CHURCHILL

REVIEWVolume 49 | 2012

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“It’s certainly an unusual honour and a distinction that a college bearing my name should be added to the ancient and renowned foundations which togetherform the University of Cambridge.”

Sir Winston Churchill, 17 October, 1959

CHURCHILL

REVIEWVolume 49 | 2012

CONTENTS

EDITORIAL. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5

FROM THE MASTER.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7

Doing Things Before….. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11

THE COLLEGE YEAR.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17

Bursar’s Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19

Archives Centre: Director’s Report. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .23

Development Director’s Report. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .27

Donations 2011-12 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .30

Alumni Relations Report. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .40

STUDENT LIFE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .45

JCR and MCR Reports 2011-12. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .47

Clubs and Societies. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .51

The MCR Photo Competition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .61

COLLEGE EVENTS.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .63

The Fortieth Anniversary of the Admission of Women.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .65

Churchill’s Gold Medal. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .65

A Career in Chemistry: Professor Carol Robinson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .69

Lost Film Found. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .72

The John Kinsella and Tracy Ryan Prizes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .74

The Wing Yip Reception. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .76

FEATURES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .77

From our Overseas Fellows. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .80

My Career since Churchill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .86

A Dance with the Dragon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .89

Flying Roast Ducks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .93

Downton College. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .95

Wittgenstein in Storey’s Way. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .99

Floral Churchill. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .103

IN MEMORIAM.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .105

Condolences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .107

Professor Sir William Hawthorne. . . . . . . . . . . .109

Mr Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .111

Dr Richard Hey. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .116

Dr Helen Patterson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .121

MEMBERS’ NEWS.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .125

WHO’S WHO 2011-12. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .135

New Fellows 2011-12 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .137

Overseas Fellows 2011-12. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .142

Who’s Who in Churchill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .146

IN THE BACK.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .153

Information for alumni and past Fellows. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .155

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

Alison Finch

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

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FROM THE MASTER

Tales of unremitting success may be tedious to read, and this year’s reportpresents that challenge.

In student academic performance, as measured by high Cambridge standards, wemust aim to be beyond any reproach. This has again been the case this year: acrossfirst to fourth years, more than 130 undergraduates were awarded Collegescholarships, having achieved first-class honours; eleven gained University prizes;and results overall are at least the equal of two years ago, with fifth place in theTompkins Table (the table that takes account of the College’s subject mix).

The closed world of intercollegiate sport inevitably involves ups and downs,but in external recognition it has been a strong year, with eighteen awards ofblues and club colours. Paddy Sadler led Scotland’s team in the under-19 CricketWorld Cup in Queensland, and was elected Captain of university cricket – afirst for the College. (Vice-Master Ken Siddle will again be hosting a box at theVarsity match next summer; do please contact him if you are thinking of comingalong.) Stacie Powell, who graduated in 2009 and is now doing a PhD inAstrophysics, followed in fencer Alex O’Connell’s Beijing 2008 footsteps,competing in the diving squad at the London 2012 Olympics.

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“Tales of unremitting success may be tediousto read...”

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

one of the Founding Benefactors. A souvenir programme and menu includedseveral photographs of Founding Fellows from the early 1960s and a historicalnote written by Dr Mark Goldie. None of the successes this year would havebeen possible without the generosity of benefactors at our founding, and ofalumni since: income from endowment and alumni donations is greater thanthe amount we receive in student fees, and is essential to provide theexperience which means so much to students.

As I relate in what follows, Elizabeth and I took leave, January-April 2012. TheCollege’s success in our absence extends my track-record: any place I have everbeen does ever so much better when I am gone! On a less frivolous note, Iannounced to Council and Governing Body that I intended to resign as Masterin September 2014.

I know that all alumni will join me in thanking most sincerely all who havecontributed to the College’s success, and permit me to add my personal thanksto Alison Finch, who has served so dutifully and capably as Vice-Master, and asActing Master in my absence.

Doing Things Before...

The Master logs his travels during his leave from College, January-April 2012

Combining College and the Newton Institute was particularly consuming, andtowards the end of my five years at the latter in September 2011 Elizabeth andI started to plan a major trip to do things before we became too decrepit todo them – a reason the College accepted in granting leave.

7 January: Our journey started with a few steps to the bus stop on Madingley Road.

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

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Music at Churchill has been a great delight this year. No one there will forgetthe virtuoso performance in the Music Centre by violinist Tim Fain, son ofOverseas Fellow Gordon and his wife Marjorie. It is a pleasure to thankDominic Wyse for his contributions to our musical life, and to welcome MarkMiller in his additional role as Director of Music Making.

The Fellowship has gained too many honours to list, but specific mention mustgo to the five who were recognised in the Birthday Honours: Michael AllenOBE, Mary Jacobus CBE, Dame Julia King, David Newbery CBE and Dame JanetThornton. Given that it is (was?!) my subject, I mention also the three awardsby the Institute of Physics: to Teaching By-Fellow Lisa Jardine-Wright, to By-Fellow Graham Farmelo and to former Junior Research Fellow Meera Parish.

At College Council we record individual congratulations also to alumni/ae onyour achievements. Do continue to let us know about them, and please forgiveme if I mention only one: the knighthood in the New Year Honours to DiarmaidMacCulloch (UG69/G and former Fellow).

You can read more about the Archives Centre in Allen Packwood’s article, and Irestrict myself only to emphasising the brilliant success of the exhibition Churchill:The Power of Words at the Morgan Library in New York. It opened to an outstandingreview in the New York Times and brought record crowds to the Morgan.

The Møller Centre has shone brightly in all the gloom of the double-dip recession:a record surplus returned to the College, and a Queen’s Award for Enterprise inInternational Trade. I congratulate four staff members who completed a cycle-ride (two of them on mountain bikes!!) from Mærsk HQ in Denmark to theMøller Centre, raising £10,000 for East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices.

With the contribution from the Møller Centre and from commercialconference activities in College, allied to careful cost control and husbandingof resources, we have again returned a surplus, building up reserves which willbe more important than ever in what will surely be a challenging future.

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

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of bombing per head in history: the visible loss of limb and sight from mines;rusting bomb cases; and Pathet Lao caves, where the sign “Art Unit” referredto the position in the cave of artillery command (see photo). An extremelydemanding day for me climbing a mountain, Phou Nang None, emphasised thestrength and fitness of my guide Mr Pan: I couldn’t help thinking he would havemade a formidable guerrilla soldier.

A “bus” journey (packed with people, hens, buffalo horns and much else)heralded two days of indulgence in Luang Prabang: Buddhist monasteries, andthe comfortable trappings of its French colonial legacy in a delightful river setting.

I can’t capture the fascination of Laos, a single-party socialist state whereeveryone pays for education and even in the most rural areas the uniformedchildren impress cheerfully on their way to school.

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On to Cambodia, where our delightful hotel in Phnom Penh didn’t help prepareus for the horrors of the Toul Sleng Genocide Museum. And even extensivereading beforehand didn’t prepare us for the wonders of Angkor. After anamazing day of birdwatching at Prek Toal, the eight-hour trip by boat toBattambang was in equal measure fraught and fascinating. Near Battambang isa less well known killing-field from the Pol Pot era; hard for us to comprehend.

Three weeks in NE Laos began with a trip up the Mekong, from Luang Prabangto Houei Say, two days of luxury and never-ending interest of scenery and life.Luang Namtha was our base for a two-day trek in the jungle, including anovernight stay in a village, Nam Koy: people, cattle, pigs, dogs, cats, chickens; noelectricity; running water in the river; our guide cooking dinner on an open firein the visitors’ hut, where we slept on bamboo palisades.

Nong Kiaw was the next stop: a beautiful river setting in karst scenery;wonderful walks; superb butterflies; birds scarce and extremely timid (they arehunted, by catapault and home-made gun). There is much evidence of the US-Viet Cong war carried out in/over Laos, which suffered the heaviest tonnage

Art Unit

We had visited New Zealand as part of a trip between Loughborough andCambridge, and determined to return to do some of the 4-5 day treks,particularly the Milford and Queen Charlotte Tracks. The former is (in)famousfor bad weather, which sometimes results in parties being helicoptered out. Wewere lucky, enjoying just enough rain to appreciate the rainforest – garden-likeat times – and spectacular views of the mountains at the Mackinnon Pass andon the Milford Sound.

The Queen Charlotte Track, a gentler affair, was interrupted by a “weatherbomb” resulting in an impressive water-taxi ride to Bay of Many Coves, wherethe travel difficulties meant we were the only visitors luxuriating at this 5-starresort. We worked off the cuisine next day with a long hike to catch up.

Elizabeth felt obliged on behalf of the wine committee to visit vineyards in theMarlborough region, and I willingly supported her in this duty…

On to Chile, where we enjoyed wonderful hospitality from Churchill FellowMarcial Echenique, his wife Maria-Louisa and their friends at their Zapallar andSantiago homes, both in beautiful settings: more wine-tasting with Marcial, andagonising about how we divide our available time between Chile and Argentina.One “must” for me was the bus-ride over the Andes in a series of hairpins, byturns exhilarating (for me) and frightening (for Elizabeth); my come-uppance? –I was the one who got the altitude headache at the pass.

Given the complexities of travel arrangements, we had signed up for an organisedtwo-week trip in Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego, which included a hike to Lagode Los Tres to view the Mount Fitzroy massif, the Cerro Torre valley, the PeritoMoreno glacier, Parque del Paine (first night’s camping for us in more than fortyyears), Ushuaia (“Capital de Las Malvinas”…) and the Beagle Channel. Lots of(for us) quite serious hikes, but the guide’s initial anxieties were allayed: “Scottishladies are very good in mountains,” he finally admitted. After our good luck withweather on the Milford Sound, we feared disappointment with its notoriousuncertainty in these stunning South American mountains, but no, and the landand life exceeded my undergraduate imaginations.

Our final ten days were spent in central Argentina. Do travel by coach, at acomfort beyond first-class air travel (but how would we know?). And enjoy the

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chance encounters – former Churchill Fellow Maria Tippett and her husbandhistorian Peter Clarke two seats in front of us from Buenos Aires to Cordoba.After all our beefing about the ubiquity of ham-and-cheese garnish in Argentina,a backdrop of 6000-metre peaks (some still with snow…) set the stage for anexceptional lunch and wine-tasting at the Ruca Malen vineyard near Mendoza.

11 April: a welcome home, with 3,500 photos and movies in 25 Gbytes, and somuch more in memory and to tell.

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

Bursar’s Report

Today, 9 July 2012, the new dining-hall chairs were delivered. This is the latestrefurbishment project in the College. The original Robin Day chairs had enduredfifty-five years of hard wear and repairs. (Robin Day (1915-2010) was the furnituredesigner who, together with his textile designer wife Lucienne (1917-2010),transformed British design after World War II by pioneering a new modernidiom.) We had reached the point where we were short of at least 100 chairs. Sowe decided to go for a superior replacement, designed just for Churchill Collegedining-hall by Luke Hughes, who has been responsible for the hall furniture inboardrooms, libraries, the new Supreme Court in London and over twenty-eightOxbridge College dining-halls. Luke knew Robin Day personally, and wasdetermined to follow the best aspects of his design in the new chairs. But thoseof you who have sat through a long dinner in Hall will be pleased to hear that theseats are now padded. Many of you have already donated a chair, which will beadorned with a brass plaque commemorating that fact or whatever else you havechosen. Some of the redundant chairs have been taken up to the Chapel so thatwe can seat the growing numbers attending weddings, concerts and, sadly, funeralsin the Chapel. Others may still be available for sale; if you are interested, pleasemake an offer to the Development Office.

Interesting events have taken place in College this year, not least in connectionwith the Møller Centre, which goes from strength to strength. Gillian Secrettand her team continue to build on the niche they have established in executiveeducation programmes for bankers, particularly from China. The Fellowship andmany alumni/ae have participated, lending expertise and entertaining the visitorsin College. The Centre’s business has earned a Queen’s Award for Exports thisyear, a marvellous accolade. And this year sees the celebration of the twentiethanniversary of the Centre, which retains its close links with the MaerskFoundation. The death of Maersk Mc-Kinney Møller, who was the generousdonor of the Centre to the College, was a sad blow earlier this year, but wehope to retain the links with his family as well. We remain indebted to all those

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There have been no major staff changes this year, but we will shortly be marking,with thanks and celebrations, the retirements of Nigel Clements, night porter,who lent a sympathetic ear to many students passing through the College overthe last twelve years, and of Martin Hayden, who has been Head Chef here formany, many years. Our College consultant architect, Malcolm Brown, has alsoretired, but the College has appointed his wife, Mary Plowman, also a distinguishedarchitect, in his place. Malcolm has overseen a plethora of refurbishment projectsin his time with us, including the complete rebuilding of the kitchens, theimprovements to the Wolfson Theatre, disabled access improvements and theconversion of three more staircases to en-suite accommodation.

We have now re-wired and upgraded almost half the courtyard bedrooms, andthis summer we are completing the refurbishment of the last two staircases inNorth Court – a welcome milestone. We are also beginning the exciting workof bringing to realisation our new Court: as our target for funds looms nearer,we will be working with the project team to review and develop the plansfurther, firm up on the costs, go out to consultation and start the detailedplanning permissions process. We are also working on a number of plans toexpand graduate accommodation over the next ten years.

The first phase of the new University Sports Hall on the West Cambridge site,close to the College, is now under way; the Hall will be much used, weanticipate, by Churchill College clubs needing indoor training space.

I continue to be the focus for energy purchasing and encouraging better energymanagement across the Colleges. There are currently two major district heatingschemes under discussion in Cambridge: one taking its base from theUniversity’s prospective North West Cambridge site, the other in the CityCentre. It is a real challenge working with so many individual organisations, letalone the other colleges, to bring about progress on these projects. The CarbonReduction Commitment scheme, in which the colleges find themselves unlikelyparticipants (unlikely because the energy consumption of the individual collegeslies well below the threshold in the legislation), will cost us all about £700Kthis year, and has taken up an immense amount of my time and that of otherstaff in all the colleges. We now have a central coordinator to pull together theconsumption data from over 6,000 meter points, as the colleges are the mostcomplicated participant in the scheme. This is not a great claim to fame.

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alumni who support the Centre by lecturing, sitting on the Board and bringingbusiness to the Centre.

The College’s hospitality business continues to grow also, and the cateringoperation is gaining plaudits all round, not least from those of you who haveattended events over the last year. For Graduation Weekend, we provided aserved dinner for 420 in Hall and a buffet lunch for 650 proud students andparents the following day. We also hosted four large Christmas parties last year:three for leading businesses in Cambridge and of course the College’s own,which brings together Fellows and staff for a jolly evening.

So our hospitality staff go from strength to strength in building the reputationof the College as the place to come to. However, they put just as muchemphasis, if not more, on supporting Open Days and events to bring potentialnew students to the College. The Comberton Village College “Prom” hasbecome an annual event, much enjoyed by the staff as well as the school visitors.We fill gaps in our conference programme in vacations by offering rooms for bed-and-breakfast guests on www.cambridgerooms.co.uk. Many of ouralumni have already discovered that this is a useful way to book rooms simplyand quickly.

The gardens have brought much delight to both residents and visitors. For thethird year, our Head Gardener John Moore has opened them under theNational Gardens Scheme, in aid of charity. The spring opening, a joint one withFitzwilliam, was particularly successful. The summer opening clashed withmonsoon-like rains and the Wimbledon men’s final, unfortunately, but a fewhardy souls still explored the site.

The focus of the Archives Centre’s work is described in the following article;the highly professional team led by Allen Packwood, working under enormouspressure, has continued to attract praise from around the world. The exhibitionsin Ottawa at the Canadian Parliament building and the Morgan Library in NewYork have taken years to bring to fruition but have, once again, significantlyraised international awareness of the legacy of our Founder. These activitieshave also been self-funding, thanks to the continuing efforts of the Director andthe generosity of some of our key supporters on both sides of the Atlantic.

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At Churchill College level, the Sustainability Committee is working hard toachieve measurable reductions in emissions and consumption. For next year,we have signed up to the Student Switch-Off campaign, a national campaign toinvolve students in changing the behaviour of individuals when using energy.

Financially, the College has benefitted once again from the strong performanceof both the Møller Centre and the College’s own commercial hospitalityoperations. The continued constraint on salaries of all staff and Fellows has alsohelped considerably. Since last year, the undergraduate fee situation has becomemuch better defined, as agreements were reached firstly with the Office of FairAccess on admissions and secondly between the University and the Collegeson the way the fee was to be split.

The Colleges are working with the University on developing the Cambridgebursary scheme. Thanks to the generosity of a number of our alumni and ofthe Winston Churchill Memorial Trust, a number of deserving UK students arebeing assisted every year. We continue to employ a full-time Schools LiaisonOfficer, as do most of the Colleges, to widen access by encouraging applicationsfrom non-traditional sources. We have held our rents down to levels which areslightly below the Cambridge and national averages. The income we get fromthe Møller Centre and College Conferences enables us to charge rents for justthirty weeks of the year. Churchill College remains a cheaper option than mostUK universities.

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

Jennifer Brook

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Archives Centre: Director’s Report

The Power of Words

The Power of Words was the title of the Churchill Archives Centre’s 2012summer exhibition at the Morgan Library and Museum in New York. It couldnot be more fitting. The power of words is what the Archives Centre is allabout. It is primarily through their words, public and private, that we seek topreserve and present the personalities of the past.

Capturing those words can present its own challenges. This year has seen thefruition of two huge digitisation projects.A team from the company Transmediafinished scanning over 900,000 pages from the archive of Baroness Thatcher,while Bloomsbury Academic digitised a further million images from microfilmin the Churchill Papers collection. As a result, the Churchill Archive on-line willbe published in the autumn of 2012 (see www.churchillarchive.com), while moreThatcher material is being made available each year through the website of theThatcher Foundation (see www.margaretthatcher.org). And there is more tocome. We are already embarked on a collaboration with the Wellcome Trustto digitise the papers of Rosalind Franklin. High numbers of researcherscontinued to visit our reading rooms last year (560 during the College year2011-2012), but many more came to us via email or through such web-based

The final design for the exhibition; courtesy Martello Media

resources as www.discoverchurchill.org, a website linked into social media,including Twitter and Facebook, put together to accompany the Morgan Libraryexhibition in New York.

In October 2011, the Archives Centre was delighted to host a Festival of Ideasevent on oratory, which considered whether political speeches still matter, andquestioned whether Churchill could have functioned in the era of spin-doctorsand sound-bites. Since then we have certainly had ample opportunity to testthe level of contemporary interest in his great speeches. On 30 December1941, in the immediate aftermath of Pearl Harbor, Churchill addressed the twoHouses of the Canadian legislature, famously recalling that the French generalshad told him in the summer of 1940 that “In three weeks England will have herneck wrung like a chicken”, before remarking, “Some chicken! Some neck!!”Just over seventy years later, in March 2012, we took back to Ottawa six keypages from Churchill’s notes for that historic address and displayed them in theCanadian Library of Parliament, alongside both the famous photographicportrait of Churchill, taken by Yousuf Karsh on that day, and the filmed recordingof Churchill delivering the speech. The display was well received, and was seenby over 100,000 visitors to the Canadian Parliament over the course of thenext three months.

Churchill’s speeches also formed the centrepiece of The Power of Wordsexhibition at the Morgan Library and Museum in New York, which ran fromthe beginning of June until the end of September. Visitors were able to enter asmall purpose-built auditorium, designed for us by Martello Media, and immersethemselves in a selection of Churchill’s key broadcasts from the period 1938to 1946. Once seated inside, they heard him deliver his words, and as they didso they saw those same spoken words appear on the screen in the blank verseformat Churchill called speech form, along with specially selected dramaticphotographs from the period. The visitors could then go out into the galleryand view a selection of Churchill’s writings, private letters, literary drafts andpublic speeches, showing how he used words to underpin and sustain hisamazing political career. The aim was to let Churchill speak for himself, to showhow he crafted his books and oratory, and to provide some faint echo of whatit must have been like to experience his words in a time of great internationalcrisis. I am delighted to report that the exhibition enjoyed high visitor numbersand positive reviews, including a two-page piece in the New York Times.

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Reproduced with permission of Curtis Brown, London on behalf of the Estate of Sir Winston ChurchillCopyright © Winston S. Churchill

Development Director’s Report (1 July 2011 – 30 June 2012)

One of our goals this year has been to increase alumni participation, but letme reassure you it is not “all about money”, although in the current economicclimate giving back in financial terms has never been more vital to the Collegeand its current students. The fact is that we are always delighted to see alumnireturning to Churchill to participate in social events. Some also share theirexperience and expertise as volunteers, giving their time to assist, for example,with student career workshops. Some play an active role on the ChurchillAssociation Committee and other College committees. Alumni are ourambassadors as they continue to be part of Churchill College and open doorsto a wider community.

Gifts in 2011/12

The College has raised a total of £1,334,471.96 in philanthropic support duringthis financial year.

