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Autumn 2010 Keeping you in touch with Goldsmiths
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Goldlink 34 Keeping you in touch with Goldsmiths Editor Genevieve Kantoch Design Goldsmiths Design and Print Services
Autumn 2010
Director of Development David Mungall Senior Development Manager Annette Bullen Alumni Relations Officer Genevieve Kantoch Research & Database Officer Antoinette Carey Administration & Events Officer Angela Elderton Development & Alumni Office Goldsmiths, University of London New Cross, London SE14 6NW alumni@gold.ac.uk +44 (0)20 7078 5015 Cover image: 'High and Dry' by Jiyen Lee (MFA, 2010) leejiyen@gmail.com Thanks to: Vicky Annand Frank W Bond David Cottrell Ruth Gibson Blake Morrison Becca Watts If you are interested in advertising in a future issue of Goldlink please contact us for a rate card, discounts are available to alumni. Contributions to Goldlink are welcomed by email or post. We reserve the right to edit articles in the interests of brevity or clarity.
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Dear friends I hope you enjoy this issue of Goldlink as much as we’ve enjoyed putting it together. Look out for the splendid feature on sports at the College both past and present. Blake Morrison tells us what it’s like to see your life turned into a film. While psychologist Frank Bond has written a fascinating explanation of how we can all fall in to the trap of justifying our natural tendency to avoid what we least like doing. For me the highlight of the start of term was attending the Welcome Supper for new international students. Many had arrived in the previous 24 hours and a group of current students had volunteered to come along and answer their questions about life in London. The Development and Alumni Office is here to bring Goldsmiths alumni together again and in the past six months we have organised alumni gatherings in Hong Kong and New York as well as several here at the College. But wherever you live – from Bristol to Beijing - we'd love to help you meet up with your former classmates.
There’s lots happening for Goldsmiths alumni at home and abroad, from a Far East get-together to an Honorary Fellowship celebration
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“The secret to writing is reading...” Words of wisdom from Professor of Creative Writing at Goldsmiths, Blake Morrison
ALUMNI SERVICES AND BENEFITS
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At the time of going to press, the Browne Review of student funding and the UK government’s comprehensive spending review had both just been published. We are crunching the numbers to see what it means for us and we will report to you in the next issue but of course the outlook is difficult for many people and organisations. It is wonderful therefore to have seen this year the number of alumni supporting the College increase dramatically in response to our fundraising and I would like to add my personal thanks to all those who have been able and willing to give.
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As a former student of Goldsmiths you also have access to the following services:
Best wishes
14 First Person
From badminton to basketball, a brief but fascinating history of sport at the College, plus a special tribute
Another 3XFIVE feature in which we grill a handful of alumni about their years at Goldsmiths. This time, it’s first encounters and favourite pubs
Education alumna Catherine Heseltine discusses her current highprofile role, while Professor Frank Bond reveals his latest findings
Goldlink is printed on paper accredited by the Forestry Stewardship Council.
16 Last Word
Life After Goldsmiths for two Popular Music alumni who have gone on to great things. Stylophones at the ready…
David Mungall Director, Development & Alumni
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The Development and Alumni Office helps alumni to stay in touch with the College and each other. As your ongoing link to the College, we keep you updated with the latest news through Goldlink and the quarterly e-newsletter. Just remember to let us know if you change your postal or email address so that we can keep in touch.
The opinions expressed in the magazine are those of the contributors concerned and not necessarily of Goldsmiths.
We can supply information in alternative formats for people with a visual impairment or dyslexia. Please contact the Development & Alumni Office on +44 (0)20 7078 5015 or email alumni@gold.ac.uk.
Our new landmark building and very own colony of honeybees, plus a word from the new Warden and a review of the latest books written by alumni
We also have Goldsmiths alumni groups on Linkedin and Friends Reunited. Links are available at www.gold.ac.uk/alumni
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A chance for us to say thanks to you for all your support and donations – it really is much appreciated
Please make sure to also keep us updated with your location and email address as we often send out notifications of events in the UK and overseas by email. You can update your details online at www.gold.ac.uk/alumni/update
Alumni reunions and events Events are organised throughout the year in the UK and overseas, an opportunity for you to get together with your Goldsmiths friends and meet other alumni Library access Alumni have free access to Goldsmiths Library as a reference user, charges apply if you would like to borrow books Careers advice Tailored careers advice and support is available through membership of The Careers Group, part of the University of London careers service Awards and Transcripts We can provide you with confirmation of your qualifications or a transcript of results
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In With The New
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£250,000 Donation In September the College was delighted to receive a donation of £250,000 toward the cost of the New Academic Building from the Garfield Weston Foundation, one of Britain’s leading charitable trusts. In making the gift, the Foundation said it recognised the importance of the project to the College and commended Goldsmiths’ ethos of freedom of creativity. The gift will be eligible for 50% matched funding from the Government, making the donation worth £375,000. David Mungall, Director of Development, spells out its significance: “The HEFCE matched-funding scheme runs until 31 July 2011 and it is really important that we take advantage of it by securing as many charitable donations as possible before then.”
The Warden, Pat Loughrey, reflects on his first six months at Goldsmiths since he joined from the BBC ourselves. We can’t do this. I believe we have to continue to look at how we can grow and invest in our students and their future. One of my main objectives for this year is to keep on improving the campus. Over the summer we’ve made moves to improve the areas that students told us mattered most to them. We’ve decorated and refurbished teaching rooms, replaced the lighting and air conditioning in the Library and upgraded all our catering outlets. This is aside from the impressive New Academic Building that sits proudly at the top of the College Green. It offers us great facilities and we would love you to return and explore the building yourself.
