The Pembrokian Issue XVII
News and Views from the Pembroke College Development Office
Trinity Term 2001
Salve:- Mr Giles I enderson CBE:, Master Elect THE Governing Body of Pembroke College Oxford has announced the election of Giles Henderson CBE, as the new Master of Pembroke College.
Giles Henderson is currently Senior Partner at leading London law firm Slaughter and May, where he began his career as an articled clerk in 1968. He will be stepping down on the 1st of May after eight years as senior partner Giles Henderson said he was delighted to be taking on such a significant role and
to have the opportunity to build on the success of his predecessor, Dr. Robert Stevens. "With its acute financial difficulties now behind it, Pembroke is a College in good heart with a bright future. Challenging times lie ahead, of course, for all concerned with higher education in the UK; and there is certainly more to be done at Pembroke. I will be working hard, with the Fellows -and the many supporters of the College, to preserve and enhance the excellence that resides in Pembroke," said Henderson. Giles Henderson was born in South Africa where he was at school and University (Witwatersrand) before reading law at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he obtained the degrees of MA and BCL. In 1992 Giles Henderson was awarded the C BE in recognition of his contribution to the UK Government's privatisation programme on which he was a leading adviser . Giles Henderson was a member
of the Hampel Committee which conducted a review of corporate governance in the interests of investor protection and in order to preserve and enhance the standing of companies listed on the Stock Exchange. He is Chairman of the law group of the UK-China Forum, an organisation of senior British and Chinese individuals, established to provide a vehicle for high level discussions of issues of interest to the two countries. He is also a member of the Financial Reporting Council, set up with the support of Government, the Bank of England, the Accountancy profession, the Stock Exchange, City Institutions and the Confederation of British Industry, to promote good standards of financial reporting in the UK Giles is married to Lynne, who qualified as a doctor at St. Thomas's Hospital, London and they have three children who are all recent graduates, two of Oxford
"on mule patrol through the Alpi della Luna" A personal profile by Emeritus Fellow 1--;dgar Lightfoot on page three University and the third of Cambridge. His recreations include his family, opera, ballet and sport. Giles Henderson will take up his new post on July 1.
Vale:- Dr Robert Stevens, Retiring Master s we welcome our new Master, MaryJane Hilton, our Director of ADevelopment, has asked me to say a few final words about fundraising.
It would not be right, however, for me to talk about this without saying, as I acknowledge elsewhere, that there is a certain rhythm to these jobs. I have tried to address one set of problems, but undoubtedly our new Master will have to address another set of challenges. This round of the strategic and academic planning of the College is only just beginning. We need to be far clearer about our goals. In the last few years planning has consisted of responding to crises. With the success of the first part of our fund drive, we do now have breathing space. We can now address endemic academic problems, including support for the Fellowship and, I hope, a somewhat smaller College. We can develop long-term plans for renovations, and perhaps even new buildings if they prove to be necessary. These are among the exciting
challenges which will face the new Master. Thinking only of undergraduates, however, Oxford colleges are in a remarkably strange situation. Until three years ago, they charged fees. These were paid, at least for all home and EU students, by local authorities. The money came directly to the colleges. The government has changed all that. Now local authorities no longer pay fees. The University gets a grant from central government in lieu of fees - although one that is being steadily reduced by a third over the next ten years. The University is under no legal obligation to hand those reduced monies on to the colleges, although it has been entirely honourable thus far. At the same time, legislation was passed to prevent the colleges charging top-up fees. In short, Pembroke College no longer has any direct fees paid to it. Indeed, it is illegal for it to charge fees; and it is entirely dependent on the goodwill of the University for its sustenance. The only independent revenue Pembroke has now is from its endowment and from gifts. Over the last few years, of course, our capital position has changed significantly. Total capital funds are now almost four times as large as they were eight years ago. The College has been fortunate enough to have six gifts and pledges of Ll million or more, and another £4 million in gifts and pledges from donors giving £25,000 or more. We have also, over the years, had some £2 million in gifts from smaller donors. In total, we have received - or have firm pledges of - some £7 million from friends of the College and some L5 million from Old Members. As I have said elsewhere, the new Master will need to raise roughly £2 million a year in gifts for the College to stay where it is. There will be a continuing need for endowment for the College. While, over the last few years, we
