Churchill College Review 2012 by Churchill College

CHURCHILL

REVIEW Volume 49

2012

CHURCHILL

REVIEW Volume 49 | 2012

“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

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CONTENTS

EDITORIAL

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FROM THE MASTER

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Doing Things Before…

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FEATURES

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From our Overseas Fellows My Career since Churchill

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Flying Roast Ducks

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Downton College

Archives Centre: Director’s Report

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Wittgenstein in Storey’s Way

Development Director’s Report

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Floral Churchill

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Donations 2011-12

IN MEMORIAM

Condolences

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JCR and MCR Reports 2011-12 Clubs and Societies

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The MCR Photo Competition COLLEGE EVENTS

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The Fortieth Anniversary of the Admission of Women Churchill’s Gold Medal

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Professor Sir William Hawthorne

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Mr Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller Dr Richard Hey

Dr Helen Patterson MEMBERS’ NEWS

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New Fellows 2011-12

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Who’s Who in Churchill IN THE BACK

Information for alumni and past Fellows

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Overseas Fellows 2011-12

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The Wing Yip Reception

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The John Kinsella and Tracy Ryan Prizes

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A Career in Chemistry: Professor Carol Robinson Lost Film Found

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Alumni Relations Report STUDENT LIFE

A Dance with the Dragon

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EDITORIAL

This issue of the Churchill Review, volume 49, comes out in the fortieth anniversary year of the admission of women, to which we devote an article in the Features section. Celebrations are being organised as I write. We hope you will like this second issue of our redesigned Review. Many thanks to all those readers who expressed appreciation of last year’s, and warm thanks, of course, to this year’s contributors, who make the 2012 Review what it is.Thanks also to the team that helped produce it: staff in the Development Office and many others, in particular Noelle Caulfield. We owe special gratitude to our photographers Barry Phipps, Stephen Bond and Gavin Bateman (and, this year, the Master and Lady Elizabeth Wallace, as you will see!). Alison Finch

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

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FROM THE MASTER

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“Tales of unremitting success may be tedious to read...”

Tales of unremitting success may be tedious to read, and this year’s report presents that challenge. In student academic performance, as measured by high Cambridge standards, we must aim to be beyond any reproach.This has again been the case this year: across first to fourth years, more than 130 undergraduates were awarded College scholarships, having achieved first-class honours; eleven gained University prizes; and results overall are at least the equal of two years ago, with fifth place in the Tompkins Table (the table that takes account of the College’s subject mix). The closed world of intercollegiate sport inevitably involves ups and downs, but in external recognition it has been a strong year, with eighteen awards of blues and club colours. Paddy Sadler led Scotland’s team in the under-19 Cricket World Cup in Queensland, and was elected Captain of university cricket – a first for the College. (Vice-Master Ken Siddle will again be hosting a box at the Varsity match next summer; do please contact him if you are thinking of coming along.) Stacie Powell, who graduated in 2009 and is now doing a PhD in Astrophysics, followed in fencer Alex O’Connell’s Beijing 2008 footsteps, competing in the diving squad at the London 2012 Olympics.

Paddy Sadler (light blue top in back row) with the captains of the other participating nations prior to the start of the ICC U19 Cricket World Cup, Queensland, August 2012

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Music at Churchill has been a great delight this year. No one there will forget the virtuoso performance in the Music Centre by violinist Tim Fain, son of Overseas Fellow Gordon and his wife Marjorie. It is a pleasure to thank Dominic Wyse for his contributions to our musical life, and to welcome Mark Miller in his additional role as Director of Music Making. The Fellowship has gained too many honours to list, but specific mention must go to the five who were recognised in the Birthday Honours: Michael Allen OBE, Mary Jacobus CBE, Dame Julia King, David Newbery CBE and Dame Janet Thornton. Given that it is (was?!) my subject, I mention also the three awards by the Institute of Physics: to Teaching By-Fellow Lisa Jardine-Wright, to ByFellow Graham Farmelo and to former Junior Research Fellow Meera Parish. At College Council we record individual congratulations also to alumni/ae on your achievements. Do continue to let us know about them, and please forgive me if I mention only one: the knighthood in the New Year Honours to Diarmaid MacCulloch (UG69/G and former Fellow). You can read more about the Archives Centre in Allen Packwood’s article, and I restrict myself only to emphasising the brilliant success of the exhibition Churchill: The Power of Words at the Morgan Library in New York. It opened to an outstanding review in the New York Times and brought record crowds to the Morgan. The Møller Centre has shone brightly in all the gloom of the double-dip recession: a record surplus returned to the College, and a Queen’s Award for Enterprise in International Trade. I congratulate four staff members who completed a cycleride (two of them on mountain bikes!!) from Mærsk HQ in Denmark to the Møller Centre, raising £10,000 for East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices. With the contribution from the Møller Centre and from commercial conference activities in College, allied to careful cost control and husbanding of resources, we have again returned a surplus, building up reserves which will be more important than ever in what will surely be a challenging future.

one of the Founding Benefactors. A souvenir programme and menu included several photographs of Founding Fellows from the early 1960s and a historical note written by Dr Mark Goldie. None of the successes this year would have been possible without the generosity of benefactors at our founding, and of alumni since: income from endowment and alumni donations is greater than the amount we receive in student fees, and is essential to provide the experience which means so much to students. As I relate in what follows, Elizabeth and I took leave, January-April 2012. The College’s success in our absence extends my track-record: any place I have ever been does ever so much better when I am gone! On a less frivolous note, I announced to Council and Governing Body that I intended to resign as Master in September 2014. I know that all alumni will join me in thanking most sincerely all who have contributed to the College’s success, and permit me to add my personal thanks to Alison Finch, who has served so dutifully and capably as Vice-Master, and as Acting Master in my absence.

Doing Things Before... The Master logs his travels during his leave from College, January-April 2012 Combining College and the Newton Institute was particularly consuming, and towards the end of my five years at the latter in September 2011 Elizabeth and I started to plan a major trip to do things before we became too decrepit to do them – a reason the College accepted in granting leave. 7 January: Our journey started with a few steps to the bus stop on Madingley Road.

As part of our on-going 50th Anniversary celebrations we honoured our Founding Fellows at the Founder’s Feast, and marked the significant connection with Shell, who were instrumental in the establishment of the College and were

A week in Koh Tao, a small island in the Gulf of Thailand, where our daughter Sara runs the diving operation for Good Time Adventures. Picking up where I left off more than 30 years ago, with expert instruction from Sara (who handled the role reversal admirably…) and a lot of preparation beforehand with Cambridge University Underwater Exploration Group, I qualified as a PADI open water diver. The experience was all that one could have imagined.

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On to Cambodia, where our delightful hotel in Phnom Penh didn’t help prepare us for the horrors of the Toul Sleng Genocide Museum. And even extensive reading beforehand didn’t prepare us for the wonders of Angkor. After an amazing day of birdwatching at Prek Toal, the eight-hour trip by boat to Battambang was in equal measure fraught and fascinating. Near Battambang is a less well known killing-field from the Pol Pot era; hard for us to comprehend. Three weeks in NE Laos began with a trip up the Mekong, from Luang Prabang to Houei Say, two days of luxury and never-ending interest of scenery and life. Luang Namtha was our base for a two-day trek in the jungle, including an overnight stay in a village, Nam Koy: people, cattle, pigs, dogs, cats, chickens; no electricity; running water in the river; our guide cooking dinner on an open fire in the visitors’ hut, where we slept on bamboo palisades. Nong Kiaw was the next stop: a beautiful river setting in karst scenery; wonderful walks; superb butterflies; birds scarce and extremely timid (they are hunted, by catapault and home-made gun). There is much evidence of the USViet Cong war carried out in/over Laos, which suffered the heaviest tonnage

of bombing per head in history: the visible loss of limb and sight from mines; rusting bomb cases; and Pathet Lao caves, where the sign “Art Unit” referred to the position in the cave of artillery command (see photo). An extremely demanding day for me climbing a mountain, Phou Nang None, emphasised the strength and fitness of my guide Mr Pan: I couldn’t help thinking he would have made a formidable guerrilla soldier. A “bus” journey (packed with people, hens, buffalo horns and much else) heralded two days of indulgence in Luang Prabang: Buddhist monasteries, and the comfortable trappings of its French colonial legacy in a delightful river setting. I can’t capture the fascination of Laos, a single-party socialist state where everyone pays for education and even in the most rural areas the uniformed children impress cheerfully on their way to school.

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We had visited New Zealand as part of a trip between Loughborough and Cambridge, and determined to return to do some of the 4-5 day treks, particularly the Milford and Queen Charlotte Tracks. The former is (in)famous for bad weather, which sometimes results in parties being helicoptered out.We were lucky, enjoying just enough rain to appreciate the rainforest – garden-like at times – and spectacular views of the mountains at the Mackinnon Pass and on the Milford Sound. The Queen Charlotte Track, a gentler affair, was interrupted by a “weather bomb” resulting in an impressive water-taxi ride to Bay of Many Coves, where the travel difficulties meant we were the only visitors luxuriating at this 5-star resort. We worked off the cuisine next day with a long hike to catch up. Elizabeth felt obliged on behalf of the wine committee to visit vineyards in the Marlborough region, and I willingly supported her in this duty… On to Chile, where we enjoyed wonderful hospitality from Churchill Fellow Marcial Echenique, his wife Maria-Louisa and their friends at their Zapallar and Santiago homes, both in beautiful settings: more wine-tasting with Marcial, and agonising about how we divide our available time between Chile and Argentina. One “must” for me was the bus-ride over the Andes in a series of hairpins, by turns exhilarating (for me) and frightening (for Elizabeth); my come-uppance? – I was the one who got the altitude headache at the pass. Given the complexities of travel arrangements, we had signed up for an organised two-week trip in Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego, which included a hike to Lago de Los Tres to view the Mount Fitzroy massif, the Cerro Torre valley, the Perito Moreno glacier, Parque del Paine (first night’s camping for us in more than forty years), Ushuaia (“Capital de Las Malvinas”…) and the Beagle Channel. Lots of (for us) quite serious hikes, but the guide’s initial anxieties were allayed: “Scottish ladies are very good in mountains,” he finally admitted. After our good luck with weather on the Milford Sound, we feared disappointment with its notorious uncertainty in these stunning South American mountains, but no, and the land and life exceeded my undergraduate imaginations. Our final ten days were spent in central Argentina. Do travel by coach, at a comfort beyond first-class air travel (but how would we know?). And enjoy the

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chance encounters â&#x20AC;&#x201C; former Churchill Fellow Maria Tippett and her husband historian Peter Clarke two seats in front of us from Buenos Aires to Cordoba. After all our beefing about the ubiquity of ham-and-cheese garnish in Argentina, a backdrop of 6000-metre peaks (some still with snowâ&#x20AC;Ś) set the stage for an exceptional lunch and wine-tasting at the Ruca Malen vineyard near Mendoza. 11 April: a welcome home, with 3,500 photos and movies in 25 Gbytes, and so much more in memory and to tell.

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“The aim was to let Churchill speak for himself, to provide some faint echo of what it must have been like to experience his words in a time of great international crisis.”

Bursar’s Report Today, 9 July 2012, the new dining-hall chairs were delivered. This is the latest refurbishment project in the College.The original Robin Day chairs had endured fifty-five years of hard wear and repairs. (Robin Day (1915-2010) was the furniture designer who, together with his textile designer wife Lucienne (1917-2010), transformed British design after World War II by pioneering a new modern idiom.) We had reached the point where we were short of at least 100 chairs. So we decided to go for a superior replacement, designed just for Churchill College dining-hall by Luke Hughes, who has been responsible for the hall furniture in boardrooms, libraries, the new Supreme Court in London and over twenty-eight Oxbridge College dining-halls. Luke knew Robin Day personally, and was determined to follow the best aspects of his design in the new chairs. But those of you who have sat through a long dinner in Hall will be pleased to hear that the seats are now padded. Many of you have already donated a chair, which will be adorned with a brass plaque commemorating that fact or whatever else you have chosen. Some of the redundant chairs have been taken up to the Chapel so that we can seat the growing numbers attending weddings, concerts and, sadly, funerals in the Chapel. Others may still be available for sale; if you are interested, please make an offer to the Development Office. Interesting events have taken place in College this year, not least in connection with the Møller Centre, which goes from strength to strength. Gillian Secrett and her team continue to build on the niche they have established in executive education programmes for bankers, particularly from China.The Fellowship and many alumni/ae have participated, lending expertise and entertaining the visitors in College.The Centre’s business has earned a Queen’s Award for Exports this year, a marvellous accolade. And this year sees the celebration of the twentieth anniversary of the Centre, which retains its close links with the Maersk Foundation. The death of Maersk Mc-Kinney Møller, who was the generous donor of the Centre to the College, was a sad blow earlier this year, but we hope to retain the links with his family as well.We remain indebted to all those

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alumni who support the Centre by lecturing, sitting on the Board and bringing business to the Centre. The College’s hospitality business continues to grow also, and the catering operation is gaining plaudits all round, not least from those of you who have attended events over the last year. For Graduation Weekend, we provided a served dinner for 420 in Hall and a buffet lunch for 650 proud students and parents the following day.We also hosted four large Christmas parties last year: three for leading businesses in Cambridge and of course the College’s own, which brings together Fellows and staff for a jolly evening. So our hospitality staff go from strength to strength in building the reputation of the College as the place to come to. However, they put just as much emphasis, if not more, on supporting Open Days and events to bring potential new students to the College. The Comberton Village College “Prom” has become an annual event, much enjoyed by the staff as well as the school visitors. We fill gaps in our conference programme in vacations by offering rooms for bed-and-breakfast guests on www.cambridgerooms.co.uk. Many of our alumni have already discovered that this is a useful way to book rooms simply and quickly. The gardens have brought much delight to both residents and visitors. For the third year, our Head Gardener John Moore has opened them under the National Gardens Scheme, in aid of charity.The spring opening, a joint one with Fitzwilliam, was particularly successful. The summer opening clashed with monsoon-like rains and the Wimbledon men’s final, unfortunately, but a few hardy souls still explored the site. The focus of the Archives Centre’s work is described in the following article; the highly professional team led by Allen Packwood, working under enormous pressure, has continued to attract praise from around the world.The exhibitions in Ottawa at the Canadian Parliament building and the Morgan Library in New York have taken years to bring to fruition but have, once again, significantly raised international awareness of the legacy of our Founder. These activities have also been self-funding, thanks to the continuing efforts of the Director and the generosity of some of our key supporters on both sides of the Atlantic.

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There have been no major staff changes this year, but we will shortly be marking, with thanks and celebrations, the retirements of Nigel Clements, night porter, who lent a sympathetic ear to many students passing through the College over the last twelve years, and of Martin Hayden, who has been Head Chef here for many, many years. Our College consultant architect, Malcolm Brown, has also retired, but the College has appointed his wife, Mary Plowman, also a distinguished architect, in his place. Malcolm has overseen a plethora of refurbishment projects in his time with us, including the complete rebuilding of the kitchens, the improvements to the Wolfson Theatre, disabled access improvements and the conversion of three more staircases to en-suite accommodation. We have now re-wired and upgraded almost half the courtyard bedrooms, and this summer we are completing the refurbishment of the last two staircases in North Court – a welcome milestone. We are also beginning the exciting work of bringing to realisation our new Court: as our target for funds looms nearer, we will be working with the project team to review and develop the plans further, firm up on the costs, go out to consultation and start the detailed planning permissions process. We are also working on a number of plans to expand graduate accommodation over the next ten years. The first phase of the new University Sports Hall on the West Cambridge site, close to the College, is now under way; the Hall will be much used, we anticipate, by Churchill College clubs needing indoor training space. I continue to be the focus for energy purchasing and encouraging better energy management across the Colleges.There are currently two major district heating schemes under discussion in Cambridge: one taking its base from the University’s prospective North West Cambridge site, the other in the City Centre. It is a real challenge working with so many individual organisations, let alone the other colleges, to bring about progress on these projects.The Carbon Reduction Commitment scheme, in which the colleges find themselves unlikely participants (unlikely because the energy consumption of the individual colleges lies well below the threshold in the legislation), will cost us all about £700K this year, and has taken up an immense amount of my time and that of other staff in all the colleges.We now have a central coordinator to pull together the consumption data from over 6,000 meter points, as the colleges are the most complicated participant in the scheme. This is not a great claim to fame.

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At Churchill College level, the Sustainability Committee is working hard to achieve measurable reductions in emissions and consumption. For next year, we have signed up to the Student Switch-Off campaign, a national campaign to involve students in changing the behaviour of individuals when using energy. Financially, the College has benefitted once again from the strong performance of both the Møller Centre and the College’s own commercial hospitality operations.The continued constraint on salaries of all staff and Fellows has also helped considerably. Since last year, the undergraduate fee situation has become much better defined, as agreements were reached firstly with the Office of Fair Access on admissions and secondly between the University and the Colleges on the way the fee was to be split. The Colleges are working with the University on developing the Cambridge bursary scheme. Thanks to the generosity of a number of our alumni and of the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust, a number of deserving UK students are being assisted every year. We continue to employ a full-time Schools Liaison Officer, as do most of the Colleges, to widen access by encouraging applications from non-traditional sources.We have held our rents down to levels which are slightly below the Cambridge and national averages. The income we get from the Møller Centre and College Conferences enables us to charge rents for just thirty weeks of the year. Churchill College remains a cheaper option than most UK universities.

Archives Centre: Director’s Report The Power of Words The Power of Words was the title of the Churchill Archives Centre’s 2012 summer exhibition at the Morgan Library and Museum in New York. It could not be more fitting. The power of words is what the Archives Centre is all about. It is primarily through their words, public and private, that we seek to preserve and present the personalities of the past. Capturing those words can present its own challenges. This year has seen the fruition of two huge digitisation projects. A team from the company Transmedia finished scanning over 900,000 pages from the archive of Baroness Thatcher, while Bloomsbury Academic digitised a further million images from microfilm in the Churchill Papers collection. As a result, the Churchill Archive on-line will be published in the autumn of 2012 (see www.churchillarchive.com), while more Thatcher material is being made available each year through the website of the Thatcher Foundation (see www.margaretthatcher.org). And there is more to come. We are already embarked on a collaboration with the Wellcome Trust to digitise the papers of Rosalind Franklin. High numbers of researchers continued to visit our reading rooms last year (560 during the College year 2011-2012), but many more came to us via email or through such web-based

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

The final design for the exhibition; courtesy Martello Media

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resources as www.discoverchurchill.org, a website linked into social media, including Twitter and Facebook, put together to accompany the Morgan Library exhibition in New York. In October 2011, the Archives Centre was delighted to host a Festival of Ideas event on oratory, which considered whether political speeches still matter, and questioned whether Churchill could have functioned in the era of spin-doctors and sound-bites. Since then we have certainly had ample opportunity to test the level of contemporary interest in his great speeches. On 30 December 1941, in the immediate aftermath of Pearl Harbor, Churchill addressed the two Houses of the Canadian legislature, famously recalling that the French generals had told him in the summer of 1940 that “In three weeks England will have her neck wrung like a chicken”, before remarking, “Some chicken! Some neck!!” Just over seventy years later, in March 2012, we took back to Ottawa six key pages from Churchill’s notes for that historic address and displayed them in the Canadian Library of Parliament, alongside both the famous photographic portrait of Churchill, taken by Yousuf Karsh on that day, and the filmed recording of Churchill delivering the speech. The display was well received, and was seen by over 100,000 visitors to the Canadian Parliament over the course of the next three months. Churchill’s speeches also formed the centrepiece of The Power of Words exhibition at the Morgan Library and Museum in New York, which ran from the beginning of June until the end of September.Visitors were able to enter a small purpose-built auditorium, designed for us by Martello Media, and immerse themselves in a selection of Churchill’s key broadcasts from the period 1938 to 1946. Once seated inside, they heard him deliver his words, and as they did so they saw those same spoken words appear on the screen in the blank verse format Churchill called speech form, along with specially selected dramatic photographs from the period. The visitors could then go out into the gallery and view a selection of Churchill’s writings, private letters, literary drafts and public speeches, showing how he used words to underpin and sustain his amazing political career.The aim was to let Churchill speak for himself, to show how he crafted his books and oratory, and to provide some faint echo of what it must have been like to experience his words in a time of great international crisis. I am delighted to report that the exhibition enjoyed high visitor numbers and positive reviews, including a two-page piece in the New York Times.

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These two high-profile displays demonstrate the continuing interest in Churchill’s great speeches.While his recorded delivery sounds rather slow and dated to our modern ear, there is no doubting the drama and power of the words. Would a modern politician ever make a speech like Churchill? Probably not. Churchill’s great speeches were grounded in a political medium – radio – and in the particular era of the Second World War. But the politicians of today continue to cite Churchill as a benchmark, and to quote or misquote key passages as sound-bites, reinterpreting them for a modern audience and to fit contemporary events. How many times do we read or hear of “the finest hour”, “the few”, “the Churchill outside his exhibition iron curtain”, or of the need to “give us the at the Morgan Library, New York tools”? Churchill’s speeches are fascinating precisely because they show the power of words to influence events and then to survive beyond those events, so that they become part of the historic record and part of the language. My thanks to the Morgan Library and Museum, to the Canadian Library of Parliament, to Bloomsbury Academic, to Transmedia and to the staff of the Churchill Archives Centre for their work in making the words in our collections ever more widely available for research, display and debate. To find out about the full range of our collections and activities, please visit the Archives Centre website at www.chu.cam.ac.uk/archives/. Allen Packwood

Development Director’s Report (1 July 2011 – 30 June 2012) One of our goals this year has been to increase alumni participation, but let me reassure you it is not “all about money”, although in the current economic climate giving back in financial terms has never been more vital to the College and its current students. The fact is that we are always delighted to see alumni returning to Churchill to participate in social events. Some also share their experience and expertise as volunteers, giving their time to assist, for example, with student career workshops. Some play an active role on the Churchill Association Committee and other College committees. Alumni are our ambassadors as they continue to be part of Churchill College and open doors to a wider community. Gifts in 2011/12 The College has raised a total of £1,334,471.96 in philanthropic support during this financial year. The majority of these gifts have come from alumni giving back to Churchill.We are extremely grateful to you for your continuing support. Your generosity ensures that your College can go from strength to strength and provide its students with the very best environment in which to succeed, so please do come back to visit us and see your philanthropy in action. 50th Anniversary Appeal: New Court Thanks to the extraordinary generosity of alumni and the Fellowship, we are now within striking distance of raising the funds needed to build a New Court of student accommodation. Our target is to raise £8M; there are now funds of £4,048,867 assigned to this important goal.We are therefore very excited about the prospect of closing that gap so that building can go ahead at the earliest opportunity. In an effort to boost the appeal we launched the 50@50 campaign in May 2012, inviting donors to sponsor a room in the New Court at a cost of £50,000.With fifty such donors sponsoring a room – or indeed groups of donors by yeargroup or subject – we will achieve our goal.

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Sponsors at this level will be commemorated on a plaque outside their rooms in the New Court and, as Patrons of Churchill College, their names will appear on the College’s Benefactors’ Board. They will also receive an invitation to a College Feast or special Benefactors’ Dinner. The New Court will ensure that we can provide affordable accommodation for Churchill students for the duration of their studies at Cambridge; as one of our students said recently: “The greatest advantage of having guaranteed accommodation in Churchill for three years is that it creates a very genuine feeling of community spirit. In few other Cambridge Colleges is it so easy to become friends with second- and third-year students when you arrive as a Fresher.” If you would like to participate in 50@50 with a one-off gift or scheduled pledge, or simply make a contribution to the 50th Anniversary Appeal and help us close the funding gap, please contact the Development Office on 01223 336197 or email development@chu.cam.ac.uk. The Judge David Stokes QC Bursary Awards The Judge David Stokes QC Memorial Bursary Fund was set up in honour of Judge David Stokes QC (1944 – 2004), who studied Law as an undergraduate at Churchill College from1963 to 1966. This fund provides bursaries for Churchill Law students, and makes a real difference by helping to offset the financial burden they will incur during their studies. With the changes taking place in the way higher education is funded, bursaries such as this have never been more important. By way of promoting this bursary fund and to commemorate the contribution that David Stokes made to the study and practice of Law, we organised a special event on 26 January 2012: Churchill lawyers and family and friends of David Stokes were invited to attend a Bursary Award ceremony and drinks reception at the Old Bailey. Sir John Stuttard (U63) was our Master of Ceremonies on this auspicious occasion, and we were also privileged to have His Honour Judge Brian Barker QC, Common Serjeant of London, present. He gave us a brief history and insight into the day-to-day life of the Old Bailey, and handed out the awards to the Bursars waiting patiently in the dock in No 2 Court! The Judge David Stokes QC Memorial Bursary Fund currently stands at £58,902.