Creating a Buzz Goldsmiths now has its very own colony of honey bees. Bees are facing a tough time at the moment with loss of natural habitat and threats from pesticides, mites and so-called ‘killer bees’, having an impact on plants, flowers and crops dependent on pollination. Our bees were introduced to their new home in August and it’s hoped that the Goldsmiths colony may even provide honey by summer 2011.
Lights, Camera...
Introducing an exciting Goldsmiths landmark – the New Academic Building has now been completed and students are already enjoying the new facilities. Situated on the College Green, it is one of the largest structures to be built on the campus in the last 100 years. The stylish glass building was completed on time and to budget and has been awarded a BREEAM ‘Excellent’ rating for its environmental efficiency. Facilities include a 250-seat lecture theatre, studios, a screening room, meeting spaces and seminar rooms as well as an outside café.
A movie thriller entitled Beyond The Forest has used Goldsmiths as a filming location. Key scenes were filmed in the Senior Common Room and Kingsway Corridor, although the most gruesome sequence was shot in the dark shadows of the corridor outside the Department of Music’s Electronic Music Studio, in which a character was brutally hacked to death! Tim Crook, Lecturer in Media and Communications and Associate Producer on the film, jokes, “The appropriate risk assessment form was submitted to the College in advance of the carefully choreographed dramatic fight sequence. And I can assure everyone that the huge quantities of fake blood were properly cleaned up by the production team.”
Phone Campaign 2010 During November and early December a team of student callers will be contacting alumni in the evening and at weekends for our second phone campaign. Last year we ran our first-ever campaign, not only to raise funds for the Annual Fund but also to encourage you to get involved with Goldsmiths in other ways. We received a great response from alumni, and we’re looking forward to getting in touch with you again this year.
Our alumni are among our most important stakeholders. The network of our former students is a very impressive and influential group of people. Whether you graduated many years ago or this summer, you should feel very proud. I’ve not been here a year yet (I joined the team in April), but from the moment I first set foot on the campus I knew it was a special place. I still love the first things I noticed then: the pure energy, unpredictability and friendliness.
To help us continue to improve the things that are most important for our current students, our students of tomorrow and the institution as a whole, we need your support. That support is both reputational and financial. Just as importantly, if you or your friends are not already in touch with us, please drop us a line and let us know what you are up to. One of the watch words for universities at the moment is ‘employability’, and we would be especially keen to learn about your life now, what your future plans are, and to celebrate your successes and achievements. Your experience and your stories will shape our future.
Our challenge is to maintain and nurture that spirit. As we navigate the uncertain financial times ahead, the danger is we close in on
New Books by Alumni
People KEIR SIMMONS Keir (BA Media and Communications with Sociology, 1994) has been named as the new UK Editor for ITV News and will lead on home affairs stories. Keir joined ITN in 2004 and has held numerous roles including London Life Correspondent and more recently Crime Correspondent.
JIHAN CROWTHER Jihan (MA Writing for Performance, 2004) has won a Fellowship with the New York Foundation for the Arts. Playwright Jihan’s work has been performed at venues such as the Edinburgh Fringe and Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. NYFA’s Fellowship programme will provide her with valuable funding to continue her work.
FRED KING Fred (BA History and Politics, 2002) has been appointed as the new Director of Soccer Operations at Rutgers University in New Jersey. Fred’s responsibilities will include coaching and off-the-field player development. Fred was captain of the men’s football team at Goldsmiths and also played on the University of London team.
REBECCA DAWKINS This 2003 English graduate has set up recruitment agency Buckingham Recruitment. After Goldsmiths she went travelling and worked for a temp agency. Rebecca enjoyed it so much that this year she decided to launch her own company. Get in touch at www.buckinghamrecruitment.co.uk
KATRINA NAOMI Poet Katrina (MA Creative and Life Writing, 2008) was shortlisted for the inaugural London New Poetry Award for her first collection, The Girl with the Cactus Handshake. Currently working as the first Writer in Residence at the Bronte Parsonage Museum in Yorkshire, she has just started her PhD at Goldsmiths.
CLAIRE HEAFFORD JAMAICA TO LONDON
WILBUR’S TALE
MOVIE MAKING
ART & SOUL
HEATHER’S DIARY
Goodbye Mango Sergeant is the title of Keith Walker’s autobiography (Extra mural Economics, 1976). In the mid-60s Keith said goodbye to Jamaica, to join his mother in England. It was the Swinging Sixties but life in London for a young black man presented new challenges. Nearly 50 years on, he looks back on his life. Keith is offering copies to alumni at a 50% discount, contact us for more details.
Bronia Kita (MA Creative & Life Writing, 2006) has written her first novel, The Swansong of Wilbur McCrum. It tells the story of a drifter Wilbur whose life seems set to change after meeting someone special – before fate intervenes. Waterstones remarks: ‘Few first novels have employed imaginative freedom and picaresque invention with such aplomb’.
Ian Bell (MA Contemporary Cultural Studies & Media, 1995) is co-editor of Studying Film, a guide to cinema that explores key concepts and events that have shaped film production, and provides an overview of the medium as an art form and economic institution. Accessibly written, this new edition is an essential resource for film studies students.
Expression of Cultural Identity through Arts: South Asian in Contemporary Britain, by Abishek Kumar (MA Arts Administration & Cultural Policy, 2007) is based on research undertaken at Goldsmiths. It explores the cultural recognition of minority ethnic groups in Britain and the politics of identity in arts.
Andy Christian (BA Education with Art, 1976) is the editor of Heather Jansch’s Diary, a life in the year of… The book follows sculptor Heather Jansch, who studied briefly at Goldsmiths, over a 12 month period and includes diary entries with many photographs and illustrations of her driftwood horse sculptures.
