensive, and the whole tone of the play took on a thrilling if sombre tone.”

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Co-education:The Problems As we saw in Steve Watts's and Steve Xerri’s article on the GODS earlier in this Features section, single-sex institutions posed a number of issues in the performing arts – fortunately soon resolved. Another story with a happy ending comes from Dr Len Squire, retired Engineering Fellow.

The first female research student in Churchill At the celebrations for Forty Years of Women I remembered that I was a Tutor for Advanced Students at the time and that the Tutors were faced with a minor problem. Daphne Osborne [the first female Fellow, 1971] had accepted a young woman from Sri Lanki to start in October 1972, the date when Churchill was allowed to accept female students. However, she turned up at Easter, a term early. With Daphne’s agreement, we decided to find her a room, and so she became the only female student in Churchill for the Easter Term. All went well until she submitted her dissertation on time nine terms later. Whereupon the Board of Graduate Studies refused to accept it, since to them she had kept only eight terms – her first term in Churchill could not count, as we were not allowed to take women students. Here is what the internet tells us about this: “She (Daphne Osborne) became Churchill’s first woman fellow and supervised the College’s first female PhD student, Swati Sen (now Swati Sen-Mandi)”.The piece also gives the following reference to a paper by Daphne and Sen-Mandi: Sargent JA, Sen-Mandi S, Osborne DJ. 1981. The loss of desiccation tolerance during germination: an ultrastructural and biochemical approach. Protoplasma 105: 225– 239.

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I have always thought it interesting that our first women student was here unofficially for one term (if I remember it correctly) and hope that it will not be forgotten.

Len Squire Dr Sen-Mandi overcame this display of bureaucracy: she pursued a distinguished career, most recently at the Bose Institute, and has just retired. Other stories run less smoothly. We turn now to a comparative perspective on co-education from Professor Nancy Malkiel, a Princeton University historian. Professor Malkiel came to Cambridge in August 2013 to interview representatives of the colleges that had admitted women in 1972. Her article is followed by another from Mark Goldie encouraging us to shed, or at least modify, any possibly rose-tinted view of our own College history.

The Transatlantic View I have eagerly accepted the kind invitation of Alison Finch to tell the readers of the Churchill Review about the book I am writing about co-education in the United States and the United Kingdom in the period 1969-1974. I am a Professor of History at Princeton University, where I joined the Faculty in 1969, just at the moment that the first undergraduate women matriculated. I am myself the graduate of a women’s college – Smith College. For twenty-four years I served as Dean of the College at Princeton, which meant that I had responsibility for undergraduate education at the University. How men and women students have been faring – academically, socially, and in leadership roles of all kinds – has been a subject of great interest to me for many years. When I stepped down from the Deanship, then, it was only fitting that I refocus my scholarship and teaching (I had previously written in African American history, and I had taught the history of the United States in the twentieth century) to match some of my preoccupations as a dean.

I turned, therefore, to the matter of co-education. I knew that there had been a flood of decisions for co-education in the United States from 1969 through 1972 – Princeton, Yale, Harvard, Dartmouth, Vassar, and the many other institutions that moved to co-educate in a very brief period of time.What I did not know when I started my research was that the same thing happened in the

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United Kingdom, with three Cambridge colleges – Churchill, Clare and King’s – admitting women in 1972 and five Oxford colleges – Brasenose, Hertford, Jesus, St. Catherine’s and Wadham – following suit in 1974.

The purpose of my book is to understand why this cascade of decisions occurred when it did, how these very traditional, conservative institutions came to embrace such significant change, and what happened when the women students (or, in the case of Vassar, male students) arrived. I want also to explore the similarities and differences between co-education (or co-residence) in the United States and the United Kingdom. I am making some basic assumptions as I proceed: • With respect to why, and why then?: everything about the 1960s bore on what happened: the civil rights movement, the student movement, the antiwar movement, the women’s movement, the beginning of efforts at colleges and universities to diversify in terms of race and socio-economic background.

• In the United States, Princeton and Yale were the prime movers; everyone was watching them.

• They (and other institutions) were motivated not by some high-minded commitment to educating women, but by what they perceived to be strategic necessity: the “best boys” (their term) were beginning to make clear that they did not want to go to all-male institutions. Co-education became the means to continue to attract their share of the best boys. In Vassar’s case, the opposite was true: the best-qualified female candidates no longer wanted to go to a geographically isolated women’s college.

• The women’s movement cut two ways: on the one hand, it was one of the factors pointing toward co-education; on the other, it helped to explain why Smith and Wellesley backed away from co-education even after high-level committee reports at both institutions recommended it (there were fears that it would not be possible for women’s colleges to attract sufficient numbers of well-qualified men, and that if men were to matriculate, leadership opportunities for women on campus, as well as the primacy of women in the classroom, would be compromised). The women’s movement also helped to explain why there was such a long delay in merging Harvard and Radcliffe.

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• Co-education (co-residence) at Cambridge and Oxford emerged out of local conditions specific to the United Kingdom: the Robbins and Franks Reports; the desire to expand opportunities for women to study at Cambridge and Oxford; the influence of the women’s movement and the student movement; generational shifts in college fellowships, as a younger generation of Fellows often took the lead in encouraging their colleges to go mixed; leadership on the part of certain Principals/Wardens/Masters.

There are so many interesting parallels and differences between the experience of the United States and the United Kingdom, so many questions to explore: • Who are the prime movers? Administrative leaders? Faculty? Students? What roles do each of these groups play in the different settings?

• How important is strategic advantage? In the United States, it’s a matter of competition for students; in the United Kingdom, there are competitive issues involving standing in the Cambridge Tompkins and Oxford Norrington Tables.

• What role do alumni play? The sentiments of alumni figured importantly in institutional deliberations in the United States, much less so in the United Kingdom. In the United States, opposition to co-education spurred conservative alumni to organise dissident alumni groups that worked against the interests of university administrations seeking to implement co-education at some of the major universities.

• How well did “going mixed” actually work? In the United States, despite the strong advance support of undergraduates for co-education, the actual interaction of men and women after co-education arrived proved much more complicated. In the United Kingdom, there appears to have been a simpler transition.

The book is shaping up to have three parts. The first section will be about Harvard, Yale and Princeton. The second will be about some prominent American colleges – Vassar, as the prime example of a women’s college that admitted men; Smith and Wellesley, as examples of leading women’s colleges that had high-level reports in this same period recommending co-education but that backed away; and Dartmouth, a men’s college where the arrival of women students was particularly fraught. The third part of the book will be about the three Cambridge colleges that co-educated in 1972 and the five

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Oxford colleges that co-educated in 1974. And there will be an introductory chapter that explains why all of this happened when it did.

I continue to gather information for the book, and I welcome reminiscences of Churchillians about their early experience of co-residence.

Nancy Weiss Malkiel Princeton University

Crucifixion at High Table Crucifixion at High Table (watercolour on paper) was painted in Norwich by Barrie Hesketh in 1987. It was gifted to Mark Goldie, Fellow of Churchill College, in 2013, and in due course will be donated to the College.

Christians of a certain disposition may find the picture sacrilegious (and a Catholic friend of Barrie’s once attempted to buy it, probably with a view to destroying it). But no commentary on Christian belief is intended. Crucifixion is here simply used as a powerful metaphor for inhumanity.

The painting depicts a semi-naked young woman crucified, the cross made from the branches of an apple tree, protruding from the midst of a circular table around which a gaggle of a dozen dons carouse: louche, drunken, complacent, arrogant, literally legless. If their scarlet gowns denote academic civilisation, their demeanour betokens incivility. Worse, their obliviousness of the woman points to culpable callousness. All but one is male. Around the crown of thorns is the motto “Crown of projections”. From the woman’s mouth come the words “Master, forgive them for they know not what they feel”.

Nothing obvious identifies place or persons. But those with close knowledge of Churchill College will spot the Latin tag from Virgil, “Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas” (“fortunate is he who understands the causes of things”), which is to be found on a plaque at the Porters’ Lodge.This, then, is High Table at Churchill College. The painter was an Artist By-Fellow, visiting for a term in 1979 and again in 1985. None of the dons is identifiable and Barrie is emphatic that he did not depict any particular person – which is not to say that he did not have one or two actual people in mind.

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Above the woman’s head are depictions and tags relating to various historical persons, amongst whom is Thomas Comber, Master of Trinity College in the seventeenth century. Again, those with a close knowledge of the College will be aware that a woman named Philippa Comber was College Counsellor at Churchill from 1983 to 1988. Philippa has been Barrie’s partner since 1985; they met at Churchill. The crucified woman is, then, Philippa, though again no likeness is drawn: the figure is a universal female.

Barrie painted the picture in anger and sympathy, though it is also playful, and not a little magical and surreal: there are cats (Felix!) emerging from ancient wine cellars, apples and skeletons. It is serio-ludic.

In arriving at Churchill as Counsellor at the age of thirty-six, Philippa Comber stepped into something of a quagmire. In some ways a Cambridge college was familiar territory – her father had been a housemaster at Wellington College – in other ways, thoroughly alien. Prior to this, she had spent most of the 1970s in West Berlin, studying psychology and training as a psychotherapist. She returned to the UK in 1980 to take up a post as manager of a psychiatric day centre in Norwich. Now at Churchill, she was confronted with knotty issues emanating from the latest round in the College’s chapel dispute. Hitherto, the chapel chaplains had also served as counsellors.The chapel had sacked its chaplain (not a little to do with the fact that he was no longer identifiably Christian); the College Council had kept him on as counsellor because he was wonderful with students; but then he had left in disgust and now the Council decided to appoint a secular psychotherapist, leaving the chapel to go its own way.

This legacy was soon compounded by further hazards. Philippa was expected to socialise as a member of the College community, to which she was not averse personally, but which she found impossibly compromising professionally.

(Today, the College counsellor keeps a discreet physical and social distance.)

Furthermore, some tutors and directors of studies, seeking her help in addressing their pastoral difficulties concerning students, were at risk of involving her – albeit unwittingly – in breaches of professional ethics.

Nor was this all. This was the 1980s. By then, a cultural revolution in gender attitudes was under way, but only just beginning. In 2013 the nation has become acutely aware of that past era, with a slew of arrests of, and allegations against,

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people in public life who routinely molested young women a generation ago.

Outright rape aside, a culture of highly sexualised public spaces prevailed, a world of male sexuality expressing itself through verbal innuendo and unwanted touching. If some of its perpetrators were men of a much older generation, others were in fact the “radical” children of the Sixties. Feminist memoirs of the Sixties repeatedly emphasise the extent to which “liberation” was taken by men to mean the sexual availability of women. Though such quintessentially Sixties men did exist among the Fellowship, as it happens the present trouble came (besides, of course, from male students) from Forties and Fifties men, now advancing in years if not in sensibility.

Philippa found herself the natural haven for women students fed up with leering, fondling, pestering men – men who were invariably worse when drunk. Young women had naively hoped that a university might be a place where their minds were valued, free of the sexualisation inherent in the wider culture. If the culprits among Fellows were few, other Fellows, while not guilty, hardly knew where to start if it were suggested that something ought to be done. Turning up to High Table to find molesters dining unreproached was a step too far for Philippa, who in turn became the lightning-rod for male resentment and ridicule of her circle of “hysterical” students. By the late 1980s, she felt beleaguered and belittled.

Born in 1930, Barrie has painted and drawn all his life. By profession, he was an actor-manager who from 1963 to 1984, along with his wife Marianne, had created and sustained the Mull Little Theatre – according to The Guinness Book of Records of the time, “the smallest professional theatre in the world”. In 1979, the couple had been invited to spend the Michaelmas Term as Fellow Commoners at Churchill. Marianne, recuperating from surgery for cancer, now had time to spare, so was more than happy to act as confidante for those female students encountering emotional problems similar to the ones Philippa was to meet with later. (In 1984, Marianne died, not long after she and Barrie had each been awarded the MBE for Services to Scottish Theatre.) The story is told, including that term in Churchill, in Barrie’s Taking Off:The Story of the Mull Little Theatre (1997). [See above, article on the GODS, and below, In Memoriam (appreciation of Colin Campbell).]