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Please do get in touch with the Development Office if you would like to donate to this or other bursary funds at Churchill College. Legacy Giving Our Legacy Pledge programme continues to grow, with four new members of the Winston S. Churchill 1958 Society being admitted this year.We were honoured to have our Patron and daughter of our Founder, the Lady Soames DBE, present on this occasion too. Those who pledge gifts in Will to Churchill College are invited to become members of the Winston S. Churchill 1958 Society, which meets every year at Churchill for an exclusive drinks reception and lunch. Members also receive invitations to other College alumni events. Please do contact the Development Office in confidence if you would like further information about joining this special group of donors. And finally, to demonstrate the more creative side of the Development Office at Churchill College… In 2012 the Development Office organised two special exhibitions.The first was “London Calling”, an exhibition of London-themed paintings by local artist and Winston S. Churchill 1958 Society member, Vic Stedman. These greatly enlivened the space in the Wolfson Foyer and were a colourful backdrop to the Winston S. Churchill 1958 Society drinks reception on 29 March. Livia Argentesi, Alumni and Development Assistant, did a wonderful job designing the poster and exhibition guide, taking her inspiration from the London Tube map. The second exhibition, organised in collaboration with Goldmark Art Gallery, Uppingham, displayed John Piper prints in the Chapel at Churchill College, where the beautiful stained glass windows, “The Elements”, themselves designed by Piper and made by Patrick Reyntiens, provided a wonderful backdrop to the exhibition. Also on display was archive material relating to the windows. A screening of the documentary film, “An Empty Stage”, which investigates the life and work of John Piper, also took place.The exhibition was opened with a public lecture by the distinguished art historian and biographer Frances Spalding CBE. Please log on to the College and alumni web pages for further information about how you can help Churchill College or to learn about forthcoming alumni

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and special events. You can also subscribe to our regular e-Bulletin. The next edition of the Churchill Newsletter will be published in June 2013. Sharon Maurice www.chu.cam.ac.uk www.churchillians.net

Donations 2011-12 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 2011 to 30th June 2012. (N.B. Gifts made after this date will be acknowledged in next yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Review.) Mr V S Abrash 1986 Mr J Adamcheski-Halson Professor R E W Adams 1979 Professor R Adrian 1969 Professor H Akagi 1994 Mr D Alafouzos 1998 Mr A C Allsop 1974 Mr N A Altmann 1991 Mr J A Amias 1981 Mrs R Anderson (Stock) 1987 Mr P J S Arch 2002 Mr C M L Argent 1962 Mr T Armitage 1982 Dr D Armstrong 1971 Mr D Armstrong 1975 Professor K J Arrow 1964 Mr K Asanovic 1984 Mr D M Asbury 1968 Professor N W Ashcroft 1961 Dr H Ashraf 1989 Mr L Ashton 1994 Professor M Atzmon 1996 Mr D J Badgery 1995

Mr A D Bailey 1968 Mr A M F Bailey 1986 Miss H A Bailey 2003 Dr A F Bainbridge 1964 Dr N E Baker 1979 Ms C Ball 1972 Dr A J Ball 1990 Mr J A Ballard 1964 HRH Prince Bandar bin Sultan bin Abdul Aziz Al-Saud Professor K Bardakci 1972 Dr R C Barklie 1966 Mr R W Barlow 1961 Mr J C Barlow 1963 Mr C M Barnes 1986 Dr J S Barton 1965 Miss J M Bastable 1978 Mr D N Batten 1981 Dr D Baxter 1986 Mr J G Bennett 1973 Mr O J Benzecry 1980 Professor L Berkowitz 1974 Dr D J Bernasconi 1992

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Mr J E Berriman 1967 Ms S C Berwick 1978 Mr K Bhargava 1981 Dr T A Bicanic 1990 Mr L E Bigler 1967 Bill Brown Charitable Trust Mr P T Bird 1975 Mr J J Bisseker 1990 Professor A Bittles 1998 Dr R J Black 1987 Ms C E Blackmun 1974 Dr R D Blank 1978 Professor R Blankenbecler 1963 Lady Bondi Ms D Bondi-Jackson Mrs E K Booth (Lambert) 2001 Dr G S Booth 1968 Dr P A Booth 2000 Dr S Boss 2006 Mr P G Bossom 1970 Dr C B Boulton 1979 Lady Boyd Sir John Boyd 1996 Mr M R Brazier 1995 Mr C M Brehm 1990 Ms C R Brett 1991 Dr A Brezianu 1984 Mrs D Brezina Mr B O Brierton 1994 Mrs K H Brierton (Pratt) 1994 The Reverend Dr T W Broadbent 1963 Mrs J Brook 1999 Dr D C Brown 1977 Ms T M Brown 1973 Dr A J Brown 1988 Mr J E Bruce 1971 Dr J H Brunton 1964 Dr J H Bryce 1979 Dr W G Burgess 1988 Mr J H Burton 1961 Ms A Calvert 1982 Professor D K Campbell 1966 Mr N Canetty-Clarke 1988 Mrs A A Canning (Jarrett) 1975 Mr B J Capper 1965 Mr W J Capper 1961 Mr I Carnaby 1967 Dr P A Catarino 1988 Dr C Caulfield 1987 Mr J B M Cavanagh 1972

Mr T A Cave 1971 Mr T A Cawdron 1997 Mr P Chadwick 1964 Mr A F Champernowne 1968 Dr D A Chaplin 1984 Mr T P D Chapman 1974 Charina Endowment Fund Dr C G Chatfield 1969 Professor K Chatterjee 2000 Mr J Chaudhuri 1991 Mrs J Christie Mr D B Christie 1996 Mrs S J J Christie (Chou) 1996 Dr S P Churchhouse 1985 Mr R Churchill Mr C ClaouĂŠ de Gohr 1975 Mrs C Cleaver (Martin) 1977 Dr R P Cleaver 1973 Mrs S M Clements (Burton) 1981 Mr C Cockcroft Miss J D Cockcroft Professor J R D Coffey 1988 Dr A J Cole 1967 Mr B L Collings 1980 Dr T M Connelly 1974 Ms V S Connolly 1987 Dr J Connor 1962 Professor G Constable 1974 Mr G M Coomber 1964 Dr T Cooper 1978 Mrs J N Corbett (Banfield) 1997 Dr D J Cosman 1973 Mr R I Coull 1983 Dr S J D Cox 1977 Dr J R Crabtree 1965 Mr M A Craven 1985 Mr N Crews 2000 Dr A J Crisp 1968 Mr A Cullen 1975 Mr T S Culver 1963 Professor T W Cusick 1964 Dr N Cutler 2011 Mr A S Dalton 1979 Mr A R Davies 1992 Mr D W N Davies 1980 Mr H A J Davies 1972 Mr H L Davies 1961 Mr R J Davies 1964 Mr R M Davies 1969 Mr J H Davis 1965

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Professor C P Day 1978 Mr P C de Boor 1988 Mr H de Lusignan 1980 Ms A N Dean 1997 Dr N W Dean 1965 Mr F J Deegan Mr N J Denbow 1964 The Diana Parker Charitable Trust Dr S Dinsdale 1982 Mrs C Dixon (Strutt) 1994 Mr M G Dixon 1964 Mr R H T Dixon 1985 Dr R M Dixon 1978 Mrs B Dobkin Mr E Dobkin Dobkin Family Foundation Mr A P Docherty 1966 Mr K Doolan Dr M Dorn (Troutman) 1992 Mr P A Dornan 1982 Professor J E Dowling 1978 Mrs B Doyle Dr C Ducati 1999 Dr T R Dudley 1983 Mr M E Duerr 1975 Mr A P Duff 1979 Dr I B Duncan 1961 Mr D M M Dutton 1962 The Reverend J M Dyer (Lloyd) 1979 Professor S L Dyson Mr M J Edge 1979 Mrs R M Edge (Kell) 1978 Mr J R Edwards-Moss 1965 Mr J R Elder 1994 Dr R Elgin Professor S C R Elgin 1995 Dr M Elia 1993 Dr R T Elias 1984 Dr C A Elliott (Mills) 1973 Dr R Elsdon 1972 Dr G Evans 1968 Mr C P J Evans 1970 Professor G Fain 2008 Mr P F F Fan 2001 Dr A-M T Farmer 1980 Mr W J Farrant 1982 Mr J R Farrell 1980 Mr G R Farren 1966 Dr M Ferme 2000 Professor A M Finch 1972

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Dr A L R Findlay 1972 Mr D M Fineman 1991 Mr T R H Fish 1977 Dr R M Fisher 1978 Dr V P V Flanagan 1961 Dr S J Ford (Masters) 1992 Dr G J Forder 1965 Mr D O Forfar Dr R J Fragaszy 1988 Dr C Fraser 1976 Mr P B Frean 1979 Mrs E D French (Medd) 1978 Mr P C French 1978 Mr M R Frith 1969 Mrs C R Froomberg (Varley) 1974 Miss L P Fullwood 1995 Mr P R A Fulton 1970 Ms R E Furber (Johnston) 1973 Dr F G Furniss 1973 Professor R A M Galbraith 1972 Mr J R Gale 1993 Mrs S C Galloway 1989 Mr N S Gamble 1965 Mr E C Garner-Richardson 1978 Mr G Garrison Mr N A W M Garthwaite 1970 Mrs J Gascoyne-Cecil (Roberts) 1972 Mr R D Gascoyne-Cecil 1972 The GE Foundation Sir Peter Gershon 1966 Professor M R J Gibbs 1977 Mr J M Gibbs 1993 Professor J F Gilbert 1972 Professor M B Giles 1978 Mrs A M Gill (Bradshaw) 1976 Mr S L Gill 1976 Professor O Gingerich 1985 Mr R Giniyatov 2004 The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation Mr C M Glencross 1991 Professor A L Goldberg 1963 Dr M A Goldie 1979 Goldman Sachs & Company Goldmark Art Gallery Mrs J E Goodland (Terry) 1974 Mr P M Goodland 1973 Dr P D Goodwin 1996 Ms K F Gordon 1977 Dr C Goulimis 1977 Mr A P J Gray 2000

Mr H Gray 1964 Dr J I Grayson 1971 Mr S T Green 1961 Mr B Greenhalgh 2003 Mr M D Greig 1974 Mr K W Greig 1970 Dr D R Grey 1966 Mr H R Griffiths 1967 Dr J Grzeskowiak (Ellison) 1973 Dr N E Grzeskowiak 1973 Mr S Gupta 1983 Professor Sir John Gurdon 1973 Dr R J Guthrie 1969 Professor A L Gutman 1987 The Reverend T P Hall 1970 Mr A P Hall 1993 Mrs T A Hall (Prosser) 1982 Mrs P Halson Professor D J Hamblin 1968 Mr M Hammler 1979 Dr M A Hannam 1981 Mr M E Harper 1967 Mr P T W Harrington 1991 Mr B A Harris 1980 Dr T L Harris 1994 Alderman C Hart Mr G F Hart Professor J Hart 2007 Mr N Hawkings 1979 Mrs S Hawkings (Frederick) 1982 Mr J Hazelden 1966 Professor G M Heal 1963 Dr A J Heap 1991 Professor A F Heavens 1977 Mr R Helmer 1962 Dr P G Henry 1969 Mr K A Herrmann 1978 Hewlett Packard The Estate of Dr R W Hey Dr C M Hicks 1989 Mr J J Higgins 1984 Mr J A Higham 1971 Mr M H Hilder 1961 Mr R J Hine 1964 Mr M S Hoather 1994 Mr S J Hoather 1965 Dr J W D Hobro 1991 Dr P D Hodson 1979 Mr A O Hold 1991 Dr R W Holti 1974

Mr M P Honey 1992 Honeywell Hometown Solutions Dr G M Hong 1979 Mr J Hopkins Mr M E Hopkins 1961 Mr M Howard 2001 Dr I Howe 1963 Mr C Howell 1997 Dr J Hu 2003 Mr M J Hubbard 1994 Mr J C R Hudson 1971 Mrs I Hull (Clark) 1978 Mr A J Hutchinson 1968 Professor H E Huxley 1967 Dr M T Hyldon 1970 Mr J Ingle 1972 Dr N F J Inglis 1985 Mr T C W Ingram 1966 Mr A C Innes 1987 The J.M. Kaplan Fund Dr P T Jackson 1962 Mr J A Jackson 1969 Mr B Jafar 1997 Dr D H Jaffer 1976 Ms C T James 1980 Mr P N James 1965 Professor M Jaspars 1984 Mr J R Jeffrey 1978 Dr A Jenkins (Leech-Wilkinson) 1981 Mr R G Jewsbury 1970 Mr A M E John 2003 Mr A R John 1975 Mr A T C Johnson 1979 Mr G T Johnson 1961 Dr M A Johnson 1972 Dr M W Johnston 1986 Mr R G Johnson 1988 Mr R V Johnston 1968 Ms V C Jolliffe 1973 Mr A W S Jones 1985 Mrs C Jones (Greene) 1985 Dr C N Jones 1978 Mr G C Jones 1995 Mr J M W Jones 1972 Mr I Jones 1981 Dr R I Jones 1978 Mr T H Jones 1972 Mr I D Judd 1967 Professor T Kailath 1977 Professor P A Kalra 1976

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Professor E R Katz 1966 Mr D E P P Keefe 1976 Dr S G Martin 1977 Mr T A Key 1965 Mr R H Khatib 1987 Mr C Kinch Mrs A N King 1994 Mr D E W King 1961 Mr S A King 1967 Mr N G Kingan 1961 Mr L Kinross-Skeels 1996 Mr W M Kinsey 1970 Professor D B Kittelson 1966 Dr N Knight 2007 Dr E A Kohll 1961 Professor M H Kramer 1994 Mr A Kramvis 1971 Mrs S A Kramvis (Newcombe) 1972 Professor L Krause 1976 Dr S L Kremnitzer 1975 Dr S J Kukula 1984 Professor B Kutter 2010 Dr S A Kyle 1970 Mr A J Lake 1985 Mr H S Lake 1965 Assoc Professor E Lally (Cobb) 1979 Mr N M C Lamb 1977 Mr A J Lambert 1993 Mr P Larson Mr T R Latton 1961 Mr A G Laugharne 1999 Mr I M Lawrie 1987 Dr G J Le Poidevin 1971 Professor N Leader-Williams 2009 Mrs S P Lee Dr C E Lee-Elliott 1987 Mr A E Leigh-Smith 1961 Professor J Lewandowski 2003 Dr A M Lewis 1983 Mr J C Lewis 1961 Mr M Lewis 1964 Dr E T Libbey 1966 Dr H Lillehammer 2010 Lincolnshire Iron and Steel Institute 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

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Professor R V E Lovelace 1994 Mrs M Lovell Professor R M Loynes 1962 Dr G S Lucas 1969 Mr J P Lucas 1989 Dr R W A Luke 1981 Professor D E Luscombe 1964 Dr O D Lyne 1989 Mr T F Mabbott 1977 Professor A V P Mackay 1970 Mr D A Mackenzie 1999 Dr N S MacLeod 1979 Mrs M P Mahon 1983 Professor M Malkan 1977 Dr J Mapes 1961 Mr C P S Markham 1965 Dr E Markham 1960 Mr I G Marks 1966 Mr H F A Marriott 1963 Professor J H Marsh 1974 Ms L Marsh 1988 Mr A Marshall Mr E L Marshall 1979 Mr H R Marshall 1965 Mrs A Martin (Colabella) 1997 Professor B R Martin 1970 Dr O J D Martin 1997 Mr J R Mason 1963 Dr A N Mather 1979 Dr M J Matthewson 1972 Mr R R Mattingly 1984 Ms S Maurice 2006 Mr J R Maw 1964 Mr P McCarthy 1995 The Reverend S McCoan (Weldon) 1974 Dr A D McConnell 1998 Dr W D McConnell 1985 Mr N A McDonald 1981 Mr J M McGee 1969 Dr M M McGilchrist 1980 Dr M L McKinstry 1973 Professor C J McMahon 1973 Dr T McManus 1965 Mr C G McNally 1976 Dr D E McRobie 1982 Mrs D Megson Dr N C Megson 1968 Mr D T Meldrum 1969 Mr J C Mellor 2003 Mr P Merson 1969

Mrs L Mesdag Mr W Mesdag The Mesdag Family Foundation Dr K J Meyer 1972 Mr G P Middleton 1985 Dr M Miller 2000 The Reverend Dr P G Miller 1985 Mr R J Miller 1983 Mr A J Milne 2000 Dr J Milner Mr R T Milner 1990 Mr N R E Miskin 1966 Professor K Mislow 1975 Mrs H O Mkushi (Balogun) 2002 Mr M R G Mkushi 2001 Dr P J Mole 1971 Professor J Monaghan 1962 Dr S J Montgomery 1983 Morison International Mr K D Morris 1985 Mr S D Morrish 1989 Ms A C Morrison 1978 Mr J S Morton 1977 Mr J M Mullen 1968 Professor W H Munk 1962 Professor T Nagashima 1972 Mrs C H Narracott (Crocker) 1987 Mr S G Narracott 1988 Mr D M Nazarian 2002 Mr P D Needleman 1974 Professor D M G Newbery 1966 Mr G R Newman 1973 Mr M R Newton 2002 Dr D J Norfolk 1968 Mr M R Norris 1997 Miss C H Northeast 1967 Ms G Nurse 1987 Professor M J Nye 1995 Professor R A Nye 1995 Mr T R Oakley 1977 Dr P E J O’Connor 1980 Dr C O’Kane 1996 Dr S Oldfield 1974 Professor R J Oldman 1961 Dr B R O’Neill 1967 Dr C J Otty 1977 Mr M M Otway 1967 Dr J Padley Mr C H Palmer 1994 Mr J W Palmer 1992

Ms D C Parker 1976 Mr D H Parry 1995 Dr P J Parsons 1989 Mr R Partington 2007 Mr B J Patel 1987 Dr A F K Pater 2001 Dr A J Pauza 1993 Mrs S Pearce (Bailey) 1976 Mr D Pearce-Higgins Mrs J Pearce-Higgins Mr P M Pearson 1992 Mr D A Pedropillai 1983 Mr S M J Peskett 1961 Mr J R Peters 1990 Dr C K L Phoon 1985 Dr K Pichler 1991 Mr P A Pinto 1996 Mr M J Platts 1963 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 J Potter 1980 Mr J G Potter 1963 Mr D Potts 1970 Mrs G M Potts (Black)1972 Ms S M Press 1977 Mr D W Preston 1986 Prolinx Mr G C Pyke 1963 Professor R B Pynsent 1963 Mr D P Raftis 1991 Dr J L Ram 1967 Mr A V Ramsay 1967 Major General Charles Ramsay Mr D F Ramsay Mr M K Redhead 1966 Ms A D Reece 1975 Mr M K Rees 1974 Mr J J H Reilly 1984 Mrs D Resch (Christian) 1998 Dr D E Reynolds 1975 Professor D J Reynolds Dr R A Reynolds (Dixon) 1975 Professor P Rez 1970 Professor T Rice 1960 Mr A T Richardson 1978 Mrs B Richardson Professor W Rindler 1989

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Dr R H Rives Ms K S Riviere 1973 Mr D Roberts 1992 Dr J D Roberts 1970 Miss P Roberts Dr T L Roberts 1965 Mr B H A Robinson 1991 Mr R E Robles-Thome 1977 Mr G K Rock-Evans 1963 Professor D O Rockwell 1981 Mrs D Rohan Mr A H Rosenberg 1968 Professor J Rosenberg 1972 Mr N Roskill Mr T Roskill Mr S D Rothman 1982 Mr A J Rowell 1986 Mr M W Rudin 1979 Rushbrook Charitable Trust Mr P Russell 1977 Professor D B Rutledge 1973 Mr M T Rutter 1982 Professor M J Rycroft 1960 The Hon Mr Justice Sales 1980 Mrs J E Salmon (Mathie) 1976 Mr R H N Salmon 1962 Dr D J M Sampson 1996 Mr G K Sampson 1965 Mr S J Scherr 1980 Mr A C Schofield 1973 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 Miss A Seagrim Dr D S Secher 1967 Dr M Seligmann Mr G R A Sellers 1970 Mr N R Seymour-Dale 1964 Mr G Shannon 2002 Mr R J Shaw 1988 Mr T Shi 2006 Mr A G Shinder 1978 Dr D Sigman Mrs S Sigman Professor S D Silver 1994 Dr J H Silverman 1984 Mr W Silverman 1962

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Mr M R Slack 1967 Mr C W Smick 1993 Mrs A C Smith (Slater) 1978 Dr M C Smith 1977 Mr N D Smith 1992 Mr R P Smith 1992 Mr S C Smith 1980 Professor R J Snedden 1980 Mr J B Soar 1971 Dr D J Soderberg 1977 Professor F J Sottile 1985 Professor R C Spear 1965 Mr R Spencer Mr S D Spreadbury 1999 Dr L C Squire 1968 Dr R H Stables 1979 Mr R G Stamp 1994 Mr I M Standley 1978 Mr J A Stark 1984 Professor M J R Stark 1973 Mrs L F Stead (Bibby) 1977 Mr V Stedman Mr E M J Steedman 1984 Dr A W Stephenson 1989 Dr I Stephenson 1988 Professor D L Stern 1994 Dr D P Stern 1977 Mrs P J Stern (Knight) 1977 Mrs K Stevenson (Radley) 1989 Mrs S L Stewart (Crampton) 1977 Dr G F Stott 1973 Dr Z T Stott (Tkaczyk) 1973 Mr A L Strang 1969 Dr M A Stroud 1962 Dr R J Stubbs 1986 Sir John Stuttard 1963 Mr C E Sweeney 1979 The Reverend R P Symmons 1974 Mr R Syred Mr R J Tarling 1963 Mr C J Tavener 1961 Dr A Taylor 2006 Mr D J Taylor 1978 Mr G R Taylor 1963 Mr W G Taylor 1971 Mr I Temperton 1992 Mr J C Tennant 1994 Dr P H Tennyson 1976 Mr G V Thomas 1961 Mr D K S Thomas 1981

Mr I R Thomas 1997 Mr C M Thomas 2003 Mrs I A Thompson (Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Hara) 1977 Mr A F Thomson 1961 Mr S J S Thornhill 1995 Professor D J Thouless 1961 Professor M D Thouless 1978 Mrs S F Tickle (Hanley) 1994 Mr B J Tidd 1994 Mr G R Tillman 1984 Mr F E Toolan 1963 Toshiba Research Europe Ltd Dr D R Tray 1993 Dr N Treanor 2008 Dr P N Trewby 1965 Mrs S J Trotman-Burman 1985 Dr M E Trout Dr W Y Tsang 1981 Miss C P Tubb 1999 Ms J Turkington 1987 Mrs C L Turner (Adcock) 2003 Mr P A Turner 2003 Dr J M Tyszka 1984 Mr M A Upton 1962 Miss N Vadgama 2003 Mrs L A Vaughan (McClean) 1997 Dr C Vout Mr J M F Wadsworth 1987 Mrs S B Wadsworth (Large) 1987 Mr J C Wainwright 1980 Mr R K A Wakeling 1966 Mr R M Walker 1963 Sir David Wallace 2006 Lady Wallace Mr T N Wallach 1972 Dr B R Walters 1970 Mr P F Ward 1999 Dr I Wassell 2006 Mr D Waters Mr J Waters 1964 Dr D Waterson 1978 Mr P J Watkins 2000 Mr D G Watson 1963 Professor A J Webber 1990

Professor W B Webb 1980 Mr A A Weiss 2000 Miss P L Welsh 2003 Mr R C Wenzel 1972 Dr A J Wharton 1990 Dr W Wheatley (Cooper) 1993 Mr P W Wheldon 1977 Mr L Whewell 1981 Mr T P Whipple 2000 Dr S E Whitcomb 1973 Professor D J White 1994 Mr I White 1973 Mr S N Whiteley 1993 Dr A S Wierzbicki 1980 Anthony H Wild PhD 1968 Mr D G Wilding 1988 Mr J H Wilkinson 1963 Mr N Williams Mr R E Williams 1973 Dr S F Williams 1984 Professor S R Williamson 1976 Mr I S Wilson 1970 Mr F J Wilton 1963 Mr N Wilson 1965 Winston Churchill Foundation Dr Y L Wong 1979 Dr D R Woodall 1962 Mr A R Woodland 1972 Mrs I Woodland (Waghorne) 1972 Mrs K A Woodward (Samy) 1981 Mr E A Workman 1968 Mr A C Worrall 1986 Mr N E Wrigley 1963 Dr S E Wunsch 1992 Dr M Yamani (Zaki) 1976 Mr B Yates 1962 Professor I Yates 1992 Dr C Yeung 1998 Dr B Yuan 1998 Dr M V Zammit-Tabona 1968 Dr W Zhou 1987

+ 39 anonymous donations

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. Professor A Kelly Mr J K Bacon (Rushton) 1974 Mr N Bacon 1974 Sir John Boyd Lady Boyd Mr J H Burton 1961 Mrs M Burton Dr G Bielstein Mrs B Bielstein Mr M A Craven 1985 Dr A J Crisp Professor T W Cusick 1964 Mr M G Dixon 1964 Mr D M M Dutton 1962 Mr P R A Fulton 1970 Mr N A W M Garthwaite 1970 Mrs P Green Mr S T Green 1961 Mrs D Hahn Professor F Hahn Professor A Hewish Mr J Hopkins Mrs M Ker Hawn 1989 Mr M A Lewis 1964 Mr G S Littler-Jones 1965 Mr G H Lock 1966 Mr P N Locke 1966 Dr F W Maine 1960 Mr J R Maw 1964 Mrs M Miller Dr S A Mitton 1968 Dr J H Musgrave 1965 Mr J G Potter 1963

Mr M A W Prior 1974 Mr M K Rees 1974 Mr A T Richardson 1978 Mrs B Richardson Mrs N Squire Mr D Stedman Mr V Stedman Sir John Stuttard 1963 Lady Stuttard Dr M Tippett Dr A J Walton 1960 Dr A H Wild 1968

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.