have endowed some of the Fellowships fully and most of the Fellowships partially, we still have further need for Fellowship endowment to meet the increasing costs of running the teaching side of the College. We have made real strides in renovating both the old site and the new site. Our architects, however, report that we still have over £ 10 million worth of deferred maintenance; and, as we all know, the more you delay deferred maintenance, the worse it becomes. While most colleges now provide three or four years of residence for undergraduates, we still have difficulty maintaining two years residence. Thus for our long term plan we ought to be thinking of an improvement in our staff/student ratio by reducing our numbers, but providing housing for all 3rd and 4th years. Moreover, we must attend to the needs of our graduate students. At the moment we have only some twenty rooms available for graduate students, and no rooms for married graduate students. We do have a site in Brewer Street, thanks to the generosity of Old Members and the foresight of Sir Roger Bannister, but at some point we need to complete that project. Scholarships too are going to loom larger and larger in the life of the University. The University feels it has no choice in the long run but to charge top-up fees in due course although this will require a change in legislation. This will undoubtedly have an impact on the socio-economic composition of the student body, unless we are able to offer the equivalent of the leading American universities: a "needs blind" admission policy. We have had a wonderful pledge from one of our parents, David Rowland, to offer David Rowland Bursaries, which will transform our ability to attract good students from less advantaged backgrounds. As a poor college, we, of course, have to charge the real
cost of our rooms. We are now the most expensive college in Oxford. We do, however, need to make certain that that does not discourage anyone, whatever his or her background, so I have no doubt my successor will have to wrestle with this too. The modem world is also upon us. We do need outlets for PCs and laptops in every room. This generation of students expects it. The College needs to be networked better and you will find a specific appeal concerning this in this issue of The Pembrokian. Like all libraries, our Library has cut and cut, especially in terms of periodicals and basic books. We had a generous gift from the wonderful Greeley McGowin shortly before he died which has enabled us to put the library "on line", but technology does not stand still and we need to progress still further. Apparently some Old Members complained that The Pembrokian had not talked about giving to the College for the last few issues. I hope I have remedied this. More importantly, I hope I have made it clear that, as the College goes through the planning process again, and welcomes a new Head of House, the agenda will be different and should be different. It is part of the right of the new Master to complain that his predecessor did everything wrong. One thing I can be certain of, however, is that the new agenda, whatever it is, will need serious funding. In a society which has chosen to cut Oxford's income for undergraduate teaching heavily over the next ten years, and has legislated against Oxford colleges charging fees, we will need on-going financial support from Old Members, parents and friends to survive in anything like our present shape. I believe this is a wonderful institution, and I trust that you will continue to give my successor the remarkable support you have extended to me.
Here and There
Tank O'Regan Composer in Residence, University of Cambridge
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been over a year since I left Pembroke having read Music from 1996 to 1999, and in many respects things haven't changed. I am still doing tasks at the very last minute (this account, for example), and I still seem to live very much from day-to-day, the idea of a planned future remaining a mystery to me. I am, even now, amazed to see graduates leaving University year after year to work in that wonderful apogee of enlightenment 'The City'. Although I nearly got seduced, I finally developed the confidence in my musical ability to turn down a lucrative position with J. P. Morgan. Those of you familiar with Final Honour School Music revision cramming technique will be glad to know that I am still frantically reading CD liner-notes, although now I use them as a legitimate resource in my capacity as a classical recordings reviewer for The Observer newspaper. Ultimately I am still doing what I always did: filling-up blank manuscript paper with various dots and dashes in an attempt to reduce the amount of silence there is. At the point I received my Finals result I was working in the Private Client Group at J. P. Morgan. My plans for the following year had not been finalised and involved postgraduate work at either the Juilliard School in New York, the Royal College of Music (RCM) or Cambridge - or indeed a full-time position with J. P. Morgan. Knowing that I could work at JPM in the holidays, I deferred their offer and took up my place as an M.Phil student at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. This choice was made easier by Cambridge awarding me the prestigious Radcliffe Trust Studentship to read Composition with Robin Holloway. By the time I started at Cambridge I had already begun work as a recordings reviewer for The Observer. This door was opened by an interview with the conductor/ composer Pierre Boulez I undertook for 'Living Music Magazine', distributed with the Evening Standard newspaper. Musical journalism has become one of my three main interests and areas of development, something I wouldn't have dreamed of doing upon leaving the Examination Schools from my final exam. The other two strands of my life at the moment are composition and teaching, both having developed immensely in the last year. T'S
