Comment 004 March 1985

King's College London (KQC) newsletter

I Questions

for the Principal

The Principal, Professor Stewart Sutherland, recently took time to talk to COMMENT and to answer some of the questions put to him by readers.

There has been much speculation and worry dl.rilly past months over the merger: how do you see your appointment 'clearing the air' and what issues will demand immediate attention?

A number of decisions concerning future patterns of activity and some policy questions had reawnably been put into the 'pending' tray 'until the new Principal is named'. These can now be brought forward for consideration and action. It would have been a mistake to rush ahead on these without input from the person who must in the end take responsibility for putting them into effect. These include questions such as stn~tegy over sites, the structure of committees and the developmp.nt of links with the worlds of industry and business. These matters are now being given my imr:1E1diate attention.

Whnt do you feel is our most pressing problem in the short term?

What we have to do now is to ensure

that we all learn to work together as one College. This relates initially to teaching, learning and research. Students are helping a great deal ovp.r the matter of Departments working on more than one site, and some of my colleagues have willingly accepted additional travelling, teaching and administrative burdens. We must capitalise on this positive attitude to face the irksome, detailed but most import,nt changes which are the pre-condition of continuing and growing quality.

Has the merger really enhanced our chances of competing successfully for high calibre students and adequate funding?

I have no doubt whatsoever that the merger was the only way of er:wring that share ('f a diminishing financial cake necessary to look to a healthy academic future, and all the signs so far indicate that student applications ..... continued overpage

NEW BLOOD FOR THE COLLEGE In the final round of UGC allocations King's has been awarded four 'New Blood' pests and one post in Information Technology, detailed below.

New Blood Department Pharmacy and Pharmacology (Professor Gorrod and Professor Born)

Research Area Medicinal Chemistry

Biophysics (Professor Simmons)

Chromatin Studies

Mathematics (Or Saunders)

Pure Mathematics

German (Professor Wisbey)

German: Applied Language

Infolmation Technology post Physics (Professor Burge) Optical Computing (Relating to Man Machin Interface)

Shaving foam played its inevitable part in this year's Rag activities, but so too did the raising of money for the Greater London Fund for the Blind and for St Mary-Ie-Strand :report inside. (photos by Fleur Chapman)

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have gone up, in number and in quality.

'In our fiE Id it's the best job in the country' He was riqhtl After eight years I can't think of a place I'd rather be.

The uncertainty of locations continues; when might we know who will be where?

Your career to date has been that of an Academic - teacher, author and editor; will you be able to continue to develop this in your role as Principal?

We are making very good progress in our negotiations with the relevant government bodies over Cornwall House. This lies at the centre of our policy for housing a very large part of our scientific activity. We are also engaged on an exercise to persuade the UGC to support us financially in this project, although clearly some funds will have to come from other sources. Decisions on the final location of many Departments are intimately bound up with these negotiations.

When I met the Committee whose responsibility it was to make recommendations to the Council, I made it plain that I saw the post of Principal as one which should draw on a broad experience of academic life and which should, as far as possible, be coupled with continuing academic activity. I shall continue to edit a journal and also a series of books; I hope to continue writing and also hope that I shall be occasionally be asked to give a lecture.

Is Somerset House a realistic option?

One of you own children is currently ar-plying for university: would you advise them to come to King's?

I think that (our planning at this stage should have as one of its variables the question of the best use of the East Wing of Somerset House. Other pans of Somerset House are clearly a much longer-term possibility.

Why are we talking with Westfield?

It is important to us and to the University, as well as to Westfield, that the arts-base at Westfield continues its excellent work. We believe that the quality of work in the Arts Faculties at King's and Westfield will flourish if they are brought in close association with one another. Alw, Westfield has much else to offer us in a mutual association, for example excellent provision for student residence.

Universities f.,ce hard times: what major problems will King's have to face in the next five years?

Putting our academic plans into effect and working to achieve our aspirations for the future will be our major concerns.