The majority of these gifts have come from alumni giving back to Churchill. Weare extremely grateful to you for your continuing support. Your generosityensures that your College can go from strength to strength and provide itsstudents with the very best environment in which to succeed, so please docome back to visit us and see your philanthropy in action.

50th Anniversary Appeal: New Court

Thanks to the extraordinary generosity of alumni and the Fellowship, we arenow within striking distance of raising the funds needed to build a New Courtof student accommodation. Our target is to raise £8M; there are now funds of£4,048,867 assigned to this important goal. We are therefore very excited aboutthe prospect of closing that gap so that building can go ahead at the earliestopportunity.

In an effort to boost the appeal we launched the 50@50 campaign in May 2012,inviting donors to sponsor a room in the New Court at a cost of £50,000. Withfifty such donors sponsoring a room – or indeed groups of donors by year-group or subject – we will achieve our goal.

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These two high-profile displays demonstratethe continuing interest in Churchill’s greatspeeches. While his recorded delivery soundsrather slow and dated to our modern ear,there is no doubting the drama and power ofthe words. Would a modern politician evermake a speech like Churchill? Probably not.Churchill’s great speeches were grounded in apolitical medium – radio – and in the particularera of the Second World War. But thepoliticians of today continue to cite Churchillas a benchmark, and to quote or misquote key passages as sound-bites, reinterpretingthem for a modern audience and to fitcontemporary events. How many times do weread or hear of “the finest hour”, “the few”, “theiron curtain”, or of the need to “give us thetools”? Churchill’s speeches are fascinating

precisely because they show the power of words to influence events and then tosurvive beyond those events, so that they become part of the historic record andpart of the language.

My thanks to the Morgan Library and Museum, to the Canadian Library ofParliament, to Bloomsbury Academic, to Transmedia and to the staff of theChurchill Archives Centre for their work in making the words in our collectionsever more widely available for research, display and debate. To find out aboutthe full range of our collections and activities, please visit the Archives Centrewebsite at www.chu.cam.ac.uk/archives/.

Allen Packwood

Churchill outside his exhibitionat the Morgan Library, New York

Sponsors at this level will be commemorated on a plaque outside their roomsin the New Court and, as Patrons of Churchill College, their names will appearon the College’s Benefactors’ Board. They will also receive an invitation to aCollege Feast or special Benefactors’ Dinner.

The New Court will ensure that we can provide affordable accommodation forChurchill students for the duration of their studies at Cambridge; as one of ourstudents said recently: “The greatest advantage of having guaranteedaccommodation in Churchill for three years is that it creates a very genuine feelingof community spirit. In few other Cambridge Colleges is it so easy to becomefriends with second- and third-year students when you arrive as a Fresher.”

If you would like to participate in 50@50 with a one-off gift or scheduledpledge, or simply make a contribution to the 50th Anniversary Appeal and helpus close the funding gap, please contact the Development Office on 01223336197 or email development@chu.cam.ac.uk.

The Judge David Stokes QC Bursary Awards

The Judge David Stokes QC Memorial Bursary Fund was set up in honour ofJudge David Stokes QC (1944 – 2004), who studied Law as an undergraduateat Churchill College from1963 to 1966. This fund provides bursaries forChurchill Law students, and makes a real difference by helping to offset thefinancial burden they will incur during their studies. With the changes takingplace in the way higher education is funded, bursaries such as this have neverbeen more important.

By way of promoting this bursary fund and to commemorate the contributionthat David Stokes made to the study and practice of Law, we organised a specialevent on 26 January 2012: Churchill lawyers and family and friends of DavidStokes were invited to attend a Bursary Award ceremony and drinks receptionat the Old Bailey. Sir John Stuttard (U63) was our Master of Ceremonies onthis auspicious occasion, and we were also privileged to have His Honour JudgeBrian Barker QC, Common Serjeant of London, present. He gave us a briefhistory and insight into the day-to-day life of the Old Bailey, and handed outthe awards to the Bursars waiting patiently in the dock in No 2 Court!

The Judge David Stokes QC Memorial Bursary Fund currently stands at £58,902.

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Please do get in touch with the Development Office if you would like to donateto this or other bursary funds at Churchill College.

Legacy Giving

Our Legacy Pledge programme continues to grow, with four new members ofthe Winston S. Churchill 1958 Society being admitted this year. We were honouredto have our Patron and daughter of our Founder, the Lady Soames DBE, presenton this occasion too.

Those who pledge gifts in Will to Churchill College are invited to become membersof the Winston S. Churchill 1958 Society, which meets every year at Churchill for anexclusive drinks reception and lunch. Members also receive invitations to otherCollege alumni events. Please do contact the Development Office in confidence ifyou would like further information about joining this special group of donors.

And finally, to demonstrate the more creative side of the DevelopmentOffice at Churchill College…

In 2012 the Development Office organised two special exhibitions. The first was“London Calling”, an exhibition of London-themed paintings by local artist andWinston S. Churchill 1958 Society member, Vic Stedman. These greatly enlivenedthe space in the Wolfson Foyer and were a colourful backdrop to the WinstonS. Churchill 1958 Society drinks reception on 29 March. Livia Argentesi, Alumniand Development Assistant, did a wonderful job designing the poster andexhibition guide, taking her inspiration from the London Tube map.

The second exhibition, organised in collaboration with Goldmark Art Gallery,Uppingham, displayed John Piper prints in the Chapel at Churchill College, wherethe beautiful stained glass windows, “The Elements”, themselves designed byPiper and made by Patrick Reyntiens, provided a wonderful backdrop to theexhibition. Also on display was archive material relating to the windows. Ascreening of the documentary film, “An Empty Stage”, which investigates the lifeand work of John Piper, also took place. The exhibition was opened with a publiclecture by the distinguished art historian and biographer Frances Spalding CBE.

Please log on to the College and alumni web pages for further informationabout how you can help Churchill College or to learn about forthcoming alumni

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and special events. You can also subscribe to our regular e-Bulletin. The nextedition of the Churchill Newsletter will be published in June 2013.

Sharon Maurice

www.chu.cam.ac.ukwww.churchillians.net

Donations 2011-12

We are very grateful to all the following who have chosen to support ChurchillCollege. All those listed below have made a gift during the period 1st July 2011to 30th June 2012. (N.B. Gifts made after this date will be acknowledgedin next year’s Review.)

Mr V S Abrash 1986 Mr J Adamcheski-Halson Professor R E W Adams 1979 Professor R Adrian 1969 Professor H Akagi 1994 Mr D Alafouzos 1998 Mr A C Allsop 1974 Mr N A Altmann 1991 Mr J A Amias 1981 Mrs R Anderson (Stock) 1987 Mr P J S Arch 2002 Mr C M L Argent 1962 Mr T Armitage 1982 Dr D Armstrong 1971 Mr D Armstrong 1975 Professor K J Arrow 1964 Mr K Asanovic 1984 Mr D M Asbury 1968 Professor N W Ashcroft 1961 Dr H Ashraf 1989 Mr L Ashton 1994 Professor M Atzmon 1996 Mr D J Badgery 1995

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

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

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

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

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

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Professor E R Katz 1966 Mr D E P P Keefe 1976 Dr S G Martin 1977 Mr T A Key 1965 Mr R H Khatib 1987 Mr C Kinch Mrs A N King 1994 Mr D E W King 1961 Mr S A King 1967 Mr N G Kingan 1961 Mr L Kinross-Skeels 1996 Mr W M Kinsey 1970 Professor D B Kittelson 1966 Dr N Knight 2007 Dr E A Kohll 1961 Professor M H Kramer 1994 Mr A Kramvis 1971 Mrs S A Kramvis (Newcombe) 1972 Professor L Krause 1976 Dr S L Kremnitzer 1975 Dr S J Kukula 1984 Professor B Kutter 2010 Dr S A Kyle 1970 Mr A J Lake 1985Mr H S Lake 1965 Assoc Professor E Lally (Cobb) 1979 Mr N M C Lamb 1977 Mr A J Lambert 1993 Mr P Larson Mr T R Latton 1961 Mr A G Laugharne 1999 Mr I M Lawrie 1987 Dr G J Le Poidevin 1971 Professor N Leader-Williams 2009 Mrs S P Lee Dr C E Lee-Elliott 1987 Mr A E Leigh-Smith 1961 Professor J Lewandowski 2003 Dr A M Lewis 1983 Mr J C Lewis 1961 Mr M Lewis 1964 Dr E T Libbey 1966 Dr H Lillehammer 2010 Lincolnshire Iron and Steel Institute Mr R M Little 1993 Dr R K Livesley 1960 Mr D W Llewellyn 1964 Mr L P M Lloyd-Evans 1967 Mr G H Lock 1966 Mr P N Locke 1966

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

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

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

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Dr R H Rives Ms K S Riviere 1973 Mr D Roberts 1992 Dr J D Roberts 1970 Miss P Roberts Dr T L Roberts 1965 Mr B H A Robinson 1991 Mr R E Robles-Thome 1977 Mr G K Rock-Evans 1963 Professor D O Rockwell 1981 Mrs D Rohan Mr A H Rosenberg 1968 Professor J Rosenberg 1972 Mr N Roskill Mr T Roskill Mr S D Rothman 1982 Mr A J Rowell 1986 Mr M W Rudin 1979 Rushbrook Charitable Trust Mr P Russell 1977 Professor D B Rutledge 1973 Mr M T Rutter 1982 Professor M J Rycroft 1960 The Hon Mr Justice Sales 1980 Mrs J E Salmon (Mathie) 1976 Mr R H N Salmon 1962 Dr D J M Sampson 1996 Mr G K Sampson 1965 Mr S J Scherr 1980 Mr A C Schofield 1973 Dr D M Schwartz 1966 Mr M H Schwarz 1980 Dr E R D Scott 1965 Dr I R Scott 1971 Miss A C M Scott-Bayfield 1993 Dr C D Scrase 1983 Miss A Seagrim Dr D S Secher 1967 Dr M Seligmann Mr G R A Sellers 1970 Mr N R Seymour-Dale 1964 Mr G Shannon 2002 Mr R J Shaw 1988 Mr T Shi 2006 Mr A G Shinder 1978 Dr D Sigman Mrs S Sigman Professor S D Silver 1994 Dr J H Silverman 1984 Mr W Silverman 1962

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

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

Ms D C Parker 1976 Mr D H Parry 1995 Dr P J Parsons 1989 Mr R Partington 2007 Mr B J Patel 1987 Dr A F K Pater 2001 Dr A J Pauza 1993 Mrs S Pearce (Bailey) 1976 Mr D Pearce-Higgins Mrs J Pearce-Higgins Mr P M Pearson 1992 Mr D A Pedropillai 1983 Mr S M J Peskett 1961 Mr J R Peters 1990 Dr C K L Phoon 1985 Dr K Pichler 1991 Mr P A Pinto 1996 Mr M J Platts 1963 Mr C S Pocock 1970Mr J M Pocock 1969 Ms S L Poland 1977 Professor T D Pollard 1983 Mr A D Ponting 1990 Dr J Potter 1980 Mr J G Potter 1963 Mr D Potts 1970 Mrs G M Potts (Black)1972 Ms S M Press 1977 Mr D W Preston 1986 ProlinxMr G C Pyke 1963 Professor R B Pynsent 1963 Mr D P Raftis 1991 Dr J L Ram 1967 Mr A V Ramsay 1967 Major General Charles Ramsay Mr D F Ramsay Mr M K Redhead 1966 Ms A D Reece 1975 Mr M K Rees 1974 Mr J J H Reilly 1984 Mrs D Resch (Christian) 1998 Dr D E Reynolds 1975 Professor D J Reynolds Dr R A Reynolds (Dixon) 1975 Professor P Rez 1970 Professor T Rice 1960 Mr A T Richardson 1978 Mrs B RichardsonProfessor W Rindler 1989

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Mr I R Thomas 1997 Mr C M Thomas 2003 Mrs I A Thompson (O’Hara) 1977 Mr A F Thomson 1961 Mr S J S Thornhill 1995 Professor D J Thouless 1961 Professor M D Thouless 1978 Mrs S F Tickle (Hanley) 1994 Mr B J Tidd 1994 Mr G R Tillman 1984 Mr F E Toolan 1963Toshiba Research Europe Ltd Dr D R Tray 1993 Dr N Treanor 2008 Dr P N Trewby 1965 Mrs S J Trotman-Burman 1985 Dr M E Trout Dr W Y Tsang 1981 Miss C P Tubb 1999 Ms J Turkington 1987 Mrs C L Turner (Adcock) 2003 Mr P A Turner 2003 Dr J M Tyszka 1984 Mr M A Upton 1962 Miss N Vadgama 2003 Mrs L A Vaughan (McClean) 1997 Dr C Vout Mr J M F Wadsworth 1987Mrs S B Wadsworth (Large) 1987 Mr J C Wainwright 1980 Mr R K A Wakeling 1966 Mr R M Walker 1963 Sir David Wallace 2006Lady Wallace Mr T N Wallach 1972 Dr B R Walters 1970 Mr P F Ward 1999 Dr I Wassell 2006 Mr D Waters Mr J Waters 1964 Dr D Waterson 1978 Mr P J Watkins 2000 Mr D G Watson 1963 Professor A J Webber 1990

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

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Please inform the Development Office if your gift has not been recognised inthis list. We will ensure your name appears in the next issue of the Review.

Members of the Winston S Churchill 1958College Society

We are very grateful to all the following who have chosen to support ChurchillCollege by leaving a gift in Will. All those listed below have been formallyadmitted to the WSC 1958 Society at the annual gathering of members, andhave given permission for their names to be listed.

Professor A KellyMr J K Bacon (Rushton) 1974Mr N Bacon 1974Sir John BoydLady BoydMr J H Burton 1961Mrs M BurtonDr G BielsteinMrs B BielsteinMr M A Craven 1985Dr A J CrispProfessor T W Cusick 1964Mr M G Dixon 1964Mr D M M Dutton 1962Mr P R A Fulton 1970Mr N A W M Garthwaite 1970Mrs P GreenMr S T Green 1961Mrs D HahnProfessor F HahnProfessor A HewishMr J HopkinsMrs M Ker Hawn 1989Mr M A Lewis 1964Mr G S Littler-Jones 1965Mr G H Lock 1966Mr P N Locke 1966Dr F W Maine 1960Mr J R Maw 1964Mrs M MillerDr S A Mitton 1968Dr J H Musgrave 1965Mr J G Potter 1963

Mr M A W Prior 1974Mr M K Rees 1974Mr A T Richardson 1978Mrs B RichardsonMrs N SquireMr D StedmanMr V StedmanSir John Stuttard 1963Lady StuttardDr M TippettDr A J Walton 1960Dr A H Wild 1968

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

In May of this Olympic year, we held an event to celebrate all those Churchillianswho received Blues, Half-Blues or Club Colours in sport during their time inCollege. We saw over fifty sportsmen and sportswomen return for this eventas we awaited the start of London 2012. Paddy Sadler (current student in PPS),recently named Captain of the Varsity Cricket Team, and current Scotland U-19 and Scotland Academy Captain, joined us on the night. We hope to repeatthis in future. If you received a Blue or Half-Blue, please do let us know byemailing alumni@chu.cam.ac.uk.

In June, the College had a presence at the Varsity Cricket Match at Lord’s, wherea group of current and past members supported Cambridge from the comfortof a private box. It was an excellent occasion – in particular, excellent to seeour very own Paddy Sadler bowl the winning ball! Again, we will be repeatingthis in June 2013.

In July, the Reunion Dinner for those who joined the College in 1971–1975took place. It was a fantastic occasion, despite the first poor weather at aReunion Dinner in eight years! It was the largest turn-out at any ReunionDinner in recent memory – we saw over 150 alumni returning to re-acquaintthemselves with each other and the College. There was a total of 224 at thedinner, which included guests, Fellows and other College members. We arelooking forward to welcoming back the 1999s–2002s in July 2013, and everyonewho joined the College between 1960 and 1970 in July 2014. The latter shouldbe an exceptional event!

We were sorry to cancel the Garden Party and Family Day again this year, butwe’re hoping to re-energise this event under the auspices of the Association inJuly 2013. If you would like to help organise or to get involved with this event,please let us know at Churchill.Association@chu.cam.ac.uk.

We have now begun to establish the first Churchill National and RegionalGroups around the globe with the help of a number of keen volunteers. If youwould like to help establish a group where you live, or just get involved, pleaseemail nationalandregionalgroups@churchillians.net. I’ll report more on this inthe next issue of the Review.

And don’t forget to:

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Alumni Relations Report

Our 50th Anniversary Celebrations are beginning to wind down now, althoughit seems that the number of events we undertake do not – which is great newsfor all! At the time of writing, we are already preparing the programme for thelatter part of 2012 and into 2013, and there’s a plethora of exciting events tocome: an Alumni/ae Formal Dinner and Pav for those who have graduated butnot proceeded to their MAs; a pair of events to celebrate the 40th anniversaryof the admission of female undergraduates at Churchill, Clare, King’s and LucyCavendish; and the return of the Garden Party and Family Day, to name but afew. I shall write more on these events in the next issue of the Review, but dokeep an eye on www.churchillians.net in the meantime for further details ofour full programme of events.

At the end of September 2011, we had a somewhat fuller programme than usualfor the Association Weekend. We were particularly pleased to have a large numberof our first intake of undergraduates from 1961 return to celebrate their 50thanniversary since matriculation, alongside a good number of attendees from otheryears. Graham Thomas (U61) was the ringleader of the former auspicious group,and, alongside the usual activities of the weekend, was able to put on an excellentprogramme, including a dedicated table at High Table and “Tea and Conversation”where the group reminisced and shared photos and videos from their time atChurchill. Highlights of the rest of the weekend included tours of the College ledby Graham (and other members of the 1961 contingent, who added some hilariousanecdotes to the occasion); a lecture by Dr Mark Goldie on the history of theCollege; the two “Association presents” lectures, inspiringly delivered by theMaster on “Five Millennia of Mathematics and its Applications” and by ProfessorGhil’ad Zuckermann on “Is It Possible to Revive a Language?”; and a superb after-dinner speech by Dr Piers Brendon, who very kindly stepped in as the scheduledspeaker was unable to attend due to illness. It was a memorable weekend.

The fifth Association Golf Day took place during the Association Weekend,attended by a small but keen group of golfers. The winner of the Stablefordcompetition (for the Association Golf Trophy) for the second year in a row wasTony Feltbower (U72). If you’d like to join other College members in a friendlycompetition for the Association Golf Trophy in September 2013, please registeryour interest by emailing Churchill.Association@chu.cam.ac.uk.

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James Adamcheski-HalsonAlumni Relations Manager

Name a chair at Churchill

For the last fifty years, the iconic architecture of Churchill College’s dining hall hasbeen complemented by the tables and chairs famously designed by distinguishedfurniture designer Robin Day (1915-2010). These chairs, familiar to so many ofyou, have withstood lots of wear and tear over the years and, as the originals havefailed, more chairs have been made or repaired. However, the cost of a professionalrepair is almost half the cost of buying a new chair. The chairs are now becomingnon-repairable, owing to some of the details of the original design and the materialsused, so the College has invested in 350 new chairs for the Churchill Hall.

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

You can “take your place” in the Churchill College Hall by naming a chair. Fora donation of £400, you can help us fund the replacement of a chair andincorporate a dedication of your choice on an engraved brass disc in the backof the chair. Donors to this appeal will also be invited to “take a seat” on thenew chairs at a special thank-you dinner.

If you would like to participate in our “Name a chair” appeal, please contactHilary at development@chu.cam.ac.uk.

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

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

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“We’ve had everything from brokenboats to broken bones; from the riverbeing frozen over to sunburn as pinkas our lycra.”

JCR Report 2011-12President: David Neal

What a year. Perhaps this is the default response at the end of every year whenthe JCR President of the day is asked to glance over his shoulder and reflectupon the year just gone, stretching into the foggy distance of memory. However,I suspect this year has been a full one even by Cambridge standards. For me,the depth and importance of the friendships formed within the JCR is what hasreally shone through the year: celebrating the highs together and strengtheningeach other in the lows.

I was elected President of the JCR towards the end of Michaelmas term 2011,having previously represented the JCR as Men’s Welfare Officer. I was fortunateto arrive into a situation in which most things were already running relativelysmoothly, thanks to the work of Matt Boardman, the previous President. Othersin college to whom I am indebted for having made my life (on the whole!) easierthis year are Hilary Costello, the MCR President, all the College staff (inparticular Shelley Surtees, our Domestic and Conference Bursar), RichardPartington, Senior Tutor, and Jennifer Brook, the Bursar. The porters, led bySimon Orr, have also provided invaluable help on many occasions. Finally oursponsors, PwC, have provided the means to make many of the ideas of the JCRcommittee become realities.