Congratulations to Claire (MA Cultural Studies, 2006) who won a national business competition earlier this year with a prize of £50,000. She set up Papered Parlour in South London in 2009 to provide studio space and weekly workshops for contemporary craft and design. Claire will be using the prize money to invest in new equipment and create a shop front to display work.
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YOUR GOLDSMITHS Rounding up some of the recent alumni events at home and abroad
HONG KONG SOCIAL
THANKS TO YOU
DEGREES WITH HONOURS
JOLLY GOOD FELLOWS
Professor Simon McVeigh, Deputy Warden, met with Goldsmiths alumni on a visit to Hong Kong in May. The group met at a bar in Harbour City and enjoyed panoramic views across the water and the famous ‘Symphony of Lights’ display. The evening was a perfect opportunity for alumni to catch up with old friends and make new acquaintances. Rex Lam (MA Cultural Studies, 2008) said simply, “The reunion was great, looking forward to the next one.”
We were delighted to be able to thank so many of our donors at a reception at the Postgraduate Art show in July. Every donor was invited, and those who attended met some beneficiaries of their support. It was a wonderful way of saying thank you, in person, to those who have supported the College this year. Annette Bullen, Senior Development Manager, said “It was wonderful to be able to introduce our donors to some of the students who have benefited from their support and see, first hand, what a difference their donation has made. We look forward to another event next year.”
September saw the Class of 2010 come back to campus for their presentation ceremonies, with over 900 new graduates attending with friends and families. It was also a chance to celebrate this year’s Honorary Fellowships. Sociology alumnus Rob Stringer, now chairman of Sony Music, was honoured 26 years after his first graduation ceremony. Rob, who’s been described as ‘one of the most powerful figures in the music business’, once booked bands as Social Secretary of the Students’ Union. Fellow recipients included documentary film-maker Paul Watson, theatre director Declan Donnellan and gallery director Iwona Blazwick. Honorary degrees were bestowed upon the poet Fleur Adcock and historian Professor Dipesh Chakrabarty.
The Honorary Fellowship of the College is awarded to people who have achieved distinction in their chosen area or made a significant contribution to furthering the work or interests of the College. Each year the Fellows Dinner brings many back to Goldsmiths during graduation week. This year, attendees included actor Timothy Spall, documentary film-maker Paul Watson, and fashion legend Mary Quant OBE. Pictured are Mary and Warden Pat Loughrey.
FORTHCOMING EVENTS College Carol Concert, 15 December, 6.30pm We hope you can join us at this annual event. The concert in the Great Hall will feature multi-faith readings, carols and performances and will be followed by mulled wine and mince pies. All are welcome and the concert is free to attend though we do ask you to register in advance at www.gold.ac.uk/carolconcert
Education Alumni Reception at the House of Lords, 24 February, 3.30pm
MOLE WHIPPERS, ANYONE? The Students’ Union hosted a reunion of former members of the Mole Whippers Society, organised by Paul Butterworth (BA Social Science & Administration, 1979). Guests reminisced about their days as part of the curiously-named club, which arranged social events at the College in the late 70s. The moniker did cause a stir once when an RSPCA official turned up to a meeting and had to be reassured that no animals were being harmed!
COMMUNITY & YOUTH WORK ANNIVERSARY This year marked 40 years of Community and Youth Work training at the College. To celebrate the anniversary, a group of former students came together for a day of talks and workshops discussing the big issues. Attendees ranged from some of the students from the 1970 intake to more recent graduates. Founding Course Director, Dr Jo Klein, was the guest of honour and said: “I’m delighted to come back to the College and talk to you, it’s like meeting my great grandchildren!”
FAMILY AFFAIR
Goldsmiths Council member, Baroness Estelle Morris, will host an afternoon tea at the House of Lords for teaching alumni from the 1950s to the 1980s. Invitation letters will be sent out shortly with further details.
Also coming up in 2011: Here are three generations of Goldsmiths alumnae from the same family. When Alice Alberici (BSc Psychology, 2010) graduated, she was accompanied by her mother and grandmother, both alumnae. Kay Aldridge left Goldsmiths in 1951 with a Teaching Certificate, then her daughter Mel McMahon studied Communications, graduating in 1982.
Annual Dean Lecture Degree Show Alumni Reception Please make sure that we have your current email address so that we can send you details about these, and other, alumni events in the UK and overseas. You can update your details easily at www.gold.ac.uk/alumni/update
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BLAKE’S
odyssey
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Genevieve Kantoch speaks to Blake Morrison about his dual role as acclaimed writer and Goldsmiths professor When I arrive at Blake Morrison’s office on the third floor of Warmington Tower, he’s on the phone to a student offering some words of advice. Pinned to the office door is a list of some of the recently published writers whom he’s taught on the Goldsmiths MA course. Blake has been a Professor of Creative and Life Writing here for seven years, so what is it he enjoys most about working at the College? “Well I guess Warmington Tower isn’t the most beautiful building so that’s one small downside! I’ve always loved walking into the Main Building and feeling there is a sort of energy about it. It’s an attractive building and you pass people having real conversations about ideas. “It’s a cliché about Goldsmiths, but it does have that creative energy to it and obviously I like that. I work on the MA and PhD Creative Writing courses and we get some extremely good students. To see them develop is a very rewarding part of the job.”