I had always been a keen composer during my time in Oxford, but it was only in my final year that I was offered my first 'big-break' with a publishing contract following a work of mine winning an international competition. By the end of my first term in Cambridge I had four published pieces to my name and, best of all, royalty cheques in the post! There is something quite peculiar about published music as opposed to books, which is that the Performing Rights Society lets the composer know every time a work is played. It is as if the author of a book is reminded each time his or her work is read. There is a certain sense of 'loss of control' as a royalty cheque payment may detail fifty performances, of which the composer may actually only know of three, for example. The adage that it is 'who you know not what you know' is a well-worn one in the world of music but in composition in particular, it is not necessarily how good your music is but rather how good someone says it is. The backing of a publisher meant several new commissions and before the year was out I had heard my compositions broadcast on national radio and television. It was as if the quality of the music had suddenly been assured to potential commissioners. Throughout my M.Phil year I had also been called upon to undertake undergraduate supervising. Undoubtedly the most difficult challenge of the year was sitting down to my first supervision (`tutorial' to Oxonians) from the teaching end. I greatly enjoyed the teaching and took on more to the ludicrous point at which I was teaching people older than me! At the end of the year I was ready to take up a scholarship place at the USC Film School in Los Angeles (having finally removed J. P. Morgan from the equation altogether) to study 'Music for Motion Pictures' when I was offered the position of `Composer in Residence' at the University of Cambridge and Corpus Christi College. I couldn't turn down the offer of something that I knew I would thoroughly enjoy, and so the USC place was deferred for the year. It has now been one term into my position at Cambridge and I am responsible for teaching several courses in music to a number of Colleges. The swift change from tutee to tutor took some getting used to, as was the change in ethos from student to Senior Member at Corpus. I maintain a busy teaching schedule as well as my work for The Observer. Somehow in all this I do find time to compose music for a number of increasingly high-profile commissions for choirs (New College, Oxford; Clare College, Cambridge) and ensembles (BackBeat, Orlando Consort), often broadcast on the radio and sometimes on television. At the time of writing, my two big moments were the first London premiere of a composition of mine at the world-famous Spitalfields Festival in December last and a broadcast of another work on BBC 2 over Christmas. I hope, through my narrative, to have described the other side to the very public 'any discipline required' mentality of the milk-round graduate recruiters. I suppose what I'm trying to get at is that, while there are many very worthwhile careers recruiting in this way, the whole point about studying a subject at University is that it is precisely not 'any' discipline. If anyone would like to get in touch with any questions or if I can be of any use, then please feel free to email me at: tarik@web.com
The Arms of Simon, Viscount Harcourt HE arms and the crest used in this issue of the Pembrokian are those of Simon, Viscount Harcourt. He was born about 1661 and after a private education entered Pembroke, from where he graduated B.A. in 1678. He went on to become a distinguished parliamentarian and lawyer rising to the office of Lord Chancellor. He was a substantial benefactor to the College and his arms as illustrated here are in the windows of Broadgates Hall. They are described in the archives as "Gules, 2 bars or". In a note added to this description Lionel Salt points out that this is incorrect and that the description should read "Barry of 4, gules and or".
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The Arms of Baron Ossulstone the last issue we illustrated the arms of Baron Ossulstone. Brian Wilson (1948) writes to ask us to remind members that Ossulstone was possibly the most important single benefactor to the College since the foundation. He gave money to complete the building of the Old Quad in the 17th century and for septennial Fellowships (42 were awarded in the 166 years between 1678 and 1844; continued under the Corporate Fund). Perhaps the most celebrated of the Ossulstone Fellows was Francis Jeune, who became a Master of the College. In addition to the Fellowships, there were also Scholarships (81 in the 175 years between 1678 and 1853). IN
Marmalade Pots HE Ven. Archdeacon B A Kirk-Duncan writes to say that he has had one as shown in the previous Pembrokian since he went up in 1936. Revd Dr L W Cowie (1938) purchased one many years ago from a Brighton street market stall. "What a lovely badge it has" said the vendor.