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

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Alumni Relations Report Our 50th Anniversary Celebrations are beginning to wind down now, although it seems that the number of events we undertake do not – which is great news for all! At the time of writing, we are already preparing the programme for the latter part of 2012 and into 2013, and there’s a plethora of exciting events to come: an Alumni/ae Formal Dinner and Pav for those who have graduated but not proceeded to their MAs; a pair of events to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the admission of female undergraduates at Churchill, Clare, King’s and Lucy Cavendish; and the return of the Garden Party and Family Day, to name but a few. I shall write more on these events in the next issue of the Review, but do keep an eye on www.churchillians.net in the meantime for further details of our full programme of events. At the end of September 2011, we had a somewhat fuller programme than usual for the Association Weekend.We were particularly pleased to have a large number of our first intake of undergraduates from 1961 return to celebrate their 50th anniversary since matriculation, alongside a good number of attendees from other years. Graham Thomas (U61) was the ringleader of the former auspicious group, and, alongside the usual activities of the weekend, was able to put on an excellent programme, including a dedicated table at High Table and “Tea and Conversation” where the group reminisced and shared photos and videos from their time at Churchill. Highlights of the rest of the weekend included tours of the College led by Graham (and other members of the 1961 contingent, who added some hilarious anecdotes to the occasion); a lecture by Dr Mark Goldie on the history of the College; the two “Association presents” lectures, inspiringly delivered by the Master on “Five Millennia of Mathematics and its Applications” and by Professor Ghil’ad Zuckermann on “Is It Possible to Revive a Language?”; and a superb afterdinner speech by Dr Piers Brendon, who very kindly stepped in as the scheduled speaker was unable to attend due to illness. It was a memorable weekend. The fifth Association Golf Day took place during the Association Weekend, attended by a small but keen group of golfers. The winner of the Stableford competition (for the Association Golf Trophy) for the second year in a row was Tony Feltbower (U72). If you’d like to join other College members in a friendly competition for the Association Golf Trophy in September 2013, please register your interest by emailing Churchill.Association@chu.cam.ac.uk.

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In May of this Olympic year, we held an event to celebrate all those Churchillians who received Blues, Half-Blues or Club Colours in sport during their time in College. We saw over fifty sportsmen and sportswomen return for this event as we awaited the start of London 2012. Paddy Sadler (current student in PPS), recently named Captain of the Varsity Cricket Team, and current Scotland U19 and Scotland Academy Captain, joined us on the night. We hope to repeat this in future. If you received a Blue or Half-Blue, please do let us know by emailing alumni@chu.cam.ac.uk. In June, the College had a presence at the Varsity Cricket Match at Lord’s, where a group of current and past members supported Cambridge from the comfort of a private box. It was an excellent occasion – in particular, excellent to see our very own Paddy Sadler bowl the winning ball! Again, we will be repeating this in June 2013. In July, the Reunion Dinner for those who joined the College in 1971–1975 took place. It was a fantastic occasion, despite the first poor weather at a Reunion Dinner in eight years! It was the largest turn-out at any Reunion Dinner in recent memory – we saw over 150 alumni returning to re-acquaint themselves with each other and the College. There was a total of 224 at the dinner, which included guests, Fellows and other College members. We are looking forward to welcoming back the 1999s–2002s in July 2013, and everyone who joined the College between 1960 and 1970 in July 2014.The latter should be an exceptional event! We were sorry to cancel the Garden Party and Family Day again this year, but we’re hoping to re-energise this event under the auspices of the Association in July 2013. If you would like to help organise or to get involved with this event, please let us know at Churchill.Association@chu.cam.ac.uk. We have now begun to establish the first Churchill National and Regional Groups around the globe with the help of a number of keen volunteers. If you would like to help establish a group where you live, or just get involved, please email nationalandregionalgroups@churchillians.net. I’ll report more on this in the next issue of the Review. And don’t forget to:

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• Visit Churchillians.net and create your very own email for life • Join our group and like our page on Facebook, follow us on Twitter, join our group and like our page on LinkedIn, read our blog on Tumblr, find us on Pinterest, view our photos on Flickr, find us on Google+, and find our channel on YouTube • Join the E-Bulletin mailing list by completing the form found on www.churchillians.net We look forward to seeing you again in College in the coming year! James Adamcheski-Halson Alumni Relations Manager

Name a chair at Churchill For the last fifty years, the iconic architecture of Churchill College’s dining hall has been complemented by the tables and chairs famously designed by distinguished furniture designer Robin Day (1915-2010). These chairs, familiar to so many of you, have withstood lots of wear and tear over the years and, as the originals have failed, more chairs have been made or repaired. However, the cost of a professional repair is almost half the cost of buying a new chair.The chairs are now becoming non-repairable, owing to some of the details of the original design and the materials used, so the College has invested in 350 new chairs for the Churchill Hall.

You can “take your place” in the Churchill College Hall by naming a chair. For a donation of £400, you can help us fund the replacement of a chair and incorporate a dedication of your choice on an engraved brass disc in the back of the chair. Donors to this appeal will also be invited to “take a seat” on the new chairs at a special thank-you dinner. If you would like to participate in our “Name a chair” appeal, please contact Hilary at development@chu.cam.ac.uk.

In order to maintain the strong tradition of quality and contemporary design Churchill College commissioned the renowned British furniture designer and manufacturer Luke Hughes (www.lukehughes.co.uk) to design a new chair, in homage to Robin Day’s original design, that will complement the surroundings of Churchill’s Hall and most importantly will provide a comfortable seat for diners over the next fifty years.

Jim Platts (U63) writes: “For those of us who were undergraduates in Churchill College while the College buildings were being built, the first formal dinner in the new dining hall was a special occasion in which the chairs played an important part. We all stood behind our chairs for grace, and then, in unison, pulled our chairs back to sit down. To a man – there were no women undergraduates – we instantly recognised that, since the chairs were as wide as the places, no one could sit down. So, gentlemen to a man, every one of us

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simultaneously stepped back a further pace, pulling our chairs back to let our neighbour sit down. But in doing so, every one of us bumped into our friends behind us doing exactly the same thing.The hall rang with peals of laughter and we all proceeded to sit down. A tradition – of joy as well as solemnity in Churchill College Hall – had begun.”

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“We’ve had everything from broken boats to broken bones; from the river being frozen over to sunburn as pink as our lycra.”

JCR Report 2011-12 President: David Neal What a year. Perhaps this is the default response at the end of every year when the JCR President of the day is asked to glance over his shoulder and reflect upon the year just gone, stretching into the foggy distance of memory. However, I suspect this year has been a full one even by Cambridge standards. For me, the depth and importance of the friendships formed within the JCR is what has really shone through the year: celebrating the highs together and strengthening each other in the lows. I was elected President of the JCR towards the end of Michaelmas term 2011, having previously represented the JCR as Men’s Welfare Officer. I was fortunate to arrive into a situation in which most things were already running relatively smoothly, thanks to the work of Matt Boardman, the previous President. Others in college to whom I am indebted for having made my life (on the whole!) easier this year are Hilary Costello, the MCR President, all the College staff (in particular Shelley Surtees, our Domestic and Conference Bursar), Richard Partington, Senior Tutor, and Jennifer Brook, the Bursar. The porters, led by Simon Orr, have also provided invaluable help on many occasions. Finally our sponsors, PwC, have provided the means to make many of the ideas of the JCR committee become realities. So, on to a quick tour through those highs and lows I mentioned. We had a fantastic week of events to welcome in the Freshers, added to by glorious weather. A great start to the year. As Men’s Welfare Officer at the time, I was running around organising and managing things, along with Laura and Katie, Women’s Welfare Officers. Although it was exhausting, the hard work was definitely worth it and I felt privileged to have had the chance to do it. I’m sure the GODS report (Churchill’s drama society) will mention this, but we’ve also had a fantastic year for acting in Churchill. Currently, we are treated

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to spectacular “Improv” shows about twice a term. This started as “Improv in the Bar”, but graduated to “Improv in the Wolfson” because the audience grew too big to fit in the bar! If you wonder what they’re like, check out Whose Line Is It Anyway? but imagine students doing it. We also put on the regular JCR pantomime (see below), a joint Hill Colleges production of Rumours and many other fantastic events. It’s really nice to see a Churchill society grow so much, so quickly. There have also been the lows. Since the last edition of the Review, the JCR has suffered the devastating and untimely loss of two of its members: Terrence Phang Ying Choy in September 2011 and Calum Burt on New Year’s Day 2012. I would like to take this opportunity to again pay tribute to both of them. Both were memorialised in moving ceremonies, in which the strength of the JCR was overwhelming, as everyone supported each other through these events.

KEY FACTS JCR Charities 2011-2012 Oxfam in East Africa and INEPAS (Instituto de Español y Participación en Ayuda Social) in Guatemala. JCR Pantomime 2011 The Portergate Scandal, performed on one night only to a packed Wolfson Hall, raised over £700 for our charities. Officers and Representatives of the JCR 2011-2012 President: David Neal Deputy President: Krishan Bhasin Academic Affairs: Jenny Payne

Despite significant trials at times this year, the JCR have come through to the other side, about as strong as ever.The final high of the year – May Week, which from a JCR point of view means the annual JCR Garden Party – was the usual combination of exhaustion and euphoria. The Garden Party was a fantastic success, with a higher turn-out than in many previous years. It was fortunate enough to fall on the nicest summer day, and the unique mix of bouncy castle and inflatables, Churchill Jazz Band, Improv, food, drink and most importantly friendship (or should that be sunshine?) got everyone smiling.

Access: Alistair White Communications: Steve Kinnersley Computing: Sebastian Funk Equipment and Societies: Owen Mitchell Entertainments: Robbie Aird Environment and Ethics: Alice Harpole External: Krishan Bhasin International: Sarah van der Wal

So I hope that does some justice to the year the JCR have had and I hope you enjoyed hearing about it. As a JCR we’re also always keen to hear from any alumni of the college about what they’re up to. It’s always really nice when groups of alumni come back to Churchill to put on careers events for current students, and we’ve already got some events lined up for next year. So if there is anything you fancy coming to Churchill to get involved in – perhaps a society you’d like to help with or an event you’d like to put on or attend – please do get in touch (jcr-president@chu.cam.ac.uk). Any and all suggestions are welcome because really, it’s just nice to have people back and see what life might hold for us once we leave – whatever you come back for. As a JCR I suspect we will always provide fun, friendship, exhaustion and a feeling of reward to all those around us.

LGBT: Tamas Kispeter

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Men’s Welfare: Kyle Lam Secretary: Laura Cairns Treasurer: Giulia Fabritius Women’s Welfare: Ellie Sweet and Vitto Fallanca Winston Editors: Danny Wood and Laura Gilbert

MCR Report 2011-2012 President: Hilary Costello Having taken up my position as MCR President in February 2012, I am delighted to give a brief report on the current MCR – it is an easy report to write, as this has been an exciting year with lots of involvement from within the Churchill community. The MCR committee has worked hard running many events – be they academic, athletic or social. Academic seminars have continued over the past year, and we have adopted a recent (and potentially terrifying) innovation, “powerpoint karaoke”, as a new termly event. These powerpoint karaoke evenings consist of an MCR member giving a presentation on a series of light-hearted slides created by another MCR member. The catch is, the presenter has never seen the slides before. This event leads to an evening of laughs along with the opportunity to develop one’s presentation and improvisation skills. On a more serious academic note, the Conference on Everything took place on May 5th and was a great success. The Conference provides a formal opportunity for students to present their work by means of a presentation or poster. The occasion was followed by the Advanced Students’ Dinner, a further great opportunity to discuss the presented work and generally mingle over delicious food and drink. Churchill MCR members have also proved themselves in athletics over the past year. Churchill College is very proud of Stacie Powell, both an Olympic diver and Churchill College Astrophysics PhD student. All of Churchill College was eagerly cheering Stacie on as she competed in the London 2012 Olympics! [Editor’s note: Stacey did very well, in the end just missing a place in the semi-finals.]

It has been a great year thus far and I am excited to continue as MCR president with such an active and supportive committee. I have to thank all the Committee members, who have done a remarkable job running the MCR and helping to form an inclusive, supportive, active and simply fun environment. The MCR is a place which serves many functions – it can provide a welcome break from studying, it can be a place to discuss ideas and learn from enthusiastic people, it is a place where long-lasting friendships are formed – and, I must say, I am both proud and thankful to be part of such a great community.

Clubs and Societies Boat Club Kathryn Wood (Captain) There’s no denying it’s been a challenging year for CCBC.We’ve had everything from broken boats to broken bones; from the river being frozen over to sunburn as pink as our lycra; capsize drills; and of course, the highs and lows of the Bumps.

Social activities are still running strong in the Churchill MCR, and this year saw high participation from MCR members. Guest Nights are a highlight during the term and allow members to invite students from other colleges to come and experience Churchill hospitality. The evening consists of good food, drink, live music, silent disco, casino and more. The themes this year included “Dead Famous”, “Art” and “Childhood Nostalgia”, so Churchill College saw costumes ranging from famous Cambridge scientists to Renaissance paintings and even Disney characters.

The Club had a great training camp at Molesey Boat Club on the Thames once again.World-class coaching from Peter Wells and Olivier Laplanche kept us busy in the daytime and the evenings were never dull – particularly with the new “Come Dine With CCBC” format ensuring fine cuisine as crews competed to outdo one another! Our men’s first crew achieved success in their off-Cam foray to Peterborough, coming away with pots from a tense final sprint against Nottingham City in the IM3 Eights division. It’s not all been hard work, as the social side of the club has been just as enjoyable as the racing, with another Boathouse Formal with our neighbours – King’s and Selwyn – as well as the alumni race and dinner, and of course the termly Boat Club Dinners in College.

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The imminent arrival of the new plastic ladies IV+ is just one example of how CCBC is looking forward, and with the ongoing support of our alumni, coaches, boatmen, supporters and students I’m sure the club will continue to progress in the right direction.

Churchill Casino Nick Schweitzer (Head Manager) As Hockey Captain this year, I was asked to write a short article on our recent success, which saw the men’s team narrowly miss promotion to the First Division on goal difference and saw the women’s team also safely secure their place in the League. However, as Head Manager of another College-based organisation, I thought I would multi-task, and take this opportunity to tell you about an exciting venture that has increasingly involved Churchill students over the previous twenty years. That is Churchill Casino. For those who don’t know, Churchill Casino provides different casino games – such as roulette, blackjack, poker, craps and even Baccarat (James Bond’s favourite game) – to a whole range of events in Cambridge and across the country, whether they are JCRs, MCRs, University societies, corporate events or May Balls (even the odd Oxford Trinity Term Ball!). In May Week this year we were employed at seventeen Cambridge May Balls and Events, and on the Monday we set a Churchill Casino record for the largest-ever number of Churchill students involved with the Casino in one evening: a total of sixty-six croupiers across four May Balls! Despite the logistical nightmare that this entailed, the evening managed to go without too many hiccups. The future for Churchill Casino looks very good, and we owe this success to all the croupiers. Without the enthusiasm and sense of fun that they bring to every event, Churchill Casino would not be this popular. After all, as it is not for real money, it is all about everyone having fun – and with the added bonus that no one escalates their student debt.

The mini-casino drinks reception: Alison Finch, Acting Master, asks for investment advice, observed by her student Jennie Dunne (U08, Modern Languages) words: “We were very impressed with the Churchill Casino.You were punctual, well presented, polite and professional, and it was a pleasure to have the Casino at our Christmas party. Thank you for helping to make our party so special.” Over the years the purpose of the Casino has been clarified, and even though managers change each year there has been a consistency in attitude and team spirit that has helped it successfully develop. This year the Casino has had a complete face-lift with a new website, business cards, flyers and even social media, giving it a much more distinctive look. This has resulted in a recognition that the casino at every event across Cambridge is Churchill Casino.

The most notable event from this year was providing a casino for the Clifford Chance Christmas Party in a club in Canary Wharf. The event was a great success, with both the event organiser and the club owner expressing themselves very keen to have Churchill Casino again. In Clifford Chance’s

Churchill Casino is a not-for-profit organisation, and in the past all proceeds have gone towards significant support of the Churchill Spring Ball. However, due to the success of the Casino this year, on top of making our largest ever contribution to the Spring Ball we have also been able to donate £1000 to Cam-mind, a Cambridge-based charity that supports local people experiencing mental health problems.To make the donation, Churchill Casino hosted a minicasino drinks reception earlier this year in association with Churchill Conferences and Churchill Jazz Band.The Chairman of Cam-mind, Keith Evans, said: “We thoroughly enjoyed ourselves, with the bonus of receiving the cheque for £1000.”

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Football (men’s) Patrick Sadler (Captain) 2011/12 was very similar to the season which came before it for Churchill College Football Club. After a bright start in the League, showing good form in Michaelmas and winning four out of our first five games, we were second in the table over the Christmas break. We faded after conceding an injury-time equaliser to Queens’ in January, and won only one league game, away against Catz, in Lent Term. The final League record of nine matches, five wins, one draw and three defeats was respectable, and we finished fifth in the Second Division of the PwC College Leagues. Our best performances were once again saved for Cuppers, where we progressed to the semi-finals for the second season in a row. Home wins against ARU (2-0) and Magdalene (2-1) saw us through to the quarter-finals where we faced Homerton, who were top of Division One at the time, had four University players in their starting line-up, and would ultimately finish second. A fantastic backs-against-the-wall performance saw us, as huge underdogs, come out on top, 3-1, a result which certainly set us up for the annual Football Dinner that evening. It was a remarkable result, reminiscent of our victory over Trinity at the same stage last year, their first defeat for nearly two years.The semi-final was something of an anti-climax, with our Hill College rivals Fitzwilliam, inspired by the Blues captain in the centre of their midfield, beating us 4-0. While we were beaten by the better team on the day (and by the team that turned out the eventual Cuppers champions), converting a couple of missed chances in the first half meant things could have worked out differently. The second team finished seventh in Division 3 and were the third highest-ranked second team in the University behind Downing and Homerton (their first teams finishing as the top two in Division 1). Unfortunately the third team finished in the bottom two of Division 6, and have therefore been relegated for next year. CCFC continues to thrive and is the biggest sports club in college. The new captains are in place for 2012/13, and with the core of the club remaining for another year, the new intake of Freshers will hopefully keep the club going in the right direction.

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Football (women’s) Giulia Fabritius (Captain) This past football season was a very successful one, especially if we compare our achievements of Michaelmas Term with those of Lent. At the beginning we had difficulties harmonising our game, as the team was full of new members. Hence we lost the first couple of League matches, as well as the Cuppers match. However, as time passed training and team-bonding paid off and we managed to improve considerably. Thus we won all our League matches in Lent Term, finishing in the middle of the Second Division, and even had enough keen players to continue organising friendly matches with other colleges after the League ended. For the Plate we placed third, losing only to Newnham in the semi-finals – and Newnham had a much larger squad, being an all-women’s college. Overall, this past season was a lot of fun for all of us, and we are eager to continue next season where we left off, hopefully taking in more new members.

GODS Colin Rothwell (President) It has definitely been a successful year for GODS. Not only have we made a real and positive contribution to College life, but several of our members have made names for themselves in productions at the University level, including plays which have gone to Edinburgh, plays at the International Student Drama Festival, and even original pieces by current members. Our first production of the year was Neil Simon’s Rumours, a farce about a collection of upper-class couples who arrive at a dinner-party to find that the host has shot himself in the ear. This was a joint production with “Madhouse”, the Murray Edwards Drama Society, although I think I can say that GODS made up a majority of the cast and crew. It ran for two nights in Michaelmas Term in the Wolfson Hall and attracted favourable reviews. It even managed to make a small profit, no mean feat for a college production! Certainly, everybody involved in the production enjoyed themselves, and that’s the really important thing, right? Our next production was the JCR Committee Pantomime. Whilst the cast was made up of JCR Committee members, the crew were all GODS members. Danny

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Wood, the author and current GODS member, deserves a special mention for taking the greatest political scandal of our time, Watergate, transplanting it into Churchill, and turning it into a pantomime. He titled it The Portergate Scandal, obviously. Despite the slight drawback that a decent proportion of the cast would much rather have been in the audience, Portergate was a great success, nearly filling the Wolfson Hall, and raising over £500 for the JCR charities. In Lent, we had the traditional GODS Freshers’ play, put on by a group of largely press-ganged Freshers.They chose to stage the very funny Arsenic and Old Lace. Whilst it couldn’t be called an unqualified success, the production provided a great deal of entertainment for those who went to see it, and most of the cast and crew did an admirable job: hopefully we’ll see more of them over the coming years! In Easter Term, all extra-curricular activities wound down due to exams. After we’d got exams out of the way, though, GODS were involved in the premiere production of John Kinsella’s Ecumenical, a specially commissioned piece in memory of the wife of our Senior Treasurer, Tim Cribb, which was an opportunity for the society to perform a piece of cutting-edge theatre. Throughout the year, GODS have also been very involved with comedy. After the success of last year’s Improv in the Bar, we performed improvised comedy again as part of this year’s freshers’ week programme. Having packed out the bar, we started putting on performances two or three times a term in the Wolfson Hall. On top of this, we were granted a slot at Churchill’s Spring Ball, undoubtedly the premier event on the Churchill social calendar, and netted the society the impressive fee of £20! The year was rounded off by a successful performance at the Churchill Garden Party, as most of the attendees tore themselves away from the various other attractions to come and watch us perform. To support burgeoning improv credentials, we have been running friendly improvised comedy workshops throughout the year, adding to our troupe a number of talented freshers to augment our jaded old hands. We have also come up with a number of vulgar acronyms for ourselves, the politest of which is “GODS Improv Troupe Society”.

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Leaving us at the end of the year are many familiar faces, notably Mick Campbell, my predecessor as President.Throughout his time at Cambridge, Mick has been in a large number of critically acclaimed productions, appeared in numerous Footlights smokers, including a jaunt to the Leeds Comedy Festival, and been a real mainstay of the Improv Troupe. It’s difficult to know how we’ll cope without him! Next year, he plans to audition for acting school in London, and we wish him the best of luck. And just to finish off, I don’t suppose there are any alums who know what GODS actually stands for? Or if it doesn’t stand for anything, what the story is behind it? Please contact me if you do! The best we’ve come up with is Ghurchill cOllege Drama Society, so we could do with some help!

Lawn Tennis Frederik Floether (Captain) The Churchill College Lawn Tennis Club began the 2011/12 season optimistically due to an influx of new talent. Underestimated by most other colleges, the team cruised through the Cuppers stages and made the final against Downing, which had managed to recruit the university’s best player from Wolfson College. Before the final, Churchill captain Frederik Floether commented for the student newspaper The Tab (with a wink and just a tiny hint of understatement):“We are facing a juggernaut in Downing, who routed our second team 8-1 in the first round. Spearheaded by their Big Three of Cozzy, Rob, and Pierre, and also known as the ‘Cambridge Heat’, the mere sight of them makes teams shiver. As such, we can have only one realistic goal: To show we belong in Churchill’s first team by winning at least one more match than our second team did.” The final was the expected nerve-racking affair. After more than four hours of play, it came down to a winner-take-all championship tie-break for number 5, Donald Slater. Despite home-court advantage, his opponent proved a tad too strong, and Downing won 5-4. Although Donald will depart Cambridge this summer, all other first-team players will return, raring to take the final step next year. A big thank-you must go to everyone who played for the club’s two teams this year, in particular the people who brought Churchill so close to Cuppers glory (listed in the same order as in the picture, left to right):

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Jonas Tinius, Evan Griffiths, Donald Slater, Frederik Floether (Captain), Alastair Kwan, Freddie Green, Jamie Tittle, Kamran Tajbakhsh (not shown)

commitment, for improvement, and to a newcomer to the Club; these awards were given to, respectively, Alan Cruickshank (who as a graduating engineer has served the club for four years), Katy Stevens and Nick Schweitzer. Next academic year, the club will have the advantage of two new captains: Jan Freyberg for the mixed team and Sophie Stowell for the ladies’.

Rugby Alistair White (Captain)

Netball (mixed and ladies’) Lora Binz (Captain) Churchill College Netball Club ends the academic year extremely successfully, with well-deserved promotions for both mixed and ladies’ teams. The mixed team finished the year at the top of Division Two and are thus promoted to Division One, whereas the ladies finished in second place in Division Three and, as a consequence, will progress to Division Two next academic year. In recent years, the ladies’ team has suffered due to a lack of numbers, considered to be partly due to the College’s sex ratio; however, this year the Netball Club has benefitted from numerous enthusiastic female fresher recruits playing alongside some netball old-timers. At the end of this academic year, Will Hawkins was awarded “Mixed Players’ Player” for his unrelenting devotion to and eagerness for netball, an example of which includes playing (and winning) a match despite having a sizeable hole in his trainer. “Ladies Players’ Player” was awarded to Franie Ng whose (lack of) height has not prevented her from finishing the year with near-perfect shooting credentials. As Captain, I issued awards for

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Churchill’s return to Division Two began on a high, with a dramatic 11-10 victory over Trinity College.The win was secured in the most unusual of circumstances, a last-minute charged-down conversion coming to Churchill’s rescue and leaving the Trinity fly-half rather red-faced. Unfortunately, injuries and academic commitments soon began to take their toll. Under-strength Churchill sides struggled against impressive teams from Homerton, Pembroke and Trinity Hall. There were positive spells in our League campaign, but dominant displays against Magdalene College proved insufficient to avoid relegation. With Cuppers came the opportunity for redemption, but a first-round exit to Fitzwilliam put paid to our lofty ambitions. Fortunately, our subsequent entry into the Cuppers Plate Competition coincided with a rich vein of form. Christ’s and Trinity were dismissed effortlessly as Churchill paved the way to the final against Selwyn on Grange Road. However, a complete and clinical Selwyn team capitalised on Churchill’s occasional mistakes, always remaining just out of reach. One of the most notable moments of the match came in the thirteenth minute, as a famously tackle-shy team member (who shall remain nameless, but he knows who he is) made his first tackle of the season. As we look forward, optimism is widespread. With only a handful of players graduating this year, Churchill look poised to dominate Division Three on our return in October 2012.