How will we finance this in the context of a government policy which is cutting the resources available to universities?

Securing this funding, in recurrent terms finding money for posts, books, equipment and support services al"'d in capital terms getting the money needed to bring us together on one site, will be our prime task.

Yes - unr.er a pseudonym.

Principal, thank you for your time.

STAFF NEWS PERSONNEL NEWS King's College Appointments

When I first talked to a colleague about the Chair of History and Philosophy of Religion at King's he said quite simply,

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1.6.85 4.3.85

11.2.85 19.11.84

1.5.85 23.1.85 1.3.85

4.2.85 13.2.85 25.3.85 1.2.85 4.3.85

Miss Elizabeth Castle, Principal's Office Mr E. Fereday, Library Assistant P. T. Mrs R. Hardman, Library Assistant P. T. Mrs K. Mackintosh, Admissions Assistant, Registry Mr D.J. Wagstaff, Assistant Librarian (Half time) Mr B.C. Andrews, Fitter

Resignations 22.2.85 22.2.85 22.2.85 8.3.85

Miss B. Pinnock, Secretarial Assistant Miss A. Harvey, Secretarial Assistant Mr J. Chapman, Library Assistant Mrs T. L. Chin, Chemistry

28.2.85

Mr W. Mc Bride, Fitter

Chelsea College Appointments 11.2.85

Miss C.A. Buckler, Secret-

Ms G. E. Chapman, Lecturer, Nursing Studies Miss B.M. Gale. Short-Life Housing Assistant, Academic Registrar's Dept.

Mrs K. Jenkins, Secretary, Students' Union P.T. (Temp) Mr G. Lazzari, Programmer/ Development Officer, Educational Computing Section, CSME (Temp) Mr J.F. Osborne, Lecturer in Science Education, CSM E Mr T.P. Smith, Porter, Domestic Administration Mrs C.A. Yates, Research Assistant, CSME (Temp.)

Leavers 5.3.85 1.3.85 24.2.85

Mrs A.L. Donachie, Technician, Pharmacy Mrs A. L. Howes, Cleaner, Domestic Administration P.T. Mrs D.M. Newman, Secretary, Physiology

KOC APPOINTMENTS 1.3.85 1.8.85 6.3.85

22.1.85

Retirement We are all concerned with making King's an attractive place to be; may we ask, on a more personal note, what first attracted you to King's College?

arial Assistant, Personnel Office (Temp.)

6.2.85

Mrs J. Staight, Assistant Secretary (Kensington Campus) Mr G. T. Hughes, Assistant Secretary (Chelsea Campus) Mr M. Osmundson, Departmental Superintendent, Department of Physiology Mr A.J. Freake, Department路 al Superintendent, Department of Physics

COMMITTEE ON TRAINING FOR ACADEMIC STAFF COURSEWORK ASSESSMENT City and Guilds has just published a new handbook 'Coursework Assessment'.

It has been prepared for teachers engaged in the preparation and carrying out of coursework assessments, and is intended as supplementary guidance to enable teachers to improve the quality of the assessments they make.

It contains advice on how to construct assessments which are objective and reliable, and offers practical examples.

Authors of the handbook are Jackie Lubbock and Karen Maloney.

'Coursework Assessment' is the fourth in a series of Assessment Handbooks.

Earlier titles include 'Constructing Practical Tests' and 'Setting Multiple

Choice Tests'.

Each handbook is available at ÂŁ2.00 post free from the Sales Section, City and Guilds of London Institute, 76 Port land Place, London WIN 4AA (Tel. 580 3050).

Members of staff who believe that copies of City and Guilds publications would be 0 f use to them in their teaching should contact Stephen Harrow, Assistant Registrar, Strand (ext 2689).

JUST ADDED TO THE CTAS LIBRARy .

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City and Guilds 'Broadsheet' (February 1985) University of Birmingham 'Teaching News' (December 1984. The newsletter of the Educational Development Advisory Committee).