So, on to a quick tour through those highs and lows I mentioned. We had afantastic week of events to welcome in the Freshers, added to by gloriousweather. A great start to the year. As Men’s Welfare Officer at the time, I wasrunning around organising and managing things, along with Laura and Katie,Women’s Welfare Officers. Although it was exhausting, the hard work wasdefinitely worth it and I felt privileged to have had the chance to do it.

I’m sure the GODS report (Churchill’s drama society) will mention this, butwe’ve also had a fantastic year for acting in Churchill. Currently, we are treated

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KEY FACTS

JCR Charities 2011-2012 Oxfam in East Africa and INEPAS (Instituto de Español y Participación en AyudaSocial) in Guatemala.

JCR Pantomime 2011 The Portergate Scandal, performed on one night only to a packed Wolfson Hall,raised over £700 for our charities.

Officers and Representatives of the JCR 2011-2012

President: David Neal

Deputy President: Krishan Bhasin

Academic Affairs: Jenny Payne

Access: Alistair White

Communications: Steve Kinnersley

Computing: Sebastian Funk

Equipment and Societies: Owen Mitchell

Entertainments: Robbie Aird

Environment and Ethics: Alice Harpole

External: Krishan Bhasin

International: Sarah van der Wal

LGBT: Tamas Kispeter

Men’s Welfare: Kyle Lam

Secretary: Laura Cairns

Treasurer: Giulia Fabritius

Women’s Welfare: Ellie Sweet and Vitto Fallanca

Winston Editors: Danny Wood and Laura Gilbert

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to spectacular “Improv” shows about twice a term. This started as “Improv inthe Bar”, but graduated to “Improv in the Wolfson” because the audience grewtoo big to fit in the bar! If you wonder what they’re like, check out Whose LineIs It Anyway? but imagine students doing it. We also put on the regular JCRpantomime (see below), a joint Hill Colleges production of Rumours and manyother fantastic events. It’s really nice to see a Churchill society grow so much,so quickly.

There have also been the lows. Since the last edition of the Review, the JCR hassuffered the devastating and untimely loss of two of its members: TerrencePhang Ying Choy in September 2011 and Calum Burt on New Year’s Day 2012.I would like to take this opportunity to again pay tribute to both of them. Bothwere memorialised in moving ceremonies, in which the strength of the JCRwas overwhelming, as everyone supported each other through these events.

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

So I hope that does some justice to the year the JCR have had and I hope youenjoyed hearing about it. As a JCR we’re also always keen to hear from anyalumni of the college about what they’re up to. It’s always really nice whengroups of alumni come back to Churchill to put on careers events for currentstudents, and we’ve already got some events lined up for next year. So if thereis anything you fancy coming to Churchill to get involved in – perhaps a societyyou’d like to help with or an event you’d like to put on or attend – please doget in touch (jcr-president@chu.cam.ac.uk). Any and all suggestions arewelcome because really, it’s just nice to have people back and see what life mighthold for us once we leave – whatever you come back for. As a JCR I suspectwe will always provide fun, friendship, exhaustion and a feeling of reward to allthose around us.

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

Clubs and Societies

Boat ClubKathryn Wood (Captain)

There’s no denying it’s been a challenging year for CCBC. We’ve had everythingfrom broken boats to broken bones; from the river being frozen over tosunburn as pink as our lycra; capsize drills; and of course, the highs and lows ofthe Bumps.

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

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MCR Report 2011-2012President: Hilary Costello

Having taken up my position as MCR President in February 2012, I am delightedto give a brief report on the current MCR – it is an easy report to write, as thishas been an exciting year with lots of involvement from within the Churchillcommunity. The MCR committee has worked hard running many events –be they academic, athletic or social.

Academic seminars have continued over the past year, and we have adopted arecent (and potentially terrifying) innovation, “powerpoint karaoke”, as a newtermly event. These powerpoint karaoke evenings consist of an MCR membergiving a presentation on a series of light-hearted slides created by another MCRmember. The catch is, the presenter has never seen the slides before. This eventleads to an evening of laughs along with the opportunity to develop one’spresentation and improvisation skills. On a more serious academic note, theConference on Everything took place on May 5th and was a great success.The Conference provides a formal opportunity for students to present theirwork by means of a presentation or poster. The occasion was followed bythe Advanced Students’ Dinner, a further great opportunity to discuss thepresented work and generally mingle over delicious food and drink.

Churchill MCR members have also proved themselves in athletics over the pastyear. Churchill College is very proud of Stacie Powell, both an Olympic diverand Churchill College Astrophysics PhD student. All of Churchill Collegewas eagerly cheering Stacie on as she competed in the London 2012 Olympics![Editor’s note: Stacey did very well, in the end just missing a place in the semi-finals.]

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

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words: “We were very impressed with the Churchill Casino. You were punctual,well presented, polite and professional, and it was a pleasure to have the Casinoat our Christmas party. Thank you for helping to make our party so special.”

Over the years the purpose of the Casino has been clarified, and even thoughmanagers change each year there has been a consistency in attitude and teamspirit that has helped it successfully develop. This year the Casino has had acomplete face-lift with a new website, business cards, flyers and even socialmedia, giving it a much more distinctive look. This has resulted in a recognitionthat the casino at every event across Cambridge is Churchill Casino.

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

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

Churchill CasinoNick Schweitzer (Head Manager)

As Hockey Captain this year, I was asked to write a short article on our recentsuccess, which saw the men’s team narrowly miss promotion to the FirstDivision on goal difference and saw the women’s team also safely secure theirplace in the League. However, as Head Manager of another College-basedorganisation, I thought I would multi-task, and take this opportunity to tell youabout an exciting venture that has increasingly involved Churchill students overthe previous twenty years. That is Churchill Casino.

For those who don’t know, Churchill Casino provides different casino games –such as roulette, blackjack, poker, craps and even Baccarat (James Bond’sfavourite game) – to a whole range of events in Cambridge and across thecountry, whether they are JCRs, MCRs, University societies, corporate eventsor May Balls (even the odd Oxford Trinity Term Ball!). In May Week this yearwe were employed at seventeen Cambridge May Balls and Events, and on theMonday we set a Churchill Casino record for the largest-ever number ofChurchill students involved with the Casino in one evening: a total of sixty-sixcroupiers across four May Balls! Despite the logistical nightmare that thisentailed, the evening managed to go without too many hiccups. The future forChurchill Casino looks very good, and we owe this success to all the croupiers.Without the enthusiasm and sense of fun that they bring to every event,Churchill Casino would not be this popular. After all, as it is not for real money,it is all about everyone having fun – and with the added bonus that no oneescalates their student debt.

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

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The mini-casino drinks reception: Alison Finch, Acting Master, asks for investmentadvice, observed by her student Jennie Dunne (U08, Modern Languages)

Football (women’s) Giulia Fabritius (Captain)

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

GODSColin Rothwell (President)

It has definitely been a successful year for GODS. Not only have we made areal and positive contribution to College life, but several of our members havemade names for themselves in productions at the University level, includingplays which have gone to Edinburgh, plays at the International Student DramaFestival, and even original pieces by current members.

Our first production of the year was Neil Simon’s Rumours, a farce about acollection of upper-class couples who arrive at a dinner-party to find that the hosthas shot himself in the ear. This was a joint production with “Madhouse”, theMurray Edwards Drama Society, although I think I can say that GODS made up amajority of the cast and crew. It ran for two nights in Michaelmas Term in theWolfson Hall and attracted favourable reviews. It even managed to make a smallprofit, no mean feat for a college production! Certainly, everybody involved in theproduction enjoyed themselves, and that’s the really important thing, right?

Our next production was the JCR Committee Pantomime. Whilst the cast wasmade up of JCR Committee members, the crew were all GODS members. Danny

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Football (men’s)Patrick Sadler (Captain)

2011/12 was very similar to the season which came before it for Churchill CollegeFootball Club. After a bright start in the League, showing good form in Michaelmasand winning four out of our first five games, we were second in the table overthe Christmas break. We faded after conceding an injury-time equaliser toQueens’ in January, and won only one league game, away against Catz, in LentTerm. The final League record of nine matches, five wins, one draw and threedefeats was respectable, and we finished fifth in the Second Division of the PwCCollege Leagues. Our best performances were once again saved for Cuppers,where we progressed to the semi-finals for the second season in a row. Homewins against ARU (2-0) and Magdalene (2-1) saw us through to the quarter-finalswhere we faced Homerton, who were top of Division One at the time, had fourUniversity players in their starting line-up, and would ultimately finish second. Afantastic backs-against-the-wall performance saw us, as huge underdogs, comeout on top, 3-1, a result which certainly set us up for the annual Football Dinnerthat evening. It was a remarkable result, reminiscent of our victory over Trinity atthe same stage last year, their first defeat for nearly two years. The semi-final wassomething of an anti-climax, with our Hill College rivals Fitzwilliam, inspired bythe Blues captain in the centre of their midfield, beating us 4-0. While we werebeaten by the better team on the day (and by the team that turned out theeventual Cuppers champions), converting a couple of missed chances in the firsthalf meant things could have worked out differently. The second team finishedseventh in Division 3 and were the third highest-ranked second team in theUniversity behind Downing and Homerton (their first teams finishing as the toptwo in Division 1). Unfortunately the third team finished in the bottom two ofDivision 6, and have therefore been relegated for next year. CCFC continues tothrive and is the biggest sports club in college. The new captains are in place for2012/13, and with the core of the club remaining for another year, the new intakeof Freshers will hopefully keep the club going in the right direction.

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Leaving us at the end of the year are many familiar faces, notably Mick Campbell,my predecessor as President. Throughout his time at Cambridge, Mick has beenin a large number of critically acclaimed productions, appeared in numerousFootlights smokers, including a jaunt to the Leeds Comedy Festival, and been areal mainstay of the Improv Troupe. It’s difficult to know how we’ll cope withouthim! Next year, he plans to audition for acting school in London, and we wishhim the best of luck.

And just to finish off, I don’t suppose there are any alums who know whatGODS actually stands for? Or if it doesn’t stand for anything, what the story isbehind it? Please contact me if you do! The best we’ve come up with is GhurchillcOllege Drama Society, so we could do with some help!

Lawn TennisFrederik Floether (Captain)

The Churchill College Lawn Tennis Club began the 2011/12 season optimisticallydue to an influx of new talent. Underestimated by most other colleges, the teamcruised through the Cuppers stages and made the final against Downing, whichhad managed to recruit the university’s best player from Wolfson College. Beforethe final, Churchill captain Frederik Floether commented for the studentnewspaper The Tab (with a wink and just a tiny hint of understatement): “We arefacing a juggernaut in Downing, who routed our second team 8-1 in the firstround. Spearheaded by their Big Three of Cozzy, Rob, and Pierre, and also knownas the ‘Cambridge Heat’, the mere sight of them makes teams shiver. As such,we can have only one realistic goal: To show we belong in Churchill’s first teamby winning at least one more match than our second team did.” The final wasthe expected nerve-racking affair. After more than four hours of play, it camedown to a winner-take-all championship tie-break for number 5, Donald Slater.Despite home-court advantage, his opponent proved a tad too strong, andDowning won 5-4. Although Donald will depart Cambridge this summer, allother first-team players will return, raring to take the final step next year.

A big thank-you must go to everyone who played for the club’s two teams thisyear, in particular the people who brought Churchill so close to Cuppers glory(listed in the same order as in the picture, left to right):

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Wood, the author and current GODS member, deserves a special mention fortaking the greatest political scandal of our time, Watergate, transplanting it intoChurchill, and turning it into a pantomime. He titled it The Portergate Scandal,obviously. Despite the slight drawback that a decent proportion of the cast wouldmuch rather have been in the audience, Portergate was a great success, nearlyfilling the Wolfson Hall, and raising over £500 for the JCR charities.

In Lent, we had the traditional GODS Freshers’ play, put on by a group of largelypress-ganged Freshers. They chose to stage the very funny Arsenic and Old Lace.Whilst it couldn’t be called an unqualified success, the production provided agreat deal of entertainment for those who went to see it, and most of the castand crew did an admirable job: hopefully we’ll see more of them over thecoming years!

In Easter Term, all extra-curricular activities wound down due to exams. Afterwe’d got exams out of the way, though, GODS were involved in the premiereproduction of John Kinsella’s Ecumenical, a specially commissioned piece inmemory of the wife of our Senior Treasurer, Tim Cribb, which was anopportunity for the society to perform a piece of cutting-edge theatre.

Throughout the year, GODS have also been very involved with comedy. Afterthe success of last year’s Improv in the Bar, we performed improvised comedyagain as part of this year’s freshers’ week programme.

Having packed out the bar, we started putting on performances two or threetimes a term in the Wolfson Hall. On top of this, we were granted a slot atChurchill’s Spring Ball, undoubtedly the premier event on the Churchill socialcalendar, and netted the society the impressive fee of £20! The year wasrounded off by a successful performance at the Churchill Garden Party, as mostof the attendees tore themselves away from the various other attractions tocome and watch us perform.

To support burgeoning improv credentials, we have been running friendlyimprovised comedy workshops throughout the year, adding to our troupe anumber of talented freshers to augment our jaded old hands. We have alsocome up with a number of vulgar acronyms for ourselves, the politest of whichis “GODS Improv Troupe Society”.

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commitment, for improvement, and to a newcomer to the Club; these awardswere given to, respectively, Alan Cruickshank (who as a graduating engineerhas served the club for four years), Katy Stevens and Nick Schweitzer. Nextacademic year, the club will have the advantage of two new captains: JanFreyberg for the mixed team and Sophie Stowell for the ladies’.

Rugby Alistair White (Captain)

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

Ultimate FrisbeeJonathan Slaughter (Captain)

Churchill Ultimate Frisbee had another successful year, with two teams for allthree terms. This was partly due to the large number of freshers starting thisyear with great enthusiasm. We managed to finish eighth in Michaelmas Term,

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

Netball (mixed and ladies’)Lora Binz (Captain)

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

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The MCR Photo Competition

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

[All entries also on MCR website: http://mcr.chu.cam.ac.uk/?page_id=526]

First Prize: Marco Lam, Planet Churchill

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

Churchill Blues, Half-Blues and Club Colours, 2011-12

Athletics Club Ayo Adeyimi Club Colours

Netball Club Georgia Archer-Clowes Club Colours

Athletics Club Matt Leach Club Colours

Hare and Hounds Matt Leach Club Colours

Small Bore Club Max Kerney Club Colours

Women’s Lacrosse Club Alana Livesey Full Blue

Hockey Club Charles Hardy Full Blue

Amateur Boxing Club Chris Kelly Full Blue

Women’s Basketball Club Hilary Costello Full Blue

Cricket Club Paddy Sadler Full Blue

Powerlifting Club Adam Comer Half Blue

Athletics Club David Szabo Half Blue

Rugby Fives Club Elliott Malone Half Blue

Hare and Hounds Mairead Rocke Half Blue

Orienteering Club Mairead Rocke Half Blue

Swimming & Waterpolo Club Mike Gormally Half Blue(water polo)

Rugby Fives Club Thomas Chase Half Blue

Table Tennis Club Yuting Wu Half Blue

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COLLEGE EVENTS

Second Prize: Nick Schweitzer, Big Brother

Third Prize: Katie King, Frost

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

The Fortieth Anniversary of the Admission of Women

Churchill’s Gold Medal

As most readers of this publication will know, I was one of the first three femaleFellows, arriving in 1972 at the same time as the first cohort of femaleundergraduates. The College had jumped the gun in the matter of Fellows andhad already admitted Professor Daphne Osborne (Plant Sciences) in 1971; soshe was the very first woman Fellow of the College. (Daphne sadly died in2006.) Dr Pat Wright (Psychology) joined Churchill with me in 1972, bringingthe grand total to three. As readers will again know, Churchill had been thefirst of all the Oxbridge men’s colleges to take the crucial vote to admit women,followed soon after by Clare and King’s – but Churchill does have that “GoldMedal” distinction. In this Review, we mark the fortieth anniversary by publishingan interview with Professor Carol Robinson, the College’s first female Fellowof the Royal Society. The College elected Carol to an Honorary Fellowshipearlier this year. By a happy coincidence, in 2012 three other distinctions werebestowed on distinguished Churchill College women. In the Queen’s BirthdayHonours announced in June 2012, Professor Mary Jacobus, a Fellow until herretirement in 2011, was given a CBE for services to literary scholarship, andcurrent Fellows Professor Julia King and Professor Janet Thornton were alsohonoured, Julia becoming a DBE for services to Higher Education andTechnology and Janet becoming a DBE for services to Bioinformatics.

On 7 July 2012, we held a Reunion Dinner for those who joined the Collegebetween 1971 and 1975; you’ll have seen from the photos in the College e-bulletin of 19 July how many women came back for that. Congratulations,classes of 72 to 75! You were pioneers. And in the academic year 2012-13, therewill be further celebrations held jointly with Clare, King’s and Lucy Cavendish.(See the Alumni Relations Report, above, and In the Back, below.)

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papers are being digitised in collaboration with the Wellcome Trust; many believethat her contribution to the discovery of DNA awaits full acknowledgement.)Churchill has had a female Vice-Master and Acting Master (myself), and has afemale Bursar (Jennifer Brook) – not yet a female Head of House. But that thingshave changed is undeniable. Looking round me at lunch, or at Governing Bodymeetings, I feel Churchill is unrecognisable now compared to what it was fortyyears ago, and I’m still proud to belong to this “gold-medallist” College.

Alison Finch Editor

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So how are we doing now? The Senior Tutor, Richard Partington, writes: “In mostyears we are around 65:35 male to female on the undergraduate side. We’d loveto admit more women but our situation is largely a product of our taking bystatute 70% of our students in Engineering, Mathematics, Science and Technologysubjects, in which male applicants still predominate in university admissions. Onthe issue of the impact on the College, our women students are highly visible andactive in our community, and so the social impression most people have of genderbalance in Churchill is rather more even than the numbers suggest it ought to be.Alumni might be interested to know that the University has recently examinedgender-related academic performance across subjects and Colleges, and thatChurchill stands out for having men and women who perform very strongly andequally well in Tripos. We were asked how we thought this reassuring balance hadcome about, and our thoughts were that it probably derived from our data-drivenapproach to admissions, in which academic merit, as witnessed by achieved resultsin public examinations, was prioritised; from our sustained and successful attemptsto recruit female academic colleagues as Fellows; from our strong tutorialprovision; and from attentive and effective direction of studies – which includesthe pro-active deployment of specialist study-skills support. But these things arecomplex and obviously multi-factorial, and other issues could be at play.”

On the graduate side, a snapshot figure in August 2012 showed 217 men to130 women.As for Fellows, Churchill currently has twenty-four female Fellowsout of the total of ninety-nine in our main pre-retirement categories (Teaching,Research, Professorial, “Extraordinary”, Supernumerary). It’s been particularlyheartening to see the number of female scientists who have joined us over theyears; the 70% statutory requirement in itself was no guarantee that we wouldattract so many distinguished women scientists, whether as overseas visitingresearchers or as long-term Fellows. And last year we pulled off a hat-trick.Churchill elects five Junior Research Fellows a year, and in 2011 three of thefive were young female researchers, the first time women had emerged as amajority from this fiercely competitive process.

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

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Reunion Dinner, classes of 71-75

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A Career in Chemistry: Professor Carol Robinson

Carol Robinson is the first female Professor of Chemistry at the University of Oxford and was previously the first female Professor of Chemistry at theUniversity of Cambridge. She is renowned for pioneering the use of massspectrometry as an analytical tool and for her ground-breaking research intothe 3D structure of proteins. She is a Royal Society Research Professor andDoctor Lee’s Professor at the University of Oxford.

Carol was a graduate student at Churchill College from 1980 -1982, completingher PhD in two years. Following an eight-year career break to begin raising herthree children, she returned to research at Oxford, later becoming a titularprofessor in 1995. In 2001 she returned to Cambridge to continue her researchinto mass spectrometry and was elected a Professorial Fellow at ChurchillCollege, a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2004, and a Royal Society ResearchProfessor in 2006. In 2009 she was elected Doctor Lee’s Professor at theUniversity of Oxford, where she continues her research today.

This interview charts the milestones in Carol’s career from teenager “with acrush” to the Dr Lee’s Professorship of Chemistry.

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As a lab technician at Pfizer – age 16

you were on, and I think that’s what really got to me: I was interpreting all thisquite complicated data and then a new graduate would be brought in, whom Iwould train, and he would be on a salary above me!

Q. You must have had much more practical experience than a“traditional” undergraduate – did this help in your studies?

Yes, this was one of the reasons I was able to get to Cambridge, because mysupervisor at the time recognised that I was a different type of student and Ihad all this wealth of experience that he could employ. I often take studentslike that now.

Q. Do you feel there is any difference between the Graduate of theRoyal Society of Chemistry qualification and a traditional degree?

Different styles of learning often yield a different approach to your science.Because there weren’t many lectures, I had to find out a lot of stuff on my own,so I started to imagine what would happen in different situations. Now peoplesay to me: “Oh, your work’s very imaginative, how did you ever think to dothat?” I think imagination is something you can’t teach.