Ultimate Frisbee Jonathan Slaughter (Captain) Churchill Ultimate Frisbee had another successful year, with two teams for all three terms. This was partly due to the large number of freshers starting this year with great enthusiasm. We managed to finish eighth in Michaelmas Term,

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fourth in Lent and third in Easter. We also won the Spirit Prize for Michaelmas Term (a prize awarded by the opposition teams to the team that showed the best sportsmanship and spirit throughout the term).And the club had six people who represented Strange Blue, the University team, playing in regional, national and Varsity matches.

The MCR Photo Competition In Michaelmas Term 2011, the MCR held a photo competition. The theme for the competition was “Churchill”, to be interpreted flexibly – the College, the man, trips to Blenheim or Chartwell...The first prize was a Digital Photo Frame + £40; the second, a Digital Photo Frame + £30; the third, £20. We reproduce here the three winning photos.

Churchill Blues, Half-Blues and Club Colours, 2011-12 [All entries also on MCR website: http://mcr.chu.cam.ac.uk/?page_id=526] Athletics Club

Ayo Adeyimi

Club Colours

Netball Club

Georgia Archer-Clowes

Club Colours

Athletics Club

Matt Leach

Club Colours

Hare and Hounds

Matt Leach

Club Colours

Small Bore Club

Max Kerney

Club Colours

Women’s Lacrosse Club

Alana Livesey

Full Blue

Hockey Club

Charles Hardy

Full Blue

Amateur Boxing Club

Chris Kelly

Full Blue

Women’s Basketball Club

Hilary Costello

Full Blue

Cricket Club

Paddy Sadler

Full Blue

Powerlifting Club

Adam Comer

Half Blue

Athletics Club

David Szabo

Half Blue

Rugby Fives Club

Elliott Malone

Half Blue

Hare and Hounds

Mairead Rocke

Half Blue

Orienteering Club

Mairead Rocke

Half Blue

Swimming & Waterpolo Club (water polo)

Mike Gormally

Half Blue

Rugby Fives Club

Thomas Chase

Half Blue

Table Tennis Club

Yuting Wu

Half Blue

First Prize: Marco Lam, Planet Churchill

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Third Prize: Katie King, Frost

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“Churchill stands out for having men and women who perform very strongly and equally well in Tripos.”

The Fortieth Anniversary of the Admission of Women Churchill’s Gold Medal As most readers of this publication will know, I was one of the first three female Fellows, arriving in 1972 at the same time as the first cohort of female undergraduates. The College had jumped the gun in the matter of Fellows and had already admitted Professor Daphne Osborne (Plant Sciences) in 1971; so she was the very first woman Fellow of the College. (Daphne sadly died in 2006.) Dr Pat Wright (Psychology) joined Churchill with me in 1972, bringing the grand total to three. As readers will again know, Churchill had been the first of all the Oxbridge men’s colleges to take the crucial vote to admit women, followed soon after by Clare and King’s – but Churchill does have that “Gold Medal” distinction. In this Review, we mark the fortieth anniversary by publishing an interview with Professor Carol Robinson, the College’s first female Fellow of the Royal Society. The College elected Carol to an Honorary Fellowship earlier this year. By a happy coincidence, in 2012 three other distinctions were bestowed on distinguished Churchill College women. In the Queen’s Birthday Honours announced in June 2012, Professor Mary Jacobus, a Fellow until her retirement in 2011, was given a CBE for services to literary scholarship, and current Fellows Professor Julia King and Professor Janet Thornton were also honoured, Julia becoming a DBE for services to Higher Education and Technology and Janet becoming a DBE for services to Bioinformatics. On 7 July 2012, we held a Reunion Dinner for those who joined the College between 1971 and 1975; you’ll have seen from the photos in the College ebulletin of 19 July how many women came back for that. Congratulations, classes of 72 to 75! You were pioneers. And in the academic year 2012-13, there will be further celebrations held jointly with Clare, King’s and Lucy Cavendish. (See the Alumni Relations Report, above, and In the Back, below.)

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So how are we doing now? The Senior Tutor, Richard Partington, writes: “In most years we are around 65:35 male to female on the undergraduate side. We’d love to admit more women but our situation is largely a product of our taking by statute 70% of our students in Engineering, Mathematics, Science and Technology subjects, in which male applicants still predominate in university admissions. On the issue of the impact on the College, our women students are highly visible and active in our community, and so the social impression most people have of gender balance in Churchill is rather more even than the numbers suggest it ought to be. Alumni might be interested to know that the University has recently examined gender-related academic performance across subjects and Colleges, and that Churchill stands out for having men and women who perform very strongly and equally well in Tripos.We were asked how we thought this reassuring balance had come about, and our thoughts were that it probably derived from our data-driven approach to admissions, in which academic merit, as witnessed by achieved results in public examinations, was prioritised; from our sustained and successful attempts to recruit female academic colleagues as Fellows; from our strong tutorial provision; and from attentive and effective direction of studies – which includes the pro-active deployment of specialist study-skills support. But these things are complex and obviously multi-factorial, and other issues could be at play.” On the graduate side, a snapshot figure in August 2012 showed 217 men to 130 women. As for Fellows, Churchill currently has twenty-four female Fellows out of the total of ninety-nine in our main pre-retirement categories (Teaching, Research, Professorial, “Extraordinary”, Supernumerary). It’s been particularly heartening to see the number of female scientists who have joined us over the years; the 70% statutory requirement in itself was no guarantee that we would attract so many distinguished women scientists, whether as overseas visiting researchers or as long-term Fellows. And last year we pulled off a hat-trick. Churchill elects five Junior Research Fellows a year, and in 2011 three of the five were young female researchers, the first time women had emerged as a majority from this fiercely competitive process.

Reunion Dinner, classes of 71-75 papers are being digitised in collaboration with the Wellcome Trust; many believe that her contribution to the discovery of DNA awaits full acknowledgement.) Churchill has had a female Vice-Master and Acting Master (myself), and has a female Bursar (Jennifer Brook) – not yet a female Head of House. But that things have changed is undeniable. Looking round me at lunch, or at Governing Body meetings, I feel Churchill is unrecognisable now compared to what it was forty years ago, and I’m still proud to belong to this “gold-medallist” College. Alison Finch Editor

The story isn’t all triumphalist. Twenty-four is quite a bit better than three, but still a clear minority; we have to be constantly aware that there remains a general tendency to underrate women’s research by comparison with men’s, as various “blind-trial” studies have shown. (The report of the Director of the Archives Centre, above in The College Year, reminds us of Rosalind Franklin, whose

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A Career in Chemistry: Professor Carol Robinson Carol Robinson is the first female Professor of Chemistry at the University of Oxford and was previously the first female Professor of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge. She is renowned for pioneering the use of mass spectrometry as an analytical tool and for her ground-breaking research into the 3D structure of proteins. She is a Royal Society Research Professor and Doctor Lee’s Professor at the University of Oxford. Carol was a graduate student at Churchill College from 1980 -1982, completing her PhD in two years. Following an eight-year career break to begin raising her three children, she returned to research at Oxford, later becoming a titular professor in 1995. In 2001 she returned to Cambridge to continue her research into mass spectrometry and was elected a Professorial Fellow at Churchill College, a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2004, and a Royal Society Research Professor in 2006. In 2009 she was elected Doctor Lee’s Professor at the University of Oxford, where she continues her research today. This interview charts the milestones in Carol’s career from teenager “with a crush” to the Dr Lee’s Professorship of Chemistry.

As a lab technician at Pfizer – age 16

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Q. Carol, when did you first realise you liked chemistry? I’m not sure this is the answer I should give: I had a crush on the chemistry teacher, he was the only male in the whole school and I really wanted to impress him by being good at chemistry… but then I decided I actually really liked the subject! Q. When you left school, did you try to work in science and particularly chemistry? I did, because I so much enjoyed chemistry and wanted to make my career in it. I remember sitting in my bedroom thinking I’d solved a particular problem, only to be told that was way too complicated and to give back what was asked for in the exams – I found it very frustrating and really wanted to show I could understand a problem. Q.You took a job in Pfizer when you were sixteen – what did that involve? I was a “Gas Liquid Chromatographer”. I remember thinking “That’s a really great title, wonder what that involves,” but I soon found out it wasn’t that interesting at all! I did a rotation around all the different laboratories, ending up in mass spectrometry... and that was the one I loved. Q. You were encouraged at Pfizer to study while you worked. What did you study? I enrolled in the local college to do an ONC (Ordinary National Certificate), followed two years later by an HNC (Higher National Certificate), and finally became a Graduate of the Royal Society of Chemistry – the whole thing lasted seven years. Q. How did you find working in a full-time job and studying at the same time? It was a long haul: you’ve done a day’s work, you get on the bus and do some more. I remember thinking sometimes: “I’m working all my life, this isn’t right, there should be more to life – I’m young!”

you were on, and I think that’s what really got to me: I was interpreting all this quite complicated data and then a new graduate would be brought in, whom I would train, and he would be on a salary above me! Q. You must have had much more practical experience than a “traditional” undergraduate – did this help in your studies? Yes, this was one of the reasons I was able to get to Cambridge, because my supervisor at the time recognised that I was a different type of student and I had all this wealth of experience that he could employ. I often take students like that now. Q. Do you feel there is any difference between the Graduate of the Royal Society of Chemistry qualification and a traditional degree? Different styles of learning often yield a different approach to your science. Because there weren’t many lectures, I had to find out a lot of stuff on my own, so I started to imagine what would happen in different situations. Now people say to me: “Oh, your work’s very imaginative, how did you ever think to do that?” I think imagination is something you can’t teach. Q. Following four years of postgraduate studies you had your first child – the start of an eight-year career break. Did you do any science in those years? I taught at the Open University: A-levels, Meat Technology (!) and Hairdressing Science. I used to take in all these good experiments I’d devised at home with the children’s toys, shining lights on them to see how the colours in the hair would change and absorb light, but all my hairdressing students were interested in was painting their nails! Q. Did you worry you might not get back into science? It was always a possibility, but I wanted to be a mother and would fit whatever science I could around that. I thought:“If I don’t get back in I’ll just do something else.” I wasn’t prepared to sacrifice my life and children for this quest for science.

Q. Were you promoted from your post as technician as you gained qualifications?

Q. How did you get back into science?

No, in those days you either came in as a graduate or you stayed at the level

I was reading New Scientist in the library while my children listened to “Storytime”.There was a job in mass spectrometry at Oxford University, and I

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thought “I can do that!” I was interviewed against current PhDs and then we were taken for lunch to discuss the research proposal. I thought: “Right, I’m going to make an impression here, good or bad.” Afterwards, I didn’t get a letter for a while and really thought I’d blown it! Q. How much had mass spectrometry moved on by the time you returned? It was a whole new era. From small molecules like aspirin we could now do whole proteins and nucleic acids – it was an amazing breakthrough that happened while I was out of the field. These were now exciting times to be in mass spectrometry. Q. Did you ever have any doubts that you would “make the grade”? Oh, always! I spent most of the time thinking “I’m not really good enough, I don’t know enough or I haven’t quite got the right background,” especially when I was younger. As I’ve got older I’ve thought “Well this is me, I don’t know everything but I know quite a bit about this and not so much about that,” and I think you have to look at yourself like that. Q. If you were sixteen again, would you do things differently? I don’t think I would have stayed on at school because it wasn’t really a great school. The route I took was probably the right one for me, but I can’t be sure because I haven’t done the other route – but I don’t often have many regrets.

to ask what had become of that film they had helped to make. Archivist Natalie Adams identified the item, now fragile, and, with generous donations from alumni, has had it digitised for posterity. Made between 1962 and 1964, when the College’s central buildings were under construction, the film was directed by Andrew Sinclair, the first Fellow in History and future professional film-maker. Sinclair was a celebrity while still an undergraduate, publishing his hip novels My Friend Judas and The Breaking of Bumbo in 1959. An historian of Prohibition America, he did not long remain in academe, turning instead to a career as writer and film producer. His signal achievement was Under Milk Wood (1972), starring Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor. He tells stories of his time at Churchill in his autobiographical In Love and Anger: A View of the Sixties (1994). The new-found film touches on the social life of early students. It is a world away: before the great cultural revolution of the later 1960s.Ties, tweed jackets, and tank tops are much in view; albeit also the sharp narrow lines of the early Beatles era (and beehive hair for the only girl in sight). At night in town, the young gentlemen must still wear gowns. Croquet was an early hit, and sport was king.The College conducted its life at the west end of the site, the facilities pro tem in the Sheppard Flats and adjacent Nissen huts, with cramped dinner under Winston’s gaze. There are glimpses of Fellows at a garden party laid on by the Master, Sir John Cockcroft, and Lady Cockcroft: including John Morrison, George Steiner, and Sinclair, as well as the architect Richard Sheppard. In another scene we see a crisply dynamic first Bursar, Major-General Jack Hamilton. Aficionados will enjoy the arresting editing, such as the cut from a student dealing a pack of cards to a porter sorting the morning mail.

A twenty-minute film about the building of Churchill College, lost for a generation, has come to light, and it is a gem – a must-see. The reel had languished, unidentified, in the College archive, until several early alumni began

But what is remarkable about the film is that it chose not to linger on students and Fellows, but on the men who, literally and physically, built the College. It is a film about buildings coming into being, emerging from the mud of the Gault clay. It dwells fondly on forests of scaffolding; it renders the gloop of wet concrete truly palpable, and reminds us of the ambitious grandeur of the great dining hall. It implicitly reproaches us for citing a building’s architect without mentioning the contractors, for it was the old Cambridge firm Rattee and Kett which made Churchill – and so well. What comes home to the viewer is that, for all its modernist design, the construction of Churchill relied on traditional

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and relentless craftsmanship on site. Almost nothing was factory prefabricated. The project soaked up labour from miles around, and we see workmen being bussed to the site.This was, moreover, the era before electric power tools; and before “health and safety”: an age still of flat caps not hard hats. Soon the suspicion grows that the film is less about architecture and construction and more about the nobility of labour. It owes a debt to Socialist Realism. If the students are given a memorable sound-track of contemporary jazz, the workers labour to the heroic chords of Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony. Mark Goldie

both exhibit strong qualities of control and focus over their materials, and above and beyond all else, a purposeful originality. Barry and I were interested in the visual aspects of both in quite different ways – in the layout and textuality of Sophie Seita’s work, and the visual associations drawn in Kate Crowcroft’s. In a short-list that carried some extremely strong poems – often innovative and always committed in what they were doing – the two winners stood out because of the intense relationship between sound and sight they engendered. Whether in witty wordplay and twists of meaning (and détournement) in Sophie’s poem/s, or an intense sense of transferring the deeply-felt personal into an almost mythical register in Kate’s, it’s the commitment to purpose that so matters. Both poets are as accomplished in their purpose and their practice, and both deserve equal acknowledgement. It is heartening to experience the depth of poetic activity in the university, and to know these poets will speak to the greater public for many years to come.”

The John Kinsella and Tracy Ryan Prizes On Tuesday 19 June 2012, in the Master’s Lodge at Churchill, the Master presented the John Kinsella and Tracy Ryan Prizes to this year’s winners.The renowned poet John Kinsella is a Title E Fellow of Churchill, and his wife Tracy Ryan is also a writer of distinction. It has been the College’s pleasure to have them staying with us for a large part of the academic year 2011-12, which meant also that John was able to be present at the Prize Ceremony. The Poetry Prize is awarded for an original verse composition in any form of not more than 500 lines, and “The Other Prize” is awarded for an original, unperformed play; both prizes are open to those in statu pupillari in the University of Cambridge. (See Review 2011 for a fuller description.) Prizes were won this year by Miss Sophie Seita (£250), Miss Kathryn Crowcroft (£250) and Miss Isobel Cohen (£500). John Kinsella commented: “This is the first year I have actually been involved in the judging of the prize, and I found it an interesting and positive experience. Barry Phipps [Churchill’s Curator Fellow] and I drew up short-lists of six or seven, and in the end concluded that two poets deserved to share the poetry prize this year.The winning poems are very different in form and approach, but

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From left to right The Master Miss Isobel Cohen Miss Sophie Seita Miss Kathryn Crowcroft Professor John Kinsella

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Winner of “The Other Prize”, Downing College Joint winner of the Poetry Prize Joint winner of the Poetry Prize

The Wing Yip Reception A reception was held in the Master’s Lodge and Cockcroft Room in honour of Mr Wing Yip on 29 November 2011. Mr Wing Yip’s help in consolidating academic links with China is invaluable: he sponsors three scholars from Peking University and Tsinghua University to study at Churchill, and provides a travel fund to help students in the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies to visit China.

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Mr Henry H Y Yap, Mr Hao Zhang, Mr Xingchen Zhao, Mr W Wing Yip, Sir David Wallace, Miss Shanshan Du, Mr Xiaogang Tian

Sir David Wallace and Wing Yip Scholars 2011-12 (Mr Hao Zhang, Miss Shanshan Du, Mr Xingchen Zhao)

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“Come closer, take my hand, And we shall watch the universe expand.”

This section of the Review presents short pieces of both general and Churchillrelated interest. We publish here two contributions from Overseas Fellows: Bruce Sutherland, an expert in Earth and Atmospheric Sciences who was with us last year, and Gordon Fain, a polymath who, as well as working on mechanisms of sensory transduction in the photoreceptor of the eye, is a poet. He has kindly given us permission to reproduce a sonnet sequence composed in response to conversations with his younger son. (Gordon was here as an Overseas Fellow in 2008, and returns for visits; his son Tim Fain, a world-class violinist, gave a brilliant recital in Churchill on 28 May 2012. See From the Master, above.) Then two Churchill alumni write about their careers – Sally Angel (to whom University Challenge fans have cause to be grateful, as you’ll see), and Roger Todd, who writes about the complementarity of professional skills. There follows a fascinating article by Lady Boyd, wife of our former Master Sir John Boyd, on life in the legation quarter of Peking in the first half of the twentieth century. We have two pieces by staff: one from Paula Halson (Registrar, Human Resources Bursar and Staff By-Fellow), who describes how she decided to write a memoir of Sir Hermann Bondi, and her experience of actually writing it; and the second by Simon Orr (Head Porter until summer 2012, when he sadly left Churchill). Simon had been penning a series called Downton College for the student magazine Winston, featuring such characters as Lady Jennifer De Bursar. Here we reproduce one episode; readers left gasping for more may like to know that later developments included a plan by the College luminaries to take over Fitzwilliam College. Finally, we have a gripping account from Mark Goldie of Wittgenstein’s last days at 76 Storey’s Way; and we close the section with photos of “Floral Churchill”, taken by our Maintenance Manager Gavin Bateman.

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From our Overseas Fellows Plumes in your coffee After three years as a Research Associate at the University of Cambridge, I was happy to arrive in 1997 at the University of Alberta, where I was hired by the Department of Mathematics as a theoretical and experimental fluid dynamicist. For a university in North America, it had an unusually strong group specialising in fluid dynamics in the Faculty of Science, and I was looking forward to working in this new vibrant environment. With such optimism I attended a welcoming luncheon. This was the first time I realised how little was known about fluid dynamics by researchers outside my discipline.To my right sat a senior physicist and to my left a computer scientist who, like myself, had just arrived at the university. After some smoked salmon, and perhaps steeled by a glass of white wine, the physicist somewhat sheepishly asked “Hasn’t fluid dynamics all been done?” He was referring to the fact that the equations describing the motion of fluids had been written down two centuries ago. To some physicists, coming up with the equation that describes a process effectively renders the problem solved.The rest is engineering. A broader definition of physics is that it intends to understand the world, or indeed the universe, through mathematical modelling guided and tested by observation and experimentation. By this measure, Fluid Dynamics lies far more in the realm of physics than Black Hole or String Theory. The reason so many physicists dismiss fluid dynamics from their discipline is that so few are taught it as undergraduates at university beyond the most simple introductory principles.This leads them to believe it is trivial, when in fact it is mathematically more challenging than introductory quantum mechanics or relativity. Unlike Schrödinger’s equation or Lorentz transformations, the fundamental formulae describing the motion of liquids and gases cannot be solved. They involve nonlinear terms – products of functions and their derivatives. It is these terms that describe such complex processes as smoke rising from a cigarette and ash clouds rising from an exploding volcano.

generation later Sir Osborne Reynolds established conditions under which flows in pipes become turbulent, and Lord Rayleigh developed insights into the onset of turbulent convection; guided by laboratory experiments of plumes rising from sudden heat release, Sir Geoffrey Taylor made a better prediction of the energy in an atomic explosion than the scientists at Los Alamos. The discipline continues to grow, with sophisticated computer- and laserassisted particle tracking methods giving ever more detailed measurements in laboratory experiments, and with the increasing speed and memory of computers modelling finer structures in large-scale flows. Indeed, it was with the development of computers in the 1960s that the atmospheric scientist Edward Lorenz discovered the “butterfly effect”, which led to the science of Chaos Theory. When I mentioned Lorenz at the luncheon, the computer scientist on my left piped up: “That’s right! Chaos Theory means that all the computational power in the world will not let you predict the weather.” And so the conversation turned from me explaining that Fluid Dynamics is not a trivial science to explaining why Fluid Dynamics is not a hopeless endeavour.Weather forecasters will never be able to predict the fall of every drop of rain. But they now predict with increasing accuracy the evolution of high and low pressure systems and sub-storms within them. Not predicting the tiniest scale does not mean you cannot predict the large scales. As another example, consider the case of an exploding volcano. It is indeed impossible to predict where every particle of ash will go once ejected from the crater. But theory, guided by laboratory experiments, can make predictions about the width of a plume as it rises and about how the average temperature changes with height.

Great advances in mathematics have been developed that render some problems solvable. Many of these fluid dynamicists hailed from Cambridge: in the mid-1800s Sir Gabriel Stokes worked out the structure and transport of water waves, and he predicted the rising speed of tiny bubbles in beer; a

I give this example in this article because understanding the lateral spreading ash in the stratosphere motivated some of the research I pursued while a Churchill Overseas Fellow in the spring of 2012. Particularly after the disruption to air traffic over much of Europe in the spring of 2010, there is renewed interest in understanding the processes associated with the ash cloud emanating from an exploding volcano. How high does it rise in the atmosphere? How fast does it spread in the stratosphere? Working with colleagues in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, I ran a series of laboratory experiments in which fluid was injected at a constant rate into stratified fluid, one whose density

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decreased with height. Separately I worked with Churchill Fellow Colm-cille Caulfield, employing a new mathematical technique to examine how the spreading ash might go unstable and spread as fingers, not as a smooth front.

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TO MY FATHER AND TO MY SON

Now back in Canada, when not poring over data I find myself wondering how it is that Physics largely abandoned Fluid Dynamics half-way through the last century. Nuclear power and transistor technology were enticing employment incentives. Though nanotechnology provides some draw, now the incentive for many to become a physicist is the philosophical pursuit of fundamental truths about the universe. Some justify their research at large public expense by claiming “Once you understand the minutiae, you understand everything.” But their endeavours will no sooner predict the density of water than they will give insight into volcanic explosions.

I What god in this great stellar mass could know The unpredestined compass of our fate, The ways of chance that meet and separate? Or who could alter laws of motion, so That one of us avoids some private grief? The solace we discover when we pray Comes not from practicalities, which may Or may not come to pass, but from relief That we are not alone. But we may be Mere accidents of matter recombined, A fortunate occurrence; we may find Among those pretexts for divinity No rationale to make one life cohere, No dialogue to mitigate our fear.

There are three states of matter – solid, liquid and gas. But the sad truth is that most physicists care about none of them. That physicists and the public are generally unaware of the importance of Fluid Dynamics in science is ultimately the fault of fluid dynamicists themselves.They have been too caught up in their research to take the time to impart beyond their milieu the beauty of fluids and the ongoing challenges and successes in understanding them. Perhaps I have made some progress if, in reading this article, you find yourself contemplating volcanic plumes the next time you pour cream into your coffee.

Bruce Sutherland Departments of Physics and of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Birth is fortuitous: from you and me Come chromosomes that cross and recombine To make a body, neither yours nor mine, A spirit born of serendipity. Death too is chance: one cell that pulls apart Begins the sudden urgency of pain That neither sin nor goodness can explain, Relentless to the stopping of the heart. How can it help to think a god would know? Better that birth and death be unforeseen, Our life the random interval between, As undetermined as the rapid flow Of turbulence across a mountain stream, A prelude to our last ecstatic dream.

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Is it from God that blessedness descends, Or does it come from our own rectitude? If God, then goodness is a favored mood To seek forgiveness and to make amends, And virtue is a gift to those who pray; But if from us, then we alone decide What rule to choose, how it must be applied, When to conform and when to disobey. Can mere unconsecrated law constrain The pull of passion, cowardice and need, When justice and integrity recede? We must ourselves discover how to gain The willingness to learn what we should be, A righteousness from our own sanctity.

