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On View in New York, June 8th – September 23rd: Churchill: The Power of Words © EstatE of Yousuf Karsh

Sir Winston Churchill (1874–1965) is considered by many historians to be among the finest orators and writers of the twentieth century. His speeches galvanized Great Britain at its darkest hour during World War II, and his letters to President Franklin D. Roosevelt were instrumental in building support for the war effort from the United States, the country of Churchill’s mother’s birth. Churchill not only made history, he wrote history, and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1953 for his contribution to the written and spoken word. Churchill became an icon of the post-war age, an internationally recognized leader admired throughout the free world.

Churchill: The Power of Words, on view from June 8th through September 23rd at The Morgan Library & Museum, New York City, brings to life the man behind the words through some sixtyfive documents, artifacts, and recordings, ranging from edited typescripts of his speeches to his Nobel Medal and Citation to excerpts from his broadcasts made during the London Blitz. Most of the items in the exhibition are on loan from the Churchill Archives Centre at Churchill College, Cambridge; others are from from Churchill’s house at Chartwell in Kent, which is administered by Britain’s National Trust.

The exhibition is designed with a contemporary audience in mind, and includes a compelling audio-visual space where visitors may listen to Churchill’s major speeches, as well as an interactive timeline with touch screens that explores the context of Churchill’s broadcasts and writings with related images.

The physical and intellectual heart of the exhibition is Churchill’s own voice, as recorded in some of the broadcasts that were received in the United States, and as set out on the page in his own annotated speaking notes. The exhibition highlights a number of the speeches that he made between October 1938, when Hitler began to dismember Czechoslovakia, and December 1941, when Pearl Harbor brought the United States fully into World War II. Churchill’s speech of September 11, 1940, is a dramatic example, and reaches across the years to another, more recent September 11. His response to the Blitz bombing of London, which had begun two days earlier, was to invoke British history in order to send a personal message of defiance to Hitler, stating, “It ranks with the days when the Spanish Armada was approaching the Channel” and, “He [Hitler] hopes by killing large numbers of

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Churchill at the Morgan Library & Museum: “no better venue” “few modern statesmen have approached sir Winston Churchill’s skill with the written and spoken word,” said William M. Griswold, director of the Morgan Library & Museum. “he made his name as a writer, he funded his political career with his pen, and he carefully crafted his words to serve as tools for international diplomacy and as patriotic symbols for a nation at war. this exhibition shows why words matter, and how they can make a difference for the better, and it is therefore particularly appropriate that the Morgan, with its extraordinary literary collections, should host this exhibition.” allen Packwood, director of the Churchill archives Centre, said: “the incredible collections of the Morgan Library & Museum represent the literary, artistic and cultural tradition that informed the writings of Winston Churchill, and the world he fought to preserve. there can be no better venue for this exhibition.” related public programs at the Morgan Library & Museum will take place throughout the course of the exhibition, including gallery tours, films, and talks about Winston Churchill. Check the websites of the Morgan (www.themorgan.org) and Cambridge in america (www.cantab.org) for event schedules, ticketing procedures, and other details. the Morgan Library & Museum is located at 225 Madison avenue, at East 36th street, New York, NY, just a short walk from Grand Central and Penn station. telephone (212) 6850008; website www.themorgan.org hours: tuesday–thursday, 10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.; extended friday hours, 10:30 a.m. to 9 p.m.; saturday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.; sunday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.; closed Mondays.

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civilians, and women and children, that he will terrorize and cow the people of this mighty Imperial city, and make them a burden and anxiety to the Government, and thus distract our attention unduly from the ferocious onslaught he is preparing. Little does he know the spirit of the British Nation.”

The documents on view provide a unique insight into the development of these great speeches, from the first heavily annotated typescripts to the final speaking notes, set out in a blank verse format that enabled Churchill to achieve the memorable rhythm, emphasis, and phrasing of his speeches and broadcasts.

Churchill’s typed speeches served as a prompt-copy for his performance, and in these documents one can see vividly his mind at work.

The exhibition features some of Churchill’s early letters and writings. In 1897 he managed to get himself attached to the Malakand Field Force against the Pathan [Pashtun] people in what is now Afghanistan. One of the few handwritten pages that survive from Churchill’s draft of his first book, The Malakand Field Force, is on view. Written one hundred and fifteen years ago, published in 1898, his remarks about the challenges of fighting in the hills of Afghanistan resonate to this day.

By opening up the Churchill as a young officer, c1895 Churchill dispatch box to see items written by other figures, we gain insights into the personalities behind the politics. Roosevelt’s telegram to Churchill on D-Day, or King George VI’s handwritten message to Churchill about Roosevelt’s death, serve to remind us that these were real people wrestling with enormous, unprecedented challenges.

Half American by birth—his mother, Jennie Jerome, who became Lady Randolph Churchill, was born in Brooklyn, New York – Churchill became an Honorary United States Citizen just before his death. He was a lifelong observer of American affairs, and New York was both the first (1895) and last (1961) American city he visited.

While New York was often a place to relax, there were incidents. In December 1931 he made the very British mistake of looking the wrong way while crossing Fifth Avenue and was hit by an automobile. The collision occurred at Fifth Avenue and 76th Street, at a time when traffic was still two-way on Fifth. For Churchill the accident meant a hospital stay, a lecture tour postponed, and a long recovery. Yet he turned it to his advantage, writing some newspaper articles on what it was like to be run down, and securing a doctor’s prescription, on view in the exhibition, for alcohol – for medicinal purposes – at the height of prohibition!

the Morgan Library & Museum, New York City

Letter from Dr. otto Pickhardt approving Churchill’s use of alcohol, January 26, 1932 heavily annotated typescript for broadcast by Churchill, september 11, 1940

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speech notes for Christmas broadcast from the White house, December 25, 1941

annotated notes for speech at the ritz Carlton hotel, New York,March 1949

The Churchill Archives Centre the archives Centre is located in the grounds of Churchill College in the university of Cambridge, and has come to occupy a unique place in the British national archival framework. it was built to house the papers of sir Winston Churchill, but was always envisaged by its founders as something more; initially as a resource for the Churchill era, then as a centre for personal archives of the recent past. it collects the papers of those who have played a prominent role in British public life in the fields most closely associated with the life and career of sir Winston Churchill, namely politics, grand strategy, diplomacy, public policy, and, because Churchill College was founded by sir Winston to train future generations of technologists, scientists and engineers. it serves as an archive for Churchill College, but its mission has always been to collect on a truly national basis. the archives Centre houses the private papers of British Prime Ministers, including Winston Churchill and Margaret thatcher, and is perhaps the closest thing in the united Kingdom to an american Presidential Library, but it also collects across the political spectrum and holds the papers of the advisers and public servants who have helped formulate, shape and implement policy. – from Cosmos Out of Chaos: Introducing the Churchill Archives Centre (Churchill College, Cambridge, 2009), pages 4-5. for more on the Churchill archives Centre, go to www.chu.cam.ac.uk/archives/ Cambridge in America Newsletter

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College News Christ’s CoLLEGE www.christs.cam.ac.uk On October 31, 2011 we were joined for a very special occasion at the National Portrait Gallery in London by well-known historian Professor Simon Schama CBE (m. Christ’s 1963, University Professor of History at Columbia University) and Professor Sir David Cannadine (Honorary Fellow and Professor of History at Princeton University). They were joining other alumni and guests for a fundraising gala dinner in honor of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Sir John Plumb. Professor Schama gave a very enjoyable after-dinner speech about his memories of the well-known former Master as well as his thoughts on history today. The event (in combination with the Plumb Symposium dinner in July last year) raised over £80,000 to fund the teaching and research of history at Christ’s College, and our new J.H. Plumb Fellow, Dr. Stephen Thompson, is now in post.

On the topic of fundraising, many of our American and Canadian alumni will have heard from us recently regarding the Alfred Harrison (m. 1958) gift-matching proposal. Alfred, who studied Economics at Christ’s and is based in Minnesota, very generously offered to match on a one-for-one basis gifts of any size, up to a maximum total of £500,000, in the hope of encouraging other Christ’s alumni in the US to support the College. We have been absolutely delighted by the response to this scheme, which has so far raised more than £225,000 to support future generations of students at Christ’s. We are tremendously grateful for the kind support of everyone who has joined in this important initiative.

There are a number of opportunities to return to College this summer. We are running a range of events from May through to September, including the annual May Bumps Picnic, the Reunion Garden Party and Buffet Lunch (this summer for alumni who matriculated from 1980 to 1984), the Association Dinner and the Family Day Garden Party. For further information or to book a place at any of these events, please contact the Alumni Officer: alumni @christs. cam.ac.uk.

As mentioned in the last CAM Newsletter, the College Choir will be visiting the West Coast of Canada and Northwest USA between the 3rd and 21st of July. They will be spending the first few days on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, and on the mainland in Vancouver, before heading to Washington State to Bellingham, Anacortes, Seattle, Tacoma and Olympia, then south to Portland, Oregon. Alumni living in the USA will be sent further details about the Choir’s plans and how to book tickets over the coming months.

As always, please do drop by if you are in Cambridge (Development Office V2a, Third Court) or keep up-to-date with all the latest from Christ’s by liking us on Facebook at www.facebook. com/christscollegecambridge or following us on Twitter at http:// twitter.com/#!/christs_college

ChurChiLL CoLLEGE www.churchillians.net The President of the World Bank, Robert B. Zoellick, delivered the biennial Roskill Lecture, one of the most prestigious events on the University calendar, at Churchill College on February 22nd. Mr. Zoellick’s lecture was titled “Modernizing Multilateralism: Learning from Military History.” He said: “As the international economy struggles to recover from the greatest blows since the 1930s, developing countries are compensating for the 4

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stumbling industrialized world. Over the past five years, developing countries have provided two-thirds of global growth. As the world moves toward multiple poles of growth, multilateral institutions will need to play a role in connecting developed and developing countries to work cooperatively. The solution is not to abandon multilateral institutions, with all their imperfections. The duty of leadership is to ‘modernize multilateralism’ for vastly different circumstances.” A full report on this event will appear in the next issue of the Churchill Review; meanwhile, you can read the transcript at the College website, www.chu.cam.ac.uk/archives/blog/?p=220, by clicking on “World Bank.”

The College has two Olympic hopefuls for London 2012: Stacie Powell (PhD, Natural Sciences), in women’s platform diving, and Alex O’Connell (U06, Classics), in men’s sabre. Watch for them in the competition this summer.

The Reunion Dinner for those who joined the College between 1971 and 1975 will take place on Saturday July 7th. To book your place and to find out more, please visit www.churchillians.net.

There will be a service of Choral Evensong in the Chapel on Sunday May 13th to celebrate the life of Dr. Richard Hey, Founding Fellow of the College, who died on November 14, 2011, aged 94 years. If you would like to attend, please email alumni@chu.cam. ac.uk for further information.

From Thursday June 14th to Sunday June 17th, an exhibition of prints by John Piper will take place in the Chapel in association with Goldmark Art. The exhibition will mark the 20th anniversary of Piper’s death and feature the stained glass windows he designed for the Chapel.

Thursday evening will open the exhibition with a lecture by Professor Frances Spalding followed by a drinks reception. All prints on display will be for sale. For more information please contact alumni @chu.cam.ac.uk.

A memorial service took place to commemorate the life of Sir William Hawthorne (1913-2011), our second Master (19681983), on March 24th at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, where he spent much of his career when not at Cambridge, UK. Further details of this event, and the corresponding memorial event at Great St. Mary’s Church and in College on February 24th, will follow in the next issue of the Churchill Review which will be sent to you in December.