Q. Following four years of postgraduate studies you had your firstchild – the start of an eight-year career break. Did you do any sciencein those years?

I taught at the Open University: A-levels, Meat Technology (!) and HairdressingScience. I used to take in all these good experiments I’d devised at home withthe children’s toys, shining lights on them to see how the colours in the hairwould change and absorb light, but all my hairdressing students were interestedin was painting their nails!

Q. Did you worry you might not get back into science?

It was always a possibility, but I wanted to be a mother and would fit whateverscience I could around that. I thought: “If I don’t get back in I’ll just do somethingelse.” I wasn’t prepared to sacrifice my life and children for this quest for science.

Q. How did you get back into science?

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

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Q. Carol, when did you first realise you liked chemistry?

I’m not sure this is the answer I should give: I had a crush on the chemistry teacher,he was the only male in the whole school and I really wanted to impress him bybeing good at chemistry… but then I decided I actually really liked the subject!

Q. When you left school, did you try to work in science and particularlychemistry?

I did, because I so much enjoyed chemistry and wanted to make my career in it.I remember sitting in my bedroom thinking I’d solved a particular problem, onlyto be told that was way too complicated and to give back what was asked forin the exams – I found it very frustrating and really wanted to show I couldunderstand a problem.

Q.You took a job in Pfizer when you were sixteen –what did that involve?

I was a “Gas Liquid Chromatographer”. I remember thinking “That’s a reallygreat title, wonder what that involves,” but I soon found out it wasn’t thatinteresting at all! I did a rotation around all the different laboratories, endingup in mass spectrometry... and that was the one I loved.

Q. You were encouraged at Pfizer to study while you worked. Whatdid you study?

I enrolled in the local college to do an ONC (Ordinary National Certificate),followed two years later by an HNC (Higher National Certificate), and finallybecame a Graduate of the Royal Society of Chemistry – the whole thing lastedseven years.

Q. How did you find working in a full-time job and studying at thesame time?

It was a long haul: you’ve done a day’s work, you get on the bus and do somemore. I remember thinking sometimes: “I’m working all my life, this isn’t right,there should be more to life – I’m young!”

Q. Were you promoted from your post as technician as you gainedqualifications?

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

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to ask what had become of that film they had helped to make. Archivist NatalieAdams identified the item, now fragile, and, with generous donations fromalumni, has had it digitised for posterity.

Made between 1962 and 1964, when the College’s central buildings were underconstruction, the film was directed by Andrew Sinclair, the first Fellow in Historyand future professional film-maker. Sinclair was a celebrity while still anundergraduate, publishing his hip novels My Friend Judas and The Breaking ofBumbo in 1959. An historian of Prohibition America, he did not long remain inacademe, turning instead to a career as writer and film producer. His signalachievement was Under Milk Wood (1972), starring Richard Burton and ElizabethTaylor. He tells stories of his time at Churchill in his autobiographical In Loveand Anger: A View of the Sixties (1994).

The new-found film touches on the social life of early students. It is a worldaway: before the great cultural revolution of the later 1960s. Ties, tweed jackets,and tank tops are much in view; albeit also the sharp narrow lines of the earlyBeatles era (and beehive hair for the only girl in sight). At night in town, theyoung gentlemen must still wear gowns. Croquet was an early hit, and sportwas king. The College conducted its life at the west end of the site, the facilitiespro tem in the Sheppard Flats and adjacent Nissen huts, with cramped dinnerunder Winston’s gaze. There are glimpses of Fellows at a garden party laid onby the Master, Sir John Cockcroft, and Lady Cockcroft: including John Morrison,George Steiner, and Sinclair, as well as the architect Richard Sheppard. Inanother scene we see a crisply dynamic first Bursar, Major-General JackHamilton. Aficionados will enjoy the arresting editing, such as the cut from astudent dealing a pack of cards to a porter sorting the morning mail.

But what is remarkable about the film is that it chose not to linger on studentsand Fellows, but on the men who, literally and physically, built the College. It isa film about buildings coming into being, emerging from the mud of the Gaultclay. It dwells fondly on forests of scaffolding; it renders the gloop of wetconcrete truly palpable, and reminds us of the ambitious grandeur of the greatdining hall. It implicitly reproaches us for citing a building’s architect withoutmentioning the contractors, for it was the old Cambridge firm Rattee and Kettwhich made Churchill – and so well. What comes home to the viewer is that,for all its modernist design, the construction of Churchill relied on traditional

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thought “I can do that!” I was interviewed against current PhDs and then wewere taken for lunch to discuss the research proposal. I thought: “Right, I’mgoing to make an impression here, good or bad.” Afterwards, I didn’t get a letterfor a while and really thought I’d blown it!

Q. How much had mass spectrometry moved on by the time youreturned?

It was a whole new era. From small molecules like aspirin we could now dowhole proteins and nucleic acids – it was an amazing breakthrough thathappened while I was out of the field. These were now exciting times to be inmass spectrometry.

Q. Did you ever have any doubts that you would “make the grade”?

Oh, always! I spent most of the time thinking “I’m not really good enough, Idon’t know enough or I haven’t quite got the right background,” especially whenI was younger. As I’ve got older I’ve thought “Well this is me, I don’t knoweverything but I know quite a bit about this and not so much about that,” andI think you have to look at yourself like that.

Q. If you were sixteen again, would you do things differently?

I don’t think I would have stayed on at school because it wasn’t really a greatschool. The route I took was probably the right one for me, but I can’t be surebecause I haven’t done the other route – but I don’t often have many regrets.

Lost Film Found

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

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

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and relentless craftsmanship on site.Almost nothing was factory prefabricated.The project soaked up labour from miles around, and we see workmen beingbussed to the site. This was, moreover, the era before electric power tools; andbefore “health and safety”: an age still of flat caps not hard hats.

Soon the suspicion grows that the film is less about architecture andconstruction and more about the nobility of labour. It owes a debt to SocialistRealism. If the students are given a memorable sound-track of contemporaryjazz, the workers labour to the heroic chords of Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony.

Mark Goldie

The John Kinsella and Tracy Ryan Prizes

On Tuesday 19 June 2012, in the Master’s Lodge at Churchill, the Master presentedthe John Kinsella and Tracy Ryan Prizes to this year’s winners. The renowned poetJohn Kinsella is a Title E Fellow of Churchill, and his wife Tracy Ryan is also awriter of distinction. It has been the College’s pleasure to have them staying withus for a large part of the academic year 2011-12, which meant also that John wasable to be present at the Prize Ceremony. The Poetry Prize is awarded for anoriginal verse composition in any form of not more than 500 lines, and “TheOther Prize” is awarded for an original, unperformed play; both prizes are opento those in statu pupillari in the University of Cambridge. (See Review 2011 for afuller description.) Prizes were won this year by Miss Sophie Seita (£250), MissKathryn Crowcroft (£250) and Miss Isobel Cohen (£500).

John Kinsella commented: “This is the first year I have actually been involved inthe judging of the prize, and I found it an interesting and positive experience.Barry Phipps [Churchill’s Curator Fellow] and I drew up short-lists of six orseven, and in the end concluded that two poets deserved to share the poetryprize this year. The winning poems are very different in form and approach, but

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From left to rightThe MasterMiss Isobel Cohen Winner of “The Other Prize”, Downing CollegeMiss Sophie Seita Joint winner of the Poetry PrizeMiss Kathryn Crowcroft Joint winner of the Poetry PrizeProfessor John Kinsella

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The Wing Yip Reception

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

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

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

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

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

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generation later Sir Osborne Reynolds established conditions under whichflows in pipes become turbulent, and Lord Rayleigh developed insights into theonset of turbulent convection; guided by laboratory experiments of plumesrising from sudden heat release, Sir Geoffrey Taylor made a better predictionof the energy in an atomic explosion than the scientists at Los Alamos.

The discipline continues to grow, with sophisticated computer- and laser-assisted particle tracking methods giving ever more detailed measurements inlaboratory experiments, and with the increasing speed and memory ofcomputers modelling finer structures in large-scale flows. Indeed, it was withthe development of computers in the 1960s that the atmospheric scientistEdward Lorenz discovered the “butterfly effect”, which led to the science ofChaos Theory.

When I mentioned Lorenz at the luncheon, the computer scientist on my leftpiped up: “That’s right! Chaos Theory means that all the computational powerin the world will not let you predict the weather.” And so the conversationturned from me explaining that Fluid Dynamics is not a trivial science toexplaining why Fluid Dynamics is not a hopeless endeavour. Weather forecasterswill never be able to predict the fall of every drop of rain. But they now predictwith increasing accuracy the evolution of high and low pressure systems andsub-storms within them. Not predicting the tiniest scale does not mean youcannot predict the large scales. As another example, consider the case of anexploding volcano. It is indeed impossible to predict where every particle ofash will go once ejected from the crater. But theory, guided by laboratoryexperiments, can make predictions about the width of a plume as it rises andabout how the average temperature changes with height.

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

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From our Overseas Fellows

Plumes in your coffee

After three years as a Research Associate at the University of Cambridge, I washappy to arrive in 1997 at the University of Alberta, where I was hired by theDepartment of Mathematics as a theoretical and experimental fluid dynamicist. Fora university in North America, it had an unusually strong group specialising in fluiddynamics in the Faculty of Science, and I was looking forward to working in thisnew vibrant environment. With such optimism I attended a welcoming luncheon.This was the first time I realised how little was known about fluid dynamics byresearchers outside my discipline. To my right sat a senior physicist and to my lefta computer scientist who, like myself, had just arrived at the university. After somesmoked salmon, and perhaps steeled by a glass of white wine, the physicistsomewhat sheepishly asked “Hasn’t fluid dynamics all been done?” He was referringto the fact that the equations describing the motion of fluids had been writtendown two centuries ago. To some physicists, coming up with the equation thatdescribes a process effectively renders the problem solved. The rest is engineering.

A broader definition of physics is that it intends to understand the world, orindeed the universe, through mathematical modelling guided and tested byobservation and experimentation. By this measure, Fluid Dynamics lies far morein the realm of physics than Black Hole or String Theory. The reason so manyphysicists dismiss fluid dynamics from their discipline is that so few are taughtit as undergraduates at university beyond the most simple introductoryprinciples. This leads them to believe it is trivial, when in fact it is mathematicallymore challenging than introductory quantum mechanics or relativity. UnlikeSchrödinger’s equation or Lorentz transformations, the fundamental formulaedescribing the motion of liquids and gases cannot be solved. They involve non-linear terms – products of functions and their derivatives. It is these terms thatdescribe such complex processes as smoke rising from a cigarette and ashclouds rising from an exploding volcano.

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

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Sonnet Sequence

TO MY FATHER AND TO MY SON

I

What god in this great stellar mass could knowThe unpredestined compass of our fate,

The ways of chance that meet and separate?Or who could alter laws of motion, so

That one of us avoids some private grief?The solace we discover when we pray

Comes not from practicalities, which mayOr may not come to pass, but from reliefThat we are not alone. But we may beMere accidents of matter recombined,A fortunate occurrence; we may findAmong those pretexts for divinity

No rationale to make one life cohere,No dialogue to mitigate our fear.

II

Birth is fortuitous: from you and meCome chromosomes that cross and recombine

To make a body, neither yours nor mine,A spirit born of serendipity.

Death too is chance: one cell that pulls apartBegins the sudden urgency of pain

That neither sin nor goodness can explain,Relentless to the stopping of the heart.

How can it help to think a god would know?Better that birth and death be unforeseen,Our life the random interval between,As undetermined as the rapid flow

Of turbulence across a mountain stream,A prelude to our last ecstatic dream.

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

Now back in Canada, when not poring over data I find myself wondering howit is that Physics largely abandoned Fluid Dynamics half-way through the lastcentury. Nuclear power and transistor technology were enticing employmentincentives. Though nanotechnology provides some draw, now the incentive formany to become a physicist is the philosophical pursuit of fundamental truthsabout the universe. Some justify their research at large public expense byclaiming “Once you understand the minutiae, you understand everything.” Buttheir endeavours will no sooner predict the density of water than they will giveinsight into volcanic explosions.

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

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

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V

Imagine the still heat of a summer’s day,And think of molecules that recombine

To take an outward form resembling mine,Construed as matter but without decay.Oh Absolute, I know what you require:

You offer ecstasy without regret,Immutable, unfading silhouette,

But with the vacancy of spent desire.How can a perfect and unchanging kissConvey the tenderness of my caress?

This is a living body I possess,Whose unrestrained but episodic blissIs soon to cease and not again to be;For when I die, my body dies with me.

VI

When we are dead, our bodies come undone;Our atoms float as water in a brook,

Reflect some other person’s passing look,And then disperse as vapor in the sun.

Leaves fall, snow melts, new branches fill with green,The continents collide and we are there,

A residue of carbon in the air,Too insubstantial to be heard or seen.Nothing that we create will ever stay.This earth, and all of life will disappear,The sun condensing to a pallid sphere;How can it matter what we do or say?

Somehow it does. Come closer, take my hand,And we shall watch the universe expand.

Gordon FainCopyright Gordon Fain 2012

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III

Is it from God that blessedness descends,Or does it come from our own rectitude?If God, then goodness is a favored moodTo seek forgiveness and to make amends,And virtue is a gift to those who pray;But if from us, then we alone decide

What rule to choose, how it must be applied,When to conform and when to disobey.Can mere unconsecrated law constrainThe pull of passion, cowardice and need,

When justice and integrity recede?We must ourselves discover how to gain

The willingness to learn what we should be,A righteousness from our own sanctity.

IV

You said that none of us can choose to doWith certainty what he knows to be good,

That what we shouldn’t do and what we shouldComes from old precepts that we thought were true

When God was still alive. If He is dead,Then we can follow where our instincts lead,And nothing can restrain our lust or greed

But civil law. I, in reply, then saidThat we don’t need a deity to show

Us how to live. No sacred spring or hill,No holy tablet tells us not to kill:

We make these rules ourselves. If you would knowHow you can tell evil and good apart,

Then I suggest you look into your heart.

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

I left the BBC when I was headhunted to develop web and TV content for aninternational publisher, but soon realised that with two young sons, I wantedmore of a “portfolio” existence. So I studied and qualified as a psychotherapist –a great Yin to the Yang of TV. At the same time, I set up a small media consultancy,working with broadcasters and advising organisations about their media andcommunications strategy.

As my children grew up, I started producing TV series and corporate films again(including one for Churchill: the 50th Anniversary film Building the Future). My latest documentary has just been awarded the Spinetto International Prizefor Human Ecology.

I feel privileged to have been a witness and shaper of some of the media’s keytechnological, cultural and political changes. Thirty years on, there’s a channelfor almost everyone, and thanks to the Internet we’re all producers andbroadcasters now.

Sally Angel (U79, Modern Languages)

Building Bridges

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

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My Career since Churchill

In the Cauldron

When I arrived at Churchill in 1979 there were three TV stations: BBC1, BBC2and ITV. By the time I graduated in 1982, C4 was about to launch and BreakfastTelevision was less than a year away. Despite this and repeated applications to theBBC, I had not found a job and was grudgingly working as a freelance journalist.

Fortunately, the Daily Mail sent me to write an article about the “mess” at thesoon-to-be-launched TV-am. Somehow, instead of writing anything, I landed ajob working with Michael Parkinson.

TV-am was a cauldron of politics, personalities and power games, but it was agreat place to be in the eighties. I worked in a bubble of PR and parties –producing fashion, music and Through The Keyhole, before going on to edit thedaily live three-hour show, Good Morning Britain.

Fortunately, after five years of overnights and early mornings, the BBC employedme on a new Saturday night entertainment series with Clive James.Aside fromthe bonus of the more conventional hours, Clive’s wit and passion for qualitywere a great antidote to the populism and daily grind of TV-am.

More “serious” stuff beckoned and I spent the next seven years in BBC Arts,producing Omnibus, Arena and The Late Show. I also created several new series,including House Detectives and One Foot in the Past, giving Dan Cruickshank his firstproper TV presenting job. For good or ill, I was also instrumental in revivingUniversity Challenge.

By the mid 90s the broadcasting landscape had undergone massive changes. Skywas launching more and more channels, and the BBC wanted to use its archiveto bring quality into the mix. I joined the launch team for the BBC’s commercialchannels, identifying Arts programmes for UK-Arena, positioning UK-Style andoverseeing commissions between BBC Production and UK-TV.

Then in 1998 came a seismic shift. Digital. It was TV – but not as we knew it.

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

Roger Todd (U92, Natural Sciences)

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

As a hobby historian, I was touched by Allen Packwood’s invitation to give atalk sponsored by the Archives Centre. My subject, Peking’s pre-war expatriatecommunity 1860-1949, has been a delight to research, not least because of thequantity and variety of unpublished primary sources I have been able to trackdown. As it turned out, I discovered some of my most rewarding material inthe Archives Centre among the papers of Sir Malcolm Robertson, Sir AlexanderCadogan and Sir Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen.

Peking’s small band of foreigners, consisting of diplomats and drop-outs,intellectuals, artists, merry widows, Russian refugees, remittance men and theinevitable missionaries, always considered themselves superior to other expatsin China – especially to the commercially driven “Shanghailanders”. But althoughthey lived at the heart of a great and ancient civilization, in a city virtuallyuntouched by the modern world, relatively few made any serious effort tounderstand either the country or its people. Most preferred to centre theirlives on the legation quarter – a walled enclave close to the Forbidden City,guarded by foreign troops and where the only Chinese permitted to residewere the legions of servants (or “boys”) on whom the foreigners utterlydepended. So while crucial events that were to shape China – the 1911revolution, the civil war between North and South (most notably betweenChiang Kai-shek and Mao Tse-tung), Japan’s relentless aggression, the incessantfighting among warlords and the rise of Communism – surged around the

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

So, seeking management skills and experience, I made the leap to the businessworld, first in the City with LloydsTSB and then, following a short break to lookafter my first child, with a small commercial landscaping firm in Kent. Two quitedifferent experiences, challenging in their own ways, yet both emphasised forme once again the essential link between personal and interpersonal awarenessand organisational performance; I realised that many business leaders arecompletely unaware of innate perceptions of work and modes of behaviour(their own and those of others) that could make the critical difference betweensuccess and failure.

The second step-change in my career path then occurred in 2008 when I met my current business partner, Anthony Broadhead. An Oxford graduate with a long City career behind him, in 2001 Anthony had establishedCareerfoundations, a niche career and personal development consultancy.Sharing the view that there were aspects of organisational behaviour critical toperformance that were not generally understood or managed, and that theexpertise acquired at Careerfoundations could be applied to this problem, Iimmediately joined him. Developing my own skills and knowledge base at first,I soon began to apply my research expertise, starting with a small researchproject in another Cambridge college and graduating recently to a much larger one in the Cabinet Office. The focus now is on expanding thisorganisational behaviour research and consultancy work through a newbusiness, Azure Research.

So the three strands – scientific research, business and organisationalbehaviour – have come together, and I feel as excited about my career as I did

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After the First World War, a new group of foreigners arrived in Peking to workat a philanthropic enterprise funded by the Rockefeller Foundation, the PekingUnion Medical College. Outwardly the PUMC looked like a traditional Chinesepalace, but inside it was a state-of-the-art hospital modelled on the JohnsHopkins in Baltimore. The Foundation’s laudable aim was to teach Chinesedoctors Western medicine so that, armed with the wonders of modern science,they might make some impact on China’s rampant disease and poverty. Withmoney no object, the PUMC was able to recruit doctors of the highest calibre,including the Canadian professor of anatomy, Davidson Black. More interested,however, in palaeontology than anatomy, Black’s prime purpose in coming toChina was to prove that the origins of homo sapiens were to be found not inAfrica, as Darwin had believed, but in Asia. In 1929 he hit the jackpot when atChoukoudien, a small coal-mining town about forty miles south-west of Peking,a Chinese member of his team uncovered a human cranium, thought at thetime to be 500,000 years old and subsequently known to the world as “PekingMan”. This was the only instance I came across when foreign and Chineseprofessionals worked alongside one another as genuine equals. In this respectthe scientists were well ahead of the diplomats and missionaries.

Russians – Red and White – were another distinctive group of foreigners tosettle in Peking between the wars. Although many of the White Russians hadendured great hardship, they aroused little sympathy. The Chinese disliked thembecause, despite their refugee status, they still behaved as if they were thesubjects of a great imperial power. The foreigners, meanwhile, despised thembecause, as the Italian Minister Daniele Varè commented, “The prestige of thewhite race fell precipitously when Chinese could possess a white woman for adollar or less and Russian officers in tattered uniforms begged at the door ofChinese theatres.” If the Whites were reviled, the Reds were feared. The arrivalof the first Soviet Ambassador to China in 1924 caused great consternation inthe legation quarter, not least because, as he outranked all the ministers, heautomatically became Dean of the Diplomatic Corps.