This issue looks particularly interesting, with articles on new infotech techniques in teaching and learning, particularly language learning; plus feedback from two Birmingham University 'Workshops' on research: 'Publish or Perish' a Guide to Publishing Academic Papers, and 'Writing Applications for Research Grants'.

TRANSFERS AND RECRUITMENT OF STAFF A Note from the Joint Management Committee The Academic Plan for the combined College shows that some departments will be nominally 'over-staffed' and others 'under-staffed'. It is the intention to keep the Academic Plan under review in the light of all the relevant information, thus the numbers in the Second Discussion Document are not immutable.

It is appreciated that some staff may feel threatened by these imbalances. We should like you to assure them that all staff in post on 1 August 1985 will become full and equal members of the combined College. But clearly it will be necessary in certain instances to ask people to consider transferring from one department to another where this would be in the interests of the College and the depllrtments concerned; each case will have to be considered on its merits. This would ease the present imbalance more rapidly than would otherwise be the case.

In the continuing difficult financial situation it would be prudent to fill as many posts from within KQC as possible and only in special cases to recruit from outside.

All requests for staff, including those for replacement, are being examined objectively. While it may be impossible to reach universally acceptable decisions, we would like to assure you that, within the financial constraints, we shall examine all claims with the aim of meeting the needs of the College, and in particular the need to support excellence. To this end we are now introducing the procedures set out below.

1. General - It is necessary to control and adjust staff numbers taking account of both academic and financial imperatives.

- The posts to which this procedure relates are those that are wholly or partly funded from UGC sources: New Blood, IT and Academic Initiative posts are specifically excluded and may be filled in the usual way by arrangement with the Personnel Office. Exceptionally there may be cases where academic imperatives call for the establishment of a new and different post.

N.B. CTAS' forward plans include a Seminar on Academic Fund-Raisina

- Vacancies will be taken to arise through resignations and natural retirements.

Vacancies resultc:nt from application of the severance schemes cannot of course be filled.

CLOSING OF COLLEGE FOR EASTER

- While it is evident that cases may arise where academic imperative justifies the filling of a post, the fact that a department is below the planned staffing levels does not in itself constitute adequate justification.

The main College buildings will close and open over Easter as follows: KING'S Closes Wed. 3 April 1985 at 4.00pm Opens Tues. 9 April 1985 All members of staff and research studeots wishing to work in College during this period will be asked to show their identity cards and (where applicable) late passes and to sign the book at the main Strand entrance.

QEC Closes Opens

Thurs 4 April 1985 at 4.00pm Tues 9 April 1985

CHELSEA Closes Thurs 4 April 1985 Opens Weds 10 April 1985 KCSMD Thurs 4 April 1985 Closes Opens Tues 9 April 1985 The Summer Term will commence on Wednesday 24 April 1985

- In general and, until such time as staff numbers in the various categories have reached planned and affordable levels within the College as a whole, requests to fill vacant posts will be subject to stringent review: evidence that the need cannot reasonably be met by inter-departmental transfer will be required.

2 Academic, Research and Analogous, Academic-Related, Library and Computing Staffs - Proposals to fill all such posts to be made by the appropriate KOC Head of activity (e.g. Head-Designate of Department, Librarian, etc.) and sent to the Chairman of the Planning Group for Academic Affairs (Professor Sutherland); copies should also be sent to the Personnel Officer (Miss M.O. Young) and the Academic Registrar (Mr B. Salter).

- Professor Sutherland will take such evidence as may be appropriate and place the request, along with a recommendation, for consideration by the Joint Management Committee.

3. Academic-Related Staff other than those covered by (2) above - Proposals to fill all such posts to be made by the appropriate KOC Head of activity (e.g. Finance Officer) to the KOC Personnel Officer for consideration by the three College Secretaries acting as a Panel.

- The recommendations of the Panel will be passed to the Chairman of the Planning Group for Personnel and Financial Affairs (Or Barnes) and thence to the Joint Management Committee.