Imagine the still heat of a summer’s day, And think of molecules that recombine To take an outward form resembling mine, Construed as matter but without decay. Oh Absolute, I know what you require: You offer ecstasy without regret, Immutable, unfading silhouette, But with the vacancy of spent desire. How can a perfect and unchanging kiss Convey the tenderness of my caress? This is a living body I possess, Whose unrestrained but episodic bliss Is soon to cease and not again to be; For when I die, my body dies with me.

You said that none of us can choose to do With certainty what he knows to be good, That what we shouldn’t do and what we should Comes from old precepts that we thought were true When God was still alive. If He is dead, Then we can follow where our instincts lead, And nothing can restrain our lust or greed But civil law. I, in reply, then said That we don’t need a deity to show Us how to live. No sacred spring or hill, No holy tablet tells us not to kill: We make these rules ourselves. If you would know How you can tell evil and good apart, Then I suggest you look into your heart.

When we are dead, our bodies come undone; Our atoms float as water in a brook, Reflect some other person’s passing look, And then disperse as vapor in the sun. Leaves fall, snow melts, new branches fill with green, The continents collide and we are there, A residue of carbon in the air, Too insubstantial to be heard or seen. Nothing that we create will ever stay. This earth, and all of life will disappear, The sun condensing to a pallid sphere; How can it matter what we do or say? Somehow it does. Come closer, take my hand, And we shall watch the universe expand. Gordon Fain Copyright Gordon Fain 2012

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My Career since Churchill

I became Channel Development Executive for BBC Broadcast and a Commissioner for BBC Choice (now BBC3). With more hours to fill, Digital TV demanded new approaches to everything and was a great place to experiment, and I was able to commission the Glastonbury Festival in its entirety for the first time on British TV.

In the Cauldron When I arrived at Churchill in 1979 there were three TV stations: BBC1, BBC2 and ITV. By the time I graduated in 1982, C4 was about to launch and Breakfast Television was less than a year away. Despite this and repeated applications to the BBC, I had not found a job and was grudgingly working as a freelance journalist. Fortunately, the Daily Mail sent me to write an article about the “mess” at the soon-to-be-launched TV-am. Somehow, instead of writing anything, I landed a job working with Michael Parkinson. TV-am was a cauldron of politics, personalities and power games, but it was a great place to be in the eighties. I worked in a bubble of PR and parties – producing fashion, music and Through The Keyhole, before going on to edit the daily live three-hour show, Good Morning Britain. Fortunately, after five years of overnights and early mornings, the BBC employed me on a new Saturday night entertainment series with Clive James. Aside from the bonus of the more conventional hours, Clive’s wit and passion for quality were a great antidote to the populism and daily grind of TV-am. More “serious” stuff beckoned and I spent the next seven years in BBC Arts, producing Omnibus, Arena and The Late Show. I also created several new series, including House Detectives and One Foot in the Past, giving Dan Cruickshank his first proper TV presenting job. For good or ill, I was also instrumental in reviving University Challenge. By the mid 90s the broadcasting landscape had undergone massive changes. Sky was launching more and more channels, and the BBC wanted to use its archive to bring quality into the mix. I joined the launch team for the BBC’s commercial channels, identifying Arts programmes for UK-Arena, positioning UK-Style and overseeing commissions between BBC Production and UK-TV. Then in 1998 came a seismic shift. Digital. It was TV – but not as we knew it.

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I left the BBC when I was headhunted to develop web and TV content for an international publisher, but soon realised that with two young sons, I wanted more of a “portfolio” existence. So I studied and qualified as a psychotherapist – a great Yin to the Yang of TV. At the same time, I set up a small media consultancy, working with broadcasters and advising organisations about their media and communications strategy. As my children grew up, I started producing TV series and corporate films again (including one for Churchill: the 50th Anniversary film Building the Future). My latest documentary has just been awarded the Spinetto International Prize for Human Ecology. I feel privileged to have been a witness and shaper of some of the media’s key technological, cultural and political changes. Thirty years on, there’s a channel for almost everyone, and thanks to the Internet we’re all producers and broadcasters now. Sally Angel (U79, Modern Languages)

Building Bridges 2012, this second year of a newly enlivened Review, feels like an apposite time to write my first piece for Churchill, since I used to attempt to enliven the JCR Committee Meeting Minutes throughout my tenure as Secretary in 1993/94 – whether to good effect or not, my contemporaries will have to say. Having pursued a pretty varied career since leaving College seventeen years ago, three distinct strands have now come together to form a coherent whole in my current calling, which I’ll describe towards the end of this article.To some extent I suppose I am also starting to fulfil one of the founding goals of the College: to build bridges between business and academia.

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So, winding back the clock: I left College in 1995, inspired by my Part II in Molecular Cell Biology to continue studying for a PhD. Based at the Institute of Child Health, just next door to Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital and under the aegis of University College London, I spent the next four years studying two specific regions of chromosome 7 thought to contain genes involved in certain childhood leukaemias. Despite the satisfaction of conducting my own research, the fact that I was contributing to the body of scientific knowledge and the sense that the project was particularly worthwhile, I was frustrated both by the lack of variety and dynamism and the hunch that far more could be achieved through better collaboration and teamwork.

seventeen years ago. I didn’t set out with this goal in mind, but it makes perfect sense to me now and my only wish is that I could have got here sooner.

So, seeking management skills and experience, I made the leap to the business world, first in the City with LloydsTSB and then, following a short break to look after my first child, with a small commercial landscaping firm in Kent.Two quite different experiences, challenging in their own ways, yet both emphasised for me once again the essential link between personal and interpersonal awareness and organisational performance; I realised that many business leaders are completely unaware of innate perceptions of work and modes of behaviour (their own and those of others) that could make the critical difference between success and failure.

A Dance with the Dragon: the Foreign Legation Quarter in Peking, 1900-1949

The second step-change in my career path then occurred in 2008 when I met my current business partner, Anthony Broadhead. An Oxford graduate with a long City career behind him, in 2001 Anthony had established Careerfoundations, a niche career and personal development consultancy. Sharing the view that there were aspects of organisational behaviour critical to performance that were not generally understood or managed, and that the expertise acquired at Careerfoundations could be applied to this problem, I immediately joined him. Developing my own skills and knowledge base at first, I soon began to apply my research expertise, starting with a small research project in another Cambridge college and graduating recently to a much larger one in the Cabinet Office. The focus now is on expanding this organisational behaviour research and consultancy work through a new business, Azure Research. So the three strands – scientific research, business and organisational behaviour – have come together, and I feel as excited about my career as I did

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Roger Todd (U92, Natural Sciences)

As a hobby historian, I was touched by Allen Packwood’s invitation to give a talk sponsored by the Archives Centre. My subject, Peking’s pre-war expatriate community 1860-1949, has been a delight to research, not least because of the quantity and variety of unpublished primary sources I have been able to track down. As it turned out, I discovered some of my most rewarding material in the Archives Centre among the papers of Sir Malcolm Robertson, Sir Alexander Cadogan and Sir Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen. Peking’s small band of foreigners, consisting of diplomats and drop-outs, intellectuals, artists, merry widows, Russian refugees, remittance men and the inevitable missionaries, always considered themselves superior to other expats in China – especially to the commercially driven “Shanghailanders”. But although they lived at the heart of a great and ancient civilization, in a city virtually untouched by the modern world, relatively few made any serious effort to understand either the country or its people. Most preferred to centre their lives on the legation quarter – a walled enclave close to the Forbidden City, guarded by foreign troops and where the only Chinese permitted to reside were the legions of servants (or “boys”) on whom the foreigners utterly depended. So while crucial events that were to shape China – the 1911 revolution, the civil war between North and South (most notably between Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Tse-tung), Japan’s relentless aggression, the incessant fighting among warlords and the rise of Communism – surged around the

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legation quarter, its inhabitants were more concerned with what to wear at the next fancy-dress party or catching up on the latest club gossip. In January 1920, when the surrounding countryside was in the grip of one of the worst famines ever to hit North China, the wife of the British military attaché wrote:“The Chinese out here work like old Harry for the English Christmas. Cook gave us a topside tiffin: cream soup (most delicious), fish soufflé, turkey stuffed with chestnuts, potatoes, steamed celery, bread, plum pudding blazing, and mince pies. Then two delicious cream puddings, savoury and dessert, coffee and liqueurs.We all felt stuffed.” Apart from a handful of ministers and Sinologists, most of the diplomats were under-employed. Sport (especially when it involved horses) and an unceasing round of parties filled their days. “I shall soon want new clothes,” a recently arrived wife complained,“one is out so much they don’t have a chance to rest! It’s nothing but a succession of lunches, afternoon dances, dinners and balls.” Yet, with memories of the 1900 Boxer uprising never far away, the foreigners also lived in constant fear that the Chinese might at any moment rise up again and murder them all in their beds. Contrary to expectations, this did not happen when the Empress Dowager died in 1908, or even (three years later) during the revolution. In fact it was not the Chinese but the First World War that ruptured life in the legation quarter. With friends and foes living cheek by jowl in an area of less than a square mile, the atmosphere was thick with rumour, suspicion and intrigue. “Peking has become a social hell,” lamented a Danish diplomat. “People who had fought together as brothers on the barricades in 1900 are now cutting each other in the streets.” In contrast, the post-war years were a delightful time for a foreigner in Peking. The city had modernised just enough to make it more comfortable but not so much that its traditions – stretching back a thousand years – had been eroded. Foreigners now increasingly chose to live outside the legation quarter in one of Peking’s elegant courtyard houses. Although differing greatly in size and status, these were all designed on the same pattern, their rooms arranged around a series of courtyards – filled with the scent of flowering shrubs and the music of caged song-birds. Furthermore, every detail of the foreigners’ lives – from mixing cocktails to exterminating bed bugs – was taken care of by a team of charmingly eccentric servants. And, as one diplomatic wife remarked, “The beauty of it was that it was all so wildly cheap.”

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After the First World War, a new group of foreigners arrived in Peking to work at a philanthropic enterprise funded by the Rockefeller Foundation, the Peking Union Medical College. Outwardly the PUMC looked like a traditional Chinese palace, but inside it was a state-of-the-art hospital modelled on the Johns Hopkins in Baltimore. The Foundation’s laudable aim was to teach Chinese doctors Western medicine so that, armed with the wonders of modern science, they might make some impact on China’s rampant disease and poverty. With money no object, the PUMC was able to recruit doctors of the highest calibre, including the Canadian professor of anatomy, Davidson Black. More interested, however, in palaeontology than anatomy, Black’s prime purpose in coming to China was to prove that the origins of homo sapiens were to be found not in Africa, as Darwin had believed, but in Asia. In 1929 he hit the jackpot when at Choukoudien, a small coal-mining town about forty miles south-west of Peking, a Chinese member of his team uncovered a human cranium, thought at the time to be 500,000 years old and subsequently known to the world as “Peking Man”. This was the only instance I came across when foreign and Chinese professionals worked alongside one another as genuine equals. In this respect the scientists were well ahead of the diplomats and missionaries. Russians – Red and White – were another distinctive group of foreigners to settle in Peking between the wars. Although many of the White Russians had endured great hardship, they aroused little sympathy.The Chinese disliked them because, despite their refugee status, they still behaved as if they were the subjects of a great imperial power. The foreigners, meanwhile, despised them because, as the Italian Minister Daniele Varè commented, “The prestige of the white race fell precipitously when Chinese could possess a white woman for a dollar or less and Russian officers in tattered uniforms begged at the door of Chinese theatres.” If the Whites were reviled, the Reds were feared.The arrival of the first Soviet Ambassador to China in 1924 caused great consternation in the legation quarter, not least because, as he outranked all the ministers, he automatically became Dean of the Diplomatic Corps. In 1928 Chiang Kai-shek moved the capital from Peking (northern capital) to Nanking (southern capital), situated on the Yangtze 190 miles up-river from Shanghai. Largely destroyed in the Taiping rebellion, this “empty husk of a dead city” had little to attract the diplomats. They initially chose to remain in Peking even though this meant that the Chinese government (with whom they were

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supposed to be in constant dialogue) was now a difficult and dangerous threeday journey away. During the 1930s, despite Peking’s loss of status, the city became a magnet for Western literati. Artists, writers and scholars flocked to the city as never before. Harold Acton later claimed that he would have spent the rest of his life there had it not been for the Second World War. He was not alone. But just when the foreigners were at last beginning to appreciate the true extent of Peking’s cultural riches, the end was already in sight. In 1931 the Japanese invaded Manchuria and then, in August 1937, marched into Peking. In 1943 most of Peking’s remaining foreigners were sent to Weihsien – an internment camp some 300 miles to the south where they languished until liberated in August 1945. Once free, they assumed they would soon resume their former lives – tennis, tiffin and cocktails at the club. After all, they had won the war, hadn’t they? It therefore came as a profound shock to be told by a British colonel (while they were still in the camp) that their life in China was finished and they should leave as quickly as was practicable. By December 1948, as the Communists besieged Peking, the only foreigners left in the city were diplomats and missionaries (who had no choice but to stay), a few hardy academics and those who had nowhere else to go. In January 1949 the People’s Liberation Army formally entered Peking. They marched in through the main gate, Chien-men, before turning east into the legation quarter which, unlike the rest of the city, lay silent and deserted, the gates of the former legations bolted and barred.The Communists had arrived – the party was over.

Hart, Inspector General of the Chinese Maritime Customs Service, thought it important to take trouble with the Boxer settlement because, he wrote, “as China will herself inevitably one day be a great power, it would be as well if the China of the future might have something to thank us for and not to avenge.” Julia Boyd

Flying Roast Ducks Flying Roast Ducks is a memoir of Sir Hermann Bondi, published this year by the College. I was Sir Hermann’s secretary during the last two years of his Mastership (1988-1990), and this memoir incorporates my personal reminiscences, those of the Bondi family and those of other members of the College and acquaintances. While it includes an unusual view of a scientific collaboration, the excitement of mathematical discovery and Sir Hermann’s approach to his work on naval radar, and while it covers his humanism and his commitment to the widening of access to higher education, the memoir does not attempt to comment on his scientific and administrative achievements. Instead, you will learn something about Sir Hermann the man, his enthusiasms and irritations, as well as about the College at an operational level.

Of course, there were many notable exceptions, but it is hard not to conclude that far too many foreigners who lived in Peking during the first half of the twentieth century were shamefully arrogant and patronising in their treatment of the Chinese.Those in Peking had even less excuse than expatriates elsewhere in China, since all around them was evidence of one of the most sophisticated civilisations the world has seen. Lack of imagination, coupled with a deep sense of their own superiority, meant that too few foreigners looked beyond the xenophobia, corruption, war and bankruptcy that so scarred China during this period, to recognise that when the country did finally emerge from its current chaos it would be a great force to reckon with. Some did. In 1900, Sir Robert

Following Sir Hermann’s death in 2005, I was asked to carry out a scoping exercise in 50A, his College room; it didn’t take me long to realise the importance of the original source material around me. Significant letters to politicians, newspapers and scientific journals lay side by side with the more prosaic, such as problems with the Master’s Lodge heating system, parking on the forecourt or the making of travel arrangements. It seemed a shame to me that these more mundane documents, which could create a record far beyond the traditional biographical portrait, would soon be transferred to the Archives Centre, unlikely to be the target of future researchers. I resolved immediately that I would write something.

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Sometimes it seems to me that I have been walking through life with a wide open mouth and roast ducks have come flying in with monotonous regularity… I have never had a particularly high opinion of my intelligence and have told my children, only half in jest, that it was much more important to be lucky than intelligent.They are quite ready to believe that I am lucky. In writing Flying Roast Ducks and knowing this modest man I think that I, too, have been very lucky. Paula Halson

Paula Halson and Sir Hermann Bondi I have the position of Registrar in Churchill College, one I’ve held since 1991; so, as an administrator by profession, I’m used to writing minutes and policy documents, a task that requires me to be succinct and to maintain the same professional tone and tenor in everything I write.That was already a preparation for the memoir-writing, but on the other hand I’d never done anything quite like this before. It was a new challenge. However, my experience as an OU student a number of years previously had done wonders for my powers of concentration, and over a period of just six months some 40,000 words of narrative gradually emerged. It helped, of course, that I was fascinated by what I was reading. I would often smile as I read documents, casting my mind back to the time when Sir Hermann would be standing there, dictating the words to me in his distinctive and clear style: It seems to me really not a great demand that there should be at every place a water glass and plenty of jugs of water distributed over the tables. It is a normal civilised habit around the world and I do think we could follow it. Or:

Downton College CAST LIST CHARACTERS IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE Mr Orr, the Butler

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Simon Orr, Head Porter (and author)

Mrs Oakley the Cook

David Oakley, Catering Manager

Johnson the Housekeeper

Sue Johnson, Head Housekeeper

Bateman the Chauffeur

Gavin Bateman, Maintenance Manager

The Hon. Lady Shelley

Shelley Surtees, Conference and Domestic Bursar

Lord Matthew Boardman

Matthew Boardman, former JCR President

There is occasionally a little trouble in the bathroom when one is showering. The Earl of Partington

Richard Partington, Senior Tutor

But you might be wondering why I chose the title Flying Roast Ducks. This was one of the titles Sir Hermann put forward for his autobiography, eventually entitled Science, Churchill and Me. The reason for this, he said, was that:

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David Neal, current JCR President

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Lady Jennifer De Bursar

Jennifer Rigby, Bursar

Lord Giles

Giles Agnew, Senior Computer Officer

“A mug of tea you can stand a spoon in, and something to eat. I’m famished.” No one in the Servants’ Pantry moved. They stood or sat motionless in the positions they were in when the door flew open, mesmerised by the mysterious figure framed against the dying light of sunset over Downton College. A bat fluttered past, heading towards the Senior Combination Room, as the stranger moved into the Pantry and revealed herself to the assembled retainers. There was Orr, the elderly Butler, a bottle of the College claret still clutched in his nerveless fingers; Mrs Oakley, the Cook, poised in mid-stir as she attended to some noisome concoction over the ancient range; Johnson, the Housekeeper, giddy from her testing of a new batch of furniture polish; and Bateman, the reliable Chauffeur, gazing up from his workbench and the ratchets and cogs from which he was hoping to construct a perpetual motion engine. Mrs Oakley was the first to react. “And who might you be, Missy?” she enquired, a touch frostily. “Wing Commander the Honourable Lady Shelley ‘Shoot ’em All’ Surtees, late of the Royal Flying Corps and holder of the Grand Gâteau de Guerre, presented by President Hergé of the Belgians.” The servants stared at her in blank amazement. “You may call me Wing-co, Lady Shelley or Ma’am. I am here, as your Domestic Bursar and at the express invitation of the Master and Fellows, to save Downton College from the forces of Liberal Democracy! And the next person,” Lady Shelley continued, “the next person to refer to me as Missy will find themselves in very hot water indeed!” She fixed them with a steely glare from her azure eyes.The Butler was the first to recover. He thought he could detect a shade of irony behind the fierceness of the new Domestic Bursar’s gaze, but he could not be sure. Best to play safe, he thought. “I will fetch your tea immediately, Lady Shelley,” he told her, with his customary quiet dignity, while giving the Cook a sharp kick to the ankle. “And Mrs Oakley will doubtless find you a spot of dinner.”

Three weeks later, Lord Matthew Boardman, heir of Downton, stood before his Uncle, the Earl of Partington. In the grounds below the leaded windows of the Earl’s study, hundreds of teenage Chinese children were doing callisthenics, to the bemusement of the gardeners, who had grass to cut, and of an elderly Professor, who was trying to engage with them on the subject of the early Han dynasty. “So your mind is made up, Matthew,” said the Earl, gazing out at the scene beneath him, his back to the young man. “You are leaving us. Leaving Downton, forever.” The Earl, normally so good at hiding his emotions, could not disguise the catch in his voice as he uttered these fateful words. “I have to go, Uncle, you know I do. Since the war…” His voice tailed off as the Earl turned to face him. “I know, dear boy, I know. Everything is different. And you will find a lot of new openings in London, I’m sure. But forgive me!” The Earl slapped his forehead. “I was forgetting! Have a glass of sherry. Since Lady Shelley got here we can afford the good stuff again! Now tell me about your successor. It’s to be Dr David, of Louth, isn’t it, one of our country cousins? Chocolate finger?” “Yumsters!” **** Lady Jennifer De Bursar brought the second meeting of the Downton College Funds Committee to order with a gentle cough. Seeing this had no effect, the assembled Members being absorbed, as ever, in trying to ascertain how the coffee-pots worked, she rapped a water decanter with the edge of the silvertopped ivory letter-opener she was accustomed to wear down the left leg of her immaculately polished riding boots. “Ladies and Gentlemen! Deans, Doctors, Dons!”

“Ooh, yes, Mi, er, Ma’am,” spluttered the flustered Cook. “There’s sure to be a sausage around here somewhere. There always is.”

“I think we might try turning it upside down and giving it a jolly good shake…” The voice of the Professor of Misapplied Engineering tailed off under the steely eye of Lady Jennifer.

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“Members of the Committee, welcome!” There was a flurry as plates of biscuits

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were gently but firmly fought over, the newest Junior Research Fellow ending up with the nasty pink wafers. “I am delighted to announce that since the appointment of the Honourable Lady Shelley, and according to Lord Giles’s patent counting engine, College funds have quadrupled! The cellars are full again, and it’s the good stuff, too!” “Hurrah!” The Reader in Quantum Theology could not resist a heartfelt exclamation. “But all is not yet well. Lady Shelley?” The Honourable Lady Shelley stood up to address the meeting. “Lady Jennifer, thank you. Senior Members. Downton has made great strides and our finances have been, for now, restored. But can it last?” “Can anything last?” queried a Lecturer in Reductive Philosophy. Lady Shelley smiled at him without humour. “Much has altered since the war. The world is not as it was. Downton must follow suit. Downton must modernise! Ladies and Gentlemen, Downton must…” There was a collective horrified intake of breath. “Yes. Downton must change!” The silence that followed was broken, after two or three infinite seconds, by the sound of the Professor of Contemporary Thought’s head hitting the immaculately polished mahogany of the meeting-room table. The unthinkable had been thought, the unsayable had been said. The word so many had spent a lifetime avoiding had been uttered, here, in their innermost sanctum, their safest place. Change! Whatever happened next, Downton College would never be the same again… Mr Orr, Butler (and recently Head Porter)

Wittgenstein in Storey’s Way The man whom many call the most significant philosopher of the twentieth century spent the final months of his life at 76 Storey’s Way. The house is now owned by Churchill College: it stands at the corner of Storey’s Way and the College’s private road, and is largely hidden from view by an adamantine hedge. A commemorative plaque stands on the wall by the front door. It is probable that Wittgenstein’s room was no. 6, a garret on the top floor at the north end, now used for postgraduate students. He died there on 29 April 1951. That the house is called “Storey’s End” nicely allowed Wittgenstein’s biographer so to entitle the final chapter of his book. How did the philosopher come to be there? Wittgenstein was a native of Vienna, a member of a large, wealthy, troubled, Jewish family. A fellow-pupil at school was Adolf Hitler. After starting to study engineering, he turned to philosophy, and became a pupil of Bertrand Russell in Cambridge. In the First World War he served in the Austrian army. After that, he was an unsuccessful schoolteacher. He returned to Cambridge, took a PhD, and succeeded G. E. Moore as Professor of Philosophy in 1939. (To refuse him the chair, it was said, would be like denying Einstein a chair in physics.) During the course of his life he inaugurated two philosophical revolutions.The Tractatus (1921) inspired logical positivism, and the posthumously published Philosophical Investigations (1953) shaped the linguistic turn in philosophy. Charismatic and intense, lapidary and provocative, he dominated the Anglo-American philosophical world. In 1947 Wittgenstein resigned his Cambridge professorship. The city and University irked him. He warned his successor in the Chair: “Cambridge is a dangerous place. Will you become superficial?, smooth?” The final years of his life were peripatetic; he had no home of his own. Although hitherto resolutely solitary, he increasingly felt an emotional and latterly a health need to live in company. He divided his time among his friends: the philosophers Elizabeth Anscombe in Oxford, G.H. von Wright in Cambridge (at Strathaird, now part of Lucy Cavendish College), Norman Malcolm in Ithaca, New York, and the physician Maurice Drury in Dublin. Stricken by bouts of digestive trouble and exhaustion, he was at first diagnosed with nothing more than gastro-enteritis. Drury (who had read Philosophy at Trinity in the late 1920s but had turned to medicine and psychiatry) had remarked to Wittgenstein that if ever he needed

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a doctor he should turn to Edward Bevan in Cambridge. Drury had known Bevan when they both served in the Royal Army Medical Corps during the War. Dr Bevan (1907-88) was a well-known GP in the city, serving many dons and students, especially those of Trinity College.There are Fellows of Churchill who still recall him as their GP. Bevan was an ardent enthusiast for rowing and an Olympic medallist at the 1928 Games; he remained active in the University Boat Club. His home at 76 Storey’s Way was nicknamed “The Bevanry”. The house was built in 1913 for Cambridge’s first Professor of Economic History (such was the income then of professors), and bought by Bevan in 1938.With his wife, Joan, they had a sideline in hosting paying guests, though this may chiefly date from after Wittgenstein’s time. They specialised in a clientele of high-class young women, residing in Cambridge in search of suitable mates among the undergraduates of appropriate colleges. The most high-born of their lodgers – resident in 1960-61, to study rather than to marry – was Princess Margrethe, the present Queen of Denmark, while she read Archaeology and Anthropology at Girton College. (During the 2012 London Olympics, when her yacht was moored on the Thames, Queen Margrethe recollected her time at Storey’s Way, in conversation with Churchill Fellow Barry Phipps.) Late in 1949, while staying with von Wright, Wittgenstein fell ill and went to see Bevan, who quickly diagnosed prostate cancer, but held out hope of several years’ further life, as hormone therapy could keep the disease at bay.The patient was not shocked by the diagnosis, but shocked that something could be done about it. Wittgenstein had a horror of dying in an English hospital, but Bevan promised that, if it became necessary, he could spend his final days being cared for in the Bevans’ own home. He also said that he had always been suspicious of doctors but that now, at the end of his life, he had found one he could trust. In these closing years Wittgenstein’s Catholic friends hoped he might return to the religion of his childhood (German and Austrian Jews frequently became Christians, at least formally so), but he did not do so. At Anscombe’s urging, he agreed to meet a priest, provided he was a “non-philosophical priest”. To philosophise about religion missed the point, he thought. Religion was a form of life, a set of practices; it could not be colligated under the categories of truth and falsehood.To think in terms of “proof” or “disproof” of religion was a tree up which one just could not bark.