It’s a cliché about Goldsmiths, but it does have that creative energy By its very nature writing is a solitary profession, and it’s easy to imagine that teaching could distract from the creative process. But Blake enjoys the balance. “I know most men are not meant to be able to multi-task, but I’m used to working in different forms. I wouldn’t say that the teaching necessarily feeds into the writing, but it doesn’t harm it and at best it probably does stimulate it because of the conversations you have with people about writing. “I do value my private time and there is always a danger the demands increase and students can, just out of pure enthusiasm, take up a lot of your time. You have got to keep a little bit in reserve, but it’s a very stimulating place to be.” Blake’s writing career began with poetry and he has since worked in every genre including journalism, fiction, literary criticism and libretti, as well as adapting plays for the stage. He recalls his development: “I started off as a poet then I wrote a couple of memoirs and non-fiction narratives and more recently it’s been novels. “This summer I’ve come back to poetry again for the first time
in a long time. I remember as a boy being sent to do homework and made to write a poem. I’d never done such a thing before. I decided it wasn’t so bad, and then I wrote adolescent poems of self-pity for a bit. You have different phases where you think, ‘I want to write poetry’. It went away at university and then came back. I went to Canada to do an MA and on the boat back to London for the first time I thought, ‘This is what I’m going to do now. I’m going to be a poet, I’m going to be a writer’. He’s perhaps best-known for his award-winning memoir And When Did You Last See Your Father? written in 1993 and turned into a 2007 film starring Jim Broadbent and Juliet Stevenson, with Colin Firth playing the character of Blake. “I had a long time to get used to the fact that this personal book was actually going to be out there as a movie, and by the time it was made I was more willing to let go than at the beginning. Someone else did the screenplay, but they did involve me. I talked to the director and the actors and went onset a few times. It’s a different medium and you have to trust people to do their work. “The first time watching it with friends, I was quite embarrassed. I went to the opening, which wasn’t a grand Leicester Square opening but at Hampstead Everyman cinema, which was very nice. Then I got the DVD and I’ve never watched it since. It feels self-indulgent or narcissistic somehow to be watching it. But I feel it did justice to the book. It was a good cast and well-directed and I would have loved it to be a huge box-office hit. But it was well-reviewed and well-received.” To his students, eager to learn the secret to successful creative writing, what advice does he give? “The secret to writing is reading. There are two things we always say to students. First, read when you come here – as well as writing you have to read a lot because you’ll never develop your own style, voice and unique way of writing without reading other writers. And secondly, learn to revise – the exciting feeling when you dash something out is great and you need that, but you also need to step back and look it at calmly and objectively. “One of the things that the MA system does is to get people into groups. Instead of being in isolation and not being able to have a detached
view of your own work, suddenly you have all these other people saying, ‘I think that worked, I don’t like that, I like that’. There are things you are blind to in your own writing that others can see, whether they are students, supervisors or tutors.”
The secret to writing is reading Neither should any of them be oblivious to challenges posed by the current economic climate. It’s clearly a concern for Blake. “People in the arts in particular are worried about what’s going to happen. So much depends on the work going on in art and music and literature, and it would worry me that the humanities suffer. You have to keep making the case that the arts do enormously help the economy.” As I leave, the time is drawing near for his weekly drop-in tutorial sessions. It’s only the first week of term, but a queue of eager undergraduate students are waiting patiently outside the office. Who knows, maybe one day their names will be on the list pinned to the door.
WIN BLAKE’S BOOK We have a signed copy of Blake’s memoir And When Did You Last See Your Father? to give away. When we asked Blake which book he’d want to have if he were stuck on a desert island, he replied: “Homer’s Odyssey because there is a lot about islands and travelling in it.” So, which book would you choose and why? The most original entry wins. Email alumni@gold.ac.uk by 31 January 2011 with your answer, and please include your course and graduation year.
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THIS SPORTING LIFE
REMEMBERING MARK JAMES
From rum and milk before a quick dip, to new clubs for kung fu and basketball, the College has always excelled in the world of sport…
Mark James, the Principal Lecturer in Physical Education at the College from 1950 until 1976, died on 13 October 2009 aged 93, writes Al Barclay
Rugby Team 1930
Tennis during First World War
For today’s students Goldsmiths may not be best-known for its athletic achievements, but sport has a strong tradition at the College. From the very earliest days at the beginning of the 20th century, athletic and sporting clubs played a major part in student life and there were many matches against other colleges. As well as the success of the men’s rugby and football teams, the women’s hockey, badminton and netball teams were also consistent performers. Moreover Goldsmiths had strong water-polo and swimming teams who practiced in the nearby swimming pool. In one account of the College’s history, a student from 1912
Of all our lecturers at Goldsmiths, Mark still stands out as the most admired and inspirational. Even today there exists a special camaraderie amongst his former PE students which becomes evident at reunions when we often gather together for a group photograph. He was an iconic figure whose dedication to his subject plus his enthusiasm, his physical abilities, his sincerity and his leadership resulted in our being able to exceed what we thought to be the limits of our prowess in both gymnastic and sporting capabilities.
Rugby Team 2010
recalls: ‘The baths were open in the summer term at 6.30am and one could have an appetizer of rum and milk for 1 ½ d at the Marquis of Granby pub which in those days opened at 5.30am’. In addition to extracurricular sports, physical education was also a core component of the two-year teacher training courses, including the instruction of gymnastics and swimming. Then, in 1937, a special third-year course in Physical Education was introduced. The sporting life of the College was celebrated at the annual Sports Day, which was both a competitive and social occasion. As well as athletics, the early years of the annual event saw the popularity of matches in wrestling, boxing, billiards
and fencing. A new inclusion in 1949 was the Annual Road Race which involved the cross-country runners racing from New Cross to Dean Hall. Today, some of the traditions may have changed but sport still plays a part in the life of the College. There are more than 23 teams and the number of students in sports clubs is rising. As well as the traditional sports such as football, cricket and rugby, some of the newer clubs to be introduced include kung fu, cheerleading and basketball. This renewed enthusiasm is starting to pay dividends and in the last academic year, Goldsmiths sports teams achieved the highest number of points
on record for the College in the British Universities & Colleges Sport Championship. They were the league winners in men’s rugby and men’s hockey and runners-up in netball and men’s football. For the second year running, Goldsmiths also won the Varsity Cup. Introduced in 2006, the Varsity tournament is a friendly sports contest between Goldsmiths and the University of the Arts London. Alumni also play their part in continuing the Goldsmiths sporting tradition. Oldsmiths Athletic FC play regular fixtures in a South London division and have an annual match against Goldsmiths men’s football team. This year, this long-standing
fixture will be renamed in remembrance of alumnus Tim Ward-Wilson who died tragically in a climbing accident in 2009 at the age of 25. This year also saw a cricket match between Oldsmiths and the current student team, and it’s hoped this will now be an annual fixture.