When Barrie returned to Churchill in 1985, he observed that in terms of the culture of the College community, not much had changed. No doubt he was

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attuned to Philippa’s predicament via his experience of 1979. He and Philippa discussed the issues and decided to tackle them by taking a creative approach that would involve their respective professional skills. Among their exploits together in that second term was a puppet show, “Mind the Drama, Mr Rops”, Mr Rops’s purpose being to introduce students to the process of counselling and psychotherapy. (Félicien Rops was a nineteenth-century Belgian artist whose illustrative work is of an erotic, often frankly pornographic, nature.)

In this context, it is worth noting that in the course of his earlier visit, Barrie produced a video recording of a short entertainment performed by him and Marianne before an invited audience made up of members of the College, Fellows and students. It was recorded using two cameras, one of which, importantly, was on the audience and the whole delivered in split-screen format so as to highlight audience-performer interaction. The video remained in his possession until now and a digitised version has been gifted to the Churchill Archive. Thus the College watched, but was observed.

Crucifixion at High Table was included in an exhibition of Barrie’s work at the Cambridge Central Library in Lion Yard in 1987. He put a price tag of £700 on it “because I didn’t want anyone to buy it”. Until 2013 it was stashed at home, in Norwich and Altrincham. Now it has (almost) come back to Churchill.

Mark Goldie, with the help and consent of Barrie Hesketh and Philippa Comber, October 2013

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Floral Churchill Thanks to Mike Shull for the five outdoor photos, and to Gavin Bateman for the ones taken in the greenhouse, showing John Moore, our Head Gardener, with donor Dr Frank Maine. (See above, The CollegeYear: Development Report.)

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Condolences The College extends deep sympathies to the families and friends of the following: Professor Robert F Christy (Overseas Fellow 1968), who died on 3 October 2012; see following note Professor Stephen J Dowrick (U71), who died on 1 August 2013 Mr Mark A Rogerson (U61), who died on 1 August 2013 Dr John Hollander (Overseas Fellow 1967), who died on 17 August 2013 Professor Emeritus David Landes (Overseas Fellow 1968), who died on 17 August 2013 Professor Kristof Glamann (Overseas Fellow 1971), who died on 8 October 2013 Dr Vincent P Flanagan (G61), who died on 9 December 2013 Professor Wallace T MacCaffrey (Overseas Fellow 1968), who died on 13 December 2013 Professor Kenneth A Cliffe (U72), who died on 5 January 2014 Dr Nigel Horn (G65), who died on 15 January 2013 Mr Anthony J Dilworth (U66), who died on 20 January 2014 Dr Edward Markham (G60), who died on 22 January 2014 Professor Alan R Katritzky (Founding Fellow 1959), who died on 10 February 2014 Dr John W Belliveau (G81), who died on 14 February 2014 Mr Brian J Merrony (U61), who died on 15 February 2013 Dr Catherine A Colbert (nee Morewood) (G91), who died on 21 February 2012

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Mr John A Wilkinson (U62), who died on 1 March 2014 Professor Alan T James (Overseas Fellow 1965), who died on 7 March 2013 Dr Yuchen Li (G09), who died on 8 March 2014 Dr R Colin Campbell (Fellow 1962), who died on 24 March 2014; see following appreciations Dr Paul J Hooker (Past Fellow 1979), who died on 1 April 2014 Dr Thomas R Hennessy (G63), who died on 13 April 2014 Mr Gordon A Campbell CBE (U65), who died on 27 April 2014 Dr Alan Winter (U72), who died on 25 May 2014 Lady Mary Soames, LG, DBE (Honorary Fellow), who died on 31 May 2014; see following appreciations Professor Anthony Kelly (Founding Fellow 1960), who died on 4 June 2014; see following appreciations Dr Richard J Guthrie (U69), who died on 5 June 2014 Professor Geoffrey R Grice (G63), who died on 12 July 2014 Professor Anna Craft (U80), who died on 11 August 2014; see following appreciation Professor David Gwilliam (Past Fellow 1989), who died on 31 August 2014 Mr Michael Howden (U61), who died in September 2014

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In 2014, the College lost three remarkable figures: in March, Dr Colin Campbell; in May, The Lady Soames; and in June, Professor Anthony Kelly.

We also received an obituary article about Professor Hugh Huxley (Past Fellow, 1967), whose death in 2013 was recorded in last year’s Review; the article, by James Spudich (Stanford University School of Medicine), observed that with Hugh’s death “the field of structural biology lost a giant”. For much of his career Hugh had worked at the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge; in 1983, along with Joseph Gall, he had won the prestigious E. B. Wilson Medal, the highest honour awarded by the American Society for Cell Biology. Hugh received numerous other honours in recognition of his achievements. “Hugh Huxley’s contributions,” the article concludes, “were always marked by major insights, incredible precision, and a scientific and personal integrity to be emulated.”

(From Molecular Biology of the Cell, vol. 24, 15 September 2013, pp. 2769-71.)

Professor Robert Christy [see Condolences] was a physicist at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California; his wife Dr I-Juliana Christy (herself a respected astrophysicist) wrote to us as follows: “I wrote a book on [Robert’s] life titled Achieving the Rare: Robert F Christy’s Journey in Physics and Beyond. On page 165 of that book, I include his comments (from an interview) on his wonderful stay at Churchill. He said: Oh, that was fun! I was what was called a Churchill Fellow. This was a Fellowship awarded by the Fellows of Churchill College, Cambridge, which was a College founded in honor of Winston Churchill, but it had definite connections with the US. So they brought over visitors, often from the US, to spend time there rubbing shoulders with the students and faculty. In general, it was mutually profitable.

I wanted to go to Cambridge, because I had a sabbatical. I didn’t teach there; I did research. It was a wonderful experience. I thought then that Cambridge and Oxford were really the epitome of college experience. I never went so much for Oxford, but Cambridge, I still think, is really tops in terms of what colleges should be: the surroundings, the way things are done, everything about it. We don’t have the tradition.

Now, Harvard has a lot of tradition, but it isn’t put together the same way.

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I lived there at the college in a small apartment, and I went to seminars and other things having to do with physics and astronomy. It was a most enjoyable experience.

Cambridge had a bunch of good nuclear physicists at the time. And they had radio astronomers. And, of course, in college you meet people outside your own field – the other dons who are living there, or eating there. Dining in college is a very, very attractive experience. I’m all in favour of it. You might say it’s very civilized.

For many years, he glowed when he told me about his wonderful experience at your college.”

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Dr Colin Campbell, 1927-2014 Colin Campbell first came to the College in 1962 to teach Part I of the Natural Sciences Tripos. He was in charge of an Agricultural Research Council Statistics Unit and was based in the School of Agriculture. He lectured in Mathematical Statistics and organised a firstclass co-ordination between the mathematical and the practical applications of his field.

Colin was a Title A Fellow at Churchill from 1962 to 1989 and was elected to a Title D (Emeritus) Fellowship on his retirement. He was very active within College: he held a Dr R Colin Campbell, age 21 number of posts, including those of Inspector of Accounts and Tutor, and most notably that of Senior Tutor from 1975 to 1985. Frank Dobson (see above, Student Life) writes: “We knew Colin had been ill for some time but his death still came as a blow. Colin was my ‘moral tutor’ and he and his wife, Margaret, were so kind to me and my wife, Liz, when we married in 1966 – at that time Liz was teaching French in Cambridge. We kept in touch over the years and were delighted to be at Churchill to celebrate his 80th birthday, the last time we saw him.We have such happy memories of 64 Windsor Road and of the warmth we received from Colin and Margaret. He was a lovely man.” And Mark Robinson (U76, Engineering) writes: “I can only write about Dr Colin Campbell with his wife Margaret. It was as if Colin and Margaret were my tutor.While I was at Churchill and then throughout my life, Colin and Margaret were very special to me. They were like my second parents. I am sure this is true for most of their tutees. At college we tutees looked forward to their events, especially when we were invited to their home for a delicious and filling dinner, which of course we bragged about to our peers.They were always available, welcoming and open to listening to any of the problems of the day. They ensured that Churchill felt like my second home. After I left Cambridge, I stayed in touch each Christmas and always looked forward to their individual hand-written Churchill update.As time went by, the relationship extended from me the student to my family. My wife [Lesley Robinson nee Jacobs, also a Churchill student (U76, Modern Languages)]

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and three children would visit them whenever we were in Cambridge. It was as if my family were now included as their tutees. Colin and Margaret were two very special human beings. Their memory will help us to be like them – warm, charitable, open, caring and nurturing.”

There follow the tribute of Colin’s daughter Rachel, delivered at his funeral in Great St Mary’s; further biographical information provided by former colleague John Rowell of the Agricultural Research Council and by Fellow Dr Eurof Walters; and a tribute from Philippa Comber (former College Counsellor; see above, Features) and Barrie Hesketh (former Artist Fellow Commoner [By-Fellow]).

Colin, by his daughter Colin had a fine tenor singing voice which he loved to use, often while washing up and doing other household chores. He enjoyed it even more if there were other people to join in with him, and rousing renditions of hits from shows, particularly from My Fair Lady, Christmas carols, sung with relish at all times of the year, and a random selection of other songs regularly accompanied the clearing-up after an evening’s entertaining.

People – whether family or friends (including countless students) – were essential to Colin’s life. He dedicated his life to helping others in whatever ways he could, and always encouraged people to seek to achieve the best of their potential. Together with Margaret, from whom, in the words of Margaret’s cousin, he was inseparable from the first day they met on the way to school in Reading, they welcomed countless people to their home in Windsor Road, always genuinely interested in each and every one, and gently encouraging or offering words of wisdom, if required. Many of those who came to Windsor Road were students at Churchill College, and Colin’s relationship with Churchill was long and close. He took his role in loco parentis as Tutor very seriously, seeing all his tutorial pupils twice a term, and entertaining them, either at home or in College, regularly throughout their time as undergraduates, so that many of them remained close family friends after they had left Cambridge.

Colin came to Cambridge as an undergraduate at Gonville and Caius College in 1947 to read mathematics, which he followed by a Diploma in Statistics. He then helped to set up an ARC statistics group, where Margaret worked with

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him as an administrator when she came to Cambridge after their marriage in 1951; he also started his PhD, which linked two areas of great interest – livestock and statistics. Colin retained his love of farming (having grown up on farms outside Reading) throughout his life and was very knowledgeable about livestock; he had a great love of the outdoors too, reflected not only in the hours he spent in the garden at Windsor Road, but also in his delight at identifying birds on the Norfolk coast, quite often erroneously!

Margaret’s and Colin’s life in Cambridge, outside Churchill College, centred, to a large degree, around this church, Great St Mary’s, where they worshipped every Sunday from the mid 1950s. Many curates who happened to live either in Windsor Road, or nearby, were drawn into the circle at 64 Windsor Road, and subsequently remained extremely close to Margaret and Colin.

Colin was an only child, so, unlike Margaret, did not share the experiences of a wide family circle, but he was welcomed wholeheartedly into Margaret’s family, and trips to Reading to see the family and to help look after my grandmother were frequent.

Family Christmases in Reading and holidays in South Devon are now family legends – just getting five adults and four children to South Devon and back in an unreliable Humber Hawke in the early 1960s was no mean feat! Colin was also in charge of cooking the Christmas lunch every year, and catering for, and actually serving up, a meal for about fifteen people required all his planning and logistical skills.

Life for Colin after Margaret’s death in 2004 became much harder. He was devastated by her loss, which he bore with his customary stoicism, but in many ways he was unable to adjust to life without her by his side. He was then diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease, which gradually robbed him of his independence, but throughout the final eight years of his illness he retained his delight in welcoming friends to Windsor Road, and whenever possible sharing a song with anyone who would join in. He bore his illness and increasing disability with good grace, keeping his laconic, dry sense of humour to the very end.

Colin would have been delighted to see you all gathered here today, so let us join together to celebrate his life and to remember a kind, gentle, humorous man who loved his family and friends in equal measure.