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By January 1951 Wittgenstein needed constant care, and in February he moved to Storey’s End. His treatment was discontinued, since plainly no longer effective, and he was predicted a few months longer. Joan Bevan at first found him forbidding. Her initial conversational gambit did not go well. “How lucky for you to go to America!” … “What do you mean, lucky?” But soon the two were on friendly terms. Though largely confined to the house, he took a daily stroll with her to a nearby pub (presumably the now demolished Plough and Harrow – later The Churchill – on Madingley Road). Certainly she found him

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exacting. “It was understood that his bath would be ready, and his meals on time.” Regular deliveries of Detective Story Magazine were essential. “My room here,” he wrote on 16 April, “is much more agreeable than the one in Oxford. Not that anyone could possibly be kinder to me than Miss Anscombe was.”

Floral Churchill

A few days before his death, Drury visited him.“He looked very ill, but was alert and lively as ever.” He told Drury he was relieved that further treatment had now been declared pointless, as the therapy was debilitating, and now his mental powers had recovered. He had no thoughts of the afterlife, only of writing more in this. In these final weeks he wrote furiously and brought to completion On Certainty. Once again, he drew out the theme that much that counted as philosophy was misplaced. The world is to be understood not by defining, or proving, or demonstrating, but by grasping how concepts and words are used. Our meanings are constructed through our practices, embedded in ways of life. “Children do not learn that books exist… they learn to fetch books.” On 26 April Wittgenstein achieved his sixty-second birthday. Joan Bevan said “Many happy returns.” “There will be no returns,” came the reply. On the 27th he fell mortally ill. He was told that his friends would arrive shortly. His last words were, “Tell them I’ve had a wonderful life.” He was unconscious when Anscombe, Drury and Yorick Smythies arrived on the 29th.They brought with them a Catholic priest who recited the office for the dying and gave conditional absolution. Soon, Dr Bevan pronounced Wittgenstein dead. Next morning, the 30th, he was buried a few hundred metres away at St Giles (today Ascension) Burial Ground. His grave is, far and away, the most frequently visited in that remarkable necropolis of the illustrious deceased of Cambridge.Again a Catholic priest was at the graveside, although Drury recorded that he had been “troubled ever since as to whether what we did was right.” In 2001 his devoted acolyte Elizabeth Anscombe was buried beside him. See Ray Monk, Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius (1990), chapters 25-27; M. Drury, ‘Some Notes on Conversations with Wittgenstein’, in Rush Rhees, ed., Ludwig Wittgenstein: Personal Recollections (1981); and Norman Malcolm, Ludwig Wittgenstein: A Memoir (1984). For informal accounts of aspects of Wittgenstein’s life, see Alexander Waugh, The House of Wittgenstein (2008), and David Edmonds and John Eidinow, Wittgenstein’s Poker (2002). February daffodils by the Chapel

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Condolences The College extends deep sympathies to the families and friends of the following: Professor James C Keck (Overseas Fellow 1979), who died on 9 August 2010 Professor Britton Chance (Overseas Fellow 1966), who died on 16 November 2010 Mr Shaan Noman (G90), who died in 2011 Dr Philip L Andrews (U73), who died in February 2011 Professor J Laurie Snell (Overseas Fellow 1980), who died in March 2011 Professor Frank Herbstein (Overseas Fellow 1987), who died on 22 March 2011 Mr Robert Farmer (U83), who died in May 2011 Professor John Pateman (Founding Fellow), who died on 18 May 2011 Professor Dr Arnulf SchlĂźter (Fellow Commoner 1961), who died on 24 June 2011 Mr Bernard Walker (U&G66), who died on 21 July 2011 Miss Rehana Kirthisingha (U77), who died in August 2011 Mr Terrence Phang Ying Choy (U09), who died on 1 September 2011; see JCR Report 2011-12, above Professor Sir William Hawthorne (Master 1968â&#x20AC;&#x201C;83, Fellow 1968-2011), who died on 16 September 2011; see following appreciation Mr Iain Sproat (member of Churchill College Archives Committee), who died on 29 September 2011 Dr Gregory Possehl (Overseas Fellow 2001), who died on 8 October 2011

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Mrs Mary Mathewson (U76), who died on 12 October 2011 Professor Ronald Greeley (Overseas Fellow 1983), who died on 27 October 2011 Professor Ghobind Khorana (Nobel Laureate and Overseas Fellow 1967), who died on 9 November 2011 Dr Richard Hey (Founding Fellow; Fellow 1960-2011), who died on 14 November 2011; see following appreciations Mr Calum Burt (U10), who died on 1 January 2012; see JCR Report 2011-12, above Dr Iain MacPhee (G82), who died on 13 January 2012 Dr Gareth Roberts (Teaching Fellow and Advanced Students Tutor 1995-2000), who died on 13 January 2012 Canon Richard Incledon (former Catholic University Chaplain, who had jurisdiction to hold weddings at Churchill), who died on 9 March 2012 Professor John Taylor (Founding Fellow), who died on 10 March 2012 Dr T Rex Sweatman (G66), who died on 22 March 2012 Mr Maersk Mc-Kinney Møller (Honorary Fellow), who died on 16 April 2012; see following appreciations

Professor Sir William Hawthorne, 22 May 1913–16 September 2011 Master of Churchill College 1968-83; Honorary Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge; former Head of the Department of Engineering, Cambridge On 24 February 2012, a memorial service was held in Great St Mary’s, Cambridge, to commemorate the life of Sir William – or Will, as everyone in College called him. An address was given by Dr John Rawlinson, Chaplain to the Chapel at Churchill College, and tributes were paid by Professor David Newland of the Department of Engineering and by Lord Broers.Will’s role in College and his pioneering research were highlighted.The service was followed by tea in Churchill and a magic show in the Wolfson Hall – Will was a keen conjuror, who used to entertain Sir William Hawthorne Fellows and College visitors with his tricks. © Julia Hedgecoe There follows an obituary by David Newland which he has kindly given us permission to reproduce (published in The Guardian, 3 November 2011).

Dr Helen Patterson (U80), who died on 18 April 2012; see following appreciation Mr David Callum (College carpenter, 1977-2000), who died on 21 April 2012 Mr David Taylor (U78), who died in June 2012 Ms Snehal Sidhu (U01), who died on 5 July 2012 In 2011-12 memorial events were held in Churchill for three Fellows who died that year: our former Master, Professor Sir William Hawthorne; Dr Richard Hey; and our benefactor Mr Maersk Mc-Kinney Møller. Appreciations of them follow, as well as one of Helen Patterson. The College was also deeply saddened this year by the tragic loss of two highly promising students: Terrence Phang and Calum Burt, whose young lives were cut short in freak accidents.

*** Sir William Hawthorne, who has died aged 98, used his instinctive feeling for the mechanics of fluid flow to help solve a crucial problem that was holding up development of Sir Frank Whittle’s jet engine in 1940. In great secrecy, and with Winston Churchill’s personal support, prototype engines had been built at the old British-Thomson Houston works at Lutterworth, Leicestershire, but they could not be made to run smoothly. Only a few months before, Will had moved from the boiler manufacturer Babcock and Wilcox to the Engine Research Group at the Royal Aircraft Establishment. He was immediately seconded from there to help Whittle. The two worked together for several months until the engine’s combustion chambers had been redesigned and development could continue. Will had a great ability to see immediately where the root of an engineering problem lay and to visualise its solution, often in elegantly simple mathematical

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terms. He applied these skills with great success to understanding the intricacies of three-dimensional flow in compressors and turbines, as well as in the combustion chambers of jet engines, and he became a world leader on turbomachinery design. Although his main work had been done before computer modelling became an effective tool, he kept abreast of computational developments, at one time teaching computing to engineering students, and he continued to advise turbine manufacturers until well into his 80s. He was a man of immense personal charm, with a twinkle in his eye. Will was born in Newcastle upon Tyne. In 1931 he won an exhibition from Westminster School to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he studied mathematics and engineering.After winning the University’s Rex Moir and Ricardo prizes in his final examinations, he became a graduate apprentice at Babcock and Wilcox before going to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) as a Commonwealth Fellow. There, he completed a doctorate on laminar and turbulent flames, work that was to prove valuable when helping Whittle a few years later. For many years,Will lived a dual existence. He was elected the first holder of the Hopkinson and ICI Chair of Applied Thermodynamics at Cambridge University in 1951, when he was already Westinghouse Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT. Although he resigned his Westinghouse Chair, he continued to have an office at MIT and was regularly seen there for many years while simultaneously holding a full-time Chair at Cambridge and, in 1968, becoming Master of Churchill College.

in engineering courses. The intellectual rigour proved wonderful training for analysing problems. Developments of this approach are now taught universally. Will’s enthusiasm for new teaching initiatives also led to what became the Cambridge University Advanced Course in Production Methods and Management, now run as an MPhil course. As the Suez crisis unfolded in the 1950s, there were not enough tankers to bring oil round the Horn of Africa. Instead, the possibility of floating oil in a flexible sausage skin emerged. For Will and several generations of his students, this became a major project.The first “Dracones” initially snaked uncontrollably from side to side, and there were serious problems in obtaining waterproof fabric which was strong enough and could be sewn together to make a viable barge.The Suez emergency ended before Dracones could be used to transport oil long distances, but they were used for shorter distances and still have other applications for oil-spill clean-up and the temporary storage of effluents at sea. Will was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1955, appointed CBE in 1959 and knighted in 1970. He was a founder Fellow in 1976 of the Fellowship of Engineering (later to become the Royal Academy of Engineering). His hobbies included skiing, sailing, cookery and conjuring. He had been a member of the University’s Pentacle magic club since his undergraduate days. His demonstration of sawing in half a young woman and then joining her together again was the most ambitious and spectacularly successful postprandial talk ever to be held in Churchill College’s Senior Common Room.

His election as Master met with some concern among the Fellowship, who knew of his time-consuming commitments elsewhere, including as Head of the Engineering Department to which in 1968 he had also just been appointed. But their concern proved unfounded, partly because Will had the ability to work continuously for long hours, taking only a few hours sleep.

Will’s wife, Barbara, died in 1992. He is survived by a son and two daughters.

Students who were supervised by Will reported that they never solved examination questions as they had expected, but instead took part in testing discussions on engineering issues. They had already experienced Will’s searching approach to thermodynamics. This developed from an initiative started when he was at MIT with a new syllabus that was taught in smaller than usual classes. It brought a rigorous and disciplined approach to what had been a woolly subject

Mr Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller, 13 July 1913–16 April 2012

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Professor David Newland

Mr Møller, the College’s great benefactor, sadly died in April 2012. Below are tributes paid by the Master and Gillian Secrett, CEO of the Møller Centre, in a memorial service for Mr Møller, held in the Chapel on 16 September 2012, and attended by College and family members.

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*** We appreciate very much that Mr Møller’s daughters, Ane and Leise, the Ambassador and members of the AP Møller Foundation are able to be with us.The wide backgrounds of people here reflect the great impact of Mr Møller, not only on the life of the College, but on many other organisations.You are all very welcome. It is no exaggeration to say that The Møller Centre is an embodiment of the special relationship between the UK and Denmark. In telegrams from the Churchill Archives, you can see Churchill’s order to Montgomery to liberate Denmark before the Soviets get there, and the confirmation in reply. Both telegrams were sent on 6 May 1945; the cease-fire was signed on 7 May, and ratified in Berlin on 8 May. A very close-run thing. Churchill College was founded in 1960 as the national and Commonwealth memorial to Sir Winston. With a focus on science and technology (but not exclusively – after all, his Nobel Prize was for literature!), Sir Winston’s vision was for an outward-looking College, engaging with the business community and international in scope.

what I have tried to convey: “Mary and I hugely regret that we are unable to join you and Mærsk’s family on this important occasion, but feel that Mærsk would have forgiven us as we are on our yacht cruising, this time around Cape Cod and its islands. Only last year Mærsk’s Christmas card showed him behind the wheel of yet another of his beautiful yachts and we always enjoyed exchanging stories about our cruising adventures. But on this occasion we must recognise that Mærsk Møller’s engagement with Churchill has been one of the most important in the history of the College. Mærsk and his father knew that Winston had played a major role in the survival of Denmark in World War ll and chose the College to express their appreciation. Mærsk also understood why Winston had chosen an institution of science and technology as his memorial – after all, he and his father had built one of the greatest shipping businesses the world has ever seen on the application of the latest marine and business technologies.We like to think that this was what Mærsk saw in Churchill College. He understood and resonated with what Winston wanted the College to achieve and made a contribution that has helped the College spread its influence well beyond its previous boundaries. He was a great friend and mentor to the College. Mary and I shall think of him with great affection for the rest of our lives and only hope that we might still be cruising at the age of 98!”

Mr Møller’s vision for the Centre was both wholly aligned with Sir Winston’s own vision and truly transformational for this College: wholly aligned, because the Centre has built an extraordinary business clientele, delivering training, professional development, professional services and executive education; and truly transformational, both through the international visibility those activities have brought, and financially – absolutely vital to the quality of education and student experience in the College.

And Sir Winston’s daughter, Mary Soames, Lady Soames, sends her apologies. She greatly admired Mr Møller, and was deeply fond of him, but this weekend sees her family reunion for her own ninetieth birthday. I am sure that the relationship was reciprocal: I understand that he sent her a bunch of red roses in the week before his death. Mary sends her heartfelt best wishes to all the family.

The Møller Centre adds immeasurably to the lustre of Churchill College, and we will be forever in debt to Mr Møller for his vision, and for his generosity. We deeply appreciate the affirmation of confidence in the announcement last night that the Foundation will provide further major capital support for the Centre.We embrace our responsibilities to nurture this place both as the national and Commonwealth memorial to Sir Winston and as an international memorial to Mr Møller.

At our first meeting, I was very nervous. I need not have worried: he was warm, friendly, engaging, interested, and I am sure proud of what The Møller Centre was doing. His energy and vitality were extraordinary, and he retained great mental sharpness. He must have been a formidable businessman.

I close with some personal comments.

I have a message from Alec Broers, Lord Broers, former Master and ViceChancellor of Cambridge University – quite independently it echoes much of

He was very thoughtful: I mentioned to him in passing that Elizabeth and I were keen to build up the Royal Copenhagen service that was the Danish Government gift to the College at its founding in 1960. Elizabeth had, through some perseverance, found that it was the “Gemma” pattern, from 1960, and since

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discontinued. But she hadn’t been able to find any outlets or pieces to buy.When Mr Møller next came, it was with a box of Gemma cups, saucers and dinner plates which he had managed to find in a specialist shop in Copenhagen.

would do a good job. He reinforced in me his own vision and values of hard work and delivery of excellence as a key part of my role which I should always model to the rest of the team here at the Møller Centre.

The role of Master of Churchill College brings with it great privileges, and the greatest of these is the opportunity to meet remarkable people. I am deeply grateful that I have known Mr Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller, for what he was, for what he is in our memories, and for what he brought to Churchill College.

These central themes have helped me to shape the success of The Møller Centre to become what it is today. Mærsk had the most amazing quality of engendering commitment and dedication so that you deliver your very best. His father’s watchword, “With constant care”, will stay with me always and will continue to influence our work here at The Møller Centre.

The Master

The passing of Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller, such a warm and caring gentleman, such a great and inspirational leader, has moved me immensely. I have been privileged to know Mr Møller since I was first appointed as Director of the Møller Centre in 1998. Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller inspired me from the moment I met him.When I saw him walk toward me for the very first time, I felt a little nervous, but as I shook his hand and received his wonderful warm smile, I knew that this was a very Maersk Mc-Kinney Møller special person, of profound intellect and experience, who would guide me along the path I should take with The Møller Centre. Back in 1999 Mr Møller impressed upon me the values of the Mærsk Organisation and arranged for me to go up to Headquarters in London to hear and see for myself the way the company was run and the values and culture that made the difference. So this was my focus when I first came to the Centre: to engender a caring and supportive culture where client and staff success stories and hard work were both enjoyed and celebrated.

Although the Møller Centre was small in comparison to the global reach of the Mærsk organization, when Mr Møller visited the Centre it was almost as if it was his entire focus. Caring for customers and staff alike, with strong values of trust and integrity and fairness – all came through loud and clear to me. Just to be clear that his visits were more than a case of flying the flag: we knew that beneath the friendly smile he expected to see everything looking “ship-shape” and to be reassured that we were being diligent, responsible and committed. His attention to detail and ability to make everyone feel special were immense. I will never forget the wonderful glow of warmth and pride I felt when, following one of his visits, I received the most beautiful bunch of white roses that I have ever seen, and trust me, I have high standards, given that my own father was a wholesale florist. What a wonderful time we shared when Mærsk came to open the Study Centre extension in 2007, and what a proud day for me and the entire Møller Team that he agreed to be there with Leise and the Foundation Board to open the new extension. Mr Møller, in his profound and encouraging speech, reflected on the original intent behind the donation and the significance of what Churchill did to support the freedom of Denmark during the Second World War. We had such a happy day together celebrating the success of The Møller Centre, inspired by his vision and generosity and discussing our hopes for the future of the Centre.

Mærsk showed me in a subtle but powerful way that he supported me fully in the running of the Centre and that he had the confidence that I could and

On Friday 7 September I buried my own father, who sadly died from dementia at the age of 79, so I have spent the last three weeks reflecting on the influence

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he had on my life and the values that he embodied in me, his daughter. My father and Mr Møller have been the two key anchor men in my life (husbands aside): my father in setting up vision and work ethic in me, and influencing my faith and core values, and Mr Møller for continuing this in the work context, reinforcing what my father taught me – that all things are possible if you believe you can do it, keep focused, work hard and always deliver your very best. Commitment and follow-through were also high on Mr Møller’s agenda, as were trust, integrity and respect for all people. Mr Møller’s values will continue to influence the team and culture we have here at The Møller Centre – and personally, he will remain in my conscience as my trusted advisor long after he is gone. Mærsk, thank you for your inspiration and vision – your fortitude and engagement with us here – and to the last, your ongoing commitment to support our work and success at The Møller Centre, here in Churchill College. Gillian Secrett

Dr Richard Hey (1917–2011) Churchill College was very sorry to lose one of its most genial and kind Founding Fellows, Richard Hey. Below are two tributes to Richard, who will be much missed. ***

enjoyed his school days, although he claimed his poor eyesight reduced his effectiveness on the rugby field and cricket pitch. From Stowe, Richard went to Trinity College, Cambridge with the view of taking a Natural Sciences degree. In later years he described the difficulty he faced finding suitable subjects to achieve this aim. Physics at Cambridge he found absolutely incomprehensible, and, following a plea to his Tutor, it was substituted by physiology (very much a Trinity preserve in the 1930s) and geology. After two years he Dr Richard Hey took Part I of the Tripos, in which he was classified among the “desmonds”, that is, a runof-the-mill 2ii. Apart from clearing his first academic hurdle, Richard discovered a genuine interest in geology, and this occupied his interests for the second part of his degree during his final year at Cambridge. The question of what Richard should do next was taken out of his hands by world events and the British declaration of war on Germany on 3 September 1939. In due course, Richard was called up, and after basic training was commissioned in the RAF.Although his eyesight excluded him from flying duties, he found his niche in the field of aerial photography. (There is more to be said about Richard’s RAF career; suffice it for me to say that the opportunity war service provided for Richard to visit the Middle East and North Africa was another key factor that shaped his future career.)

Richard William Hey was born on 6 July 1917. He was the third child and only son of a well-to-do West Yorkshire family whose business interests were closely linked to the Bradford woollen trade. Known as “Ikey” to his siblings, he had a happy childhood. His mother was a talented pianist, and doubtless it was her encouragement that stimulated Richard’s lifelong interest in music and music-making. After preparatory education, he attended Stowe School in Buckinghamshire, a recently founded establishment with progressive views on topics such as co-education and reform of the standard public school curriculum. According to Richard, however, his parents’ main concern was to get him south and give him a better chance by avoiding the local West Yorkshire accent. Richard

With the conclusion of the Second World War in the summer of 1945, Richard was demobilised. He was now aged 28, and doubtless had had ample time to consider how he would like to see his career develop. The prospect of life in geological academia obviously appealed to him, especially if it included continued contact with North Africa. By the time he started to make enquiries, W.B.R. King had taken over as Professor of Geology at Cambridge. King was another West Yorkshireman who, like Richard, had spent much time as a young geologist involved with the contribution geology could make to modern warfare. He took an interest in Richard’s situation, and it was his suggestion that Richard

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should register for a Cambridge PhD based on North African quaternary geology. Richard took this advice, and four years later in May 1951 was awarded his doctorate. During this research period his primary base was in the West Riding, interspersed with field trips to Libya. On several occasions Richard travelled to Libya and back behind the wheel of an old Land Rover. (The beautiful red carpet in the sitting room of “Melrose” was purchased at this time and doubtless smuggled back to the UK in the Land Rover’s boot.) It was not all work during PhD research. Richard was a member of one of Yorkshire’s famous choral societies, and sang first bass in many major works, including Verdi’s Requiem, Mendelssohn’s Elijah and various Bach oratorios. Following his success with his PhD, Richard became an official member of the University Geology Department. He was appointed demonstrator in 1951 and became a University Lecturer in 1956. Apart from regular departmental duties, Richard had the responsibility of organising the second-year field trip to Pembrokeshire. It was a popular event in an interesting part of the world with excellent rock exposures. Richard not only did all the teaching but provided evening entertainment.The small hotel at St David’s had a grand piano in the main lounge, and about half-an-hour before supper Richard gave a short recital. I still recall the beauty of Brahms’s Advent carol: “Es ist ein Ros entsprungen”, which featured in Richard’s repertoire and still provides me with a vivid reminder of his talents. Apart from routine class work, Richard also found time to continue his own research into English and Welsh quaternary geology. This resulted in the publication of several important papers on the gravel beds of the Severn and Thames Valleys.

undergraduates arrived in October 1961. Richard was among the first group approached to apply for a Fellowship. He accepted the offer and within a short space of time became one of the new foundation’s Founding Fellows and eventually one of its very few Life Fellows. Richard repaid this honour by his wholehearted commitment to the new college.This included not only his responsibilities as Tutor and supervisor, but administrative duties and involvement with College business affairs. His final post before retirement was Praelector, a largely ceremonial position whose main responsibility was the presentation of candidates to the University authorities at the Senate House on graduation day – a sort of academic “whipperin”. Despite his many College and Departmental duties, Richard found time to relax. One such outlet was horse-riding.There were convenient stables quite close to the College, and plenty of open country between Madingley and the outskirts of the city for Richard to enjoy a canter. Another outlet was his interest in modern art, examples of which were on display at his house at Upton Bishop.

Although well settled into university life, and a key member of the geological departmental staff, Richard held no official college position at Trinity and certainly no college Fellowship. However, in 1960 an event took place that not only rectified this but had a major impact on the remainder of his Cambridge career. One of the national memorials to Sir Winston Churchill was the foundation of a Cambridge college catering for a wide variety of subjects and a large number of home and Commonwealth students. (I recall my surprise when Richard told me he had never heard the story of how Churchill College came to be at Cambridge rather than Oxford. Apparently when the proposal was made to the great man, with the mention of Oxford, Churchill asserted “Certainly not: can’t row, won’t fight.”) The College having received its Royal Charter in 1960, the next step was to recruit a body of senior staff and start construction of the buildings. The first

When retirement came, Richard moved base to Herefordshire to be nearer to his surviving family members. He purchased a small house in Bromsash, not far from Upton Bishop, and rapidly became involved with the local musical scene. He derived particular pleasure from his participation with the Hereford String Orchestra. He also continued with his scientific research, publishing in 1990 the results of a major study of the local quaternary geology. This required detailed investigation of the river gravel beds of the lower Wye valley. Almost a hundred different locations were included, every one of which was personally visited and sampled by the author. Retirement became a very fruitful episode in Richard’s life, but fate dealt some cruel blows – the worst of which was the stroke he suffered when convalescing from a hip-replacement operation at Gloucester.This meant that not only could he not drive; it also marked the end of piano- and cello-playing. This must have been a huge disappointment, yet never once did I hear Richard complain. The stroke also brought domestic changes. The house in Bromsash was sold, and he moved to Upton Bishop, where he shared the Old School House with his sister Barbara.This arrangement continued until her death, when Richard made his final move.This was just a short distance down the road to a modern bungalow. Richard thoroughly enjoyed “Melrose”, with its glorious views of the Lower Wye valley and the Forest of Dean, and it was here in his 95th year that Richard died peacefully on 14 November 2011. (May I add a note to say how much Richard benefited in his last two or three years from the sympathetic support of his two carers from South Wales, Pam and Elaine.)