If you’re a sporting alumnus interested in getting involved with the current teams, or you’d like to let us know about your sporting successes, please contact the Sports & Recreational Manager, Ruth Gibson, at r.gibson@gold.ac.uk
Basketball Team 2010
Sports Day 1908
We were all amazed by the detail into which Mark entered when teaching any physical activity from a simple handstand to a terrifying springboard-assisted neckspring over the long box. His avuncular manner, particularly when visiting us on our teaching practices, was always encouraging and any criticism constructive. Mark’s favourite and much-imitated exhortation to us at the start of every sporting activity was, “Right chaps! Let’s have bags of activity this morning.” The words “bags of activity” were often repeated in the changing room prior to a PE session and in lugubrious tones on dull, damp and freezing winter mornings.
It was great to see Mark at the first biennial reunion in 1998 which marked the 40th anniversary of our leaving Goldsmiths. He also attended in 2000 and on both occasions he became the centre of attention to many former students of PE and residents of Aberdeen Hall where he was Hostel Head for many years. At Aberdeen he was regarded as a father figure, always ready to offer guidance and care. Other former students have also paid tribute to Mark. Jan Brand recalls how Mark was always immaculately turned out in the kit appropriate to the particular sport he was coaching. Lyn and Geoff Albrighton said that Mark’s standards were so high everyone strove not to let the PE Department down and that Mark set a standard which everyone tried to emulate. They also remarked on his prowess on the rugby field plus the fact that he was still playing for Westcombe Park in his forties. Don Stratton summed up the attitude of most of us when he said, “he changed my life through his example and encouragement.” With his infectious enthusiasm Mark instilled in us a discipline and a positive attitude towards life which remains with us today.
3XFIVE
12 Your Shout
First impressions, favourite watering holes and fond – but sometimes sad – farewells. It’s time for five more alumni to spill the beans
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AOWEN JIN
AL BARCLAY
FAISAL MALIK
MIRIAM HALAHMY
JEFF WELLS
Aowen (BA Textiles, 2006) is a Londonbased Chinese artist, producing artworks using a wide range of media. She currently has a solo exhibition in London that will tour to Tokyo and Shanghai. Find out more at www.jinaowen.com
Al Barclay (TCert, 1958) completed two years of national service before coming to Goldsmiths to train to be a teacher. He spent more than 45 years teaching in secondary schools in London and Luton and now works as a volunteer at his grandchildren’s primary school.
Faisal (BA Communication Studies, 1999) manages the marketing and corporate development of a global information security firm. He still lives near the College and got married earlier this year.
Miriam (BA Education with History, 1974) taught for 30 years after leaving Goldsmiths before becoming a writer. She has published short and long fiction for adults and teenagers and her new cycle of three novels will be published in 2011. Visit www.miriamhalahmy.com
After gaining his degree, Jeff (BA History, 1983) worked in banking then moved to the US with his partner Pascale, whom he met at Goldsmiths. He is based in St Louis and heads up marketing at high-tech computer firm Exegy Inc.
Can you remember the first person you met at College?
My tutors. Before applying I simply asked my teacher which was the best place to study in Britain, and Goldsmiths was the answer. I was worried that the ‘famous school’ would not take on a foreign student with only one year of art training, but I was amazed at their openness and kindness.
The first person I met was Alan Dixon with whom I’d just spent my two years of National Service in the RAF. We had both looked forward to our two years of teacher training and studying the same main subject, which was Art – something in which Goldsmiths excelled.
Anamik Saha. My initial thought of ‘What a disgrace’ soon upped to ‘What an utter disgrace!’ Of course we got on brilliantly and were on the same course for three years. Some 13 years later, he remains a very good mate and was recently a guest at my wedding.
Hazel Entwistle, who at 19 was my ‘house mum’ in Surrey House. She was tall and confident and we were firm friends until her untimely death at the age of 41. We toured Holland on bikes, never missed a disco and stayed out of the drug scene of the 1970s. I went on demonstrations against apartheid, Hazel took up sailing. I still miss her.
I cannot swear in a court of law that Jeremy Bailey was the first person I met at Goldsmiths in 1980, but he probably was. Jeremy was my first room-mate and the first Creationist I’d ever met. This prepared me well for Missouri, USA, where I now live.
Did you have a favourite local pub or bar?
The Goldsmiths Tavern has a pool table, darts, and a dance floor. What more do you need to chat up good-looking boys during your first year at Uni? Then I went to the Amersham Arms for live music in the second year.
Everyone’s favourite pub was The Rosemary Branch, which was known to all of us as ‘The Rosie’.
The Hoy in Deptford, next to RacMac halls. It had a free pool table and the place was amicably split with fresh faced students on the left and battle hardened geezers on the right. Never any trouble and you could pop in at any point for a cheeky one and find yourself there 12 hours later.
The Rosemary Branch, of course. First night of term everyone piled in there elbowing the locals out the way. I remember one young guy being collared by a local worker, yelling, “You go on about the workers and you’ve never done a day’s work!” He was right, of course – we were long-haired layabouts on grants. He was paying for our beer through his taxes.