In 1928 Chiang Kai-shek moved the capital from Peking (northern capital) toNanking (southern capital), situated on the Yangtze 190 miles up-river fromShanghai. Largely destroyed in the Taiping rebellion, this “empty husk of a deadcity” had little to attract the diplomats. They initially chose to remain in Pekingeven though this meant that the Chinese government (with whom they were

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legation quarter, its inhabitants were more concerned with what to wear atthe next fancy-dress party or catching up on the latest club gossip.

In January 1920, when the surrounding countryside was in the grip of one of theworst famines ever to hit North China, the wife of the British military attachéwrote: “The Chinese out here work like old Harry for the English Christmas. Cookgave us a topside tiffin: cream soup (most delicious), fish soufflé, turkey stuffed withchestnuts, potatoes, steamed celery, bread, plum pudding blazing, and mince pies.Then two delicious cream puddings, savoury and dessert, coffee and liqueurs. Weall felt stuffed.” Apart from a handful of ministers and Sinologists, most of thediplomats were under-employed. Sport (especially when it involved horses) andan unceasing round of parties filled their days. “I shall soon want new clothes,” arecently arrived wife complained, “one is out so much they don’t have a chance torest! It’s nothing but a succession of lunches, afternoon dances, dinners and balls.”

Yet, with memories of the 1900 Boxer uprising never far away, the foreignersalso lived in constant fear that the Chinese might at any moment rise up againand murder them all in their beds. Contrary to expectations, this did not happenwhen the Empress Dowager died in 1908, or even (three years later) during therevolution. In fact it was not the Chinese but the First World War that rupturedlife in the legation quarter. With friends and foes living cheek by jowl in an areaof less than a square mile, the atmosphere was thick with rumour, suspicion andintrigue. “Peking has become a social hell,” lamented a Danish diplomat. “Peoplewho had fought together as brothers on the barricades in 1900 are now cuttingeach other in the streets.”

In contrast, the post-war years were a delightful time for a foreigner in Peking.The city had modernised just enough to make it more comfortable but not somuch that its traditions – stretching back a thousand years – had been eroded.Foreigners now increasingly chose to live outside the legation quarter in oneof Peking’s elegant courtyard houses. Although differing greatly in size andstatus, these were all designed on the same pattern, their rooms arrangedaround a series of courtyards – filled with the scent of flowering shrubs andthe music of caged song-birds. Furthermore, every detail of the foreigners’ lives– from mixing cocktails to exterminating bed bugs – was taken care of by ateam of charmingly eccentric servants. And, as one diplomatic wife remarked,“The beauty of it was that it was all so wildly cheap.”

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supposed to be in constant dialogue) was now a difficult and dangerous three-day journey away.

During the 1930s, despite Peking’s loss of status, the city became a magnet forWestern literati. Artists, writers and scholars flocked to the city as neverbefore. Harold Acton later claimed that he would have spent the rest of his lifethere had it not been for the Second World War. He was not alone. But justwhen the foreigners were at last beginning to appreciate the true extent ofPeking’s cultural riches, the end was already in sight. In 1931 the Japaneseinvaded Manchuria and then, in August 1937, marched into Peking.

In 1943 most of Peking’s remaining foreigners were sent to Weihsien – aninternment camp some 300 miles to the south where they languished untilliberated in August 1945. Once free, they assumed they would soon resume theirformer lives – tennis, tiffin and cocktails at the club. After all, they had won thewar, hadn’t they? It therefore came as a profound shock to be told by a Britishcolonel (while they were still in the camp) that their life in China was finishedand they should leave as quickly as was practicable. By December 1948, as theCommunists besieged Peking, the only foreigners left in the city were diplomatsand missionaries (who had no choice but to stay), a few hardy academics andthose who had nowhere else to go. In January 1949 the People’s Liberation Armyformally entered Peking. They marched in through the main gate, Chien-men,before turning east into the legation quarter which, unlike the rest of the city,lay silent and deserted, the gates of the former legations bolted and barred. TheCommunists had arrived – the party was over.

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

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

Julia Boyd

Flying Roast Ducks

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

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

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Sometimes it seems to me that I have been walking through life with awide open mouth and roast ducks have come flying in with monotonousregularity… I have never had a particularly high opinion of my intelligenceand have told my children, only half in jest, that it was much more importantto be lucky than intelligent. They are quite ready to believe that I am lucky.

In writing Flying Roast Ducks and knowing this modest man I think that I, too,have been very lucky.

Paula Halson

Downton College

CAST LIST

CHARACTERS IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE

Mr Orr, the Butler PLAYED BY Simon Orr, Head Porter (and author)

Mrs Oakley the Cook David Oakley, Catering Manager

Johnson the Housekeeper Sue Johnson, Head Housekeeper

Bateman the Chauffeur Gavin Bateman, MaintenanceManager

The Hon. Lady Shelley Shelley Surtees, Conference and Domestic Bursar

Lord Matthew Boardman Matthew Boardman, former JCR President

The Earl of Partington Richard Partington, Senior Tutor

Dr David David Neal, current JCR President

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I have the position of Registrar in Churchill College, one I’ve held since 1991;so, as an administrator by profession, I’m used to writing minutes and policydocuments, a task that requires me to be succinct and to maintain the sameprofessional tone and tenor in everything I write. That was already a preparationfor the memoir-writing, but on the other hand I’d never done anything quitelike this before. It was a new challenge. However, my experience as an OUstudent a number of years previously had done wonders for my powers ofconcentration, and over a period of just six months some 40,000 words ofnarrative gradually emerged. It helped, of course, that I was fascinated by whatI was reading. I would often smile as I read documents, casting my mind backto the time when Sir Hermann would be standing there, dictating the words tome in his distinctive and clear style:

It seems to me really not a great demand that there should be at everyplace a water glass and plenty of jugs of water distributed over the tables.It is a normal civilised habit around the world and I do think we couldfollow it.

Or:

There is occasionally a little trouble in the bathroom when one is showering.

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

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Paula Halson and Sir Hermann Bondi

Three weeks later, Lord Matthew Boardman, heir of Downton, stood before hisUncle, the Earl of Partington. In the grounds below the leaded windows of theEarl’s study, hundreds of teenage Chinese children were doing callisthenics, to thebemusement of the gardeners, who had grass to cut, and of an elderly Professor,who was trying to engage with them on the subject of the early Han dynasty.

“So your mind is made up, Matthew,” said the Earl, gazing out at the scenebeneath him, his back to the young man. “You are leaving us. Leaving Downton,forever.” The Earl, normally so good at hiding his emotions, could not disguisethe catch in his voice as he uttered these fateful words.

“I have to go, Uncle, you know I do. Since the war…” His voice tailed off as theEarl turned to face him.

“I know, dear boy, I know. Everything is different. And you will find a lot of newopenings in London, I’m sure. But forgive me!” The Earl slapped his forehead. “Iwas forgetting! Have a glass of sherry. Since Lady Shelley got here we can affordthe good stuff again! Now tell me about your successor. It’s to be Dr David, ofLouth, isn’t it, one of our country cousins? Chocolate finger?”

“Yumsters!”

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Lady Jennifer De Bursar brought the second meeting of the Downton CollegeFunds Committee to order with a gentle cough. Seeing this had no effect, theassembled Members being absorbed, as ever, in trying to ascertain how thecoffee-pots worked, she rapped a water decanter with the edge of the silver-topped ivory letter-opener she was accustomed to wear down the left leg ofher immaculately polished riding boots. “Ladies and Gentlemen! Deans,Doctors, Dons!”

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

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

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Lady Jennifer De Bursar Jennifer Rigby, Bursar

Lord Giles Giles Agnew, Senior Computer Officer

“A mug of tea you can stand a spoon in, and something to eat. I’m famished.”No one in the Servants’ Pantry moved. They stood or sat motionless in thepositions they were in when the door flew open, mesmerised by the mysteriousfigure framed against the dying light of sunset over Downton College. A batfluttered past, heading towards the Senior Combination Room, as the strangermoved into the Pantry and revealed herself to the assembled retainers. Therewas Orr, the elderly Butler, a bottle of the College claret still clutched in hisnerveless fingers; Mrs Oakley, the Cook, poised in mid-stir as she attended tosome noisome concoction over the ancient range; Johnson, the Housekeeper,giddy from her testing of a new batch of furniture polish; and Bateman, thereliable Chauffeur, gazing up from his workbench and the ratchets and cogs fromwhich he was hoping to construct a perpetual motion engine. Mrs Oakley wasthe first to react. “And who might you be, Missy?” she enquired, a touch frostily.

“Wing Commander the Honourable Lady Shelley ‘Shoot ’em All’ Surtees, lateof the Royal Flying Corps and holder of the Grand Gâteau de Guerre,presented by President Hergé of the Belgians.” The servants stared at her inblank amazement. “You may call me Wing-co, Lady Shelley or Ma’am. I am here,as your Domestic Bursar and at the express invitation of the Master andFellows, to save Downton College from the forces of Liberal Democracy! Andthe next person,” Lady Shelley continued, “the next person to refer to me asMissy will find themselves in very hot water indeed!” She fixed them with asteely glare from her azure eyes. The Butler was the first to recover. He thoughthe could detect a shade of irony behind the fierceness of the new DomesticBursar’s gaze, but he could not be sure. Best to play safe, he thought. “I willfetch your tea immediately, Lady Shelley,” he told her, with his customary quietdignity, while giving the Cook a sharp kick to the ankle. “And Mrs Oakley willdoubtless find you a spot of dinner.”

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

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Wittgenstein in Storey’s Way

The man whom many call the most significant philosopher of the twentiethcentury spent the final months of his life at 76 Storey’s Way. The house is nowowned by Churchill College: it stands at the corner of Storey’s Way and theCollege’s private road, and is largely hidden from view by an adamantine hedge.A commemorative plaque stands on the wall by the front door. It is probablethat Wittgenstein’s room was no. 6, a garret on the top floor at the north end,now used for postgraduate students. He died there on 29 April 1951. That thehouse is called “Storey’s End” nicely allowed Wittgenstein’s biographer so toentitle the final chapter of his book. How did the philosopher come to be there?

Wittgenstein was a native of Vienna, a member of a large, wealthy, troubled, Jewishfamily. A fellow-pupil at school was Adolf Hitler. After starting to study engineering,he turned to philosophy, and became a pupil of Bertrand Russell in Cambridge. Inthe First World War he served in the Austrian army. After that, he was anunsuccessful schoolteacher. He returned to Cambridge, took a PhD, and succeededG. E. Moore as Professor of Philosophy in 1939. (To refuse him the chair, it wassaid, would be like denying Einstein a chair in physics.) During the course of his lifehe inaugurated two philosophical revolutions. The Tractatus (1921) inspired logicalpositivism, and the posthumously published Philosophical Investigations (1953) shapedthe linguistic turn in philosophy. Charismatic and intense, lapidary and provocative,he dominated the Anglo-American philosophical world.

In 1947 Wittgenstein resigned his Cambridge professorship. The city andUniversity irked him. He warned his successor in the Chair: “Cambridge is adangerous place. Will you become superficial?, smooth?” The final years of hislife were peripatetic; he had no home of his own. Although hitherto resolutelysolitary, he increasingly felt an emotional and latterly a health need to live incompany. He divided his time among his friends: the philosophers ElizabethAnscombe in Oxford, G.H. von Wright in Cambridge (at Strathaird, now partof Lucy Cavendish College), Norman Malcolm in Ithaca, New York, and thephysician Maurice Drury in Dublin. Stricken by bouts of digestive trouble andexhaustion, he was at first diagnosed with nothing more than gastro-enteritis.

Drury (who had read Philosophy at Trinity in the late 1920s but had turned tomedicine and psychiatry) had remarked to Wittgenstein that if ever he needed

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were gently but firmly fought over, the newest Junior Research Fellow endingup with the nasty pink wafers. “I am delighted to announce that since theappointment of the Honourable Lady Shelley, and according to Lord Giles’spatent counting engine, College funds have quadrupled! The cellars are full again,and it’s the good stuff, too!”

“Hurrah!” The Reader in Quantum Theology could not resist a heartfeltexclamation.

“But all is not yet well. Lady Shelley?” The Honourable Lady Shelley stood upto address the meeting.

“Lady Jennifer, thank you. Senior Members. Downton has made great stridesand our finances have been, for now, restored. But can it last?”

“Can anything last?” queried a Lecturer in Reductive Philosophy. Lady Shelleysmiled at him without humour.

“Much has altered since the war. The world is not as it was. Downton mustfollow suit. Downton must modernise! Ladies and Gentlemen, Downtonmust…” There was a collective horrified intake of breath. “Yes. Downton mustchange!” The silence that followed was broken, after two or three infiniteseconds, by the sound of the Professor of Contemporary Thought’s head hittingthe immaculately polished mahogany of the meeting-room table. Theunthinkable had been thought, the unsayable had been said. The word so manyhad spent a lifetime avoiding had been uttered, here, in their innermost sanctum,their safest place. Change! Whatever happened next, Downton College wouldnever be the same again…

Mr Orr, Butler (and recently Head Porter)

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

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a doctor he should turn to Edward Bevan in Cambridge. Drury had knownBevan when they both served in the Royal Army Medical Corps during the War.Dr Bevan (1907-88) was a well-known GP in the city, serving many dons andstudents, especially those of Trinity College. There are Fellows of Churchill whostill recall him as their GP. Bevan was an ardent enthusiast for rowing and anOlympic medallist at the 1928 Games; he remained active in the University BoatClub. His home at 76 Storey’s Way was nicknamed “The Bevanry”. The housewas built in 1913 for Cambridge’s first Professor of Economic History (such wasthe income then of professors), and bought by Bevan in 1938. With his wife, Joan,they had a sideline in hosting paying guests, though this may chiefly date fromafter Wittgenstein’s time. They specialised in a clientele of high-class youngwomen, residing in Cambridge in search of suitable mates among theundergraduates of appropriate colleges. The most high-born of their lodgers –resident in 1960-61, to study rather than to marry – was Princess Margrethe,the present Queen of Denmark, while she read Archaeology and Anthropologyat Girton College. (During the 2012 London Olympics, when her yacht wasmoored on the Thames, Queen Margrethe recollected her time at Storey’s Way,in conversation with Churchill Fellow Barry Phipps.)

Late in 1949, while staying with von Wright, Wittgenstein fell ill and went tosee Bevan, who quickly diagnosed prostate cancer, but held out hope of severalyears’ further life, as hormone therapy could keep the disease at bay. The patientwas not shocked by the diagnosis, but shocked that something could be doneabout it. Wittgenstein had a horror of dying in an English hospital, but Bevanpromised that, if it became necessary, he could spend his final days being caredfor in the Bevans’ own home. He also said that he had always been suspiciousof doctors but that now, at the end of his life, he had found one he could trust.

In these closing years Wittgenstein’s Catholic friends hoped he might returnto the religion of his childhood (German and Austrian Jews frequently becameChristians, at least formally so), but he did not do so. At Anscombe’s urging, heagreed to meet a priest, provided he was a “non-philosophical priest”. Tophilosophise about religion missed the point, he thought. Religion was a formof life, a set of practices; it could not be colligated under the categories of truthand falsehood. To think in terms of “proof” or “disproof” of religion was a treeup which one just could not bark.

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

A few days before his death, Drury visited him. “He looked very ill, but was alertand lively as ever.” He told Drury he was relieved that further treatment hadnow been declared pointless, as the therapy was debilitating, and now his mentalpowers had recovered. He had no thoughts of the afterlife, only of writing morein this. In these final weeks he wrote furiously and brought to completion OnCertainty. Once again, he drew out the theme that much that counted asphilosophy was misplaced. The world is to be understood not by defining, orproving, or demonstrating, but by grasping how concepts and words are used.Our meanings are constructed through our practices, embedded in ways of life.“Children do not learn that books exist… they learn to fetch books.”

On 26 April Wittgenstein achieved his sixty-second birthday. Joan Bevan said “Manyhappy returns.” “There will be no returns,” came the reply. On the 27th he fellmortally ill. He was told that his friends would arrive shortly. His last words were,“Tell them I’ve had a wonderful life.” He was unconscious when Anscombe, Druryand Yorick Smythies arrived on the 29th. They brought with them a Catholic priestwho recited the office for the dying and gave conditional absolution. Soon, Dr Bevanpronounced Wittgenstein dead. Next morning, the 30th, he was buried a fewhundred metres away at St Giles (today Ascension) Burial Ground. His grave is, farand away, the most frequently visited in that remarkable necropolis of the illustriousdeceased of Cambridge. Again a Catholic priest was at the graveside, although Druryrecorded that he had been “troubled ever since as to whether what we did wasright.” In 2001 his devoted acolyte Elizabeth Anscombe was buried beside him.

See Ray Monk, Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius (1990), chapters 25-27;M. Drury, ‘Some Notes on Conversations with Wittgenstein’, in Rush Rhees,ed., Ludwig Wittgenstein: Personal Recollections (1981); and Norman Malcolm,Ludwig Wittgenstein: A Memoir (1984). For informal accounts of aspects ofWittgenstein’s life, see Alexander Waugh, The House of Wittgenstein (2008), andDavid Edmonds and John Eidinow, Wittgenstein’s Poker (2002).

Mark Goldie

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February daffodils by the Chapel

Floral Churchill

IN MEMORIAM

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The Churchill Rose on site

Condolences

The College extends deep sympathies to the families and friends of thefollowing:

Professor James C Keck (Overseas Fellow 1979), who died on 9 August 2010

Professor Britton Chance (Overseas Fellow 1966), who died on 16 November 2010

Mr Shaan Noman (G90), who died in 2011

Dr Philip L Andrews (U73), who died in February 2011

Professor J Laurie Snell (Overseas Fellow 1980), who died in March 2011

Professor Frank Herbstein (Overseas Fellow 1987), who died on 22 March 2011

Mr Robert Farmer (U83), who died in May 2011

Professor John Pateman (Founding Fellow), who died on 18 May 2011

Professor Dr Arnulf Schlüter (Fellow Commoner 1961), who died on 24 June 2011

Mr Bernard Walker (U&G66), who died on 21 July 2011

Miss Rehana Kirthisingha (U77), who died in August 2011

Mr Terrence Phang Ying Choy (U09), who died on 1 September 2011; see JCR Report 2011-12, above

Professor Sir William Hawthorne (Master 1968–83, Fellow 1968-2011),who died on 16 September 2011; see following appreciation

Mr Iain Sproat (member of Churchill College Archives Committee), whodied on 29 September 2011

Dr Gregory Possehl (Overseas Fellow 2001), who died on 8 October 2011

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IN MEMORIAM

Professor Sir William Hawthorne, 22 May 1913–16 September 2011Master of Churchill College 1968-83; Honorary Fellow of Trinity College,Cambridge; former Head of the Department of Engineering, Cambridge

On 24 February 2012, a memorial servicewas held in Great St Mary’s, Cambridge, tocommemorate the life of Sir William – orWill, as everyone in College called him. Anaddress was given by Dr John Rawlinson,Chaplain to the Chapel at Churchill College,and tributes were paid by Professor DavidNewland of the Department of Engineeringand by Lord Broers. Will’s role in College andhis pioneering research were highlighted. Theservice was followed by tea in Churchill anda magic show in the Wolfson Hall – Will wasa keen conjuror, who used to entertainFellows and College visitors with his tricks.There follows an obituary by David Newland

which he has kindly given us permission to reproduce (published in The Guardian,3 November 2011).

* * *

Sir William Hawthorne, who has died aged 98, used his instinctive feeling for themechanics of fluid flow to help solve a crucial problem that was holding updevelopment of Sir Frank Whittle’s jet engine in 1940. In great secrecy, and withWinston Churchill’s personal support, prototype engines had been built at theold British-Thomson Houston works at Lutterworth, Leicestershire, but theycould not be made to run smoothly. Only a few months before, Will had movedfrom the boiler manufacturer Babcock and Wilcox to the Engine Research Groupat the Royal Aircraft Establishment. He was immediately seconded from there tohelp Whittle. The two worked together for several months until the engine’scombustion chambers had been redesigned and development could continue.