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That is a brief, and probably inadequate, review of Richard’s life and achievements, but what about the man himself? Some questions are easier to answer than others. The reason he was an effective lecturer was that he took great care with his presentations. I can remember him describing how he went through each lecture almost line by line when riding his horse. He was well aware of the ease with which a lecturer could lose contact with his or her audience. He therefore rigorously avoided relying on slides and bullet points rather than on concise, correctly phrased explanations. (It was claimed that it was Richard’s boast that not once in his career had he used slides.) Richard’s talent as a demonstrator lay in his patience and his ability – as far as possible – to keep things simple.The question why Richard was a popular colleague who made such a favourable impression on so many people over the years is far more difficult to explain. He undoubtedly had a great gift of friendship that probably stemmed from the breadth of his knowledge over a wide range of subjects, aided by an excellent memory and a well-developed sense of humour. He was clearly someone who “got on well” with others and was a good conversationalist. I remember him telling how, not infrequently, he found himself invited to college feasts or the like, simply because there was a particularly difficult guest on the list whom someone had to sit next to and make conversation with. Apparently the one-time Master of Pembroke, Lord Adrian, relied heavily on Richard on these occasions. Doubtless it was such social graces that made Richard a successful member of Churchill High Table. Any attempt to analyse such qualities as affability, charm and charisma is probably pointless and not worth the effort. Let it be sufficient to say that Richard was a remarkable man with many talents who enjoyed a long life that he filled to the brim with different interests and activities, together with helping many others along the way. May we express sorrow at his departure, but also feel a sense of gratitude for the privilege of having known him and enjoyed his company.

an ascent of Bowfell Buttress in wet conditions. The climb was notable because of Richard’s glasses, which he had to dry between almost every move. Uncomplaining, of course, and with much good humour.That September, the three of us met up in North Wales and made a number of successful climbs in the Llanberis Pass, as well on the cliffs of Tremadoc. Here we tackled the Hound’s Head Pinnacle as well as Lazarus, graded “Very Severe”. I particularly remember making my first climb as a leader, on the Wrinkle, with Richard holding my rope, safeguarding and encouraging from behind. I knew I was in good hands.The next summer, I climbed with Richard in a party of Cambridge climbers who included Jim Lee and Mike Turner. One of the climbs we made was The Grimmett, a very demanding climb which Richard ascended with aplomb. Though not a natural athlete, Richard was not easily put off, and was always happy to try to follow up a “VS”. Some time in the 1950s, in a party led by Mike O’Hara (Cambridge), a leading British climber of the time, Richard made a number of first ascents on the remote Carn More cliffs of North-West Scotland. I believe he was the Senior Member of the Cambridge University Mountaineering Club for a number of years during the fifties and sixties. In 1955 (or possibly ’56), he joined a small expedition to Kulu led by Peter Holmes, which included Peter’s wife Judy, where he did some geological exploration. I continued to climb with Richard intermittently for about ten years from our first meeting in 1954. Thereafter he continued as a family friend. I always looked forward to being with him. His unfailing humour and wisdom enriched my life for about thirty years. Michael Binnie

Dr Helen Patterson (1963–2012) Ben Moore

Richard started climbing at Cambridge in the 1950s when he was in his midthirties. At the time he was a supervisor and demonstrator at Trinity College. He was a particular friend of Peter Holmes, later Sir Peter, at the time an undergraduate at Trinity. It was through Holmes that I met Richard when I was a schoolboy aged sixteen. Together with Peter Holmes, we climbed for a week in Langdale in the spring of 1954, and climbed on Gimmer Crag as well as making

Helen Patterson died in April 2012 at the age of 49; she had been suffering from metastatic angiosarcoma for a year. Helen joined Churchill as a medical student in October 1980. She had attended Tynemouth Sixth Form College in North Shields, Tyne and Wear. Her glowing school report noted her enthusiasm for gymnastics and her proficiency with the French horn. While at Churchill, she was an enthusiastic rower and a contributor to the JCR Committee; she kept her head well above water academically with Seconds in her first and second year, and in her final year a First in Part II (General) of the Medical Sciences Tripos. I was her Director of Studies, and John Brunton was her Tutor.

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Helen went off to Oxford for the clinical part of her course, and rowed for the Oxford Lightweights in 1985. Other “sidelines” during this time included a medical elective in Yei, Southern Sudan, when a civil war was under way just over the border in Uganda, and an A-level in English Literature. House Officer posts in Oxford, Newcastle and Nottingham followed, and she achieved membership of the Royal College of Physicians (MRCP) in 1989. Between 1989 and 1993 Helen was a Clinical Research Fellow at the Institute of Cancer Research in Sutton – work which led Dr Helen Patterson to a PhD in Sarcoma Molecular Genetics in 1996. After more senior posts in and around London, she gained a Fellowship of the Royal College of Radiologists in 1998, and in 2000 (by now the mother of three sons) she took up her first Consultant post in Clinical Oncology at Addenbrooke’s and at the West Suffolk Hospital in Bury St Edmunds. Another son and a daughter followed, and in 2004 Helen became Lead Clinician for non-surgical Uro-oncology Services (mostly dealing with prostate cancer) for the West Anglia Cancer Network. Not surprisingly, although she lived in Cambridge, Helen was too busy to spend time as a “professional old-Churchillian”.

Helen’s career should serve as an inspiration – she had an amazing life, lived to the full. Our sympathy goes out to Helen’s husband Paul Barden (who also joined Churchill in 1980 and who wrote an obituary notice for the Guardian: www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/jul/12/helen-patterson-obituary), and to her children John, Robert, Mark, Isaac and Sarah. I am grateful to Helen’s devoted aunt, Mary Kirkland, for help in compiling this tribute. Alan Findlay

There were several men of a certain age at her funeral who remembered with gratitude her kindness, compassion and professionalism in her role as their physician. Her “spare time” was devoted to running and rowing. She completed a London Marathon in 2010. Following her diagnosis, and while undergoing chemotherapy, she ran the 5-km Cambridge “Race for Life” in July 2011, and then, with her husband Paul, an 8-km race in Amsterdam on October 2011. She was an enthusiastic member of the Champion-of-the-Thames rowing club (“Champs”), rowing in their 1st crew, and later coaching a crew of women with 28 children between them. Ruth Howlett, a fellow Champs member, has written: “Helen’s ‘joie de vivre’ is sorely missed; she kept us focused and demanded we try for each other. Even when she was too ill to row, we continued to do our ‘Helen tens’ when we needed to focus and drive hard.”

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“He has recently turned 70 and, to the dismay of his family and some of his friends, intends to continue living dangerously for many years to come.”

Tavener, Christopher (U61) is an architect, practising in the US and specialising in the preservation and re-use of older buildings, mostly for colleges and universities, the National Park Service, and other government agencies. However, he likes to live in modern buildings. Perhaps that comes from two happy, light-filled years residing at Churchill, first in one of the apartments designed for married graduates and later, in his final year, in one of the justcompleted quads, sandwiching an expulsion to rather claustrophobic digs in a row house near the movie house in the north-east corner of the town. Monaghan, Joseph (G62) has been elected to a Fellowship of the Australian Academy of Science. Rossiter, Gordon (U63) spent 20 years in Zambia, Chile, USA and Brazil in the metals mining industry, and the last 25 years in a new technology for Continuous Ion eXchange processes – the last seven years of which, operating in his own business in CIX. He has several US patents and publications. www.ixsep.com Bainbridge, Anthony (G64) has recently turned 70 and, to the dismay of his family and some of his friends, intends to continue living dangerously for many years to come. Edwards, Mel (G64), a double blue at athletics and cross-country in the mid 60s, is still running, mostly at 7 a.m., before heading for work as a principal engineer with Aberdeenshire Council in Aberdeen, where he leads the road safety engineering unit. He has successfully survived myeloma (bone-marrow cancer) for the past 5 years and has no plans to retire. Married to Kareen for 40 years in 2012; they have a son, Myles (23), who is targeting the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow in 2014 as a middle-distance runner and has spent time in Kenya training at the Iten High Altitude Camp in order to further this aim. Goldstone, L Clement (U67) was appointed Honorary Recorder of Liverpool in October 2003.

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Lloyd-Evans, Meredith (U&G67) continues to run BioBridge Ltd, a bioscience innovation consultancy now in its 24th year, in Cambridge. He is in the final stages of a global regulatory benchmarking survey for the international animal health industry association (IFAH) and is also Project Manager for the EU-funded MarineBiotech (www.marinebiotech.eu), which is doing the groundwork for transnational strategic programmes in marine biotechnology research in Europe. Contact him if you need somewhere to stay in Cambridge when you visit. Powell, Eddie (U&G67) is enjoying retirement with Ruth, living in Cambridge, near the College, though Eddie is involved in a start-up company.They find time for lots of travel (trans-Siberian railway was a highlight earlier this year). Stow, William (U67) retired at the beginning of 2012 after nine years on the Board of the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. He is now Chair of the Radnorshire Wildlife Trust, a member of the Council of Wildlife Trusts Wales and a Board member of Sustrans. Minett, Graham (U68) has been in education since leaving Churchill in 1972. He was Head of Modern Languages in an 11-18 community college, then Head of VIth Form and ultimately Assistant Head Teacher. Reduced to part-time to take an MA in Creative Writing at University of Chichester, he graduated in 2008. Graham won a national competition for the opening three chapters of a novel and has been working with a London editor. He completed it recently and is now awaiting the outcome... and still working three days a week on timetabling and data analysis! Happily married with three children. Read Wilson, Crispin (U68) was Deputy Head Academic at Pangbourne College until September 2009 and is now retired to Swanage, sailing a 30-ft cruiser, “Ioannis”, and racing a 51-year-old wooden Albacore, “Achilles”. Backhouse, Richard (U69) is working in a small turbomachinery design consultancy in Lincoln (as he has been for the last 22 years) and living in Worksop with wife, Anne, and two sons – now in process of leaving the nest. Still involved in local church and eagerly awaiting the return of the head. Chittenden, Tim (U70) retired from the Royal Navy in 2005 to take up a second career on the boards of BAE Systems Submarines and Sellafield Ltd.

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Tim has now retired from BAE Systems, which gives him more time to improve his work-life balance, see his five (so far) grandchildren grow up, sail his boat and do some consultancy and Institution work to keep his mind active. Jackson, Peter (Past Fellow, 1970) has been elected a Fellow of the British Academy (July 2012). Yesinowski, James (G71) has made heroic efforts over the past two years: publishing the first comprehensive review on the Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) of Inorganic Semiconductors, and learning (somewhat) Ravel’s piano masterpiece Gaspard de la Nuit. Louis Johnson (U98) recently graduated and received his PhD in Music (Composition) from the University of Liverpool. Ball,Tina (U72) is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist working with people with learning disabilities and Director of Quality for Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS Foundation Trust. She is also Chair of Governors at Fir Vale School, a comprehensive secondary school in Sheffield. Burkitt,Vanessa (U72) (formerly Dowell) joined the BBC in the Corporation’s Paris office after graduating. She then transferred to the Current Affairs department as a researcher, working on Tonight,The Money Programme and then joining This Week Next Week as producer. As a political specialist, she covered General Elections and transferred to BBC Westminster as assistant managing editor. After the BBC, she worked as a communications consultant and ran the Liberal Democrat Business Forum. Family reasons brought her back to Cambridge where she now runs the family jewellery business. Day, Liz (U72) (nee Lucas) went to Homerton College and trained as a primary teacher – moved back to Essex – taught full time till 1999 – since then doing supply, short-term contracts, job shares, one-to-one tuition and private tuition. She married in 1989 and has two boys, 20 and 16. Field, Michael (U72) is currently working as an IT infrastructure specialist at Barclays Bank, Radbroke Hall, near Knutsford, Cheshire.

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Vantyghem, Jonnie (U72) became an in-house lawyer for US multinationals: Solicitor & Tax Planner, Armstrong Europe Services 1980-87; European Counsel, Fisher Controls 1987-92; General Counsel, EMEA, First Data 1992-2009. He is currently Head of Commercial Law, Sainsbury’s Supermarkets Ltd. Woodland, Andy (U72) changed career in 2009, leaving Arup after 33 years, to become the Bursar at Bootham School (independent, co-educational, Quaker school) in York. Woodland, Isabel (U72) (nee Waghorne) is Assistant Head at Durham High School for Girls. Robinson, Robert (U&G73) is Head of the Bragg Institute at the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (just outside Sydney). See www.ansto.gov.au/research/bragg_institute. He is also Vice-President of the Australian Institute of Physics. See http://www.aip.org.au. Stott, Graham (U&G73) is Principal Consultant (System Engineering), Quintec Associates. Ward, Tim (U&G73) has been a member of the Executive (cabinet) of Cambridge City Council from May 2011, with responsibility for, amongst other things, planning policy for the future development of Cambridge. Clarke, Paul (U74) is currently Chief Technology Officer for Cable & Wireless Communications, responsible for network strategy, Capex planning and services optimisation across the CWC group of businesses. Working closely with CWC’s commercial teams, his key areas of focus include 3G/4G mobile, especially data, broadband/Internet, IPTV solutions, and end-end network and service economics. Paul joined C&W in 2003, working initially in the UK business (now C&W Worldwide). Paul’s prior experience includes being Group Technical Director with Logica (mobile network value-added-solutions, and IT services for the finance, utilities and government sectors), department head with British Telecoms (network management systems development), programme director with Siemens Plessey Systems (Command Control and Information Systems), and scientist with Government Communications Headquarters (communications research).

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Morgan, Gareth (U74) is continuing in his role as Professor of Charity Studies and Leader of the Centre for Voluntary Sector Research at Sheffield Hallam University. In the last year they have been heavily involved in two major studies for the Charity Commission regarding the impact of the “public benefit” requirement in charity law.

Pratap, Ajay (G82) is an archaeologist and writes a blog which engages its readers in some current issues in Indian archaeology. The blog can be found at archaeologicalhistory.blog.co.uk. His website at www.rockartofindia.webs.com is indicative of how postprocessual thinking goes. Ajay is also working with the Alumni Relations Office to establish the Churchill National Group of India.

Smith, Alan (U74) continues to live in Sicily with his Italian wife, Cristina. He commutes weekly to Naples 600km in the North, and while there commutes daily by cycle (but not quite Cambridge-style).Their children are mostly UK based.

Gordon, Stephen (U84) and Gordon, Melita (U84) (nee Page) were both medical students 1984-87, later completing Clinical Medicine at Oxford (Green) and Addenbrookes respectively. They have subsequently worked in Zambia, Belfast, Sheffield and six years in Malawi before coming to Liverpool in 2005. Melita is Senior Lecturer in Gastroenterology at the University of Liverpool and Stephen leads a group at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine.

Williams, Sharon (U74) (nee Gould) has enjoyed a blessed life as a harpsichordist, conductor and, in recent years, ABRSM music Examiner and Trainer. Marriage to Trinity Hall engineer Jonathan Williams was certainly her luckiest move; they celebrated 25 harmonious years in April. Daughter, pianist Cordelia Williams, already more well-known than her Mum; son Gregory, recently completing the family’s graduation from Cambridge, now grappling boldly with the London employment ladder. Her mid-life discovery and passion for singing has, to her astonishment, led to a soprano place in the Salisbury Cathedral Chamber Choir. Home is a peaceful barn-conversion in Wiltshire, where they swim in a pool surrounded by an extensive rose-garden and harvest bountiful supplies of their favourite fruits and vegetables. Winter joys include log fires and long books. Harnett, Geoffrey (U&G75) is taking early retirement in 2012 after thirty years teaching at Leighton Park School, Reading, including the last ten years as Housemaster. He is spending most of his time at his property in Normandy but also retaining an apartment in Reading. Munns, Andrew (U75) now works as a technologist for SATRA in Kettering, Northants. SATRA is a non-profit distributing company that tests consumer products. Robinson, Clifford (G78) is Director of Business Incubation (retired), Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

Mundy, Chris (U84) has been Managing Director of Clearcast since March 2008. Clearcast is owned by the UK’s six largest commercial broadcasting companies and its main activity is the pre-clearance of TV advertising to ensure it meets the broadcast advertising codes. Since 2010, Chris has also sat on the Board of Credos, the independently-governed think tank for advertising. Prior to joining Clearcast, Chris was Head of Audiences at the BBC (1999-2008), in charge of all the BBC’s audience research across public service (licence-fee funded) activities. Kurz, Michael (U88) completed a single-handed Atlantic crossing on his 37-foot sailing yacht Padma. It took him 17 days from Senegal to Brazil, including a oneday stop on the remote rocks St Peter and St Paul near the Equator. Now he is back in Germany, where he lives with his girlfriend and happy 2-year-old daughter. Webber, Grace (U89) is continuing to enjoy being at Google and living in Northern California. Tickle, Stephanie (U94) (nee Hanley) has been appointed the Clinical Director of Maypole Veterinary Centre in Birmingham (since February 2012).

Rimmer, Paul (U81) has now got 3 grandkids, anyone from 1981 match that?

Condren, Conal (Past Overseas Fellow, 1995) has recently published a novel entitled Scrundle: A Historical Novel under the pseudonym “Alison Lynde” in which the College is mentioned.

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Louis Johnson (U98) recently graduated and received his PhD in Music (Composition) from the University of Liverpool. Faragher, Ramsey (U&G00) is currently a Principal Scientist at the BAE Systems Advanced Technology Centre. Parisi, Joseph (Past By-Fellow, 2000) is a writer, editor and lecturer. Former long-time editor of POETRY Magazine (Chicago). Author of eight books. Adeyemi, Ayo (U&G05) is a painfully idealistic philosopher-athlete, whose undergraduate life-aim was to be the angel, the knight, the protector who answers the prayers of those who feel helpless, alone and forsaken. While at Churchill he attempted to craft his character by making a habit of greeting every moment in life with calmness, compassion and courage! Carson, Philip (U05) is currently working on decommissioning projects at nuclear sites in Scotland. Mojahedi, Mohammad Mahdi (Past By-Fellow, 2011) joined the College in 2011 and worked as a senior researcher at CRASSH . Now he is a senior lecturer at Leiden University.

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“She investigated the evolution of masquerade, in which prey mimics the visual appearance of inanimate objects such as twigs and leaves.”

New Fellows 2011-12 Dr Phil BOOTH (Title A (Teaching) Fellow) Phil Booth is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the Faculty of Classics. He completed his undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in Classics at Churchill and at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, before moving to be Junior Research Fellow at Trinity College, Oxford. He teaches the history of Europe and the Middle East from Greek antiquity to the early middle ages, but has a specialist research interest in late antiquity, in particular in the late Roman, late Sasanian and early Islamic history of the seventh century. He is the author of a forthcoming monograph on the Palestinian ascetics John Moschus, Sophronius of Jerusalem and Maximus Confessor, and is at present producing a new translation and commentary of the Chronicle of John of Nikiou, the major contemporary witness to the Muslim conquest of Egypt. Dr Nick CUTLER (Title A (Teaching) Fellow) Nick Cutler is Admissions Tutor at Churchill College; he is also College Lecturer in Geography at Trinity College. He is a physical geographer specialising in ecosystem development, with a special interest in high-latitude regions. His research focuses on spatial and temporal variation in terrestrial ecosystems. He did his PhD at the University of Edinburgh, investigating long-term (decadescenturies) ecological change on lava flows in Iceland. He subsequently worked on ecological development at smaller spatiotemporal scales, studying the colonisation of historic building stone by micro-organisms at the University of Oxford. His current research looks at spatial variation in high-latitude soil microbial communities, using molecular (DNA) techniques. Mr Will DAVIES (Junior Research Fellow) Will Davies was a graduate student and Jowett Senior Scholar at Balliol College, Oxford, where he completed the BPhil (2008) with distinction and is soon to finish a DPhil in Philosophy. He also spent terms as a visiting student at the

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Institut Jean Nicod, a centre for philosophy and cognitive science at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, and at MIT. Will works primarily on the Philosophy of Mind and Philosophy of Psychology, with a particular emphasis on perception. His DPhil explores issues relating to colour perception. His postdoctoral work will be on the nature of property perception. Dr Leigh DENAULT (Title A (Teaching) Fellow) Dr Phil Booth

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Leigh Denault is a historian and researcher at the University of Cambridge. She completed her PhD on the social, cultural and legal history of the family in colonial North India at the University of Cambridge (‘Publicising Family in Colonial North India, c. 1780-1930’, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge, 2009). Her current research focuses on conceptions of social welfare in twentieth-century India. She teaches world history, the history of the British Empire, the history of the Indian subcontinent from the eighteenth century to the present day, and population and development history in India. More broadly, Leigh is also interested in how digitization is transforming the practice of history. She is a Research Associate with the Centre for History and Economics at King’s College, Cambridge, working on their Digitization of History Project. Alongside an interest in North Indian languages and print cultures, she has started to explore some of the issues surrounding the digitization of South Asian historical sources. Leigh was a Teaching By-Fellow in History from 2010 to 2011. Dr Luís DUARTE D’ALMEIDA (Junior Research Fellow)

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Luís Duarte d’Almeida was educated in Lisbon and at the University of Oxford. His main research areas are jurisprudence and the philosophical foundations of criminal law, but he is also interested in philosophical aspects of discrimination and in European Union Law. His DPhil thesis developed a proofbased account of defeasible decision-making in both the general field of judicial verdicts and the particular domain of accusations and liability-ascriptions. Though still interested in defences and defeaters, Luís is currently engaged on a research project in general jurisprudence on the several puzzles and problems surrounding the notion of a (truth-apt) statement of law. Dr John-Paul GHOBRIAL (Title A (Teaching) Fellow)

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study in Oxford. At St Antony’s College, he completed an MPhil in Middle Eastern Studies with a focus in cultural anthropology and sociolinguistics. In 2004, he started his PhD in the History Department at Princeton University, where an interest in the “history of the book” carried him into the study of the early modern period. His dissertation explores informal flows of information in seventeenth-century Constantinople, as well as the circulation of news between Europe and the Ottoman world in the early modern period. He is currently working on two main projects: a long-term study of oral, scribal and printed sources of information about the Ottoman world circulating in early modern Europe, and an account of the adventures of an Arab traveller to South America in the seventeenth century. He was elected to a Junior Research Fellowship in 2009. Dr Chaoyang LU (Tizard Junior Research Fellow) Chaoyang Lu completed his PhD at Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge. His current research focuses on linking single photons and single electron spins in semiconductor quantum dots for performing quantum information tasks. Dr Rita MONSON (Title A (Teaching) Fellow) Rita Monson obtained her BA Degree in Mathematics from MIT and completed her PhD in the Department of Biochemistry in Cambridge. Her current research focuses on how bacteria talk and respond to each other using varying chemical signals during infection. These processes have diverse applications in terms of antibacterial drug development and preventative treatment. Rita was a Teaching By-Fellow 2007-2011. Professor David RON (Professorial Fellow) David Ron conducts research on protein metabolism and the cellular adaptations to protein misfolding at Cambridge University’s Institute of Metabolic Sciences. He received his medical degree from the Technion in Haifa, Israel in 1980. After completing clinical training in Internal Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City and Endocrinology and Metabolism at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, he conducted research on gene expression in adipose tissue. In 1992 he took a faculty position at New York University School of Medicine, establishing a research laboratory at the Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine. In 2009 he resigned his position as the Julius Raynes Professor of Cell

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Biology and Medicine at NYU to accept a Principal Research Fellowship of the Wellcome Trust and an appointment as the Professor of Cellular Pathophysiology and Clinical Biochemistry at Cambridge University. Dr Hannah ROWLAND (Sidney Harvey Junior Research Fellow) Hannah Rowland obtained her BSc (Hons) Zoology at the University of Liverpool, and was awarded a PhD, entitled ‘The visual and behavioural ecology of countershading and other defences’, in November 2007 under the supervision of Mike Speed (University of Liverpool). Her thesis was awarded two prizes: the Thomas Henry Huxley award from the Zoological Society of London (for best Zoology thesis in the UK), and the Royal Entomological Society Wallace award (for best Entomology thesis in the world). She remained at Liverpool for her first postdoc, where she investigated the role of wild and domestic bird feeding decisions on the alternative causal mechanisms by which mimicry of warning signals may have evolved. She recently completed a NERCfunded postdoctoral research associateship at the University of Glasgow, where she investigated the evolution of masquerade, in which prey mimics the visual appearance of inanimate objects such as twigs and leaves. Findings from her studies have been published in Nature, Science, PNAS, Behavioural Ecology and Ecology Letters. Dr Elodie SALAGER (Sackler Junior Research Fellow) Elodie Salager received her Master of Science from the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon in France in 2007. She studied for three years at the highfield NMR Centre in Lyon for her PhD, where she developed solid-state Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) methods for structure determination of powdered pharmaceutical compounds. Since November 2010, she has been a post-doctoral research associate in Professor Grey’s research team in the Department of Chemistry in Cambridge. She is working on the development of NMR methods towards a better characterisation and understanding of the mechanisms responsible for the loss of capacity in Li-ion batteries. Dr Nicola SMITH (Title A (Teaching) Fellow) Nicola Smith attended Churchill College as an undergraduate, matriculating in 1992. She was awarded a first in her MVST, taking neurophysiology in her third year. She continued to study clinical medicine in Cambridge, qualifying in 1997.