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I44dgar Lightfoot Fellow in Engineering Science 1961- 87 CC
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have been asked to write about the College in the early Sixties, about my wartime exploits and about my present activities, but I shall start earlier! I had a place at St.Catharine's, Cambridge, when WWII broke out, which caused me to take up a scholarship at King' s College, London, instead, because I could gain direct entry into the Second Year of their Engineering degree course. We were evacuated to Bristol where I played rugger for King's 1st XV and obtained a First in Civil Engineering. Though already trained in the STC I was directed into industry and started work with Sir Robert McAlpine at Gateshead on the Tyne, where I joined the DLI Home Guard as a machine gunner . I also played rugger for Hartlepool Rovers in my home town. After several letters to the WO I persuaded them to release me for service in the Royal Engineers, which I joined in March '43 and left in September '46 to go back to King's for research in Structural Analysis. After a year in London I worked for two years in York with the City Engineer, spent two years at Huddersfield Technical College, then ten years at Leeds University when I lived again in York and commuted. I became a Reader in 1958 and took up a University Lectureship at Oxford and a Fellowship at Pembroke in October '61. It was a sideways move, largely out of curiosity about Oxbridge, but it soon led to offers of professorships elsewhere. However, my family settled happily in Oxford and I never moved on. There were several fellows at Pembroke when I arrived. McCallum was the Master, Bredin the Bursar, MacNabb the Senior Tutor and Fellow in Philosophy, Morris the Chaplain and Fellow in Medieval History, Heuston in Law, Mackesy in Modern History, Bond in Classics, O'Brien in Medicine, Wilks in Physics, Gray and Browning in English, Baldick in French and Whiting in Chemistry. Appointed to Fellowships at the same time as myself were Cuff in Ancient History , Hazlewood in Economics and Pelcynski in Politics; these three had been college lecturers. I was the first Fellow after Whiting not to have an undergraduate or graduate Oxbridge degree and this fact was used as triumphal evidence of the liberality of Pembroke! My first visit to Oxford was during the 1946-47 session when King's 1st XV
on mule patrol through the Alpi della Luna"
played Keble. The pitch in the Parks was waterlogged so we had to walk in rugger kit over a mile up the Woodstock Road for a game at St John's ground, and then back again! The Keble team went on bicycles. We won comfortably, I remember, but at tea at a restaurant in the High we were assured by the nonplaying Keble captain that the victory was really theirs because of the disparity in student numbers between KCL and Keble. Truly I was properly warned about Oxford!
their CNAA and M.Sc. degrees. The same job later came my way at Plymouth Polytechnic and at Hong Kong. I also served as Academic Advisor to the ISE for their professional 7 hour design examination and received an award for ten years service. A few research prizes came my way too, but the consultancy I practised at Leeds dried up, except for the occasional analysis and design. During my 1967-68 sabbatical year I enjoyed two separate terms as a Research Fellow at Calgary University
For tutoring I paired with Wise who looked after the engineers at New, Queen' s and Trinity Colleges. In Finals 1965 Pembroke had two ES Firsts out of five, which created a quite a panic amongst the other ES tutors who quickly formed similar tutorial syndicates of two or three specialists. Eventually in my time we had four top ES Firsts. Also, after about ten years, the Pembroke achievement of a spectrum of ES Schools results to equal the spread of the total results of the top college in any particular year helped justify the appointment of a second ES Fellow. I represented the Institution of Structural Engineers in monitoring the examination papers in Civil Engineering at Hatfield College of Technology and later became External Examiner for
and during the Seventies I spent three weeks at Dortmund University as an academic visitor . Looking back, my greatest pleasures were playing rugger, listening to music and serving in the RE during WWII. With one company in Italy I acted as 'bridge commander' in the construction of several multi-span high-level Bailey bridges; I also discovered and disarmed a huge explosive charge in the cellar of a palazzo which was then serving as the HQ of a Lancer regiment. A month later I went with the Lovat Scouts on a three-day reconnaissance mule patrol through the Alpi della Luna which straddled the Gothic Line, going ahead to lift anti-personnel mines ( I was later told that I'd missed quite a few!). In February '45 I commanded another
Lt. Edgar Lightfoot, RE: 1945
platoon in another RE company supporting a Guards Brigade. One day I took a small group of sappers to go with the Buffs (seasoned troops, the Scots and Coldstream companies were new from England) in an amphibious operation on Lake Comacchio. Early next morning I dismantled the charges on a bridge which had just been taken by the Coldstream Guards. A week or so later my platoon built a tank raft for crossing the River Po near Crespino where we ferried about 80 tanks overnight: We were so-ort MTheste, but got involved in a protracted dispute for territory with the Yugoslays. After the eventual face-down there I was sent on a Works Services course and later was posted to such a RE unit in Mestre. Most of the work was in Venice and Porta Marghera. After four weeks leave back in the UK, I became Garrison Engineer in command of a Works Company at the Royal Palace at Caserta, just north of Naples, HQ of the Central Mediterranean Allied Forces Command, and served there from January to September '46. I married in December '45, but my wife died tragically in March '83. We both took up golf in '72 and I still play regularly at the neighbouring golf club. I have painted in a desultory fashion for several years, I regularly play bridge and I still study Italian. As a music lover I greatly enjoy recitals at Oxford and Abingdon and I attend theatrical and operatic performances too. The College very kindly involves me occasionally when they need an extra grey head at special lectures and dinners and I am extremely grateful for all this kindness. Perhaps I should mention that I have three children, all happily married, and seven grandchildren, so I am forever occupied with birthdays and other family occasions. Also I am very fortunate in being remembered by several former students at both Leeds and Oxford.