4. Non-Academic Staff other than Academic-Related - Proposals to fill all such posts to be made by the appropriate KOC Head of

activity through their local Personnel Office to the KQC Personnel Officer who will review requests in the light of actual and planned staff numbers and recommend action for decision by the Panel of College Secretaries.

- The decision of the Panel shall be reported to the Joint Management Committee.

5. Staffing Profiles; Actual and Plc;nned - By way of further guidance, the staffing profiles described in the Second Discussion Document (Section 4 - Tables A,B,C and D) are being updated and will be circulated shortly.

- It is especially emphasised that the planned staff numbers are no more than a strictly arithmetic derivation from the estimated student load and as such are sensitive to change in, among other things, the pattern of student choice; they are not immutable.

- Similar planning profiles for academic services and non-academic activities have yet to be finalised and will be dependent upon the extent to which the activities can be integrated (e.g. library facilities). From the financial point of view economies of scale are targetted at 15% of the current level of provision.

VISITING TECHNICIAN AT KING'S

Joseph Ndabahewje has recently joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering at King's for three months, having gained a British Council National University Commission Technician Training Award. Mr Ndabahewje is Chief Technician at Makarere University, J<ampala, Uganda and v;as recommended for the award by Owen Rowland and Frank Norris following their recent visit to Kampala. He will be spending his time at King's updating his knowledge on modern techniques and laboratories.

AMENDMENTS TO STRAND TELEPHONE DIRECTORY Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering Delete

Neslen, Miss S. (Departmental Secretary)

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Edmond, Mrs J. (Depart· mental Secretary) Everard, Or J. Q14 Quad. Labs.

CHELSEA PHYSICS DEPARTMENT : DIELECTRICS GROUP Agreement has been reached that fou r academic staff (Professor Jonscher, Professor Hill, Or Delves and Or Brown) shall transfer to the Strand not later than the summer of 1986 to complete the consolidation on one site of the Physics Department (KQC).

All teaching of Physics at Pulton Place will cease with the graduation of the final undergraduate year in July 1985. The research of the Di· electrics Group, led by Professors Jonscher and Hill, with associated equipment and personnel, will also be accommodated on the Strand site.

R.E

Burge

RESEARCH FELLOW AT THE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY WINS NATIONAL AWARD The Domestos National Health Education Award for 1984 has been won by Michael Craft, Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Community Dental Health at the Medical and Dental School.

His winning entry relates to a programme of dental rnmlth education aimed at three to five year olds. Entitled 'The Good Teeth Programme', it is designed for use by the staff of nurseries, reception classes and playgroups, and is based upon discovery learning and cooperative work with parents. Evaluation over several years has produced a variety of positive educational and clinical results.

This programme has been developed in cooperation with the Health Education Council's Dental Health Study at Cambridge, of which Mr Craft is the Director.

FELLOWS OF KING'S COLLEGE

1985 The following people have been elected as Fellows of the College: Professor Peter Frederick BAKER, Ph D, FRS. Halliburton Professor and Head of Department of Physiology. Educ. Emmanuel College, Camb; Fellow, Emmanuel College; Guest Investigator, Rockefeller Univ, NY, Scientific Medal Zoological Society 1975, G. L. Brown Lecturer 1977; Wander Prize (Switz) 1981.

Professor Andrew John Blackford ROBERTSON, MA, PhD, DSc, C Chem, FRSC, Companion lEE. Educ. St John's College, Camb; Fellow, St John's College; Meldola Medalist, Institute of Chemistry 1949; Secretary (1961-71) and Chai rman (1971-73) University of London Board of Studies in Chemistry and Chemical Industries. Member of Senate and Academic Council, University of London 1972·76 Professor Roy Albert WISBEY, MA, DPhil. Head of Department of German.

Fellow, Bedford College; Fellow, Downing College. Hon Secretary and Hon Treasurer, Modern Humanities Research Association; Former Chairman, Board of Germanic Studies, University of London; Corresponding Member, Institute fur Deutsche Sprache, Mannheim.