Rachel Thomas (nee Campbell)

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Richard Colin Campbell: his career Colin attended Reading School from 1937 to 1945 and then got a Kitchener Scholarship to Reading University. He was there from October 1945 to June 1946, taking the first year of a BSc (General) in Pure and Applied Mathematics and Physics. He then won an Exhibition to Gonville and Caius College, where he studied from 1946 to 1949, taking the Mathematics Tripos.After the Maths Tripos, Colin took a Diploma in Mathematical Statistics (1949-50) and did a PhD titled “Biometrical Problems in Reproduction” (1954). He had a good deal of professional contact with Lord V. Rothschild, FRS, at this time, and was exempted from National Service, possibly owing to Lord Rothschild’s intervention. Colin took up employment with the Agricultural Research Council under Sir John Hammond’s FRS Unit of Animal Reproduction, and did pioneering work on artificial insemination. He subsequently became a Fellow of the Council (198193), which was then replaced by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council. He set up the ARC Statistics Group, with his wife as secretary, in the School of Agriculture (later the Department of Applied Biology). He had a staff of seven, including four graduate mathematicians; he provided a consultancy service for ARC research establishments, including the Institute of Animal Physiology (Babraham), the Houghton Poultry Research Station (St Ives, Hunts), and the National Institute of Research in Dairying (Shinfield, Reading). Most of his research involved animal experimentation, with very little field work. He benefited from monthly consultations with Dr Frank Yates (Head of Statistics at Rothamsted Experimental Station, Herts) and from occasional support from Sir Ronald Fisher (Department of Genetics), the geneticist whom some regard as the founder of modern statistics, particularly with his foundational work on experimental design during his time at Rothamsted. Colin’s data analysis was initially with calculators: mechanical (Brunsviga), then electrical (Facit). This involved much tedium, relieved however as Colin introduced a competitive element! Some analysis was undertaken using punched card equipment (Hollerith) for the Mathematical Laboratory.This led to Colin’s seeking permission to use EDSAC, requiring approval from a committee which assessed whether the project represented computer use in a new area.Very little, if any, commercial software was available at this point, and computer use for statistical analysis was in its infancy. So approval was readily granted, even though the time-slot made available was just one hour per week at 3 o’clock in the morning. One of the assistants in the Group lay a man who was registered blind. He was a keen programmer so Colin persuaded the computer staff to provide Braille output.

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One of Colin’s gifts lay in encouraging others with considerable appropriate delegation. Staff were encouraged to follow their own interests in the development of statistical techniques. All were involved in teaching, both undergraduate supervision and lecturing, mainly for Natural Science students.

There was encouragement too for staff to advise researchers in the developing world (Malawi, Zimbabwe, Nepal), even though this was not an activity in which Colin himself engaged.

Following the opening of Churchill College, Colin became increasingly involved with the life of the College. As a Fellow, he was Director of Studies in Natural Sciences (Maths), as well as Tutor and Senior Tutor. He also encouraged and supported others in his book written for non-mathematical biologists: Statistics for Biologists (1967). Although Colin’s College duties progressively took up more and more of his time, he still retained his position as Officer-in-Charge of the ARC Statistics Group, albeit with a rather distant and diminishing overview of its activities. The Group was housed in very small cramped quarters in the School of Agriculture, and tempers became quite frayed at times. When the staff were unable to resolve various disputes Colin was summoned to deal with the issue. He had a masterful way of dealing with virtually all staff problems. He would listen to the various disputants and usually he would say, quite wrongly, something like: “I can see that this is entirely my fault. I must try to deal with matters rather better in future.” He would then go off leaving the disputants well satisfied, and happy with Colin’s apportionment of blame.

John Rowell and Eurof Walters

A Tribute to Colin Campbell Written as by Barrie Hesketh but composed jointly by himself and Philippa Comber.

Parts are adapted from Barrie’s book Taking Off – The Story of the Mull Little Theatre.

It would have been in 1978, during the early part of the Mull Little Theatre holiday season, that our stage manager walked into the kitchen and said there was someone waiting in the theatre who wanted to have a word with me and my wife, Marianne.

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We had long since given up anticipating what people might want when they asked to see us off-stage. It could be someone with a manuscript they’d like us to read; a “Mrs Worthington” with a daughter looking to embark on a career in acting; or maybe a tourist wishing to book seats for the evening performance. This time, however, it turned out to be a request of a wholly different sort: the person hoping to catch us was Dr Colin Campbell, Senior Tutor of Churchill College, Cambridge.

It was, I remember, quite early in the morning. Soft light filtering through the leaves of the trees surrounding the theatre gave me my first sight of Colin. He was sitting quietly on his own in a corner of the foyer; the impression he made was one of commanding repose – an attribute much valued in the theatre.

He introduced himself with a steady look from beneath notable eyebrows, explaining that he and his wife Margaret were on holiday on Mull. On the strength of having been at the show the night before, he wanted to invite Marianne and me to apply to be Fellow Commoners at Churchill. It wasn’t often we found ourselves at a loss for something to say, but in this case all we could do was look brightly interested and, as people do when they haven’t understood, repeat the phrase. “Fellow Commoners – you mean, sort of actors in residence?” Colin’s answer didn’t get us much further. “Not quite,” he replied.

“Think about it and when you’re ready, send us your CVs ... you wouldn’t have to do very much – just make yourselves amenable ...” As we waved him off in his car, Marianne remarked, “What a laconic man!” We were left feeling somewhat bemused but nonetheless excited.

This had happened at a time when, although our theatre business was looking up, we were facing challenges of another kind: having been diagnosed with breast cancer, Marianne was now recovering from a mastectomy. At the end of each show, it had been her habit to tell audiences about the operation in an attempt to alert people to what was then a subject not often spoken about in public.

Though we never discussed it with Colin, I think her wish to raise awareness of a serious subject had been a factor in his decision to invite us to Churchill; it was also a time when women students were in the minority – and those there were tended to lack female support and representation.

Almost a year later, at the start of the Michaelmas Term 1979, Colin and Margaret welcomed us to the Sheppard Flats and saw to it that everything was

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done to facilitate a very rewarding stay. Even so, it was daunting for a couple of actors to find themselves in the rarefied company of world-class academics; and I remember Marianne admitting to Colin that while she could act her way through one intelligent conversation with any member of the Senior Common Room, were she ever to have to do so a second time round she wouldn’t fail to be “rumbled”!

Following this inspiring “sabbatical”, we returned to our island theatre to expand our touring schedule nationwide. And then, in 1984, five months after giving her last performance in the town of Passau on the Danube, Marianne died.

Shortly afterwards, I received a letter from Colin inviting me to return to Churchill for another term: no fuss, just a hand held out to me when things were looking bleak. This proved to be another instance of Colin’s impact on my life – in a way that makes me think of him with particular affection and in a wholly surprising role: as an unassuming, unobtrusive, but highly efficient matchmaker. It was through Colin that I met my partner-to-be, Philippa Comber, Churchill’s first College Counsellor.

A few days after my arrival, in her capacity as “guardian of social welfare” for all members of the College, guests included, Philippa invited me round for tea.

We got talking and agreed to meet again; and again – and then again. That was in 1985.Twenty-nine years later, Philippa and I were honoured to be part of the congregation at Colin’s funeral in Great St Mary’s, an occasion that happened to coincide with my 84th birthday, a day made specially memorable for having been a celebration of Colin’s life.

Philippa Comber and Barrie Hesketh

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Professor Anthony Kelly, CBE, DL, FRS, FREng, 1929-2014 Tony was an always colourful personality in the College. He had firm views that he never hesitated to put forward, whether over dinner or at College meetings, and those views were not always – as he freely acknowledged – in tune with the College’s predominantly liberal and secular ethos. He could also be a stickler for protocol. And he had a mischievous streak – he rather enjoyed “stirring things up”.Whether because of this, or from a conviction that he was right, he would often “adjust” articles Fellows had written for the Review (which he edited for Professor Anthony Kelly fourteen years); the final published versions could be disconcertingly different from those they had submitted (and incorrect, to boot). Yet along with all that, he was warm-hearted and charming, with a fund of pragmatic common sense that served Churchill College well in many contexts. He was intellectually curious, and had gifts as a linguist. And considering his many talents and achievements, he was surprisingly modest. He was devoted to the College, and he gave with great generosity in order to further its community spirit: most visibly, in memory of his late wife, he established the Christina Kelly Fund, whose purpose was to enable the widows and widowers of deceased Fellows to participate in the social life of the College. On the day we heard he had died, a number of Christina Kelly Associates – as they are called – were dining; the sad news was broken to them, along with the information that of course their link with the College would remain unchanged, since Tony had not only set up the Fund but far-sightedly endowed it. Latterly Tony displayed great courage and determination in the face of increasing infirmity. He will be much missed – and, as the Review Editor who took over from him, this is the moment for me personally to pay tribute to my predecessor, to his hard work on the Review, and to all he did for the College.

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We print below the obituary of Tony Kelly that was sent to the national press by the Bursar, Jennifer Brook. This is followed by extracts from the tribute paid by his son Paul Kelly at his funeral. (Paul also contributed to the national obituary.)

Professor Anthony Kelly The Father of Composite Materials Anthony Kelly was born in Hillingdon, Middlesex, on 25 January 1929. His mother Violet Vaughan was a nurse who converted to Catholicism on marriage, and his father, Group Captain Vincent Gerald Kelly, was a veteran of the First World War trenches who witnessed his own brother’s death at the Somme.

Anthony Kelly’s father was a graduate mathematician who joined the RAF in the 1920s to train navigators. At the age of 13, the young Anthony Kelly corrected his physics teacher’s workings on the board, the said teacher then admitting to the class that “yes, Kelly was right”.

Entering Reading University at the age of 17, he obtained two first-class Honours BSc degrees – General and Special (Physics) – and followed this with a PhD at Trinity College Cambridge in 1953. His thesis was concerned with the plastic deformation of metals examined by X-ray microbeam diffraction. He then worked at the University of Illinois and at Birmingham University before spending three years as an Associate Professor of Metallurgy and Materials Science at Northwestern University, Chicago. He returned to Cambridge in 1959 to take up an appointment as a University Lecturer; here, in addition to innovative teaching, he built up a very active research group working on the strength of materials. As a Founding Fellow of Churchill College, he was Director of Studies in Metallurgy and Materials Science, but also had the time and energy to play a key part in setting up the College wine cellar.

He demonstrated his restless tendencies when in 1967 he moved to a number of roles in government science for eight years, becoming Superintendent of the Materials Division of the National Physical Laboratory and then Deputy Director in 1969. He later claimed that he was following Sir Edward Bullard’s advice “not to fight the Civil Service system but to use it”. The NPL proved an excellent platform for him to develop and apply his knowledge of the strength of materials more widely. Stimulated by early work at Farnborough, his research

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focused increasingly and fruitfully on the kind of high-performing composite materials (such as plastic reinforced with carbon fibre) which have made such an impact on modern life, from vehicles on land, sea and air to buildings, bridges and engines. He received an ScD from the University of Cambridge in 1968 and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1973 at the age of 43.

In 1975, he moved again, this time to the University of Surrey as only its second Vice-Chancellor. During his tenure from 1975 to 1994, the number of full-time students at Surrey increased from 3,000 to 7,000, with a significant increase in the proportion of postgraduate students. During the 1980s the University developed a large network of associated institutions awarding Surrey degrees (notably the Roehampton Institute and St Mary’s College Twickenham, both now universities in their own right), and at that time it became one of the foremost validating universities in the country.

Although Surrey’s annual income rose from £6m to £63m between 1975 and 1994 – a significant real increase – the 1980s were not an easy time to be a ViceChancellor. In the infamous University Grants Committee (UGC) cuts of 1981, Surrey suffered one of the highest reductions in government funding, in spite of being at the forefront of establishing links between higher education and industry.