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Financial Report
Bequests in 2000
from The Pembroke Accountant, Maureen Bond
received from Peter Pickard, Herb Morgan, Aubrey Barr Jimmy Cox, Arthur Amy and Monica Casswell
this is the first time that we have provided a financial report for this publication, it would seem sensible to present a broad overview of the College finances. Pembroke, in common with the other Oxford Colleges has a financial structure which is independent of, but linked to, that of the University. The area that interfaces with the University is the funding for undergraduate students. Student numbers are set by agreement between the University and the Colleges and are funded at a standard per capita rate. This means that the total income hich we receive for undergraduates who have residential status in the UK and EU is fixed, and is outside our control. We cannot increase our funding by increasing the number of publicly funded students. We do have independent financial control over the remainder of our activities. This includes income from overseas students, rental income, conference activities and the level of expenditure on salaries, maintenance etc.
The major categories of income, in order of magnitude, are: 1) Tuition fees and funding. In the current year we have 351 publicly funded home and EU undergraduates, 43 self funded undergraduates, 34 US visiting students and 58 graduate students. This source of income is intended to cover the costs of tuition and academic administration and to make a contribution to the costs of running the establishment . 2) Accommodation charges levied on students who are living in College. We currently house first years, visiting students, a substantial proportion of finalists and a proportion of graduate students. 3) Investment income from the College's endowment. This is the figure that is subject to wide variation from one college to another. Pembroke, in common with all Oxford colleges has built up a capital sum which is invested on the stock market and the money market. The income is used to support and subsidise College activities. Some of the wealthier colleges possess more sizeable endowments and have substantial property holdings that yield commercial rental income. Pembroke owns its own College buildings but holds very little investment property. 4) Conference income. The College runs commercial conferences in the Easter and Long Vacations in order to make best use of the available accommodation and catering facilities. This sometimes causes inconvenience to students who are required to vacate their rooms speedily after the end of term. It does however provide a valuable source of additional revenue. 5) The remainder of the income comes from a variety of sources, principally due to the supplementary external activities of the academic staff. This includes research work and teaching performed outside the College. In broad terms, the income for the financial years ended 31 July 2000 and 31 July 1999 was: 2000 £000s
1999 £000s
1,719
1,644
Accommodation and catering income from academic related activities
953
926
Investment income
764
582
Conference income
369
441
Other income
134
103
3,939
3,696
Academic salaries
783
736
Domestic staff
675
620
Catering supplies
314
280
Adminstrative staff salaries
270
277
Other administration costs
179
239
1,212
1,052
Other costs
55
80
Total costs
3,718
3,499
Tuition fees and funding
Total income In summary form, the annual costs of the Collge are:
Premises maintenance
Figures are extracted from the audited published Frank's Accounts
Our beautiful building stock represents something of a burden. The cost of renovating, maintaining, running, staffing and cleaning these buildings equates to approximately one third of our annual expenditure; a sum which is considerably greater than both our expenditure on academic costs and our income from investments. The College has made losses in previous years which have eroded the value of its accumulated capital. It has however generated a surplus in the last three years. (£221,000 in 2000 and £197,000 in 1999). The present aim is to make a modest surplus each year, which will be added to retained capital and used to strengthen the endowment. It is essential that the endowment is preserved and developed, as this forms the cushion which buffers the College against sudden changes in tuition support. Indications have been for some time that the per capita public funding for students will continue to fall in real terms. One way the College can counter this reduction, without sacrificing the quality of its provision, is to increase its endowment.