Or John Michael I LLSTON, BSc, Ph D. Director, Hatfield Polytechnic. Student KCL (1946-49), Lecturer (1958-71) and Reader (1971-77) in Civil Engineering at the College.

Or Arthur Clive BISHOP, BSc, PhD. Deputy Director, British Museum (Natural History) and Keeper of Mineralogy; Student KCL 1948-54; President, Geologists Association 1978-80; Vice -President, Institute of Science Technology 1978-82; Member O'Honneur, La Societe Jersiaise, 1983.

Mr Thomas Calvert SUMNER, BSc, MSc. Headmaster of Archbishop Tennison Grammar School 1960-74; Member KCLA Council: Student KCL 1931-35.

Ms Pauline Mary WEBB, BA, AKC. Editor, Methodist Missionary Society 1955-66; Director, Lay Training Method· ist Church 1967·73; Chairman, Community and Race Relations Unit 1976-79, Vice-Chairman, Central Committee, World Council of Churches; Organiser, Religious Broadcasting, BBC World Serv· ice.

THE ADAM INTERNATIONAL REVIEW History and Progress of Purchase

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'The most remarkable one-man performance of our lifetime, No other international magazine can show the same glittering company of contributors - Oliver Edwards, The Tim es 'I know of only three magazines which survive unaltered from the thirties: Partisan Review, The Wine and Food Quarterly

and Miron Grindea's Adam.

- Cyril ConnollY,Art and literature 'Adam is an unique institution' - Times Literary Supplement

For the past forty-five years Adam International Review has been a showcase for contemporary literary and artistic expression. Its contributors have included many of the major writers and artists since the war - Graham Greene, Chagall, T.S. Eliot, Anthony Powell to name but a few.

Presenting the work of new authors poets and artists as well as those alr~adY established, Adam provides an unique insight into our cultural heritage. Not only can a certain literary history of the post-war period be traced but also a history ,of the criticism of that Iiteratu re.

Founded in 1929 in Bucharest, Adam was acquired by Miron Grindea in the mid 1930 s and until the outbreak of the Second World War provided a forum for dissident writers in Bucharest's increasingly fascist environment. During the war Grindea ccme to London and the first London edition of Adam was published in 1941, including among its contributors

H.G. Wells, Bernard Shaw, Thomas Mann and C. Day Lewis.

There have long been close associations between Adam, its editor Miron Grindea and King's College London. Denis Saurat, Professor of French at King's, gave much help and support in its early days and was also one of the contributors in the first edition published in London.

Since 1981 Vanessa Davies, a research student in the Department of French, has been undertaking a study of A dam's history and influence and it is Miron Grindea's affection for King's College which has led him to offer to us the title, copyright and archives of Adam.

and foundations, King's hope to be able to acquire this remarkable collection. To date, almost £1000 has been donated by KCLA Arts Faculty members fc,lIowing a special appeal to them. The Leverhulme Trust in funding the work of Research Assistant Vanessa Davies who is cataloguing the entire collection.

In" addition, £4000 has been donated by Fnends of the National Libraries, £5000 by the Esm6e Fairbairn Trust, £3000 by the A H Power Will Trust, £5000 by the Pilgrim Trust, £1000 by the Radcliffe Trust, £500 by the Dellal Foundation and £500 by the Raphael Djanogly Foundation.

The College is grateful for all this support The fund now stands at about £22,000 The archives provide, in their own right, and the College is looking for further a fascinating record of the intellectual donations. The response so far has been development of the twentieth century, ver~ e~couraging.and confirms the ColIranging over art, literature, music and the ege s view of the importance of the history of ideas. They include manuscripts collection. and corrected proofs by people like Mirt,n Grindea will continue as Editor Cocteau, Max Beerbohm and Arthur of Adam for as long as he is able. EditKoestler, transcripts of interviews and on Graham Greene and on Proust ions correspondence relating to articles pubhave just been published and numbers on lished in Adam. There are drawings Elie Wiesel, Strindber~1'. and the role of by several well-known French and the Dreyfus case in literature.are planned.