Professor Kelly responded to the situation with characteristic determination, closing a number of academic departments (rather than spreading the pain evenly, which would not have been in the long-term interests of the University) and further increasing the University’s income from non-government sources.At this and other times, conversations in the Vice-Chancellor’s office could be challenging, but, as Sir Austin Pearce (then a Pro-Chancellor and a former Chairman of British Aerospace) said many years later, when presenting Anthony Kelly for the degree of DUniv honoris causa:“When he digs his heels in he is invariably right.”

A notable feature of the University’s strategy in the 1980s was the development of the Surrey Research Park. Anthony Kelly had first conceived the idea during a sabbatical term in Switzerland in 1979, and a small group (including in particular Jerry Leonard, University Treasurer, and Leonard Kail, University Secretary) took the development forward. It was at around the same time that Anthony Kelly became the first Chairman of Surrey Satellite Technology. It is fitting that the building at the entrance to the Research Park which accommodates start-up companies is named the Anthony Kelly Technology Centre.

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Tony in the Senior Common Room at Churchill Surrey was one of the first universities to introduce a staff appraisal scheme in response to the 1985 Jarratt Report on the management of higher education, and was also one of the first to draw up a strategic plan, long before all universities were required to do so by the Funding Council. Anthony Kelly was a strong advocate of the professional training year which has made a major contribution to Surrey’s consistently high graduate employment record. He had the interests of students at heart and he was meticulous in developing good relationships with the Students’ Union. He was a champion of student sport and could often be found on the Manor Park sports fields on a Saturday afternoon cheering on one of the University’s teams. He encouraged the development of a broader range of subjects in the University – for example the introduction of Dance Studies, a controversial move at the time.

Unusually among Vice-Chancellors, Professor Kelly continued to make a significant contribution to his own discipline. He is widely recognised for having founded and developed the field of strong solids made from composite materials, now extensively used in industry. Hence he is known as the “Father of Composite Materials”. He was elected to the Fellowship of Engineering (now the Royal Academy of Engineering) in 1979, to the National Academy of Engineering of the USA in 1986 and to the Academia Europaea in 1990. He received many international prizes, awards and honorary doctorates from Birmingham, Reading, Surrey, Hanyan University in South Korea and Navarra University in Spain. He

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received the President’s Medal of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2011 in recognition of a lifetime of significant achievement throughout a career spanning more than sixty years. His major book, Strong Solids (first published in 1965, third edition 1986), is still regarded as the seminal work in the field. An international symposium, Advanced Materials in the Marketplace (organised by Professor Michael Kelly and Professor Jim Castle), was held at the University in 1994 to mark his retirement. He was Chairman of the Joint Standing Committee on Structural Safety of the Institutions of Civil and Structural Engineering from 1988 to 1998.

At another event held to mark Anthony Kelly’s retirement, HRH The Duke of Kent (Chancellor of the University) commented on his ability, as an experienced yachtsman, to chart a course through choppy waters – an ability which helped to steer the University through a difficult period following the 1981 UGC cuts.

Those who worked with Tony Kelly recognise that much of his success as an academic leader derived from his unusual personality – he could be stubborn and erratic but always with a measure of personal charm that left you respecting him even after a bruising disagreement. He also had amazing energy, organisational capability and drive to get things done.

On his retirement from the University, Tony and his wife Christina (who sadly died in 1997) returned to live in Cambridge. He soon became actively involved as a Fellow of Churchill College (having been elected as an Extraordinary Fellow of the College in 1985) and as an Emeritus Professor and Distinguished Research Fellow in the University’s Department of Materials Science and Technology. He became a well-known and respected figure at Churchill, editing the College’s Review for many years. He served as President of the Institution of Materials in 1996-97. He was lonely without his beloved wife and recognised the problem of loneliness in later years with a characteristically generous benefaction of a fund at Churchill College to enable the widows and widowers of Fellows to continue to dine in College.

He continued to work and publish throughout the rest of his life. He was a scientist of the old school, who took Nullius in verba as a matter of daily practice.

[Nullius in verba: “Take nobody’s word for it”, the motto of the Royal Society.]

He was properly sceptical until real-world data confirmed his or others’ ideas.

He was not impressed by the modern tendency to use incomplete data to weave elaborate stories that could be undone by hard data, or, worse, were not capable of falsification. He led the successful effort to get forty-three

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Fellows of the Royal Society to petition its Council to modify its public stance on climate science in 2010. He played a key role in helping the Global Warming Policy Foundation to be set up and was a founding and active member of its Academic Advisory Council. He spent his later years as a critic of some aspects of climate science where the consequential actions seemed to him to be doing more harm than good to humanity. His final paper “Climate Policy and the Poor” was published a week after his death.

Professor Kelly was for a number of years a Vice-President of the Royal National Institute for the Deaf. He was appointed CBE in 1988 and a Surrey DL in 1993. Although from a devout Roman Catholic background, he did not allow his faith to intrude on his role as the head of a secular institution, while nevertheless encouraging the development of an ecumenical approach to the University Chaplaincy. He was appointed a Knight of St Gregory in 1992.

Anthony Kelly died peacefully in his sleep at home on 3 June 2014 at the age of 85. He leaves three sons and a daughter.

Jennifer Brook

Tony, by his son Dad was born into a Catholic family of Irish descent. […] His mother was strong and determined, whilst he always told us that he didn’t really understand his father until he had seen the 1969 Richard Attenborough film Oh What a Lovely War. Dad grew up with these very different parents and his elder sister Helen. […] In the 1950s Dad spent much time working in the USA at the Universities of Illinois and Northwestern, though returning briefly to marry our mother Christina Margaret Dunleavie in 1956. They enjoyed their new life in the USA, visiting thirty-four states and making lifelong friends. However, America palled with the still birth of our eldest brother John Francis and the call of Alan Cottrell to come back to Cambridge. Dad now put down roots, becoming a Founding Fellow of Churchill; all his surviving children were born in Cambridge and indeed christened in this very church [the Church of Our Lady and the English Martyrs].

Our childhood was punctuated by many “experiments” and consequences of his developing career and moves to the National Physical Laboratory and then the University of Surrey.

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His growing prominence was reflected in the series of graduate students from all over the world, several of whom we are touched to see today, who joined us at home where Dad decided to test our and their abilities by devising obstacle races and competitive games of badminton. We were certainly the only boys in Thames Ditton whose train set carried loads of nails made from reinforced glass. At Sunday lunches we spoke in French and were taught about wine, and active political discussion was encouraged.

This willingness to embrace ideas and to question that so enriched our mealtimes was evident throughout his career.While at Surrey University he had the great foresight to persuade the University to buy the land on which he then established the very successful Surrey Research Park. This gave the University a solid foundation, enabling it to go from strength to strength. Dad’s polymath nature was also evident in his determination to introduce the Degree in Dance Studies against formidable opposition.

Many later trips with my father inevitably involved engagement with the local art or renowned artist, no matter of what style. Earnest evening discussions of the art or history of that particular region would always prevail.

It was at sailing that Dad really showed his tenacity and drive to us children.

Starting in small dinghies during summer holidays on the Ouse and above all in Cornwall – we took it in turns to spend time with him in his boats or play on the beach – we progressed to larger yachts and sailing in the Solent. Later we did some off-shore sea cruising, culminating with trips to the Algarve and a full four-day non-stop sail to Cobh in Ireland. Going sailing with Dad was not an activity for the faint-hearted, as he pursued it with his typical steely determination and a fully engaged rigorous approach! On one voyage sailing in France Dad had trouble pulling up the anchor, discovering that it had failed and part of it had fallen off. Most people would have put this down to experience – Dad, who has been described as the Father of composite materials, put it down to metal fatigue. A quick examination back in a metallurgy lab, and a carefully worded letter to the manufacturer on suitable headed paper, resulted in a new anchor!

Dad’s retirement from Surrey in 1994 and final return to Cambridge, Churchill and the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy was overshadowed

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by the illness and early death of our mother. He nursed her with characteristic resolve, teaching himself to cook – learning the craft like a scientist to look after her. He missed her terribly, but became a pretty good cook and avid vegetable-grower. Forgiving his complete disregard for “Use By” dates and sometimes unorthodox dishes such as “Turkey Bone Soup” or the home-grown pickled cucumber …. we never quite knew how long the cucumber had been pickled … was it 2008? or 2003 ? … or was it actually cucumber?? Until sadly the last couple of years, when he started losing interest, the suppers at Madingley Road were always accompanied by the finest of wines, some of which he had laid down in the College cellars as the first Wine Steward in the 1960s.

He also showed courage in combating his own deafness, in undergoing replacement hip and knee operations – taking particular interest in the materials used – and in his refusal to allow his stroke last year to incapacitate him. He remained interested and interesting throughout his retirement, decorating the Madingley Road house, collecting paintings of seascapes, studying the science of climate change, passionately and energetically questioning. In fact a few days ago I found the menu from the last College guest night on Dad’s desk annotated with his comments on each course. We are grateful that he died peacefully in his own bed and in his own house. Hospitality was always a feature of my parents’ lives and my earliest memories are of taking food around a gathering of adults.

Paul Kelly

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The Lady Soames, DBE, Honorary Fellow of Churchill College, 1922-2014 Fellows, students and staff were especially saddened to hear of the death on 31 May of Lady Soames, the daughter of our Founder. Lady Soames always took a keen interest in the College, and until very recently was a regular attendee at the Founder’s Feast and on many other special occasions.

The national press carried detailed obituaries of Lady Soames, and she was also memorialised in BBC Radio 4’s Last Word – aired on, appropriately, the seventieth anniversary of D-Day, Lady Soames (then Mary Churchill) 6 June 2014. A key contributor to this as a newly commissioned officer at the Last Word was Professor David end of 1942 when she accompanied her father to observe military Reynolds, a member of our Archives exercises in the North of England.

Centre Committee; he has kindly given us permission to reproduce the Reproduced by permission of Churchill Archives obituary he wrote for The Guardian (2 Centre, The Papers of Clementine Ogilvy SpencerChurchill, Baroness Spencer-Churchill of Chartwell, June 2014). This is followed by brief CSCT 5/5/67. appreciations from two Masters, Professor Sir David Wallace and Lord Broers, and reminiscences from Fellows Allen Packwood and Piers Brendon, current and former Directors of the Archives Centre.

Lady Soames Churchill’s daughter who acted as his ADC and went on to become an accomplished writer Mary Soames, who has died aged 91, was the last surviving child of Winston and Clementine Churchill, and the only one of their five children who really came to terms with bearing that distinguished family name. Mary enjoyed a

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Lady Soames with Giles Palmer, the head gardener at Chartwell, planting in the Rose Garden one of the two Churchill Roses given as a gift to Chartwell by Churchill College and Peter Beales Roses in 2011. fulfilled life as daughter, wife and mother, before blossoming late into an accomplished writer. Short and stocky, like her father, she inherited his energy and determination, while also displaying her mother’s charm and poise. But the empathy, ebullience and sense of fun were all her own.

Mary was born in the same month, September 1922, that Winston bought Chartwell, his beloved country house on the edge of the Kentish Weald. She was by far the most junior of the surviving Churchill children (the infant Marigold having died in 1921) – eight years younger than Sarah, the next oldest.

She was therefore brought up almost as an only child.

Her older siblings, Diana, Randolph and Sarah, had known a succession of homes but Mary’s formative years were spent entirely at Chartwell.There she revelled in country life, particularly horses, and developed a lifelong love of gardening.

And, whereas her brother and sisters had suffered a succession of governesses, she was raised largely by Clementine’s young cousin, Maryott Whyte, who joined the Churchill household as a nanny at Mary’s birth and stayed for over 20 years. “Nana” became the centre of Mary’s youth and the nurturer of her lifelong Christian faith.

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Relations with her parents were at this stage admiring rather than close. If Clementine made a suggestion, Mary’s instinctive reaction was: “I must ask Nana.” But in the winter of 1935-36, conscious of the distance between them, her mother took Mary skiing in Austria and this became an annual fixture on the family calendar. “It was chiefly during these lovely skiing holidays,” Mary later wrote, “that I started to know my mother more as a person than a deity.”