CLarE CoLLEGE www.clarealumni.com The Master, Professor Tony Badger, was due to host various alumni events in Boston and NYC this spring but, unfortunately, broke his leg very badly while on sabbatical. He was to have chaired the Cambridge in America Day session on Sir Winston Churchill in New York and given various lectures in Boston.

The College proceeded, however, with a book launch and talk by Dr. Andrew Preston (History Fellow), author of Sword of the Spirit, Shield of Faith: Religion in American War and Diplomacy (Knopf), at Boston University on March 21st as well as a dinner for Clare alumni at the St. Botolph Club in Boston, kindly arranged by Ron Sampson (1963). The Deputy Development Director, Rowan Kitt, met up with numerous alumni in Boston and New York during a week-long visit.

The College was saddened to learn in November 2011 of the death, at age 96, of Professor Norman Foster Ramsey (1935, Honorary Fellow) who was awarded one half of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1989. He had worked on the Manhattan Project during the Second

World War, and taught for nearly four decades at Harvard; his research led, among other things, to the development of the atomic clock used as the international time standard.

The inaugural J. D. Watson Scholar from Clare participated in last summer’s Undergraduate Study Program at the J. D. Watson School of Biological Sciences, Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, NY. Anne Turberfield (Natural Sciences 2009) was selected for this scheme set up generously by James Watson (1951, Honorary Fellow).

Out of 105 graduate students at Clare this academic year, 20 are from America.

The Chapel Choir has a new website (www.clarecollegechoir. com) which, among other things, facilitates the buying of Clare music online.

One of the current choir members, Gabrielle Haigh, hails from Cleveland, Ohio, and composed her first symphony at age 16. She is the first Ruth Sladden Choral Scholar at Clare. In October, former Director of Music Tim Brown conducted a concert in Cleveland entitled “The Glory of English Choral Music,” which the Plain Dealer called “something in the order of bliss.”

Visits to the US by the Master and the new Development Director, Fran Malarée, are in the pipeline for later in the year. For full details, and up-to-the-minute information on all Clare College news and events, please visit the alumni website, download our iPhone app at www.clarealumni.com/iphone, or look out for our monthly enewsletter (sent to all alumni for whom we have a valid email address).

If your travel plans this summer include the UK, we hope you will take time to visit the College – you will be most welcome. Please do pop into the Development Office in E5, Old Court.

Life Members on March 26th. It was a truly splendid and memorable occasion!

If you would like to attend any of our events taking place in America or in Cambridge during the University’s Alumni Weekend, September 21st–23rd, please contact us by e-mail at: alumni@clarehall. cam.ac.uk All of the activities described above enable our students and Visiting Fellows to benefit from an academically, culturally and socially enriching time which would not be possible without the on-going support from our Life Members, particularly those living in America.

Once again, we would like to extend a “Thank You” to all of you who continue to make the Clare Hall experience come alive.

Clare Hall is sad to announce the departure of Development Director Nami Morris, and is currently looking to fill the post. On April 30th Nami will take up the post of Deputy Development Director at Pembroke College. She writes: “Like so many, I have become fond of Clare Hall and shall miss it greatly. I have enjoyed the daily contact with students and Visiting Fellows who make Clare Hall what it is: unique and special. I regard it as a privilege and honor to have met and worked with so many American Life Members. I should like to thank everyone particularly those who have been instrumental in helping to build the development operations of Clare Hall. You have been a great source of inspiration throughout the years. “

CLarE haLL www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk At the start of the 2011-12 academic year, Clare Hall welcomed two new Gates Scholars, raising the total number of Gates Scholars to five. Michaelmas was marked by our 33rd Tanner Lecture which took place on November 8th. Professor Ernst Fehr of the University of Zurich spoke on “The Psychology and Economics of Authority,” discussing the value and motivational consequences of authority. The 2011 Tanner Lecture 2011 can be viewed online by clicking on www.sms.cam.ac.uk/media/1192951 Our next Ashby Lecturer is John F. Burns, London Bureau Chief for The New York Times, who talks about the ethics of journalism on May 9th.

Music and art continue to thrive at Clare Hall. The “Intimate Engagements” chamber music series entered its fifth season and we are looking forward to welcoming the Ludwig String Trio and David Dolan (piano) on May 12th. They will present “The Performer as Co-Creator in the First Viennese School,” performing music by Beethoven, Schubert and Mozart. The current College art exhibition, “Swimmers,” features works by internationally renowned artist Quentin Blake, who illustrated many children’s books by Roald Dahl.

Clare Hall Fellows continue to be enormously supportive by offering to give talks and host events abroad. March was filled with a range of international activities: Professor Hasok Chang and Dr. Jennifer Rampling met with Life Members in Athens, while Professor Dame Gillian Beer gave a talk entitled “Interdisciplinary Stories” at the University of Helsinki, a university that the College has an ongoing relationship with. Also in March, the President, Sir Martin Harris, and Development Director, Nami Morris, attended the annual Cambridge in America Day in New York and were delighted to find that Clare Hall had the highest number of participants. Our warmest thanks go to Professor Donald King (1976) for enabling this trip to take place. And very special thanks to Honorary Fellow, President of Columbia University, Lee Bollinger (1984) for hosting a reception at Columbia for

Clare hall Life Members and friends at Columbia university, March 2012

CorPus Christi CoLLEGE www.corpus.cam.ac.uk In the Michaelmas edition we mentioned that Professor Ivan Bodis-Wollner had very generously offered to hold a US Pelicans reception at his home in Brooklyn Heights, New York City. Ivan and his wife Olie hosted the event for a group of Old Members on Saturday December 3rd. Our Corpuscles thoroughly enjoyed the evening, which was characterized by excellent food and wine and of course great company. Francesca Watson, Development Officer, was delighted to be able to attend and thoroughly enjoyed meeting some of our US alumni. We would like to thank Ivan and Olie for their warm generosity in hosting such a memorable occasion.

We hope that there will be another gathering of our US Pelicans very soon. If you have any suggestions for a venue or indeed if you would like to follow Professor Bodis-Wollner in hosting a gathering, please do get in touch.

We would also like to arrange regional events for alums and would be very grateful for suggestions and offers of hospitality from Old Members to facilitate that. The Development Office will of course manage the invitations and responses. Please contact Fran on fw280@cam.ac.uk if you can help.

Here in Cambridge the work on the new building at Leckhampton is making excellent progress and the accommodation will be ready for the first occupants by the start of the Michaelmas term this year. There is still time to get your name recorded in the Benefactors’ Book if you Cambridge in America Newsletter

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make a gift of £250 or more. Details of the opening of the building will be posted on the website.

As we write this we are saddened to report the death of Professor Ray Page, distinguished professor of Old Norse and Anglo-Saxon, former Fellow Librarian, and much-loved Fellow of this College.

Born in 1924, Professor Page was an undergraduate at the University of Nottingham, and came to Cambridge in the 1960s. He became Fellow and Librarian of Corpus Christi College, and was for many years Lecturer and then Reader in Old Norse language and literature in the University’s Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic.

From 1984 until his retirement in 1991 he was Elrington and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon. He will be fondly remembered by many for his teaching of Old Norse and of Scandinavian history in the Viking Age, and as the Librarian of Corpus. His funeral took place in the chapel of Corpus Christi College on Thursday March 22nd.

DarWiN CoLLEGE www.dar.cam.ac.uk By now you may have heard that we will have a new Master from October 1st this year.

Professor Mary Fowler, currently Dean of Science at Royal Holloway, University of London, will be the College’s sixth Master and first female Head of House.

The Fowler family is academically very distinguished: Professor Fowler’s great-grandfather, Ernest Rutherford (1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson, 18711937), described the internal structure of atoms for the first time just over a century ago and received the 1908 Nobel Prize for Chemistry. Her grandfather, R. H. Fowler (Sir Ralph Howard Fowler, OBE, FRS, 1889-1944; Trinity 1908), an internationally pre-eminent figure in mathematical physics in and between the new Master, Professor Mary fowler the two World Wars, was Plummer Professor of Mathematical Physics, received the Royal Society’s Royal Medal, and collaborated closely with Charles (George) Darwin (the Charles Darwin’s grandson), who owned and lived at Newnham Grange, now the centerpiece of the main College.

However, if Professor Fowler’s name sounds really familiar, it is probably because she is herself an Old Darwinian, matriculating here in 1972 to study for a PhD in Geophysics ... and her husband and a daughter are Old Darwinians too! Professor Euan Nisbet studied for a Geology PhD from 1970; Dr. Ruth Nisbet matriculated in 2000 for a PhD in Biochemistry, and was later a Junior Research Fellow at the College.

Once settled in, Professor Fowler’s first major commitment will be to lead our 50th Anniversary celebrations in 2014-15. We hope that you, our past students, will want to be closely involved in the anniversary, but not just at commemorative events. We want to hear your personal stories and reminiscences, especially where you also have pictures of your time here. They could even make it into the commemorative Anniversary Book we are having published, but will certainly be kept in the archives for future Darwinians to see and enjoy. Even if you cannot contribute in this way, we certainly hope that you will want to subscribe for a copy of the book; the subscription leaflet was included in the most recent Darwinian newsletter.

One of our new Research Associates, Kai Ruggeri (alumnus of North Central College, Illinois, 2006), originally from Missouri, has really thrown himself into the UK lifestyle. In the USA he played American football – but that not being a game played much in the UK, 6

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he transferred his skills to the very British game of rugby, and so successfully that he was selected to represent the University and Darwin against the “Other Place” in November’s Colleges XV Varsity Match, which Cambridge won 18–3 ... well done, Cambridge and Kai! It is always a pleasure to speak to you and to read emails and letters, so do keep in touch; the contact point is alumni.office@dar.cam.ac.uk.

DoWNiNG CoLLEGE www.downingcambridge.com As this issue goes to print, the Master, Professor Barry Everitt, the President, Mr. Richard Stibbs, and Development Director, Ms. Gabrielle Bennett. will be visiting the University of Virginia, where Downing has operated a successful Fellows exchange program for over thirty years. Ellie and Richard Wilson will kindly be hosting a cheese and wine reception for all past and present Thomas Jefferson Visiting Fellows (the “Virginia Fellows” as they are affectionately known). Reports on this and the New York Dinner will follow in the next issue.

The College is delighted to announce the Judy C. Petty Book Prize and Scholarship in Music and Theatre. As a member of the Executive Committee of The League of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association and Friend of Downing College for many years, Judy Petty’s devotion to music and theater is well known in artistic circles.

The Judy C. Petty Award was established by American alumnus Gary Blankenship (PG Architecture 1968) in Judy’s honor to support music and theater at Downing.

This is the fourth prize founded

by Gary to recognize academic excellence at Downing. Each year, students achieving first class results within their subjects are eligible for the respective Blankenship Awards.

In years when there are no eligible candidates in a particular subject, the funds can be used to provide travel grants, vacation study, course materials, textbooks and hardship relief. The Blankenship Awards truly celebrate achievement and Gary Blankenship, Judy Petty and Barry Everitt at the Chicago Boat open up fresh opportunities for race Dinner, april 2011 Downing students.

At the time of writing, this year’s telephone campaign is about to get underway in College. To date, we are nearly half way towards our goal of achieving £20m for the College’s Catalysis Campaign by 2015, with £8.57 raised already. This is good news for the College, as is the record number of applications (821 for approximately 120 undergraduate places) in the latest admissions round.