English artists, photographs, first editThe first Adam lecture has been held at ions (many of which are autographed) and scores of letters from both European the College and it is hoped that it will become an annual event with past and and American authors such as Samuel present contributors to the Review as Beckett, Joyce Cary, T.S. Eliot, E.M. speakers. Meanwhile, the archives will Forster and Andre Gide. be sorted and ordered, providing for the College a prestigious and irreplaceable With the help of KCLA members and collection and an important research the assistance of a number of trusts resource

KING'S AND EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY An Exhibition at the V&A An exhibition just transferred from the International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House, ew York, to the Victoria and Albert Museum includes several items from King's collection of nearly two hundred early photographs.

The collection was established in the mid nineteenth century by Sir Charles Wheatstone, Professor of Physics, 183475, in connection with his work on stereoscopes.

Among the more significant exhibits on display are examples of the work of P. H. Delamotte who was appointed Professor of Landscape Drawing and Perspective in 1855, latterly to become Professor of Fine Art in 1879. Delamotte made a particular name for himself by photographing the building of Crystal Palace at Sydenham and examples from the series which spanned the erection of the first column in 1852 to the official opening by Queen Victoria are on display.

Other typical photographs by Delamotte include views of gnarled trees at Burnham Beeches and the picturesque ruins at Kirstall Abbey.

Both Wheatstone and Delamotte were active in the Photographic Society of the day, Wheatstone as Vice-President and Delamotte as Secretary. Another member of the Society's Council was

Thomas Frederick Hardwick who was appointed at King's as the first university lecturer in Photography in the country in 1857 and it was with some interest that the Society's journal reported on the building at King's that year of 'a glass house, with a large and com.modious developing room, in connection with a chemical laboratory'. Hardwick's own work is unfortunately not represented in the exhibition but a photograph of the New Mill, near Lynton, North Devon, which was published in the Photographic Album for the year 1857 was reported as having been 'printed and toned with gold

by Mr Hardwick'.

Another link with King's is a remarkable photographic catalogue of physical deformities compiled by Arthur Julius Pollock who trained as a doctor at King's and in 1860 became the Pathological Registrar and Curator of the Medical Museum.

The exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum, entitled 'A vision exchanged.

Amateurs and photography in mid-Victorian England', runs until 8 April 1985 when it will be transferred to the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television at Bradford, 23 April - 23 June 1985.

COLLEGE RECEPTION 10 MAY 1985 Following custom, the College Reception for members of King's College London Association will be held on the same day as the Annual General Details eeting of the Association. of the programme of events feature in the 1985 KCLA Newsletter and can be obtained on application to the Honcnry Secretary of KCLA at King's College.

On this occasion, in addition to some static displays relating to the ADAM Resource collection and other material of general interest, a number of timed events have been arranged, including a recital of music in the Chapel and a lecture by Or B Bowers~ Assistant Curator of the Science Museum on 'Sir Charles Wheatstone, FRS', organised by the Department of Physics on the occasion of their 'Open Day'.

Light refreshments and coffee will be served in the Great Hall and a bar for wine and sherry will be available.

The Principal and the President of KCLA will receive members of the Association informally in the Great Hall from 6.30pm.

Patricia Methven, College Archivist Mambers of staff are requested to wear academic dress.

To facilitate catering arrangements, requests for programmes shou Id reach Mr W. Moloney or the Honorary Secretary of KCLA at King's College no later than Friday 3 May.

KCLA ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 10 MAY 1985 Members of KCLA are reminded that the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the Association will be held in Room 8B in the main building of King's College on Friday 10 May 1985 at 5.30pm, immediately before the College Reception.

The Exposition Universelle, 1855, at which Delamotte and Wheatstone both exhibited

Algae: an early example of a photomicrograph

Members will receive a report of the work of KCLA Council and of the various Branches and Affiliated Societies of the Association and will be required to elect the Officers and Members of Council for the year 1985 - 1986.