With the outbreak of war in September 1939, Mary followed her parents to London. Then, during the Blitz, she was packed off to Chequers, the Prime Minister’s country retreat in Buckinghamshire. Keen for more of the action, she joined the Auxiliary Territorial Service in September 1941 and served in one of the new “mixed” anti-aircraft batteries. Life in tents and draughty barracks was a marked change from her privileged lifestyle to date. At one army dance, she teased an American soldier about his big feet, whereupon he put her over his knee and gave her “about 30 good-natured whacks”. His buddy told Time magazine: “She’s a regular guy and, like her old man, can take it.”

Mary’s battery served in London and on the coast during the V-bomb raids of 1944, before moving on to Belgium and Germany. Excitement of a different sort came from travelling abroad as her father’s ADC. In the summer of 1943 she went to Quebec and Washington; in July 1945 she accompanied Winston to Potsdam for the summit with Truman and Stalin.

On 25 July, during a break in the conference, Winston and Mary flew back to London for the results of the general election. Tory Central Office remained confident of victory; Mary even left half her luggage behind at Potsdam. But the election proved a Labour landslide: for a while, Winston and Clementine were close to a nervous collapse as they struggled to construct a new life. Mary, demobbed in April 1946, was particularly helpful to her mother as they reopened Chartwell and set up a new family home in Hyde Park Gate, London.

Her personal life also blossomed. After a whirlwind romance, she and Christopher Soames (later Baron Soames), a Coldstream Guards officer, were married in February 1947 in St Margaret’s, Westminster, the same church as her parents. Clementine took some persuading – she had talked Mary out of a rash engagement in 1941. But on honeymoon Christopher was taken ill with a duodenal ulcer, whereupon Clementine proposed that he retire from the Army,

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live in the farmhouse down the hill from Chartwell and take over running the estate. So Mary returned to her Kentish roots, this time with a home and family of her own.

Between 1948 and 1959 Mary gave birth to three sons and two daughters. She also supported her husband’s political career as a Conservative MP for Bedford (1950-66), campaigning vigorously on his behalf. After he lost his seat, she accompanied him on a series of foreign appointments, particularly relishing her time as hostess in the splendid Paris Embassy (1968-72). The couple were in Brussels from 1973 to 1976, when Christopher was the first British vicepresident of the European Commission.

Between December 1979 and April 1980, when Christopher was the last Governor of Southern Rhodesia, the close personal bond forged by the Soameses with Robert Mugabe and his wife was essential for the reasonably smooth transfer of power. Mary felt the subsequent fate of Zimbabwe almost as a personal betrayal.

But another Mary was about to bloom. Winston, who died in 1965, was the subject of a multi-volume biography, started by Randolph and completed by the historian Martin Gilbert. Christopher suggested that Mary should write a life of her mother and Clementine took up the idea with enthusiasm. Before her death in 1977, Clementine read all the draft chapters up to the Great War. Mary was touched and delighted with the commission, but also a little daunted, having “never before written so much as a pamphlet”, as she admitted in the preface. Yet Clementine Churchill was published in 1979 to enormous acclaim, winning the Wolfson Prize and plaudits from reviewers. A. J. P. Taylor called it “a delightful book … affectionate and also frank”. It was indeed this remarkable mixture of feeling and detachment that made the book so appealing. Mary showed how much her mother had done to sustain Winston’s career – “my life’s work”, as she put it. But she also revealed the intense strains this imposed on Clementine’s highly strung nature.

Suddenly Mary was recognised as her father’s daughter, not just her mother’s, with a good deal of Winston’s literary talent. Other books followed, including a memoir, Winston Churchill: His Life as a Painter (1990) and a widely read collection of her parents’ letters, Speaking for Themselves (1998). She published

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a revised edition of Clementine Churchill in 2002, drawing on those letters and other new material, and an autobiography up to 1945, A Daughter’s Tale (2011), drawing on her extensive diaries.

In 1989 Mary was appointed Chair of the Board of Trustees of the National Theatre. This was a political appointment, greeted without enthusiasm in thespian circles.The Soameses had not been theatre-goers, and during an early meeting Mary pushed a note to the NT’s director, Richard Eyre: “Who is Ian McKellen?” But she threw herself into the new task in a typically hands-on way, developing a keen interest in the theatre, and Eyre found her an invaluable support. At her farewell party in 1995, he said how much he would miss her “gossip, guidance, champagne, 7.45 a.m. phone calls, enthusiasm, wisdom and friendship.” She replied: “You go too far, but then you often do, dear Richard.”

Behind the scenes, she quietly maintained a concern for former members of the family’s staff and championed many public Churchill causes, not least the Archives Centre at Churchill College, Cambridge, where she was elected an Honorary Fellow. She was also an assiduous patron of the International Churchill Society – attending its gatherings and talking freely and informally with all who attended. On one occasion, asked to present a VIP with a picture of Chartwell that had unfortunately failed to arrive, she carried off the potential embarrassment with great aplomb, imaginatively recreating the beauties of the picture with a verve and humour that delighted the whole audience.

She was made a Dame in 1980 and in 2005 was appointed a Lady Companion of the Order of the Garter.

Mary described herself as a “child of consolation”, product of Winston and Clementine’s grief at Marigold’s premature death. In due time, she consoled her parents and supported her husband and children, but she also developed her own distinctive voice as a woman and an author.

Christopher died in 1987. She is survived by their five children, Nicholas, Emma, Jeremy, Charlotte and Rupert.

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David Wallace writes: “Mary was the first of the official visitors to College to stay with us in the Master’s Lodge. She was then literally the embodiment of our Founder. Neither Elizabeth nor I had met her, and we were nervous. We needn’t have worried. She was always such a delightful guest: relaxed, enjoying the occasion, and with a splendid sense of humour. We were privileged that Mary was a frequent visitor to Churchill, her presence always making every event special. Her passing is a great loss to us, and truly marks the end of an era for the College. The links with Sir Winston’s families are hugely important to us all, and we are delighted that we continue to enjoy – in every sense of the word – such good relationships with them.” And Alec Broers writes: “All of Lady Soames’s visits to the College were memorable, but for Mary and me those that coincided with visits by Maersk Møller were particularly special.

Maersk hugely admired Lady Soames and enjoyed her company immensely.The friendship was mutual, as the same could be said for Lady Soames. She of course appreciated the huge donation that Maersk had given to the College to honour Winston Churchill’s role in saving Denmark in World War II. When he invited her to launch one of his ships, she accepted with enthusiasm. We all flew to Odense in May 1993 and witnessed the very impressive event as Mary smashed the champagne bottle on the hull of one of the world’s largest and most hightechnology double-hulled tankers, the 300,000-tonne Elizabeth Maersk. It is so sad that we have lost these two great friends of the College.”

From Allen Packwood Lady Soames was a great patron and regular visitor to both Churchill College and the Churchill Archives Centre. I remember her coming to undertake research for her excellent book Speaking for Themselves. While sitting in our reading room she spotted that I was leading a group of primary school children around the Centre. I explained that they were here as part of a classroom study they were doing of her father, and she then very graciously offered to meet with them. When it came to questions there was an initial shyness on the part of the group. Finally, one young boy piped up with: “Are you famous just because your father was famous?” The face of the teacher flushed red. For a few seconds there was an awkward silence, and then Mary defused it all with: “But dear, I am not famous at all. I am lucky to be the daughter of a famous father.” A brilliant answer, but only half-correct. For the truth is she was the daughter of a famous father but also justly famous in her own right: famous for her role in

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the war as an officer with anti-aircraft batteries, for her definitive biography of her mother and her other literary works, for her role at the National Theatre, and for her leadership and patronage of the huge network of Churchill organisations around the globe.The Churchill Archives Centre is proud to hold her papers alongside those of her father, mother, brother and husband.

From Piers Brendon Mary was a grande dame who was also a gracious lady. She was exceptionally pleasant to everyone at the Archives Centre, going out of her way to compliment us all on the highly efficient way in which the place was run. She was especially friendly to me. I also gave her a certain amount of help and advice over her edition of her parents’ letters – she listened with impressive modesty to my professional counsel and subsequently took no notice of it – or at least she did not do what I wanted, which was to publish all the letters. She blamed her publisher for this, but my private suspicion was that she was happy to leave out certain embarrassing details, especially concerning personal and financial matters. However, the book was highly accurate, much more so than the products of most academic historians – I scrutinised it carefully and could only find a few tiny errors.

Mary was, in public at least, a model of propriety, perhaps because she witnessed the raffishness (deprecated by her mother) of Churchill himself (David Cannadine’s “aristocratic adventurer”), perhaps because she lamented the erratic behaviour of her siblings, perhaps because she was brought up separately and differently from them, as the last child and the substitute for Marigold. Mary was especially conscious of her position in the family, and when we left Marigold out of the pantheon of the Churchills’ children in our early document exhibition at the National Library of Scotland, which she opened, she was most upset. It was an understandable omission in the sense that Marigold died as a small child, but I apologised humbly and we naturally rectified it at once.

Mary’s sense of propriety extended backwards, which was why she was so much in favour of Roy Jenkins’s biography of her father. She rebuked me for being “unkind to Roy” (whom she had helped with a few reminiscences) in my review of this biography, and her son Nicholas also weighed in. We had quite a dispute, which took place at some Churchillian do in the House of Commons.

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I blamed Jenkins for never having set foot in the Archives Centre and maintained that his respectable, anodyne, feeble portrait was remote from the truth. She insisted that his interpretation was correct. Finally, I got a bit cross and said that Jenkins had deprived her father of what he very obviously possessed.

“What?” she asked. “Balls,” I said. “Oh, Piers, how could you!” She professed shock but I guess she actually thought it quite funny.

Mary was in terrific demand and she told me that she increasingly refused requests that were not specifically linked to Churchillian matters. She was certainly committed to the College and to the Archives Centre. She did not object to our acquisition of the Thatcher Papers, presumably reckoning that Thatch, whom she disliked for sacking her husband and for other reasons, would rest permanently in Winston’s shadow. She gave generous support to all our endeavours and, as far as I can recall, never turned down a request for help; and she is leaving her own papers to us. Once we had a group of quite young children in the Centre to look at some of our treasures. Mary allowed herself to be introduced to them. She was charming and took a great interest in their activities, talking to them individually. I suggested that she should slap their faces, as Stalin had done on a comparable occasion, so that each one would remember meeting the last child of the great Churchill. She was not amused.

Mary was genuinely kind and (forgive the word) nice. She never pulled rank or stood on her dignity. She took an interest in the College not just out of duty but out of a real fondness for the place and many of the people. As the last living link with our Founder she will, to use the cliché, be sorely missed – but the phrase is appropriate in this case.

Here too is Piers’s review of Mary Soames’s A Daughter’s Tale: The Memoir of Winston and Clementine Churchill’s Youngest Child No oldie in the land has had experiences to match those recalled in this captivating memoir. Its author was born in 1922, the last (and only surviving) child of Winston and Clementine Churchill. She grew up scarcely knowing them, her father bellowing if his labours were disturbed, her mother subject to “electric storms”. In fact Mary was virtually an only child, her nearest sibling being eight years older, and she was looked after by an adored Nanny.

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Emerging from the nursery, Mary entered a Garden of Eden. At Chartwell, her parents’ house in Kent, she accumulated a menagerie of pets. She watched her father laying bricks. She took lessons in riding, dancing, tennis and music. A chic French governess appeared who was, in Clementine’s words, capable of luring “a deaf & dumb ourang-outang to speak French”. A favourite uncle, her father’s brother Jack, tapped out tunes on his teeth. Mary went to church, acquiring a religious faith that still sustains her.There were treats, conjurors, Bertram Mills Circus, George V’s Silver Jubilee.

On skiing holidays Mary got to know her mother. She hero-worshipped her father, becoming a fervent enemy of appeasement.When her headmistress, Miss Gribble, thanked God for Mr Chamberlain, Mary declared that she would have done better to pray for the poor Czechs. Of course there were family ructions, often provoked by her brother Randolph, deemed unfit to be allowed out in private. But in essence Mary’s youth was a conventional upper-class idyll.