Once again we are happy to report success in this year’s Lent Bumps for Downing College Boat Club: W1 rowed over to hold the Lents Headship for the second year running; M1 rowed over every day in 2nd place behind Caius; M2 bumped every day and achieved blades; W2 bumped up two places; M3 bumped up three places.

Congratulations to all involved!

EMMaNuEL CoLLEGE www.emma.cam.ac.uk The College is delighted to announce the election of Dame Fiona Reynolds DBE, MA, MPhil, currently Director-General of the National Trust, as Master in succession to Lord Wilson of Dinton, who retires on September 30, 2012. Dame

Fiona will take up the Mastership on October 1, 2012 but will be granted leave of absence for 2012-13. The Vice-Master, Dr. Richard Barnes, will act as Master during that time, and Lord Wilson of Dinton will assist him, especially regarding the College’s relations with its Members and supporters.

The Master, Lady Wilson and the Development Director are planning a trip to the USA in early September and will be giving receptions for Members in Boston (September 6th), Los Angeles (September 8th ) and San Francisco (September 10th). Details will be circulated shortly.

The Emmanuel Society is planning meetings in Boston, New York, Washington, Chicago, San Francisco and Los Angeles. If you would like to attend, or can help, please contact the Emmanuel Society Office (emmanuel-society@emma.cam.ac.uk). To receive early notice of these meetings, please ensure the Office has your email address; this will also enable you to receive the College’s email newsletter, which is also available at www.emma.cam.ac.uk/ collegelife/newsletter. See also the Emmanuel in America group on Facebook, and follow us on http://twitter.com/EmmaCambridge.

The annual Gomes Lecture and dinner, which celebrates the College’s close connections with the USA and Harvard and honors Peter Gomes (Honorary Fellow and Minister at the Memorial Church in Harvard) was held in College in February. We were privileged to have as the speaker Lord Rees of Ludlow, Master of Trinity College, who spoke on “Science, Politics and the People.” The text will be published in the next issue of the College magazine. The donors, Cynthia and Kenneth Rossano, attended, together with their daughter Penelope.

The College has recently selected four final-year students or recent graduates from a very competitive field to go to Harvard in 2012–13 on Herchel Smith Scholarships. We have welcomed to Emmanuel many similar scholars from Harvard and Williams College (Massachusetts), and this year’s Lionel de Jersey Harvard scholar is currently planning the annual Harvard dinner.

Many Members in the US have generously contributed to the College’s New World Fund. Some were contacted as part of the telephone campaign in January and the students who made the calls very much enjoyed their conversations. Thank you for giving them your time and for your very welcome and encouraging support of Emmanuel.

The Emmanuel Society will be holding a garden party on Saturday July 14, 2012 to mark Lord Wilson’s retirement as Master so do come to it if you can visit the UK then. In any case, please let us know when you are next in the Cambridge area as it would be good to see you in College; a little warning to the Development Office (+44-1223330476; fax +44-1223-762793; e-mail development-office@emma. cam.ac.uk) is always helpful.

fitZWiLLiaM CoLLEGE www.fitz.cam.ac.uk A quick look in our records tells us that some 600 members of Fitzwilliam are living in the US; nearly half of you were graduate students, 44 are former Visiting Fellows, Visiting Scholars or Research Fellows, and 100 are now professors. Some of you might be surprised to hear that there are now 335 graduate students in College (working alongside 472 undergraduates). Recognizing the change in demo139 huntingdon road graphic, the College has

recently refurbished a charming former hotel at 139 Huntingdon Road to provide superior graduate accommodation – the photo shows you why it’s proving so popular.

US–based members in the news include Professor Bryan Turner (Fellow 2002-2005), Presidential Professor of Sociology at the City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center and Director of the Committee on Religion, whose book Religion and Modern Society: Citizenship, Secularization and the State was published in March 2011. The Rev. Dr. Maggi Dawn (Theology and Religious Studies 1993) was appointed Associate Dean for Marquand Chapel and Associate Professor of Theology and Literature at Yale Divinity School in October 2011. A Distinguished Lecture in Archaeology at Boston University has been endowed by the Raymond and Beverly Sackler Foundation in honor of Professor Norman Hammond (Research Fellow 1973-1975) for his work on Mayan civilization. The inaugural lecture was given on February 29, 2012 by Professor Mary Miller, the Dean of Yale College.

While the Master was in Seattle in December 2011 he was delighted to meet up with Vancouver, BC-based alumnus Paul Heller (Engineering 1930) to celebrate his 100th birthday. Paul was born in Warsaw in 1911 and escaped from Poland during the Second World War. He later set up a successful sawmill business in Vancouver with his brother, Samuel, who had been a student at St. Catharine’s College, Cambridge. Paul and his wife established the Edwina & Paul Heller Holocaust Education Fund in Vancouver. The Master returns to the US in November 2012 and will be in Seattle in December.

Good news on the 150th Anniversary Campaign, which has made a further leap with the recent completion of the £2m gift from Ken Olisa (NatSci, SPS, Engineering1971) to fund the Library & IT Centre.

Looking ahead, the College will be celebrating 50 years on the present site on July 5, 2013, in the presence of the Vice-Chancellor and the University’s new Chancellor (and Fitzwilliam’s Visitor) Lord Sainsbury of Turville. We are encouraging as many alumni from 1963 as possible to attend. We know six of you live in the US and we hope you’ll put the date in your diary!

GirtoN CoLLEGE www.girton.cam.ac.uk With the University 800th as well as Girton’s 140th anniversary campaigns coming to successful conclusions, Girton looks to its impending 150th Anniversary in 2019. Three major challenges are apparent: the College’s running costs exceeding its income (after depreciation of assets is factored in), the uncertainty of public funding for UK higher education, and the College’s own ambitious plans – particularly to increase funds available for teaching, and to rationalize the College’s estate.

We thank all of our donors for their support in completing the 21st Century Campaign, which has achieved its target of £15 million.

The College is embarking on a new phase of its development from 2012: aiming to secure the financial future of the College by building our endowment further, and rationalizing Girton’s large estate. To this end, in March 2012, we launched A Great Campaign in London, and we will be rolling this out world-wide over the course of 2012 with visits to the Far East in April, and the USA in the autumn. We will be in touch in due course with further details!

At the end of 2011, Fran Malarée, who had been Development Director at Girton for over a decade, moved to Clare College to head up their development operation. Girton is very sorry to see Fran leave, but is also pleased to announce that Elizabeth Wade will be taking up the role of Development Director from May 1st. Elizabeth is an alumna of Girton (1976), and is a former Group Director of Communications and Investor Relations at Barclays PLC. Cambridge in America Newsletter

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Finally do remember that if you happen to visit the UK, please do call into Girton if you can. You are always welcome to wander round the grounds, and if you let the Development Office know in advance we can usually provide tea/coffee, or perhaps even lunch.

GoNviLLE & Caius CoLLEGE www.cai.cam.ac.uk In January it was announced that the Fellowship had agreed that it will pre-elect Professor Sir Alan Fersht (Caius 1962) to be the next Master of Caius from October 1, 2012. Sir Alan will succeed Sir Christopher Hum and become Master almost fifty years to the day after his matriculation into the College.

Sir Alan attended the Sir George Monoux Grammar School in Walthamstow, London, before coming up to Caius in 1962 to read Natural Sciences. He completed his PhD in 1968. He was the Wolfson Research Professor of the Royal Society and then Professor of Biological Chemistry at Imperial College, before returning to a Professorial Fellowship at Caius following his Next Master of Caius, sir alan fersht appointment as the Herchel Smith Professor of Organic Chemistry at Cambridge in 1988. In 2010 he retired from the post of Director of the Medical Research Council Centre for Protein Engineering, but continues to lead his Research Group there. He is a pioneer in the field of protein engineering. Using methods and ideas of molecular biology, biophysics and chemistry his current research program is looking at the folding, stability and activity of proteins and the role of protein misfolding and instability in cancer and disease.

On the 23rd of February the College held a small commemoration for the life of Caian Edward Wilson, who perished with Captain Robert Falcon Scott in March 1912 on their way back from the South Pole. After Hall, at which a toast was drunk to his memory, students and Fellows gathered to hear Isobel Williams, Wilson’s biographer, give a talk about his life and work, and to view an exhibition of material relating to him from the College Archives.

In October, at the very start of his tenure, the new Master will travel to the United States to meet Caians, parents and Friends of the College. He will be accompanied by the Director of Development, Dr. Anne Lyon, and the Deputy Director of Development, James Howell.

There will be receptions in New York on Tuesday October 30th and in Los Angeles on November 1st or 2nd, with further details to follow closer to the time.

We are always delighted to welcome our US alumni back to their College and hope to see many of you here during the coming year. For further information, please contact the Development Office (+44 1223 339676 or development@cai.cam.ac.uk).

hoMErtoN CoLLEGE www.homerton.cam.ac.uk It is now just two years since Homerton received its Royal Charter in March 2010, but already we are feeling like an “old” college! We celebrated our second anniversary with a modest “Charter” dinner and the company of great and good from University and further afield; our Honorary Fellows, including Carol Anne Duffy, Poet Laureate, were in attendance. Some of our guests had not seen Homerton for ten or more years and were astounded by the changes they witnessed. Homerton is indeed a very different place from the Homerton of ten or twenty years ago; it is not 8

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just the flush of new buildings, it is the change in range of subjects taught, our graduate community, our Fellows: all have helped to create a new ambiance of learning.

Last year for the very first time we took slightly more men than women in undergraduate admissions; gone is the perception of Homerton as a “women’s” college. In 2010-11 we had eight University Blues and half-Blues, six of them men. Another Homerton phenomenon is “Harry Potter” night. Complete with fancy dress and live owls flying around the Hall, it proved so popular in this, its second year, tickets sold out in a matter of minutes; a second formal hall was then hastily arranged which also sold out within the hour. It looks like a tradition that is going to run and run, at least until we have seen the last of the “Harry Potter Generation.”

Like other colleges we are now actively fund-raising through our alumni; this year will see our second telephone campaign. Last year the Charter Campaign raised pledges in excess of £110,000, of which our first telephone campaign contributed £60,000. This year our American alumni are included, and you will have received a letter asking if you wish to be contacted by one of our current students. We try to do things very politely here in the UK, so you have the opportunity to decline, but we hope very much that you will enjoy talking to them, hearing what they have to say, and sharing your experiences with them. We would like to exceed last year’s pledge figure so we are relying on you!

huGhEs haLL www.hughes.cam.ac.uk/development In Michaelmas term we celebrated the launch of our new College history, Hughes Hall Cambridge 1885-2010, by Professor Ged Martin, newly appointed Honorary Fellow. An affectionate and engaging narrative of Hughes Hall’s remarkable story, the book is available for international delivery from www.hughes.cam. ac.uk/ book Our second winter Phone Campaign raised over £40,000 for top College priorities.

Donations to the College have a momentous impact, transforming the lives of our most able and deserving students, and we are extremely grateful to all of our alumni who have contributed.

Over in America Hughes Hall Fellow Mark Turin and alumna Amanda Patrick (1990, PGCE) organized an alumni gathering in President sarah squire and honorary New Haven. Dr. Turin is an fellow and author Professor Ged anthropologist and linguist, Martin at book launch, December 2011 teaching at both Cambridge and Yale, and Amanda is Director of Communications at Yale University Library. Amanda reports, “The conversation was fun, engaging, interesting and lively. There was enormous goodwill about Hughes Hall. All of us who had been there had immensely enjoyed our experiences and there were many stories shared.”