Will had a great ability to see immediately where the root of an engineeringproblem lay and to visualise its solution, often in elegantly simple mathematical

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Mrs Mary Mathewson (U76), who died on 12 October 2011

Professor Ronald Greeley (Overseas Fellow 1983), who died on 27 October 2011

Professor Ghobind Khorana (Nobel Laureate and Overseas Fellow1967), who died on 9 November 2011

Dr Richard Hey (Founding Fellow; Fellow 1960-2011), who died on 14 November 2011; see following appreciations

Mr Calum Burt (U10), who died on 1 January 2012; see JCR Report 2011-12, above

Dr Iain MacPhee (G82), who died on 13 January 2012

Dr Gareth Roberts (Teaching Fellow and Advanced Students Tutor 1995-2000), who died on 13 January 2012

Canon Richard Incledon (former Catholic University Chaplain, who hadjurisdiction to hold weddings at Churchill), who died on 9 March 2012

Professor John Taylor (Founding Fellow), who died on 10 March 2012

Dr T Rex Sweatman (G66), who died on 22 March 2012

Mr Maersk Mc-Kinney Møller (Honorary Fellow), who died on 16 April2012; see following appreciations

Dr Helen Patterson (U80), who died on 18 April 2012; see followingappreciation

Mr David Callum (College carpenter, 1977-2000), who died on 21 April 2012

Mr David Taylor (U78), who died in June 2012

Ms Snehal Sidhu (U01), who died on 5 July 2012

In 2011-12 memorial events were held in Churchill for three Fellows who diedthat year: our former Master, Professor Sir William Hawthorne; Dr Richard Hey;and our benefactor Mr Maersk Mc-Kinney Møller. Appreciations of them follow,as well as one of Helen Patterson. The College was also deeply saddened thisyear by the tragic loss of two highly promising students: Terrence Phang andCalum Burt, whose young lives were cut short in freak accidents.

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Sir William Hawthorne© Julia Hedgecoe

in engineering courses. The intellectual rigour proved wonderful training foranalysing problems. Developments of this approach are now taught universally.Will’s enthusiasm for new teaching initiatives also led to what became theCambridge University Advanced Course in Production Methods and Management,now run as an MPhil course.

As the Suez crisis unfolded in the 1950s, there were not enough tankers tobring oil round the Horn of Africa. Instead, the possibility of floating oil in aflexible sausage skin emerged. For Will and several generations of his students,this became a major project. The first “Dracones” initially snaked uncontrollablyfrom side to side, and there were serious problems in obtaining waterprooffabric which was strong enough and could be sewn together to make a viablebarge. The Suez emergency ended before Dracones could be used to transportoil long distances, but they were used for shorter distances and still have otherapplications for oil-spill clean-up and the temporary storage of effluents at sea.

Will was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1955, appointed CBE in 1959and knighted in 1970. He was a founder Fellow in 1976 of the Fellowshipof Engineering (later to become the Royal Academy of Engineering). His hobbiesincluded skiing, sailing, cookery and conjuring. He had been a member of theUniversity’s Pentacle magic club since his undergraduate days. His demonstrationof sawing in half a young woman and then joining her together again was themost ambitious and spectacularly successful postprandial talk ever to be held inChurchill College’s Senior Common Room.

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

Professor David Newland

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

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

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terms. He applied these skills with great success to understanding the intricaciesof three-dimensional flow in compressors and turbines, as well as in thecombustion chambers of jet engines, and he became a world leader onturbomachinery design. Although his main work had been done before computermodelling became an effective tool, he kept abreast of computationaldevelopments, at one time teaching computing to engineering students, and hecontinued to advise turbine manufacturers until well into his 80s.

He was a man of immense personal charm, with a twinkle in his eye.

Will was born in Newcastle upon Tyne. In 1931 he won an exhibition fromWestminster School to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he studied mathematicsand engineering. After winning the University’s Rex Moir and Ricardo prizes in hisfinal examinations, he became a graduate apprentice at Babcock and Wilcox beforegoing to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) as a CommonwealthFellow. There, he completed a doctorate on laminar and turbulent flames, workthat was to prove valuable when helping Whittle a few years later.

For many years, Will lived a dual existence. He was elected the first holder of theHopkinson and ICI Chair of Applied Thermodynamics at Cambridge University in1951, when he was already Westinghouse Professor of Mechanical Engineering atMIT. Although he resigned his Westinghouse Chair, he continued to have an officeat MIT and was regularly seen there for many years while simultaneously holdinga full-time Chair at Cambridge and, in 1968, becoming Master of Churchill College.

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

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

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what I have tried to convey: “Mary and I hugely regret that we are unable tojoin you and Mærsk’s family on this important occasion, but feel that Mærskwould have forgiven us as we are on our yacht cruising, this time around CapeCod and its islands. Only last year Mærsk’s Christmas card showed him behindthe wheel of yet another of his beautiful yachts and we always enjoyedexchanging stories about our cruising adventures. But on this occasion we mustrecognise that Mærsk Møller’s engagement with Churchill has been one of themost important in the history of the College. Mærsk and his father knew thatWinston had played a major role in the survival of Denmark in World War lland chose the College to express their appreciation. Mærsk also understoodwhy Winston had chosen an institution of science and technology as hismemorial – after all, he and his father had built one of the greatest shippingbusinesses the world has ever seen on the application of the latest marine andbusiness technologies. We like to think that this was what Mærsk saw in ChurchillCollege. He understood and resonated with what Winston wanted the Collegeto achieve and made a contribution that has helped the College spread itsinfluence well beyond its previous boundaries. He was a great friend and mentorto the College. Mary and I shall think of him with great affection for the rest ofour lives and only hope that we might still be cruising at the age of 98!”

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

I close with some personal comments.

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

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

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We appreciate very much that Mr Møller’s daughters, Ane and Leise, theAmbassador and members of the AP Møller Foundation are able to be with us. Thewide backgrounds of people here reflect the great impact of Mr Møller, not onlyon the life of the College, but on many other organisations. You are all very welcome.

It is no exaggeration to say that The Møller Centre is an embodiment of thespecial relationship between the UK and Denmark. In telegrams from theChurchill Archives, you can see Churchill’s order to Montgomery to liberateDenmark before the Soviets get there, and the confirmation in reply. Bothtelegrams were sent on 6 May 1945; the cease-fire was signed on 7 May, andratified in Berlin on 8 May. A very close-run thing.

Churchill College was founded in 1960 as the national and Commonwealthmemorial to Sir Winston. With a focus on science and technology (but notexclusively – after all, his Nobel Prize was for literature!), Sir Winston’s visionwas for an outward-looking College, engaging with the business communityand international in scope.

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

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

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

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

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

The Master

The passing of Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller,such a warm and caring gentleman, such agreat and inspirational leader, has moved me immensely.

I have been privileged to know Mr Møllersince I was first appointed as Director of theMøller Centre in 1998. Mærsk Mc-KinneyMøller inspired me from the moment I methim. When I saw him walk toward me for thevery first time, I felt a little nervous, but as Ishook his hand and received his wonderfulwarm smile, I knew that this was a veryspecial person, of profound intellect andexperience, who would guide me along the

path I should take with The Møller Centre. Back in 1999 Mr Møller impressedupon me the values of the Mærsk Organisation and arranged for me to go upto Headquarters in London to hear and see for myself the way the companywas run and the values and culture that made the difference. So this was myfocus when I first came to the Centre: to engender a caring and supportiveculture where client and staff success stories and hard work were both enjoyedand celebrated.

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

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

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

Although the Møller Centre was small in comparison to the global reach ofthe Mærsk organization, when Mr Møller visited the Centre it was almost as ifit was his entire focus. Caring for customers and staff alike, with strong valuesof trust and integrity and fairness – all came through loud and clear to me.

Just to be clear that his visits were more than a case of flying the flag: we knewthat beneath the friendly smile he expected to see everything looking “ship-shape”and to be reassured that we were being diligent, responsible and committed.

His attention to detail and ability to make everyone feel special were immense.I will never forget the wonderful glow of warmth and pride I felt when, followingone of his visits, I received the most beautiful bunch of white roses that I haveever seen, and trust me, I have high standards, given that my own father was awholesale florist.

What a wonderful time we shared when Mærsk came to open the Study Centreextension in 2007, and what a proud day for me and the entire Møller Teamthat he agreed to be there with Leise and the Foundation Board to open thenew extension. Mr Møller, in his profound and encouraging speech, reflectedon the original intent behind the donation and the significance of what Churchilldid to support the freedom of Denmark during the Second World War. Wehad such a happy day together celebrating the success of The Møller Centre,inspired by his vision and generosity and discussing our hopes for the future of the Centre.

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

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enjoyed his school days, although he claimedhis poor eyesight reduced his effectivenesson the rugby field and cricket pitch.

From Stowe, Richard went to Trinity College,Cambridge with the view of taking a NaturalSciences degree. In later years he describedthe difficulty he faced finding suitable subjectsto achieve this aim. Physics at Cambridge hefound absolutely incomprehensible, and,following a plea to his Tutor, it was substitutedby physiology (very much a Trinity preserve inthe 1930s) and geology. After two years hetook Part I of the Tripos, in which he wasclassified among the “desmonds”, that is, a run-

of-the-mill 2ii. Apart from clearing his first academic hurdle, Richard discovered agenuine interest in geology, and this occupied his interests for the second part ofhis degree during his final year at Cambridge.

The question of what Richard should do next was taken out of his hands byworld events and the British declaration of war on Germany on 3 September1939. In due course, Richard was called up, and after basic training wascommissioned in the RAF.Although his eyesight excluded him from flying duties,he found his niche in the field of aerial photography. (There is more to be saidabout Richard’s RAF career; suffice it for me to say that the opportunitywar service provided for Richard to visit the Middle East and North Africa wasanother key factor that shaped his future career.)

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

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he had on my life and the values that he embodied in me, his daughter. My fatherand Mr Møller have been the two key anchor men in my life (husbands aside):my father in setting up vision and work ethic in me, and influencing my faithand core values, and Mr Møller for continuing this in the work context,reinforcing what my father taught me – that all things are possible if you believeyou can do it, keep focused, work hard and always deliver your very best.

Commitment and follow-through were also high on Mr Møller’s agenda, as weretrust, integrity and respect for all people. Mr Møller’s values will continue toinfluence the team and culture we have here at The Møller Centre – and personally,he will remain in my conscience as my trusted advisor long after he is gone.

Mærsk, thank you for your inspiration and vision – your fortitude and engagementwith us here – and to the last, your ongoing commitment to support our workand success at The Møller Centre, here in Churchill College.

Gillian Secrett

Dr Richard Hey (1917–2011)

Churchill College was very sorry to lose one of its most genial and kindFounding Fellows, Richard Hey. Below are two tributes to Richard, who will bemuch missed.

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

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undergraduates arrived in October 1961. Richard was among the first groupapproached to apply for a Fellowship. He accepted the offer and within a shortspace of time became one of the new foundation’s Founding Fellows and eventuallyone of its very few Life Fellows. Richard repaid this honour by his wholeheartedcommitment to the new college. This included not only his responsibilities as Tutorand supervisor, but administrative duties and involvement with College businessaffairs. His final post before retirement was Praelector, a largely ceremonial positionwhose main responsibility was the presentation of candidates to the Universityauthorities at the Senate House on graduation day – a sort of academic “whipper-in”. Despite his many College and Departmental duties, Richard found time torelax. One such outlet was horse-riding. There were convenient stables quite closeto the College, and plenty of open country between Madingley and the outskirtsof the city for Richard to enjoy a canter.Another outlet was his interest in modernart, examples of which were on display at his house at Upton Bishop.

When retirement came, Richard moved base to Herefordshire to be nearer tohis surviving family members. He purchased a small house in Bromsash, not farfrom Upton Bishop, and rapidly became involved with the local musical scene. Hederived particular pleasure from his participation with the Hereford StringOrchestra. He also continued with his scientific research, publishing in 1990 theresults of a major study of the local quaternary geology. This required detailedinvestigation of the river gravel beds of the lower Wye valley. Almost a hundreddifferent locations were included, every one of which was personally visited andsampled by the author. Retirement became a very fruitful episode in Richard’slife, but fate dealt some cruel blows – the worst of which was the stroke hesuffered when convalescing from a hip-replacement operation at Gloucester. Thismeant that not only could he not drive; it also marked the end of piano- andcello-playing. This must have been a huge disappointment, yet never once did Ihear Richard complain. The stroke also brought domestic changes. The house inBromsash was sold, and he moved to Upton Bishop, where he shared the OldSchool House with his sister Barbara. This arrangement continued until her death,when Richard made his final move. This was just a short distance down the roadto a modern bungalow. Richard thoroughly enjoyed “Melrose”, with its gloriousviews of the Lower Wye valley and the Forest of Dean, and it was here in his95th year that Richard died peacefully on 14 November 2011. (May I add a noteto say how much Richard benefited in his last two or three years from thesympathetic support of his two carers from South Wales, Pam and Elaine.)

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should register for a Cambridge PhD based on North African quaternarygeology. Richard took this advice, and four years later in May 1951 was awardedhis doctorate. During this research period his primary base was in the WestRiding, interspersed with field trips to Libya. On several occasions Richardtravelled to Libya and back behind the wheel of an old Land Rover. (Thebeautiful red carpet in the sitting room of “Melrose” was purchased at this timeand doubtless smuggled back to the UK in the Land Rover’s boot.) It was notall work during PhD research. Richard was a member of one of Yorkshire’sfamous choral societies, and sang first bass in many major works, includingVerdi’s Requiem, Mendelssohn’s Elijah and various Bach oratorios.

Following his success with his PhD, Richard became an official member of theUniversity Geology Department. He was appointed demonstrator in 1951 andbecame a University Lecturer in 1956. Apart from regular departmental duties,Richard had the responsibility of organising the second-year field trip toPembrokeshire. It was a popular event in an interesting part of the world withexcellent rock exposures. Richard not only did all the teaching but provided eveningentertainment. The small hotel at St David’s had a grand piano in the main lounge,and about half-an-hour before supper Richard gave a short recital. I still recall thebeauty of Brahms’s Advent carol: “Es ist ein Ros entsprungen”, which featured inRichard’s repertoire and still provides me with a vivid reminder of his talents.Apartfrom routine class work, Richard also found time to continue his own research intoEnglish and Welsh quaternary geology. This resulted in the publication of severalimportant papers on the gravel beds of the Severn and Thames Valleys.

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

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an ascent of Bowfell Buttress in wet conditions. The climb was notable becauseof Richard’s glasses, which he had to dry between almost every move.Uncomplaining, of course, and with much good humour. That September, the threeof us met up in North Wales and made a number of successful climbs in theLlanberis Pass, as well on the cliffs of Tremadoc. Here we tackled the Hound’sHead Pinnacle as well as Lazarus, graded “Very Severe”. I particularly remembermaking my first climb as a leader, on the Wrinkle, with Richard holding my rope,safeguarding and encouraging from behind. I knew I was in good hands. The nextsummer, I climbed with Richard in a party of Cambridge climbers who includedJim Lee and Mike Turner. One of the climbs we made was The Grimmett, a verydemanding climb which Richard ascended with aplomb. Though not a naturalathlete, Richard was not easily put off, and was always happy to try to follow upa “VS”. Some time in the 1950s, in a party led by Mike O’Hara (Cambridge), aleading British climber of the time, Richard made a number of first ascents onthe remote Carn More cliffs of North-West Scotland. I believe he was the SeniorMember of the Cambridge University Mountaineering Club for a number of yearsduring the fifties and sixties. In 1955 (or possibly ’56), he joined a small expeditionto Kulu led by Peter Holmes, which included Peter’s wife Judy, where he did somegeological exploration. I continued to climb with Richard intermittently forabout ten years from our first meeting in 1954. Thereafter he continued as afamily friend. I always looked forward to being with him. His unfailing humour andwisdom enriched my life for about thirty years.

Michael Binnie

Dr Helen Patterson (1963–2012)

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

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

Ben Moore

Richard Hey: Cambridge Climber

Richard started climbing at Cambridge in the 1950s when he was in his mid-thirties. At the time he was a supervisor and demonstrator at Trinity College. Hewas a particular friend of Peter Holmes, later Sir Peter, at the time anundergraduate at Trinity. It was through Holmes that I met Richard when I was aschoolboy aged sixteen. Together with Peter Holmes, we climbed for a week inLangdale in the spring of 1954, and climbed on Gimmer Crag as well as making

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Helen went off to Oxford for the clinical partof her course, and rowed for the OxfordLightweights in 1985. Other “sidelines” duringthis time included a medical elective in Yei,Southern Sudan, when a civil war was underway just over the border in Uganda, and anA-level in English Literature. House Officerposts in Oxford, Newcastle and Nottinghamfollowed, and she achieved membership ofthe Royal College of Physicians (MRCP) in1989. Between 1989 and 1993 Helen was aClinical Research Fellow at the Institute ofCancer Research in Sutton – work which ledto a PhD in Sarcoma Molecular Genetics in1996. After more senior posts in and around

London, she gained a Fellowship of the Royal College of Radiologists in 1998,and in 2000 (by now the mother of three sons) she took up her first Consultantpost in Clinical Oncology at Addenbrooke’s and at the West Suffolk Hospital inBury St Edmunds. Another son and a daughter followed, and in 2004 Helenbecame Lead Clinician for non-surgical Uro-oncology Services (mostly dealingwith prostate cancer) for the West Anglia Cancer Network. Not surprisingly,although she lived in Cambridge, Helen was too busy to spend time as a“professional old-Churchillian”.

There were several men of a certain age at her funeral who remembered withgratitude her kindness, compassion and professionalism in her role as theirphysician. Her “spare time” was devoted to running and rowing. She completeda London Marathon in 2010. Following her diagnosis, and while undergoingchemotherapy, she ran the 5-km Cambridge “Race for Life” in July 2011, andthen, with her husband Paul, an 8-km race in Amsterdam on October 2011.

She was an enthusiastic member of the Champion-of-the-Thames rowing club(“Champs”), rowing in their 1st crew, and later coaching a crew of women with28 children between them. Ruth Howlett, a fellow Champs member, has written:“Helen’s ‘joie de vivre’ is sorely missed; she kept us focused and demanded wetry for each other. Even when she was too ill to row, we continued to do our‘Helen tens’ when we needed to focus and drive hard.”

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

Alan Findlay

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“He has recently turned 70 and, to thedismay of his family and some of hisfriends, intends to continue livingdangerously for many years to come.”

Tavener, Christopher (U61) is an architect, practising in the US andspecialising in the preservation and re-use of older buildings, mostly for collegesand universities, the National Park Service, and other government agencies.However, he likes to live in modern buildings. Perhaps that comes from twohappy, light-filled years residing at Churchill, first in one of the apartmentsdesigned for married graduates and later, in his final year, in one of the just-completed quads, sandwiching an expulsion to rather claustrophobic digs in arow house near the movie house in the north-east corner of the town.

Monaghan, Joseph (G62) has been elected to a Fellowship of the AustralianAcademy of Science.

Rossiter, Gordon (U63) spent 20 years in Zambia, Chile, USA and Brazil in themetals mining industry, and the last 25 years in a new technology for ContinuousIon eXchange processes – the last seven years of which, operating in his ownbusiness in CIX. He has several US patents and publications. www.ixsep.com

Bainbridge, Anthony (G64) has recently turned 70 and, to the dismay of hisfamily and some of his friends, intends to continue living dangerously for manyyears to come.

Edwards, Mel (G64), a double blue at athletics and cross-country in the mid60s, is still running, mostly at 7 a.m., before heading for work as a principalengineer with Aberdeenshire Council in Aberdeen, where he leads the road safetyengineering unit. He has successfully survived myeloma (bone-marrow cancer)for the past 5 years and has no plans to retire. Married to Kareen for 40 years in2012; they have a son, Myles (23), who is targeting the Commonwealth Games inGlasgow in 2014 as a middle-distance runner and has spent time in Kenya trainingat the Iten High Altitude Camp in order to further this aim.

Goldstone, L Clement (U67) was appointed Honorary Recorder of Liverpoolin October 2003.

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Tim has now retired from BAE Systems, which gives him more time to improvehis work-life balance, see his five (so far) grandchildren grow up, sail his boatand do some consultancy and Institution work to keep his mind active.

Jackson, Peter (Past Fellow, 1970) has been elected a Fellow of the BritishAcademy (July 2012).

Yesinowski, James (G71) has made heroic efforts over the past two years:publishing the first comprehensive review on the Nuclear Magnetic Resonance(NMR) of Inorganic Semiconductors, and learning (somewhat) Ravel’s pianomasterpiece Gaspard de la Nuit.

Louis Johnson (U98) recently graduated and received his PhD in Music(Composition) from the University of Liverpool.

Ball, Tina (U72) is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist working with people withlearning disabilities and Director of Quality for Sheffield Health and Social CareNHS Foundation Trust. She is also Chair of Governors at Fir Vale School, acomprehensive secondary school in Sheffield.

Burkitt, Vanessa (U72) (formerly Dowell) joined the BBC in the Corporation’sParis office after graduating. She then transferred to the Current Affairsdepartment as a researcher, working on Tonight,The Money Programme and thenjoining This Week Next Week as producer. As a political specialist, she coveredGeneral Elections and transferred to BBC Westminster as assistant managingeditor. After the BBC, she worked as a communications consultant and ran theLiberal Democrat Business Forum. Family reasons brought her back toCambridge where she now runs the family jewellery business.

Day, Liz (U72) (nee Lucas) went to Homerton College and trained as aprimary teacher – moved back to Essex – taught full time till 1999 – since thendoing supply, short-term contracts, job shares, one-to-one tuition and privatetuition. She married in 1989 and has two boys, 20 and 16.