Further information about the Assoc-

latlOn appears in the College Calendar for 1984 -1985 (see p. 93) or may be obtained from the Honorary Secretary at the College.

The current list of branches and affiliated societies is: King's College London Engineers Association.

King's College London Association Laws Branch Association of King's College Chemists King~s College London Theological Society King's College London Association Hong Kong Branch Friends of King's College London in Canada King's College London Association Cyprus Branch Friends of King's College London Association Inc., New York During the course of 1985 it is hoped that the Queen Elizabeth College Association will be granted branch status.

KCLA Council is also in touch with former members of the College resident in other parts of the world with the view to extending the list of branches and affiliated societies.

Demand to form additional branches in the UK is also under consideration.

GENERAL NEWS

been conceived as a forum for scholarship in the literature, culture and history of this vast area which until now has not had its own scholarly journal in this country. It contains articles, reviews, lit路 erary translation and a survey of research recently completed at universities in the United Kingdom. Themes in the 240 page Volume I range from the 16th century Portuguese sentimental romance to 20th century Angolan journalism, contributed by scholars from the United Kingdom, Portugal, Italy and the USA The 'scoops' of this first volume are transcriptions of a previously unknown 16th century Portuguese sentimental romance and of a plan to restore the Portuguese monarchy discovered in the house in Surrey where ex-King Manuel II spent part of his years in exile.

The Head of the Department, Jenifer Wilson-Barnett, made a speech to thank all the people who have helped to get Nursing Studies to its present, secure position; guests were then able to discover the more recent history of the graduates, most of whom have remained in the clinical area, with a high proportion of patient contact.

Portuguese Studies is edited by the Dep- A MESSAGE FROM THE RAG artment of Portuguese, King's College London and published annually by the Modern Humanities Research Assoc iation.

NURSINli STUDIES CELEBRATION The Department of Nursing Studies held a party in the Hamilton Room in Stanley House in February, to celebrate graduation of 100 students of the Department this year.

The most important guests were the graduates themselves, representing each of the THE PORTUGUESE DEPARTMENT years since the Department's first intake CELEBRATES in 1977. Also present were the three Tuesday 5 March saw a dual celebration Principals of Chelsea College who span for the Portuguese Department at King's. the lifetime of Nursing Studies - Dr The first lecture associated with the new Ingram, Dr Phelps and the present Princpost in Portuguese-African Studies taken ipal, Professor Tyrrell. All the current up by Dr Patrick Chabal last October was staff and many former staff and research followed by a reception to mark the launstudents attended, as did other staff ching of the Department's new journal Portuguese Studies.

Professor Russell Hamilton, Professor of Portuguese and Dean of Graduate Studies at Vanderbilt University delivered a lecture entitled 'Languages and Literature in Cape Verde, Angola and Mozambique' which was warmly received by. a capacity audience in Room 3B20. An article based on this lecture is due to appear in Volume 11 of Portuguese Studies. The lecture and reception were attended by the Portuguese Ambassador, the Brazilian Charge d'affaires and the Director of the Gulbenkian Found ation in London who were presented with complimentary copies of Portuguese Studies during the evening.

The Portuguese Department at King's is the only centre of Portuguese, Brazilian and Portuguese-African studies in the United Kingdom. Portuguese Studies has

members from Chelsea and King's Colleges. As the evening was also a thank-you to everyone who has helped to establish the Department, several of the charities who have contributed money or equipment were also represented. Many people who have had contact with the students came, including Sisters and Charge Nurses from St George's Hospital as well as senior nursing and medical staff.

CHAIR Well, Rag Week is finally over and I would like to thank all those who contributed in any way at all to its success, especially those lecturers who entered into the spirit and booked hits on students and fellow members of staff] We reckon to have raised over 拢2,000 this year which follows the increasing trend of the past few years and I hope this continues in following years.