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Following junior surgical rotations she obtained an MD from Liverpool University for research on embryological lung development in Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia. Following this, she continued with training in Paediatric Surgery, working in Liverpool, Auckland and Edinburgh. She obtained her FRCS (Paed) in 2008. She was appointed as Consultant in Paediatric Surgery at Addenbrooke’s Hospital in 2009 where she continues to work – specialist areas of interest include laparoscopic and gastrointestinal surgery.

in 2010. His research work concerns the physics and mechanics of granular materials with applications to various fields of science and engineering such as soil mechanics, geology, powder processing and agronomy. He designed several experimental innovative set-ups and original numerical algorithms for the investigation of the structure and behaviour of granular matter, especially in the presence of liquids and cohesive interactions. He is co-author of more than 50 scientific papers. Professor Jean-Marc DI MEGLIO (French Government Fellow, 2011-2012)

Overseas Fellows 2011-12 Professor Howard BERG (Overseas Fellow, Lent and Easter Terms 2012) Howard Berg is a physicist who does biology. He studied chemistry at Caltech and the Carlsberg laboratory in Copenhagen, preclinical science at the Harvard Medical School, and chemical physics at Harvard, where he received a PhD for work with Norman Ramsey on the atomic hydrogen maser (1964). Following a stint as a Harvard Junior Fellow, he held academic positions at Harvard (1964-1970), the University of Colorado at Boulder (1970-1979), Caltech (1980-1986), and again at Harvard (1986-), where he is Herchel Smith Professor of Physics, Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology, and member of the Rowland Institute. He has studied methods for separating macromolecules according to mass, the architecture of red cell membranes, and the motile behaviour of bacteria.The latter work began with construction of a microscope that tracks bacteria in three dimensions, continued with arguments establishing that bacterial flagella rotate, and now focuses on the signal transduction pathway that links chemo-receptors to flagella and on the operation of the flagellar rotary motor. He is author of Random Walks in Biology (Princeton, 1993) and E. coli in Motion (Springer, 2004). Professor Jean-Yves DELENNE (French Government Fellow, Nov 2011 – Aug 2012) Jean-Yves Delenne was born in 1974 in France. His undergraduate and graduate studies were pursued at the University of Montpellier, where he is currently Associate Professor. He obtained his Habilitation degree of research management

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Jean-Marc Di Meglio is Professor of Physics at the University Paris Diderot. He earned an engineering degree from the École Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles de Paris and completed a PhD in 1984. After one year of post-doc at the University of Pennsylvania he joined the laboratory of Physics of Condensed Matter at the Collège de France as a CNRS researcher. He became Professor at the University of Strasbourg in 1994. Following one year at the Australian National University, he took his present position in 2002 at the University Paris Diderot where he was the founding director of the Matière et Systèmes Complexes laboratory, one of the largest laboratories in France dedicated to soft matter and biological physics. His scientific contributions concern soft-matter physics: polymers, liquid crystals, vesicles, capillarity, wetting, foams. He has recently focused his research interests on biophysics, more specifically on bio-locomotion and collective motions of micro-organisms. For further information please see www.msc.univ-parisdiderot.fr/~jmd. Professor Adrián GORELIK (Overseas Fellow, 2011-2012) Adrián Gorelik was born in Mercedes, Buenos Aires (Argentina) in 1957. He has degrees in both Architecture and History. In Argentina, he is Full Researcher of the Council of Scientific Researches (CONICET) and a Full Professor of the Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, where he leads the Centre of Intellectual History. He is in Cambridge during the academic year 2011-2012 as Simón Bolívar Chair Professor, developing a cultural history on Latin American cities. He obtained the Guggenheim Fellowship in 2003, and he has been Visiting Professor in the Centre of Latin American Studies, University of Cambridge (2002), in the Instituto de Estudios Urbanos, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (2004), in

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the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University (2005) and in the Programa de Pós-graduação em Historia de Arquitetura, Escola de Engenharia de São Carlos, Universidade de São Paulo (2007). Among other books, he has published La grilla y el parque. Espacio público y cultura urbana en Buenos Aires (Buenos Aires, 1998); Das vanguardas a Brasília. Cultura urbana e arquitetura na América Latina (Belo Horizonte, 2005); and Correspondencias. Arquitectura, ciudad, cultura (Buenos Aires, 2011). He is a life-member Fellow of Clare Hall. Professor Andrew MURPHY (Overseas Fellow, Lent and Easter Terms 2012) Andrew Murphy is Associate Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, and Director of the Walt Whitman Center for the Culture and Politics of Democracy. His research focuses on the interconnections between religious and political thought and practice, most particularly in the Anglo-American tradition. He is the author of Prodigal Nation: Moral Decline and Divine Punishment from New England to 9/11 (Oxford, 2009) and Conscience and Community: Revisiting Toleration and Religious Dissent in Early Modern England and America (Penn State, 2001). He has edited several volumes, including The Political Writings of William Penn (Liberty Fund, 2002) and A Companion to Religion and Violence (Blackwell, 2011). At Churchill, he is completing a book on the political thought of William Penn (1644-1718), a central figure in the history of religious toleration in both England and America. Professor John SPENCE (Overseas Fellow, Lent Term 2012) John Spence has a background in condensed matter physics (which he teaches), biophysics and new microscopies. His primary interest is atomic processes in solids, and related imaging, spectroscopic and diffraction methods. He has written texts on atomic-resolution electron microscopy, and most recently has been using the LCLS X-ray laser at Stanford for femtosecond ‘snap-shot’ X-ray diffraction of the molecules responsible for photosynthesis, in order to make a molecular movie. John is the recipient of the Buerger award of the ACA, the Distinguished Scientist award of the MSA, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and of the Institute of Physics (UK). He holds a joint appointment at Arizona State University and at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory. His interests include gliding, classical piano, flute and sailing. His wife Margaret was Australian consul in Boston and a journalist, now freelance writer.

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Professor Bjarne STROUSTRUP (Overseas Fellow 2012) Bjarne Stroustrup is a Distinguished Professor and the holder of the College of Engineering Chair in Computer Science at Texas A&M University. His Masters degree in Mathematics with Computer Science is from the University of Aarhus, Denmark, and his PhD in Computer Science is from Cambridge University. He is a member of the US National Academy of Engineering, an IEEE Fellow, and an ACM Fellow. He is the designer and original implementer of C++ and the author of several technical books, including The C++ Programming Language. He is actively involved in the ISO standardisation of C++. His research interests include distributed systems, design, programming techniques, software development tools and programming languages. He is an Honorary Professor in the University of Aarhus, recipient of The William Procter Prize for Scientific Achievement from Sigma Xi, was named one of “the twenty most influential people in the computer industry in the last twenty years” by BYTE magazine, and is a recipient of the ACM Grace Murray Hopper award. www.research.att.com/~bs. Professor Bruce SUTHERLAND (Overseas Fellow, Easter Term 2012) Bruce Sutherland received a BMath degree in Applied Mathematics from the University of Waterloo and holds MSc and PhD degrees in Physics from the University of Toronto. After working as a Research Associate in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at the University of Cambridge, he joined the University of Alberta where he presently holds a joint appointment as Professor in the Departments of Physics and of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences.Through laboratory experiments, numerical simulations and mathematical modelling, he studies fluid motions within the atmosphere and oceans. A focus of this work is on internal gravity waves, which move within the atmosphere and ocean, influencing weather and climate, and which can be a hazardous source of turbulence encountered by aircraft and submersibles. He is author of Internal Gravity Waves (Cambridge University Press, 2010), and was awarded the 2010-2011 Killam Annual Professor and 2012 Gledden Visiting Senior Fellowship.

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Who’s Who in Churchill This is the list of Fellows as it was on 1 October 2011; also included are Fellows and By-Fellows who joined the College in the course of the academic year 2011-12.

Ndebele, Professor Njabulu, MA, LLD (Hon)

English Literature

Gilbert, Sir Martin, CBE, DLitt

History

Tsien, Professor Roger, PhD

Cell Biology/Neurobiology

Green, Professor Michael, PhD, FRS

Mathematics

Holmes, Professor Richard, MA, FBA, FRSL, OBE Biographer Nurse, Sir Paul, PhD, FRS

Fellowship Categories: Fellows and By-Fellows

Benefactor Fellow

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

Microbiology

Theoretical Physics

Cowan, Mr M J J, MA

Alumnus (U70)

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

Microelectronics

Boyd, Sir John, KCMG

Modern Languages

†Hey, Dr R W, MA, PhD

Geology

Livesley, Dr R K, MA

Engineering

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

Materials Science

Hahn, Professor F H, MA, PhD, FBA

Economics

Howie, Professor A, PhD, CBE, FRS

Physics

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

Radio Astronomy

Steiner, Professor G, PhD, FBA

Comparative Literature

Campbell, Dr R C, MA, PhD

Statistics

Brunton, Dr J H, PhD

Engineering

Dixon, Dr W G, MA, PhD

Applied Mathematics

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

Engineering

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

President of SCR; Economics

Craig, Professor E J, MA, PhD, FBA

Philosophy

Westwood, Dr B A, MA, PhD

Computing Service

Whittle, Professor P, MA, PhD, FRS

Mathematics

Tristram, Dr A G, MA, PhD

Pure Mathematics

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

Petroleum Engineering

Thompson, Professor J G, MA, FRS

Pure Mathematics

Squire, Dr L C, MA, ScD

Aerodynamics

Hoskin, Dr M A, PhD

Pre-History

Honorary Fellows

Abrahams, Dr R G, MA, PhD

Social Anthropology

Soames, The Lady (Mary), DBE

Cribb, Mr T J L, MA

English

†Møller, Mr Mærsk Mc-Kinney, KBE

George, Mr H, MA, CMG, OBE

Bursar 1971-90

Finch, Professor A M, MA, PhD

B (SRF) Vice-Master; French

Gurdon, Professor Sir John, DPhil, DSc, FRS

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

Physiology

Robertson, Professor J, MA, PhD

Engineering

Gough, Professor D O, MA, PhD, FRS

Astrophysics

Boksenberg, Prof A, MA, PhD, FRS, CBE

Astronomy

Echenique, Professor M, MA, DArch, OBE

Architecture

Barbrook, Dr A C, MA, PhD

Biochemistry

Warren, Dr S G, MA, PhD

Organic Chemistry

Kinsella, Professor J, MA, PhD

Poet

Ryall, Dr R W, MA, PhD

Pharmacology

Yuan, Dr B, PhD

Chinese and Linguistics

Fraser, Dr C, MA, PhD

Social Psychology

Brook, Mrs J M, MA, MBA

Bursar

Gaskell, Dr P H, MA, PhD

Physics

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

Chemical Engineering

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

Military History

Sirringhaus, Prof H, PhD, FRS

Physics

Wood, Mr H B, MA

Music

Grimmett, Professor G R, MA, ScD, DPhil

Mathematics

Milne, Professor W I, MA, FREng

Engineering

DeMarrais, Dr E, PhD

Archaeology

King, Dr F H, MA, PhD

Praelector: Computer Science

Van Houten, Dr P, MA, PhD

Politics

Edwards, Prof Sir Robert, MA, Hon ScD, CBE, FRS

Physiology

Tout, Dr C A, MA, PhD

Astronomy

Goldie, Dr M A, MA, PhD

History

Mathur, Dr N D, MA, PhD

Materials Science

Bolton, Professor M D, MA, PhD, FREng

Engineering

Gopal, Dr P, MA, PhD

English

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

Genetics

Webb, Dr A R, PhD

Plant Sciences

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

Biological Anthropology

Harris, Dr P A, LLM, PhD

Law

Siddle, Professor K, MA, PhD

Biochemistry

Kendall, Miss M, MA

Librarian

Hurst, Mr H R, MA

Classical Archaeology

Packwood, Mr A G, MPhil, FRHistS

Director, Archives Centre

Dawes, Professor W N, MA, PhD

Engineering

Thornton, Professor J M, PhD, CBE, FRS

Computational Biology

Green, Dr D A, MA, PhD

Physics/Radio Astronomy

Hovius, Dr N, PhD

Earth Sciences

Allen, Mr M J, MA

English Literature; Bursar 1990-98

Bracewell, Dr R H, MA, PhD

Engineering

Miller, Dr M A, MA, PhD

Chemical Physics

Gregory, Prof Sir Michael, MA, CBE

Manufacturing/Management

Hicks, Dr C M, MA, PhD

Engineering

Norris, Professor J R, DPhil

Mathematics

Fawcett, Dr J, MA, PhD

Computer Science

Amaratunga, Professor G, PhD, FREng

Engineering

Schultz, Professor W, PhD, FRS

Neuroscience

Knowles, Dr K M, MA, PhD

Materials Science

Kingston, Dr I B, PhD

Walters, Dr D E, MA, PhD

Statistical Consultancy

Tutor for Advanced Students; Pathology

King, Prof J E, MA, PhD, CBE, FRSA, FREng

Materials Science

Thomas, Ms M F, MA

B (SRF) Screen Media and Cultures

Webber, Professor A J, PhD

German

Ozanne, Dr S E, PhD

Biochemistry

Chatterjee, Professor V K K, MA

Pathology

Englund, Dr H M, MA, PhD

Social Anthropology

Laughlin, Professor S B, MA, PhD, FRS

Neurobiology

Richer, Dr J, MA, PhD

Physics

Jennison, Miss B M, MA, MBE

Physics Education

Caulfield, Dr C P, MASt, PhD

Mathematics

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

Clinical Medicine

Reid, Dr A, MSc, PhD

Geography

Brendon, Dr P, MA, PhD, FRSL

History

Ducati, Dr C, PhD, RSRF

B (SRF) Materials Science

Kramer, Professor M H, PhD, LLD

Law/Philosophy

Pedersen, Professor R A L, AB, PhD

Regenerative Medicine

King, Mrs A N, MA

Linguistics

Wassell, Dr I J, PhD

Engineering

Soga, Professor K, PhD

Civil Engineering

Ludlam, Dr J J, MA, PhD

Mathematical Biology

O’Kane, Dr C J, MA, PhD

Genetics

Taylor, Dr A W, MA, PhD

English

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Maurice, Ms S D, BA

Development Director

Rowland, Dr H M, PhD

B (JRF) Zoology

Sunikka-Blank, Dr M M, PhD

Architecture

Ron, Prof D, MD

Boss, Dr S R, PhD

Chemistry

Davies, Dr W H, DPhil

B (JRF) Philosophy

Hines, Professor M M, MA, PhD

Social and Developmental Psychology

Duarte d’Almeida, Dr L, LLM

B (JRF) Law and Criminology

Salager, Dr E, MSc, PhD

B (JRF) Chemistry

Metabolic Science

Liang, Dr D, PhD

Engineering

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

Paediatrics

Ralph, Professor D, PhD

Operations Research

Cutler, Dr N, MA, PhD

Geography

Kennicutt, Professor R C, MSci, PhD, FRS

Astronomy

Lu, Dr C, PhD

B (JRF) Physics

Singh, Dr S S, PhD

Engineering

Goldstein, Professor R E, PhD

Mathematics

Wickramasekera, Dr N, PhD

Mathematics

McEniery, Dr C M, PhD

Physiology

Overseas Fellows Berg, Professor H C, MA, PhD Delenne, Professor J-Y, PhD Di Meglio, Professor J-M, PhD Gorelik, Professor A Murphy, Professor A R, MA, PhD Spence, Professor J C H, PhD Stroustrup, Professor B, PhD Sutherland, Professor B, MSc, PhD

F F F F F F F F

Physics and Biology Engineering Physics Latin American Studies Political Science Physics Computer Science Physics

Birney, Dr E, PhD

B (SRF) Molecular Biology

Spiegelhalter, Professor D J, PhD, OBE, FRS

Winton Professor; Statistics

Partington, Mr R J, MA

Senior Tutor; History

Cavalcanti, Dr T, MA, PhD

Economics

Russell, Dr P, PhD

Mathematics

Treanor, Dr N B, PhD

Philosophy

Phipps, Mr B, MA, MSt, MPhil

Curator

Knight, Mr N V, MSc

Economics

Haustein, Dr K, PhD

B (JRF) Medieval and Modern Languages

Abdi, Dr E, MPhil, PhD

TBF

Engineering

Akroyd, Mr J W J, MA, MEng

TBF

Chemical Engineering

Frayling, Sir Christopher, MA, PhD

Ali, Dr J, MB, BCHIR

TBF

Medical and Veterinary Sciences

Bukh, Dr B, PhD

B (JRF) Pure Mathematics

Benton, Dr A, MSci, MA, PhD

TBF

Computer Science

Phalan, Dr B T, PhD

B (JRF) Zoology

Bianchi, Mr A S, MA

TBF

Spanish

Stevens, Dr M, PhD

Zoology

Child, Dr R N, MA, PhD

TBF

Philosophy and Law

Ghobrial, Dr J-P A, MA, MPhil, PhD

History

Church, Mr L, BA (Hons)

TBF

Computer Science

Tosca, Dr N J, MS, PhD

B (JRF) Geography, Geology and Geophysics

Etherington, Dr B, BMus, MPhil, PhD

TBF

English

Gagne, Mr C, MPhil

TBF

French

Hanin, Dr M L, PhD

TBF

Law

Hendrick, Dr A, PhD

TBF

Biology of Cells

Hubbard, Dr K E, BA, PhD

TBF

Biology

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

TBF

Physics

Skrebowski, Dr L, PhD

TBF

History of Art

Stott, Dr K, PhD

TBF

Biochemistry

Tasker, Dr A, MB BChir, MRCP

TBF

Medical Sciences

Historian, critic and broadcaster

Leader-Williams, Prof N, BVSc, MRCVS, PhD

Geography

Day, Dr G M, MSc, PhD

Chemistry

Lillehammer, Dr H, MA, MPhil, PhD

B (SRF) Philosophy

Wingfield, Dr E, DPhil, MSt

B (JRF) English

Linterman, Dr M A, PhD

B (JRF) Biological Sciences

Monson, Dr R E, PhD

Dean; Cell Biology

Denault, Dr L T, PhD

History

Booth, Dr P, MPhil, PhD

Classics

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By-Fellows Andersen, Mr T T, MBA

Professional

Bittleston, Dr S, BSc, PhD

Professional

Blurton, Mr T R, BA, MPhil Corthorn, Dr P S, MA, PhD Defaÿ, Dr E, PhD Eriksson, Dr M, MSc, PhD Evans, Prof R L, MA.Sc, PhD Farmelo, Dr G, PhD Fedorowich, Dr E K, MA, PhD Halson, Mrs P, BA (Hons), Assoc CIPD, FRSA

BF BF (Archives) BF BF BF BF BF (Archives) Staff

Longo, Prof S, PhD Mojahedi, Dr M M, MA, PhD Nolan, Prof K F J, BA, MA Nyrönen, Dr T H, PhD Ostermark-Johansen, Dr L, MA, PhD Parker, Dr G T, PhD, MASc, PhD Ross, Professor V, BMusHon, MEd, PhD Secrett, Mrs G, BSc (Hons), CDIR

BF BF BF BF BF Sharjah BF Staff

Stuttard, Sir John, MA, DLitt Surtees, Mrs S J B

Møller Staff

Wightman, Prof M

Rawlinson, Rev Dr J

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Former Møller Centre Board Member MD, Schlumberger Cambridge Research Archaeology/British Museum Modern British History Materials Physics Plant Physiology Mechanical Engineering Biographer and Historian History Registrar and Human Resources Bursar Engineering Political Theory English Bioinformatics English Environmental Engineering Music Director of the Møller Centre Chartered Accountant Domestic and Conference Bursar Chemistry

Chaplain to the Chapel at Churchill College

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“The Association exists to promote good fellowship among resident and non-resident Members of the College.”

The Churchill College Association Chair: Mr Nigel Bacon (U74) Secretary: Mr James Adamcheski-Halson (Alumni Relations Manager) 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. For a full list of Committee Members please visit www.churchillians.net or contact Churchill.Association@chu.cam.ac.uk. Date of the next AGM: Saturday 28th September 2013 at 6 p.m. in the Bevin Room.

Reunions A Reunion Dinner (for those who joined the College in the years 1999 – 2002 inclusive) will be held on Saturday 6th July 2013. Invitations will be sent out by the College during the Lent Term to those for whom we have an address on our database. If you have recently changed address or plan to move in the near future, please contact the Alumni Relations Office at alumni@chu.cam.ac.uk. Future Reunions July 2013 1999 – 2002 July 2014 1960 – 1970

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News and Contacts

year including wine. They may dine: twice with one guest; or once with a guest and twice on their own; or four times on their own.

We are always pleased to hear about the careers and achievements of Churchillians and welcome your contributions. Please write to or e-mail the Alumni Relations team at the College: alumni@chu.cam.ac.uk. The postal address of the College is Storey’s Way, Cambridge CB3 0DS.

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

Contact Details

Past By-Fellows are entitled to up to four High Table dinners per calendar year, and may dine: twice with one guest; or once with a guest and twice on their own; or four times on their own.

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.)

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

Alumni Relations Manager: Alumni@chu.cam.ac.uk +44 (0)1223 336083/336240

Praelector: +44 (0)1223 331672

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. All non-resident members will be charged for any drinks taken in the SCR.

Registrar & Human Resources Bursar: Registrar@chu.cam.ac.uk +44 (0)1223 336221

Bookings

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

To dine at High Table, notice must be given at least five days in advance of the High Table in question.There is no High Table on any Saturday, nor on Sundays outside Full Term. It is advisable to book or make enquiries as early as possible. Unused member entitlements may not be carried forward to the next year.

Senior Tutor and Admissions Tutors: +44 (0)1223 336208 College Fax: +44 (0)1223 336177 Alumni and Past Fellows’ website: www.churchillians.net Main College website: www.chu.cam.ac.uk

Bookings can be made by emailing alumni@chu.cam.ac.uk (or phoning +44 (0)1223 336083/336240). At least one Fellow must be present to preside; otherwise High Table will not take place. In the event that your meal is cancelled, you will be contacted by the Alumni Relations team. You may use the Dining Hall self-service facilities at any time and pay by cash.

Members’ Benefits Full details of all Member Benefits can be found at www.churchillians.net. 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

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Accommodation Alumni Alumni are entitled to stay in College guest rooms throughout the year (subject to availability) at their own expense. Alumni may book one room for themselves

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at a special rate and then one further room at the same rate per visit.Additional rooms will then be charged at the commercial rate. Those who graduated in the previous 12 months and are Scholars (that is, gained a First Class in their final year) may stay for up to four nights in the year following their graduation (consecutively or spread over a number of visits) at College expense. They may then stay for additional nights at their own expense.

perpetuity by the Alumni Relations Office and is free to all Alumni, Past Fellows and former staff of the College. Churchillians.net is also the hub of all information for Alumni and Past Fellows, including online bookings, accommodation requests, and Member Search. Please visit the site to request your username and password and create your very own email for life.

Taking the MA and Other Degrees 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. 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 should be requested by using the Accommodation Request Form found at www.churchillians.net. Please note that submitting this form does not constitute a booking; you will be contacted directly by the Accommodation Office to confirm availability. If you do not have internet access, please contact the Accommodation Office on +44 (0)1223 336164. 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 by emailing Moller.Reception@chu.cam.ac.uk.

Email for Life @Churchillians.net Churchillians.net is the home of the email forwarding service for all members of Churchill College. It was launched in June 2008. The service is provided in

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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 Award of MMath and MASt Degrees for Part III Students successfully completing Part III of the Mathematical Tripos in Easter Term 2011 and subsequent years will now receive a Master of Advanced Studies degree if they come from outside Cambridge, or a BA/MMath if they successfully complete four years’ undergraduate study (including Part III) at Cambridge. The University has also announced that many students who took Part III in previous years will be able to receive these degrees retrospectively. For further details, to check eligibility and to request your place at a Congregation, please visit www.churchillians.net.

Weddings and Christenings Alumni from all years 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.

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Forthcoming Events 2013

The College is pleased to announce that it has published four new books to add to its collection.

A full list of events can be found on www.churchillians.net. Regular updates are included in the Churchill E-bulletin; to subscribe, please complete the form on www.churchillians.net or email alumni@chu.cam.ac.uk. March: Commonwealth Event & Dinner; Winston S Churchill 1958 Society Lunch 20 April: 1972 Cambridge: 40th Anniversary Celebration of the Admission of Women at Churchill, Clare, King’s and Lucy Cavendish Colleges June:Varsity Cricket match at Lords Ground 6 July: Reunion Dinner 1999-2002 20 July: Association Garden Party & Family Day

The books available include:

27-29 September: Churchill Association Weekend; 7th Annual Association Golf Day

Canon Noel Duckworth: An Extraordinary Life by Michael Smyth (U67) Flying Roast Ducks: Recollections of Sir Hermann Bondi 1983 - 2005 by Paula Halson

Future Publications May 2013: Newsletter December 2013: Review

Graffiti: Artworks and Poems from Churchill College by John Kinsella

An electronic version of this Review may be found at www.churchillians.net. From the homepage, please visit the ‘Publications’ section

New Revised Edition of Corbusier comes to Cambridge: post-war architecture and the competition to build Churchill College by Mark Goldie

All books are available for purchase from the Porters’ Lodge or online from the College Website at www.chu.cam.ac.uk (by selecting the merchandise tab).

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