Michigan alumni enjoyed Sunday brunch at the Gandy Dancer restaurant in downtown Ann Arbor in January. Local alumna Sarah Mills (2004, MPhil Engineering) along with Michael Kolleth (Robinson) and Lesley Ann Everett (Homerton) organized the event with help from Cambridge in America and they were delighted at the turnout and the interest in future Cambridge gatherings.

In February, 25 Cambridge alumni and guests joined Cambridge in America for a Food for Thought lunch in New York City with

alumna and Gates Scholar Wendi Adelson (2002, MPhil International Relations). Wendi, a Clinical Professor of Law at Florida State University, discussed her work with victims of human trafficking and her recent book This is Our Story. (For more, see page 19).

Professor Michael Barrett, Fellow and Professor of Information Systems & Innovation Studies at Cambridge Judge Business School, gave a Business Briefing in Boston on March 21st. Professor Barrett discussed “Open Innovation for Services: Challenges and Opportunities,” providing an engaging presentation.

The President’s spring visit to the USA this year was to the West Coast – the first such visit for Hughes Hall. Sarah Squire was in Los Angeles and San Francisco in March with a brief visit to New York in April. She enjoyed meeting with many Hughesians while there.

The dramatic 158th Boat Race took place on April 7th and we were delighted to have three Hughesians row in the winning Blue Boat, including Niles Garratt from the Univ. of Washington (BA History), Dave Nelson (President of Cambridge University Boat Club, BA Economics), and Princeton’s Jack Lindeman (BA Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic).

We are always pleased to hear from our alumni; for any enquiries or to update your details please contact the Alumni Relations Office: alumni@hughes.cam.ac.uk. We can also be found on Facebook (www.facebook.com/hugheshallcambridge) and Twitter (www. twitter.com/Hughes_Hall) for all the latest updates.

JEsus CoLLEGE www.jesus.cam.ac.uk Work on Chapel Court is now more than half done and will reopen in time for the new academic year 2012-13.

The overhaul of the Carpenter and Morley Horder Buildings is a huge operation, and the weatherproof scaffolding they are covered in at the moment is quite a sight. Almost all rooms are being redesigned with an en suite bathroom. Pipe work and wiring are being replaced, extensive damp-proofing has been introduced, and a new ground-source heat pump and domestic-service plant have been installed. On the roofs, new slates – quarried from a blue-tinted slate variety in Wales – are being laid to produce a beautiful natural appearance. The rebuild will guarantee Chapel Court’s future for at least another century.

Jesuans in America may be interested to know that to mark this year’s Diamond Jubilee, The Lord Watson of Richmond (1960) has cowritten a book about Her Majesty the Queen and the United States, called The Queen and the U.S.A. His collaborator is H. Edward Mann and their book is being published in April by Dementi Milestone Publishing, Richmond, VA. A member of the House of Lords since 1999 and elected High Steward of the University in 2009, Lord Watson’s previous books include Europe at Risk, The Germans, and, published in 2007 to mark the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the first permanent settlers on America’s East Coast, Jamestown: The Voyage of English.

KiNG’s CoLLEGE www.kingsmembers.org From Julie Bressor, Fellow and Director of Development: We have just completed the 8th Easter Festival, which this year included stirring performances of Bach’s St. Matthew Passion, MacMillan’s Seven Last Words from the Cross and Elgar’s The Apostles. These performances were made possible in part through the generous support of several US donors, including the Stephen and Margaret Gill Foundation, the Mary Duke Biddle Foundation, and the Duke Divinity School.

This is also the time of year for the College’s annual Telephone Fundraising Campaign (TFC). 16 student callers spent 10 days (and one midnight to 3am shift!) calling a wide range of Members. One of our callers, Jonathan Baird, is from Maryland. “JT” is a second-year physical scientist, studying double physics and maths. I asked him to share his thoughts about his TFC experience: “I applied to work on the telephone campaign because I wanted to do my bit to support and maintain a system that chooses to keep financial means out of the admissions policy. With fees skyrocketing, the College needs as much help as it can get to keep up the level of support it has for students.

“During the campaign I had an amazing time talking to people, with conversation topics stretching from Argentine tango to college politics. I called six continents, and had a number of gifts to the College at every level. I would have to say that I don’t regret a single dial tone, no matter how many voice-message recordings I’ve heard in the last 2 weeks (approx. 500).

“To begin with, I was of the opinion that asking people for money would be slightly risky and I did prepare myself for yelling over the phone and angry letters into the development office saying ‘There was an annoying student with a funny accent pestering me – make him stop!’, or something of the sort. But through the campaign I’ve been witness to so many people deciding to donate to the College with whatever they can. It just highlights the generosity of the alumni, and goes to show that when there is a need there is always help.

“All I can say now is in several years’ time, when I get a call from some second-year, voice shaking from the prospect of asking for money, no matter what my situation is – I will be donating.”

We would be delighted to see you on your next trip to Cambridge, or to hear from you at any time: telephone +44 (0)1223 331313, email development.office@kings.cam.ac.uk, and web www. kingsmembers.org. Do feel free to contact the Development Office or our colleagues at Cambridge in America with any questions regarding supporting King’s College or for information on upcoming events – you may reach King’s as above and CAm at (212) 984-0960 or mail@cantab.org.

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the scaffolding-covered North Court, Jesus College

The College was delighted to host a talk from US-born UK television personality Loyd Grossman, a supporter of the College, on January 19th. Loyd, who earned an MPhil in Art History at Magdalene College, delivered an inspirational speech about the importance of preserving our “endangered national heritage.”

Loyd looked at some of the factors assaulting our heritage, as well as some of the more innovative solutions to halt its decline; he finished by issuing a call to action to the audience to get out there and do anything in their power to ensure the UK’s heritage is preserved for future generations to enjoy.

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College again this year, with a number of exciting events taking place, June 22nd – 23rd. On Friday the 22nd we have the annual literature dinner with guest speaker Sandi Toksvig back by popular demand to deliver the address. On Saturday the 23rd Lucy Cavendish President Professor Janet Todd will be in conversation with celebrated novelist and cultural commentator Lisa Appignanesi, who will be discussing her latest novel, her successful career so far, including her time as President of English PEN where she initiated the global “Free Expression is No Offence” campaign, and her current tenure as Chair of the Freud Museum, London. Following Lisa on Saturday will be the Crime Writers’ lunch featuring four future queens of crime fiction being questioned by Fellow Commoner of the College, and successful author herself, Sophie Hannah. Booking for these events is available through the Lucy Cavendish College website.

Looking ahead to next year, Lucy Cavendish will host a national Pride and Prejudice Festival, June 21st – 23rd, 2013, celebrating 200 years of Jane Austen’s best-loved novel, featuring keynote talks, a conference dinner, a trip to Chawton House and a full Regency Ball. A number of high-profile speakers have already confirmed including Professor Emily Auerbach of the University of Wisconsin and Judith Wallach Page. More details will be announced soon on the Lucy Cavendish website.

Janie Hampton, Member of the Lucy Cavendish College Combination Room, is the leading authority on the social history of the Olympic Games in London. Her latest book on the subject, London Olympics: 1908 and 1948 (Osprey/Shire Books, 2012) is an illustrated political and social history of the Olympics, featuring interviews from over 100 spectators, competitors and judges. It offers a fascinating insight into the past Games, which were polar opposites from this year’s Olympics with its multi-billion-pound budget in the depths of an economic recession.

Lucy Cavendish PhD student Bryanna Hahn, a Penn State alumna who has taught at the University of Florida, currently studying Criminal Profiling at the Cambridge University Institute of Criminology, has been invited as a visiting scholar to the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Quantico, Virginia to advance her research and share some of her findings with the profilers there. Bryanna is also implementing the profiles she has created in a police department in the US, allowing for the first experimental test of profiling to occur.

MaGDaLENE CoLLEGE www.magdalenecambridge.com A group of Magdalene members and their guests met the Master, Duncan Robinson, and the Development Director, Corinne Lloyd, for a most enjoyable dinner at the Metropolitan Club in Washington DC during a whirlwind East Coast tour in late March. The Master and Mrs. Lloyd then travelled to New York and were delighted to meet around 25 members and their guests at a drinks party at the Roger Smith Hotel. The final stop of the tour was a drinks party at the Harvard Club in Boston attended by a number of Boston “regulars”! Warmest thanks to Robert Chartener (1982) and William Wilson (1982) for their efforts in organizing yet another series of successful events.

As all of you know, Mr. Duncan Robinson CBE, FSA, DL will be stepping down at the end of this year after 10 outstanding years as the 34th Master of Magdalene. He will be succeeded by The Most Reverend and Right Honourable Dr. Rowan Williams PC, FBA, FRSL. The Duncan robinson College looks forward to the Mastership of 10

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Dr. Williams who has the capacity and vision to guide the College in a time of unprecedented change in higher education in the UK. His very distinguished record, both as a scholar and a public figure, will provide for the whole community a model of the high standards of achievement to which Magdalene is committed. The installation of Dr. Williams as Master will take place in January 2013.

There will, however, be a number of opportunities to meet the current Master one more time, so please save the dates! He will be attending the Cambridge in America Day on Saturday November 3rd in San Francisco and host a Magdalene dinner that evening. There are plans for events in Los Angeles, Seattle, perhaps Vancouver, followed by a dinner on November 8th in Chicago which will be hosted by Robert Chatterton Dickson (1981), Her Majesty’s General Consul, at his residence. The 21st annual Magdalene Dinner in New York will take place on Friday November 9, 2012, and we are hoping that the Master will lead a personal tour of one of New York’s finest art collections on Saturday morning, November 10th.

A team of 15 Magdalene students called hundreds of members over a two week period in March and raised a magnificent £243,267 or $385,306 in cash and pledges. Every member has been sent an Annual Fund leaflet asking for a donation this year to help Magdalene to continue to attract the best possible students and to offer them the experience you had when you were up. Garde ta foy!

MurraY EDWarDs CoLLEGE www.murrayedwards.com At the beginning of 2012, the College appointed Professor Ruth Lynden-Bell as Acting President, while our President, Dr. Jennifer Barnes, takes a year’s sabbatical leave to focus on her role as Pro-Vice-Chancellor for International Strategy.

Professor Lynden-Bell is a theoretical chemist, Emerita Fellow of Murray Edwards College, Emeritus Professor of Queen’s University, Belfast, and a Fellow of the Royal Society. She first worked at New Hall in 1962, when it was based on Silver Street, before spending a period of time at the University of Sussex. She then returned to the College in 1972 and continued to research, teach and direct studies here for the next 23 years. In 1995 Professor Lynden-Bell was appointed to a Chair in Queen’s University, Belfast. She retired in 2003 and moved back to Cambridge, where she maintains her research activity, including several international collaborations.

In March we celebrated International New Hall Society Day for the second time. We held a special Formal Hall in College, which was very well attended, and alumnae also organized events around the world to celebrate the College and its community with each other. Events included a drinks reception in London, Skype chats in China and Australia, and a dinner in Sri Lanka. A group of alumnae also held an informal gettogether in New York. This event continues to grow, and we hope that next year will see an even greater number of events taking place.

Also in March, the College launched its new Internship Initiative, as part of the Gateway Programme. This initiative has been designed specifically for our undergraduate students, and the pilot, comprising ten internships and work placements, is taking place this summer. The scheme aims to give students the chance to gain valuable work experience and skills, while expanding their career networks, something that is increasingly important in today’s competitive graduate employment market. Any alumnae interested in offering an internship or work placement to one of our students should contact the Development Office for more information:development@ murrayedwards.cam.ac.uk In April, the College hosted the inaugural European Girls’ Mathematical Olympiad (EGMO), the first-ever maths competition of its kind in Europe. The aim of EGMO was to encourage more young

women to pursue maths-based subjects post-GCSE, into university and beyond. Competitors from 20 countries, including Bulgaria, Finland, and Serbia, took part.