My favourite place was the Dean Hall basement common room. Not really a pub but on Sundays Steve Gribbin would play the guitar, sing and generally entertain us and the beer was cheap. After that, the Gypsy Moth.
What are your main memories from your graduation day?
A profound sense of achievement and self-respect. There was a tough period in College where I almost felt like giving up. So the day of the graduation was filled with bittersweet pride. I remember throwing my hat in the air with my friends, and I was made to pose most of the time instead of getting drunk so my mother could take nice photos.
It always struck me as sad that there was no final day of ceremony. We just left on the day of our last examination, which in my case was 8 July 1958 when I laid down my pen, mounted my Lambretta scooter and rode out of the gate for the last time as a student. My Teaching Certificate arrived later by post.
I remember the Warden Ben Pimlott’s very impressive speech and thinking he was actually quite a nice chap. I also recall my good friend Claire Baker’s dad giving her £50 to buy her friends drinks and giving me a cigar in the pub. He wasn’t one for words, but you could see how proud of his daughter he was that day.
I had just come back from a year living in France and was not the least bit interested in my graduation day. My mum persuaded me to go and it was just a cattle market at the Albert Hall. We trooped up in a long line wearing those awful hats. I don’t think I even had a photo. When I got my MA in 1996 I made sure I had a souvenir photo!
I was foolish enough to reject graduation day as being a sellout to the establishment, so I boycotted it. Fortunately, I acquired my Masters (and some maturity) in 1985 and realised that graduation was really important to my mum. She was as proud as punch and very happy with my bow to Princess Anne.
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A HIGHER EDUCATION
Research News Dr Jonathan Freeman of i2media research in the Department of Psychology, has been awarded Goldsmiths’ largest research grant to date of 6.5 million Euros. Dr Freeman is leading a consortium of European universities on a four year project which will take the merging of virtual reality and human consciousness to new levels. The Collective Experience of Empathic Data Systems (CEEDS) project aims to help us understand how sensory information is delivered to, and interpreted by, the brain. It will also provide new methods and tools to merge real and virtual spaces and find new ways for people to understand massive amounts of data.
Catherine Heseltine left Goldsmiths with a BA Education in 2002 and was a nursery school teacher for eight years. Earlier this year she became the first female Chief Executive Officer of a British Muslim organisation
What did you enjoy most about your course?
How did your conversion to Islam come about? I’d started to find out about Islam at sixth form through my boyfriend who was a Muslim. Then my first year at university gave me the opportunity to research the religion for myself and talk to different Muslims about their beliefs. That really challenged a lot of my assumptions and preconceptions. Gradually my understanding of Islam shifted from stereotypes to a perception of the beauty and simplicity of the beliefs that inspired an astounding civilisation. My friends were supportive of my decision to convert – even if they did find it strange that I would want to give up drinking alcohol!
I loved looking at the history, philosophy and sociology of education and then relating it to practical realities we’d experienced on our teaching practice. And I also enjoyed the handson nature of the course. For instance, spending happy afternoons in the art studio with clay, paint, glue and glitter. We had some great lecturers on our course – people who were passionate about what they were teaching and could really get you thinking.
Tell us about your new role.
What was your favourite place on campus?
Looking back on your time here, what did Goldsmiths teach you?
One of my favourite places at Goldsmiths was the prayer room – I could pop in and get away from the stress of coursework deadlines, and I’d always bump into friends. During Ramadan in the winter it was lovely because we’d come to the prayer room to break our fast together with lots of different kinds of homemade food. I liked the Turkish dishes best.
As the CEO, I help to set the strategic direction for the work of our teams of volunteers in branches across the country. I also speak on Muslim issues in the media and on public platforms. I think the most important skills for leadership are the ability to listen and consult effectively with your team. Confidence and passion for your cause are also essential.
My course taught me about issues of multiculturalism and equal opportunities, and also showed me the profound impact of politics on all aspects of our lives. My time at Goldsmiths also taught me a lot through the different people I met there, of all different ages and from many different backgrounds. That in itself was a great education.
Why do tunes get stuck in our heads? The Music, Mind and Brain group is currently conducting research into this, in collaboration with BBC 6 Music and the British Academy. The group are running a number of projects examining the nature and prevalence of having a tune stuck in your head – or having an ‘earworm’. Earworms are a very common phenomenon but very little is known about what causes earworms, why they happen to some people more than others and why some tunes are more commonly heard as an earworm than others. You can help the research by relating your own earworm experiences at http://earwormery.com Siva Pillai from the Department of Educational Studies has delivered a paper at the World Tamil Conference in India. The paper details how he and his team have helped influence the teaching of Tamil in the UK – a language spoke mainly in southern India, Sri Lanka and Singapore – by using innovative methods to engage the students. Tamil is taught in over 80 schools throughout the UK but students have a limited time to learn the language. Through music, students learn to vocalise the words by singing aloud before teachers encourage them to look in more depth at the words and the letters themselves. A new carbon-management tool ‘GreenInsight’ has been developed by researchers in the Department of Computing and colleagues at the University of Reading. The revolutionary tool measures and advises companies on the green credentials of products that they purchase. Richard Benyon, Minister for Natural Environment, has praised the technology and ground-breaking research undertaken in its development. Plaudits have been forthcoming from institutions already using GreenInsight, and it could potentially change the way organisations manage and measure their green targets.