Field, Michael (U72) is currently working as an IT infrastructure specialist atBarclays Bank, Radbroke Hall, near Knutsford, Cheshire.

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Lloyd-Evans, Meredith (U&G67) continues to run BioBridge Ltd, a bioscienceinnovation consultancy now in its 24th year, in Cambridge. He is in the finalstages of a global regulatory benchmarking survey for the international animalhealth industry association (IFAH) and is also Project Manager for the EU-fundedMarineBiotech (www.marinebiotech.eu), which is doing the groundwork fortransnational strategic programmes in marine biotechnology research in Europe.Contact him if you need somewhere to stay in Cambridge when you visit.

Powell, Eddie (U&G67) is enjoying retirement with Ruth, living in Cambridge,near the College, though Eddie is involved in a start-up company. They find timefor lots of travel (trans-Siberian railway was a highlight earlier this year).

Stow, William (U67) retired at the beginning of 2012 after nine years on theBoard of the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. He isnow Chair of the Radnorshire Wildlife Trust, a member of the Council ofWildlife Trusts Wales and a Board member of Sustrans.

Minett, Graham (U68) has been in education since leaving Churchill in 1972.He was Head of Modern Languages in an 11-18 community college, then Headof VIth Form and ultimately Assistant Head Teacher. Reduced to part-time totake an MA in Creative Writing at University of Chichester, he graduated in2008. Graham won a national competition for the opening three chapters of anovel and has been working with a London editor. He completed it recentlyand is now awaiting the outcome... and still working three days a week ontimetabling and data analysis! Happily married with three children.

Read Wilson, Crispin (U68) was Deputy Head Academic at PangbourneCollege until September 2009 and is now retired to Swanage, sailing a 30-ftcruiser, “Ioannis”, and racing a 51-year-old wooden Albacore, “Achilles”.

Backhouse, Richard (U69) is working in a small turbomachinery designconsultancy in Lincoln (as he has been for the last 22 years) and living inWorksop with wife, Anne, and two sons – now in process of leaving the nest.Still involved in local church and eagerly awaiting the return of the head.

Chittenden, Tim (U70) retired from the Royal Navy in 2005 to take up asecond career on the boards of BAE Systems Submarines and Sellafield Ltd.

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Vantyghem, Jonnie (U72) became an in-house lawyer for US multinationals:Solicitor & Tax Planner, Armstrong Europe Services 1980-87; European Counsel,Fisher Controls 1987-92; General Counsel, EMEA, First Data 1992-2009. He iscurrently Head of Commercial Law, Sainsbury’s Supermarkets Ltd.

Woodland, Andy (U72) changed career in 2009, leaving Arup after 33 years,to become the Bursar at Bootham School (independent, co-educational, Quakerschool) in York.

Woodland, Isabel (U72) (nee Waghorne) is Assistant Head at Durham HighSchool for Girls.

Robinson, Robert (U&G73) is Head of the Bragg Institute at the AustralianNuclear Science and Technology Organisation (just outside Sydney). Seewww.ansto.gov.au/research/bragg_institute. He is also Vice-President of theAustralian Institute of Physics. See http://www.aip.org.au.

Stott, Graham (U&G73) is Principal Consultant (System Engineering), QuintecAssociates.

Ward, Tim (U&G73) has been a member of the Executive (cabinet) ofCambridge City Council from May 2011, with responsibility for, amongst otherthings, planning policy for the future development of Cambridge.

Clarke, Paul (U74) is currently Chief Technology Officer for Cable & WirelessCommunications, responsible for network strategy, Capex planning and servicesoptimisation across the CWC group of businesses. Working closely withCWC’s commercial teams, his key areas of focus include 3G/4G mobile,especially data, broadband/Internet, IPTV solutions, and end-end network andservice economics. Paul joined C&W in 2003, working initially in the UKbusiness (now C&W Worldwide). Paul’s prior experience includes being GroupTechnical Director with Logica (mobile network value-added-solutions, and ITservices for the finance, utilities and government sectors), department headwith British Telecoms (network management systems development),programme director with Siemens Plessey Systems (Command Control andInformation Systems), and scientist with Government CommunicationsHeadquarters (communications research).

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

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

Mundy, Chris (U84) has been Managing Director of Clearcast since March2008. Clearcast is owned by the UK’s six largest commercial broadcastingcompanies and its main activity is the pre-clearance of TV advertising to ensureit meets the broadcast advertising codes. Since 2010, Chris has also sat on theBoard of Credos, the independently-governed think tank for advertising. Priorto joining Clearcast, Chris was Head of Audiences at the BBC (1999-2008), incharge of all the BBC’s audience research across public service (licence-feefunded) activities.

Kurz, Michael (U88) completed a single-handed Atlantic crossing on his 37-footsailing yacht Padma. It took him 17 days from Senegal to Brazil, including a one-day stop on the remote rocks St Peter and St Paul near the Equator. Now he isback in Germany, where he lives with his girlfriend and happy 2-year-old daughter.

Webber, Grace (U89) is continuing to enjoy being at Google and living inNorthern California.

Tickle, Stephanie (U94) (nee Hanley) has been appointed the ClinicalDirector of Maypole Veterinary Centre in Birmingham (since February 2012).

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

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

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

Williams, Sharon (U74) (nee Gould) has enjoyed a blessed life as aharpsichordist, conductor and, in recent years, ABRSM music Examiner andTrainer. Marriage to Trinity Hall engineer Jonathan Williams was certainly herluckiest move; they celebrated 25 harmonious years in April. Daughter, pianistCordelia Williams, already more well-known than her Mum; son Gregory,recently completing the family’s graduation from Cambridge, now grapplingboldly with the London employment ladder. Her mid-life discovery and passionfor singing has, to her astonishment, led to a soprano place in the SalisburyCathedral Chamber Choir. Home is a peaceful barn-conversion in Wiltshire,where they swim in a pool surrounded by an extensive rose-garden and harvestbountiful supplies of their favourite fruits and vegetables. Winter joys includelog fires and long books.

Harnett, Geoffrey (U&G75) is taking early retirement in 2012 after thirtyyears teaching at Leighton Park School, Reading, including the last ten years asHousemaster. He is spending most of his time at his property in Normandy butalso retaining an apartment in Reading.

Munns, Andrew (U75) now works as a technologist for SATRA in Kettering,Northants. SATRA is a non-profit distributing company that tests consumerproducts.

Robinson, Clifford (G78) is Director of Business Incubation (retired), BostonUniversity, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

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

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Louis Johnson (U98) recently graduated and received his PhD in Music(Composition) from the University of Liverpool.

Faragher, Ramsey (U&G00) is currently a Principal Scientist at the BAESystems Advanced Technology Centre.

Parisi, Joseph (Past By-Fellow, 2000) is a writer, editor and lecturer. Formerlong-time editor of POETRY Magazine (Chicago). Author of eight books.

Adeyemi, Ayo (U&G05) is a painfully idealistic philosopher-athlete, whoseundergraduate life-aim was to be the angel, the knight, the protector whoanswers the prayers of those who feel helpless, alone and forsaken. While atChurchill he attempted to craft his character by making a habit of greetingevery moment in life with calmness, compassion and courage!

Carson, Philip (U05) is currently working on decommissioning projects atnuclear sites in Scotland.

Mojahedi, Mohammad Mahdi (Past By-Fellow, 2011) joined the College in2011 and worked as a senior researcher at CRASSH . Now he is a seniorlecturer at Leiden University.

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New Fellows 2011-12

Dr Phil BOOTH (Title A (Teaching) Fellow)

Phil Booth is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the Faculty of Classics. Hecompleted his undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in Classics at Churchilland at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, before moving to be Junior Research Fellow atTrinity College, Oxford. He teaches the history of Europe and the Middle Eastfrom Greek antiquity to the early middle ages, but has a specialist researchinterest in late antiquity, in particular in the late Roman, late Sasanian and earlyIslamic history of the seventh century. He is the author of a forthcomingmonograph on the Palestinian ascetics John Moschus, Sophronius of Jerusalemand Maximus Confessor, and is at present producing a new translation andcommentary of the Chronicle of John of Nikiou, the major contemporarywitness to the Muslim conquest of Egypt.

Dr Nick CUTLER (Title A (Teaching) Fellow)

Nick Cutler is Admissions Tutor at Churchill College; he is also College Lecturerin Geography at Trinity College. He is a physical geographer specialising inecosystem development, with a special interest in high-latitude regions. Hisresearch focuses on spatial and temporal variation in terrestrial ecosystems.He did his PhD at the University of Edinburgh, investigating long-term (decades-centuries) ecological change on lava flows in Iceland. He subsequently workedon ecological development at smaller spatiotemporal scales, studying thecolonisation of historic building stone by micro-organisms at the University ofOxford. His current research looks at spatial variation in high-latitude soilmicrobial communities, using molecular (DNA) techniques.

Mr Will DAVIES (Junior Research Fellow)

Will Davies was a graduate student and Jowett Senior Scholar at Balliol College,Oxford, where he completed the BPhil (2008) with distinction and is soon tofinish a DPhil in Philosophy. He also spent terms as a visiting student at the

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“She investigated the evolution ofmasquerade, in which prey mimics thevisual appearance of inanimate objectssuch as twigs and leaves.”

Institut Jean Nicod, a centre for philosophy and cognitive science at the ÉcoleNormale Supérieure in Paris, and at MIT. Will works primarily on the Philosophyof Mind and Philosophy of Psychology, with a particular emphasis on perception.His DPhil explores issues relating to colour perception. His postdoctoral workwill be on the nature of property perception.

Dr Leigh DENAULT (Title A (Teaching) Fellow)

Leigh Denault is a historian and researcher at the University of Cambridge. Shecompleted her PhD on the social, cultural and legal history of the family incolonial North India at the University of Cambridge (‘Publicising Family inColonial North India, c. 1780-1930’, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge,2009). Her current research focuses on conceptions of social welfare intwentieth-century India. She teaches world history, the history of the BritishEmpire, the history of the Indian subcontinent from the eighteenth century tothe present day, and population and development history in India. More broadly,Leigh is also interested in how digitization is transforming the practice of history.She is a Research Associate with the Centre for History and Economics at King’sCollege, Cambridge, working on their Digitization of History Project. Alongsidean interest in North Indian languages and print cultures, she has started toexplore some of the issues surrounding the digitization of South Asian historicalsources. Leigh was a Teaching By-Fellow in History from 2010 to 2011.

Dr Luís DUARTE D’ALMEIDA (Junior Research Fellow)

Luís Duarte d’Almeida was educated in Lisbon and at the University of Oxford.His main research areas are jurisprudence and the philosophical foundationsof criminal law, but he is also interested in philosophical aspects ofdiscrimination and in European Union Law. His DPhil thesis developed a proof-based account of defeasible decision-making in both the general field of judicialverdicts and the particular domain of accusations and liability-ascriptions.Though still interested in defences and defeaters, Luís is currently engaged ona research project in general jurisprudence on the several puzzles and problemssurrounding the notion of a (truth-apt) statement of law.

Dr John-Paul GHOBRIAL (Title A (Teaching) Fellow)

John-Paul Ghobrial studied French and International Relations at TuftsUniversity before being awarded a Marshall Scholarship in 2002 for graduate

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Dr Phil Booth Dr Nick Cutler Mr Will Davies

Dr Leigh Denault Dr Luís Duarte D’Almeida Dr John-Paul Ghobrial

Dr Chaoyang Lu Dr Rita Monson Professor David Ron

Dr Hannah Rowland Dr Elodie Salager Dr Nicola Smith

Biology and Medicine at NYU to accept a Principal Research Fellowship of theWellcome Trust and an appointment as the Professor of Cellular Pathophysiologyand Clinical Biochemistry at Cambridge University.

Dr Hannah ROWLAND (Sidney Harvey Junior Research Fellow)

Hannah Rowland obtained her BSc (Hons) Zoology at the University ofLiverpool, and was awarded a PhD, entitled ‘The visual and behavioural ecologyof countershading and other defences’, in November 2007 under thesupervision of Mike Speed (University of Liverpool). Her thesis was awardedtwo prizes: the Thomas Henry Huxley award from the Zoological Society ofLondon (for best Zoology thesis in the UK), and the Royal EntomologicalSociety Wallace award (for best Entomology thesis in the world). She remainedat Liverpool for her first postdoc, where she investigated the role of wild anddomestic bird feeding decisions on the alternative causal mechanisms by whichmimicry of warning signals may have evolved. She recently completed a NERC-funded postdoctoral research associateship at the University of Glasgow, whereshe investigated the evolution of masquerade, in which prey mimics the visualappearance of inanimate objects such as twigs and leaves. Findings from herstudies have been published in Nature, Science, PNAS, Behavioural Ecology andEcology Letters.

Dr Elodie SALAGER (Sackler Junior Research Fellow)

Elodie Salager received her Master of Science from the École NormaleSupérieure de Lyon in France in 2007. She studied for three years at the high-field NMR Centre in Lyon for her PhD, where she developed solid-stateNuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) methods for structure determination ofpowdered pharmaceutical compounds. Since November 2010, she has been apost-doctoral research associate in Professor Grey’s research team in theDepartment of Chemistry in Cambridge. She is working on the developmentof NMR methods towards a better characterisation and understanding of themechanisms responsible for the loss of capacity in Li-ion batteries.

Dr Nicola SMITH (Title A (Teaching) Fellow)

Nicola Smith attended Churchill College as an undergraduate, matriculating in1992. She was awarded a first in her MVST, taking neurophysiology in her thirdyear. She continued to study clinical medicine in Cambridge, qualifying in 1997.

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study in Oxford. At St Antony’s College, he completed an MPhil in MiddleEastern Studies with a focus in cultural anthropology and sociolinguistics. In2004, he started his PhD in the History Department at Princeton University,where an interest in the “history of the book” carried him into the study ofthe early modern period. His dissertation explores informal flows ofinformation in seventeenth-century Constantinople, as well as the circulationof news between Europe and the Ottoman world in the early modernperiod. He is currently working on two main projects: a long-term study of oral,scribal and printed sources of information about the Ottoman world circulatingin early modern Europe, and an account of the adventures of an Arab travellerto South America in the seventeenth century. He was elected to a JuniorResearch Fellowship in 2009.

Dr Chaoyang LU (Tizard Junior Research Fellow)

Chaoyang Lu completed his PhD at Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge. Hiscurrent research focuses on linking single photons and single electron spins insemiconductor quantum dots for performing quantum information tasks.

Dr Rita MONSON (Title A (Teaching) Fellow)

Rita Monson obtained her BA Degree in Mathematics from MIT and completedher PhD in the Department of Biochemistry in Cambridge. Her currentresearch focuses on how bacteria talk and respond to each other using varyingchemical signals during infection. These processes have diverse applications interms of antibacterial drug development and preventative treatment. Rita wasa Teaching By-Fellow 2007-2011.

Professor David RON (Professorial Fellow)

David Ron conducts research on protein metabolism and the cellular adaptationsto protein misfolding at Cambridge University’s Institute of Metabolic Sciences.He received his medical degree from the Technion in Haifa, Israel in 1980. Aftercompleting clinical training in Internal Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital in NewYork City and Endocrinology and Metabolism at the Massachusetts GeneralHospital in Boston, he conducted research on gene expression in adipose tissue.In 1992 he took a faculty position at New York University School of Medicine,establishing a research laboratory at the Skirball Institute of BiomolecularMedicine. In 2009 he resigned his position as the Julius Raynes Professor of Cell

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

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Professor Howard BERG (Overseas Fellow, Lent and Easter Terms 2012)

Howard Berg is a physicist who does biology. He studied chemistry at Caltech andthe Carlsberg laboratory in Copenhagen, preclinical science at the Harvard MedicalSchool, and chemical physics at Harvard, where he received a PhD for work withNorman Ramsey on the atomic hydrogen maser (1964). Following a stint as aHarvard Junior Fellow, he held academic positions at Harvard (1964-1970), theUniversity of Colorado at Boulder (1970-1979), Caltech (1980-1986), and again atHarvard (1986-), where he is Herchel Smith Professor of Physics, Professor ofMolecular and Cellular Biology, and member of the Rowland Institute. He hasstudied methods for separating macromolecules according to mass, the architectureof red cell membranes, and the motile behaviour of bacteria. The latter work beganwith construction of a microscope that tracks bacteria in three dimensions,continued with arguments establishing that bacterial flagella rotate, and now focuseson the signal transduction pathway that links chemo-receptors to flagella and onthe operation of the flagellar rotary motor. He is author of Random Walks in Biology(Princeton, 1993) and E. coli in Motion (Springer, 2004).

Professor Jean-Yves DELENNE (French Government Fellow, Nov 2011 – Aug 2012)

Jean-Yves Delenne was born in 1974 in France. His undergraduate and graduatestudies were pursued at the University of Montpellier, where he is currentlyAssociate Professor. He obtained his Habilitation degree of research management

in 2010. His research work concerns the physics and mechanics of granularmaterials with applications to various fields of science and engineering such assoil mechanics, geology, powder processing and agronomy. He designed severalexperimental innovative set-ups and original numerical algorithms for theinvestigation of the structure and behaviour of granular matter, especially in thepresence of liquids and cohesive interactions. He is co-author of more than 50scientific papers.

Professor Jean-Marc DI MEGLIO (French Government Fellow, 2011-2012)

Jean-Marc Di Meglio is Professor of Physics at the University Paris Diderot. Heearned an engineering degree from the École Supérieure de Physique et deChimie Industrielles de Paris and completed a PhD in 1984. After one year ofpost-doc at the University of Pennsylvania he joined the laboratory of Physicsof Condensed Matter at the Collège de France as a CNRS researcher. Hebecame Professor at the University of Strasbourg in 1994. Following one yearat the Australian National University, he took his present position in 2002 atthe University Paris Diderot where he was the founding director of theMatière et Systèmes Complexes laboratory, one of the largest laboratories inFrance dedicated to soft matter and biological physics. His scientificcontributions concern soft-matter physics: polymers, liquid crystals, vesicles,capillarity, wetting, foams. He has recently focused his research interests onbiophysics, more specifically on bio-locomotion and collective motions ofmicro-organisms. For further information please see www.msc.univ-paris-diderot.fr/~jmd.

Professor Adrián GORELIK (Overseas Fellow, 2011-2012)

Adrián Gorelik was born in Mercedes, Buenos Aires (Argentina) in 1957. He hasdegrees in both Architecture and History. In Argentina, he is Full Researcher ofthe Council of Scientific Researches (CONICET) and a Full Professor of theUniversidad Nacional de Quilmes, where he leads the Centre of IntellectualHistory. He is in Cambridge during the academic year 2011-2012 as Simón BolívarChair Professor, developing a cultural history on Latin American cities. Heobtained the Guggenheim Fellowship in 2003, and he has been Visiting Professorin the Centre of Latin American Studies, University of Cambridge (2002), in theInstituto de Estudios Urbanos, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (2004), in

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Professor Bjarne STROUSTRUP (Overseas Fellow 2012)

Bjarne Stroustrup is a Distinguished Professor and the holder of the College ofEngineering Chair in Computer Science at Texas A&M University. His Mastersdegree in Mathematics with Computer Science is from the University of Aarhus,Denmark, and his PhD in Computer Science is from Cambridge University. He isa member of the US National Academy of Engineering, an IEEE Fellow, and anACM Fellow. He is the designer and original implementer of C++ and the authorof several technical books, including The C++ Programming Language. He is activelyinvolved in the ISO standardisation of C++. His research interests includedistributed systems, design, programming techniques, software development toolsand programming languages. He is an Honorary Professor in the University ofAarhus, recipient of The William Procter Prize for Scientific Achievement fromSigma Xi, was named one of “the twenty most influential people in the computerindustry in the last twenty years” by BYTE magazine, and is a recipient of theACM Grace Murray Hopper award. www.research.att.com/~bs.

Professor Bruce SUTHERLAND (Overseas Fellow, Easter Term 2012)

Bruce Sutherland received a BMath degree in Applied Mathematics from theUniversity of Waterloo and holds MSc and PhD degrees in Physics from theUniversity of Toronto. After working as a Research Associate in the Departmentof Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at the University of Cambridge,he joined the University of Alberta where he presently holds a jointappointment as Professor in the Departments of Physics and of Earth andAtmospheric Sciences. Through laboratory experiments, numerical simulationsand mathematical modelling, he studies fluid motions within the atmosphereand oceans. A focus of this work is on internal gravity waves, which move withinthe atmosphere and ocean, influencing weather and climate, and which can bea hazardous source of turbulence encountered by aircraft and submersibles.He is author of Internal Gravity Waves (Cambridge University Press, 2010), andwas awarded the 2010-2011 Killam Annual Professor and 2012 Gledden VisitingSenior Fellowship.