NEWNhaM CoLLEGE www.newn.cam.ac.uk Newnham encourages and nurtures academic development through the supervision system. The contact with our outstanding academics, active in research, motivates and inspires our students to aim higher and strive for greater intellectual success. But as well as helping achieving academic prowess, Newnham aims to equip our students for the wider world: to give them skills and advice which will help them as they move on after graduation.

The research which suggests that women are particularly generous in giving advice and help is supported by our own experience; Newnham alumnae bring a special dimension to the word “philanthropy.” Members of the Roll send details of internships available at their organizations, and they offer help and assistance when students move overseas and return to College to talk about their life experiences.

Our alumnae help change lives in other ways too: last year the US Alumnae Committee generously awarded the 2011 Newnham US Travel Award to a young woman conducting research into cures for cancer. You can see her report at www.newnhaminamerica.org/ images/Ella_Fung_Report.pdf The Newnham Associates provide particularly important support for our students. Last year they elected Margaret Campbell (NC 1966), chair of US Alumnae Committee, to join them, and it is a great asset to have a US perspective at their sessions. Three times a year these sixty women give up time to run workshops to help prepare current students for their next steps after Newnham. We all remember that first interview; the time we had to go to a meeting on our own for the first time; or when we stood up in the spotlight and made a speech to an unfamiliar audience. The Associates share their own first efforts, reassuring our young women that “looking confident” can be learned; they impart practical strategies to help conquer nerves or inexperience.

At the recent Presentation Skills workshop Jenny Caron Hall (NC 1977), actress and daughter of Sir Peter Hall, told forty students that the way she calms herself is to discretely place the palm of her hand in the small of her back. What a wonderful tip to give a twenty-two -year-old about to attend an Assessment Day for a job! In November seventyseven students joined an energetic workshop on “How to get jobs in tough times,” and a one-to-one “Interview and CV clinic” held in February attracted a strong turn-out. These sessions provide unique and invaluable advice and Newnham is extremely lucky to have such an engaged and supportive body. The Associates encourage not only current students but alumnae who would like to network or seek advice to contact them through their special website: www. newnhamassociates.org.uk. Do get in touch.

PEMBroKE CoLLEGE www.pem.cam.ac.uk Pembroke is pleased to announce that it has passed its Excellence in Perpetuity campaign target of £25 million, comfortably before the projected end date of June 30, 2012.

The College would like to reiterate its thanks to all the Members and friends who have so generously supported the campaign.

January saw not only the arrival of twenty-six American semester students in Pembroke, but also the publication of a new biography of Roger Williams (1624), Roger Williams and the Creation of the American Soul (Viking, 2012) by J. M. Barry. Born c. 1603, the son of

a merchant tailor, Williams crossed the Atlantic in 1631. He was a firm believer in religious freedom, the separation of Church and State, and an advocate of fair dealings with Native American Indians. These controversial views led to his banishment from Massachusetts in 1636, after being convicted of sedition and heresy. This expulsion led Williams to found the settlement of Providence, Rhode Island, and later the first Baptist Church in America. We are actively looking at ways of working with the state of Rhode Island to commemorate that ancient and treasured connection.

Back in the present day, Jay Winter (1966) has been appointed the Humanitas Visiting Professor of War Studies for 2012, at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH) in the University of Cambridge. Winter is the Charles J. Stille Professor of History at Yale University and gave three public lectures in Cambridge last term on the representation of war in writing, figurative art and cinema. Professor Winter’s lectures are available to watch online on CRASSH’s media gallery: www.crassh.cam. ac.uk/gallery/235 Pembroke was delighted to hear that Andrew Huddleston (2004) has been selected as one of four recipients of a Porter Ogden Jacobus Fellowship. The Fellowship is Princeton University’s top honor for graduate students who have “exhibited the highest scholarly excellence,” and covers the final year of PhD study. Andrew’s dissertation, entitled “Nietzsche on the Decadence and Flourishing of Culture”, investigates the role of culture in the work of 19th century German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. He is regarded by his supervisor, Professor Alexander Nehemas, as one of “the most promising young philosophers with an interest in Nietzsche and the philosophy of art in this country.”

New York Times correspondent Jodi Kantor (1994) has published her first book, The Obamas (Little, Brown, 2012). It looks at how the first couple have adjusted to all the challenges posed by moving into the White House and their new roles.

PEtErhousE www.pet.cam.ac.uk We are delighted to report that Governing Body recently agreed that work on the building on the site of the old Birdwood Building should begin in August of this year, and that it should be named in honor of Sir Frank Whittle (matric. 1934).

We anticipate that it will be completed in December 2013 and we plan to have an official opening in summer 2014. We are still looking for funds to make up the shortfall, but the College has decided to go ahead because construction prices have fallen considerably since the project was first costed five or six years ago.

We are keen to encourage Petreans based in the US to contribute towards the naming of a room in honor of William Brewster, who sailed on the Mayflower and was the first Petrean (indeed the first alumnus of Cambridge) to arrive in the Americas. We intend to have a piece of calligraphy hung by the door naming all donors to the room, so this is your chance to have your name permanently associated with the College, with Whittle and with the College’s long history of US connections. In future, students from the US will be given first refusal to stay in the Brewster Room, so your generosity will also be an example to future generations!

A number of Petreans have taken this opportunity to mark their family’s association with Peterhouse in a permanent way by “adopting” a room in the new building. The Fellows’ Sets have all been taken, as have a number of the undergraduate rooms, but if this might be of interest to you, then Saskia Murk Jansen would be happy to discuss the options at your convenience.

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Professor Adrian Dixon, was awarded Honorary Membership of the RSNA (Radiological Society of North America) for “special contributions to the profession of radio-logy”. The award was made at the 97th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting in Chicago, November 27th – December 2nd.

Sir John Meurig Thomas (Honorary Fellow and Former Master) spoke at the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia on April 19th. He gave the Henry LaBarre Jayne Lecture, on “Sir Humphry Davy: Natural Philosopher, Discoverer, Inventor, Poet and Man of Action.” Most unusually, his wife, Lady Thomas, also spoke at that meeting in her own right, on “The Scientific Detection of Forgery in Paintings” Look for webcasts at www.amphilsoc.org/meetings/ webcast In July, a party of Yale alumni leaders will be visiting the College.

They will be in Cambridge to discuss best practice with their UK counterparts.

QuEENs’ CoLLEGE www.queens.cam.ac.uk From Dr. Diana Henderson, Director of Development: The big news at Queens’ is of course the project to refurbish the Round which began in January following a highly successful campaign to raise £1.5 million. We did it, we are now doing it and it will be fantastic when it is completed in September! In the meantime of course my rooms look out on a busy building site – not pretty and not always quiet but it is a source of enormous satisfaction that after 40 years we will at last achieve our ambition of an appropriate, prestigious and secure entrance to the College. Thank you to all those who have contributed and made this possible. You can follow the progress of the project week by week on our College alumni web pages at www.queens.cam.ac.uk/alumni This of course is a big year for us as we celebrate the Diamond Jubilee of HM Queen Elizabeth II, our Patroness. There have been a number of spectacular events including a magnificent concert and a Thanksgiving Service in Chapel. Her Majesty will feature in the College Record and your copy will arrive shortly. If it has not landed on your doorstep after Easter let us know and we will arrange for your contact details to be checked and a copy sent on to you.

Our Anniversary Invitation Dinner event program for the year starts in May with the reunion of the matriculating year of 2002. The years of 1992, 1982, 1972 and 1962 follow later in 2012 and again all the details are on the alumni web pages.

We are now also using LinkedIn as a forum for Members of Queens’ to keep in touch with each other and the College. It will keep you up to date with news and it also allows Members to offer career advice and opportunities to our current students and enables local “hubs” of Queens’ Members to be set up. Search LinkedIn for “Queens’ College Cambridge Members.” Enjoy!

Our on-line College Shop can be found on the alumni pages of the College web site. We did brisk business over the Christmas period and to celebrate Easter and the coming summer we have introduced a number of new products including a new Guidebook for the College.

Finally a big thank you once again to all those who have supported the Queens’ in the past year and made £1.9 million of leading gifts to our Queens’ 575 Campaign, “Forging the Future.” We hope that you will find the time to visit us in the months ahead; we certainly will be delighted to see you.

And one last date for your diary: the famous Queens’ College May Ball which celebrates its 100th anniversary next year will be held on Tuesday June 19, 2013. Further information will follow.

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roBiNsoN CoLLEGE www.robinson.cam.ac.uk This year’s reunion dinner on September 22nd will be a 30th anniversary celebration for 1982 matriculands and a silver anniversary for 1987 matriculands. Those from 1992, 1997 and 2002 will mark their 20th, 15th and 10th anniversary milestones since becoming members of Robinson. Bookings are open to Robinsonians from these years and their guests and more details may be seen online at www.robinson.cam.ac.uk/alumninews.

Dinner is free of charge to reunion alumni and guest tickets are priced at £35 per head. Accommodation is also available to book. Look out for your invitation by email or post and feel free to contact the Development Office with any questions you may have. We have a limited amount of accommodation in flats, twin bedrooms and interconnecting rooms for those travelling with their families, so if you wish to take advantage of this, please contact us and book early!

To encourage her peers from 1982 to make a gift to College to celebrate their 30th anniversary, Jane Reason (née Price, 1982) has agreed to match any gift to the College’s discretionary fund made by a 1982 alumnus or alumna on or before the reunion weekend, up to a total of £25,000. Will you help to release this wonderful pledge by making your gift? This is a great opportunity to double the effect of your donation to help Robinson to continue to offer the best possible teaching, learning and research facilities and resources to its current and future members!

For US tax-payers, gifts may be made to Cambridge in America with a request that the gift be directed to Robinson College at www.cantab.org/GiveOnline or, for non-US-taxpayers, directly to the College at www.robinson.cam.ac.uk/donate.

We will be producing a reunion biography booklet to which all reunion-year alumni are invited to contribute with a photograph and a short paragraph of career and/or personal news for your peers. Entries for the booklet are encouraged whether or not you are able to join us for the reunion weekend and copies will be distributed to all contributors. To submit your entry, look for the link on the event information page listed above.

Earlier in the summer, our annual reception will be held in the gallery of the crypt at St-Martin’s-in-the-Fields on Trafalgar Square on July 3rd. We would love to see any alumni visiting London from the US at that time. Once again, details will be available at www.robinson.cam.ac.uk/alumninews.

st. CathariNE’s CoLLEGE www.caths.cam.ac.uk From Deborah Loveluck (2007), Fellow and Development Director: I am delighted to announce that we will be visiting Boston, New York and San Francisco again later this year and that Professor Sir John Baker will be our guest of honor at the East Coast events. More information will follow soon but we plan to be with you during the first week of December.

St. Catharine’s continues to thrive academically and on all other fronts. The Choir has recently released a new CD, Thread of My Song, which features music from the 17th and 21st centuries sung by the College Choir and the Girls’ Choir of St. Catharine’s. Most heartfelt thanks are due to Dale and John Shelton Reed for their generous support which made this recording possible. In February the Girls’ Choir sang Evensong at St. Paul’s Cathedral in London. The service included a new set of Canticles by Benjamin Cox (2007), who a couple of years ago composed Sursum Corda, an opera based on the story of St. Catharine.