In key respects, however, it was highly unusual. As a toddler she made friends with her next-door neighbour in Downing Street, Stanley Baldwin – Churchill commented, “How women love power.” As a girl she met an extraordinary galaxy of the famous, including Lloyd George,T. E. Lawrence and Charlie Chaplin.

And when Churchill became Prime Minister, she encountered virtually everyone of importance on the Allied side. She was not always impressed. President Roosevelt’s stories bored her and she penned a list of admirably à-propos adjectives to characterise him: idealistic, cynical, warm-hearted, generous, worldly-wise, naïve, courageous, tough, thoughtful, charming, tedious, vain, sophisticated, civilised.

Among other diary descritions: Orde Wingate was a “Tiger of a man” (though his wife was “a bore and a prig”). Noël Coward was “charming, queer and gay”.

Diana Cooper was “a donkey”. De Gaulle was “a stern, direct giant … very fine”. Such verdicts have a peculiar poignancy, for Mary Soames is the last extant witness to life at the top during the Second World War. She herself had a good war, joining the WVS, where for the first time she saw how the other half lived. Later she rose to the rank of Captain in the ATS, serving with a mixed anti-aircraft battery which her father liked to visit when the guns were blazing. Discreet about others, she relates her own experiences

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with some candour: the black moments, the inner storms, a crisis of faith, an exuberant night-life during the blackout, a brush with death at sea, the shock of seeing devastated Hamburg and Berlin. Still more horrifying was the spectacle of Belsen, where she met a Jewish doctor who had secretly aborted pregnant women in Auschwitz, thus saving them from the gas chambers.

After Churchill’s unexpected defeat in 1945, Mary bought two pairs of camiknickers to “boost my morale”. She also boosted that of her distraught mother and her “gruff and bearish” father. And though soon to be a wife and mother herself, she remained a dutiful daughter to the end.

Professor Anna Craft, 1961-2014 Professor Anna Craft, a student at Churchill College from 1980 to 1983, has sadly died from cancer, aged 52. She found her time at Churchill College immensely stimulating, and graduated in Social and Political Science. She went on to study education as a postgraduate at the London University Institute of Education, later taking an MA there, and became a primary school teacher.

After four years, she became a Teacher Professor Anna Craft Fellow at the Polytechnic of North London, then a Project Officer at the National Curriculum Council, and in 1991 joined the Faculty of Education at the Open University, in due course being appointed to a Chair of Education there, combining this with a Chair of Education at the University of Exeter. She was also a Visiting Scholar in the Harvard School of Education in the United States.

Anna argued that a problem-solving, “possibility thinking” capacity is now a fundamental requirement in modern living, and that today’s complex and fastchanging world requires creative abilities which need to be cultivated from the earliest years. She presented her ideas in well over 100 books, book chapters and

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journal papers, and became an internationally recognised and highly respected leader in the study of creativity in education.

She coined the term “possibility thinking” (PT) some twenty years ago, she initiated and collaborated on many studies to elucidate its features and its accompanying pedagogies, and many of her doctoral students researched PT in various curriculum areas and in different countries. She also considered some of the difficult policy issues involved in her book Creativity in Schools: tensions and dilemmas (Routledge, 2005), and in Creativity and Education Futures (Trentham, 2011) she discussed the relationship between creativity and learning in a digital age. She co-founded the international Journal of Thinking Skills and Creativity, was an adviser to the UK government on creativity, was a Director of the Cambridge Primary Review Trust, and was a much soughtafter keynote speaker at conferences across the UK and around the world.

An internationally recognised and highly respected leader in her field, Anna was outstandingly energetic, effective and influential in the development and dissemination of theory and practice. She also offered warmth, friendship and humour alongside her exceptional vitality, diligence and scholarship. Harvard’s Professor Howard Gardner has written that Anna “... was one of those rare individuals whom it was always fun to be with, to learn from, and to be inspired by. Her contributions to scholarship and to practice were notable, and she deserves much of the credit for re-invigorating the study and understanding of creativity and play in young children... she was the epitome of life and high spirits”. She will be greatly missed.

Anna is survived by her husband, Simon, and their two teenage children, Hugo and Ella.

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Dr Richard Hey: Memories Garry Lindberg (G60), who studied Engineering as one of our very earliest students, writes: “I was deeply saddened to learn of Richard Hey’s death. [See Churchill Review, 2012.] He occupied a very special place in my heart. I first met him in late September 1960. He cheerfully greeted me as he did every one of the twenty-six graduate students, from so many different countries, who arrived to launch the student body of Churchill. Just look at the 1960 matriculation photo, with a smiling Richard in the centre. He was always there for students, providing advice, guidance and gentle nudges in the right direction. He played a major role in setting the academic and social directions for the College. I left Cambridge before receiving my degree, but I still have the letter from him in which he said he would happily accept my degree for me, some nice day in the spring. When I felt a slight shiver, that would mean successful acceptance.”

Professor Frank Hahn’s Memorial Celebration There follow photographs of attendees at a memorial event held for Professor Frank Hahn in Churchill College, 29 September 2013, among them many distinguished economists. Warm thanks to the photographers Gena Hahn (Frank’s nephew) and his wife Dominique Sotteau, and also to Dorothy Hahn, Frank’s widow. (The Trafalgar Square rooster is included as a tribute to the collection of “Hahn”s in various forms (pottery, wood, stone, metal) made by Frank’s father: Hahn is the German for “rooster”. Frank inherited these.)

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Hilton, Andrew (U64) founded Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory in Bristol in 1999, and remains its Artistic Director. The company, which presents largecast Shakespeare and other classics in Bristol and on tour, is now internationally recognised (www.sattf.org.uk). In 2013 Andrew was made an Honorary Doctor of Letters by the University of Bristol for his services to theatre in the city.

Deans, Michael (U65) is still trying to have his ideas on the origin of life, trace-element supplementation and the “chip in the brain” published whilst chronically ill.

Crabtree, Mark (U70) was awarded an OBE in this year’s New Year’s Honours list for changing the sound of music, television and film around the world. Mark is founder and managing director of sound engineering company AMS Neve, whose products are used in recording studios across the globe. In recent years the vast majority of Oscar-winning films have been recorded and/or mixed using products he created, transforming the sound of film and resulting in his receiving a second personal Oscar in 2000. He established Advanced Music Systems in 1976 when early customers included Paul McCartney, EMI and Strawberry Studios. He then went on to design the world’s first microprocessor-controlled effects units. Mark feels very privileged and grateful to be honoured.

White, David (P70) has recently retired from his chair and is now Emeritus Professor of Surgery (despite being a Pathologist) at the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario, Canada.

Tuzun, Professor Ugur (G76) was supported by a Wolfson Foundation scholarship during his PhD study at Churchill (1976-1979) which was followed by an EPSRC supported post-doctoral research appointment (1979-1982) in the Department of Chemical Engineering of Cambridge University. He subsequently had a period of industrial secondment in the States before returning to the UK in 1983. Ugur is a Fellow of the RSA and Fellow of the IChemE (UK), and is registered as chartered scientist (CSci) and chartered

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engineer (CEng) with the UK Engineering Council. He is a member of the EPSRC’s Process and Environmental Systems Engineering Peer Review College and of the UK Engineering Professors’ Council, and is a council member and past President of the National Conference of University Professors (NCUP).

Ugur held the post of Head of Department of Chemical and Process Engineering at the University of Surrey between 1999 and 2008, as well as the post of the School of Engineering Director of Research (2003-2007). He has also had visiting appointments and academic secondments at Caltech (USA), Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, UC Berkeley (USA), UNSW-Sydney and Melbourne University (Australia), UTC University of Technology, Compiègne (France) and at the University of Oxford. He was a visiting scientist at “PARDEM”- an EU Marie Curie research partnership network (2010-2014).

He acts as consultant to a number of professional boards and technology committees in the Institutions of Chemical Engineering and in Mechanical Engineering’s Process Industries Division. Ugur’s research interests and activities include multi-phase process systems engineering, particle science and technology, nano-technology, environmental process systems and systems integration design.

Gbadamosi, Gabriel (U80; By-Fellow, 95) has published a novel, Vauxhall (Telegram Books, 2013) which won Best International Novel at the 2013 Sharjah Book Fair. It also won the Tibor Jones Pageturner Prize in manuscript at the 2011 London Book Fair.

Rushton, Elizabeth Jane (nee Connor) (U90) is currently Head Teacher at Avening Primary School in Gloucestershire.

Jaffe, Alexandra (U94) got married this year and is now Alex Oak-Parsons.

She currently works as the School Business Manager at Warlingham School in Surrey.

Tierney, Kim (U00) participated in the Florianopolis Ironman (her first full Ironman: 3.8 km swim, 180 km bike, 42 km run). She lives in Santiago, Chile, and works as a translator for the United Nations. She came back to the UK in June for two weeks for leave; it was her partner’s first trip to Europe (he is Chilean).

She was very excited about showing him Churchill College and the places where she studied and to give him an impression of her University experience.

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Review readers may also like to know that each January the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography publishes (online) a new batch of brief lives of British greats, and that Churchillians inevitably figure among these; this year there was a plethora. Lives of those who died in 2010 were released in June 2014, and include the following Churchillians: Ray Allchin (1923-2010), archaeologist: Fellow; Winston S. Churchill (1940-2010), journalist and politician: Honorary Fellow; Lucienne Day (1917-2010), textile designer: designer of all the original (now lost) fabrics for the College; Richard Keynes (1919-2010), physiologist: Fellow; Jack Pole (1922-2010), historian: Fellow and Vice-Master; Dudley Williams (1937-2010), organic chemist: Fellow. (Thanks to Mark Goldie.)

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Among his many achievements, our Fellow in German, Professor Andrew Webber, posted an excellent time of 96 minutes in the Berlin half-marathon in May 2014. The photo shows him reaching the finishing line. Andrew also drew on his knowledge of Berlin to participate in the episode of Who Do You Think You Are? devoted to Marianne Faithfull (23rd September 2013): Andrew’s job was to take her through the part of her family history connected with 1930s Berlin. (See above, Frank Dobson’s piece in Student Life, for Marianne Faithfull’s Churchill connections.) This is not to mention all Andrew’s brilliant academic successes, of course...

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“His research looks at Roman social and cultural history ‘from below’, analysing the life of the non-elite in Roman society. He teaches a course with Mary Beard entitled ‘Popular Culture in the Roman Empire’.”

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New Fellows 2013-14 Dr Jethro AKROYD (Title A Fellow) Jethro Akroyd is an Affiliated Research Fellow in the CoMo Group, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology. His research interests lie in the development of computationally efficient tools methods to model the formation of various nanoparticle products including titanium dioxide, silica and soot; the application of CFD to turbulent chemical reaction problems; and the application of modern optimisation techniques for parameter estimation. Dr Akroyd has a day-job working at cmcl innovations, an engineering company offering software products and technical consulting to the chemical, automotive and energy industries. His main responsibilities include projects in the chemical industries and technical oversight of the research in the company. He previously worked as a Senior Process Engineer in the Research and Development divisions of AstraZeneca and GlaxoSmithKline, and studied in the CoMo group as post-doctoral research associate, research student and undergraduate. He is also a true Churchillian, having enrolled as an undergraduate and having been with the College ever since.

Dr Alecia CARTER (Junior Research Fellow) Alecia Carter is a behavioural ecologist interested in the evolution of individual variation in behaviour: animal personalities. Her main research aims to understand why behaviour differs as between individual animals, and why this is consistent through time. Alecia did her PhD through the Australian National University and the Institute of Zoology, focusing on methodological considerations in animal personality research and using baboons and rock agamas as model species. Her postdoctoral work will focus on understanding variation in cooperative behaviour by testing competing models for the evolution of animal personalities in wild systems.