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the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University (2005) and in the Programade Pós-graduação em Historia de Arquitetura, Escola de Engenharia de SãoCarlos, Universidade de São Paulo (2007). Among other books, he has publishedLa grilla y el parque. Espacio público y cultura urbana en Buenos Aires (Buenos Aires,1998); Das vanguardas a Brasília. Cultura urbana e arquitetura na América Latina (BeloHorizonte, 2005); and Correspondencias. Arquitectura, ciudad, cultura (Buenos Aires,2011). He is a life-member Fellow of Clare Hall.

Professor Andrew MURPHY (Overseas Fellow, Lent and EasterTerms 2012)

Andrew Murphy is Associate Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University,New Brunswick, and Director of the Walt Whitman Center for the Cultureand Politics of Democracy. His research focuses on the interconnectionsbetween religious and political thought and practice, most particularly in theAnglo-American tradition. He is the author of Prodigal Nation: Moral Decline andDivine Punishment from New England to 9/11 (Oxford, 2009) and Conscience andCommunity: Revisiting Toleration and Religious Dissent in Early Modern England andAmerica (Penn State, 2001). He has edited several volumes, including The PoliticalWritings of William Penn (Liberty Fund, 2002) and A Companion to Religion andViolence (Blackwell, 2011).At Churchill, he is completing a book on the politicalthought of William Penn (1644-1718), a central figure in the history of religioustoleration in both England and America.

Professor John SPENCE (Overseas Fellow, Lent Term 2012)

John Spence has a background in condensed matter physics (which he teaches),biophysics and new microscopies. His primary interest is atomic processes insolids, and related imaging, spectroscopic and diffraction methods. He haswritten texts on atomic-resolution electron microscopy, and most recently hasbeen using the LCLS X-ray laser at Stanford for femtosecond ‘snap-shot’ X-raydiffraction of the molecules responsible for photosynthesis, in order to makea molecular movie. John is the recipient of the Buerger award of the ACA, theDistinguished Scientist award of the MSA, a Fellow of the American Associationfor the Advancement of Science and of the Institute of Physics (UK). He holdsa joint appointment at Arizona State University and at Lawrence BerkeleyLaboratory. His interests include gliding, classical piano, flute and sailing. His wifeMargaret was Australian consul in Boston and a journalist, now freelance writer.

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Ndebele, Professor Njabulu, MA, LLD (Hon) English Literature

Gilbert, Sir Martin, CBE, DLitt History

Tsien, Professor Roger, PhD Cell Biology/Neurobiology

Green, Professor Michael, PhD, FRS Mathematics

Holmes, Professor Richard, MA, FBA, FRSL, OBE Biographer

Nurse, Sir Paul, PhD, FRS Microbiology

Benefactor Fellow

Cowan, Mr M J J, MA Alumnus (U70)

Fellows in order of precedence

Broers, Rt Hon Lord Alec, PhD, ScD, FRS, FREng D Microelectronics

Boyd, Sir John, KCMG D Modern Languages

†Hey, Dr R W, MA, PhD D Geology

Livesley, Dr R K, MA D Engineering

Kelly, Prof A, ScD, FRS, FREng, PhD, CBE, DL D Materials Science

Hahn, Professor F H, MA, PhD, FBA D Economics

Howie, Professor A, PhD, CBE, FRS D Physics

Hewish, Professor A, MA, PhD, ScD, FRS D Radio Astronomy

Steiner, Professor G, PhD, FBA D Comparative Literature

Campbell, Dr R C, MA, PhD D Statistics

Brunton, Dr J H, PhD D Engineering

Dixon, Dr W G, MA, PhD D Applied Mathematics

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

Newbery, Professor D M G, MA, PhD, ScD, FBA D President of SCR; Economics

Craig, Professor E J, MA, PhD, FBA D Philosophy

Westwood, Dr B A, MA, PhD D Computing Service

Whittle, Professor P, MA, PhD, FRS D Mathematics

Tristram, Dr A G, MA, PhD D Pure Mathematics

Palmer, Professor A C, MA, PhD, FRS, FREng D Petroleum Engineering

Thompson, Professor J G, MA, FRS D Pure Mathematics

Squire, Dr L C, MA, ScD D Aerodynamics

Hoskin, Dr M A, PhD D Pre-History

Abrahams, Dr R G, MA, PhD D Social Anthropology

Cribb, Mr T J L, MA D English

George, Mr H, MA, CMG, OBE D Bursar 1971-90

Finch, Professor A M, MA, PhD B (SRF) Vice-Master; French

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Who’s Who in Churchill

This is the list of Fellows as it was on 1 October 2011; also included are Fellowsand By-Fellows who joined the College in the course of the academic year2011-12.

Fellowship Categories: Fellows and By-Fellows

Honorary Fellowships: an honorific position bestowed on outstanding figures; Title A:our main teaching Fellows and senior College Officers such as the Senior Tutor andBursar;Title B Junior: Research Fellows, usually immediately post-doctoral; Title B Senior:Research Fellows, usually advanced in their careers; Title C: Fellows who hold aCambridge University Chair (but any such Fellows who opt to continue with a fullteaching stint remain Title A); Title D: Retired Fellows (“Emeritus/Emerita”); Title E,“Extraordinary”: Academics or writers of distinction whom the College wishes toinclude in its number but who may not be resident in Cambridge; Title F: OverseasFellows (staying in Churchill as academic visitors and normally collaborating withChurchill Fellows in the same subject, for periods of time ranging from a term to ayear, by invitation); Title G: “Supernumerary” Fellows (those who do not belong to anyof the above categories but who are performing an indispensable function in theCollege, for example Director of Music-Making).

Teaching By-Fellows: academically highly qualified (post-doctoral status; may be Fellowsof another College) and assisting in specific areas or teaching need; Academic By-Fellows: visiting researchers elected by the Archives Centre or by Fellowship Electors(the Churchill Committee that elects to most non-teaching Fellowships); Professionalor Møller By-Fellows: those who have industrial or other professional links particularlyrelevant to Churchill (maximum number 4); Staff By-Fellows: non-academic staffmembers with senior managerial positions in the College administrative structure.

Master

Wallace, Prof Sir David, CBE, FRS, FREng Theoretical Physics

Honorary Fellows

Soames, The Lady (Mary), DBE

†Møller, Mr Mærsk Mc-Kinney, KBE

Gurdon, Professor Sir John, DPhil, DSc, FRS Developmental and Stem Cell Biology

Robertson, Professor J, MA, PhD C Engineering

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

Barbrook, Dr A C, MA, PhD A Biochemistry

Kinsella, Professor J, MA, PhD E Poet

Yuan, Dr B, PhD A Chinese and Linguistics

Brook, Mrs J M, MA, MBA A Bursar

Kraft, Professor M, MA, Dr. rer. nat. A Chemical Engineering

Sirringhaus, Prof H, PhD, FRS C Physics

Grimmett, Professor G R, MA, ScD, DPhil C Mathematics

DeMarrais, Dr E, PhD A Archaeology

Van Houten, Dr P, MA, PhD A Politics

Tout, Dr C A, MA, PhD A Astronomy

Mathur, Dr N D, MA, PhD A Materials Science

Gopal, Dr P, MA, PhD A English

Webb, Dr A R, PhD A Plant Sciences

Harris, Dr P A, LLM, PhD A Law

Kendall, Miss M, MA A Librarian

Packwood, Mr A G, MPhil, FRHistS A Director, Archives Centre

Thornton, Professor J M, PhD, CBE, FRS E Computational Biology

Hovius, Dr N, PhD A Earth Sciences

Bracewell, Dr R H, MA, PhD A Engineering

Miller, Dr M A, MA, PhD A Chemical Physics

Hicks, Dr C M, MA, PhD A Engineering

Fawcett, Dr J, MA, PhD A Computer Science

Schultz, Professor W, PhD, FRS A Neuroscience

Kingston, Dr I B, PhD A Tutor for Advanced Students; Pathology

Thomas, Ms M F, MA B (SRF) Screen Media and Cultures

Ozanne, Dr S E, PhD A Biochemistry

Englund, Dr H M, MA, PhD A Social Anthropology

Richer, Dr J, MA, PhD A Physics

Caulfield, Dr C P, MASt, PhD A Mathematics

Reid, Dr A, MSc, PhD A Geography

Ducati, Dr C, PhD, RSRF B (SRF) Materials Science

Pedersen, Professor R A L, AB, PhD C Regenerative Medicine

Wassell, Dr I J, PhD A Engineering

Ludlam, Dr J J, MA, PhD A Mathematical Biology

Taylor, Dr A W, MA, PhD A English

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

Gough, Professor D O, MA, PhD, FRS D Astrophysics

Echenique, Professor M, MA, DArch, OBE C Architecture

Warren, Dr S G, MA, PhD D Organic Chemistry

Ryall, Dr R W, MA, PhD D Pharmacology

Fraser, Dr C, MA, PhD D Social Psychology

Gaskell, Dr P H, MA, PhD D Physics

Barnett, Mr C, MA, DSc, CBE, FRSL D Military History

Wood, Mr H B, MA D Music

Milne, Professor W I, MA, FREng C Engineering

King, Dr F H, MA, PhD A Praelector: Computer Science

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

Goldie, Dr M A, MA, PhD A History

Bolton, Professor M D, MA, PhD, FREng C Engineering

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

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

Siddle, Professor K, MA, PhD C Biochemistry

Hurst, Mr H R, MA D Classical Archaeology

Dawes, Professor W N, MA, PhD C Engineering

Green, Dr D A, MA, PhD A Physics/Radio Astronomy

Allen, Mr M J, MA D English Literature; Bursar1990-98

Gregory, Prof Sir Michael, MA, CBE C Manufacturing/Management

Norris, Professor J R, DPhil C Mathematics

Amaratunga, Professor G, PhD, FREng C Engineering

Knowles, Dr K M, MA, PhD A Materials Science

Walters, Dr D E, MA, PhD D Statistical Consultancy

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

Webber, Professor A J, PhD A German

Chatterjee, Professor V K K, MA C Pathology

Laughlin, Professor S B, MA, PhD, FRS C Neurobiology

Jennison, Miss B M, MA, MBE D Physics Education

Crisp, Dr A J, MA, MB, BChir, MD, FRCP D Clinical Medicine

Brendon, Dr P, MA, PhD, FRSL D History

Kramer, Professor M H, PhD, LLD A Law/Philosophy

King, Mrs A N, MA G Linguistics

Soga, Professor K, PhD A Civil Engineering

O’Kane, Dr C J, MA, PhD A Genetics

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Rowland, Dr H M, PhD B (JRF) Zoology

Ron, Prof D, MD C Metabolic Science

Davies, Dr W H, DPhil B (JRF) Philosophy

Duarte d’Almeida, Dr L, LLM B (JRF) Law and Criminology

Salager, Dr E, MSc, PhD B (JRF) Chemistry

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

Cutler, Dr N, MA, PhD A Geography

Lu, Dr C, PhD B (JRF) Physics

Overseas Fellows

Berg, Professor H C, MA, PhD F Physics and BiologyDelenne, Professor J-Y, PhD F EngineeringDi Meglio, Professor J-M, PhD F PhysicsGorelik, Professor A F Latin American StudiesMurphy, Professor A R, MA, PhD F Political ScienceSpence, Professor J C H, PhD F PhysicsStroustrup, Professor B, PhD F Computer ScienceSutherland, Professor B, MSc, PhD F Physics

Teaching By-Fellows

Abdi, Dr E, MPhil, PhD TBF Engineering

Akroyd, Mr J W J, MA, MEng TBF Chemical Engineering

Ali, Dr J, MB, BCHIR TBF Medical and Veterinary Sciences

Benton, Dr A, MSci, MA, PhD TBF Computer Science

Bianchi, Mr A S, MA TBF Spanish

Child, Dr R N, MA, PhD TBF Philosophy and Law

Church, Mr L, BA (Hons) TBF Computer Science

Etherington, Dr B, BMus, MPhil, PhD TBF English

Gagne, Mr C, MPhil TBF French

Hanin, Dr M L, PhD TBF Law

Hendrick, Dr A, PhD TBF Biology of Cells

Hubbard, Dr K E, BA, PhD TBF Biology

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

Skrebowski, Dr L, PhD TBF History of Art

Stott, Dr K, PhD TBF Biochemistry

Tasker, Dr A, MB BChir, MRCP TBF Medical Sciences

Maurice, Ms S D, BA A Development Director

Sunikka-Blank, Dr M M, PhD A Architecture

Boss, Dr S R, PhD A Chemistry

Hines, Professor M M, MA, PhD A Social and Developmental Psychology

Liang, Dr D, PhD A Engineering

Ralph, Professor D, PhD C Operations Research

Kennicutt, Professor R C, MSci, PhD, FRS C Astronomy

Singh, Dr S S, PhD A Engineering

Goldstein, Professor R E, PhD C Mathematics

Wickramasekera, Dr N, PhD A Mathematics

McEniery, Dr C M, PhD A Physiology

Birney, Dr E, PhD B (SRF) Molecular Biology

Spiegelhalter, Professor D J, PhD, OBE, FRS C Winton Professor; Statistics

Partington, Mr R J, MA A Senior Tutor; History

Cavalcanti, Dr T, MA, PhD A Economics

Russell, Dr P, PhD A Mathematics

Treanor, Dr N B, PhD A Philosophy

Phipps, Mr B, MA, MSt, MPhil G Curator

Knight, Mr N V, MSc A Economics

Haustein, Dr K, PhD B (JRF) Medieval and Modern Languages

Frayling, Sir Christopher, MA, PhD E Historian, critic and broadcaster

Bukh, Dr B, PhD B (JRF) Pure Mathematics

Phalan, Dr B T, PhD B (JRF) Zoology

Stevens, Dr M, PhD A Zoology

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

Tosca, Dr N J, MS, PhD B (JRF) Geography, Geology and Geophysics

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

Day, Dr G M, MSc, PhD A Chemistry

Lillehammer, Dr H, MA, MPhil, PhD B (SRF) Philosophy

Wingfield, Dr E, DPhil, MSt B (JRF) English

Linterman, Dr M A, PhD B (JRF) Biological Sciences

Monson, Dr R E, PhD A Dean; Cell Biology

Denault, Dr L T, PhD A History

Booth, Dr P, MPhil, PhD A Classics

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By-Fellows

Andersen, Mr T T, MBA Professional Former Møller Centre Board Member

Bittleston, Dr S, BSc, PhD Professional MD, Schlumberger Cambridge Research

Blurton, Mr T R, BA, MPhil BF Archaeology/British MuseumCorthorn, Dr P S, MA, PhD BF (Archives) Modern British HistoryDefaÿ, Dr E, PhD BF Materials PhysicsEriksson, Dr M, MSc, PhD BF Plant PhysiologyEvans, Prof R L, MA.Sc, PhD BF Mechanical EngineeringFarmelo, Dr G, PhD BF Biographer and HistorianFedorowich, Dr E K, MA, PhD BF (Archives) HistoryHalson, Mrs P, BA (Hons), Assoc CIPD, FRSA Staff Registrar and Human

Resources BursarLongo, Prof S, PhD BF EngineeringMojahedi, Dr M M, MA, PhD BF Political TheoryNolan, Prof K F J, BA, MA BF EnglishNyrönen, Dr T H, PhD BF BioinformaticsOstermark-Johansen, Dr L, MA, PhD BF EnglishParker, Dr G T, PhD, MASc, PhD Sharjah Environmental EngineeringRoss, Professor V, BMusHon, MEd, PhD BF MusicSecrett, Mrs G, BSc (Hons), CDIR Staff Director of the Møller

CentreStuttard, Sir John, MA, DLitt Møller Chartered AccountantSurtees, Mrs S J B Staff Domestic and Conference

BursarWightman, Prof M BF Chemistry

Rawlinson, Rev Dr J Chapel Trustees’ Chaplain to the Chapel atAppointee Churchill College

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

The Churchill College Association

Chair: Mr Nigel Bacon (U74)

Secretary: Mr James Adamcheski-Halson (Alumni RelationsManager)

The Association exists to promote good fellowship among resident and non-resident Members of the College and to encourage non-resident Members tomaintain links with the College and with each other. All Members of the Collegeare automatically members of the Association and there is no membership fee.

For a full list of Committee Members please visit www.churchillians.net orcontact Churchill.Association@chu.cam.ac.uk.

Date of the next AGM: Saturday 28th September 2013 at 6 p.m. in the Bevin Room.

Reunions

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

Future Reunions

July 2013 1999 – 2002July 2014 1960 – 1970

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

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

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

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

Dinner is at 7.30 p.m. Members should gather in the Senior Combination Room(SCR) from 7.15 p.m. Members should introduce themselves and their guest(s)to the presiding Fellow. If invited by a Fellow to join the company after dinner,other drinks taken in the SCR should be signed for by writing your name on the list. All non-resident members will be charged for any drinks taken inthe SCR.

Bookings

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

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

Accommodation

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

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News and Contacts

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

Contact Details

Porters’ Lodge: +44 (0)1223 336000

(Please note that all High Table enquiries must go through the Alumni RelationsOffice and not the Porters’ Lodge.)

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

Conference Office: Conferences@chu.cam.ac.uk +44 (0)1223 336233

Development Director: Development@chu.cam.ac.uk +44 (0)1223 336197

Editor of the Newsletter: Newsletter.Editor@chu.cam.ac.uk

Editor of the Review: Review.Editor@chu.cam.ac.uk

Praelector: +44 (0)1223 331672

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

Senior Tutor and Admissions Tutors: +44 (0)1223 336208

College Fax: +44 (0)1223 336177

Alumni and Past Fellows’ website: www.churchillians.netMain College website: www.chu.cam.ac.uk

Members’ Benefits

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

Dining Privileges

After graduation, Alumni of the College may dine at High Table, joining currentmembers of the Fellowship. They are entitled to up to four dinners per calendar

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

Taking the MA and Other Degrees

Information about Congregations (dress, procedure, etc.) is sent to memberswhen they qualify for their degree. The College holds a lunch for graduands atCollege expense on the day of most congregations, and guests may attend attheir own expense.

Retrospective Award of MMath and MASt Degrees for Part III

Students successfully completing Part III of the Mathematical Tripos in EasterTerm 2011 and subsequent years will now receive a Master of Advanced Studiesdegree if they come from outside Cambridge, or a BA/MMath if theysuccessfully complete four years’ undergraduate study (including Part III) atCambridge. The University has also announced that many students who tookPart III in previous years will be able to receive these degrees retrospectively.

For further details, to check eligibility and to request your place at a Congregation,please visit www.churchillians.net.

Weddings and Christenings

Alumni from all years are especially welcome to hold their wedding or children’schristenings in the Chapel. Enquiries can be made either to the Chaplain, RevDr John Rawlinson, or through the Alumni Relations Office. Fees are payableto defray the costs of weddings in the Chapel, and alumni are entitled to areduced rate.

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at a special rate and then one further room at the same rate per visit. Additionalrooms will then be charged at the commercial rate.

Those who graduated in the previous 12 months and are Scholars (thatis, gained a First Class in their final year) may stay for up to four nights in the year following their graduation (consecutively or spread over a number of visits) at College expense. They may then stay for additional nights at theirown expense.

Past Fellows and Overseas FellowsAs a former Fellow of the College you may stay in College free of charge onfour nights over the academic year (1 October to 30 September), and stay atother times at your own expense (subject to availability). A special rate isavailable to Past Fellows.

Past By-Fellows As a former By-Fellow of the College you may stay in College at your ownexpense throughout the year (subject to availability). A special rate is availableto Past By-Fellows.

BookingsAccommodation should be requested by using the Accommodation RequestForm found at www.churchillians.net. Please note that submitting this form doesnot constitute a booking; you will be contacted directly by the AccommodationOffice to confirm availability. If you do not have internet access, please contactthe Accommodation Office on +44 (0)1223 336164.

Special rates are also available for Churchillians at the Møller Centre; a maximumof five rooms per year can be booked at this rate. Please contact the Møller Centredirectly on +44 (0)1223 465500 or by emailing Moller.Reception@chu.cam.ac.uk.

Email for Life @Churchillians.net

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

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Forthcoming Events 2013

A full list of events can be found on www.churchillians.net. Regular updates areincluded in the Churchill E-bulletin; to subscribe, please complete the form onwww.churchillians.net or email alumni@chu.cam.ac.uk.

March: Commonwealth Event & Dinner; Winston S Churchill 1958 Society Lunch

20 April: 1972 Cambridge: 40th Anniversary Celebration of the Admission of Women at Churchill, Clare, King’s and Lucy Cavendish Colleges

June: Varsity Cricket match at Lords Ground

6 July: Reunion Dinner 1999-2002

20 July: Association Garden Party & Family Day

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

Future Publications

May 2013: Newsletter

December 2013: Review

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

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

The books available include:

Canon Noel Duckworth: An Extraordinary Life by Michael Smyth (U67)

Flying Roast Ducks: Recollections of Sir Hermann Bondi 1983 - 2005by Paula Halson

Graffiti: Artworks and Poems from Churchill College by John Kinsella

New Revised Edition of Corbusier comes to Cambridge: post-wararchitecture and the competition to build Churchill Collegeby Mark Goldie

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

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