Closer to home, you may have seen a report in the New York Times of Paul Watkins (1988), a cellist of world renown, joining the prestigious Emerson String Quartet for the upcoming season.

Congratulations! sherlock Court On the sporting front, Catz Hockey continues to dominate with Cuppers finals victories for the men’s and women’s teams and Super Cuppers win for men, who beat Trinity College Oxford. All boats performed strongly on the river in the Lent Bumps: M2 and W2 won blades, while both M1 and W1 went up three.

In the recent years these results and many more successes of our students are sustained by your generous support for our Annual Fund appeals. Thank you very much indeed to all who have contributed over the past four years. The latest addition to list of the student support funds is the Annual Fund Sporting Bursaries which enable the College to support high-achieving sportsmen and sportswomen in a significant way.

This summer we are looking forward to welcoming our benefactors to the Annual Garden Party on June 16th. As always, the day coincides with the final day of the May Bumps and following the Garden Party we will make our way to the marquee by the river.

If you are passing through Cambridge, please call in to the Alumni & Development Office: we are located in A1 next to the Porters’ Lodge.

In addition, if you need anything, please feel free to contact the Alumni & Development Office by telephone (+44 1223 338337) or email development.director@caths.cam.ac.uk; we will be happy to help you.

st. EDMuND’s CoLLEGE www.st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk From Katharine Cantell, Development Officer: I would like to introduce myself as the new Development Officer for St. Edmund’s. I joined the College in November and am very ably supported by Nicola (Nic) Burgess. I look forward to getting to know as many of you as possible in the future.

We currently have 35 students from the USA studying here at St. Edmund’s, including one Gates Scholar. They are making their presence felt both in the College and in the wider University. Two of our American students rowed on the Thames on Boat Race Saturday, April 7th: Steve Dudek, previously at the University of Wisconsin, in the seven seat of the victorious Blue Boat; and; Hank Moore, WPI alumnus from New Hampshire, in the five seat in Goldie, the only non-Briton in the Reserve Boat.

We remain indebted to all the St. Edmund’s alumni and friends who continue to support the College through their advice and help, or through a gift to the College. We extend our warmest thanks to you all for your support and interest in St. Edmund’s and its future. We would like to help to arrange a reunion for our Eddie’s Alumni in the USA and if any of you are interested in getting involved, we would love to hear from you.

If you should find yourselves in the UK, we do hope your schedule will give you time for a return trip to Cambridge and St. Edmund’s, where a warm welcome awaits you. Over the summer there will be several events in College at which alumni are especially welcome. If you are in the UK at the appropriate time do try and come along. The events include the College Garden Party on Sunday June 17th, at which family members and especially children are very welcome, as

well as the May Ball on Friday June 22nd. Finally, the Alumni Weekend always attracts many alumni back to Cambridge and as usual the College will be hosting a concert and an alumni dinner during that weekend on Saturday September 22nd. Further details of these and other events for alumni are listed on the College website.

Please do visit our Facebook page too from time to time to stay in touch with College news.

We would love to hear your news. If you have any comments or questions, please do contact the Alumni and Development Office at development.secretary@st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk.

st. JohN’s CoLLEGE www.joh.cam.ac.uk In February 2012 the College’s £50M fundraising campaign was successfully concluded, nearly a year ahead of schedule. A full report on this first phase of St. John’s longterm fundraising program will follow, but in the meantime we would like to thank all Johnians in the US for their unwavering support.

There’s a lot still to do, and a lot more money to raise, but we can at least allow ourselves some satisfaction on an achievement which says so much about the loyalty and generosity of our alumni.

Our year of quincentennial celebration is also concluded. The months since our last update saw a number of events including an Unbirthday Party in London for recent graduates, fittingly held on “15.11.2011,” and the traditional Varsity Match event at Twickenham.

The culmination of the year’s celebrations was the final concert in the Quincentenary Series by the Choir of St. John’s College, Cambridge.

On December 15th at the Royal Festival Hall, a large number of Johnians joined the Master and Dr. Dobson for drinks and canapés beforehand. We are extremely grateful to the London Women’s Clinic for their generous sponsorship of the concert.

We are enormously grateful to the whole Johnian community for their support of the year, either through attending an event or the good wishes received from all around the world. There is still plenty to look forward to this year as we resume our program of regular events. A revamped College website was launched in September 2011. As part of our commitment to communicating with Johnians, a fully interactive site for alumni will be launched this summer. Visitors will be able to sign up for events online, chat with other Johnians and find out what’s going on at the College. You can also follow us on Twitter, @stjohnscam, as well as our other social media channels. Make sure we have your correct email address to find out more and to ensure that you receive our monthly e-newsletter.

sELWYN CoLLEGE www.sel.cam.ac.uk Although Selwyn continues to flourish academically, alumni will be pleased to know that our students still find time to pursue interests outside of their studies. 2012 has been a brilliant year for sport; these first few months have seen the Selwyn College Boat Club perform well at Lent Bumps and Selwyn’s rugby team win the Cuppers (Shield) Final against Churchill 24 – 5.

The Henley Fund officer, Matthias Schnellmann (2nd year, Chemical Engineering) reports on the Lent Bumps: “After a successful Michaelmas and start to Lent for both the men’s and women’s sides, SCBC went into Lent Bumps with confidence and optimism.

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Thursday July 12th: Boston, MA Recital, Trinity Church, Copley Square, 12:15 pm Friday July 13th: New Haven, CT Concert, Christ Church, 7:30 pm Saturday July 14th: Brooklyn, New York, NY Mass, Our Lady of Refuge RC Church, 5 pm Sunday July 15th: Manhattan, New York, NY Eucharist, St. Thomas Fifth Avenue, 11 am Joint Evensong with the Cathedral Choir, Cathedral of St. John the Divine, 4 pm Post-Evensong recital, Cathedral of St. John the Divine, 5:15pm Tuesday July 17th: Bethlehem, PA Concert, Cathedral of the Nativity, 7:30 pm Wednesday July 18th: Wilmington, DE Immanuel Highlands Episcopal Church, 7:30 pm Thursday July 19th: Philadelphia, PA Recital, Philadelphia Episcopal Cathedral, 12:15 pm Sunday July 22nd : Washington, DC Eucharist in St. Paul’s K Street, 9 am and 11:15 am Evensong in Washington National Cathedral, 4 pm If any alumnus wishes to have more information about a particular venue or feels that they could assist the tour in any way, please do contact Sarah MacDonald (+44 1223 335877 or seam100@cam.ac.uk).

As ever, if you have plans to visit Cambridge or London, please do let us know. We would be delighted to welcome you back to College or drop down to London to say hello.

siDNEY sussEX CoLLEGE www.sid.cam.ac.uk The College is delighted to announce that the Choir of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, directed by Dr. David Skinner, will be touring the West Coast of the USA during the last two weeks of July. The tour will begin at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco, CA, on Wednesday July 18th, to which all Cambridge alumni are invited. Please check the College and Cambridge in America websites for details.

Related to the ongoing success of music at Sidney, we are also pleased to report that Eric Whitacre, Sidney’s Composer in Residence, was awarded a Grammy for Best Choral Performance for his album Light & Gold; needless to say we are delighted for him.

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the 1st division. A promising M3 succeeded in getting on to bumps.

They were placed at the foot of the division and suffered the sad fate of having to row over four times. Overall it was a good result for the men’s side, but the back-patting now ends as the focus switches to May Bumps.

“On the women’s side only the first boat was represented since W2 and W3 were unable to qualify. Overall W1 went down two. In both cases W1 was caught by quick crews before they were able to bump the crews in front. The result was disappointing but they will be aiming to get their revenge come May Bumps.”

Music at Selwyn is also thriving. As mentioned in the last CAm Newsletter, the Selwyn Choir will be touring the northeastern US in July. All performances are open to all alumni and we would love to see many of you there, so please join us:

The Ladies Netball Club at Sidney Sussex College will also be visiting the USA this year, touring the East Coast in August after being awarded funding from the ParryDutton Memorial Fund. The tour will begin on August 20th for 12 days, visiting Philadelphia and Syracuse, NY before heading to Toronto. Look for details on the College and Cambridge in America websites.

On March 2nd, Professor Michael Lamb, Head of the Dr. David skinner Department of Social and Developmental Psychology, visited Cornell University where he gave the Law, Psychology and Human Development Distinguished Speaker Lecture entitled “Enhancing the Informativeness of Young Victim Witnesses.”

Meanwhile, Professor Keith Glover and Professor Dame Ann Dowling have both been selected as members of Visiting Committees for the MIT Corporation, the governing body of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Professor Glover will serve on the Mechanical Engineering Visiting Committee, while Professor Dowling will be a member of the Aeronautics and Astronautics Visiting Committee.

Professor Tim Cox, Professor of Medicine, reports that the Gene Therapy Consortium, funded by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) – which originated from research in Cambridge – is now in active engagement with the US Food & Drug Administration (FDA) to develop the reagents and design for a clinical trial in children suffering from the devastating neurological condition, Tay-Sachs disease.

Looking forward to the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, Dr. Colin Roberts has been appointed to head the equine antidoping sampling unit. More equine drug tests will be performed at these Games than in any previous ones.

And finally, “Battlefield 3” became Electronic Arts’ fastest-selling game ever, making the top-ten of the US games chart. The game’s graphics utilize technology created by Geomerics, a Cambridge-based company founded by Dr. Chris Doran, Fellow and Director of Studies in Natural Sciences, who says: “It’s a far cry from working on the early universe, but you never know where your research will end up!”

triNitY CoLLEGE www.alumni.trin.cam.ac.uk Lucy Johnstone, Alumni Relations Research Services Co-ordinator, writes: The College is delighted that it again has a strong representation of students from the United States, as mentioned in last autumn’s edition of the Cambridge in America Newsletter. The College welcomed students at both graduate and undergraduate level in a wide range of subjects.

The College is also delighted to welcome Visiting Fellow Commoners from across the Atlantic. Elliott Meyerowitz is a leading plant scientist from Caltech and has been appointed under a Title F Fellowship. He will be co-director of the Sainsbury Laboratory which opened last year in the University Botanic Gardens. Martin Barlow, a probability theorist, comes from Vancouver and was a student, research fellow and college lecturer at Trinity. Denis Pelli comes from New York University and carried out his doctoral work on visual perception at Trinity. Robert Watson comes from the University of California at Los Angeles and studies the Renaissance dramatist Ben Johnson. Lilya Kaganovsky comes from Illinois and studies Russian films in the 1920s and 1930s.

We previously mentioned the East Coast trip that the Master and Tony Bannard-Smith undertook in October. We thank Adrian Weller (1988) and his wife Laura for kindly hosting a reception at their New York apartment, which was an excellent event apart from the severe snow storm which disrupted travel for some of the guests. During the autumn there was also a Cambridge in America-hosted reception in Cambridge MA with the Master of Trinity College, Lord Rees, who delivered a fascinating talk entitled “Cambridge University and The Cosmos.” Around 80 Cambridge alumni and partners attended, of which around 15 were alumni of Trinity.

We are pleased to announce that Ms. Robin Sharp, our new Campaign Director and Fellow, joined College back in the autumn.

Robin very much looks forward to her future trips to the United States. Dr. Emma Beddoe will work with Robin as Assistant Master of trinity, Lord rees Campaign Director.