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Dr Alecia Carter

Dr Toby Cubitt

Dr Christophe Gagne

Dr Tawfique Hasan

Dr Michelle Linterman

Professor Jianjun Mei

Dr Thomas Owens

Dr Oliver Ross

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Dr Toby CUBITT (Title A Fellow) Toby Cubitt is a Royal Society University Research Fellow in the Department for Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP), working in quantum information theory. His research interests straddle mathematics, physics and theoretical computer science. Recently, he’s been applying quantum information theoretic tools to problems in many-body physics, studying quantum stochastic processes, and continuing his work in quantum Shannon theory. He joined Churchill as a Natural Sciences undergraduate in 1998. After studying for his PhD under Professor Ignacio Cirac at the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics in Germany, he was a research assistant and then Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in Mathematics at the University of Bristol, then held a Juan de la Cierva Fellowship at Complutense University in Madrid. He’s delighted to be back in Churchill once again as a Fellow.

Dr Christophe GAGNE (Title A Fellow) Christophe Gagne is a Teaching Fellow in French at Churchill and a Senior Language Teaching Officer in the Cambridge French Department. He teaches French at Churchill to all students doing French as part of their Modern and Medieval Languages degree. He is in broad terms interested in the relationship between French and English culture/language. His interests are more specifically in intercultural communication; he is particularly interested in comparing how French and English speakers interact in their everyday routines and social encounters.

Dr Tawfique HASAN (Title A Fellow) Tawfique Hasan gained his PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Cambridge. During his PhD, he worked on carbon nanotube solutions for ultrafast optical pulse generation. Prior to his PhD, he obtained an MEng in Microelectronics from the University of New South Wales, Australia, and a BSc in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the Islamic University of Technology, Bangladesh. Following his PhD,Tawfique joined Cambridge University Engineering Department as a Research Assistant and then as a Research Associate. He is joining Churchill College from King’s, where he was a Junior Research Fellow in Engineering from 2009 to 2013. He was elected as a National Natural Science Foundation of China International Young Scientist Research Fellow in 2012.

Tawfique is currently a Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellow and a Lecturer in Electronic Materials and Devices at the Cambridge Graphene

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Centre, Engineering Department. His research focuses on solution process of nanomaterials and their up-scalable applications, including ultrafast lasers and printable and flexible (opto)electronic and energy devices.

Dr Michelle LINTERMAN (Title A Fellow) Michelle Linterman received her PhD in Immunology from the Australian National University in Canberra, where she investigated a novel mechanism of immunological tolerance: a phenomenon in which the immune system fails to respond to an antigen. She is currently a Post-Doctoral Research Associate at the Cambridge Institute for Medical Research and EMBO long-term Fellow. Her principle research focus is on a recently described sub-group of white blood cells and the mechanisms by which they can facilitate an immune response and enable the generation of life-long, protective immunological memory. She was previously a Raymond and Beverly Sackler Research Fellow (2010–2013).

Professor Jianjun MEI (Senior Research Fellow) Jianjun Mei graduated from Beijing University of Iron and Steel Technology in 1984 with a BEng in Metallurgical Chemistry. He obtained an MSc in History of Science and Technology in 1988. He first came to Cambridge in 1994 as a Li Foundation scholar working at the Needham Research Institute. In 1995 he began his PhD studies at the Department of Archaeology, Cambridge University, with a scholarship offered by the East Asian History of Science Foundation, Hong Kong.

He was awarded a PhD in archaeology in 2000.After postdoctoral work in Tokyo and Cambridge, he returned to China in 2004 as Professor at the Institute of Historical Metallurgy and Materials, University of Science and Technology Beijing, where he is currently Director. In recent years Professor Mei has been a leading member of the team formed to write the volume on non-ferrous metallurgy for the Science and Civilisation in China series, founded by the great British sinologist and historian of science Joseph Needham (1900-1995). He is active in a number of international research groups, and is currently President of the International Society for the History of East Asian Science,Technology and Medicine. In February 2013, he was appointed Director of the Needham Research Institute.

Dr Thomas OWENS (Junior Research Fellow) Thomas Owens was an undergraduate at the University of St Andrews where he took a First Class MA Hons degree in English Language and Literature

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(2009). His postgraduate work, which was fully funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, was pursued at St John’s College, Oxford. He gained a Distinction in the MSt in English Literature, 1780-1900 (2010), before writing a doctoral thesis under Professor Stephen Gill on “Wordsworth, Coleridge and Astronomy” (2010-13). His interests lie in the relationship between literature and science, and he is currently investigating why the literary imagination is saturated and structured by astronomical forces.

Dr Oliver ROSS (Title A Fellow) Oliver Ross teaches English Literature and its Contexts, 1830 to the Present, and Practical Criticism for Parts I and II in Churchill College. In the Faculty of English, he lectures and supervises in the areas of Postcolonial and Related Literatures, and Sexuality Studies. He is interested in world literatures and film, with a primary focus on Asian literary representations of sexuality. He has also worked on twentieth- and twenty-first-century British and American literature, and theories of queerness, gender, postcoloniality, and globalisation.

Dr Jerry TONER (Title A Fellow) Jerry Toner is the Director of Studies in Classics at Churchill and an Affiliated Lecturer at the Classics Faculty. His research looks at Roman social and cultural history, with a focus on trying to look at history “from below”. His book Popular Culture in Ancient Rome (Polity, 2009) analysed the life of the non-elite in Roman society and built on the work he started in his PhD, later published as Leisure and Ancient Rome (Polity, 1995). He is currently working on a number of projects looking at non-elite Roman social relations. He is also teaching a Part II course in the Classics Faculty with Mary Beard entitled “Popular Culture in the Roman Empire”. His two most recent books are Homer’s Turk: How Classics Shaped Ideas of the East (Harvard University Press, 2013), which shows how historians and travel writers have used classical sources to help create various images of Islam and the Orient; and Roman Disasters (Polity, 2013), which looks at the important role that disasters played in Roman life and culture, ranging from floods and fires to warfare and famine. After completing his PhD in Classics at Cambridge, he spent ten years as a Fund Manager in the City of London, where he managed USD15bln in global bond, currency and asset allocation funds.

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Overseas Fellows 2013-14 Professor Neil BALMFORTH (Overseas Fellow, Lent and Easter Terms 2014) Neil Balmforth is a Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of British Columbia. He received his Bachelors degree with firstclass honours from King’s College, London, in 1986. He then moved to Churchill College, Cambridge, to take Part III of the Mathematics Tripos in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, for which he was awarded a Distinction in 1987. He continued his studies at Churchill College, joining the Institute of Astronomy for his doctoral studies, and received his PhD in 1990 for a thesis entitled “Theory of Stellar Oscillations”. Professor Balmforth has been a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Copernicus Astronomical Centre in Warsaw, at Columbia University and at the University of Texas, Austin.

He has been a faculty member of the Department of Theoretical Mechanics at the University of Nottingham, and of the Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He was the Director of the Institute of Applied Mathematics at the University of British Columbia from 2008 to 2013, and received the Research Prize of the Canadian Applied and Industrial Mathematics Society in 2013. Professor Balmforth has research interests in many areas of applied mathematics and fluid mechanics, and has published well over a hundred articles in journals and conference proceedings.

Professor Gordon FAIN (Overseas Fellow, Easter Term 2014) Gordon Fain is Distinguished Professor of Integrative Biology and Physiology at UCLA, a former Guggenheim Fellow, and previous Overseas Fellow of Churchill College (Easter Term 2008). He works primarily on the physiology of phototransduction in mammals, using molecular techniques and physiological recording to understand the production and modulation of rod and cone light responses. He has published with Simon Laughlin on the evolution of photoreceptors in animals, and he will be working primarily on phototransduction in invertebrates during his 2013 Fellowship. He will also be doing the proofs of the second edition of his book Molecular and Cellular Physiology of Neurons (Harvard). Although a scientist, he has a deep and abiding interest in the humanities and has published two books on Greek and Latin poetry.

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Professor Kyoung Jin LEE (Overseas Fellow, 2013-2014) Kyoung Jin Lee is currently a professor in the Physics Department of Korea University in Seoul. He completed his undergraduate degrees in Physics and Mathematics at Northeastern University and obtained his PhD in Physics (nonlinear dynamics) at the University of Texas at Austin, USA. He then spent two years at Princeton University as a research fellow working on an issue in biological physics, and in 1996 he took up his current position at Korea University. He is currently a director of the Center for Cell Dynamics at Korea University, an Adjunct Professor of Stony Brook University, USA, and a member of the Korean National Academy of Sciences and Engineering. His research program includes various biophysical problems in which a nonlinear, nonequilibrium, many-body system approach (i.e. patterns and waves) plays an important role. The scientific issues in his current interests range from “neural learning and memory” to “density waves in populations of tumor cells”.

Professor Crystal MARTIN (Overseas Fellow, Michaelmas Term 2013) Crystal Martin is a Professor of Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

She obtained her PhD in Astronomy from the University of Arizona and was a Hubble Fellow at the Space Telescope Science Institute and a Sherman Fairchild Fellow at Caltech. Her research interests include the physics of star formation and feedback in galaxies, gas flows into and out of galaxies, and the identification and characterisation of the objects that re-ionised the intergalactic medium. She was named a David and Lucile Packard Fellow and a Sloan Fellow for her contributions to these fields. She currently chairs the science advisory team for the Keck Cosmic Web Imager, co-chairs the Keck Observatory science steering committee, and serves as a General Member of the Aspen Center for Physics.

Dr Eric PARENT (French Government Overseas Fellow, 2013-2014) Eric Parent is a Civil Engineer interested in applied stochastic modelling for environmental engineering and ecological monitoring. His research group belongs to AgroParisTech/INRA, an academic institution of the French Ministry of Agriculture where he works as a Professor. His broader interests include “Bayesian Statistics at work”, especially in case studies from various fields that emerged while he was working with his PhD students, under contract with industrial companies or public institutions. He co-authored four books on Bayesian statistics, mainly for environmental engineering with theoretical and

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algorithmic aspects of Bayesian theory. More about his research interests can be found at www.hbm-for-ecology.org and www.agroparistech.fr/mia/ Professor Michael SHULL (Overseas Fellow, 2013-2014) Michael Shull is Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Educated in Physics at Caltech (BS) and Princeton (PhD), his research interests include theoretical astrophysics, space astronomy, and cosmology of the first stars and galaxies. He has been a frequent user of the Hubble Space Telescope to study quasars, gas between the galaxies, and the high-redshift universe. He has also been involved in (US) national science policy for groundbased and space-based astronomy, through membership on the AURA Board and the recent National Academy of Sciences Decadal Survey of Astronomy and Astrophysics. At the University of Colorado, he teaches physics and astrophysics to graduate students and astrophysics majors, and core-curriculum astronomy courses for non-major undergraduates. Michael Shull is a Sackler Visiting Fellow at the Cambridge Institute of Astronomy, 2013-14.

Professor Jean-Christophe THALABARD (French Government Overseas Fellow, 2013-2014) Jean-Christophe Thalabard, MD, PhD, graduated initially from the French military school Ecole Polytechnique (www.polytechnique.fr/) where he received an intensive education in mathematics and basic sciences, with a particular orientation towards Numerical Analysis and Probability theory.This mathematical education was completed with a Masters degree in probability theory under the supervision of Professor J Neveu (University Paris 6). He subsequently graduated as an engineer from the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées (www.enpc.fr/).