now four years since the College launched its Bequest Programme despatching me to all corners of the kingdom. Visiting our illustrious Old Members and being able to meet the widows of a good many Alumni who have passed on has been both a privilege and a pleasure. Not only have I been able to re-establish or re-enforce a link with the College, but have also been greatly encouraged by the large numbers of folk who have readily accepted the suggestion that they might include Pembroke in their Wills. Normally one does not expect to see any return on a Bequest programme until it has been running for at least 5 years - after all it is "long term planning" in the most literal sense. However, Bequests in the current academic year already exceed £220,000. Ultimately, they can and should become a regular and very substantial part of the College income although it can take a generation before the flow becomes at all constant and that will depend upon an increasing percentage of Alumni and their widows making provision for Pembroke in their Wills. Some people worry about making a commitment to the College because they still have heavy family commitments (I know the feeling all too well!), are concerned that their estates will be eroded by the costs of Long Term Care or feel that they are still far too young to make such plans. Since it would be disastrous to be "overtaken by events", it is always sound sense to make a provisional Will at least, knowing full well that one can alter it time and again as one's circumstances change. Having said that, it is perfectly possible for Testators to impose whatever conditions they like on a Bequest, whether it is specific or residuary: for example, "subject to the life interest of my surviving spouse", "provided that the net estate due to my heirs exceeds a certain sum" etc. The important thing is to ensure that the College is included. I would love to believe that all those wonderful people who have said that they would include Pembroke have already done so. Realistically I realise that some may have forgotten or simply not yet got round to it. I hope that they will now rush out to do so. In some cases that may represent just too much effort, particularly for those who are old or ailing. They could ask someone to get them a Will Form from the stationers and write a new Will (make sure it is properly witnessed) or, if the Executor of an existing Will is a member of the family, just write a letter asking them to make a further Bequest. Bequests have featured prominently in the history of the College starting with the £5000 received from the Estate of Thomas and Maude Teasdale with which the Foundation was funded back in 1624. Some major bequests in the following centuries enabled much of the building work to be done. The latter half of the last century saw a reduction in the number of Bequests received but the flow has now started again and, with the co-operation of the Alumni, will eventually become the flood which will enable Pembroke not only to survive but to thrive.
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PEMBROKE NEEDS YOUR HELP ON November
10, 1998, the committee of the M.C.R. launched an Appeal for computers, monitors and printers for the use of graduate students. At the time, the M.C.R. had only four computers to accommodate a considerable number of students undertaking research and writing dissertations.
Members responded quickly and generously enabling the provision of adequate numbers of computers in the M.C.R, the Bannister Centre and the computer room at the Geoffrey Arthur Building. Your donations also enabled the College to network these rooms, which gave students vital access to the University server. Since then, the College has employed a full- time Computer Officer, provided 150 computers and completed the networking of 65% of the College buildings. Pembroke now urgently needs to complete the computerisation of the College. in this age of advanced computerisation and high-tech communication in all of the academic disciplines, the computer has become an essential educational tool. Attempting to make do without this essential tool places Pembroke students at a disadvantage and seriously compromises the quality of their work. We need to network 121 student rooms at £500 per room and purchase a further 38 computers at £1,500 per computer which covers purchase, warranty, maintenance, licensing of the software, and replacement. We also need to establish a computer fund so that the 70 computers and 45 printers that are insitu can be upgraded or replaced when necessary. This cycle guarantees that computerisation in the College remains at optimal level Will you help us to achieve this goal by:sponsoring the networking of 1 room with a gift of £10.40 per month over 4 years or £125 per year over 4 years or £500 outright gift. sponsoring the life-cycle of 1 computer with a gift of £31.20 per month over 4 years or £375 per year over 4 years or £1,500 outright gift. assisting with a donation to the Computer Fund
Please help Pembroke to offer our students the level of technology that is essential to meet the demands of a modem University education. We owe them a 'switched-on' College. Please make your cheques payable to 'Pembroke College', and forward to the Development Office For further details, including Tax-efficient ways of supporting Pembroke, please contact the Development Office