American alumni who are visiting the UK are most welcome to attend many of the events we arrange. Highlights of the summer include the Fourth Annual Family BBQ on July 15th and the 8th Annual Members’ Luncheon on September 23rd. Full details of all Trinity events can be found on our alumni website at alumni.trin.cam.ac.uk.

triNitY haLL www.trinhall.cam.ac.uk From Jocelyn Poulton, Development Director: 2012 celebrates the bicentenary anniversary of the birth of Charles Dickens. Amongst its treasures in the Old Library, Trinity Hall has a letter written in October 1868 by Charles Dickens to his son, Henry, who had just matriculated at Trinity Hall to read Law. Henry Dickens was the first in his family to study at university, and, after graduating from Cambridge in 1872 with a good degree in mathematics, Henry Dickens was called to the Bar. By all accounts Henry excelled in his chosen vocation – despite his father’s writings regularly criticizing the work of the legal profession.

The letter was given to Trinity Hall in the 1950s by a great-great grandson of Charles Dickens who himself was an alumnus of the College, and it makes fascinating reading. It Letter from Charles Dickens to his son henry (trinity hall 1868). begins with a list of practical matters relating to Henry’s allowance (£250 a year – “handsome for all your wants”), and exhorts Henry to be prudent in his handling of money. It reveals a touching concern for Henry’s welfare in matters physical, moral and spiritual and is signed off, “ever your affectionate father, Charles Dickens.”

For more information on this story and a full transcript of the letter, visit Trinity Hall website, www.trinhall.cam.ac.uk/ Dickensletter The Old Library is the jewel in the crown of Trinity Hall and one of the hidden gems of Cambridge. The red brick Tudor building, situated opposite the Master’s Lodge, was built in c.1590 and is the oldest library in Cambridge still in its original setting. It is one of a handful of

chained libraries remaining in Britain. Unusually, the interior and furniture are much as they were at the time of construction: each lectern has the original locking mechanism intact and the Library still contains examples of chained books. You can follow our blog about the Old Library, at www.oldlibrarytrinityhall.wordpress.com/ If you do find yourselves in the UK, we do hope your schedule will give you the time for a return trip to Cambridge and Trinity Hall, where a warm welcome awaits you and perhaps a visit to the Old Library.

We remain indebted to all the Trinity Hall alumni and friends who continue to support the College through their advice and help, or through a gift to the College. We extend our warmest thanks to you all for your support and interest in Trinity Hall and its future. Tel.: +44 1223 332563. Email: development@trinhall.cam.ac.uk. Web: www. trinhall.cam.ac.uk.

WoLfsoN CoLLEGE www.wolfson.cam.ac.uk From Karen Stephenson, Fellow and Development Director: Wolfson will once again be active in the US this year.

Fellow and Tutor Giles Yeo will be visiting Houston this summer, and is delighted to be hosting an alumni gathering at the Hilton Americas-Houston on June 23rd. You can book online at www.

Houston2012.WolfsonEvents.com.

On August 18th, I will join Wolfson Fellows Tom D’Andrea and Tom Grant for a concert at New York City’s “floating concert hall” on the East River: www.bargemusic.org. Details of the concert program are being fixed as we write and will be available, with all booking details, online at www.NewYork2012.WolfsonEvents.com. We hope you will be able to join us for what promises to be a spectacular evening.

Thank you for all your generous comments about the redesigned College publications Ring True and the Wolfson Review. Many of you have also discovered www.WolfsonPlus.com – Wolfson’s online news portal where we can give you more regular, and more in-depth, news than we are able to bring you in printed form. We also send a termly ebulletin, so please send your email address to alumni@ wolfson.cam.ac.uk if you are not receiving this from us already.

In addition you can now find us in the following places: www.facebook.com/WolfsonCollege www.twitter.com/WolfsonCam www.LinkedIn.com group: Wolfson College, Cambridge www.flickr.com/groups/WolfsonCollege www.WolfsonNetwork.com On a snowy March Sunday following the Lent Bumps, we gathered at the Boat House with Wolfson members and Boat Club Friends – and Pimm’s! – to name three new boats. Among them was a new IV+, the “Capt. Jack and ZZ,” named for generous benefactor John “Jack” Friedman and his daughter ZZ (Elizabeth). ZZ is a Wolfson alumna (2010), who rowed for W1 in 2011 and earned an MPhil in Overseas Development. We were delighted that Mr. and Mrs. Friedman and ZZ were able to join us from New York City for the ceremony. A reconditioned training scull was named the “Bronwyn and Rhîannan” for alumni Bronwyn Murrell (Novice Captain 2009-10) and Rhîannan Williams (Women’s Captain 2009-10).

Rhîannan is currently working at Harvard’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Capt. Jack and ZZ Center.

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Twelfth Class of Gates Cambridge Scholars from the USA In October the twelfth contingent of Gates Scholars will take up their graduate studies at Cambridge. (The first Gates Scholars, barely into their thirties, are already making their mark in the world; see, for example, the profile of Wendi Adelson, Hughes Hall 2002, on page 19). Here are the forty-five new Scholarsdesignate who are earning degrees at U.S. colleges and universities this spring or have already done so, along with their hometowns (or countries if they come from places other than the U.S.), where in the U.S. they’re studying or have studied, the degrees they will be pursuing at Cambridge, and brief quotes excerpted, edited, and adapted from their personal statements on the Gates Scholars website about their research and career plans and perspectives. The full texts and photos for all 2012 Gates Cambridge Scholars can be viewed at www. gatesscholar.org, click on “Our Scholars” and “New Scholars 2012.” In addition to these Scholars from the U.S. or studying here, forty-five more new Scholars from other countries were named at the end of March; they are included on the website roster.

U.S. colleges and universities boasting Gates Scholars for the first time are Brooklyn College, Bryn Mawr, Evangel, Montana State, Oberlin, Occidental, Oregon State, Reed, and the Univ. of Texas Health & Science Center (Houston). Among the twenty-six U.S. schools represented, Princeton and Harvard had the most Scholars-designate (five each); Cal-Berkeley had four; Michigan and Yale each had three. Twenty-four of the forty-five new U.S. Scholars-designate are women.

If you know any worthy college students with similar credentials and ambitions, why not encourage them to apply to be Gates Cambridge Scholars? See details and deadlines at the website.

Jane Abbotsmith, Princeton, from Cincinnati, OH; MPhil in Theology and Religious Studies. “The Gates Foundation’s commitment to improving the lives of others will undoubtedly inform my research and guide my thinking as I prepare for a lifetime of engagement in Christian ethics and social entrepreneurship.”

Chidiebere Akusobi, Yale, from Ghana; MPhil in Biological Science (Biochem).

“After Cambridge, I hope to matriculate into a PhD program in microbiology. Afterwards, I plan to enter either academia or industry while pursuing my passion for mentoring and supporting underrepresented youth interested in science.”

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Sarah Armitage, Yale, from Concord, MA; MPhil in Economic and Social History. “As an undergraduate history major, I have increasingly concentrated on modern British history. At the same time, I have become fascinated by cities and how they function…I am excited to combine these fields through graduate-level study of urban history.”

development prospects for the Northern Sea Route and the Northwest Passage, then to undertake a PhD in Geography.”

Daniel Barson, Princeton, from Cross River, NY; MPhil in Medical Science. “After Cambridge, I will pursue a joint MD/PhD… I hope to work as a physician-scientist in a setting similar to the Brain Repair Centre at Cambridge, searching for and implementing a ‘cure’ for diseases and injuries of the brain and spinal cord.”

Michael Baumer, Univ. of Chicago, from Belleville, IL; MPhil in Physics. “By focusing on diboson events – proton collisions resulting in a pair of weak force carriers – I hope to contribute to ATLAS Higgs searches as well as searches for more exotic phenomena. I plan to pursue a career teaching and conducting research at the university level.”

Hanna Baumann, Barnard College, from Germany; PhD in Architecture. “I became especially interested in means by which locals attempt to resist urban planning policies that threaten them with displacement…. I hope that my study of East Jerusalemites' resistance to marginalization and displacement will yield insights into how Jerusalem's urban space may be shared more equitably.”

Mia Bennett, UCLA, from San Francisco; MPhil in Polar Studies. “My interests in geopolitics, resource management and GIS have led me to research the Arctic. At Cambridge, I intend to compare the

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Rachel Bolton, Princeton, from Atherton, CA; MPhil in English Studies. “The British Mass Observation Project, the subject of my MPhil dissertation, is a compelling analog to the WPA American Guide Series, the subject of my undergraduate thesis…I’m excited to explore the interrelationship between literary production and citizenship, and the intersection of politics with democracy and art.”

John Brown, Indiana Univ., from Rockford, IL; MAST in Pure Mathematics. “I intend to continue with mathematics in Part III of the Math Tripos, to prepare for a PhD in mathematics and an academic career…. As a docent at the IU Art Museum, I created a tour called ‘Symmetry in Action: Discovering Math and Art.’” Brittany Chao, Cornell, from Westford, MA; MPhil in Biological Science. “I have always been fascinated by biomedical research, particularly in the fields of disease pathogenesis and immunology. I plan on pursuing a career developing biologics, such as vaccines or therapeutics. I intend to pursue a Masters of Philosophy in Pathology at Cambridge, studying viral immune evasion.”

Joshua Cohen, MIT, from Atlanta; MPhil in Computational Biology. “After my year in the UK, I will enroll in an MD-PhD program to train as a physician-scientist. Ultimately, I aspire to develop innovative therapeutic technologies and translate them from ‘bench to bedside’ and in doing so, help make regenerative medicine a reality.”

Camille Cole, Pomona College, from Millburn, NJ; MPhil in Historical Studies. “I

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am very excited to continue my research at Cambridge on interactions between the British and Ottoman empires and the marshdwellers of southern Iraq….I am interested more broadly in complicating received historical notions of imperial interactions (and supremacy) in the Middle East.”

Cambridge, I will study compressed sensing techniques to better understand multiphase flows, allowing better reactor design, operating conditions, and energy costs in the process industry.”

future research and teaching will concern similar topics at the intersection of religious practice and national politics in the history of Christianity.”

Sean Collins, Univ. of Michigan, from Bethesda, MD; PhD in Materials Science. “I will pursue a PhD in Materials Science and Metallurgy at Cambridge with a focus on electron microscopy and spectroscopy.

Throughout my career, I hope to lead research aimed at understanding and solving materials challenges to efficient renewable energy technologies.”

Evelyn Denham, Williams College, from Davidson, NC; MPhil in European Literature.

“At Cambridge, I will study the early modern world, focusing on early modern German literary and historical representations of alterity, looking at the construction of German nationalism. I am interested in questioning how societies structure knowledge and arrive at historical consensus.”

Elizabeth Evans, Occidental College, from Portland, OR; MPhil in Environment, Society and Development. “At Cambridge, I will study poverty alleviation and conservation interventions ...the crucial next step to prepare me for a career creating effective policies that mutually reinforce poverty alleviation and biodiversity conservation--two of the most critical global challenges of our time.”

Hilary Fabich, Montana State Univ., from Livingston, MT; PhD in Chemical Engineering. “I’ve developed and implemented outreach programs for underserved youth, to kindle curiosity and joy in science….At

Samantha Godwin, Georgetown, from Washington, DC; PhD in Law. “I hope to expand and further develop my research on children’s legal status. In so doing I will consider more generally how legal regulations and unexamined social expectations of the family subjugate both parents and their children [, drawing] parallels with other forms of social hierarchies.”

Grecia Gonzalez, Harvard, from Upland, CA; PhD in Biochemistry. “[I’m working] on the cutting edge of RNA NMR spectroscopy, of great importance to current HIV research…I hope to one day work at the crossroads of science and education policy. Teaching and thinking of new ways to help others understand science are great passions of mine.”