THE HAZARDS OF EXPERIENTIAL AVOIDANCE In the first of a new series of reports from the frontline of Goldsmiths research, Frank W Bond, Head of the Department of Psychology, talks us through his fascinating concept of ‘experiential avoidance’ Are we becoming slaves to our emotions? Interested in only doing what ‘feels good’? Unwilling to experience discomfort or frustration, even to do something that’s good for us – such as exercising to keep fit or eating chips sparingly? There are certainly some signs that we are falling into this trap. For example, in the UK we are getting fatter, with recent research showing that 20% more adults are obese today than in the 1960s. Even more worryingly, we are not even trying to lose weight: in the 1960s, 93% of overweight people surveyed said that they were trying to lose weight; today that figure is 43%. Over the past 10 to 15 years, researchers have identified a psychological process that leads us to behave in ways that not only damage us but
that also prevent us from having a fulfilling life. It is called experiential avoidance, and it describes an unwillingness to pursue our goals and values if doing so means that we experience thoughts and feelings that we don’t like. Thus we show experiential avoidance if we value being healthy but do not try to lose weight, because we don’t like feeling hungry or we very much dislike taking exercise. Research is beginning to see experiential avoidance as an important factor in a widevariety of problem behaviours, from the everyday type (eg procrastination) to the more serious kinds (obesity, anxiety and depression). So people may avoid beginning a project because they do not want to feel the anxiety that accompanies it. The problem is, of course, that trying to avoid this anxiety may mean that we don’t do our project as creatively, carefully or thoroughly as we would wish. In addition, research has shown that when we try to avoid or suppress our unwanted thoughts and feelings, they become stronger and more frequent. Thus, the more we try to avoid feeling frustrated at not being able to have crisps, the more frustration we will feel and the more likely we will be to ‘give in’ to this frustration and eat, eat, eat. What can be done about this? Over the past 15 years researchers – including my team at Goldsmiths – have developed a new generation of cognitive-behaviour therapies otherwise known as CBTs (which are the evidence-based psychotherapies of choice in the NHS). These therapies show people how they can approach and experience their unwanted feelings so that they don’t have to control their behaviour (eg leading them to over-eat). We also find that these CBT techniques tend to decrease the negative emotional impact that people’s anxieties, fears and disappointments have on them. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy is one example of these new CBTs, and if you are interested in liberating yourself from the sometimes unhelpful control that your thoughts and feelings have on you, I would recommend an excellent book by Russ Harris called The Happiness Trap.
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LIFE AFTER GOLDSMITHS Lisbee Stainton and Laura Bettinson (BA Popular Music, 2009) collaborated on their course and are now both enjoying success in the music world
OBITUARIES VIC KELLY Professor A V Kelly, who was Goldsmiths’ Dean of Education until 1994, died on 21 July 2010. Alan Downie, Head of the Department of English, writes “Vic came to Goldsmiths in 1961 and was Head of Department when Goldsmiths merged with Rachel Macmillan College and St Gabriel’s, upon which he became Dean of Goldsmiths’ School of Education. Vic’s career spanned the period during which Goldsmiths College made the transition to become a School of the University and his part in this process can scarcely be overstated. He was Dean of the School of Education when Richard Hoggart first applied for University School status in 1979 and when that status was granted with effect from 1 August 1988. Vic's personal chair was in curriculum studies and although Vic published extensively throughout his career, he is undoubtedly best known for his book, first published in 1977, The Curriculum: Theory and Practice, the sixth edition of which was published in 2009. As an epigraph, Vic used
NOËLLE MANN
Lisbee: “I met Laura at the introductory lecture of the Popular Music course. Our year had about 25 people so everyone worked closely together. Laura and I did a few projects, my favourite being our improvisation exam where we connected two small stylophones to practice amps, guitar pedals and a loop station and made a lot of noise! We did a fair amount of collaborating at university but sadly not a huge amount now. Our music is like chalk and cheese and we work with different people and genres. Since leaving I’ve released an album Girl on an Unmade Bed and toured the UK and Europe supporting Joan Armatrading, an amazing experience. Currently I’m on my own three-month tour around Europe and the UK.”
Laura: “Lisbee and I met on the first day of university in 2006. I recall her wearing some sort of floral knitwear concoction, and she remembers my orange hair. We had a shared attitude and ambition that cemented our friendship, and I was even one of the backing singers for her final performance in 2009. On completing my final year at Goldsmiths I played the Glastonbury and Latitude festivals with my music project Dimbleby & Capper. I recorded a live Maida Vale session for BBC Radio 1 and landed myself in Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich’s band. At some point maybe Lisbee and I will carry on with our experimental double act - ladies in heels with stylophones in hands and amps up to 11 can never date, right?”
To find out more about the music of Lisbee and Laura, see www.lisbeestainton.com and www.myspace.com/dimblebyandcapper
THAT WAS THEN
1993 In this year HRH The Princess Royal, Chancellor of the University of London, presided over the Presentation Ceremonies at Goldsmiths. This was the first time she had taken on this role for one of the University of London’s Colleges. During the ceremonies, Honorary Fellowships were awarded to director Sir Richard Eyre, community worker Sybil Phoenix, the jurist and alumnus Lord Slynn and alumna and fashion designer Mary Quant (who you can also see pictured on page 7).
Noëlle, a long-standing member of the Department of Music at Goldsmiths, passed away on 23 April 2010. Dr Stephen Cottrell, former Head of Department, writes: “Noëlle first arrived in the Department as a student in the early 1980s, and immediately impressed the teaching staff with her intelligence, charm, and above all her passion for music in general and Russian music in particular. Over the ensuing years her indefatigable energy, combined with a love of both scholarship and performance, ensured that Russian music was never far from the Departmental horizon.