He was then hired as a junior lecturer for the probability course in the same institution and started working on analysing data for the Transport Research Institute in relation to the effects of transportation noise on human health. He then completed a medical course followed by a residency at the Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris with a board qualification in endocrinology and reproductive medicine. In parallel, he completed training in biostatistics and defended a PhD thesis (University Paris Descartes). In 1985, he joined the Inserm Reproductive Epidemiology unit headed by Professor Daniel Shwartz as an Inserm senior research scientist, while maintaining a clinical consultancy activity at the Necker hospital. As one of its main research interests was in the

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neuroendocrine control of the reproductive axis in humans, he joined the Neuroendocrine Laboratory headed by Professor E Knobil at the University of Texas, Houston, where he stayed two years and where he continued to collaborate for the following ten years. On his return to France, he was appointed Professor at the medical faculty of University Lyon 1 and member of the CNRS Associated Neuroendocrinology Unit. During this period, he served on a WHO task force on Human Reproduction and started some collaborative work with Professor Lyliane Rosetta (CNRS) and Professor Nick Mascie-Taylor (University of Cambridge). In 1996, he returned to the University Paris Descartes, where he resumed a clinical practice, in parallel with teaching and research activities. He currently has a double appointment as both Professor of Biostatistics at the medical faculty, University Paris Descartes, and senior consultant at the Endocrine-Gynaecology unit, Cochin Hospital, APHP, Paris. His main field of interest is related to both clinical epidemiology and field studies, with an emphasis on methodological aspects, which are supposed to adapt continuously to rapidly evolving fields. He has been involved since 1992 in numerous committees (Inserm, APHP, ANRS, AFLD, INCA, HAS, IFSTTAR) in relation to research protocols involving human volunteers, their regulation and the corresponding ethical aspects. At the same time, as an active member of the statistical team within the CNRS- Applied Mathematics Laboratory (MAP5, w3.mi.parisdescartes.fr/map5/), he tries to bridge the gap between mathematicians and more particularly statisticians and potential end-users in the medical field. He is also involved in teaching programs: either in France, like the MD-PhD program led by Inserm www.inserm.fr/etudiants/l-ecole-de-l-inserm-liliane-bettencourt) or in Africa (Stafav); he also pursues collaborative work, mainly on women's health (Professor E Lund, University of Tromso, Norway; Professor R Slama, Obseff).

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Who’s Who in Churchill This is the list of Fellows as it was on 1 October 2013; also included are Fellows and By-Fellows who joined the College in the course of the academic year 2013-14.

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, Professor Sir David, CBE, FRS, FREng

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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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Mathematics Biographer Microbiology Economics Chemistry Literature Literature

Benefactor Fellow Cowan, Mr Michael, MA

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

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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

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Howie, Professor A, PhD, CBE, FRS

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Physics

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

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Radio Astronomy

Steiner, Professor G, PhD, FBA

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Comparative Literature

†Campbell, Dr R C, MA, PhD

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Brunton, Dr J H, PhD

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Engineering

Dixon, Dr W G, MA, PhD

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Applied Mathematics

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

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Engineering

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

President of SCR; Economics

Craig, Professor E J, MA, PhD, FBA

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Philosophy

Westwood, Dr B A, MA, PhD

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Computing Service

Whittle, Professor P, MA, PhD, FRS

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Mathematics

Tristram, Dr A G, MA, PhD

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Pure Mathematics

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

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Petroleum Engineering

Thompson, Professor J G, MA, FRS

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Pure Mathematics

Squire, Dr L C, MA, ScD

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Aerodynamics

Hoskin, Dr M A, PhD

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Pre-History

Abrahams, Dr R G, MA, PhD

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Social Anthropology

Cribb, Mr T J L, MA

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George, Mr H, MA, CMG, OBE

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Bursar 1971-90

Finch, Professor A M, MA, PhD

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French

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

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Physiology

Gough, Professor D O, MA, PhD, FRS

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

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Architecture

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Warren, Dr S G, MA, PhD

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Organic Chemistry

Ryall, Dr R W, MA, PhD

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Pharmacology

Fraser, Dr C, MA, PhD

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Social Psychology

Gaskell, Dr P H, MA, PhD

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Physics

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

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Military History

Wood, Mr H B, MA

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Music

Milne, Professor W I, MA, FREng

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Engineering

King, Dr F H, MA, PhD Science

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Praelector; Computer

Goldie, Dr M A, MA, PhD

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History

Bolton, Professor M D, MA, PhD, FREng

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Engineering

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

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Genetics

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

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Biological Anthropology

Siddle, Professor K, MA, PhD

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Vice-Master; Biochemistry

Hurst, Mr H R, MA

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Classical Archaeology

Dawes, Professor W N, MA, PhD

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Engineering

Green, Dr D A, MA, PhD

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Physics/Radio Astronomy

Allen, Mr M J, MA, OBE

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English Literature

Gregory, Professor Sir Michael, MA, CBE

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Manufacturing/Management

Norris, Professor J R, DPhil

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Mathematics

Amaratunga, Professor G, PhD, FREng

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Engineering

Knowles, Dr K M, MA, PhD

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Materials Science

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

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Materials Science

Walters, Dr D E, MA, PhD

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Statistical Consultancy

Webber, Professor A J, PhD

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German

Chatterjee, Professor V K K, MA

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Pathology

Laughlin, Professor S B, MA, PhD, FRS

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Neurobiology

Jennison, Miss B M, MA, MBE

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Physics, Education

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

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Clinical Medicine

King, Mrs A N, MA

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Linguistics

Kramer, Professor M H, PhD, LLD

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Law/Philosophy

Brendon, Dr P, MA, PhD, FRSL

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History

Soga, Professor K, PhD

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Civil Engineering

O’Kane, Dr C J, MA, PhD

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Genetics

Robertson, Professor J, MA, PhD, FIEE

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Engineering

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

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Astronomy

Barbrook, Dr A C, MA, PhD

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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

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

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

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

Mather, Mrs S D, BA

A

Development Director

Sunikka-Blank, Dr M M, PhD

A

Architecture

Boss, Dr S R, PhD

A

Chemistry

Hines, Professor M M, MA, PhD

A

Social and Developmental Psychology

Liang, Dr D, PhD

A

Engineering

Ralph, Professor D, PhD

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Operations Research

Kennicutt, Professor R C, MSci, PhD, FRS

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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

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

Geography

Linterman, Dr M A, PhD

A

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 FMedSci

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

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, Dr T, DPhil

B (JRF) Biological Anthropology

Honerkamp-Smith, Dr A, MSc, PhD

B (JRF) Physical Chemistry

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

A

Stott, Dr K, PhD

A

Biochemistry

Grundy, Professor E, MSc, PhD

C

Geography

Skrebowski, Dr L, PhD

A

History of Art

Curry, Dr H, MA, PhD

A

History and Philosophy of Science

Davies, Dr N S, PhD

A

Earth Sciences

Carter, Dr A J, PhD

B (JRF) Zoology

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B (JRF) English

Gagne, Dr C, MPhil

A

French

Akroyd, Mr J W J, MA, MEng

A

Chemical Engineering

Ross, Dr O, MA, PhD

A

English

Hasan, Dr T, MEng, PhD

A

Engineering

Toner, Dr J, PhD

A

Classics

Balmforth, Professor N J, PhD Fain, Professor G L, PhD

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Lee, Professor K J, PhD Martin, Professor C L, PhD Parent, Professor E, PhD Shull, Professor J M, MA, PhD Thalabard, Professor J-C, PhD

F F F F F

Mathematics Integrative Biology and Physiology Physics Physics Environmental Engineering Astrophysics Human Reproductive Ecology

Abdi, Dr E, MPhil, PhD

TBF

Engineering

Ali, Dr J, MB, BChir

TBF

Medical & Veterinary Sciences

Allen, Dr A, MSc, PhD

TBF

Chemistry

Ayton, Dr L J, PhD

TBF

Mathematics

Benton, Dr A, MSci, MA, PhD

TBF

Computer Science

Bianchi, Mr A S, MA

TBF

Spanish

Bostock, Dr M, BA, MSci

TBF

Chemistry

Church, Mr L, BA

TBF

Computer Science

Dantzer, Dr B, MSc, PhD

TBF

Biology

Hanson, Dr L, MA, DPhil

TBF

Philosophy

Hendrick, Dr A, PhD

TBF

Biology of Cells

Hubbard, Dr K E, BA, PhD

TBF

Biology

Hunter, Dr M, PhD

TBF

Earth Sciences

Opalka, Dr D, PhD

TBF

Chemistry

Rubinstein, Ms H, BA

TBF

Psychology

Tasker, Dr A, MB, BChir, MRCP

TBF

Medical Sciences

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BF

Sociology

Andersen, Mr T T, MBA

Professional

Former Møller Centre Board Member

Bittleston, Dr S, BSc, PhD

Professional

MD, Schlumberger Cambridge Research

Chan, Dr E, PhD

BF

Biochemistry

Conti, Dr D, MS PhD

BF

Biostatistics

Dutton, Mr D M, BA

Professional

Economics

Dragomirescu, Dr D, MSc, PhD, HDR

BF

Engineering

Dupré, Dr J, MA DPhil PhD

BF

Gender Studies

Eriksson, Dr M, MSc, PhD

BF

Plant Physiology

Farmelo, Dr G, PhD

BF

Biographer and Historian

Ghidini, Dr M, PhD

BF

Materials Science Engineering

Gilad, Dr I, MSc, PhD

BF

Gotham, Mr M

BF (Artist)

Director of Music-Making

Guessasma, Dr S, PhD, HDR

BF

Mechanical Engineering

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

Registrar and Human Resources Bursar

Holt, Dr A, MA, PhD

BF (Archives)

British Foreign Policy

Jabr, Dr F H, MSc, PhD

BF

Psychology

Love, Dr G, MA PhD

BF

British Social and Cultural Studies Finance Manager

McMeekin, Mrs S, BA (Hons)

Staff

Oates, Mr T, MA

Professional

Cambridge Assessment

Parker, Dr G T, MASc, PhD

Sharjah

Environmental Engineering

Saenz-Frances San Baldomero, Dr E, MSc, PhD

BF (Archives)

History

Sheils, Dr D, PhD

BF (Archives)

Political History and Biography

Steiner, Dr H, MA, PhD

BF

Architecture and the Humanities

Stuttard, Sir John, MA, DLitt

Møller

Chartered Accountant

Surtees, Mrs S

Staff

Domestic and Conference Bursar

Veel, Dr K, MA, PhD

BF

Art and Cultural Studies

Zhou, Dr W, PhD

BF

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

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Post-Doctoral By-Fellows Anthony, Dr S, MA, PhD

BF (Post-doctoral)

History and Philosophy of Science

Blake, Dr L, MPhil, PhD

BF (Post-doctoral)

Psychology

Cai, Dr W, PhD

BF (Post-doctoral)

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology

Capron, Dr E, PhD

BF (Post-doctoral)

Paleoclimatology

Dutton, Dr S, MA, MNatSci, DPhil

BF (Post-doctoral)

Physics

Enriquez, Dr R, PhD

BF (Post-doctoral)

Applied Mathematics

Goldman, Dr, D, MSc, PhD

BF (Post-doctoral)

Mathematics

Kiss, Dr D PhD

BF (Post-doctoral)

Statistics

Masuda-Nakagowa, Dr L, MA, PhD

BF (Post-doctoral)

Genetics

Worley, Dr C, PhD

BF (Post-doctoral)

Astronomy

Rawlinson, Rev Dr J

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The Churchill College Association 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.

Please visit: www.chu.cam.ac.uk/alumni/association for more information about the Association, and visit: www.chu.cam.ac.uk/alumni/association/benefits to learn more about our range of alumni benefits.

Reunions A Reunion Dinner (for those who joined the College in the years 2003 – 2006 inclusive) will be held on Saturday 4th July 2015. Invitations will be sent out by the College during the Lent Term to those for whom we have an email or postal address on our database. If you have recently changed address or plan to move in the near future, please contact the Alumni Relations Office: 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 email 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 331546/336083 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 Fellowship Secretary & Master’s PA: Masters.PA@chu.cam.ac.uk +44 (0)1223 336142 Human Resources Manager: HR.manager@chu.cam.ac.uk +44 (0)1223 336077 Praelector: +44 (0)1223 331672 Senior Tutor and Admissions Tutors: +44 (0)1223 336208 College Fax: +44 (0)1223 336180 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. Please see above.

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. High Table To dine at High Table, please email alumni@chu.cam.ac.uk or telephone +44 (0)1223 331546/336083. 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.

Please visit: www.chu.cam.ac.uk/faqs/2/3 for more information about dining at High Table.

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 twelve 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: 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 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 may 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 2015 17 March: WSC 1958 Society Lunch 4 July: Reunion Dinner 2003 – 2006 25-27 September: Churchill Association Weekend and Golf Day; University Alumni Festival

Future Publications May 2015: Churchill Newsletter December 2015: Churchill Review

Index to the Churchill Review An on-line index to the Review, 1963 on, may be found at: www.chu.cam.ac.uk/about/publications

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