Alison Greggor, UC-Berkeley, from Novato, CA; PhD in Experimental Psychology. “I look forward to studying Cambridge’s wild population of jackdaws… to understand how individuals perceive human objects and learn about novel tasks…[and] researching how they survive within environments altered by humans. Figuring out the dynamic between humans and the animals that surround us is of paramount importance.”

Zachary Guiliano, Evangel University and Harvard, from Peoria, IL; PhD in History.

“My research considers how royal and ecclesiastical leaders used biblical interpretation to form their peoples and governments in the Carolingian era…My

Allison Hinckley, MIT, from Portland, OR; MPhil in Micro and Nanotechnology.

“Together with a team of scientists and engineers, I plan to develop commercial alternative energy systems to end global dependence on fossil fuels….I row Division I in the MIT Women’s first boat and look forward to rowing at Cambridge next year.”

Ian Hsu, Univ. of Michigan and Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, from Troy, MI; MPhil in Social Anthropological Analysis. “[My studies at Cambridge] will equip me to better understand and address the challenges of modern medicine from a sociocultural perspective. I hope that my future work…can bring important lessons from applied anthropology to bear on the way we practice medicine.”

Madeline Huberth, Univ. of Michigan, from Monroe, NY; MPhil in Music Studies. “I studied changes in sound quality in orchestral musicians under various hearing conditions.

How performers evaluate and interact with their performances fascinates me, and I intend to study these processes in further detail …to help launch what I hope will be a diverse and challenging career in research.”

Siddhartha Kar, Univ. of Texas Health & Science Center (Houston), from India; PhD in Public Health and Primary Care. “I plan to concentrate on the genetic epidemiology of cancer, applying high-throughput sequencing and bioinformatics.…I aspire to use my education in cutting-edge public health genomics to organize large-scale studies in

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India to further elucidate genetic risk factors for cancer.”

Lucinda Lai, Stanford, from San Jose, CA; MPhil in Social Anthropology. “[Study at Cambridge] will push me to move beyond the American paradigm of mental health to see how false assumptions about the universality of human nature influence a community’s perception of medicine and public health interventions. I dream of becoming a globallyminded doctor.”

involved in protein synthesis and secondary metabolism to permit the incorporation of unnatural amino acids into proteins…. I have also mentored younger students at Penn and at Philadelphia elementary and high schools.”

Leah Katzelnich, Williams College, from Madison, WI; PhD in Zoology. “I plan to continue to work on antigenic maps of dengue viruses, with the hope that they will serve as the foundation for a global antigenic surveillance system in preparation for a dengue vaccine, and to conduct scientific research in the antigenic evolution of dengue viruses.”

Nehel Khalid Khanani, Stanford, from Pakistan; MPhil in Education (Thematic route). “My key research interests are methods to address inequities in education at the class and gendered level by increasing access and quality. After completing the MPhil I intend to return to Pakistan and pursue a career in education policy and planning.”

Albert Kim, UC Berkeley, from Cupertino, CA; MPhil in Advanced Computer Science.

“I have always tried to get involved with projects that I knew would have a direct impact in solving today's problems…I plan to continue my research in computer systems and use what I learn to benefit today's society.

Ultimately, I am seriously considering a career in academia.”

Timothy Kotin, Harvard, from Ghana; MPhil in Engineering for Sustainable Development.

“My career objective is to develop innovations that address various development challenges, whether in healthcare, education, agriculture, energy or clean water….My graduate studies will equip me with the technical skills to translate my knowledge of and passion for development into locally relevant technological solutions for the developing world.”

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Harold McNamara, Yale, from Venetia, PA; MPhil in Micro and Nanotechnology. “For my doctoral research in condensed matter physics, I am especially interested in developing particular nanostructures for use in neural sensing. After earning a PhD, I hope to pursue a career in developing nanotechnologies with clinical applications, either in academia or in industry.”

Marie Rose Katia Mehu, Brooklyn College, Arizona State University, from Phoenix; LLM in Law. “I will draw on my education and my appellate experience to provide legal advice on diverse substantive and procedural issues of public international law. I hope to also have the ability to educate and advocate for compliance with international humanitarian law.”

Evan Miles, Oregon State Univ., from Portland, OR; PhD in Polar Studies. “My proposed research at the Scott Polar Research Institute investigates the retreat of Himalayan glaciers to predict the formation of hazardous lakes, which can have catastrophic impacts on downstream communities. Glaciology and hydrology will continue to increase in importance through the 21st century.”

Eileen Moison, Univ. of Penn., from Glenmoore, PA. MPhil in Biochemistry. “My work has focused on the adaptation of proteins

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Sarah Mummah, Stanford, from Atherton, CA; MPhil in Public Health. “As a Gates Cambridge Scholar, I will pursue an MPhil in Public Health with an aim to deepen my understanding of how best to improve health behaviors and outcomes. Ultimately, I hope to architect interventions that effectively prevent obesity and chronic illnesses.”

Nathan Nakatsuka, Harvard, from Honolulu; MPhil in Biological Science. “I have been a science nerd for most of my life, having done research in different laboratories since the 8th grade …I intend to get an MPhil at Cambridge with hopes of eventually becoming a physician scientist doing biomedical research and clinical work at a university in Hawai’i.”

Thomas Paul, USNA (Annapolis), from Norfolk, VA; Diploma in Economics. “After graduation, I will be commissioned as a Nuclear Surface Warfare Officer and hope to be stationed abroad, where I can foster international relationships and begin to work toward accomplishing my goal of strengthening the bilateral relationship between China and the United States.”

Alexandra Reider, UC Berkeley, from Santa Fe, NM; MPhil in Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic. “My intended research is on the use of the catalogue as a poetic form and the ways in which various early medieval cultures employed this technique. I am also very interested in language and cultural transmission: I am currently teaching English in Cherbourg, France.”

Said Saab, Emory and the NYU School of Medicine, from Lilburn, GA: MPhil in Clinical Science. “My ultimate goal is to develop a career specifically aimed at going beyond translating science into applicable pharmaceuticals that are affordable, so as to promote patient health at the level of underserved communities and large city hospitals.”

Pedro Spivakovsky-Gonzalez, UC Berkeley, from Bethesda, MD; MPhil in Economics. “Since graduating from Berkeley in 2010, I have been working at the Council of Economic Advisors in the White House.

My study for an MPhil at Cambridge will focus on Development Economics.”

Brielle Stark, Bryn Mawr College, from Ashley, OR; PhD in Clinical Neurosciences.

“My research will focus on language recovery following stroke, utilizing neuropsychological examinations and neuroimaging to provide a clearer image of the recovery of language following this type of trauma. In the future, I see my research focused on developing efficacious methods of clinical neuro-rehabilitation following trauma.”

Daniel Strassfeld, Princeton, from Shaker Heights, OH; MPhil in the History, Philosophy, and Sociology of Science, Technology, and Medicine. “I am dedicated to the teaching and research of chemistry, and ultimately I intend to pursue a career as a chemistry professor….[Study at Cambridge] will provide invaluable perspective and insight for my future work as a scientist and academic.”

Victoria Tobolsky, Princeton, from Philadelphia; MPhil in Human Evolutionary Studies. “ With the integrated understanding of the human biomechanics afforded by evolutionary studies, I aim to pursue pediatric orthopedic surgery…. It is my hope that this intricate perspective on human orthopedics will allow me to develop and normalize surgical procedures that enable children to move freely.”

Todd Tucker, George Washington Univ., from Washington, DC; PhD in Development Studies. “My main area of interest is international trade and investment agreements….I hope to help train the next generation of policymakers, business leaders and advocates on how to design democratically accountable and effective global solutions to our most pressing problems, from climate change to income inequality.”

Elizabeth Wilder, Reed College, from Tucson, AZ; MPhil in English Studies. “[After teaching and studying in Montenegro] I intend to resume my studies of Victorian literature, focusing my research on the representations of wardship in the nineteenth-century British novel, working in the Cambridge archives….I plan to pursue a career in academia, publishing, and international education.”

Ke Wu, Arizona State Univ., from Tucson, AZ; MPhil in Education (Thematic route). “[Having traveled] around the world studying education initiatives for disadvantaged children, I plan to continue investigating education models…to deepen my understanding of inequity and expand my global perspective. I intend to become an education policy expert using legislation to effect change in the United States.”

A Gates Scholar Alumna Tackles Human Trafficking on thursday, february 16th twenty-five alumni and guests joined Cambridge in america for a food for thought Lunch in New York City with Wendi Adelson (hughes hall 2002, MPhil in international relations, Gates Cambridge scholar).

Wendi, an alumna of Brandeis and univ. of Miami Law school, now a Clinical Professor of Law at florida state, discussed her work with victims of human trafficking and her recent book This is Our Story, the account of three women whose lives are directly affected by “coercion, force and fraud.” adelson's characters are fictional amalgamations of women she has worked with as an immigration attorney.

CAm Day NYC 2012: Historians Examine Churchill’s Wartime Oratory on saturday March 24th nearly 200 alumni and guests gathered at the Eventi hotel in midtown Manhattan, New York City, for the latest installment (number eleven) of Cambridge in america Day – this time devoted to the eloquence and leadership of Winston Churchill. the afternoon was a tantalizing preview of the upcoming exhibition Churchill: The Power of Words at the nearby Morgan Library and Museum, opening June 8th. our keynote speakers were allen Packwood, Director of the Churchill archives Centre at Churchill College, Cambridge, which, like a us presidential library, preserves the papers of Churchill and other twentieth-century political, military, and diplomatic figures; and renowned historian and Caius alumnus andrew roberts, author of The Storm of War: A New History of the Second World War (harper, 2011) and other acclaimed works of British military and political history and biography. Both speakers described how, as andrew roberts said, Churchill’s wartime “oratory matched the threat and created something sublime.” allen and andrew cited numerous examples of how Churchill wielded words like a sword, never wavering from his impassioned call for total victory. the speakers’ individual presentations were followed by a discussion moderated by sir Mark Lyall Grant, uK ambassador to the uN, alumnus of trinity College, Cambridge, who had also introduced the speakers. from his unique vantage-point, sir Mark offered first-hand accounts of the power of oratory in contemporary diplomatic discourse (for example, the inspiring, heartfelt words delivered last year by Libya’s uN ambassador to his colleagues, denouncing the Qaddafi regime he had stoutly defended up until then). the attendees were enthralled by the speakers’ remarks, both prepared and impromptu, and offered insightful questions and comments of their own. the lively, animated conversation continued during breaks and over cocktails and hors d’oeuvres afterward, long into the evening. Watch the Cam website, www.cantab.org, for videos of the day’s proceedings and for news of upcoming events in your area.

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Big Easy in the Big Apple: CAm’s May Ball, June 21

CAm’s May Ball, “A Night in Treme, The Musical Majesty of New Orleans”, will take place on Thursday June 21, 2012 at Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center in New York City.

MarK BussELL

In addition to food, drinks and dancing, CAm plans to transport our guests to the streets of the French Quarter with lively “street” entertainment and surprises, including a show in Starr Theater with the 2012 Grammy-winning Rebirth Brass Band and special guest James “12” Allen, Big Sam’s Funky Nation with special guests Big Chief Monk Boudreaux & Mardi Gras Indians, and a sensational Master of Ceremonies (to be announced).

If you thought the 800th Anniversary Gala was fun (recap at www.cantab.org/800Gala), don’t miss this!

Go to www.cantab.org/MayBall2012 for details, including links to music clips of what you’ll hear at the May Ball.

alice tully hall, Lincoln Center, New York City

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