a quotation from Bertrand Russell’s Unpopular Essays: 'The teacher, like the artist, the philosopher and the man of letters, can only perform his work adequately if he feels himself to be an individual directed by an inner creative impulse, not dominated and fettered by an outside authority.' Vic took a keen interest in sport throughout his life, playing football for his College, and switching allegiance from Liverpool FC to West Ham because his son wanted to go to Upton Park. Despite his being a life-long radical, Vic’s love of racing led to his taking The Daily Telegraph (in addition to The Racing Post) because of its superior sports coverage. Our interminable discussions in The Rosemary Branch or, in later years, The Marquis of Granby, of the reasons for the failure of successive English football and cricket teams will remain some of my fondest memories of Vic. I will miss them. At Goldsmiths, Vic was well known for his forthright views on all aspects of College life. Yet he was immensely fair and open to ideas that were not his own. As Dean, he fiercely championed the interests of his department, while at the same time retaining a strong sense of collegiality, championing the work of younger scholars, including myself, regardless of department or discipline. He will be sorely missed not only by his widow, Geva Blenkin, and his children and grandchildren, but by all who knew him."
which draws scholars from all over the world and comprises one of the most important international collections of material relating to the composer; the Serge Prokofiev Association and the Centre for Russian Music. It is entirely because of her vision and energy that the College now has one of the world's most important collections of Russian music source materials outside of Russia itself. Noëlle was also an inspiring teacher who enthused numerous students in the Department over many years with the courses that she developed and delivered. Noëlle's energy, passion and commitment to both Goldsmiths and Russian music will be much missed by her friends and colleagues in the College. In many ways she is irreplaceable, but the legacy she leaves us by way of archival materials, important scholarship, and our memories of her boundless joie de vivre, ensure that she will not easily be forgotten.”
During her time at Goldsmiths she created the Kalina Choir which specialised in the performance of Russian choral repertoire; the Serge Prokofiev Archive,
Alumni are invited to attend a memorial concert celebrating her life and work at 19:30 on 8 December at Queen Elizabeth Hall, South Bank Centre, London, SE1 8XX, www.southbankcentre.co.uk
CATHERINE JORDAN
MICHAEL KILCOYNE
Alumnus David O’Neale writes: “Cath Jordan died on 27 May 2010, she was 55. Cath came to Goldsmiths in 1973 to study on the BMus course. Unfortunately, along with five others out of 20 of us, she failed the first year preliminary exams. Many thought they were harder than the finals, but re-taking was not for Cath and she went to work in stockbroking. She then studied in Leeds and Manchester before going to work for the Inland Revenue, initially in Liverpool and then Shrewsbury.
Michael (BA Education with Science, 1983) died in March 2008. He worked as a publications manager and was an important figure in local politics in Bolton. He spent 16 years serving as a local councilor and was on the board of the Royal Bolton Hospital and a governor at a number of schools. He held the post of Mayor of Horwich, the third generation of his family to do so. As a staunch Labour supporter, he also briefly held the post of chairman of the local party. He was well known for his campaigning stance and in particular led calls for tougher laws on fireworks. Cllr Cliff Morris, leader of Bolton Council said: "He was an articulate and talented man of the community. He always put Bolton first and will be very sadly missed."
It is a testament to nearly four decades of friendship based on a few years together in London, that around a dozen mourners with Goldsmiths’ connections travelled the length and breadth of the country to be at her funeral in Congleton. Back in 2004, I organised a reunion of Goldsmiths music students. Cath wrote afterwards: ‘I’m so very, very glad that I went. Even if you did confront me with the prelims exam paper that was my downfall – I nearly keeled over when I saw that! How to describe last Saturday? Amazing, brilliant, wonderful just don’t seem to measure up somehow.’ Cath was a wonderful letter-writer and it seems fitting that some of this obituary contains her own words. A highlight for Cath was to go back to her hall of residence, Pentland, now totally occupied by students from Trinity College of Music. She was the only one to get access to her old room, where the current student had ‘Bach lives!’ emblazoned on his wall. Ah!”
We have also been requested to to notify alumni that Dave Turner (Handicraft, 1969) and Margaret Easterfield, née Marsh (TCert, 1946) have also died this year.
The extracts above are taken from longer obituaries. For a full copy of these obituaries, please visit www.gold.ac.uk/alumni/Goldlink or contact the Alumni Office.
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THANK YOU This list gratefully acknowledges donations received by the Development and Alumni Office from our alumni, staff, and other friends from 1 October 2009 to 30 September 2010. Thank you to everyone listed here, and those who wish to remain anonymous, for supporting students, teaching and research at Goldsmiths. You can join our growing number of donors by: • Supporting our Annual Fund - see the leaflet enclosed or call 020 7919 7265 • Setting up a scholarship or bursary - call 020 7078 5015 • Leaving a Legacy – call 020 7919 7265 and ask for our leaflet which gives more information • Or visit www.gold.ac.uk/giving-to-goldsmiths
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Pledged legacies The College would like to thank all those individuals who have informed us that they have decided to make the exceptional commitment of remembering the College in their will. We gratefully acknowledge the support of Anthony Powell (BSc Geography 1989) and those who prefer to remain anonymous.
Legacy gifts The College would like to pay a special tribute to the late Clifford Caple who sadly passed away this year and most generously left a bequest.
MATCHED FUNDING There has never been a better time to give to Goldsmiths as the government’s Matched Giving scheme adds 50 pence to every pound we receive. With Gift Aid and Matched Giving, £100 can become £187. However, the scheme runs out on 31 July 2011 so please consider supporting the College before the deadline.
There’s never been a better time to make a difference The Matched Giving scheme for universities ends next summer. For every £2 given to the College by 31 July 2011 we will receive an extra £1 at no cost to you. This also applies to gifts from overseas. Gifts will be used by the Annual Fund to improve the student experience, support student projects and fund new scholarships. There really has never been a better time to make a difference to Goldsmiths. “The Annual Fund enabled us to set up new bursaries that would otherwise never have existed. We received 58 applications for just five bursaries - a strong indicator of the serious financial challenges currently facing students. I sincerely hope we can offer this scheme again next year.” Shanaz Begum Bursaries and Scholarships Officer
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