As vice-president (internal) it is my job over the coming year to help organise Rag over the three main sites and I look forward to cooperation from College and the union officers on the other sites to ensure that Rag goes off as well next year as it did this year.

Thank you once again.

Catherine Charnaud

Reader and Head of Department,Jenifer Wlson-Barnett (right) and Lecturer,Julia (photo: Chelsea A VSU) Brooking at the Nursing Studies Celebration.

THE HALLlDAY HALL PLAYERS - A MUSICAL EVENING

DATES FOR YOUR DIARY PUBLIC LECTURES Tuesday 7 May 5.30pm Rm 3B20 King's DECORATIVE FOR ULAS I FI FTEE TH CE TURY BOOKS OF HOURS by Professor J. Douglas Farquhar, University of Maryland 5.30pm Rm2B08 King's INTERPERSONAL COMPARISONS OF VALUE by Professor Donald Davidson, University of California, Berkeley.

ROYAL HOLLOWAY AND BEDFORD NEW COLLEGE ANNOUNCE THEIR PRINCIPAL Professor Dorothy Wedderburn has been appointed Principal Designate of RHBNC. Professor Wedderburn who has been Principal of Bedford College since 1981, will become Principal on 1 August, the 'appointed day', when the new college will come into existence.

Professor Wedderburn, a Londoner, was educated at Walthamstow High School for Girls and Girton College where she took the Economics Tripos. After four years with the Board of Trade she was, from 1950 to 1965, research officer and then senior research officer in the Department of Applied Economics at Cambridge. She then moved to Imperial College, London, as lecturer in Industrial Sociology. After promotion to senior lecturer and reader, she became professor of Industrial Sociology in 1977. In 1976 she was appointed Director of the Industrial Sociology Unit and in 1978 became head of the Department of Economic and Social Studies.

MOVE OF PHYSICS BOOKS In order to make room for an influx onto the Strand site of material on the Physical Sciences, books on Physics (classification QC), ,currently in the 5th floor library in the Strand Building, will be moved to the 1st floor library during the Easter vacation.

LIST FOR SUMMER TERM PUBLIC LECTURES AT KING'S All details of public lectures must reach the Information Office no later than Wednesday 10 April in order to be included in the College Public Lecture list.

The large and enthusiastic audience at the Musical Evening held in the Ball Room of Halliday Hall on Saturday March 9 was fortunate indeed.

Not only was the interesting and varied programme of mainly French music extremely enjoyable, but the expertise and grace with which the programme was presented delighted all who heard it.

The evening began with a selection from Faure's Dolly Suite for piano duet, played by Randal Marshall and Susanna Price, after which Randal accompanied Neil Boynston in an impressive account of Poulenc's An intriguing set Clarinet Sonata. of Miniatures for trio by Frank Bridge now found Susanna playing 'cello with Hazel Duncan playing violin and Terry Blacker piano.

After a short interval during which coffee was served we were treated to a performance of Ravel's Mother Goose Suite for piano duet, Randal now being joined by Richard Jones.

Finally, Terry returned to play the taxing piano part in Pou lenc's charming Story of Babar the little Elephant, the narration in real French being delivered with suitable wit by Christophe Demarchelier. A buffet rounded off a memorable evening.

The Halliday Hall Players (a group of friends resident at the Hall with only two music students among them) are to be congratulated on the enterprize shown in organising this their first concert.

Encore!

'T. Monk'

Tuesday 14 May 5.30pm The New Theatre, King's An Inaugural Lecture in the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies THE ONE, THE THREE AND THE MANY by Professor Colin Gunton FILMSOC AT KING'S Monday 29 April DEATH IN VENICE Monday 13 May THE GO-BETWEEN Monday 20 May DANTON All presentations include a supporting programme and begin at 6.00pm in the New Theatre. However, as time, venue and title are liable to alteration at short notice, members should consult the FilmSoc noticeboard in B-Corridor regularly. Temporary membership is ÂŁ1 per presentation.

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